EU3: The Kingdom of Aragon

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I recently started playing EU3 again. After playing through a few campaigns as nations I was familiar with (Portugal, Japan and Bavaria), I decided to start up with a nation I have not played before. I was thinking of playing as a 1 province nation, like Anxiety did with Naxos, but instead decided to go with a "power", but one that was threatened by at least one nation that was a far greater power.

I went with Aragon, a nation on the Iberian Peninsula that is sandwiched between Castille and France. Aragon starts with 6 provinces on the main land and several islands (The Baleares, Sardinia, Malta and the island shared by Palermo and Mallina).

There are several challenges in playing as Aragon.

One is that it's a little difficult to defend so many islands. If I get into a war with anyone of any power, I either need to station at least one regiment on every island to help defend it, or have a huge navy that will prevent any tranports from getting there. It helps that the AI does tend to ignore the islands and will prioritize defense and going after mainland provinces first. However, in several play throughs with Portugal, if they can't get to your mainland provinces, they will go after your islands.

Another is France and Castille. There isn't much room to expand your mainland territory. There are a few 1 province nations around Aragon at the start of the game, but all but 1 (Navarra) is a vassel of France. So other than annexing Navarra, you have to war with Castille or France to expand your mainland territory, and both of them are far richer and much more powerful than you are at the start.

Therefore, most of the territory you conquer early in the game will have to come from North Africa or Italy, meaining less tax revenue from conquered provinces and needing to transport your invasion forces to and from your mainland/islands.

Third is connected to the second. At some point, France is coming at you. You can try to stop it with Royal Marriages, but it won't work. France will come at some point, so get ready (although they won't right away, so you have time).

But there are bonuses as well.

You start off with pretty good relations with Castille and Portugal, so you don't really need to worry about them invading.

You start off with a large fleet of Galleys and Cogs, so the fleet you'll need to war is already provided for you.

The best advantage of Aragon is that you start off with a Personal Union with Sicily. They will accept vasselage pretty easily when your monarch dies (thus ending the Personal Union). After that, it's just a matter of waiting 10 years and trying for a Diplo-Annex. If they accept, you will directly control southern Italy.

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The Story So Far...

I've played through a little over 15 years so far. Here is what happened.

In June, 1453 (game starts on May 30, 1453) Aragon declared war on Navarra. The war was short, as we simply sent our army up there and waited for their fort to fall. Navarra held out for awhile, but in April, 1454, Navarra fell and was annexed.

Alfons V died in October 1453. Sanc II (5 Adm., 5 Dip., 8 Mil.) took over rule of Aragon and still rules to this day.

We allied with Castille after Sanc took rule of the nation. Because of this alliance, I felt more secure in our defense against France. Should they come, hopefully Castille honors the alliance and protects my northern border.

With an alliance with Castille came the chance to piggyback in some wars in Northern Africa. The one province I had my eye on was the privince of Oran, held by Algiers. It is a province that has decent Production and Tax Income (for a Northern African province) and produced Wine. About as wealty a province there is in Northern Africa west of Alexadria (that isn't a capital). I wanted that province.

With Algiers allied with Morocco, and Castille constantly at war with Morocco, it opened the door for me to easily get in and take the province. In the first Iberian-African war (in 1463), Castille was able to take a few of Grenada's provinces, but didn't make any progress into Africa, nor was I able to fight off the Algierian army in Oran.

Much better progress in the second war (1468). Castille took a few provinces from Morocco, and I got Oran. Since Castille made peace quickly the first time, I was worried I wouldn't have time again. However, I sent two armies of 6k troops each into Algiers, one in Oran and one in Kabylia (east of their capital, Oran on the west). After defeating their army and taking control of both provinces, I immediately sued for peace and got Oran.

Right after the war was over, I had a chance to Diplo-Annex Sicily. They accepted, and now Aragon rules over Southern Italy.

The current date is January 10th, 1469.

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Current Map (January 1469)

http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3Map1.jpg

[Coffee Warlord]

Resurrect the Roman Empire!

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Current State of Affairs

Economy

I have been ignoring merchants right now. I've tried sending them out, but they get competed away quickly. Right now, it's costing 2.8 ducats to send a merchant to a nearby Center of Trade. The CoTs are getting to the point where they will be worth it, but at the start of the game, the cost is not worth the reward, since you only get 1 or 2 ducats per year, IF your merchant can last a year.

Once CoTs start getting much more money, then they'll be worth the risk when it's only a matter taking a few months to recover initial costs.

My stability is +3, and I plan on keeping it there. I think I have a good grasp of how to keep it high, so I don't have a need to put money into Stability nor hire Stability Advisors.

I have every ducat going into Investments. I do not have any inflation yet. My only advisor is a Naval Tech advisor, who puts 6 ducats a month in Naval research, so I also do not have any money going into Naval tech. I have 2 going into Production and Trade each, 3.5 going into Land and 5.7 going into Government (trying to get to Second National Idea as fast as I can). My first National Idea was Scientific Revolution, which modifies how much I need to research by -2.5%.

I have 95 ducats in the bank (it's January), I'm losing 3.37 ducats per month for my advisor and military upkeep (40.44 per year), and I am gaining 70.7 ducats at the end of each year.

Military

Army - I have 3,000 infantry in mainland Aragon. I also have 3,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry in recently conquered Oran to help fight off inevitable revolts.

Navy - 17 Galleys and 8 Cogs (what I started off with.

Diplomacy

I have an alliance with Castille and Burgundy. Burgundy is on France's North-East border. I also have Royal Marriages with Portugal, Castille and France.

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Goals

France - *sigh*

As you can see, France has, I think, their entire army sitting on my northern border. Each little French flag on the above map represents either 10k or 11k soldiers. They have 42,000 troops sitting there. I have 3,000 protecting.

I doubt, however, they will be so bold as to attack me when I have both Castille and Burgundy allied with me. Burgundy has a pretty sizable army (although at war right now so hard to get exact idea of how big it is. About 20k right now) Castille has about 20,000 as well. So if that is all, or the bulk, of France's army, and both Castille and Burgundy come to my resque, I think I should be fine.

The Mamluks. I see them already. They are allied with Tripoli (the green nation in the bottom right of the map) and own 2 provinces west of them. I bet they get the rest of Tunis soon, and then look to Algiers.

So that's 2 major powers that could be threatening me pretty soon.

Northern Africa

My plan here is simple. I'll leave Morocco to Castille while taking Algiers for myself. Oran was, by far, their best non-capital province. The rest are pretty poor to very poor. It's not really with the effort to control the rest of their provences, so instead of annexing them, my goal is to simply make them a vassal. That will give me half of their tax income, which isn't really much, but there is atax penalty to different religions, plus there is also a tax penalty to not having a land connection. Totally up the penalties, it's not worth controlling Algiers. Oran is the exception because, for one it has a high tax base, and secondly the money it produces from Production more than makes up for the tax penalties.

More importantly, however, is that it'll give me space to work with in Northern Africa. And since Castille is on its way to taking over Moroco, if I don't at least make them a vassal, Castille will probably expand that direction next if I don't put up a road block.

As said, next over are The Mamluks and their allies, Tripoli. I could easily take over Tripoli, a 3 province nation. Just like Algiers, there provinces are poor. Except their capital, which is very rich in Production (it's an Ivory province). It'll be worth taking on 2 worthless provinces to control that Ivory province, so the plan is to find an opening to invade. However, since I'll be surrounded by The Mamluks, I'll only look to make them vassals at first. As soon as I can securely occupy those lands, then I'll look towards annexation.

Italy

Ruled mostly by small nations that are constalty allied and at war with each other. I plan to take my time here. I'm going to warn most of the nations here, and when one declares war, I have my chance to get some land.

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1469

I recruit 3 infantry units in Sicily to help fight off any revolts that could happen. Some people don't like being under my control there, so it'll be a few decades worth of possible revolution in Sicily. With the addition of 3 infantry, my monly upkeep is now 4.06 per month (48.72 per year)

With the increase of revenue from the annexation of Sicily, my budget looks like this: 7.3 Government, 2.5 Production, 2.5 Trade, 0.0 Naval (+6 Advisor), 4.5 Land

I entered into a Royal Marriage with Savoy (the small, white nation between Venice and France)

1470

I sent out warnings to Sien, The Papal States, Genoa and Tuscany. Now if any of them declare war, I get a Casa Bali on them, meaning I can go to war with them without getting a -2 penalty to stability for going to war without a reason.

Northern Italy did end up warring, but a 1 province nation Mantua, which is land locked, started it. I didn't both to warn them because I could not get to them. Oh well.

1471

With over 100 ducats in the bank now, I start building 2 more Galleys.

The war between Mantua and Genoa ended with Genoa annexing Mantua. Looks like Genoa is starting to become a power in Northern Italy. Problem for them is they remain at war with Austria (who was allied with Mantua),

I enter into a Royal Marriage with Sweden.

England and Portugal go to war with Scotland and Norway.

I start construction on another Galley. This will give me two fleets of 10.

The truce between Algiers + Morocco and Castille + Aragon is over. I must start preparing myself to invade Algiers. It's only a matter of time before Castille and Morocco throw down again.

My Trade Tech increases to level 2. The CoT in Burgundy (Vlaanderen) is now valued at 414 ducats. I may start sending merchants soon.

In October, Castille delcared war on Grenada, but Grenada is no longer allied with Morocco or Algiers. I go to war with them, mainly to keep my alliance in tact. Karaman, a 1 province nation all the way on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean was allied with Grenada and are at war with me now.

I move one of my galley fleets over to Malta as a precaution.

1472

Event
Diplomatic Insult: A diplomate from The Papal States has insulted me.

We Will Not Forget This - Gain a Casus Belli on The Papal States
Try To Ease The Tension - Change relations by 60



The Papal States are allied with Sien, a bordering 1 province nation. Here's my chance. I can go to war with The Papal States, Sien will get dragged into it, and I can annex Sien.

I choose "We Will Not Forget This" but I'm holding off on war for a bit. I'm still going to wait and see if Castille invades Morocco and build up some troops. The Papal Stats have 3k Cavalry and 2k Infantry sitting in their capital. Sien has 3k Infantry.

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1473

Castille finished off Grenada. There are no more Muslim nations on the Iberian Peninsula.

Event: Fortification Effort
It's of the Utmost Importance - Gain a level 2 fort in Napoli plus 236 manpower at the cost of 30 ducats
It's too expensive - Gain 40 ducats


I choose "It's too expensive". Those 40 ducats will be better served raising a 4k mercenary army. I am in the process of tranporting my Oran army over to attack Siena. With this 40 ducats, I will add to the army already in Italy and declare war.


April, 1473 - War Were Declared

Castille and Burgundy have both joined the fight. The Papal States are sending 4k into Napoli, where I have 7k waiting (but a bit demoraled due to having just hired 4k in mercs). My 5k army is undocking into Siena where they have to fight 3k of infantry. The Papal States are also sending 1k into Abruzzi, which I have undefended.

June 1st - Our army in Napoli fought off the army of The Papal States. They immediately follow them to Roma.

June 6th - We win Siena. The Siena troops are retreating to Roma, so I stop my marching there. Instead, I send my army to Abruzzi to fight off the small force they have there.

July 12th - We win in Abruzzi but our fortress in Napoli is under siege. I send my fleet of cogs to mainland Aragon to pick up my 3k infantry that is there.

September 10th - After a long naval battle, we lost 10 of our Galleys, while they only lost 3 ships. :mad: We did "win" the battle, though, and captured one of their galleys.

1474

March 7th - Siena has fallen into our hands and we have annexed them. This didn't do us any favors as far as Reputation goes, but oh well. We now send our troops into Rome. Tuscany has also allowed me access through their land, so I can send a force to attack Papal's second province (of 3) without needing to send them around the Italian Peninsula.

As it turns out, looks like Tuscany took a jump at opportunity. I see they are currently in the province I was headed to and are about to take it. The Papal's 3rd province is surrounded by France, so no getting to it.

August 1st - Roma has fallen. My first peace offer is for them to become our vassal. Without being able to get to their thrid province, if they don't accept this, they probably never will

And they did. The Papal States are now vassals of Aragon.

October 24th - Sanc II has died. We are now ruled by a Regency Council

December 13th - Burgundy calls for me. They are being attacked by Bohemia and Hungary. I need this alliance so I accept. I am hoping in a few months, I can offer a white peace and escape any kind of attack.

[WSUCougar]

Sweet move in Italy! But what are those Mamluks up to?

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1475

March - This alliance with Burgundy is getting out of hand. Now they want me to help defend against Brunswick, who i salso allied with Brandenburg, Mecklenburg and Saxony. Now, they are in the north so they are no threat to me, but still. I'm afraid my people are starting to get tired of war.

I accept, becuase I need them as allies...

September - The war with Bohemia and Co. ends with nothing of any imprtance happening.

November - Mecklenburg tried to tell me to give up Sardinia as soverign and pay they a bunch of money. L-O-L. Was my response.

December - The war ends with nothing important happening.

1476

Peace in our land, but Hungary and Venice are at war with the Ottomans.

1477

Castille brings me into a war against the Cherokee. Don't think I need to wrry about them counter attacking me.

November 4th - Our new leader has come of age. Joan II - Admin: 6, Military 5, Diplomacy: 5

Portugal and England have gone to war with Norway and France. Hopefully they can hurt France a bit. I've given Portugal access, just incase they could use it.

1478

I have started to build some Galleys (4 to be exact). Need to build my fleet back up.

1479

May - Navarra is now considered a core province. In other news, Burgundy is overrun with rebels. It doesn't look good for them.

October - Portugal and England have started to make some progress in France, and for the first time in a while, I don't see any troops along my border. I'm starting to get the "bright idea" to invade and try to poach a few provinces. Castille and Burgundy (who is hurting) may join me, so that will make several powers vs. France. But they are allied with Scotland and Norway, so me attacking will bring them into it.

But I can't. My reputation is still too bad. I'm going to really piss people off if my reputation gets worse so I need to cool it with the attacks and annexing for awhile. I still had a bad reputation from annesing Sicily when I attacked the Papal States. But that was too good of an opportunity. This would probably be stupid.

1480

And soon after I wrote that, France pushed Portugal out. Good thing I didn't follow through with my initial thought.

May - My production increased to level 1. I can now build Workshops (+2 to tax revenue in province). They are expensive to build (50 ducats) but more than worth it over time. I start construction of one in my capital (Barcelona)

And something I forgot to mention. Siena has a University, which gives me +6 to Production in Siena, +1% Population Growth in Siena, and +5 to Government Research per month. I pull back on Government Research a few ducats per month (about 3) and put that towards Land Research.

Here is how my tech research is borken down now

Government: 5.5 per month (+5 from University)
Production: 2.9 per month
Trade: 2.9 per month
Naval: 0.0 per month (+6 from Advisor)
Land: 8.1 per month

July - France asked us for military access. Fat chance...

Decmber - Burgundy asks for help against Flanders, a 3 province nation that just declared independance from Burgundy. I accept. I also entered into a Royal Marriage with Austria.

One last thing. The Mamluks have annexed Tunis. I'm not sure when, since I've been distracted by what is going on in Europe, but they look like they are on the move.

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1481

My Bad Boy is still near 7, so I hired a few Diplomat Advisors to help bring it down. My ruler has it declinging -0.5 per year, but with 2 2-star advisors, it's not dropping at -0.7 per year. So within a decade, my Reputation will be perfect again.

England and Portugal are still at war with France. 4 nonstop years at war have got to be hitting all three economically and socially (war exhaustion). Looking through their provinces, both England and Portugal have War Exhaustion over 11 in the Revolt Risks while France's provinces have over 7.

May - Our workshop is completed in Barcelona. I forgot to give a rundown of my provinces, so I might as well do so now.

Mainland Aragon

Capital: Barcelona
Income: Tax 17.25 (Workshop), Production: 5.10
Trade: Wine (1.2 Units). Trade Value: 15.0 (Market Place)
Culture: Catalan, Religion: Catholic

Velencia
Income: Tax 10.35, Production: 5.15
Trade: Wine (1.3 Units), Trade Value: 15.1 (Market Place)
Culture: Catalan, Religion: Catholic

Aragon
Income: Tax 7.35, Production: 2.38
Trade: Iron (1.0 Units), Trade Value: 7.0
Culture: Castilian, Religion: Catholic

Girona
Income: Tax 4.60, Production: 1.27
Trade: Fish (1.0 Units), Trade Value: 3.7
Culture: Catalan, Religion: Catholic

Roussillon
Income: Tax 4.60, Production: 3.68
Trade: Wine (1.0 Units), Trade Value: 10.8
Culture: Catalan, Religion: Catholic

Pirineo
Income: Tax 4.20, Production: 0.32
Trade: Wool (1.0 Units), Trade Value: 1.0
Culture: Castilian, Religion: Catholic

Navarra
Income: Tax 2.55, Production: 2.36
Trade: Iron (1.0 Units), Trade Value: 6.9
Culture: Basque (Non-Accepted), Religion: Catholic

The Islands

The Baleares
Income: Tax 3.56, Production: 1.95
Trade: Fish (1.0 Units), Trade Value: 5.7 (Market Place)
Culture: Catalan, Religion: Catholic

Sardinia
Income: Tax 2.36, Production: 1.42
Trade: Fish (1.2 Units), Trade Value: 4.2
Culture: Lombard (Non-Accepted), Religion: Catholic

Palermo
Income: Tax 6.23, Production: 5.00
Trade: Wine (1.4 Units), Trade Value: 14.7
Culture: Sicilian, Religion: Catholic

Messina
Income: Tax: 5.34, Production: 1.58
Trade: Fish (1.3 Units), Trade Value: 4.6
Culture: Sicilian, Religion: Catholic

Malta
Income: Tax 1.77, Production: 1.27
Trade: Fish (1.0 Units), Trade Value: 3.7
Culture: Maltese (Non-Accepted), Religion: Catholic

Italy

Napoli
Income: Tax 7.12, Production: 7.66
Trade: Wine (2.0 Units), Trade Value: 22.5 (Market Place)
Culture: Sicilian, Religion: Catholic

Calabria
Income: Tax 3.56, Production: 2.11
Trade: Fish (1.2 Units), Trade Value: 6.2 (Market Place)
Culture: Sicilian, Religion: Catholic

Apulia
Income: Tax 2.67, Production: 4.24
Trade: Salt (1.2 Units), Trade Value: 12.5
Culture: Sicilian, Religion: Catholic

Abbruzzi
Income: Tax 2.95, Production: 4.00
Trade: Wine (1.1 Units), Trade Value: 11.8
Culture: Umbrian (Non-Accepted), Religion: Catholic

Siena
Income: Tax 4.72, Production: 9.82, University 6.00
Trade: Cloth (1.1 Units), Trade Value: 11.2
Culture: Lombard (Non-Accepted), Religion: Catholic

Africa

Oran
Income: Tax 1.45, Production: 3.99
Trade: Wine (1.1 Units), Trade Value: 11.7
Culture: Berber (Non-Accepted), Religion: Sunni

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1482

Burgundy is being carved up. Another province declared independance (Hainaut), and now I am at war with them. I did sign a White Peace-erino with Flanders.

Thanks to the war that Castille declared in the Americas (and my accepting to fight with them), it revealed a part of the map to me, including a capital province that holds a CoT. There are still free slots here, and even better, it's one of the richest CoTs I know about. I send off all of merchants. Not cheap at 5.63 a pop, but if there are several free slots, I doubt there will be a lot of competition here.

July - Government Tech 2.

All 5 merchants find a home at the Tuskegee Center of Trade. It's total value is 411.50 ducats, and my merchants (which cost 28.15 ducats to send) are bringing home 34.8 ducats a year in trade (6.96 each). If they are able to all last just one year, it'll cover the cost and the rest will be pure profit.

Right now, only 4 nations are at this CoT, Castille, Cherokee, Creek, and now Aragon, and all 4 have 5 merchants here. Of course, now there are no free slots, but no one is capable of a monopoly. So as long as this CoT stays between the 4 of us, we should be able to reap in the profits.

August - I sign a White Peace with Hainaut. I also enter into Royal Marriages with Brittany and England. I think I need to start upgrading my relations with Brittany and hope they want an alliance at some point. I don't think I can count on Burgundy to protect me from the north anymore.

December - Holland has declared its independance from Burgundy. I accept Burgundy's request to help fight, but will take a White Peace offer as soon as Holland offers.

Both Flanders and Hainaut came to peace terms with Burgundy. Hainaut keeps its independance, Flanders gave back one province, and is now a 2 province independant. Flanders immediately signed alliances with Hainaut, The Palatinate and Brittany.

1483

The war that France fights against Portugal and England still rages on. It is now entering its 5th year. War Exhaustion in Portugal and England is up to 12.74 in both nations. France is catching, they are up to over 10. All of France's provinces have a 4.3% chance at revolt because of the war exhaustion (the problem that seems to have destroyed Burgundy)

Portugal is up to 4.7% revolt, and due to a low Stability, England's provinces are at 9.7% revolt chance. England is getting very close to the revolt levels I have been seeing in Burgundy (9.5% - 12.5%).

July - Naval Tech 2 - I can build Barques now. Barques are Light Ships (The first ones you get). They are slightly smaller than a Galley, but they have 15 Cannons to a Galley's 10, and they have a Ship Speed of 10 vs. an 8 for Galleys. The downside is that they cost more than twice as much to construct.

Now that I have 18 Galleys, I'm going to start really building up my fleet. I want to start building some Carracks. They are the Big Ships. Hull Size: 20 (Bargue 8, Galley 10), Cannons: 40, Ship Speed:5. Not as fast as a Galley or Barque, but they'll blow the fuck out of you if they catch you. I figure some of these to compliment a vast armada of the Barques should be pretty good.

August - White Peace with Holland. Burgundy has lost it's Capital to rebels. Burgundy may be slowly dying. Their territory is fractured and they can't move armies from one area to another. They have 12k soldiers sitting in one of their small blobs, but they can't move. They have 11k in Holland, and they can't get to their capital. Very bad for Burgundy.

December - Castille starts war with Creek and the Cherokee, so the money will stop coming from that CoT for the time being. I was wondering why Castille hadn't been going into Morocco. I guess they decided to focus on the New World. After my Bad Boy disappears, I'll prepare for an invasion of Algiers.

1484

Algiers begins leading a Personal Union with Morocco. Some how, Castille got inself into a war with Morocco, but I was uninformed. Dunno how that happened, but I guess I missed out on this one.

Event - Nobles Demand Privileges
"Accept Their Rightful Claims" - Aristocracy gains 1
"Ignore Their Demands" - National Revolt Risk +2, National Tax Modifier -5% - For 1 year

Booo. I'll go with the Aristocracy I guess. It'll make Big Ships and Light Ships cost another 5%, but Cavalry is cheaper and Production gets a 1% bonus (hurts trade though). I'll move it back when I can.

June - Cherokee give me a White Peace offer and I take it. The value of the CoT was hit hard, but I still have my 5 merchants there. The CoT has 327 now and my merchants bring home 26.93 per year now. Oh well, it is house money now anyway.

July - I enter into an Alliance with Austria. Now that Burgundy (who is at peace with Holland now, getting back 1 province) is no longer a northern power, Austria can now help protect me. Lucky for me that they offered me an alliance. I'm still allied with Burgundy, but now if they try and drag me down with them, I can tell them off.

It looks like Austria has a standing army of about 30k troops.

The rebels that have taken a 3 province blob of Burgundy (including their capital) have now moved into France. It's an army of about 5k rebels. Go rebels go!

France finally signed a truce with Portugal, but continue to war with England going on for the 7th straight year as I enter 1485.

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1485

Another province declares independance from Burgundy. A nation called Nevers that I am now at war with (but will take a White Peace once offered).

1486

France and England continue to fight. France's stability took a hit, and with their War Exhaustion over 11, revolt risk in their provinces are at 8.1%. England's is over 11%. One of their provinces is rebelling.

Good new for Burgundy, finally, in that they have annexed Nevers to take back one province.

1487

I start recruitment on 3 Cavalry regiments as I will spend the next few years preparing to invade Algiers.

Looks like Scotland is taking advantage of England's failure in their fight with France. Scotland has invaded England, with Norway joining Scotland's side and Portugal coming to help out England.

