Jan 1806: Russia and Prussia are in a MPP. But Russia is fighing the Ottomans in the South. If we give them something to worry about on other fronts, they won't be able to concentrate on us. We have some powerful AI's on this continent. Let's use their armies to do the dirty work...
Declare on Prussia and immediately unleash our SOD on Hamburg. Now for some tricky diplomacy:
First sell Medicine to Naples for 1GPT, 14G and their WM. Sell WM to everyone for some change. Buy France for an alliance vs. Prussia for 29GPT + 5G. ROP with France, so they can reach our enemies more quickly. Pay Austria 21 GPT + 8G for the same alliance. ROP with Austria (who is now Gracious). We know Russia is going to declare, but let's hurt their rep with the other AI's (assuming tey have one... tey do, rght??). We sign an ROP with them for 8G. It will cost them an additional one hundred times that to buy anyone else to fight us. Lux has to go to 20% and our we are at 264G - 45GPT. Will have to slow the bleeding soon.
IT: Catch Engliand trying to plant a spy in our capital. Russia declares. Much bloodshed ensues. Austria and France are both fighting Prussia and Russia, and the Ottomans are still nipping at the Russians in the South.
Mar 1806: Our cavalries win, retreat, and finally take Hamburg. We didn't fire a lot of artillery so they could move on, and they do. We redline Prussian inf caught in transit with arty and a cav finishes him off. TT's with 3 cavs and an inf head East to reinforce the Russian front. It will be very eciting over there very soon!
IT: Spain declares on Austria. Shame. We need the yodlers to go North, not West! Spain shows up at our doorstep with 11 cavs!
May 1806: They want money for peace. Kill one, see if peace gets any cheaper. It does not. Spain is not part of the plan. Sign peace for worker + 59G. We take Hamburg and score a Leader in the process! About time! We load our new army with the glorious Z's Cavalry and join 2 vet cavs. Saving elites. SOD heads South and camps out on a hill.
Side note: workers have a big price tag in this scenario! We can easily sell some from our maxed-out cities to cover our outgoing bribes! What the heck, if it can save us handfuls of troops?
IT: Defending infantry camping out on a hill next to Hanover guarding a stack of arty kills 3 Prussian cavs and promotes to elite! His infantry buddies pat him on the bck and promise him some R&R with the German ladies next turn. Russian frigate and transport head North. I wonder what they have on board. Pretty sure it's not Russian girls coming to say hello.
Jul 1806: Valiant Swedish fleet (all 1 frigate!) sinks Russian frigate, dropping to 1 red tick in the process.
IT: Cossack impales himself on inf fortified on a hill, and a cav that was pillaging the SE access road to Novgorod retreates after being attacked by a Russian infantry. Novgorod is pounded and pillaged by entire Eastern corps who know they don't have a lot of time before Russia mounts an offensive. They fortify on a hill NW of Novgorod hoping that the Russians will come to them instead of heading to St. Petersburg or threatening the homeland.
Sep 1806: Bombard 2 Russian guard units from Talinn (the transport pobably dropped off these nasty 6/6 buggers last turn) and finish one off with a cav. The other is left alone for fear of exposing the skirmisher to a certain death.
IT: French take Frankfurt. Novgorod guard unit storms our pillaging hill and kills one of our infs. First casualty of the Eastern campaign. Not bad, considering the odds. Just hoping that our tactics are sound and that the gambit works. The idea is that as long as Novgorod is threatened by forces fortified on a hill next to the city, the Russians will limit their options to charging the invaders. Austria offers MPP. Nah, we might want to stop fighting Russia some time. We signed everyone on against Prussia, but we are not obliged to keep fighting Russia if an opportunity for peace should present itself, for example when their MPP with Prussia runs out. If the rest of Europe chooses to keep fighting, that's their business.
Nov 1806: Take Hanoved after hevily bombarding the Prussians inside. All their cavs and reinforcements from other cities seem to be elsewhere. I wonder why. Sign alliance with Naples versus Prussia for Code Civil. Maybe they'll drag the British into it as well? Sign on Denmark as well. They pay us 12GPT + 6G for the honor! We sell them Iron for 2GPT + 10G an they turn Gracious! Sweet.
Now if we can hold off the Russians, we can take Berlin and as much of the rest of Prussia as we care to. They are ripe for the picking. The Russians shouldn't be too much trouble, either, as long as they're busy with the Austrians, the French, and the Ottomans.
The treasury is low and heading down, but we can always hire taxmen and starve some of our new German and Russian citizens. They're trouble, anyway. There are some prebuilds in the East where we don't have resources to build any real troops. If the harbor doesn't come through for us, we might have to build something silly like a court or a ship. The FP is close to done, I didn't touch it although I don't understand what it will do for us. Someone probably knows these things better than I do. I just know sneaky, back-stabbing tactics!
