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*annexes Novgorod*
Wuhuu! Professor Ebbesen? Professor? I am on my way to becoming Russia!
Smack
Ouch! What was that for???
Smack again
Okay, okay... I'll shut up. Byzantium's gone, by the way....
Wuhuu! Professor Ebbesen? Professor? I am on my way to becoming Russia!
Smack
Ouch! What was that for???
Smack again
Okay, okay... I'll shut up. Byzantium's gone, by the way....
*Walks in and sits all the way in the back*
Prof, one hell of a sim you have there.
I also started my own sim, as Hannover. I have an awesome start, for me at least. I annexed Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, and VorPommern, what's left of Pommernia is now Polish. However, I'm not used to inflation this high. (30%) plus, this BB is annoying me to no end. Then I got the Kalmar Union attacking me, plus my old allies the Hessen and Munster. The Swedes have Bremen and Holstein. Should I go after them and try for peace with everyone else? My puppet ain't the best diplomat in all of europe..
Prof, one hell of a sim you have there.
I also started my own sim, as Hannover. I have an awesome start, for me at least. I annexed Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, and VorPommern, what's left of Pommernia is now Polish. However, I'm not used to inflation this high. (30%) plus, this BB is annoying me to no end. Then I got the Kalmar Union attacking me, plus my old allies the Hessen and Munster. The Swedes have Bremen and Holstein. Should I go after them and try for peace with everyone else? My puppet ain't the best diplomat in all of europe..
Installment the ninth
How to break a truce
Greetings, class!
I hope you slept well!
Well, except for you, Carolus Rex, you dirty rotten scoundrel, you. Taunting the teacher that holds the Universal Championship in freestyle student-clubbing isn't the smartest of career moves. Allow me to demonstrate.
WHACK, Slam-bam-bam-bam-bam-boink!
Ouch...
And as for you, Heagarty, I find your attempted solution to the Asshurling incident most unamusing.
WHACK!
Ouch!
Ahem.
I would also like you all to welcome the new student Slayzer2. He has an awful lot of catching up to do, but his ability to acquire a bad reputation while making minimal gains as Hannover will make him fit right in with you dummies. Unfortunately. Don't go on an annexation spree before you are ready, I say, but do they listen.. Nooooo. Sigh.
Enough of this maudling.
Let us begin immediately. Entropy waits for no man, and our noble enterprise nears its conclusion. "Onwards, to glorious battle!", I hear you cry (except for those who go "Ouch"), and so be it!
As you can see, a scant year passes before we are embroiled in bitter combat again, against Afghanistan, and against Assam, China, the Chagatai Kaganates, and Nippon. Our only point of contact with the latter alliance is our single province east of Llasa, which means that there is no way in hell we can reinforce it, so let us pay off that alliance, rather than lose a province. Money is easy to come by, after all.
See? Trivial, Afghanistan annexed. Nice, isn't it? Nothing like an annexation to feel that you are alive, which is good, since the time has finally come for the Mughal Empire to take a real beating.
Invading the Mughal Empire, 1746
Now, while we are busy besieging the Mughals, it is time to turn our attention to Indochina. It will take a decade or more to fight our way over there by land, slowly gobbling up countries. Since we are under a severe time constraint, and since we need forward bases to use against China, let us rather load 60,000 men aboard our nice fleet, sail them across to Pegu, declare war without a casus belli, invade, and Annex. That should give us a forward base surrounded by enemies, into which we can pour troops. No sooner said, then done.
Notice how, according to plan, the annexation of Pegu in April 1747 causes the entire peninsula to declare war? Brilliant, if I do say so myself, and we have nearly regained our stability. Now let us begin ferrying in troops from Persia and India.
Oh, and we seem to have conquered and annexed Chimu in South America as well. They should never have ended their war with the Incan Empire.
Meanwhile, the Mughal provinces are falling one by one, allowing us to take seven provinces, including most of their Chinese provinces. We are finally getting a real border with China. Unfortunately it is a sparesely populated border which is not capable of supplying a lot of troops, and the most direct route to forward armies goes through Tibet, so it really isn't ideal.
As you can see, we also support free trade yet again, leading to increased colonisation, and annex Hyderabad and Bengal. As the fighting continues in Indochina we are also fighting the Incas, who didn't learn the lesson of Chimu, and England and Portugal yet again. The large English fortress in Mobile is finally brought down by massed cannon in 1748, and England gives up Mobile, Cochin, and Trivandrum, the largest and best fortified English colonies.
