Playing as N/N

I've noticed that many of the German minors are willing to stop a war with you...if you give them some obscure territory in America

Playing as France, my west side was tied up at Strasbourg, held by only a few militia, while my main armies were marching on the pirate islands. My King died and Austria had a war of succession against me-both Wurtemburg and Great Britain joined in. I beefed up all my militia in France, took the british ports, and waited for them to charge me.

A few years later, Wurttemburg's half-stack army got reinforcements from an almost-full Austrian stack and they marched for Strasbourg.

The battle for Strasbourg was fought rather easily. Despite being outnumbered, I began throwing all my citizenry in the buildings of the fort. Barricades were made to fire at the enemy as they ran down the various staircases to ground level. As soon as the battle started, my troops were ordered to run back and man the cannons on the walls. The wall cannons work as they shouldl; they fire at a decent range and have pretty good aim. Unfortunately, it's roundshot and therefore nearly useless against infantry. While the cannons take out maybe 3 or 4, musket fire pouring down from the walls is enough to destroy an enemy unit.

The AI split in half, surrounding my walls. They then decided to make their advance on the corner that had no barricades and therefore would be easiest to get down to ground level after taking the walls.

Unfortunately, My ring bayonets had stopped them from taking the walls, and I began noticing that my unit of 85-ish men left was fending off unit after unit of Austrian militia. Instead of surrounding my fort and storming from all sides, they decided to all charge my weakest corner. The assault failed.


Within the next few years (and after taking London from the British) I asked Wurttemburg for a peace treaty. They asked for some Territory in canada that was constantly being raided by Indians and offered an Alliance, too. My european front is now secure.