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[Rakonas]

I once had a long drawn out war trying to take Judea from the Ottomans, and they accepted peace after I funded a pretender in their capital.

[Rex_Nex]

I ended up taking Mr. Person's advice and kept throwing 25 ducat peace deals at Austria, lowering their stability to -3. It's been that way for a year or two, but it hasn't had any apparent adverse effects yet. I'm running rebellion missions on all their provinces every year or two, and Bavaria hopped in against Austria. Of course, Austria now has 90 stacks of units and took out Bavaria.

In other news, 20k ducats and my land is half a century ahead of time. My troops are second only to France's.

I once had a long drawn out war trying to take Judea from the Ottomans, and they accepted peace after I funded a pretender in their capital.

Did the pretender actually take the province? How did the pretender manage to stay alive?

[Rakonas]

I once had a long drawn out war trying to take Judea from the Ottomans, and they accepted peace after I funded a pretender in their capital.

Did the pretender actually take the province? How did the pretender manage to stay alive?

The ottomans had been routinely sending 5k stacks by sea to Judea to try to take it back, and it was simply the threat of a 17k army of pretender rebels that made them willing to make peace. The pretender didn't actually succeed, but made them feel they couldn't handle both the war and the pretender. Honestly I feel the peace AI is annoying but usually very reasonable, not wanting to give stuff up just as a player would, especially if a war is relatively distant.

[snelg]

I don't think your rebels in Austria is going to have much luck. They're mostly useful far away from their armies, since they won't be nearly large enough to fight a 90k army (that can get to them, and fast). The spies are most likely costing you a lot more to send compared to the damage they inflict on the Austrians.

[Micro102]

I ended up taking Mr. Person's advice and kept throwing 25 ducat peace deals at Austria, lowering their stability to -3. It's been that way for a year or two, but it hasn't had any apparent adverse effects yet. I'm running rebellion missions on all their provinces every year or two, and Bavaria hopped in against Austria. Of course, Austria now has 90 stacks of units and took out Bavaria.

In other news, 20k ducats and my land is half a century ahead of time. My troops are second only to France's.

How? Even if you are monopolizing every CoT in the game you shouldn't have that type of income. And how are you supporting that many troops with one province?

I'm guessing that there is some way, but all I can think up is a massive long term disaster.

[Rex_Nex]

I dont know if this has anything to do with me using Death and Taxes, but I own monopolies on most of the CoTs in Europe and the Middle East. I make about 25 ducats a month and a bit at the end of the year leaving me with +300/year. Master of Mint 6 along with max Centralization is keeping my inflation at 0.

I don't think your rebels in Austria is going to have much luck. They're mostly useful far away from their armies, since they won't be nearly large enough to fight a 90k army (that can get to them, and fast). The spies are most likely costing you a lot more to send compared to the damage they inflict on the Austrians.

They probably aren't worth it, but I am bathing in gold. Anything to gain that tiny bit of an edge....

[Mr.Person]

If their armies literally can't reach you and your armies are quite good, it might be worth it actually attack Austria. If you're THAT far advanced with a troop upgrade over Austria, a good general, good sliders, and maybe good advisers, it's totally possible to beat stacks literally twice your size. Worst case scenario, you lose the stack. With as much money you have to blow, who cares?

[Rex_Nex]

Thats true, I could do that, but every 20-30 years in-game I crash. Death and Taxes is really unstable 

I don't really know how far I am ahead of Austria; they may be in a very similar position. I just know that its 50 years ahead of the normal tech for the date. I put my troops on their border (in a neutral country that I had military access to) to see how many troops Austria had, and they pulled up 89,000 troops on their border. Somehow taking no attrition...

Not sure how my (at most) 40k troops are going to combat that. I can't really get a good general either because there is no one else to fight

[Rakonas]

I don't really know how far I am ahead of Austria; they may be in a very similar position.

If you have Divine Wind, click the mapmode that looks like a gear.

[Tarran]

Thats true, I could do that, but every 20-30 years in-game I crash. Death and Taxes is really unstable 

At least it's not Steppe Wolf. That thing literally crashes after 1 minute of real time for me (even if paused). That's IF you get past the crashy-crash initial loadings.

and they pulled up 89,000 troops on their border. Somehow taking no attrition...

Are you SURE they aren't suffering attrition? They could be suffering it yet replenishing losses faster.



Anyway, man your AI is absolutely madly stubborn!

[Rex_Nex]

Thanks Rakonas. It seems I am only 4 land tech levels ahead of Austria; not as much as I had hoped.

Tarran, that might be the case. Here they are, in any case. I had to reload an older autosave because of another crash

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[Mr.Person]

Is Austria gaining WE?

[Micro102]

Building an army larger then your limit just costs more. With your income You could probably build a superstack

[Rex_Nex]

Building an army larger then your limit just costs more. With your income You could probably build a superstack

Wouldn't they start taking attrition? Or could I split them up in different provinces and just converge them right before I send em at austria... That might work.

[Eagle_eye]

Do you have a better navy than austria? If so, blockade their adriatic ports. That should add some WE

EDIT: ah, nevermind, just noticed you're ansbach