EU4 - Kongo Awaits - COMPLETED!

[Abe Sargent]

It's time!

The last two expansions for EU4 have given me the absolute requirement to do something I want to do. Are you ready? Are you not entertained?

[Abe Sargent]

Well it’s time!

If you have been following the dynasties I‘ve been wanting to do for a while, discussions that begin normally before a dynasty starts and I’m uncertain which direction to hew.

I really feel for the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It’s arguably the most destabilized country in the world. Due to the sheer richness and wealth of the nation, it continues to be taken advantage of by adjacent nations that are stable, such as Uganda and Rwanda. Meanwhile, the nation is dealing with the instability of civil unrest, and multination companies who needs its valuable minerals and wealth for their cell phones and jewelry get their materials from local tribes, gunthugs, and nearby nations. Rape is used en masse to keep down entire villages by raping the women in front of the men of the village. It’s not great.

Why? What happened to Congo?

During the Cold War, we (the USA) cared, more about allies in the fight against Communism and the Soviet Union that we did about human rights and such. One of our strongest allies was the cruel dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, one of the nastiest people to ruthlessly rule an African nation during the Cold War. But we kept him in power for decades because he was our big ally against the Soviets.

Is that is though? Nope!

During the Race for Africa in the late 1800s, the leader of Belgium, King Leopold II, pushed for a Belgian colony in the division. The boundaries were drawn up an an artificial aspect. And then he uses his time there to viciously destroy and denude the area, from everything from rubber to diamonds. The vile administration by King Leopold II caused more than 50% of the population of the Congo to be slain after around 20 years of his fiefdom, and led to Heart of Darkness being written about it. While all of Africa was deeply injured by this era of colonialism and exploitation, Congo was hurt worse by far.

After reading the history book, King Leopold’s Ghost, that investigates this era deeply, I wanted to play as Congo in this area in Victoria II and oust the Belgians out and to end their unholy reign. But Victoria II did not really do justice in defining and describing the Congolese wealth and economy.

So I wanted to pull back for an EU dynasty instead. Now, Congo has a very interesting history.

[Abe Sargent]

The Kingdom of Kongo began in the late 1300s. It was growing into a minor by real power, with subjects, vassals, and expansions. And then in 1483, a Portuguese explorer made contract with the local power. He opened up diplomatic relations with Kongo, and in 1485, Kongolese Nobles visited the court of Portuesge Emperor Joao II and were greeted as allies. Some of the nobles converted to Christianity, and returned, and newly rechristened King Joao I returned home and began to institute changes. However, he would return to his native beliefs shortly later. Despite this, the Portuguese were allowed to stabling a Roman Catholic Church of Congo. The son of King Joao I was converted and baptized in 1491, Alfonso, and had an authentic, genuine faith. He would take over in 1506 when his father passes away, and he ordains that the Kingdom of Kongo will become Catholic.

The Kongo Kingdom is a major force in the Church, as the first Roman Catholic nation in Africa. It was not created by force, or by colonial conquest, but instead by Portugal treating the Kingdom as allies. There were numerous challenges for the nation, and many tribes and small nations inland of them. Warring against them to bring them under Kongolese rule was important. In fact, both King Alfonso and a later King would be declared the Defender of the Faith by the Pope. These people were fully ensconced in Catholic tradition and history.

And yet, the wars would not be won long term. There were too many tribes, and too many shifting loyalties. They didn’t want to be brought under the yoke of Kongo. So they resisted. And Portugal was dealing with more important things than to help their ally fight these wars.

In economy, the Kongo was the largest source of slaves for the Portuguese. They would sell people they took in their wars off. They were captives of their campaigns. They believed that slavery should be run under their rules, of war captives, not of locals, and should be legally acquired. When Kongo discovered Portuguese illegal slave shipments, they put a stop to it with an entreaty to the Portuguese King, Joao III.


Civil strife, a failure to bring in their vassal Ndongo, and more would keep Congo from seeing their potential reached. After 100 years or so, Portugal killed the king, and installed a son that was more pliable to their interests. The nation revolted, and he was killed by his brother 2 years later, and relations between the states were eliminated for a time. This would lead to the Portuguese-Kongo War of 1622, as Portugal invaded and began a ruthless campaign to take over the nation. But Kongo was not falling. While they had some early successes, Kongo ultimately pushed back and won the war. Then Kongo asked to ally with the Dutch, and they launched an attack on Portuguese territory in Africa. The war was called off before it began because the king died, and his son was more willing to forgive the Portugal Attack, as they had already won.

Then in 1641 the Dutch take the nearby Portugal colonies and renewed their alliance with Kongo. Unlike Portugal, the Dutch actually sent troops to help Kongo keep order and to press their concerns eastward. And they received the lion’s share of the wealthy slave trade as well. 1647 sees another war with Portugal and Kongo arise. Kongo defeats Portugal early on in the battle of Kombi where 8000 mixed troops of Kongo and her allies defeated almost 30000 Portugal troops and their allies. Portugal is ousted from their remaining inland forts. However, while Portugal could not take out Kongo, they did eventually oust the Dutch from their holdings. A cold war ensues.

In 1665 they both invade Mbwila, a mutual vassal of both, in order to divide it. Using that as a proxy war. Portugal wins their first battle against Kongo in decades (since the early battles of the 1622 war) and slay the King at that battle. This sends the Kongo nation into a major civil war which would mire the nation for around 40 years until 1706. After, Kongo was weakened, and the rest of Europe has passed them by technologically while they took steps back. They are a minor power in much of the early to mid 1700s. Europeans, mostly Portugal, would destabilize or fund people to continue to keep Kongo unsteady. They knew who Kongo was. And the abolition of the slave trade hurt the economy even more. So it was easy to absorb by Portugal and Belgium into their fiefdoms.


And that’s where it all started.

[Abe Sargent]

But there was a time when Kongo was a major player in Africa, the Defender of the Faith, the bright and shining star of Africa, and was able to fend off European attacks. It won wars against Portugal. It would have the Netherlands, Spain, or Portugal as it’s ally. It played European powers off against each other. The Kingdom of Kongo was a factor.

So what if that bright hope continued? What if, in the early days of Alfonso I, the realm’s desire to expand east was fully realized? What if the nearby areas were brought under Kongo control and the Catholic Church? How would this change and shape African history? What would a hegemonic Kongo look like? How would it have acted? It was Catholic in attitude too. Would it have followed those with colonies? Crusades against pagans in the continent? What would have happened?


And thus that is the crux of this dynasty.


Welcome to June 2, 1506. The day King Alfonso I Takes over the Kingdom of Kongo.

We have a few major changes today. He announces we are officially becoming Catholic, and Portugal has declared us a Protectorate

[Cap Ologist]

Can't wait!

[Brian Swartz]

I really like the premise here, great idea! This kind of thing could accomplish the mere impossible -- motivate me to actually understand EU4 :P

[Abe Sargent]

I really like the premise here, great idea! This kind of thing could accomplish the mere impossible -- motivate me to actually understand EU4 :P

That's not a tall order at all :)

[Abe Sargent]

Meet our ruler:

King Alfonso I Lukeni 5, 3, 4 – a good solid leader. 21 years old.

He is a Charismatic Negotiator, so we get +1 Dip Reputation.

Heir – 6 year old Pedro Lukeni – 2/1/0


We are a:

Tribal Kingdom –

-10% Stability Cost
+20% Vassal Income
-1 Dip Relations



We begin with:


6000 troops, 1000 of those are cavalry – army forcelimit of 9

6 ships, 3 transports and 3 light ships. – naval force limit of 7

112 Admin Power, 84 Dip, and 98 mil

We gain 8, 6, and 7 each month

We have 2 merchants, 3 Diplomats, and 1 Missionary


Kongo accepts Kongolese culture, but not Mbundu


Loango and Ndongo are our vassals

Kilwa is a protectorate of Portugal as well.


0 stability

We bring in 3.41 gold a month, spend 2.22 for a balance of 1.19 monthly


We have a merchant at the Ivory Coast node. I send another to the Kongo one out by Luba, a few nations east of us.




We have 5 Admin Tech, 5 Dip, and 5 Military tech. We have a 106% Institutions Tech Penalty


We currently have Trade Ideas unlocked as our National Idea, but no ideas. We can send it back for something else should I want/.

Our Kongo Traditions gives us:

+10% trade efficiency
-20% land attrition

[Abe Sargent]

https://s9.postimg.org/gqnvqnccv/Kongo_1506.png



MAP

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, so let’s take a look at the good and the bad.


Good –

Let’s do this in order from most good to least:

- We are the largest nation in the area with 8 provinces. This should let us piecemeal other nations to the east.
- We have some provinces that have low development but a good trade good, and others with decent development but lesser goods.
- We have 6000 troops, which is the largest army we can see
- We have two vassals that help us to build up
- Our capital province, Mpemba, is an inland center of trade


Bad –

From worst to easiest

- We are starting in 1506, when European nations and others have already had a chance to explore and expand. That leaves us behind the eight ball, as opposed to the 1444 start. It’s like taking Inca just after Spain lands in Hispaniola. Portugal is already in Eastern Africa in Sofala.
- We have low tech issues, and need to push our institutions
- Many of our neighbors are allies, and each of Kuba, Yaka, and Kasanje have 5000 troops.
- None of our provinces are Catholic, so we have both rebelling issues and a lowered amount of production and taxes
- We are not in a good place to use and abuse our trading strengths
- 8 of our provinces are tropical. 2 are jungle, and hard to do anything with.

[Abe Sargent]

I order a diplomat to Portugal to improve relations



Our provinces:

Mpemba – Capital, inland of Soyo and Mbamba, west of Mbata, north of Mbwila, south of Mpangu. Inland Center of Trade, 10 development, grasslands, tropical, iron mines, 0.45 made here by the Kongolese Fetishists. 3.5% unrest.

All have 3.5% unrest

Let’s head west to the coast:

Soyo – 11 development, grasslands, coastal, tropical, 0.23 gold from the slave trade, fetishist and Kongolese, north of Mbamba , south of Ngoyo, west of the capital of Mpemba. 37% autonomy


Mbamba – Coastal, slaves, savannah, tropical 5 dev, 0.14 gold, fetishist and Kongolese, owned by Nobility Estate, 25% autonomy, north of the unclaimed territory of Luanda, west of Mbwila and the capital, south of Soyo


Ngoyo – Tropical jungle, ivory traded here by the fetishists and Kongolese, 7 dev, 0.20 made, 37% auto, west of Mpangu, south of ally in Loango and one province nation Tyo.

West!

Mpangu – North of capital, east of Ngoyo, south of Tyo, and west of Songo, and north of Mbata as well. Copper mines here make 0.10 with 6 dev, 60% autonomy, fetishist and Kongolese, tropical


Songo – In the northeastern corner of our territory, east of Tyo, south of terra incognita, next to both nations in Kuba and Yaka, and north of Mbata and east of Mpangu. Jungle and tropical, with just 3 development, spices, and 0.10 made, with 10% autonomy, and both Kongolese and fetish folks.


Mbata – grasslands, tropical, 25% auto, grain, 5 dev, 0.1 4made, from fetish and Kongolese. Owned by nobility estates. West of the nation of Yaka’s province of Yaka, and north of our vassal in Ndongo. East if the capital in Mpemba, and north of us in Mbwila.


Mbwila - north of both Ndongo holdings. South of everything we have in three provinces. The people here are not Kongolese but instead Mbundu. And Fetishist as well. 20% autonomy. Highlands, tropical, 5 dev, and grain, must 0.13 monthly for us.

[Abe Sargent]

Great Nations in Order from #1 through #8.

Ming Dynasty
France
Ottoman Empire
Russia
Castile
Austria
Poland
Aragon

No England, No Portugal.


Long Term Goals –

1). Make us a Catholic nation completely and remove the Fetishists from us
2). Get rid of this minor Trade Idea for something more fruitful
3). Declare war on, and begin to absorb, the nearby powers.
4). Expand fast in order to build a strong economy and military in order to keep Europe off.
5). Create a Kongo Hegemony


It’s very possible to start to build, only to find nations like Portugal, England, Castile, Aragon, France, and more all expanding near us. And frankly, what could I really do about it right now?

I have 6k troops and 5/5/5 tech vs, say, Castile at 7/7/7 with 26000 troops or Portugal’s 20k. I’m not anything.


I order 1000 infantry made in Mpangu and my army to move to it. My goal is to take out the one province nation of Tyo soon. I make my King a general. We need the forces for a few reasons, and one is that my 5k force verses my vassals 3k each looks bad, so it will help increase our control.

I choose a mission – improve Papal relations. I send a diplomat to the Papal States to improve relations.

I send back Trade Ideas. You might think I grab something like expansion or question an to get colonists. Nope. Religious.

I send a Missionary to our capital

I drop our army maintenance

[Abe Sargent]

4 October, 1506 – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Portugal.

20 Oct – Portugal declares war against Tapuia.

1 Nov – I order a diplomat to improve relations with Castile.

23 Nov – I get our first event – A Bountiful Harvest. I gain some gold. I use it to buy another 1k infantry.

1 Dec – Portugal is now a great power at #8. It replaced Aragon

Tyo is now allied with Kuba, and Kuba, but not Tyo, is allied with Lunda and Kikondja.

Loango is getting disloyal. They have a 53% liberty desire

I send a diplomat over for them as well


6 February, 1507 – More alliance are coming down the pike here locally

7 Oct – Our next event arrives – United in Prayer



When he meets with other Catholic rulers in person, Alfonso I asks them to pray together for common goals. It creates stronger bonds, and is heading soon to Castile. It’s not the popular way to do it, and we can choose more diplomatic paths. So do I?

Souls not Minds must unite - 75% for Castile to have their opinion raised +40
Practice Secular Diplomacy – Bonus Dip Power


If the first one were guaranteed, I’d rock it. Getting that bonus is nice. But it’s not. So I go with the DIP power instead

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1508 – According to reports, this year something good is about to happen


I change my national focus to ADM. This moves us to 10, 5, 6 growth monthly

11 May – We get a Unity of Faith event and our stability rises one

10 June – We have Tyrannical Nobles in Mbamba. I choose to chastise them and lose some of their loyalty. It dropped to 35.

1 July – Rebels rise up in Kuba, next to us

18 Sept – 7000 rebels capture Nunu, in Kuba

9 Oct – Kuba lost a war against the rebels.

1 Nov – It’s time!

I have 409 Admin power. That’s enough for…our first idea.

So why Did I grab the Religious Idea Group, over many good options?


The First Religious Idea is

Deus Vult –

Permanent Casus Belli against neighboring heathens and heretics!


Nov 3 – I declare war against Tyo!


DEUS VULT!!!

[Abe Sargent]

War #1 –

I order my 8000 troops into Tyo’s lonely province of Anziku to hit their 4000 strong. Remember, their ally is Kuba, who just lost a battle with rebels, and is running around losing.

Kuba joins the war. Our vassals do as well.

12 Nov – We arrive and begin to battle the local troops

24 Nov – Defeated

Our general and leader gained the BattleField Medic Trait, and now has +33% reinforce speed

25 February, 1509 – We convert our capital! I send missionaries to Soyo next

12 May – After fleeing, the Kuban army of 7000 arrives in Songo and head sback to deal with rebels more. I think they are willing to concede Tyo’s loss to us

16 Aug – We take Anziku.

Now I have a couple of options.

1). Finish the war now, and take Anziku.
2). Push and see if we can’t hurt Kuba too.

We’re here, why not push?

[Abe Sargent]

13 Sept – Our forces arrive in Nunu, currently held by rebels, and we begin a siege

25 Sept -Ally forces arrive with us as well

2 Oct – Portugal declare war on Potiguara

13 Oct – We capture Nunu

I order our forces to their capital at Nunu proper

1 Nov - Siege begins

19 Nov – They are moving their main army to Nunu to hit the 6k forces there from our vassals. I leave behind a siege unit and order the remaining 5000 of our forces to assist

24 Dec – After a long campaign, we win in Nunu

1 Jan, 1510 – I maxed relations with Castile

5 Jan – We rout their army and it’s gone in the province of Munene

8 Feb – We take Munene

I start rejecting stupid and simple peace offers. I am pushing

5 May – I spend some MIL power ot reduce a potential uprising in my nation

29 August – Kuba proper falls.

I have a 100% war score, captured all Kuka and Tyo holdings, and defeated all of their armies.


Let’s go shopping

Which provinces are worth the most?

Actually, I can take out both players, so let’s do that now. I also take a bunch of coin as well.

We gain 48 gold, we get a little inflation. We get 0 aggressive expansions with our CB. We gain prestige, and more.


I annex:

All are 20.5% unrest and 50% autonomy

Tyo’s province of Anziku – Jungle, tropical, copper, 6 development, Kongolese and Fetishist, 20.5% unrest, and 50% autonomy, 0.04 made here. South of wasteland, west of Songo, east of our Loango assal, and north of both Ngoyo and Mpangu holdings.


Nunu – 4 development , 0.01 gold, Kuba culture, and Fetishist faith. Tropical wood, jungle and tropical. East of Songo, and south of the wasteland as well. North of both holdings of Yaka, and west of both Kuba and Munene

Kuba – East of Nunu, north of Munenne, south of the wasteland, and west of a the two province Kalundwe nation, this is the former capital of Kuba. 18.5% unrest, fetish, Kuban culture, 0.00 made here, 75% autonomy and 6 dev. Tropical woods.

Munene – Also tropical jungle, with spices, 0.00 here, 18.5 and 75% as well, Kuba and fetishist. 6 dev. South of Kuba, southeast of Nunu, and next to three nations and tribes in the area -west of Yaka, north of Lunda, and west of Kalundwe.

I order cores to be made in all four places

My reasons for taking these provinces and striking fast is simple. I want to build my nation while ebbing my infamy from taking out two neighbors in one war.


We lost 8690 casualties to their 13225. Our numbers include our allies, we only lost around 4k ourselves.

I half my naval maintenance

I order a church built in our capital city of Mpemba

[JAG]

Nice to see you back at it. Reading along.

[Abe Sargent]

30 July, 1511 – Soyo converts. Next target is Ngoyo

4 Oct, 1511 – Castile are dealing with heavy internal conflicts


28 Oct – We start to get a National Epic, and choose to support it. Our prestige rises, but we lose some cash

1 April – 1512 – All lands we took are now cores

6 April – I hand Nunu, Muneue and Kuba to the clergy


27 Nov – Another Bountiful Harvest arrives

2 Dec – Portugal annexes Potiguara.


6 Mar, 1513 – We have had no institutions begin to grow, but next door our vassal in Loango has. So I begin to process to annex them. It should take roughly two years

We finish our mission to maximize relations with the Papacy!

1 Apr - Next mission – Convert Kuba to Catholic

1 Aug – I can get a new idea 0 Missionary Schools, and get another Missionary. I do so, and send it to Kuba

1 Oct – Ngoyo converts! Next up is Mpangu

1 Oct, 1514 – I increase our stability by 1 to 2

I order another 1000 troops to assemble


4 Oct – Rebellion in Kuba – 11000 soldiers rebel. I have troops here already to fight back.

19 Oct – We win but lost 40% of our army. I spend some MIL to cut other rebellions I was expecting to fight


31 Oct – WHOA!

I get a major event:

Into the Unknown

The uncharted territory next to and beyond the jungles may seem threatening to others, but to our tribe who has lived here for a long time, we understand the area. A large group of hunters ask King Alfonso I for permission to explore and settle the whatever place they may discover. They are capable and can get a lot done.

These are our options:

1) Go and claim what you find for Kongo! -3000 manpower, we get 300 settlers in the unclaimed province of Luanda, and it gets +25% settler increase from Used to Tropical event
2) They are needed here. Gain a bunch of Admin power

Duh!

Face the glory for Kongo!


Luanda is now a colony. And we are spending some serious cash on them as well.

[Abe Sargent]

Nice to see you back at it. Reading along.

Thanks thanks!

[Abe Sargent]

19 Dec – Kuba converts. We finish our mission.

Next target is Anziku


1 Jan, 1515, Our heir, Pedro I is of age and gains the Well Advised trait, which will increase our possible advisors by 1 each during his tenure

3 March 1515 – We finish integrating Loango!



Loango – West of Anziku, and north of Ngoyo, coastal, jungle, tropical, ivory, Catholic already, Kongolese, 0.27 money made, 11 dev, core of us, 60% autonomy. Already in a good place. 52.72% Feudalism, 0 Renaissance, and 98.53% colonialism here for those institutions.

Mayumba – North, west, and up the coast from Loango, south of unclaimed Gabo, and west of the wasteland, Kongolese and Fetishist, 60% auto, 0.11 gold, 6 dev, coastal, jungle, ivory, tropical. Both are nice

We also got 3 ships and 3000 more troops including 1000 cavalry in that list.

[Abe Sargent]

Let me take a map. Here just 9 years in.

https://s12.postimg.org/5l3e458yl/Kongo_1515.png


I’m zooming in close to give you detailed names and such of everything. You can see the two places we just took from Loango, as well as all the way to Kuba, where our army sits.

Our vassal, Ndongo, is the purple to our south. You can see enemy states in multiple places to our west, and the colony of Luanda is on the coast, south of Mbamba and west of Ndongo.

You can also see cash, manpower, +2 stability, prestige, etc. (We are losing cash with Missionary and colony)

[Abe Sargent]

1 Aug, Mpangu converts! I keep back from sending more right now to keep sustaining my colony

Nah, let’s slash army by 50% instead and I send in Missionary to Mbata

2 June, 1516 – After ruling for ten years, our leader gaines Industrious and now gets +10% goods produced

I set Lunda as a rival

1 July – Anziku converts. Next is Songo

5 Aug – Portugal declares war to conquer Sofala. This is on the far side of east Africa.

9 Sept – I get an event:

Idolatry or Reverence:

Our efforts to bring salvation to the heathens in Mbata have borne some fruit, but I is strange. They accept Christ, but the faith has intermingled with the old ways. Angels and spirits, the true Lord and the old Lord of the Sky, the Blessed Virgin and the Earth Goddess, do these people really believe what they hera or simply call old idols by new names? The local Missionary has come to us for advice:

1) Their faith is pure, and we would be fools to reject it – Kongo gets Animist Syncretism for 20 years, with +1% Missionary strength, +1 tolerance of Heatherd, -1.5 Tolerance of True Faith
2) This is worse that heresy and must be rooted out – For ten years, gets dogmatic preacher and Mbata gets -5% missionary strength


Lets embrace it. Anything to increase our conversion speed right now

6 Dec – Boost stability to 3

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1517 – Mbata converts! Next – Mbamba.

8 May – Luanda colony will be selling Slaves

17 Sept – Songo converts and next is Nunu

1 Oct – We max relations with Portugal and I recall that diplomat

I send it to work on building a spy network in Portugal

1 Dec – So with colonialism 100% present in Loango province, its spreading to others of ours. Meanwhile we have 9.4% of us embracing colonialism

1 Jan, 1518 – We max relations with our vassal Ndongo

I order us to annex them

10 Apr – Mbamba has converted as well – Munene is next in the Missionary’s queue

25 May – I get an event The Strength of Faith. I gain 10 prestige and clergy estate 10 loyalty

1 Aug – Rwanda was annexed by Karagwe

24 Aug - Nunu converts. Next – Mayumba

5 Oct – We get a investment in the military event and gain some MIL power

2 Dec – Noble Family Requests Aid – I grant it, lose some money, gain some loyalty

1 January, 1519 –

Level 6 Tech – Military, Arquebus

We get+0.25 tactics, +2 combat width, +0.2 infantry fire, +0.3 infantry shock, and we get Somali Light Cavalry, Tuareg Cavalry, and can build Barracks


I convert us to Tuareg Cavalry

1 Feb – We lose Lunda as a rival, and there are no good ones

20 March – Munene converts – next is Mbwila

1 June – We can, if we want, get the next Religious Idea. It would give us Church Attendance Duty. -25% stability cost. And we would unlock Kongolese Tax Exchange and +10% taxes nationally. That’s not worth it yet, I’ll hold off

Loanga has embraced Feudalism as well. Mayumba is Colonialism as well. I’ve been saving cash for the commitment to embracing an institution. Still have slashed military and navy.

