Pbem109 - Do you hear the people sing?!

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Harvey Birdman
For labour production I find it better to use le mans and nantes. ie the 2 textile provinces who suck at producing luxuries and spice.

Start building 2 roads in le mans and 3 roads in nantes allocate full labour to develoment. That increases max pop by one.

Then focus le mans on building factories to 10 and nantes on building docks to 10.

Than le mans starts building barracks to 10 and nantes starts building factories to 10 than barracks to 10.

Then you can shift labour allocation from development to labour production. Your shooting for high labour production with max morale production of cav, arty, inf and ships. The level 10 factories max arty morale and speed up unit production and produce labour.

Never thought about that, will have a look at it next turn, however building lvl 10 factories is likely going to force me to save up labour over atleast 3 or 4 turns a piece...

[terje439]

Turn 44

Well, as usual we hand out 3x20$, no big surprise there.
We start the construction of 2 farms, 1 bank and 1 port this turn.
Thankfully our people did not consume any textiles this turn, and another diplomat has been ordered in Paris. Unfortunately our highest court is only level 5, this means the diplomat will arrive with a total of 100 (20xlvl5) points distributed to his skills. That is not alot.

Some concerning news reached us in Paris, and from now on we will build our army every turn. Spain and Preussia are now allied!
This move has made Britain ask by private mail if an alliance between Britain and France could take place, and if they offer we will accept.

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Turn 45

OOC: Sorry again for the late delay, but we had to exchange a player. Mus no longer controls Britain, that role has been taken over by Kingmaker. (Wonder if he will be as friendly towards France as Mus was).

As usual we hand out the normal 3x20$ this turn.
We order the construction of an infantry division in Paris, and we order one farm and two courts throughout our empire.
Our main army has marched towards the Austrian/French/Italian border, and we will see how they react to this. The Spanish has an army of 135.000 men in Italy, so if they decide to form an alliance with Austria, we might be in some deep trouble.

Finally we alter the work allocation in Amsterdam as can be seen on the screenshot.

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Turn 46

OOC: the subsitute of Britain is giving me a headache, how is the new Britain going to act against France?

Well, no big shock, but we once more deal out 3x20$ this turn.
We order the recruitment of another infantry division, and we build two courts and a bank this turn.
We take a brief look at some of the available upgrades/techs we can buy, but do not buy any yet.
Due to a new ruler in Britain we slow things down a little too see how this changes the situation in Europe.

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Turn 47

Gentlemen, I have dire news.
WE ARE AT WAR!
Hostilities have broken out between Russia and Austria, and due to our diplomatic deals with Russia, we are forced to DoW Austria.
Orders have been issued, and our main army is crossing the Austrian border while our smaller army will march from Paris to seize an Austrian controlled province in the French-Preussian border lands.
We also order the construction of another cavalry division, unfortunately our income of labour only allows us to build one division per month.
We also order the construction of a farm and a level 5 court.

But other diplomatic deals are being made as well, Spain has allied with Austria, which might mean a two front war for us. And if that is not bad enough, Britain is proposing an alliance with Spain. The exchange of head of state in Britain is having enormous consequenses for France it seems.
Turkey has promised to DoW Austria this month and should hopefully advance into Austria next month.

[Mus]

My apologies if I put you in a bad spot Terje.

Just couldn't see myself playing the wrong scenario for up to a year before it was finished.

[:'(]

Good luck. I will follow your AAR.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Mus

My apologies if I put you in a bad spot Terje.

Just couldn't see myself playing the wrong scenario for up to a year before it was finished.

[:'(]

Good luck. I will follow your AAR.

Well, IF Spain DoWs, my main army will head south into Italy and capture a few protectorates before I surrender, so in terms of provinces I might end up stronger.
It is going to be interesting the next few turns.
And do not sweat it, I totally understand your decision, and no hard feelings

Terje

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Turn 48
Sirs, Great news!
Although Spain and England have declared an alliance, they have NOT issued a DoW on France, this means that Austria will have to fight alone for the time being.
And if that is not enough, Turkey has issued a DoW on Austria as well. I smell austrian blood!

This month two infantery divisions report for duty, this is good, 20.000 more men ready to boost our armies will come in handy!

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Turn 49

The war against Austria is progressing well, Britain, Preussia, Spain and Sweden all chose to stay out of the action.
We hand out 35$ to Turkey and Russia and 20$ to Spain this turn.
We order the production of an infantery division, and upgrade 3 courts.
Our smallest army is heading back to Paris for the time being, while our bigger army advances further into Austria.

[Mus]

What kind of progress are your Turkish and Russian allies making against Austria?

Could we get some "big picture" here?

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Turn 50

Gentlemen, it seems our allied bear has caught some sort of disease that inflicts the thought-process.
Russia has just launched a sneak attack on Preussia, and since we are allies it was our obligation to do so as well. This is less than optimal, as that makes a war against Britain, Sweden and Spain a possibility as well.
We have started diplomatic talk in hope to remain left out of this new conflict, we will not march on Preussia, and hopefully they will not march on us.

