Songhai - Abe's New EU3 Dynasty - Complete!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Hello all and welcome to the newest EU3 campaign featuring yours truly. I just d/led both expansions and fully patched this baby up. It appears that there are more changes in the two patches from EU3, then there were from EU2 to EU3. Where EU3 featured some new ideas like National Ideas and recruiting generals and admirals, and a different philosophy behind the events engine, it also was very similar to EU2. However, the patches and expansions have completely renovated areas of the game such as colonies.

I will be beginning on October 14, 1399. The two expansions increased the play time of the game until 1821.

I will be playing until I get bored, or I am done. I do not promise a full Grand Campaign, which can take weeks to play.

So, without further ado, let’s get started.

[Abe Sargent]

Who to play? Well, I try to stay away from things I’ve done before. I’ve played as Trebizond, Naxos, Oldenberg, Mataram, Grenada, Wallachia and in CK as Salerno (S Italy), Halsingland (Sweden), Lubeck (North Germany), and a losing triad of games in the Middle East.

I have played Hindu, Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox. I have played only Asia and Europe.

My favorite dynasty of all time was Mataram, no doubt. It was fun building an empire to rival any other in the Indies and later in India. I am looking for something really interesting, so let’s look and see what’s around.

Byzantium - Down to just their capital of Thrace, Byzantium is surrounded by the Ottoman Empire. It would be interesting to see if I could get a win out of Byzantium. However, this might be too similar to the Naxos campaign.

Benin - This little one province minor power in Africa is next to states in Hausa and Oyo. It is on the coast east of Whydah. It is an Animist religion. AKA nasty. It has Ivory, which is a solid enough. It sees adjacent Oyo’s two provinces, Hausa’s provinces, and two unclaimed, one of which is adjacent to Benin.

Ashanti - This one province inland empire is near Benin. It is also Animist. Ashanti’s one province is gold, which means you might make a solid amount of money, but your inflation is likely to go astronomical. You can only see one adjacent province, owned by Mali with is ten provinces. You only see Mali’s ten provinces on your map, and naught else.

Being an Animist means you will see a lot of problems doing things like gaining technology.

Songhai - This three province Islamic state is in central Africa, adjacent to the northern parts of Hausa and Mali’s province of Timbuktu, which is also the Center of Trade for the area. As an Islamic state, it will get that group’s tech advances, and develop more quickly than some neighbors. You can also see Benin and Oyo on your maps, but not Ashanti. The provinces of Benin are poorer, with one salt and two grain. You are adjacent to the unclaimed land of Nupe as well, for future colonization purposes.

So, although it is poor, it appears that Songhai’s three provinces and position give it several advantages. One, it is right next to a COT it can try to grab in war. That jacks up its value. Two, it can advance more quickly than some neighbor states (although Mali and Hausa are also Islamic). Three, it is in a better position to gobble up neighbors than other states. The five provinces of North Hausa have four grains among them, and one salt. The good salt province, with over 20k people, is right next to Songhai and easily cut off in war from its brethren. Hausa’s south two provinces are both slaves, and I want to steer clear of those, because they have such a cheap value right now. Both of the Oyo provinces are grain as well. So before you think that Songhai is in a bad place economically with 2/3rds grain, just know that most other neighbors are similarly scathed. Fourth, when the big bads from up north, like Morocco, come down the desert, Songhai is easily defended, using the Sahara as a natural defense.

If I am interested in repeating my Mataram experience in Asia, there are one province states like Makassar and Ryukyu available to select.

I could play as one of the Native American tribes - Creek, Cherokee, Shawnee, Iroquois and Huron. They have between four and seven provinces each and are ideally situated to be eaten by the European powers when they arrive.

The Chimu are a one province nation surrounded by the Incas. There are also the Mayas and Zapotec as well.

Perhaps one province Sukhothai, in SE Asia would be nice. You begin with a decent enough map. You are just a grain province. You also have less people in your state than in every adjacent province. Every adjacent province is part of a multi province country, so no easy expansion for you, and eventually you have to deal with China.

The Shawnee, of which I am a descendant partially, have six provinces, four furs and two grains. The populations in these provinces are very low, virtually colonial level. The Shawnee capital, Ohio, for example has just 1000 people in it. The Shawnee are a Shamanist nation. The nearby Creek and Cherokee have better possession, including cotton and tobacco provinces. The Creek have five cotton provinces. The Cherokee have one cotton and two tobacco, plus one furs, one naval supplies, and two grain. In at least the game I opened, the Shawnee begin with an option to hire a level six trade tech advisor right off the bat.

So, who do I play?

Well, let’s take a poll!

[Abe Sargent]

Here is the poll with the final five choices - Benin, Songhai, Shawnee, Makassar, and Sukhothai.


http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=69268

[Abe Sargent]

It looks like Shawnee is the runaway choice. Let’s get started!

We will begin with a look at the six provinces that I begin the game with:

Ohio - Our Capital. 1000 Shawnee Shamanists work the fur trade here. Furs have decent trade values at the beginning of the game. We are making 3.8 ducats annually here. That makes this our wealthiest province.

Wea - Directly west of Ohio is the province of Wea. 1500 Delaware also work the Fur trade here. It makes us 2 ducats annually. Wea and Ohio are our northernmost provinces.

Kentucky - In between Ohio and Wea, and south of both lies the fur province of Kentucky. 3001 Shawnee work the fur trade making 2.91 ducats annually. This is our most populated province. It is completely surrounded by four of our provinces.

Cumberland - South of Kentucky and Ohio is our province of Cumberland. 2001 Shawnee work the Fur trade here making us 2 ducats annually. This province borders the Cherokee province of Cherokee.

Pennyrile - West of Cumberland, and south of Kentucky and Wea is the grain province of Pennyrile. 2501 Shawnee work here, making us 2.73 ducats annually. It just touches the Cherokee province of Tennessee.

Shawnee - Our southernmost province of Shawnee is south of Pennyrile and Cumberland. 1200 Shawnee work the grain trade, making us just 0.93 ducats annually. It is adjacent to Cherokee and Chickasaw and Tuskegee and Tennessee, all Cherokee provinces.


We have 1000 archers in Ohio, and we see 1000 Cherokee troops in Tuskegee.

We have 50 ducats in the bank. We are currently at Tech 0 in every category.

[Abe Sargent]

We have unclaimed land all around us. The provinces of Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Miami, Wyandot, Erie, Kanawha and Monacan are around us. In this game, you do not know what trade good a province has until you’ve settled it, and it is determined randomly.

There are several ways I can try to do this. I can try to build some armies and out manpower the Cherokee and take a province or two. If I were to do that, I’d want their most valuable non-capital province - Cheraw, which is not adjacent to me. I’d also like Cherokee itself to provide a land connection to Cheraw. If it goes well, I’d want Catawba as well, next to Cheraw.

We have a Tribal Democracy. We can switch to Tribal Despotism or Tribal Federation right now. Tribal Despotism is good for war, because you get +20% to your manpower, and this appears to be a small manpower on manpower battle. It would cost us four stability to move, and that would hurt us in the short term for a while before we got back up.

I went to take a look at our tech and saw a very disturbing thing. We have to get 148000 production points in order to increase one tech! That’s crazy! I went and looked at other countries. I loaded up Castille and they need 3300 to increase. I loaded up Sukhotai and they need 3800. We need 148000, which means we will never, not once, increase our techs in the game. We will be level zero, or perhaps one, for the entire game. That means we will never be able to defeat the Europeans, no matter the odds. A level 5 tech can trounce a level 1 most of the time, but you have a fighting chance. A level 10 can defeat a level 5 usually, but again, there’s a chance. You can fight in terrain that suits you, have more men, attack when they are exhausted, and so forth. A level 20 force, or higher, will never lose to a level 1, no matter the odds or situation. 1000 European troops will, literally, run through my entire nation, and there is nothing I can do about it. I cannot put all of my efforts into infrastructure and research, I cannot build forts ( I don’t have the tech yet), I cannot do anything.

To be fair, I think that’s probably an attempt to make the encounter between the Europeans and natives portray themselves realistically.

I loaded a game as Chimu because I wanted to see if the North Amercian tribe biases continue into the Central and South America empires. Instead of needing 148000, I need 116000. The anticipated date when my techs will get better by one is May, 2990. Again, just ridiculous.

This makes the American natives essentially unplayable, to my mind. The Incas need 241725 and will tech up in September, 3982. Silly.

With these nations being such mega push-overs, I wonder why they were made playable at all.

Why even bother?

[Abe Sargent]

By comparison, here are the numbers for the other countries I was considering:

Benin - 18165 - which is still six times that of Castille. You start at all ones.

Songhai - 16758 - Still bad. I thought this would be a lot better than it is. Yuck. All ones.


Makassar - 3492. Not bad at all. Start with all 3s.

Sukkoth - 3828. Start with all 3s.


It appears, in this game, that the nations are generally in this order (with some exceptions of course):

Western Europe. Eastern Europe and Middle East. Asia. Africa. America.

Actually it appears that Songhai does not get the Muslim tech group, despite being a Muslim nation. They get the African one, which is really bad.

Now that I know that they suck more than I thought, I am going to switch to Songhai. Benin’s map sucks, and Songhai at least has three provinces to draw upon.

[Abe Sargent]

SONGHAI

We are a Muslim nation in the African tech group. We have a Despotic Monarchy. We are ruled by Mar-Arkana. He is a two star Admin, zero diplo, and two start military guy.

Our Provinces:

Tadimekket - This salt province sees 4002 Tuareg Sunnis make us 3.68 ducats annually. This is our northernmost province, and it is adjacent to the Mali province of Timbuktu.

Gao - South of Tadimekket and east of Timbuktu, lies our capital in Gao. Despite our Sunni-ness, our capital is Animist. 9500 Malinese people work the grain harvest here, making us 5.21 ducats annually.

Dendi - South and east of Tadimekket and Gao is Dendi, our final province. It has 7003 Sunni Malinese people harvesting grain and making 2.31 ducats for us annually. It is next to three northern Hausa provinces - Zamfara, Katsina, and Gobir.

We have 1000 spearmen in Gao.

[Abe Sargent]

My Goals:

1). Establish economic superiority by taking Timbuktu as quickly as possible.
2). Defeat a major power in the area to gain breathing space and military might. Perhaps taking land from Mali will serve both of our goals here.
3). Conquer or vassalize all Eastern African powers.
4). Begin colonizing Africa
5). Stop the encroachment of Europe into Africa
6). Turn Africa Islamic
7). Take every African province, either by politics, sword or colonization. This includes the islands around Africa. I am happy to loosely determine what islands are “around” Africa.

I am not interested with playing around with provinces outside of Africa. Perhaps, down the road, I might grab Mecca or something, because I am an Islamic nation, after all, but outside of that, I want to tsay very clear of places outside of Africa.

[Abe Sargent]

I choose to move our slider to be more Innovative which causes us to lost five prestige after an event triggers.

We have al-Amin Ouedraogo available as an advisor, a 6 star (the best available) for land tech investment, and I absolutely hire him. It will hurt our economy to do so, but I simply must use this resource.

This drops our ducats from 50 to 32. I adjust our treasury sliders to help us out.

Here is the area.

I immediately prepare for war. We need to take it to the Malinese immediately.

My ruler takes on the role of general and I order troops built in Gao.

[Abe Sargent]

Took me a bit but I think I figured out how to post the image of the starting area. Let's see.

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6803/songhaibeginningum2.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

Tell if you can or can't see that

[Abe Sargent]

The Favor of Fortune


1 Nov, 1399 - We discover the province of Gurma, an unclaimed province next to Gao and Dendi.
Dec 26, 1399 - 1000 more spearmen are built in Gao. I order 2000 mercs assembled.

Jan 15, 1400 - I complete a mission to Create an Army for our nation. The next one is to Accumulate Money, since we are sitting at a low treasury due to my efforts to build an army. Missions are new from the expansions, and are your advisors suggestions for things to do, and you get benefits if you do them.

Jan 30 - 1400 - 4000 troops are ready in Gao and I Declare War against Mali and order them into Timbuktu. I order 1000 more mercs to be prepared. Our stability drops massively.

We fail the Money mission and now gain a Keep Our Capital Safe mission.

13 Feb - We are trade embargoed by Mali.

Feb 19 - We arrive in, and therefore capture Timbuktu. I order our troops in further. Our last 1000 mercs are assembled in Gao and I order them to Timbuktu.

March 1 - Rebels have captured the eastern five provinces of Mali.

March 6 - Our independence has been guaranteed by Hausa.

March 9 - Our 4000 forces arrive in and capture Massina. I order them further into Malinese territory.

March 27 - We capture Segu. I order them in further.

April 24 - We arrive in Bambuk and capture it. 1000 troops have arrived in Jenne and capture it as well. I order our troops in further.

I see 8933 Malinese troops fighting 1600 rebels in an adjacent province, but I order our troops on nonetheless.

May 1 - We discover Yatenga, an unclaimed province next to Timbuktu, Gao, Massina and Jenne.

May 12 - Our 1000 troops capture Wasuju. I order them on. We have to take out a loan of 35 ducats.

May 16 - We capture Futa Jallon with our 4000 troop army.

May 29 - We capture Bure with our 1000 army. I order our troops on.

June 1 - Our stability improves.

June 16 - We capture Gabu. I order them on. As the Malinese army fights rebels, we claim their territory.

July 3 - We capture Cayor, leaving just one province of Mali in the hands of the rebels, while the Malinese army fights the rebels in that province. Now is the time for a peace offer.

July 5 - We accept peace with Mali for four provinces. This also completes the Mission to keep our Capital safe. I disband two thousand mercs and order our two thousand troops we built ourselves to our new provinces while 1000 heads back to Timbuktu.

[Abe Sargent]

Here is what we gained:

Timbuktu - this was the main prize. 14093 Malinese Sunnis work the salt trade here making us 22.64 ducats annually. This is a COT. It is next to our provinces at Tadimekket, Gao and Massina.

Massina - Just a small grain province. 8000 Mali Animists make us 2.20 annually. It is adjacent to Timbuktu, and three Mali provinces. Taking it means we can defend it, rather than Timbuktu, in future wars out west.

Gabu - This coastal province is west of our holdings in Futa Jallon and connects with two Mali provinces. 8000 Animists of Senegambian descent harves grain and make us 2.20 ducats annually.

Futa Jallon - This ivory province is adjacent to three Mali provinces and east and inland of Gabu. 14500 Animists here make us 3.37 ducats annually.

Note that Futa Jallon and Gabu are several provinces away from our other holdings, so I hope to secure them for a while until we can connect with them.


Goal 1 Complete in less than a year.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Tell if you can or can't see that

Yep, it's there. A bit large, but definitely there.

[Abe Sargent]

Consolidation of Inequities


We discovered the Coast of Gambia when we captured Gabu, adjacent to it.

During the war, Hausa took Benin and established a COT in Gobir, which is right next to our province of Dendi.

July 6 - We enter into a Royal Marriage with Hausa. We get a mission to repay our loans.

We have significant revolt risks in our conquered provinces. For the next few years, we need to work on our stability, finances, and get that revolt risk down.

Aug 1 - We Discover Borgu, next to Dendi to its south.

Oct 15 - I hire a couple of one star stability advisors to help us temporarily in this area.

Dec 1 - We discover Konian, south of Futa Jallon. I’ll let you know if any of these are inhabited by nation state.
Feb 21, 1401 - Mali rejects our royal marriage proposal.

Apr 1 - We discover Azawadd

Kanem Bornu and Hausa are at war. KB has already captured the five northern provinces of Hausa.

June 1 - We get a Patriot revolt in Gabu (There are many different kinds of revolts now, with different force sizes, different intents, and so forth. For example, a religion revolt might change the religion of captured provinces, whereas a Patriot one will create Nationalism in any provinces it captures.)

June 29 - We defeat the rebels in Gabu.

Aug 1 - Our stability increases.

Sept 3 - We have lost Gabu and Futa Jallon after our forces were driven out with Animist revolters spilling over from Mali provinces. I retreat with my forces and intend to go back after they leave my territory.

Oct 1 - We discover Sierra Leone.

Oct 7 - We have a revolt in Gao and it is lost. The Rebels move into the adjacent province of Yatenga, and attack the natives there.

Oct 10 - We recapture Gabu,

Oct 28 - We recapture Gao and Futa Jallon.

Kanem Bornu has taken all five Hausa provinces in the north and is now our neighbor.

Nov 6 - We send a diplomat to Kanem Bornu and enter into a trade agreement with them.

Jan 8, 1402 - The rebels finally won in Yatenga and march on. They are cut in size down to 3000.

Feb 8 - The rebels have left my map, so they must have gone into land which is currently Terra Incognito.

Mar 27 - Mali has finally defeated the rebels in their province of Bambuk.

Apr 17 - We lose Gabu after those rebels arrive.

May 5 - We have an event - We gained a gift to the estate and I put it in the treasury so we gained 100 ducats

May 6 - The rebels arrive in Futa jallon and attack our forces.

1 Aug - Our stability increases.

Aug 10 - We lose in Futa Jallon and it is captured by rebels.

Aug 29 - We recapture Gabu with our defeated forces.

Sept 6 - I order spearmen built in Massina and Timbuktu.

Sept 19 - We recapture Futa Jallon.

Oct 7 - Mali rejects another RM proposal.

[Abe Sargent]

Entanglements in Court

Oct 9 - Kanem Bornu accepts our offer of a military alliance.

Perfect, that protects our right flank. I recruit a general for our Timbuktu armies.

Jan 1, 1403 - I disband our remaining 1k merc troops and order another 1000 spearmen to replace them in Massina.

Mar 15 - The rebels are finally put down by the Malinese infantry.

Mar 22 - Kanem Bornu grants us military access after we ask for it.

Oyo’s province of Oyo has succeeded and taken the name of Benin. Oyo is now a one province.

We now have 3000 troops in Massina and 2000 in Futa Jallon. I order 1000 more in Futa Jallon. This uses up the manpower we’ve been building over these past years.

June 20 - 2000 Animist rebels rise up in Massina and attack our troops here.

Aug 1 - Our stability increases.

Sept 10 - We defeat the rebels in Massina with just 160 troops lost on our side.

I order Missionaries to Gao. Unlike previous games, this is now an up keeping event, that continues until successful or you cancel it. Your have to upkeep the missionary effort, and the more you pay per year, the more successful your efforts are. Your revolt risk rises as well during these times.

Oct 9 - After capturing the Mali province of Jenne, our Animist rebels have returned to harass us again in Massina.

Nov 2 - We drive them away. Again.

April 1, 1404 - There are some Pretender Rebels making noise in the former Hausa provinces of Kanem Bornu. Hopefully they won’t cross into our nation at Dendi.

April 13 - I send missionaries to Futa Jallon.

June 22 - Our east army arrives in Dendi, just in case.

Aug 1 - Stability increases

Sept 14 - Mali rejects another RM request.

Oct 23 - I give military access to Kanem Bornu

[Abe Sargent]

Conflicts Continued

May 1, 1405 - We repay our loan. We lose an inflation because we met our mission goal. We get the next mission, which is to Improve Our Prestige.

June 5 - Our truce with Mali expires in a month. Will they attack me? I don’t have a lot of money after starting the missionaries and repaying our loan and building our military up.

Aug 1 - Our stability improves to +3 - the best it can get. I fire our advisors that help stability.

Sept 1 - We discover Taodeni.

Mar 6, 1406 - I order another 1000 spearman in Futa Jallon.

Apr 21 - A pretender rebel army arose in Segu, a Malinese province and is moving deeper into their territory.

June 17 - Our ruler dies. Da Ud I is our new ruler with an Admin of 5, Military of 7, and Diplo of 5, he’s pretty solid.

July 19 - We have a small rebellion in Futa Jallon.

Aug 15 - Our east general died.

September 3 - And we put it down.

I make my ruler a general and assign him to the west army. It looks like Mali has removed many of their missionaries - or they were destroyed by rebels if that’s possible with the new system (I imagine it might be)

Jan 7, 1407 - Mali rejects another RM. We proclaim guarantees against Oyo and Benin.

Jan 11, 1407 - I have an opportunity and I am taking it. While the only Mali army is busy up in the corner of their territory with rebels, I DOW them. I move my troops into Bambuk.

Jan 15 - I order war taxes to be collected.

Jan 24 - Bambuk is ours.

Feb 5 - We capture Bure.

Feb 25 - We capture Wasuju.

Mar 4- We capture Segu

Mar 10 - We capture Jenne.

Mar 12 - They accept peace for four provinces and 75 ducats. We have gained a motherload. Ready?

[Abe Sargent]

Jenne - This peaceful little provinces is south of Massina and Segu, and adjacent to the Mali province of Wasuju. Ashanti is also next door be we haven’t discovered it yet. 18000 Animists work the grain trade here, making 4.74 ducats for us annually.

Segu - West of Massina and Jenne, north of the Mali province of Wasuju, east of our new provinces in Bambuk and Bure lies Segu. The 13000 Mali Animists here grow grain and make 3.9 ducats.

Bure - Recently converted to Sunni by Mali, 14076 Mali people here mine the gold mines, making 72.24 ducats annually. Watch out for inflation. This province is south of Bambuk and Segu, and west of Futa Jallon and east of the Mali province of Wasuju.

Bambuk - This gold province has 9779 Mali Animists making us 65.72 ducats annually. It is north of Bure and Futa Jallon, west of Segu, and east of the Mali province of Wolof.


Mali is down to three provinces. Wolof, Cayor and Wasuju, which is surrounded virtually by us.

With our winnings from the war, I order us to build 4000 more infantry which will probably normally be stationed in Segu.

Looks like we accomplished the second goal, mostly. Mali was a pushover (Very historically realistic, in real life Songhai would just overwhelm Mali with ease marching to the coast, but it didn't happen for another 100 years or so, we just accelerated the real life timeline).

Looks like its map time.

[Abe Sargent]

After 8 Years and Two Wars with Mali:

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[Abe Sargent]

Regionalism Over Nationalism

Apr 19 - I recruit a new general for our east army.

May 1 - We discover the Coast of Guinea.

July 30 - We now have a 4000 army in Segu. I order another 1000 built in Gao. That will put us at 4000 in each army.

Aug 29 - The heretics of Futa Jallon have converted!

Sept 11 - Gao has also converted!

Nov 11 - I proclaim a guarantee for Mali, just in case someone comes by and wants to poach our neighbors. I order another 2000 troops built.

Dec 11 - We have a Peasant revolt in Futa Jallon and they are marching to Bambuk. I order my men to Futa Jallon and Bambuk. Futa Jallon has gained Tax Revolt for a year, and will only give me 50% of its normal tax income.

Dec 27 - Bambuk is captured and now suffers Tax Revolt for a year.

Jan 3 - 1408 - We recapture Futa Jallon.

Jan 5 - Our 4000 strong Segu army arrives in Bambuk to protest the rebel’s presence.

Jan 16 - Our 4000 Gabu army arrives to join the protest. Our army is now 8000 strong here.

Mar 9 - We lose in Bambuk. I order the 2000 we just built to join our army.

Mar 13 - We lose Bure. Tax Revolt and all that.

April 7 - We lose in Futa Jallon. We recaptured Bambuk. A Meteor is sighted. Our stability drops.

Apr 12 - We recapture Bure.

I’m going to skip all of the give and take for a while and just do it.

May 10, 1409 - We finally defeat the rebels in Jenne.

July 1 - Our stability increases. We discover Kumasi. That means we have discovered the Ashanti. I proclaim a guarantee against this one province gold nation.

An important point. The rebels captured Wasuju. Will they declare independence after a while? It was a peasant revolt, so I am not sure. Perhaps we’ll find out.

Our Prestige fell to -7 too after several losses to rebels.

Oct 3 - We proclaim a guarantee for Kanem Bornu.

Nov 1 - I hire a few stability advisors.

[Abe Sargent]

Friends and Foes Found


Feb 9, 1410 - We can change a slider. I order us to move towards Innovate again. This time, we notch an advisor because we are gathering the intelligencia. It’s a level 2 Trade Tech guy, so I drop one of my stability bonus advisors for Salman Diarra.

Feb 17 - We have a rebellion in Segu. Its pretty large so I marches my Timbuktu army over to help.

June 15 - We defeat the rebels in Segu and they move into Terra Incognito.

I order another 1000 spearmen drafted and trained and equipped.

Sokototian Nationalists arrive in Dendi and took it. It will now experience Nationalism for ten years. They are all over Kanem Bornu’s area. They are having a massive rebel problem right now. Like we did for a year. I order troops over to recapture Dendi and guard our border.

July 1 - Sokoto declares independence from Kanem Borno, which brings with them the five provinces adjacent to us that used to be part of Hausa that were taken by Kanem Bornu. There is now a new player on the map. They leave our Dendi alone. They are an Animist state, despite having two Sunni provinces, Kano and Gobir.

The first thing I do is proclaim a guarantee on them as well. Helps relations and gives you casus bellis on those who may feel otherwise.

Sokoto has over 10000 troops already.

Sept 8 - I leave our alliance with Kanem Bornu. They are now nothing and appear to be a one province power.

Sept 11 - I get an event - Growth of Cities attract Serfs. Choices:

We Have to Accept This. Lose one stability. Lose one tax base in Gabu. Gain one in Gao.
The Serfs Belong on Their Turf. Gain two serfdom on the sliders.

I don’t want to be two on the slider. So I accept it, even though it means we lose a stability.

Oct 7 - Sokoto accepted a military alliance with us.

Jan 2, 1411 - I ask for an receive military access through Sokoto.

Apparently the revolt in Wasuju ended without being lifted.

Feb 1, we discover Brakna

Feb 6, 1411 - We give military access to Sokoto

[Abe Sargent]

Allegiance Gained and Blood Continued


I declare war on Ashanti. Since they are a different religion (Animist) there is no loss of stability.

I order troops in Jenne into Ashanti’s single province of Kumasi.

Mar 5 - We won.

Apr 5 - We force Ashanti to become our vassal and they give us 650 gold.

A fine two months work.

I send missionaries to Jenne, Gabu and Segu. I order 7000 troops built in various parts of the empire.

May 1 - Stability increase

Nov 1 - I order another 2000 troops built.

Jan 3, 1412 - We have the sixth largest infantry army in the world after Ming, Golden Horde, Timurid Empire, France and Japan. We have 24828 infantry. We can’t build cavalry yet. However, other nations that have less infantry beat us in total troops.

June 22 - Segu converted to Islam.

Oct 1 - We discovered Wagadugi

Oct 11 - Our ruler died and we got a new one. Say hello to Harangi I, with an Admin of 7, Military of 3, and Diplo of 7.

We renew our Royal Marriage with Kanem Bornu.

[Abe Sargent]

Struggles Through the Night


Dec 1 - Stability increases.

Dec 15 - We establish an embassy in Dendi using the province decision panel. This will last for ten years, jacks our relations with Sokoto by 50, taxes in Dendi are at -0.05%, spy defense there is up ten percent and local defensiveness is up 5 percent. This costs no money or diplomats or anything.

Feb 1, 1413 - We send missionaries to Bambuk.

I send Mali a gift.

Mar 6 - I do it again.

May 2 - And yet another is sent.

May 10 - Benin is attacked by Hausa. I DOW Hausa because I have a Casus Belli since I guaranteed Benin’s independence. It will take a while to get down there, though.

June 25 - the 1000 troops of Benin are being assaulted by Hausa. I just need them to hold out a bit longer.

July 8 - Benin knocked back the Hausa assault.

July 21 - We arrive in Benin with 6000 troops. I order them to the province of Benin, currently under control of Hausa.

20 August - We win the Battle of Benin and capture it. I order my troops on.

Aug 31 - Hausa sends us a peace offer of White Peace. I laugh them away.

Sept 12 - We arrive in Bonny, win that battle, and capture it as well. I immediately sue for peace.

We get Benin, some ducats, and their vassalization. Their other two provinces are cheap and chincy slave provinces, worth very little. Benin was the major prize here.


Benin - 14040 work the ivory trade in this port city. The Yorumba Animists here make us 4.99 ducats. We are south of Benin on Oyo, south of Oyo in Ife, and west of Hausa in Bonny. We discovered the Gulf of Nigeria as well.

I send a gift to Mali again.

[Abe Sargent]

Gifts Ungiven


Sept 23 - We have a revolt of 5000 Animist Zealots in Jenne, but luckily I have a bunch of troops here.

Jan 20, 1414 - We defeat the rebels in Jenne. I recruit a general.

Apr 17 - Another gift sent to Mali.

May 1 - Another stability increase. One more and we are maxed again.

10 June - My previous mission to increase our prestige worked, and now we gain more prestige plus one stability, so we are maxed. I sack our stability advisor.

Our new Mission is to let our manpower grow back.

July 16 - Another gift to Mali is shipped.

Aug 18 - Another follows.

Nov 1 - And another.

Feb 3, 1415 - And yet one more.

April 1 - We discover Idah

May 2 - Revolt in Bambuk, another Animist Zealot revolt, of 4k.

July 29 - We win in Bambuk.

Aug 1 - We discover Whydah

Aug 3 - Another gift sent to Mali. Perhaps the last one.

Sept 4 - There are rebels in Ashanti’s province of Kumasi. I request military access and get it, and order my troops in Jenne in.

Oct 3 - We win in Kumasi.

Oct 14 - Peeasant rebellion in Bure. They capture it, Tax Revolt, etc.

Nov 1 - We complete the manpower mission, and our prestige again takes a hike and we lose some war exhaustion, not that it mattered.

Our next mission is to Incorporate Hausa into Our Country.

Nov 5 - Rebels arrived in Segu and more Tax Revolt, etc.

We arrive to protest their presence.

Dec 10 - We lose in Segu.

Dec 23 - They capture Bambuk.

Jan 9, 1416 - they capture Futa Jallon

Jan 29 - We recapture Segu

Feb 20 - We capture Bambuk.

May 3 - We win in Futa Jallon and break the rebels. Rebellion over. Our Missionary to Bambuk was taken when it was captured.

I decide to send on e last gift to Mali, maximizing our relations.

June 16 - We are now in a Royal Marriage with Mali.

Oct 2 - We are now in an alliance with Mali. Perfect.

Oct 12 - Mali cancels our alliance. Seriously? After all of the work I put into it? Fine then.

[Abe Sargent]

Lessons Given...


Nov 12 - I make a claim on the throne of Mali. I go ahead and hire a 2 star stability tech advisor. I’m going to need him. I have a CB for a year.

Dec 12 - I sent an insult.

Jan 13, 1417 - I send an insult.

April 1 - We discover Worodugu

April 7, 1417 - I DOW Mali for the last time. I don’t want her janky grain and slave provinces, I want her to bow down to me.

Our stability drops two.

April 24 - We capture their capital of Wasuju,

April 26 - We win in Wolof.

May 6 - I get a peace offer for them to renounce their claims on my territory and give me some ducats. Nope, I’m taking this all the way.

May 9 - We win in Cayor and capture it. We now have all three provinces and have destroyed their army. I simply await a diplomat to force peace

June 17 - I send a missionary to Benin.

July 2 - We are now at peace with Mali. We got 150 ducats, they are our vassals, and they agreed to give up their cores on all of our provinces that were formerly theirs. That’s what ya get for withdrawing from my alliance Mali.

[Abe Sargent]

...On Both Fronts


Aug 12 - I send a spy to increase the revolt risk for Gobir. I have a success rate of 83% and a discover rate of 53%. We both succeed and are not discovered. The revolt risk there increases by 3%. That only cost me ten gold, but it looks like it lasts just one year. That’s probably not worth it in the long term.

Apr 29, 1418 - We convert the heathens in Benin.

June 1 - Stability increase.

It appears like things are all quiet on the western front now. We’ve vassalized Mali and Ashanti, and taken multiple valuable properties. The remaining powers in the east, save one, are small and have no provinces we want, such as the power of Oyo, Benin and Hausa.

That leaves one major power left for us to tackle - our allies Sokoto. They have Gobir, a COT next to us in Dendi with Sunni brothers. I could also take Kano, a sunni grain province that would cut off the other three grain provinces.

The only problem with that is that Sokoto has their capital in Gobir. That’s bad news for us. We cannot just take it in war. I’d have to take grain provinces just to reduce its size. I’m told by ledger that Sokoto has 9 provinces. I only see five so there are four others out there. If I take some of their territory, then slowly I can discover the territory next to it. The problem with that is that the first war with Sokoto would be for relatively valueless grain provinces and not really hurt their ability to wage war in the second war. I prefer to economically cripple an opponent in the first war if possible, and I cannot do that here.

I send a spy to subvert the population in Kano, and begin to consolidate my forces for a possible strike much later down the road.

I order 3000 men built.


Nov 17 - I revoke Sokoto’s military access to our country.

Dec 27 - I dissolve our alliance.

Mar 19, 1419 - I DOW Sokoto.

I order 10000 troops in Dendi into Gobir and a follow up army in en route.

10 April - We capture Gobir.

April 23 - Our main arrives in Katsina from Gobir and assaults the 3000 strong Sokoto army.

April 28 - We win in Katsina.

May 1 - Our backup army captured Zamara.

May 15 - Our army arrives in Kano and attacks the forces there

May 16 - Our backup army arrives in Zazzau and captures it.

May 21 - We win in Kano. I order my troops to march into opposing Terra Incognita that they control, which you could do in EU2 but not vanilla EU3, and I just realized now you can again it appears.

June 9 - Our backup army wins in Katsina.

July 30 - We discover Damagaram with our main army and assault the forces arrayed here. This is a sunni salt province. Excellent!

Aug 3 - We win in Damagaram.

Aug 31 - I have several peace options. I can take a full five provinces - everything we’ve captured except the capital. I cannot force vassalize them, however. Instead, I decide to go with four provinces, 200 ducats and they lose their core on Dendi.

[Abe Sargent]

The Booty


Katsina - East of Deni, Katsina connects our new provinces with our old provinces. It also isolates their captial, Gobir, and their province Zamfara from everything else to the east. Katsina is a sunni grain province where 10373 Malinese people make us 2.81 ducats annually. It is adjacent to all three new provinces.

Damagaram - The north most of the new provinces touches Katsina to the southwest, Gobir to the West, Kano to the south and Borno to the east - Kanem Bornu’s final province. 7986 Mali sunnis work the salt trade here making us 3.03 ducats annually.

Kano - Also Sunni, the 31963 people here harvest grain and send us 4.03 ducats annually. It is adjacent to Borno, Damagaram, Zazzau and Katsina.

Zazzau - The only province that was not sunni are the 23813 Mali Animists that grow grain here, making us 2.07 ducats annually. It is adjacent to us in Kano and Katsina, and Zamfara, a Sokoto province.


Kano is immediately our biggest province, and Zazzau our second biggest.

I’ll leave an army in Katsina.

[Abe Sargent]

The Rewards of Patience


Sept 1 - We discover Bauchi, adjacent to Kano and Zazzau and unclaimed. The natives here have been wiped out. Probably by Sokoto trying to get from their provinces in the east to those in the west hat we just hammered.

Nov 14 - I offer an alliance with Kanem Bornu again, and they accept again.

Our prestige has jumped to 59. I recruit a general and put him in the Katsina army.

Nov 27 - Kanem Borno broke their alliance with me. Sillies.

Dec 1 - Stability increase and we are back to full. Yay!

April 21, 1420 - I support a revolt in Zamfara, the isolated province of Sokoto.

May 6 - I offer an alliance with Mali. Perhaps this time they won’t break it. Perhaps now they’ve learned their lesson.

May 7 - They accept.

May 14 - We have a peasant revolt in Damagaram, which carries the Tax Revolt thing. I order our troops to Kano where they are supposedly going. Luckily we can beat the,m there.

May 25 - We get a event about National Institutions. I can chose to insitute them or not. I choose to do so, and we move one towards centralization on the sliders and lose a stability.

13 July - We defeat and destroy the rebels in Kano.

Dec 26 - Tax Revolt in Kano.

Jan 28, 1421 - We lose in Zazzau and it falls as well.

Feb 28 - We recpature Kano.

March 15, 1421 - We can change a slider. I decide to move us Innovative again. We get a new thinker available for hire. He’s level 5! But he’s a naval reformer. Do I want to hire a naval reformer, even a great one?

Sure, why not. I’ll keep my stability guy for a few more months, then drop him for the naval reformer.

June 1 - We discover Pindinga.

July 13 -One of our generals has died fighting these dumb rebels.

Aug 18 - We finally defeat these rebels once and for all.

I recruit another general. Not a good one, but I get him nonetheless.

Aug 23 - We lose another general. I don’t really want to keep making these lousy generals, so I’ll stop for now.

Sept 2 - We start another revolt in Zamfara, only this one succeeds but is discovered.

Nov 1 - I jettison the stability guy and hire Silman Diallo, a Naval Reformer.

Dec 16 - We get a Peasant revolt in Katsina.

Jan 1, 1422 - Our stability increases again to full.

Feb 22 - We lose in Katsina

June 21 - We have a peasant rebellion in Bure.