1 Nov – Mayumba converts. No other targets for now

[Abe Sargent]

1 June, 1520 -Mwila converts

9 Nov – I get Good Government Policies event. I choose to heavily raise it I power

14 Feb, 1521 – Portugal sent aid to develop Mpemba and the production was raised to drop our freedom desire.


1 April – Native uprising in Luanda

10 April – Put down

I recall our diplomat building spies in Portugal

10 May – Sofala annexed by Portugal

1 Aug – With a current spread rate of almost 20%, I embrace Colonalism Institution. This reduces our trade tech penalty from %121 to %100. We also get +10% provincial trade power.

1 Jan, 1522 – More development in our capital from Portugal

1 April – We now have 10% commitment to the institution of Feudalism.

30 May – Portugal just traded maps with yaka and learned of all of Central Africa.

1 June –

We have annexed Ndongo


Matamba – 0.07 made here in the tropical savannah with 6 dev, Mbundu and Fetishist people, 60% auto, slave trades, inland and east of Mbwila, south of Mbata, and west of Ndongo. West of the nation of Kasanje.

Ndongo – Mbubu Fetishists here too, highlands, tropical, 0.07 made, 7 dev, slaves, 60% autonomy, south of Mwila, east and inland of the colony of Luanda, west of Kasanje.

We also took 4k soldiers as well

I order Missionaries to both provinces


I hand Ndogo to the Clergy and Matamba to the nobles

[Abe Sargent]

13 Dec – We have a grand ball in Mpemba and we fudnd it with some gold and some prestige

27 May, 1523 – Ndongo converts

1 June – Native assimilation in Loanda – it grows by 100

15 Aug – Matamba converts

5 Oct – Maximize relations with Castile

I spend 100 DIP to make Mbundu an accepted culture and Kuba as well

4 July, 1524 – maxed relations with Portugal

9 Sept – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Castile, and they send a lady to be our new queen.

Queen Isabel – 5/4/2, Castillean

1 Oct – If I want, I can invest in Admin Tech 6, but we are nearing getting ready to embrace Feudalism, so I’m holding off for now

15 Dec – I get a shady offer from some dark people, and I decline and raise our prestige.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1526 – Maxed relations with Kilwa. 1525 was a quiet year


Yaka is at war with Luba and Luanda. I jack up my military maintenance

We begin war. We are at war with Yaka, Kasanje, and Kalundwe.

13 April – I win a major battle vs Kasanje in Matemba

28 May – We take Shinje from Kasanje

10 June – 8000 troops of ours arrive in Kasanje’s capital of…..Kasanje to take it. 6000 arrive in Yaka.

4 Dec - Kuba falls to Kasanje

21 Jan., 1527 – We get a Skills of the Queen vent and she gives us a Royal Efficiency event for 20 years, -10% Admin tech investment

4 Feb - Rebels capture a province in Lunda

14 Feb – Lunda;s capital falls to Yaka

10 July -Yaka is ours

1 Aug – Kasanje, the capital of them is ours

23 Aug – Kumbana is ours, in Yaka as well

1 Sept – I get a peace offer from Yaka. They would give us a ton of gold, War Reparations, and nothing else. No thanks

12 Sept – Melem, in Kasanje, falls to us.

14 Oct – We retake Kuba

I order my force into Kalundwe, the final of these three allies

9 Dec – Songye falls, a province in Kalundwe

Kalundwe offers us a separate peace treaty, and I accept. We get more than 100 gold, and War Rep for 10 years for 10% of their income.

I order our armies to head back

[Abe Sargent]

I use this blood cash to embrace Feudalism.

Feudalism – Leaders without Upkeep +1, and our tech tax drops from 100% more to 50% more


Now the good news is that I now have a 100% war score and captured all provinces of both Kasanje and Yaka.

Full annexation, bunch of gold

I annex all 5 provinces and both nations are off the board.


We lost 10k troops to their 4k

We gained:

Malem – Highlands, tropical, east of Ndongo, north of a wasteland, south of Kasanje, Fetishist, Mbangala, 0.03 made here, from slave trade, tropical, 15.6 unrest, 50% auto,m 3 dev


Kasanje – in the center of Shinje, Matamba, Ndongo, Malem, and just west of the tribe of Lunda, 6 development,Mbangala, Fetishist, savannah, tropical, 0.04 made here, slaves.


Shinje – North of Kasanje, south of Kumbana and Yaka, west of all three provinces in Lunda, east f Matamba, and slave trading, savannah ,tropical, fetishes here too, Mbangala, 0.03 made, 15.6% unrest a nd 75% autonomy

Yaka – Yaka culture, Fetishist faith, grasslands, tropical, slaves, 8 development, 0.10 made her month, 15.6 unrest, 50% auto, and west of Kumbana, eacst of Songo and Mbata, north of Matamba, and south of Nunu


Kumbana - Grasslands here as well, 0.03 made here, 15.6 unrest, 75% auto, Fetishist, Yaka, tropical, slave trade, 5 development, north and west of Mpasu, a hlding of the Lunda tribe, and west of Munene, south of Nunu, etc


I order cores in everything. It cost me around 250 total ADM power.

Okay, tech gain times!


I get:

Diplomatic Tech 6 – Shipyards, May Steal Maps, can build…shipyards

Admin Tech 6 – Workshop – we can build those. And we are close to Admin 7. And that will break everything when that happens. We’re almost at mil 7 s well.

I order a workshop in Mpemba, our capital

[Abe Sargent]

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https://s11.postimg.org/59tzc47r7/Kongo_1527.png

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1528 – Rebellion in Yaka

20 Feb – We defeat them with the combined forces

1 May – We get a Family Ties event with Castile, and get a bunch of DIP power and bonus relations with them

1 July – Declining power of the nobility leads to -10% nobility power

13 Dec – We have a Political Crisis. I choose to resolve it with lessen reputation and lose 25 legitimacy.

1 June, 1529 –

Mil Tech 7 –

The Limber

Tactics +0.25
Artillery Fire +1
Art Shock +0.05
Enables more artillery types

Admin Tech 7 –

Renaissance Thought

And this one is the big one…

Because I get a new Idea Group


Here is what I am ogling…

Exploration Ideas –

Requires DIP to advance, 1st slot gives me Colonists to send out and add to Kongo’s might! Then we can get Quest for the New World and more, and discover Africa elsewhere.

Now what I’d really like is Expansion, to get Colonist first, and Trader second,, and such., But that’s not a need, and it requires Admin to use, which conflicts with my Religious idea group.

So Exploration it is!

And guess who has some DIP power sitting around….


I now have a colonist, and the +10% taxes from the Tax Exchange.

I send our colonist to…Luanda? Nah, it’s almost concluded.

Welcome to the Next Era of this Dynasty…

[Abe Sargent]

Colonial Kongo


A fully Catholic state would likely take advantage of the Catholic way of colonizing and exploration. There are a few options.

Natives here in Africa are nasty, so we choose a live and let live policy, to reduce considerably uprising chances.

Options –

Benguela – south and down coast of Luanda, massive amount of development already here, 5000 pretty aggressive natives

Gabon – North of Mayumba, jungle, tropical, 7000 nasty natives. Lower Dev.


Benguela is the obvious choice

16 July – Four of our new holdings are now cores. I order missionaries to Shinje and Kumbana


1 Sept – Yaka is a core

1 Nov – Luanda is our first colony to city!


Luanda – 5 development, Fetishist and Mbundu culture, 50% autonomy, tropical, savannah, Used to Tropical bonus, slaves here, and we are making 0.19 right now. I order a core made.


5 Dec – Rebellion in Kasanje.

[Abe Sargent]

16 Jan, 1530 – Put down

1 April – I order a Church in Loango

1 July – I max relations with Mombasa

11 July – Kalundwe won the war, and now rocks 7 provinces, and took out a lot of fools.

26 Nov – Portugal finds new ways to make draperies and cloth increases while wool drops

1 Dec - Kumbana converts. Next is Luanda

15 Dec – I get an event on the sale of titles. Basically, do I want cash or ADM power? Power.

20 Dec – Shinje converts. Next is Yaka

4 June, 1531 – Our ruler gained a new trait, cruel. We get +2% unrest while he rules. Yuck

20 April, 1532 – Luanda converts! Our next target is Kasanje


1 May, I can get a new idea if I want. Do I want? Religious Idea? I’ma hold off for now. We should be at level 8 ADM tech in three years

1 June –Yaka converts. Malem lies next

1 Aug – Native assimilation in Benguela increases the population by 100

I order a church in Soyo

22 Dec – I spend money to avert a plague in Mwila

[Abe Sargent]

14 August, 1533 –

We have sad news.


Today, Alfonso I Lukeni passed away. Long may he live! And he had a great reputation to live up to!


His son takes over:

Pedro I Lukeni, 2/1/0. Pretty crappy. 33 years old. Well Advised.


However, his son, Diogo I is a 5/3/3 I 11 and a strong claim

Our current tech growth is 7/3/2. We change our national focus to DIP and move it to 4/6/2.

Our stability dropped. We raise it back up



21 Sept – Kasanje converts-je


6 Oct – Unfortunately Benguela is going to be a…fish province. I was hoping for something more exotic.

Oct 10 – Malem converts as well

1 Dec – Influenza hits Mbamba. We quarantine it.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1534 – We its time for me to hire some advisers. What is out there that entices?

Level 1 – Cibind Youla, Admin advisor, Philosopher, will increase my prestige annually

8 Mar, 1534 – Our truce with Kalundwe has finished

28 Oct – Portugal declares colonial conquest on Tupinamba

25 Nov – I order a workshop in Luanda

29 Nov – Portugal builds up Luanda

1 April, 1525 –All of the small nations by Lake Victoria have coalesced into three nations – Buha, Buganda, and Nkore.

9 Aug – Our spy was found building a spy network in Kalundwe and was expelled


1 Jan, 1536 – I am staying away from Ideas right now for saving for techs

30 April – Portugal took out Tupinamba

17 Aug – I am consider declaring war against the non-one province minor Lunda, and their single province Lwena. Their sole ally is the two province Chokwe. I moved my army down by them.

I declare a Deus Vult Casus Belli

I order my 16k forces into Lwena to fend off the 4k defenders.

4 Sept – We rout the army

Our leader as a general gained Master of Arms which gives the infantry +10% leader ability

I break off a siege unit and move ot Chokwe

10 Oct – We defeat their army and begin to siege the Chokwe capital at Ishindi.

1 May, 1537 – Ishindi falls to us

15 May – Lwena falls

22 May – We defeat the Chokwe army

22 June -0 We take Chokwe province

100% war score…


We take some gold and all three holdings in the two nations.


We lost 4700 soldiers combined to their 13k. We lost 4058 to attrition.


Chokwe – Fetishist, savannah, tropical, ivory, has a marketplace, Chokwe culture, Fetishist religion, 11.8% unrest, 75% autonomy, and 0.01 made here., They have 4 development, north of the wasteland, west of Ishidi,south of Lwena, and east of Kasanje.


Ishindi – East of both Chokwe and Lwena, south of the one-province minor power Kanongesha, and west of the unclaimed area of Kaonde. The Chokwe ivory traders are Fetishists, 14.7 unrest, 75% autonomy, 0.01 made here. Marketplace here as well.


Lwena – Also ivory, savannah, 5 development, tropical, 13.7% unrest, 50% autonomy, Lunda culture, Fetishist faith, marketplace, south of the Lunda tribe, west of the Kanongesha


I order up a trio of cores. These are all low development and took less than 100 Admin power for all three. – Lwena was 50, Chowe 20 and Isindi 16.

[Abe Sargent]

MAP FUN TIME!!!


https://s12.postimg.org/sjh4s1pml/Kongo_1537.png


I choose a mission to city-ize Benguela

Portugal keeps building up our places. I’m going to stop telling you.

1 Sept – Our heir gained the lawgiver trait, that’ll give +0.5 monthly autonomy.


Like I said, we need to expand quickly! Here you have stuff like 4 provinces from annexing, 1 from colony, another on the way, and 3 wars that led to 3, 4, and 5 holdings to our crown.

As of today, we have 16k troops. Right now Portugal has 15000 troops, and 12000 manpower, t our 20k, but they are in war, and we are not.

[Abe Sargent]

20 Dec – Portugal declares war on Charrua


1 April, 1538 – New Advisor:

Military – Army Recruiter Mutand Song, +10% army morale

We now are losing a slight amount of money monthly – like -0.1. I massage my investments colonially to make up for it

1 Sept – Who’s a new colony?

Benguela – Core, coastal, drylands, 10 development, 0.28 made her by Mbundu and Fetishists, I send a missionary, south of Luanada, and down coast. We finish the quest here and get 1 base production and it grows to 0.59 monthly.

I send my next colonists to….

Gabon, north of Mayumba, upcoast of Cameroon

I take a mission to colonize Cameroon

2 Dec – I get a event:

Excellent Minister –

Reap Admin Benefits – Huge prestige, and power gains in ADm and DIP
Reap Military – Gain traditions and mil power

Or I get a third option because we are well advised. Expand Responsibilities – I get everything combined, both the prestige, and tradition, and tons of power

I now have a prestige of 80, and…


Dip 7 –

Naval Ambitions

Max Colonial Range is now 115 ,and +0.30 naval morale


12 Dec – We get cores in Lwena, Ishindi, and Chokwe done. I order missionary to Chokwe

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1539 – New Tech

Courthouse, Admin 8,

Can build courtyards
+5 states

15 April – I have been building up a spy network in Ajuuraan, over on the horn of Africa. I have 55, so I spend 50 to steal their maps

We now know of 20 new areas in East Africa

1 May, 1540 – Mil Tech 8 – Pike and Shot, We can build regimental camps, and gt infantry fire +0.25 and cavalry shock +0.8

23 July – Benguela converts. Next up is Ishindi

I order a church for Benguela

13 Aug – Chokwe converts and Lwena is on tap

I pass the Act of Uniformity, which gives us +1% missionary strength

1 Feb, 1541 – Big rebellion in Lwena. I have my whole army here.


19 Feb – Put down

23 Mar – Portugal annexes Charrua

We’ve gotten Benguela upgraded twice by Portugal

14 Aug – Ajuuraan found our spy building a networks and ousted it.

15 Dec – Ishindi converts!

29 Dec – Lwena converts!

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1542 – Post conversion, we’re now making around 2 gold monthly.

1 April – I order a Workshop for Benguela

1 Sept – I withdraw y colonist to Gabon and send it to Cameroon. It’s nasty with 9000 aggressive folks, so I send some troops over

24 Nov – Colony in Cameroon, up coast from Gabon, set up.

14 Aug, 1543 – Kind Pedro is now a scholar, and we get -5% tech costs!

Pedro may not have great stats, but he has good traits

29 Sept –Accommodation with natives in Cameroon leads to -1 ferocity there.

1 April, 1544 – We’ve stabilized and brought in the next layer of fun time stuff easterly. Is it time for the next war?

There is a one province minor to the east of both Lwena and Ishindi. It’s only ally is BBuha, which I am not heading towards right now.

So Let’s grab it!


17 April – I declare war on Kikondja. I order my 16k troops to cross the border and hit their one province capital at Kanongesha where their 6k strong force awaits me.

11 May – I rout their army and begin a siege

1 June – On the battlefield in a siege, our ruler, Pedro has passed!

Our new ruler:

King Diogo I Lukeni, 5/3/3, 21 years old. He has Lawgiver, and gets autonomy changes. . His 15 year old son is Nicolau with Architectural Visionary and 1/0/5 stats.


Our stability drops so I raise it

Tech gains are 8/8/6

3 June, Royal Marriage with Portugal and Castile.

Meet our new Castilian Queen:

Juana, 5/2/4

8 July – We get Quest for the New World.

25 Nov – The capital falls to us.

13 Dec - I spend 50 MIL and recruit a Conquistador. I order 1000 cavalry t leave my army and head to a fleet in the Gulf of Kongo. I will sail them up and down and find some more colonizable areas


15 April, 1545 – I keep rejecting peace offers


1 May, 1545 – I got a bunch of maps unlocked as a Catholic. We can see the Caribbean, andit’s heavy Spanish presence, and places like Brazil, I begin improving relations with France

17 May – I get an event and choose to send some trinkets to Bonny reo reduce the native aggressiveness


9 June – I annex the one province of Kikondja and get 224 gold as well.


We get:


Kanongesha, Fetishist and Luba people, working copper mines, 0.04 gold, 13.9% unrest, 50% autonomy, 7 development, tropical savanna, east of us in Lwena and Ishindi. I order a core here.


With my blood money:

Church for Ndongo
Workshop for Loango

[Abe Sargent]

1 July – Improve relations with Engerland

1 Dec – Our Philosopher passes

I hire:

Munying Lissouba, Treasurer, +10% tax income


1 Jan, 1546 – This year we found three land provinces and four sea

1 June – Gabon will makes dyes for us

23 July – Portugal declares war on Tupinquin

Any time I want I can choose the Counter Reformation, but I’m not I don’t want the 5% tech cost and idea cots

13 Dec – Kanongesha is now a core. Did someone call for a Missionary? I think so!

29 Dec – Bountiful Harvest

1 Jan, 1547 – We discover most of South Africa, 6 land, and 3 sea

It’s time for the big war...

[Abe Sargent]

The only two major powers left here ar eKalundwe with 7 provinces and the 4 of Kazembe. They are allies.

They are at war with powers by lake Victoria. We are deep in that war. I declare war on Kalundwe

I split my armies and send 8k to the capital of Kalendwe and 7k into Lualaba, in Kazembe

19 Feb – We take Lualaba

1 Apr – I take another province, Upembe

25 May – They capture some provinces of ours

1 June – Another of theirs falls to us

26 July – I order 1000 artillery

1 Oct – I maximize relations with England.

15 Oct – I win abattle on the coast in Ngoyo.

10 Nov – I retake Ngoyo

Nov 28 – I take the capital of Kalundwe

5 Jan, 1548 – I beat their army again. We have taken most of the smaller stuff they ar playing with. They begin a siege in our capital with 8k troops from Kazembe

5 Feb – We capture another province

19 Feb – They withdraw their siege as one of my armies was nearing


26 Mar – I defeat their army in our capital, but another army catches us just as that battle ends…

1 April – We take a province from them

17 April – We lose in our capital and that army is down to around 3% fighting strength

1 May – Our Army Reformer dies

We pick up a Master recruiter

11 <ay – We capture another province in Kazembe

17 May – Kanongsha converts

31 May – Their other war ends, and we are now facing these two nations solely

1 June – Maximize relations with France

15 June – I reject a peace offer

30 July – We take another province

15 Sept – We take another

1 Nov – Cameroon will be making dyes for us as well

19 Nov – Another holding taken

I have a 99% war score so….

I take all 7 provinces from Kalundwe, I take Lualaba from Kazembe, and 77 gold

We get a ton of prestige and such.

[Abe Sargent]

This is a big one, let me take you a picture! And this is just the end of war 5!


https://s22.postimg.org/rq7qqyesh/Kongo_1548.png


Big gains in this war. 8 total holdings, and we removed the last threat here.


Mpasu – east of Shinje, Kumbaba, south of Munene, and north of Rund, and west of Kalundwe proper. Savannah and tropical, spices, Lunda people, Fetishist faith, 18.1 unest and 50% auto, making 0.06 gold with the 6 development

Rund – South, north of Lwena, east of Kalundwe and Kanongesha, and east of Shinje, Lunda, Fetishist, 0.18 gold, 10 development, tropical savannah with ivory trade. It features a temple and marketplace. 58.7% autonomy, and 18.1 unrest


Kalundwe - Next is Kalundwe proper, the former capital, with 6 development, tropical savannah, grain grown, barracks, 0.05 made, Luba people but already Catholic, surrounded bu Mpasu and Run dot the west, Songye to the north, Kanongesha ot the south, and Luba and Upemba ot the east.

Songye – Marketplace, Fetish, Luban, tropical jungle, grain, 0.02 made with 3 development, and 18.1% unrest and 50% autonomy, Kusu to the east, Kuba west, north is wasteland, south Luba and Kalundwe.

Kusu – 6 development, marketplace, grain, savannah, tropical, Luba, Fetish, 75% auto, 18.1 unrest, 0.02 cash, In the corner, north of the tribe of Kazembe, south of wasteland, and east of Songye and north of Luba….

Luba – This is a major place. Tropical savannah, silver mines, Luban fetishists, 18.1 unrest and75% auto, 0.06 cash, 9 dev, and and inland center of trade, with a marketplace and church. East is the Kazembe tribe. South Upemba…

Upemba – Hills, tropical, 5 dev, 0.01 cash, Fetish, Luba, 87.8% auto, 18.1 unrest, the Salt trade is big here. Marketplace, east is the tribe, and south is…Lualuba


Lualuba – Our final new possession. Next to three unclaimed provinces, west of the tribeof Kazmebe, south of Upemba and east of Kanongesha. 7 development, highlands, tropical, salt, 0.04 made, 75% autonomy, 18.1 unrest,

I order cores for everyone.

I give Songye to the nobles and Kalendwe to the clergy

[Abe Sargent]

2 Dec - We colonized Cameroon well enough to get a colonial enthusiasm event. +25% settler increase for 10 years

Next mission – reduce overextension

1 Jan, 1549 – I use the blood money to embrace the Renaissance

-5% build and development costs, and we lose our investment tech issues

New Dip Tech!


Dip 8 – Docks

+10 Trade Range, Naval Morale gets +0.2 and we can build docks.


17 Feb – In Gabon, we lose 1 ferocity with the natives

23 Feb – I have good news. We just threw off the cloak of Portugal. We are strong enough to not count for a Protectorate.

So here is the question:

Do I want to ally with Portugal instead, as equals?

They will accept if we offer….


I don’t need anyone for my African ramblings, but having Portugal backup for the European powers seems like a good idea.

26 Feb – We are now allies with Portugal

27 April – Portugal wins the war against the natives in Brazil, but no land was swapped.

1 Jan, 1550 – We found a bunch of sea lanes this year

A new institution arises, the printing press

1 April – Portugal found the Spice Trade Route to the Indies, and spices and such increase in value

25 June – Cores dones

1 July – We finish our overextension mission. My next mission is to turn Gabon into a city

Tech Increase:

Military 9 –

Professional Officers

Tactics +0.25, Combat Width +1


I send Missionaries to Lualaba and Kusu.

I then hand Kusu to the nobles

[Abe Sargent]

6 Feb, 1551 – Rebellion in Kaalundwe.

28 Feb – We put it down ,finally, after a battle that took longer than it should.

11 August

The Papacy has called The Council of Trent

Would be like to go as a good Catholic Nation?