I start minting 2.1 ducats a year to help pay for the cost of my increased army. I will only gain 0.1 inflation per year with this, so even if I spend a decade minting these ducats, my inflation will only get up to 1% (England and Scotland are already at 5% while France is at 4%). Since I am ahead of the curve on inflation, I may keep it here for good, especially if I take National Bank with my next National Idea (which eliminates 0.1 inflation per year).

My Land tech is set to up in December of 1488, so I'll be looking to start my invasion in 1489 so I can have better infantry units and an extra boost to morale.


1488

England pushed Scotland back and signed a truce. They are back to focusing on France.

Castille's war on the Cherokee and Creek has destroyed that CoT, those morons. My 5 merchants are now just bring home 7.37 ducats. The CoT is only worth 89.57 ducats right now....those morons.

March - Joan II dies. I am now ruled by a Regency Council and can not start a war. Damn.

Nobles Demand Privileges. Again....I moved Aristocracy to the left 1 more. I take the Stability hit and move it back. My Stability is at +1 now, but is set to go up to +2 in a few months.

I gain a Casus Belli on Tuscany, but they are allied with Genoa. I could forgo my plans in Algiers and try to take a few Italian Provinces. I don't have a Casus Belli on Algiers, so that's going to cause a Stability hit...

But as long as I am ruled by this Regency Council, I can't do anything.

November - My Land Tech raises to Level 2

Latin Medieval Infrantry (old units) - 1 Morale for both defense and offense
Men At Arms (Level 2 Unit) - 1 Shock for both offense and defense, 2 Morale for both offense and defense.

As you can see, Men At Arms are much better than the Latin Infrantry. Level 2 also gives me Longbow units, but they are the same as Men At Arms, except only have 1 Morale for offense. Makes me wonder why I would get them since they are the same as Men At Arms on defense, worse on offense (and cost the same).

So now all of Aragon's infrantry troops are Men At Arms (Infrantry automatically upgrades to a unit of your choosing, Naval units do not).

After 11 years, the war between England and France comes to a truce. I don't think France will attack me (although they do have a Casus Belli on me) with such a high War Exahustion. But if they do, Castille, Burgundy and Austria have my back, so I'm not worried right now.

1489

Plans continue for my invasion of Algiers. I'll just have to wait until a monarch is crowned.

A level 4 Artist (Advisor that adds to Stability) has come to Messina. His name is Domenec Valdran. I hire him. It will cost me 12.0 ducats to hire him, plus 0.4 ducats per year. Well worth it since I anticipate Stability hits in the near future. My Stability was set to up to +3 in 1521, now it's set to do that in 1501. A 20 year difference.

October - Siena is rebelling. I send my main force of 5,000 Cavalry and 3,000 Men At Arms to fight them off (4,000 infantry on their side). It's a quick battle as I only lose 14 troops while taking out over 600.

1490

In the summer of 1490, while I have to sit on my hands and wait for a new king or queen, I see Mumluk troops marching from Egypt through Tripoli to Tunisia. The Mumluks are currently are war with Qara Koyunlu and Haasa (Middle East nations)

As soon as the troops got to the province of Tunis, they turned around and went home. What are those wacky Mumluks doing?

I have also noticed that Castille has all of their army, 20,000 strong in their Moroccan provinces. I might not have to wait for a new monarch to be crowned.

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1491

The War of Brunswickian Succession. Austria inherited the throne of Brunswich, but Mecklenburg says not so fast. Austria calls for my help and I accept. My Stability drops 1.

The Mamluks are now sending a large force to Tunis. Why, since they are still warring with Qara Koyunlu and Hassa, I don't know (since they appear to be losing that war). This large force ended up turning around as well.

1492

January - Joan III is our new leader. Administration: 8, Military 7, Diplomacy: 3. I now wait until the Mumluks are out of sight...

France is once again at war with England, Portugal and now Flanders. On the side of France is Scotland and Norway. So it looks like France will be tied up for awhile.

I have recruited several more troops and have increased how much I am minting per month to help cover costs. I am now minting 4.3 ducats a year which causes 0.2 inflation per year. My inflation is currently at 0.5.

The Plan

Algiers will not attack and Castille is dragging their heels when it comes to Morocco, so I'm going to have to take the Stability hit (which will now make it -1 for me). Not a huge deal since with my new ruler's Administration rating plus the Advisor, it should raise back up into positive numbers fairly quickly.

Algiers has a main army of 2k Cavalry and 7k Infrantry sitting in their capital, which is adjacent to Oran. As soon as I declare war, they will probably attack my forces in Oran, which stand at 7k Men At Arms right now (2 sperate forces). My main army, 5k Cavalry and 3k Men At Arms will immediately land in the province east of their capital and begin siege there.

I will then transport the small Italian force I have of 3k Men At Arms to Algiers east most province. The goal with them is to block at attempt at the Mamluks to backdoor a few provinces.

If my forces in Oran can fight off Algier's main force, then great. They'll then pursue and eliminate them. If not, I'll withdraw them into the province south of there to begin siege. If Algiers decides to focus on sieging Oran, I'll let them. My forces sweep in from the east and corner them. If not, if they try to hunt down my Oran Infrantry units, then I'll immediately have my main force pursue Algier's main force, and bring over a force I have in Aragon (2k Cav. 2k MaA) to take the place of my main force.

Ready? Break!

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1493

I wait until the latest force from the Mamuks (who now have a truce with their enemies) to do their patrol thing before declaring war. While I do this, Oran becomes a Core Province. Also, I get another Advisor, a Level 2 Government Tech advisor.

Damn. Looks like Mumluks are keeping a force in Tunis. They may get one from me.

June - I declare war on Algiers. Castille, Austria and Burgundy all declare war on Algiers.

Algies dows something that makes me very happy. They split up their main force. One staying in the capitla, the other heading to defend the province south of Oran. Thank you Algiers.

June 20th - A quick Naval Battle occurs in the Barbery Coast, one that sees me sink 2 of their ships and take one of their Galleys.

The slipt army of Algiers is headed for Castille occupied Morocco. Again, I thnak you Algiers.

Juy 8th - A second Naval Battle in the Barbery Coast. Algiers had 5 of their ships destroyed while I lost one of my Barques. I have some ships damaged and need to send them to port to be repaired. But they did their job since Algiers' navy has been obliterated. I leave my undamaged ships behind to continue blockading their ports.

August 4th - Morocco tries to offer me a White Peace. Sorry, I want my Castille allies to grab as much of your land as possible.

September 5th - I finally get the army of Algiers to vacate the capital. I land a small force of 3k Men At Arms (my Italian force) next to their capital (I switch where I was landing them and my main force when I saw the Mamluks were not leaving).

After a few days of stalling and fighting a force twice my size, I retreat losing only a handful of troops towards their capital. I have another 4k disembarking right now into their capital, and I have 3k of my Men At Arms in Oran advancing on their capital. Soon I'll have 10k in their capital, with half of their forces fighting Castille, this one is already over. Now I just need to beat them enough that they'll take a treaty to be my vassals.

October 31st - I lift my siege in Tlemcen (province south or Oran) to head off a retreating Algiers army in Aures. They got their asses handed to them by Castille and are running for their lives. Might as well cut them off and finish them.

November 8th - Constantine falls (their east most province). I figure what the hell and try to offer them vassalage to see if they have any sense. They do not. I move my mainforce into Kabylia, where their mian force sits.

December 20th - We win in Kabylia. We lost 352 men (of 7,888) while they lost 1,113 men (of 5,000). They retreat towards Biskra, I follow.

December 28th - We win in Aures with the help of Castille. A shattered army retreat to Tlemcen and I follow. Castille only has Cavalry in Aures, so it'll take them forever to siege.

1494

January 9th - They retreat quckly from Biskra. Only 190 killed. I follow, except I leave my infrantry behind in Biskra to lay siege. My Cavalry forces will hunts these men down.

January 29th - We win in Kabylia and now chase to Constantine. Castille looks like thye are trying to poach a few provinces. These are my future vassals, fellas! Oh well, no skin off my back if they take a poor province or two. I only want Algiers to use as a staging point to push east into Egpyt and the Middle East later in the game so they are more than welcome to take a dirt-farm or two.

February 1st - The 4 provinces that made up Sicily are now cores of mine. Sweet!

February 4th - Well, I just pulled one over on Castille. They were beating Morocco badly. Morocco, as it were, just wanted to negotiate for themselves, not Algiers. They've been sending me peace deals worth a few ducats, but I decided to try something. I sent them an offer to be my vassals, just for the hell of it. To my surprise, they accepted.

Morocco are now vassals of the Kingdom or Aragon.

February 12th - Al-Djazair (their capital) has fallen.

February 13th - Algiers accept my terms for peace. They are now vassals of the Kingdom or Aragon.

Overview - I wanted 1 vassal, I got two. Morocco is pretty poor, but a few ducats each year from them will not hurt. I may start plans to diplo-annex them down the road since they do have a gold province (which I don't see a ducat of since that goes towards Production, not Tax).

Algiers is pretty much dirt poor, other than their capital which takes in almost 12 ducats of tax a year by itself. Well, now they only get 6. :)

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Diplomatic Map - 1494

Bright Green = Land directly controlled by Aragon
Dark Green = Vassals
Bright Aqua = Allies
Dark Aqua = Just a Royal Marriage


http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU31494Diplo.jpg

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1494 - continued

August - Event: Abandon the Holy Roman Empire

The incessant strife, both religious and politican, withint the Holy Roman Empire is draining the morale of Siena's population. The relation with the Emperor has reached an all time low and many consider it to be in Siena's best interest to leave the confederation.

If I have Siena leave, relations between Aragon and Mecklenberg will be changed by -100 and Siena will no longer be a part of the Empire
If I have Seina stay, relations between Aragon and Mecklenberg will be change by +50.

I decide to keep Siena in the Holy Roman Empire. I have no quarrel with Mecklenberg and no desire to pull a province out of the confederation. Not exactly sure what I get for having Siena in the Empire, but I guess it can't hurt.

1495

Another war has come to a truce between England and France. I sure do wish those chaps from the island would actually do some hurting to France.

The Center of Trade in Tuskegee is back up to 357 ducats, and my merchants are again pulling in nearly 30 ducats a year.

With my warring ways done with for a little while, I drop my army maintanence down as well as the amount of ducats I mint. I'm now back down to 0.1 inlfation per year.

June - Our stability improves to +1.

August - Event: Good Government Policies

Changes of plicies when cleverly timed and made were oftan well perceived by the people of the time beyonf their actual effeciency, as a proof of the government's good will and interest of the realm.

I can 1) Increase my Stability by 1, 2) Have an instant 400 ducat investment in Government Tech, 3) Have 300 ducats added to my treasury.

I easily go for the +1 to Stability. My Stability was not set to raise again until 1501, so the added tax revenue over the next 6 years will probably make up for either of the other two choices (Each stability counts as +10% to tax revenue, so at +1 my tax revenue gets a 10% bonus, at stability +2 my tax revenue gets a +20% bonus). It also lets me start to think about another invasion. The war with Algiers and Morocco did not effect my Bad Boy at all.

November - Entered into a Royal Marriage with Cyprus.

1496

January - I start building a Workshop in the province Aragon.

February - Event: Revolt in Pirineo

High taxes, and cultural and religious differences, have caused unhappiness among our citizens. If this continues it will drastically affect the stability of our nation.

Ignore Them - 4 units revolt in Pirineo
Lower Taxes - -10% to taxes in Pirineo for 730 days.

To hell with them, I ignore them and send my troops in. The battle only took 4 days even with my lowered maintanence.

March - WARNED - Genoa has warned me not to go to war with any of their neighbors. I'm so scared.

June - I entered into a Royal Marrieg with Tyrone, a 3 province nation on the Irish island.

July - Trade Tech increases to 3. I enter into a Royal Marriage with Brittany.

Event: Nobles Ally with Foreign Power

The nobility was not fully subjugated during this age and the nobles could and did strike independent alliances with foreign princes. The crowns of Europe might not have liked it but they were normally hard pressed to prevent these kinds of activities.

They will pay for their treachery - lose 1 Stability but gain a Casus Belli on Tuscany.
We'll deal with them later - Lose 2 prestige.

This is pretty good. I'll lose one stability here, but I gain something that would cost me 2 Stability. Tuscany is allied with Genoa and Salzburg (who is surrounded by Austria). I can snatch land from Genoa and vassalage Tuscany. If the war goes well, I can vassalage both. And I have mage-power Austria near Genoa's northern border (if they can get military access from Venice, they'll overrun Genoa).

I choose "They will pay..." and start moving my army to Italy.

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1497

March - War Were Declared.

All of my allies (Castille, Burgundy and Austria) join in, as does Tuscany's allies (Genoa and Salzburg)

I land a force of 4k infrantry on the island of Corsica and begin a siege.

April - Tuscany sends a force of 2k Cavalry and 7k Infrantry into Siena. I send my force of 5k Cavalry and 3k Infrantry into Tuscany's capital, and I have a force of 3k infrantry laying siege to Genoa's province of Ancona (directly northeast of Roma)

I lose all of my galleys and barques in a massive naval battle (11 in total - they lost 8 ships). 7 of my cogs retreat and head to pick up my last army (the one stationed in Oran).

June - I undock 3k infrantry into Genoa's province of Modena where they battle a small force of 1k cavalry. We win on July 3rd and begin a siege, but I see Tuscany sending a large force to battle them, so I send them into Tuscany's capital to help with the siege there.

September - Tuscany wants a white peace and I tell them to stuff it. Salzburg is trying to get out of being destroyed by Austria by offering 2 whole ducats. Declined. A huge force from Burgundy (15k) arrives in Genoa's capital and starts kicking ass.

November - Corsica falls on the 17th.

December - Ancona falls on the 28th. I shoot Genoa a peace offer asking for Corsica and Ancona. They reject it (wonder how receptive they'll be when Burgundy storms their capital).

1498

January - I offer Salzburg and their large tax income a deal to be my vassals. They accept. Salzburg is a 2 province nation in the middle of Europe that is surrounded by Austria. One province takes in 17.73 ducats in taxes, the other takes 25.17. And I get half of that!

I send the army that took Ancona to Ferrara.

February - Government Tech increases to 3.

March - My 3k forces successfully fight off a 3k force from Genoa in Ferrara and lay siege to the province. Genoa's capital falls to Burgundy. Let's see how they like my terms for peace now.

They seemed to like them fine. Corsica and Ancona are now property of the Kingdom of Aragon. I send the 3k troops in Ferrara to Tuscany's capital to assist in the siege.

April - Tuscany's capital, Firenze, falls on the 4th. They have an army 6k strong in Siena and a smaller force of 3k in Pisa. I send my 5k Cav - 3k Inf force into Siena

May - We win the battle of Siena. Aragon Casulties - 682, Tuscany Casulties - 2611. I follow with my large force and send a reserve force into Siena to retake it.

July - We destroy half of Tuscany's remaining army and they retreat into Genoa. Pisa is a pretty good province so I'm going to siege it and try to get it in peace talks.

August - Pisa fell when I stormed it after a large force from Burgundy arrived (since I was there first, I got dibs on it).

September - Tuscany cedes Pisa to Aragon and become our vassals. My Stability also increased and is back to +1.

My "bad boy" took a hit as it's at 4.43 now.

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Post Tuscany War Map

http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3TuscanyWar.jpg

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New Province and Vassal rundown

Ancona
Income: Tax 2.45 (Base 5), Production: 0.38
Trade: Wool (1.2 Units), Trade Value 1.1
Culture: Umbrian (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Has a Temple

Pisa
Income: Tax 3.92 (Base 6), Production: 11.31
Trade: Wine (1.3 Units), Trade Value: 15.2
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Has a Workshop, Temple, Marketplace and a University (my second one). What a prize!

Corsica
Income: Tax 1.47 (Base 3), Production: 2.17
Trade: Naval Supplies (1.0 Units), Trade Value: 6.2
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Down the road, I'll be able to build a Naval Equipment Manufactory because of the Naval Supplies.

Vassals

Tuscany - Firenze
Taxes: Hard to tell since they still have War Taxes on, but their Base Tax here is 12. It also has a Workshop (+2), so it should get around 14 ducats in taxes, minimum (unless negative stability). So they should provide me with at least 7 ducats a year.

Salzburg - Salzburg
Taxes: Base 10, so will provide at least 5 ducats a year

Salzburg - Munchen
Taxes: Base 15, so I will probably get at least 7.5 ducats a year.

So with my new vassals, I should get at least around 20 ducats a year more. According to my ledger, I took in 30.5 ducats from my vassals (for comparison, I took in 77.5 in taxes in my own kingdom). So far, with one month left to go, I have taken in 44.7 ducats from Vassals (Salzburg accepted vassalage at the beginning of the year but had war taxes on). Add in Tuscany, but take away war taxes, and I should be looking at a steady income of 40+ ducats a year.

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1499

Spending most of the year reorganizing my army.

April - Siena becomes a core province.

July - Round 3 of Portugal + England vs. Scotland + Norway + France is about to begin.

September - I start building a Workshop in Girona.

Income Overview (to ive an idea of how much is coming from where)
Taxation: 92.1
Census Taxes: 85.0
Tolls: 82.2
Production: 67.4
Vassals: 55.4
Trade: 29.3
Manufactory: 12.0

1500

So why do I keep losing my fleets?

The simple answer is that I am a novice at taking care of my navy. Despite playing Japan and Portugal a lot in this game, I never focused on navy except to build transport and exploration fleets. I would build fleets to use in war, but I never paid much attention to them.

I forget to bring them to port to repair. Sometimes I forget that they are even there. I really have no clue when it comes to naval strategy in this game. That's one reason I took Aragon and am trying to make myself a Naval power, so that I can learn the ins and outs of navy strategy in this game. So far, I've done bad.

Time to rebuild my fleet. I begin construction of 1 Carrack and 2 Barques.

Case in point about me forgetting about fleets. I just found a fleet of Galleys sitting in a bay off the northern coast of Castille (I thought I had more ship than what I lost in the war...). *sigh* Well, at least I still do have a navy.

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Well this sucks. The game keeps crashing on me when I get to July of 1501. No idea why this is happening since I've played several games well beyond 1501. I thought it might be because I was playing in windowed mode, but I just tried playing at full screen and it's doing it there too....

So I guess this dynasty gets put on hold for now....

I'll see if any of my old saves still works tomorrow.

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I loaded an old autosave and it appears to be working. I got to 1503, but I'm going to have to go back to March 1497...

EDIT: To hell with it. I'm loading up a saved game from my test run. When I tested it, I loaded the oldautosave which was saved in 1500. I played to 1503 to test it out, but my autosaves got overwritten. I'm not going back and doing the Tuscany War again, so I'm going to restart this up in 1502 since nothing significant has happened since I started my little test (Castille did not declare war on Morocco yet, so I have deleted that part from my post above), so that's where we are.

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1501

I was given 200.00 ducats in an event (as opposed to taking 2.00 prestige). I ordered the construction of 4 Carracks. I should hjave checked my Naval Tech though, since it increased right after they finished construction...

1502

England and Portugal are still at war with France. I hope they do something. I at least hope widespread revolts happen, seeing as France is at -3 Stability right now and their provinces are at 10% revolt. Maybe I should try some spy games...

I "Support Revolt" in the province of Provence for 25 ducats, which is on the Mediterranean, but a bit off my border. My spy was discovered, but he was successful. The revolt risk in Provence is now 13.1%

I wonder if I declare war on France if Castille, Burgundy and Austria would follow. It would make it 5 nations on 1....

March - Castille declares war on Morocco.

I end my vassalage of Morocco and assist Castille. I do have a plan this time. I'm going to load up some troops and head down the coast of North Africa to the southern part of Morocco. I will then go in and try to get that gold mine before Castille does.

April - My Naval Tech advisor died.

May - Algiers in laying siege to Oran. When my Cogs get back from Africa, I'll need to ship some troops over to retake it.

Castille has made it to Sus, Morocco's gold mine. Maybe they will get booted by Morocco.

October - We have become the Papal Controller. Stability Cost -20%, Yearly Diplomata +1, Reputation -0.25, Yearly Prestige +1%

November - Looks like I'm getting into a 2 front war. The Papal States have been invaded by Genoa. This can not stand. I declare war on Genoa (and Venice is in on it) and hope that my force of 2k Cav. and 2k Inf can get the job done while the bulk of my army is fighting off the Algierians. I am also named the leader in the war.

Days after I declare war on Genoa, I booted Algiers out of Oran. Going to send 4k Inf over to Italy.

Since I could not beat out Castille to Morocco's gold mine, I took the province of Ifni. I also took their colony of Rio De Oro. Both provinces are way too poor to be worth the effort. The only they are is they connect the Morocco gold mine to the Atlantic Ocean...

December - My force of 4k Infrantry begin siege of Genoa's capital and my force of 2k Cav and 2k Inf. begin siege of Modena.

1503

January - Disaster. My cogs were destroyed before my force of 4k Infantry landed. Another naval blunder on my part....

February - Since I can't get to Morocco's gold farm, and they are pretty poor so I don't really need them as vassals, I offer them a simple White Peace (they accepted). I'll take the lose of a vassal out on Genoa and Venice. I start building up some Cogs...

March - I send my 15 ship fleet at Venice and Genoa. 10 Galleys, 4 Carracks and 1 Caravel (the successor to the Carrack). Venice is laying siege ot Corsica.

Genoa has a fleet of 1 Carrack, 27 Calleys and 7 Cogs (and a pretty damn good admiral). They destroy 7 of my Galleys quickly and I take off when another 10 Galleys show up. Damn do I not know what the hell I'm doing as far as my navy goes...

July - Venice sends a force of 4k Cav and 6k Infrantry into Modena. The Papal State have a large there backing me up, but their low morale brings down the overall morale of the forces there and I quickly withdraw.

Time to stop the bleeding asap. I offer Genoa a white peace and they accept. Still at war with Venice, though. They rejected White Peace.

September - Corsica has fallen.

Carles I becomes out new monarch. Admin 7, Military 4, Diplo 7.

October - I offer up The Papal State's province of Romagna, a high Production province, in a peace deal. The reject it...

November - We defeat Venice in Siena.

1504

January - I bite the bullet and offer Venice Romagna and Corsica in a peace deal. They accept. I had to, there was no way I could get a force over to Italy to defend against them. The whole thing was my fault for failing to see that Venice and Genoa had become allies. If I saw that, I would not have declared war and let Genoa have the Papal States...Also stinks that since I was coming to the aid of a vassal, my allies were not involved, so no help from Austria. Next time, with Austria on Venice's northern border...next time.

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1504 - continued

I am now starting to see provinces discovered by other nations in my tech group. They are pretty scattered right now, but in several years I should have some possible targets for colonization.

June - Government Tech increases to 4. One more for another National Idea.

1505

January - Austria calls on me to help fight the Ottoman Empire. How can I refuse? They are allied with the 1-province nation of Montenegro. I have a chance to poach them while maybe taking a province or two from the Ottomans while they focus on Austria.

February - Montengro is defenseless. I need to get some troops there ASAP.

March - Siena has converted to Protestant. Looks like that's about to spread.

April - We begin siege of Montengro, but the Ottoman's are marching there to defened.

May - I am booted from Montenegro. Damn.

June - Ancona has become Protestant.

July - We defeat a small army from Candar in Corfu and begin siege.

October - Government Tech increases to level 5 - I choose "Military Drill" so that our army gets a morale bonus, seeing as how I keep getting ymself into all of these wars.

December - I can't support this milatry action. My navy is in port repairing after a couple of victories, and my force in Corfu is about to have a large Ottoman force destroy them. I offer The Ottoman Empire a white peace and the accept.

I need to spend the next few years out of wars and rebuilding my army and navy.

In other news, a lot of land in the New World is now visible to me. Time to see what I can grab.

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1506

Looks like South America is still untouched. I can see the eastern coast of Brazil. All but one of them is a Sugar province (the only one that isn't is a tobacco province.). And all of the natives are non-aggressive. Those will be my targets.

I send colonists to Rio Grande, Itamaraca, Pernambuco, Bahia and Ilhues. They all have 60-70% chance of success and cost 23.7 ducats to send (my treasury is at 262 right now). Rio Grande and Itamaraca both have natives that have a 5.0 Aggression (middle of the ground). Hoping they don't cause a problem. I'm going to try and go down the Brazilian coast with colonies.