Aug 24 - We lose in Bambok.

Sept 6 - We win the battle of Kano and defeat the first group of rebels.

Oct 21 - Jenne has converted.

Jan 5, 1423 - We won the Battle of Segu, recaptured it, and destroyed the last remnants of rebels.

I order a missionary to Zazzau.

Sept 12 - In order to complete my mission, I would demand annexation from Hausa, but they don’t want it that much, even at max relations and so I ask them to be in my alliance. Perhaps that will help coax them.

Sept 15 - They accept.

Oct 16 - The odds seem to have gotten better with the alliance. Good! Let’s try now.

Oct 17 - They reject our proposal. Boo!

Dec 11 - I send them a gift.

Jan 12, 1424 - I send them another gift to make the nicies. Relations maxed again.

Feb 14 - Gabu has converted!

Apr 23 - I proclaim a guarantee on Hausa in case that’s holding us back or helps us.

Jan 13, 1425 - We have a Peasant revolt in Benin.

Jan 15 - A Gift to the State happens and we add 200 ducats to our coffers.

Jan 26 - We lose in Benin.

Aug 16 - We win in Benin, defeat the rebels, and recapture the province.

Oct 10 - We offer Hausa annexation and then they take it.

We get an event that causes our Decentralization slider to move one/

Oct 11 - We have completed our mission and as a prize, gained Bonny as a core. That means virtually no revolt.

Our next mission is to incorporate Mali into our country.

[Abe Sargent]

Bonny - This slave province is on the coast east of Benin. 4618 Ashanti Animists make us 2.14 ducats annually. It is a core province.

Calabar - Next door to the east is Calabar where 4091 Ashanti Animists make us 1.35 ducats annually. Whoo boy, that’s a lot of money!

I order our Benin troops to Calabar, which has the highest revolt risk by far since Benin is now Sunni and Bonny is a core.

Nov 1 - We are now accepted Ashanti as a part of our nation.

Feb 2, 1426 - Our sultan dies and we have a new one. Meet Tomo I, Admin 7, Military 8, Diplo 5. Not bad, not bad.

May 1 - We discover Wukari.

[Abe Sargent]

Conflict Continued

Aug 11 - I DOW Sokoto.

I order 9000 troops into their capital where 5000 await. I order 5000 troops into Zamfara. I order an expeditionary force of 8000 into Borno, and from thence into areas suspected to be Sokoto.

23 August - We capture Zamfara and assault Gobir.

Aug 28 - We win in Gobir and capture their capital.

Nov 7 - We arrive in the newly discovered Mandara, a Sokoto province back in the back here and capture. Onward to the next province.

Jan 18. 1427 - We arrive in Bagirmi and defeat the 1000 defenders in a few days. Onward to the next province.

Apr 16 - We convert the heretics of Zazzau!

Apr 25 - We discover Kanem.

Apr 30 - We defeat the defenders and capture Kanem.

May 2 - We annex Sokoto.

[Abe Sargent]

We have gained five provinces:

Gobir - The jewel of their provinces. Gobir is already Sunni, has a Center of Trade, is internal in our provinces, features 23533 Mali people working the salt mines and making 7.23 ducats for us.

Zamfara - the 7677 Animist Malinese people here are the afterthoughts of our wars. We could have taken them in thje first war but chose not too. We Didn’t even want them that much in this one. We get 2.25 ducats from them annually.

Mandara - Southeast of Borno is Mandara, a sunni province where 5171 mali people make us just 1.74 ducats harvesting grain. It is west of Bagirmi.

Bagirmi - south of Kanem and east of Mandar lies this province where 5127 sunnis of malinese descent work the ivory trade making us 1.63 ducats.

Kanem - North of Bagirmi and east of Borno lies the Sunni Malinese province where wool is the maine export and the people make 1.83 ducats annually.

I will be moving my army back here to Bagirmi.

[Abe Sargent]

Quiet into Harmony

July 1 - We discover Cameroon.

Aug 17 - We have a peasant revolt in Katsina.

Oct 23 - We defeat the rebels in Katsina

Jan 1, 1428 - We discover Yola

June 1 - We discovered Lake Tchad

June 22 - We have a tax revolt in Mandara.

July 16 - We recapture Mandara

Nov 21 - We have a Peasant rebellion in Zazzau.

Mar 12, 1429 - Rebellion in Gobir.

May 23 - We defeated the first rebels in Zamfara.

May 31 - We won in Katsina.

Jan 15, 1431 - After a quiet year, we get a peasant revolt in Zazzau.

Aug 1 - We have a revolt in Bonny.

Sept 24 - We win in Kano and destroy the peasant rebels.

18 January 1432 - We won in Calabar

4 February - We recapture Bonny and attack the remaining rebels here.

Apr 2 - I get an event - Complaints about Bailiff. I can execute him and lose 5 prestige or ignore the complains and watch stability drop. I execute him.

April 20 - Peasant revolt in Damagaram.

Apr 23 - We win in Bonny and destroy the remaining rebels

Oct 3 - I can change my sliders again. I choose to go innovate again. This time I get the We Look Weak event and our prestige drops 5.

Nov 15 - We defeat the rebels.

Jan 1, 1433 - We get a level 5 theologian that arrives in Benin. He increases our chances for missionaries to take by 5% per year, which is significant except we don’t have any outstanding and we don’t have any in the queue, nor will we get any now that we are moving towards innovative.

Feb 5, 1434 - One of our generals died.

July 20 - Revolt in Mandara

Aug 5 - We recapture Mandara

July 23, 1435 - Revolt in Kanem.

Aug 27 - We recapture it.

Oct 11 - I want to offer annexation to Mali today for the following reasons - I can complete a mission. And, they have a level 6 statesmen, going back to the beginning so he’s older, but I’d love to get him. Plus I can take out one thorn in my side. I also want maximum coastal provinces in order to be adjacent to the Europeans when they come, so I can westernize.

I offer them an alliance, and they accept. In order to pump up the chances and all.

Nov 19 - They accept annexation. We decentralize another one.

I immediately hire their level 6 tech government advisor, enough though he’s been around for 36 years. I jettison my level two trade tech guy.

Nov 20 - Due to our completion of the mission, we gain a core on Wasuju. Our new mission is to take out the Oyo.

Wasuju - Which we now have a core on. 29549 Animists of Malinese descent work the grain trade here, making us 3.06 ducats annually.

Cayor - Way up north, north of Gabu and west of Wolof, this coastal province features 11950 Senegambian Animists working the slave trade and making 1.75 ducats annually.

Wolof - 2.43 ducats are made by the Animist Senegambians in the slave trade. It is west of Bambuk, north of Gabu, north west of Futa Jallon and east of Cayor.

All that is left is four one province nations - Kanem Bornu, Oyo, Benin and Ashanti. We have everything else. Mua ha ha!

[Abe Sargent]

Silencing the Voices

Feb 18, 1436 - I don’t want Benin or Oyo, but my mission is to take out Oyo. I will take out Oyo in a bit, but for now, I want to finish off Benin, by making them my vassal. Then, perhaps, I won’t be forced to take them.

I DOW Benin.

No stability drop because they are Animist.

Mar 15 - Troops from Benin province arrive in Benin’s province of Oyo. I know, it’s confusing.

Mar 22 - We won and capture Oyo. Instead of annexing them, I offer them vassalization, all of their money and them giving up their cores on provinces they do not control. They accept our generous offer.

Now I DOW Oyo to take them out.

Apr 7 - We arrive in Ife to attack the Oyo forces here.

Apr 13 - We win and capture their province.

Apr 26 - They accept annexation. We now have the province of Ife.

Ife - 6452 Yorumba Animists harvest grain here, making us 4.26 ducats annually. Ife is adjacent to Benin’s nation in Oyo, and our province of Benin. Because we finished a mission, Ife is now a core. We also lost some badboy as rewards.

No mission replaces it, which is good. I didn’t want to have to destroy Benin’s nation, so vassalizing them seemed the best option.

Now we have one nation left to handle. Kanem Bornu.

[Abe Sargent]

Foes Into Friends Into Foes

Jul 10 - I send a gift to Kanem Bornu.

We get a new mission. Get a royal marriage with Kanem Bornu.

Oct 16 - We send another gift.

Nov 13 - One of our generals has died.

Mar 25, 1437 - Another gift is sent

Jun 15 - Another gift sent

Jun 17 - We have a Patriot revolt in Wolof.

Sept 1 - We discover Trarza

Dec 14 - We win the campaign in Wolof.

I recruit a general.

Feb 4, 1438 - I send a gift to Kanem Bornu

June 2 - Another another

Oct 15 - And another

Feb 13, 1439 - We enter into a Royal Marriage with Kanem Bornu, which also fulfills our mission.

Our next mission is to vassalize Kanem Bornu. Don’t worry, I had intended to.

Nov 5 - They accept an alliance

Nov 7 - They break the alliance. Hmpf.

May 23, 1440 - We have a Peasant revolt in Kanem.

Jun 25, 1440 - I cancel our military access

Aug 17 - We defeat the rebels in Kanem.

Dec 1 - We claim the throne of Borno, which gives us a CB against them for a year.

Jan 10 - 1441 - We declare war against Kanem Bornu.

Jan 11 - We get a message that we failed our mission to vassalize Kanem Bornu, but that’s untrue, I wanted to vassalize them all along. Just by the sword. Ah well.

Feb 12 - We defeat the troops in Borno and capture it.

Mar 14 - We have a revolt of Ashanti patriots in Calabar.

Apr 12 - We annex the province of Borno.


Borno - 4664 Sunni Malinese harvest grain in this crucially important province strategically. They make just 3.75 ducats annually here. It connects our holdings in Damagaram and Kano with those in the east in Kanem and Mandara.

[Abe Sargent]

Fighting Against One's Own


May 15 - Rebellion of Peasants in Gobir.

June 16 - We win in Calabar. No more rebels there.

Nov 26 - Rebellion of Peasants in Borno.

Feb 6, 1442 - We lose in Gobir.

Mar 8 - I get an event Reformation of the Army and choose to invest in army tech, gaining a bunch of ducats there.

Mar 11 - We get a mission to defeat the rebels.

Apr 21 - Another rebellion arose in Borno while we were fighting the rebels from the first one, but we had almost destroyed the first army by now, so it’s not as big of a deal as it could have been otherwise.

July 8 - We win in Borno.

Aug 1 - We capture the final rebel province in Zamfara and destroy the last rebels here, and our mission is complete. As a reward, we gain two stability, putting us back to max.

Sept 20 - We have patriot rebels on Cayor. I order my troops in Wolof to the province.

Sept 26 - A general died.

Nov 23 - We win in Wolof, defeat the rebels.

Dec 1 - We arrive in Cayor and recapture it. The remaining rebels are headed back for more thrumping.

Dec 16 - We win in Cayor, and the rebels retreat.

Dec 29 - We get an event. Military Divided. The are two major factions in our military. Who should we side with?

The Forts Are Our Strength - Lose on stability, gain one defensive on the slider
We Must Always Attack - Lose one stability, gain one offensive.

I choose to move towards defense. Our stability drops.


Jan 22, 1443 - We defeat the rebels again, this time destroying them.

Nov 22 - We get military access through Benin.

Jan 19, 1444 - Ashanti has been sending spies against us. One of those rebels was fomented by Ashanti spies. This will end.

Jan 30 - We cancel military access with Ashanti.

April 23 - We cancel our alliance with Ashanti and our tribal elders give us a new mission - Wipe Ashanti off the map. I concur.

May 25 - We declare war on Ashanti.

July 18 - We win. I have two options. I can sue for peace and take their 525 ducats for my treasury, or I can just annex them. I can’t annex them and take their money, unfortunately. I choose annexation. The ducats were tasty, but I want to move on from this.

They accept. We gain a core on Kumasi because we completed the mission.


Kumasi - 5464 Ashanti Animists mine the gold here making us 62.56 ducats annually. It is southeast of Jenne and surround by unclaimed provinces.


Well, if we hadn't completed our third objective before, we certainly have now.

[Abe Sargent]

Maptime:

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[Alan T]

Abe, just wanted to comment that I've been reading along. I haven't ever tried playing in Africa (as an African start), so have been quite interested in how things go for you. I am extremely eager to see how things work out for you once some of the European nations start to colonize your way as well. Just wanted you to know that your posts were not just going into a black hole.

[Abe Sargent]

Thanks!

[Abe Sargent]

Years of Quiet

July 30 - I can move a policy slider. I move us towards Free Subjects. We get Better Administration as an event and lose two inflation. Our inflation is down to 7%, which is still crazy high for less than 50 years of play.

Aug 1 - We discover Abomey.

Apr 25, 1445 - Ashanti Nationalists revolting in Calabar.

Sept 1 - We have a Gift to the State and I put it in the treasury.

Sept 9 - We win in Calabar, defeating the rebels.

Aug 20, 1446 - We get an event - Naïve Relative. I can

Execute Him for Treason - Lose one stability
He is a Relative After All… - Our nation gets -25% spy defence for ten years.

I choose the latter option.

Nov 1 - Our stability increases back to max.

June 3, 1447 - A revolt in Gobir, where I have an army

Sept 15 - Revolt defeated.

Sept 29 - Rebellion of a nationalist nature in Wolof.

Jan 1, 1448 - Rebellion defeated.

[Abe Sargent]

50 Year Review


Military -

We currently have 35 spear regiments in our territory. We are running at 50% land support, which means they are not reinforcing after attrition or battles with rebels, and have half morale. Every few years I jack it back up to 100% for a few months to get reinforcements and such.

We have three great advisors:

al-Amin Ouedraogo - A 6 star Army Reformer. 50 years in service.

Silman Diallo - A 5 star Naval Reformer. 28 years in service.

Al-Mansur Diarra - A 6 star Government Reformer. 50 years in service.

My guess is that Al-Mansure or al-Amin will die soon, and that will be unfortunate.



Tomo I is our Sultan and he has been ruling since January 1426. He’s pretty good, with Admin 7, Military 8, and Diplo 5.

You want high Admins and Military because those are invested monthly in your research, meaning a good Sultan beats a poor Sultan for research.

We are getting close to getting Land Tech 2. We are moving closer to Government Tech 2. We are far away from everything else.

We are a Despotic Monarchy.

There are only 15 Level 6 advisors in the world, and we have two on our staff.

[Abe Sargent]

50 Year Review - Provinces


Let’s look at our provinces:

Calabar - 4091 Animist Ashanti make us 1.16 ducats in the slave trade. A total crap province.

Bonny - A core province, 2.03 ducats are made by the 4618 Ashanti Animists in the slave trade.

Benin - A Sunni province, the 16901 Mali people make us 6.33 ducats annually.

Ife - 1.23 ducats are made in the grain harvest by these Yorumba Animists.


Let’s start on the right and go left.


Bagirmi - 5684 Sunni Malinese make us just 1.46 ducats annually in the ivory trade.

Kanem - 16984 people of Malinese descent worship Allah and make us 1.68 ducats in the wool trade.

Mandara - 1,68 ducats are made in the fields of this Sunni Mali province.

Borno - 1.67 ducats are grown here in the grain trade by these Sunni Mali people.

Damagaram - 9512 Malinese Sunni make us 2.60 ducats working the salt trade.

Kano - 38933 farmers give us 4.26 annually while worshipping Allah and being of Mali descent.

Zazzau - 27037 Sunni Mali people farm grain and make us 2.99 ducats.

Zamfara - Up to 2.11 ducats annually, the 7677 Animist Mali people harvest grains.

Katsina - 12412 Sunni Mali people harvest the grains here and make us 293 ducats.

Gobir - 27887 Sunnis of Malinese descent make us 8.88 ducats annually.

These are all of the provinces east of Dendi, one of our starting provinces. Basic rule, except for Gobir, they all suck. At least right now. Of the four on the coast, only Benin is worthwhile.


Now let’s look at our starting provinces. How have they grown?

Dendi - Sunni, Mali, 9410, grain, 2.92 ducats. Very similar to the crap to the east.

Tadimekket - Tuareg, Seunni, 3.81 ducats in salt trade, 5401. A little better.

Gao - Our capital was converted to Islam decades ago. The 12855 Mali people here harvest grain and make us 12.66 ducats annually.


Now let’s look west.

Timbuktu - 21831 (Mali, Sunni) people work the salt trade here making us 24.11. This Center of trade has a temple and marketplace.

Massina - These 7983 Malinese Animists make 2.93 ducats farming.

Jenne - 21120 make us 6.63 ducats annually in the grain trade (Sunni Mali).

Kumasi - 5465 Ashanti Animists make us 58.86 annually mining gold.

Wasuju - This core province has 29549 Mali Animists make us 3.03 ducats annually in the grain trade.

Segu - 5.39 ducats and made by the 16205 Mali Sunni farmers here.

Bambuk - The gold mines here are mined by 9779 Mali Animists, making us 65.88 ducats.

Bure - 18054 Mali Sunnis make us 72.40 ducats in the gold mines.

Futa Jallon - 18579 Mali Sunnis work the ivory trade and make us 6.34 ducats annually.

Wolof - Another lousy slavr province, 6970 Animists of Senegambian descent make us 2.60 ducats.

Gabu - We get just 2.68 ducats annually fromt eh ivory trade in this port province of 12310 Mali Sunnis.

Cayor - Our western and northernmost province are the 11925 Senegambian Animists that work the slave trade here netting us 1.85 ducats annually.


As you can see, the provinces out here are much wealthier. Timbuktu is a treasure, there are three gold mines, and even two grain provinces with high ducats. After you pass the gold mines of Bure and Bambuk, however, that drops and the final four provinces only include one, Futa Jallon, of any significant value.

Starting next year, I’m going to start getting cores on provinces I’ve taken (it takes 50 years in your possession to count as a core). In 1450 we will gain cores on Timbuktu, Massina, Futa Jallon and Gabu.

[Abe Sargent]

Intersections in Space and Time

November 1, 1449 - We discover Tabora, on the other side of Africa, and no, I’m not sure why.

Nov 12 - One of our generals died.

Nov 24 - Another general died. Must be a bad month to be a general.

Mar 1, 1450 - A level one diplomat arrived in Cayor but I’m happy with my advisors.

June 1 - We discover Ogaden. I think we are getting the discoveries of other African nations on the other side of the continent 50 years after they found them

1 August - We have gained those four cores.

Sept 1 - Tuareg is no longer an accepted culture.


Dec 1 - Rebellion in Cayor. They capture it and I move my army in Wolof to defeat them.

March 29, 1451 - We defeat the rebels and move to recapture Cayor.

May 28 - I don’t know when it started, but Castille is trying to get a colony in Trarza, north of Cayor and Wolof on the coast. This is actually a good thing. We can’t westernize until we’ve met the west, and we have to be adjacent to them to do that. So I actually hope their colony takes.

I take a quick look through Europe to see what’s up in the world. Provence has colonized Madeira, and that’s it, so Castille wants to beat everyone to the punch it looks like.

Aug 1 - We get a level 4 statesmen advisor in Timbuktu. I jettison our Naval Reformer for him. Say hello to Musa Zerbo.

Aug 23 - Castille succeeded in their colony at Trarza. I proclaim a guarantee for Castille. I have the diplomats just sitting around, and it slightly helps our relations.

Sept 23 - We now have the ability to Westernize, and we meet three of the four qualifications - stability good administrative ruler, and very innovative. However, we are too decentralized, so we need to move that in order to Westernize. The decentralization hits I took earlier prevent us from immediately Westernizing. Sucks.

Nov 1 - We discover two more provinces, one by Kumasi and another on the other side of Africa.

We can now see a bunch of nations on the east side of Africa, but just one or two provinces each.

We can see - Ethopia, The Mamluks, Yemen, Najd (Middle East), Swahili,

Nov 6 - We enter into a Royal Marriage with Swahili.

I Proclaim Guarantee’s against the other three Sunni states.

Dec 1 - We discover another province in east Africa.

12 January, 1452 - Castille Trade Embargoes us.

February 1 - We gain Trade, Land, Government and Naval techs! Apparently something in the game clicked once we were next to Castille or we saw all of those other African nations. Who knows?

June 1 - Holy jeez. We just got knowledge of virtually everything. All of East Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, India, and parts of the Indies. Someone had knowledge of all of this stuff and gave it to us. No clue who. The Mamuks perhaps?

Wow.

I don’t see everything, such as Provence’s colony on Madeira or The Azores, or what explorations the main countries have been doing. I just get the nations, not the Terra Incognita around them.

[Abe Sargent]

The World in a Glass

11 October - I get a mission to Build Level One Fort in Benin. That’s not happening anytime soon. I cancel the mission. We lose five Prestige which just about takes us back to zero.

Our next mission? Create a Proper Fleet.

I order some ships built in Gabu

27 Oct - I create The Militia Act. Our stability costs are 5% harder but our military discipline increases by 6%.

I create Jizya, which causes our national taxes to rise by 6% and our stability costs to increase by 20%.

These will last, I believe, until the end of the game.

Nov 1 - More provinces fall our way, including many inland Russia, Afghanistan, and so forth.

Dec 1 - We gain coastal provinces up SE Asia into Ming’s coast.

Jan 1, 1453 - Land tech gain.

Feb 1, 1453 - Govnerment gain.

Apr 4, 1453 - Some Updates:

Portgual is in Barcelona, Granada and seven provinces in North Africa. Aragon and Granada have been taken out.

taken most of the former Aragonian provinces.

Morocco has not lost a lot of provinces which is unusual for now.

The Mamluks are currently undergoing severe rebelitis.

The Ottomans took out Byzantium. In this game, Thrace is not a COT, although you could make it one easily enough.

Hungary has grown a bit into some Polish areas.

Lithuania looks to be losing a war against Polotsk.

England has united Ireland under its banner and has started capturing Scottish provinces.They have lost all mainland provinces except for Saintonge in east France.

Looks like Burgundy is no more.

There are still a ton of one province minors in Europe, which is realistic. Navarra, Galicia, Bourbonnais, Lorraine, Corsica, Sardinia, Tuscany, Pisa, Modena, The Papal States, Naples, Urbino, Utrecht, Alsace, Cologne, Liege, Oldenburg, Hamburg, Ansbach, Mainz, Flanders, Gelre, Anhalt, The Palatinate, Saxony, Meissen, Luneburg, Friesland, Morea, Naxos (yay!), Cyprus, Wallachia, Teutonic Order, Kurland, Magdeburg, Bremen, Orleans, and Mantua. That’s after many, such as the Irish states, The Knights, and such were taken down. Sometimes you see a push by the major and mid-majors to gobble up the small guys in a grab for power, and although that does happen eventually, I’d prefer it to be a bit more historic in terms of timeline.

[Abe Sargent]

Interlude of Boredom

Nov 1 - We found Rio de Oro.

Dec 1 - Land tech gain.

Mar 1, 1454 - Production gain.

We are getting Neighbor Bonuses of significance due to the Castillean neighbor to our techs.

I can actually build that Level 1 fort in Benin - too bad I canceled it.

May 21 - I order forts built in Futa Jallon, Wolof, Cayor, Gabu, Massina, Timbukto, Tadimekket, Gao, Benin, Bonny and Calabar. These are the coastal provinces, the ones by the Castillean province, my capital, the ones by the corridor down the Sahara, and the one closest to Castille but inland.

June 9 - We have finished our third boat and completed the Create a Proper fleet mission. Our next mission. Fortify Wolof. Thatll be happening soon enough.

I recruit an Admiral for our fleet.

July 4 - Peasant rebellion in Bagirmi.

Sept 16 - We defeat the rebels in Bagirmi.

There was only a 0.1% chance of a rebellion in Bagirmi and it still happened. Sheesh.

Oct 5 - We get an event - Unhappiness Among the Merchants. Options:

Reduce Trade Investment - Lose 500 ducats invested here.
Get Rid of the Troublemakers - Lose a merchant, lose a stability.

I choose the first

Jan 15, 1455 - Our Slider’s arrive. We choose to go Centralized. We have a Local Pretender arises and several rebel armies are made. I order our military maintenance up.

Feb 3 - Our army in Timbuktu attacks one of their armies in Gao, our capital.

Feb 9 - Another army runs into our large combined army from the west in Segu.

Mar 30 - We lose in Segu.

April 5 - We win in Gao and chase the rebels to Dendi.

May 20 - We win in Bambuk. Rebels obliterated,

May 22 - All of the forts are built. We complete our mission. Our next mission is to fortify Kano, so I order a fort built here.

June 1 - Our land tech increases.

[Abe Sargent]

Decision of Destiny



June 15 - We defeat the rebels in Dendi and they flee into Terra Incognita. Now it is time. Time to Westernize.

With our land techs, fighting rebels is much easier.

Westernize:

This moves us out of the African tech group and into the Oriental tech group. Is that good? Sure, but not as good as you might think. Here is the technical order - Catholic - Orthodox - Muslim - Indian - Oriental - Africa - America. It moves up one, which is important, but it comes at a really, really hefty price.

The Good:

Our Tech Group is now Oriental.
Gain 1 tax base in Kanem
Gain 164 manpower in Kanem
Innovative gets one stronger.

The Bad:

You get Western Influences for 6 months, where everything is raelly difficult, I’ll ignore the percentages.
Your stability drops. 5. To negative 2 from 3. That will take decades to get back up. And it is worth it.

[Abe Sargent]

Recalibrating

1 July - Our naval tech increases. We also learned about Scandinavian provinces.

1 August - Our trade tech increases.

I destroy the Gobir COT. I send merchants to the Timbuktu COT.

July 29 - We now have five merchants in the Timbuktu COT. No other country has any.

2 Oct - We get an event - al-Amin Ouedraogo. He has revolutionized sieges and fortificatioons, wars and fortifications. We get a choice:

His Efforts Will be Admired Troughout the Nation - +2 stability, extra Land tech investment for six years.
His Reputations Will Reach Further Than our Borders - Gain Prestige, same Land tech investment.

I choose the first. Our stability immediately jumps to 0. Lucky we got that now and not six months ago.

Nov 23 - Rebellion in Bonny, Ashanti Nationalists are reaering their heads.

March 1, 1456 - We lost in Bonny. The rebels begin a siege.

March 14 - We have an Animist rebellion in Bambuk.

April 2 - We enjoin battle with the rebels near Bambuk in Wolof.

Apr 19 -0 We lost in Wolof and the rebels are besieging us.

May 2 - Our forces arrive in both Wolof and Bonny to protest rebel actions there.

May 14 - A group of rebels in Wolof joins their brothers already fighting me.

May 26 - We fortify Kano and now they ask for us to do the same in Jenne and I agree.

June 1 - Looks like Castille has lost her colony in Trarza.

July 4 - I retreat in Wolof because our army in Cayor is arriving.

July 23 - We win in Bonny.

Sept 1 - We win in Wolof.

Sept 29 - We win in Cayor when the rebels retreat. They head for Trarza.

Oct 3 - Government tech increased. Time for our first National Idea.


Options:

We take Colonial Ventures to start making colonists. No need Quest for New World yet, just needed for making of explorers, conquisatodrs, and increases colonial range by 50%. It requires Trade Tech 7 anyway.

We could snag Bureaucracy for a +5% tax modifier.

National Bank could really help our inflation problem. (Inflation is 8%).

Military Drill +1 Morale of Armies. Very nice.



I decide to go with Colonial Ventures to expand in Africa.


Jan 1, 1457 - Stability increase

[Abe Sargent]

Expansion

April 1 - We gain cores on Bambuk, Bure, Segu, and Jenne.

May 28 - We fortify Jenne. Next mission is for Katsina.

Nov - I send out our first colonists to Konian - south of Wasuju, Bure and Futa Jallon, because the natives here are the lowest aggressiveness in the area at just 6.

Nov 28 - Our colony took (has a 53% chance of taking).

May 29, 1458 - Katsina has a fort. Next request is Zamfara.

Oct 15 - Rebellion in Calabar and I order my troops in Bonny over while they besiege my fort.

Nov 13 - I decide to send more colonists to Konian. I don’t have too. Colonies now get supported by your government, and I could set up elsewhere and grow quickly, but I want to settle past the natives.

Dec 10 - We expand in Konian. In one year we’ve already added 37 people and are at 237.

Jan 4, 1459 - We win in Calabar.

June 2 - We build that fort in Zamfara and now we get a mission to do so in Mandara. Again I agree.

July 15 - Rebellion in Calabar again.

Oct 12 - We put them down again.

Nov 1 - More colonistss sent.

Nov 28 - It expands and has 369 people already.

Dec 9 - We get reports from our settlers in Konian that the area seems to be rife with ivory. The province is now officially an ivory province. Not bad.

May 1, 1460 - Portugal has set up a colony in Tuat, along the Sahara cooridor that links us to North Africa. It is not adjacent to us, but its one away.

June 5 - We fortify Mandara.

Oct 26 - Our ruler died. Meet Muhammad I with Admin 8m Militay 7, and Diplo 5. Not bad at all.

[Abe Sargent]

Years of Grain and Growth

Nov 28 - Konian expands after we send more colonists there.

Feb 1, 1461 - Land Tech increase.

May 1, 1461 - We get an event - Good Governemtn Policies. I can choose one of three.

Use the Money to Increase Stability - +1 Stability
Invest in Government - Extra ducats in Governmetnn Tech.
Let’s Fill our Treasury - +200 ducats

I obviously choose the first.

We were really helped by well timed stability helping events.

Nov 28 - Konian Expands.

Feb 15 - 1462 We have an event Plague!

We Have to do Something - Population in Dendi -20%. Lose 40 ducats.
There is Nothing We Can Do - Population in Dendi -50%, Plague in Dendi for 18 months with -20% population growth.

I choose the first.

March 9, 1462 - Our Army Reformer, an adivsor that has been with us since the beginning of the game, al-Amin Ouedraogo has died. Unfortuante. I pick up a four star stability advisor to get us that final hump.

Nov 28 - Konian expands. This may be the last colonists I send. Here. I want tp save up my colonists in order to shoot them through angry and hostile natives.

Apr 1, 1463 - Our stability increases back up to maximu. I dump our stability guy. There’s nobody else I want out there.

June 1 - Govnt tech increase

Oct 1 - Benin is now a core province. Our Trade Tech increased.

Nov 1 - A level 6 Sherrif named Yahya Lamizana arrived in Futa Jallon. I hire him. Our tax rate nationwide is now +6% while we have him.

Jan 23, 1464 - Castille is back in Trarza. Hello!

[Barkeep49]

I've enjoyed this dynasty as I've never played in Africa. However, Songhai seems quite viable so perhaps I should give an African game a chance.

[Abe Sargent]

I've enjoyed this dynasty as I've never played in Africa. However, Songhai seems quite viable so perhaps I should give an African game a chance.

Yeah, you just have to know when to push, and when not to push. That's true of all EU though.

[Abe Sargent]

I Westernize again.

Our Tech Group changes to Latin.
Gain 1 taxbase in Bagirmi
Innovate gain 1 (we are maxed)
Lose 5 stability. Again.
That weird Western Influences event for 6 months that hurts us.

We are now Latin, just like the Catholics.

[Abe Sargent]

Growth in Enlightenment

Feb 1 - We learn of many sea areas, including many in the north Atlantic, Iceland, and such. Our Naval Tech increases.

Jan 17, 1465 - We enter into a RM with Swahili again.

Feb 8 - Revolt in Cayor.

April 23 - We lose in Cayor

May 9 - We get an event - Agricultural Revolution. I invest in taxbase in Massina over manpower.

May 13 - Animist revolt in bambuk. They take it and march to Wolof.

June 26 - We lose in Cayor.

July 25 - We lose in Wolof.

Aug 1 - Production Tech Increase

Sept 26 - We win in Wolof.

Nov 12 - We win in Cayor.

Dec 1 - Stability increase.

Dec 30 - All of the natives in Brakna are killed after another rebel attack there. It is just in from Castille’s province of Trarza.

Mar 2, 1466 - Our Admiral died.

May 20 - Revolt in Kumasi. We only have 2000 soliders there so I order more to arrive shortly.

July 29 - We have been warned by Castille. They are angling for a Casus Belli Im sure.

July 31 - We win in Kumasi and destroy the rebels here,

Sept 23 - Castille sends us an alliance offer. Right after warning us. Odd. Sure, we accept. Not like we are doing anything else.

Oct 28 - I ask for military access and Castille agrees.

Nov 2 - Castille breaks her alliance with us. Silly Catholics. They are so on again off again.

Mar 1, 1467 - Gvnmt Tech Increase

May 1 - Trade Tech increase

Dec 1 Stability increase. I send the first of my five colonists to Gold Coast. It’s right below Kumasi, has the highest tax value of any of the colonies hereabouts, and has 8000 natives for you to get when you succeed, but the natives are at a full on 9 aggression (which almost everyone is around here)

Jan 1, 1468 - Our colonists fail. I send in more. I have a hit rate of 50/50. ‘

Jan 25 - We setup camp. We discover the Ivory Coast sea province adjacent to us. I send in more colonists. I have three left and I’ll send them all in trying to speed build the province as quickly as possible.

Feb 17 - Gold Coast expands. I send more.

Mar 11 - Another expansion and more on en route.

Apr 1 - Naval tech increase. Gold Coast expands. It has 407 people. Now we gotta wait till we get more colonists.

Apr 25 - The Mamluks reject a marriage proposal.

May 15 - Morocco accepts.

June 26 - At some point in time Castille has put an embassy in their colony by us. That means our relations have improved somewhat. These guys are crazy.

Sept 1 - Slider Time. I move us one towards quality over quantity of troops. We get a New Commandat event. I have no desire to hire him, he’s just level 1. C’est la vie.

[Abe Sargent]

Finding Friends and Foes Alike


Nov 1 - Production Tech increases.

Nov 15 - Gold Coast is going to be an ivory province.

Nov 26 - Gold Coast expands.

Jan 1, 1469 - Swahili and us enter into Royal Marriage. I DOW Mutapa, which is attacking Swahili. They are all the way over on the other side of the continent, but still, I want to help my friend.

May 1 - Konian expands. The natives join it.

Konian - Our first colony has our culture and religion as they all will. 4002 people work the ivory trade, making us 2.28 ducats annually.

Aug 9, 1469 - I get Local Fortification Expert Discovered.

The Entire Country Needs Him - Gain a Military Engineer advisor to hire
Let Him Stay Home - Mandara permanently gains 50% defensiveness.

Neither appeal to me, I don’t need the Military Engineer and Mandara is way in the back, very safe. Still, I choose the second. Perhaps it will come in useful one day, far away from today.

Aug 15 - Swahili lost three provinces and over 700 gold to Mutapa.

Sept 1 - We gain some more cores. Katsina, Zazzau, Kano and Damagaram are cores.

Nov 26 - Gold Coast expands

Jan 1, 147- Stability increase. Land Tech increase.

Apr 1 - We sign a trade agreement with Morocco.

I go looking in the pool and find someone dropped a trade tech 3 person. They come available on day 1 of a month and get scooped up day two, so occasionally I look and oh, here he is. I would drop my useful 6 star Tax Modifier guy for the three star land tech guy, but he’s been in the business for 42 years, and that makes him fragile to my mind. I keep my guy but thanks.

Jul 10 - Morocco accepts our alliance proposal and we are now allied with them.

Aug 12 - they agree to give us military access.

Morocco are natural allies for us. They would be a great forever ally, and we could roll with each other for the game until I annex them late or something.

Nov 23 - Mutapa offers a white peace, which we accept.

Nov 26 - Gold Coast expands.

I order a fort built in Dendi.

Apr 1, 1471 - Gvnment and Trade both increase

Nov 26 - - Gold Coast Expands

Nov 28 - Fort in Dendi complete. They want one in Ife and I agree.

Mar 1, 1472 - Stability increase.

May 28 - One of our advisors - Musa Zerbo, publishes a Great Work called The Spirit of Laws.

I get the same options as a previous advisor. I bump our stability back up to max and we get some extra government investment.

Nov 26 - Gold Coast expands, takes in the 8000 natives, and is now a full city.

Gold Coast - 9032 people make us 5.95 ducats in this port province in the ivory trade.

Again I’ll save up my colonists for a few years until I can machine gun them into one province like I did with Gold Coast.

[Abe Sargent]

Enemy to the North


Dec 1 - We put a fort in Ife and finish that mission. Our next mission is to Destabilize Portugal. I will gain 1000 ducats if I finish it! All we have to do is get Portugal’s stability down to 1 or less. We don’t have to do anything though, we can just sit around and wait until it drops by them doing something like change National Idea or some such. Then boom, 1000 ducats.

Jan 1, 1473 - I order a fort in Gold Coast. Our Production Tec increases.

March 8 - I didn’t notice until now, but I can recruit Latin Knights in the two provinces beside Castille so I begin to do that. Cavalry yay!

Mar 11 - Castille declared war against Morocco so we join our allies and I march our troops into their colony.

Mar 29 - Well, we captured it, moving back now.

Apr 1 - We discover the province of Ivory coast.

April 15 - We defeat the Castilleans in a naval battle in the Coast of Guinea.

