Victoria II - The United Provinces of Central America - COMPLETE!

[Abe Sargent]

Hello and welcome to my newest dynasty! I just downloaded Victoria II from Steam for $20 as part of their holiday special. I’ve never played Victoria or the sequel. I just spent some time in the tutorials, and now I’m ready to hit the road. Normally my CK or EU: Rome or EU dynasties see me pick some small, overpowered one province nation and try to lead it to greatness. Today, I’m going to do something a little different. By the time the maps are being drawn in 1836, there really aren’t a lot of one provinces left. I also have a chance to play one of the more interesting nations from history at this time. It’s too bad Vicky II doesn’t start at 1030, or else I would get to play one of my favorite historical nations of all time, Simon Bolivar’s Gran Colombia.

However, I can play a similar state just north and west. The United Provinces of Central America (in the game, they are improperly called the United States of Central America, but that term is more properly applied to a union later in the century).

The UPCA began in the early 1820s. A plan came about to add the Spanish Central American holdings to Mexico after it won independence. This was the Plan of Iguala. The plan had three principles – establishing Catholicism as the state religion, independence for Mexico, and liberty for all people, regardless of race or ethnicity. Slavery was outlawed. The region joined Mexico in 1821.

However, the region of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala objected to several parts of the Plan and did not want to join Mexico. The more liberal leaning elite wanted their new state to be a modern federal republic, not the constitutional monarchy that Mexico had become. Several provinces began to claim their independence from Mexico, and she allowed them to leave and become their own state.

The UPCA would exist for a short timeframe. From 1823 to 1840, the state existed. In 1838 Guatemala would declare independence from it, and begin the end. The country lacked a sense of unity. It was created when Mexico won the War of Independence, and was handed freedom first by Spain, and then by Mexico. Unlike other ex-colonies, it had never fought a war of revolution which unified its people. The conservative backlash against the liberal elites in control created severe internal squabbles, until all of the constituent parts left to form their own countries. Once they were in smaller pieces, they could be more easily influenced by military coups, dictators, foreign intervention, international companies, and even private mercenaries attacking and trying to install their own state in Central America (see William Walker, for example)

Without the economic and military might of the combined UPCA, the region failed to exploit its riches in fruit, coffee, rare timbers, and iron abroad.

What if someone new was elected to office in 1835? What if, on the first day of their office on January 1, 1836, they saw the dissolution of their state on the horizon and took steps to stave it off? What would history look like today, if this region of the world remained unified, built up its infrastructure, and established itself as a player in world politics?

[Abe Sargent]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Flag_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Central_America.svg/500px-Flag_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Central_America.svg.png

[Izulde]

It’s too bad Vicky II doesn’t start at 1030, or else I would get to play one of my favorite historical nations of all time, Simon Bolivar’s Gran Colombia.

:eek: 4th or 5th generation Lasombra, maybe?

[Abe Sargent]

:eek: 4th or 5th generation Lasombra, maybe?

Yes thanks you:). Obviously I meant 1830.

[Abe Sargent]

Here is the map of the area as of Jan 1, 1836:



http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/7132/1836upca.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

We are the light blue lob in Central America. Belize belongs to the British Empire. The red in the Caribbean is also British. The yellow is Spanish. The tiny amount of dark blue is French. You can see Mexico, Texas, USA, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and more.

We have no industrialization as of yet. We are ranked 40th in the world out of 125 nations.

We have 9,000 infantry. We are devoid of any navy at all.

We have 17 provinces. Of them, 8 are fruit, 4 make coffee, 2 timber, 1 is iron, 1 is cattle, and 1 is the very valuable tropical wood. We have a very agrarian economy, as do many in this age. We need to industrialize.

I decide to start working on the research of Experimental Railroad.

Our Upper House can veto our reforms of an economic or political nature. They are 44% Reactionary, 31% Conservative, and 25% Liberal.

However, the Partido Liberal is currently in control. As a result, our people are pro-military, free trade, limited citizenship, laizzez faire, and secularized in respect to religion.

Our voters are 58% liberal, 26% conservative, and 16% reactionary. It’s just our Upper House that looks a bit wonky.

Unfortunately, I am not allowed to build factories in this government. My people must build them. I must do what I can to encourage them to do so.

My middle class is having difficulty meeting their needs, so I drop their taxes a bit. I also drop the elites taxes a bit too. I jack up defense spending and administrative and religious spending. I also give us some tariffs. Not too much, but a bit to work with.

The next day arrives and with it a courier from Venezuela. They are offering us a military alliance, and I accept. I order my 9000 troops to move to our border with Colombia.

I decide to encourage basic industry in the four provinces of Guatemala. I’m gaining a lot of gold daily.

[Abe Sargent]

January 4 – Ecuador is in a military alliance with Bolivia.

Jan 11 – Peru joins Argentina in an alliance.

Jan 19 – Brazil joins the Netherlands in an odd alliance.

Feb 10, 1836 – Our 9000 troops under the leadership of Francisco Morazin arrive in the province of Limon, adjacent to the Colombian province of David. With our ally in Venezuela, and Colombia’s distinct lack of an ally, I think it’s time to give our people something to rally behind.



I have this strategy in EU, CK and Rome, and we'll try it here. I like to find the weakest target, and strike as quickly as I can. There are several reasons for this - I have no infamy/badboy at the time, so there is no sense in waiting until later. Plus, if I fail, I can just restart the game - I haven;t invested a lot of time. Whether it was taking Timbuktu from Male as Songhai or increasing my land in the Netherlands or grabbing Kasogs as Yegorlyk - I should be looking to expand as quickly as possible.

So let's do it

[Abe Sargent]

I send a declaration of war to Colombia. I choose the conquest of Panama as my war goal. This gives me significant infamy (aka badboy). If we win, we will gain 4 prestige. If we lose, we lose 10 prestige, some of our people get upset. No matter how the war goes, we can only take Panama, and that’s it. Our goal is to take the five provinces of Panama from Colombia.

Our ally joins us and our troops are ordered to liberate David from the slave state of Colombia.

Mar 2 – Paraguay and Chile are now in an alliance

Mar 29 – Colombia is trying to capture a province in Venezuela, while our allies are assembling an army of some size.

June 6 – The Venezuelan province of Barinas was captured by Colombia

June 29 – We grab David and move to Penonome

July 1 – Paraguay and Uruguay are now allies

Aug 1 – The US is granting military access to Mexico.

Aug 2 – Venezuela won a major land battle in a province they were capturing.

Aug 12 – Cucuta is captured by Venezuela. Mexico wants military access. I have really good relations with Mexico, but I expect someday, Mexico will be a target of expansion. On the other hand, I don’t want to be a target of theirs right now. I agree.

Aug 23 -0 The USA has intervened on the side of Texas in their war with Mexico.

Sept 8 – A follow up victory by Venezuela in Bogota.

Nov 7 – After grabbing Penonome I order my forces to Balboa

Dec 20 – Cucuta is recaptured by Colombia

Jan 1, 1837 – Our Upper House has been rearranged. It is now 57% liberal, 26% conservative and 15% reactionary. I use my political will to enact us moving from State Press to Censored Press. This removes the negative penalty to literacy in our nation.

Jan 10 – Barinas is recaptured by Venezuela

Mar 1, I spend some more political will to move us to free press. It’s nice to have a majority of the type you want in the Upper House.

Mar 25 – Balboa falls and I send a missive to Colombia.

Mar 27 – The five provinces of Panama join the United Provinces of Central America.

David is growing the coffee. The other four (Panama City, Penonome, Balboa and Yaviza) are all fruit provinces.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 28 – I accept an alliance with Ecuador.

June 10 – The Dutch and the British are now at war. I order my troops next to Belize. IF I see an opportunity, I’ll strike.

Nov 15, 1837 – Mexico won the war with Texas and annexed it back to their territory.

Jan 1, 1838 – Upper House - 51% Liberal, 32 Conservative, 16 Reactionary

May 14 – We now have experimental railroad! I order us to work on Mechanized Mining.

Aug 2 – Mexico and the USA are now at peace – no land was exchanged.

Jan 1, 1839 – Liberals now have 48%, Cons 34, and 17 React


We are currently undergoing a massive population spike. I have lowered taxes and increased salaries and now this is the result.

June 5 – Brazil DOWs Paraguay.

By Sept 1, all of the nationalist rebels I had in each of the countries is gone. I have very little rebellion problem.

Nov 10 – Local clergy in the province of Bluefields are causing problems speaking out against the government. I can choose to legislate against it, in which case the clergy all across Nicaragua gain 3 consciousness (which is the mechanic through which they demand social change) or I can incarcerate the troublemakers, which reduces our clergy in this provinces, and thereby reduces things like literacy, which hurts our investment in technology. I chose the first.

[Abe Sargent]

January 1, 1840 – Elections are held, and results are pending in 6 months. The new Upper House has 45, 37, 17 % people.

Jan 7 – Good news. Our two allies – Venezuela and Ecuador, are now allies themselves, so we have a nice little three way alliance going.

I check and Colombia is allied with Peru and Bolivia. If not, I would have felt ready to strike at Colombia from three flanks (Ecuador, Venezuela, and me)

I actually want the Conservatives in power for a bit, because they have Interventionism economic policy, and not laissez faire, so I can spend some cash to make a few improvements here and there.

We are currently ranked 18th now.

Jan 29 – Citizenship Policy is debated in Guatemala. I am able to make one of three choices – Grant Residency, Grant Citizenship, and Limit their Citizenship. Each pushes the populace ten percent towards the related issue. I go full citizenship. We need immigrants in droves to help us measure up. For example, the five provinces in Panama have a combined population of…37k. Nicaragua’s provinces have 78k. Costa Rica’s provinces have 24k. We need to increase our population. Total population for UPCA is 476k.

By comparison, Mexico has 2.35 million, Colombia 450k, Venezuela 244k, Ecuador 221k, USA 4.36 Million. If I want to play with the big boys (Mexico, USA), then I need to have a population in excess of similarly sized nations like Colombia.

Mar 3 – Let’s look at the newest events. We get, aback to back, three debates. (Election time). I choose to go with immigration emphasis, a small nod to atheism, and a full nod to pluralism. A week later, I give a tiny nod to free trade.

May 17 – I give a minor nod to residency in a debate about it.

May 22 – We have discovered Mechanized Mining! I order us to work on Freedom of Trade, which will massively increase farm and mine outputs.

June 1 – We discover Explosive!

June 10 – I move us towards Pro Military with another debate over an election issue.


I order 3000 infantry built

June 25 – Brazil grabbed some land from its wars.

July 1 – The Liberals won and are the ruling party.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1841 Our Upper House is 42%, 40% con, and 17 react

After five years, we now have 502k population,

Since encouraging growth with my national focus has gotten us nothing, I decide to slide to encouraging railroads in Guatemala.

In retrospect, I wish I had manipulated the voters earlier when I had the ability to do so with a majority liberal. I could have gone to an increased amount of voters, sealed ballots and more. The liberals will vote for that stuff at 100%. The cons won’t vote for it at all, even though it would likely get them in power, since my general populace is conservative but my elite voters are not.

Feb 10 – Is Colombia primed for another war loss? Venezuela can run around in the north. We come to the mainland and start taking their 5 provinces in Antioquia. Ideally, Ecuador keeps Colombia’s allies off us while they comp on Ecuador. Meanwhile, we take down Colombia between us.

We are still in a truce until them for now.

The other option is to go hardcore after unallied Mexico. We could get the initial push, but I’m not sure I could win the war. Normally, when I pick on a nation in a situation like this, I hit quick, grab a couple of provinces, and then take one. However, in Vicky II, you have to war over regions, not provinces. I would have to do well enough to take the 6 province Yucatan. I’d have to take a lot, and win battles with Mexico while also sieging. I only have one army.

Mar 22 – I gain an event in my iron province. I choose to relax our policies on educating just the minority Central American population. We gain research, consciousness, and a bit of militancy there.

Apr 4 – As a major end to future expansion, Colombia and Mexico have entered an alliance. Ouch.

I end all taxes on the rich.

Nov 25 – I order another 3000 troops assembled

Jan 1, 1842 – Conservatives now have 42% of the Upper House, Libs 40, and react 17

Mar 18 – We now have Freedom of Trade. I order us to work on Early Classical Theory and Technique (economics). It allows stuff like lumber mills and helps our timber interests.

Our tariff $$ just increased massively, from 2 daily to 20 daily. I have low taxes with everybody getting luxury goods, and I have maxed spending, and we still are rolling in dough from 25% tariffs.

I check and our massive population increases are largely British and Irish and Afro-Caribbean.

We are rolling in dough. I wish I could buy province improvements or invest in technology. I can’t do either. 3% of our population is now Irish.

I order another 3000 infantry

Sept 10 – 6000 troops are next to Mexico, and 12k next to Colombia.

I order 3000 artillery built.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1843 – Cons have 43 %, Libs 38, React 18

Feb 2 – We discover Ammunition Production

Apr 15 - I add the artillery to my forces by Mexico.

May 1 – As of today, we now have 600k people in our nation. 3.7% is Irish, 3.6&% is English and 2.8% is French.

Our literacy is now over 15%. It began much lower.

We have been loaning money with our bank to Oman, Denmark and Portugal.

Belize is now longer a colony, but a full province of the British, which means it will be much harder to take later.

June 23 – We get a Cholera outbreak in Rivas, and I order the province quarantined.

Oct 22 – Brazil DOWs Bolivia

After a quick review, Colombia’s other allies have gone elsewhere. We DOW Colombia. It gets crushed by fighting on three fronts. I try to keep Mexico off my back in the north with my army. Sounds like a plan.

I DOW with a war plan of taking Antioquia. We take 10 infamy.

Everybody’s allies refuse to join the war. Ours and Mexico. I order the Mexican army to the border and our army in.

Nov 2 – We discover Small Arms Production.

Nov 8 – 12000 troops arrive in Quibdo and begin to take it over.

Dec 31 – Our Mexican army arrives in the province next t Quibdo. I’m not sure if attrition would set in with the extra 9k in the province. Let’s find out. I order them in.

Jan 1, 1844 – 45% Con, 36% Lib, 17 React

Jan 5 – We discover Early Classic Theory and Technique. I move to military and order Military Staff System investigated. This will be the only military one I will look at for a while. Why? When I get it, I can build cavalry.

Jan 15 – There is attrition so I order them on.

Jan 31 – Our troops from Mexico arrive in Cartagena de Indias and began a siege. I see 6k troops moving towards us finally from Colombia.

