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Post by Navia Lanoira on May 5, 2020 14:35:08 GMT
Im crying now with my Greece 1865 conquest, what started off as a deceptively easy conquest soon turned into utter annihilation when all my allies crumbled Now hoping to stay alive and defeat Prussia with Moltke, Stepanovic, Plumer and Jackson, all at 20-40 hp. At least that will buy me some time before I get wiped out by UK and Spain I made greece 1865 as my first one star country finish. I did it on 60 turns. The trick is declare war to bulgaria and papal states at turn 1 and defeat bulgaria in turn 2, then dow romania in turn 3. That way you can secure balkans much faster and you can save both france and austria as napoleon thirdy can capture rome before italy. |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on May 5, 2020 14:50:02 GMT
Im crying now with my Greece 1865 conquest, what started off as a deceptively easy conquest soon turned into utter annihilation when all my allies crumbled Now hoping to stay alive and defeat Prussia with Moltke, Stepanovic, Plumer and Jackson, all at 20-40 hp. At least that will buy me some time before I get wiped out by UK and Spain I made greece 1865 as my first one star country finish. I did it on 60 turns. The trick is declare war to bulgaria and papal states at turn 1 and defeat bulgaria in turn 2, then dow romania in turn 3. That way you can secure balkans much faster and you can save both france and austria as napoleon thirdy can capture rome before italy. That was what I did, and my Balkans was secured pretty easily. For the Papal States, do I leave them alone after declaring war on them? And how will this save France and Austria where the latter gets knocked out by turn 12 if I focus on the Balkans and the Ottomans? |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on May 5, 2020 14:50:39 GMT
Oh and I did Cuba in 29 turns for 1861 challenge, just wondering if its troubling anyone else before I share my guide haha
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Post by Navia Lanoira on May 5, 2020 17:11:03 GMT
I made greece 1865 as my first one star country finish. I did it on 60 turns. The trick is declare war to bulgaria and papal states at turn 1 and defeat bulgaria in turn 2, then dow romania in turn 3. That way you can secure balkans much faster and you can save both france and austria as napoleon thirdy can capture rome before italy. That was what I did, and my Balkans was secured pretty easily. For the Papal States, do I leave them alone after declaring war on them? And how will this save France and Austria where the latter gets knocked out by turn 12 if I focus on the Balkans and the Ottomans? Yes. The french navy will attack rome and the austrian navy will deal on their land troops. This will most of the time triggers napoleon to spawn at corsica, and he will go to rome. With the papal states finished, italy will focus on helping you to the onslaught of prussians and bavarians, while you have to defeat ottomans so russia will help you further in destroying prussia. Just help the austrians defend their cities and when the russians started their advance on the prussian lands do guerilla raids on the captured cities so the prussians will withdraw. |
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Post by Navia Lanoira on May 5, 2020 17:13:00 GMT
^The french can still survive by corsica or rome. Since napoleon will take it, it is in a safe place. Just watch out for the ottomans so they wont take it.
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on May 6, 2020 1:12:54 GMT
Yup I'll try this out, thanks for the help!  |
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Post by stoic on May 6, 2020 22:11:34 GMT
I was expecting added objectives like the challenge conquests, but thankfully there is none. No it’s just a lot harder, I tried Peru 1898 and you aren’t going to believe it but I lost. And yes I wasn’t playing very serious but I wasn’t playing bad either ( I defeated Colombia turn 2, Venezuela turn 5 and took New Orleans in turn 11 and Richmond in turn 13) but the ai has already taken North America when I landed. They were so strong that even though I build new rifleman every turn they still pushed me back. I also tried the USA and that was quite easy I was able to win in 20 turns. Let’s do a challenge: the first to win Serbia 1914 challenge conquest wins. Quite an adventure  No one will help you neither to survive nor to win. We have to take all Canadian cities with our own hands. USA were defeated in 15 turns, Brazil in 23. Your allies are just incapable to do something helpful.     |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on May 7, 2020 3:14:27 GMT
stoic, 1914, not 1917 HAHAHAHHA same thing I guess :/
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on May 7, 2020 3:15:35 GMT
Peru 1861 is very easy, all you've got to do is to rush and land in Richmond to cut the spam off.
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Post by stoic on May 7, 2020 3:35:28 GMT
Peru 1861 is very easy, all you've got to do is to rush and land in Richmond to cut the spam off. Dogfight is of high importance to prevent the spamming. No way it is possible to survive the initial stage otherwise playing for countries surrounded by hostile adversaries on all sides... |
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Post by stoic on May 7, 2020 3:44:53 GMT
Truth be told, I am not especially excited about the friendly Ai behaviour. France and Italy tried hard to build lvl 6 cities without bothering in the slightest to hire a single militia unit to guard them. At one moment Italy had 9 upgraded cities and only 4 units on the battlefield! Half of Italy was conquered by one lame Spanish militia unit.
