Abe's New EU4 Dynasty of Mysore...um...Bharat is Now Complete!!! [Archive]

Abe Sargent

08-12-2015, 08:45 PM

The Mysore Palace, held by the Ruling Family, is a major tourist attraction, even today, and is the Taj-Majal of Southern India

http://mysore.ind.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/IMG_7142.jpg

Mysore in Karnataka still retains that vintage old world charm, endowed with distinct culture, tradition and heritage. Its palaces and other monuments, ramparts and boulevards, palatial bungalows and imperial artefacts, art schools and galleries are some of the precious insignia that give Mysore its inherent charm. But above all, the Dasara festival hosted by the heritage city draws lakhs of tourists from all over the world even today. During the 10 day festivities the normally calm, slow, peaceful city erupts into life and every street and street corner is bustling with activity. Houses, shops and important buildings in the city are decorated and illuminated for the period of the celebrations. Today Dasara in Mysore has become the state festival of Karnataka. (quoted from here: http://www.newsonair.nic.in/Karnataka-Mysore-Dasara-feature.asp)

They light it up at night too

http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00934/25bgp_palace_lights_934111g.jpg

Abe Sargent

08-12-2015, 08:51 PM

Inside our new home....I mean the Mysore Palace :)

http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/01222/28bg_MYRKK_palace__1222098e.jpg

http://www.indialine.com/travel/images/mysore-palace-hall.jpg

http://www.worldwidephotos.org/pics/4544_b.jpg

Our Throne Room:

http://mangalorean.com/images/newstemp30/20120102my-3.JPG

(Now, to be historically accurate, this pimp palace won't be built for a while. And I don't care:) )

Abe Sargent

08-12-2015, 08:56 PM

More quotes about us:

The Wodeyars were great patrons of art and music and have contributed significantly to make Mysore a cultural centre. Mysore is well known for its palaces, museums and art galleries and the festivities that take place here during the period of Dasara attract a world wide audience.

Another:

Wodeyar kings of Mysore have built quite a few palaces in Mysore and this has earned the city the sobriquet of City of Palaces.

Did you know? There is a traditional form of painting calling Mysore Painting?

Mysore painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_painting)

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http://mysore-paintings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/slide5.jpg

Abe Sargent

08-12-2015, 09:04 PM

You want to read this Guardian article. Check it out:

Sriram Karri: The Tipu Sultan finial is up for auction. But do the British have the right to sell India's history? | Comment is free | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/mar/30/india-heritage)

Enjoy this little history lesson, in case you care:

Tipu Sultan was the East India Company's most tenacious enemy. According to propaganda from the Company, Tipu was "a cruel and relentless enemy", an "intolerant bigot", a "furious fanatic" with "a rooted antipathy and inveterate hatred of Europeans" who had "perpetually on his tongue the projects of Jihad". The Company badly wanted to take over Mysore and to seize its considerable mineral riches. To this end, the advocates of Regime Change went on a concerted propaganda drive, arguing that Tipu was a threat to the whole region. Tipu was certainly a tough and brilliant general. In the course of five wars against the Company, he inflicted on them the most humiliating defeat ever suffered by the British at Indian hands - the battle of Pollilur, in 1780. This battle, which took place only a few months before the equally disastrous surrender at Yorktown and the loss of the American colonies, was a tactically brilliant victory by Tipu, and led to the capture of no less than one in five of all British soldiers in India. More than 7,000 British men, along with an unknown number of women, were held captive by Tipu.

Tipu, it is now clear, was one of the most creative, innovative and capable rulers of the pre-colonial period. Tactically, the Mysore forces were fully the match of those of the East India Company, and Tipu's sepoys were every bit as well trained by their officers as those of the Company were by theirs; indeed, the steely discipline of the Mysore infantry amazed and worried many British observers. The sepoys' flintlock rifles and horse-drawn light cannon were based on the latest French designs, and were much superior to the Company's old matchlocks. Tipu watched the way the European companies trained their troops and equipped his own forces so he could beat the British at their own game, so he studied their economic methods and put in place a number of extremely imaginative measures which quickly transformed the economy of Mysore.

He tried to import European industrial technology through French engineers and experimented with harnessing water-power to drive his industrial machinery. French artisans were welcomed to Seringapatam, where they taught the craftsmen of Mysore the secrets of printing and of manufacturing porcelain, glass and watches, as well as the art of tapestry weaving. Tipu sent envoys to southern China to bring back silkworm eggs and established sericulture in Mysore, an innovation of his that still enriches the region today.

He set up a department of animal husbandry to breed superior strains of draught cattle and horses, and he built a network of new roads. More remarkably still, he created what amounted to a large State Trading Company with its own ships and factories dotted across the Persian Gulf, through which he began to open up a profitable trade with the Middle East. His substantial library, which contained some 2,000 volumes in several languages, was full of books not only about theology, ethics, Sufism, cosmology and Islamic jurisprudence, but also on history, poetry, the sciences, mathematics and astronomy and "was a library to do a Mughal prince proud", as one scholar later commented.

Perhaps the greatest of all the arts of the court of Tipu are the metalwork and jewellery. Tipu clearly loved beautiful objects, which filled his carefully amassed treasury and, as one observer described, he "passed the greatest part of his leisure hours in reviewing this various and splendid assemblage of his riches".

The British will sack his capital after a long siege, and despite his cleverness, there was ultimately one result:

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Beatson wrote the following year: "Those who have served in this campaign, victorious and brilliant as it has proved, will however, I believe, agree that the infantry of the Sultaun were not inferior to our sepoys; and that, had he been joined three or four months ago by four or five thousand French troops, which he had every reason to expect, the event might have been very different" (Beatson, London, 1800, Appendix No. XXXIII, pp. ci-civ).

The British took it over for good, and essentially annexed it...

Tipu was too late. Despite his alliance with the French, at the end of the day, he couldn't stave off the British forever. His brilliance came too late for Mysore.

But what if someone pushed earlier? Moved earlier? Was truly creative earlier? What would happen to history then?

Abe Sargent

08-12-2015, 10:15 PM

Welcome to Mysore

Mysore is a one-province minor power in Southern India. In many ways, it’s a tough place to start, but it has some distinct advantages:

Problems

1. Mysore is landlocked by the huge yellow blob of Vijayanagar
2. Mysore has two provinces to its west on the coast, owned by Malabar, who is guaranteed by Vijayanagar.
3. Mysore doesn’t have any obvious expansion opportunities early on. It would have to head south to the pone province Kochin, Venad, or Madurai.

Good Stuff

1. Mysore is allied with Vijayanagar
2. Mysore is one of the better developed provinces in the area, it’s a iron mining province in the mountains with a Tropical aspect (Bad in a lot of ways, but hard to conquer.). It has a level 3 fort, which is rare post-Common Sense.
3. It is already developed, with two open slots for buildings.
4. It has a solid taxbase of 5, with a solid trade good.
5. Like many Indian provinces, it is surrounded by rivers on every side.

Abe Sargent

08-12-2015, 11:38 PM

So it will virtually impossible to take out that province right now. Level 3 fort is great, attacking armies suffer a penalty when crossing an army to hit a place, and jungle terrain is +2 attrition for enemies.

Now, jungle is tougher – local build costs, development costs, and supply limits are down. But even with that, we make more money than any of the 5 provinces adjacent to us.

We begin the game with 5000 troops. We are the only level 3 fort in southern India. Ou rally has 20k, and nearby Malabar also rocks 5k.

Mysore is a Hindu nation. We are of the Kannada culture. One of the Malabarian provinces, South Kanara, is also Kannada, but their capital is Malayalam. Next to us are Tamil and Kannada provinces in Vijayanagr. There are 11 such provinces in all.

We are an Indian tech group nation, and advance at that rate.

Abe Sargent

08-12-2015, 11:59 PM

Our initial goals are simple, and long term ones as well:

1. Survive and growth our economy
2. Expansion into an army in southern India, or even to hit Malabar later.
3. Expand outside of the Yellow Umbrella of Vijayanagar
4. Build up our military.
5. Expand throughout India.
6. Form a multi-national state, Bharat, a pan-Hindu united India.

Mysore is ruled by the Raja Ganga Raja Ummatur, a 2/1/3 monarch. With no legal heir. We have Feudal Monarchy, which gives us +10% manpower

We have a stability of 0, 50 golds, 10000 manpower,

As a Hindu, we get +1 tolerance of heatherns and true faith. We can choose our deity.

Shiva makes no sense right now, and neither does Ganesha, or Shakti. Vishnu would be useful in some situations, but not right now. So I’m looking at Ganga for the reduced build cost for Surya.

Surya - +10% national taxes, +10% national trade income

Seems like the good choice for us right now.

Surya is our new god!

(Surya lasts until our monarch dies or is changed somehow)

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 01:00 AM

There are three missions out there to choose from: Improve Prestige, Royal Marriage with Vijayanagar, or Save the Kannada people in South Kanara. I go with the RM.

Our South Indian Traditions give us +10% production and +33% religious unity

I send a merchant each to Goa and to Ceylon.

We make 1.9 gold a month. We spend 1 a month on our fort and 1.32 on our army. That’s a net loss if you do the math. I slash our army maintenance by half and I mothball our fortress for now. They have no garrison and half the upkeep.

Now we make some cash.

We have two core provinces out there under Vijayanagar’s control – Kongu and Morasanadu, both island and east of us. They are both lower quality farming areas.

I send a diplomat to Vijayanagar to institute a Royal Marriage.

We have no advisors, and I don’t really like any of these options either.

I change our national focus to Admin, so I can build up quickly to begin to improve our stability.

I choose Malabar as our rival.

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 12:07 PM

Let's begin with a map, all zoomed in for you:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Mysore%201_zpsj4hbngtc.jpg

As you can see, the great yellow blob of Vijayanagar is all about us. You can see the various one=province states to our collective south or on teh northern part of Ceylon. The poorer, but two province Kalabar is westward. We are landlocked and ready to rock.

Oh and the blue bits on the north is the large state of Bahmanis, and to the east is a stip of coastal land owned by Orissa.

Grover

08-13-2015, 03:24 PM

Abe, are you going for Hindustan?

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 03:50 PM

Long term, yes, basically. But Im not eligible to form Hindustan, I'm Hindu. I can make Bharat.

Names of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_India#Bh.C4.81rata)

In the game:

Bharat - Europa Universalis 4 Wiki (http://www.eu4wiki.com/Bharat)

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 04:00 PM

One of the things that attracted me to this dynasty is that I did colonial heavily with my Oman and Kamchatka dynasties, so I wanted to run around without having to worry about that. This gives me that opportunity. You won't see Mysore or other Indian powers settling Australia, California, or South Africa. That's something that really appeals to me, you know?

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 05:13 PM

Its 11 Nov, 1444. Let’s begin.

12 Nov – Vijayanagar has agreed to our Marriage proposal. That gives us improved Foreign Contacts for a decade and extra relations for that time.

My three options this time are Improve our Prestige, Save the Kannada People in South Kanara and then gain relations with Kochin, the rival of our rival. I choose the Rival of my Rival one.

I send a diplomat there to increase our relations

Jan 9, 1445 – The nation of Madurai has offered us an alliance. They are a one-province nation souther of Vijayanagar. They are, unfortunately, allied with Madabar. They are friendly towards us and view us as a natural ally to protect them. I agree. I suspect that I’ll move against Madabar eventually, and having allies in the states that I later expect to annex or bring into the Mysore nation would make sense.

13 February – WHEW!

We have announced the birth of a new Heir to the Throne:

Chamaraja – 2/3/3

28 Feb – I accept a Royal Marriage proposal from Madurai

13 Mar – Vijayanagar sent a warning to Madurai

1 April – After investing in Admin for a bit, I raise our stability to 1.

I gain a new National Decision that we can take with the new stability:

Religious Sect Tolerance

+1 tolerance of heretics
-2% Missionary strength vs heretics

I’m fine for now.

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 05:50 PM

24 May – I offer Kochin an alliance, and they accept. This leaps our relations above the required amount.

We gain some prestige and diplomatic power for our mission.

Our next three missions are:

Save the People….
Improve our Prestige…
Protect against Malabar

I take the protect mission and order us to build 1000 more troops in Mysore.

13 June - I send a diplomat to begin improving relations with Ceylon. They are Buddhist, and specifially Theraveda, so we have a negative relations with them, so I want to massage that a bit if I might.

15 June – I get a Royal Marriage offer from Kochin. I accept.

25 July – Our army is built and we now have 6000 troops just like our river. We get an event for a decade – Thriving Arms Industry which gives is -15% recruitment time and -10% costs.

For our next mission, the new mission is to get access to the Sea via South Kanara, and then of course to Save Them and Improve out Prestige. Two out of three missions are to take South Kanara. I choose the Save the People one, and we gain a Conquest CB for Malabar to free our people.

So let’s take a closer look at Malabar.

Our relations are at -103
We are each each other’s rivals

They are allied with Madurai and Venad. We are allied with Vijayanagar, Madurai, and Kochin

Due to our alliances, this might be doable soon

2 August – I order another 1000 troops in Mysore

14 Sept – A huge war has spread out, engulfing the northern Indian states:

Delhi begun the Delhi Reconquest of Katechar against Juanpur.

Delhi and their allies – Bengal, Nagaur, and Jangladesh. They are warring against Juanpur, Mewat, Mutan, Bagelkhand, Khandesh, and Gujrarat.

25 Sept – I jack our military maintenance back up

I turn our leader into a General and send him to our men.

1 January, 1446 – I pull back one of our diplomats.

3 January – Vijayanagar issues a independence guarantee to Malabar. Well that sucks. They are basically telling us to knck it off. Sigh..

13 January – he arrives home, I send im back and slash our budget again

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 06:33 PM

1 Feb – We get an event for the Sale of Titles. I order that Nobility cannot be bought and our stability rises!!!

1 Aug -- I buy another stability raise

14 Sept – In the north, land is beginning to change hands a bit.

17 December – Vijayanagar declare war upon Gurarat citing trade disputes

I start watching things a little more closely. Will there be a window doe us to Declare war on Malabar rand make it a fait accompli?

I increase my army maintenance a bit.

In a war like this my intention will be to strike quickly. So I need that flexibility.

7 Mar, 1447 – It’s time. I declare a Conquest CB on Malabar for the province of South Kanara

Kochin and Madurai do not join us. I’m not at war with almost all of South Inida, but the forces we are wagining against aren’t here, save for Malabar

26 Mar – We win a major victory in their capital of Malabar.

I follow them to South Kamara

They flee from us and we begin a siege.

11 May - -We capture South Kanara (No fort)

15 May – The Timuraids entered an alliance with Malabar

13 June – Kochin offers us an alliance again, and I accept.

11 July – I accept an alliance offer from Madurai

I accept an offer to help Vijayanagar in their war against Gujarat, Khandesh, and Sunda

29 Sept – A 4000 strong Malabar army arrives in Mysroe and begins to siege us back

3 January, 1448 – They have a disease outbreak in Malabar

16 Aug – After a siege of 451 days, we have taken Malabar

I order our troops to raise the siege in Mysore

10 Sept – We drove them from our captial and chase them to South Kanara

19 Sept – We have routed their army and removed their fighting capacity.

We force them to give us South Kanara, 30 gold

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 06:36 PM

Here I’ll take a post-war pic for you:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Mysore%202_zpszti94pjp.jpg

You can see the 40oo-ish troops we have in South Kanara. You can see the various benefits.

I spend the 96 ADM power it’ll take to make this province a core. Then I’ll look at it more fully in 17 months or so.

JonInMiddleGA

08-13-2015, 07:22 PM

12 Nov – Vijayanagar has agreed to our Marriage proposal. That gives us improved Foreign Contacts for a decade and extra relations for that time.

Marriage? Providing "extra relations"?

Well there's a real immersion killer, no realism to that at ALL

:D

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 07:32 PM

I jack our maintenance back down for y’all

24 Sept, 1449 – Peace has been forged between Vijayanagar and Gujarat. Vijayanagar took two provinces from their foes and grow in strength. And that war enabled us to get South Kanara from Malabar too.

10 Octo – Madurai broke their alliance with us

6 January, 1450 – Vijayanagar agrees to give us military access and that way I can smash folks to the south

25 February – South Kanara is now fully en-cored.

South Kanara – Our fellow Hindu and Kannada brothers here are mainly working the Tropical Wood harvesting and preparation. The Tropical, Jungle and Coastal province is gives us a path out to the sea. With a taxvalue of 4, the province I not doing too badly, but we are getting just .37 gold a month from there They have 6.3% unrest and 38.2% autonomy. It has no buildings not even a fort, and slots for 2. I have no desire to build a fort here, they have a huge cost. The development level is 10. I can spend 80 Admin, Mil ,or Dip to improve the province. It had 359 manpower, and 5.0 trade power.

This is opposed to Mysore, which is technically Drylands.

5 April – The Bahmanis declar a Conquest against Vijayanagar. We agree to join them in their war. We are allied against Bengal and Khodynt

21 April – Another small war breaks out, with Kochin against Baluchistan, Venad, and Najd.

23 June – In the major peace in the north, Bahamnis took Khandesh and it has been fully annxed.

27 April, 1451 – After the Bahmanis took two provinces from Vijayanagr, I wanted and slipped a small army behind their lines and arrive to begin a siege on their province of Golconda

22 May – I am forced to retreat before a force of 14000 move to release the siege

12 June – Kochin is now at peace

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 07:33 PM

Marriage? Providing "extra relations"?

Well there's a real immersion killer, no realism to that at ALL

:D

Lol!

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 08:18 PM

28 Sept – I spend some Admin power to increase my taxes in Mysore province proper.

1 Feb, 1452 – With the war no where near me any more I jack down my maintenance. I now make around 1.5 gold a month

3 Feb – We get an event – Scandal at the Court- I Bribe an Advisor to take the blame so we lose some ducats but not stability

5 May – There was a small 2000 army from the Bahamanis next to us, and I sent my army over to send them back home and releasieve the siege in Malenadu

25 June – The battle takes too long and their 10000 forces arrive and they force us back

10 July 0 After maxing our relations with Ceylon, I send a diplomat to Orissa, a major sea state on the Indian east cost

19 Sept – Three more Vijayanagar provinces fall, and South Kanara is quickly taken as well

1 April, 1453 – We have built another 1000 cavalry in Mysore

8 June – I recapture South Kanara

13 August – I fled instead of facing an army of 20000. They are besieging Mysroe. That’ll likely tie up two armies for a long time. I order my army to circle around and then them again.

1 Oct – After I arrive to take down Golconda, they dispatch one of the armies from mYsore – a full 4 provinces away. It’s clear they are coming after me. I hold because a 9000 strong Vijay force is closing as well

23 Nov – After a long battle, our combined force wins the first major battle of theis war and flips the warscore from -31 to -23.

Now, they have 6 Vijayanagr provinces captured, but that was a hugh victoire! And the province falls to us as well

26 Feb, 1454 – We win another huge battle with the allied forces against another army broken off from Mysore, and another huge momentum swing

5 Apr – They hit us with a 3rd army, and while they lost 60% of their forces, they defeat us

I order another 1000 cavalry

9 Oct – We manipulate theiri forces around, hti them again, and win another major battle

20 Oct – Peace –

Vijayanagr is no longer the feudal lord of Jaffna.

That’s it

22 Oct – I take a Remove Malabar From the Map Mission and gain a Conquest CB on them

The War we just fought was good for us. First of all, we had a decided impact in keeping things close, and Vijayanagar didn’t lose some land to the blue beast. Secondly, we finish with a +200 maxed relations with them as well, so it’s unlikey they’ll come bothering us anytime soon. But thirdly?

They had to de-vassalize Jaffna, the one province nation on the north of Ceylon. And that could open up an opportunity for us. I send a diplomat to begin to build relations with them

Eventually I’m going to have to take on the big yellow blob, I get that. But right now, I don’t want them to look our way. I want to relax comfortably under their shadow, and absorb much of these smaller states in Southern India. Our next war will likely be to finish off Malaba And from there? Who knows?

I also like the idea of grabbing the rest of Ceylon under Jaffa as well. With my goal to unify these areas and thereby build an economic and military that can actually face a Bahamanis or Vijayanagar or Orissa on even terms.

I now have the CB for Malabar, and thence an opportunity to move up.

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 08:44 PM

24 December – Jaffna has sent diplomats to try to improve their relations bac kwith us

1 April, 1455 – We maximize relations with Orissa

We are making 1.3 g a month right now after army stuff

9 July, I don’t know why, but Ceylon just inexplicably decided to declare war against Vijayanagar for te province of Madurai.

I join our allies, and order our forces to send out

What I’d like to do ideally, is to marc hour forces to Ceylon and take them for ourselves, and then take something of theirs.

I ask for military access from Jaffna and they agree.

30 July – I accept an alliance offer from Jaffna, then a RM offer later on.

1 October – We arrive at the Jaffna province where the Ceylon forces are assembled.

12 Nov – I win the Battle of Vann iagainst 7000 Ceylon forces.

1 Dec – Vijayanagar is besieging their capital and use their province of Kandy.

31 Dec – We take Kandy (No Fort). I order our troops into Kotte.

3 March, 1456 – Ceylon loses the war (before its capital falls – we didn’t have enough warscore to get anything) and as to pay 10% war reparations for 10 years.

30 Mar – Vijayanagar has announced tat Gujurat is their new rival

9 April – Our Raja has passed. His heir is just 11, and therefore there will be a Regency Council until he is of age.

We lose a stability, and I buy it right back

Our Regency Council is really good – 2/4/3 – Long may it reign!!! 

19 April – We re-up our vows with Vijayanagar

I move to worship Shiva:

Shiva – Core Creation Cost - -10%, and Aggressive Expansion Impact - -5%

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 09:26 PM

19 June – We get an event – The Families Left Behind

The Recent War Took a Heavy Toll On Our People.

How to help them?

Ease the Tax Burden for 5 Years – 15% taxes
More Lenient Drafting – 5 years of -20% manpower
This is the Price to be Paid – 5 years of National Unrest

I choose the 3rd.

I love all of the options available post-Common Sense

For example:

Want to reduce your war exhaustion? Spend some Dip power to do so!
Want to deal with Rebels? You can spend some Mil power to send out the troops and drop unrest in that province by 30%.

1 October, 1456 –

Military Tech 3 – Late Medieval Military – We get +.50 Morale

2 February, 1457 – I hire a guy:

Timmaraja Billava, level 1 Military Tech, age 43

1 May, I begin to preoare for our next war by jacking up maintenance

27 July – Our truce with Malabar has expired. They have 3000 troops in their Capital. My army is in South Kanara because the boundary between it and Malabar is not over a river.

Feh. I forget that I can’t declare war during a Regency. Back down the maintenance goes.

1 Jan, 1458 – I have another national decision ready if I want:

Support the Haridasa Movement:

Lasts forever
Stability Cost - -10%
Missionary Strength - +2

Mutually exclusive with Advaita

That one would give me-1 National Unrest and the same strength. Do I prefer the Unrest or Stability benefit?

I like the Unrest one a bit more. I cn’t unlock it until I have someone with ADM 3 or more. Neither the council nor the heir qualify. And I don’t need missionaries right now, so I’ll skip it.

12 February, 1458 – We get a Promising Trader event – I don’t have the cash for two though

5 Aug – We have maximized relations with Jaffna. Next will be another run with Orissa

1 Oct –

We have gained Medieval Admin – We get +10% production and we can support rebels abroad

2 Feb – 1459 – Relations have been maxed

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 09:34 PM

1 May –

Dip 3 – The Early Carrack –

Max Colonial Range, +10% trade efficient, bonus Naval Morale, Maintenance, and Settle Growth and we can build an Early Carrack

3 July – Jaffna gets an event about importing Iron, and they have chosen us. (Mysore is an iron mining province after all).

1 February, 1460 – Our advisor has passed

14 February – 1460 – Our ruler has now come of age:

Raja Chamaraja II Ummatur

2/3/3

15 years old

I move him to general, and jack up that maintenance again

4 Apr – Some rebels are popping up in Vijayanagar. They are 15,000 pretenders

1 May - Bengal, Delhi, Bahmanis and a few smaller states are at war with Orissa, and some of their minors. Vijay is distracted.

This seems like a good time to annex someone.

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 10:22 PM

I only call on Kochin.

War:

Us and Kochin vs

Malabar, Madurai, and Venad

That’s looking like a winning draw to me. There’s an outside chance I can be a real nasty guy and do something antagonistic to Madurai and Venad.

20 May – Their forces arrived in Malabar and routed their 5000 strong army.

14 Feb, 1461 – the pretender rebels in Vijaya anagr have taken their first province

31 Mar – Another falls to the rebels

28 July - We take Malabar. I order our forces to Venad.

22 Aug – We defeat the main Venad force and Kochin is sieging them. The Madurai force has arrived in Malabar and I order our troops to head back

29 Sept – Although it was longer and harder than we had expected, we won in Malabar against the Madurai army

17 Oct – We followed them into Kochin and routed them. I order our army to their capital, while Kochin is taking Venad.

1 Nov – A third province falls to the rebels

24 Nov – We get an event:

Seeing the Real You – My wife wants me to pray and meditate more. I choose how much shee means to be and we get a good, strong heir:

Yadu Raya – 5/4/1.

14 Jan, 1462 – We get an event for a Merchant Defects. I choose to go with Increased Free Trade for 10 years, +10% trade income, -10% spy

1 Oct – Venad falls to Kochin

I don’t want to take Venad for Kochin, so I hold off for now.

12 May, 1463 – We finally take the Madurai province and get a full 100 warscore. Now we can write our ticket:

1). I annex Malabar
2). I force-vassalize Madurai
3). I annex Venad
4). We gain 64 gold

We get a huge badboy rating, and 10.6 Aggressive Expansion Relations,

Abe Sargent

08-13-2015, 10:25 PM

Let’s give you another pic…..

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There we have it,. You can see us in Malabar and Venad provinces. Our ally, Kochin, is the pink land between us. Our vassal, Madurai, is to the east of Venad. Out other major ally in the area, Jaffna, can be seen. This was the first major step towards uniting the Southern Indian states. We took out Malabar, Venad, and then gained a vassal as well. I order the 86 ADM it’ll take to secure Malabar and the 51 for Venad, proper, and then our army will be in Venad for now.

After completing our tasks, I get a new bonus – Inspiring Victory - +10% manpower recovery and +1 prestige annually for ten years. Our next missin is to rebuild our manpower.

I order a diplomat to begin to enhance relations in Madurai.

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 09:01 AM

23 June – Madurai wants to be a March, not a Vassal, and sends us a missive.

As a March – no taxes, and no annexation possibilities. But, they are given many bonuses in manpower, recruitment, etc. I decline. I don’t need an ally, I need the money and, eventually, the land

1 July – Uh oh….

Vijayanagar broke their alliance with us. They have dropped their opinion of us to -14. This comes in part from their -137 desire to own 5 of our provinces.

I grant Kochin Military Access after they ask for it

The good news is that I won’t get pulled into any more wars by Vijayanagar, but the bad news is that they could assault us at any time.

I choose Vijay as our rival

Kochin got into a minor war that they wanted to move across our land for.

6 Aug – I get military access back from Kochin

I send someone to improve relations with Bahmanis. Maybe the rival of our rival….

5 Nov – A small force of 4000 troops arrive in Kochin and begin to siege it

16 Feb – 1464 – We get a Diplomatic Insult from Vijayanagar. I use it as an opportunity to dial back the crazy.

5 June – Another 5000 troops arrive in Kochin.

1 July – I hire a level 1 Natural Scientist, with a bonus to Production Efficiency – Mallappa Ummattur, 36 years old

16 Sept – Malabar becomes one of our blood and patrimony

6 Oct – Kochin falls

11 Oct – Kochin gives up cash and War Rep for their foes amd has to annul their treaty with Sind. That’s going to push them right to us I suspect – we are their only ally left now

16 Nov – Venad is now a patrimony as well

1 Dec – The culture of Malayalam is now fully accepted in our nation.

Our two new additions:

Venad – This spice jungle coastal province is on the tip of India proper. It just has a tax base of 2 though, and mkes 0.12 gold a month for us, with 5% unrest and 48.1% autonomy. The Malayalam and Hindu people here have 2.3 trade power, 234 manpower. Venad is claimed by us, Venad, Ceylon and Vijayanagar. It is south of Kochin, barely touches the Vijayanagar province of Madurai (not to be mixed with the nation) and the Madurai Nation of Tirunelveli. It’s not very developed and just has a development level of 7.

Malabar – The Spice trade is big here and the Hindu Malayalam people here have a huge trade power of 29.2, 284 manpower, and make 0.32 monthly with 3 taxbase, and 9 development. 7.2% unrest and 38.1% autonomy are here as well. Malabar is properly adjacent to Kochin, the Vijay province of Kongu, and then Mysore and South Kanara. Jungle, but also a coastal center of trade

My major goals now are to spend some time dropping our war exhaustion, working on our tech, growing our manpower back up, and then dropping our badboy image, and finally, working to bring Kochin and Jaffna more fully under our own umbrella.

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 03:06 PM

4 May, 1465 – This is the perfect time to strike with Kochin. They have no army, and were badly beaten in a war recently. They have no where else to turn.

I want to do what I can to bring them into our fold diplomatically

Orissa has lost badly and multiple provinces of theirs are dropping to Bahmanis.

1 June – I send 25 ducats to Kochin as a gift

9 July – We send a declaration of a guarantee for Kochin.

7 January, 1466 – We offer Vassalization to Kochin. It’s a big mean world out there after all. They accept.

We had a huge bonus to them:

+26 for economic base
+10 Royal Marriage
+10 Friendly
+3 Relations
-19 Military Power
-1 Trust

So at 49 vs 20, they join willingly

Jaffa has entered a minor war too with their allies Brunei and Arakan.

20 Feb – We get an event:

Merchants Worried About Lack of Protection

I choose:

For 6 months lowered trade range and efficient for That is Why is is Called Free Trade option

28 Feb – A peasant revolt strikes our vassal in Madurai. I order our forces in.

Mar 7 – Ming has a Civil War

18 May – Vijayanagar is continuing to have rebellion problems

11 July – I send my army and we defeat the peasants rebelling in Madurai’s land

1 Sept – I order 1000 cavalry in Venad

1 Nov, 1467 –

Pike Square (Mil 4) – W get +0.25 Tactics, and +0.5 morale

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 03:59 PM

2 Jan, 1468 –

Our Army is currently 10k – 4000 cavalry, and 6000 infantry. We have 123 gold, 6183 manpower (max is 12k). We make 1.5 gold a month, and that’s with our advisor

I can afford someone else, so I hire Lakshima Gowda, a 40 year old Trader for imrpove our Trade Efficiency

I spend some Admin to improve our Tax Bax in Malabar and then put it at 10 development level

There are multiple nations, like Baglana and Gondwana that are looking to improve relations with us.

1 Nov – We enter another RM with Kochin after their leader passed

4 April, 1469 – We max relations with Kochin, Madurai, and Jaffna

24 April – Vijayanagar takes out their last rebelling province

3 July – I ask for, and get, military access from Orissa

7 August – I send a Royal Marriage to Orissa, and it is accepted, bringing us closer together.

15 Aug – Orissa sends us an alliance proposal, and I accept

27 Aug – Jaffna’s war has ended

19 Nov – Orissa removes Vijay as a Rival and moves to someone else

11 Feb, 1470 –

Temples (Admin 4) – We can build them!

