An Irish EU3 Dynasty - Complete!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Okay folks, well, after some failed dynasties in France, I figured I would try a bit easier dynasty in Ireland. My goals are simple, to unite Ireland and rive England from it, take all of Britain, and colonize areas of the new world that would make sense for a united Ireland. I can also do other stuff if I want, like grab Scandinavia or mainland provinces, for example.

[Abe Sargent]

Okay, allow me to introduce the new dynasty.



It is mid-October, 1399, and the island of Ireland is split into five fiefs, four independently held by Irishmen and the fifth by England. King Turlough IV O’Conor Don rules Connacht, formed by the province of Connaught (note the spelling difference). Without an heir, Turlough has seen the province ruled by his hand for 15 years. And yet, without a firm heir, there may be problems in the future.

Seeing a need for stability, Turlough appoints a new Chancellor to begin to handle some affairs of state. This relative unknown, Searlas Mac Lochlainn, will try to unit Ireland behind the Connacht flag.


Connaught:

The province has 1801 Irish fishermen of Catholic descent working this port. The taxbase is 3 - the poorest province in Ireland. Because of that, we can only have unit of troops before we hit our max, but our neighbors are not so limited.

[Abe Sargent]

Our sliders are completely messed up, and I mean seriously so. It will take a long time to fix Connacht. Let’s take a look:

Decentralized to the max. -20% tax, -5% spy defence, -15 production efficiency,etc.

Aristocracy strong, which I like. Extra diplomats, cheaper cavalry, more expensive infantry and enough will give your leaders + shock in combat.

2 steps towards Serfdom - Yuck. One good thing about Bar was how free the people were. Here we get -10% stability cost, which is nice, and -2% infantry cost, but lower morale of armies, and +8% to learn new technologies - yuck.

2 steps towards narrowminded, Yuck. +6% to tech costs, but extra missionaries, war exhaustion, spy defence, colonial growth, papal influence, and lowered stab cost. I don’t think it’s worth it though. None of it is that important compared to all five tech intevestments. Like I’m going to use missionaries or colonial growth right now.

In the middle of Mercantilism and Free Trade

2 towards Offensive. I prefer Defenseive because I want the siege bonus, but a full thing towards Offensive wouldn’t be that bad, if I wanted to pursue that.

1 towards Land, more expensive colonists, betetr morale, forelimtis and manpower, reduced infantry and calavry costs, shops have increased costs.

1 towards Quantity - more manpower, lowered infantry cost, less discipline, and better reinforce speed.


I prefer:

A bit more Centralized
Aristocratic
Free Subjects
Innovative
Don’t care much about Free Trade vs. Mercantilism
Land or Naval based on situation (Land initially, but Naval for an island state like Ireland)
Quality by far

[Abe Sargent]

In order to move my sliders where I want, I will have to move them: 34 times. That means it will take me around, roughly, 340 years to do it completely. So, expect that someitme in 1750 to have my country working. That’s stupid. I check the sliders of the other Irish provinces to see if Ii can find a better group.

Leinster - Exactly the same. Not a good sign. Tyrone, Munster? Muster yes but not Tyrone. Tyrone:

4 Decentralization, not 5.
3 Aristocratic and 2 Serfdom, as before
Just 1 Narrowminded
3 towards Mercantilism
1 Defensive
1 Naval
1 Quality


Okay, forget this, I’m playing Tyrone, even if its flag looks stupid compared to Connacht, which was the only reason I wanted to play Connacht.

[Abe Sargent]

My King is Niall O Neill and son is a strong 6 year old Donal O’Neill5/5/3 are my rulers ADM< and 4/3/6 his son’s.

Unlike the other Irish minors, I begin with two vessels in my fleet instead of one. I also can have 2 units.

Ulster - 1000, taxbase of 5, 7.6 ducats made here annually, grain, Catholic, Irish, port, north east of Ireland.

I cut my naval maintenance in half, make the ruler a general, and reduce military maintenance for now.

I move us one towards Free Subjects and we have a Better Administration event fire of that cuts our non-existant inflation.

I have 5 diplomats. Where to send them? How about marriages to, Scotland, England, Leinster and Munster.

Okay, here we go.

[Abe Sargent]

Early Days



Oct 16 - All accept our ROYAL Marriages and the nobles wants us to enter one with Connacht, but I’ll hold off for now, as Connacht is the obvious place to go if we decide to conquer.

Oct 7 - England sends an insult

Nov 1, 1399 - Stab increase

3 Dec, I notice that England has the mission to Conquer Ireland. That’s going to be pissy.

4 Dec - I offer an allince offer to Denmark and they accept. Whew. A real alliance.

Jan 1, 1400 - Stab increase

Jan 28 - There are now 2000 English in Meath, their Irish province and next to me.

Mar 5 - I send an insult to Connacht

May 15 - Denmark annexes Holstein.

May 17 - Denmark for some reason rejects our RM. Odd.

July 23 - France annxes Berry

Oct 14 - I check the advisors available. I hire one star Trade Tech and Land Tech investers

Oct 17 - Now Denmark accepts a RM.

Nov 1 - I now have enough manpower to build another regiment - infantry I choose because its cheaper and helps in the sieges. I increase my military maintenance to full.

[Abe Sargent]

Joining Europe


Dec 12, England pisses me off by guaranteeing the independence of Connacht, and now I cannot easily attack next year like I was planning to. Blast you England!

Jan 1, 1401 - I have two thousand troops and a fleet to carry them on, but Rms against Leinster and Munster. Feh, I drop maintenance again. I enter into a Rm with France.

Feb 6 - Brittany and us in Marriage

Mar 5 - Burgundy rejects RM, Cleves accepts

May 3 - We enter into a RM with Connacht - might as well since we cannot attack any time soon. Our new mission is to have more boats than Munster. Okay, I order aGallyey constructed.

July 4 - RM with Burgundy

Aug 22 - We are guaranteed by England.

Oct 26 - Our ship is finished, we complete the mission and gain 5 navy tradtiion. Our new mission is a doozy - Save the Irish People in Meath. We have gained a Conquest Casus Belli on England.

Jan 3, 1402 - Castille claim the role of Defender of the Faith.

Apr 1, Brittany is now guaranteeing the independence of Connacht, Munster and Leinster.

July 5 - Rejections for Rms from Gelre, Frielsland and Oldenburg. Wow, no one likes me or something.

I cancel our mission and take a 5 prestige hit, and then I get an accumulate money one.We lost that CB on England.

Oct 10 - England at war with Aragon.

Oct 19 - They have withdrawn troops from Meath.

Dec 3 - RM with Savoy and Milan. Failed one with Naples.

Feb 4, 1403 - Guaranteed now by Brittany,

July 20, 1403 - Donal O’Neill takes over after his father dies. Our new heir is Eoghan, a strong heir.

The good thing about this is now I don’t have all of those Royal Marriages, which is both good and bad. I need to re-establish a few of them now, let’s look at Scotland and Denmark.

July 23 - Scotland accepts .

July 24 - Denmark too

[Abe Sargent]

Bold Moves Before a Friend


Did you know that Leinster is also guaranteed by England, but not Munster? Muster has no ally, no RM with me anymore, and no guarantee by England. Hmmm. I wait for a bit. Perhaps now is the time to strike.

Aug 2 - I jack back up maintenance on my troops and order them to board our vessels

Nov 1 - My troops are off the coast of Munster, I DOW them. We lose four stability. I raise war taxes.

Nov 2 - Denmark does not join us, leaving us alliance less. Brittany does join Munster, but two of Brittany’s provinces are currently controlled by rebels so I’m thinking this is a good time to strike.

Nov 8 - battle is joined as our forces land at Munster.

Nov 12 - They flee

Nov 28 - They arrive at Ulster with their fleet and begin to besiege my captial. Clever

Mar 1, 1404 - Stab increase

May 9, - We get walls breached in Minster and I order an assault.

June 1 0 Stab increase

June 9 - Assault fails

Aug 12 - Munster falls to us. I send an Annex offer.

Aug 3 - Munster declines. I didn’t know they could od it. I order my forces to board our ships.

Aug 22 - They offer to pay us ducats and I decline.

Sept 1 - Stab increase

Sept 14 - They again reject annexation. This is weird, I‘ve never seen a state reject annexation after you capture it’s only province.

Sept 24 - Our troops land at Ulster to relieve the siege.

Oct 13 - We win and destroyed the entire Munster army. With no army AND no property, will they now see reason?

Oct 6 - Munster accepts annexation. We gain 0 prestige and 8 badboy plus the 2 badboy for DOWing them with no Casus Belli. But, it gives us breathing room.


Munster: 1878 Irish Catholics, fish, taxbase 4, 4.21 ducats annually. I move my National Focus to Munster. I will be stationing 1000 of my troops in each province. We are no longer at war with Brittany.

[Abe Sargent]

Years of Quiet and Harmony



Jan 1, 1405 - I order a Population Census in Munster.

Jan 3 - You are going to love this. Brittany has agreed to our offer of an alliance. Brittany’s other ally’s include England. Siena and Pisa are now free from Milan, and the Hansa has offered us a spot in their Hanseatic Trade League. I accept.

Jan 13 - RM with France

Feb 7 - Brittany is still having severe rebel problems with their Regency Council that just ended. I offer th eking a RM and he accepts.

Mar 2 - Hello! Scotland sends us an alliance offer. Hell yes. Anything to keep England off my back while I unite Ireland. One of my allies, Brittany, is allied with England, and the other, Scotland, allied with France.

The National Focus in Munster does the following: -2 minimum revolt risk and to the revolt risk, +.5 income, +5% missionary chance, +2% pop growth, +0% local manpower, +0% garrison growth, +50% colonial growth.

A nice tool to begin to unite and pacify the masses

Apr 23 - Castille rejects our RM offer

May 1 - Stab increase back to max. Portugal also rejects us.

July 1 - Smolensk is now independent. They have a really cool flag. So does the rebeler Saruhan in Turkey that declared independent in the Smyrna region a while ago.

Sept 3 - Aragon at least accepts our RM.

Jan 3, 1406 - RM with Brabant

May 8, Gelre declines and Friesland accepts a RM

Jun 8 - Pretender Pier I de Penguem has seized the throne of Brittany. The rebels won the country.

