
I declared war on Spanish protectorate New Spain, which brought me into state of war with Spain without including France. With that out of the way, I allied Hannover and Westphalia, sold them military access, and broke starting alliance with Austria to avoid getting dragged into their stupid wars. This was somewhat questionable move on my side, and I should have probably recruited second General. It was defended by 2 Pirate Mobs, each better than a Militia even on normal. Then I landed 1 Militia and 1 recruited General on Trinidad & Tobago to deal with the first pirate enclave. So United Provinces, the only republic major in the game, it starts with 4 provinces in 3 theaters:ġ vs 3 - Super Easy, Barely An Inconvenience! halfway through I added dry weather mod, that massively reduces battle weather effects, it's mostly visual.I never "won" the game, as conditions are to conquer some lands, and then hold them until 1799, which I never bothered with. I have one for India from some past game, probably as Marathas. I'm going for some of the achievements I don't have yet:
you can repeatedly cancel military access and sell it again without repercussions, taking all their money - this is way too exploity for me, and I will absolutely not be doing that.
AI will be much less likely to attack you if it has military access to your lands - this is how we'll fix diplomacy, by toning down AI aggressiveness and backstabbiness to reasonable levels this doesn't guarantee safety, just tones it down a few notches. AI massively overvalues getting military access to your land, and is willing to pay a lot for it - we'll be using that for sure. We managed to make AI numbers more reasonable, but somehow AI acted pretty much the same anyway.īut it turns out there's a way, which I somehow never heard of before, that just involves piles of cheese with military access. I was never able to fix the final one, even though I was leading Empire Total War diplomatic data decoding efforts decade ago. Naval battles can be somewhat minimized depending on playstyle. I always use my mod to remove forts, so that fixes the first problem. diplomacy is completely broken, especially on hard+ - everyone will declare war on you and never peace out - including your allies and countries on the other side of the world. naval battles are painfully boring beyond belief. fort sieges will go 0 fps if you use artillery to make breaches, and 10 turns into campaign, every province has a fort. I last played Empire total war two years ago ( post 1, post 2).Įmpire Total War has 3 game breaking issues: