The Spices of Oman 1444-1650 - EU4 Dynasty - Complete!

[Abe Sargent]

Who's it gonna be? Place your bets!

[Grover]

Hungary!

[Abe Sargent]

Its certainly possible?


This may help:


Places I’ve done previously:

EU2 – Oldenburg, Trebizond, Mataram, Granada

EU3 – Naxos, Irish Minor - Connacht, Songhai, Lorraine

CK – Salerno, Swedish Minor - Halsingland, Baltic Sea - Lubeck, Georgian Minor

CK2 – Aragon

EU: Rome – Arverni

Victoria II – United Provinces of Central America

[Izulde]

Somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa?

[britrock88]

Doesn't matter as much as the fact that you're writing it up!

[BYU 14]

Doesn't matter as much as the fact that you're writing it up!

This

[Abe Sargent]

Doesn't matter as much as the fact that you're writing it up!

I appreciate that!

[Abe Sargent]

Places that intrigue me:

Africa – Ethiopia, Kongo
N. America – Any decent tribe
Europe – Byzantium, Wallachia
Asia – Sukhothai, Brunei/Aceh/Makassar, Ming,
Also – A horde nation would be fun

[Grover]

Places that intrigue me:

Africa – Ethiopia, Kongo
N. America – Any decent tribe
Europe – Byzantium, Wallachia
Asia – Sukhothai, Brunei/Aceh/Makassar, Ming,
Also – A horde nation would be fun

Sukhotai or Oriat Horde would be interesting.

Ming would too, curious to see how the inevitable split would go down.

[Abe Sargent]

I would love to take Kongo the day it becomes Catholic, but how different would that be by the end to my Songhai dynasty? Ethiopia against the world sounds like fun, as the only Christian nation in 1444 in Africa, but again, how different would that be to my Georgian, Trebizond, Naxos campaigns?

The same would be true of Wallachia and Byzantium. I had two Baltic campaigns, and I’ve been in Ireland, Italy, and twice in Iberia, twice in the HRE, and such.

I’ve only done two Muslim campaigns – Songhai and Granada. I thought about doing a Muslim nation as my next choice in CK2 with all of the dlc Sons of Abraham and Sword of Islam, because that looks very fleshed out. Better than EU4 frankly.

I’ve never done North Africa, or a traditional middle eastern Arabic nation, so that would be a fun dynasty. Again, I suspect it’ll be my next CK2 dynasty though, so I’ma skip that for now.

Many of the updates to realms in EU3 expansions, like the hordes, republics, Ming, and Japan I’ve not run, and versions of them are incorporated into EU4 as well. That’d be fun, and we just had an expansion for Native Americans, so maybe it’s finally time to take one for a spin.

I’ve never done campaigns in Russia, North Africa, North or South America, Indian Subcontinent, and so forth. I’ve played one Hindu nation, and other than that it’s all Christian and Islam. So perhaps it’s time for another faith. But what are the game differences between Hindu or Buddhist other than a few minor bonuses. (Buddhism and Confucianism are exactly the same bonuses even). What’s the value of even playing them?


So my motivation for playing a non-Abrahamic religion is not strong, because the game mechanics from EU1 are still the same – a few minor bonuses. For Confucianism/Buddhism, you get +2 tolerance of heretics (in your own faith) and +1 of heathens. Whoop de doo.



In conclusion, I have a lot of experience as the lonely Orthodox voice against the Muslims, so Wallachia and Byzantium, while fun, would play into that. Here are some ideas that appeal to me, now that I have been writing.


Take Portugal, and turn it into a historically accurate model of itself at its colonial height.

Take a Malaysian power and create the nation of Malay, and built an Indies superpower (a la Mataram Rising –the most fun I’ve ever had as a dynasty.)

Play as one of the tribes of North America, and build a nation. Can I fend off the Europeans?

Play as another white Orthodox light against the dark. (Ethiopia, Wallachia, Byzantium, etc)

Play as a horde nation or Ming – for a new experience. Perhaps the Timurids?

[Abe Sargent]

I love taking one province nations and growing them. Portugal might be too easy. Expanding it realistically across the world might be rough, but it starts out in a nice place. You can ignore Europe entirely in order to focus on the goal.

I’d love to do a Malay dynasty, but I doubt I could ever truly repeat my favorite CK/EU experience of all time. So we’ll skip it.

That leaves Orthodox nation, horde/Ming or North American tribe….


I think Ethiopia might actually be too easy – multiple provinces, and can feed on people to the South for a while until big enough to start hitting the Mamluk force to the north. Byzantium is not the thing for me right now, but I have the purple phoenix DLC and that might be fun later.

That leaves Wallachia as the nation of choice for Orthodox. And no Catholic nation stands up.

So its either Wallachia or a non-Christian campaign.



This my first EU4 game. I didn’t pick it up at first. I wanted to wait until patches were released, but I’m excited. Most of the changes I’ve read about I fully endorse. So I am playing on normal difficulty with no bonuses or lucky nations.

I’ve decided to make an unusual audible. I’m not feeling any of these right now. I’m not even doing a one-province nation. Nope, we’re doing this easy style. I like the idea of a Portuguese themed dynasty, but let’s not do it as Portugal…




So who will I be?

[Abe Sargent]

BEDTIME! (But I am excited to play this nation)

[Abe Sargent]

The Sultanate of Oman


Long may Sultan Mahzum Nabhan reign! His 14 year old heir is strong, Sulayman Nabhan.

Our Bedouin state welcomes foreigners and trade, while we celebrate our Shi’ite traditions.

I am the Dapir of the Sultanate. We are nested along the coast of the great Arabian Peninsula, land of great wonders and mysteries. It is a land both harsh and welcoming.

I have served the Nabhans for more than 20 years. My family’s inheritance is to serve in the role of Dapir, the great scribe and advisor to our nation. Our current Sultan is not the most capable scion of his family. He has just 1/1/2 skills. (Admin, Diplo, Military). But we have high hopes for Sulayman.


Oman is a great and mighty nation, divided into five districts. We are lucky to be free of many of the local squabbles, so we can get involved when we want, but we can also ignore our neighbors and focus on trade, building, and exploration. Our family has several dreams for the nation.

1) We need an alliance with a major power.
2) We want to become the premier trading nation in the Indian Ocean. There are many great nations along the area, but we want to be the dominant one.
3) We have to control a proper navy in order to meet our goals.
4) We would like to colonize the Indian Ocean.
5) We need to fend off the overly hostile Yemen. They are blatantly seeking our elimination. Probably because they are Sunni.
6) Similarly, the adjacent Najd is also very aggressively looking towards us. Both neighbors are Sunni, and it gets a little too hot here.
7) We eventually want to see Mecca in Shi’ite hands.
8) In light of these things, it seems necessary to build our nation militarily, as well as diplomatically.
9) Nearby one province nation Haasa is Shi-ite as well, and could be a good early ally.

And with Allah’s help, we will accomplish these things!

[Abe Sargent]

Here are the five districts of Oman: All are Shi’ite and Bedouin and have level 2 forts.

Muscat is the capital of mighty nation. It’s taxbase of 5 is the second d highest in the Peninsula, behind just Mecca itself at 6. Medina has a 4, and there are a few 3s (Tabouk, Asir, Mocha, and Suhar).Muscat is a Important Center of Trade and receives many benefits including better navies and trade. The spice trade is rife here and we make 12.60 ducats in taxes and production. It is next to our province sof Suhar, Nizwa and Dhofar.

Dhofar is southwest of Muscat and along the coast. It is our only border with Yemen’s province of Mahra. The spice trade continues here and with a tax value of 2, it makes 7.32 ducats for us.

Nizswa – The Arid province of Nizwa is island of Muscat and Dhofar, and next to Suhar and the Najd province of Liwa. As an Arid district, it suffers from attrition penalties. It also has a tax power of 2 and spices and thus features 7.32 ducats.

Those three provinces all send trade to the Gulf of Aden trade node. The next two ship it to the Indus one.



Suhar – Along the coast northwest of Muscat is this wool making province. With a tax value of 3, it has the second highest tax base in our area, but the lower value of its trade goods means it gives us just 5.00 ducats. Adjact to Muscat, Nizwa, Najd’s in Liwa, and our last province, Qawasim, Suhar is strategically located to assist more places in Oman than any other, and to strike at Najd.

Qawasim – The little peninsula that creates the south edge of the Persian Gulf is this small province. Next to Liwa, and Beni Yas of Najd’s fame, as well as our own Suhar, it’s a bit exposed. With a tax base of 2, and another set of wool, it clocks in at 3.95 ducats.

We have two merchants out – one gathering money from the Gulf of Aden node and the other siphoning it over there from the Indus one. Yemen is currently the dominant presence in the Aden node.

[Abe Sargent]

Najd has six provinces, and Yemen seven. Both are not friendly, so we need to secure our border before we begin heading out there.

Oman is in a good position to dominate. We are making 2.46 ducats monthly. We have 9920 manpower spare with a max of 11840. We have a completely legitimate Sultan. We need to raise our stability and take some plans for ourselves, which may happen here soon.

We have no claims on any other land.

Just five nations in the world are Shi’ite. More than 40 are Sunni. We need to change that.



We have 4000 infantry and 1000 cavalry in Muscat. We have a fleet of 8 ships, including 3 transports and 5 light ships. We have a naval limit of 10 and an army one of 7.

[Coffee Warlord]

Nice. I've considered giving Oman a shot myself.

[Abe Sargent]

Nice. I've considered giving Oman a shot myself.

I hope I do you justice!

[Abe Sargent]

A map of the area for you!

https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1136x639q90/199/tquj.jpg



You can easily see the relative locations of the major players - Haasa, Najd, Yemen, Hedjaz, Oman, and then Mamluks, Ethiopia, Adal, Ajuuraan, Qara Koyunlu and others are in the outer layer of the area.

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[Portiere]

Interesting that the game considers Oman to be Shia. Actually, Omanis are mostly Ibadi (http://islam.uga.edu/ibadis.html), neither Shia nor Sunni. Its a purist but quite tolerant form of Islam.

Oman is an interesting place--I'll look forward to reading this

[Abe Sargent]

Interesting that the game considers Oman to be Shia. Actually, Omanis are mostly Ibadi (http://islam.uga.edu/ibadis.html), neither Shia nor Sunni. Its a purist but quite tolerant form of Islam.

Oman is an interesting place--I'll look forward to reading this


Awesome!


Well, I'ma push the Shi'ite angle, cause that's who we are in the game, and I hope you don't mind overly much ;)

[Abe Sargent]

I order the light ships to protect trade in Aden. I disband the transport Cogs. We don’t need them yet.

I suggest that the Sultan become a general and put him over our army. I order the army to Suhar.

We declare Yemen and Najd as rivals. We send an alliance offer to Haasa. We expect that to result in an affirmative response. We also dispatch an envoy to Shi’ite nation Qara Qoyunlu.



14 Nov, 1444 – We hear back that both diplomatic efforts have succeeded.

I accept a mission to free our comrades in Beni Yas against Najd. We have gained a CB against them. I order 2000 infantry mercenaries assembled in Qawasim

Nov 28 – I accept a marriage offer from Haasa.

Dec 7 – I accept an alliance offer from Qara Koyunlu

Both Najd and Yemen have made us their rivals too.

[Abe Sargent]

Allah favors the bold. He gives strength to those who strike in his name.

5 Jan, 1445 – I declare war on Najd for Beni Yas. They are already trying to convert the Shi’ite province of Liwa. We cannot stand for this!

11 Jan – We win a skirmish with our navy in the Straits of Hormuz.

14 Jan – Good news and bad news. Our Sultan died today, long may he reign in our hearts and minds in Allah’s repose! Our new Sultan is Sulayman Nabhan, who is 4/4/3 and much more glorious!


19 Jan – Our army arrives and begins the siege of Beni Yas – troops are being frantically assembled by Najd.

24 Jan – Qara Koyunlu now guarantees Haasa’s independence.

10 April – A large force of 6000 Najdi troops arrives to force us out.

10 May – They lose and we continue the siege.

15 May – 11000 Qara Koyunlu forces have arrived inland in the Peninsula and are attacking Najd there.

3 Dec – The Mameluks joined an alliance with Najd.

22 Dec – We get walls breaches, and I order an assault

18 Jan, 1446 - - We have captured Beni Yas.

I order us to Qatar.

2 May – Qara Koyunlu captured another Najdi province.

7 May – We take Beni Yas and force Najd to break their alliance with Mamluks and we get a little money.

We gain prestige from both the war and the completed mission.



Beni Yas – West along the coast of the peninsula from Qawasim is this province we captured from our foes. I spend some admin power to make this a core. It has a tax value of 1 and trades wool. It is next to our foes in Qatar. It now landlocks their province of Liwa, which is surrounded by us.

[Abe Sargent]

I dismand our mercs.

I boost our stability twice by spending some power we had stored. Our better king is helping a lot with that.


I accept a mission to forge a claim on Qatar.

We discovered an agent of Yemen’s forging a claim in Dhofar.


25 May – Hedjaz accepts a royal marriage offer from us.

29 May – Adal accepts our offer as well. That’s good, Adal is Yemen’s ally.

26 June – I accept an alliance offer from Hedjaz.

I send a diplomat out to begin to fabricate a claim in Qatar.

I proclaim a guarantee for Haasa too.

5 July – We get an event for a claim on Liwa. Perfect!


16 Aug – The mamluks are guaranteeing the Najd’s independence.

23 Oct – I hire a Treasurer to increase our admin and tax modifier.

29 Oct – Haasa and Qara Koyunlu are now in an alliance too.

I order 2000 troops in Dhofar built using the blood money from the war.

[Abe Sargent]

7 Nov – Hedjaz declares war on Yemen.

28 Nov – I accept Hedjaz’s call to arms and order the army in Beni Yas to Dhofar.

21 Feb, 1447 – We arrive in Mahra to begin a siege with all 7000 of our troops.

We are currently making 1.68 ducats monthly with the upkeep for our units and the advisor.

14 May – We lose badly against a superior Yemeni force and are ousted.

10 June – We get a National Epic for a decade for our people.

6 July – We gain a claim on Qatar and finish the mission

The next one chosen is to take Qatar.

24 July - We captured some Yemeni ships in a few battles.

4 Aug – Their forces begin a siege in Dhofar. I order our troops to try them out. They just lost a battle in Mahra to Hedjaz, so I might be able to force them.

13 Sept – And we do win. I order our forces to Mahra.

11 Jan, 1448 – Beni Yas is now officially a core province.

2 Feb – I increase our stability to max

9 Jul – I lose 25 piety to bring in men of science to our land form Christian lands.

1 Aug – Hedjaz lost a major battle against the combined forces of Yemen and Adal.

17 Nov – We capture Mahra. I order our forces into deeper Yemen.

12 jan, 1449 – We lose in the siege of deeper.

20 Feb – We capture another Yemeni ship – we now have our max ten ships.

12 Jun – We win again and drive the Yemeni forces back.

16 jan, 1450 – We assault and capture another province.

22 April – I sue for peace with Yemen independently of Hedjaz, who is holding us back. The overall warscore is +1 but ours is really high. We take Mahra, even though it makes us look a little bad. I could have taken just Hadhramaut, which is better, but I wanted the contiguous district. We get some financial stuff too.


I disband our mercs.


Mahra – Beduin and Sunni, this 1 tax base province just makes fish. Plus its Arid. It gives a nice land connection to Yemen in Hadhramaut. Very little money from it. I order a core for here instead of a missionary – I don’t want the added revolt risk. It’s already at 10%.

[Abe Sargent]

We should be able to increase tech soon in military and diplomacy.

10 May – I offer military access to Haasa

15 June – We are given military access too.

4 July – I choose to gain piety and lose some ducats when I take out infidels in Muscat.

13 July – I send a diplomat to Haasa to increase our relations

25 March, 1451 – Yemen took Asir from Hedjaz in peace.

10 Aug – A rebellion begins in Mahra

29 Aug – We put it down

Jan 2, 1452 – We have enough diplomacy and I am now tech 4. We can now build docks and marketplaces.

17 Apr – Another 1000 cavalry is finished and moves to Mahra.

1 May – We have enough to purchase tech level 4, military style! It bumps our military and we can build armories

4 July – Mahra is now a core province. I order a missionary here.

1 Sept – We gain tech in Admin and are now level 4.

We can now add a group of ideas, our first!


Which ones do I like?

Trade Ideas – let’s enhance our trade presence!

Offensive Ideas or Quality Ones – To enhance our troops in various ways!

Exploration Ideas – Let’s get ready to explore!

Espionage Ideas – I’m a fan of spies and such!

Admin Ideas – Good for building our nation!


It’s not really a question – say hello to Exploration!

[Abe Sargent]

We have a maxed relations with Haasa.


I order my army to Beni Yas to prepare us to take Qatar.


With my low manpower, I order 2000 army mercs there to meet us.


1 Jan, 1453 – I declare war against Najd for Qatar.

20 Jan – A siege of Qatar has begun

5 Apr – They defeat Haasa and begin a siege there.

30 May – They break of the siege at 7000 troops from Qara Koyunlu arrive to siege their deeper territory.

20 Sept – They return to restart the siege in Haasa’s one province of Al Hasa.

6 Jan, 1454 – We capture Qatar. I order my force to break their siege in Al Hasa.

9 Jan – They break ff their siege to run away from my forces, so I change and order them to Liwa to begin a siege there.

25 Mar – I get an early walls breached result and I order an assault

4 Apr – We capture Liwa. I order my troops back into Najd territory

The Mamluks are in the war too, apparently. I must have missed they had reupped their alliance.

1 Jun – I order to win this war quickly with 15k Mamluks troops besieging Al Hasa, I order a quick assault and capture Najd, the capital.


7 June – I force peace now for Qatar and some gold from Mamluks. I could have pushed for Liwa against just Najd, but with Mamluks breathing down the neck, it was the best time for peace.

I gain a lot of prestige and power in various areas for our missions.

I order the mercs disbanded and our forces to Qatar.

Qatar – The Sunni Bedouins here make wool and have a taxvalue of 2. I order a core here. We are adjacent to Al Hasa with our friends Haasa.

[Abe Sargent]

20 July – Haasa agrees to become our vassal.

Post war, I have 53 ducats and I’m making 1.4 a month.

29 July – Yeman has Adal has a protectorate and has guaranteed the independence of Haasa. Both of us are expanding.

I missed but in that war Ethiopia became a protectorate of Mamluks.

15 Aug – I send a diplomat to set up in Ajuuraan, in the Horn of Africa, to begin to build relations.

24 Aug - I order a Marketplace built in Muscat

Our next mission is claim Hadhramuaut from Yemen, so I send a diplomat over ot do just that!

6 Jan, 1455 – Yemen is now allied with the Timurids.

8 Jan - The Mamluks have become the overlords of new vassal Najd. Uh oh.

Already, the will of Allah has grown strong. Trebizond was taken out by Aq Qoyunlu. Crimea and Qara Koyunlu have reduced Georgia to one province.


I currently have a 78% positive piety. It gives me better morale for my forces, better missionary strength and better fort defense.

We are currently ranked 13th in the world (Qara K is 14th). It’s France, Timurids, Burgundy, Ming, Austria, Ottomans, Castile, Mamluks, Tuscany, Lithuania, Portugal, Milan, Oman, Qara K and England wrapping up the top 15 scores.

[Abe Sargent]

13 May - We gain a trade CB against Yemen when they threaten our trade.

4 July – the captured province of Mahra is now Shi’ite.

Having a nice ruler really helps monarch points. We are gaining more than 100 a year in two categories.


21 Oct – We have claimed the province of Hadhramaut in Yemen. We gain prestige and military power from our mission being completed. Our next mission is to Conquer Hadhramaut!


Now that Mahra is fully of our faith and a core province, we get 3.37 ducats from her and her revolt risk is gone.


We send our diplomat to enhance relations with the Ottomans

5 Dec – Revolt in Qatar

12 Dec - Is now defeated

11 March, 1456 – We invest in the national idea of Colonial Ventures

2 May – I order a marketplace in Suhar.

15 May – Qatar is now a core province and I order our missionary there.

2 Aug – Our piety increased in an event to send away infidel merchants. With it maxed, we get +3% missionary strength, +25% morale of armies and +254% fort defense.


While we now have colonists, we have no where to send them

5 March, 1457 – Our relations with Ajuuraan have reached 100. We order our diplomat to the nation of Kilwa, on the coast of Africa.

Our army is ordered to Mahra and another 1000 cavalry are built here.

16 July, 1458 – I choose our nation in offensive strength, and for 10 years we gain better armies.

30 July – I order our diplomat to return from the Ottomans

11 Sept – Qatar converts. We now get 4.52 ducats from it.

[Abe Sargent]

28 Sept _ I declare war on Yemen for Hadhramaut


I order our army in!

24 jan, 1459 – I assault and take it after their morale dropped badly. I order them to Aden

20 Feb – I hire 2000 mercs in Mahra

We have a siege of Najran by Hedjaz forces and they beat the Yemeni army in Mecca.

14 May – I break off a unit and hit their army in Sana’a and win.

17 June – We pursued them to Mocha and broke them.

8 Aug – I choose to prepare for Ramadan.

29 Oct – Aden falls and I move our troops ot the siege in Mocha.

4 jan, 1460 – Najran falls to Hedjaz.

17 Feb – After a nasty assault, we take Sana’a after Hedjaz forces assist us.

6 Mar – Relations with Kilwa are up to 100.

5 May – After a quick assault, Yemen recaptures Najran

3 June – We capture Mocha after an assault of our own and move into Najran via Sana’a.


3 July – Hedjaz is besieging Asir, their own province.

2 Aug – An event off our advisor triggered and we gained some monarch power.

15 Nov – We get walls breached on Najran and assault it. It has fallen to us

I order our troops to Asir.

9 Jul, 1461 – Asir falls o Hedjaz.

Now we’ve pushed them into a corner. I take both Hadhramaut and Aden from Yemen as well as trade stuff.


I order our army to Hadhramaut.


Hadhramaut – 2 tax value, the Bedouin, Sunnis here live in an Arid coastal wool-producing state next to Mahra ,Najran, Aden and Sana’a. I order a core here.


Aden – Also 2 tax value, another spices province with Sunni Bedouin roots. I order a core here too. Aden is also a center of trade.


Allah smiles on our efforts this day!

[Tellistto]

Nice to see you back, Abe. Following along.

Tell

[Abe Sargent]

Nice to see you back, Abe. Following along.

Tell

Thanks thanks!

[Abe Sargent]

Allah's will is for us to explore.


I select Achieve Religious Unity as our next mission


We unlock the Quest for the New World idea – that enables us to have explorers and conquistadors.

We also upgrade to Admin Tech 5 – That gives us the ability to build temples and constables.


Meet Umar Khoury, a Conquistador we just purchased! We order two Cogs built with 2000 cavalry led by Umar Khoury to load it up.



12 Nov - We see some land in the Seychelles so I order our troops to disembark and explore it.


24 Nov – We have discovered the island of Mahe! But it’s too far away from our people to colonize – 171 range and we have just 160. I order the fleet to return. I should have enough diplo power to recruit an explorer in a month or two, and then I’ll give this fleet a trio of barques and begin full on exploring.

2 Jan, 1462 – Meet Ya’rub Khoury, our new explorer! The Khoury brothers will explore the Indian Ocean for the greater glory of Oman and Allah!


28 Feb – We lose 20 legitimacy in order to submit to the Iman.

20 April – We have discovered Diego Suarez Bay.

12 June – And now the Coast of Tamatave. I order our fleet to return for docking and repairs.


25 July – I choose not to tax the clergy in an event. We gain piety and prestige.

1 Aug – I order a marketplace built in Dhofar.

22 Nov – Our forces land in Boina, on the north side of a large island. Native there assault us. They have 9000 aggressive and ferocious natives there!

30 Nov – We lose against them and Umar Khoury and our troops die! I order the fleet to do some exploring, and 2000 troops built to replace them.

7 Jan, 1463 – We discover the Mascarene Plateau to the SE of Mahe.

Umar Khoury made it back alive! We assign him to another unit

This time we just use 1000 infantry – easy to replace.

[Abe Sargent]

2 Apr – We have a rebellion in Hadhramaut

12 Apr – And we put it down

11 June – Our explorer discovers the Coast of Tamatave, on the east cost of the large island we found. We also discover the area of Antananarivo. It also has 9000 angry natives.

17 July – Hadhramaut is now a core so we order our Missionary to it.

Mahe is now in our colonial range, so I order our colonist to the island.

25 July, We discover Taolagnaro Bay, to the south of the large island called Madagascar. I order the fleet to return. We’ll come back later to explore the southern area some more.

27 July – Rebels in Aden!

27 Aug – The rebels are put down

16 Oct – Aden is now a core.

4 Jan, 1464 – While sailing near to India, we find the Equatorial Counter Current around the Maldives. They have 1000 aggressive and ferocious natives there.

14 April – I order a Temple in Muscat

1 June – We purchase Level 5 Military Tech. We get Muslim Duel Infantry upgrades and extra combat width and infantry shock increases.