Temple – Costs 115 gold, takes 12 months to build, and gives us +40% local taxes.

The result would be +0.2 gold a month from Mysore. That’s 6 gold a year, and it pays for itself in 20ish years. I invest it

24 Feb – We get an Exceptional Year event. I take +50% tax benefits for the next year

1 Mar – We finish our mission! I get National Unrest -0.5 for 10 years and +10% taxes from REcoviering Economy bonus.

Next mission – Protect against Vijayanagr – they have 13000 troops, and us 10k, so I order some made.

8 Apr – We caught Vijayanagar fabricating a claim on Mysore. They are continuing with it though.

18 Apr – Vijay cancel their access with us

It looks like things may begin to get some real

25 Aug – I increase our army maintenance a bit – not all of the way

There are 14000 rebels troops next door in Morasanadu, and they have taken 2 Vijay provinces.

1 Oct – We now have 12000 troops and we complete our mission. We get a Thriving Arms Industry bonus again for 10 years

We have 7000 infantry and 5000 cavalry

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 04:40 PM

11 Feb, 1471 – We finish building the temple

1 Oct –

Marketplace (Dip 4) – Better trade range, and we ca build these Marketplace things

Marketplace – 115gs and +50% local trade

26 Feb, 1472 – We get an event:

Improvements in Government Technology

I don’t want inflation, so I Use Caution and bump it slightly

1 March – Influenza breaks out in Venad, and I quarantine it

23 May 1473 – 10 years ago we took Madurai in war as a vassal. They are loyal, and view themselves as our subjects, and we have a 200 relations.

Are they willing to annex diplomatically?

This will take 10 years and occupy a diplomat for that decade.

We get some prestige, annex Madurai, and other vassals drop in opinion

Their province is pretty weak – Fish, 3 tax base, 8 development. But it removes another nation, and brings us more fully into absorbing this area. I’d rather get Kochin first. They have spices and connect our holdings. It’s the better grab. And we can start in 3 years with them. So I hold off for now

1 June – The Flu is over!

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 05:15 PM

1 Mar, 1474 –We get a Gift to the State event

12 Dec – I order a marketplace in Malabar

8 May, 1475 – With a score of 53 to -40, Jaffna becomes our Vassal

11 June – I begin to Fabricate a claim on Kotte, the capital of Ceylon. I’d rather go south efirst, before hitting Vijayanagar

I couldn’t fabricate it before, but now that our vassal shares a border, it works

19 Aug – We get a National Epic Event

I fund it and we gain, for 20 years, a National Epic, that gives us +1 prestige annually

14 Jan, 1476 – I offer to annex Kochin, and they accept

18 June – We gain that claim on Kotte, the capital of Ceylon

20 Aug – We find an agent of Ceylon fabricating a claim against us in Venad. I begin to massage my army up, and move it to Ceylon

4 December – Kochin has joined our Illustrious Nation!!!

Results:

We get +5 prestige
Our relations with Madurai and Jaffna drop 30 each
We get -3 Diplomatic Reputation for 10 years

We gain 2000 Kochin Troops – both infantry

No ships though

Kochin – The Hindu Malayalam people work the spice trade in this jungle port province. They have a trade power of 2.7, development of 11, autonomy of 60%, 0.37 gold per month, 375 manpower, and nothing built here yet. Adjacent to our coastal provinces of Venad and Malabar, and adjacent to two Vijayanagar ones – Kongu, and Madurai.

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 06:44 PM

I order a diplomat to Madurai to make nice

3 Jan, 1477 – Our forces are brought together in one big army of love

20 Jan – All of our forces are in Jaffna.

A look at Ceylon:

Ceylon has two provinces on the island, both are Teravada faith. We have a core on their capital of Kotte, and Jaffna one on Kandy. I want to attack, strike, and take Ceylon – perhaps vassalize, perhaps just grab land, I’m not sure yet.

I massage my maintenance and wait. They have 8000 troops, and 5 vessels.

20 Feb – I decline Jaffna’s desire to be a March instesd of a Vassal.

My ultimate goal is to grab Ceylon, and then diplomatically annex Jaffna to get the full island

6 April – The best thing to ever happen happened

Ceylon has declared war on Jaffna.

Now we are fighting a defensive war. Perfect!

Battle Lines:

Ceylon and their allies – Hsenwi, Pegu, and Sunda

Vs

Mysore (we claimed the lead because of our prestige)
Jaffa, Madurai,
Ally Orissa
Orissa’s Marches – Jharkhand, Garjat

That;s not a war, or a Ceylon, long for this world I hope

I order my forces toKotte

14 May – We win in Kotte and I order our troops to follow them

20 May – We rout them.

24 June – Kandy falls to us

28 Nov – Bahamanis has announced us as their rival

4 Jan, 1478 – I get a military divided event and chose to always attack and get +10% siegeing

3 Jun - We capture Kotte

They will accept peace for Kandy, but not everything – they still have that fleet. We don’t have a perfect warscore.

We can take Kandy and some gold. I was going to wage an aggressive war, so this works, and we leave them Kotte, with the Casus Belli already on it.

5 June – We agree to the deal

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 06:45 PM

Here’s another image for you….

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You can see the results post-war. We gained some prestige, and yet we didn’t get that much Badboy. This was another aggressive war by Ceylon, and we were the ones that made out. I finish this war with good manpower, ADM power, but fewer gold than normal however.

As you can see, the colors in this area are becoming increasingly white. I want to annex both Jaffna (to Kandy’s north) and Madurai later on (in that order). Once I do that, and I take Kotte and bring it in, that’ll end the first major stage of this dynasty. From there I can start to hit the yellow blob.

I spend 67 admin power to Core Kandy, and it’ll take a while – almost 3 years to do. After that it will be Missionary time. I’ll show you Kandy in more detail once it’s up and running, because right now it’s spice trade is getting me a mighty 0.09 gold a month due to losses form unrest, autotomy, and different cultures and religion.

If I want to Form Bharat, as of today I have 4 of the 15 provinces needed and cored – Kochi, Venad, Mysore, and Malabar. I need Kotte from Ceylon, but I don’t need the other two down here

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 07:16 PM

17 June – I send a diplomat to improve relations with Jaffna

15 Sept – A new Raja rose to the throne in Jaffna. We enter into a new marriage

8 Dec – We discover an agent of Vijayanagar fabricating a claim on Malabar

1 February, 1479 – Our Scientist advisor passed.

I hire a Philosopher

27 July – Get Ready:

National Ideas (Level 5 Gvnment Tech)

We get +10% production and may now choose an idea!!!

SO what ideas to I like for Mysore?

Economic Ideas - Always solid, but it requires Admin to flesh out
Exploration Ideas or Expansion – If I wanted to begin colonizing the area, this would give us a Colonist to send out to places like the Maldives. But that’s not this dynasty.

Offensive Ideas , Aristocratic
Quality Ideas – All of these do a good job improving our army. Lets improve our army immediately. I’m at my force limits, so improving my current army seems best.

So what do I need right now? Cash? A better army?

Take, as an example, Aristocratic:

Level 1 - -15% cavalry, +10% cavalry ability
2 - +10% income from vassals
3 - +25% manpower
4 – Decays of tradition drops
5 – Another Diplomat
6 - -20% war exhanustion
7 - -10% military tech ost
For finishing +1 leader withut upkeep needed

That’s not bad..

Offensive?

1 - +1 shock
2 - -10% recruitment time
3 - +1 fire
4 - +100% prestige from land battles
5 - +20% siege
6 - +20% land force limit
7 - +5% DIsipline
+5% army recover speed when finished

Both of those are solid

What about, say, Economic:

1 - +10% taxes
2 - -20% construction
3 = 0.1 inflation reducation annually
4 -1 interest per annum
5 – -0.5 autonomy
6 - -10% land maintenance
7 - +10% production
-20% development costs

Yeah, Economic doesn’t do enough.

Espionage or Trade might be good long-term targets as well.

But for now….

I’m going in a different direction:

Most of the good military ideas have some junky ability I don’t want. Defensive front loads it, so I don’t normally bother. But we have peace and likely some time to build up.

Defensive Ideas –

I buy Battlefield Commissions. We get +1 Yearly Army Tradition. Whoop de doo.

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 08:23 PM

3 October – Gujurat declares a Reconquest CB on Vijayanagar

Sides:

Gujarat, Bahmanis
Vs
Vijay, Dhundhar, and Bastar

While this war goes on, could I use it to grab something like Kongu or Madurai from Vijay? I order a diploma to begin fabricating a claim on Madurai.

1 Nov – I spend my last 400 mil for….

Defensive Idea #2: Military Drill, +15% Morale of Armies

28 Jan, 1480 – I begin to leak my army to Jaffna, and prepare for a strike against Vijayanagar, just in case.

4 Mar – I get an Improvements in Trade Tech event and do it with caution.

12 July – As of right now, 6 Vijay provinces were captured by their foes, and one is still in the hands of rebels.

10 Oct – Our claims have been fabricated – more than half of the Vijay provinces are currently unoccupied, this is the perfect time to strike.

My wargoal is to take Madurai. I order my troops to cross to that province from Jaffna.

28 Nov – We capture Madurai and march on

28 Dec – I capture another non-fort province.

8 Jan, 1481 – Our vassals, Madurai, capture Kongu

12 Jan – Vijay gets peace and gives up a province with Gujurat.

28 Mar – The 2000 Madurai troops were defeated and routed by Vijayanagar

8 Apr – Kandy is now a part of our patrimony and I would order a Missionary here, but it appears to be impossible. Oh well.

5 Aug – After building up a couple of units, Madurai took another non-fort province

10 Oct – Sind, the Vijay enemy in another war land forces and takes a few land holdinsg as well

31 Jan, 1482 – We capture the fort city of Gingee

6 Mar – I get a Gift to the State. We capture two more non-fort provinces

1 Apr – I arrive in the capital and begin

10 Nov – I capture the capital, and now have a 63% warscore.

Let’s go shopping and see what deals I can unearth

Unfortunately, the province I want (Madurai) was conquered and has been cored by Maduri the vassal. As was Kongu. So I could take things I don’t want as much.

Just to see what would happen, I hit the suggest demands button:

68 ducats for me
Three provinces for Madurai,
Three cores for Madurai, and I get a TON of badboy – like 30

No thanks

I’m going to keep the battle going.

30 March, 1483 – We captured other provinces, like Goa and North Kanara – now we are at 74%

I’m at 12 gold left, so I need peace soon.

I’m not going to take 8 provinces of low level and jump my badboy to incredibly high levels.

The most expensive places to take, and therefore with some value are Goa, Coromandel, and their capital, Vijayanagar. None of those are adjacent to me, and none of them are a place we have a claim on.

Coromandel is beside Orissa, and the other two are above us and next to Bahmanis. I don’t want to head there. Not yet, not this soon.

Here are provinces next t ome that I just took and I could grab –

Malendu – between Mysore and South Kanada on one side, and Bahamanis on the other, and cuts Vijayanagar in half. Which is nice. It’s not worth a lot.

North Kanara – North of us, along the coast, and also cuts of Vijay, and is adjacent to use in South Kanara and Bhamanis,

So here’s wjat I’m thinking

If I take North Kanara, Goa, and Malendu, I get three provinces, all next t oeach other and able to defeat one another. I get 12 badboy, which his a lot. But I can deal. I toss Maduria to Madurai – that’s no additional issues. That way I can walk from Ceylon to the mainland.

I force them to give us War Reparations, and to release a minor one-province nation called Ahmednagar. And I get 108 ducats to spend.

I spend some Admin power for coring our three captures

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 08:46 PM

18 Apr – I allow some random prince military access

13 May –

Dip 5 - Basic Financial Instruments – Range – 20, Trade Eff - +10%

Let’s take a look at Kandy:

Kandy – On the east coast of Ceylon is this island nation, sporting Sinhalense people and Theravada faith, a heathen one. They work the spice trade, have a base tax of 2, a 3.3 trade power, 150 manpower, 18.3% unrest, 47% autotomy, and the Jungle gives us just 0.12 gold per month

I order two Early Carracks with our blood money. Let’s begin to build a navy

The nation we freed, is a one province called Ahmednagar, a Hindu at the far end of the Vijaynagar area here. They agree to a Royal Marriage

19 June – Ahmednagar wants an alliance, but they are way up in dangerous territory. They are next to Gujarat, Bahmanis, and VIjaynagar, but I decide to accept.

16 August – Jharkhand has declared independence against Orissa. I join them

8 Mar, 1484 – A foreign military expert arrives. I pay him to train. We get an amazing general Yadu Raya Wodeyar, 6 fire, 3 shock, 3 maneuver and 3 siege. I swap leaders

8 Aug – Our truce with Ceylon has ended, but I can’t push right now.

1 Oct – Malenadu is now a core

13 Nov – North Kanara is now a ccore

5 Feb – 1485 – Jharkhand and Orissa keep going

1 Mar – I spend some Mil Power to quash the potential rebellion in Kandy for now

6 Apr – In prep for the next war, I gained a claim on the capital of Vijayanagar, which is next to Malenadu

13 May – I’m too war exhausted anymore. I negotiate a white peace with our foes on behalf of my team

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 09:27 PM

13 August – Madurai declares Independence against us!!!

Joining Madurai are:

Ethiopia
Kaffa
Jaffna
Khmer
Sukthothai

Here we go

27 Sept – We defeat the combined Jaffna/Madurai forces in Madurai.

1 Nov – We capture their capital,a nd now focus on the other province they have

11 Mar, 1486 – I get a Good Harvest event and put it into the Treasury

10 Apr – I grabbed a core on Tanjore, another Vijay province

30 Apr – Ceylon has stupidly decalred war against the alliance as well

4 May – Goa is now a core

5 May –Madurai falls

I order my forces to Jaffna

1 June – Ceylon asks for, and I give them military access

18 June – after my first warship was built, I win a naval battle against some smaller ships and secure the Comorin Cape and now I Can cross the straight to Jaffna

15 Aug – I begin to negotiate peace with the allies of Madurai. I want to isolate them

19 Sept – I just took out everyone but Madura iand Jaffna from the battle

I have a warscore of 82% now.

21 Sept – I annex Madurai’s land, and I get 82 ducats

I order a Castel built in Goa

I spend a serious amount of Admin power to order cores for our two news provinces.

That wasn’t the way I wanted to do that

Abe Sargent

08-14-2015, 11:21 PM

I still have this battle between Ceylon and Jaffna I need to figure out

I can try to force them to peace, but I don’t have enough force to do so.

Or I could just declare war against them, capture their holdings, and move on

I declare war against them and move in

7 December, Vijayanagr r is now part of a huge war

10 June, 1487 – We capture Kotte, Ceylon has already grabbed Vanni from Jaffna.

2 Febryar, 1488 – I finally find and defeat the Ceylon army that had fled and captured Goa from me

22 Feb – Madurai is now a Core

1 Mar – Tamil is now an accepted culture

We take 137 ducats and Kotte. I order ti to be cored. However, it appears that Jaffna is no longer a vassal of us.

I want to give you a map now, but the 50 year review is in 6 years, so Ima wait

Malenadu – The Hills here feature Kannada and Hindu folk here make 0.32 gold for us monthly from the coffee picking and production. There is 12.3% unrest, 49.2% autonomy, and they make 4 in ttaxvalue, 10 production level, 456 manpower and 3.7 trade power. This province is north of Mysore and east of South and North Kanaras. Is is south of Savanur, a Bahmanis holding, and west of both Vijaynagar and Morasanadu.

North Kanara – Another jungle, coastal (hills) province, Kannadan Hindus make 0.35 g from spices. There’s idnetial unrest and autonomy. They have 10 development here as well, 304 manpower, 4.7 trade, and 4 tax value. North Kanara is up the shore from South, and down the shore from oa – insland is Savanur in Bahamanis, and then Malenadu

Goa – The northernmost possession we currently have, the spice trade is big here in the tropical hills of Goa. This Center of Trade sports 0.26 gold, the people here are Hindu and have an unaccepted culture – Marathi. 11.4% unrest, 49.2% autonomy, 28.8 trade power, 139 manpower, 11 development, 4 tax base and we are building a castle here. Goa is above and up the coast from North Kanara, above the coast is South Konkan (Vijay), and inland are Desh and Savanur – both Bahamnis possession

9 March – I send a warning to Jaffna

26 March 0 Turunelveli is now a core:

Madurai – The Tamil Hindu folk work the valuable silk trade here, and they send us 1.02 g a month. With 18 development and a 7 taxvalue, the land has some strong economic growth potential. It featuers 13.4% unrest, 39.9% autonomy, and the highlands here are not tropical. Maduria has a cross over the Comorin Cape to Jathe province of Vannim controlled by Jaffna . It’s south of three Vijayanagar holdings, and adjacent to three of ours – Kochin, Venad, and Tirunelveli. Madurai has a Temple as well.

Tirunelveli – This was formerly the capital of the Madurai nation. It’s just a place for fishing, as the Tamil Hindu folks here have just a tax value of 3, 8 development, 300 manpower, 3.7 trade value, and 13.4% unrest with 49.9% autonomy. The grasslands here are non-tropical, and adjacent to Venad and Madurai.

1 April – We buy this Idea:

Improved Maneuver - +1 Land Leader Maneuver

We also unlock the first South Indian National Idea:

Merchants of Southern India:

+20% Trade Range

Considering my massive war-chest of booty, I want to invest in something:

I order a Marketplace in Madurai, 4 transport vessels, a third Early Carrack, 2 Barques

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 12:06 AM

11 April – 7000 peasants rebel in Goa.

30 April – I kill them

6 June – Baluchistan and Gujarat are not at lace after a major war in the north

14 July – Orissa lost their wat and Jharkhand won their independence and got sold gold and such

4 Nov – So here’s what our budget is looking like right now:

4.46 g.moth in taxes
1.86 g a month in production
3.86 p a month is trade
0.65/month in war reparations

4.52 100% army maintenance – We have a large potential for rebels for a while, and our army is in Goa, next to Bahamnis and Vijayanagar. 1.45 g advisors, 0.96 fleet, 0.5 forts

We are making 3.4 g a month

I dial back my naval maintenance

I hire a level 1 Theologian who gives us -2% National Unrest and builds out government as well

4 Jan, 1489 – We manufacture a CB against Vanni, Jaffna’s province

6 April – Marketplace in Madurai is completed

31 July – I get a random alliance offer from Kathiwar. No thanks

16 Dec – The wall in goa is finished.

16 Mar – 1490 – I get an event for Cities Demand Old Rights –

I accept and lose 20 legitimacy

26 Mar – I spend some MIL to deal with rebels in Ceylon

14 Apr – I get an event and choose to accept the help of some shady people and we get +10% offensive spy stuff for 5 years.

1 July – I order a Temple built in Goa

28 Jan, 1491 – I order more transports and Barques

3 Mar – I gained another claim on Vijayanagar territory. I send another.

10 Mar – Kotte is now a full on core

Kotte – This former capital of Ceylon is the home o f a local Center of Trade, with tropical grasslands, spices traded ere, and the various Sinhalese Theravada residents giving us 15,1% unrest, 36.3% autonomy, and they have a tax base of 6, development of 11, and make 0.46 g for us monthly, with their Temple. They have a 28.9 trade power, 204 manpower, and then they are south of Vanni and west of Kandy.

I intend to take Vanni from Jaffna soon, after the truce wears off.

1 October – Our Trade adviser has passed

I hire a Military one instead.

Commandant Sri Kurup, 42, +5% discipline

He’s level 2. Hiring him drops the money we make to –0.3, but have plenty of cash in reserves right now.

Since I’m spending Military Tech for our Ideas and dealing ewtih rebels right now, it just seems like the right time to push hm

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 12:36 AM

22 Jan, 1492 – Not that I care too much, but Sind announced that Vijayanagar is their new rival

19 Mar – I get an event – Golden Era for our Culture.

With peace in our culture, the great musicians, artists, and poets are rejoicing and entertaining. We gain 5 prestige abroad

27 Mar – I gain another claim vs Vijayanagar

1 June – We complete some boats and finish our Proper Fleet mission – we get:

Thriving Ship Building Sector, for 10 years, -15% shipbuilding time and costs

29 July - I tell my fleet to protect trade in Ceylon, where we are getting the most value.

I choose to convert Kandy as my next mission

5 Aug – I order a Missionary to Kandy just to see what can happen

I spend some MiL to buy down the Ceylon rebels

13 Mar, 1493 – We get a final claim on Vijay. We now have claims on 7 of their holdings

1 Aug –

Dip 6 – Shipyard

We can build them

12 November, 1494 – It’s time for our....

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 12:43 AM

50 Year Review

Pictures!!!

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You can see a lot from their image. We have all of the white on the map. We hit the Southern and western part of the area very heavily. We went up the coat and took Malendu, North Kanara and Goa from Vijayanagar and we cut them in half. We are now next to two Bahmanis provinces, and moreover, it’s a strong Shia nation ,with Shia holdings – which may slow us down before too long. The brown strip to the east coast is Orissa, and then the Jaffna holdings of Vanni on Ceylon can also be seen.

At this point, stage one is done. We collapsed the various holdings here into our own, we won the first war against the yellow blob, and now Vijayanagar is on the ropes. Ideally, my next war against them will take Kongu, Tanjore, and then maybe their capital. I want Coromandal, but we don’t have a claim on I right now (it’s south, and on the coast of the Orissan holding)

As you can see, we have little gold – just 21, our manpower is back up, and we have solid stability and prestige.

Our Navy:

3 Early Carracks
5 Barque
5 Cog Transports

Our Army:

5000 cavalry
9000 infantry

Our land force limit is 15000, so we could build another 1000 troops
Our naval force limit is 17, so we could have 4 more ships

The peace treaty with Jaffna ends in January, 1496 – So in a year ish we’ll wage that war.

In fact ,I’ll just order my force from Goa to Madurai in preparation for that conflict.

We now have 12 holdings.

We are the only country we know with a stability of 3

Of those we know, we have the 7th best income

We have 15 techs and 3 Ideas. Middle of the pack or a bit back for technology.

Our general is the best in the world that we know of right now

Our army of 14k is the 4th most we know of. But, Bahmanis has 27k, and is right next door, with a -200 rating, a different religion, and cores on our stuff

Our navy of 13 ships is the 3rd largest we know of

The wealthiest trade nodes we know of are Bengal, Goa, and Malacca.

Current value of trade goods, from best to worst:

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

The production leader of spices is Brunei. They have 12.2% of the trade, we have 10.7%

There are open goods of value in a few places –

If I want grain, the central area is ideal 0 Kongu, Morasanadu, and Vijaynagar are all grain provinces.

Alright, back to the drive

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 01:07 AM

17 November, 1494 – Our Raja has passed!!!

His heir is very strong:

Raja Yadu Raya I Ummatur

5/4/1

32 years old – no heir

I renew our vows with Orissa

We will follow Shiva again. She helped us lose our badboy faster

1 Dec – I get an alliance offer from Garjat, a nation to the north of Orissa that has four holdings. I accept.

4 Dec – We enter into a Royal marriage with Garjat.

1 Jan, 1495 –

We get the next Defensive Idea

Regimental System - -10% land maintenance

1 Feb – I send someone to improve our relations with Garjat.

19 Feb – We enter into a RM with Bastar as well a poor one-province minor tha tis next to Garjat, Orissa, and on the otherside of Bahmanis

I’ll just show you.

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You can see Orissa and Bahmanis on the other side of us. You have Malwa in the middle of the north. The dark blue province of Bastar is there, and Garjat is right where the 7000 strong army is inland of Orissa.

1 Mar – I get an alliance offer from Bastar and accept.

I expect you’ll see me go east with my allies and west with my wars. East are Hindu powers.

24 Apr – I can pass four National Decision

I will Support:

The Advaita Movement:

-1 National Unrest
+2% Missionary Strength

And, moreover, I cannot take the Haridasa movement. This lasts forever.

1 May – We offer a Royal Marriage to Gondwana, next to Bastar and Garjat

9 May – I accept an alliance counter offer from them

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 02:12 AM

1 May – We offer a Royal Marriage to Gondwana, next to Bastar and Garjat

9 May – I accept an alliance counter offer from them

1 July – I boost our stability back up from te hit it took post-Monarch change

4 Sept – We get an event called Relentless Drill and get +15% morale fo armies for 10 yaers

5 Nov – I have to reduce our Missionary money in order to get ready for war

1 Feb, 1496 – I have my navy in the Comorin Cape, and my army in Kandy on Ceylon. It’s time

I declare war on Jaffna

5 Feb – Orissa, who is allied to both of us from way back, chose to join the side of Jaffna. Bad play

1 Mar - We defeat the army in Vanni and begin a siege. I detach a siege unit and chase them down

I issue War Taxes

24 Mar – We defeat them again in Kotte

31 Mar – We rout and destroy their forces in Kandy

I order 1000 Arquebusiers in Madurai

11 June – I capture Tondainado from Orissa

29 Aug – Yay!

We have a new heri to the throne – and he’s good:

Yadu Raya – 2/6/4

5 Sept – the 1000 arquebusiers arrive to support the siege in Vanni

21 Oct – We capture Vanni

I order our flee tot the Coast of Coromandel to help blockade the Orissa porinvce, Kosta that we are sieging and we’ll bring over the

10 Nov – Bahmanis has used this opportunity to attack Orissa

Ideally, I want to take Tondaindu as well – it’s wealthy, it’s one of the keys to unlocking the claims for Bharat, and I can use it to claim others from Vijayanagar that I want.

So I want to keep pushing all night long

4 May –

ADM 6 – Workshop – We can build them

13 Sept – We capture Kosta. We need to get Orissa peace, but I’m not sure what they’d do with it – three of their 5 provinces are under Bahmanis control, and then the last two are under siege by a ton of army power

I could take both Kosta and Tondainadu or Vanni, but not Vanni and anything else.

Ah I think I may have figured this out

I negotiate with just Orissa

I take just Tondainadu from Orissa

24 Sept – After we get that diplomat back….

We annex Jaffna and their land of Vanni

I also take 93 gold

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 08:57 AM

30 Sept – I begin to fabricate a claim on Coromandel

Orissa offers us an alliance

Um…..

No thanks….I want to help but you just warred with me. We’re not that sort of people anymore

I don’t have the ADM for both places, but I order a core for Vanni.

I also jack my missionary stuff back up

3 Dec – I choose Orissa as a rival

28 Jan, 1498 – Shiva Revealed

After many years of searching for a guru to guide you, you have found no one who can adequately explain matters of the mysteries of existence or bring clarity in religious matters

One day, I get advice from the ruler of one of our allies about the nature and soul of the divine.

I get two choices. One is:

Withdrawn in Contemplation – 5 years, -1 legitimacy, -50% chance ofa new heir, and -1 diplomatic relations

I choose that for five years.

3 Feb – Our truce with Vijayanagar has ended

22 Mar _ We get improvements in Naval Tech event

31 May – I send some MIL power to calm down rebels again

I’m currently getting 11 Admin power a month

1 Aug – I pay some Admin to make a Core in Tondainadu

7 Oct – We get that claim on Coromandel

I declare war with Vijayanagar for it.

31 Oct – We have converted Kandy!!!

We get an event for 10 years – Wave of Devotion - +1 Missionary Strength

Next up is to accumulate money, and I send a missionary to Kotte

8 Nov – We caught Vijay trying to fabriciate a claim on Mysore

16 Nov – We capture Coromandel

1 Dec – I have my main army trying to take the fort of Gingee and a small unit moving around to grab non-Fort towns

27 Dec – We capture another small non-fort

6 Jan, 1499 – The fort of Gingee falls to us. A small unit of 5000 has arrived and is besieging Mysore so I send our main unit over to release that pressure.

31 Jan – Vanni is now a core province

6 Feb – Another non-fort falls

12 Feb - We win in Mysore and I order our army to Vijay’s capital

23 Mar – Another non-forst falls (Kongu)

1 June – A small unit is trying to bother Goa

23 June – Two more smaller non-garrisoned places are ours

12 July – 3500 troops of ours arrive in a fort province to begin sieging it.

17 Aug – That fort fell

30 Sept – The final non-fort province Vijayanagar owns in this part of India is ours, I move the troops back to the siege at the capital

14 Dec – Orissa’s leader died, and our RM with him. I won’t renew that

14 January, 1500 – Their capital falls.

I have a 53% warscore against the whole nation. Vijay has three provinces that are needed to declare for Bharat (Hindustan) – their capital, Kongu, and Coromandel. I like Coromandel and another coastal province – Tanjore, both of those are good, coastal, and connect our grab from Orissa with the rest of our stuff to the south. I could grab Kongu or any other place I took for that matter.

I have to take Coromandel. That was our target. What else? I could take Kongu and Vijayanagar’s capital too, and 94 gold.

I’m taking Coromandel, Kongu, Tanjore, and Tiruchirappalli – which connects them inland

This makes strategic sense.

I gain 20 badboy from the war. I’ll need to back off for a while and consolidate. But this is very good for us.

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 09:04 AM

Alright, let’s show you the new map

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I have zoomed in for you, and you have the areas shown in white. The purple circle I placed with MSPaint is Kongu/Tiruchirappalli/Tanjore, and then Coromandel and Tondainadu are up the coast. We took Tondainadu from Orissa, the other four from Vijay.

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 10:05 AM

There are 15 provinces we need to be the new Bharat/Hindustani state. You have to own and core it.

These are the ones we have:

Mysore
Malabar
Kochin
Venad
Madurai
Kotte
Kongu
Coromandel
Tondainadu

After coring the last two, we need six more:

Vijayanagar
Golconda
Velanadu
Bastar
Kalingandhra
Raichur Doab

Who has them? Vijay, Bahmanis ,Bahmanis, Bastar, Orissa, Bahmanis

So until I’m ready to tangle with the big blue bear, I can’t get what I need.

I order a core for Coromandel

I can’t afford them for the other’s yet

During the war:

Vanni – The northernmost of the Ceylon holdings ,this province, once the lair of Jaffna, is now a quiet tropical, jungle, coastal with a bay crossing to Madurai. The Tamil Hindu folk here trade in rare tropical woods. Just 6 development, 2 tax base, 8% unrest, 38.7 autonomy, and 0.21 gold made monthly here.

26 Jan – Vijay has asked for military access. As you can see, we landlocked them. Part of me would find it interesting to curry their favor, and perhaps bring them back in diplomatically. But I just don’t see it.

I decline

Our war cash brought us above the level we needed to finish our mission, and we gain 10 Prestige

6 March – Orissa just lost all but two of their provinces, including Kosta that was next door to Bahmanis

My Mission choices include Protect Brethern in Kosta ,Reduce Overextension, and our reserves ned to recover.

I choose the overextension one

19 Mar – Orissa announced us as a new rival

24 Mar – We get a Local Fortification Expert in Goa and it gets +25% local defenses in perpetuity

I add Bahmanis as a rival

I don’t like what just happened. Orissa lost itself because it allied with Jaffna. If Bahmanis had ever declared war, unlikely, then I would have helped. So they sucked.

27 Mar – Our diplomat has returned home from Bastar to begin fabricating

claim on Kosta.