May 3 - They offer us peace for Trarza. We accept.

Trarza - A colony north of Cayor and Wolof. The 136 Christian Castelian people are working an unknown trade. I need to send colonies here in order to turn them Sunni and Malinese.

Castille probably just wanted to get rid of it.

June 3 - Our Sherrif gets the equivalent of the Great Work event and we use it to raise our prestige.

Oct 1 - A level 3 production tech guy appears in one of our provinces but I have no one to swap out for him.

Dec 10 - Trarza expands.

April 1, 1474 Naval Tech increases

August 4 - We lose our 6 tech government statesmen Al-Mansur Diarra. Luckily, we still had Wankoy Ouedraogo, the Natural Scientist of three stars available (Investment in production tech).

Jan 17, 1475 - Trarza expands.

June 1 - Gvnmet increase. I can now switch to Feudal Monarchy. I choose not too, however.

I am renovating my army by replacing African spearmen slowly and surely with a few cavalry and men at arms.

Oct 1 - Land tech to level 8. That’s what Morocco is at. Castille is at 9. Portugal at 8. In this area, we are all caught up.

[Abe Sargent]

Exploration of the Dark Continent


Nov 1 - We gained a core on Calabar

Dec 1 - We discover the province of Grain Coast.

Dec 19 - My first army, with 5000 men at arms and 3000 cavalry is ready. They’ll be in Wasuju.

March 1, 1476 - Trade Tech increase

July 16 - Trarza is a Slave province

June 1, 1477 - Production Tech increases. Gobir, Zamfara, Bagirmi, Mandara and Kanem are now cores.

Aug 31 - Our army is now up to date completely

March 1, 1478 - Gvnment Tech Increase. We can get another National Idea. What do we want? We may not get another one for quite a while.

Options:

Quest for the New World - You know the deals here. Get this, and we can make Explorers and Conquistadors.

Military Drill - Because eventually we’ll be in a land war. +1 army morale.

National Bank - Inflation Reduction regularly.

Frankly, none are of immediate need right now. I’m going to go ahead and take Quest as a result. None of the nearby nations have Military Drill, so there isn’t a need to take it in order to keep up with the Joneses and I don’t expect to wage war with them anytime soon.

Note, I do not intend to Quest the Americas. I will be exploring the beauty and grandeur of L’Afrique.

I immediately recruit an explorer and conquistador. These use up colonists.

July 8 - Our fleet with explorer and conquistador sets sail down the Africa coast.

Aug 10 - I am going to start mentioning these as NSD: Sea Discoveries, and NLD: Land Discoveries. NSD: Gold Coast.

Oct 24 - NSD Coast of Cameroon. NLD Gabon.

Nov 22 - NSD Gulf of Kongo.

Feb 17, 1479 - After seeing signs of civilization, I order my Conquistadors to disembark and explore. They find Loango, which is controlled by Kongo, s owe also discover the Kongo capital. A Shamanist nation, Kongo is a COT - but not worth going to.

Mar 28 - NSD Coast of Angolia - I’g going to return to Bonny, fix our ships, and set sail again.

May 11 - NLD Fernando Po

June 15 - NLD - Kisarna

Aug 14 - NSD Coast of Namibia, NLD Lesser Namaqualand.

Sept 21 - NSD Cape of Good Hope.

Nov 3 - NSD - Coast of Ciskei, NLD - Little Karoo

Dec 18 - NLD Damaraland

Mar 5, 1480 - NLD Luanda

I was saving my colonists but Luanda is perfect. 5000 natives, highest tax base I;ve found so far, adjacent to Kongo to give me a military outpost to conque them later, low aggressiveness (which is rare in tehse parts), and it gives me an outpost from which to explore deeper. I send colonists immediately.

Mar 18 - NLD Greater Namaqualand

April 16 - NLD - Cape w/ 500 colonists. I want to dispatch colonists here as well. 0 aggressiveness, 500 natives. Super high tax value. I’ll keep it on the list for later.

April 30 - NLD Transkei.

May 25 - NSD Coast of Transkei

June 23 - NSD Coast of Natal.

I ask Swahili if we can get military access. We get it. I order my fleet to dock at Zanzibar.

July 25 - Luanda is our newest colony. I send more colonists.

Aug 8 - We get an event -

Generals Concerned by Unmanly Tactics

I choose to keep them and lose prestige, rather than move towards defensive.

Sept 18 - NSD Diego Suarez Bay

Oct 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Oct 29 - Slider time. I choose to move again towards Quality. We again get the Kommandant event but I no want him.

Dec 10 - Luanda expanded and more colonists are dispatched.

[Abe Sargent]

Discovery of Nations

Jan 26, 1481 - We arrive in Luanda and I use my Conquistador to explore around while the ships get fixed.

Mar 12 - We discover the Kongo province of Ndongo.

Apr 25 - Luanda expands. More colonists are sent.

May 17 - We find Mayombe another Kongo province.

May 21 - Luanda is an ivory province.

June 27 - NLD Benguela

July 1 - Trade Tech increase

Sept 1 - NLD Menabe

Sept 11 - Luanda expanded.

Oct 14 - NSD - Taolagnao Bay

Nov 5 - We berth at Quelimane, a Swahili possession. While the boats are fixes, I explore with the Conquistador.

Dec 1 - Production tech increase

Jan 20 - 1482 - We discover the provicne of Sena inland of Quelimane, owned by Mutapa.

Apr 6 - NSD Coast of Zamatave

May 10 - Luanda expanded.

Sept 2 - NLD - Delagoa Bay

Nov 17 - Now I am going to try to sail further without my conquistador, leaving them in Luanda.

April 20 , 1483 - Luanda expands.

May 1 - A level 4 tech Natural Scientist arrives in Timbuktu.

Jettison my level 3 for him, or jettison my level 6 sherrif for him? This is enough to jettison my sherriff. We now have Wankoy Ouedraogo on our squad.

May 10 - NLD - Mahe

May 25 - NLD Bourbon

June 22 - NLD Boina

[Abe Sargent]

The War of Kongolese Integration

Apr 11, 1484 - I land 5000 troops in Luanda.

Apr 16 - Luanda expands.

June 18 - More troops arrive in Luanda. I DOW Kongo.

I move my troops into their Capital, keeping 3k behind in Luanda. This should be very quick they have a low tech level.

We get a mission to Colonize Kisarna.

July 1 - Trade tech gain

July 5 We win in Kongo in days.

July 25 - We win and capture Ndongo

July 29 - We capture Mayombe

Sept 7 - We capture Loango

Sept 9 - They are annexed.

Loango - This coastal province is north of Luanda. 6256 Kongolese Shamanists make 3.30 ducats int eh ivory trade.

Mayombe - This inland province is behind Loando and Luanda. 4.63 ducats are made here by the 2461 Kongolese Shamans working the slave trade.

Kongo - The prize of the pot. 6749 Kongolese Shamanists harvest grain in this COT province. 14.42 ducats are made here. It is inland and adjacent to Mayombe, Luanda and Ndomgo. I destroy the COT here to send my trade to Timbuktu. Now the trade is sent through one place, with one set of merchants.

Ndongo - 1773 Shaminists of Kongolese descent work the slave trade here making us 5.67 ducats.

The quality of these provinces is obvious - they are much better than many of the normal African dregs. that I captured earlier. Luanda is adjacent to all provinces to I’ll keep an army here to put down revolts for a few years.

[Abe Sargent]

The War of Mutapan Integration

Nov 2 - I send my Conquistador and three regiments of troops onto the ships with the explorer to send them back to exploring. We’re almost done.

24 January, 1485 - I order my Conquistador to disembark at Inhambane.

April 18 - Luanda expands.

May 23 - NLD Uteve owned by Mutapa. A poor COT.

Oct 1 - Luanda has expanded to a full province.

Luanda - 6003 Mali Sunnis work the ivory trade here and netting us 6.93 ducats annually.

Dec 1 - Wolof and Cayor are now cores.

Jan 6, 1486 - I begin to load the ships with 6000 troops, 3000 cavalry and 3000 men at arms

July 3, 1486 - Trarza is now self sufficient and a full province.

Trarza - Initially colonized by Castille, this province featuers 1003 Sunni Malinese working the slave trade and making 2.85 ducats annually. I order a fort built here.

July 7 - 1486 - 6000 troops arrive in Inhambane.

I DOW Mutapa.

Aug 17 - We arrive in Sofala.

Sept 27 - We win and capture Sofala.

Dec 1 - Production Tech increase

Jan 17 - 1487 - After a long campaign, we finally defeated their 10000 troops in Sofala. Iorder our troops deeper into their territory.

Mar 5 - We begin fighting in Uteve

Apr 1 - They recapture Sofala.

We are now fighting 120000 Mutapans in Uteve

Apr 29 - Our explorer died.

June 26 - I land another 6000 troops in adjacent territory. I march them to Sena.

July 24 - We capture Sena

July 28 - We win the battle of Uteve.

Aug 24 - We capture Zimbabwe, their captial, and then are attacked by defenders fleeing combat.

Sept 13 - Our fresher army arrives in Sofala and attacks the defenders

Oct 6 - We win in Zimbabwe

Nov 15 - We win in Sofala

Nov 28 - Our Conquistador finds and captures Urungwe.

Dec 14 - Our newer forces arrive in Barwe and assault the defenders here.

Jan 8 - 1488 - We find and capture Zumbo.

Jan 19 - I decline a peace offer from Mutapa.

Feb 2 - We win the battle of Barwe and capture it.

Feb 17 - We find and capture Masapa.

We annex Mutapa.

[Abe Sargent]

Let's get you a quick map of our new conquests


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This is just the southern part of the continent, and it helps to show you Swahili.

[Abe Sargent]

There are a bunch of new conquests so let’s look slowly.


Sofala - The only coastal province here. 9021 Banu Animists work the gold mines here making us 55.12 ducats annually. This is adjacent to friend Swahili in Quelimane, and our provinces of Sena, Barwe and Uteve.

Uteve - west of Sofala, east of Zimbabwe, south of Barwe stands Uteve. It looks like Mutapa moved their COT to Barwe in the last few motnhs fo the war. 55.12 ducats are made in the gold mines by 9021 animist Bantu people.

Zimbabwe - The former capital of Mutapa has 10972 Shona Animists making us 58.86 ducats annually the gold mines. West of Uteve, southwest of Barew and south of Urungwe.

Urungwe - North of Zimbabwe and west of Zumbo, Masapa and Barwe. 3,14 ducats are made by the 8511 Shona Animists here.

Barwe - This COT is destroyed by me to force the trade to Timbuktu. Once I get a lot of East Africa provinces, I might build a new COT here just for myself to enjoy. 5.90 ducats are made in the grain trade by the 9939 Shona Animists.

Masapa - In the middle of Barwe, Urungwe, Zumbo and Sena. 5935 Shona Animinsts mine gold and make us 47.92 ducats annually.

Sena - 3.13 ducats are made in this Bantu Animist province inland of Quelimane and Swahili there, and adjacent to Sofala Barwe Masapa and Zumbo. 7500people work the ivory trade here.

See why I took them? FOUR gold mines. Inflation might be a massive problem soon, but this was worth the economic stretch.

[Abe Sargent]

May 14 - Swahili accepts our offer of an alliance. They probably worried about us on the doorstep.

This is very good. I am laying the foundation for the total Sub Sarahan African Empire!

As you can tell from the economics, the production value of goods has dropped significantly. Before, Swahili was a gold mine (not literally) because of all of their Ivory - 8 provinces plus a gold mine and slaves on Zanzibar. You got tons of production money, but low taxes, because the tax values are poor in the area. Now, with production nerfed in the patches and expansions, the area has much less value to me.

You know, provinces like Aden, Mocha and Asir used to have a lot of value because they had spices and coffee, but now, it doesn’t matter as much. Its weird. I’m not sure I like it. They wanted to nerf production, in part, so plaeyrs don’t always go after the same provinces, but now you just go after the high tax value provinces instead. (The same is true of colonization, instead of hitting the high production potential ones, you hit the high tax value ones.).

I do like the greater fluctuation of product values - that works for me. What I’d like to see more of is more products. They’ve had the same list for ages. Here’s what I’d like to see added:

Dyes
Wax
Exotic Foodstuffs (realistically, things like Tomatoes and Maize fetched a lot more than generic grain did)
Rubber
Whales


And More, I just can’t remember my mega list right now.

[Abe Sargent]

Decisions at Home


Aug 13 - After getting what I wanted to from Quest, I decide to change National Ideas. We take National Bank, since we have three more gold mines. This drops our stability by three.

I order a fort built in Luanda

Nov 21 - Rebellion in Calabar

Dec 1 - Trade Tech increase

Dec 5 - NLD Natal

Dec 12 - Rebellion in Loango, a Kongolese province.

Jan 1, 1489 - Naval Tech Increase

Jan 22 - We win in Calabar

Mar 11 - We win in the Kongolese area as well.

I rectuit an Admiral and General.

June 18 - I’ve been landing my Conquistador in various provinces and exploring. He now lands in South Africa to explore inland.

Aug 16 - Fort is built in Luanda. I order two built in Loango and Sofala.

Sept 4 - NLD Roggeveld

Oct 5 - I need to choose a new colony because I have four colonists and am about to have five. Options?


Whydah - Taxvalue 3, connects Benin with Gold Coast, creating a land connection between some of my holdings. 4900 agggressivness 9 natives here.

Gabon - Taxvalue 2, on top of Kongolese possession and Luanda colony. Gabon and Cameroon will connect Kongo possessions with Benin ones in Calabar. 7000 aggressiveness 7 natives here.

Kisarna - South of Luanda, tax value 2, 8300 agressiveness 7. This will get me a free colonist as my reward for completing a mission.

Taodeni - North of Tadimekket in the Sahara corridor, this will put me next to the Portugese colony in Tuat. Good and bad there. Agressiveness 10, 6000 natives.

Nupe, Bauchi - These internal provinces have tax values of one, next to my territory and no natives. I could just send a colonist and let them grow into provinces. Problem - not good provinces.

I go for Whydah. Colonists are dispatched. We have a 51% of taking with the first batch.

Oct 28 - Colonization failed. I send in more.

Nov 12 - NLD - Great Karoo

Nov 19 - Whydah is now a colony. More colonists are sent.

Dec 11 - Whydah expands. More are dispatched.

1 Jan, 1490 - Whydah expands. My last batch are sent.

I’m taking my fleet and Conquistador to explore a few islands on the west side of Africa that arne;t on my map yet.

[Abe Sargent]

Years of Quiet Expansion

Jan 24 - Whydah expands and now has 405 people in it.

Arp 4 - I send a gift to Swahili.

Apr 30 - My ships arrive in the Coast of Guinea and the Conquistador is exploring.

May 5 - Rebellion in Cayor of a Patriotic nature.

June 9 - NLD - Cape Verde. No natives.

Aug 17 - We deafeat the rebels in Cayor.

Aug 26 - NLD: The Canarias

Sept 5 - Whydah is going to be Ivory.

Oct 1 - Stability increase

Oct 31 - We discover Madeira. Which is now an English possession and sugar, so its really nice.

Dec 24 - Whydah expands

Jan 9, 1491 - NLD Arguin, north of Trarza

There is literlaly no where left to explore for our little band.

Feb 7 - Rebellionin Wolof of a Patriot nature

Mar 15 - Rebels in Zumbo - An ex-Mutapan province.

Apr 21 - Rebellion in Sofala.

May 1 - Borno is now a core.

May 2 - Colonial Company Founded event occurs. We get 200 colonists in Yola, a province next to Mandara with 9 aggressiveness natives and a small tax value. What a worthless place to invest.

4 June - We win in Wolof, lose in Sofala, win in Zumbo.

July 7 - We send a gift to Swahili

Nov 7 - Swahili has agreed to be our vassals.

Nov 27 - We lost again in Sofala.

Dec 25 - Whydah expands.

8 Jan, 1492 - We win in Sofala

Mar 1 - Land tech increase

May 14 - Rebels in Uteve (Mutapan)

Aug 1 - We defeat the rebels.

Dec 1 - Stability increase. I send colonists to Kisarna. We have a good chance of them taking, and if we do, we get this mission off my back and replace the colonists. It’s a bit of a gamble, but one worth taking.

[Abe Sargent]

A Survey of Other Lands

Jan 1, 1493 - Now, I don’t care much about the Americas. I want one African nation, not one empire that stretches beyond the seas. Was have the major colonial powers discovered of America? Let me check, just for fun.


England - Beyond their colony in Madeira, which they took from Provence, they have nothing and have discovered nothing.

Castille - I intentially made sure not to check Africa, because I don’t want to see what provinces they know about, or else it could affect my colonization decisions. They have The Azores. They have discovered the Lesser Antilles and a few islands there such as St Thomas and Antigua. They have not colonized there yet (it could be out of their range. Colonial Range is a new concept introduced in the expansions that forces you to stay within a range of your core provinces. Naval tech increases that range)

Portugal - They know of and have nothing.

France - Same as Portugal. They are expanding quickly in Europe, and porbably don’t care about colonizing right now. France has expanded into Iberia a bit, and into Germany somewhat, looks like they’ve taken 9 provinces there.

Venice is carving out a nice empire for themselves in Italy. Naples has conquered the southern half of Italy and part of Sicily (very realistic). The Ottomans took out Naxos ;(.

In the Americas, the Chimu conquered the Incas, the Zapotec conquered the Mayans and have reduced the Aztecs to one province. The Creek have conquered all but one province of the Cherokee and the Shawnee. The Iroquois have conquered the Hurons. Sweden has conquered all of Scandinavia save Denmark. Looks like they’ve also colonized Lappland. Sweden has expanded down Finland and taken some of the Baltic provinces on the other side.

Polotsk has basically replaced Lithuania in the area.With 15 provinces, they are no joke. The Golden Horde has invaded the Balkans and taken areas to the far north like Transylvania and Wallachia.

Vijayanagar has taken over most of India.

Ming has taken over almost all of SE Asia and have expanded deep into Asia in places way outside of China. I kid you not, Ming and Muscowy are three provinces apart right now.

Brunei has taken out Makassar and gobbling territory in Malaysia and Ajeh Island.

And that’s the update at 1493.

[Abe Sargent]

Quiet Dissidence

Jan 14 - We get the Agricultural Revolution event again. This time we gain two taxbase in Massina. Which actually makes Massina not that bad.

Feb 7 - Rebels in Calabar

Feb 12 - We set up a colony in Kisarna, so I send more colonists to Whydah that we got from the mission reward.

We can change our slider. I go to quality again, and again we get that Kommadant event.

Our next mission is to fortify Zumbo and I agree.

Mar 5 - Whydah expands. They are now at 791.

May 3 - We beat the rebels in Calabar

May 20 - Our pretty good ruler died. Here is his replacement. Karbifo I - Admin 3, Military 7, Diplo 5. He is not as good.

9 Aug - We enter into a RM with Morocco

Portugal’s colony in Tuat was destroyed.

Dec 17 - Nationalist Rebellion in Zumbo

Dec 25 - Whydah expands

Jan 16, 1494 - We crush the rebels in Zumbo

17 Feb - We build a fort in Zumbo and our next mission is to Destabilize England. Yeah, right.

May 14 - Rebels of Nationalistic Intent are in Urungwe (Mutapan)

Aug 1 - We defeat the rebels in Zimbabwe and hav recaptured our povinces.

Aug 2 - Our advisor Musa Zerbo has died. I hire a stability advisor for the meantime.

Nov 20 Another agricultural revolution, this time two tax value in Segu.

Dec 1 - I choose to send the next batch of colonists to Whydah and this should finish It up.

Dec 25 Whydah expands.

Whydah - The land bridge that connects Benin and the provinces there with Gold Coast and the provinces north. Whydah is a coastal ivory province where 5939 people make us 4.74 ducats annually. I order a fort built here immediately.

12 April Yola is going to be a grain province.

Apr 27 - Our Conquistador died. He did much for us and his passing is sorrow.

May 1 - Stability increase. Back to full.

Nov 1 - We have an outbreak of disease which reduces production efficient for a year. We got a level one Natural Scientist, which is better than anything else right now, so I hire him.

Dec 1 - I dispatch colonists to our next colony - The Canarias. I want to block any European colonization of Africa, and taking the easy to settle colony is a good start. It has 500 natives with no aggresiveness at all, so I can just colonize it and let it roll. It also has a tax base of 3, which is decent enough. Due to the lack of aggressiveness by the native,s we have a strong chance of this taking.

Jan 11, 1496 - Our admiral died. I Recruit another.

Apr 22 - Yay colony at The Canarias. Now I’m just going to leave it for a while.

May 19 - I order a fort built in Kongo.

[Barkeep49]

Wow it's still pretty early in your game. I wonder how well you're going to do if/when the serious colonial powers turn their attention to Africa. Will you be so large that they won't bother? Or so weak that they'll run over you. No doubt your westernization helps augur for the latter.

[Abe Sargent]

An Interlude of Quiet

May 27 - Perhaps England changed National Ideas. Perhaps they DOWd stupidly. Perhaps they had a major event. But their stability has dropped and we gain 1000 for completing the mission to destabilize them.

Our next mission is to fortify Urungwe. I agree. I also order forts in Uteve, Ndongo, Kumasi, and Wasuju

Oct 17 - Rebels in Sofala.

Jan 10, 1497 - We win in Sofala

Feb 19 - One of our generals has died

March 1 - A level 3 Naval Reformer appears in Loango, so I recurit him, jettisoning the levelone Natural Scientist.

May 24 - Our forts are built. Next Mission is to outrace England in the navy. I reject that mission and take the prestige hit for it.

Next is to fortify Segu. I order it, Zimbabwe and Masapa to get forts.

June 2 - I send colonists to Cape Verde, where there are no natives at all. Again, this is an attempt to stop European colonization of Africa by taking out the easy places for them to place colonies.

July 1 - Production tech increase. I can build workships which increase tax income there. I order three in Gao, Bure, and Timbuktu.

Sept 19 - Cape Verde is now one of ours.

Nov 29 - A Portugese vessel is in the Coast of Guinea. They have taken Quest for the New World it appears and are investigating us. I wonder how well they will do?

Actually, it looks like that vessel is returning. Interesting.

Jan 5, 1498 - I’ve taken the easy colonies for Europeans far down the Africa coast. I send more to Kisarna. Let’s finish it up - its at 259 right now.

March 2 - We get Colonial Company founed and 200 colonists set up shop, for free, in Sierra Leone. This is pretty good actually. It’s next to Gabu on the coast, so it takes another of the early provinces off the map for the Europeans.

Mar 17 - Kisarna expands

May 27 - Forts are built.

The next mission is to fortify Bambuk. I agree. I also order forts in Mayombe, Barwe and Sena.

July 18 - Segu gets a Workshop ordered.

Nov 18 - Looks like Kisarna will be an ivory province.

Jan 15, 1499 -Here come the Portugese again.

Mar 14 - Kisarna expands

Mar 30 - They reached the Gulf of Nigeria and turned back.

May 31 - New Forts are built, and get the mission to fortify Borno. I agree.

July 1 - Gvnment Tech increase

Oct 1 - The natives in Yola have risen up and destroyed the colony. Not that I cared about it anyway.

[Abe Sargent]

Wow it's still pretty early in your game. I wonder how well you're going to do if/when the serious colonial powers turn their attention to Africa. Will you be so large that they won't bother? Or so weak that they'll run over you. No doubt your westernization helps augur for the latter.

Yup, it sure does. Both the economy of Africa, and the size of the military will help.

[Abe Sargent]

100 Year Review


Our Ruler is Karbifo I and he has ruled since May 1493. His Admin is just a 3, Diplo 5, and Military 7.

We have an honorable reputation

Our vassals are Benin and Swahili

Our allies are Benin, Swahili and Morocco.

We have 30 infantry regiments and 15 cavalry ones. Most of that infantry is Men at arms but I have had occasion to build a few more African troops to help our armies in the Kongo and Mutapa regions.

We have 2 Carracks, 4 Galleys and 7 Cogs. Our navy is currently berthed at the former colony of Luanda

We have an inflation of 9. We are really far behind in Land Tech. Holland is at 15 Corsica at 14, many are at 11. We are at 9. The same is true of others techs. We are usually one or two behind the mass of Europe, and several behind the leaders of Europe.

There are 11 level 6 advisors in the world. We have none.

We have 52 provinces. The largest is Ming with 84. France is in the md 60s. Then the Timurid Empire has in the high 50s or 60. We are fourth.


Current Prices on Trade Goods:

Furs
Salt
Wine
Cloth
Copper
Fish
Iron
Tobacco
Coffee
Chinaware
Wool
Grain
Spices
Slaves
Naval Supplies
Sugar
Tea
Cotton
Ivory
Gold (No Trade or Production)

That’s a crazy list. Fish that high? Come on now. Spices that low? Come on now.

[Abe Sargent]

Our Land


Our Colonies:

All are Sunni and Mali

Cape Verde - With 193 people, this island is making us 0.58 ducats annually. Unknown trade good.

The Canarias - 257 people, 2.04 ducats, unknown trade good

Sierra Leone - 243 people get us 1.36 ducats annually. Unknow TG.

Kisarna - 2.58 ducats made by the 516 people working the ivory trade in this port south of Luanda and Ndongo.


Former Colonies:

All are Sunni and Mali

Konian - 4803, ivory, 2.83 ducats. Our first colony.

Gold Coast - 2nd colony, 5,98 ducats, ivory, 10615 people, port.

Trarza - 1086 working the slave trade for 3.06 ducats annually from this former Castillean colony.

Luanda - 6528 ivory processors make us 7.47 ducats annually. Next to Kongolese provinces.

Whydah - 6114, 5.93 ducats, port connects Benin and points each with Gold Coast and points north, ivory.


Former Kongo Provinces:

All are Kongolese Shamanists

Ndongo - 1773, 5.74 ducats in slave trade.

Kongo - 12.59 ducats in grain, 6749 people, Has a tax base of 10.

Mayombe - 2461, 4.69 ducats, slaves

Loango - The only port, 3.38 ducats, 6256 peops in ivory trade


Former Mutapan Provinces:

All are Animist

Sofala - The only port, 55.08 ducats from 8931 Bantu gold miners

Uteve - 9382 Shona gold miners make 52.26 for us

Zimbabwe - 10972 Shona gold miners make 58.86 for us.

Urungwe - 8511 Ivory traders of Shona descent make us 3.41 ducats

Zumbo - 6770 Shona ivory traders mmake 3.39 ducats

Masapa - Shona, gold, 5935, 47.92 ducats

Barwe - Grain, 4.09 ducats, 9939 Shonas

Sena - 7500 Bantu, Ivory, 3.40


Our Mainland Provinces, by Geographic Area:

Eastern Coast:

Calabar - Ashanti Animinsts, 4074, 2.71 ducats in salve trade, easternmost port.

Bonny - 4599, Ashanti Animists, 3.87 ducats

Benin - 9,22 ducats, Sunni Mali, ivory trade

Ife - 6452, 2,96, Torumba Animist


Central Africa:

All are Mali Sunni

Bagirmi - 7915, 4.41 in ivory,

Kanem - 22925, 8.64 in wool

Mandara - 6.63, 7976, grain - with Local Fortifications giving it 50% defense for rest of game

Borno - 6625, 3.46, grain

Damagaram - Salt, 12839, 8.98

Kano - 7.40, 51335, grain

Zazzau - 5.57, grain, 36493


Central Songhai:

Gobir - Salt, Sunni Malinese, 38069, 12.4 ducats

Katsina - 5.21, Sunni Mali, grain, 16573

Zamfara - Animist Mali, 7677, grain, 4.15 - with Support of Religious Minorities which lowers taxes a bit but lowers revolt risk as well.

Dendi - Malinese Sunni, 10160, 5.10, grain

Tadimekket - 7290, salt, 11.93, Tuareg Sunni

Gao - Capital, 18240, grain, Sunni Mali, 20.58, with workshop

Timbuktu - 35730, workshop, temple, marketplace, 48.33 ducats in salt trade


West Songhai Empire:

Massina - Anomost Mali, 8.64 ducats, Support of Religious Minorities, grain, 7983 people

Jenne - 10.14 ducats, grain, 28507, Mali Sunni

Kumasi - Ashanti Animists, gold, 60.24, 5465 people

Segu - 21873, Sunni Mali, 14.54, Workshop

Wasuju - 29549, Animist Mali, 5.66, Support of Religious Minorities

Bambuk - Animist Mali, 67.72, gold, Support of Religious Minorities

Bure - Sunni Mali, gold, 87.08, our best province with a huge tax base too, 24368, workshop

Wolof - 6924 Animist Senegambian, 4.76 ducats in slave trade

Futa Jallon - 25077 Sunni Mali, 9.24 ducats in ivory trade.

Cayor - Port south of Trarza, 11836, Senegambian Animists, 3.78 ducats with slave trade

Gabu - Sunni Mali with 7.59 ducats made by 116373 in this port province.



And there we are. Whew.

[Abe Sargent]

An Unexpected Conflict


Nov 1 - We gained knowledge of a bunch of provinces in Asia in the Himalayas.

Jan 14, 1500 - Rebellion in Zimbabwe

Feb 1 - Portugal has set up a colony in Rio de Oro, the province just south of Morocco and north by two of Trarza. Europe may be coming again. Several people, including England, now have Quest for the New World. I have ordered our colonists to Arguin, the province just north of Trarza, south of Rio de Oro, and one of the last easy settlements for the Europeans.

Feb 5 - That colony has been established successfully.

Apr 10 - We lost in Zimbabwe

Apr 23 - Our Admiral died.

June 1 - We fortify Borno and are now being asked to Destabilize Venice. I order workshops in Bambuk and Futa Jallon

10 July - We win in Zimbabwe and the nationalist rebels are defeated.

Nov 16 - The Mamluks offer us an alliance, but I want to decline. I’m happy with my currentl selection of allies in Morocco, Swahili, and Benin, Actually. Now that I think about it. Okay, I’m in. I order my navy to its normal berth at Cayor. Our eastern flank is now fully protected, so I shift some forces around to protect against attacks from the northwest.

9 Jan, 1501 - The Canarias will be a fish province.

Feb 6 - Arguin expanded.

Feb 8 - England declares war against us. All of our allies join us.

What of mine does England want? It just seems random. At first, I thought they might want a province or two to use as a staging ground, but then I remembered they have Madeira, so they already have one. I have no clue what the bee in their bonnet is, but I intend to blast them back into their British Isles. I want to launch forces at Madeira, and then figure out where they are from there. England’s ally is Portugal. Se we are at war with both. I order forces over, jack up military maintenance, and begin to prepare for a defensive war.

[Abe Sargent]

The African War of European Expulsion

May 21 - We land 6000 troops in Madeira. Morocco has taken Rio de Oro from Portugal.

June 1 - We win in Maderia and bgin the siege.

Aug 1 - I land an army in Morocco and march them towards Portugal’s N African provinces.

Sept 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Morocco has been keeping the English navy from getting to us. A couple of battered ships have slipped through but we deafeted them.

Oct 1 - Trade Tech Advance.

Oct 26 - Madeira fell to us.

Dec 14 - rebellion in Masapa

Jan 1, 1502 - Sierra Leone is a slave province.

Jan 26 - One of my armies arrives at Aures, a N African province of Portugal and begins a siege.

14 Feb - We defeat the rebel;s in Masapa.

Mar 1 - I land troops in Lisboa and begin to siege the Portugese captial.

1 Apr - Land Tech Increase

Apr 20 - Revolt in Loango

May 5 - 6000 Portugese troops arrive in Arues to protest our siege of their province.

May 27 - We crush the nationalist rebels in Loango.

June 21 - I land 6000 troops in Kabylia, a N African possession of Portugal’s. We begin a siege.

June 30 - Revolt in Mayombe

July 6 - We lost in Aures and our army is virtually destroyed.

Several Portugese provinces are being sieged by The Mamluks to the east.

Aug 8 - We crush the rebels in Mayombe

Aug 23 - We get a white peace offer from England. Accept it or not? No,I think we can win this war, with my allies on my side being much closer to their African possession than them. No thanks.

I want these Sunni provinces back in Muslim hands. The Mamluks, Morocco, us - that matters not me me right now. I want them returned to their brothers.

Oct 12 - rebels in Urungwe

Nov 12 - We defeated the rebels.

November 27 - Rebels in Zumbo. One of our armies arrives in Aures again and begins an assault

Dec 7 - Cape Verde will be a naval supplies province.

Dec 16 - Rebels are crushed in Zumbo

Jan 6 - 1503 - Two provinces have fallen to The Mamluks

Jan 21 - We capture Lisboa!

Apr 11 - We capture Kabylia and I order that army to Constantine. The Mamluks have captured Tunis.

Apr 22 - We capture Aures

Jul 13 - I land another army at Portugal’s mainland provinces, and begin a siege of Porto

Aug 14 - Rebels in Sena

Sept 17 - I land another army at Algarve

Sept 30 - Rebels in Sena are crucified

October 14 - Arguin will be a grain province.

Oct 30 - We capture Alentejo, a Portuguese Iberian holding.

Nov 4 - Animist Rebels in Barwe

Dec 24 - The Rebels are defeated

Feb 4, 1504 - England offers a White Peace. I decline. We are hammering Portugal.

Feb 7 - Revolt in Mayombe

Feb 9 - Porto has fallen

Mar 2 - Rebels are crushed

Mar 27 - We capture Braganca

June 12 - Constatine fell. Just one province of Portugal’s is not in the hands of me or my allies. All of N Africa is in our hands. We have to cpature that last province in order to force them to cede everything.

Oct 12 - We have a new ruler as ours died today. Meet Ismail I ,Admin 6, Miliutary 5, Diplo 8.

Nov 16 = We got an event where some of our colonists moved from Kisarna to Arguin - 200 to be exact.

Jan 18, 1505 - We have captured Algarve

They cede all North Africa provinces to us and our allies. The Mamluks gained four provinces, Gabes, Tunis, Gafsa and Biskra. We gained three, Constantine, Kabylia and Aures.

We are still at war with England.

I offer England White Peace

Jan 28 - England accepts our offer of White Peace.

Jan 29 - I ask for and receive military access from The Mamluks.

[Abe Sargent]

Aures - The iron mines here are worked bu the 2884 Berber Sunnis for 11.07 ducats annually. It comes with a temple and workshop. It is an inland province adjacent to my allies in Al-Djzair, Tlemcen, Tuat and Atlas (Morocco) and Biskra, Gafsa (The Mamluks). (Morocco captured the two Portugese colonies of Tuat and Rio de Oro).

Kabylia - 8214 Berber Sunnis harvest grain in this coastal province in the Mediterranean. They make 11.37 ducats for us annually. There is a workshop here. It is next to Constantine.

Constantine - 19715 farmers make us 8.05. They are Sunnis of Berber descent and culture.

I’m not a big fan of having a small number of highly visible provinces here, but they are good money makers, and I can’t get much to sell them to The Mamluks or Morocco (I tried).

[Abe Sargent]

The Calm After the Storm

Feb 7 - Rebels in Sena.

I have some colonists saved up. I send one to Arguin.

Mar 14 - Arguin expands. More are dispatched.

Mar 20 - Peasants are defeated in Sena

Apr 19 - Arguin expands. More are sent

I issue Land Enclosures in several provinces. This increases my taxes there, but increases revolt risk as well. Bambuk. Timbuktu. Jenne. Kongo. Those are the ones that get it.

May 24 - Arguin expands.

July 5 - Arguin expands

Oct 1 - Production Tech Increase

Jan 4, 1506 - Sierra Leone expands.

Mar 4 - Slider time. I move towards Quality again.

Jun 8 - I order workshops built in Kongo, Jenne, Kanem, Kumasi, Gabu and Massina

Jul 3 - Royal Marriage with Morocco and The Mamluks

Sept 1 - I cancelled my mission to have a bigger navy than Castille and then we get one to fortify Bure and I agree.

Dec 14 - Revolt in Ife

Dec 27 - Sierra Leone expands

Jan 6, 1507 - We defeat the Oyo Nationalists in Ife

Feb 7 - Rebels in Zimbabwe

May 1 - Arguin has grown and is now a full province

Arguin -Initially established in self defense to keep Europeans from establishing points to explore around Africa, this Mali Sunni province has 4301 farmers making us 5.16 ducats annually. This port is south of Morocco’s former Portugese colony in Rio de Oro and north of our colony in Trarza.

May 13 - We lost in Zimbabwe

June 6 - We gained 2 taxbase in Zamfara after another Agricultural Revolution event. I order a workshop built here now, and in our former colony in Luanda.

Aug 8 - We won in Zimbabwe

Sept 3 - We fortity Bure and the next mission is to Destabilize The Mamluks. No thanks, they are my allies.

Sept 5 - We enter into a Royal Marriage with Najd.

Dec 1 - Konian is now a core province.

Dec 4 - Sierra Leone expanded

June 21, 1508 - Rebellion in Kumasi of Ashanti Nationalists

Aug 30 - I get an event Quality Ivory, and we gain a prestige because we’ve been making good ivory recently.