Looks like England and Castille have been focusing on North America. I also see Venice and Portugal with colonies in the West Indies.

June - England + Portugal are warring with France, Scotland and Norway again.

July - Event: Saint Performs Miracle.

Some people were so devout in their religion that they set out to help the poor and heal the sick. They were oftan called saints for their acts and were sometimes even believed to perform miracles.

We Have Been Blessed - Gain 1 Stability
Their Actions Have Shown Us The True Path - Narrowminded gain 1

I choose the Stability gain. It's now at +3.

September - Failed to colonize Rio Grande and Itamaraca. Successfully colonized Pernambuco, Bahia and Ilhues. I'm still out of colonists. I only get 1.6 per year.

1507

January - Sent a colonist to Pernambuco. Also began recruitment of 3 Latin Knights.

February - Genoa is attacking Tuscany. I choose not to help them. Venice would still be a bit too much right now. I was hoping my warning of Genoa was still active, but it is not. No Casus Belli as a result of Genoa's actions.

May - I recruit 3 Men At Arms.

June - Austria is losing pretty badly to The Ottomans. I successfully expanded my colony at Pernambuco. I will focus on building that up to a city above the other colonies first.

September - Genoa has warned me.

October - I see a colony from France a few provinces south of mine in Brazil.

November - Venice annexed Tuscany. Now the only nation bordering Venice or Genoa in Italy is Aragon (they would have to go through me to get to Roma).

December - Venice has annexed Savoy. They are becoming too powerful.

1508

January - I've built up a fleet of 12 Cogs. I still have 3 Carracks. So that is my fleet. Becuase of the money I spent raising my army a bit and to colonize Brazil, there isn't much left for building more war ships. I start beuilding 3 Galleys (since they are cheap). I hope I don't get into any wars anytime soon.

I send a 9k army (3k Cav, 6k Men At Arms) to Italy. I already have 2k Cav and 4k Men At Arms there. Hopefully the presense of 13k troops in Italy will keep Venice and Genoa off my back.

1509

I continue to rebuild my army and fleet. 4 more Men At Arms are recruited and 3 more galleys are built. Pernambuco is halfway to becoming a city. I am pushing the limits of my treasury...

November - Abbruzzi converts to Protestant.

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1510

January - Castille decides it is time to finish off Morocco.

February - Venice and Genoa have declared war on Algiers.

Event: Plague in Malta. The 40 ducats are too much right now. I ignore it, 1500 people in Malta die and they get a penalty to population growth for 600 days.

March - A merchant of mine was competed away in the Tuskegee CoT. It was fun while it lasted.

Castille annexed Morocco, Algiers is still at war with me and are attacking Oran, which I have left defenseless.

April - I land one of my large armies (3k Cav, 6k Inf.) in Oran and fight off Algiers.

1511

June - Natives Encouting our Colonies - In Ilhues, I would like to choose "Present a Trade Proposal" since that would increase the tax base by 1, but it costs 50 ducats. I choose to repel the savages, which gives me 200 population but kills 300 of their's.

September - Algiers offers me a White Peace and I accept.

1512

Austria finally beat the Ottomans back and it appears they came to a White Peace.

Venice and Genoa are starting to get too powerful. Now that Austria is free of the Ottomans right now, I'm going to look at striking at them soon. So that I don't need to build up a huge navy, I have transported all of my soldiers over to Italy in preparation for the coming war.

My forces total 13 Cavalry units and 20 Infantry units. My navy consists of 3 Caravels, 10 Galleys and 12 Cogs. No match for Venice as I learned in our previos war. However, my forces, now that they are in Italy, should over run them. Genoa can not produce a large army so I really only have Venice to worry about.

And they will have Austria on their north border. Now i just need to find a way to draw them into a war so I don't take a Stability hit and my allies are far more likely to join. It'd be nice if you could talk to your allies to see if they'd join you if you invaded someone...

1513

Spent the entire year organizing my army and waiting for it to be full strength.

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1514

January - We declared war on Genoa, taking a hit of 3 points on our Stability causing it to drop to -1. The good news is that Burgundy, Austria and Castille all have supported me in this decision.

I immediately send armies into Modena, Firenze and Romagna (All are 3k Cav, 6k Infantry). I can see Austria sending a small force into Venice and it looks like Burgundy could be sending a rather large force.

February - I love it when a plan comes together. Venice is attacking a few provinces in Austria, essentially leaving me alone. They have sent some small forces that I easily defeated. Burgundy's force is about to land in Venice's western provinces (that were once Savoy) and I see a huge Austrian army on its way.

In other news, Castille took 2 provinces from Algiers. Looks like they are targeting them next. I don't think I can stop or get in Castille's way. I could try to war with Algiers and take their provinces myself, but then Castille would join and take some and then move on. Oh well. They can have North Africa. Venice and Genoa determined for me to focus on northern Italy for the time being (not to mention it's far more rich in taxes and production than North Africa).

Colonization news: I lost the colony in Bahia and the natives in Pernambuco have revolted. I'm down to 131 colonists there. I need to get a few troops over there.

March - We assaulted Firenze and Romagna and took them. After a month or two of recovery, I will send them farther into Venice.

June - Austria has begun siege of a few of Venice's provinces. Burgundy has taken one, but does not look like they want to take any more.

July - I sent 3 Men At Arms onboard 3 Cogs to Pernamuco. I hope they make it in time and don't get lost along the way.

August - I begin siege of Venezia, Venice's capital.

September - I begin siege of Parma, a province owned by Venice.

October - A pirate ship off the coast of Pernambuco sinks a cog and 1k infantry with it, however I manage to sink it with the other 2 cogs and land. 2k Men At Arms occupy Pernambuco now.

Both Modena and Ferrara fall.

Joan IV takes the throne. Admin 5, Mil 8, Diplo 8.

November - Both Venice and Genoa offer a White Peace. Stuff it. You wanted blood, you got it. I begin siege of Mantua, Genoa's last province aside from it's capital.

December - Damn! I forgot to pay attention to my treasury...I have to take out a loan. Not the end of the world and Venice and Genoa will be the ones to pay for it.

1515

January - I lose a battle in Lomardia, but take a lot of their troops with mine. I basically killed their chance to mount a counter offensive.

February - I assault Venezia and take it.

Well, this was bound to happen. Burgundy is going to war with Brittany who happen to be allied with Austria. If I support Burgundy, I lose Austria. If I don't, I lose Burgundy...

I side with Austria on this one and decline. Thanks for the help Burgundy and I hope Austria and Castille are still good enough to keep France out of my land.

March - Parma has fallen.

April - I attack Liguria, Genoa's capital, and begin siege. I also assault Mantua and take it. Since Genoa are merely negotiating for themselves, I give them the standard "unconditional surrender" deal, give me all of your provinces except your capital, and become my vassal. The reject it.

May - Burgundy made peace with Venice, taking one of their provinces.

August - Lombardia falls to me and Austria takes two more provinces. We now control most of Venice's provinces. Before the war is over, I'm going to try and sent my 2k Men At Arms in Brazil to capture Venice's colonies.

1516

January - Linguria falls. I offer my terms of unconditional surrender again. They again reject. I may have to leave out the vassalage part. No worries, I'll just war and annex them next time.

March - Venice has all of their colonies protected by 1k infantry each (a few islands in the carribean. I could probably take them, but this war is near its end and I don't want to delay. Besides, that will be 3 more colonies I'd need to build up. If they are at 700 or 800 colonists, it'd be great, but they are still small and I've got my own to worry about.

April - It looks like Austria did a damn fine job in taking out the Venician navy since I don't see any ships from Venice. I transport some troops to Corsica to siege it.

May - Brittany is offering me an alliance. Works out great for me. More protection to the north and they are already allied with Austria. I accept.

July - The province of Nice falls, which means we have captured every province of Venice's on mainland Europe. Once Corsica falls, I'll begin negotiations.

September - Corsica falls.

October - Genoa is refusing vassalage. I tell them to cede Mantua, Modena and Ferrara and to give up their claim on Corsica. They accept.

Venice will be difficult. Firenze and Romagna will be musts, and I will try to get as much as possible after that.

1517

May - A peace deal is finally made. Venice ceded Corsica, Firenze, Romagna and Nice.

I'll have a new map up shortly.

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Northern Italy - June 1517

http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3Italy1.jpg

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1517 - Continued

June - I got another National Idea (that Government tech advances fast with a few Universities and an Advisor). This time I take National Bank. My inflation shas gotten up to 4.1%. While that's still half of other nations like England and France, I hate letting my inflation get out of hand. This way, in the 1600s and 1700s, this are dirt cheap to me compared to other nations.

I took National Bank so that when I'm building up to war and fighting, I can mint and not worry about inflation. I usually put it so that I am at 0.2 inlfation per year when I need money, and put it at 0.1 otherwise. Now, I will be at 0.1 when I'm building up, and at 0.0 when I am not. I could even make it so I take -0.1 inflation per year, lowering it.

I spend most of the rest of the year getting my troops back to their stations. I'm keeping more than half of my army in Italy, but sending 15k back to mainland Aragon.

December - Genoa has sent spies at us a few times already. I think they don't like me.

1518

My plan is to spend the enitre year just sitting back and trying to build my treasury up, even if it means taking a big hit on inflation. I need to make money to pay off the loan I had to take.

I'll get a rundown of my new provinces up afterwards.

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New Provinces

Corsica you know about.

Nice
Income: Tax 2.32 (Base 4), Production 2.24
Trade: Fish (1.1 Units), Trade Value 6.0
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Has a Workshop and Marketplace

Firenze
Income: Tax 1.26 (Base 12), Production 12.18
Trade: Wine (1.6 Units), Trade Value 16.7
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Protestant
-- Has a Workshop, Temple and University

Romagna
Income: Tax 2.73 (Base 5), Production 11.57
Trade: Salt (1.4 Units), Trade Value: 15.1
Culture: Umbrian (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Has a Workshop, Temple and University

Modana
Income: Tax 0.63 (Base 5), Production 10.76
Trade: Wine (1.2 Units), Trade Value 12.9
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Protestant
-- Has a Workshop, Temple, Courthouse and University

Ferrara
Income: 0.54 (Base 5), Production 11.92
Trade: Salt (1.3 Units), Trade Value 16.0
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Protestant
-- Has a Workshop, Temple, Marketplace, Courthouse and University

Manuta
Income: 4.68 (Base 10), Production 0.40
Trade: Grain (1.2 Units), Trade Value: 1.1
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Has a Workshop and Courthouse

Four more Universities! And a lot of Production income.

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1519

Following the war with Venice and Genoa, my Reputation has taken a hit. We are up to 5.22 (Ideally you'd want as close to 0 as possible). That translates to a "slightly tarnished" reputation.

So, no more wars for a few years. Hopefully it will be down a good bit when my truce with Venice and Genoa expires. Then it's time to really take it to them.

Here's how my army stands.
13 Regiments of Latin Knights
22 Regiments of Men At Arms

My Navy
3 Caravels
9 Cogs

For the next several years, I plan to focus on building up my navy (again) and colonizing Brazil. France already has a city in Brazil now and has another colony.

A gold mine, in the Province of Santana (in present day Argentina) became visible to me. I'm going after it.

I've almost been competed out of the Tuskegee CoT. My 1 merchant that is left takes in 5.57 ducats, which is less than the cost to send one there (6.75). I send another batch, since they are only still competing with a few nations so if they can get into it, they'll stay awhile.


February - Event: Native Exploitation

The maltreatment of the indigenous people, in combination with previously unfamiliar diseases brought by the settlers, has decimated the native population of Bahia.

Ignore Their Suffering - Lose 500 natives in Bahia, 200 natives in Ilheus, -2% Chance ot Colonize and -5% income for 50 days
Attempt to Assuage their pain. - +2% to colonize and +5% Overseas Income for 50 days (costs 40 ducats).

I attempt to assuage their pain.

April - We no have 4 merchants in Tuskegee (sent 5, plus the one I had there means it cost me 33.75 to put 3 merchants there, 11 and change each. We'll see if they pay off (need to spend over 2 years there to make a profit).

December - I am at war with a 1-province nation of Utrecht, a nation that Brittany is fighting. I took up leadership in the war, so I'll wait for Brittany to beat them and then force them to be my vassal.

1520

May - Well, we lose Brittany as our ally. They wanted me to go to war with a 1-province nation called Friesland. The problem is they are allied with Austria. So good bye Brittany.

October - I had to defeat Utretch (a nation in present day Netherlands) since Brittany sucks. Since they are so far from me, it's not worth to annex. They are a high tax, low production province, so they serve me better by giving me half of their tax income (Base 9 plus Workshop)

1521

August - I lost my colony in Bahia again....I'm sending my troops to exterminate the natives there. I've had enough of them.

November - The deed is done. No more natives in Bahia.

1522

February - Land Tech increases to 4. I get artillery now.

October - Pernambuco is finally a city of 2500 people. Tax 3.75 (Base 5), Production 14.75. Trade Tobacco (1.0 Units), Value 37.8

1523

September - Now that my reputation has dropped down to respectable levels, I move my troops over to Italy for another invasion of Venice. They chose their path.

1524

The outlook for war...

Genoa is crippled. They just have 1 regiment in their capital. They'll be an easy victory.

Venice has 2 large armies. One consists of 6k Cavalry and 3k Infantry in the province of Lombardia. The other is in their capital and is 3k Cavalry, 6k Infanty and 1k Artillery. These will not be easy armies to defeat. They also have a 3rd, a 1k infantry that is protecting an isolated province bordered with Austria.

My hope is that Austria will again fight with us and Venice will have to split up their armies.

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1524 - continued

April - I declare war on Genoa, Venice follows them. Austria and Castille honor their alliance.

Venice immediately sends all of their forces at me. Time to be a wall.

May - I win the battle of Mantua. I had 1 army there, but once war was declared, I moved a second. I had 15,000 troops there to meet their force of 9,000. We lost 1400 while killing 2300 of their troops. I have my largery army follow them back to Lombardia where the smaller moves into Parma to begin a siege.

War of Palatine Succession - Denmark is given the throne of The Palatinate, but Austria objects. Denmark is a bit powerful, and they are allied with Burgundy. I simply can not lose Austria as an ally. I hope that the multiple fronts will keep Burgundy off my back....

The Battle of Ferrara is a costly one to us. We lose neqarly 6500 out of 15,000 while Venice only lost 1500 of 13,000. We still manage to break them and they retreat back to Venice.

August - We are now chasing that large army of Venice's. There smaller army is now sieging Nice, but I'm ignoring them for now. Once Liguria, Genoa's capital, falls and I annex them, then I'll go and get Nice back.

October - Land Tech increases to 5. We now get Condotta Infantry, Landsknechten Infantry, and Reformed Galloglaigh Infantry. Condotta focus on defense, Reformed Galloglaigh on Offense, and Landsknechten is more balanced.

I update all of my units to Lansknechten Infantry.

1525

I didn't even notice, but the War of Palatinate Succession is already over.

May - England offers us an alliance and we take it.

June - Romagna has become Protestant.

August - We are losing ground a bit. Austria hasn't come through like they did in the previous war and it looks like I'm going to have to raise some mercenary armies. I have a lot in the treasury right now (466) so I can afford it.

I raise an 8k mercenary army, 2k Cav and 6k Men At Arms.

I have been wondering why I can not annex Genoa and I found out. They have a few colonies. Arg.....They have a CoT in Liguria, time to take out those colonies.

December - Venezia falls. Austria has sent some muscle, but they are capturing provinces by just finishing the job I started.

1526

Genoa sure does not know how to pick colonies. All 3 are poor fishing colonies. I start destroying them. To hell with my reputation, I have revenge to take care of.

May - I burn Genoa's 3 colonies in North America and annex them. Now I can solely focus on Venice.

June - Austria made peace with Venice, taking Istria, Lombardia and Brescia.

September - Venice cedes Parma, Verona and Piedmont in a peace deal. War is over for now. (Sorry for the lack of info on the war, is was a very messy war with small battles happening constantly)

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New Provinces

Liguria
Income: Tax 18.33 (Base 10, Workshop +2, CoT +10), Production 0.54
Trade: Wood (1.7 Units), Trade Value 1.4
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Has Workshop, Temple and Courthouse

Parma
Income: Yax 5.12 (Base 5, Workshop +2), Production 11.56
Trade: Wine (1.4 Units), Trade Value 14.2
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Has Workshop, Temple and University

Piedmont
Income: Tax 5.82 (Workshop +2), Production 11.56
Trade: Wine (1.4 Units), Trade Value 14.2
Culture: Lombard (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic
-- Has Workshop, Temple, Courthouse and University

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Northern Italy - 1526

http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3Italy2.jpg

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1526 - continued

Now that Italy is mostly mine, Genoa has been annexed and Venice has been bitchslapped, I can focus on other things. North Africa is forgotten. If Castille wants that dirt farm, they can have it, but if they get to The Mamluks and Tripoli, I can join in and quickly vassalage Tripoli like I wanted.

France. They are my next target. With my alliance with England, it's only a matter of time before I get drawn into war with them. They have a lot of muslce, but with Portugal and England hammering them, my armies may be the straw that breaks the camal's back and start pushing France back.

My main goal will be the provinces of Provence and Languedoc. If I can take those two provinces, I will make a land connection with Italy, and that will mean a lot more in taxes from my Italian provinces.

First things first. My inflation is over 7% and I have a loan that still needs paying back. I need to make sure that loan is paid off so I can stop paying interest, and I need to let my National Bank bring my inflation down some.

As for war with France, they outnumber me, but I can attack on two fronts, 3 if you count the north from England.

1527

May - Event: Firenze has been looking at leaving the Holy Roman Empire. I stay in it and improve relations with Denmark.

October - I have a colony at Santana, the gold mine.

1528

September - 9 regiments revolt in Pisa. It takes until December to fight them off. Stability (currently -2) and War Exhaustion.

1529

March - Pisa becomes Protestant.

July - France is really building up their forces. They have 16k in 5 different provinces (80k total...)

November - Parma becomes Protestant.

December - Out loan is paid off. Romagna is revolting.

1530

No news to report. A year of peace within Aragon.

1531

February - Event: Empty Words

The edict of tolerance, proclaimed by Joan IV a short while back has proven to be nothing more than mere words. There have been several violent incidents and atrocities against religious minority groups since the declaration where Joan IV has taken the stance of complete ignorance.

1 - Out Time Is Better Spent Elsewhere - 4k revolt in Piedmont, 10k revolt in Napoli
2 - Issue a New Edict - lose 40 ducats, gain 1 stability

I choose 2. I need that stability and it's well worth the 40 ducats.

October - Portugal grabbed Bahia, grrrr...

1532

July - Land Tech increases to 7. Can build Small Cast Iron Cannon, Large Cast Iron Cannon and Weapons Manufactory.

September - Brittany asks for an alliance. I think that'd be one too many and decline.

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1533

July - I have increased both Iheus and Santana to about 600 colonists.

1534

February - France goes to war weith Burgundy, Denmark and Hess. Burgundy still has a punch a Denmark has become a decent power. All of the massive armies France has on my borders are marching off.

March - Mantua becomes Protestant.

June - Ilheus and Santana increase to 700 colonists.

November - We have become the Papal Controller. -20% Stability Cost (badly needed), +1 yearly diplomat, -0.25 Reputation a year, +1% Prestige.

1535

Feburary - Our Stability increases on 0.

March - France has taken all of Burgundy's provinces in the south, but Burgundy has pushed in France's northern border. Sounds like a White Peace is going to happen...

June - Naval Tech increases to 7.

July - We fight off a big revolt in Liguria. We also increase Santana to 800 colonists.

December - France has pushed Burgundy back in the north and have taken a few provinces. Looks like Burgundy is going to get killed in this war.

1536

May - Event: Fortification Effort. I spend 30 ducats to build a Level 2 fort in Piedmont.

June - Government Tech increases to 13. I can now build Fine Arts Academy.

July - Ilheus increases to 800 colonists and Santana increases to 900.

September - Plague. Calabria has a plague and I can not afford to do anything about it. I lose 1500 population and -20% Pop Growth for 600 days.

November - France signs a peace treaty with Burgundy and Co. They got a few provinces.

1537

July - Santana has become a city. A population of 1544, Tax of 1.77, Production 40.08 (Gold).

1538

February - Build a Constable in Barcelona. A Constable will increase revolt risk by +2, but increase Direct Tax Income by 50%. Worth it in low risk, high tax provinces since it takes a bit for them to get over 0.0% revolt risk but gives 150% in census taxes in Core provinces (60% in non-Core provinces, but I wouldn't build in them since they are not practically immune to revolt)

April - Production increases to 4

1539

February - Build a Workshop in Velencia (+2 to Tax Income)

September - Ilheus increases to 900 colonists.

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1540

January - Build a Constable in Aragon

June - Pere V rises to power. Admin 4, Military 6, Diplomacy 8

August - Iheus becomes a city. Population 1753, Tax 1.18, Production 18.70, Trade Item: Sugar.

September - We must have been trying to build up Iheus for quite awhile since it just became a Core Province.

December - Pernambuco becomes Reformed.

1541

January - Trade increases to 6. I can now build a Refinery. Land Tech increases to 8 and I can build Level 2 Forts. I also started building a Constable in Velencia.

June - Production increases to level 5.

August - Event: Ausias de Zaporta's Reforms

Administering such a large empire as Aragon requires extensive economic planning and the lack of a good financial advisor had so far proven quite disastrous. The appointment of Asias de Zaporta helped turn the tide however. He introduced a number of financial reforms, including a more equitable tax system and a plan for the funding of the national debt.

Implement National Debt Funding Plan - +60 ducats, -10% interest for 80 days.
Implement Tax Refomr - National Tax Modifier +10% for 80 days.

Only 80 days of tax reform, 2 1/2 months worth, means the +60 ducats is more money. Much more money, actually. So, I with then National Debt plan (and immediately sent colonists to Sao Vicente and Santa Amaro)

November - Modena, Mantua and Ferrara become Core provinces.

December - A Culture Accepted - We are now accpeting Lombard as an integral part of our nation. Their language and culture is a part of our national heritage.

Mo' Money!

1542

Here is a rundown of our income.

Last Year
Production: 163.0
Tolls: 122.8
Census Taxes: 113.7
Taxation: 103.6
Events: 60.0
Trade Tariffs: 60.0
Manufactory: 48.0
Vassals: 43.3
Gold: 40.1
Trade: 21.5

February - Start building 3 Barques.

March - Sao Vicente colonization was successful, but Santa Amora was not.

June - Nice, Firenze, Corsica and Romagna are now Cores.

October - Sao Vicente increases to 200 colonists.

December - France has gone to war with Portugal, Castille and England. The only nation I am not allied with there is Portugal, so it was probably a declared war between them. I'm going to wait a few months, for France's troops to march off some, and then possibly declare war on France. Those 3, plus me and Austria could be devestating to France.

1543

February - Castille and Portugal are hitting France pretty hard in the South.

March - Production increases to 6. Can now build Textile Manufactory.

October - They have been pushed back and France has reformed their southern forces. I've been waiting for a window to jump in, but I don't think that's going to happen now.

1544

January - France took Portugal's colony of Bahia. Castille has a few massive armies in Africa that they are not moviing, as well as one in the middle of their territory...

May - I decided that I can't afford the Stability hit, so war with France has to wait. It'll probably wait for a good, long time so I'm going to focus more on colonization and building up my army/navy for now.

June - Naval Tech increases to 8.

July - Other than their alliance with The Mamluks, Tripoli is defenseless. I am going to reconsider North Africa for territory and vassals. On the other hand, Venice is crippled and I could take them easily and vassalage them. Just things to consider in a few decads when my Stability finally gets back to +2 or +3 (unless I get some events).

September - Sao Vicente is at 400 colonists and I have set up a colony in Santo Amaro.

December - I send 5 merchants to a CoT in India called Bihar. It's value is nearly 1,000 ducats, so per merchant, that should be quite a take and cover costs relatively quickly, even though it costs me 15 ducats each.

1545

March - 2 merchants set up shop in Bihar. They are taking in 31.45 a year total. So, as long as they stay, I should make a profit in about 2.5 years.

April - Government increases to 14. I get a new National Idea.

