Since we're all stuck waiting for AoC2 to arrive. I decided to play the modern Albany in AoC: Europe.
Albany is a small country located in the Balcan. Its surrounded by other tiny countries in which you can advance quickly.
Once you conquered the Balcan, youre a major player.
In the beginning I needed to have some strong allies nearby, i decided to make a blue zone around me. Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria are the countries which i sought peace for.
I quickly annexed Montenegro, afterwards i had a easy one-front war in which i could advance to the north.
After i conquered them i became a regional power, yet i couldnt advance north since Italy simply outmatch me. Therefore i signed threaties with the strong northern countries. i decided to blitz serbia.
I Foccused on taking out the war-torn Bulgaria and Greece afterwards. They are weaker than me and stuck in battling eachother, i expected a quick overrun.
Now i could focus on Turkey, a regional power like me, but not a world power. After Turkey, i hope to promote from regional power to world power.
After turkey, im the third strongest country, only beaten by russia and spain.
Operation Ukrain.
Because Russia is strong i decided to take out the easy Ukrain. since im pretty strong right now i hope to defeat them soon.
Now i want to have Poland because i say so!
After (almost) defeating the polish I saw Germany divided as hell, not that it mattered. cause i just want it all.
Looking at the population map, looks like everybody is death in germany... Afterwards the game was over, i could just march to the west and than to the east without facing too much problems. its easy back then and i didn't care to write it. won it in 50 turns.