Empire Total War - 2016-09-19 - Grand Campaign

After winning the American revolutionary, I started the Grand Campaign on Empire Total War this weekend.  I selected the British as my faction and it gives me a series of missions to complete within a set date(or number of turns).  This campaign takes place over Europe, the Americas and India so basically it spans the European age of colonization.  So far I have conquered France and what is now Belgium.  In the Americas I took Hispaniola(modern day Cuba and Dominica) off the Spanish. Whilst it's very challenging the annoying thing is that countries or quasi-nation states declare war on you at a will. Also regardless how well you treat the population, it will always rebel against you.  Meaning that resources need to be spent putting down these rebellions rather than conquering your enemies.

Empire total war 2016-09-15

Last night I finally won the American revolutionary war and managed to repeat history.  It was a surprise how it happened because I had to put down a local rebellion in Maine and then both the Spanish and French decided to declare war on me.  So it would have been me against an allied coalition of Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and France.  The later three had powerful navies to deal with.  But before I had a chance to tackle the challenge the game announced that I had achieved my objectives and the USA was born.  Very strange ending.

Guy Debord's Cat on Mr Finegold - a conclusion

If you remember my take on Guy Debord's Cat post about the laughable non-existence of anti-semitism in the Labour party and the left generally, I give you Mr Debord's final comment.

As usually the case with most leftists he failed to answer my points and accused me of smearing him.  What's really interesting is that he denies that I was ever in the SWP.  So he obviously knows me better than I do myself.

Empire Total War - update 2016-09-12

After the my debacle last week and the fact that I failed to save the game on a regular basis, I went back to American revolutionary war campaign after having to defeat the French in the seven years war again.  This time, the Spanish did not declare war on me and in fact they offered me a military alliance which was accepted.  It was the Dutch (then called the United Provinces) that declared war on my and after dealing with their raids, I got my revenge by successfully invading their colony on Curacao.

I've managed to all but defeat the British forces on the American mainland but I am leaving their last region, Quebec to remain British for now because I want to see if I can take Jamaica off the British and Suriname off the Dutch.  Well I do have a powerful navy after all.   One thing I noticed about the AI on the realtime battles is that the CPU's forces do not co-ordinate well with each other especially when it is on the attack.