Feb 2 – They arrive in Cartagena de I. and we begin a battle.

Feb 19 – They were all cavalry, and we kicked their hind quarters in the mountains.

Mar 7 – We capture Quibdo and I order my 12k troops inward.

Mar 16 – We begin the capture of Manizales.

Apr 25 – They snuck a few thousand men behind our lines at Quibdo. I dispatched 5000 troops and just annihilated them. They are heading back to Manizales to rejoin the capturing there.

May 2 – We discover Paper Mills and Paper making process.

June 15 – We capture Cartagena de I. I order my forces there to Barranquilla

July 1 - New elections have started.

July 7 – We capture Manizales. I order that force to Bogota.

July 29 – I move us slightly towards Moralism in a debate.

Aug 5 – I move us the minimum amount towards Jingoism. These issue debates basically work where I can move us 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 towards that issue. If I choose 20 and 25 it comes with dissent on the opposite issue. I have zero desire to be Jingoistic, so I chose the minimum

Sept 2 – We discover artillery production.

Oct 15 – I move us strongly towards state capitalism

Oct 22 – Baranquilla fell and I send a peace missive to Colombia.

Oct 24 – We have taken our prize.

Our new provinces are:

Quibdo – coffee
Cartegena de Indias – coffee
Baranquilla – coffee
Medellin – coffee
Cucuta – coffee

Total population of the area we just absorbed – 225k

Population of UPCA – 907k

I order the Mexican army back to the north border. I order the forces from Bogota to Medellin.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1845 – Despite the fact that it is a minority of the voting population, the Liberal Party again won in a landslide. The House is 47% Con and 35% liberal.



Would you like to see a new map?

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8176/1845upca.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

You can see both our gains in Panama and the mainland of South America. Based on our gains, there are several targets I am eyeing for our next expansion:

Colombia – Cali Region – four provinces are to our south along the coast. They are two grain, one fish, and one cattle – whoa ho. It would be a natural geographic fit, and it would get us next to Ecuador in case we wanted to continue south. Not that wealthy though.

Venezuelan Zuila, five provinces of coffee to our east. After Venezuela left us, it leaves us a chance to steal some land from them. It’s an obvious expansion area.

Mexico – Yucatan – it would be tough to war against the big gorilla of the area. If we won, we would get 6 provinces, including 2 lumber, 2 cotton, wheat and coffee. It would take a strong victory to grab a large territory like this

Outside the box - Haiti. Four provinces of tobacco, with no allies. It would take a navy to get my army there, and I don’t want to buy ships right now.


Of the group, I feel taking the five coffee provinces from Venezuela is the best choice next. Colombia is down though, and there’s nothing wrong with continuing to hammer them, but the economics aren’t there right now.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 20 – Bolivia gave Brazil land for peace

Jan 24 – In unfortunate news, Mexico had been added to the US sphere of influence.

Mar 18 – USA and Mexico are now allies

Nov 11 – We now have our military advancement. I can build a few more troops, and make cavalry. I order 6000 cavalry assembled. I order us to work on Basic Chemistry, which will help us get fertilizer and know how to use it.

Jan 1, 1846 – Cons are 48%, libs 34, reacts 18

Jan 7 – Venezuela and Brazil are now allies. It’s like all of my targets are getting friends.

Mar 2 – We get a flu pandemic in the UPCA for a few months and our population will drop a bit from it.

Apr 10 – Argh. The USA has added Haiti to its sphere of influence.

I am sending 3k each of cavalry to my two armies. I order another 6k made and I will do likewise to them.


May 3 – I choose to enact the Trustee System of prison and jail labor. It will help us develop.

June 13 – An Afro-Caribbean boy was beat by a Central American officer and it has caused some racial tension in the country with the Afro-Caribbean populace

Nov 21 – I order 3000 artillery built.

Nov 29 – We discover the ability to make luxury furniture.

Jan 1, 1847 – Upper House is Con 49.5%, 33% Lib, and React down to 17%

[Abe Sargent]

I decide to hold elections early.


Mar 10 – I have to shut down a public bank that was actually fighting against our government.

Mar 28 – We officially have 1 million people in our nation!!!

Okay, apparently I have been misrepresenting our population. I have been misreading it. Our adult male population is 1 mill. Our actual population is 4 million.

Our 18% literacy is better than Russia, Germany, Mexico, Argentina and Portugal.

We have a larger military than Mexico, Spain and Belgium. We have the same amount as the Ottoman Empire. Once our 3k artillery is built, we will have more.

Only six nations in the world have free press. Only four nations have equality as their state unifying belief.

June 13 – I push hard when we get to a debate on the economy. I push to the max for state capitalism.

June 21 – Argentina dow’s Bolivia

[Abe Sargent]

July 1 – Good news and bad news. We have a new party. But it’s not the conservatives but the nationalists that win. Yuck. I disdain their anti-immigration position.

Nationalists:

Protectionist trade policies, State Capitalism, Moralistic religion, jingoism, and residency for non-citizens

I take the money I have been building up and go shopping.

I order a Steel Factory in Guatemala provinces, Winery in Honduras ones, Canned Food Factory in Nicaragua, Luxury Furniture Factory in Honduras and Lumber Mill in Guatemala.

I order railroads in every province in these three areas.



Oct 2 – It’s time. I start sending out diplomats to reduce our relations with Venezuela

Oct 17 – We discover Chemistry. I order our scientists to begin working on Steam Engine.

Oct 31 – I choose not to kill a Afro-Caribbean poet.

Dec 18 – I accept an alliance offer from Haiti.

Jan 1, 1848 – Our Upper House is now 53% Con, 29% Lib, and 16% React

[Abe Sargent]

I DOW Venezuela. Haiti and Ecuador refuse their allies, and Brazil agrees to join. I order the Mexico army down, and two armies into Maracaibo and Barinas

Feb 2 – Colombia grants Brazil military access

Apr 4 – Our Mexican army arrives in another Venezuelan province and also begins a siege

May 10 – Maracaibo falls

May 22 – Barinas falls. I order this army to their capital of Caracas

June 22 – We defeat some of their troops in Caracas

Aug 11 – Our first factory, the Steel Mill is complete.

Aug 16 – We capture Valera

Aug 26 – Hawaii is now in the Sphere of USA

Sept 22 – I capture Coro

Sept 30 – I annihilate their troops in San Felipe

Oct 4 – Caracas falls.

A private individual is building a cement factory in Costa Rica. I order railroads to extend down.

Dec 22 – I leverage yellow journalists in our country into increasing our prestige, and we gain 11 prestige.

Dec 23 – Guanare falls.

Jan 1, 1849 – UH 54, 28, 17

Jan 3 – I accept a white peace offer from just Brazil.

With their ally done, Venezuela accepts peace.

I have taken:

Valera
San Felipe
Maracaibo
Coro
Barquisimeto

All are coffee provinces.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 10 – I choose to conduct a real investigation of sabotage rather than assume it was the usual suspects.

Mar 22 – I spend some money and send an expedition to follow the British into Tennant Creek for scientific research. We gain some prestige.

Apr 2 – I choose to fight against a reactionary speaker in the Upper House and instead of moving towards Jingoism we don’t.

Apr 26 – A private investor is trying to build railroads in our new territory.

July 9 – Brazil and Colombia are now in an alliance

July 22 – Our first railroads are being finished

Aug 9 – We now have a cement factory in Costa Rica.

I order railroads I the five Panama provinces.

Nov 14 – The Lumber Mill is built. There is an attempt by a private investor to build a artillery factory in our newest lands.

I order the construction of a Paper Mill in Guatemala

Jan 1, 1850 – UH 55, 27, 16

Jan 5 – Brazil dows Bolivia.

Feb 1 – I order 3000 artillery, 6000 cavalry, and 9000 infantry built to make a new army.

May 30 – I choose not to listen when Aristocrats try to incite the peasants against us in our newer lands.

Nov 13 – In the past month, a ton of railroads are ready, and today the Winery is built.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1851 - 55, 29, 16

Jan 3 – Canned Good and Luxury Furniture factories are done.

I order a Fertilizer Factory in Honduras, Glass Factory in Panama.

We are now a Secondary Power, since we are ranked 16th.

The top 8 powers are the Great Powers, and they have extra abilities. They are – USA, UK, Germany, France, Austria, Russia and Denmark and Ottomans.

The next 8 are the secondary powers. They are, in order from 9 to 16, Sweden, Two Sicilies, Wurttemberg, Mexico, Netherlands, Sardinia-Piedmont, Baden, and then us. In real life, Two Sicilies and Sardinia-Piedmont are about to join with a few minors to create the super state of Italy. Of course, in real life, we aren’t even a country anymore.


As of right now, we have a larger military than:

USA
Two Sicilies
Ottomans
Sardinia-Piedmont
Netherlands


I order 6 transport vessels built.


Feb 1 – I order railroads in all mainland provinces that were not already building them.

Feb 10 – Brazil chomps more land from Bolivia

Mar 6 – We now have a Steam Engine. This massively increases farming output and a bit in mining too. Next up is…Malthusian Thought, which will help our education speed when gained.

July 1 – Elections have started

Without knowing where things are headed, I suspect I may spend a bit before we move on.

Aug 13 – I use a debate to move us 15% towards free trade.

Sept 24 – 15% move towards interventionism

Jan 1, 1852 – The Nationalist Party won again. Ick-ish. It’s good for now with the ability to invest in my own infrastructure, but it has a time limit to my mind.

Upper House is 55, 30, 15

Jan 22 – That Paper Mill is built. I order our Steel Mill, which is making a ton of money, expanded.

Sept 4 – We have developed Malthusian Thought. The next goal is Mechanical Production

Sept 10 – I order four Man-o’-War built

Sept 23 – The CSA has formed from the USA

All of our factories are done but two artillery ones and the steel factory expansion. I order the Nicaragua canned food factory expanded.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1852 – The Nationalist Party won again. Ick-ish. It’s good for now with the ability to invest in my own infrastructure, but it has a time limit to my mind.

Upper House is 55, 30, 15

Jan 22 – That Paper Mill is built. I order our Steel Mill, which is making a ton of money, expanded.

Sept 4 – We have developed Malthusian Thought. The next goal is Mechanical Production

Sept 10 – I order four Man-o’-War built

Sept 23 – The CSA has formed from the USA

All of our factories are done but two artillery ones and the steel factory expansion. I order the Nicaragua canned food factory expanded.

Jan 1, 1853 – 53, 31, 15

Feb 3 – Steel Factory expansion completed

Feb 10 – Artillery Factory in Antioquia.

Apr 14 – I was moving my armies towards getting ready for war against a surprise target, when I suddenly got a border dispute with Colombia. I order my forces back.

May 12 – I Declare War upon Colombia for the Cali Region. I have no infamy gained since I had a casus belli. I order two armies into the nation to start taking provinces. Brazil left their ally hanging.

June 17 – I order the steel mill expanded again

Sept 18 – We capture Buenaventura

Sept 24 – Their capital of Bogota falls

Dec 16 – Cali falls to us.

Dec 18 – We take the four provinces of Cali Region:

Cali – grain
Buenaventura – fish
Popayan – grain
Pasto – cattle

I order railroads and a liquor distiller here.

I also order three more Man-o’-Wars built.

[Abe Sargent]

New map?

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/818/1853upca.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

Remember this is a land grab. I wasn;t sure I’d take these four provinces for badboy, but for free? Sure, I’ll take them with my temporary casus belli. I still have my outside the box expansion project in the mail soon.

You’ll note my huge amount of gold. You’ll note my construction info on the right side of the frame. You’ll note that Florida is USA and not CSA, but has been captured.

Currently in the civil war, the CSA has captured the three Florida provinces and the two West Virginia provinces from the USA and they USA hasn’t captured anybody.


Jan 1, 1853 – UH 52,31, 16

Jan 3 – The CSA agree to be my ally.

The CSA have added Marietta, Hagerstown to their list of captured provinces and they have more than 30k troops capturing DC as we speak. I think they are going to win this one. With Texas heading back to Mexico, Mexico never losing its lands to the USA, and now the CSA likely winning, I think the USA will be hammered back from where it should be in an interesting way.

Feb 23 – Artillery Factory built in ex-Venezuelan lands.

I have loaded my ships again.

March 3 – On my way to send troops to Cuba to attack Spain and wrest the island from her control, she allies with France. Grrr. Ah well.

Mar 19 – Flu Pandemic again

The CSA has added DC and Cincinnati to its captured territories and is now finishing up Maryland and attacking in Pennsylvania and Ohio now.

Apr 7 – The CSA and USA come to a white peace.

[Abe Sargent]

I wanted to take Cuba, but I can’t. Where else could I go? Venezuela? Ecuador? Haiti?

I think there is an obvious target. Now that I am allies with the CSA, I don’t fear a USA ally of Mexico as much. They would have farther to go to get to me, and the CSA can keep them off my back.

A war for Yucatan looks much more doable.

I start lowering our relations with Mexico.


I do it. I declare war on Yucatan. I order 9k troops into two Yucatan provinces, I order the fleet with the Cuban offensive army to swing by and drop off those 15k troops, and I order one of my armies from the south up to the north.


Apr 12 – I order the Honduras Winery to expand

May 2 -I just realized that the CSA’s peace is with Mexico too, so they cannot join me in a quick war with them. Argh!


There’s just nowhere good to expand next. I looked at Dutch Zuila, and such. If I attack Ecuador, I have to take these three lousy provinces that have 10k people total across them all – yuck. If I attack Venezuela, I have to go after crappy mainland provinces. I can’t attack Colombia right now, but when I do, I have to skip the rich lands by me and take lands farther into the continent, of lower quality. The CSA can’t help me right now vs Mexico. Spain is allied with France, so no Cuba. Basically, Haiti is the only shot, and they are in the sphere of the USA, so there’s a chance they’ll come stomping after me there too.

I got an idea.

May 8, 1854 – We are proud to announce that we have formed an alliance with the USA.

If we DOW Mexico, who will the USA side with?

If we DOW Haiti, will the USA let us gobble them up?

June 22 – Our steel factory has expanded. Our fleet has arrived in the Jamaica Channel.

Hold up, it costs a LOT of infamy to do a conquest. Twice as much as a regular war. I don’t want to do that. I go back to Mexico and try them.

I order the expansion of the Guatemala Paper Mill

[Abe Sargent]

Aug 4 – I DOW Mexico and begin moving in all of my armies. The USA joins neither of us, and the CSA can’t join me.

