Prussian campaign

[Freedom Onanist]

You make an interesting point... And you also made my point, above examples were processes of hundreds of years complex political and religious policies. They didn't all come about of meat head like "I march my soldiers to your capital and..." all of a sudden "you're part of UK".

The game starts in 1700 after hundreds of years of complex political and religious policies....surely?

Nonetheless, lands were politically annexed in the timespan coverd by the game. The raison d'etre of the grand alliances that characterise this era was to prevent wholsale annexation of lands by a "superpower", namely in this case most of Europe against France at some point or the other.

If these alliances had not been so sucessful there is little doubt in my mind that more (most?) of Europe would be speaking French now. If Britain had succumbed to the Jacobites and become a client state of France, how long would Prussia, Austria and others have been able to resist?

[BeeSting]

The game starts in 1700 after hundreds of years of complex political and religious policies....surely?

Nonetheless, lands were politically annexed in the timespan coverd by the game. The raison d'etre of the grand alliances that characterise this era was to prevent wholsale annexation of lands by a "superpower", namely in this case most of Europe against France at some point or the other.

If these alliances had not been so sucessful there is little doubt in my mind that more (most?) of Europe would be speaking French now. If Britain had succumbed to the Jacobites and become a client state of France, how long would Prussia, Austria and others have been able to resist?

So did these alliance go to the point of waging a total war to overthrow the French monarch or to occupy and annex the entire nation?

And there is no process of political annexation in ETW, you simply march your men and grab all their lands, which is now further simplified by making Spain and France one province each.

[Freedom Onanist]

So did these alliance go to the point of waging a total war to overthrow the French monarch or to occupy and annex the entire nation?

And there is no process of political annexation in ETW, you simply march your men and grab all their lands, which is now further simplified by making Spain and France one province each.

I think revolutionary France felt itself threatened, yes.

In any event the aim of the alliances, as far as the paymaster, Britain was concerned anyway, was to maintain the status quo. Keep the continental powers from becoming too powerful. The others in the alliances probably felt their national existnece under threat from France, yes.

[BeeSting]

I think revolutionary France felt itself threatened, yes.

In any event the aim of the alliances, as far as the paymaster, Britain was concerned anyway, was to maintain the status quo. Keep the continental powers from becoming too powerful. The others in the alliances probably felt their national existnece under threat from France, yes.

And this checks and balance of power is reflected in the game? Please.... We'll see but, out of 40 factions, you will end up with 20 halfway through the game, if you're lucky.

[Oleander Ardens]

The United Provinces were allied with the once mighty Austrian Empire. I guess that also Britain helped quite a bit in the beginning as it was initially a foe of France. With such a constellation a defeat of France should be not impossible, especially as the sea might of the allies could have destroyed the french colonies.

There is of course a lot of roleplaying in this AAR