Started a new game on normal/normal as China. Did a small change in the main ethnic group category - removed the Manchus and Mongols and put in the Nanfangren, Hakka and Yue, all Chinese peoples. I believe this is more reflective of China's situation in the 19th century - it was pretty much the Chinese (including Manchus, who were all Sinicized anyways) who're holding the empire together. Wanted to put in the Northern and Southern Min too, but for lack of space... :gripe:

(Actually, I'm Min, going by Vikky's categorization... :ack: )

Game started in 1836 as usual. Sucked up to the Austrians first, and then traded flintlocks, post-Napoleonic and freedom of trade with them, for 2 claims, Taiwan (just 'lending' it to them for now :evil) and 7000 pounds. I can't trade for publishing industry, 'cause with the new patch, you can only trade for techs you've the pre-requisites for. I'm going to have to wait for machine parts to be available on the WM, before I can industrialize. It's going to be a long wait...

Began recruiting large numbers of Xin Bing Shi - native class infantry divisions. I can only build native infantry for now...

Dropped taxes to min 20% for all classes, and maxed out tarriffs. Total population dropped fr 410 mil or so, to 390 mil and hovered around there... That can't be helped... I now also had 300000 or so pounds in the bank.

I didn't grant Mongolia state status; with the result its pop suddenly ballooned as destitute POPs migrated out to our 'colony'...

Managed to build one colonial outpost on Okinawa; but no lumber on the WM, couldn't continue... :gripe:

One event in which our prestige was dropped by -10. Darn. Something about newspapers...

Moved large forces of Bannermen and Green Standard troops, as well as Xin Bing Shi, to Dali, our only territory abutting the evil British empire, and also to Guangdong. The evil British then tried to sell us drugs; we refused and the Opium War broke out... :hammer:

All Quiet On The Western Front

*whistles*

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Meanwhile in the South, 150000 New Army troops and 60000 Green Std troops guarded Guangzhou, where many Redcoats had landed (and died). Estimates of enemy dead ran between 150000-180000, over many months - compared with a few thousand for us. :)

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I find that my troops can't takeover claims... :mad Cavalry scouts rediverted to occupy Newcastle. :gripe:

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Imperial forces occupied whole of colonial Australia.

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We repeated the same with New Zealand, and then the Brits generously provided all of Queensland for us to play with too. :D

Meanwhile in Yunnan, bored after waiting for the Brits for an eternity, sent out 200000 New Army troops to attack the 40000-strong Brit garrison in the top NE corner of Assam. After a few days of fighting, they fled. :nanner:

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Further advances...

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Rushing more troops fr Shandong and Jiangsu to Dali..., a whole lot more troops... :evil:

And in other news, Annam now has a prestige of 51, 'cause they made a white peace with the Brits, after the Brits attked them. Why? 'Cause the Brit units were all tied up attacking ME! :mad: :gripe:

They're now being attked by the French; it seemed that the French landed some units but these got squashed... Good for me though... :evil:

It's now the middle of 1846 (I think). I am going to try to flush the Brits out of E India, to make them see sense (I had tried to make peace for their Aussie territories, several times - no deal).

One good thing about playing as an uncivilised power - rebels in occupied lands are irregulars... Also upkeep of New Army units only 1/10 of normal native units. :)

Total pop went down another 5 mil to 385 mil. I shld do something about that... :hmm:

Need to build more transports too... :evil:

Progress on the Indian front... My armies suffered horrendous attrittion, as I was throwing vast numbers at the Brits, depending on brute force to flush them out of Burma and the Ganges delta...

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And in other theatres, I've occupied almost all of Australia, NZ, parts of W Canada... My war rating is at 60% but the Brits refuse to accept my reasonable peace treaties. About all I'm asking for is NZ, S'pore, Malacca, a few islands here and there... is this too much to ask, for all my sacrifices? :ack:

Also threw out the Brits who had landed on Weihaiwei in Shandong, as well as those who tried to take HK thru an amphibious assault (they never learn...).

Advance on the Indian front May 1850. The drive into India continues...