Oct 29 - We win in Kumasi and the rebels are defeated

Nov 18 - I order a fort in Arguin. Forgot to do that earlier.

Dec 4 - Sierra Leone expands

Jan 27, 1509 - English Fleet is in the coast off Gambia. Explorer fleet? Uh oh, only England has a port they can use, Madeira, to dig into Africa.

[Abe Sargent]

Oh, forgot to give you the map I just made before I posted what I've bene doing since. Here we go:

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3391/afterengportwarzx1.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

Decisions

Feb 1 - Gvnment Tech Increase. New Idea available.

Options:

Humanist Tolerance - I could not get this before because of its prerequisites. It increases our tolerance of heathens by 2. This would have several effects. Revoltrisk in heathen (Animist, Shamanist) would reduce by 2 for the game. Futher provinces I took of Christian or other religons would be the same. Since I don’t get missionaries anymore, this is not bad. Secondly, population growth in all heathen states would improve. That’s good. Some are not growing at all, and this would begin to bump them up. These are good effects since missionaries are not on the horizon or in our pocket.

Bureaucracy - +5% taxes everywhere. Not bad. I don’t think we need it, our economy is strong enough as is.

Military Drill - Morale of armies +1. As mentioned before, this is pretty strong.

Engineer Corps - Our leaders become better at sieging. This is good as well, especially as Europeans start getting higher level forts.


After consideration, I am going with Humanist Tolerance

[Abe Sargent]

Time of Peace

Feb 22 - The English are coming back. I;m not sure how far down they went.

I take another look around the new world. Looks like England is the winner. They are the first country to set up a colony in the new world. They are in the Canadian province of Acadia.

Dec 7 - Rebels in Constantine. They are bleeding over from the Mamluks territory where they have captured a few of their provinces.

Dec 21 - I get an event Berber Revolt

Suppress the Berber Rebels - 5 nationalist regiments formed there. Kabylia gets +5 revolt risk for six months
Let Us Try to Negotiate - We get -5 taxes for six months, and lose 30 ducats. I choose number 2, just ot be nice.

Jan 17, 1510 - Kisarna expands.

Mar 1 - Naval tech increase

Mar 19 - We lose in Constantine.

May 3 - We win and destroy the rebels in Constantine.

Jan 11, 1511 - Kisarna expands.

Sept 1 - Production Tech Increase

I’ve been sending England a few gifts here and there and our relations are up to 170. I Want to keep them off my backs. I don’t know what they DOWd me before, but I want to keep from that again.

Nov 3 - I send colonist to Benguela, south of Kisarna. That’ll be our next colony. Nice taxbase, 5000 natives, and not as pissed off as many others.

Dec 15 - The Mamluks are going to war against Ethopia and as for my help. I agree, but porbably won’t do much. It’s a bit far away. Just in case I can get there in time to do something, I send my navy over to our Mutapan armies. That will take several months.

In other news, we lost our Destabilize The Mamluks and gained Out Fleet the Mamluks as a mission.

Feb 1, 1512 - We fail establish a colony in Benguela.Stupid colonists.

Apr 30 - We get the Colonial Company Founded event and gain 200 colonists in Brakna. Brakna is insalnd of Trarza, Wolof, Bambuk and Segu. It’s a low value colony but it has no natives, they’ve all been killed, so its just a matter of time for Brakna to become a full province, down the road.

July 29 - Troops are loaded off Sofala. I order them up the African coast towards Ethopia.

Aug 24 - I decline a white peace offer from Ethopia.

Oct 1 - Sierra Leone has grown into a full province.


Sierra Leone - Started by an event, the 8000 Sunni and Malinese people that trade in man are happy that they were founded. 4.96 ducats are made here annually. I order a fort built here. Sierra Leone is a port adjacent to Gabu, Futa Jallon and Konian.

[Abe Sargent]

More Expansion

Nov 11 - 4700 of our troops arrive in the Ethopian province of Ifat.

Nov 28 - We capture Shoa.

Nov 29 - Ethiopia rejects a nice peace offer so I keep driving.

Dec 5 - The Mamluks have accepted peace. That was not smart. We could have driven Ethopia to the ground. Ah well, I retreat.

Jan 1, 1513 - Land Tech increases.

Feb 1 - Trade Tech increases.

Feb 7 - We set up a colony in Benguela

June 16 - Rebellion of a patriotic nature in Sena

July 14 - Rebellion in Zimbabwe

Aug 4 - We win in Sena

Aug 14 - Rebellion by Algerian Nationalists in Constantine

Sept 4 - We won in Constantine

Oct 9 - We win in Zimbabwe

Feb 10, 1514 - Benguela expands

June 4 - I cancel the Get a Bigger Army than Mamluks and get Fortify Zazzau as a mission. I agree.

June 27 - Brakna will be a grain province.

Aug 5 - Animist Rebels in Sena.

Sept 1 - Kisarna is now a full province

Kisarna - South of Luanda and Ndongo, and north of Benguela, this coastal ivory province has 9301 Sunni mali people making 4.32 ducats for us annually. I order a fort built here forthwith.

[Abe Sargent]

Peaceful Coexistance

Oct 28 - We win in Sena

Feb 23, 1515 - Agricultural Revolution gets two taxbase increase in Borno,

March 22 - Benguela expands

Mar 28 - There’s an English fleet sailing along the Ivory Coast, coming back from somewhere. I missed it earlier.

Apr 21 - Patriot Rebels in Sena.

May 2 - We get a Gift to the State event and gain 300 ducats

June 4 - Benguela will be a grain province

June 6 - We fortify Zazzau and the next mission is to Incorporate Swahili into our country.

June 21 - We defeat the rebels in Sena.

Sept 1 - Naval Tech increase

Oct 1 - Our four star Production Advisor has passed. I hire a five star Navigator, which increases our colonial range by 25% so I can colonize a place I;ve wanted for a while.

Nov 14 - Ahh, I still can’t reach it even with him. Boo! I need to be 278 and my max range with the guy is 263. Ah well, I fire him, and dispatch more colonists for Benguela. I hire a Lord Porprietor who increases colony growth by 2% per star, and he’s a two star guy. There’s no one else I want.

Dec 11 - I Promote Land Enclosures at Zimbabwe and Benin (increases tax in those provinces, at the risk of slightly higher rebel activity. For the game)

Feb 10, 1516 - Benguela expands

Apr 1 - The Canarias has become a full province.

The Canarias - 1501 Sunni Mali people fish for 9.20 ducats annually, in these islands. I order a fort built here immediately. I also order a workshop in Kisarna and Benin.

In about 14 years, my colonization efforts are going to move south, with a core being placed in Luanda, which will allow me to dig further. I need to finish up the places I want or need to colonize here in the east. First.

I want Cameroon, Fernando Po, Gabon, Grain Coast and Ivory Coast, the six coastal provinces in the area that could conceivably be used as ports of call by Europeans.

Since they suck already, I am going to move troops into Ivory Coast and Grain Coast and clear out the natives, drop one colonist in each, and then sit back and let them grow over time into real provinces.

[Abe Sargent]

Embrace of Cowards


Nov 26 - Agri Revolution in Constantine for two tax value there.

Jan 1, 1517 - We kill all the natives in Ivory Coast and I send in colonists. We also gain in Production Tech.

Jan 10 - Rebellion by Algerian Nationalists in Kabylia.

Jan 27 - Colony established in Ivory Coast.

Feb 17 - We lose in Kabylia

Mar 14 - Reviolt in Zumbo

Apr 19 - We win in Zumbo

Jume 17 - I get a nasty, nasty event. I’ll read it to you:

A Generation of Cowards

Many long years of peace have caused a disturbing lack of manly virtues in the comman man. This could be disastrous, since far too many of our recruit turn out to be cowards…

Purge Them! Lose 11,000 manpower, lose one stability
We Need Them For TEN Years, -10% discipline.

Wow. What a sucktastic event. I choose the second, but jeez neither is good and both are absolutely damning.

[Abe Sargent]

Peace Before War

June 20 - We win in Kabylia

Aug 1 - Cape Verde is now officially a colony.

Cape Verde - 1003 Mali Sunnis work the naval supplies trade in this island in the Coast of Guinea. They make us 2.89 ducats annually. I order a fort built here.

BTW, a castillean fleet is sailing the Coast right now. Heading where? With an admiral?

Nov 1 - Our other production advisor died. There’s no one I want to hire.

Feb 1, 1518 - We kill all of the natives in Grain Coast and send in colonists. We also gained Gold Coast as a core.

Mar 4 - Grain Coast is now a colony too.

May 1 - Production tech increase

Sept 17 - Rebels in Constantine

Oct 21 - Are defeated

Nov 1 - I send colonists to Fernando Po

Dec 10 - Colonization fails despite an 80% chance of taking on the first hit.

Marc 1, 1519 - Production tech Increase

July 1 - Land tech increase

July 6 - Slider change. I go towards quality again.

Dec 10 - Fernando Po is now our newest colony.

Mar 14,1520 - Bantu Patriot Rebels in Sofala

Aug 15 - Rebels are defeated in Sofala

Oct 21 - Ivory Coast will be a slave province

Dec 1 - Land tech increase

Jan 1, 1521 - After saving my money for a few years, I order a Textile Manufactory built in Kanem.

Jun 1 - Naval Tech Increase. With the increase colonial range, I hire the five star navigator again. Now I can reach the colony I want. I order my saved colonists to Cape, with a high tax value, just 500 natives with no aggressiveness. I still need to colonize a coupl eo fprovinces here before I go down sout,h, but this will give me an opportunity to just sit on the colony for a while when I build up my colonies.

Jul 1 - Trade Tech Increase

Oct 1 - Land tech Increase

Oct 18 - Our colony at Cape has been set up.

Jan 2, 1522 - Another Mamluk Ethopian war. This time they can fight it themselves, although I still join.

March 15 - I proclaim a guarantee on Adal

May 6 - Grain Coast will be a grain province

Aug 10 - I accept a white peace from Ethiopia

Sept 1 - Naval Tech increase

Sept 23 - Agricultural Revolution gives me 2 taxbase in Brakna.

Apr 2, 1523 - Trarza is now a core province

May 1 - Naval Tech increase

July 1 - Production tech increase

July 2. 1524 - -Fernando Po will be yet another ivory province. I’m making too much of that stuff as it is. Problem with Africa - not a diverse economy.

[Abe Sargent]

East African Expansion

Swahili has pissed me off by building a center of trade literally, literally, next door to me in Quelimane. This pisses me off so much I do something I wasn;t going to do for a while, just so I can get rid of it.

I offer Swahili annexation. I have about a 50/50 chance of it taking. They reject my offer.

Nov 6 - Now that I;ve saved up a few colonists, I’m going to send several to Cameroon and hope for a good grouping of expansions and colonizations.

Dec 14 - Colony established. I can establish a colony when I need 43% of working, but I fail when I have an 80%. My luck. I send more.

I send a gift to Swahili

Jan 21, 1525 - We expand in Cameroon

Mar 2 - Cameroon expands

Apr 14 - Despite having a 79% chance of taking, our colonization attempt fails.

May 1 - I jettison our level two colony helper for a level one trade teach investor that was found in our capital.

May 5 - Cameroon will be an ivory province. Sigh.

June 26 - I send a gift to Swahili and maximize our relations

July 1 - Land Tech Increase

Sept 21 - Swahili rejects our annexation overtures

Nov 14 - Another gift

Jan 10, 1526 - Cameroon expands this time

Feb 1 - Trade Tech increase

May 28 - Agricultural Revolution event gives us 2 taxbase in Wasuju. I order a workshop there due to the increase.

July 1 - Naval Tech increase

Nov 10 =- I just saw some Portugese ships down in the Gulf of Kongo before they went out to sea.

England became Great Britain.

Jan 1, 1527 - I jettison our 5 star navigator when a 3 star statesman was found in Cape.

Jan 25 - Cameroon expands and grain will be the product in Cape.

Feb 1 - Gvnment tech Increase

Mar 24 - I send a gift to Swahili

As you can tell, rebellions have dwindled. We now have 0 revolt risk in the Mutapan and Kongolese provinces.

June 24 - Swahili accepts our annexation offer. I immediately destroy the COT in Quelimane.

[Abe Sargent]

Our new provinces:

Quelimane - Adjacent to our Mutapan provinces lies this 3672 Animist Bantu provinces making us 5 ducats annually in the ivory trade.

Mozambique - 7684 ivory traders make us 5.23 ducats. They are of Bantu culture and are Animists. This province is north of Quelimane.

Kilwa - 13025 Swahili Animists mine gold in this coastal province north of Mozambique. 54.04 ducats are mined here annually.

Bagamayo - 3470 Animist Swahili make 2.84 ducats in the ivory trade. This is north of Kilwa and there is unclaimed land inward of here.

Tanga - North of Bagamoyo lies the 9227 people of Tanga, a Bantu Animist culture making us 2,93 ducats in the ivory trade.

Mombasa - 8715 Animists make us 6.41 ivory ducats and are of Swahili descent. This province is north of Tanga.

Malindi - North of Mombasa are the ivory traders of Malindi. 4.06 ducats are made here by the Swahili Animists.

Lamu - North of Mombasa lies the Animist Swahili ivory traders making us 4.04 ducats annually.

Mogadishu -This Sunni and Swahili province is also an ivory province where we get 3.29 ducats from the 12473 people here. North of Lamu.

Zanzibar - This island off the east African coast has 13533 Sunni Swahili people making 4.50 ducats off the slave trade.

[Abe Sargent]

Map of our new Provinces:

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[Abe Sargent]

Territory and Dissidents Gained Alike

I have ordered my troops from the ex Mutapan provinces to march up the Swahili territory and take out the rebels. I need to float a navy over to get troops to Zanzibar to take out the rebels there.

We gained a core on Quelimane when we completed the mission to absorb Swahili. Our next mission is to Destabilize Castille.

July 1 Brakna has grown to full province size.

Brakna - After being colonized as the result of an event, Brakna then gained tax base from another event. 1000 Malinese Sunnis harvest grain and send us 5.47 ducats annually. I order a fort built here.

July 26 - I gain an event - Because we Focus on Defensive, I gain a level one fort in Konian for free.

Oct 31 - By now, virtually every province has been captured, but we defeated the rebels in Mozambique and captured it.

Jan 16, 1528 - Cameroon expands

Jan 25 - We defeat the final rebel army in Bagamoyo. The Mamluks once again DOW Ethopia and we join them, only now we are much closer.

Jan 28 - We lose the Castille mission and gain Restablish our Prestige.

Apr 7 - I land troops in Mamluks territory and march them to Ethiopia.

Apr 11 - All provinces have been freed from rebels.

Apr 21 - Rebels in Mozambique

I order walls built in Zanzibar

May 17 - Peace with Ethiopia.

July 20 - Rebels defeated

Sept 10 I order a fort built in Quelimane

Oct 18 - An another in Kilwa

Jan 14, 1529 - Cameroon expands

Mar 1 - Gvnment Tech Increase

May 1 - Benguela is now a full colony.

Benguela - south of Kisarna along the coast lies the 6001 people of Benguela. They make us 7.71 ducats harvesting grain. I order a fort built here.

[Abe Sargent]

Enter Greatness


Oct 17 - I order fort in Bagamoyo

Dec 3 - Because Quelimane is a core from completing the Swahili absorption mission, I can use it as a base of sending colonists. I send my first colonists to Imhambane. South of Sofala, with 2000 n atives and zero aggressiveness plus a nice tax value, I can let them establish a base of operations there and let them grow while I colonize elsewhere.

Feb 10, 1530 - 4000 Noble Rebels rise in Zumbo

Feb 18 0 They storm the walls and take the province

June 1 Gvnment Tech Increase

June 15 - Inhambane is our newest colony

June 30 - We win in Zumbo and begin a siege to retake the province

Jul 1 - Production Tech Increase

Aug 2 - Luanda is now a core province

Sept 23 - Our leader dies. Here is our new one - Ishaq I, Admin 8, Military 7, Diplo 7. That’s a strong leader.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq I Begins


Oct 19 - I order a fort built in Tanga

Dec 3 - The Mamluks are having a rebel problem out east by our new ex-Swahili provinces. I send colonists to Little Karoo, adjacent to Cape at the south end of Africa. Again, this is a province with very light native resistance which can growe into a colony without need of further application of colonists.

Feb 8, 1531 - We capture Zumbo. I order a fort built in Mozambique

Mar 25 - Adal rejected our marriage proposal

Apr 29 - Little Karoo is established.

July 1 - YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAY. Today was a day I have built for and waited for for over a century. Today, we get Tech Level 15, the ability to get monopolies in COTs, such as Timbuktu, where no other country has a merchant. That means the wealthy Timbuktu, which I’ve been destroying all other nearby COTs to strengthen, will now give us significantly more ducats annually in trade there as soon as I establish a monopoly.

July 17 - We establish a monopoly in Timbuktu.

Aug 14 - Rebels in Malindi

Oct 3 - Rebels defeated

Nov 14 - I order forts in Mogadishu and Mombasa

Jan 1, 1532 - My next colonists are sent to Bourbon for the same reason, to grow into a real colony later, with no native presence on the isle, this should be easy, emphasis on should.

July 11 - Agricultural Revolution gives us two taxbase in Benguela. I order a workshop built there.

Aug 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Aug 16 - Colony in Bourbon. I see another island now that I didn’t see before that I have not discovered close to Bourbon. Ah well. I wish I could see it, but them’s the breaks

Sept 3 - I send a gift to Adal.

Oct 1 - Land tech increase. I can now build level 2 forts.

Nov 2 - I order level 1 forts in Malindi and Lamu

Dec 1 - Colonists dispatched to the island of Mahe, north of Madagascar. Same deal, colonize it, no aggressiveness natives, let it grow.

Dec 15 - Rebels in Kilwa.

Jan 26, 1533 - Slider Change. I choose to move towards Free Subjects and get the Better Administration event, which lowers our inflation by two.

Mar 12 - We defeat the rebels in Kilwa

June 3 - Another gift to Adal.

July 2 - We get an event - Fortification Upgrade in Kumasi. It is now a level two fort.

Aug 10 - Colony established in Mahe

Nov 2 - All former provinces from Swahili now have level one forts.

Dec 6 - The Timurids are trying toi colonize Majerteen, right above Mogadishu. This will not do. If they fail by Feb 1, then I’ll send in my own colonists and try to musle them out.

Jan 3, 1534 - Adal accepts a Royal Marriage with us.

Feb 2 - With a 1 in three chance of success, the Timurids fail. We have much better odds (since we are a tropical nation, we do not suffer the penalty for colonizing tropical provinces), I send in our own.

Several nearby provinces defeat to Adal after The Mamluks lost them to rebels.

Mar 1 - Gvnment Tech Increase. Another province defects to Ethopia.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq I - War in East Africa

May 2 - I DOW Ethopia. I am tired of The Mamluks taking their provinces, and then just getting ducats. I have no intention of making such a mistake.

All of our allies are in,

By the end of the month, we have captured two provinces and are besieging the third.

June 1 - Ivory Coast is now a full province. We’ll take a look after the war.

June 11 - I reject a peace offer for Gojjam. I want both of their non-capital provinces. And their fealty.

Oct 1 - The four Kongolese provinces are now cores.

Oct 7 - Ifat falls. I force them to give us Gojjam, Ifat, give up all of their claims, and vassalized them.


Ifat - 5263 Sunni Ethopians work this wool province making us 4.39 ducats. This province is not next to any of ours, being next to unclaimed territory, Adal and The Mamluks. There is a temple and fort here.

Gojjam - 3825 Sunni Ethopians harvest grain here for 4,87 ducats annually. This province is next to Ethopia’s captial, Adal, and several unclaimed provinces, but not The Mamluks.

Ivory Coast - 1006 slave traders make us 4.44 ducats annually in this port. I order a fort built here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq I Continues

Oct 11 - We succeeded in our mission to improve our prestige. Now we get a mission to fortify Gojjam. I agree and order a fort built here forthwith. I begin to build another army for the eastern part of Africa.

Oct 19 - Adal have agreed to be our allies.

Oct 21 - Then they break their alliance. This aspect of diplomacy I find annoying, it’s very unrealistic.

Nov 1 - Kongolese is now an accepted part of our culture.

Nopv 17 - Colony established in Majerteen. Now, here is what’s weird with this. Majerteen is a Penal Colony. So, while I own it, I get an increase revolt risk from it. I also get more in taxes and my Global Colonial Growth is +10%. Nice eh?

Dec 2 - More colonists are sent to Majerteen.

April 6, 1535 0 Inhambane will be ivory. Yay ;(

Sept 1 - Grain Coast is now a full province:

Grain Coast: 1003 farmers make us 3.6 ducats annually. I order fort built here.


Sept 15 - Majerteen expanded.

Oct 13 - We fortify Gojjam and the next mission is to do the same in Gobir, which I agree to.

Nov 1 - Cameroon is now self sustaining.

Cameroon - 10001 ivory traders work this province, sending us 4.64 ducats annually. South of Calabar and north of the unsettled Gabon (but soon to be). I order a for built here.

Nov 27 - Fortification Upgrade in Kano

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq I - War Enjoined


Jan 5, 1536. Uh oh. The Mamluks are DOWd by the Ottomans. The Ottoman allies are Gotland, Bosnia, Serbia, Iraq, Golden Horde, Kazakh and Qara Koyunlu. Wow. We are the only ally of the Mamluks. Wow. I accept hoping to keep my ally for now and that we will stay out of the war. I have no desire to piss on the Ottomans.

Apr 10 - Gotland has landed 1000 men in The Canarias.

May 28 - I land 6000 troops.

June 18 - We win in The Canarias.

July 2 - We accept a white peace offer from Qara Koynulu so they are out.

Sept 14 - majerteen expands.

Oct 15 - Gobir is fortified and now they want us to naval race Mecklemburg.

Dec 10 - The Ottomans land a force in The Canarias.

Dec 18 - majerteen is a slave province.

Jan 1, 1537 0 Government Tech Increase.

Jan 22 - Little Karoo will be a gold province.

Feb 6 - I retreat from a naval battle after I see 54 Turkish ships heading towards me. I kid you not, 54.

Mar 15 0 They capture The Canarias

Mar 30 - They capture two of my transports before I can get my fleet in harbor.

Apr 14 - Ivory Coast gets hit with an Epidemic.

May 20 - I load up 6000 troops and will send them to The Canarias

June 21 - Revolt in Lamu (Swahili)

The Mamluks are getting overrun.

July 1 - We land in The Canarias

July 11 - We lost badly.

Aug 7 - Rebels are defeated. The Mamluks are having serious rebels problems in the east by us while they lose in the Mid East. My guess is that we’ll see some of them join Adal soon.

Aug 15 - We accept a white peace with Golden Horde. We are negotiating for the alliance.

Sept 17 - Sugar will be the product in Bourbon.

Sept 30 Majerteen expands

The Mamluks are also having rebel problems in their western N Africa provinces.

Dec 31 - We completed the Naval race against Mecklemburg mission and now get the same against Castille.

Feb 21, 1538 - We lose again in The Canarias.

Mar 1 - All of the former Mutapan provinces are now cores.

Jul 5 - After adding many transports to my fleet, we land 11000 troops in The Canarias and have defeated the Turks and begun the siege.

Sept 13 - Majerteen expands

Dec 1 - We recapture The Canarias. I will leave this army here and immediately order the building of a level two fort.

Dec 14 0 rebels in Mozambique

Jan 21, 1539 - I accept peace with Iraq for our alliance for 100 ducats and the release of Benin as my vassal. Now I can just conquer them a remove the last country from the area.

I know its during a war, but I order a university built in Timbuktu (which was built by Songhai there in real life).

March 8, 1539 - Spices in Mahe.

Apr 18, 1539 - Rebels defeated.

The Mamluks look to be getting saved by the Turks who are conquering provinces held by rebels. They might get lucky.

Apr 23 - Agricultural Revolution for Dendi. I order a workshop there.

June 21 - Rebels in Mombasa

July 1 - Fernando Po is now self sustaining.

Fernando Po - This island has 1002 ivory traders send us 5.32 ducats annually. I order a fort built here.

Aug 1 - I decide to go help my ally.

Sept 14 - We are now at peace with Gotland for 25 ducats and Ethopia is no longer our vassal.

Sept 18 - Majerteen expands

Nov 2 - Rebels defeated

Dec 1 - Whydah is now a core province.

Jan 1, 1540 - Ashanti is no longer an accepted culture

Jan 9 - We defeat the Ottomans in Berber.

Jan 21 - I offer the Ottomans peace for our alliance and they get the following five provinces from The Mamluks - Gaza, Judea, AlKarak, Hawran and Baduyat Ash Sham, all in the middle east outside of Africa.

They accept.

I was an idiot to join this war. The Ottomans could have taken me out any time they wanted to. I had two provinces in the Medterranean and The Canarias and more. I am an idiot. I did not prepare with level two forts or anything. I’m just lucky they concentrated virtually all of their force on The Mamluks.

Well, I no longer have Benin and Ethiopia as vassals.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq I - Removing Annoyances


Jan 24 - Benin broke their alliance with us. I move troops over to her. I do the same for Ethiopia. It’s time to take these weaknesses out.

Fen 15 - We cancel military access with Benin.

Mar 16 - I DOW Benin.

Apr 14 - We win in Oyo and destroy the Benin army and capture their capital.

May 2 - I DOW Ethiopia

May 16 - We defeat the Ethiopian troops and capture their capital.

June 2 - We annex Benin.

Oyo - 7.17 ducats are harvested annually by the Animist Yorumba people of Oyo.

June 7 - We annex Ethiopia.

Gonder - Adjacent to us in Gojjam is the Sunni Ethiopian people of Gonder. 7.13 ducats are made by the quiet farmers here. I order a fort built here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq - Harvesting Grain Before a Storm


Sept 1 - Two provinces switch to Adal from The Mamluks.

Sept 14 - Majerteen expands

Dec 1 - The next place I;m sending colonists is Gabon, south of Cameroon and north of Loango. Colonizing it connects my provinces in the old Kongo region and several colonies south with points north including my main provinces. We have a 60% chance of taking.

Jan 14, 1541 - Colonization failed.

Apr 2 - I send a gift to Adal.

May 9 - I cancel the Castille mission. Now I need to make an army bigger than Great Britain. Actually, we’re close, so I order some more troops built, Tercio Infantry, which I was going to use to replace my older infantry.

June 1 - More provinces flock to Adal’s banner

July 1 - Tunisia and Algiers have formed from the old Mamluk states in the area. They are my neighbors in N Africa.

Sept 6 - Royal Marriage with Tunisia

I am going to have to do something that I was not sure I’d have to do until now, but it is becoming apparent, that The Mamluks are simply too untrustworthy with the land Allah gave them.

Sept 21 - Revolt in Gonder

Nov 28 - We win in Gojjam

Jan 17, 1542 - We get the Colonial Compnay Founded event and 200 colonists are placed in Worodugu.

Feb 16 - We have a new colony in Gabon now.

Apr 2 - We now have an army bigger than Great Britain and won that mission. The next mission is to improve defenses in Arguin. I agree and order a level two fort there.

July 3 - Adal has granted us military access.

July 14 - Revolt in Oyo

July 25 - rebels defeated

Nov 1 - Majerteen is now a full province.

Majerteen - North of Mogadishu on the tip of the horn of Africa lies Majerteen. 3700 slave raders produce 5.26 ducats for us annually.

Nov 21 - Rebels in Tanga

Dec 9 - We win in Tanga

Jan 1, 1543 - I cancel military access through Mamluks

Jan 27 - Gabon expands

Mar 1 - Kisarna is now a core

Apr 5 - We improve defenses in Arguin and the next task is to build a fort in Majerteen, and I agree.

May 6 - Royal Marriage with Morocco. My permanent ally.

June 1 - A level four Treasurer (Trade Tech Investor) arrived in Segu and I drop my one star guy for him.

July 17 - Tunisia gives us military access.

Set 21 - Rebels in Ifat

Nov 12 - We crushify them

Dec 14 - Revolt in Gonder

Dec 17 - Defeated

Dec 26 - I order Improve Frontier Defences in Gold Coast. This means it will have +5% population growth for the entirety of the game, but -4% local trade income. I do the same in Konian, Loango, and Sofala.

Jan 1, 1544 - Production Tech Increase

Jan 15 0 Gabon expands

Feb 1 - Trade Tech increase

Apr 7 - We build a fort and finish that mission. Next one, improve defences in Mogadishu. I agree and order a level 2 fort there. What this is doing is driving up my army tradition, so that when I get a couple of generals prior to war, they will be better.

June 1 - Cape is now a full colony!

Cape - 1500 farmers in this South African province give us 13.14 ducats annually! Awesome. I order a workshop built here. I also Promote Land Enclosures

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The Reign of Ishaq I - Closing to War

July 1 - Worodugu was damaged by natives.

July 16 - Gabon is now a slave province

Jan 1, 1545 - Govnment Tech increases. New Idea.

Options:

Military Drill, as mentioned earlier

Bureaucracy, as mentioned earlier

Engineer Corps, as mentioned earlier


I go with Military Drill

Jan 15 - Gabon expands

Mar 14 - Tunisia has agreed to be our allies.

Apr 9 - We finish the fort and the next one asks us to builda fleet with over 30 big ships. Not sure I want to, but I’ll hold onto it for now.

Oct 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Jan 1, 1546 - Our Land Tech Increase. Little Karoo is now a full province.

Little Karoo - The gold mines in this province are right beside our people in Cape. 1500 people make us 53.56 ducats annually. I order a workshop built here.

Jan 25 - Gabon expands

Feb 1 - I recruit a pair of generals

May 1 - The Canarias is now a core province.

I’ve been waiting on war to end between The Mamluks and Algeria, Tunis. You Can’t break with an ally during war.

Oct 24 - Najd will allow our troops military access

Nov 24 - The Mamluks and Tunisia are at a White Peace

Jan 13, 1547 - I send colonists to Roggeveld, an inland unclaimed land by Cape and Little Karoo.

Jan 15 - The Mamluks go with peace with Algiers and take Gafsa.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq I - The First Mamluks-Songhai War

Perfect

I know that I said I would only take African provinces this game,a nd that was my only concern, but in this war, I am going to bend that rule one and only one time. You’ll see.

Jan 19 - I break my alliance with The Mamluks.

June 9 - Roggeveld is our newest colony.

This will be the first time, in a long time, that I will intentionally hurt my stability like this.

June 9, 1547 - I DOW The Mamluks. Our stability drops three.

I have prepared for this in several ways.

I have a fleet with 12000 soldiers in the Bay of Alexandria to hit their central provinces.

I have an army of 6000 in Najd to hit their province outside of Africa that I want.

I have an army of 7000 in Gonder ready to move into the lower Nile region and start taking provinces.

I have an army in Constantine of 10000, including 2000 artillery, ready to move along to N African coast and take provinces.

June 11 - Tunisia does not join us.

June 12 - I move my slider towards Quality.

June 19 - We begin the siege of Delta.

The Ottomans and Iraq are also fighting here again.

July 16 - We assault and capture Delta

Aug 4 - We win in Cairo and begin a siege.

Aug 18 - We assault and capture the one province outside of Africa that I want: Mecca.

Sept 1 - The savages of Worodugu rose up and destroyed our colony here.

Oct 1 - Cape Verde is now a core

Oct 9 - We capture Cairo

Nov 1 - The Ottomans got to Alexandria before we did and they are besieging it now.

Jan 13, 1548 - We capture Gafsa

Feb 3 - Our Arabian army captures Qatar, just to drive up the warscore.

Feb 19 - We capture Tripolitania

Mar 6 - We win in Libya and begin a siege there.

Mar 18 - Adal DOWd The Mamluks. So has Najd.

April 1 - Sierra Leone is now a core

May 1 - We capture both Berber and Massawa

May 31 - We settle a colony in Greater Karoo.

June 24 - We defeat a small Mamluk army in Suakin and begin a siege there.

July 2 - Inhambane has grown into a full colony. Details after the war.

Aug 17 - We capture Cyrenaica

Aug 30 - EXCELLENT news. The Ottomans took Diamentia for peace with the Mamluks, leaving us a chance to take a lot.

Sept 14 - We capture Ibrim.

Oct 2 - Libya falls to us.

Oct 23 - We capture Sirt

Oct 31 - We capture Nile.

Nov 9 - We captuer Alexandria.

Morocco captured Kargah

Dec 28 - Now Iraq is at peace with The Mamluks and they took an Arabian province.

Jan 12, 1549 - I assault Sinai and capture it.

Jan 30 - We capture Beni Yas in Arabia.

Feb 15 - Gabon expands

Feb 20 - We assault and capture Asyut

March 12 - We assault and capture Liwa in Arabia

Mar 30 - We fail an assault in Suakin.

May 18 - rebels in Tanga

May 20 - rebels in Malindi

June 2 - Nubia fell to us

June 4 - We assault and capture Suakin

June 20 - We crush rebels in tanga

July 2 - The Mamluks come to peace with Najd and lose Bahrain. That’s good for us. Bahrain was the only province not under our or Morocco’s control.

The problem is that although The mamluks have a lot of provinces, they don’t have a lot of good provcines. Seperating the wheat from the chaff is not hard, but finding quality provinces is.

July 31 - Rebels in Malindi defeated

Sept 25 - We get colonian company founded and get two hundred colonists in Wukari, one of our crappier inland provinces.

I found two provinces of The Mamluks that we did not capture, and that’s keeping my warscore down, so I order a fleet of tranports to take some armies over to south Arabia.

Oct 9 - the Hedjaz gives us military access so I can get to The mamluks

Oct 12 - Morocco took a white peace so now I need to recapture their province of Kargah

We will be delaying the normal 50 year review until post war

Dec 20 - We capture Dhofar

Jan 2, 1550 - We capture Mahra.

Jan 3 - We capture Kargah.

I send a peace offer for four provinces. That’s it, all of this war for four provinces. What four?

Jan 4 - they accept:

We receive Alexandria, Delta, Sinai and Mecca.

Sinai is sorta in the middle of Africa and Asia. I won’t go past it.

As part of my 150 year review, I will include these four provinces and the newly colonized Inhambane.

Plus maps!

[Abe Sargent]

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[Abe Sargent]

150 Year Review


We have 9% inflation. We currently lead the world with 42 prestige, but we just won a war. Our income is the second best in the world, behind only France. We are about four levels behind Europe in techs

We have the fourth largest army in the world, currently, but that will rise as my troops return and are restocked from our manpower.

We have the 10th largest navy. We now have 84 provinces and are neighbors with the Ottomans, Iraq, and Najd.

Ming is still the largest country with 92. We are second now. France is third at 69. Alexandria is the third richest COT in the world. Timbuktu is the 8th.

Current Order of Trade Goods (From Richest to Least):

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

[Abe Sargent]

Our Lands


Okay, we currently have six colonies, let’s take a look:

Bourbon - With 883 people, this island is already making us 6.31 ducats in the sugar trade.

Mahe - This island of spices is making us 3.59 ducats already with 838 people there.

Gabon - Currently at 857 with colonists on the way, this slave trading province connects important land holdings of ours, and is making us 5.38 ducats already/

Wukari - Established by event, the 209 people in this province are fighting highly aggressive natives in order to colonize.

Roggeveld - An inland colony with 222 people, making us just .93 ducats annually in taxes.

Great Karoo - Another inland colony with 179 people and 0.84 ducats


Let’s start with the former Mamluks provinces:

Alexandria - The prize of prizes. This coastal COT has 166438 al Misr Arabic Sunni people making us 25.75 ducats annually in the grain trade. I order a level 2 fort here. Comes with Temple.

Delta - The Nile Delta is a place of fishermen, where 27639 al Misr Arabic people make us 12.72 ducats next to Alexandria. I order the fort here too. Comes with Temple.

Sinai - Not adjacent to any of our provinces is the 3724 salt trading al Misr Arabic people making us 11,89 ducats annually, almost all of that in production. I order a level 2 fort here as well. There is a Temple here as well.

Mecca - Where other provinces have economic value, Mecca has religious value. 25544 Bendouin Arabic Sunnis work the spice trade and make us 3.16 ducats annually. There is another Temple here and in a year, there will be a level two fort.


The ex-Ethiopian Provinces - All are Sunni Ethiopian

Gonder - 8664, grain, 5.54 ducats

Gojjam - 4192, grain, 4.34 ducats

Ifat - 5750, wool, 4.56 ducats, temple.


Next up areN Africa Holdings - All are Berber Sunni

Constantine - 26029, grain, 6.67, workshop

Kabylia - 10710, grain, 6.36, workshop

Aures - 3777, iron, 8.59, temple, workshop


Next up are ex-Swahili provinces - All but Mogadishu are Animist.

