Quote Originally Posted by Leecros View Post
Generally speaking, if you take France down early enough, then they don't have the full extent of the France Powers to resist a simple numbers game like that.


Specifically things like Elan! which gives them +20% morale or any of their Idea groups finished.
I guess that might work. It's basically why I stopped playing EUIV (for now, at least), I got tired of games either having to revolve around hindering France, or taking place far away from Europe. I don't really like to be forced to worry about how to curtail France from the get-go when I start a game as Tuscany, Pomerania or such, for example.