I’m on my own. As are they.

Sept 1 – We encounter the main Mexican army and begin to fight.

Sept 24 – We lost 2500 troops, and they lost half of their army.

Oct 13 – I destroy another 2500 of their troops and lost 1000. I pursued with just my cavalry.

Oct 28 – They lost 1000 to our 500.

Nov 11 – 1600 to our 300. They have 1200 troops remaining. I keep chasing them.

Nov 23 – We have finished off their army

I order 4 more Man-o’-Wars built

Dec 10 – The Nicaraguan expansion of their Canned Food Factory is completed. I order another expansion

Dec 18 – We capture Tapachula and Bacalar. We capture Campeche a few days later.

Another Mexican army is moving towards us

Jan 1, 1855 – 52, 33, 15 in the Upper House

Jan 8 – Tuxtla falls

Jan 23 – Battle is enjoined with their 12k troops, fresh. I combined two armies for this attack.

Feb 2 – I lose 1200 troops to 4000 of theirs.

Feb 14 – They lose 3800 and us 1200. I keep the pursuit up

Mar 13 – 1000 of theirs 500 of mine

Mar 15 – We capture Villamosa

Mar 27 – We destroy the rest of their army

May 3 – We capture Merida and Collataro.

June 6 – We capture Oacaxa

June 14 – We grab Veracruz. I order this army to Mexico City

July 4 – We capture Minatitlan. They have landed 6k troops in Veracruz to retake it, and I order the suddenly free troops next door to swing by and dislodge them.

July 24 – We drive them out and defeat roughly half of their forces at just a small loss to our own.

We have research mechanized stuff and I order us to work on Idealism, which will increase our research points by 50%

Aug 12 – We crush them again

Sept 1 – We destroy their army and capture Acapulco

Sept 3 – They accept peace for Yucatan. We captured 6 provinces:

Merida – grain, naval base, railroad
Bacalar – lumber, nb, and rr
Campeche – lumber, nb and rr
Villahermosa – coffee, nb and rr
Tuxtla – cotton, rr
Tapachula – cotton, rr, nb

The Yucatan also has a cement factory

I order a Fabric Factory here. It should help us out a lot.

We are now:

9th ranked industry
12th ranked prestige
31st ranked military

[Abe Sargent]

Sept 15 – We discover a Pits Threshing Machine. Get used to seeing these things get discovered for a while from our last technology.

Nov 4 – We discover the Mechanical Saw

Dec 2 – Jacquard Power Loom discovered

These discoveries increase output in their fields

I order two transports and three Man-o’-wars built

Jan 1, 1856 – 50, 35, 14 in the UH. Election time is here again.

Jan 12 – A privately built Cloth Factory was built in Cali Region. Maybe now they will finally start work on that distillery I wanted here

Mar 15 – Honduras winery expanded. I order another expansion immediately

June 15 – Just in case we have a government change, I order some factories and expansions and put them in the queue. I order:

Expansions of Steel and Lumber Mill in Guatemala
Ammunition Factory in Central American Zuila
Cement Factory Expansion in Costa Rica
Explosive Factory in Antioquia
Regular Clothes Factory in Yucatan
Glass Factory Expansion in Panama

That should be enough for a bit.

June 25 – We discover the Northrup Power Loom

July 1 – The liberals are back in government. Now if I can get them back in the Upper House I’ll be happy, I want to enact some reforms. I cannot build any more factories, railroads, or factory expansions. I have railroads in all of my provinces (up to level one) and a ton of factory expansions and buildings in the works.

[Abe Sargent]

July 25 - Paper Mill Expansion done

Sept 5 – Fabric Factory built in Yucatan

Jan 1, 1857 – 50, 33, 16 in the UH –still conservative.

Aug 1 – We discover the Mechanized Slaughtering Block

BTW, our literacy is now 20%

Aug 27 – We discover the Hussey & McCormacks Reaping Machine

Nov 5 – Our real population is now 6 million. 1.5 of that is adult males

We have the 8th most factories in the world.

We are tied with Spain for 7th largest navy in the world

95% of our people are Catholic. Just 42% of our people are Central American. Our majority is no longer such. Other ethnicities:

North Andean – 18%
Mayan – 10%
Mexican – 7%
Afro Caribbean – 5%

Jan 1, 1858 – Con 49, Lib 35 React 15

Mar 17 – We have our newest tech - Idealism. We will next work on…Medicine

May 19 – We are dropping significantly in the industrialism race. I order an election held early. I need to get the libs out.

Nov 19 – After several attempts to influence the vote with debates and such, the Libs are in power again.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1859 - 48, 37, 14

I hold another election.

Mar 2 – Our scientists discover Proto-Existentialism – we gain a prestige

Mar 16 – The USA have DOWd the CSA, but it looks like our alliance has worn out and we are not called to aid them.

July 1 – The Libs won again, ick

July 4 – Brazil and Argentina go to war

Sept 4 – Peru and Colombia are allied now

Jan 1, 1860 Upper House 47, 39, 13 and we have a new faction – anarcho-liberal at 0.7

Feb 11 – We discover Medicine. I order our techs to look into Clipper Design

Mar 10 – We get a prestige after discovering Neokantism

Apr 10 – Bavaria has upseated the Ottomans as a Great Power.

May 1 – We discover three things – Chemotherapy, Pressure Chambers for Thorax Surgery, and Antibiotics. These do things like help our soldiers, increase our prestige and so forth

Aug 24 – Mexico grants the CSA military access

Nov 12 – I choose to do a crackdown in a S. American province against organized crime. The population decreases, but it leaves.

Nov 29 – France has now included Spain in their Sphere of Influence

Dec 16 – Brazil and Argentina back to peace

Jan 1, 1861 – UH 47, 41, 12, 1

[Abe Sargent]

25 Year Review

I normally do a 50 year one, but since this era covered is not that big, let’s do one every 25 years.

In 25 years, we’ve gained Panama, Zuila, Yucatan, Cali Region, Antioquia


The United Provinces of Central America are:

10th in Prestige
12th in Industrialization
37th in Military


6.06 M population
21% literate
18 factories – 8th most
24 ships – 7th most
18 brigades – tied for 11th most with Afghanistan

Actually, there are not as many metrics out there to measure your nation in the ledger. I can’t even sort by population, just population of various groups. I could tell you if I had more artisans than another, if that’s helpful.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 9 – We develop Clippers. I order our people to work on Early Railroads

Mar 12 – I decide to hold early elections again

Apr 2 – We discover Vaccination

Sept 12 – Our new party is the Conservatives. This is the first time they’ve been in power so let’s take a look:

Free Trade, State Capitalism, Partial Citizenship, Pro-Military and Moralist.

What does that mean for capitalism? I cannot build a new factory. The first thing I do is reopen the 8 factories closed due to a lack of profit. I subsidize those that do not make money.

The next thing I do is expand several factories –

Yucatan Fabric
Panama Glass
Honduras Winery
Guatemala Paper Mill
Cali Fabric


Sept 16 – Argentina DOWs Chile and their ally Brazil does not aid them.

Nov 2 – A major treatise on Economics is published in our nation. I choose to push it with the middle class. They move more towards being liberal. Ideally, I want a Conservative Party and Liberal Upper House. That would be amazing.

Jan 1, 1862 - Upper House46, 42, 12, 1

June 22 – I spend some money to continue to fund our expedition abroad

Aug 2 – We discover combat medicine

Sept 2 – I gain a badboy after choosing not to sign the Geneva Convention.

Oct 14 – We have developed early railroad and start working on Muzzle-Loaded Rifles

I literally order a railroad in every single province in Central America, but not the mainland ones. Buying all of the stuff to build them will take some time and cash, but the result will be a ton of railroads.

Dec 12 – The Glass Factory and both Textile ones have expanded.

I order expansions of:

Artillery in Antioquia, Cement in Costa Rica, Fabric/Textile in Yucatan

Jan 1, 1863 - 45, 44, 9, 2 – Cons remain barely in front

Feb 5, 1863 – The USA adds Egypt to their Sphere of Influence, and the USA and CSA are at peace again – no land exchanged

Mar 24 – Argentina took some land from Chile

Private investors are building railroads in Antioquia, and investors are working on getting the materials and money together for Zuila and Cali Region as well. I won’t even have to touch S America and they’ll have RRs.

July 19 – A major war breaks out. The UK dow’s China. China is in Russia’s Sphere and they jump to her aid. Here are the battle lines:

The British
Belgium
About 7 Indian Powers

Vs

China
Japan
Russia

[Abe Sargent]

Aug 1 – JOY OF JOYS. Today there was a border incident with Mexico. Police from Mexico crossed the border, arrested one of our citizens, and then charged with spying on them. In our own territory! We gain a Casus Belli against Mexico! I order some troops to move to the north.


Nov 26 - Expansion of Fabric, Winery, Cement and Paper factories

Nov 28 – I let Costa Rica have rallies about more freedoms and they become 10% more liberal

I decide to do a few more expansions – Guatemala Steel, Panama Glass – that’s it for now

Jan 1, 1864 – Libs are now at 46, Cons at 43, React at 9 and ALs at 2

Jan 5 - I DOW Mexico. Here are my plans. I sent out two armies to immediately start sieges. I send out large army to hit theirs. I drop another army from my fleet in their back door. Here we go.

Jan 31 – We lose more troops but win in Oaxaca.

Feb 21 – This time we crush the fleeing Mexican troops in Acapulco.

Mar 16 – We rout the remaining army

Apr 28 – We capture Collataro

May 1 – I move us to Weighted Wealth elections. This allows the middle class to vote, but the rich count twice.

May 2 – A huge 21k strong Mexican army comes to protest my presence in Veracruz. I saw them coming from my fleet, and ordered armies from nearby occupancy forces to split off and support our troops here. I have 23k there. Let’s see what happens.

May 25 – We win the Campaign of Verzcruz. We lost 7.5k and them 10k

May 28 – We capture Oaxaca

May 30 – We capture Minatitlan

June 10 – We massively hammer their troops again.

June 15 – We develop Muzzle-Loaded Rifles. Our next target is Military Plans ,which will allow us to build Dragoons.

June 27 - We win again

July 10 – We crush the army to pieces.

Aug 2 – We capture Los Albailes

Aug 3 – Veracruz falls

Aug 12 – The Chinese-UK war ends in a white peace

Oct 22 – Puebla falls

Oct 26 – The first of my railroads is constructed.

Oct 30 – We destroy a quick 3000 army they were building in Mexico City

Dec 1 – We capture Acapulco

Dec 13 – We also capture Tulancingo

Dec 29 – Mexico City falls too. Also, Artillery, Glass and Steel factories expand

Jan 1, 1865 – The Upper House is Lib 46, 43, 9 and 3

Jan 10 -Chilpancingo falls

We take Morelia in peace with Mexico. That’s badboy free provinces!

Here’s our take from Mexico:

Collataro – wheat, naval, 3 rr
Acapulco – precious metals, same as above for rest
Los Albaniles – wheat, as above
Chilpancingo – cattle, 2 rr
Morelia – wool, 2rr
Toluca – wheat, 2 rr

Morelia also has a level one glass factory. If I could, I’d build a distillery here.

I order a fort in Toluca and Chilpancingo, which are adjacent to Mexico City


I can still expand quickly.

[Abe Sargent]

Aug 1 – JOY OF JOYS. Today there was a border incident with Mexico. Police from Mexico crossed the border, arrested one of our citizens, and then charged with spying on them. In our own territory! We gain a Casus Belli against Mexico! I order some troops to move to the north.


Nov 26 - Expansion of Fabric, Winery, Cement and Paper factories

Nov 28 – I let Costa Rica have rallies about more freedoms and they become 10% more liberal

I decide to do a few more expansions – Guatemala Steel, Panama Glass – that’s it for now

Jan 1, 1864 – Libs are now at 46, Cons at 43, React at 9 and ALs at 2

Jan 5 - I DOW Mexico. Here are my plans. I sent out two armies to immediately start sieges. I send out large army to hit theirs. I drop another army from my fleet in their back door. Here we go.

Jan 31 – We lose more troops but win in Oaxaca.

Feb 21 – This time we crush the fleeing Mexican troops in Acapulco.

Mar 16 – We rout the remaining army

Apr 28 – We capture Collataro

May 1 – I move us to Weighted Wealth elections. This allows the middle class to vote, but the rich count twice.

May 2 – A huge 21k strong Mexican army comes to protest my presence in Veracruz. I saw them coming from my fleet, and ordered armies from nearby occupancy forces to split off and support our troops here. I have 23k there. Let’s see what happens.

May 25 – We win the Campaign of Verzcruz. We lost 7.5k and them 10k

May 28 – We capture Oaxaca

May 30 – We capture Minatitlan

June 10 – We massively hammer their troops again.

June 15 – We develop Muzzle-Loaded Rifles. Our next target is Military Plans ,which will allow us to build Dragoons.

June 27 - We win again

July 10 – We crush the army to pieces.

Aug 2 – We capture Los Albailes

Aug 3 – Veracruz falls

Aug 12 – The Chinese-UK war ends in a white peace

Oct 22 – Puebla falls

Oct 26 – The first of my railroads is constructed.

Oct 30 – We destroy a quick 3000 army they were building in Mexico City

Dec 1 – We capture Acapulco

Dec 13 – We also capture Tulancingo

Dec 29 – Mexico City falls too. Also, Artillery, Glass and Steel factories expand

Jan 1, 1865 – The Upper House is Lib 46, 43, 9 and 3

Jan 10 -Chilpancingo falls

We take Morelia in peace with Mexico. That’s badboy free provinces!

Here’s our take from Mexico:

Collataro – wheat, naval, 3 rr
Acapulco – precious metals, same as above for rest
Los Albaniles – wheat, as above
Chilpancingo – cattle, 2 rr
Morelia – wool, 2rr
Toluca – wheat, 2 rr

Morelia also has a level one glass factory. If I could, I’d build a distillery here.

I order a fort in Toluca and Chilpancingo, which are adjacent to Mexico City


I can still expand quickly.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 20 – I order my big factories – steel mill, paper, winery, and textile in Yucatan to expand.

July 6 – Despite losing two wars to me, Mexico has displaced Denmark as a major power.

Aug 26 – The expedition we sent out long ago is fruitless as the USA announces it finds a rare flower. It comes home and we lose 5 prestige.

Sept 25 – Election season is underway

Nov 27 – All of our major railroads are built.

