EU4 Dynasty - Andean Mystique

[Abe Sargent]

Hello!

I was considering picking up a new dynasty for a bit here tonight. I loaded up a dynasty as the Shawneee Tribe and then as Kara Del, a one province horde next to Ming China, Oirat Horde, and other heavies. And then I decided to just do it.


My favorite character from history is Zheng He. I have biographies on him and have read them. Love the guy.



So I decided to move and do a EU4 dynasty on China. Here was the plan...

[Abe Sargent]

EDIT - No to China. Sorrys!



Thirty Years.


For most of its history, China has been insular. It’s problems have been many, and it is the great giant on feet of clay. It built the world’s biggest wall in order to keep itself safe and its enemies out. But it didn’t often look beyond itself. China thought of itself as too good to worry about that. Various factions vied for control, there was unrest, religious changes, and more.

Then the Yongle Emperor, third ruler in the Ming Dynasty, took over. And things changed. He took on new building projects, finished the Wall, built massive canal projects, moved the capital to Beijing and finished the Forbidden City, and took onb a project that no one else had dreamed of. He ordered the construction of a huge fleet.


At it’s head would sail a Muslim eunuch, Zheng He. The Chinese built huge turtle ships, and a had a navy so big that many ships were specialized, with one carrying clean water and a few others growing food. The goal of this navy was to explore the area, meet with local leaders and to establish relations and tribute. The era of a different take on China began, and ran for almost 30 years. Zheng He led 7 separate voyages, and landed in SE Asia in placed like Thailand, landed in India, stopped a war in Ceylon, traded with people in Arabia, and then landed in multiple places in Africa, and went as far as Zanzibar. China became the key player in the Indies and in the Indian Ocean. They expanded their influence, and everywhere they went Zheng He was able to secure trades, and more importantly, tribute. In fact, the tribute brought back was considering proof that the Yongle Emperor had the Mandate of Heaven. When he died in the mid-1420s, his successor ended the program. After his death, his son began it again that final 7th mission was sent out, but even there, it ended. China did not have the leadership to sustain the cost, emphasis, and desire to push themselves in the seas, abroad, and more. The latest rulers were too focused on the latest gossip.

Thirty Years was China’s window into a world of hegemony. China assembled a fleet bigger and more powerful than any until the invention of the steam engine and the industrial revolution, and they did so centuries before the great navies of Europe were created.

But what if someone followed who had the vision of the Yongle Emperor and his Admiral Zheng He? What if someone saw the opportunities of the Ming Dynasty as a platform for dominance? What if someone could establish that they had the Mandate of Heaven, and then use a willing populace to move their control outward?

Would not China have become the greatest, most powerful, and fastest thalassocracy to ever rise? (That’s a maritime nation, including both colonial nations like the Dutch, and United Kingdom, as well as ancient explores of Phoenicia, or the merchant republics of Venice or Genoa).

China was rooted in place by land, with the Great Wall a huge barrier to overcome. But the seas? They were open. Two oceans beckoned for Chinese dominance.

[Abe Sargent]

Now I don't actually think I'm doing it. I loaded a game as Ming and looked around for about 15 minutes. Yes, it's a bit weak for a nation of that size. But I have the Mandate of Heaven and the Temple Faction backing me already. Temple is good for war and such, and I can swap to Eunuch or Bureaucracy easily enough. Even with a ruler that's at 1/1/1 abilities - the worst possible, and just a 0 stability, we're still good. We have the Mandate of Heaven and bonuses for owning the Tea and Chinaware trades. Plus it's not like I have a religion that causes a lot of problems.

So with the manpower, economy, and size, of our land, I feel that I I could easily spend a short while building up our infrastructure before lashing out with a powerful stick to begin to wrangle in neighbors, overseas kingdoms and colonies alike.


So right now I am unconvinced that I'll wind up with China or anyone else at all. Sorry China

[Abe Sargent]

Hmmm.....it might be fun to form Inca....

[Abe Sargent]

Welcome to the Huyla people, in the central Andes Mountains. With the highland mountains around, and a large amount of grain, the Huyla are one of a variety of cultures and people here in the area.





Their capital:


Huánuco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C3%A1nuco)


We are green:

http://i.imgur.com/HPG85Ci.png

[Abe Sargent]

In real life, the Cuzco Kingdom, having sport of modernized the kingdom aspect of itself, began a major campaign to conquer the rest of the area. Over a few decades, Cusco will do so, and create the Incan Empire. The largest of the pre-Colombian nations. They begin this in 1438 when Apu Pachacuti Hana takes over, and begins to conquer small neighbors from the city-state of Cuzco (note the name change is correct). By 1444, they have conquered a few nearby areas including just winning a war and annexing the Chanka Nation. The ruler (a 6/5/6 horse) has been given the title Pachacuti, which means “He who shakes the earth.”



In EU4, they have four provinces now – Cuzco, Quero, Abancay, and Ayaviri.

There are a full 13 Inti nations (sharing the Inti faith and in the area)


Us – Huyla - 3

Muisca - 3
Quito - 4
Chimu - 5
Cajamarca - 2
Chachapoya - 2
Ichma - 1
Wanka - 2
Cusco - 4
Colla - 3
Charca - 4
Pacajes - 4
Calchaqui - 3

Of these, all but Ichma have at least 2 provinces. The # after the name is the number of provinces they have. Almost all of these provinces are inland mountains, and virtually all have rivers that run between them and neighbors. That means the defender is heavily favored. Even some coastal areas are mountains (like Lima).

[Abe Sargent]

Now I chose Huyla as a “harder” start than the others for a few reasons:

1). Despite 3 provinces, all are grain, and not developed at all.

2). It is near a few major enemies – we are adjacent to two Chimu nations, and Chimu are the major threat in the northern part of the area (in fact, the Chimu were the last nation absorbed by the Incan empire). In real life, the Huyla people were conquered by Cusco in the 1460s. We are also next to Cajamarca, both provinces of Chachapoya, Wanka and Ichma. No other nation is next to five other nations, so we are vulnerable.

In real life, the Huyla is the 2nd of these (after Wanka) to fall to the Cusco juggernaut


3). Our leader is not that hot. Meet Apu Hastu Huyla – 1/2/1. This is the worst leader in the area. There are a pair of 1/1/3 and a 2/1/2. But not any with 4 or 3 total stats.

4). Grain is not good. We don’t get a lot of trade and production from grain. Nearby nations have gold, gold, cloth, cocoa, cocoa and such. But we get none of that. There are also some trade nodes here, and we don’t get any of those benefits – Lima and some inland ones. But nope. And that development I mentioned? We have:

Huaraz – Mountains, 5 dev, next to Chimu, Lima, and Wanka’s province of Jauja, 0.24 gold made here, with Quechua and Inti folks, 2 slots for buildings, and grain.

Pisqupampa – Mountains, 3 dev, 2 slots as well, also Quechua and Inti, next to Chimu, Cajamarca’s province of Cajamarca, and both Chachapoya holdings. 0.12 money made here. Grain farmers.

Huanuco – Capital, mountains, 5 development, 0.24 money here too, farmers of grainins, Quechua and Inti, and like the others – 2 open slots, and nothing built – no walls, and nothing else.


That’s not a high quality set of places to start. There are 7 colonized areas next to us (and one not). Of those, they have development levels of 3, 3 (both with inland, tropical, jungle of Chachapoya). 8, 10, 3, 6, 6. All of those are better than any of ours in terms of development.

We are in the middle, we have little economy to lean on, and we have nothing special to offer.

Army:

We begin with 5000 troops

Chachapoya – 4000
Cajamarca – 5000
Ichma – 4000
Wanka – 5000
Chimu – 7000

So that’s not hot. And then add in the 9950 manpower, and such.

[Abe Sargent]

Now as a member of the Andean Tech Group, there are some major disadvantages we have. All four tech groups which are considered Primitives (North America, South America, Andean, Mesoamerican) have the following constraints:

1). Reduced income from gold. Gold is not a ticket out of the area.
2). We cannot build any boats. That means we can only move by land and cannot expand navally, even if we were to take a naval province.
3). If a primitive goes to war, then they can be annexed by nations that use the CB from the Exploration Idea group. They can be easily gobbled up, no matter their size, by these. Also a colonial nation declares war on a primitive without causing a ruckus and so forth


Most of the nations here are either Tribal Monarchies or Despotic ones, and about evenly split between them. The lone exception is holy state and Theocracy o fIchma in the Lima are, where the Oracle of Pachacamac is consulted by all of the local and powerful rules for centuries and centuries, since at least 700 AD.


We are an Inti nation following that religion. What does that mean?


Inti:

+1 Tolerance of True Faith
-0.05 Monthly autonomy Change
+2 Conversion – Inti are easier to convert to other religions

Inti nations have an authority value that increases with the ownership of larger lands and decreased autonomy in them. Authority decreases if autonomy increases in those areas. As you get more authority, you gain stability cost bonuses and reduction of unrest.

So if I lower autonomy in a province by 25%, we gain 5 authority, and we lose 5 for raising it. We start with 0 Authority

An Inti state with 100 authority and 10 provinces can pass a Religious Reform. When they do, their authority drops back to 0 and a pretender rebellion begins. These are the 5 reforms you can do, and you go through these various cycles:

Reforms:
• Organized Recruitment: Manpower Recovery Speed: +10%
• Expanded Mitma Policy: Morale of armies: +10%
• Reform the Cult of Inti: Yearly Legitimacy: +0.5
• Yana Lords: Colonist: +1
• Reform the Bureaucracy: Core-Creation cost: -10%

Once you have all five reforms passed, if you are next to a Western nation, and you can reform the entire nation and religion. Doing so gives you a tech boost and a bonus to religious reforms later on.

After we reform the Inti religion, we can westernize. But only then.

[Abe Sargent]

I take a mission to Improve Relations with Ichma and send a diplomat to them to begin to do so.

Cajamarca, Chimu and Wanka have all chosen us as a rival. They only one to not go all anti-Huyla is Chachasoya. So I send our other diplomat there to begin to tie us together.


We are a Tribal Monarchy. We have -10% stability cost, +20% income from vassals and -1 diplomatic relations


I dispatch merchants to Lima



13 Nov, 1444 – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Chachasoya

18 Nov – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Cusco

29 Nov – Chachapoya offers us an alliance and I accept

Alliances right now?

Cusco/Wanka/Charca/Ichma
Us and Chachapoya
Cajamarrca and Quito
Colla and Calchaqui


I declare Chimu as a rival

Quito is trying to improve relations with us

10 Dec, I accept an alliance offer from Cusco

14 Dec – Ichma accepts an offer of alliance with us. I’m comfortable with a Ichma, Cusco, and Chachapoya alliance.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1445 – We are getting relations improvements with Ichman and Quito, and Chachapoya from a bunch of folks Chimu is na an alliance with Wanka.

Cusco built a nice army and now has 10000 strong forces

3 Feb – I order 1000 more South American Spearman assembled

24 April – I order a diplomat ot fabricate a claim on the adjacent province of Cajamarca, a coffee province and the capital of their nation

20 May – I order another 1000 troops assembled. My army is moved to Pisqupampa, adjacent to to Cajamarca

5 June – We finish the quest to improve relations with Ichma and gain some reputation. Our next mission is to Make Nice with Quito as they are the rival of our rival.

16 Aug - I order another 1000 troops. That will put us at 8000 which is our forcelimit.

1 Sept – I boost our stability to 1

21 Dec – We get an event:

Great Temple of Huaraz

Word has reached us that the local chief in Huaraz has begun to construct an ambitious new temple for the main god of his tribe. This Huaca is venerated and also a mummified ancestor of the chief’s own lineage. Is the chief trying to build a bigger power base there? The priests of Inti in Huaraz want us to remove the Huaca to put the chief in his place. Options:

1). Order him to remove it. Gain 5 authority, 6 regiments rise up
2). Allow it to be built, +25% tax modifier, +0.10 autonomy change, -5 authority – 5 years

Now normally I’d do the latter. Keeping the peace and making the cash is both really useful. But I need authority as a Inti rule.r I order him to remove it, and then my 8000 troops over to take out the rebellion in Huaraz

[Abe Sargent]

7 Jan, 1446 – We arrive in Huaraz

27 Jan – We win, and lost 1560 troops in the battle.

30 Apr – Claim finished on Cajamarca. Next up is the Chimu province of Chanchan, this is their capital, and the one with the 10 development mentioned earlier.

5 July – We finish making nice with Quito. We gain 25 DIP Power and 5 prestige. Next mission is conquer Jauja, the adjacent province in Wanka.

27 July –

Build a Great Palace:

I choose to build it. -6 gold. +10 prestige and +20 legitimacy

12 Sept – I choose Wanka as a rival

2 May, 1447 – Claim done in Chanchan. Next is Chimbote in Chimu, the other adjacent area.

17 August – We have a new heir born! Meet Usuy, a 2/5/2 heir.

He’s pretty good

4 Dec – I improve stability to 2

4 April, 1448 – Our first war on the Andeas begins. Charca and Pacajes go to war

7 May, 1448 – Claim completed

30 July – I get a naïve relative and choose to not kill him, which will give us -25% spy defense for 20 years

[Abe Sargent]

11 Feb, 1449- We get The Risks of Trade:

The Merchants Guild hit on some bad times and the venture is looking a bit dicey. Do I want to :

Help them out - -8 gold, gain 3 mercantilism, and the Merchant Guilds Estate gets +10 loyalty and influence.

They Knew What was happening – They lose 10 loyalty and 10 influence

Which brings me to a major change here. Balancing your three estates – merchants, nobles, and church.


I choose the first to increase my Mercantilism. It increases my provincial trade power a bit. I now have:

Clergy - 40%loyalty, 20% influence
Merchants – 50% loyalty, 15% influence
Nobility – 50 % loyalty, 25% influence

1 August, 1449 – I upgrade our stability to 3

1 Mar, 1450 – Normally I would declare war on Cajamarca for their capital province we have a claim on right now. I have more troops and readiness. I turned my leader into a general and am ready to hit them. I could use my ally in Chachapoya to threaten them as well. We’d win quickly enough. But there are a few issues.

With this DLC< I can see everything from my allies, and there are things called favors. It’s hard to declare war and then just to get your allies to join you, unless they either have a vested interest in the war (such as a promise of territorial gains) or the use of favors. You gain favors as you help an ally when they are at war, or for time. Every two years you gain some favors. Right now I have favors with Chachapoya at 5, Ichma at 5, Cusco at 2. So it’s hard for me to declare an offensive war right now, and get everyone to help me. If I were to declare war against Cajamarca, as an example, then none of my allies would join me, but I could convince Chachapoya to join for a promise of land. I need at least 10 favors. However, Wanka and Quito would join our target. The same is true of war against Chimu or Wanka.

You can also set the same attitude that they set on you back at them. For example, you might get friendly, neutral, threatened, or hostile. You can set those back, with these advantages:

Friendly – More easy to create alliances
Neutral – Won’t send a bunch of alliance proposals to you after you say no,
Threatened – Bonuses to allying with rivals
Hostile – Your vassals fabricate claims on their lands

You can spend favors telling allies that you intend to go to war soon, so they will prepare by increasing army maintenance, and won’t declare war for 2 years. You can also spend them to increase trust between you and the target nation. And spending ten favors gives you an offensive brother in arms for one war.

10 favors are needed for war prep or increase trust as well.

1 Aug – I get an event and grant the Bourgeoisie some privileges and we gain Merchant Guilds Estate loyalty

[Abe Sargent]

3 Feb, 1451 – the Chimu nation have fabricated a claim on our province of Huaraz

7 May, 1451 – Pacajes and Charca have come to peace. Charca annexed all of Pacajes, turning them into an 8 province powerhouse south of Colla and north of Calchaqui in the southern inhabited Andes


28 Nov – I get another Temple event, this time in Pisqupampa, and I choose o increase my authority and take out some rebels.

8 Dec – Rebellion crushed

1 Aug, 1452 – We sell some titles and make some cash! But the Nobility Estates loses 5 loyalty

Based on your Estates influence, you can call on various interactions with enough loyalty or influence, or both. For example, I can Demand Military Support with my Nobility Estate, and it requires a loyalty of 30 and influence of 25. They lose 15 loyalty and I gain some military power. I can’t use that more than once/20 years. I can ask the Merchant Guilds for some cash, but it drops their loyalty and can’t be used but once/ten years.

I send an insult to Cajamarca. I’m trying to get my Power Projection high enough to matter. I do the same for my other two rivals

18 Feb, 1453 – I get a new event:

Oracles and Divinations

We are lucky to have the Huaca Gods of our people to help interpret what the future holds. Should the future prove too difficult to penetrate then ther are other oracles in the Andes, but they take a worth gift. Hastu Huaca has been beset recently by doubts and perhaps it is time to consult the auguries.

Options:

1). Consult the Oracle of our local Huaca at Huanuco
2). Travel to the Oracle of Pachacamac
3). Best not to dwell on the future



I chose the 2nd option and spend some gold to travel to Lima. I get this event:

Favorable Answer from the Huatuc and Hamurpa

A great number of diviners are attached to any given oracle’s shrine. The Guacarimachic speak to Huacas while the Ayatapuc communicate with the dead. The Huatec achieves a prophetic mood using a holy beverage while the Hamurpa read the entrails of sacrificed llamas. All of these great diviners have now dewlt on the questions come to be posed by the ruler Hastu Huyla. The time ahead should be fruitful and successful


+10 prestige
Gain 1 stability (not used obviously)


3 Dec – I spend some ADM power to increase our taxbase in Huanuco

[Abe Sargent]

5 Aug, 1454 – I grant aid to the nobility as well. +5 Nobility Loyalty

1 Oct, 1454 – Now if I declare war on Cajamarca, things are looking a little different. They get Quito and Wanka as allies, and me Ichma and Chachapoya. If I flip the script and hit Wanka for their province of Jauja, then we get just Ichma and they get Cajamarca, Cusco and Chimu. That’s not happening. What about Chimu? We get no one, and they get Wanka.


So there’s really just one feasible war here.

Now normally I only declare war when I’m pretty convinced that I can win. I’m not sure here. The number of troops we have isn’t that much more, and we have a general who’s not that good either. So let’s find out.

I declare war on Cajamarca for their capital provine which we have a claim to. I call on our allies, burning up our 10 favors, and then we march our army to their area. With mountains and rivers, this is not a guaranteed battle by any stretch.


10 October – Uh oh. I get an event of a chief conspiring against us. I choose to remove him and suffer just a 50% chance of 7000 rebels rising up, but they do. We gained 5 more authority though. That’s nice

13 Oct – Battle begins in Cajamarca

15 Oct – The Chimu is suffering an assault of 7000 rebels.

31 Oct – We win in Cajamarca. We lose 1148 troops to their 1523

The siege begins

15 Nov – A large pan Quito-Cajamarca is rallying

23 Nov – Rebels capture Huaraz

19 Jan, 1455 – Wanka had been sieging our capital, but they lifted it to head back since Ichma was doing the same to theirs

29 Jan – Wanka gained a claim on Huaraz

10 Feb – The siege of Wanka’s capital (Huancavelica) is relieved by them

Meanwhile our allies in Chachapoya lost a battle.

14 Mar – Wanka arrives in Lima to face the Ichma forces

2 Apr - - The quite army, 10000 strong, arrives in Cajamarca to force us out

10 April – Wanka wins in Lima

21 Apri – We just won a major battle in Cajamarca

26 June – We win another major battle in Cajamarca, but our force was halved.

7 July – Allies capture Jauja in Wanka

21 July – A large pan-Chachapoya and Ichma force is pushing hard at the underbelly of the defeated forces of Quito and Cajamarca

14 Oct – They crush the enemy forces in Quito. They have been routed

The only issue we have is the ongoing siege of Lima

24 Oct – Cajamarca falls to us

26 October – Quito is now at peace with us for a White Peace. They wanted to just end it to focus on rebuilding their army, and we had an army at the capital sieging them.

We now have a warscore of 57% against Wanka and Cajamarca

I can end the war right now and take Jauja from Wanka and Cajamarca from them. That would leave Wanka as a one province in their capital of Huancavelica and Cajamarca moves their capital to Wankapampa. I don’t care too much about Wankapama. It’s a lower wool province. But I don’t want to leave two one province minors for others to finish off, and the capital of Wanka is sweet gold. Ideally, I want ot take at least one of these off the map. But I do have the warscore for that, but they aren’t buying it yet.

So let’s push just a little more

4 Dec – We lose in Wankapampa and are forced back. Grrr.



11 Feb, 1456 – Chachapoya captures Wankapampa

The simple fact of the matter is that Cajamarca isn’t accepting an annexed loss until I take them out fully. No matter what the warscore says.

Fine. I take my wins.


We take Jauja from Wanka and War Reparations from Cajamarca as well as their capital. I add in a touch of gold as well.



14 February – War is over

[Abe Sargent]

I order my troop to Huaraz to finish the rebels and to retake the province

We gained 9.3 aggressive expansin penalty, 5.5 prestige among us, and we get 3.6 of it, and 4 power projection/

We also completed a mission – Conquer Jauja. Manpower recovery speed and yearly prestige increase for 10 years


Our additions:


Jauja – Mountains, 6 development, shepherds make wool, We have a claim here, and I spend some power to make this a core. It gives us 75 manpower, 1.2 trade, 0.09 cash, and has Quecha and Inti folk. 40% autonomy, and 7.8% unrest.

It is south of our holdings of Huaraz and Huanuco, east and inland of Lima, and north of Huancarelica. Like other holdings of ours, it’s next to unclaimed territory in Ucayali.


Cajamarca - Mountainous 9 level, 0.10 income cocoa, I order up a core here as well, with Quechua and Inti folk here. We get 7.8% unrest and 40% autonomy. 75 manpower, and 1.2 trade power as well. Cajamarca is north of our holding in Pisqupampa, and then east and inland of three Chimu holdings –Piwra, Tucume, and Chanchan. South of Wanka,[ampa, west of Chachapoyas.

I order claims on Tucume in Chimu and on Huancavelica in Wanka. Our next mission is to rebuild manpower reserves

I have some cash, but I don’t have anything to do with it. Nothing to spend it on. So I hire an advisor - Yamqui Mayta Llicllic, a level 1 treasurer who’ll give me +10% tax revenue and add ot my ADM builds. I change our nations focus to Admin to build that power up. We now make 7/4/3 each month in Admin/Dip/Mil

25 Mar – Rebellion defeated

1 April – The big blob of Charca is now at war with Colla and Calchaqui

4 May – Huaraz returns to our fold

[Abe Sargent]

13 June, 1556 - Here, let me show you a brief map, in case you care!



http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/1456%20War%201%20with%20Huyla_zps6dec50qk.png

Huyla is green. That's us!


You can see a few interesting things. I zoomed in on political mode. Where the 6.9k troops from Cajamarca are is where their former province is now located. I’ve built another 1000 troops during the war for support and will have 10k when it’s all said and done. I am currently at -0.1 on my ducats, from our good advisor, but I hope to bump up our income post-cores on my two captures The other capture was the Jauja, south of our forces that just captured Huaraz back from rebels. I’ll move that army to the area. We now have 5 provinces., so I’d normally work on my authority, but we need ten to start hitting our goals, so no need to push people yet.

[Abe Sargent]

5 Aug – I reject my noble who demand privileges, so I won’t drop my prestige. Their support drops by 5

1 Dec – Our army is back to 10k. Manpower is down to 2300 but will now begin to rise again

2 Feb, 1457 – I order a claim on Wankapampa

17 Feb – We gain those two cores. I move our next claim to Piwra, in Chimu

16 July – Our captured territories are now core province sof our nation

I have some Estates that demand control of territory. The nobility want one of our two captures. Their loyalty will start dropping unless I give them a province.

I give them Jauja. Results:

Minimum autonomy 25% going forward
Local Bonus manpower locally and nationally
Manpower went from 75 to 469, as one example.


8 Feb, 1458 – We now have a claim against Cajamarca’s final holding of Wankapampa

14 May – Peace- Charca in the south givers away 4 provinces of theirs – Oruro, Tiaahuaneco, Choquehaca and Charcas to Colla. Charca had bee nthe one who had grown from absorbing it’s neighboir, but it’s down to 4 provinces and Colla up to 7.


10 June – Rebels are striking Chachapoya

14 Jul – They take a province in Chachapoya – Moyobamba

31 July – The rebels were defeated

10 Aug – A Comet has been sighted!

Or stability drops to 2. I bump it back up to 3 with my extra ADM

13 Aug – Rebels captured and ended

1 Nov – I begin to increase relations with Quito

[Abe Sargent]

25 Feb, 1459 – Advancement of the Nobility occurs. A charismatic leader emerges. They get 20 influence until 1474. That’s not good. They now have: 65% loyalty, 75% influence, and 20% territory. They could divide us considering how popular they are becoming.

17 Aug, 1460 – We get an event and gain some serious diplomatic power from making some moves with neighbors and not pushing tensions with Chachapoya

19 Oct – Event:

A Suitable Wife for Usuy Huyla

The priests of Inti have made it clear that Usuy Huyla must take his sister as his primary wife to please the gods. Many of his ancestors, even the God of the Sun himself have married this way within the family and kept the bloodline pure. The boy’s mother however refuses and won’t consent. The proper way to solve this schism would be to ask the ancestor, who is mummified and the head of the Panaca lineage for guidance.

Options:

1). Consult Ancestor. Get 65% chance of Approval and 35% chance of Disapproval
2). Give in to his mother. Lose 5 authority
3). Disregard the mother. Gain 5 authority but lose 1 stability



Losing stability is a hit. But gaining authority is very good, as you’ve seen. Nope, sorry mother. This is my kid, and the sister it is. I boost our stability again, but the double boost from this and that comet have almost wiped out my ADM power



6 Dec – Our treaty with Quito has ended

[Abe Sargent]

1 June, 1461 – We finish recovering our manpower!

Bonuses – for ten years, we gt -0.5 national unrest and +10% national taxes

1 July – After that bonus we are now making a slight amount of money. Right around 0.1 a month. No need to drop the advisor now!

I start taking a look to see where our next expansion targets might be. Chimu is allied with Chachapoya, and they’d swap to Chimu if we pushed them. One province Wanka would join as well. It looks like Chimu is really the only place to go.



