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terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/25/2009 12:49:03 PM)

Turn 45

Meeting room, Royal Palace, Vienna

War Minister: Sire, Sire! The French declared Total War on us!
The King: The scoundrels. Keep our armies in Vienna for the time being, let them lose men while they march on our positions!
War Minister: Yes Sire!



aprezto -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/25/2009 8:49:46 PM)

Ha! Well there you go. I posted a question as to whether anyone used Total War. It seems you do if you are France and you are your opponent.

There are some benefits to being the target of total war (I take it he did this to stop you automatically surrendering). I will be interested to see how these affect your defence.



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/25/2009 10:08:37 PM)

Turn 46

Meeting room, Royal Palace, Vienna

The King: Has production been altered to produce more food and luxuries?
Minister of internal affairs: Yes Sire. We now barely make enough food to feed our population, we still do not produce enough luxuries to make the people happy though.
The King: Let us move our armies to Styria. We will try to tackle the French armies one at a time!
War Minister: Yes Sire!



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terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/27/2009 4:31:03 AM)

Turn 47

The Austrian generals all cheer when they recieve their new orders. After all, the only way to gain that extra star is during war.



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PS! Does anyone see the one thing that might suggest that I will have a hard time winning this battle?






































































































Look at my National Morale [X(]



aprezto -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/27/2009 5:12:54 AM)

 And reinforcement armies from adjacent provinces??



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/27/2009 5:25:04 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: aprezto

 And reinforcement armies from adjacent provinces??


Those are not armies. Those are smaller units (only reported as one division in Carniola), and I bring close to 350.000 men into battle, so his reinforcements are not too scary.
My NM however...That will hurt my morale during the battle.



aprezto -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/27/2009 5:26:40 AM)

Still, if you do win you'll get a reasonable NM boost. Why is your NM plummeting like it is? It's dropped ~300 between screen shots!



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/27/2009 4:44:12 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: aprezto

Still, if you do win you'll get a reasonable NM boost. Why is your NM plummeting like it is? It's dropped ~300 between screen shots!


Lets see, lack of food, lack of luxuries, one city captured by the French, altering of the Feudal settings will do that to you [;)]


Terje



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/27/2009 4:48:11 PM)

Turn 48

Royal Palace, Red-carrier pidgeon room

The King looks up as a red pidgeon arrives with a note attached to its foot. The King realises that this is from the front, probably a report by one of his generals. He slowly reaches out and grabs the note, pauses for a second and then reads the note.
After a while he stands up, grabs a bottle of beer, downs it in one gulp.

Then he starts singing and dancing. Well if anyone not biased had been present they would hardly accept it as singing, nor as dancing, but to The King himself he is a superb performer.



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terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/28/2009 8:55:46 AM)

Turn 49

Royal Palace, Red-carrier pidgeon room

The King looks up as another pidgeon arrives, this one looks in poor shape though. Its feathers are all ruffled up, it is dirty and its flight pattern is irradically. Something looks wrong.
The King reads the attached note, drops it as he swears and leaves the room in search for something more heavy to drink than his beer.



Royal Palace, Red-carrier pidgeon room, Pidgeon Sauerkraut's head

The same event keeps playing in Sauerkraut's head. An event that took place the day before.
At first the familiar sounds of men fighting eachother, the sights, the smells.
Then another smell comes into being, it smells just like when Sauerkraut sees a falcon in her path. It is fear.
As the generals arrive at her cage, a note is allready prepared, but the generals look different. They look tired, they are dirty. Something is definitively off.
As Sauerkraut is sent away, she circles the Austrian armies before heading for Vienna, as she looks down she sees that alot of men are missing. It seems like....They lost a battle?!



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aprezto -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/28/2009 9:32:24 AM)

Arggghhhh - was starting to wonder whether maybe you had pulled this off... Too soon I see.



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/28/2009 9:45:45 AM)

Well, things are not as bad as they look. If France is nto careful his supply lines will be cut. I managed to send an army to retake a previously captured province (do not recall the name, but on the Salzburg border), and that fortress now holds two guerilla units. If he leaves his supply center unguarded I will sneak one out and break his line. If that fails I will keep marching east, I need to buy time. 10 months before Preussia and Britain comes swinging their swords and guns.



aprezto -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/28/2009 10:27:00 AM)

Is this not handing the game to Prussia though? Haven't used a guerilla unit in an AI or otherwise game yet. Are they any good in instant combat? I suppose, if all they have to do is capture an undefended depot, then they don't really need to be any good at fighting.



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/28/2009 5:14:54 PM)


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ORIGINAL: aprezto

Is this not handing the game to Prussia though? Haven't used a guerilla unit in an AI or otherwise game yet. Are they any good in instant combat? I suppose, if all they have to do is capture an undefended depot, then they don't really need to be any good at fighting.


Actually Britain has decided long ago that Preussia is to win this game. A Preussia with continious income guarranteed by Britain cannot be challenged if she manages to get alot of protectorates as in this game.
Add the fact that I am seen as the great big bully behind France, and the situation is quite locked.

Guerillas are very good in sieges it seems as you need only 1 guerilla to every 3 normal infantry, and they are a pain to kill. They tend to manage to retreat. I will however only use them to cut supplies, not to fight.