I could choose Smithian Economics, which gives me a +10% bonus to Production Efficency, meaning more money as a result of production. Last year I made 182.8 from Production, and my Production Efficency is 42%. A 10% increase would make that a little more than 190. Add that to my Production Tech level is increasing very fast (each tech level gives +2% to efficiency) and my new focus on colonization, and that each 10% will turn a very big chunk of money into an even larger chunk of money

I am also thinking of taking Bureaucracy, which is a +5% to National Tax Modifier. I think that would give me just about the same as Smithian Economics right now, but less in the long run. However, if that also effects Census Taxes, that's more money in my pocket at the end of the year, which I have been using to send off colonists.

In the end, I went with Colonial Ventures, which gives me an extra colonist each year. Right now, I am only getting 1.6 colonists a year, and I can not afford to move my sliders since doing that costs a Stability Hit. 1 extra colonist a year basically means, if all colony efforts are successful, an extra city every 5 years (since it takes 10 to get it to 1000).

October - I'm down to 1 merchant in Bihur. If only it didn't cost so much to send them to India. Andalucia in Castille is up to almost 600 ducats, and it only costs 3.38 to send a merchant there.

November - Sao Vicente is up to 600 colonists and Santa Amaro is up to 300.

1546

January - And I am competed out of Bihur. A very costly experiment...

May - Sao Vicente and Santo Amaro increase by 100.

June - Build 3 more Barques.

December - Sao Vicente increases to 800.

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1547

France has called a truce with Castille, Portugal and England. Nothing major happened.

February - Santa Amaro increases to 500. Trade Tech increases to 7 - I can now have monopolies.

March - Build a Workshop in Pirineo. Apulia has become Protestant.

August - Piedmont becomes Reformed.

December - Sao Vicente increases to 900.

1548

January - I ship off 5 merchants to Andalucia, 2 of them are able to set up shop.

February - I am down to 1 merchant in Andalucia already, that is bringing in about 10 ducats a year. My trade efficiency and compete chance pretty much sucks.

March - Build 3 more Barques.

April - I am already gone from Andalucia.

July - I have entered into a Royal Marriage with France.

Sao Vicente is now a city of 2029. Tax 2.95, Production 20.76 (Sugar).

I have also noticed that Brittany is alliance-free. They have some colonies south of my South American colonies. The poor colonies, but easily taken over. They also only have 4 provinces on France's north-west side. They could be quite an easy target...

1549

January - Build a Constable in Pirineo and Girona. Santa Amaro increases to 700.

August - Santa Amaro increases to 800.

September - Production Tech increases to 7.

1550

February - Santa Amaro increases to 900.

May - Build a Workshop in Roussillon.

August - Santa Amaro is now a city of 2029. Tax 0.59, Production 21.58 (Sugar).

Here is a map of South America.

http://www.irregardlessproductions.com/EU3SA.jpg

It seems like all of the easy provinces are spoken for now in America. It's either war or fighting lots of angry natives, except for a few exceptions. A stretch of land in North America is unclaimed (present day Louisiana, eastern Texas). I am going to start there. The Aztecs are still around. If I can get a large enough army there, I could try to go after them. There are no more Mayans or Zapotek, it's all just Aztec now.

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1551

May - Chitimacha was successfully colonized, but Bayougoula was now (both make up present down southern Louisiana).

June - Liguria is now a Core.

October - Piedmont, Verona and Parma are now Cores.

December - Chitimacha is now at 200.

1552

January - Build a Constable in Rousillon.

July - Chitimacho is now at 300 (while Bayougoula still keeps failing).

November - Santana is now a Core.

1553

March - I gain a Casus Belli on France (Boundry Dispute). They are at war with Burgundy right now, but I am not prepared since I've been focusing on colonization. Oh well.

April - Build 3 more Barques.

September - Chitimacha increases to 400.

November - I get the Boundry Dispute event with France. If I press the issue, France will gain a Basus Belli on me. I decide to press the issue and see if I can get them to declare on me (so I don't get the minor stability hit).

1554

January - Build a Constable in Liguria.

July - Chitimacha increases to 500.

September - Build 3 more Barques.

1555

March - England calls for help against the Iroquois. This won't effect us.

June - Build 2 Caravels.

December - Land Tech increases to 9. I can build Regimental Camps. Local Manpower +25%, Recruitment Speed - 50%. They cost a little over 200 ducats to build.

1556

January - Chitimacha increases to 600.

July - Bayougoula is finally colonized.

October - Chitimacha increases to 700.

1557

February - Bayougoula increases to 200.

June - England has called for help against Denmark. Denmark has been crippled in recent years by Austria and Lithuania, however they still have allies in Norway and The Palitinate. Still, I really want to keep my alliance with England, so I accept and take a -1 hit to Stability, making it 0.

August - Chitimacha increases to 800.

November - Government Tech increases to 15.

December - Bayougoula increases to 300.

1558

April - Chitimacha increases to 900.

October - Build a Temple in Barcelona (-5.00 to Stability Cost). Takes 2 years to build.

November - Chitimacha becomes a city of 1530. Tax 1.18, Production 15.99 (Cotton)

1559

January - Naval Tech increases to 9.

February - Trade Tech increases to 8. Bayougoula increases to 400.

March - Production increases to 8.

September - Bayougoula increases to 500.

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1560

April - Bayougoula increases to 600.

1561

January - Bayougoula increases to 700.

March - France has armies of 20k each along my border. I start recruiting more infantry units (5 regiments)

1562

I continue to recruit more infantry. I am planning on havine at least 3 armies of 10k infantry and 5k Cav along my border. Not as big as the French armies, or as many, but it's probably all I can afford. We'll see after that.

April - Enric I takes the throne. Admin 8, Military 3 (ow!), Diplo 6

July - I colonize Bourbon, an island off the west coast of southern Africa. A sugar province with no natives. I wanted to go after South Africa, but Portugal beat me to it.

September - Bayougoula increases to 900.

1563

Supply limits are stopping me from having my 15k armies (supply limits in my provinces go from 12-14). I would just keep them at 15k, but in peace times I lower my maintenence so I'll keep losing a bit of soldiers each month if I build them that high. So I'll make 4 12k armies instead.

March - I colonize Mauritius, an island right next to Bourbon.

August - Bourbon increases to 200.

October - Bayougoula is now a city of 1532. Tax 1.77, Production 16.59 (Tobacco)

1564

I'm cutting it down to 3 armies of 12k each. Maintenence, even at min., is getting a bit high.

June - My Stability increases to +1

July - Austria needs my help against the Ottoman Empire. I accept.

November - I land an army of 3k Inf and 3k Cav in Corfu (A Greek Province) and begin siege.

December - I land an army of 6k Inf in Morea and begin siege.

1565

The Ottomans attacked me with a fleet of 77 galleys. 77! That's about triple my entire fleet...

February - I land an army of 5k Inf and 2k Cav in Albania, easily fight off a small force and begin siege.

March - The Ottomans have forces headed to Greece. Too small to challenge me right now, but they are building.

I again get the Ausias de Zaporta's Reforms event and take the 60 ducats again.

I raise 10 mercenary infantry regiments in Italy and send them to Ottoman territory.

May - We fight the Ottomans out of the Austrian province of Croatia.

June - We beat the Ottomans in the province of Dalmatia and begin siege.

Moria has fallen.

The Ottomans accept my peace offer of giving up Morea. It is an Orthodox province of 12,263 people. Tax 0.95, Production 6.17 (Wine). Culture: Greek (Non Accepted).

I was surprised that The Ottomans accepted so easily. They fought me off in Croatia and was about to hit my armies in Corfu and Morea with larger forces. Oh well, I got one out of them, next time I'll try and free all of Greece. At least I now have a province to launch an attack from.

I'm leaving 6k Infantry in Morea.

November - I colonize Mahe, a spice island north of Bourbon and Mauritius.

1566

January - Build 4 Galleys.

June - Build 4 Galleys

1567

January - Government Tech increases to 16. I can now build Customs Houses (Local Tax +5%).

Bourbon increases to 400, Mauritius increases to 300, Mahe increases to 200.

Build 4 Barques.

March - The Ottomans are fortifying their new border with me. There are 5k in Athens and 5k in Janina.

April - Sao Vicenta is now a Core.

A look at my economy at the end of 1567

Income for the Year
Production: 297.9
Census Taxes 193.4
Taxation 163.3
Tolls 108.0
Trade Tariffs 60.0
Manufactory 48.0
Vassals 44.0
Gold 40.2
Trade 22.2

Expenses for the year
Army Maintenence 123.3
Building Colonies 97.3
Building Fleets 90.0
Fleet Maintenence 19.7

Investments (per month)
Government (16) 0.0 (I have plenty going in due to Universities that I don't need to fund it. It's 32 years ahead of its time)
Production (8) 10.0
Trade (8) 10.0
Navel (9) 19.4
Land (9) 19.4
Stability +1, 0.0

Treasury 6.8, which is giving me 0.0 increase to Inflation.

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1568

The Ottomans now have 10k sitting in Athens and 5k in Janina. If war erupts again, looks like i'll need to focus efforts there.

My military right now
39 Regiments of Infantry
19 Regiments of Cavalry
0 Regiments of Artillery

8 Caravels
19 Barques
8 Galleys
8 Flytes

February - Bourbon increases to 500.

March - Mahe to 300 and Mauritius to 400

It was only a matter of time. Castille has gone to war with The Mamluks. It will be Castille, Aragon and Portugal against The Mamluks and Tripoli. I need to act fast, get in and take over Tripoli and vassalage them. After that, I need to take as much land from The Mamluks as I can.

May - Revolt in Pisa. I don't have time for this shit...I ignore them. If I can't beat 9 regiments of rebels...

June - I land a force of 2k Cav and 5k Infantry in Tripoli and begin siege.

December - I just saw that I can not negotiate peace with Tripoli. Something about us being junior partners. So, I'll just take the two Tripoli provinces that I can (they are dirt farms), and make peace with The Mamluks before Castille makes peace for the whole alliance. That way, I can get in and annex Tripoli in the next war (their capital is an Ivory province)

Triplitania, Tripoli's capital, falls.

1569

March - Sirt falls. I march on Tripoli's last province.

Aprial - In a naval battle with The Mamluks, I lost 1 ship while they lost 5, however, they captured 4 of my ships.

Damn, Portugal managed to grab Tripoli's last province.

May - We hit them hard in a Naval attack. We lose 1 ship, but they lost 13.

Castille offered Tripoli a white peace. WTF Castille!? Guess I'll try to grab a few of The Mamluk's provinces.

June - I destroy a few ships of The Mamluks in the Bay of Alexandria. Looks like I may have destroyed The Mamluk's main fleet.

Nope, they have a fleet near Cyprus. As it turns out, it was only 7 ships. We destroyed them all and lost 1.

October - We lose a long campaign in the province of Gabes.

1570

March - Lybia falls.

May - We land a force of 7k in Alexandria and begin siege.

August - We lose Lybia. The Mamluks offer us a white peace. Since Castille screwed us over on Tripoli, I see no reason to stay in this war. I accept.

September - Enric II rises to power. Admin 6, Military 8, Diplo 5

1571

October - National Institutions

As of late more and more people are requesting representative national institutions.

L'etat c'est moi - Centralization gains 1, Stability loses 1
Give Them What They Want - Desentralization gains 1, Stability gains 1

Decentralization is alread maxed. I take the free Stability.

1572

I just noticed that Morea has the ability ot recruit Spahi Cavalry, a muslim elite cavalry unit. They are much better than Latin Knights. I'm going to start building them and transporting them through my kingdom to make our cavalry units much better.

May - I set up a colony in Cape Verde. It is just a poor fishing colony, but it is an island off the coast of North-West Africa, striking distance to an African nation called Mali. This country has a lot of rich provinces that I think are better served under my rule. I'm going to build up this colony and sned some ships over carrying a lot of troops.

June - Bourbon increases to 600, Mauritius to 500

July - Mahe increases to 500.

October - Cape Verde to 200.

1573

January - Cape Verde to 300.

April - Land Tech increases to 10.

Enables Terico Infantry - Very good overall, a slight bias to defense.
Enables Maurician Infantry - Very good overall, a slight bias towards offense.
Enables Free Shooter Infantry - Defensive Fire stage, Offensive Morale and Shock.

I designate my Infantry to be Terico Infantry.

April - Cape Verde to 400.

July - Bourbon to 700

August - I have learned my lesson from the Ottomans and when they smashed me with a huge force of galleys.

I have been working overtime getting my fleet up to super-power status. I now have 12 Caravels, 16 Barques, 45 Galleys and 11 Flytes (1 is over in South America).

I'm going to keep building galleys, as many as I can. My goal is to get to 100 Galleys, and then start building up some Barques.

September - Mahe increases to 500.

December - Cape Verde increases to 500.

1574

February - Road Constructions

The construction and maintenance or raods and trade routes in the northenr areas of our country have had a great impact on our economy. It has alled us to increase our trade and thereby generate a higher tax income.

Higer Tax Income - Spend 50 ducats to increase the Base Tax of Valencia by 1
Increased Manpower - Spend 50 ducats to increase the Manpower in Valencia by 198

I choose higher tax base.

Trade Tech increases to 9.

April - Mali has inherited the throne of Swahili. That gave them a lot of rich provinces on Africa's west coast, near where I will have a few island cities set up soon. Another great thing that I noticed. Tripoli is allied with Mail. I can get Tripoli without involving The Mamluks.

As a side note, I may have to take the Quest For The New World Idea at some point to get to some of the hidden provinces in Africa.

July - Production Tech increases to 9.

August - Cape Verde increases to 600.

September - Bourbon increases to 800.

October - Cape Verde to 700.

1575

April - Cape Verde to 800

May - Naval Tech increases to 10

July - Cape Verde to 900.

September - I send off 5 merchants to the CoT in Jiangsu, a province of the Ming Dynasty. It only cost 6.5 ducats per merchant, and the CoT has a value of over 1400 ducats.

November - Cape Verde is now a city of 1019 people. Tax 0.79, Production 2.19 (Fish). My launching point into the west empire of Mali is now finished. Now I need to get the 3 islands on the east side of Africa up to cities and I'll have launching points into Mali's newly inherited eastern empire.

December - 3 Merchants set up shop in Jiangsu. I'll know next month how much they make.

1576

The 3 merchants in Jiangsu make 53.16 ducats a year in that CoT. That's 17.72 ducats each.

March - 1 merchant in Jiangsu has been competed away. I send 2 more.

April - Nice has become Reformed.

June - Chitamacha has become a Core.

June - Both merchants fail to get into Jiangsu, and I'm already down to just 1 there.

July - I've gotten up to 61 Galleys. I'm stopping for now so that I can build up some Flytes.

August - Ferran II comes to power. Admin 6, Military 8, Diplo 3

December - After sending 3 more merchants, I have been competed out of Jiangsu. Not worth it for me. I just have not been paying attention to Trade and now I can't get in anywhere (except for Tuskegee).

1577

February - Bourbon to 900.

April - Venice has warned us. Now that's damn funny! Except they are allied with Lithuania.

August - Gift To The State - I gain 300 ducats (instead of 2.00 Prestige). I start building a lot of galleys.

1578

March - I colonize St. Helena. It's a fishing island off the western coast of central Africa. Another strategic point. Since Mali inherited Swahili, my ambitions has gone from taking over Mali to taking over all of Africa.

Bourbon has become a city of 1093. Tax 3.95, Production 23.62 (Sugar).

Mauritius increases to 600.

September - Thanks to the gift to the state, I now have 83 Galleys.

October - Mahe increases to 600

November - St. Helena goes to 200.

1579

February - Rebels have pretty much taken over every province in what was once Swahili. I wonder if that will force a new Swahili to be born.

May - Mauritius goes to 700.

June - Event - Assassination of Noble - If I let them solve it themselves, I lose 1 stability, if I take control, Plutocracy gains 1. I take control of it myself since I've been wanting to move towards Plutocracy anyway.

Government Tech to 17, I get a new Idea. I go for Quest For The New World out of requirement. If I am going to go into Africa, and maybe go after the Aztecs and Incas, who are both still very much around, I need this Idea to get to the provinces that I still can not see.

October - St. Helena to 300.

December - I have made it to 96 Galleys.

1580

March - 99 Galleys

April - Mahe increases to 700.

Mali seems to have gotten the rebellion in Swahili under control now.

August - Mauritius to 800.

September - Navy Numbers: 12 Caravels, 16 Barques, 100 Galleys, 26 Flytes.

October - St. Helena to 400.

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1581

August - Bayougoula has become a Core.

A Center of Trade has appeared in the province of Chitimacha. Its value is nearly at 1,000 ducats. I'm not sure when it was created, but all spots are already filled.

I'm going to build up a small army of cavalry in Chitimacha so I can clear the natives in the 2 provinces to the west. I'll colonize them and that will connect me to The Aztecs.

October - St. Helena increases to 500. Mauritius increases to 900. Actually, 990. Growth rate is at 12%. Instead of spending to send another colonist, I'm just going to let it increase to 1000 population on its own.

1582

March - The natives in Atakapa (province west of Chitimacha - present day eastern area of Texas) have been cleared.

April - St. Helena to 600.

The natives in Karankawa (south-east Texas) have been cleared.

May - Mahe has increased to 800 (878 specifically. 1 more colonist and then I'll let it get to 1000 on its own.)

August - Mauritius has become a city of 1500. Tax 3.95, Production 23.09 (Sugar)

[nfg22]

Keep going, I want to see france fall.

[PilotMan]

Yeah, I m reading along too. I don't have III, but the tactics are similar to II. Good luck.

[sabotai]

Keep going, I want to see france fall.

Oh, those French bastards will fall. My plan is to use all of the money I make from the ivory, gold and slaves in Africa as well as the gold I plan to take from The Aztecs to fund a massive effort against the French, Ottomans and Mamluks.


1582 - continued

October - St. Helena increases to 700

November - Successfully colonized Atakapa

1583

June - I clear out the aggressive natives in a recently revealed province called Minas Gerais, a gold province, and send off a colonist.

St. Helena increases to 800

August - My Stability increases to +3.

September - Mahe increases to 900 (992 - going to let it increase on its own)

1584

January - Failed to colonize Minas Gerais. Trying again.

April - St. Helena to 900.

September - Colonized Minas Gerais.

October - Event: Exceptional Year

Excellent business enviroment combined with good harvests were once in awhile a blessing for the nation's tax base, generating higher income for the realm.

Collect Benefits Over Time - +25% Tax modifier over 365 days
Take Advantage At Once - +200 ducats.

I take the 200 at once. I don't think +25% would give me more than that.

1585

January - I place 3k Spahi Cavalry in Cape Verde.

BTW, Mahe is a city of 1509 people. Tax 1.98, Production 18.17 (Spices). I hope to get armies of 7-10k on each island with their own fleet of Flytes. When I launch my attack on Mali in the west, I want to strike hard at Mali in the east. The provinces in the west have begun to build forts, so that will be hard, but the ones in the east still have none. I will take them first. I imagine it will take several wars to completely defeat Mali, but I will take as many east provinces as possible, as quickly as possible.

February - Land Tech increases to 11

April - Atakapa increases to 200

June - Naval Tech increases to 11

July - St. Helena becomes a city of 1043. Tax 0.89, Production 2.45 (Fish).

October - Minas Gerais increases to 200.

1586

May - Minas Gerais increases to 300.

July - Event: Fortification Effort. I spend 30 ducats to build a level 2 Fort in Siena as well as increase its manpower by 154

December - Atakapa increases to 300.

1587

The eastern provinces of Mali have once again been overrun with rebels. Taking those provinces will probably be very easy. So much so that I will declare war very soon and not bother with fighting in the west for awhile.

April - Normally I don't bother with telling of succession wars, but this one is major. The leader of the Ming dynasty will his throne to the leader of Japan, but Korea has objected. If all of Ming is given to the leader of Japan, that would be huge in the far east.

June - Bourbon is now a Core.

Event: Fortification Effort - I spend 30 ducats to build a Level 2 Fort in Navarra as well as increase manpower by 131.

Minas Gerais increases to 400.

Junly - Fortification Effort: 30 ducats to build a level 2 Fort in Girona as well as increase manpower by 132.

1588

January - Minas Gerais increases to 500.

April - Mauritius is now a Core.

Fortification Effort: Pisa gets a level 2 Fort and 205 increase to manpower.

July - I have colonized Karankawa, connecting my North American provinces to the Aztec Empire. Atapaka increases to 400.

August - Minas Gerais increases to 600.

Swahili has declared independance as a result of the rebellion. This is my chance seeing that Swahili has now allies right now. I will launch an attack at them and take as many provinces as I can.

November - I declared war on Swahili, costing me 2 Stability for not having a Casus Belli. All of our allies honor our alliance.

I am marching right through their territory. I landed one 7k army in Mogadishu, their northern most province, while also landing a 7k army in Safala, their southern most province.

1589

March - Atakapa increases to 500.

April - Swahili accepts peace terms. They hand over Bagamoyo, Tanga, Mambasa, Malindi, Lamu and Mogadishu. All of them are ivory provinces. Taking off of those provinces gave me a tarnished reputation (7.88).

I'll have a rundown and a map up when I finish the year.

October - Naval Tech increases to 12.

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http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3EastAfrica.jpg

[Chief Rum]

Yo! Since others are chiming on, I will too. I have been following along and enjoying what you got going here. Keep it up!

[Chief Rum]

July - Event: Fortification Effort.

Okay, I admit when I first read this, I thought you wrote Fornication. And I was thinking, "Well, try harder, damnit!"

[sabotai]

Rundown of new provinces starting at the top (north).

Mogadishu
Tsx 0.61, Production 18.19 (Ivory)
Culture: Swahili (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Lamu
Tax 1.22, Production 17.98 (Ivory)
Culture: Swahili, Religion: Sunni

Malindi
Tax 1.22, Production 18.73 (Ivory)
Culture: Swahili, Religion: Sunni

Mombasa
Tax 2.44, Production 19.17 (Ivory)
Culture: Swahili, Religion: Sunni

Tanga
Tax 0.36, Production 18.48 (Ivory)
Culture: Bantu (Non Accepted), Religion: Animism

Bagamoyo
Tax 0.36, Production 17.48 (Ivory)
Culute: Bantu, Religion: Animism

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1590

January - I hire a Conquistidor so that I can start exploring the hidden provinces.

February - I have discovered an Ivory province that isn't claim. Clearing the aggressive natives so that I can colonize it.

March- Goias is a gold province that has been made visible to me. I send a colonist immediately.

July - Morea has become a Core.

August - Mahe has become a Core.

Ujiji, an ivory province deep in Africa, has been discovered. I start clearing out the natives (I am such a monster...they are extremely aggressive though).

September - Karankawa increases to 200, Atakapa increases to 600.

November - I colonized Goias.

December - Land Tech increases to 12.

1591

January - Event: New Land Claimed

During this time period many areas that were forests or swamps were cleared, or drained to provide new areas for settlement. These newly cleared areas often led to a short-term population boom.

Increase Tax Income: Gain 1 Base Tax in Abbruzzi
Increase Manpower - Gain 161 Manpower in Abbruzzi
Increase both: Gain both but spend 30 ducats.

I just go for the tax income. My manpower is mugh higher than I need it to be right now.

February - Trade Tech increases to 10.

May - Atakapa increases to 700

July - I colonized Tabora.

October - Karankawa increases to 300

December - Production Tech increases to 10

1592

January - Austria calls for me, but they are fighting a small nation called Cleves who is allied with some other pissant country. I accept.

Atakapa increases to 800.

June - Government Tech increases to 18.

December - Tabora increases to 200

1593

May - Goias increases to 200, Minas Gerais increases to 600

1594

May - Naval Tech increases to 13. Enables Galleass, the next class of Galleys.

June - Ujiji has been colonized.

August - Minas Gerais increases to 800 (700 plus it has grown by 100 since colonization has started)

December - Atapaka increases to 900.

1595

March - Minas Gerais increases to 900.

July - Atapaka has become a city of 1067. Tax 1.38, Production 23.77 (Sugar).

November - Minas Gerais has become a city of 1014. Tax 2.07, Production 40.00 (Gold)

1596

October - Land Tech increases to 13.

Enables Culverin - Balanced Artillery
Enables Chambered Demi Cannon - Offensive Artillery
Enables Pedrero - Defensive Artillery

Karankawa increases to 400

November - Tabora increases to 400.

