An Irish EU3 Dynasty - Complete!!!

[Abe Sargent]

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

[Abe Sargent]

Okay, allow me to introduce the new dynasty.



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

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


Connaught:

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

[Abe Sargent]

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

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

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

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

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

In the middle of Mercantilism and Free Trade

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

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

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


I prefer:

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

[Abe Sargent]

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

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

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


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

[Abe Sargent]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay, here we go.

[Abe Sargent]

Early Days



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

Oct 7 - England sends an insult

Nov 1, 1399 - Stab increase

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

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

Jan 1, 1400 - Stab increase

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

Mar 5 - I send an insult to Connacht

May 15 - Denmark annexes Holstein.

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

July 23 - France annxes Berry

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

Oct 17 - Now Denmark accepts a RM.

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

[Abe Sargent]

Joining Europe


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

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

Feb 6 - Brittany and us in Marriage

Mar 5 - Burgundy rejects RM, Cleves accepts

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

July 4 - RM with Burgundy

Aug 22 - We are guaranteed by England.

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

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

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

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

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

Oct 10 - England at war with Aragon.

Oct 19 - They have withdrawn troops from Meath.

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

Feb 4, 1403 - Guaranteed now by Brittany,

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

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

July 23 - Scotland accepts .

July 24 - Denmark too

[Abe Sargent]

Bold Moves Before a Friend


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

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

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

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

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

Nov 12 - They flee

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

Mar 1, 1404 - Stab increase

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

June 1 0 Stab increase

June 9 - Assault fails

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

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

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

Sept 1 - Stab increase

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

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

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

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


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

[Abe Sargent]

Years of Quiet and Harmony



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

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

Jan 13 - RM with France

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

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

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

A nice tool to begin to unite and pacify the masses

Apr 23 - Castille rejects our RM offer

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

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

Sept 3 - Aragon at least accepts our RM.

Jan 3, 1406 - RM with Brabant

May 8, Gelre declines and Friesland accepts a RM

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

Jun 25 = Luxembourgh enters a personal union with Hesse

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

Mar 26, The King of Burgundy fell ill

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

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

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

July 29 - Bar is taken by Burgundy in war

Sept 9 - Granada was annexed by Castille in war

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sept 2 - The Pope excommunicated Bohemia

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

[Abe Sargent]

An Interlude of Solace




Dec 26 - Pskov annexed in war by the Teutonic Order

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

May 1 - Stability back

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

July 5 - Croatia declares itself separate from Hungary.

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

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

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

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

England is not allied with Brittany but Castille.

Oct 1, England warned us from attacking neighbors

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

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

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

July 1, 1412 - Land Tech increases

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

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

[Abe Sargent]

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

Options I like:


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


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

[Abe Sargent]

War Against the Beast, Part I


Dec 2 - Naples lost Calabria to Sicily.

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

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

I order 1000 troops assembled in Ulster.

Mar 1 - Trade tech increased

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

Brittany does not join us, ah well.

May 27 - Meath falls after an assault.

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

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

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

Oct 16 - White peace taken with Switzerland

Oct 27 - Savoy White Peace

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

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

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

Jan 1, 44 update

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

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

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

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

Jan 28 - Gotland declare independence from the Teutonic Order

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

Mar 8 - We won, barely

Mar 11 - England rejects an offer of peace for Meath

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

Apr 26 - I reject another white peace offer

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

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

[Abe Sargent]

War Against the Beast, Part II


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nov 15 England rejects a offer for Meath

Update:

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

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

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

Dec 19 - I send them to Ulster

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

Jan 18 - 3400 Tyrone troops arrive in Ulster

Jan 18 - 3400 Tyrone troops arrive in Ulster

Jan 28 - The English army is annihilated and gone.

Feb 25 - Yorkshire falls to the English

Mar 1 - production Tech increases

Mar 10 - the Yorkshire forces arrive at Cumbria

<May 31 - Our assembled forces win in Cumbria

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

We gain 8 prestige and 4 infamy.

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

We gain 10 ducats from the mission to gain ducats.

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

Good luck Scotland!

My next mission is to create a proper fleet

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



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

[Abe Sargent]

Conflicts in the Shadows



I order two Cogs built.

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

Sept 4 - We announce a Royal Marriage with Leinster.

Oct 8 - Leinster accepts an alliance with us.

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

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

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

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

July 1 - Naval tech increase

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

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

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

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

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

Mar 10 - Hansa annexed Luneberg.

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

May 15 - Welsh rebels all dead.

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

July 7 - Bohemia annexed Silesia

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

Sept 27 - Salzberg Excommunicated

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

[Abe Sargent]

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

Apr 30 - We defeat them.

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

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

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

Aug 12 - Byzantium is taken in war by the Ottomans

Aug 26 = France annexed Bourbonnais

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

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

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


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

Oct 10 - Utrecht excommunicated

Oct 20 - The nations are beginning to fight Utrecht

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

July 4 - New Bohemian Ruler as the new HRE

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

Eoghan O’Neill II 4/8/4 AMD

Our new heir is 15 year old Donal

I choose to introduce heir. Same benefits as before

[Abe Sargent]

A Quiet Pause

July 20 - RM with Denmark

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

Aug 17 - RM with Scotland

Aug 21 - Rebels killed

Jan 3, 1422 - RM with Leinster, Brittany

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

RM with France

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

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

Sept 1 - Government tech increases, RM with Castille

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

Oct 27 - Friesland Excommunicated

Nov 4 - Avignon annexed by France

[MrBug708]

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

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

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


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

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

[Abe Sargent]

Heheh

[Abe Sargent]

The Second English-Irish War


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

I raise War Taxes, jack up maintenance.

Dec 1 - Land Tech Increase

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

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

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

Jan 23 - We win in Leinster

Luckily I had managed to replace my troops with longbowmen

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

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

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

I hire some mercs

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

Henry IV himself is leading the siege of Munster

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

Aug 20 - The Battle For Munster Begins

Sept 11 - We win and lift the siege

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

Now that we have momentum, to the ships!

Oct 23 - I land forces in Cumbria

Nov 26 - I have won three battles in Cumbria

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

May 13 - They land 2k troops in Munster

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

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

Aug 5 - Scotland captures Ayrshire

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

Lancashire falls to us

Oct 29 - I lose in Gwynnedd

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

Nov 9 - My forces from Lancashire won in Gwynnedd

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

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

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

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

May 3 - We lose in Lincoln completely

June 7 - We lose in Lancashire

June 25 - I assaulted and take Yorkshire

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

Aug 22 - We capture London itself baby.

Aug 23 - I take our huge warscore shopping.

So here is the deal I am sending.

They have to:

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


They accept

[Abe Sargent]

Allies New and Old



Aug 24 - Wales and Northumberland accept RM from us

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

Dec 1 - Naval and Production tech

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

Jan 27 - Dead rebels

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

Jun 2 - Trade tech increase

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

Oct 9 - RM with Burgundy

Oct 23 - Revolt in Meath

Oct 31 - Not any more

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

Apr 3 - I commission another tapestry

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

Apr 5 - revolt in Meath

April 20 - Revolt put down

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

June 22 -Friesland annexed by Holland

Nov 4 - France annexes Armagnac

Jan 22, 1430 - Brabant annexed by Utrecht

Mar 2 - France has been excommunicated. Wow

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

[Abe Sargent]

A Mistake By An Enemy



July 1 - Land Tech gain

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

Nov 30 - Lithuania is having a Peasants’ War

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

Aug 1, 1431 - Govnt Tech increase

Aug 2 - I guarantee Northumberland, my ally as well

Aug 16 - Gelre annexed by Utrecht

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All of my allies are in.

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


Dec 1 - Stability increase

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


Connaught:

7.27 ducats made, fishing, 2286 Irish Catholics.

I move my national focus to Connaught



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

[Abe Sargent]

A Pause for Reflection



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

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

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

Result of the Last Jousing Tournament:

For ten years:

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


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

Mar 1 - Our Banker was hired by Aquileia

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

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

Aug 1 - Land tech increase

Nov 8 - RM with Sweden

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

I go closer to Mercantilism for the spy bonuses.

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

Jan 12, 1437 - RM with Holland

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

Jan 24 - Rebellion in Connaught

Jan 29 - Put down

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

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

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

Feb 1 - Naval tech increase

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

[Abe Sargent]

The Third English-Irish War


Mar 30 = Wurttemburg annexed by Ansbach in war

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

Oct 30 - Lithuania Excommunicated

Dec 24 - France annexes Orleans

Mar 1, 1440 - Production Tech Increase

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

3000 rebels in each of Ulster and Connaught

Nov 25 - We defeated the rebels in Connaught

Dec 1 - Gvnment Tech Increase

Dec 31 - We defeat the rebels in Ulster.

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

Feb 11 - Burgundy annexed Lorraine.

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

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


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

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

May 1 - Land and Trade Tech increase

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

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

Jun 23 - We win in Lancashire

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

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

Aug 25 - We win in Yorkshire

I take out a loan for more mercs

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

Oct 21 - We win in Lancashire.

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

Oct 25 - Scottish capture Cumbria

Nov 2 - My main army arrives at London itself.

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

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

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

May 8 - Marches falls to us

May 24 - We get a Dishonorable scum CB against France

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

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

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

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

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

Dec 28 - We capture Wessex

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

Now let’s try for peace.

My demands:

Release Cornwall
Give me 200 ducats
Give me Gloucestershire and Marches


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


We gain 12 prestige and 6 badboy

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

My next mission is to Destabilize Scotland


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

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

I will be leaving my army in Marches.

[Abe Sargent]

June 14 - RM with Portugal

Let’s do a map real quick.


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[Abe Sargent]

Of Miracles and Men



Aug 22 - RM with Cornwall

Sept 4 - Leinster rejected vassalization offer

Oct 10 - I send Leinster a gift.

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

Nov 14 - Leinster accepts vassalization. Awesome!

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

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

Mar 27 - Wessex falls to the rebels.

June 14 - Rebels in Gloucestershire

June 30 - Defeated

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

July 6 - The English recaptured Wessex

Dec 14 - The rebels were destroyed by the English

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

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

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

Dec 25 - Naples Excommunicated

Jan 1, 1447 - I guarantee Cornwall’s independence

[Abe Sargent]

The Squabbling of Children


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

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

Apr 1 - Our forces arrive in Gwynnedd.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feb 19 - Brandenburg is having a Peasant’s War

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

[Abe Sargent]

50 Year Review


Oct 14, 1449


Tyrone has 6 provinces, and two vassals.

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

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

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

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

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

Gloucestershire - 11798, English, Catholic, 9.67 ducats fisher

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

Badboy 11.3,which we need to get down.

Prestige: 53

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

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

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


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

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


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

[Abe Sargent]

A Scottish-Irish-English Skirmish



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

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

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

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

I order some mercs in Marches and Gloucestershire

Mar 2 - We win in Marches.

Apr 12 - We take Lancashire

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

June 12 - Scotland sends us War Subsidies

June 23 - I assault and take Yorkshire

July 1 - Stability increase

July 4 - We begin a siege of Lincoln

Aug 28 - Cumbria falls to the Scottish

Oct 30 Lincoln falls

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


Nope

Jan 1 - Trade tech increase

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

Jan 11 - I assault and take East Anglia

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

Mar 6 - We recaptured Gloucestershire after a very short assault

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

May 1 -We gain stability back, Land tech increase

May 17 - We capture London

I send a diplomat

We get:

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


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

I proclaim a guarantee on Northumberland

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

[GoldenEagle]

Does Scotland own a little piece of mainland Europe?

[Abe Sargent]

Nope

[Abe Sargent]

One Friend Destroyed, Another Found




Aug 1 - Govent Tech Increase

Aug 7 - Scotland has captured Northumberland and Burgundy annexed Utrecht

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

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

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

Dec 1 - Stab increase back to max

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

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

Jan 8, 1452 - RM with Norway

Feb 1 - Naval Tech increase

April 5 -

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

July 20 - Ottomans are Defender of the Faith

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jan 8, 1453 - RM with Wales

I enact Land Reform in Meath

Feb 26 - RM with France

Aug 2 - RM with Burgundy, Norway

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

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

Mar 1 - Production Tech Increase

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

May 28 - RM with Sweden\

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

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


Sept 6 - France has been Excommunicated

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

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

Mar 1 - We gain our stability back

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

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

Screw it, okay France

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

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

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

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

[Abe Sargent]

Two Decisions Sculpt a Destiny



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

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

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

I gain one Decentralization. Yuck

We have united Ireland under once banner.

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

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

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

Our truce with England is up.

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

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

Options:

Quest for the New World
Engineer Corps
Grand Army


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

[Abe Sargent]

The Fourth English-Irish War




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


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

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

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

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

May 5 - Northumberland accepts an alliance offer from me.

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


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

I accept their call. We go to war.

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


July 19 - Troops of ours arrive in Lincoln

Oct 11 - Naples Excommunicated

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

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

Jan 1, 1458 - Lincoln falls.

Mar 1 - Trade tech increase

Apr 9 - England pays for 5000 rebels in Gloucestershire.

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

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

June 18 - We capture Oxfordshire

July 15 - We relieve the siege of Glaucestershire by rebels

Oct 5 - England recaptured Oxfordshire

Oct 12 - Northumbria captures Yorkshire

Dec 17 - We send the English packing in Lincoln

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



Jan 25 - Scotland captures Fife

Feb 2 - Cumbria and Lancashire have fallen to Northumberland

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

June 14 - London falls

July 10 - Genoa opens a Trade Station in Marches

July 26 - Oxfordshire falls, again

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

Aug 10 - We capture Wessex

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

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


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


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

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

[Abe Sargent]

Discoveries and Friends


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


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

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

Nov 12 - Cornwall rejects a vassalization offer.

Dec 14 - Gift to Cornwall

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

Mar 9 - Revolt in east Englia

Mar 25 - We win

Apr 17 - Another failure, more colonists dispatched.

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

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

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

Oct 1 - Stability back to 3

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

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

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

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

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

Dec 10 - Cornwall rejects another vassalization offer

Feb 23, 1461 - Our colony expands

Mar 31 - Trade Station in Meath. Thanks Genoa

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

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

July 20 - Vestbygen will produce Fur.

Aug 13 - I discover an island called Unamakik

Aug 29 - New Land Discovery - Atikamekw

Sept 20 - NLD - Labrador, Innu

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

Oct 20 - Gift to Cornwall

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

Jan 17, 1462 - I send more colonists

Feb 14 - NLD _ Nunavik

Mar 4- NLD: Moose Cree

May 1 - Our colony expands again

May 31 - NLD: Ungava

July 5 - NLD; Nunavut - a Wasteland

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

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

Oct 2, Cornwall accepts becoming our vassal

We lose a badboy for completing the mission

[Abe Sargent]

Quests Abroad



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

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

Jan 25 - We found Madeira, already colonized by Portugal

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

Next mission is to incorporate Wales into our country.

I send colonists to Vestbygen too.

Mar 1 - Stability back to 3

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

May 3 - Colony on The Canarias

May 23 - We expand in Vestbygen

Sept 10 - Northumberland accepts vassalization offer

Oct 6 - Mamluks are Defender of the faith

Jan 3, 1464 - Sweden annexed Denmark

Jan 10 - England at war with Aragon and Portugal

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

Sept 15 - Our Greenland colony expands

[Abe Sargent]

Another Scottish-Irish-English Skirmish



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

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

I begin a siege of London

With France’s cash I pick up some mercs

Jan 1, 1465 - Land tech increase

England has Portugese soldiers besieging it.

July 29 - We capture Lincoln with mercs

Oct 5 - I reject a white peace from England

Oct 3 - Lothian captured by English

Nov 21 - We capture London

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

Jan 16, 1466 - Lancashire surrenders to Portugal

Jan 20 - Scotland captures Cumbria

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

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

[Abe Sargent]

The Mainland and the New Land



Feb 3 - I build a new Palace

I send colonists to Greenland

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

Scotland is no longer my ally.

Apr 1 - Production Tec Increase

May 19 - Expansion, more settlers sent

July 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Aug 7 - RM with Auvergne

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

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

Oct 10 - Sweden agrees to be my ally

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

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


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

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

Feb 1 - Trade tech increase

Mar 2 - Portugal is already exploring

Are they going around Africa or into the Atlantic?

July 2 - Sweden breaks their alliance with us - WTF

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

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

Oct 22 - NLD - Delaware

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

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

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

Sept 4- Colony established in Beothuk

Oct 1 - Gvement Tech Increase

Jan 9, 1469 - NLD Santee

Feb 11 - We capture Antwerp.

Feb 18 - We arrive at Vlaanders and begin a siege

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

May 6 - Naples excommunicated

May 22 - I reject a white peace offer from Burgundy

June 14 - We capture Vlaanderen

June 25 - NLD Pennacook

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

July 5 - I begin a siege of Zeeland

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

Oct 1 - Burgundy gave France four provinces in peace.