4 June – We order the Formalizing of Scales, Weights and Measures. It costs some Admin Power and we gain a +5% tax modifier for the rest of the campaign


30 July – We discover the Western Equatorial Counter Current east of Mahe.

We are now using Mahe as a base of operations for exploring.

[Abe Sargent]

26 Oct – We choose to celebrate Eid al-Fitr for three days and invite everyone! It costs us some ducats, but we gain some Admin Power.

28 Dec – We discover the Mascareignes, to the SE of Diego Suarez Bay,

16 Jan, 1465 – We find the Island of Bourbon in this place with our Conquistador. It is nativeless.

13 Feb – Mauritius has 500 natives and is in the same area as Bourbon.

1 Jul – We discover the Central Indian Ocean

24 Aug – I order a Temple in Suhar.

31 Oct – Hadhramaut is now Shi-ite – praise Allah. May Aden be next! I move my army to Aden.

1 Jan, 1466 – Just a quick check reveals we have 240 settlers on Mahe. We need a full 1000 to have a city.

2 Feb – We discover the Western Indian Ocean South Equatorial Current


14 July – We discover the Chagos Archipelago


1 Aug – I have a nasty event. Execute a popular bailiff or let him continue despite his bad rule. Both are bad results – either I lose a stability of 33 prestige. I choose the prestige.
16 Dec – We take Overseas Exploration and our colonial range increases by 50%. We have also unlocked our Local Merchant Prefecture, which gives us +33% trade steering.


5 Jan, 1467 – We discover the island of Diego Garcia, south of the Maldives, in the Chagos Archipelago. It has no natives.

7 Jan – The colonial company responsible for our colony in Mahe has shipped in marriageable women, and it increases by 200 people.

23 Jan – Mahe will be a fishing economy.

12 May – I order a Constable in Muscat


25 June – We uncover the Madagascar Basin.

I return to Mahe and begin to move down the African coast.


15 Dec – We discover the Coast of Natal

17 Jan, 1468 – And the Coast of Transki

[Abe Sargent]

16 Feb – Aden is now Shi’ite, we finish our mission, and we gain a lot of power.

Lots of land in the Timurid Empire is under rebel control. I can see 23000 rebels besieging a local villa.

Our next mission is to conquer Mocha and take it from Yemen.


27 May, while sailing along the coast, the final section of Madagascar is revealed – Menabe, a land of 9000 natives as well.

9 July 0 We discover the Coast of Ciskei as well as Xhosa, a mainland local unclaimed area with 7000 nasty natives.

25 Aug – We arrive in the Cape of Good Hope. We uncover another mainland place, Lesser Namaqualand. Just 500 natives, but aggressive to the max.


2 Jan, 1469 – I wasn;t planning on hitting Yemen again this quickly, but with their major ally, the Timurids, in huge trouble, this is the perfect time.

I declare war for Mocha!


I order our 10000 troops into Mocha to fight Yemen’s 5000 defenders.

25 Jan – We win in Mocha

23 Apr – I land some forces on Sumatra, the island controlled by Yemen.

11 May – After a quick assault Mocha falls. I order that army to Sana’a

21 May – We arrive in Socotra and defeat the 1000 troops there.

27 May – We also win in Sana’a

7 July – We win a huge naval battle against the Timurids off the Coast of Oman.



3 Aug – Mahe has grown enough to be self sustaining!

I order a fort built in Mahe

12 Sept – I land more forces in Socotra

25 Nov _ I dispatched a large army from Sana’a while leaving behind enough to siege, and took out another Yemeni army of 3000 in Mocha.

10 Jan, 1470- An assault on Sana’a fails. Ugh.

13 June – Socotra is ours

17 June – As is Sana’a.

21 Feb, 1471 – Failed assault on Najran. Grrr…

8 May – Najran falls.

29 June – Asir is taken by Hedjaz.

Every Yemeni province is in our hands. Too bad the Timurids are in charge of the war, or else I could force Yemen into a bad spot here.


We take Mocha and Socotra




Mocha – Up the coast from Aden in the Red Sea is this coffee trading area. With a tax value of 3 and Sunni Bedouin culture, it’s a wealthy area.

Socotra – This island, off the coast of the Horn of Africa sees people work the fish trade with a tax value of 2.

I order both to be encored.

I move the army to Mocha for now.

I take achieve religious unity again.

[Abe Sargent]

With Mahe as a base, I can go lots of places.

I hire a Navigator, diplomatic advisor. I got trade benefits from the Timurids and I can afford a level 3 guy, that’s huge tech advancement in an area I have been devoting to ideas, not tech development., He gives me a huge colonial range bonus.

Now I can go even more places.


I send colonists to Bourbon.



I spend the power to gain level 6 Admin. We can now build farm estates and get bonus production efficiency.

3 Aug – We lose our claim on Liwa.

Najd is currently guaranteed by about 20 nations, and is a vassal of the mighty Mamluks. Plus its provinces are less valuable than Yemen, and Yemen was a stronger one 1:1. So we’ve hit the Yemeni scum hard.


6 Aug – We enter into a royal marriage with Gujarat.

11 Aug – We accept an alliance offer from Gujarat.

2 Sept – We guarantee Hedjaz’s independence.

29 Sept – We discover another counter current south-east of Ceylon

21 Jan, 1472 – Rebellion in Socotra. I still have a small army there.

24 Jan – Our colonial company goes bankrupt, I pay some money to step in and end things.

30 Jan – Socotra is secure once more

5 July – We discover Ninetyeast Ridge.

6 Aug – I agree to give Crimea military access.

21 Sept – I do the same for Nogai and grant then access. Whatever folks.

Because of the distance our ships have from Mahe, I will send out a major expedition next, and send them out for several areas and then have them get repaired for months and months

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1473 – I order a Temple in Nizwa

2 Feb – I accept military access request from the Ottomans

25 Feb – We discover Cocos Islands

21 March – Discover Coast of Sumatra.

14 April – We discover the Coast of Aceh. I send our people back.

18 May – We uncover a plot by the Timurids to manufacture a claim in Suhar against us

6 July – Mocha is now a core and our best Shi’ite missionaries have been sent to redeem our wayward brothers


I order two more transports and another small vessel constructed.

25 July – A quick glance at the ledger places us third behind France and Ming.

I send a diplomat to begin to process of annexing Haasa, which will take more than a decade.

6 Sept – Socotra is now a core of our great nation!

I send my explorer fleet to Bourbon to rest up and use it as our new base and head southward.


2 June, 1474 – We discover the Southwestern Indian Ridge

6 July – Bourbon will now be a sugar province. Excellent!

7 July – We discover Kerguelen Islands.

20 Aug – I continue to get minor events that allow me to choose two sides, each of which will either lower or raise my piety with no other major consequences, so I keep raising it.

19 Nov – We discover the Crozet Basin…

2 Jan, 1475 - …And the Crozet Islands

6 Mar, we spend power to go to level 5 diplomatic tech. Our trade range increases, and we get better trade tech.

15 Aug – Temple ordered in Aden


1 Jan, 1476 – We discover the Natal Basin

17 Jan – And the Marion Island area to its South

11 Mar – Mocha converts and now its onwards to Socotra!

[JonInMiddleGA]

5 Jan, 1467 – We discover the island of Diego Garcia, south of the Maldives, in the Chagos Archipelago. It has no natives.

Okay, question(s) here.

With that "discovery", do you see what it could produce in terms of goods/trade/etc if it were populated with colonists? Or is that an extra step of exploration?

Ultimately what I'm trying to figure out here -- I think -- is whether an uninhabited island is a plus (if it had some other value) because you don't have to fight for it or is that a bad thing (either practically or from a role-playing perspective) because there's no one there to convert?

[britrock88]

Map?

[Abe Sargent]

Okay, question(s) here.

With that "discovery", do you see what it could produce in terms of goods/trade/etc if it were populated with colonists? Or is that an extra step of exploration?

Ultimately what I'm trying to figure out here -- I think -- is whether an uninhabited island is a plus (if it had some other value) because you don't have to fight for it or is that a bad thing (either practically or from a role-playing perspective) because there's no one there to convert?

In the first two EU games, you knew exactly what a province would give you once you colonized it. But that didn;t give you the same sense of uncertainty. So now you have a random chance of certain types for each place. So you might get fish for an island that used to be Naval Supplies (aka lumber) or Slaves instead of Grain from that African place, and such.

It's a plus because it takes fewer resources, which is good right now. Islands on trade routes will enhance your trade bonus at that node if you have merchants there, even if the island doesn't have a lot going for it. They also have a tax value, although that's cut for overseas tax penalties.

[Abe Sargent]

24 June – Qara Koyunlu wants us to aid in their war against Persia. Persia just formed from the rebel areas in Timurids. It’s very large – 10 provinces big Persia. We accept. Timurids with their money loss to us probably couldn’t handle it. They have their allies to blame!

13 July – Today the Mamluks annexed diplomatically the Najd provinces of Bahrain, Liwa, Najd, and Jabal Shammar,


15 Nov – We discover another random southern space in the Indian Ocean.

30 Jan, 1477 – We get a colonist rush for five years, increasing our settler chance and global settler increase.

18 March – We discover another random ocean area

17 Apr – And another discovery

2 May – Great news. Bourbon is now a fully city and self supporting. We order a fort here.


Diego Garcia is our next target. We dispatch settlers there

12 June – Influenza outbreak in Muscat. I can Quarantine it or not. We do, and Muscat will be money-less and trade less for a year or so


11 August – I accept military access request from Mamluks

4 May, 1478 – We are now using Diego Garcia as a base for exploration east and south

10 June – Mecca has been captured by rebels.

25 July – Socotra is now Shi’ite – praise be to Allah for guiding our hand.

We have completed that mission and gained prestige and lots of power.

Our next mission is to take Asir from Yemen.

The Mamluks also have a claim on it

6 Aug – I grant aid to a noble family in need.


2 Oct – I defeat some pirates.

27 Dec – We are at war with Persia now, Qara Koyunlu took a province from them and some gold

29 Jan, 1479 – I have finished building some other armies in Mocha/


2 Feb – Our Explorer has passed! Our new one is Sultan Moussa!

18 Mar – Mamluks canceled the access we gave them. I send them a gift and a diplomat to build relations with them


4 Apr – Our Military tech is now level 7. We get better tactics, combat width and infantry shock

14 Apr – We hear that Diego Garcia is going to also have a fish-based economy, like Mahe.


21 June – Mecca has been freed from those rebel barbarians


4 Nov – We discover Wallaby Plateau

9 Dec – And the West Australian Basin

[Abe Sargent]

I have fun little names of my save games for my dynasty. My most recent one is called "Spices and Scimitars" Just though I'd share that.

[Abe Sargent]

Allah calls



14 Jan, 1480 – I declare war for Asir on Yemen – their alliance with the Timuids was over. Just them and Sind.

Gujarat leaves us alone but Haasa and Hedjaz join us.


19 Feb – We oust the defending forces and begin a siege of Asir. I leave behind a siege unit and move on to Najran, where 6000 Yemeni forces gather


23 March – We win in Najran and begin a siege here too.

2 Apr – Some mercs arrived in Sana’a

24 Oct – Najran falls to us. Again.

12 Nov – Sana’a does too. Again.

27 Dec – Our combined armies with 7000 Hedjaz forces assault and take Asir.

We have a 100% war score in one year. Good job lads!

I have several options. I can annex them. I can vassalize them and change their religion to Shi’ite. I can just take my province.

The difference between annexing them (41.2 aggressive expansion relations) and just vassalizing and forcing their conversion (15 aggressive expansion relations) is huge.

So I do that and have them break their treaty with Sind and send me some ducats too!

Adal is removed from Yemen’s protectorate status.


Now our border with Yemen is secure. The Hedjaz is an ally and friend, despite their Sunni status.

[Abe Sargent]

14 Jan, 1481 – Well that didn’t last long. Hedjaz broke their alliance with us.

9 Feb – We now have Admin tech 7, allowing Noble Republic and another group of ideas.

Which group will we choose this time?



I like:

Expansion Ideas – With its extra colonist early, extra merchant next. But it’s another Diplo idea, and I may not have enough stuff to help them out.

Economic Ideas - Give bonuses to taxes, build cost and such. The -20% build cost at the second level is a huge help to building alone.

Quality Ideas – Comes with bonuses to infantry, cavalry and such all down the line

Offensive Ideas – Same thing, helps our armies out considerably.

So what to do?

I don’t need another colonist. I don’t need to be a colonizing fool. I don’t expect Oman all over the Americas or anything. I like Naval ideas for later, but its diplo too.

Ummm

We’ll do Expansion I suppose. It has a lot of good things in there.

I have 415 diplo power after the war, so I immediately give myself the +1 colonists. Then I order colonists to Mauritius

[Abe Sargent]

17 April – We find the Cocos Island province after landing there with our Conquistador. It has 100 nice natives.

20 Sept – Our Conquistador arrives at Christmas Island. It also has 100 peaceful natives.

24 Jan, 1482 – We get a Diplomatic Faux Pas and lose relations with everyone for five years from it

12 Mar – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Yemen

20 May – We discover more water along the Sumatran Coast

14 July – We order a Temple in Mocha

10 Aug – We get trade expansion event and for the next 10 years increased trade revenue but are weaker ot spies

20 Nov – We uncover the Coast of Java

We have found two unclaimed lands here Banten and Priangen. Both are on the island of Java, and have thousands of angry natives.

15 Dec – We discover the Coast of Surabaya.

2 Feb, 1483 – Diego Garcia is now a full province and fully self-sustaining! I order a fort here and we order Colonists to Cocos Island

4 March – Sana’a was converted to Shi’ite. Praise Allah!



10 Aug – We relocate my explores to Cocos Island and use it as a new base to head east and south

18 Aug – Mauritius will be a Sugar province too, like Bourbon.

15 Nov – The Northern West Australian Current was discovered

12 Dec – We also found the Wrest Australian Current

23 Feb, 1484 – Temple ordered is Qawasim

17 May – Our Admiral guy died. I hired a second level dude who increases my power. I also nab an Army Reformer and a Natural Scientist – both level 1 guys


20 June – We discovered the East Indian Ocean

8 Dec - We discover Northwest Cape

20 June, 1485 – We discover King Sound

2 July – We have integrated Haasa into our great nation.



Al Hasa – The wool trade is strong here with our shepherds an important part of life. Just a tax value of one, and thus it makes 4.28 ducats. The Arid land is next to Qatar, Mamluks in Najd and Jabal Shammar, and Qara Koyunlu in Basra.

We gained their 4000 troops and 2 ship strong fleet as well.

[Abe Sargent]

I just looked and noticed that Yemen changed their faith back to Sunni some time ago and re-converted their populace. That’s annoying.



I unlock Additional Merchants in the Expansion Idea track

I go to collect in Zanzibar.



29 July – We arrive in the Timor Sea. We found a nearby island of Sumba. 500 natives here, very aggressive


I send a diplomat to improve relations with Yemen


10 Apr, 1486 0 We discover Arafuam Sea

24 May – We find the Gulf of Carpentaria

17 Aug – I get a rush of merchants and gain an extra merchant for five years. I send him to Basra to transfer trade power

26 Aug – I buy a Temple for Hadhramaut and Mahra

27 Nov – I begin to work on relations with Adal

28 Dec – I accept an alliance offer from Adal. Filling in Yemen’s gap!

29 Jan, 1487 – We get an Improved Diplomacy event

2 Feb – We find the Southeastern Indian Ridge

8 Mar-0 And then the South Indian Ocean

1 Jul – Mauritius is now self sustaining. I order a fort here

I load 1000 infantry bound for the Maldives.

5 Oct – I land in the Maldives, fightoff some native,s and then order a colony here.

15 Nov – We find Shark Bay

14 Dec – And then another ocean area

14 Jan, 1488 – And another

15 May – Native uprising in the Maldives which we put down

19 Dec – I pull my advisors and send them to Adal and Mamluks to improve relations

1 Mar, 1489 – We discover Cape Leuwiin

26 Mar – And now Cape Howe

We found the province of Wadjuk on the southwest corner of this large land mass, Australia

5 May – We discover the Great Australian Bight

2 June – The local population in Maldives becomes more accommodating to our presence and the ferocity there drops some – still leaving our troops here though.

[Abe Sargent]

Map?

Sorry, just noticed. Sure thing! I'll do a few at the 50 year review for ya.

[Abe Sargent]

4 Jan, 1491 – We buy new admin tech level 8. We can now build courthouses and workshops

20 Jan – Great news! The Maldives also is found to be a great producer and exporter of Spices!

4 Feb – We arrive peacefully at Gubbi Gubbi. We have fully explored the eastern part of Australia with our folks. There are nine provinces here. I order our troops back.

6 March – We reach max relations with the Mamluks via our diplomat and he returns.

7 June – Our Conquistadors loaded onto a boat in the Bass Strait and then went onto an island to the south and uncovered Paredarerme We head back to Cocos after loading up

11 July – Adal has accepted our offer to become our Protectorate.

I cancel my mission

22 Nov – We defeat Pirates in the Chagos Archipelago off the coast of Diego Garcia.

1 Jan, 1492 – Our military tech increase to 7. We get Houfnice, Large Cast Bronze Mortar, and extra infantry, artillery, and tactics.

We can now build artillery! I order 1000 artillery built. I order a Temple in Qatar


2 Feb – We get an event and encourage the Encomienda System, where natives under our care are protecting, tutored, and give free labor in return. Maldives loses 5 aggressiveness and gains +100% goods produced for 5 years

20 June – We discover the South Australian Basin.

19 Aug – And we discover the Southern Tasman Sea

21 Aug – We have a plague outbreak in in Socotra, and we help them out.

24 Aug – Someone has given a gift to the estate! We use it to build a Temples in Dhofar and a Marketplace in Aden and two large ships

21 Mar, 1493 – We get a National Epic event - our prestige will rise over the next ten years

27 Sept – I have ordered our explorers to Africa again. We found Inhambane, just south of the nation of Kilwa, on the coast. 3000 angry natives. We also uncovered Delagoa Bay, just south, with another 7000 nasty natives. We will continue on

10 Nov – Our Conquistador arrives at the province of Little Karoo, in the southern area of Africa, and discovers the province of Cape as he arrives. Natives protest their presence.

16 Nov – We win and order our forces inland

10 Dec – Kilwa has absorbed Ajuuraan.

4 Jan, 1494 – We arrive in Great Karoo, and are attacked by the 500 natives here. It’s inland from Xhosa, Cape and Little Karoo

10 Jan – We win the battle and our men are ordered onward. The great Kalahari desert is north, so we head west.

11 Mar – Our mighty men uncover the area of Roggeveld. Another 500 natives are here, and we are adjacent to the shore province of Lesser Namaqualand. I order them to return.

23 Mar – We’ve been having problems in Cocos Island, so a suggestion is made to set up a Pena Colony, which will also increase the revolt risk by 3% there for 25 years. I agree. The tropical climate is rough to establish a colony. This could help

9 June – Our Conquistador loaded on the boat and unloaded in an area called Natal. We are attacked by 4000 natives!

2 July – We lost the battle and our force was destroyed. Natal is south of Delagoa Bay and north of Xhosa.


2 Nov – The Maldives has grown enough to be self sustaining! I order a fort here.

I increase our Diplomatic Tech to 6 . We can now build Embassies

4 Nov – Hedjaz rejoins our alliance.

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1494 – Time for the Review




Oman, Fifty Year Review


Five decades past, my grandfather decided to lead our nation into a new age of glory, with his nine point plan. Although I have been Dapir for just a few years, we have continued his great glorious plans.

Before we begin to explore our nation, let us pause to give thanks to Allah for his magnificence. His glory and power have enabled us to grow until unheard of places, carrying his name with us. We would not have had he successes we have had without him, and our success is clearly a sign of Allah’s blessing.

The Shi’a people are also grateful. This is further evidence that our way is the way of truth. May Allah save and protect us.


One of the ways Allah has shown us is blessing is with our ruler, the now 64 year old Sultan Sulayman Nabhan. We have been truly blessed with such a capable man, and our development has gone in hand with his rule. Long may he continue!

Our heir is the 58 year old Sultan Nabhan, with a 5/4/2 ratings. He will also suit us well.

[Abe Sargent]

Our military might has grown strong indeed! We now control 19,000 troops, We have 4000 cavalry and 1000 artillery among them. This is more than our forcelimit, so we are paying additional for it, but our empire is too great not to have these additional men. Also, our navy has 24 vessels, and can have up to 29. We have 5 transports, 3 large vessels, and the rest are smaller vessels. We use them to patrol our colonies to keep them safe from Pirates, protect our trade interests, and explore.


We are currently allied with Hedjaz, and Qara Qoyunlu. Adal is our Protectorate and Yemen our vassal.

We have royal marriages with Yemen, Qara Qoyunlu, Adal, Gujarat, and Hedjaz.

Kilwa has us listed as a rival.

[Abe Sargent]

Allow us to show you a map of the area.

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You can see our grey has snaked along the Arabian Peninsula in both directions. It has not been that much though (much lower than my usual efforts). I marked a couple of islands with yellow stars because they are hard to make out of the map. The chain south of India is Maldives and the island really close to us is Socotra. (Note our low money - uh oh!)

[Abe Sargent]

And then here is one of just the Indian Ocean, so you can see what we have discovered.


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You can see that we have discovered nearly all of it! We have Maldives, Diego Garcia, Mahe, Bourbon and Mauritius as full provinces, and Cocos Island is still in progress. This is our full exploration umbrella, basically the whole ocean is now known. We're at low gold, dropping about a ducat a month, because I've been pushing our advisers to squeeze development from them as much as possible.

[Abe Sargent]

We have the 4th best Admin rank, 21st Diplo one, and 1st military rank in the world, putting us at #2.


The Top Ten:

France
Oman
Ottomans
Ming
Austria
Lithuania
Poland
Castile
Mamluks
Timurids



The highest techs in the world. We have the best, 8 in Admin, along with 10 other nations. We have a 7 militarily, which is behind 32 nations with 8. Our Diplomatic tech of 6 is two behind the leader. Our investment in infrastructure has come at this price.

Five nations are fully Shi-ite – Us, Persia, Qara Qoyunlu, Gujarat, and Bahmanis. This compares to 39 Sunni Nations. However, we now have 45 districts with our faith!

We have the 8th largest navy in the world.

We are the production leader in the world in Spices. We also have a large segment of the Coffee trade, and have a bonus because of it.


I declare Kilwa our rival.

[Abe Sargent]

Now, let us look at the 9 goals of my grandfather.


1) We need an alliance with a major power.

Qara Qoyunlu has been our best ally for a while. They have a bigger army, 24,000 troops, and a lot of expansion to the north of us. I would eventually want Mamluks or Ottomans as an ally, but for now, they have sufficed.

2) We want to become the premier trading nation in the Indian Ocean. There are many great nations along the area, but we want to be the dominant one.

Right now, we appear to be the first power in the area to colonize and explore the Ocean. This is becoming a reality.

3) We have to control a proper navy in order to meet our goals.

Although our navy is the 8th largest in the world, we have room to grow, and thus more drydock action should be undertaken

4) We would like to colonize the Indian Ocean.

Already underway

5) We need to fend off the overly hostile Yemen. They are blatantly seeking our elimination. Probably because they are Sunni.

Yemen is now a quiet vassal. This mission has been accomplished.. However, I wish that we has just taken it in war. We’ve had peace ever since that war, so we could have diminished our aggressive reputation, and these three provinces would now be in our Shi’ite faith. We made the wrong choice.




6) Similarly, the adjacent Najd is also very aggressively looking towards us. Both neighbors are Sunni, and it gets a little too hot here.

While we took two lower quality provinces from Najd, we never really got started. Then the Mamluks came in and absorbed them, and now we are surrounded by an aggressive Sunni nation that’s quite powerful. For strategic reasons, I would like to take Liwa. (The sliver of Mamluk Yellow behind us and the desert). Our other neighbors - Adal across the straight from Mocha, Hedjaz and Qara Q are friends.

7) We eventually want to see Mecca in Shi’ite hands.

We have not made any progress on this front

8) In light of these things, it seems necessary to build our nation militarily, as well as diplomatically.

This has been a success thus far.

9) Nearby one province nation Haasa is Shi-ite as well, and could be a good early ally.

This goal has been completed. Our good brothers in Haasa have seen fit to join our glorious nation. We embraced them and welcomed them as Sons of Allah.


Therefore, the first fifty years has been a great improvement in our status and in completing the nine-fold plan.



May Allah bless Oman for another 50 years!

[Abe Sargent]

We shall conclude this report by looking at our various holdings in turn – all of our areas are Bedouin, followers of Shi’a, and have a level 2 fort to protect them.


Muscat – Our improvements to the capital have brought about an increase in money and it has risen to 21.11 ducats. No holding in the Arabian Peninsula makes more money annually than Muscat. It remains a vital Center of Trade and a high taxvalue and spice trade. We have built a Marketplace, Temple, and Constable here.

Suhar – The shepherds of this province send wool to others, and we now make 8.46 ducats annually. The Timurids created a claim here but have done nothing to it. It also has a Temple and Marketplace.