Dec 1 – We get Military Plan. I order a Dragoons built. In the meantime, I order our techs to work on Army Professionalism

Dec 23 – We discover Clipper Building Shipyards

Dec 26 – Brazil dows Argentina

Jan 1, 1866 – 43/43/10/3

Jan 24 – Spain DOWs Egypt and the USA jumps in on Egypt’s side.

Feb 25 – Steel and Fabric expand. I order another round for each

Mar 25 – The Conservative Party retains office

July 9 – Our final mainland railroad is finished We now have at least two RRs in every province

Aug 4 – We discover Mobilization Time Tables. I can build more units and I build two more dragoons.

Jan 1, 1867 0- Con 44, Lib 41, 11, 3

Targets for my next strike –

Cuba – now a full province rather than a colony. This will make taking it harder. Spain is in the sphere of France. Ick. There’s only one other Spanish province in the area (Puerto Rico), so I’m not sure if I take all 5, if I could even force them to give me Cuba.

Dutch Zuila – Curacao and Aruba are right next door. However, they only have one other province in the Caribbean at St Martin, and again, I’m not sure this would be enough to push them to give it to me.

Haiti – Allied with USA and in her sphere and would take a lot of badboy to take out. Not an obvious choice.

Colombia – The only option here would be to take Guaviere region from them, which would be five inland provinces with a total population in the area of 25k. It would leave just Colombia’s main province and one isolated province by itself on the Brazil border, very tempting for them.

Ecuador – The only option here would be to grab Ecuadoran Pastaza, a region with three provinces with a population around 10k total. They wouldn’t even be adjacent to me. It would leave just Ecuador for later, but there’s not too much there either.

Venezuela – The only region here is Bolivar. Its two real provinces of value and three chump ones. They are not contiguous with us. It would leave just Miranda, which is acceptable level of value, but way too much to take right now.

Mexico – There are several choices, but the best is 5 province Jalisco. It’s got low value crops but a ton of people. Iron, lumber ,and fishx3. Another possibility would be four province Zacatecas with more than 1 million people in it. Fruit and three wheat.


I still have a solid amount of badboy to work off, so I don’t have to attack right now. It seems like Mexico is the easy answer to attack though.

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 6 – All factory expansions are complete.

I order another round of expansions plus Costa Rica cement and explosives down in Antioquia

Mar 7 – Brazil DOWs Argentina

Aug 17 – We develop Army Professionalism. Our next target is High and Low Pressure Steam Engines

Nov 11 – White peace between Brazil and Argentina

Nov 18 – Spain and USA are at peace

Jan 1, 1868 - 44,40,13,4

Jan 15 – The forts in Toluca and Chilpango have been completed.

Mar 7, 1868 – The USA again dows the CSA and tries to annex them.

Jul 2, 1868 – The USA annexed Hawaii

Sept 26 – A flu pandemic sweeps through

I order expansions of textile in Yucatan, steel and lumber in Guatemala, glass in Panama, and luxury furniture in Honduras

Oct 19 – After papers show squalid living conditions and health care in Zulia, I push for more laws to help them, and the citizens there are demanding more from parliament.

Nov 30 – Argentina is attacking Chile again.

If I were a great power, I’d use it to protect Ecuador, Peru and Chile from Brazil and Argentina, while I went east into Colombia and Venezuela.

Jan 1, 1869 - 45, 38, 13, 4

I want to get my election schedule back on track, so I hold an election.

Mar 24 – Several expansions of factories were done today. I order more in Glass in Morelia, Cement in Yucatan, distillery in Cali, Winery and Paper mills too

July 1 – The Conservative party won again

Oct 23 – The last round of expansions occurred. Steel and fabric in Yucatan are expanded further

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1870 - 45, 37, 14, 4

Soon I can DOW Mexico again.

I get my troops ready

Feb 9 – We finished that Steam Engine upgrade. We start work in Interchangeable Parts


May 10 – I get ready to DOW Mexico.

I have six armies to launch into Mexico. One is 21000 troops with 9000 dragoons. It will head to Mexico City, where 18k defenders sit. My best general is at the helm. They also have 6k troops in Guanajuato, which I am sending 15k into. I am launching 6 armies all of 15k or more. I intend to cut the heart out of Mexico with this war.

Warring for Jelico makes sense on a map. Its right next to us, right by the ocean, yadda yadda. But I want to cut the heart out, so I am going to Zacatecas. The four provinces here will severely decrease Mexico’s population, and increase ours. This will be felt in a way the Yucatan and Morelia were not. It’s time.

I gain 10 badboy and here we go.


May 27 – We drive the Mexicans out of their capital, and we each lost almost 5k troops. We make chase instead of staying here.

June 6, We win in Guanajuato and make chase with our cavalry and dragoons, leaving behind artillery and infantry to capture the province.

June 12 – We win in Puebla against their main force, but ours has taken bad morale, so I dispatch most of my forces from one of my siege sto chase and order these men back to Mexico City to begin to capture it.

June 22 – We defeat the smaller army again

June 28 – A small skirmish with the large army and we win and force them back again.

July 16 – We win again in both places

July 29 – We capture Colima

Aug 5 – A huge 24k Mexican army arrives at Queretaro and I order my forces in.

Sept 17 - 50k of my troops destroy them, and then we capture it a few days later. I order the entire force to Tampico where both the defeated elements of the first major army and this one are fleeing

Sept 20 – We capture Minatitlan

Oct 21 – We capture Guanajuato; I order the troops here to shore up our defenses. I’m chasing a lot of their armies.

I’m fighting for a decisive victory. I’m winning sorties, but not the war.

Nov 15 – We capture Oaxaca

Dec 29 – We are now considered a Great Power

I was paying attention to the war, but Argentina took land from Chile and the CSA and USA are still at war

Dec 30 – Mexico City falls.

Jan 1, 1871 - 46, 35, 14, 4 in my UH

Mar 10 – After a lot of battles, Puebla falls

Apr 2 –Veracruz falls

Apr 10 – Guadalajara falls to us as well.

They accept peace.

Zacatecas –

Querataro – Fruit, RRx3, and a ton of people here
Guanajuato – wheat, RRx3, a solid ### of people
San Luis Patosi – wheat, RRx3
Zacatecas – Wheat, RRx3


Four factories – luxury cloths, regular cloths, cement and distillery

[Abe Sargent]

Map time

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7214/1871upca.jpg


As you can see from the upper left corner, I am the 7th ranked nation in the world after hammering Mexico. With my newfound provinces, our population is now at 13.96 M overall and 3.49 M adult males

[Abe Sargent]

I offer War Subsidies to the CSA

May 16 – We have 15000 Jacobin Rebels in San Felipe.

Sept 21 – We defeat the rebels

Oct 1 – Mexico is officially no longer a Great Power.


Nov 14 – Since the CSA is having rebel problems during their war, I request and get military access. I’ll swing by and take out the rebels and recapture a province or two for them.

Jan 1, 1872 - 48, 33, 15, 3


Feb 12 – Tapachula cotton is becoming one of the highest quality ones in the world. We gain some prestige

May 13 – I do another round of factory expansions of various places

Sept 2 – We outfit an expedition to find the source of the Nile

Sept 11 – Interchangeable parts are now ours. We begins research on Naval Design Bureaus

Nov 2 – We discover small arms standardized

Nov 13 – Brazil DOWs Argentina and her ally France joins in.

Jan 1, 1873 - 48, 34, 14, 3

May 1 – We discover machine tools

May 18 – We just finished a ton of expansions. I order a bunch more.

June 2 – We increase relations with Ecuador

July 1 – Elections have started

July 5 – I do it again and we are now friendly with Ecuador

Aug 6 – We develop Naval Design Bureaus – next up is Clean Coal

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1874 – Conservatives once again are in power. New house is 48, 34, 13, 3

We also discovered food packing systems

Feb 22 0 Our mines now have mechanized mining

June 1 – More expansions ordered

June 17 – We have added Ecuador to our Sphere of Influence

June 25 – Chile and Peru have their opinions of us increased to cordial for each of them.

July 9 – I accept an alliance offer from Ecuador

July 12 – The UK has declared Venezuela as their sphere. Yuck.

July 13 – Argentina and France/Brazil are back to white peace

Jan 1, 1875 - 49, 35, 13, 3

Mar 2 – The USA reabsorbs the CSA. No more south.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 16 - Get another border incident with Mexico, and again I can push for free.

I order my troops to get ready.

May 13 – We discover Clean Coal, and our next research is heading to strategic mobility in the army.

June 9 – Another factory expansion is finished and another round of a bunch are ordered.

July 13 – Peru and Chile are now friendly relations

Aug 3 – This time I combined two armies to have a group of 33k invading the 15k in Mexico City. I DOW Mexico.

I have a truce with Mexico until April 14, and my CB runs out on April 16. Hmm. I wonder what I’ll be doing on April 15 next year?

Aug 11 – I accept an alliance from Peru

Dec 15 – We outlay the money to host a World’s Fair

Jan 1, 1876 - 49, 34, 14, 4

Feb 16 – The Fair opens and we gain 21 prestige

Apr 15 – Guess What?

Apr 22 – The USA offers us military access, which we accept

May 1 – We win in Mexico City and I order some of my forces to pursue while others siege

May 17 – We win again

June 2 – And again

June 16 – And it is completely destroyed

June 19 – I see an army of 21k coming in for us. It is moving to attack a province of 15k attackers. I order my army that just killed the other one in there.

June 27 – We caught them and my 29k troops are establishing dominance

July 10 – We win the campaign.

July 26 – We defeat them again as they run away.

Aug 8 – We defeat them again

Aug 10 – Minatitlan falls to us

Aug 22 – We crush their army

Aug 24 -Both Aguascalientes and Tepic fall to us

Aug 29 – Oaxaca falls

Sept 2 – Mexico City falls

Sept 9 – Colima falls

Sept 11 – They accept peace.


Jalisco –

Colima – iron, 3xrr, naval base
Puerto Vallara – fish, 3xRR, nb
Tepic – identical to above
Guadalajara – fish, 3xRR
Aguascalientes – lumber, 3xRR

It has a distillery and cement factory

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1877 - 49, 33, 13, 3

Jan 27 – We discover strategic mobility. Time to work on Inorganic Chemistry – I want to beeline for Panama Canal decision.

Feb 1 – We discover Jiggs

I declare that Peru is in our Sphere of Influence

Feb 14 - I use a threshing incident to force through token pension reform. Conservatives are more militant as a result.

Mar 13 – Chile is now is our sphere

Targets for the future include Argentina and perhaps pulling Haiti from the USA

Guess what? Spain is no longer in France’s sphere or her ally.

Mar 17 – The UK is discrediting us in Argentina

Mar 26 – I accept an alliance offer from Chile

May 1 – We discover Precision Work

[illinifan999]

What's the learning curve for a game like this? I always love reading these type of dynasties, and this game seems more of my "time period" than the other ones. I love seeing how the alternate histories play out.

[Abe Sargent]

I am looking at Cuba – defenseless

I DOW Spain for Cuba

I order 15000 troops to disembark at Havana

Their ally Algeria joins them

May 15 – Our army arrives and I order my fleet back to pick up another so I can sail to Puerto Rico and take it. I split some troops to move east and take Jagua

June 29 – A bunch of factories finished expanding in the last week. I order a ton more to expand.

July 8 – I increase Haiti’s view of us to Cordial

Sept 1 – We defeat a Spanish fleet moving towards Cuba with a bunch of transports. I begin chasing them and dispatch our transports from our fleet to remain here and allow our army to disembark at Puerto Rico

Spet 15 – PR is being sieged

Sept 22 – They land 12k troops in San Felipe. I order nearby defensive troops dispatched to the scene.

Oct 1 – We discover Pit Coal, Signal Detachments, and the Integral Distillery Process

Oct 6 – We crush the Spanish troops in San Felipe.

The Spanish fleet has begun to turn tail and leave the Caribbean.

Oct 19 – We annihilate the Spanish troops

Nov 4 – Havana falls

Oct 12 – Jagua falls


Jan 1, 1878 – Election time. UH is 49, 33, 14, 3

Jan 10 _ Puerto Rico falls

Apr 16 -Santiago de Cuba fell

Apr 19 – Camaguey Fell

Is it enough? Let’s see.

Since Puerto Rico is no longer a colony, but a province, yes, it is.

Cuba –

All four provinces are tobacco, 3xRR and with a naval base. Cuba has a paper mill and canned food factory. Both at level 2.

[Abe Sargent]

What's the learning curve for a game like this? I always love reading these type of dynasties, and this game seems more of my "time period" than the other ones. I love seeing how the alternate histories play out.

The tutorial took about a good 45 minutes to wade through, and I had ot look some stuff up again after I hadn;t used it for a while and needed it it suddenly 0 such as when I became a great power.

As someone who has played CK and EU and Rome, it's definitely a different game, but not too shabby. If you've played those, this is an easy slide. It's more polished than EU: Rome, but no EU3 or CK. It's not polished enough. For example, there is no way I can tell if someone else is trying to influence someone in my Sphere of Influence. Unless I look at them in the diplomatic screen - it's just unknowable.

It's a fun game, and I'm enjoying the heck out of it, and I'll certainly come back to it, but it won;t hold me like the big two.

[Abe Sargent]

May 3 – I sign the Geneva Convention to lower my badboy. I also enact the Corporate Industrialism focus. This will speed my commerce and industry development techs.

There are no wars in the world right now.

July 1 – Bad timing. The Liberals win again, but I am just, like a week, away from getting a bunch of my factories expanded, so I can’t do it again, and I’ll just have to sit here for a while.

Aug 2 – We discover Railroad Transport Troops

Aug 7 – We become Cordial with Argentina

Oct 8 – Why have the British landed 39k troops in Belize? That doesn’t look good.

Jan 1, 1879 - 48, 36, 14, 3

Feb 20 – We are now friendly with Argentina

May 29 – Inorganic Chemistry is developed. Our next project will be Steamers

June 1 – We discover Coke

July 8 – I accept an alliance offer from Argentina

July 14 – Our final expansion of a factory is completed. I can’t do any more – liberals.

Aug 8 – Brazil DOWs Argentina, and I join my ally.

Sept 20 – I’m marching an army across Ecuador, Peru, and then into Brazil.

Nov 1 – We discover Nitroglycerin

Dec 11 – We add Argentina to our Sphere of Influence

Dec 25 – The UK DOWs the USA. It’s a major brawl:

The UK

Vs

USA and pals

For New England

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1880 - 47, 37, 13, 3

Jan 6 – The UK asks for, and I grant them, military access.

