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Post by Mountbatten on May 26, 2018 23:33:45 GMT
I am currently doing Russia 1798 myself, failed misserably after a few times, but managed to overcome the hordes of enemies eventually. I sent every force in the south towards the ottomans, building a fort against my south-western city, neutralized the ottoman stable in the south-east and defended. I sent all forces in the north to Warsaw, captured those 2 cities, upgraded them as high as possible and sent them towards France immidiatly, togather with the Prussian and British forces we managed to defeath them without too much trouble, now have the entire northern Europe under control and France only has Marseille and his southern most cities. And I managed to take the Ottoman capital by bombarding it with 2 corvettes and my nearly destroyed frigate with a general (the one you start with) and then sent in an infantry unit. They are now being defeated in Greece by me, HRE and Naples. It won't take long untill france fall and the Ottomans will shortly after followed by Spain and then it is all over. I committed several massive blunders. I lost Paris to Spain by just forgetting to build a unit, lost 4 other cities that I had previously conquered by accidentally not building in any of them either, and I overloaded my population all the way up to 210 after getting fed up with Ottoman and completely spamming them, income be damned. Overall a pretty frustrating conquest in the mid game. I finished in 75 turns for a B rank  |
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Post by Henri Winkelman on May 27, 2018 5:07:38 GMT
I am currently doing Russia 1798 myself, failed misserably after a few times, but managed to overcome the hordes of enemies eventually. I sent every force in the south towards the ottomans, building a fort against my south-western city, neutralized the ottoman stable in the south-east and defended. I sent all forces in the north to Warsaw, captured those 2 cities, upgraded them as high as possible and sent them towards France immidiatly, togather with the Prussian and British forces we managed to defeath them without too much trouble, now have the entire northern Europe under control and France only has Marseille and his southern most cities. And I managed to take the Ottoman capital by bombarding it with 2 corvettes and my nearly destroyed frigate with a general (the one you start with) and then sent in an infantry unit. They are now being defeated in Greece by me, HRE and Naples. It won't take long untill france fall and the Ottomans will shortly after followed by Spain and then it is all over. I committed several massive blunders. I lost Paris to Spain by just forgetting to build a unit, lost 4 other cities that I had previously conquered by accidentally not building in any of them either, and I overloaded my population all the way up to 210 after getting fed up with Ottoman and completely spamming them, income be damned. Overall a pretty frustrating conquest in the mid game. I finished in 75 turns for a B rank I know exactly how it feels, population is something entirely different and needs time getting used to. What I do is, delete every unit I don’t need, keep one of the cheapest infantry in every city which is nearly destroyed untill it has about 25-50% hp to prevent enemies from capturing it immidiatly and then disband him. Disband every nearly killed unit to save some population as well. In my playthrough as Russia, the Ottomans rushed one half damaged light artillery past 2 cities owned by the HRE and nearly captured Lotz, so that is something to watch out for. |
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Post by Mountbatten on May 27, 2018 5:58:50 GMT
I committed several massive blunders. I lost Paris to Spain by just forgetting to build a unit, lost 4 other cities that I had previously conquered by accidentally not building in any of them either, and I overloaded my population all the way up to 210 after getting fed up with Ottoman and completely spamming them, income be damned. Overall a pretty frustrating conquest in the mid game. I finished in 75 turns for a B rank I know exactly how it feels, population is something entirely different and needs time getting used to. What I do is, delete every unit I don’t need, keep one of the cheapest infantry in every city which is nearly destroyed untill it has about 25-50% hp to prevent enemies from capturing it immidiatly and then disband him. Disband every nearly killed unit to save some population as well. In my playthrough as Russia, the Ottomans rushed one half damaged light artillery past 2 cities owned by the HRE and nearly captured Lotz, so that is something to watch out for. I kept only essential units and still somehow ended up way over the limit. 150 is a bit small imo |
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Post by Henri Winkelman on May 27, 2018 11:20:19 GMT
I know exactly how it feels, population is something entirely different and needs time getting used to. What I do is, delete every unit I don’t need, keep one of the cheapest infantry in every city which is nearly destroyed untill it has about 25-50% hp to prevent enemies from capturing it immidiatly and then disband him. Disband every nearly killed unit to save some population as well. In my playthrough as Russia, the Ottomans rushed one half damaged light artillery past 2 cities owned by the HRE and nearly captured Lotz, so that is something to watch out for. I kept only essential units and still somehow ended up way over the limit. 150 is a bit small imo Yeah it is and in 1802 the cap is only raised by 10, which barrerly makes any difference, it will give you one medium or 2 cheap units extra. I understand the reason for the cap (prevent players from spamming units) but 150/160 is too little, especially when fighting on 2 fronts. |
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Post by snowman on Jun 4, 2018 17:21:55 GMT
The other interesting effect of the population limit is it forces you to leave your allies in the game. In previous ET games, you could let your allies get wiped out, and eventually overpower the world all by yourself. Now you need to preserve your own allies in order to get enough units to win. (On the other hand, you can still overpopulate, as far as I've seen, and the consequnence is just diminishing income, so once you become very powerful, and rich, you can overbuild. But by then if you and allies aren't winning big, I'd think it'd be hard to dig yourself out of a hole.)