As 1748 nears its end, it is time to sue for peace. Portugal gets off lightly, losing nine assorted trading posts and colonies, while Tibet is annexed, Dai Viet loses Santal, Arakan loses Chin, Atjeh loses Rian and the Mekong Delta, Myanmar loses Shan, Vientiane loses Yunnan and Mekong, Taunga loses Lampang, and Ethipia is annexed. By February 1750, peace reigns in Indochina. We also end the Incan war early in 1748 taking only a few provinces. Come next war, we will have more armies ready.
The East, 1750
Now is the time to march our relief troops into Indochina, for soon we will be fighting the Chinese again. Notice how our land tech has reached level 26 in the meanwhile. Considering that China is backwards with only tech 13, we can even consider storming their fortifications, should it be absolutely neccessary, but let us try to avoid letting it come to that.
Right on schedule the Chagatai Kaganate, Malacca, and China declare war in 1751, but that's all right. By 1753, Chagatai is reduced to one province, and so is Assam and Malacca. China loses Sichuan, Xining, Shaanxi, Henan, and Hebei after we besieged more than a dozen of their provinces.
Well, well, what a surprise. The Incas declare war in 1753, leading to their annexation. We also annex Arakan (1754), Myanmar (1755), Vientiane (1755), and Taunga (1756). Dai Viet loses eight provinces, and Portugal and England are shedding colonial possessions again, though these last island fortresses are damn annoying to attack. We also get a new puppet, Ioannes XI, who, unfortunately, is not as brilliant an administrator as his late predecessor. But that's alright, since there is only one Reformed province left in the world, Holland, and only a handful of Orthodox ones. Our new emperor gets to see the taking of Surabaja and Makassar from Mataram and the last seven Mughal provinces, before this war peters out in 1756.
And the Chagatai Kaganatas declare war in the start of October 1756, and are annexed before the month is done. Pitiful, really.
Come November 1756, we finally reach land tech 41, and we can start building recruitment centres. When we have finalised that program, we shall nevermore lack for soldiers. Look, as I begin constructing sixty recruitment centres. Unfortunately, we cannot count on the complete loyalty and support of the people outside our core provinces, so the larger part of our empire will have to do without.
Now allow me to have a drink of water, before we continue.
...
As I was saying,
CRASH! Nobody expects the Save Game Corruption Crash to Desktop! My chief weapon is surprise... Surprise and Fear. Fear and Surprise...
AARARRRRRGHHHH!!!
Ok, fortunately we can restore the simulation to... June 1756, the end of our last war. Sometimes I feel like inflicting grevious bodily harm on the experts who designed this operating system, I really, truly do.
Minor discrepancies do occur, as you no doubt have noticed, as Atjeh declares war in June 1756. Let us use this opportunity to adjust our religious tolerance. With only one reformed province left in the world, it should be alright to really, truly despise them. Give the public somebody to loathe, and they will pull together for you in the long run. I will just raise a 70,000 man army with 130 guns to keep order in Holland, and that should solve a large part of our rebel problems, since we can now afford to be slightyly more tolerant to Catholics and Protestants. We will continue attempting to convert Holland, though. One must keep up standards.
I hope you notice that we have meanwhile annexed Atjeh, Malacca, and Chagatai, and stripped Brunei of Sabah. Now we have some provinces from which we can easily invade the Portuguese Indonesian possessions, which is good. By 1757 it is time to fight China again, but this time, our armies stand ready. We will begin this war by placing their most important provinces under siege, and sending smaller forces to burn all their trading posts. Thus they will be prevented from attempting to buy us off with mostly inferior provinces.
Invading China, 1757
Notice how smoothly we overrun the Chinese yet again, and only a year later by January 1758, they offer us Hothot, Nanchang, Guizhou, Anhui, and Jinan for peace. That's a pretty good deal, so let's accept it.
INCOMING!
Is that you again, legolas?
No.. It was Heagarty
Heagarty! What are you.... doing with that silly looking concrete donkey?
Lobbing...
NO! Don't throw it!
Uh-oh, this simulator has just taken incoming fire. I'm afraid I will have to Crash to Desktop. NOBODY expects the Crash To Desktop. My two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
You, Heagarty, just made a big, big mistake.