Jun 25 = Luxembourgh enters a personal union with Hesse

Jan 3, 1407 - RM with Savoy, Milan and Castille

Mar 26, The King of Burgundy fell ill

Mar 30 - Connacht has laid claim to the throne of Burgundy

May 23 - I get an event Trade Station Founded. Munster gets Trade Station forever, and it lowers local revolt risk by % and adds much to our taxes ther e- +10%. Nice event

June 7 - I use a Magistrate to create a Beautiful tapestry, a decision that will, for 20 years, reduce our revolt risk by %, increase yearly cultural tradition by 2 and increase our legitimacy by % annually. It costs 3 ducats and my magistrate.

July 29 - Bar is taken by Burgundy in war

Sept 9 - Granada was annexed by Castille in war

Oct 7 - Portugal rejects RM, we entered one with the Palatinate

March 17, 1408 - The options for easy Rms have dwindled. I have good realtions with many nations, but the father away you get, the less likely they are to want a RM with me.

This would be a great tome to strike at Leinster or Connacht. Brittany is likely to help them as she is our ally and England is off fighting Aragon and has been for some time, plus we are allied with England’s ally and Scotland, so it’s not like England thinks we are jokes or anything.

Aug 6 - Connacht has refused to give us military access.

Feb 20 , 1409 - Montenegro and Albania decalre independence from Venice

Apr 23 - I get a Tensions Along the Munster Border event. Because our national focus is on Munster, it is prospering and Leinster is moving their borders in order to take a bit of what we have. Leinster gains a Border Friction Casus Belli on us.

Sept 2 - The Pope excommunicated Bohemia

Nov 26 - Slider change, let’s see, let’s move…Free Subjects again to 0. We lose a stability for an event that fires.

[Abe Sargent]

An Interlude of Solace




Dec 26 - Pskov annexed in war by the Teutonic Order

Feb 4, 1409 - Albania annexed by Ottomans in war.

May 1 - Stability back

May 12 - Another tensions event, this time Connacht gains a Border Friction CB against me.

July 5 - Croatia declares itself separate from Hungary.

Aug 2 - I gained an Alliance Casus Belli against Provence and Naples because they are at war with Scotland, and I am an ally of Scotland. Weird. This new CB system will take some getting used to.

Aug 17 - Brittany declares war against Provence. I can just join them and get _2 stability. I see if DOWing them as an Alliance Broken CB will get me in for free and make my ally happy. I then accept the call form my ally and do not lose the stability. Everybody is happy. Nice.

I have no desire to send inn troops, Provence;s capital Anjou is already captured by France.

Sept 6 - Naples at peace with France and France gets Anjou and annexes Provence. Sept 10 - Nnaples rejects my white peace offer.

England is not allied with Brittany but Castille.

Oct 1, England warned us from attacking neighbors

Mar 4, 1411 - Naples accepts our White Peace offer.

Jun 4 - Naples lost an Italian provinces to the Ottomans, wow. Apulia.

Mar 27, 1412 - England’s heir is at his deathbed and Portugal and Luxembourg claim the throne.

July 1, 1412 - Land Tech increases

July 5 - Castille is DOWed by Aragon and her allies but England dishonors the alliance

Nov 24 - Siena declares independence from Naples as part of a peace treaty after losing a war.

[Abe Sargent]

Dec 1, 142 - We gain a government tech and can choose our first National Idea

Options I like:


Grand Army = +33 Forcelimits.
Military Drill - +1 morale to armies
Engineer Corps - +1 to siege


And that’s it really. Look, no Idea will get me to fight on even terms with England. The other two Irish and the English ideas don’t really affect me. I can take the Irish minors without needing an Idea, but I am unable to fight England if I had all three military ones I want. I grab Military Drill and hope.

[Abe Sargent]

War Against the Beast, Part I


Dec 2 - Naples lost Calabria to Sicily.

Jan 22, 1413 - France declares the Reconquest of Calais against England. France’s allies join her, including Scotland.

Feb 1 - I get the alliance CB against England, Savoy and Switzerland. I order my troops in Munster to assemble on fleets and move to Ulster. I am going to try something very, very, very bold. Very bold.

I order 1000 troops assembled in Ulster.

Mar 1 - Trade tech increased

April 13, while England is busy with Scotland and France, I DOW them. I order my 3000 troops into Meath

Brittany does not join us, ah well.

May 27 - Meath falls after an assault.

July 24 - I send troops to Gwynnedd in Wales to attack England there.

Sept 2 - We captured Gwynnedd after a quick assault. On to Glamorgan

Oct 7 -- 1000 English troops arrive in Gwynedd and assault our captured fortress

Oct 16 - White peace taken with Switzerland

Oct 27 - Savoy White Peace

Nov 22 - We win in Gwynedd after I left the siege. They have landed 3k troops in Munster and begin a siege too.

Dec 16- We win Glamorgan after a quick siege. I order my ships to take my forces back to Munster.

Belay that, to Marches. If I can keep grabbing these forts quickly, I can force peace for Meath. Plus England has a ton of ships in the area, I’m not sure I can make it across the Irish Sea right now.

Jan 1, 44 update

3000 English in Muster, not much progress on the siege.
Our 2787 troops led by Donal O’Neill in Marches, with about half morale.
About 4000 Scottish besieging Gloucestershire
About 6800 Scottish in Yorkshire in a siege
4000 Enlgish in a siege of Cumbria, which the Scottish already captured.
2000 English troops in Lincoln not dong anything
1000 English troops in Oxfordshire marching towards us in Marches

Jan 5 - I reject a white peace offer from England, and the 2000 Lincoln troops begin to move towards Marches and our forces.

Jan 7 - The Scottish have captured Yorkshire and are moving to Lincoln

Jan 16 - Both forces from Lincoln and Oxford arrive at the same time. Battle is enjoined

Jan 28 - Gotland declare independence from the Teutonic Order

Feb 7 - Another 1000 troops reinforce the English troops in Marches.

Mar 8 - We won, barely

Mar 11 - England rejects an offer of peace for Meath

Apr 5 - We won in Lancashire after following the English army

Apr 26 - I reject another white peace offer

May 8 - I continue to win and play ping pong with the English army.

Two more provinces fall to the Scottish but the English took back Cumbria. Munster is about to fall but the English have a fleet of 20 ships so no go there.

[Abe Sargent]

War Against the Beast, Part II


June 23 - We win in Cumbria and annihilate the English army.

June 25 - English rejects a peace offer for Meath. We begin to siege Cumbria

July 6 - Cumbria falls after a quick assault. With two quick changes of hands to Scotland and then to England, there were few defenders in front of us.

July 20 - I managed to sneak two regiments to Ulster. Can I sneak the 3rd back across the Sea?

July 3 - Munster falls and our third regiments arrives in Ulster.

Aug 1 - Leinster agrees to give our forces military access which means we can get to Munster without risking the 30 ship fleet

Aug 23 - their troops land in Ulster - 2k strong from Munster.

Aug 31 - We arrive in Munster. We win and annihilate the 1000 strong army. The siege begins

Nov 3 - We have assaulted and retaken Munster. My 3000 troops are down to 1400. I order 1000 Mercs to strengthen us.

Nov 15 England rejects a offer for Meath

Update:

2000 English in Ulster
6800 English in Glamorgon trying to crack it back open
2000 English in Lincoln doing the same
4000 English in Yorkshire doing the same
6800 Scottish in Marches in a siege

The other Scottish army appears to have disappeared. That means we have to win quickly, or not at all

Dec 1- I order another group of mecs in Munster - we have to hit hard

Dec 19 - I send them to Ulster

Jan 2, 1415 - Scotland captured Marches. They are stupid though, marching to Oxfordshire instead of hitting an army besieging their captured terrain.

Jan 18 - 3400 Tyrone troops arrive in Ulster

Jan 18 - 3400 Tyrone troops arrive in Ulster

Jan 28 - The English army is annihilated and gone.

Feb 25 - Yorkshire falls to the English

Mar 1 - production Tech increases

Mar 10 - the Yorkshire forces arrive at Cumbria


Friday, June 29, 145 - England sends me a peace offer for Meath and some ducats. I agree.

We gain 8 prestige and 4 infamy.

That took a while, but it was worth it to drive the English from Ireland.

We gain 10 ducats from the mission to gain ducats.

I use some of the cash to build temples in Ulster and Munster.

Good luck Scotland!

My next mission is to create a proper fleet

I choose the national decision to Introduce Heir, and lose a diplomat, some ducats, and gain prestige, yearly cultural tradition for 4 years,



Meath - 3327 farmers of Irish and Catholic nature make us 7.95 ducats annually from a 6 taxbase. Meath has a temple. My army will be stationed here.

[Abe Sargent]

Conflicts in the Shadows



I order two Cogs built.

I order that Connacht is in our Sphere of Influence, it cost me 10 prestige.

Sept 4 - We announce a Royal Marriage with Leinster.

Oct 8 - Leinster accepts an alliance with us.

Oct 12 - Scotland is losing badly in England, they need to take a white peace before England hops the border

Oct 16 - Leinster breaks their alliance with us. I remember this crap from the Songhai dynasty, this is really annoying.

Jan 2, 1416 - I lose two magistrates to Enact Land Reform in Munster. It gets, for the game, +10% Production, Taxes, and +15% Manpower

Apr 18 -England is besieging Lothian in Scotland. I told them…

July 1 - Naval tech increase

Sept 1 - I gain a Dishonorable Scum Casus Belli against Castille for being too much of a badboy.

Sept 20 - England is pushing Scotland hard, but they have a massive 4.75% rebel risk from war exhaustion. I decide to try and help my allys, Scotland by creating some pressure on England by using the spies I have assembled to support some Welsh rebels. One was successful and we were discovered, one failed and were not and the third worked and were not.

Jan 7, 1417 - England took Ayrshire in peace with Scotland

Jan 15 - My rebels in Glamorgan just beat an English army of 5000

I use my final spy and money to hire some rebels in Ayrshire after the English leave.

Mar 10 - Hansa annexed Luneberg.

Apr 6 - My rebels in Gwynnedd lose to the main English force coming back from the Scottish front.

May 15 - Welsh rebels all dead.

Jun 13 - My Scottish rebels captured Ayshrie, but they are moving into Scotland not England. Ah well.

July 7 - Bohemia annexed Silesia

I take out my mercs in order to build new units.

