My Thirty Years War AAR vs Rangerkgbooboo

[jim pfleck]

ok, I am a bit behind the infamous KGbooboo in getting started, but here I am.

Starting situation: My protestants are in revolt.  I hold Prague and start with Pilsen under siege. I have good leaders and good troops but am outnumbered and will face numbers and resource problems for the foreseeable future. My goal is to survive the first few years. 

First few turns--the Holy Roman Empire (HRE), basically Austrians at this point, come out after me faster than I expected.  I get pushed back from my siege of Budweiss and have to raise the siege of Pilsen, which will hurt because I need its resources. Budweiss would also have given me god stuff.

I eventually stabilize my situation, with my main army falling back on Prague, my capitol and send an infantry unit with a supply unit to siege Pilsen for the winter. I eventually capture it and now get more money over time.


The first full year 1619: My army is strengthened and I feel like, while I am still outnumbered, I am no longer at a huge disparity. I screen the HRE force in Budweiss and prepare for a new region to open up, to the east, with Brunn as the key city.  I then move some cavalry into Brunn immediately in order to trigger the creation of a few large Protestant infantry units.  The HRE cavalry moves in and wins.  Over the next few turns I fail to take Brunn.  Then I use some EP to get a large force of Hungarian cavalry and in July I destroy the HRE cavalry force and take Brunn.  But it is too late to fire the event to get the troops.  On the other hand, my main army delivers to crushing defeats to the main HRE force. My cohesion is too low to risk pursuit of a force that I now only barely outnumber.

Currently, it is October and my main army is taking on replacements and troops activated by the King of Bohemia event in Prague and I think the HRE main army is in Budweiss licking its wounds. BUT, the Hungarian's have moved to take Vienna under siege...