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Warlord
Cloudy skies, strong men in kilts, the monster of Loch Ness and strage pirate accent. In one word: Scotland.
Game stats:
EU2 version: EU2 v1.09
difficulty: easy/ weakling
fog of war: off
forceannex: on
Country stats:
Neighbours: England and Eire (through the strait )
Allies: France, Orleans, Provence, Auvegne, Bourbonnais
Enemies: England, Brittany, Burgundy.
Armies & navies: 14.000 men, led by General Bouchan Douglas ( historically, Bouchan and Douglas were two different people) and 5 warships.
enemy status: Brittany: not a problem right now; England: an army of 15.000 men in Northumberland led by some historical moron. 7.000 men in Anglia and about 5 historical idiots and more than 60.000 men in French territory. Burgundy: unreachable right now, but with 5.000 men in Artois and 11.000 men led by Jean de Pressy in Bougogne. I know that soon, Phillippe III le Bon will come to their throne and as a military leader too.
allies status: France: weak armies, in stupid places. Provence; too far from any enemy, will have no impact on this war. Orleanais, I know that they will be annexed by England in about 3 months. Bourbonnais and Auvegne: too weak to be true ( in other ghame, they were once even at war with each other, as Auvengne has low relations with everyone, including its allies.)
current leader of my country: James II (again, historically he was in prison, while his uncle and nephew ruled Scotland. In the first and only Scottish historicall event, "The Ransoming of the King and Purge of the Highland Chiefs", the situation is explained)
In the name os King James!
Bouchan and Douglas called for help, and men from all the scottish provinces came to help. The english commander Gloucester tried to attack Lothian, but Bouchan&Douglas , with the aid of a big scottish army, killed the brigadier. The two scotts wanted to retake Northumberland from the English, province which was rightfully theirs. King Henry V of England didn`t even cared when Northumberland has been conquered. Meanwhile, France was worse tha I expected. King Henry V was sieging Ile de France, Brittany was controlling Maine and Vendee, and only 3000 frechmen were defending their territoy, toghether with 7000 men from provence, from a big army of burgundian raiders. I sent 9000 men to aid the french, but they were blocked by an english fleet in Kent, where they were exterminated by twice the amount of men from an english army . Anyway, France accepted a strange peace offer: Maine to Brittany, Nivernais to Burgundy, and 1 ducat to England . Poor bastards
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Bouchan and Douglas retrated to their homeland. But war was about to be declared again, despite the unfair truce. I just waited for my french allies to regroup, then i declared war. All my allies joined, but so did England`s allies, Brittany, Burgundy and Gelre. The French almost took all their territories back, and I conquered Northumberland and Yorkshire, when the French made another stupid truce. They wanted Orleanais, Nivernais, Caux, Maine and Franche Comte, and the English accepted! And I got nothing! NOTHING! The French betrayed me! I left their alliance right away, and declared war on England once again. My stability dropped, and all my provinces were besieged by rebels, but i didnt cared. I wanted revenge on both England and France, so I took Northumberland and Lancashire in a peace traty, then i dealt with the rebels. After 11 years of peace, I incrased my relations with England and joined their alliance with Burgundy , Gelre and ...Bosnia? Anyway, I wanted military acces, which was granted, and I declared war on my former allies: France. I placed units in key points in the english territory, so no frenchman could get anything from their arch-enemies, and I waited until england conquered a few provinces. I demanded Caux for England and 200 ducats in a peace treaty, and it worked. 5 years of peace, then war again! This time, I was preprared with 40.000 men on french borders. Maine, Orleanais , Berri, Limousin , Vendee, all were taken by scotts. And all were incorporated in the Scottish Continental Empire, except Berri.
Eire declared war! On me! Amazing! I quickly took out their capital, while the english took the other provinces. Eire was split between us, and I took the only fortified province. Good for me, now I had a point from which I could strike England if they would deny annexation in about 20 years.
War with Oldenburg saw Gelre annexed, but I took it back. Oldenburg remained a one-province minor, while the province of Gelre provided a good stiking point for german conquest.
I dunno where from, but the aragonese got beaten by Frenchmen.... France got Gerona, while provence took The Baleares. Not good for my conquest plans....
