Kamchatka: Fire and Ice (EU4) - COMPLETE!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Heya!

With the latest DLC bringing massive changes to the map and such I thought it would be a good time to dust off my EU4 and give it another spin!

Just loading it up now to take a look around and figure out who I wanna be.

[Abe Sargent]

WHOA!

[Abe Sargent]

Holy Crap new Countries! New Provinces a go go! They really modified EU! I am just storm-slobbered with how awesome this is. I’m staring at the 1444 map with just a dazed look on my face. Where could I possibly go into this new morass?

There are tons of new nations, particularly outside of Europe. We have numerous new tribes in the Americas, for example. Or Africa. Look at all of the colors! And the Indies has a ton of color to it. Nations like Ternate and Kutai are here. Plus we’ve split up some land into new provinces. The island of Sulawesi, for example, now has a lot more provinces on it.

We have a handful of new islands – Yamdena, for example, but not many.

New provinces in Africa, including two in South Africa, making it even richer than before (likely). However, we have removed many empty colonial places along the coast of Africa. Places like Namibia are now wasteland, and you cannot colonize south of Morocco on the coast.

And wow, China! Lots more nations to its north (and Korea’s). Yeren, Buryatia and we have one in Kamchatka called Kamchadals, with other nations up in Siberia . We also have more nations in South East Asia and west of Ming/China.

Taiwan is now three provinces. The Philippines now 13.

South America has a bunch more stuff too it looks like, in the inland.

I don’t even know where to begin! This is awesome!

[Abe Sargent]

By the way, Ibadi was introduced as a spin-off of Islam is one of the last two DLCs (Res Publica or Art of War) and Oman is now properly in that genre.

India? Wow. It looks like the old provinces spawned like bunnies. I can’t even tell you how many new things we have.


Just for fun I start a game as Kamchadals. Just to look around in a newly revealed area of the world and see what it’s like in a new nation with a new culture and group (Siberian Tribe). We do have Chinese Tech Group, which is not that bad. But we are just a one province nation in impoverished Kamchatka. That’s awesome.


So in this version of EU4 more colonization must be done by the word than by the pioneer. (Sort of like how Eu2 left open colonies that were given/conquered to European folks (such as Goa in India) despite the fact that they were controlled by locals. That was a poor representation of reality. So now you have to fight your way to win land in some places)


That was fun. I spent like 40 minutes looking at the map. But now it’s bedtime. I’ll think about this more as I lay down to sleep. Where to start? What to do? There are so many options. So much gaming to experience.

See you tomorrow!

[Abe Sargent]

Hmmm….you know what?


Let’s just do it…




Let’s play as Kamchatka!

That would be the hardest challenge ever. Playing as a one province power in Kamchatka.

So let’s just get crazy

[britrock88]

:D

[Abe Sargent]

We are the Kamchadals. An indigenous people in Kamchatka. There are many other tribes that are nearby. Our people are spread among the southern half of the peninsula that sticks out, and most of Kamchatka.

Like Iceland, Kamchatka is a land of Fire and Ice. Great volcanic activity is here in our area, in the Ring of Fire. The largest volcano in the world is right in our back yard. Seismic activity cannot be disconnected from the Kamchatka region.

Our land of Kamchatka is only adjacent to one other land province, up the peninsula is the land we call Penzhina. The local tribes there are nomadic and have not settled the area like we have here. There is also no dominant tribe either, and various foes via for control.

The only other land we are near is the Kuril Islands to the south, controlled by the Ainu. The Ainu have four provinces, which include all of the island of Hokkaido, north of Japan.

On the far side of uncontrolled Penzhina are the Chukchi people, in the province of Kagyrgyn. They are very similar to us with fishing economy. They are on the far coast.

Inland of Penzhina and the Chukchi is another unclaimed area we call Karalveyem, also under the sway of multiple tribes. The thick forests of the region are so bad that it is hard ot carve out a civilization here.

To the west of Karalveyem and northwest of Penzhina is the Khodynt people, in the land of Omolon. They have recently wrested control of the area from other tribes, who have since fled to other regions. The thick forests continue, and they trap fur here and send it on.

To their south, and to Penzhina’s west, and along the Bay of Komenskoie is the tribe of the Chavchuveny. This people work the fur trade in the land of Gizhiga, and trade them with merchants that arrive from south.

[Abe Sargent]

One of the basic operating assumptions of this dynasty has to be that there are some folks out there who really know more about Kamchatka from Risk, than anywhere else.

If that's you, that's okay!

So we'll spend some time at the beginning in the setting

[Abe Sargent]

This is a recent map of the local ethnicities and tribes, but it helps to set the tone, I hope:


http://ansipra.npolar.no/image/kart37.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

From a Database on the 40 Recognized Tribes in the Region:



Itelmens [and Kamchadals]

Self-designation (singular, ISO spelling): itanmahn, itenmehn
Official names (plural): Russ.: ительмены, камчадалы; Engl.: Itelmens, Kamchadals
Other names (plural): Voguls
Residence area(s):
Itelmens: Western coast of central Kamchatka
Kamchadals: Upper Kamchatka Valley and in Petropavlovsk area, as well as locally at the western coast
Population numbers (1989):
Former Soviet Union: 2481, Russian Federation: 2429, Koryakskiy Avt. Okrug: 1179, remaining part of Kamchatskaya Oblast: 262, Magadanskaya Oblast: 509
Population number (2002): 3474
Rural population (% in R.F.): 62,0%
National language: Itelman, two dialects
Affiliation of national language: Chukotko-Kamchatkan family (Palaeo-Asiatic)
Status of national language (1989): Mother tongue: 18.8%; speaking fluently: 23.2%
Cultural centre(s): Itelmens: Kovran; Kamchadals: Milkovo
Traditional culture: Traditional sedentary intensive fisher and hunter culture
Ethno-geography:
The Itelmens were widely spread across southern Kamchatka prior to colonisation. They are now restricted to a land strip at the south-western coast of the peninsula, with the central village Kovran. In 1991, 369 of ca. 500 inhabitants were Itelmens. The other villages that had suvived the Stalin Era (Utkholok, Moroshechnoye, Sopochnoye) were closed, and the population relocated to Kovran, in the 1960s. Less than half of the Itelmen population still lives in their home country. The national language is severely threatened; ca. 450 individuals had Itelmen as their mother tongue in 1989, and there is no written language in use.
At the arrival of the Russians, there were about 30,000 Itelmens in Kamchatka. The drop can partly be explained by initial warfare and epidemics. But then, large parts of the Itelmen population became intermarried with Koryaks, Russians and other immigrants; their descendants speak the Russian language, and have developed a distinctive, local culture. These people lost their indigenous status and the right to call themselves Itelmens in 1927 and regained it in 2000. They call themselves Kamchadals, a colonial name formerly used for both the Itelmens and mixed population Their number is about 9000, 2000 of which live in the cities Petropavlovsk and Yelizovo. 7000 live in the upper Kamchatka River valley and a few eastern and west*ern coastal areas, namely the regions (rayony) of Sobolevo, Bolsheretsk, Milkovo, Klyuchi and Ust-Kamchatsk in the Kamchatskaya Oblast, as well as the Tigil and Penzhina areas in the Koryakskiyy Avt. Okrug.
Lifestyle and subsistence of rural population:
Fishing is the main traditional occupation of the Itelmens and Kamchadals, mainly in rivers (salmon). As for much of the remaining rural population of Kamchatka, fish is the main economic factor. Although offshore trawl fishing threatens the salmon migrations in the rivers, many Itelmens continue traditional net fishing. Important traditional fishing rivers for the Itelmens are the Utkholok, Kovran, Sopochnaya, Moroshechnaya and Belogolovaya. Indigenous salmon fishing was forbidden in the 1980s in order to protect the commercial marine fisheries. Indigenous people have individual fish quota today, but not enough for their needs. The controversial indigenous status of the Kamchadals has led to a confused and changeable situation concerning their fishing rights.
Stock farming is a modern occupation, first introduced in the 18th century, and carried out by the collective farms in Kovran. Meat and milk are exported to urban centres, while there is local food shortage. Horse breeding was important from the 18th century to the beginning of the collectivisation in the 1930s, when it was mostly given up. Stock farming is also done by Kamchadals..
Vegetable gardening is an important occupation for many Kamchadals, in combination with fishing.
Fur animal hunting and trapping had a major economic importance among the Itelmens, also prior to colonisation and prior to the introduction of the yasak system. Important fur animals were sable and fox. Hunting of land and sea mammals mainly mountain sheep, wild reindeer, brown bear, seal and whale, have traditional importance. These occupations are almost abandoned today, mainly due to shortage and hunting restrictions.
Gathering of berries, herbs, roots and cedar nuts has always been an important secondary food source, also during the Soviet Era, but is getting more difficult due to the increasing scarcity of useful plants. During the last years, fees have been levied for gathered products, including drift wood (fire wood).
Present environmental threats:
Destruction of salmon population by commercial coastal fishing and pollution from platinum mining
Deforestation of birch forest leads to depletion of fur animals and reduced quota for trapping
Contamination of fish stocks from new coal mining in Khayryuzovo

[Abe Sargent]

Other resources to consider include:

Itelmens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itelmens)

Kamchadals – a Small Nation in Russia that is Returning from Oblivion | To Discover Russia (http://todiscoverrussia.com/kamchadals-a-small-nation-in-russia-that-is-returning-from-oblivion/)

And for images:

KUNSTKAMERA. Photo-illustrative collections of W.I. Jochelson. (http://web1.kunstkamera.ru/exhibition/ioh/eng/stoib/kamchad/2826-154.shtml)


EDIT: I particularly enjoy those images from 1911 in the area.

[Abe Sargent]

http://i.imgur.com/3Z6vcYn.jpg

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/56/fc/4d/three-brothers.jpg

http://www.mensadventuretravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/kamchatka-river-view-1.jpg

http://media.englishrussia.com/022013/tourkam2/phototourkamch001-62.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrPZJn-xMh5nVpgVJkcWlUcaaWu_1L90mqFtPR8SVeU06OiPOC

http://www.ewpnet.co.uk/kamchatka/nechayev/kronotsky.jpg

[Grover]

Uh. Awesome.

I need to get the expansion to start a new game.

Looking forward to this.

[Abe Sargent]

Uh. Awesome.

I need to get the expansion to start a new game.

Looking forward to this.

Thanks!

The dev diaries for Art of War are not to be missed. Each one goes over, in detail, the changes to the map, as well as new features. I went into it blind, having heard some positive things, then read teh dev diaries later.

Art of War: Developer Diaries, Patch Notes and New National Ideas (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?809238)

[Grover]

Thanks!

The dev diaries for Art of War are not to be missed. Each one goes over, in detail, the changes to the map, as well as new features. I went into it blind, having heard some positive things, then read teh dev diaries later.

Art of War: Developer Diaries, Patch Notes and New National Ideas (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?809238)

I follow along with these, as well as the Reddit sub-forum for the game, lots of fun and useful information there.

Reddit Sub-Forum EUIV (http://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/)

[Abe Sargent]

We have a Siberian Clan Council government.

Siberian Clan Council - -33% bonus to stability cost
+15% tech cost
Rulers reign until they die

The other Siberian Clan Councils are the Ainu, Chavchuvney, Khodynt, and Chukchi. Other clans use a similar form of government, but are not developed enough to have full fledged settlements. Beyond the western edge of Khodynt and Chavchuveny’s borders are many unclaimed lands, lightly populated, such as Kolyna, Tauisk, Yaramanka and Suntar Khayata.


We are Shamanist nation, as are all of the others. (save for Ainu, which is Animist) We are also a Kamchatkan culture. The Ainu have their own culture, while the Khodynt in Omolon are Yukaghir. The others share our culture.

As a Shamanist nation:

National Unrest -1
Tolerance of True Faith - +1
Local Missionary Strength +2%


We are not allowed to convert to another religion


We are much more settled and civilized than any of our neighbors, even those that have risen in status.

[Abe Sargent]

Kamchatka:


We are an Arctic Mild Winter province with just a 1 tax base and very little production from the fishing industry. The land we live in is mostly plains, and we have one port in the area. Our settlers require little.

Being in the Arctic, with a Mild Winter, hurts attrition, supply limits, and settler chances.


Assuming that you do not have a very good understanding of Kamchatkan Geography, I have taken a picture of the area for you.


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Kamchatka1_zps4bf0cec4.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

We begin with 2000 troops and a barque style ship that we built recently we christened the Uligary.

Meet Chief Dygyn Dyaluncha:

Admin: 2
Diplomacy: 6
Military: 3


I cut our fleet maintenance. After I do, we currently make about 5 gold a year. We begin with 50.


The Chavchuveny view us with hostility because they want our land.


We currently have a technology level of 2 in all three areas. With both penalties for government and the Chinese tech group, it may take us a bit to get out.


Our Siberian Traditions give us:

-15% Land Attrition
-25% Unjustified Demands


We have missions to create a proper fleet or improve our prestige.

We can take no national decisions right now.

[Abe Sargent]

I go ahead and spend some ADM right now to boost our stability to +1. It’s easy to do since we have a -33% bonus to stability from our clan government.

This increases our taxes, production, trade power, and unrest and such.

Whoa!

Because our stability increased, I can now choose one of our national decisions. I can Encourage Divination.

We have -1 to national unrest but +5% to stability cost, and it would last in perpetuity. As of right now, that’s not going to work for us, since we have no unrest.

[Abe Sargent]

Now, I need to answer an early question. Do I make a quick strike at someone? I often like to take out an enemy early on to give me a leg up. If I want to make a quick strike, then I can try to take out Chavchuveny right now, since they don’t like me. Move my army to Penzhina and then into Gizhiga and attack them. I would need to hope for a good general and I can invest in some military upgrades. It would cost 10 gold to invest in a new Infantry. I could make 2000 more troops and have them join with a general and march.

Now that would take me past our forcelimit. But the idea is to invest a lot of money now, head out, smash them, and then annex them and improve our economy, while dropping some of the troops and letting the others slowly build.

That’s not a bad plan. But if it doesn’t work, we will be so far behind the other tribes that it could prove fatal. Plus, what happens if I begin building things up and suddenly, our target allies with a major power?

Anyway, let’s try it.

[Abe Sargent]

I send our Chief out to become a general. Giziga is a heavily forested area, so I won’t build any Horse Archers.

Let’s see what happens.

Severe winter is setting in as things run cold.

10 Mar 1445, Under the auspices of Chief/General Dygyn Dyaluncha, I send our 4000 troops to Penzhina.

11 May – We arrive. I see just the 2000 troops in Chavchuveny. They have not allied with anyone.


Our stability drops due to a lack of a casus belli. We have no real reason to send forth our tribesman and attack across the border like this.

Our army will arrive in a month or so.

18 June – Battle begins. Their Chief is also at the battlefront.

7 Jul – We have won and driven away half of their force in defeat and crushed the other half. We have begin the siege of Gizhiga while they retreat. We still have 3300 men.

1 Nov – Winter has arrived and our attrition penalty jacks up. We keep at it though.

4 May, 1446 – After a siege of almost a year, we have captured the full towns of Gizhiga.

I have two major options – vassalize or annex.

I annex them.


Post war we are down to 18 gold. I disband 1000 troops to keep myself at a decent 3k. For now I’ll keep the province at 3000 troops at 100% maintenance to prevent the large chance of rebellion from the local tribes.


Gizhiga – 1 tax value in the fur trade in this Kamchatkan Shamanist province. Makes less than one gold annually. Unrest right now is 13.4% and it has an autonomy of 50%.

I increase our stability back to 0.

The Khodynt have a claim on Gizhaga. That might be another problem in the future. I begin to curry favor with Chukchi and Ainu.

[Abe Sargent]

14 May – We get an event. Our Merchants are worried about protection. I side with free trade and lose some range and effectiveness for a few months

2 Jan, 1447 – I send an order to increase our stability again.

Our revolt risk in Gizhiga has dropped to 9.5% after our stability rose twice.


(I might have misplayed that. Perhaps I should have migrated just before beginning war to Penzhina. Then I would have been adjacent to all of our foes, and helped to make assimilation much easier and reduce taxation problems and over-extension.)

[Abe Sargent]

6 June - I use this as an opportunity to look around and take a look to see what else has been happening. There is a war in the Manchurian states right now.

I Order Khodynt’s independence guaranteed. I want to curry favor a bit with them, since they have a claim against us.

I mothball our ship while it is in port in Kamchatka harbor. This cuts our costs almost completely, and meanwhile will slowly, over time, reduce the fleet (In this case the single ship) to 25% strength, which will require some time to bring out of mothballs later. But it’s a good plan for us now.

So we’ve taken the first step to long term survival and thriving – conquering an enemy tribe that was looking our way. What is next though?

I think we have to colonize the province of Penzhina. We need to send our Kamchadal tribe over into the territory of local tribes, and settle there. By getting next to our holding Gizhiga, and the other two tribes as well, we can create a strong unified system.

In order to do that, we have to focus on a few major things. The most important thing we have to consider is out administrative power. We have to build it in order to develop our administrative knowledge. After two upgrades, we can choose a national Idea which will enable us to invest in colonists, people of our tribe that want to set up in a new region of Siberia in the name of our Kamchadal ways!

The first thing I am going to do is to set Administrative as our national focus. This will enhance our growth there a lot at the cost of military and diplomatic growth. I also decide to sacrifice any chance at making money by hiring an advisor.

Doing it this early, with this weak of an economy will set us back, financially, considerably. But it’s all hands on deck right now.

Say hello to Natural Scientist Tygyn Tykulcha, a level 1 advisor for our court. After doing so, we are now losing a tiny amount of gold monthly (roughly -0.1 after I massage our military a bit and drop its maintenance slightly). We can keep this up for a while, but we need to help our advisor.

After these changes, we are gaining 8 admin power a month, or 96 a year. As of right now, we need about 8 years of growth to gain our first tech in Admin.

Now basically we’ll fast speed over the next bit, stopping where appropriate, but there’s little to do for a while.

[Abe Sargent]

13 March, 1448 – After building a solid reputation with the Chukchi, I return our diplomat home to do some assistance elsewhere.

2 April – I proclaim a guarantee against the Chukchi

23 Sept – I send a diplomat to increase relations with the Yeren nation, in Manchuria.

2 Nov – We maximized relations with Ainu and our diplomat returns.

Yeren is in an increasing number of wars.

21 May, 1450 – We gain Hardy Seamen event and increase our naval tradition.

21 July – Yeren lost one of their provinces to Korchin, and I send in a diplomat to help relations with them too, now that they have moved to the north.

6 Aug, 1451 – Maximized relations with Yeren.

1 Jun, 1452 – Our cash has dropped below 10 gold

1 Jan, 1453 – relations maxed with Korchin – next up Haixi in Manchuria. They have current control of every province of Yeren save Sakhalin in war.

[Abe Sargent]

10 February, 1454 – We have enough to invest is new diplomatic tech, which gives us better understanding of navies and shipping.

23 May – Khodynt have announced that we are now their rival. I do the same.

I revoke our guarantee of Khodynt

There is a new mechanic called Power Projection we have, and we have begun along it with the declaring of a rival. If we hit 50, then we get a +1 to all three power investments.

6 Jan, 1455 – I have to fire our advisor, because I need to get ready in case we get into a random war with Khodynt.

5 July – Maxed relations with Haixi

Jianzhou is next

I take a mission to insult Khodynt.

28 Nov – We send an insult to Khodynt. We finish the mission and gain some power and prestige. Meanwhile Khodynt now has a claim against us for insulting them.

Our next mission is to fabricate a claim on the land of the Khodynt people, Kolyma. I send a diplomat to do that.

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1456 – Keren is forced to be a vassal of Haixi

7 Aug – We develop our Admin Tech to level 3 – and improve our administration.

28 Dec – We have fabricated that claim. We finish another mission. This is a valid claim for 25 years.

I order us to Take Kolyma as our next mission

3 Jan, 1458 – Relations maxed with Jianzhou

29 May - I get an event and am forced to lose 50 Admin power over raising our inflation.

Korchin has gone to war aganst Buryatia, Yeren and Haixi

21 December – We raise our military tech which improves our defensives such as ramparts.

31 May, 1460 – I get a visit from some shady looking people. They have offered their services to our chief. We accept their offer and our spy offense increases for 5 years.

31 July – The Khodynt tribe just migrated westward from Kolyma to Yarmanka. This removes our claim against them (since it was against a land, not the tribe itself). Smart. Meanwhile, Kolyma is poor for a while, denuded of some value.

I cancel our mission to wrest Kolyma from them.

[Abe Sargent]

27 Dec – I order a claim fabricated against their new landing place. Will they keep moving?

2 June, 1461 – Korchin is now at peace. They lost – they became a vassal to Haixi as well, as YTeren regained the land that Korchin had just captured recently.