WHACK
WHACK
BOP
WHACK
CRUNCH
Aarrrrghhh.
Silence, student. You can collect your head after class.
Where was I. Right, let us see. We can restore the simulation to January 1758. And so on and so forth, and by July 1758 they offer us the same bunch of provinces again, and we accept.
Peace with China, 1758
As you can see we can gain something like five provinces from China every seven years or so. Considering that China has 37 provinces left, and have sixty years left, we should just manage to take China in time. There being no cause to worry, let us start rearming for the next round. Let us also build a trading post near the Dakota, so we can rid the New World of the sole remaining organised tribe.
As you can see, it will really be a cakewalk from here, as we continue investing in trading, infrastructure, and the building of manufactoring. In fact, nothing can stop us now, not even.
Why are you laughing and pointing your appendages, Norgesvenn?
Behind you
Well, I never. China just diplomatically annexed Nippon, bringing them to 46 provinces. That, I am afraid, forces my hand. Though the people won't stand for it in the short run, I fear we will have to break the truce with China. We will need to do some serious real estate grabbing, or we just might fall behind schedule. Fortunately, the annexation has given us a casus belli against China, so we fill only lose five stability points leaving us one step from utter chaos, when we break our given word. Let us, however, first raise another half million soldiers and station them throughout the empire, just in case... And let us also dump our religious tolerance to the Orthodox faith. Only Moscow and three former Ethipian provinces remain Orthodox, after all. With a few major armies near, we can tolerably well despise them, while allowing maximum tolerance for Catholics, -2% for Protestants, and -1% for Muslims.
And now, let us declare war.
Truce-Breaker, 1759
Interesting. Thirteen spontaneous rebellions.
Please notice how our armies are capable of handling the 20+ simultaneous new rebellions per month with few problems. Though the casualty figure are, I admit, staggering, they are nevertheless within projections. The secret projections, that is. Don't ever release them to the public.
With the annexation of the Dakota and the continued bribing of the populace, stability is restored the following year, when China gives up Olga, Nelma, Lanzhou, Jiangsu, Henan, and Shaanxi in May. (Or was that Shanxi? The one of them we didn't already possess, at any rate).
This being a step in the right direction, let us repeat our feat and declare war the following month, June 1760.
Truce-Breaker part Deux, 1760
Please notice that our odds of stimulating a civil war are significantly higher when running at such a low stability. You should not make it a habit, unless you really love rebel scum.
Notice how we lacked a casus belli this time? That means we lost a total of seven stability points. Needless to say, just the declaration of war spawned more than a score new rebellions. But they will learn, in time, that the Empire is not to be trifled with.
Notice the timing? We annex Dai Viet in the end of June 1760, and stability is restored to -2. Things are looking brighter, and the new rebellions of July are hardly worth a mention.
AI: Event July 1760: The Peasants are Unhappy, Unhappy, Unhappy.
I didn't need that.
I really didn't need that.
I really, truly didn't need that.
Not, on reflection, that I object, in principle, to having 9% plus revolt risk in all of our Chinese and Indochinese possessions, while revolts are breaking out everywhere in the Muslim world, and a few are being seen amongst our protestant possessions. In principle, I take the philosophical view that, in time, the revolts will fade away like all the others.
In practice, however, I have a slight problem. But not to worry! We can easily afford to lose a couple of hundred thousand men to the rebellions and let the world run red with the blood of the rebels. But I think we had better raise another 200,000 men in our core provinces, and set them marching for China, just in case. And perhaps another 50,000 men in the New World. Just in case.
Actually, I don't mind seing more than a score rebellions per month. It just goes to show that our people still have plenty of spunk.
And fighting England and Portugal is fun, we've tried it before, and have always gained by it, really.
Ok, so we don't just lose 200,000 men, but my statement holds true for 400,000 men as well, since it is over an entire year, really. And by May 1761 we are at stab 3 again, and by August 1762 we have taken another six provinces from the Chinese and annexed Brunei and the Mughal Empire.
And this, my students, is the situation in the East as of now.
The East Revisited, 1762
As you can see, our two broken truces, have advanced our plans by a decade and a half, which means that, though risky, it was exactly the right thing to do. Hardly surprising, but it is nice to be reminded of ones superiority. If you study well you might one day in the distant future feel the same pride as you stride across a barren battlefied populated by the dead and the dying. Assuming you do well at exams, that is.