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

[Abe Sargent]

Quick Changes



Oct 16 - Wales rejects annexation

Nov 10 - England pays for some patriots in Oxfordshire

Nov 20 - Wales sent gift

Dec 3 - Dead rebels

Feb 22, 1470 - Colonists to Beothuk

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

Mar 1, Wales accepts annexation

I gain a core on Glamorgan for completing the mission.

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

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

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

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

[Abe Sargent]

A Temporary Pause



Apr 28 - Beothuk expands

Jun1 - My explorer died

June 3 - Pretender rebels destroyed

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

I spend 5 prestige to take away the stupid mission.

Our new mission is to turn The Canarias into a city

Sept 6 - RM with Castille

Nov 16 - RM with Portugal

Jan 9, 1471 - Revolt in East Anglia

Feb 5 - Rebels dead. Settlers to Beothuk

Feb 25 - Auvergne RM

May 20 - Fur in Beothuk

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

June 4 - Beothuk expands

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

Apr 24, 1472 - I now have a real navy

June 5 - Beothuk expands

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

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

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

Jan 27 - RM with Norway

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

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

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

[Abe Sargent]

The Fifth English-Irish War


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

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

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

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

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

Apr 11 -Colony established in Eiriksfjord

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

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



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

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

Oct 1 - Trade tech increase

Dec 16 - I laugh at a white peace offer.

Dec 22 - Lancashire falls to us.

Jan 30, 1474 - Hesse annexes Wurzburg

Feb 28 - Lincoln falls

Mar 1 - Cumbria falls after a quick assault

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

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

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

We gained a ton of prestige and 12 full badboy.


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

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

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

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



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

[Abe Sargent]

Let's get you a map.


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[Abe Sargent]

Serendipity Unlooked For



Oh, I now accept English as a culture.


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

Castille has taken Quest for the New World too.

May 18 - Eiriksfjord expands

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

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

Sept 9 - The Pope Excommunicated Venice

Sept 11 - I have inherited Auvergne.

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

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


Crazy

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

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

Jan 1, 1475 - I send more colonists to Beothuk

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

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

Apr 29 - Beothuk expands

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

[Abe Sargent]

Fears of the Mundane



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

NM, Castille just took care of them

June 4 - Post Office decision in Marches

Jan 1, 1476 - Colonists sent

Jan 9 - Rebellion in Gwynedd

Jan 18 - Which we win

May 1 0 Beothuk expanded

May 8 - England has annexed Scotland. Ick.

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

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

May 26 - Fish in Eiriksfjord

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

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

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

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

Jan 1, 1477 - Colonists to Eiriksfjord

Feb 14 - RM with Holstein

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

Apr 9 - Expansion

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

July 1 - I get an alliance CB against Corsica.

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

Oct 1 - Burgundy Bankrupt yet again

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

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

Mar 27 - The Canarias expands

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

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

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



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

[Abe Sargent]

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




Nov 16 - RM with Brabant

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

Apr 23 - Aragon rejects our RM offer

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

Destabilize England is the next mission.

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


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


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

June 13 - Eiriksfjord expands

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


Our truce with England is up


HAHAHAHA

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

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

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

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

Sept 2 - I assault and capture Highlands

Nov 13- Gelre captures the Canarias. Pissy.

Dec 7 - Yorkshire falls to us

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

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

Jan 29 - Kent falls

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

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

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

Mar 28 - France takes Limburg in peace with Brabant

Apr 9 - The Pope Excommunicated Milan

Apr 26 - France captures Caux

May 12 - Eiriksfjord expands

May 27 - Gelre annexed by France

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

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

[Abe Sargent]

A New Idea



July 3 - RM with Scotland

July 6 - England guarantees Scottish independence

Aug 6 - Scotland accepts our alliance offer

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

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

Apr 10 - Eiriksfjord expands

Aug 1 - Burgundy bankrupt again

Apr 22, 1482 - Eiriksfjord expands

July 1 - Eiriksfjord is now a full city


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



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

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

May 11 - NLD Baffin, a Wasteland

I enact Land Reform in Oxfordshire

May 25 - NLD Swampy Cree and Chipewyan

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

I gain a Colonialism CB against them

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

June 20 Venice Excommunicated again

Aug 19 - NLD Epekwitk

Sept 8 - NLD Kespek, Stadacona

Nov 6 - Bavaria annexed Ansbach

Dec 1 - NLD: Cree

Government Tech Increase. We can gain another idea.


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

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

[Abe Sargent]

Growth Abroad



Mar 11 - NLD - Massachusetts, Narraganset

Mar 17 - NLD - Powhatan, Connecticut, Conoy

Mar 26 - Slider time

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

Apr 14 - NLD - Unami

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

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

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

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

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

I send colonists to Epekwitk, and Labrador

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

Succeeded and Discovered
Succeeded and was Discovered and colony destroyed.

I send in colonists

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

July 17 - Pirates destroyed.

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

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

Aug 28 - Pirates killed.

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

Sept 3 - Failure to set up colony in Innu

Sept 11 Won in Ulster and rebels are defeated.

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

Oct 23 - Colony in Epekwitk

Oct 30 - Unamakik colony

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

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

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

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

[Abe Sargent]

Colonies, Instability, The Pope and The Welsh





July 19 - Both colonies expanded

Sept 1 - Trade Tech Increase

Oct 18 - Sweden annexed Norway

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

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

Dec 1 - Burgundy bankrupt

Dec 25 - NLD: Attawapiskat

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

May 18 - Both colonies expand

June 10 Rebels in Lancashire

June 26 - Fur is the trade of Epekwitk

July 11 - We win in Lancashire

July 28 - Fur in Unamakik

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sept 28 - A Regent is now in Castille.

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

Nov 8 - Rejection of annexation. Come on now.

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

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

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


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

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


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

HAHAHA - They do.


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

[Abe Sargent]

Waiting to Pounce


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

May 16 - Expansion of our colonies

Sept 1 - Sweden regained the Papacy

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


Sept 6 - Cherokee has agreed to give us military access

Sept 23 - Land Reform in Wessex

Oct 27 - Trade Station founded by Venice in Leinster

Nov 3 - Hesse annexed Trier

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

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

Dec 13 - England has taken Quest for the New World

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

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

Apr 13 - NLD Pamlico

Apr 21 - NLD Timucua

We land in Muskogee and I move my Conquistador around

May 1 - Stability back to 3

June 4 - Trade Station in East Anglia

June 22 - NLD Catawba

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

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

Aug 10 - I send colonists to Innu and Labrador

Aug 14 - NLD Cheraw, Chiaha

Oct 10 NLD Cherokee, Cumberland

Dec 2 - Colony established at Innu

Dec 17 - Labrador failed

Dec 27 - NLD 0 Shawnee, Chickasaw

Feb 1, 1490 - NLD Pennyrile

[Abe Sargent]

The Final English-Irish War



Feb 11 - I can Excommunicate someone.

Ah, England has been Excommunicated.

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

Mar 26 - NLD Kentucky, Wea

Apr 11 - I have killed the only English army.

Apr 18 - Captured Yorkshire after a quick assault

France has already captured Caux

Apr 27 - I failed an assault on Lothian

May 9 - Calais fell

May 17 - NLD - Ohio, Wyandot

May 18 - France took Calais in peace.

June 6 - Lothian falls

July 10 - Ayrshire falls after a quick assault

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

Aug 12 - Aberdeen fell to Scotland

Aug 25 - Fife fell to a quick assault by moi

Sept 1: NLD - Tennessee

Sept 3 - Caux fell to us

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

Oct 9 - NLD Alabama

Oct 23 - We discover Mobile, Pensacola and Yamasee

Nov 20 London falls

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

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

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


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


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


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

[Abe Sargent]

Moving Out


Dec 7 - New mission - turn Innu into a city

Dec 16 - NLD - Apalachee

Dec 23 - Finally set up a colony in Labrador

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

Apr 11 - Innu expands and I sent more colonists

Apr 17 - Luneberg is released by Brandenburg in peace.

Aug 13 - Innu expands

Sept 10 - RM with England

Sept 20 - Fish in Innu

I have been the Papal Controller for a while now

Jan 16, 1492 - Workshops in Marches and Ulster

May 20 - Innu Expands

May 25 - Labrador expands

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

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

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


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

I send a guarantee for the Cherokee

July 1 - Government Tech Increase

Sept 2 - Bavaria claimed Defender of the Faith

Oct 6 - Innu expands and I send in more

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

Jan 25, 1493 - My fleet arrives in Beothuk

Feb 7 Innu expands and more colonists are dispatched

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

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

I keep:

6 Cogs, 4 Carracks


I order a few more Cogs for my European forces

[Abe Sargent]

Slow and Steady



Mar 24 - My explorer has passed away

Apr 23 - I order a Post Office in Lancashire

May 2 - Rebels in Ayrshire

May 14 - Defeated

June 11 - Innu expands and more are sent

I figured out why Portugal likes Unami. 1500 natives with no aggressiveness means you can colonize it and there is no chance of an uprising (unless another pays for it)

Sept 1 - I have 2 Carracks on a patrol around all of our colonies to keep off pirates and help get us the tarriffs.

Oct 1 - Naval Supplies in Labrador

Oct 7 - Austria annexes Switzerland

I am still the Papal Controller, and I can choose to Excommunicate again. Who do I want to take out? No one really. Austria is waaaaaay too big, so I’d like to do them but they are ruled by a Regency Council right now, so there is no one to hammer.


I think I should have taken the land from England instead of vassalization.

I can lift Excommunication for England

I Excommunicate Sweden

Oct 13 - Innu expands and I send in more colonists

Feb 14, 1494 - Expansion of Innu

Mar 1, Gloucestershire and Marches are now cores. Government tech increase

Mar 6 - I extend the Road Network in Lancashire. This costs me a magistrate.

+3% local tax, +0.05 magistrates annually, extra trade and manpower too


Want to know something interesting? The Tyrone O’Neills are in the throne of France, Sweden, Oldenburg, Aragon and Brabant. Sort of like the Hapsburgs on a smaller scale.


June 27 - Innu expands and becomes a major colony, it gets an extra manpower and some manpower from the mission. Our new mission is to have a larger army than Portugal which is actually very doable.



Innu - I order a fort here. 1602 Irish Catholics, fishers, 5.07 ducats annually


I order a workshop in Gloucestershire

July 1 - Our Naval advisor has died. I do not get another just yet.

Aug 25 - Mission accomplished. The next one is Fortify Innu, which I am working on anyway

Sept 7 - Today we lost all of our Trade Stations because the Papal States captured Venice, and there are no more Trade Leagues to jump into.

[Tellistto]

So since there is a Tyrone O'Neill on the throne in Sweden, does that mean you excommunicated a relative? Heh.

Tell

[Abe Sargent]

So since there is a Tyrone O'Neill on the throne in Sweden, does that mean you excommunicated a relative? Heh.

Tell

Yup

[Abe Sargent]

Protestants, Explorers and Regents



Jan 16, 1495 - Burgundy has The Protestant Reformation

The Papacy has been wrested from my control by the Papal States, they have 4 cardinals and me 3.

Burgundy has switched religions and Bourgogne has gone Protestant.

Jan 18 - Burgundy has Refused Religious Unity by Bohemia and the HRE.

Feb 7 - Castille take Defender of the Faith

May 4 - Our King has passed. He did a lot for us. We go into Regency because the heir, Conchobhar O’Neill is 14.

June 1 - Flanders declares independence from Burgundy

RM with Flanders, Brabant, Milan, France, and Auvergne

June 28 - We finish the Fortify Mission in Innu. The next mission is Turn Labrador into a City. I send in colonists.

While waiting for a new advisor, I find a three star Navigator which allows me to expand my colonial range even more. What is available now?

8 new provinces open up. I send colonist to Acadia and Stadacona. Stadacona has 5 tax value and it is deep in Canadian area off the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Acadia has 3 tax value ad straight land routes to my two island provinces in Epekwitk and Unamakik.I have a 72% chance of success in Acadia and 78.4 in Stadacona.

Aug 1 - Government tech increase

I build a new Palace

Aug 14 - Rm with Scotland

Oct 1 - Production Tech increase. I can change a Slider and I decide to go with:

Centralization. Local Pretender in Innu. I launch my navy and arny from Beothuk.


Oct 7 - Rm with Northumberland

Oct 29 - Rebels killed

Nov 5 - Labrador expandsador

Nov 22 - Colony established in Acadia

Nov 28 - Stadacona also

Our ruler is now 16.

Conchobhar O’Neill with Admin 7, Mil 3, and Dip 5. His heir is his Brother Brian, age 11, strong

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Spread



Feb 8, 1496 - RM with England, Northumberland

July 3 - Rm with Castille

July 23 - Workshop in Wessex and Cornwall

Sept 3 - Oldenburg rejects RM offer

Oct 6 - Rm with Oldenburg.

Oct 8 - Rebellion in Wessex

Nov 11 =- Rebels annihilated

Dec 5 - I build a Road Network in Yorkshire

Dec 16 - Castille annexed Benin, Oyo, and other African nations

Dec 23 - I send my Conquistador inland from Innu and have discovered Quebec, a Wasteland

Feb 19, 1497 - Rebels spilled over from Burgundy into Auvergne, so I ask for Military Access from France and they grant it, so I can put an army there and kill the rebels of my vassal

Apr 1 - Both Unamakik and Epekwitk are now full cities.

Apr 20 - We won in Auvergne



Here are our new provinces

Unamakik: Building a fort, 7.42 ducats sent to us in the fur trade by 1200 Irish Catholics This is an island next to another island, and has a straight crossing to Acadia.

Epekwitk - Also building a fort and also Irish, Catholic and fur. 1500 people, 7.42 ducats made for us Also a straight to Acadia



Apr 30 - France reports that the spread of Protestanism happened to them.

Where are the Protestants on the map? Auvergne, Poitou, both provinces of Auvergne, my vassal, Lyonnais, Rouergue, Nevers, Brunswick, and Wurttemburg,


May 11 Auvergne has converted to Protestant. This drops our relations a bunch.

[Abe Sargent]

Expansion Slowly



July 2 - Labrador expands and I send in more.

Oct 8 - Sweden is getting the Reformation Branches Out. They have converted to Reformed.

Reformed already? Crazy However, Sweden is now not excommunicated anymore

Nov 9 - Labrador expands and I send inmore

Jan 1, 1498 - Scotland has converted to Reformed, as has their province of Highlands, and our realtions drop.

Feb 4 - Scotland and Auvergne rejoin my allaince when I make them alliance offers

Mar 4 - Post Office in Yorkshire

Mar 19 - Labrador expands and I send one more set in

Mar 24 - Labrador is now Reformed. Weird.

Apr 20 - Sweden is having Religious Civil Disorder

May 2 - I have sent a few gifts to my vassal Auvergne

May 10 = Castille annexed Kongo

July 28 - Labrador expands. They are Catholic again. When a colony of another religion gets colonists, it changes to the new religion. That way, you can “convert” colonies captured from other powers rather quickly.

I fund some Norweigan Nationalists in Orkney since Sweden moved away. Succ (87%) not discovered (only 33% of it)

Nov 1 - Acadia attacked by savages. I send in more just to buffer the colony.

Dec 1- Labrador now a full city, and the mission complete


Labrador: 1500 Irish Catholics, Naval Supplies, I order a level fort here, 3.7 ducats, next to Innu.


Our newest mission is to Discover Cape Verde. I make an Explorer.

Feb 1, 1499 - I send colonists to Abnaki

Mar 27 - Acadia expands

June 3 - Colonist send to Micmac. Post Office in Cumbria

Jun 8 - We discover Cape Verde and I get 5 colonists, I am asked to discover Komi, which I am told is in Europe?

Colonists to Stadacona

July 1 - New colony in Abnaki.

July 11 - Sweden lands troops in Orkney

Aug 2 - The Canarias converts to Reformed

Sept 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Now where can I colonize?

4 more places

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 14, 1499 - 100 Year review:


Ireland has 18 European provinces, 3 vassals, 8 colonies that have become city, and 3 colonies


Ireland, all are Catholic, Irish

Ulster - 2295, 17.06 ducats, workshop, temple, grain

Connaught - 3780, 8.5 ducats, fish

Munster - 3719, 12.59 ducats, fish, temple

Meath - 6232, 12.93, temple, grain

Leinster - 4532, fish, 10.08 Ducats


Britain Provinces,all are Catholic


Glamorgan -Welsh, 2876, iron, 10.26 ducats, temple

Gwynedd - Welsh, 1978, fish, 8.43ducats

Cornwall - Welsh, 18614, copper, 19.28 ducats, 4.4% rebel, temple, workshop

Wessex - English, 12431, fish, 19.78, workshop, temple, 1.5% rebel

Gloucestershire - English, 17210, fish, 21.69, workshop


Oxfordshire - English, 12371, grain, 24.08 ducats, university, temple, workshop

East Anglia - English, 20347, cloth, 32.03 ducats, workshop, university, marketplace, temple,

Lincoln - English, 9366, grain, 13.41 ducats, workshop

Lancashire - English, 5394, cloth, 17.52 ducats, temple

Yorkshire - English, 19232, iron, 18.14, 3% rebel, market[place, temple

Cumbria, English, National Focus, 2299, fish, 9.52 ducats, temple

Ayrshire - Scottish, 2554, Iron, 9.59


Former Colonies - All are Irish and Catholic unless otherwise notice


The Canarias - 1728 Irish Reformed, sugar, 5.98 ducats

Vestbygen - 1898, fur, 9.58 ducats

Eiriksfjord - 1691, fish, 5.3 ducats

Beothuk - 1736, fur, 6.12 ducats

Innu - 1662, fish, 5.45

Labrador - 1508, Naval Supplies, 3.72

Unamakik - 1221, fur, 7.38

Epekwitk - 1527, fur, 7.38


Colonies - Acadia, Abnaki, Stadacona. Colonists bound for Micmac.