1 Jan, 1462 – We have our new claims. This time I choose Remove Khodynt from the Map as my mission

Rebels have captured the Sakhalin Islands from Yeren

4 Jun – Now Jianzhou is at war with the Haixi, Yeren, Korchin hegemony.

2 October – I order 1000 troops built in Kamchatka

I jack up our military expenditures


21 March, 1463 – Our forces are all in Gizhiga. I declare war against the Khodynt Clan for Yarmanka.

With our Chief as war leader, I order our 4000 troops into Yarmanka to wrestle with the 2000 Khodynt warriors, now that winter is ending.

30 April – Battle has begun!

14 May We have won in Yarmanka and we lost 708 troops while the Khodynt tribe lost 912.

I detach a unit to keep besieging the place and order some of our forces to follow their army into Gizhiga.

11 July – We win in Gizhiga.

They flee to Tauisk, on the shore to the east of Gizhiga, and far from the siege in Yarmanka

1 Aug - They arrive in Tauisk and are attacked by the local tribes there on arrival and destroyed. Nasty stuff!

7 Aug – I order my forces back to Yarmanka to aid with the siege

13 Nov – Yarmanka falls to us.

16 Nov – We have defeated our rival Khodynt tribe and secured their borders as our own. I disband the newly built army.


Yarmanka – The furtrade here is plied by the local Yukaghir Shamanist folks. With a 40% autonomy and 10.8% unrest (due to this being a core province) we are better off than many.

[Abe Sargent]

Since we ended up with another area than we had originally looked for, let me get you a new map of the area.



http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Kamchatka2_zps5f833173.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

2 June, 14634 – I get a Generation of Cowards event. I choose to purge them and lose quite a bit of manpower.


1 Jan, 1465 – Rebels in Kagyrgyn have raised up against the Chukchi tribe and taken their land.

1 Feb – Chukchi is broken.

23 March – We increase our diplomatic tech to level 4 – marketplaces and docks.

2 April – Jinzhou lost some of her land in the war.

8 June, 1466 – A comet is sighted and we lose a stability.

6 June, 1468 – We get another event – Wave of Obscurantism. I choose Knowledge is Power and we get +2 national unrest for 2 years.

2 Sept – Are you ready?

We invest in new technology:

Administrative Level Four – National Ideas

We have selected the Exploration Idea. I thought about Expansion instead but we have a lot of diplomatic power here to use right now, and Expansion is an Admin idea, where I have competition for other stuff.

I should be able to have enough diplomatic power soon. Remember that our Chief was really good at diplomacy.

4 Oct – Haixi and Korea have gone to war.

[Abe Sargent]

11 May, 1469 – We pick up the first level of Exploration – Colonial Ventures, and gain a colonist!


We have the land of Penzhina next to us. Populated by roving tribes such as the Chuvens and Koryak, this land is not under the auspices of a more settled nation of tribes ,such as ourselves. It is only fitting that we send some folks across the border to extend the reach of the Kamchadals Tribe!

Yrgal Eldan is leading our very first colonial venture!

9 July – We have established the colony in Penzhina, a ground connection with Gizhiga and Komchatka, at the northern part of the peninsula.

I offer to Chukchi to use their area for military access. They accept.

Uh oh. I am losing a lot of money on this colony thing. We’ll keep it up as long as I can. How about I jack down my military maintenance in half in order to help it out.

1 Dec – That didn’t help much. I reduce my colony maintenance to 50% of what it was too. That’ll slow us down, but it’s the only way.

25 Feb, 1470 – I still can’t get Chukchi to ally with us, no matter how hard I push.

1 Apr – I spend 20 ADM power ot make Gizhiga a core. Now that it is connected to us, we can build it up. I also spend 15 in Yarmanka as well for en-coring.


7 July – The local tribesmen in Penzhina rose and attacked our attempt to establish our own tribe there. It’s a big set back.


2 Jan, 1471 – I have to scrap one of our armies and raise our maintenance to help fight against the colonial hit this attack took. Plus its harder to have our colony take in an arctic environment.


7 Oct – Gizhiga is now a core land of the Kamchadal people!

That does seem to be helping us financially a bit, since we are now, for the first time, actually making tax revenue from it.

[Abe Sargent]

13 April, 1472 – We have good news and bad news. Today, our Chief has passed. Long may he live with the spirits!

Our New Chief is:

Sulustaan Dyaluncha

Admin – 4
Dip – 0
Mil – 5

That’s a horrible diplomacy score!

We’ll change our national focus when we can.

Meanwhile, our stability dropped to -1. I raise it twice back to +1. (We have good metrics there.)


29 August – Penzhina will be a Fish economy, as the local salmon is found there in huge abundance. (20% of the world’s salmon can be found in Kamchatka!)

13 Sept – I alter our National Focus to Diplomatic. This gives us +6, +5, and +7 in each category, respectively.

5 Dec – Yarmanka is now a core province of the domain of the mighty Kamchadal Clan! We also finished our mission to do so.

I accept a mission to form an alliance with Chukchi!

1 Jan, 1473 – I massage my finances a bit more in the favor of the colony based on the improvements in our situation from Yaramanka.

Our Yukaghir People have been able to prove their loyalty and are now accepted as a part of the Kamchadal national fabric.

After their war with Haixi was over, Korea has now allied with the Ming Dynasty of China.


1 June, 1474 – We get a Festivities Event in Kamchatka! Do we…increase our stability by investing in this great event! Or use the money to invest into Kamchatka and increase our taxvalue there?

Invest!

That essentially doubles our taxvalue in our capital province. I’ll use the increased tax money to invest into our support of the colony some more!

11 October – We invest in a new technology:

Pike Square (Military 4)
Better tactics, land morale, and we can build an armory

[Abe Sargent]

1 Aug, 1475 – Penzhina, our colony, is up to 646 settlers thus far!

27 Nov – We get another event – Encourage the Encomienda System. We agree to protect the local tribes, such as the Chuvans, from other folks. We give these plans to the locals, led by Yrgal Eldan. In exchange for protection from other tribes, they agree to do some work in our burgeoning settlement.

The result is that Penzhina loses most of the native aggressiveness and gets 5 years of increased good production.

25 May, 1476 – After amping up our relations, we offer an alliance to Chukchi which is accepted!

Our mission has become a success.

Our next is to Colonize Tauisk.

18 June – I get an event and choose to lose 50 Dip power instead of raising our inflation.


5 November – The Clan of Chukchi views our alliance as defensive. They are unlikely to join us in offensive wars not directed to their rival. (That’s a nice addition and touch to the game)

23 November, 1477 – We get a Colony Company Founded, as 200 of our tribesman have headed out to the province of Omolon. Omolon is adjacent to both Gizhiga and Penzhina in the inner part of Kamchatka and east Siberia.

That’s a huge financial hit, supporting both colonies. Yuck!


3 February, 1478 – Luckily, Penzhina was close to becoming an actual settlement. Penzhina is now self sustaining!



Penzhina - - The Kamchatkan folk here celebrate their Shamanist ways while fishing and bringing in money in this coastal province in the Northern part of the peninsula, east of Gizhiga, north of Kamchakta, south of Omolon and Karakveyem, and south west of Kagyrgyn. With just a tax value of 1, and with arctic conditions, this is not a wealthy provinces, and we are just making 2.75 gold from here.


I send my colonist leaders to Omolon to support the randomly created colony there.

I actually didn’t want to expand this way yet, but alright. What are people want!

[Abe Sargent]

20 June – We gain a Golden Era event and some prestige.


12 Sept – I offer Chukchi military access and they accept.

12 Feb, 1479 – We get good news that local foodstuffs can be found in fields in Omolon and it will be a good place to grow grains.


2 December, 1480 – We get an event to send in some young eligible women into Omolon which increases the colony by 200 and 20 manpower.



4 Mar, 1481 – I double down on stability and we are at +3

27 Feb, 1483 – Korea won a major war against Jianzhou and have taken multiple provinces, Now Haixi is vassalizing the weaker version. Haixi has basically won the Manchuria area.

1 Jan, 1485 – Omolon has grown into a full fledged colony!


Omolon – West of unclaimed Karalveyem, and east of now-unclaimed Kolyma is the land of Omolon. We have secured it from the nomadic tribes that live there with our farmers. With a tax value of 1, Omolon gives us grain and 1.22 gold from the Shamanist Kamchatkans.


Both Penzhina and Omolon have an autotomy of 50% locked. While those in conquered territory have decreased over time, these are not going anywhere.

[Abe Sargent]

29 Mar – Our next colony, in Tauisk, west along the coast of Gizhiga, will help achieve our mission, which increases colonial growth there.


4 June – We have invested in some new knowledge:

Basic Financial Instruments (Dip 5)

Bonus trade range and efficiency


26 June, 1486 – A Plague has hit Omolon. We invest in helping and…We stop it, just losing the money we spend.

23 Dec – I order a Marketplace built in Kamchakta – our first major building project as a nation!


1 Feb, 1487 – Next investment:

Standardized Pikes (Mil – 5)

Bonus combat width, infantry shock, and enables better Asian troops.


14 Feb – I order our ship to be pulled out of mothballs and regain some strength. It’s still at 50% maintenance though.

22 Dec –

Constable & Temples (Admin – 5)

We can build those things


Our Marketplace is built!

I accept a mission to accumulate cash



11 January, 1489 – Our settlers bring back this funny yellow rock from Tauisk. Is this….gold? Wow! We order our leaders there to focus on mining gold!

Meanwhile, with a gold province here, I order our support of the colony to rise considerably to get a colony to hold it now. Right now we have 331 folks over there, so let’s hurry this thang along.

(Not sure if there are gold mines here: Kamchatka Gold | MINEX Russia 2013. Mining and Exploration Forum (http://www.minexrussia.com/2013/exhibitors/kamchatka-gold/))

[Abe Sargent]

9 Sept, 1490 – Ming continues to gobble up more provinces and nations around it. It’s a big brown blob.

14 Dec – Because of how successful it was in other places, we are bringing the same (Encomienda System) over to Tauisk.

2 Mar, 1491 – I begin to improve relations with the Ming Dynasty.

28 Nov – We pick up the second Exploration Idea, which involves Explorers and Conquistadors. I recruit an Explorer and Conquistador.

Tuskul Tykulcha is our new explorer!

I set him out to explore the nearby area.


28 December - We find the Kamchatka Basin.

23 Apr, 1492 – And now the Kamchatka Current

8 July – We kill some native clansmen in Suntar Kayata,

2 Aug – New Sea – the Attu and Kiska Islands

25 Jan, 1493 – Our Conquistador arrives in Sakha, a deep inland Iberian land. We are attacked by a few locals. We are going to keep heading west for a bit after we put down these nomads with delusions of glory.

18 Feb – We find the Bering Sea

9 Mar – And now the Tchouktchs Sea

4 April: It’s a great day!


Tauisk -= 1 tax value in the gold trade of this ex-colony. Kamchatkan culture has spread to our local Siberian tribes fellows, and we still follow the ancient ways here as well. West of Gizhiga, this coastal province is south of Suntar Khayata and east of Okhotsk.They make 2.15 gold for us with their 50% autotomy.




21 May - We have found the land of Kharya, behind three provinces from the sea.


22 June – We discover the Koskokwin Bay

25 July – Followed by the Shumagin Islands

6 Aug – We have fully enhanced our relations with Ming

3 Oct – We arrive in the province of Yakut.

24 Nov – We find the Maug Island area in the ocean

19 Dec - We headed south from Yakut and arrived in Nukhthui. I again order us south. It appears inhabited down there.

22 Dec – And the the Japan Current was found by our explorer

7 Mar, 1494 – We have accumulated wealth and finished that mission.

Our next is to fortify Kamchatka


9 April – We fund the land of Chara in the control of the Buryatian tribe. They are also a Siberian Clan Council! They have been vassalized by Oirat and are currently in a war with three hordes (Sibir, Kazan, Uzbek)

27 June – We find the Aleuts Basin.

While passing by, our Explorer, Tuskul Tykulcha, has found the Aleut islands, which are not inhabited well.

30 June – I lose 50 Admin power from an event

7 Aug – We find another Buryatian province in Kirenga.

[Abe Sargent]

11 November, 1494:

50 Year Review!


This has been one of the slowest first 50 years in any successful dynasty I’ve ever played I’ve built precisely one thing (marketplace) and waged little war.



Here are the six lands that our tribe now calls home!


Kamchatka, marketplace, 2 tax value now, fish trade, currently 6.17 gold for us.

Penzhina, fishing too, 1 taxvalue, 1.28 gold.

Omolon – 1.22 gold via grain farming and 1 taxvalue

Gizhiga – 2.23 gold made by 1 tax and the fur traders

Yarmanka – Hunters here also bring in furs, and we get 2.18 from the 1 taxvalue folks

Tauisk – Gold mining here is a weak entry into our watch, with just 2.15 gold made with the 1 tax value.


Every ex-colony has 50% autonomy. Meanwhile our provinces are all Shamanist and Kamchatkan (save for Yarmanka, which is Yukaghir)


We are ranked 74th in Admin among all nations, 132nd in Diplomacy and 140th in Military



Pretty quick review!


I’ll give you a map though, like normal


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Kamchatka3_zpsc48e4b49.jpg

You can see the Ming blob. And we are on top in a fan style set up. I think I’ll target the land behind the Chukchi tribe next. Or perhaps Okhotsk. Maybe that would help. I’m not sure if I want o build down to Yeren and Buryatia yet though

[Abe Sargent]

2 Dec – We arrive at the Mukhutua province, north of Buryatia. We are fighting off some locals.

10 Dec – They win and I send them north from Mukhtua into the land west of Yakut.

12 Feb, 1495 – We find the Andreanv Islands area in the ocean.

13 Mar – and then the Western North Pacific Drift

18 Mar – The land west of Yakut was Seganka. Now we head further west.

16 <May – I send a diplomat to build relations with Buryatia.

1 Aug – I order an Earth Rampart constructed in Kamchatka

9 Aug – We find the land of Chuna – I head south again

25 Sept – We uncover the Umnak Island area in the ocean

30 Oct – And then the North Pacific Drift

14 Nov – And then the East Tunguska province. South again.

9 Feb, 1496 – We arrive west of Buryatia in Ust-Kut. South again.

30 April – And now Irkutsk, west of Lake Baikal and north of the Oirat Horde. West!

1 July – Another Golden Era event

2 Aug – We build that fort in Kamchatka and our mission is completed.

18 Aug – We arrive in Sayan, north of Oirat. West again.

10 Sept – We find the Western Pacific

13 Dec – Our arrival in Kuznetsk is contested by locals. After defeating them in a few days, north again, because we also uncovered Pegaya Orda to the west.

[Abe Sargent]

8 Mar – 1497 – We uncover two provinces north, the first is Kan, and then Chulyn above it.

Apr 19 – We find the Eastern North Pacific Drift

22 May – And then the Murray Fracture Zone

26 June – We arrive in Tomsk. North again baby

2 Oct – We find Turukhan and fight some locals. North again!

5 Nov – We have maximized relations with Buryatia

10 Jan, 1498 – We have arrived in Baykha. East!

9 Apr – I order a Temple built in Kamchatka

12 June – We discover the land of Uchamin. South!

3 July – We have an agricultural revolution in Omolon, and I use it to develop the tax base by 1.

4 July – We find the North Equatorial Pacific Current

25 Aug – We are challenged by locals in West Tunguska

I order our army to return after we win. I got a lot of exploring done. We only found low taxvalue 1 places nothing else of interest.

22 Feb, 1499 – I order a transport built in Kamchatka

I take a create a proper fleet decision

1 Sept – I order a Barque next

4 Dec – Our explorer boards the vessel. We’ll head back out and see if we can uncover any new land areas at sea.

[JonInMiddleGA]

This has been one of the slowest first 50 years in any successful dynasty I’ve ever played I’ve built precisely one thing (marketplace) and waged little war.

fwiw, reading it has an almost Civ feel to it.

Not a complaint, just an observation.

[Grover]

Excellent. Was really hoping you'd take Exploration or Expansion first. Block those Russians!

Are you planning on going for Alaska and western North America?

[Abe Sargent]

fwiw, reading it has an almost Civ feel to it.

Not a complaint, just an observation.

Yeah, it's definitely felt odd. I juts finished another few years, and it's been really quiet. And I've plated the whole thing on fastest sim speed, not something I normally do.

It's an unusual take of EU4, you know?

[Abe Sargent]

Excellent. Was really hoping you'd take Exploration or Expansion first. Block those Russians!

Are you planning on going for Alaska and western North America?

If it's richer than Siberia, I suspect I'll move into those areas. Anything will likely be richer than here, right? Right?

[Abe Sargent]

23 Feb, 1500 – We land in Kodiak

I order them to explore more inland.

12 March – We uncovered the wilderness of Alaska when my vessels explore the Norton Sound

4 June – We find Kenai, and fight with some natives here, Totemists. Yuck

2 Aug – I order another transport built

6 Sept – Whoa! Our Explorer found a coastal province called Eyak from Kenai. We also mapped out both Cook Inlet and Glacier Bay from here too. We keep heading along the coast.

28 Dec – Our forces arrive in Yakutat and have also found, further along the coast, Sitka.

I order our forces back to Kodiak instead of continuing on

31 Jan, 1501 – We have built a proper fleet and finished that mission. I order colonists to Karalveyem, to the island, west, of the Tribe of Chukchi in Kagyrgyn

6 May – Our Colony takes

We can now invest in a new tech:

Military Tech – 6 – Arquebus

Better tactics, combat width, shock, and we get better cavalry

26 October – Our forces arrive back in Kamchatka. I combine our 1000 troops with another 1k and build a bigger army for more exploring.

19 Nov – We load up and head out again.

28 Jan, 1502 – We find Guam

13 July – An Excellent Year event grants us additional manpower

14 Nov – We find the Gulf of Alaska

3 Feb, 1503 Haixi annexed one of the Manchu nations, Jianzhou, and now we have just two.

We’ve pretty much explored as much as we can from Kamchatka. If we want to continue our explorations, we need a new base to do it from.

13 Aug – New tech:

Three Field Rotations (Admin – 6)

Bonus production efficiency and we can build farm estates


12 Feb, 1504 – Our Conquistador has passed


12 June – Out attempts to set up a new settlement for the Kamchadals has not been going super well in Karalveyem. We could send in some undesirables to speed things along. I agree. We lose unrest there and gain some serious settler increases.

[Abe Sargent]

19 Sept, 1505 – Copper mines have opened in Karalveyem!



27 Dec – We again port in young eligible women into a colony, this time the one with the Copper Mines.


1 April, 1507 – New Tech!

Embassies (Dip – 6) - We can now build them!

10 Dec – The Chukchi just insulted us. Odd

24 July, 1508 – We lose 50 Mil power in an event

1 August – Karalveyem is now self sufficient


Karalveyem – 1 tax value made in the copper mines in this forested province west of the Chukchi in Kagyrgyn. 2.18 gold made for us from the 50% autonomy and Shamnist Kamchatkan folks. South of the Eastern Siberia wasteland and east of Omolon and north of Penzhina. It is a core of both ourselves and Chukchi who just fabricated a claim on it. Huh.


28 Nov – I order a Marketplace in Omolon


23 Feb, 1509 – Our Explorer passed


There’s really no area to expand into militarily. The Kuril Islands are close but require a ship to get to them from our side and that takes us into Hokkaido and Japan – not an area I want to fight for. I certainly don’t want to poke the big Manchu Hegemony led by Haixi, who has just annexed Korchin.

[Abe Sargent]

25 Jan, 1510 – I dispatch some more tribal elements that want to find their own path to the land of Kolyma to create a new settlement under Kamchadal leadership.

19 July – We had another dopey Comet event lower out stability and I raised it again

1 Jan, 1511 – I order a diplomat to begin improving relations with Japan

10 Dec – New Tech!

The Limber (Mil – 7)

Better tactics, infantry fire, artillery fire, and we can build artillery


9 May, 1513 – I send diplomats to build relations with the Oirat Horde folks

17 Oct – Relations maxed with japan

23 July, 1514 – We get an event to warm relations with Chukchi

8 Dec – Fur hunting and trading is a key commodity in Kolyma

7 Jan, 1515 – We use the Encomienda System again in Kolyma

13 Jan – Tech increase, and this is a big one folks:


Noble Republic (Admin – 7) – Allows another group of ideas taken.


I take Economic ideas for two reasons. Its one of three paths that, upon completion, I can change our government. And, it can help me make the moneys.

[Abe Sargent]

3 Mar, 1516 – Colony building is going slooooooooowly


1 Aug – Relations maxed with Oirat

19 Jan, 1517 – We’re not getting where I want in attacking folks. There’s no more military expansion options. And I’m allied with the only other person here. But I can’t vassalize them diplomatically. So perhaps I can push into them militarily?

I want to break our alliance – let’s begin fabricating a claim first

1 May – Alliance broken

11 May – They have cancelled military access

5 June – I cancel military access to their troops

6 July – I revoke our guarantee against them

1 Jan, 1518 – I send an insult

25 Jan – We now have a claim against them. We have a truce for a while due to breaking our guarantee.

We have to wait afew years until that is over. And then, boom!