13 Aug – Rebelas have captured two Vijay provinces on the coast and north of Goa

1 Oct – I order a core for Tandore

1 Nov – I order a Workshop in my capital. It’s 116 gold, will take a year, Will give me +50% production when done. And that should translate to around 0.16 gold monthly, and repay for itself in 25 ish years

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 10:56 AM

24 Feb, 1501 – We get the first claim on Gingee – the fort province Vijay has next to us.

1 Mar – I order a core in Tiruchirappalli

1 Apr – We have gotten the claim against Kosta. Next up is Velandu.

8 April – Kotte has converted!

15 April – Tondainadu is now a core:

Tondainadu – Formerly taken from Orissa, this cloth making province of Telugu Hindu is a trpical center of trade with grasslands. It is suffering from 53% unrest, 47.2 autonomy, has 15 development, 6 tax value, makes 0.50 for us monthly. Upcoast is Kosta, and inland is the Vijay province of Arcot.

20 May, Coromandel is now a core

1 June – Our military adviser passes. Even with everything at 100%, we are making 6.5 gold a month now. I use this as a time to build up my infrastructure

1 Nov – Workshop is done in Mysore

1 Dec – I order a Temple in Coromandel

1 Mar, 1502 – Again, I have maxed out our claims on Vijay provinces

I proclaim a Guarantee of Bastar’s independance

28 Mar – We have a Plague in Kongu. I pay it off and spend some gold to fix the problem

20 Apr – We get that curcial claim on Velandu province in Bahmanis.

20 July – Tiruchirappalli is now a core

1 Aug – we have enough MIL power to get another idea, but I;m holding off for the next Tech

26 Aug – Tanjore is now a core. We reduced our extension and finished that mission. We gain a 3 skill Diplomat in Mysore.

Our new mission: Make nice with Gujarat Okay

I order some cavalry made and 1000 artillery

6 Sept – Feh, we are discovered while fabricating claims in Bahmanis

2 Dec – Temple finished

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 11:48 AM

1 Jan 1503 – Everyone is now a core!

Kongu – A true core of the people we serve, Kongu is a large, hilly, non-tropical farmland for grains. With no unrest, the Tamil Hindus here do have 72.3% unrest. With 9 development, 3 taxvalue, they send us just 0.18 gold monthly, 188 manpower ,and 2.9 trade. Kongu is next to a lot of provinces – including three Vijayanagar ones – Arcot, Gingee, and Morasanadu.

Tiruchirappalli – This inland cotton farming province is another non-tropical highlands. The Tamil Hindu farmers here have just 1.8% unrest, and 36.4 autonomy. 367 manpower, 3.1 trade power, 8 development, 3 taxvalue, and 0.33 sent to us. This is a small province next to Kongu, Maduria, Tanjore, and south of Gingee

Tanjore – This is opportunity. The coastal tropical farmlands feature cloth production. The Tami Hindu people here are very developed with 21, 8 taxvalue, 735 manpower, 10.4 trade, and 0.94 made for us. This is a good chance to build up, right now it has 5 open building slots it gets +2 from farmlands

Coromandel – More opportunity. 21 development and 8 taxes here as well. 1.16 gold made here, with a Temple already built. Coastal Center of Trade, clothing making, farmlands and tropical. 1.8 %unrest, and 36.4 autonomy. Tamil and Hindu. 918 manpower and 35.4 trade power.

Tanjore and Coromandel are both developed, and with farmlands have a great chance to be built up. Taking them is a great financial boon for our nation.

I am going to Decrease Autonomy in Kongu. This decreases the autonomy there by 25, but gives it a 30 year effect of +10 local unrest. Even after I do it, there’s no unrest showing. It’s such as core place of ours. And we rose from 0.18 to 0.27 gold

20 February, 1503 –

Anugraha: Emancipation

Meditation of the knowledge that you have acquired throughout the years of spiritual reflection an searching has given time to realize the process that Shiva reveals grace to the world and wisdom to the souls. You share this knowledge to others and guide them

Aum –

Our ruler gets:

+1 Missionary Strength
+0.5 Prestige annually

Until the leader passes

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 12:35 PM

25 April – We complete the task for the claim against the Bahmanis,a dn ‘ll stop there

7 June – I order a Workshop in Coromandel

1 March, 1504 – After building up my army, I now have 20000 troops in two armies. Each army has 5000 infantry, 4000 cavalry, and 1000 artillery

7 Sept – the Timuraids are having Internal Conflicts

6 Oct – We finished the mission to make nice with Gujarat, and we gain some prestige and DIP power.

1 Jan, 1505 – I order a Marketplace in Coromandel

1 Mar –

Dip 7 - Naval Ambitions - +.3 Naval Morale, and better colonial range ,in case nayone cares.

19 June – I hire a leve 1 tech advisor in the Military persuasion who gives me -10% maintenance

1 July – Our truce with Orissa has finished

15 Sept – I get an event – Regimental Pride - -25% land maintenance for 10 years

2 Jan, 1506 – Marketplace is done

I am now making 8 gold a month

1 May – Temple ordered for Tanjore

19 July – Our Heir fell ill! I chose to pay to keep him well, but we have to take out a loan to pay for it

1 November – I pay back the loan

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 12:55 PM

7 May, 1507 – After the Temple is done, I order the Workshop for Tanjore

1 June – We maxed relaions with Gujarat

1 August – This is a big one too

Admin Tech 7 – Noble Republic, and we get another Group of Ideas

So now which group intrigues me?

I cannot pick another military idea right now. No more than 50% of my ideas can be in the same tech group.

Options that I like:

Dip Idea – Trade Ideas. Right now we make, monthly: 8.2 gold taxes, 4.37 gold production and 5.69 gold trade. That’s from Ceylon and Goa trade. It makes sense to improve that.

Trade Ideas would give me:

+10% Trade Power
Another Trader
+25% Trade Range
+10% trade efficiency
Another Trader
+25% trade steering and +20% caravan power
+10% National Trade Income
And when all done - +1 trader

So if I do this set of ideas, I’ll finish with 5 merchants, and lots of bonuses to trade. Now I don’t use Dip power much, so I’d rather have a DIP idea than a Admin one .

Other good Dip options include:

Influence – It doesn’t start nicely, but there are some great ones later one - -25% dip annex cost, -20% aggressive expansion (aka badboy), and if finished unjustified demands in war are at -50% hit.

For a warmonger like me, that’s pretty solid, but you have to get deep before you get anything of value.

Other DIP? Espionage? Nothing else.

Now we could go Administrative and take Economic Ideas. That’s about it too.

I’ll do Trade. I think it’s the obvious ideas

12 Oct – Jaunpur and Malwa just lost a major war with Delhi.

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 04:09 PM

31 March, 1508 – We bring a Traveling Minstrel to court, gain prestige and an artist.

1 June – I order a Marketplace in Tanjroe after their Constable was built

5 Nov – Massive numbers of peasants are erupting in Vijayanagar.

25 April, 1509 –

Mil Tech 5 – Standardized Pikes – We can get Indian Arquebusier, and we get +0.15 shock and combat width is increased by 2

I order our units upgraded.

6 June – After the Marketplace is up and running, next is a Temple for Tondainadu

4 Oct –

Idea – Trade #1

Shrewd Commerce Practice - +10% Global TradePower

I begin to prepare for war against Vijayanagr, Take #3

1 July, 1510 – The next place I build is a Workshop in Tondainadu

1 Aug – Vijayanagar is broken by rebels.

20 Sept – Whoa! We get an event – Income Bonanza in Ceylon for 10 years, +25 trade power

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 04:44 PM

War Part One

7 Oct – Uh oh!

War came early

Bahmanis just declared war on us for North Kanara. I have 10000 troops with my good general in Malenadu, and I move them to North Kanara right next door. They have a force 12000 strong in that area. On the east flank I have my other army in Tondainadu and they are marching 13000 troops from Kosta.

First of all I grab my navy and order it to the Coast of Coromandel to assist us

I need a leader on the east flank

I recruit a random general and assign him to that flank

Now a river flows between Kosta and us, so hopefully that will help – Attacking across a Rivers hurts

15 November – They win on the Eastern Flank

7 Dec – They captured Tondainadu

20 Dec – Annoying, we lost on the West flank in Goa

I raise War Taxes.

2 Jan, 1511 – They pull back to Kosta on the east, and then are sieging Goa on the west. My allies are hitting them in the north.

I hire some mercenaries to push them.

3 Mar – I take out a loan and buy some more troops

13 Mar – We recapture Tonainadu with our good general and some combined forces. I order our troops to Kosta

25 Mar – They break off the Goa siege as we approach with a larger reinforced armor.

28 Mar – We have begun to siege both Kosta and Savanur

4 May – We capture Savanur, but two combined armies are marching to us.

I order a retreat of all of our forces here to Goa. That’s where we’ll stand

1 June - They captured Savanur and moved back inside their territory

I distich a small mercenary unit of 5000 troops to hit Desh

20 June – I accept an offer for military accesss from Jhandkhar

16 July – We capure Desh, a non-forst province

They bhave broken a Bastar siege on their province and are heading in

22 July – We recapture Savanur. I order our army onward -

1 Sept – We capture another small non-fort with the Desh army

13 Sept – Another non-forst place falls to us, and we are moving to a fort now – Raichur Doab

6 Nov p Our ally, Gondwana captured a small province in the back

30 Nov – Kosta falls before our onslaught

For the first time in this war, we have a positive warscore

I order us to Velandu.

Ideally, I’ll grab Kostka and Velandu – I have claims on both

26 Dec – Our foe took a province in Garjat and are trying to siege nad take Bastar

11 Jan, 1512 – They end the siege on Bastr and have rallied their forces and are moving to Velandu

15 Jan – Velandu falls to us

Capturing that forces their navy out that was hiding in that bay to face uus in the Coast of Coromandel.

13 Feb – We savaged half of their fleet

Our army of 17000 is starting at theirs of 21000 across a river. Neither side can move. NEitehr wants to break off forces. Instead we have an army on the west side still doing some sieges.

4 April – Comet Sighted!

We lose a stability, but I spend the ADM needed to raise it back up

9 Apr – Garjat forces arrive in Velandu and reinforce our position. I am going to break off a small siege unit and see if I can get them out of the hIlls, and across the river defensive position

I can’t – they control th fort, and I can’t get to an adjacent plance without hitting them where they want me to.

24 June – They have pulled out. It looks like they are hitting other sieges in the back

1 Au g- Our siege unit of mercs in the back was defeated

10 Oct – They drive us bac from Raichur Doab

1 Dec – After reforming some armies around, we arrive back at Raichur

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 05:58 PM

War Part Two

17 Jan, 1513 – We capture Warangal from them

It’s time.

12 February – I arrive at, and begin taking their capital

2 Mar – They split their army to siege Velandu and then move deeper into their land. I pull my army back from their capital to hit them

9 April – I defeat one of their armies in Velandu

20 June – I hit and defeat their other army

27 Sept _ I force them to come hit me at their capital and defeat them again

10 De c- Gondwana recaptured the land back there

1 Feb, 1514 – Garjat captured another of their holdings

16 – Feb we defeat their navy again

7 Apr – We get good news – Raichur Doab’s siege is over.

We have a 50% warscore now

Time to hit them

They’ll basically give us up to three provinces and some gold

I want to hit them harder – I want at least four provinces, so I push the war further

25 May – Our arm ythat just won Doab this their combined force.

20 July – We capture their capital

76 warscore

I can take – Raichur Doab, Golconda, Velandu, and Kostka – three of those are ones I need foro Hindustan, leaving just three outside of our span of control

Or I could skip Kosta for Kalingandhra, the 4th of the ones I need from Bahmanis. IN fact, Icoudl push even more.

In fact, hold on.

They have made a peace offer:

Nah

26 Jan, 1515 – We crush their last army, and then take a few more no-fort provinces – Warscore is 86

Now let’s go shopping

I add Raichur Doab, Golconda, and Velandu to start. Kosta makes sense too. I grab Kalingandhra, and that works. Those 5 put me at 73.

I am gonna grab Konaseema to connect those. That will give me a huge badboy. But this was a defensive battle, so it’s not at the same level. They toss us 355 gold, which I’ll use to pay back my debt, and then buy some stuff as well.

15 February – We gain the 6 provinces stated

( I suspect this is when I have won the game – Ijust won a defensive war)

I disband some mercs

I use my ADM that I stored (It’s at almost 900) to grab cores for:

Raichur Doab, Velandu, Kosta, Kalingandhra, and yep Knaseema, but I have just 37 power there left

In these villages and areas I have Hindu, Shia, Sikh, Shia, Hindu and Hindu

I order a Workshop in Madurai, I slash my naval back down, some of my advisors died in the war it seems.

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 06:20 PM

You definitely want to see the map

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Mysore%207_zps9i4syinx.jpg

The six folks that I grabbed are circle in purple. Four of them were originally from Orissa, but were taken by Bahmanis, and I’m grabbing them back.

Two of my allies, Bastar and Garjat are next to me now. We are going to have to take some time to buy all of these stuff down. But because I saved the Admin, we are not in a bad place once everyone is cored, and that’ll be soon. From there I just need to being to Missionary these folks

I suspect I can vassalize Bastar soon as well. Remember – they came to me first.

I would love to vassalize and then annex Bastar, take Vijayanagar and then core it and declare.

11 Apr – I am now making 10 g a month

1 July – I’ma hold off and build up some cash so I can build stuff in my newer acquisitions

25 Sept – I hire Llevel 1 Advisor who gets me +10% Tax.

1 Dec –

Trade Idea #2 – Free Trade, we get another Merchant

New South Indian Idea – Water Tanks and Canals, +10% national taxes

I send that merchant to Bengal to collect trade for us

Grover

08-15-2015, 06:29 PM

Looking excellent!

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 06:54 PM

11 Apr – I lose some Dip power when I try to settle the issue of noble families Feuding

1 Aug - I spend some power to drop or war exhaustion

20 Sept – Koskta and Velandu are nor cores

1 Oct – I spend to buy down the exhaustion again

20 Nov – Our other provinces are now a part of our patrimony as well

1 Dec – The Telugu culture has moved into an accepted one, but Malayalam is no longer

Kosta – This province, up the coast from Tondainadu and down from Velandu features a fort, jungle plains, cotton industry, and 11 development with a 3 tax value. The Telugu Hindu folk have a 6.1 unrest, 37.8 autonomy, and give us 0.46 gold, 541 manpower, and 5.4 trade power.Fully three inland Vijay provinces are adjacent to it

Velandu – This Telugu Shia province, coastal, is part of the Krishna Estuary and has a Religious Zeal for 2 more years - -100% to missionary chances. There is a marketplace and temple already here, 15 development, 5 taxvalue, they give us 722 manpower, 27.8 trade power, 0.76 gold, 12.3 unrest, 37.8 autonomy, and they are up the coast from Kosta, and then Konaseema is up the coast from there, and they are next to Bahmanis in Warangal, Vijay in Kurnool and us in Golconda

Konaseema – The Hindu and Telugu miners here work the iron trade, up the coast from Velandu, and down coast from Kalingandhra. The tropical grasslands and Estuary give it some build opponrtuines, with its 11 development, 3 taxbase, 3.6% unrest, 0.41 g, 466 manpower, and 17,1 trade.

Kalingandhra – Upcoast from Konaseema is this tropical, grassland, cotton place. Telugu Hindus here in the jungle coast have little development 8, with 3 tax, but 6.1 unrst, and 47.8 autonomy. We get 0.33 from them 311 manpower, 3.8 trade power. They are downcoast from Bahamnis in Srikakulam, next to Bastar and Garjat as well.

Golconda – This inland highlands province is next to Velandu, and connects it with Raichur Doab, It has Temple and Marketplace, and the Telugu Sikh here work the gold mines. 18 development, 7 tax, 2.74 is made here for us, 9.6% unrest, 47.8 autonomy. 622 manpower, 10.3 trade. It’s a religious center, and gest -5% local missionary strength forever.

Raichur Doab – This inland farmlands province is a developed place with Kannada Shia folk work the cloth making trade as well. It features a fort, workshop, marketplace, temple, 21 development, 9 tax value, 1.08 gold, 12.3 unrest, 47.8 autonomy, 1683 manpower, 8.6 trade power. It’s next to 3 Bahmanis and 2 Vijay holdings.

And there you are!

I send a missionary to Raichur Doab

1 Dec – We have gotten strong relations with Malwa and finished our mission.

I take reclaiming Morasandu from Vijayanagar

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 07:39 PM

12 March, 1517 – Bastar has agreed to become our vassal.

3 May – I have lost Orissa as my rival – it’s not important enough

1 Oct – I have over 400 gold, why am I holding onto it?

I order a Workshop in Velandu, Kosta, and Konaseema

7 Dec – We catch Orissa fabricating claims against us

4 April, 1518 –

Our newest Idea in the Defensive Queue:

Defensive Mentality - -10% fort maintenance, +20% fort defense

10 Apr – We get news that Vijayanagar has removed us as a rival and moved to Bahmanis

Let’s show them what a rival can do!

I Declare war on them for their capital province

1 May – We win in their capital.

1 June – We capture a random holding of theirs

11 June – I chase and defeated tehri army in South Konkan

19 June – We routed their troops in Chaul

20 July – Morasanadu falls to us

1 Aug – We took Chaul

8 Sept – We capture Arcot

21 Sept – We grab South Konkan

Hmm….Bahmanis is asking for military access….okay I’ll do that

1 Mar, 1519 – We capture Kurnool

31 Mar – Their capital falls

I want their capital, anything else is gravy. Ideally, I want to seal them off instead of us, and our last war later on will finish them.

I’m taking Vijay and Morasanadu to finish my mission. I can’t take too much more due to badboy.

I grab South Konkan too, just north of Goa,

Hmmm

I could make them my vassal. Nah – here’s what we are going with:

Vijayanagar
Morasanadu
South Konkan
War Reparations
110 ducats

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 07:44 PM

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Alright, once again with have our gains in purple. One, South Konkan, is north of Goa, and will be protected by that fort. The others are Morasanadu, which is a key part of our patrimony already, and then their capital. This was not a major battle. None of these are that valuable. But I have dropped Vijayanagar t o5 provinces, Chaul to the north of South Konkan on the coast, and then the 4 we have enveloped. I don’t know about Chaul, but eventually we’ll just take the Vijay provinces.

I order cores in Vijay and South K, the other is already cored.

If I want, I can upgrade my rank to Duke. This gives me +10 prestige,

We get an Inspiring Victory with bonus prestige and manpower recovery.

Next mission –

Incorporate Bastar. Yes please!

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 09:27 PM

1 May – We lose Vijay as a rival. Ah well.

Am literally getting 22 gold a month.

I hire my first level 3 advisor – Raghuraman Chhotra, a trader with _10% trade efficient

Temple in South Kanara, Malenadu

30 Jan, 1520 – I accept a military access request from Jharkhand

25 Apr – I lose 10 prestige by backing the nobles in lieu of a loss of stability

Someone has declared war on Vijayanagar

8 May – We convert Raichur Doab. The event Velandu is over, so I order ti next to be converted.

I order a Workshop in Raichur Doab.
7 July – Vijayanagar is now a part of our core

1 Aug – Orissa is broken

2 Dec - I deny military access to enemies of Vijayanagar. Nope – it’s mine, all mine!!!

1 Apr, 1521 - Our great general has finally died.

5 Aug – I spend some mil to drop some rebels

16 Nov – Prospering Times Events. Increase tax base and admin in Coromandel

1 Mar, 1522 – South Konkan is now a part of our patrimony

South Konkan – The Marahi Hindu people here work the spice trade at this tropical hilly coastal province. With a 10 development, 4 tax value, and 4.5 unrest, 46.5 autonomy, we have 152 manpower, 4.7 trade power and0.31 gold. Inland is Desh, a Bahmanis holding, and up coast is Chaul, currently Vijay.

Morasanadu – 4.8% autonomy and no unrest is featured in this inland drylands, a grain growing place ,where Kannada Hindu folk make 0.41 gold, 526 manpower and 3.2 trade power, 8 development, 3 tax base, and next to two remaining Vijay provinces

Vijayanagar – The former capital of our former rival is this drylands, with 2.5% unrest, 36.5 autonomy, 734 manpower, 16 development, 7 tax, 0.64 gold, and 6.3 trade. The Kannada Hindus that live here are next to a lot of folks, and this created a land-connection between Raichur Doab and Malenadu.

16 April – We find a local fortification expert and amp up the fortifications in

1 July After I continued to fend off attempts to cross the land to hit Vijayanagar, they got a white peace.

9 July – I get a importing Naval Supplies event

We import them from the local supply in Bahmanis and their opinion of us rose and we gain a ton of Dip Power

1 Sept – I order a Temple built in Vijayanagar

11 Oct –

Admin 8 – Courthouses can now be built

The only thing it does is reduce local unrest. Nah. That sucks!

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 10:38 PM

6 January, 1523 - Huh. A new one province minor has popper up in North Konkan, just north of Chaul. It’s March of Gujarat.

6 February – We have converted Velandu

1 Sept –

Dip 8 – Docks – In addition to building Docks, we can get more trade range and Naval Morale is up 0.2

14 Sept – Our agent was found while making claims in Vijay

5 Mar, 1524 – Temple ordered for South Konkan

1 Apr – I head out and reduce autonomy in a lot of provinces we took a long time ago, like kochin, where it’s down, but the unrest isn’t going to hurt me. North Kanara, Malenadu, etc.

13 June – Bengal have announced us as their rival

1 July – Bengal has been knocking our trade around and we gain a minor Trade Dispute CB against them

15 April, 1525 – Rebels are breaking around Vijayanagar again

16 May –

Defensive Idea #6 – Supply Trains - +33% Reinforce Speed

I have begun a few more troops here and there

1 Oct – I spend some ADM to reduce my inflation some

29 Nov – I now have two units of 15000 troops – each one has 8000 infantry, 6000 cavalry, and 1000 artillery

I fabricated a claim against Warangal, in Bahmanis territory

1 Sept, 1526 – I order a Temple if Tiruchirappalli

30 Dec – We gain another claim on Bahmanis territory. That’s it for now

1 April, 1527 – Bastar has agreed to vassalization!!

1 Dec – Vijayanagar is broken

1 February, 1528 – Bastar has been fully integrated!!!

For ten years we’ll get -3 Dip Reputation

We get the 1000 infantry stationed there:

Bastar – The Gondi and Hindu people here have embraced the true great Hindu nation of Mysore! Bastar is an inland, tropical, jungle, with just 3 development, the 1 tax value, and they make 0.05. 0 unrest, 60% autonomy, They have an Increased Coring Cost for those who conquer it in war, and the Tropical Wood trade here makes 42 manpower and 1.4 trade power. As you can see ,Bastar is not this major economic boon. It is east of Chanda – a one province nation, south of the two province Gondwana, our ally, and west of Garjat, our other ally, and it’s next to us in Kalingandhra and Bahmanis in Warangal.

So I can now form Bharat – what will happen if I do?

We change into an Empire
We gain a claim on India
We gain 10 prestige

We gain a conquest CB against basically everyone. We get a claim against every province in India – but, it leaves after 25 years, like others do, so there’s no sense invoking it now. Empires are cool.

According to the wikia, you get every Indian culture accepted, but I didn’t see that happen (I became Bharat quickly, just to see what happens )

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 11:03 PM

2 Feb – For incorporating Bastar, we get a mission done – better foreign contacts. I begin to fabricate a claim on Chanda, next door to Bastar

21 Feb – We were discovered making those claims.

5 Sept – We have a rebellion – 13000 separatists rise up in Golconda. I order both of my armies in to handle them.

3 Oct – We defeated the rebellion, such as it was

11 Oct – Bahmanis has declared war for Chaul from Vijay. Chanda is in the war as well

14 Feb, 1529 – This is a war I’m watching very carefully, and I would love to have taken Chaul or Chanda.

27 May – I gain a bunch of DIP Power from importing naval supplies from Bahmanis again – I use it to change the culture in Kotte.

1 June – I order 4000 infantry to prepare.

1 July – Admin Tech 9 – The Scythe – We get +10% production

1 Aug - Our truce with Vijay has expired, but we lost claims on two of her provinces.

Do I want to hold off? Nah

I declare war on Vijayanagar.

Our allies have joined us

13 Aug – The 1000 troops we had sitting in Bastar has arrived in Chanda

10 Oct – The 4000 troops we made ready have taken Arcot. I’ll send them to the other non-fort province down here.

4 Dec – The huge Bahmanis army crossed over and is hitting Kurnool with us – but since we were there first, we are the war leader it seems.

9 Dec – Kurnool – the other non-fort holding, falls

2 Jan, 1530 – I built another 1000 troops up in Bastar and they head over to the Chanda siege – where Gondwana and Garjar are helping us take it down

2 Mar – Our treaty with Bahmanis has ended

25 Aug – We capture GIngee.

4 Oct – We finish making nice with Delhi and finis that mission – e get some power and prestige

Bahmanis took Chaul and peace

7 Oct – We win both sieges At Chand a and Rayalaseema

I offer Dhundhar, an ally of theirs to pull out for 25 ducats

This drives our warscore up to 100%

Which means I get everything:

41 gold
Chanda from them

Arcot, Gingee, Kurnool, and Rayalaseema from Vijay

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 11:05 PM

And the great yellow blob has ceased to exist, except in memory and history books.

I order a core for everyone, and since these provinces are cheaper to do that with, I still have a solid amount of admin power left.

Let’s take a look at the map!

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Again, the land we took from Vijay is now circled in purple for you. You can also see Chanda to the left of Bastar. I took provinces in the past that has strategic, economic, and political value. The ones that are left are, for the most part, pretty minor.

They range in development from5 to 11, they have tropical wood and grain, and so forth. Gingee is a good addition – it’s fort protects major holdings in Tanjore and Coromandel. Rayalaseema’s protects nothing, Vijayanagar, Morasanadu are protected by Raichur Doab and Mysore, while the other holdings (Arcor, Kurnool) are protected by Kosta.

I drop it’s maintenance for obvious reasons

Abe Sargent

08-15-2015, 11:18 PM

1 Nov – Our big advisor has passed,. I hire a level 2 trader to replace him

10 Dec – We catch Bahamanis fabricating a claim on Bastar

Unlike a lot of wars, I finished that one with a solid manpower

22 Mar, 1531 – I am going to begin to fabricate claims back then!

3 June – Garjat gives us military access and I move one of our armies in to clean up a rebel problem for them

1 July – Dip 9 – We can now make Carracks, Caravel, and get worse naval maintain and better colonial range

9 Aug – I begin to upgrade our fleet.

28 Aug - We crushed the rebel issue

1 Jan 1532 –

You ready?

We unlock:

Defensive Ideas #7

Improved Foraging - -25% land attrition

We finish Defensive Ideas and get - +1 attrition for our enemies

Now, we also got the South Indian Ideas:

Polygar System - +10% national manpower

So we just increased our manpower, dropped our attrition and increased them for foes all in one Idea gain

1 April – We have gotten cores in our four Vijay captures, let’s take a looksee

Gingee – 8 development in this tropical, hilly, inland province ,with a fort, Tamil Hindu people working the cloth trade, with 3.3% unrest and 48.2 autotomy. They make us 0.38 gold, 358 manpower, and 3.0 trade value

Arcot – Although hilly as well, the Tami Hindus here are not tropical, which helps, since working those iron mines would be rough otherwise. Development 10, tax 4, 3.3% unrest, 48.2 auto, and 0.47 gold, 358 manpower and 3.7 trade power

Rayalaseema - Also non-tropical and hilly, the Telugu Hindus here pick and package cotton for export, and then they have a 10 development, their own fort, a 4 tax value, 3.3% unrest, along with 38.2% auto, and 0.47 gold, 612 manpower and 3.9 trade power.

Kurnool – Hills, farmers, tropical, Telugu Hindu, 11 development, 5 tax, 3.3% unrst, 38.2 auto, 612 manpower, 4.3 tradepower, and 0.50 gold made here

I order a temple built in Kurnool

I am making 12.6 gold monthly after expenses

29 April – I get an event for improvements in diplomatic tech

11 May – I’m looking for another ally to join with. We just have two, and both of those are lesser beings.

It’s Orissa, that’s the only major option. Sigh.

I proclaim a guarantee against them

14 June – We enter into a royal marriage with them. Again

17 Dec – I order a Temple built in Arcot

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 12:14 AM

1 May 1533 – Chanda is now a core as well

Chanda – The tropical climate gives way to special woods that can be grown here, in the jungles of Chanda. The Hindu Gondi people here have a barracks, 4.7% unrest, 36.9 autonomy, 500 manpower, 1.9 trade power, 0.14 gold. Chanda is west of to our holding in Bastar, southwest of Gondwana’s Raipur, and then adjacent to fully 4 Bahmanis lands.

1 June – I invest some Dip power to convert Kandy to Kannada from Sinhalese

Mil Tech – 6 – Arquebus – Bonus tactics, combat width, shock for infantry, and we can build Barracks as well.

15 July –

Our Raja has died!

Our new king takes over:

Yadu Raya II Ummatur

2/6/4

But his son and heir is just 0/3/3

Yadu is 36

We are serving Shiva as well

I accept a Royal Marriage offer from Garjat

I boost our stability back up after it fell

4 Au – We renew our vows with Orissa

17 Aug – We catch Bahmanis making a core on us

21 Au g- And then vows with Gondwana

1 Sept – I order a Temple for Kochin

1 Mar – 1534 Our administrative advisor passes.

There’s an interesting advisor out there – gives us +2 missionary strength . that’s not enough to helps us convert the Sikh provinces of Golconda, but it’s close. I’m keeping my eye on him

15 June – Idea Time

Merchant Adventures - +25% Trade Range, in the Trade Ideas Docket
27 Aug – I’m just going to go ahead and hire the Missionary bonus guy

I currently make 11/11/9 monthly from advisory and tech development. Tha’s a lot

1 Nov – I order a Marketplace in Kochin

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 01:03 AM

23 Jan, 1535 – Our badboy is all worn off, I can go to war any time I want to.

5 Feb – I have a rebellion of 10000 troops in Rayalaseema

21 Feb – Put down

I can declare war against Bahmanis anytime, and I’ll crush them. After we took a bunch of their territory, they lost manpower that their gain in Chaul can’t overcome – they have 16000 manpower, and 14000 troops in their capital, right next to us. I combine my force into one great 35000 strong army.

It’s time.

I declare war against Bahmanis for Warangal. It’s a fort that is adjacent to literally 6 of my provinces, t’s built up, and it has good bones. You’ll see.

11 Feb – I recruit a solid general – 3/1/4/0.

24 Feb – War. We are at war with Bahmanis and their allies (Bengal and some one-province guys)

Alons-y

14 Mar – We win two naval battle against Bengal

1 Apr – Our 3000 troops from Bastar and Chanda arrive and are besieging one of their places in the back, our allies are taking on Srikakulam

11 Apr – After a battle that was a lot more close than I wanted, we finally won in their capital of Bidar. I split off a force to persue

18 Apri – We capture East Berar in the back

22 Apr – We crush the Bengali fleet again

4 May – We crush a small Bengal force of 8000 while chasing the Bahmanis and relieve a siege on Garjat proper.

5 May – I offer a peace to Bengal. I offer them some gold for them to pull out, right now – after losing a lot, they agree

14 June – We capture West Berar

3 July – They recapture West B

4 Sept – Mahur falls to us

Due to the rough start to the first battle, my manpower fell quicker than I was expecting.

