France 1798 16 turns

dsongop,  if this is legit you can post this on european-war-4.boards.net/thread/9567/ew6-conquest-records and you can get the title of world's fastest conqueror, because that's the fastest record in EW6 1798 conquest, in all the conquest tbh. stoic this is impressive 

Yup, we should try it out to see if it's possible. It is possible to delay Russia for 20 turns, so i guess it is possible, but the amount of resources to do so needed is massive, so i guess all the resources goes to delaying russia while only using minimal number of units possible. Also, the donations need to be used as early as possible before you capture too many cities, which would increase the amount needed for donations. I'm in the middle of reading some case study(while slacking off a bit), so i'll try it out later.

Question is, how hard it is to replicate. Since if it's legit and we dismiss it since it's hard to replicate, it would be unfair. I guess the only real way to see is to actually do it. Since the problem here would be Sweden and Naples. If we send no units to Sweden, they usually fall around turn 20 or even more if Denmark decides to not send units to capture the last city. Naples falls quickly, although at times they surprisingly survive, as seen in my speed run of Denmark 1798 where they survived until turn 28. Portugal falls around turn 11, so i guess if it's possible to beat the game without Russia even entering the war, then the speed run is dependent on how fast you can defeat Britain and Sweden, and hope that Naples loses before that happens, or at the time it happens. That is assuming you can knock Austria out quickly too, and since you don't really donate to Prussia, they enter pretty early in the game. 

The question is interesting enough. I think I'll try to do it, as well   But the problem is how can we evaluate such strategy. I don't believe it would be viable elsewhere outside 1796.  But should we accept such attemts as legit? best75, what do you think of it?

I believe many of you all are great players at this game and quite possibly better than I am. I'm relatively new to the forum, but after surfing around I concluded that a lot of players here like stoic  are definitely capable of doing this. Here's a little strategy I developed to help make this conquest a little more consistent. The trick is to take Sardinia by turn 4, London by turn 5, and Vienna by turn 7. Also bribe the ottomans once and russia once if you want. Most of my donations go to Denmark and Italy, but if Spain is having a hard time taking Portugals then by all means help them. Lastly you need 8 generals, preferably 1 strong navy, 1 strong artillery, at least 2 aura infantries, and at least an aura cavalry. London is probably the most challenging and integral front, and if you can't take it by turn 5, restart. Troop movements are very specific in order to achieve this, and there's even a chance they'll spawn a general in London. Here's what I found works out best.

Turn 1 setup:




Move your clipper and infantry towards Ireland




Place your other infantry under the port *important, put your best naval general on the frigate and the best art general on the artillery, then move Suchet and Soult as shown.




Turn 2: Keep on moving those two troops on the left to Ireland, while you place the infantry on the port to bait Hood for at least 4 turns. Attack Paget with the frigate.




Turn 3: Attack London with Nelson, tactic master activated for him, so I got quite lucky, place Suchet next to mainland Britain, and Soult in the tile shown. Soult will most likely be a sacrifise in order to distract British units.




Turn 4: Suchet lands, place Soult in that tile, and place napoleon two tiles directly underneath London (so he has 2 possible landing points, made a mistake here, but it didnt matter in the end because of Nelson's tactic master) Retreat Nelson, this doesn't seem logical, but it takes away pressure from London so they most likely won't spawn anyone. Also make sure not to kill any British units.




Turn 5: Land your artillery if the city isn't as low as it is here, assuming you placed your artillery correctly the last turn (oh silly me). Activate your wonder if you're not confident. In my case, I just moved Nelson back and took the city with Suchet




Then I recommend to destroy the port and build a stable next to the shore, which your best cavalry general should spawn. Obviously you wouldn't be as rich as I am here, and you may not be able to afford a stable. I ignored all other fronts and did this just for a demonstration of how it's possible to take out Britain in 16 turns.

For the other fronts, it's absolutely doable considering the experience you players have. Take Sardinia and advance to Palermo, attract the British fleet by building a militia in Cagliari every turn. Try to keep Lannes alive, and if you can't, just start donating to Italy once in a while. Sometimes you get unlucky and Italy focuses on Venice and the HRE, in that case, without Lannes, just restart. For the HRE, try to take at least 1 city a turn and blitzreig them, taking Vienna by turn 7, (turn 6 is possible too). After Vienna falls, diverge your army into two, sending at least 3 generals to help kill Prussia. I would recommend your cavalry generals to go to Prussia, since the only time I succeeded, I took Danzig by turn 11 and sent Murat and Davout in the water already. You can basically take Austria any time now, especially with help from the Ottomans (if you paid them in), and a little from Poland and Italy. Build blasts in Danzig and try your best to take Helsinki and help the Danes take Stockholm. 

In conclusion, this requires a lot of skill and luck, also very decent tech and generals. This should not be that hard to achieve if someone can pass Crimean War with 3 stars on every mission. Good luck to you all. 

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It looks like your title is already in jeopardy.
I did warn you the dogs would be coming in but did not expect it so quick.
And now it's France.