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Then traded the Amami claim fr the Americans for Hainan island and 80000 or so pounds. The 30 prestige fr claiming the islands (Shikoku state) are worth a lot more to us now...

Found a way to get around the inability of declaring war on non-neighbours. Gave one province to Bhutan, and then DOW Bhutan. :ack +5 prestige. :)

February 1851.

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Then the Crimean War broke out. Or some such. And then... :D

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:rockon: :dance: :bounce: :yeah:

Our scores... :smug:
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101 prestige! :rockon I only annexed Bhutan, which'd give me 2 or 4 bb. :yeah Only need to wait for machine parts on the WM, industrialize, and then I'm all set. :)

Rechecked - the UK wasn't in any war... strange...

So I was minding my own business. And then the bastards...

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A few Russian units were already along the northern borders, and they poured across my defenceless frontiers... Checked the military tables, after mobilization, they had more divisions than even I do. :dubious: This is serious... :undecide:

All these 'cause I annexed Bhutan? :dubious:

By Nov, 1853 though, I have enough men on the scene to begin pushing back the initial Russian advances... while landing parties began taking over Papua New Guinea, Alaska, the Kuriles...

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By 1 Feb 1854, Chinese forces had retaken all territories, after some fairly serious engagements in W and E Mongolia, at the cost of few troops... But the main Russian forces had arrived... :scared:

But fortunately, with the exception of the central Manchurian plains, all those territories were mountainous. The big question is in W Xinjiang - those newly arrived 250,000 Russkies...

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And then in Feb 1854, the bastards on the other side of the Pacific... :gripe: So I am now in a 2 front war against the no.2 and no.4 militaries in the world...

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The Americans crossed the sea, and occupied Zhanjiang, just across fr Hainan island. I have no troops south of Beijing's latitude... Had to pull up some levies.

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Meanwhile, in the north, the Russians were walking up and down the long borders. Eventually, they picked Altay as the focal point of their invasion...

The First Battle of Altay.

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We won, after I moved reinforcements fr nearby provinces... but our problems only began. Reinforced troops, morale dropped to zero (I didn't have Jomian attitude yet...).

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Naturally, the Russians attacked again...

The Second Battle of Altay...

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After throwing in a lot more men (on both sides) involving eventually up to (estimated) 650,000 men, we eventually prevailed... :whew:

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But in the South, things aren't going well for us. We did won back Zhanjiang at one-time but the Americans kept counter-attacking, what with our reinforcing and morale problems... I lost 2 New Army divisions... first ever losses. :(

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Our peace treaty with the Brits will expired in 1856... :nervous:

I check my bb rating - I got slightly above 10! All I did was annex Bhutan... I might need to replay this game. :undecide:

Man, this is interesting. Almost makes me want to play the game.

Now if only my stupid Master of Orion III CD wasn't stuck in the drive, I might install it...

The Russians launched numerous attacks on Atlay and Kobdo, using hundreds of thousands of troops each time. We survived assault after assault, driving back the Russkies each time... And then, in early 1857, the Russians finally broke through, at Atlay. The Chinese forces pulled back fr W Xinjiang and regrouped towards the rear, forming a new line thru Kobdo-Qiemo... But our mission to slow down the Russians had succeeded as... :D

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Whereas in the South, fierce battles raged with the Americans as newly raised Chinese levies intersected amongst the US units which were slowly being swallowed up by the immensity of the Chinese inland... :) Once we made a reasonable peace treaty with the Russkies, the Americans are toast. :yeah:

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The Kobdo-Golmund Line...

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Progress of the war in Europe... Apparently fighting over wastelands in China was important to the AI than its own core territories... Oh well. :)

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Operation Thor's Hammer, summer of 1858. :D Mission objective is to annihilate the 20 Russian divisions pocket in Dikhua. We're getting tired of simply beating them back...

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Phase 1 of Operation Thor's Hammer completed as the Russkies were chased out of Atlay...

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In the meantime, the bits and pieces of the US forces were encircled and destroyed in S China...

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The Russians weren't really silly; they counterattked Kobdo. And in force. :nervous:

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Drew off some forces fr the victory at Atlay to reinforce the defenders at Kobdo; eventually the Chinese prevailed. Threw as much as we can at Dikhua...