Yes please!

29 Nov – Kusu converts =- next target is Luba

4 Dec – Lualaba converts – Songye is next in line


1 May, 1552 – WOW

Are you ready?

We just hit 8th on the list of nations, and we are now a Great Power!!!

What does that mean?


Well in the most recent expansion, they brought the great power mechanic from Victoria to EU. SO basically there are 8 great powers. The 8 strongest nations. And they vie for power with the others, and they get some new actions and abilities:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eu4-development-diary-9th-of-june-2016.944664/


Basically, they are:

Take on Foreign Debt
Influence Nation
Intervene in an ongoing war
Force a lesser nation to break an alliance

Who are the current great [powers, in order from strongest to weakest?

France
Ottoman
Austria
Castile
Russia
Poland
Portugal
Kongo

We are the only non-European nation in the list, unless you could #2 Ottomans.

So there you are!

28 Aug – Native Assimilation in Cameroon increases the population there by 100

[Abe Sargent]

5 March, 1553 – Burundi just declared independence in the Lake Victoria region


22 Mar – I choose Overseas Exploration as the next idea, we get 50% colonial range

7 April – Portugal declares war against Tapuia

Sonyre converts. Next is Upemba

26 May – Luba converts and we head to Rund next

29 July – Robber Barons I Mbamba – I choose to bump up taxes by agreeing with the nobility

1 November – Cameroon is a full province!


Cameroon – Dyes, coastal, 75% autonomy, 0.07 here right now, Fetishist, Sawabantu, jungle, tropical,

I send the colonists to Swellendam in South Africa. Spain is colonizing Cape, the best province in the area, this is not bad, and right next door. I want to cut off Spain here if possible.


Next tech – Admin 9

The Scythe –

Production Efficiency +5%

7 Dec – Our heir dies in a hunting accident

15 May, 1554 – King Diogo is now careful, and gets -10% aggressive expansion impact

24 Aug – Upemba converts and Mpasu is next

30 Nov – Rund converts. Next is Cameroon

18 Mar – 1555 – We build a Church in Kalundwe

6 April – 12000 troopps revolt in Run

2 May – Rund falls

10 Aug – Lwena falls

23 Aug – Rund heads back to us

9 Oct – We crush the rebels but lost a few thousand souls doing so

8 Nov – We retake LWena

1 Jan, 1556 – I get an event. Sleep with a lady who is not my wife, to make a 5/1/5 heir with a weak claim, lose some papal influence? Or skip it? Our leader is 33 and his wife 30. Not bad. And the stats on this one are good, but a weak claim could lead to some problems later. I do it anyway.

Henrique is born

16 Jan – Excellent Minister again. I put it into ADM power

25 Jan – Mpasu converts

1 April – Cameroon converts


I order a workshop in Cameroon

[Abe Sargent]

6 June, 1556


50 year review!!!

https://s12.postimg.org/wq2rhzkz1/Kongo_50_year_review_map_1.png

[Abe Sargent]

We are 8th in the Great Power List

We only know of 1 country with a 3 stability us

We are the 5th richest country we know of.

We are the 3rd most developed country we know of

(We don’t know of many in Europe, and none in Asia)

We have the 2nd best manpower

We have 9/8/9 tech. By comparison, Portugal is 10/12/11

We have the 11th best ruler

We have the 4th biggest army – 13k infantry, 3k cavalry,1k artillery. I have a forcelimit of 29k so I can load that up if I want.

15th biggest navy with 5 Barques and 4 Cogs. Forcelimit of 19.




All of our non-colonies are Catholic

We are the production leader in Slaves with 14% of the market

Our provinces by highest taxes:

Loango
Ndongo
Kalundwe
Mpemba
Benguela

By production:

Mpemba
Loango
Benguela
Luanda
Ndogo



We have 38 holdings and two colonies in Gabon and Swellendam

The Kongo trade node has 69 trade power, and we are getting 4 gold from it monthly.

Our King:

Diogo I Lukeni, 33, 5/3/3, with Careful and Lawgiver – a great and young ruler

His heir is 515,

Queen – Juana von Habsburg, 5/2/4

Our government, the Tribal Monarchy, isn’t great right now. -10% Stability cost? Who cares? +20% income from vassals? Don’t have any.


So I have finished my first goal, to get this stuff Catholic, and I have mostly finished my second – quick expansion east, hard, no holds barred, to get ourselves to a place where we can potentially fend off European powers

Next is to finish off Kazembe, with a long term goal of grabbing and puling in the Lake Victoria powers, while facing off against European colonization efforts

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1557 – We get fish in Swellendam. Boring.

3 March, 1557 –

Land of Opportunity, expansion Idea -0 +20% global settler increase

We also get Election of Manikongos, and get +50% chance of new heir – the heir is chosen by a committee of elders who can pick the best in the family.

1 April – Maxed relations with France


12 Aug - I order 4000 more troops, 1k calvary, 1k artillery, 2k infantry

20 Jan, 1558 – I hire a Colonial Governor to be a DIP advisor.

1 June – Our treasurer passes and I hire a Natural Scientist t replace him

1 Aug – Advancement of the Merchant Class event

27 Sept – I get a Gift to the State event. Use it for cash.

Workshop in Ndongo
Church in Mbata

I move Luba to an accepted Culture

I order Cameroon to shift to Kongolese culture

26 Nov – Admin 10

Modern Theocracy

We get Theocracys and another Group of Ideas!

29 Nov – Kilwa agreed to give me fleet basing rights. Perfect. I send my explorer over to the east coast of Africa to keep exploring. Many good provinces like Bourbon and Mauritius are still open


New Idea Group?

I am looking for a few things. Expansion. Military. Here are some options:

Expansion Ideas – Take it, spend 400 ADM and gain another settler. Ten 400 more for another merchant. Both good additions to us

What about Quality troops or Offensive Ideas?

Yup, Expansion it is. Need some time to build it up though

17 Mar, 1559 – Maxed relations with Castile

26 Mar – New Royal Marriage with Castile

13 June – We get another Great Queen event. Military Tech Costs drop by 10% for 20 years. Which…

Military 10

Reiter

Maneuver +25%
Enables Culverin, Pedrero , Mossi Horsies, and Barded Cavalry


I upgrade to Abysinnian Barded Cavalry and Pedrero

[Abe Sargent]

15 Jan., 1560 – Another excellent Minister, a ndI put a bunch of power into Admin

1 Mar – Maxed relations with England

I’m ready for a new war I think…


I have 10k troops in Kusu, and another 10 next door in Luba. I want to hit Lake Victoria folks. Now, Kusu is next to Lega, an unclaimed province. Beyond that is Burundi’s two holdings of Nkoma and Bafuriu. The only ally of Burundi is Buganda, a one province minor around Lake Victoria, and past the 6 province state of Buha. But they are on the far side of the unclaimed Lega. Meh, I should wait on Leg first.

27 April – I pass the De Heretico Comburendo Act. This gives us +0.5 Missionary Strength, +2% taxes, and +0.1 Catholic Reform Desire.


3 Nov – Persia eclipses us in the Great Power race, and we have a few years to regain it.

10 Nov – Portugal has a Coffee Boom – The market is soaring

1 Jan, 1561 – We lose the Colonial Governor adviser, Munga Ndo, a Naval Reformer joins us

1 April – Cameroon is not Kongolese

I order a culture shift in Malem and Kasanje as well

1 July – We get a cool evet:


Queen of the People

Queen Juana is a woman with a heart of gold. Always does her best to help her husband, treats people with unparalleled kindness. After seeing the suffering of the people of Soyo, she has drafted a plan t help the most destitute subjects, but she needs funds to make it happen.

I choose to invest 90 gold into her plan. We get the event Consort of the People, with -1 unrest, until King Diogo passes

13 Aug – Swellenham is now a full province:


Swellenham – Coastal South Africa, next to Cape, where Spain is, and Khosian and Fetishist. Fishing, 6 development, steppes. East is unsettled Graaff-Reinet, and inland are wealthy places. I order a Missionary over, and then send colonists to Graaff-Reinet

1 Jan, 1562 – I order some ships built – two Early Carracks

4 mar – I ge tan event and choose to invest innaval Force, for 10 years we’ll get +10% ship cost but -10% Dip Tech cost


1 Aug – Gabon is now a full city:

Gabon – Kongolese people, Fetishists but a Missionary is sent. On the coast. South fo Cameroon, north of Mayumba, and east of the Wasteland. Dyes, 0.51 made here, 6 development, 2.7% unrest, jungle, tropical, coastal

I pull back my colonists in Graaff and send them to Lega, which connects us with Burundi and places near the Lake Victoria nations

[Abe Sargent]

6 Oct – We get a Prospering Times events. Kind of like a golden age almost. We get +1 base tax in Munene and a bunch of ADM power

1 Nov – After the Castilian Monarch passes I reup our royal marriage

10 Nov – Buha defeated Burundi and absorbed them

We have gained a Holy war CB on Buha due to our colony being right next to them


1 Mar, 1563 – We are back to 8th again and a Great Power once more. We about to add a bunch of land, so get ready

1 July – Swellendam converts. Let’s change the culture

9 July – We get a Colonist Rush and get +25% global settler increase for 10 years

8 Oct – Malem is now Kongolese

24 Nov – Gabon converts. I order a Workshop built there

7 Dec – Our truce with Kazembe expires….

[Brian Swartz]

Impressive blobbing so far! It seems that all of Africa(and perhaps beyond) is bound to submit to the might of the Kongo.

[Abe Sargent]

Impressive blobbing so far! It seems that all of Africa(and perhaps beyond) is bound to submit to the might of the Kongo.

Thanks!

And why not? It is the way of hings for the lesser to submit to the greater! :)

[Abe Sargent]

War 6

I declare Holy War on Kazembe. Deus Vult!

I move both 10k strong armies into Kazembe, they have 7000 troops defending their capital

5 Jan, 1564 – Their army fled before us

19 Jan – We take Hemba, one province

3 Mar – Tabwa, another one, falls to us as well

27 June – Dip Tecj 9 – Carracks and Caravals – May Study Tech, Max IcoloiaRamge increased, and we get better ships with higher maintenance costs

11 Nov – Their capital of Luapula is ours

13 Nov – We get 200 gold, and we take down Kazembe

I ordered cores for all three. They are all an accepted Luba culture, and 50% autonomy

Hemba – tropical savannah, iron working, Fetishists, 0.11 gold made monthly, 7 development, 13.6% unrest, church and barracks here, south of the colony of Lega, on the west shore of Lake Tanganyika, by provinces such as Luba, Upemba, and Tabwa.

Luapula - Highlands, tropical, copper, church, barracks, Luban and Catholic, 0.17 made here, 1.9% unrest, 8 development, south is unclaimed Bemba, east is Tabwa, north Hembra, and west Upemba,


Tabwa – Also on the shore of the Lake, highlands, copper, barracks, 7 development, 0.10 made, Fetishist, 13.6& unrest, tropical, north of unclaimed Bemba, and east of Luapula


https://s9.postimg.org/chb28za2n/Kongo_1564.png

The three places we just took are the bottom right corner, where our military is.


I hand Upemba to the clergy


Post war we slide past Portugal to #7

[Abe Sargent]

20 Mar, 1565 – I move armies around for the next war and I built some more troops

1 Apr – Rebellion in Tabwa

22 April – Ended

27 June – Portugal’s heir passes, and we are the only nation in a Royal Marriage with them right now

2 Nov – Lega makes slaves


26 Jan, 1566 – We get a chance to offer a Grand Ball in Mpemba. I do it and max my prestige.

1 Mar = Admin 11 – Textile Manufactory – We can make them

12 Mar – Native Assimilation in Graaff

4 April – Culture shift in Kasanje is finished

1 May – Fish in Graaff-Reinet

17 May – Our claimed lands are now cores

Missionaries are sent to Hemba and Tabwa.

Let’s take a looksee at Buha real quick:

8 holdings, all Fetishist, combined some smaller states. Now we are about to drop the hammer.

16 July – I declare Holy War on Buha!

[Abe Sargent]

War 7

This war has two other local minors joining Buha. I order 12k forces from the unclaimed Rukwa to their capital of Ruguru, and 11k from Lega to Bafuriru, north of Lake Tanganyika

They retreat an army of 9k in front of my waves

1 Sept – We take Bafuriu

4 Oct – Nduga falls to us

17 Nov _ Karagwe follows

4 Dec – Their capital of Ruguru falls to us

26 Dec - Buzinga Falls

15 Jan, 1567 – Nkoma as well

25 Feb – The last two fall and we have every province in Buha

I don’t have enough of a war score to annex their whole nation yet, I have to smash their allies

12 March – Accommodation with natives in Lega reached. They will be nicer

4 June – I get a cool event – Religious Influences in Graaff-Reinet. I choose to convert them all, they gain more ferociousness but are now Catholic. It was the lowest level of peaceful, so we should be fine moving forward

18 June – We capture a province in Tumbuka

16 July – We defeat the Tumbukan army,

2 Aug – Mil 11 – Matchlock Musket – Better Cavalry Fire, Infantry shock, combat width, ad we can build weapons manufactories

7 Sept – Hemba and Tabwa both convertize

19 Sept – I take the capital of Nkore, another enemy foe

1 Oct – I crush and rout the Nkore army

30 Oct – Another Nkore province falls

1 Nov – Castile went bankrupt

7 Dec – The last of the Nkore holdings is ours

28 Feb, 1568 – I destroy another small army

27 Mar, - The capital of Tumbuka falls

10 May - The land one is ours, we now have that precious 100% warscore.

11 May – I annex Buha and gain some gold as well

Unless otherwise noted, all of these provinces have Rwandan culture, and Fetishist faith and are tropical and have 75% autonomy



Bafuriru – North of Lega, north of the Lake, and south of Lake Kivu, hills, grain, 23.7% unrest, 7 development. I order a core. South is Nkoma, on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.


Nkoma – I order a core here for the iron mines, 23.7% unrest, 0.06 made, hills, 9 development, church here, on the shores, south along the shore is Ruguru

Ruguru – Hills, 6 dev, core ordered, salt is the trade of choice here, 18.7% unrest, 0.01 made. Marketplace is here. South is the unclaimed Lake Coastal holding of Rukwa, and inland of the giant lake is…


Buyogoma – Savannah, 18.7% unrest, inland, 5 dev, 0.01 made, grain farmers. Core ordered. Many of these cores are pretty cheap – this one is 26 Admin power, as one good example. East and on the south coast of Lake Victoria is…

Buzinga – 31 ADM spent for a core, savannah, 6 dev, iron, 0.02 made, 18.7 unrest, Takama culture instead of Rwandan, to the west, along the coast of Lake Victoria is…

Karagwe – Hills, iron working, barracks, church, 9 dev, Ganda culture, 18.&% unrest, 0.07 made here. 46 spent to core it. West is the holding of Nduga, …

Nduga – On the eastern shore of Lake Kivu, 11 development, highlands, iron, church, I spend 57 to core it, 0.06 made here, 15.7% unrest. South and center of everything I took is…


Bushubi – Hills, grain, church, 9 dev, not enough ADM to core, so I send in a Missionary instead.

[Abe Sargent]

This is a big one, let me take you a picture!


https://s21.postimg.org/a188hpxmv/Kongo_1568.png


Big gains in this war. 8 total holdings, and we removed the last threat here.


You can see the major gains from this war there. We have all of the holdings around Lake Tanganika, and then started around Victoria. The light green nation to the north of us is Nkore, and we have the two one province minors to our north as well. Both like us.

I use the blood money to Gabon and build a Textile Manufactory to pump those dyes


I pull back my colonists from Lega, and sent them to Ile Bourbon. I want to get them now while I can. And I have big colonial buffs as well right now.

[Abe Sargent]

27 May – Buganda, a one-province minor to our north accepts an alliance offer from us

1 June – Our Master Recruiter passed. We hire an Army Organizer to replace him


3 July – Swellendam is now Kongolese

I cancel the fleet basing rights we had with Kilwa.

20 Aug – Rebels in Karanwe

26 Sept – We kill them all

1 Jan, 1569 – Our colony was set up in Ile Bourbon. I pull back the colonists and send them to Mauritius.

I wasn’t expecting to do islands out there, but we are Catholic all the way, and they are the jewels of the Indian Ocean, so I wanted to grab them now, as Europe keeps moving in and around the area.

5 June – Our ruler gets the Midas Touched Trait and we begin to get better tax income!

3 Sept – We have moved to 4th in the Great Power race. We just slipped past Russia, and we are behind Austria

I cut some stuff for colonial maintenance ,like army and naval supplying to 50% each. I’ll use MIL power to drop any rebellions from my newly absorbed land in Rwanda and Lake Victroria

1 Jan, 1570 – Our explorer died, and I get another for my fleet

2 Feb – We get an Increased free trade event

23 May – Bushubi converts. I order up a core fore it.

1 Oct –

Dip Tech 10

The Flute

Trade Range, Trade Efficiency Settler Growth all increase and we can build better ships as well

18 Oct- We bring the one province minor of Busoga in the Lake Victoria area under our alliance banner

1 Jan, 1571 – Our heir came of age and gained the Zealot trait, which increases missionary strength

Alright, let’s try to circumnavigate the globe!

29 Mar – I get an interesting alliance offer. From Castile.

Portugal and Aragon are rivals and enemies. We are the only major ally of Portugal, the others are The Knights and Ethiopia. Castile is enemies and rivals with England, Aragon, and The Papal States. Hmmmm…

Castile feels threatened by us a bit, is looking to us an a wedge to use against Portugal, and more. So is this a relationship I want to use? I want Cape eventually from Spain.

Let’s do it for now

8 May – Revolt in NKoma

9 June – Defeated after I combined my armies due to my lowered maintenance

15 June – Most of the captured places are now core territories of our nation, and so I send Missionaries to Ruguru and Bafuriru

6 Aug – Get ready!

We get the Additional Colonists Idea from Expansion Ideas!

I send them to Xhosa, east of Graaff-Reinet to set up a colony and hit my mission

I give my clergy Buyogoma

[Abe Sargent]

16 jan, 1572 – I do another Animist Syncretisim event to incorporate my peoples

1 April – Lega is a full province


Lega – Slaves, jungle, tropical, 7 development, 0.65, core, Kongolese, Catholic, I order a workshop here, south of wastelands, connects Bafuriru and Kusu, and on northwest shore of Lake Tanganyika


I hand Swellendam to my noble estates

1 Sept – Bad news. Mauritius is Fish. Annoying

1 Dec – I lost some ships in the globe trotting fun times

I order some ships built

4 Mayl, 1573 – Ruguru converts and next is Nkoma

19 May - Bafuriru is next to see the light, and our next target shall be Nduga

26 May – Who’s a core? Bushubi is a core!

I order a Church in Lega

1 June – Who’s a full city?


Graaff-Reinet – Ngumi and Catholic, core, fush, coastal, between Xhosa and Swellendma on the South African coast. 5 development, steppes,0.16 made here, I order a culture change. Then I give it to the clergy

17 Aug – I get an event-based nobility inspired revolt in Lega

29 Sept – My combined armies defeated them

1 Feb, 1574 – Gift to the State arrives. I toss it into the treasury

29 June – Portugal declares war on Mutapa.

1 Aug -= Idea – Additional Merchants Idea, Expansion #2

I send the new guy to the Great Lakes trade node

22 Aug – Portugal asks us to join them in their war against Mutapa and their ally Mombasa

I accept

1 Nov – Ile Bourbon is sugar

Nov 8 – 11k of our troops arrive in Mutapa’s rear and begin wreaking havoc

26 Dec – They oust us from their land after barely beating

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1575 – Xhosa will make wine

My mission for Xhosa was a success and I get _25 global settler increase for 10 yers

20 Feb – We took Nsenga from Mutapa with my other army

1 April – We take Zumbo

11 May – Nkoma converts and Karagwe is next.

12 May – We took Shangwe

27 June – We defeat their army in Shangwe

30 June – Ndunga converts and next is….Buyogama

4 Aug – We win in Tete versus a different army

1 Sept – Mauritius is Self Sustaining


Mauritius – 11 development, coastline, fish, Kongolese, Catholic, 0.20 made, 75% autonomy,

I send these colonists to Ile Bourbon to finish that up Great Karoo, insland of Cape, Swellendam, and Graaff-Reinet

7 Sept – We win a major battle in Tete, but we’ve lost more than half our army

11 Sept – We capture Butua with a 1k army I made and sent over

20 Sept – Tete is ours

21 Nov – I take Buhara

31 Jan, 1576 – I choose a third option to an event called Cities Demand Old Rights wher eh king draws u a new list of rights, coming from the lawgiver trait

12 Mar – Mil Tech 12 – Spanish Square -0 We get a bunch of African troops and bonus tactics


1 June – By now, Portugal is still a no show, and most of our land gains have been reversed. Portugal’s holdings were taken, and nothing is happening in this war

Our new unit of infantry is the African Mountain Infantry

25 Aug – They barely oust us with combined armies form besieging their capital

We’re exchanging land in the back and I built a third army with 8k in forces to help

1 Feb, 1577 – We observe a comet and gain some ADM power

8 Mar, 1577 – Our Queen Passes

29 Apr – Buyoanga converts

Buzinza is next

18 May – Karagwe converts

21 June – I have been captured a bunch of smaller provinces in Mutapa again

5 Aug – Graaff-Reiet is our culture

[Abe Sargent]

20 April, 1578 – I capture a siege on Maniyka.

26 May – After my combined three armies force battle with their two, we win in Zimbabwe

27 Nov – Zimbabwe, their capital, falls to us

Do I force some land from these folks? I can take up to four provinces from them. And then leve Portugal to them. That would annoy Portugal, but the fact that Portugal asked me to join a war they declared and hasn’t sent one soldier to help, well I need some stuff. I can take Quelimane, Lolo, Lundu, and Nsenga, and that would be two poor holdings, two decent ones, and stretch a line from the coast to past Lake Malawi and near my inland expanding nation in the back. It would get me some badboy though. But it cuts Mutapa in half. I don’t get anything too valuable, like gold, but I get some stuff. So let’s do that.


I get some gold too

Quelimane – Coastal, next to Portugal in Sofala and Angoche. Ivory trade, tropical, the Zambezi estuary is here giving us bonus trade, coastline, Sunni faith, Nyasa culture, 0.08 made, 22.3% unrest, 75% autonomy church and marketplace are here. 7 development 0.08 made.

In land from that is

Lolo – 3 development, ivory, savannah, tropical, Nyasa people, Fetishist faith, marketplace, 0.01 made here, 17.2% unrest, 75% auto,

I cannot core Lolo until I have cored Quelimane. So I send in a missionary instead

Inland is…

Lundu - 9 development, cloth, tropical, savannah, barracks church, 0.06 made, Nyasa, Fetishist, 17.2 unrest, 75% auto,

Inland of that is…


Nsenga – Also a savannah, also tropical, also 75% autonomy, also 17.2% unrest, also marketplace, grain., also Nyasa culture amd Fetishist faith. 0.01 made here.

All of these are next to Mutapa, Portugal, Tumbukam and Maravi, so they are all near stuff of importance.

[Abe Sargent]

I’ll show you…



http://s12.postimg.org/ltv7n23kt/Kongo_1578.png


You can see the Kongo Line on the Zambezi in here, south of Lake Malawi. Note our solid reserves of cast, but our savaged manpower, which will drop some more before it starts heading back up again.