12 Oct – West B falls to us again

13 Oct – Their army arrives to try and drive us out of Bihar. They time, they are crossing the river and attacking us in the hard place, and we have numbers too

11 Nov – After I broke off troops from neaby Warangel’s siege to assist, we finally win the battle again

8 Mar – 1536 – Our heir dies. Do I turn to the maid or to the divine? The divine, a temple ais built in Gingee

31 Mar – We announce a new heir that is 2/5/1

19 May – We take their capital

10 June – We again join forces with them in Bidar

16 July – Another long battle ends with our victory

30 Aug – We capture another minor province

31 Aug – We follow their forces to Srikakulam and defeated them again

28 Sept – The forst province of Warangal falls to us

Dec 12 – We beat them again, but not very well

Both of our manpower is hit

I hire some mercs to help out

25 Mar, 1537 – We have a 56 warscore. Can we do anything fun with it? I want:

24 April – His army is trying to take Bidar back

15 May – After the walls were breached, I orer an assault on, and take Marathwada.

28 June – Another rminor falls

13 Aug – Another fals

5 Sept – Shiva the Destroyer Event – Again, we withdraw in contemplation

23 Oct – Chaul falls

10 Nov – Two more minors are ours

15 Dec – We capture Srikakulam

Time to end this war with my 99 warscore

I want:

Warangal
Srikakulam
Savanur
Bijapur
Desh
Chaul

Force them to release Khandesh

And then give us 153 gold

I can set up cores on everything, and it drops me from 840 Admin to 242 Admin

I disband some mercs

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 01:05 AM

MAPPPPP

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Once again, we have no manpower, and our 6 holdings we took are in purple. I want to work on badboy for a while.

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 01:44 AM

24th December – Khandesh enters a Royal Marriage with us

3 Jan, 1538 – I take a mission to reduce overextension

11 Feb – I begin to work on claims again

20 Feb – One of our generals passes

4 Mar – I accept an alliance offer from Orissa

4 May – I declare a guarantee for Khandesh

Trade 4 – National Trade Policy - +10% Trade Efficiency

1 Aug -Kotte is now Kannada in culture

3 Sept – Rebels in Kochin and Tirunelveli

1 Nov – Kandy is now our culture as well

6 Nov – We defeated the first rebels, but the second captured their target

28 Jan, 1539 – We hit and finish them

6 Mar – We retake Tirenelveli

I buy down another rebellion.

22 May – Three provinces are now cores

22 July – I send a Missionary to Warangal

23 Feb, 1540 - I order a Marketplace in Venad and North Kanara

1 June – I spend some more MIL power to drop some rebelling folks

27 Sept – I put down some rebels in Garjat

23 Oct – Everyone is now a core, and we finish our mission

Next mission is to make nice with Malwa

Let’s looksee:

Chaul – Up the coast South Konkan, and below North Konkan – owned b ya March of Gujarat, Chaul is tropical hills that the local Hindu Marathi people use to farm and produce cotton. They have a 9.5% unrest right now, 36.5 autotomy, development level of 12, 5 taxvalue, 0.47 gold, 4. Trade power and 252 manpower.

Desh – Inland of Chaul, South Konkan, and Goa, this tropical jungle is where they grab and make Naval Supplies for folks. Even with a development level of 10, 4 tax value, they only make 0.22 gold, 252 manpower and 3.9 trade power – maybe that’s because they are both Marathi and Shia – unaccepted, 15.9% unrest, 36.5% autonomy.

Savanur – This tropical farmlands holdings has some nice cotton plantations, 13 development with 6 tax, 13.9% unrest, 36.5 autonomy, and they make 0.5 gold, 626 manpower with a 4.7 trade power, and while they share our culture – Kannada, they are Shia. As a farmlands, they can build a lot of stuff here.

Bijapur – Also Kannada and Shia, with the same unrest and auto, the drylands here feature a temple and marketplace, 19 development, 7 taxbase, and they work the cotton trade here. Do to how well the province has been built up, they send us 0.95 gold, 835 manpower and even have a 8.9 trade power. This was one of the reasons I wanted it.

Warangal – Although this was our main target. Warangel. Get ready. Development? 18. 8 taxes. The Telugu Shia folk here in these tropical hills find and process Dyes. They have a 19.9% unrest, 36.5% autonomy, a fort is already here, they send 626 manpower, and 4.7 trade power. We are sending a Missionary here that’s 68.5% done, and we are still getting 0.83 gold from it. Warangal, with it’s fort, protects our holdings in Chanda, Bastar, Konaseema, and Kalingandhra .

Srikakulam – The final of the Orissan holdings that Bahmanis took is now ours – tropical hills, this coastal province up the coast from Kalingandhra, and features a fort that I have mothballed right now. The Oriya Hindu people here make and work Sugar, a nice little addition to our empire. They have 5.8% unrest, 36.5 autonomy, and they are next to Orissa, and Garjat.

And there we are. I am dropping autonomy in places like Kongu and Tondainadu.

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 02:22 AM

1 February, 1541 – We buy a Workshop in Bijapur

17 Mar – I am almost done making claims on every Bahmanis province out there

1 June – I spend some power again on rebels

18 July – Warangal converts! Next target is Desh

1 Sept – Delhi has announced us as their new rival

1 April, 1542- I order a Temple in Warangal

1 June – As of today, we have re-stocked our armies, and our manpower is beginning to grow again

1 Aug – We get Trade Idea #5 – Overseas Merchants – We get +1 trader, and we get the next South Indian Idea - -15% mercenary cost

I send our newest merchant to Malacca to collect trade.

16 Oct –

Samhara: Destruction

The war gave you time to see much of destruction but also the rebuilding that follows. The fire that consumed enemies was not divine in nature, you still have a deeper understanding of the fire with which Shiva reshapes the world.

Aum

Our leader gets bonus prestige until death
And our leader gains 2 MIL skill

Our leader is now 2/6/6

Wow

1 Feb, 1543 – Temple ordered for Savanur

Our badboy is gone

1 Apr – I buy down more rebels

10 April – I now have a claim on every Bahmanis province, and we were never discovered too

I send a gift to Garjat

1 May – Ming tells us of a major war that has begun there

6 May – We have 100 relations with Malwa, and finished our mission – we gain Dip power and prestige

13 Jul –

Admin Tech 10 – We can head to Theocracy, and we get a third group of ideas

Which idea group?

Offensive, Quality, and Quantity all have merit

Quality

1 Jan, 1544 – I order a Marketplace in Kotte

5 Nov -Missionary success in Desh. Next is Bijapur

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 02:23 AM

100 YEAR REVIEW!!!

Let me zoom out to give you a good idea of our holdings in comparison to others

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Well you can see how much we’ve grown since being a little old goose. We have absorbed and defeated every major power in the south, and taken down Bahmanis twice. You can see our three allies, Orissa, Garjat and Gondwana over to the northeast of us. Those guys make a nice bubble between me and Bengal.

You can also see the other major regional powers – Malwa, Gujarat and Delhi, as well as Bengal. My ultimate goal is to take every province in traditional India.

Khandesh, the province I forced Bahmanis to release is to the northwest of them, sandwiched between Bahmanis and Malwa

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 11:11 AM

As you can see we have risen to 6th place in the world rankings:

Top 20 Nations by Ranks

Ottomans
France
Austria
Bohemia
Spain
Mysore
Russia
Ragusa
Papal States
Poland
The Palatinate
Cologne
Mamluks
Lithuania
Oldenburg
Hesse
Ming
Milan
Sweden
Norway

Most Income Of Those We Know:

Ottomans
Mysore
Delhi
Bengal
Tunis
Japan
Korea
Yarkland
Burgundy
Brunei

We are also the 2nd most developed, and 2nd most manpower

Our 25 techs are lower than a lot, but puts us on par with nations like Malwa and Malacca. Our 12 ideas is third most in the world behind Riga and Scotland and tied with Oman

We are 2nd in prestige and top in Power Projection

There are currently 17 Hindu countries and 142 provinces.

Our best provinces by Taxes:

Coromandel – 14.85
Tanjore – 13.3
Raichur Doab – 13.01
Madurai – 11.55
Vijayanagar – 11.55
Warangal – 10.65
Tondainadu – 9.9
Kotte – 9.9
Mysore -9.9
Golconda – 8.88

By Production:

Golconda (GOLD) – 36.72
Madurai – 13.68
Tanjore – 12.31
Coromandel – 10.94
Tondainadu – 8.2
Velanadu – 7.75
Raichur Doab – 7.32
Bijapur – 6.24
Warangal – 6.05
Mysore – 5.7

We have 39 provinces

At 9, one of our generals is tied for best in the world. We also have one at 8 as well

We have 46000 troops, our force limit precisely, and only the Ottomans feature more that we know of. Delhi has 35000. Bengal 23k

Our 15 strong navy is tied for 5th, but we could really improve it

Army #1 – 15000 infantry 6000 cavalry 1000 artillery
Army #2 -Identical
Army #3 – 2000 infantry

As of today, all of our provinces are cores, We have a large mix of cultures, but Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu are the biggest by far.

The Biggest Trade Nodes in the World, that we know of:

Bengal
Malacca
Samarkand
Goa
Doab
Persia
Canton
Indus
Aleppo
Ceylon

We get so much from Ceylon because it’s ours, and few compete in it. Our trade power there is 500

Trade Goods by current Price:

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

At 14%, we have a plurality of the world’s spice trade

We make a lot of cloth, and are 2nd behind France, we make 13.8% of the world’s Cotton as well, but at 20% is Delhi. We have 10.7 of the world’s production in Tropical Wood, but Hsenwi is the leader at 11.7%

We have the second best trade income in the world after the Ottomans, and Bengal is next

And there we are!

We have finished war exhaustion, bringing in those nations, and our badboy image abroad. I can order up a war and serve it anytime.

We have peace with Bahmanis until 1552, so we can’t touch them for 8 years. The more you get in war, the longer peace lasts

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 12:03 PM

19 Nov – I order us to fabricate a claim in north Konkan, and I order an army to Chaul

20 Feb, 1545 – Garjat agrees to become our vassal

1 May – I order a Temple in Desh

24 Nov – We have gained our claim

I declare war on Habsan. This is a March of Gujarat. Surely they’ll join in

5 Dec – We sweep aside the defending forces and begin the siege

Oman, their ally, did not join them

22 Dec – We win a naval battle against Gujarat

20 Feb, 1546 – Our navy arrives in the Coast of Gujarat to support our siege and to blockade them

26 April – I left a siege unit and arrived with a large force and won against their 13k strong one, and got a huge swing in warscore from it.

9 May – I take a local fortification expert in Raya…

I have 3 sieges ongoing

1 June – I capture Surat

14 July – Then Baroda

Both of these are really nice provinces with some good wealth to them

1 Sept – I begin landing folks in Kutch and facing the forces on the other side

17 Sept – Their major force comes in to Kutch and hits us and we lose it

I order 5 transports built

18 Nov – North Konkan falls to us

17 Dec – Normally I don’t bother with tech in a war but…

Military Tech 7 – The Limber – Bonuses - +0.25 Tactics, Infantry Fire +0.1, artillery fire +1, and we can make better cannons

20 Dec – I get a peace offer – Habsan give away North Konkan, I get War Reparations, and that’s it. No thanks

9 Feb, 1547 – Their capital falls to us

I now have an 85% warscore.

I take:

North Konkan
Surat
Baroda

War Reparations and their 97 gold

And that was only 67 warscore, but I didn’t wan tot push too much – taking land you don’t have a claim on is bad news bears.

We finish with 18 badboy,

These three provinces are all to the north of Chaul along the coast. I core all three, but the two from Gujarat are pretty pricy.

Baroda is Hindu, North Konkan recently converted to Sunni, and we won’t eb able to recruit it back anytime soon, and Surat I Sikh

We are next to a one province minor called Baglana – I order it cored

During the war some expensive advisors passed, and we are churning out the cash again. I’ll keep it steady for now, and invest bunches. My first investment is naval – I order some more ships

2 more Carracks and Caravels are ordered

30 Oct – Bijapur converts

I spend some power to increase it’s development, opening up another build slot there

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 12:56 PM

14 Feb, 1548 – My next target is Savanur for conversation

27 Feb – We finished that claim – next up, the capital of Gujarat

13 April – Gondwana agrees to become our vassal as well

I send a gift to Garjat

I send some to Orissa next

16 June – There’s a small one province Hindu nation on the far end of Gujarat, and I want to make nice with it as I expand into the area. I begin to up my game

27 June – A major war breaks out as Malwa attacks Hadoti, and then various allies jump in, including that one province neighbor I mentioned Baglana

1 July –

Dip Tech 10 – The Flute and War Galley can now be built, better trade range, efficiency and settler growth

11 Nov – Baglana fell to the Malwa forces there

20 Dec – After a quick war, Malwa took Baglana, but they are still at war with others. We lost a graet one province victim Malwa!

2 Feb, 1549 – I currently have like 650 gold, but I’m saving it for a special occasion..

15 Feb – Our navy was fleshed out. I order a handful more vessels

1 April – I upgrade some ships, and then I also got that claim in Gujarat. I order another.

3 April – I drop some rebels witih MI power. I want to keep building my manpower reserves ip

1 Dec – Cores are all done:

North Konkan – The Marathi Sunni people here are north and up the coast from Chaul, and are under religious zeal for another 10 years. The tropical hills here are at 10 development and 4 taxbase, with folks making cloth. 13.3 unrest, 36.6 auto, they make 0.33 gold, and 250 manpower, 4.9 trade power. It’s south of Surat, and inland are Pune (Bah) and Baglana (now Malwa)

Surat – With 21 development, including 8 taxes, this Gujarati Sikh province is a tropical grasslands. Silk is made and sold here in this Center of Trade. It features a Temple, Marketplace, and Workshop, and it has 9.1 unrest, 46.6 auto, and makes 1.26 gold for us monthly, wit 303 manpower and 46.8 trade. Its north of North Konkan, south of Baroda, and iinland is Baglana

Baroda – We saved the Hindu folk here, as the Gujarati folk here are tropical grasslands as well, with 14 development, 6 tax, and a workshop and temple here. I order a marketplace here as well, because this place also sells and makes silk. 0.99 gold, despite its 6.9% unrest, 46.6 autonomy, and 201 manpower, 6.6 trade power. Baroda is exposed a bit, so I have my army here. Next to it is the capital of Gujarat, and two Malwa provinces Baglana and Rewakantha.

The Gujarat provinces are very wealthy. I intend to move into here when I can’t hit Bahmanis. Our treaty with them is good through 1558.

I’ll hit Bahmanis in 1552, and then them in 1558.

I have a forcelimit of 51 now, so I begin to build a few troops here and there

1 Mar, 1550 – I order some artillery as well

11 June – I get a Serf event, and I choose to move serfs from South Kanara to Mysore, which increases the tax base in Mysore, lowers it in South K and increases its autonomy by 25. I drop the Autonomy after the event fires, and then it raises the unrest there locally for 30 years.

1 Sept – I order some more ships

10 Oct – one of our generals passes

18 Nov – We have a Royal Marriage with the nation, Kathiawar, in the back of the Gujarat holdings.

19 Dec – I proclaim a guarantee for them as well

1 Jan, 1551 – Our final adviser has passed.

I hire Gopana Vasireddy, a Natural Scientist

1 Mar –

Quality Idea #1

Private to Marshal, +10% Infantry Combat Ability

10 Mar – War begins as Marehan declared war against Gujarat for Sequtra from Oman, the big G’s ally

13 Oct –

Trade Idea #6 – Trade Manipulation - +25% Trade Steering and Caravan Power

I order some more ships

21 Nov – Savanur converts!

Our next target is Surat

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 01:59 PM

17 Mar, 1552 – Peace with Malwa and company. Hadoti was annexed. Malwa continues to expand as well.

1 May – Get ready fro why I have been hoarding a bunch of cash – I have 1190

Admin 11 –

Textile Manufactory – I can build them

Take a province like say Coromandel. You recently saw how good it was. It trades cloth. Now build a Textile Manufactory there. You can build that in Wool, Cloth, Silk, or Dyes. I can build it here, right now, today, and it increases my production by +1 good.

Alright, here’s Warangal, a Dyes province that could use one too.

I order one each for Coromandel and Tondainadu

They will take 1825 days to build.

17 May – I get a Merchant Exodus event and merchants are leaving for 2 years and my trade power decreases by a third for two years

18 Sept – I built enough ships to finish our mission and get Thriving Ship Building Sector again

Oct 30 –

We are ready for war against Bahmanis again. The treaty just finished. I have chosen the Conquer East Berer mission. I have 25000 manpower in stock, I have a force of 20000 in Golconda, ready to attack their capital, 17000 in North Konkan who will sweep in on th west flank and 9000 in Chanda that will hit the rear. I turn both myself and my heir into generals. Both are pretty good. I have 3 generals to hit them with.

We are ready

My war claim is West Berar.

14 Nov – Their main force fled mine and is now in Raichur Doab sieging us

I get a Military Reform event and we gain a ton of Military Power for reforming the army

1 Dec – I defeated their main force in Gulbarga since they fled from me – I leave behind a siege force and chase them down.

7 Dec - We capture East Berar and Pune

6 Jan, 1553 – We gain Gulbarga

9 Jan – We crush a Bengali navy

15 Jan – We defeat a Bengali army that interceded between us and our fleeing folks

20 Jan I accept an alliance offer from Kathiawar

22 Jan – We capture West Berer

26 Feb – Mahur falls

Their main army fled into Bengal, I’m not following into a literal tiger

23 April – Allies capture Gulbarga

28 May – They have retruned and I have begun to chase them

5 July – We hit them ad defeat them in Warangal

25 July – We win a skirmish in Mahur

1 Aug – We rout and finish their forces in West Behar

16 Aug – I spend some mil to keep down the rebels

18 Aug – We capture their fort province of Marathwada

15 Sept – That army of 17000 has arrived back on its perch at Baroda

29 Oct – Their capital falls

Peace time

I deal a separate peace deal here

For me to annex their whole nation is 30 badboy. And Gujarat and Malwa could team up to fight me at that point. I doubt it, I finished the battle with a lot of manpower. But it’s possible. And the good thing is that would let em take some more holdings in Gujarat perhaps

3 November 1553 – After a one year long war, the mighty nation of Bahmanis has ceased to be

I get an Inspiring Victory event from finishing our mission and we get bonus to manpower recovery speed and prestige. Next mission is to finish overextension

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 02:56 PM

You are seriously going to want to see a map, I know:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Mysore%2012_zpskxifpyxk.jpg

Once again, purple for the metric ton of provinces I just captured.

That’s a huge swath of land! I also circled in bright chartreuse the three I took in our last war

I have now finished two major players – Vijayanagar and Bahmanis. I have already beaten Gujarat once, and I’ll him them again soon.

Obviously, it’ll take a bit for these provinces to be fully integrated. None of them are Hindu save of Eat Berar. I try to core the best or easiest – West Berar, Mahur, East Berar, Bidar, Gulbarga – Ones that have cultures in common with us. I can’t core Pune or Marathwada. And now I’m down to 15 ADM. SP sit back cause this is going to take a while

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 03:34 PM

7 April, 1554 – 2 sets of rebels pop up in Pune and Marathwada

27 May – Rebels crushed in both places

14 July – One of my diplomats fabricated claims in Malwa was discovered

27 Sept – I send a gift to Garjat, and I order a Manufactory in Warangal

1 Jan, 1555 – I hire a Dip adviser with +1to my Reputation

7 Jan -I order a core in Marathwada and we get three completed.

I’ll do this peacemeal

Gulbarga – 7 development in this highlands farmland that are raising graing for havest, and the Kannada Shia folk here make 0.23 gold monethly, 407 manpower and 2.7 trade power. It’s east of our previous holding in Bijapur, west of Golconda, north of Raichur Doab, and then south of their former captial. Dead center. 13.8% unrest and 38.5 auto

Bidar – Their former capital, Bidar has 19 development, 6 tax value, grasslands that are used to making and selling silk. They have a fort, which I have turned off, 6 tax base, 5.5 trade power, 815 manpower, 0.92 gold made for us monthly. It’s west of Golconda and Mahur, south of West Berar, and east of Ahmadnagar. Kannada and Shia

Mahur – This core province, tropical jungle, sees some of the local trees felled for the Tropical Wood trade. The Telugu Shia folks here have a 6 development, 0.18 gold montly, 13.8% unrest, 38.5 auto, and 407 manpower with 2.3 trade power. Mahur is above Warangal, west of Chanda and north of Bidar and Golconda, and south of West Berar.

1 May, 1555 – We have announced the Annexation of Garjat. This will take 4 years.

10 Aug – Since I have manpower, and I want to build up my military, I am skipping using it to quash rebels and just going to do it the old fashioned way for a bit.

For example rebels in Surat and the surrounding area are demanding to be set free. Nope!

2 Mar, 1556 – I order cores for Pune, Ahmadnagar

1 Apr –

Mil 8 – Pike and Shot – We get +0/25 tactic, +1 combat width, and bones to infantry fire and cavalry shock and we can build regimental camps as well

8 Apr – The Berars are now cores

East Berar – Development 1-, tropical jungle, cotton is grown here, the Gondi folk ere are Hindu, and we get 7.8% unrest and 37.1 autonomy. They make 0.35 gold. East Berar is in the far upper most spot, and it is surrounded by two Malwa holdings, and a Gondwana one to the east.

West Berar – Despite the tropical grasslands ,the major export from West Berar is copper. TheMarathi Shia folk here hae 0.21 gold, 14.2 unrest with 37.1 autonomy, and they get very little eilse, with a10 development and such.

I hire a Grand Captain adviser – he reduces land maintenance. He literally pays for himself

4 Nov –

Final Trade Idea:

Fast Negotiations - +10% National Trade Income

For finishing this Tech line we get +1 merchant

Patronage of Great Temples – South Indian Idea - +1 legitimacy annually

3 Dec – Huh. I have never seen a lightning bolt on someone before. Gujarat views us as an aggressive conqueror and seek to cut me down to size!!! Sounds like I passed my badboy for them.

No one else does

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 04:32 PM

1 May, 1557 - The two Manufactories we ordered first are done. I order a Workshop in Bidar and in North Konkan

11 Sept – Marathwada is now a core

Marathwada – The tropical hills here are the place were local Marathi Sunni farmers work their fields, and make 0.52 gold, with 15 development, and a fort and temple. Marathwada has 0 unrest after being part of a rebellion earlier, and it’ll be calm for another 7 years. It has 45.4 autonomy, and it’s on the border with Khandesh and Malwa

8 Nov – Revolts in Bidar and Gulbarga

4 Dec – Both were won

12 Dec – A major war sprouts – Delhi declares war to take land from Malwa. Joining Delhi are Bengal and Khandesh. Jaunpur and Sukthothai

2 April, 1558 I begin to work on building relations with the single province Bagelkhand

23 May – I get an event on Mercantalism, and I chose not to expand it and got a ton of dip power

3 Aug – The final two provinces are cored

Pune – The tropical jungle is used to harvest grain and sell it, and features Marathi Sikh. There is 14 development here, and 5 taxvalue, with 0.38 gold made, 0 unrest currently, 34.3 auto, and it’s next tto Baglana, a Malwan province, and just east of the coastal provinces like North Konkan and Chaul

Ahmadnagar – 11 development in this highlands tropical scene. They work the cotton trade, and the Marathi Shia folk send us 0.3 8gold. They are east of Pune, south of Marathwada, and north of Bijapur and west of Bidar. In case you care 

10 Aug – We get an event for finishing our overextension.

28 Oct – Our truce with Gujarat has ended

I don’t want to take too much – I can’t. But I begin to move some forces over to get ready. They have some Hindu provinces, so holding them is easier

28 Nov – I declare war against Gujarat, and I want to take their capital.

Kathiawar joins us, and we march on their capital

1 Dec – We have finished annexin gGarjar

7 Dec – We win in the Coast of Gujarat

1 Feb, 1559 – I begin to reup with my BFF Gondwana over there to make sure they know that I still love them

24 Feb – Our ally captured Navanagar

4 April – We capture their capital after I assault it when we breached it.

8 April – Our ally captures Bhavnagar

21 May – Another walls breached and I assault and take it – it had just 257 defenders and we had around 20000 attackers

14 June – I arrive at, and defeat their entire army in Kutch

They have offered us peace -Kutch to Kathiawar, and we get Kathiawar, Bvanagar, and Ahmadabad. Close.

I have a warscore fo 99

Here we go:

We get:

Ahmadabad – their now former capital
Bhavnagar
Kathiawar

War Rep

I went to bat for an ally once before and it came back to bite me.

21 June – We win Patan

2 July – Rebels in Surat

16 July – We capture Kutch. Okay, now? Hold up, let’s capture this last province, I have an idea

5 Aug – We capture Gorwar!

So here’s my option:

My ally gets Navangar. They are happy. I get Kutch, Patan, Kathiawar, Bvanagar, and Ahmadabad. More than I really should get. That’s 16 bad boy for me. It could piss off Sind or Malwa

Now, there’s one province left, right? Gorwar. Gujarat will release Mewar, who has Gorwar.

Results – I finish Gujarat off, I take five valuable Hindu provinces my new ally is over the moon, and I have another new ally I just made

And I toss on 125 gold

Rebels were just put down

Cores ordered

Gujarat is gone!!!

I send our ally a gift

This is not working. I cancel my Missionary in Surat – it’s too slow. Let’s begin with Bidar

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 05:05 PM

Aug 25 – We are now allies with Mewar

16 Sept – I accept a Royal Marriage from Mewar

I begin to claim a fabrication of love on this tinky Sikh one-province state above me – Marwar

21 Nov – I add a merchant to the Indus one, and I move the one we have in Malacca to Delhi

27 Dec – One of our generals passes

28 Feb, 1560 –

Sorry I forgot, let’s look at the three provinces I got from Garjat

Samalpur, 4 development, on the border with Bengal and Gondwana, Garjati and Hindu, they work cotton in the tropical jungle. 0 unrest and 59% autonomy. I order the small amount of Dip it’ll cost to switch cultures. They make 0.09 for us.

Khurda – Also on the edge here, Khurda is next to Orissa and Bengal and Sambalpur. We have a temple, development 6, and again, I’ll order a culture switch here too – it’ll be cheap. 0 unrest and 59.4 autonomy -they make 0.24 for us with the tropical jungle and grain

Garjat – Also Garjati Hindu, with 0.05 gold, Tropical Wood, tropical jungle, and just 3 development. Swapping’s its culture costs virtually nothing (its 10 per development0. Again, 0 unrest and 59.4 autonomy

I would have hated to have wasted on war on this.

23 May – I get an event about the Sale of TItls and my gold hits even higher. I have 1335gold.

I order a Manufactory in Surat and North Konkan

1 July – I figured I’d give you a breakdown of my current budget:

26.45 taxes
23.20 production
21.44 trade
3.8 gold
0.23 vassals

Advisers – 19.65
Army – 15.76
Navy 5.00
Fort 8.1
Missionaries 0.9

Results - +25.71 a month

As of today, did you know that?

We are the world’s leading producer of:

Spices – 14.6%
Cloth – 9.7%
Silk – 17.0%
Tropical Wood – 17.1%

20 Sept – We gain a CB against Marwar

2 Oct – I send a gift to Bagelkhand

9 Nov – Peasant uprising in Coromandel – they are forced to move to Gingee instead.

17 Jan, 1561 – We take them down

20 Jan – I declare a guarantee on Bagelkhand

2 Feb – I accept their alliance offer

Mewar is willing to become our vassal. I will hold out for now.

17 Mar – I accept Bagelkhand’s Marriage offer as well.

Basically what I want to do is create a pan-Indian alliance of these smaller Hindu states. Help them out against the big bads like Bengal, Malwa, Delhi and Sind.

Let me show you what I mean, and you can also see those latest gains if you care too.

JAG

08-16-2015, 05:12 PM

Basically what I want to do is create a pan-Indian alliance of these smaller Hindu states. Help them out against the big bads like Bengal, Malwa, Delhi and Sind.

Idea being to try and sucker the bigger places into weakening themselves against you in a way that doesn't raise your badboy?

Just curious, I'm not that experienced w/EU but enjoy reading your dynasties.

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 06:00 PM

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Mysore%20B_zps77i76y5c.jpg

As before, I have circled purple our gains from that war with Gujarat, and the chartreuse is for the three we took when we annexed Garjat. Now bear with me as I slaughter this map. I am going to star with a yellow and then draw lines at the various small Hindu nations that I have curried favor with Kathiawar, Mewar, Gondwana, Orissa, and now Bagelkhand -

Now the big four bad guys are Sind, Delhi, Malwa and Bengal. See where ours are at? Orissa? Next to Bengal. Gondwana? Next ot Bengal and Malwa. Bagelkhand? Next to Malwa and Delhi. Mewar? Next to Malwa. Only Kathiawar is in a safe place, on the ocean, with us around it

So my goal is to keep these allies, buffer zones and most importantly, my excuse for getting into various wars and battles and such.

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 06:04 PM

Idea being to try and sucker the bigger places into weakening themselves against you in a way that doesn't raise your badboy?

Just curious, I'm not that experienced w/EU but enjoy reading your dynasties.

Basically, correct. Taking land defensively is not as big of an issue globally and with your reputation. If Canada declares war on us, and we take Manitoba, no one winks as much if an eye - this also applies to our allies. If Iran launches an attack tomorrow on Israel, and we head it, blast Iran back,and then start grabbing territory, again, not as much of a shock.

It's that concept. Plus I don;t want to wage a bunch of small-time wars on my fellow Hindus. I did that early because I had to. Now i don't have to, now I am freeing the mass numbers of Hindus in Bengal, Gujarat, Malwa, and more, as they are being converted.

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 06:30 PM

9 January 1562 – We get cores on 4 of 5 provinces we took, I;ma wait on the last one

19 Mar – I’m going to go ahead though and order a Temple for Bhavnagar, Workshop for Kathiawar

9 Apr – All done, here we go

Kutch – This is the holding that sucks. Kutch features 3 development, salt which is a good cash product, Arid and desert, 5.5% unrest, 0.1 gold, 36.8% autonomy, Gujarati and Hindu, plus it’s a coastal province next to two of Sind, and south of Marwar, Mewar, and west of our holdings as well

Patan – 13 development here with a Barracks and Regimental camp here. Yuck. This is an drylands with a Gujarti and Hindu folk that work the cloth trade, and they make 0.56 with 5.5 unrest and 46.8 autonomy. Patan is north of our core Gujarati holdings, and south of Mewar and east of some Malwa spots

Let’s get s to the good stuff

Bhavnagar – This coastal drylands province works the salt trade,. The Hindu Gujarati folk here have 14 development, 0.64 in gold, 5.5 unrest and 36.8 autonomy It is building a temple for me and has more space. It’s south of Ahmadabad, Kathiawar, and next to our ally in Girnar.

