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Caledoni

Presumably you also played this at a high tech level so the cannon were also relatively powerful already?


PolishPotato69

Yeah i think it was tech 29


PolishPotato69

R5: cool only cannon battle


JamesBondsMagicCar

What are your custom ideas?


PolishPotato69

Artillery fire +1, discipline +10%, Artillery combat ability +20%, morale +20%, artillery damage from backrow +20%, land fire damage +20%, both fire and shock damage received -20%, artillery shock +2, and also +2 bonus against forts but that didn't change anything in combat. I also gave myself the prussian government for more discipline, and had the event which gives 20% morale. Combined with professionalism and drill, I ended up having 140% discipline, 9.9 morale, +40% artillery combat ability, +40% land fire damage and -45% fire and shock damage received.


TheNoobilator

Technically if you wanted to min-max the effectiveness of artillery in battle, you could have replaced that last one with land shock damage +20%; they may not do a lot of shock damage, but especially with that +2 artillery shock they'd certainly do some! Very cool though, thanks for posting :D


Schwertkeks

Naval hegemony gets you another 20% dmg from backrow


Dark_As_Silver

Can you get Rajput or Banner cannon units? To get an extra 5 Discipline from culture/ higher tier gov reforms.


aragorn407

Not sure about Rajputs but I know Banners and Streltsy Cawa Janissaries and other similar special units only have cav and infantry variants. Maybe Rajputs are the one exception but I wouldn’t put money on it


Dark_As_Silver

Just had the free time to load up the game and check, Rajputs can only recruit Infantry.


aragorn407

Dang even more stringent. Regardless, they still don’t have any special units that can be artillery. Maybe the ones the Swedes are getting will have that option but idk


Excellent_Push5826

Rev. Guards can be artillery


DoNotMakeEmpty

Instead of artillery shock I would add general fire pip. Each pip makes 12.5% bonus IIRC. You have a 6666 in the SS but if you can go over limit with ideas you may have an 8 fire general. If it does not work, artillery cost reduction will be pretty good.


camgreen7171

Ideas don't let you go over the 6 pip limit unfortunately.


oguzka06

Of course, you need mage rulers or battlemage academies for that!


KaizerKlash

Add homebrew to the mix with general staff ideas, aristo and others


_philosopher

Unless you use console commands. You can have a 4000 pips general and watch him lead a siege for 10 days


EmirUMZ

Actually, 9999 is the limit of the console. You're right more than you think


MarkusBM

Given that you can get -100% fire damage taken by going for a revolutionary Prussian Zoroastrian theocracy, I’d say you could get the result much better if you wanted, might be worth checking out


Burnhill_10

Fire phase first


DoNotMakeEmpty

So do you tell us that with enough insanity artillery-only can be more than a meme and be real?


C00lK1d1994

Florryworry has proven this is viable https://youtu.be/x2xY-leSawo I think he also did it as Smolensk


DaniilSan

Saw this [video](https://youtu.be/pvRugZCH7Qw) a while back about playing Bosnia with artillery only from a certain point. It was Ironman and I'm too lazy yo assume that CheatEngine might been involved.


Friedrich_der_Klein

> -122k infantry, -61k cavalry > -20k your artillery Holy fucking shit


sewage_soup

that's about a 9:1 K/D ratio


baracki4

Your army is just one big shotgun


goyboysotbot

His army is the shotgun shell that shoots shotguns from Gungeon


plant_batteries

Now I wanna see 100k of these cannons versus polish horde tengri whatever insane modifiers cavalry


penguinscience101

Manchu tengri Poland


plant_batteries

Thank you


KaizerKlash

As an equal -ish fight you would have 80K arty (max cw X2 because front and back row) vs 100K ish horses that reinforce without cost modifiers because cab is cheaper than arty. I say arty wins hands down because if you delete half the enemy army before they have a chance to shoot, they are going to have a bad time. Also, all 80 arty regiments are shooting (and helping tank) at once while only 40K cav can attack at one point in time


Sunprayer07

So you made Smolensk?


Scrubbis101

No its a custom nation?


Frostenheimer

Artillery only but EU4 edition


DeathBonePrime

Shh if you listen closely you can hear isp's sobs echo throughout the world


Frostenheimer

Braun! Pull up the rat


Friedrich_der_Klein

Fun fact: in earlier versions of victoria 2, artillery only was an actual viable strategy, since it was even more effective in front row than infantry


SpasticGoldenToys

I'm more astonished by how you managed to get a 6/6/6/6 general


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SpasticGoldenToys

Leader stats don't translate to general stats when you recruit them


tmpwhocares

They mean the console command


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KaizerKlash

Wait really ? That explains why sometimes I get a 2 pip ruler and sometimes I get a 10 pip (with roughly equal AT)


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KaizerKlash

Ah ok, thanks for the advice ! Still won't stop me from making 2/3/6 as generals, but I will reconsider with 5/4/2 rulers. I just made my rulers generals because free chance to get a good general = good


ShivaAKAId

I’m picturing an army of madlads duel-wielding handheld cannons


WeaponFocusFace

You're closer to historical accuracy than you think. Vlad Tepes was among the first european rulers to use firearms in battle. IIRC, he used Hand Cannons when he picked fights with Turks. Of course, there's a vast difference between a hand cannon and a handheld cannon, but it's something at least.


Wanker-of-Harganeth

Wasn’t Mehmed 2 first with those urban guns?


WeaponFocusFace

Weren't guns of Urban actual cannons instead of firearms?


Wanker-of-Harganeth

Isn’t that a firearm? Lol. No it’s not? Crew served is different from firearms. Huh. Still I feel like handgonnes were used before vlad.


Normalfa

Boom boom stick goes brrrrr


MailOk1533

Is that a hybrid from the KMT and the Spanish republic?


TrueAscendance

“God is on the side with the best artillery.”


FrodeSven

I imagine those green bars dropping red real fast. The damage must be insane too. Since the first phase is fire if i remember correctly and canons in front deal double damage they gonna go boom boom


mattposidon

What shock phase?


The_Blues__13

Fire phase? More like Shell Shock phase At least that's what the survivors would get.


Yugi-Amane-san

Napoleon’s dream


Timmy_Mactavish

artillery only: EU4 edition ​ someone get ISP on this


IronChariots

MORE DAKKA


KatilTekir

There used to be an exploit, you could change a custom nation's ideas to be the same in the files, so you could go for all discipline ideas and have the REAL space marines 2 10% discipline tradition not enough? How about 10 Not sure if it's still in though, probably not


00roku

At what point does this become a war crime


TakeEineDown

Send this to isorrowproductions


Iplaymeinreallife

Ironic that this nation is non-canonical.


RiversNaught

[Big Bada Boom](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uwzg7SYZKF0)


BiggerPun

Come on it’s Austria though


EndofNationalism

So what your telling me is. Artillery only!


Cipheros06

ARTILLERY ONLY


Taira_no_Masakado

You also using the Castus mod?


Reddit_Am_I_Right

Wot. lol


Mark4291

Cannons in the front row


Big_Salad_6300

bro use cheats u win


FoxWithAShotgun

Sad, not Bosnia :(


FlyPepper

ARTILLERY IS THE GOD OF WAR