11 Sept – Cusco has declared war on Colla, which they have started. I accept the war call. Calchaqui joined their ally Colla as well. Wanka, allied with Cusco, joined as well and I am allied with my enemy. Oddly.

11 Dec – 10000 of our troops arrive on the Colla/Cusco border.

15 Jan, 1462 – I arrive at their capital of Puno, next door, and initiate a siege. The larger Cusco army is fighting deeper in the land

27 Jan – Cusco lost a major battle and their force is retreating

22 June – By now, four provinces, all without walls, have been captured and the Cusco army is back and catching them.

20 July – Another major battle with troops from Calchaqui is lost by Cusco.

12 Aug – We get a good harvest. I put it into the treasury and get some serious cash-age.

12 Mar, 1463 – We capture Puno. More battles and provinces in the south are swapping.

Our capture pushes our war score from 20s to 60.


3 May – every province of Colla is now held by us or Cusco.

25 May – Cusco wins against their forces

13 July – I moved my force from their capital to face the fleeing troops and him them hard. We dropped 40% of their force and lost 1276 forces of our own. Good swap

13 Sept – We defeat their army again

27 Sept – We rout and destroy their army

15 Oct – We get the event of a Chief Conspiring against Hastu Huyla. I kill him, gain 5 authority, we get a Loyal Chief in his place who gives us better unrest. We also get 6000 separatists in Jauja. So I send my force back to hit them. That’s ok, I did my job for my ally here.

2 Dec – Separatists capture Jauja and it will now suffer from problems for 10 years

11 Dec – Whoa! Peace:

Colla gives two provinces to Cusco – Macaya and Chuquiabo. They give up three more provinces to neutral nation Charca. They pay War Reparations. They paid 100 gold, and we get 24. We gain some prestige as well.

Calchaqui – War Reparations, gold, and such., We get some cash.

We gain 19 favors from Cusco.

25 Dec – We defeat the rebels

[Abe Sargent]

More about the Oracle of Pachamac:


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

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[Abe Sargent]

Our starting provinces:


Huaraz:

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Pisqupampa:


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Our capital, Huanuco:

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[Abe Sargent]

8 Feb, 1464 – Jauja is back under our control

I currently have 9 favors with Chachapoya, Ichma, and 28 with Cusco. Once war exhaustion dies back down, we may hit Chimu.

1 Mar – Our advisor passes

I hire Atoc Sopa Tupac-Amaru, a prestige worker

I order some troops built

15 Aug – We get an Unhappiness Among the Artisans. I abolish a tax, lose sold gold, and gain Merchant Loyalty


Charca is a big ol’ nation. 7 provinces. No ally. They would say yes if we offered an alliance or a royal marriage. But I do fear that someday really down the pike that Cusco will declare war against them and we would be forced to go to war with one ally or the other.

I do fear Cusco a bit though. So I will ally with Charka in other to flip the script on Cusco later on.

3 Sept – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Charca

26 Sept – They offer an alliance and we accept

1 Oct – We invest in our first tech incrase:

Diplomacy 2 –

We can now build The barque, but we can’t build ships so it’s not like it matters anyway

[Abe Sargent]

5 Aug, 1465 – We have a good slate of stuff. 13000 troops of ours are in Cajamarca province. We can declare war on Chimu and they will get Chachapoya (sad) and Wanka. We’ll get Cusco. I can call in Ichma as well,

I’m not sure if it matters, so I spend some favors to Ask Chachapoya to increase our trust of each other.


1 Sept, 1465 – I declare war on Chimu for their capital, Chanchan. I call on my two allies.

Here we go. I order my forces to Chanchan to hit them

14 Sept – We arrive in their capital, but Chimu fled

24 Sept _ I leave behind a siege unit and move to hit Chachapoya

25 Oct – We win a rough battle in our province of Pisqupampa, but wwe took too long. There are a large Chimu army moving in to finish us off. I order my force to flee

1 Dec – We chased the fleeing Chachapoya force and routed it

2 Dec – Quito declares war on Chimu

10 Dec – Wanka and Chimu are besieging Lima. Cusco and Ichma are besieging Huancavelica.

8 Jan, 1466 – We capture one of the Chimu provinces – Tumbes

15 Jan – Piwra falls to us

19 Jan – Tucume falls to us as well

1 Mar – Chimbote falls – just Chimu’s capital is left

13 Aug – Chachapoya has assembled a 6k army and moves it to our capital Huanuco

9 Dec – The first of the sieges ends. Wanka’s capital is captured by Ichma and Cusco

29 Dec – They hit the forces in my capital


I get a peace offer from Wanka

They offer a ton of money and War Rep. This sets back our warscore, but pulls their army out of the battle, and moreover will prevent Ichma or Cusco from taking them. So I accept.

30 Dec – With their siege of Lima, halved, the war leader from Lima ends the siege (it was close to falling to) to head back and hit us.


4 Jan, 1467 – The Chachapoya force is beaten

12 Jan – We begin to attack the Chimu force in Chimbote

10 Feb – We lose

14 Mar – Chimbote falls

1 Apr – They returned to Lima to siege

13 June – We move and drive them out of Lima.

2 Aug – Ichma captures Chimbote

12 Aug – We follow and rout the Chimu army

17 Aug – Our ruler passes in battle. His son takes over

24 Sept – We capture Chanchan, as well as a minor province of Chachapoya

We now have a 98% warscore



Final results. Get ready:


We take from Chimu four of their five provinces –

Chanchan, Tucume, Piwra, and Tumbes

The last province, Chimbote, I could take if we had captured it. But we didn’t. So I vassalize Chimu rather than give it away to an ally.

We take Moyombamba from Chachapoya

They give up claims in Huyla and Ichma

And we get a crap ton of gold as well.


Now because Quito and Chimu are at war, we take over that war. I order up some cores for my 5 new additions while I push to end this war.

4 Oct – We renew our RM with Cusco

8 Oct – We crush a Quito army

10 Oct – They accept white peace

During the war the Nobles gained 10% influence and this is a looming disaster. We have 25% over-extension. 8 War exhaustion.

[Abe Sargent]

Our additions:

Moyobamba – Jungle, tropical, tropical wood, 3 development, the Inti people here are Chachapoyan culture, and this is only next to us and the last Chachapoyan holding. 13.8% unrest, 10% autonomy, 0.04 money.

I’m starting with the Chimu provinces from the one furthest away. They are all on the coast. The first is west of Cajamarca and south of Quito, and then I’ll come down coast:


Tumbes – The Chimuan people here work the farms of this grasslands province, and they have 13.4 unrest. 50% autonomy, 0.09 money, and it’s next to two Quito holdings, Cajamarca’s Wankapampa and north of ours in Piwra. 6 development. Quito has a claim on this holding. It has a Temple.


Piwra – Also Inti and Chimuan, this fishing province has coastal desert, with 0.03 made from the 3 development, and 13.4% unrest and 50% autonomy. West of Wankapampa as well as the province of Cajamarca, south of Tumbes, and north of Tucume.

Tucume – 3 development, coastal desert, Chimuan and Inti as well, and 13.4% unrest with 40% autonomy, but it’s a cloth making province, so that’s nice. 0.02 cash. South of Piwra, north of Chanchan and west of Cajamarca

Chanchan – Now here’s the target. 10 development, has a castle at level 2, mountainous, Inti and Chimuan, 0.13 money, 12.2% unrest, 40% autonomy, and mostly some coffee as their goof of trade. North of the last Chimu province of Chimbote, south of Tucume, and west and southish of Cajamarca, Huaraz and Pisqupampa



All are working on cores. Here, let me give you a map!

[Abe Sargent]

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You can see our heavy expansion here. I see my next expansions as finishing the one province Wanka, Chimu, Chachapoya and/or Cajamarca. Now I can declare war on Cajamarca anytime I want to, that truce was up during the war.

You can see our MIL power is almost at the level needed to level up, but after cores, our ADM certainly isn’t. Now that we have 10 provinces, once I’ve rebuilt a bit, I’ll start dropping autonomy in captured provinces increase my rebel costs in there for 30 years, but move us to 100 Authority. You can see my Authority in the button to the left of the maps in the bottom. We have plenty of gold, plenty of lots of other stuff.

[Abe Sargent]

Here’s our new ruler:

Apu Usuy Huyla
2/5/2
20 years old

We have a high liberty desire from Chimu, but I’ll send in a diplomat to smooth the feathers that are ruffled. A small tribe, the Charrua, moved into our line of sight, south of the Inti nations.


I remove my maintenance of Chanchan. I hire a Diplomatic Advisor – Orco Varanca Auqui-Huaman, and he has +10% trade efficiency.


23 Oct – As was likely expected, Quito announces us as their rival


2 June, 1468 – We have begun to fabricate claims on various adjacent territory in Chachapoya and Quito

2 Sept – One of our agents was discovered

[Abe Sargent]

28 Jan, 1469 – Great Temple of Moyobamba – Again, we order the chief to knock it off. I gain some authority, and a rebellion starts.

20 Feb – Rebellion ended

11 Mar – Tyrannical Nobles are found in Jauja. I choose to…increase their loyalty and hurt the province abit.

1 Apr – We gain 1 tech in Military!


Mil Tech 2 –

Eastern Swarm
Combat width, infantry and cavalry shock rise

1 June – Chanchan, Piwra, Tucume are now cores and Chimuan is now an accepted culture

22 June – Another spy is found fabricating claims

1 Aug – Tumbes is now a core as well


We can’t build anything but defenses until our techs get developed enough. So not really.

I need cores on these provinces:

Cajamarca – Check
Huanuco – our capital - Check
Huancavelica, the capital of Wanka – Nope
Cuzco – The capital of Cusco, nope

And then one of these:

Puno in Colla or Tiahuanaco in Colla.
Chanchan or Quito. Check

That’s the path to becoming the Empire of the Incas

1 Dec – Wanka moved their rivalry from us to Ichma

I choose Quito as a rival. They wanted this.

[Abe Sargent]

7 Jan, 1470 – Construction of a Temple happens again. I fund it. We lose 60 gold, and we build a temple for the Tincuy, the sacred confluence of two streams in Pisqupampa.

Temples increase local taxes by 40%

3 March – We get an event – Rightful Ownership:

One of our subjects has seen fit to remind us of the tensions caused by owning land that is theirs. This is for Chanchan. I reject their claim, we gain 10 prestige, and Chimu’s opinion of us drops 50 and they get +15% liberty desire.

21 Aug – We get an exceptional year and gain +50% taxes for a year

15 Dec – We have a rebellion about to hit. I moved my forces down to chimu’s area

1 Jan, 1471 – As we annexed lands in war, we brought in some groups of people that were forcibly moved as Mitmaq from one region to another by their former overlords. As they are not allowed to change the way they speak, the clothes they wear, and have to take all property with tme, they yearn for home in Tumbes. I agree to allow them to relocate back. We swap taxvalue from Chanchan to Tumbes

I invest it back into Chanchan with some ADM power

1 Feb, Moyobamba is now a core.

6 Feb – After taking a lot longer to warm them up than it should have, our vassal Chimu agrees to a Royal Marriage with us

7 Mar – Right now, Chachapoya feels very threatened by us and would be willing to renew marriage or alliances. But that would bring us into too many relations and we would lose 1 DIP power a month to keep that. No thanks

5 Apr – I drop the autonomous on Cajamarca, and gain some authoirty. I give my clergy Moyobamba

11 Sept – War with Charca as they declare war against Colla. They did not ask us for aid. Colla’s allies are Tapuia and Chachapoya, who are in as well.

1 Nov – Charca asks for military access. We’re allies, how do you not have that? Nope. I don’t want you to hit Chachapoya.


8 Dec – Revolt in Chanchan

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1472 – We lose!

23 Jan – Separatists capture Chanchan. So annoying

24 April – We defeat the rebel army

What the rebels did was a quick capture of Chanchan, and then basically turned the castle back on. So now I have to take it in a siege.

28 Mar, 1473 – Chanchan falls back to us

I drop the autonomy in Piwra and then give it to the Clergy

3 June – We lost our claim on Chimbote, the final Chimu province. I cannot claim it again either, as they are our vassal. Their opinion of us has climbed to +110. That‘s with the -46 to the tyrant overlord event and -85 to the force vassalization.

20 September, 1473 – The gods have favored us with a new child, Maicu, a 4/0/6 leader.

10 Dec – The Mapuche tribe moved their capital and relocated to a closer province, in southern South America

7 Mar, 1474 – The Merchant Guild requests to take control of Chanchan. If I say no, they love 10 loyalty and influence. If I say yes, then Chanchan becomes theirs, and gets a lot of taxvalue increase….hmm…they also get 15% influence and 10 loyalty. I accept.

Chanchan now has a development of 15.

1 <May _ I drop the autonomy in Tucume and Tumbes by 25% and gain some hostility there, but increase my authority

As of right now, with a loyalty of 65% I get these benefits from the merchants: -7.5% development cost and +15% trade efficient. My nobility have lost their loyalty and influence e somewhat and are down to 55 and 58. The Clergy are 43 and 44.


22 August – We sell more titles!

17 Oct – We get a national epic. We lose some cash to push the story and for 20 years we‘ll get +1 prestige

8 Aug, 1475 – Since we’re making money and clocking in at 122 gold, I hire a 3rd advisor – a military one – Draytonamu Guacricaur, -10% land maintenance

[Abe Sargent]

5 Feb, 1476 – The war is over and Charca annexes the two provinces of Colla and removes them from the map.


Calchaqui – 3 provinces. Next to….
Charca – 9 provinces. Next to…
Cusco – 6 provices. Next to….
Wanka – 1 province, nex to…
Huyla (Us) – 10 provinces, next to…
Quito – 4 provinces

Chimu, Wanka, Ichma ,Chachapoys, and Cajamarca are rocking 1 province each

Muisica, far away, has 3

Our allies – Ichma, Cusco, Charca
Vassal – Chimu


War declared against Cajamarca would be just me and Chimu vs Calchaqui and Quito too.

War against Chachapoya is just Mapuche, that tribe that moved over. But we have a truce with them for 6 more years. Wanka expires in 3.

That leaves Cajamarca as our only major expansion opportunity

I spend some military power to hire a nice general and send my troops to Cajamarca province next to their holding

[Abe Sargent]

1 April, 1476 – I declare war against Cajamarca

I order our forces in.

24 April – We rout their army in Wankapampa – 6000 killed in an instant!

I order my army next door to Canari to hit the Quito army

5 June – After reinforcements from Chimu arrive, we defeat the Quito forces in Canari.

16 July – Canari is ours

16 Aug – I chased the fleeing Quito army to Esmeraldas and defeated them again

25 Aug – We defeat and rout their Quito army. They are army-less

1 Nov – Charca does to war with Wanka and Calchaqui.

1 Ja, 1477 – An advisor of ours passes.

26 April – We capture the Quito city of Gyuayaquil

18 June – Quito falls to us

1 July – We capture Wankapampa

30 July – The final province of Quito – Esmeraldas falls to us.

Total victory

Here’s what we get:


#1 – We take Wankapampa and end Cajamarca as a nation
#2 -We take Canari from Quito. It’s next to us, we have a claim on us, and it’s a suck-y province. All of Quito is undeveloped, save for their capital province. But Canari is the best of the lot
#3 – Speaking of which, we take their capital province, Quito. This will essentiqlly remove them as a threat. Don’t have a claim on it. Whoops, sorry
#4 – We get 88 gold

That leaves them Guayaquil and Esmeraldas

31 July – They accept peace


I purchase cores for Quito, Canari, and Wankapampa.

I order us to claim Esmeraldas


Quito – Development of 14, they make cloth from the Caran people, worshipping the true Inti faith. 9.5% unrest, 50% autonomy, 0.16 money here, and inland and west of Esmeraldas, and Guayaquil, and north of Canari. It’s also next to 3 unclaimed territory. Through one unclaimed province is Muisica. Mountainous of course.

Canari – With a temple, the Caran Inti people here harvest and make wool, and then send us -.15 with 8 development, mountains9.5% unrest and 40% autonomy. South of Guayaquil and Quito, and north of Tumbes and Wankapampa.

Wankapampa – Quechua and Inti people here also make wool, and they have a temple too, with 8 development and mountains. 0.15 money, 3.9% unrest (we have our army here) and 40% autonomy. North of Cajamarca, south of Canarii, and east of Tumbes and Piwra. It’s also just touching the last of the Chachapoya holdings.

[Abe Sargent]

Map time!!!



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I zoomed out for you so you can see Charca and Cusco.You can see us in the middle, the green blob. Chimu, Ichma, and Wanka are to our south, and Chachapoya is nestled in our bosom. What remains of Quit to the coast and west of us. The yellow above it is Muisica. Cusco and Charca are there too, and Charca is trying to eat up and annex Calchaqui. It’s been more aggressive than us! If it wins at doing so, I’m not sure we can take it down. Remember, historically, Cusco was the big bad of Inca, and it has grown a bit, but we ended the major threat to Cusco – Chimu. Yet we have Charca here just being a pretty big bully. These two nations will war sooner or later. And at first I allied with Charca to use them to hit Cusco, but now? I may stay with Cusco.

We have 13 provinces with our recent captures, and are still the largest. If Charca annexes Calchaqui then they get to 12.

I order some more troops built now that our forcelimit is grown.




Another tribe, the Guarani has moved into our zone of sight in the south.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Aug – We finish our mission and gain +1 prestige and +10% manpower recruitment speed for 10 years. The only mission available is to Incorporate Chimu into our Nation so I takes it

As a reminder, in two years, the truce with Wanka expires.

10 Oct – Cusco has joined the war with Wanka/Calchaqui against Charca. Netierh side has asked for me to join them. Yay for that.

2 Jan, 1478 – All three provinces of Calchaqui are under the control of Charca, and three Charca holdings under the control of Cusco.

1 Mar, Our Government tech advisor passes, and I hire another +10% national tax recruit named Coyllas Huaypalcon.

26 April – I order some more troops

13 August – I move my troops to Jauja on the southern border.

1 Jan, 1479 -Wankapampa is a part of our patrimony

12 Jan – rebels strike in Quito’s two holdings and capture Guayaquil

1 Feb – Our truce with Wanka ends

I have 15000 troops on the border with Wanka. I declare war on them. Their only ally, Calchaqui is too bothered with war to care. They don’t join. I don’t call in any of my forces either. The steel is hot, and we need to strike quickly to forge it

28 Feb – Priests Citing Unrest in Tumbes

After we moved in the Mitmaq people back into Tumbes, we are getting some push back from the clergy there. They claim that we are leaving behind the faith of our fathers, which is obviously baseless trash.

1). The Time has come for the Mitmaq to move on. Gain 5 authority. Either lose taxes in Tumbes or get a rebellion there
2). Give guarantees to the local priests. Lose 5 authority
3). These priests are only fit for the pit. Kill them all. Gain 10 authority and a rebellion in Tumbes as well!

I begin to move my army back from Huancavelica. Unfit! Kill them all! My authority unites the Huyla people!

12 May – Rebellion ended

22 May – Ichma declare war on Wanka as well

17 June – 7000 Wanka troops are next to our siege in Huancavelica just waiting.

16 Aug – I stealth made a claim on Lima, just in case we need it later.

8 Mar, 1480 – We capture their capital.

11 Mar – We annex them and took almost 100 gold

I begin to fabricate claims on the two adjacent Cusco holdings, starting with their capital


Huancavelica - I order a core for this mountainous gold province – our first gold one. The Quechua Inti people here are 0.08 money, 5 development, and 2.9% unrest (army is here right now) with 40% autonomy. South of Jauja, and north of Cusco and Abancay in the Cuzco nation. East and inland of Lima, the holding of Ichma

[Abe Sargent]

1 May – Our relations with Chimu are excellent. They are now at +168.

It’s time.

I drop Wankapampa’s autonomy by 25% and it increases their unrest considerably. The former capitial of Cajamarca.


I know have 100 authority

I can pass a religious reform!

Huh. Would you look at that. I can choose which reform I want.


Whoa!

Can I get colonists?

Expanded Mitma Policy – gain 1 colonist. I could take that, and then start colonizing the nearby open territory.


But that doesn’t feel right to me yet. It feels too game-y right now. I’m taking the first one.


Organized Recruitment:

While our subject peoples have always supplied troops for our armies, they have done so to varying degrees and in an ad-hoc manner. By formalizing the need for every subjugated area to supply soldiers, we will we able to better tap the manpower resources of our lands. +10% manpower recruitment.


I take that one. We could use it

Results:

-2 stability

-100 authority

Civil war has begun!

We have 9000 pretender rebels rise up in Huancavelica where my army is, and 12000 in Tucume and 11k in Cajamarca.

19 May – We win in Huancavelica. This is not a normal slate of rebels, they are fleeing

28 May – We wipe them out in Jauja

I increase our stability by 1 back to 2

1 June – Canari is now a core. They capture Tucume.

10 June – Cajamarca falls

I order some mercs built in Pisqupampa where I am holding up. I’m afraid that if I move it and hit one army the other adjacent one joins us

28 Aug – I defeat the army from Tucume after they moved to try and take Chanchan

14 Sept – We crush the 2nd army in Huaraz

1 Oct – The 3rd army just grabbed Wankapampa

5 Oct – Quito is now a core province

6 Oct – We recapture Cajamarca

18 Oct – We take Tucume


3 Nov – Caran is now an accepted culture

5 Nov – We lose in Wankapampa

23 Nov – I put a positive spin on things on border friction with Ichma. We lose some dip power

22 Feb, 1481 – They capture Canari

12 Mar – Claim against the province of Cusco is now good

19 Mar – We retake Wankapampa

20 June They take Quito

23 June – We take Canari back

21 July – We win in Canari

14 Aug – Huancavelica is now a core

15 Aug – We win again

More border friction with Ichma, and this time I push it and get -50 relations with them


1 Sept – Quito is ours. We are playing ping-pong with their army

25 Mar, 1482 – We officially rout the 3rd army today


I disband those mercs

[Abe Sargent]

1 June – New Dip Tech:

Dip 3:

The early Carrack
Bunch of naval stuff I’ll skip plus +5%trade efficiency, +15% global settler increase and range

Manpower is wiped

6 July – War ends in the south:

Pacajes’s 4 provinces were freed and set free from Charca. They are back on the stage.

I boost stability to 3

1 Sept – Excellent year gives us some extra manpower

2 Oct – Our truce with Chimu and Chachapoya ends

I move my forces near Chachapoya’s border

Chachapoya now has Quito as an ally, so the war will take longer, I need to rebuild manpower

1 May, 1483 – I begin the process of annexing Chimu. We have 200 relations.

It’ll take very little time to actually do.

3 Sept – We annex Chimu

+5 prestige

We finish a mission and get +1 diplomatic reputation for 10 years

We gain 2000 troops in their nation:


Chimbote – 3 development, on the coast, Chimuan and Inti, we are already have a core on it, and the mountainous coast is a cocoa province. 0.06 money made. O unrest, 60% autonomy. North of Lima, and down coast and south of Chanchan, east of Huaraz. I drop it’s autonomy. I give it to the clergy

[Abe Sargent]

1 April, 1484 – I declare war on Chachapoya

War:

Us vs Mapuche, Quito, Chachapoya

12 – Rebellion in Huaraz and I gain 5 authority

23 April – We rout the Chachapoya army in their province

1 June – Rebellion ended

23 Aug – We defeat the Quito army in Wankapampa

1 Sept – I get an event. Growth in cities attracts serfs. I accept. We get +25% autonomy in Cajamarca and

30 Sept – We rout the Quito forces in their capital of Esmeraldas

23 Oct – 9000 troops from Mapuche, in the far south of South America, actually arrived at our border. Crazy!

27 Nov – They oust the siege in Chachapoyas

11 Dec – They begin a siege of our capital

12 Feb, 1485 – We capture Guayaquil

14 Mar – The Guayaquil army arrives back in Chachapoyas

31 May – Esmeraldas is ours

24 June I spend some MIL power to harshly drop rebellions right now, while we’re at war

13 Sept – We drive the Mapuche away from our capital siege

28 Sept – We rout them in Jauja

26 jan, 1486 – We get an event:

Itu Celebration –

There is great distress in our lands. People re suffering and many fear for the future. In times like this, an Itu celebration for the entire kingdom might lighten the minds of our subjects. The sacrifices it entails will make the Gods more likely to listen to our plights. Our priests encourage us to improve our chances and us human sacrifices Options:

1). Just use customary sacrifices – llamas, cloth, chichi and sheep
2). Humans it is. Lose 75 dip power.
3) We must focus on here and now. Neither


I choose the first


28 Jan – We capture Chachapoya. Diplomacy time:


We annex Chachapoyas
We annex Quito and get Esmeraldas and Guayaquil.

I get some cash too

[Abe Sargent]

I’ll get you a map:


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Here you can see that we end really any major threats from north. Quito and Chachapoya are done. Muisica is a bit away. In the south we have Cusco, Charca, Pacajes, Calchaqui and the native nations of Guarani and Mapuche. Now I want to order cores for my territory. But I also want to get that first AM tech too. Cores are more important though. I spend almost 200 ADM power to do so. I also turn off the forts in my captured territory

[Abe Sargent]

I choose a mission to improve manpower. I have good cash reserves, stability, prestige, and 19 authority. So we’re in a solid enough place.

Chachapoyas – Inti but Chachapoyan, 0.01 money made, 3 development, tropical and jungle, grain growers, 9.3% unrest and 40% autonomy. Has a level 2 castle, and Is next to 4 of our provinces – Moyobamba, Cajamarca, Wankapampa and Pisqupampa.

Guayaquil – Caran and Inti, the grasslands here feature the Guayas Estuary, which gives it +10% local trade power, which is fish. 6 development, 0.15 money, 11% unrest, 40% autonomy, it has a temple, and is south of Esmeraldas, north of Tumbes, and west of Quito and Canari.

Esmeraldas – Jungle and coastal, fishing is the way of life here as well. The Inti Caran people are 11% unrest, 40% autonomy, and 0.08 cash made. North of Quito and Guayaquil.


3 Feb – We get the Celebration of the Itu event and get -1 war exhaustion and 5 prestige.


3 Sept – I get an Uncooperative Philosopher. I have no desire to lose stability, so I let him remain free, lose some clergy loyalty and some prestige.