Qawasim – Another group of wool merchants make us 7.08 ducats form their Temple.

Nizwa – With another spice trade area, Nizwa is now making 12.54 ducats annually, led by a Temple.

Dhofar – The spice trade is strong here, led by items such as frankincense. They also make 12.54 ducats and have a Temple and Marketplace.



Beni Yas – Captured from Najd, this province still has a tax value of one. It’s adjacent to Liwa, the Mamluks province inland of us. We make 5.7 ducats created by our local shepherds who worship in a Temple.

Qatar – Taken from Najd as well, 7.08 ducats are also made here from the wool export. A Temple is here as well.

Al Hasa – Our inner-most province, Al Hasa was once the Arid land of our ally, Haasa. It makes 4.35 ducats from the wool trade too.

Mahra – The first of four mainland districts we took from Yemen, it has a low tax value. Due to the Arid land, Fish is the good of choice here, and they hake 5.27 ducats with their production. They too have a Temple to worship in.

Hadhramaut – Another arid province from Yemen, wool has reoccurred here, and 7.08 ducats are also created around the culture with a local Tempe to serve their spiritual needs.

Aden – The local Center of Trade on the other end of the Peninsula as he Red Sea hits the Bab el Mandeb, Aden gets 12.54 ducats from its spice trade. It has a Marketplace and Temple.

Mocha – With a higher taxvalue of 3, and the powerful Coffee trade, Mocha is a very valuable province with 13.25 ducats - the third most valuable we have, and the second most valuable non-colony. It is next to Adal by crossing the strait, as well as Yemen. A Temple was built here too.



Socotra – Because of a loss to income from overseas, Socotra just makes 1.79 gold for us, total, from fishing.


Mahe – North-North-East of Madagascar is the small island of Mahe. With a taxvalue of 2 and fish, it doesn’t have a large economic impact on our area. It just makes 1.86 annually.

Bourbon – High taxvalues of 5 plus Sugar give this island some serious potential. It’s at 4.76 right now.

Mauritius – Same taxvalue and export, but it makes 4.22 instead. Probably because Bourbon has a Temple.


Diego Garcia -= South of the Maldives is this fishing island. With just a taxvalue of 1, its currently sitting at 1.19 gold.

Maldives – Here’s a major windfall, maybe. Just south of India is this island chain. Rich with spices, but low in taxvalue of 2, it currently makes just 2.97 ducats in taxes, but 16.08 in production to give us total of 19.05 ducats. That’s a huge bonus. Is this because 1000 men are stationed here? Or is it because it just became an colony this month and the values have not yet changed to reflect its overseas status? I want to find out, because if I can replicate this in Bourbon and Mauritius, then that’s really strong.



Cocos Island – The Penal Colony has barely survived. Because of its tropical nature, it just gets +20 a year normally, and -25 from tropical. The +10 from penal colony growth is necessary to keep this going.

[Abe Sargent]

I’m ordering 1000 troops in Bourbon. We’ll give them to the Conquistador if they cannot improve our economic structure.

I order a diplomat to manufacture a claim on the province of Majerteen, in Kilwa. I don’t want it that much, but it was the only option.

23 Jan, 1495 – Our explorer has passed. Long May he Live!

2 May – I don’t know how to continue the Maldives experience. I’ve had forces in Bourbon for three months and none of the overseas penalties have been cancelled.

One of our advisors, the government one has passed. The only replacements are expensive 3 stars folks we cannot afford.


7 Dec – Our conniving had paid off and we gain a CB against Kilwa. I want to take a province of theirs, Sofala, with gold all the way to the south, next to Inhambane, in order to core it and use it as a base for future expansion south into Africa.


I order a Temple in Maldives


31, 1496 – I declare war against Kilwa for Majerteen.

19 Mar – 4000 troops arrive in Solfala and begin a siege.

4 April- Our main army marches and arrives at Majerteen. I detach a sieging unit and move on.

2 July – We defeat a minor army in Ajuuraan and begin a siege.

1 Sept – Yemeni forces arrive and assist in Majerteen

4 Nov – Relations maxed with Adal and our diplomat is sent back. I order one to Mamluks to do the same thin.

10 Nov – Our Conquistador has fallen

[Abe Sargent]

7 Feb, 1497 – We get a Wave of Immigration event to gain 200 in Cocos.

10 Feb – We win a major naval battle in the Coast of Natal

2 March – Majerteen falls

11 Mar – Sofala falls to us too.

24 Mar – Ajuuraan is ours

12 Apr – We discover Fish in the Cocos Islands. Ah well. Hoping for a bit more, but we just need to get this done so we can use it to head out west and south.

15 Apr – We begin a siege of Quelimane, along the coast from Sofala.

13 June – We drive off 10000 troops in Quelimane. We have much better soldiers and technology


10 July – We win again against another 7000, but our troops are badly hurt and wounded.

5 Aug -- I win a third huge victory in the Coast of Natal and order my soldiers to board from Quelimane.

11 Sept – I win in Sofala with our wounded troops and we drive back the troops here besieging the territory.

15 Nov – After we get walls breached, we assault and take Malindi

15 Dec – I order my forces to help the siege in Lamu, and in the grinder we assault and take it. It has fallen too.

I can take Sofala and Majerteen. Do I even want Majerteen? Not really. I just take Sofala and hundreds of ducats.

I order my army back to Mocha, and leave the 4000 troops in Sofala.


Sofala – In the southernmost part of the Kilwa holdings, Sofala has Bantu Sunnis working the gold mines. With a tax value of 2, the major value is obviously the gold, not the taxes. We get 19.36 production ducts from it. It has just a fort. It is next to Quelimane up the coast, Inhambane down it, and there are some nations inside we cannot see. It will take about 5 years to become a core. With a rebellion risk of 8.7%, these troops are staying put.

[Abe Sargent]

Allah Works in Mysterious Ways

10 Jan, 1498 – I go shopping:

Constable in Maldives
Marketplace in Mocha
Constable in Aden
Workshop in Muscat
2 Transports


Level 3 advisor, Master of the Mint, helps to reduce inflation, and gives me +3 a month in Admin Power. With our blood money and gold money, we have enough to afford a 3 star guy. Awesome sauce


15 Jan – I send a diplomat to raise relations with Yemen.



The best targets to colonize are South Africa or Australia. They are both outside of the tropical zone, and I’ve seen how bad that’s been with the Cocos, so I want to avoid that for now.


4 Aug – I invest in a new idea- Land of Opportunity, which should increase our global settler speed.

We have also reached our second Omani Idea, Securing Timber Supplies for our ship building, and tht time is reduced by ten percent.

20 Nov – Uh oh. I am getting called into a bad war. The Qara Qoyunlu Conquest of The Mamluks. Against Mamluks, Tripoli, Candar and Aq Qoyunlu. They started it. I don’t want to leave one of my bestest allies,

Sigh. I accept and move some forces to Liwa and others to Najd. Maybe I can get it in a separate settlement or something.

12 Dec – The Mamluks get a claim on Nizwa for Tensions along the border.

20 Jan, 1499 – We begin siegining Najd. I have hired some mercs ot harass Jabal Shammar.

14 July – Rebellion in Sofala

30 July – We won it, but we lost half our troops.

15 Sept – I saw a huge Mamluk army moving to Jabal Shammar, so I broke off most of my forces from Najd. After more than a month in battle, we broke them and won.


30 Oct – Jabal Shammar is ours

5 Dec – We arrive back in Najd and I order an assault.

11 Jan, 1500 – We win Najd falls

31 Jan – We assault and take Liwa. I offer peace talks with Mamluks

I get Liwa, 184 ducats, and peace.


Liwa – taxvalue 1, 4.36 ducats from spices. The Arid area of Liwa is interior to Beni Yas and adjacent of Qawasim, Suhar and Nizawa. It’s Bedouin and Sunni. We have a 8.2% rebellion risk. I order my army here ot garrison h=it and turn it into a core.

I disarm my mercs and spend a bit of cash

Workshop in Maldives
Dock in Muscat
Dock in Aden

[Abe Sargent]

11 Mar – I take a mission to incorporate Yemen

12 Apr – We put down another rebellion in Sofala

We found two adjacent provinces to them Tete and Massapa, inland of Sofala. There’s another that has not been discovered.


3 Nov – I begin the process of annexing Yemen. It’ll take roughly 12 years.

28 Nov – I deny another call against Mamluks and my relations with Mamluks has actually got to positive. So I send in another courier.

22 Feb, 1501 – Our relations with Mamluks have maximized.

1 May – Cocos Island is finally a full province!


I order a fort here.

Cocos just gives us 1 tax each year.

Meet our new Explorer – Ya’Rub Moussa and our new Conquistador Barakat Abbas

We‘re heading over to Cocos to do some more exploring in the area around it, this time to the east and north

Qara Koyunlu has chosen us as a rival. So we can’t be allies again. That’s bad.

31 jan, 1502 – We discover the Karimata Straight, between Ajeh and Java islands.13 Feb – We have another Diplomatic Faux Pas

2 Mar – We uncover the Java Sea. We also found part of Borneo island inhabited by Brunei.

1 Apr – We also find the Moluccas and discover the land of Makassar.

25 May – We purchase Admin Tech 9 - +10% production efficiency. Next tech we can get another slat4e of ideas.

6 June – Liwa is now a core province and I order our Missionary here for the first time in a long time getting some work.

19 June – Sofala is now a core province

I send Settlers to Little Karoo – easy natives, and the farthest I can go. Tax value of 4.

[Abe Sargent]

30 Aug – Dock ordered for Maldives. Production is down here after loss of value of Spices – province is now “just” making 14.93 a year.

21 Oct – We find the Sea of Banda and a local island duo called Buru and Ceram


18 Nov – Kolepom Bay opens before us. We find an inhabitable place called Irian on the side of a large island, that is mostly uninhabitable. We also discover an island called Timor.

20 Dec – We gain a trade dispute CB against Kilwa

31 Dec – The Mamluks were hammered in war with Qara who allied with the Ottomans. Qara took Jabal Shammar, and now the Mamluks have been overly weakened, and feel threatened by us.

I was hoping to ally with Mamluks, but that didn’t happen. I misplayed it when I left my alliance with Qara. Now I have a nasty rival on my edge.

4 Mar, 1503- I order a Dock in Mocha

We have found Barwe, the other inland province from Sofala, all three owned by Kilwa

16 Apr – We find the Coast of Sarawak

17 May – Followed by the Coast of Brunei

8 June – And then the South China Sea

2 Aug – I order 2000 troops built and sent to Sofala

20 November – We find the Straits of Makassar.

20 Dec – And the Sulu Sea

16 Jan, 1504 – And the Sea of Celebes

10 Feb – I purchase Level 7 Military Tech. It enables Shamshir Infantry, and we can build training fields and March. We get bonuses all across our forces too.

We upgrade to Shamshir forces

April 7 – One of our advisors has passed. It was our 2 level diplomatic guy. I hire another who gives me +10% Global Trade Power



I am moving some troops to the Indies. I have a province I want to colonize, but it has 7000 folks there. So we need some troops to clear things out. We’ll have 6000 infantry led by our Conquistador

[Abe Sargent]

14 June – Liwa is converted. I order our Missionary to ship to Sofala and see what he can do there.



20 July – We find the Sea of Ternete

21 Aug – Followed by the Maguindanao Coast.

11 Dec – Our fleet arrives at the Coast of Java. 6000 troops disembark for Banten, on the southwestern corner of Java,




19 Dec – Allah has called one of his great men home. Today our great Sultan Sulayman Nabhan has passed. We will wear memorial sash of mourning for more than the usual three days in respect of how great he truly was. He led us for more than 50 years of grace and growth.

Our new leader is Sultan Nabhan. He has 5/4/2 skills, and we are in capable hands. But he is 68.

His grandson is Umar Nabhan. His is 12, and has 1/4/3 skills.


Long May the Nabhan Dynasty Rule us with wisdom and honor

[Abe Sargent]

28 Dec – Our troops arrive to the shores uncontested. I order in colonists. It’s tropical, but with our recent idea helping, it should still grow decently.

30 Dec – Mogadishu was force vassalized by Kilwa

10 Jan, 1505 – I order a Constable in Suhar

12 Feb – Little Karoo is a slave province. Yuck.

15 Feb – The Hedjaz has gone to war against the Mamluks for Najd Province. We join them.

14 May – We find the Torres Strait

16 Aug – I’m losing too much money and I have to downgrade an advisor. I want to keep building. After my military built back up, slowly, post war, my costs have increased since I’m over the forcelimit. I cut our military Advisor completely.

10 Oct – Hedjaz captures Najd province

23 Nov _ Our forces arrive in Al Jawf. Might as well drop my maintained rate again!

4 Feb – 1506 – The Hedjaz loses a major battle in Tabouk and Mamluk forces are now trying to take the land.

14 March – Our Explorer has passed just as he finds the Trobrian Islands off Papua. The new one is Umar Jomaa.

12 May – I leave behind a siege force and move my army into Hedjaz territory to help stop some Mamluk forces there.

27 May – We break the siege of Tabouk after beating the forces here.

14 June – AL Jawf falls to us

3 Sept – We lose in Medina and cannot break their siege. I tried, sorry Hedjaz

27 Oct – Vilian Strait is discovered

5 Dec – We find Biak Bay

30 Dec – And finally Palau Islands – We have sailed all around New Guinea island.

17 Jan, 1507 – They recapture Al Jawf

4 Apr – We force back their retaking of Najd and they move to Najran and flee before our foes.

6 Apr _ Hedjaz had enough forces to break the siege of Medina. It was about to fall

16 Apr – Very bad news. Allah has called his Sultan again. Our new Sultan cannot take over, he is too young, so we will enter a Regency Council for a time.

Abd al-Aziz I Burji is the Regent. He is 5/2/5, so he should continue our good development.

[Abe Sargent]

5 May – A huge battle is underway in Najd between us and the Mamluks.

20 May – We win the large battle.

8 September – We arrive in the Sinai and fight against 10000 Mamluks with our 17000 allied forces.

1 Oct – We win – I order our forces to Cairo

16 Oct – We discover the Great Barrier Reef

2 Dec _ Natives of Banten rise up.

5 Dec – And the Northern Tasman Sea

10 Dec – We win in Banten

19 Dec – Our Prince is now old enough to take over. Meet Sultan Umar Nabhan, 1/4/3.

25 Dec – The Mamluks are trying to wrest us from Cairo

30 Dec – We arrive at the Tasman Sea and have now sailed around Australia

24 Jan, 1508 – We barely win in Cairo, but lost about half of our combined Yemen/Oman forces

1 Feb – We get an event for trading in Slaves, and it boosts our revenue

Our cash is running a bit high, since our armies have been wiped. But I’m-a wait to build something until post-war, just in case.

I am moving a few units to Bahrain to begin a siege there – they are ones that were damaged and I fled them and got their manpower back up.

11 May – Cairo falls – on to Alexandria

6 Aug – We got an early wall breached in Alexandria – too bad too many of the assaulting group are cavalry.

30 Sept – Al Jawf falls. A large Mamluk army has arrived near Alexandria and Cairo


1 Dec – Little Karoo is now a full colony! I order a fort here. Our next colony will be the Center of Trade at Cape, right next door.

27 Dec - Hedjaz lost a major battle in Qena and their siege was broken

26 Jan, 1509 – Bahrain falls to us.

We are behind -16% in the warscore despite capturing a lot of land. I can get Bahrain right now in separate negotiation with Mamluks. Why am I still in this dumb war?

[Abe Sargent]

20 March – Alexandria is now ours

30 Mar – I begin chasing the large Mamluk army.

3 Apr – We have a native uprising in Banten on the same day that we catch the Mamluks in Dumyat.

13 Apr – We have a new heir to the throne – Nasir, a 4/2/3 person

13 May – We win a huge battle in Dumyat. I order our cavalry to pursue our foes while our infantry and artillery move to Al Karak to support us there. If I have to win this war by myself, I will

24 July – We captured Al Karak but our cavalry lost in Damascus

26 Aug – Our main force arrives in Damascus and wipes their army

I can take Al Jawf, Al Karak and Bahrain in peace myself and leave Hedjaz alone. I don’t really want them.


Sigh, what to do. Do I leave my allies up the creek? Just to get Bahrain? It’s barely worth it. I can get Mamluks to cede their core on Liwa too. And about 150 ducats.



I prefer Najd t ogo to Hedjaz too. So Im going to stay in this one.

1 Dec – We discover the Manila Bay

2 Jan, 1510 – And then the Paracel Island area

22 Feb – Negev was captured by Hedjaz

4 March – Damascus falls to us

24 March – We take Judea

28 April – Um, wow. Hedjaz not only sued for peace but gave us Bahrain. Hedjaz took Negev and Najd. Our warscore was leaping up, and I guess they had enough stuff to throw us a bone. (I would have done the same for Najd or something)



Bahrain – Bedouin and Sunni shepherds live in this quiet island. Just a taxvalue of 1, and 2.13 ducats are made here. We are making it a core!



4 May –

I order some stuff:

Temple in Al Hasa, Liwa
Marketplace in Maldives
Workshop in Aden
Big Ship in Muscat


I need some time to rebuild our manpower

[Abe Sargent]

14 October – Banten will be a colony with Spices as its main export

9 June, 1511 – Cape will be an ivory selling province

20 Oct – It is impossible to finish the missionary work to Sofala right now, so I pull our Imams back and get ready to send them to Bahrain in a few years It’s too far away, too hard to convert.

23 Feb, 1512 – We bring in marriageable women into Cape. I would have preferred Banten, but I’ll take it.

22 Mar – We found the Gulf of Leyte

20 April – And the Coast of Luzon opens before us as well.

9 May – And then the Luzon Strait

19 June – Constable ordered for Mocha

17 Sept – We put down an uprising in Banten

2 Nov – Bahrain is now fully ours, and we order in the missionaries that were recalled from Sofala

17 Jan, 1513 – My goal is to load up a Conquistador at Banten and try to unload in the remaining open areas we have yet to discover in the Indies

3 March – Another uprising at Banten

20 Mar – Defeated

3 June – Another uprising

15 June – Also put down

11 July – We order a Workshop in Mocha

24 Aug -Another Explorer death. I don’t another yet.

1 Sept – Cape is now Self Sufficient. I order a fort here.


Cape – This important Center of Trade south enough to be below the tropical areas of Africa has a 7 tax value, ivory, and makes 5.78 ducats for us.

[Grover]

Enjoying the dynasty, Abe! Can't wait for the next 50 year update to see your sprawling empire.

[Abe Sargent]

Enjoying the dynasty, Abe! Can't wait for the next 50 year update to see your sprawling empire.

Thank you very much!

[Abe Sargent]

I send colonists to the inland province of Great Karoo

4 Jan, 1514 0 I order a dock in Cocos Island


12 June – Our explorations have uncovered Pose, Menade, Halmahera, Ternate and Tidore over the last year. We have also fully explored the island of Borneo


5 July – Yemen is integrated into our nation! Allah Wills It!


Najran – The Beduoin Sunni folks in this Arid province, with just a tax value of 1, nevertheless have a valuable spice trade. It makes 8.38 ducats. It’s adjacent to Najd, Asir, Sana’a and Hadhramaut.


Sana’a – the former capital of Yemen is another spice trade Arid area. With a tax value of 2 and Sunni, the folks here send us 9.7 ducats. Sana’a is adjacent to Asir, Najran, Aden, Mocha, and Hadhramaut.

Asir - With a tax value of 3 and next to Mecca, and formerly Hedjaz land that was captured by Yemen, another Arid area, but with Coffee, it makes 10.84 ducats. This port area is next to Najd, Mecca, Najran, Sana’a and Mocha.

All three are core provinces and Sunni/Bedouin – we also gained 7000 troops and 2 ships. I disband a Galley and keep the Cog. I disband the army too. Can’t upkeep it

[Abe Sargent]

30 July – We enter into a Royal marriage with Persia – I accept an Alliance offer the next day


I don’t want a cross-Gulf war with Persia. They are a good ally for me right now. Plus, they had no other allies. They’ll help against Qara Qoyunlu if they get ornery

5 Sept – Another Banetn uprising defeated

10 Sept – Faithful Muslims on the way to Mecca were under attack from roving bands of brigands. We ordain to give them our military protection. We gain some piety and prestige.

10 Oct – I order a Diplomat to fabricate a claim on Massapa, the inland province next to Sofala in Kilwa – its another gold province. We adore the yellow shine.


17 March, 1515 – I order some docks built in Cape

10 May – The Mamluks have chosen us as a rival. Sigh. I choose them back I suppose.

17 June – I haven’t taken a new mission since we absorbed Yemen and gained a bunch of stuff – because they all suck. Colonize Madagascar! Take Jabal Shammar! Make friends with Kilwa! Nope!

7 Oct – Temple ordered for Little Karoo

17 Nov – Ivory in Great Karoo

10 Dec – We now have that claim on Massapa

17 Dec – We now have Military Tech 9, the Star Fort. It enables us to build a Star Fort and Shaybanid Cavalry. We update our horsemen


1 jan, 1516 – We purchase Level 10 Tech for Administrative, the Modern Theocracy. We can get another level of Ideas

It can’t use Diplomatic too, although we might really like Naval Ideas or Trade Ideas.

In the Admin category, I think Economic ideas have value. Espionage is fun.

In the Military Category, we have Offensive and Quality that jump out. Well, I usually want Quality, but this time Quantity might be the right thing. But no force limit bonuses.

If I could pick anything, it’d be Trade Ideas, in the Diplo section. 2 away from another merchant, and you have very good efficieny, but that’s a third diplo idea. So nope.


I decide to wait until I have enough stuff to buy, and I can take one then.


10 Mar – We purchase Dip Tech 7, Naval Ambitions. It increases our colonial range, and naval morale

23 May – We land 2000 troops in Tagoloan and are fighting natives.

13 June – Our Conquistador barely wins. We retuun to Banten.

[Abe Sargent]

15 Oct – We have positioned ourselves for war with Kilwa.

I declare war for Massapa


I order troops into Majerteen and Massapa

25 Nov – I join Persia in a large pan-Asian war, but intend to stay out of it


18 Dec – Our sieges are going well enough. Kilwa is massing a large army by Majerteen though.

19 Feb, 1517 – Bahrain converts and we send missionaries to Asir

1 March – 300 people flee to Great Karoo

31 March – Our Conquistador arrives in Visayas to more natives

7 April - Our Government Advisor passed and we hire a level 1 Treasurer

10 April – We win in Visayas

1 July – Banten is now Self Sufficient. I order a fort.

Banten similarly shows no issue with overseas stuff. Maybe its because I had forces here from before colonists landed until now, continuously?

19 August – We arrive in Demak, another place on Java island

11 Sept – Massapa falls. There is a unit of 11000 soldiers in Sofala so I order our forces back to oust them

22 Sept – We dfeat the natives in Sunda, next to Banten, and I send in more colonists

20 Oct – We win in Majerteen and it falls.

27 Oct – after a month long battle, we win in Sofala. I order some forces here to support us.

1 Feb, 1518 – After chasing them down the coast, I force a battle in Mombasa and take out an army.

20 Apr – After an early walls breached, the highly valuable Mombasa falls

28 May – We win a major battle in Mombasa as they fail to oust our tired army.

We force them to give us Massapa and 156 ducats



Massapa – Island from Sofala, just a taxvalue of 2, the Shona Sunnis here make us 18.28 ducats with by mining gold. It I next to Sofala, Tete, Barwe, and some others further inland. The tropical province needs aid.

I take the mission to claim Tete, their province.

[Abe Sargent]

1 June – Great Karoo is now self sustaining! It has a3.3 ducats from ivory and a taxvalue of 4. I order a fort. It is inland of Little Karoo, Cape, and adjacent to Xhosa and Roggeveld too.

With our blood money, we also order

21 June – Our troops arrive in Inhambane. I send Colonists here. It’s tropical, but beside Sofala, which should help it grow.

4 July – I order a Temple in Banten. The rest of my blood money goes to Docks in Bourbon and Mauritius. We have 88 gold left and are gaining 3.8 a month

Once again, I need to let my manpower rebuild

Persia is actually winning her war against the world.

14 Aug – We put down a native uprising in Sunda

15 Oct – We have finished exploring the Philippines

1 Apr, 1519 – We land in Rabaul, at the back end of New Guinea and are facing natives

10 May – We put down another native incursion in Sunda

5 June – We land on Palau on the way back from exploring Rabaul

6 July – We order the construction of a Constable in Banten.

5 Aug – Now that our fleet has landed back in Sunda from its most recent exploration, I order some of the vessel s to Cape. We will use it to explore east up Africa. Our Conquistador loads up with 2000 men and we order them to Cape.