The status now is as follows:
England has one province left and a few trading posts
Mataram has one province left
Portugal has two provinces left and a few trading posts
Zimbabwe has five provinces left
China has 32 provinces left
So apart from a bit mopping up, China is all that remains.
Next lesson will either see us triumphant or embroiled in bitter civil war as the various dissenters unite at long last to break our reign of tyranny. Or, just possibly, it will see both.
Class dismissed.
How to break a truce
Greetings, class!
I hope you slept well!
Well, except for you, Carolus Rex, you dirty rotten scoundrel, you. Taunting the teacher that holds the Universal Championship in freestyle student-clubbing isn't the smartest of career moves. Allow me to demonstrate.
WHACK, Slam-bam-bam-bam-bam-boink!
Ouch...
And as for you, Heagarty, I find your attempted solution to the Asshurling incident most unamusing.
WHACK!
Ouch!
Ahem.
I would also like you all to welcome the new student Slayzer2. He has an awful lot of catching up to do, but his ability to acquire a bad reputation while making minimal gains as Hannover will make him fit right in with you dummies. Unfortunately. Don't go on an annexation spree before you are ready, I say, but do they listen.. Nooooo. Sigh.
Enough of this maudling.
Let us begin immediately. Entropy waits for no man, and our noble enterprise nears its conclusion. "Onwards, to glorious battle!", I hear you cry (except for those who go "Ouch"), and so be it!
As you can see, a scant year passes before we are embroiled in bitter combat again, against Afghanistan, and against Assam, China, the Chagatai Kaganates, and Nippon. Our only point of contact with the latter alliance is our single province east of Llasa, which means that there is no way in hell we can reinforce it, so let us pay off that alliance, rather than lose a province. Money is easy to come by, after all.
See? Trivial, Afghanistan annexed. Nice, isn't it? Nothing like an annexation to feel that you are alive, which is good, since the time has finally come for the Mughal Empire to take a real beating.
Invading the Mughal Empire, 1746
Now, while we are busy besieging the Mughals, it is time to turn our attention to Indochina. It will take a decade or more to fight our way over there by land, slowly gobbling up countries. Since we are under a severe time constraint, and since we need forward bases to use against China, let us rather load 60,000 men aboard our nice fleet, sail them across to Pegu, declare war without a casus belli, invade, and Annex. That should give us a forward base surrounded by enemies, into which we can pour troops. No sooner said, then done.
Notice how, according to plan, the annexation of Pegu in April 1747 causes the entire peninsula to declare war? Brilliant, if I do say so myself, and we have nearly regained our stability. Now let us begin ferrying in troops from Persia and India.
Oh, and we seem to have conquered and annexed Chimu in South America as well. They should never have ended their war with the Incan Empire.
Meanwhile, the Mughal provinces are falling one by one, allowing us to take seven provinces, including most of their Chinese provinces. We are finally getting a real border with China. Unfortunately it is a sparesely populated border which is not capable of supplying a lot of troops, and the most direct route to forward armies goes through Tibet, so it really isn't ideal.
As you can see, we also support free trade yet again, leading to increased colonisation, and annex Hyderabad and Bengal. As the fighting continues in Indochina we are also fighting the Incas, who didn't learn the lesson of Chimu, and England and Portugal yet again. The large English fortress in Mobile is finally brought down by massed cannon in 1748, and England gives up Mobile, Cochin, and Trivandrum, the largest and best fortified English colonies.
As 1748 nears its end, it is time to sue for peace. Portugal gets off lightly, losing nine assorted trading posts and colonies, while Tibet is annexed, Dai Viet loses Santal, Arakan loses Chin, Atjeh loses Rian and the Mekong Delta, Myanmar loses Shan, Vientiane loses Yunnan and Mekong, Taunga loses Lampang, and Ethipia is annexed. By February 1750, peace reigns in Indochina. We also end the Incan war early in 1748 taking only a few provinces. Come next war, we will have more armies ready.
The East, 1750
Now is the time to march our relief troops into Indochina, for soon we will be fighting the Chinese again. Notice how our land tech has reached level 26 in the meanwhile. Considering that China is backwards with only tech 13, we can even consider storming their fortifications, should it be absolutely neccessary, but let us try to avoid letting it come to that.