Unfortunately, I came over the badboy limit. Almost the whole Europe declared war on me. Bosnia joined onlt the wars against a small italian alliance and Denmark, but dishonored me. England joined me against Brittany, the French Alliance, the italian alliances, some clusters of german countries, Novgorod, Denmark, Portugal and Austria-Hungary-Croatia-Siebenburgen. I was alone in the war against Prussia, Teutonis, Wallachia, Ottoman Empire, Naples, Tver and Genoa. The only countries who didnt declared war were Cyprus, Moldavia, Venice, Muscovy, Suzdal, Granada, Golden Horde, Trebizond, Georgia, Qara Koyunlu, Magdeburg and Bohemia.
After years of wars, I barely escaped them all, but I knew that they wouldnt stop. I got Friesen annexed, England took out any sea attackers, Bosnia annexed Ragusa, but got vassalized by Croatia, and Venice and Cyprus finnaly declared war. I ammased an army of 50.000 men and started rampaging through Europe, with the only goal to deplete the armies of every country. I managed to do so, until the army reached Austria, where it got completely annihilated. But anyway, more than 30 victories brought me some nice ducats from german minors and a white peace with Brandenburg, Helvetia and Alsace. England managed to take Maine from Brittany and managed to stop french raiders. My french possesions were protected by burgundians, who annexed Lorraine and Luxembourg.
I lost about 200.000 men in these wars, and England was on the brink of destruction, when all but the last war ended. It was a strange war. At its end, I got 14.000 Ottomans and 2000 Wallachians stuck in my territory, while Hungarians, Austrians, italians and russians were retrating from english territory. As I hoped, relations with England were still the best, and I saw how England diplo-annexed Burguny. I took my chance, and with a HUGE amount of luck, I managed to annex England-Burgundy. I just became a continental- superpower. To make things harder for my enemies, I established a new colony is the newly discovered province of Masachusets. Who said Scottish guys can`t make theyr own colonies?
COMING NEXT: Will the strangely-formed Germany be an elly or enemy? Will the Ottomans take the Byzantine capital before the tricky Scottish? Will France survive the next 50 game-years? Will I free my former ally Bosnia from Hungaro-Croatian rule? Are the native American tribes happy of my arrival in their lands? Can the Portuguese become the biggest threat to my kingdom? Will the Timurid 600 VP event make me be the second in the world until the end? Expect answer to all of these questions by August 9th.
STOP DEMANDING PICTURES. PERSONAL PROBLEM. I KNOW YOU DONT LIKE IT WITHOUT, BUT I CANT DO MORE FOR YOU.
Game stats:
EU2 version: EU2 v1.09
difficulty: easy/ weakling
fog of war: off
forceannex: on
Country stats:
Neighbours: England and Eire (through the strait )
Allies: France, Orleans, Provence, Auvegne, Bourbonnais
Enemies: England, Brittany, Burgundy.
Armies & navies: 14.000 men, led by General Bouchan Douglas ( historically, Bouchan and Douglas were two different people) and 5 warships.
enemy status: Brittany: not a problem right now; England: an army of 15.000 men in Northumberland led by some historical moron. 7.000 men in Anglia and about 5 historical idiots and more than 60.000 men in French territory. Burgundy: unreachable right now, but with 5.000 men in Artois and 11.000 men led by Jean de Pressy in Bougogne. I know that soon, Phillippe III le Bon will come to their throne and as a military leader too.
allies status: France: weak armies, in stupid places. Provence; too far from any enemy, will have no impact on this war. Orleanais, I know that they will be annexed by England in about 3 months. Bourbonnais and Auvegne: too weak to be true ( in other ghame, they were once even at war with each other, as Auvengne has low relations with everyone, including its allies.)
current leader of my country: James II (again, historically he was in prison, while his uncle and nephew ruled Scotland. In the first and only Scottish historicall event, "The Ransoming of the King and Purge of the Highland Chiefs", the situation is explained)
In the name os King James!
