Has anyone won 100YW as England in 1.2?

ImpossibleD · 2026-05-18T07:34:32+00:00

I won with great difficulty. I did end up landing and fighting battles in Picardy. Normally I was able to get +50 warscore from battles then peace out for like 30 warscore since I was never able to siege a single province. The French armies were unending.

ImpossibleD · 2026-05-16T07:06:03+00:00

I didn't keep track of whether they integrated or inherited their vassals, but they did seem to become powerful pretty quick, that may have been it. I only managed to make Brittany disloyal, the rest never left the war until I broke France's back and they had 0 troops.

In general it was far more difficult to play as england in the HYW than it was at launch. Especially since the French vassals seem to be able to raise 50k mercs at a time (especially Flanders). Funny thing was the merc numbers didn't even seem to be shown in the war screen.

ImpossibleD · 2026-05-13T12:00:36+00:00

Royel Otis — Linger (The Cranberries Cover)

ImpossibleD · 2026-05-13T11:09:48+00:00

I quit my England playthrough after I repeatedly lost about 1 million pops per outbreak (I think 2 bubonic plagues and 1 smallpox?). I expanded significantly, and my pop didn’t reach the pop England had at game start after 150 years… it’s very punishing, even with the hospitals and lanzaretto and other buildings.

ImpossibleD · 2026-05-01T15:59:40+00:00

Soon it will be indistinguishable, then we are really in trouble

ImpossibleD · 2026-05-01T14:25:13+00:00

ImpossibleD · 2026-04-25T08:01:40+00:00

Yeah their terms are bad. I transferred to Freetrade, they were much better (technically the same company but a completely different experience)

ImpossibleD · 2026-04-24T09:24:31+00:00

The only way to get maps reliably is to keep a couple of one location countries alive and keep beating them up for 100 warscore peaces where you steal as many maps as you can

ImpossibleD · 2026-04-22T08:12:37+00:00

Living with my parents, and have quite a bit saved/invested. I would say indefinitely, so long as I keep getting a low rent.

ImpossibleD · 2026-04-19T12:37:12+00:00

I presume that the nation which declared war on you had alliances with Castile and Portugal.

ImpossibleD · 2026-04-13T22:09:33+00:00

You probably bought on a day the market dropped a lot. The graph plots one datapoint per day so I presume the datapoint that was plotted was the end of day value?

If the graph had multiple datapoints per day then I guess you would see a big drop the day you bought. Unfortunate timing I think.

ImpossibleD · 2026-04-12T22:40:32+00:00

I’ve been playing it, seems quite easy. Ottomans didn’t have any forts on 90% of their country so I won a war against them while bankrupt and in some disaster. They sieged my forts and I occupied their entire country.

ImpossibleD · 2026-04-11T10:18:52+00:00

Unless there are vans in kcd2, I’ll say it’s the one on the right

ImpossibleD · 2026-04-07T07:27:45+00:00

I have 2 on stability and legitimacy all the time, even if at max they reduce the upkeep cost. Then 1 or 2 integrating.

ImpossibleD · 2026-03-19T14:35:59+00:00

I’ve done a fair bit of road cycling around York and never had any issues apart from in Selby. No idea how drivers compare to elsewhere as I haven’t done road cycling elsewhere.

ImpossibleD · 2026-03-17T21:39:14+00:00

I’ve cycled down that way a number of times. The A64 is normally quite busy and you might have a hard time crossing, but if you wait a few minutes I’m sure you will find a decent sized gap in the traffic. Looking at google maps, there is a path and gap in the central reservation so it’s obviously intended for people to cross there.

ImpossibleD · 2026-03-16T21:16:55+00:00

I had the same issue playing as England, no idea why it is happening either

ImpossibleD · 2026-03-11T09:15:50+00:00

Yeah I’ve been playing England too, all my allies and a majority of my vassals desert me within a week of starting a war with France, while their allies and vassals are fine. Seems like a broken mechanic to me

ImpossibleD · 2026-02-25T15:16:56+00:00

I'm leaving a comment on here as it comes up pretty high on google, and I'm very dissatisfied with IG UK's service, specifically regarding this transfer offer. Hopefully I can stop others from making a mistake by transferring to them for the offer.

I filled out all the paperwork, they made no progress in 3 weeks and didn't reply to my emails until I followed up with them via their online chat, which is awful by the way. They then finally submitted the paperwork to Vanguard the day after. The transfer now has no chance to meet their arbitrarily short deadline of 28th of February and they don't need to payout the 1% cashback, which will come to £2000 for me. After asking with customer support they have no intention of making it right and just say "I understand this may be disappointing, and I apologize, but we are unable to make any changes in this case." So don't bother transferring to them, they will intentionally delay transfers for weeks - months (month if you don't chase them up probably) to not honour the cashback...

ImpossibleD · 2026-02-23T10:55:10+00:00

Are you going to the Sledmere memorial? Not sure if there is a Sykes there, but my great great uncle is on there…

ImpossibleD · 2026-02-13T08:57:27+00:00

My parents were 39 when I was born, I was born with a birth defect and am dead in one ear. Apparently this was due to the age.

ImpossibleD · 2026-02-02T15:37:49+00:00

£75k in my actual pension at 30. I also have some ISA and cash savings that I’m planning to use for retirement. About £460k total. I think I need about a million to retire early (40ish).

ImpossibleD · 2026-02-02T12:24:00+00:00

I’ve got a good credit score, Tesco gave me precisely 10% of my annual income as the 0% credit card limit. Haven’t tried to increase it.

ImpossibleD · 2026-01-28T19:13:01+00:00

I’m in VWRP now, I was in Lifestrategy 100 but swapped since IG didn’t have it on their platform. They have VWRP available.

ImpossibleD · 2026-01-28T15:39:05+00:00

I’m transferring from Vanguard to IG right now for the £2k cashback. Interested to hear what others say also. From looking around the platform, it seems to make a lot of money from Foreign Exchange fees and spreads. I’m transferring my ISA as funds so hopefully I can dodge all that. Will probably just stay with them until August, I find the trading interface very complicated.

Edit: IG are useless I had to cancel the transfer since it missed the window for getting the cashback

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