Right on schedule the Chagatai Kaganate, Malacca, and China declare war in 1751, but that's all right. By 1753, Chagatai is reduced to one province, and so is Assam and Malacca. China loses Sichuan, Xining, Shaanxi, Henan, and Hebei after we besieged more than a dozen of their provinces.
Well, well, what a surprise. The Incas declare war in 1753, leading to their annexation. We also annex Arakan (1754), Myanmar (1755), Vientiane (1755), and Taunga (1756). Dai Viet loses eight provinces, and Portugal and England are shedding colonial possessions again, though these last island fortresses are damn annoying to attack. We also get a new puppet, Ioannes XI, who, unfortunately, is not as brilliant an administrator as his late predecessor. But that's alright, since there is only one Reformed province left in the world, Holland, and only a handful of Orthodox ones. Our new emperor gets to see the taking of Surabaja and Makassar from Mataram and the last seven Mughal provinces, before this war peters out in 1756.
And the Chagatai Kaganatas declare war in the start of October 1756, and are annexed before the month is done. Pitiful, really.
Come November 1756, we finally reach land tech 41, and we can start building recruitment centres. When we have finalised that program, we shall nevermore lack for soldiers. Look, as I begin constructing sixty recruitment centres. Unfortunately, we cannot count on the complete loyalty and support of the people outside our core provinces, so the larger part of our empire will have to do without.
Now allow me to have a drink of water, before we continue.
...
As I was saying,
CRASH! Nobody expects the Save Game Corruption Crash to Desktop! My chief weapon is surprise... Surprise and Fear. Fear and Surprise...
AARARRRRRGHHHH!!!
Ok, fortunately we can restore the simulation to... June 1756, the end of our last war. Sometimes I feel like inflicting grevious bodily harm on the experts who designed this operating system, I really, truly do.
Minor discrepancies do occur, as you no doubt have noticed, as Atjeh declares war in June 1756. Let us use this opportunity to adjust our religious tolerance. With only one reformed province left in the world, it should be alright to really, truly despise them. Give the public somebody to loathe, and they will pull together for you in the long run. I will just raise a 70,000 man army with 130 guns to keep order in Holland, and that should solve a large part of our rebel problems, since we can now afford to be slightyly more tolerant to Catholics and Protestants. We will continue attempting to convert Holland, though. One must keep up standards.
I hope you notice that we have meanwhile annexed Atjeh, Malacca, and Chagatai, and stripped Brunei of Sabah. Now we have some provinces from which we can easily invade the Portuguese Indonesian possessions, which is good. By 1757 it is time to fight China again, but this time, our armies stand ready. We will begin this war by placing their most important provinces under siege, and sending smaller forces to burn all their trading posts. Thus they will be prevented from attempting to buy us off with mostly inferior provinces.
Invading China, 1757
Notice how smoothly we overrun the Chinese yet again, and only a year later by January 1758, they offer us Hothot, Nanchang, Guizhou, Anhui, and Jinan for peace. That's a pretty good deal, so let's accept it.
INCOMING!
Is that you again, legolas?
No.. It was Heagarty
Heagarty! What are you.... doing with that silly looking concrete donkey?
Lobbing...
NO! Don't throw it!
Uh-oh, this simulator has just taken incoming fire. I'm afraid I will have to Crash to Desktop. NOBODY expects the Crash To Desktop. My two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
You, Heagarty, just made a big, big mistake.
WHACK
WHACK
BOP
WHACK
CRUNCH
Aarrrrghhh.
Silence, student. You can collect your head after class.
Where was I. Right, let us see. We can restore the simulation to January 1758. And so on and so forth, and by July 1758 they offer us the same bunch of provinces again, and we accept.
Peace with China, 1758
As you can see we can gain something like five provinces from China every seven years or so. Considering that China has 37 provinces left, and have sixty years left, we should just manage to take China in time. There being no cause to worry, let us start rearming for the next round. Let us also build a trading post near the Dakota, so we can rid the New World of the sole remaining organised tribe.
As you can see, it will really be a cakewalk from here, as we continue investing in trading, infrastructure, and the building of manufactoring. In fact, nothing can stop us now, not even.
Why are you laughing and pointing your appendages, Norgesvenn?