1597

June - Cape Verde becomes a Core.

October - Ujiji increases to 200

December - Tabora increases to 500, Karankawa increases to 500

1598

It sucks having a leader that is terrible in Diplomacy. My reputation barely goes down each year.

February - Austria is pulling us into a fight with Poland and Bohemia. Not bad, since Poland is fractured and weak. Bohemia does have some strenth, though. I asspet, but I probably won't do anything.

Actually, I send an army to Luxemburg, a province of Bohemia's that isolated. I can grab that province and then release it as a vassal.

March - A new leader. Alfons VI. Admin 5, Military 4, Diplo 5. Meh.

July - I begin siege in Luxemburg

August - Karankawa increases to 600.

December - Just as I was about to take Luxemburg, Austria signs a peace treaty.

1599

February - Tabora increases to 600

July - Ujiji increases to 300

August - Karankawa increases to 700.

1600

January - Government Tech increases to 19. Enables Absolute Monarchy.

March - Tabora increases to 700

August - Karankawa increases to 800

September - I declare war on Swahili, taking a 2 Stability hit (making it -1). All of my allies assist

October - Our stability increased to 0. Ujiji increases to 400.

1601

April - I'm not entirely sure what happened. The war with Swahili ended with just a message in the news scroll that says "Swahili is broken" and now I am at peace with them and I have 3 of their provinces.

My reputation is up to 10.

New Provinces

Sena
Tax 0.34, Production 18.64 (Ivory)
Culture: Bantu (Non Accepted), Religion: Animism

Quelimane
Tax 0.36, Production 18.08 (Ivory)
Culture: Bantu, Religion: Animism

Sofala
Tax 1.07, Production 44.68 (Gold)
Culture: Bantu, Religion: Animism

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1601 - continued

May - Tabora increases to 800

December - Karankawa increases to 900

1602

May - Goias increases to 300, Ujiji increases to 500

September - Tabora increases to 900

December - Goias increases to 400

1603

March - St. Helena has become a Core.

Karankawa has become a city of 1071. Tax 1.77, Production 0.65 (Grain). Time to start building a few invasion forces.

May - Enric III has come to power. Admin 3, Mil 4, Diplo 6. At least my reputation comes down a good bit a year now.

1604

January - Tabora has become a city of 1018. Tax 1.18, Production 17.33 (Ivory)

April - Goias increases to 500

June - Ujiji increases to 600

November - Goias increases to 600

1605

January - Production Tech increases to 11

February - Stability increases to +1

June - Goias increases to 700

October - Ujiji increases to 700

1606

January - Goias increases to 800

August - Goias increases to 900

October - Ujiji increases to 800

1607

March - Goias is now a city of 1051. Tax 1.38, Production 40.00 (Gold)

September - I have discovered the province of Mato Grosso in South America. An unclaimed Tobacco province.

December - Ujiji increases to 900. Atapaka becomes a Core.

1608

April - Calabria has become Protestant.

May - Naval Tech increases to 14. Enables Galleon.

August - Trade Tech inceases to 11

December - Ujiji becomes a city of 1017. Tax 1.38, Production 17.60

1609

January - I declare war on Swahili, taking a 2 stability hit. My allies join.

March - I colonize Mato Grosso

Swahili accept peace terms. They give up their only non-capital province left, Kilwa, a gold province.

Kilwa
Tax 0.00, Production: 51.00 (Gold)
Culture: Swahili (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni


April - Event: National Fragmentation

Although comprising vast territorial are, Aragon is politcally, a rather shattered nation. Enric III's power over the empire has been severely limited by various local rulers and he is faced with increasing difficulty administering the large empire. The disparate mix of culture groups, with different values and beliefs has resulted in conflicts equpting over the most insignificant matters.

Increase Centralization Efforts: Centralization gains 2, lose 500 ducats
Leave As It Is: Decentralization gains 2, lose 2 Stability.

If I choose the second option, My stability becomes -3 but Decentralization is already at max. I only have 337 ducats and I don't want to take on a loan, so -3 Stability here I come....

July - Stability increases to -2

October - Minas Gerais has become a Core.

[sabotai]

East Africa - 1610

http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3EastAfrica2.jpg

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1610

Short term goal in Africa: There are two unclaimed provinces to the south that are ivory. I'll send troops to clear the land and clolonize. I'll continue to colonize areas but not invade. My reputation has gotten a bit high, my stability is at -2, and I can't keep taking 2 stability hit. The next time I get a National Idea, I will take Deus Valt, which lets me declare war against nations of different religions without needing a Casus Belli. When I get that, Africa and The Aztecs fall.

October - Mato Grosso increases to 200

1611

January - Alfons VII takes the throne. Admin 6, Military 5, Diplo 4.

February - I colonize Inhambane, a province south of my provinces in East Africa.

October - Production Tech increases to 12.

Mato Grosso increases to 300

November - I colonize Delagoa Bay, the last unclaimed province in East Africa that I care about. The rest are controlled by Mali and Oyo. Portugal has claimed several of the South African provinces.

1612

February - Inhambane increases to 200

July - Mota Grosso increases to 400

1613

January - Government Tech increases to 20. Enables Republican Dictatorship. (2 more to go until new Idea)

Mato Grosso increases to 500

March - Joan V is now our leader. Admin 7, Military 8, Diplo 6

Inhambane increases to 300

August - Karankawa become a Core.

Mato Grosso increases to 600

September - Delagoa Bay increases to 200

December - England has called and it's a major one. It's against the purple blob, Lithuania.

They are really no threat to me. They are pretty far from any of my territory, but who knows where their troops are. Also, they are allied with Venice, Finland and Auvergne. Could be a chance for me to knock off Venice, and they do has a lot of colonies in northern South America...

I am forced to decline. I am in no position. I have plenty of other options for a 3rd ally. Best of luck England.

May - Mogadishu, Malindi, Bagamoyo, Mombasa, Lamu and Tanga have become Cores.

June - Mato Grosso increases to 700

1615

February - Mato Grosso increases to 800

March - Land Tech increases to 14. Enables Latin Caracolle Cavalry. Cavalry that is much better than the Latin Knights and better than the Spahi Cavalry from Morea.

April - Inhambane increases to 400

September - Mato Grosso increases to 900

November - Goias has become a Core. Trade Tech increases to 12.

Messina (Italian province) has become Protestant,

1616

January - Stability increases to -1

April - Mato Grosso has become a city of 1034. Tax 2.76, Production 20.26 (Tobacco)

August - Tabora has become a Core.

October - Inhambane has increased to 500

1617

January - I accept an alliance from Sweden.

February - Delagoa Bay has increases to 300

September - Inhambane increases to 600

December - Production Tech increases to 13.

1618

January - Delagoa Bay increases to 400

August - Inhambane increases to 700

December - Delagoa Bay increases to 500

1619

January - I have inherited the throne of Finland!

Finland is only a 5 province nation. They don't even have any colonies. They have 3 fur provinces, one fish and one grain. The fur provinces provide about 11 production each, which makes it worth it to keep them. However, I'd also have to defend in times of war and it looks like it could be quite the pain. I plan on warring with France in a few decades (at the earliest) and they are allied with both Sweden and Norway right now.

I'm not sure if it's worth releasing as a vassal since they have such low tax income. However, if I release them after a war where I grab a bunch of provinces, that's a good chunk of bad boy I get back. I looked, and if I release, Finland would get 4 provinces and I would keep one of the fur provinces.

I'll have to think about what I plan to do with Finland. Until then, free land!

June - Lose the alliance with Sweden when they want me to war with Novgorod.

July - Ujiji is now a Core.

August - Inhambane increases to 800

November - Delagoa Bay increases to 600

1620

July - Inhambane increases to 900

October - Government Tech increases to 21. Just one more to go....I sacrifice all other investments in order to get to Government Tech 22 ASAP.

Delgagoa Bay increases to 700

1621

June - Inhambane becomes a city of 1014. Tax 2.36, Production 18.23 (Ivory)

September - Delgagoa Bay increases to 700 (had an event that lowered my pop there by 100)

1622

August - Delgagoa Bay increases to 800

October - I send 7k Cavlary down to St. Helena. It's time to start clearing out some of these Western African provinces for colonization.

1623

July - Delgagoa Bay increases to 900

1624

June - Delgagoa Bay is now a city of 1066. Tax 2.36, Production 18.15 (Ivory)

1625

July - I colonize the Grain Coast, a province iright next to Ivory Coast (Pretty sure everyone knows where that is)

September - I colonize Ivory Coast.

1626

April - Stability increases to 0

May - Sofala, Sena and Quelimane become Cores.

June - Ivory Coast increases to 200. Grain Coast increases to 200.

August - Alfons VIII comes to power. Admin 7, Military 5, Diplo 8

September - I colonize Damaraland, a province on the western side of Southern Africa.

1627

January - Government Tech increases to 22. I get a new Idea and take Deus Vult. Time to take those eastern provinces of Mali's and annex Swahili.

February - I colonize Sierra Leone. This is right next to Mali territory so I will need to build this to a city and build a fort before I war on Mali.

March - I declare war on Swahili.

April - I annex Swahili.

Mozambique
Tax 0.00, Production 21.14 (Ivory)
Culture: Bantu, Religion: Animism.

June - Sierra Leone increases to 200

October - Sierra Lenoe increases to 300

1628

February - Sierra Leone increases to 400

May - Sierra Lenoe increases to 500

December - The time has come

Austria has called for my help....in a war with France.

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South America - 1629

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Western Europe - 1629

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All of the red snaking through Germany is Austria. Most of the brown is Bohemia. The dark red in France is Burgundy. And that purple line in the middle of Germany is Lithuania.

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A quick overview before bed and then hopefully I'll get to this tomorrow.

In South America

Looks pretty simple. Every province I have is built up to city status, while they have 2 that are still colonies, inlcuding a gold province. The bad news I don't have any forts while they have them in their city provinces. They only have 1k infantry here so if I act fast, raise a few mercs, I should be able to overrun them.

In Europe

This is going to be hard. I was not prepared for this at all, seeing as half of my forces are in Africa right now. I'm going to have to raise some expensive mercenary armies to act as a wave breaker for France's huge armies.

They are still mostly marching away, so it looks like they are more worried about Austria than they are about me. However, if just one of them turns my way, it could get ugly.

My inflation is around 9%. Both Austria and France are at 26%. If I have to, I can jack up my minting since I am way ahead of the curve with inflation (although I'm not sure inflation really matters to cheating AI opponents, but let's just pretend it does.)

I'm going to have to move some troops back to the mainland. The East African provinces have been revolting nonstop so I need to keep the two armies I have there in place. I do have 7k Cavalry clearing out provinces in the west. I will move them back ASAP.

After I get a few large mercenary armies raised and protecting my border, I will start recruiting some invasion forces in Italy and mainland Aragon.

I don't need enough to make a decade long stand against France, what I need is enough to push France back short term, and take the two provinces that will land link Italy to mainland Aragaon (Languedoc and Provence). If I can get those two, and maybe the South American provinces, this war will be a big success.

But France has a LOT of troops and they could easily just run right through me.

At Sea

France, from what I can see, is no match. My navy will obliterate their's in a heartbeat.


One side note, France is no longer allied with Sweden, so I don't need to worry about them. However, they do have Norway, but Sweden has taken most of Norway's provinces and Norway is just down to a handful. I am not owrried about them.

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1629

January 19th - France begins siege of Navarra

January 21st - We destroy 18 French ships in the Gulf of Lyon while losing 1.

February 3rd - We beat the French force in Minas Gerais.

February 18th - We fight the French off in Navarra.

February 24th - We lose in Girona and The French begin siege.

February 25th - We sieze the colony of Diamentina in South America, a gold province.

I see a huge army heading for Navarra

March 14th - I take a 200 ducat loan (I hate doing this) so that I can recruit some mercenaries

March - 17th - We sieze the colony of Porto Seguro in South America, a sugar province. France has 4 more colonies in SA, all cities.

March 23rh - We begin siege on Provence with a 10k army. No French forces within a few provinces on their south-eastern provinces. Hopefully it stays that way.

March 28th - I begin siege on the SA province of Espirita Santo.

April 18th - Navarra fell.

May 7th - We destroy a few French cavalry regiments in Provence and continue the siege.

May 9th - Sierra Leone increases to 600

May 26th - We lost Girona.

June 1st - We fight off the French in Navarra, but lost a lot of troops doing so.

June 3rd - We recaptured the fort in Navarra.

June 5th - We begin siege in Leaguedoc.

June 6th - France begins siege of Roussillon.

June 25th - We lose in Navarra....this is getting ugly.

June 26th - They begin siege of Piemont.

June 29th - France has retaken Navarra.

August 7th - We finish off France's forces in SA. Now it's just a matter of taking their provinces there.

Octover - Trade Tech increases to 13. Can build Marketplaces now.

November 4th - We defeat the French in Girona and begin siege to retake our province.

December 12th - We beat the French in Piedmont.

December 20th - We beat the French in Pirineo.

December 22nd - Espirito Santo has fallen to me.

1630

January 2nd - We lost Roussillon.

January 7th - Leaguedoc has fallen to us.

January 10th -

ARGGG!!! Just as I was making progress, Austria ups and signs a freakin' White Peace. France was staggered. Their armies were getting smaller and smaller, both me and Austria were laying siege to several French provinces in the southeast. I was taking their SA provinces. They were pushing France in on their northern border. France was beaten, we just needed more time....and they sign a White Peace. What the hell?

The war is over. Well, atleast I got the 2 colonies in SA, a gold mine and a sugar province.

Time to get back to the plan in Africa, but I'm going to build up my armies in Italy and Aragon so that next time, I won't be so ill-prepared.

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1630 - continued

February - I release Finland as a vassal. A few decades ago, those fur provinces would mean a lot, but now they are just a drop in the bucket and I don't need to be worrying about some provinces in Scandanavia that could easily be taken and used for leverage in peace negotiations. A nearly worthless piece of tundra up there to me now, so I release them and get my bad boy back from when I seized those colonies in South America. As a bonus, I sell the last province to Finland for nothing.

May - Sierra Leone increases to 700, Grain Coast increases to 300, Ivory Coast increases to 300

September - Damarland increases to 200

1631

Janaury - I declare war on The Aztecs.

January 24th - I take Tamoulipas.

February - Diamentina (French gold mine that I took) increases to 200

March - Austria asks for my help against the Teutonic Order, a very weak nation with hardly any land and no allies.

March 4th - We take Guachichil, an Aztec Gold mine.

April 13th - I take Zacategas, an Aztec Gold mine with a Center of Trade.

May 1st - I take Huichol, an Aztec Gold mine.

June 6th - I take Sayultecas, an Aztec Gold mine. My bad boy is getting a bit high now, so time to sign a white peace for now.

Sierra Leone increases to 800

July - White Peace signed with the Aztecs. A map of North America coming up at the end of the year.

New Provinces

Tamaulipas
Tax 0.44, Production 26.51 (Sugar)
Culture: Aztec (Non Accpeted), Religion: Animism

Gauchuchil
Tax 0.29, Production 41.44 (Gold)
Culture: Aztec, Religion: Animism

Zacatecas
Tax 1.60 (CoT), Production 44.84 (Gold)
Culture: Aztec, Religion: Animism

Huichol
Tax 0.29, Production 41.84 (Gold)
Culture: Aztec, Religion: Animism

Sayultecas
Tax 1.02, Production 42.12 (Gold)
Culture: Aztec, Religion: Animism

October - Sierra Leone increases to 900

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North America - 1632

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1632

I feel my economics are getting a bit out of hand. I now have two loans out. One I took when I accidently left my army maintenence slider up during peace time and I ran out of money in December (doh!), the other I took in the war with France to hire some mercenaries. I think my biggest downfall with economics was my fear of inflation. Now that it's still pretty low, I need to up the minting I am doing and say to hell with inflation. I can't let it get crazy, obviously. I am just one more Gov Tech level away from being able to build Tax Assessors. They help curve inlfation, and I will build as many of them as I possibly can. That way I can mint away and not worry about inflation, but I can't be afraid ot let my inflation go up a tenth of a percent or two per year.

I also need to get my army under control. I've been expanding far more than I had planned to when I started, and it stretched my army thin. The vast majority of my navy stayed in the Mediterranean, so I was able to easily blockade France's southern provinces, while destroying their fleet. My fear of inflation meant I could not pay a large, standing army. No more. i need a large army and I will have to pay for it.

But those two loans. I will need to make sure I keep about 400 ducats in my treasury so that I can pay those loans off.

March - Diamentina increases to 300.

April - Sierra Leone becomes a city of 1009. Tax 1.18, Production 18.28 (Ivory)

August - I pay off one loan.

1633

Nothing of note happened.

1634

January - Government Tech increases to 23. Enables Tax Assessors.

April - Kilwa becomes a Core.

May - Grain Coast increases to 400. Ivory Coast to 400. Level 1 Fort built in Sierra Leone.

June - Diamentina increases to 400. Porto Seguro increases to 500.

September - Damarland increases to 300.

December - Porto Segura increases to 600

1635

Venice is asking for a beating. They keep sending spies at me. They have a lot of colonies on the northern coast of South America that I'd like to have and none of them have forts. They have an army of 15k in their capital.

I'm sick of their spies. It's time for another lesson. I have a Casus Belli on Venice so I use it (but still lose 1 stability due to same religion). Castille and Austria join in.

January 29th - We destroy 11 ships in the Gulf of Venice.

January 30th - We lose the battle in Venezia, but hurt them pretty bad. My larger force will now move in and wipe them out.

February 15th - I win in Venezia and begin siege.

May 17th - Fruili falls (their non-capital province in north-east Italy)

June 26th - Venezia falls.

October - Castille has beaten me to the punch with siezing Venice's northern SA provinces. It was a harder push then I thought it would be and it just too long for me to beat the Venitian troops in their adjacent province. I'll give Castille a few months to grab what they can and I'm going to try and vassalage Venice.

November - Ferran III comes to power. Admin 7, Military 8, Diplo 6

December - Venice is refusing vassalage. They will need to be beaten into submission in South America.

1636

March - Inhambane becomes a Core. Naval Tech increases to 15. Enables Early Frigate.

September - Castille makes peace with Venice (which I wanted them to do). They took most of their colonies in SA and Puerto Rico. I siezed one of their colonies, a tobacco province called Alpercatas. Now Venice is just down to their two mainland provinces.

Venice accepts peace terms. They cede Fruili, and become my vassals. They brought this on themselves.

Fruili
Tax 2.34, Production 4.51 (Fish)
Culture: Lombard, Religion: Protestant


December - Delgagoa Bay becomes a Core.

1637

January - Grain Coast increases to 500. Ivory Coast increases to 500

February - Diamentina increases to 500

March - Porto Segura increases to 700

May - Damaraland increases to 400

June - Grain Coast increases to 600

October - France has asked for an alliance. Now that's funny. Declined.

1638

March - Grain Coast increases to 700. Ivory Coast increases to 600

August - Stability increases to 0. Grain Coast increases to 800

1639

January - Grain Coast to 900

March - I pay off my last loan.

May - Grain Coast has become a city of 1010. Tax 0.59, Production 19.57 (Spices)

1640

March - Time to take more Aztec land. I declare war on them.

May - Ivory Coast increases to 700

June - Porto Suguro increases to 800.

I have taken another gold mine and a sugar province from The Aztecs.

August - Diamentina increases to 600

September - I take another sugar province from the Aztecs. I think that's good for now. I throw an offer at The Aztecs to be my vassals, just for the hell of it, and they accept! They do have some sugar and coffeee provinces left, but a lot of grain and fish provinces too. I've taken all of their gold mines and some sugar. I think that's good along with 50% of their tax income from here on out.

And if I decide to take the rest of their land, I can just end the vassalage and decalre war again.

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North/Central America - 1640

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1641

Once again, back to colonization.

May - Ivory Coast increases to 800

October - Ivory Coast increases to 900

1642

February - I finsh buuilding Tax Assessors throughout Aragon and Italy. National Bank gives me a -0.10 to inflation, and all of the tax assessors give me -0.18. So, I can push the treasury minting up to nearly 0.3 inflation per year and have it mostly offset by my inlfation control. With my current economy, that gives me the ability ot mint about 60 ducats per month and not have inflation effected, which is great since that's almost exactly what it costs me to maintain my army and navy at full maintenence.

Ivory Cost becomes a city of 1015. Tax 0.59, Production 18.16 (Ivory)

August - Porto Seguro becomes a city of 1019. Tax 0.59, Production 24.68 (Sugar)

October - I start shipping Cavalry over to Africa to get ready for a war with Mali. I also get some troops in position to rush Tripoli since they are allied with Mali.

1643

January - Diamentina increases to 800

June - Production Tech increases to 14.

Diamentina increases to 900

December - Diammentina becomes a city of 1022. Tax 0.69, Production 40.00 (Gold)

1644

January - I declare war on Mali. Austria and Castille join in.

January 14th - I begin siege of Tripolitania.

February 18th - I storm the fort in Tripolitania and take it.

February 21st - I begin siege of Futa Jallon (Mali province)

March 3rd - I begin siege of Uteve (Mali province)

March 12th - I being siege of Gabu (Mali Province)

April - Alpercatas increases to 400

June 5th - Sirt (Tripoli province) falls. Tripoli cedes Sirt and Cyrenaica to me and become my vassals. I decided I would rather have direct control over the provinces that I use to stage an invasion of The Mamluks than depend on a vassal's land for that. I'll probably diplo-annex them at some point.

Right now, Portugal, Castille and Aragon control all of North Africa except for Egypt.

July 7th - Begin siege of Barwe, a Mali province in East Africa)

August 8th - Uteve falls (province in East Africa)

September 9th - Barwe falls.

Alpercatas increases to 500.

October - Gabu falls. (West African province)

November 19th - Futa Jallon falls (West African province)

1645

March - Alpercatas increases to 600

August - Alpercatas increases to 700

September - Urungwe falls (East African province)

December - Begin siege of Cayor when I land a 10k army there (West Africa)

1646

January 13th - Begin siege of Wolof (West Africa)

January 17th - Begin siege of Zumbo (East Africa)

Alpercatas increases to 800

March 5th - Cayor falls.

April 19th - Begin siege of Zanzibar (East African island)

May 6th - Zanzibar falls.

June 24th - Wolof falls.

Alpercatas increases to 900

September - Land Tech increases to 15

September 29th - Begin siege of Bambuk (West Africa)

November 3rd - Zumbo falls (East Africa)

December - Alpercatas becomes a city of 1048. Trade 1.18, Production 20.94 (Tobacco)

December 17th - Bambuk falls

December 18th - Begin siege of Masapa (East Africa)

1647

April 8th - Begin siege of Bure (West Africa)

July - Masapa falls, the last province in East Africa. Now is the time to get as much as I can.

August - Begin siege of Segu (West Africa)

Damarland increases to 500

November - Mali is refusing treaties that give me all of their East African provinces. I will need to take some more of their West African lands to convince them

Castille made peace with Mali, taking a small slave province called Bonny.

November 24th - Bure falls.

1648

January 16th - I begin siege of Wasuju, their capital.

April - Damarland increases to 600

June - I ship 8k Infantry and 1k Artillery over to Mali to try and speed things up.

July 11th - Segu falls.

July 14th - Wasjuju falls.

October 22nd - After a long battle, I begin siege of Jenne

December 5th - Jenne falls.

Damarland increases to 700

1649

January 9th - I begin siege of Massina. Mali keeps throwing tens of thousands of troops at me, and I keep slaughtering them.

January 12th - Mali finally accepts peace terms. All of their East African provinces.

To finish off the East African conquest, I declare war on Oyo, a small African nation with small allies.

March - I defeat Oyo in West Africa. They inherited the throne of Zimbabwe, the province I am after. Their 2 West African provinces are dirt farms and I have no interest in them. I am also at war with a 2 province nation called Benin.

I've laready destroyed Oyo, taking their 3 provinces. I am now going to take the two Benin provinces. One is Ivory (their capital) and the other is a slave province.

April 1st - I have taken Benin.

June 19th - We take the province of Calabr and annex Benin.

July 28th - I take a province called Loango, a province of Kongo who I am also at war with.