Now going to peace behind Portugal’s back won’t earn us any favors with them. But it does earn us land. Note the DIP as well. We’re about ready for another level of tech there

[Abe Sargent]

23 Mar, 1579 – Buzinza converts and Lundu is next.

1 Apr – I allow Portugal military access

1 May – Get ready! Great Karoo is….GOLD baby

9 July, 1579 – GET READY!!!

Our fleet set sail in and have just finished circumnavigating the globe. Our explorer, Cakasekene Rallum is the first to do so!

We gain a ton of prestige and DIP Power, which represents naval stuff.

1 Nov – Xhosa is self sustaining


Xhosa – Mountains, coastal, Nguni ,Fetishist, wine making, on South Africa coast, up from Graaff-Reinet, and next to unclaimed Natal. Core. 0,16 made, 5 dev, 1.1 unrest.

Where is next? Inhambane? Matsolo, both south of Portugal in Sofala and on the coast? Natal a nd Mtwtwa would connect us to Portugal from our holdings in South Africa. I could lock out a coastal lesser power like Lesser Namaqualand or Ezorongondo. I could head north and expand west of Cameroon and get Calabar on the coast near the Gulf of Guinea. But what I really want to do is connect my stuff internally. So I am aiming for Rukwa

On the southeast coast of Lake Tanganyika, connects Ruuru and Tabwa, and gives us the whole lake as aours, connects our central state to the heathen nation of Tumbuka, and puts us one way to closing with Nsenga and our Zambezi holdings we just took

1 Dec – Dip Tech 11

We get +100 max colonial range, and can build naval equipment manufactories


30 Mar, 1580 = Portugal is elected the new head of the HRE

10 Sept – Lolo converts. Next is Nsenga

11 Nov – Rebellion in Lundu

27 Dec – Defeated

1 April, 1581 – I purchase a Textile Manufactory in Cameroon. Yay Dyes!

1 June – Lundu converts and Xhosa is next in line

3 July – Major illness hits our colony in Rukwa. We spend some cash to organize a response to reduce th settler hit for five years.

[Abe Sargent]

2 Feb, 1582 – Quelimane is now a core, so Lolo is ordered to be next. I spent th e18 ADM power required to do so

1 June – Admin 12 – We can get more states, and can go to Admin Monarchies and Republics

29 June – Nsenga converts. Now I want to hit Quelimane next, the Sunni state. But it would take 333 months to get it to our side. Here’s the slow down:

-2% Sunni
-2% No accepted Culture
-0.7% Development

Base Value 2%
Stability +1.5
Act of Uniformity and De Heretico +1.5 cumulat8ive

So 5 vs 4.7

I send the missionary and then…

I pass the Blasphemy Act and get +1 missionary strength but -1 tolerance for Heretics


1 Au g – Rukwa is copper

1 Nov – Truce with Tumbuka and Nkore expires

1 Dec – Who’s a full province?

Ile Bourbon – 11 development, Core, coastline,Sugar, Catholic, Kongolese, 0/56 made here already, I order up a church here. (And another in Mauritius).

I am trying to butter up everything for making vassals, not allies. Nah, nevermind I’m a Great Power, what am I doing? Let’s flex my muscles!

1 Feb, 1583 –

Great Karoo – 7 development, gold, drylands, gold, Khosian culture, Fetishist, gold, 1.72 made here monthly, gold, inland of Spain at Cape, Graaff-Reinet, and Swellendam. Multiplae palces ner to it unclaimed. Gold. Core.

I hand Mbwila to the nobility and Chokwe to clergy

I demote Kuba as a culture

I promote Rwandan.

I order three Kuban holdings to become Kongolese


2 Feb – I use my Great Power to foce ally Busoga to break their alliance with Tumbuka

I send colonists to Inhambane, south of Mutapa and Sofala, and on the coast

[Abe Sargent]

3 Feb – I declare war on Tumbuka.

I want to absorb it, and connect my colony on Rukwa and the central state to my theft from Mutapa.


I order 22000 troops into their capital from Nsenga, and 10 k from Quelimane is heading over as well

10 Feb – Xhosa converts and I send to them G Karoo

3 Mar – We win in the Tumbuka capital

28 Mar – The province of Kalonga is ours

14 April – Ngonde is ours

25 April – Poland declared wr on Portugal, and I join our ally

3 July – Rebels captured all of Nkore

24 July – The capital of Tumbuka is ours

22 Sept – We annex them and stole some gold as well


Ngonde – Connecting Rukwa and Tumbuka, on the northwest shore of Lake Malawi, and with 5 development, tropical savannah, ivory, Nyasa culture, Feitishist people, 15.9% unrest, 75% autonomy, 0.04 made. I order a core here

South along the Lake Malawi west coast is…

Tumbuka – Savannah, tropical, ivory, barracks, church, 8 development, core orders, Nyasa and Fetishist, 0.05 made, 11.4% unrest, and 75% autonomy

South again along the coast is…

Kalonga – tropical drylands, Nyasa Fetishists, core orders 10 development, barracks, marketplace, church here, iron working, 0.06 cash made, 15.9 unrest, 75% auto. Core for here as well.

South is Lolo, west is Nsenga

https://s12.postimg.org/prffutih9/Kongo_1583.png

You can see the Lake zoomed in, and both of our recent adventures, as well as colony Rukwa to the west of Ngonde, near the top of the screen.

I recall our colonists from Rukwa and send them to Matsolo, downcoast from Inhambane

[Abe Sargent]

8 Oct – I reject an offer by Mutupa for military access

11 Feb, 1584 – I get a Foreign Military Expert event. We get an amazing general out of it with 5, 2, 2,2,bonuses. This makes him…

10 Mar – We have a Tea and Sugar and now sugar is up in value considerably

I order Workshop in Ile Bourbon.

30 Apr – I hand Ishindi to the clergy

10 May - Peace between Portugal and Mutapa. No land exchange occurs

5 Sept – Great Karoo now joins our Catholic brother hood. Next is a culture shift

21 Oct – Uh Oh

England declared a major Protestant Religious War against Portugal. Joining them are a ton of powers, Brandenburg, France, French Colombia, Scotland, Russia, Sweden, English Mexico, and about….22 minor powers in the HRE, against…Portugal, Norway, Portuguese Brazil, the Ottomans, Denmark, Aragon, and about 4 minors in Europe. Portugal calls us to their side. But I don’t want to fight in this mess. But I doubt any come down here, so okay, fine. We will protect our Catholic bretheren

24 Jan, 1585 – I grant Castile Military access

1 Feb – I order a culture shift in Xhosa

5 Feb – Lolo now a core

16 Sept – Accommodations with natives in Rukwa

1 Oct – Rebellion in Quelimane

20 Oct – Defeated

1 Dec – Idea –

Viceroys - +20% Global Tariffs

And we got this national idea with it:

Imported European Weaponry, -10% Mil Tech Cost for the rest of the game

30 April, 1586 – After losing more than 80000 troops, our side lost a major battle in War of the Protestant League.

1 October – The three new captures are all cores

Missionary to Ngonde


1 Nov – Our Army Organizer passes. I hire Diogo Boussombo, a lvel 1 Army Reformer to replace him

I had Lolo to the clergy

1 Dec – We have maxed the slave trade and get +10%

1 Jan, 1587 – Inhambane will be tropical wood

8 Jan -155,289 losses in another battle

1 Feb – Workshop for Luba


28 June – In the Polish battle, 140000 casualties by the defending forces

9 Aug – I grab a colonize Natal mission. I pull back colonial foces from Imhambane and send them over to Natal


8 Sept – In the ongoing Polish Conquest of Hlohov war with Poland vs Portugal, the defender (in this case Poland actually) just lost 137,000 more forces in a major battle

1 Oct – Just in case you care, our wars with Mutata and Mombasa and their subsequent peace traties have ended and we are free t oattack anytime.

24 Oct –Mutapa and Portugal are now rivals

[Brian Swartz]

21 Oct – Uh Oh

England declared a major Protestant Religious War against Portugal. Joining them are a ton of powers, Brandenburg, France, French Colombia, Scotland, Russia, Sweden, English Mexico, and about….22 minor powers in the HRE, against…Portugal, Norway, Portuguese Brazil, the Ottomans, Denmark, Aragon, and about 4 minors in Europe. Portugal calls us to their side. But I don’t want to fight in this mess. But I doubt any come down here, so okay, fine. We will protect our Catholic bretheren

Slacker :P. You are almost 150 years in. Why aren't those nations part of the Kongo yet?

[Abe Sargent]

To be fair, I'm only 80 years in.....:)

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1588 – New Tech!

Military 13

We get better artillery fire, shock, and can make better cannons. We switch to Large Cast Iron Cannons

1 April – Two things happen today. First some good news, Ngonde converts! Next up is Tumbuka! Second is sad news. Advisor Nunga Ndo, our Naval Reformer passes. We slide to Trader Bope Kena Ganga

1 July – The final war with Poland and Portugal ends with each side having lost an epic amount o soliders. Poland wins nothing but cash

7 Aug – We get an event called Religious Devotion. Catholics are flocking to our Tribal Kingdom from all over seeking a safe haven, and we are getting more and more conversations from others. We gain a bunch of Admin power and our clergy estae plyalty increases

1 Sept – Fish in Matsolo

13 Nov – It happens. Quelimane finally converts. Next for that missionary is Kalonga

29 Dec – Portugal again elected HRE

21 Jan, 1589 – We get a Times of Need event and can choose four options, We have a powerful dynasty. We have strong bonds with other powers like the von Hapsburgs. Queen Isabella of Castille is married to Garcia, son of our own royal house and a valuable aid and contact


We have a few options. Ask for some money, some diplomatic aid, some military help, or we are fine and gain prestige. I wish land were an option, I’d love o get Cape. I’d love to buy Cape or trade or something.

I send a letter requesting diplomatic aid…
28 Feb – We hear back and they are happy to help us out. We get some aid from the best diplomats the world has, and they train ours and work to help us better. We gain a ton of DIP power and +75 opinion swap

3 Mar – War against others, and Buganda into a war against Mutapa. We have Mutapa, Mombasa, vvs Castile, Buganda, Maravi, Hispaniola

I think they want to annex one province Maravi and prevent us from doing so later. They are besieging her capital right now

I could declare war back, but I still have some badboy to deal with.

5 April – Xhosa’s culture is now ours.

1 June = revolt in Tumbuka

21 July – After a surprisingly feisty battle, they are put down


22 October – Our explorer gets badly drunk off Titi Brew, and it comes back to haunt us, and we lose some prestige.

1 Dec – Our advisor – Natural scientist, passes. Next is a level 1 Treasurer

23 Dec – Tumbuka converts.

1 Jan, 1590 – New Tech

Admin 13 -0 +5% production

21 Feb – We grant aid to a noble estate and gain loyalty

11 March – I send a peace offer to England they accept for a hundred and change in cash, just to get it over. We were behind something like -55% or so.

1 May – I unlock a new idea:

Free Colonies, Exploration Idea, we get another colonist. I send him to Rukwa to help finish that one more quickly

6 July – Great Karoo is now our culture. I order up a church

15 July – Kalonga converts

[Brian Swartz]

To be fair, I'm only 80 years in.....

Ah yes, forgot you weren't using the early start date. There's still time then.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1591 – We are in a good place in the Indies, we see most of it now, from our Explorer’s Expeditions. The only major force here is Portugal, but they aren’t here in any major force.

1 May – We are now 5th in Great Powers, Portugal is off the list. The current list in order from 1 to 8

Ottomans
France
Austria
Poland
Kongo
England
Russia
Castile

1 July –

Rukwa – Now a major nation, 5development, Kongolese, Catholic, highlands, tropical, copper, 50% auto, next to us in Tabwa and Ruguru, southeast coast of Lake Tanganyika, and 0.26 made here, core, east and south is Ngonde, and we have a few other internal holdings that no one claims, like Hehe, Bemba and Luangwa.
Next?
I have a few options rolling in my head

1. Grab a wealthy island now in the Indies, to use as a base of operations for expansion there.
2. Take Mtetwa, the connection between our colonies in Natal and Matsolo, and build that up, creating one continuous line up the coast. It’s very low development though.
3. Take all of the African coastal terrain off the map now. All of the remaining ones are 3-4 development with high nasty natives, save for Lesser Namaqualand with nice natives but the same lack of development. This would be strategy only against European expansion into the area.
4. Portugal has most of the Indian Ocean holdings – Christmas Island, Diego Garcia, Mahe, Cocos Island, but the Comoros Islands are free, but angry naives and low 3 development is nothing.

Let’s grab Spice Islands for the win?

I’m heading for Flores, the farthest I can reach colonially. It’s 11 development, low natives that are very nice, and Will take around a year for my colonists to arrive .

1 Aug – Natal will be making slaves

3 Aug – I rent my biggest army, the 2nd one, as mercenaries and Condottieri to the Maravi to face war against the others. I am making a ton of money now, since that army is not being paid, and they are paying me some cash too.

We get colonial enthusiasm post Natal-s Slavery announcement

Next mission – turn Inhambane into a city

15 Feb, 159 2- We get poor copper for a few years and artillery costs rise a bunch

18 Mar – I demand Busoga leave the alliance with Nkore

23 may – Maravi retakes their capital with our rented army

14 June – Our explorer passes. The one who circumnavigated the globe has died.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Dec – Our truce with Nkore is over…

I declare holy war on Nkore

23 Dec – We rout their army in their capital holding and begin the siege

11 Jan, 1593 – The occupation of Lisboa has frightened many and forcing them to flee. Some are fleeing to our shores. I can choose to welcome them, gain some prestige, and piss off all of the protestants, or the other, and send them home, but only annoy Portugal. I welcome them. Welcome to Southern Africa, and the Kingdom of Kongo! God wills it!

13 Feb – I hire Condottieri from our ally, Buganda.

1 April – Our army reformer died. I hire a Master Recruiter to increased or manpower reserves and speed


1 June- Bunyoro falls

22 June – We lose a province of Ngonde to one of Nkore’s allies, Mogadishu

5 July – Pubungo falls

12 July – Accommodation with natives in Inhambane

31 July – Nkore falls to us. All three holdings are ours

2 Aug – In Natal we encourage the Encomienda System which drops their aggressiveness massively an d gives us bonus goods produced for a few years

1 Nov – We retake Ngonde

17 Nov – We defeat an enemy army in Nkore

4 Dec – I give Maravi military access

4 Jan – Our tired army loses to Ajuuraan in Karanwe

15 Jan – Peace with Maravi and others

22 Feb – We chase and defeat the Ajuuraan forces in Kusu.

30 Mar –

Our ruler, Diogo, has passed.

Now, if you will recall, we had some issue with a heir, so we had a weak heir.

This is Henrique I, 5/1/5, solid at a lot of stuff, and a He is a Zealot as well, and 38 years old. His heir is strong, Ambrosio, 5/3/5, 32 years old with Charismatic Negotiator

So we are safe

We get pretender rebels in Tabwa.

17 April – We accept a royal marriage from Castile, and then Portugal joins us.

1 May –

Matsolo – Full-fledged nation now. I send a Missionary, Nguni people, jungle, tropical, fish, 9 development, 0.41 made here, 12.7% unrest. Upcoast from Mtetwa and downcoast from Inhambane on the Coast of Natal .

4 May – Luckily, we had an army near Taba and were able to force them down

5 June – I hire another Explorer and load up our vessels in Mauritius and send them out once more

14 Sept – In order to force their hand, I have arrived at Ajuuraan and just took Pate.

14 Oct – Songhai announces us as their rival

26 oct – We take Kismoyo

6 Dec – We take BArawa

15 Jan, 1595 – I am besieging their capital as they retake the ones we gathered.

10 Feb – We cancel the Condottieri

1 April – Flores is Spices!

15 April – They retook all of the small land we had

1 Aug –

Natal – Now self-sustaining, core, I order a Missionary here, Nguni, slaves, jungle, on norder with Xhosa and Mtetwa, 0.22 made herem 12.8% unrest, 3 development

My next target is Mtetwa and East Timor

7 Sept – We defeat an enemy army again

17 Oct – Merca, the capital of Ajuuraan, falls to us.

19 Oct – We get the three provinces of Nkore, 210 gold, and peace

We lost 17k troops ot their 38k

[Abe Sargent]

https://s13.postimg.org/6imole5cn/Kongo_1595.png

Here, I zoomed in to show you where we are

We took the three provinces west of Lake Victoria and behind the two one province minors there. Another nation bites the Kongolese dust!

I’ve got a little cash, we still have an okay manpower situation at 16k,and we only gained about 12 badboy, and I lose around 2.5 annually, so in a few years, I can hit Mutapa hard for that war we all know is coming ,and unite my South African colonial efforts with our expansion eastward.

Here, let me show you our area down there as well

https://s11.postimg.org/i2ljd4umb/Kongo_SA_1595.png

You can see Quelimane and Lolo above, and the Portuguese holding of Sofala currently in rebel holdings. I can war with Mutapa, and then take the inland provinces to connect me behind Portugal, and that would also prevent them from expanding in as well. Meanwhile, you can see Inhambane and Matsolo, the future colony of Mtetwa, and Natal, Xhosa, and more to the south. I’ve gotten the wealthy ones here, but I want to slowly move and take the whole area, but my major concern is Lesser Namaqualand, and then Roggeveld to prevent Castile from heading inland.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, here are my new shiny possessions:

Nkore – The former capital, north of Nduga, west of the Buganda people, and around the Lake Rutanzige. 8 dev, Ganda and Fetishist folk, grain, tropical, hills, 75% auto, 18.3 unrest, and church and marketplace here. West is wastelands

North is…

Bunyoro – West is wastelands, near and around Lake Albert, north of Nkore, and west pf both Busoga and Buganda folks. Savannah, tropical, church, barracks, marketplace, salt trade, Ganda and Fetishist folks, 23.1% unrest,and 75% autonomy, 10 dec, 0.07 made here

North is….

Pubungo – Savannah, tropical, barracks, 4 development, 23.1 unrest, 75 auto, 0.00 made, Acholi people, Fetishist faith, wool, north is wasteland, west is another wasteland.


Not a lot of major winners, but I wanted to pull Nkore off the map. Cores ordered for everyone.

We now have maps of the entire world. Since 1506, what has happened?

France expanded into northern Italy, Sweden has almost absorbed Denmark,

[Abe Sargent]

24 Oct – Matsolo converts. Culture next

Let’s do some ideas.

Exploration Idea #7 Global Empire – We get +25% Naval Force Limit, and finish that ide,a letting us declare war on any primitives we encounter

Expansion #3 – Faster Colonists – We get +10 global settler increase

This unlocks a national idea:

Diplomacy with European Monarchs +1 Diplomatic Reputation and -25% envoy travel time

8 Nov – I decline military access to mutapa

1 Dec – Let’s take a look at my finances, just to give you a heads up of where we are right now:

We make monthly:

20.9 taxation
13.83 production
6.6 trade
2.02 gold

For a total of 43.40

We spend this monthly:

5.29 Advisors
4.00 State Maintenance
6.47 Colonial Maintenance
0.73 Missionary
1.66 Root Out Corruption
17.94 Army Maintenance
3.71 Fleet Main

Total Expenses – 35.55

Total cash making is 10 monthly, roughly. So we’ve got cash to spare. I had a level 2 advisor that dropped to level 1 when I needed a replacement, and then we were building up my military during that war, so now I have 47k forces, just a little below the force limit of 51.

25 Dec – Protestant is now the dominant faith in the HRE and Portugal was forced to abdicate as emperor

7 Jan, 1596 – I declare Songhai a rival too I suppose

I hand Lwena to the clergy

23 Feb – Major news!

The Pope has just announced we have a saint in our ancestors (I am ruling it is Alfonso I), and we get +1 stability for free! And there it is back from the loss we had when our new King took over

1 Mar – Portugal back in Great Power land

1 June –

Inhambane – We finish our mission here as well. I make it a core. Jungle, 9 development, tropical, tropical wood, 0.19 made here, Nguni, Fetishist, I send a Missionary,

Next up I pull back the colonist in Mtetwa to set up in Lesser Namaqualand, and then we’ll hop back over to the dangerous Mtetewa to lean on it

I take a mission to make nice with the Papacy and send n our diplomat

21 Aug – Major disease strikes in colonies., We invest in the aid of the locals, and spend some cash, reduce native pissed off levels, and increase settler chances

1 Sept – I hand Malem to the noble estates

13 Nov – Natal converts. Next is culture, I spend that 22 to swap it over to Kongolese

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1597 – We get some bonus noble loyalty

1 June – Our Trader adviser passes. Next is Spymaster level 1 guy

19 Oc – Inhambane converts. Next is culture here as well

15 Nov – I spend 100 Mil to keep down some serious rebellion stuff

1 Feb, 1598 – We get an event, a Castillean spy is believed to be a diplomat as well. I cut him off from important things rather than lower our reputation with Castile.


1 July- Mtetwa gets Naval Supplies

22 July – We find a more suitable place in Mtetwa to settle, so we move to it and increase the taxes here by 1

1 Aug –

Flores – Core, island, spices, coastlands, tropical, 11 development, Papuan culture, Animist faith, I send over a Missionary, 10.2 unrest, 0.55 made here already,

I send this colonist to…

Ampom – island south of Ceram in the Sea of Banda

27 Nov – Our Nkore holdings are now all cores

I send a Missionary to Pubungo

1 Dec – We max relations with the Papal States , and get some nice mission bonuses. I take a keep money mission, which we are doing well right now, I’m saving up for a manufactory

14 Jan, 1599 – There is a big war out by the Horn fo Africa.

15 Jan – I order Busonga to break their alliance with Mutapa

1 Feb – Accommodation with natives in Mtetwa


1 April – East Timor will be Tea

17 May – Natal is Kongolese

[Abe Sargent]

2 June – I declare war on Mutapa

Beginning of War 11

This is the War that is going to end the Mutapan threat

8 July – They capture Inhambane

12 July – Sena falls to us

1 Aug – We defeated their Navy in the Coast of Sofala

8 Aug - Zumbo falls to us

1 Aug – They take Matsolo

19 Sept – We take Shangwe

25 Sept – They take Mtetwe

1 Nov – We take Butua

4 Nov – Natal is theirs

17 Dec – We take Butera, they take G-R

27 Dec – Flores converts. Next is culture. Just took 22 to do

1 Jan, 1600 – Military Tech gain – 14 – Tenaille, we get better iunfantry fire, can build bastion defenses, and get Africian Hussars

I send a Missionary to Nkore

8 Jan – Ambom converts to Catholic right now

30 Jan – Great Karoo is theirs

13 Feb -0 Swellendam is theirs

25 Feb – Pubongo converts. Next is Bunyoro

7 Mar – We captured the fort of Lomwe

16 April – Makua falls to us

1 May – Angoche is ours

22 May – We win in a battle on the Gulf of Zambezi.

5 June – We capture the fort at Manyika!

11 June – We take their capital, Zimbabwe

24 June – Madanda is ours

I combine my two armies behind my major leader and send it into Imhanbane and down the coast to find and take out the Mutapan forces

9 July – Tete is ours

24 Aug – Massapa is ours

1 Sept – We take Inhambane back

4 Sept – We capture them in Xhosa, and battle begins

16 Sept –We beat their army

13 Oct – Portugal develops veneering, and tropical woods increase in value

17 Oct – We retake Matsolo

26 Oct – We retake Xhosa

13 Nov – East Timor converts to Catholic as well

1 Dec – Mtetwa is ours

8 Jan, 1601 – The army that fled just took Ngonde

18 Jan – We take Natal

12 Feb – Great Karoo back

25 Feb – We force a fight in Rukwa

7 Mar – We rout their army

26 Mar – GR back in our control

31 Mar – Swelledam as well, and South Africa is back to us


1 Apr – Portugal? No longer a great power

19 Apr – We take Ngonde back

3 May – Nkore converts

9 May – Accommodation with natives in Ampom.

24 May – The siege of Mozambique is over and we take it….

4 July – We take Ibo, and have destroyed the armies, navies, and captured every Mutapan holdings and have a 100% warscore.

