Originally Posted by
Sir_Aggelos_GR
UPDATE
i will try to describe how nations expand
UNITED KINDOM:
Strong,solid build up,very agressive with humans and stubborn in diplomcy.Rarely does invade more than one time.Has some problems with port defending,fights with catholic nations such as france and spain.Solid in America,doesnt invade india.Sometimes it trade.
Upgrades buildings but its late in upgrading the baracks.
Has some revolts in scotland and ireland
FRANCE:
Strong too.It has problems with ports being raided blocaded.Stubborn in diplomacy too.Isnt very strong in continental land wars in Europe as it used to be because they keep building forces elsewhere.They attack UK ,Savoy and some catholic nations.They even sometimes attack spain!!!which is very odd.If their ports is blocaded early they will have problems building naval forces and land forces.
They dont invade India.they keep being strong in Americas.They become ferocious with the dutch and blocade them from turn 1
SPAIN
In war with dutch from turn 1 in every campaign!They have several scattered regions in europe(Flanders,Milan,mediterrean islands)They get ferociously raided blocaded by barbary states and have much trouble maintaining naval power in europe.Both barcelona and cadiz almost anytime being raided.
The attack dutch from flanders and later morocco.They get really mad with human player.They are very strong in americas destroying many native american tribes(apaches,cherokes).
They never attack invade in india.In my last campiagn they got invaded by arcot from a fleet!!!They keep the balance in Italy never attacking Italian-friendly states
SWEDEN
They fight with russia from the beginning,and they seem to win most of the time.They port gets raided manytimes.They have a region in continental europe (riga i think) and sometimes may fight with polish too.
Rarely do they get agrressive with catholic nations such as france and spain or austria and they seem really busy fighting the Russians.They never invade human or India.They sometimes attack-capture trhe pirates in america.
AUSTRIA
weak naval power because their ports get blocaded-raided early in the campaign.They are quite friendly with Italian nations and spain.In land they fight with ottomans and german protestant nations.
RUSSIA
The lack of a good port early plays a significant role.They clearly lose from swedish and have a tough time as they are exposed in many areas and its regions are vast and underdeveloped.May need of some extra starting units in some areas
PRUSSIA
THEIR port is getting blocaded,they become still in in naval warfare.In land they fight poland and austria as well as some small german nations in their struggle to form big GERMANY.
as a human player i dont get much trouble from them
POLAND LITHUANIA
almost nowhere to be seen in seas,it has much trouble from swedish and their port blocaded often.In land they arent that strong too.They have many wayouts in central europe in all direction but it seems they are there to LOSE.relative weak nation never have i seen them invade much or having a strong fleet
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Maintains its regions has serious problems being blocaded in sea.Fights with austria art the balcans, russia in crimea,persia in the east.Doesnt pose a major threat in strong europeans.Invades human player a lot.Sometimes it has problems transfering troops from anatolia to their capital region something that always caused the ottoman turn lag.
DENMARK AND PORTUGAL
Both Very agressive with humans and very stubborn in diplomacy.If you are catholic they will always attack-invade you.Both nations start with 2-3 regions (ICELAND,Norway,denmark) and (PORTUGAL,GOA).
Danish rarely attack other ai nations in order to expand
Portuguese never expand in india and sometimes they are attacked from the spanish
They never invade in americas
ITALIAN NATIONS (VENICE,PAPAL STATES,GENOA,KNIGHTS OS ST JOHN,SAVOY)
They stay active help each other,attack barbary states,ally with spanish.Hold strong naval forces.Weak in land and never invade
GERMAN NATIONS(Hannover,Munster,Bavaria,wurtemburg,Saxony)
Stay ally with prussia fight with austria and poland and sometimes with france.Hannover may build a navy sometimes.Nothing special
EASTER and other single region nations (Crimea,Georgia,Moldavia,courland,don vosko, etc)
Weak and passive they seem to survive in the game but nothing more
PERSIA
could be a big threat but stays passive.Attacks and fights ottoman.Weak in seas rarely invades india.Needs some boosting
INDIAN NATIONS(mughals,maratha,arcot,mysore,banjar)
India has been stable enough something that it was a problem in etw for many years.The great war is betweet maratha-mughal the other seem to trade and remain neutral.Mughals even starting with more regions they seem to lose the war almost in every campaign due to 2 reasons1) they are underdeveloped and 2) they get their port blocaded.
Rarely they invade europe except to attack a human player.They keep good relations with europeans portuga,dutch that have starting regions in india
NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS
THEY Seem to harass england,france and spain and they stay there the longer they can before being assimilated
IMO
the alliance matchups should be based or religion
ENGLAND-DUTCH-SWEDEN-PRUSSIA-DENMARK-PORTUGAL
FRANCE-SPAIN-ITALIANS-AUSTRIA-LITHUANIA???
RUSSIA-MOLDAVIA-HETMANATE-UK-FRANCE-SPAIN
OTTOMAN-BARBARY STATES- MAROCCO-CRIMEA
ITALIAN STATES-AUSTRIA-SPAIN
GERMAN STATES-PRUSSIA-DENMARK-UK