My major problem moving forward is that I am allied with my only neighbors left – Cusco and Ichma.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1487 – I end my alliance with Ichma

16 Feb – We have another chief conspiring against us. Separatists rise up in Esmeralda

8 March – Aucachic Confessors.

After a recent war, guilt lies like a heavy blanket over the people. I choose to give some time to confess with a ritual of purification to the streams of Huanuco. Our War exhaustion drops.

24 March – Rebellion ended

4 Sept – Another Mitmaq event occurs. I allow them to resettle back home

8 Jan, 1488 – Chimu Separatist rebels are getting close ot pipping the cork, so I reload the Chanchan fortress and move forces there to prepare.

9 July – Guayaquil and Esmeraldas are now cores

1 Sept –

Admin Tech 2 –

We can now move to Despotic and Feudal Monarchies as well as Oligarchic Republic

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan 1489 – Due to my development, I am gaining Authority at 2/year pace. We’re at 37 right now. I have almost 7k in manpower, so I could try to push my authority up and do another reform. I cut autonomy in all four Quito provinces at once. It just makes sense while I’m at peace. 57 authority now

7 Mar, Chachapoyas is now a core. I cut its autonomy and give it to my nobility

31 March – New Event:

Immoral Prices –

Grain prices are notoriously unstable. Anything from the weather to war can disrupt the prices of it. We have a shortage of grain in a major city – Chanchan. The common people are directing their anger at the merchant guild that runs it. The merchants are claiming the higher prices in light of the shortage is natural and expected. 3 options:

Force the Merchants to lower their prices (they lose 15 loyalty, 10 influence for 15 years)
We shouldn’t really meddle in this crap (7 peasant regiments rise up in Chanchan, +10 merchant loyalty and influence for 15 years)
We’ll pay for and distribute it ourselves. (20 gold, merchants are happy)

I chose the third. I have 218 gold and climbing.


15 July – New event:

The Royal Guards

The honor to guard the life of Apu is heredity and belongs to a number of families in Huanuco. This honor is in itself is not a guarantee of martial prowess however. After a tour of the provinces, the chief realizes the quality of the guard could be improved by letting in new blood. I agree:

We get this:

Fresh Members of the Royal Guard (Unrest +0.5), Morale of Armies (+5%), Diciplcike +2.5% and it lasts until the leader Usuy dies.

2 Dec – Revolts in both Quito and Wankapampa

13 Dec – Revolt in Quito is over

9 Jan, 1490 – Wankapampa falls

15 jan – We end the rebels

16 Feb – Wankapampa is ours again

1 April – The Guarani tribe moves again.

9 May - I drop autonomy in Huancavelica,

9 Sept – Scandal at the court. I pay off an advisor to take the blame rather than accept it and lose stability

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1491 – New TECH!!!


Military 3 – Late Medieval Military:

We get +0.5 land morale

1 June – I order some more troops assembled

2 June – Rebellion oin Chachapoyas, where I have an army

8 June – Ended

16 June – Whoa! New Event!

Alarmed Nobles

A delegation from some of the finest families in Huanuco has approached Usuy demanding that the new members of the Guard be sent back home. I have two good choices:

1). Revert things back. Gain 1 stability
2). No. Gain a lot of authority but with Alienated Nobility (+5% advisor costs, +15% stability cost) until death.


Nope!

My authority is rising rising rising

I begin to move troops next to Lima.

21 Nov – I get another Construction of a Temple event and I fund one in Tucume. I also gain…more authority!


1 Feb, 1492 - Our truce with Ichma is up. I tell Charca to declare for war. It’s time.

[Abe Sargent]

So let's pause and look at a few Inca things you are seeing in this dynasty with events and culture and such




The Incan Empire and its predecessors had a policy of resettlement called the Mitma. They would relocate families, villages, and more to help populate some areas, and to distribute newly conquered people into order to reduce keeping every one in one location.

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

pre-Columbian civilizations - Andean civilization | Britannica.com (http://www.britannica.com/topic/pre-Columbian-civilizations/Andean-civilization#ref583717)

When a new area is conquered it would also move loyal people there to make sure that you were able to administer it without pushback. It's hard to fight back when some of your neighbors were resettled into core territories and others that are loyal to the conquerors are now living next door. It's very effective.

You've seen events that refer to people that were resettled, the Mitmaq.



Another Incan pre-Spanish concept is the mit'a. This system (later changed by Spanish rule and renamed the mita by historians) is mandatory public service for the good of the Incan society. Your primary form of tribute to the Incan rule was not coin or your possessions like llamas or sheep. Nope. It was service. Community driven projects like road construction and more were done. In fact, people would be expected to perform the mit'a service annually. At its height, due to the wealth of the Incan Empire, folks really only needed to work their farms and such for around 3 months of the year, so the rest was usually devoted to the mit'a. (Incan overseers were pretty flexible about time spent and what was needed elsewhere)

I think you'll enjoy this copy and paste from wikpedia on the topic:

During the Inca period people were mostly dependent on the cultivation of their land. All the fields of the Empire were divided into four categories: The Field of the Temple, the Emperor, Kurakas (Curacas), and People. Fields of the people were fields that belonged to the sick, widows, the elderly, wives of the soldiers and that of his own land.

At the beginning of the plowing time people started to work first at the fields of widows, of sick people and of wives of the soldiers under the direction of the village overseers. Then they worked on their own field. Next they worked on the Temples fields and Kuraka fields and finally they set to work on the Emperor's fields. While they worked on the Emperor's field they typically wore their best dress and men and women chanted songs in praise to the Inca.

When people were engaged in war, their fields were cultivated by people engaged in mit'a. This way, soldiers would go to war with their fields and family secured and protected. This led to enhanced loyalty and focus on the part of Incan soldiers.

Fields of the People and community based service gives the Incan culture a very distinct one. The Spanish would come in and (of course) pervert the mit'a system in place and take advantage of it.



A final creation of the Inca is the Vertical Archipelago. They created terrance (such as at Moray) towers and used them to test whether or not crops would grow at certain altitudes and then had four ecozones they used and spread out, growing things vertically, including agricultural towers, lifts, and more.


Vertical archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_archipelago)

Moray (Inca ruin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moray_%28Inca_ruin%29) - Moray was likely used as an ancient agricultural testing station

[Abe Sargent]

1 March, 1492 – I declare war on Ichma

Their allies – Muisca, Cusco
Ours – Charca


Our wargoal is Lima. I have two 9k strong armies and order them both into Lima.

19 Mar – I not only beat the 7k troops they had, I rout them. That is an auspicious beginning

1 Apr – One of my armies arrives on the Cusco border where they have 14k troops in Huancavelica.

29 May – We dodge each other, and we capture the minor provinces of Abaney, while they are now in Huancavelica, and Charca is taking land from them in the south

3 June – Muisca arrives in Guayaquil and begins a siege

24 June – Huancavelica falls

6 Sept – charka now have 3 Cusco provinces

15 Sept – After a close battle where we lost a ton of troops, and were almost defeated, we win in Cusco against their force

27 Sept – We recapture Huancavelica

I built some more forces

20 Oct – Cusco retakes Abencay from us

16 Nov – Guayaquil falls

Canari is next

15 Dec – I retake Abancay

13 Feb – 1493 – Lima falls. I order this force to head up north

17 Feb – Canari falls to Muisca

22 May – We win a minor skirmish against Muisca

17 June – We win a major battle in Chachapoyas

4 Sept – Like before, we get a suitable wife event for my son. I disregard mommey

5 Sept – We rout the Muisican army

Charca and Cusco have been exchanging province captures in the southern flank

13 Oct – Canari is ours again

24 March, 1494 – We retake Guayaquil

1 May – After breaking off my army from Cusco and bringing my other army and hitting them from two prongs, I won a very close battle against the main Cusco host in Abancay

9 May – Cuzo province falls to us

And I have a high war score

Here’s what we get:

1). Lima and the annexation of Ichma
2). Cuzco the capital of our foe
3). Abancay, the province next to us

Which we all have some claims on

198 gold

[Abe Sargent]

I order new claims fabricated immediately.

We have our 50 year review soon, so you’ll see stuff then.

I order up some cores!

Lima – Quechua and Into folk work the cloth making trade here, in this mountainous and coastal region. Lima is a Center of Trade and the location of the Oracle of Pachacamac. 11.4 unrest, 40% autonomy, 0.10 made, 6 development. South and down the cost from Chimbote, and next to Jauja and Huancavelica.


Abancay – Quechu aand Inti as well, and more mountain farmers. 0.15 money, 8.9% unrest, and 40% autonomy. 9 development. Abancay is south of Huancavelica and east of Cuzco. The nation of Cusco is to the east with Ayaviri.

Cuzco – Note the province is spelled with a Z and the nation with an S. 14 development from their former capital. Mountains, gold mining is the main trade, Quechua and Into folks, a level 2 castle, and 6.7 unrest (we have troops here) along with 40 autonomy and 0.28 made

[Abe Sargent]

11 November, 1494 – 50 Year Review Time!



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Here’s a screen shot of the whole area. You can see us quite nicely. Cusco is now rumped but still rocking four provinces, while Charca, Pacajes, and Calchaqui are all Inti states that have small numbers too. Our next war has to be against Cusco, they are our only neighbor.

Our last war hit our manpower reserves down. We were around 10k, and now down to 1.5 ish. I have an authority of 98.,and I’ll wait until it reaches 100 nautrally and then use it, instead of forcing it. That way we’ll be in a good solid place.

South of the Inti nations is Charrua, Guarani and Mapuche. All of those are local tribes.

We have 2/3/3 in technology. Cusco is 3/3/5. Pacajes is 2.4.3, Charca 3/4/4/, and such. We are starting to get neighbor bonuses to get us caught up. I suspect we’ll see more tech growth soon from the neighbor bonuses


We have 21 provinces in 50 years.

[Abe Sargent]

According to the ledger -


We are ranked 70th in the world

Province overview:

Our top ten provinces by tax:

Quito – 8.4
Chanchan – 7.35
Canari – 7.2
Huanuco – 5.6
Esmeraldas – 5.49
Wankapampa – 5.4
Guayaquil – 4.56
Tumbes – 4.05
Piwra – 3.15
Jauja – 3.15

By Production:

Quito – 3.16
Chanchan – 2.94
Cajamarca – 2.5
Cuzco – 1.85
Huancavelica – 1.39
Wankapampa – 1.31
Canari – 1.31
Esmeraldas – 1.29

Our ruler, Usuy is 2/5/2, and 47 years old. His son is 21

We make 1.45 gold a month after expenses.

We have a forcelimit of 18, but we still have 2 10,000 strong forces.


We have three accepted cultures – Quechua, Chimuan and Caran. We do not accept Chachapoyan. We control the trade node of Lima.


Trade goods by current value:

4.5 -Copper

4.0 Dyes
Silk
Cocoa
Ivory

3.0 Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Iron
Salt
Cloth

2.5 Fish
Wool
Wine

2.0 Tropical Wood
Tea
Slaves
Naval Supplies
Fur
Grain

(Gold)


We have an alliance and royal marriage with Charca, and no other relations at this time

And there we are!

[Abe Sargent]

12 May, 1495 – I get my first claim for Ayaviri in Cusco’s domain

3 July – I now have 100 authority!

What next?

I can get +1 colonists, bonus legitimacy, bonus army morale, or cheaper core-creation costs.



Expanded Mitma Policy –

The policy of moving entire villages from loyal territories into newly conquered land or into the frontier has helped expand the empire. This type of forced resettlement could also be used to resettle the population of newly conquered areas into the core territory of the empire. Strrick lands in place to forbid folks from coming back could be enacted.

+1 colonist


-2 stability


Civil War Erupts

10000 Pretenders in Cajamarca
15000 Pretenders in Quito
8000 in Pisqupampa

I boost stability back up twice. That’ll drop my admin power to a mighty 106

I choose a native policy:

Native Trading Policy

I want my first colony to be Cauca – this is a coastal province up the coast from Esmeraldas and is adjacent to Muisica in Neiva.


12 Aug – Quito is captured

26 Aug – Army defeated in Chanchan after it fled from both my armies

8 Sept – Pisqu falls

15 Sept – I rout one army in Chimbote

22 Dec – I retake Pisqu

25 Dec – Abancay, Cuzco and Lima are all cores

20 Feb, 1496 – I defeat a siege on Chachapoyas. 13 Mar – I rout the 2nd rebel army in Pisqu. One left, currently besieging Guayaquil, but it’s the big one

28 May – I force them away from Guayaquil and defeat them





1 June, – New Tech!

Diplomatic Technology 4 –


Marketplace is available and we can get trade range 10

16 June – We rout th e3rd army in Tumbes

6 July – Quito is ours again

I order more forces built

[Abe Sargent]

11 Jan, 1497 – I take building Cauca into an city as my next mission

13 May – Our colony is struck by illness! I send someone to help (cost of ADM power and slowed growth for5 years)

Cauca will be a coffee making province


4 June – I send a diplomat to fabricate a claim against Muisica’s Neiva province


28 July – I move some Mitmaq again.

Now that I can build Marketplaces, I take a look around

They give me +50% local trade power. Not really interested right now. I don’t have a lot of building space in these mountains.

I cut the autonomy of Lima, Abancay, Cuzco


1 May – Natives rise up and attack our colony and hurt it a bit

5 May – Event

Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun

The Yanca priests in charge of monitoring the sun have proclaimed a most opportune time to celebrate the Inti Raymi festival! The festival, which lasts a few days, involves the whole population of Huanuco as well as important chiefs from the countryside.

I choose to call upon the gods themselves to participate, in addition to the people and the chiefs. Out authority increases by 15. Not making that up.

Some of the chiefs rebel at being told what to do and I order them to come anyway! I choose the force them. 6 regiments each in Jauja and Abeancay

20 May – Celebration of the Inti Raymi! Gain 10 prestige


29 June – Both rebellions have ended

1 July – Pacajes offers us royal marriage. I accept

4 Nov – We get an event!

Trading in Cocoa – We get +5% manpower recovery as long as we lead the world is cocoa production

[Abe Sargent]

16 Feb, 1499 – Attack in Huanuco!

It seems that someone has attacked and tried to assassinate the leader! But they retreated as soon as they got near It seems like someone is trying to smear the Guard. I order an investigation to begin

3 Mar – Our truce with Muisica ends…

I order an army to Cauca

1 April – Nobility have been encroaching into land in Cajamarca and slowly but surely trying to take it. I tell them to knock it off and return the land. We luckily avoid a rebellion

19 April – Plot Uncovered!

The investigation into the attack reveals an amateurish plot by a group of young nobles who felt marginalized from the guard. They claim the point was not to harm anyone, just to prove a political point. I have two real options:

1). Kill them by sending them to the Sankacancha Pit! Gain some stuff
2). Forgive them, lose 5 authority, and end the Alienated Nobility event that we have

I send them to die for their treason!

23 June – My army arrives in Cauca

I declare war against them and move in. The Arawak Tribe is their sole ally

8 Aug – I defeat the Muisca army in Bogota

25 Aug – I end their army in Neiva.

30 Sept – The Arawak army, 9000 strong, arrives in Neiva to protest our presence.

20 Oct – We win and then capture the province

19 Jan, 1500 – They retake Neiva


12 Feb – I take Tunja, a province north of bogota

13 June – I beat some troops in Tunja

26 June –I retake Neiva again

7 July – I defeat the main Arawak army again in Bogota

6 Aug – Bogota falls to us!

I get in peace:


326 gold
All three Muisca province sand annex them fully:


I order some cores!

I send Wankapampa to the nobility estates

[Abe Sargent]

4 Oct – Here let me show you a map of the area we just took:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/eu4_5_zpspkduxuyn.png



You can see the colony of Cauca where my 3k troops are that connect Esmeraldas with Neiva. We have the three provinces of Muisca now under our control, but we can’t see outside of it – it’s all unexplored fun time. We got a ton of authority with our events and are looking very special.

Here’s let’s look at these three additions. You are going to love them:


Neiva – The Muisca Inti people here work the mountains as farmers, with a developer of 13, and 9 unrest and 47.5 autonomy. 0.28 money right now. Meiva is inland and east of Cauca, and south of Bogota, and next to a lot of unclaimed land. It features a temple

Bogota – The former capital of the Muisca tribe, this mountainous region is known for its high quality cocoa. With a 14 development as well, the Inti people make 0.20 with 8.2 unrest and 49.7 autonomy. Bogota is between Neiva and Tunja

Tunja – The hills of Tunja are known for their salt. The Muisca and Inti people work 12 development, and have 10.8 unrest and an incredibly high 84.3% autonomy. It has a temple, and is north of Bogota. I cut the autonomy right now


And now I have a 64 authority


Very developed areas. Now I’m getting 3.1 authority annually

[Abe Sargent]

5 Dec – I have begun to discover nearby lands to my holdings. My guess is that soon enough I’ll see it all!

5 Jan, 1501 – The natives have gotten sick from a disease we carried there earlier. I send aid ot them and get better adjustments there.

1 Mar – One of our advisors passes. I hirer Pasac Quintraru as a diplomatic guy who gives us bonus trade efficiency

1 Oct – Our military advisor passes and I hire Yamqui Maya Illaquita who increases our land forcelimits by 10%

I order some more troops assembled

3 Dec – Revolt in Quito!

15 Dec – Defeated

21 Sept, 1502 – I get an event with a rush of merchant sand we’ll get more taxes for 5 years

4 May, 1503- Rebellion in Cuzco!

19 May – We win!

14 July – Neiva is now a core

I drop its autonomy

14 Nov – Bogota, Tunja are both cores too

I order autonomy cut in Bogota

4 Dec – We now embrace and accept the culture of Muisca!

I order the culture changed in Moyobamba

[Abe Sargent]

4 Mar, 1504 – Rebellion in Tunja!

29 Mar – Ended

8 April – I get an event – Declining Power of the Nobility – they lose 10 influence. Whew!


18 Aug - So how I;m bashing the rebels is simple. I get a message telling me that one group of Separatists is about to hit. I just one about the Ichman ones, in Lima. So I order an army to that location to defend. In this case ,I have 13,000 forces in Cuzco hat I send over

23 sept – I get an event _ The gOlden Era pof our Culture – gain some prestige


4 May, 1505 – Rebellion in Lima

15 May –Done


9 March, 1506 –

I get a call to arms

Charca, has declared war against Calchaqui. They’d like me to join. Cusco and Pacajes join Calchaqui.

I kind of want to decline. Our peace with Cusco ends in two years and I want ot blitz them. I don’t want to go to war with them and gain pretty much nothing since I’m not the war leader. Now I could say yes, grab some land, and then settle for a side thing,.

Okay, Im in.

I move to the border

[Abe Sargent]

24 April – I begin to hit Ayaviri, and my other army is moving down the Andes right now

1 June – Ayaviri is ours

3 July – My Quito army arrives the Cusco capital of Quero.

24 July – We take Puno from Cusco.

7 Aug – I begin to siege the capital of Pacajes Tiahuanaco

I need to take Puno from Cusco, which is not next to me, so I need Ayaviri, Puno, and then anything else I can get.

12 Dec – I get some native assimilation of 100 in Cauca

18 Jan, 1507 – I split 1000 troops off from a sieging army and took Maraya from Cusco

1 Feb – I take Quero, the capital

Huh. That was faster than I thought it’d be

I can’t get peace for just Ayaviri and Puno. Alright let’s keep pushing

4 March – We take Tuiahuanaco, the capital of Pacajes!

Surely that’s enough, right!

I personally have a 60% against them. I can get Ayaviri or Quero, but not two holdings. Alright, I;ma keep pushing

14 Mar – We take Chuquiabo – every holding of Cusco is ours

I get 265 gold, and my two targets

I send a diplomat out to get more claims


So I grabbed two provinces:

I order some cores.

I’ll grab a quick lil’ snapshot for you.

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/eu4_6_zpshyxnobt1.png


I have a ton of money, authority, power for growth and more.

Ayaviri – 0.14 cash, 5.6 unrest, 40% autonomy, mountains, woold, the Aimara Inti folk here are south of two Cusco holdings – Quer and Macaya, and it connects Puno tpo the east with our holdings in Cuzco and Abancay, 9 development

Puno – Aimara and Inti as well, with 6 development gold mines and a temple, 0.12 money, and east of Ayaviri and west of the capital of Pacajes. Why did I need this so much? You’ll see!

[Abe Sargent]

8 April – Moyobamba is now Quechua culture.

7 May – I agree to give Charca military access since I pulled out of their war

1 April, 1508 –I have 100 authority

Hmm…


Yana Lords:

By moving away from the hereditary local powerholders as commanders of our armies, we can instead promote a new clas of leaders chosen for their martial prowess. +10% morale of armies

12000 rebels in Tunja
13000 in Guayaquil
9000 in Huaraz


I boost stability

2 May – We win in Guayaquil

12 May – Tunja is captured

15 May – We rout the rebels in Tumbes. One army down

17 May – They capture Huaraz

26 June – I win in Huaraz

18 July – I hold up in Bogota for a but to rebuild my army and morale

8 Aug – We win in Lima

17 Aug – They came to us in Bogota and lost

25 Aug – We rou the army oin Huancavelica and that army is down.

29 Aug – We capture Huaraz

30 Aug – We take down the 3rd army and rout it.

6 September:


Our king has passed


His son,

<Mauci HHuyla is now the ruler
4/0/6

I move our focus to diplomatic research

I boost stability that dropped post-death

His heir is Yahuar Hacuac Huyla, 2 years old, and 2/2/1

Our research after shifting is now 8/7/10

19 Sept – Puno and Ayaviri are now cores!

1 Nov – We retake Tunja and that civil war is over


Okay, here we go, get ready..........

[Abe Sargent]

We now have the following provinces:

Puno – Core
Quito - Core
Cuzco – Core
Huancavelica – Core
Huanuco – Core
Chanchan – Core
Cajamarca – Core

Guess what?

We take on the holy mantle of the Incan Empire!



We get:

+25 prestige, which maxes it
-1 national unrest
-10% unjustified demands
+1 diplomats
-5 national fous cooldown


We become an Empire and all Andean cultures are now accepted. They are:

Quechua, Caran*, Chimuan, Caran, Muisca*, Aimara, Diaguita

Asterisk is for not Andean group, but still accepted

[Abe Sargent]

10 Nov – Our former ally, Charca, is no more. They were forced to turn over some land to Colla and is freed, and other was taken . Colla, a 2 province nation is now back on the map

I gain CBs on every Incan’s historical province, and they don’t end.

We gain new traditions and ambitions.

For example, I now have a forcelimit of 30, but I have just 29 regiments. I can ebb that up.


12 Dec – Another Mitmaq event occurs and I allow it

1 Januar, 1509 –

After a long time, our first colony is now self-sufficient:

Cauca – Colonies are no longer cores. Huh. I spend the 20 power it’ll take to do it. 4 development, coastal highlands with the coffee trade, Quechua and Inti people here, and 0.18 money made.

My next colonial target is inland of Cauca – Popayan. It’s next to Cauca, and also connects Quito with Neiva.

I finish my mission and we gain some taxes and get bonus development costs in Cauca

I just slide my 3000 troops over from Cauca to Popayan

5 January – We get an event:

Shrine of Viracocha

After having created the world and given each ethnic group their language and cloths, Viracocha travelled from lake Titicaca from the Andes disguised as an old man. Today the route is dotted with shrines commemorating his travels.

I build a temple, and we lose 100 ducats and we gain this for the rest of eternity – Shrine of Viracocha – Tolerance of the True Faith - +0.5


The only mission available is to form an alliance with Pacajes. Nope, not interested in any more hairy alliances. We are Inti. We are the Incan Empire. We are. We need none.

10 March – Cusco has declared war on Colla. Pacajes joins Cusco

1 Nov – New Tech!

Military 4 –

Pike Square – We get +0.25 military tactics and +0.5 land morale

2 Dec – Cauca is now a core.

26 Dec – Colla was annexed by Cusco, who is now back to 5 provinces

[Abe Sargent]

10 Jan, 1510 – I order some more troops built in the southern front

3 April – So here’s a look at tech right now:

As I mentioned before, we are at 8/7/10 for tech development. So take our best military. That’s 120 mil power annually. I need roughly 1400 to advance in tech (standard is 600). Roguhly every 12 years I should get a military tech advance, without any tech bonuses. And without spending any MIL power along the way.

I spend ADM power more than anything else for cores, stability, and more. So we can get DIP soon, we’re at 1260 right now and rising.

16 Nov – I get a good harvest event and I choose to invest it into ADM tech

1 February, 1511 – Our colony in Popayan is a salt province

18 Sept – Event

The Young Men and Women of Huancavelica

The priests of Huancavelica have become concerned about too many in the are being unmarried and they hard to have families agree to matches. The priests would like for us to forcibly arrange marriages, which has happened in the past.

I order the matching, I gain some authority, and the province gets +3 local unrest for 15 years

20 Sept – War breaks out in the south. Cusco declared war against Pacajes and their capital next to us. Calchaqui is on the side of Cusco.



5 July, 1512 – Event –

The Coastal Peoples

The coastal Chimu people re the carriers of one of the oldest cultures in the Andes. As their lands re now under our sway, we cannot help but marvel at their artisans and craftsmen. Their silversmiths, weavers and ceramicists are producing treasures such as we have never seen before.

I choose the option to push integration and the 5 provinces of Chimu gain 25% autonomy, and we get this event forever:

Integration of Chimu Customs - +10% stability cost, -5% Admin tech costs, -5% Dip tech costs

Tech cost reductions? Sign me up!

After the event, I do something awesome. I drop the autonomy in every province (except Chimbote, which I can’t do again until after next year).

30 July – Pacajes forces arrive in Quero and begin to lay siege ot Cusco

I send Pacajes some cash t help subsidize their war

3 Oct - In case anyone cares, our treaty with the Arawak ended

1 Nov – New Tech


Diplomatic Tech 5 –
Trade Range 20, TradeEffeciency +5%

8 Dec – The siege of Quero is lifted by the Cusco force

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1513 – Our trader advisor has passed. I hire…

Huayna Capac Inquill, level 1 advisor with Better Relations over time +20

So let’s discuss the Incan Empire for a bit


Starting in 1438, Cusco begins a campaign that will dominate and take over the region. It didn’t end taking over the region until 1533, when the last holdouts were forced in. It took about 100 years of real life time to get to own the whole region. The Incan Empire is the largest Empire in the pre-Colombian days in the Americas.