We have just 2.5 badboy, 66 prestige, and 405 ducats in the treasury

4% inflation

8th highest income in the world, behind France, Castille, Austria, Sweden, Ming, etc.

Tied for most advanced Land with 13 countries, Down two on Naval, Down a bunch on trade, Down a bunch of Production, ahead by two in Government in front of everyone. France has 12, Auvergne and Austria at 1, four at 10, and then everyone else is still at 9, while we are at 14.

Our 35k army is 10th largest in the world. Austria and France are 1 and 2.

Our 35 ships are the 5th largest navy in the world behind Ming, Japan, Castille and Sweden.

[Abe Sargent]

Conflict Unlooked For



Oct 16 - RM with Auvergne

Oct 24 - Colony established in Micmac

Nov 5 - Stadacona expands. Since I expect to get another 5 colonists soon from my mission, I send them to Stadacona, Micmac, Abnaki and Massachusetts

Jan 1, 1500 - Govnment Increase. I can now build Courthouses

I choose to Introduce Heir

Colonist to Acadia

Feb 4 - We discover the wasteland of Komi, at the north of Finland. Gain of 5 colonists.

My next mission is stupid. It tells me to colonize Komi, but it cannot be colonized, it’s a wasteland.

Broken. I take the 5 prestige hit to cancel it. My new mission is convert The Canarias. I send a Missionary, but I have a low chance of success

Feb 19 - Fur in Stadacona

Mar 28 - Micmac expands and I send another colonist

Apr 3 - Stadacona expandacona, as does Abnaki

Apr 10 - Colony established in Massachusetts and I send more colonists

May 26 - Acadia expands

You lose Badboy for cardinals you control, and it has been dropping rapidly as a result. I should wage war soon.

July 3 -Road network in Cumbria

Aug 1 - Naval Supplies in Acadia

Aug 8 - Micmac expands

Aug 22 - Austria DOWs France. I agree to join my allies. These are the two biggest land armies, and I look to see if there is somewhere I can nip in and siege successful a province or three of Austria

Sept 8 - I discovered Mali.

Sept 15 - NLD - Sierra Leone, Massachusetts expands and I send more colonists

Sept 29 - I receive permission to use Aragon as bases for my military. Thanks. I’ll use him after moving my Cornwall army and main fleet into the Mediterranean.

Nov 3 - Fur in Micmac

Dec 9 - NLD Grain Coast

Jan 10, 1501 - Rebels in Ayrshire

Jan 21 - Rebels killed

Jan 29 - Siege begun in Apulia in Italy by me.

Feb 19 - Massachusetts expands and more colonists are dispatched.

Apr 1 - Trade tech increase

Apr 3 - We crushed a 20 ship fleet of Austria’

June 21 - About 2000 Austrian troops led by their king drive me out of Apulia and back to our boat

June 30 - Fur in Massachusetts

July 26 - Win a naval battle, and Massachusetts expanded and more colonists are sent

Aug 7 - Post Office in Ayrshire

Nov 7, The Counter-Reformation has occurred with the Council of Salamanca

Northumberland, Bohemia, Papal States, Pisa and Portugal embrace Counter-Reform Catholic

The Knights do a few days later

Nov 28 - I get an event - Heir Falls Ill. I choose p ay 20 ducats and send for a Medicus. He has passed and I have no heir.

Dec 29 - Massachusetts expands

Mar 5, 1502, Austria rejects a white peace

Apr 8 - I reject a crazy peace offer from Austria

May 1 - Land tech increase. We can build cannon now

I will build a Large Bronze Cannon for each of my three armies in Ireland/Britain

May 29 - Austria lands a few hundred troops in The Canarias and begins a siege

June 2 - I destroy the fleet with my explorer fleet I had resting there and force them away, stranding the 600 cavalry

June 16 - Expansion and more colonists to Massachusetts

June 23 - Fur in Abnaki

Aug 1 - Extended Road network in Ayrshire

Aug 2 - Austria accepts a peace offer where I admit I lost and lose 5 prestige, dropping me to 70

[Abe Sargent]

On Vassals




Do you know what the chance is to annex England? Unlikely. Not Maybe, and not Very unlikely, but just unlikely. That’s a shot worth taking to my eyes. It’s probably just 20% or something.


The factors are there - low badboy, high prestige, solid diplomacy skill, their ruler is Excommunicated,


Offer rejected Gift will be sent in the future to make up

Sept 11 - I go to war with France against Corsica.

Holland too.

I send an army in.

Nov 5 - I begin a siege of Holland province

Nov 20 - Massachusetts expands and more are sent

Jan 3, 1503 - I land a second army in Friesland

Jan 12 - I win and begin a siege there too

Jan 18 - Holland falls

Jan 25 - I destroy some ships in the Coast of Holland

Jan 27 - I decline a peace offer of 150 ducats from Holland

Feb 24 - Friesland falls

Holland is forced by the sword into being my vassal

I lose another advisor but I find a third three stat Navigator in the advisor pool and hire him.

Where can I colonize now?

I send colonists to Bermuda and Unami

Apr 6 - Corsica accepts our White peace offer

Apr 11 - Holland is now my ally

England rejects annexation

Apr 25 - Massachusetts

May 30 - Today our King had a boy, Muchadh. June 3 - RM with Holland

June 10 - Oldenburg agrees to be my ally

France is having some real problems with religion rebels

Aug 22 - I pay to put some Norweigan rebels in Orkney - 4000. I was caught and failed once.

Aug 25 - East Anglia Univ Class of 1503 - To the Adminstration

I enact Land Reform in Lancashire

Sept 9 - My colonies have taken in Bermuda and Unami

Oct 2 - Native uprising in Abnaki

Dec 10 - Rejection by England of annexation

Dec 17 - The Pope did something I would have done a long time ago and excommunicated Austria, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Feb 1, 1504 - Production tech Increase

Mar 3 - England rejects annexation

Forget England, I just decide to annex Northumberland


Northumberland - 31289 English Catholics, 16.85 ducats made, 7 Revolt Risk, cloth, south of Lothian, east of Cumbria, north of Yorkshire, with a temple.

[Abe Sargent]

The French-Irish Alliance Continues to Expand



Apr 11 - NLD - Gabon

Apr 27 - NLD Cameroon, Whydah. I also found Portugal down here in Africa

May 1- Acadia damaged by natives

May 4 - NLD - Ivory Coast

July 1 - Post Office in Northumberland

July 12 - The Canarias converts and I gain some prestige (it’s now 88)

Next Mission - Colonize Kespek, which is between Stadacona, Micmac and Abnaki - all my colonies. I send out colonists


Aug 7 - Problem. Oldenburg DOW’ed France. I join France and go to war with my former ally and the country I was trying to bring into mny fold. I order an army into my fleet

Aug 28 = NLD - Manhattan

Sept 5 - Massachusetts is now a full colony of mine.


Massachusetts - 3543, Catholic Irish, fur trade, 9.94 ducats, working on fort


Sept 15 - 9000 strong Irish land in Oldenburg and begin a siege

Oct 16 - NLD - Moron

Nov 10 Scotland funded rebeks in Ayrshire for me to fight,m and Northumberland just has rebels normally.

Nov 19 - We won in Ayrshire and Northumberland

Nov 24 - NLD Bahamas

Dec 5 - We have a colony in Kespek and get some settlers as our mission bonus.

Next mission - Break the Pirate Blockade at Connaught

Dec 20 -Oldenburg falls

Dec 30 - I destroyed the Oldenburg fleet

Jan 1, 1505 - I decline a white peace offer

Feb 7 - We broke the blockade and the new mission is Colonize Taqamkuk, which is next to Beothuk, but pretty poor.

I send colonists to Manhattan

Feb 6 - I get an event - Rush of Colonists.

I send colonists to several colonies to bump our numbers.

Apr 10 - We capture Osnabruck

Apr 23 - France has the End of Religious Turmoil

June 10 - I decline a peace offer that gives me Osnabruck

Nevers has declared free from Burgundy.

June 25 - Extended Road Network in Northumberland

July 2 - I join France against Brabant

July 7 - Munster falls to us

Oldenburg accepts being my vassal and I gain 3 badboy and a ton of prestige

[Abe Sargent]

A Continental Commitment




Now I turn my eye towards Brabant, which has a province I want, Antwerp, a COT

July 16 - Stadacona expands

July 24 - Colony established in Manhattan and I send in more colonists

Aug 1 - NLD -Mahican

Aug 26 - My army lands in Antwerpen and begins a siege

Oct 3 - I land a second army in Zeeland

Nov 27 - I get an event - The O’Neills.

The O’Neills in Oldenburg are having problems. I send them money, increase our relations, and gain prestige - the other option was to hit the relations.

Nov 28 -0 Oldenburg is our ally again

Jan 1, 1506 - Acadia hit by natives again

Jan 7 - Manhattan expands and more colonists are sent

Jan 14 - Antwerp fell

Feb 2 - I decline white peace offer

Feb 14 - I failed an assault on Vlaanderen

Feb 22 - Zeeland falls

Mar 7 - Victory over the Brabant navy

Mar 9 - Vlaanderen falls

Despite a big warscore, Brabant would not release a vassal or cede any provine to me. I continue

Mar 25 - Failed assault on the Brabant captial of Breda, but we left behind only 71 defenders

Apr 2 - Breda falls after a new assault


Apr 12 - Brabant sends a peace offer for Antwerp, Vlaanderen and Zeeland. 16 prestige and 9 badboy

Before I accept, I have max prestige, so I use 10 to expand my influence over The Palatinate

Apr 15 - NLD - Damaraland, Kisarna, Luanda


I should have done this a while ago. Grabbing land in the lowlands when it was ready and open was something I should have been doing all along. Ah well, lesson learned.


Vlaanderen - 177193 Flemish Catholics, 36.55 ducats, cloth, marketpplace, Textile manufactory!!, workshop, courthouse, west of Antwerpen and next to Brabant in Brabant province, and France in Hainaut, Calais, and Artois 12% revolt risk

Zeeland - 25480 Dutch Protestant, salt trade, temple, 21.54 ducats, 9% revolt risk. East of Zeeland, south of Holland, west of Brabant in Breda and Brabant

Antwerpen - 275526 Flemish Protestant, cloth, 35.75 ducats, 10.5% revolt, Textile Manufactory!, marketplace, courthouse, Center of Trade, between Vlaanderen and Zeeland, next to Brabant as well


I send a missionary to Zeeland, it’s pretty cheap. I’ll have to save up to send one to Antwerp. Having two manufactories this early is great.

I will be leaving one of the armies here and taking the other back, and then assembling a new army for back

With our provinces going to it instead of our vassal Holland, Antwerp is now the most valuable COT in the world, more than 200 above Astrakhan.

Holland dropped to just 80, it lost all of its value when we moved.

[Abe Sargent]

Cooling the Populace




I muscled ourselves into a strong place in the COT

June 3 - NLD - Pocumtuk

June 24 - Manhattan expands and more colonists are dispatched


I make a National Decision - Colonial Expansion - I lose 3 to my badboy limit, but I gain cheaper costs to send out colonists and better colony growth

July 9 - Rebels in Antwerp

We currently control 4 cardinals. That really will help to drop our Badboy

July 27 - Rebels defeated

Something is going to happen in four years to blow the ocks off my colonial range, and then I will probably drop these three navigators in order to get advisors again.

Sept 29 - Cotton in Manhattan

Nov 6 - We are now the Papal Controller again

We have 5 Cardinals from Munster, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, and Meath. England has two- one from London and one from Lothian.

Get this, the Excommunicate Bomb reloads in one month

Dec 8 - Manhattan expands

I send colonists to Stadacona, which I want to finish off

Feb 16 - 1507, France asks for my help in staving off the Papal States, but sorry France. I love ya, and I hope we can become allies again in the future, but youa re beging attacked way too much right now.

Apr 12 - NLD St Helena

Apr 13 - Aragon rejects our Rm offer.

I excommunicate Portugal

May 6 - Stadacona expands and I send one last group of colonists to it

June 1 - Land Reform in Yorkshire

July 20 - Fish in Unami

I discover that Portugal has been colonizing several prpovinces along the coast just south of us, so I again incite natives. I am caught once.

Aug 20 - Slider time

I go with maxed Aristocracy and I get 5 revolutionary rebel units in Lincoln

Sept 26 - We defeated the Rebels

Oct 2 - Stadacona expand sand is now a full province. I order a fort build.


Stadacona: 1535 fur trading Irish Catholics make us 10.53 ducats annually. Next to Kespek and Atikamekw


Dec 20 - Those rebels I set up in Orkney a long time ago have resulted in them declaring independence against Sweden, under the flag of Norway

We are now “Norway”’s ally. They are at war with Sweden, so perhaps Sweden will take them down, we’ll see.

[Abe Sargent]

Destruction of a Power


Dec 23 - I discover Seminole, and the natives have been killed off and settled by Portugal, it’s a small colony but one I would be unable to take out.

Dec 27 - Austria takes a few French provinces like Savoie and Lyonnais in war.

Jan 24, 1508 - RM with Norway

Mar 1 - Land tech increases and we can upgrade infantry

I upgrade my cannon to Culverin. I upgrade my Galloglaigh Infantry to Reformed Galloglaigh Infantry

I generally choose units that are better on offense than defense

Mar 28 - Land Reform in Northumberland

Apr 2 - The two provinces of Scotland agree to become my vassal

Apr 17 - Gloucestershire becomes reformed

Apr 19 - France loses three provinces to Brabant in peace

I have the $$ to send a Missionary to Gloucestershire so I do

Apr 27 - Naval Supplies in Bermuda

I send some colonists to Micmac to start to finish a colony or two before July 30, 1510

May 1 - France has changed religion to Protestant

Aug 29 - NLD - Barahonas and Tortuga, controlled by Portugal

Aug 31 - I embrace the Counter-Reformation, which will help us get missionaries, their chances, and cost.

Sept 1 - Four province Brittany has declared independence from France

We enter into a Rm with them

Sept 18 - Micmac expands and I send in more colonists

Sept 29 - NLD Curacao

Oct 11 - France is dying. They have -3 stability, huge war exhaustion, and religion problems.

Oct 27 - NLD St. Thomas, owned by Portugal

I figure I might explore down in the Caribbean, and nip just one or two islandsm like any self-respecting colonial power would do.

Nov 27 - I do the Incite natives trick to wipe out the Portugese colony they just founded in Timucua, right above Seminole

I’m making 68 ducats annually from Antwerp’s COT, which is really nice

Jan 1, 1509 - Workshops in Lancashire and Yorkshire; Land Reform in Ayrshire

Jan 15 - Naval Supplies in Kespek

Feb 8 - Micmac expands and more colonists are sent

Mar 7 - NLD Havana

Mar 27 - NLD Belize and the Maya

Apr 2 - I decline an alliance offer from Castille

Apr 28 - NLD Guantanamo

May 26 - Where are there still Catholics? Portugal, Castille, England, Austria and Italy. We are havens in a sea of Orthodox, Reformed, and Protestant

June 1 - Native attack in Abnaki

June 24 - Gloucestershire converts back!

June 30 - Micmac expands. I send in one last batch

July 2 - One of my navigators has died, but in a year that will be okay

I create a 4 star Naval advisor and hire him

[Abe Sargent]

Entering the Irish Colonial Age



Sept 1 - Oxfordshire and East Anglia are now cores

Sept 19 - NLD Barbados - Portugese

Oct 4 - NLD - Demerara, Essequibo

Oct 28 - NLD St. Lucia - Portugese

Oct 31 NLD Puerto Rico, Dominica

Nov 1 - NLD Kwedech

Nov 20 - Micmac expands and becomes a full colony


Micmac - 2537 Irish Catholics fur traders, 8.86 ducats made, adjacent to Acadia, Abnaki and Kespek. Level 1 fort ordered



Dec 9 - Who now has 6 Cardinals? Ireland does!

Jan 1, 1510 - Government tech increases, and we can build Universities

Feb 10 - NLD - Tortuga - Portugese

Feb 26 - NLD Martinique, Antigua

Apr 1 - The first of my events in 1510 has occurred. Naval Tech increase. Which of course increases our colonial range.