August 4th - I decide to fully annex Oyo. May be dirt farms in the west, but I maight as well. They are connected to what was Benin so at least they won't be hard to police.

In the meatime, my Bad Boy is getting out of hand. Oh well, like any nation really has a shot at challenging me now. Mwahahaha...well, maybe...

Damarland increases to 800

October - We defeated an army from Kongo in Mayombe. Not going to sieze it yet. Going to wait until I control all Kongo provinces and then decide what to do.

December 19th - I finish off Kongo and annex them. My Bad Boy is really high now.

1650

March - I have had an Advisor that changed Bad Boy -0.30 per year. I just hired a second that does -0.15 to it. My ruler does -0.60 to is so it will decreases -1.05 per year. I need it to since it's at 20.95 (out of 36.00) right now.

After the end of the year, I'll give a quick rundown of new provinces and get some maps up.

April - Damarland increases to 900

August - Grain Coast has become a Core.

September - Government Tech increases to 24. Allows Constitutional Monarchy.

October - Ivory Coast has become a Core.

December - Damarland has become a city of 1019. Tax 0.59, Production 18.40 (Ivory)

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West Africa - 1651

Part 1
http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3WestAfrica1.jpg

Sierra Leone, Grain Coast, Ivory Coast are the 3 western provinces. They are bordered with Mali. The 4 in the eastern part of this image are from Benin and Oyo.

Part 2
http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3WestAfrica2.jpg


At the top is the land I took from Kongo. That one near the bottom is Damarland. And that's Portugal at the very bottom.

East Africa
http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3EastAfrica3.jpg


As you can see, a bit of a problem with revolts. That buldge near the bottom of the image are the provinces I took from Mali and Oyo. And that island off the coast is Zanzibar (not the big, gray one. That's Madagascar).

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I just lost a HUGE update when Firfox crashed on me, so I'm going to sum up the best I can.

I spent several years building up large armies in Italy and Aragon to prepare for a war vs France. Since my Bad Boy has gotten very large, I was going to spend the next 20 years or so just sending out colonists.

I've built up some of my African provinces near Kongo, but then it happened.

The king of the Netherlands gave me his throne on his deathbed, but Austria objected.

I am now at war with Austria. The War of Dutch Succession. Aragon, Netherlands and Castille vs. Austria, Holland and Freisland.

Early in the war, I lost most of my fleet, which has become pretty out-dated. It was an epic battle. I lost 92 ships, while they lost 60. I now am pretty much out of the Navy game.

I got permission from France to send forces through their lands.

I signed a White Peace with Friesland early on.

I sent one army through France up to Holland and am currently laying siege to it. Austria didn't have troops anywhere near Italy which gave me the chance to striek quickly.

I have taken the provinces of France-Comte, Bern, Schwyz and Lombardia.

One province that's been a focal point of the war is the province of Fruili. Several very large battles have happened there, with Austria now getting the upper hand in that province.

However, I am still beating them soundly everywhere else. This war has shown me that Austria has been left in the past. Other than keeping their fleet large and up-to-date, their land forces have suffered. Austria does not have any colonies, and I have twice as many provinces as they do.

We have around the same amount of high manpower European provinces (they share Germany with Bohemia and Lithuania, I have Italy), but I have a lot of colonies. That extra manpower allows me to have much larger land forces, and to reinforce them.

I can see Austria about to break. Other than th 20k they currently have in Fruili, I only see about 20k in the rest of their kingdom. Off the top of my head, I'd say they have lost about 40k in the war, and I've lost about 20k. I still have about 40k in the fight, I have 20k still in reserve in Aragon, and I have about 30k in Africa (since my navy is destroyed, I have no way of getting them, though.)

The date is January 1st, 1660. We have been at war for 1 year.

January - Government Tech increases to 25. I get a new Idea. I think about taking Viceroys, since that gives me +30% to Overseas Income, but that only effects Taxes. Most of my provinces overseas are very low tax income. It would effect my Italian provines which do have high tax incomes, but not after I make a land connection.

I take Smithian Economics. That gives me a +10% bonus to Production Efficiency. Since my economy depends so much on Production now (1228.1 ducats made last year in production, not coulding gold which gave me 608.7 last year), that will give me quite a nice boost to the money I make each year.

[MrBug708]

I wanted to play but EU3 is too slow on my computer with Vista. Cant get anything to make it work

[MrBug708]

Dola

Plus I bought NA and my sale is "pending"

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1660

March 2nd - We finally win in Fruili, killing 7440 of their soliders while losing 2398 of ours. They have 14k left in that army, which has low morale and will be marching right into a 16k army of mine that is well rested.

March 14th - They are laying siege ot Ferrara

March 17th - Event: Ignasi Oliva

One of our advisors, Ignasi Oliva, has revolutionized the art of siege craft and defensive formations. He has fought in all of the wars of Ferran II, and has attended frequent tours around frontiers, redesigning and improving numerous fortifications.

His efforts will be admired throughout the nation - Gain 3 Stability, get Land Investment bonus of +15.00 for 2190 days (6 Years)
His reputation will reach further than our borders - Gain 5 Prestige, get Land Investment bonus of +15.00 for 2190 days (6 Years)

I go for the Stability increase, which makes out Stability +3

March 27th - We defeat Austria in Tirol and begin siege.

April 29th - Brescia falls.

May 15th - I defeat Austria and Ferrara.

May 20th - We beat Austria in Tirol. They lose nearl 4k while we lost 1k. I look around Austria and see a few 5k armies in the north, and a bunch of small 1k armies scattered about. The onyl exception is a large, 12k army in a province next to Fruili which I am attacking with a 15k army.

June 17th - I begin a siege of Breisgau

June 22nd - Austria loses 8k in our battle at Karnten, while we only lose 1k. I decide that instead of sieging Karnten, I am going to chase the other half of Austria's forces in an attempt to destroy their land forces.

July - Luanda has become a city of 4699. Tax 3.56, Production 5.89 (Slaves)

July 27th - We lose a battle in Krain. We lose almost 4k while they lose a little over 1k.

August 3rd - Tirol has fallen.

August 20th - We win a counter-attack in Krain, killing 2300 of their soliders while taking on nearly no casulties.

September 17th - Holland has fallen. Holland accepts my peace terms - becoming my vassals.

November 15th - Our army that successfully defeated Holland was destroyed completely while trying to defend the Netherlands. We lose 6200, Austria lose 2869. Their attacking force was 16k, just about everything they had in the north.

December - Alpercatas has become a Core.

December 16th - Breisgau has fallen.

1661

It looks like Austria has annexed The Netherlands

January 3rd - We lose a battle in Krain and retreat back to Fruili.

January 12th - Karnten has fallen.

February - My manpower has gotten really low. It's at 5,616. That means I won't be able to reinforce my armies soon.

May 4th - Trent has finally fallen after a year and a half of siege.

June 9th - Austria accepts peace terms. They cede Lombardia, Trent and Brescia.

They also got a new enemy for life. This pretty much finishes my conquest of Italy, other than Venice and The Papal States who are vassals of mine. The French province of Savoie is Lombard culture, though.

Lombardia
Tax 11.04, Production 35.06 (Cloth)
Culture: Lombard, Religion: Protestant

Brescia
Tax 7.92, Production 35.06 (Cloth)
Culture: Lombard, Religion: Catholic

Trent
Tax 4.14, Production 19.16 (Wine)
Culture: Austrian, Religion: Catholic

Despite the war, Austria still counts as one of my allies.

October - Fruili becomes a Core.

November - Start rebuilding my fleet.

1662

Here is a quick rundown of my military post-Austrian war

Infantry Regiments: 79
Cavalry Regiments: 98
Artillery Regiments: 4

Big Ship (Galleon): 2
Light Ship (Early Frigate): 2
Galley (Galleass): 16
Transport (Flyte): 32

As you can see, my once proud fleet of 100 galleys, a bunch of Light Ships and about 2 dozen Big Ships are quite gone.

And for Cavalry, 16 are in NA on revolt duty there. 5 are in East Africa with 9 Infantry, another 21 are in West Africa with 5 Infantry. So my European numbers right now are 65 Infantry and 56 Cavalry with 4 Artillery.

January - Kisarna increases to 900

February - Land Tech increases to 16. Bengeula increases to 600

September - Kisarna has become a city of 1019. Tax 1.78, Production 5.77 (Slaves)

October - Benguela increases to 700

1663

June - Benguela increases to 800

September - Ferran IV comes to power. Admin 3, Military 4, Diplo 4....ugh...

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1664

February - Benguela increases to 900

October - Benguela becomes a city of 1014. Tax 3.95, Production 5.75 (Slaves)

December - I colonize the Gold Coast (Ivory) and Whydah (Ivory). These two connect my 3 colonies of Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Grain Coast to the provinces of Oyo and Benin.

I am now on the short end of a personal union with Lithuania, so I have to abide by the whims of a foreign ruler for now...

1665

May - Huastec has become a Core. Gold Coast increases to 200. Whydah increases to 200

June - Tohancapan becomes a Core.

October - Gold Coast increases to 300. Whydah increases to 300

1666

February - Naval Tech increases to 17. Enables Merchantman (Transport)

Event: Agricultural Revolution

We have managed to increase our agricultural production by implementing new farming techniques for plantations, irrigation and land properties organizations and thereby bring higher tax income to our state.

Invest in a bigger army - Gain 400 manpower in Manuta, 150 days of +15 to National Manpower
Raise Taxes - Gain 2 Base Tax in Manuta, gain 100 ducats

If it's just for 150 days, what's the point for a national manpower modifier? I go with the money.

March - Gold Coast increases to 400

July - Gold Coast increases to 500

December - Gold Coast increases to 600

1667

May - Gold Coast increases to 700

August - Land Tech increases to 17. Enables Level 3 Forts.

October - Gold Coast increases to 800

1668

March - Gold Coast to 900

August - Gold Coast becomes a city of 1005. Tax 2.37, Production 21.74 (Ivory)

1669

January - Whydah increases to 400

July - Sirt and Cyrenaica become Cores. Whydah increases to 500.

September - I have decided to annex The Papal States. This gives me two provinces, Roma and Avignon.

Roma
Tax 8.85, Production 2.97 (Grain)
Culture: Umbrian (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic

Avignon (surrounded by France and Burgundy)
Tax 4.13, Production 29.61 (Cloth)
Culture: Occitain (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic

I'm also starting to send gifts to Venice and will hopefully be able to annex them at some point. Avignon is going to be an easy target for France when our next war flares up, but it already has a Level 3 Fort, so that's good.

October - Papal State

The deep devotion of the Roman Catholic in Rome has awakened a desire for an independent state ruled by the Popes of the church. A large part of the population has expresses support for the idea of such an establishment and has now turned to Kazimieras II for approval.

We Will Never Support Such a State - Lose 2 prestige, lose 1 stability, Gain 1 Reputation, Relations with Tyrone, Brittany, France, Austria and Castille decreased by 20.
Rome is Rightfully Theirs - Cede Roma to The Papal States. Gain 2 Prestige.

Roma is a poor province in terms of production. I got what I wanted, Avignon. Now I cede Roma. The only downside is they will not by my vassals anymore, but I can fix that.

December - Whydah increases to 600

1670

January - Government Tech increases to 26

February - Production Tech increases to 15

May - Whydah increases to 700

October - Whydah increases to 800

1671

March - Whydah increases to 900

August - Whydah becomes a city of 1007. Tax 2.37, Production 21.98 (Ivory)

Sepetember - Land Tech increases to 18. Enables Leather Cannon.

France is at Land Tech 20, so I have some catching up to do.

1672

June - Naval Tech increases to 18. Enables Wargalleon (Big Ship)

July - Colonized Worodugu (West Africa)

1673

January - Worodugu increases to 200 (199...)

June - Worodugu increases to 300 (298...)

August - Land Tech increases to 19. Enables Gallop Cavalry. Better Offensive Morale and Shock, but has no Off. Fire like the Latin Caracolle Cavalry. I go with the Gallop Cav.

November - I get Venice up to 200 relations and annex them.

Venezia
Tax 13.44 (CoT), Production 6.29 (Fish)
Culture: Lombard, Religion: Protestant.

December - Worodugu increases to 400 (397...)

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1674

It's time to start preparing for a war in Egypt. I have noticed that The Mamluks have fallen behind in tech by a lot. They currently only have Land Tech 9 and Naval Tech 10. I could roll over them very easily. I still need to wait a bit since my Bad Boy is still pretty large, and I have to wait for this blasted Personal Union with Lithuania to be done with.

When the time comes, I'm invading The Mamluks.

February - Zumbo, Barwe, Zanzibar, Quelimane, Masapa, Uteve and Urungwe become Cores.

May - Worodugu increases to 496

June - The natives of Worodugu attack the settlement and now the population is 166.

I colonize Konian (West Africa)

July - Benin and Calabar become Cores.

August - Luango becomes a Core.

September - Zimbabwe, Oyo and Ife become Cores.

October - Worodugu increases to 200

1675

January - Mayombe, Kongo, Ndongo become Cores.

March - Worodugu increases to 300

June - Naval Tech increases to 19. Enables Frigates

September - Worodugu increases to 400

November - Ferran V comes to power and ends the suffocating Union I was in. Admin 5, Military 4, Diplo 8.

1676

Preparing for war. I am recruiting several regiments in East Africa. The Mamluks territory extends almost to my provinces in East Africa. This will be purely a defensive force. Most of the provinces in south of Egypt are poor and I have no use for them. There is one gold province in there, but probably more trouble to get to than what it's worth.

I have one 10k army stationed in Morea and 2 station in South Italy. I also have a force in Cyrenaica (next to Libya). They have a very small fleet and I will not have any trouble getting my armies across the sea and into Egypt.

February - Worodugu increases to 500

August - Kisarna becomes a Core. Worodugu increases to 600

December - Luanda has become a Core.

1677

January - Worodugu increases to 700

February - Looks I'm catching The Mamluks at the right time. They have recently gone to war with Persia and they have no islands.

Castille and Austria are in with us, Lithuania backed out.

May 8th - We land a force in Libya and begin siege.

May 23rd - We fight off a force from The Mamluks in Libya and continue our siege.

June 21st - We destroy 8 ships in the Gulf of Tobruk while losing none. We also captured one of their ships.

July 10th - We land a force in Alexandria and begin siege. Worodugu also increases to 800

August 14th - We destroy 9 ships in the Bay of Alexandria.

August 22nd - We land a force in Delta and begin siege.

December 14th - Libya falls.

December 16th - Alexandria falls.

Worodugu increases to 900

1678

February - Land Tech increases to 20. Enables Reformed Tercio (A bit more defensive), Gustavian Infantry (A bit more offensive) and Charge Infantry (A lot more offensive).

I change infantry type to Gustavian Infantry.

February 12th - They are about to hit Alexandria with a huge army. I lift the siege in Delta to reinforce my troops in Alexandria.

February 26th - We win the battle of Alexandria.

April - I've been sending one of my armies through The Mamluks land so I can discover all of their provinces.

June - Worodugu becomes a city of 1072. Tax 2.58, Production 22.08 (Ivory)

August 16th - We lose a huge battle in Diamientia, but we take out a huge amount of their troops. We lost 8k, but they lost 16k.

I stop my exploration of the area and bring the army back north.

October - I begin siege of Kargah.

November 13th - I land a force in Delta and begin siege.

Konian increases to 200

1679

March 27th - Kargah falls.

April 15th - Delta falls.

April 24th - I win a battle in Asyut and begin siege.

Konian increases to 300

August 18th - After 3 strikes (I send a large army at The Mamluks huge army, and after several days of battle, I withdraw), The Mamluks large army of cavalry is defeated in Cairo and I begin a siege of their capital.

October 1st - Diamientia falls.

Konian increases to 400

October 29th - Asyut falls.

November 9th - We win a big battle in Sinai and begin a siege.

December 9th - We win a battle in Gaza and begin a siege.

1680

January 3rd - Cairo falls.

February 12th - We win a close battle in Nile and begin siege.

April - Konian increases to 500

April 17th - Since I haven't seen any troops in the south, I decide to send the two small defense forces into The Mamluks territory to start sieges.

May 9th - I start a siege in Judea.

July 27th - Gaza falls.

August 12th - Nile falls.

September - Konian increases to 600

November 29th - I land a force in Aleppo and begin siege.

1681

January - Government Tech increases to 27

February - Ifat falls (south province)

Konian increases to 700

March 10th - Harer falls (south province)

June 18th - Judea falls.

August - Konian increases to 800

September - Land Tech increases to 21

September 27th - I land a large mercenary army in Beirut and begin siege.

October 24th - Aleppo falls.

November 10th - Shao falls (southern province)

November 22nd - Sinai falls (743 days, they held out a long time)

1682

February 20th - I begin siege of Adana

March 6th - Adana was recently taken by rebels, so it was a quick and easy siege. Adana falls.

March 18th - Beirut falls.

October 9th - Begin siege of Tabouk.

December 4th - begin siege of Al Karak.

December 7th - The Mamluks accept peace.

They cede the provinces of Judea, Gaza, Sinai and Aleppo. Aleppo and Gaza are high production provinces, Sinai splits The Mamluks empire in half and Judea I threw in for good measure. I might as well liberate the holy land from those heathens while I was here. :)

Aleppo
Tax 3.18, Production 33.28 (Cloth)
Culture: al Suryah Arabic (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Gaza
Tax 1.06, Production: 15.33 (Salt)
Culture: al Misr Arabic (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Sinai
Tax 0.00, Production: 3.77 (Salt)
Culture: al Misr Arabic (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Judea
Tax 3.18, Production: 0.95 (Grain)
Culture: al Misr Arabic (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

The Conquest of Jerusalem
Yearly Missionaries: +1.00 (Which will not give me 0.60 a year)
Yearly Presitge: +1.0%

My focus will be to continue to take land from The Mamluks. Land that is worth it, anyway. The goal is beat them up enough that 1) I can make them release some nations. 2) I take all of their provinces on the Mediterranean. I want them to release nations so that it makes them weaker, but I don't take on worthless provinces and increase my Bad Boy.

I figure it should take a few more to take Libya, Alexandria, Delta, Diamientia, Beirut, Adana (those are the Mediterranean provinces). I'd also like to grab Damascus, Mus and maybe a few more in the northeast of The Mamluks territory. And then maybe 1 or 2 more to force them to release a nation or two.

Then I turn my focus to the Ottomans.

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Eastern Mediterranean - 1683

http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3EM.jpg

[nfg22]

I never realized the production income in some of those easy to take provinces. I suppose this would correlate to real life and the wars that some of the superpowers have waged on those poor countries.

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1683

July - Konian becomes a city of 1010. Tax 0.89, Production 21.95 (Ivory)

August - Navan Tech increases to 20. Reduced Naval Attrition.

December - I colonize Idah, a province adjacent to the ones I took from Oyo.

1684

April - We've become the Papal Controller

July - Idah increases to 200

1685

October - Idah increases to 300

1686

Time to take another step towards control over the Mediterranean. I decide to declare war on Crete, who is allied with Montenegro (a 3 province nation surrounded by The Ottomans), The Papal States (time to vassalize them again) and Muscowy, who is no where near me.

March 18th - Right before I declare war, our Monarch dies. We are ruled by a Regency Council and I can not declare war!!

April - Land Tech increases to 22. Enables Swivel Cannon. Idah increases to 400

July - Lombardia, Brescia and Trent become Cores.

Event: Rush of Colonists

Demographic, economic and political pressure at home made way for sudden increases in the number of people looking for a better life in rich uncharted lands and businessmen in search of adventure and wealth in overseas trade.

Receive extra colonists - Gain 3 colonists
Receive monetary benefits - Gain 1 colonits, Gain +5% to Overseas Income for 365 days.

I have 4 colonists now, and you can only have 5 at one time so the extras will just be wasted. I take the money.

September - Idah increases to 500

1687

March - Idah increases to 600

August - Idah increases to 700

1688

January - Government Tech increases to 28

February - Idah increases to 800

April - Land Tech increases to 23. Can build Level 4 Forts.

July - Idah increases to 900

1689

January - Idah becomes a city of 1006. Tax 0.79, Production 21.94 (Ivory)

June - Naval Tech increases to 21. Can build Admiralty.

December - We become Papal Controller again.

1690

January - Gold Coast, Whydah become Cores.

August - I colonize Ambom, an island in SE Asia that is a spice province. I also colonize Tidore, a spice island in SE Asia.

December - I colonize Tauisk, a gold province in Northeast Asia (way north of Japan)

1691

Come on, we need a king damn it!

November - Portugal declared war on our vassal, Tripoli. I'm not warring with Portugal over 1 province. Consider it my fault for forgetting about them...

1692

March - Ambom increases to 199

November Tauisk increases to 200

1693

September - Ambom increases to 298

October - Tidore increases to 199

1694

March - Enriv IV comes to power. Admin 3, Military 3, Diplo 5. Thanks...I guess....

We declare war on Crete. Castille and Austria join in while The Papal States, Montenegro and Muscowy join Crete.

March 26th - We begin siege of Roma.

May - Land Tech increases to 24.

May 2nd - Castille gets to Crete before I do. Damn it.

June - I colonize Ternate, a spice island in SE Asia.

July 15th - I beat an army in Zeta, Montenegro's capital, and begin siege.

August 19th - Roma falls. They accept a peace deal which makes them our vassals.

October - Avignon becomes a Core.

October 8th - We beat an army in Ragusa and begin siege.

November 18th - I land a force in Albania and begin siege.

December 30th - Before any of their provinces fall, Montenegro knows what's good them and accepts a peace deal that makes them our vassals.

1695

January 3rd - Since Castille beat me to Crete, I could not siege and annex them, so I send off a vassal offer to them and they accept.

January 6th - Muscowy accepts a White Peace. The war is over. All I wanted was to annex Crete, and take Montenegro and The Papal States as vassals, but I guess I'll settle for making vassals of them all.

April - Ambom increases to 397

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1696

I begin transporting troops over to Egypt to prepare for another strike at The Mamluks

January - Ternate increases to 199

June - Government Tech increases to 29

November - Ambom increases to 496

December - Tidore increases to 199

1697

January - Naval Tech increases to 22

August - Worodugu becomes a Core. Ternate increases to 299.

December - I declare war on The Mamluks, who are just getting done a long, exhausting war with Persia. They are allied with Nadj and Candar, two 1-province nations. I will be focusing on grabbing land west of Gaza.

Austria and Castille both join in.

1698

January 20th - We win a naval battle in the Gulf of Suez. We destroyed 6 ships and lost 1.

January 22nd - We begin siege of Libya.

February 6th - We land a force in Alexandria and begin siege.

February 18th - We lose a long battle in Adana, but we only lost 1600 after they lost 6300. I withdrew my forces as more reinforcements were coming.

February 28th - We lose a naval battle in the Gulf of Suez. We lost 32 ships, they lost 39.

March 28th - We win a naval battle in the Bay of Alexandria. We lost 5 ships and destroyed 23 of their's.

April 26th - I begin siege of Ifat, a southern Mamluks province.

June 6th - I sign a White Peace with Candar.

July 13th - Libya falls.

July 15th - I land a force in Delta and begin siege.

November 2nd - We begin siege in Asyut.

November 24th - The Mamluks retake Libya.

1699

January 1st - Ifat falls.

January 9th - We defeat the Mamluks in Libya and start up a siege again.

January 22nd - Alexandria falls.

April - Tauisk increases to 300

June 6th - Libya falls again.

July - Konian becomes a Core.

July 20th - I begin siege of Asyut.

August 10th - Delta falls.

1700

January 4th - After a brief battle in Diamientia, I begin a siege.

Ambom increases to 545.

February 24th - After a brief battle, I begin siege of Cairo.

June 6th - Diamientia falls.

July - Naval Tech increases to 23. Enables Chebeck (Galley)

July 26th - Cairo falls.

September 1st - Asyut falls.

September 8th - After a long battle (we lost 3400, they lost 8900), we begin siege of Kargah.

October - Ternate increases to 399.

October 30th - After a short battle, we begin siege of Nile.

November 15th - We begin siege of Tabouk, a province east of Sinai.

December 27th - We begin siege in Al Karak, a province east of Gaza.

December 29th - We begin siege of Nubia.

1701

March - Tauisk increases to 412

March 31st - Nile falls.

