Bjorn Le
Hobocop
I finished my first full CoC game up yesterday. I was done with it in about 1680. Got the new Mamluk achievement, formed Arabia and got Arabian coffee. Didn't really have anything else to do.
Now I'm trying for Jihad given playing in Arabia is much more interesting. We'll see how it goes.
Were you the war leader? They've changed it so secondary participants will not ask for military access. The war leader has to do it themselves. I ran into this with my Mamluk game, I was allied to Spain, but Spain wouldn't move their Spanish troops. Naples did, but I had military access through a couple countries. Until my navy knocked out the Ottomans, Spanish troops remained in Spain (after that, they used transports).
Now I'm trying for Jihad given playing in Arabia is much more interesting. We'll see how it goes.
Ottomans do seem a bit easier to deal with now. They can still blob pretty easily if you don't take the fight to them however. I've actually found that they seem to really push hard into Hungary early on, though maybe that's just a coincidence since I've only started a few new games with the expansion.
I'm doing a game as Moravia(starting as Bohemia, releasing Moravia as a vassal), where I started a war with Ottomans with France and Russia as my allies. Turns out, I didn't even need my allies. I wiped out a 42k stack by myself in the first battle and absolutely stomped the rest of their armies en route to 99% war score.
One thing I have noticed in my current game, and I'm not sure if this was just some one time thing or if it's indicative of a bug, is that my allies will sometimes just not move their armies for any reason.
For example, this happened to France, and it lasted for about 40 years before their armies went back to normal. They would start a war, and then just stick their entire army in some out of the way province and not fight. At one point they had nationalist rebels spawn, and despite their army outnumbering the rebels 3-1, they still wouldn't fight them or even siege any rebel occupied provinces. Then one day, after about 40-50 years of this nonsense it was as if they just flipped a switch and went back to normal. I thought maybe they had a cowardly ruler but this was not the case, and they actually went through several rulers during this time.
Also, I'm really loving the army professionalism thing.
Were you the war leader? They've changed it so secondary participants will not ask for military access. The war leader has to do it themselves. I ran into this with my Mamluk game, I was allied to Spain, but Spain wouldn't move their Spanish troops. Naples did, but I had military access through a couple countries. Until my navy knocked out the Ottomans, Spanish troops remained in Spain (after that, they used transports).