One of the most irritating things that has ever happened to me in this game:
This is the aftermath of a war I fought with Castile, who has Aragon and Naples in PU. They sieged down my southern forts bordering Savoy/Spain fairly quickly, but I managed to hold them there - their war goal was Rethel, and they kept trying to siege it down with half their army while I could direct my full attention at their sieging armies.
Eventually, because I still control the war goal and because I've won most of the battles, I have ~16% WS and they're willing to peace out. I hit suggest demands and they'll give me Cambray (which, conveniently, I need to finish a mission to get permanent claims on Belgium), but I need to siege down a fort in the area. No problem - I send my 2 siege general along with a 10 artillery stack to do it. I pay the 50 military points to get a breach and off we go, progress is at 0%. Castile is sieging down a couple forts in southern France at like -28%, but no problem, I have my breach, this will finish quickly, right?
.........right?
Somehow I lose TWO ****ING SIEGES THAT DIDN'T EVEN HAVE WALL BREACHES while I keep whiffing on ****ing 64% dice rolls. Now Castile is making gains, they don't want peace anymore, they're sieging Paris, **** **** **** **** **** I finally take out a couple more sieging armies and they'll peace out again, and luckily I can still get the same deal somehow, but I'm sure that cost me like 10000 more MP that I totally could not afford to lose.
The cherry on top of this is, I go to ask the pope for that thing that gives you +15% manpower recovery. One of the requirements is that you're at war. I forgot about this until after signing peace. ASDHFIOADSFHIODSAPODS
I'm seriously wondering what the fastest way is I can just start a war with someone to get this pope thing and then pay them off however many hundreds of ducats to forget it happened. This suuuuuuuuuucks. It appears that I'm 4 years from even filling my armies before I can even
start replenishing MP.
At this point, do you just say **** it and consolidate your regiments? I'm not sure if that's even better, you'll just spend the MP on the tail end to recruit armies again instead of at the start to fill your existing regiments.