Test of Skill - AAR

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HELVETIA AAR 1472-1500​

The session started in 1472 with our Nation at war against Genoa, Venice and Spain; immediately the genoan army was defeated in Piemonte where a dangerous siege was going on. In 1473 our army moved to Venetia to siege that city; fortunately this siege had success, so in the same year the Republic was annexed and a strong trader disappeared from European centres of trade. Other battles were avoided smartly and the enemy at the end accepted peace with us for money.
Great internal reforms were supported by our king Adam in many areas:
- appointing new trusted nobles in far provinces in 1474 (centra +1, stab -1, aristocracy -1, serfdom -1);
- fight against inflation (4 % deflation), sale offices and corruption (stab -1);
- improving fortresses in Bern and in Zurich (1487), in Geneve (1489) to small level;
- military reforms with big enthusiasm for fleets (+ 5 warships in Ancona) in 1479 and for armies (5k army in Parma, +1 land, 750d investment, stab -1) in 1493;
- new royal code for the heir to the throne (stab +1) in 1487;
- new lands in Romagna given to settlers in 1490;
- trade reforms to solve unhappiness among merchants in 1491;
- temporary insanity of monarch in 1498.
Many times we were attacked by hostile Steiermark, that wanted to extend its borders towards west but thanks to good relationships with Lord of Albania the declarations didn’t produce loss for us. In 1480 due to anarchy in Portuguese prov Dauphinè there was the defection of people of Lyonnais (our prov) to this new rising Nation. Our internal troubles didn’t let us move a war there, later they gained the protection of Lord of Brabant to avoid our reaction.
Our military alliance with Italian nations ended without new wars and we decided not to remake it and be free in foreign policy. It wasn’t well accepted by them and fearing our war skills they DoWed us to gain new Italian provs. We already knew it by many spies and our army was well prepared for this war. So we annexed after a successful siege the Republic of Genoa in 1495, Lombardia occupying Milano in 1496 and at the end the Tuscany occupying Firenze in 1497. After sieges in the occupied provs of Marche and Lazio by Senese army, we occupied and annexed that city in 1498 defeating supporting rebels in Firenze too.
Now Helvetia extends from Rhein R. to Tevere R., we’ll see about Provence in the coming years.

AAR reward: badboy reduction
Reward for being in time: badboy reduction

MT formula:
MT = 1 + (2.6/2) + 0.5 * (83.8 * 20)/(96.9 * 28)
= 1 + 1.3 + 0.5 * 1676/2713
= 1 + 1.3 + 0.5 * 0.617
= 1 + 1.3 + 0.308 = 2.6

leaders: 3 generals (maybe with 1 admiral)

 

[-Lyko-]

AAR Naples 1472-1500

Times Of .....Nothing?​

*Lord Lyko sits on his throne in naples listening to there steward*

-MyLord. Our nation is huge,rich and technological advanced:Said the Steward
-Liar, cut his head.Send me a new steward: Said Lord Lyko

*The new Steward starts presenting the nations worth*

MyLord. Our nation is somewhat big,rich and are somwwhat technological advanced compare to the rest of the world.
-Kill him. Next

*The next man starts presenting his thoughts*
-MyLord, Our nation is Big,p....
-Die, Next

*Another man walks in*
-MyLord, our nation is big,rich and....
-damnit another one.Next

*Another one walks in*
-MyLord. Our nation is small,poor and is falling behind in technology.
-Kill hi... no wait. Continue.
-Thank you MyLord.*sigh* Well we have no where to expand. We sold 1 province to the moldavians. the Scottish are in our Sea and even threatening us when we asked kindly to make a deal with them,and also are they helping the portugese with all their revolts and with their reputation by fooling the world that the scots took the provinces from the ones they were at war with and later being declared war upon by the scottish so their reputation wouldn't fall.
-True, true true, Continue
-all tho our vassals gained one province from rebeling forces in Egypt but our own provinces that rebeled, only one joined our Vassal. Helvetia wont agree on letting us have the 2 provinces bordering our capital so we don't need to be afraid to be saked all the time, you wanna know why? Because they can't expand.HA! Well hellooo!. they are not the ones who are trapped on a damn boot shaped peninsula or what ever u call this hell hole.
-Calm down now, u know i'm the ruler of this hell hole. but u are also true. Sooo..how should we deal with all these problems then?
- Well...Increase trade and infrastructor to get better income. Start reforming the government and start getting bigger.
-Hmm let me think about that. But just to let u know on a little secret. Our economy will triple the next 20 years.
-But how!!
-Well. We are going to attack *******Censored By bucks the new Steward(PG20)*********





