EU2 Thread

What tips are there for making assaults successful?

I had a war with the Ottoman empire but in the end I only managed to get 1 province in a rushed peace deal because they can keep on sending large armies north whilst I'm still besieging provinces. Venice and Poland were both allies so it would have been nice to think that we would have been more successful.
 
Well I manage armies to get the result. I assume you want to know about wars in general.
I have the number of "siege armies" for number of provinces I want to gain simultaneously and a number of "recon armies" for the number of fronts I have. For each pronvince the enemy has links to I have one army. I go with my recon armies and defeat the enemy on the border (which ever side). Then reinforce it and move it forward to block the incoming armies. The "siege army" comes and besieges the border province I want to take. It normally does not get attacked. Even if the recon army gets defeated there's still a good chance that your seige army will hold of the attack. When you take a town, move both armies forward to protect and take the next objective. I mix this tactic with reinforcing armies and having "backup" and "raider" type armies. Raider Armies are good in taking out small reinforcements of the enemy. Sure 1k is not much, but 100 cents make a dollar ;). I also have (sometimes) armies of "1st", "2nd" or "3rd" waves when dealing with strong enemies.

If you asked about "assults" - then simply have more artillery with you. The more the quicker sieges and assaults go.
 
The problem that I am having is with evil provinces that there isn't really much use in taking but it would be nice to have them.

Basically back with m Bohemia game I have a nice German empire on the go and recently had an alliance with Poland and Venice and wanted to go south and damage the Ottomans a bit as they were beginning to get very powerful (They have Egypt etc). I've got Hungary, they have everything to the south. The problem is that 2 out of the three border provinces have 15k fortresses that don't support armies of the same size so its pretty difficult to be able to take them.

I guess I should really just ignore these provinces since they would give me no real benefit in taking. The main reason for the two wars against the Ottomans is because Venice likes declaring war on them, both times minor gains have been made but not as many as I expected. I guess fighting France would be a far more worthwhile task.
 
Then I suggest you do this:
Build a 200-500 cannon army with a few troops.
Defeat the enemy at that 15k province.
Have 100k soldiers move into that pronince immediatelly after the guns arrived.
Storm the castle as soon as the soldiers arrive.
[you can adjust the numbers yourself I just posted an idea]

The other option is constantly re-supplying besieging armies with cannons and cannon fodder....
 
I guess that would work. The Ottomans have proved tougher than I had originally expected. On the plus side I'm currently making about 400 gold a year and my high income provinces have mayors now. Also annexed Venice. I doubt I will go to war with the Ottomans again and I'm not expecting anyone to declare war on me as my reputation is just above 10 and I have a huge empire.

I've now been put off a war with the Ottomans, I don't want to fight the Polish again as I would win but they still have a large enough empire to keep the Russians in the east. If they ever lose a war then I would be forced to act as if Poland were to collapse I would want the border to be as far east as possible. Not much risk of that happening though as Russia lost a war recently against Poland. The other target would be France and their allies. They do have a 100k army in the south that would be challenging. The only other target is Spain but they have a huge colonial empire so they probably wouldn't give up any provinces for peace.
 
I've just found that Aragon is a nice empire to play. The dual cultures really help and allow for some nice empire building at the start by annexing all the Italian nations.

Heres an odd situation though:

The Greeks with their allies beat up the Ottomans and then the Serbians followed but have no access to ships so they are stuck in a stalemate. Unfortunately they are now at war with Hungary et al. Not sure how the game will handle Serbia owning 3 other provinces that the other empires cannot reach unless they get military access with the Ottomans which is unlikely.

Will be interesting to see who ends up dominating the region. Any predictions?
(Btw Byzantium may be mine in 5 years time as I plan on diplo annexing Tuscany)
 

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Can you post a bigger picture of this plz?
 
Okay although this is from a bit later on. Basically once Serbia lost their two normal provinces the game automatically gave those other provinces back to the Ottomans.
 

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Ironically the area hasn't changed significantly at all.

Heres a new slight oddity. Georgia in europe? I don't think so. :)

It was a nice opportunity since I was wondering how I was going to annex Genoa as I'm in an alliance with Austria so I have lots of wars at the moment with Venice. Should eventually be able to get Genoa in a peace treaty from Georgia eventually although I may have to sail a long way.

edit: (Since this happened around the same time)

Its a shame you can't avoid being vasselized by another nation in certain events. I didn't want to be vassilised by Spain and as a result 4 royal marriages were broken so I could not cancel it for a while. However once again the Aragon empire is free from 'Spain'.
 

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Help!
I reinstalled the game, but every time I try to run it the game crushes. Its the Blink player that is causing the problem. I tried to load it in another way and got the "Video mode not supported" problem. How can I run the game?
 
Actually it is worse:
I load the game. Get a blank screen. Go out and close the EU2 program.
Then Blink player starts runnig ( :mad: ) and then it closes as the EU2 is by this time closed.
Blink doesn't work without the EU being closed and the game doesn't run after the player cuz the game is switched off! I think I go kill myself now :suicide:
 
Hmm there are some odd problems with EU2. One problem is that sometimes the blink player seems to start before the game so that the game ends up being in front of the player. Pressing alt+tab to select the player solves this problem.

Another time it just randomly crashed everytime I tried to run the game, restarting my computer solved that one.
 
Didn't notice this myself but my ally, England, did notice that Spain was unallied and war was declared. We rolled them over suprisingly easily when I was expected a very tough war. The result is shown below.

Two wars later and Spain is now down to Castille and all their colonies so about 6-8 to provinces. I may try to diplo annex them but I'm not sure whether to leave them in the game so that they can steal territories from Austria who are getting worringly large.
 

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Good Game Dell :)
I give you another one.... Grand Khalifate of Granade:
 

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:p

Well I had a really lucky war with Castile at first(1419-1421). I managed to win Mursia and Andalusia and hoped to get 1 province, but they offered me both. Then an extremely lucky war with Portugal. Castille moved in but I offered them 50 gold - best betrayal in history. With Castille gone it was more or less easy to win against Portugal - they only had Taho + colonies left. This was a longer war I had 1 year of combat and 4 years of siedge (simulaneous of 2 cities). After that Castille sobered up and lauched a war against me. This was a tough one - we were equals, but they had better tech (i.e. Catholic). Finally using superior tacitcs I defeated them and took the provinces you see (3). Thats was 1439. After that I declared war on Portugal and anexed them + colonies. Before that my reputation was the best ("noble"), but it got spoiled in 1443 when I annexed Portugal. Now Aragon declared war on me and I am sure I will win this one.

Of course I was lucky in two ways. Firstly I only lost one battle in my first war. I hadto reload 2 times when my armies were wiped out. I figured my game would be lost so I decided not to waste time and rebuild lost armies (and went straight for reload). SecondlyI was allied to Algeres. Since they are bigger than me both Castille and Portugal always had more troops fighting them than me which allowed me to take territories with only 50% of enemy troops defending them. Now that was how I managed to win against superior forces :).
 
Well if I do not consider reloading cheating esp. if it saves me time. I'd rather reload than re-start the game wasting even more time.
What do you mean about localization? My version was official...
 
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