Behind you
Well, I never. China just diplomatically annexed Nippon, bringing them to 46 provinces. That, I am afraid, forces my hand. Though the people won't stand for it in the short run, I fear we will have to break the truce with China. We will need to do some serious real estate grabbing, or we just might fall behind schedule. Fortunately, the annexation has given us a casus belli against China, so we fill only lose five stability points leaving us one step from utter chaos, when we break our given word. Let us, however, first raise another half million soldiers and station them throughout the empire, just in case... And let us also dump our religious tolerance to the Orthodox faith. Only Moscow and three former Ethipian provinces remain Orthodox, after all. With a few major armies near, we can tolerably well despise them, while allowing maximum tolerance for Catholics, -2% for Protestants, and -1% for Muslims.
And now, let us declare war.
Truce-Breaker, 1759
Interesting. Thirteen spontaneous rebellions.
Please notice how our armies are capable of handling the 20+ simultaneous new rebellions per month with few problems. Though the casualty figure are, I admit, staggering, they are nevertheless within projections. The secret projections, that is. Don't ever release them to the public.
With the annexation of the Dakota and the continued bribing of the populace, stability is restored the following year, when China gives up Olga, Nelma, Lanzhou, Jiangsu, Henan, and Shaanxi in May. (Or was that Shanxi? The one of them we didn't already possess, at any rate).
This being a step in the right direction, let us repeat our feat and declare war the following month, June 1760.
Truce-Breaker part Deux, 1760
Please notice that our odds of stimulating a civil war are significantly higher when running at such a low stability. You should not make it a habit, unless you really love rebel scum.
Notice how we lacked a casus belli this time? That means we lost a total of seven stability points. Needless to say, just the declaration of war spawned more than a score new rebellions. But they will learn, in time, that the Empire is not to be trifled with.
Notice the timing? We annex Dai Viet in the end of June 1760, and stability is restored to -2. Things are looking brighter, and the new rebellions of July are hardly worth a mention.
AI: Event July 1760: The Peasants are Unhappy, Unhappy, Unhappy.
I didn't need that.
I really didn't need that.
I really, truly didn't need that.
Not, on reflection, that I object, in principle, to having 9% plus revolt risk in all of our Chinese and Indochinese possessions, while revolts are breaking out everywhere in the Muslim world, and a few are being seen amongst our protestant possessions. In principle, I take the philosophical view that, in time, the revolts will fade away like all the others.
In practice, however, I have a slight problem. But not to worry! We can easily afford to lose a couple of hundred thousand men to the rebellions and let the world run red with the blood of the rebels. But I think we had better raise another 200,000 men in our core provinces, and set them marching for China, just in case. And perhaps another 50,000 men in the New World. Just in case.
Actually, I don't mind seing more than a score rebellions per month. It just goes to show that our people still have plenty of spunk.
And fighting England and Portugal is fun, we've tried it before, and have always gained by it, really.
Ok, so we don't just lose 200,000 men, but my statement holds true for 400,000 men as well, since it is over an entire year, really. And by May 1761 we are at stab 3 again, and by August 1762 we have taken another six provinces from the Chinese and annexed Brunei and the Mughal Empire.
And this, my students, is the situation in the East as of now.
The East Revisited, 1762
As you can see, our two broken truces, have advanced our plans by a decade and a half, which means that, though risky, it was exactly the right thing to do. Hardly surprising, but it is nice to be reminded of ones superiority. If you study well you might one day in the distant future feel the same pride as you stride across a barren battlefied populated by the dead and the dying. Assuming you do well at exams, that is.
The status now is as follows:
England has one province left and a few trading posts
Mataram has one province left
Portugal has two provinces left and a few trading posts
Zimbabwe has five provinces left
China has 32 provinces left
So apart from a bit mopping up, China is all that remains.
Next lesson will either see us triumphant or embroiled in bitter civil war as the various dissenters unite at long last to break our reign of tyranny. Or, just possibly, it will see both.
Class dismissed.
Storey who has been siting in the back row behind Carlos Rex wakes up from a long nap and looks at the board.
"Its 1762 and you still haven't conquered the world? What a loser."
And promptly falls back to sleep."
Joe
"Its 1762 and you still haven't conquered the world? What a loser."
And promptly falls back to sleep."
Joe
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Originally posted by Storey
Storey who has been siting in the back row behind Carlos Rex wakes up from a long nap and looks at the board.
"Its 1762 and you still haven't conquered the world? What a loser."
And promptly falls back to sleep."
...Thus never noticing that the benevolent teacher adds yet another black mark to Storey's scorecard. If he keeps this up, Storey won't even be allowed to invade Disneyland.