Time for some shopping

[Abe Sargent]

So what do I want most?

Tactically, I need Sena, Manikya, and Madanda, which link to connect us. After that I go for value.

Those three get us to 24 warscore.

Massapa and Butua have gold mines, so they are next.

Hmmm….

Bujera and Zimbabwe are on the table.

Actually, for 91 warscore, I can take everyone of the 10 provinces on the west side of that canal we made, leaving just 5 provinces on the coast and inland for Mutapa.

Actually, I could then add in any one province not named Angoche. I;m thinking Makua to separate them. Now if I take it, I am about to get 28.7 badboy. Which is a lot. But we just added 11 provinces and some gold to our roster.

So lets do it.

Here, let me show you the pre-diplomacy stuff


https://s22.postimg.org/k7q0rooxt/Kongo_1601.png


You can see the stuff glowing bright green, thast’s what I’m taking, plus the bit of cash. But it’s worth it to end Mutapa as a force. They are left the three coastal provinces that that small one by Makua.

[Abe Sargent]

BOOM!


I spend 155 to core the 6 Zimbabwe provinces. 21 for Makua, 26 for Shangwe and 88 for Zumbo, Sena and Tete

Unless I tell you otherwise, they are Fetishist, Shona culture, 75% autonomy ,and 22.6 unrest


Makua – savannah, tropical, ivory, Makua people, Sunni faith, 4 development, marketplace, 0.02 made her,e 22.6 unrest.

Sena - 6 dev, savannah, ivory,tropical, marketplace barracks, 0.04 made here

Tete – 6 dev, savannah, tropical, inland center of trade, marketplace, barracks, 0.03 made here, ivory here as well

Zumbo – Savanah, ivory, 5 development, note this is not tropical, 0.02 made here, marketplace.

Shangwe – Marketplace, savannah, grain, 5 dev., nothing made here,

Massapa – Highlands, GOLD, 5 development, 0.22 made here, regimental camp, marketplace

Butua – Highlands, GOLD, 8 development, 0.28 made here, church, marketplace,

Manikya – Highlands, Ivory, marketplace, level 2 fort, 0.02 made here, 4 dev

Buhera -Highlands, 3 dev, Ivory, 0.01 made, regimental camp, marketplace

Mandanda – Jungle, 3 development, 0.01 made, ivory, marketplace, regimental camp

Zimbabwe – GOLD, Highlands, 7 dev, 0.13 made here, barracks, marketplace


Mostly poor stuff, the gold is the winning provinces.

[Abe Sargent]

14 July – Bunyoro converts

1 Aug – We gain enough cash to finish our quest…

I take one to reduce overextension

I choose Persia as a rival

Weapons Manufactory in Mpangu, next to our capital, with its rich copper

27 Aug – I decline military access for Mutapu

1 Nov – Lesser Namaqualand is fish

1 June, 1602 –

Mtetwa - Now a full holding. Naval Supplies, jungle, coastal, Nguni, Fetish, I send Missionary in. 0.23 made, 11.7% unrest, 4 development

Next target is…

Ezorongondo, 3 development coastline on the African coast in Angola

1 Oct – Chinaware in Ampom

2 Feb. 1603 – Persia chooses us as a rival as well

1 Sept – New Colony completed

East Timor - 9 development, Tea, Catholic, Papuanm grasslands, tropical, 0,26 made here, 50% autonomy, culture shift ordered here for 18 Dip

West Timor is next in line


5 Sept – Conversion in Mtetwa, Culture shift on deck next

1 Nov – Our advisor, the treasure, passed way. Hmmm. Let’s do this level 1 Natural Scientst

1 Mar, 1604 –Our leader, Henrique, gains the Well Advised trait

Portugal is the new Papal Controller

10 Mar – I pay some MIL tech to pay down some rebels

28 July – Matsolo is now Kongolese. I order a Workshop here

9 Aug – Get ready

All of the 11 places we took are now CORES!!!

We reduce overextension, Next mission?

Colonize Cerem

I pull back some colonists and send them over

I send Missionaries to…Madanda and Buhera

6 Sept – I give Madanda and Nsenga to the clergy and Manikya to nobility.

1 Dec – More MIL spent

1 July, 1605 – I steal maps from Songhai

10 Dec – First two conversions done. Next? Zumbo and Maniyika

1 Jan, 1606 – A little more MIL is used

1 Feb – I send Songhai a little gift

1 Mar – We have an Influential Preacher who we mark as a Bishop. Gain 10 prestige

4 April – Songhai agree to military access. I create a Conquistador to head in and take a look around

9 Apr – I decline military access to Mutapa

1 May – Ezorongondo now has Fish for trade

[Abe Sargent]

100 YEAR REVIEW

https://s21.postimg.org/bdplskb6f/Kongo_100_year_review.png

Here you can see us all zoomed out and looking pretty. Now a lot of that land that was filled in is wasteland. The map fills in when you are around it. It’s looks nice. Huge and many wastelands are there, like the Kalahari Desert, Northern Congo Basin, or Namibia. But it still looks pretty, right? Right!


My 5th colony pushed my budget into a crazy place. The costs of each additional colony is a lot more than the previous one, and the 5th is 10 gold monthly all on its own. We need to drop it to four after that. But my budget went from a nice surplus to around -1 a month. I can trim in other places if I need to, like naval, but not need to do that yet. We’re still at a healthy treasury.

[Abe Sargent]

Our ruler is King Henrique, 50 years old, Zealot, Well Advised, 5/1/5 stats, and his heir is Ambrosio 5/3/5 44 years old. Charismatic Negotiator. So we are set here.

Our accepted Cultures are Luba, Kongolese, Mbundu and Rwandan

We are allies with Castile, Portugal, Buganda, and Busoga

RM with Portugal and Castile

We have 13/11/14 tech. Where does that put us? Not that great. Ajuuraan on the Horn of Africa is 9/11/13. Castile is 12/14/14. Portugal 13/15/14. Now, France is 14/16/16, and England 16/15/16. Catholic is behind because you are able to get the institution from 1550 of the Printing press much easier if you are Reformed or Protestant. We aren’t. None of the Catholics have it yet. I don’t have a single holding with it. That gives me a +50% penalty to techs right now

On the other hand, my capital is at 80% Global Trade, the 1600 institution, and we will see it spread from there soon.

We have 19 ships with 36 force limit, and 49/59 army

We now know of most nations in the world, so our ledger this time will be a lot better:

We have 4t best income after France, Ottomans and Russia

We are the 3rd most developed nation in the world

We have the 5th highest max manpower

Not counting colonial nations like Portuguese Brazil, there are more Protestant nations in the world than Catholics, but just 20% the same number of provinces.

Our best provinces in taxes, from top to 10th

Loango
Kalundwe
Mauritius
Ile Bourbon
Ndongo
Lega
Benguela
Soyo
Mpemba
Nduga

Non-gold holdings by production?


Gabon
Cameroon
Loango
Mpemba
Ile Bourbon
Luanda
Lega
Benguela
Ndongo
Flores

We know of colonies, we could reach, that have these high base development:

Manila – 14
2 at 13
2 at 12 (One is Ampom)
2 at 11
4 at 10

All in Asia

In Africa, the highest unclaimed province is 6, the next is 2 at 5. And then 2 at 4. The rest are all 3. That’s why I was moving to Asia when I could.

We have 88 provinces.

C urrent colonies –

Ampom
West Timor
Ceram
Ezorongondo
Lesser Namaqualand


Ampom, at 934, is almost ready

Our general is the 5th best in the world right now

We have the 5th biggest army

The biggest trade nodes by total value are Genoa, Sevilla, and Lubeck. Kongo is very low.

Currently, these are the trade good values:

4.5 – Coffee, Spices, Copper
4.0 – Dyes, Silk, Cocoa, Ivory
3.75 – Sugar
3.6 – Cloth
3.5 – Fur
3.3 – Salt
3.0 – Tobacco, Cotton, Chinaware, Tea, Slaves, Iron
2.7 – Tropical Wood
2.5 – Wine
2.0 - Naval Supplies Fish, Wool, Grain


We are the production leader in Slaves, Ivory. We get a Slaves trading bonus of +10% for trading the most for our overseas tariffs.

Great Powers –

France
Ottomans
Kongo
England
Austria
Poland
Russia
Persia

Missing – Castile, Portugal

[Abe Sargent]

1 Nov –

Ampom – Catholic, 12 development, Chinaware, tropical, island, 75% auto, 0.21 made here, Moluccan culture -0 I order a culture shift

I send these colonists to Lesser N so help finish that one

Back making that cash again

7 Jan, 1607 – Mtetwa is now our main culture. I give it to the Clergy

19 Mar – We have both Missionaries succeed. Next is Massapa and Shangwe

16 May – Inhambane now a Kongolese culture too.

14 Sept - I get another Mass Conversion event for a colony – this time, West Timor is now Catholic, but a little more pissy

1 Nov – I order up a Weapons Manufactory in the Copper Mines of Anziku – two north of my capital, and one of my first conquests we took in that first war, so long ago

1 Jan, 1608 – Ceram will be growing Tea

Which finishes our mission, and gives us the cool Global Settler Increase of 25

6 Jan – Buzinga’s culture shifts.

4 Feb – Rebellion in Butua.

20 Feb – Defeated

24 Feb – Next mission is have more ships than Persia. I order some built

23 Mar – Accommodation with natives in Lesser N

28 June – Conversation successful and next’s Tete and Sena

1 Aug –

Dip 12 – Man of War. May slander merchants, get +0.4 nava morale

Admin 14 – Can build Plantations, Allows another Group of Idea


8 Nov – We win the naval race. We get many bonuses. Next? Make nice with Delhi

1 Feb, 1609 – We get Trading in Ivory bonus and better diplomatic stuff

What idea would I like? Quality? Offensive? Defensive? Trade Ideas?

I’m considering Maritime, Offensive, and Trade

1 Mar – Flores is now Kongolese

I order:

Workshop in Flores
Church in Inhambane, Matsolo


2 Mar – Rebellion in Makua

28 Mar – Put down

1 Aug –

Lesser Namaqualand – Khoisan people, Fetishist faith, Steppes, Arid, coastal, north and up the coast from Cape, and 3 development, 75% autom no gold made, and 1,8% unrest. Fish

I send these colonists to Roggeveld, the inland province that connects Lesser and us in Greater Karoo and Swellendam, and cuts behind Spain to do so.

16 Oct – Sena and Tete convert. Next up is Zimbabwe and Lesser N

1 Nov –

Ezorongondo – Finished as well. Coastland, Arid, 1.8% unrest, 4 development, 0.03 made here, Fetishist, Khoisan people, fish trade. This province was next to nothing. Just a coastal one in the middle of a wasteland otherwise. I hand it over to the nobility

Next colonial target is – Manila

[Abe Sargent]

9 Mar, 1610 – Agricultural Revolution In Shangwe, gives us better taxes there

1 April – Advisor Master Recruiter passes and we hire an Army Organizer, 1 star, as the replacement

1 May – I order:

Workshop for Inhambane
Church for Flores

2 June – We make nice with Delhi, finish that mission and gain some power and prestive. Next mission is to turn Ceram into a city

1 Aug – West Timor is Coffee

Busoga break their alliance with is

I begin to revoke military access and remove everything tying them to us.

16 Nov - I revoke my guarantee on them

5 Feb, 1611 0 Missionaries done. Next? Butua and Ezorongondo

7 Mar – Rebellion in Sena


10 Mar – east Timor – Now our culture.,. I order a church here

22 Mar – Rebellion over

24 June – Rebellion I Tete

10 July – They capture Tete

13 Aug – We defeat them and our general gained the Siege Specialist trait

1 Sept – England announces us as their new Rival


Ceram – Animist, Moloccan culture, Tea, coastline, tropical, 9 development, 0.087 made here, 75% auto, 1.6 unrest. We finished our mission hre and got some additional development

Next is Belitung, an island off the coast of Ajeh and Borneo

10 Sept – We retake Tete

I take a mission to built up my army

1 Mar, 1612 – Our general passes

2 Apr –

New Tech

Mil 15 – Mauricician Infantry – Better land morale, military tactics, and we can get new units. Central African Musketeers are replacing our infantry

May 1 – Sigh. I choose England as my rival too. I send diplomats to make nice with Austria, one of the enemies of England . England colonized that minorplace next to Cameroon, so we have them as a border, which hurst us

Unfortunately, France and England ren;t on opposite sides right now, and haven’t been for ages. Each is expanding in different ways. England took Lisbon from Portugal, France has much of Northern Italy and others.

What I would like to see is Iberian unity as a check. But Aragon is causing problems. Aragon and Castile are rivals and enemies. That’s not going to work long term. We need them all on the same page.

12 May - Ezorongondo converts and I order up a culture change

Next is Ceram

1 June – We now have a significantly bigger army, and won our mission.

14 June – Butua converts. But our next target will take a while. The Sunni province of Makua

1 August – I want to bring Maravi into our umbrella

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1613 – Roggeveld will be wool


15 Jan – I proclaim a guarantee on Maravi

18 Feb – I send a small gift

25 Mar – They agree to transfer trade power tio us

1 April – Manila? Spices!

9 May – I take a mission to wipe Busoga off the board

I order an army near

30 May - Border Friction event with England

26 Aug – A theologian arrives in our court today. It’s level 2, and will have 50% to hie and use. Okay’

Meet

Kekenya Youlou, level 2, -2 national unrest, 2 strength

21 Sep – Ceram converts- I spend 13 to swap culture

10 Oct – Colonial Ventures event, We invest in naval force and get -10% DIP TECH costs for a decade

1 Nov – As of today, three provinces, Luba, Kalonga and Mpempa have committed to the institution of Global Trade.

3 Dec – We get military access from Maravi

13 Mar, 1614 – I get a controversy and choose muskets over bows and lose some army tradition

24 Sept – Maravi joins our alliance

5 Feb, 1615 – I begin to use a Great Power to influence and raise up Buganda

24 Feb – I do the same for Maravi

1 Mar – Our spymaster passes. Next is another level 1 spymaster

1 July – Maxed relations with Austria

25 August - Makua converts

1 Sept – Erzon… now Kongolese

1 Oct –Belitung is Spices!

[Brian Swartz]

It’s looks nice. Huge and many wastelands are there, like the Kalahari Desert, Northern Congo Basin, or Namibia. But it still looks pretty, right? Right!

Absolutely. Doesn't at all look like someone threw up on the map or somebody's twisted Picasso impersonation. Put those thoughts out of your head.

I mean, yeah, what you said. Good job. Keep going. Destroy the infidels(aka Europeans). All that stuff.

[Abe Sargent]

Thanks!

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1616 – Treaty with Busoga ends. We declare war

I order my 15k army into their capital to face their 7k


25 Jan – We rout their army and begin to siege

3 Feb – Finally. Buganda agrees to be our vassal

1 July –

Roggeveld – Colony no more. Desert, Fetishist, Khoisan, 75% unrest, wool, arid, inland of Cape, Lesser Na, Swellendam and west of Great Karoo. 0.02 made here, and send a Missionary.

My next colony is in inner Africa – Muhambwe, 6 development, and east of four of us (Rukwa, Ruguru, Buzinza, and Buyogoma. )

12 July – Truce with Mutapa over

20 Aug – We take Busoga’s capital.

22 Aug – We annex them and take 600 gold as well

We get some bonuses for finishing our mission

Busoga – Savannah, 10.0% unrest, 75 autonomy, tropical, church, barracks, marketplace, fishing here on the north shore of Lake Victoria, 0.03 made, 12 development, Masaba people, Fetish, I send a core here.

8 Sept -Maravi agrees to be our vassal

23 Nov – I accept an offer from Maravi to be a March.

5 Mar, 1617 – I drop Mbundu as an accepted culture and add in Nyasa

1 April –

Manila – Animist, Filipino, Spices, 14 development, 75% development, center of trade, coastal, 0.22 made here. We order a Missionary here

Next is Sumbawa, next to Flores (Well, with a straits of Lombok over)

1 May – Want to know why I didn’t spend my blood money? You are about to find out…

I spend more than 1000 gold to embrace global trade.

This reduces our tech costs by -17 and gives us another merchant

We can use this tech reduction for…

Admin 15 – We can force march armies

Dip 13 – We can build Brig ships and get better trade efficiency


3 Sept – Ambom cultures

24 Sept – Roggeveld converts.

2 Jan, 1618 – We get Accommodation with our colony in Muhambwe


1 Feb –

West Timor – Catholic, Core, I order a culture change from Papuan to Kongolese, grasslands, 9 development, Coffee, 0.32 cash, tropical, next to…East Timor!

I take a mission to colonize Bikol, in the Philippines next to Manila

I withdraw the one from Belitung and send it to Bikol

[Abe Sargent]

1 June – I declare war on Mutapa. Let’s finish them

22 June 0 I defeat the Mutapan forces in Lomwe

23 Aug – I help our vassal take out some rebel problems it was having

I have a fleet blockading the Mozambique Channel, an army besieging Mozambique

Mutapa’s sole ally is Koln, so we should be able to finish it off pretty easily

25 Sept – Manila converts

26 Sept – I get a Libertas Ecclesaie event. Instead of pushing them to pay their fair share, I find the money elsewhere, gain some prestige, and loyalty and influence for the clergy estate


27 Nov – Mozambique is ours

20 Jan, 1619 – Angoche is ours

23 Feb – We defeat their army in Ibo

1 Mar – Our leader gains the Careful trait

24 Mar – Ibo ours

24 April – Busonga is now a core. Missionary sent

15 July – The ruler of Castile passes We renew the RM with them

21 July – Lonwe falls

1 Aug – Muhambwe is iron making

19 Aug -0 We annex them and grab 155 gold

We only got 9.7 badboy from that.

[Abe Sargent]

Ibo – Coast south of Kilwa, north of Mozambique, coastlands, Sunni, Swahili culture, 0.02 made here, ivory, 6 development, 15.8% unres,t 75 autonomy, dock and marketplace. I order a core. Tropical.

Mozambique – Core ordered for Sunni, Swahili, coastlands, 6 dev, 0.02, 12.0 unrest, 75 auto, tropical. Barracks. Down coast is…

Angoche – Ivory, coastline, connects Mozambique and our holdings in Quelimane, dock, church, 7 development, Swahili, Sunni, 0.06, 15.8 unrest, 75% autonomy, tropical. Core here as well.


Lomwe – This is that inland province you saw isolated. Level 2 fort, marketplace, ivory, tropical savannah, Makua people, Fetishint faith, I spend 20 to order a core, 75 auto, 12.0 unrest, connect Makua to our vassal in Maravi



Map?

https://s14.postimg.org/744t280ht/Kongo_1619.png

You can see them zoomed in on the coast. The 15k force is in Mozambique. We have a good set of stuff for everything.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1620 – I purchase…

Weapons Manufactory in our capital of Mpempa

30 Mar - Roggeveld now Kongolese

30 Sept – Busoga converts

1 Nov – Portugal embraces Global Trade as well

1 Jan, 1621 – Let’s look at budget again:

Income:

31.11 taxes
21.35 production
9.76 trade
3.86 gold
0.36 vassals

66.45 income

Expenses:

7.58 advisors
5.29 state
2.06 dip
1.0 fort
10.68 Colonies
1.72 corruption
23.15 army
6.18 navy

Total Expenses – 57.69

Balance – 8.76 a month


1 Mar –

Mil Tech 16 – We get +1 combat width, artillery fire and shock improve, we can build training fields and get a new cannon type. Our new artillery is the chambered demi-cannon

28 Mar – Ceram is now Kongolese.

9 June – Russia announces us as their rival

I order diplomat to Poland to make nice with Russia’s rival

18 July – Assimilation in Sumbawa

1 Aug – Sumbawa is Tea making

1 Dec – Portugal is the new Papal Controller

24 Dec – Portugal has them call for a Crusade vs Pasai. In the Indies.

1 Feb, 1622 –

Belitung – Sunni, Sumatran culture, island, coastal, tropical, Spices, 0.7 unrest, 75% auto, 7 dev, 0.05 made, and I send over a Missionary

1 Mar - Bikol is tea. We finish our mission to colonize it and get +25% settler growth for 10 years.

My next mission is to improve relations with Poland.

10 April – I pull my colonist from Muhambwe, and will let it grow on its own. I send it to Bangka, an island off the coast of Ajeh Island and right by Belitang

25 Aug – The four provinces we took from Mutapa are now cores

Missionary ordered to Lomwe first

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1623 –

Dip 14:

We can build Trade Companies and Galleass ships

I spend about 60 gold upgrading some ships

4 Sept -We max relations with Poland and finish that missing and gain a bunch of Dip ower

1 Oct – Rebellion in Lomwe

21 Oct – Defeated

25 Nov – Lomwe converts. Next? Angoche

1 Sept 1624, Accommodation with natives in Banka

1 Oct – I fire my 1 star advisor in Dip and hire a 2 star. I need to grow my DIP quickly. We need to raise it to 15 in order to start getting the Printing Press institution here.

1 Feb, 1625 –

Muhambwe – Iron working, center of Africa, 6 development, I order up a core, Kongolese and Catholic already, 0.31 made here, savannah, tropical.

This was the only inland African open space that was more than 5 development. Shoot, there are only 2 5s, Shaga and Highveld.

I withdraw my colonists from Sumbawa and send them to shaga, which is on the Lake Victoria east coast, next to Buzinga.

1 Mar – I order a Trade Company in Flores

5 Mar – We get a Growing Popularity of Tobacco event

4 June – We lost the slave trade effect

I am building up relations with the Indies

8 Aug – West Timor is now Kongolese and I order a Workshop here

15 Sept – Belitung converts. Ibo is next

23 Sept – The Netherlands declare their independence from France

1 Oct – Banka and Spices. Yay!

31 Oct – Accommodation with natives in Shaga

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1626 –

Bikol – Next to Manila in the Philippines, coastland, tropical, Tea, 6 development, 0.08 made, Animist, Filipino culture, and such

I send these to north of Manila in Tondo

1 April – I choose to execute a spy who is a member of our dynasty and lose 10 prestige

23 Oct – We begin to vassalize Buganda

1 Nov –

Sumbawa – Tea, 8 dev, 0.16 made, Papuan, Animist, next to Flores, tropical grasslands,

I pull back the colonists at Shagwe and send another to Lombok, which is an island that connects Sumbawa to Bali.

1 Mar, 1627 –

Adm 16 – Production +5%

1 April – Church for West Timor,

10 - June Accommodation in Tondo

8 July – Angoche converts. Next is Bikol

19 Sept – Assimilation in Tondo

2 Nov – Portugal embraces the Printing Press

I hand Bushibi to my nobility

1 Dec – Portugal back to Great Power hood. We are 3rd

2 Feb, 1628 – I need to save cash for the inevitable Printing Press hood

1 July – Tondo will be Coffee

1 Aug – Buganda is integrated. I get their 7k troops

Bugonda – 16 development, savannah, salt trade, tropical, inland center of trade, on Lake Victoria left coast, Ganda, Fetishist, 75% auto, 0.24 made.