4 Nov – I send a diplomat to build relations with Korea

13 Jan, 1520 – We get a Successful Bureaucracy event. Bonus taxes for 5 years!

19 June – I take Bureaucracy, the first of the Economic Ideas which gives us +10% taxes

That also unlocks Hunters of the North, and we give +1 attrition for anyone in our areas

5 Nov – I order 1000 soldiers assembled in Penzhina

7 May, 1521 – Our Chief becomes a general and goes to the front of the army to lead them

5 Jun – Relations with Korea maximized. Next up – Ming

1 Oct – Tech Advance!

Naval Ambitions (Dip 7)

Massive boost to colonial range, naval morale increased

[Abe Sargent]

7 July, 1522 – Our treaty is up and I declare war against the Chukchi Tribe for Conquest!

Our army is ordered in. After being broken, they have but 1000 troops, and we have 4k.

27 July – A peasant revolt of 5000 troops arises in Karalveyem, probably some local tribe not liking our new way of doing things. I send my forces to Kagyrgyn first and deal with the Chukchi tribe

3 Aug – Kolyma is now self sustaining. We’ll review it post-war

3 Sept – We win the battle, such as it was, and begin the siege. Their army was entirely destroyed

23 Nov – I send colonists to Aleut

14 Mar, 1523 – The Aleut locals rise up and destroy our colony. I dispatch another group. Post war I can send some soldiers over to help out.

29 Jun – We have won the siege.

I order the army to hit the rebels in Karalveyem


2 July – The Chukchi tribe has granted us our land.

22 Jul – We defeat the rebels and they are gone


Kolyma – 1.58 gold made from the fur trapping and hunting that makes some semblance of an economy this far north. The Kamchatkan Shamanist folks are just south of the great wilderness in East Siberia, and east of Yaramanka, west of Omolon and north of Gizhiga. 1 tax value too

Kagyrgyn – Also Kamchatkan and Shamanist, this core province has a 1 tax value too as well as a decent fishing trade. With 6.5 unrest and 39.7 autonomy, it’s a decent place, with 1.03 ducats. I order a core made here. It has a level 2 wall, marketplace, temple, constable, armory and dock.


13 Nov – 1000 troops arrived at Aleut to guard our fledgling settlement from the highly aggressive natives.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan , 1524 – I order an Explorer general created with some diplomatic power and load him onto our transport in Aleut. I’ll be using that as a new base of expansion, although it’s not that far from Kamchatka, so it’ll not allow too much exploring.

Darkhan Dyaluncha sets sail from Aleut!


2 Mar – We gain 100 natives in an assimilation event in Aleut!

19 Mar – Wow! We found the Hecate Strait, and also uncovered the island province of Haida along the coast of this new land, as well as another nation – the Haida tribe, with 12000 soldier army in their capital of Nootka.

18 Apr – We headed south and explored the Salish Sea


19 June – New Tech:

Pike and Shot (Mil – 8)

Better tactics, fire, shock, combat width and we can build Marches and Training Fields


6 Oct – We find Cape Blanco south of the Salish Sea, and uncover more terrain on the coast. Three of them (Quileute, Siuslaw, Yuki)

14 Nov – I head out into the ocean and find the Northern California Current

14 Dec – Kagyrgyn is now a core part of the Kamchadal way of life!

27 Dec – We have very black news. Our Chief has passed.


Chief Darkhan Vankho

Admin – 1
Dip – 1
Mil – 1

Uh oh! That’s a horrible ruler. Long may he not reign!


I hire an Advisor for Diplomacy, Navigator Dokhsun Vavlya. We need all of thehelp we can get.

[Abe Sargent]

17 Jan, 1525 – We pipe in more marriageable women into Aleut to prop up our settlement attempts there.

12 Feb – We are sufficiently able to hunt furs in Aleut to make it the main trade commodity there.

29 June – By sailing up and down the coast over in this new land, we have found more provinces, including Nisga’a and Tlingit there were south and east of our furthest explorations by land in Sitka.

14 Aug – We find San Francisco Bay

15 Sept – We map out the Gulf of Catalina and found Nakipa, a land province as well while landing for supplies.

1 Oct – While sailing back we have found Chumash, Pomo, and other coastal provinces off the San Francisco Bay or the Gulf of Catalina.

All of the nearby land in this new land is just as poor as Siberia. Aleut, Kodiak, Kenai, Eyak, Yakutat, Sitka, Tlingit, Haida, and Nisga’a are all just 1 tax value. It’s not until deeper down the coast that we find land that looks appealing. The best of the thus-far-discovered land is Miwok and Salinan, both at 4 taxvalue.

2 Feb, 1526 – After absorbing the final Manchurian vassal, Haixi has officially formed the Manchurian state.

15 July – South of the Cape of Catalina we find Cape San Lucas, and then turn and head back. Again, some more land here has opened before us.

23 Oct – We invest in a new Idea in the Economic group: Organized Construction. -20% build costs to all of our stuff!


28 May, 1527 – I sail out into the ocean west of the coast and find the California Current.

9 June – We put down some natives in Aleut


10 June, 1528 – We map out the Southern California Current – Alright – I’ve now done about as much as I can do from our base of operations in Aleut. We’ve also discovered every land province from us down to Cochini in Cape San Lucas.

26 Sept – I make Admin our National Focus again.

[Abe Sargent]

3 June, 1529 – Another uprising in Aleut is put down

4 Aug – The colony is now self sustaining.


Aleut – 1 tax value in this island chain and archipelago. It’s Arctic too, and in the Aleuts Basin. We have changed the settlement here to Kamchatkan and Shamanist. There is a 75% autonomy. Yuck. The fur trade brings us just 1.02 gold on the 1 taxvalue investment. I don’t see any reason to keep expanding here right now. I can expand in Siberia with the same cost.

With Aleut as our base, I can reach down to Sitka, but not Tlingit. I could invest in our next idea in Exploration to increase our range 50% and head on down to somewhere around Chinook or Siuslaw, a bit south of the Haida. But that’s too far away to be feasible to protect militarily.


Instead we’ll wait and build our money a bit, and then hit a nearby place in Siberia heading west instead of east.

22 Jan, 1530 – The National Bank pays dividends and we make some gold from an event.

I use it to build….

Marketplace in Gizhiga

8 Aug – A Gift to the State arrives. I use it for a Marketplace in Yarmanka

30 Jan, 1532 – To help me build our economy right now, I fire our advisor.

After that, with no colony to support, we are now making about 3 ducats a month, or basically, one improvement a year at the reduced cost from our Idea.

7 Aug – We gain Local Fortifications in Karaveyem after we discover a local fortification expert

1 Sept – Temple ordered for Gizhiga

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1533, Japan has been annexing and absorbing all of the players in the islands, leaving just one, Date, who is Japan’s vassal. Soon they have to look to target Ainu, who has been very quiet.

11 Apr – And they have. They are now at war with Ainu. I called that.

1 Oct – We order a Temple for Yarmanka.

1 Jan, 1534 – Japan has already captured two of the three provinces in Hokkaido Island from Ainu

10 Jan - And they take those, in peace.

At least Ainu is still free, although down to just the Kurils and their capital at Tokachi.

26 Feb – Our explorer, Dyaluncha, has died today.

1 Oct – Temple for Tauisk

27 Jan, 1535 – Another good bank even gives us some gold

1 May – Temple for Penzhina

15 July –

National Bank, Idea Additional Annual Inflation Reduction, 3rd Idea in Economic Ideas Group

7 Sept – Japan has annexed Date

[Abe Sargent]

1 April, 1536 – Temple in Karalveyem

10 Oct – Korea has entered war with Manchu and Japan. Manchuria probably wants the lands that Korea took from Jianzhou before being annexed by Haixi. (Furdan, Yukjin)

1 May, 1537 – Temple in Kolyma

15 Nov – Tech Advance:

Trade Depot and Drydock (Dip – 8)

Extra Trade Range, and those two are build-able


16 Nov – Ming is at war with Japan and Manchu, as Korea’s ally. It’s a big old war (Japan, Manchu vs Korea, Ming)

17 April, 1538 – Temple in Omolon

16 Aug – We get poor quality copper form our mines for a few years and increased artillery cost during that time.

[Abe Sargent]

15 Mar, 1539 – Temple in Aleut

19 Oct – We invest in Debt and Loans, the next Economic Idea – this gives us better interest from loans.


And we get the Siberian Fur Trade with +10% Domestic Trade Power


1 February, 1540 – We get a Local Tax Increase in Yamanka, and the taxvalue there rises by one!

1 Mar – Constable for Karalveyem

14 Aug – I choose to focus on the knowledge aspects of a Wave of Obscurantism and we have increased unrest for a couple of years

1 Feb, 1541 – Constable for Yarmanka

19 May – Basically a white peace with the Ming/Manchu/Korea/Japan conflict.

Meanwhile, rebels have captured both Ainu provinces from Japan on Hokkaido.

9 Oct – I sailed my boat down to Japan’s shore. There are 10000 rebels in Kamikawa fighting for freedom! But Japan has 26k in Mutsu ordered to move in.

3 Mar, 1542 – I order a Constable in Kamchatka

1 Jan, 1543 – I order a Constable in Gizhiga

20 Mar – 1543 – Japan still hasn’t ousted these freedom fighters.

18 Sept – I send over another set of ships – yup, still 10k troops in the hills of northern Hokkaido.

12 Jan, 1544 – Constable for Penzhina

3 Aug – Kamikawa has gone back to Ainu, along with the 8k rebels, making a solid army.

21 Aug – I get a Gift to the State we put in the treasury

1 Sept – I order a Constable in Omolon

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1544 –

100 Year Review!


Well, it’s been another slooooooow 50 years. We took one more province in war and united the various nearby tribes under our clan’s banner. Then just a handful of colonies were fully established as well.


All of our provinces:

Kamchatka – 8.03 gold made by the fishers here. 2 tax value now, with better fort, Marketplace, Constable, and Temple

Penzhina – 2.16 Fishing here brings in a 1 tax value and a Temple, with a Constable on way.

Kagyrgyn – 3.2 as the Salmon Fishing continues up the coast. 1 tax value, and they have upgrade fort, marketplace, temple, dock, constable, and armory.

Karalveyem – 3.46 gold from the Copper Mines, and Temple/Constable additions

Omolon – Temple and Marketplace get us 3.19 gold from grain farming and 2 taxvalue.

Kolyma – Fur trading encapsulates 2.56 gold from this province with a Temple

Yarmanka – Temple, marketplace, and Constable mark the fur trading, with 5.76 gold and a 2 tax value.

Gizhiga – 1 tax value leads to 4.37 gold with a fur treading province supporting a local marketplace, constable and temple.

Tauisk – Temple here gives us 2.02 gold from working the gold mines.

Aleut – This set of islands makes us 1.68 gold from fur trading that features a Temple.


Every province has a 1 tax value unless otherwise stated, and only Yarmanka is other than Kamchatkan culture (Yukaghir). All are Shamanist. All former colonies in Siberia have a 50% autonomy while Aleut has 75%.

[Abe Sargent]

We have 4000 troops and 4 vessels.


Admin – 71st
Dip – 169th
Mil – 154th


Current value of goods:

Silk
Copper
Dyes
Cocoa
Ivory
Cloth
Fur
Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Iron
Salt
Tropical Wood
Tea
Slaves
Naval Supplies
Wine
Fish
Wool
Grain
Gold

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s get you a nice pulled out map of our explorations and Asia


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Kamchatka4_zps56cbb057.jpg


As you can see, we have strong exploration of the new world down to Baja California. Meanwhile Manchu, Ming, Korea and Japan are all there for you nice and collected. The Oirat Horde is still a threat.

There’s no where near me to expand, and we don’t have the military resources to hit someone bigger than us right now. With all of that land right now you spy under our control, we only have a force limit for navy and army of 7 units each. We just can’t have a large army to strike someone. We are barely making enough to build a new 40 gold building every 11ish months and that’s with just 4 ships and 4000 army. That’s a pretty weak economy.

That’s what’s holding us down. There’s no huge prize for expansion.

Meanwhile, no one knows our location, not even Ainu. That’s a good bonus. We’re safe until someone explores Kamchatka.

This is the consequence of carving an empire from Siberia, and the arctic.


And then we got that horrendous Chief we’ve had for a while now, and that’s a huge setback.

I kind of want to wait him out and see.

I plan to continue to build our economy for a bit, then move to another colony. Meanwhile, we should also work on developing Economic Ideas, even thought that means no Admin tech development for a while. We can use the money as well as the end (new government)

[Abe Sargent]

8 Feb, 1545 – We get a Successful Bureaucracy event and gain 100 Admin power.

Centralization – more possible Advisors. Two ranks left in the Economic Ideas group!


21 Apr – Japan recaptured Shiribeshi from the rebels in Hokkaido and regained it.

10 Oct – Japan declared war again against Ainu

1 Jan, 1546 – I order a Trade Depot (60 gold) in Kamchatka


21 Aug – We get an Excellent Year event and gain some manpower

1 Jan, 1547 – We pick up a Constable in Kolyma

8 Dec – The Kurils fell to Japan and they have total control of all of the Ainu land

12 Dec - Japan has annexed Ainu. We now have Japan next to us (sorta) in the Kurils, as well as Hokkaido.

1 May, 1548 – We order a Trade Depot in Yarmanka

18 June – We get Influenza outbreak in Kagyrgyn. We quarantine them for a year which basically will cut them off, particularly economically

26 Aug – I get an event about our Military Divided. We lose some Mil Power to support defense and forts

[Abe Sargent]

1 Sept, 1549 – I order a Trade Depot in Kagyrgyn

10 Dec – We have two major rebellions in Hokkaido.

9 Feb, 1550 – Tax Base increases in Tauisk via another event

2 Mar – We get another Idea:

Nationalistic Enthusiasm – land maintenance is cut by 10%

One left!

5 Aug – The first province in Hokkaido falls to rebels.

I decide to spend some money to support the rebels. That’s a new metric and I want to see how it goes. With maximum support of Ainu Freedom Fighters, it’s around 3 a month. So it’s a nice thing to try ou for a bit to see what results might spring forth


1 Oct – Japan blasted the rebels in one of the besieged provinces and ended that threat

We have gained a Support the Rebels claim against Japan

23 Nov – Japan consolidated multiple armies and 30000 troops arrived to fight against various local rebels.

6 May, 1551 –I remove my support. The rebels just don’t have the power for long term problem-making

1 Aug – Marketplace in Tauisk

1 Sept, 1552 – Trade Depot in Tauisk

1 July, 1553 – Trade Depot in Gizhiga

1 Aug – New Tech:

Star Fort (Mil – 9) We can build those, and get better Asian troops – the Asian Arquebusier

[Abe Sargent]

23 May, 1554 – Marketplace in Karalveyem ordered


1 Sept – I get a Sale of Titles event and choose to get some ducats from it.

2 Nov – Marketplace ordered for Kolyma

14 Feb – 1555 – I get another excellent bureaucracy event and 100 admin power


Smithian Economics (Final Economic Idea)

+10% Production Efficiency

That finishes this idea group which comes with a huge inflation reduction bonus

And we get Enslave the Captives, +10% production efficiency.

So that was a huge bonus.

20 Feb – Korea/Japan/Manchu/Ming at it again

27 Jan, 1556 – Trade Depot for Karalveyem ordered.

2 Sept – We get a small revolt in Aleut – 2000 peasants against our 1000 standing army.

17 Sept – We lose the battle and our forces were destroyed

1 Oct – The Oirat annexed the final Clan Council other than us, the Buryatians

[Abe Sargent]

7 Jan, 1557 – We win in Aleut and defeat the rebels.


It’s time


We have been a Siberian Clan Council all of our lives but we increasingly feel the need to move closer to a more ordered government. It will take some time to come back from, but it is worth it. The benefit of our government is the hugely reduced stability cost, but it costs with a substantial tech penality.


Therefore, we are reforming the government. It requires us to have finished one of three ideas, to invest 200 Admin Power, and to have a 3 stability

We will lose 5 stability. And we will become a Despotic Monarchy.

We have minor provincial unrest in the realm as a result.

13 Feb – Japan had the Japanese Tea Culture event

10 Apr – Trade Depot for Kolyma

2 Mar, 1558 – We increase our stability by one

7 May – Trade Depot in Omolon

7 Sept – Our Free Trade policies have given us a new Trader, an advisor.

6 Dec – Marketplace ordered for Aleut

1 Jun, 1559 – Stability boosted again

1 Sept – Marketplace for Penzhina

[Abe Sargent]

4 Mar, 1560 - +1 tax base in Kagyrgyn for another good tax event.

1 Sept - Stability rises to +1

24 Dec – I send colonists to Suntar Khayata – west and/or south of Gizhiga, Tauisk, and Yarmanak

14 April, 1561 – We have multiple provinces in Manchuria that have been captured by rebels.

21 Dec – I choose to fund a National Epic, and our prestige increases. Let the world know of the majesty of Kamchatka, Siberia, the Aleuts, and of the Kanchamdal Tribe that rules here!

29 Jan, 1562 – Bad Korean rebels can’t be good in the middle of a war.

29 July – Peace finally. Korea lost three provinces to Manchuria.

1 March, 1564 – We develop our next tech:


Carracks and Caravels (Dip – 9)

We get bonus colonial range, can build those ships, bonus naval morale and higher maintenance. Sorry.

14 April – Great news, we are able to mine copper here in Suntar Khayata as well!

We’ve had this horrible Chief/King for 40 years. It’s nasty


10 September – We have the Temporary Insanity of our King! We request Admin guidance. We lose a bunch of prestige and gold, but gain some Admin Power, so there’s that I suppose.

[Abe Sargent]

25 Feb, 1565 – We gain some additional manpower in Penzhina after local recruiting works well


1 Apr – Manchuria is having some serious problems with rebels. Hmm…

It costs me very little to support Ainu Nationalists on Sakhalin. Might as well, just in case it happens. (the cost is 0.2 a month for maxed support)



10 July – Whew!


After that bout of insanity, our King now has an heir.

Tuskul I is the heir.


Admin 1
Dip 5
Mil 3

Normally, not a good King. But he’s a lot better than our previous guy. We need our king to die soon!

I’ll keep the focus on Administrative stuff for now.


29 Nov – I accept a mission to create an army for our nation.

Now I order 1000 cavalry in Kagyrgyn, Asian Steppe Cavalry

12 Mar, 1566 – Now an Asian Arquebusier is ordered and then another

3 May – Japan has lost a province in Hokkaido but taking it back. Meanwhile, in Manchu, Korchin just won its rebellion and risen from the ashes to become a state again.

I try to rebuild relations with them

7 July – We finished our mission after the final troop was built. We have 6/8 force limit.

12 Sept – We have a large revolt in Tauisk. I order our army from Kagyrgyn over, with our King at the head. (May a rebel arrow find his head)

[Abe Sargent]

31 Jan, 1567 – Our King drove away the filthy rebels.

14 Sept – Korean Patriot rebels captured one of the lands taken by Manchuria

24 Jan, 1568 – I pull support of Ainu rebels in Sakhalin

13 June – Japan is having a Civil War!

10 July – Once again I support Ainu Nationalists in Japan – I have almost 250 gold (I was saving for when I got my next Admin tech, so I could build some stuff all at once). I don’t need to keep making cash. I don’t fund them fully – just to the level of slight losses (around 0.4 a month it seems)

14 Sept –

Our Ancestors are Watching!

I spend some gold to build a huge monument!


13 Jan, 1569 – Maxed relations with Korchin

4 June – Suntar Khayata is now self sustaining!


Suntar Khayata – West of Gizhiga, north of Tauisk, and south-west of Yaramanka lies the copper mines of Suntar Khayata. 2.49 gold are made here with a 1 tax value. I order a Temple built here. This province is southeast of Verkhoyansk, east of Sakha, and north-east of Okhotsk.


I dispatch our colonists to Okhotsk

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1570 – We get a Colonist Rush which improves our settler chances.

1 Oct – Everyone is cleaning up rebels right now, so I pull my support in Ainu

8 Jan. 1571 – Marketplace for Suntar Khayata

9 Aug – Here we go!

Workshop & Courthouse (Admin Tech – 8)

We can build both

1 Sept – Iron is available to mine in Okhotsk

Workshop ordered in Kamchatka (each one costs 10 ADM Power)

1 Nov – Workshop ordered for Gizhiga

1 Jan, 1572 – Workshop for Yarmanka

1 Mar – Workshop for Karalveyem

1 Apr – Workshop for Kolyma

29 Sept – Excellent year gains us some more manpower

1 Dec – Constable for Suntar Khayata

1 Feb, 1574 – We boost our stability back to +2

1 May – Workshop in Suntar Khayata

[Abe Sargent]

8 Mar, 1575 – Another 100 ADM Power from our good event

9 April – Ainu Nationalists rose and captured a province from Japan

1 June – Boost of stability to its max again!

3 Nov – Another province falls in Japan to the Ainu rebels

30 Jan, 1576 – Trade Depot for Suntar Khayata

1 Nov – Say hello to our newest full-fledged province!

Okhotsk – Along the coast, west of Tauisk and Suntar, we have the iron mines of this land. 2.23 is made here, and we order a temple immediately. This port has a cheap tax value of 1 and is just two provinces away from Manchuria.