Jan 14 – The siege of Tabatinga begins.

Feb 1 – We discover artificial fertilizers

Feb 22 – We have secular strife in Nicaragua. I choose to end some church married to state polices, and I get some militancy there with clergy.

June 18 – We capture Tabatinga

Oct 1 – After consideration, I decide to grant the USA access.

Private investors are building a furniture factory in Zuila

Dec 2 – We capture Tarauaca from Brazil

Dec 19 – Brazil offers a white peace, which we take.

Jan 1, 1881 – We have a new party – the Upper House is 46 Con, 37 Lib, 13 React, 3 Anarcho-Libs, 1 Socialist

I hold early elections (by 6 months or a year or something) – I want to get the libs out and invest in infrastructure again.

Jan 5 – I choose not to shut down an anti-government newspaper.

Feb 13 – The USA and I am fighting over influence for Uruguay and Haiti.

Mar 14 – We have developed steamers. Next is Iron Steamers. That will enable us to build the Panama Canal.

June 27 – Paraguay is now cordial with us

July 1 – Sigh, the libs won.

Aug 1 – We discover Steam Transports

Sept 23 – After our merchants are harassed by pirates abroad, I gain a CB on Yemen for a year. No thanks.

Nov 18 - Paraguay is now friendly with us

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1882 – UH is now – 45, 36, 12, 2, 3 (Socialists with the big gain)

Apr 4 – Someone is building a Paper Mill in Zulia

May 1 – Mexico is a great power again

July 1 – We discover rubber vulcanization and mechanized fishing vessels

Oct 27 – We are now cordial with Uruguay

Dec 17 – We remove Haiti from the USA’s sphere of influence

Jan 1, 1883 – 45 {C}, 36 (L), 11, 6 (S), 1

Feb 20 – The USA is trying to defend Egypt in their sphere from Mexico and France, who probably want to build the Suez Canal. Meanwhile, I am gaining lots in Haiti.

Mar 26 – We get another Tapachula Cotton event

July 17 – Haiti is now in our Sphere of Influence

July 27 – I accept an alliance offer from Haiti

Sept 1 – We discover Commercial Raiders. Man-o’-wars are more powerful, but have less hull.

Oct 27 – Our scientists have discovered Iron Steamers. I order them work on Organized Factories

Nov 1 – We build the Panama Canal in Balboa. We gain Prestige. Frankly, we should also soon gain a ton of money, but I don’t know if the same sims that.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1884 – 44, 36, 10, 9 (S), 1

I actually really like the Socialist Party for everything but military. Protectionism is fine, planned economy is okay since I have so much money to contribute, full citizenship is great, and I’m okay with secularism. The only thing I don’t like is the anti-military take, but even that’s not bad. Right now, I have a maximum army size of 73 brigades, but I only have 49 assembled.

Feb 1 – We develop monitors. This steam ship has the same attack as a commerce raider but four times the hull at 20. A Man-o’-War is a hull of 3, and an attack of 8. The monitor is rocking 5 attack. I order a quartet built.

Apr 4 – A glass factory is being built in Jalisco

Apr 8 – We announce that Paraguay is now in our Sphere of Influence

May 31 – I accept an alliance offer from Paraguay

Aug 12 – It’s time. I DOW Mexico for Durango region

Aug 14 – All of my allies join me.

Sept 4 – We crush a small force of 3000 troops that had just been built.

Sept 13 – We win a major battle in Mexico City

Oct 1 – We discovered ironclads.

Oct 12 – They win a battle against me in Veracruz after they bring together remnants from three armies.

Troops from Ecuador are arriving. I’ll let them play with the Mexican army remnants.

Oct 13 – I had to give up one siege to help defend another by an attack by 24k Mexicans that came from the north. Meanwhile, I have Jacobin rebellions spring up in 5 provinces.

Oct 22 – I win the huge campaign of Torreon.

We are now friendly with Uruguay

Nov 20 – I defeat a Mexican flotilla

Dec 1 – Due to several morale losses while beating their army, I trade off to another army attacking the enemy – the one from Cuba was sailed over.

Dec 9 – We capture Veracruz

Peru and Ecuador have been taking out my rebels for me – thanks allies!

Dec 17 - We lose in Torrean an dthe siege is lifted after they gather forces and take us out.

Jan 1, 1885 – UH is 43, 36, 11 (s), 9, 1

Jan 15 – We win in Torreon – That is a massive crucible in this war

They capture Tepic

Jan 20 – We capture Mazatlan

Feb 3 – We win a major campaign in Mexico City from their Tepic group. I added the Veracruz siege army to the grinder and managed to beat them.

Feb 6 – We win a minor war in Tepic and begin to siege them back

Feb 22 – We capture Mexico City

Mar 4 – We win a major battle

Mar 18 – We discover Organized Factories. Next up is iron railroad

Mar 24 – We recapture Tepic

Apr 21 – After more battles, I annihilate a Mexican army in Puebla.

May 1 – We discover work classification

May 5 – Saltillo falls to us

May 19 – I lost a major campaign in the hills of Parral. It took two months and I kept throwing 3k troops into the grinder just to keep my foe occupied while I captured troops. Now that I am moving my armies north from sieges in places like Mexico City, this should become very one sided soon, I just need to blast this army.

June 2 – I manage to win against the army that just beat us, since we retreated to a province where we were besieging, and had 6000 fresh troops – it was also a plains instead o fhills – better for my large cavalry.

June 5 – Monclova falls to us; Ecuador captured Oaxaca

June 23 – I capture Culiacan

July 1 – Elections, won a campaign, and discovered work control and hierarchy

July 3 – We capture Ciudad Victoria

July 8 -We announce the addition of Uruguay to our Sphere

July 12 – I win a naval battle

July 22 – I accept an alliance offer from Uruguay

Aug 21 – I win another major battle. We also capture Tampico.

Aug 24 – We capture Tulancingo.

Aug 29 – Peru captures Minatitlan

Sept 6 – We grab Torreon

Mexico accepts peace

Durango:

Saltillo – dyes, fort, RRx3
Torreon – cattle, fort, RRx3
Santa Maria del Oro – wheat, RRx3
Durango – precious metal, fort, RRx3
Mazatlan – cattle, fort, naval base, RRx3
Culiacan – precious metal, naval base, RRx3


They have a closed cement factory.



That was a long war

.

[Abe Sargent]

Wanna map?

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4773/1885upca.jpg



As you can see, during the war, private enterprisers are building a Clipper Shipyard in Zulia and a distillery in Zacatecas.

I order 7 Ironclads built.

[Abe Sargent]

50 YEAR REVIEW


We are ranked 7th in the world. Our industrialization is 7th, military 10th and prestige 9th. Here are the great powers:

1 – UK
2 – France
3 – Germany
4 – Russia
5 – USA
6 – Austria
7 – UPCA
8 – Mexico


We have a ton of points above all of the other contenders, so we aren’t losing great power status any time soon. However, we are very distant from Austria, so I doubt we are rising anytime soon. Right now, Austria is winning a war for land against Germany.

27% of our population is literate.
Our nation is 23.20 million big, with 5.8 million adult males

Our ethnic break up:

Mexican – 26%
Central American – 23.5%
Nahua – 19%
North Andean – 6%

Everything else is below 5%

96% of our people are Catholic

The United Provinces of Central America Sphere of Influence:

Haiti
Peru
Ecuador
Argentina
Uruguay
Paraguay


We’ve had a lot of Central American ethnicity emigration to Cuba. – It’s about 8% right now.

The USA built the Suez, btw

We have 32 factories – 7th most
57 brigades gives us 12th largest army
33 ships gives us 12th

It’s obvious that other nations are building up, and we need to as well.


Jan 1, 1881 – Annoyingly, the libs are still in power. Upper House – 42, 36, 13, 8, 1

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 1 – We learn the chemical wood dying process

May 23 – Brazil DOWs Argentina and I join my ally

June 1 – A bunch of Anarcho-Liberals have risen across the country.

Jul 6 – Bad news! We have a full fledged rebellion on our hands. Anarcho-Libs are attacking everywhere.

Here, take a look:

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/705/alibrebellion.jpg

19 provinces are undergoing rebellion and that’s in addition to the armies made a month ago.

Some of these are easy to defeat, but in S America, I have provinces being besieged by 20 or 30k rebels each.

July 12 – I have killed several groups, and have some armies dispatched to head south. I am sending an army to my fleet, and then sending it down.

Aug 1 – We develop work specialization

Aug 12 – I manage to barely win down south with the army I was getting ready to send to help Argentina. They have combined some forces and have more than 50000 troops in one provinces besieging me.

Sept 5 – Cali has fallen to the rebels

Sept 10 – Cuba is scoured of rebels. They were defeated in Mexico a while ago. That leaves just those in my S American provinces

Oct 9 – An army of 60k of our troops moves to Quibdo to relieve the occupancy there of more than 50k rebels

Oct 12 - They capture Popayan

Oct 15 – Maracaibo falls

Oct 21 – Our troops land in San Felipe and attack the rebels here

Nov 1 – San Felipe is free

Nov 5 – Medellin falls

Nov 6 – Cucuta falls

Nov 7 – We annihilate the forces in Quibdo

Nov 14 – We defeat two more armies

Nov 21 – After learning about iron railroads, we move to Breech Loaded Rifles

Jan 1, 1887 – UH is – 40, 37, 15, 7, 1

We are now cordial with Bolivia

Jan 8 – We retake Medellin

Jan 17 – One of my armies arrives in Brazil and starts laying claim to some property

Jan 28 – Bolivia is now a friend

Feb 4 - In the last four days, we retook Maracaibo, Cucuta and Popayan – only Cali is still in rebel hands and it will fall in a day or two

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 5 – Several factories and a ton of railroads have been sponsored by private interests

Apr 6 – Another army arrives in Brazil from the rebel-fighting areas

Jul 5 – We capture a Brazilian province

Aug 4 – The USA is coming after Haiti. They pull it out of my Sphere. I respond by hurting their ability to gain with Haiti, while I build back up.

Aug 24 – White Peace offered and taken by Brazil

Jan 1, 1888 – 39 {C}, 38 (S), 17, 6, 1

Jan 31 – Another rebellion fires off – Nicaraguan Nationalists. This is much smaller

Feb 22 – Haiti is back in our Sphere. I continue my influence here though, I want to have enough to do a couple of things.

Apr 22 – The rebellion is destroyed

June 3 – I reduce the relations between Haiti and the USA to cordial from friendly

Oct 28 – Bolivia is now in our Sphere of Influence

Nov 21 – I accept an alliance offer from Bolivia

Nov 22 – We get Breech-Loaded Rifles. Next up is Empiricism

Jan 1, 1889 – Lib 39, Con 37, 19, 4, 1

Feb 1 – We send a botanical expedition to Kankan

Feb 22 – I’m having fun trying to increase my influence with a bunch of European powers like Denmark and Sweden that others are fighting over, just to see them blow through their influence to keep me from from gaining it

July 1 – Election time

Jan 1, 1890 – The Libs won again. UH is 41, 35, 20, 3, 1

If the libs and socialists would agree to some reforms, they could get some things done, but they don’t. The Libs want political reform, and the socialists want social reform

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 10 – Since no one countered us in Denmark, we are now cordial with them

May 10 – San Miguel is now a rubber province

July 4 – We are now cordial with Venezuela

July 16 – Belize has been captured by rebels.

Aug 23 – Jacobin rebels again, they’ll be put down vey easily

Sept 10 – the UK discredits us in Venezuela

Dec 9 – We finish developing Empiricism. It increases our research by 50%. Next up is Analytic Philosophy which will be +100%

Dec 25 – The USA finds out, on Christmas Day, that their influence in Haiti is down to neutral

Jan 1, 1891 - 43, 33, 21, 2, 1

Feb 8 – I eliminate all taxes for middle and upper class.

May 25 – The USA is back to cordial with Haiti. I discredit them so I can work our influence back up.

July 21 – I decrease the USA back to neutral

Nov 2 – We are now friendly with Venezuela

Jan 1, 1892 – UH – 44, 32, 22, 2, 1

Another year of this change and I can start enacting policy changes. Right now, with 10% of Socialists and Cons, and 100% of Libs, I have a 49.07% chance of enacting a political change – such as to secret ballots or wealth voting.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 23 – 9 provinces of small Jacobin rebels

Apr 29 – We bust the rebellion

May 5 – I decide to consider eliminating debtor’s prison

May 27 – We are now friendly with Denmark

Aug 24 – 8 provinces attacked by Jacobin rebels

Oct 22 – They are all defeated

Jan 1, 1893 - 45, 30, 22, 2, 1


What political change do I want?

State Controlled trade unions allowed

Mar 6 – Analytic Philosophy discovered – next one is Introspectionism

Mar 18 – We agree to host another World’s Fair

Apr 26 – We gain 26 prestige from the Fair

Aug 10 – We have Introspectionism, next up - Alphabetic Flag Signalling

Aug 30 – The USA had increased their relations with Haiti, but I drop them back down.

Oct 13 – We spend money to join the International Olympic Committee

Jan 1, 1894 – Several things happen today. We develop the Flag Signalling thing, and now are working on Cheap Iron. We also discover Pragmatism, which gives us a prestige. Elections start. Oh, and our Upper House is now: Lib 47, Con 28, Soc 23, 2 and 1

We enact…Secret Ballots. Now the part in charge has no bonus to staying in charge.

Jan 25 – We agree to use chain gangs

Apr 1 – Now it’s the catalytic fermentative process that has been revealed to us

Apr 9 – Because they haven’t done anything with them, we add Demark to our Sphere of Influence. Hello Europe, get your act together

Apr 14 – Finally the UK have sent troops to recapture Belize from the rebels.

May 31 – We put down a small Jacobin rebellion

July 1 – Libs still in office. It’s time to start getting ready for another Mexican war. They have a 33k army on my border, so I get a bigger army in a nice general on the other side.

[Abe Sargent]

July 26 – I DOW them for the region of Chihuahua

All of my allies are in

Aug 13 – We defeat one of their armies – 18k strong

Sept 15 – We lose to their main army in Veracruz – despite advanced troops and a great general and numbers, we still managed to freakin’ lose

Sept 22 - They attack me at Mexico City.