Mt Calculation

1+(3*0.5)+.5 *((36.6*20)/(48.6*28))=732 1360 0,53

1+1.5+.5 * (732/1360)
3*.53 = 1.6 as the lowest mt is 2.5 then i shall have 2.5

Damn u have to have High losses now to get good MT

I want one explorer and 3 generals. if that's a option

Rewards.
ontime--3bb reward
AAr Reward-3bb reward

 

[Tonioz]

AAR Saxony 1472e-1500

Saxony state were not raised this session, but we can still consider that as good session. When i saw 150K army left after Wonko, it was big thinking how to maintain these peaceful soldiers, who wanted pillage and women. After all it was decided to dow Poland to grab it from greedy hands of moldavian chineses.

From first session i suspected that Daniel planned to dipannex Poland and Lithuania, specially watching at their relations over 160+. Then Moldavia twice defended Lith from TO, not letting take one province even to let TO be united. Moldavia even issued how greatly they invaded TO previous time by preparing and rejoining the alliance.

So, MA via Lithuania was cancelled, and then they were dowed. It was done in sudden move, because i didn`t trust in diplomacy and didn`t want to prepare Daniel. Over 100K were in Poland to kill the troops there using MA. As expected, Daniel refuced from fighting, not being in position to fight at this conditions. So Saxony let their infantry die with great pleasure. We raided Lithuinia and took about 4 forts of them before we were enough satisfied of the village and take ducats + vassalization of Poland.

After the war was declared, Saxony announced that we claim only 4 west provinces. That found understanding for Moldavia, so Saxony achieved their goals... Then Bohemia was dowed after they dipannexed their two vassals. Bohemia with their vassal is still looted and gives 120-130 additional yearly income.

Saxony hardly minted during war with Poland by more than 5% (damn -3 stab didn`t let to make wartaxes), so at the end we could take 3 loans and build 8 manus. Later one goods manu was received by event. We don`t dount that tradish Moldavia will accumulate cash and build more manus later

Trade 3 were achieved, and then we raised until Land 5 to achieve the status of another central-european state, Helvetia.

MT calculations:
1 + 3*0,5 + (43*20)/(28*147)=1+1,5+0,2*0,5=2,6

Reward:
- 6 badboy

REQUEST FOR LEADERS:
2 generals, 1 admiral and 1 explorer

 

[Aladar]

Albania AAR 1472 - 1500​

After several offensive wars the BB of Albania was indeed very high, and peace was decided to be the way forward. This however did not last long.

With our neighbors in the north Moldavia moving quickly eastwards, a need arose to secure a border not only in the Balkans, but also west of the turkish penensula. Forces were moved east and Qara Koyunlu and it's allied Dulkadir was dow'ed. Qara seded it's 3 northern provinses and Dulkadir 2.

Karaman was revassalized when it later attacked us, and later joined our allies. Our mighty alliance was later dow'ed by both Teke and Byzamtium, which were annexed by our vassels Karaman and Duchy of Athens, thus saving us further BB.

Our mainproblem with the minors in the Turkey area is that they are muslim, and therefore has to be annexed rather than incorporated into the empire, which BB-wise is very expensive. We hope that more of our vassels will solve this problem in the future.

Again a mediocre ruler lead our country, making it difficult for BB to go down by itself. Releasing vassels however, doesn't seem like the right thing at the moment, so we'll have to work on the BB otherwise.

Trade 4 was reaching despite our very few merchants in CoTs around the world, which will have to be increased. Infra should be our main interest from now on, since falling behind in wartech doesn't seem to big a problem at the moment.