I don’t want to colonize Jugjur, which is next along the coast and presses up against two Manchuria provinces. So I send colonists to Verkhoyansk, which is deep inland and the last stop before Eastern Siberia is overly inhabitable.


13 June, 1577 – Courthouse ordered for Kamchatka

1 Aug – All rebels ended in Japan again

[Abe Sargent]

20 Mar, 1578 – Marketplace in Okhotsk

4 May – Native tribes in Verkhoyansk hit our colony and slow it down.

30 July - I have arrived and completely destroyed the natives.

28 Sept – I choose to purge our generation of cowards and we lose thousands of manpower

1 Oct – I order Docks in Kamchatka

31 Oct – After ruling for almost 55 years, our 1/1/1 King has finally died. Yay!

Unfortunately, Tuskal I is not ready, and has a Regency Council. A Pretender has risen is Karalveyem with 6000 troops. Our stability drops.

I spend some military power for a general to lead us. Gyrgol-Gyyrgyn Alsik rises from the ranks to lead us into glory against these pretenders. We leave to put these down

27 Feb, 1579 – Battle has been joined!

16 April – We lose. I order 2000 troops built to help our forces.

12 Oct – They capture Karalveyem

16 Jan, 1580 – We barely win and begin the siege

3 Feb – We take the land

15 March – Local tax increases in Karalveyem!

8 April – Constable ordered for Okhotsk

16 June – I take a mission to improve our fleet

9 July – Tuskal has ascended to the throne. Whew!


His heir is pretty good too (5/2/3)


1 Oct – I put the great harvest we get into the treasury for more than 50 gold.

I order Drydocks in Kamchatka

Korchin and Manchuria are at war. Again.

[Abe Sargent]

25 Mar, 1581 – The fur trade rules in Verkhoyansk

3 May –

Reiter (Mil – Tech 10)

We have better cavalry, and cannons

1 July – Trade Depot for Okhotsk


1 Sept, 1582 – Workshop for Okhotsk

6 Jan, 1583 – 2 Transport vessels ordered in Kamchatka

1 Feb, 1584 – I order a Carrack ship built in Kamchatka

8 April - Uh oh. Japan has become hostile of me.

I need a friend…

17 July – Manchu has, again, annexed Korchin
5 September – Manchu has agreed to a Royal Marriage!

2 Oct – I refuse to grain privileges and export licenses (they have to be earned) which increases our legitimacy considerably


20 Dec –

The Flute (Dip – 10)

Extra Trade Range, Settler Growth enhanced, allows War Galley and Flute ships



I order another Carrack in Kamchatka

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1585 – Verkhoyansk is now self-sustaining!



Verkhoyansk – Another fur trade province as trappers and hunters find local animals for slaying and trading. 2.21 gold is made here form a 1 taxvalue land. South west for Yarmanka, and north west of Suntar Khayata.


Next up is Sakha, which is west, and inland, of Verkhoyansk, and next to Suntar K and Okhotsk as well


18 Mar – Another 100 And power from successful rulership

8 Apr – Manchu agrees to allow our troops military access

14 May – I proclaim a guarantee against Manchu

21 July – I upgraded some of my transports to Flutes and my old fleet as well.

13 Nov – I order one more Carrack in Kamchatka

2 Feb, 1586 –

The Scythe (Admin – 9)

Production efficiency increased by 10%

Multiple wars going on right now. Japan and Manchu vs Korea, Ming, and U-Tsang is the closest

It seems like Korea, Japan, Ming all know where we are now. No more hiding.

[Abe Sargent]

14 July, 1587 – Furs found in Sakha as well

2 Mar, 1588 – Marketplace for Verkhoyansk

3 October – Our king has fallen ill. We choose to delegate more to the nobles. It should last 10 years, or until he dies.

Japan has even annexed Ryukyu (Okinawa)

16 Dec 1689, Temple ordered in Verkhoyansk

22 Mar, 1590 – We pipe in marriageable women into Sakha

15 Sept – Korea has been doing very well thus far against Manchu in their war. They have five provinces.

9 Oct – Courthouse in Karalveyem

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1591 – Sakha is now self-sustaining!


Sakha – I have just ordered a temple built here. 2.64 gold, fur trade, andsuch. Inland of Okhotsk, and next to Suntar Khayata and Verkhoyaks. East of Kharya.


I head to Kharya


1 August – Constable for Verkhoyansk

25 Nov – Peace in the mega-war. Korea won some gold.


31 December – Manchu has accepted our offer of an alliance.


5 Nov, 1592 – Marketplace in Sakha

6 Jun, 1593 – Workshop in Verkhoyansk


14 Feb, 1594 – Gold can be mined in Kharya

9 Mar – Constable ordered for Sakha

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1594 –

150 Year Review!


Another fifty years have passed. We’ve added a few colonies. We’ve gotten to the point where I have max army and navy, full colony support, and I’m still making enough money to do stuff. That’s a nice benefit!

It’s been a long 150 years, but emerging from more than 50 years of a very poor Chief/King helped.

Let me start you off with a map!

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Kamchatka5_zps5a2183ee.jpg

Notice that Manchu and us have gotten closer on the map. You can see Korea, Japan, the Ming Dynasty of China, and a lot more. Ming is deep in Asia. Oirat has swelled after grabbed Buryatia. I’m a bit stuck here. I like having land border between me and others in Siberia. I don’t want my weaker nation next to Manchu or the Oirat Horde. Right now, incognito needs to be the way we keep playing it. We’re still on good relations with Korea and Ming, and I fear the inevitable war. But Manchu is allied with Oirat and Japan as well as us, so hopefully they will keep Ming/Korea from biting us, or Japan from grabbing Kamchatka


We have our first sight of Europeans. There look to be folks in South Africa and one of the southern islands in the Indian Ocean. We’ll see who they are and when they arrive.

[Abe Sargent]

We are ranked 74th, 123rd and 155th respectively.


We have the 22nd highest income in the world of 10.48 monthly. We are ranked 182nd overall by score

All of the other Shamanist nations have been defeated and destroyed around the globe. We are the only one left.


The largest armies in the world:

1. Oirat
2. Ottomans
3. Ming
4. Qara Qoyunlu
5. Orissa
6. Crimea
7. Timurids
8. Kilwa
9. Japan
10. Malacca
11. Manchu
12. Persia
13. Mamluks
14. Madurai
15. Gujarat
16. Ayutthaya
17. Sibir
18. Majapahit
19. Ethiopia
20. Brunei

Those are the ones we know, they do not include outside our map

Trade Goods by Value

Silk
Copper
Fur
Dyes
Cocoa
Ivory
Cloth
Slaves
Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Iron
Tea
Salt
Tropical
Naval Supplies
Wine
Fish
Wool
Grain
Gold

[Abe Sargent]

A quick province overview:

Kamchatka – 11.27 gold, many improvements, 2 taxvalue
Penzhina – 2.49 gold
Kagyrgyn – 7.53 gold (2 taxvalue)
Karalveyem – 9.28, 2 taxvalue
Omolon – 2 tax value, 4.89 gold
Kolyma – 6.26 gold
Gizhiga – 8.92 gold
Yarmanka – 10.97 gold, 2 taxvalue
Tauisk – 2.8 gold, 2 tax - Gold
Suntar Khayata – 6.77 gold - Copper
Verkhoyansk – 4.81 gold - Fur
Okhotsk – 5.59 gold - Iron
Sakha, 3.34 gold – Fur
Aleut – 2.37 gold

Current Colony – Kharya, Gold


We are not doing something right with gold. Did we neuter it?


On my economy page, we are making 0.06 gold per month. That’s in addition to trade, taxes, and production. That’s a crazy bad amount of gold.

Got it, figured it out:

“Gold is a special "trade" good. Gold does not produce any Trade Value; instead, it is converted directly into ducats. Gold production income is equal to 40 ducats per year per unit produced, with the exception of pagan and shamanist countries which receive income equal to only 1 ducat per year per unit produced. Income from gold causes inflation per year equal to half its proportion of the country's income; at 100% income inflation would increase by 0.50% per year.”



I bolded the key parts. That is a horrible decision I think. But ah well, guess my Kamchadals Siberian tribe can’t fully harness the power of gold? Errr….something like that….

Which means for me, gold is the worst possible good to flip up. I’d rather get fur or some crap.

Ah well.

[Abe Sargent]

29 Mar, 1595 - More local recruiting increases our manpower


1 Oct - I just got much of the whole map revealed. Here you go!

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/1595_zps38717a05.jpg


You can see stuff like Castille and Portugal and such. I think we have Portugal in the Indian Ocean around the Seychelles and Castille in South Africa. Could be wrong though.

Europe’s not that out of whack, nicely enough.

Nations like Ethiopia and Ming are the major offenders here.


1 Nov – Workshop in Sakha

12 June ,1596 –

Canal and Shipyard (Dip – 11)

Massive increase in colonial range. Shipyard and Canal build-able

1 Aug – Trade Depot in Verkhoyansk

16 Oct – We get an event, The House of Kakizaki is shaken. The heritage of the grandmother of the King has been brought into question. We deny and lose 5 legitimacy

12 Dec –

Matchlock Musket (Mil – 11)

Better fire, shock, width, can build barracks and weapons manufactory

4 Sept, 1597 – Trade Depot in Sakha

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1598 – Kharya is self-reliant!


Kharya – Gold mining brings us a mighty 1.09 gold here. Whoo hoo! West of Sakha and north-west of Okhotsk. South is Maya and west Yakut.

I head West.



1 Sept – We invest in the newest tech, and it’s a doozy:


Modern Theocracy (Admin 10)

Allows another group of ideas!


What do I want? Here are ones that appeal to me:

Military Ideas:

Quality Ideas - We have a small army. So lets make it the best darn army we can!

Defensive Ideas – If we get stuck in a major battle with a major player, very possible, it would be nice to have some defensive ideas to back things up with.

Naval Ideas – If we can’t win the battles at land, then why not try for Sea Superiority?


Admin Ideas:

Expansion Ideas – Getting a second colonist would be really keen. And we can get another merchant fast too (although we are still just using the one – we are too far away from a second center of trade for the other)


Diplomatic Ideas:

Maritime Ideas – Again, bolster the navy to protect the army

Trade Ideas – I’d eventually love to push trade more. Especially since our money from land is limited by location.

Diplomatic Ideas – Maybe we can save ourselves by winning the battle of the pen.



Now, I’ve blown through Economic Ideas, and in so doing, pushed us back a bit.

In the Exploration group we unlocked early, we still have these left:

Better colonial range
Better Settler Increase
Better tariffs
Another Colonist
Better naval forcelimits – When finished, permanent Claim against Pagans.

So that’s not bad either to work on, and that’s a diplomatic pace. So my next idea might now want to be diplomatic. That leaves military or Admin. Both Expansion and Quality appeal to me considerably.

Actually, now that I look at it, Quantity really appeals to me. I would love to get another colonist really quickly. But I’ma take Quantity instead so I can push my forcelimits.


11 Nov – Temple in Kharya

3 Dec, 1599 – Marketplace in Karya

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1600 – Trade Depot in Penzhina

1 April – We get a Corrupt Bureaucracy, which results in -5% taxes for 5 years

2 June – Iron mines open in Yakut

19 Oct – Castile are building colonies in the Maldives off India and in east Africa

3 Jan, 1601 – Workshop in Penzhina

7 April – We have a new settlement in Yakut that increases the tax value there,

6 Aug – new Idea investment – Oversea Exploration – 50% more colonial range

3 Sept – I have a mission to colonize Manila. No thanks!

I can now colonize to: Sulawesi and Halmahera, far south of the Philippines

Borneo Island, places like Taiwan and Guam,

The base of Baja California is Guaycura

I want Miwok. It’s on the west coast of this continent, and it’s a center of trade with a taxvalue of 4 – its my next target

29 Sept – Our General passed after ending the Pretender revelation

6 January, 1602 – Workshop for Kagyrgyn

Manchu, Ming, Japan, Korea, and Oirat have been in this huge war for about two years now, and I keep not getting called in. Its awesome

20 Oct – Another Wave of Obscurantism hits with some unrest

30 Oct – I increase our stability to +3 again

[Abe Sargent]

10 Mar, 1603 – I order a Canal built in Kamchatka (80 gold)

18 Mar - The War has ended without much changing

2 July – Japan no longer wants our land. Yay!

Let’s improve relations!

1 Sept – New Idea – Levee en Masse: +50% national manpower mod

6 Oct – Japan agrees to allow us to have military access to her

14 Mar, 1604 – Canal built in Yarmanka

4 Nov – Native uprising in Yakut

3 Jan, 1605 – Canal in Gizhiga

7 July – Yakut is now a full province!


Yakut – I order a temple in this iron mining province, with 2 taxvalue, and 3.82 gold. It’s west of Kharya and inland considerably. South are unmarked lands of Maya, Aldan and Nukktui. Southwest is Mukhuya and west is Seganka. It’s just one province away from Oirat Horde (Via Mukhtuka and Nukhtui)


I dispatch colonists to cross the ocean and head to Miwok.


26 Sept – We recruit an explorer and branch off two transports and two escort ships from our fleet. 2000 men and our fleet begin to sail the ocean.

[Abe Sargent]

9 Feb, 1606 – The colony begins at Miwok

I send a diplomat to the Haida tribe to improve relations

Right outside of Miwok is the San Francisco Bay.

I begin to explore the area with my fleet after I landed my troops in Miwok

17 May – I head into the ocean first and find the Molokai Fracture Zone

11 July – Constable in Yakut

25 October – Sigh. Another purge of a generation of cowards and we lose around 5000 manpower.


13 November – We find the Gulf of California

27 Dec – Now Mazatlan Bay

22 Jan, 1607 – Now Manzanillo bay.

We found a few land provinces and a local tribe the Colima

26 March 0 New Idea Gain 0 Land of Opportunity, +20% settler increase

And we unlocked Siberian Backwoods, +15% fort defense

19 June – We find the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the Kiche people

20 July – We find the Costa Rica waterway

Workshop ordered for Yakut

20 August – We find the Gulf of Panama. We have also found some Portuguese holdings here

11 November – I order another transport and Carrack in Kamchatka

18 Dec – On the way back we uncovered the Zapotec, a small nation. And Portuguese Mexico, a trade company who is at war with the Aztec and Kiche

6 Apr, 1608 – We find the Coast of Ecuador.

17 May – Next is the Gulf of Guayaquil

6 June – We max relations with Haida

21 June – We find the Coast of Peru and multiple tribes – Chimu and Wanka

23 July – Next is the Arica Bend

1 Aug – Marketplace in Yakut

13 Aug- I try to make nice with Portugal – they have a fleet of 50 ships on this side of the continent with me.

16 Nov – Wool is in abundance in Miwok. That’ll be the resource used there.

7 Jul, 1609 – We put down an uprising in Miwok

24 Jul – Trade Depot in Yakut

29 Sept – We head a bit away from the coast and uncover the area around the Revilla Gigedo Islands

14 Nov – Then Clipperton Island

[Abe Sargent]

3 Jan, 1610 – New Idea – The Young can Serve – Manpower Recovery Speed is +20%

12 Apr – I get a Surplus Equipment event and infantry cost are reduced for a few years.

I build some troops – might as well.

24 Sept – This time we uncover the Guatemala basin

27 Oct – Our King again gets sick and agin, we delegate to the nobles

2 Nov – Maxed relations with Portugal

3 Jan, 1611 - Canal in Yakut

9 March – Natives, intrigued by our Kamchadal ways, assimilate in Miwok and we gain some population there.

Another Ming/Manchu/Korea/Japan war has begun

2 July – Cocos Ridge now

6 Sept – Canal in Karalveyem

17 Dec – I begin to make nice with Colima

11 Feb, 1612 – As of today, I have kept sailing up and down places until I have revealed most of the nearby coast. That includes all four provinces on the east side of the Gulf of California

1 May – Miwok is now self sustaining!


Miwok – With 75% autonomy, it’s a bit hamstrung, but we still have a 4 taxvalue and an important center of trade. The shepherds here bring in wool and make 3.75 gold. I order a Temple.

Up the coast is Pomo, down the coast is Salinan. We have not explored inland. I send our next batch of recruits to Salinan and I order our troops there.


20 June – Next Idea – Viceroys -+20% global tariffs

2 July – We see a squadron of navy ships, 24 strong, by Great Britain off Peru

16 August – We map the Coast of Antofagasta

20 Sept – Next is the Atacama Coast

7 May, 1613 – I order a marketplace in Miwok

I accept a mission to turn Salinan into a city.

9 June – I try to improve relations with Castile. They have set up a colony off the coast of Sumatra in Mentawai

[Abe Sargent]

18 Jan, 1614 – We find the Coast of Chile

4 Apr – We max relation building with Colima

19 June – New Tech:

Counting House and Spy Agency (Admin 11)

We can build both

2 July – Spy Agency in Kamchatka (80 gold)

2 Aug – Constable ordered for Miwok

15 Sept -=Ming and Korea are badly losing this war

16 Jan, 1615 – In what is clearly a good news, bad news situation, we find gold in Salinan. I wonder if I could sell these colonies for a ton of money?


15 Mar – I begin to work on relations with Great Britain

5 Nov – Maxed relations with Castile

Next up is New Castile which is in the new world somewhere near-ish us

1 Jan 1616 – Trade Depot for Miwok

22 Sept – We find the Golfo de Penas

16 Nov – New Idea – Enforced Service, -10% regiment costs

This unlocks Land Bought with Blood: +100% Prestige from Land battles

7 Apr, 1617 – New Idea – Free Colonists – We get another colonist!

I order our new colonists to Chumash, Arid land to the south and down the coast from Salinana

21 June – Workshop for Miwok

4 Aug – Maxed relations with Britain

1 Oct – Salinan is now a full fledged city! We finished our mission as well.


Salinan – The gold mines here, down coast from Miwok, enable us to get some tax from the 5 tax value and we get 3.5 gold. I order a Temple constructed here. Meanwhile ,Salinan is upcoast from Chumash, and inland of Yokuts and an unknown territory.

Our next colony will be upthe coast and north of Miwok in Pomo

13 Dec – The major war ended. Manchuria took 6 provinces from Ming and 3 from Korea

[Abe Sargent]

29 July, 1618 – Our Explorer passes

I honestly don’t know if I’ll get a Colonial Nation from my colonizing in the new world. Guess we’ll find out soon.

6 Sept – Relations maxed with New Castile

28 Nov – We hire a Conquistador and send him to explore in the area around our colony in this rich area.


Darkhan Kilim will lead us into the light!

3 Feb, 1619 – We find Cahuilla next to Chumash and inland.

23 March – The land inland of Salinan and Chumash is Tachi.

7 May – I’m ready to fund our first big project!

We order a Weapons Manufactory in Okhotsk!

It’ll take years to build, but it’s a nice increase of our economic wealth

2 June – We find Maidu inland of Pomo and Miwok. It’s next to the wasteland of the Great Basin. The Great Basin is inland of Yokuts, Tachi and Cahuilla as well and very large.


18 July – Our arrival in Shasta is met with native interference, but we defeat them easily enough.


16 Oct – I order a Courthouse in Miwok

24 December – I headed south and back to Cahulilla, and thence inland to find Yavapai.

31 Jan, 1620 – We find Hualapai

29 March – We discover the Apache tribe, in a province we’ll name after them.

4 April – Pomo will be suitable for farmers and grain

1 May – Constable for Salinan

3 June – We find the Navajo tribe back here in provinces that look tasty (Paiute and Navajo.).

15 July – I get an event that gives us some Dip Power –

Final Idea in Exploration - Global Empire – Naval Forcelimits Modifier +25%

And we can any time we want against fellow Pagans

1 Aug – We find the Hopi province

12 September – We find the Pima Tribe in a land called Zumi

20 Oct – Wool in Chumash as well

5 Nov – I choose to diplomatically resolve a conflict between two noble families and lose some dip power.

25 Nov – We find Pima

[Abe Sargent]

3 Feb, 1621 – We find the large tribe of Pueblo, 4 provinces strong

2 Apr – Japan is no longer allied with Manchu after breaking off their alliance.

6 July – I order a Carrack and transport built in Kamchatka

10 July – We find Chiricahua

19 Dec – We find Suma and fight off some ornery natives

2 Feb, 1622 – Workshop for Salinan

10 Feb – We find Concho

1 May – We find New Castile in Cacaxtes, as well as Coahuila

28 June – We find Jumano

23 Aug – We find Mescalero

28 Oct – Next is Jicarilla

18 Nov – Another Carrack ordered at Kamchatka

5 Mar, 1623 – We find Toboso

24 Apri – And then Tepehuan

23 June - And then both Laguneros and Zacatecas open up before us.

18 Aug – Cotoname, another New Castilian province is revealed to us.

2 Sept _ I accept a mission to fortify Salinan and order another fort here

23 Oct – Next Guachichil
14 Dec – More New Castile fun on Borrado and Tamaulipas

[Abe Sargent]

22 Feb, 1624 – Carrack ordered for Kamchatka. This will give us a max naval forcelimits navy


1 Mar – Pomo is now self-sustaining!


Pomo – North of Miwok along the beach is this coastal farming town. It makes 2.11 gold with its 2 tax value and grain harvest. Maidu is inland of it, and Yuki north and up the coast.


