You are braver men than I!

I went with GB on Hard. Not VH, not yet...

I did manage to not have the Huron attack on the first turn by making a state gift to them. Sure it was only 5 points that have long run out, but they have not yet attacked, and I am a bit perturbed about it now. It is 1714.

I did dare to go onto the mainland and the French did declare war but I took out their fleet, captured Flanders, Alsace, and Württemberg, (Prussia took the Rhineland), and besieged Paris. While in North America I took Upper and Lower Canada and to save Paris they gave me French Guyana for peace. I took Gibraltar and Hispaniola also from the Spanish and had an army in Portugal moved into Spain and captured it too. They wouldn’t swap lands in America to save it. I guess they thought they had other safe regions to fall back to.

This bothers me a bit. I think I liked it better in 1.1 when they would deal colonies for their capital. The other thing that still bothers me is that you lose money taking regions, even rich ones like Spain. That and I liked Austria’s troops better as arranged in 1.1. Some of the changes I just don’t get.

Anyway, on with the show. And yes I am enjoying it.