I was playing Turkey, sitting like a good little boy - focusing on North Africa, diploannexing Wallachia, taking out the Persians and cutting off the Russians at the pass (taking Sibir) ... which turned out to be not necessary, since the Poles militarily annexed all of the Golden Horde, leaving Russia stranded. They fought quite a bit over those territories and Poland seemed pre-occupied putting down rebellions, Russians, Prussia and the Teutonic Knights.
Austria was on bad terms with Bohemia, Venice and Hungary. I wasn't too interested in the Balkans, but I wanted a European conquest, not colonies. So... war? I waited until those 4 started another war and intervened, hoping to snag Venice. Easy enough - Venice, Hungary, Austria - they were weak and couldn't put up resistance. I didn't want to give them any more reason to fight me than necessary, so I just annexed Venice and took money from the other 3.
Before I manage a peace settlement with Hungary, P-L declares war. My front was heavily fortified and guarded... they steamrolled it. I snuck in troops through Bessarabia, and was merrily going along doing some damage until they sent some of the Moscow front armies down to smack me around. While I was busy in Donetsk, they wiped out my entire Balkan force! This is the mid 1600s, I had higher tech than anyone, my forces were in good morale, stood in large groups (60+) and were wiped off the face of the Earth. P-L wasn't stopping and kept taking provinces - all of the Balkans except Thrace, Hellas and the province South of Hellas... I finally had to settle on losing all the mainland Venetian possessions. 5 years later, Hungary, P-L, Austria and some minor allies chased me back to Thrace alone
This makes me wonder... do nations get bonuses against enemies they did good against historically? b/c P-L seemed to be having troubles with the Russians, but they crushed me like a bug.
Austria was on bad terms with Bohemia, Venice and Hungary. I wasn't too interested in the Balkans, but I wanted a European conquest, not colonies. So... war? I waited until those 4 started another war and intervened, hoping to snag Venice. Easy enough - Venice, Hungary, Austria - they were weak and couldn't put up resistance. I didn't want to give them any more reason to fight me than necessary, so I just annexed Venice and took money from the other 3.
Before I manage a peace settlement with Hungary, P-L declares war. My front was heavily fortified and guarded... they steamrolled it. I snuck in troops through Bessarabia, and was merrily going along doing some damage until they sent some of the Moscow front armies down to smack me around. While I was busy in Donetsk, they wiped out my entire Balkan force! This is the mid 1600s, I had higher tech than anyone, my forces were in good morale, stood in large groups (60+) and were wiped off the face of the Earth. P-L wasn't stopping and kept taking provinces - all of the Balkans except Thrace, Hellas and the province South of Hellas... I finally had to settle on losing all the mainland Venetian possessions. 5 years later, Hungary, P-L, Austria and some minor allies chased me back to Thrace alone
This makes me wonder... do nations get bonuses against enemies they did good against historically? b/c P-L seemed to be having troubles with the Russians, but they crushed me like a bug.