Next target is: Kumeyaay, Arid, south and down-coast of Chumash.

4 Apr – Uprising in Chumash sets back the colony a bit.

10 Apr – We find the Totonac tribe in Tziccoac and Tohanacapan. In fact, we can see huge water on the other side, the Tampico Bay


8 July – We find Colima at Metztitlan

13 Aug – Temple ordered for Pomo


Okhotsk, post Weapons Manufactory, looks very sexy

1 Oct – Chumash is self sustaining!


Chumash – This arid climate is good for getting wool from sheep in the hills of this coastal province, south and down-coast of Salinan and up-coast form Kumeyaay, our latest colony. Inland aare both Tahci and Chahuilla. We make 2.81 gold from the folks here.


Next target is Cahuilla

8 Oct – We finish the wall and the mission in Salinan


After those colonies are now land, I can build some more ships – yay Naval Forcelimit modifiers!

13 Oct – We find Guamares

7 Dec – Then Huichol. The rest of the land south is Colima land. But I’m going to move into it at the border here to uncover it all

1 Jan, 1625 – I accept a mission to turn Kumeyaay into a city

Temple ordered for Chumash

[Abe Sargent]

8 Apr – After finding many more Colima land, I order our troops back to Kumeyaay to protect our new colonies from natives. We’ve done a bunch of exploring here,


Let me show you North America in 1625!


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So you can see the large New Castile colonial nation. You can also see a large Colima, and well as multiple Portugal colonies in central America. I’m staying away from any of these. We are the narrow strip of pink-ish around California’s coast. You can also see the four tribes of Pueblo, Pima, Navajo and Apache all there.

My intention right now is to continue to stay around California, and maybe, move a little north. Cahuilla is the last province in the area with a tax value greater than 1. So there’s no reason for me to hit all of those other inland provinces right now – might as well hit up some other places where I see some opportunity.


You can also see how useful the Girin merchant has been all game long in Manchuria. The California COT (In our own land) doesn’t get that much.

My goal is to curry favor with the major European powers, and steer clear of them.

[Abe Sargent]

10 Oct – I exterminate the natives in Cahuilla

1 Jan, 1626 – We maximize relations with a Portuguese colonial power

None of the colonial nations have autonomy in their ex-colonies. Perhaps that‘s a way out of this issue.

In Asia, Castile found spices in Mentawai, which has to be a huge incentive to drill into the Indies for them. Castile has autonomy in Maldives, for example (75%). So it’s not just us.


2 Feb – I order my Conquistador to the north to see what we can discover there

21 June – We find Kalapua, inland of Chinook and Siuslaw

9 Aug – Now Umatilla, and the Salish Tribe in Yakima.

I order Constables in Pomo and Chumash

8 Sept – Palus is found


9 Sept – Kumeyaay will also be wool shepherded in the nearby hills.

12 Oct – We find Spokane

18 Nov – And then Okanagan

21 Nov – We sight a comet and our stability drops.

10 Jan, 1627 – We find Tsilhoqotin.

2 Mar – and then Dakelh

19 Apr – And then Secwepemc

2 June – And then Ktunaxa and Tsuu Tina

15 June –

Fine Arts Academy (Admin Tech 12)

We can build the FAA as well as getting Administrative Monarchy if we want to switch government again.


Our bonuses for Ad Mon instead of our Despotic Mon are simple:

We currently have:

-10% unjustified demands in war
-1.0 National Unrest

We never use the first, since we aren’t in war that often.

So…

Admin Mon?

+10% Production Efficiency
-0.10 Monthly Autonomy Change
+%5 National Taxes

More money works, right?

I could also sub to Feudal Mon:

+10% manpower
+25% income from vassals

Admin is a nice. I think we’ll change over as soon as possible.


1 Aug – Arrive in Nimiiipu

16 Sept – Now Bohogue. I’m moving north of the wasteland of the Great Basin and south of another.

20 Nov – We arrive in Bannock

31 Dec – Goshute

[Abe Sargent]

6 Mar, 1628 – Next is Kuccuntikka

11 May – We find both Apsaakooke and Piegan

7 July – Ashshipte is mapped out for us

31 July – Wool in Cahuilla as well

18 August – We find the Shoshone Tribe in the lands of Eeelalapito and Tsisistas.

16 Oct – Lakota also is home of the Shoshone

20 Nov – New Tech!



Wharf (Dip – 12)

We can build Trade Companies and Naval Equipment Manufactories



22 Nov – We find Haaninin

26 Dec – We find Hidatsa and Itscheabine


20 Mar, 1629 – We find Mandan

17 May – Next is Arikara

1 July – We find the Tribe of Cheyenne In the Province of Yanktonai, as well as Bungi and Wahpekute and Kamoua.

I head south to go back the other way.

9 Aug - -We find Omaha

27 Sept – And then Oglala

8 Dec – And then So’taeo’o

1 Jan, 1630 – Kumeyaay is now a full province!


Kumeyaay - 5.1 tax value, very little gold, Arid, and not that great.


We have been forced to create the Colonial Nation of Kamchadal California.


Hopefully this new Kamchadal California Nation will help develop our stuff better over yonder



And, we officially move to an Administrative Monarchy


Next colony? Maya, in Siberia. West of Okhotsk, south of Kharya and Yakut

So in the K.C. they now have no autonomy. Which is very nice. So K.C. is making solid money from them. Salinan is the capital. Once Cahuilla becomes a full province it’ll join and move away from our venue.

2 May – We get 100 Admin power from another event. I use it to incrase our stability back to +3

26 May – We find Hinonoeino

5 July – And then Arapaho

1 Sept – Our next major project is approved

Trade Company in Gizhiga!

I also order our first 1000 artillery in Kamchatka

20 Sept – We find Teyas

29 Nov – We find Lipiyanes

2 Dec – Next Tech!


Spanish Square (Mil 12)

We get Banner Infantry and better tactics

The Banner infantry replace our Asian Arquebusiers

[Abe Sargent]

12 Jan, 1631 – Our presence is protested by locals in Querecho

I’m at the border of New Castile and I’m feeling things out for a bit

2 Mar – I find Lipan and the Castilian folks at Karankawa

1 June – I found some more boundaries of New Castile and move up north now to Waco and then to Wichita

21 Sept – We arrive in Caddo, are attacked by local natives, and we find the Chichasaw tribe next to us in Arkansas.

2 Dec – I find two more New Castile holdings

I’m not interested in heading any further east or north. I’ma turn back.

8 Jan, 1632 – We find Yscani

10 Mar – Then Kiowa

19 Apr – And…Kitkehaki

27 May – Followed by Skiri

6 June – Castile is apparently colonizing the Andamans instead of moving into the Indies per se.


1 July – Cahuilla is now a full colony! We hand it to K.C.

Next target?


Chehalis, next to Salish (haida Tribe) and Yakima (Salish tribe).

10 July – Iron in Maya!

25 Sept – We find Asinaan

1 Nov – We find Mahmikiwiniyak

18 Nov – I side with the Nobles when our King becomes ill

31 Dec – We arrive in Sipiwininiwak – we also find Nehiyawewin

26 Mar, 1633 – We din Niitsitapi

27 Apr – We find Siksikawa, just northeast of the Rock Mountain Wasteland. We’ll now head this army to Chehalis to recuperate and guard against natives to the border nations.

May 30 – Our Conquistador dies in battle against some locals


1 Dec – Constable for Kharya

[Abe Sargent]

21 Nov, 1634 – A local pretender rises in Maya with 6000 rebels around him. I order our army in.

They capture Maya (colony) and sail for Penzhina

5 Mar, 1635 – We defeat the rebels in Penzhina

9 May – Timber Shortage for 5 years gives us a +30% ship cost. Ouch

19 June – Naval Supplies in Chehalis


25 Aug – I have recaptured Maya, and I exterminate the local tribesman while here

4 Apr, 1636 – After an uprising in Chehalis is put down by our army, I just go ahead and exterminate all of the folks in the area.

15 May – I send colonists to Quileute, next to Chehalis

16 Aug – Ready for the next big project?

Trade Company ordered for Yarmanka

22 Nov – We have an Excellent Minister. I choose to use it in the military and gain a bunch of tradition and military power

1 Jan, 1637 – Next Idea

The Old and the Infirm - -10% land maintenance modifier

And that gives us another Siberian Idea: Successful Raids, +15% manpower and +5% reinforce speed


24 May – I exterminate the natives in Quileute

5 July – Another land war in Asia ends with Japan winning and taking gold and some claims from Manchuria

Portugal has just started a colony in Belitung, just inside the Indies, in the Karimata Strait, north-west of Java Island and southwest of Boreo Island


26 October – Our King has passed!


Our new leader: King Kesli I 5/2/3. Pretty good, but he’s 61 already. Can’t live too long. And his heir isn’t much.

I booster our Stability right back up

1 Nov – I accept a royal marriage offer from Manchuria

Right now our tech development is 10/4/5

We have our focus in the area of strength for Kesli

So instead I move to a diplomatic focus. This gives us a 7/7/5 increase

[Abe Sargent]

10 Mar, 1638 – Colima converted to Protestant

3 July – Chehalis is fully grown!


Chehalis – The Naval Supplies are ripe here in Chehalis, next to two tribes. It goes to our Colonial Nation too, I thought it might be north enough to not be considered the same area, but apparently not.

Next colonist to Chinook, next to Chehalis. I’m still wanting to expand a bit in this area, even without keeping the land myself.


10 Aug – Next Tech!


Grand Shipyard and Road (Dip 13)

We can build road networks and the Grand SYard

Slowly and surely I am amassing an army in Quileute

30 Mar, 1639 – Fur trading is the best use of us in Quileute

7 Nov –I make a General out of our heir…

8 Feb, 1640 – I declare war on the Salish Tribe in Yakima and order our forces in.

16 Mar – Along with the local army the K.C. government was assembling there, we win in Yakima.

10 Feb, 1641 – We take Yakima

Full Annexation. Yakima is turned over to the Colonial government

1 Sept – After we rebuilt our army, time for another hit while I have my whole army here

I declare war on Haida

I order our 11,000 troops from Quileute into Salish

[Abe Sargent]

5 Feb, 1642 – Our heir dies. Our new heir is quite good. Our stability drops

I boost the stability again!

1 Apr – Quileute is now self-sustaining and turned over.

15 Nov – I send colonists to Aldan in Siberia

1 Jan, 1643 – Maya is now self sufficient

18 Jan – Fish in Chinook

10 Feb – In a siege that took 517 days, we capture Salish. Now onto Nootka and a huge battle

10 Apr – We drive them out.

12 June – They arrive in Yakima and begin a siege

6 April, 1644 – We capture Nootka and annex both provinces, which are turned over to the K.C.

Actually, we apparently remain in control of Nootka.

I order a core here

1 July – Tech Increase!


Improved Drainage (Adm -13)

We can build plantations and we get +10% production efficiency


I invest in the new big project

Weapons Manufactory in Karalveyem

Temple ordered for Maya


14 Oct – Next mission, convert Nootka to Shamanist

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1644 –

200 Year Review!!!


Alright, let’s take a look around!


We are ranked 29th in Admin, 110th in Diplomacy and 156th in Military

We make 20.90 gold a month. About double what we made 50 years ago.

The most advanced nations in the world have 55 techs total. The least have 36. We have 38 along with 18 ideas


Biggest Armies in the World

1. France
2. Oirat
3. Ottomans
4. Qara Qoyunlu
5. The Hansa
6. Orissa
7. Portugal
8. Lithuania
9. Muscovy
10. Austria
11. Great Britain
12. Aragon
13. Castille
14. Machu
15. Venice
16. Bohmia
17. Malacca
18. Gujarat
19. Jaunpur
20. Poland

Ming has been hammered and now doesn’t have enough really to defend herself (27k).

With 13k forces, we aren’t anywhere near big enough for stuff. This is actually one unit over our forcelimit.


Biggest Navies

1. Britain
2. Portugal
3. Castile
4. Aragon
5. Ottomans
6. Malacca
7. The Hansa
8. France
9. Netherlands
10. Ming
11. Venice
12. Genoa
13. Orissa
14. Naples
15. Kilwa
16. Morocco
17. Livonian Order
18. Malindi
19. Gelre
20. Siena
21. Korea

With 17, we are tied at 22nd with 3 other nations. Not bad. Want a bigger navy though.


Trade Goods, by Value

Silk
Iron
Fur
Dyes
Cocoa
Ivory
Cloth
Copper
Slaves
Wine
Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Tea
Salt
Tropical Wood
Naval Supplies
Fish
Wool
Grain
Gold

[Abe Sargent]

Land:

Kamchatka – 14.68 gold
Penzhina – 5.04
Kagyrgyn – 9.25
Karalveyem – 10.85
Omolon – 5.67
Gizhiga – 24.76
Kolyma – 7.25
Yarmanka – 27.69
Suntar Khayata – 6.75
Tauisk – 3.09
Verkhoyansk – 7.02, Fur
Sakha – 7.25, Fur
Okhotsk – 17.10, Iron
Kharya – 1.97, Gold
Yakut – 12.43, Iron
Maya – 3.12, Iron

Colonies – Aldan (west of Maya, south of Yakut)
Chinook (Fish in southern part of area around former foes)

Nootka – Haida, Totemist, 0.69 gold, 3 taxvalue, gold, 75% autonomy,11.2% unrest
Aleut – 2.9 gold


Kamchadal California:

Cahuilla – 3.72 gold
Kumeyaay – 9.43
Chumash – 7.48
Salinan – 10.73
Miwok – 11.09
Pomo – 5.95

Chehalis – 3.44
Quileute – 4.17
Yakima – 2.84 (Shoshone, Totemist)
Salish – 1.97 (Totemist, Chinook)

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s look at some maps!

North America –





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You can see us in the area around (modern Washington state and Oregon). California is there and happy as well. We’ve explored a lot more, and you can get a better sense of the players in the area.

[Abe Sargent]

Now Asia!





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You can see a bit where we’ve expanded into Siberia. The nation to the far west with COVY over it is Muscovy. They’ve been colonizing down the western edge of Siberia and over Oirat Horde. Oirat has absorbed Sibir and is looking pretty nasty. With the second largest army in the world, I have no desire to tussle with them. We have no tech advantage. They have 120000 soldiers. We have 10% of that amount!

Korea/Machu/Ming/Oirat are in another of their unending wars. Ming has been defeated a few times, and you can see the Manchurian state just supplanting it someday.

I might add another colony or two down Siberia. These are poor territories, but they have good trade goods with their mines and furs. Just say no to wool and grain. And fish.



Alright, back to the dynasty, already in progress

[Abe Sargent]

16 Jan, 1645 – Most of our army has relocated from the New World.


15 May – We get a Successful Bureaucracy event again

24 June – Copper veins have been discovered in Aldan and we will have more mines built there.

14 July – Portugal has the Spice Trade super-event

Portugal want some of our provinces in the new world

12 Aug - I recall our colonist leader fro Chinook. Directly west of Yakut is Seganka. I send our colonists there.

1 Feb, 1646 – Constable in Maya

28 Aug – Road Network in Gizhiga

1 Dec – I hire Master Recruiter Yrgel Aksik, a military advisor with a level 1 capacity. He increases our manpower

1 June, 1647 – Chinook is now self sufficient. Hmmm….why isn’t this one going to our Colonial Nation? Ah, it went a few days later.


10 June -0 Nootka is now a core province!

I send in a Missionary to convert these folks

1 July – Tech Advance –


The Galleass (Dip 14)

We can build Brig and Galleass

I upgrade our fleet

[Abe Sargent]

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[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1648 – Workshop ordered for Maya

11 Apr – Fur trading in Seganka

3 June, 1649 – Aldan grows!


Aldan – The Copper Mines here make us 4.76 gold from the province’s 2 tax value. I order a Temple here immediately! Aldan is west of Maya, south of Yakut, east of Nukhtui and north of Stanovoy, the last two unclaimed by a major power.

I order a Marketplace in Maya and colonists to Kwakiutl, near Nootka.



27 June – I hunt down and kill all of the natives in Kwakiutl

1 Oct – New Tech:

Trunnions (Mil 13)

We get better artillery fire and shock. Better cannons. And we can build a Regimental Camp


Korea is badly breaking to some rebels

1 Nov – Korea is broken


4 June, 1650 – Marketplace for Aldan, Trade Depot for Maya

10 Aug – Our King has passed.


Atch-ytagyn is the new leader with a 6/2/4 attention to awesome.


I invest in a stability raise

Our investment, with our advisor, is a healthy 8/7/7

30 Aug – We head out and weaken some rebels in Salish that are messing with our bud the Colonial Nation of…us…and stuff?

[Abe Sargent]

5 July, 1651 – Uh oh. A Portuguese fleet, with an explorer, is sailing right by Kamchatka



6 Aug – Nootka is converted!

8 Oct –

Seganka – West of Yakut is this fun little fur trading spot south of Central Siberia’s wasteland. I order a Temple here and we are making 3.48 gold right now. South is Mukhtua, and south of that is the Oirat Horde.

I head West into Chuna

9 Apr, 1652 – Yuck. Fish in Kwakiutl


7 Dec – I get an event that Natives are not assisting in a local fur trading colony and we lose about 25 gold

1 Jan, 1653 – Rebels in Colima have won independence as Mixtec


13 Sept – Constable in Seganka; Aldan

15 Oct – Natives in Chuna rise up

22 Dec – I kill the natives in Chuna and prevent that from happening again

[Abe Sargent]

17 July, 1654 – New Idea – National Arsenal, +25% Naval Forcelimits

Just two more until I finish this idea group and get a major bonus to our situation

9 Dec – Excellent Year gives us a bunch of manpower

1 Feb, 1655 – Workshop in Seganka, Aldan

1 Mar – Iron found in Chuna!

1 May –


Kwakiutl – 2 tax value in this fishing town, 1.93 made, across the bay from us in Nootka, and we kept it. I wanna expand here.

Next up is Squamish, next to Salish, and could divert to Kamchadal California when built.


2 June - I end the lives of the natives in Squamish

I send a colonist to begin make nice with Muscovy

2 Dec – Tech advance, and get ready!



Treasury Office and Town Hall (Admin 14)

Can build Town Hall, Treasury and get another Group of Ideas!


Ones I like? Expansion’s immediate +1 Colonist as soon as we invest the first thing into it. Diplomatic’s immediate return of a Diplomat for the same We need diplomats badly to keep every one happy (Ming, Oirat, Muscovy, Japan, Manchu, Korea maybe, Portugal, Britain, Castile, and others like New Castile or Colima – not enough diplomats for that.)

I still need two Ideas in my Quantity Ideas, No military for right now. Hmmm….

Expansion Ideas. I have too!

22 Feb, 1656 – Marketplace for Seganka, Trade Depot for Aldan

Alright time to save for a major, major, major project

I get +9 gold monthly despite my over-cap military, advisor, and two colonies. So, for now, I cut my land maintenance in half in order to get some fast cash. I already have more than 200 gold. So let’s jack up my cash flow as quickly and as much as we can afford


I have an idea.


12 Dec – Rush of Colonists Event occurs

[Abe Sargent]

4 Mar, 1657 – Huge Yi Nationalists all over Ming

11 Aug – New Tech

The Galleon (Dip 15)

We get +50 colonial range, better naval morale, setter growth, we can use early frigates and galleons and get more expensive boats



4 Oct – Maxed relations with Muscovy


1 Feb 1658 –


Chuna – Iron mining is fun! 1 tax value but 3.51 gold from the Arctic land. West of us in Seganka. I intend to expand in two directions from this later (West to Uchamin, South to East Tunguska) but for now let’s head back out to the New World to finish this thang up out there!


Colonists dispatched to Heiltsuk, between Kwakiutl and Squamish

10 Mar – I kill all of the natives in Heiltsuk

16 Mar – Fur trading picks up in Squamish

14 Dec – We get a Poor Quality Copper event and that increases artillery cost for a few years

1 May, 1659 – Idea – Forced Labor - -20% Building Power Cost

Just one more quality idea


23 June – I get an Importing Naval Supplies Event. I choose to compromise with our Trade Company, increase their opinion with us, and gain some power all over the place.

