Sarah Peper 🏳️⚧️🇺🇦Big ooof. 60k vs 210k. Who makes decisions in this version of France? Do they throw dice?
#EU5 #GameNarrative
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
I really wanna stop picking on France, they're clearly the underdog now. But they just won't let me. #EU5 #GameNarrative
Ah yeah, the Duchy of Athens, a catholic country ruled by a Catalan based in Gascony whose ancestral home happens to be in my appanage of Narbonne.
#EU5
#EU5
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.
#Eu5 #GameNarrative
#Eu5 #GameNarrative
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.
#EU5 #GameNarrative
#EU5 #GameNarrative
anyway, this is what France (the region) now looks like and France (the nation) is smaller again
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#EU5 #GameNarrative
So I played some #EU5 last night and was casually looking for a new direction. Beating France was mostly done and they're not that big any more, so it felt a bit like bullying. And then the absolute bonkers French decided it was their turn to attack England (my ally) for a 5th phase of the 100y War (probably event driven). So out came the keyboard and two hours later it was England's turn to demand a favourable peace. We got 9 locations, they took 13 for themselves and two vassals were released.
vassalisation peace cost is 100.76% - where do I get .76% of a war from?
I couldn't figure out a good way to attack the remainder of Aragon (without giving my nobles even more power), but then it turns out those fools were backing rebels in my country and now they rebelled with a really good Casus Belli.
That also works in reverse.
Aragon has less soldiers than 5 of my vassals, each. Also half of my standing army, not counting levies. Utter fools.