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News travels slowly pre-telegraph.
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May 11, 2018 22:04
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paragon1 posted:News travels slowly pre-telegraph. Sure, but this amount of troops must mean them grabbing every able bodied man in the colonies and shipping them off to war, and most of them not coming back. They gotta know something is up
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May 11, 2018 22:53
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Its also less troops in the colonies period. Some enterprising viceroys' gotta be getting ideas now that the people from home are preoccupied and the loyal soldiers are now elsewhere
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May 11, 2018 23:03
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There's an event along those lines that can fire for Morocco whenever their core provinces get occupied, we've literally just captured the straits though. Give it some time. Also, for those who asked earlier, here's the ledger page with some manpower values. It's a bit outdated, but I don't think it's changed much from 1831.  Also, keep in mind that those army numbers also include garrisons, so they're not completely representative of the field army sizes. There's no way of finding out that from the ledger.
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May 11, 2018 23:50
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We've been doing some serious work on our navy
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Holy poo poo, Hungary. How do they have so much!? That's... pretty worrying.
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catlord posted:Holy poo poo, Hungary. How do they have so much!? That's... pretty worrying. Well, when a man and woman love each other very much. And Allah wills it, the man and wife have a special hug and ----
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May 12, 2018 04:34
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Hashim posted:Ka'baald has been chilling in Qadis all this time, commanding one of the flanks in the capital's garrison force. A very cushy position, so he's unlikely to see much action unless someone manages to besiege Qadis. Not very bold of him, but I'm glad he's still kicking!
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May 12, 2018 06:43
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HiHo ChiRho posted:Sure, but this amount of troops must mean them grabbing every able bodied man in the colonies and shipping them off to war, and most of them not coming back. True, but they won't know about enemy troops marching on Moroccan soil for a while. Also goddamn that Moroccan manpower reserve 
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May 12, 2018 07:29
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Can we just have a quick win against the Morrocans? Like we take their capital, get some of the land in Iberia back and get a 10 year truce out of it? Because I think I'd like to not see us crushed like insects.
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May 12, 2018 08:54
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Josef bugman posted:Can we just have a quick win against the Morrocans? Like we take their capital, get some of the land in Iberia back and get a 10 year truce out of it? 10 year truce so they can rearm and storm through Andalusia again?
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May 12, 2018 10:30
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Top Hats Monthly posted:10 year truce so they can rearm and storm through Andalusia again? Tirunni is kind of getting hosed so a breather would probably help us more than the Moroccans tbh
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May 12, 2018 10:45
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Top Hats Monthly posted:10 year truce so they can rearm and storm through Andalusia again? 10 years of colonial internal fighting whilst Tiruni falls the gently caress apart and we can finally grab northern Iberia? We would rule like Gods... angry Gods.
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May 12, 2018 10:58
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E: nm
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May 12, 2018 11:17
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Top Hats Monthly posted:10 year truce so they can rearm and storm through Andalusia again? We'd be at Vicky 2 at that point, and the V2 AI is probably the weakest one in a Mega LP's path. Even if we lose territory through the first 30 years, by the time machineguns are researched the AI has no idea how to fight wars anymore. Though the March of the Eagles AI seems to be giving it a run for its money.
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May 12, 2018 11:36
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May 12, 2018 11:39
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Josef bugman posted:HoI doesn't have the problem does it? HoI4 AI was pretty weak when I last played it, but it was many patches ago. It still didn't reach the level of suicidal self-loathing of the V2 one after the invention of machineguns.
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ZearothK posted:HoI4 AI was pretty weak when I last played it, but it was many patches ago. It still didn't reach the level of suicidal self-loathing of the V2 one after the invention of machineguns. Yea hoi ai is not so good. Though doing it multiplayer can resolve that, and will probably make for a very chaotic game.
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May 12, 2018 12:16
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HoI's AI is sadly completely suicidal and will run into unwinnable fights until it's out of guns and men. At this point you start walking forwards and essentially win unopposed. Volunteering for the MP sessions!
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Presently, I'd say the EU4 AI is pretty much the only one in a Paradox series that could be described as being competent at playing the game. If you've been reading MegaLP's on the reg, you will usually see players having most of their setbacks when crossing Europa Universalis, which will also be the longest stretch of the playthrough unless they take one of the pre-Hastings starts in CK2. [edit]That's not to say al-Andalus has a smooth ride going forward from this. We are probably going to start V2 in a relatively weak position even if we win the revolutionary wars and the real Great Powers (like our old colonies, Russia and the Dual-Monarchy of France-England) can give us a lot of trouble if they decide to intervene in our affairs. ZearothK fucked around with this message at 13:15 on May 12, 2018 |
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ZearothK posted:We'd be at Vicky 2 at that point, and the V2 AI is probably the weakest one in a Mega LP's path. Even if we lose territory through the first 30 years, by the time machineguns are researched the AI has no idea how to fight wars anymore. Yeah, it's not that hard to get the ball rolling in victoria, especially if you start as a secondary power in Europe (as we'll likely, hopefully, be by then). I've got a couple ideas on how to avoid snowballing though, so hopefully the game remains challenging up until the world wars, at least.
