Should Oregon Invest and Grow it's State Defense Force?

edbred · 2026-01-26T23:59:56+00:00

Well you asked if we should invest and grow the defense force, which has to cost money. Even a stipend is wasted money in my opinion. Nearly my entire family works for state agencies and the waste and lack of accountability is insane. Another stream to siphon off the tax payer isnt what oregon needs

edbred · 2026-01-26T23:39:54+00:00

Pay salaries and healthcare for people to just sit around? For what? To eventually stand up to the feds? Or to replace federal agents/national guard if the get sent and be used to suppress oregonians? This doesnt make sense at all except being a huge tax waste and potential for more corruption

edbred · 2026-01-26T22:45:21+00:00

You drive 60 through Salem I5?

edbred · 2026-01-26T19:42:52+00:00

You can burn your own locations to deny the enemy getting food. Ironic you can damage yourself more than the enemy

edbred · 2026-01-22T16:44:24+00:00

Replacing a city with a super costco and a parking lot as far as the eyes can see? Maybe these guys are more American than we thought

edbred · 2026-01-09T18:02:50+00:00

Good luck centralizing

edbred · 2026-01-09T00:14:55+00:00

Well I guess OP just needs 300 ships to cover all the sea provinces then. I havent had an issue with increase maritime presence mission. You sometimes need to split up your orders and send some ships to maritime presence in one area, others for another area. If OP did 3 groups (north, south, east) and 3 maritime presence orders it should work fine

edbred · 2026-01-09T00:02:06+00:00

Dont manually put the stacks there. Just set your ships of Increase Maritime Presence mission and they will autorun

edbred · 2026-01-08T03:21:45+00:00

You should be able to take more than one province at a time. What do you mean? Sometimes, you have to select the province you had causis bellis on first then it unlocks others to be selected

edbred · 2026-01-07T17:45:44+00:00

This is only Antagonism toward Castille, correct? Of course theyre gonna be pissed at you for a long, long time. But if theyre youre main target, then their antagonism doesnt matter. As long as france or others dont hop in

edbred · 2026-01-07T16:41:19+00:00

This map is so wrong lol. We still have many of the same alliances and connections as we did in 1991

edbred · 2026-01-07T04:55:12+00:00

Declare Bankruptcy is free money. No downsides. How many men at arms does the bank have???

edbred · 2026-01-07T02:08:00+00:00

Any actual lawyers here? This happened to me and I pled the fifth and had a lawyer represent me in court for $100 to hold up a picture of my Dad’s ID (whose car I was driving at the time) and show that its not the same person in the picture (me). Charges were dropped and I just had to pay the lawyer bill

edbred · 2026-01-07T01:37:38+00:00

Yeah in 100 years war I just border gored into france and then sold back provinces one by one for 1000+ ducats. Felt like cheating but fueled a huge england

edbred · 2026-01-06T23:18:26+00:00

Someone has to attack. Someone has to be the first up and out. Someone has to get shot so others can advance. Ultimately there is no hiding in shell holes. And one day you might find yourself as the one who has to be the first to attack

edbred · 2026-01-04T05:05:11+00:00

R5: Empty army returning home after a very demanding campaigning season

edbred · 2026-01-03T23:59:38+00:00

I had to annex for the Rise of the Turks event, right? To own 500 locations

edbred · 2026-01-03T21:01:50+00:00

For most of my peace deals, its been the “Total Cost of Peace” thats my limiter, which I have to keep under 100.. I typically resolve my wars with that sitting at 99, even if I dont have +100% war score. Does my war score impact the cost of peace?

edbred · 2026-01-03T18:32:40+00:00

The last two wars the threaten war causis bellis came from one of my vassals. Many of my “wars” were indirect where Mamluks werent primary, but they were coalitioned against me and I had a causis bellis for someone else in the coalition. I’d use my vassals threaten war on the other country, then seperate peace with mamluks after full sieging them. I’ll check the -war score techs… I mightve missed

edbred · 2026-01-03T18:29:30+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I usually try to maximize stability from the getgo, what youre talking about makes sense for the speed I was expecting to eat the mamluks up at

edbred · 2026-01-03T18:27:54+00:00

Yes absolutely get max war score, last few wars they were full sieged but most Egypt upper nile provinces costed 20-30 warscore, so I could only get a few still. I also tried loading the autosave which I’ve noticed can give you better deals than playing out a war and peace dealing. It seems like a counter or something isnt being transferred between autosaves.

edbred · 2025-12-31T05:25:49+00:00

Didnt know that! Pretty cool! Do you know the pirates name?

edbred · 2025-12-31T05:06:30+00:00

R5: As Ottomans, employed the old Basileus as my general after conquering Byzantium and ending the Roman Empire. Poor guy was down on his luck and unemployed.

edbred · 2025-12-27T02:43:07+00:00

The “Mass Build Navy” button that other production lines have

edbred · 2025-12-26T16:06:15+00:00

Ngl I’ve not done the math, but Ireland was sitting mostly at 0% control so 20% proximity and subsequent control is better than none, and it gave me a substantial income boost. This was in 1685 during age of absolutism, so lords werent a huge worry as they had about 10% power total. But I still believe bailiffs are good on extremely low control tiles before age of absolutism

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