Sept 29 – We defeat their 3rd army of 24k that moved down from above after I consolidate three siege armies

Oct 14 – We win in Mexico City, barely though

Oct 26 – We defeat one of their armies again

Nov 4 – We defeat another

Nov 17 – Another victory

Nov 20 – We lose in Guaymas

Nov 24 – We win again

Nov 28 – We win another battle.

Dec 13 – We lose that battle again as they chased me. I was trying to bring in reinforcements to keep that army alive that lost in Guaymas, but they annihilated it

Dec 22 – We get clean iron and I work on Phenomenology (another 100% discovery for my research)

Dec 29 – We defeat that army up north that’s been problems when it fails to dislodge our siege unit in Parrel.

Jan 1, 1895 – Lib – 48, C – 26, S – 23, 2 and 1

I go with Non-Socialist Unions allowed

Jan 10 – We lose in Oaxaca

Jan 20 – Tampico falls

Jan 26 – We win in Veracruz and win a naval battle as well

Jan 31 – We barely win the Campaign of Guaymas

Feb 12 – Minatitlan falls to us

Feb 15 – Mexico City falls

Mar 1 – We discover advanced ore roasting processes

Mar 6 – We capture Parral and win a battle in the Gulf of Mexico

Mar 10 – We defeat them again

Mar 13 – Veracruz falls

Mar 29 – Another military victory

Mar 30 – Tulcancingo falls

Apr 3 – We capture Moreles

Apr 12 – Ciudad Victoria falls to us

Apr 18 – We annihilate one of their armies

Apr 30 – Monclova falls to us

May 2 – Monterrey falls

May 4 – They accept peace for Chihuahua.

Our booty:

Parral – cattle, fort, 3xRR
Chihuahua – precious metals, 3xRR
Paso del Norte – wheat, 3xRR
Delicias – cattle, 3xRR
Monclova – dyes, fort, 3xrr
Morelos – wheat, 3xRR

[Abe Sargent]

June 1 – Italy has now formed and is gobbling up a bunch of provinces by annexation

Oct 1 – Advanced Ore Grinding Processes found

Dec 11 – We have a Cholera outbreak

Dec 29 – Jacobin rebels

Jan 1, 1896 – UH – 48, 25 (C}, 22, 3, 1

I move us to full trade unions

Feb 3 – Rebels no more

Oct 3 – Another Tapachula Cotton event

Dec 29 – We discover Phenomenology – next one is Ideological Thought.

Jan 1, 1897 – UH – 50, 24 , 22 (S), 3, 1

Change – Wealth from Weighted Wealth, which means the rich vote no longer counts as double

May 2 – Colombia is now cordial with us

June 28 – A major war just sprung up in Europe. Germany vs Italy, France, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland

June 30 – I can do a new National Focus. I choose to go to encourage entertainment in Zacatecas

July 1 – I spend money to equip an expedition to the North Pole.

July 3 – Colombia is now a friend

Aug 28 – We have discovered Ideological Thought. Let’s do Steel Railroad

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1898 - 47, 25 (S), 24, 4, 1

I move to Weighted All vote. The middle class counts twice, lower ones, and upper three times. But, every male can vote

Jan 13 – Seeing Germany backed up by the war, Austria uses this as a time to DOW Germany and try to conquer one of her regions

Apr 2 – Peru is now cordial with the USA

May 1 – We discover both Bessemer Steel and Secularization

July 1 – Elections begin

Sept 4 – We have Steel Railroad. Next up is Machine Guns

Sept 30 – By the end of the month, there are a ton of railroads by private investors being built

Oct 1 – We discover Collectivism

Oct 2 – The first major war is over, but the other one Austria started is going very well for them.

Oct 18 – I bump the USA back to neutral in Peru

Oct 21 – A comet is sighted, and we gain some research

Oct 23 – Austria took two regions from Germany, and Germany had to admit Austria;s hegemony. Ouch.

Jan 1, 1899 – The Conservative party has ousted the Libs from office. The new UH – Lib – 43, Soc – 26, Con – 24, 5 and 2

Cannot enact any more actions.

I open up every closed factory and begin to support those that lost money

Feb 4 – Queretaro, my largest province by population by far, is now the home of oil, not fruit

Mar 29 – I refuse to send soldiers to stop strikers. Some of my populace gets a little more socialist.

Apr 13 – Colombia is now in our Sphere of Influence

May 1 – We develop social conscious

May 28 – I accept a alliance offer from Colombia

Aug 1 – We discover Social Justice

Nov 9 – We discover Machine Guns and now I move to Iron Muzzle Artillery

Dec 31 – I accept an alliance offer from Denmark

Jan 1, 1900 – We discover rationalism. – UH is L – 39, S – 28, C – 25, 6, 2

Jan 26 – France is having severe rebel problems. They have captured most of the French mainland.

Mar 1 – We unlock three discoveries today – Constitutionalism, Advanced Ore Smelting and Traditionalism

Mar 27 – Rebels have again captured Belize

Mar 29 – Another major war – Russia dows France. Here are the players:

Russia
UK
Bavaria
Various minors (Serbia, Greece, etc)

Vs

France
Ottomans
Brazil
Switzerland
Belgium


That’s a lot of nations now at war. The goal of Russia is to take some land not in Europe.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 8 – We agree to host the Second Olympic Games

Apr 10 – We allow Brazil to have military access as per their request

June 12 – We advance our knowledge of artillery. Next up is Point Defense Systems

July 26 – After review, I close about 6 factories that are losing way too much money in operation. The rest stay open

Oct 5 – After the USA is playing with Argentina, I drop them to neutral

Oct 10 – For the last six weeks, I’ve been finishing a ton of railroads built in the wake of my most recent railroad expansion.

Oct 19 – One of my factories is the target of sabotage. I choose to fire everybody who works there and hire a brand new slate of people. It pisses off the poor people in the province a bit.

Jan 1, 1901 – UH 36 (L),29 (S), 26, 7, 2

Jan 3 – I drop the UK to neutral in Argentina

Mar 12 – The major war is over and the region does switch hands. France has cleaned up her rebel problem too

[Abe Sargent]

Mar 18 – We have another major rebellion on our hands. Take a look:

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/705/alibrebellion.jpg

Nasty!

Biggest army? 48k in Zacatecas


Apr 12 – Some of our athletes are victorious at the games, and we gain prestige.

Apr 28 – We develop Point Defense Systems – next up is Deep Defense Systems

Apr 30 - After combining three of my armies, we defeat them in Zacatecas

May 3 – My army in the south was stationed in Cali. They defeat a rebel army50% bigger than them, but they are out of the battle for a while.

May 19 – Cuba is cleansed

June 4 – Mexico and Central American are cleansed just S America left

June 7 - _ Pasto falls

June 11 – Bueneventura falls. They are consolidating armies, and have an army in the south 62k strong

July 1 = San Felipe falls and we now have flexible firepower

July 2 – Bariquismo falls too

July 14 – 54k of my troops have broken their major army. Now it’s just one army left that should die in a week or less. Now we just have to recapture my provinces.

Sept 1 – We figure out determinism

Oct 13 – We have recaptured all provinces taken by the rebels – that little rebellion is over.

[Abe Sargent]

Dec 1 – We discover Political Religion

Jan 1, 1902 – Libs – 34, S – 28, C – 27, 8, 3

This is the first year since socialists became a party that our Upper House has not gotten more socialist

Mar 18 = I turn a story of listless unemployed into increasing support for them financially from the state

May 18 – We develop Deep Defense Systems. Now we begin work on a major project – Infiltration. Once it is completed, we can discover how to build tanks

Sept 1 – We discover elastic defense system

Sept 28 – We are now cordial with Brazil

Dec 1 – We discover atheism

Jan 1, 1903 – Election Time – UH – 32, 28, 28, 9, 3

Jan 13- For about a year now, the world has been warless

Feb 1 – We discover staff command support

Apr 1 – We develop flexible counterattacks and synchronized heavy support

Apr 14 – I just finished building a bunch more ironclads

July 1 – We discover the trench system of defense in wars. The Cons are in charge again

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 2 – We get another border incident with Mexico. I order our troops in place to invade.

My war goal this time is to grab Sonora. Then on the next war to take California. I’ve already looked and planned the next war, for whenever it happens.

Oct 5 – The Bahamas have been captured by rebels

They have 36k in Minatitlan, so I put my best general on the army that will be assaulting them 57k strong.

Dec 1 – We develop barrel factories

Dec 3 – We discover Infiltration – next up is Stock Exchange

Dec 16 – We are ready.

Dec 18 – All of my allies are in. Here we go. We are simultaneously attacking 12 provinces, all the way up to Albuquerque, El Paso and Laredo.

Jan 1, 1904 – 30 – L, 29 –C, 28-S, 9, 3 – now that’s a confused electorate

I see a major army coming from upper Texas so I order two of mine siege armies to converge in San Antonio and hit them.

Jan 3 – I defeat their major army in Minatitlan

Jan 15 – We win in Mexico City and force them away

Jan 19 – I again beat their major army

Jan 23 – One of their armies from California arrives in Nogales and tries to drive out one of my sieging armies. So basically, I’m trying to deal with 4 Mexican armies

Jan 27 – We win in Texas and pursue

Feb 1 – They converged their main armies from Minititlan and Mexico City in Puebla in the hills (very smart), and I had to force them out with two armies.

Feb 5 – We win in Nogales – I give chase to Tucson

Feb 14 – I win in Texas. I order one of my armies to keep following and the other to return to Laredo and continue the takeover.

Feb 20 _ I get an event about equal opportunity and I use it to decrease militancy across the board.

Feb 21 – We win in Veracruz against their major armies again.

Feb 22 – We win in Tucson

Feb 28 – 30k Ecuadorian troops destroy the Mexicans in Puebla

Mar 1 – We discover low echelon fire support

Mar 29 – Matamoros falls.

Apr 18 – 18k Peruvian troops annihilate the main Mexican army. I’ve got ping pong battles in Texas and California, but basically the Mexican resistance is gone.

May 8 – Veracruz falls

May 18 – We capture Guaymas

May 23 – Albuquerque falls to us

May27 – Tampico, Peubla and Reynosa have fallen

May 29 – Nogales falls

June 4 – We invent the Stock Exchange – next up is Late Classical Theory

June 7 – Ciudad Victoria falls

June 13 – Tulancingo also falls to us. At this point, Mexico SHOULD be giving us Sonora, but not yet apparently. Stupid.

June 26 – Mexico City falls. How about now? Nope – they have got to be kidding. It’s never been this hard to peel away land form them before. Apparently, Sonora is really valuable to them or something.

July 20 – Hermosilla falls, and its in Sonora, perhaps now? No, but we are getting close.

Aug 6 – Monterrey falls.

Aug 8 – San Diego falls

They accept peace for Sonora

Sonora –

Guaymas – cattle, RRx3, Naval Base x2, fort
Hermosillo – exactly same
Nogales – wheat, same as above
Rosarito – fruit, RRx3, NBx2
Loreto – Fish, as above

Six factories in Sonora, and four are closed and I reopen them.

[Abe Sargent]

MAP TIME

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8895/1904upca.jpg


You can see a ton of factories being expanded by local people. I haven’t touched a factory in decades.

You can also see that our border mostly follows the Rio Grande these days.

During our war, the UK retook Belize and the Bahamas

[Abe Sargent]

Aug 24 – We have Jacobin rebels springing up in 7 places

Nov 21 – We discover Late Classical Theory. Next up is Semi-Automasation

Dec 1 – Stormtrooper Training completed

Jan 1, 1905 – 31 (C}, 28, 28, 10 ,3

Jan 3 – John Elliot Carnes writes in our country, and we gain prestige for this major academic work.

Feb 8 – More massive rebel issues in the France mainland

July 18 – I close some factories that are losing us money in Sonora, and just focus on those barely losing money or making it.

Aug 1 – We discover the regulated buying and selling of stocks

Sept 9 – The USA is getting frisky with Haiti again and I back them back down to neutral

Oct 12 – You know what hadn;t happened in a while? Brazil DOWing Argentina. It happens today. I join Argentina and France joins Brazil.

Oct 20 Both of us want peace, so I send a white peace offer to France and they accept They have huge rebels problems and are in two wars. They don’t want the battle, and neither do I

Nov 15 – We discover semi-automatization. Next up is the next level in railroad.

Nov 16 – The UK has allied with Argentina

Nov 20 – JS Mill publishes in my country, and we gain prestige

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1906 – UH – Con: 31, Soc: 28, Lib: 27, React: 10, A-L:3

Jan 29 – We put down a little rebellion

Mar 15 – Another war breaks out of size as Austria tries to retake Alsace-Lorraine.

May 1 – We discover drying techniques for things like tea and…coffee! A major jump to our coffee crops.

May 13 – Jamaica is controlled by rebels

June 3, 1906 – Someone in my nation has won the Nobel Peace Prize – we gain some prestige

Aug 7 – I have removed the UK from Venezuela politically. They are still really good friends, but not in the Sphere anymore.

Sept 16 – Austria lost the war for A-L.

Sept 20 – There is a world anti-slavery convention held at Guatemala. It begins talking about women and their suffrage. I choose… to support the women at the convention that want to speak, and be seated with the male delegates. Our nations becomes more liberal, a bit.

Nov 15 – We crush a bunch of rebels that try and cross the border from Mexico to us.

Dec 1 – The UK allies with Brazil

Dec 17 – We discover the Integral Rail System. Now batting is Organic Chemistry

Jan 1, 1907 – UH – Lib – 33, Con – 29, Soc – 26, 9, 3 and a new party, Fascist – 1

Mar 1 – We take out some Jacobin rebels

Mar 14 – We add Venezuela to our Sphere of Influence

July 1 – Elections start

Aug 18 – I downgrade the UK to cordial with Venezuela

Aug 22 – I spend some cash to outfit an expedition to Antarctica

Nov 15 – We discover Organic Chemistry. Next in the queue is Steam Turbine

Dec 6 – We put down some more rebels

Dec 10 – I downgrade the UK to neutral with Venezuela

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1908 – Cons are still in charge. UH – 32 (C}, 28, 28, 8, 2, 2

Jan 11 – Our South Pole expedition failed, so I send another at twice the cost rather than accept defeat

Apr 27 – A small A-L rebellion forms.

May 2 _ I have Argentina expel the US embassy and ban them for a year after they keep trying to up themselves here.