Next

Kathiawar – This is the province our ally is named after, and it has a fort and is working on a workshop. Drylands? Check. Coastal? Check. 17 development. Check. Next to 6 provinces? Check. Has the major fort in this area? Check. Gujarait and Hindu too? Check. Here we go. The people here work the Dye trade, and make a solid 0.84 monthly

And now the ex-capital

Ahmadabad – Gujarati and Hindu, coastal barely, next to a single Malwa province. Also drylands, awith 18 development, Cloth makers and seller, with Temple, Marketplaece, and Workshop and…..Centre of Trade. They have 46.7 trade power, and they make 1.52 gold for us monthly

As you can see, overall, pretty wealthy stuff. Two centers of trade, 2x Silk, 2x Cloth, Dyes, 2x Salt and Cotton – that’s set up pretty well for this area. The one province that Gujarat doesn’t have, Girnar, but could easily take is Sugar. So even that is really valuable

Actually, I go ahead and increase Ahmadabad’s development by two for production. And then we’ll build a manufactory here in a few months when I have the cash. It’s now 1.73 gold

3 June – Revolts on Ahmadabad and Bhavnagar

18 July – Both are down

1 Sept – Garjat is now Kannada

1 Oct – I order that Textile Manofactory in Ahmadabad

I also drop the autonomy and raise the unrest in places like Arcot and Gingee. I also do that with the three provinces from Garjat.

Dec 21 –

Mil 9 – Professional Soldiers – We get better infantry with Toofangchis. This is enabled because again I’ve been putting off putting down rebellions

1 July, 1563 – Sambalpur is now our culture.

4 Aug – I’m checking things out post war and Malwa is viewing us with the same hatred and zeal that Gujarat did.

1 Nov – I maxed relations with Kathiawar

We can also vassalize Kathiawar if I want to

13 Nov – I send a gift to Gondwana

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 06:57 PM

1 Jan, 1564 – I take a mission to Protect our Brethren in Mewar, a gold province in Malwa’s control

1 Mar – I order a textile manufactory in Kathiawar.

1 June – We get a Merchant Shipwrecked and lose some gold

14 July – I’ve been slowly building up an army in Sambulpur on the eastern edge of our borders. It’s at 8000 troops and rising

21 Oct – Bidar has converted to Hinduism! Next target is Mahur

24 January, 1565 – Gondwana has agreed to be annexed into our realm! It’ll take about 3 or 4 years

1 Mar - The province of Khurda is now Kannada culture.

Admin 12 – Early Modern Administration

We can get some newer forms of government.

3 Nov – I hire my Natural Scientist for an Inquisitor who is level 3 adviser, and gives me +2% Missionary Strength

19 Jan, 1566 –

Dip Tech 11 – Wharf, we can now build Naval Equipment Manufactories, and we get some range and crap.

Naval Equipment Manufactory are boons for Naval Supplies, Tropical Wood, Salt, or Fish

19 Feb – I have manufactured claims on the two Bengali provinces I am next to – both are strong

1 April – I could get the next Quality Idea, but instead I want to hold off because the enxt Military Tech gives me better units

22 July – We get a Gift to the Estate and I put it into the treasury

I order a Textile Manufactory for Bidar, which has silk. I also drop some adnim power to bump up its tax base to 7 and development to 20 so I can build something else in there after the Manufactory is completed

1 Dec – Mahur converts

My next target is West Berar

19 Jan, 1567 – Apparently Bagelkhand got pulled into some war in SRE Asia with nations like Lan Xang and Khmer

I send them another gift

10 May – Our forcelimit is 69, and as of today, I now have 69,000 troops!

It’s important to be ready for the next war, whenever it strikes.

Right now, Bengal is allied with Delhi, so I don’t want to move that way. Malwa is allied with Sind. I don’t want to move that way.

1 June 0- I declare war on Marwar, the small Sikh province next to us in ex-Gujarat

I appoint a general to this 13000 army I have and it’ll march against the 5000 Sikh strong they have

I’m also relocating my army in Surat to Patan for the duration of this war

28 June – We won in Marwar. It’s fleeing into Kutch, so I order my army from Patan to hit them while we siege

12 July – That plan works smoothly and their army is routed and gone

6 Aug – I get walls breached

20 Aug – I assault and take them

The only ally of Marwar is a two province nation currently in a war to the wet of Delhi, and east of Sind. They don’t want anything to do with us

We annex and get 62 gold.

I order a core here

Now Marwar is next to Nagaur – a one prvince Sunni state, and Jangladesh, a one province Hindu state. It’s also next to two Sind states and Gorwar, the home of Mewar. But Jangladesh is a March of Delhi. It likes us a lot, (we’ve never been at war with Delhi)

Abe Sargent

08-16-2015, 07:40 PM

3 Sept – I send Jangladesh a gift

8 Oct – I begin to fabricate a claim on Nagaur

1 February ,1568 – I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory in Bhavnagar

3 June – Our heir falls ill, but recovers

14 Oct – We know have that claim.

26 Oct – We enter into a treaty of independence for Jangladesh and will support them if they go free of Delhi

2 Nov

At the ripe old age of 71, our rule has passed!!!

His heir, Chamaraja III Ummatur will now rule, he is 2/5/1, and 32 years old

His 3 year old heir, is 5/4/4

Our stability has dropped, and I buy it bac kup

We accept a Royal Marriage from Kathiawar

We are choosing a different path –

We are going to celebrate Vishnu!

Vishnu gives us - +2% Missionary Strength and +20% Forst Defense

We are behind in Missionary work, and Vishnu will help us get caught up

7 Nov – I renew our vows with Orissa

28 Nov – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Jangladesh

9 Dec – Our new King’s lower diplomacy reduces the number of formal relations we can have, so I revoke our guarantee with Khandesh

1 Jan 1569 – I order a Textile Manufactory in Tajore

8 Jan – I get some border friction with Kathiawar. I resolve it diplomatically rather than dropping our relations

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 04:03 PM

15 Feb – Get Ready!!!

The nation of Mewar, our faithful ally, has been attacked! Malwa has attacked them. Malwa is allied with Sind.

I accept.

I order the 14000 troops I have stationed in Sambalpur to hit Malwa on their east side in Mandla

I recruit a general. I assign him to our 20000 troops in West Berar. I order him in. I order the 22000 troops in Surat into Baglana, and the 13000 in Patan into Mewar

Mewar is the War Leader though. Ah well, I’ma give them good

17 Mar – 17000 Malwa forces have arrived in Ghittor to hit the Mewar forces

26 Mar – We capture Baglana

30 Mar – Two others fall

29 Apr – After they defeated the Mewar force, my army hits them and defeats them

1 May – Gondwana is now integrated!

12 June – I accept a request for military access from Bagelkhand

29 Aug – The fortress at Mandla falls to us on the east

14 Sept – West Berar converts. Next target is North Konkan

7 Oct – We lose in Patan

17 Oct – Two smaller provicnes on the east fall to us

18 Nov – They captured Patan

14 Dec – Sind captures Marwar from us

21 Feb, 1570 – Mewar drives the Sindi armies from Marwar and retakes it for us

15 May – Mandsaur falls to us and opens eh way to their capital

23 May – 35000 of our troops descend on their and begin an siege

6 June – We capture the fortress at Rewakantha

16 June – the retake Marwar

21 July – The gold province of Mewar falls to us

1 Oct – We take a smaller province with the army that fled earlier and I move it to support a siege that Mewar is doing. They have landed an army in Rewakantha, so I send an army to hit them there and remove them from the siege

10 Nov – We take the province of Chittor, a fort we took over the siege from

18 Nov – We win the battle

25 Dec – Their capital falls to us

If I were the warleader, I’d call it now

Right now, I could negotiate a separate peace and take three provinces from them

But that pisses off my allies

My manpower went from 35000 to 15000. I made this victory possible. I pull my troops out. This has really ceased to be a war, and we’ll see what Mewar does.

30 Dec – I retake Patan

25 Mar, 1571 – I retake Marwar

1 May –

Military Tech 10 – Reiter. We get +25% maneuver value, and we get better cannons and cavalry

3 May – Marwar is now a core

I send a gift to Orissa

20 May – I proclaim a guarantee on Kathiawar

15 July – North Konkan is now converted! Next target Surat. With all of our bonuses, I want to take it quickly

3 Feb, 1572 _ Revolt in Pune and Marathwada

15 Feb A son of our line is next in line for another nation – Bagelkhand

9 Mar – Rudra, Follower of Vishnu

I withdraw in contemplation

12 May – One of the people in the battle, Yarkand, is now out.

3 June – We have an agricultural revolution in Khurda, and increase our taxes there

1 Aug - After our allies take like four Sind province, I help them out by nipping across the border and taking Jaisalmer.

17 Aug – I destroy the Baracks in Patan and order a Workshop here

25 Aug – Peace in our time – Mewar takes two provinces from Malwa – Ajmer and Dhundar, and gives us Baglana and Mandla

I order up some cores.

26 Aug – Mewar agrees to become our vassal

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 04:10 PM

Let’s take a looksee at the mapsee

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Once Again, purple is around the places We just took. I chartreused the Gondwana places we annexed, and Malwar we took recently. As you can see, Mewar is now three provinces, and Jangladesh, the March of Delhi to our north right there in the dark brown. Bagelkhand is above our new holdings, and You can see other folks in fun places.

So there we are. I would not be surprised if I moved to one of the small places like Jaunpur or Naupaur next.

Here are the three provinces we cored and annexed:

Marwar – Rajput, Sikh. The Arid Desert here is developed to level 11, and has a 4 tax value. They harvest and make wool from sheep, and then they have a 15% unrest and 38.2 autonomy. They only make 0.33 gold, and are now a major target of development even later.

Raipur – The former capital of Gondi, Raipur has a grasslands with 60% autonomy, and 0.1 gold from the farmers that harvest grain. The Gondi Hindu folk here are pretty quiet for now though

Surguja – Jungle province with cotton as its export, Jharkhand Hindus, and 0.06 is made here wit h60% autonomy and just 3 development.

Surguja is on the border with both Delhi and Bengal.

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 04:50 PM

1 Oct – I order a Marketplace in Konaseema

4 Oct – Separatists are rebelling in Kutch

1 Nov – I slay them.

1 June, 1573 – Surat converts. Next up is Gulbarga

22 July – Kathiawar is in a war again. Hmm

20 August - I order a Textile Manufactory for Patan

10 Sept – I have gained a claim on the province that Jaunpur has

I’m not sure when it happened, but Malwa’s ally was attacked by Delhi, and Malwa and Sind are now at war with Delhi and Bengal

Hmmm

I order one of my armies to relocate to the east

It’s time

22 September, 1573 –

In preparation for our impeding war against Bengal, I claim our nation as….

Bharat

We gain a ton of claims for 25 years, and we are now an Empire. And we have a cool looking flag too. An we aren’t white anymore on the map, which is a nice bonus,

Here’s a quick pic for ya

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There are currently 20000 troops in Bengal of the rebel persuation. Bengal is at war. This is the right time

I order my fleet into the Ganges Delta

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 06:40 PM

Nov 22 – I declare war on Bengal

Let me check and see what I want to take.

I want the Bengal Delta

I order 20000 troops in Khurda into Midnapore, which is a province with a fort, I order 14000 troops from Sambalpur into Jharkhand, a province with and then 23000 troops into Delhi to hit Varnasi

25 Dec – A large Delhi force of 20000 has forced me to keep my 14000 troops back

3 Jan, 1574 – We capture the province of Varnassi

7 Jan – Our army in Marwar loses

15 Jan - I grant Kathiawar military access

10 Feb – A large Delhi army just oassed by my siege of Jaunpur and skipped us, heading west.

I am moving toward the Bengal forces now, there is just 7000 troops in Jharkhand

20 Feb – Marwar falls

23 Feb – We win in Jharkhand

28 Mar – We take Jharkhadn

Ideally, I take Jharkhand, Midnapore and Bengal Delta in this war

1 May – They are trying to take Gorwar from Mewar. I move my defeated army back t Patan and rebuild it quietly

21 May 43000 Delhi troops are next to us in Jaunpur and still aren’t attacking that siege. That worries me.

30 June – We capture Midnapore.

Their 25000 each armies on the east are splitting up, but they are next to Marwar

8 Aug – We win in Lakhnor, and I order my army on to their capital.

14 Aug – Bengal Delta falls, and forces their navay out to hit ours

19 Aug – Gulbarga converts and I send another Missionary to Pune

8 Sept – I was forced to hit the Gorwar siege understrength but I won

18 Sept - We win the naval battle in te hDelta

16 Oct – we lose to a major Delhi army in Gorwar

16 Nov - Jaunpur falls to us in Delhi

26 Dec – I take two minor provinces in Delhi

I order one army to hit up Lucknow, a fort, and part of the other to return to Bengal and hit their fort in Tirhut

5 Aprl, 1575 – I note the Delh iarmi has left the west and moving east. I order my defeated army back into Gorwar – I think they are coming for Lucknow.

22 April – I end the siege there about 4 days before they arrive

12 May – Our forces arrive at Tirhut and reinforce the siege

1 June – We capture the Bengali capital

3 July – We capture two minor provinces in Bengal

11 July – After a wall breached, I assault and take Tirhut

Can I get my three targets?

Yes, but no more

13 July – We get peace

I order up some cores

Tech – Dip 12 – Naval Morale bumps up

1 Sept – We get cores on two provinces we took pre-Bengal:

Baglana – Malvi Sikh people work the tropical hills in this grain farming place. They send just 0.21 to us monthly, with 18.8% unrest, 37.1 autonomy, and just 7 development. Baglanas is next to Khandesh and inland of lots of coastal places such as Baroda and Surat. It has a temple

Mandla – This jungle fort province is run by Gondi Hundus in the Tropical Wood trade, and te make 0.20 gold, 8 development, have 12.7% unrest with the same auto, and they are next to two Malwa holdings, south f Bagelkhand, and a fort that protects three nearby provinces for us

After the war, my manpower has hit 0, and I need to wait while it resets

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 08:41 PM

12 Oct , 1575 - I send a gift to Bagelkhand

4 Nov – I order a workshop for Bhavnagar

1 Jan, 1576 – Our diplomatic adviser passes, and I hire a Trader

1 April – Pune converts – next is Baglana

2 June – Our manpower is beginning to build back up, so I order 2000 more troops

11 July ) I send a gift to Orissa

1 Nov – I have too much money –

Workshop in Kalingandhra
Temple in Kandy
Workshop in Savanur
Marketplace in Bidar
Temple in Pune
Workshop in Chaul

1 Feb, 1577 –

Admin Tech 13 – Improved Drainage - +10% production efficiency across the board

18 April –

Rudra Sampradaya

Your meditation and attempts to understand Vishnu through Rudra, his pupil, has guided you through the last 5 years, and now as a follower of Vishnu, I seek to follow Rudra’s example

Aum

Get ready:

Bonus Prestige
Our ruler gets +2 Diplomacy

6 June – Rebellion out by Bengal Delta and Midnapore

24 July – We won the first battle but lost the second

3 Sept – Baglana converts. Next up is Ahmadnagar

11 Oct – My army from Mandla arrived and finished off eh rebels

3 Nov – Revolt in Baglana

11 Dec – We win against them

21 Jan, 1578 – We get a new Commandant.

I spend some power to upgrade Goa’s development

I order a Marketplace here

I order a fort in Desh

21 May – Delhi announces us as a rival

I do the same back

Delhi took 4 provinces from Malwa

2 June – Revolt in Ahmadanagar and Marathwada

16 June –Two of our latest provinces are now cores

21 July – Rebels eliminated

1 Sept –

Quality #2 - +1 Yearly Army Tradition

19 Sept – Our ruler has passed! But we have a Regency Council because his heir is just 12

I add in Ganga for now. Ganga as our god gives us -10% Build Costs and -1 interest annually

While we are building for a few years, it seems natural

28 Sept - I accept Royal Marriages from Orissa, Bagelkhand, and Kathiwaar

1 Oct – We renew our ties with Jangladesh

1 Nov – All cored up

Jharkhand – This inland province is a jungle, with ivory as the trade good of choice, as the local Jharkandi Hindus work the trade, getting us 0.16 gold, and 6.3% unrest, 34autonomy. This is south of Jaunpur, and west to two Bengal provinces. Development of 4

Midnapore – This coastal province features a fort, that protects Jharkhand, Khurda, and Bengal Delta. The Bengali Hindu people make, cure, and sell spices. They have a temple, in this tropical jungle, and send us 0.76 gold and have no current unrest because they just rose against us. West along the coast is Orissa, and north is Bengal. Development of 14

Bengal Delta – Development of 28, this Ganges Estuary province (+5 local trade power) is a tropical Farmlands. It has a Shipyard, Barracks, Temple, Marketplace, and Workshop. The Bengali Hindu laborers work the silk trade here. We get 2.18 gold monthly. You can see why this was my target. We have 20000 soldiers stationed here, I want to build a Manufactory, once I ge enough power to amp it up (and gold), and it even gives us 1500 manpower, and its next to 4 Bengali provinces, including their capital

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 09:25 PM

1 Jan, 1579 – I maxed relations with Orissa

9 Jan, 1579 – Orissa has agreed to be our vassal

1 April – I destroy the fort in Goa. Desh will protect it, and others. I turn off my inland forts like Raichur Doab.

Workshop in Goa
Fort in Kongu
Marketplace in Malenadu
Marketplace in Savanur

14 July – Get ready for a small war

I have requested, and gotten, accessed to Bagelkhand and I move an army there, and my Delta army to Jharkhand

Bundelkhand is a one-province minor with one ally – Jaunpur . It’s next to Bagelkhand, and surrounded on all sides by Delhi – 5 provinces in all. I want to take it and use it as a base of operations against Delhi, and then perhaps, if their ally joins my war, take that off the map as well

I forgot I can’t declare war under a council. Crap

11 Nov – I put down a small rebellion in gwear

1 May, 1580 I build up the Delta and order a Textile Manufactory here

11 June – Ahmadanagar converts

Next up is Marathwada

11 Aug – I deny a Tarriff and gain a ton of Dip Power

19 Oct – Workshop for West Berar, Temple for East

8 Nov – Our heir now comes of age!!!

Chamaraja IV Ummatur, 5/4/4

We will be following Vishnu again

1 Dec – I declare war on Bundelkhand. Jaunpur joins them as well

I order my armies in

26 Dec – We crush Jaunpur in Patna and begin our siege there

4 Jan, 1581 – We win in Bundelkhand and here a siege begins as wlel

7 May – Assault and take Bundelkhand after the walls breached

27 June – That force joins the siege in Patna

30 July – I reject a peace offer

12 August – Patna falls

I have my 100 warscore

This war was about Patna, because Jaunpur was allied to a bunch of people, and by attacking their ally, they came after me. I get my targets and 127 gold

My badboy might piss off Bengal, Delhi, or Malwa

But I got my land. I order a core for Patna, I cannot do that with Bundelkhand – it’s not next to me

I’m leaving my Delta army here in Patna.

15 August – Kathiawar agrees to be our vassal

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 09:26 PM

I’ll get you a quick map-see

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I zoomed into the area. You can see our latest gains in purple. I’m using pink to show the three provinces I captured from Bengal. You can see the big blue blob around us here in Bengal, and I want to him them hard while I can. That massive light green all around me is Delhi. I’m placing my 20000 army, right there. That gives me maximum flexibility, although I still want to hit Bengal more – they are wealthier.

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 09:59 PM

25 Aug – I order a culture change in Surguja and Raipur. I also drop autonomy in both provinces by 25 and increase unrest by 10

Oct 3 – I destroy the fort in Gingee and then I order a Textile Manufactory here

13 Nov – Lakshmi, Bride of Vishnu event

I withdraw to mediate again

12 Jan, 1582 – The Hindu people of Laisalmer in Sind have thrown off their shackles and freed themselves after rebels controlled it, they are now an independent Hindu nation next door to Marwar. I began to send out some feelers

I proclaim a guarantee against them

13 Feb – I send them a gift

18 March – Royal Marriage

22 April – Alliance

1 Aug – Our Trader passes. I hire a Naval Reformer

14 Sept – Another conversion! This time – Marwar is our target

11 April – It would take 11 years, but I could annex Mewar. Yeah, let’s do it

25 Feb, 1584 – Surguja is now Kannada culture

24 March – Marwar converts. Now, with my bonuses to Vishnu, and my Inquisitor adviser – it’s time to take on the impossible task – to convert the Sikhs in Golconda, a Religious Center for them

17 April – Patna is now a core –

Patna – The Bihari Hindu folk here work the Silk trade in the farmlands. They have a 22 development, send us 1.77 gold monthly, and feature a fort, barracks, workshop and temple. With a 0.3 unrest and 35.2 autonomy, they are sending us 1272 manpower ,7.6 trade power. Next door is three engali provinces and 1 Delhi. But it’s a strong place. I order a Manufactory here.

4 June – Our truce with Malwa expired

Malwa currently has no allies

I begin to move some troops around

3 October – Our truce with Bengal, Delhi, and many others expired.

I hire a general and wow is he good – 11 total points

I also make my leader a general.

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 10:17 PM

Let’s do the 150 Year Review first, and then it’s to war!!!

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Here’s the map first. As you can see, Delhi looks to be the only major power left that will cause us problems. They have carved land from Malwa and others as well, and have been very successful. That’s why I like pushing into Bengal, I know that I can use it to grab wealthy territory and then turn it on Delhi. Delhi is the boss level.

We have eliminated Vijayanagar, Bahmanis, Gujarat, and now will likely deal a final, or close to it blow to Malwa. Here, I want to show you a fun map. These are our claims

That’s what I want our nation to look like when it’s all over.

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Now that we’ve looked at maps, here’s the rest

Abe Sargent

08-17-2015, 10:19 PM

At 110.61 gold, we have the most income in the world. The Ottomans have 93.3,

We are the 2nd most developed after the Ottomans, we have the 2nd most max manpower at 57000 after the Ottomans at 87000. At 35, our tech isn’t exactly winning any wards, but it’s equal to the Ottomans and a bit better than Delhi.

Top Ten Nations:

1 Ottomans
2 France
3 Bharat
4 Spain
5 Poland
6 Bohemia
7 Russia
8 Austria
9 Lithuania
10 Papal States

There are currently 13 Hindu nations in the world – ours, our vassals Orissa, Kathiawar, Mewar, allies Bagelkhand and Jaisamer, the March of Jangladesh, and then the others are in the Indies or Nepal. With 149 provinces, Hindu is the 3rd most practiced religion (after Sunni and Catholic). Not counting the vast natives that are Shamanist, Animist, Totemist, etc. There are just two Sikh provinces left, and we are converting one.

Our Top Ten Provinces by Taxes:

Coromandel
Raichur Doab
Warangal
Goa
Tanjore
Bijapur
Bengal Delta
Mysore
Madurai
Vijayanagar

By Production:

Golconda (GOLD)
Surat
Bidar
Ahmadabad
Tanjore
Coromandel
Kathiawar
Tondainadu
Bengal Delta
Waranagal
Madurai

I currently have 68 provinces

Our general is the 3rd best leader in the world right now

We currently have 83000 troops and a force limit of 86. The Ottomans have 96k, Delhi has 40k, and is no joke . I knocked Bengal down to 18000, Malwa has 7000, Sind has 23000. Delhi is still the big bad

At 35, our fleet is the 3rd largest in the world, but the Ottomans have 108 and the Spanish 82.

We have two Sunni, 1 Sikh province

Just one holding of ours is not cored

While Kannada is still a largest culture, Marathi and Tamil, and Gujarat are big as well

The larest Trade Nodes:

Bengal
Lubeck
Persia
Samarkhand
Malacca
Wien
Hangzhou
Goa
Ceylon
Doab

The most value trade goods, currently:

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

We are currently the world’s leader in:

Spices – 19.6% of the production
Cotton – 19.4% of the production
Silk – 31.7% of the production
Dyes – 21.3% of the production
Tropical Wood – 20.8% of the production
Cloth – 12.4% of the production

From what I can see, I don’t see any European presence n the Indian ocean or in Indonesia

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 12:35 AM

Okay it’s time to finish off Malwa. My goals are to, ideally, give Chittor and Hadoti to Mewar, and then take Mewar province proper. I want the lower three Malwan holdings plus Mewar, and there’s a random province cut up near the top I’m not sure about yet . At the end of this admittedly quick assault on Malwa, the nation will be done.

25 Nov – Here we go

I don’t bother to call my allies.

4 Jan, 1585 – I took Mewar.

2 Feb – Another non-fort falls to us

6 Mar – Our army from Bundelkhand arrives and takes out their main army in their capital and begins a siege

8 Mar – We captured another non-forst province in the back

14 – May – We capture a major city

1 Sept – I can get an heir that’s 1/1/2 or scorn my wife and get 650 gold. I choose the latter

16 Oct – Their capital falls

They have one place left, under siege, and about to go, but we already got a 100% warscore

Chittor goes to Mewar
I take the other six provinces, and I get 18 badboy – not a lot really

I have taken – Mahadeo, Mandu, Mewar, Hadoti, Rewakantha, and Shekawati

I have to keep some ADM open to level up my tech, so I core Mewar, Mandu, Mahadeo is cheap and Rewakantha

The biggest winners there were Mewar and Mandu

After the war, Delhi, Sind, Bengal – none are in anti-Bharat mode

I want to push as much as possible while I have cores on everything, you know? My cores end in 13 years

I finished my mission from decade ago (I even forgot I had it!) and get a bunch of ways to jump down Mewar and increase my manpower rebuilding. My next one is to reduce overextension

I have 6 cores on Sind, and it might be worth it to grab all six in one major battle after my stuff dries up.

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 11:16 AM

1 April, 1586 –

Admin 14 – Scientific Experimentation – We can build plantations in case anyone cares, and , we get another group of ideas

What Group do I Want?

Religious Ideas – Give me:

Permanent CB against neighboring heathens and heretics
+1 Missionary
-25% stability cost
+1 Missionary
+1 tolerance of true faith
+1 prestige annually
+2% Missionary Strength vs Heretics
-25% Culture Conversion cost when finished

And it works really well, when done, with quality and with Defensive

Plantations are the Manufactory for Coffee, Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, Cocoa, or Grain

I order a fort in Garjat, and we’ll destroy the one in Srikakulam and build a Workshop there.

Let’s build some Plantations. I have a ton of cash. I was saving then for Weapons Manufacotry next year, but I can use them now

Planation in Savanur, Kosta, Bijapur

17 Aug – Sind sends us a Diplomatic Insult and I ease the tension and everyone’s opinion of me raises by 60

27 Aug – Raipur is now Kannada –

13 Dec – Vishnu and Lakshmi

Lakshmi is the force behind Vishnu

+2 dip, +0.5 prestige annually for our leader

1 March, 1587 –

Military Tech – Musket – Bonus combat width, cavalry fire is 0.5 and infantry shock 02, and we can now build weapons manufactories

You can build a Weapons M in a place where iron or copper is mined

I order one in Konaseema

My next one will be in West Berar. To prep for that, I order a Marketplace there.

1 April – I purchase cores on Hadoti and Shekhawati.

1 Nov –

Dip 13 – Chartered Companies – We can build Brig ships and get +10% Trade Efficiency

1 May, 1588 – I order a Weapons Manufactory in West Berar

5 June Rebels break out in Mandla and Raipur

13 July – Rebels done

1 Aug – Our naval adviser passes. I hire a Master Recruiter

18 Aug – The first four of the provinces we cored are done. I’ll look them over now then the other two late ron.

Rewakantha – This province features a fort in the hills, the Gujarati Hindu are shepherds who shear off and sell wool. Inland of Ahmadabad, Baroda, and adjacent to a lot of other provinces, the fort here protects a lot of our interests. Just 4 development, 0.13 gold made here and 1.7% unrest along with 34.8 autonomy.

Mahadeo – Due east of Kashmir and along the border with Delhi, this Gondi Sunni province has tropical hills that are used to harvest Tropical Wood. No unrest right now due to the recent rebellion, and 34.8% autonomy. 0.07 gold is made here from the 3 development. It’s north of East and West Berar.

Mandu – East of Rewakantha, and north fo Khandesh is Madu, the former capital of Malwa. It; s next to 2 Delhi holdings - it has a marketplace, temple, and workshop already here, 20 development, and 1.49 gold monthly for us, plus Malvi Sunni folks are here as well. The tropical grasslands are where people find and harvest Dyes. With 13 unrest, and 34.8 auto, this place is a good option for a future manufactory…

Mewar - Directly north of Rewakantha and east of our holding in Patan is the hills of this province, wuth efficient integration bringing it into the fold more quickly than others. The Rajput Hindu work the mines and bring back gold. We get 2.03 from the 11 development and there’s a Regimental Camp already here.

And there we are.

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 11:48 AM

13 Feb, 1589 – Get ready! We have managed to convert Golconda!!!Next target is Bundelkhand

1 Nov – I order a textile manufactory in Mandu

10 Dec – New Cores

Hadoti – On the far side of our ally, Mewar lies the drylands of Hadoti, with Rajput Hindus here that work the cotton trade, making 0.52 gold for us with a Regimental Camp, barracks and temple. 11 development, next to three Delhi provinces, and 3 Mewari as well. 5.7% unrest, 32.5% autonomy

Shekhawati – This arid desert hosts a copper mine that is worked by the local Rajput Hindu. With just 7 development, it makes 0.41 for us, 5.7% unrest, and 32.5 auto. It’s on the far side of our ally, and is next to Jangladesh, north of the one province Naguar, and adjacent to two Delhi provinces

19 Dec – I’m not sure when because it wasn;t after the war with Malwa, but Bengal is now outraged by us.

26 Dec –

Deus Vult, Religious Idea #1 – We can now wage war against adjacent non-Hindu folks

2 Mar, 1590 – I order a fort in Shekhawati

1 May – Unfortunately, our awesome Inquisitor adviser has passed today – I declare a state holiday, and then hrie a theologian

He reduces our unrest by -2. But what makes him good is this

We pass the National Decision to Introduce Din-I Illahi. You have to have a Theologian to do so. We get -6% to our tech costs in perpetuity. This reduces social unrest caused by religious disagreements and gives us a nice little bonus

26 May – We have a new heir – Venkata, a 4/3/4 guy – it was worth waiting after all!

9 July – Bundelkhand converts

Next is Mahadeo

1 Dec – Plantation ordered to bump up the Sugar crop in Srikakulam

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 11:49 AM

Alright, we're done with the lunchtime fun, back to work!

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 03:58 PM

2 June, 1591 – We now have Trading in Cotton bonus for being a world leader in it, but the event only helps with colonial enterprises.

1 July – Double Idea Tuesday

Religious Idea #2 – We get Missionary Schools and +1 Missionary

We also unlock South Indian Literation and get +1 prestige

Quality #3 - Finest of Horses - +10% combat ability for cavalry

I’m beginning to get ready with war with Sind to, hopefully, set my western borders.

I have 40000 manpower, and a metric ton of troops

I am declaring war on Sind. Their ally, Kashmir, is occupied, besieging, and won’t join them , and I don’t call on my allies either

Technically, my wargoal is their capital

I order 20000 troops from Kutch into their capital Thatta, and then the other 20000 from Marwar into Umarkot

16 Sept – Jaisalmer gives me permission to move across their stuff. I order my 25000 troopps there and then into their territory

19 Oct – We take Umarkot and then head to the level 2 frost of Sehwan

16 Nov – We capture Bhakkar

19 Nov – I get military access from Moltan and order my troosp deep into Sind territory and hit a level 2 fort in Roh,

27 Nov – Sehwan falls

7 Jan, 1592 – After coming back from their western land, we defeat the Sind army in Siwi, and being a siege

29 Jan Siwi falls, as do some more provinces inland to our vassals

12 Feb – Our Siwi forces arrive at Kalat to help the siege that just started

5 Mar – We win a naval battle after their fleet flees from a non-fort province being captured

11 June – Kalat falls to us

21 Augu – We get a Trade Expansion event for 10 years - -10% spy defense, +10% trade income

1 Sept – Their capital falls

Our allies captured a bunch of their area out west.