Mogadishu - 14182, Swahili, 3.21, ivory

Lamu - 5971, ivory, Swahili, 3.06

Malindi - 7587, 3.09, ivory, Swahili

Mombasa - 9034, 4.23, ivory, Swahili

Tanga - Bantu, 9614, ivory, 2.58

Bagamayo - Swahili, ivory, 2,47, 3618

Kilwa - 13367, gold, 52.38, Swahili

Mozambique - 7999, Bantu, ivory, 3.65
Suleiman - Bantu, 3832, ivory, 2.47


Former Mutapan provinces - All are Animist

Sofala - Bantu, gold, 9909, 53.40, Frontier Defences

Sena - 8051, ivory, Bantu, 3.10

Zumbo - Shona, 7290, ivory, 3.09

Masapa - gold, Shona, 6428, 47.08

Barwe - 3.37 ducats, 10755 Shonas, grain

Uteve - gold, 10182, 51.02, Shona

Urungwe - ivory, 9206, 3.13, Shona

Zimbabwe - Shona, 11759, gold, 57.08, Land Enclosures


Former Kongo Provinces - All are Animist and Kongolese

Ndongo - 1924, slaves, 7.61

Kongo - 7324, grain, 12.65, workshop, Land Enclosure

Mayombe - 2655, slaves, 6.86

Loango - 6961, ivory, 3.20, Frontier Defences

Former Colonies - All are Sunni and Mali

Majerteen - 3862, slaves, 5.95, Penal Colony

Inhambane - south of Sofala lies the ivory province of Imhambane. 3031 people make us 6,72 ducats here. I order a workshop built here.

Little Karoo - 1526 gold miners, 54.86 ducats, workshop

Cape - 16.29 ducats, 1551 peopls, grain, workshop, Land Enclosure

Benguela - 6793, grain, 12.46 ducats, workshop, Land Enclosure.

Kisarna - 6.69 ducats, 11497 ivory traders, workshop

Luanda - 9.04 ducats, workshop, ivory, 8825 people

Cameroon - 10888, 4.45 ducats, ivory

Fernando Po - Ivory (Which doesn’t make sense, there’re no elephants on the islands.) 1069, 4.27 ducats

Whydah - 8265, ivory, 5.61 ducats

Gold Coast - 5.64 ducats, 14792, ivory, Frontier Defences

Ivory Coast - 1102, slaves, 5.78 ducats

Grain Coast - 1093, grain, 3.26 ducats

Konian - 6692, 3.10 ducats, ivory, Frontier Defences

Sierra Leone - 10003, slaves, 7.51

Brakna - 1144, grain, 5.69 ducats

Trarza - 1467, slaves, 5.80

Arguin - 5555, 4.57, grain

Cape Verde - 1218, naval supplies, 3.27

The Canarias - 1822, fish, 9.36 ducats.


East provinces - All are Sunni Mali

Bagirmi - 10700, 4.45, ivory

Kanem - 31744, wool, 23.53, workshop, textile manufactory. The Manufactory makes this awesome.

Mandara - 10781, grain, 5.89, Local Fortifications

Damagaram - 17356, salt, 13,64

Kano - 6394, grain, 7.09

Zazzau - 5.47, 49331, grain


Central Songhai Most are Mali and Sunni unless I say otherwise

Gobir - 51461, salt, 18.79


Zamfara - 8331, grain, Animists, 5.67, workshop, Support of Religious Minorities

Dendi - 13734, grain, 9.38, workshop

Tadimekket - 9854, Tuareg, salt, 15.82

Gao - 25926, 16.70, grain, workshop

Timbuktu - 62847, salt, COT, 64.29 ducats annually, temple, workshop, marketplace, university, Land Enclosures


West Songhai - All are Mali unless I say otherwise

Massina - 6.90 ducats, 8663 peopls, grain, workshop

Jenne - 38535, grain, 11.80, workshop, Land Enclosure

Kumasi - 57.64, gold, 5909, workshop, Ashanti

Segu - 29568, grain, 12.13, workshop

Wasuju - 6.77 ducats, workshop, 32068, grain, Support of Religious Minorties

Bure - 32940, gold, 86.08, workshop

Bambuk - Animist, 10613, gold, 65.94, workshop, Support of Religious Minorties, Land Enclosure.

Futa Jallon - ivory, 33899, workshop, 10.71

Gabu - 22131, ivory, 9.29, workshop

Wolof - Senegambian Animist, slave, 7514, 6.78

Cayor - 12845, Senegambian Animist, slave, 6.34


And there you are. Whew!

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq I - Administrata

Jan 21 - Gabon expands

Mar 2 - Arguin is a core. Our level 3 naval reformer has passed away. I hire a level 3 de-interest maker

May 1 - I get an event and Zanzibar has turned to Shiite. Yuck.

May 19 - We force some merchants away and get five in Alexandria

Aug 2 - I proclaim a guarantee against Algiers and Tunisia

Sept 2 - I get an event - Revolt in Delta. Choices:

Ignore Them - 21 regiments rise up in Delta, 10 in Alexandria
Lower Taxes - For four years, Delta loses 10% of her taxes and I lose 2 prestige

Well, do I fight thirty one thousand regiments of rebels or lower taxes in one province for four years? Now, what would be funny is to let the regiments capture them, and then move out to Mamluks or Ottoamns and rape them. But, I;m still building in those provinces and I don’t wan to lose the money I invested there.

I lower taxes

Nov 1 - Stability increase

Nov 21 - Patriot revolt in Alexandria

Dec 4 - We crush the rebels.

Jan 4, 1531 - I order a workshop in Alexandria, Delta. I order Land Enclosures in Alexandria

Jan 14 - I proclaim a guarantee for the Ottomans

Feb 20 - The Ottomans accept my request for military access. Now I can move troops from Sinai into Delta and Alexandria.

Mar 1 -I send colonists to Ogaden, an inland unclaimed territory where the natives have been killed with little value, but creates a land connection between two Swahili provinces on one end and Ifat on the other.

May 1 - Gabon is now self sufficient

Gabon - This is a major land connection. 8000 slave traders make us 7,45 ducats annually. Now we have taken all sea provinces down to Benguela. The three between Benguela and Cape are really bad. Lowest tax value possible with aggressive natives (but not too aggressive, especially for Africa).

[Abe Sargent]

A Look Around the World


July 2 - Najd rejcts our Royal Marriage proposal

I recruit a four star fire general.

Nov 20 - Ogaden colony established

I jettison my level 3 inflation down advisor for a level six one.

Jan 4, 1552 - I send a gift to the Ottomans.

Feb 7 - Revolt in Ife

Feb 17 - We win.

Mar 16 - I order a fort in Oyo.

March 27 - Our great ruler died. Meet his son Ishaq II - Admin 3, Military 7, Diplo 8.

Apr 9 - Another gift to the Ottomans

May 4 _ I have gotten a bunch of discoveries including those in the new world. I could, anytime if I wanted, start colonizing the new world, but that’s not my mission in this game.

World Update:

What’s going on in May 1552?

Great Britain has heavily colonized northern coast of Brazil. No one is in the rest of South America

Great Britain has colonized Florida and parts in the south, taking them from the Creek and other natives.

Castill ehas taken the Carolinas and the east coast up through Jersey. Portugal has several provinces in New England. Several coastal provinces in Canada have been colonized by both Portugal and Britain.

It looks like England has decided to steer clear of the Caribbean for now. Castille has Hispaniola, part of Cuba, and two Winward Islands. Portugal has the rest of Cuba, and Burmuda as well, fyi.

In Europe, France has taken much of Germany. It keeps gobbling provinces.

Vencie has wrested control over much of Italy from Naples, and it is beginning to look like an Italian power.

Bohemia is carving out a nice sized little stae for itself.

Sweden controls virtually every province in Scandinavia

Castille has eaten a few of Portugal’s Iberian provinces.

The Ottomans are speading into Europe as far west as Croatia, but they are moving slowly.

Polotsk is being eaten by a new Lithuania. Muscowy looks to be the major Russian player from the region.

Ming has finished conquering all of SE asia and Malaysia except for one country, Sukhothai. If I had been playing that province in this dynasty, I would be surrounded by Ming on all side. They have yet to jump into the Indies.

India has been split up again into numerous states.

And that’s all the news of 1552.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq II - Continuance of Greatness

June 1 - Bantu patriot rebels in Sofala

Aug 1 - Bourbon is now an official province

Bourbon - 1000 sugar planters make us 8.45 ducats annually. I order a workshop here.

Aug 14 - rebellion in Alexandria

Aug 28 - We win in Alexandria

Sept 27 - Slaves in Great Karoo

Oct 25 - Ottomans accepted our RM proposal

Dec 17 - I lost in Sofala

Jan 1, 1553 - Stability increase’

I’m disappointed that there’s been no event trigger for holding Mecca and being Islamic. When you grabbed Jerusalem and were Christian, you got an event that added annually to you prestige, if I remember correctly. I’d think the same should be true here, and its not. Disappointing.

Jan 21 - Rebels in Quelimane

Mar 30 - We lose in Quelimane

Jul 18 - revolt in Sinai wich we immediately win.

Aug 1 -- Mahe has expanded into a full blown province.

Mahe - 1500 spice traders make us 4.94 ducats here annually. I order a level 1 fort.

Aug 10 - We win in Quelimane

Aug 27 - We get news that Roggeveld will be a gold province (as it was in EU3 pre-expansions).

Oct 17 - rebels in Ifat

Jan 1, 1554 - We win in Ifat

Jan 14 - Slaves in Wukari.

Feb 8 - Let’s try this again. I offer Adal a royal marriage. They accept.

Feb 24 - Najd also agrees to a RM.

I lik ehaving good relations with the states in the area. Normally, when I take a bunch of provinces, I have to worry about defense so much because the Sunnis and Shiites will DOW me all the time, but now I can just buddy buddy with everyone.

Mar 11 - rebels in Gojjam

Apr 4 - Are defeated

With just Morocco as our ally, and I believe we will be allies for centuries, I need another ally or two. I start looking.

Apr 5 - Adal declines an allianc eoffer.

Sept 1 - Agricultural Revolution in Constantine.

Oct 28 - I am going to start killing natives in Taodeni and Azawadd, the rest of the Sahara corridor, and then colonize both and let them grow over time into full provinces.

Dec 20 - I kill then all in Azawadd and send a colonist.

Jan 1, 1555 - We set up a colony in Azawadd

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Ishaq II - A Shadow of His Father


Jan 2 - Mamluks rebels bleed over into Constantine.

Feb 1 - Stability Increases back to max. Constantine, Kabylia and Aures are now cores

Feb 21 0 We win in Constantine. Colonists are dispatched to Taodeni after we kill off all of the savages.

Mar 13 - Taodeni is now a full colony.

I send colonists to Delagoa Bay, south of Inhambane

May 2 - I didn’t even notice the Ottomans are massively at war against Najd. I wonder why?

I send a gift to the Ottomans.

June 11 - The Mamluks keep losing provinces to war or rebellion. My guess, in less than 20 years, The Mamluks will be no more. Perhaps less.

Aug 1 - I send a gift to Algiers.

Aug 23 - Agricultural Revolution in Dendi.

Sept 17 - Colony failed in Delagoa Bay. I didn’t realize that my % to take was just 29, because of my ruler’s low ADM score.

Instead, I send colonists to Nupe and Bauchi. Both are insland provinces inside the Songhai borders where all of the natives have been killed. They are very low valu,e but again, I can colonize them, and then just let them grow into full provinces,

Oct 20 - Nupe is a new colony.

Oct 28 - Bauchi is also a new colony.

Nov 2 - I canceled the Castillean mission and gained one to fortify Little Karoo, which I begin

Dec 1 - Tripoli has formed, and Algiers has taken two of the Mamluks provinces, so they have lost four. The Mamluks have lost all of their Arabian holdings.

Dec 4 - Giftr to the Ottomans.

Dec 29 - Grain in Ogaden

Dec 30 Royal Marriage with Tripoli

Jan 14, 1556 - Rebolt in Alexandria

Jan 27 - We win.

Mar 15 - Colonial Compnay adds 200 to Worodugu. Again.

Apr 7 - We get a nasty event:

Temporary Insanity of Monarch:

Request Military Guidance - Lose 2 prestige, lose 50 ducats, gain 5 army and navy tradition, lose 1 stability

Request Administrative Guidance - Lose 2 prestige, 20 ducats, 1 stability and a badboy.

I choose Military Guidance. Our stability drops.

That was not a happy event.

[Abe Sargent]

The Madness of Ishaq II



May 19 - I offer the Ottomans an alliance.

May 20 - they accept.

Nov 7 - Little Karoo is now complete. Next mission, pump up the fort in Constantine. Not only do I agree, but I do it for Kabylia as well.

Mar 15, 1557 - I kill all of the natives in Yatenga (next to Timbuktu, Gao, and Massina) and send colonists.

Mar 23 - Its now a colony.


Apr 24 - The natives in Wagadugi are killed and colonists are sent

May 6 - Colinization failed.

Aug 10 - Algiers rejects a marriage

Aug 21 - Tunisia accepts

Sept 21 - Rebels in Delta

We have a monopoly in Alexandria.

Nov 2 - We win in Delta

Nov 11 - We complete the fortification mission and now have one to build a university in Futa Jallon.

Mar 1, 1558 - Stability increase back to full. Trade Tech Increase.

Mar 29 - Wukari expands.

Apr 10 - Algiers rejects our RM proposal

Jun 10 - I proclaim a guarantee for Adal.

Sept 4 - We get an epidemic event for our nation.

Jan 31, 1559 - Wukari expands

Mar 16 - Revolt in Gonder by Nationalists

Mar 31 - We win.

Apr 22 - We kill all 1100 natives in Idah, our next internal colony.

May 20 Ethopian Nationalists in Gojjam

May 26 - No longer

[Abe Sargent]

The War of Tunisian Succession

Oct 2 - We have entered the War of Tunisian Succession. We are willed Tunisia. However, Adal believes that it should have been them, so we are now at war with Adal. Okay!

It’s a like a free war I can do anything with!

I jack up my military maintenance and order my troops into various Adal provinces.

Here’s what I want:

Awsa - Salt!

Harer - connects Awsa and Gonder and Goj

Oct 28 - We capture fortless Shoa

Nov 1 - Nupe will be ivory

Nov 27 - We capture their captial, Kefa, also fortless

Jan 18, 1560 - Battle is enjoined in Tigre

Jan 24 - Grain in Worodugu

Feb 11 - We are victorious in Tigre

Mar 4 - We win in Gonder

Apr 29 - Haud falls to us.

June 24 - We capture Awsa

July 20 - Bauchi is a slave province

Aug 1 - We capture Tajura

Aug 16 - We capture Berbera

Sept 3 - Harer fell. I’m assaulting a lot o these provinces.

Sept 25 - We capture Tigre.

Oct 17 - We capture Taka. One more to go.

Oct 27 - We capture Zeila

Adal has over 2000 ducats for me to try and swing! Wow.

I can literally take every non-capital province they have, and get 400 ducats too, but I cannot force vassalize them.

Here is what I am taking: Awsa, Tajura, Tigre, Harer, Zeila, 150 ducats, and Union with Tunisia, which takes 40% of our warscore right there.

Accepted.

[Abe Sargent]

New Provinces:

Harer - North of Ifat, south east of Awsa, south of Tajur aand south west of Zeila lies the farmers of Harer. 10398 Sunni Somali people make us 7.32 ducats annually. This place comes with a temple.

Zeila - This coastal province is south east of Tajura. 10052 Sunni slave traders of Somali culture ply their trade making us 7.85 ducats annually.

Tajura - The other coastal province we took is the wool province of Tajura. 4497 Sunni Somalis make us 5.11 duicats annually. There is a straight connecting this with Mocha. There is a temple here.

Tigre - Northeast of Gonder and north of Awsa, wes of Tajura is the province of Tigre. 2910 farmers os Sunni and Ethiopian descent make us 7.10 ducats annually.

Awsa - Outside of their capital, which is a gold mine, this was their most valuable province. 5169 Somali Sunnis trade salt her for 15.74 ducats annually. This province has a temple. It is adjacent to Gonder, Tigre, Tajura, Harer and Ifat.




Now isolated are the single province of Taka, Haud and Berbera to the east, and Shoa and Kefa to the south.

We are now in a Personal Union with Tunisia, which frankly, I;ve never been in before, but we are the leader. I go to look this up in the Eu3 wiki.

It looks like we are automatically allied, and I am monarch of both Songhai and Tunisia in diplomacy. We get half of Tunisia’s monthly income (much like a vassal). It lasts as long as we have positive relations when my monarch dies, but has a chance of turing into an actual inheritance.

[Abe Sargent]

The Madness of Ishaq II


Nov 9 - We establish a colony in Wagadugi, one of the provinces where all of the natives were killed.

Dec 1 - And another set up in Idah.

Dec 9 - Royal Marriage with Algiers

Dec 31 - Since Tunisia is now sorta of my territory and sort of a vassal, I am moving my troops in Constantine into Tunis where rebels are besieging the city to relieve my Union Partner

Jan 11, 1561 - We win in Tunis

Feb 8 - Revolt in Zeila.

I order a University in Gao

March 3 - Rebels defeated

Nov 21 - Grain will now be produced in Yatenga

Nov 24 - Revolt in Tajura.

Dec 22 - Rebels defeated

Feb 1, 1562 0 Benguela is now a core.

Apr 18 - Slider time. I move towards Free Subjects and we get the People are Disappearing event which drops our manpower in Calabar.

May 1 - Brakna is now a core

May 3 - Taodeni will be a salt province

July 8 - We kill all of the natives in Borgu and send in colonists.

July 15 - Azawadd will also be salt.

Good!

July 23 - Borgu is a new colony

Aug 1 - Govnemnt Tech Increase

Oct 14 - Wukari expands

Jan 1, 1563 - Production Tech Increase

Aug 1 - Land Tech increase

Aug 15 - Revolt in Tigre

Aug 31 - Wukari expands

Oct 4 - We win in Tigre

Nov 9 - Agricultural Revolution in Constantine again.

Dec 14 - Rebels in Aswa

Dec 17 - Event: Fortification Upgrade in Ife.

Jan 13, 1564 - We win in Aswa

Apr 1 - Wukari is now self sufficient:


Wukari - Inland behind Calabar and east of Idah lies the slave trading province of Wukari. 6400 people make us 8.25 ducats annually here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Madness of Ishaq II - Land South


May 1 - Naval Tech Increase

May 14 - Nationalist Rebellion in Harer

July 5 - We win.

Sept 18 - We have killed all of the natives in Gurma and send colonists. This is adjacent to Gao.

Sept 26 - Colony established

Jan 2, 1565 - the Ottomans have a province next to ours with a high revolt risk and isolated from the rest of their territory. I Support Revolt successfully.

I Fund Patriot Rebellion in Taka, the adjacent Adal province with no fort and it is immediately taken.

I do the same in Shoa and it is immediately captured by patriots as well.

Jan 19 - Grain in Idah

Mar 10 - Slaves in Wagadugi

Apr 2 - The rebels in Shoa defeated the first batch of Adal troops to assault them.

Apr 19 - I fund another 4000 rebels in Shoa, at a cost of 45 ducats and a spy. This time he was discovered but successful.

May 14 - Rebels in Oyo.

May 26 - Which we defeat

Sept 1 - Worodugu expands

Oct 2 - I fund Pretender rebels in Berber, a Mamluks province.

July 1 - Trade Tech Increase. Roggeveld is now self sufficient.


Roggeveld - 1503 gold miners make us 50.52 ducats annually from this inland province behind Cape and west of Great Karoo.

Sept 16 - Worodugu expands

Oct 23 - Slaves in Borgu

The Mamluks annexed Yemen.

I fund patriot rebels in Socotra

Feb 1, 1567 - Ivory Coast is now a core

May 1 - Great Karoo is now afull province.

Great Karoo - This inland slave trading province is adjacent to Little karoo, Cape and Roggeveld. 1502 people make us 12.80 ducats annually. I order a workshop here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Madness of Ishaq II - Turning the Wheels


May 18 - We kill all of the natives in Pindinga and send in colonists.

June 12 - Colony failed to take

Sept 2 - I fund pretender rebels in Cairo.

Nov 21 - Revolts in both Zeila and Awsa

Jan 1, 1568 - We have put down both patriotic rebellions

Feb 3 - Shoa defected to us. Good use of spies!

Shoa - 3129 Sunni Ethiopian farmers make 1.33 ducats for us annually. I order a fort built here.

Taka went to the Mamluks.

Apr 1 - Grain Coast is now a core

Apr 24 - Pindinga is now a colony

May 11 - I fund pretender rebels in Massawa in Mamluks territory

I send a gift to Algiers

June 21 - Rebels in Tajura

Aug 3 - We win.

Aug 14 - Rebels in Awsa

Oct 21 - We win in Awsa

Nov 6 - More patriot rebels in Zeila

Nov 13 - Gurma is going to be an ivory province

Nov 20 - Victory in Zeila

Jan 1, 1569 - Socotra went to The Hedjaz. Two of the Yemen provionces went to Najd The Succession crisis in Mamluks is over.

Feb 7 - Rebels in Harer

Feb 23 - Worodugu expands

Mar 9 - We lose in Harer

May 13 - We win in Harer

June 1 - Asir went to Najd, from the Ottomans, after our rebels held it for too long.

Sept 1 - The discovery of St. Helena came to us today, so as soon as I get new colonists, I’m sending one out to the island.

Dec 1 - Ogaden is now a full province.

Ogden - Adjacent to Mogadishu, and Lamu in the east and Ifa and Harer in the west is Ogaden. I order a level one fort built here. 4.36 ducats are made by the 1004 farmers.

Jan 1, 1570 - Fernando Po is now a core

Mar 15 - St. Helena is now our newest colony

May 5 - I fund patriot rebels twice in Medina, a newer Ottoman province. We are discovered in one of those. I want to keep the Ottomans bust and if I can help them lose a province or two to Najd or Hedjaz, its worth it.

June 20 - I do it three times in Al Hasa. The first time we fail and are not discovered. The second time we succeed and are not discovered. The third time we succeed and are discovered.

Nov 27 - The Ottomans recaptured Medina.

Jan 3, 1571 - Algiers accepts our alliance offer

I send a gift to Adal

Jan 4 - Algiers, annoying as ever, broke their alliance with us

[Abe Sargent]

The Madness of Ishaq II Continues - Peace Over Blood


Feb 14 - Antoher gift to Adal.

Feb 27 - A general dies

May 16 - We get an event, Good Harvest. I put some extra money in the treasury.

June 20 I pass the School Establishment Act, which will last until the end of the dynasty

Build Cost +3%
Production Efficiency +4%
National Taxes -2%
Stability Cost Modifier -3%


Aug 3 - Morocco DOWs Algiers and wants my assistance. I unfortunately decline, because it would trounce my stability.

I wish them well though.

I twould have put us at war with Mamluks, that would have been a good thing, but the stability drop would have been tremendous. That would not have.

Nov 1 - Cape is now a core.

Nov 16 -Worodugu expands and is now a full province.


Worodugu - Inland and adjacent to Kumasi, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Konian, Jenne and Wusuju, lies the 3230 farmers that make us 7.30 ducats annually.

Dec 1 - Here is an irony, in eh same month our statesman advisor dies, we discover a level 5 natural scientist in the Kongo. I hire him naturally.

Jan 1, 1572 - I order a university in Futa Jallon.

Feb 1 - Gvnment Tech Increase

Feb 3 - Morocco and I are back in a military alliance

Mar 17 - Tunisia is now officially in our alliance

May 1 - Production Tech Increase

May 14 - Patriot Rebellion in Awsa

May 20 - The Ottomans recapture Al hasa

June 6 - Slves in Pindinga

July 6 - We win in Awsa

Aug 3 - Adal enters our military alliance family

Aug 12 - And then they leave us.

Dec 1 - Land Tech Increase


Azawadd - 1004 salt traders make us 16.02 ducats in this province north of Timbuktu and Massina and west of Tadimekket and southwest of Taodeni. I order a fort built here.

Apri 1 - Taodeni is now a full province as well.

Taodeni, our northernmost province, Taodeni is in the Sahara corridor. It is sout of Morocco in Tuat and north of Azawadd and Tadimekket. 1004 people here make us 15.99 in the salt trade. I order a level one fort to protest these people.



June 22 - Patriot Rebels in Harer

Jul 1 - Naval tech Increase

Jul 13 - We win in Harer

Nov 1 - Both Nupe and Nauchi are now full provinces

Nupe - 1004 ivory traders work this inland proivince adjacent to Oyo, Borgu, Dendi, Zamfara, Zazzau, Pindinga and Ife. 4.91 ducatsa re made here each year.

Bauchi - 1004 slave traders make us 8.93 ducats in this province adjacent to Mandara, Borno, Zazzau, Kano and Pindinga.


Jan 1, 1574 - Since I have had four colonies come off the books in the past month, I am going to work hard to reduce our minting as mucch as possible in order to spend some time reducing our interest. For the past 25 years or so, I;ve been riding the interest reduction in minting, generally neither making nor fixing interest and now I want to push, since some of my monthly requirements are dropping.

I am minting nothing at all for a while.

[Abe Sargent]

The Second Mamluk-Songhai War

Apr 25 - Nevermind. I just got a request from the Ottomans that they have DOWd The Mamluks and would like my help. For just a -1 stability, I can join them. I agree to do so. I obviously change my sliders and maintenance and such.

I begin to shift my forces

July 3 - After a quick assault, we capture Cairo

July 24 - Since Tripoli is the vassal of Mamluks, I moved some of my forces her and begin a siege of Tripolitania.

Aug 14 - We capture Taka

Aug 18 - After an assault we capture Libya

Sept 28 - We capture Tripolitania

Oct 6 - We capture Asyut

Nov 21 - We capture Massawa

Nov 26 - After an assault we captuer Berber

Dec 6 - We capture kargah

Jan 1, 1575 - Cameroon is now a core

Jan 9 - We capture Nubia

Jan 25- Tajura is now Shiite

Feb 6 - Ibrim falls

Feb 10 - Suakin falls

Feb 13 - The Mamluks accept a white peace with Morocco

Feb 14 - The Mamluks accept peace with us for six provinces, that connect Alexandria and Delta all the way down to the Ethiopian provinces, to Swahili provinces, down to Mutapan ones, for a giant eastern half of our kingdom.

[Abe Sargent]

Land and Death

Massawa - This coastal province is adjacent to Tigre and Tajura and down sea from Suakin. 9614 Sunni al Misr Arabic people work the slave trade here, making us 12.27 ducats annually. There is a temple here.

Suakin - 3.22 ducats are made in the slave trade here by the Sunni al Misr Arabic people. This coasl province connects Massawa with Ibrim, an inland province. Temple

Ibrim - 5367 al Misr Arabic Sunnis sell wool and make 4.64 ducats for unannually. There is a temple here. Adjcaent to Suakin to the east and Kargah to othe west. Temple

Kargah - 7784 Sunni al Misr Arabic people makle 4.70 ducats in the wool trade here. This province connect Ibri,m with Asyut and Libya.

Asyut - 22891 Sunni al Misr Arabic people make us 5.72 ducats in the grain trade, with a temple to boot. This province is adjacent to Alexandria, Libya and Kargah (plus Cairo and Nile)

Libya - 4759 Sunni al Misr Arabic wool traders make us 4.62 ducats in this Mediterranean province. With a temple, it is west of Alexandria, and border Asyut and Kargah as well.


Apri 1 - Yatenga is now a full province.


Yatenga - 1004 farmers make for us 4.97 ductas in this province south of Timbuktu, Gao and adjacent to Massina, Gurma, Jenne and Wagadugi.

July 8 - Our old ruler died. Meet our new one Muhammad II - Admin 7, Military 7, Diplo 7. Strong all around.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Beginning of Excellence

July 27 - We enter in a RM with Morocco and the Ottomans

Sept 20 - We get a great work for our natural scientist. I use it to regain our stability a year early.

Oct 1 - We get another level 5 natural scientist appear in Benguela. I decide to wait a bit on him.

Dec 17 - Fortification Upgrade in Wasuju

Jan 1, 1576 - Trade Tech increase

Jan 5 - We get Gift to the State.

Apr 2 - A general of ours died

Apr 30 - Naval Supplies in St. Helena.

July 13 - I send colonists to Yola

July 21 - Morocco breaks their alliance with us?

Aug 12 - Yola established. Moer are sent.

Aug 13 - Algiers accepts an alliance again

Sept 2 - Algeirs braeks it. You only get so many chances Algiers.

Sept 11 - Yola expands

I hire the level 5 production tech guy and jettison my inflation leveler.

Oct 1 - Production tech increase

Oct 12 - Yola expands

Oct 14 - Revolt in Libya

Nov 3 - We win in Libya

Nov 11 - Yola expands

I promote Land Enclosures in Bourbon, Constantine, Dendi

Improve Frontier Defences in Mandara

Dec 10 - Adal rejects our RM

Dec 12 - Yola expands

Jan 4, 1577 - We finish the Univeristy in Futa jallon. The next mission is to fortify Worodugu.

Feb 7 - Patriot Rebels in Harer

Mar 13 - We win in Harer

Apr 19 - Slaves in Yola

May 11 - Adal gives us military access

July 1 - The ex-Swahili provinces are now all cores

July 6 - Yola expands

Sept 25 - Agricultural Revolution in Asyut

Nov 21 - Revolt in Ibrim won in two days

Jan 6, 1578 - We now are to improve fortifications in Tajura.

Feb 1 - Govnment tech increases. We can now build Constables.

I order them in:

Timbuktu
Gao
Bure
Bambuk
Dendi
Massina
Kongo
Cape
Alexandria
Segu
Constantine
Borno
Benguela
Bourbon
Benin
Jenne
Gabu
Futa Jallon
Delta
Inhambane
Luanda
Great Karoo
Little Karoo

And yes, that’s a lot of money (I’ve been saving it just for this)

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Growth Peacefully


Mar 19 - Slider Time. I go with Free Subjects and we lose two inflation on a Greater Administration event!

March 26 - I get another Local Fortification Expert Discovered event. I order him to stay home and Wolof gets Local Fortifications for the game

Apr 1 - land tech increases

May 14 - Rebellion in Awsa

June 4 - Yola expands

June 25 - We crush the patriot fools in Awsa

June 27 - RM with Adal

Aug 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Aug 14 - Revolt in Asyut

Sept 4 - Which we win

Dec 1 - Wagadugi and Idah are both self sufficient:

Idah - Inland of Bonny and adjacent to benin, Ife, Pindingia, Wukari and Calabr. 1004 farmers make us 5.45 ducats here annually.

Wagadugi - 1004 slave traders make us 9.80 ducats annually. Adjacent to Yatenga, Gurma, Jenne and Kumasi.

Jan 8, 1579 - Our next mission is to have a naval race with Castille. That would require us to build at least 23 ships. No thanks.

Jan 13 - After capturing all of their provinces, the Ottomans accept peace if the mamluks release Tripoli as their vassals. They also have to cancel some cores. That’s it. No land exchange.

Perhaps they wanted the cores gone so that I cannot incite many rebellions.

Jan 21 - Pope calls for Crusade against the Ottomans

Feb 17 - I send a gift to Adal

Apr 3 - I canceled the mission agains the Castilleans and got one to improve relations with The Mamluks

I begin by proclaiming aguarantee for them

May 3 - Yola expands

June 5 - Gift sent to The Mamluks

July 1 - Production Tech Increase

July 24 - Gift again

July 28 - I fund rebels in Nubia which is successful but I am discovered.

Oct 11 - The Berber rebels killed themselves attacking the fort but Nubia has fallen. I send a gift to The Mamluks

Nov - Trade tech increase

Jan 9, 1580 - Gift sent again

Feb 1 - Our Trade Tech guy died, so I rehired our level 6 Banker inflation reducer guy.

Apr 5 - Yola expands and becomes a full province.


Yola - 8700 slave traders work here, natting us 10.48 ducats annually. They are an inland province adjacen tto Mandara, Bauchi, Pindinga, and Wukari.


June 13 - Another gift sent

July 1 - Inhambane is now a core

Aug 1 - Burgu is now self sustaining


Borgu - 1004 slave traders make us 9.74 ducats annually. This province is adjacent to Gurma, Dendi, Nupe and Oyo.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Spears into Scrolls

Nov 2 - Another gift to the Mamluks

Mar 1, 1581 - The Ottomans Proclaim a Guarantee on us

May 1 - Little Karoo is now a core

Gift to Mamluks

Oct 2 - Another Gift

Apr 1, 1582 - Another gift. We have now accomplished our mission.

Next mission - Build a university in Mandara

June 1, 1582 - Govnment Tech Increase

At some point in time Morocco went to war with Castille and Portugal. If they hadn’t left me as their ally, I would not have left them alone in this war.

Sept 1 - Bourbon is now a core

Oct - Gurma is now self sustaining


Gurma - South of Gao and adjacent to Dendi, Yatenga, Borgu and Wagadugi lies the 1004 ivory traers that make us 4.49 ducats.

Dec 1 - Land Tech Increase

June 1, 1583 - Naval Increase

June 2 - RM with Mamluks

July 7 - Alliance with Mamluks

Aug 14 - Rebels in Kargah

Aug 22 - Defeated

Sept 1 - Mahe is now a core

Nov 11 - We get an epidemic in Sierra Leone

Feb 4, 1584 - I order a Weapons Manufactory in Aures

May 1, 1584 - With maxed relations, I offer vassalization to The Mamluks, but my adivosr says it is unlikely.


May 2 - It works! They are now our vassals.

To be fair, they are down to 5 provinces.

I dispatch colonists to Delagoa bay

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Developments Within

Sept 1 - Trade Tech Increase We can now build marketplaces

Nov 1 - Ifat and Gojjam are now cores

Nov 4 - Delagoa Bay is our newest colony.

Dec 1 - Majerteen is now a core

I order market places in Gobir and Alexandria

May 10, 1585 - Delagoa Bay expands

I order market places in Tadimekket, Azawadd, Taodeni and Aswa

Nov 13 - The bay expands

Nov 15 - Agricultural Revolution in Idah

Dec 8 - We get a great event for our level 6 banker. We get some prestige instead of stability.

Jan 3, 1586 - Najd rejected our RM

Tripoli accepted, however

I build market places in Damagaram, Wolof, Cayor, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Borgu, Wagadugi, and Gao.


May 1 - Pindinga is now self sufficient.


Pindinga - This inland province is adjacent to Yola, Wukari, Idah, Ife, Nupe, Bauchi and Zazzau. 1004 slave tardes make us 10.06 ducats annually. I order a market place here.


May 19 - The Bay expands.

Aug 2 - Tripoli accepts our alliance offer.

Aug 25 - Ivory in Delagoa Bay

Oct 14 - Rebellion in Shoa

Nov 22 - The Bay expands

Dec 6 - We win in Shoa

Dec 14 - We have patriotic rebels up north in Asyut

Apr 20, 1587 - I build market places in Bonny, Calabar, Gabon, Mayombe, Ndongo, Wukari, Bauchi,

May 28 - The bay expands

Aug 2 - Whoh, I see British fleets by Madagascar iun the Gulf of Zambeze. How’d they get here?

Aug 14 - rebels in Shoa again

Oct 14 - We lost in Shoa

Dec 1 - The Bay expands

Jan 24, 1588 - We win in Shoa

Apr 18 - Gabon gets hit with an epidemic

June 6 - The Bay expands, one last batch of colonists are sent

Jun 19 - I send a gift to Adal

Dec 11 - Delagoa Bay expands and is now a full province


Delagoa Bay - South of Inhambane lies the last good colony available in Africa based on tax value. Despite having a low trade good, ivory, the 7900 people here make us 9.76 ducats annually. I order a workshop here.


Feb 4, 1589 - Weapons Manufactory completed in Aures

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Spies Abroad

July 9 - General dies

Sept 1 - Production tech Increases

Sept 6 - Gift to Tripoli

Sept 21 - Rebels of a patriot nature in Asyut

Sept 29 - I get an event - Aristcrats Concerned. I can Let them Complain and lose 10 prestige or I can move more towards Aristocratic. I’m happy to give in and move a bit towards Aristocratic.

Oct 31 - We win in Asyut

Dec 25 - Rebels in Kabylia bled over from Moroccan territory.

Jan 13, 1590 - We defeat them.

July 1 - Oyo and Gonder are now cores

Dec 5 - I order market places in Benin, Zanzibar, Majerteen, Zeila, Gonder, Massawa, Suakin, Mahe, Bourbon, Delta and Sinai

Jan 1, 1591 - I fund patriot rebels in Rio de Oro. It succeeds and cannot be traced back to us. I do the same to Tuat but he is discovered while bein successful.

To cover my tracks, I then put 18000 rebel troops in Al-Djazair, and hope that they will focus on ousting those 18k troops long enough that I can get Tuat or Rio de Oro

Mar 19 - Morocco is prepared. They arrive with an army 20k in size.

Mar 22 - Rebels in Shoa.

May 5 - We win in Shoa.

June 14 - Morocco is cleaning up their rebel problem nicely so this trick won’t work against them.