20 Aug – We get a Gold Rush event. It gives us 400 ducats but +1 inflation

I order a Star Fort in Al Hasa

5 Jan, 1520 – We arrive in Cape and my fleet is being prepared. An explorer is ordered.

24 Jan – Asir converts! Sana’a is next. I move my troops to Sana’a and a Temple for Asir is ordered.


I send a diplomat to fabricate claims in Tete, a province in Kilwa – I don’t really want it that badly, but it will fulfill our mission

[Abe Sargent]

25 Mar – Our Explorer, 2000 infantry, and Conquistador leave Cape and head out east and north

7 May – We find the Coast of Namibia

24 June – Persia ceded Astarabad to the Timurids, and thus we technically lost the war with them. It’s officially over.

26 June – The Coast of Angola is next.

14 July – I order up a Marketplace in Banten

6 Aug – The Gulf of Kongo is revealed and we have discovered the province of Luanda here – 5000 relatively peaceful natives in a tropical place

4 Sept – We find the Coast of Cameroon, the province of Loango, which is part of the Kingdom of Kongo, so we now have found that nation.

15 Sept – We win a battle against the natives in Inhambane

30 Sept – We discover the Gulf of Nigeria. I order our forces back to recuperate.

11 Oct – On the way back we find the province of Cameroon – 9000 angry natives, ,all tropical

10 Dec I know it’s a bad idea - but I’m taking Trade Ideas, and investing in the first level – Shrewd Commerce Practice. It’s the only route to get more merchants – this gives us Global Trade Power. The next is another merchant. Our trade income is roughly equal to our tax and production income. Let’s enhance that!

17 Jan, 1521 – We set sail again up Africa

6 Feb – We claim Tete, finish the mission, and gain some Monarch power. Our next mission is to improve relations with Hedjaz – I send in a Diplomat!

I also order a Constable built in Asir

27 Feb – While up the coast, we unveil two coastal provinces off the Coast of Angola – Damaraland and Benguela. Both have 4-5k natves – nasty. One Arid, the other Tropical

2 Apr – We discover Gabon, in the Coast of Cameroon. 7000 angry, tropical.

24 Apr – We arrive at the Ivory Coast

28 May – And next we sail along the Gold Coast – we find Sierra Leone, 7000, angry, tropical. Portuguese vessels are in the water.

28 June – Coast of Gambia - I order the vessels to return

On the way back home, we uncovered the province of Gold Coast. Important Center of Trade, Tropical, 8000 angry natives. We also find Ovimbundu – 9000, angry, tropical


6 October – I order a Workshop in Banten

Our cash flow has increased to 5.5 monthly – I decide to save up to build an Embassy, which will cost around 1000 ducats but give us another Diplomat.

[Abe Sargent]

5 Jan, 1522 – We finish our mission to improve relations with Hedjaz, and gain some prestige. Our next mission is to Form an Alliance with them. It’ll give us a bunch of Diplo power when we succeed, which we need badly.

19 Feb – We set sail again

22 Feb – We are now in an alliance with Hedjaz again, and gained power. Next mission – I don’t like any of them – build up my army, repair relations with Kilwa or Save the Bedouins in Jabal Shammar. Nope.

3 Mar – I get a nasty event – Ship Building Problems. For the next 5 years, our Ship Building Time is increased by 50% across the board.

23 Apr In the Gulf of Nigeria, I order Conquistadors to land in what appear to be occupied territory to scout them out.,

4 May – We find Bonny, the capital of Hausa

10 May – Sana’a Converts. Next is Najran

15 May – We find Benin.

28 May – We discover Calabar, another Hausa province. Behind them we discover two open inland provinces – Idah and Wukari

10 June -We arrive to battle local natives in Whydah, west along the coast of Gold Cosat and east of Benin.

22 June – Sunda will have Chinaware

24 June – We win in Whydah – 500 natives, tropical, very aggressive and ferocious. We also uncovered Oyo and Ife, inland provinces that belong to the nation of Oyo.

5 July – We load up and head back to Cape

21 Aug – We get Harvest Failure in Sana’a, and for a year, it gets Harvest Fails effect with a loss to production

20 Oct – We head back out with our Explorers!


27 Jan, 1523 – We arrive in the Coast of Gambia and find Gabu, a coastal province that belongs to Mali

9 Feb – Our troops unload into Cayor, a province that is a Portuguese Colony. It’s fully theirs.

7 Mar – Inhambane will be a Slave province

18 Mar – We discover the Cast of Guinea. We already had in our maps all places north, so we have connected all the way around Africa

29 Mar – We unload and find a Portuegese colony being built in Trarza. They also have Rio de Oro and Arguin here, time to head home to Cape

13 May – We put down a native uprising in Sunda.

3 June – Two Uprisings in Inhambane and Sunda

15 June – Both down

1 Aug – I take a new investment in Ideas and a new Merchant. This also advances our Omani Ideas one and we unlock Association with Unbelievers, which gives us bonus tolerance of heathens

I send a Merchant to Collect from Malacca

20 Sept – Rebellion in Massapa

1 Oct – Rebellion defeated

9 Oct – And in Inhambane too

1 Nov – My next goal is to head out and explore the ocean nearby Cape a bit.

17 Nov – We find the Cape of Storms.

10 Dec – One of our Advisors passed. It was the +2 one in Diplomacy. I leave him gone to speed us to getting our Embassy. We have 623 ducats.

[Abe Sargent]

8 Jan, 1524 – We find Bouvent Island, and I order our unit back from the open sea.

10 Mar – Our Conquistador marches up the coast and uncovers the coastal province of Greater Namaqualand. Arid, 4000 mediumly aggressive natives.

We now have the entire coast explored from Cape up to Gold Coast. Just one province is uncovered after Gold Coast to Morocco.

1 May – We find the South Benguela Current

19 May - Najran Converts! Next is Sofala

21 June – We discover the North Benguela Current and are ordered back home

10 July – We again win in Inhambane

17 Oct – My Conquistador arrives in Massapa. I want to explore the nearby area and find these Kilwa provinces inland.

9 Dec – I have found Zimbabwe, Urungwe and Zumbo inland of Massapa and adjacent to us. I order our Conquistador to return.

11 May, 1525 – We find the East Guinea Basin

27 June – And then the West Guinea Basin

(29 June I don’t know what happened, but I looked up and saw I had hundreds of thousands of manpower. Bug? It’s in some of my older saves a few years, but I can’t trace it back too much. I’ll play like I still have to care about it – this is not a bad game for that bug – I am not a warmonger like I’ve been elsewhere)

I can see Portuguese ships around the Cape of Africa

9 Dec – A transport Cog with our Explorer on it finds a southern ocean space and heads back to Cape

19 Jan, 1526 – I get a request for military access from the ottomans. I accept.


9 Feb – Massapa is now a core province

16 Feb – The next expedition is underway

I order my diplomat to create a claim on Zimbabwe, another gold province inland of Massapa

9 Mar -We put down more natives in Sunda

12 May – Our Conquistadors lands in the last unknown province on the African Coast – Ivory Coast. Natives are fighting our arrival. Inland is Worodugu and Konian. Ivory Coast has 6000 natives, tropical, and very aggressive

29 May – We win, and we discover another island province, Kumasi, which is the home of the Ashanti people.


We now have all of the coastal provinces of Africa explored.


1 Dec – In Muscat, we order the completion of an Embassy, which will take a year to finish.

[Abe Sargent]

22 Mar , 1527 – More Atlantic Ocean provinces are discovered, but I’ll skip them from now on unless something important is unearthed.


19 April – Kilwa is involved in two wars. Time to strike and take Zimbabwe – I move my forces around. I also order a 3 star advisor that increases Colonial Range by a bunch – no sure if I’ll need it. Goal is to have stocked Power after the war


3 Sept – I declare war on Kilwa for Zimbabwe

21 Sept – We arrive in Zimbabwe

3 Oct – And in Majerteen

8 Dec – I run from a very large Kilwan fleet.

30 Dec – We arrive in Quelimane with a force that was intending to hit Zanzibar. I can’t get past their huge fleet though.

7 Jan, 1528 – I split off a siege unit in Majerteen and order our forces into Mogadishu, which was absorbed by Kilwa recently.

I have orderd a pair of infantry to help in Massapa and Sofala.

20 Jan -I have pulled a fleet off patrol and merged it with mine in Sofala. Will it be enough?

Let’s find out!

I create an admiral and then head out after assigned it to our fleet under the control of Umar Sakr

12 Mar – We defeat 22000 Kilwan troops in Quelimane with just 7000

20 May – Majerteen falls.

24 May – We get an accommodation with natives in Inhambane and they lose some ferocity.

10 June – Zimbabwe falls to us

11 July – We defeat natives in Sunda

1 Aug – Sunda is now self-sustaining. I order a fort and my men next door to Demak, which is adjacent to Majaphit.

27 Aug – We defeat the natives here, and order a new colony to Demak


I send a diplomat to improve relations with Majaphit

17 Sept – We defeat a huge army in Ajuuraan.

13 Oct – Harvest Failure for Qawasim

6 Jan, 1529 – We capture Urungwe

2 Mar – Mogadishu falls

24 Mar – Qualimane falls

I take my large warscore shopping

I force them to:

Give us Zimbabwe
Release Mogadishu
Give us ducats


28 Mar – Mogadishu has agreed to join Protectorate status with us.


Zimbabwe – Gold mining is the major effort by the Shona Sunnis here. Tax value of 4 is not used, because of how far away it is, but it gives us 19.6 ducats. It’s next to us in Massapa, as well as three Kilwan provinces - Bawre, Butua, and Urungwe.

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s take a map of us in Lower Africa


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As you can see, we basically have South Africa and parts north east. Where the 3 soldiers are is Inhambane. Sofala is north of Inhambane, and then Massapa and Zimbabwe inland of that.

I combined three fleets to make the 14 ship on in Sofala’s harbor. You can see all of the forces I shipped down. My hope was to use one of these armies to take Zanzibar, but that was not the case. The majority of our forces are here.

I’ll disband a couple thousand post war to get our balance back to black – its been in red for a while.

I send my Explorer fleet back to Cape.

[Abe Sargent]

15 April – I decline an alliance offer from Gujarat.

I had to disband another 3000 infantry to get to positive.

16 May – We enter into a Royal marriage with Mogadishu

23 July – Sofala converts – I order him next door to Massapa.

I begin the process to turn Sofala into a Bedouin culture.


7 Oct – I unload Conquistadors at St. Helena Island. No natives and just 1 tax base

2 Feb, 130 – Inhambane is now self sufficient



Inhambane – 4 tax value, slaves, next to Sofala. It makes 3.89 ducats annually. I order a fort


Sunda – 13,46 ducats are made by the 3 tax value, Chinaware province. Like Banten and Maldives, does not have the negatives for being overseas. I order a Temple here

My new theory as to why is because they are Asian provinces, as are we.


Where should be my new colonial target?

I can reach all the way up the Atlantic coast to Grain Coast, but do I really want to?

I send them to Gubbi Gubbi, in Australia – we can just make it with our improved colonial range


4 May – We improve relations with Hedjaz and finish our mission

10 Aug – We put down an uprising in Demak

12 Sept – 1000 troops arrive from Demak to Gubbi Gubbi

23 Oct – Due to Border Tensions, we gain a claim on Basra which is north of Al Hasa and owned by Qara Qoyunlu


4 Dec –We have maximized relations with Majaphit

10 Dec – They agree to give us military access, so we can move across Java.

30 Dec – Our Explorer passed

[Abe Sargent]

10 Feb, 1531 – A Constable is next in the queue for Sunda

Meet our new explorer, Abu l-hasan Issa. I load him aboard in Gubbi Gubbi and we begin exploring the area around them.

5 Mar – We purchase Level 10 Military Tech – Reiter. It enables Culverin and Pedrero. Units get better maneuver.

We will replace our artillery with Pedrero


17 Mar – We find the Capricorn Bay

2 May – Three Kings Islands opens before our Explorer

1 June – Canterbury Bight is next

10 July – We invest in Dip Tech 8, Trade Depot and Drydock. We can now build Trade Depots and Drydocks. And we get a bunch of trade range

27 July – Sofala is now Bedouin!


With our religion and culture, it’s now up to 42.20 ducats.


20 Nov – We find the Solomon Sea – Once again, I’ll stick to just fun things in the Pacific

4 Feb, 1532 – I send a Diplomat to be friends with Ayutthaya. They have expanded lots and are a major threat in the area.

8 Mar – We purchase Admin Tech 11, we can now build Spy Agency and Counting House

15 Mar – We get an event, Colonial Enthusiasm, that helps our Global Settler Increase for five years.


My Conquistador landed in Gubba Gubba and is now leaving with the convoy.

6 May – We land on and discover the Solomon Islands – 2000 nasty natives tropical

22 June – We find Vanuatu, in the Coral Sea – Same as Solomon Islands

3 Aug – And now we unload our troops in New Caledonia – 100 natives, tropical

28 Sept – We have an Exceptional Year. I choose to take the ducats now. We order a Marketplace in Sunda, and Trade Depot in Muscat and Banten

19 Oct – Demak will be a Spices province

13 Nov – Gubbi Gubbi will just be Fish though

[Abe Sargent]

7 Jan, 1533 – We arrive in the Cook Strait and immediately find Aorangi and Taranaki.

23 Jan – We defeat native after landing in Timaru.

16 Feb – This time we unload in Whangarei, unveil adjacent Wairoa in so doing, and begin a battle with a bunch of natives.

9 Mar- We win.

1 June – Our Military Advisor passes. I hire a level 1 Quarter master to supplement him

5 Sept – Zimbabwe is now a core province.

10 Nov – We finish exploring the seas around New Zealand, and have found all of the land.

20 Feb, 1534 – We find Fiji. 500 natives nice, tropical

10 April – We find Tonga – 100 natives, nice, tropical

21 April – We land in Samoa and fight some natives here

1 May – We win the battle. Samoa is 4000 folks strong, and angry (and tropical)

26 Sept – Massapa converts!

I want to convert Zimbabwe but it will take 166 months – a very long time. Let’s do it anyway

We push Massapa towards the Bedouin way of life!


5 Oct – Max relations with Ayutthaya

2 Dec – We find Nauru Island, 100 nice natives, tropical

14 Dec – Our forces land in Tuvalu. Same as Nauru

11 Feb, 1535 – We find the Gilbert Islands after exploring wit our Conquistador. Same as the others

24 April – We pass the Anti-Piracy Act. For the rest of the game, we get better relations over time with folks

I order Trade Depot in Sunda and Counting House in Banten


I don’t know when, but we passed France and are now the #1 nation in the world

1 Sept – Gubbi Gubbi is now a full fledged province! I’ll order a fort later when I get enough money after my recent spending spree


Gubbi Gubbi – 3.55 ducats are made here in the fish trade, with a tax value of 4. Inland 9s Barunggan, south along the coast is Bundjalung


I move our troops to Bundjalung, and send colonists there.

[Abe Sargent]

14 Sept – We land in Micronesia – 100 natives, nice, tropical

9 Oct – We put down an uprising in Demak


5 June, 1536 – We land in the Marshall Islands, same as the others around here like Micronesia

20 Sept – Massapa is now Bedouin as well. It now gives us 42.20 ducats as well

18 jan, 1537 – We put down another uprising in Demak

28 mar – We find Wake Island. Same as others here

5 June – We get a Native Assimilation in Bundjalung, and gain 100 population there.

23 June – Workshop for Sunda ordered, I’ll skip the fort for Gubbi Gubbi for now


15 July – Bundjalung will be used to grow local grains

11 Nov – We get another Native Assimilation event in Bundjalung

3 Feb, 1538 – Demak is now self-sustaining!



Demak – 10.29 ducats made here from spice trade. Next to Sunda, unoccupied Priangan, and two Majaphit districts – Surabaya and Mataram. Fort ordered here


I order my men to Priangan. We’ll make it the next colony. Java is a wealthy area for us, although Priangan has just 2 taxvalue.

[Abe Sargent]

11 March – We land at Midway Island Group. No natives. Just tropical.

15 Apr – We get a Gift to the State. I purchase a fort in Gubbi Gubbi

8 June – I get a Comet Sighted event and our stability decreases by one. I spend some power to rebuild it



1 July – I give us Viceroys as the next level on our Exploration Idea slider. It gives us +20% global tariffs

16 Sept – We are making a lot of money with that improvement. I use it to hire a new level 2 guy in Government advising – a Philosopher who gives us prestige.

2 Jan, 1539 – I order a diplomat to gain a claim for Butua, another gold province next to Zimbabwe

3 July – We find Kiribati Islands. 500 natives, tropical, nicer ones though

12 Oct – Harvest Fails for Dhofar

10 Nov – I order a Temple for Demak

10 Feb, 1540 – We put down an Uprising in Priangan

1 April – Bandjalung is now self sufficient.


Bandjalung – 3.28 ducats here from farming. South of Gubbi Gubbi, north of Eora. Also next to inland province Kamilaroi. I order a fort.


Next target?

We can go anywhere really. All the way into Kirabati or Samoa. Up Africa to Grain Coast. Any open place in the Indies, Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, anywhere. Where is the best place economically and strategically?

Ternate. Back of the Spice Islands, taxvalue of 2 instead of all of these 1 options, just 500 nice natives. Still tropical unfortunately, but there’s nothing we can do about that.

[Abe Sargent]

29 May – We land in the Society Islands – 100, tropical, nice

6 Nov – I barely got my fleet back after overextending searching the Pacific. Wow.

I order a Dock in Gubbi Gubbi instead of what I was saving it for on Java.

5 Dec – I get ready for war with Kilwa

I take the mission to have a bigger army than the Mamluks and then begin to build some forces here and there.

9 March, 1541 – We defeat the natives in Priangan

[Abe Sargent]

15 March – We are ready. I have 4000 troops in Mogadishu ready to move out, 11000 in Adal, and a bunch in the south. Here we go.

22 Apr – I have sieges in Majerteen, Lamu, and Butua. I am moving a large force north along the African shore – goal Zanzibar. 14000 troops are in my way in Kilwa’s capital.

4 May – Kilwa is retreating from my 9000 troops moving up the coast.

7 May – Priangan will be a cloth-making province.

9 May – We captured their force sin Kilwa before they could fulyl retreat and battle is on

4 June – We win the battle of Kilwa. I leave behind a siege unit and move on.

7 June – Our Conquistador has passed

21 July – An army arrives in Zanzibar

15 Aug – We complete our mission. I select achieve religious unity

24 Nov – Majerteen falls

28 Jan , 1542 – After running down the coast, our cavalry catch their forces in Mozambique and beat them again

5 Feb – Butua falls

24 Feb – Zanzibar is ours

15 April – Tete falls too

20 Apr – As does Lamu

5 May – Ajuuraan falls too

21 May – We hit the army again with our cavalry

28 June – After a quick assault, their capital is ours too

We now have a large warscore, 49%. I look to see if its enough do to the three things I want

It is

We force:

Cede Zanzibar to us
Cede Butua as well
Revoke their cores on Massapa, Sofala, Zimbabwe
Release Ajuuraan as a state

The two provinces of Ajuuraan are now free



Zanzibar – Taxvalue 1, Swahili Sunnis work the slave market here. Zanzibar is an Important Center of Trade, tropical, and is an island in the Zanzibar Strait, and it can walk to Bagamoyo. We begin the process of making it a core making just 0.36 ducats

Butua – Our fourth gold mine province in this area, the Shona Sunnis make 23.2 ducats for us. We are working on a core. It is next to Zimbabwe and the Kilwan province of Barwe.

[Abe Sargent]

11 Aug – I join a random war Persia started


8 Sept – Ajuuraan is now a Protectorate of us

I disband a few armies here and there.

7 Jan, 1543 – I order a Dock in Sunda and another in Demak

1 Mar – We spend 400 Dip power for another colonist from Exploration Ideas.


Our next colony will be Roggeveld, inland and in Southern Africa

1 Apr – Meet our new Conquistador – Sayf Issa

20 Sept – Rebellion in Zimbabwe

11 Oct – Defeated

14 July, 1544 – I have removed Qara Q as a rival since they did the same with us

I send a diplomat to improve relations with them

5 Sept – We get another Gold Rush event

I upgrade our level 2 advisor to a level 3 Inquisitor in the Government/Admin section. We’ll lose money, but we have it to spare




11 Nov, 1544 – By Allah’s Mercy and Wisdom, we have reached the 100 Year anniversary of my great, great, great grandfather’s dream. Where are we now? What has happened exactly how has Allah blessed us so?

Let’s take a look and see and witness the Beneficence of Allah

[Abe Sargent]

Oman 100 Years Later –


We have not expanded much in Arabia in the last 50 years. Only Bahrain has joined us. We absorbed the three Yemeni provinces diplomatically, not militarily.

We have three Protectorates – Ajuuraan, Mogadishu, and Adal.

Our allies are Persia. Hedjaz allied with Kilwa, and then when we declared war on Kilwa, denied both and so we currently just have Persia as an ally.


We have only taken five provinces from Kilwa – Zanzibar, Sofala, Massapa, Zimbabwe and Butua. That is our only military expansion.

Most of our expansion has been colonially.

We have the top rank militarily, administratively, and 24th diplomatically. We are first in the world.


Top Ten –

Oman
Ottomans
France
Ming
Austria
Russia
Portugal
Poland
Savoy
Burgundy

[Abe Sargent]

The highest admin tech is 12, and just Pisa has it. At 11, we are basically at the top. The top military tech is 12. But we are back at 10. We have 8 for Diplo when the top is 12.

The number of provinces that follow Shi’a is now 70. Sunni nations have dropped to 35.

At 31,000, we have a small army still. We have the 11th biggest army

We have the 5th biggest navy at 42. We can have 52 easily, so we should invest in a few more boats.

We have the second highest income in the world after Ming

Right now, the most valuable trade goods in the world are:


Chinaware
Tea
Coffee
Spices
Cocoa
Sugar
Fur
Ivory
Wine
Copper
Cloth
Tobacco
Salt
Slaves
Naval Supplies
Wool
Grain
Fish
Iron
Cotton
Gold



As you can see, our large number of Spice markets really helps the value of our nation.

We are the production leader of Coffee and Spices. We make 23.6% of all Spices in the world. 41.8% of Coffee.

[Abe Sargent]

Map of the world!

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You can see the extent of many of our exploration. Note the size of the Timurids and Qara Q from when they first started. I used the yellow stars again. They have Ternate (in the upper right) Australia, Java, Mahe and more.

[Abe Sargent]

Instead of our normal tour of the provinces, (which can take a loooong time to write up) let’s look at the finances of each –


Arabia:

Muscat – 23.54
Suhar – 9.17
Qawasim – 6.94
Nizwa – 11.87
Dhofar – 11.87
Beni Yas - 5.51
Liwa – 10.4
Qatar – 6.94
Bahrain – 4.11
Al Hasa – 5.5.1
Mahra 5.46
Hadhramaut – 6.94
Aden – 13.84
Mocha – 16.41
Sana’a – 10.47
Najran – 9.0
Asir – 14.9

Indian Ocean:

Socotra – 1.92

Mahe – 1.98
Diego Garcia – 1.26
Bourboun – 5.29
Mauritius - 4.71
Cocos – 1.27
Maldives – 14.17

Indies

Banten - 26.21
Sunda – 18.43
Demak – 17.45


Australia:

Gubbi Gubbi – 3.36
Bundjalung – 3.37


Africa:

Little Karoo -4.02
Cape – 5.77
Great Karoo – 3.79

Inhambane 3.7

Sofala – 42.10
Massapa – 42.10
Zimbabwe – 25.60
Butua – 23.92
Zanzibar – 0.39

Colonies – Ternate, Roggeveld, Priangan

[Abe Sargent]

Now, let’s explore the Ninefold Plan once more


1) We need an alliance with a major power.

We become our own major power. We could slam the Mamluks in a moment if we wanted. I would like to consider a long term connection to Ottomans.


2) We want to become the premier trading nation in the Indian Ocean. There are many great nations along the area, but we want to be the dominant one.

Done. We have sprawling trading network and have worked hard. Our income shows a lot of success.

3) We have to control a proper navy in order to meet our goals.

We could use some more improvement, despite being #5 on the list.

4) We would like to colonize the Indian Ocean.

We are far along this goal. We have colonies in almost every island in the Ocean proper (minus Christmas, Madagascar, arguably the Andamans). We have many holdings in Africa, the Indies, and even Australia
5) We need to fend off the overly hostile Yemen. They are blatantly seeking our elimination. Probably because they are Sunni.

Yemen is gone


6) Similarly, the adjacent Najd is also very aggressively looking towards us. Both neighbors are Sunni, and it gets a little too hot here.

As is Najd

7) We eventually want to see Mecca in Shi’ite hands.

We have not begun this yet

8) In light of these things, it seems necessary to build our nation militarily, as well as diplomatically.

We have done so quite well.

9) Nearby one province nation Haasa is Shi-ite as well, and could be a good early ally.

Haasa is gone


So it seems that many goals are completed, or almost so. Therefore, I am adding a tenth goal.

We have met the Portuguese. They are much more advanced than us. They came across Africa looking to dominate the Indian Ocean for trade.

10). Westernize our Technology
11). Expand further abroad. Do to Portugal what they planned for us. Expand into the Pacific and Atlantic and move into stronger places against Europe.



And now back to the Will of Allah

[Grover]

Good lord. Did Poland completely engulf Lithuania?

[Abe Sargent]

Good lord. Did Poland completely engulf Lithuania?