Bouchan and Douglas called for help, and men from all the scottish provinces came to help. The english commander Gloucester tried to attack Lothian, but Bouchan&Douglas , with the aid of a big scottish army, killed the brigadier. The two scotts wanted to retake Northumberland from the English, province which was rightfully theirs. King Henry V of England didn`t even cared when Northumberland has been conquered. Meanwhile, France was worse tha I expected. King Henry V was sieging Ile de France, Brittany was controlling Maine and Vendee, and only 3000 frechmen were defending their territoy, toghether with 7000 men from provence, from a big army of burgundian raiders. I sent 9000 men to aid the french, but they were blocked by an english fleet in Kent, where they were exterminated by twice the amount of men from an english army . Anyway, France accepted a strange peace offer: Maine to Brittany, Nivernais to Burgundy, and 1 ducat to England . Poor bastards
.Bouchan and Douglas retrated to their homeland. But war was about to be declared again, despite the unfair truce. I just waited for my french allies to regroup, then i declared war. All my allies joined, but so did England`s allies, Brittany, Burgundy and Gelre. The French almost took all their territories back, and I conquered Northumberland and Yorkshire, when the French made another stupid truce. They wanted Orleanais, Nivernais, Caux, Maine and Franche Comte, and the English accepted! And I got nothing! NOTHING! The French betrayed me! I left their alliance right away, and declared war on England once again. My stability dropped, and all my provinces were besieged by rebels, but i didnt cared. I wanted revenge on both England and France, so I took Northumberland and Lancashire in a peace traty, then i dealt with the rebels. After 11 years of peace, I incrased my relations with England and joined their alliance with Burgundy , Gelre and ...Bosnia? Anyway, I wanted military acces, which was granted, and I declared war on my former allies: France. I placed units in key points in the english territory, so no frenchman could get anything from their arch-enemies, and I waited until england conquered a few provinces. I demanded Caux for England and 200 ducats in a peace treaty, and it worked. 5 years of peace, then war again! This time, I was preprared with 40.000 men on french borders. Maine, Orleanais , Berri, Limousin , Vendee, all were taken by scotts. And all were incorporated in the Scottish Continental Empire, except Berri.
Eire declared war! On me! Amazing! I quickly took out their capital, while the english took the other provinces. Eire was split between us, and I took the only fortified province. Good for me, now I had a point from which I could strike England if they would deny annexation in about 20 years.
War with Oldenburg saw Gelre annexed, but I took it back. Oldenburg remained a one-province minor, while the province of Gelre provided a good stiking point for german conquest.
I dunno where from, but the aragonese got beaten by Frenchmen.... France got Gerona, while provence took The Baleares. Not good for my conquest plans....
Unfortunately, I came over the badboy limit. Almost the whole Europe declared war on me. Bosnia joined onlt the wars against a small italian alliance and Denmark, but dishonored me. England joined me against Brittany, the French Alliance, the italian alliances, some clusters of german countries, Novgorod, Denmark, Portugal and Austria-Hungary-Croatia-Siebenburgen. I was alone in the war against Prussia, Teutonis, Wallachia, Ottoman Empire, Naples, Tver and Genoa. The only countries who didnt declared war were Cyprus, Moldavia, Venice, Muscovy, Suzdal, Granada, Golden Horde, Trebizond, Georgia, Qara Koyunlu, Magdeburg and Bohemia.
After years of wars, I barely escaped them all, but I knew that they wouldnt stop. I got Friesen annexed, England took out any sea attackers, Bosnia annexed Ragusa, but got vassalized by Croatia, and Venice and Cyprus finnaly declared war. I ammased an army of 50.000 men and started rampaging through Europe, with the only goal to deplete the armies of every country. I managed to do so, until the army reached Austria, where it got completely annihilated. But anyway, more than 30 victories brought me some nice ducats from german minors and a white peace with Brandenburg, Helvetia and Alsace. England managed to take Maine from Brittany and managed to stop french raiders. My french possesions were protected by burgundians, who annexed Lorraine and Luxembourg.
I lost about 200.000 men in these wars, and England was on the brink of destruction, when all but the last war ended. It was a strange war. At its end, I got 14.000 Ottomans and 2000 Wallachians stuck in my territory, while Hungarians, Austrians, italians and russians were retrating from english territory. As I hoped, relations with England were still the best, and I saw how England diplo-annexed Burguny. I took my chance, and with a HUGE amount of luck, I managed to annex England-Burgundy. I just became a continental- superpower. To make things harder for my enemies, I established a new colony is the newly discovered province of Masachusets. Who said Scottish guys can`t make theyr own colonies?
COMING NEXT: Will the strangely-formed Germany be an elly or enemy? Will the Ottomans take the Byzantine capital before the tricky Scottish? Will France survive the next 50 game-years? Will I free my former ally Bosnia from Hungaro-Croatian rule? Are the native American tribes happy of my arrival in their lands? Can the Portuguese become the biggest threat to my kingdom? Will the Timurid 600 VP event make me be the second in the world until the end? Expect answer to all of these questions by August 9th.
STOP DEMANDING PICTURES. PERSONAL PROBLEM. I KNOW YOU DONT LIKE IT WITHOUT, BUT I CANT DO MORE FOR YOU.
