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posted February 14, 2014 08:10 PM |
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I'm currently downloading the Great war mod for napoleon (a very attractive looking WW1 mod), will update once I played it.
Holy **** this mod is amazing. The whistle of the field gun projectile before it booms !!!!! Perfect! My machine guns mowed down Serbian troops as they advance out of their trenches. Haven't managed to play a battle to the finish due to crashes though, and the design of the trenches (which look amazing btw) can make deploying your large army a bit tricky.
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted March 29, 2014 06:19 PM |
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Update: I've moved to back to Empire total war, and it's never been so immersive. Playing as Russia with improved ai mods, increased army sizes and huge town garrisons. A capitol would field 5000 militia troops who are pretty bad, and turn utter worthless once the enemy take the walls and thus lose the fortification morale boost.
Started off alright, created a mixed army of Strelets and cossacks to fight off various incursions by ottormans and the Crimean dudes. My early invasion force got bogged down in the Crimea, and while I tried to reinforce and rearm them a massive Crimean counterattack of about 6000 men against my rather noobish 3000 force of injured militia grade troops. My army got utterly annihilated.
The battle looked kinda bad at first, a massive swarm approaching and my line overstretched just to avoid being outflanked, my cannons rained non stop cannister fire on them and for the initial 20 min the battle seemed to swing my way, especially once my cavalry cut down their general. (though suffered for it) Then thinking that victory was at hand, I unleashed my center and cavalry (hoping that my overwhelmed left would hold) on the enemy left (my right), the enemy fled after heavy initial fighting, and this is the moment when I lost it, since instead of chasing down the routers I chose to send everything to my left that was almost completely destroyed. After that I barely had any men to do anything, I could rout one or two groups easily but they always returned, and in the end I just got swarmed.
After that defeat a massive Ottoman army with the Crimeans took Kiev. In the face of this encroaching disaster my people decided to have a revolution. Immediately after the new Republic of Soviets was set up my revolutionary general amassed a massive conscript army (each regiment was named individually) fought off the turkish horde with tooth and nail, Kiev was retaken after drawing the enemy out, and were thus hunted down. (cannons with canister shots really came in handy, but still took a huge death toll)
And yeah, as my current game stands I have focused on industry, mining and ironworks, and my Red Army consists of:
16 Regiments of Line Infantry : 7200 men
11 Regiments of Grenadier Guards : 2750 men
6 Regiments of Hussars (L.Cav) : 720 men
6 Regiments of Horse Artillery : 300 men, 60 cannons.
UPDATE:
My Red army now consists of:
33 Regiments of Line Infantry : 14850 men
12 Regiments of Grenadier Guards : 3000 men
6 Regiments of Hussars (L.Cav) : 720 men
12 Regiments of Horse Artillery : 600 men, 120 cannons.
My Red 'Army' is split into four, and the grenadier guards mostly guard my capitols.
1st Army consists of:
- 10 Regiments of veteran line infantry (but the obsolete kind) - 4500 men
- 4 Artillery Regiments - 200 men and 40 cannons
- 3 Regiments of Hussars - 360 men
- 2 Regiments of Grenadier Guards - 500 men
2nd Army: It's largely the same, except it uses a newer more disciplined looking line infantry type with slightly better stats. (but first army has every battalion almost on veteran grade)
3rd Army
- 11 regiments of Line Infantry - 4950 men
- 4 Artillery Regiments - 200men and 40 cannons
(plus some addition dragoons and horseguards but they are considered merc type units and not specifically part of my regime)
4th Army
- 2 Regiments of Line Infantry - 500 men
- 3 Regiments of Grenadier Guards - 750 men
- 2 Regiments of Hussars - 240 men
The 4th Army is my patrol and fast response army, mostly operates on the Ottoman border.
A further campaign update:
My intended invasion of Swedish territory (St Petersburg & Finland) with Armies 1 & 2 was thwarted by an insanely huge Ottoman invasion on my Persian holdings. (Ottoman army is roughly 15,000 - 20,000)
Just one of the massive battles (here my army was wounded). :
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JoonasTo
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posted April 02, 2014 06:13 PM |
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted April 04, 2014 09:48 PM |
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Holy **** nugget, I must admit I felt a little foolhardy for initiating this battle, but frankly it had to be fought otherwise my reinforcements to the Caucasus would've been utterly useless.
Took me an hour to fight, luckily some of my gambles paid off and my shortcomings didn't cost me the battle (like charging skirmishers who had those horse ground spikes set up secretly in a bush). I also got totally demoralized when I saw their mortars bombarding my lines and the vast horde that stretched from one end to of the map to the other against my thin pathetic line.
Luckily the enemy set up barriers around their cannons so I moved my army to my right while I sent my hussars to clear out the lightly defended cannon emplacement opposite my new position, (their general too) from this high ground I worked my way down, consuming the enemy piecemeal (small battles between their cavalry and light infantry and my men here I almost lost my hussars and the battle).
