"1 million dead colonizers" made my day
BORN TO SACRIFICE
EUROPE IS A FUCK
Kill Em All 1492
i am aztec man
1,000,000 DEAD COLONIZERS
The good ending
How did you avoid call for peace? Might play Aztecs eventually.
Neither country receives a call for peace if they do not have a % of their states development occupied and have significant armies in tact. Usually want to leave the capital untaken. I’ve left portugal with Lisbon + porto with an army of ~60k hemmed in before for decades. At some % of occupation they will also stop sending out colonists as maintaining their military is more of a financial priority than colonizing for the AI.
It allowed me to occupy their entire globe spanning colonial empire including CNs, without a call for peace. Especially helpful against the Iberians since you can do it to both simultaneously and gimp their colonization by decades if you’re lucky and no one else declares war. Although, at that point, you’ve kind of already won the game.
Stay below 66% warscore, though I've been below 50 the whole time. None of my cores deal with devastation, so I haven't got anything pushing the end. Just keep them away with a strong navy and hold off on invading
ROFL
Explanation: My vassal was declared on by Portugal in a colonial war, and Spain came in as an ally. At the time they were #2 and #7 great power respectively. I was #4 and 3 techs behind. However, with how the war has progressed and set back, its been slow going in gaining warscore, but the colonizers cannot get a foothold outside the Atlantic. However, i realized 10 years ingame had passed and i did not have a call for peace as the defender.
Its close to 30 years strong now, im planning on holding them until at least Global trade spawns, as i keep privateering them and their resources are going into defending patagonia. How long do you think i realistically can maintain this style of war, and what is the longest war youve ever fought?
Since the start of the war, ive caught up with the printing press, all tech except admin tech, and that is because ive fought at least 10 other wars in the middle of it all. The stalemate will continue till morale improves.
Show strength not a possibility for the 300 mana?
you cant unless you started a humilation war
Ah fck
I don’t think i ve done more than 20 years?
Not far into my game as England I got dragged into a war with France that went on for an ungodly amount of time. About 100 years I reckon.
the hundred year war 2: now is personal
I remember a war where I was Yuan (started as Oirat) and fought a massive commonwealth over the last few provinces needed for the Mongol Empire. Don’t remember how long it lasted, but it dragged long enough we both had zero manpower and only using merc stacks. Over 5 million casualties at the end of it all.
As England sometimes I fuck up war on Europe and have to bunker for like 100 years
I sometimes do this too. In my last campaign I conquered all of the Netherlands in a single war, scutaged Holland as a vassal - and then went “what was that noise? The continent is getting awfully rowdy” as the entirety of Europe declared a coalition war. Doesn’t help when they can’t reach London anyway.
A true 30 years war
England, almost 50 years. I was against france and spain. I messed up the naval war ten years in and lost my fleets and most colonies. Took a generation to rebuild the navy and fight back just to exhuast the enemy on the sea and push for a white peace. Memorable campaign.
As the Great Horde, I fought a 15 year long death war against the Ottomans. Won most battles that I fought against them, which is surprising considering my army started the war with maybe 70-90k deployed and the Ottos started with about 4 times that. Eventually got to a point where their army was actually smaller than mine, but they just mercenary spammed and so given their insane economy had an almost unlimited supply of troops, no matter how many I killed. Ended up peacing out, gaining some money in the process. Easily my longest war, the probably the highest casualties (about 500k on my side, 1 million on the Ottos side).
I had an Ayutthaya game forever ago where I kept the AI Ming in the war for like 80 or 100 years till they mingsploded. I think I was maybe in another war so they never got the full occupation, and eventually they weren't able to handle it.
For me I think 22-23 years when I blockaded Ming's mandate all the way down to 0 as Majahapit
25 year war. declared on by ming (with high mandate) as one of the phillipines minors. my navy was stronger than ming's but my army was tiny. At the same time it had declared for one of my coastal provinces in vietnam which it would conquer and then its army would fuck off to siberia to conquer one of my colonies there. and everytime it did that i would send a couple army stacks to reconquer the province. back and forth for 50 years. i did make some money sacking ming's coast. eventually mings mandate tanked and it gave me peace.
now THAT'S a 30 years war
30 or 40 years as russia trying to enforce a pu on france. It didn't work, i was able to win against their overlord brandenburg i think, but bro they had too many forts and i just couldn't penetrate their fort line, however they never left their country because of liberty desire
10 years religious war. One of the things I dislike about this game is how short the wars generally are. It is pretty unrealistic
I mean it’s also unrealistic that the wars involve constant ongoing massive battles and sieges one after another. Not that there weren’t wars like this at points but there were definitely plenty of wars where the full on battles and massive sieges were more sporadic.
Especially in the earlier parts of the EU4 timeframe.
Edit: Also manpower for a lot of countries is a bit unrealistic. But saying that, like many people have said with these games realistic doesn’t necessarily equal fun.
Yes, but some things are more imersion breaking than others
Mine was a 15 long year war as Prussia against a strong catholic 30 years war that the ottomans had joined. I had just finished fighting France for the burgandy PU which I had fought to a draw. It was a very bloody campaign that I will remember for awhile.
Longest I remember was ~11 years war ~1600 years into a really long E.T. game .
Played Yamato > Japan > Greater East Asia, a near continent-spanning Native Fed attacked my PNW colony. Cue 500k-a-side megawar that iirc ended in a white peace.
Natives were so huge bc Rome didn't collapse or go colonial, giving them 1200 years to accrue tribal land for annexing on reformation.
I’ve fought some death wars that make me reset after 20+ years.. just not worth all that time for so little.
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I did a 50 years war as aztecs against a Portugal-English-Spanish alliance, they kept declaring war on me every 15 years or so i was on esual tech level but because i didn't have any allies they thought they could pull it off, so i grew tired of it and decided that i'll keep them at war forever. The results ? 1 million dead colonizers due to attrition alone and half a million from battles, their economies absolutely destroyed, 0 manpower and their fleets dismantled, and their colonies so ruined that the natives took them over. They never declared war on me again