1 July – Another revolter from Colima takes 5 provinces with it, Tarascan

1 Nov – Get ready:

Additional Colonists (Expansion Idea) - +1 Colonist

And we completed the Siberian Idea path with…

Hunting Expansion - +20% Global Settler Increase

[Abe Sargent]

5 Feb, 1660 – Get ready again.


In Kamchatka, I order the construction of an Embassy!

It should be built in a year.

I raise my maintenance for stuff again

Colonists sent to Uchamin

30 March – We kill off all of the natives in Uchamin

24 April – Another yuck – Fish in Heiltsuk. We crossed the ocean, set up colonies on another continent, and still can get away from Salmon!


10 July – I order a Temple in Chuna

4 Nov – Squamish now a full colony –

It was given to K.C.

So they get the nice fur province, but I get to keep the fish….


Next target is Tsimshian north and up coast from Kwakiutl

13 Feb, 1661 – I slay the angry 2500 natives in Tsimshian

29 March – I order a Trade Depot in Seganka

11 July – Marketplace for Chuna

With the Embassy in Kamchatka, we gained an extra Diplomat!

6 May, 1662 – Castile wants some of our land too – in Kamchatka.

2 Aug – Copper in Uchamin

Trade Depot for Chuna


16 Nov – Fur trading the price of business in Tsimshian

14 Dec – I get an event regarding Complaints about Bailiff

We have a cruel bailiff and I lose prestige, rather than stability, to kill him

[Abe Sargent]

5 Mar, 1663 –


Heiltusk – Nestled on the coast between Squamish and Kwakiutl is this fun lil’ fishing colony. With a 1 taxvalue they make 1.3 gold for us.


Next target is Nisga’a, up coast from Tsimshian

1 Jul – Canal ordered for Seganka

Oirat Horde is bringing it to the Ming and have captured roughly have of the Ming Dynasty’s land in war

24 Dec – Britain allows us military access

2 Feb, 1664 –

We finish the Quantity Ideas:

Expanded Supply Lines - -10% land attrition

And we get, for finishing it, +50 land forcelimits!!!


Whew!

10 Feb – I order a Constable for Chuna


2 May – I can build up that Merchant from Expansion Ideas, but I have no where to send it yet. No need to do that right now


Recently, Castile and Portugal built huge colonies down the west coast of South America

1 July – New Castile grants us military access

2 Feb, 1665 – Fish in Nisga’a

2 April – We build a Workshop in Chuna

1 June –


Uchamin – I order a Temple here! The Copper mines make us 2.22 gold. This Siberian ex-colony is west of Chuna, east of Baykha, South of Eastern Siberia Wasteland, and north of East, West Tunguska and Turukhan.


Next up is East Tunguska

24 July – Yi and Miao both revolt and got free from Ming.

4 Sept – Tsimshian is now a full province

We have formed another colonial nation – Kamchadal Alaska

It takes Aleut, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Nootka, heiltsku, and I’m sure it’ll have Nisga’a when it finishes.

Next up, West Tunguska

I built 2000 troops in Uchamin

[Abe Sargent]

21 Jan, 1666 – We take out the tribesman n East Tunguska

7 Apr – And now in West T too

23 June – Constable ordered for Uchamin and Canal in Maya

15 Sept – Yay? Castile no longer wants my stuff

Portugal does badly though…

We are just one province from Muscovy’s most recent explorations. If either of us takes Baykha, which is west of Uchamin and east of Mangazea, then we would be. Before that happens, I want to create a line in the sand that I can expand behind. We obviously will be border buddies sooner or later. Might as well be now, right?

There are three provinces south of the Tunguskas that are not adjacent to anyone - Chulym, Angara, and Kan.

31 Mar, 1667 – I order 2000 cavalry back in the deep part of Siberia here

2 Dec – Nisga’a is now a province and joins K.A.

Next up – might as well do Baykha, take it from Muscovy


Next Tech!

Post Office and Naval Arsenal; (Dip – 16)


Trade Range increases, as does efficiency. And we can build post offices and naval arsenals

25 Feb, 1668 – 6000 troops arrive in Baykha

1 Mar – We slaughter the 2000 natives

6 Apr – I upgrade my fleet in Kamchatka

16 Apr – Iron ore discovered in West Tunguska

New Castile has been expanding massively and rapidly in the new world for the last few years or so

9 Aug – Iron in East T too!

8 Nov – It’s a big today. Today we set up the colony in Baykha. For the first time, ever, we’ve been adjacent to an enemy that is bigger than us. And this isn’t some ally, its someone who may not like us a lot.

2 Dec – New Tech!

Textile Manu (Admin 15) – Just Textile Manu and that’s it, nothing else of value


25 Dec – Another Wave of Obscurantism event swings through

[Abe Sargent]

19 Jan, 1669 – Japan and Korea at war again. More rebel problems for China’s Ming rulers.


11 June, 1670 – We get a Successful Company event that gives us some ducats

1 Sept – The next Manufactory has arrived:

Weapons Manufactory for Yakut

20 Dec – Fur trading is the trade of the day in Baykha

16 Apr, 1671 – Japan cancelled military access we had with them…?

Japan, once again, sees us with ambition

I order some more forces built in and around Kamchatka

6 May –


East Tunguska – Temple ordered here. Iron mines, 1taxvalue, 3.67 gold, arctic.


Next target has to be Narim. It’s south west of Baykha and adjacent to Muscovy twice and Oirat once. It cuts off expansion this way.

But I can’t get to it until Baykha is a core. So I do Turukhan instead. Next to Narim, Baykha, West Tung, Ket and Tomsk. Let’s get that thing locked in now.

10 June – We kill the natives in Turukhan

4 Sept –

West Tunguska – Iron mines, temple 3.68 gold, 1 tax value


(You might remember Tunguska from the Tunguska Event, a huge crash by a an outer space object in 1908)

[Abe Sargent]

3 Jan, 1672 – I order another 1k in Uchamin for Baykha defenses

9 Apr –I send new colonists to Chulym, south of West T .

19 July – All of the natives in Chulym are down

1 Aug – New Tech!

Tenaille (Mil – 14)

Better infantry fire, combat width, and we get some new units

We get new cavalry – Asian Charge Cavalry

1 Nov, 1672 – Our King passed

Duolan is now ruling (2/3/3 – pretty weak these days – but he has an amazing heir)



I boost our stability back to 3

11 Apr, 1673 – Britain just lost a major war against Portugal, which is sad. Britain likes us.

15 June – I get news that Moscow beat us to Narim, and are colonizing it now

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1674 – Baykha is now a full fledged province and we missed getting Narim by that much


Baykha – I have ordered an Earth Rampart here. 3.19 gold made from the 1 tax value and fur trade. Next to Moscow in Mangazea and apparently Narim, next to us in Uchamin and Turukhan


We have an obvious place to go – Ket. But it’s next to Turukhan and we can’t get there yet (no core next to it). So instead…

Tomsk – next to Oirat (in Vah) and adjacent to West T, Chulym and Turukhan as well as Ket

It shuts the door. If we can get Ket that’s great, but it’s no rush

11 Jan – Fur in Turukhan



We can now Westernize…

Let’s do it!

3 stability drop. I immediately jump it back up to 1 and then 2

I don’t want to use my last ADM to get it up higher – I need to save for Westernization




31 Mar – Government Officials Resist Westernization…Ignore their demands but that’s a huge hit to power.

7 May – We kill natives in Tomsk

15 Sept – As I have chances, I’ve also been trying to build up my reputation with local colonial nations on the west side of the Americas. Portuguese Columbia and Castilian Peru and no Rio da Prata and so forth,

2 Oct – Copper in Chulym

16 Dec – Uh oh! Colonial Border Conflict event occurs

Settlers from Kamchadal California crossed the border into Nootka in Kamchadal Alaska. Alaska then sent in militia to drive them out, and got a little overzealous and raided and burned back to Squamish.

And obviously the conflict has escalated from there


I have four options:

Let Them Sort it Out – I lose prestige
Remove the Governor of K.A. – KA dislikes me, KC like me
Remove the Governor of K.C. – KC dislikes, KA likes
Sort our their difference – Lose some diplo power (which I have tons of)

I sort it out!

1 Feb, 1675 – Star Fort ordered for Baykha

1 April – Provinces resist Westernization

I grant Autonomy for 10 years, and it drops national unrest but also drops taxes

15 June – Corrupt Viceroys strike and we lose 10% tariffs for 5 years

1 Aug –

Turukhan – Next to Narim (Muscowy) and a bunch of our provinces. I order an Earthen Rampart here. We get 3.08 gold from the 1 tax value and fur trade


I order folks to Ket next

I need to suck up to Oirat. I guarantee them, and then offer them military access.

5 Nov – They offer us a Royal Marriage, and I accept.

[Abe Sargent]

2 Feb, 1676 – Marketplace ordered for Baykha

I change our National Focus to nothing. All techs equal

27 Mar – I can’t get close to an alliance with Oirat, but hopefully the Royal Marriage will keep them off


1 Apr – Provinces resist again and again I grant autonomy

9 May – Fur found in Tomsk

1 Apr, 1677 – Peasants resist. I gain local unrest for 10 years and massive local taxes cut in half

Luckily, taxes aren’t where I get my income from!


11 Sept – We are out of Admin power to use to develop our stuff.

23 Jan, 1678 – I order 1000 artillery in Baykha

16 Mar – Fur in Ket

1 Apr – I get 14000 troops rebels in Maya against the process. I order an army to close.

I send my ruler at the head of our army to help fight the rebels.

We have around 50 mil power left, and I don’t want it use it on a general


5 Sept – Britain has their first colony in the Indies area – Bangka, an island just off the coast of Sumatra Island

Portugal has captured the southern part of India

[Abe Sargent]

1 Apr, 1679 – High Command resist and we lose a lot of tradition

1 May –

Tomsk – Fur trading is fun! As is making 3.08 gold off a 1 tax value.


Next up is Kan, next to Chulym and Tomsk

7 July _ Took a while, but rebels are down


1 Aug - -

Chulym – Copper for the win! 1 tax value, but 2.78 gold and next to Tomsk, Kan, and O head east to Angara (south of both Tunguskas)


1 Dec – I get a more completed map, awesome!

Morocco has some colonies in northern South America. Denmark is in Paramaribo in Brazil.

There are tons of coastal lands here that are unclaimed, which is oddly the exactly opposite of the western side of the land.


1 Apr, 1680 – We get more peasants against the system

6 Apri – I have taken out both groups of local natives in Kan and Angara


18 June – We get a Ship Building Problems event, 50% worse building for 5 years

1 Nov –

Ket – Next to Muscovy in Narim and Oirat in Agan and Vah, we are on the edge with this fur trading province. They make us 3.07 gold off 1 tax value.


Next is Judjur, adjacent to Manchu and on the coast, by Okhotsk and Maya


1 April, 1681 – This time we have our army resist again

[Abe Sargent]

8 Mar, 1682 – Copper in Kan

27 Mar- And fur in Angara

1 Apr – Uh oh. This time we have government officials and lose 100 admin power, and that puts us deep in the hole on that one

18 Aug – Trade Company ordered for Seganka

23 Oct – Naval Supplies in Jugjur

25 Nov- I take a mission to Placate Moscow!

1 Apr, 1683 – We get a new resistance, Advisers resist. Our stability drops

7 Sept – Our Admin debt was paid

8 Feb, 1684 – Moscow accepts military access into our territory

1 Apr – Reactionary forces in Jugjur rise up.

22 June – We lose in Maya

1 Dec –

Angara – Fur trading, 1 tax valuing, and 2.28 gold making. East of Kan, Chulym, and north east of Sayan, north of Irkutsk, west of Ust-Kut and south of the Tunguskas.

Stanovoy, inland of Jugjur is next

1 Feb, 1685 –

Kan – Copper 2.57 gold, 1 taxvalue and you! West of Angara,


Next target is Nukthui, south of Yakut, west of Aldan and Stanovoy, and north of Oirat at Kirenga and Chara

4 April – Another officials resist and negative adm power follow

26 June – We get a Ship Building Boom for the next 5 years with a bonus -20% reduction in time it takes

28 June – I gain a tax base in Chuna

12 Aug – Maya falls

21 Sept – We finish the rebels. Now have to re-capture Maya

[Abe Sargent]

7 Oct, 1685 –

We have completed our Westernization process!


After Westernization, with the neighbor bonus and without the cost of the Chinese Tech Group, here is an example of what I need for the next level in my techs:

Admin level 16 – 336
Diplo level 17 – 384
Military level 15 – 312

That’s really, really easy to do. We can use the next little bit to massively play catchup

19 Nov – We get pulled into some minor war with Manchuria. This is the first time they have ever asked us to join them. So I do so, against some minor lower level states. I don’t want to lose my only-ever ally. We are now at war with…Crimea and the Ottomans. Not really a major concern there.


1 Jan, 1686 – Well, I have almost 1000 gold from the past decade or so. I couldn’t spend much in the way of gold because of not wanting to use up power.

Now I can build a Unique Building. The only one left is Fine Arts Academy which just reduces the cost for stability by a bit.

I get University at level 17 Admin. That certainly is worth it.

I’ll wait for a couple of techs.

I’ll spend down to 800, but then keep that much in my treasury for a while.


I order:

Earth Rampart in Ket
Temple in Baykha
Temple in Turukhan





17 Apr – Hi Japan! They have begun to colonize Taiwan. Meanwhile Brunei is colonizing an island in the Spice Isles (Buru)

1 June – Japan has lost two revolters! Date and Ainu have declared their independence. Let’s curry favor with Ainu. Again…

The Ainu are from the same dynasty as our King, by the way


22 June – Peace with Ottomans/Crimea. That was fast!


1 July –


Jugjur – The naval supplies in this brand new colony are ready to rock! With 1 tax value, 2.37 gold, and a port, this place is south of Okhotsk, north of two Manchu holdings (Udi, Urkan) and next to our colony of Stanovoy. Let’s build a Temple here!


I’m not sure where to go next…

7 July - We re-capture Maya from the rebels

[Abe Sargent]

Let me show you the new world so you can see the things I see:



Here’s South America –

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Portugal is all up and down. I don’t have the colonial range to hit the east coast of S. America, nor would I really want to. One of the benefits of Westernizing is that we can see the whole map, according to the European powers

There’s just no major direction here to explore and set up a colony.

(You can see Morocco on the coast by Trinidad and Tobago – Denmark is the red past that one Portugal colony down-coast)

[Abe Sargent]

Now North America -


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/NorthAmericain1686_zpse6ed577f.jpg

You can see large battles and colonies in Central America. New Castile has continued to expand. We have Florida, the UK, French Canada, the Dutch all over the area. Vinland is a Colonial Nation of Norway. So Norway has taken a lot there. There’s also a New Norway in the Virginia, DC, Maryland area. And a New Netherlands north of Florida in the Carolinas, below Denmark who has some land there as well.


There’s just no obvious expansion area anywhere here. Clearly I don’t want to expand south of Kamchadal California. I don’t want to run up against Castile, not even New Castile. I could also expand between the two different areas of K.C. to connect them (three coastal provinces are there) but we don’t get wealthy provinces, nor do we get the proceeds of our labor.

Similarly, I could delve heavily into Western Canadia. But how much is that worth? Plus we won’t keep what we find

There are tons of Indies that are open.

But that’s not really the direction I’m liking. Too much distance, not even support via navy/army

I have the range to hit northern Australia. But that’s a bit too far.

[Abe Sargent]

Here’s Siberia close in:



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These are all of the unclaimed provinces. Now, I can keep working down the Oirat, but I am expanding faster than I can build up defenses here, and I don’t know if I want to hit the Oirat in too many places (We are pink, Oirat in white, Muscovy is orange, and Manchuria is dark orange)

There are 7 provinces back here. And I think, for now, I still need to keep building my defenses and such. So we need to keep clear of everything else!


Now, where should my next targets be?

Siberia weakens me defensively for now. Investing in weaker provinces in Western North America just goes somewhere else after we work on them. Indies are too far to protect.

There is another option. I could explore the Pacific and grab islands there. But that’s not historically a path to financial success.

For now, let’s punt.

I send colonists to Siuslaw, south of Chinook.

[Abe Sargent]

21 July - I cancel the mission to placate Moscow


14 Sept – We wipe out the natives in Siuslaw – I move to the other two coastal provinces to do the same


23 Oct – Iron mines open in Stanovoy!

28 Oct – We have wiped out natives from Yuki and Klamath as well

13 Nov – Fur in Nukhtui

15 Dec – And now the same to Stanovoy!


1 Apr, 1687 – Star Fort ordered for Ket; Earthen Rampart for Tomsk

25 Aug – Constable for Jugjur

10 Jan, 1688 – Another Generation of Cowards event

13 Apr – Star Fort ordered for Turukhan

23 May – I accept a mission to build a large fort in Baykha. And I do, I order a Tenaille here (80 gold)

2 Aug – Gold found in Siuslaw

Another Ming/Machu war has begun, with allies all in

1 Oct – I boost our stability back to +2

11 Nov – Huge numbers of Pretender Rebels have just broken out all over Ming – 27000 here, 25000 there, 27000, 25000, 28000 and 24000, and 14000. That’s a lot. That is going to crush the Ming Dynasty. That many rebels, plus and invading Manchu and Yi and another war with Dai Viet and Ayutthaya? That feels like a dead China walking

[Abe Sargent]

28 Feb, 1689 – We have entered into a Royal Marriage with Ainu

1 Mar – New Tech!


Merchantman (Dip 17)

Better colonial range, trade range, trade efficiency, and we can build two new vessels (Galiot and Merchantman)

The Merchantman is our latest vessel ship

26 Apr – I land our fleet in Kamchatka and order them upgraded

I also order another Early Frigate here

26 May – Mission completed. Our next is to build a Star Fort in Tomsk. I do just that

31 July – We have too many diplomatic relations and are losing 1 dip power each month. I cancel military access with Britain to stop that.

1 Sept –

Stanovoy – The iron mines here fetch us 3.05 gold from the 1 tax value. Inland and west of Jugjur, this holding is south of Nukthui, Aldan, and Maya. It’s unfortunately next to Manchuria at Ukran and Oiratat Chara.


Next target - Klamath, south of Siuslaw, in the new World


1 Dec –

Nukthui – Fur trading is still a thing, apparently. People still want them! The low 1 tax value hurts, but we make 1.95 gold, so, um….yay? West of Aldan, northwest of Stanovoy, and south of Yakut. It’s east of unclaimed land in Mukhtuya, and north of two Oirat holdings (Kirenga, Chara)


Next up is Yuki, to finish that land connection for K.C.

14 Jan, 1690 – I ease the tension with a Diplomatic Insult event and gain some relations with Muscovy

17 Feb - KC has begun colonizing inland of their territory and they found another gold territory in Maidu

31 May – We finish that mission. Our next is to fortify Nukthui. I agree and we order that Earthen Rampart right now


30 June We get a Successful Bureaucracy Event. Yay Admin Power!

27 Aug – After trying for independence, Portuguese Brazil fails and got smashed.

Japan continues with another colony in Taiwan

2 Dec – Portugal no longer is severely coveting our land, and our relations are pretty good at +70

Castile still does though. Sad.

18 Feb, 1691 – New Tech!

Maurician Infantry (Mil 15)

We get better tactics, Asian Mass Infantry, and improved land morale

1 Apr –

Siuslaw – Gold, given to K.C.


Next colony – Flores, large island in the south of the Indies.

Somebody’s gotta move in here. Flores has 4 tax value, small numbers of relatively peaceful natives, and creates a new place for me to explore further if I desire.

[Abe Sargent]

26 Apr – Man, Ming is in a bad way. Here, let me snap a quick pic, just to show you



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Dang! That’s nasty stuff right there. You can see huge rebels all over, Manchuria has troops in the north, the Oirat has taken stuff in the east, Yi has a holding, you can see where Miao and Yi have formed a while ago. Good luck Ming!

[Abe Sargent]

2 June – We finish the next mission. Our next is to Tenaille in Ket.


I also order a Workshop for Jugjur


Ainu is trying to take out Date

4 Nov – Earth Rampart ordered for Stanovoy

12 Nov – Uh oh. Our King has died!


But our new King is incredible!


Meet Tolluman a 5/6/5 king. Our heir isn’t super hot (2/3/1). Long may Tolluman reign!

Our stability drops to 1

We are making 8/9/8 in investment right now.



1 Feb, 1692 – New Tech


College & Mint (Admin 16)


We can build colleges and mints.

We renew our marriage with Manchuria and Ainu

6 Mar – Fur in Klamath

1 April – Ming is broken from the rebels

Japan absorbed Date again

3 May – I begin to improve relations with Majapahit in southern Indies (and Java particularly)


7 June – Mission completed. Next up – Turn Flores into a city

29 June – Grain in Yuki

Marketplace ordered for Jugjur, and Temple for Nukhtui

3 Dec – Oirat Horde just took 6 provinces from Ming

10 Apr, 1693 – Constable for Baykha; Temples for Angara, Kan, Chulym

13 June – Should I ally with Ainu? I could probably vassalize them later, and maybe even annex them. But I don’t know if I want to fight off Japan. But we are in a better place now. Japan is still Chinese Tech, with a 16 military tech. We are at 15 and quickly growing. Japan has 36k armies. We have 27k. That’s not that different. Add in allies (Manchu, Ainu, two colony nations) and that’s do-able. Japan has a bigger navy (53 ships vs our 26)

But that’s it. This is do-able.