AAR-reward: BB-reduction
On time cookie: BB-reduction

MT: 1 + 1,35 + 0,5*(202 * 20) / (90 * 28) = 1 + 1,35 + 0,80 = 3,2

REQUEST FOR LEADERS: 2 generals + 1 admiral + 1 explorer

 

[Cicero]

AAR Brabant 1472-1500

At session begin i needed to solve the france-brittany-holland situation. the only way to finish this endless ai war and diploannex my vassalls brittany and holland was to dow brittany. this cost me 4 bb and 6 stab , but i had to do it. so finally i was able to diploannex holland and some years later brittany. at least i got a small compensation for all that troubles: holland gave me a rather big army, about 25 troops with a lot of cav, and even more important i got the dutch navy: about 15 ships, half warships half transports. as long as naval tech doesnt allow to build transports this was a quite valuable gift.
later i dowed France and forcevasseled them, their annexation will follow: so the unification of the french and brabantian throne will be achieved soon.
because my bb was very close to the limit i didnt start more wars, but diplovassalled Auvergne and Dauphine, i managed to diploannex Auvergne 10 years later, Dauphine will follow soon.
Meanwhile the brabantian scientists discovered trade 3, what allowed me to build refineries. so a FAA was build in capital and a refinery in Champagne. Brabant now profides whole Europe with finest Champagner. Unfortunately i wasnt able to maintain a single monopoly, not even in my home CoT. all brabantian traders are kicked constantly. hopefully i can gain a mono once my bb decreases and stab raises.
all in all i still have major problems gaining positive stab, bad events and very high stab cost keep me from achieving that. at least i had one very good event: exeptional year!!


rewards: bb reductions

mt: 1 + 1.3 (12 * 20) / (103 * 28)= 2.4

leader request: one explorer, one admiral, two generals

 

[Aladar]

AAR Albania 1502 - 1530

I'm very sorry that i missed the 0,5* which meant that i last session had to high MT, and i also missed it there. Did it all the other times thou Anyway, i had to recalculate it for last session, that that it wouldn't influence my MT for this session. Feel free to give me a punishement, thou it was not intentional.

As noted by some, the goals of Albania has been ot become financially strong from the beginning rather than a strong armynation, which so far has succeded with Infra 5 a mere 2 years away.

This has ofcourse left us a bit behind in LT, which however did hit LT 5 due to neighborbonus, mainly from Saxony i recon. More investment will be placed here, once the Infra is increased.

With our new explorer came knowledge of the new world, but we were ill prepared for this. Tons of ducats was put into Morocco to allow us MA, which led to the discovery of pagans in Africa, who were soon dow'ed and joined with the rest of the Albania realm. We did however not reach as far as we had wanted, but the next explorer will ensure this we hope.

Our new monarch ensured that BB is dropping, thou it still feels slow, a mere 40 is it down to. Hence we have to use our rewards for partial reductions, rather than deflations which we would rather have.

We diploannexed Karaman this session and some of the minors around our realm became smaller as our vassels took provinses from them again.

MT: 1 + 1,6 + 0,5*(94*20) / (84*28) = 3,0

AAR-reward: Deflation
On time cookie: BB-reduction

2 Generals, 1 admiral and 1 explorer.

 

[-Lyko-]

MT: 1 + 1,9 + (94*20) / (84*28) = 3,7

Not to ruin ur next session but ur calculation should be
1 + 1,9 * (94*20) / (84*28) not 1 + 1,9 + (94*20) / (84*28)

so ur Mt is actually
1 + 1,9 * ((94*20) / (84*28))=2.31

sorry i never calculate others MT but i just thought it was strange that u got a high mt again. so i noticed the + instead of *

I see that tonio did the same misstake. Come on ppl learn to calculate.

 

[Tonioz]

Not to ruin ur next session but ur calculation should be
1 + 1,9 * (94*20) / (84*28) not 1 + 1,9 + (94*20) / (84*28)

so ur Mt is actually
1 + 1,9 * ((94*20) / (84*28))=2.31

sorry i never calculate others MT but i just thought it was strange that u got a high mt again. so i noticed the + instead of *

I see that tonio did the same misstake. Come on ppl learn to calculate.

No, Lyko, it is +, not *
previous MT * 0,5 +

 

[King John]

AAR Portugal 1500-1530

It was nice to start the session off in good shape for a change. I was very afraid that Portugal would have been AI'd, since I overslept 15 minutes, and that the AI would spend all my 900D on forts and somehow screw a bunch of things up. It wasn't though, Cobjor ghosted Port, thanks again Cobjor .