Now we still have lots to go, and while I took over in 1444, we started the first war in 1454 and begin our conquering. And while we wear the mantle of the Incan Empire, there are vast swatches of the south that are not under our control yet. Fully 14 Inti provinces are left in Cusco, Pacajes and Calchaqui. We need to bring those in, and I’d like to annex the adjacent tribal nations as well.

That’s my plan for Inca. So we’re fine and on track. But as you know, its 1513. I have no idea what’s happening anywhere else on the world. We could have colonies in Southern America in Brazil, central America, the Caribbean, who knows? I could be really close to seeing European ships in our waters. And I still have two more reforms I need to do (we are at 49 authority for the next one). Know what? I’m not looking it up either. I want this to be a total surprise. We’ve all seen campaigns where colonization is slowed down by war in Europe or other factors. So getting a chance to really build up could be in the works. I don’t know.

We’ll see. Europe will come.

We’re at 4 authority annually now


22 Mar – Native assimilation in Popayan increases our group’s holding

I know have discovered 9 provinces that are empty and surrounded our Muiscan additions

31 May – Decline of the merchant classes leads to -10 influence for the Merchants

29 Oct – I cut autonomy in Chimbote

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1514 – Get ready for something very rare for us


ADMIN Tech Increase:

Medieval Admin (3)

Increase of production efficiency by 5% and I can support rebels in other nations now

10 Mar – Pacajes is annexed into Cusco, who is now a 10 province power after we dropped them to 3.

Calchaqui and Cusco are no longer allied.

17 Mar – We are now in a RW with Calchaqui

1 May – I proclaim a guarantee for Calchaqui

1 June – I send a guarantee for Charrua as well, the small tribe south of Calchaqui. They are in the Incan sphere of influence

I order my 13k strong army in Bogota to relocate to the south

21 Nov – Disagreeing Advisor occurs. I agree, keep my military adviser, lose some prestige, and gain a ton of MIL power


Feb 15, 1515 – Another of the Chief Problems erupts, and I choose to slay him and I get some rebels and gained some authority

15 Mar – They capture Tunja

1 Apr – We arrive in Tunja and defeat the rebels

11 may – We retake Tunja

4 Sept – I get another arranged marriage event and I choose to arrgange marriage in Wankapampa, more authority results

1 Dec – We finish our mission to rebuild manpower! For ten years we’ll get reduced unrest and bonus taxes

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan 1516 – I cut autonomy in two more provinces and drive upo my authority again. It’s now 97


1 Sept – Who can get another reform? This guy can!


Reform the Bureaucracy

-10% core creation costs

Civil War:

10000 troops in Lima
11000 in Canari
14000 in Esmeraldas

12 Oct – Canari and Lima are taken

15 Oct – I win a minor skirmish in Esmeraldas

13 Nov – We win in Lima

30 Nov – We rout and finish the first army in Jauja

2 Dec – I win another skirmish in Guayaquil

25 Jan, 1517 – Tumbes falls to them

11 Feb – We win a battle in the middle against army 2

4 Mar, 1517 – Truces with Cusco and Calchaqui end…

12 April – I win in Tumbes

27 April – We retake Lima

4 May – We rout an army in Piwra

15 May – We rout an army in Cajamarca

22 May – I retake Canari

Civil war ended

I move troops to the battlefront.

[Abe Sargent]

213 Aug – I take a mission to conquer Macaya

I lost around 6000 manpower after the civil war.

I hire a nice general, 2 fire, 2 shock, 4 width

13 Dec -Another nice event follows:


The Huacas and the Royal Temple


With the growth of the realm it has come to encompass many chiefdoms and has various Huacas, local idols, being worshipped. We could bring in all of these idols into our central worship in Huanuco. Wht do I do?


I chose to move them. We lose 10 legitimacy, 1 stability ( I spend ADM to build it back up) and this event permanently:

Huacas - -1 National Unrest

1 Jan, 1518 – I declare war on Cusco. They have no allies. They absorbed them all

My goal is to hit the Cusco nation so hard it forgets its birthday

25 Jan – I defeat their main army in their capital of Quero after I combined tow armies to hit I had

24 Feb-We take Macaya

6 Mar - I win in Ayaviri against their army

19 April – Another holding falls to me

24 May – I defeat their army again

6 Sept – We take another Cusco holding

1 Nov – Another falls. They have cavalry so getting to catch them is harder.

27 Dec – Another province falls

1 Feb, 1519 – Another falls

11 Feb – We capture their capital

Now I can move that force over and hope to get a pincer on their army

13 feb – I find a suitable wife for my son, his sister, and I gain authority to support it


11 Mar – Their final provinces falls to us. We have a 100% victory, but I want to rout and end their chances and hopes of a comeback

30 Mar - @While I encircle them, they recapture a province

4 June – We beat them!

7 June – I get a peace offer – They give me 6 provinces. Nope.

15 June – I rout their army

16 July – We retake the final province

We annex all of Cusco!

[Abe Sargent]

We get 34 aggressive expansion badboy, but it’s not like it matters out here. We gain prestige and manpower recover speed from the mission.

We just added:

Quero
Macaya
Chuquiabo
Charcas
Tiahuanaco
Oruro
Potosi
Quillacas
Chichas
Choquechaca

10 provinces in one war. Good bye Cusco!


I don’t have enough ADM power to core them all, so instead I’ll core just – Macaya, (some of these are cheap – Quero is just 29 for example), Quero, Tiahuanaco, Oruro, Quillacas, Chichas, and Choquechaca


Map of the area taken!

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I zoomed in to give you a nice view of all of the provinces You can see Quero on the upper-,leftish to Chichas, Potosi and Choquechaca that border Calchaqui.




Our next mission is to reduce overextension.

[Abe Sargent]

Here we go, get ready:

All provinces are Inti and Aimara unless otherwise mentioned. Remember we have claims on all of this stuff, taking it in war is easy time. They also all have 40% Autonomy and 8% unrest unless otherwise mentioned.


We’re doing the back line first. The map is basically two provinces long most of the way, so one line in front, and one in back.


Quero – Quechua tropical jungle with 4 development. It’s right by our earlier additions of Cuzco, Ayaviri. West of Macaya. Wool is made here, has a temple , 0.10 money made

Macaya – 7 development, mountainous, both temple and barracks, grain, 0.21 money, west of Choquiabo, north of us in Puno and Ayaviri, east of Quero.

Chuquiabo – 8 develop, mountains, cloth is produced, marketplace and temple, 0.29 money, west of Charcas, north of Puno and Tiahuanaco, east of Macaya.

Charcas – Mountains, temple, 0.17 money, 52% autonomy, wool, 6 development, west of Choquechaca, east of Chuquiabo, and north of Oruro and Tiahuanuco

Choquechaca – Mountains, gold mines, temple, 0.11 money, just 5.9 unrest but 62 autonomy, on border with Calchaqui’s Sucre, 5 development, east of Charchas, north of Potosi and Oruro

Now we are heading back and doing the second front strip of land:

Tiahuanaco – Mountains, temple, 55% autonomy, 9 development, grain, 0.21 cash, east of Puno, west of Oruro, south of both Chuquiabo and Charcas

Oruro – 65.#% autonomy, 12.9% unrest, marketplace, copper mines, 5 development, 0.06 cash made, mountains, west of Potosi and Quillacas, east of Tiahuanuco, south of Charcas and Choquechaca

Potosi – gold mountains, 10 development, 0.35 mony made, 75% autonomy, 13% unrest, south of Choquechaca, north ofg Chichas, east of Quaillcacas, Oruro. On the border with Calchaqui’s Sucre

Quillacas – A little rump province south of the two strips, south of Potosi, Oruro, highlands, gold, temple, 5 development, 0.10 cash, 65% auto, 10.% unrest

Chichas –On the border with Calchaqui’s Sucre, Tarija and Santa Catalina provinces. Also next to Potosi and Quillacas. Mountains, 5 dev, 0.10 cash, 65% auto, 12.9% unrest, salt, temple.


And there we go. Whew!

One of my main armies will be in Chachas prepping for the next war.

I drop autonomy on all ten of those provinces and jack up my authority by 50!


Yeah we did!

[Abe Sargent]

Now we need to have The Potosi talk, Potosi is a miraculous province for a few reasons. The city of Potosi is very high up in the Andes. It’s one of the highest cities in the world by elevation (13540 feet). It’s up there. (Welcome to the Andes) .

Potosi is built by a mountain called the Cerro Rico, rich mountain. It’s rich. The mountain was rumored to be literally made of silver. It’s one the deepest, richest, silver mines in the world. In history. It was the major mine that funded the various Spanish treasure fleets and such. In fact, for decades, the Cerro Rico alone amounted for about 20% of silver production in the world.

In fact, the province of Potosi in EU4 has a bonus, Cerro Rico, the increases its production considerably. You can fund anything you need from it.

(Potosi became a common phrase in Spain and was mentioned in Don Quixote)

Check our Potosi on Wikipedia:

PotosÃ* - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potos%C3%AD)

As it states:

“Located in the Bolivian Tin Belt, Cerro Rico de Potosi is the world's largest silver deposit and has been mined since the sixteenth century, producing up to 60,000 tonnes by 1996, and estimates are that much silver still remains. Potosi became the second largest city, and the site of the first mint, in the Americas”

And now we have Potosi.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Oct – I revoke my guarantees

1 Feb, 1520 – Popayan is now a full fledged city


Popayan – Mountainous salt region with 5 development, 0.26 money, inland and east of Cauca, south of Neiva, and north of both Quito and Esmeraldas

Next target -

Cartagena – West of Tunja – the best province I can see.

Or somewhere like Camana or Arequipa on the coast and south of Ayatiri, Puno and such. They have 5 development.

I do:

Arica – 5 developemtn, coastal desert, south and west-ish of Tiahuanaco, Oruro

4 Oct – I order cores for:

Potosi
Charcas

31 Oct- These are now cores – Oruro, Quero, Tiahuanaco, Chichas, Choquechaca, Quillacas, Macaya

1 Jan, 1521 –Core ordered for Chuquiabo

28 Feb – We get native assimilation in Arica

10 Sept - I order some new tech!

Military 5 -

Better combat width, better infantry/.cavalry shock

We can build:

Incan Axemen
Incan Slingshots
South American Forest Warriors
Reformed Mountain Warriors


We’re moving my military to slingers


15 Sept – I order a core for Popayan

[Abe Sargent]

11 Jan, 1522 – Cores completed for Potosi and charcas

15 Mar – Done for Popayan

9 April – Core s all done.

I finish my mission and get +1 diplomatic rep for ten years

Turn Arica into a city!

7 Aug, Native assimilation in Arica

14 Aug –I get a prospering times. I invest in infrastructure in Chuquiabo and it gets +1 base tax and I make some Admin power

4 Oct – Rebellion in Chuquiabo

6 Nov - Ended

24 Nov – The Emperor has fallen ill. I give ruling to the nobles their loyalty increases and taxes decrease

2 Mar, 1523 – The natives tried to rise up and hit Arica, but our 3000 bodyguard troops fended off the attack

4 April – Rebellion in Potosi

11 April – Ended

10 May – 200 settlers have arrived and decided to settle Arequippa!


Arequippa is coastal, next to Arica, south of two of our lands as well.

1 June – Gold in Arica!

3 Nov – Revolt in Quero

21 Nov – Done

1 Jan, 1524 -0 One of our advisers passes. I hire – Tupac Amaru Challco, a level 2 advisor in ADM to increase our value there. I have the cash to do it

2 Nov – I declare war aganst the Chalcaqui

26 Nov – I choose to invest a good harvest into ADM power

24 Dec – Sucre is ours

26 Dec – I win in their capital of Jujuy


21 Jan, 1525 – I capture Tarija

5 Feb – We rout their army in Santa Catalina

1 Mar -- Our army organizer passes. I hire level 1 reinforce speed guy Huaypalcon Quintiruara

17 Mar – Santa Catalina is ours

26 October – The capital city of Jujuy is ours

I take 174 cash and all four nations of theirs

I order cores for all four provinces. It took 156 total powe

[Abe Sargent]

Screenshot:

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Here we are post war, with our four additions. Two major things of note. First ,check out the 9000 troops next to us in Tucuman province – that’s the Charrua tribe. I do have an Incan claim on them. You’ll also see our mega-high authority and we are gaining 5.5 annually so we’ll be playing that game again soon.

Also note that you can see all four of these:

Sucre – Mountains, Aimara, Inti, cloth, 0.3 made, 3.5% unrest, 40% autonomy, 10 development, east of our holdings of Potosi, Chichas and Choquechaca, and north of Tarija

Tarija – Not mountains or highlands but….grasslands! Wool, 6 dev, 0.16 cash made, 3.5% unrest, Inti, Aimara, south of Sucre, North of both Santa Catalina and Jujuy, and east of Chichas

Santa Catalina – These mountains 3 dev, shepherds make 0.06 are of Diaguita descent, and serve Inti, the great Sun God. 3.5 and 40% here too. Sotuh of Chichas and Tarija, and west of Jujuy


Jujuy – The former capital is north of the Charrua tribe, and south or east or both of Tarija and Santa Catalina. Mountains, Diaguita, 8 development, 012 money, wool, and 0% unrest. (Troops present)

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1526 – I’m beginning to find the previously undiscovered territory next to my new additions in Calchaqui

1 Mar _ I can now pass another reform but I am shifting my armies around to the center and north just in case they hit places up north

4 April – revolt in Tiahuanaco

16 April – Done

22 May – Let’s do it

Reform the Cult of Inti

While Inti, the sun, is the foremost of all of the gods of the Andes, the people also worship other Huacas. We must require all to acknowledge Inti as the main god, and the other idols turned in.

Yearly Legitimacy +0.5

14000 in Cuzco
13000 in Puno
9000 in Tucume

I have 12k in Canari I order to Tucume

I re organize my forces in th south

7 June – I knock the army out of Puno

23 June – Tucume falls

14 July – We win in Tucume

19 July – Tiahuanaco falls

25 July – Rebel army in the north is routed in Cajamarca

3 Aug – Tucume ours again

30 Aug – We win in Tiahuanaco

14 Sept – Army routed in Arica

8 Oct – Tiahuanaco is back to ours

Gold in Arequippa as well

2 Nov – I gain some DIP Power from investment chosen post-good year

8 Dec –I lose in Cuzco

11 Jan, 1527 – We win in Cuzco with a backup army

28 Jan – We rout the rebels in Ayaviri

1 Feb – Our 4 captured provinces are now all cores!

4 Aug – Now that I won’t be spending a lot of ADM moving forward, I change my national focus to admin again

[Abe Sargent]

28 Jan, 1528 – Natives joins the colony in Arequipa

29 May – We get a construction of a temple event for Chimbote. I fund it.

`15 June – Nobility lose 10 influence

We are currently making 1.56 gold monthly

30 Sept – I’m bored. I declare war on Charrua, Mapuche joins them

31 Oct – I beat their main army

30 Jan, 1529 – I rout the Cahrrua army in San Juan, the capital of Mapuche

The furthest south the Incan Empire expanded was to the Maule River. (Tucuman) but I have these claims on the tribes below us as inca, and they are in the Andes. The highest mountain in the world outside of Asia is south of Tucuman


17 Oct – Tucuman falls to us

17 Jan, 1530 – We take San Juan

We get:

Tucuman province - force religion to Inti
Mapuche is now our vassal


Tucuman – 11 development, Inti, Charruan, 0.16 money, 2.6% unrest but no autonomy, I order up a core, coffee is the trade good, mountainous, south of Santa Catalina and Jujuy. Soth of it is some unclaimed land, and then Guarani in La Rioja and our vassal Mapuche in San Juan


I begin to make good with Mapuche

6 Mar – I catch priests inciting unrest in Bogota. I slay the priests, rebellion in Bogota, and I gain 10 authority.

4 April – Rebellion ended. Tunja is the biggest province with revolt risk right now, so I had an army here just in case it got uppity laters

1 Sept – Arica is now a full colony! We finish the mission and gained some good stuff there. I order up a core for it.

Arica – Dev 6, coastal desert, gold, 0.29 made from it. Sotuh of Tiahuanaco and westish of Oruro. It’s also east along the coast of fellow colony Arequipa.


Next target?

It might be time for me to hit up the other side of South America in order to get to where the Europeans might be. I can’t upgrade my religion, or westernize, until I’m cored and next to one of their cores.

But I certainly don’t see any on the west coast of S America.

Hmm… There are the ones next to Tunja that I can do that are also on the border/coast and put Inca on the map:

Cartegena, Magdalena, Maracaibo,

Of those, Cartagena is the best,m but it’s tropical, so it would take longer to do. I send some colonists thought to grab it

Before I do that, I need a strategic target. Catamarca. South of Tucuman and next to Guarani’s La Rioja. I’ll send my colonist there to set up camp, and then pull it bck and set up shop in Cartagena permanently

I am swapping to a new native policy – Native Repression. It increases the frequency of the raids, but also increases global settler increase

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1531 – Huh. I have gained a force relocation CB against the Guarani tribe.

They stay in play, and I take their land, but then they head out somewhere else? Awesome!

3 Jan – I have a rebellion in Ayaviri, right where I have an army.

12 Jan -0ver

1 April – We set up shop in Cartagena. Arica is now a core

I can see a Scottish fleet in the Gulf of Darien. 3 ships That’s odd.

I don’t think anyone would have taken Scotland in the “First European You’ll See pool”

29 Sept – I get an event for growth in Huancavelica

1 Dec – Natives get uptight in Catamarca, but I have 11000 troops there, so that’s not happenig

25 Dec – Alright I want to take this CB for a spin. I declare a force relocation war against the Guarani

We are at war with 4 tribes. Carib, Tupinama and Tapuia – don’t know where they are.

29 Jan, 1532 – I defeat their army in the capital of La Rioja

21 June – Tucuman is now a core

1 Sept They moved their army behind our lines and I’m chasing it with another army

4 Dec – I spend some inflation in an vent to spend and invest in ADM infrastructure and gained power

20 Dec – I defeat them in Cuzco

20 Jan, 1533 – Another defeat in Ayaviri

4 Feb – I capture La Rioja

16 Feb – I win in Puno

I can’t get the land, I can just force them off. I don’t want that so I force them to change their religion and I get 144 gold

I can see the enemies we fought against.

[Abe Sargent]

1 March, 1534 – I am high in three techs, but ready for one:

Military 6 –

Arquebus – Tactics Fire, Shock, Width are all good, we can finally build cavalry and barracks (Must have had horses spread down here)


8 July – We defeat natives in Arequipa

14 Sept – We defeat them in Catamarca as well

1 Dec – Next tech:


Admin 4 – Temples – Can build them

And the next ADM tech gets me our first National Idea. That’s long overdue

1 Jan, 1535 – I order a Temple in Quito

22 May – I chose a national decision –

Encourage Divination - -1 National Unrest, and +5% stability cost

28 June – Disease strikes Cartagena

25 November – Our chief has died!

Stability drops

His son:

Yahuar Hacuac Huyla, 2/2/1
29

Takes over. Meh.


Our new prince

Huayna Capac, 2/2/1



I get an event to revert the guard, and get a free increase of stability and I revert them to the nobility


With his death, I get a Pancaca, funereal rites, and such. We can Mummify him, forget him, or elevate him to godhood. We mummify him and he takes his place over everyone and our authority increases 10,m and we spent some cash

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1536 – I take a mission to rebuild manpower

6 Mar – Revolt in Potosi

2 Apr – Ended

10 July – Native assimilation in Arequipa

2 Sept – We lose a military advisor. I hire level 1 ,manpower modifier Luyes Illaquitta

1 Jan, 1537 TECH

Dip Tech 6 – Shipyard. We can build them

1 Feb – I order a Temple in Bogota

22 June – Assimilation in Arequipa


1 Oct – Arequipa is now a full fledged province!


Arequipa – 5 devl, 0.21 money made, gold mines, coastal desert, I ordered a core, west of Arica, and south of Puno and Tiahuanaco


I’m going to skip and not bother with any native uprisings from here because I have two or three each year but I have armies in all of my provinces.

13 May, 1538 – Core in Arequipa

1 July – Event gives me +1 tax in Jauja

14 Dec – After failures to deal with ordinances there and non-enforcement, autonomy increases in Neiva

[Abe Sargent]

23 April, 1539 – Event

Oracles And Divinations

We head to the Oracle of Pachacamac and get good news nsand goodprestige

Oh and I order a temple in Lima. Duh

1 June – Our general died

1 July –Treaty with our vassal the Mapuche ends

11 Dec – I finish our mission to rebuild our manpower reserve

1 Jan, 1540 – With the 3rd colony now gone, I’m making around 5.5 gold monthly

8 Feb – Truces expired

I declare war on Guarani for their province this time, not that dorky move one

7 Mar – I defeat their force

20 Mar – I rout their army in Catamarca

1 June – I order a Temple in Cuzco

30 July – Tapuia forces (17000) arrive in Sucre and are marching inland

28 Sept – I defeat them in Puno with a middle army


I make my son and heir a general and send them out.

Level 2 general actually so that’s nice

10 Nov – We capture La Rioja

They won’ take my peace offer. Gotta push more

30 Dec – We defeat them in Cuzco

24 Jan, 1541 – I get a cruelty of the army event. I lose 5 prestige

27 Jan – We win in Ayaviri

We take them

We also get some cash

La Rioja – Core ordered, mountain, 40% autonomy, 0 unrest, 0.07 money sent, 6 development, coffee grown here, we get a holding between our vassal (Mapuche in San Juan) and our colony in Catamarca/. Guarani culture, Inti religion.

[Abe Sargent]

Here, zoomed in map for you


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You can see the end of our Inti excursion in Jujuy and then the adventures of Tucuman, Catamarca the colony, La Rioja and finally San Juan at the bottom. Note the 100 authority and high ADM power.

I take a mission to city-tize Cartagena

[Abe Sargent]

2 Sept – Temple ordered for Chanchan

1 Apr, 1542 – Assimilation in Cartagena

3 June – Cartagena is now a full colony. We finish our mission. Sigh. I order a core


Cartagena – 9 development, tropical jungle, coast, Important Natural Harbor gives it bonus development, trade power and naval force limits. 0.39 to us. The people here work the sweet sweet sugar trade. West of Tunja, and around many unclaimed lands.

Next target should be up here as well.


Nearby stuff is tough. Take Magdalena, on the coast. Tropical, 3 development,. Maracaibo – next to and coastal of Tunja? Grasslands, coastal, 5 dev, tropical. I guess we can do that. I send colonists to Maracaibo


17 Dec – We sell some titles

I order a Temple in Sucre, Jujuy, Tucuman

20 Jan, 1543 – I hand Quero to the Clergy Estates

14 Feb – Cartagena is now a core

29 June – Rebellion in Cauca sparked by me denying nobility encroachment

4 July – La Rioja is now a core

15 July – We lose.


26 July – Cauca falls

15 Sept – We defeat their army in Cauca

8 Oct – Cauca back in our hands

1 Jan, 1544 – Temple ordered for Potosi

1 Oct – Temple in Ayaviri

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1544 – 100 Year Review:


MAPS!

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Here’s a zoomed out map for you

You can Inca, and a few tribes in the South American area. I still have no idea where, if anywhere, there could be European colonies.



Note our very high manpower, ADM power, stability, legitimacy, and such

We have a forcelimit of 46 and 44 regiments.

We have one subject – Mapuche

Estates:

Clergy have 40 loyalty and 51 influence,

Merchants have 70 and 21

Nobility have 61 and 45

And we get bonuses for high loyalty.

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger –

We are ranked 71st in the world


Top ten provinces by taxes:


Quito
Jujuy
Cuzco
Bogota
Chanchan
Neiva
Tunja
Canari
Chuquiabo
Tiahuanaco


By Production:


Potosi (Dang – 15.20 right now!)
Bogota
Cuzco
Quito
Chanchan
Cajamarca
Tunja
Chuquaibo
Cartagena
Arica


Two colonies in there.

We have 49 holdings and 2 colonies in Catamarca and Maracaibo


We have around 2% inflation


We have a ton of accepted cultures due to our Empire status

Trade Goods Current Value

4.5 – Copper

4.0 – Dyes
Silk
Cocoa
Ivory

3.6 – Cloth

3.0 – Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Iron
Salt

2.5 – Wine

2.25 – Fish

2.0 –Tea
Tropical Wood
Slaves
Fur
Grain
Wool
Naval Supplies

(Gold)


We make more X in the world that anyone else:

Gold -20%
Cocoa – 37%

[Abe Sargent]

1 May, 1545 – We get Native Assimilation in Catamarca

1 Oct – Catamarca


Since it takes just 16 ADM I’ll upgrade it to a core right now:


Catamarca – Mountains, wool, 5 development, connects La Rioja and Tucuman, and 0.16 money made from it

With that colony done, I’m now making an epic ton of cash – 12 gold a month

1 Jan, 1546 – I order my settlers in Maracaibo to recall so I can establish another colony, and then I’ll head back and help out.

I want to start cutting off the coast a bit down south.


I send colonists to Copiapo – Coastal Desert west of Larioja and Catamarca

15 April – I order a Temple for Huanuco

4 May – Catamarca is now a core

1 June – I get 200 free colonists in Puna de Atacama, which is east of Santa Catalina, Tucuman, Chichas and north of Catamaran, and west and inland of Copiapo. I send in some troops to help keep folks safe from the 500 natives there

1 Oct – Native assimilation in Maracaibo

1 Nov – Maracaibo is going to be a coffee producing colony.

23 Dec – We sell some more titles!

I order Temples in…

Arica
Cartagena

[Abe Sargent]

26 Feb, 1547 – I arrange some more marriages

1 May – Truces with the remaining tribes end

14 Oct – I force Mapuche to change their religion

Now that we are the same faith, I begin to annex them

13 June, 1548 – Hold onto your butts

Admin Tech 5 – Group of Ideas, +5% production

What do we choose?