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Post by stoic on May 7, 2020 3:53:50 GMT
stoic, 1914, not 1917 HAHAHAHHA same thing I guess :/ Yeah, the need to cross the ocean to face Canada, Mexico and company is hardly encouraging though. As if to defeat single-handedly Germany, Ottomans, Austria, USSR and Spain is not good enough |
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Post by Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr on May 7, 2020 5:42:00 GMT
Peru 1861 is very easy, all you've got to do is to rush and land in Richmond to cut the spam off. Dogfight is of high importance to prevent the spamming. No way it is possible to survive the initial stage otherwise playing for countries surrounded by hostile adversaries on all sides... Useful tip for Serbia. Unfortunately dogfight rarely activates for me these days, and when it does its pretty hilarious (dogfight on a stationary fort? lol) |
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Post by krobbi on May 9, 2020 11:06:09 GMT
I did Serbia 1914 btw (53 turns - campaign IX tech, 5 heavily invested generals). I have screens but I don't know how to load them here, I'm kinda new to this forum.
I think this conquests is easier on challenge than in normal mode since you have a lot of starting troops + a fort.
It still neeeded luck and technique in the First 5 turns:
- declare war on Bulgaria turn 1. You can take Sofia at turn 2 if you're lucky (Bulgaria has to spawn a mortar and let the city unguarded, and you have to hope victory rush triggers. Happens like 30% of the time).
I had heavily invested plumer + ivanov as general
- on turn 1, build industrial area on belgrade and don't spawn any troop. This way, you Will get to 240 tech on turn 2. On turn 2, let the city unguarded again (it won't fall if you take down Bulgaria), and build a large Fort.
- on turn 3, declare war to Turkey and start attacking Instanbul fort. It can fall in 2 turn since you have 2 artillery generals to storm it, while one of your cavalry generals defends Sofia and the other attacks Turkish cavalry preventing it from moving and freeing space for further ottoman spawn. Russian navy Will destroy Instabul defenses on turns 3-4 for you. Sacrifice 2 mediocre infantry generals on militia on turns 3 and 4 to defend belgrade and your large fort in construction.
On turn 5, you can finally take Instanbul. You now have a decent economy, 2 forts guarding Belgrade, and 4 healthy generals on good units.
From then on it's completely feasible: you can defend the balkans with militia + Fort spam while you expand in Austria with Italian help using your generals. You will have to prioritize militia spawn on the balkans over everything else for a long time.
I took Vienna on turn 16 and Berlin on turn 27. The second half of the conquest was a long and uninteresting war against ottomans in Russia and Turkey.
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Post by Navia Lanoira on May 9, 2020 13:22:23 GMT
I did Serbia 1914 btw (53 turns - campaign IX tech, 5 heavily invested generals). I have screens but I don't know how to load them here, I'm kinda new to this forum. I think this conquests is easier on challenge than in normal mode since you have a lot of starting troops + a fort. It still neeeded luck and technique in the First 5 turns: - declare war on Bulgaria turn 1. You can take Sofia at turn 2 if you're lucky (Bulgaria has to spawn a mortar and let the city unguarded, and you have to hope victory rush triggers. Happens like 30% of the time). I had heavily invested plumer + ivanov as general - on turn 1, build industrial area on belgrade and don't spawn any troop. This way, you Will get to 240 tech on turn 2. On turn 2, let the city unguarded again (it won't fall if you take down Bulgaria), and build a large Fort. - on turn 3, declare war to Turkey and start attacking Instanbul fort. It can fall in 2 turn since you have 2 artillery generals to storm it, while one of your cavalry generals defends Sofia and the other attacks Turkish cavalry preventing it from moving and freeing space for further ottoman spawn. Russian navy Will destroy Instabul defenses on turns 3-4 for you. Sacrifice 2 mediocre infantry generals on militia on turns 3 and 4 to defend belgrade and your large fort in construction. On turn 5, you can finally take Instanbul. You now have a decent economy, 2 forts guarding Belgrade, and 4 healthy generals on good units. From then on it's completely feasible: you can defend the balkans with militia + Fort spam while you expand in Austria with Italian help using your generals. You will have to prioritize militia spawn on the balkans over everything else for a long time. I took Vienna on turn 16 and Berlin on turn 27. The second half of the conquest was a long and uninteresting war against ottomans in Russia and Turkey. Happy first official post here, when you reply, theres a button in the top-right corner says add image to post. |
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No one will help you neither to survive nor to win. We have to take all Canadian cities with our own hands. USA were defeated in 15 turns, Brazil in 23. Your allies are just incapable to do something helpful.