Declare on Prussia and immediately unleash our SOD on Hamburg. Now for some tricky diplomacy:
First sell Medicine to Naples for 1GPT, 14G and their WM. Sell WM to everyone for some change. Buy France for an alliance vs. Prussia for 29GPT + 5G. ROP with France, so they can reach our enemies more quickly. Pay Austria 21 GPT + 8G for the same alliance. ROP with Austria (who is now Gracious). We know Russia is going to declare, but let's hurt their rep with the other AI's (assuming tey have one... tey do, rght??). We sign an ROP with them for 8G. It will cost them an additional one hundred times that to buy anyone else to fight us. Lux has to go to 20% and our we are at 264G - 45GPT. Will have to slow the bleeding soon.
IT: Catch Engliand trying to plant a spy in our capital. Russia declares. Much bloodshed ensues. Austria and France are both fighting Prussia and Russia, and the Ottomans are still nipping at the Russians in the South.
Mar 1806: Our cavalries win, retreat, and finally take Hamburg. We didn't fire a lot of artillery so they could move on, and they do. We redline Prussian inf caught in transit with arty and a cav finishes him off. TT's with 3 cavs and an inf head East to reinforce the Russian front. It will be very eciting over there very soon!
IT: Spain declares on Austria. Shame. We need the yodlers to go North, not West! Spain shows up at our doorstep with 11 cavs!
May 1806: They want money for peace. Kill one, see if peace gets any cheaper. It does not. Spain is not part of the plan. Sign peace for worker + 59G. We take Hamburg and score a Leader in the process! About time! We load our new army with the glorious Z's Cavalry and join 2 vet cavs. Saving elites. SOD heads South and camps out on a hill.
Side note: workers have a big price tag in this scenario! We can easily sell some from our maxed-out cities to cover our outgoing bribes! What the heck, if it can save us handfuls of troops?
IT: Defending infantry camping out on a hill next to Hanover guarding a stack of arty kills 3 Prussian cavs and promotes to elite! His infantry buddies pat him on the bck and promise him some R&R with the German ladies next turn. Russian frigate and transport head North. I wonder what they have on board. Pretty sure it's not Russian girls coming to say hello.
Jul 1806: Valiant Swedish fleet (all 1 frigate!) sinks Russian frigate, dropping to 1 red tick in the process.
IT: Cossack impales himself on inf fortified on a hill, and a cav that was pillaging the SE access road to Novgorod retreates after being attacked by a Russian infantry. Novgorod is pounded and pillaged by entire Eastern corps who know they don't have a lot of time before Russia mounts an offensive. They fortify on a hill NW of Novgorod hoping that the Russians will come to them instead of heading to St. Petersburg or threatening the homeland.
Sep 1806: Bombard 2 Russian guard units from Talinn (the transport pobably dropped off these nasty 6/6 buggers last turn) and finish one off with a cav. The other is left alone for fear of exposing the skirmisher to a certain death.
IT: French take Frankfurt. Novgorod guard unit storms our pillaging hill and kills one of our infs. First casualty of the Eastern campaign. Not bad, considering the odds. Just hoping that our tactics are sound and that the gambit works. The idea is that as long as Novgorod is threatened by forces fortified on a hill next to the city, the Russians will limit their options to charging the invaders. Austria offers MPP. Nah, we might want to stop fighting Russia some time. We signed everyone on against Prussia, but we are not obliged to keep fighting Russia if an opportunity for peace should present itself, for example when their MPP with Prussia runs out. If the rest of Europe chooses to keep fighting, that's their business.
Nov 1806: Take Hanoved after hevily bombarding the Prussians inside. All their cavs and reinforcements from other cities seem to be elsewhere. I wonder why. Sign alliance with Naples versus Prussia for Code Civil. Maybe they'll drag the British into it as well? Sign on Denmark as well. They pay us 12GPT + 6G for the honor! We sell them Iron for 2GPT + 10G an they turn Gracious! Sweet.
Now if we can hold off the Russians, we can take Berlin and as much of the rest of Prussia as we care to. They are ripe for the picking. The Russians shouldn't be too much trouble, either, as long as they're busy with the Austrians, the French, and the Ottomans.
The treasury is low and heading down, but we can always hire taxmen and starve some of our new German and Russian citizens. They're trouble, anyway. There are some prebuilds in the East where we don't have resources to build any real troops. If the harbor doesn't come through for us, we might have to build something silly like a court or a ship. The FP is close to done, I didn't touch it although I don't understand what it will do for us. Someone probably knows these things better than I do. I just know sneaky, back-stabbing tactics!
NOW finally the Prussians draft 2 units in Berlin…but on the really good news, we spawn a MGL and capture Berlin and much needed 32gp.
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