Exploration Ideas? Get my first level right now, and crack another colonist. We can get Quest for the New World soon there after.Help me find-ish folks (just by land though)

Yeah, as I look at other stuff, it has to be Exploration Ideas


I spend 360 Dip to unlock Colonial Ventures. We get another colonist

I spend another 360 for Quest for the New World (I thought Ideas were 400 each? Did I get a bonus somewhere and forget? I didn’t think I could unlock two already!)


I can now recruit explorers and conquistadors!

I spend 50 mil to recruit a Conquistador!

Meet Quispe Titu Quilaco! I Give him at the head of the 4000 troops in Maracaibo and we’ll start by checking out places here, and then head east along the northern coast of the continent.

I order 2000 cavalry assembled to help out


I don’t have the cash to fund …wait…what happened there? Why am I now making 5.5 gold again? Is the 5% production bonus that big of a sweep? Ah yes, gold. Gold is production. So yes, I do have the cash.

I’m eyeing a few places. The best colony by development prospects is Antioquia, inland and between Cartagena and Tunja, with a 7 development potential. But why don’t I hold off until I’ve found a few places with the Conquistador that may be on the coast or in better places?

[Abe Sargent]

4 July – I support a young high quality clergy leader over the establishment and I Lose some prestige but gain loyalty.

I’m going to skip all of my discoveries and only tell you if I find something interesting (people, good lands for colony, etc)


2 Aug – We have finished annexation of Mapuche

San Juan – Mountains, 4 dev, south og La Rioja, Animist and Mapuche culture, I send a missionary, already a cor,e 0.07 money, 60% autonomy, coffee made here. They gave us 2000 troops as well.

22 Aug – east of Maracaibo is Altagracia, a coastal, mountainous, tropical., 7 development land.

3 Oct – I see Portuguese Ships in the Venezuelan Gulf

27 Feb, 1549 – Why hello France. France is building a colony in the Orinoco Delta about four provinces down the coast from Maracaibo. I’m going to try to go inland and around Frnace ot keep exploring

10 May – I take a Convert San Juan to Inti mission

9 Dec – We have a year of exploring under our chest. I wanted to show you what I found thus far. It’s pretty open. There’s just the one French colony. But the closer I move to the tp, the more likely I am to find Europeans since the colonial range is reduced

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/eu4_13_zpsecgidmew.png

[Abe Sargent]

19 July, 1550 – We find a Scottish province in Parnaiba. Fully built.

26 July – Four of my provinces get outbreaks of smallpox

14 Aug – The leader, Yahuar dies of smallpox:

Here I’ll show you the awesome/sucky event!


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As you can see, we have a dead leader, and we have one of two heirs dead as well from disease.

Which side are we going to support in the war?

Both have good-ish leaders (Athualpa is 1/5/5 and Huascar is 5/3/4). Huascar is harder though. That event has 7 separate pretender armies that rise up vs the 5 for Atahualpa

I choose Huascar

We lose 40 legitimacy, 2 stability and we get:

10000 in Chicha
6000 in these: Puna de Atacama; Santa Catalina; Quillacas; Tarija; Potosi, and Sucre

Huascar is 20

The good news is that most of these are happening in the same region. Where I have troops waiting. I order my armies up and my 15k army in Ayaviri down

(This is exactly what happened in Inca before Spain took it down. Disease took down the majors, and the nation was warring in Civil War)

16 Sept – Tarija falls. Many others are going to as well,obviously

Sept 29 – I win in Catamarca after one left Puna.

1 Oct – I drive awa an arm in Santa Catalina

3 Nov – I win in Quillacas

7 Nov – Win in Tucoman

8 Nov - _ I grba back Santa

12 Nov – Win in La Rioja

20 Nov – I get an event about the new Huascar who’s not following a lot of traditions. I choose to placate the nobles and the stability rises


22 Nov – Army destroyed in Catamarca

26 Nov – Army destroyed in Oruro

15 Dec – New Heir to the throne – Tupac Yupanui, 5/3/3

1 Feb, 1551 – Three more provinces have fallen

15 Mar – I defeat an amry compelted in Charchas and its destroyed

30 June – All rebels defeated

13 July – I am offered a chance to set up a penal colony in Copiapo. I set it up

1 Aug – Native Assimilation in Maracaibo

21 Oct – The final province, Quillacas is ours again. Civil War is over


I get an event to end the war, and I choose to be conciliatory and gain another stability, at the cost of prestige

[Abe Sargent]

2 Feb, 1552 – San Juan converts, and we get a Wave of Devotion from our mission

1 July – Maracaibo is self-sustaining.

I order colonists next door to Altagracia

Maracaibo – 5, grasslands, tropical, 0.22 money, coffee, coastal,


I’m going to start bring my Conquistador back to basecamp

2 Sept – Another outbreak of smallpox hits

1 Oct – I take turning Copiapo into a city as our next mission

24 Dec – Improvements in production Tech are here. We gain some ADM power


1 Jan, 1553 – Here’s a nice update for you:


You can see we’ve gone around the horn and are now coming back in the south. Only France and Scotland are here. France is now in the province of Cumana, just two down from us in Altagracia. It looks like France is going to be our good buddy here. I send a diplomat to make nice



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[Abe Sargent]

3 Mar, 1553 – Maracaibo is now a core

1 June – I have a Portuguese Fleet sailing off the coast of Arica, Peru and others

10 July – We get an event for a large levee. And we get a 25 year effect for prestige and advisors and growth of nobility loyalty

1 July, 1554 – I spend some DIP to get +50% colonial range with the 3rd ide ain the Exploration Ideas group. We also unlock Machu Picchu in our own personal line and get +1 prestige a year

1 Aug – We get bonuses for having a lot of coffee and get +10% fort defense

26 Nov – I get an event about native suffering and exploitation in Altagracia. I choose ot spend a spot of cash to aid them

25 Dec – I get a good harvest event and place the money in our ADM power

12 Apri, 1555 – Native assimilation in Puna de Atacama

10 May – I found some folks in Mesoamerica. I’ll leave them be for now

27 Sept – Native Assimilation in Altagracia

[Abe Sargent]

1 June, 1556 –

Puna de Atacama – Grain, mountains, Core ordered, 3 development, 0.05 money, this former colony was between 5 of our holdings. I send the colonists here to:

Coquimbo – On the coast, south of colony Copiapo, west of San juan

Most of South America is pretty untainted by Europe right now. I’ll show you:



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You can see the [places we have explored, the tribes we have found, the small French holdings, and the token Scottish one. You can see Central America’s borders as well. Also note the cash we’re holding onto, and the high ADM and MIL I have, getting ready for the next techs. We’re saving onto the money because the next tech brings in….Workshops!

28 Dec – We have a feud with noble families. I choose to let them fight it out and get 25% autonomy in Wankapampa, rather than get a revolt or drop or stability


21 Jan, 1557 – Puna fe Atacama is now a core part of the patrimony yof the Incan Empire

1 May – One of our military advisers passes. I hire level 1 Pomaguala Ninancoro, a reformer speed +33% guy


1 July – Admin Tech 6 – Workshop, We can build them

For example, France’s tech is 12/12/13

We are at 6/6/6. Barely better than the native tribes – they are at 554, 445, 355, 556 and then we have 656 and 676 in Mesoamerica

So we are right on target with everyone else, despite me throwing a bunch of cash at the problem with advisers and such

I order Workshops for:

Quito
Cauca
Bogota
Tucuman




(No workshops in gold provinces)

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1558 – TECH GAIN – Mil 7 We get better tactics, artillery fire, shock, and we can build cannon!

16 Mar – I order a culture change to Quechua for San Juan

26 April – I order the same for Chachapoyas

24 May – I catch another wave of European Diseases in our shores

15 July – Declining power of the nobility happens and they lose 10 influence

1 Sept – Workshop ordered for Tunja

29 Dec – Military divided event. I choose +10% siege ability for a decade
1 Jan, 1559 – Cumana is now a full French province. I was hoping to see more in Caracas but they didn’t launch.

1 June – Smallpox ends Whew

1 July – Exploration Idea #4 – We get +20% settler growth

1 Sept – Workshop ordered for Chuquiabo

12 Dec – Event re: Chief conspiring against the Emperor. Rebellion in Pisqupampa after I reject him

21 Dec – We open up a new settlement in Altagracia.

6 Jan, 1560 – More smallpox breaks out

1 Feb – Pisqu falls

30 Mar – Rebels defeated

5 May – Pisqu retaken

4 Sept – Workshop in Cajamarca

29 Oct – Chachapoyas is now Quechua

21 Dec – Merchant defects event

[Abe Sargent]

19 July, 1561 – San Juan now Quechua

1 Aug –


Altagracia – Coffee, 8 development, mountain, coastal, 0.4 made here, core ordered, east of Maracaibo.

I order colonists east along the coast in Coro, which is not a great place, simply a route to France

1 Oct – Workshop for La Rioja

4 April, 1562 – Altagracia is now a core

3 May – Caran is no longer an accepted culture

16 July – Austria is at war with France, and took French holdings. Meanwhile France has expanded two colonies to the east of their holdings (you should have come west to us!)


7 Nov – Native assimilation in Coro

Workshop ordered for San Juan

21 July, 1563 – Wavering loyality of merchant guilds and they drop 10

1 Aug – Workshop in Sucre

1 Sept –


Copiapo – 5 development, fish, coastal desert, west and on the coast of Catamarca, La Rioja, Sanjuan and Puna de Atacama. North of Coquinho

I order another colony in Antioquia – the best land I’ve found – 7 development, but it’s inland of Cartagena, Tunja, but nice.

7 Dec – I give the clergy Puna de…

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1564 – New Idea – Viceroys (+20%) global tariffs

4 Jan – I invest some good crop harvest in admin power

16 Mar – I arrange marriages in Abencay

6 Apr – Copiapo is a core

1 Sept – Workshop ordered for Tucume

25 Jan, 1565 – Whew! As of today, I have finished exploring every single land province in South America. Here we go!



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This map shows the four French provinces captured by Austria. We are doing well from every angle. We’ll get another tech gain soon.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Sept – Workshop for Cartagena

7 Jan, 1566 – Event – Army morale drops -10% for a decade after using bad ore used in weapons


15 Feb -= Another smallpox outbreak.


3 April –

Coquimbo – Salt, 4 development, coastal, mountains, south of Copiapo and west of San Juan. 0.09 made here. I ordered it for this reason…

I order settlers to Pincumapu, a natural harbor south of Coquimbo.

1 May – We lose an adviser

I hire level 2 adviser (for ADM) Taraque Maras fp +2% Missionary Strength

10 Nov -0 Coquimbo is now a core

2 Dec – Muisca is no longer an accepted culture

1 May, 1567 – Workshop in Maracaibo

1 Sept – Another for Altagracia

[Abe Sargent]

9 Jan, 1568 -I execute a dishonest bailiff and lose 10 prestige

1 Feb – New ADM Tech – Get ready – Noble Republic is allowed if you like and……new group of ideas!

We are in a strong place with Exploration - two more until completion. Now I cannot do another Diplomatic idea, the next needs to be Military or Admin.

One obvious place is Expansion. Grab it, and then use it to give me a 3rd colonist soon. We will begin to blaze through these colonies. But I don’t know how well I’ll handle that many colonies when I’m going through westernization and religion reform. Too much money.

Quanity Ideas – Military. I select it, and then I take

Levee en Masee - +50 manpower
We get -10% Deveopment Costs from our Inca idea that’s unlocked

And then spend more MIL to get

The Young can Serve +20% manpower recovery speed


24 June – Colonist Rush event

I want to use this event well (next ten years, +20% growth). I pull back my settlers in Picunmapu and send one to Mérida, mountains and tropical and inland and between Tunja, Maracaibo and Altagracia

1 Nov – Event – We consult the Oracle of Pachacamac

Favorable answer ensues

1 Jan, 1569 – Idea – Free Colonists - +1 colonist

I send this new colonist to help finish off Antioquia. I don’t have the cash for a 5th colony, I’m losing a bit on 4.

2 March –


Coro – 3 development, coastal grassland, east of Alltagracia, naval supplies are grabbed here, 0.07 made, core ordered. Tropical too


I order these settlers to Caracas, next to Cumana and France

The money I’ll make for these few months of 3 colonies pays for the loss and then some.

18 May – Assimilation in Merida


4 Nov – Coro is a Core-o

Wait…why am I making money with 4 colonies now after established Caracas? Is it cheaper to set up some colonies than others?

10 Nov – I send folks to start a colony from Antioquia to Camana. Camana is on the coast in our central area, south of Abancay, Ayaviri, and Puno, and west and up coast from Arequipa

[Abe Sargent]

10 Jan, 1570 – I maximize relations with France

1 Mar – Our great Conquistador who scouted an entire continent passes. Long may his shine over the Incan Empire!

8 July – I have another festival of the Sun event. We gain some prestige

3 Dec – Scotland has started a colony next to their one province on the far corner of Brazil.

11 Dec – Idea – Enforced Service - -10% Regiment costs



We also unlock the Quipu and get +10% national taxes from Incas

31 Jan – Huaraz gets +1 taxes and +2 stability issues

8 April – Frances war ends

15 Jan, 1572 – Improvements in military lead to some MIL tech arriving

1 June – Assimilation in Caracas.

Right now with our events, we are getting +80 or +90 a year (with or without tropical tags) and then those with settlers in them get a chance each month to get bonus folks. Caracas, with the assimilation is already at 424.

19 Aug – France sent out two more colonies in this area.

26 Nov – More outbreaks of diseases from European contact

[Abe Sargent]

1 Oct, 1573 – Scotland annexes a local tribe, the Tupinamba – they add their three provinces to their own

2 Dec – Let’s finish this thing. Global Empire -+25% naval force limits and we have now unlocked Exploration – We get a permanent CB against all primitives.

1 Ja, 1574 – 7 more provinces catch smallpox


19 Jan – I get a Good Government Policies event and bonus power in all three areas

DIP power for a while is going to be used to shift cultures

1 July – Change culture in La Rioja to Quechua

1 October –

Antioquia – 7 development, mountains, 0.41 money, coffee, core ordered, as I mentioned, the 7 development was about the best you could do right now, and now tropical to speak of either

And now I’m making money again

6 Oct – New Idea – The Old and the Infirm - -10% land maintenance modifier

1 Nov - That cut our costs considerably for a 46k strong army. So I order another colony. I recall Camana and send to Llanos. This is inland of Coro, Altagracia and Caracas, just 4, but I want to block off too much French expansion inland


4 May, 1575 – let me zoom in on our colonies so you can see.

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You can see Llanos and Caracas in the center – my current colonies, right by France, in Cumana, and the other French holdings to the east. You can see Cartagena, Antoquia, the current colony of Merida (where the 7000 soldiers are) and more.

[Abe Sargent]

15 June – Antioquia is now a full core. I order a Workshop there.

7 Aug –

Merida – 6 development, tropical, mountains, coffee, 0.31 cash made here, core ordered, you just saw where it is. It was a nice inland province here.

Next target is…Mendoza. Totally money. South of San Juan, and east (inland) of Coquimbo and Picunmapu.




HERE WE GO FOLKS!!!!!!!!!!!



1 December – CARACAS


Caracas – Tropical Wood, tropical, jungle, west of France ‘s Cumana and east of Coro and north of Llanos. 0.09, 4 dev, and no one cares. Core ordered all night and day for it

I hold my colonists for a moment

5 Feb, 1576 – I hand Coro to my clergy estate

1 Mar – I merge two armies to make 12000 in Caracas and I order some artillery and cavalry in Coro

1 April –


Camana – Coastal Coffee, 5 development, mountains, 0.26,


I send colonists to Antofagasta. This is a coastal territory, very poorly developed, upstream from Copiapa. I want to close off the coast out here. I don’t want to go south of Picunmapu – the casts down coast and up the other is poor for a long time. 10 consecutive 3 development provinces. But I want to shut off the heart of my Empire.

9 April – Merida is now a core

France has gone to Hostile against us

[Abe Sargent]

2 august -




Caracas is now a core

I order a Reform of our Religion

WHOA!

I just gained 3 levels in each tech group. We are now 10/9/10

And I can Westernize as well

Our forces are now South American Cavalry, Defensive American Musketeers, and Culverin.

I can choose a new idea group from my techs.

I want to hold off. I can get any ADM one and then 3 ideas right now. But that’d slow down my Westernization




2 Aug – We begin the Westernization Process

Here’s what happens:

-3 Stability
+5% national unrest
+50% advisor costs

We spend power each turn until we westernize, and we’ll get some nasty events. Got to be strong


I increase our stability by 2


I am rebuilding my army from swapping over ot new units

[Abe Sargent]

2 Sept- We gained a thing – The Conquest of Pachacamac, +1 missionaries and +1 yearly prestige


28 Dec – Camana is a core

1 Jan, 1577 – Workshops for Merida and zCamana

25 April – I get an event – Advisers Resist Westernization. I ignore their demands and our stability drops

2 May – Picunmapu – 4 development, 0.07 money, mountains, coastal, important harbor, fish, core ordere, probably as far south as I’m going for a while

5 Sept – Down to just three colonies, I’m making real money

What did I get from my tech advances. Anything of note?


Nothing too major, unfortunately


11 Dec – Picunmapu is a core

2 Jan, 1578 – I order a castle in Caracas

23 Jan – Whoa! Great event! Excellent Minister. I get a bunch of powe,r prestige, and stability if I invest administratively. And I do

21 April – People resist Westernization. I ignore them and lose 30 legitimacy

4 July – Mendoza, the colony, pipes in 200 marriage women and gains a taxbase

1 Nov – Workshop in Coquimbo

[Abe Sargent]

24 April, 1579 – Nobles resist. I ignore them. Rebellion in Abancay

7 June – They take Abancay

4 July – La Rioja now Quechay culture

17 Aug – We defeat the rebels

17 Sept – Abancay ours again

There is now a colonial nation – French Colombia. France declares war on us, and their Colonial Nation joins them. We have a ton of troops and I order them from Caracas to Cumana

21 Jan, 1580 – The Dutch join the French in an alliance

I don’t see any major French troops here so I have begun a siege of Cumana, their capital

1 Mar – Mendoza is now self-sustaining

Mendoza - Mountains, 7 dev, 0.23 gold made, wool, south of San Juan and east of both Coquimbo and Pincumapu, and probably the southern most point here for a while.

My next target is Calama, a 3 development one up the coast from Antofagasta and west of Chichas and Quillacas

21 April – We lose another stability when I refuse my advisers again

30 April – I take Orinco Delta

22 June – I capture, and then burn down a French colony – Guasipati

8 July – Castle built in Caracas

15 July – 16000 French Troops land in Caracas.

I have 18 k there

I order a general

Here’s a comparison – They have 14 military, and I have 10

They are moving to oust us from Cumana

They pull back when they see my force coming in and change their positioning. Probably didn't want to get caught between the Cumana siege force of 16k and my force of 15k coming up from Merida

France has 76000 troops and French Colombia has none. But we have 46000. And I have around half up there

19 July – Cumana falls (It only had 400 in the garrison)

9 Aug – I capture Pirara and burn it to the ground as well

15 Sept – I have 28k troops in the Delta I begin to move towards the French army

20 Sept – Demarra is captured by my 8000 force

3 Oct – Mendoza is a core

9 Dec – I defeat their army in Demerrara

I also captured Essequibo

18 Jan, 1581 – I win in Paramaribo against their army

I combined all three forces and around 33k to do it

3 Feb – They have set up another colony in Guisipati

21 Feb – Paramabibo is our sand we now hold every French Colombia holding

27 Feb – France lands 15k troops in Cumana

23 April – I lose another 30 legitimacy

21 June - After a bunch of ping-ponging and their reinforcements, I have managed to defeat them a few more times.


22 Aug – I finally rout the armies. I lose 14000 troops doing it though.


9 Sept – I capture their colony again. I have a 40% warscore

I burn the colony after they won’t give me peace

Eventually France is just going to turn their full on attention to me

The ledger says that France is down to 57000 troops and 75k manpower. Not a major hit

20 Oct – I invest in a stability increase

25 Nov – 7k more troops land in Caracas

[Abe Sargent]

11 Jan, 1582 – I win a minor skirmish

23 Jan – I offer a Monopoly Company to form, and I get 740 gold from it!

I order some more troops built

24 April – More legi lost

19 May – Army routed, all good

47% war score. You are going to have to commit more than that to faze me!

Will they take peace now? Umm a white one.

Wow they just don’t care about this colony. To take every one of the five holdings in Brazil is just a 5 warscore. I can take 4. I hold out. I would love to drive France out of South America all together is all they are going to do is attack me!

June 24 – 10000 troops are getting ready to land in Caracas. This may be my chance ot end the war in our favor if no more come. I have 27k and growing

8 Sept – We win in Caracas

3 Oct – Now France is done

I get:

376 gold
Cumana, Essquibo, Demeraram Paramaribo, and Orinoco Delta

As a defender, we gained a crap ton of prestige

[Abe Sargent]

Map of the captured stuff:


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You can see the various provinces we took, the standing armies I have to the east in Caracas and around it, and more. No way I’d be able to beat France man-to-man, but they couldn’t commit. Why not?

I was looking at armies. I was looking in the wrong place. France has a navy of 35 ships, 15 of which are transports. That’s why the most they brought over was 15k that one time. They just had the one fleet available to ferry troops from wherever they were coming


So how did I beat France just now? Well a few reasons:

1). France declared war at the wrong time. They had no troops on the ground. If they had waited, built up a large army of 30-40k troops, I would have been done for. They could have written their ticket. But they didn’t. They just thought they could beast us by decree, rather then by strategy
2). They assumed the tech difference would swing the war in their favor. It didn’t 10 vs 14 is winnable. I was willing to through everything I had at winning the war and had 75% of my forces there. They didn’t.
3). They attacked me first in close battles, and in doing so, gave me an early advantage in he campaign as I was able to dictate battlefields.
4). This was not some chump army. I had 2000 cannon and 4000 cavalry in the 16k army I kept in Caracas for a rainy day. I also had 8k in the force and 14k in Bogota I could bring in. But 6000 non-infantry is something you need to account for.


5). This was the right era for a colonial victory over Europe.

Take the Inca as a good historical example. After they were discovered and scouted by the Spanish, a conquest of less than 1000 troops arrived. After discovery, massive smallpox had hit the nation, devastating it, and then both the leader and heir died in that disease. The nation, torn in two by civil war and devastated by disease, was easier pickings than would otherwise have been expected. The Spanish were able to talk their ways out of battles that would have been lost, and convinced locals to join and they had around 10000 local troops on their side for the major battles. They got lucky. They had technology as their only saving grace, with huge numbers of losses. Well I have cavalry I got from Europe by bringing in horses, and I have cannon myself over the decades of them being in the area.

So if a colonial power was to beat Europe, this is the right time.

Meanwhile, I did something I certainly didn’t expect to do. I sort of expected to concede Brazil., Argentina and the north/east coast and areas of the continent while keeping close to the west side for ourselves. But I moved over to Caracas to get close to France, and now they annoyed me very quickly thereafter and I kicked them out. And frankly, I’m not sure that France will come back here. They are liable to find a place with less bite. While there are powers in the Caribbean and I’m sure elsewhere, only Scotland is in South America right now, and that’s the Scottish Brazil colonial nation. If I keep colonizng the coastal areas here, will I keep everyone else away?

Imagine if in real life a colonial nation (not just a small colony or trading post, but a full nation) was taken and driven back and captured ad won against a European colonial power. How would the world respond? They could leave well enough alone and move on. That’s not unlikely. Or they could come back twice as angry. No one defeats God’s divine troops!

I have no idea how Europe will take it. But it doesn’t look good for France to attack, and then get driven off the continent and lose everything .

Anyway, Its good I have two missionaries nw. I need to convert these Catholic heathens to the proper way of worshipping and honoring multiple gods. I have to remind them of what the rest of the world already knows.

Westernization is not harmed by kicking France away from our castle

[Abe Sargent]

In other news, I have a metric ton of cash. Should I hold onto it until manufactories come online?

I order up some cores at the cost of around 30 power per province.

Our new stuff:

Cumana – Grasslands, Catholic, Francien, 0.06 taxes made, 21% unrest, 50% autonomy, coffee, coastal, tropical, west of Orincoc Delta and east of Caracas. 4 development


Orinoco Delta – Protestant, Francien, 21.4% unrest, 50% autonomy, sugar, tropical. Marsh, 4 development, 0.01 cash made, west of Essequibo, east of Cumana.

Essequibo – Jungle, tropical, 3 development, fish, 1.5 unrest, 50 autonomy, Francien, Catholic, 0.02 cash, west of Demerara and east of Orincoc Delta


Demerara – Catholic Francien, tropical wood, jungle, tropical, 3 dev, 0.01, 17.5% unrest, 50% autonomy, west of Paramaribo and east of Essequibo


Paramaribo – Catholic and Francien as well, Cocoa, tropical jungle, 3 development, 0.03, 17.5 unrest, 50% auto, east of Demerara


That’s not really good. Hopefully we can get them to a slightly better place

30 Oct – Native Assimilation in Calmaa

I recall my colonist in Antofagasta and send it to Iquique (Coastal, 4 dv, coastal desert, north of Calama, south of Arica, and finishes the shore here.

[Abe Sargent]

6 Jan, 1583 – We’re in an odd place for a Westernization project. We are well into it. 27.7% done, and but I am still gaining tech. Which is not something I’ve seen before. Now we’re gaining it slowly. But we are gaining.

So;


Quantity Idea #5 – Mercenary Contracts+25% available mercs and…


We unlock this Inca bonus – Drafted Hatun Runas ,+10% manpower, and +2.5% discipline

1 Mar – I give the Clergy Estates Essequibo and Demerara

13 April – I take a national decision for us moving forward:

Inti Prostelyzation - +2 Missionary Strength

24 April – Nobles Resist Westernization

I get a revolt in Tumbes

1 June – Tumbes falls

4 Aug – We defeat the rebels

7 Sept – We retake Tumbes

I don’t know how. But France has chosen to restart their colony in Guasipati, which is inland of the Delta and Essequibo and not on the coast.

