How is your EU3 Game going?

[Antilogic]

I HAVE to try MEIOU.

After I finish my current game as Mamluks

It's looking a lot more polished than when I first played it, guess I'll give it a go when my Burgundy and Muscowy games are done.

this :

i used a 200k~ army against Burgundy stack of 370k

I've never had a battle that large...and nearly 12k meeting an untimely end per day, that's crazy.

I'm waiting for either Spain, the UK, or France to build up troops so we can fight some major wars--I'm not sacking their continental territory (and I even kicked the French out of Iberia for the Spanish and gave them their territory back, how sweet of me).

 

[Duke of Britain]

the Kingdom of Germany after the war against Burgundy :

i plan on forcing Holland to form the netherlands, i am waiting for infamy to get down so that i have chance to annex Utrech, then i will gift them all the dutch provinces i own, after it i will beat Burgundy for lorraine + other dutch provs

 

[bestbrian]

this :

i used a 200k~ army against Burgundy stack of 370k

That's one hell of a kill ratio.

 

[Civ'ed]

although if you were playing HOI3 about 255 of the dead were actually lifeless.

 

[Antilogic]

That's one hell of a kill ratio.

I've gotten great kill ratios (granted, an order of of magnitude smaller) just by starting wars with massive ambushes. I set up on the border, max out military spending a couple months before declaring to get full morale, and then go to war on the first of the month. That way, the first engagements are between my high-morale troops and the enemy's low-morale troops (their spending goes up, but morale won't increase until next month).

I think all I need is scale now to get something like that, although I don't have many massive rivals left. The 18th century is going to be boring.

 

[W|M]

Getting good generals is also immensely important to winning and getting high kill/death ratios.

 

[Duke of Britain]

yes, my sliders combined with high army tradition and the Battlefield comissions NI (That in D&T gives your generals +1 shock and fire) gave quite the good generals, plus i was land tech 33, while Burgundy 32, so i had caroline infantry, better morale and military tatics modifier as well.
and the prussian military reforms combined with militia act and -5 quality slider (that gives you +40% discipline in D&T, yes, the sliders are really radical)

 

[Leonel]

[shamelessplug][URL="http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?545796-The-Steppe-Wolf-(AirotciV)]try this[/URL][/shamelessplug]

That's actually very intriguing. Although it's a little weird seeing musketmen on a game map supposedly set in 2000. I'm gonna give it a try when I get home.

 

[hoplitejoe]

The link doesn't work for me....

 

[Duke of Britain]

so, i took a look in the EUIII Stats viewer/generator, and took a look at my war against Burgundy as Germany...

i won 102 battles in that war against burgundy, and it lasted around 2 years...if i wanted i could make it last more, but the destruction of my fleet for some reason skyrocketed my WE.

 

[Antilogic]

yes, my sliders combined with high army tradition and the Battlefield comissions NI (That in D&T gives your generals +1 shock and fire) gave quite the good generals, plus i was land tech 33, while Burgundy 32, so i had caroline infantry, better morale and military tatics modifier as well.
and the prussian military reforms combined with militia act and -5 quality slider (that gives you +40% discipline in D&T, yes, the sliders are really radical)

I think the original Battlefield Commissions was a seriously underrated military idea--people go crazy over Military Drill, but if you are going up against a 4+ shock general, that's only going to result in you losing even more troops. I'll take decent generals and fight defensively with terrain bonuses instead. Plus, the idea never goes obsolete: in the late game, +1 Morale doesn't matter so much, but good generals are always useful.

I also love Espirit d'Corps (sp?) along with a high Quality slider to get that discipline bonus.

 

[Leonel]

The link doesn't work for me....

Did you check the url? It has an extra http://

 

[hoplitejoe]

I got to it eventually....I got this link %22http//forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?545796-The-Steppe-Wolf-(AirotciV) when I clicked the link.

 

[Dreadnought]

I think the original Battlefield Commissions was a seriously underrated military idea--people go crazy over Military Drill, but if you are going up against a 4+ shock general, that's only going to result in you losing even more troops. I'll take decent generals and fight defensively with terrain bonuses instead. Plus, the idea never goes obsolete: in the late game, +1 Morale doesn't matter so much, but good generals are always useful.

I also love Espirit d'Corps (sp?) along with a high Quality slider to get that discipline bonus.

Battlefield Commissions is great, but the morale bonus is too much to pass up, especially early in the game.

 

[Antilogic]

Battlefield Commissions is great, but the morale bonus is too much to pass up, especially early in the game.

Oh, no doubt, the morale bonus is huge for the first century. After that, it starts to lose its luster, and by the time 1600 rolls around I would consider replacing Military Drill with Battlefield Commissions (if I haven't already picked it), or Regimental System once its available (the reduction in cost is huge, especially if you are constantly at war and thus have to keep that slider up).

 

[Leonel]

So I notice when my empire gets big enough, war exhaustion becomes a bit more of a problem, almost starting out as soon as I declare war. Is there a way to overcome this or at least lessen the effects?

 

[W|M]

so, i took a look in the EUIII Stats viewer/generator, and took a look at my war against Burgundy as Germany...

i won 102 battles in that war against burgundy, and it lasted around 2 years...if i wanted i could make it last more, but the destruction of my fleet for some reason skyrocketed my WE.

Why was the 2nd Swiss-Parman Imperialist War so bloody?

 

[aronnax]

this :

i used a 200k~ army against Burgundy stack of 370k

That is one awkward border!

 

[Duke of Britain]

Why was the 2nd Swiss-Parman Imperialist War so bloody?

Switzerland is a blob, and well, there were lot of ppl in that war, but mostly because it took really long and had 139~ battles.

 

[Antilogic]

So I notice when my empire gets big enough, war exhaustion becomes a bit more of a problem, almost starting out as soon as I declare war. Is there a way to overcome this or at least lessen the effects?

War exhaustion is affected by many things, and without more specifics it might be hard to troubleshoot your exact source of additional war exhaustion. It is increased by large with tons of casualties as well as attrition and assaulting fortresses. When your empire gets larger and fields more troops, you tend to take more attrition on campaigns, and I know I assault fortresses more often as a major power to speed the war to its conclusion. Both of these contribute to war exhaustion.

That, or you have just had a few mediocre kings that aren't reducing it quickly enough. What does your tooltip for war exhaustion say?