I think so, yeah ;)

[Abe Sargent]

I send a Diplomat to increase relations with the Ottomans but see that they have chosen us as a rival. Uh oh.

16 May, 1545 – We are now at peace since Persia’s war is over

22 June, 1545 – We put down a rebellion in Zanzibar

31 July – Ternate will be a Spices province

I order my explorer fleet and Conquistador to Ternate ot use it as a base for more Pacific exploring

I’m working on getting our relations up again with Hedjaz

5 Dec – Roggeveld will now be a Slave province

17 Dec – Hedjaz accepts our offer of an alliance

10 March, 1546 – Zimbabwe has converted.

17 Mar – Our first convoy from Ternate is leaving.

9 May – We find Guam. 500 angry natives, tropical

3 June – Priangan is now self-sustaining!


Priangan – 4.69 ducats are made in the textile trade here. It’s next to Mataram, Banten, Sunda and Demak. Just has a taxvalue of 2. I order a fort here

8 July – Our troops from Priangan have loaded a trio of Cogs I keep here to move them around. Now I need to figure out the next location.

Hmm…

Flores – tax value 4, 1010 moderate natives.

[Abe Sargent]

6 Sept – Our great Diplo advisor has passed. We’re now making a ton of money. I decide ot give us a few months with the huge positive cash flow

9 Jan, 1547 – Butua is now a core province. I order a Missionary here.

1 April – We purchase Fire Arts Academy, Admin Tech 12. We can build a Fine Arts Academy

5 Apr – Relations with Ottomans maxed at +25. Our guy returns.

5 July – Zanzibar is now a core.

14 Nov – I send a diplomat to improve relations with Portugal


21Jan, 1548 – I send a Diplomat to improve relations with Persia

1 July – We invest is military tech 11 – Matchlock Musket

It enables like four units. We can build Barracks, Weapons manufactory, and we get three bonuses to units.

Our new Cavalry are Qizilbash Cavalry

Muslim Musketeer replaces our Shamshir Infantry

Large Cast Iron Cannon is our new type

Three major upgrades!

21 August - After saving up, I order the unique building March in Al Hasa. It will give me +500 manpower and +200 defense there.

1 Oct – Roggeveld is now Self Sustaining.


Roggeveld – 2.76 ducats are made in the slave trade in this inland South African province. Next to Greater Karoo, Lesser Namaqualand and Cape, I order a fort here forthwith.

Portugal took the coastal Malinese province. Unfortunately, I can’t get to Sierra Leone, next to it. I don’t want to send up a bunch of army far away from the rest of my people, just ot get a place to use to build off of. So I send my army to uninhabited St Helena.

[Abe Sargent]

Allah is great! He always provides a way.



6 October – I put down an uprising of natives in Flores

17 Feb – 1549 – I finish off the Exploration Ideas track. We get a huge bonus to Naval Force Limits. For finishing that track, I can now get a permanent Casus Belli against any pagans. Additionally, I unlocked the next Omani Idea. Port Security Improvements, which increase our national trade by ten percent.

I use my recently gotten money to purchase two large ships and a Temple in Priangan (From our dead advisor)

Our space cash has increased and we are now getting a ton more money each month. About 15 ducats monthly. I’m using that to fund some serious building projects here in a bit.

5 Sept – We land in Hawaii. We’re fighting some seriously upset natives. 5000 angry tropical tax value 3 natives,


9 Sept – Butua is now embraced the way of Shi’a! We move our Missionary to Zanzibar!


20 Sept – We win in Hawaii

28 Oct – Hedjaz randomly breaks our alliances.

That’s it. I’m tired of them breaking alliances, rebuilding stuff, and so forth. I’m done.

I want to send a diplomat to fabricate claims on Mecca. But we can’t since its their capital. So I use Najd instead.

My goal is to take Hedjaz out, and then Vassalize them.

26 December – A new settlement in Flores has a better tax base and it increases by 1 there

27 Jan, 1550 – After apparently removing us as a rival, the Ottomans accept our Royal Marriage proposal

1 Sept – I am moving my Explorer/Conquistadors from Ternate to St Helena

25 Nov – I cancel military access from Hedjaz

26 Dec – I declare war for Najd. We lose a stability because we have a Royal Marriage - I boost it back up

They have 12000 units in Najd proper. I order 14000 from Asir, 9000 from Al Hasa and 1k I just built from Najra into Najd.


War has begun


29 Dec – Kilwa has joined her ally. I move my armies in the south into position

13 Jan, 1551 – Zimbabwe is now Bedouin

9 Feb – We Win in Najd

I order most of my troops to Mecca

10 Mar – After defeating a small force I leave behind a siege unit in Mecca and move to Medina

17 Apr – I catch Kilwa in Tete for a large battle – 9000 on 15000

5 May – We win in Tete

27 May – We defeat Hedjaz in Tabouk

5 July – We defeat the fleeing Hedjaz forces in Negev

2 Au g- We catch some more Kilwan forces in Qualimane and set up a siege there too

29 Aug – St. Helena will be a fishing colony

2 Sept – We win in Tabouk – Their army is destroyed

13 Sept – Flores is found to be another great producer of Spices

18 Sept – Zanzibar is converted! We complete our mission – our next is to get a claim on Bagamoyo, the only land based province in Africa next to Zanzibar.

[Abe Sargent]

30 Oct – Mecca falls

3 Nov – Ternate is now self-sufficient. I order a fort here

2 Jan, 1552 – Najd falls

22 Jan – An army arrives in Negev and begins a siege

25 Jan – Tete is our too

16 March – Quelimane is taken. Perfect!

Kilwa is so upset at the war that they will happily take a white peace on the side.

Now its just 1:1

18 May – Our Explorer dies.

9 Aug – Tabouk is ours

10 Sept – Medina falls

13 Sept – Butua is now Bedouin!

21 Sept – Zanzibar is now Bedouin too! But our agent was discovered in Bagamoyo.

5 Oct – We put down some uppity natives in Flores

1 Feb, 1553 – Negev falls. I now have every Hedjaz province



Hmmm.. Apparently, the peace cost is too great. I can’t vassalize 5 provinces.

I’ll take Najd, Medina, and then force them to send me 50% of their trade for 5 years. And 42 ducats. And I force them to give Negev back to Mamluks. It doesn’t make my reputationany worse to give lands back to others like that. I certainly wouldn’t want it later.

That leaves Hedjaz just Tabouk and Mecca


Najd – Bedouin and Sunni, coffee trade is strong here, 6.61 ducats from the 2 tax value Arid land. We order it turned into a core. Next to Mecca, Medina, Jabal Shammar, Al Hasa, Najran and Asir.

Medina – 7.54 ducats from the spice trade here. 4 tax value, Bedouin and Sunni, Arid landscape, core ordered here too. Next to Mecca, Naja, Jabal Shammar and Tabouk

I disband quite a few soldiers – about 12000

[Abe Sargent]

I send a Diplomat to improve relations with Mamluks

22 May – We have a claim on Bagamoyo and finish that mission

Next is Turn Flores into a City which will give it +1 taxvalue when it works


1 June – I order a Temple in Ternate

1 Jan, 1554 – With a pocket of cash, I finally hire the replacement for our old Diplo advisor, but this time just level 2 – Spymaster

22 March – I purchase Merchant Adventures from the Trade Line of Ideas.

5 Apr – I Press a Claim and gain acclaim on Barwe, a province of Kilwa’s

1 July – The Mamluks have accepted our alliance offer. Apparently Negev was the door in.

1 Aug – Rebellion in Medina

12 Aug – Put down

21 Aug – Mamluks accepts our Royal Marriage proposal

7 Oct _ New Land Claimed in Cape results in extra tax value there

28 Oct – Mamluks broke their alliance with us. Again, this is just weird behavior. Hedjaz did this his hot and cold stuff too – Ottomans too


1 Nov – St. Helena is now fully self sustaining.


St. Helena – I order a fort here. 0.57 ducats are made by the poor Bedouin Shi’ite fisherman. But it opens up Sierra Leone. I order colonists there

Due to the large amount of natives, I load up some soldiers to send them over

11 Feb, 1555 – I order Colonists to Sumbawa

7 July – We arrive in Sierra Leone and fight off natives and prepare for colonists.

15 Sept – Najd is now a core! Our Missionary heads over to convert to populace to the one true path


4 Nov – We establish the colony in Sierra Leone and again I send a Diplomat to Portugal to amp up our relations

[Abe Sargent]

15 Dec – Medina is now a core province too

22 Jan, 1556 – Our Explorer and Conquistador move in from St Helena to Sierra Leone.

7 Mar – Portugal was maxed already. I send the Diploma to Persia to do the same thing

12 Apr – We put down an uprising in Sierra Leone

22 May – We find the Coast of Brazil

19 July – We hold a large Ramadan fast

13 Sept – Native Assimilation event in Flores gains us 100 population.

So here’s how I’m doing exploring. I have two small fleet sin Sierra Leone. So I send one out to explore, and when it gets bad, it returns, and I hope the Explorer to the other fleet, newly ready, and send it out. Rinse and repeat, faster exploration for everyone.

23 Oct – I see a Castilian fleet down by Cape.

15 Nov – We discover the Coast of Recife, and both Portuguese and Castilian Brazil .

16 Dec – I continue down the coast and see heavy colonization by Castile here.

24 Feb, 1557 – Najd has converted to Shi’ite! On to Medina – Najd is up to 11.16 ducats now that they are a core and share our faith

1 April – Flores is now an official colony! I order a fort here


Flores – 17.26 ducats are made in the spice trade here. With a tax value of 6 (raised after completion of our mission), it’s a valuable little island of love. The chain is just east of out new colony in Sumbawa, which is just east of Bali and Java. Timor and Sumba are very close and just to the south.

Sumba is my next target here in the Indies. I order a colonist and will move men over from Flores.


Constable is ordered in Ternate

Our next mission is to have a Star Fort in Demak

I blow through my reservoir to order it right now

[Abe Sargent]

28 Jan, 1558 – I find places like Suriname, Tucujulandia, Essequibo open far up the coast past Brazil

10 Feb – We find Martinique in the Windward Islands open. It looks like Portugal and Castile are here.

2 Apr – I order a claim fabricated on Mecca

23 July – Our fort is built, and the next mission is turn Sumbawa into a city

29 July – it looks like Spain and Portugal have all of the islands in the Lesser Antilles.

30 July – Ayutthaya is blockading us and looks to have made us a rival.

8 Oct – Portugal is also in Puerto Rico

13 Nov – I send a Diplomat to Ming to increase relations. Ming and Ayutthaya are rivals.

30 Nov – Medina has converted!

They now give us 14.02 ducats.

15 Dec – Our agent is discovered again

2 Jan, 1559 – We’ll try this again. I accept an alliance offer from Mamluks


I keep finding provinces back in the back of South America open. I’ll skip them for now. They are not an ideal target.

13 Feb, 1560 -I headed down along the southerly Brazilian coast this time and found a consistent and large area that is under Castilian control.

11 March – I chose extra colonists from a Rush of Colonists event. Bonus colony growth for the next 5 years!

12 April – Sierra Leone will be a grain province

26 April – Sumbawa is Spices.

3 Jun – We are finding open places, like St. Thomas and Trinidad. Castile in Turks Islands.

15 Jun – We put down an uprising in Sierra Leone

19 Jun – The rear end of Cuba, at least, is unclaimed

4 July – We maxed relations with Majaphit

We invest in Admin Tech 13 Improved Drainage. We can build plantations and get +10 production

I’ve been saving money for the Westernization process, but I decide to build some stuff now, just in case it’s not needed like I suspect it’ll be. I can save up later.

Constable in Flores
Workshop in Ternate
Constable in Demak

[Abe Sargent]

1 Sept -An advisor in military tech passed. I buy a level one Grand Captain to replace him

12 Jan, 1561 – We defeat an uprising again in Sierra Leone

6 Mar – I get an event – Colonial Ventures. With the discovery of a New World, we are entering our greatest era of prosperity. We choose Naval Improvements. Diplo tech cost is reduced but ship building costs are up. It’s great, cause we’re near leveling up there, and we can use it – plus saving the extra power’ll help us post-Westernization

18 May – Did you know?

We get more money monthly from trade than the other three major sources? (Roughly 30% is from trade. About 25% is from Production. Taxes and Gold almost divide the rest evenly)

[Abe Sargent]

In case you are not really in to the Indies and knowing where things are, I took a quick snapshot for ya!


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Again, I starred Ternate, which is way out there, and Cocos is in the far bottom left corner. You can see the island of Java, and we have 4 provinces on the west side. You can also see Flores, Sumba and Sumbawa just east of Majaphit’s territory. All of the green to the west is just a small part of Ayutthaya’s territory. You can also see a quick map in the lower right hand corner to see briefly our explorations of the world. We are also building our military and diplo resources and hopefully will get in another advance before we Westernize.

[Grover]

Awesome.

My Japan game is looking like this for me, I've got the Philippines into the Indies, Majaphit entered a personal union with me, which started a succession war with Brunei. Fun stuff.

Keep up the great work! You've inspired me to get back into the game and perhaps try my hand at one of these.

[Abe Sargent]

Awesome.

My Japan game is looking like this for me, I've got the Philippines into the Indies, Majaphit entered a personal union with me, which started a succession war with Brunei. Fun stuff.

Keep up the great work! You've inspired me to get back into the game and perhaps try my hand at one of these.

Thanks thanks, that's very humbling!

[Abe Sargent]

22 May – And the Mamluks broke the alliance they offered us. We’re done with that. Twice bitten thrice shy


6 June – We get news that Sumba will be a coffee rich place.

10 June – Our Conquistador has passed.

5 July – We maximized relations with Ming, so I send that Diplo to Mamluks. After two alliance cancelations, I want to renew our not-hated rival. Actually, we’re still good, so I send him the Ottoman’s way.

12 Sept – We defeat the natives of Sierra Leone

15 Sept -0 We discover mid-Cuba (Moron), and its uncolonized too

6 Nov – Portugal has given us military access.

18 Nov – We have found two of the provinces on Hispaniola also unoccupied by colonial forces (Barahonas, Les Cayes)

10 Dec -We put down another native “uprising” in Sierra Leone.

3 Mar, 1562 – We maximize relations with Brunei and our diplomat returns. I send another to Persia.

14 Apr – We get a Colonist Rush event

4 May – We maxed with Ottomans again. Next up Ayutthaya itself.

3 June – We purchase the next level of military tech – 12, Spanish Square! We get a huge bonus to tactics

2 July – We purchase the next level of Diplomatic tech – level 9 – gotten very early because of that event. It increases: Colonial Range by 50, Naval Morale by 0.20, Naval maintenance up by 20% (yuck), and we can get Carrack and Caravel vessels.

I disband two army units to pay for the increased costs

4 Aug – Maxed relations with Persia – next up – Castile

14 Aug – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Ajuuraan

29 Oct - I chose to execute a family member caught for treason and lose 25 Admin power. The other option was ot let him go, but that would have weakened us to spies massively for a decade.

25 Nov –

Today is a day of great sorrow. Our mighty Sultan Umar Nabhan was called to Allah. He was a truly great man. Long may we remember him!

Our new leader is Nasir Nabhan. He is a 4/2/3 ruler. He takes the throne at the age of 53.

His grandson, Ab’ul-Arab is 13, with a strong claim, and has 4/3/4 styles.

Our nation’s stability has dropped one, so I spend 200 Admin power to raise it again. We now have just 11 left, but it worked.

[Abe Sargent]

27 June, 1563 – We get a great work by one of our leaders. I could’ve used it to increase our stability! If we’d only know n. Instead we use it to increase our defense for a decade.


8 July – We defeat natives in Sumba

Because of an embargo by Ayutthaya, I order our merchant from Malacca to collect instead from Philippines.


2 Sept – Portugal oddly proclaims a guarantee on us.

19 Oct – And now Portugal have chosen us as a rival. Odd behavior again.

30 Oct – They cancel military access

4 Dec – I send a Diplomat to Kongo to improve relations there

4 Feb, 1564 – I order:

Temple in Flores
Dock in Ternate
Marketplace in Demak

[Abe Sargent]

1 June, 1564 –Let me get you a map of the Americas so far




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Again, I have stars next to the two places on the map that are us – the island of St. Helena, and then our colony of Sierra Leone. You can see our explorations in detail, and the extent of Castilian and Portuguese of the coasts. They might be inland of there, I have no idea of the full extent of their colonies. I’m getting ready for Westernization, which will suck my techs dry for a while, so the wiki says.

[Abe Sargent]

13 June – We get a Hardy Seaman event and 2 naval tradition from it.

16 July – Portugal revoked their guarantee.

11 Dec – We put down the natives in Sierra Leone. Again.

4 Jan, 1565 – Maxed relations with Castile. Next – Morocco

17 Feb – We discover the Aztec

1 Mar – Sierra Leone is now a full province


Sierra Leone - I order a fort here. The grain farmers here make 2.82 ducats annually.


We cannot westernize. Apparently, we need to be too far below Portugal and we aren’t… The sacrifices we made to build our tech has hurt us.

So I make some major decisions. First, we fire our level 3 and level 1 advisers in military and admin.

We are now making 27.34 ducats annually. Expect us ot begin to develop our nation, spend tech on ideas, and build our military – navy too.


I order Colonists to St. Thomas, just east of Puerto Rico.

1 May – Sumbawa is also now a city! We get +1 manpower there form our completed mission.


We order a fort here

Sumbawa – 13.09 ducats from spices and 4 tax base.

Our next target is the island of Timor, just east of Sumba, and southeast of Flores.

[Abe Sargent]

Allah has proven himself once again. Praise Allah!


2 July – Troops arrive in both Timor and St. Thomas

I order a Counting House in Ternate

18 Aug - I choose to fortify Sierra Leone for our next mission.


3 Sept – Sumba is now a full fledged colony too!


Sumba – 8.87 ducats from Coffee trade and 2 tax value. Fort ordered here.


Castile has already begun on Trinidad, the last of the islands in the east side of the Caribbean. I was hoping to get it with my colonists. Virtually adjacent to Ternate is Halmahera. I order colonists there. It has 500 peaceful natives.


I move my people to prepare for war. Kilwa has broke their alliance with Hedjaz. They have moved Hedjaz to a rival.

That means Hedjaz is, for the moment, isolated.


10 Oct – I declare war on Hedjaz for Mecca

Our stability drops, and I spend 200 to raise it.

18 Nov – the army in Tabouk has been annihilated. The one in Mecca cut in half.

25 Dec – In Asir, we cut down the fleeing army and it is destroyed,

7 Mar, 1566 – We finish our mission in Sierra Leone. I don’t like any of the others, I’ll see if they change post-war

2 May – It’s just fun t o zoom in an see our little turbaned musketeers with a gun in the Caribbean.

10 June – The Mamluks have added us as a rival.

25 Aug – We get +1 tax base in St. Thomas.

15 Oct – Tabouk falls.

3 Nov – We win a major battle in the Suez and capture two ships.

5 Dec – Relations maxed with Kongo

5 Feb, 1567 – We launch our first explorer fleet from St. Thomas

19 Mar – Mecca is ours!

4 Apr – We destroy their navy in the Red Sea after it flees from Mecca’s captured harbor



To make Hedjaz my vassal will cost 15 aggressive expansion relations penalties. To annex them outright is just another 11. So I do that.


6 April – Mecca has fallen to us!



Mecca – 9.34 ducats are made by the spice trading Bedouin Sunnis with a tax value of 6. It is a Religious Center, so it’ll be hard to convert them. It’s also Arid. I order a core made here. It has a level 3 fort, Temple, Armory, Dock, Constable, and Marketplace. 6.5% rebel rate.


Tabouk – The shepherds of Tabouk have a level 3 tax base. They make 3.80 from the Sunni Bedouin folks. The Arid province also has a level 3 fort, Dock, Marketplace, It has a 9.0 rebellion rate. It’s up the coast from Medina, and next to Jabal Shammar (Owned by Qara Q), Al Jawf, Al Kara, Negev, and Sinai (all Mamluk)


Our people are on the streets praising and dancing across the Omani Empire. We have taken the holy place of Mecca and the true path of Shi'a is seen clearly!


We have now taken Mecca! Our next goal is to convert it – which might prove very difficult.

I take a mission to repair relations with Mamluk and send a diplomat there to do just that!

[Abe Sargent]

8 April – Bermuda is uninhabited by anyone

17 Apr -We get an event about trade competition and our Trade Steering is decreased for a year

28 May – Portugal has begun colonizing Cuba

5 June – Relations with Morocco are maxed – next is Majaphit

Saved up during the war, and I have over 600 ducats now and nothing large to spend it on so:

Workshop in Flores
Temple in Sumbawa
Temple in Sumba
Counting House in Sunda
Dock in Banten




22 Sept – We put down a rebellion in Mecca

5 Nov – Counting House ordered for Muscat

3 Dec – Maximized Relations with Mamluks and Majaphit

Our mission worked, we gain some power,

Our next mission is to colonize Wairoa, on the east side of New Zealand. When we do, we’ll get a Colonial Expansion event.


I send a diplomat to Bahmanis and build relations.


14 Dec – We get a Poor Uniforms event which gives us -5% land morale for a year



23 Dec – St. Thomas will be a good producer of sugar

[Abe Sargent]

10 Jan, 1568 – I invest in a new idea – Trade Ideas #4 – gives us +10% trade efficiency.


6 May – We have discover the Seminole province in South Florida, and Bahamas, all empty of colonial forces.


21 May – England has set up a colony in Bermuda

1 Oct – Rebellion in Tabouk!

22 -Oct Ended

24 Dec – I order:

Marketplace in Flores
Marketplace in Sumba
Constable in Sumbawa
Marketplace in Ternate
Counting House in Maldives
Workshop in Demak
Counting House in Aden
Trade Depot in Mocha


1 Jan, 1569 – St. Thomas natives rise

4 Jan – We beat them massively

My severe investment in my infrastructure in increasing my gold – I am now making 30 ducats monthly.


13 Mar – Revolt in Mecca!

27 Mar – Defeated

20 May – I send a diplomat to Qara Q for improving relations

13 July – Our Royal Marriage with Qara Q ends after their statesman passes today


18 July – Great news! Timor is a perfect place to make Chinaware!

10 Sept – I see Portugal deep in the Indian Ocean sailing around

11 Sept – Mecca is now a core province

26 Dec I order:

Trade Depot in Flores
Trade Depot in Sumba
Marketplace in Sumbawa
Constable in Priangan
Counting House in Demak

[Abe Sargent]

7 Jan, 1570 – Tabouk is now a core! I order a Missionary here to teach the way of Shi’a to them


18 July – Our Sultan has passed. Our new leader is 20 year old Ab’ul’Arab Nabhan, with 4/3/4. Allah has not blessed him with an heir yet, but we are confident that it will be soon.


We spend the power needed to raise our stability back up to 3

29 Sept – Halmahera will also be a great place to grow Coffee


5 Oct – Relations maxed with Bahmanis. I order our diplomat to England

8 Nov – Our new Sultan chooses the pious path for a random event. It will help Missionary to take in Mecca


28 Dec - We order:

Constable in Sumba
Counting House in Flores
Workshop in Sumbawa
Trade Depot in Ternate
Counting House in Mocha
Workshop in Suhar


1 Jan, 1571 – We have discovered most of the coast of the Americas. We have made contact with the Pequot, Powhatan, Lenape and Mikmaq peoples. We have found open areas from south Florida (Seminole) through Acadia and Micmic and such in the far north. (Maine and Canada)

We hire a new Conquistador to help us locate the rest of the area here. His name is Muhanna Nasser!

30 Jan – Our new Explorer/Conquistador leave St. Thomas.

19 Feb – Our Sultan has a boy! We have a new heir to the throne – Nasir! Praying reveals a 3/3/2 ruler.


21 March – We land in Tortuga, it’s clear of colonial interests.

4 May – We drop the Conquistadors off in Caragena and head back home. We move out!

13 July - Our forces are exploring the northern edge of South America. We found the Gulf of Panama!

15 July – Our Diplomat has maxed stuff in Qara Qoyunlu

Did you know that, right now, Algiers, Sind, Funj and Caraibas (The colonial government of Portugal) are improving their relations with us?

I send a diplomat to Caraibas right on back!

1 Aug – St. Thomas is now self sustaining!


I order a fort here



St. Thomas – 5.49 ducats are made with the Sugar trade and tax value 6 here. St. Thomas is an island in the eastern end of the Caribbean.

Our next target is…

Les Cayes, on the south end of Hispaniola

[Abe Sargent]

13 Sept – We put down some folks in South America. I order 2000 troops in St. Thomas and move some to Les Cayes


29 Dec –

Dock in Flores
Workshop in Sumba
Counting House in Sumbawa
Trade Depot in Demak
Trade Depot in Maldives


22 Jan, 1572 – We find the Incas!

24 April – We get a Diplomatic Faux Pas for 5 years

20 Sept - After finding 15 provinces and the Incas, our Conquistador loads back up to be dropped off elsewhere.



12 Oct – We land in Central America and begin exploring this area.

9 Nov – Our Sultan joins a book burning event and we gain some more piety.

10 Nov – After revolting from Qara Qoyunlu, the province of Jabal Shammar joins us!


Jabal Shammar – Bedouin, Sunni, Arid, 2.16 ducats from cloth trade. We order a Core province. Adjacent to our provinces of Tabouk, Al Hasa, Medina ,and Najd. Next to Mamluks in Al Jawf and QQ in Karbala.