Thus I started with all my refineries finished and my tech nearing infra 5. I had planned to DOW Brabant this session, to regain the ground that had been lost to them while I was subbed. Right away, Cicero offered me a RM though. Of course I had to refuse the offer, but this alerted him to my hostility. I was afraid he'd begin getting ready for a DOW soon, so I started my own war preparations right away and planned to hit him first thing.

I didn't try to bring any allies into the war, as that would've probably attracted a lot of attention(from Tonio ). Raised an army quite quickly and then DOW'd, seiging his forest and mountain border provs right away, and then winning a great battle with my cavalry against his almost pure infantry army on the plains just south of the Loire.

Most of the seiges were able to be maintained, but the Brabantese army rallied and kicked me out of the Santione seige once, until I could drive him over the Loire again.

Battles with his leader were fairly balanced. Brabant had higher morale, so I did lose some odd battles(pure cav vs pure inf in plains), but my forces were better prepared, and able to slowly push him back.

It was an even war until I started sending cavalry armies behind his lines to destroy reinforcement armies. While I was doing this, his main army won some battles, but it didn't matter, because I was killing far more troops. Would wipe out 5k here, 4k there, and 7k and 5k and kept doing it- there wasn't a single reinforcement army that made it to reinforce his main army, they were all wiped out before they could even get their morale up. At least 60k were killed that way alone.

And eventually, the main Brabantese army was worn down as well. And when I hit it again on the plains, it finally got routed and then vaporized a few squares away on its last retreat.


I could have demanded anything, because the Brabantese army was literally non-existant in Europe, and he had no possibility of recruiting anything either. I settled for the territory I had lost over the years though(all while I was subbed), which was 5 provs in total. Cicero annexed the Aztecs a few months later, raising his income far over what it had been before it lost those 5 provs, so one can hardly say he was hurting from it. Tonio would later use my success as an excuse to stage a gang.


But for the next dozen and a half years or so, Portugal prospered. Infra 5 was achieved in 1507, and governors slowed placed. Another very great boon was that I got 3 random manus over the course of the session. And my great monarch kept my stability up, so income rose to 90 and slowly increased from there, from trade and taxes from chief judges. Trade tech rose from lvl 2 to 4.

The one thing that lagged was land tech, but the only country really ahead of me was Saxony. Until the 1520s, when Brabant started teching land. I didn't even notice their lead on me until they were at lvl 8. Clearly making a bid at my provs in Southern France, but at least I was present this time with a decent economy, and didn't have a billion AI attacking me with rebels all over and maxed WE(like the time he attacked when Fraese was playing). So I raised troop levels to the max, and prepared for what would be a hard struggle. Brabant DOW'd, but then Saxony joined their alliance...

So I faced two countries, down a CRT on both. It was the epitome of a gangbang. Whereas I earned 5 provs the conventional way, 4 of those were taken back automatically like this.

Tonio will use gang tactics on other players who he somehow deems a threat(how he felt threatened by me I don't know, considering how far our countries are from each other). So I warn other players to watch out for his devestating attacks.

AAR reward: deflation


MT = 1 + 1.25 + .5 * ( (189 *20)/ (100 * 30) ) = 2.88 Wow, got promoted above minimum MT

 

[Tonioz]

AAR Saxony 1500-1530

Saxony passed another session without trade. Instead we kept looting Bohemia, and several years ago Poland insulted us to drop vassalization just for fun. It was not tolerated and the former vassal was dowed to be brought to Ordnung. Once Saxony reached LT9 in November 1506 Poland was assaulted and vassalized again.

Just after that Saxony dowed hyperteching Moldavia and 40K infantry assaulted Moldavia capital and won the battles against ~20K. We offered white peace after that and switched to Helvetia, who dared to annex our vassal Wurtemberg. The reason why AI dows each 5 years Helvetia is their BB over limit and Helvetia responsibility. Annexing our vassals of course couldn`t be tolerated.

Before the session we got diplomat from Naples, who asked assistance to beat Helvetia, because Naples lost first session for expansion, was blocked by Helvetia in Italy and was clearly weaker. It was understood by wise Saxony king long time ago, so we invaded Helvetia deeply and demanded our vassal back + Naples claims. Naples dowed only after that.