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Meanwhile, in Europe, the Austrians and Brits were making great strides, at my expense... :gripe:

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Finally, after more than half a yr since the initiation of Operation Thor's Hammer... :D The Russians stood their ground to the last man (the battle odds were heavily in their favour after all; like 17 against 60-80 for them), but they were continually hammered by the ever increasing numbers of Chinese levies.

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Slightly more than 20 Russian divisions were annihilated; Russia dropped fr world no.2 to no.4 militarily, and their war weariness jumped to 40+%. :rockon:

And 200000 fresh Chinese troops fr the American campaigns had arrived in E Xinjiang, with another 90000 on the way... :yeah:

Signed a white peace with the Americans... Not much point in continuing...

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The Brits signed a peace treaty with Russia, extracting some provinces. Not very persistent are they?

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Meanwhile on the war front... in Europe, summer of '59.

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In China, early 1860. After encircling some more Russian divisions and annihilating them, they're down to about 70 or so... :yeah:

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Europe, early 1860. Notice the French landings in the Artic...

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The Austrians exactly a heavy price for their peace treaty... :rockon: This is what you get for messing with a human-controlled China. :p

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The Austrian lebensraum.

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Finally, after 10 years of colonial warfare... :dance:

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I think the AI is preprogrammed to give up after 10 years...

I also figure out where I got my BBs from - it seems when you receive territories fr a peace treaty, you pick up some BB points. :gripe: Maybe it's because I'm an uncivilised country? (After I took these territories, my BBs are bumped again to 9 something... :nervous: ).

The Russians are down to 50 divisions; must have lost a few more in the war in the west, as well as in China. :yeah: Their prestige also took a huge hit, now -110 something. :snicker:

I have 135 or so Xin Bing Shi, 6 cavalry as well as 35 or so Banner and Green Std irregulars. The Brits might DOW me next, with my BB points...

Still waiting for machine parts... :gripe:

I'd say if you ever get to Europe, watch out for the Austrians. But then I've never played this game (yet).

Here we go again... :rolleyes: You would think they would want to reabsorb the Confederacy first...

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My forces quickly overran Hainan island, and then I parked perhaps half a million troops around the area. :ack:

The Americans also tried landing in Manchuria - the Pacific side. Rushed my army in Jilin and squashed it. Moved my garrisons along the Manchurian border to guard the coast. As well as the army in Ude. Just in case.

Also captured Bonin islands, after an earlier failed attempt. Moving on to take Midway...

At least, it was something to do, while I wait for machine parts... :gripe:

The PNCC* Manifesto

1. Become the most prestigious civilised country in the world.
2. Become the greatest industrial power in the world and the biggest producer of all manufactured products.
3. Become the greatest military power in the world, with the largest army and navy.
4. Introduce full democratic and social reforms at (at least) acceptable levels.
5. Drive out all foreign powers from Asia and the Pacific.
6. Spread democracy amongst all peoples in Asia and the Pacific.
7. Build a railroad fr the Bering Sea to the Mediterranean.

Addendum 1. Burn down Washington and St Petersburg at least once.
Addendum 2. Reserved.
Addendum 3. Reserved.

*Project for a New Chinese Century.

I'd say if you ever get to Europe, watch out for the Austrians. But then I've never played this game (yet).The Austrians are my friends... :) For now, I'm working on getting them to give me a guarantee of independence. It'll hold the Russians for some time at least.

But then, by the time I can get to Europe, I need no longer fear anyone. :ack:

All nations get BB from accepting terrotiries in a peace treaty

Except if you're a civilised nation, and you're getting some fr an uncivilised one (not annexation). ;)

Made another white peace with the Americans. They immediately launched an attk on the Confeds and annexed them. Then attked Mexico. The US really looked like the US now... except for Alaska and Hawaii.

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We finally managed to get our first machine part; and then the torrent of machine parts flooded our mkt. 1876! :gripe Went into a building frenzy and built 26 factories. :D

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YESSSS!!!!!