We announce that we have allied with Ainu

I order another Early Frigate built


14 July - I send a small gift to Ainu of 50 gold for huge benefits

Sorry, they are too backward for vassalization.

20 Nov –

New Tech!

Customs House and Naval Base (Dip 18)

We can build those


18 Jan, 1694 – I choose Local Fortifications for an expert unearthed in Gizhiga

4 Oct – Tech Gain!


Standardization of Calibre (Mil 16)

Better cannon, better artillery fire and shock ,and we can build Arsenals

5 Nov – To prepare for more relations, I cancel our military access to New Castile

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1694 –


250 Year Review!


We’ve spent this entire 50 years increasing our colonies considerably, and have gone deep into Siberia.


Here’s a map of Asia and Europe


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We’ve clearly moved in detail into Siberia. I need to keep our folks in line with borderers, but for right now, we’re fine

You can see the mass gains by the mega-Oirat Horde in the south from the Ming Dynasty in China. You can also see Ainu in Hokkaido and the Kurils, just beneath us. Muscovy has moved into Scandinavia.


Check out our techs, money, armies and such on the side.


Our allies are Manchu and Ainu. We have two colonial nations – Kamchadal Alaska and Kamchadal California.

[Abe Sargent]

Score? 53rd Admin, 109th Dip, 101st Military

33.89 gold monthly.

Most techs? 70 Least? 12

We have 50 techs and 22 ideas


Biggest Armies:

1. Oirat
2. France
3. Castile
4. Great Britain
5. Orissa
6. Qara Qoyunlu
7. Manchu
8. Ottomans
9. Poland
10. Aragon
11. Lithuania
12. Portugal
13. Timurids
14. Muscovy
15. Venice
16. Bohemia
17. Ahmednagar
18. Gujarat
19. Brandenburg
20. Malacca

Malacca has 42k. We have 27k



Biggest Navies:

1. Portugal
2. Great Britain
3. Aragon
4. Venice
5. Malacca
6. Manchu
7. Netherlands
8. The Hansa
9. France
10. Japan
11. Castile
12. Gujarat
13. Ottomans
14. Ming
15. New Castile
16. Orissa
17. Rio da Prata
18. Caraibas
19. English West Indies
20. Tunis
21. Kamchadal California

We have 27 vessels, the same as Sweden. Tunis has 34.


Ten Highest Value Trade Nodes:

Sevilla
Lubeck
English Channel
Bengal
Genoa
Ceylon
Constantinople
Rheinland
Caribbean
Ivory Coast



Trade Goods by Current Value:

Silk
Cotton
Dyes
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Iron
Cloth
Fur
Coca
Sugar
Ivory
Copper
Tea
Slaves
Naval Supplies
Wine
Tropical Wood
Tobacco
Salt
Fish
Grain
Wool
Gold

[Abe Sargent]

Provinces:

Kamchatka – 13.92 gold
Penzhina – 4.65
Kagyrgyn – 8.73
Karalveyem – 18.15
Omolon – 5.5
Gizhiga – 23.8
Kolyma – 6.97
Yarmanka – 26.30
Verkhoyansk – 6.74
Suntar Khayata – 6.49
Tauisk – 2.79
Okhotsk – 16.18
Jugjur – Naval Supplies, 4.61
Maya – 8.5
Sakha – 6.76
Kharya – 1.99
Yakut – 22.39
Aldan – 10.10
Stanovoy – Iron, 2.93
Nukhtui – Fur, 3.58
Seganka – 17.54
Chuna – 9.85
East Tunguska - Iron, 3.96
West Tunguska – Iron, 3.96
Uchamin - Copper, 3.69
Angara - Fur, 3.64
Kan – Copper, 3.36
Chulym – Copper, 3.36
Tomsk – Fur, 2.94
Ket – Fur, 2.94
Turukhan – Fur, 3.64
Baykha – Fur, 4.01

Colonies –

Klamath – Will go to KC when completed
Yuki – Will go to KC when done
Flores


Colonial Nations:

Kamchadal California –

Kumeyaay -10.26
Cahuilla – 5.26
Chumash – 7.17
Salinana – 10.74
Miwok – 13.18
Maidu – Gold Colony
Pomo – 6.39
Siuslaw – 2.16
Yakima – 12.33
Chinook – 8.09
Chehalis – 8.39
Quileute – 9.21
Squamish – 9.21
Salish – 10.43


Kamchadal Alaska –

Nootka – 7.02
Heiltsuk – 2.91
Kwakiutl – 4.63
Tsimshian – 4.5
Nisga’a – 2.9
Aleut – 5.98


And there we are!

[Abe Sargent]

1 Dec – Klamath is now a full province and is handed to KC.

Our next colonial target is East Timor

30 Jan, 1695 - We announce a royal marriage with Brunei.

2 Apr – Ainu has agreed to become our Protectorate. This does several things to help them. For example, they get tech development reductions across the board. They’ll give us some trade power and stuff. Everybody wins!


20 Apr - I accept an alliance offer from Brunei

I order some Merchantmen in Kamchatka built

3 June – We get a Colonial Company goes Bankrupt and I pay 50 cash to keep them afloat

1 July – Yuki is now self-sustaining. Next target is West Timor

New Tech!

University (Admin 17)

New Group of Ideas and we can build University. I order one built immediately in Kamchatka.

Because we are spending tech in catching up post-Westernize, I hold off on the next Idea for now.


4 Oct – I order – Star Fort in Stanovoy, Constable in both Tunguskas

13 Nov – Chinaware in Flores

23 May, 1696 – I use a new settlement in West Timor to increase the tax value there

[Abe Sargent]

10 July – What we have been fearing has come to pass. The Oirat Horde declares war upon me!


And it’s all downhill from here

I call on Manchu, and they chose us over Oirat. The Oirat Horde is using a Horde Claim on us.

I order my army over from Jugjur to Stanovoy and thence to Chara

I order some troops built in a bunch of places

A huge Oirat army is heading for Ket

I was going to rally there but instead I move to Turukhan and build up there

19 Oct – 31000 troops arrive in Ket. They begin a siege

15 Nov – 15000 of our troops arrive in Chara and begin a siege

15 Dec – I send some newly built units into Tannu Uriankhan to try and get in a sneak siege from across the Siberia no man’s land

23 Jan, 1697 – We send our King to the forefront of the siege in Chara

I3 Feb – I order some mercs ot build our forces in the west quickly

16 Mar – I order war Taxes levied

Unfortunately, the cold winter I was hoping for in Ket was not to be.

13 Apr – We win a major battle in Chara after being supported by Manchu forces, against an army of 36,000 strong


13 Ma y- I get a Military Reform event and choose to reform the Army, whch gives us huge boneus and 200 mil power


New Tech –

Flintlock Musket – (Mil 17)

We get +1 shock of cavalry and banner Cavalry


2 June – They took Ket

24 June – We take Chara

I cut colony maintenance to help pay for this stuff


16 July – Kamchatka University, Class of 1697 – I gain 10 prestige

They are moving their Ket army to Turukhan, and it could be anyone’s battle, frankly.

They lost some people to attrition in Ket. We have built up a force 24,000 strong. This is doable

28 Sept – We lose, but we took down a bunch of their forces – they lost more than 10000 troops doing so. They are down to around 16k besieging Turukhan

I begin to order a rally point to rebuild from We have 12.7k survive

We’ll use West Tunguska


1 Oct –

Tech Increase – The War Galleon (Dip Tech – 19)

Better colonial range, naval morale and we get two new ships (Frigate, Wargalleon)


11 Oct – I am forced to take out a loan of 200 odd gold to keep the momentum our way

6 Nov – A few of our troops leak into Ket

4 Dec – I don’t know why, but their army is chasing us and arrive in West T.

24 Dec – I boost our stability to 2

11 Jan, 1698 – They arrive in Tomsk

And now to Vah? Why leaving? Where are you going Oirat?

27 jan – We captured Tannu Uriankhai

I move inland to Uliastai

1 Mar – I get caught in Ket and lose some forces there

21 April – Manchu has captured 2 provinces

I offer peace to Oirat and concede. We’re ahead in the warscore by +9%. So instead of pushing it, I just wanted to call it. But the Oirat Horde wouldn’t take a white peace. They have technically won, and we lose some prestige, but this gives me a chance to rebuild my military, defenses, and economy. I would not have been able to keep up that pace for overly long.


Meanwhile, this may have been a huge long-term hit for the Horde. They forced Manchuria to choose between them and us, and they chose us. They have created a potential long term foe.

[Abe Sargent]

31 May – I get a Colonial Ventures event and for 10 years get bonus shop costs by -10% dip tech cost

Oh, and the University grants me -5% tech costs across the board

6 June – Chinaware also in East Timor

5 July – Next Tech –

Carbine (Mil 18)

Better combat width, cannon, and we get improved maneuver in battle

4 Aug – We put down a native attack in Flores with the 3k infantry stationed here

Ming is undergoing another huge rebel problem


I pass a Policy the Agricultural Cultivation. We have completed both Quantity and Economic Ideas. It will cost one ADM each month. We get +33% land forcelmits!

Now we are able to keep the army we built up in war


1 Jan, 1699 – Great Britain is coveting our stuff. Sadly. Castile and Portugal still as well


Castile has pissed me off by colonizing two islands right by me. There’s TONS OF PLACES to go in the Indies. Why come near me? They are in Sumba, Temdena, and also Sula, near Borneo

11 Jun – China in West Timor as well.

28 Nov – I repay my loan and begin upgrading some of my ships

10 July, 1700 – Corrupt Viceroys hit again for 5 years and a tariff hit



1 Dec –

Flores – We completed our mission here Chinaware and a 5 tax value give us 10.81 gold in the long island chain. It crosses to Sumbawa and East Timor. I order an Earth Rampart here to help our next mission and Sumbawa is now the next colony target. Majapahit has a claim on this province they made against us.

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1701 – We kill the natives in Sumbawa

7 Mar – New Tech!


Cathedral and Stock Exchange (Admin 18)

We can build those

1 Apr – Next Tech Again!


Refineries (Dip 20)

Can build Refinery and Royal Palace


9 Dec – Fort upgrade in Flores completes our mission there – Turn Sumbawa into a city

I order a Temple in Flores, Constable in Nukhtui and Angara


25 Jan, 1702 – Golden Age event gives me 5 prestige

9 Mar – New Tech!

Gustavian Infantry (Mil 19)


We get bonus military tactics, we get Asian Musketeer and can build a War College


5 July – in order to get money quickly for stuff, I order our martial army maintenance to be slashed.


19 Dec – I order Constable in Flores

1 Jan, 1703 – And we also build Constable in Kan and Tomsk

7 May – The nation of Luwu, in Makassar and Alopo (in Sulawesi Island) have been raising our relations, so I send one of our diplomats to them for the same reason.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s everyone here in the Indies against Europe

1 Oct –

East Timor – With Chinaware a go go, this tropical province is next to West Timor and can cross to Flores. We get 5.68 gold from the 2 tax value here. I order an Earthen Rampart constructed here for defense.


For my next target, I do like Lombok, which is west and adjacent to Sumbawa, but its east and adjacent to Bali (adjacent according to strait crossings that don’t need ships). Now sure I want to be bext to Bali and Majapahit yet. I want to build up our relations first.

So, let’s hit up somewhere else. I could do Ambom or Ceram, by the Brunei colony of Buru

Ming is colonizing Halmahera. No one has touched the Philippines, but I’m not interested in that right now. I could do southern Borneo, or part of Sulawesi Island.

Ambom has the best tax value, so I’ll just take it. It’s in the same Sea of Banda as East Timor and part of Flores


15 Nov – I send a dispatch to Majapahit to begin to continue to work our magic with them.

[Abe Sargent]

28 Jan, 1704 – I order built – Star Fort (Flores) and Constable (Ket), and Workshop (Tomsk)

5 Mar – We kill all of the natives in Ambom

12 May – For now, we’ve maxed relations with Majapahit

4 Oct – We order a Temple in East Timor

1 Jan, 1705 – New Tech!

The Chebeck (Dip – 21)

We get better trade range, efficiency, and we can use the Chebeck

1 Mar – West Timor now another holding of ours


West Timor – Another Chinaware tropical province, this town makes us 7.87 gold from 3 tax value. I order earthen ramparts to help defend against Castile (Insert European Power Here).


I target Ceram next, walking distance from Ambom, and close, but not strait-close to Buru and Brunei.

I order a Workshop in Kan and Constable in Chulym



8 June – Yuck. We get grain in Sumbawa

17 July – Cheap Iron for 5 years cheaper artillery cost



5 Oct – Looks like Castile and Portugal are currently not wanting my stuff, just the English

Currently an ongoing war between Muscovy and Oirat


19 Nov - I begin to improve relations with Malacca

30 Jan, 1706 – We get Diplomatic Move and I choose to improve relations with Moscow considerably and some Dip Power as well

1 Feb – I order built:

Star Fort (East Timor)
Workshop (Flores, Angara)

1 Apr – Next is a Star Fort in West Timor

18 Dec – New Tech!

Glorious Monument (Admin 19) I can build them

The next tech is big, I can swap to a an Admin Monarchy if I desire

[Abe Sargent]

9 Jan, 1707 - Another New Tech

Killing Grounds (Mil 20)

We get swivel cannons, can build Star Bastions, and get better troops again

3 Feb –

Marketplace (Flores, East Timor, Nukhtui)

5 May – Temple for West Timor

I’m building to increase my stability, so no new buildings for right now

9 July, 1708 – Tea in Ambom

5 Sept – We are proud to announce a Royal Marriage with Majapahit!!!

11 Nov - Malacca is now a protectorate of Portugal

[Abe Sargent]

We’ve had another Japan/Korea war break out

9 Feb, 1709 – Let me get you a picture of the busy Indies, as they stand now


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Indies1709_zps65cdce45.jpg


Alright, let’s look at the map. We have Malacca on the right, Protectorate of Portugal. Portugal has colonies just to the left of Malacca and that little green island between Malacca and Borneo.

Castile has multiple provinces – all islands with the Castile dark yellow are Castile. That includes the Andamans to the west of Malacca/Ayutthaya at the top of the map and just west of Malacca below those Portugal islands. Castile has two islands near us in the south, one just by the blue island near the center.

The yellow south of Sulawesi Island and south-east of the Philippines (Ternate) are independent countries here. Then you have our Pink in the bottom in Sumbawa, Flores, East and West Timor. We also have Ambom and Ceram where those Kamchadal Pink are in the right of the Spice Isles.

Brunei is in the middle of Borneo, and also has a colony-now-province west of ours in the Spice Isles. That’s the island of Buru.

Ming has an on going colony in Halmahera, in the Spice Islands and adjacent to Ternate.

Majapahit is the long deep red nation on Java island to our west. In the south. That red island east of Malacca? That’s Great Britain. Meanwhile, Malacca have been progressing down the island by colonizing.

So, you can see Luwu on Sulawesi, Kutai, Brunei, Majapahit, Malacca, and Ternate. The tiny islands between the Philippines and Borneo are the nation of Sulu. The small yellow islands off Sulawesi is Buton.

All of those local nations we’ve been making nice with diplomatically. As well, we’re working on England, Castile, and Portugal when I get a chance.

It’s very busy right now. Left?

Southern Borneo, tip of island by Malacca, Lombok island (between us in the south) most of Sulawesi island, Philippines, a few islands here and there on the east, and then you could go east into Papua-New Guinea if you are feeling spicy. Oh, and Christmas Island is that unclaimed island south of Majapahit, it’s eligible too.

[Abe Sargent]

1 May, We boost our stability to +3


12 May – Wow! That tastes delicious! What is on that Salmon? Spices from Ceram? Let’s grow those!


1 June – I have a lot of gold…

I order a Trade Company in Flores

1 Aug – New Tech!


Limes (Dip 22)

No Naval Attrition
New Ships (Twodecker, Trabakul)


We also get some new maps from explorations:

Pacific?

Tierra Austral is a major colonial nation of Spain’s in Australia

Seems like Castile is in the Solomons; Britain, in Fiji or Tahiti (not sure); Portugal has Easter Island

We gained some new Claims with that tech advance. I have Nationalism Claims against Ainu, Manchu, and our colonial nations. We have Imperialism claims against, well, pretty much anybody.


5 Oct – New builds – Constable in East Timor, and West too actually

1 Feb, 1710 – Monopoly Company Formed. I can either gain the full benefit of it now and gain a ton of money or I can gain +15% trade efficiency for 10 years. I take the money.

I now have 802 gold!

I can build one unique building or two Manufactories!

I can build a Glorious Monument (+1 prestige annually). Or a War College (One extra leader without upkeep, and extra tradition annually. Royal Palace will increase our legitimacy annually. Fine Arts Academy? -5% stability cost.


Let’s do two manufactories.

Weapons Manufactory in Maya
Weapons Manufactory in Aldan



Dammit Portugal! They’ve put colonies in Alaska. As has Great Britain actually.


17 May – Japan won some territory from Korea

20 July – Excellent Viceroys give us +20% Global Tariffs for 5 years

4 Sept –

Sunbawa – This, ummm…..grain province, makes us 4.95 gold from its 4 tax value (after our mission was successful and raised it a bit). Sometimes you get something wealthy, and sometimes you get grain or fish or something. Tropical and ornery! East of Flores and west of the island of Lombok, which we target next for expansion.


The natives here are full of 5000 highly angry and highly ferocious natives.

I move some soldiers there. I jack maintenance back up to deal with ‘em


12 Dec – We order a rampart in Sumbawa

[Abe Sargent]

13 Feb, 1711 – We order Workshop for West & East Timor

4 Aug – I begin to work on Buton’s relations by sending gifts and such.

20 Feb – Netherlands is trying to carve a piece out of a damaged Ming. Manchu is also looking to expand south again

5 Feb, 1712 – Wow. We get another Monopoly Company event and churn it into cash

Trade Company in Verkhoyansk
Trade Company in Kolyma

13 Mar – Buton agrees to becoming our Protectorate

14 May – We are proud to announce that we have reached a Royal Marriage with Luwu!

19 July – Luwu accepts our offer of an alliance

17 Sept – I send a 75 cash gift to Luwu

31 Oct – Luwu accepts our offer to become one of our Protectorate

1 Nov – Star Fort ordered for Sumbawa

1 June, 1713 –


Ambom – We farm Tea here in this tropical town and bring in 8.22 cash, from a 4 tax value. I order an earthen rampart here. Ambom can cross to Ceram.

I send colonists to Tahiti to get a little crazy!

10 Sept – Tech!

Line Infantry (Mil 21)

Shock improves


1 Dec – Another Tech!

Absolute Rulership (Admin 20)

We get +25 Admin Efficiency and can move to Absolute Monarchy, if we prefer that over Administrative one we have right now

I prefer the one we have

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1714 – Temple for Sumbawa; Marketplace in West Timor, Trade Depot in East


5 Feb – Earth Rampart in Ambom


1 Sept – Tenaille in Flores

11 Nov - Portuguese Mexico is going heavy rebellions

6 May, 1715 – Constable in Sumbawa, Star Fort in Ampom



6 June – Tea is the trade of the day in Lombok

11 July – Tech!


Heavy Frigate (Dip 24)

We get a huge colonial range boost of 150. Settler growth +25. And then the Heavy Frigate of love and destruction

I order our military budget slashed again for a bit to build up some money for a naval refit


1 Aug –

Ceram – The spices of this tropical island (with a strait to Ampom) are giving us 7.88 cash off the bat, and 3 tax value.



3 Oct – We are proud to announce a Royal Marriage with Ternate

This gives us a penalty again of -1 dip per month

I send my next batch to Mukhtuya, in Siberia.