Sept 27 - Salzberg Excommunicated

Feb 15, 1418 - I start building Longbowmen in Meath as replacements for my Irish infantry

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 15, 1418 - 2000 rebels in Munster so I move my forces there

Apr 30 - We defeat them.

May 4 - Ansbach forced to be freed from Bavaria by peace

May 23 - The rebels have destroyed the Leinster forces and begin a siegfge. I’ll help them out and move my forces there to clean out the rebels.

June 10, 1419 - We finish seven ships and complete our mission. Next mission is Naval Race vs. Brittany

Aug 12 - Byzantium is taken in war by the Ottomans

Aug 26 = France annexed Bourbonnais

Oct 3, 1419 - We issue a decision to Build New Palace

Oct 4 - Denmark accepts our alliance offer and we are back with our old ally.

I bring out a three star statesmen for 20 cultural tradition I hire him.


Feb 26, 1420 - I lost some manpower in Meath after I move our slider more towards Free Subjects

Oct 10 - Utrecht excommunicated

Oct 20 - The nations are beginning to fight Utrecht

Jun 7, 142 - Tuscany annexed by Sicily, which gives Siciliy three provinces north of Rome

July 4 - New Bohemian Ruler as the new HRE

July 13, Donal O’Neill has passed. He won war against England and Munster, tripling our size. He also funded some arts like a giant tapestry and new palace.

Eoghan O’Neill II 4/8/4 AMD

Our new heir is 15 year old Donal

I choose to introduce heir. Same benefits as before

[Abe Sargent]

A Quiet Pause

July 20 - RM with Denmark

Aug 14 - Connacht sends us some rebels in Meath with its spies but we fight them back.

Aug 17 - RM with Scotland

Aug 21 - Rebels killed

Jan 3, 1422 - RM with Leinster, Brittany

Mar 7 0 Brittany guaranteed Connacht’s independence which violates my sphere so I get a Sphere violated CB on Brittany

RM with France

Nov 16 - Castille and Portugal reject our RM overtures but Milan reups with us

May 18, 1423 - I get a Naive relative event and I choose to keep him alive and I get compromised spy defense for 10 years.

Sept 1 - Government tech increases, RM with Castille

Oct 6 - Connacht is no longer in our sphere of influence

Oct 27 - Friesland Excommunicated

Nov 4 - Avignon annexed by France

[MrBug708]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

In order to move my sliders where I want, I will have to move them: 34 times. That means it will take me around, roughly, 340 years to do it completely. So, expect that someitme in 1750 to have my country working. That’s stupid. I check the sliders of the other Irish provinces to see if Ii can find a better group.

Leinster - Exactly the same. Not a good sign. Tyrone, Munster? Muster yes but not Tyrone. Tyrone:

4 Decentralization, not 5.
3 Aristocratic and 2 Serfdom, as before
Just 1 Narrowminded
3 towards Mercantilism
1 Defensive
1 Naval
1 Quality


Okay, forget this, I’m playing Tyrone, even if its flag looks stupid compared to Connacht, which was the only reason I wanted to play Connacht.

I was part of a Renaissance Faire group and we were an Irish group called "The Army of Oneill"

[Abe Sargent]

Heheh

[Abe Sargent]

The Second English-Irish War


Nov 8 - England declared war against us and all of our allies, plus Leinster have joined us against England. I don’t really want anything from England. Money, some prestige, that’s it. I’d rather just take Ireland first. Perhaps one province her or there though would be nice, but hard to defend in future wars, so really, not much in this one.

I raise War Taxes, jack up maintenance.

Dec 1 - Land Tech Increase

I see their forces moving to Munster so I order mine there too.

3000 English infantry at Munster but I have 4000 infantry and 1000 calavry going there.

Jan 1, 1424 0 We defeat the English troops and follow them to leinster

Jan 23 - We win in Leinster

Luckily I had managed to replace my troops with longbowmen

Jan 28 - They land, and I’m not kidding, about 10000 troops in Munster.

Feb 8 - We destroy the first army in Meath after it fled Leinster. Back to Munster, sheesh

England is sending everything at me and very few troops seem to be left on the main island.

I hire some mercs

I have 7000 men, 2000 calvary and 5000 infantry from the mercs. I move to Munster. It will have to be enough. Big advantage in the early game for having Military Drill against a country that does not.

Henry IV himself is leading the siege of Munster

They now have 15000 troops so I order more reinforcements. It will push my budget, but I got to have more mercs

Aug 20 - The Battle For Munster Begins

Sept 11 - We win and lift the siege

Sept 22 - We win in Leinster and destroy the entire army with an army of 9000. Yay Miulitary Drill!

Now that we have momentum, to the ships!

Oct 23 - I land forces in Cumbria

Nov 26 - I have won three battles in Cumbria

Apr 25, 1425 - There have been a lot of minior and major assaults on Cumbria but I keep them off.

May 13 - They land 2k troops in Munster

June 25 - With Leisnter’s help, we win in Munster

July 27 - I drop two infantry in Lothian to relieve Scotland

Aug 5 - Scotland captures Ayrshire

Oct 16 - I have four sieges going on and I have some cavalry dispatched to move through the provinces and hit the English troops as they build more.

Lancashire falls to us

Oct 29 - I lose in Gwynnedd

Nov 7 - After a siege of over a year, Cumbrua falls to us

Nov 9 - My forces from Lancashire won in Gwynnedd

Jan 6, 1426 - Gwynnedd has become the new grinder. With the money fromt eh year, I squeeze out a couple thousand more mercs

Feb 24 - My main force gets hammered in Lincoln and barely wins with the help of the main Scottish army arriving at the nick of time.

Feb 28 - Lothian is recaptured by us and I move my infantry to Northumberland

Mar 6 - I get an event - The Weeping Song, where people are weeping, I can get badboy for 5000 manpower and 40 ducats or lose 40 ducats and 2 war exhaustion. I take the second and order another pair ofmercs for the grinder

May 3 - We lose in Lincoln completely

June 7 - We lose in Lancashire

June 25 - I assaulted and take Yorkshire

July 29 - I snuck my other army not in Gwynnedd into Londra and begin an assault

Aug 22 - We capture London itself baby.

Aug 23 - I take our huge warscore shopping.

So here is the deal I am sending.

They have to:

Renounce their claims on Meath
Give me 150 ducats
Release Wales and Northumberland as sovereign states
Ayrshire back to Scotland


They accept

[Abe Sargent]

Allies New and Old



Aug 24 - Wales and Northumberland accept RM from us

Sept 26 - Sweden DOW’s Denmark, and they ask for my assistance. They didn’t send a single tropp over to help me against England, so I decline and sdishonour our alliance.

Dec 1 - Naval and Production tech

Jan 15, 1427 - Wales agrees to give me military access and I launch my trooops to take out their rebel problem, funded by England.

Jan 27 - Dead rebels

Mar 7 - Damn. The Pope Excommunicated my ally and friend Scotland

Jun 2 - Trade tech increase

I create a level 4 Army Reformer who takes 0% from cultural and army traditions

Oct 9 - RM with Burgundy

Oct 23 - Revolt in Meath

Oct 31 - Not any more

Apr 1, 1428 - A level 3 spymaster is found on Meath but I have niether he space nor the inclination to hire him

Apr 3 - I commission another tapestry

Apr 1, 1429 - My spymaster was hired by Gelre and I got 8 gold, so apparently you now get the gold when someone is hired - nice

Apr 5 - revolt in Meath

April 20 - Revolt put down

June 21 - We gain a Dishonorable Scum Cb against ht eOttomans

June 22 -Friesland annexed by Holland

Nov 4 - France annexes Armagnac

Jan 22, 1430 - Brabant annexed by Utrecht

Mar 2 - France has been excommunicated. Wow

June 30 Slider heaven time. I move us another towards Free Subjects. I lose 2 inflation from Better Administration.

[Abe Sargent]

A Mistake By An Enemy



July 1 - Land Tech gain

Sept 19 - Gotland annexed by Sweden and Sweden expands itself by taking several Denmark provinces.

Nov 30 - Lithuania is having a Peasants’ War

Apr 27, 1431 - I proclaim a guarantee for Wales, my ally

Aug 1, 1431 - Govnt Tech increase

Aug 2 - I guarantee Northumberland, my ally as well

Aug 16 - Gelre annexed by Utrecht

Aug 23 - Truse with England expires. Prepare for a war stirke any time England wants.

Aug 30 - Revolt in Meath and put down in two days

Sept 25 - Scotland’s ruler died, and thus is no longer excommunicated. Regency Council rules now

Feb 17, 1432 - Utrecht lost a war with Burgundy and now Gelre and Brabant have been released free again.

June 1 - We lost eh Dishonorable Scum CB against the Ottomans

Aug 23 - Using various minor agreements, we have now maximized our relations with the Papal States after signing a Trade Agreement with them.

Mar 3, 1433 - The Pope, who is controlled by England, has Excommunicated CONNACHT. I immediately declare war on Connacht with an Excommunication excuse.

All of my allies are in.

Apr 19 -0 We defeat the army and begin a siege.


Dec 1 - Stability increase

Dec 8 - Connacht falls. We have annexed them. We gain 2 prestige but just 2 badboy. Thanks England. They screwed up. They probably Excommunicated Connacht in order to attack and get a stronghold in Ireland again but they missed.


Connaught:

7.27 ducats made, fishing, 2286 Irish Catholics.

I move my national focus to Connaught



Just one province away from unifying Ireland. This has got to be the slowest I’ve ever advanced in EU ever. 35 years in and just three new provinces.

[Abe Sargent]

A Pause for Reflection



Mar 1, 1434 - We find a one star Banker in Munster but I don’t hire him

May 5 - I built another ship and won the mission against Brittany, the new mission is to Destabilize Northumberland. This is one of the missions that really helped me as Songhai get some gold. If I get their stability to less than 1, we get a thousand ducats and ten prestige. One thousand.

Aug 1 - With a new Magistrate, I make a decision. We have the Last Jousting Tournament, while I still have good Prestige, good army tradition from the war, and some magistrates

Result of the Last Jousing Tournament:

For ten years:

Morale +0.1 of armies
Army Tradition +4 Annually
Cultural Tradition - +2 annually


Jan 2, 1435 - Muscowy is now the Defender of the Faith

Mar 1 - Our Banker was hired by Aquileia

June 4 - Leinster’s King died and his son is too young so they are now in a Regency Council

July 31 - Mecklemburg freed from the Teutonic Order after they lost to Brandenburg.