July 1 – Carbon Soil Enrichment

Aug 15 – We destroy the rebels we has since April

Oct 2 – We agree to spend the money to host the 4th Olympic games

Oct 12 – We develop the Steam Turbine – the next one we’ll head for is Cheap Steel

This month we now have 50% literacy

Jan 1, 1909 – UH – 30 (L), 29 (S), 28 (C}, 7, 3 (F), 2
We develop armor and can now build tanks
I order 16 tanks built

Jan 19 – Colombia has had a revolution and a new government is in place, and we lose alliance and sphere and influence.

Jan 20 – Alliance with Venezuela

Jan 22 – Venezuela DOWs Colombia for that one region of theirs. They did not invite me in, since they knew I might go for peace early.

Feb 14 Our athletes are victorious at the Olympic Games.

Mar 1 – We discover electric machinery

Apr 24 – We defeat another Jacobin rebellion

May 1 – We develop synthetic dye

Aug 1 – We discover oil refining

Aug 12 – I accept an alliance with Brazil

[Abe Sargent]

Sept 1 – With a badboy/infamy of 1.48, it’s time to gain California. I DOW Mexico.

Brazil declines to join us. Everybody else is in.

Sept 6 – We find cheap steel – and next we study Combustion Engine

Sept 18 – We crush their forces in Mexico City.

Sept 30 – Mexico has a HUGE rebellion all of the sudden. Opportunists. Now their armies have to get through rebels to get to me.

Oct 18 – We have annihilated their Mexico City army in Puebla

Nov 16 – San Diego falls to us

Nov 20 – Tucson falls

Nov 30 – We defeat the Mexican Navy in Galveston Bay

Dec 7 – Veracruz falls

Jan 1, 1910 – For the first time, even , the Socialist party has the most in the UH – 31, 29 (L), 28, 7, 3, 2

Jan 14 – We defeat one of their armies in Monterey (CA)

Jan 16 – Tampico falls before our might

Jan 22 – El Paso and Tulancingo have fallen

Jan 29 – Los Angels falls before us as well

Jan 31 – Monterrey (MX) falls

Feb 17 – Albuquerque also falls before us

Feb 21 – Mexico City falls

Feb 23 – Ciudad Victoria also falls

Mar 5 – Laredo falls

Mar 20 –We finally rout their Californian army

Mar 25 – Maracaibo is now an oil province.

Mar 28 – Rhynosa and Matamoros have both fallen

Mar 30 –Peace with Mexico. The booty:


San Diego – wheat, Naval Base x2, RRx3
Los Angeles – oil, nbx2, RRx3
Mariposa – precious metals, rrx4
San Francisco – fruit, RRx4, NBx2
Eureka – fish, fort, NBx2, RRx4
Sacramento, fruit, RRx4, fort

I open and subsidize the two factories here.

I order the forts in Eureka and Sacramento to be expanded.

[Abe Sargent]

Over in Europe we have Austria fighting with France for Alsace-Lorraine again. France is warring with Russia and her allies for non-European territory

May 1 – We discovered individualism

Aug 1 – We discover gaslights

Aug 21 -We discover internal combustion. Next up is Electricity

Dec 1 – We discover cracking and hermeneutics

Jan 1, 1911 – 32, 28, 28, 6, 4, 2

Mar 2 – Austria got A-L from France

Apr 18 – We are now Cordial with both the Ottomans and Egypt

Aug 29 – I choose to fight union busting, rather than support it.

Sept 23 – I have the largest rebellion I’ve had yet. Here, take a look.

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/705/alibrebellion.jpg

Holy CRAP!

That’s 55 provinces, and we’ve got some larger forces here and there to deal with as well. Sigh, here we go. In the province I have my army in the south, Cali, I have 21k troops stationed. 51k spawned to attack me there. I have 110,000 in Queretaro, 42k in San Felipe, and so forth.

Oct 19 – 98k troops that have won battles are moving to Q to try and take out their largest army

Nov – 24 -We barely won the campaign in Queretaro

Nov 26 – Mexico and California are cleansed of rebels.

Nov 28 – We barely, and I mean barely, won in Cali, and this army is out for a while.

Dec 3 – We now have electricity and I order our thinkers to think up an assembly line

Dec 17 – Cuba is now clear

Dec 21 – Two provinces fell today in Cali Region

Dec 23 – San Felipe fell

Jan 1, 1912 – Election time again. UH is 33, 27, 27, 6 (R}, 4, 2

We are now cordial with Sweden

Jan 2 – Bacalar fell (in the Yucatan)

Jan 7 – We spend some cash to attend the 5th Olympic Games

Jan 13 – Bariquismento falls

Jan 22 – Puerto Lampira falls

Jan 28 – Coro falls

Feb 8 - Seeing an opportunity, Jacobin Rebels spring up as well

Mar 11 – Their main army, 66k strong just took Quibdo. I am attacking it though.

Mar 30 – We recaptured our first province

Apr 1 – We develop telephones

Apr 3 – We recapture Bacalar

Apr 11 – We defeated them in Quibdo. Now’s its just a matter of retaking lost provinces.

Jul 1 – The Cons won again

[Abe Sargent]

I just did the math and realized that I am late with my 75 year review by a year and a half. Sorry!



76.5 Year Review

Prestige - 10th
Industrialization – 7th
Military – 9th

Overall 7th

Literacy 54.7%

Our Sphere of Influence – Venezuela, Haiti, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Denmark, Peru

Lost Colombia, and when I’ve got time, I’ll go back and get her. Of course, Venezuela took that land from her, so Colombia is very small these days.

We have 46.14 Million people and 11.54 able bodied men of adult age.

89.54% of our population is Catholic

Ethnicity Breakdown:

29% Mexican
26% Central American
12% Nahua

No one else is at or close to 10%.

I figured out where population stats are kept. We are the 9th most populous state

Our 99 factories are 6th most

The 114 brigades we field is 9th largest.
And the 66 ships we have is 11th by one ship behind the Ottomans

We are still advanced in many ways. Only 4 nations have secret ballots. Only 9 states are true democracies. Only 5 states allow all unions. We were the first state to allow a truly free press, and yet we are still just one of 14 to do so. Only 12 nations have pensions of any sort.

[Abe Sargent]

Aug 23 – We weren;t able to acquire the supplies for those tanks, they are still in the queue. Apparently, no one has been making them, and I can’t build factories, so I erase their orders so I can build a few more armies.

Sept 1 – We develop Thomas steel.

Oct 1 – Electrical lighting and x-rays are developed

Nov 5 – We have recaptured the final province that the rebels had controlled.

Jan 1, 1913 –UH is 34, 27 (L}, 26, 6, 5, 2

Jan 13 – We have Assembly Line – next is Anti-Rationalism, which will give me another 100% research boost. In order to get to it faster, I switch away from Commercial Industrialization back to normal research.

Feb 1 – Industrialized Armament Industry discovered

Feb 3 – Our athletes are victorious at the Olympics

Mar 27 – There is a Campaign for Women’s Property Rights, and I take it national, and my nation shifts a bit more liberal.

Apr 1 – We discover tractors

Apr 2 – France downgraded us to neutral in Brazil

Apr 14 – We are now cordial again with Brazil

June 29 = The forts are complete in Sacramento and Eureka – I order them expanded again

July 12 – I got this interesting event, take a look:

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5975/blackflags.jpg


I can either help nationalists or fascists. They have an identical set of restrictions on my actions. Personally, I’d be happy with socialists, but not Nationalists/Fascists – I remember when I had Nationalists in charge before. I go with diffusing it, and support increases for Nationalists.

Sept 14 – We are friends with Brazil

Dec 1 – Martin steel developed

[Coffee Warlord]

Enjoying the read -- this is another game I've been toying with picking up.

(Though the wife got me Civ for xmas, so that'll keep me good an occupied for awhile)

[Abe Sargent]

Enjoying the read -- this is another game I've been toying with picking up.

(Though the wife got me Civ for xmas, so that'll keep me good an occupied for awhile)

Glad you like it!

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1914 – UH – S – 34, L – 27, C – 24, R – 7, F – 5, A/L – 2

Jan 21 – Another Jacobin rebellion.

Mar 1 – We develop refrigerator technology

Mar 9 -We actually lost one of the battles against the Jacobins

Apr 13 – We have defeated the last Jacobin

July 1 – We discover Fordism

July 12 – We announce that Brazil is now in our Sphere of Influence – that makes every single S. American nation in our Sphere sans Colombia. Brazil has been in France and the UK’s Spheres before, and the USA was once working on it – so Brazil is friendly with all of them. I need to work my influence up so I can stave off any poachers.

July 15 – A woman has enrolled at a local college, and it is causing a stir. I use the event to mock conservatives – are they afraid of one woman? (The other option was to get her thrown out)

Aug 14 – We accept an alliance offer from Brazil

Sept 29 – We discover anti-rationalism. Next up is State & Government

Dec 26 – The USA is now cordial with Argentina

Jan 1, 1915 - 35, 27, 24, 7, 6, 2

Jan 9 – We killed several groups of rebels that spilled across the Mexican border

Mar 29 – Another huge A-L rebellion. I’ll skip another screenie, as the armies are smaller this time.

Apr 1 – We discover Existentialism

May 7 – We gathered a bunch of extra fish this year. I distribute it to the poor and lose some militancy from them (the other choice was to add it to my nation’s stockpile).

May 14 – Cuba is clean of rebels

May 22 – As is Mexico

May 24 – We discover State & Government. Next is Nationalism and Imperialism

June 20 – Rebels killed from Central America. The only ones left are in S America.

July 1 – San Felipe falls

July 22 – The San Felipe army was defeated and now we begin to recapture it. All armies have been destroyed.

July 26 – We are not cordial with Colombia

Aug 14 – We are now friends with Colombia

Sept 12 – We recapture San Felipe

Oct 2 – Another Jacobin Rebellion

Dec 1 – Populism vs Establishment discovered. France is making a grab for Brazil, putting in a lot of influence. In a bit, I’m going to shut them down.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1916 – 35, 27, 23, 7, 6, 3

Jan 5 – I ban France in Brazil for a year and oust their embassy for that time.

Feb 1 – Futurism is discovered by our peops.

Apr 4 – We have discovered Nationalism and Imperialism. Next on the docket is Revolution and Counterrevolution

June 19 – A patrimony event fired and we have gained Hermosillo as a core. No other province or region has become a core, but this one in Sonora manages it. Huh.

July 1 – Election Time

July 14 – We put down a Jacobin rebellion

Sept 1 – We discover Bureaucracy vs Nepotism and National Fraternity

Oct 28 – After some previous successes, we are asked to host the 6th Olympic Games, and we agree and splash some cash.

Nov 1 – We realize Expansionism

Nov 12 – Panama City is now a core

Nov 25 – Ho hum, another major rebellion.

Nov 27 – Cartagena now a core

Dec 6 – Valera is now a core

Jan 1, 1917 – 35, 26, 23, 7, 6, 3; Cons stay in charge

We discover Mission to Civilize and we have created Quantum Theory.

Jan 14 – Mexico and Central America are free of rebels

Jan 17 – Durango is now a core

Jan 22 – Today is an auspicious day. Want to know why? Because today, all of South America, including Colombia, is now in our Sphere of Influence.

Mar 5 – We have destroyed the last rebel

Mar 7 – We have a different kind of rebellion – Nicaraguan Nationalists, just one army, but of some size. Not the spread out one with armies ranging from 6k to 60k, but one, large army.

Apr 1 – We discover Separatism

Apr 4 – Our athletes are victorious. Plus, Villahermosa is now a core

Apr 26 – Nicaraguan Rebels handled

May 4 – We suss out Revolution and Counterevolution. The next target in our scope is Positivism

June 9 – I play defense in Brazil by dropping France to cordial.

July 13 – Having learned my lesson from last time, as Colombia experiences some severe rebel problems, I request and acquire military access and order my troops in to handle their rebels for them.

July 20 – Aguascalientes is now a core

Aug 1 – We discover Women’s Suffrage Movement and Nihilism

Sept 22 – We put down a small number of Jacobins

Oct 1 – Edison Light Bulb figured out

Oct 10 – Our think people have managed to think out Positivism. The next item on their list is Functionalism

Oct 15 – We capture the provinces lost to the rebels in Colombia’s main region, and head back.

Oct 25 – Another rebellion, but smaller than before.

Dec 24 – Austria took a bunch of provinces from Germany in war.

Dec 31 –Okay, we have a serious event. Let’s take a look:

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8574/havanaslaughter.jpg

Wow-oh. So, what do I do? Allow the slaughter of these dissident nobles by the people? (-50% noble population in Cuba, -4 militancy among them); Intervene Immediately? (militancy minus 1, pop of nobles -10%, militancy gain among Cuban farmers by 3.) ; Intervene eventually? (-30% nobility in Cuba, -2 militancy, +2 among Cuban farmers)

These are dissidents and they were uprising. I allow the slaughter.

[Abe Sargent]

Jan 1, 1918 – 36, 26, 22, 7, 6, 3

Jan 3 – The final rebels are dispatched

Feb 1 – Havana is now a core

I order the forts in Eureka and Sacramento to expand again.

May 18 – France retook Alsace-Lorraine from Austria

June 4 – We have gained functionalism, next is Biologism

June 10 – I drop the USA to neutral in Argentina

July 4 – A Jacobin rebellion with a total of 9k troops across two provinces makes me laugh. Perhaps we are leaving behind this era of rebels. The recent ones have been much lighter.

Aug 24 – We have a small Fascist rebellion break out

Nov 1 – A major discovery I hope. We discover secret police, and our revolutionaries in all movements get -25%

Nov 14 – Jagua now a core

Nov 17 – Fascists now defeated

Jan 1, 1919 – We have a new party. Communists. UH – 36, 26, 21, 7, 6, 2, 1 (Coms)

Jan 10 – We have a major union and socialist event, and I choose to allow it.

Jan 25 – This time when the A-Libs revolt, we have just 7 rebelling provinces.

Feb 1 – We have created/invented/realized/discovered the Vanguard Party, which increases, massively, Communist Rebel strength

Feb 18 – After developing Biologism, we move to Social Science.

Feb 23 – The Cat and Mouse Act has made its way to our Upper House. Do I support it? (This Act sends those incarcerated who decide on a hunger strike back out until they are well, and then brings them back in – it’s a way to combat the Suffragette movement which is using this as a tactic. It’s legal, although a bit mean, so I allow it. The Libs in Cali Region are more militant (the other option turns all non-Libs more militant by almost the same amount)

Mar 1 – We uncover Rhetoric of Hate and Nostalgic Romanticism

Mar 25 – Killed the rebels. Again.

