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Explanation: The English AI is supposed to lose to let europe go down a more historical path. A human player can win against France with the right allies. Also english army "peak" is already 100 years in the past when the game starts.
Wel thats odd because England doesnt even start with longbows which are only accessible later in mil tech. Seems to me the dates are all wrong. Also England starts with Plantagenet as a general who has excellent stats. I just ried again for fun and England loses every time unless they have something like a 50% advnatage in size.
It's not coded, but combat is pretty complex. Do you understand the basics like military technology, pips, disciplin and terrain modifiers? That's not an isult, just an important question.
Historical things like the english superior bowmen play no role unless they are somehow represented by national ideas or decisions. For example, the England gets several bonus on naval combat, Poland on cavalry etc.
There are some differences between so called technology groups that determine which types of units your country gets, but those are very broadely defined (Western/Eastern/Asian etc). England and France are in the same group.
If you are still at the beginning, there is no real difference between the English army and the French, except for one in in force limit/manpower. However, when fighting smaller stacks that doesn't matter.
Your starting general is also about as good as their two, although I don't remember the exact values. So, combat at that point comes down to:
- numbers/composition (cav has better stats than infantery)
- terrain (are you attacking across a river/into mountains?)
- Bonus from military advisor (most notably disc or moral bonus)
- RNG (not much you can do about it)
If you provide a screenshot of an ongoing battle we can tell you why you lost. I can guarantee you that's it is definitely possible to beat France as England right from the start, even without any allies joining in.
As an additional note, your starting king is totally crap, so even after just 5-7 years France might be one level ahead in military technology. Please check that first. The differences between 3 and 4 as well as between 4 and 5 are HUGE.
This is at start of game, there are no units for the Englsih except Halberds, Latin Infantry and the Horse units. I have played yesterday longer and was surprised that a couple il tech advances later suddenly Longbows are available which is compleely ridiculous as lonbows were developed and used successfully a century or two before the start of the game.
wkii: "The English longbow was a powerful medieval type of longbow (a tall bow for archery) about 6 ft (1.8 m) long used by the English and Welsh for hunting and as a weapon in medieval warfare. English use of longbows was effective against the French during the Hundred Years' War, particularly at the start of the war in the battles of Sluys (1340), Crécy (1346), and Poitiers (1356), and perhaps most famously at the Battle of Agincourt (1415). They were less successful after this, with longbowmen having their lines broken at the Battle of Verneuil (1424), and being completely routed at the Battle of Patay (1429) when they were charged before they had set up their defensive position.:
Sorry but the game is clearly biased agianst England.
Do you get the Maine event?
"Sorry but the game is clearly biased agianst England"
Oh boyo, here we go again.
Do you really think that name of unit matters in terms of its power? Im pretty sure I could go find it in files, edit the name to "Space Marine with boltgun" and it would be outdated when next type of units rolls in.
I sure do remember how in history English won 100 years war and took control of French throne.
Still you didnt answer any question about your game situation. Kinda makes me think that youre one of dem nasty engliboos who still think that they rule the waves and they never ever shall be slaves
I'm Canadian actually but dont let that get in the way of your obvious antipathy towards British people.
England are nerfed at start of game. From their starting king with 000, the Maine event to the War of the Roses, to the Lollards, to the fact their army is clearly underpowered vs their main rival the French. Now i am sure there is a way to overcome this as game progresses but England's bad starting situation is obvious.
As I said: It isn't, they are pretty much exactly on the same level. Give or take some Force limit, but than again England has a clear advantage on the sea and the far better trade node to support mercs.
England's starting position is way more difficult, that part is true. However, that's not a bias against them, but a way the game tries to implement the historical circumstances. Weak ruler, devastating war of the roses, presecution of lollard faith - it's not like they made that stuff up ;) (Granted, Lollard Heresy is a bit more difficult and could have been left out).
Feel free to discuss with the developers about the exact way those events were included into the game, but their existance in general is a major part of EU's charme. Balacing in this game doesn't mean that "every nation starts on the same equal level".
Also, the very same event that ruined your day (Maine or 100 years war in general) opens up the posibility for England to gain an early PU on France and become incredebly powerful by 1455 or so. Even without that, England can easily dominate the world through trade and colonization.
You obviously haven't played with Austria or Spain then.
They aren't nerfed, they were in a bad spot historically at that point. Their king was insane, they had a major civil war shortly after game start, and their influence on the continent was shrinking. Their army is not "clearly" underpowered when every western nation at the start has the same army. The French have some better (historical!) generals than the Brits do, and more force limit (bigger army). That's not the British being nerfed, that's the reality of the day. Saying that the Brits are nerfed because they don't have Longbows shows a complete lack of game knowledge; the names of game units are mostly generic and aren't meant to represent the hard and fast historical units. This is why Prussia and Sweden get military boosting National Ideas instead of just getting overpowered, unique infantry units.
TL:DR - England is supposed to be in a bad starting position, since they were in a bad position, relatively, at that point in history. If you want an easy England game, just give up your continental land and focus on your navy, trade, and colonization... like what happened historically.
No not yet, will try them soon.
So you are claming its all historically acurate but dont worry about the Longbows because its just a name of a unit nothing to do with historical chronology etc...
Total nonense, there's almost nowt historical about the game other than the names of couuntries. I also think its amusing that ours and many comments are along the lines of Englnd should be happy with their little island and some colinies later in game.
Anyways i think we can all agree England is nerfed at the start, you call it bad situation, i call it severely nerfed with timed events meant to make England early gamepley even more difficult. In my last jaunt war of the roses happens just as i am finally taking armagnac from the French, loss of 6000 men from recruitables/reinformcements and 30k WOR army pops up. Even more stupid id the supposed choice one has in WOR, either support the 000 dumb king and only fight 27k, or support the better pretender but take on 30k.
So if you are Ebgland early game you are screwed almost no matter what you do unless you have really lucky with those events either not firing or firing but not all at same time.