Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
If I strip my global garrisons and fleets, just what do you think is going to happen?
I know! The AI will peacefully continue to trade with you to allow you to support massive armies while you send three quarters of your military prowess to the far flung corners of the globe.

All this talk of problems with the economy makes me think it's time to share some of my observations about how to manage the economic machine. I'll start a thread to start putting some of those ideas together.

In my most recent game as Russia, I have stayed peaceful with Sweden, so haven't picked up a port on the Baltic and have been unable to get any naval trade from Crimea because of superior Ottoman navies in the Black Sea. However, this hasn't kept me poor, with a reasonable per turn profit of ~8k despite reasonably significant military expansion. The economy doesn't seem to be too much different to 1.4 to me.