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/29/2009 1:46:04 AM)

Turn 50

After another defeat in battle, The King realises that he needs to take control and tell the generals what to do. It better be something the French does not expect.
The only bright light is that the diplomatic Corps managed to persuade Venezia to break free of the French tyranny.
In the evening a pidgeon is seen leaving the Royal Palace and heading towards the front.



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aprezto -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/29/2009 2:29:47 AM)

And what is with the giant Prussian army in Vienna?



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/29/2009 10:04:49 AM)

They are preparing for an attack on Turkey. Some turns back Turkey issued a DoW on Preussia (actually just for laughs I think...It backfired), and Preussia and Britain approached me mainly to get access to Turkey through my lands.

I am all too happy with that deal as I knew another war with France was bound to come, and if Turkey was occupied with fighting Britain and Preussia I would not have to worry about her.

Terje



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/29/2009 3:30:39 PM)

Turn 51

Even the Kings planning helps, the Austrian armies are too slow to move, and the French armies anticipated their moves atleast to some extent. The King orders his armies to march for Pressburg to rest up and get organised.



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terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (6/30/2009 11:23:01 AM)

Turn 52

The King reads a note delivered by a Turkish emmissary and wishes he had a bottomless pit like the old King of Sparta...



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terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/1/2009 12:44:04 PM)

Turn 53

The people in Vienna stares out their windows, a huge army is marching in a SE direction past the city. Are these the French occupation forces? When it becomes clear that the troops are Preussian allies on their way to fight the Turks, a cheer breaks out.



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terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/3/2009 10:59:12 AM)

Turn 54

Meeting Room, Royal Palace, Vienna

The King: I have quite a few things that will have to be taken care of. First of all I have surrendered to the Turks due to pressure from every part of the population. Secondly I have come to realise that this nation does not see itself as a nation, it thinks of itself as several small kingdoms. This must be taken care of! (*) And finally, rearrange the armies, put all close to full strength divisions in two armies. We are about to counterattack the French, they are spreading thin!
War Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs: It will be done Sire!

* (OOC: aqquired tech Nationalism I)



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/3/2009 3:02:08 PM)

Turn 55

The King reads the Turkish peace demands and starts to think for a while. He then starts laughing, although he is not an expert in legal matters he does not think the peace settlement will change anything.
The King: Nice try Sultan Matto, nice try!



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terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/4/2009 8:35:51 AM)

Turn 56

OOC: (forgot to take screenshots this turn)

The King looks at the new military formation and decides that his offensive plans will have to wait, this month this new Corps will have to be given orders to form up with the rest of the armies. This will allow the Austrian main army to grow even larger. The French will soon see that the Austrians are far from dead, not do they fear the French in any way.



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/6/2009 11:11:30 PM)

Turn 57

Royal Palace, Red-carrier pidgeon room

The King looks at his written orders once more, thinks about all the carnage that is bound to follow these orders then smiles. He feels it will be well worth the sacrifice of 20.000 Austrian men to kill some French troops in his name. After all, that is what the peasants are there for, to do the Kings bidding!

To Austrian 1st and 3rd Army: ATTACK!



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terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/7/2009 10:32:40 PM)

Turn 58

Main street, Vienna

The crowd is cheering as French troops are paraded through the town under the surveilance of Austrian troops, even cannons are paraded through the city. Tha bad feelings the crowd had towards their leaders just a few months ago have now changed completely, now everybody is cheering.


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aprezto -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/7/2009 10:57:04 PM)

Wow! What a turn around!! How did you engineer this result?



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/7/2009 11:01:13 PM)

Well, when the target of a total war you do not pay upkeep for your armies. My reinforcement level is now at 8, my troops got alot of strength back these last few months, while the French constantly lose troops due to march attrition. I have also reformed my army a bit, 3rd Army now holds two full corps, and the 1st Army holds one full corps and one that is being filled.
My army will only improve from now on, and an arty as well as two rifle INF divisions are being formed. I will not pursue the French for now, but take a turn to reform again.



aprezto -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/7/2009 11:18:17 PM)

Total war - why would you do it?

Also though, the turn around in NM is amazing. You get double for victories in Total War don't you. see first comment.



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/8/2009 11:00:25 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: aprezto

Total war - why would you do it?

Also though, the turn around in NM is amazing. You get double for victories in Total War don't you. see first comment.


Yea, the double morale for victories is a welcome treat indeed.
As to why France would declare total war I am at a loss, it has backfired for sure. He only managed to march 3 provinces into Austria. Guerillas keep popping up in his rear.
As I stated, a big mistake on his part.



terje439 -> RE: A rather large, happy clean shaved Austrians attempt for European Supremacy. (7/11/2009 6:17:43 AM)

Turn 59

Versailles

The French ruler turns pale when he reads the surrender documents the Austrian demands him to sign.
France will have to cede Venetia and Illyria to Austria, that is bad enough, but France also needs to keep her Feudal Dues at 80 for the next 3 years, that is going to be a morale killer in the upcoming war.
The Austrians on the other hand realises that even when they get access to Venetia and Illyria they will not generate enough money to pay upkeep for their armies, so to augment their income they have allready issued a DoW on Croatia.



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