Kicked off a war against Malacca to try and secure my control over all high-development provinces in the trade node, they're allied with Pegu and Ming, I've got Ayutthaya on my side. The plan was to knock out Malacca quickly, then send a modest army to deal with Pegu...
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...while devoting most of my attention to Ming. Naturally the plan quickly went awry...taking out Malacca was a breeze, but when I looked north I saw over 100k Ming troops were invading Ayutthaya with support from Pegu--and another 50k had invaded my holdings in Korea
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During major wars I like to keep my fleet together, lest they get picked off in small groups, but this makes it very hard to hunt down enemy ships, since I can only be in one place at a time. To say nothing of the obstacles it causes for moving troops by sea...
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My force limit is higher than Ming, but they have a tremendous advantage in geography--they just need to deploy troops from the center to the periphery, while I need to bring troops into the center FROM the periphery. Which is to say: I'm always stretched thinner than they are
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I'm sending my Kanto Army (50k) to retake Korea...once they're ashore, I need to move a smaller Taiwanese army to retake Hainan... But if Ming decides to put all of their weight on either point, I'll be overwhelmed. Need to keep my fleet in the area for now, in case I need evac
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Meanwhile my Malacca Army has taken Pegu's capital and is seizing their remaining land to try and force them out early--once they're done, they can help Ayutthaya beat back Ming. My Imperial Army, which is recruiting reinforcements in Siak, will join them soon.
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so it looks very approximately like this--I have about 90,000 men in two armies in the first pic, and about 80,000 in two armies in the secondpic.twitter.com/qOpYhlRy1t
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This is my tentative plan...but naturally it depends on whether or not I can accomplish the prerequisite positions (eg retaking the defensive line in Ayutthaya) Might be better to send the Kanto Army to Hangzhou; if they're in Beijing then SE Korea won't work well as baitpic.twitter.com/bljfovhQpU
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It's entirely possible that I'm already in way over my head and haven't realized it yet. But so far, no major losses...gotta see it through!
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One last note, on intended gains: - mostly want land from Malacca, specifically their namesake province and the area around Aceh (war goal is "Take Melaka") - Pegu is small and I want a foothold there, if not all of it - might try to get Canton from Ming, but that's about it
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Balance of power--you can see what I mean about geographical advantage here...Ming can bring a greater force to bear on a particular location much more easily than I can; I have to push inwards from 3 directions at once (and lots of my men are tied down in colonies)pic.twitter.com/huCY6HXKJS
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