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The next phase will be hectic; need to train clerks, craftsmen, fill my factories with workers, upgrade them, expand RGOs, build a brand new army etc etc. Fun time. :)

And with all those pops you have this could turn out fun, you have the potential to make China a gigantic super industrial power!

The Americans declared war on me again... full war... :rolleyes: About all they're achieving is getting their landing parties wiped out. 5-10 divisions as I remembered vaguely.

My industrialization had come to a standstill. Due to lack of coal, iron and dye. Can't buy them off the world-market either. I think it's because the wars in Central and East Europe had wiped out so many miners that those regions can't export as much coal as they usually do... :(

Also discovered that while I'm in uncivilised mode, practically all my unemployed miners and some farmers had moved to Mongolia (because it's a 'colony'). It's now my single state with the most POPs (at 747 ). My mines in China proper and Manchuria are sufferring fr lack of laborers... :(

A random border event allowed me to bump up my relations with the UK by +100, for a small price in prestige. So I negotiated a military alliance with the mighty British empire. Now, 200 Brit divisions and the massive Royal Navy are going to distract the Americans a bit. :dance:

It's so ironic 'cause at one time at least, the UK was guaranteeing the independence of the US. Now Great Powers no.1 and no.2 are fighting, to my advantage. I hope they destroy each other. :yeah:

Played awhile, then realised I can now take over American claims... :evil: It's the middle of 1880.

And with all those pops you have this could turn out fun, you have the potential to make China a gigantic super industrial power!Read my third paragraph in above update... :(

BTW, I'm now a Great Power at no.8. No.6 in military, 7 in industry, 9 (or 11) in prestige. :yeah:

Redesignated the 136 Xin Bing Shi in existense as Militia units (10% the org of normal native units, at 10% the upkeep I think...); formed almost 40 new divisions now, along the Western lines... :) Disbanded all the Banner and Green Std units for their manpower. Began an officer training programme.

Building new transport fleets...

Industry-wise, closed perhaps 2/3s of my factories due to resource shortfalls. :undecide: Most profitable product (for now) is lumber (selling at 17-19 pounds per unit). Looking to setup some capitalists too.

Technology-wise, very backwards. Only 3 army techs, 1 commerce tech... Concentrating on the army techs for now, to buff up my armies a little.

Feb 1882.

Industrially, expansion of RGOs is slowly bumping up home production of iron and coal, and ensuring full supply to our steel mills - though one is still closed. Still lacking sufficient dye - looking to remedy this by possibly trading some dye provinces fr the UK, with captured US claims in Namibia. It looks increasingly likely I'll have to base my industrial powerhouse model along the timber-furn-lux furn production line though. With all the overpopulated timber-producing provinces along Inner Mongolia... :hmm: Expansion of RGOs is still on-going...

Militarily, form 6 Route Armies of 5 inf and 2 inf-R each, and the Imperial Guard of 4 inf-G. Army expenses tripled. Will form another 2 Route Armies eventually (to get the lucky Chinese 8 number :)); by taking out some of the inf units fr the current Armies, and raising 4 more inf-R units. Producing 5 leadership points even at most minimal def expenditure - looking to provide good generals for all Regular and Militia formations.

As for the war... since the Brits joined in, no US unit had landed. :snicker: On the contrary, saw some extensive Brit invasions of the US East Coast, around the New England area. :yeah: Brit units have double the morale of US units, so... :) The RN had also wiped out the entire US transport fleet, and tied down the remaining US Navy. Ha!

I also sent out some attritionless units to occupy Bonin and Midway islands in the Pacific. And took over all US claims in Namibia and the Pacific.

great! go on, i need to copy wat you do in Vicky... :D

great! go on, i need to copy wat you do in Vicky... :DActually, I made quick a few mistakes... like didn't buy sufficient lumber when it was available early in the game, and trading off Hainan to the Americans... ;)

You're playing the game too?