Aug 1 - Land tech increase

Nov 8 - RM with Sweden

Mar 30, 1436 - I get an event, Merchant Fractures. I can Support Mercantilist Faction and gain a Mercantilist on the slider, Propose Free Trade for an opposite move, or do nothing and gain 1 prestige.

I go closer to Mercantilism for the spy bonuses.

Apr 12 - The Pope, still heavily influenced by England, Excommunciates Burgundy.

Jan 12, 1437 - RM with Holland

I don’t know when, but England gave up her Conquer Ireland mission, but it had to have been recently. Now their mission is to Recover Normandy

Jan 24 - Rebellion in Connaught

Jan 29 - Put down

Mar 1 - Our one star Land Tech investment guy we had forever died today.

May 6, 1438 - Venice is hemorrhaging provinces in Crete, Ragusa, and more.

Jan 19, 1439 - The Teutonic Order wrested away contorl fo the Curia from England. Hopefully, no more Excommunicatin surprises, but who knows.

Feb 1 - Naval tech increase

We are actually ahead of the curve in Land tech, but behind the curve in everything else and getting neighbor bonuses.

[Abe Sargent]

The Third English-Irish War


Mar 30 = Wurttemburg annexed by Ansbach in war

Oct 22 - The Hanseatic League has chosen to open a Trade Station in Ulster.

Oct 30 - Lithuania Excommunicated

Dec 24 - France annexes Orleans

Mar 1, 1440 - Production Tech Increase

Nov 13 - We can change a slider again. I choose the one with the most resistance - Centralization always gives a bad hit, but I am at peace, so I think I can take it.

3000 rebels in each of Ulster and Connaught

Nov 25 - We defeated the rebels in Connaught

Dec 1 - Gvnment Tech Increase

Dec 31 - We defeat the rebels in Ulster.

Jan 8, 1441 - The Pope calls for Crusade vs. Ottomans

Feb 11 - Burgundy annexed Lorraine.

Mar 1 - Our 4 star army reformer has passed. I use our maxed cultural tradition and good army tradition to make another, this time a level 5.

Mar 8 = England attacks Northumberland. Scotland joins Northumberland. Holland joins England. I join them. I order some mercs.


We lost our mission and gained a new one to gain $$

Apr 23 - I land 7000 troops in Ayrshire and move to hit English troops behind the Scottish border.

May 1 - Land and Trade Tech increase

Jun 9 -= We win a big battle in Cumbria with Northumberland and Scotland against 120000 English troops led by their King.

Jun 22 - For some stupid reason, Northumberland accepts peace with England and becomes their vassal.

Jun 23 - We win in Lancashire

I have 14000 men in Lancashire and England is moving 17k there.

Aug 4 - We win. I order my troops to leave the short siege nad chase their troops fleeing.

Aug 25 - We win in Yorkshire

I take out a loan for more mercs

Oct 11 - We win, barelyu, in Lincoln. They added reinforccements.

Oct 21 - We win in Lancashire.

Oct 24 - Holland offers a white peace and for my alliance, I accept.

Oct 25 - Scottish capture Cumbria

Nov 2 - My main army arrives at London itself.

Dec 8 - 8000 English rebels in East Anglia, I didn’t do it, but someone bought them off I think

Dec 18 - We win in Marches and annihilate the 12000 strong Englih army.

Mar 21 - The English are about to capture Aberdeen because the Scottish, who have 40000 troops in an adjacent proovince, and too stupid to move in and stop it.

May 8 - Marches falls to us

May 24 - We get a Dishonorable scum CB against France

June 13 -I have destroyed a few smaller English armies trying to rebuild up and now begin a siege of Wessex

July 25 -London falls to me and Lancashire falls to Scotland.

We have beaten England badly, they have virtually no troops, so now it’s just a matter of taking some provinces and getting what I want. What do I want? I need to fugore that out.

Oct 11 - I have annihilated the last English army of about 5000 in Oxfordshire, there are a few troops in Scotissih borders.

Dec 8 - I’ve rejected about 4 Whtie Peace offers from England.

Dec 28 - We capture Wessex

Jan 31, 1444 - I assaulted and took Glaucestershire. The Scottish have recaptured Aberdeen.

Now let’s try for peace.

My demands:

Release Cornwall
Give me 200 ducats
Give me Gloucestershire and Marches


I’m not sure taking two mainland provinces in England will be worth it or not, but we’ll find out.


We gain 12 prestige and 6 badboy

They still have rebels in East Anglia and it looks like Cornwall actually has them too unfortuantel. I ask for military access from Cornwall and then give it to me. I’ll send my forces in

My next mission is to Destabilize Scotland


Marches - This inland English province is east of both Welsh provinces and north of Gloucestershire. It is adjacent to three English provinces - Lincoln, Lancashire and Oxfordshire. 9302 Iron miners of English and Catholic descent. I am made 8.74 ducats annually.

Gloucestershire - Port south of Marches and east of Wales in Glamorgan, and next to English provinces of Wessex and Oxfordshire. 11380 English fisherman who are Catholic make us 9.25 ducats annually.

I will be leaving my army in Marches.

[Abe Sargent]

June 14 - RM with Portugal

Let’s do a map real quick.

[Abe Sargent]

Of Miracles and Men



Aug 22 - RM with Cornwall

Sept 4 - Leinster rejected vassalization offer

Oct 10 - I send Leinster a gift.

Nov 8 = Kent has fallen to that 8000 strong rebel army and they are now in Wessex

Nov 14 - Leinster accepts vassalization. Awesome!

Jan 12, 1445 - I spend 20 cultural tradition for a level 6 treasurer, who we hire

Jan 28 - We get Land Traditions Scorned event. I can lose 5 land tradition, or lose 20 and gain 10 naval. I choose to lose the 5.

Mar 27 - Wessex falls to the rebels.

June 14 - Rebels in Gloucestershire

June 30 - Defeated

July 1 - We get Saint Performed Miracle and I choose to gain 1 stability over gaining one narrowminded.

July 6 - The English recaptured Wessex

Dec 14 - The rebels were destroyed by the English

Mar 1 - Wales is at war with Tunisia and Algiers because they are allied with Castille, so I get an Alliance CB against them.

May 11 - I get a great leader event for my Army reformer, and I choose to increase his reputation. +10 prestige, and a bunch of extra land tech investment for 6 years

Dec 22 - I had an awesome genera during the war and he has passed.

Dec 25 - Naples Excommunicated

Jan 1, 1447 - I guarantee Cornwall’s independence

[Abe Sargent]

The Squabbling of Children


Mar 22 - Problem - Wales DOW Cornwall, so I side with the defender against Wales. Now Wales is no longer my ally. England had guaranteed the independnace of Cornwall so they too join us against Wales. We are on the same side as England, ironically.

We fail in our mission and get a new one to naval race England, which is not happening, O immediately spend 5 prestige to toss it aside and get Protect against England.

Apr 1 - Our forces arrive in Gwynnedd.

Apr 5 - We annihilate 2000 Welsh troops and initiate a siege.

June 6 - After a failed assault that dropped their defenders to 50, we take it the next month with a renewed offensive.

June 11 0 I laugh at a Welsh offer for us to concede defeat. Wales, I got you your freedom, don’t think I won’t take it away.

June 15 0 English forces are besieging Glamorgan and our troops arrive here too.

Sept 8 - We took Glamorgan and I force Wales to become our vassal and give us 50 ducats.

Nov 3 - England has chosen to guarantee our independance. Weird

Apr 7, 1448 - The Papal States are gobbling up most of Italy.

Feb 1, 1449 - Our truce with England is up.

Feb 5 - England declared war against France for a recon quest. Norway joined England. Northumberland joined England. France, Auvergne, Foix, Switzerland and The Palatinate are on the other side.

Feb 19 - Brandenburg is having a Peasant’s War

Aug 1 - We lose the Dishonorable Scum CB vs. France

[Abe Sargent]

50 Year Review


Oct 14, 1449


Tyrone has 6 provinces, and two vassals.

Ulster - Our capital with a Trade Station and Land Reform. 1527 Catholic Irish farmers make us 12.03 ducats annually. It has a Temple

Meath - Captured from the English, the 4364 Irish farmers of Catholic worship makes us 9.29 ducats.

Connaught - 2636 fisher, Irish, catholic, 6.16 ducats, 2.2% revolt rate, National Focus

Munster - 2593 Irish, fish, Catholic, 8.54 ducats, Land Reform, Trade Station with a temple

Marches - 9644 English Catholic iron mine, 9.58 ducats with a Temple.

Gloucestershire - 11798, English, Catholic, 9.67 ducats fisher

Vassal: Leinster, one province, Irish; Wales, two provinces, Welsh

Badboy 11.3,which we need to get down.

Prestige: 53

King Eoghan O’Neill II is old, his son, Donal is 43.

We have a 6 star ,5 star and 3 star advisor.

We are allied with Cornwall, Leinster, Scotland, and I offer one to Wales and they accept.


We are tied with England for most advanced land forces in the world

5000 Longbowmen, 3000 Men-at-arms and 2000 Chevauchee in Marches


We are the second most prestigious nation after France and before Castille.

[Abe Sargent]

A Scottish-Irish-English Skirmish



Dec 23 - Scotland DOWs England and wants me to join them. It costs me 2 stability to do so. Plus, I’m not wanting war right now.

Sigh. I don’t want to lose Scotland as an ally and I don’t want to war with England right now.

It is a good time to attack. England is in war with France. Sigh. Okay Scotland, I’ll take the hit for you.

Jan 1, 1450 - I order my troops to Lancashire.

I order some mercs in Marches and Gloucestershire

Mar 2 - We win in Marches.

Apr 12 - We take Lancashire

May 4 -0 We win in Yorkshire and begin a new siege

June 12 - Scotland sends us War Subsidies

June 23 - I assault and take Yorkshire

July 1 - Stability increase

July 4 - We begin a siege of Lincoln

Aug 28 - Cumbria falls to the Scottish

Oct 30 Lincoln falls

Dec 9 - Oxfordshire falls to us. I try for peace now before the year is up.