Peace:

I take all six provinces I have a claim on. I get War Reparations

I get 20 badboy

I do a little coring in the three that I can, but I can’t do three of them due to not being next to one of my cores

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 04:00 PM

Let’s look at that map

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Bharat%202_zps41pf1crq.jpg

I only lost 6000 manpower in that war, Sind was beaten down recently and had less than 6000 troops. It was the perfect time to grab them while I had the CB. And now my western border is set. I am not going further west, that’s my border. I have removed Sind as a threat to me in the future. All of these lands are Muslim, so I send a missionary to ROh where they are actually Vajrayana, a variant of Buddhism, to begin converting

I also love having a 20000 strong army back on Roh to use as a way to hit Delhi from the rear.

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 04:57 PM

21 Sept – The fort I ordered in Shekhawati is done

29 Nov – I get a Comet Sighted and lose a stability. I spend almost all of my ADM power to get it back.

13 Dec – I order:

Plantation in Kalingandhra
Temple in Vanni

I destroy the fort in Warangal and build a workshop here

4 Jan, 1593 – Rebellion in Mandu

7 Feb – We get Religious Zeal for the next 10 years and +1 to Missionary

11 Feb – We convert Mahadeo

Next up Siwi

15 April – We win in Mandu

1 Mar, 1594 – I order the Baraacks un Hadoti destroyed and a Plantation built

1 May – Plantation in Sambalur

20 May – Roh converts

Bhakkar is next

1 July – An adviser passes and I hire a level 2 Statesman

25 August – I get 5 prestige from an arts events

22 Oct – Religious Idea #3 – Church attendance duty - -25% stability cost

8 Mar, 1595 – Siwi converts

Mandu just finished their manufactory, so I send him there

1 April – We get a Trading in Dyes event for winning the Dyes trading battle. We get +10% chance for a new heir

My cores across India end in three years

Let’s suppose, hypothetically that I want to get into war with Delhi, but not Bengal as well, is there was way to do it? If I attack a March, like Khandesh, will Bengal follow Delhi? I don’t know

I head to the warscreen, and yes, it looks like the ally of the masters comes in. So if I declare war on a vassal or March, not only does their overlord join them, but the overlord—s allies.

Maybe…

Bengal is allied with Ligor, which is over in Malacca. I have no CB against them. I can’t fabricate them either.

Unfortunately, there are no allies of Delhi other than Bengal. A war against one must be a war against the other.

Let’s begin to massage my forces some more, because I will be fighting a two-flank war. Ish

My main goal should be to keep Bengal at bay, and then hit Delhi for land, sine Delhi is ultimately the big bad here, and I’ve got a limited time to abuse my claims on all of India

My force limit is currently 101, and I have 85. Let’s use this mass-tons of cash to build armies

I order 40000 more troops mustered

6 June – The first three provinces form Sind are now cores.

1 July – Let’s look at them now:

Umarkot – This fort is west of Marwar and Kutch, and southwest of Jaisalmer. The SIndhiSunni people here make cloth in the Arid desert, make 0.2 gold for us, and are 11.3% unrest and 34.9 autonomy. With just a development level of 7, its east and south of Sehwan and Thatta

Sehwen – This 11 development arid drylands has silk, and a fort, and it’s northwest of Umarkot, east of two Sind province, south of Bhakkar and north of Thatta. The Sindhi Sunnis folk send us 0.45 gold and 11.2& unrest

Thatta – The former capital of Sind is Thatta, a coastal province west of Kutch. The arid drylands is ideal for cotton growing, and there are SIndhi Sunnis here as well, with 0.41 gold, 11.2 unrest, and the place is the Indus Estuary, giving it +10 local trade power. I order up a marketplace

5 September – I have an army of 12000 at the southern central end of Delhi, where Mahedo is

18 Sept – Persia just annexed and took out Sind, and they are now our neighbors

10 Dec – I now have 16k troops assembled in Mahedo, and 37000 in the Bengal Delta

I’m giving the Bengal Delta my best general – the Bengal forces have 25000 next door in their capital, and I aim to smash them.

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 08:23 PM

7 Feb, 1596 – It’s time

I declare war for Gird, which links my Bundelkhand wiith Hadoti, and is very wealthy

My goal is to take Gird, and then a bunch of valuable provinces from Delhi – the goal is this war Is to end Delhi’s economy. I don’t care about strategy, this is about money.

I order my 16000 troops into Khandesh to take their March out now and the 5000 troops that are stationed at my belly

The 20000 in Roh at the very top are ordered to Margalla. The 20000 in Bharat to Cholistan, which is a fort

And the 39000 in Bengal Delta to their capital, Gauda

16 Feb – We arrive in Gauda

23 Feb – We arrive at and begin battle in Khandesh

In Nagaur, our vassals in Mewar aree attacking them

4 Mar – We win in Gauda, and have 32000 troops remaining

24000 Delhi troops are moving to Doab. I held my 20000 in Bundelkhand as a reserve

6 Mar – We win in Khandes hand their forces are routed

10 Mar – Their armies unite and are marching to Bundelkhand.

If I thought I could cut their troops by, say, 10k, I’d stay and fight.

No river, but it is in the hills

Yeah, let’s flee

26 Mar – We capture Margalla in the back

26 April – I fled to Bagelkhand, who is not in the war, they cannot hit me

4 May - Icapture a minor province in Bengal

12 June 0 I capture a minor province above Mandla and Mahideo

4 July – The Bengal main forces have revved up and are moving back out from the back of Delhi.

10 July – A major Delhi army is arriving to oust us from our siege at Sialkot – this requires them to cross a river, and hit us in the hills, but we gave 20000 to their 24000

2 Aug – Their force is joining by 60000 troops in the back of their area – the 20000 Bengali, and are fighting us

9 Aug – I win in the Ganges Delta

12 Aug – Bhakkar converts – next up is Thatta

14 Aug – After fighting for more than a month, we lose in Sialkot. This is perfect they are all the way back in the back while I’m doing stuff across their whole nation.

I suspect they may hit Cholistan next, so I detech a siege unit to keep up on Khandesh and army that army over

I begin to hire some mercs – I have 1000 gold no reason not to

22 Sept – Right now the war is at 0% but in a moment or four, it’ll swing

19 Oct – I now have 34k in CHolistan

16 Nov – We capture Garuda, the capital of the Bengal

11 Dec – The Bengal army runs right into my fleeing army and destroys it.

26 Dec – My army from Garuda, 33k hits the Bengal forces in Patna, where they aer still at from taking out my army earlier

4 Jan – We defeat the Bengal army, and both Delhi armies are moving towards us

11 Jan – Battle begins, I have 30000 soliders and they 39000

2 Feb – Our grat general dies in battle

21 Fe b – We win the Battle of Patma

I give my army a new general and order them to give chase

3 Mar – We take Gird

11 June – We capture Khandesh

7 July – After both Delhi armies, a little wounded, try to oust me from Central Doab and fail, our siege continues

2 Sept – I assault and took on the Bengals in Tirhut

16 Oct – I hit the Delhi forces before they recuperate fully in Bengal territory and force them to flee again

2 Nov – Mewar is now fully annexed

6 Nov – We capture Central Doab

I order us to the Delhi capital

25 Nov 0 I defeat the Bengal army again

24 Feb, 1598 – We capture Lahore

19 Apr – I lose a besieging army to both the Bengal and Delhi forces, but we win the siege of Delihi and I won a battle in Etawah against the other rDelhi army

11 May – Another city falls to us

1 June - Icapture another city in Bengal

27 June – Mandu converts – next is Umarkot

1 Sept – Another city falls

30 Sept – Jangladesh falls

I have a warscore of 76

What do I want?

Gird
Central Doab

After that, anything that fits

I add in Varanasi, Kalpi, Chanderi, and Bhilsa

And most importantly….

War Reparations and 200 gold

And we have peace

I order some cores…

I core everything but Varanasi, I’ll have to wait on that

We wiped our manpower

I head out and try to find mercenaries and we’ll disband them

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 08:33 PM

I know you’ll want a map, here you go

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Purple around the spots I just took.

You can see us in the middle. The Mewar annexation is rocking the yellow. You can see us in the center, as well as a random province out east. There still foes out there, but what I did was drive a wedge up their middle, connect my holdings and then isolate them in a few places . You can see my additions. Why these? Well, they made contiguous sense. That’s part. But here:

Varnassi – Silk province, 15 development
Bhilsa – Spices, 7 development
Chanderi – cloth, 9 development
Kalpi – cloth, 8 development
Gird – spices, lots of development and connected my stuff
Central Doab – Spices, Center of Trade, fort,

By pulling these 6 holdings from Delhi, my goal is to hurt them.

After the war, their max manpower is now 22000. Like us, they have no manpower right now. They have 31000 troops that survived the war. Their force limit dropped to 49, and moreover, the money and manpower isn’t there to rebuild. I hope.

After the war, with losses, I still have 74000 troops. I have a forcelimit of 107. I’m in a better spot

Next up let’s look at the Mewar additions:

All of these are Rajput and Hindu, and 0 unrest and 59.5% autonomy

Gorwar – This drylands spot is a cotton growing culture, with 0.32 gold, 9 development, ad a barracks and temple here. Gorwar is next to Patan and east of Marwar.

Ajmer – The highlands up here are good for salt, and the locals make 0.19 gold from the 7 development. They are east and north of Gorwar. It has a barrakcs, and its east of Nagaur’s province. Taken in the 1st war with Malwa.

Dhundar – At the far end of the Mewar holdings and next to Delhi and Nagaur is this province. Barracks, temple, and regimental camp. This thing has copper, and that’spretyt saucy. It also links up with the Shekhawati we captured earlier. 10 development in the drylands, and 0.43 gold. Taken in the 1st war with Malwa

Chittor – The drylands of Chittor has a fort and barracks, and 7 development for the farming trade, making 0.13 gold for us with food. Taken in the 2nd war with Malwa.

Remember, I formed Mewar in peace from Gujarat. That worked out well. Others didn’t cough, Khandesh, cough

We have peace until 1611 – that’s a long time.

Not the best ever, but Dhundar is nice and developmental

I destroy the barracks and order a Workshop in Dhundar

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 09:44 PM

2 Oct – We lose our claims on India

9 Oct – I deny Delhi a request for military access

2 Dec – Rebels in Hadoti

I allow Persia military access

26 Dec – We win against the rebels

1 Jan, 1599 – I order a core in Varanasi

Quality Idea #5 – Naval Drill

We also get another Merchant from Merchant Capitalist and the South Indian Ideas

We have finished out South Indian heritage

6 Mar, Thatta converted – next is Sehwan

I order –

Workshop in Thatta

1 April – Revolts in Sehwan and Thatta

Our Theologian has passed. I hire another Inquisitor

3 June – Rebels in Mahadeo and Mandla

17 June – Rebels in Thatta and Sehwan are done

24 July – Rebels finished

1 January, 1600 –

DIP 14 0 We can build Trade Company and get the Galleass ship

Trade Companies are the manufactory for Ivory, Tea, China, Slaves, Spices, Fur, Wine and Sugar

I order a Trade Company in Jharkhand and Kotte
Naval Equipment in Kutch

7 Mar – Umarkot converts!

16 July – Rebellion in Bundelkhand

1 Sept – Put down

22 Sept - We get an event and lose 10 army tradition

6 Oct – I order a plantation in East Berar

10 Dec – Sehwan converts

11 Jan, 1601 – We announce the annexation of Orissa

1 May – The last three provinces from Sind are now cores

Roh – Up near Afghanistan is this highlands Afghan Hindu nation, with grain growing , sending us 0.36 gold with their 13 development, they have a fort took, 5.8% unrest and 27.5 autonomy. ROh is next to a few breakaway Sind provinces to the west, and Nepal and Yarkand to the north and Multan and Delhi to the east.

Siwi – Just south of the unpassable Suleiman Range is the drylands of Siwi, a Baluchi Hindu group of people who work the wool trade with 5 development and 0.09 gold. Same unrest and autonomy. To their west is Persia, east is Multan, and south is our province of Bhakkar

Bhakkar - With a barracks for fun, this cotton producing province is drylands, the same unrest.auto, 0.24 gold, 8 development, and Sindhi Hindu folks. Just east is Jaisalmer and Delhi and northeast is Multan, and west is Persia, to the south is Sehwan

And there you go, the furthest most west we’ll go

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 11:03 PM

Aug 14 – I order a textile manufactory in Sehwan

Sept 1 – Cores gained in Central Doab, gird, Chanderi, Kalpi and Bhilsa

All have the same unrest and autonomy

Bhilsa – Malvi Sunni, this grasslands is tropical, and home to some spice harvesting, it’s 7 development, north or Mahedeo, northeast of Khandesh, a nd east of Mandu. 0.3 gold made here.

Chanderi – Malvi and Sunni, temple in the hills, cloth making is all the range, 9 development – I spend one power ehre, and then it gives us 0.49, north of Bhilsa, south of Gird, and west of Bundelkhand.

Gird – 17 development with 1.06,, Hindvi and Sunni people, Dyes, fort, west of Kalpi and Bundelkhand, east of Hadoti and Dhundar. Hills. Grasslands with clothing making ,

Kalpi- Hindvi and Sunni, 8 development, barracks and temple here, 0.50 made here for us, south of two Delhi provinces, north of Bendelkhand, east of Gird

Central Doab – 25 development, Dyes, Centre of Trade, farmlands, it has fort, marketplace, temple, barracks, and workshop. Hindu and HIndvi. Makes us 2.41 gold We accept Hindvi culture, so these folks with it and looking good.

I order missionaries to Gird and Bhilsa

1 Dec –

Varanasi – Bihari, Hindu with silk, farmlands with 15 development, marketplace and workshop here, makes 1.01 gold for us, west of Patna, north west of Surguja and next to Bengal in Tirhut and Delhi in two places

12 Feb, 1602 – Religious Idea #4 0 Divine Supremacy – We get +3 missionary strength

I hire a new adviser, a Master of Mint who’ll drop my inflation every year

6 May – I cored Bundelkhand

13 July – Persia canceled military access

1 Oct – I order a textile manufactory in Varanasi

18 Oct – We get a conversion. Next up is Chanderi

17 Dec – Now Bhilsa converts. Kalpi next

As of right now, we are making:

15 Admin, 10 Dip, 9 Mil

1 May, 1603 – Next is Textile Manufactory in Gird

1 Sept – The Ottomans annoying have announced us as their rival

Religious Idea #45 – Devoutness – Tolerance of True Faith gest +1

Looks like we made it safely out of the rebel problems we had. My manpower is back to 20k

1 February, 1604 – I order the barracks destroyed in Central Moab and a textile manufactory built instead

30 Mar – We converted Chanderi.

16 May – I am sending out some gifts and making nice with my folks

20 June – The Timurids have taken land next to Roh and are our neighbor now

1 Sept – I begin to try and fabricate some claims

1 Dec –

Military Tech 12 – Spanish Square – We get +0.25 tactics, and get better infantry – Akbarid Musketeers

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 11:46 PM

3 Jan, 1605 – I order a Trade Company in Malabar

9 May – I get an event and spend 50 ducats to amp up the fortifications in one of my provinces

5 Sept – I get my first CB, this one is on a province that Multan has. I can’t wage war on Bengal or Delhi until 1611, so I thought that I might want to pick on someone smaller right now. Like a pre-game snack

Taking their two provinces also would connect my holdings from Roh down to Siwi and Bhakkar, so it makes sense

6 Oct – Since I am making 55 gold a month, I order a Naval Manufactory in Ajmer where the Barracks were, and I destroy them. This will amp up the slat we make there.

Religious Ideas #6 – Religious Tradition - +1 prestige annually

Nov 1 – Our truce with Sind ends, not that anyone cares

Jan 25 – My merchant in Samarkhand was doing nothing, so I am going to try out Kashmir instead

I have 37000 manpower, so I am beginning to rebuild my forces again. It’s not I don’t have the cash

I am going to amp up my army in Central Doab to be a major force for Hinduism. I want to get it from 17k to 35k

I am also going to build an army around 12k by Khandesh for the next war

22 Sept – I get an event called Prauda Ali, we have fully functional mint and get +50 prestige and -0.1 inflation annually for 6 years.

7 Oct – My final claim on Multan’s provinces is complete

So here’s the good news. Who is Multan;s ally? Bengal. So I just upped my two armies by Bengal. My goal is to hit Multan and annex them, and then maybe do some damage to Bengal

I am not calling on my allies. I order my 26000 troops from Siwi into Derajat, which is a small unguarded territory ,and thence into their capital Sind Sagar, where they have 7000 troops waiting for me

I order my 35000 troops into Bengal’s capital and 22000 into Tirhut

19 Oct – I win a battle in the Ganges Delta

26 Oct – I win against the 15000 troops Bengal had, and I routed them completely

11 Nov – TO flee me in Multan, their force heads to Roh and begins a siege.

18 Nov – We take Derajat

2 Dec – I detach a siege unit in their capital of Sind Sagar and then move the rest to Roh

31 Dec – We win in Roh

16 Feb, 1607 –We capture Tirhut in Bengal

28 Apr – we capture Sind Sagar

Whoa! I still have claims on Bengal and Delhi. They don’t end until the truce ends, so they were extended. I can take Bengali land in this war as long as I want . That’s very interesting. I will push this, annex Multan, and just end Bengal as a real threat

1 May – Our Inquisitor dies. I hire a Theologian, 3 start adviser, 32 years old, he’ll be with me for a while, and that -2 to unrest will be very appreciated

14 July – Bengal has been hiring small amounts of troosp to try and foist me back and I’m sending out my one army to hit them

23 Sept – Bengals capital, Gauda, falls to us for a third time

1 Dec – The fort of Sunderbans falls

10 Dec – We oust some more folks back here and now we have a 94 war score. Time to take that shopping

I am going to do separate peace. Let’s finish the Bengal war first, and then finish the Multan one

21 Dec – I kill all of the fleeing Bengal units in Dhaka

1 Jan, 1608 – Normally I’d want to finish up my Religious Ideas group, but instead, I’ll keep my Admin for the coring needed soon

31 Jan – After getting a walls breached result in Chittagong, I rush and take it

20 Feb – We get 6000 peasant revolt in East Berar

12 April – Peasants killed

21 July – Silhet falls – the final Bengal holding

1 Aug – I offer peace to Bengal for…

Damin
Tirhut
Bhagalpur

War Reparations

177 gold

Bengal’s provinces are worth so much, that taking three or four puts you at 100 war score, and then you get huge badboy. This is a calm 14 badboy –

I order up some cores!

17 August – I annex Multan’s provinces.

These are pretty cheap to core up

Abe Sargent

08-18-2015, 11:47 PM

I’m sure you’ll want to see the map. I’ma zoom in for you on each side.

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Here’s the west flank first, with ex-Multan circled in purple. This is a cheap pair of provinces, here more for the opportunity they provide than anything else.

As you can see, they flank a full 5 Delhi provinces. Roh is at the top. The red nation are the Timurids, and the green to my west is Persia

Here’s the east flank

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Again, purple purple, yadda yadda

The three provinces that I took include two major ones, and Damin, which is undeveloped, but has a great trade good (Ivory) . Tirhut was the remaining fort on the west coast, taking it off from them in the future is a good thing.

There are a triad of Hindu potential allies for me out here. The red nation to our east is Assam, and they are Hindu. In fact, I just took a mission to become friendly with them. The small nation of Tripura on the far east of Bengal is also Hindu, and Nepal is as well. Look for me to begin to curry favor with them

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 07:49 AM

19 Aug – I buy Diplomatic Tech 15 – The Galleon, and we get Early Frigates and Galleons

6 Sept – I get a diplomatic insult from the Timurids, but I ease tensions and raise the thoughts folks have about me.

8 Sept I send a Gift to Assam and my relations jump and I completel my mission.

I upgrade my fleet at a cost of around 600 gold

1 Oct – I send a gift to Nepal

1 Jan, 1609 –

Quality #6 – Copper Bottoms – Naval Attrition is -25%

1 May – Orissa is now annexed!!!

Cuttack – This coastal Oriya Hindu tropical grasslands is the home of cloth makers, and we get 1.05 gold from the Oriya Hindu people here. With a 60% autonomy, temple, workshop, and marketplace. I order the autonomy lowers, and we now get 1.31 gold from it.Cuttack is up the coast from Srikakulam. I order the 19 development I Cuttack raised to 20 by investing in its Admin – 80 power, and now we can build one more thing – I order a Textile Manufactory. And we are getting 1.39 now

Balasore – The hills of this tropical coastal province, up the coast from Cuttack, are also the home of Hindues of Oriya descent who work the cloth trade. With a development level of 12, they make 0.36, and again, I chop down that autonomy and now we get 0.53, they were developed with a more military bent and has a fort and dock. Balasore is next to Midnapore.

Now Midnapore has a fort. It protects Jharkhand Khurda, Bengal Delta, and Balasore if I want. Balasore only protects Khurda and Cuttack. I order the fort in Balasore destroyed and we’ll order a Manufacotry for here as well.

18 May – We announce a Royal Marriage with Assam

Kathiawar has agreed to be annexed by us!!!

27 May – Assam sends us an alliance offer and we agree

30 July – Bagelkhand has agreed to become our vassal

21 Sept – Jaisalmer has agreed to become our vassal

7 Nov – Our manpower is beginning to rise again!

1 Jan, 1610 – I am beginning, very slowly, to order some troops in Central Doab. I want to bring that number to 35.

30 Jan, Revolt in Jaisalmer, I send my army from Siwi in to help them out

6 Mar – We win against the rebels

10 Sept – Revolts in Damin and Derajat

25 Oct – Rebels no more

1 Dec – I order a Textile Manufactory in Kalpi

16 Dec – Unfortunately our ruler passes today. It’s a black day.

Our new ruler, at the age of 20, is Venkata II Ummatur – 4/3/4

His heir is Nusrat, 2/1/3

We are not highly regarding abroad because of how frequently we do bad things. SO our new God for this reign will be Ganesha:

+1 Diplomatic Reputation; +20% better relations over time

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 04:17 PM

8 Feb, 1611 – I finish the Religious Ideas with the Inquisition - +2 Missionary Strength vs Heretics (such as Sikhs). We get -25% Culture Conversion costs

Now I can enact policies. When you have completed Idea Groups that are not in the same category, then there is a unique policy that those two groups represent.

So, for example:

Trade + Defensive – The Armed Neutrality Act - +25% trade steering and +20% caravan power. I haven’t needed it, so I haven’t bothered

But you get the idea:

I want to enact this -

The Edict of Expulsion

Defensive + Religious Ideas Required

-1 National Unrest
+20% Religious Unity

This is a permanent policy. But ti costs me 1 Adm a month to do so, until repealed. Or….

Religiously Sponsored Guilds:

Religious + Trade Ideas

+1 Missionary Strength, +10% Goods Produced

That one would require 1 DIP a month to upkeep.

When I finish Quality, I can get one with Trade that gives me +20% Trade Efficiency and one with Religious that gives me an incredible 10% bonus to army morale and 2.5% discipline

22 April – We get Trading in Spices bonus and +10% spy efficiency

1 Aug – We now have cores on all five of our latest holdings

Let’s begin with Multan – all are Panjabi, Sunni, have 9.4% unrest and 34.6 autonomy

Derajat – This highlands province is north and east of Siwi and Bhakkar, and to the west of two Delhi provinces. To the west is the Suleiman Range. This arid home with 6 development, has a temple. Panjabi is an accepted culture, and I have just ordered a Missionary here which should take 18 months give or take a lot of months. We get 0.33 from the wool trade.

Sind Sagar - Also arid, and recently converted to Sunni, the desert here features grain harvesting, they make 0.55 gold monthly with a development of 13 and the rock a barracks and temple. The province was developed with military on the brain and has 5 base manpower, with the barracks, and gives us 1816 manpower. North of Derajat, east of Roh, and west of 4 Delhi holdings, Sind Sagar is in a good place particularly since I can attack the extremely valuable Lahore from here.

Next up are the ones I took from Bengal – other than having 34.65 unrest, they have nothing else in common.

Damin – This 3 development jungle provinces is east of Jharkhand, and lie it, finds and sells ivory. The Jharkandi Sunnis here send us just 0.09 gold with a 11.4% unrest. They have a regimental camp. East of Damin are two Bengal provinces, including their capital Gauda

Tirhut – Strategically placed on the border of Delhi, now, The fort of Tirhut is a Dyes making area, with farmlands abouts. With 15 development, it has a fort, temple marketplace, and barracks. The Bihari people here are Hindu brothers, and hey send 0.89 gold with a unrest of 4. Tirhut is east of Delhi

Bhagalpur – With a development level of 11, this Silk making province is a farmlands. It has barracks, regimental camp, temple and marketplace . The Bengali Sunni folks here send us 0.67 gold, and they east of Tirhut, Patna, north of Damin, south of Bengal in Limbuwan, east of Assam in Koch, and next to two other Bengal provinces including, you guessed it, their capital Gauda

You can see why I took Tirhut and Bhagalpur

I order a Missionary to Damin

1 Dec – Our truces with everyone are ending

Even without cores I can declare war anytime with my Holy War casus belli.

I destroy the barracks in Bhagalpur and order a Textile Manufactory

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 05:05 PM

A close look at Delhi:

They have a manpower of 19000, and 48000 troops. They have a force limit of 50

240000 of those troops are in their capital, and I have a 9 star general with 36000 in Central Doab, I don’t know where the other 24k are, but they must be close, because I cant see 7 provinces near to Delhi, and of those 7, all are near their capital.

I am ordering my 35000 strong ary from Bengal Delta and moving my 26000 Tirhut army over to the Delta. Bengal has just 12k troops right now, and I want to save the big army for the big bad

I have 12000 troops in West Berar ready to move into Khandesh, 5000 troops I took from Orissa are nearby to hit Delhi in the inner area. 22k are in Bhakkar, ready to hit Cholistan on the west.

I have 136,000 troops. That more that Russia and the Ottomans. (They are currently in a war with each other)

My goal is simple 0 hit Delhi hard at their capital with my large army, and ring in my other 35k army as support. Then hit multiple flanks with armies to take and besige

22 Jan, 1612 – We are all ready to go

I do not ask to bring in Assam. It’s just ,me, and my vassals, vs Delhi, Bengal, and their Marches

2 Feb – They fled from their capital, so I hit our foe in Delhi

12 Feb – We win in Khandesh

19 Feb – We win in Gauda – I detach a siege unit and then give chase to fleeing Bengali forces

22 Feb – We win in Mewat. Their other force is moving towards us

4 Mar – I capture Lower Doab a non-fort province, with my 35000 large unit from the Bengal corridor.

6 Mar – I capture one of the lower non-forts

26 Mar – After cutting my main central army in half to take out the armies of Nagaur and Jangladesh, I capture Mewar

20 April – Their major army was escorting their lesser one to make sure no one hit it until it was healed up, smart. I managed to force it into battle at Jaunpur with my 35000 strong army, and we have 35k against their full 43k force

22 April – The Bengali forces fleeing have arrive in Lahore to rest up, I slit my army in Cholistan and order them into Derajat and Sind Sagar, and then into Lahore to him them hard

26 April – I begin to siege Delhi

6 May – We win in Jaunpur against both of their forces

16 June – I hire some mercs on the west coast quickly to help support an attack on the fleeing Delhi forces that are moving to Lahore as well

11 July – After detaching a siege unit in Delhi, my central force hits their force that’s holding up after a defeat in Katehar

19 July – Our 9,000 troops just won against 40k in Lahore, and barely. I need to send mercs now to help them out

Because we are in a holy war, we get more ratings for winning battles than normal

22 July 0 We win in Katehar against their army

30 August – Cholistan fell

7 Oct – Everytime I take out one of these 2 or 3k armies it’s another 1 warscore or so

18 Oct – Delhi has fallen to our troops

2 Dec – Kathiawar is now annexed

15 Dec – We capture Gauda

22 Dec – Khandesh falls

23 Dec – I move my army in Bengal to hit a Delhi one here.

29 Dec I order my 27000 army to hit their 20k army as well.

7 Jan, 1613 – I win in Barind in Bengal against the first army

19 Jan – My combined 49000 troops slaughter their 20000 and we have routed that army

23 Jan – We capture Mandasaur

4 Feb – My combined forces hit the Bengali army

7 Feb Derajat converts

9 Feb – Major news. Today we captured Lahore

I have a warscore of 93

I want to win against this last army and then call it soon

19 Feb – I win in Tirhut

20 Mar – Upper Doab falls and that’s my 99 warscore

With my Casus Belli:

1) War Reparations for Delhi
2) They release Jangladesh as one of their Marches and let them have their freedom
3) I take some minor land – Mewat, Garhwal (Garwhal is Hindu and currently being converted), I want to save it that disgrace
4) Etawah, Mandsaur – both adequate places in solid places on the map
5) Panipat – It connects Mewat and Goarwahl, and cuts Delhi in half.
6) Cholistan, because I have the peace offer, and no one cares about it and it removes a fort from Delhi
7) They send me 200 gold
8) They give up all claims in me and my place

We get just 16 badboy for all of that

I took 6 of their provinces, and a lot more

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 05:17 PM

Let’s look at the map

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Purple shows 5 of my new provinces the 6th was one of the ones I cut off earlier (Mandsaur).

As you can see, I pushed all the way up to the Himalayas and have cut Delhi in half. TO the east of that spur is their capital and Upper Doab, and to the west 7 of their provinces. And better yet, only Lahore is their fort, so take Lahore, and you can take everything else there. Jangladesh is free, and I hope to bring it into my orbit soon

Three of these provinces have 3 development, and purchasing cores is a cheap 30 ADM each, so I fit in all six

This peace treaty lasts until 1628

The Kathiawar provinces we annexed:

Girnar – This 11 development hilly coastal province is south of Kathiawar, Navanagar and Bhavnagar. It has 11 development, Gujarati Hindus work the Sugar trade, and it has a high autonomy. I drop that and we are now making 0.56 gold monthly. It has a regimental camp here. I order a Plantation here.

Navanagar – This drylands coastal province has also Gujarati and Hindu, and I drop autonomy here as well, and we are farming cotton, Just a development of 5. I order a Plantation here as well.

Quality Idea #7 – Massed Battery - +10% artillery, and we get +5 Discipline for finishing this route

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 05:53 PM

6 April – I announce a Royal Marriage with Jangladesh

4 May – I send Jangladesh a gift

15 June – We are now in an alliance with Jangladesh

1 Sept – After disbanding my mercs, I currently have 138 units but 129000 right now and rebuilding

12 Oct – Damin converts

1 Nov – One of our advisers has passed. I hire a level 3 Diplomat with +30% better relations over time.

1 Jan, 1614 – I accept a RM offer from Assam

There is a Kachar, Assam, Tripura, Nepal alliance, since all four are Hindu. By allying myself with Assam, I hope to dial myself into that.