The final battle was my army went against around 2500-3000 of them, after a mortar barrage they charged, my lines welcomed them with a volley and magnificent grenades. My hussars meanwhile lured a few groups away, while the other group charged the mortars, then crashed into the enemy rear. Luckily, due to the 'hilly' nature of the battlefield (not the whole battlefield just the area of battle). Thereby I managed to 'funnel' the enemy and get them nicely bunched. Two grenadier lines and a greatly depleted line infantry group held off the horde, while one of my grens bombarded their flank with grenades and lead. The battle was rather simple but very time consuming and I had to be very considerate with my unit placements.
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted April 06, 2014 09:20 PM |
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After the huge battle (the one with 8500 Ottomans) my provincial army was greatly crippled, and before it could be reinforced it was attacked by a substantial Ottoman army. Luckily I created two murder passages with barriers and horse spikes that slowed down the advancing enemy, giving me plenty of time to gun and canister-fire them to hell:
Like thus:
1000 Veteran soldiers supplemented by 1000 militia troops against 5000 angry Turks. I bombarded the grouped areas of the enemies, both for accurate fire and to avoid hitting my own men. The smaller passage was utter slaughter, the 3 cannons posted there just butchered 10-20 men (per cannon) every volley.
(Also, I posted a few largish pics, the page always insta loads for me, but if it's bothersome for anyone or hard to load then let me know, DS is the only person I know whom it bothered, but he's no longer with us)
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GunFred
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posted April 06, 2014 09:28 PM |
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Large pics are fine by me as long as they do not contain Russia(you) pwning the crap out of Sweden. Btw, what is your diplomatic status and history with the Kingdom of Sweden?
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted April 06, 2014 10:23 PM |
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Well... I massed the Russian First and Second armies on the borders of Sweden, all in preparation for a lightning invasion in order to cap St Petersburg as well as that territory east of Finland (and maybe Finland itself)
Instead...I signed an alliance agreement as well as trade and whatnot with Sweden, so I'll probably have to trade some Ottoman settlements to get St Petersburg.
At the moment I'm on about 150+ relations with Sweden, and if war breaks out between them and Poland I'm very much inclined to support Sweden due to the fact that I want to invade Courland for its port. Plus my alliance with Poland is crippling my diplomacy considerably, the ****ers are at war with everyone, how the hell did they piss off Britain or the mofo Cherokee so much as to go to war with them?!?!
Plus the damn Poles are sacking Hungary, which is bad from my national view, but also good since it pisses off the population making the risk of a Hungarian revolution ever greater. (when they do I'm going to put ever resource available to safeguard them) But still, nobody ****s with Hungary.
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GunFred
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posted April 06, 2014 10:38 PM |
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That is nice to hear. 
Together you shall burn central and east Europe into a desert of ash! 
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted April 06, 2014 10:47 PM |
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I'll probably make the Swedes assault Denmark and make some northern incursions into Prussia, while I'll spear-head eastern Europe. The Ottomans are being a pain in the ass, so far I've fought over 30,000 of their men, luckily they're poorly equipped and most of them go for the melee so canister and bayonets are a blessing. (as well as ranked fire ofc)
Though, I did have to assassinate a few Swedish protestant priests that kept creeping over the border, hell that's all my rakes do these days lol, just lynching priests (Ottomans and Catholics as well).
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GunFred
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posted April 06, 2014 11:10 PM |
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Tsar-Ivor said:
I'll probably make the Swedes assault Denmark and make some northern incursions into Prussia, while I'll spear-head eastern Europe. The Ottomans are being a pain in the ass, so far I've fought over 30,000 of their men, luckily they're poorly equipped and most of them go for the melee so canister and bayonets are a blessing. (as well as ranked fire ofc)
You had me at "Swedes assault Denmark"... 
If only I did not have other priorities I would have loved to play Empire again and Creative Assembly should hurry up with Medieval 3 and then Empire 2.
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted April 08, 2014 09:09 PM |
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After 50,000 deaths in the Caucuses alone, the Ottomans were finally battered into a peace after my 1st Army marched into Europe and swept aside all resistance. (about 7000 Turks in two battles) After overwhelming Bulgaria the Ottomans could do nothing but sue for peace, and as I had enough of blood-shed and my treasury exhausted I had no will to go on with the war. Thus...peace at last.
...Nm scratch that, the Indian Confederacy has just annihilated Persia and is moving aggressively toward me...**** my life. Tempted to sell off all my holdings beyond the Caucus mountain to some small rich city nation, like Venice.
Edit 15th of April
Well, though India has declared war they've not shown themselves yet, within a few turns I used my funds to repair my industrial buildings which in-turn began to churn out some hard-cash enabling me to rearm my armies. I've used my Caucus armies to destroy the last of the Persian strongholds, while my Northern army dealt the final decisive, and bloody blow to my enemy.