I send colonists to Taqamkuk which will get me more colonists if/when successful per my mission

Apr 3 - NLD Suriname

Apr 8 - NLD Cumana

May 1 - Production Tech increases

June 23 - We get an event - Poor Uniforms, we discover we have poor uniforms and my army loses a bit of morale for a year until we get them replaced

July 21 - NLD Trinidad

July 25 - NLD St Kitts.

Aug 1, Land Tech Increases and…..Vestbygen is now a core, my first colonial core. What does that mean? Instead of drawing naval ranges from Ireland, I can now drow from greenland. What can I hit now?

I send colonists to Santee, the province by the Cherokee, that I took Portugal out of.

I also send to Pamlico, next to Santee

Finally, I send colonists to Bahamas

[GoldenEagle]

Can we get an updated map?

[Autumn]

Yes, please.

[Abe Sargent]

I didn;t have internet for a day, so I played ahead but I haven;t got caught up yet in the dynasty. I can give you maps from 11 years previously, 1499. Or I can get you 1536, which is how far i played. I don;t think either will help. Tell you what, why don't I put in parentheses where a province is if it doesn;t use a modern day placename for colonization purposes?


I have colonists to Santee (Coastal South Carolina), Pamlico (Coastal North Carolina), Bahamas, Bermuda.

Unami is New Jersey. Manhattan, Massachiusetts, Delaware ,Mobile, Connecticut are exactly what you think they are. Abnaki is Maine. Taqamkuk and Beothuk together make up the island of Newfoundland. Acadia and Micmac are north of Maine up to and through the coast. Micmac is New Brunswick, and Acadia Nova Scotia. Epekwitk is better known as Prince Edward Island, and Unamakik beside it is direct east of Prince Edward Isle and known today as Cape Breton Island north of and part of Nova Scotia.


Stadacona is where the St. Lawrence River meets the gulf, and it is, tax base wise, the most valuable of these provinces in the area.

Kespek is between Stadacona and Micmac and Abnaki on the other, so it is adjacent to Maine. It is on the southern part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Seminole, where the Portugese are, is the southern half of Florida.


That should be most of where we are in order to help. As I send out more colonists and talk about new world provinces, I'll tell you where it is until I can get you caught up.

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Begins


Aug 9 - NLD Les Cayes - Portugese

Aug 14 - NLD Turks Islands - I send in colonists

Aug 21 - Colony established in Taqamkuk.

New Mission: Turn Unami into a city

Sept 2 - Land Reform in Cumbria

Oct 1 - NLD Hochelega

Jan 20, 1511 - Pamlico our newest colony (76 chance of success)

Feb 1 - Bahamas founded (84 %)

Feb 3 - Santee founded (79)

Feb 17 - Turks Islands (89) founded

I send more colonists to Pamlico and Santee

May 23 - We lose the Papacy

July 25 - NLD Grao Para, Tucujulandia

Aug 1 - Production tech Increase

Aug 5 - NLD Ceara - Castille

Aug 8 - Pamlico Expandico

I send more colonists

Aug 12 - I commission a Painting and lose a magistrate

Aug 23 - Santee Expandee

Dec 19 - I get the O’Neills event again and send France money to help them out

Jan 30, 1512 - Pamlico expands

I send colonists to Manhattan

Mar 13 - Auvergne was captured by these French rebels so I am besieging it with my Lowlands Army

Mar 24 - I assaulted it and it fell back into my vassal’s hands. You’re welcome vassal

May 1 - Production Tech increases and I can now build Textile Manufactory

I send a Missionary to Antwerp

July 17 - Manhattan expands and more colonists.

I make a four star navigator

I Endorse Local Culture and gain 10 cultural tradition, lose 5 prestige and a magistrate

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



Aug 26 - Cotton in Pamlico

Aug 30 - I send war subsidies to Norway, because they are still at war with Sweden

Oct 1 - France goes bankrupt

Dec 3 - Manhattan Expansion

Feb 1, 1513 - Dauphine declares independence from France

Mar 1, 1513 - Lorraine declared free from the Papal States

Mar 9 - Rebels in Vlaanderen

Apr 6 - Rebels crushed

Apr 17 - I am the new Papal Controller, I control 5 cardinals

I have Cardinals from Munster, Yorkshire, Osfordshire, Lancashire and The Canarias

May 1 - Acadia attacked by natives

June 1 - The Canarias is now a core, and Normundy declared independence from France. England DOW’s it.

With The Canarias now a core, I can colonize as deep as Cuba from them, and as south as Bahamas and Turks from Vestbygen, although I still have a three star and four star navigator, giving me +20 and +15 percent to my colonial range.

Like I said, I just want to poach a couple of islands in the Carribbean, like you would expect any colonial power to do. I am currently working on Bahamas and Turks, and that’s fair. I was thinking of grabbing a couple of islands in the Lesser Antilles, and many are still available -

I send colonists to Martinique, with a large native population 6 taxbase, and low aggressiveness and virtually no ferocity, and a 87% chance of taking.

June 16 - Manhattan expands to 998

July 1 - Growth in Manhattan makes it a full city. I order a fort built here.


Manhattan - 3501 Irish Catholic cotton growers, 7.85 ducats annually, next to Unami, Connecticut and Mahican to its interior.



Aug 2 - My explorer died

Oct 2 - I send colonists to Bahamas

Oct 10 - I get Benign Neglect for Cornwall and choose just to take the 100 ducats.

I use my money to build two workshops in Northumberland and Meath

Dec 6 - Colony established on Martinique

Jan 26, 1514 - Antwerp converts!

Feb 1 - France goes bankrupt

Antwerp now makes me 56 ducats annually, plus I make 72 annually from the COT

Feb 2 - Fish in Taqamkuk

[Abe Sargent]

A Short Colonial Interlude



Mar 27- We lost the Papacy

Apr 4 - Expansion in Bahamas

Colonists to Pamlico

May 9 - Sugar in Bahamas

I extend road network in Gwynedd and Marches

12000 Pretender rebels have captured London, England

I decide to help

June 7 - 10,000 Irish meet 12,000 English pretender Rebels

June 25 - Although we were winning morale wise, we had lost about 7500 men and I call a retreat They had just too many cavalry - 6000.

Sept 1 - Papal Controller again

Sept 24 - Pamlico expands and more settlers are dispatched

Dec 1 - Benign Neglect for Stadacona and I take the 100 ducats again

Jan 18 - 1515 - Rebels sent away

Mar 1 - France bankrupt again

Mar 16 - Pamlico expands and more pioneers are bound for her shores

Do you know how much it costs me to send it colonists? 17.5 ducats. That’s it.

July 23 - Tobacco in the Turks.

Sept 4 - Pamlico expands and more are dispatches

Nov 1 - Production Tech Increases

Extended Road Network in Vlaanderen

Dec 1 - Acadia attacked by natives

[Abe Sargent]

Ireland in the Lowlands




Dec 6 - I can move my National Focus for the next 25 years. I was considering dropping it on Antwerp. It would help with the Zeeland Missionary, rebels in all three states, and so forth. However, do they need it?

I could also send it to colonies. For example, I could send it to Massachusetts and then colonize Penacook (New Hampshire), Pocumtuk (Vermont), Narraganset (Rhode Island), Connecticut and Mahican and they would all get +50% colonial growth. That would be very powerful. Up until now, I have used this as a tool to control revolts from new provinces. Local provinces can get special decisions like Post Offices. However, sending this to Massachusetts would really help the colonial effort. On the other hand, my badboy has dropped to 4.2, and I feel that another gobble of land could really help, so I could save the Focus and use it for my next possessions. Are there areas I should look at for future expansion?

Since I have grabbed three lowlands provinces, I’ve pretty much accepted that Lowalnds expansion is acceptable. Where could I go hither?

Calais, is poor, and it’s right next to me. An English province owned by England with an English core only nets 11.23 ducats. Hainaut gets 12.32, Brabant itself is nice at 31.75, Breda, the capital of Brabant has 26.8, Utrecht gets 23.3 and those are all Brabant provinces. Holland and Friesland, controlled by my vassal Holland, get some dough.

I may not be France’s ally at the moment, but I still like them a lot. I don’t want to start grabbing French provinces like Artois or Picardie. I could attack three province Normandie or four province Brittany.. Who do I have a Cb against?

Reconquest on Auvergne, my vassal
Alliance on Sweden
Colonialism on Portugal and Castille
Holy War on Cherokee and Ottomans
Excommunicated on England, Pisa, Austria and Portugal
Trade Dispute on Sweden, Austria, and Castille
Colonial Conquest on Maya and Cherokee


Nothing there I can use. I could hope that, in a few years, I get the ability to Excommunciate whiel I am Pope, and take out someone, but that bomb cannot be used against non-Catholics, like Brabant and and Normandie. Wait, what am I doing?


I can send a spy to Fabricate Claims on Brabant. Cost is 108 ducats, 77% chance fo success, just a 36% chance of discovery, temporary CB on Brabant

Success, and not discovered.

Jan 27, 1516 0 I land a second army in Vlaanderen.

Feb 17 - I can Excommunicate. I hold onto it and DOW Brabant.

All of my allies are in. Bohemia, the HRE, also declares their support for Brabant, but Sweden, the Defender of Reformed Faith, does not.

I order my troops in.

Feb 19 - I get an event. Minorities Flock to Kespek. It gains 400 people, becomes protestant, and gains Religious Migration for 25 years. It is now self sustaining.


Kespek - 1559 Irish Protestants, 3.62 ducats, naval supplies, next to Stadacona, Micmac and Abnaki, plus Kwedech. Religious Migration means it gets +10% population growth for 25 years, but -10% missionary chance during that time.


Feb 23 - Pamlico expands and more are sent

Mar 16 - We win a battle in Breda against the main Brabant force

Apr 22 - Failed assault in Hainaut

May 15 - Hainaut falls after a second assault

May 30 - I decline a white peace offer

June 7- Brabant falls to a quick assault

June 25 - Failed assault on Limburg

July 9 - Limburg falls. Oldenburg have grabbed Gelre.

July 23 - Brabant offers me peace for Brabant, Limburg, Gelre and Hainaut. Now, Brabant I do want. Sure. No, not right now, I push on.

Aug 16 - Pamlico expands. It is now a full city. Colonists sent to Bahamas

Sept 5 - Breda falls. I order my forces to Utrecht,t he final Brabant province not in my hands

Sept 17 - Brabant offers me the same four provinces, over 300 ducats, and renege their claims on Zeeland. I do not immediately reject.

Sept 22 - Utrecht falls before both my armies and troops from Auvergne.

I send a peace envoy.

I take their money, the loss of a core, and three provonces - Hainaut, Brabant, and Limburg.


I move my National Focus to Brabant province.

Nov 29 - White Peace with Bohemia


Our new provinces:

Limburg - 44876 Flemish Reformed. Iron mines, 16.74 ducats. Temple, marketplace, courthouse and workshop. Next to Brabant, Breda, Munster, Berg, Koln, and Liege7% revolt

Hainaut - 63296 Wallonian Protestant, cloth, 17.25 ducats, 10.5 revolt. Temple, next to Brabant, Vlaanderen, Liege, Valenciennes, Cambray and Artois

Brabant - National focus, 115278 Flemish, cloth, Protestant, 9.3% revolt, 30.69 ducats, university, marketplace, temple.


I build Post Offices in Antwerp and Vlaanderen

We now have 15.6 badboy and time for more cooling.

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



Now, I have the Excommunicate Bomb, but there are few cardinals left right now, and I am about to lose it. Do I use it now? Who is even Catholic?

I excommunicate Corsica

With my blood money, I order a fort in Pamlico, Kespek, and missionaries to my three conquered provinces.

Dec 7 - Bermuda becomes reformed


Pamlico - 2417, cotton growers, Irish Catholic, 5.52 ducats. Next to Santee, Powhatan and an unknown inland province or two.


Feb 12, 1517 - Rebellion in Hainaut

Feb 16 - Bahamas expands

Mar 1 - I send colonists to Bermuda

Mar 5 - Rebels crushed in Hainaut

May 1 - NLD Tuscarora - the inland province on Pamlico

June 4 - Post Office in Zeeland

Aug 10 - Bermuda expands, and rebecomes Catholic

Sept 1 - Naval Tech Increase. Let me see my range now

With that, I choose to create a tech advisor and drop one of my navigators.

I create a level 5 statesman and hire him

I lost practically nothing with the navigator since my tech increased

Oct 7 - In order to finish off Unami, I send in colonists.

Dec 8 - Rebels in Vlaanderen

Dec 26 - Austria is now Defender of the Faith

Dec 28 - the Papal States arenow Papal Controller

Jan 7, 1518 - Rebels defeated

Jan 13 - the Papacy revoked my Excommunication of Corsica

England has a new King, Henry V, and Queen Mary is dead, so they are no longer Excommunicated.

Mar 2 - Norway’s king died, and we form a personal union with “Norway” and their one province in Orkney

So my rebels long ago have borne fruit


Mar 22 - Unami is now a full city, mission accomplished, and I order a fort here..

New Mission - Colonize Powhatan


Unami - 2523 fishing Irish Catholics, making 10.79 ducats. Next to Manhattan, Delaware, and some inland unknown provinces.


I send colonists to Powhatan. 78% of taking, next to Pamlico, and I get colonists if it works, taxbase 6, I’m in. (Powhatan is coastal Virginia)

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues




Apr 10 - Brittany is the new HRE

May 10 - Our monarch died today, after gathering many colonies and provionces to us. His son is not old enough yet to take over, so we are in a regency for a bit.

May 31 - Okay, our new king takes over. Heh. That was the shortest Regency EVER!

Muchadh O’Neill, Admin 8, Mil 3, Dip 6

June 19 - Royal Marriages with…France, England, Auvergne, Holland and Oldenburg

June 22 - I arrange for two festivals, and my two magistrates are used, I gain 10 cultural tradition, and some prestige

Aug 4 - Rm with Scotland

Sept 4 - Finally, Norway at peace with Sweden.

Sept 13 - We fail in Powhatan and I send in more colonists

Oct 1 - Beothuk is now a core province.

I think I can fire my other navigator.

What do I have that I want?

I have a Naval and Government advisor.

I use my magistrate to Endorse Culture which drops my presige 5 but gains me 10 cultural tradition, and takes me back to 100 cultural. What do I want?

Land, production, trade, or something els.e Hmm. Let’s try a different tactic than normal.

I use 5 naval and 15 cultural tradition to make a five star Lord Proprietor, which gives me 10% colonial growth across the board.

The loss of the Navigator doesn’t hurt anything at all.

Nov 4 - Sugar in Martinique

Dec 1 - Bermuda is now self sustaining.


Bermuda - Level 1 fort on the way, 1001 Irish Catholics, naval supplies, 3.92 ducats.


Jan 8, 1519 - Revolt in Zeeland

Jan 27 - I kill many of them and the rest move across the border to Brabant in Breda

Feb 1 - Naval Tech increase

France Bankrupt yet again

Mar 2 - RM with Brittany

Mar 10 - Powhatan (Coastal Virginia) is now a colony. Mission complete. New Mission? Discover Santana. I make an explorer. In my two ship fleet in Turks Island and send them out.

Colonists dispatched to Santee

Apr 1 - Native attack in Acadia

Apr 15 - NLD Cayenne

May 3 - Rebels in Hainaut

[Abe Sargent]

The Height of the Irish Colonial Age


May 16 - Papal Controller again!

May 22 - NLD - Ilheus, Castille

May 24 - Rebels quelled

June 8 - NLD Santo Amaro

July 1 - Colonists to Powhatan

July 10 - NLD Santana. 5 new colonists. I send one to Bahamas

Next Mission - Discover Chorotega.

Since I expect to meet this very soon, I spray some colonists to Dominica, and Conoy.

Post Office in Hainaut

July 22 - NLD Rio de Janeiro

July 30 - NLD Pernambuco - Portugese, and Porto Seguro - Castille

Aug 1 - France bankrupt

Aug 9 - NLD Maranhao 0 Castille

Sept 13 - Santee expands. I send in more

I send colonists to Acadia too to use my last batch

Sept 27 - NLD - Caracas

Oct 18 - NLD Honduras - Maya

Nov 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Nov 3 - NLD Magdalena

Nov 21 - NLD - Cartagena

Dec 15 - NLD -Mosquito

Dec 24 - Powhatan expands

Dec 29 - Colony established in Conoy (Maryland)

Jan 1, 1520 - I send colonist to Conoy (Maryland)

Jan 3 - We lost the Papacy

Jan 4 - NLD - Chorotega

5 colonists - Next mission -Colonize Dominica. HAHAHA.
I send colonists to Powhatan

Jan 8 - NLD Jamaica, new colony in Dominicia, and more colonists to replace the ones juts sent.

Mission completed. The next one is: Discover Atakapa

Jan 10 - NLD Antioquia, Bahamas expands and I send in more colonists.

With another discover mission, I can keep this engine going, so let’s see where it is and get there!