Nope

Jan 1 - Trade tech increase

Jan 5 - Gloucestershire falls to just 1000 English solders, come on now

Jan 11 - I assault and take East Anglia

Feb 9 - We destroy the small English army and land some troops back in Gloucester.

Mar 6 - We recaptured Gloucestershire after a very short assault

April 20- I move our slider towards Free Subjects and I lose a stability from an event it caused.

May 1 -We gain stability back, Land tech increase

May 17 - We capture London

I send a diplomat

We get:

150 ducats
They revoke their claims on Glamorgan, Gwynnedd, Gloucestershire, Cornwall, Marches,
They free Northumberland


I could have taken land, but I don’t have the Badboy or the infrastructrure for it right now.

I proclaim a guarantee on Northumberland

Our peace was only for us, not Scotland, so they can continue.

[GoldenEagle]

Does Scotland own a little piece of mainland Europe?

[Abe Sargent]

Nope

[Abe Sargent]

One Friend Destroyed, Another Found




Aug 1 - Govent Tech Increase

Aug 7 - Scotland has captured Northumberland and Burgundy annexed Utrecht

Aug 14 - Northumberland annexed by Scotland, I was hoping that wouldn’t happen.

Sept 9 - Ferrara manages to declare independent from the Papal States, and then are immediately Excommunicated because the Papal States are the Papal Controller.

Sept 11 - England takes Caux and Picardie from France in peace.

Dec 1 - Stab increase back to max

Oct 28 - 1451 - Scotland captured Yorkshire and is continuing to siege provinces in England.

Dec 10 - It looks like major English armies arrive back from the continent, and Scotland had better push its advantage now in peace.

Jan 8, 1452 - RM with Norway

Feb 1 - Naval Tech increase

April 5 -

Some weird things happening =. France has some Italian proinces, Holland has expanded into Germany, Denmark is almost defeated by Sweden, and France captured Fyn, the Danish province by their captial.

July 20 - Ottomans are Defender of the Faith

Aug 1 - England has retaken Yorkshire and is sieging Northumberland.

Aug 30 - Scotland with a white peace with Norway, a mistake, because Scotland had captured Orkey

Nov 3 - After a long life and a very successful reign, our ruler, Eoghan II has passed away. He led many successful wars and will be remembered fondly.

His son, Donal O’Neill XIII takes over. Donal has 7/3/6 in AMD, and is in his 50s already. His son, Art, is a strong heir.

Nov 20 - Donal passes the Liquor Act, which gives us 3% more tax revenue and 4% harder to get stability.

Dec 7 - RM with Scotland, Cornwall, Leinster, and rejection by Wales

Jan 8, 1453 - RM with Wales

I enact Land Reform in Meath

Feb 26 - RM with France

Aug 2 - RM with Burgundy, Norway

Nov 30 - The Hanseatic League got hammered by Brandenburg and was forced to release Holstein as a free nation.

Jan 2, 1454 - RM with Portugal, Castille, Milan

Mar 1 - Production Tech Increase

May 15 - In order to slow down the giant English juggernaut in Scotland I fund some rebels in Ayrshire

May 28 - RM with Sweden\

May 30 - Event - Our king is Sick. I choose to have our nobles get more power, and we gain one Aristocratic and we lose 1 stability

June 5 - We leave the Hanseatic League and join the Genoan one.


Sept 6 - France has been Excommunicated

Nov 1, 1454 - Munster now gains a core of ours.

Feb 27, 1455 - The Hanseatic League is annexed by Mecklemburg in war..

Mar 1 - We gain our stability back

Mar 3 - I get an alliance offer from an unusual source, France. Between the two of us we could hammer England. The only reason I would want it is to ensure future English victory, but I don’t want to get pulled into a bunch of meaningless continental wars. .

I decline, I’ve been doing well, the only fear I have is that Scotland loses a ton of land in this war and then my best ally vs. England is hammered and England gets uch bigger.

Screw it, okay France

May 18 - The Teutonic Order is beginning their Time of Troubles

June 24 - Burgundy attacks France and I agree to join my ally

Jan 2, 1456 - I get a Boundary Dispute with Leinster. I press the issue, lose some relation with them, and gain a casus belli on Leinster. I immediately send in a gift.

Jan 11 - England takes Aberdeen, Fife, and Highlands from Scotland, which are all on the back of Scotland.

[Abe Sargent]

Two Decisions Sculpt a Destiny



Jan 20 - Alliance offer from Norway. Hmm. Nah, too many alliances. Besides, Norway just lost a war with Sweden about two days ago that lost it much of its territory.

Jan 26 - England tried to incite revolt in Munster, failed, and was discovered.

Feb 4 - Leinster accepts vassalization. We gain one Badboy and some prestige.

I gain one Decentralization. Yuck

We have united Ireland under once banner.

Leinster: 3346 Irish Catholics, fishers, 11.45 ducats, no revolt because it is a core of mine.

June 4 -Just in order to get Burgundy off my back, I offer them a concession -I admit defeat, and I lsoe prestige, and they take it.

I form the Irish Nation. I needed to be at peace for it. I get cores on the Irish provinces I did not have them on. I like the new Blue Irish flag better than the Tyrone one anyway. We gain 5 prestige, so I replace that which I lost.

Our truce with England is up.

Scotland is being ravaged by rebels and now is just four provinces, so I am glad for France’s alliance in case an English war comes.

Dec 1, Government Tech increase. We can get another Idea:

Options:

Quest for the New World
Engineer Corps
Grand Army


I take Quest. I want to start seeing Irish settlers in places like Greenland and Canada. Nothing too a historical like, say, South America or South Africa, but realistic. I recruit an Explorer and begin our search with the escorts of my fleet, but not the transports. Remember, some historians think Irish monks may have been in America in the Dark Ages.

[Abe Sargent]

The Fourth English-Irish War




Jan 9, 1457 - I am going to ignore sea discoveries, for example, I just found the Northern atlantic.


Feb 21 - Austria DOWs France, and I refuse because Austria’s ally is Sweden and I do not want a part of that.

Apr 1 - Northumberland declared independence from Scotland. I offer a Rm and they accept.

We gain a core on the English province of Lincoln after we discover ancient Irish documents showing that one of our ancestors owned land there.

April 23 - We discover Vestbygen, a coastal province on Greenland. 500 natives but hyper aggressive, tax value of 1. No thanks.

May 5 - Northumberland accepts an alliance offer from me.

June 2 - Our explorer returns to Connaught, and will rest until the ships are fixed and ready to go out again.


July 6, England makes another mistake. They DOW Northumberland. Silly, Silly, England.

I accept their call. We go to war.

Scotland joined Northumberland, The Palatinate joined England, and Sweden dishonored her alliandce - perfect.


July 19 - Troops of ours arrive in Lincoln

Oct 11 - Naples Excommunicated

Nov 18 - 12000 English troops from France under the leadership of Richard III are moving to protest our siege.

Nov 29 - We win easily after I send 2000 merc cavalry to help out

Jan 1, 1458 - Lincoln falls.

Mar 1 - Trade tech increase

Apr 9 - England pays for 5000 rebels in Gloucestershire.

Apr 11 - We won our mission to have more troops than England and our new mission is to Vassalize Cornwall.

May 1 - Our great trade tech advisor died today. I spend cultural and naval tradition to get a 3 star Naval Reformer

June 18 - We capture Oxfordshire

July 15 - We relieve the siege of Glaucestershire by rebels

Oct 5 - England recaptured Oxfordshire

Oct 12 - Northumbria captures Yorkshire

Dec 17 - We send the English packing in Lincoln

Jan 23, 1459 - We destroy the English army in East Anglia and move back to Oxfordshire for more sieges



Jan 25 - Scotland captures Fife

Feb 2 - Cumbria and Lancashire have fallen to Northumberland

Mar 17 - I laugh away a peace offer of white peace

June 14 - London falls

July 10 - Genoa opens a Trade Station in Marches

July 26 - Oxfordshire falls, again

I take my huge warscore walking. I can’t get what I want, so I keep pushing.

Aug 10 - We capture Wessex

Aug 18 - England offers peace and will give me Lincoln, Wessex and Oxfordshire, plus 160 ducats. I decline

Aug 25 - We assault and take East Anglia. NOW I send a peace envoy in.


East Anglia is the big prize, with its 9 taxbase + cloth. Oxfordshire connects us. I take their money too. I gain 6 badboy, 9 prestige, and we are now at peace.


East Anglia - 13619 English cloth makers of Catholic interest work this port. It has a Library, University and marketplace, plus makes me 19.53 ducats annually with a revolt risk of 6.5%. It is south of Lincoln, north of London, east of Oxfordshire and has a straight passage south to Kent.

Oxfordshire - 8630, farmers, English, Catholic, 14.68 made annually, comes with University and Temple, next to us in Marches, Gloucester and East Anglia, north of Londox and Wessex south of Lincoln.

[Abe Sargent]

Discoveries and Friends


My badboy is now 12.7 so I need time to cool down.


Sept 2 - I get an event - Military Divided. Forts are our strength or attack. We lose 1 stab either way. I choose forts so we move one more Defensive in our sliders.

Sept 20 - With the blood money we got, I spend a magistrate to build a new palace. I also say screw it and send some settlers to Vestbygen.

Nov 12 - Cornwall rejects a vassalization offer.

Dec 14 - Gift to Cornwall

Jan 2, 1460 - Colonization failed so I send more (65% chance to take)

Mar 9 - Revolt in east Englia

Mar 25 - We win

Apr 17 - Another failure, more colonists dispatched.

July 9 - I discover several Canadian provinces - Acadia, Micmak and Taqamkuk

July 30 - We have a colony in Vestbygden, Greenland. I send more colonists.

Aug 25 - My fleet comes back, but very damaged, some almost didn’t make it back, so we have to rest them for a bit.

Oct 1 - Stability back to 3

Oct 6 - I move our National focus to Oxfordshire. This helps against rebels, and such.

Nov 1 - I get an event - native Encountering our Colony -

Repel the Savages - gain 200 population, lose 300 native pop
Trade with Them - Gain +1 tax value, lose 50 ducats
Allow them to live in peace - Lose 2 prestige.

I choose to trade. It’s the best long term decision.

Nov 11 - Vesybygen expands. I send more colonist and that is the last I can send for awhile economically.