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Post by snowman on Jun 4, 2018 17:48:06 GMT
I don't know about others, but I've found fighting on the side of the French much more difficult in conquests than fighting on the side of the English. I've won 1798 with England, Prussia, and Sardinia, but I've tried Spain and Denmark several times and was unable to make headway. With England, I could practically just sit back on my island and pick off invading forces from Spain and France with my navy, building my economy and waiting for Russia to enter the war and steamroll France.
I haven't played Russia yet but I found England to be pretty easy. Prussia a little trickier, but more fun, and Sardinia you need some luck at the start.
All and all though, I think it also depends on how far you advanced your training. I've beefed up my infrantry and naval stats a bit, trying to boost Spain, but didn't want to go too far to make conquests too easy and unchallenging.
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Post by andrei on Jun 4, 2018 17:51:33 GMT
I don't know about others, but I've found fighting on the side of the French much more difficult in conquests than fighting on the side of the English. I've won 1798 with England, Prussia, and Sardinia, but I've tried Spain and Denmark several times and was unable to make headway. With England, I could practically just sit back on my island and pick off invading forces from Spain and France with my navy, building my economy and waiting for Russia to enter the war and steamroll France. I haven't played Russia yet but I found England to be pretty easy. Prussia a little trickier, but more fun, and Sardinia you need some luck at the start. All and all though, I think it also depends on how far you advanced your training. I've beefed up my infrantry and naval stats a bit, trying to boost Spain, but didn't want to go too far to make conquests too easy and unchallenging. Hm. You can't complete the the conquest playing as country of the French side but do not want to upgrade  A little bit strange. If You want challenge - play French side in 1798 and Coalition side in 1806. |
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Post by Mountbatten on Jun 4, 2018 18:47:51 GMT
The other interesting effect of the population limit is it forces you to leave your allies in the game. In previous ET games, you could let your allies get wiped out, and eventually overpower the world all by yourself. Now you need to preserve your own allies in order to get enough units to win. (On the other hand, you can still overpopulate, as far as I've seen, and the consequnence is just diminishing income, so once you become very powerful, and rich, you can overbuild. But by then if you and allies aren't winning big, I'd think it'd be hard to dig yourself out of a hole.) In my Ottoman conquest I was under very constricting population problems. I had to fight full strength Russia while also trying to get across the water into Sweden which required good naval presence and a lot of spam. The best feeling is when you finally kill one of the enemies on a front and you can disband everything there and suddenly have 75 population open. |
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Post by ANoob on Jun 4, 2018 19:40:56 GMT
The other interesting effect of the population limit is it forces you to leave your allies in the game. In previous ET games, you could let your allies get wiped out, and eventually overpower the world all by yourself. Now you need to preserve your own allies in order to get enough units to win. (On the other hand, you can still overpopulate, as far as I've seen, and the consequnence is just diminishing income, so once you become very powerful, and rich, you can overbuild. But by then if you and allies aren't winning big, I'd think it'd be hard to dig yourself out of a hole.) They should make it so that the absolute amount of units you can get without having your income diminished raise by 10 every year until 1805. After 1805, it should raise by 11 instead, untill 1810. After 1810, it should raise by 13, representing the growth of population growth -i dont know a better way to put it-. |
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Post by ANoob on Jun 4, 2018 20:07:55 GMT