Feb 6 - Acadia expandia

Feb 14 - Castille inherited Wallachia

Mar 14 - Slider, I move one naval and lose some investment in land tech

Mar 18 - Santee expands and I send in more colonists

Colonists to Delaware, Acadia, Martinique

Apr 1 - Gwynedd is now a core

Apr 12 - Hainaut has converted back to Catholic!

May 22 - Workshop in Hainaut and Post Office in Brabant

June 20 - Conoy expands

June 30 - Powhatan expands

I send more colonists to Conoy

July 7 - NLD - Atakapa. We get 5 new colonists.

Next mission? Can we keep the machine going? Colonize Mobile. But that will take forever, it’s like 50 outside of our colonial range. So….

I spend 5 prestige and drop to 92 in order to cancel it. Next mission? Naval Race Sweden. Sweden doesn’t have that many more ships, so I put in some orders.

July 13 - Bahamas expands and I send in some more

July 16 - Muscowy just took 10 provinces from Golden Horde, ouch.

Aug 9 - Acadia Expands

Aug 19 - Muscowy is now Russia, and they changed their government to Empire

Sept 1 - Colony established in Delaware and I send in more

Sept 20 - Martinique and Santee both expand. I send more to Santee

Oct 12 - Post Office in Limburg

I send colonists to Tuscarora, a province without any natives (Portugal killed them all) inland of Santee, Pamlico and Powhatan (It's Central North Carolina)

Dec 14 -I spend 10 prestige to put Brabant in my Sphere of Influence

Im starting to run out of cash with all of these colonizations. I was saving some cash for a manufactory, but the Colonial Storm of 1518-2? Got me.

Dec 18 - Conoy expands

Dec 31 - Naval Supplies in Powhatan

Jan 13, 1522 - Bahamas expands and is a full province.


Bahamas - I order a fort here. 6027 Irish Catholics, sugar, 3.69 ducats,


Feb 16 - Delaware expands


March 28 - Santee expands and is now a full province:


Santee - 2007 Irish Catholics work this province making 6.47 ducats and it is next to Pamlico and Tuscarora, plus the Cherokee provinces of Catawba and Muskogee. I do not know what the trade good here is yet. I’ve never seen that before.

[Abe Sargent]

The Height of the Irish Colonial Age



Apr 1 - France bankrupt

If I wanted to release land and create a vassal, here is who I could create (you can only create traditionally independent minded areas)

Flanders, Hainaut, Cornwall, Wales, Northumberland, Tyrone, Leinster, Munster, Connacht

Apr 7 - Tobacco in Conoy

Apr 12 - Tuscarora founded

June 1 - We have more ships than Sweden, and our next mission is to colonize Cameroon

June 22 - Road Network in Antwerp

July 2 - I get another Minorities to Taqamkuk, and the 400 additional people puts in into regular city status.


Taqamkuk - 1660 Irish Protestants, fish, 4.39 ducats, I order a fort, Religious Migration for 24 years, and adjacent to Beothuk



As you can see, I’ve been finishing some colonies as I add more.


July 5 - I saw Portugal finally took a Cuban province, and I incited natives to take them off, and success but I was found.


I decide to send colonists to Cameroon, and if they succeed, they are replaced, so no major loss, and then I will not support it, so if it gets killed it gets killed.

Sept 1 - I gain a Dishonorable Scum CB against Russia

Sept 26 - I get Colonial Company founded with 200 colonists in Ungava (Coastal province in the Ungava Peninsula in Quebec)

Oct 16 - Glamorgan is now Reformed. I can’t send a missionary yet. Next year probably

Nov 1, 1521 - Truce with Brabant expires

I can’t believe we got a crappy province like Ungava.

Jan 11, 1522 - Extended Road Network in Zeeland

Jan 15 - Missionary to Glamorgan

Jan 26 - Success in Cameroon. Next mission - Convert Zeeland. I’ma working on it.

Mar 1 - NLD - Lenape, inland of Delaware, Unami

May 1 - Limburg converts. Great news, but I would have preferred Zeeland for the mission/

May 30 - Shit! Zeeland converted right like that. How you like me NOW?

Next mission, colonize Pennacook, and I send in some (New Hampshire)

May 31 - Tobacco in Santee

July 1 - Production tech increase

Aug 1 - Extended Road in Brabant

Nov 6 - Colony established in Pennacook. We get a replacement colonist. I send them to Conoy

New Mission? Discover Guadeloupe

I send colonists to: Delaware, Acadia, Turks Islands

Nov 18 - Tobacco in Delaware

Nov 24 - Powhatan expands

Dec 1 - Naval tech increases, I send colonists to Powhatan, and East Anglia University 0 Class of 1522 I create a Magistrate. Then I Extend Road Network in Hainaut

Dec 9 - Rebels in Brabant

Jan 4, 1523 - Rebels destroyed.

Jan 5 - NLD - St Martin

Jan 16 - NLD Guadeloupe

I send colonists to Abnaki

Next Mission? Build University in Munster

Feb 12 - Revolts in Hainaut

Apr 1 - Expansion in Acadia. I send in more colonists. I need to make this a regular colony and stop the regular attacks

Apr 8 - We win in Hainaut. Extended Road Network in Limburg

Apr 17 - Successful conversion in Brabant.. Welcome back to Catholicism

Apr 23 - Delaware expands

Apr 27 - As does Conoy

May 1 - Eiriksfjord is now a core (In Greenland)

May 12 - Fish in Ungava

May 15 - Expansion in Turks.

May 18 - Colonial Company founded, 200 colonists are put in Atikamekw. Look, fellas, I appreciate new colonies, but can you leave behind the clunkers? (The northern coast of the Gulf of St Lawrence, between Stadacona and Innu)

May 25 - Powhatan expands - I send in more

June 1 - France bankrupt.

June 14 0 Abnaki expands

July 31 - We get an event - Poor Iron. For the next year building military units will be more expensive

Aug 24 -Acadia Expands

Sept 1, Government Tech Increase. What do I want my new Idea to be?

I take Land of Opportunity, which adds 20% growth to colonies

Tuscarora, for example, is growing now at a rate of 88/year. That includes my advisor, the Idea, my decision Colonial Expansion, and being a bit narrowminded. You’ll note that I always wanted to change that slider, but I’ve waited while working on others in order to get this bonus. Plus, it helps with the Papacy stuff.

[bbgunn]

Ha... it's funny imagining Irish colonies in the Caribbean.

This dynasty is making me want EU3. I have EU2 but haven't played it in years.

[Abe Sargent]

Three More



Sept 8, I decide to take my last Caribbean possession, Cuba. I send colonists to Guantanamo, Havana and Moron. When Portugal or Castille have taken one of these, I have always immediately incited the natives against them, and now it’s my turn to colonize the entire island, and then I am done, and I will leave the others, like Jamaica, Guadeloupe, St Martin, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Curacao and Antigua for others. I also have no desire to enter South or Central America.

Oct 1 - Extend Road Network in Oxfordshire

Dec 3 - Powhatan expands

Dec 18 - Tobacco in Dominica

Feb 1, 1524 - Today is a great day. Acadia is no longer a colony!


Acadia - 2003 Irish Catholic make naval supplies like lumber, and make us 5.12 ducats in the process. Acadia is next to Micmac, Epekwitk and Unamakik


Feb 28 - Sweden annexed the Kingdom The Hansa

Mar 20 Okay, here we go.
23rd - Guantanamo - yes
31st - Havana - yes
15th - Moron - yes


Apr 1 - Wessex, Cumbria, and Lancashire are now cores

All three Cuban provinces made it in one (as a reminder, Catholics get +20% to hit with colonists, this is where I am supposed to be good)

Moron and Guantanamo have good low aggressive natives, and Havana, only in the middle, but with low ferocity.

Apr 28 - Minorities flock to Martinique. It is now a full colony:


Martinique - 3610 Sugar farmers, Irish Protestant, 7.21 ducats, Religious Migration


May 9 -Spread of Disease in Moron among the natives. I choose to assuage their pain. I lose 40 ducats, gain extra overseas income and colonist chance in Moron for a short while.

May 24 - Road Network in Lincoln, colonists to Conoy

July 1 - Abnaki has grown to be self sufficient


Abnaki - 2504, fur, Irish Catholic, 10.38 ducats, next to Micmac, Pennacook and an inland province named Kwedich, which is actually next on my colonize list.


I send colonists to Kwedich (inland Quebec, along St. Lawrence river up from Stadacona)


As you may know, I do have to pay upkeep on my colonies annually. With my current 13 colonies (Cameroon, Turks, Moron, Guantanamo, Havana, Pennacook, Atikamekw, Ungava, Delaware, Conoy, Dominica, Powhatan, and Tuscarora.) I have a monthly upkeep of 21.2 ducats at max. That’s not too bad at all. I get 76 annually from my COT in Antwerp, so that, alone, pays for my upkeep of several colonies.

Now, on the other hand, I have 11.9 inflation, because I am minting 38 ducats monthly to pay for military and navy and advisors. My navy is just 5, my military 18.3, and my advisors 1.6. So I am losing about 9 ducats a month, and I make a lot more annually in the annual taxes, so I make some money each year around January. Right now, I have 286 gold. You’ll note that I didn’t push that too much and build a bunch of forts in the new colonies this year, because I’m a bit cash sensitive right now.

[Abe Sargent]

Ha... it's funny imagining Irish colonies in the Caribbean.

This dynasty is making me want EU3. I have EU2 but haven't played it in years.

Well, when that Ireland replaces England...

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



July 19 - Road Network in East Anglia

July 24 - Tobacco in Tuscarora

Sept 1 - Trade Tech Increase

Oct 1 -Road Network in Gloucestershire

Oct 19 - Fur in Atikamekw

Nov 10 - Conoy expands

I think it is interesting that no country has sent colonists to Cape Verde. I’m sure everyone knows where it is now, and tons of European nations have the range, why not send otherwise useless colonists to grab a native free piece of land?

Dec 13 - Kwedech is the newest colony of ours.

Dec 15 - I get an event - Carnal Sins. Our King is enticed by a hot chick. I can counsel that he bed her and have a bastard, or keep chaste. Note, we do not currently have an heir. Meet our new, weak, heir, Cathal, with 6 Adm, 9 Dip, and 3 Military, but he’s weak cause he’s a bastard.


Jan 17, 1525 - Colonists dispatched to the tobacco fields of Conoy

Feb 1 - Land tech increase. We can now get better cannons

Apr 1 - Road Network in Cornwall

Apr 2 - Brittany accepts my offer for an alliance

June 1 - Damage from natives in Pennacook so I send in more colonists to shore up their defences

July 6 - Conoy expands

Oct 14 - Road Network in Glamorgan

Nov 5 - Pennacook expands

Dec 3 - Colonists sent to Kwedech


Jan 1, 1526 - I have several colonies coming due this year, so we can tighten up our colonization a bit

Feb 1 - Turks Islands is now self sufficient


Turks Islands - I order a level 1 fort here. 7.07 ducats made in the tobacco trade by the 2004 Irish Catholics here.


March 1 Powhatan too.


Powhatan - 2003, naval supplies, Irish Catholic, next to Conoy, Tuscaraora and Pamlico, plus an unseen inner province (Coastal Virginia)



Road Network in Wessex

May 8 Kwedech expands and more colonists are sent ot the inland province

July 1 - NLD - Monacan the inland province on Powhatan.

July 25 - Glamorgan converts

Sept 1- Conoy has grown into a city


Conoy - Level 1 fort purchased, 2500 tobacco farmers of Irish descent and Catholic worship. This port is next to Delaware, Powhatan and several unknown inland provinces, or perhaps just one unknown. (Maryland)



Sept 21 - Provence declared themselves independent from a dying France

Oct 1 - We lost the Dishonorable Scrum Cb against Russia

Oct 12 - Kwedech expands

Nov 4 - Naval Supplies in Pennacook

Dec 17 - Fur in Kwedech

Dec 28 - Tobacco in Havana

Jan 2, 1527 - Tobacco in Guantanamo

Feb 1 - Land Reform in Antwerp

Feb 27 - Coffee in Moron

Castille just warned Champa, and since I know that Champa is in deep Asia, they must be really far in exploration.

May 2 - I send colonists to Lenape

June 1 - Another native attack in Pennacook so I send in more colonists to help with the numbers

Nov 1 - In case you were wondering:

We have the best prestige in the world by far, with 84, next highest is Sardinia at 33.
Our inflation is over 12%, and that’s not good.
We have the third highest income in the world after Austria and Castille with their gold mines
Land tech is no longer high.. We fell here as money became a priority for a while. We are two-4 behind the leader in everything except government, where we are still the #1 tied with Austria and Brittany


Nov 4 Lenape colonization failed despite a 93% chance of taking. I sent in more colonists.

Nov 9 - Pennacook expandacook

Nov 13 - Minorities flock to Delaware and it is now a city.


Delaware: I build fort, 2149 Protestant Irish tobacco growers, make us 6.55 ducats. Next to Unami, Conoy, Lenape, and something else.

[Tellistto]

Been waiting for you to take out England in one way or another. That needs to happen! Unify those islands, I say!

Tell

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues




Dec 9 - Bearn defected to France from Aragon, because France as a better choice?

Jan 1, 1528 - Brabant gets Land Reform

May 7 - Lenape is colonized and more pioneers are leaving now for its pristine new frontier

Aug 27, 1528 - After a while off, I am again Papal Controller

Aug 29 - Slaves in Cameroon

Sept 1 - Naval Tech increases and Toulouse is now independent

What France needs to do is destroy all of its ships and armies, set free all of its vassals as vassals, collect that income without spending anything, and then rebuild itself.

Oct 30 - Lenape expands.

Dec 1 - Land Reform in Vlaanderen

Jan 1, 1529 - NLD - Manahoac, Susquehanna, both inland of my coastal colonies

Apr 1 - Anyone I want to declare a Crusade against? Everyone is too far away

What is says when I try to Crusade Russia - “While tempting, we cannot launch a Crusade against fellow Christians, heretics or not.”

May 7 - We lost the Papacy

May 15 - Cameroon expands and I send in more colonists

Oct 23 - Tobacco in Lenape

Oct 29 - Toulouse annexed by Aragon in war

Nov 1 - Land reform in Hainaut

Nov 29 - Expansion of Cameroon and more sent

June 14, 1530 - Cameroon expandoon

Oct 1 - Land Reform in Limburg

Dec 28 - Expandoon

Feb 1, 153 - Trade tech Increase

Feb 12 - I take 100 ducats off a Benign Neglect event

Feb 22 - Military Divided. Forts, 1 stability,. +1 defensive, Attack, -1 stability too, +1 offensive. I take the defensive mode

I put a bunch of stuff into my stab.

July 1 - Ungava is a full province


Ungava - 1500 Irish Catholics from this province started by a colonial company. The fishers make me 1.76 ducats annually. No fort built here. Next to Labrador, and the coastal province of Nunavik


July 14 - Expandoon


Aug 12 - I offer England annexation. It is unlikely to happen. I’ll take those odds for those provinces,

Rejected


Oct 1 - Land Enclosure in Hainaut

Jan 28, 1532 - Cameroon is now a full province, and it gets a wall


Cameroon - 8521 Irish Catholics, 2 ducats, slaves,



Wow, not that valuable at all. Tropical -50% hits it financially.


I send colonists to Susquehanna (Eastern PA)


Feb 1 - Tuscarora expands enough to be a full colony. It too gets a wall.


Tuscarora - 1004 Tobacco Irish Catholics, 4.42 ducats, inland of Powhatan, Pamlico, Santee and next to Cherokee in Catawba, Cheraw and the unclaimed Monacan.

[Abe Sargent]

Been waiting for you to take out England in one way or another. That needs to happen! Unify those islands, I say!

Tell

Don't worry

[Abe Sargent]

Absorbing the Beast




Apr 1 - Colonists sent to Kwedech

June 1 - England rejects annexation

July 29 - Susquehanna is set up now


My colonial guy is doing well, and I get an event, and choose to get an additional +10% growth to my colonies for the next 6 years

Aug 2 - Land Reform Zeeland

I send colonists to Manahoac

Aug 20 - Papal Controller again baby!

Sept 5 - Kwedech expands

Sept 21 - England rejects annexation

Nov 1 - NLD Fernando Po

Jan 1, 1533 - Atikamekw is now a full city


Atikamekw - I no build fort here. 1500 Irish Catholics, fur, 7.69 ducats



Jan 8 - English rejection of annexation

I dispatch colonists to Hochelega, inland Quebec and beside Kwedech and Stadacona


Jan 28 - Colony established in Manahoc

Feb 1 -stability increase. NLD Calabar, next to Cameroon, Portugese

Mar 2 - My badboy is down to 1.8. If I don’t annex England, then I’d better be prepared for another war.

Apr 1 - Dominica is now a city



Dominica - I order a fort built here. 3501 tobacco Irish Catholics make us 7.64 ducats



May 31 - Slider time

I move us defensive. My leaders now get +1siege. I gained a Military engineer if I want to hire him (nope)


June 27 - Colony established in Hochelega

July 1 - NLD Kanawha, inland of Conoy, Manahoac and Susquehanna (and Monacan)

Oct 10 - England accepts annexation.