I send a gift to Assam again

1 May – The textile manufactories I built in Balasore and Cuttack from Orissa are in.

23 June – I Guarantee Jangladesh

10 Nov – Punjabi separatists are at 90% and I don’t want to lose any more manpower, so I order them to harshly dealt with

1 Mar, 1615 – We now have manpower rebuilding

5 May – I have maxed relations with Jangladesh and the yare willing to become our vassal anytime

1 Oct – I destroy the Regimental camp in Damin and order a Trade Company instead. I destry the barracks in Tirhut and order a Textile Manufactory

I’m building up my ADM as fast as possible, I want to get another Idea

2 Jan, 1616 – Maxed relations with Assam. All of Assam;s land is required for my India land and desires. So if I can vassalize and annex them I will. That’s my preference

3 Feb – Punjabi getting ornery again

24 April – Cores on our place!

I finished my mission too. The next is to remove Kangra from the map

Here’s what I took:

Cholistan – Next to Bhakkar, Derajat, and west of Jaisalmer and Jangladesh, this province existed for one purpose – defense. It’s a fort you have to take in an Arid desert. Arid? +1 attrition for enemies, -20% supply limit. Now add in the meager 3 development, the lowest possible, and you get a place that is just to get in the way. I was tired of besieging it, and taking it is the better option, since it took very little badboy and claims to do so. The Panjabi Sunni folk here work the wool trade, they send 0.08 golld to us, and have 8.2 unrest, and I order a Missionary here. It is south of Multan in Delhi.

Mandsaur – This province as original a Malwa one that Delhi took from them after we beat Malwa a few times. It’s a Malvi Sunni place, and has the spice trade p in the highlands. They send 0.55 to us with a 10.2 unrest. It features a fort, marketplace ,and temple, and is between Mandu on the south mewar on the west and so forth. The fort is in a horrible place. I have two fort provinces next to it 10 development

Etawah – This Hindvi Sunni province features farmlands and dyes. 16 development, and 1.02 gold made here. 8.2% unrest, marketplace and workshop, and it was turned to sunni recently, and won’t be Missionary-able until 1626. East of Central Doab, and next to three Delhi provinces in.

Garhwal – This cotton province is Nepali and Hindu, in the foothills of the Himalayas and with 0.09 cash and 3 development. I took it only to keep it from falling into Sunni conversion. In here is 16000 troops getting ready to wage war and defeat the 1 province Kangra to its north and west

Mewat – Taken as another cheap, undeveloped land to cut off Delhi, this 3 development province is highlands and features clothing trade, with Rajput Sunnis here and 0.08 gold, and 10.2% unrest. Mewat is west of Central Doab, and next to their capital

Panipat – Taken to connect Mewat and Garwhal and cut off Delhi, this land is cotton growing grasslands owned by Hindvi Hindus. That is an accepted culture and faith, so they are making 0.91 gold for us even with 44.3% autonomy, and they have a regimental camp, workshop and marketplace. 15 development.

I move a Missionary to Mewat

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 06:29 PM

17 September – I declare war on ally-less one province Kangra, a minor player next to Garhwal and behind Delhi

7 Oct – We crush their 7k army and it is no more

14 Dec – I destroy the Regimental Camp in Panipat and order a plantation here

19 April, 1617 – Kangra falls

I annex it and take some gold and finish our mission

I get +10% manpower recovery and +1 prestige a year for 10 years, so my mission made that a no brainer

I don’t want to core it, because I want to save my ADM< but I will anyway. Sigh

I take a mission to fill our coffers ,because at the rate I’m getting money, I can do that easily

29 May – I get another great scholar event, this time for Ali Lodi. I choose to gain 50 prestige for this great man and his work

Ali is the level 3 Theologian that I have

10 August – Cholistan converts! Mansour is the next target.

15 Sept – Delhi is building up one big army in, um, Delhi, right next to Central Doab ,so I am ordering more men built here too, in a sort of mad drive to have the most men on this border

I am currently getting 13/9/9 tech a month

1 Jan, 1618 –

Dip Tech 16 – Development of Maritime Law - +10% trade efficiency

11 Jan, Mewat Converts

Next up is Bhagapur over in Bengal

1 May – Rebels captured Naguar, the March of Delhi

Admin 15 – Military Administration. I can now use forced march to allow my troops to move more quickly at the use of military power.

16 Feb, 1619 – Mandsaur converts!

Sind Sagar is next

28 July - Bhagalpur converts. Kalpi is the next target

21 Aug – My great level 3 Diplomat, Vikrant Musharif is know far and wide. I gain prestige and move

15 Oct – The Obstacles in our Path

During my rule, Seringapatanam has stood out as a pinnacle of art and science. Bharat shows other nations the way on the quest for knowledge. Knowing that Ganesha values wisdom, it pleases that the nation has been successful in searching for it.

I withdraw in contemplation

14 Dec – Military tech – we’re getting a lot of bonuses to get that, normally it costs 600, then add our +50% Indian penalty so 900, but we get a -14% neighbor bonus since we are behind, and -28% due to our various Ideas, and -6% for the policy Din-i Illahi. So its just 659 total that I need

Mil 13 – Trunnions – Artillery Fire +0.4, and Artillery shock +0.1 and we get better cannons

1 January, 1620 – Let’s take a look at our newly cored Kangra:

Kangra – Hills in the Himalaya foothills, and cotton growing s the only thing going on as these Panjabi Vajarayana folk make us 0.57 gold and 7% unrest. There is a temple her and it has 9 development. Kangra is next to Delhi’s Doaba, our Garhwa, and Nepal’s Kashmir.

7 Jan – My army in Central Doab is up to 41,000 and counting. There’s has risen to 35000

13 Feb – Peasants are rebelling Jaisalmer so I send in my force to quell it

22 Mar – All done

28 June – Sind Sagar converts. Kangra is next

1 Sept – Kalpi converts this time.

1 Dec – We now have 2000+ gold! We gt 10 prestige and lose 1 inflation for finishing the quest.

Let’s buy some stuff:

Textile Manufactory in Mewat, Etawah,
I destroy the fort in Shekhawati and build a Weapons Manufactory
Trading Post in Bhilsa

Spices have increased in value. Look for me to build a ton of trading posts in my Spices areas coming up

I have 3 gold left after that!

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 07:15 PM

1 Jan, 1621 – My theologian passes - very sad

17 Feb – Bagelkhand has agreed to be annexed

12 May – Kangra converts, and this little province is now sending us a lot more cash than others.

26 June – I now have 45k in Central Doab

What I should have done in the last war was force Delhi to drop the other two Marches as well, and then taken them one at a time while I waited for the next war to begin

1 Sept – Our military adviser passed. I hire a level 3 Army Reformer.

1 Jan, 1622 – Trade Company ordered for Kandy on the isle of Ceylon

10 Nov – I buy down some rebels

1 May, 1623 – Trade Company in South Konkan

2 Aug - 1623 We annex Bagelkhand

Bagelkhand – The Avadhi Hindu people grow grain in the hills, with a 11 development, next to two Delhi provinces and giving us 3000 troops. We make 0.61 gold from the temple, marketplace, and locals. I order autonomy lowered and we now get 0.76.

14 Aug – Jaisalmer has agreed to be annexed as well!

1 Sept – I order a claim fabricated on Kashmir

21 Mar 1624 – I take a mission to protect our brethren in Lucknow

1 May –

Admin Tech 16 – Metallurgy, We get +10% production efficiency

19 Sept – I fabricate a claim on on Nepal’s capital this time

24 Nov –

Ganesha

After five years of studying the sages and puranas alongside the work fo scientists and poets, you begin to discern the Lord Ganesha’s motives for setting obstacles in the search for knowledge.

AUM

+2 Diplomacy, +0.5 annual Prestige

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 07:57 PM

1 July, 1625 – Our theologian has passed! I don’t like some of those available. Since I have the cash, I am going to use the retire button to free up their slot for another shot at someone good.

1 August – We have integrated Jaisalmer

Jaisalmer – This province was formed long ago by rebels from Sind, and we allied with it, and now it joins us. The 3 development arid desert has Rajput Hindu folk making and trading wool. After dropping their autonomy, they have 0.08 gold to send us, and they sent us 1k troops as well. They have a regimental camp here.

We got a level 3 adviser. He’s a treasurer. But I also got a level two Theologian, and I like those. Let’s go with the guy I want the Theologian.

-2 unrest in every province is just too good

22 Aug – I send a gift to Jangladesh

10 Nov –

Military Tech 14 – Tenaille – We can but new Dai-Phat Cavalry, Bastions in our provinces (upgrades of forts), and +0.5 infantry fire and combat width increase by 2

1 April, 1626 – I order Trade Companies in North Kanara and I build up Venad to development level 10 and build the other there.

1 Aug – I send a missionary to Etawah

My manpower is over 85000 now

23 Oct – I now have four claims on Nepalese provinces

27 Oct, 1627 - Whoa! We have a real war on our hands

Bengal, Delhi, vs

Nepal, Assam, Kachar, and Tripura

Bengal has attacked Nepal.

Nepal asked for military access, which I grant

I can’t declare war until March of next year. Someone pull me in. Let me help you out!

I wish there was an option for “Please let me join your war. Thanks!”

This should make our impending war even easier though.

I order some of my troops to relocate along the battle front

2 Dec – Jangladesh has become our vassal. From Delhi to us!

16 Dec – I don’t want to deal with separatists right now so I spend that Mililtary power to harsh suppress them

1 Apri, 1628 – I declare Holy War on Delhi

Here we go. I have 25000 troops in Sind Sagar and Bengal has 18000 in Lahore that fled here after they lost, they are mostly healed,, but math is my friend and I launch an attack

The huge battle I was anticipating is off. So I break my 45000 in Central Moab in half, and one half heads to Lucknow

I have 28000 on the border in Bhagalpur to hit west and hit Jaupurr. My 35k from the Delta will head to Gauda, and I have a force to hit Khandesh and another 20k in Ajmer to Upper Doab

8 April – Etawah converts

The Bengali forces ran away and I can’t get to them in the maze of forts

30 April - I win a major battle in Tirhut.

10 May – We chased Bengal down and defeated them in our territory.

6 June – The fleeing Bengal forces arrive in Margalla, and I cut my force in Lahore in half to move over and hit them

28 June – We defeat the forces in Margalla

10 July – Lucknow falls

22 Aug – Jaunpur falls

33k Delhi troops arrive in Bhagalpur from the north so I combine my Lucknow and Juanpur armies to strike at them now

8 Sept – Delhi strikes at Gauda, trying to wrest us from the siege

This could be the decisive battle of the campaign

28 Sept – We were almost about to lose when 40000+ troops arrive to reinforce us!

Now its 60 vs 25

1 Oct – We win in Gauda

15 Nov – I arrive at Lower Doab, a rallying point for Delhi forces, with 24000 against 31000

28 Nov – Delhi falls

I order those troops to lower doab, just in case

22 Dec – Reinformcents arrive and Lower Doab’s our victory

1 Jan , 1629 – Gauda falls, Upper Doab does as well

Right now I have an 80% warscore

9 Jan – I get a peace offer from just Bengal. Bengal offers us gold, to break their treaty with Delhi, and some other stuff. Hmm. I decline for now.

1 Feb – Delhi is fleeing back here to Bengal, as I thought. I want to hit them hard.

26 Feb – I hit them in Chittagong. I bet them and are ping-ponging elsewhere

Alright I’m in. Long term, I need to separate Bengal.

I wasn;t taking anything from Bengal anyway.

I get:

War reparations , 241 gold, and Bengal loses Delhi and Ligor as allies, but keeps Yarkan

Now I can focus on Delhi alone, pull my armies from the east flank into hitting Delhi hard, and ending this war quickly – I have a 91% warscore right now.

With Holy War, I can claim any province my foes have, as long as I take them.

26 Mar – Tripura has asked for our support for they want to go independent, and I agree

31 May – Khandesh falls

1 June – Lahore falls

22 June – Every Delhi province is under out control – all 16 of them.

Alright, here we go. What would I like

1) They are to release Nagaur and Khandesh
2) Margalla is a nice iron province by Roh and Sind Sagar, I want it
3) The fort of Juanpur is being Missionary – nope
4) The fort of Lucknow
5) Their most valuable province – Lahore, is now ours
6) The Cloth province of Siirhind that connects Lahroe with Garhawl and Panipat is ours

I can’t get anything else – no money or War Rep

I get 30ish badboy, completed a mission to take Lucknow, and this war was about one thing – setting me up to finish off Delhi in the next war. I took three forts, removed their vassals and ally in Bengal, and should finish them off next time, I hope. I have divided them into a lot of bite sized pieces

Let’s begin coring

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 07:57 PM

Map time

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Bharat%206_zpsoerprunc.jpg

I circle our gains here in purple. Yellow is Kharga which I took earlier. You can see bite sized chunks of Delhi down in the center of our territory, then under the fort I just took, and then under Lahore and above Lahore. 5 chunks for 7 provinces. You can’t defend yourself like that. Note that I finished this war with more than 40000 in manpower!

And note the rebels in Nagpaur, I don’t know what’ll happen to them later. We have peace until 1644

The Bengali peace ends earlier – 1637

Next mission – reduce overextension

Dip Tech – 17 – Merchantmen – Better trade and colonial range, We can build Trade Depot and Merchantmen

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 08:26 PM

1 July – Persia announces us as a rival

13 September

Plantation in Thatta, Chaul, Tiruchirappalli

Trade Depot in Goa, Kotte, Surat

7 Apr – 1630 – Delhi took care fo the rebels in Nagaur

1 July – Plantation for Surguja

29 Sept – I lose 5 Prestige when we admit that a rumor that we have been a great grandmother that was unmarried is true

2 Feb, 1631 – I spend some power to develop Goa. Then I order a trade company here

1 Jan 1632 -Textile Manufactory in Raichur Doab after I destroy the barracks there

10 Mar – Bengal took three provinces from Nepal in their war.

30 May – I send Assam a gift

29 Jul – We finish coring our possessions.

Margalla – This iron highlands province is up by Roh and Sind Sagar, and next to Kashmir. It has iron mines, a temple, the people are Panjabi and Sunni, and we get 0.73 gold and 6.85 unrest. 9 development I spend one more point in taxes, raise the amount we get to 0.79 and order a weapons manufactory here.

Lahore – This was the big one. Level 4 fort, 34 development, farmlands, the people here are both Panjabi and Hindu, both accepted, so they send us 3.25 gold a month, from the Silk trade. Lahore is a Centre of Trade. They send us 1500 manpower, 45.4 trade power, and they have a marketplace, barracks, temple and workshop, with an open slot for something later. Lahore is north and south fo a few Delhi provinces, east is our Sirhind, and west Sind Sagar

Sirhind – Speaking of which, Sirhind is a Panjabi Hindu province as we, with cotton and farmlands, it’s 13 development, have a temple and workshop, makes 0.95 gold for us and neither Lahore nor Sirhind have any unrest. Sirhind connects Lahore with Panipat and Garhwal

Lucknow – We head to the two forts in the east – Lucknow is a farmlands cotton plantation with Avadhi Hindu here, again, both accepted. 1.68 gold is made here and we have no unrest, a fort, temple, marketplace, workshop and regimental camp are here as well. 20 development. Locknow is east of Etaweh, and west of Jaunpur

Jaunpur – This fort has clothmaking in the farmlands, Avadhi Hindu, a fort, temple, workshop and marketplace, and we get 1.25 gold from the 15 development. Jaunpur is west of Varnasi. Like Lucknow, Delhi is both north and south.

And there we are – five very rich, solid, strong provinces. I didn’t think Id be able to take Lahore and some of the high quality provinces they have left in one war, so I grabbed Lahore while I could, and they have some chumps, but Delhi proper will be really hard to take.

I think I can take Delhi out in one more two, two for Bengal before they grabbed a province from Nepal, but we’ll see.

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 08:55 PM

1 January, 1633 – One of our advisors has revolutionized the art of siege craft. We bump my prestige up and I get -10% to buy military tech for 7 years

1 Mar - I order a Textile Manufactory for Lahore

18 Mar – 7000 peants rebels in Patna

1 April 0 I took them out with an army next door in Tirhut

2 June – More rebels in Nagaur

Delhi has 30k troops in their capital

7 Aug – If I wanted, I could call a Holy War against Yarkand, get into a tussle with Bengal,a nd then take 1 or 3 provinces from Bengal, but I might as well wait for three years and do it proper and not pay twice

13 Aug – Birth of Ganesha

I agree to throw a huge celebration of the Birth fo Ganesha.

13 Sept – We host the festival to Ganesha! We gain a stability if we needed it

11 Nov – Mil Tech 15 – Maurician Infantry - +0.25 tactics, +1 land morale

1 January 1634 – I destroy the Regimental Camp in Lucknow to build a Plantation

15 Sept – I get an event to Establish Cantonments in Kutch, and I gain 2 manpower there

1 Oct - I build up our capital a bit and order a Weapons Manufactory here

1 June, 1635 - Ibuild up Madurai and order a Textile Manufactory here

1 Dec –

Workshop in Bhilsa, Balasore,

I build up Velanadu for a Manufactory later on

1 May, 1636 – Manufactory in Velandu

1 Aug – I max relations with Assam

23 Aug – Assam apparently broke the alliance they had with Nepal and Kachar to stay out of a war they are both in now.

1 Mar, 1637 – Plantation ordered for SIrhind

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 09:31 PM

1 June – Our truce with Bengal expired.

I declare a Holy War on Bengal!!!

I order 37000 troops into their capital where 25000 wait, and then troops into other Bengal provinces

5 June – We win a battle against their navy

21 June - Win in in Gauda

13 Aug – I order Margalla to be converted

Their force retreated to Chittagong but I can’t get there yet

30 Oct – As of today, we have taken 5 of their non-fort provinces

27 Jan, 1638 – Gauda is ours

5 Feb – I win in Roh against Yarkland

18 Feb – Sunderbans falls

I have arrived at Chittagong to protest their presence

19 Mar 0 win in Chittagong

9 Apr – I follow and hit their army again and it loses again

19 April – We rout their army

4 May – I decline a peace offer from Bengal

15 May – Yarkand accepts our peace offer with 250 gold attached

We have a 99% against Bengal. Let’s finish this

24 June – I assault and take Chittagong

2 Aug -I accept an offer to share trade power with Assam

1 Oct – Silhet Is ours.

Nov 6

1) I take their capital, Gauda, it’s their best one left
2) Chittagong is their second best ,and I grab it too
3) Sunderbans is worth practically nothing, I grab it for free
4) I grab Dhaka to connect everything togeth
5) Linbuwan, up by Nepal, is the same way, with little value, so I grab it
6) I grab Silhet too, to remove their final fort.

Again, this leaves them all carved up and ready to die

I get 24 badboy

I core everything, and spend around 600 ADM doing so

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 09:32 PM

Maptime!!!

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Bharat%207_zpsrr935jai.jpg

Again, I purpled the areas we just captured. Limbuwan is above Tirhut and Bhagalpur and where we are next to Assam to the east in red. The blue province north of it is where Bengal captured a while ago. Then we have our other captures in Gauda and east. Like the Delhi war, this war was designed to beat Bengal next time completely. I took all of their forts. I’ll leave them Shigatse if they want.

Anyways, I have a lot of gold, manpower, and more after that war. So things are looking steady, and soon enough we’ll have that (hopefully) final war with Delhi.

Abe Sargent

08-19-2015, 10:07 PM

10 Nov – Pegu is currently at war with Delhi and seeks military access. I tell them no.

17 Nov – I destroy the Temple in Kochin and order a Trade Company, and a Plantation in Malenadu after I build it up a bit

16 Febm 1639 -Margalla converts

1 Mar – Dip 18 – Line of Battle, we can use the Galiot, and get +0.5 naval morale

6 July - I now have 37000 troops in Central Doab to Delhi’s 36000 in their space

7 Oct – I order a Trade Depot in Malabar and Ahmadabad

20 Jan, 1640 – I take a mission to release our brethren in one of the Delhi states. No worries!

1 Feb – Mil Tech 16 – Standardization of Caliber. Combat width +1, _1 artillery fire and +0.1 artiller shock and we get better cannon and can upgrade to training fields

11 July – I order a Weapons Manufactory in Arcot

9 Oct – I get an event for Excellent Diplomacy and I chosoe to invest it in our reputation and we get some Dip Power

20 Dec – Tripura has declared independence, and we are now in a war with Nepal and Kachar

This has some value. I need three provinces from Kachar and a bunch from Napal. I order my troops into Kashmir from Roh. I also order some toopr sto Kangra to hit Nepal. I order my 26000 troops in Tirhut to hit the Nepalease capital of Katmandu, and my forces in Varnasi to hit some of their province as well

I order my 37000 troops on the east in Bengal to head over and help out

Now I am not the winner of this war but I can negotiate a separate peace with Kachar

27 Jan, 1641 – I win in Kangra and defeat a Nepalese force.

14 Feb – I destroy an army in Naga, the Kachar capital and begin to siege it

24 Feb – I capture Manipur in Kachar, one of the three I need from them

26 Feb – Assam agrees to give us military access

1 Mar – Kashmir, not a town with a fort, falls

30 Apr – About five non-fort provinces on both sides have fallen to us

30 Jul – I head out and slay some minor armies in Kachar

21 Sept – We capture the capital of Kachar – Naga

I could take Naga right now in a separate peace

13 Oct – I capture Katmandu, the capital of Nepal

I have an individual warscore of 29. Plenty of space to mess around. I could take Kashmir.

My best guess is that I would need three wars to get these things – I need 7 provinces from Nepal, three from Kochar. Ideally, I take the Kochar ones here, but I can’t squeeze them in, two I captured, the 3rd I have a claim for, but our nascent ally captured it instead.

So I want to keep going and see how far I can push my war score

I capture a few more provinces

14 December – Delhi declares war on Nepal .

Now everything is getting crazy!

Abe Sargent

08-20-2015, 07:34 AM

5 Jan, 1642 – Cores are done on all but one of our provinces. One – Lumbwan, is suspended while we are at war with someone who has a claim on it. I order Missionaries to Dhaka and Sunderbans while we wait

12 Mar, 1642 – We have taken Lhasa from Nepal

15 Mar – While we are waiting, I destroy a barracks in Gauda and order a Textile Manufactory for their silk trade

1 Apr – We win the siege of Mong Yang

Nepal is at war with Tibet too

1 July – More Nepalese places have fallen to us

9 Oct – The final Kachar province falls to us

10 Dec – I’m bringing my forces back together. I’m prepping for my post-war Delhi smackdown

13 Jan, 1643 – So right now we have a warscore of 92%. I get 63% if I go solo with Nepal/Kachar. All 7 Nepal provinces are 135 warscore, and that requires two wars. I can take it all from Kachar. So I want my focus to be on Nepal

I could get Kashmir, Baltistan, and Ladakh and get my northernmost claims and perfectly above the Himalayas and I add in Chaubisi Rajya. That leaves me three provinces to take later on. Kashmir connects Kandra and Margalla, and we get the final provinces in the back that I need.

But I don’t want to piss off Tripura, nor do I want to leave them in a lurch.

17 Jan – We win the siege at Taozhou, up in Nepal.

30 Jan – PERFECT!

Tripura orders peace. Here is what they take:

Cachar – a province I need

Now, They give us these Nepalese provinces:

Kashmir, Katmandu, Kumaon, and Baltistan. All four of these are in our sphere of Indian Influence, and we got the Nepalese capital – Katmandu

I’m in.

None of these cores are expensive, none are very developed.

1 Feb – We announce a Royal Marriage with Tripura

I order a Plantation in Chittagong and I upgrade Silhet by one and open up there too.

Let’s look at the cores we got recently from our Bengali expansion:

Gauda – The former capital of Bengal is this farmlands silk province with Bengali Sunni people, currently building a Textile Manufactory, with 1.45 gold, a fort, marketplace, workshop and temple. 12.2% unrest and 44.8% autonomy, and 22 development

Dhaka – East of Gauda is this tropical Ganges Estuary Jungle province (Ganges Estuary is +5 local trade power). The Bengali Sunnis here work the cloth trade, and a Missionary was sent here and is underway. They send us 0.71 gold, 13.2% unrest – Temple, marketplace, 15 development

Silhet – East of Dhaka is this fort jungle tropical, on the border with Triprua and Cachar to the east, and building a plantation for its cotton trade, Bengali, Sunni, they give us 0.33 gold, and have a development level of 10.

Sunderbans – South of Dhaka and east of Bengal Delta is this coastal province.Tropical and Jungle, there is just a 3 development, a Missionary is here, and they grab local grains for sale and eating. 0.06 godl is made by the Sunnis of Bengali descent, and there is a level 2 fort.

Chittagong – This coastal, Centre of Trade, tropical jungle is 20 development, cotton, has a marketplace and fort, and is southeast of Dhaka. To its north is Tripura, to its east is Pegu. It is the furthest in this direction that we will be going.

And there you are.

Abe Sargent

08-20-2015, 10:11 AM

And now let's get ready for the next chapter of this war-ish thing.

27 Feb – I decline an offer of military access to Tibet, who si currently at war with Nepal. We must protect this house

I have 28000 manpower post-war. More than enough for Delhi after they have gone on walkabout all above the Himalayas

26 Mar – Tripura has agreed to become our vassal!

8 April – I deny Delhi military access too. Why even bother asking?

30 May – Our ruler has passed!

Our new ruler is Nusrat I Ummatur, a 2/1/3 guy, age 42. His heir is is brother, at 41, Jagga Ummatur, 3/3/4

We renew our vows with Jangladesh and Tripura

Our new deity will be…. Not Surya, we don’t need cash, the same is true of Ganga, our forces are fine,we don’t need the bump that Shakti gives, let’s go with Vishnu again. Yes, Vishnu

I make a general out of my ruler, because he’s not that hot

25 July – Lakshmi, Bride of Vishnu event.

1 Jan, 1644 – Sunderbans converts

2 Feb Limbuwan is now a core. Let’s loo kat it

Limbuwan – I order a missionary here for the Nepali Sunnis, working in the hills, shearing and making wool, and then sending us 0.15 gold, it has a regimental camp, 6 development, is west of Assam’s Bhutan province, and east of the capital of Nepal – Katmandu that we just captured. 17.5% unrest

1 Mar -One of our advisers passes and hire a level 3 Diplomat.

24 June – Dhaka converts

1 July – Our truce with Delhi expired.

Normally, I’d wait for the 200 Year Review ,but since this is the best time to declare this war, I want to do it now. We’ll put the Review off until I have seen this war through to its conclusion.

I declare war on Delhi

Delhi and Bengal have gotten back together.

I spend a little Mil on keeping some rebels down

I order 22000 troops in Panipat to take Delhi, and 40,000 in Central Doab to take Upper Doab – it’s a higher level fort

Assam joins us. I order my 25000 troops into Bengal’s new capital of Nasirabad where they wait to hit us back.

19 July – We sweep aside the entire 10000 troops in Nasirabad and rout them

Anoteh rally, Yarkand is on. They are at war with Nepal as well

12 Aug 0 I have already taken 4 non-forts from Delhi

21 Aug – Now five. Jangladesh captured one

22 Aug – Now six

I am going to help out Nepal. Yarkand took Ladakh, the province next to Kashmir and Baltisan which I have a old claim to, so I head over to retake it from Nepal

7 Oct – I took out 3000 bengal troops in Lakhnor

23 Oct – We take Lakhnor

29 Nov – We drove Yarkand out of Ladakh

1 Dec – 25000 Yarkhand troops are moving towards me, so I move to Baltistan, which is a Mountain province and you do not ever want to attac in one of those

12 Dec – The final non-fort province of Delhi is ours

18 Dec – Nasirabad the capital of Bengal falls

29 Dec – Delhi falls

21 Jan, 1645 – I am going to catch the Yarkand army with both of my eastern armies of 24k and 26k in Kashmir for a major battle, and Holy War CBs love big battles that you win

26 Jan – Nepal askes for military access, and I agree

17 Feb – Our 47000 troops in Kashmir defeat them

20 Feb – The Delhi/Nepal war ended with nothing happening. A handful of Delhi troops have begun to leak down from the mountains

26 Mar – Upper Doab is ours

1 April Bengal and Delhi are hitting Assam so I head over to help out with two armies

I need to break their armies, at least Delhis.

Bengal offers peace for just themselves for: Annulling all treaties. I have a 96 warscore against them. I force them to release U-Tsang, the nation above us in Nepal and that’s enough.

They accept, and U-Tsang is released as a Hindu nation right next to us, but they are not in our Indian area. Bengal is out.

10 April – The first Yarkland land falls to me

28 April – Yarkland agrees to pull out too.

I now have a 99% warscore vs Delhi

I want to beat their army around some

1 May – We defeat the big bad army in Assam and relieve a siege on Koch.

10 June – Assam takes out the Delhi army as well

I now have a 100% warscore.

Feh. This is going to take two wars, not one. Sigh.

I take their Capital, and Upper Doab. I grab Mahakoshal to finish that mission. Then I take allprovinces to the east of Upper Doab and Delhi – Katehar, Bakreich, and Gorakhpur

I spend some DIP to lower my war exhaustion, which let’s me core for cheaper.

Abe Sargent

08-20-2015, 06:14 PM

200 YEAR REVIEW

First I’ll start with an overall map, and then zoom in to the areas I just took in my back to back wars

Zoomed out:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Bharat%20200%20Year%20Review%20A_zpsbgrmvv9q.jpg

Here I am a bit zoomed out for y’all. Delhi is down to five provinces, all inside of me, as are Khandesh and Nagaur, which I can take anytime I want to. I knocked Bengal down to three provinces, and Assam and Tripura are my new allies out here. I have taken land in my first war with Nepal, and need one more to finish it. I am looking ever increasingly like a certain identifiable sub-continent.

Zoomed on my stuff:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Bharat%20200%20Year%20Review%20B_zpsajzk3cvt.jpg

Once again I have put my recent gains from Delhi in purple and my Nepal ones in yellow. At this point it’ll be harder for me to figure out Assam, my super ally and friend who I need to assimilate later on. I as hoping to vassalize and then annex, but that may not work.

Abe Sargent

08-20-2015, 06:39 PM

Top Ten Nations:

Ottomans
France
Bharat
Spain
Poland
Russia
Austria
Lithuania
Brittany
Papal States

Oman is #12

We have 600 points more than Spain, and 250 less that France

We have almost double the Ottomans income 237 to 132

The Ottomans are 1st in max manpwoer with 100,000, we have 93,000 and Russia 87 max

We have 50 tech. Others at 50 include Oman, Ottomans, Bosnia, Tlemcen, and Theodoro, so a few Eastern and Middle East tech groups, so we are right along with them.

There are just 8 Hindu nations in the world, and we freed one a few years ago! But there are 184 Hindu provinces, and that’s right around the 222 of Protestant or 135 of Orthodox

Our top ten provinces by taxes

1. Madurai
2. Lahore
3. Coromandel
4. Central Doab
5. Bengal Delta
6. Mysore
7. Raichur Doab
8. Goa
9. Warangal
10. Bijapur

Top Ten by Production (Ignoring gold)

1. Goa
2. Lahore
3. Madurai
4. Bengal Delta
5. Central Doab
6. Malenadu
7. Patna
8. Mandu
9. Surat
10. Ahmadabad

We have 123 provinces

At 161199, we have the largest army in the world. The Ottomans rock 115k.