1 Nov – Let’s commit:

I take a new Idea:

Economic Ideas –

I buy:

Bureaucracy – 10% national taxes
Organized Construction - -10% build cost
National Bank – Inflation is reduced by 0.1 annually


We unlocked the Mit’a system Inca idea and get -10% build cost again

1 January 1584 –

Antofagasta – 3 development, coastal desert, wool, 0.08 ducats, core ordered, south of Camana, north of Copiapo, and west of Puna de Atacama

24 April – Reactionaries reject Westernization. Rebellion of 7000 forces I Iquique

12 May – They die ot our forces there

1 Aug – I ordre a temple in Altagracia

9 Aug – Antofagasta is now a core

I order my Caran cultures turned to Quechua

10 Sept – Growth in Abanacay gets it some more taxbase but worse unrest

[Abe Sargent]

1 April, 1585 –


Llanos – Core ordered, savannah, 4 dev, sugar here, 0.16, inland and south of Coro, Caracas, Atlagracia, and tropical.


I order these folks into another vacted French colony we burned down to see if I can beat them I suppose. Pirara, inland if Essequibo west of Demerara and east of France;s Guasipati. I’ts not very hot though.


27 April – Reactionaries rebel in Catamaraca. I order my army in Mendoza ot head over and smash them

15 June – Slain

12 Aug – Cores completed in the 5 French takings. I order up missionaries for Cumana and the Delta

15 Aug – Assimilation in Calama

5 Dec – Llanos is a core too

31 Jan, 1586 – We get a poor copper event and our artillery costs increase by 20% for a while

1 Feb – Revolt in Cumana!

9 Feb – We put it down (I moved my main army in the north from Caracas to adjunct Cumana)

24 April – I get a new one – Provinces get westernization resistances, and we do get -1 unrest, but +0.5 monthly autonomy change. For ten years

1 Jan, 1587 –

Econ Idea #4 – Debt and Loans - -1 interest per year

18 Jan – Assimilation in Pirara

3 Mar –


Calama – Coastal desert, 0.08 gold, 3 dev, wool, north of Antofagasta, south of Iquique and east of Chichas and Quillacas .

Our next target is Nazca – Coastal, south of Abancay and east of Lima. It’s the final province that allows me to control the whole coast from Picunmapu all the way up to Cauca by Muisca.

24 April – I lose more Legitimacy

1 July – So apparently the Delta is next to Trinidad and can go there without boats. And it’s unclaimed and rocks 10 development. I pull a colonist from Iquique and send it here!

7 Nov – Calama is a core

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1588 – I get a lovely Production Tech bonus from an event

24 April – I get Peasant Resistance, and we get +2 unrest and lost taxes (-50%) for a decade

That’s a big hit

10 June – I order a claim on the French province by me

19 July – We get 4430 manpower event

I finish my rebuild manpower mission. My next is to turn Trinidad into a city. I agree with that one!

18 Aug – I get an event:


Popular Religion

There has always been some discrepancy between the religion actually taught and defended by the Inti clergy and the actual faith of the people. Most of the time the differences are so small that the clergy estate ignores them. It seems that certain ideas recently are unorthodox. A system that combines old heathen ideas, popular superstitions, and the actual Inti itself has been quite too much for the clergy these days. But it’s popular!

1). Attempt to root it out! +1 tolerance of true faith, and clergy get loyalty and influence. 15 years
2). Let it run its course. +1 Missionary Str, clergy lose their stuff


I take the first.

22 Oct – Both Cumana and Orinco Delta have seen the light of the day and have converted to Inti! I send the next batch of Missionaries to spread the faith in Essequibo and Demerara

7 Jan, 1589 – Assimilation in Iquique

10 Feb – Peace with France ends

24 April – I get another autonomy for the people province pushback, and again, we’ll get -1 unrest with it too

28 May – Illness strikes Pirara


18 July – Claim done on Guasipati

1 Sept – Idea:

Econ 5 – Centralization - -0.5 monthly autonomy

24 April, 1590 -here’s a new one – Cultural Establishment Resists Westernization - -30 prestige

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1591 – New Idea – Quantitative 6 – Conscripted Garrisons - +25% garrison size

We also unlocked the latest Incan one – Llama Michis, +10% production efficiency

The next quantity idea is awesome

1 April – Esmeraldas and Quayaquil are now Quechua

24 April – Revolt in Popayan

4 June – Captured

14 July – Defeated.

18 Aug – Retaken

France has placed colonies in Panama and Veraguas.

12 Nov – We converted the heretics in Essequibo and Demerara. Last one – Paramaribo

2 jan, 1592 –I order a Workshop in Cumana

3 Feb – I pay down a plague in Chachapoyas

1 Mar – Canari is now Quechua

24 April – Rebellion in Macaya

15 May – Put down


1 Sept – Assimilation in Trinidad

1 Jan, 1593 – Spain has a three province colony around Rio de Janeiro

Portugal has a three province one around Rio de la Plata and Uruguay

24 April – Rebellion in Camana

24 May – Done

1 June –

Pirara – Coffee, tropical jungle, 3 development, core ordered, south of Essequibo, west of Demerara and east of France. 0.19 made here.

Next target is purely strategic – Choco – on the coast, up front Cauca, and by Muisica, and closes off South America from central

25 July – I encourage the Encomeienda System and get huge bonuses in Iquique

16 Aug – After setting up Choco, I pull back my colonists and then grab Darien. Another strategic one. It’s the first holing up Central America, next to France in Panama, and gives me just one method of entry instead of three if someone took it.

1 Sept –

Iquique – Gold here, coastal desert, 4 dev, 0.5 made, south of Arica, north of Calama, and west of Oruro and Quillacas


11 Dec – Seeing growth in the south, I pull back my colonist from Trinidad and set up one in Santiago del Estero, a drylands province with 5 dev, east of La Rioja, Tucuman, nad Catamarca



5 Feb, 1594 – Pirara is a core now

6 Apr – Iquique is as well

24 April – High Command Resists Westernization – We lose 30 army and navy tradition

1 Sept –

Nazca – Coastal desert, wool, core ordered, 3 devl, 0.1 money made, east of Lima.


Next target?

Chepes, south of Santiago del Estereo and east of La Rioja and San Juan

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1594 – 150 Year Review!



MAPS!

Zoomed out for you.


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Here we have Inca all nice and stuff. We have closed off a lot of previous holes in our location, which is nice. You can also see where we grew from grabbing France. Meanwhile France is in Panama and that one random province. Scottish Brazil is around the horn, and Spain and Portugal are where you see them.

Note that we have some serious cash, we have plenty of power despite Westernization and more.

We are 78.86% done with the process

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger –

We are ranked 17th in the world


Provinces by Tax:

Jujuy
Cuzco
Quito
Chanchan
Huanuco
Tucuman
Bogota
Tunja
Altagracia
Canari


By production:

Potosi
Bogota
Quito
Antioquia
Tucuman
Chuquiabo
Cauca
Altagracia
Tunja
Cartagena

We have 75 provinces, 4 colonies

We have 66000 troops and 46000 manpower. France? 59k troops, Spain 18k,


Current Trade Good Values:

4.5 – Coffee
Copper

4 – Dyes
Silk
Cocoa
Inory

3.75 Sugar

3.6 – Cloth

3.5 – Furs

3.3 -Salt

3 – Tobacco
Cotton
Spices
Chinaware
Iron


2.5 – Tea
Wine

2.2 – Slaves

2 –Tropical Wood
Fish
Wool
Grain
Naval Supplies

We have trading bonuses for Gold, Cocoa and Coffee.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Dec – We convert Paramaribo



Trinidad – 0.75, 11 development, sugar, core ordered. You all know where this is so no surprises.

City grew after completing mission.



1 April, 1595 – Nazca is a core

24 April – More loss of traditions

2 Aug – Trinidad is a core. Workshop ordered here

1 Sept – New Idea – Econ #6 – Nationalistic Enthusiasm - -10% land maintenance mod

25 Feb, 1596 – I order the Muiscan provinces moved ot Quechua

24 April – Rebellion in Caracas

9 May – Done

1 Jan, 1597 – Temple ordered for Trinidad

18 Feb – Quito is now Quechua


24 April – More traditions lost

15 Oct – I consult the great Oracle of Pachacamac.

I get a favorable answer and we gain a stability and some prestige

[Abe Sargent]

13 Jan, 1598 – Assimilation in Choco

24 April – I lose more revolt risk for autonomy in the holdings

11 May – I order Shipyards in Coro, Nazca and Calama

Might as well be ready for building shops when westernization lifts

1 July, 1599 – Idea – Economic #7 – Smithian Economics: +10% production. And we get -20% development cost for finishing the Ideas group

11 Sept – Our general passes, the one we fought France with



1 Oct – 1599


In the month of October in the year of our lord 1599 the great Incan Empire, the greatest Empire in the Americas in history fished a decades long quest to westernize. After reforming their religion and then winning a war against the French, the Incas completed and westernized. Although many would wonder at how western they really needed to become, given that their forces used cavalry and artillery. However, the Empire could now built a use modern fleets, and had fully adopted the western was of studying, researching, building and more. After becoming modernized, the Incan Empire became the biggest threat in the post-colonial world to push back against the European powers all through the world….



I Take a mission to create a proper fleet

Get ready. I am about to hemorrhage money.

I choose France as a rival

We are now making, and I am not kidding with this number, 40 gold a month, and almost 500 a year. That’s from the bonus gold production all over aaron’s barn that I have installed


I order a ton of ships built – I spend 900 gold on ships

[Abe Sargent]

2 Nov – 1599. WHOA. I just gained the Western map.

Here’s the world

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/eu4_21_zps28albxry.png


Enjoy that zoomed out view. Now locally?

Scotland is in the Falklands, England in Mexico, Scotland has the Turks Island and is colonizing the Bahamas. They have St. Thomas, and the Portuguese have a huge amount of everything else – Cuba, Hispanola. There is only one unclaimed island. And it makes sense for me to get it sense it’s so close – Curacao. I recall my colonists from Darien and send them to Curacao

Now, one of the bad things about us seeing the Western maps is that they will see us too…

[Abe Sargent]

Get ready. I just got an event two months later which is awesome, and very historical.


In February of 1600 the largest volcanic explosion in recorded history in South America occurs.



A few days before the eruption, someone reported booming noise from the volcano and fog-like gas being emitted from its crater. The locals scrambled to appease the volcano, preparing girls, pets, and flowers for sacrifice. During the sacrifice ceremony, the volcano ejected ash. By February 15, the activity had noticeably increased, as earthquakes began to occur. By February 18, seismic activity occurred as frequently as three or four times every fifteen minutes, some tremors powerful enough to wake sleepers up.

At 5 P.M. on February 19, Huaynaputina erupted violently, sending volcanic ash into the atmosphere. Observers described the event as "a big explosion with cannonball-like explosions" that had the appearance of an enormous fire. River-like pyroclastic flows flowed down the mountain; the flows on the southern side mixed with water from the Rio Tambo to create lahars. One hour after the eruption, ash began to fall from the sky, and within 24 hours, Arequipa was covered with 25 centimetres (10 in) of ash.

Intermittent eruptions occurred for a little less than a month, concluding on March 5. When Huaynaputina exploded, it produced about 30 cubic kilometres (7.2 cu mi) of tephra[1] and pyroclastic flows traveled 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) to the east and southeast, and lahars – volcanic mudflows – destroyed several villages and reached the coast of the Pacific Ocean, a distance of 120 kilometres (75 mi). The eruption began with a Plinian plume that extended into the stratosphere, and the ashfall and accompanying earthquakes caused substantial damage to the major cities of Arequipa (70 kilometres (43 mi) to the west) and Moquegua.

Ashfall was reported 250–500 kilometres (160–310 mi) away, throughout southern Peru and in what is now northern Chile and western Bolivia. The ash layer now forms a useful stratigraphic marker layer throughout Peru.

In total, the volcano killed more than 1500 people, and ash buried ten villages. The atmospheric spike of acid as a result of the eruption was higher than that of Krakatau. Regional agricultural economies took 150 years to recover fully.

Although southern hemisphere records are unreliable for this time, we know it had an impact of food, crops, and weather as far away as Russia, France, and Japan and China.


The name of the mountain, Huaynaputina, is Quechua for "Young Volcano"

Check it out here:

Huaynaputina Volcano, Peru - facts & information / VolcanoDiscovery: (http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/huaynaputina.html)


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[Abe Sargent]

6 January, 1600 – The Peruvian volcano, known as Huaynaputina erupted in a massive explosion that would blast the world. Grain and wine fall in value worldwide for two years.

31 May – We discover France trying to build up claims against us

3 June – Let’s finish this one.

Quantity - #7 – Expanded Supply Trains - -10% land attrition

We get the final Inca Idea – Tambo Waystations, -10% land attrition

And then we finish off quantity and get a 50% bonus to land force limits. I now have 66 regiments, and can have up to 91


I order up an army as well. I need more game in the southern flank vs Portugal

So how does our tech work now?

With western tech, you normally have to get 600 power to level up. That increase over time by 7%. So I would normally need 642. But I get -14% from my Ideas, if you’ll recall. I also get a neighbor bonus. -30% for ADm and MIL and -35% for DIP. So right now I need 347, 310, and 377.

And get this. Here’s my current growth.

12, 7, and 7. So I’m getting 120, 84 and 84 each year. So in three years, I should get a new tech in ADM for a bit, and then every five or so for the other two.

Actually what I need more than anything is good military power now that I have European powers gunning for me. I need to get caught up. There’s a guy out there who’s a level 3 adviser. And I can certainly afford that now, and Aman Quilme is +3 and gives me +10% land morale.

22 July – Flu strikes Antofagasta. I order a quarantine

[Abe Sargent]

20 Mar, 1601 – I begin to arrange marriages again

4 April –

Santiago Del Estero – drylands, 5 development, wool, core orderd, 0.17 gold made, east of Jujuy, Tucuman, Catamarca, and La Rioja.

I order my next colonists to hit up San Luis, south of Chepes, which is south of Santiago del Estero.

15 May – France announces us as their new rival

1 July – Chepes – 4 dec, core on its way, coffee, 0.34, south of Santiago del Estero and north of new colony San Luis.

I send colonists to Guajira, coastal, and north of Maracaibo. It’s not good.

5 Sept I hand Picunmapu to the nobility estates

21 Sept – I think I might have potential ally.

Spain


Spain doesn’t like France. Spain has a +110 opinion of us due to us building them up and isn’t hostile or worse towards us. Thy like our army and navy. Spain has 32k troops and 18 ships. After build our navy up, I have 22 ships and 78k troops and building.

That’s not a bad ally to have.

Spain is okay allying with non-Christians. The Shamanist Kongo and the Shia Gazikumukh are Spain’s allies. It doesn’t have anyone in the New World or Europe. It could use a buddy.

25 Sept - Spain accepts our alliance offer

Inca and Spain, best friends forever?


Take that France!


I feel like I’ve entered the 4th and final era of the four eras of this dynasty:

A. Attack and become a solid and growing threat
B. Become Inca and the sole power in the area
C. Reform and Westernize
D. Fight against European powers that come to our shores, and colonize


2 Dec, 1601 –

Darien – Core ordered, sugar, tropical jungle, 0.13 made, 3 development, on the isthmus by panama.

I want to start using my colonists to build up more colonies to fight on multiple colonial fronts. Post-Darien, I have colonies in:

Curacao
Choco
San Luis
Guajira

I pull back the colonists from Guajira and send them to Magdalena, a 3 dev coastal province between Guajira and Maracaibo and Cartagena, it’s the last open coastal province her.e

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb ,1602 – Chepes is a core now. I order a Workshop here

10 Feb – I get a traveling minstrel

1 April – Tech time

Admin – 11 – We can now build Textile Manufactories

I order one in Lima and the other in Quito.

1 June – TECH TIME

Dip 10 – We get better trade range, efficiency, +10% settler growth, and better ships

4 July – France lands 20k troops in Panama, so I move forces to the area for defense.

3 Aug – Darien is now a core and I order a castle built here.

15 Oct – I order a claim for Panama


22 Nov – Our military advisor, Aman Quilme, has revolutionized the art of siege craft and defensive fortifications. I get 50 prestige and -10% for military tech costs for a while.

1 Dec – And due to that bonus…


MIL TECH 11 – Matchlock Musket – Better cavalry fire, infantry shock, and I can build a weapons manufactory

I order a weapons manufactory in Oruro, which has copper

29 Jan, 1603 – Native exploitation in Guajira and Curacao. We order it to stop and order people to alleviate it.

I recall my colonists from Magdalena and send it to another great colony opportunity – Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a jungle. No tropical, with 7 dev. It’s inland of Sucre and Choquechaca, and above of where others were.

Spain is up to 6 coastal holdings and Portugal 6.

21 Feb – Assimilation in Mags

1 June – We have 30 of 39 naval forcelimit and we finish our mission to create a proper fleet for the Incan Empire. For ten years we’ll get -15 naval maintenance and shipbuilding

I take on a mission to win a Naval Race vs France

I have basically lined up the biggest ships to build in each of my three shipyards

30 JULY –

At the age of 72, our great leader has passed.

Our stability drops and I raise it

Our new liege Tupac Yupanqui Huyla, 5, 3, 3 – 52 years old

But no heir

5 Oct – The 5 holdings in France in the areas have been given to a new colonial nation.

[Abe Sargent]

1 May, 1604 – Right now we’re getting 13, 7 and 8 in tech development

8 May – WHOA

We got a good heir.

Titu Cusi Yupanqui – 5/5/6

That’s just staggeringly good

27 Jan, 1605 – We finish our naval race vs France nd we now have 38/40 ships

We get Naval Enthusiasm for ten years with +10% naval morale, -10% maintenance, and better tradition annually

Next up – turn Curacao into a city

10 Feb – Castle build in Darien. I order a workshop in Chanchan

1 Aug – New Tech

Admin Tech 12 – We can get Admin Monarchy and Republic

Now we are a Despotic Monarchy. We get -1 unrest., -10% unjustified demands, and -0.05 monthly autonomy. Some of those aren’t really anything. Now I can get two other forms of Monarchy:

Feudal Monarchy - +10% manpower, +25% income from vassals, Same autonomy change

Admin Monarchy - +10% production n, +5% taxes, -0.1 autonomy

I’m looking at Admin switch soon. It’s better for us

1 Dec – I order us to change to an Admin Monarchy


31 Dec – Portugal just keeps expanding in the south.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1606 – I order a texiile manufactory in Sucre

18 Feb – Tunja is now Quechua

8 Mar – New Tech

Dip 11 – We can build Naval Equipment Manufactories and we get 100 colonial range.

1 Apri – New Tech Redux

MIL – 12 – We get +0.25 military tactics

14 May – I get a favorable year event and I choose ot invest it into gaining a bunch of DIP tech

3 July – Curacao – 8 development, already considered a core, coffee, coastline, it’s os cheap I bump it up to 10 development, and then order a Temple here. 0/24 mney

We finish our mission. Next? The Enemy of our Enemy. Make nice with Austira, so I sen dover a diplomat

2 Aug – Choco – Core ordered, jungle, coastal, 3 dev, grain, south of Darien, north of Cauca, and up by the Muisica area

Next colonial target is Zaraza, a tropical savanna inland nad south of Caracas and Cuman, ans anove the French colonies here.

22 Dec – Neiva is now a Quechua

11 Mar, 1607 – Expansion of the Santa Cruz de la Sierra colony with a new settlement there

1 April – Choco is now a core. And San Luis

San Luis – Core ordered, wool, 4 dev, desert, 0.19 money made, south o f Chepes, and east of Mendoza.

Colonist sent to Uyapari, Savanna behind Cumana and east of Zaraza and north of Frnech colonies here. Not good quality, just filling in the gap

22 Oct – Bogota is now Quechua

2 Nov – San Luis now a core

21 Nov – I order a naval equipment manufactory in Tunja

[Abe Sargent]

20 Feb, 1608 – Agricultural Revolution in Pisqupampa. I invest in taxes there

1 Sept – I get another Immoral Prices event after food shortages in Chanchan and Neiva. I pay to help out

1 Oct – New Tech – ADMIN 13 +5% production

Finished colony

Santa Cruz de la Sierr – Jungle, coffee, 8 dev, 0.66 money, north-east of Choquechaca and north of Sucre.

Next target – Quisquiscate – next to Portugal and us, and has 4 dev and drylands.

Let me give you an updated map to see what’s been going on here.

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Here, take a looksee.


The two blue spots south of my old French holdings in the north are the French colonies I’m trying to surround. You can also see the French Central American holding as well. Scottish Brazil has been pretty quiet, and Spain has not. They’ve expanded along the coast to Scotland. The green section in the south is all Portuguese. See that comma looking province in the central that’s new? That’s our newest city, Santa Cruz de la Sierr.

While I do want to expand to force folks to knock it off, a lot of this crap is 3 development and such. Virtually every holding south of us (and most east of the south) is 3 holdings.

[Abe Sargent]

12 Nov – We manage to finish the Mission and get 5 prestige and 25 DIP power from getting a friend of Austria.

That power pushes us over the edge:

DIP TECH – 12 We get +0.40 morale

9 March, 1609 – I give my nobility estate control of San Luis and Choco

25 April – Did you know that Portugal is not just neutral, but actually friendly towards us?


Portugal and Spain are now allies. So I offer an alliance to Portugal, and they accept.

I’d like to see someone come after us now


8 June, 1609 – Let’s take a looksee at the ledger:

As of today, we have the 2nd biggest army in the world (of those nations we know of, but we know of China and others). Ottomans are 110k, we are 87k, France 81k, Venice 55k and Muscovy 54k. We have the world’s 9th largest navy at 48 ships

10 Dec – I get a border friction event with French Colombia. Opinion drops

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1610 – New Tech

MIL – 13 – Artillery Fire and Shock improve, we get better cannons.


Now that we’ve leveled a few times, our next MIL tech is 456, and 426 and 389 for the others.

France is now at war with Scotland. France is 17/17/16 right now, so our 13/12/13 gives us a strong

1 Apr – Rebels in Rio da Prata erupt

18 Oct – We get a fading nobility estates and they lose 10 influence

France’s war with Scotland also includes the nearby Cocomes Mesoamerican tribe.

1 Jan, 1611 – Every French holding in Panama – 6 of them, have been captured by Cocomes.

1 June – France beats us to Atabapo, the inland province to their west and where I was going to draw a line as soon as I got Zaraza finished.


I recall my colonists in Uyapari and send them to Apure, Inland, savannah, between Atabapo and others, and south of Llanos. Now I need to get Apure and Puerto Carreno to its south to shut down further French expansion here.

1 July – TECH GAIN

Admin – 14 – We can build plantations and we get another group of Ideas

What Idea Group do I like?

Expansion gets me another colonist with the first gain. And then another trader with the 2nd. And then +10% settler growth, we can sort of bench it for a while. Nothing else really intrigues me from it.

Trade Ideas – We get bonus trade power, and then merchant, and two more merchants by the time it’s unlocked. Pushing my trade would be nice

But any Idea would eat up the tech I’m trying to build up right now.

I hold off for now

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1612 – Our Army Reformer passes. In order to make some money., I hire a level 2 adviser, with a -10% land maintenance

27 Feb – France took 10 provinces from Cocomes.

21 Feb, 1613 – Assimilation in Uyapiri

4 July – Tech Gain – DIP 13 – Trade Efficiency +5% and we get the Brig ship

15 Aug – We get a colonist rush event for 10 years with +25% global settler increase

1 Dec – Zaraza – Savannah, 4 dev, tropical, sugar, 0.25 made, south of Cumana and Caraas, west of Uyapiri and east of Llanos, north of two French holdings.

Next target is Rio Branco. This is south of Franch and shuts down any southern expansion by them. It’s east of Pirara.

1 Feb, 1614 – Plantation ordered in Bogota

1 Mar – I lose 10 prestige from the grandmother being a peasant at the end.

31 July – We get a opportunity to import some iron, and we import it from France. We gain 60 MIL power and France likes us a bit more

New Tech – MIL 14 – We get better infantry, width, and we can build better castles and we get better infantry. We now have Reformed American Musketeers and the South American Hussar for cavalry

2 Aug – NEW TECH – Admin 15 – We can now issue forced march orders to our armies.

1 Sept –

Magdalena – Sugar is farmed here in the grasslands coastal, north of Cartagena and south of Guajira. Just 3 development, and yet it could be an easy build. 0.14 money made, and w e get just 40 power needed for development.

1 Oct –

Guajira – North of Magdalena, 3 dev, grasslands, coastal, coffee, 0.17 cash made. Because it’s not tropical like Mags, it actually just has a 32 initial power needed to boost development here.


1 Dec –

Quisquissacate – 4 devl, wool, drylands, wes of Portugal and east of Chepes and south of Santiago. Portugal is really hitting the internal area down here. I order colonists to Chiquiyami. Mountains south of Mendoza.

[Abe Sargent]

4 Jan, 1615 – I pull my settlers from Rio Bravo and sent them to Chaco Austral, north of Quisquisacate and east of Santiago del Estero.

1 April –

Uyapari – Savannah, coffee, 0.16 made here, 3 development, south of Cumana, east of Zaraza, west of Orinoco Delta and north of France.


7 May – Mags is a core

I give Quisquisacate to the clergy estate

15 May – Assimilation in Apure.

8 June – Guajira is a core

24 June – I order some French holinds to move to our culture

6 Aug – Qui is a core as well

Plantation ordered for Trinidad

9 Dec – Uyapiri is a core too

1 Feb, 1616 – I get a bard at the court and we gain some prestige

3 Mar – I get an event – Grant Export Licenses. I do and here are the results:

1. Lose 10 legitimacy
2. France’s opinion of us rises by +20
3. Nobility gets +5 loyalty
4. Merchants lose 5 loyalty
5. We get Tax Income Boost for 20 years and get +10% taxes

23 April – Tensions along the border give France a claim on Apure

[Abe Sargent]

3 Feb, 1617 –

Apure – Savannah, tropical., south of Llanos, and east of France. Coffee, 0.23 cash, 3 development.

Next I send them to Puerto Carreno, and that will surround these French forces.


6 June – I recall my colonists from Puerto Carreno. I send it down west to Cayenne, east of Paramaribo.

2 Oct – Assimilation in Rio Branco

11 Oct – Apure is now a core.

1 Jan, 1618 – We get Essequibo, Demerara, Paramaribo are now Quechua

1 March – We get improvements in Trade Tech and gain 50 DIP.

1 April – NEW TECH

Admin 16 – Production Efficiency +5%

France is at war with the Aztec.

