Prussia - 1850 Start - A Dream of Empire
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 7:54 pm
I'm a new player. So I'm learning as I go about how everything works, mostly combat as I think I have good control over how the economy works (This is where I pander to loki100's AAR and how awesome they are as a learning tool.)
[Nazaroth from the Paradox Interactive forums, Acularius from the civfanatics forums]
So, I decided to go in and give Prussia the colonial cards at the 1850 start, of the UK equivalence. Simple editing of scenario and pool files.
Now I realize in hindsight that this gives me a HUGE leg up, over say France, but its lead to much more interesting outlook on HOW I spend my money (I also removed Negative SOI influences in the options and just jacked everything up out of interests) such as historical attrition for all! Also larger troop and building pools.
So currently my game is in the year 1860 and I've recently became the North German Federation... (or the equivalence of that by Victoria 2 standards.)
I've established sort of a Cold War era outlook of colonial competition with France, giving up Tunis... but generally adopting a policy of containment. So Indochina (sans Burma and the Saigon area) is under my control, and I've been rather active on the West coast of Africa, recently establishing a protectorate over the Nigeria area (in which you would hear me constantly curse the low intensity warfare between the Prussians and the Beninese/Sokotan forces - Jokes on you Benin I have established a protectorate and taken your land... I'm a horrible monster.)
Poor Moltke will just have to work harder (Since this is where I sent him, along with Albrect von Prussia) in combination with either a Dahomey/Asante leaders and their respective armies that I inherited from their colonial establishment. [Moltke can lead a corp, has about 15 command points to provide... so I figured he could gain experience in Africa.]
Current strategy in Africa is one I read recommended for the Americans. Explore - Expand - Outpost - depot (every 2-3 spaces) - and the final nail, the railroad. I also sent down some marines (brigade) and engineers due to how many rivers are in the area, to complement the base force of a colonial brigade and light cavalry (which does most of the heavy lifting, since most of the damage has been in the assault phase).
[I blame Abu Dubai, Qatar and the Trucial States for Prussia's current lust for colonialism... so much wealth packed in a small area... then came Zanzibar. After that, I had a rough idea on what I wanted to do colonially.][SUP]1[/SUP]
What has this meant in regards to spending? Well, I certainly give more of a damn for a navy. Actually my current problem is the HUGE amount of state wealth I inherited from the formation of North German Federation... as I think it gave me 30k in state funds, and as fair as I can tell, I'm not suffering from extreme corruption. So what did I do? I already had a semblance of a navy forming in the Baltic and a sleuth of transport ships and commerce ships to connect my growing colonial empire... well... I spent about 4k in Warship squadrons, frigates and a few more scouts. (I figured the smaller force can be used for commerce raiding, and the large force is the one that does the fighting.)
Judging by history, I have a war with Austria sometime in 5 or 6 years and then the good ol tussle with the French. Since outside of the South German states, about two of my objectives are in France.
It's been an interesting world. Is anyone else interested in how well I screw up wielding my army, that I've been tempering into a decent fighting machine over the years?
I'll post up some images in a bit.
I'll try to do yearly updates, with greater frequencies during war time periods (Doesn't include low intensity warfare with the local inhabitants of Africa.)
[SUP]1[/SUP] - In total, each provinces has a gem deposit at the game start. Its just worth the outright investment. The Trucial State now has Oil... just not enough manpower.
[Nazaroth from the Paradox Interactive forums, Acularius from the civfanatics forums]
So, I decided to go in and give Prussia the colonial cards at the 1850 start, of the UK equivalence. Simple editing of scenario and pool files.
Now I realize in hindsight that this gives me a HUGE leg up, over say France, but its lead to much more interesting outlook on HOW I spend my money (I also removed Negative SOI influences in the options and just jacked everything up out of interests) such as historical attrition for all! Also larger troop and building pools.
So currently my game is in the year 1860 and I've recently became the North German Federation... (or the equivalence of that by Victoria 2 standards.)
I've established sort of a Cold War era outlook of colonial competition with France, giving up Tunis... but generally adopting a policy of containment. So Indochina (sans Burma and the Saigon area) is under my control, and I've been rather active on the West coast of Africa, recently establishing a protectorate over the Nigeria area (in which you would hear me constantly curse the low intensity warfare between the Prussians and the Beninese/Sokotan forces - Jokes on you Benin I have established a protectorate and taken your land... I'm a horrible monster.)
Poor Moltke will just have to work harder (Since this is where I sent him, along with Albrect von Prussia) in combination with either a Dahomey/Asante leaders and their respective armies that I inherited from their colonial establishment. [Moltke can lead a corp, has about 15 command points to provide... so I figured he could gain experience in Africa.]
Current strategy in Africa is one I read recommended for the Americans. Explore - Expand - Outpost - depot (every 2-3 spaces) - and the final nail, the railroad. I also sent down some marines (brigade) and engineers due to how many rivers are in the area, to complement the base force of a colonial brigade and light cavalry (which does most of the heavy lifting, since most of the damage has been in the assault phase).
[I blame Abu Dubai, Qatar and the Trucial States for Prussia's current lust for colonialism... so much wealth packed in a small area... then came Zanzibar. After that, I had a rough idea on what I wanted to do colonially.][SUP]1[/SUP]
What has this meant in regards to spending? Well, I certainly give more of a damn for a navy. Actually my current problem is the HUGE amount of state wealth I inherited from the formation of North German Federation... as I think it gave me 30k in state funds, and as fair as I can tell, I'm not suffering from extreme corruption. So what did I do? I already had a semblance of a navy forming in the Baltic and a sleuth of transport ships and commerce ships to connect my growing colonial empire... well... I spent about 4k in Warship squadrons, frigates and a few more scouts. (I figured the smaller force can be used for commerce raiding, and the large force is the one that does the fighting.)
Judging by history, I have a war with Austria sometime in 5 or 6 years and then the good ol tussle with the French. Since outside of the South German states, about two of my objectives are in France.
It's been an interesting world. Is anyone else interested in how well I screw up wielding my army, that I've been tempering into a decent fighting machine over the years?
I'll post up some images in a bit.
I'll try to do yearly updates, with greater frequencies during war time periods (Doesn't include low intensity warfare with the local inhabitants of Africa.)
[SUP]1[/SUP] - In total, each provinces has a gem deposit at the game start. Its just worth the outright investment. The Trucial State now has Oil... just not enough manpower.