Apr 26 – Parral is a core

I have no badboy anymore. Sounds like another war against Mexico, but what do I want?

Arizona? Nevada-Utah? Texas? Oklahoma? Neuvo Leon?

I think I could take Belize from the UK, but It would require a lot of set up. I’d need a few armies in Brazilian and Venezuelan territory ready to invade their S American land, and then I’d need transports around the Caribbean with armies that launch into their islands. I need to strike fast and I could probably take Belize in war.

July 14 – I’m ready to attack Mexico. I look around to see if there’s anyone else I can go for.

After consideration, I like my nation’s profile, and I will not be going after someone, just because I can. Also ,after consideration, barring something unusual, I will be ending my game on Jan 1, 1920.

July 24 – Tuxtla is now a core province

Aug 13 – We drop France to neutral in Brazil

Sept 2 – the USA is having massive rebel problems, there are more than 60k rebels sin Oregon alone. These are Communists.

Oct 1 – We uncover the mysteries of Darwinism and Daimler’s Automobile

Nov 1 – Social Darwinism is now ours

Nov 20 – Delicias is a core

Dec 5 – Penonome is now in our patrimony as well

Dec 24 – David is a core

[Abe Sargent]

It’s been 85 years in a 100 year game. It’s time to call it. Let’s look at our mighty nation:

Our final Upper House:

Socialists – 36.91%
Liberals – 27.12%
Conservatives – 20.43%
Reactionary – 6.89%
Fascist – 5.82%
Anarcho-Liberal – 2.19%
Communist – 0.62%

Our Prestige was 232, ranked 11th
Our Industrialization was 3266, ranked 7th
Our military was 456, ranked 8th.

Our overall ranking was 7th. The rankings of the top 16:

1. The UK with 50851
2. The USA with 12030
3. Austria with 8777
4. France with 6621
5. Russia with 6459
6. Germany with 5831
7. The UPCA with 3955
8. Netherlands with 2013
9. Bavaria with 1056
10. Baden with 836
11. Italy with 828
12. Spain with 798
13. Brazil with 713
14. Japan with 598
15. Mexico with 498
16. Sweden 483

Our Sphere of Influence:

Haiti
Denmark
Argentina
Brazil
Venezuela
Colombia
Peru
Bolivia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Uruguay
Chile


We have 59% literacy

Our people:

91.88% Catholic


29.73% Mexican
29.53% Central American
11.7% Nahua


Our 5 best factories are:


Luxury Clothes Factory, level 8, Zulia – making 809.47 a day
Luxury Clothes Factory, level 8, Zacatecas - 641.53 (maybe owned by the same company?)
Lumber Mill, Level 9, Guatemala - 584.62 (I built that one a LONG time ago)
Winery, level 11, Honduras - 546.04 (I built that one too)
Steel Mill, level 16, Guatemala – 388.19 (My first factory in our nation, ever, which I built)

I would build to the province – Distillery in a grain region, winery in a fruit one, Steel Mill in an iron one, etc. I think that’s helped some of mine to rate highly.

There are no wars, and have been none for over a year.

We have no infamy, and no badboy

My goal was to get Social Science, and then enact Women’s Suffrage.

With 50.81 million people, we are the 8th most populous nation in the world; 12.7 million able bodied adult men

106 factories, 6th most

169 brigades is the 8th largest army, between Russia and Brazil
79 ships is the 10th largest, between the Ottomans and USA

11 nations are a true Democracy, we are one
4 nations have equality as a national value – we are one
18 nations have a truly free press, we are one
5 nations fully allow trade unions, we are one
5 nations have secret ballot voting, we are one
17 nations offer pensions of any sort, we are one

[Abe Sargent]

Thoughts on the Game:





I love a lot of mechanics and their influence on the era – like industrialization. I love sending expeditions and having the Olympics and the Nobel Peace Prize and World’s Fair. There’s a lot of fun in here. (One issue with the events was that sometimes I would send out an Expedition and then never hear back. I sent out one to the North Pole almost 40 years ago, and never with a response. There are other examples - second one to Antarctica and another I can’t recall)

I really like how rebels will happen even in provinces that have been yours for a long time. In EU3, I would not have gotten an rebellion in places like Costa Rica or Guatemala unless I was severely mis-managing the nation. However, due to the politics of the era, it makes sense here. I like it!

In war being able to only take land one region at a time is interesting. It’s got positives and negatives. In EU3 and CK, the nature of the size of your land grab impacted your infamy. Here, you gain the infamy just for declaring war for territory, and then it doesn’t matter if you get three provinces in a small region, or 7 in a large region like California – same infamy level. The regions sometimes make sense – Panama, Costa Rica, etc. However, why can’t I just take one or two provinces from a region? I also can only get a peace concession that I’ve declared as my aim. I can’t beat up Mexico so badly that not only do I get land, but I force them into other concessions either, such as cutting their military or joining my Sphere of Influence, or what have you. It made wars simpler, and yet took away interesting things.

Regions also enable region wide things, such as communist sentiment in just Cuba or just Sonora, instead of nationally or in just one province – and that is quite cool. Regions definitely have a place in the game.

I like how some discoveries don’t get impacted immediately. For example, I learn Basic Chemistry, which allows me at some point in time to learn about Nitroglycerin. When the random event triggers that gives me Nitro, not every one of my mines immediately uses it. I occasionally get an event that tells me someone is using nitro now. The same was true with things like tractors. I think that’s a very realistic way of doing advances.

I loved balancing the politics side of things, and how I could do different things based on who was in charge. I would have like to have seen that role even stronger. Why not have anti-military parties prevent me from declaring a war I don’t have a CB for? That’d be really cool.

Oh, btw, I found that this game’s processing of budget, money, immigration, and such on a daily basis was really cool. I really liked it

What I don’t like is how the game has limitations on simulating the era, and instead of fixing it through game mechanics, it patches the hole with events. This is the difference between EU2 and EU3. EU2 would just have an event that triggered that represented a real world event, such as the death of Burgundy’s ruler that leads to it being inherited. That death, in real life, happened in war when the King was in battle. So even if you aren’t at war, your ruler dies. That’s a flawed way to represent a historical event.

For example, earlier in this game, the USA peacefully annexed Hawaii. There’s probably an event allowing them to do it for Texas or California. If you could annex a country peacefully, I couldn’t figure out the metric for doing so. I was looking hard. Using events to cover historical annexations belies the ability for me to do so ahistorically, since the game is supposed to be about the path not taken.

The worst example are the major wars. There is no way that this game can simulate the Spanish-American war in the 18902, for example. They took a ton of provinces (Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico) in a large number of regions, and in this game, with the mechanics in place, that would put them over the infamy limit by a lot, and then everybody would ostracize them and start DOW’ing them. How does this game account for that?

Maybe they have an event for just that war, but again, that is a patch to cover the lack of mechanical consistency with history.

I did really like how the flag of a nation would change based on who was in charge. The Communists took over Iceland, so it added Communist symbols to their flag – totally cool.

I have never played a game that had a money mechanic, and where money didn’t matter. After I discovered that advance that increased my fruit and coffee production by 50%, I have never looked back. I kept my tariffs at 25%, and I would keep my people relatively tax free and spent the maximum amount on goods and services for my people (like military, administration, and such). When a factory costs roughly 2k to build and army units 1.2-1.8k, then you can wonder at the fact that I ended the game t more than 7 million pounds.

Sometimes they have an event or discovery that didn’t match the mechanics well. For example, what impact has social Darwinism had on the US? Can you quantify it? For example, when I get Social Science, I can develop the field of Sociology. Do you know what they will do for me? Raise my consciousness in non-colonies by a bit. Is that an accurate reflection of the value of Sociology?

I developed the Panama Canal, and for my trouble, I could quickly move my ships from one side of my nation to the other and I gained some prestige. No fees? No trade? Nothing? I developed one of the most highly traveled commercial routes on the planet in my own backyard, and I get nothing but a relatively small amount of prestige?

The plurality mechanic did absolutely nothing that I am aware of all game long. I just looked it up, and supposedly in a democracy, it’s supposed to decrease the militancy of your pops, but if so, it must have been broken, because mine was quite high by the end, and I was getting a bajillion rebellions.

Which leads me to my last major issue I had with the game - the rebel-geddon I was having. They showed you what the rebels were, how many, how big their forces were, and so forth. But there was never any info about how to reduce the rebels. For example, the game said “Jacobins are looking for true democracy and want to move their nation more towards it” but I’m a freakin’ democracy! I found that one in particular to be quite annoying. Plus, they get tedious, and I want to end them, but find myself unable to figure out how to stop them. In EU and CK and Rome they have a mechanic about realm stability, that shows how stable your realm is. To be fair, it is a bit overarching of a mechanic because it affects taxes, rebellions, and more. Maybe something similar, but with more limited scope, would be useful here. It should be possible to be relatively free. The USA never had any rebellions of the nature and scope that they are in this game. If they can do it in real life, I should have a path to do so in the game.

Oh, I found the highest speed setting to be too slow. I regularly wanted to speed it up a bit there.

I see Victoria II where EU2 was, which by the way was good enough to chart very very highly in my Top 100 games of all time list. I see EU3 and CK as past this.

So, overall, my evaluation would be: Fun new and interesting mechanics make this worthwhile and replayable, but there is a limit to the fun. Was it worth the 20 I paid? Yup!

[sabotai]

I also can only get a peace concession that I’ve declared as my aim. I can’t beat up Mexico so badly that not only do I get land, but I force them into other concessions either, such as cutting their military or joining my Sphere of Influence, or what have you. It made wars simpler, and yet took away interesting things.

You can add war goals during the war if things are going well for you. So you'd start the war with just 1 war goal (take a region), but if you beat the crap out of them, you can keep adding war goals (but without CBs, it would add more Infamy).

The worst example are the major wars. There is no way that this game can simulate the Spanish-American war in the 18902, for example. They took a ton of provinces (Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico) in a large number of regions, and in this game, with the mechanics in place, that would put them over the infamy limit by a lot, and then everybody would ostracize them and start DOW’ing them. How does this game account for that?

I think taking colonial regions doesn't add much infamy at all, so to war with Spain and take Cuba, the Philippines, etc. wouldn't add much. Plus, when I played, if I was a Great Power, I would get a lot of "Place in the Sun" CBs randomly against other nations which let me go to war for colonial provinces. I think in Vanilla, I played a lot as Japan, Prussia and the Netherlands. I got "Place in the Sun" CBs with all 3 a lot.

I have never played a game that had a money mechanic, and where money didn’t matter. After I discovered that advance that increased my fruit and coffee production by 50%, I have never looked back. I kept my tariffs at 25%, and I would keep my people relatively tax free and spent the maximum amount on goods and services for my people (like military, administration, and such). When a factory costs roughly 2k to build and army units 1.2-1.8k, then you can wonder at the fact that I ended the game t more than 7 million pounds.

What were your taxes like? Social reforms? This might be why you were having so many rebellions. (Were your POPs meeting their life needs?) Taxes too high and no social reforms tend to piss the fuck out of people.

Jacobins might still be a problem in Vanilla, though. They were in 1.0 and I don't know if they were fixed by 1.2. I've been playing with a MOD and haven't had a problem with them yet.

The plurality mechanic did absolutely nothing that I am aware of all game long. I just looked it up, and supposedly in a democracy, it’s supposed to decrease the militancy of your pops, but if so, it must have been broken, because mine was quite high by the end, and I was getting a bajillion rebellions.

Plurality tells you have much your population, as a whole, wants social reforms. It will drop militancy in democracies because the POPs can vote the way they want, but if they aren't getting the social reforms they demand, they will still get pissed off. If your militancy was still high, the "bonus" you got from a high plurality wasn't enough to counter all the things that upset your population.

Oh, I found the highest speed setting to be too slow. I regularly wanted to speed it up a bit there.

The game does slow down considerably in the later years. I hope they eventually find a fix for that.

[sabotai]

dola,

And as far as war goals being limited by who is in charge, someone did make a MOD to do that but I haven't tried it yet. Might give it a go soon.

[Abe Sargent]

Thanks for writing!!!


Yeah, I know about adding things in war, but you shouldn;t have to spend more infamy to force someone to admit you are more powerful than they are for example.

I had virtually no taxes. None at all for middle and upper class, and lower class was very, very low - rebellions were not for that.

I never got a Place in teh Sun CB, but a lot of colonies became regular provinces as game mechanics changed, such as Cuba that we took and Belize for the British. During the game, Mexico settled Oklahoma, and then it stopped being a colony. That means places taken in the Spanish-American war would, by the game's own metrics, be full province,s and my point stands.

I saw Jacobins everywhere.

[sabotai]

Yeah, I know about adding things in war, but you shouldn;t have to spend more infamy to force someone to admit you are more powerful than they are for example.

If you destroy nation after nation, taking several regions per war, your Infamy should sky rocket. Other nations should hate your guts, or at least, be afraid of you and try to contain you.

Infamy should be tied to the land being taken, though. When the US took half of Mexico in 1850, they took mostly unsettled land (well, aside from the native Americans, but no one cared about them). Taking that land should cost considerably less in Infamy than, say, taking half of France or Austria.

(But those Mexican lands shouldn't be states either....)

The Humiliate CB should be more damaging too. It's pretty much a waste as it is right now.

I had virtually no taxes. None at all for middle and upper class, and lower class was very, very low - rebellions were not for that.

I never got a Place in teh Sun CB, but a lot of colonies became regular provinces as game mechanics changed, such as Cuba that we took and Belize for the British. During the game, Mexico settled Oklahoma, and then it stopped being a colony. That means places taken in the Spanish-American war would, by the game's own metrics, be full province,s and my point stands.

I saw Jacobins everywhere.

Sounds like Vanilla still has a lot of issues. It should be harder to make regions states (Belize should never become a British State...well, ok, you should be able to make it a state, but the AI shouldn't be so dumb as to make it a state), and there is a problem with some POPs not being able to meet their needs (as in, it's impossible for them to meet their needs)., which causes the problem with Jacobin rebels.

You could try the POP Demand Mod or the VRRP Mod, but since the Mod Selector doesn't work, you have to overwrite your game files to use them.

[Abe Sargent]

I appreciate your help! I'm moving on to other games for now, and when I come back, I'm sure there will be patches, mods, or an expansion that helps. It's still totally worth playing, don;t get me wrong, but I've played enough good Paradox titles to know the potential this game can have.