.... can the Portugese army not fight it's way out of a wet paper bag, unless it's a spanish one....
I'm playing the GC as Portugal, things are goin' along fine.. building a huge network of trade posts. I roll on into the 1540's with monopolies in Venice, Tago, Andalusia, and Flanders. Spain gets cranky and hits me with a trade embargo, I lose 2 markets. Time to fight back.. I pour money into troops and a year later begin swarming over the Spanish borders. Send a call to the allies so they can run some interference for me and together we pummel Spain into submission.
Spain surrenders Andalusia to me and I collect another province for one of my allies (all I wanted, I'm not barbaric or greedy). I begin shipping troops to the colonial armies... Andalusia revolts... I swing an army around to smash it. Not quite enough, still just over a thousand rebels, next closest army is a conquistadors force with 12000 infantry, 3000 horse and 30 cannons, it's over in seconds... my army that had just sacked several spanish provinces is sent running, crying like babies... collect reinforcements, wait for morale to come back up... again it's a rout of my troops.... 4 more overwhelming assaults before I finally get control back.
10 years later and I'm still having trouble, (and wishing there was a genocide button) I need an overwhelming force to deal with anything that isn't Spanish. I've even had troops run for the hills AFTER they won the battle......
(and I'm only on "normal")
I'm playing the GC as Portugal, things are goin' along fine.. building a huge network of trade posts. I roll on into the 1540's with monopolies in Venice, Tago, Andalusia, and Flanders. Spain gets cranky and hits me with a trade embargo, I lose 2 markets. Time to fight back.. I pour money into troops and a year later begin swarming over the Spanish borders. Send a call to the allies so they can run some interference for me and together we pummel Spain into submission.
Spain surrenders Andalusia to me and I collect another province for one of my allies (all I wanted, I'm not barbaric or greedy). I begin shipping troops to the colonial armies... Andalusia revolts... I swing an army around to smash it. Not quite enough, still just over a thousand rebels, next closest army is a conquistadors force with 12000 infantry, 3000 horse and 30 cannons, it's over in seconds... my army that had just sacked several spanish provinces is sent running, crying like babies... collect reinforcements, wait for morale to come back up... again it's a rout of my troops.... 4 more overwhelming assaults before I finally get control back.
10 years later and I'm still having trouble, (and wishing there was a genocide button) I need an overwhelming force to deal with anything that isn't Spanish. I've even had troops run for the hills AFTER they won the battle......
(and I'm only on "normal")
