Pbem109 - Do you hear the people sing?!

[terje439]

Turn 55

A decision has been made Gentlemen. The order has been given.
We withdraw from Vienna. Our "Armee du Center" needs to reinforce before fighting any battles. Let the enemy think we are fleeing, we are merely reorganising. Our second army is marching south, but alas it seems it will arrive too late to help save Genoa from being captured by Spain, but that is ok, we will pay back by liberating all of Italy. Soon the Spanish will have to face 400.000 French troops.
And if that is not enough, our fleets have been ordered to sail south and to enter the Mediterreanean. There we will fight the old and obsolete Spanish fleets one by one.
We hand out 50$ to Russia and Turkey this turn, and we order another infantry division to be formed, and we expand two courts. The good news is that we do now have alot of level 5 courts, but we will not be happy untill they are all level 5!

The choice is also taken to spend some of our experience points to buy another upgrade. For full details about this, see the attached report.

[terje439]

Turn 56-58

Sorry about the belated reports, but my PC fried and I lost all screenshots from these turns.

Anyway, a brief summary of these turns are as follows:
-we continue to stay at war with Austria and Spain
-Spain is pressing us hard, capturing provinces and hurting our national morale
-Turkey is doing well in Austria, but not forcing them to take enough morale loss to end the war
-Our main army is trying to relocate to Paris
-we continue to build INF and CAV divisions and expand our courts.

[terje439]

Turn 59-60

Again sorry for the late replies, but am swamped at work IRL at the moment.

Anyway, the Spanish now roam around France, and our morale is taking a hit due to it, however we hope to soon be able to march out of Paris and offer battle again. It seems we might have to let the war with Austria lapse, as we need to focus all our attention against Spain.
The only ray of light in this war is that we have captured a colony from Spain.

[Mus]

What is the size and location of your other Army, Armee du Nord? Why not wait until both Armies are at full strength before reengaging, or at the very least force Spain to march its armies into the interior of France before engaging? Seems you have fought in a very piece meal fashion over the past few months.

[terje439]

Turn 61

We build a CAV division in Paris, and one court and one barrack. The good news is that most of our provinces now have reached the magical level 5 courts, so soon there will be no need to build more courts.
The war is however wrecking havoc to our economy (not only cash-wise).
And of course the war is not going too well as is clearly indicated in the attached map...

[terje439]

Turn 62

Alas, Spain keep grabbing provinces in the south and our national morale is dropping rapidly. I fear we need to win a few major battles soon to avoid defeat. Our armies are rebuilding in Paris, but will it be done in time?

[Rondo]

So, can someone give an update on how this game is going? Things were just starting to heat up.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Rondo

So, can someone give an update on how this game is going? Things were just starting to heat up.

Yes, sorry about that, been really busy IRL lately, I do however have all the screenshots, so I hope to have this AAR updated by the weekend, and I promise you, things are REALLY getting interesting!!

Again, I am sorry for the delay here guys.

Terje

[Rondo]

Much appreciated, Terje. Looking forward to the update with anticipation.

[terje439]

Turn 63

Although the war on land does not go too well, at sea the Spaniards are terrified of our superior fleet. I also decided to keep my fleet at sea so that Spain cannot bring supplies through the Med.

[terje439]

Turn 64

Alot of Spanish armies are reported to be located in Southern France. I know that all of these cannot be armies, as there is no way Spain can afford the cost. So I need to know which is an army and which is only single divisions and or corps. Our diplomats will have to be recalled!

[terje439]

Turn 65

We are ready to counterstrike. We have gathered some information about the Spanish forces and moved our own armies to Burgundy. If this fails, we will have lost the war!

The main question now is; just how big is the Spanish army?

[terje439]

Turn 66

We delay our attack one turn to fill up a few more divisions, so nothing really happens this turn. So this might be a good time to take a look at the situation in Europe.

[terje439]

Turn 67

It is payback time!
We order our armies to march, and we are going to try to cut Spanish supply lines like they did to us earlier with devastating effect. This is the "Do or Die"-Day of France!!

[terje439]

Turn 68

Ares, Anat, Bast, Brahma, Tor, Kali, Mars and Set are only a few gods that have been called Gods of War.
The important thing is, they are obviously all French!
A good result from our troops see the entire situation turn around!

[terje439]

Turn 69

Operation "Kick the Dons around" continues.
Another stunning victory for our forces, and we even capture enemy artillery.
What is even better is the fact that the enemy army retreats north! Further away from their supply lines and into disaster. Our morale is increasing every turn while the Spanish is dropping like a sack of bricks.

We also see good news from our Ottoman allies. They are still wrecking havoc in Austria! If this keeps up, we might be able to force the Spanish to surrender and turn around and march on Vienna once more.

My main concern now is Britain, with a change of the King (the original player has been substituted), they have gone from Pro-France to Anti-France. I can therefore safely guess that they do not want me to win too many wars...

[Mus]

Hey Terje, what is your OOB looking like after your most recent victories? Just curious if you could provide a screenshot of your two big armies.

I see your infation is sky high so I am assuming you have been just pumping out infantry divisions like mad trying to play catch up with the Spaniards.

Have you considered blockading the Spanish fleets in Sardinia with two of your fleets and capturing them with an amphibious move using your third fleet?

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Mus

Hey Terje, what is your OOB looking like after your most recent victories? Just curious if you could provide a screenshot of your two big armies.

I see your infation is sky high so I am assuming you have been just pumping out infantry divisions like mad trying to play catch up with the Spaniards.

Have you considered blockading the Spanish fleets in Sardinia with two of your fleets and capturing them with an amphibious move using your third fleet?

You are correct of course, my armies consists mainly of infantry, which actually suits the French as they have quite a few infantry upgrades when they start the game, but I will post a shot of my armies next turn.

Yes, I considered capturing the Spanish fleet, but I estimate that that would be the most efficient way to get Britain to DoW me, so I will not do so.

Terje

[terje439]

Turn 70

While we continue to wreck havoc amongst the Spanish army, our economy could be far better than it is. We make a little profit, but not nearly enough to give financial aid to Turkey or Russia. It now actually takes us 4 turns to save up enough money to make a Millitia which we need to regarrison the cities captured and retaken from the Spanish. Hopefully we will manage to break Spain soon!
Mus posted a wish to see my OOB, so here it is:

[Mus]

Nice turn around terje.

Did you lose some of your guns in the earlier losses or are your other artillery divisions with Armee Du Midi somewhere? I heard you captured a Spanish gun, so you ought to have 3 Artillery divisions plus a Horse Artillery if you didn't already lose some in battle, but your first couple battles were pretty wicked losses.