4 Dec – We have entered an alliance with Ternate

30 Dec – We kill the natives of Mukhyuta

1 Jan, 1716 – I send a nice gift to Ternate

14 Jan – We get an Architectural Development event. I spend some cash to get bonus power in all three elements. We go in the red and are forced to take out a loan (it was better than to get a stability hit)

26 Feb – Ternate is juuuuuust this short of letting us Protectorate them

I send a diplomat to improve relations

28 Mar – I proclaim a guarantee for Ternate

14 May – Ternate agrees to join our Protectorate

7 July – Brunei is now a Protectorate of Castile

Grrr


I’ll work some more on Kutai now


1 Nov – I order my fleet to upgrade a bunch of ships

[Abe Sargent]

14 Feb, 1717 – Extra settlement in Tahiti turned to increase the tax base there


18 Apr – Spices in Tahiti

1 Nov – We order – Earth Rampart in Ceram, Temple in Ambom, Trade Depot in Flores

2 Dec – Iron mines in Mukhtuya

5 Feb, 1718 – Ming is threatened by us

10 Feb – We get an event, Cities Demand Old Rights. I accept and lose 30 legit (better than losing a stability)

8 Sept – TWO Techs


Land Clearance (Administrative Tech 21)

Production +10%



Cartridge (Mil Tech 22)

Better troops in lots of ways too long to name right now. Oh, and better cannons


9 Nov – I pull my colonist off Lombok. Ming’s colony on Halmahera was destroyed. I send in mine. Lombok will still grow +90 a year, and it’s almost there – this’ll slow it down just a bit

5 Feb, 1719 – I repay our loan

30 July – Huge conflicts and rebellion in Cosmopolitaine Brazil the French Colonial Nation


1 Nov – We order a Star Fort in Ceram and Canal in Flores

The Oirats are still in wars with a variety of neighbors

I suppose it’ll be my turn again eventually

[Abe Sargent]

26 Feb, 1720 – Natives in Lombok lose a ferocity after an accommodation

1 Aug –Tech!

The Archipelago Frigate (Dip 24)

Trade Range improved, and is our efficiency in trading it. And we get the better Frigate

9 Sept – I hire a Theologian Advisor

1 Oct – Because we have that, I pass a new National Decision:

Introduce Vision Quest - +5% stability cost: Yearly Prestige +0.5


3 Nov –

Mukhtuya – This iron mine, Siberian, province is getting an Earth Rampart. North of the Oirat Horde in Kirenga, this land is south of Seganka, Yakut, and Chuna, west of Nukhtui and east of unclaimed Ust-Kut. It makes 2.86 gold off 1 tax value.


Next?

Ust-Kut


19 Dec – We finish the local tribes in Ust-Kut

1 Jan, 1721 –

Lombok – This Tea island trade, on the tropical shore of Lombok, has a strait connection with Bali (Majapahit) and us in Sumbawa. I order a upgraded wall here too. 3 base tax, 6.67 gold.



1 July-


Tahiti – Tropical spices abound from this mid-Pacific chain of islands. With a 4 tax value but 75% autonomy (new world autonomy, as opposed to Asian 50% we get from the Indies) we still have 8.42 cash coming our way. I order a Constable


Next is Nauru in the Pacific, and far away from others


19 Oct – Halmahera is a Chinaware province

1 Dec – I build more walls in Siberia

10 Jan, 1722 – I hire a Statesman advisor

18 Feb – Promising Trader event


4 July – Workshop in Tahiti

I begin making nice with Sulu, Gifts, etc

14 Nov – Manchuria’s king dies a few days ago, the new one has allied with Oirat. I send a diplomat to work on that relation

[Abe Sargent]

9 Feb, 1723 – Sulu enters our Protectorate


27 May – Iron in Ust-Kut

7 July – Marketplace for Tahiti and a Star Fort for Lombok


We’ve had a HUGE slowdown in game speed in the last ten years or so.


I might just take this to the 300 Year Review and end it. I might get it done tonight!



1 September – Tech


The Constitution (Admin 22)

We can go to Con., Monarchy, new Idea Group, and +25% admin

I still like our Monarchy better for us


17 Feb, 1724 – We get a House of Kakizaki is Shaken event We deny and loose Legit

19 Mar – Tech

Light Cavalry (Mil 23)

Asian Dragoons enabled, better units in a variety f ways

9 July – Trade Depot in Tahiti; Marketplace in Sumbawa; Courthouse in Flores

20 Nov – After war for more than a decade, Ming loses 6 provinces to Oirat.

Our awesome King is 72. He’s going to die soon. And when he does, we’ll lose all of that awesome Power development he’s been building for us post-Westernization

8 June, 1725 – Fish is the trade of the day in Nauru

13 July – We order a Canal in Tahiti, Temple in Mukhtuya

6 Aug – We get an event that raises inflation by 1

4 Sept – Our ruler has passed!


Our new king is Tuskul II (2/3/1). His heir is not yet established

Meanwhile we have a stability drop.


I do not seek to re-establish royal marriages to nations that we have as Protectorates

My worse diplo will require fewer official relationships

16 Dec – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Manchu

Current bonuses? 5/7/4 (We get +1 Admin for adviser, and -1 for policy, and +1 diplo due to adviser)

Who next?

Majapahit might be a good choice for re-acquaintance. Brunei? Malacca? Kutai? I’m still thinking

[Abe Sargent]

17 Jan, 1726 – We boost stability back to 3

22 Jan – New Heir – Nute-nli who is 1/5/2

4 Feb – I decline a RM offer from Tunis

4 Mar -


Halmahera – Chinaware province in the Sea of Trenate and connected via strat to Ternate and another unseen island. 5.97 cash made from tropical island with 2 tax value. Let’s upgrade that wall!


I wanna wait too see what that island is (often you’ll get a free reveal)

Actually, nah….

15 June – Uh oh. Manchu has been caught fabricating a clam on us!


Ust-Kut - 1 Nov 3.61 gold from 1 taxvalue, Ironing next to Oirat Horse in Kirenga. Next to us in Angara, East Tunguska, and Mukhtuya. North of Irkutsk.

Next?

The little island next to us was the nation of Tidore, in the Sea of Ternate. So I order folks to Palau and Vanuatu

1 April, 1527 – TECH!

The Threedeckers (Dip 25)

We get that ship, plus we get better naval morale

Rather than pay for your stuff, I get ready to upgrade my fleet – it’ll take another year-ish to get enough money to do it.


8 May – We get Manchu to ally with us again

6 June – Tidore has been working to improve their relations with us. I agree to reciprocate

1 Sept, 1728 – We upgrade the fleet

10 Nov – Our Heir gets tragically sick and dies

1 Jan, 1729 – I order a Spy Agency in Flores

31 Mar – Manchu just took 6 holdings from Ming


20 Sept – Ainu is having some Shinto rebellions going on

[Abe Sargent]

8 Apr, 1730 –

Nauru – Tropical, fishing, and low taxvlaue. But this island will be adequate someday I hope


Next up is Guam

14 June – Naval Supplies in Vanuatu

9 Aug – Horse Population Boom for 5 years decreases cavalry costs

26 Aug – Tropical Wood in Palau


13 Jan, 1732 - We have a child via a Lux Stella event and choose a 6/6/6 heir from the event.

18 Feb – Weapons Manufactory ordered for Chuna

23 Feb – Malacca took three provinces from Majapahit

3 Mar Majapahit offers an alliance and I agree

19 Apr – We renew our vows with them too

1 Aug – We order Temple in Lombok and Trade Depot in West Timor

[Abe Sargent]

2 Mar, 1733 – I order Temple in Ceram, Constable in Ampom

17 May – Military Tec

Covered Way (24)

Can build redoubts and get better in battle

10 Jan, 1734 – Naval Supplies in Guam

11 Feb – We order Temple in Stanovoy, Workshop in Nukhthui, Rampart in Ust-Kut

1 June – Tech –

Improved Irrigation (Admin 23) +!0% Production efficiency

1 Aug – Tech

The Eastindianaman (Dip 26)

We get Great Frigate, East Indianman, better colonial rang e(by 200!) and +25 settler growth!

I order settlers to return from Palau

I dispatch them to Samoa, which I just cleansed of natives

27 Sept - I recall my colonist leader from Vanuatu and order him to Tonga

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1735 –

Palau – 1 tax value and tropical woods are available here for 2.15 cash in this tropical holdings in the Pacific and with 75% autotomy


13 Jan – We order a Temple in Halmahera, Constable in Ceram and Lombok, Workshop in Ambom

21 Mar – Just for fun, I’m sailing an Explorer I just made north of Tahiti. I want to find all of this fun stuff! But I’ll skip which places I’m finding and crap like that

9 Jun – Portuguese Mexico declared war against Kamchadal California

Probably thought they were better than they are, I expect – they just finished their massive rebels, maybe looking for something to push away from the difficult in-fighting? War always brings a country together?


I don’t think they’ll win. Our nation has more troops and ships, by far. Maybe you should have picked on Alaska


2 July –

Vanuatu – Naval Supplies on the route in the Pacific is a fun stop, with 1 tax value and just 1.8 cash made in this tropical holding of ours


11 Aug – Another Horse Population Boom

4 May 1736 – We plunge into and find Midway Island

2 July – We order:

Temple (USt-Kut)
Marketplace (Angara, Kan, Mukhtuya, Tomsk)
Workshop (Chulym, West Tunguska, East Tung)
Constable (Stanovoy)


That was two years worth of money, since I was busy exploring in the Pacific

17 Oct – War Update – We have captured two provinces in Baja California and are besieging another

15 Dec – We land at the Marshall Islands and reload and head back out

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1737 – I pull our colonist from Guam

We send them to Midway

15 Apr – Hello Hawaii, with your 5000 folks!

6 Jun – I land my troops in Hawaii and stay there for a while

1 Aug –

Guam – Naval Supplies, etc. And cheap folks!

I create a Trade Company called the Philippine Charter. I give it Guam, Palau, and Nauru. It won’t let me give Vanuatu and Tahiti

24 Sept – Fish in Samoa

1 Oct – Fish in Tonga too

1 Jan, 1738 – We build:

Constable (Halmahera)
Workshop (Ceram, Lombok, Ket)
Marketplace (Ampom, Turukhan, Chulym)


11 June, 1739 – Tropical Wood in Midway


16 Nov – Special Graduating Class of 1739 from Kamchatka U

22 Nov – I order:

Marketplace (Ceram, Ket, West Tunguska, East Tung)
Trade Depot (Ampom)
Workshop (Baykha)
Constable (Turukhan, Ust-Kut, Mukhtuya)
Temple (Tomsk)

[Abe Sargent]

5 Mar, 1740 – Plague hits Omolon. I pay to keep it down. It reduces us to 5 cash

2 Apr – 200 colonists migrate from Midway to Samoa

Samoa – Fishing, 2 tax value, very little money and lots of fun. I can’t give this to our Trade Company either. Odd.


Next are sent to Hawaii

21 Aug – We get an event for Diplomatic Moves

16 Nov - Another Great Class of Kamchatka U

4 May, 1741 –

Tonga – Yet another small tax value fishing Pacific province that I can’t give to any Trade Company


Next is Micronesia

2 June – War Update? Still not a lot in the battle with K.C. and P. Mexico

1 July – We build:

Workshop (Ust-Kut, Mukthaya, Stanovoy, Turukhan)
Trade Depot (Nukhtui, Jugjur)

2 Oct – We kill the rest of the natives on Hawaii

1 Jan, 1743 – We build:

Marketplace in Lombok
Trade Depot in Angara, Kan, Chulym, Tomsk, Turukhan, Baykha
Temple in Ket


10 Feb – Sugar in Hawaii

I pull colonists off Midway and send them to Marshall Islands

1 Aug – I order:

Marketplace in Stanovoy, Ust-Kut
Trade Depot in Mukhtuya, East Tung

We are gaining roughly 25 gold a month

1 Oct – Trade Depot for West Tung

Our last order to get built prior to the 300 year Review next November


27 Dec – Tropical Wood in Micronesia

14 July, 1744 – We announced a Royal Marriage with Tidore, in the Sea of Ternate!


11 Sept – Tidore enters into a military alliance with us

Tidore Westernized, and I missed that earlier, so I can vassalize them. And they are willing (currently a check mark) I just need to drive them up in their like with me with Gifts and such. Then we can absorb them into our nation!

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1744


The 300 Year Review!!!


Let’s call it in grand fashion, after 300 years of peace and success!


Let’s begin with maps!


Here’s Siberia, Asia and Europe for ya:



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So there’s Map 1. Our Siberia Holdings are a bit smoother. There’s still some stuff down there I didn’t want to move into that quickly. You can see the grossly expanded Oirat Horde, as well as our roughly-eternal ally in Manchuria. Ming is in the middle of yet another rebel horde. Ming China is a thing of the past, and you can see nations like Dai Viet, Manchu, Yi, Miao, and Oirat have just nibbled at it over time.

The red at the base of Korea is land that Japan took. Because of our support of Ainu in the north after revolting, Japan never came back and took it.

Novgorod won some wars vs Muscovy, and I have to admit, Muscovy was the best neighbor ever. I had 14000 troops stationed on the border ever since I connected to them, and they never brought over any troops, never fabricated claims against me, and never came my way at all. They helped me Westernize, and were the best neighbor I’ve had in quite a while.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, next, up, the Indies:


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As you can see, it’s very similar to before, so I won’t bore you with repeating stuff. Note that Malacca is the first nation to colonize the Philippines. You can also see Malacca’s gains in Java from Majapahit. You can see Palau, our colony far to the east of the Philippines and we have Halmahera, in between all of those forces in the Sea of Ternate (which includes Tidore and Ternate)

Great Britain took Christmas Island, and Portugal the small island in the south-east. No one has touched Papua-New Guinea. Fears of this being a Castilian sea were not founded.

[Abe Sargent]

The Pacific and stuff!


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Pacific1744_zps65edcbc8.jpg


I had to zoom out and it’s hard. East of the Paused bar is Midway and thence to Hawaii. Below it are several islands we have. West is Guam. Tahiti is the far east island chain.

Portugal took the western edge of Australia, and southern New Zealand. Castilian Tierra Austral is strong and mighty, and even the UK took some stuff in New Zealand and New Caledonia.

[Abe Sargent]

South America!


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/SouthAmerica1744_zps0ca3b078.jpg


There are still vast swaths of South America unclaimed, which strikes me as quite odd, since we have like every scrap of other places taken (you’ll see) Why Great Britain and Portugal saw the need to take every province in Alaska astonishes me, but left wealthy coastal and inland provinces in Brazil and other places untouched is beside me.

The Moroccan colony is now three provinces, And Denmark had more until colonies were burned in war. By Austria. You have Portugal, France, all over and currently under ownership is Castilen La Plata and Peru

[Abe Sargent]

Now let’s get real. North America!


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We only colonized two continents. Siberia and North America. You can see us in Aleut and down through Kamchadal Alaska, and then Kamchadal California. They are still at war.

Meanwhile, Castile has spread across the map like an ugly yellow blob. All of that New Castile Yellow you see in Central America is also New Castile. They are an ugly bear. Combine with Florida and Castilian Louisiana and you have a huge problem. Note that Navajo absorbed multiple tribes around it

Anyway, you have Dutch Louisiana, and Norway’s Vinland still there. Nova Hollandia is in Canada, representing the world in Orange. You also have French Canada and the Thirteen Colonies. Don’t ignore New Norway in Virginia, Denmark and the Netherlands in the Carolinas, and such.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, now let’s look at stuff other than maps!


Our Allies: Majapahit, Tidore, Manchu
Colonial Nations: Kamchadal Alaska, Kamchadal California
Protectorates: Ainu, Sulu, Buton, Ternate, Luwu
Royal Marriage: Majapahit, Manchu, Tidore
Military Access: Via Muscovy



Ranking:

Admin – 16th
Diplo – 41st
Mil – 76th

That’s so far behind where I normally am, it’s awesome!

I intentionally left my military behind the last 25 years or so and built my economy and nation instead. Butter over guns!


We make 65.28 gold monthly. That’s 19th best. The best? Portugal with 309.54.

The most techs? 80 The least? 22 (by some revoloters). We have 73. So we mostly caught up there. 22 ideas is pretty low though. The most ideas was 46.

We have the 162nd highest score

We have 53 provinces

That includes the 4 colonies of Hawaii, Midway, Micronesia and Marshall Islands


We had 37000 troops, and again, we did not expand. The most was Oirat with 242000, and then Frnace with 175000. We have as many troops as New Castile does.

We have 30 ships. The most is Portugal with 425. Kam. Cal. has more than us!

[Abe Sargent]

We were 100% Shamanist, 97.5% Kamahatkan (Only one Yukaghiri)

Fur – 22.6%
Iron – 17.0%
Fish – 11.3%
Copper – 11.3%


Trade Goods ordered by value on the market:

Silk
Cotton
Dyes
Tobacco
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Iron
Cloth
Fur
Cocoa
Sugar
Ivory
Copper
Tea
Slaves
Naval Supplies
Wine
Tropical Wood
Salt
Fish
Grain
Wool
Gold


I’m not going province by province. I’m bored. So instead, what are our top provinces?

It’s basically a list of all of my provinces with manufacotories




Flores
Yarmanka
Gizhiga
Yakut
Chuna
Maya

Etc



Alright, and we are done!

[Abe Sargent]

My assessment of the dynasty:



Well, some assessment. This is my first dynasty I’ve ever played as a pagan nation at all. Luckily I didn’t do it in a harder game (EU2, EU3). Yuck. We started way out there, and we had little in the way of war. I beat all three local one province Siberian Clan Tribe folks, and then later, much later, I took out a one province tribe in Washington State and then a two province trice right beside it. And then that was it. And those lands went to Colonial Nations.

We westernized, we swapped governments and finished with an Administrative Monarchy which worked fine from where I’m sitting. No issues here at all.


I think our presence was mostly expected based on the game. We took Kamchatka and eastern Siberia very early. Then hopped to Aleut, and then back to Siberia a bit. We waited on Siberia for a while, jumped to wealthier land abroad in California, and then built a colony there for a while, and then hopped around the New World for quite some time, building two colonial nations. Then it was back to Siberia with a lot of colonies. It wasn’t until we pushed Siberia as safely as we could before heading to the Indies to fight for what was left, and then European powers, and lots of Asian ones, moved in and expanded into the area. We grabbed a handful of colonies in the Indies (Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, East & West Timor, Halmahera, Ampom, Ceram) and that’s it. We didn’t expand militarily (although we could have, we could have taken Sulu, Tidore, Ternate, etc) instead playing nice in the area. We allied with Brunei, Majapahit, and many others. Then after influencing the area and finished our 8 islands, we hopped to the Pacific and began to gobble stuff there while filling in Siberia. Never fought for islands in the Indian Ocean, South America, Africa, Asia main continent (outside of Siberia/Kamchatka) and we steered clear for Borneo, Sulawesi, Philippines, Taiwan, etc.

Very realistic representation of a nation that united the Siberian tribes, was out of the world sight while building and switching government, and then beginning to move down.

And remember that our dynasty was hurt for a while by a 50+ year King with the worst possible stats 1/1/1. That was just awful.

I think we did well.

[Abe Sargent]

After finishing a dynasty like this, particularly one that uses a new expansion very heavily, I know folks will want my full assessment on everything.

First of all, in a game with an expansion that wanted to push the playability of pagans, there were a few rules that really hamstrung us. The first is the gold thing. Not getting full value out of gold makes no sense. It makes even less sense being tied to the one thing I can’t change – religion. Make it tied to the Siberian Clan Council or something instead. Give me the chance to change/fix it!

I also hated the autonomy for colonies near me, or next to me. This hurts people in areas with a lot of open territory. Perhaps we could have a colony, even one adjacent, start with a 50% autonomy, and have it drop over time, just like a captured province. Makes sense.

I think that mechanic was at its most laughable when we saw the one tribe move from one province (Kolyma) to another (Yarmanka) then I captured the new one and colonized the old. Even though the move happened and then we moved in, the captured land, right beside the colonized one, had its autonomy get cut over time. The difference in value of those two provinces, after centuries, is crazy.

I’ve asked for more trade goods for a long time, and after my run through with cocoa’s addition in my last EU3, I remarked that I hope it was the beginning of the floodgates. And we got three new trade goods – Tropical Wood, Dyes, and Silk. I thought they were all good changes. I also enjoyed the dynamism of how trade goods weren’t just supply and demand anymore, but there were events that changed the demand of goods. Slaves were tied to the rise of plantation goods, for example. I’ve never felt the trade goods feel more organic than I did in this run through.

I absolutely adored the new additions to provinces, nations, and such that inspired me to run this dynasty. Good stuff!



Technical Stuff – Except for my war with Oirat, I was on the fastest sim speed the entire time. I blew through years in minutes. I’ve never finished 300 years in a dynasty in four days. That’s crazy. It took me some extra time due to slowdown at the end though. Victoria II had a similar issue that kept me from coming back. I usually end my FOFC dynasties earlier than 300 years when some pre-given condition is met. I might run 200 years in a week of real life time. Maybe a little slower. This? Thsat was crazy!


I’m still in an EU4 mood actually. At this rate , I could run a whole other dynasty!

Maybe I’ll just read or something instead!


Let me know if you have any questions. I do like autonomy as a mechanic, just not as the hoser of all things colony. I think it needs some trimming. There ‘s a Steam Workshop mod to remove it, but that stuff is always buyer beware, you know?

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, all done, let me know if you have any questions -

And thanks, as always, for reading!!!

[Cap Ologist]

Enjoyed it greatly, gonna fire up up a game later.

[Abe Sargent]

Enjoyed it greatly, gonna fire up up a game later.

Awesome!

[britrock88]

A lot of fun, Abe, thanks.

[HarryLime]

thx Abe.. look forward to your next adventure!

[Abe Sargent]

thanks all!