We’ll take it!

This basically gives us a nice even line, and we now control the entire Arabian Peninsula.

[Abe Sargent]

30 December –

Star Fort in St. Thomas
Star Fort in Sierra Leone
Trade Depot in Aden
Dock in Sumba
Dock in Sumbawa
Marketplace in Priangan
Workshop in Mecca


25 May, 1573 – We discovered 6 provinces in the southern part of Central America, stooped at Aztec border. Loading back up to head north.

5 June – Done helping England. Back to Portugal

1 Sept – I buy a new idea – An extra merchant from the Trade Track

This also gives us another Omani Idea – End of the Shipbuilding Guilds, and that gives us -20% cost for light ships

I send our new merchant to the Philippines to gather in that trade node.

We introduce Jizaya. Our piety drops but we gain 5% tax income during the reign of our great Sultan.

6 Nov – We uncovered a large number of Aztec provinces. I just unloaded my troops onto one, and then repeated that again and again.

29 Dec – We arrive in Karankawa and begin exploring (modern day Texas)

1 Jan, 1574 –

Trade Depot in Sumbawa
Counting House in Sumba
Counting House in Mecca
Marketplace in Asir
Constable in Nizwa
Constable in Dhofar
Drydock in Muscat

We are now making 34.38 ducats monthly

2 Feb – We find the Apache tribe

4 Mar – Maxed with Portugal. Back to Castile

England has begun a colony in South America in Caracas. Portugal has moved to another section of Cuba. No one has touched North America – the money is in the south and the Caribbean

I am the Rival of Mamluks, Kilwa, Ottomans, Ayutthaya, Portugal, Castile

3 May – Maxed with Caraibas, I remove Kilwa as a rival of mine – our only one. They are building up relations with me, as is Tunisia, Tripoli, and Morocco.

21 June – I order a diplomat to begin raising relations with Kilwa. I’m intrigued – Kilwa has little I still want – some gold here and there, that’s about it.


2 Sept – We find the Pueblo


8 Sept – Tobacco is a great product to grow in Les Cayes


16 October – Tabouk is now fully Shi’ite! The province now makes 8.62 ducats.

1 Nov – Relations with Castile have maximized and Timor is now a full colony!


Timor – 12.13 ducats are made from the Chinaware trade and 2 tax value. This island is just east and south of Flores and Sumba. A fort is ordered post haste!


In order to meet the mission, I send colonist to Wairoa province in North-east New Zealand. With 1000 natives but a tax value of 6, it’s a solid investment. I order some troops there form the Indies.

I order 2000 more infantry built.

[Abe Sargent]

15 Nov – I lose 25 prestige but gain some piety in order to acquiesce to the Imams.

22 Nov – We find the Chickasaw

2 Jan, 1575 – We discover the Creek people

Temple in St. Thomas, Sierra Leone, Cape, Great Karoo, Roggeveld, Inhambane, Sofala

11 Jan – Assimilation in Les Cayes nets us 100 extra population from the natives


12 April – Jabal Shammar is now a core. Our Missionary heads over.

24 Apr – Our men unload at Wairoa, to prepare for the colonists.

17 June – We get the Poor Uniforms events again. You’d think once it’s happen we’d be prepared forit again, but that’s obviously not the case


Portugal has removed us as a rival, so I strike them again with a diplomat.


6 July – Our Explorer passes. I do not order another right now.

21 Aug - I revoke our embargo on Kilwa


8 Oct – I send diplomats to make friends with France

29 Oct – We get Colonial Enthusiasm after completing our mission to begin a colony in Wairoa. For the next five years, colonial growth is enhanced. Our next mission is to repair relations with Kilwa


I begin by proclaiming a guarantee

3 Jan, 1576 –

Star Fort in Maldives
Temple in Butua, Zimbabwe, Massapa, Zanzibar, Tabouk, Najd, Bahrain
Workshop in Medina

22 Feb – We discover the Cherokee tribe

1 Mar – Halmahera is self-sustaining!


Halmahera – I order a fort. 8.79 ducats in the coffee trade. Tax value is just one. Halmahera and Ternate can see each other’s shores from their respective islands.


Our next colonist is dispatched to Tortuga.

[JonInMiddleGA]

These are always just damned fine work.

[Abe Sargent]

These are always just damned fine work.

Thanks thanks!

[Abe Sargent]

2 Sept – We discover the Susquehannock Tribe

7 Oct – Followed by the Iroquois Tribe

14 November - Kilwa has apparently moved us off their rival list too. Our relations jump and we finish our mission. I offer them Protectorate Status, and they accept.


7 Jan, 1577 –

Workshop in Tabouk
Temple in Medina
Workshop in Najd
Temple in Timor
Star Fort in Ternate
Dock in St. Thomas
Marketplace in Zanzibar


12 Jan – We find the Ottawa Tribe

24 Jan – We solidify the new relationship between Kilwa and Oman with a Royal Marriage! We are one before Allah.

12 Feb – We put down a native uprising in Wairoa

21 April – The fishing trade is going to be the economy in Wairoa. I take the mission, turn Wairoa into a city

29 Apr – We get Diplomatic Moves for a few years, a slightly better reputation

1 June – Les Cayes is Self-Sustaining!


Les Cayes – 5.26 ducats made from the Coffee trade and 6 tax value on this western edge of the Hispanola island. Fort ordered.


Next up is Barahonas, the third and final province on Hispaniola


I order a pair of infantry for the island

[Abe Sargent]

11 Dec – We defeat a native uprising in Wairoa

8 Jan, 1578 –

Constable in Timor
Star Fort in Sunda, Banten
Temple in Halmahera
Constable in Bundjalung, Gubbi Gubbi
Counting House in Najd

We are now getting around 45 ducats monthly

I check and Portugal is now 5 tech above us. Three more to go.

25 Feb – Did you know? Castile and Castilian West Indies are both improving relations in our court? In fact, Castile, would be willing to ally with us if we just ask. They have removed us as a rival.

26 Mach – Jabal Shammar converts to the path of Shi’a!

7 May – Maximized relations with France. Next up – Castilian Brazil

19 June – We find the Cree Tribe. We have completed investigating and exploring the entire eastern Americas, from Texas to Labrador.

1 Sept – We buy a new idea – Trade Manipulation from the Trade Ideas path. Trade Steering is massively increased.

29 Nov – Sugar is found to be a great crop to grow iin Tortuga

1 Jan, 1579 – We land at Curacao and its not inhabited.

9 Jan –

Temple in Les Cayes
Constable in Halmahera
Workshop in Timor
Star Fort in Flores, Priangan
Trade Depot in Najd
Counting House in Medina


29 jan – We land our Conquistador back in South America for more exploring.

20 Aug – I order a few Caravel ships in the Caribbean

10 Nov – I can invest in new military tech. I’m not gonna

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1580 – Wairoa has grown to be self-sustaining, and we finish our mission!


Wairoa – 5.60 ducats from the fisherman here in north New Zealand. 7 tax base.

I order colonists to Jamaica

14 Jan –

Counting House in Timor
Star Fort in Sumbawa
Workshop in Halmahera
Temple in Jabal Shammar, Socotra, Najran, Sana’a

48 ducats a month

28 Feb – Our troops land in Jamaica, waiting for colonists to arrive

I chose fortifying Wairoa as our new mission

12 May – Our final province at Hispaniola, Barahonas will be a good cotton growing area.


7 Jan, 1581 – We finish the fort in Wairoa, and our mission with it,. Our next is to turn Barahonas into a city

15 jan –

Constable in Sana’a, Hadhramaut, Najran, Qatar, Jabal Shammar, Qawasim
Workshop in Dhofar
Marketplace in Timor, Halmahera
Temple in Wairoa


5 feb – Castilian Brazil has maxed relations with us now. I send a diplomat to Portuguese Brazil an another to Mali


A quick look shows Portugal now has 6 more tech than us.

13 March – We get a Native Assimilation in Barahonas for 100 folks

1 Apr – Tortuga is now Self-sustaining!


Tortuga – 4.25 ducats from 4 tax value and sugar. Fort is ordered. Next colonists to Curacao.

I order more forces built here in Caribbean

Curacao was the last unclaimed land in the Caribbean, save for the eastern third of Cuba, which we’ll leave to Portugal.

[Abe Sargent]

18 Jan, 1582 –

Constable in Les Cayes, St. Thomas
Counting House in Halmahera
Trade Depot in Timor
Constable in Socotra, Massapa, Sofala, Zimbabwe, Butua

7 May – We pipe in Marriagable Women into Barahonas, 200 pop gain there

Barahonas is now self-sustaining,. Mission completed.

Wall is ordered

Barahonas – 0.48 ducats? Is that a misprint from taxvalue of 6 and cotton? Seems like it. I load the game and it comes back as 4.77. Much better


Our next target is back in my world, Tidore. Tidore is right off the coast of Halmahera and Ternate.

Fortify Barahonas is next mission

19 Jan, 1583 –

Temple in Tortuga
Marketplace in Les Cayes, St. Thomas
Dock in Timor
Trade Depot in Halmahera
Constable in Wairoa

Carrack in Muscat, Mahra, Dhofar

30 Jan – Cotton will be grown in Jamaica

4 March – I order 3 Caravels in the Caribbean

10 Sept – I order a bunch more vessels in the Indies.

4 Oct – Maximized relations with Mali -next is Funj (the nation inland of Ethiopia and Mamluks)

10 Nov – We put down a rebellion in Curacao

13 Nov – We max relations in Portuguese Brazil.

[Abe Sargent]

21 Jan, 1584 – Many ships are being built – yay!

Workshop in Les Cayes, St Thomas
Constable in Tortuga, Barahonas
Dock in Halmahera, Wairoa
Temple in Cocos, Diego Garcia, Mahe, Mauritius
Constable in Bourbon, Little Karoo, Cape

53 ducats annually


8 Feb – Sugar is the crop of choice in Curacao

6 April Improving Relations with Brunei begins

12 June – I set up new patrolling routes for my folks in the Caribbean and Indies

10 July – Native Assimilation in Jamaica – another 100 folks have seen the light of our culture and faith

31 Oct – Great News! We can now Westernize! I will take us to January, order a bunch more stuff, and then begin the next chapter in our lives.

22 Jan, 1585 –

Constable in Great Karoo, Roggeveld, Inhambane, Sierra Leone
Temple in St. Helena
Star Fort in Wairoa
Dock in Priangan
Marketplace in Tortuga, Barahonas
Trade Depot in Les Cayes, St. Thomas

Our income, even with about 10 ships built, is now 53.5 a month

I give myself a couple of months before moving to Westernization.

13 April – I hire a level 2 Government Tech advisor, Artist, who decreases our cost to repay stability.

[Abe Sargent]

Sept 1 - With 268 in the bank, is it time?



Some have wondered if this is the Will of Allah.

Allah is a wonderful God who loves and blesses all. Oman has been a particularly compelling target of the Blessing of Allah. We show great and wonderful encouragement.

This is a process that will move us into alignment, technologically speak, with Europe. It is no different than studying their guns or cannons, an using them, or their aqueducts. Just because research and investment methodology comes from the West in no way implicates us as not following the Will of Allah.

Allah has shown that he will strengthen those who take a chance. Those who grasp for tomorrow. Oman was one such nation, and the chroniclers claim that Oman is the mightiest and greatest nation in the world.

But we must continue to grasp for tomorrow, not rest for today. Allah not only allows It, He wills it.



Westernization –

When we do, these things will happen:

Stability drops 3
Our Tech Group changes to Western
National Revolt Risk is +5%
Advisor Costs are +50%
Each month, up to 10 Monarch Power will be draw from each category.
After 2800 total power is drained, Western Units are available.


We currently have 400, 332, and 901 in spare.



We have Westernized!

I order our stability to +2 immediately – due to our awesome advisor, we have 164 ADM left after that.

[Abe Sargent]

23 Jan, 1586 – Still looking good. I am getting 35 a month.

I order:

Counting House in Les Cayes
Constable in Mahe, Mauritius,
Marketplace in Bourbon
Workshop in Priangan
Marketplace in Jabal shammar


1 Feb – Jamaica is now a full colony!

We get a colonial nation. In order to better rule the new world, we have a new nation that run Tortuga, Curacao, Jamaica, St. Thomas, Barahonas, and Les Cayes

We name it the Omani Caribbean Syndicate

23 Feb – The High Command of the military has ordered us to stop the Westernizing process. I ignore, some resign in protest, and we lose 20 army and navy tradition

4 Mar – We invest in new Military Tech. We have extra combat fire, combat width – yay!


30 Mar – Qara Q invites us to join their festival – we gain relations with them

16 Aug – Relations with Funj have maximized

Next target is Ethiopia

27 Oct – I look at options for the next settlers. I like Buru. Just south and a bit west of current colony Tidore, it’;s also in the deep indies near our friends – all four islands – Halmahera, Buru, Ternate, and Tidore open into the Sea of Ternete. As does Ceram and the New Guinea province of Irian. Expect me to soon target Ceram, and the island just south of it, Ambon


Buru just has 500 natives, relatively quiet ones too.

5 Nov – Relations maxed with Brunei. Next up – Hausa

1 Jan, 1587 – Curacao has grown into a full city!

Curacao – Sent to the Omani Caribbean Syndicate

I send colonists to Ceram

[Abe Sargent]

24 Jan –

Marketplace in Little Karoo, Great Karoo, Roggeveld, Cape
Constable in Al Hasa, Bahrain, Beni Yas, Liwa, Mahra

We are still making 36 monthly, even with double duty for my advisors

25 Feb – We get an event – Reactionaries Resist Westernization. I can accept and lose a lose of progress or ignore, but 5000 rebels will rise up in Bourbon. I refuse and move to order an army to the island

2 Apr – Tidore will produce a great trade good – Tea!

9 May – I get another unfortunate event – Corrupt Viceroys. I can take action (for 5 years, lose 10% Global tariffs) or don’t and gain 2 inflation points. I choose the first

13 July – Wow. I actually lost in Bourbon. I order our forces to regroup in Mauritius

6 Aug – I choose a national decision – Colonial Expansion. It’ll help our colonies forever!

Jan 28, 1588 –

Tenaille (Level 4 Fort) in Tabouk, Al Hasa
Star Fort in Jabal Shammar
Constable in Diego Garcia
Trade Depot in Priangan

24 Feb – I lose 100 Dip Power when Merchants Reject Westernization

4 May – After gathering a large army, we finally defeat the rebels in Bourbon

29 Jan, 1589 –

Marketplace in Inhambane
Workshop in Sofala
Tenaille in Jabal Shammar
Counting House in Dhofar
Dock in Asir
Counting House in Tabouk

Feb 24 – High Command resist again.

May 1 – Diplomats in Hausa and Ethiopia have finished.

I send one to Mamluks, Another to Castile, which has me as a rival now

[Abe Sargent]

31 Jan, 1590 – I don’t have the Admin power to keep building stuff. So, I am taking the Mission to have 30 great ships.

I order 7

24 Feb – I reject Westernization and Reactionaries in Asir.

11 April – We lose to them. Grrr.

6 June – Relations with Castile are maximized. Next – Portugal

11 July – A battle with TWICE AS MANY SOLDIERS loses to the rebels. Seriously.

5 Oct – Mamluks maximized. Next up – Adal

An advisor died earlier this years, so we’ve been making even more money

14 Nov – We finally beat the rebels. Resilient little curs

26 Nov – I gain some military power form an event on Gains in the Military

1 Jan, 1591 – I have enough money to order a Plantation in Sumba. This is a major Manufactory that will increase local goods by 100%, but take years to finish.

23 Feb – I order three large ships

24 Feb – Our Dip Power is wiped out by the Merchant’s request, and is now zeroed.


7 May – Coffee in Buru!

9 May – Relations finished in Portugal. Next – England.

13 June – A Quality Ivory Event happens and we gain 5 prestige

1 Aug – We order 5 more large ships

6 Nov – Whoa! Ceram will be a Chinaware production site!

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1592 – I order 5 more large vessels

20 Feb - +1 Tax base in Buru is found

24 Feb – Another High Command Resistance Event

We are 80% done with Westernization!

1 May – Great news, Tidore is now self-sustaining!

Tidore – I order a fort here. 10.03 ducats are made here from the Tea trade, and just 2 tax value.

I send colonists to the island of Ambon, just south of Ceram.

14 May – Another Diplomatic Faux Pas event occurs

2 July – I order five more large vessels

21 Nov – We finish constructing a Great Fleet – next mission is to turn Buru into a city, giving it +1 taxvalue on completion

6 Jan, 1593 – Relations maximized with England. Next up is – Ottomans

24 Feb -Another rejection almost wipes out my building ADM – its down to 23.

5 July – We have a Slave Uprising in Mauritius. Revolt Risk there is up 1. Permanently

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1594 – We have completed Westernization! We finished with 12 power in Admin, 4 in Diplomacy and 7 in Military Power – So we are basically wiped!

I choose to send a replacement from the Bureaucratic side of things to replace the Governor in the Omani Caribbean Syndicate

I pick up:

Level 2 Dip/Gvnt Advisor – Colonial Governor, +10% Global Tariffs

Level 3 Army Organizer, Extra Army +10% Forcelimits

And I still have about 20 ducats a month to spare!

21 Feb - Event – Rival Cities – Two of our settlements in Buru have begun a fierce competition. They are trying their best to sway the entire province. “Competition Breeds Success” I say, which gives us 10 Dip power

2 June – Persia has gone to war and I “join” them…

1 Aug – All done with the Ottomans. Next target is…Kilwa

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1594

Time for the 150 Year Review!


Allah the Great has once again Blessed Oman like no other. We are truly special. We are ranked 2nd in Diplomacy, 2nd Administratively., and 1st Militarily


Who has us as a rival? Just Ayutthaya and Castile

Mamluks are improving their relations with us

Ally – Persia

Protectorates – Kilwa, Mogadishu, Ajuuraan, Adal (Basically, all of east Africa)

Colonial Nation – Omani Caribbean Syndicate

Sultan Ab’ul-Arab Nabhan is 44 and very capable. We are blessed with his presence. His 23 year old son , Nasir, is 3/3/2.

We just Westernized. We have techs at 13, 9, and 14 respectively.

For more than 10 years, we’ve had a stability of 2 – it’s our goal to raise it again the first chance we get. That means no purchasing any items until we do.

The raising of our army’s forcelimit has been a real boon. We are now under the forcelimit for the first time, and that helps our maintenance significantly. I dropped our maintenance for our armies for a bit, I’ll raise it again soon enough.

We have 49000 soldiers and 94 vessels

[Abe Sargent]

We currently get:

23.63 gold from Taxes monthly
30.24 gold from Production monthly
26.94 gold from Trade monthly
14.36 gold from Gold mining monthly
0.91 gold from Tariffs monthly

Advisors – 44.54 gold monthly
Army – 9.21 (halved maintenance)
Navy – 19.68
Colonies – 6.24

So we make 16.42 ducats monthly

(Tariffs come from Syndicate)


We have the most income a month by far over anyone. We are at 96.11. Next is Poland at 72.91 and Ottomans at 59.78. Russia, France, Ming, Castile, Austria, Denmark and Japan round out the top ten.

Many of the Native tribes have huge treasuries. Perhaps I could conquer one and take their ducats. Hmm…

[Abe Sargent]

Score:

Oman
Ottomans
France
Poland
Ming
Austria
Russia
Burgundy
Savoy
Portugal


We are behind in techs. Playing catch up should be fun!

Still just the five Shi’ite nations – Persia,us, Qara Q, Bahmanis (plus Omani Caribbean Syndicate). 109 places follow the faith, up from 70 last time.


We have the 5th largest army in the world. Poland, Ming, France and Russia have more. Russia has just 51000 and France 54k and Ming 59k. We could be #2 if we wanted to.


We have the world’s largest navy at 94 vessels. Next is Ottomans with 83. Algiers, Ming and Denmark are the next three.

[Abe Sargent]

Trade Goods by Value:

Chinaware
Tea
Cocoa
Spices
Ivory
Fur
Coffee
Wine
Copper
Sugar
Cloth
Salt
Naval Supplies
Iron
Wool
Fish
Grain
Tobacco
Cotton
Slaves
(Gold)


We have a lot of many of these, and that’s awesome. Even with the many additional Spice colonies we’ve added, the value is still in the top 5. You can note the wild discrepancy in the two typical African goods – Ivory is very high, and Slaves are the lowest.

Oman still leads in production of Coffee and Spices. We have 70% of the world’s Coffee and 32.6% of the world’s Spices. We get bonuses in Coffee, Ivory and Slaves ,for our high trading in those goods.

[Abe Sargent]

Our provinces with the most taxes are, in order from best:

Banten
Muscat
Flores
Demak
Mecca
Sumbawa
Medina
Cape
Sunda
Wairoa


Best Production (Not Including Gold Mines)

Sunda
Timor
Banten
Flores
Demak
Muscat
Sumbawa
Medina
Maldives
Ternate


As you can see, our Indies provinces (and Maldives) have been huge hits for us.

[Abe Sargent]

Our 11 Goals!


1) We need an alliance with a major power.

We are still our top power. We skipped chances to ally with folks like Castille. Persia has been fine.


2) We want to become the premier trading nation in the Indian Ocean. There are many great nations along the area, but we want to be the dominant one.

Still done, no one else is close.

3) We have to control a proper navy in order to meet our goals.

Now that we have the best navy in the world, we have finished this goal. But we need to keep building to continue

4) We would like to colonize the Indian Ocean.

We remain strong on this goal.

5) We need to fend off the overly hostile Yemen. They are blatantly seeking our elimination. Probably because they are Sunni.

Yemen is gone


6) Similarly, the adjacent Najd is also very aggressively looking towards us. Both neighbors are Sunni, and it gets a little too hot here.

As is Najd

7) We eventually want to see Mecca in Shi’ite hands.

This last 50 years saw us bring Mecca into our mighty nation. We have not had an opportunity to convert them – it would fail.

8) In light of these things, it seems necessary to build our nation militarily, as well as diplomatically.

Done. Top navy. Top five army. Militarily, we have arrived.

9) Nearby one province nation Haasa is Shi-ite as well, and could be a good early ally.

Haasa is gone.



10). Westernize our Technology

Done

11). Expand further abroad. Do to Portugal what they planned for us. Expand into the Pacific and Atlantic and move into stronger places against Europe.

Currently underway. We have six colonies in the Caribbean that are now a part of the Trade Syndicate. We have one in West Africa, St. Helena as well. This will continue, but for now, I want to focus efforts on the rich territory of the Indies. Although the tax base of the remaining places is not like the wealthy Javanese colonies we hold, it is still very strong. We can take great pride in it!

[Abe Sargent]

And now, a look at our holdings. Once again, this will be very brief. We invested hugely in our infrastructure, as you have seen (And these numbers are under 2 stability, not 3!):

5 Originals!

Muscat – 27.25 ducats
Suhar – 10.62
Nizwa – 13.83
Dhofar – 17.17
Qawasim – 8.29

Were once Najd:

Bei Yas – 6.66
Liwa – 12.15
Qatar – 8.29
Bahrain – 6.66
Al Hasa – 6.66
Jabal Shammar – 9.19
Najd – 15.75

Were Once Yemen and Hedjaz:

Mahra – 6.65
Hadhramaut – 8.29
Aden – 18.97
Mocha – 17.42
Sana’a – 13.83
Asir – 13.14
Najran – 12.15
Medina – 22.36
Tabouk – 13.10
Mecca – 23.68

Socotra – 3.28

Were once Kilwa:

Zanzibar – 2.1
Sofala – 51.35
Massapa – 43.35
Zimbabwe –45.85
Butua – 44.60

Colonies!


Indian Ocean Islands:

Mahe – 3.87
Diego Garcia – 2.92
Bourbon – 6.79
Mauritius – 6.88
Cocos – 2.53
Maldives – 19.31

South African:

Inhambane – 5.59
Little Karoo – 5.16
Great Karoo – 6.86
Cape – 10.35
Roggeveld – 4.30

Other African:

Sierra Leone – 4.98
St. Helena – 3.18

Indies:

Demak – 25.40
Banten – 28.11
Sunda – 22.88
Priangan – 12.26
Sumba – 15.91
Sumbawa – 22.52
Timor – 20.82
Flores – 26.08
Tidore – 12.94
Ternate – 19.14
Halmahera – 14.24

Australia and New Zealand:

Gubbi Gubbi – 5.68
Bandjalung – 5.67

Wairoa – 8.27

Current Colonies – Buru, Ampom, Ceram

These are stats under Colonial Leadership (We don’t get it)

Jamaica - 13.78
Curacao – 9.00
St. Thomas – 13.95
Les Cayes – 12.64
Tortuga – 9.12
Barahonas – 10.67


No production minuses for distance or anything, and we get some of the income.