Dec 10 - Cornwall rejects another vassalization offer

Feb 23, 1461 - Our colony expands

Mar 31 - Trade Station in Meath. Thanks Genoa

May 1 - I send my Explorer fleet to Vestbygen to use it as a base for more explorations.

May 23 0 Genoa is annexed by Corsica in war. I send an emissary to Novgorod and we join their League.

July 20 - Vestbygen will produce Fur.

Aug 13 - I discover an island called Unamakik

Aug 29 - New Land Discovery - Atikamekw

Sept 20 - NLD - Labrador, Innu

Sept 25 - I decline an alliance offer from Burgundy, and Cornwall rejects vassalization,

Oct 20 - Gift to Cornwall

Dec 6 - Slider more Centralized please. We lose a stability

Jan 17, 1462 - I send more colonists

Feb 14 - NLD _ Nunavik

Mar 4- NLD: Moose Cree

May 1 - Our colony expands again

May 31 - NLD: Ungava

July 5 - NLD; Nunavut - a Wasteland

Aug 18 - NLD - Eiriksfjord - on Greenland next to Vestbygen

Aug 25 - Our explorer dies. He found a lot for us.

Oct 2, Cornwall accepts becoming our vassal

We lose a badboy for completing the mission

[Abe Sargent]

Quests Abroad



Next mission - Discover the Canarias. I hire another explorer.

Jan 1, 1463 - Our Army Reformer died. I recruit a four star one and hire him

Jan 25 - We found Madeira, already colonized by Portugal

Feb 6 - We discover the Canarias and gain 5 colonists. They are not settled. I’m not interested in African provinces though. Should I be? I can land some colonists here and just sit them until they grow into a full city. There are natives with 0 aggressiveness. I can just sit and forget. Nah, this is not the way I want to go. Wait, it cost 19 gold and that’s it. I do it

Next mission is to incorporate Wales into our country.

I send colonists to Vestbygen too.

Mar 1 - Stability back to 3

Mar 16 - Art, my heir, died, and I get a new heir with an average claim, Feidlimidh.

May 3 - Colony on The Canarias

May 23 - We expand in Vestbygen

Sept 10 - Northumberland accepts vassalization offer

Oct 6 - Mamluks are Defender of the faith

Jan 3, 1464 - Sweden annexed Denmark

Jan 10 - England at war with Aragon and Portugal

June 2 - Colony in Vestbygen damaged a bit by natives. I send in more colonists

Sept 15 - Our Greenland colony expands

[Abe Sargent]

Another Scottish-Irish-English Skirmish



Oct 10 Scotland DOWs England. They ask for my help. Given.

Oct 29 - France is giving me some massive War Subsidies.

I begin a siege of London

With France’s cash I pick up some mercs

Jan 1, 1465 - Land tech increase

England has Portugese soldiers besieging it.

July 29 - We capture Lincoln with mercs

Oct 5 - I reject a white peace from England

Oct 3 - Lothian captured by English

Nov 21 - We capture London

Dec 20 - Even bigger war subsidies from France flow into our coffers

Jan 16, 1466 - Lancashire surrenders to Portugal

Jan 20 - Scotland captures Cumbria

Now, Scotland controls the alliance this time, so they are fighting or themselves, instead of for us, like normal. Scotland is advancing very quickly in the north so I may decide to make a seperae peace with England in order to get something, before they do so.

I make an offer to England to revoke their cores on Northumberland, Oxfordshire, East Anglia and give me some ducats. I get over 300 ducats in peace, plus the loss of claims by England.

[Abe Sargent]

The Mainland and the New Land



Feb 3 - I build a new Palace

I send colonists to Greenland

Feb 20 - For some stupid reason, Scotland accepted peace with England and became her vassal. don’t know why.

Scotland is no longer my ally.

Apr 1 - Production Tec Increase

May 19 - Expansion, more settlers sent

July 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Aug 7 - RM with Auvergne

Aug 20 - I decline a French offer of an alliance.

Aug 30 - Expansion in our colony. I send one last groups

Oct 10 - Sweden agrees to be my ally

Nov 17 - Our heir dies and we get a new average one, Cathaoir

Dec 13 - Vestboygen expands and we have out first city.


Vestboygen - 1526 Irish Catholic fur traders ply this port, making us 8.05 ducats annually. I order a fort built here.

Jan 12, 1467 - Portugal adopted Quest for the New World too.

Feb 1 - Trade tech increase

Mar 2 - Portugal is already exploring

Are they going around Africa or into the Atlantic?

July 2 - Sweden breaks their alliance with us - WTF

July 24 - Sugar in The Canarias. Good, we can get a little of the white gold

Oct 10 - NLD - Abnaki. I accept an alliance with France this time, since Sweden went away

Oct 22 - NLD - Delaware

Mar 19, 1468 - NLD: Bermuda
Apr 25 - France attacked by Burgundy, and I join

May 10 - NLD Beothuk, and I send colonists now. Just a tax value of 1, and just a small province but it is near all of the Canadian provinces. 83% chance of success

Aug 5 - I land 6000 Irish soldiers in Antwerpan, the Centre of Trade for Burgundy and begin a siege. Might as well help out.

Sept 4- Colony established in Beothuk

Oct 1 - Gvement Tech Increase

Jan 9, 1469 - NLD Santee

Feb 11 - We capture Antwerp.

Feb 18 - We arrive at Vlaanders and begin a siege

May 1 - A level 3 Treasurer arrives in East Anglia. I jettison my 5- year old three star government tech guy for him

May 6 - Naples excommunicated

May 22 - I reject a white peace offer from Burgundy

June 14 - We capture Vlaanderen

June 25 - NLD Pennacook

June 27 - We defeated a few Burgundy forces trying to retake Antwerp

July 5 - I begin a siege of Zeeland

Sept 3 - There are like a bajillion of French troops milling around Burgundy.

Oct 1 - Burgundy gave France four provinces in peace.

I just checked and France has the largest army in the world. Wow

[Abe Sargent]

Quick Changes



Oct 16 - Wales rejects annexation

Nov 10 - England pays for some patriots in Oxfordshire

Nov 20 - Wales sent gift

Dec 3 - Dead rebels

Feb 22, 1470 - Colonists to Beothuk

Feb 26 - I join a Trade League with Venice. Novgorod was vassalized

Mar 1, Wales accepts annexation

I gain a core on Glamorgan for completing the mission.

Gwynedd - 1628 Welsh Catholics make us 6.45 ducats in the fish trade. This port is next to Marches, north of Glamorgan and south of Lancashire. It has 9% revolt risk

Glamorgan - Next to all of our provinces, this has our core, so no revolt. 2366 iron miners makes us 8.49 ducats. Welsh Catholics with a temple.

April 1 - We are now officially accepting Welsh as a part of our nation. Not English of course, but Welsh.

Apr 17 - Our King has died, and Cathaoir O’Neill is our new King with 5/7/5 AMD. IT brings a Pretender rebellion in Glamorgan with 4000 troops. We have an heir, Muchadh

[Abe Sargent]

A Temporary Pause



Apr 28 - Beothuk expands

Jun1 - My explorer died

June 3 - Pretender rebels destroyed

July 7 - RM with Cornwall, Northumberland, France, Oldenburg, and Milan

I spend 5 prestige to take away the stupid mission.

Our new mission is to turn The Canarias into a city

Sept 6 - RM with Castille

Nov 16 - RM with Portugal

Jan 9, 1471 - Revolt in East Anglia

Feb 5 - Rebels dead. Settlers to Beothuk

Feb 25 - Auvergne RM

May 20 - Fur in Beothuk

May 26 - Rebel problems in Burgundy and Munster declares independence (the other Munster, not mine J)

June 4 - Beothuk expands

If I were interested in just pure expansion, right now I’d DOW Holland, takes its two provinces, force vassalize it, and then have the COT of Holland in my nation.

Apr 24, 1472 - I now have a real navy

June 5 - Beothuk expands

Aug 3 - A bad event today. The King’s Reputation has been Tarnished as someone spreads lies aborad. I can embrace it and gain a badboy or execute someone and lose a stability. I choose to lose the stab.

Dec 21 - Slider time. Im tempted to go Aristocracy. My generals would get a full + shock. I went Free Subjects and lost 2 inflation with a Better Administration event.

Jan 2, 1473 - I send colonists to Eiriksfjord, the Greenland province next to Vestbygen

Jan 27 - RM with Norway

I could take Antwerp from Burgundy. They have allowed several of their northern provinces -- 4 of them, to be controlled by rebels for a while. They only have 3 other provinces. I could DOW them, take those three coastal provinces, grab a rebel one or two, and Burgundy would be forced to cede us Antwerp. I could take the COT of Antwerp and the one of Holland as mentioned before. The Continental powers are missing chances. Burgundy doesn’t have any allies and Hollands are laughable

In fact, I send my fleet over and it sees that Zeeland is under siege for Burgundy. Geez.

Feb 6 - Sweden took Orkney from Norway and vassalized them.

[Abe Sargent]

The Fifth English-Irish War


I send my fleet near Scotland and the north English provinces. What sorts of armies do they have?

Scotland has a total of 3000 troops in Lothian and Western Islands. England has no troops in their three Scottish provinces. So I don’t have to worry about being outflanked to the north anytime soon, In fact, there are no English forces anywhere on the island that I can see.

England’s allies - Scotland, Gelre, Milan and Corsica. Easily handled.

I can DOW England because I have a CB on Lincoln.

On my way back to my fleet’s roost in East Anglia, I see that their three French possession on the Straits of Dover have just 3000 troops. That means England has just 3000 troops and 3000 Scottish troops in shouting range. I decide to sneak my fleet down to Basque territory to check the other two provinces.

Apr 11 -Colony established in Eiriksfjord

Apr 30 - There are no troops in Gascogne or Labourd. Where are the English troops? Can they have just 3000 troops? I check the Ledger.

Yes, according to the Ledger, they have just 3000 troops. That is jus apeache ready for plucking. I prepare myself for war. My badboy is down to 5.4 This war will be to destroy England as a force.



July 14, 1473 - I have warred with England often, but I have only once before decalred it. Now I do so for the second time. I will send one army into London and the other into Yorkshire through Lancashire. I will recruit some mercs to make a siege of Lincoln while my two armies take the rest of the island.

All of my allies, including France, join us. Milan and Corsice dishouner their alliance.

Oct 1 - Trade tech increase

Dec 16 - I laugh at a white peace offer.