26 oct – Bikol converts. Next has to be Bugonda

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1629 –

Bangka – We just finished our mission here as well. 8 development, 0.13 cash, tropical coastline, spices, island next to, and can be crossed by Ajeh island, Sunni, Sumatran culture, 75% autonomy.

Shaga has copper.


Next target is – the island of Sumba near Flores and all. I want to finish up that area. I promoted it to a state, so I don’t get the autonomy hit here you normally would


20 Feb – Ibo converts. Next is Sumbawa

1 July – Uh oh. Portugal views Kongo as their future subject, and will not be shy about declared war to force their vassalage!

So I ask for, and get, military access.

Is this a military decision? Did I miss building stuff?

Let’s compare:

Portugal – 35.07 income monthly – 14/16/16 Techs, 26k troops, 38 ships,

Kongo – 71.36 income monthly – 16/14/16 techs, 72k troops, 29 ships

We have 104 holdings. They have 31, not including Portuguese brazil, who has 40, and they have 18k forces as well, and 7 vessels

Why are you looking at me? I make more money, have more holdings, have a better army, have the same military tech, and am a long standing ally. Why me?

I order three top of the line ships built, just to make sure


28 Aug – Portugal beaks their alliance with us

And so it apparently begins.


In 1622, with soured relations and Portugal money grubbing, they attacked and invaded Kongo and lost. Without European aid, they just got trounced. Will history repeat itself?

10 Sept – Portugal cancel their military access

I order some of my forces to move about.

12 Oct – They cancel our military access

25 Oct – Lesser Namaqualand is now Kongolese

1 Dec – Lombok has the sexy Spices

5 Mar, 1630 – Bugana converts to the one and true faith. Mozambique is next

27 May – Manila is Kongolese.

1 July – Sumbawa converts. Bangka is on tap

10 Aug – Accommodations in Shaga

1 Feb. 1631 –

New Mil Tech –

Musket 17 -= We can make African Swarm Cavalry, and get better cavalry shock

1 July – New Idea:

Expansion #5 - +1 Diplomatic Relations

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1632 0 Army Reformer passes. I buy level 1 Master Recruiter

1 Mar – It’s Time.

Dip Tech 15 –

The Galleon. 50 bonus colonial range, we get early frigates and galleon vessels, +15 settler growth, and additional naval maintenance

We are so far away from printing press.

I order a Plantation in West Timor and Ile Bourbon

28 Mar – We lose a bunch of sailors after a major storm system hits

1 May

Tondo – Animist, Filipino, hills, tropical, 12 development, 0..22 made here, 75% auto, 8.7% unrest, Coffee, north of Manila,

Next –

Kuria Between Shaga and Busoga, and on the east Coast of Lake Victoria

I take a mission to colonize PAngasinan, north of Tondo

5 Oct – Accommodations with Kuria

29 Oct – I get an event, the king has become lovestruck with a commoner. We elevate her to Queen,

Vandana, 5/1/5

She is 38, he is 76

1 Nov – Sad. Sumba is Fish

1 Dec – Portugal no longer Great

1 Aug, 1633 – Church for Sumbawa,

15 Sept – We pipe in marriageable women into Lombok


Lombok – Spices, Animist, Papuan, grassland, tropical, 0.17 made, 7 development, next tp Sumbawa and Bali, core.

Next target is Pangasinan

11 Oct – Mozambique converts. Lombok is next

31 Mar, 1634 – Good Harvest event, gets me hundreds of cash and I build a Weapons Manufactory in Luba, an inland center of trade and iron making holding

9 April – Lanka converts. Tondo next

Bikol ordered to Kongolese culture. Belitung and Banka as well.

1 Sept – Kuria is a good place to mine iron

1 Oct – Our truce with Portugal is concluded, from them breaking their alliance with us

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1635 – Lombok converts

10 Mar – Hot Chocolate emerges, and cocoa demand rises

1 April – We begin to influence Bali.

4 June – They enter an alliance with us

13 July – Idea:

Expansion #6 – Improved Shipyards -10% build times for ships

And we unlocked:

Kongolese Idea – The Triangle Trade, +5% infantry combat, +10% trade power

31 July – I send a small gift to Bali

14 Sept – Tondo converts

27 Sept - Bali gets access to our places

1 Jan, 1636 – We are now making around 13 a month

1 June – Trade Company ordered for Songo, the Spices province we started the game with

15 Nov – Aragon and Portugal now rivals

1 Feb, 1637 –

Shaga – Kongolese, tropical highlands, copper, on east side of Lake Victoria, 5 development, Catholic, 0.27 made here.

I recall my colonists in Kuria, next door, and then send them to Highveld, the 5 province in South Africa,

1 June –

Sumba – Fish, Animist, Papuan, core, 5 development, 0.09 made, coastland, tropical, island, I order a Missionary to begin converting the local populace.

Next is…

Maguindanao, the south of Philippines, and a great holding


1 July – SAD NEWS

At the age of 79, our ruler has passed away.

Good bye!

Our new leader –

Ambrosio I Kuba, 5/3/5
75 years old
Charismatic Negotiator


Our new heir

Ntinu Kuba, Age 10, strong claim, 2/6/3

Luckily, I have enough ADM power to raise our stability back to 33

15 July – RM with Castile

Portugal won’t accept a new RM

July 18 – Austria does though

21 Sept – Native Assimilation out in the Philippines

1 Oct - Fish in Pangasinan, and that concludes our colonial mission. We get the bonus to expansion for 10 years

Our next mission is to make nice with Delhi

[Abe Sargent]

20 Mar, 1638 – I accept an alliance offer from Austria

20 Aug – Our Queen from Castile is getting big support from the people.

22 Sept – Catholics flock to our door from other places we gain a bunch of power and clergy loyalty

1 Oct – Our spymaster dies and we hire a level 1 Trader

18 Oct – Nobles rise up in Mauritius

19 Nov – They capture Mauritius

1 Dec – Sumba converts

I order a Weapons Manufactory in Kalonga, the inland center of trade out on the Zambezi

6 May, 1639 – Bikol is now Kongolse

23 May Native Assimilation in Pangasinan

6 Aug – We defeat the rebels in Mauritius

26 Aug – We retake the island

1 Sept -

Kuria – Highlands, iron, tropical, east coast of Lake Victoria, connects Busoga with Shaga, 5 dev, Kongolese and Catholic, 75 autonomy, 0.08 made here

I withdraw my colonists from Highveld and send them locally to…

Limpopo – a 3 development province, and the hole in my country maps by Zimbabwe. There’s a 30% chance it’s gold, so I want to develop and see

1 Oct – We finish making nice with Delhi and win prestige and power

I take a mission to city-i-tize Maguindanao

1 Dec – Tech

MIL 18 – We can get leather cannons, better maneuver and width on armies

1 Feb, 1640 – Highveld is wool

I havn;t had any badboy in a long time. Time to press forward?

I am getting closer ot having places that have Printing Press. The closest is Cameroon, next to Britain.

5 Mar 0 Belitung is our culture

8 Apr – I issue foreign trade restrictions and gain power and mercantilism

16 Aug – Bali gives us military access

9 Oct – Our king has passed

We have a queen regency until the heir comes of age in a few years

Luckily, she is expanionist, so we get +15 Global Settler Growth

1 Nov –

Pangasinan – Hills, 6 development, fish, Animist and I send a Missionary, Filipino, 75 autonomy, north of Tondo. Tropical.

Next target is Tulangbewang, on Atjeh and Malaysia

I boost stability again

[Abe Sargent]

5 Jan, 1641 – Banka is now our culture

I hand Sumba, the fish place, to the clergy

Ternate gives us military access. I am going to move my army from Flores to Ternate, and then declare war on Tidore and strike from Terante, out by Halmahera

1 Feb – Maguindanao is al Spice=y

1 Sept – Dep 16 – We get bonus trade range and efficiency

15 oct – Native Assimilation in Tulangbewang.

Now I am waiting for war. I need an idea…

5 Jan, 1642 – Cork Bottle Stoppers are developed and wine is up.

10 Jan – Bali agrees to transfer trade power to us

1 Feb – YAY! Who’s got gold? Limpopo has gold!

11 April – Ampom hit badly by storms and is down for a few years in trade and production

1 May – Bali agrees to be our vassal

4 May 0 ADM Idea:

Expansion #7 – Competitive Merchants, +20% Global Trade Power

Now we finished this and…We get -25% state maintenance and we have a permanent Cb vs Asia/Africa of lesser advancement…


18 May – Pangasinan converts

[Abe Sargent]

5 June – I declare war on Tidore

They have colonized Halmahera, Buru, Yamdena, and then their capital is Tidore. All are good, high quality stuff

28 June – Our heir is of age –

Ntinu Kuba

His heir is Garcia, 3/4/5

30 June – We win a sea battle in the Sea of Banda


1 July – Our ruler gets the Entrepreneur trait, and that’s 1-% trade efficiency

20 July – Halmahera falls

28 Aug – We win in the battle of Yamdena and begin to siege the province

23 Sept. 1643 – We get support for the war and lose some war exhaustion and gain clergy support

1 Oct – Tulangewang is fish

31 Dec – After a long siege, their capital falls

3 Feb 1644 – I rout their army in Halmahera

17 Mar – We retake Halmahera

31 May – After a longer time, the island fortress of Yamdena falls and is ours

1 Aug – We win in Buru and drive out their ships and kill them n the Sea of Banda

6 Sept – Buru

Looks like our foe has a colony deep in Tasmania, south of Australia.

I have no desire to head down there, so we take 206 gold and the four key holdings here I wanted in peace

Here’s what I took

Tidore – The former capital, coastlands, 14 development, Sunni, Moluccan, Spices, tropical, 13.7% unrest, 75 auto, core ordered, 0.48 made here. Church, dock, marketplace

It’s a straight to…

Halmahera – Straits to Tidore and Ternate. (I just cancelled our military access) Spices, 5 development, coastline, tropical, 13.7% unrest, 75 auto, core ordered, Sunni, Molucca0.03 made here, docks and marketplace


Buru – In the Sea of Ternate, and very close, and to the west, from Ceram and Ampom. Spices, 5 dev, coastline, tropical, Sunni, Moluccan, core ordered, 0.03 here as well.


Yamdena – Island, core ordered, 9 development, Sunni, Moluccan, Chinaware, 13.&% unrest, 75 auto, tropical, coastline, castle here. In the Sea of Bana, and east of us in Timor.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Oct – We finish our quest and…

Maguindanao – Spices, hills, tropical, Filipino, Sunni, 0.26 made, 14 development, 75 autonomy,

Considering how young the King is, I spend 500 to become Defender of the Faith. Until death, or a Catholic ruler with higher prestige buys it, we get:

+1 Missionary
+5 Morale of Armies
+5 Morale of Navies
-0.03 War Exhaustion
+1 Annual Prestige
+1 Annual Papal influence

+5% penalty for Tech

I pass the Advancement of Religion act, and we get +1 missionary strength and -1 unrest


This drops the missionary I send to Maguindanao from 166 months to 62 months

MAP!!!


https://s4.postimg.org/iytzh0et9/Kongo_1644.png


Here is the map for you. See the 13 ships in that center? That’s Tidore proper. Halmaherhera to its north. Then Buru is where the armies are on that island in the south, and finally the red fortress in the south is Yamdena.

We have the cash as we build up for Printing Press commitment. I have three provinces that are fully PP – Inhambane, Cameroon, and Loango. So we are spreading very, very slooowly

[Abe Sargent]

21 Nov = I pull back colonists from Limpopo and send them to Turkana,

I upgrade Luzon, the Manila area, to a state after pullingback one of my conquered areas in Centrla Africa.

I send colonists to two places here in Luzon – Cagayan and Ilocos – both lesser holdings.

1 Dec – I order Pangasinan to our culture,

1 July, 1645 – Our heir is of age and gets Midas Touched


1 Oct –

Linpopo –Gold, Kongolese, Catholic, Core, savannah, tropical, 1.95 made, 3 development, next to Zimbabwe, Inhambane, Matsolo and such

11 Nov – I hand Lualaba to the clergy

1 Mar, 1646 – Quelimane joins the other three in embracing Printing Press fully

Highveld – Wool, 5 development, highlands, 75 autonomy Arid, fetishist, Nguni, I order a Missionary here, 5.4 unrest, 0.05 made

I am making around 19 gold a month

12 April – Poor Uniforms events

1 Aug – I declare Holy War vs Ternate and order our forces in from Halmahera

18 Aug – We win a naval battle in the Sea of Ternate

10 Sept – We rout their army

9 Nov – Lombok is now Kongolese

11 Jan, 1647 – I offer to raise and influence Demak.

31 Jan – I do the same for Sunda

1 Mar – Ternate falls and the siege is over

12 Mar – We get an event for Naval Investment and -10% tech investment for a decade ensues

30 Mar – We take 964 gold and Ternate


Ternate – Sunni, Malaccan, Spices, 17 development, core ordered, 11.8 unrest, 75 autonomy, church, marketplace, dock, tropical coastline, 0.57 made here

13 April- I withdraw my colonists in Tulangbewang and send them to Palembang, next to it, and next to Jambi

11 June – Highveld converts .

10 Sept – Halmahera, Tidore, and Yamdena now cores

28 Nov – Buru core too

I send Missionary to Halmahera, Tidore

3 Feb, 1648 – Matsolo joined the list of Printing Press holdings.

1 Apr – Master Recruiter passes. Army Organizer, level 1, hired

2 Aug – Cagayan – Coffee

1 Sept – Trader passes and we hire a level 1 Statesman

1 Nov – Dip Tech 17 – We can build Merchantman ships, Trade Depots, get better trade and colonial ranges

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan. 1649 –

Tulangbewang – Jungle, tropical, Sumatran, Sunni, Fish, 9 development, 75 auto, 0.03 made here, tip of the island, straight and across from Banten held by Sunda

6 Feb – RM with Austria ends with the death of their leader

14 Feb – We renew our vows and…

Queen Maria Theresia 4/3/2 arrives, age 27, with Entrepeneur


1 Mar – Ilocos is Tea now

13 May – Tondo is Kongolese

I order a workship here in Tondo and another in Manila

24 Sept – I invest some MIL to keep down some rebellions in the islands

14 Oct – Mission, befriend Scotland

7 Dec – We convert Maguindanao. Culture next. Tulangbewang is next on the Missionary list

1 Jan, 1650 – The next institution is Manufactories

1 Feb – I can get ADM tech, but we are so close to cutting this penalty I want to keep it.

5 April – Ternate cored.

18 apri – We get a Poor Copper event

10 Oct – Ilocos becomes Catholic

1 Nov – Palembang is Spices!

26 Mar, 1651 – Halmahera converts

Ternate next

1 May – Sena is now Printing Press Embracing

12 Aug – Highveld is Kongolese

1 Sept – Madanda embraces P Press too

Is that enough to put us over the mark needed to move my nation over?

Almost. 9.5% of my development.

[Abe Sargent]

2 Feb, 1652 – We get maxed relations with Scotland and finish that mission. Next mission is to build a plantation in Tondo.

28 Mar – I reach out to elevate Maravi again

28 May – Native Assimilation in Cagayan


1 June – Our leader gains the Architectural Victory trait – 10% build costs. And we get…


Cagayan- Core, hills, tropical, Coffee, 6 development, 0.20 made, Filipino, Animist, west of Ilocos, north of Pangasinan, and in the Luzon strait, north and east coast of this area.


I order colonists to Bengkulu, the last in the Sumatra Ajeh area.

1 July – Benguela is now Printing Press Material. If you’ll recall, it had a huge development. And we need 10% of development, not land. That pushes us from 9.5% to 11.5%

I spend around 2000 cash to…

Embrace the Printing Press

1. We lose the 50% penalty for the Press for tech
2. We get +5% stability cost bonus


Plantation ordered for Tondo with the cash I have left

Tech Gain!

I only need a base of 600 for Admin tech 17. With my reduction, I now need a modified 492 – subtract from neighbors, ideas, and then bonuses for Defender of Faith, Manufactories, and Increase over Time.

Admin 17 – University

We can get +9 states, Admin Eff +20, Dev Eff, +10, can build University

I need 528 for 18, and we have 329 left

MIL – I need 642 for Mil 19, and we’ll have 117 left after

We can build Star Forst and get more military tactics


We need 522 for the next Dip – DIP 18. We have 508. So soon…

15 July – Persia removes us as a rival

We are about to swim in cash

I en-state:

Moloccas – We spend a hundred ADM to up their cores them.

This will remove the autonomy in these provinces, so Ceram, Ampom – no autonomy, required, and most of the places I took are in the Moloccas as well.

Ugunda – Back by Lake Victoria, most of these are now full holdings

I give Pupungo, Nkore to clergy. Kasanje, Natal, to nobility

27 Aug – Portuguese Brazil declare war on Portugal

Other European nations are moving into the Indies.

I am in a race. I leave my colonists in Ilocos and send it to Manado, on Sulawesi island

2 Oct – We regain trading in slaves bonus

1 Nov – I spend 50 MIL to cut a rebellion potential in the Indies

DIP 18 – We can Sow Discontent in spy war, get Naval Morale +0.50. We can build Galiot.

I spend a few hundred to upgrade my fleets

8 Dec – Because of how great and magnanimous the Queen ad King are, we get an 80% chance of +100 DIP power or +1 dip skill for my King. Tech

1 Jan, 1653 – We are currently making around 35 gold a month

5 Jan – I enact Sunday Schools and we get +1 Missionary Strength

I order:

Workshop for Ampom, Ceram,


I turn South Sumatra into a state. Spend some ADM to finish their cores.

25 Jan – Tidore converts

Cagayan is up

1 Feb – Workshop in Bangka, Belitung, Church for Manila, Workshop for Lombok


1 July – Workshop for Quelimane

1 Aug – Tulangbewang converts! I spend 13 culture to change it.

I hand it to the nobility

Yamdena next for conversion

1 Dec – We lose that good theologian. I hire a level 1 Natural Scientist

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1654 0-

I order – Church in Ceram, Ampom, Workshop in Mpasu, Mayumba

24 Mar – Cagayan converts Culture next

12 April – Poor Iron event

1 June – We are trusted around the world as honest merchants, and our trade power increases

4 June – Rebellion in Ternate

28 June – We lose

15 Aug – We lose Ternate

1 Sept – Since I am dealing with Ternate, I can’t fuss with others and I spend 50 MIL to reduce another revolt

18 Sept – I start working on claims on Portugal

2 Nov – Disease spread in our colonies. I spend money to fix them

12 Nov – We defeat the army in Halmahera

30 Dec – We retake Ternate

1 Jan, 1655 – If I wanted to, I could embrace Manufactories institution, we are at 12.3% of my world. But it would cost almost 3k, so I’ll build up my cash while my places are embracing it.

2 Feb –

Palembang – Spices, 10 development, jungle, tropical, coastal, in South Sumatra, I corer a core, 0.40 made, 0.06 unrest, next to Pasai, a local tribe. I order a Missionary here.

Next target is Lanao, next to Maguindanao

1 May – Portuguese Brazil won independence.

Now just Brazil.

16 Aug – Ternate converts

1 Oct –

Ilocos – Tea, hills, Filipino, Catholic, core, 6 dev, 0.18 here, tropical, top of Luzon, west of Cagayan, and coastal on the straight of Luzon.

I pull back my colonists in Bengkulu and send them to Sula, some islands in the Sea of Celebes, near Buru,

1 Dec – Bengkulu is Spice too

28 Jan, 1656 – Native Assimilation in Manado

1 Feb – England drops us as a rival

1 Mar – Manado is tea

23 April – I get an event:

Foreign Trade Competition Rises

Normally we’d have two meh choices. But our ruler is an Entrepreneur. So we get Use the opportunity to further foreign tax traders. We get 4 mercantilism and better loyalty from the Burghers


12 June = Yamdena converts.

[Abe Sargent]

150 year Review!!!


King Ntinu Kuba, 28, 2/6/3, Architectural Visionary, Entrepreneur

Heir – Garcia Kuba, Midas Touched, 25

Queen – Maria Theresia von Habsburg, 35, 4/3/2, Entrepreneur


We certainly have a good court right now

Accepted cultures: Kongolese, Luba, Nyasa, and Rwandan

We have Ivory and Slave Trade events, and lead the world in those, and we get +10 global tariffs, and Diplomatic Reputation

Our only rival is England

Allies – Castile, Austria,

Vassals - Bali, Maravi – Maravi is a March


We get 42.30 a month in surplus, with 108.25 income vs 65.95 expenses

We are the Defender of the faith

We have 17/18/19 tech

3 stability

We have 82000 troops with a forcelimit of 103k – 51 infantry, 20 cav, 11 cannon
We have 40 ships, forcelimit 64

Ledger:

We have the 2nd most income behind France

3rd most developed,

France is the highest tech with 60 total, Austria as well. Austria leads with 33 ideas

France is 20/20/20, and we are 6 total behind that lead

Strongest holdings by taxes:

Luba
Kalonga
Loango
Manila
Matsolo
Mpemba
Kalundwe
Ndongo
Benguela
Ampom

Non-Gold by production

Mpemba
Luba
Tidore
Ternate
Loango
Ile Bourbon
Kalonga
Cameroon
Flores
Gabon



The best potential colonies I can find are:

Tauranga – Australia, 13
Pontianak – Asia, 13
Whangarei – New Zealand, 11
Banjar, 11, Asia
Kendari, 11, Asia
Sakam, 10, Taiwan
Poso, 10, Asia


And we head down from there

Now Portugal is spreading over Australia, England is in the Pacific, and more. So there are folks well past me. I don’t want to fight either for either.

We have 121 holdings

We have the 4th largest army, and the 9th largest navy

Current value of trade goods:

5.6 cocoa
4.5 tobacco, coffee, spices, iron
4.05 salt
4.0 dyes, silk, ivory, fur
3.75 sugar
3.60 cloth
3.45 copper
3.0 cotton, chinaware, tea, slaves
2.7 tropical wood
2.5 wine
2.0 naval supplies,wool
1.70 – Grain
1.37 Fish


We are the world’s production leader is iron, spices, ivory, and slaves. We make one third of the world’s spices, 45% of its ivory, 15% of its iron, and 30% of its slaves, oh and 19% of its copper and 8% of its fish.

Current great powers

France
Ottomans
Kongo
Russia
Persia
England
Austria
Poland

[Abe Sargent]

MAPS!!!

Let me get one big zoomed out map for you

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Now the Indies

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I wish our color were better, sorry about that.

You can see us in the Philippines, various islands, the spice islands, the Moloccas, and more. Light green is Portugal, so you can see thy have a few islands on the map, and England is on Borneo island, south of Brunei. I am next to Sunda, Pasai, and Bali in the south.

England is in the Pacific in places like South Caledonia, Easter Island, and more. There is a large French Mexico, and English are all over the West Coast of North America, included Washington, California, and such…

Britain never formed the 13 colonies, and most of Eastern US is still uninhabited, oddly. So Scotland landed and took parts of Maryland Virginia, New England and Manhattan and long Island. Just the coastal areas, mostly.