Every province is Shi’ite and Bedouin, save for Mecca.

[Abe Sargent]

Maps!

These’ll be quick and painless maps

Arabia


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[Abe Sargent]

Caribbean


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[Abe Sargent]

Indies


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[Abe Sargent]

Africa


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[Abe Sargent]

The Whole World!



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(Stupid Pause Image ;) )

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let’s keep on trucking!


10 Feb, 1595 – I am spending some time consolidating my armies and navy in the new world. The Colonial Syndicate has their own army and navy, so I’m just getting ready to move my things away somewhere. I had a few armies here and there in the new world, plus I had a transport navy, a patrolling navy, and some large ships that arrived last year. My new world army is 8000 troops and 22 ships in the navy. But my navy is too small transport wise, so I order two transport vessels built

2 Sept – We boost our stability back to 3!

Since we have an Artist, that boosts stability cost, as our level 2 Government advisor, I look to see if we have a good replacement with a more pertinent ability. We have a level one Theologian who reduces revolt risk (no thanks) and a level 3 who will reduce yearly inflation. That’s pretty good. But it would drop me to basically making like 50 ducats a year. You know what? Let’s do it! I could use the tech investment right now.


I have 828 ducats in our treasury. We’re alright for now. Plus, I can get more money by warring against natives in the Americas.

1 June – Ceram is now self sustaining!

Ceram: 10.95 ducats are made with the 1 taxvalue Chinaware trade here in this island in the Moloccas. A fort is ordered forthwith.



Future Colonial Targets:

I want to finish Australia and New Zealand, which will take a while
I want to connect my two holdings in South Africa.
I’d like to do more in the Indies. Sulawesi Island has three provinces Bone, Pose and Menade that are not claimed.
Perhaps the Philippines
Maybe someday places like Christmas Island and Madagascar, in order to be completists.

[Abe Sargent]

9 July – Spices in Ampom

I send colonists to Xhosa. This is right next to Little Karoo, north and east along the coast.

2 Dec – We get a huge Gift to the Estate of hundreds of ducats

11 Feb, 1597 – Our soldiers arrive in Xhosa and set up to defend the colony from the 7000 natives here.

20 May – We get Excellent Viceroys, which increase Global Tariffs for 5 years by 20%

1 July – Buru is now self-sustaining! Our mission there is complete as well


Buru: The coffee trade brings 12.76 ducats along with the 4 tax value. We order a fort.


I get a mission to Colonize Connecticut. (Ironic since I just moved to Connecticut in real life) I take it, in order to gain the huge bonuses that come with it.

I order my army and fleet up to Connecticut from the Caribbean

6 Aug – I decline an alliance offer from the Mamluks. Twice bitten Im afraid.


31 Aug – Native Assimilation in Xhosa increases the colony by 100

27 Sept – I land 8000 men in Pennabrook, a, unclaimed territory next to the Micmaq natives in Kennebec, in “New England”

1 Nov – I declare war on the Micmaq. I don’t need a CB for pagan nations I order our troops in.

15 Nov – We defeat their entire force of 7000 defenses and begin the siege.

17 Nov – Miqmaq offers peace for 910 ducats. We accept. (We get some inflation from this action – it’s not free money. But with my anti-inflation advisor, I’m okay with it)

We now have more than 2222 gold!

I order a Plantation in Mocha

[Grover]

Fascinating the way Kazan has impeded Russia's eastward progress.

[Abe Sargent]

Fascinating the way Kazan has impeded Russia's eastward progress.

Yeahs, it's a pretty small rump state right now. Perhaps we'll see Russia break out soon, but for now, it's really interesting. I honestly think I could set up EU4, leave it alone, let it run overnight, and wake up just to see what's happened to the world.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 2, 1598 – Xhosa will be Slaves. Yuck


4 Feb – We declare war on the Cree.


18 Mar – We defeat their army

8 May – We are now at peace with the Timurids and Persia’s war

22 May – Their forces return and are destroyed by our army

We take 737 ducats in peace

All done with making king with Adal –next up is Ming


1 Oct – We can purchase our first tech advancements since the Westernization began. It’s level 10 Diplomatic Tech

We get increases Trade Range, Trade Efficiency and a new cargo vessel the Flyte


I order these:

Ceram, Buru, Tidore – Temple
Cape, Great Karoo – Trade Depot



9 Nov – Connecticut is officially a Colony and we get the 5 year Colonial Enthusiasm Event again. Connecticut is surrounded on three sides by the Lenape tribe, and on the other by the unclaimed Narraganset area.


Next Mission – Turn Connecticut into a City


1 June, 1599 – We purchase level 15 military:

Enables Maurician Infantry, and great bonuses to land morale and military tactics


9 Aug – We put down natives in Xhosa

6 Nov – Put them down again!

18 December – Connecticut will be a grain province

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1600 – I order these:

Buru, Ceram, Tidore – Constable


23 Feb – Native Assimilation in Connecticut


1 August – Great news. Xhosa is now a full city!


Xhosa – The slave market in this province is making 0.81 ducats from a 2 tax base.


In order up the coast from Little Karoo to Inhambane are these provinces, Xhosa, Natal, and Delagoa Bay. The Bay is tropical but the other two are not. I order a fort in Xhosa, colonists to Natal, and my soldiers to cross the border.

4 Sept – relations maxed with Kilwa. Next – Qara Q

We purchase the next level of Admin Tech – 14

We can build a Town Hall, Treasury, and we get a new group of ideas!


I like Naval Ideas, Economic Ideas, Espionage Ideas, Offensive Ideas, Quality Ideas, Aristocratic Ideas


We’ll keep an open mind for later and take one then


1 Nov – Ampom is now a full city too!


Ampom – Another major island in the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, it has spices trade and makes 12.44 ductas with its 2 tax base. Fort here too please!

Next target is Narraganset

4 Dec – Maximized with Ming. Next target – France

[Abe Sargent]

3 Feb, 1601 –

Marketplace in Ceram, Buru, Tidore

4 Feb, 1602 –

Temple in Ampom
Docks in the other three

7 Feb – We send a Bureaucratic Candidate to replace the current Governor of the Syndicate


1 Mar – Connecticut is now self-sustaining. Mission complete.


Connecticut – 6.21 ducats are made from the 6 tax base and the harvest of local grains. Next to Nipmuc and Manhattan – owned by Lenape, and Narraganset to the east. We order a fort – Next mission is to fortify Connecticut.


Next target – Pose – on the island of Sulawesi, next to Makassar.

I order some troops to assemble and move over.

25 Apr – We defeat some pirates off New Zealand

24 May – We get an event for Competitive Advantages trading-wise an get bonuses to steering for a bit

4 Jun – Relations maximized with France. Next up – Ayutthaya

2 Nov – Luckily, Natal will be a producer of Ivory, and not slaves.

[Abe Sargent]

25 Feb, 1603 – Accommodation with Natives in Narraganset! (Rhode Island)


7 March – We finish the fort in Connecticut and finish the mission too. Next mission is to turn Pose into a city

I order – Temple in Connecticut, Fort in Xhosa (Did I forget to earlier?). Trade Depot in Tidore, Buru and Ceram.



23 March – I order a diplomat to fabricate claims on Makassar

10 April – Our government advisor has passed. That was the one reducing our inflation. Next up – Treasurer, three star, which gives us a National Tax Modifier of 5%

3 May – We put down natives in Natal

4 June – Maximized relations with Qara Q

11 July -0 Defeat pirates off St. Helena. I’ve added the area to our regular patrols now

27 Sept – Narraganset will also be a grain province.

5 Oct – We now have 8000 men ready to invade Makassar. I order our fleet to pick up a few stray armies elsewhere in the Indies to make it a full 10k

[Abe Sargent]

19 Jan, 1604 - We get a Colonial Migration event. 200 people have migrated from Narraganset to Natal
9 Mar –

Constable in Connecticut; Temple in Xhosa; Workshop in Buru, Ceram, Tidore: Marketplace in Ampom

26 Mar – Our CB came back and I declare war on Makassar!

23 Apr – Despite Makassar having 9000 troops, with just a land tech of 8, we were able to blast them and destroy their whole army in a week and a half of fighting. The siege has begun

1 June – Natal becomes self-sustaining!


Natal – 4.06 ducats are made from the Ivory trade here in Natal. I order a fort here. On the coast, beside Xhosa and tropical Delagoa Bay.


I order my army to the Bay, and that’s our next target.


10 July – I send a diplomat to Mali


14 Aug – The Governor of the Syndicate dies I send in a diplomat.

1 Oct – I choose to get an Idea rather than the next tech for a few reasons. We get Fast Negotiations in the Trade Ideas section. It increases our Trade Income by 10%. That finishes the Trade Ideas. So we get +1 merchant for completing the track! I order the Merchant to collect from Ceylon.

6 Jan, 1605 – We have completed relation building with Ayutthaya. Next up – Ottomans

24 Mar – Ampom, Xhosa – Constable; Buru, Ceram, Tidore – Counting House; Connecticut – Dock


22 April – Harvest Failure in Ternate

5 July – We purchase Level 16 military tech – (Standardization of Calibre)


Enables Charge Infantry, We can now build an Arsenal – artillery get a lot better

3 Nov – Relations maxed with Mali

26 Nov – Makassar Falls!

28 Nov – We annex Makassar




Makassar – This Sulawesi Sunni province was once the nation of Makassar. It’s on the southeast protrusion of Sulawesi Island, next to Bone and Pose. With a tax value of 8 and spices, it makes just 10.43 ducats now, but we intend to build it up. It’s tropical and an important center of trade. I order a Core for it. It comes with a Temple, Armory, Dock, Drydock, Constable, Marketplace, Trade Depot, and Star Fort. We have great plans for it!

[Abe Sargent]

Feb 16, 1606 – Diplomat dispatched to Portugal

25 Mar – Trade Depot – Ampom, Temple in Natal, Treasury in Banten

8 Apri – Dead natives in Delagoa Bay after they dared to attack us!

7 June – They did not learn their lesson, they rose again. Perhaps now we have taught them!


4 July – We learn that Pose is a great place to grow and harvest Tea

Brittany has begun colonize the new world – they are in Acadia (Canada)

4 Oct – Relations maxed with Ottomans. Next up – Benin. They are taking Hausa down, and appear to be the next power on West Africa to rise.

5 Nov – Natives in Delagoa Bay. Again defeated

5 March, 1607 – Tech Increase! We now have Admin Tech 15 - Textiles. We can build a Textiles Manufactory. That’s…it. Hmm..

5 May – relations maxed with Portugal. Next – Japan.

1 June – We get a Colonist Rush Event for five years.

8 June – We defeat natives in Pose this time

9 Sept – We win against natives in Pose again

1 Dec – Now that our ADM power has rebuilt, I order:

Dock in Ampom; Marketplace in Natal; Treasury in Muscat, Demak

1 Mar, 1608 – We barely defeat rebels in Makassar after I order the Pose army into the province to support our beleaguered troops.

8 Apr – Back just in time to take out an uprising in Pose

1 May – Narraganset is now a full city!


Narraganset – 4.11 ducats made by the grain farmers here with their 3 tax base. South of Lenape Tribe in Massachusetts and Nipmuc, and east of us in Connecticut. I order a fort here immediately.

I’m not a fan of these provinces. So I move our next target to Bone, on Sulawesi


23 June – Another dead Governor, Admin candidate sent this time.

4 July – Grain in Delagoa Bay. Well, it’s better than Slaves!

2 Dec – Ampom – Workshop; Natal – Constable; Counting House – Priangan

27 Dec – We choose to throw a small feast Eid al-Fir

[Abe Sargent]

2 Mar, 1609 – Once again, we barely won in Makassar

14 July – I declare war on the Pequot tribe

28 July – We crush their larger army and begin a siege

They are the junior partner in a war. Excellent!

Sept 25 – We assault and take their land, and force peace for 672 ducats. But w e are still at war with the war leader – Creek, and the Ojibwe.

10 Oct – We put down natives in the Bay

1 Jan, 1610 – Pose is now self-sustaining!


Pose – We order a fort at the Tea growing province with its 7 base tax and 19.75 ducats. Next to Makassar, Bone and Menade, the central Sulawesi province has great potential. Next we order colonists to Menade.


25 Feb – The Creek accept our white peace offer – they had no cash to try to push for

I buy: Counting House for Ampom; Treasury in Flores, Mecca; Marketplace in Liwa

[Abe Sargent]

15 April – We put down more natives in the Bay

12 May – I order our finished diplomat from Japan to Castile; Brunei is the destination for another

2 Dec – Makassar is now a core province. I order a Workshop here.

8 Feb, 1611 – We can buy a new tech!

Dip 11 – Canal and Shipyards enables us to build those two improvements as well as 10 max colonial range

15 March – We put down two uprisings – Menade and the Bay

21 Mar –

Canal ordered for Muscat, Sunda, Banten, Priangan, Demak; Temple in Pose, Narraganset;


9 Aug – New Tech Growth!

We purchase level 17 Military Tech – Flintlock Musket – it just gives a huge bonus to cavalry shock.


6 Sept - Our Castilian Diplomat is dispatched to Kongo

4 Nov – Spices in Bone!

4 Dec – Maxed relations with Brunei – To the newly named Great Britain

[Abe Sargent]

1 Aug, 1612 – Delagoa Bay is now a full province!


Delagoa Bay – Between Inhambane and Natal is this tropical farming province, where 1.10 ducats are currently made. A fort is ordered.

The next target is…Palawan. This narrow island chain is north of Brunei and the island of Borneo.

It is not tropical, so we expect quicker building province. From Palawan, our next target will likely be the Philippines.

15 Oct – We put down natives in Menade

2 Dec – We build -Constable in Pose; Counting House in Makassar; Canal in Flores, Sumba, Sumbawa, Timor

1 Jan, 1613 – We invest in Admin 16, We can now build College and Mints

24 Feb – France is colonizing north of Brittany, in Taqamkuk. (north Canada)

[Abe Sargent]

27 May – Let me give you an updated picture of the Indies!

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I starred Palawan for you, and the yellow circle is around the six colony group of Halmahera, Tidore, Ternate, Ceram, Buru and Ampom. To its west is the island of Sulawesi. Where 5k troops are is Makassar, the 3k in Menape, the 2k is Bone, and the middle is Pose. You can still see our Javanese holdings plus those in south of the chain in Timor, Flores, Sumba, and Sumbawa.

[Abe Sargent]

Allah works in mysterious ways.


25 June – A black day as our Sultan has again passed. His son, Nasir II is now our ruler (3/3/2). Our stability drops! We have an heir, Salim, 2/3/4.

However, the passing has given rise to a pretender! A revolt is ongoing in Cocos Islands.

Our new ruler introduces Jizawa again

7 July – Spices in Menade

17 Nov – We put down Menade natives

3 Mar, 1614 – We defeat the rebels!

14 July – We defeat the natives in Palawan next.

1 Aug – Marketplace in Pose, Treasury in Makassar and Buru, Courthouse in Mecca, Trade Depot in Liwa, Natal; Canal in Cape, Counting House in Sofala,


Diplomat to Funj

10 Nov – We win in Bone vs natives. Again

1 Dec – We boost our stability back to +3

[Abe Sargent]

19 Jan, 1615 – Mogadishu was having some rebel problems, so we moved our army in, cleaned it out, and won the battle today.

5 Feb – I send a diplomat to Persia

28 February – Tea in Palawan! I replace the Governor of the Syndicate with a Diplomat

14 Mar – 1st, we put down natives in Menade, second ,we get +1 tax base there from a new settlement there.

1 Sept – I order – Courthouse in Makassar and Muscat, Dock in Pose, Spy Agency in Mecca, Workshop in Liwa, Najran, Sana’a; Canal in Medina, Najd

1 April, 1616– I choose Quantity for our National Ideas. We need more forces. I unlock the first of Levee en Masse. We get +50% manpower. Additionally, we unlocked the 6th Omani Idea, which is Skilled Captains, and that gives us bonus leader movement.

1 June – Bone is now self sustaining!

20.92 ducats are made from the 6 tax value and spice trade we have on this Sulawesian province. South of Pose and east of Makassar ,Bone looks to be another high value province. We order a fort here!


Next up – Samtoy. Samtoy is the northern-most of the Philippine-ian provinces. It has a tax value of 4 and 4000 quieter natives. As a reminder, the Philippines are not tropical, so growth should happen more quickly.

11 Sept – Trade Depot in Pose, Canal in Makassar, Temple in Delagoa Bay, Workshop in Natal, Trade Depot in Sana’a, Asir, Counting House in Najran, Liwa


29 Sept – I take a mission to colonize Taranaki, which is in New Zealand. I order 4000 soldiers built in the Indies

2 Oct – Diplomat sent to Brittany

[Abe Sargent]

1 Sept, 1617 – We gain a new tech!

Diplomatic Tech 12 – We can build Trade Company and Naval Equipment Manufactory

9 Sept – We crush natives in Samtoy

12 Sept – Spy Agency in Muscat, Canal in Mecca, Trade Depot in Najran, Temple in Bone, Workshop in Pose, Spy Agency in Makassar

7 Nov – We put down a native uprising in Menade this time

1 May, 1618 – Palawan has grown to be self sustaining!


Palawan – With tea but a tax base of just 2, we make 22.79 ducats here after I order a fort. This is an island chain east of the Philippines (and part of the modern state)


Next up – Taranaki. I love the event that you get when you complete this mission.


15 Sept – Counting House in Pose, Dock in Bone, Town Hall in Makassar, Constable in Delagoa Bay, Counting House in Natal


24 Dec – I gain a bunch of dip power when I deny a new tariff.

[Abe Sargent]

26 Jan, 1619 -= Soldiers from Palawan, Gubbi Gubbi and Wairoa were combined to make a 4000 strong army for Taranaki. They landed and just finished fighting off some natives.

1 Mar – Menade is now self-sustaining!


Menade – We order a fort in this Sulawesian spice province. Making 19.23 ducats for us, with a tax base of 19, it has a lot of potential. It’s east of Pose, and the north/east part of the island.

Next target – Cagayan – in the Philippines, east of Samtoy.

I order 4000 troops built in Java to be carted over to Cagayan.


10 Apr – We colonize Taranaki and we get the Colonial Enthusiasm event! Make Taranaki a city is the next mission

9 June – Cloth in Samtoy

20 Aug – Our troops arrived at Cagayan

16 Sept – Temple in Palawan, Marketplace in Bone, Canal in Pose, Counting House in Butua, Massapa, Zimbabwe

4 December – Portugal is colonizing next to Kongo, France has added to their North Canadian area, and Castile’s South American holdings continue to grow

8 Jan, 1620 – We put down a rebellion in Taranaki

25 Sept – Constable in Bone, Menade, Palawan; Treasury in Pose; Canal in Mocha; Counting House in Asir; Town Hall in Mecca


8 Oct – We purchase a new idea – Benefits for Horse Owners – Our cavalry cost is -10%

17 Oct – We hear that Taranaki will be a producer of Naval Supplies, such as lumber or tar and pitch.

9 Nov – We put down Cagayan natives

[Abe Sargent]

10 Jan, 1621 – Native Assimilation in Taranaki

21 May – We hear that Cagayan will also be a producer of cloth.

1 Aug – Samtoy is now a full province!


Samtoy – With 12.13 ducats made from a tax base of 4 and the textile trade, Samtoy is next to both Cagayan and Manilla.

I order colonists to Manilla and the army to follow across the border from Samtoy


4 Oct – Marketplace in Palawan, Menade; Trade Depot in Bone; Canal in Najran; Counting House in Bourbon; Workshop in Jabal Shammar;

1 Nov – We invest in a new level of Tech – 17 Admin – We can build a University and we get another Group of Ideas

I’m going to save for a University

8 Jan, 1622 – We put down natives in Taranaki

10 Jan – One of our tech advisors died, the level 2 diplo guy. I hold off on picking up another for a bit.

2 June - I don’t know why, but Portugal gave up her colony in Gabon, next to Kongo.


25 June – Because of our push for Army quantity, we get an event that makes leaders harder to find and we lose 10 Army Tradition

15 Sept – We put down natives in Manila

[Abe Sargent]

3 Apr – Our colony in Taranaki is now a city and we get a mission fulfilled. Next choice – Visayas. I already moved an army there, and it’s in the middle of the Philippines.


Taranaki – This New Zealand province is next to Wairoa and Whangarei on the northern island. It has a tax base of 7 and Naval Supplies, and brings in 7.18.



2 July – I build a University in Mecca. It will take one year to build. On completion, tech costs are reduced by 5% across the board.


26 August – Manila has a great Chinaware industry.

1 October – Cagayan is now a full province!


Cagayan – We order a fort. This textile industry makes us 7.06 ducats. In the northern part of the Philippines, it is next to Samtoy and Manila.


Our next target is not in the Philippines. It’s Whangarei in New Zealand.

[Abe Sargent]

16 Oct – We defeat rebels in Manila

30 Nov – Meet our new advisor for Government and Diplomacy. Level 2 Trader who gives us +10% global trade power


Hiring him, enables us to Pass the Navigation Act. -10% to national manpower and -1 to Diplo Relations, but +2.5% trade efficiency, +10% naval forcelimtis and +0.5 naval tradition annually

6 Jan, 1624 – We order – Samtoy: Temple, Cagayan: Temple, Palawan: Dock, Temple: Menade

4 April – We put down the natives in Visayas

12 June – I purchase a new tech –


Diplo – 13 – We can now build Grand Shipyards and Road Networks


3 July – Our level 3 ADM Advisor has passed. Our next is level 2 Philosopher who increases our prestige yearly. There were no level 3 dudes.


Because of that drop, we are now making 60 ducats a month

15 July – I take a mission to colonize Whangarei. With colonists en route, it should be really quick.


12 Sept – Whangarei is now colonized, and we get the great bonus.


29 Dec – A comet is sighted. We lose a stability. I spend 200 of our 361 ADM power to fix it.

[Abe Sargent]

7 Jan, 1625 – We build:

Marketplace in Cagayan, Samtoy
Workshop in Menade, Bone
Temple in Taranaki
Canal in Maldives
Counting House in Jabal Shammar
Tenaille in Sierra Leone
Star Fort in Connecticut, Narraganset


15 Feb – We defeat the natives in Whangarei

8 June – We purchase a new idea – The Young Can Serve. We get +20% to manpower recovery speed

25 Aug – Native Assimilation in Visayas

7 Sept – We win in Whangarei again

4 Oct – Like Manila, Visayas will also be a great place for Chinaware

2 Jan, 1626 – Manila is now self-sustaining!


Manila - 18.25 ducats from the Chinaware trade and a tax base of 5. South of Cagayan and Samtoy.


Our next target is also in the Philippines, but the lower area – Tagoloan. I already have an army here.


8 Jan –
Constable for Samtoy, Cagayan, Taranaki
Fort for Manila
Trade Depot for Palawan
Counting House in Bone, Menade, Mauritius
Canal in Ampom
Treasury in Bourbon
Marketplace in Delagoa Bay


7 June – Victory in Visayas

29 July – Wool in Whangarei

21 Sept – Portugal has moved to Damaraland and Greater Namaqualand in Soutern Afrca. Their colony in G.N. is adjacent to us in Roggeveld. I move an army into Lesser Namaqualand to take it as my next colony.

[Abe Sargent]

9 Jan, 1627 –

Star Fort in Roggeveld, Cape
Trade Depot in Menade, Samtoy, Cagayan
Constable in Manila
Workshop in Taranaki, Wairoa
Treasury in Bone
Canal in Buru, Ceram


28 Feb – Another advisor has passed. Our level 3 military advisor. I can’t hire another advisor right now, I have to wait for a bit

15 Mar – We defeat the natives of Tagoloan.

3 May – We hire another level 3 forcelimits Army organizer

6 Aug – Visayas again

10 Dec – Tagoloan this time

10 Jan, 1628 – I have less money this time from hiring our advisor

Workshop in Cagayan, Samtoy, Manila, Palawan
Canal in Bone, Ternate


25 Feb – We didn’t get one of the better goods, we just got Naval Supplies in Tagoloan. Ah well.

2 Apr – A new Settlement in Tagoloan increases the tax base there by one.

3 May – Visayas is now self-sustaining. The next colonists have left for Lesser Namaqualand.


Visayas – This Chinaware province in the middle of the Philippines has a base tax of 4, and makes 17.35 ducats. We order a fort built here post-haste.


2 Sept – Whangarei has grown and is also now a city and we complete our mission.


Whangarei – The final of the three provinces on the northern island of New Zealand, the wool from shepherds and tax base of 9 make us 8.74 ducats.


Next target – Maguindanao, the southern most of the provinces of the main part of the Philippines.

[Abe Sargent]

11 Jan, 1629 –

Dock in Samtoy, Cagayan, Manila
Canal in Halmahera, Tidore, Palawan, Jabal Shammar, Liwa
Counting House in Sana’a


14 Dec – Slave Uprising in Buru

2 Feb, 1630 – I’m saving for another tech upgrade, so I just purchase a manufactory. A Trade Company in Pose.

1 Mar – Tagoloan is now self sufficient. Our next target is the last of the unclaimed Indies area places – Sulu, a small island chain in the southern Philippines.