Dec 22 - Lancashire falls to us.

Jan 30, 1474 - Hesse annexes Wurzburg

Feb 28 - Lincoln falls

Mar 1 - Cumbria falls after a quick assault

Mar 3 - Gelre sends a white peace for just them and I accept

Mar 9 - The Cumbrian army arrives in Northumberland to try and break up a Scottish/English siege

Mar 11 - England sends me a peace offer for Lincoln, Wessex, Lancashire and Cumbria, plus 244 ducats, and I accept.

We gained a ton of prestige and 12 full badboy.


Lincoln - We have a CB so no rebellion here. 7843 English Catholic farmer, 8.6 ducats, Temple.7843

Wessex - 7843 English Catholic farmers, 8.6 ducats. East of Cornwall, west of London and Kent, south of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Temple. 7.0% revolt risk

Lancashire - 9% revolt risk, .2 ducats made by the cloth makers, 4462 English Catholics, temple, north of Gwynedd, Marches and Lincoln, west of Yorkshire, south of Cumbria.

Cumbria - 1901 English Catholics, 5.79 ducats, 9% revolt risk, fishers, Temple, north of Yorkshire, Lancashire, west of Northumberland, south of Scotland’s Ayrshire and Lothian.



This war was the dagger. England is left with 5 French possessions, 3 Scottish ones, London, Kent and Yorkshire. It is no longer a threat, even with Scotland as its vassal.

[Abe Sargent]

Let's get you a map.

[Abe Sargent]

Serendipity Unlooked For



Oh, I now accept English as a culture.


We’ll need to spend some time recuperating and bringing these provinces into the fold, but it is clear that we have hammered England massively.

Castille has taken Quest for the New World too.

May 18 - Eiriksfjord expands

June 21 - As you saw, I have a bunch of magistrates. I use decisions to build Post Offices in Oxfordshire, East Anglia, Lincoln and Gloucestershire. These give me +10% taxes and +0.05 Magistrates a year. These are decisions so they cost me a magistrate and 20 ducats each, but now we have some post offices. , yay!

July 3 - Brabant declares independence from Burgundy, one of those provinces I mentioned before that had rebels for waaay too long.

Sept 9 - The Pope Excommunicated Venice

Sept 11 - I have inherited Auvergne.

Poitou:33390 Cosmopolitaine Salt makers of Catholic ness. 1.26 ducats, this is a core through inheritance and no revolt. This port province is adjacent to Vendee, Anjou, Berry, Limousin, Perigord and England in Gascogne. It has a temple.

Auvergne - Deep in France, 7 ducats by the 15094 Iron miners, of Occitain Catholic descent. Temple. Next to Bourbon, Limousin, Perigord, Rouergue, Languedoc, Dauphine, Lyonnais and Burgundy’s captial Bourgogne.


Crazy

Oct 2 - I release Auvergne as a vassal and both provinces are now Auvergne again as my vassal. I lose some badboy, will get some income from them. I offer a RM and they accept.

Nov 4 - Auvergne accepts a military alliance offer from me.

Jan 1, 1475 - I send more colonists to Beothuk

I send my fleet to destroy some pirates I destroyed 6 pirates by Castille.

Mar 13 - We get an event - Military Complacency. I can choose to l;ose some military investment or lose a stability. No to the stab loss.

Apr 29 - Beothuk expands

I just noticed that England’s new mission, after vassalizing Scotland, is to conquer Ireland. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

[Abe Sargent]

Fears of the Mundane



May 10 - Pirates in the Canarian Sea so I send in my fleet.

NM, Castille just took care of them

June 4 - Post Office decision in Marches

Jan 1, 1476 - Colonists sent

Jan 9 - Rebellion in Gwynedd

Jan 18 - Which we win

May 1 0 Beothuk expanded

May 8 - England has annexed Scotland. Ick.

Did you know England has just 6000 troops? I wonder what they’d do if I fund some rebels in their newly captured Scottish provinces?

I fund rebels in Western Isles (success, not discovered) and Aberdeen (succeeded And discovered so we lost some prestige)

May 26 - Fish in Eiriksfjord

Sept 1 - Burgundy is Bankrupt and Brabant has captured all of its northern provinces in war.

Sept 6 - Event: Oxfordshire University, Class of 1476. Very exception, where do I send the gradS? I choose administration and get 1 magistrate and use it for a Post Office in Wessex

Oct 1 - Land Tech Increase. We can now build Galloglaigh Infantry.

We are the most advanced Land Tech, and Auvergne is #2. No one else is above 9, but we just hit 11. We are tied with France and Auvergne for 10 in Government which is the most, but in other areas, not so much. Remember though that I have had advisors in these areas for a long time, with this very intent.

Jan 1, 1477 - Colonists to Eiriksfjord

Feb 14 - RM with Holstein

Apr 1 - Burgundy bankrupt again. Burgundy is dead in the water. Interestly, this is about the time when Burgundy was reabsorbed by France after its ruler died in real life.

Apr 9 - Expansion

June 6 - Diplomatic Insult. I can ease the tension and get +60 relation with England, Northumberland and Cornwall, or pursue it and get an Insult CB against Cornwall. I ease

July 1 - I get an alliance CB against Corsica.

Sept 19 - Both Western Isles and Aberdeen have been captured by rebels

Oct 1 - Burgundy Bankrupt yet again

Fife was captured by rebels and Lothian and Highlands are under siege.

Jan 1, 1478 - Colonists to The Canarias. Let’s finish this soon.

Mar 27 - The Canarias expands

July 1 - I get a Colonalism CB against Portugal against some islands in the Caribbean and this Portugal must have colonies there.

Sept 1 - Some of the colonies taken by rebels in Scottish-England have been reclaimed, nbut Lothian fell.

Oct 1 - Beothuk expands and is now a full fledged city:



Beothuk - I order a wall here. 1503 fur trading Irish Catholics make us just 1.55 ducats annually.

[Abe Sargent]

Another Irish-English Skirmish, The French-English War, and The Results of Rebellion




Nov 16 - RM with Brabant

Apr 5, 1479 - Oldenburg, fresh off an annexation of Munster (in Germany) rejects our alliance proposal.

Apr 23 - Aragon rejects our RM offer

June 1 - The Canarias has expanded into City. Mission compelte, iot gets extra manpower and taxbase

Destabilize England is the next mission.

The Canarias: 1504 Irish, Catholic Sugar Farmers make us 6. Ducats annually. I order a level 1 fort built.


I have, literally, colonized every available colony within my colonial range.


June 5 - I see Castillean ships off Beothuk. I wonder how much of NA they have found?

June 13 - Eiriksfjord expands

June 27 I - I order East Anglia to enact Land Reform and lose two Magistrates


Our truce with England is up


HAHAHAHA

Oh England, I love you, but I love France more.

July 17, 1479 - France has begun the reconquest of Calais, and I choose to join my friends.

I order my troops into English territory in three places - London, Yorkshire, and Scotland.

We get a new mission - Naval race vs. England.

Sept 2 - I assault and capture Highlands

Nov 13- Gelre captures the Canarias. Pissy.

Dec 7 - Yorkshire falls to us

Dec 27 - I crush a small English army in Wessex trying to capture it

Jan 12, 1480 - London Falls. We get an event about the Quality of our Troops being awesome and gain 10 prestige.

Jan 29 - Kent falls

Jan 30 - England agrees to release their claims on our four provinces captured in the last war, and gives us money too.

That means The Canarias is ours again. I use some of the Blood money to rebuild th effort

Mar 18 - France has captured Calais and Picardie, and Gascogne int eh south. I’m rooting for them.

Mar 28 - France takes Limburg in peace with Brabant

Apr 9 - The Pope Excommunicated Milan

Apr 26 - France captures Caux

May 12 - Eiriksfjord expands

May 27 - Gelre annexed by France

June 0 - France takes Gascogne, Labourd and Picardie in peace. Now England is down to just Caux and Calais on the mainland.

July 2 - Our rebels in Scotland managed to declare independence and Highlands and Western Isles are now Scottish again. I had destroyed the English rebels in the north during the war and cleared the way for my funded rebels. When this happens, you begin with good relations.

[Abe Sargent]

A New Idea



July 3 - RM with Scotland

July 6 - England guarantees Scottish independence

Aug 6 - Scotland accepts our alliance offer

Dec 7 - My heir dies and I have a new one born, Conchobhar, with 753 ADM

Feb 27, 1481 - I get an event - Benign Neglect in Cumbria. I choose to get 00 ducats, the other options as to increase our taxes in Cumbria for 10 years. 100 ducats is more than I would get that way,

Apr 10 - Eiriksfjord expands

Aug 1 - Burgundy bankrupt again

Apr 22, 1482 - Eiriksfjord expands

July 1 - Eiriksfjord is now a full city


Eiriksfjord - 1500 Irish Catholic fisher, wall being built, just 3.2 ducats annually.



I’ve been able to try and annex Northumberland or Cornwall for three years now, but each says it is Very Unlikely, so I’m not going to play those odds.

Apr 1, 1483 - In order to use my colonists, because I am sitting on 5, I make another explorer.

May 11 - NLD Baffin, a Wasteland

I enact Land Reform in Oxfordshire

May 25 - NLD Swampy Cree and Chipewyan

May 26 - For some crazy reason, Spain puts a colony on Unamakik, and that’s my area, hoss.

I gain a Colonialism CB against them

June 1 - England has gone bankrupt - probably up keeping that fleet aht is way to big for them.

June 20 Venice Excommunicated again

Aug 19 - NLD Epekwitk

Sept 8 - NLD Kespek, Stadacona

Nov 6 - Bavaria annexed Ansbach

Dec 1 - NLD: Cree

Government Tech Increase. We can gain another idea.


There really aren’t a lot I like anymore. I can go whole hog with fighting and take Grand Army or National Conscripts, or I can go with a naval oriented one like Superior Seamanship, or I could go with Exploration and take Colonial Ventures or Land of Opportunity.

Let’s do colonial ventures. This doubles my number of colonists each year. can’t use it just yet, but soon, when I get that naval bonus….which should be next year

[Abe Sargent]

Growth Abroad



Mar 11 - NLD - Massachusetts, Narraganset

Mar 17 - NLD - Powhatan, Connecticut, Conoy

Mar 26 - Slider time

I take us to the middle of centralized, and get a pretender in Meath with 5000 rebels

Apr 14 - NLD - Unami

May 1 - Naval tech increase. I can now blockade ports and get an increased colonial range. Let’s see where to send some colonists.

