While We Wait: Part 2

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From the other military operations, none of which were nearly as vital or demanded nearly so many troops. In other words, I quite agree with Panda, if anything could've defeated him, it would've been your offensive - had it not been so dreadfully undermanned, allowing that huge "surrounded" French army to break out and thus denying you a resounding turning point victory.
I suppose I didn't even follow my own rules a little. The Spanish and North African jobs were getting a bit greedy...and I suppose Persia wasn't as good of an idea. The main reason I put so much into the central European campaigns was that I was hoping Stormy would actually support me there (and I was thinking that the Italian army couldn't actually do anything) as opposed to just wasting men, and as soon as we killed the Krakow Union it would be just a matter of time before, pushing through Germany, we could mount an effective campaign against the heart of France. Delusions of grandeur, I suppose. I also figured that running a campaign through the Alps just looked ugly logistically and that there was little chance of it coming off. I was a little disappointed that the north Italian troops didn't hold as long - but again, I didn't figure that would take very long at all, since they were surrounded, in hostile country, with no supplies, etc.

The whole thing where France could magically stop revolts from happening was a little annoying as well, but again, I suppose that really doesn't matter.

Again, oh well.
 
The whole thing where France could magically stop revolts from happening was a little annoying as well, but again, I suppose that really doesn't matter.

Just one final correction of a misconception. We could not magically stop revolts from happening. The revolts happened the turn before, and that is why there was such a huge army in Italy - it had just finished killing all the WoTP rebels. I was really, really, really harsh in my reprisals, and that pretty much smashed the power of the rebels, who even if they were resentful, could not mount any significant challanges as they had been utterly devastated before the invasion. I do not understand why people like to attribute France's success in that NES not to good management, but instead to "magic" or the lax attitude of the mod, which was hardly lax at all.

There was no magic to it and that specific spotlight states how unprepared the Way of the Peace rebels were for such a HUGE counter-offensive, which weakened our positions in the East. Your timing, which would have been very great had I not sent a force to deal with the WotP rebels, turned out to be very poor, as a rather huge bulk of my forces was sitting in Italy.

EDIT: I suppose we've beaten this dead horse enough times, but I just wanted to correct that last misconception. ;)
 
I know you were being brutal; I didn't think that it would work the 192nd time in a row, though. :lol:
 
Well, that last time he was extra-brutal. Surely that counts for something. ;)
 
I suppose so...but he'll certainly have to be more varied as Tartessos. Look what repeated brutality did to Assyria in OTL.
 
I know you were being brutal; I didn't think that it would work the 192nd time in a row, though.

Well, having the highest standard of living does something too. I think it's called a carrot and stick. ;) You are generalizing and exaggerating - Spain certaintly required brutallity, but Germany by and large went peacefully. Alot of work went into the HRE and that NES.

Furthermore, the comparison with Tartessos does not really work. I am not rabidly conquering other nations nor is my NESing ability based off of a single hat-trick. Should we come to blows, I'm sure you will find me more competant than Sheep as an enemy. ;)
 
Had I not been playing as the PUC, I would have become a Turkish rebellion, which I'm surprised didn't happen.
 
Should we come to blows, I'm sure you will find me more competant than Sheep as an enemy. ;)
Again? But I don't really want to...and it hurt so much last time...just let me watch Twilight Zone reruns in peace.

...and about the Turks: I'm surprised there still were Turks left after the BT, much less ones from which Panda could create a puppet state.
 
I invaded Panda once and lived to tell the tale! It can be done! :p
 
...and about the Turks: I'm surprised there still were Turks left after the BT, much less ones from which Panda could create a puppet state.
It's being made up for in other dimensions.
 
Yeah, so I see. If only I were in charge instead of Fantasmo...;)
 
Are you suggesting that you genocided the Turks? Or just peacefully annihilated their culture, which would be rather difficult.
 
I don't do peaceful.
 
My emperor? I ordered the invasion of Bavaria, and didnt say NOT to invade Byzantium :mischief:
 
Azale did get a pretty lucky break. Emperor Maximilian definitely took advantage of the Basilissa's later "crazy years." ;) And Andronikos was more worried about his position in Constantinople to care about Croatia and western Hungary.
 
Are you suggesting that you genocided the Turks? Or just peacefully annihilated their culture, which would be rather difficult.
Well at this point I'm not suggesting anything as it's the first item in the JSNES03 Update 2. :p
 
Azale did get a pretty lucky break. Emperor Maximilian definitely took advantage of the Basilissa's later "crazy years." ;) And Andronikos was more worried about his position in Constantinople to care about Croatia and western Hungary.

Poor Azale, I *might* have screwed you (and the rest of the Catholic world) over a little in that NES. :p
 
Yes, deciding your Eastern Orthodox buddy was of more importance than a Catholic coalition of nations in Europe :p
 
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