Sept 21 - Rebellion in Asyut.

Oct 21 - We emerge victorious

Mar 1, 1592 - Gabon is now a core.

May 6 - I send a gift to Morocco. I want my friend back. They reminded me how much I like them

June 13 - I do it again

Aug 3 - And once more.

Sept 2 - Time to colonize my next province.

Since this ruler has a better ADM, I can go after harder provinces, like The Bay. There are no good tax value provinces left, however.

Where I am going to Damaraland. This province is south of Benguela, and I want to connect down to my South African provinces. This requires me to strat and finish three colonies, and the first will be in Damaraland.

There are just 500 natives in Lesser Namaqualand, so I intend to sail some cavalry done there and kill them, Then I can set up shop and let it grow into a province.

Nov 1 - St. Helena is now self sufficient:

St. Helena - 1000 people selling naval supplies make us 4.01 ducats annually. I order a fort on this island which is far from Africa.


Nov 26 - We succeed in Damaraland and more colonists are sent

Dec 28 - Natives are killed in Lesser Namaqualand and colonists are shipped out to sea heading for her shores.

Feb 19, 1593 - Damaraland expands and more colonists are dispatched

Apr 23 - Colony established in Lesser Namaqualand

May 17 - Damaraland expands

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Flocking to a Banner

June 19 - Gift to Tripoli

June 30 - Slaves in Damaraland

Aug 11 - Damaraland expands

Apr 13, 1594 - Damaraland Expands

June 9 - Kargah becomes Shiite

July 15 - Tripoli grants us military access now.

Sept 4 - Slider time. I move us one towards quality. We lose 14000 manpower as a result of the event that followed.

Oct 17 - I order Frontier Defences in Benguela

Dec 1 - Local Fortifications in Lamu (south of Mogadishu, ex-Swahili province in the north)

Dec 17 - The Mamluks reject annexation

Dec 25 - Fortification Upgrade in Oyo.

Jan 17, 1595 - Send gift to The Mamluks

Feb 1 - Govnment Tech increase

Feb 4 - Damaraland Expands

New Idea:

I take Engineer Corps

Feb 21 - There are Timurid Empire ships in the Gulf of Kongo. Not sure how that happened.

Apr 2 - Gift to The mamluks

May 10 - The Mamluks accept annexation. Let’s take a look at the final five provinces from them:

Taka - 1150 slave traders make us 10.12. The Sunni al Misr Arabic people lives inland of Massawa and are adjacent to Berber, tigre and Gonder. I order a level one fort here.

Berber - Not to be confused with the Adal province of Berbera. 1979 Sunni al Misr Arabic slave traders worship in the giant temple here. 10.19 ducats are made here. This province is adjacent to Suakin, Ibrim, Massawa and Taka.

Nubia - 7.5 ducats are harvested by the 32912 al Misr Arabic Sunnis. This province is adjacent to Ibrim and Kargah. There is a temple here.

Nile - 7348 farmers grow 5.25 ducats annually. This province is adjacent to Cairo, Asyut, Kargah, Ibrim and Suakin. This port is full of Sunnis of al Misr Arabic descent and culture.

Cairo - And the crown jewel. This port features 621966 al Misr Arabic Sunnis who make us 23.08 ducats in the grain trade. North of Nile, this now connects Sinai to the rest of our provinces, inclusing Delta, Alexandria and Asyut. Also borders the Ottomans. I order a level two fort to supplement the temple already here.


I shift my garrions around so that they are now on the new provinces instead of the old.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - More Spies Sent


Oct 8 - Morocco accepts my offer of an alliance.

Dec 6 - I fund some patriots in Medina. More in Al Hasa. More in Diamentia, Gaza and Judea. We were discovered twice, but all were successful. As such, they now have five simultaneous rebellions.

Jan 4, 1596 - Damaraland Expands

Apr 3 - Al Hasa was stopped

Apr 28 - Epidemic in Ndongo

May 5 - Diamentia captured by rebels

May 13 - I order a workshop in Cairo.

May 26 - Mandara has Agricultural Revolution.

June 11 - I execute a nasty bailiff but lose some prestige in doing so.

June 21 - Revolt in Nile which we win in two days

July 1 - With Ottoman forces en route, I order more patriot rebels in Judea with my spies. Success and not discovered

There are now 10,000 rebels in Judea

July 28 - Gaza captured by rebels.

Aug 8 - Ottomans land in Diamentia and recapture it.

Sept 11 - Gaza recaptured

Oct 3 - Judea falls.

Oct 8 - rebels in Medina ousted

Dec 21 - Damaraland expandeth

Mar 25, 1597 - Judea recaptured by Ottomans

May 5 - Grain in Lesser Namaqualand

May 8 - Hawran falls to the rebels.

June 2 - rebels win in Judea

July 1 - Roggeveld is now a core

Jul 22 - Ottomans recapture Hawran

July 28 - Rebels again win in Judea

Aug 13 - Rebels lose in Judea. That’s pretty much the end of that.

Sept 6 - I order a marketplace in Cairo

Nov 17 - We establish a colony in Greater Namaqualand

Jan 8, 1598 - Fortification Upgrade in Nubia

Feb 22 - Another in Barwe

Apr 1 - Land Tech Increase

June 1 - Great Karoo is now a core

Jun 15 - Revolt in Taka

Jun 24 - Which we win.

Aug 1 - Damaraland is now a full colony.


Damarland - 5001 slave traders work this coastal province south of Benguela. 10.38 ducats are made here annually. I order a workshop built here.

[Abe Sargent]

War Against the North

Aug 20 - Castille DOWd Morocco and Portugal plus a few minors join. I agree to help my forever friend, Morocco.


Oct 5 - G Namaquala expands

I recruit a general and assign him to my Constantine army.

Dec 2 - I order 12000 troops from my Constantine army to disembark into Valencia

Dec 8 - They arrive and begin a siege

Feb 24, 1599 - Castile arrive to protest our presense

Mar 1 - We win and drive the heathens away

Mar 5 - More troops arrive

Mar 21 - We lose in Valencia

Apr 1 - I order a retreat back to the boats. They have too many forces in Iberia for a full out assault that I have not planned for.

May 23 - What I am going to do now is load one army in the Gulf of Almeria, then unload it on Castillean land, then repeat two more times, landing a total of three armies.


June 13 - 12000 unloaded in Granada

June 21 - Rebels in Berber which we defeat in three days

July 1 - 7000 more unloaded in Almeria

July 5 - We win a naval battle

July 31 - About 22000 castilleans oust us from Granada

Aug 16 - We lose in Almeria

Sept 1 - Naval Tech Increase. I can now build Galleons. I order three built.

I will be skipping the 200 year in review until the war is over.

I order a marketplace in Damaraland

Oct 1, Wukari is now a core.

Dec 15 - GN expands

Feb 1, 1600 - Sinai, Delta, Alexandria, Mecca are now cores

I order a constable for Cairo

Feb 9 - Agri Rev in Grain Coast (which makes sense)

Mar 14 - Castille rejects a white peace offer.

June 22 - Regional Nobles Challenge Songhai:

Crush Them! 5 Noble Regiments rise up in Libya
Give Them More Local Authority - Decentralize gains 1
Reform Society - Aristo gain 2, serfdom gain 2

If it were just Aristocracy gain two, I’d take that in a hot second. But I want free subjects, not serfs. I choose the first and rebels are in Libya.


June 22 - This war is going nowhere, so I have an idea just to be naughty

July 31 - Rebels lose in Libya, they are retreating to Alexandria

Aug 4 - Slaves in GN

Aug 7 - GN Expands

Aug 20 - We win in Alexandria.

Aug 26 - I order 7000 soldiers to disembark at The Azores. I want to take it, just to prove to Castille that we can do things they don’t expect. I have my navy here, so I can protect it from other fleets.

Sept 21 - We defeat the Castillean resistance and begin a siege.

My first three galleons are constructed and I order them to join my fleet in The Azores

I order three more built

Nov 30 - I lost a ship but sunk 10 Portugese ships.

Dec 11 - Agri Rev in Gonder. I order a workshop built.

Jan 6 - 1601 - I lose two more ships in an engagement with Castille but they run.

May 1 - Trade Tech Increase

June 9 - We capture The Azores

July 10 - GN Expands

Does Castille want a white peace now?

Nope

It’s like they don’t even care about Azores

Nov 28 - We catch Portugal in the open and begin a battle (They saw us leave the Azores harbor and turned around and tried to run)

Dec 1 - Ogaden is now a core

Dec 24 - We defeat the Portugese and capture a big ship

Jan 10, 1602 - I catch Castille off the Coast of Morocco.

Feb 5 - We defeat their entire fleet and sink it.

Mar 1 - We defeat and sink a small Portugese fleet

Apr 20 - Revolt in Berber

I order a Refinery built in Bourbon

Apr 24 - We win in Berber

May 27 - We send 25 ducats for peace.

[Abe Sargent]

The 200 Year Review

Our inflation has dropped to 5.2%, which is not bad, but I want to drive it down further.

Our Ruler is Muhammad II, all 7s is his skills

We make more money annually than any other country. France is a distant #2. Venice is a distance #3 from France. Sweden and Britain round out the top 5.

Our techs have begun to catch up. Our land tech, for example, is 22 and the leader is 23.

We field the third largest ground army and the fourth largest army overall. France, Castille and Ming have larger armies. The Ottomans are right behind us.

Because of our ship building for that war, we now have the 6th largest fleet in the world. Only Britain has more big ships than us at 60, we have 24.

We have 124 provinces, and no, I am not going to list them all for you. Yuck. France is second at 93, and Ming lose some recently and dropped to the high 80s.


Who makes us the most tax?

Timbuktu #
Alexandria #
Bure
Gao
Cape *
Kongo
Cairo
Dendi %
Benguela *
Segu
Bambuk
Constantine %
Borno
Jenne
Benin
Bourbon *
Futa Jallon
Gonder %
Delta
Luanda *



* - former colony
# - Center of Trade
% - I remember this province benefiting from Agricultural Revolution. Dendi and Constantine specifically got this event twice.

There is a big drop off from the top two.


Who are my top 20 production kings:

I have ten gold provinces. They will obviously be all top ten, so I eliminate them. What are my top 20 non-gold provinces for production:


Timbuktu (Salt) *
Gobir (Salt)
Aures (Iron) *
Damagaram (Salt)
Tadimekket (Salt)
Awsa (Salt)
Kanem (Wool) *
Taodeni (Salt)#
Azawadd (Salt)#
Sinai (Salt)
Gao (Grain) *
Futa Kallon (Ivory) *
Suakin (Slaves)
Cayor (Slaves)
Sierra Leone (Slaves) #
Wolof (Slaves)
Ndongo (Slaves)
Zanzibar (Slaves)
Massawa (Slaves)
Gabon (Slaves) #
* - There is a manufactory in this province driving up the production value significantly.
# - A former colony


This is the problem with an African nation. Not a diverse economy at all.


Who gives me more than 1000 manpower?

Alexandria (3020)
Timbuktu (1775)
Wasuju (1472)
Kano (1214)
Kongo (1154)
Cairo (1015)


And that’s it. All but one of these are grain provinces. The next highest is at 698, so there is a big dropoff after 1000.

[Abe Sargent]

200 Year Review Continued

I decide to enact a Provincial Court System in Alexandria, which will reduce revolts there for the rest of the game.

I order Gonder to Promote Land Enclosure

Mali is our top culture but al Misr Arabic has moved into #2.

Alexandria is the most valuable COT in the world right now. Timbuktu is #6.

We are currently trying to establish a monopoly in Acadia and have 3 there right now with two merchants on the way.


The current value of trade goods from most to least:

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

Slaves have really jumped. Grain has fallen.


There is a lot of fun stuff there. From economics to military to more, things are popping. I think you could call us the most powerful nation in the world, overall, although not the most powerful in every area, obviously. In tech, for example, we are back. In things like military and navy and economy and infrastructure, we are doing pretty well.



EDIT - Hmmm, I thought this last section was bigger, or else I would not have split them into two posts. I wrote it, and then figured it might read too clunky, but that was not the case. Ah well.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Plans Begin

July 15 - GN Expands

Oct 3 - We have a slave uprising in Bourbon, which was put down, but the revolt risk there is increased by 1.

Dec 7 - I order a courthouse in Kongo

Jan 1, 1603 - I offer Adal an alliance for the third time. Once again, they accept

Mar 1 - We have a monopoly in Acadia

We send merchants to a COT named Mixtec where just Venice has merchants, and they have a monopoly. I want to break that.

Adal rejects our vassalization offer.

Mar 5 - Adal breaks their alliance with us

That was your third chance

May 7 - GN expands

June 23 - We complete our task to build a fort and the next is to build a Fine Arts Academy in Bure. Not happening. FAAs suck, they are only useful for helping your stability, which I already have.

July 13 - Morocco broke their alliance with us. Well then. After I went to the battle for them. Ah well.

I send a gift to Algiers.

Aug 21 - I send another

Oct 2 - Monopoly in Mixtec

Nov 22 - At some point in time, The Timurids put a colony in North Madagascar.

Jan 5, 1604 0 I can hope that Boina, the Timurid’s province, is killed by natives. It is not growing except through sending people, because of native aggressiveness, tropical (which we don‘t suffer from) and such.

Look, I don’t give two shakes what you do in your own continents. But stay off mine!

Jan 28 - I send the Timurids an insult.

Feb 23 - We gain a level 1 fort in Roggeveld through an event

The Timurids also have Socotra.

Is it worth going to war for just these two provinces? I think so.

Apr 16 - GN is now a full province


Greater Namaquala - 5024 slave traders make 10.55 ducats here. I order a marketplace built here.

I order a wall in Cape

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Plans Changed


July 29 - Persia grants me military access

Sept 20 - Rebellion in Taka

Sept 29 - We win

I order a marketplace in Taka and Berber

I establish a Provincial Court System in Kongo

Feb 1 = Production tech Increase. Azawadd is now a core

Mar 15 - Rebellion in Cairo

Apr 1 - Taodeni is now a core

Apr 2 -We lose in Cairo

May 1 - I get am event 0 People Sampling New Religions.

Let Them - Tajura gains Heresy for ten years
Reverse Course - Narrowminded gains one

I choose to let them

May 12 - Another army loses in Cairo. (It’s a big rebel force)

June 2 - We win in Cairo this time

Oct 8 - I send another insult to the Timurids

Nov 1 - Nupe and Bauchi are now cores

Jan 15, 1606 - Rebels in Berber

Jan 25 - Timurids tried to attack the natives in their province at Boina and failed. The natives rose up and burned their colony.

Mar 13 - We win in Berber

I order colonists to Boina

I withdraw my plans for war. The Timurids don’t know how close I came. My entire fleet is at the Arabian peninsula with 13000 of my best troops and a general ready to land on one of their COTs while other transport fleets were ready to ferry troops to Socotra and Boina

Apr 1 - Worodugu is now a core

Oct 19 - Colonization at Boina established

Dec 12 - Fortification Upgrade in Bagirmi

Jan 1 - 1607 - One of our level 5 Production Tech guys passes today.

Jus for fun I hire the level 6 Navigator who increases your colonial range guy. I want to see something.

Feb 2 - Let’s see how far away I can colonize, if I wanted too, with my new guy.

New Guinea? Nope, too far away.

How about the Indies at all? Yup? I can send colonists to provinces in SE Asia.

South America? Easy. South South America? Easy. West coast of S America? Nope, not that.

Mosquito in Latin America, south of Honduras? Yup. Every coastal province in North America north of Mosquito, every one, is taken. That includes deep in Canada. Remember, after salt, furs are the most expensive product right now.


I had been saving up some money for the war, so I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory in Cape Verde, since it has naval supplies

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - In a Circle

Apr 1 - Yatenga is now a core.

Apr 20 - Refinery complete in Bourbon. I order a fort built her.e

May 28 - Boina failed, but luckily, the natives did not rise up and destroy us. I send in more.

Jan 2, 1608 - Boina expands

Aug 9 - Boina expands

Oct 20 - Slaves in Boina

Nov 1 - We now have a monopoly in Fars

Jan 20 - 1609 - The Pope called for another crusade against the Ottomans

Mar 17 - Boina expandeth

Apr 20 - One of our generals died

June 13 - I send a gift to Algiers

June 29 - Fortification Upgrade in Azawadd

July 9 - I order a level two fort in Bourbon and Mahe

July 15 - Being bored, I fund two rounds of Patriot rebels in Socotra. Both were successful, and we were discovered both times

Aug 16 - They have won and are besieging Socotra

Nov 29 - Algiers accepts our RM offer

Feb 6, 1610 - Boina expands

Mar 4 - The rebels captured Socotra

Oct 18 - Algiers accepts an alliance

Nov 1 - Several provinces become cores - Harer, Zeila, Aswa, Tigre and Tajura

Dec 1 - Wagadugi is now a core

Jan 8, 1611 - Boina expands

Mar 1 - Our inflation reducer advisor has died. There is no one to replace him with.

May 1 - Lesser Namaquala is now a full province:


Lesser Namaquala - 1004 farmers make us 5.07 ducats annually. I order a fort built here, and in the other two new provinces here.


My next targets, after Boina, will be the two provinces north of Little Karoo and south of Delagoa Bay. Very tough areas, but I am sending troops down there to wipe out the natives and just put two colonies there to grow into.


Actually, I just might risk colonizing them long distance like I have with other provinces here. I have a 60% chance of taking even with the natives there on the first hit. The natives have been largely quiet this game, so perhaps they dialed back the frequency of attacks which makes sense seeing as how the new colonial system operates.

[Abe Sargent]

The Embarrassment of Muhammad II


May 2 - Slider time. We lose 15000 manpower when I choose quality again. This is where I want to be, all of my leaders now get +1 fire.

July 10 Fortification upgrade in Mandara

July 22 - Algiers breaks their alliance with us. Why am I not surprised

Dec 30 - Boina expands

Jan 14, 1612 - I get an event Fort Decays. I either lose my level two fort in Mecca or lose 100 ducats. I chose to lose the ducats since I want a bigger fort there, and that’s how much it costs to build.

Feb 23 - We get a nasty event - Muhammad II embarrasses the court. The Sultan has committed an absolute faux pas today in front of the court and a few foreign dignitaries. The repercussions of this will take years to repair.

Our stability drops by one.


Aug 1 - Stability increases. Borgu is now a core. See, when I bumped our stability back to full with an event previously, all of the research to increase the stability was saved so that when we went down again, we started, not from the beginning, but the point at which we stopped researching years ago.

As a result, our stability popped right back up after the event.

Oct 1 - Gvnment Tech Increase

Nov 11 - The Boina doth grow

Nov 14 - Fortification Enhancement in Wolof


Mar 24, 1613 - Agri Rev in Jenne

Apr 1 - Socotra went to Hedjaz and not me.

July 22 - Another fort decays event in Ife

Dec 2 - I order a level 2 fort in Cape Verde

Feb 12, 1614 - Rebels overflow from Kefa, the Adal captial in Gojjam and are assaulting our province. I order a garrison in Shoa into Gojjam

Mar 19 - We win in Gojjam

Mar 23 - Fortification Enhancement in Futa Jallon

July 8 - I cancel military access to Adal.

I dispatch colonists to both Transkei and Natal, the two coastal provinces between Delagoa Bay and the Karoos.

Sept 8 - Fortification Upgrade in Harer

Oct 1 - Gurma is now a core

Dec 5 - Transkei is now a colony

Jan 2, 1615 - I order Frontier Defences in Little Karoo.

Feb 2 - Colony established in Natal

If I grow these into provinces, then almost every land province in Africa that I own will be land connected.

Apr 4 - I order a Textile Manufactory in Ifat

May 4 - Transkei expands

Sept 1 - Boina is now a full province:


Boina - Situated in north Madagascar, the 9800 slave traders here make us 13.60 ducats annually. I order a market place here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Muhammad II - Gold and Insults


Feb 26, 1616 - Fortification Enhancement in Kilwa

Mar 16 - Epidemic in Suakin

May 20 - Transkei expands

June 13 - Slaves in Transkei

Jan 2, 1617 - We get an event - GOLD RUSH! We hit a massive deposit of gold. We gain some ducats and a bit of inflation.

Feb 1, 1617 - Naval Tech Increase. We get a level 2 trade tech guy in Cairo and I hire him.

We can now build early frigates

Mar 5 - Transkei expands

May 1 - Mahe gets Harvest Failure for a year. -5% production efficiency.

Mar 1, 1618 - Shoa is now a core

Mar 5 - Transkei expands.

May 1 - Pindinga is now a core

May 21 - Fortification Upgrade in Jenne

Oct 1 - Production Tech Increases

Nov 1 - We gain a level one fort in Wukari

Jan 5, 1619 - Transkei expandskei

Jun 15 - Revolt in Taka

July 2 - We win

July 25 - I order a level one fort in Boina

Aug 1 - Land Tech Increase

Dec 4 - Another Transkplosion

Dec 6 - We get a Diplomatic Insult event and solve it, instead of pushing it. It was against Najd, whose lands I have no intention to take over

Apr 1, 1620 - St. Helena is now a core

Apr 15 - We establish a monopoly in Kutch

June 10 - I get an event Explusion of Merchants. Our merchants have been too successful.

They Will Pay For This! Lose four merchants in Kutch, gain a Casus Belli on Sind

A Bribe will Help! Lose 50 ducats. I choose the latter.

June 24 - Rebellion in Nubia

Sept 28 - We win in Nubia

Nov 1 - For the final time, Transkei expands. We’ll let it grow into a colony and start working on Natal next.

Aug 23, 1621 - Fort Decays in Delta but I pays the money

Sept 3 - I get a level two land tech guy so I hires him.

Sept 27 - Natal expands

Jan 2, 1622 - I order a university in Alexandria

I order Cape Verde to experience Support Local Shipbuilding, which reduces build time for vessels but decreases taxes from there as well.

Mar 1 - Trade Tech Increases

Apr 1 - Transkei is a full fledged province


Transkei - 8001 slave traders make 11.88 ducats annually in this southern coastal province. Adjacent to Great Karoo in addition to Little and Natal. I order a marketplace here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Death of Muhammad II


May 14 - Fortification Upgrade in Katsina

Aug 28 - Natal expands

Sept 12 - Natal will be a grain province

Jan 4, 1623 - Revolt in taka

Jan 19 - Defeated

Apr 1 - I order a level one fort in Transkei

July 29 - Natal again expands

Jan 9 - 1624 - I order a level two fort in Ifat

July 12 - Natal expandeth

Mar 1, 1625 - Cores gained on the six provinces we took in the second Mamluk war

May 30 - Natal expands

July 31 - Ibrim gains heresy for 10 years, similar to the event I had previously where people are sampling new religions.

Jan 19,1626 - Mahe becomes Shiite

Apr 29 - The Natal will be Expanding Today

It is now a full province:


Natal: 5806 farmers make us 4.82 ducats annually. It is south of Delagoa Bay and north of Transkei. I order a fort here.



There are no more coastal unclaimed provinces on the continent of Africa. However, there is one more coastal province in Madagascar, so our next job is to take Menabe, and then there will be no where else for any colonial power to sent down their boats.


July 1 - Govnment Tech Increase. We can now build Customs House

I order Customs Houses in the following places:

Gao
Timbuktu
Dendi
Massina
Bambuk
Bure
Futa Jallon
Gabu
Kumasi
Benin
Zamfara
Kano
Borno
Kanem
Aures
Kabylia
Constantine
Elta
Cairo
Gonder
Zimbabwe
Inhambane
Bourbon
Delagoa Bay
Little Karoo
Great Karoo
Cape
Roggeveld
Benguela
Kisarna
Kongo
Luanda
The Canarias
Brakna
Segu
Tadimekket
Grain Coast


Which is a lot.


Sept 1 - Yola is now a core

Dec 1 - Production Tech Increase

Apr 15, 1627 - Our king died. Tunisia is no longer in a persona union with us. Meet our great new king, Musa I, Admin 8, Military 8, Diplomacy 8. May he rule as long as his father.

I send a gift to Tunisia.

I don’t want to lose them as an ally.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Musa I Begins

July 17 - Another Fort Decay event, and I choose to pay for it again essentially.

July 26 - Heresy in Tajura

Mar 2, 1628 - After sending a bunch of gifts, we have maxed our relations with Tunisia.

Apr 28 - Slider time. Hmm, what do I want this time? I move towards Aristocracy and we get 5 army tradition from having nobles lead our army.

Royal Marriage with Tunisia

Apr 30 - I get military reform:

Only Reform the Army - Innovative and Quality gain 1. Ducats get invested in army tech
Only Reform the Navy - Same gains. Ducats in naval tech
Reform Both -Same gains. Some ducats in each, but not as much.

I choose army.

We now have maxed quality.


Dec 13 - Epidemic in Bauchi

Jan 2, 1630 - I send the first of colonists to Menabe.

July 15 - I order a university in Segu

Nov 10 - I order colonists to Butana, a no native settlement adjacent to taka, Gonder, Berner. And Gojjam.

Jan 26, 1631 - Colony set up in Butana

Feb 6, Fortification upgrade in Zeila

Mar 10 - I have killed all of the natives in Fazughli and colonists are dispatched.

May 2 - We set up a colony in Menabe

May 26 - We establish a colony in Fazughli

June 1 - Naval Tech Increase, we can now build shipyards

I order one in Cape Verde

Dec 17 - Another GOLD RUSH! Event

Apr 1, 1632 - Land Tech Increase

Aug 31 - Menabe expands

Nov 12 - RM with Tripoli

June 4, 1633 - Algiers rejects our RM proposal

Dec 29 - Menabe expands

Jan 22 - 1634 - I get an event about Naval Improvements and I choose to take them. We will get extra naval investment for a year or so.

Feb 21 - Grain in Menabe

Mar 22 - Tunisia rejects a vassalization offer.

Apr 22 - Gift to Tunisia

June 17 - Tunisia again rejects vassalization

July 21 - Gift again

Aug 20 Got the Military Reform again, and I push the army.

Aug 24 - Tunisia rejects us once more

[Abe Sargent]

A Choice for a New Sultan


Sept 1 - Govnment Tech Increases again, New Idea


Well, we are beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel until we get enough tech to get some of the top ideas.


Bureaucracy - +5% taxes, but I’m not sure we need more money.

Unam Sanctum - The replacement for Deus Vult (which is not in play for all countries) allows me to attack heretics without loss. That means I can attack Shiites. Not many Shiite countries out there.

National Trade Policy - Trade Efficiency - With many monopolies around the world, this might net me more money than Bureaucracy. Again, not sure I need the extra cash.

Church Attendance Duty - Stab Cost -33%. When I go down in stability, it gets rough for a bigger country like myself to get it back up, and this will really help with that.

Divine Supremacy -+0.5 missionaries annually. I am currently at -0.75 annually, because we are so innovative. If we can find a few other ways to pump our annual missionaries (such as taking Jerusalem), then we can start making missionaries. That’d be great. Until then, this is a wasted Idea, however.

Grand Navy = +100% naval force limits, basically allowing me to safely double the size of my navy because right now I am at the max. How needed is this, however?

As you can see, crap right now. Get my trade up to 30 and I can get Scientific Revolution. Get some up to 53 and I can take Liberte, egalite, fraternite or Revolution and Counter-Revolution.

The next Idea is at Gvnment 30. No need to save my Idea. Might as well use it on something, no matter how icky.

Unless, say, I want TWO ideas at 30. Scientific Revolution and Smithian Economics. Yeah, I’m not taking anything in this go around.

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Musa I - Advantages Taken and Preparations Made

Nov 29 - Gift to Tunisia

Dec 1 - Delagoa Bay is now a core

Apr 1, 1635 - Production Tech Increase

Apr 19 - Grain in Butana

Apr 27 - Manabe expands

May 3 - Tunisia accepts our vassalization offer.

July 7 - The Ottomans sent us an insult, so for a year, we can attack them because we have a temporary CB on them.

July 11 - Fazughli will be a grain province. I was hoping either Fazughli or Butana would have slaves, but oh well.

July 16 - University completed in Segu. Mission completed. The next one is to build a Naval Equipment Manufactory in St. Helena. I agree and order it built

I take a look at some stats. Can I fight the Ottomans successfully?

I’d like to take Gaza, Diamientia and Judea. Jerusalem is not Africa, but like Mecca, it is valuable to my religion. The other two are in or adjacent to the Sinai Peninsula, so they count too.

Let’s look:

The Ottoman Allies: Bosnia, Serbia, Golden Horde, Qara Koyunlu, Timurid Empire

Ours: Tripoli and Tunisia. Not much there. Advantage Ottomans.

Their Land Tech - 23. Ours - 24. Not much of an advantage for us.

Ottoman Armies - 51000 infantry, 55000 cavalry.

Us - 72569 infantry, 24806 cavalry. Now, those numbers go up with 100% military maintenance. By totals, we are just 8000 down.

Naval - We have 27 big ships and 49 ships total. They have no Big ships, no small ships, 48 galleys and 9 transports for 57 ships total. That’s an advantage for us.


July 17 - I cancel military access.


In order to get ready, I’d need to do the following - build some ships and separate my navies into a Red Sea navy and a Mediterranean navy.

I’d need to build a bunch of cavalry.

I’d need to prepare several armies.

I might very well lose. They have good allies and good army, but they are spread out, and I believe, easy to hit quickly in a blitzkreig war that catches them off balance. It’s been forever since I’ve had a war, let’s have a glorious one!


I order 6000 charge cavalry built in Nile and Cairo.

I order some Muslim Archer Cavalry in Kabylia and Constanine and some cannons prepared in Delta.

I begin to move my armies around. I want a strong army in Mecca and Sinai at the beginning of the war. Mecca needs to be a siege army and Sinai needs to be a smash one.


Dec 17 - I jack up military maintenance

Feb 1, 1636 - Trade Tech Increase

June 11 - I am largely ready. I am waiting for some ships to arrive, and then I will DOW The Ottomans.

July 5 - I offer Morocco an alliance.

July 6 - They accept.

[Abe Sargent]

The Ottoman-Songhai War - The Eve Before

July 7 - I declare war against the Ottomans

Our stability drops one.




Now, let’s pause for a moment.

In Mecca, I have 9000 infantry and 2000 artillery. They are being ordered to Medina to attack the minor Ottoman defenders here. After crushing the defense, they will take Medina, and then move through Najd provinces to get to Al Hasa, and attack and take it. I am naming this army the Arabian Army, just to keep things easy.

In Sinai, I have 6000 cavalry and 5000 infantry. This unit is ordered into Gaza, and from thence into the four other Ottoman provinces in the area, with the intent of breaking defenders. Not only is this army;s job to take out defenders, but it also will be used to keep coutner-attackers from hitting provinces we capture. Smash Army named.

In Delta I have my Siege army, with 4000 artillery and 6000 infantry. They are being ordered into adjacent Diamientia to take it.

3000 cavalry, 2000 artillery and 6000 infantry are in Cairo, and I call this army our Matilda army. It is ordered into Sinai, and from thence into Gaza and points distant. It can be used to smash defenders or to take provinces, as we have need.

In the Sea of Crete, in a large fleet, I have 5000 cavalry, 6000 infantry and 2000 artillery which will be launched into Antalya, where they will operate alone, led my our Sultan. They are to siege Antalya and be a thorn in the Ottoman side to keep them out of the Middle East. If this army loses, but keeps them occupied while we win, then that’s a win as far as I am concerned. This is named the Turkish army.

I have an additional 21000 troops iun Asyut and Nile to either serve as defenders in case the Ottomans cross the Mediterrean or to be sent as backup armies to Ottoman territories as I have need.

I have 15 of my big ships in the Sea of Crete. 2 more are on the way after being built in Cape Verde.

I have only 6 in the Gulf of Suez. 6 more are a few sea zones away in the Coast of Pepper by Mogadishu, and I couldn’t get them here in time. I may lose here as a result.

I will be using this navy to harass other forces from getting into my rear flank.

Okay, here we go.

[Abe Sargent]

The Ottoman-Songhai War - Equilibrium


July 7 - Tripoli dishonours our alliance but Morocco and Tunisia are in. All of their allies are in.

July 11 - Battle in the Gulf of Suez

July 18 - Smash army arrives in Gaza. I see an army in Judea and order them ion.

July 21 - Siege Army arrives in Diamientia.

July 26 - Turkish army arrives in Antalya.

Aug 15 - We win in Medina and begin a siege

Battle in Gaza as the Turks protest our presence

Aug 20 - I order 7000 troops to disembark in south Greece and besiege some Ottoman armies.

Aug 26 - Menabe expands

Sept 1 - We win in Gaza

It took two of my armies to win here, so I hold. 15000 more Ottomans are moving towards me, so they were stacked here.

Sept 11 - We assault and capture Diamienta.

We have begun the siege of Morea.

We are trouncing the Ottomans in the Gulf of Suez.

Sept 22 - We lose a Big Ship in the Gulf of Suez.

Sept 30 - 15000 Ottomans arrive in Gaza

Oct 11 - We win in the Gulf of Suez. We killed 25 Ottoman galleys

Oct 15 - We win in Gaza

Nov 6 - I land our Siege army in Rhodes, since it was going nowhere in the Middle east due to strong armies there. I am sending my reserve troops into the gap while my other armies rest and reuperate. I retreated from Gaza with my worst damaged troops. I recruit a general for my troops as well.

I;m leaving my fleet ion the Sea of Crete in case Antalya is assaulted, because they have moved armies close by. There are move than enough troops to oust us if they all attack.

Nov 18 - Our siege army has assaulted and taken Rhodes.

I order them back to the boats. If Antalya is assaulted while they are there, they can now use Rhodes as a fallback.

Nov 21 - 7000 troops have begun to march to Antalya. All infantry. I am ready.

Nov 26 - More troops are marching towards un in Antalya. Looks like they mean business.

Dec8 - I order my Siege Army to disembark in Thrace, their capital. Let’s see if this scares them!

Qara Koyunlu has 8000 troops heading towards our Medina army. I was hoping they’d be untouched.

Dec 21 - A large Ottoman army arrives in Antalya. Large. 16000 large.

Dec 22 - Battle in Gaza.

Dec 25 - We win in Gaza

Dec 27 - We land in Thrace

Dec 28 - Actually, Qara Koyunlu is coming to Sinai where I have my recuperating armies, but won’t arrive until early Feb.

Jan 2, 1637 - More troops arrive in Antalya, but we are winning. We arrive in Judea with a major army 11,500 big. I now see how many troops they have here and its incredible. 27000 troops are in Hawran. Another 11000 are fleeing Gaza after being defeated again. I need more troops.

I order all of my reserves to push forward. I need a bit more battlescore to take Diamientia in peace negotiations. There are way too many troops here to hold off forever. Almost 40% of their military might is right here in these provinces, and that’s crazy.

Jan 3 - Algiers agrees to give us military access so I can bring my forces from Constantine and Kabylia forward. It will take them a while to get here, but when they are, we should be set.

Jan 11 - We were winning in Antalya, but they kept committing more and more forces, around 28000, now we are losing.

Jan 20 - We lose in Antalya


Jan 21 - We capture Morea.

Jan 23 - We lose in Judea

[Abe Sargent]

The Ottoman-Songhai War - A Push Forward


I need to jack up my warscore, because this losing is not helping.

I send back some of my troops in Gaza that are damaged and order 7000 African soldiers, not that good, to enter the gap.

I need to find an advantage again.

I order all five spies we have to fund patriot rebels in Judea. One fails, two are discovered, and 20000 rebels are now there attacking the Ottomans.

That should help us buy some time.

Jan 28 - We win in Achaea and begin a siege here in Greece,

Jan 29 - They are engaging us in Thrace.

Feb 3 - Qara Koyunlu troops arrive in Sinai where we meet them with our convalescing army.

Feb 4 - Our Turkish army arrives at captured Rhodes. I order them to board our fleet.

I order an assault on Gaza

Feb 6 - We win in Thrace.

Feb 14 - We win in Sinai

Feb 19 - I order our Turkish fleet to disembark in Naxos for more sieging.

We lost the assault on Gaza.

Mar 5 - We arrive in Naxos. Turks are marching towards Rhodes to recapture it.

More Ottomans bound for Gaza

Mar 10 - They assault and capture Rhodes, just like we did.

Apr 8 - Another assault on Gaza by them

Apr 24 - Another 120000 arrives in Gaza

I need these troops from N Africa.

We can now take Diamientia in peace. I want to see if I can get more, however.

Apr 29 - I send a gift to Iraq

May 7 - We are losing badly in Gaza. They literally have 20000 cavalry and 3500 infantry left and it is killing us. I order a retreat into Sinai. We lose our position at Gaza for now

May 15 - Qara Koyunlu’s 8000 fresh troops arrive in Sinai, and to prevent serious problems, I give them 50 gold for peace, which they accept. This drops my warscore with the Ottomans by one, since one point was won when we defeated these allies, but its worth it now.