Wowie. I would have thought for sure you would have rolled a civil war event with al that time spent as such low stab. Count your blessings.
Less than two years at below 0, actually. 4 months per stab point, and the few annexations helped.
But I do count my blessings. A civil war would really have made this... Interesting.
The Unhappiness Amongst the Peasantry was bad enough.
I thought I was badass for running a viable Sibir.
Honestly, Peter, if you keep raising the bar like this, I'm going to have to pick something _really_ worthless for my next ROTW campaign. Like Orleans.
Honestly, Peter, if you keep raising the bar like this, I'm going to have to pick something _really_ worthless for my next ROTW campaign. Like Orleans.
The man, the legend
Well Mr Ebbesen, looks like you've done it again! I do however have one small challenge for you.
Do it as the Chimu at Hard/Aggressive. I honestly don't think World Domination is possible playing them.
Prove me wrong
Well Mr Ebbesen, looks like you've done it again! I do however have one small challenge for you.
Do it as the Chimu at Hard/Aggressive. I honestly don't think World Domination is possible playing them.
Prove me wrong
Hey, Sibir is bound to be much harder, since you don't get extra diplomats for being Catholic, and start with lousy manpower. (Of course, you can expand southeastwards with few problems, which ought to be nice).
And since when did Orleans become ROTW? Anyhow, if you survive the English onslaught, Orleans can become France, right? Few problems after that, hopefully.
- Mimir: I tried the Incas and got bored. The Chimu would face the same problem - i.e. no contact with the rest of the world. Now Tibet is a promising candidate (conquest without manpower), as is Nippon (conquest while getting all those nasty Nipponese rebellions and special Nipponese random events. There are a few nasty ones amongst them). And who knows, my next AAR might be peaceful.
Ok, probably not.
Hoped you would say that
.By the way, I've forgotten what ROTW stands for.. (so please tell me!)
/me fiddles with the simulator as teach wanders in..
Umm..heh heh..
WHACK!
Ow..
But Prof, all I was doing was undoing the cheats that Carolus turned on. As you can see here , Carolus loves to cheat!
Bad Boy Carol.
Umm..heh heh..
WHACK!
Ow..
But Prof, all I was doing was undoing the cheats that Carolus turned on. As you can see here , Carolus loves to cheat!
Bad Boy Carol.
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i really WAS afraid you won't manage to take over the whole world in the time given congrats
congrats
oof- as in "Ruler of the World", not "Rest of the World." I think? I'm not sure what I was thinking when I did that.
I actually had a damn fun game as the Inca. I got lucky, and got an explorer early in the game. By the time the Civil War got started, I'd diplo-annexed the Mesoamerican states, the Navajo, vassalized the Creek, and still managed to avoid losing a single province to the Spanish, my very dear friends.
Originally posted by Dan Cook
/me fiddles with the simulator as teach wanders in..
Umm..heh heh..
WHACK!
Ow..
But Prof, all I was doing was undoing the cheats that Carolus turned on. As you can see here , Carolus loves to cheat!
Bad Boy Carol.
Bad, bad, students. They never learn, do they? Many a cheating student's last word, as he lies disembowelled by the quaint natives in the swamps of some hellword has been, But you didn't have casus belli. I'll just reload... Arrrghhhhhhh.
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Actually, if one of you blighters have discovered a cheat code to start a civil war in one's own nation, please advise me right away. For one thing is conquering a world, another is holding it together, and there is just one way to find out, really.
Re: The man, the legend
actually.. its quite easy to do world conquest on anything but VERY hard...
Originally posted by Mimir
Well Mr Ebbesen, looks like you've done it again! I do however have one small challenge for you.
Do it as the Chimu at Hard/Aggressive. I honestly don't think World Domination is possible playing them.
Prove me wrong
actually.. its quite easy to do world conquest on anything but VERY hard...
Re: Re: The man, the legend
Bet you can't with Zimbabwe. I'm playing them as one of the "four fish in a pond" AAR and, by 1504 I still only know of 9 provinces and have yet to meet a "foreigner"
Originally posted by Lord Joseph
actually.. its quite easy to do world conquest on anything but VERY hard...
Bet you can't with Zimbabwe. I'm playing them as one of the "four fish in a pond" AAR and, by 1504 I still only know of 9 provinces and have yet to meet a "foreigner"