May 3rd - Land Tech increases to 25. Enables Coahorn Mortar.

May 16th - Tabouk falls.

July 30th - Nubia falls.

August - Ambom increases to 645.

August 17th - We lose a long, bloody battle in Suakin. We lost 5200 and they lost 5700.

August 27th - Al Karak falls.

September - Tidore increases to 399

October 4th - Kargah falls.

November 19th - We begin siege of Ibram.

December 10th - We win in Suakin and begin siege.

1702

January 29th - We win a brief battle in Massawa and begin siege.

April 18th - Ibram falls.

June - Ternate increases to 500

June 6th - We win a big one in Beirut. We lose 5200, but they lost 12000. We begin siege.

June 30th - Massawa falls.

July 9th - Suakin falls.

I've been trying to sign peace deals, but they just won't bite at anything.

September 7th - I begin siege in Tigre.

October 1st - Beirut falls. Government Tech increases to 30.

December 11th - I begin siege of Gonder.

1703

February 7th - I begin siege of Adana.

March - Tauisk increases to 518. Ambom increases to 745.

April - I colonize Ceram, a spice province in SE Asia. I colonize Halmahera, a spice province in SE Asia.

July 4th - Tigre falls.

July 6th - We win a massive battle in Damascus. We lost 8900, they lost 21300. We begin siege of Damascus.

July 7th - I get forced out of Adana.

July 31st - I win a brief battle in Hawran and begin siege.

October 8th - Gonder falls.

December - Ternate increases to 601

1704

THis was taking forever, so I took what I could get. I got Libya, Delta and Diamientia. I'm keeping all of my forces in Egypt. Once the truce is up, I strike again.

November - Ceram increases to 199.

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New Provinces

Libya
Tax 0.58, Production 0.91 (Wool)
Culture: Tuareg (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Delta
Tax 2.32, Production 3.17 (Fish)
Culture: al Misr Arabic (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Diamientia
Tax 1.74, Production 2.33 (Fish)
Culture: al Misr Arabic (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

I took them to increase my coverage of the Mediterranean Sea and to try to connect my Tripoli provinces to my Middle East provinces.

1705

February - Tauisk increases to 626

July - Ternate increases to 703

August - Helmahera increases to 199

1706

January - Land Tech increases to 26.

Enables Grenzer Infantry (Defensive)
Enables Caroline Infantry (Offensive)
Enables Line Infantry (Balanced)
Enables Highlanders Infantry (Offensive)

I make my unit Line Infantry.

February - Government Tech increases to 31.

May - Ambom increases to 846

June - Tidore increases to 500

1707

January - Tauisk increases to 735

February - Ternate increases to 805

June - I declare war on The Mamluks. Castille and Austria join in (they seem to like to provide naval support, but never any land troops). Candar and Nadj join The Mamluks.

July 12th - We win a brief battle in Alexandria and begin siege.

July 25th - We win in Cairo and begin siege.

August 22nd - We lose a naval battle in the Gulf of Suez. We lose 23 ships, they lost 54.

December - Ambom increases to 947.

1708

January - Gaza, Sinai, Judea and Aleppo become Cores.

March 3rd - Cairo falls.

June 9th - Alexandria falls.

June 13th - The Mamluks accept peace terms. The cede Alexandria.

New Province

Alexandria
Tax 4.18 (CoT), Production 1.7 (Grain)
Culture: al Misr Arabic (Non Accepted). Religion: Sunni

I think I am done with The Mamluks for now. I can easily take any province I want from them, but the vast majority of them are dirt farms. They do have a few good provinces in the north-east of their territory, but they border the Ottomans.

The Ottomans are my next target. First step will be to get Cyrpus, Rhodes and as many Greek provinces as I can get. Then, I'll move around, try to take over Turkey as quickly as I can, and then get back to taking lands from The Mamluks.

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Eastern Mediterranean - 1708

http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3EM2.jpg

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1708 - continued

September - Ternate increases to 909.

December - Tauisk increases to 847.

1709

January - Idah becomes a Core.

July - Government Tech increases to 32.

Ambom becomes a city of 1549. Tax 1.38, Production 23.73 (Spices)

October - We declare war on The Ottoman Empire. Austria and Castille join in, Wallachia and Candar join the Ottomans.

Austria will be fighting The Ottomans in the north, and Castille will probably be helping out at sea. My goal is to take a few turkish provinces. They are far more righ than the greek provinces. I'll take greek if I can get them, but my goal is to try and take money from the Ottomans.

November 25th - I land a force in Corfu and begin siege.

December 19th - I land a force in Dalmatia and begin siege.

1710

January - Land Tech increases to 27

January 22nd - We win a naval battle. They lose 6 ships, we lost none.

March - Tidore increases to 603.

March 3rd - I land a force in Rhodes and begin siege.

March 26th - Corfu falls.

April 14th - I land a force on Cyprus, slaughter their 1000 troops and begin siege.

June 9th - I sign a White Peace with Candar.

June 14th - We win a battle in Athens (We lost 880, they lost 3980) and begin a siege.

July 19th - We demolish the Ottoman fleet in the Aegean Sea. We didn't lose a ship while destroying 34 of their's.

September 17th - Dalmatia falls.

October 24th - Naval Tech increases to 24. Enables Twodecker.

October 30th - I land a force in Naxos and begin siege.

December - Tauisk increases to 963

December 18th - Athens falls

1711

January 10th - Cyprus falls.

February 11th - We lose a very long battle in Janina. We lose 7700 soldiers, they lost 13000.

February 23rd - We win a battle in Hum and begin siege.

February 27th - Rhodes falls.

March 12th - We win a quick battle in Salonica and begin siege.

March 23rd - We win a battle in Janina and begin siege.

June 8th - I land a force in Karaman and begin siege.

June 20th - Naxos falls.

July 9th - Alfons comes into power. Admin 3, Military 7, Diplo 5.

July 28th - We win a battle in Antalya and begin siege.

August - Production increases to 16.

August 22nd - Hum falls.

September 3rd - I win a quick battle in Smyrna and begin a siege.

September 21st - I win a battle in Serbia and begin siege.

October - Ceram increases to 296.

November 11th - Salonica falls.

November 21st - I win a battle in Macedonia and begin siege.

December 20th - I win a battle in Edirne and begin siege.

December 21st - Janina falls.

1712

February 4th - Karaman falls.

March - Land Tech increases to 28. Enables Arms Blanche Cavalry, Latin Dragoons and Latin Hussars. All are pretty good overall. Arms Blanche are slightly biased to defense, Dragoons are high on Fire and Morale, but low on Shock, and a slight offensive bias. Hussars are even throughout.

I go for Latin Dragoons.

March 2nd - I win a battle in Konya and begin siege.

March 4th - Smyrna falls (one of the provinces I really want)

March 25th - Antalya falls (another one I am targetting)

April 11th - I lift the siege in Konya and send them to Anatolia and begin siege there (I have a force that recently too Antalya coming in to begin a siege on Konya)

April 19th - Macedonia falls.

April 22nd - Edirne falls.

May 17th - I begin a siege of Bulgaria.

May 29th - I win a major battle in Thrace (I lost 1800, they lost 11000) and begin siege of their capital.

June 20th - Serbia falls.

July 14th - We win a battle in Oltenia (Wallachia) and begin siege.

July 30th - We lose a battle in Edirne and they begin siege. I life the siege in Bulgaria to chase them out.

August 28th - I begin siege of Angora.

September 5th - I wipe out the army that attacked Edirne (5300 troops) and send them back to Bulgaria.

Ternate becomes a city of 1522. Tax 1.38, Production 24.00 (Spices)

September 19th - Konya falls.

October 4th - We win a battle in Bursa and begin siege.

October 29th - Thrace falls.

November - Tauisk becomes a city of 2080. Tax 0.79, Production 40.20 (Gold)

December 13th - Oltenia falls.

1713

January 28th - We win a battle in Bithynia and begin siege.

May - Ceram increases to 395. Tidore increases to 707.

May 4th - Bursa falls.

May 10th - Angora falls.

May 20th - Bulgaria falls.

July 6th - Anatolia falls.

August 5th - We win a battle in Wallachia and begin siege.

September 23rd - Bithynia falls.

October 25th - Wallachia falls.

1714

I've been trying to sign a peace deal with The Ottomans but they aren't willing to give much, despite my total ass kicking of them.

January - Government Tech increases to 33. I get another Idea.

I choose Engineer Corps. This gives me a +1 to Sieges for my leaders. I'm going to be fighting a lot of wars as this game comes to an end, so this Idea will help sieges go faster, thus making wars go faster.

April - Halmahera increases to 299.

May - Land Tech increases to 29. Can now build War College.

June 3rd - We win a battle in Bessarabia and begin siege.

July 10th - Silistria falls.

September 4th - The Ottomans accept a peace deal. They cede Karaman, Angora, Konya and Anatolia.

New Provinces

Karaman
Tax 0.98, Production 2.45 (Wool)
Culture: Turkish (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Konya
Tax 0.73, Production 24.79 (Salt)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

Anatolia
Tax 0.98, Production 33.13 (Cloth)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

Angora
Tax 0.98, Production 29.66 (Copper)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

November - Ceram increases to 494. Tidore increases to 810.

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Turkey - 1715

http://www.barkingsquirrelgames.com/EU3Turkey.jpg

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1715

Now that I have a good chunk of Turkey, I may now go after The Mamluks Turkish lands. I'll take a year or two to see how things go.

September - Ambom has become a Core.

November - Halmahera increases to 399

1716

January - Tauisk becomes a Core.

February - Land Tech increases to 30.

June - Ceram increases to 593. Tidore increases to 914.

September - Government Tech increases to 34.

December - We've become the Papal Controller again.

1717

January 1st - I declare war on The Mamluks. Castille and Austria are in. Candar joins The Mamluks (now's my time to go get them)

January 23rd - We win a battle in Asyut and begin siege.

January 26th - We win a battle in Kastamon and begin siege.

February 2nd - We win in Adana and begin siege.

February 10th - We win in Kargah and begin siege. We also won in Beirut and begin a siege there.

March 2nd - We begin siege of Sinope

April 2nd - We lose a major battle in Cairo in which both sides lost 12000 men.

April 7th - The Mamluks are laying siege to Sinai.

I lift the sieges in Kargah and Asyut to use those armies to chase around Mamluk armies that are trying to lay siege to my provinces.

April 10th - The Mamluks are attacking Delta.

April 18th - The Mamluks are attacking Diamientia.

April 23rd - Alexandria is under siege, but we get there the same day and fight them off.

Sprial 28th - We fight off the Mamluks in Diamientia.

May - Land Tech increases to 31.

May 21st - We fight off the Mamluks in Delta.

June 17th - Beirut falls.

July - Halmahera increases to 499

July 29th - We win a major battle in Cairo. We lose only 1900 while killing 11600 of their troops.

August 2nd - Adana falls.

August 20th - We win a battle in Asyut and begin siege.

August 31st - We win a major battle in Damascus (We lost 6000, they lost 17000) and begin siege

September 9th - We win in Sinai and fight off the Mamluks there.

September 10th - We win in Mus, but we have to follow them it Sivas or they could marching into my Turkish lands. I split my army in Aleppo in half and send on to Mus and the other to Dayr Az Zor.

September 21st - We win in Kasgah and begin siege.

October 19th - We beat The Mamluks in Sivas and begin siege.

October 25th - We begin siege of Dayr Az Zor

October 30th - We begin siege of Mus.

November 2nd - We win in Tabouk and begin siege.

November 28th - I lift the siege in Tabouk to cut off an army headed for my unprotected lands.

December - I colonia Sumbawa, a coffee island in SE Asia. We also colonized Sumba, another coffee island.

December 26th - Cairo falls.

1718

January - I colonize Timor, a spice island.

January 20th - Kastamon and Kargah falls.

January 22nd - I annex Candar.

January 29th - Damascus falls.

February - A native uprising in Ceram. Population down to 543.

Tidore becomes a city of 1519. Tax 1.38, Production 24.05 (Spices). It also becomes a Core.

March 20th - Sinope falls.

March 22nd - Hawran falls.

April - Talk about bad timing. Mali has declared war on us. Hopefully the cavalry armies I have there will be good enough to fight them off. Austria and Castille declared war on Mali, but I doubt they will actually help.

May 16th - The Mamluks are attacking Hawran.

May 18th - Sivas falls.

May 24th - We fight off the Mamluks in Hawran.

May 30th - Mus falls.

June - Native uprising in Halmahera. Population now 399. They do it again and my population falls to 299. Songhai, an ally of Mali, keep doing this to me.

June 20th - We win in Konian (Mali War). We win in Erserum (Mamluks War) and begin siege.

July 24th - We win in Van (Mamluks) and begin siege.

July 25th - Mali begins siege of Sierra Leone.

August 9th - Dayz Az Zor falls.

August 12th - We fight Mali off in Worodugu.

August 19th - We fight off Mali in Sierra Leone.

August 29th - We beat Mali in Wasuju and chase after them heaind to Bure.

September 3rd - Weserum falls.

September 15th - We continue to win small battles against Mali, but won't be able to launch an offensive. I need to sign a White Peace when I can.

November 1st - Van falls. Now that I have completely taken The Mamluks out in their Middle East territory (there are still a lot of forces in Egypt), I can just sned huge amounts of infantry around, taking provinces at will.

November 29th - We begin siege of Armenia

November 30th - Asyut falls.

December 4th - Armenia falls.

1719

January - Land Tech increases to 32. Can build Level 5 Forts.

March 11th - I force Songhai to be my vassals.

March 26th - Nile falls.

June - Sumbawa increases to 199

July - Ternate becomes a Core. Sumba increases to 199

July 27th - The Mamluks accept peace. They cede Adana, Sivas, Erserum, Mus and Sinope.

New Provinces

Kastamon (Candar)
Tax 0.71, Production 25.90 (Wine)
Culture: Turkish (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Sinope
Tax 0.70, Production 4.61 (Naval Supplies)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

Sivas
Tax 0.87, Production 1.23 (Wool)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

Adana
Tax 1.04, Production 2.28 (Fish)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

Mus
Tax 0.87, Production 18.12 (Cloth)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

Erserum
Tax 0.87, Production 36.72 (Copper)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

August - Mali accepts a White Peace.

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1720

January - Naval Tech increases to 25. Can build Heavy Frigate.

Ceram increases to 642

July - Government Tech increases to 35.

September - Halmahera increases to 399

December - Sumbawa uprising. Population down to 148.

1721

April - Land Tech increases to 33.

July - We become the Papal Controller again.

August - Ceram increases to 742.

1722

I'm waiting for my Bad Boy to go down before I go back after The Ottomans.

March - Sumba uprising. Population down to 146.

April - Sumba uprising. Population down to 96.

May - Halmahera increases to 500.

August - Sumbawa increases to 246.

December - Land Tech increases to 34.

1723

January - Government Tech increases to 36.

December - Ceram increases to 843.

1724

August - Sumbawa increases to 344.

September - Halmahera increases to 602

Crete accept my offer for Diplo-Annexation.

I just noticed that Brittany is really making a push into Inca Territory. They have all but 1 province of Inca that I can see (which is only about 1/4th of the area Inca starts out in).

1725

April - Sumba increases to 198.

April 27th - Ferran VI comes to power. Admin 5, Military 5, Diplo 4. Damn, what is with my recent line of rulers....

May - Land Tech increases to 35. Enables White Coat Infantry (Slight Defensive bias), Blue Coat Infantry (Offensive), Redcoat Infantry (Defensive), Frederickian Infantry (Offensive).

I go with Blue Coat.

July - Ceram increases to 944

November - I declared war on The Ottomans. Austria and Castille join in.

December 1st - We destroy the army on Cyprus and begin siege.

December 9th - We win in Imereti and begin siege.

December 18th - We win a battle in Bursa and begin siege.

December 23rd - We win in Antalya and begin siege.

December 28th - The Ottomans are laying siege to Anatolia. We have an army heading there to fight them off.

1726

January - Naval Tech increases to 26.

January 10th - We fight off the Ottomans in Anatolia.

Sumbawa increases to 443.

January 31st - We win after a long battle in Bithynia when I quickly raise a mercenary army and send them in as reinforcements. We lost 5800, they lost 4900.

February - Timor increases to 198.

April 21st - We win in Smyrtha and begin siege.

May 14th - Imereti falls.

May 19th - Bursa falls.

June 19th - Antalya falls.

June 24th - We win in Georgia and begin siege.

July 28th - I begin siege of Rhodes.

August 29th - Bithynia falls.

September 11th - Georgia falls.

September 22nd - Cyprus falls.

Sumba increases to 294.

October 27th - We win in Kaffa and begin siege.

November 7th - Kaffa falls (assaulted).

November 15th - Smyrna falls.

December 19th - Rhodes falls.

December 29th - I land a force in Corfu and begin siege.

1727

January - Ceram becomes a city of 1547. Tax 0.59, Production 23.97 (Spices)

February 13th - I land a force in Salonica and begin siege.

March - Land Tech increases to 36.

April 2nd - I win a battle in Janina and begin siege.

May - We become Papal Controller again.

May 15th - I land a force in Naxos and begin siege.

June 7th - A major naval battle in the Sea of Marmara. We lose 35 ships, but destroy their entire fleet (that I know of) of 62 ships.

June 24th - We win in Thrace and begin siege.

June 28th - Corfu falls.

July - Sumbawa increases to 541.

August 12th - Salonica falls.

August 14th - Begin siege of Cherson

August 22nd - Begin siege of Macedonia.

September 2nd - We win a big battle in Athens and begin siege.

Halmahera increases to 705.

September 29th - Janina falls.

October 13th - Naxos falls.

November 15th - We win a battle in Edirne and begin siege.

November 25th - We begin siege of Bulgaria.

November 29th - We begin siege of Silistria.

December 22nd - Thrace falls.

December 24th - Cherson falls.

1728

January 6th - Begin siege of Wallachia.

January 9th - We win a quick battle in Serbia and begin siege.

January 31st - Athens falls.

February 10th - Silistria falls.

February 26th - Bulgaria falls.

March - Sumba increases to 392

April 3rd - We win in Hum and begin a siege.

April 7th - We begin a siege in Bassarabia.

Timor increases to 298.

April 18th - Macedonia falls.

April 22nd - We begin siege of Oltenia.

May - Ceram becomes a Core.

June 9th - Edirne falls.

July 11th - We win a battle in Dalmatia and begin siege.

July 23rd - Oltenia falls.

August 29th - Wallachia falls.

December 20th - I destroy The Ottmans last significant army, 9000 troops, in Bosnia.

December 31st - Bessarabia falls.

1729

The Ottomans are being them stubborn selves in negotiations.

January - Libya, Delta and Diamientia become Cores. Government Tech increases to 37.

January 4th - Bosnia falls.

January 10th - Serbia falls.

Sumbawa increases to 639

January 23rd - Hum falls.

February 22nd - Transylvania falls.

April - Halmahera increases to 808.

May 9th - Dalmatia falls. The Ottomans have been sitting at 99% conquered for the last several months.

September - Sumba increases to 490.

October - After taking the last few provinces, The ottomans are now at 100% defeated.

Austria made peace with The Ottomans, taking a few provinces.

1730

March 27th - The Ottomans accept peace tearms. They cede Antalya, Smyrna, Bursa and Bithynia.

New Provinces

Bithynia
Tax 1.63, Production 32.02 (Cloth)
Culture: Turkish (Non Accepted), Religion: Sunni

Bursa
Tax 0.82, Production 33.19 (Cloth)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

Smyrna
Tax 0.95, Production 28.39 (Wine)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

Antayla
Tax 0.82, Production 33.66 (Cloth)
Culture: Turkish, Religion: Sunni

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Turkey - 1730

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1730 - continued

I now have an obsene amount of money. I think it's finally time to striek at France and land connect Aragon to Italy. I have military access through France so I'm sending an army through their country to see just exactly how many troops they have.

June - I begin building Level 5 forts along my border with France.

July - Sumbawa increases to 737.

August - Production Tech increases to 17

November - Halmahera increases to 912

1731

March - Sumbawa increases to 588

May - Naval Tech increases to 27. Enables East Indiaman.

August - Land Tech increases to 37.

December - After marching through all of France, I see they have 58 Cavalry units, 86 Infantry units and 3 Artillery units along my border. However, my Land Tech is lightyears ahead of their's so I should just need to match those numbers and I should be in good shape.

The problem is I have a vast empire, and revolts happen regularly. I need to keep a significant amount of troops all over the place to ensure peace in my lands. So, it's going to get expensive.

1732

January - Government Tech increases to 38

Sumbawa increases to 835.

July - Halmahera becomes a city of 1517. Tax 0.69, Production 24.12 (Spices)

September - Sumba increases to 685.

October - Timur increases to 396.

1733

July - Sumbawa increases to 934

1734

March - Sumba increases to 783

April - Timor increases to 496

July - Land Tech increases to 38.

August - Naval Tech increases to 28

1735

January - Sumbawa becomes a city of 1533. Tax 2.07, Production 24.71 (Coffee)

I've exhausted both my treasury and manpower to build up an army on the border of France. I have about 160,000 troops (about 2/3 Infantry, 1/3 Cavalry) on the French border to rival their nearly 150,000 troops. I also have about 14,000 in Avignon. Hopefully that will be enough to keep them from attacking that province.

This war will be massive. I just need to wait a bit to recover some money (to recruit some generals) and manpower to reinforce troops.

September - Sumba increases to 882

November - Timor increases to 596. Government Tech increases to 39. Enables Constitutional Republic.

1736

January - I break my royal marriage with France.

Fabruary - I go to decalre war on France, but then I see they have just signed an alliance with Lithuania. That complicates things. They are very far behind technologically with land and naval techs of 14, but they are a huge purple blob and must have insanely high Manpower.

Still, I figure since they are not on my border (they are on Austria's border), they won't cause me much of a problem. I declare war on France.

Austria and Castille both join me. Lithuania and Luxembourg join France.

March 2nd - We begin siege of Bahia, an SA province.

March 6th - We destroy 6 French ships in the Gulf of Lyon.

March 8th - We begin a siege of Lyonnais.

April 2nd - We defeat the French in Minas Gerais.

April 14th - We begin siege of Bearn.

April 24th - We win a major battle in defense of Piedmont. We lose 7700, they lost 18000. I begin chase.

May 3rd - We win in Armagnac. We lost 5600, they lose 20000. We begin siege.

May 15th - We win a battle in Languedoc. We lost 16300, they lost 16400.

May 27th - We lost a battle in Provence. We lose 20300, they lost 20300.

June 3rd - Bearn falls.

June 12th - A French amry forces my fatigued troops out of Languedoc.

June 24th - I defeat the French in Toulouse and begin siege.

August 1st - We defeat the French in Leaguedoc. We lose 3500, they lost 18500. They were able to push back in some areas after our initial push, but now that their entire army is hurt, we are counter-attacking and really taking them out now.

October 13th - We lost Pernambuco in SA, but an army is marching there and will liberate it shortly.

October 20th - We begin siege of Rouergue.

October 28th - Bahia falls. We also win a battle in Perigold We lost 2900, they lost 5700. We begin siege.

November 2nd - Lyonnais falls.

November 23rd - Toulouse falls. Pernambuco is also liberated.

November 29th - Armagnac falls.

December 1st - We defeat the French in Franche-Comte (Austrian province). We lose 4600, they lost 8700.

I need to finihs this quickly. My manpower is down to 7000, meaning I will be out of reinforcements soon.

December 16th - We lose a major battle in Perigold. We lose 4600, they lost 7400.

1737

January 1st - Rouergue falls.

January 22nd - Rio de Janeiro falls.

January 29th - We win in Perigold and begin siege again. We lost 1300, they lost 3000.

January 30th - We win in Dauphine. We lost 1300, they lost 6200.

February 9th - We win in Provence. We lost 6400, they lost 6500.

We are out of Manpower. I gain 4700 Manpower each month, so that's how many reinforcements I'll get each month.

February 26th - We begin siege of Gascogne.

March 2nd - We win the battle of Savoie. We lost 4200, they lost 10300.

March 4th - Languedoc falls.

Sumba increases to 980.

March 31st - Perigold falls.

I just need Provence and Dauphine to fall and I should be able to start peace talks.

May 4th - Sao Tome falls (South America)

May 10th - We win in Luxemburg and begin siege.