The Russians did however emerge victorious from a battle with the Preussians, 35.000 dead Preussians and 30.000 dead Russians. But the Russians have a bigger population to make good these losses from than Preussia.

We ordered the production of two infantry divisions this turn, as things are escalating rather quickly, we need to increase our armies.

20$ was sent to Switzerland as Britain is doing so too, 20$ to Spain and 35 to Russia and Turkey. If we end up at war with Britain, we will no longer be able to hand out money, as that would most likely result in the sinkings of our merchant ships.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Mus

What kind of progress are your Turkish and Russian allies making against Austria?

Could we get some "big picture" here?

Turkey has captured Karlsburg and Russia has captured Vilna, but right now Russia has sneak attacked Preussia [X(]

[Mus]

LOL Anthropoid is plundering his own territory, it's right there in the battle report.

That along with the sneak attack bringing Britain into the war (and maybe Sweden as well) make for a bad move!

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Mus

LOL Anthropoid is plundering his own territory, it's right there in the battle report.

That along with the sneak attack bringing Britain into the war (and maybe Sweden as well) make for a bad move!

Aye, and it just got worse, read the next entry [8|]

[terje439]

Turn 51

Sirs, I have dire news.
I recieved a carrier pidgeon from Istanbul, the letter was signed by The Sultan himself. Turkey are offerign a cease fire to Preussia, and they will offer the same to Austria next month. They feel that the Russian attack on Preussia ruined alot of our chances, as well as the general feeling towards us in Europe.

Unfortunately I have to agree.
In order to preserve our merchant navy, and thus our income, I have offered a cease fire to Preussia as well. We have alot to lose, and almost nothing to gain at the present time in a war against England and Preussia.

The good news however is that our army in Austria captured yet another city, and is now marching on Munich (see attached map).
And the Russians had another victory against the Preussians!
Furthermore our spies report that the Austrian population is almost depleted, this means one of two things, either they are low on food, or there is ALOT of enemy troops out there somewhere.
20$ was handed out to Spain and Switzerland, while 35$ was handed to Russia and Turkey.
Our building programme saw the order placed for another infantry division, and we ordered one of our barracks expanded to lvl 4 so that we have more provinces were we can train troops.

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Turn 52

Gentlemen, the situation in Europe keeps altering.
This month has seen a great battle faught between Austria and Turkey, and the Austrians took a severe beating. 33.000 Austrians were killed as opposed to 13.000 Turks, a great victory for Turkey.

Turkey and France signs a cease-fire with Preussia, and the cowardly Russians sign a cease-fire with Austria!! Our alliance will go on for another month, we will NOT lengthen it, with allies like Russia, who needs enemies?

Two infantery divisions were finished this month, and they are heading to Paris to join up with our armies there, and a corps was ordered so that we better can field larger armies. Two courts were ordered to be expanded this turn as well.

We handed out 20$ to Spain, 20$ to Russia and 35$ to Turkey this turn.

And we finally take a look at Austria's national morale:

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Turn 53

Sirs, I bring dire news!
The cowardly Spanish launched a sneak attack on us on advanced a division into our supply center making sure no supplies reached our army in Austria. Losses were horrendous, more than 60.000 French soldiers dies this month.
This sneak attack has been denounced by all other powers in Europe, and Spain will pay for this treachery. And rest assured, our reserves counts more than 80.000 men, so losses can be made good quite fast, and as a bonus, these reserves are actually better trained than the men that were lost.
35$ were sent to Turkey and Russia this turn and 20$ to Switzerland. Our building orders were to create yet another corps, and to expand two courts throughout France.

For the total losses taken, take a look at the attached report.

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Turn 54

Well, this month makes me realise that France is about to lose the war with Austria which again means the war against Spain as well since they are allies.
Although our forces now are located in Vienna and Austrian morale takes a blow, an Austrian army is seen heading towards Vienna, and it seems alot bigger than our reduced army.
Spain also captured Lombardy from us (Lombardy was one of our protectorates, and as such can be outright captured by the enemy troops).
Orders have been issued to place depots over alot of Europe, and this results in a net loss of 200$ this turn!
We continue to build courts throught France.

[Mus]

Difficult for me to understand why you would subsidize Russia when Russia has gotten you in a bunch of wars and then ceasefired almost immediately, leaving you holding the bag. Particularly Turn 53 after they had ceasefired with Austria.

Wouldn't that money be better spent on additional infantry divisions?

I would negotiate with Turkey to see that they do not end their war with Austria or so that the cease fire is between Turkey AND France with Austria and then switch French focus to Spain in a similar situation.

[terje439]

Russia has learnt her lesson, and I prefer to keep Russia up and running as a counterweight to the Austrians and Preussians.
And it is not money that is causing me to not build any military units this turn, it is a lack of horses. However our secondary army now contains about 150.000 troops, and is ready to depart Paris.