Russia is hard. You will have to fight Poland and the Turks at the beginning, but when Napoleon takes Prussia, you’ll have a bigger problem. One thing that annoys me the most is that the ottomans keep on spamming their units with their generals not far behind with their full production. Austria will join later, but will also be defeated in Romania by the Ottomans. You legit have to concertrate your income in the south just to keep Crimea from falling. There is no way of relieving the siege, as the ottoman navy will simply kill off any infantry while the cannons continue to shell your units while they keep spamming infantries. It's actually quite easy. All you have to do is to encircle Poland and declare war on them, then quickly conquer their cities. After that, hope the Swedes defeat Denmark and you should be fine. Assist the Prussians ans Swedes while defending yourself from the Ottomans. If Sardinia and Naples fall, that shouldn't be much of a problem. Don't forget to defend HRE. Eventually, France will start to fall and Coalition forces will aid you against the Ottomans. When the Ottomans enter the game, i think the best split you can do is, something along the lines of: 50 to the Western front. 60 to defend HRE. 40 to defend Crimea and building some navy. Don't take these numbers for granted though. Even if France takes northern and central France back, that also shouldn't be a problem. The Coalition forces will just swarm them. Just aid the Coalition forces. |
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Post by Georgi Zhukou on Jun 4, 2018 20:39:26 GMT
Yea, um conquest actually isn’t that hard anymore. I just beat a Sardinia conquest in 61 turns, with only 10 enemies killed.
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Jun 6, 2018 13:21:38 GMT
Without autoplay & gens: 70 turns & a S rank. Now I know why everyone farms Sardinia 1798. Most of the time, I was donating coins to Coalition members to help them win. I literally just paid to win  this conquest. Is Sweden struggling? Here, have 34 coins! Prussia is destroying the Franco-Dutch forces! Good job, here's 34 coins! HRE is about to collapse! Have 34 coins, defend yourself! The British navy is being destroyed! Britain, here's some $$ to build ships! *Manipulates all the AI using Diplomacy* *Speeds up Russia twcie, then force the Ottomans to pre-emptively join the war & get destroyed* *Unleashes the RED STORM early on France & Co. when HRE is losing* |
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Post by thedutchlegend on Jun 6, 2018 18:10:43 GMT
Spain is pretty easy
First kill marroco and betray france
You will endup with having france and spain
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Post by anamateur on Jun 6, 2018 18:32:02 GMT
Without autoplay & gens: 70 turns & a S rank. Now I know why everyone farms Sardinia 1798. Most of the time, I was donating coins to Coalition members to help them win. I literally just paid to win this conquest. Is Sweden struggling? Here, have 34 coins! Prussia is destroying the Franco-Dutch forces! Good job, here's 34 coins! HRE is about to collapse! Have 34 coins, defend yourself! The British navy is being destroyed! Britain, here's some $$ to build ships! *Manipulates all the AI using Diplomacy* *Speeds up Russia twcie, then force the Ottomans to pre-emptively join the war & get destroyed* *Unleashes the RED STORM early on France & Co. when HRE is losing* I have a few questions; A- What did you do with Ottomans? Did you declare war on them the same turn Russia joined or..? B- How did you get 34 coins? Did you invade Corsica? |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Jun 7, 2018 2:44:16 GMT
I have a few questions; A- What did you do with Ottomans? Did you declare war on them the same turn Russia joined or..? B- How did you get 34 coins? Did you invade Corsica? A) I sped up the Russians 2 times (should be 2 times), then declared war on the Ottoman when Russia joined. B) I only remembered the value of 34 coins & just posted 34. I took Corsica only when my Coalition allies were invading Benelux region & pushing back France & Co. |
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this conquest. 
