EW6 conquest records

Congratulations. Yeah, the last one wasn’t a particularily impressive run. The 1806 one star record is even easier to beat imo.

SolidLight, I am a year late, but congratulations to you absolute madman! I'm sure Deleted would be proud too!

If you manage to beat the fastest record of 1798 in 14 turns, you're either a god, really lucky, or a hacker. -Deleted
Read more: european-war-4.boards.net/thread/10776/speedrunners-guide-ew6#ixzz62nIowSZw

Well, here you go. I'm none of those things, even luck doesn't have a huge impact on this run. I used a maxed Blucher, maxed Murat, maxed Dabrowski, maxed Lan, highly upgraded Ney, an unupgraded Desaix, a highly upgraded Karl on light cavalry, and a highly upgraded Mahmud.

I forgot to take screenshots during the early rounds of my winning run. So I stiched together some screenshots of earlier runs with my winning one.


Turn 1 Overview So here's the general plan. There's a lot of light cavalry available on the french front. Those are getting generals and are going to charge hard at Spain. Those three units from Budapest and Cluj-Napoca are going up to Warsaw. Radetzky, Franz and all those units nearby are going to barge through Milan into Southeastern France.


Turn 4 So here's something I changed in my strategy on the other runs. Turn 4 isn't the best turn to take on Warsaw, Turn 5 is. Warsaw MUST die on turn 7-8 because Poniatowski spawns on turn 8. Waiting till turn 10 costs way too much pop. Oh, and Sweden joins on turn 4 too, and they need a 300 gold donation immediately.







Turn 5-7 These are pretty much the roughest turns of the run. Warsaw costs too much pop, defending against the French also costs too much pop, and I need to keep all my units to keep up the offensive and defend so that France loses money. You can see that I've already arrived in Spain on turn 7. The fastest that can happen is turn 6, which I did in my winning run. I also prepared a forced march using the wonder and had Dabrowski sail from Netherlands to Norway in 1 turn. Sweden CANNOT beat Denmark in 14 turn alone.


Turn 9 So from here on out these are screenshots of my winning run.


Turn 9 Spain 5 turns left to do this. It's not nearly as bad as it looks since almost every spanish city is heavily sieged by the British and Portuguese. The only city that's mostly intact is Madrid, 5 turns to siege Madrid.


Turn 9 Denmark You can see how much Denmark owns Sweden during 1798. Dabrowski was the only general I had that is strong enough to handle this alone without weakening the main front too much.


Turn 14 And Denmark falls on turn 14. I lucked out with Copenhagen. The danes could have easily stalled out to turn 15 if they played smart, but they didn't luckily. I also beat Spain on turn 13.


Turn 14 France Last remaining city.


Turn 14 VICTORY! And so I claim an uncontested 1798 3 star record. The fastest one ever recorded on the forum. A 12 and 13 turn victory is theoretically possible, but that takes extremely good luck and even stronger generals than those that I used, as Oudinot spawns on turn 11 and MacDonald spawns on turn 12, so if you want to win that fast you need to kill one of those people in one round. 

EDIT: 13 turns is a somewhat realistic achievement, even with the generals I have. What I need to do is to leave Turin/Brittany on turn 12 and force MacDonald to spawn in one of those two cities. The idea is that MacDonald will leave that city on Frances turn, which is before everyone but the players, and then the British or the Neapolitans who are going to be nearby will capture Turin/Brittany. This does not work for a 12 turn win though. I don't feel like doing this now, but atleast that means that this run is improvable.