Okay, let’s look at the new lands


Aberdeen - Scottish, Protestant, 7669, fisher, 9.07 ducats, east of Fife and Scotland in Highlands. 9% rebel rate

Fife - Scottish, Reform, 8193, fish, 9.09 ducats, 9% too, west of Aberdeen, north of Lothian and Ayrshire, south of Highlands.

Lothian - 18788 Scottish Reform, 1284 ducats, 9%, fisher, temple, north of Cumbria, Northumberland, south of Fife, east of Ayrshire

London - 115655, English Catholics, 9%, 29.52 ducats, grain, temple, marketplace, next to Kent, East Anglia, Oxfordshire and Wessex.

Kent - 10255, English, 9%, Catholic, grain, temple, south of London, east of Wessex

Calais - 32443, Cosmopolitaine, Catholic, temple, fish, marketplace, customs house, west of Vlaanderen, northwest of Artois, Picardie, 12.28 ducats.


And that’s it. Not a lot of quality there other than London.

[Tellistto]

Now that's what I'm talking about!

Tell

[Abe Sargent]

Administrata


And that’s it. Not a lot of quality there other than London.


I order another army built for London. The Scottish provinces get 64.5 ducats spend on them total for three Missionaries. This is going to piss them off, so both of my current armies are moving up there.

I send a few modest gifts to some of my other vassals. When this happens, other vassals drop to 100 loyalty.

Armies are:

London
Antwerp
Hainaut
Fife
Lothian
Unami


Okay, I spend some cash to integrate England into my nation, and I’ll spend some more on some modest gifts over the next year. But, I gained 6 provinces without declaring war.

I paid a down payment years and years ago when I took England as my vassal instead of getting massive amounts of land, with the hope that someday I could finish the job and get London. Well, it just came due.


Dec 11 - Land Network in London, Kent, Calais


Jan 2, 1534 - I send colonists to Mobile, Monacan


Jan 14 - Aberdeen converts. That was quick.

Feb 6 - NLD - Bayougoula

Feb 14 - NLD - Karankawa

Mar 16 - NLD - Tamaulipas

Mar 21 - NLD - Campeche - Maya

Mar 30 - NLD Chitimacha

Apr 1 - Kwedech is now a full p[rovince. Because it is next to natives, I order a fort



Kwedech - 1505 fur traders of Irish descent and Catholic worship make us 9.48 ducats annually. This province is next to Stadacona, Hochelega, Abnaki, Kespek, Pennacook, the unclaimed Pocumtuk, and at least one unseen native province.


Apr 10 - Rebels in Lothian and London

Apr 22 - Lothian ones destroyed

July 5 - Despite a 92% chance of taking, we fail to establish a colony in Monacan, so I send in more

Aug 14 - Mobile is now a colony

I lose in London

[Abe Sargent]

Who Wants MAPS?!?!?!?



Northern US and S Canada

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Southern US


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[Abe Sargent]

Oh, and here's Europe around us.


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[Abe Sargent]

In Case you want it, here is a zoomed out view of Greenland and Canadia.



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[Abe Sargent]

And, finally, zoomed out view of the Caribbean.


http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7231/carib1534.jpg

[Autumn]

Wow, that's wild. You're certainly succeeding in your original intent. Forget independence, Ireland's going for empire!

[Abe Sargent]

Wow, that's wild. You're certainly succeeding in your original intent. Forget independence, Ireland's going for empire!

Go Irish!

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



Nov 1 - Epekwitk and Unamakik are now cores

Dec 6 - We win in London

Jan 16, 1535 - Monacan now a colony.

More rebels in London


Feb 1 - Guantanamo is now a city.


Guantanamo - 2004 Irish tobacco growing Catholics make us 6.27 ducats and I order a fort here.



Mar 1 - Now Moron


Moron - 2005 Irish Catholics grow Coffee and make us 6.27 ducats. I order a fort here too (Central Cuba)


Mar 8 - Rebellion in Fife

Mar 28 - Cotton in Susquehanna

Apr 14 - We win in London

Road Network in Aberdeen, Fife, and Lothian

I send colonists to Bayougoula (New Orleans area)

May 7 - Grain in Manahoac

June 2 - Colonists sent to Kanawha (West Virginia area)

July 28 - We win in Fife

Aug 5 - Nevers is again declaring independence from Burgundy

Oct 1 - Havana my latest colony to city


Havana - 1506 Irish Catholics farm tobacco, make us 8.27 ducats, and I order a fort here



Nov 1 - NLD - Mohawk, owned by Huron.

Dec 2 - Kanawha settled

Dec 8 - Bayougoula too

Apr 1, 1536 - My badboy is already down to 4.6. I may still have to wage war soon. I try to see if I can find a chance here or there.

May 9 - I get an event, with my government advisor publishing a great work. Before I make a choice, I spend 10 prestige to put France in my Sphere of Influence. We are so much more than they right now we can. I then choose to gain 10 prestige, and 15 ducats invested in govnt tech monthly for 10 years

May 22 - Minorities Flock to Lenape and it becomes a full province:



Lenape: 1762 Irish Reform, make and sell tobacco, yielding us 5.58 ducats. I order a fort. Currently under Religious Migration. Next to Unami, Delaware, Susquehanna, unsettled Mahican and an unknown inner province. (Eastern PA)


June 1 - Antwerp gets Promote Land Enclosures, +1 revolt risk there, and +10% tax/

Nov 4 - Land Enclosures in East Anglia

Dec 1 - Native raid in Hochelega. I send more colonists to shore it up

Jan 1, 1537 - Production tech Increase

Jan 16 - Pennacook expands and is is now a city


Pennacook - 2591, Irish Catholics, making naval supplies and supplying us with 4.33 ducats. Fort ordered. Next to Massachusetts, Abnaki, Kwedech, and unsettled Pocumtuk

[Abe Sargent]

A Short Diversion



Mar 23 - I lift the Excommunication of Milan

Apr 3 - Benign Neglect gives me another 100 ducats

I use the money to put Workshops in London and Kent

May 6 - Hochelega expandelaga

June 1 - Fur in Hochelega

July 1 - Land Tech increase. This brings with it the ability to build Level 2 forts for 108 ducats.

July 21 - Cotton in Mobile

July 26 - Cotton in Monacan

Aug 19 - A local commander has decided to upgrade his fortification and we get a level 2 fort in Ulster

Oct 1 - Land Enclosures in Gloucestershire

Oct 16 - I now have 7 Cardinals

Nov 3 - Rm with Aragon

Jan 8, 1538 - Awesome!!! I get a Boundary Dispute event. I choose to press it and gain a core on Berg, a Hesse province, and our relations drop. Hesse has done very well, with 14 provinces, but it is suffering massive problems with rebels. I can DOW Hesse, take Berg, and then meet peace, all with little Badboy

Berg is really inside though. It’s a bit more interior continental than I would normally like, but I have a core on it, so it’s virtually free.

Jan 29 - I gain 100 ducats off benign neglect again

Apr 1 - Cornwall is now a core

June 1 - Bayougoula is damaged so I send in more colonists to help

June 6 - Berg has fallen to rebels, so now it is time.

I DOW Hesse with a Reconquest CB

Everybody but Brittany is in on my end.

June 25 - One of my armies arrives at Berg

July 9 - Another army in Koln

July 15 - Berg falls to us after a quick assault. There were few rebels left behind after they just took it.

Aug 1 - The army from Berg has arrive in the Hesse capital of Hessen for a siege

Aug 14 - Failed assault on Koln

Sept 3 - Koln falls after another assault

Oct 7 - Hessen falls

Oct 30 - I capture Wutrzburg after a quick siege

Nov 24 - Bohemian troops (he is the HRE) recapture Hessen for Hesse

Dec 11 - We beat back a major Bohemian force besieging Friesland with my London army I snuck across.

Dec 16 - This other Bohemian army recaptured Wurzburg

Jan 7, 1539 - Bamburg falls to me

Jan 12 - Bayougoula expands and I send in more colonists

I accept a white peace from Brandenburg

Feb 2 - Peace with Berg. I wanted Koln too, but the war was becoming too problematic

Feb 5 - White peace with Bohemia


Berg - 22963, Reform Hessians, make and sell cloth, giving me 14.43 ducats. Because it is a core, no rebellions. Workshop and temple. Next to us in Limburg, Hesse in Koln, Westfalen, Hessen and Nassau. Next to Oldenburg in Munster

Extend Road Network in Berg

[Abe Sargent]

More War Against Brabant



Feb 14 - Land Enclosures in Yorkshire

I didn’t gain any badboy from that, btw, so my badboy is down to 1.2

I order a missionary to Berg

Apr 28 - Fish in Bayougoula

July 1 - Trade Tech increase

Aug 23 - Bayougoula expands

Aug 31 - With a 99% chance of taking initially, I send colonists to Nunavik, next to Ungava

Oct 1 - A level 5 Master of Mint has arrived in Abnaki. I choose not to hire him, but the reduction he brings to my inflation is tempting.

My current inflation is 16.5

Nov 6 - I send colonists to Susquehanna

Dec 1 - Gvnmnet Tech Increase

Jan 1, 1540 - Innu is now a core

Feb 1 - NLD - Ontario, inland of Kwedech and Huron. And Oneida, Huron and inland of Lenape and unsettled Mahican

My badboy will disappear in a few months. What do I have a CB against?

Dishonored Call vs. Brittany (they did not honor our alliance)
Reconquest on Auvergne, my vassal
Colonialism on Sweden, Aragon, Portugal and Castille
Holy War on Cherokee and Huron
Trade Dispute against Sweden, Austria and Castille
Colonial Conquest on all Primitives


Not a lot there. I’m not warring with Sweden, Castille, my own vassal, Portugal or Austria.

I could fabricate claims again. Who would I attack? Brabant? They have no allies.

Okay


Feb 10 - We have fabricated claims on Brabant


Feb 20 - Nunavik is now a colony

Mar 9 - Sweden has taken the name Scandinavia

Mar 11 - I DOW Brabant. All of my allies are in, and the HRE Bohemia joins Brabant. I have three armies in the Coast of Holland, Zeeland and Brabant, and I order them all into Brabant’s three provinces.

Apr 5 - We win a naval battle

Apr 15 - We lose against 12k Brabant in Gelre

Apr 18 - Breda falls after a quick assault

Apr 30 - Susquehanna expands and I send in more

May 6 - With the help of 6000 Oldenburg troops we win in Gelre

May 9 - 9000 Bohemian troops arrive at Berg and begin an assault

May 15 - Berg fell

May 31 - They arrive at Limburg

June 1 - We arrive there to protest their presence

I Introduce my Heir, just noticed I could

July 7 - We lose in Limburg, barely

July 11 - Utrecht falls to us

July 21 - Major naval victory in the Coast of Holland

July 24 - Gelre falls. I contact Brabant

I accept peace for 300 ducats, Utrecht and Gelre

I still have to fight off Bohemia


Aug 7 - One of my armies arrives in Limburg

Aug 30 - We win and force Bohemia away

Sept 2 - They accept white peace



Utrecht - 65700 Dutch Reformed cloth makers, 24.25 ducats, 9% revolt risk, temple, marketplace and workshop. Next to Holland, Gelre and Breda.


Gelre - 29939 Dutch Reformed, 8.2%, 1.9 from the grain farmers, temple and workshop, next to Utrecht, Friesland, Limburg, Breda, and the Oldenburg provinces of Osnabruck and Munster.


I send missionaries to both

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Continues



Road Network ordered in Gelre, Utrecht

Land Enclosures in Ulster

Sept 14 - grain in Kanawha

Oct 22 - Susquehanna now a full province


Susquehanna - 1504 cotton planters, Irish Catholic, make us 7.17 ducats. Fort ordered. West of Lenape, north of Conoy, Kanawha, south of Hurons in Onondaga, and east of some number of unknown provinces


Nov 10 - The Holy Roman Empire has become a Monarchy.

Jan 1, 1541 - Ayrshire, Yorkshire and Labrador are now cores

Feb 1 - I send colonists to Pocumtuk, Mahican, Connecticut and Narraganset (All around Massachusetts)

Mar 1 - Land Enclosures in Munster

July 2 - Lothian converts

Aug 9 - All four colonies are established

Sept 12 - Bavaria annexes The Palatinate

Oct 1 - I get a Border Friction CB vs. Hesse for Nassau and Koln.

Oct 6 - Protestantism spreads to Oxfordshire. I send a Missionary

Oct 20 - Rebels in Hainaut

Nov 3 - I move my National Focus to Massachusetts, and I just colonized four provinces beside it that get +50 people annually

I build a Post Office in Massachusetts

I build a COT in Massachusetts for 500 gold. I then send in merchants

Dec 11 - Rebels put down in Hainaut

Antwerp drops a bit to 813, and Massachusetts is at 446, so well worth doing

Jan 1, 1542 - Post Office in Pennacook

Apr 19 - I spend 5 prestige to cancel that mission that was going nowhere. What is the next one? Improve Defences in Tuscarora.

Not right now

June 12 - Rebels in Berg

July 9 - Victory in Berg

Aug 1 - Native attack in Hochelega, and I send in more colonists

I send a missionary to Kespek. This was one of my colonies that had gotten a bonus from non-Catholics

I move my colonial army from Unami to Kespek, just in case the small chance of rebels from this hits

Aug 9 - Rebels in Utrecht

Sept 1 - Road Network in Massachusetts and Pennacook

Nov 24 - Rebels in Calais

Jan 10, 1543 - We win in Calais

Jan 24 - Hochelega expands

Feb 6 - Utrecht converts

Feb 7 - Fortification Upgrade in Stadacona occurs

Feb 16 - Hainaut rebels

Mar 11 - Burgundy annexes Lorraine

Mar 19 - Rebels crushed

Apr 1 - NLD Allegheny, inland of Kanawha and Susquehanna

Apr 10 - Nunavik has naval supplies

I dispatch pioneers to Allegheny

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Quick Strikes



Apr 22 - Fur in Pocumtuk

May 1 - I put road networks in Connecticut and Narraganset

I Excommunicate Bohemia

May 15 - Fish in Narraganset

May 17 - Grain in Mahican

Oct 9- Rebellion in Aberdeen

Oct 19 - Odd. I have Cotton in Connecticut.

Oct 21 - Allegheny is now a colony

Dec 3 - Victory in Aberdeen

Jan 1, 1544 - Land Reform in Massachusetts

Feb 1 - Manahoac now city


Manahoac - 1602 Irish Catholic farmers, inland of Powhatan and Conoy, and east of Kanawha and Monacan. 4.14 ducats made here and I do order a fort


June 3 - RM with Provence

July 6 - Minorities flock to Kanawha


Kanawha - 1696 Irish Reform, farmers, 2.96 ducats, I build a fort. Beside the Cherokee Ohio and Cumberland provinces, west of Manahoac, Conoy, Susquehanna, south of Alleghany and an unknown province, north of Monacan. Religious Migration.


July 20 - I order a second army built here in the colonies

Sept 1 - Hochelega is now a full province


Hochelega - 1465 Irish Catholic fur trappers, make us 5.95 ducats, fort ordered inland of Stadacona and Kwedech, Huron in Ontario and at least another place.

I make about 150 annually from trade in my two COTs.

Dec 1 - Monacan is now a province


Monacan - 1509 Irish Catholic cotton pickers make us 2.72 ducats annually, and I order a fort here. It is next to three Cherokee provinces and four of mine, making it quite the little cross roads.

[Abe Sargent]

A Quick Interlude



Jan 12, 1545 -I burn all of my spies to kill two Portguese colonies within the Gulf of Mexico. It cost me about 75 ducats for them all, and I was never caught, (I had 86% chance of success and 31 of being caught)

Feb 1 - Wurzburg, Trier and Lorraine have all declared independence from Hesse,

Trier now separates Koln from the rest often Hesse provinces.

Bavaria has captured a bunch of Hesse provinces, and with this 5 now declaring independence, Hesse is down to 4 provinces. The past decade has not been kind to won of the early winners in this game.


My badboy is down to 2.9. Let’s take Koln

Feb 15 - I send colonists to Bayougoula

Feb 20 - Since no one has grabbed it, I send colonists to Guadeloupe

Land Enclosures in Massachusetts, Post Office in Mahican

Mar 15 - Minorities rush to Bayougoula.


Bayougoula - 2705 Irish Protestant, fisher, 4.98 ducats, Religious Migration. Fort is being built here. West of Mobile.


I do not know what will happen when those colonists arrive. Conversion? No clue


June 15 - Our peace with Brabant is up. I could take them and annex their final province. I can do that any time though, I think the time is ripe for Koln

Aug 13 - Kespek converts. I move the army to Kwedech

Aug 21 0 Guadeloupe is the newest Irish colony

Sept 2 - Berg converts

Oct 4 - Land Reform in Connecticut

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: The Year of Great Change, 1545-46 - Vol. 1 - Expansion by the Sword



Oct 18 - Time to piss off some people.