June 1st - Provence falls.

Austria makes peace with France. They took the province of Savoie. I though I had gotten to it first, but I guess not. Both me and Austria being red, I couldn't tell. Oh well.

June 3rd - Luxembourg accepted my peace deal. They are now my vassals.

We become Papal Controller again.

June 30th - Dauphine falls.

August 1st - Sicilian is no longer an accepted culture in my lands. Huh...

I win a battle in Limousin and begin siege. We lost 1800, they lost 1700.

August 15th - We lose in Saintonge. We lost 4400 (mercenaries), They lost 2000.

October 14th - France accept peace terms. They cede Provence and Languedoc. Italy is now land connected to Aragon. Time to get back to The Tootmans and Mamluks.

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Main Aragon - 1738

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1738

June - Event: Civil Disorder Transfer into Chaos

Minor political conflicts have tormented our nation for some time now. We are at an evolutionary standstill and drastic measures must be taken to reclaim our nation's prominence and put and end to the infighting before it is too late.

There is nothing we can do: Plutocracy gains 1, Decentalisation gain 1. Rebels take control of Judea, 1 regiment rises up in Sinai.
We will stop this at any cost: Decentralisation gains 1, Serfdom gains 1, lose 40 ducats, lose 5 prestige, Get "Disorder" for 150 days (National Revolt Risk +2, National Tax -5%)

I say there is nothing we can do and try to stop the rebels. The stability hit will suck (will make it -3), but it will raise back up quickly.

August - We beat the rebels in Sinai and are now laying siege in Judea.

September - Sumba becomes a city of 1480. Tax 1.07, Production 24.32 (Coffee)

Timor increases to 697

November - We retake Judea.

December - Event: New Factional Powers

In the midst of the ongoing chaos, small but powerful factions have emerged and each one of them is trying to gain the upper hand by swaying important nobles from our court with them and their cause.

Support One Side: Rebels take control of Judea, 1 regiment rises up in Sinai.
Don't Support any Faction: -1 Stability, Decentalisation gains 1

Since the second option doesn't do anything (Stability is at min, Dec. is at max) I choose that one.

1739

January - Total War Emerges Internally

What initially began as minor classes between different factions has turned into pure mayhem. We don't have much time to turn this around. If we are to act this is the time or our nation will likely crumble before us.

We Can't Do Anything About it: Decentral. gains 2, -2 Stability, rebals take control of Judea.
Try to Suppress The Worst Spots - Decentral. gains 2, -1 Stability, lose 45 ducats, rebals take control of Judea.

I choose the first option.

February - War Ends with Negotiated Pease

After several months of negotiations, all involved parties finally seem to have come to a conclusive agreement. A time of peace now finally lays before us....or does it?

Agree To Their Proposal - Gain 2 prestige, +1 Stability, Narrowminded gains 2, Centralisations gains 1.
Make Changes to Fine Print - lost 5 prestige, Narrowminded gains 1, Central. gains 1, -1 Stability.

I make changes to the fine print.

June - We retake Judea again.

October - Anatolia, Konya, Karaman, Angora become Cores.

1740

January - Our Stability goes up to -2.

Swahili declared war on me. Swahili? As it turns out, there was a province rebels took over, and in my war with France, I forgot about it. It stayed under rebal control until now. Swahili declared indepedance. Not for long....

February - I retake the province of Quelimane, and annex Swahili.

April - Timor increases to 798

July - Sanc III takes the throne. Admin 8, Mil 6, Diplo 4

1741

October - Timor increases to 900

1742

February - Trade Tech increases to 15

June - I declare war on The Ottomans. Castille and Austria join in.

July 4th - I begin siege of Rhodes.

July 31st - I begin siege of Corfu.

August 21st - I begin siege of Dalmatia.

August 31st - I begin siege of Imereti.

September 17th - I begin siege of Athens.

October 4th - We win in Thrace and begin siege. The Ottomans are pretty much dead. They hardly have any forces, rebels roam their Balkan territories, The province of Georgia delcrared independance as the nation of Qara Koyunlu.

October 9th - We begin siege of Edirne.

October 23rd - Dalmatia falls.

November - Event: Corruption

Corruption is one of the most common and frequent factor of political and econimic life. Never in history was this more prominent than in the times of the feudal regimes.

Try to eradicate the problem: -1 Stability
Ignore them: +3 Inflation

I take the inflation.

1743

January - Land Tech increases to 39 - Enables Royal Mortar.

February 2nd - Thrace falls.

February 6th - Athens falls.

February 19th - Corfu falls.

February 22nd - We begin siege of Hum.

March 10th - Edirne falls.

March 23rd - Begin siege of Silistria.

April 22nd - Begin siege of Naxos.

April 30th - I have converted the heretics in Oran to Catholic.

May 2nd - Imereti falls.

Timor becomes a city of 2003. Tax 1.20, Production 24.04 (Spices)

May 30th - Rhodes falls.

July - Our stability increases to -1.

July 4th - We begin siege of Cyprus.

July 6th - We begin siege of Macedonia

August 7th - Hum falls.

August 21st - We defeat the Ottomans in Bulgaria and begin siege.

August 27th - Silistria falls.

November 11th - We beat The Ottomans in Serbia and start a siege.

November 19th - Naxos falls.

December 17th - Macedonia falls.

December 31st - I begin siege of Salonica.

1744

January 18th - Bulgaria falls.

April 9th - Serbia falls.

May 22nd - Salonica falls.

May 28th - Janina falls.

June 16th - We win in Wallachia and Oletnia and begin sieges.

June 29th - Cyprus falls.

July 9th - We win in Transylvania and Bessarabia and begin sieges.

August - Government Tech increases to 40.

We become the Papal Controller again.

September 18th - Oltenia falls.

September 22nd - Wallachia falls.

October 15th - Transylvania falls.

October 29th - Bessarabia falls.

1745

February - The Ottomans accept peace terms. They cede Dalmatia, Athens, Corfu, Janina and Naxos.

At the same moment, Castille calls for my help to fight Scotland. Scotland is down to 1 province, Castille has taken a few, and they do not have any allies, so I say yes. I'm powerful enough that I am given leadership in the war.

February 7th - I demand Annexation of Montenegro, and they accept.

New Provinces

(The ones from France I forgot to tell you about)

Languedoc
Tax 4.51, Production 19.07 (Wine)
Culture: Occitain (Non Accepted), Religion Reformed

Provence
Tax 4.92, Production 28.43 (Wine)
Culture: Occitain, Religion Reformed

(The ones just taken from The Ottomans)

Dalmatia
Tax 2.80, Production 2.84 (Wool)
Culture: Croatian (Non Accepted), Religion: Catholic

Corfu
Tax 0.60, Production 3.76 (Fish)
Culture: Greek (Non Accepted), Religion Orthodox

Janina
Tax 0.40, Production 2.53 (Wool)
Culture: Albanian (Non Accepted), Religion: Orthodox

Athens
Tax 0.00, Production 5.03 (Fish)
Culture: Greek, Religion Sunni

Naxos
Tax 0.50, Production 17.33 (Wine)
Culture: Greek, Religion Orthodox

(Annexed from Montenegro)

Ragusa
Tax 2.00, Production 4.11 (Fish)
Culture: Croatian, Religion Catholic

Zeta
Tax 0.30, Production 2.14 (Fish)
Culture: Serbian, Religion: Orthodox

Albania
Tax 0.40, Production 1.24 (Wool)
Culture: Albanian, Religion Orthodox

March - Mali declared war on me. Castille and Austria join the fight.

August - I gave Scotland a White Peace.

I'm not reporting on the Mali war since it's mostly me just chasing around large armies of infantry. I'm going to get a White Peaces signed asap.

August 24th - Mali signs a White Peace.

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Italy + Balkans

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I really like those chained events. That's the second time I've had them in this game, the last one being much longer. They said they are going to include them a lot more in the Rome game they are making now. My only problem is they weren't larger in scope. From the sound of the descriptions, I should have had wide-spread uprisings, but it was all in Judea.

1746

July - Our stability increases to 0.

1747

Peace in our time

1748

Peace in our time again...

1749

I prepare for one more war with the Mamluks. Our goal is to take Beirut, maybe Damascus. That will link Turkey province with my Egyptian provinces.

May - Our stability increases to +1

I have converted Judea to Catholic.

August - I colonize Tlingit, a gold province in Alaska.

1750

January - Government Tech increases to 41

May - Land Tech increases to 40.

1751

March - Tlingit increases to 200

I colonize Aleut, an Alaskan fur province.

April - I convert Athens to Catholic.

August - Naval Tech increases to 29. Enables Archipelago Frigate.

September - I declare war on The Mamluks. Austria and Castille join in.

October - Event: Mexico's Quest for Independence

Several decades of poor colonial rule and mismanagement has evoked discontent among large groups of settlers. Their desire for independence is growing stronger by the day and major uprisings are erupting in several of our colonies.

We Can't Afford to Ignore This: Mexico gains a ton of Cores, lose 1 colonist and 1 regiment rises up in Tlingit (?).

That's my only option.

Land Tech also increases to 41.

October 1st- We win in Beirut and begin siege.

October 12th - I win a battle in Van and begin siege.

October 23rd - I win a battle in Cairo and begin siege.

1752

January 31st - Beirut falls.

February 17th - We win in Asyut and begin siege.

March 18th - We win in Damascus and begin siege.

May 1st - The Mamluks accept my peace deal. They cede Beirut. Time to get back to destroying the Ottomans.

October - I colonize Tsimshian, an Alaskan fur province.

November - Tlingit increases to 300. Aleut increases to 200

1753

February - Government Tech increases to 42. I get another Idea. I go with Bureaucracy, which gives me a National Tax Modifier of +5%.

August - I declare war on The Ottomans. This isn't a war for land. I have more than enough of that. I'm out to completely destroy The Ottoman Empire and free Europe from them (It's easy to say that now that I have all of the worthwhile provinces. :) ). The fastest way to do that, I think, is to force them to releases nations, since that takes a lower percentage of "war score" than for them to cede the provinces to me. My goal is that when the game ends, there are no more Ottomans.

August 29th - I begin siege of Rhodes.

August 31st - I win in Serbia and begin siege.

September - Land Tech increases to 42. I can now build Level 6 Forts.

Septemeber 10th - I begin siege of Salonica.

September 11th - I win in Thrace and begin siege.

September 12th - I begin siege of Edirne.

September 14th - I begin siege of Hum.

September 19th - I begin siege of Bosnia.

November 20th - I begin siege of Cyprus.

1754

February 28th - Serbia falls.

March 13th - Edirne falls.

March 28th - I win a battle in Bulgaria and begin siege.

April 20th - We win a battle in Silistria and begin a siege.

May 6th - Salonica falls.

May 11th - Thrace falls.

June - Tsimshian increases to 200

Event: Guy Hood

Guy Hood is a greatly accomplished diplomat well known for his efforts in establishing our nation as a major diplomatic force.

His efforts will be admired throughout the nation: Gain 3 Stability, Gain 2 Diplomats, Lose 6 Reputation
His reputation will reach further than our borders: Gain 5 Prestige, Gain 2 Diplomats, Lose 6 Reputation

I go with the Stability increase. That takes us to +3.

June 16th - Bosnia falls.

June 21st - We win in Wallachia and begin siege.

Tlingit increases to 405.

July - Aleut increases to 301.

July 14th - I begin siege of Oltenia.

August - Ferran VII takes the throne. Admin 6, Mil 7, Diplo 4.

August 17th - Macedonia falls.

September - I lose the colony in Tsimshian.

September 10th - I begin siege of Transylvania.

September 22nd - Hum falls.

September 28th - Rhodes falls.

October 12th - Wallachia falls.

November - Naval Tech increases to 30. Enables Threedecker

November 13th - Oltenia falls.

November 15th - Cyprus falls.

December 25th - Bulgaria falls.

1755

January 4th - Transylvania falls.

January 8th - Begin siege of Bessarabia.

March 24th - Bessarabia falls.

May 17th - Silistria falls.

June 26th - We win in Cherson and begin siege.

September 26th - Partium falls.

December 25th - Austria makes peace with The Ottomans, taking 2 of their provinces.

1756

January - Tlingit increases to 510.

February - Land Tech increases to 43. Aleut increases to 403.

April - We recolonize Tsimshian.

July - The Ottomans accept peace. They end their vassalage of Wallachia and release Serbia and Hungary. As soon as the truce ends, I'm going in again.

August - Both Serbia and Hungary accept my proposal for them to be my vassals. Wallachia still hates me, but a ton of money should clear that up.

October - We are ruled by a Regency Council.. Ugh...

December - I lose the colony in Tsimshian again.

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1757

February - Government Tech increases to 43. Allows Enlightened Depotism.

June - The French province of Bahia in South America had been under rebel control for some time. They have now decided to defect to me. Nice.

September - Tlingit increases to 616.

October - Aleut increases to 505.

1758

January - Naval Tech increases to 32.

July - We become Papal Controller.

I colonize Tsimshian again.

September - Our truce with The Ottomans ends. Now we need this damned Regency Council thing to end.

1759

January - Land Tech increases to 44. Enables Latin Cuirassiers (Cavalry).

A rebellion has broken out in Rhodes. Looks like they will get their independance since The Ottomans probably don't have the resources to fight it off. They'd have to ship their troops there, and there's 3k rebelling.

April - Tlingit increases to 724.

May - Aleut increases to 558.

October - The rebels win in Rhodes. It's only a matter of time before it becomes independant.

1760

I only have a little over 30 years left to destroy the Ottomans and I'm stuck in this damned Regency Council...Well, I may not be able to invade, but I can send spies to support revolts throughout their empire.

February - Tsimshian increases to 200.

October - Ferran VIII takes the throne. Admin 8, Mil 7, Diplo 3. I declare war on The Ottomans. Austria, Hungary, Castille and Serbia join in. Wallachia, still allied with The Ottomans, fight as well. I can now at least sign peace treaties with them.

I'm not going to report every battle and every time a province falls anymore. It really doesn't matter anymore.

December - Tlingit increases to 835.

1761

January - Aleut increases to 662

March - Production Tech increases to 18

May - Wallachia accepts peace terms. They are now my vassals.

Event: Louisiana's Quest for Independen

Social and political dissimilarities have for some time created division between the settlers and us. A growing desire for self-government and liberation has initiated a series of uprisings and protests across our colonies.

We can't take this lightly: Louisiana ganes a bunch of Cores, 1 regiment rebels in Aluet (?)

August - Government Tech increases to 44.

September - Wallachia accepts an Alliance.

November - The Ottomans accept peace terms. They release Bosnia and Bulgaria.

December - Bosnia agrees to be my vassals.

1762

January - Naval Tech increases to 34. Bulgaria agrees to be my vassals.

June - Land Tech increases to 45. Enables Carabiners, Uhlan Cavalry and Reformed Latin Hussers. All are cavalry units, but not really any better than the Latin Curassiers I'm using now.

July - Tlingit increases to 847.

September - Aleut increases to 715.

December - The Knights are back in control of Rhodes, but The Ottomans are at war with them and laying siege. I can't break the truce as it would destroy my Stability....Hopefully the truce ends soon and I can step in.

1763

May - Tsimshian increases to 346. Aleut has had a few uprisings and has hurt our population. It's down to 615.

1764

February - Tlingit increases to 959

An oppurtunity has presented itself. I got an event that says Rhodes had insulted me and gave me a Casus Belli on them. I insult them back, and hurt our relations. Now I can declare war on them with just a 1 hit to Stability.

I declare war on Rhodes.

May - I annex Rhodes.

Rhodes
Tax 1.40, Production: 5.04 (Fish)
Culture: Greek, Religion: Orthodox

December - 6k Rebels are laying siege in Macedonia.

Tsimshian increases to 448.

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The Balkans - 1765

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1765

August - Macedonia is under rebel control

October - Tlingit becomes a city of 2075. Tax 0.95, Production 40.20 (Gold)

December - Naval Tech increases to 36

1766

January - Government Tech increases to 45

I change our government type to Administrative Monarchy. This will give us a Production bonus of +5%. Fuedal Monarchy gave us Manpower and Force Limit bonuses, but I don't really need them anymore.

February - Sanc IV takes the throne. Admin 4, Mil 5, Diplo 6

March - Land Tech increases to 46

July - Tsimshian increases to 548

November - The ottomans lose the province of Kaffa to rebels.

1767

December - I declare war on The Ottomans.

1768

February - Tsimshian increases to 647

March - Aleut increases to 671

1769

October - Aleut increases to 774

1770

January - The Ottomans accept peace. They cede Cyprus and Salonica to me and release the nation of Moldavia.

February - Moldavia does not want to be my vassal. Some money should fix that right up.

March - Land Tech increases to 47. Enables Impulse Infantry and Square Infantry. Impulse are more offensive than Square, so I upgrade to Impulse.

November - Naval Tech increases to 37

1771

January - Government Tech increases to 46

March - Land Tech increases to 48. Enables Drill Infantry and Jaeger Infantry. I upgrade to Drill.

June - Tsimshian increases to 375 (The natives are restless). Aleut increases to 878

1772

February - Castille goes a bit crazy and wants to drag me into a war with England. Don't really need them anymore so I say goodbye to a very long alliance.

June - land Tech increases to 49.

1773

I'm pretty much content on just letting this end as quickly as possible. I'll still war with the Ottomans, but mainly to let my allies cherry pick some provinces. A slow, painful death for the evil Ottomans.

January - Tsimshian increases to 474.

February - Aleut increases to 984.

July - Production increases to 19

1774

October - Aleut becomes a city of 1492. Tax 0.85. Production 16.48 (Fur)

November - We war with the Ottomans again.

1775

We war with the Ottomans, easily take their provinces, and watch their land burn.

1776

March - I lose the Tsimshian province again. I decide to just forget about it.

July - The Ottomans accept peace. We take Macedonia and Edirne. Austria took a small province that is surrounded by Lithuania.

August - Bosphorus Sount Toll: I get Yearly Prestige +1%, National Trade Income Modifier: +15%

October - Moldavia accepts our offer for vassalage.

1777

September - Government Tech increases to 47. Allows Bureaucratic Despotism.

1778

December - I have entered into a Personal Union, that I lead, with Portugal.

1779

August - Government Tech increases to 48

November - War is on again with The Ottomans.

1780

Peace in our land. Not the Ottoman's, though.

1781

April - The Ottomans accept peace. We take Kaffa and Imereti. Hungary gets Podolia and Austria gets Ostpreussen. The Ottomans are donw to just 2 provinces left. 2 More wars and they are gone.

October - Government Tech increases to 49

September - Portugal accepts my offer for them to be my vassals.

1783

January - We annex Roma. This time I tell everyone to f*ck off.

1784

November - We dance with The ottomans again.

1785

May - The Ottomans sign a peace deal. They cede Cherson to me. They are down to 1.

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1786

March - Cherson is rebelling. It's not connected to me, the province sucks, the rebels can have it.

May - Government Tech increases to 50.

1787

March - The rebels have control of Cherson.

1788

Tunisia declared indepedance from Portugal. Portugal delcared war and I answered.

1789

May - Tunisia accept to be my vassals.

July - War of Polish Succession. Poland gave their throne to me, but Bohemia has objected. I am now at war with Bohemia and Teuronic Order. All of my allies join me.

December - Government Tech increases to 51. Austria ia really kicking the crap out of Bohemia.

I declare war on The Ottomans for one last time.

I sign a white peace with Teutonic Order.

1790

March - Cherson declares independance as Crimea. Everyone is at war with them now.

April - Bohemia signs a peace deal. i make them give a few provinces to Austria.

July - Thrace falls. Constantinople is back where it belongs.

November - Crimea accepts my deal for them to be my vassals.

1791

January - Land Tech increases to 50

1792

Nothing important happens.

The End.

I'll get maps of my kingdom up tomorrow.

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Alaska - 1793

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The East Indies - 1793

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South America - 1793

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North America - 1793

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West Africa - 1793

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South Africa - 1793

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Eastern Europe and The Middle East - 1793

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Western Europe - 1793

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Final Thoughts

I didn't mean to end up with an empire similar to Anxiety's Naxos dynasty, but I guess we both just went to where the money was.

I liked how the actions, or inactions, of the other nations kept making me change my overall strategy. I had planned to go to war with the Mamluks much sooner by way of Algiers, but Castille cut me off and I had to change my plans. I had planned to go into France sooner, but they just stayed too powerful until neat the end game.

The early parts of the game were fun. Having to pick and choose carefully where to colonize, having to pick my enemies carefully and jump on opportunities.

It got way too easy at the end. I was able to colonize and expand at will because I was so much further ahead of the other nations. However, you would think with just a large empire, especially with a fuedal government, cries for independance should have been stronger.

CoTs. Trade in their upcoming Rome game will be based on trade routes instead of Centers of Trade. I just never liked the CoT system.

The AI isn't aggressive enough with colonization. Spain was all over Central and South America by the mid-1500s in real life, but in this game, colonization is slow. I believe the reason for this is becuase the game does it backwards from real life. In history, it seems that Spain, and other nations, would take over existing native nations, and then expand out from there.

Also, the nations pretty much claimed land rights in history, this game you have to colonize it before you have rights to it.

This is a problem I have it a lot of games like this. No one can simply claim land they find. In Space 4X games, you have to settle the planet or the AI/other players can get it, even if it is inside your border. In Civ, you have to found cities or other nations can build there. You can't negotiate land rights and borders in strategy games. That's the one thing I would love to start seeing in games like these. Much like the US and Spain negotiating their border of western North America. They didn't have settlements there yet, they just said "here's the line" and agreed the other had rights to the land. Or another example would be when Pop Alexander VI favored Castille and awarded them rights to colonize most of the New World over the claim of Portugal.

Of course, yeah, other nations should be able to colonize those provinces (For instance, what if Russia came along after the Adams-Onis Treaty and created a settlement in present-day Oregon), but then you should be able to again negotiate land rights with them. The point being, colonization happened quickly, relatively speaking, in real life because the nations claimed the land when they found it, not when they colonized it, and other nations respected their claims...most of the time.

Sorry for the rant, but it's one of the things I think keeps games like this from taking that next step to realism. Wars have been fought simply over rights to land, not just land already settled.

I pretty much agree with a lot of what Anxiety had to say about the game after his Naxos dynasty. Trade Goods get boring. There needs to be some diveristy, different qualities, new trade goods being discovered, etc. Look at how our two empires evolved. We pretty much ended up similarly, and the main reason for that is because trade goods are static, and we both went for the provinces that held the most valuable trade goods.

I don't like how you can't annex a nation unless they are a 1 province. I think I understand why they did this, but the end game for me was a major grind. I have The Ottomans completely destroyed. There's no way I should not have been able to annex them, especially when they were down to a few. Kill my reputation, make the provinces high revolt risk, etc. Do bad things to make not want to do it in some situations, but the hard rule that you can't annex a nation unless they are 1 province is weak.

Perma Ignocito needs to go. Like Anxiety said, give me overwhelming incentives not to do it, don't force me out. If I want to send wave after wave, until they rebel, of colonists into bad areas, let me.

I actually really like the events engine, my problem with it is that it doesn't go far enough. All of the events, except for 1 or 2 I got, were very minor. And the ones that were not didn't feel significant at all. Some people want tax breaks, I either give them it or a few regiments rebel that are hardly a chanllenge at all. Some of the events near the end of the game seemed significant, but they really weren't.

I loved the chained events, though. That one set of 4 or 5 events near the end was a bit fun to follow and it did a number on my stability, but that was it. The descriptions sounded like I was about to have full-scale rebellion on my hands, which for a fuedal monarchy overseeing a vast empire around the globe would have been very realistic. But other than hurting my stability, it barely did anything. Hurting my stability does increase chances for revolt, but not badly. Just an extra percent per stability point.

It would be cool if they included the major historical events as well, but only if certain criteria were met. I don't see why they couldn't have the major events in there. I mean, don't make them completely automatic, but some major historical events could have easily happened in my game that would have mixed things up.

I've been playing Crusader Kings a bit, and it would have been great if they included characters like that as well, instead of just rolling the dice for new kings and royal marriages.

Anyway, I do really like this game, just pointing out the areas where I would like to see a lot of improvement.

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just finished reading, good aar

[Abe Sargent]

Just read this myself - good job!!!