Württemberg is part of Germany to this day. Eventually, it was incorporated into the German Empire following the Prusso-Austrian War. Württemberg helped Napoleon of France in the Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815). Württemberg was a country formed as a duchy in the 1400s, and it fought in almost all of the wars in Central Europe and wars involving Austria and Prussia. However, it generally remains relatively weak throughout the game, as it is surrounded by strong neighbors and has limited resources of its own. Its alliances with these countries and Austria make it difficult to attack without arousing the ire of many factions.ĭespite its limited resources and land, Württemberg has an unusual edge in enlightenment technologies over most other factions. I wasn't shocked by anything, just maybe by the british navy who fielded a few heavy first rate ship before everybody else in the 1760's (while those boats were extremely rare and were produced in the very late 1790's for the most part), and the fact that I once got a queen that was not a regent on the throne of France (salic laws prevent women from inheriting titles in France, that was one of the motive behind the austrian war of succession).In the Grand Campaign, Württemberg tends to ally with Westphalia, Bavaria, and/or Hannover.
Nonetheless, it was nice to see that certain events would trigger, like the first succession war (but not the independence war). About historical accuracy the game is more realistic, but it's still a simulation in which you write your own history, so it IS ahistorical. Also, when you want peace and you've won the battles, you get peace fairly easily, sometimes some nations are more stubborn, but you can break them without having to destroy them completely. The AI diplomats might offer silly trade sometimes (the ottomans wanted to trade Armenia for Milan), but sometimes, they will offer very balanced and useful trade, Spain sold me Gibraltar for a cheap technology in order to have a buffer zone between him and the russians in Morocco whom they were at war against. All game long, Spain had rocked the scoreboard with the biggest navy (closely followed by UK's fleet, but Spain never had to fight ME), and the biggest army was Russian, even at the end of the game when I was producing tons of soldiers every turn, I didn't even get half the russian army. I wasn't the biggest power in the game until I destroyed Britain in a third war in the 1790's, by the end of the game.
For example, during my second war in India, I had to keep the port of my province safe so I could bring in reinforcements by boats that could reach the city, if you don't land in a port, you don't lose all movement after a landing, and I had to bring new regiments constantly. They also make sensible use of navies and armies. The AI manage to make balanced armies and navies and in order to beat them you need to secure key settlements. On the campaign map now, some factions will expand greatly and form challenging empires (Russia stood out in my game), some will trade and get filthy rich (Spain in my campaign), some other will usually die (Poland, United Provinces and Portugal did die fast). The musket battles are actually extremely enjoyable for me now.
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