French Agressors attack Paraguay

[Ben Kenobi]

I'd love to have a successful Texas game. I just tried it once so far and got spanked by Mexico right away. I didn't see the kidnap Santa Ana option.

But I'm still figuring the game out, so in time perhaps...

I haven't managed a WC in 1.4 with Texas, but here's how you beat Santa Ana.

Prep:

1.Cut science to nil. Max military funding, Max unit size.

2. Max taxes (100 percent). You don't have any workers to worry about devolving, and you don't mind losing your officers either.

This should give you a bit of a profit, your first move is to increase your manpower, so you need to import cloth for shirts.

When you manage to import exactly 10 shirts, convert your largest pop to soldiers, and convert the soldiers to max out your two calvary divisions. Merge them, you should have about 6k of 10k possible. This is going to be your hammer.

Do not reinforce anybody else. Leave the artillery in your capital. Send the other two smaller divisions north to take colorado claims from Mexico. You will need to sell these.

Once you have 10 shirts, stop importing. Send Sam Houston south into Mexico. Your goal is to walk in and capture the Mexican capital and sue for a white peace. If you get there before the Mexicans take all of Texas, you will get a white peace and not lose any of your country, although you will lose prestige.

During the war, and after you've recruited troops and all, you should pass the bill for all of the social reforms. It will cost a fair bit, but you'll make that back when you sell your colonies to the US for mega bucks.

Give that a try, you should be able to beat Mexico with just that.

[Ben Kenobi]

That's stupid because then you end up with massive, and I do mean MASSIVE, amounts of bad boy so that everyone in the game attacks you. Just annex everything but the capital in the first war (so that you get no BB) then annex the capital in the second round (net BB gain just 1 point).

I do it all the time with Civilized nations.

All you need are around 150 native cavalry divisions, usually recruited from Korea. Occupy every single Chinese territory and then press the 'annex' button.

If I do it right, I have no borders with any other civilized nation, and it doesn't matter how much badboy I get, because hey, I own China outright.

Also, when you are big and unstoppable, nothing forces you to wait till the peace treaty of 5 years ends...

It is possible to do clean runs. I tried one with Texas, and ran out of time. I did a dirty run with the Papal States, which was hard. I had rebellions everywhere!

[OzzyKP]

Ok, I don't yet know how to do half those things you said to try. But I'll give it a shot.

[Heresson]

I still can't believe WC is possible. You'd need 1000 wars to do that.

[Ben Kenobi]

Here's the conclusion of my austria game.

[LordShiva]

photoshopped!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


In the original Vicky there was a fellow who did a WC with Hawaii. He saved up his money and jacked up to full tariffs and bought a single colony. Then he sold that colony for two colonial claims, and kept trading until he got two that he liked and could claim. When he claimed them, he declared war on Liberia. Annexed Liberia and doubled his population, and managed to sign a white peace with the US, after they failed to take Hawaii.

Then he became civilised, and from there he was able to conquer states like Madagascar enroute to conquering the whole world.

One of the biggest advantages that a small nation has is that they can pass social reforms for the entire world early on.

That WC actually resulted in the rules being changed. Now uncivilized nations cannot purchase or trade lands which do not already border their own.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by Heresson
I still can't believe WC is possible. You'd need 1000 wars to do that.

I know of a guy on PI's forums that makes AAR out of his WCs. I think he has some 4 or 5 AARs linked in his sig. His current project is a WC with Sikkim, that one province minor in the Himalayas. So far he has a third of Asia IIRC.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


I haven't managed a WC in 1.4 with Texas, but here's how you beat Santa Ana.

Prep:

1.Cut science to nil. Max military funding, Max unit size.

2. Max taxes (100 percent). You don't have any workers to worry about devolving, and you don't mind losing your officers either.

This should give you a bit of a profit, your first move is to increase your manpower, so you need to import cloth for shirts.

When you manage to import exactly 10 shirts, convert your largest pop to soldiers, and convert the soldiers to max out your two calvary divisions. Merge them, you should have about 6k of 10k possible. This is going to be your hammer.

Do not reinforce anybody else. Leave the artillery in your capital. Send the other two smaller divisions north to take colorado claims from Mexico. You will need to sell these.

Once you have 10 shirts, stop importing. Send Sam Houston south into Mexico. Your goal is to walk in and capture the Mexican capital and sue for a white peace. If you get there before the Mexicans take all of Texas, you will get a white peace and not lose any of your country, although you will lose prestige.

During the war, and after you've recruited troops and all, you should pass the bill for all of the social reforms. It will cost a fair bit, but you'll make that back when you sell your colonies to the US for mega bucks.

Give that a try, you should be able to beat Mexico with just that.

Hmm, maybe I need the patch, but this isn't working for me. I can't max my taxes, there is a cap on them. I bought the shirts and converted a pop unit to soldiers but it didn't increase my manpower.

[OzzyKP]

I survived!

I guess I did get an increase in manpower from converting the soldiers. It didn't come quick enough for me to send out any other units. But in between waves of assaults by Mexico I was able to reinforce Houston's artillery and just kept wearing them down till they finally offered peace! Yay! I have nothing left but Austin, but at least I'm alive, heh.

Edit: Hehe, so I went into bankrupcy like 6 times before I got the statehood question. I went with statehood thinking it would bring the US on my side against Mexico. So Mexico declared war and the US didn't do anything. They kept attacking and retreating from my one unit in Austin. So I created two more units and sent them south to take some Mexican land. Mexico offered me peace and some good land. California broke away. Because of all my bankruptcies I already had like -4000 prestige, so I figured it wouldn't matter if I broke the peace treaty and declared war on Mexico again while their army was busy heading to California. I conquered plenty of land. Mexico made another peace offer and gave me a pretty good deal.

Fixing my economy wasn't happening though. Was still very much in the red and cyclying through bankruptcies. I was waiting for the next one to try and start over. But then... the US approved my statehood.. Ha! I forgot all about that. Game over.

Was fun though.

[Ben Kenobi]

Hmm, maybe I need the patch, but this isn't working for me. I can't max my taxes, there is a cap on them. I bought the shirts and converted a pop unit to soldiers but it didn't increase my manpower.

You have to pick the right population unit (the largest one). And sorry about the tax raising, Texas does cap your taxes. I forgot about that.

It will raise your manpower up from 0 to about 8 or so under full military sliders and max units. You need to max out both of those sliders, push the three tax sliders as far as they can go, and cut all your education funding.

Oh, and each of those steps are sequential. If they aren't done in the right order you are screwed. Took ma a long time to figure out.

[Heresson]

I've played a new game, as Montenegro, at hardest settings. In my first war I allied with Sweden and Germany against Austria and got Kotor province.
In a gruelsome war against Turkey together with Russia and Greece I got New Pazar and two bosnian provinces (I occupied entire Bosnia and several other provinces, but Russia and Greece lost this war, so I was happy anyway.
It left me almost bancrupt, I had to sell everything, impose 100% taxes and cut all expences to 0 to get minimum income so that I could pay the debts back.
My next war was anexation of independant Bosnia - 3 provinces.
Next I won a war against Austria with Russia as my ally, giving me all its serbian provinces. Next wars against Turkey and France made me teh ruler of teh Balkan Penisula west to Petric. And I finally paid my debts.

[LordShiva]

[Heresson]

I'd have great income, if I didn't miss iron. My factories are not working half of the time due to this shortage