I will, after i see you win :D

Nov of 1882 or 1883, Prussia attked Belgium. The UK, France, Spain, Two Sicilies came to the Belgians' aid, thru the system of alliances in place. Russia and Krakow (Poland?) joined the Prussian side. Surprisingly, the Brits didn't call on me to honor alliance; it would have been a good chance to grab all those Russian claims in Africa and elsewhere. :plz:

The Third Sino-American War continued without much change, except for us managing to occupy Qiongzhou, the northern half of Hainan island, whilst the 60000 American troops went south to put down some insurgency. Tried to attk them with the 6th Route Army; got beaten bad. The tech disparity showed, as well as the terrain penalty for us. Our war weariness nearing 30%; the Americans' were about 10% higher. It'd be a matter of who blinks first.

(When they came to me proposing a white peace, I get hit with a -100 prestige, but when I went to them proposing a white peace, I get +12 prestige... strange. Of course, I hadn't made peace yet.)

Also made some major exchanges with the Brits. In 2 diplomatic initiatives, we gave us the captured US claims in Namibia and Polynesia (6 altogether) plus 40000 pounds, and received 10 provinces. Including 2 major dye-producing and 1 major iron-producing one (others were in Burma, the Andaman islands, as well as my real homeland, Malaysia and Singapore :))! :bounce: The game AI places too much value on claims. :ack:

Ranking-wise, moved on to the no.2 industrial spot, as well as 3rd or 4th (or 5th?) in the military spot. 13th in prestige. Overall the no.6 Great Power. The other Great Powers are (in descending order) the UK, Spain, the US, Austria, Russia, me, the North and South German Confederations. Note that the N Germans are satellited to Prussia, whilst the S Germans are satellited to Austria. :ack:

Industrially, opened all my 4 steel mills (3 of which are at level 2). My 4 lumber mills are now at level 5; we're still expanding - price of lumber still too high to make furn, paper-production profitable... My 2 level 2 reg clothes factories also opened for business, as well as my 2 level 1 glass and 3 level 3 fabric (in expansion) factories. All others closed for now.

Militarily, didn't do much except expanding the mobilization base and creating more generals.

It is now 1884 or 1885...

Also made some major exchanges with the Brits. In 2 diplomatic initiatives, we gave us the captured US claims in Namibia and Polynesia (6 altogether) plus 40000 pounds, and received 10 provinces. Including 2 major dye-producing and 1 major iron-producing one (others were in Burma, the Andaman islands, as well as my real homeland, Malaysia and Singapore :))! :bounce: The game AI places too much value on claims. :ack:



Nice one :goodjob: With Iron and Dye you are well on your way

Bought some more Indian provinces, particularly those producing dye... Our Indian territories now looks like this. :)

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Our standings thus as in Jan 1885.

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The Euro-wars have ended; we also finished our 3rd Sino-American War with yet another white peace (+6 to prestige). Also renewed the alliance with the Brits, if only to continue 'buying' India later on. :ack:

Stares hungrily across our borders... :evil:

Nice one :goodjob: With Iron and Dye you are well on your wayI am now the largest producer of iron, coal, timber, dye, silk and tropical wood! :bounce: :ack:

Decided to pick on the Spaniards, and liberate the Philippines. They are no.2 or 3, but are militarily weak (only there 'cause of high prestige in the 3000s).

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British progress in Spain... While they're busy there, we picked off all the Spanish claims in Africa, as well as Luzon island, Spanish W Africa, some Pacific islands and parts of Cuba... the unguarded provinces. :)

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The 'Buy India' campaign takes on a whole new meaning... The Brits' pop are down to less than 70 mil now... :evil: Of course, I'm ensuring that they can't claim anything in Africa too. :)

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Buying your way to world domination eh?

You ever tried the V.I.P mod? You cant buy India there.

The Brits took Madrid, and soon made a separate peace with Spain for the three Spanish provinces adjoining Gilbraltar, and military access. I made my own peace for the 3 Luzon provinces in the Philippines, 3 Pacific islands and the 4 coastal provinces of Spanish W Africa. Not a great deal, but I had acquired 20 Indian provinces thru selling off captured Spanish claims so... :D

Yeah, speaking of India, 'bought' another 5 provinces. Also exchanged off 2 Pacific and 3 African provinces for Taiwan. Taiwan is now reunited with the Motherland. :)

Still left 2 claims in Africa, as 'currency'. These would be worth a lot to the Brits, since they'd enable them to claim 2 whole African states. Yes, I'm pitying the Brits since I'm taking away their India, and giving them the Sahara... :mischief:

The Spaniards are allied with the French. The French have some claims in Africa. The next move is obvious. :)

It's early 1888...