But all of Florida, and everything from South Carolina down is untouched. Many tribes are still here, like the Inca and Aztec, and MesoAmerica was left alone. Without a full Spain, Castile was divided.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Nov – I choose the Ottomans as our rival

17 Feb, 1657 – Uniform regs increase need for dyes, cloth

1 June – We lost our Army Organizer, so I hire a level 1 Quartermaster

7 July – We finish the Plantation and our mission. Next is a mission for a Naval Manufactory in Lualuba, and I order one

1 Nov – Palembang converts. Next is culture

7 Dec – RM with Castile

13 Mar, 1658 –I fabricate a claim on Sofala

23 April – I execute a treason in my family and lose 10 prestige

1 May, Dip Tech 19 – Max Colonial Range 59, naval maintenance up, and we can build Frigate, War Galleon, and Grand Shipyards

9 Oct – Strength of Faith event, we get prestige and clergy loyalty

1 Dec – Naval Supplies in Lanao

18 Mar, 1659 – Cagayan is Kongolese

1 June – Yay!

We embrace Manufactories

We get +10% goods produced and our tech penalties drop

1 sept I pull back some settlers and send them to Aru. This small island is beyond Yamdena. It has a very low development for the area, but a very high chance of good stuff

1 April, 1660 – We max relations England. I order Workshop in Cagayan and Bikol , Church in Tondo,

1 June – Sula is fish

Admin 18 –

We get another group of ideas

I take Quality. Then Innovative

1 Oct –

Manado - Tea, 10 dev, coastline, tropical, 0.06 made here, Animist, Sulawesi, missionary sent, on Sulawesi island, 75% auto, 8% unrest


2 Nov –Ilocos now Kongolese. Workshop ordered

1 Dec – We begin to annex Bali

[Abe Sargent]

7 Feb, 1661 0 Tulangbewang is Kongolese. Workshop ordered

1 Mar – Trade Company ordered for Manila

11 Aug – Maguindanao is Kongolese. I order workshop.

1 Sept –

Bengkulu – Jungle, tropical, 8 dev, Spices, Sunni, Sumatra, 0.31 made, 1.9 unrest, 50 autonomy. Missionary heads for their shores

7 Oct – Our Queen gains 75 Dip Power in outmaneuvering her home state of Austria in an international game

11 Nov – I pull settlers from Lanao and send them to Panay, connecting Lanao with Manilla

9 Dec – Manado converts

Culture next

1 Jan , 1662 – Mil Tech 20 – We can make swivel cannon, and infantry fire increases. Swivel cannon replaces the leather ones we had

Trade Company in Ceram

22 April – Aragon and Portugal not rivals any longer

1 May – We lose prestige when a heir was a bastard

14 July – We finish our quest to put a Naval Manufactory into Lualaba. Next is

Turn Sula into a City

1 Nov – I order Workshops all over iron and copper mines back home

2 May

We integrate Bali!


Bali – Javanese, Hindu, Cloth, 10 dev, grasslands, 60% auto, core, barracks, dock, marketplace, church Tropical. Cosat. Island with straits to us in Lombok and Blambangan to the west

Blambangan – Jungle, cotton, tropical, 13 dev, next to Demak, the nation, workshop, Hindu, Javanese, 75% auto, 1.8% unrest, church,


Madura – Island just off the coast of Java in the Straits of Lombok. Tropical wood, coastline, 3 dev, 0.03 made, Javanese, Hindu, 75 auto, 1.3% unrest, shipyard, dock.

I can upgrade my government rank to Empire if I wish.

19 May – Malacca is annexed by Pasai


Hmmmm


Is it wrong to peacefully annex a Hindu nation and then immediately convert them to Catholicism and change their culture to ours? Ah well. I send Missionaries to Madura and Blambangan. I also got a couple of ships and 5k troops we are updating.

Now, have I allowed this dynasty to veer off course into the Indies overly much and not worrying about stuff like Africa? I mean, I get colonially, but I am spending badboy fighting Tidore and Ternate. Is that really what I want to keep doing?

Alright, no more wars abroad why I still have Africa to deal with. I have the nations north, the Horn,and all of that. Knock this crap off.

Portugal is now threatened by us, and allies with Castile. So I ally with them. I’ll slowly lose the Austrian tether.

I’ve been missing wars here, like a battle between Kilwa and Mombasa I could have helped with.

26 Aug – Royal Marriage with Portugal

29 Aug – I grant Portugal military access

1 Sept – New Tech

Naval 20 – costs 613, Naval Professionalism, better trade range and efficiency

So let’s take about advances a bit. Here’s what we are making:

5/12/6

We have Dip as my national focus for when I needed ot pump it up for Printing Press. So I move my national focus to Admin like normal, and we are at…

8/9/6

Now let’s math that – We get 12x8 (96)x9(108)andx6(72) annually. So I needed roughly 3 years to get enough DIP to get that level 20. Now we’ll need around 6. The next is 649. We are in a good place for tech moving forward.


Aru is Tea



16 Oct – Event:

“Properly civilized countries do not let petty commoners to attempt any kind of serious thought. The eyes of the world are upon us, and the world does not like what it sees.”

We lose 5 prestige


2 Dec –

Sula – Fish, coastline, 6 dev, core, animist, Moluccan, tropical, 0.14 made, 2.1% unrest


Next target is…

Let’s finish up the Philippines

Visayas

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1664 –

Lanao – In the Philippines, coastline, 8 development, naval supplies, 75 auto2.1 unrest, 0.03 made here. I order the Moluccas, the state of the lower part of the Philippines to become fully en-stated. That raises us to 0.36. I order a church here

I order a trade company for Maguindanao.

I recall my colonists in Aru and send them to Poso, on Sulawesi. France is moving here and just grabbed three local colonies, so I want to grab what I can now

5 Apr – Bengkuku converts

Next up is culture

I order the Missionary to Sula

I uplift the South African Plateau to full state staus, and then give Roggeveld and Highveld and Lesser Namaqualand to the nobility.

20 Aug - I pull colonists from Panay and send them to Kendari, on Sulawesi

1 Nov – Madura converts. Next up is Bali

Culture shift ordered for Madura

I take a new idea:

Quality #1: Private to Marshal, +10% infantry combat ability

1 Jan, 1665 – I order up a Trade Company in Bangka

15 Jan - Mombasa annexes Kilwa, and is now next to me.

I begin to shift my armies and main African navy

24 Feb – Blambangan converts.

15 April – Missionary sent to Lanao

28 April – Epidemic in Aru. I pay to help the natives

12 June – Sula converts

[Abe Sargent]

13 Oct – I declare Holy War vs Mombasa

I order 15,000 troops from Ibo to head into their nation, and another 15000 from Mozambique to cross Ibo and arrive at Lindi and siege

I launch my fleet and head into the Zanzibar Strait

7 Nov – We win some skirmishes at sea

1 Dec – Lindi falls and I push this army north up the coast

17 Dec – Bagamoyo falls to the 2nd army

11 Jan, 1666 – Kilwa is ours to the upcoming army

8 Feb – We take Tanga

18 Feb – We take Mzizima

4 Mar – Palembang is now Kongolese. I order a workshop here.

1 May – Maravi;s army is routed in Kilwa

16 June – They retake Lindi

20 June – We take Malindi

28 June – Bali convert.s culture next

3 Aug – We take their captital Mombasa

I order my big army to go chase them

8 Aug -= They take Ibo

19 Aug – We defeat their navy

12 Oct – We defeat their army in Ibo

15 Oct – The siege of Zanibar concludes and we took it

27 Oct – We rout their army

13 Nov – We take Ibo back

26 Nov- Lindi is back in the fold

1 May, 1667 – Panay makes coffee

12 May - Madura is now our culture

1 June – Our King is now a Charismatic Negotiator

1 July – Our Statesman passes and I hire a Trader

25 July – After almost 400 days, the siege of Lamu concludes, and we have a 100% war score

Annexing every holding they have is 83. And I get 645 gold.

26 July –

Mombasa is now off the map.

[Abe Sargent]

We’ll start this above Ibo, and work my way up the coast. Every province is on the coast, we have noting landlocked


Lindi – 5 devel, Shia, coastland, fish, tropical, 0.01 made, 19.7 unrest, 75 autonomy, marketplace, docks, Swahili,

Kilwa – 10 dev, GOLD, church, shipyard, docks, 19.7% unrest, Sunni, Swahili

Mzizima – Slaves, 4 dev, coastline, tropical, Shia, Swahili, 19.7 unres,t 75 auto, 0.01 made

Bagamoyo – Ivory,tropical, coastline, marketplace, 3 dev, Sunni, Swahili, 19.7 unrest, 75 auto

Tanga – Ivory, coastline, tropical, church, training fields, 19.7, 75 0.09made here, 7 development.

Mombasa – Swahili, Sunni, coastline, 16 dev, tropical, coastal center of trade, 18.9 unrest, 75 auto, 013 made, church, marketplace, shipyard. Ivory.

Malindi – Iron, arid, coastline, 10 dev, church, shipyard, training fields, 0.13 made here, Swahili, Sunni.

Lamu – North is Ajuuraan, Ivory, coastline, arid, 5 dev, 14,7 unrest, 75 auto, bastion, church.

Zanzibar – Island off coast, Bastion, slaves, marketplace, 6 dev, coastal center of trade, 0.02 made, 19.7 unrest, coastline, tropical. 75 auto

I spend a couple hundred ADM to core them all

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[Abe Sargent]

1 Oct – Kendari is spices

22 Nov – Lanao converts

I take a mission to reduce overextension

1 Dec – Poso is coffee

1 Jan, 1668 – Visayas is Tea

19 Apr –

I build –

Trade Company in Palembang, Belitung

13 May – I hand Sula to the clergy

I destroy the shipyard in Ternate, order a Grand One in Sula, and then order a Plantation in Cagayan and Trade Company in Mpasua, one of my internal Spices in Kongo

1 April, 1669 – Idea Quality #2: Yearly Army Tradition +1. We get our own idea as well, and get Foreign Demand for Slaves +10% production efficiency


I order –

Workshop in Lualaba, Bugonda, Lundu, Xhosa

Naval Equipment Manufactory in Bunyoro
Weapons Manufactory in Shaga

Yes, that’ s how much frigging money I’m making these days. Multiple Manufactories a year.

5 Oct – Native Assimilation in Visayas

1 Dec – I Spend 50 Mil dropping rebel chances in the islands.


Hopefully that’s the last time I need ot do that

1 April, 1670 –

I order Trade Company in Lombok, Tidore
Workshop in Sumbawa


22 April – Manado now our culture

29 July – We complete the cores o nall of the taken provinces form Mombosa

We finish our mission. Next up is Colonize Gorontalo, which is on Sulawesi island and next to Manado


I send missionaries to Bagamoyo and Mombasa and Mzizima

16 Nov – Innovative Idea #1 – Patron of the Arts, we get -1 prestige decay

10 Dec – Bengkulu is our culture now. So I order a church

[Abe Sargent]

21 Jan, 1671 – We get a Queen of the People event to fire off

27 Jan – Native Assimilation in Poso


I pull the colonists from Poso to send to Gorontolo

3 Mar

Visayas – Tea, tropical, coastline, 5 development, Philippines, Animist, 50% auoto, 0.14 made, core, Filipino,

I send this colonist to Palu, the last of the Sulawesi holdings that the local state of Makassar does not control

That is Makassar. And they do not have any allies. So I offer them an alliance and they accept

6 May – We use the Great Power ability to influence them

Workshop ordered for Bengkulu

Naval Equipment Manufactory in Ruguru
Weapons Equipment in Kanongesha
(I’m upping our salt)


5 July

Kendari – Spices, 12 development, Sulawesi culture, Animist faith, tropical, coastland, and I make Sulawesi a aste,

Next target is Tagloc in the Philippines

4 Sept –

Aru – Small islands in the Kolepom Bay, Tea, 3 dev, Animist, Moluccan, I invest the 12 ADM to core this, tropical coastline.

1 Nov –

Poso – Sulawesi, 10 dev, core, 0.45, Coffee, tropical, coastline, 0.45,

Brunei and France are in war,m and Brunei has captured the three French holdings on Borneo

1 Jan, 1672 -I proclaim a guarantee for Makassar

2 Feb – I send a gift

6 April – Subsidies for Makassar

8 May – Military access with Makassar

8 June – Would I like to establish a penal colony in Gorontalo?

I choose to send them over, the place gets bonus growth and some unrest for a while

1 July – I give Luanda to the clergy

11 July –

I order – Textile Manufactory in Lundu, Trade Company in Bengkulu

24 Dec – Bagamoyo converts

Poso is next

1 Jan, 1673 – I order a Trade Company in East Timor

We have no corruption and barely any need for budgetary expenses for that. I am steamrolling in cash, particularly production with the manufactory economy we embrace right now. I have kept my advisors minimum, we just have 10 colonial expenses , We eviscerating cash.

At 152 a month, we are 2nd in the world in cash, France has 163. Ottomans 124. Austria 93. Russia 88. England 82. Aragon 64, and Persia 61. Only four nations in the world that make less than us, make at least half as much as we do. That’s how much we make.

4 Jan – Makassar transfer her trade power to us

18 Jan – Mzizima converts! Next is Aru

1 Feb – We get a Trading in Spices bonus as the world’s leader in Spices, so we get +10% spy network construction.


13 Feb – We get an event, Two of a Kind, and we fund the Queen’s desire to continue the scientific learning of the day and we host a international expert in the natural world. We get a 3 star natural scientist advisor for 50% off.

Meet Cibund Raumbe, 3 star advisor, 30 years old, half price. We now have 10/8/6 tech development

I really want to build off that.

So I send my noble estates and welcome them. I call a diet to reduce my prestige and increase their loyalty and power. Then with that enhanced power, I for a powerful advisor diplomat, and we get a 3 star 50% off Diplomat Nkuwu Ngusseuo, for 50% off and 50% of the upkeep.

Now we are 10/10/6 growth. There are no military tech options.

We’re going to be gaining a bunch of techs

Inb fact, get ready…


1 March – Dip 21 – The Checek, we can build them, and we can sabotage reputation in espionage



For getting this research early, we get bonuses for a year of trade efficiency and reduced corruption

6 Mar – The nation of Sunda joins our alliance

1 May – Maxed relations with Makassar, I withdraw that diplomat.

26 May – Native Assimilation in Panay

28 May – I proclaim a guarantee on Sunda

18 June – The Austrian ruler passes, and another rises and sends a Royal Marriage offer. I refuse. I want to wend down this diplomatic relationship. Right now I have 1 too many.

1 Jul – I break our alliance with Austria

21 July – I send a gift to Sunda

9 Aug – I pay a little MIL power to drop Kilwan rebels

1 Sept – I begin to influence Sunda.

6 Oct – Some subsidies arrive Sunda’s way

23 Nov – Robber Barons hit Beshubi. I side with the burghers and we gain +1 production in Beshubi

9 Dec – Sunda transfers trade power to us

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1674 – I order a Trade Company in Sumbawa and Grand Shipyard in Sula and Trade Depot in Ternate.


21 Jan – Naval supplies on the rise after permanent navies become more of a thing

17 Feb – Aru converts

Next target is Visayas

1 Mar – Poso converts. Next? How about the Shia holding of Lindi?

5 Mar – Mombasa converts and next is Zanzibar

I order a workshop in Poso

9 May – Merchants are suffering and I send them some aid in the form of power

1 June – Sunda is our latest vassal

27 June – I send a gift to Maravi

1 Aug –

Panay – Filipino, Coffee, Animist, core, 0.23 made, 5 development, tropical, coastline, Straits to Lanao, Manila, and Visayas.

I pull my colonists from Gorontolo and send them to the last currently open holding in the Philippines the Butuan.

22 Aug – Silk is getting more and more popular.

25 aug – I deny a request for military access from Demak

30 Oct – Bali is now Kongolese

1 Nov – I order a Textile Manufactory for Bali

22 Nov – I embrace a New Idea:

Innovative #2 – Pragmatism - -25% Mercenary Maintenance

And that gives us:

Kongo’s Final Idea – Defend against the colonists - +5% military discipline

1 Dec – Our quartermaster passes. I hire a level 1 Grand Captain.

24 Dec – Native Assimilation in Gorontalo

We finish the mission to colonize it, and we get a huge bonus to colonial endeavors for a while. Next mission?

Turn Tagloc into a city

Tea in Gorontalo

29 Mar, 1675 – Conversion in Visayas

Next? Panay

2 May - I build a Trade Company in Ambom

18 May – Assimilation in Palu

1 June - Tea in Palu

14 June – I promote Molucaan culture to an accepted one

1 July - Church in Kendari, Manado, Poso – all on Sulawesi

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan. 1676 – Tagloc is Spices

Oceania is now mostly taken. France has Hawaii, Nauru, Gilbert Islands,while England has Marshall, Midway, Tonga, New Caledonia, Society Islands, Eastern Portugal has Galapagos, and Castile has Tuamuto Islands,. Portugal is all over Australia and New Zealand and we are in the Indies and Philippines. I could grab the unclaimed New Guinea holdings or Taiwan. France is in Borneo, England is there too, and Portugal is in numerous islands as well.

I took a look. How many coastal provinces anywhere are available.

Africa? None, save for Bonny, next to England and Benin.

South America? None

North? Tons on the east coast, like Florida and the Carolinas. Nothing from Roanoke up until you get to high Canada in the arctic. From Washington state down, nothing on the west coast is unclaimed. Just some Canadian and Alaskan areas.

Asia? Just some in Siberia, around Kamchatka

1 Mar – Trade Company in Bikol

8 Apr – Revolt in Lindi


1 May – Defeated

9 May – Panay converts. Next is Buru

15 May – WHOA! I get a Monopoly Company Formed event. Choose payment in full now and get 2000 gold!

I am going to hold off on this for a moment

26 June – Native Assimilation in Palu

5 July – After those churches are done…

I order – Trading Company in Manado (which will give me another 0.51 a month), Plantation in Poso (another 0.76/month) and Trade Company in Kendari (0.51)over on Sulawesi, Trade Company on Ilocos in the Philippines (0.51) and Trade Company in Yamdena (0.39/month). It’s around 433 for each manufactory, so the 2k was basically 5 free ones. I still have 173 after those purchases. I included the hard numbers after that so you could see what the benefit of those is like later on.

We get an additional 2.5 a month or so from this stuff. So another 25 or 26 a year, which is one third of my workshop or church annually. Right now we’re building 12 manufactories.

In most circumstances, you get advancement from a building based on your development. But that’s not the case with manufactories, with are solely based off your trade good.

Here I’ll give you an example.

One of my wealthiest provinces in Manila:

14 dev, Spices, trade company, workshop and church.

We get 3.26 a month from it in tax and production. So, let me spend 63 DIP power to increase production there from 6/6/2 to 6/7/2. My production rose and our cash I now 3.44. Now I don’t normally spend that Power to make stuff better. But I do occasionally. In this game, every 10 development lets you build another building. So if I need to build something and I’m out of room, and the development is close to the next 10 or 20, then I’ll use some power to increase it. Typically that’s Military power to increase the manpower from that province. Military power is the one I use the least. ADM, which is the tax base, is used for most of my favorite Ideas, cores, and stability. Dip is used for production increases, Ideas of value, culture changes, Admirals, Explorers, and such. So it’s not usually my choice. Mil is used for reducing rebellions, but I don’t use it for that too often, you can usually tell where the rebellion I happening and move an army over per-rebellion. Other than the occasional Idea, it’s just the occasional general, and I often use my leader as my main general. So it get used for building up the development of holdings, which in turns means I have good manpower for my many wars.

Take Munene as a good example over in Central Kongo. 3/5/4 development right now, jungle spices . I upped it’s military and now with a 4 development it gets 750 manpower to me.


17 July – Conversation in Lindi. Next?> Kilwa

11 Aug – Zanzibar converts and Malindi is next.


10 Sept – I order up Workshop for Songo in Kongo, University in our capital of Mpemba (Which gives us -20% local developmental cost and another building for free)

14 Sept – Makassar is now our vassal

25 Sept – We get Sunda to slide to Catholic. It increases their liberty desire to 47% (Maravi is 76%)

14 Oct – We enter a Royal Marriage with Sunda!

1 Nov - I send a diplomat to make nice with Ryukyu

12 Nov – University ordered for Luba

27 Nov – I send a diplomat to make nice with Sulu.

1 Feb, 1677 – University for Tidore and Ternate

Trade Company in Xhosa in South Africa to pump up the wine

1 April –

Palu – Tea, tropical, Selawesi, cored, Animist, tropical, 8 development, 0.23 made here , north of Makassar, and connects with Gorontolo and Poso, 0.07 unrest,

Next target is Turkana, not of our holdings in Lake Victoria and has a potential mining here.


28 June – Assimilation in Gorontalo

1 Sept – Trade Company in Inhambane

6 Nov – We finish the relations with Russia and finish that mission with some dip power. Turn Butuan into a city.

12 Nov – Buru converts. Palu next

[Abe Sargent]

5 Feb, 1678 – Weapons Manufactory in Hemba, Workshop in Muhambwe

29 Mar – We get Maravi to swap faith

9 May – Royal Marriage with Maravi

3 July – Butuan is Tea making


1 Aug –

Tagloc – Spices, Filipino, Sunni, 6 dev, 1 unrest, 0.27, cored, land connections to Butuan and Maguindanao.

Next?

Kikuyu, east of Turkana.


1 Sept – I pull back colonists to Turkana and send them to the southern most province in Taiwan – Sakam.

1 Oct – I order – Weapons Manufactory in Nduga

31 Oct – We get a event for quality of troops impressive and gain some prestige

4 Nov –

Gorontalo – 5 development, coastline, tropical, tea , cored, Sulawesi, Animist, 0.15 made, 3.9 unrest, next to Manado and Palau.

1 Jan, 1679 – New Tech

Mil 21 – We get +0.25 infantry tactics nd +.5 shock


We order a church in Palembang, and a Weapons Manufactory in Buzinza

6 Jan – Palu converts and Gorontalo next

1 Mar – Relations maxed with Ryuukyu. I proclaim a guarantee for Sulu

7 Mar – Lanau is now Kongolese

18 Mar – Blambangan as well

1 Apr – New Tech

I only need 456 for Adm 19

Admin 19 – We can build Cathedrals

14 Apr – Kilwa converts and next is Tanga

9 May – Malindi follows. Next up is Tagloc

15 May – I begin to Influence Sulu

21 May – I get a big event for family in Austria, with Dip power and better relations with Austria

20 July – I send a small gift of 25 gold to Sulu

1 Sept – I order a Weapons Manu for Nkoma

1 Dec – Native Assimilation in Turkana

1 Jan, 1680 – Turkana is Salt.

New Tech –

Dip 22 We get 7 years of great events, for being ahead of the curve. And meanwhile we have…

No decrease for Naval Attrition for staying out at sea, we get new ships of various types, can build Stock Exchange, and we get better naval morale but worse upkeep.

The next we need around 1000, which should take a decade.

1 Feb – Max relations with Sulu.

14 Feb – Gorontalo converts. Lamu is on point

[Abe Sargent]

1 April – Weapons Manufactory in Muhambwe

I order units to get near the border in East Africa

1 June – I declare a holy war against Ajuuraan, up the coast from us.

I order my 22,000 troops from Lamu to cross to their land of Pate, where they have 13k forces defending. I have 17,000 troops in an inland unclaimed province ready to hit their middle.

