Prussian Campaign?

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  1. Yin's Avatar

    Yin said: January 08, 2012 03:47 AM

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    Good day gents,

    I've hit a brick wall in my campaign. I'm playing as Prussia on H/H and I've been able to managed quite well until now. The main reason is that the AI started throwing 3+ armies to my 1, especially the French. Right now they have around 5-7 stacks West of the Berlin bridges and I've only got 2 defending each bridge. They seemed hell bent on throwing every stack at 1 bridge. On top of that I'm at war with almost the entire continent. Any ideas, suggested mods?


    Here's an example of one of my previous fight:
    As you can also notice on the background, there are 2 Spanish and 3 French armies left in the field ready to engage after already already wiped out 3 French armies.
    Edit: And I've also rearranged the map of Eastern Europe, but that doesn't seem to solve my problems.
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    antred said: January 08, 2012 09:04 AM

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    I'm afraid 2 cannon batteries per stack is a bit on the light side. Toss in an additional 2 batteries and you'll drastically reduce your own casualties in future battles. Other than that, I can't offer any help ... I suppose Hard / Hard means just that ... HARD.
     

  3. underworld965 said: January 08, 2012 02:30 PM

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    well it seems you also made the mistake of killing both your allies instead of france first lol
     

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    eXistenZ said: January 09, 2012 02:59 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by underworld965 View Post
    well it seems you also made the mistake of killing both your allies instead of france first lol
    indeed :p as prussia i first defeated france, and then declared war on austria to get the provinces i needed
     

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    Princess Cadance said: January 09, 2012 09:21 AM

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    You seem to be doing well. U see you have some far eastern provinces. Are they guarded and if so are you kind of spread out? Who are your allies as well?
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    mesor said: January 09, 2012 02:06 PM

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    For holding bridges i tend to have stacks of 1 general 4 light infantry 8 cannon battery's and 7 line infantry.
    Even on VH/VH u can repell multiple stacks that way.
    Line infantry form battle line on your side of the bridge light infantry on the flanks and cannons further out to the flanks with 2 battery's in the center.
    If the enemy is attacking across a bridge some cannister shot head on will cripple any charge and if you set up the firing lines right any enemy that makes it across is caught in a crossfire of infantry while the 2 flanking battery's pound the enemy the whole time.
    You can cause huge damage and route enemies before they can deploy to attack effectively.
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  7. Diamond said: January 12, 2012 09:19 PM

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    If you can afford it, take a small stack and use your navy to land it in Rennes, liberate it, take Caen, and give that to Brittany. Give Brittany a few months and they should have a single stack and a large navy (I've realized Brittany is the only liberated country to make huge navies) and ask them to join the war. It'll ease the front on your side where you can make a push.


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