Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 25
After Two Hundred Years of the (second) Hundred Year's War, it finally runs out of time after nobody achieved the winning conditions. England controls 131 locations, France has 83 and some upstart Iberian kingdom has control over 106 locations (plus 33 with an ally). The remainder of France has no access to the sea. Their locations are incredibly fragmented making it inefficient to control and defend which is not foreshadowing at all
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Show threadSarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 19

*sigh* I couldn't get myself an entire Sicily (yet)

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Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 17

*sigh* we're in the 190th year of the Hundred Year's War, England just announced the 8th phase and we're doing this again.

At this point it feels a bit like beating a dead horse. But I need to go along because a) I probably end up Lutheran (as Spain!) and b) I got my own plans to turn the Two Sicilies into 'My Sicily'.
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Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 5

Big ooof. 60k vs 210k. Who makes decisions in this version of France? Do they throw dice?
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Show threadSarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 5

So I decided to look elsewhere, leave France alone, etc.

Al Habat could do with some expansion into Fez, so new adventure in Morocco (testing our new ally, the Two Siciies).

So France sees Spain distracted with all armies in North Africa, England in Civil War, so they attacked. Well, fast forward, France lost another 19 locations.

And after a short truce, this time no one distracted? What does France do? Attack again. Well 7th phase of 100y war, here we go. #EU5 #GameNarrative

Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 5
I really wanna stop picking on France, they're clearly the underdog now. But they just won't let me. #EU5 #GameNarrative
Sarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 5
Hmm, I made a boo boo with cultural acceptance and now the Aragonese and Catalan don't like me that much any more, which hits the Accepted Cultures capacity. The Problem is that I'm the dominant country for Aragonese myself and there doesn't seem to be a mechanic for asking myself. The dominant country for Catalan is the Duchy of Athens of all places.
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Show threadSarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 2
what they did was some semi-successful hit-and-run, which is how I lost quite a lot of troops, especially on the smaller front in Southeastern France and with big battles near Paris when their big army moved around my concentrated troops and threatened the unprotected sieges.
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Show threadSarah Peper 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦Apr 2
anyway, this is what France (the region) now looks like and France (the nation) is smaller again
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