We have 57 ships, the 4th most. The Ottomans have 131

Top Ten Trade Nodes

1. Constantinople
2. Genoa
3. Champagne
4. Bengal
5. English Channel
6. Persia
7. Baltic Sea
8. Sevilla
9. Bordeaux
10. Aleppo

We get the second most money in trade in the world, by the way

Current Price of Trade Goods:

Cocoa – Holy Crap did it rise
Tobacco
Coffee
Spices
Iron
Dyes
Silk
Ivory
Sugar
Cloth
Fur
Copper
Salt
Cotton
Chinaware
Tea
Slaves
Wine
Tropical Wood
Naval Supplies
Fish
Wool
Grain

Big changes here to the tops of the list. We used to have cloth and copper and such. Now it’s things we growth of an exotic nature. Tea has risen from its base of 2 to 3, and so forth.

We have the trading bonus for Spices, Coffee, Cotton, Silk and Dyes

You have to be in the lead with 20% of the market share:

Spices 35% producer!
Coffee – 32.5% producer!
Cotton – 58.6% producer – dang
Silk – 58.7% producer. Dang
Dyes – 51.9% of producer. Dang

I have half of the world’s production for two very rare items.

We have 21% of cloth, and 10% market share and 9.1% production and 2% market share of Salt. We have 17.2% production and 11% market share of tropical wood.

We lead the world in production of Cloth, Dyes, Silk, Cotton, Tropical Wood, Spices, Coffee, and Salt. That’s a lot. And I could push it – I could build plantations in grain provinces.

How are we doing so well in Coffee?

Right now, in the world, there are 25 Coffee places, many of which are colonies. Our product in our one province, Malenadu is 396%. One province has 78, one 54, and then nothing else is over 50.

Here’s a fun question. What provinces in the world, have the most production of their trade good?

Copper in Dalaskogen, Scandinavia
Silk in Lahore
Cloth in Paris
Spices in Goa
Coffee in Malenadu
Silk in Madurai
Silk in Bengal Delta
Dyes in Central Doab
Cloth in Ahmadabad
Silk in Patna
Dyes in Mandu
Cloth in Venezia

We have nine of the top twelve production holdings in the world

That’s pretty good stuff

Abe Sargent

08-21-2015, 07:02 PM

June 12 – I finish my mission and get its bonuses. My next mission is to remove Khandesh from the map

29 June – We announce a Royal Marriage with U-Tsang

2 July – Delhi is no longer worthy to be considered our rival. No duh!

8 July – Im getting a lot of requests for military access and I’m sending them all away.

11 July – Limbuwen converts!!!

2 Nov – I accept the Alliance offer U-Tsang sends us.

Jangladesh has agreed to be annexed

6 Nov – Revolts in Limbuwan and Katmandu – 24k in all

1 Dec - Tamil is no longer a culture embraced

25 Dec – Rebels are defeated

1 Jan, 1646 – We have our four cores from Nepal

Katmandu – The former capital of Nepal is this Nepali Hindu provinces in the hills east of Limbuwan. It sends us 0.9 gold from the grain trade and 15 development. North is U Tsang and east Nepal. It has a temple and workshop

Kumaon – This province I the foothills of Himalaya has Naval Supplies found and removed. The Nepali Hindu folk here send us 0.17 gold from the 5 development. East is Garhwal, south Kathehar, and east is Nepal.

Baltistan – This is a true Mountain province, with Kashmiri Hindus that send us 0.15 gold from woorl and 4 development. Mountains are -2 dice roll for attacks and -50% combat width and get +25 local defenses but are at +50 to develop. West is Yarkhand, south is us in Roh, Margalla and Kashmir, and east is Ladakh, currently Nepal, but controlled by Yarkand

Kashmir – The clothing of these foothills in the the area give us 0.89 gold from 11 development, temple and workshop. Kashmir is north of two Delhi provinces, connects Margalla with Kangra, and is also next to Ladakh.

I order:

Trade Depot in Dhaka
Plantation in Ahmadnagar
Plantation in Garhwal
Trade Depot in Bengal Delta
Trade Depot in Malenadu

15 Oct – I gain 750 gold for a sales of titles

I move my forces near Kashmir and Nagaur. One is allied with the other…

Right now, my overextension is high, Ima wait ntil the cores come back, then I remove these two nations from my map.

1 January, 1647 – Mil 17 – Flintlock Musket – We get +1 cavalry and Maratha Raiders ,better cavalry units

26 Mar 0 After finishing its manufactory, I send a Missionary to Gauda.

19 Aug – I send a big gift to Assam

Abe Sargent

08-21-2015, 09:28 PM

1 Mar, 1648 – We no longer care for Telugu cultures either

I send a missionary to SIlhet after it also completed a manufactory

2 April – Rebels in Gauda and Chittagong

22 May – Taken down

1 July – Cores from Delhi are done

Mahakoshal – This inland province is hills, 8 development, Gondi and Hindu, 0.23 gold from grain, has some barracks, is one of the former Malwa provinces taken by Delhi that I skipped over. 1.7% unrest.

Gorakhpur – This 13 development grasslands is east of Turhut, south of Nepal, north of the two castles in Lucknow and Jaunpur, and east of Bahreich. It features Bihari Hindu folk that wor the grain trade with a regimental camp courthouse and temple. No unrest due to the courthouse.

Bahreich – This grain province is west of Gorakhpur, north of Lucknow, and south of Nepal and east of Katehar. Grasslands of grain as well, Avadhi Sunni folk live here, with a 7% unrest, and 0.68 gold, from 14 development and a temple and regimental camp.

Katehar – west of Bahreich, southwest of Nepal, north of Central Doab and east of both Delhi andUpper Doab is this grasslands that farms cotton, with 13 development, temple and workshop, Hindvi and Sunni folks, and 0.86 gold and 7% unrest.

Now the good stuff

Upper Doab – This 21 development farmlands with cotton features a regimental camp, level 2 fort, temple and workshop, 1.62 gold from the Hindvi Hindu works, no unrest, is north od Delhi, south of Garhwal, and east of Panipat. I order a Plantation here forthwith.

Delhi – 26 development, farmlands, Centre of Trade, Silk, 2.23 gold, 6.9% unrest, Hindvi Sunni, workshop, barracks, regimental camp, temple and marketplace. I order the Marketplace replaced with a Trade Depot

And there’s six more provinces from Delhi

As soon as I finish creating a claim on a Nepal province, we’ll be good to Khandesh this thing up

England has set up a colony in Maldives. It’s a spice colony. The have a mission to setup a base n India in Coromandel. After I take Kandesh and Nagaur, I’ll move down there and reinforce Southern India, and maybe even take it. I can

Portugal is in the Andamans off Pegu. They have a Base in India mission for Diu.

I order Shipyards in Tirunelveli, and Vanni.

14 Aug After 5 years fo Mediation on Vishnu and Lakshmi, gain 2 ADM and 0.5 prestige annually

Right now I have 59 ships all in Southern India, and we have just 39 for England and 19 for Netherlands and 9 for Portugal. Only France at 61 isa a real threat.

Abe Sargent

08-22-2015, 08:23 PM

But still, it’s better to be safe than sorry, particularly when dealing with the Europeans, right? Right!

8 Oct – We have a revolt in Makakoshal and get a hugely raised unrest there for 5 years

4 Jan, 1649 – We finished acquiring our claim. As soon as this diplomat returns, its war against Khandesh

1 Feb –I declare war on Khandesh and their ally Nagaur joins them

This war is long overdue.

20 Feb – I eliminate the forces in Nagaur

23 Feb – We win in Khandesh as well

26 Feb – Gauda converts

Katehar is my next target

2 Mar – We annex Jangladesh

I send a gift to Tripura to make nice.

1 June – Whoa! The nation of Ladakh declared independence and are now next to next to us in Kashmir, and it’s a province we should be getting. They are Hindu so I begin to make nice with them

I send a gift to Ladakh

2 July – We announce a Royal Marriage with Ladakh

3 Aug – We guarantee the independanc eof Ladakh

1 Sept – Silhet converts and next is Delhi

9 Sept – Nagaur falls before us

11 Sept – We annex Nagaur.

I order a core

16 Oct – We accept an alliance offer from Ladakh

20 Oct – Our troops from Nagaur have arrived in Khandesh to facilitate that siege

24 Oct - I deny Bengal military access

21 Nov – Khandesh falls

3 Dec – Annexation of Khandesh occurs. We order a core. I order the 43000 troops to Southern Indi ain Coromandel and Goa. For finishing our mission we get +1 prestige each year and +10% manpower recovery. For 10 years.

I accept military access from Ladakh

Next mission – Free Barind from Bengal

Okay

Abe Sargent

08-22-2015, 09:23 PM

4 Jan, 1650 – I order 2 Galleons each in Vanni and Tirunelveli.

Jangladesh – This Rajput Hindu arid desert are shepherds who work the wool trade. I drop its autonomy to 34.4% and with 8 development, it makes 0.12 gold for us. It’s south of two Delhi provinces, and next to places like Jaisalmer and Marwar. It has a regimental camp.

22 April – Katehar converts. Next up is Bahreich

I order a Plantation in Katehar

I destroy the barracks in Gorwar and order a Plantation here as well

1 Aug – I order:

Trade Depot in Gauda, Chittagong, Baroda, Velanadu, Coromandel, Tanjore, Raichur Doab

27 Jan, 1651 – We convert Delhi

I destroy the regimental camp here for a Manufactory

25 June – Bahreich also converts

1 Oct – Our military adviser passes and I hire a level 3 Commandant who gives us +5% discipline

2 Feb, 1652 – I order Trade Depot in Cuttack and Chanderi.

I’m building up my cloth trade power

With all level 3 advisers, we are getting 80 gold a month

Taxation – 66.5
Production – 116.6
Trade – 65.5
Gold – 7.3
Vassals – 0.2
War Rep – 0.9

Advisers – 67.96
Army – 64.91
Navy – 17
Forts – 27.5

1 Oct – My new holdings are done.

Khandesh – This Hindu Malvi hill province is 1.23 gold from the 20 development, cotton trade, despite the tropical hills. They are north of West Berar and east of Baglana. W have just 1.5% unrest and 34.9% autonomy. Marketplace, workshop, temple.

Nagaur – This arid desert makes us a bit of grain, with an 8 development, 0.16 gold, Rajput Sunnis, barracks, and 8.8% unrest alongside 44.8% autonomy. I order a Missionary here forthwith.

I also order:

Trade Depot in Bidar and Madurai – I’m hitting up silk now.

28 Oct – naval thought is suffering and I lose some DIP power. Feh. I was gong to get enough to level up next month, now I gotta wait a while!

3 Dec – Ladakh agrees to be our vassal!!!

22 Dec – Tibet just took all of the eastern half of Nepal in peace

Abe Sargent

08-22-2015, 10:23 PM

10 March, 1653 – After adding 8 of the warships, I have 67 ships. Our naval forceliit is 74, so I order up three more warships to get us there

5 Aug – We get Diplomacy 19. The War Galleon. We can build Frigates, those, and Grand Shipyards, naval maintenance increases and we get a better colonial range

I upgrade that fleet for more than 1000 gold!

1 Nov – Admin 17 – We can build Universities

1 Dec – I order a fort in Baltistan

2 Mar, 1654 – I order a Trade Depot in Lahore

17 March – Nagaur converts!

3 July – Tripura agrees to be annexed

26 October – We have an excellent year for foodstuffs and get +3k manpower

1 Jan, 1655 – I order Trade Depot in Central Doab, Etawah, Tirhut

26 July – Our leader has passed and his 54 year old brother takes over:

Bibara II Shubol – 3/6/5 – his heir is his son, 6 year old Parachi Shubol – 3/2/4.

Our stability dropped but I spend some Admin to pop it back up.

I was saving that Admin power for the impending war with Bengal in a few days for cores. But hey, you can’t always get what you want in life.

We will be following Shiva for the few years that we are around, since we have Bengal this year and Delhi in 5 years.

Don’t forget that Shiva reduces the cost to core a province as well.

Abe Sargent

08-22-2015, 10:48 PM

14 Aug – Our truce with Bengal ends.

I declare a Holy War on them.

They reunited with Delhi, sigh.

1 Sept – I annihilate Bengal defenses in their capital

You know what, I don’t care how much it pisses off the world, let’s end this now

8 Oct – I win a minor battle against Delhi’s forces

30 Oct – Multiple non-fort holdings are ours – Ladakh and Assam both grabbed one for us

18 Nov – Multan falls, and every Delhi province is in our command

If I want about 58 badboy, I can blow out Delhi. Due to our peace treaty, I was unable to declare Delhi as a co-belligerent, so I have to take 2x penalties for their stuff. I hold off for a bit…

14 Dec – Bengal’s capital is ours

I have a 100% peace sore on both of these folks. Or I could take 20 badboy for two provinces, and then force them to release their other three and then they cease to be. Let’s do that. Nope, looks like that costs too much warscore. Sigh.

Four of these provinces are worth something.

Got it. Delhi agrees to a white peace. That ends 5 years from now! That was when the other agreement ended anyway

3 January, 1656 – My diplomat returns. Here we go

For 15 badboy, and 3 provinces, and 455 gold, we have annexed the three remaining Bengali provinces

Our mission concludes. We take Barind, Lakhnor and Nasirabad. Good bye tiger.

After coring I don’t have enough power to finish Nasirabad

Abe Sargent

08-22-2015, 11:09 PM

Hello map.

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Bharat%208_zps4az3jg9o.jpg

Purple is for new annexations, and yellow for Khandesh and Nagaur. You’ll notice that post-Delhi, we have very few options for getting all India on folks. We have Assam, two province from Kachar, and Ladakh and Tripura, and then two provinces from Nepal. That’s not a lot, obviously.

I order a Missionary to Nasirabad and we’ll just flip the normal order of core, and then Missionary.

Military Tech 18 – We can build better infantry and cannon. Plus we acquire better maneuver. We now have Deccani Musket Infantry and Leather Cannon

I order:

Trade Depot in Varanasi

I destroy the Regimental Camp in Bhagalpur- Trade Depot
I also pop the barracks in Patna for a Trade Depot

Trade Depot in Iron – Konaseema
Destroy Regimental Camp in for the same in Dhundar

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 12:03 AM

1 Feb – Our heir passed, here is the next son:

Sriranga – 4/2/3

1 Sept –

Our government adviser has passed

That’s okay, we have a level 3 Theologian – awesome!

1 Jan, 1657 –

Trade Depots –

Kalingandhra
Bijapur
Savanur

1 Jan, 1658 –

Trade Depots – Lucknow, Juanpur, Ajmer

2 Feb – Our treaty with Nepal/Kachar ends

1 Oct – Cores done

Barind – This Bengali Hindu cloth making province is on the Assam border, east of Bhagalpur, and west of Nasirabad, north of Gauda. We get 1.29 gold fro mthe 3.3 unrest and 31.8% autonomy, 16 development, marketplace, barracks, temple, and workshop – I destroy the barracks and order a manufactory. After all, it’s easy to build up in farmlands

Lakhnor – This Bengali Sunni province is a naval supplies tropical grasslands. We get 0.39 gold, 10.6 unrest, and 45% autonomy. Its in between Gauda, Damin, Bengal Delta, etc. I order a Missionary here for the 12 development place

1 Nov – We have max manpower – 103k

1 May, 1659 – We convert Nasirabad and I order a core here

1 Dec – Manchuria have major conflicts and internal struggles

1 Feb, 1660 – I order:

Trade Depot in Panipat, Sirhind, Upper Doab, Thatta

2 April – We annex Tripura

I order a claim on Naga.

We gain 3000 troops

Cachar – The tropical jungle here is host to a regimental camp, grain harvesters, and Chin Hindu folk, with 35% autonomy after I drop it, and 0.08 gold from 3 development. Cachar is next to the natin of Kachar and Naga and Manipur, both of whom we need to take.

Tripura – This is also Chin Hindu, 6 development, 0.13 gold fro mTropical Wood, Camp too, and Chin is next to Manipur as well as Pegu and north of Chittagong.

I order a fort in Tripura after I destroy the Camp. We need a fort more. This fort will protect Cachar, Dhaka, Chittagong, and Silhet. I destroy the castle in Chittagong and we build a Workshop for bumping up our cotton there.

I’ll keep the fort in Silhet until the one inTripura is done, but this is the smart play.

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 08:15 AM

1 Jan, 1661 - I declare war on Delhi

21 January – I have swept away defenders in all three provinces

20 Mar – We convert Lakhnor

4 April – We get that claim on Naga. I order a claim manufactured on Manipur

23 June – I decline a random peace offer

11 August – Multan falls

I take all five provinces – Bhattiana, Doaba, Lower Doab, Multan and Sialkot.

Delhi is now done

I core it up.

Map again

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/Bharat%209_zpsth11zwnf.jpg

Yay purple. So long Delhi. Now it’s just cleaning up

Dip 20 – Naval Professionalism – Trade Efficient - +10%

15 Dec – Let’s have some fun for a bit.

I begin to get ready for Maldives

27 Dec – Rebellions in Lakhmar and Barind

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 09:00 AM

20 Feb, 1662 – We take out the rebels.

Core for…

Nasirabad – This grasslands, Bengali Hindu province has cotton, temple, barracks and camp, with 1.04 gold, 20 development, ducats, 4.5% unrest, west of Silhet, east of Barind, south of Assam. I order a plantation here

3 Mar –

Mil Tech – 19 – We can build Star Forts and get +0.5 tactics

1 June –

Workshop in Sehwan
I destroy the Camp in Lakhnor and build a Naval Weapon Manufactory.
Naval Weapon in Kumaon as well
Plantation in Kangra

1 Nov – I get an event for inefficient diplomacy andI get -10$ relations over time for 5 years

1 Jan, 1663 - I order Naval Weapons M in South Kanara

I’m building up my Tropical Wood game now

18 April – We have a peasant rebellion in South Kanara

15 May – All done

1 Aug – Naval W M in Mahadeo

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 09:42 AM

10 Feb, 1664 – I declare war on Nepal.

16 Apr – We core the various provinces from Delhi, but I skip them for now. I send a Missionary to Bhattiana to remove the final Sikh province from the map. I also send one to Multan.

14 May – We capture Lhasa

1 July – All of the Above the Himalaya provinces have been taken by us

15 July – Their capital, Chaubisi Rajya falls to us.

30 July – Nepal offers me peace for the two provinces that we have claims on. I take them

We took Baisi Rajya and Chaubisi Rajya, both are easy to core.

We finished our quest and have Inspired Victory again

5 August – This is a good time to declare war on Kachar, they are at war too.

18 Aug – I declare war. Let’s finish this.

I declare war for Naga and order my troops from former Tripura land linto their nation. I did not call on Assam either.

16 Oct – Manipur falls to us. I go closer inward to get more claims

27 Nov – Another minor province falls

2 Dec – After he dies, the new ruler of Assam offers to renew our vows, and we agree

1 Jan, 1665 – I get an interesting option. U-tseng is the March of Assam. They ask for our support of their independence This would be an interesting way of getting us to figure out how ot get Assam into our realm of control. I keep hoping we can push them diplomatically, but they usually are just not interesting by only a few points. Hmmm…. I decline

I was to treat Assam the right way.

11 Jan – Another minor province falls to us

14 Feb – Pegu agrees to give us military access. They are probably happy jus to have a reason not to feel threatened by us. It may help that Pegu is one of the nations a t war with Kachar too.

Three powers are at war with Kachar right now.

30 April – We capture Naga

Bhattiana converts

Doaba next

14 Jan, 1666 – Ava falls, another fort

We get War Reparations, Naga and Manipur

My two cores cost less than 100 ADM to do.

We have now finished every possible war that adds to our territory, and all we have left is annexation for Ladakh and maybe, someday Assam (or maybe war, who knows).

Here are the Nepal and Kachar wars

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 10:03 AM

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Yellow for Nepal and Purple for Kachar

Let me give you a base map, all zoomed out for you.

You can see that other than the red of Assam and the dark green of Ladakh, we have the perfect shape.

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Let’s look at the final five from Delhi now that all of the wars are done:

Sialkot – This Highlands province has salt as the Panjabi Hindu folks here send us 1.32 gold from its 20 development. I order the barracks destroyed for a Manufactory. It also has a temple and marketplace. Sialkot is north of Lahore and west of Doaba

Doaba – East-ish of Lahore is this farmlands cloth making province, with 1.63 gold from the Panjabi Sunnis, currently being converted. We have a Camp, Marketplace, 19 development, Temple, and workshop. 13.6% unrest

Multan – South of Lahore and west of new holding Bhattiana, the Panjabi Sunnis here are also under conversation, with 22 development, grasslands, 13.^% unrest, a Camp, Temple, Workshop, Barracks, and 1.83 gold.

Bhattiana – South East of Lahore, this drylands province grows grain with Rajput Hindu workers sending us 0.27 gold, 2.3% unrest, and 10 development. No buildings are built here.

Lower Doab – This random province was left, south of the forts at Lucknow and Jaunpur, and north of Bundelkhand and Bagelkhand. Cotton is grown in these farmlands, with a Camp, Temple, Marketplce and temple here, and the Avadhi Hindu people here make us 1.33 golds. I order the camp replaced with a Plantation. 19 development.

Good stuff from Delhi.

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 10:26 AM

5 Feb – I send a gift to Ladakh

7 Mar – Ladakh agrees to be annexed by us!

17 Mar – Multan converts. I order a Textile Manufactory.

28 Mar – Shiva the Preserver

I choose to withdraw in contemplation

8 May – I cancel military access with Pegu because our allowable contacts wit hother powers was too much.

12 July – U-tseng took another mountainous province

1 Jan, 1667 – Cores!

Baisi Rajya – 6 production, Nepali and Hindu, shepherds and makers of wool, 0.2 cash, 2% unrest, south of the Himalayas, east of Chaubisi Rajya and west of Kumaon. Hills.

Chaubisi Rayja, hills with 9 development, Nepali Hindu folk making Naval Supplies, and 2% unrest, south of U-tseng, west of Katmandu, and such. I order a Naval W M here.

I also order Naval WM in Mahur and Bastar

Spain took much of Atjeh island, and has a colony in Borneo. They are the only European power in the Indies. Although Russia has a colony on Manila and Taiwan.

It’s time to get ornery

I declare war on England. I move 10000 troops on our navy and will order them to the Maldives.

I pay to reup my stability losses from no CB

17 Mar – 10000 troops arrive in the Maldives

1 April – Hmmm…

Assam has demanded that I help them in a war they declared on Kachar. I can’t. That would drop my stability by 5 to break our white peace. I decline. I lose a ton of prestige (50).

Our alliance is broken….

4 April – I tell U-tseng that we’ll support their independence

19 April – the Maldives falls to us

Assam offers us an alliance…..

I decline

9 May – Huh. Looks like Englamnd is on a few islands southwest of Ajeh. I order some troops over there

18 July – We arrive at the Coast of Aceh and unload onto Nias

19 Aug – We land in Nias with 10000 more troops

25 Aug – Pasai, on the Island of Atjeh, has agreed to let us use their ports, and we’ll pay them -0.5 gold monthly for that right

23 Sept – We capture Nias

Nov 25 – We arrive in the Coast of Sumatra

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 10:42 AM

10 Jan, 1668 – We capture Mentawai

13000 troops took it to

1 Feb – We annexed Ladakh

Ladakh – This Kashmiri Hindu province is east of Kashmir and Baltistan. The mountainous 4 development place is west of Nepal’s Ngari, north of the Himalayas and south off other wastelands. It has sa regimental camp.

I begin working on cores on Assam

I rest up before heading to guard the Maldives with our navy

1 July – Two more cores are done

Naga – The former capital of Kachar is Naga, a tropical wood jungle tropical province with jus t6 development, Chin Hindu with 0.17 gold and barracks. Naga is south of three Assam provinces, west of two Kachar ones, and north of us in Cachar and Manipur.

Manipur – With 5 development, this tropical jungle has cloth as its major trade item. I order a textile manufactory here. It has Chin Hindu people making 0.3 gold from us monthly, and they are west of Kachar, north of Pegu, and east of our Cachar and Tripura lands

12 Sept – Pasai cancels our fleet access

7 Mar, 1669 – I spend some DIP to lower our war exhaustion

22 Aug – Mil 20 – Killing rounds - +2 combat width, new cannon, and +0.5 infantry fire

23 Dec – I renew a marriage with U-tseng

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 11:00 AM

7 Mar, 1669 – I spend some DIP to lower our war exhaustion

22 Aug – Mil 20 – Killing rounds - +2 combat width, new cannon, and +0.5 infantry fire

23 Dec – I renew a marriage with U-tseng

6 Jan, 1670 – We are now the only war England has. I want them to bring it. I want to show them, and all of Europe, they are dialing up the wrong tree if they think India will take any guff from them. I order a few more warships build, just case I need them.

16 May – Great News!!!

Admin Tech – 18 – We get another group of ideas. I am tempted to grab Exploration Ideas, hit up colonists right now, and send colonists somewhere, then get Quest for the new world in a few months and begin exploring.

Being the defender of the Indian Ocean and SE Asia against all things European has a certain quality to it, you know?

Other options:

Naval Ideas in the Military Group and bump up my navy

Maritime Ideas in Dip gives me a good solid amount of strength as well.

I’m already at war with England. Let’s take this to its natural conclusion at least.

I take Exploration Ideas

I spend 400 Dip Power to gain Colonial Ventures. We now have colonists.

Now that I have India, minus Assam, to me, this is the logical next step. I have a colonial range of 575 – which from my base in India stretches really far out. Portugal have started a colony back in Halmahera in the Sea of Ternate.

I start building an exploratory army

1 July – Our Monarch has died, and the son is jus t14, so we have a Regency Council with a 1/0/0 guy until oour heir rises. I

13 July – There is a huge Spanish flotilla in the area with 43 ships and we would crush it.

1 Aug – We invest is Ideas #2 – Quest for the New World

We can now build explorers and conquistadors

I recruit a Conquistador

1 Nov – I order an Explorer, I have a9 ship expeditionarys force with 2 warships, 3 ligher warships, and 4 transports

After the El Dorado expansion, fleets now self-explore, so I set up a Exploration Mission near Ceylon first

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 06:55 PM

18 April, 1671 –Assam took a province from Kachar in war

9 May – Our Conquistadors land at and find the island of Diego Garcia south of the Maldives inhabited by Spain

10 June – They retrun having found a mighty one sea province. Next up I tell them to explore near Zanzibar

15 June – Our Monarch is now 15

Sriranga I Umatur – 4/2/3

No legal heir, 15

Hmmm

I don’t need Shiva, or Shakti or Surya or Ganga. Vishnu? Ganesha? Or should I go for Shiva assuming that I will invariably grab some land from Europe?

Ganesha again

1 Sept – We separate on Meditation again

7 October – After beginning to send our Conquistador into the Indies to finish exploring some of these maps, our Explorer who’s found a province in Madagascar encounter Boina Troops and I choose ot raid them after they attack us without provocation We gain prestige and the locals are now more hostile.

Mahe is colonized by Portugal, in the Seychelles

11 Oct – We land in Sumbawa in Java

13 Oct – I enter into a Royal Marriage with Sunda, heavily in the Indies.

25 Oct – I accept an alliance offer from Sunda

9 Nov – Our Conquistador finds Lombok

13 Nov – After agreeing to pay them 2 gold a month, they agree to let us use their islands as a base for operation.

5 Dec – We find Flores

10 Dec – We finish the Zanzibar exploration.

13 Dec – I send colonists to Sumbawa.. Just 500 natives who are not very ferocious

4 Jan, 1672 – We find Sumba

28 Jan – We find West Timor

10 Feb – Portugal names Sunda a protectorate and they are now breaking off our alliance and the supply they were giving us as well.

7 Mar – We find East Timor

2 April – We find an island, Yamdena, colonized by Russia

13 April – The Russians are also settling Buru

24 April – We find Ampom

10 May – Ceram is being colonized by Portugal

23 June – I revoke my trade trading with Assam

1 July – We get Trading in Tropical Wood and all of our development ocsts are a t-10%

1 Aug – I revoke our guarantee on Assam

12 Aug – We load back up from the colony we grabbed earlier and head back to the Indies

2 Sept – I revoke military access with Assam

3 Nov – We find the island of Sula

3 Dec – I find Mankwari, part of Papua/New Guinea

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 07:34 PM

7 Jan, 1673 – We head deeper on their island and find Fak-Fak

14 Mar – We find Asmat

28 April – We find Yos Sudarso

11 May – We have a new heir 3/3/4

I begin a massive military build up. I have 7000+ gold. Let’s push my armies and navies

I order around 30k troops in South India and around 12 transports and more war ships

I spend 1400 gold on navy, army, and I stacked 4 warship orders each in my three shipyards – Vanni, Bengal Delta, and Tirunelveli

25 May – I send two more warships to our fleet that is in the Indies transporting folks around

3 June – Our Conquistador arrives in Daru on New Guinea.

20 June – By now, my navy has found around 8 or 9 sea zones in and around the bottom of Australia

27 June – I fabricate another claim against Assam’s land.

I am about to do some serious warmongering

I am getting upset by the Portuguese and Spanish presence here and they are allied – a war against one is a war against both. I could blow them out of the Indian ocean with the right results. Meanwhile I also have claims on much of Assam, and I could go to the war there and knock them down and out and grab their stuff. Either way, I start asserting my authority.

18 July – I find the province of Kerema

25 Sept – We find Hanuabada

1 Dec – I find Lae

Abe Sargent

08-23-2015, 08:57 PM

I’m bored, so I fast sim to August 1677 when I can declare war on Assam.

15 September – I declare war on Assam. We had a RM so our stability drops one and I pay it back up

I order 31000 troops from Naga into Assam proper to face their 10000 defenses. Meanwhile 20000 from Limbuwan are heading into Koch and one of their allies is Pegu, so I order 27k troops from Chittagong to Kale

30 Sept – We win in Assam and defeat their force

28 Oct – Kale falls, and we head to fort Mrauk U

12 Dec – Mrauk falls and I move on to Pagan, a fort

26 March, 1678 – We take the capital – Assam.

24 April – I defeat a few small Assam armies

20 May – Darring, a non-fort holding in Assam falls

3 June – Sadiya also falls

17 July – Similarly, Bhutan is ours

27 Sept – Kohk hajo is also ours

21 Oct – I now have 58,000 troops in Koch in the siege

22 Jan, 1679 – We win the siege of Pagan in Pegu

1 Feb – Koch falls

2 Feb – Pegu gives me peace for War Reparations

7 Feb –

We take all six provinces that we have a claim to. Assam took one from Kachar, and they are left that. We gain 25 badboy.

I order some cores, but I’ll give you a quick run-down now:

Bhutan – Wool, Mountainous, Tibetan culture, 6 development
Koch – Bengali, grain, grasslands, 9 dev
Koch Hajo – Assamese, cotton, jungle, 13 dev
Darrang – Silk, Assamese, jungle, 13 dev
Assam – Assamese – grain, jungle, 19 dev
Sadiya – Assamese, tea, hills, 15 dev

All Hindu