May 19 - I leave a force of 9300 in Diamientia to defend from the approaching Ottomans.

May 26 - We lose in Thrace with my siege army but I had sent my fleet there for them to load onto

May 28 - We capture Naxos

We are losing badly in Diamientia.

June 1 - Iraq agrees to give us military access. I’ll use this to try and outflank the Ottomans in the Mid East

I detach a sieging unit from my convalescing troops in Sinai and send them into Iraqi territory to see what they can see.

Our 14000 strong Constantine army has made it to Libya and is getting very close.

June 10 - Whew. We won in Diamiantia. Very close.

June 13 - Zazzau is now Shiite

My Siege Army is now onboard our fleet and I order them back to Delta to reconstruct themselves

June 21 - After a really, really long time, we have captured Medina. I order my Arabioan forces on as promised to Al Hasa.

July 1 - We win in the Gulf of Suez

July 2 - We win a skirmish in Athens with my Turkish Army

A major army in enroute which we will not be able to survive. I order my fleet over

I try to win the battle in Athens by ordering my sieging army in Achaea into Athens

Aug 1 - We manage to pull through in Athens

My Constantine army has arrived in Sinai and is moving to Gaza



Aug 7 - Major battle between the core Ottoman forces here and my fresh Constantine army. I order reinforcements. This could be the battle that decides the war. Break my army and we will likley fall. Stand, and we can possibly push.

Aug 13 0 Rebellion in Kargah

[Abe Sargent]

The Ottoman-Songhai War - Endings...of a Sort


Aug 17 - We win in Gaza

Another Ottoman army in enroute

Aug 31 -0 Another victory in Gaza

Sept 4 - After ordering an assault, we capture Gaza.

I order the Gaza troops into Judea. I order my other N Africa army into Gaza to plug the hole

I can take Gaza and Diamientia if I want, but I need to push and get Judea as well.

Sept 5 - I offer White peace to the Timurids and they accept.

I am considering dropping my siege of Athens and loading up in my navy. I’ll hold for now, but peops is coming. I order 4 units to retreat and hope I can drop them off and come back before we are assaulted. If not, I can use Naxos as a fall back.

Sept 9 - I combine my forces in Gaza into one giant army and order them to Al Karak. That is where two of the defeated Ottoman armies are heading, and I want to push them

Sept 21 - My Arabian army arrives in Al Hasa, defeats the defending 1000 troops, and begins the siege

I have 4000 Bosnian troops coming into Athens, so I want to send out a missive to them. However, as they are the vassal of the Ottomans, I cannot make peace with them. Besides, I think I can beat them easily.

I fund patriots in Al Karak to keep the Ottomans busy until I arrive, but just 2000 arrive. Barely enough to register.

Sept 22 - The Golden Horde rejects a white peace offer.

Sept 26 - Fleet loaded with some troops so order them to quickly unload and head back to the Aegean.

Oct 5 - Our fleet docked at Delta and will be heading back now. All of the adjacent Ottoman troops are moving to Athens, so I need an evacuation plan for my men.

Oct 7 - Al Karak is reinforced with troops just a couple of days before my arrival, so I force my men back.

I order some troops into Badiyat Ash Sham, a rear Ottoman province. If I can pull the Ottomans into this from the main ME provinces, I might be able to force through an army.

Oct 14 - Instead of waiting for these 25000 troops to bear down on me, I just order my 13 regiments in Athens to board now. We won’t be out before the first ones arrive, however. Poor timing.

Oct 16 - All of my foes are marching to Gaza except the one army in Hawran

I merge my armies in Gaza into a 29,000 large sized unit. This is going to be huge.

Oct 24 - We lose to rebels in Kargah

Nov 1 - We lose in Athens

I order 12000 troops in Tabouk to enter Al Karak

Nov 20 - They arrive in Gaza. A small unti of 8000 arrives and begins a siege in Badiyat Ash Sham

Nov 23 - We win in Kargah

Nov 30 - The last of the Ottoman troops in the Mid East have arrived in Gaza. My 12000 arrives in Al Karak.

Dec 5 - After an assault, we have captured Al Karak. I order them to move to Judea

Dec 15 - My Siege Army has arrived in the Palestinian Coast and I order my troops to unload in Judea. With two armies arriving there, I hope to take it soon.

Dec 20 - We win in Gaza. They lost a lot of troops. Many are retreating to Diamientia, one to Judea. .I order my forces to split and follow one group into Diamientia where the rest remain as my stopgap against incursion.

Dec 24 - Menabe expands

Dec 26 -- They recapture Naxos. I have an army in Judea.

Dec 29 - Both are now here.

Jan 1, 1638 - We win in Diamientia. One Ottoman army literally destroyed

Jan 2 - Judea falls.

I order another army to board our ship.

Jan 9 - We win in Diamientia again.

Jan 23 0 I order my army to unload in Rhodes again.

I have the remannts of one army in Cairo fighting my army.

Jan 28 - The third army fleeing Gaza arrives in Judea

Jan 30 -We win in Cairo. They flee to Alexandria and I give chase

Jan 31 - The siege of Rhodes has begun

Feb 1 - Stability increase. We win in Judea. I order my troops to follow them into Hawran

Feb 12 - We capture Badiyat Ash Sham

Feb 18 - We capture Rhodes after a quick assault.

So we have Rhodes, Morea under siege, Diamientia, Gaza, Badiyat Ash Sham, Judea, Al Karak, and Medina, plus some naval domination and finally busting through the Ottoman forces in the Mid East. They cannot land an army to my rear because of my awesome fleet.

It is time for peace negotiations. I just want Judea, Gaza and Diamientia and that;s it. This is really under the battlescore. It is time for peace. If they refuse, I’ll push them, and take Medina too, so I can biuld a land path to Mecca, otherwise I’m good.

They reluctantly accept peace under those conditions.

[Abe Sargent]

I wondered why they accepted, because often they are stubborn about these things, so I save the game and enter as the Ottomans. They had no manpower left to refill their troops, whereas I still had about 12k in the bank. Makes sense. I just wish I had pushed for Medina now.


Let’s look at our new provinces:

Diamientia - 10724 al Misr Arabic Sunni fisherman make us 16.66 ducats annually. This coastal province is adjacent to Delta, Cairo, Sinai and Gaza. It has a workshop, marketplace, temple and courthouse. I had a boundary dispute event earlier and this is a core of ours already. I order a Constable here.

Gaza - 8693 Sunni al Misr Arabic salt traders make us 21.50 ducats annually. This port is adjacent to Judea, Sinai, Diamientia and Iraq plus the Ottomans in other provinces. It comes with the same for buildings as above. I order a level 2 fort built here.

Judea - The prize of the war. 19716 al Misr Arabic Sunni farmers make us 15.44 ducats annually. It comes with the same four provinces, and is only adjacnt to us in Gaza. I order a level two fort here.

All in all, a successful war. Good job all.

We now have The Conquest of Jerusalem which gives us half a missionary annually and extra prestige annually. I will now take Divine Supremacy a National Idea, which will give us another half annually. That makes up the -0.75 we make for being really innovative, so we can get one missionary every four years and use them to start fixing our provinces permanently.

I order us to adopt the Islamic Center of Scholarly. Our build cost increase by 8 pecent, but our revolt risk nationally drops and our Missionary chance increases.


I begin to divide and redivide my troops. Some are heading back to Constantine. Some are heading back to Mamluk territory. One smaller army is returing back to the border between the ex Ethiopian territory and the ex Swahili territory,

[Abe Sargent]

The Reign of Musa I - Stabilizing Post-Conflict

Feb 20 - I dispatch colonists to Abomey, the last unclaimed province in the old Songhai area

Feb 22 - Morocco breaks their alliance with us. I figured that would happen once we were at peace

Mar 9 - Colonization attempt fails. I send in another

Mar 26 - It fails too. We had a 55% chance of taking. Instead of sending in more, I hold up for a bit.

May 25 - I get an Explusion of Merchants event and just pay the 50 ducats.

Durin gthe war, Venice established a COT in Crete and it may have lowered the value of Alexandria a bit.

June 11 - I drop an army back off at Arguin

July 14 - Residual war exhaustion causes a rebelion in Kilwa.

Sept 11 - An army arrives back at Constantine

Oct 3 - Tripoli rejoins our alliance

Oct 24 - Another army arrives in The Canarias

Dec 22 - We lost against rebels in Kilwa

Feb 20, 1639 - I order a level 2 fort in Diamientia,

Mar 30 - We crush the rebels in Kilwa

Apr 23 - Menabe expands and I send more colonists

Aug 10 - My army has been rebuilt and reset so I order my troop maintenance down to 50%.

Sept 16 - I order Land Enclosures for Judea

My armies -

10000 in Aures
11000 in Constantine
11000 in The Canarias
13000 in Arguin
11000 in Kongo
6000 in Bagamoyo
8000 in Awsa
11000 in Mecca
6000 in Suakin
10000 in Alexandria
12000 in Judea
11000 in Gaza
9000 in Diamientia.

That gives us the third largest land army in the world (after France and Castille, with Briitain and Ming rounding the top five.) Sweden has formed Scandinavia and is at 6, Ottomans at 7, Golden Horde, Venice, Timurids, Muscowy, Japan and Khandesh in order through the first page.


That’s 129,000 total troops in case you are interested.


Nov 11 - Menabe expands as is now a full province:

Menabe - In the south western coast of Madagascar lies Menabe, a farmign community of 9733 people who make us 5.44 ducats annually. I order a fort here.


And that is the final African coastal province we can see (there is an island east of Bourbon that I failed to explore when I had Quest for the New World).



With no European powers in Africa, and no more coastal provinces in Africa left, we have completed the 5th objective.

[Abe Sargent]

Now that I have finished my werewolf game, which was very time intensive, I will get back to this and finish it.

[Abe Sargent]

Dec 11 - The Ottomans are now at war with Muscowy, Hesse and Polotsk.

Dec 21 - I do not want the Ottomans as forever enemies, so I proclaim a guarantee on them. The first of several steps to bounce back our relations.

Feb 25, 1640 - I order Customs Houses in Judea and Diamientia

Apr 15 - I get another Military Reform event and choose the army. I need the next level in Land Tech as soon as possible, and I am saving up money for when I do. Then I get level 3 forts.

June 4 - One of the several generals we recruited has died.

July 17 - I Pass the Anti-Piracy Act. We cannot make pirates. Our repution limit (the amount of badboy you can accumulate before starting a continental war with everyone against you) descreases, and our prestige will increase by 1 annually.

July 19 - We complete a Naval Equipment Manufactory in St. Helena. I order a level two fort built there.

That completes this mission. Our next mission is to build a Fine Arts Academy in Ndongo, but I don’t build those, they suck.

I cancel it and the next mission is to build a University in Sofala. Doable.

Aug 1 - Production Tech Increase

Aug 20 - Fort Decays event in Constantine and I pay to keep it.

Oct 14 - Another general dies

Nov 1 - We gain in Land Tech. Awesome.

I order level 3 forts in:

The Canarias
Cape Verde
Alexandria
Gaza
Arguin


And level 2 in Taodeni and Kongo.

Nov 15 - Gift to the Ottomans and Tripoli

Dec 22 - Gift to Venice

Jan 25, 1641 - Gift to Venice

Feb 28 - I order a Constable in Judea and a level 3 fort in Diamientia and Sinai and a level 2 fort in Aures

May 1 - I send a colonist to Abomey

May 18 - This time it takes and more are dispatched

May 30 - I get a great leader event for my Treasurer. I can choose:

Implement National Debt Funding Plan - Gain some ducats, -10% interest for four months
Implement Tax Reform - +10% National tax for four months.


I choose the first

I jack down my money making over the next few months to maximize the reduction.


June 3 - Abomey expands

June 19 - Expansion again

July 5 - Expansion again

July 24 - Ivory in Abomey

Aug 18 - Abomey expandeth

Sept 5 - We get an event - Engineers are Busy and gain a level three fort in Katsina

Jan 3, 1642 - I order level 3 forts in several places: Mecca, Cairo, and Taodeni

I order level two forts in Gao and Timbuktu. I don’t think anyone would attack that deep, but just in case

Apr 1 - We get our first missionary. I send it to Kongo. This is why I built its fort and stationed 11000 troops here. Just in case they get pissed off at my actions.

June 19 - Gift to Ottomans

Jul 1 - Govnemtn and Naval Tech gains. We can now build Merchantmen.

July 18 - Abomey expands

Dec 1 - Damaraland is now a core

Jan 1, 1643 - Level 3 fort in Bourbon and St. Helena

And a marketplace in Cape Verde

Feb 2 - Gifts to the Ottomans and Venice

May 1 - Lesser Namaquala is now a core

June 18 - Abomey expands

Aug 5 - Gifts to Venice and Ottomans

Dec 3 - Gift to Venice

Dec 18 - Venice wants us to open our markets so that they can trade in it. I agree

We can now trade in Venice’s COT and them in ours.

I order all five of our merchants to Venice and order that it be a top priority to establish trade here into we are getting a monopoly or close to it.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1644 - I order a shipyard built in Zeila. Much like Cape Verde is our shipbuilding province in the east, this will be ours in the west. I order a level 3 fort in Judea.


Feb 10 - Venice gives us military access. Perfect. I have zero desire to ever be at war with Venice, but they are so close. Venice has basically captured all of Italy, including Sicily, and I want peace with them, no question. Now I can use their provinces as bases against any future wars with the Ottomans (in case they DOW me) and such, plus it makes it much harder for us to go to war.

Feb 15 - Ibrim changes to Shiite

April 1 - Hello Nasr Toure. A level 5 treasurer that just appeared in Segu. I can drop two possible advisors for him. I have a level 5 Production tech guy who will be around for very little time, since he had 69 years on the job. I also have a level 2 trade tech guy I can dump for the level 5 guy. I drop the experienced and aged 5 star production guy for the five star trade tech guy, because it’s a good long term move.

Apr 18 - The Ottomans, still at war with Russian powers. Know what this is a good time for? Rebellions.

I order patriot rebels in Hawran and Al Karak. We were caught so I send a gift to make up for it.

May 21 - Abomey expandey

July 2 - I get the People Sambling New Religions event again and choose Heresy in Libya for ten years.

July 4 - Then two days later, I get another negative event - Political Crisis. I can choose for us to lose one stability or I gain three badboy. I choose the later since I currently have a clean reputation.

July 15 - 17000 Ottoman troops ended any thoughts of rebellion.

Aug 20 - I just noticed that in the old Ottoman provinces I can build Spahi Cavalry. Later, after I am looking for my next project, I am going to upgrade my cavalry.

Sept 3 - Gift to Ottomans

Nov 14 - And already our Nasr Toure gets a great work published. I order that his efforts will be known worldwide, and ou prestige jumps and we get some extra trade tech investment for a while.


Dec 10 - We establish a monopoly in Venezia. Next target, Liguria

Apr 18, 1645 - Abomey expands and is now a full province.


Abomey - Adjacent to Oyo, Borgu, Gurma, Wagadugi, Kumasi, Godl Coast and Whydah stands the 6407 ivory traders of Abomey. They make us 9.97 ducats annually.


May 8 - Ottomans are now at peace. I send a gift.

May 18 - I have good prestige and great diplomacy right now. Perfect time to try and annex Tunisia.

They accept.


Tunis - 322642 Maghreb Arab Sunnis farmers make us 18,26 ducats annually. This port is next to Constantine and Gabes and is loaded. It has a university, workshop, temple, and courthouse. I order a marketplace built here.

Gabes - South of Tunis is Gabes, another port city. 14154 Sunni Maghreb Arab farmers make us 6.89 ducats annually. It is next to Tripoli and gives us a land connection with our only ally. It comes with a temple, workshop and courthouse. I order a level 3 fort here.

June 1 - The remaining five provinces of the Mamluks which we took in annexation are now cores (Nile, Cairo, Nubia, Taka and Berber)

Slider Time! We have gone decentralized in a couple of events and I want to move us back. We have a pretender regiment rise up way down south in Transkei.

[Abe Sargent]

June 26 - I have loaded up my 6000 troops in Suakin and am sailing them down to Transkei.

July 1 - We are now accepting al Misr Arabic as an integral part of our nation and culture.

July 9 - Gift to Ottomans

Sept 3 - Wow. Something I did not expect came today. An alliance offer from Venice. Very interesting.

I’d prefer Morocco as a forever ally, but we have had no major allies in a while. They have literally, and I mean literally, no allies. I accept, let’s see how this goes.

We have the 4th largest army in the world and they have the 8th. They have the largest navy in the world and we are at 7th (although we are 3rd in big ships).

Sept 13 - We defeat the pretender rebels in Transkei.

Dec 21 - Troops returned to Suakin

Jan 16, 1646 - Tripoli accepts vassalization after we explain the values of being our vassals.

Mar 4 - Revolt in Tunis

Mar 14 - Defeated

May 1 - Trade Tech increase

May 15 - Our great ruler died today. Say hello to his successor - Harangi II with Admin of 5, Diplo of 7 and Military of 4. Not that great, but he doesn’t outright suck.

May 21 - Constable in Tunis and nothing more in Gabes

May 27 - Kongo has converted. This means the province is no longer Kongolese but Malie as well as Sunni. Pop Growth arnd taxes are way up.

June 1 - Govnment Tech Increase. Kongolese is no longer an accepted culture.

I move the Kongo troops to Ndongo.

I order our next missionary to Ndongo.

Aug 18 - Algiers accepts a RW with us.

Aug 21 - We enter into one with Adal.

Adal is currently in a Regency Council. Perhaps they would like someone with a better handle on things to help them run their country?

Oct 12 - Revolts in Gabes of a Nationalist nature

Oct 15 - Which we put down.

Jan 10, 1647 - I order a Textile Manufactory in Tajura

June 4 - I am sending colonists to Butana and Fazughli to finish them off

June 9 - Adal enters into an alliance with us. Now I just need to keep them for a month and then we can offer annexation.

July 9 - I am not sure how many shots I get at this, but they have a Diplo of 3, we have a high prestige, and a good Diplo myself, plus maxed relations, and the requisite RM and alliance. I am told this is a maybe. Here we go. I offer them vassalization.

July 10 - They accept.

We get closer and closer to African unity. Every African nation is either our vassal or has been annexed except for Morocco and Algiers. That’s how close we are.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, I know I am just 12 years away from the 250 year review, but I want to take a look at the map, because the whole Scandinavia thing threw me. It’s 1647 - what is happening around the world?

Castille has not taken any Iberian provinces, odd because Galicia and Navarra are still running around.

France has solidified its gains. It has gained all of Eastern germany, plus it is engulfing the lowlands and I believe that soon they will all be French.

Scandinavia is the new hotness. They have a ton of mainland provinces including those in the old Lithuania Polotsk region and many in the Bohemian and Brandenburg regions.

Muscowy has shrunk a bit to Scandinavia and the Golden Horde

Venice has, as mentioned before, taken most of the traditional lines of Italy except for Malta and some provinces in the north and west, where they are French. They have not taken The Papal States province of Roma.

Khandesh has unifed most of India, but it seems that every time I look at the map, another power can say that before they get brushed aside.

Ming has lost some of its provinces. To revolters or to internal issues, I do not know. Khmer, Pegu, and more have split off. Brunei has grown and taken parts of Ajeh island and all of the old Malaccan provinces from Ming. When an island nations takes on China and wins, I‘m on their side! Yet, Brunei has lot a province on Borneo to Ming, another to revolters, and Makassar has rebelled successfully as well.

The British have arrived here as well. They have taken most of Ajeh Island.

Korea is getting swallowed up by Manchu.

In the Americas, wow.

Great Britain has colonized all the way to one province from the west coast in northern Mexico. They have the Deep South provinces, no deeper than one province in, all along the south US. They also took out the Incas, and have large spacious colonies in Brazil and Argentina.

Castille has all of the Eastern US and lower Canada except for a few provinces, all the way to Kansas in the south, and Michigan in the north. They also have Venezuela and some adjacent areas like Panama and the beginning of Columbia.

Portgual has medium sized colonies in south Brazil and another in Chile. They also took out the Zapotec and have all of their provinces in lower Mexico and much of Central America. Add a few Canadian provinces as well.

France has a lot of Canadian provinces, and then a few spread out provinces here and there but nothing too large or concentrated. They were late to the party.

Once the British Ajeh provinces become cores in 43 years, they can colonize the Indies at will. That’s going to be nasty. They just jumped around Africa and forced themselves into a nice little “colony”

As soon as they appear on my map, I intend to colonize Mauritus and Diego Garcia.

[Abe Sargent]

Aug 20 - Butana and Fazughli expand and our now full provinces.


Butana - South of Berber, north of Gojjam and west of Taka and Gonder lies the 1012 farmers making us 4.55 ducats annually. To its west lie several more unclaimed territories.

Laughlin - West of Gojjam and Adal’s Kefa lies the 1012 farmers making us 4.55 ducats annually. This province is also next to unclaimed lands.


I order level one forts in both since they are near-ish the action.

Oct 8 - Agri Rev in Nubia. I order a Workshop here.

Dec 1 - Greater Namaquala is now a core

Mar 12, 1648 - Venice has DOWd The Papal States and I join them. This is…tasty. But I know I cannot get troops there before Venice does. I’ll let them take Roma so that they can become Italy and we can have a stronger ally.

July 20 - Venice captured Roma

Aug 17 - I’m sorta just waiting for the war to end now.

Sept 11 - Still waiting and the papacy offers me a white peace. I take it. Who knows how long Venice will be ornery.

Sept 23 - Venice accepted peace for ducats. Not worth it.

Okay, I am about to crush my stability.

See, we have a Despotic Monarchy. If you have a despotic government form after 1700, your country goes through some mega hits in the game, as your people want freedom. I can change to:

Feudal Monarchy - I get extra land force limits (amount of troops per province before attrition sets in). Stab hit 4.
Noble Republic - Leeaders change every 8 years. Tolerance of Heathens and Heretics up one each. Stab hit 4. No RMs = no annexation
Administrative Monarchy - Production Efficiency +10%. Stab hit 1.
Absolute Monarchy - Troops Discipline up 5 percent. Stab hit 1
Theocracy - 10% missionary chance. No Royal Marriages = no annexation. Stab hit 4

We have one more option. I can, as a decision, choose for us to be an Empire. Stab hit 3. Gain 5 prestige temporarily and that’s it.

The obvious choice is Administrative Monarchy, and I make that decision.

Our stability drops one.


April 26, 1649 - Ndongo converts

Aug 11 - Major hit today. Constantine has converted to Shiite. Ouch.

Oct 14 - I am extending the 250 year in review to Jan 1, 1650, when our stability is supposed to rise again

Nov 1 NLD - Taqali, next to Fazughli and Butana

Nov 15 - Quality Ivory event triggers (+1 prestige)

Dec 1 - NLD Dar Nuba, west of Fazughli

Jan 1, 1650 - Stability increase - 250 year in review.

[Abe Sargent]

250 Years in Review


Our vassals - Adal and Tripoli

Our ally - Venice (and our vassals)

We are an Administrative Monarchy ruled by the adequate Harangi II, ADM 5,7,4. He has been ruling since May 1646.

The Empire option is now gone.

If our ruler had an Military of at least 5, I would have Adopted the Title of Khalifa. Hopefully that will happen someday.


We have 129 army regiments and 50 ships

We are 5th in Prestige. 13th best in Inflation (just 3.5%).

We still rock the income, and France is a distant second.

The highest land tech is 29, which includes France, and we are at 25. Same for naval, trade is 28 and 25, production is 29 and 27, and government is 31 and 27.

We have 136 provinces. But, be warned Britain, France and Castille all have over 100.

[Abe Sargent]

Biggest tax Revenue Provinces:

Alexandria
Timbuktu
Kongo
Cairo
Bure
Gao
Cape
Jenne
Dendi
Benguela
Bambuk
Segu
Delta
Borno
Bourbon
Benin
Judea
Futa Jallon
Gonder
Massina


See what happened once I converted and cultured Kongo? It is, taxwise, our best non-COT province. You’ll also note newer additions like Cairo and Judea on the list. Bambuk is the only animist province on the list, and it wil be my next missionary target.


By Production (not including gold mines)

Timbuktu (better than all but two gold mines in fact)
Gobir
Bourbon
Damagaram
Tadimekket
Awsa
Futa Jallon
Gaza
Aures
Sinai
Taodeni
Azawadd
Suakin
Kanem
Sierra Leone
Alexandria
Cayor
Massawa
Benin
Gabon

Benin is the only ivory province without a manufactory to make the cut. Sierra Leone is the top slave province w/o a manufactory.


Alexandria remins the top COT in the world and Timbuktu is 4th.

We have monopolies in Alexandria, Timbuktu, Venezia, Kutch, Acadia, Mixtec, Hormuz and Fars.

[Abe Sargent]

Trade Goods by Value:

Fur
Salt
Cloth
Chinaware
Coffee
Tobacco
Slaves
Wine
Spices
Copper
Sugar
Cotton
Tea
Ivory
Fish
Grain
Naval Supplies
Wool
Gold (no sale or trade means 0 demand)

The most undersupplied good is Tea with just 21% and then coffee at 24%. The most demanded item is Slaves followed by Fur and 169% and 152% respectively.


With the massive colonization in the Americas, we are really benefiting.

[Abe Sargent]

May 1 - We get the GOLD RUSH! Event

June 7 - Monopoly established in Liguria

July 7 - Gift to Ottomans

Sept 6 - Missionary to Bambuk.

I order the Arguin army to temporarily station themselves there.

Dec 1 - Land Tech Increases. We can now build leather cannons.

Dec 13 - Gift to the Shiites in Iraq

Jan 1, 1651 - I order some level 3 forts in Delta, Mahe, Aures, Kabylia, Constantine and Tunis

And a level two in Tadimekket and Trarza

May 29 - I send colonists to tabura, a province west of Tanga and Bagamoyo (ex-Swahili provinces by Zanzibar).

July 1 - Production Tech Increase

Aug 31 - Tabora is our newest colony and I send more colonists to expand it

Dec 2 - Tabora expands

Mar 6, 1652 - Tabora expands

June 1 - Naval Tech Increases. We can build Wargalleons.

June 6 - Tabora Expands

June 24 - We get Salt Crisis and our production is at -1% for a few years.

Aug 26 - Tabora will be a slave province.

Sept 8 - Tabora expandeth

Sept 21 - Revolt in Tunis for three days until we crush it.

Nov 1 - A Level 4 Trade Tech guy appeared in Kilwa. I drop our level 2 guy for him.

Nov 2 - Epidemic in Borgu for a year.

Dec 8 - I get Fort Decays in Jenne and I let it decay.

Dec 10 - Tabora expands

Jan 7, 1653 - Gift to the Ottomans

Apr 2 - I order some marketplaces in ivory provinces now that their value has risen:

Fernando Po
Cameroon
Loango
Luanda
Kisarna
Delagoa Bay
Inhambane
Urungwe
Sena
Zumbo
Quelimane
Mozambique
Bagamoyo
Tanga
Mombasa
Malindi
Lamu
Mogadishu
Gabu
Futa Jallon
Konian
Gold Coast
Whydah
Abomey
Gurma
Nupe
Bagirmi


I also add The Canarias, St. Helena, and Mecca and Cape.

That was a big project just now.

I invested about two years worth of income into that.

[Abe Sargent]

July 3 - I Promote Frontier Defences in Bagamoyo


Sept 10 - I have Merchant Fractures. I can side with the free trade section and it gains one, or the mercantilist faction and it gains one, or do nothing and gain a prestige. I move one towards Free Trade

Sept 22 - A few days later I get a nasty event - Regional Nobles Challenge Songhai. Three options (I think I had this once before). 23 regiments revolt in Alexandria or Decentralization gain one, or aristocracy and serfdom gain 2 each. I want none of them. I crush them and get 23 regiments in Alexandria of Noble creed. I jack up my military maintenance and change my sliders to stop this rebellion.

Oct 5 - Tabora expands

Oct 10 - We lose in Alexandria as expected.

Oct 25 - I put my leader in charge of a large army and combine my Gaza and Diamientia armies into one.

Nov 14 - 20000 troops arrive in Alexandria

Nov 18 - Venice makes amove I didn’t expect. The DOW Ragusa. Why does that matter? Because Ragusa was created by the Ottomans decades ago, so they are Sunni. That means I lose one stability to join Venice’s war. I decline and we are no longer allies.

I immediately send them a gift in order to make up for it.

Dec 1 - We win in Alexandria and the rebels are retreating to Libya.

I order my army to follow

Dec 23 - We arrive in Libya

Dec 29 - We win again.

Feb 1, 1654 - Trade Tech Advance

Feb 6 - Agri Rev in Barwe. I order a workshop built there now

Feb 18 - We defeat the rebels in Kargah

Apr 6 - We win in Libya

June 7 - We win in Kargah

June 24 - The rebels are finally defeated once and for all in Nile.

Sept 8 - Tabora expands

Oct 9 - I send a Missioanry to Kumasi.

Nov 8 - Venice has won a war against Syria and taken Beirut and Aleppo. They are now our neighbors

I send them another gift

Mar 1, 1655 - Land Tech Increase. I can now make Musketeers

May 30 - Our leader dies and we get a new guy - Muhammad III Admin 3, Military 6, Diplo 5. Yuk.

Aug 6 - Tabora expands and is now self sufficient


Tabora - 6709 slave traders make us 17.22 ducats annually. I order a market place here.

[Abe Sargent]

Aug 14 - Algiers rejects our RM offer. As does Morocco. The Ottomans are now a Theocracy so no marriages there.

Even Iraq and Najd reject them

Apr 22, 1656 - I get the People Sampling New Religions event this time, but I choose to move one towards narrowminded. We now get +0.45 missionaries a year instead of 0.25.

Sept 1 - Trade Tech Increase

Oct 1 - Naval Tech Increase.

Oct 25 - We get another Sultan Embarasses the Court event and our stability drops.

Nov 1 - Boina is now a core

April 24, 1657 - Kumasi converts!

June 27 - Bambuk converts!

Oct 1 - Missionary sent to Wasuju

Nov 28 - Fort Decays event and I pay the 100 gold

Jan 1, 1658 - Stability increase

June 1 - Gvnment Tech Increase

Jan 1, 1659 - I order a Textile Manufactory in Kargah

Jan 17 - Another Fort Decays event and I payeth the gold

Aug 1 - I discover Ujiji, a province inland from Tabora. I send colonists there.

Oct 28 - Ujiji failed to be set up and I send in more colonists

Dec 1 - Production Tech Increase

Jan 1, 1660 - I send a Missionary to Massina

Jan 12 - Epidemic in Boina for a year

Jan 31 - Gifts to Venice and Ottomans

Apr 8 - Ujiji is now our newest colony.

July 3 - Ujiji expands

Sept 29 - Ujiji expands

Dec 24 - Another expansion

Feb 22, 1661 - We get Good Harvest event and I put the money into production tech investment

Mar 20 - Ujiji expandiji

May 28 - Wasuju is now Sunni!

July 8 - I get an event Road Constructions. I choose Higher Tax Income in Futa Jallon but it costs me 50 ducats, an easy payment to make in this case methinks.

Aug 1 - Agri Rev in Tunis.

Sept 2 - Gift to Venice. I got a level 2 government tech guy in Ndongo and I choose to drop my level 2 Land Tech guy for him, since the land tech guy is 40 years into the business.

Sept 27 - Fortification Expands - level 2 fort in Ndongo

Dec 15 - Ivory in Ujiji

Dec 17 - Agri Rev in Kabylia. I order a Constable built here,

Dec 27 - Ujiji expands

March 1, 1662 - We get a Cultural Assimilation event and Berber becomes Malinese

Apr 3 - Missionary to Zamfara

May 1 - Another alliance offer from Venice. So here’s the deal. I’m happy to be their ally as long as they are not attacking Islamic states, otherwise I have to leave them. I accept, but I want them to know, that I am an anti-Europe ally, not an anti-Middle East or anti-No Africa ally.

[Abe Sargent]

July 31 - Agri Rev in Gojjam. I order a workshop here.

Oct 29 - We get Colonial Company Founded and 200 colonists in Dongola, interior of Berber, Ibrim and Nubia.

Nov 27 - Ujiji expands

Nov 1, 1663 - Event - Conservative Backlash.

I Fear No Words - Stab -1
Send in the Troops - 5000 Religious Rebels in Shoa


I choose the latter.

Nov 11 - Ujiji expanded

Nov 25 - Rebels Defeated

Dec 1 - Trade Tech increase

Jan 2, 1664 - I order Frontier Defences in Berber and Nubia

Mar 7 - Just for fun, and because I have full diplomats, I offer annexation to both Tripoli and Adal. Tripoli rejects our offer. Adal embraces it.


Kefa - The former capital of Adal needs a wall. The 7392 Somali Orthodox gold miners make us 45.50 ducats annually. Kefa is next to Gojjam, Shoa and Fazughli.

Haud - 15181 shepherds make us 5.03 ducats annually. This province is Somali and Sunni. A temple comes with the province. It is adjacent to Zeila, Harer, Berbera, Majerteen, Mogadishu, and Ogaden. I order a Textile Manufactory here.

Berbera - This port province has 18.04 ducats made by the 28976 Somali Sunni slave traders. It too comes with a temple. I order a market place here. It is adjacent to Majerteen, Zeila and Haud.

[Abe Sargent]

June 28 - I send a gift to Tripoli.

Nov 1 - Gift to Tripoli

Dec 1 - Slider Time. I move towards free subjects and my manpower in Bauchi is hit

Jan 1, 1665 - Transkei is now a core

Mar 1 - Natal is now a core

Mar 8 - Now that our fort is done in Kefa, I order a Missionary here.

Apr 14 - Dongola expands

June 18 - I join Venice war against the Papacy. Capture it this time!

Aug 9 - Gift to Tripoli

Aug 16 - Dongola fails to expand

Oct 15 - Agri Rev in Judea

Nov 1 - We discover Mauritius, an island next to Bourbon that I failed to discover years before. It is still not colonized, but I can’t believe it won’t be long before the Europeans can reach it. They must have known about it for a long time for it to have popped up on our screen. The next colonists I get I will send here, and then allow it to grow while working on Dongola.

Dec 1 - Land Tech Increase

Feb 3, 1666 - I get the Colonial Ventures event and choose to invest in the naval force.

Mar 30, 1666 - Agri Rev in Constantine

July 15 - Religious Revolt in Massina

July 21 - That we win

Aug 28 - Dongola will be a slave province

Sept 15 - I Proclaim a Guarantee on Tripoli, which is the last step at regaining our relations.

Sept 21 - Peace with the Papacy for ducats again. Come on Venice, stop the flirting and start the poking!

Oct 7 - Missionary sent to Constantine. I slid the Tunis regiment over in preperation for this. We have to de-Shiite this province from the previous event that changed it.

Dec 14 - Nationalist Rebels in Berbera.

Jan 7, 1667 - We win in Berbera

Jan 28 - Constantine converted that quickly.

Feb 24 - Fortification Upgrade in Majerteen

May 1 - Trade Tech Increase

June 1 - I get a level 3 Natural Scientist in Idah. I trade in my level 2 Statesman for him.

June 23 - Dongola expandola

July 15 - Royal Marriage with Algiers

Aug 1 - Naval Tech Increase. Ujiji is now a full colony:


Ujiji - One of the coolest names for a province in the game. West of Tabora and surrounded by a lake and Permanent Terra Incognita, the 8001 ivory traders make us 12.48 ducats annually. I order a market place built here

[Abe Sargent]

Aug 12 - Venice v Corsica, and they want us in. That’s fine I agree. Austria joins her ally.


Sept 1 - We discover Lake Tangayika, next to Ujiji.

Sept 21 - We win a naval battle in the Ligurian Sea

Sept 29 - We land 11000 troops in Corsica fron Tunis

Oct 3 - We win in Corsica and begin a siege

Jan 6, 1668 - We set up a colony in Mauritius. We had a really good chance of it.

Jan 27 - Quality ivory event

Feb 16 - We take Corsica after an assault

I force Austria to give me over 1000 ducats in peace.

Now Venice can do whatever they want to with Corsica, we got our money.

With our Blood Money, I order a university in Sofala which will also finish one of our missions.

May 16 - Dongola expands

July 1 - Govnment Tech Increase

Nov 14 - Jenne converted to Shiite. Argh.

Jan 1, 1669 - Missionary sent to Jenne

Jan 15 - I cancel military access with Morocco

June 1 - Production Tech Increase

June 15 - Dongola fails to expand despite really, really good odds.

Sept 1 - General dies

Sept 23 - The Golden Horde has absorbed Syria so Judea is now adjacent to them in Damascus

Jan 1, 1670 - Epidemic is in Sierra Leone

Venice annexed Corsica

Sept 3 - Fortification Effoprt in Yatenga gets us a level 1 fort

Dec 21 - Jenne converts back to Sunni

Feb 14, 1670 - Dongola expands

Apr 1 - I order a Missionary to Zimbabwe

July 13 - Mauritius expands

Aug 1 - Massina Converts!