It looks like the only additional place I can colonize is Innu. Yuck. Low tax value. I send colonists because there is nothing else.

May 2 - I incite natives for a cheap price (10 ducats) in Unamakik and kill a number of colonists in order to slow down Castille.

Okay, here is what I do. I kick out my 3 star naval tech advisor, because he’s been around the block and I need a new advisor.

I create a 3 star navigator and hire him, expanding my colonial range by 15%. Now where can I go?

I send colonists to Epekwitk, and Labrador

I decide to end the Castillean threat. I send in spies to incite more natives. Results:

Succeeded and Discovered
Succeeded and was Discovered and colony destroyed.

I send in colonists

I los t lot of prestige, and Castile funds pirates off the coast of Greenland, so I send in my fleet.

July 17 - Pirates destroyed.

Aug 8 - Castille puts pirates in Notre Dame Bay by Beothuk.

Aug 18 - I win in Meath vs. the Pretenders. They run to Ulster and I follow.

Aug 28 - Pirates killed.

Sept 1 - Production tech increases and I can now build Workshops.

Sept 3 - Failure to set up colony in Innu

Sept 11 Won in Ulster and rebels are defeated.

Sept 18 - Failure in Labrador (and each of those had a 68% chance of success)

Oct 23 - Colony in Epekwitk

Oct 30 - Unamakik colony

Nov 1 - I am not going to send more colonists to Innu or Labrador right now, because they are tax value 1 provinces like the others I have been colonizing here, and I want to focus on my two slightly better ones.

The Workshop increases tax income by 2% in a province, and costs a little less than 50 to make. So, in order to make back the investment, I need a lot of tax income in the province itself. East Anglia gets the first one.

Dec 10 - We got a gift of ducats from France. I’ve never seen that happen before, actually.

Jan 30, 1485 - We are now out of our truce with England

[Abe Sargent]

Colonies, Instability, The Pope and The Welsh





July 19 - Both colonies expanded

Sept 1 - Trade Tech Increase

Oct 18 - Sweden annexed Norway

Nov 21 0 Oxfordshiure Class of 1485 - I make a magistrate

I can move my National Focus, but I want to finish getting the best province decisions first. I choose to enact Land Reform in Gloucestershire from the extra Magistrate I just got.

Dec 1 - Burgundy bankrupt

Dec 25 - NLD: Attawapiskat

Feb 4, 1486 - We fight off pirates off the coast of Greenland again

May 18 - Both colonies expand

June 10 Rebels in Lancashire

June 26 - Fur is the trade of Epekwitk

July 11 - We win in Lancashire

July 28 - Fur in Unamakik

Dec 5 - Portugal has set up a colony in Unami. I do the same trick as with Spain.

Success, not discovered, cost me very little, dead colony.

Go Away Iberia. Take the very rich Caribbean and South and Central America and leave me alone.

Dec 17 - Austria just grabbed a ton of land in Italy including Napoli, down into the boot in Apulia, up the east coast connected to Ferrara.

Jan 1, 1487 - I am not going to send any colonists this year, and instead build a Workship in Oxfordshire

Jan 10 - Suck. We get a Political Crisis. I can gain 3 badboy or lose a stability. Damn. I choose the stability.

Jan 15, Cornwall has improved to maybe for annexation. That’s good news. I send in a diplomat to demand annexation. Rejected. I will send a gift in a month

July 3 - Annexation rejected. Gift will be sent in a month

Aug 2 - For the first time in a long time the Holy See does not control the Holy See, the Teutonic Order does.

Sept 28 - A Regent is now in Castille.

Oct 6 - A Cardinal from Lincoln and Meath are in the Curia. We control 2, as does Sweden and the Order. It is possible we could win the Papacy if a third cardinal jumps to us. The Pope recently died and we have a lower chance than before.

Nov 8 - Rejection of annexation. Come on now.

Jan 16, 1488 - he Teutonic Order lost a Cardinal so Sweden won instead of us. They declare a Holy War on the Ottomans.

Feb 2 - We discover Muskogee and their capital Tuskegee. We gain a Colonial Conquest CB on the Cherokee. If I wanted to, I could load up my fleet, send one of my armies over, and take this land right now.

March 16, 1488 - We have become the Papal Controller. We get a bonus to our stability cost, which is good because we are still working on that. We get extra diplomats, prestige and papal influence.


We only have two Cardinals, one of the Swedish ones died, so this is very temporary. Let me see what I can do.

I cannot Excommunicate until 1490. Man, I wish I could Excommunicate England. That’d be hot.


Since I am Papal Controller, maybe Cornwall will accept annexation now?

HAHAHA - They do.


Cornwall - 17169 Welsh Catholics work the copper mines here, making us 5.60 ducats annually with a revolt risk of 9%, West of Wessex and Gloucestershire, this has a temple. One more province closer.

[Abe Sargent]

Waiting to Pounce


May 2 - Our Land Tech advisor died today. I spend 20 cultural to get a 4 star government advisor - statesman.

May 16 - Expansion of our colonies

Sept 1 - Sweden regained the Papacy

Did you know that England has the following provinces: London, Kent, Calais,. Caux, Yorkshire, Aberdeen, Fife, Lothian and Ayrshire and yet has only 1000 troops?


Sept 6 - Cherokee has agreed to give us military access

Sept 23 - Land Reform in Wessex

Oct 27 - Trade Station founded by Venice in Leinster

Nov 3 - Hesse annexed Trier

Nov 30 - I built 1000 cavalry and I am sending them to Beothuk

Dec 6 - Sweden and me are tied at two Cardinals each again

Dec 13 - England has taken Quest for the New World

Jan 24, 1489 - I recruit a Conquistador and set sail for the Cherokee nation.

Mar 22 - We get a Local Fortification Expert Discovered event in east Anglia. I choose to use him there and it gets Local Fortifications.

Apr 13 - NLD Pamlico

Apr 21 - NLD Timucua

We land in Muskogee and I move my Conquistador around

May 1 - Stability back to 3

June 4 - Trade Station in East Anglia

June 22 - NLD Catawba

July 17 - We are the Papal Controller again with 3 Cardinals

I hope we can last as such through next year when we can Excommunicate again.

Aug 10 - I send colonists to Innu and Labrador

Aug 14 - NLD Cheraw, Chiaha

Oct 10 NLD Cherokee, Cumberland

Dec 2 - Colony established at Innu

Dec 17 - Labrador failed

Dec 27 - NLD 0 Shawnee, Chickasaw

Feb 1, 1490 - NLD Pennyrile

[Abe Sargent]

The Final English-Irish War



Feb 11 - I can Excommunicate someone.

Ah, England has been Excommunicated.

Mar 12 - I DOW England. All four allies - Northumberland, Auvergne, Scotland and France join me.

Mar 26 - NLD Kentucky, Wea

Apr 11 - I have killed the only English army.

Apr 18 - Captured Yorkshire after a quick assault

France has already captured Caux

Apr 27 - I failed an assault on Lothian

May 9 - Calais fell

May 17 - NLD - Ohio, Wyandot

May 18 - France took Calais in peace.

June 6 - Lothian falls

July 10 - Ayrshire falls after a quick assault

Aug 5 - I land a Scottish army in Normandie and march my troops into Caux

Aug 12 - Aberdeen fell to Scotland

Aug 25 - Fife fell to a quick assault by moi

Sept 1: NLD - Tennessee

Sept 3 - Caux fell to us

Sept 6 - England sends me a peace offer and they will give me Aurshire, Yorkshire, Lothian, Coaux and Fife. I decline.

Oct 9 - NLD Alabama

Oct 23 - We discover Mobile, Pensacola and Yamasee

Nov 20 London falls

Dec 5 - Kent falls. I send a peace offer. I have a 100 victory

I force England to be my vassal, and I take Ayrshire and Yorkshire

I gained 25 prestige and only 3 badboy because England was Excommunicated. I could have also made a mad land grab, and get only one badboy per province, but I decided on a mor epermanent route instead.


Yorkshire - 15.69 ducats made by the English Catholic iron miners. Temple and marketplace. South of Northumberland and Cumbria, east of Lancashire, and north of Lincoln. 9% revolt


Ayrshire - 2360 Scottish iron miners, Catholic, 8.66 ducats, no buildings, and a large 12% revolt risk.


I enact Land Reform at Lincoln. Then I move my National Focus to Cumbria. Now Yorkshrie and Ayrshire will each have 2% less revolt. Plus my armies will help there too.

[Abe Sargent]

Moving Out


Dec 7 - New mission - turn Innu into a city

Dec 16 - NLD - Apalachee

Dec 23 - Finally set up a colony in Labrador

Feb 2, 1491 - England accepts our offer of an alliance

Apr 11 - Innu expands and I sent more colonists

Apr 17 - Luneberg is released by Brandenburg in peace.

Aug 13 - Innu expands

Sept 10 - RM with England

Sept 20 - Fish in Innu

I have been the Papal Controller for a while now

Jan 16, 1492 - Workshops in Marches and Ulster

May 20 - Innu Expands

May 25 - Labrador expands

I check and see another Portugese colony established in Unami. I incite natives again.

I have a 77 chance of success, and a 48% chance of discovery It costs a spy, but little money Can we do it?

Yes, but discovered. Dead colony. I lose some prestige and drop to 72, oh no. So back south, where the islands and provinces are much richer, and leave this area to me, bastards.


June 2 - Innu took some damage from the natives. I send in more colonists to it.

I send a guarantee for the Cherokee

July 1 - Government Tech Increase

Sept 2 - Bavaria claimed Defender of the Faith

Oct 6 - Innu expands and I send in more

Nov 8 - I have 2000 Chevauchee cavalry and 3000 Galloglaigh infantry in Connaught ready to sail for the new world and be my garrison there. For now, they join the 1000 under the control of my Conquistador in Beothuk.

Jan 25, 1493 - My fleet arrives in Beothuk

Feb 7 Innu expands and more colonists are dispatched

I add Scotland to our Sphere of Influence. We lose 10 prestige

Mar 4 - What ships to leave here in the New World and which to send back home?

I keep:

6 Cogs, 4 Carracks


I order a few more Cogs for my European forces