19 Aug – We get a successful bureaucracy event and gain some power

19 Sept – We have a Clergy/Merchant conflict in cities where the Merchants have power. I side with the clergy to gain 10 loyalty from them, -10 loyalty fro,m the merchants, and And we now have 60% loyalty from all three estates.

Clergy give you +15% taxes and -7.5% stability cost
Merchants give you -2.5% development costs, +5% trade efficiency
Nobility gives you +10% manpower recovery speed and -5% land maintenance modifier

So they are all good

1 Nov – Cumana and Orinoco Delta now Quechua

With the new culture, the French takings are now fully ours in every way. They serve Inti, the son god, and the other various gods. They have the various cultural adornments and languages of our capital, they have our faith, culture, and symbols. After all of that, Cumana makes 0.56, Delta -.39, Essequibo 0.15, Demerar 0.15 and Paramaribo 0.34


24 Dec – I take a mission to turn Cayenne into a city

[Abe Sargent]

2 April, 1619 - I order a Plantation in Antioquia

19 July – NEW TECH – DIP 14 – We can build trade companies and get a better ship

13 Nov – Native Assimilation in Chaco Austral

1 Dec – Chaco Austral - - Drylands, 3 development, wool, in the south east of Santiago del Estero and north of Quisquiscate and next to Portugal. I send colonists to Corrientes, east of Chaco and north of Portugal

New Tech – Mil Tech 15 – Military Tactics +0.25, land morale increased by 1

Near the end of 1619 we are 16/14/15. France is 17/17/17, Spain is 14/14/16, and Portugal is 14/17/17

So we are fine. Here’s what we need for levels in all three –

Admin - 534, (Our neighbor bonus is down to just -5%).
DIP – 432 (Neighbor is -20% still)
MIL – 498 (With -15% neighbor)

And since DIP is our lowest tech, that makes sense.

Time to veer off for a bit in ADM

1 March, 1620 – Chiquiyami – 4 dev, wool, mountains, 0.22 made, south of Mendoza, and inland of Picunmapu and west of two Portugal holdings. Next target is Pehuenmapu, south of there

1 April – I choose my new idea – Expansion. I pay for Additional colonists. I send them to Mariquita – this is my first financial selectin and not strategic one is awhile. It’s the open space that was between Tunja, Antioquia, and Bogota and such.

10 July, 1620 – Our ruler has died at the age of 71


His heir:

Titu Cusi Yupanqui Huyla, 5, 5, 6, 16 years old. Heir is Tupac Amaru Huyla, a 5/4/4 guy.

Titu looks awesome, and he’s so young we should get a lot from him.

Our current tech investment with him at the helm is 13, 9, and 10.

In order to save myself some cash, I drop my government adviser from the level 3 one to a level 2 who also gives me a +10% tax modifier

Even with all of our colonies we are making a bunch of cash again

2 Aug – Chaco Austral is a core. I give it to the clergy

[Abe Sargent]

26 Aug…


Hm let me give you a zoomed map of the southern part of the continent.


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/eu4_23_zpszs0wpkrd.png


As you can see from the above, there are three places here that I have troops – those are our three colonies. You can sort of see how I am trying to keep the Portuguese from hitting the area too hard. That one province between us is an Arid 3 dev one named Sauce that no one has blinked to take. You can see some rebel issues as well. That’s been there for years now. You can also see Spain expanding into the mainland from the coast.

6 Oct – Chiquiyami is now a core and then I hand it to the clergy

2 Nov – Assimilation in Puerto Carreno

[Vince, Pt. II]

Abe, if I wanted to get into EU4, is there a walkthrough or a tutorial somewhere that would do a good job of getting me into it? I tried Crusader Kings and was completely overwhelmed. I think EU is more up my alley, but Paradox games are kind of ridiculous.

[Abe Sargent]

They are, and each expansion often adds to the complexity of the game.

The tutorial is not bad, an there are some nice walk-through YouTube videos out the as well.


Steam Community :: Guide :: EUIV Guides Collection: A series of short and specific guide videos (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=169287928)

Those might help for more specific stuff as well as the EU4 wikia

[Abe Sargent]

1 June, 1621 – I order a Plantation built in Cauca

8 Mar, 1622 – We get poor uniforms and lose -5% morale for 2 years

1 May – Idea – Additional Merchants

I send the new bum to collect from the Panama trade Centre

4 Nov –

Cayenne – Sugar, tropical, 4 development, coastal, east of Praribo, 0.3 made here

Next up is Oiapoque, and I’m going to continue to close off the Continent. No one has settled here, and I want to end that potential.

25 Jan, 1623 – I take another mission to make nice with Austria

17 Mar – I order a Plantation in Maracaibo

14 Tumbes grows but gets some revolt risk as well

6 July – Cayenne is now a core

Tech –

Dip – 15 – We get better colonial range, +15% settler growth, better ships but +10% naval maintenance



I was saving my cash, so I pay to upgrade my fleet.


24 Aug – For ten years, due to Administrative Problems, we get +10% land maintenance

[Abe Sargent]

21 Jan, 1624 – Wow the Dutch just raised me. Seeing me move across the coast, they just started a colony the next one over from Oiapoque – Amapa.

1 Mar – MIL TECH 16 – We can build Training Fields, we get better cannon, and we get better artillery fire, shock ad width

5 Mar I want to drive out the Scottish. I pull my colonists from Mariquita. I order them to Maranhao. This is a 7 dev that Scotland ever moved to to their direct west on the northern coast. The goal here is to force battle.

18 April – I finish our quest in Austria

31 July – France just took the Galapagos Islands

3 Oct – Rio Branco – tropical, jungle, coffee, 0.19, 3 development, north of the Arawak tribe I nBarcelos and south of france.

1 Jan, 1625 –

Corrientes – Swamp, 4 development, grain, north of Santa fe (Portugal) and east of Chaco Austral. 0.19 made here.

Next up here in the Southern part is Yareyu, just east of Corrientes


Expansion Idea #3 - +10% global increase of settlers



Right now, we get +100 colonists a year. A huge growth amount

4 April – I order a Plantation in Camana

14 June – Rio Branco – cored

1 Aug –

Pehuenmapu – 3 development, wool, south of Chiquiyami, and west of Portugal. 0.16 made here

I have had this mission for decades to colonize Raritan, in New Jersey. I take the mission, and send these colonists there.

21 Sept – Corrientes is a core

[Abe Sargent]

4 Feb, 1626 – I colonize Raritan. We get Colonial Enthusiasm. For the next decade we get +25 global settler increase, so it’s up to 125 now. I recall my settle rand send it to Poya, south of Pehuenmapu

I abandon the colony

Our next mission is to remove Arawak from the map


12 Mar – Pehuenmapu is a core

I gain autonomy after letter two nobles fight it out in Tunja

1 May – Naval Weapons Manu ordered in Popayan

1 Sept – I declare war on Arawak

This is the first war I’ve declared in almost 75 years

25 Sept – I rout their army

1 Nov – Two colonies finish:

Puerto Carreno – 3 dev, savannah, tropical, west of France and shuts them down, south of Apure. 0.12, grain

Mariquita – Wool in the mountains here (very disappointing result). 0.25, 5 dev, surrounded by names you’ll know – Bogota, Tunja, Neiva, Antioquia, and Cauca.


1 Jan, 1627 – I recall my colonists from Oiapoque and send it to Alcantara, to the west of Maranhao on the coast of Brazil.

11 Jan – Scotland chose me as their Rival.

16 Jan – I get a great event to reform the Military, and I choose to reform both navy and army. Tech costs reduce, tons of power for both and more

DIP TECH – 16 – Trade Range 20 more and Efficiency increases by 5%


MIL TECH – 17 – Cavalry shock increases by 1

1 July – I order a Textile Manufactory in Tucume

6 July – Marquita and Puerto Carreno are cores now

9 July – Barcelos falls

I annex the Arawak and get 513 cash

We finish the mission and order a core for Barcelos


Barcelos – 40% autonomy, 0 unrest, 0.12 gold, tropical wood, jungle, tropical, temple here, 7 development, south of Rio Branco and north of unclaimed Manaus. To either side is wasteland. Animist and Lokano



Plantation ordered with blood money for Santa Cruz de la Sierr

1 Nov – I begin to use favors to increase the trust that the Portuguese and Spanish have of me

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1628 = I travel to the Oracle of Pachcamc and we get favorable answer and we gain stability and prestige



13 Mar – Another noble family feud, this time in Marcaibo, and again, I let them duke it out.

1 Aug - I order a Plantation in Tucuman

7 Dec – I choose Scotland as a rival back

2 Jan, 1629 – TECH – Admin 17 – We can build Universities, and we get +10% development efficiency and +20 administrative efficiency

1 Dec –

Oiapoque – 3 dev, we grow tobacco here, jungle, coastal, tropical, west of the Dutch in Amapa and east of Cayenne.


14 Dec – Barcelos is now a core

I order a Missionary to Barcelos and a Plantation for Chepes



Here’s a breakdown of my current finances in case you care:

Month:

Taxes – 39.07
Product – 29.90
Trade – 12.54
Gold 31.16

Advisors – 24.13
Army – 24.93
Navy – 18.87
Forts 4.17
Colonies – 8.37


So right now I’m bringing in around 30 a month in cash.

So we’re doing fine

[Abe Sargent]

11 Feb, 1630 – I am discovered fabricating claims on France’s colony

1 April –

Yareyu – 4 devl, savannah, Tobacco grown here as well, north of Portugal, and east of Corrientes. I order a colonist next door in Santa Tecla.

1 June – We establish a national bank and I order to give national loans and reduce inflation by 5% which kills it – we had 4.59

That inflation loss really helps push us financially and e are making more money now

26 June – The Dutch send a request for military access. No thanks


1 Aug – New Tech – DIP 17 – Better Colonial and Trade ranges, we can build trade depots

1 Sept –

Maranhao – Sugar swamp, coastal, tropical, 7 development, 0.57 made here, west of Scottish Brazil in Paranaiba, east of our province in Alcantara. Next up is Belem, which is west of Alcantara.


14 Sept – Assimilation in Poya

1 Nov –

Poya – 3 development, mountains, coffee, 0.22 money, south of Pehuemnmapu

Next target is Rio Grande do Sul, on the the far coast, east of Santa Techa, and north of the Portuguese holdings., I want to cut them off.

1 Dec – I order a Plantation in San Juan

7 Dec – Yareyu is a core now

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1631 –

Alcantara – Tobacco grown here, jungle coastal, tropical, 4 development, east of Belem and west of Maranhao

Next colonists are sent to Marajo, a coastal province west of Belem

1 Apri – NEW TECH – Mil 18 – We get leather cannons and better maneuver and width in combat

Here let me give a little taste of the map to see the organic growth in the north and south by us.


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/eu4_24_zpspke1xeyh.png


Let’s start with us in the south. Where the 4k and 12k forces are where our colonies are here. You can see how I want to push Portugal towards the contained, cheap, weak provinces to the south.


http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/eu4_25_zpsxy8h2xaa.png

And here’s Brazil. You can see our colonies on the north coast and where the 2k is is the colony I’ve sent in Marajo but not yet established. The orange bit is the Dutch, and te Scottish are to our east. What I want to do to take every coastal province off the map to eliminate the chances of others dialing themselves into the continent.

I suspect war with Scotland soon. Their land is very wealthy. Plus they chose me as a rival first.

[Abe Sargent]

11 May – Maranhao now a core.

7 June – Poya core

1 Sept – Conversion in Barcelos. I order a new culture for these people.


We also had our military adviser pass today. I choose to hire a level 1 advisor to save some cash and to get +10% force limits

We are now making around 41 cash a month

3 Oct – Alcantara cored up. I order a workshop for it

1 Jan, 1632 – I take a rival of my rival event and order up some friendship with England. England is downright friendly towards us. They are rivals with both Scotland and France. I also order a Plantation in Mérida


8 Jan, We were discovered in French Colombia working on fabricating claims


10 Mar – We get an event and have discovered Japan.

18 Mar – We get a Diplomatic Insult from Scottish Brazil

I make generals out of my ruler and heir

13 May – New claims against Scottish Brazil

18 May – Rebels have taken the Dutch holding in Amapa

I order my colonists to return from Marajo. I’m send a batch to Para, on the north coast as well.

1 June – We have the same military tech as Scotland – 18 each


14 Oct – New Tech – Admin 18 – New Group of Ideas allowed

Our tech is 18/17/18 and in a fine place (Scotland is 18/18/18 as an example)

[Abe Sargent]

As of Nov 2, Scotland has 22k troops and Scottish Brazil 9k. I have a lot more.

I declare war on Scottish Brazil, and I don’t spend the favors to bring in Spain (although I could have). I want this to be personal.

I hand my 18000 troops in Maranhao a general and then march over



13 Dec – We capture Parnaiba and I order my 18000 into a province with 9000 defenders – Ceara.


12 Jan, 1633 – We win in Ceara

10 Mar – I capture Pambu

29 Mar – I rout their army in Borborema

30 April – Borborema is ours

1 May – Scotland lands 12k troops in Cayenne

11 June – I take three provinces – Pernambuco, Crato, and Rio Grande

18 June- I defeat the Swedish Navy off the Coast of Brazil.

29 June – We take Ceara

12 July – I win a skirmish against the Scottish army with my 16k army from Caracas

28 Aug – I get an event for -10% infantry building for surplus equipment for 5 years.

7 Sept – We take Alagoas

4 Oct – I complete the Rival of our Rival mission and gain the various benefits

8 Nov – I barely beat the Scottish in Cumana, and I pull out to recharge.

15 Dec – I order Plantation in Alcantara and Yareyu

21 Dec – The Nova Scotia, another Scottish colonial nation lands and breaks us in Cumana and we flee

29 Dec – I capture Sergipe, the capital of Scottish Brazil

9 Feb, 1634 – I take a Scottish colony in Jeremoabo

Every holding of Scottish Brazil is in our hands. But after the loss in Cumana, we don’t have a super high warscore.

They don’t care that much about their colonial nation. To annex the full 10 province nation is just a 19 war score.

I start to isolate Scotland


11 Feb – Sweden and I are now at peace

I grab a big army together

5 Mar – Scotland is landing 6k more troops in Demerara

26 Mar – Our flotillas hit each other.

We have fewer ships but more war vessels.

Scotland – 6 large, 8 medium, 16 transports
Incan Empire - 11 large, 5 medium, 9 transports

24 May – We win the major naval battle. Both fleets were badly hit. We have 7/3/9 left to their1/1/11.

27 June – after reinforcements, I am now chasing the Scottish army in the north and trying to get them solidified

I order more ships

24 Aug – I defeat the Scottish army in Pirara.

13 Sept – And we rout them

After their naval loss, Scotland is down to those 11 ships 11 transports and just the other two ships. They are down to 12000 troops. But we aren’t taking land from Scotland. Just from their colony.

19 Sept – I land forces on St Thomas

18 Oct – We take St Thomas

23 Oct – I take 133 ducats, and the 10 provinces of Scottish Brazil.

[Abe Sargent]

Let me zoom in for a map for you:

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag295/AbeSargent/eu4_27_zpsceauprmd.png

You can see Spain to the south. They have a variety of holdings, and I want to push inland here for places like Oeiras, Timon and others before Spain can take them. You can see the tribe of Tapuia that is in there in the Paraiba province. Also note the cash and such here. I order cores for the ones that I can, but I can’t for everyone. Crato, Pambu, Sergipe are not built. I send a missionary to Sergipe, Pambu instead.

All provinces are Scottish and Reformed 50% autonomy, and 12.9% unrest

Parnaiba – 13 development, 0.68 made, coffee made here has a shipyard. Between our holding in Marahanhao and Ceara. Tropical, savannah.

Ceara – 9 development, fishing, drylands, coastal, east of Parnaiba and west of Rio Grande and north of Crato. 0.20 made

Rio Grande – 7 dev, Sugar, drylands, coastal, 0.23, east of Ceaa, north of Crato and Bornorema and the native tribe as well.

Crato – Get ready. I order a temple here. Grain, drylands, 0.55 made here from the TWENTY-FIVE development it has. Inland and next to Ceara, Rio Grande, Pambu, and Borborema.

Borborema – Drylands, Sugar, 5 dev, 0.17, west of the tribe, east of Crato, and north of Pambu and Alagoas and west of Pernambuco


Pernambuco – Coastal and south of Pariaba and the tribe of Tapuia. 10 development, Drylands, coffee here, 0.38 made, has a shipyards. North of Alagoas and east of Borborema

Alagoas – Coastal, drylands, 7 development, fishing, 0.15, south of Pernambuco, north of Sergipe, and east of Pambu and Borborema

Sergipe – Coastal, has shipyards and castle, north of two Spanish holdings, drylands, 10 development, sugar, 0.16 made here, and it’s east of Pambu, Jeremoabo and south of Algoas


Pambu – Inland, west of Borborema, south of Crato, north of jeremoabo, drylands, 8 development, coffee, 0.23 made here,

Jeremoabo – Currently a colony with a Scottish and Reformed flavor. Not sure what will happen on the far end. 5 dev, Drylands, Coffee.


Whew!

We gained a ton of badboy from that war and blasting our foe. But that was our first major war in some time as well.

I order a Plantation in Pirara

[Abe Sargent]

6 Nov – I hand Pehuenmapu, and Copiapo to the clergy, and Mendoza and Corrientes to the nobility.

I recall settlers from Rio Grande do sul on the coast and send them to Timon, north of Spain, and south of Maranhao and Paranaiba

4 Dec – I pull them back from Santa Tecla north of Portugal and send it to the coastal province of Santa Catarina, north of Rio Grande do Sol and south of Spain.

22 Dec – The French fleet is sailing by – the whole thing is 12 big shops, 14 medium, and 27 transports

1 Apr, 1635 – I order a few workshops in Llanos, Zaraza and Uyapiri

With all of my benefits to building, and no inflation, it’s mega cheap to make them

1 May –

Rio Grande do Sul – Coastal, core ordered, 0.24, Sugar, tropical marsh, 4 development, north o Portugal and up the coast, and south of Santa Catarina.

1 July – A few events happened this year to morph the costs of food like Hot Chocolate or Growing Popularity of Tobacco in England.

1 Oct –

Santa Tecla - Savannah, tropical, sugar, 4 development, 0.24 gold, north of Portugal, east of Yareyu and west of Rio Grande do Sul

1 Nov – I order a core for Crato now that we have finished the temple here.

25 Nov – Think everyone out thee would hate the Incan Empire and us standing up for locals? Fighting against Europe? Think again:

The following major European Powers are not just neutral towards us, but friends:

Dutch
England
Austria
Provence


France and Scotland have us as rivals

Portugal and Spain have us as an ally


2 Jan, 1636 – Rio Grande do Sul is now a core

I order a plantation in Oiapoque

2 February –

Belem – Tropical jungle, coastal, naval supplies, 4 development, 0.18 made here, west of Alcantara and east of Para and Marajo.

Our next target is Muturu, southwest of Para, inland of the Dutch, and next to the Carib tribe in Santarem

1 Mar – Time for that new idea

I am making 45 gold a month right now. Serious cash. I don’t need Trade Ideas as much as before. I can’t do Admin ideas. I need my ADM too much right now, and I have Expansion to keep working on laters. I could blow through a Military idea. I’d love to expand my navy, but that’s Maritime Ideas in DIP not Naval Ideas in MIL.

Let’s go in a wonky direction:

Espionage Ideas –

#1 – Privateers – Embargo Efficiency +25%, Privateer Efficiency +33%
#2 – Vetting - +25% spy defense

This will give me something to spend my money on, and I’ve never unlocked some of the higher level stuff before because I usually go for other Ideas.

18 Mar – I get a Local Fortification Expert in Guayaquil

1 May – Alright I want to blast some colonies. Here’s what I’m going to do. I am going to pull back my colonists from Para. I want to send them, and then call them back, and then send them…etc


Place #1 – Aysen – Coastal, southwest of Poya,

9 June – Santa Tecla is a core

15 July – TECH – MIL 19 – We get better tactics, and we get a Star fort in our provinces as well as different units if I want. We now have South American Swarm Cavalry and Incan Guerrilla

7 Oct – Belem a core – I hand it to the clergy

I order a Plantation in Paramaribo

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1637 – Colony #2 after pulling it away from Aysen is Kawesqar, coastal, south of Aysen. Far tip of S America on the west side

27 Mar – Parnaiba is a core. I order a Workshop here

1 June – I recall my guys in Mutupu and send them to Oeiras

4 July – Barcelos is now Quechua.

9 July – I recall my colonists from Kawesqar and send them to Grajau in the north by Spain.

27 July – 5 provinces are now cores from the War (Ceara, Rio Grande, Pernambuco, Alagoas, and Borboremas). I order a Workshop for Pernambuco, Temple in Ceara, Workshop in Rio Grande

15 Nov – Pambu converts. I order up a core. I send the Missionary to Alagoas

14 Feb, 1638 – Sergipe converts. Core for this one as well.

1 Mar – Idea – Rumormongering – May Sabotage Reputation

15 April – Missionary sent to Parnaiba

I hand Ceara to my nobility

27 May – I pull my guys from Oeiras after they set up and send them to Tucurui, south of Para and Belem and above Spain in the far north

I am now even on cash as I have a ton of colonies set up

9 July – Crato is a core. I order a Training Grounds here


I’m losing a bit of money so I ease off my colonial upkeep

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1639 –

Para – 4 development, 0.18 fish, core ordered, tropical jungle, south of Belem and Marajo and yet still on the coast.

I completed my mission. I again take the Colonize Raritan mission. I recall my guy in Tucurui and send him to Raritan.


18 Feb – We caught France fabricating claims

11 July – Raritan is colonized, and we get the +25 global settler incrasew for a while. I recall my guy, and abandon the colony.

Next is Tierra del Fuego at the tip of S America

28 July – I have granted England military access

1 Sept –

Marajo – 3 development, marsh, tropical, coastal, around Para, Belem, the Dutch holding of Amapa. 0.19 made here, coffee

12 Sept – Para now a core and I hand it over to the nobility

30 Jan, 1640 – I choose to support Baroque Music. For 20 years we’ll gain +1 prestige annually, but we lose some cash

27 Mar – We get a ton of money from quality wool. I order a plantation in Uyapari

8 May – Marajo is a core

4 June – Admin 19 – We can build cathedrals

1 July –

Timon – Core ordered, Cocoa, 3 development savannah, 0.31 made here, tropical, inland of Maranhao, Parnaiba, and between Grajau and Oeiras. Norht of Spain.

27 July -= Pambu is a core

21 Oct – Sergipe a core

1 Nov –

Santa Catarina – Savannah, coffee, coastal, south fo Spain, and north of Rio Grande do Sol. Core ordered. Tropical, 0.25 made, 3 development.

Jeremoabo – Scottish, Reformed, Coffee. 0.26, 5 dev. I was hoping it’d change after we took it over, but nope.

1 Dec – I send colonists to Guayra, inland and behind Spain and north of Santa Catarina.

[Abe Sargent]

5 Jan, 1641 – Alagoas converts , I send the missionary to Crato

The clergy take over Alagoas

2 Mar – Rebellion in Crato. I have a lot of troops nearby

5 Mar – Timon is a core. I send colonists to Pastos Bons, next to Spain, the last open province in the area

2 April – Rebellion defeated

3 May – I take a mission to build a bigger army that France

11 June – Idea – Espionage #4 – Efficient Spies - +1 Diplomat and +25% spy offense

4 July – Santa Caterina is a core.

1 Sept – Our leader has passed.

His heir takes over –

Sapa Inka Tupac Amaru Huyla 5/4/427 years old

Our investment drops to 12/8/7

26 Sept – I use favors to increase favor with Portugal and Spain

1 Jan, 1642 – Truce ends with Scotland, Nova Scotia

18 Feb – Parnaiba converts
The next one in line is Borborema

23 Mar – Our agent in French Colombia fabricating a claim was found out

5 April – Native Assimilation in Guayra

10 Sept – I’m placing a medium sized army in the middle of my nation to be flexible to where to go.

14 Dec – Another assimilation in Guayra

23 Dec – I choose to invest in Colonial Enthusiasm and we get more growth for a while!

[Abe Sargent]

14 Feb, 1643 – Sugar is beginning to rise in value

2 aApril – I gain a claim on the Dutch province

6 July – Jeremoabo is no a core.

3 Aug – Our military advisor passes. I hire level 1 advisor Zopalua Sahuaraura, who gives me 33% reinforce speed

8 Aug – I declare war against Carib

13 Aug – We get an heir! 2/5/3 Yahuar Hacuac

16 Aug – One of my advisors has been taken too seriously by the court and advisers are suggesting his voice be weakened. I can keep him, lose 01 legit, and gain 2 Mercantilism or send the adviser away. I keep him

27 Sept – I win a major battle against the Carib in Muturu

8 Oct – I choose to defend guild privileges in a Cottage Industry event and get more merchant guild loyalty.

18 Oct – we rout their army in Para

3 Nov – Muturu is now a full city!


Muturu – 3 dev, Sugar, 0.22, tropical jungle, inland of Para, Dutch in Amapa, and Marajo, and touches th Carib in Santarem

26 Mar – I get a gift ot the state and place it in the treasury

1 April –

Guayra – Sugar, 3 dev, savannah, tropical, north of Santa Catarina, and west and south of Spain. Concepcion is next, to its northwest

9 May – Santarem falls.

1 June –

Kawesqar – On the southern tip-ish coastally of South America, mountains, fish, 3 dev, 0.14 made, south of Aysen, and northwest of Tierra del Fuego

2 July – Muturu is a core.

1 Aug –

Grajau – Savannah, tropical. 3 dev, Cocoa, 0.24 made,south of Maranhao, Alcantara, east of Tacurui and east of Timon.

7 Aug – I get 485 gold and we annex Carib.

Santarem - I order a core, tropical wood, jungle and tropical, 7 development, Animist and Carib culture, west of Muturu and east of unclaimed Manaus – wasteland above and below/. 0.13 made here

1 Sept –

Tucurui – 3 devl, jungle, tropical, coffee, 0.21, south of Para and Belem, west of Grajau and north of Spain

I send the colonists here to an inland place called Chiquitos. I want to spread out to spain from inland, since they are doing the same, and push them that direction as well. It’s also an inland center of trade.

