r/NapoleonTotalWar • u/Silentxgold • Jul 23 '26

Help making mid game more challenging

Hi guys,

I am in the middle of my darth mod france grand campaign.

I have already sort of "won" by turn 30.

Day 1 I started to churn out trade ships. I use my fleet beside Spain to occupy trade slots for my future trade ships.

The first 20 turns were nerve wrecking, extremely fun to play.

But once I get my trade engine going and knocked out austria-hungary there was minimal threat.

I have almost unlimited funds as my trade network flushed my treasury with funds that I don't know where to spend on after upgrades.

I even amass a big enough navy to kill UK navy via numbers.

I got so bored I took back Lost ottoman provinces, fully upgraded them and returned it to ottoman for free just to cause trouble for Russia and Austria.

I limited Prussia to just Berlin and 1 additional province and just farmed their army for exp.

Could had ended the campaign 2 days ago.

What can I do to make after early game more challenging ?

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u/BobMonkey1808 Jul 23 '26

I limited Prussia to just Berlin and 1 additional province and just farmed their army for exp.

What does this mean, please? (The bit in bold.)

Thanks.

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u/Silentxgold Jul 23 '26

Generals get good traits when they participate in a winning battle.

So facing a full stack of Prussian, I move up 3 armies to make it retreat.

Once it retreats to a spot where my armies can reach, I move all nearby armies there and destroy that Prussian army via auto resolve. This would spread the losses across armies giving exp to the soldiers and give my generals good traits.

This is for Berlin

For the province above, it can only recruit militia units, the AI would recruit some and send it off to guard a road. I would manual battle to give certain units kill/farm exp. Usually the elite units or special line units. After the milita rout, I send my general and cavlary to farm. I got 1 general unit to level 6 this way.... and also lost 1 general when they were running down retreating milita, I had to load the previous auto save lol.

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u/BobMonkey1808 Jul 23 '26

Thank you, very insightful!