Oct 8 - Algiers accepts an alliance with us.

Oct 12 - They broke it again. Alright, just remember that you did that to us like three times.

Oct 15 - Nationalists in Haud

Oct 18 - Defeated

Nov 10 - I send an insult to Algiers

Nov 17 - Fortification Upgrade in Asyut

Dec 5 - Algiers sends me an insult back. Excellent!

Dec 11 - I cancel military access.

[Abe Sargent]

And So it Begins...


Feb 13, 1672 - I declare war against Algiers. Our stability drops by two.

I order armies in Libya, Tunis and Aures into the three Algierian provinces.

Venice and Tripoli join us.

Morocco and the Ottomans join Algiers (they had guaranteed their independence but were not allies). War, bloody war, and Najd and Iraq both join as well.

I order my Tunisian fleet to the Canarian Sea, my Arguin troops into Rio de Oro and my army in Zamfara where I have a missionary to Tuat. I also order the Mecca army into Medina and the Gaza army into Al Karak, plus the Diamientia army is ordered to Tabouk.

Glory for Songhai!



Mar 1 - We arrive in Biskra, the capital of Algiers, and assault the defenders.

Mar 3 - We crush the defenders and initiate the siege of Biskra.

Mar 8 - A Morocco army arrives at Kabylia and begins a siege

Marc 14 - We take Gafsa in a siege.

I offer the Ottomans peace for 150 of our ducats and they accept so they are now out of the war. Makes it much, much easier, but I cannot take Medina in this war.

I order my troops marching to Ottoman territory to halt.

I order the Mecca troops into Najd territory.

Apr 8 - We win in Cyrenaica and begin a siege here as well.

Apr 24 - After a quick assault, Cyrenaica is now in our grasp.

Apr 25 - Mahe is under siege by 1000 troops from Oman. Boy am I scared that my level 3 fort will fall to these 1000 attackers! This is why I pump up the fort levels on islands.

May 1 - We win in Najd and begin a siege

May 3 - Biskra falls to us.

May 4 - Algiers accepts peace for Gafsa, Cyrenaica, some ducats, and they are now our vassal.


Stage 1 completed

[Abe Sargent]

May 8 - We win in Tabouk and begin a siege.

May 18 - Sugar in Mauritius

May 21 - My army from The Canarias arrives in Tangiers and begins a siege. I get a Great Leader event for my treasurer and I choose to lower inflation.

May 24 - We force the Moroccans from Kabylia

June 15 - A nasty Iraqi army arrives in Judea and attacks my troops here.

July 16 - We win in Tlemcen and begin a siege of the province.

July 24 - We lost in Judea but I have ordered forces from Gaza there to defeat this ornery Iraqi army.

Aug 2 - We capture the capital of Najd.

Aug 3 - We take some ducats from Najd and they lose their cores on Mecca, Medina and Tabouk.

I order my troops in Najd to Jabal Shammar, an Iraqi province.

Aug 5 - We win in Judea against the troublesome Iraqis

Aug 10 - I assault and take Tlemcen

Aug 21 - We win a naval battle in the Coast of Morocco

Aug 21 - We win a naval battle in the Coast of Morocco

Aug 26 - We win in Kabylia

Sept 7 - We win in Gaza against the Iraqis

Sept 24 - We took Tangiers

Oct 3 - We win in Jabal Shammar and begin a siege

Oct 10 - We assault and capture Oran.

Oct 17 - I decline a white peace offer from Iraq. I want Tabouk. I believe taking a land connection to Mecca is acceptable outside of Africa lands to take.

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 23 - Agri Rev in Barwe

Oct 25 - We win in Judea again

Nov 1 - We offer 100 ducats to Oman for peace. They accept. Now its just Morocco and Iraq.

Nov 26 - We have finally crushed the Moroccan army that attacked us initially.

Dec 10 - Rio de Oro falls and I orde that army to assault the 13000 Moraccans in Sus.

Dec 12 - We fail in an assault in Mellia.

Dec 28 - We capture Atlas

Jan 3, 1673 - Dongola expands

Jan 7 - We arrive in Sus and attack the now 14000 troops here with our own 13k.

Jan 26 - We win in Sus. Siege begins

Feb 18 - We complete the mission to put a university in Sofala.

Next mission - Naval Race vs. Venice.

Mar 2 - We capture Toubkhal and I order these troops to Marrakech, the capital of the Moroccans.

Mar 12 - Mellia falls.

Mar 16 - We crush resistance in Fez and begin a siege here.

Apr 14 - We win in Marrakech and begin a siege

May 7 - Mauritius expands

May 8 - We capture Fez

Venice captures Al-Djazair

May 29 - Sus falls to us.

June 17 - Sueta falls

June 24 - Iraq drives us out of Jabal Shammar. I wasn;t paying attention. I order my gaza army into
Tabouk and thence to Jabal Shammar.

June 29 - Tuat falls to us.

Aug 10 - We assault anc capture Figuig

Aug 23 - Tabouk falls and I order my troops in Jabal Shammar to force Iraq to cede it to me.

Sept 1 - Stability gain and Dongola is now a full province

Sept 15 - We win in Marrakech when the last Moroccan army attacks us

Sept 18 - We take Safi

Oct 9 - Marrakech falls!

Just one province left, Ifni

Oct 24 - We lose in an assault on Ifni

Oct 28 - We win in Jabbal Shammar

Nov1 - We lose in Sus to the Moroccan army

Nov 29 - Ifni falls.

Nov 30 - Peace for Tabouk, Oran, Tlemcen, Atlas, Figuig, Sus, Ifni and Safi.


Let me get you a map.

[Abe Sargent]

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[Abe Sargent]

The beauty of this war is that I DOWd Algiers and got Morocco and Iraq in the bargain. I used my massive warscore to cut Morocco into pieces, which will make it harder for them to move troops around and such. We had a ton of success because of our higher land tech. Compare our 28 to Morocco’s 22 and Iraq’s 21.



I order a missionary to Barwe


Alright, let’s take a look at the provinces I gained.


Cyrenaica - 23313 Berber Sunnis work the wool trade here in this coastal province adjacent to Libya and our vassals Tripoli in Sirt. There is a textile manufactory and temple here, so we are making 17,94 ducats annually.

Gafsa - 3652 Sunni Berber farmers work this internal province making us 6.97 ducats annually. This province is adjacne to Constantine, Tunis, Gabes, our vassal in Tripolitania, Aures and Algiers in Biskra. It comes with a workshop and temple.

Tabouk - This former Iraqi province has 5353 Bedouin Arabic Shiite shepherds making us 20.10 ducats annually in part due to their textile manufactory. It also has a workshop, market place, temple and courthouse. It is adjacent to Gaza and Sinai in the north, and many othe nations, incluing the Turks, Najd and Iraq. If I take Medina, I will have a land connection to Mecca.

Dongola - 6009 slave traders make us 15.56 ducats annually in this former colony. I order up a market place.


All of the Morocco provinces are Sunni and Magreb Arab except for Oran which is Berber.

Oran - This port is adjacent to Morocco in Al-Djazair and us in Tlemcen. Over a century ago, this is the province that was in Castillean hands but Morocco took it back in war, and now we pluck this wine province from them. 63394 Berber Sunnis make us 42.08 ducats here which includes a Refinery, Courthouse, Temple, Regimental Camp, Marketplace, Workshop and Constable. I order a Customs House too.

Tlemcen - South of Oran and adjacent to Atlas, Aures and Morocco in Mellila and Al-Djazair lies the shepherd province of Tlemcen where 389781 wool traders make us 23.82 ducats annually with their Teltixle Manufactory, courthouse, temple, constable, workshop and marketplace.

Atlas - Also rocking a regimental camp, textile manufactory, marketplace, worksop, temple and courthouse is the 11117 people of Atlas, making us 23.24 ducats in the wool trade. This province is adjacent to ours in Aures, Tlemcen and Figuig.

Figuig - 14003 wool traders make us 20.05 ducats annually. Textile manufactory, constable, workshop, courthouse, market place and temple.

Sus - This inland province is adjacent to Figuig and our ports in the west coast if Ifni and Sus. 46.63 ducats are made by the 5534 people in the gold trade here. Comes with Constable, workshop, marketplace, courthouse and temple.

Ifni - On the western coast lies the 7263 fishermen making us 14.68 ducats annually. Next to Sus and Safi. Workshop, marketplace, constable, courthouse and temple.

Safi - 21.12 dcuats are made in this textile manufactory town (wool). 13334 people have a workshop, marketplace, constable, temple and courthouse.


As you can tell, we nipped a lot of textile manufactoreies, which will drive up our production tech amazingly.

Oh, and my badboy took a major nosedive down, so we have to be a good boy for a while.

[Abe Sargent]

Dec 2 - I accept a war call against the Papacy again byVenice.

Dec 11 - rebels in Cayor and Tabouk

Dec 13 - Religious revolt in Zimbabwe

Dec 16 - We crush rebels in Zimbabwe

Jan 24, 1674 - Rebels taken care of in Tabouk

June 1 - We lose in Cayor

July 1 - Production Tech Increase

July 20 - Rebels in Cayor taken down.

Sept 22 - I accept a white peace with the Papacy

Sept 30 - I get a diplomatic insult but I try to ease the tension and our relations with various neighbors improves.

Oct 31 - Gift sent to Venice

Dec 3 - I order level 2 forts in all of the old Moroccan provinces that didn’t have them already. Plus another in in Cyrenaica and Tabouk

Jan 20 - 1675 - I invest in naval supremacy again in Colonial Ventures

Mar 1 - Stability increases and Mauritius expands

Aug 14 - Rebellion in Gafsa

Aug 18 - Crushed

Oct 1 - Land Tech increase. We can now build War Colleges.

Missionary sent to Sofala.

Oct 14 - Rebels in Tanga

Nov 1 - We discover Diego Garcia and dispatch colonists to its shores. This will likely be the last island I colonize.

Nov 21 - Rebels in Safi

Nov 23 - Defeated in just two days

Dec 6 - I order level three fortsin Safi, Ifni, Figuig, Atlas, Tlemcen, Oran, and Tabouk.

Apr 21, 1676 - Animist rebels in Sofala

May 5 - Rebels defeated in Tanga

I Adopt the Title of Khalifa. Stability cost -8%, Missionary chance +5%, +1 prestige annually.

[Abe Sargent]

May 30 - Event - Engineers are Busy, gain level 3 fort in Asyut

July 16 - Patriot rebels in Quelimane with its 0.1% revolt risk.

Aug 1 - Naval Tech increases and we can now build Admiralty.

Aug 28 - We defeat the rebels in Sofala

Aug 30 Mauritius expands.

Oct 21 - rebels crushed in Quelimane

Nov 18 - Zimbabwe converts!

Dec 3 - Once again, I decline a proposal for war from Venice for Ragusa. We are now allyless outside of our own vassals.

I send gifts to the Ottomans and Venetians.

Apr 25, 1677 - Mauritius is now a full province.


Mauritius - 1516 Sugar growers work this island next to Bourbon making us 23.58 ducats annually from both the high tax value and the trade value of sugar. I order a fort built here.


May 1 - Trade Tech Increase

May 24 - The unclaimed and unpopulated island of Diego Garcia is now our newest colony.

July 22 - Quality Ivory Event

Nov 1 - Govnment Tech Increase. I take the Scientific Revolution national idea, which will speed up my research considerably.

Nov 28- Gifts to Ottomans and Venetians again

Jan 1, 1678 - Missionary to Tabouk.

Jan 12 - Zamfara converts!

Feb 7 - rebels in Infni defeated in two days

Apr 25 - The next thing in Mauritius is a market place.

May 25 - Fort Decays event for Timbuktu and I pay the money

July 18 - I accept another alliance offer from Venice.

Aug 2 - Just for fun I order Independent rebels in Cyprus. I was caught and successful.

Aug 10 - My rebels have defeated the Cypriots and are besieging the island.

Nov 21 - Rebellion in Haud defeated in days

Jan 10 - Diego Garcia expandacia

March 3 - Our monarch has died and we are now ruled by a Regency Council until the heir is ready to lead on his own.

Limited diplomatic choices result.

I order Land Enclosures on Mauritius

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 20 - Revolt in Gafsa

Apr 22 - Which we win

Apr 26 - I order a Refinery in Mauritius

May 17 - Tabouk converts!

July 5 - Barwe converts!

Oct 8 - Ogaden converts to Shiite

Nov 22 - Revolt in Kefa destroyed in two days

Dec 22 - Gifts to Ottomans and Venice

Mar 10, 1680 - Another Venice-Papacy war we agree to help them out with

Apr 12 - Missionary to Uteve

May 1 - Trade Tech Increase

May 16 - Epidemic in Berber

July 1 - Govnment Tech Increase - We can now build Tax Assessors

I order a War College built in Gao

July 13 - Diego Garcia will be a fish province

Aug 27 - Uteve converts!

Aug 31 - Diego Garcia expands

Oct 6 - Peace for ducats again.

Feb 1, 1681 - Butana is now a core

Mar 14 - Tabouk had a rebellion. Note the use of past tense.

Apr 7 - Kefa converst from Orthodox to Sunni!

May 9 - Slider-Time. I go with Centralization and we get a small pretender rebellion in Grain Coast.

May 12 - Revolt in Safi

May 17 - No longer

June 1 - Menabe and Fazughli are now cores

July 12 - Gifts to Ottomans and Venice

Aug 18 - Pretenders defeated

Mar 1, 1682 - Fort Decays event and I pay

Apr 27 - Diego Garcia expands

July 6 - I order a Tax Assessor in Gao and a few other provinces like Tunis, Alexandria, Timbuktu

I send a Missionary to Mombasa

July 21 - I canceled the navy mission and got one to build a university in Barwe

Oct 1 - Yet another Agri Rev event for Constantine. I think that migth be the fourth I’ve had.

Dec 28 - I Establish an Ibadat Khana. We get -1 national revolt risk but +6 stability cost modifier.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 30, 1683 - Agri Rev in Grain Coast

May 6 - War against Sardinia is declared and I agree to join.

May 12 - I eased the tension for a Diplomatic Insult.

May 23 - I land troops in Sardinia (right across the strait from Tunis, where I keep an army and my navy

July 1 - Land Tech Increase and we can now build swivel cannon

Aug 19 - Suakin becomes Malinese

Nov 20 - Rebellion in Tlemcen

Nov 25 - Defeated

Dec 17 - Diego Garcia expands

Dec 29 - I take increased taxbase in Cape for Road Construction event

Feb 1, 1684 - Naval Tech Increase

Apr 5 - Our new Sultan - Ismail II, Admin 6, Military 3, Diplo 7. Solid.

May 9 - Level 2 fort ordered in Mauritius

July 2 - After an assault on a level 4 fort by bringing over another army plus Venice’s troops, we crack Sardinia. I force vassalize them and take 1000 ducats.

Ha ha Venice, I took this prize from you. Foiled you!

Now they are still at war, so perhaps Venice will take my new vassal. Unrealistic, but likely. Still, I got my blood money so I’m fine.

July 6 - I accept a Najd request for military access

Sept 1 - I send a missionary to Mozambique

Dec 19 -I send colonists to Dar Nuba, another interior province by Ethiopia and Nubia areas. We have apretty good chance of taking despite hostile natives

Feb 25, 1685 - Attempt failed and sending in a new one.

Mar 12 - Agri Rev in Borno

I order a university in Barwe

May 4 - Success in Dar Nuba

Venice captured and annexed my vassal, Corsica.

July 2 - I order level 3 fort in Mauritius

July 3 - Fortification Upgrade in Butana

July 11 - Dar Nuba failed to expand

Aug 6 - Diego Garcia expands

Aug 1- Revolt in Gafsa.

Aug 18 - We win

Sept 5 - A lot of our reputation is gone, we have a good diplo guy, Tripoli and Algiers have lousy diplo guys, relations are maxed, and both say that I have a Maybe chacne of success at the annexation offer. I send to both and see which one bites.

Sept 6 - Algiers does.


Biskra - 14065 Berber Sunnis work the iron mines here making 33,08 ducats with their weapons manufactory, temple and workshop. I order a marketplace.

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 10 - I send a gift to Tripoli

Oct 15 - Dar Nuba expands

Nov 3 - I Improve Frontier Defences in Fazughli

Nov 11 - I send another gift to Tripoli

Nov 25 - GOLD RUSH!

Jan 28, 1686 - Agri Rev in Katsina. I order a Customs House here

Apr 1 - Diego Garcia is now a full province.


Diego Garcia - This island province south of India is the easternmost province we’ll have. 1001 fisherman make us 10.10 ducats annually.


July 3 Constable in Mauritius

Aug 29 - Oman took out The Hedjaz and now controls Socotra

Sept 9 - Dar Nuba expands

Jan 1, 1687 - Our Land Tech Increases and we can now build level 4 forts. I order three in Mecca, Tabouk and Judea

Missionary sent to Kilwa

Feb 28 - Road Constructions in Bambuk and I buy some tax value

Mar 27 - I order a fort for Diego Garcia

June 1 - Naval Tech increase

June 6 - Slaves in Dar Nuba

July 3 - Workshop in Mauritius

Sept 7 - Dar Nuba expands

Sept 14 - I get Great Leader for one of my trade tech guys and choose to apply it to inflation reduction.

Sept 22 - Animist rebels in Mozambique

Oct 5 - Kilwa converts

Oct 10 - Agri Rev in Zamfara

Dec 17 - Rebels defeated in Mozambique

Jan 9, 1688 - A spy from Morocco was caught trying to support revolt in Kanem and succeeded. Interesting.

I fabricate claims against them. I gain an CB for a year. They want to play spy games, let them fear my wrath for a second attack.

Mar 1 - Gaza and Judea are now part of our patrimony

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 15 - I DOW Morocco. My stability drops one because I have a CB.

Both of our allies are in

Apr 8 - We’ve already won a few minor battles and begun a few sieges.

Apr 24 - We win against their main army in Marrakech

Apr 28 - We assault and capture Tangiers

May 25 - We’ve won some more battles and I reject a white peace offer

June 5 - After defeating the remnants of the main Moroccan army, we assault and capture Toubkhal

June 17 - Fez falls

June 30 - We win in Tangiers

July 14 - Marrakech falls

July 21 - Ceuta falls

Aug 30 - We lose in Toubkhal

Sept 10 - Al-Djazair falls to us

Sept 12 - We assautl and capture Mellila

Sept 17 - Rio de Oro falls

Oct 9 -We defeat the Moroccan army in Toubkhal

Nov 27 - Tuat falls

I offer peace

They accept.


We take:

Tangiers - 23154 Sunni Berber fishermen make us 24.54 ducats annually. This province comes equipped with a courthouse, temple, constable, marketplace and workshop. Tangiers is a small port province un the corner of Africa right by Gilraltar on the other side of the straights. It is only adjacent to our provinces of Ceuta and Toubkhal. I order a customs house here.

Ceuta - Coastal province east of Tangiers and west of Mellia, also adjacent to Toubkhal and Fez. 8607 Berber Sunni fishermen make us 23.33 ducats annually. Comes with courthouse, temple, constable, workshop and marketplace. I order Land Enclosures here. I order a customs house here.

Toubkhal - Another coastal province connecting Tangiers and Ceuta to the north with Safi to the south and touching the Moroccan provinces of Marrakech and Fez to the east and southeast. 23418 shepherds make us 21.32 ducats annually largely supplemented by the textle manufactory here. It also comes with the basic five improvements seen elsewhere. I order a elvel 2 fort. The home of Sunni Berbers

Mellila - 17314 Maghreb Arabic Sunni farmers make us 11.99 ducats. The ssame base five items are here with a regimental camp as a supplement. This coastal province is next to Atlas, Tlemcen and Ceuta, plus the Moroccan province of Fez.

Al-Djzair - The NE corner of the remaining Moroccan territory was sliced off and handed to us in this war. 114390 Berber Sunni farmers make us 22.38 ducats annually with a solid portion of that coming from a University. The place also has the standard five buildings plus a regimental camp. I Promote Land Enclosures. I order a Customs House constructed here. This port is west of Kabylia, northwest of Biskra, north of Aured, east of Oran and northeast of Tlemcen.


The result of this is that Morocco is down to four provinces - Rio de Oro and Tuat, which are former Portugese colonies, and Marrakech and Fez which are now cut off from water.

[Abe Sargent]

Nov 30 - I accept war against the Papacy again.

Dec 4 - We get a nasty little event - Monetary Reforms. We can Enact Them and lose two stability or gain 3 inflation from not doing so. Neither is good, but I choose the inflation bump.

Jan 15, 1689 - We land troops in Roma and begin a siege

Feb 4, 1689 - Dar Nuba expands

Apr 5 - Missionary sent to Sena

Apr 18 - Peace is declared with the Papacy without ever taking their capital.

June 1 - Stab increases back to full

June 13 - Dar Nuba expands

July 13 - I proclaim a guarantee for Morocco so I can DOW anyone who tries to poach my final four provinces before I get another chance to.

Jan 20, 1690 - Mozambique converts!

Mar 12 - We complete a university in Barwe which also completes the mission. The next mission is to build a Fine Arts Academy in Zimbabwe

May 1 - We have both Production and Trade techs increase

June 3 - Dar Nuba expands

I order a level 2 fort in Diego Garcia and a Customs House in Mauritius

I order a level 4 fort in Gaza, Sinai, Diamientia and Alexandria.

Sept 1 - Govnment Tech Increase

Oct 7 - Sofala converts!

Oct 19 - We get Fortification Improvement - a level 4 fort in Tlemcen

Nov 15 - Sena converts!

That’s three of the ex-Mutapan provinces converting in year.

Jan 14, 1691 - Rebels in Oran

Feb 14 - We win in Oran

Apr 10 - Dar Nuba expands

May 29 - Quality Ivory event

June 1 - Abomey is now a core

June 5 - Level 4 forts ordered in Tunis and Constantine

July 17 - Missionary sent to Masapa

Jan 1, 1692 - I order level 4 forts in Cape Verde, St. Helena and The Canarias

June 18 - Revolt in Biskra

June 27 - Defeated

Sept 1 - Dar Nuba is now a full province

Dar Nuba - east of Fazughli and adjacent to several unclaimed provinces is the 6001 slave traders of Dar Nuba. Making 16.41 ducats annually for us, I order a market place here.

[Abe Sargent]

Sept 30 - I get an event - Sultan’s Reputation Tarnished, I Embrace it and gain one badboy rather than lose a stability to solve it.

Jan 9, 1693 - I decline to join Venice in another anit-Ragusa campaign but I send them a gift to make up for it.

Jan 15 - What to Mahe Bourbon and Mauritius have in common? A level 4 fort was ordered in each today.

May 13 - Cultural Assimilation event - Mogadishu is now Malinese

Sept 6 - We gain a lvl 3 fort in Al-Djazair

Oct 2- Agri rev in Zamfara

Missionary sent to Urungwe

Nov 22 - Agri Rev in Grain Coast

Dec 20 - I join Venice in a war against some European powers

Feb 10, 1694 - The Ottomans are now at war with Venice.

June 18 - Mombasa converts!

July 2 - I order a Customs House in Mombasa

July 12 - Rebellion in Tangiers

Aug 14 - Rebels slapped and beaten

Sept 7 - We give Austria 25 ducats for peace with their alliance.

Nov 16 - Agri Rev in Gojjam

Jan 18, 1695 - Another Salt Crisis

Apr 4 - Revolt in Mellila

Apr 12 - Defeated

May 1 - I send colonists to Dar Ja’al, an interior province adjacent to Berber, Dongola and Butana. We have just a 50/50 chance of taking with the first hit. I;ve had bad luck recently in colonizing with Dongola and Dar Nuba so let’s hope forsome good here.

June 1 - Tunis and Gabes are now cores

June 25 - I get ANOTHER Monetary Reform event and my inflation jacks up another 3. Geez.

July 12 - Yay, Dar Ja’al expands.

Sept 22 - Dar Ja’al expands

Dec 1 - And it expands again

Jan 1, 1696 - Missionary dispatched to Zumbo. This is the final Mutapan province to get one.

[Abe Sargent]

In order to counter these inflation events I order Tax Assessors in:

Cairo
Diamientia
Sinai
Gaza
Tabouk
Judea
Mahe
Bourbon
Mauritius
Zimbabwe
Uteve
Little Karoo
Cape
Roggeveld
Great Karoo
Benguela
Kisarna
Ndongo
Kongo
Luanda
Kanem
Bagirmi
Borno
Gobir
Benin
Kumasi
Massina
Jenne
Wasuju
Bure
Segu
Bambuk
Futa Jallon
Wolof
Cape Verde
Brakna
Damagaram
Katsina
Zamfara
Zazzau
Kano
Mandara
Calabar
Bonny
Ife
Oyo
Barwe
Sena
Tabora
Ujiji
Dar Nuba
Kefa
Gojjam
Gonder
Awsa


Hopefully this will help our inflation bunches

[Abe Sargent]

Feb 9 - Dar Ja’al expands’al

Feb 22 - Figuig converts to Shiite

Mar 13 - Grain in Dar Ja’al

Apr 21 - Dar Ja’al expands

June 1 - NLD - Kordofan, next to Dar Ja’al and Dar Nuba. I believe is the final undiscovered province in l’Afrique

July 19 - This time I decline Venice’s alliance offer.

Oct 16 - Dar Ja’al expands

Feb 2, 1697 - The Tax Assessors look to be a real help in fighting the inflation bug.

Apr 25 - Tripoli rejects our annexation request

May 26 - Gift Sent

Junt 27 - Gift sent

Sept 6 - Masapa Converts!

Sept 17 - Dar Ja‘al expands

Oct 1 - Tripoli again rejects our annexation offer.

Nov 3 - Gift

Dec 4 - Gift

Jan 11, 1698 - I order level 2 fort in Tangiers and Ceuta. Level 4s in Kabylia and Ak-Djazair and Oran

Mar 6 - Tripoli rejects our kind offer again

Mar 31 - Leve 4 fort gained in Cairo.

Apr 7 - Gift to Tripoli and Missionary to Malindi

May 8 - Gift

May 24 - Sliders time. I move one Centralization and get a small pretender rebellion in Whydah

July 9 - Ag Rev in Fazughli

Sept 15 - Rebels defeated

Sept 18 - Dar Ja’al expands

Dec 1 - Production Tech Increases

Feb 1, 1699 - Tripoli accepts our offer.

I destroy the COT in Tripolitania.


Tripolitania - This port of 108634 Tuareg Sunni ivory traders makes us 32.39 ducats annually. There is a temple, regimental camp, workshop and courthouse here. I order a marketplace. Gabes and Gafsa are to the west and Sirt is to the east.

Sirt - 11073 shepherds make us 20.90. The Tuareg Sunnis have a textile manufactory, and the exact same buildings as Tripolitania after that. I order a level 3 fort built here.


Morocco is the only power left with any mainland provinces, although I consider Socotra and Madeira to be gettable as well, plus Madina.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 27 - I invest in naval supremacy in Colonial Ventures

May 16 - Animist rebels in Zumbo

June 11 - We win in Zumbo

July 12 - Great Karoo changes to Shiite

Oct 2 - The Ottomans send us an insult. I send them a gift.


Didn't realize how close I was to the 300 Year in Review.

[Abe Sargent]

300 Year Review


We have the third most prestige of any nation.

We have 7% inflation

We get 553 ducats income, whereas the next highest, Venice, gets 360, and France gets 355.

We are several techs off the leader in every area

We have not added to our armies in a while, nor have I updated our troops with the better troops available to me. As such we have dropped to 8th in army size. We still have 3rd most big ships though.

Songhai now has 164 provinces. Great Britain is at 150 or so. France is at 123. Castille is right behind at 119 or 120.

Alexandria and Timbuktu are #1 and #2 in the world in trade.

[Abe Sargent]

Trade Goods from top to bottom:

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

[Abe Sargent]

Our highest tax provinces:

Alexandria - 76.0
Timbuktu
Kongo
Cairo
Cape
Bure
Gao
Bambuk
Constantine
Zamfara
Judea
Grain Coast
Borno
Jenne
Dendi
Benguela
Ceuta
Delta
Futa Jallon
Massina
Barwe
Segu
Kumasi
Katsina - 11.1

[Abe Sargent]

Top Production Cities that are no Gold:

Timbuktu - 64.1
Gobir
Oran
Futa Jallon
Biskra
Bourbon
Mauritius
Aures
Damagaram
Tadimekket
Benin
Suakin
Awsa
Tripolitania
Gaza
Gold Coast
Sinai
Berbera
Azawadd
Taodeni
Sierra Leone
Gabu - 20.7


Salt fell in value a bit so provinces with sugar, wine, slaves and ivory rose and most of these provinces have manufactories of one sort or another

[Abe Sargent]

If we wanted to release some of our lands as vassals, here is who we could create:

Algiers
Tunisia
The Mamluks
Mali
Ashanti
Oyo
Benin
Hausa
Kanem Borno
Sokoto
Loango
Kongo
Mutapa
Swahili
Adal
Ethiopia
Tripoli

[Abe Sargent]

In celebration of 300 years of success. I would like to launch our final war.

Nov 19 - Another insult from the Ottomans

Dec 1 - I have a spy fabricate claims against Morocco. I DOW Morocco. Our stability drops by one. I order armies into Tuat, Fez, Marrakech and Rio de Oro. Only Marrakech has an army of any size. Oman and the Ottomans join war against us.

Dec 26 - Dar J’al expands and is now a full province


Dar Ja’al - 6021 farmers make us 4.3 ducats annually. I order a fort here.


Jan 7, 1700 - We win the Battle of Marrakech

Jan 9 - Fez falls after an assault

Feb 16 - I lose in Medina

Feb 27 - Marrakech falls

Apr 4 - We capture Tuat

Apr 21 - Kano changed to Shiite

May 30 - We fail an assault in Rio de Oro

June 4 - Then we try again and they have so few defenders left we win.

Morocco accepts peace for Fez, Tuat, Rio de Oro and vassalization.

Now I can turn my forces east. I want to capture Socotra from Oman and Medina from the Ottomans

[Abe Sargent]

June 4 - We pay Najd 50 ducats for peace.

July 6 - An army lands in Socotra and begins a siege.

July 16 - We lose a battle in Hawran

Aug 6 - We win in Judea

Aug 23 - We win in Medina and begin a siege

Aug 29 - Zumbo converts and we win in Al Karak. Siege begins

Sept 2 - We lose in Hawran again

Oct 1 - Trade and Govnment Tech Increase. I take the Grand Army idea.

Oct 12 - We win a battle in Medina

Nov 14 - We lose badly in Al Karak

Nov 24 - We lose in Judea

Dec 22 - We capture Medina

I order my large Medinan army to break the siege of Mecca

Feb 1, 1701 - Land Tech Increase

Feb 20 - We capture Muscat, the capital of Oman

Feb 22 - We lose in Mecca

Mar 8 - Another loss in Judea

Apr 27 - I land the Muscat army in Socotra to assist with that siege

May 1 - One of our advisors died and Naval tech Increase

June 4 - Major armies march to Judea and Mecca to relieve sieges. Level 4 forts are great!

40000 troops are marching to Judea. 19000 to Mecca

June 16 - Malindi converts

June 17 - Sinai converts to Shiite. I send in a missionary

June 29 - Socotra falls

June 30 - Oman accepts peace for Socotra and Medina.

[Abe Sargent]

And that is the final war of the campaign. With Socotra in our hands, we have a new island province. With Medina in our hands, we now have land routes to Judea and Mecca. We have the three non-captial provinces of Morocco in our grasps and Morocco is now our vassal and will be assimilated everntually.

The only three provinces in all of Africa that are not ours are three unclaimed provinces by Dar Nuba and Dar Ja’al.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, campaign done in 1701. Spend ten years absorbing terrain, dropping badboy which is rather high, then annex Morocco, then spend another 5 years reducing the rebellions and dropping badboy until I come out in 1715 or so firing on all cylinders with the only united continent in history. Then I’d have until 1821 or so to play around with a fully loaded Africa.



What else is happening in the world?

No changes in Iberia. France has not gained land in Europe. Scandinavia is growing though.

Venice has taken provinces in the Polish areas including Danzig. Mecklemburg has expanded into a 12 province power.

The Golden Horde has almost destroyed Muscowy and is overcome almost all of Russia. The Ottomans are pushing here and there and have arm of territory around Hungary reaching as far inland as Sandomierz.

Austria is down to 5 province. Venice is growing into Croatia and Slovenia.

Virtually every province in the Americas has been claimed except the extreme inland ones. Great Britain and France are at a war, and all of the GB provinces in Canada have been captured. Perhaps France will be growing at the end of this year.

Countries have been colonizing around their previous areas, just deeper. GB has colonized as far west as California although France has the western coast down to Baja California. There are a few coastal provinces in Alaska region open for colonization.

No major changes in Central and South America.

Even places like New Zealand, Tahiti, Somoa, Fiji, and such are getting gobbled up in the quest for land.

The Mughal Empire has set up a few colonies in the Indies. Portugal, France and GB have conquered land from the natives to “colonize” the region and actually colonies have begun from GB, who now has cores here, as I predicted.

GB is focusing on the Phillipines.

Japan has swept through the mainland, taking most of Korea and most of Manchu.

Ming is hemorrhaging provinces. It has lost most of SE Asia and Ryukyu has taken mainland provinces from it.

The Mughals are trying to unite India under the Islamic Star and Crescent and succeeding.

[Abe Sargent]

My comments on the game.

As always, it still needs work in the trade goods area. Take Socotra, for example. In EU, it is represented by fish. There’s really nothing you can assign it. It wasn;t known as an area for naval supplies or grain or spices. However, in real life, Socotra was much more valuable, because on it grows the Dragon’s Blood Tree. This highly unusual plant can only be found in the island and its red sap was labelled Dragon’s Blood, and it was highly sought after as a dye. Add dyes to the game, and Socotra becomes more valuable, and you can use them to help other provinces as well (Libya springs to mind).

Examples include whales, rubber, dyes, wax, and exotic foodstuffs. I’d have exotic foodstuffs found in the Americas only instead of grain. At first, they have a high trade value, but over time, their trade value harshly drops to that of grain (as nations around the world start to grow their own potatoes and peppers and such.). For Shamanist and Animist nations, however, exotic foodstuffs would have the same trade value as grain (ie very little,because they live there).

I did like the variation of trade goods over time, so it made the game more dynamic. However, perhaps the goods were a bit too dynamic. I can’t ever see spices as anything but top 5 trade good, no matter what year or the economic status looks like. Spices caused the trips to the new world and around Africa to find alterative and cheap ways to purchase spices and take away from Venice’s stranglehold on the western European spice trade. A good that is that world changing should not be anywhere but at or near the very top.

I really, really disliked the random trade good. I’ll be honest, I once did a quit and save on two occasions. One was when Fernando Po came up an ivory province and they other was when Taodeni did the same. Come on now. There are no elephants on islands or in the Sahara.

It seemed like every province was the same three (grain, ivory, slaves) with very little variance unless you made it to the South African provinces or islands. Why couldn’t there have been more fish provinces, since virtually all of the provinces are coastal? Why not more extrapolation? Wine in hilly regions, for example. Don’t make things that don’t exist, like copper or iron mines in places where there was no copper or iron, but you could add naval supplies to jungles, for example, because there are numerous examples of jungle colonies that were timbered for ships in real life.

No African empire would sell its own people into slavery for other countries, no matter how lucatrive. Can you see the Roman Empire selling its own citizens to the Germanic Tribes for cash?

I would like to see you have a decision for provinces that allows you to switch from the current trade good to a random trade good assigned to that province. Make it cost some ducats and you lose one taxbase in the province permanently. If you don’t like it, switch again, and this time you can’t get either the first or the second good, but the cost in tax value, and now add manpower, and ducats is high. This would allow an African empire to audible out of slaves. Make the Europeans find other ways to get labor for their plantations.

Add a bunch of events to cause issues with Africa empiers selling slaves. If a country has over 20 provinces, and has an African culture and over 10% of their provinces are slave provinces, start giving them some nasty stability hits and rebellions.

I’d also want slaves to be more realistic. I’d like to see slave provinces LOSE people and tax value and manpower over time.

I loved the decisions added in a previous expansion, and the missions were alright although they need tweaking. Too many were too hard or too easy, with sometimes lousy rewards and sometimes amazing rewards.

I used spies here a lot more that previously and I;v ecome to appriacte them but they are really weak or strong abilities with few in the middle. I’d like to see some of them amped up in power.

I’d love to see a spy with a steal maps option.

The whole, I’ll be your ally and then a few days or a week later I cancel our alliance is very very problematic. I had serious issues with it the entire time. That needs to be fixed.

Overall, a solid experience. Yay!

Oh, and I knew I had won the dynasty when I took Timbuktu in the first couple of years. That was when I had enough economic power that I was able to form my own empire.

[Alan T]

Nice job! Any chance to see a final full world map? :)

[Abe Sargent]

Anything's possible!