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ZearothK posted:We'd be at Vicky 2 at that point, and the V2 AI is probably the weakest one in a Mega LP's path. Even if we lose territory through the first 30 years, by the time machineguns are researched the AI has no idea how to fight wars anymore. To be fair, machineguns pretty much meant real-life generals at the time had no idea how to fight wars anymore either! Though unlike the Vicky 2 AI, they eventually managed to figure it out.
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Hashim posted:I've got a couple ideas on how to avoid snowballing though, so hopefully the game remains challenging up until the world wars, at least. Time for maji voting voting on military strategy as well. “We were making progress on the southern land front but the maji’s suddenly voted for an amphibious invasion and all our troops got sunk in the attempt.”
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Zikan posted:Time for maji voting voting on military strategy as well. Gallipoli does sound like something the Majil's would support.
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Super Jay Mann posted:Gallipoli does sound like something the Majil's would support. Hardly. We wouldn't have given up so easily. 
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May 12, 2018 15:11
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How are our old colonies doing anyways? It would be nice to see if they are still rapidly gaining power
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I'm cautiously optimistic, but drat does Hungary have a metric shitton of troops. Really going to come down to whether we can beat the Almoravids.
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Seems like Hungary has thrown its entire population into this war. If the Almoravids come out on top, then the post-war peace conference will very likely see them awarded a lot of new territories in eastern Europe as a reward. If Tirruni prevails, then they're probably going to be completely dismantled and wiped off the map.
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Tirruni just needs one decisive battle against Hungary and they're basically done for the rest of the war. I'm not sure how much difference 70% discipline makes, but I'm sure it'll be fine.
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:I'm not sure how much difference 70% discipline makes, but I'm sure it'll be fine. Yeah, but remember that there are a bunch of Germans in northern Italy as well, happy to reinforce any nearby battles. Hannover's army quality is decent, more than enough to tip the odds in their favour, wherever they've got numerical superiority. I mean, we've got 50% more army quality than Morocco, but they were able to beat us on our home territory with just 10/12k more soldiers. So yeah, like a lot of Paradox games, numbers play a massive role.
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Morocco’s boosted manpower reserves should come at the cost of instability in their colonies or at least reduced income. Just how many Indians can they ship over without it being a strain on their global empire? E: Uhhhh. So does it matter that our alliance is just bleeding money? I’m not sure how this game works compared to EU4. Snipee fucked around with this message at 18:05 on May 12, 2018 |
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Snipee posted:E: Uhhhh. So does it matter that our alliance is just bleeding money? I’m not sure how this game works compared to EU4. In MotE, coalition leaders basically subsidise everyone who joins their coalition, which basically imitates how Great Britain subsidised all of her continental allies during the Napoleonic Wars. Tirruni's been having a bit of a hard time recently though, so he's been spending a lot of money raising new troops, and he's also massively expanded his navy for some reason. All of that means he's giving his coalition members a lot less subsidies, so we're unable to maintain our navy and keep a positive balance right now. I've got a decent cash reserve though, so I'm gonna keep it going for as long as possible, with the hope that Tirruni actually starts helping out at some point. Egypt seems to be doing well enough though, at least since the Berbers wiped out their navy.
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If the Navy must be scuttled, lets hope that it takes the Berber navy with it -- assuming it's about equal to just disbanding.
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:If the Navy must be scuttled, lets hope that it takes the Berber navy with it -- assuming it's about equal to just disbanding. 
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Yeah if there's no like, manpower penalty to just doing a suicide run vs dismantling (which there probably is), let's absolutely go berserk if it comes to that.
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May 12, 2018 21:14
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I'm just hoping our former colonies don't decide to invade us before MotE ends. 
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Tirruni's going to just barely win this war and then attack Russia.
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Rodyle posted:Yeah if there's no like, manpower penalty to just doing a suicide run vs dismantling (which there probably is), let's absolutely go berserk if it comes to that. Yeah, I'll probably end up throwing the navy into battles rather than disbanding it, even if there's some cost in manpower, just because it was so expensive and I may as well take out as many Almoravid ships as possible.
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