I Declare war, not in the lowlands, not against France, not against Sweden or Castille or Portugal. Not in Europe at all. I DOW the Hurons

Oct 23 - Bayougoula grew from the colonists, but did not convert.


Nov 14 - We capture Mohawk (no forts)

Dec 1 - Acadia and Stadacona are now cores

Dec 8 - One of my armies arrives in a newly discovered Seneca to attack a 12000 natives

Dec 26 - We win in Seneca and I order my army to chase them into the Terra Incognito

We captured Ontario

Jan 1, 1546 - My government tech advisor died. I spend 20 cultural tradition to make a five star trade tech one.

Jan 23 - We capture Huron, their capital

Jan 29 - We arrive in and discover Cayuga, and fight the fleeing Huron military

Feb 14 - We won and captured Cayuga

Feb 27 - We destroyed the fleeing army in Onondaga.

Mar 13 - We capture Oneida

Mar 31 - We discover and capture Ottawa

Apr 4 - We get an event New Trade Research in Heretical and I choose to lost 650 invested ducats in Trade as opposed to losing stability

June 4 - We discover and capture Niagara

Land Reform in Pennacook


We annex Huron. We gain over 15 prestige and only 2 badboy.

[Abe Sargent]

I am making a map of the new possession so you can see

I draw a black line around the new possessions so you can see where they are and how big they are. Here are the new colonies:

Mohawk
Oneida
Onondaga
Cayuga
Seneca
Niagara
Huron
Ontario
Ottawa

They are all Shamanist and experiencing revolution. They are almost all fur. Ontario is grain, the rest are fur. They are all in the 3000-5500 population range. They make us between 2.23 for Ontario’s grain and 5.88 for Onondaga. Some provinces are Huron, others Iroquois. They should move to my culture when they convert.



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[Cap Ologist]

Ok, reading this has given me the urge to play. What version of EU3 are you playing/recommend?

[Abe Sargent]

Ok, reading this has given me the urge to play. What version of EU3 are you playing/recommend?

I have all three expansions and they add a lot, like magistrates, decisions, national focus, missions, cultural tradition, and such. If you have never played an EU game before, it's a real time game that feels turn based. It is very rich, deep, has a steep learning curve, and allows you to do lots of different things. There are some fans on the board of traditional PC strategy games who do not like it or Crusader Kings, but for my money, its the best historical strategy gaming experience I've ever had, better than Civ (barely). Many others love them too, but if you want a different viewpoint, you can head to the main thread and serach for Eu3 threads.

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: The Year of Great Change, 1545-46 - Vol. 2 - Eyes Toward The Continent



I still only have a 3.5 badboy.

I fabricate claims against Hesse


I DOW Hesse

Brabant is Hesse’s ally and they are joining her. Excellent. Two birds, one stone

July 8 - Rebels in Ottawa

July 14 - Breda fell

I annex Brabant which gives us a ton of badboy

Aug 14 - Gelre converts

Aug 17 - Grain in Allegheny

Sept 1 - Nassau falls

Sept 9 - Revolt in Oxfordshire

Sept 18 - Koln falls

Sept 20 - We get Hesse to release Mainz as a free state (which we enter into a RM with), give us Koln, revoke their core on Berg, and give us a little cash



Breda - 49267 Dutch Reform, cloth makers, 24.50 ducats, workshop, temple, completely surrounded by my provinces.


Koln - 105485, Protestant Hessian, workshop, customs house, marketplace, temple - grain, 16.73 ducats. Between Limburg and Berg, and above Liege, Luxembourg, Trier and Koblenz, and west of Nassau


I now have 100 prestige, 15.2 badboy, and a need to really spend some time and just clean up. A lot of missionaries and infrastructure is needed here and abroad.

Provinces with revolt risk above 1%:

Ontario
Ottawa
Seneca
Oneida
Mohawk
Cayuga
Onondaga
Niagara
Huron
Breda
Koln
Utrecht
Gelre
Fife
Calais
Kent
Lothian
Aberdeen
London
Oxfordshire
Hainaut

All of those actually have 3% or higher

[sabotai]

Like Abe, I really like the EU games and they are my favorite historical games. EU3 especially. HTTT really changes a lot about how the game is played. I played through a few games with it, and am waiting for the MMP mod to come out for HTTT to see how that changes things as well. As great as EU3 is, I think a few things about it are too easy, like colonization.

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Post-War Expansion



Oct 1 - We win in Oxfordshire

We discover Potawatomni and Lake Ontario.

I order a fort in Ottawa

Nov 9 - Mobile now a full colony


Mobile - 2096 Irish Catholic cotton growers, 5.13 ducats, I order fort here, next to Cherokee in Tuskegee, Alabama and Pensacola. Next to us In Bayougoula. South of unknown province.

Dec 6 - Fife converts

Dec 12 - Generals Concerned by Unmanly Tactics and I lose 10 prestige rather than move us defensive

Dec 14 - White peace with Bohemia


Within the span of one year, I have won war against three nations, and annexed two of them, and added 11 provinces to our might

Post Office in Connecticut and Narraganset

Jan 2, 1547 - I send colonists to Potawatomi

Feb 9 - Post Office in Pocumtuk

Feb 22 - Slave Uprising in Cameroon. We stopped it but it gets +1 revolt risk

Mar 15 - Coffee in Guadeloupe

Apr 1 - NLD Algonquin, inland of Hochelega and east of Ottawa

Apr 16 - Slider time

I move us closer to Naval and lose some more army investment

This gives me cheaper colonist costs, more tarriff money from the colonies, cheaper ships, etc

June 9 - Rebels in Cayuga and luckily I was moving through there

What I have to do with the natives is build forts first, and then send Missionaries. Right now, any rebels can capture the province, and that stops the missionary and I have to pay to send another. The same is true of building something, so I have to keep an army in a space where a fort is being built for a year, so I can’t just build a bunch of forts all at once, but slowly. This will take a while.

I send Missionary to Koln

July 19 - Colony established in Potawatomi

Sept 1 - NLD Caddo, Inland of Bayougoula

Oct 1 - Naval Tech Increase

Oct 10 - I order a fort in Seneca

Oct 23 - Land Reform in Pocumtuk

Feb 4, 1548 - Allegheny Expands

Apr 12 - Rebels in Onandaga

June 12 - Rebels in Hainaut

July 27 - We win in Hainaut

Sept 1 - Native Attack in Narraganset

Pocumtuk is now self sustaining


Pocumtuk - I order a fort here. 1500 Irish fur trading Catholics make us 6.58 ducats. Adjacent to Mohawk, Massachusetts, Pennacook, Mahican and Kwedech


Sept 16 - Land Reform in Mahican and Narranganset

Sept 29 - Huron rebels killed

Oct 1 - Mahican is now self sustaining too


Mahican - Fort built. 1504 Irish farmers. Catholics. 5.47 ducats. Next to Massachusetts, Mohawk, Oneida, Pocumtuk, Connecticut, Manhattan, Unami, and Lenape


I order a level 1 fort in Cayuga

[Abe Sargent]

A Short Interlude




Nov 1 - Missionary sent to Breda

Dec 1 - Road Network in Mahican

Dec 16 - Rebels in Hainaut

Jan 9, 1549 -Rebels gone

Jan 22 - Allegheny expands

Apr 1 - NLD Choctaw, north of Mobile and Bayougoula

May 1 - NLD Erie

May 22 - Breda converts

June 1: NSD Lake huron

June 10 rebels in Mohawk

June 24 - Rebels in Hainaut

June30 - Rebs in Mohawk killed

July 1 - Abnaki now a core + Connecticut now city



Connecticut - Fort. 3507, Irish catholic, cotton, 5.93 ducats


July 17 - Allegheny expandheny

Aug 7 - Victoire in Hainaut

Road Network in Pocumtuk, Breda

Sept 18 - Fort ordered in Ontario

[Abe Sargent]

150 Year Review


Oct 14, 1549


Prestige - 78
Badboy - 11.8
Ducats - 283
Stability - 3


Vassals - Scotland, Auvergne, Holland, Oldenburg

Lead Personal Union with “Norway,” which is just the Orkneys.

Allies - Norway, Scotland, Auvergne, Holland, Oldenburg, Mainz


Ideas:

Military Drill
Quest for the New World
Colonial Ventures
Land of Opportunity


Feudal Monarchy


We have the most prestige
4th worst inflation at 19%
2nd highest income behind Austria by 3 ducats

I am behind the leaders in everything but government, tech wise

6th biggest army. I have around 65k, Austria has almost 200k
4th largest navy, we have 53 ships. Ming has 70, Scandinavia 59 and Japan 58

My current ruler, Muchadh, has been ruling for 31 years.

We have just five current colonies - Guadeloupe, Allegheny, Narraganset, Nunavik and Potawatomi. I need to focus on other things for a few years, so expect this number may lower

Antwerp is the second most valuable COT in the world behind Lubeck. Massachusetts is 6th behind Andalucia, Alexandra and Gorz.



Currently, the most valuable trade good is salt.


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




Provinces:

The most tax - Antwerp - 31.2. L

Antwerp
London
East Anglia
Gloucestershire
Yorkshire
Ulster
Wessex
Lancashire
Brabant
Cornwall


The most production -

Vlaanderen *
Antwerpen *
Brabant *
Zeeland
East Anglia *
Hainaut
Limburg
Yorkshire
Utrecht
Northumberland


Countries with a * have a manufactory or university



The most tariffs:

Massachusetts
Onondaga
Stadacona
Huron
Pocumtuk
Niagara
Kwedech
Unami
Abnaki
Micmac



How Many do we Have?


Fur: 20
Grain: 13
Iron: 5
Naval supplies: 7
Salt: 1
Slaves: 1
Sugar: 3
Tobacco: 9
Cloth: 10
Coffee: 2
Copper: 1
Cotton: 6
Fish: 18


It’s nice that I have a money product like fur to really corner the market in.

I don’t have any tea, spices, ivory, chinaware, wine, wool or gold. I can’t believe I don’t have any wool provinces. I usually can’t get rid of the nasty things.

I think there is way much tobacco and cotton on the map this time, and the prices for it are lowered. Plus, you need more slave provinces to really help their value. I’m not sure how many slaves are out there.



Castille is at war with two Indian nations, so again, they must be really far out there.

The new world is really just a three man race between Castille, Portugal and me. England is gone. The Netherlands probably will never form and Holland is my vassal while I own the other land. France is going through major issues for decades. Aragon colonized Cape Verde and I hope it is the beginning.

There are still a few new world provinces left in prime places, but not too many. Curacao, Jamaica, a bunch of South American coastals with low tax value.

We each have three of the islands in the Antilles. Castile has St Kitts, Martin and Antigua. Portgual has St Thomas, Lucia and Barbados. I have the other three. Castille has Trinidad and Puerto Rico. I have Cuba. Portugal has Hispaniola. I have some nearby island groups like Turks and Bahamas. Portugal has Azores, and Madeira. I have North America, they have provinces in Brazil and south, plus some more north.

Portugal has taken over almost all of Aztec. Castille has annexed African nations like Kongo, Portugal annexed Zimbabwe.

Castille has North Africa locked.

Landwise - I do not know who is ahead and who is behind. We are all doing very well.

My guess is Castille, but I took a major chunk out of that I suspect in the last few years with Huron and continental provinces

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Four More



Nov 1 - Micmac is now a core

Dec 24 - We defeat rebels in Hainaut

Jan 6, 1550 - Rebels in Onondaga

Jan 9 - Allegheny expands


Allegheny - 1587 Irish Catholic farmers, 3.18 ducats, wall building built, next to Seneca, Cayuga, Susquehanna, Kanawha and unsettled Erie

Jan 31 Rebellion ended

Mar 1 - Land Enclosures in Koln

Apr 3 - I order a fort in Onondaga

May 1 - Massachusetts is now a core

June 5 - Fur in Potawatomi

July 22 - Minorities flock to Guadeloupe


Guadeloupe - I order a fort here. 3046 Reform Irish Coffee growers, 5.27 ducats, Religious Migration.


Aug 1 - Prod Tech increase

Aug 9 - Rebels in Ottawa

Aug 12 - Narraganset expands


Narraganset - Adjacent to Connecticut and Massachusetts, 2611Irish Catholic fishers, make us 6.71 ducats. They get a fort too


Sept 9 - Rebels killed

Sept 21 - I order a fort in Huron


Sept 27 - Rebellion in Berg, came from over the border and leaked in.

Oct 5 - Quashed

Oct 19 - Rebellion in Oneida

Nov 12 - Killed

Nov 25 - Nunavik expands


Nunavik - 1606, Irish Catholics, Naval Supplies, 1.78 duats, no fort built, next to Ungava

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Nearing the End - Pacifying Natives



Jan 1, 1551 - Since I have just one colony right now I send colonists to Erie and Chitimacha (in Louisiana/Texas area)

Jan 8, Roads in Unami and Manhattan and Delaware

Mar 14 - Burgundy lost two provinces to Austria, increasing their blobbiness

Mar 22 - We defeat some rebels that bled over into Hainaut

Apr 5 - I order a fort in Oneida

I order a Missionary to Martinique

June 16 - Castille annexes Hungary

July 7 - Colony established in Erie and I send in more

Aug 16 - Chitimacha is founded and I also send more colonists to it

Sept 1 - Roads in Abnaki and Micmac

Sept 22 - I order a fort in Niagara

Nov 10 - Rebellion in Mohawk, and the natives are marching towards Oneida, where I have a garrison protecting the construction of a fort.

Nov 29 - Natives destroy. I dispatch our cavalry to grab Mohawk back and rejoin us

Dec 29 - Erie expands

Jan 1, 1552 - Missionary to Huron

Jan 9 - Revolt in Oneida

Jen 14 - Quelled

Jan 30 - Koln converts back to Catholicism!

Mar 1 - A level 5 Privateer arrives in Zeeland, but I do not hire him.

Mar 31 - Chitimacha expands

Apr 6 - I order a fort in Mohawk, the last of the Huron provinces that needs one

June 8 - Roads in Conoy, Pamlico and Powhatan

July 10 - Rebellion in Onondaga

Aug 10 - I lose 25 ducats when local natives fail to assist my fur trappers (an event)

Aug 21 - We destroy the rebels

Nov 7 - Missionary to Niagara

Nov 24 - I send colonist to Choctaw

Jan 18, 1553 - Grain in Erie

Feb 4 - Grain in Chitimacha

Feb 26 - I again Excommunicate Portugal

Feb 28 - Niagara converts, and they become Irish too.

I send a Missionary to Ontario.

Apr 6 - Missionary to Mohawk

July 9 - Colony set up in Choctaw and I send in more colonists

Aug 2 - Roads in Santee, Tuscarora, Monacan and Manahoac

Aug 9 - I send colonists to Algonquin

Missionary to Oneida

Aug 30 Oneida converts that quickly. Wow.

Oct 1 - Trade tech increases. Cores now in Unami and Bermuda

Dec 8 - Revolt in Huron

Dec 19 - Crushed

Jan 1, 1554 - NLD Sault, NSD - Lake Erie

Feb 19 - Choctaw expands

Feb 27 - Algonquin is our newest colony, and I send in morie pioneers, ready to explore her.

Apr 1 - Northumberland now a core

Apr 10 - The new Pope, Prussia, revokes the Excommunication of Portugal. We have two rebellions in Cayuga and Seneca

May 6 - Rebels defeated in Seneca

May 27 - And Cayuga too

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Nearing the End - Pacifying Natives Take Two




June 17 - Roads in Kanawha, Allegheny, Susquehanna

I order colonists to Chitimacha

Actually, from here on out, I am not going to tell you when I expand road networks, and just assaume I am

Aug 21 - Expansion of our Algonquin colony and more pioneers seeking a new life leave our ports

Oct 2 - Missionary to Seneca

Oct 14 - I gain 5 naval influence from Fleet is Pride of nation

Nov 7 - Castille is now Defender of the Faith.

Jan 1, 1555 - Kespek now a core

Jan 30 - Chitimacha expand and more settlers are dispatched

Feb 13 - Algonquin expands

Feb 18 - Tobacco in Choctaw

Mar 11 - I get an odd event. Our Mercantilist Policies Strengthen Trade - Luneberg and Riga each lose merchants in Antwerp. Never seen it before

May 23 - Fur in Algonquin

June 8 - I order a level 2 fort in Tuscarora just to complete the missiona nd get a new one

June 11 - Rebellion in Huron

July 6 - We win

July 20 - Once again we are the Papal Controller

Aug 1 - Manhattan now a core

Sept 14 - Chitimacha expands. I send colonist to Atakapa.

