Sarah Peper 🏳️⚧️🇺🇦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.
I dutifully distributed those nine locations to my vassals Angoulême and Narbonne (which are getting quite big, I need new vassals to integrate locations).
anyway, this is what France (the region) now looks like and France (the nation) is smaller again
#EU5 #GameNarrative
#EU5 #GameNarrative
France was really playing against the odds here
their alliance had about 100k troops and we had about 250k (and this is public knowledge inside the game, no hidden strengths).
Yet this isn't a necessarily a foregone conclusion. Me and England won twice when it was 2:1 the other way round.
Indeed I lost quite a lot myself, about 50k in the end from not paying careful attention and many a siege of mine was lifted by small armies when I tried to chase the large armies.
What really got France was that they had a ticking clock against them while they did not control London (their war goal as attacker) and that isn't easy even in good circumstances.
They also obviously had to fight on two fronts (three when Austria joined later, but that barely mattered at that time). And since France (the region) was already very fragmented, we (the English alliance) had a lot of space to manoeuvre. The French couldn't bottle us up and defeat us in detail.
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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#EU5 #GameNarrative