How to Carpet siege?

[TommyFortress]

Do i need the DLC to Carpet siege, Invading big nations can get annoying/Boring and with the carpet siege it can feel a bit like HOI4

[grotaclas]

Carpet sieging doesn't need any DLC. You just split up your armies and just siege all provinces with the minimum amount of troops which are necessary. Using keyboard shortcuts can greatly speed up the process.
The leviathan DLC adds a carpet siege button, but it doesn't do carpet sieging. It will just make the army siege automatically, but the army won't split up to do the carpeting.

[Vetgirig on Linux]

Levithian DLC added an automatic carpet siege option.

[TommyFortress]

Oprindeligt skrevet af grotaclas:

Carpet sieging doesn't need any DLC. You just split up your armies and just siege all provinces with the minimum amount of troops which are necessary. Using keyboard shortcuts can greatly speed up the process.
The leviathan DLC adds a carpet siege button, but it doesn't do carpet sieging. It will just make the army siege automatically, but the army won't split up to do the carpeting.

You just said i dont need DLC to carpet siege and then says i need the DLC anyway. But Thanks for the info anyway, sucks i need the DLC just to carpet siege

[grotaclas]

Oprindeligt skrevet af TommyFortress:

Oprindeligt skrevet af grotaclas:

Carpet sieging doesn't need any DLC. You just split up your armies and just siege all provinces with the minimum amount of troops which are necessary. Using keyboard shortcuts can greatly speed up the process.
The leviathan DLC adds a carpet siege button, but it doesn't do carpet sieging. It will just make the army siege automatically, but the army won't split up to do the carpeting.

You just said i dont need DLC to carpet siege and then says i need the DLC anyway. But Thanks for the info anyway, sucks i need the DLC just to carpet siege

You don't need a DLC to do what everybody outside paradox calls carpet siege. I tried to explain how to do it, but there are also many videos which show effective ways to carpet siege. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udRKVlvw9nA

You only need a DLC for the button which is called "Carpet Siege". But that button doesn't do carpet sieging, because it doesn't do the "carpet" part of carpet sieging. It is just an automatic sieging which sieges one province at a time. But if the AI still has troops, they can unsiege your provinces faster than your stack can siege them, because they actually do a limited form of carpet siegeing. And if you killed all enemy troops, they have time to rebuild them if you don't do actual carpet sieging to prevent that.

[Malvastor]

Oprindeligt skrevet af TommyFortress:

Oprindeligt skrevet af grotaclas:

Carpet sieging doesn't need any DLC. You just split up your armies and just siege all provinces with the minimum amount of troops which are necessary. Using keyboard shortcuts can greatly speed up the process.
The leviathan DLC adds a carpet siege button, but it doesn't do carpet sieging. It will just make the army siege automatically, but the army won't split up to do the carpeting.

You just said i dont need DLC to carpet siege and then says i need the DLC anyway. But Thanks for the info anyway, sucks i need the DLC just to carpet siege

You don't. Carpet seiging just means splitting your army up into smaller bits to occupy as many provinces as possible at the same time. It's easy to do just by splitting an army in half a couple times.

What Leviathan adds is a button that's supposed to do that automatically, but from what I hear it doesn't work very well. You need the DLC to get the button, but you're probably better off without it anyway.

[Medicles]

Oprindeligt skrevet af TommyFortress:

You just said i dont need DLC to carpet siege and then says i need the DLC anyway. But Thanks for the info anyway, sucks i need the DLC just to carpet siege

You dont need the DLC, like others said. The DLC just gives you an extra button to make carpet siege pointlessly easier. Its a luxury button that wasnt needed at all. You were always able to carpet siege before, it just took more micromanaging by splitting your army manually.

[Marquoz]

And, like everything, a human player who micromanages carpet sieging will always be better at it than the AI.