How many?

[fuddha]

Just a simple question:

How many provinces do you lose in a game??
(count every time you completely lose control over a province, relieved sieges don't count)

Me... None to two times... Crazy, I know...

[macsen rufus]

"To lose one province is unfortunate, but to lose two looks like carelessness... "

[fuddha]

:))

[ichi]

As the HRE, Novgorod or Poles I might lose 3 or 4 over the course of a campaign. As the rest maybe 1 or 2.

ichi

[macsen rufus]

More seriously, I usually try not to take a province til I'm sure I can hold it. Sometimes I raid first and if there looks like a long siege ahead, I'll withdraw until the enemy comes back outside, then I go in with a small army to defeat the garrison in the field, making sure there are no survivors to hole up again, then invade properly... cuts down on those losses through siege attrition.

[el_slapper]

There's usually a strategical withdrawal when the horde arrives, as it still happens to me to forget to prepare..... But that's all, usually. When playing France, allowing Brits to siege some provinces early on is unavoidable, but I make sure they pay the price(reverse is true if I play the Brits).