Closer to the end of the session Brabant came to us asking for help, and explaining he got LT9 and advantage over Portugal and he built big army, so it can`t wait. Losing 5 province by Brabant in previous war gave hard feeling for Saxony monarch, so he agreed to help. 45K cav were built and were sent to Languedoc, where they fought cavalry army of Portugal with near same losses, until rest 5K of Saxony killed last portugal horse

At the end we accumulated 8K ducats, not knowing where to spend it. Fort in capital was improved, 3 colonies and 3-4 TPs in NA were settled, and we got conq, so 2 cities + 1 colony on Mexican gold were established. Saxony didn`t have any colonial plans at all, but when we saw opportunity, we used it.

MT calculations:
1 + 2,6*0,5 + (108*20)/(150*30)=1+1,3+0,5*0,5=2,55

Reward:
- 6 badboy

REQUEST FOR LEADERS:
1 general, 1 admiral, 1 explorer, 1 conq

 

[Tonioz]

Tonio will use gang tactics on other players who he somehow deems a threat(how he felt threatened by me I don't know, considering how far our countries are from each other). So I warn other players to watch out for his devestating attacks.

prove it or excuse

 

[-Lyko-]

No, Lyko, it is +, not *
previous MT * 0,5 +

then it's just for u then because if u look in the formela.
1
+ (previous session's MT *0.5)
+ .5 * ((number of military units lost in battle during the session * 20) / (the theoretical cap of the manpower pool at the end of the session * number of whole years of session))

it's a* and not +

 

[Tonioz]

then it's just for u then because if u look in the formela.
1
+ (previous session's MT *0.5)
+ .5 * ((number of military units lost in battle during the session * 20) / (the theoretical cap of the manpower pool at the end of the session * number of whole years of session))

it's a* and not +

i always multiplied both current MT and previous MT by 0.5, not plused. You can check my fresh AAR for that too.

 

[-Lyko-]

i always multiplied both current MT and previous MT by 0.5, not plused. You can check my fresh AAR for that too.

1
+ (previous session's MT *0.5)
+ .5 * ((number of military units lost in battle during the session * 20) / (the theoretical cap of the manpower pool at the end of the session * number of whole years of session))


Look at this formula. I'm going to calculate ur MT just to show how u should do it.

1 + 2,6*0,5 + (108*20)/(150*30)=1+1,3+0,5*0,5=2,55
It should actually look like, and i will calculte in steps so ppl and follow me.
1+(2.6*.5)+0.5*((108*20)/(150*30))
1+(1.3)+0.5*((108*20)/(150*30))
1+(1.3)+0.5*((2160)/(4500))
1+(1.3)+0.5*(0,48)
2,3+0,5*(.48)(<--it's here some ppl Multiply or add.the different MT are a huge different.)
2,3+0,24=2.54

*had to edit did 1 step wrong ,well tonio actually did right now

 

[joriandrake]

1
+ (previous session's MT *0.5)
+ .5 * ((number of military units lost in battle during the session * 20) / (the theoretical cap of the manpower pool at the end of the session * number of whole years of session))


Look at this formula. I'm going to calculate ur MT just to show how u should do it.

1 + 2,6*0,5 + (108*20)/(150*30)=1+1,3+0,5*0,5=2,55
It should actually look like, and i will calculte in steps so ppl and follow me.
1+(2.6*.5)+0.5*((108*20)/(150*30))
1+(1.3)+0.5*((108*20)/(150*30))
1+(1.3)+0.5*((2160)/(4500))
1+(1.3)+0.5*(0,48)
2.8*(.48)(<--it's here some ppl Multiply or add.the different MT are a huge different.)

hey Lyko, what did you conquer lately?

 

[-Lyko-]

hey Lyko, what did you conquer lately?

alot u'll read my AAR soon

 

[joriandrake]

alot u'll read my AAR soon

k, I just read that Helvetia quits,
maybe you can arrange a 'royal marriage' to inherit it,
and get a foothold in europe

 

[Tonioz]

ah, Lyko, i forgot to wrote 0,5 modifier in first part, but always calculated with it

 

[-Lyko-]

ah, Lyko, i forgot to wrote 0,5 modifier in first part, but always calculated with it

well u calculated it so that's good. Daniel and aladar didn't calculate it.

 

[Aladar]

1
+ (previous session's MT *0.5)
+ .5 * ((number of military units lost in battle during the session * 20) / (the theoretical cap of the manpower pool at the end of the session * number of whole years of session))


I believe i missed the highlighted number