Tagoloan – 10.10 ducats are made in the Naval Supplies trade with a tax base of 4.


I also purchase a new idea:

Enforced Service - -10% Infantry Cost

This also gives us our final Omani Idea:

Expansion of Trade Contacts +1 Merchant. A 7th Merchant baby!

Collect from Chesapeake Bay

3 Aug – Spices are found in Maguindanao!

1 Sept – I order a Trade Company manufactory in Sunda

9 Oct – We invest in a new tech!

Admin 18 – We can now build Cathedrals and Stock Exchanges

4 Dec – Grain will be harvested in Lesser Namaqualand

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1631 – We order a Trade Company in Timor

6 Feb – Put down rebels in Lesser N

7 March – Reps from the Syndicate want us to keep their governor, so we agree to. Whatever baby wants…


29 April – Native Assimilation in Lesser N – which is good since its Arid, it develops more slowly.


2 July – I order a quartet of large ships

1 Oct – I build…

Temple in Tagoloan, Visayas
Marketplace in Manila
Canal in Samtoy, Cagayan

9 Dec – Natives in Maguindanao defeated

3 Jan, 1632 We get a new tech!

Dip – 14

We can build Galleass.

9 Jan – I choose not to tax the Syndicate with a Sugar tax and gain a little power.

13 February – It’s been a really long time since we’ve been in a war with anybody but Native American tribes for gold and Makassar to take it.

[Abe Sargent]

11 April – I take a look around and see some places I want to take pictures of for you. The first is North America. Let’s look at the map!


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[Abe Sargent]

The next map is the Philippines. I know a lot of you may not know it very well, so I’m zoomed in a bit for you.


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The top is Samtoy and Cagayan. Next you can barely make out Manila. Visayas is below that, obscured by the 4000 troops there. Then Tagoloan, and Maguindanao at the bottom. To the left is Palawan and at the bottom center where it says “Sulu Sea” is the islands of Sulu.

[Abe Sargent]

Finally, Africa has had some action. Let’s look



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The southern half of Africa is above. Where my 7000 troops are in the colony of Lesser Namaqualand.



I hope you enjoyed that quick glimpse of places in the world we are at!

[Abe Sargent]

6 July – We get an event that lowers Trade by 5% for 5 years due to Stagnation

6 Aug – Sulu will have Coffee.

1 Nov – I order a Trade Company for Ceram

I decline an alliance offer from Persia


1 Jan, 1633 –

Tagoloan – Fort
Visayas – Constable
Manila – Trade Depot
Cagayan – Fort

11 Feb – Put down natives of Maguindanao


3 July – Trade Company for Tidore

22 Oct – I order for more large ships

1 Nov – Two major growths! Both our colonies in Minguindanao and Lesser Namaqualand have grown into full provinces. I order forst in both

Lesser Namaqualand – This Arid farming province is next to Portgual, Roggeveld and Cape. It makes just 2.06 with its 1 tax base.

Maguindanao – 13.96 ducats are made in the spice trade with just a 3 tax base. This is next Tagoloan


There are two areas that are not officially a part of the Indies, but are really close. The first is Taiwan, and the second Irian, which is the western most part of New Guinea. I send colonists to both

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1634 –

Treasury in Mauritius
Canal in Great Karoo
Counting House in Cape
Constable in Tagoloan
Marketplace in Visayas


21 Jan – We have 4000 troops in Irian

17 Apr – 4000 troops have arrived at Taiwan

I order 4 transports built.

1 Aug – I order a diplomat to fabricate a claim on the Javanese province of Mataram, owned by Majapahit


5 Oct – We invest in a new idea – The Old and the Infirm -10% land maintenance modifier

5 Jan, 1635 –

Maguindanao – Temple
Tagoloan, Visayas – Workshop
Palawan, Cagayan, Samtoy, Manila – Counting House
Lesser N – Star Fort
Cape – Treasury
Bourbon, Mauritius, Natal – Canal


11 Feb – Natives in Irian getting uppity are demolished.

21 July – I order 8000 troops in the Indies

1 Aug – Sulu is now a city.


Sulu – We order a wall for this small Coffee producing province. 7.22 ducats are made with a small tax value of just 2.

I send colonists to Midway island group, west of Hawaii. It has no natives, so it will just build as needed. I want to use it as a base for more exploring.


We now have that claim on Mataram. Let me finish getting ready for war. I purchase a General.

[Abe Sargent]

23 Jan, 1636 – I have 13,000 troops under our general in Demak, next to our foe’s army. I have two navies with smaller armies in the rear.

I declare war on Majapahit for Mataram

22 Feb - By now we have won a naval battle and defeating their army once in Mataram proper. I detach a siege unit in Mataram and give chase.

27 Feb – A unit lands on the Bali-Lombok islands and begins a siege.

28 Feb – Chinaware in Taiwan!

23 Mar – We win in Blamagan and chase them again.

4 Apr – More units arrive to Bali-Lombok

25 April – We destroy their army completey.

26 April – We capture 2 ships in defeating their navy.

25 May – We win another naval battle and capture a 3rd ship from them

9 July - Our Government/Diplomatic advisor passes and I hire a level 3 guy with a Colonial Range of +20%

12 Octo – I order the captured ships to Gubbi Gubbi, and thence to Midway Island.

17 Dec – Blambangan falls to us


6 Feb, 1637 – Bali-Lombok falls too

I order a manufactory in Banten and Flores

23 Feb – Mataram falls

6 Apr – I assault and take Surabaya. We now have every Matarami province in our hands.

I would like to vassalize or annex them. There are too many provinces to do either, so instead, I take:

Mataram, Bali-Lombok, and Blambangan, 105 ducats,

The deal is done.

I order core on all three places – all are Hindu and of Sulawesian culture

Mataram – This Javanese province is east of Demak and Priangan. The spice trade in great here, with its 8 tax value too. We get 5.82 ducats from the Hindu Selawesian province. It has just a Star Fort and an Armory. It is west of Blambangan and south of Surabaya.


Blambangan – The easternmost province on the island of Java is this cotton growing land. It makes just 1.70 ducats for us with a 4 tax value I t has just na armory, and fort. It’s next to Surabaya and Mataram


Bali-Lombok – This island just off the eastern coast of Java is just west of Sumbawa. This cotton province has 2.25 ducats with its 7 base tax. It too rocks an Armory and fort.

[Abe Sargent]

22 Apr – We win a battle in Irian against natives

13 May – We win in against Taiwanese natives.

I order a Conquistador and Explorer in Whangarei. We set out to Midway

20 Aug – We win in Irian again

I order a manufactory in Bone

13 Jan 1638 – Manufactory ordered for Mecca

1 Oct – We buy a manufactory in Muscat, and our troops set out from Midway.

25 Nov – Fish in Irian

Rebels control like 2/3rds of Ming right now.

8 Dec – Taiwan is a full province:

19.76 ducats made from the 5 tax base and Chinaware industry. We order a fort.


I want to shut down any route Portugal has into this area, no matter how bad. That means I need to take up any remaining provinces Portugal can use to get a foothold. So I, sigh, have to take the three provinces of Madagascar.

First target is Boina, northern Madagascar

[Abe Sargent]

11 March, 1639 – We have settled 7000 troops in Boina – I order troops built in S Africa

1 May –

Temple – Sulu
Constable – Maguindanao
Marketplace – Tagoloan
Trade Depot – Visayas
Canal – Manila, Menade
Treasury – Samtoy

Rebels are besieging Surabaya (Majapahit)



8 Aug – We celebrate Ramadan. I order a manufactory in Demak

21 Oct – We get info that Ayutthaya has been fabricating a claim on Banten.

4 Nov – We get Native Assimilation in Irian

25 Jan, 1640 – We now have discovered the Pacific Ocean all the way around the world. We have a navigable route to Mexico.

2 Feb – Manufactory in Medina is next

6 Jun – Boina natives lose some ferocity after an event pacifies them a bit

2 Sept – I order a claim on Surabaya province

21 Sept – Makassar is the next manufactory

2 Dec – We get a Native Assimilation in Boina and gain 100 residents, the natives ride up against us, and we can buy a new tech-

Dip 15 – The Galleon, Early Frigate are available. We get bonus colonial range, morale and maintenance bonuses for Navy.

15 Dec – We win in Boina

[Abe Sargent]

17 Mar, 1641 – Manufactory in Palawan

30 June, Naval Supplies are the trade of the day in Midway

6 Sept – We now have a CB on Mahapahit

12 Oct – We defeat natives in Boina

17 Jan, 1642 – Ivory in Boina

3 Feb – Our diplomatic advisor passed. I hire: level 3 Colonial Range guy

2 Apri – The Ottomans have been hacking away at Mamluks and just defeated hem and took a lot of their lands. Including Alexandria, and two provinces next to Tabouk – Negev and Sinai

7 June – We defeat natives in Boina

9 June – We discover Kamchatka

1 July – We invest Admin Tech 19 – Can now build Glorious Monuments

11 Aug – Our conquistador lands in Penzhina, north of Kamchatka

12 Aug – Mataram is now a core province!

We send in a missionary

I declare war on Majapahit

2 Sept – Our Explorer passes

15 Nov – I order manufactories in Manila, Menade

24 Nov – We find Andyrsk, in the Kamchatka area and keep exploring.

5 Dec – Tech advance!

Level 18 military tech – It increases combat width, maneuver of my units, and allows Leather Cannon, Gallop Cavalry, and we can build a Conscription Center.

2 Mar, 1643 – After getting a walls breached notice from our generals, I order an all out assault and take Surabaya.

We annexed them


Surabaya – I order a core here. Hindu people of Sulawesian descent work the cotton trade here too on this Javanese province, that is north of Mataram, east of Demak and west of Blambangan. It has a Star Fot, Dock, Armory, Marketplace, and makes 2.06 ducats with its 4 tax base.

[Abe Sargent]

17 Mar – We find Omolon in the area behind Kamchatka

6 Apr = Funj agrees to a Royal Marriage.

14 May – We keep the current governor, as per the request of the Syndicate.

27 May -Funj agrees to an alliance with us

30 June – We find Gizhiga.

1 July - Our military advisor passes. We have a two star guy who pumps our fort defense

2 Aug – Manufactory ordered for Maldives

4 Sept – Blambangan and Bali-Lombok are now cores. We order Temples in both.

7 Sept – Funj agrees to be our Protectorate.

2 Nov – Irian is self sustaining. I order a fort here – next is Menabe, on the south and west of Madagascar

4 Jan, 1644 – We find Kolyma

20 Feb – And Suntar Khayata

5 Mar – I order a manufactory in Sumbawa

26 May – I find Verkhoyansk and Sakha, both inland provinces in Siberia area

8 Nov – We defeat natives in Boina

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov – 200 years ago, my great ancestor the Dapir for the Nabhan family began a far-reaching plan clearly inspired by Allah himself.

Our glories have been great under the Nabhan family. Sultan Nasir Sultan, 3/3/2, is 73, and has ruled for quite some time. His son, Salim, is 52 and 2/3/4.

We receive five bonuses for controlled at least 20% of the trade:

Tea Trade - -33% upkeep for advisors
Coffee Trade – Fort Defense +10%
Spice Trade - +10% Spy Offense
Slave Trade – Global Tariffs - +10%
Ivory Trade – Diplomatic Relations +2

We are currently getting 90.85 ducats monthly in surplus to our treasury.

We have 79 troops, 117 ships,

The Omani Caribbean Syndicate is our colonial nation, and we have Mogadishu, Funj, Adjuuraam. Adal and Kilwa as protectorates, which has expanded our base in East Africa.

Taxation – 44.19
Production – 70.33
Traade – 60.56
Gold – 16.36
Tariffs – 1.66

And then our outlay

Advisors 37.84
Army – 29.01
Navy – 28.85
Colonies - 6.20
Missionaries – 0.41

[Abe Sargent]

We are first in Dip, Admin, and Military rank.

We have the most income, by far. We are more than double Poland, which is sitting at #2.

By income:

Oman
Poland
Ottoman
Russia
Castile
France
Japan
Portugal
Ayutthaya
Austria



By Score –

Oman
Ottomans
Poland
France
Austria
Ming
Portugal
Savoy
Russia
Burgundy

[Abe Sargent]

2 nations have an Admin tech of 20 – just six have one of 19 -we have 19

Our military tech of 18 is two below the top of 20, which lots of nations have

Our 15 diplomatic crank is very very low. Shame on you!


There are now 7 Shi’ite nations. Multan and Punjab have formed. 141 provinces have embraced the faith. The Sunni number is down to 26 and 248 respectively.

We have the 4th largest army, behind Ottomans, Russia, and France

We have the worlds largest navy, the Ottomans have 115 vessels and are #2

Trade Goods, from tops to slops:

Tea
Chinaware
Cocoa
Spices
Fur
Ivory
Coffee
Copper
Sugar
Cloth
Iron
Salt
Wine
Naval Supplies
Tobacco
Grain
Fish
Wool
Cotton
Slaves
(Gold)


We are the world’s leading producer of Tea, Chinaware, Spices and Coffee. We also sell at least 20% of Slaves and Ivory.

[Abe Sargent]

We have a giant nation, and we spent a lot of time building it up. Let’s look at provinces by income:


Arabia:

Muscat – 42.96
Nizwa – 14.68
Suhar – 10.98
Qawasim – 8.56
Dhofar – 17.89
Beni Yas – 6.83
Liwa – 19.29
Qatar – 8.56
Bahrain – 6.83
Al Hasa – 6.83
Mahra – 6.88
Hadhramaut - 8.56
Aden – 17.89
Asir – 17.47
Micha – 28.48
Sana’a – 17.89
Najran – 19.29
Najd – 18.36
Mecca – 40.04
Medina – 26.74
Jabal Shammar – 15.30
Tabouk – 13.45


Socotra – 4.09

Don’t let anybody ever tell you that Arabia is a poor place. Trade, development, and production have helped to grow this area strongly. And I could make more improvements if I wasn’t focused elsewhere.


East Africa:

Zanzibar – 2.81
Sofala – 51.65
Zimbabwe – 54.35
Butua – 53.00
Massapa – 51.65


South Africa (Colonies):

Inhambane – 6.45
Delagoa Bay - 7.98
Natal – 9.15
Xhosa – 4.15
Little Karoo - 6.33
Great Karoo – 11.23
Cape – 17.46
Roggeveld – 5.38
Lesser Namaqualand – 3.29


Indian Ocean (Colonies):

Mahe –4.19
Diego Garcia – 3.13
Mauritius – 12.17
Bourbon – 12.05
Maldives – 21.45
Cocos Island – 2.75


New Guinea, Australia & New Zealand:

Gubbi Gubbi – 6.21
Bunjalung – 6.28
Wairoa – 9.34
Taranaki – 9.38
Whangarei – 9.42
Irian – 2.74


Sierra Leone – 5.51
St. Helena – 4.09


Connecticut – 8.59
Narraganset – 5.70

Omani Syndicate –

Tortuga – 16.67
Les Cayes – 20.83
Barahonas – 18.96
Jamaica – 26.91
St. Thomas – 22.74
Curacao – 14.38


The Indies:


Java …

Sunda – 38.46
Banten – 43.97
Priangan – 16.01
Demak – 40.76
Surabaya – 2.01
Mataram – 13.76
Blambangan – 8.17

Sulawesi…

Makassar – 30.77
Bone – 41.57
Pose – 49.88
Menade – 26.86


Philippines…

Palawan – 25.56
Sulu –11.09
Samtoy – 22.06
Cagayan – 18.84
Manila – 28.08
Visayas – 22.48
Tagoloan – 13.42
Maguindanao – 14.90

Bali-Lombok – 11.63
Sumba – 26.88
Sumbawa – 24.88
Flores – 41.57
Timor – 36.27

Ternate – 21.27
Halmahera -16.75
Tidore – 37.61
Ceram – 34.27
Buru – 23,96
Ampom – 21.27


Taiwan – 17.56


And we have colonies in Boina, Menabe, and Midway

You can see just how wealthy the Indies are. I could take the five provinces of Borneo island that belong to Brunei.

[Abe Sargent]

Alight – maps!


Let’s start with a general map of the whole world for you, with a focus on us, obviously!

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Here’s a long range one of North America. You can see Portugal all up and down the coast in Texas, Florida, the Americas. France is in Canada, and Brittany has a couple of possessions.

[Abe Sargent]

Now Asia –

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You can see that Ayutthaya is taking it to China and has control of many Ming Dynasty provinces. Our Indies nation looks rather nice I think.

[Abe Sargent]

And finally, the Americas

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You can see the cast holdings of Castile quite well. Great Britain has built a decent colony in the north too.

[Abe Sargent]

The Eleven Goals of Our Ancestors:



Our 11 Goals!


1) We need an alliance with a major power.

We are number 1.


2) We want to become the premier trading nation in the Indian Ocean. There are many great nations along the area, but we want to be the dominant one.

Done, and now taking action to keep Portugal out permanently.

3) We have to control a proper navy in order to meet our goals.

Now that we have the best navy in the world, we have finished this goal. But we need to keep building to continue

4) We would like to colonize the Indian Ocean.

Almost done.

5) We need to fend off the overly hostile Yemen. They are blatantly seeking our elimination. Probably because they are Sunni.

Yemen is now ours


6) Similarly, the adjacent Najd is also very aggressively looking towards us. Both neighbors are Sunni, and it gets a little too hot here.

As is Najd

7) We eventually want to see Mecca in Shi’ite hands.

We have not had an opportunity to convert them – it would fail. But it is ours. Done.

8) In light of these things, it seems necessary to build our nation militarily, as well as diplomatically.

Done. Top navy. Top four army. Militarily, we have arrived.

9) Nearby one province nation Haasa is Shi-ite as well, and could be a good early ally.

Haasa is ours. Done.



10). Westernize our Technology

Done

11). Expand further abroad. Do to Portugal what they planned for us. Expand into the Pacific and Atlantic and move into stronger places against Europe.

Ongoing


12). Have a monthly income of at least 100 gold while owning three level advisors in all three areas!


Let’s push our economics even further.


And we conclude this 200 year survey of the greatest nation the world has ever known – Oman!

[Abe Sargent]

28 Nov – Sorry Persia, but I’m not accepting alliance offers just right now.

22 Dec – We discover Yakut

28 Dec – Grim Tidings! Our Sultan has passed!


Sultan Salim (2/3/4) Nabhan has taken the throne. His brother, Barakat Nabha, is 3/1/6, and 42



1 Jan, 1645 –

Temple – Irian, Taiwan
Constable – Bali-Lombok, Blambangan, Whangarei
Mint – Banten, Pose


We pick up an explorer.

11 Apr – We find the province of Maya, behind Yakut

20 Aug – We find Okhotsk.

30 Dec – We find Tauisk

21 Jan, 1646 – I boost our stability back up

Trade Company ordered for Ternate, and Ampom

1 June – Midway is now self-sustaining!


Midway – 2.72 ducats are made in these lovely islands. Naval Supplies are harvested for our ocean-ward endeavors.

I send colonists to the final third of Madagascar, Antananarivo

[Abe Sargent]

27 July – Our army has loaded up from Kamchatka/Siberia and moving back out to the Pacific

13 Aug – Trade Company in Najran

Constable – Irian, Midway, Taiwan
Marketplace – Blambangan, Bali-Lombok


9 Nov – We have declared ourselves the Defender of the Faith. In addition to other effects, it gives us another missionary.

12 Jan, 1647 – We put down the natives of Menabe

9 July – We get Colonial Enthusiasm – yay! People must really like Madagascar!

24 Aug – I order our second Missionary to Bali-Lombok

Workshop – Blambangan
Stock Exchange – Banten
Mint – Flores
Marketplace – Taiwan
Temple – Midway


9 Sept – We purchase a new idea – Ship’s Penny. Ships Costs are now at -10%. The next idea will finish Quantity.

3 Nov – Boina is now self sustaining! I order a fort here



Boina – The ivory culture is strong here in Madagascar, and we get 5.57 ducats from it. It’s next to Menabe and Antananarivo.

Our next colonists are bound to Kalapuya, provinces on the coast of Northwest US.


22 Dec –We find Menabe a great place to harvest grains.

[Abe Sargent]

23 Jan, 1648 – Manufactory for Liwa ordered

3 Feb – We get a Shipwrecked Merchant and lose some ducats

21 April – Mint in Makassar is ordered

7 June – We get a core on Surabaya and complete our mission. I order a Constable here

28 Aug –

Trade Depot – Taiwan, Tagoloan, Blambangan
Fort – Irian
Marketplace – Maguindanao, Midway
Mint – Demak

10 Oct – We put down natives in Antananarivo

1 Jan, 1649 – We order a manufactory, Trade Company, in Visayas

1 July – I trade our level 2 advisors in Gvn’t for a level 3 Natural Scientist. With him, we pass Agricultural Cultivation which gets us increased production efficiency.

10 Aug – We defeat some pirates in the Santa Catalina Islands.

23 Aug – We start exploring the new world around our colony

25 Sept – We have discovered the Blackfoot, they are next to us.

24 Oct – We are on the far side of a huge wasteland, Great Basin. We can’t go inland from our colony.

10 November – Slaves in Antananarivo

1 Dec –

Workshop – Surabaya
Temple - Boina
Dock – Blambangan, Taiwan, Maguindanao
Mint – Mecca, Muscat

[Abe Sargent]

11 Jan, 1650 – Revolt in Mataram

25 Jan – I get an event. One of my privateers has begin to sink our own vessels. I choose not to make a dela with hi and sink him, and I gain a bunch of dip power. We purchase our next Diplomatic Tech!

Dip 16 – Trade range 200 more, +10% trade efficiency, and we can build Naval Arsenal and Post office.

1 Feb – We win in Mataram and the rebels, such as they were, are crushed.

1 Mar – While sailing north, we find the provinces of Tsimshhian and Kwakiutl.

26 Apr -Just fish in Kalapuya

13 may – Our forces land in Nootka.

8 June – We find Salish

23 June – While sailing, ou Explorer finds Kenai, to the far north

9 Aug – After heading inland, our forces find Nimipu

4 Sept – Our Explorer finds the Aleutians.

22 Sept – I order manufactories for Buru, Najd.

26 Sept – Ktunawa opens up and adjacent Niitsitapi as well.

30 Nov – Tsuu Tina is the next area our Conquistador finds.

1 Jan 1651 – Okay, its time to call it.

[Abe Sargent]

I’ll show you the only major changes in the world, here on the West Coast of North America.



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As you can see, we have company. Both the UK and Castile have grabbed land here. They are actively colonizing the region too. I figured I’d head north and let them duke it out in the south.

[Abe Sargent]

I’ll also take one more map of the world generally for ya


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[Abe Sargent]

That was fun. I feel that, right now, I accomplished my basic goal of having Oman as the Arabian Portugal. We didn't expand past Arabia, We didn't control every African province, just some. We only took a little in war. We were a trading and colonial force, more than anything else. We've reached the end of a fairly realistic parabola.


Alright, that was a lot of fun. Steam says I put 59 hours into that dynasty.

Now let’s do my usual post-game critique of the latest expansion or game. Since this was my first EU4 play-through, what’d I think?


I think they pulled out some overdue mechanics, like policy sliders and the old economic system of investing in tech advancement and stability. This system is better, because it forces me to balance economy against Ideas against techs against building, against stability. That’s a much more improved model. So I like it.


I also like the addition of new provinces (especially islands). For example, Ampom is a very important island, historically. It was the HQ for the Dutch East India Company and the location of the Portuguese in the area after they were kicked out of Ternate. You need an island like that in the game. I like colonizing Cocos (which wasn’t in before) or having additional Pacific Island options.

Now I still don’t think they do a great job with the Indies. For example, the Banda Islans are a group of ten islands, all small, in the Sea of Banda, east of Timor. In the game, they are simply a part of Timor. That’s dumb. The Bandas are among the wealthiest spice islands in the area. Why? Because a tree grows there, and nowhere else in the world (until like 200 years ago when it was moved ot other places). That tree is the Nutmeg tree, and both the spices of Nutmeg and Mace come from it. You could easily take the chain in the map, and just make it the Banda province.

And there a few places like that that still bug me.

I also still wish the trade goods could be improved. I love the addition of Cocoa in a recent patch. I’d still love to see Pearls, Dyes, Gems, and Whales. I also still want the ability to switch to a new random trade good in colonies, at a cost of power or ducats. This happened in real life frequently, as colonies moved from Fish to Cotton or from Grain to Tobacco and from Pearls to Silver.

I think colonization remains fun, and it was slower. I loved the changes to the merchants/diplomats, and such. This was not my normal dynasty. I wasn’t conquering Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem and Byzantium. I didn’t wage war in the Middle East for more than 100 years. I only took five provinces from Kilwa in Africa and five provinces from Makassar and Majapahit in the Indies.

I loved the additional diplomatic options too. I thought the game was well-done. It got rid of a bunch of the tedious activities in the previous games, like sending out merchants and such. Colonizing became more organic.

Overall, it was worth playing and I know I’ll come back to it again and again.