11 June – We get a Rigorous Researchers and get 40 power for all three.

21 June – We win in Pate. Their army is routed

22 July – We take the province of Gedo

25 July – Pate is ours

27 July – Our navy arrives in the Coast of Pepper.

13 Sept – Beledwyne is ours

1 Oct – Kikuyu is Copper

30 Oct – We take El Buur

2 Dec –

Butuan – Tea, Filipino, hills, tropical, 7 dev, -.22 made, cored, north of Tagloc, and east of Maguindanao.


These colonists are heading to the middle Taiwanese holding of Middag.

6 Dec – Disease strikes, and we pay to keep our colonies going

10 Feb, 1681 – Our great advisor, Cibind Raombe gets a development of major astronomical instruments, and gets 50 ADM power and bonus tech costs for a while.

10 Sept – We convert both Tango and Tagloc. Next is Butuan and Kendari


12 Oct – After 452 days, we capture their capital, Merca

28 Oct – We defeat their fleeing navy in t he Coast of Pepper

1 Nov – I headed into Mogadishu and defeated their army today as well

1 Dec – The province of Warshiekh in Mogadish is ours

31 Jan, 1682 – Sunda defeats some rebels that protested her religion shift

21 May – After 533 days, we take the fort at Werder

We took some minor provinces with allies and vassals as well it looks like

15 June – Kismayo falls to us

24 June – I catch up with a 7k strong army of the enemy.

27 June – Lamu converts

11 July – We win the battle

15 July – The capital of Mogadishu falls to our onslaught

1 Aug – Sakam, in Taiwan, will have chinaware

4 Aug – Barawa is ours

23 Aug – Bosaso is ours

27 Aug – My fleet arrives in the Horn of Africa

20 Sept – Two more fall to us

1 Oct – I crush their navy in the Horn

New Tech:

I only needed 433 for this one

Admin 20 – We get +12 states, and some cool governments

17 Oct – Las Cohey is ours

4 Nov – I rout Ajuuraan army in Sanaag

18 Dec – sanaag is ours

30 Dec – Kadhari converts. We get Qardho

I have an 85 warscore. The Mamluks are untouched and part of this alliance, but I think it may be time for some shopping. What can I get right now?


Most of Ajuuraan is crap. 6 grain, 5 fish, 3 wool, and one of the two Mogadishiu is wool too. No one wants fish, wool, and grain. And they are all low development for the most part as well.

So I want…these:

Pate – Next to us, up the coast, cloth, 8 dev, 0.09, barracks and church here. Swahili

Kismayo – Next up the coast Fish, 6 dev, 0.02, barracks and marketplace, savannah,

Barawa =Next up the coast, Wool, 5 dev, savannah, 0.01 made,

Merca – Capital, Naval supplies, next up the coast, 5 dev, dock, savannah, 0.02 made

Mogadishu – Ivory, next up coast, better developed than any Ajuuraan holding, best there is to take, 13 dev, Shipyardm marketplace, church, naval center of trade, 0.10 made here. Steppes.

Warsheikh – Other Mogadishu holding, up the coast, wool, this takes them out. 6 dev, desert, 0.01 made, dock,marketplace

El Buur – Iron, inland, adjacent to Warsheikh. Steppes, 0.02 made here,

Werder – Very inland, deeper than El Buur, has a fort, want to pull down their defenses, Slaves, Bastion, Highlands, 0.01 made here

Meregh – Up coast, wool, 5 dev, 0.02 made here, Steppes

Hobyo – Up coast, grain, Steppes, 4 dev, dock, 0.01 here made

Garoowe – Up coast, fish, dock, 0.01

Qardho – Upcoast, fish, Dock, Regimental Camp, 0.00

Hafun – Tip of Horn, Ivory, Up coast, 5 dev, 0.05 made here.

So basically I take the whole coast and two decent wealthy provinces


Here’s the negotiation map, so you can see what I can see:

https://s14.postimg.org/6n1icnu9d/Kongo_1682.png

We would get 28 badboy

This connects me with 14 new holdings. I am updated the above list to input the details, so I don’t need to make that list twice. All are Sunni, Somali, Arid, and Coastline, 3 development, and 75% autonomy, 17.8% unrest unless otherwise noted.

[Abe Sargent]

I take a mission to reduce overextension

Next up – cash time

I upgrade the following places into states:

Lower Zambezi
Central Swahili Coast
Mozambique
Kenya
Makuana



Workshop in Kalonga
Church for Songo
Trade Company in Rund,
Weapons Manufactory in Rukwa, Kuria, Karagwe, Tabwa

1 Feb – I hand Bafuriru, Shangwe to our clergy and Lomwe and Makua to the nobility


I send a Missionary to Mogadishu

[Abe Sargent]

1 April – We lost our claim on Portugal’s Sofala

1 June –

Kikuyu – Kenyan colony, Highlands, tropical, 3 dev, Cored, copper, 0.15 made, Kongolese, Catholic, etc. Right by the Lake Victoria holdings, and inland.

Next target is Kelang, the northernmost holding in Taiwan. And now all three holdings are under our colonial watch

1 Sept – I order University in Tondo, next to Manila, Cagayan, in the Philippines as well

Weapons Manufactory in Kikuyu

22 Nov- Advancement of Merchant Class event

11 Dec – We reup our marital vows with Sunda after their leader passes

21 Dec – We convince Makassar to convert to Catholicism. And their rebellion risk rises to 50%. I spend 20 prestige to make nice and drop it to 40.

1 Jan, 1684 – I’ve been spending my ADM this year slowly investing it in cores in my taken provinces. I’m using it to order them. I currently have 5 provinces left with no core on the way.

6 Feb – Royal Marriage with Makassar

1 Mar

Quality idea #3 – Finest of Horses - +10% cavalry combat modifier

11 Apr – Butuan converts

22 May – One of our merchant vassals sinks at sea and we invest in recovery.

I am still making 95 gold a month

1 July – Trade Company in Mozambique, Naval Equipment in Benguela

1 Sept – As of today, every holding save Mogadishu is working on a core

Middag, in central Taiwan, is fish first

2 Nov – Rebellion in Mogadishu

22 Nov – Put down

29 Dec – We get an event - -10% dip investment for tech but +10% cost for ships for a decade

3 April, 1685 – I order Trade Company in Palu on Sulawesi and another in the adjacent home of Gorontalo

3 July-

Turkana – Kenyan, tropical, near Lake Victoria, Salt, 3 dev, highlands, 0.15 made here, already our culture and faith.


I recall my colonists in Taiwan south province of Sakam and send them to one of the 9 provinces in New Guinea. Manokwari, but the Sea of Ternate and right by the Spice Islands.

All of these 9 have 3 development, tropical and jungle save for two. But they have solid chances at exotic goods, and I’d rather have a 3 development with Spices or Tea or Coffee with a chance for Tropical Wood or Fish or Naval Supplies instead than a shot at yet another Slaves/Ivory province with grain and wool the other options all over Africa


1 Nov – I order Trade Company in Zumbo

1 Jan, 1686 – We have cores in Werder and El Buur concludes

I send Missionaries to both

Dip 23 –

Heavy Frigates – We can make, um, heavy frigates. And we get +25 settler growth and Max Colonial Range +150

I spend 450 to upgrade my fleet

5 Jan – Qardho is cored

7 Jan, 1686

We gain a Imperial Casus Belli against every nation in the world

8 Feb – Kismayo and Garoowe are now cores too

23 Feb – Great News - Mogadishu converts! I order a core. Kismayo is next.


2 April – Hobyo and Hafun now cores

We promote Swahili to our accepted cultures

15 May = We get a Nobles Demand Increased Pensions. Due to our Charismatic Negotiator ability we have a third option, Let the King Negotiate a better deal – We get -10% national tax modifier for better noble loyalty

1 Aug – Kelang, in Taiwan is wool.

1 Sept – I hand Pangasinan in the Philippines to the nobility

8 Sept –Merca a core

[Abe Sargent]

8 Jan, 1687 – Meregh cored

6 Feb –

Sakam – Lower Taiwan, Animist, Polynesian, Chinaware, I make Taiwan a state, Tropical, grasslands, 10 development, 2.1 unrest, 0.06 made here

I pull the colonists next door in Middag and send them to New Guinea but Portugal has taken two off the map, included the one next to Manokwari. I head to the back side. Madang

I also pull my colonists from Kelang, northern Taiwan, and send it to Yos, Sudaraso, which is on the far side of the two Portugal is building right now.

11 Mar – I hand Garoowe to the clergy

5 May – Warshiekh and Barawa are cores

1 July –

University in Mombasa, Ndongo

Trade Company in Ngoyo, Mayumba, Shinje, Kumbana

2 Sept – Pate now a core. Only Mogadishu is left

2 Oct – Makassar agrees to be annexed

1 Nov – Our great level 3 scientist passes. I head to my clergy and recruit a level 3 Inquisitor from them - 50% off hire price and sizing price:


Mutand Boussombo, 40, 3 strength +2 Missionaries


4 Dec – Rebellion in Pate.

21 Dec – Defeated

1 Jan, 1688 –

Trade Company in Yaka, Naval Equipment fpr Upemba

8 Feb – Werder and El Duur convert. Sakam and Pate are next

23 Apr – Kismaypo converts as well and Warsheikh is next

10 Dec – The Queen Theresia invites another 3 natural scientist to the throne to stay, but I decide to keep with our Inquisitor for now and we get 50 ADM power

1 Jan, 1689 –

Middag –Middle of Taiwan, tropical, fish, highlands, 7 dev, cored, Animist, Polynesian, 0.08 made here. 1.2% unrest

13 Jan – Sakam converts and Middag is next

24 Feb – A sad day dawns…


Today our King passes away!

His heir:


Garcia I Kuba:

3/4/5

Midas Touched, 58 years old


His heir is Nzinga Nkuwa Kuba, 47, strong claim, with 2/3/5 stats

We lose a stability. I spend 164 ADM to gain it back, which will set us back in tech I was going to get that next tech this year. Ah well.

Our new investment levels total are 11/8/8


We take the Empire name and title

26 Feb – Mogadishu is a core. We finish our mission to reduce overextension. Our next is ot colonize Daru, in New Guinea, next t one of our holdings there already

I accept a Royal Marriage with Portugal

1 Mar – Our heir gains Secretive

4 Mar – RM with Castile

6 Mar – RM: Sunda

1 April – Pate converts. Merca next

3 May – RM: Maravi

We get a new queen with this one – Nyalak , 4/3/3

3 June – RM: Makassar

1 Aug – Manakweri – Tropical Wood

Cathedral in Bengkulu, Bangka

Workshop in Sakam, Kikuyu
Church in Pubungo
Trade Company in Buru
Weapons Manufactory in Luapula

I pull colonists from Manokweri and send to Daru

1 Sept – I hand Qardho to the clergy

9 Sept – I promote Sulawesi culture to accepted

1 Nov – Warshiekh is Catholic. Next is Hafun

5 Dec – Middag converts. Next is Meregh. I order a culture shift in Middag for 10 DIP

[Abe Sargent]

1 May, 1690 – We get trading in Tea and get -10% advisor costs!

1 June –

I order a Naval Equipment Manu in Mauritius,

1 Aug – Tropical Wood in Yos Sudarso as well

I recall the colonists from here and send to New Guinea in Kerema

28 Sept – Merca converts. Barawa next.

1 Oct – New Tech:

Admin 21 – I needed 529 for this

We get +5% production efficiency


1 Nov – Our Diplomat advisor passes. Next?

I hire the level 3 advisor for an initial cost of 270 and a monthly premium of 18.46 gold. We are currently making 110 monthly, so that won’t be much of a disincentive. Meet our Naval Reformer, with a morale of navies +10%!

I decide to go ahead and bite the bullet for military. I fire our advisor and hire a 3 star Commandant for 288 and 18.46 monthly. This gives us 11/9/10 creation of power.


18 Nov – Here for just two weeks, that Drillmaster leader gives us 50 Admin power

1 Jan, 1691 – We are down to 73 cash monthly made


I order:

Workshop in Palu
Trade Company in Ternate
Plantation in Blambangan


1 Feb – Church in Chokwe

I hand Meregh to my clergy

3 Mar – Say hello to Makassar!

Palopo – Hills, Sulawesi, Catholic, tropical, 14 dev, Spices, 60% autonomy, Has church and training fields, 0.51 made here monthly. I destroy the Training Fields and order a Workshop. Palopo is next to our three holdings of Palu, Poso, and Kendari here, and north of the former capital Makassar.

Makassar -- 26 development, grasslands, tropical, Spices, Core, 1.41 made here, Sulawesi, Catholic, training fields, church, university, workshop, trade depot, and shipyard. 60% autonomy. South of Palopo

Buton – Small island chain south of Sulawesi island and has straight connection with Kendari. Tropical coastline, Spices, Catholic Sulawesi, 11 development, 0.52 made here, church and training fields

We also take their 8k troops and 23 ships, fully upgraded


10 Mar – Quality 4 – Corvettes, We get +5% ship durability

1 Apr – We get a trading in Coffee bonus, and get +5% institution spread

I hand Barawa and Warshiekh, to clergy, Kismayo, Hobyo to nobility,

Good news about expansion in Ajuuraan out here was I got these low quality holdings to hand off.

1 May – Madang will make Tea

4 May – Hafun converts. Garoowe is next

I give Werder to nobles

10 June – Meregh converts. Next? How about Qardho?

[Abe Sargent]

3 Jan, 1692 –

I destroy the training fields in Makassar proper and order a Trade Company here.

Workshop in Gorontalo

1 Mar – With the extra colony, we have 6 colonies and now are making just 50 gold a month

I add a Colonial Expansion policy. This will cut my DIP power and can be used due to my two finished Idea Groups

1 Apr – Barawa converts

Hobyo is on queue next

3 May –

Kelang – The northern part of Taiwan, Highlands, Animist, Polynesian, core, wool, 6 dev, 1.2 unrest, 0.11 made here. North of Middag.


I expect our sea-based colonial expansion to end around New Guinea.

1 July – Daru is Coffee

This finishes our quest to colonize Daru, and we get more growth!

I recall diplomats in Madang and send to Lae

Right now we have +140 growth a year from colonies

Next mission? None

I don’t want any of them

I begin to move my fleet around in the Indies.

I order more troops assembled on Java Isle.

I want to take out Demak.

27 July – Our ruler passes.

The next?

Nzinga Nkuwa, 2/3/5, and he does not have an heir. He is secretive.

I spend ADM to increase our stability again

4 Aug – We offer a RM to Sunda, and we get a new queen from them, Tribuawana, 4/2/5 and 33 years old. We need to get to scrumping

2 Oct – RM with Maravi

16 Oct – Garoowe converts.

Kelang is next

24 Nov – Qardho converts

Our truce with Ajuuraan is over, if I want to take them out instead. They have 8 holdings. All grain, fish, or wool. But it’s not a major addition in terms of wealth. But it is Africa. I think Demak is likely to be hit by a colonial European power before Ajuuraan is off the table/

[Abe Sargent]

5 Jan, 1693 – Trade Company for Buton,

1 Feb – I declare a Crusade on Demak

I order 7k troops from Blambangan to Kediri and 8k from Madura over

16 Feb – We win a naval battle in the Straits of Lombok

15 Mar – We take Kediri

23 Mar – We take Surabaya

Our ally in Sunda took one of their places Karta

30 Mar – We win a naval battle in Coast of Blambangan

18 Apr – Vassals take Kendal

23 April – We take Pajang and

1 May – We beat their navy again and capture some vassals as well.

We get trading in copper and get -10% recruitment time

11 June – We win a naval battle in the Philippines.


1 July – Kerema is Spice controlled

1 Sept – Kelang converts

25 Sept – Hobyo converts

1 Jan, 1694 – I order some more artillery to help with the siege of their capital

20 July – I have an option for an weak claim 6/1/1 heir. Do I want that? Our leader is 52. He will pass somewhere. That’s not great stats. Max ADM and min other two? But we need something. So yes is it.


2 Aug –

Yos Sudarso – Tropical, tropical wood, jungle, 3 dev, in Papua, next to Asmat – Portuguese, and Daru, our next colony. 0.02 made, 75% auto

Mzizina handed to clergy

3 Oct –

Manokwari – Animist (I send a missionary), Papuan culture, tropical wood, jungle, tropical, 3 dev, 0.19 made here, cored

1 Dec – Lae is coffee

3 Feb, 1695 –

Daru – Cored, Catholic, Kongolese, coffee, topical, jungle, 3 dev, 0.22 made here

Next is Hanuabada, the last of the unclaimed holdings here,

[Abe Sargent]

28 Feb – After 689 days, we take the capital of Demak.

We annex Demak, and get 6 new holdings, 178 gold, and 29 bad boy

I spend 374 to order up cores in all six

All are Sunni, tropical and Javanese unless otherwise stated

Kediri – Jungle, fish, training fields, marketplace, 8 dev, 0.04 made here, 50% auto, 19% unrest. I move west to…

Pajang – Grasslands, 0.02, grain, 8 dev, trade depot, training fields, dock, 16.5% unrest, 75 auto

West is…

Karta – 17 dev, grasslands, Spices, 0.29 made, 19 unrest, 75 Auto, church, workshop, dock, shipyard

West is our vassal in Sunda

North is…

Kendal – Grasslands, naval supplies. Dock, trade depot, training fields 5 dev, 0.03 made here, 19 unrest and 75 auto

East is…

Demak – Cotton, grasslands, 20 dev, 0.20 made, 14.2% unrest, 75 auto, workshop, docks, university, cathedral, grand shipyard ,bastion. East too….

Surabaya – Cotton, grasslands, 19 unrest, 50% auto, workshop, church, dock, shipyard

East is usin Madura the island or us.

New mission is to turn Lae into a full city

I order:

Plantation in Daru
Trade Company in Palopo
Trade Company in Soyo
Workshop in Ngoyo, Mayumba
Cathedral in Cameroon
Naval Equipment in Buganda

[Abe Sargent]

1 April - I give Kediri to the clergy, Lindi to nobility

1 Aug –

Madang –Tea, Kongolese and Catholic already, jungle, 3 dev, core, 0.13 made, west of Lae

I pull colonists from Kerema and send it to Rabaul, an island off the cast of Papua

14 Aug – Manokwari converts

I spend the 4 DIP to swap it’s culture

11 Oct – Middag, over at Taiwan, is now our culture.

10 Jan, 1696 – Trade Company in Visayas; Cathedral in Maguindanao

13 Mar –

New Mil Tech - 22

We get +0.5 cavalry fire, +2 artillery fire, +.1 artillery shock, and we can make better artillery.

1 May –

Kerema – Spices, jungle, tropical, 3 dev, cored, Kongolese, Catholic, 0.17 made here. East of Daru, west of Hanuabada.

25 May – Death of a Merchant Event 0 We get hundreds of cash

[Abe Sargent]

190 Year Review!!!

8 July, 1696 –


200 Year Review!!!


Emperor Nzinga Nkuwa Kuba, 54, 2, 3, 5 stats, Secretive

Heir – Ntinu, 1 year, 6/1/1 weak claim

Queen Tribhuawana Sunda, 4/2/5, Midas Touched, 36 years old


We make 10/7/10 tech

We accept Swahili, sulawesi, Moloccan, Nyasa, and Rwandan cultures, in addition to to our own Kongolese.

We trade in Copper, Slaves, Ivory, Tea, Spices, and Ivory

Defender of the Faith

We have two vassals, Sunda and Maravi

Rival – Ottoman

Economy:

We make 225.41 monthly and spend 149.39 for 76.02 surplus

We have 21, 23, 22 techs

23 Ideas

We have 72 boats (out of force limit of 131) and 105 army (139 forcelimit)

We make 50 more than France, and double the Ottomans. No one else has more than 91 cash a month.

At 1453, we lead the world in development,. France is 1244 and Ottomans 1175 and then Russia 868 and Delhi 639.

The best tech nations are 24/23/23. Take France at 23 all or Papal at 24/23/22 as good examples of leaders. We are still behind


Our Top provinces by tax from best on down:

Kalonga
Luba
Loango
Ternate
Mpemba
Manilia
Mombasa
Matsolo
Busoga
Tidore
Buganda

Our top by production (not including gold)

Ternate
Tidore
Mpemba
Luba
Manila
Tondo
Kalonga
Maguindanao
Cameroon
Loango


Possible Colonies? We know of none better than 5, those are in Australia or North America. We know of two 4s, up in Kamchatka. The rest are all 3s.

We have 177 holdings.

There are only 5 employed level 3 advisors, we have three

We have the 3rd best manpower; 4th best army

The 5th biggest army in Songhai. But the difference is size is 40 from them to us. And they are another African power we’d need to unearth

We have the highest forcelimit for navy. 4th biggest navy, 3rd most sailors

[Abe Sargent]

Current Price of Goods:

5.6 – Cocoa
5.0 - Dyes ,Silk
4.5 – Tobacco, Coffee, Spices, Iron
4.05 – Cloth
4.0 – Ivory
3.75 – Sugar
3.5 – Fur
3.45 – Copper
3.3 – Salt
3.12 – Wine
3.0 – Cotton, Chinaware, Tea, Slaves, Naval Supplies
2.70 – Tropical Wood
2.00 – Wool, Fish, Grain


We are the production leader for all Iron (18.5%), Slaves (38.9%), Ivory (63.9%), Tea (49.5%), Chinaware (21.5%), Spices (51.2%), Coffee (32.8%), Copper (35.6%), Salt (17.1%), Fish (11.0%). So we have locked in mass production for 10 of the 23 products in the world, and we are 2nd in Tropical Wood to Ayutthaya. France leads in in Wine, Wool, and Cloth, and Delhi three with Cotton, Silk and Dyes. The Ottomans only lead in grain. Russia in Fur and Naval Supplies. The new world-ish, products of Cocoa, Tobacco, and Sugar are made by new world powers, like colonial nations or natives.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let’s take some pics!!!

Map of lower Africa:

https://s11.postimg.org/l1c881lxf/Kongo_200_Year_Review_Africa.png

You can see our big fat blob all over.

Alright, Indies:


https://s11.postimg.org/ghzzmj41v/Kongo_200_year_Review_Indies.png


Note Taiwan beside the Paused note at the top, and the Philippines below that. You can see us in Sulawesi, most of Papua, and on most of Java. We have slowly pushed here with annexation of Bali, Makassar, taking Demak, as well as Ternate and Tidore. This is the extent of where I’m going. Oh, and the dark blue in Brunei island is France, that red is England, the green outside of Pasai is Portugal.

Here, let me show you various world maps

Oceania:

MAP!


https://s11.postimg.org/7pj0yuiwz/Kongo_200_Year_Review_Oceania.png


Portugal has most of Australia and New Zealand. Tidore was colonizing down here, and just continued, and is south of Portugal. You can see other islands to the north and west colonized as well. There are few opportunities for expansion, and I’m not interested. Rabaul, the crescent shaped island to the east of Papua, is it.

Here’s South America


MAP

https://s11.postimg.org/ncaac7woz/Kongo_200_Year_Review_South_America.png

North America


MAP


https://s11.postimg.org/g6ij9rnlv/Kongo_200_Year_Review_North_America.png

Eurasia

MAP


https://s11.postimg.org/6w6f68cw3/Kongo_200_Year_Review_Eurasia.png

[Abe Sargent]

Is it time to call it?

We never fought with European, and we were strong all along. No one messes with us.

But yes, it's time...

Kongo Rises!!!