Languish Universalis - Game thread

[Berkut]

Thanks, I do appreciate it.

[Solmyr]

Katmai, wake up!

[Solmyr]

The world in 1699. Shitty planning by Spain resulted in their near collapse, but fortunately Britannia rode to the rescue with her diplomatic skillz.

[Kleves]

What happened was this: France declares war on Austria. Austria is allied with Spain. Spain white peaces with France, so that France can concentrate on Austria. After a long and brutal war, the French leaders prevail (his best: 16, my best: 4) and Austria loses. Spain then declares war on France and is quickly crushed. Whoops.

[Alcibiades]

a 1v1 was very fair considering all the saber rattling you two had done.

England totally had an agreement between himself and France.  Which is how he managed to get the Bayou and wouldn't land troops to help me.   

And I was just finally getting back on my feet after being crushed...... completely.  France's leaders were ridiculous, but their revolts were consistent. 

And yeah it was a random whim with no real planning done.   

[Solmyr]

Landing my ossum 11k troops from England wouldn't have helped you whatsoever, they would have evaporated the second some French taunted them a second time.

As for agreement, damn right I got an agreement with France once it became clear you were going to bite the dust hard.

[Berkut]

Another disaster of a session for Russia. They are pretty much doomed by terrible leaders and shit resources.

[DGuller]

What's the cast of characters?  The one on the first page of this thread doesn't seem accurate.

[sbr]

Another disaster of a session for Russia. They are pretty much doomed by terrible leaders and shit resources.

And now you have to deal with the wrath of the Portuguese.   

[Habbaku]

Brutal, indeed.  The war started with a string of early French victories thanks to our Napoleonic generalship (6-6-6-1-2 general) who, unfortunately, died within a couple of years worth of fighting.  Nonetheless, the damage was dealt, but without Villeneuve leading the way, the less-stellar French lieutenants were left to fend for themselves.  After occupying Breisgau and Switzerland, the war devolved into a slugfest of maneuver and giant battles, usually resulting in French losses but with the Austrians taking substantially more casualties.

Over time, the massed casualties resulted in the Imperial armies simply running out of manpower.  Of course, by this time...the French pool was also tapped and essentially relying on whatever recruits could be drummed.  With one, final push of the combined armies of France, the banners of the Bourbon were quickly flying over Cologne with the Austrian army in full rout.  With the potential for a greater victory but with France wracked with unrest from the efforts of war...the French offered a complete peace with the Emperor in exchange for the redeemed lands of Wallonia.  Finally, the Walloon peoples are joined under the French flag!

And were swiftly put into the colors to go fight the Spanish menace.  Despite losing a substantial amount of regiments due to inferior generalship (lost ~30 due to the 0-morale-surrender thing), the veterans that had fought so hard against the Empire proved more than capable to the task of being stabbed in the back by the Spaniards.  A mere two years later and French armies were preparing to storm Madrid itself and would surely have taken the city but for timely British peace-talks.  Realizing her position was untenable outside of the continent, France quickly agreed to surrender the tobacco-rich lands in Louisiana and the Indian principality of Cuttack to the English in exchange for peace at last.

[Habbaku]

What's the cast of characters?  The one on the first page of this thread doesn't seem accurate.

Berkut - Russia
Habbaku - France
Kleves - Austria
Tamas - Ottomans
Solmyr - England
Alcibiades - Spain
Katmai/SBR - Portugal

[Solmyr]

I'll let Habs post the analysis, if any.

[Habbaku]

Landing my ossum 11k troops from England wouldn't have helped you whatsoever, they would have evaporated the second some French taunted them a second time.

Yeah, you would've been destroyed if you had landed anywhere except Portugal.  I had an army ~25k strong (and growing) with a decent general roaming around mopping up my rebels at all times.  The moment the English descended upon France, they'd have been utterly smashed.

In other news, it's amusing to me that Spain didn't simply wait for the deal I made with him for the neutrality to go through before he declared war.  Now he gets nothing...

[Alcibiades]

12% inflation?! 

[Berkut]

How in the hell do you guys manage to increase your income by such insane amounts every session?

Now I hate Habs even more for refusing to sell me Taiwan.