Buying your way to world domination eh?

You ever tried the V.I.P mod? You cant buy India there.No. I don't play Vikky very often...

I haven't even played an Euro country yet, apart fr Russia, and a short game as Sweden. :ack:

Declared war on France at the cost of 32 prestige. The Two Sicilies (which had taken much of Central and parts of N Italy as well as most of Greece) and Spain :ack: joined on the French side, whilst we called up the Brits.

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The Spaniards capitulated a few months later, since all their remainder units were overseas and they no longer had a navy (courtesy of the Brits in the earlier war). The UK took a huge chunk of S Spain...

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The fall of Paris... so quickly... :ack:

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While I was busy stealing French claims, the Brits made a separate peace with the French. But most of the victory spoils went to me (?)... :confused: China remained at war with France (?). Our relations with the Brits dropped to 110 or so (?). Is this some obscure AI 'tactic' to reduce my war rating with them?

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Stole all the French claims and raiding into N Algeria. Then my alliance with the Brits lapsed for a while, and a second later... :rolleyes:

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Well, maybe the Americans will prove more entertaining than the French, who kept landing units and losing them... :ack:

You should consider trying VIP it gives a lot more events, and it also makes it a little more challenging, it also adds new nations.

Tried a few times to ally again with the Brits but failed. Our BB is in the high 60s, so... Still, they guaranteed our independence, so no worries fr that quarter for now.

Bought the rest of UK's Indian provinces. Now they only left Ceylon and 2/3s of Burma in Asia. :snicker: Also taken all of Annam and Cambodia. Going to take Ladakh (uncivilised) next, to connect Chinese Turkestan and Chinese India.

As for the war, nothing much except annihilating some landing US and French parties. The only action was in French N Algeria, but pulled back the 2 Militia Cavalry Corps across the Sahara after the French began landing in force. Eventually, the French and the USAians made white peace proposals...

It's now 1891.

You should consider trying VIP it gives a lot more events, and it also makes it a little more challenging, it also adds new nations.Someday. ;)

I sense my enthusiasm for Vikky going down though... :ack:

Nothing to report. Took over Ladakh, linking up Xinjiang with India.

Formed another 2 Route Armies. Dispersed 2 Militia Armies to beef up our border garrisons along the northern frontiers, as well as establishing 2 new garrisons in Annam. Also minused out 1 Militia div fr each existing Militia Army for that...

Peacetime is so boring...

Lost 120-140,000 troops in an invasion of Korea. Mostly thru attrition (I was sending in whole Route Armies) as well as fr a major battle in the middle Korean province bordering on the Yalu (took too long; the defenders there ballooned fr 30-40000 to 300,000 irregulars. :eek: ). Grabbed 5 provinces. Couldn't annex due to earlier said battle resulting in failure to capture that single mainland Korean province, as well as failure to take Cheju island (due to lost battles with the Korean frigates...).

Nothing much, except for the conquest of Nepal.

And the reorg of the Army. Instead of fielding 12 Route Armies of equal size, reorg into 4 Route Armies (6 inf-R, 1 inf-E for now; soon to add inf-A and inf-Hq) and 12 smaller Army Corps (1 inf-E, 3 inf; for now...) for greater flexibility.

Oh, and the Fifth Sino-American War broke out... hunting down landing party time again... :ack:

It's sometime in 1896...

The Fifth Sino-American War ended in a whimper, after the destruction of a few landing US divisions. :ack:

Then the Russians declared colonial war on us... YESSS!!! :D Rushing to take over the numerous Russian claims in Africa, a few on Borneo and one in the S Pacific. Also set my armies to roll into Central Asia. The Russian Far East has state status though...

The Brits refused to honor their guarantee of our independence, and relations plunged to -44, through no fault of ours... :gripe:

Days fr getting the experimental railroad tech. That's how backwards we are. :(

It's 1897...