Oct 11 - Good Harvest from my Grain provines so I take 50 ducats

Apr 5 - Magdeburg declares independence from Hesse

Apr 29 - Conversion successful in Oxfordshire

May 1 - My Naval Reformer died. Antwerp, Vlaanderen and Zeeland are now cores


I create a level 5 statesman and hire him

Missionary sent to Cayuga

May 9 - Atakapa colonized and more are sent

June 9 - Mission complete. The next one? Build Weapons Manufactory in Yorkshire. I agree actually

Dec 1 - Armagnac declares independence from France

Dec 12 - Mohawk converts!

Feb 10, 1557 - I order a Weapons Manufactory in Yorkshire

Feb 27 - Austria grabbed Defender of the Faith from Castille

Mar 29 - Minorities flock to Erie

Erie: I order a fort here. 1542 Reform Irish farmers, Religious Migration, next to Allegheny, Kanawha, the Cherokee in Ohio, and unsettled Wyandot. (Western PA)



I order colonists to Wyandot (E. Ohio)

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Nearing the End - Under the Irish Flag



Apr 10 - Rebels on Oneida

May 2 - Creamed

July 20 Corsica took the Aragonese colony in Cape Verde

Aug 1 - I excommunicate the Riga Bishop.

Oct 8 - Colony established in Wyandot and I order in more colonists

Nov 1 - Land Tech Increases

Nov 25 - Missionary to Onondaga

Dec 8 - Grain in Atakapa

Jan 14, 1558 - Ontario converts!

Feb 9 - Colonists sent to Sault

Feb 12 - Rebels in Ottawa

Apr 2 - Wyandot expands and I send in more of those willing to go

July 9 - Revolt on Koln

July 17 - We win

Aug 12 - Cayuga converts

Sept 6 - We establish a colony in Sault.

Sept 25 - Wyandot expands.

Nov 9 - Revolt in Niagara

Nov 12 - Yuck. Cotton in Wyandot

Dec 1 - We recapture Auvergne from rebels. I moved my Hainaut army down to regather it.

Dec 4 - Niagara now rebel free

Jan 1, 1559 - Chitimacha gorwn

Chitimacha - 2504, Irish Catholic, farmers, 2,4 ducats, fort ordered, adjacent to Bayougoula and Atakapa and unsettled Caddo (inland LA and TX)


Feb 1 - Same with…


Potawatomi - 1503 Irish Catholics, fur traders, 5.8 ducats, fort ordered, next to us in Wyandot, Niagara through a straight, and unknown provinces (Michigan lower half)

Feb 28 - Sault expands

Apr 24 - Castille again Defender of the Faith

May 2 - Missionary to Ottawa, and the final Huron province now has a missionary

Our badboy has dropped to 2.3, fyi

Let’s increase it a tad.

I offer Scotland annexation.

They reject

Aug 9 - Castille and Portugal have set up in the Gulf of Mexico provinces beside me.

I send more colonists to Atakapa in order to speed things up a bit

Sept 22 - I offer Scotland another chance to join our mighty nation.

They accept

I now officially have all of the British Isles under my banner, unless you count the Orkney Islaes.



Highlands - 5486 Reform Scottish wool makers create 6.14 ducats, have a temple, courthouse and workshop, and a revolt risk of 9. They are next to Fife and Aberdeen and can move across straights to Orkney and the Western Isles


Western Isles - 2149 Scottish Reform, workshop and temple, 8.76 ductas in the fish trade, 9% rate too, only can move to Highlands


I move the army in Fife to Highlands

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Nearing the End - Narrowing Focus


Oct 8 - Revolt in Western Isles

Dec 9 - Rebels in Huron

Jan 3, 1560 - Victoire in Huron

Feb 2 - I order level 1 forts in many of the provinces that have gone without up until now

Apr 1 - Atakapa expands. Okay, I want to put a colony in Caddo, but the natives are quite aggressive. I’ve saved up some colonists, and my plan is to blanket it with colonists until it is set up. Just one set after another.

The first leave now, and have a 78% chance of taking

Apr 17 - Huron converts

May 1 - Hungary declared free from castille

June 1 - NLD - Michigan

Sept 1 - Taqamkuk is now a core

Oct 9 - revolt in Huron

Oct 20 - Defeated

Nov 15 - My King, who has ruled for 42 years, has passed.

Cathal O’Neill is our new ruler, but he had a weak claim, so our legitimacy is down to 30, we have rebels in Epekwitk. Cathal is already in his mid-30s. Admin 6, Dip 9, Mil 3. His son is Turlough, so our succession is safe.

Nov 16 - RM with Brittany, Auvergne

Bohemia and the HRE passed a law and now all of my vassals are Bohemia’s. That means Holland and Oldenburg are no longer mine. So I only have one vassal left 0 Auvergne. Note that they are still my allies.

Nov 17 - France rejects our RM offer. Caddo is colonized and more are dispatched, as I said.

Now if I wanted to, I could Excommunicate DOW Bohemia. However, with their 20 vassals or so, that would be quite difficult

Dec 5 - Missionary to Taqamkuk

Dec 9 - Revolt in Onondaga

Dec 18 - Defeated

Jan 16, 1561 - We get a temporary CB against a couple of provinces in Oldenburg due to border tension

Feb 1 - Pamlico a core now

Feb 12 - Rebels in Taqamkuk

Mar 1 - Bahamas, Turks and Santeee are all now cores

Mar 15 - Rebels in Epekwitk killed, and that ends the Pretendder issue

Apr 7 - Rebels in Taqamkuk killed

May 9 - Minorities to Algonquin



Algonquin - 1729, Protestant, Irish, fur traders, 4.58 ducats, I order a fort, next to Hochelega, Ottawa, Sault, and Onatario, plus an unknown province. Religious Migration.

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Nearing the End - Stabilizing and Integrating Over Expansion



June 1 -NLD Miami

June 12 - France rejects a third RM offer.

June 30 Caddo expands

July 1 - Luxemburg defects to Burgundy

Aug 1 0 Land Enclosures in Lothian and Martinique

Aug 9 - Rebellion in Western Isles

Aug 26- Defeated

I cancel our access through France

France has had decades and decades to clean up her mess, and she hasn’t.


Oct 17 - I send France an insult

Dec 1 - Another insult

Jan 1, 1562 - It looks like Hesse, as I inspect it, has left the HRE at some point in time, because hey are not a vassal of Bohemia. Good for you Hesse. I have no designs on your remaining provinces, so you’re good.

Note that Austria did become a vassal of Bohemia. That’s gotta be odd


Jan 25 - Bohemia Defender of Faith

Feb 10 Caddo expands

We finished our mission in Yorkshire and a get a new one to build a weapons Manufactory this time in Ayrshire, Maybe

Wow, there is a five star Banker out there I could hire, and it would give me -55% interest, that would be awesome. The other way to do it is to build Tax Assessors when you get 31 government. I currently have 18. That might be a while.


Feb 25 - Seneca converts

Mar 8 - rebels in Onondaga

Mar 15 - Cotton in Caddo

Mar 20 -Rebels no more

May 1 - Navarra declared independent from France We enter a RM with them

May 10 - I send colonists to Miami

June 3 - I send a Missionary to Highlands

July 1 - We fabricate papers against France.

I try to DOW France, but it tells me that Austria is the Defender of the Protestant Faith, but Austria is Catholic. How does that work?

Aug 1 - NSD Lake Michigan

Aug 30 Fur in Sault

Sept 1 - Prod Tech Increase

Sept 22 - Caddo expands

Oct 4 - Martinique converts!

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age: Nearing the End - The Remnants of a Colonial Policy




Nov 1 - Slider time. We move more Naval

Nov 23 - Miami established

Dec 1 - Revolt in Seneca

Decc 22 0 Killed

Apr 1, 1563 - Govnment Tech Increase

As long as Austria is Defender of the Protestant Faith, oddly, then I will nto risk a war with France to bring them in. My CB on France ends July 1, but I will let it expire.

May 3 - Caddo expands

June 2 - Portugal screwed up, possibly. They DOW’d Meissen. Noiw the entire HRE and all of the vassals are coming after Portugal

I have an alliance CB against Portugal because my allies are at war with them.

July 1 -


Choctaw - 2004 Irish Catholics, tobacco, 2.46 ducats, fort, next to two Cherokee provinces in Chichasaw and Tuskegeee, north of Mobile, Bayougoula, east of Caddo



Oct 8 - I have managed to convince the Cherokee to open their market to me, and I send merchants to their COT in Chickasaw. I can monopoly it, and the Cherokee only have one merchant there, so despite the fact that it only gets 120 ducats in trade, I may have the lion’s share of that very soon

Dec 13 - Caddo expands


Dec 24 -


Atakapa - I order a fort here. 2091 Irish Catholic farmers make us 2.72 ducats. East of Castille in Karankawa, west of us in Caddo and Chitimacha, and south of inland provinces(s) unknown

[Abe Sargent]

The Irish Colonial Age Ends




Jan 1, 1564 - Martinique is now a core

I send a Missionary to Western Isles

Mar 4 - Rebellion in Western Isles

Mar 9 - Castille Defender of Faith again

July 24 - Caddo expands

Sept 11 - Rm with Aragon

Sept 28 - I get a Boundary Dispute with France and ai Presse it, getting a core on Cambray

Dec 1 - I have a new idea

Dec 29 - Brittany gives me military access

Feb 2, 1565 - Castille opened up their COT to me again Maybe they want to make nice since we are now neighbors

I send colonists to Michigan and Cree

Mar 4 -


Caddo - 3083 Irish catholic cotton farmers, 3083 ducats, fort, inland of Chitimacha ,Bayougoula, Atakapa, west of Choctaw, Cherokee in Chickasaw, and porbably next to several inland unknown provinces

June 1 - I extend our Sphere of Influence around Brittany

June 22 - I fund 6000 rebels in Liege

July 1 - Missionary sent to Lenape

Aug 6 - Failure to take in Cree, more colonists dispatched

Aug 17 - Taqamkuk converts

Aug 19 - Tobacco in Miami

Aug 23 - Colony founded in Michigan

Aug 27 - Cumbria becomes Reformed

Nov 4 - Western Isles converts

Dec 1 - NLD Tonkawa, just inside of Atakapa. I hold off on colonists. it’s a lousy province, high aggressive natives and low tax value of 1.

Feb 7, 1566 - Colony established in Cree

Mar 1 - NLD - Arkansas

I send in colonist

Apr 9 - Rebellion in Erie

May 23 - White Peace for Portugal and the HRE

July 21 - We win in Erie

Oct 26 Colonization failed in Arkansas

[Abe Sargent]

I feel like I am approaching the end of this dynasty. I know I’m not even 200 years in, but what is left? I haven’t had a large badboy in forever, I have the isles to myself, I have a nice chunk of continental real estate, I have almost every open province in Canada and the US other than Florida and south Texas, I’ve already colonized into the mid-west and Michigan, and up through Arkansas. I have Cuba, three Antilles islands, Turks, Bahamas, and Bermuda, plus The Canarias and Cameroon. How much longer before I’ve united my growing colony up the Mississippi river and the one in the Midwest? How much longer before I’ve colonized the west coast? that’s all I’m doing, colonizing. I haven’t waged war against Europe for new land at all. I’ve already bent the original rules of the dynasty to grab land in the lowlands and a bit in Germany, how much farther do I push? I’ve already met all of my goals.

I started Songhai with one goal - Unify Africa. I also took Mecca and the land path to it, like I though a Sunni state would want. After that, I was done, and I set the dynasty down. I started this dynasty with the desire to unite Ireland, take Britain, and colonize Canada and the US. No one can stop my colonization. We are so deep inland that no other power can stop us.

I have never taken Land of Opportunity before as my Idea, nor have I ever had a Estates General advisor (the colony grower) so I got a chance t o do some new things.

The new expansion does add a lot. The HRE stuff is awesome, so much so that I am tempted to try out an HRE power next time. One more edict and the HRE would have stopped being vassals and all been one country. Awesome. Magistrates and what they add are great. I absolutely adore cultural tradition and being able to choose your advisors, just like you can make generals, admirals, explores and conquistadors. I love the idea of an heir and legitimacy. Having visible badboy was great too. I think the expansion was a good one.

Each expansion really added a lot to EU3, no doubt. Decisions, additional spy options, missions and such have made the game much better.

[Abe Sargent]

What would I want to see in EU4?

The ability to do stuff with Wasteland provinces, like move across them with armies at a massive attrition, or the ability to make them settle-able with some serious financial input, etc. Make them small provinces and more realistic. There is no reason that jungles throughout Africa are very settle able, but inner Jungles are not. Many deserts are provinces, but some aren’t Many mountains are settle-able,m but a few aren’t. EU has always given you the historically used provinces, but there is no reason tot think that places like Montana and Idaho, or Quebec, couldn’t be settled. I rather have the choice, I don’t like being told I can’t do something.

I would like to see some diplomacy changes. I love diplomacy in this game, but sometimes weird stuff happens to your relations with another country, and you don’t know why. Within my first year at Barrois, some of the countries in the HRE with whom I began the game with good relations would invariably have severe relations in every time I tried to play it. My relations with Castille went from 140 to -40 in this game, and I could not tell you why. They should add a historical screen for each country you can click on to document all of the diplomatic changes that were made.

In EU2, economic products were always the same value. Chinaware was always uber-valuable, with Spices and Sugar quite high as well. In EU3, with the random product to a province, sometimes you get unrealistic products. There is no way you are getting cotton in the mountains, for example. You can’t get iron in the Applachian mountain chain, for example. Why not? Why not add Naval Supplies as one of the options in Jungle colonies, (in real life jungle colonies were often used to timber for boats)? In this game, they are too fickle. They need to hit a medium. Chinaware, with established trade to Europe, should always be the most valuable good. So should spices. Wars were fought over the spice trade. The entire exploration and colonial effort was started simply to break Venice’s hold on the spice trade. Spies were so valuable, that they drove diplomacy, war, and exploration for centuries. In the game, they should not be less valuable than things like Copper and Wine. If you have a spice province in the Caribbean, that is money on trees literally. Salt, Spices, Chinaware - some products should always be near the top of the food chain.

And some should always be near the bottom. Naval supplies, grain, fish, wool - these should always be chump provinces, although sometimes in EU3, you get a weird economy like I had where grain is more valuable than cotton, tobacco, etc. These provinces instead should have other abilities. Grain provinces should give you better manpower (they do), naval supplies should help with building or upkeeping ships, etc.

I want you to be able to have a decision that changes a province’s good. This happened a lot in real life. Bermuda went from naval supplies (lumber) to tobacco. One of the Caribbean colonies whose name escapes me moved to spices after they were imported from Asia. Trinidad went from sugar to cocoa. Antigua went from tobacco to sugar. This happened in real life. Besides, shouldn’t you be able to move from cotton to grain or from tobacco to grain with little trouble?

I want to see dyes, wax, whales, New World foods, pearls and silver mines. Perhaps even cocoa and rubber. Take Socotra, for example. Socotra was quite valuable in real life, because only on it could you find the sap, Dragon’s Blood, which was used as a dye. But, in EU, there are no dyes, so how do you value the province? You Can’t give it spice, that’s over-egging it. What do you do? It would be nice if, after years of playing with the same 20, we get a few new things to play with. Especially since many are localized to certain regions of the world, like slaves or tobacco, tea or chinaware. Another example is Margarita, which had a strong pearl farming economy, so powerful, that the Spanish began to raid Trinidad as slaves for its operation in 1511.

I’ve mentioned in the Songhai dynasty the surrealness of an empire that had so many slave provinces. Could you imagine Rome selling off its citizens as slaves to the Germanic Tribes for profit? That needs to be fixed.

For colonies, in EU2, you could build a colony or a trading post, but the Trading Post idea is gone. Why? I like it. I would like to see it return along with two new options. In addition to building colonies or posts, what if you could build a fort there, or a Mission there. The mission would take a missionary and try to convert without you being there, but you would fund it like other missionaries. You could claim an area with a Fort and some soldiers to gaud it, and then colonize later. Make that take up some manpower or something, and not a colonist. Then you can move sliders into and out of the province without always having to face natives.

I also think there should be an economic advantage to having a majority of the provinces that make something. It you have 8 of the 10 tea province in the world, there should be some extra bonuses.

[Tasan]

Loved the dynasty Abe. Very engaging. I'm gonna fire up EU3 and give it another whirl. I used to play EU1 all the time when it came out, EU2 kind of burnt me out, and EU3 has barely gotten any play from me. Time to fix that, I think.

[Abe Sargent]

Awesome

[Cap Ologist]

I was looking online and if I buy EU3 Complete and EU3 Rome, would that cover all the expansion packs?

[Abe Sargent]

EU Rome is a different game and many do not like it.

EU3 has these expansions:

Napoleon's ambition
In Nomine
Heir to the Throne


I think complete has the first two.

[sabotai]

Right, EU3: Complete only has the first two expansions. They didn't intend to make a 3rd expansion, but I'm glad they did. EU: Rome is a different game. The original game was basic and "bleh", but the expansion did add a lot to it and I liked it after that. Still plenty of minor complaints, though. I was thinking of diving into modding it to see what I could do with it. I enjoy EU: Rome + the expansion, but EU3 + the three expansions is much, much better.