Without a doubt one of the bloodiest battles I've ever fought, I hammered the fortress from all four corners, and took me about 50 minutes to finally break the defenders. (due to the fortification bonus most of their battalions fought to the death) Lord have mercy on their souls:
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted May 03, 2014 12:43 PM |
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The Ottoman Empire is utterly broken, I seized their dockyard and Venice & Spain annihilated their fleets, while their armies are of sub-standard quality and small numbers, same with artillery (it's likely that Greece was the main production place for the Ottoman artillery). Thank god too, those Ottoman mortars were a ****ing nightmare, raining unending fire and death on my armies, if my men weren't veterans I would never have survived. (luckily the ottoman cavalry is piss-poor, so I could always do outflanking moves with my cavalry and take out the howitzers and mortars before they destroyed me)
I had a short-lived war with the Maratha Confederacy, mostly involved checking a massive sneak invasion through dagastan (they penetrated all the wai up to my north east border, only about 22,000 men) the difference being that my economy is through the roof and I had over 25,000 men and vast sums of money to recruit more, while the enemy has to slowly track through Afghanistan which takes about a dozen turns meaning agonizingly slow rate of reinforcements. After a number of size-able battles I came out on top, my veteran soldiers some with 6-7 chevrons held them down with ease.
I've also done a number of army reforms, I've replaced Hussars with Cuirassiers (hussars are less useless with high morale and strong charge bonus, hence why I kept them so long) and I replaced grenadiers with light infantry, which were exceptional at taking down the maratha cavalry, and hopefully will be pretty good when I start fighting against European powers. I've also built up both my Mediterranean fleet and my Baltic one, mostly class 3 ships, they seem pretty balanced and some class 4 ships.
I've also recruited an army of guards, a cross between light and line infantry, I'm using them as colonial troops, so yeah, my foreign policy at the moment is to establish a new-model-army and to acquire new colonies (and a good stronghold, thinking of the island south east of india, great access route to the east indies)
Situation in Eurpoe
As for the current makeup of Europe, well my strong alliance with Sweden and my passive support for Poland has had a catastrophic consequence, Poland has grown substantially and crushed Austria and Prussia, (not alone, but the sole benefactor was the Polish Commonwealth) while Sweden has swept in from the north and destroyed Denmark in Eurpoe. So my wishes are to check Polish power by supporting the German and Italian states. (Venice mostly.)
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GunFred
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posted May 03, 2014 12:52 PM |
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Tsar-Ivor said:
Situation in Eurpoe
As for the current makeup of Europe, well my strong alliance with Sweden and my passive support for Poland has had a catastrophic consequence, Poland has grown substantially and crushed Austria and Prussia, while Sweden has swept in from the north and destroyed Denmark. So my wishes are to check Polish power by supporting the German and Italian states. (Venice mostly.)
I could kiss you! (but I won't)
Leave it to Sweden to burn down central-east europe. They are historically pros at it. Not that Russia aren't though...
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posted May 03, 2014 03:05 PM |
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Yeah, I have around 5 full armies and the garrisons would make that 6, but got my hands full with smashing the fighting will of the Ottomans, I worked on securing my borders by selling territories to strong allies like Britain, but I made the tragic mistake of selling Georgia to the native Indians. The selling wasn't the problem, at the time I couldn't hold that place against the massive Indian and Ottoman invasion, the issue is that I gave it to the Natives, who have demolished everything in that settlement. (same with Yerevan) I sold Persia to Britain, hopefully that will plug the Maratha threat for a while. I reconquered Yerevan and Georgia (Ottomans declared on the Hurons)
Most of my attention is turning to eastern and central Europe, and a massive ware is coming. Most small factions have been snuffed, but I'm trying to keep alive the few German states that survived.
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GunFred
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posted May 03, 2014 03:18 PM |
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Lol, native american colonies in europe/asia...
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted May 03, 2014 04:41 PM |
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Yeah, thought that they were the best at the time because if I somehow come into conflict I could steam roll them without too much trouble, but they just turned the entire caucus area into their own private little medieval reservation (destroying every modern structure!).
Also, what's up with platoon fire, so damn funky looking, going to go look for a way to revert it back to rank fire.
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted May 07, 2014 08:59 PM |
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(nm I thought I was editing, must've pressed quote instead)
EDIT 7th of MAY
My total military strength is 32,105 men, and 27 warships (7 man-o-wars). I intend to have at least 25,000 men and 20 warships ready for my invasion of north east Europe. Also it took me long enough, I got a mod that makes castles much simpler constructs to the AI doesn't **** itself into oblivion and take my RAM with it.
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GunFred
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posted May 08, 2014 05:23 AM |
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Above or below the baltic sea? Or maybe both? If above is included, I am going to be sad...
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JoonasTo
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posted May 08, 2014 12:42 PM |
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Tsar-Ivor
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posted May 08, 2014 04:12 PM |
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I'm only planning on taking St Petersburg and Findland as a secondary thing. (then Courland) I intended to take St Petersburg at the start of my game using the initial hostilities between Sweden and Russia, but instead we became trade partners and allies, which has been so for 40 years now.
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