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At the start of the game, I put military spending to high, and put my NF on intellectuals to increase rp and literacy. I also get to keep most of my army since Texas now starts off neutral against the USA. However, I still can’t force a decisive victory in the Mexican-American war, even with an army tech advantage because I run out of troops. If I use one or two NF on soldiers, my mid game gets shafted.
Note that I do play with splendid isolation on. So my go-to great power to ally was always Russia since UK is not available. Yet for some reason I can’t get an alliance with any of the great powers even at 200 relations. So, I’m diplomatically isolated and when I do win the war by myself, my country is just a desolate wasteland after.
What would happen if they managed to stop the US advance?
*INDUSTRY score... doh
Hi guys,
I'm SO excited for Victoria 3, and keep trying to get back into vicky2, but almost every time i make a mistake or miss something and get punished so hard for it. Lately I've been trying to play USA as it's "easy" right, isolated, few dangerous enemies looking to eat you up, plenty of scope for industrial expansion and immigration. But I try to just win a war and I get swarms of rebels across the north east and midwest. Is it war exhaustion? Sieging down into mexico is entirely necessary to get the warscore to seize the land from the manifest destiny CB.... but every time it enrages my pops?
In other games, i've played austria-hungary, but been ganged up on, i've played russia, but been technologically overpowered by 1880, and as the ottos but... yeah that unravelled by 1843!!
I'd love to be good enough at the game to truly change the path of world history, but at the moment, despite having a basic understanding of how to build factories, how to pass reforms, how to hold elections to boost jingoism, how to build brigades and trade for teh resources to get them produced faster.... i just don't understand the DEEPER aspects of the game that are essential to your success in the framework of the game.
I'd very much like to improve and will without a doubt keep posting here and incrementally learning from my mistakes!
I was cleaning out one of the garages today and found what is said to be great-great-grandpa Samuel Brooks Adams' saddle. The saddle tree is wood as are the stirrups.
The story goes that he rode home on it after the Mexican-American War in 1848. He later enlisted in the Union Army, reaching the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and died of smallpox in Nashville.
He named his son Elijah Winfield Scott Adams because of his respect for General Winfield Scott, under whom he served in the Mexican war. Scott put this saddle in a box and into the woodshed where it stayed until the 1970s and my mom decided she wanted it and moved it with us to Florida from East Tennessee. In Florida it stayed in a box in the attic. I now have it back in East TN.
I'd like to know it there's any way to authenticate it and if so, or even if not, if there's anywhere I can donate it.
Pics:
https://i.imgur.com/XkgGFUC.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/YHOjG7p.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Q6ZunbV.jpg
We always learn about Texas and things like the Alamo, but today's Texas doesn't include the large chunk of eastern New Mexico that was part of its contested territory back in the day. I've heard that the area was under Comanche control, and so perhaps it had little impact on Mexican or Texas politics at the time. Is this true?
I'd like to know what was going on in this area around that time as Texas formed into Texas and west New Mexico had already been included in Mexico. So eastern New Mexico seems a bit ignored/forgotten by history but it was clearly there, so what was going on there?