[Abe Sargent]

12 Nov –

200 YEAR REVIEW!!!



I’m going to start by giving you a macro view of South America. You can see us, Spain, Portugal, and more. Rio da Prata is the Portuguese Colonial Nation. We gave it a lot of that area, but I landlocked I from further expansion. You can see where Spain and I came to each other in Brazil after we took the Scottish Brazil Colonial Nation. Now Spain is jumping over stuff in order ot dig deeply. That central circle is the province of Chiquitos. I want to grab it and push east from there and hit them from the south and from the east.

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Note our high cash (we are making 29 gold a month, despite 7 colonies under our control), high MIL power, close to the next level, and DIP power ready to get a new idea soon.



I don’t have a map of the whole world yet, Europe and North Africa? I do have that!


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Here’s Europe for you. You can see Scotland took a chunk out of England a while ago and England is hurt.


What about North America?

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You can see Britain has 13 Colonies, Mexico, Louisiana, and Scotland has Canada, and France Central America. Portugal still has virtually the whole Caribbean.

Scotland has a few colonies outside of Nova Scotia and The Dutch are in Louisiana.

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger

We are ranked 6th in the world. Only Portugal has a bigger treasury, and We have the highest income after the Ottomans (among those nations we know of, but we know of China, Korea, Japan, and lots more). We have the 3rd highest development at 787 behind Ottomans and Ming and With 55 techs, we are right around others (Portugal leads with 58). With 28 Ideas, we are 5 behind the wrold’s leader, France, with 33

With 124 lands, Inti is the 8th largest religion in the world.

Top ten provinces by tax income (This list starts at 14.35 and ends at 10.25, but we have 5 tied for it at spots #10 on my list).

Quito
Huanuco
Cuzco
Bogota
Jujuy
Crato
Neiva
Chanchan
Lima
Tucume


Potosi alone gets me 152 gold a year in production.

Our top ten non-gold production provinces are:

Trinidad – 32.80
Bogota – 30.49
Merida – 23.20
Antioquia – 20.6
Tucuman – 20.04
Cauca – 19.06
Santa Cruz de la Sierr – 18.65
Quito – 17.82
San Juan – 17.82
Paramaribo – 17.66

Almost all of these are cocoa or coffee with a plantation. Trinidad is sugar and Quito cloth.

We have 127 provinces

With 111000 we have the 3rd largest army in the world after Ottomans and France (115k). With 53, we have the 8th biggest navy in the world

Our trade nodes:

Biggest trade nodes in the world we know of:

Genoa
Sevilla
English Channel
Champagne
Caribbean
Lubeck
Constantinople
Ivory Coast
Rheinland
Beijing


We have 138 of the power of Lima, and it’s. not a llot, and we get 5o poer in Cuiba and 39 in Amazonas.

Current Price of trade goods:

5.6 – Cocoa

5.25 – Sugar

4.5 - Tobacco, Coffee, Iron

4 – Dyes, Silk, Ivory,

3.6 – Cloth

3.5 – Fur

3.45 0 Copper

3.3 – Salt

3.12 –Wine

3 –Cotton, Spices, Chinaware, Tea

2.7 – Tropical Wood

2.2 – Slaves

2 – Grain, Wool, Naval Supplies, Fish,

Up until today, I was missing Dyes, Silk, Ivory, Wine, Iron, Fur, Tea, Slaves, Cotton, and Slaves in my dominion, but we have a colony that has one of those. I have an epic amount of cocoa and coffee, and have bene usually jumping their production with manufactories.

Strategic Goods –

I 58.9% of the world’s coffee and 46.9% of its cocoa. We also lead the world with 25,2% of the production of Sugar and 33.2% of its tobacco. I expect the tobacco to ebb slowly as tobacco road up north gets going. We are close to the market leader in:

Tropical Wood (11.6% vs 14.4% of Khmer)
Salt (8.2% for us vs 10.6 for Ming China).


If I could push my that make It a bit, we’d be a good place.

[Abe Sargent]

16 Nov – We convert Borborema – I send them to Pernambuco.

I order a Plantation in Cartagena, Magdelena, and and TImon

5 Dec – Guayra is a core.

1 Jan, 1645 – MIL 20 gained, we can build swivel cannon, we get better infantry fire and combat width

3 Jan – Kawesqar is a core. I give it away to my nobility

I am pulling my colonists from Huillimapu, south of Pinunmapu in the coast, and sending it south to Chiloe, the final coastal area unclaimed here and north of Aysen.

25 Mar – Grajau is a core. I order up a workshop

2 April –

Aysen – Coastal, mountains, wool, 3 development, between Chiloe and Kawesqar on the western coast. 0.12 made here.


5 May – Tururui is a core. Workshop for here as well

Idea – Espionage 5 – Shady Recruitment, we can study technology and get -33% from shady dealings relation impact

5 June –

Huillimapu – 3 development, coastal, 0.18 made, highlands, and it has….wine as its trade good for choice.

I pull my colonists from Chiloe and send them to Fuerte Borbon, south and a long province of Shiquitos and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

18 July – Native Assimilation in…


Tierra del Fuego – Arid, 0.21, coastal desert, coffee, tip of South America, south of Portugal in Florida Blanca and us in Kawesqar.

23 Aug – I complete the mission to have a bigger army that France and we get bonuses to maintenance and recruitment.

13 Sept – I pull my colonists out of Pastos Bons and send them to Chaco Boreal, south of Fuerte Borbon, and west of Concepcion and east of Sucre and Tarija.

1 Oct –

Oeiras – Remember when I said that I needed to grab it form Spain around my Scottish Brazilian goodies? Well, now we have it! Coffee, tropical drylands, 4 dev, 0.41 made here, north of two Spanish holdings, and next to Crato, Timon, Ceara, Parnaiba and Pambu.

9 Nov – Aysen is a core that I hand ot the clergy

[Abe Sargent]

11 Jan, 1646 – Huillimapu is a core. I order up a Plantation in Zaraza

19 Jan – I choose to aid the natives in native exploitation

16 Mar – Admin Tech 20 – We can get Absolute Monarchy and Republication Dictatorship

31 Mar – We gain inflation from debased currency

1 April – Teirra del Duego is a croe

Pastos Bons – Coffee, savannah, tropical, 0.27 cash, 3 development, south of Grajau, and north of two Spanish holdings.

11 May – Assimilation in Fuerte Bourbon

4 June – Oeiras is a core.

I order up a Naval Equipment Manufactory in Caracas

1 Nov – Assimilation in Chaco Boreal

16 Dec = Pastos Bons is a core.

1 Jan, 1647 – I order a Plantation in Llanos. I am making 64 gold a month

13 Jan – Santtarem is now a core. I order a workshop here

1 Oct –

Chiquitos – Tropical, Jungle, 3 development, naval supplies, 0.14 made her, inland, to the east of Santa Cruz de la Sierr. I send these colonists east to Vila Bela

10 Nov – Savoy attacks Spain and Savoy and their allies, including France and it’s colonial nations are now at war with Spain.

24 Nov – I agree to give military access to Spain and Spanish Brazil

1 Dec –

Concepcion – Tobacco, 3 dev, savannah, 0.23 made, east of Chaco Boreal, west of Spain in Ofaie. I order the colonists her north to Corumba.

19 Dec – I order a plantation in Cajamarca

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1648 – Our advisor for admin has passed. I hire a new level 2 one, that gies me 10% tax bonues.

9 Mar – Pernaimbuco converts! Rio Grande is next-e.

WHOA

1 Apr _ I get almost 3000 gold from a monopoly company forming.

Well, let’s spend that cash.

Plantations in – Cumana, Chimbote, La Rioja, Rio Grande do Sul

Cathedral in Abancay

Naval Weapons Manufactory in Chichas

Trade Company in Huillimapu


Portugal joined the Spanish war

10 May – I recall my colonists in Chaco Borela and send them to Manaus, inland of Santarem and Barcelos

1 Jun e –I lost our trading advisor – I go with a level 2 spy offense one.

10 June – Chiquitos is a core

20 June – Vila Bela hit with an outbreak of disease and we organize a response

2 Aug – Concepion is a core. I order a Plantation here

13 Sept – I get a “Men Flock to the Colors” event and we get 7500 manpower

3 Oct – expansion idea #4 Organized Recruitment - -10% land recruitment time.

18 Oct – Robber Barons strike in San Luis. I side against them and the Merchants like me and nobles don’t

It’s time.

1 Dec – Idea – Espionage #6 – Destabilizing Efforts – We can sow discontent and agitate for liberty

[Abe Sargent]

22 Dec – I declare war on French Colombia

France is allied with the Netherlands…


I order 14000 troops from Rio Branco to Ataapo.

I order my 25000 troops from Darien to Panama


1 Jan, 1649 –

Fuerte Borbon – Tobacco, jungle, tropical, 3 development, surrounded by Chiquitos, Chaco Boreal, Corbam Vila Bela abd.,,,,Sana Cruz…. .21 made here. I send the colonist here east to Caceres.

I combine my two fleets into one big giant mega-fleet

4 Feb – Panama is ours

15 Feb – Atabapo is ours.

9 Mar – Amapa, the Dutch colony here falls to us

Guasipati also falls to us

19 Mar – Veraquas falls to us as well

1 May – Chorotega falls

11 May – I sink a fleet of 6 ships iin the Gulf of Darien

11 June – Nilcoya falls

23 July – Managua next

26 July – Their capital, Angustura falls to us

1 Sept – We take Mosquito from them

5 Sept – Fuerte Borbon is a core now

I order up some Plantations

14 Oct – Honduras is ours

4 Dec – Chortli is ours

13 jan, 1650 – I crossed the line into French Mexico after every holding of Colombia is ours. I took Chacujal

5 Feb – I rout a small local force in Guatemala

12 Mar – Guatemala is ours

26 April – I take Xocnocho

17 June – Two more fall

7 Oct – Two more are ours

23 nov – I attack and defeat a small French army in Ecab

15 dec – Army routed

24 Dec – I defeat a small french fleet in the Gulf of Mexico

12 Jan, 1651 – Another province falls

26 Jan – Another small battle is ours

21 Feb – Rio Grande converts. Next up is Santarem

5 Mar – Another small army falls

1 April –

Chaco Boreal –Coffee, drylands, tropical, 3 dev, 0.20 made, south of Fuerte Borbon, and connects Coumba and Conception on one side with Tarija on the other.

16 April - I capture the capital of French Mexico – Xicallano

9 Aug – I took 4 more provinces and we fought and won a big battle in the east

Time to go shopping?

I want Amapa from the Ditch, the three holdings in S America and Panama. Peace score of 12. We have a warscore of 19. They are not interested. They would do….their three we surround. That’s it right now. We’ll keep pushing then

10 Oct – I grab another province

4 Dec – Chaco Borela is now a core

11 Dec – Another falls

19 Jan, 1652 – Scotland removes us as a rival

22 Jan – I capture a fort province of French Mexico

19 Mar – Two more fall and I routed an army

Okay now we’re done.

[Abe Sargent]

I get:

Panama
Atabapo
Angostura
Guasipati

And the Dutch – Amapa


We have removed the French and Dutch from South America


Amapa – Dutch, Protestant, tropical, coastal, jungle, 4 dev, cocoa, core ordered, 0.2 made here, and 40% auto vs 6.1% unrest


All Francien Catholic

Atabapo – Core ordered, 7 dev, tropical, jungle, 0.16 made, 10.8 unres, 40% auto, naval supplies. West of Angustura, and east of Apure and Puerto Carrena, south of Llanos and Zaraza.

Ansutura – The former capital, 0.24 made, 9 dev, jungle, tropical wood, tropical., 10.*5 unrest, 40% autonomy. South of Zaraza, Uyapari and ewestish of Orinoco Delta.. East of Atabapo and west og Guasipati


Guasipati – 10 development, 0.28 cash made, naval supplies, tropical jungles, 10.* unrest, 40% auto, wrest of Piraria and Essequibo, south of Orinoco Delta and east of Angustura

Panama – Marketplace here, 3 Dev, coastal, tropical, Sugar harvested, 0.20 made, 40% auto, and 10.8 unrest. West of Darien. It’s an Important Natural HArbor


Quick map for you, just to show how smooth the area is…

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I have a ton of cash, because I was worried about the war, not about building.

Post war:

Plantation in Apure; Orinoco Delta; Guajira; Darien; Rio Branco; Santa Techa

[Abe Sargent]

2 May –

Vila Bela – Jungle, tropical, cocoa, 3 dev, 0.29, north of Chichiquitos, Fuerte Borbon and Chaceres. I head east to Diamentino

2 Aug –

Manaus – Tropical jungle, inland center of trade, grows tobacco, 4 dev, inland and the final point next to the two former tribal holdings of Barcelos and Santarem. 0.34 made here

Chiloe – coastal mountains, gold mines, 4 dev, 1.57 made, south of Huillimapu and north of Aysen, west of Pehuenmapu and such.

I finished my mission to make a city of Chiloe

Next colonial target with my Manaus colonists is:

I have all of my borders set with Spain, Portugal, and such. All I have left to do is fill in the blanks. Most ae 3 dev nations with little to offer. We’ll start up north with Barinas, a province in the NW surrounded by Merida, Altagracia, LLanoa, and Apure.

Let’s finish up:

Espionage – May Infiltrate Admin, and we get +50% rebel support for finishing up the idea.


I send a diplomat to agitate for liberty with French Colombia, who’s currently at 55%


1 Oct – I order plantations in Marajo and Muturu.

8 Nov – Santarem is now Inti!

I send missionaries to Jeremoabo

1 Jan, 1653 – Expansion Idea #5 - Diplomatic relations +1

8 Jan – Vila Bela now a core

1 Feb – Naval Equip Manu ordered for Santarem


3 Mar –

Corumba – Marsh, copper mines, tropical, 4 dev, west of Spainish holdings, north of Concepcion, west of Fuerte Borbon and others. 0.29 made here

Chiloe is a core

Next target is Povos das Missoes, an inland province just behind Rio Grande do Sul and other sbetween Portugal and Spain.

11 Apr – Manaus is a core and Crato finally converts. I order a Cathedral in Crato and send a missionary t oCeara

1 Sept – Plantation ordered for Manaus


Caceres – Marsh, tropical, Sugar, west of Spain, north of Corumba and south of Diamantino. 0.52 made here with 5 development, and a core on the way baby

Next target – Melodia, south of Chaco Boreal, east of Jujuy and Tarija, and west of Concepcion

18 Sept – I get a horse population boom and -10% cavalry cost for 10 years

19 Oct – I get a major event – Anticlericalism. The merchant guilds of several prominent cities are accusing the clergy of being both greedy and indolent. The pious commoners are now withholding their tithes in a protest against a bad example of misuse of the clergy’s authority. Pious merchant guilds are following suit. The clergy want us to fine the obstinate merchants. Options:

1). Force merchants to pay. Gain 410 gold, lose autonomy in Neiva, clergy get loyalty and influence as the merchants lose it
2). A mild reprimand is enough. Clergy lose 10 loyalty and influence.

I choose mild

8 Nov – Corumba is a core .

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1654 – Weapons Manu ordered in Corumba

11 May – Cacaeres is a core.

1 Jun – Plantation ordered there

27 Aug – We get cores in all of the provinces we took from Euorpean folks

5 Oct – We now have a maximum of tobacco trading and get a nice bonus to spy defense

1 Feb, 1655 – I order Plantation in Amapa and Panama

6 Feb – A revolt breaks out in Angostura

2 Mar – Ends

11 Aug – Jeremoabo converts. Next is Angostura

13 Oct – Expansion Idea #6 – Improved Shipyards -10% Shipbuilding time

I am going to being to Infiltrate the Admin of some folks (The result should reveal the maps of those people)

1 Nov – Oh noes!


Our monarch passes. His son, just 12, cannot take the crown yet. We’ll have a Regency Council for a bit

1 Jan, 1656 – We gain new tech – MIL 21 – We gt bonuses to tactics and infantry shock

I order Plantations for Sergipe, and Pernambuco

10 Jan – I get an event for Uniform Regulations and the rice of cloth and dyes increase.

1 April – I capture and expel a diplomat from Polotsk trying to steal tech from us

17 Apr – I send a diplomat to agitate for library with Spanish Brazil


1 May – I increase our stability to 3

20 May – Assimilation in Barinas

20 July – Ceara converts. Next is Atapabo

3 Sept – Plantations in Rio Grande and Borborema

DIP TECH 18 – We get +0.5 naval morale

2 Oct –

Barinas – 3 dev, marsh, tropical, sugar, 0.30. I send the colonists here south to Pore.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1657 – I order up Plantations in Maranhao and Pambu

4 May –

Diamantino – 3 development, tropical wood, tropical and jungle, 0.18 made, west of Spain.

Next target is Cerejeiras, two provinces to the west and north of Chiquitos

1 July – Barinas is a core and I order a plantation here

17 Jan, 1658 – Diamantino is a core. I order up a Naval Manufactory here.

10 April – I get an event that drops my legitimacy 25

2 July – Truce expires with France, Dutch, and France’s colonial nations

Rio da Plata is at 100 liberty desire, but I am allied with their leader. It’d probably piss off Portugal to Support Rio’s independence

3 Aug -

Povos das Missoes – 3 dev, tropical savannah. Coffee, 0.25 made here, and I send the colonists west across the border to Misiones.



15 Aug – Our ruler has aged enough to take over:


Yahuar Hacuac II Huyla – 2, 5, 3

Our tech gain slowed to 9/9/6

I make a few changes with my advisors:

I hire a level 3 advisor for DIP and ADM. We now make 83 a month instead of 106 and we are 10/10/6

23 Nov – Angostura converts. Next is Guasipati

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1659 –

I order – Naval Weapons Manu in Angostura, Plantation in Cayenne, Curacao

13 Feb – Spices begin to increase in value

Povos das Missoes is a core-os

1 May – Plantation for Povos

1 July – Atabapo converts. Expansion #7 +20% Global Trade Power and for finishing it we get a permanent CB vs Asia and Africa

4 Dec –

Melodia – Grain, 3 dev, tropical drylands, 0.11 made here, I move south to Chaco Central

1 Feb, 1660 - I order – Plantation in Poya, Tierra del Fuego

1 Mar – I send a Missionary to Amapa

12 Apr – Assimilation in Cerejeiras.

18 April – I get more and more people requesting representative national institutions. I lose 35 power in each to give them what they want

12 Aug – Melodia is a core and I order Plantation for Chaco Boreal to its north

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1661 – DIP TECH 219 – We can make War Galleons, Frigates and can build Grand Shipyards

1 April _ I order us to upgrade our fleet. It cost s1422 cash

23 May – Expansion in Misiones gets us more tax base

1 Nov – I order up Plantations in Vila Bela, Workshops in Corumba, Caceres, Cathedral in Huanuco

22 Dec 1661 – The Dutch have circumnanvigated the globe.

4 Jan, 1662 –

Pore – Sugar, savannah, tropical, 3 dev, 0.26 madeeast of Bogota, and west of Apure. I head south to Meta

11 Mar – Border friction in Rio da Prata

0.21 Mar – Heretics in Guasipati convert – Panama is next on the line

I order the people of Santarem to become Quechua

1 Sept – I order Naval Equipment Manu in Chiquitos, Plantation in Santa Catarina, Guayra

9 Sept – Pore is a core and gest a Workshop

1 Nov – Amapa converts. Workshop for here too

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1663 –

Cerejeiras – Tropical, jungle, naval supplies, 3 dev, 0.10 made, north of Chiquitos, south of the Eastern Amazonas wasteland. I send colonists west to Guapore.

21 May – I take a mission to remove Tapuia from our map

31 May – We have an heir – Tupac Hualpa 2/6/5

11 July – I declare war on Tapuia. Now the only major hiccup is that they are guaranteed by Scotland.

28 Aug – After they fled from us, we chased them down and routed their force in Sergipe

6 Sept – Cerejeiras is a core

20 Nov - Their capital falls


22 Nov – We annex them and finish the mission and gain some manpower and prestige



Paraiba – Ge culture and Reformed religion, 15 development, grain, coastal, south of Rio Grade and north of Pernambuco. 40% autonomy. 0.33made here and a core is ordered as the first line of business. It features a shipyard, dock, temple, and workshop


Tapuia is ours. No tribes left here

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1664 – I order up – Plantation in Pore, Workshop in Barinas, Naval Equipment Manu in Atabapo and Guasipati

17 April – Our king is ill for 10 years and we hand the reigns a biut to the provinces and get some loyalty from merchant guilds, and more autonomy change

8 June – I get a colonial expansion event and Meta grows by 200 but we lose 30 gold to pay for it

2 Aug –

Misiones – Wool, 4 dev, 0.18 made here, savannah, south of Guayra, north of Yareyu and west of Santa Catarina. I send the colonists here west to Itapua

27 Oct – Panama converts

1 Nov – Admin 21 – we get +5% production efficiency

1 Dec - I order Cathedral in Chuquiabo, Macaya, Cuzco, Ayaviri, Lima. Tucume, Wankapampa, Tumbes

1 Jan, 1665 – Assimilation in Guapore

10 April – Misiones is a core-es.

10 May – DIP TECH 20 – We get +5% trade efficiency

The diff I need in tech is crazy. Adm for the next level is 1051. MIL is 1165. DIP? Just 475


3 Aug – Chaco Central – Tropical drylands, 3 dev, south of Melodia and north of Chaco Austral. Wool, 0.12 made here, settlers heads south to Matara


1 Sept – I order up:

Cathedrals in Charcas, Arica, Potosi, Sucre, Chichas, Jujuy, Tarija and Santa Cruz de la Sierra

[Abe Sargent]

3 Feb, 1666 –

Meta – Coffee, 3 dev, savannah, 0.20 made, west of Puerto Carreno, east of Bogota and Neiva, and south of Pore. I send my colonists southeast to Guaviare, on the border with the wasteland

I order built cathedrals in Bogota, Mariquita, Esmeraldas, Quito and Guayaquil

12 April – Chaco Central a core-tral

Alright I think that joke’s old

1 May – Paraiba is a core too. I order a missionary here.

1 June – Colonial migration send s200 people from colony in Itapua and they are in Guapore

13 Oct – Meta a core. Workshop ordered

1 Dec – Cathedrals in Piwra, Canari, Tucuman, Pambu, Ceara, Parnaiba

1 Mar, 1667 – Cathedrals in Trinidad, Curacao, Altagracia

1 June – I hire a new military advisor since I’m making 109 cash a month. I hire a level 3 guy an upgrade from my level 1 one.

We are now at 10/10/8 tech investment

1 July – assimilation in Itapua

3 Dec –

Guapore – tropical wood, tropical, jungle, 3 dev, 0.17 made, and we head southwest to San Joaquin along the wasteland.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1668 – I order cathedrals in Rio Grande, Barcelos,Cartagena, Tunja and Neiva ; workshop for Angostura

1 Feb – Santarem is Quechua. I order culture changes for my Scottish holdings

19 Mar – I import in iron from Rio da Prata and they like us more

15 May – I accept a petition for redress and I lose some prestige

1 August, 1668 – The Thirteen Colonies, led by Thomas Paine have had the Declaration of American Independence. They are now at war with England

English Mexico, English Louisiana are joining the Colonies in their war against England, Norway, Netherlands and Bar and Brittany

5 Aug – Guapore is a core. I order a Naval Equipment thing here

1 Sept – MIL TECH 22 – We get conscription centers, coehron mortars, better cavalry, artillery fire and artillery shock.

I upgrade to the Mortar

24 Sept – Our heir falls ill!

I pay for him to get the best treatment and he recovers

7 Jan, 1669 – I order up Cathedrals in Atabapo, Guasipati ; Workshop in vila Bela, Diamantino; Plantatin in Turcurui

31 Jan – I hear news of permanent navies increasing the need for naval supplies

10 feb – France attacks English Louisiana and tries to take some of its stuff while England is in war with it.

1 May – who has a highliberty desire?

French Mexico 100%
French Colombia – 100%
Rio da Prata – 100%

1 Sept – Meta is ordered for a Plantation, I also want to increase my market share of sugar, so I: Trade Depot – Magadelena, Panama,

1 Nov – DIP 21 – We get Chebeck ships.

[Abe Sargent]

11 Jan, 1670 – I order up some Naval Equipment Manufactory in Cerejeiras and Belem

3 Feb –

Itapua – Grain, savannah, 3 dev, and 0.11 made here. I am moving nporth to what could be the last great unclaimed province in the continent. Asuncion, south of Concepcion. It’s an Inland Center of Trade. Something good here could be a nice boost.

4 May – I order a University in our capital, Huanuco. It gives us -20 local development and another building can be built there/.


19 July – Paraiba converts. I order a culture shift to Quechua

10 Oct – Itapua is a core.

22 Oct – France has started threatening our trade

1 Jan, 1671 – Get ready:

Admin Tech – 22 – We can build Town Hall, Constitutional Monarchy/Republic and…..We get another Group of Ideas!

1 Feb, 1671 – I order up – Workshop in Chiquitos, Povos das Missoes, Coro, Guasipati, ; Plantation in Oeiras, Pastos Bons

So what do I want for my next group of Ideas?

I don’t really feel like I need more MIL ideas really. Plus I make more DIP/ADM than MIL. For example, I’m making 120 power a year, so that’s 360 every three years, or one Idea every 3 years, barring spending stuff. That’s pretty strong stuff, right?

I grab Trade Ideas

23 May – Pretty soon I’m going to have to make a decision. Support a colonial nation against our ally leader? Or keep them here for now?

I decide to support Rio since they are at 100% and our support with Portugal drops by 100

2 June –

Matara – Coffee, drylands, tropical, 3 dev, 0.23 gold made her,e surrounded by us in Jurjuy, Chaco Central, Chaco Austral, and Santiago del Estero.


Next? Well all of the small inner ones were taken. So I’m ordered my people to Suriname, just south of Cayenne, Paramaibo, and such.

11 June – Assimilation in Ascuncion

2 Oct –

Guaviare – Sugar in this tropical jungle, 3 dev, 0.30, south of Meta and Ouerto Carreno and west of the Amazonas wasteland. I send these folks south to Caqueta.

I’m building an army in the south next to Portugual’s holdings

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1672 – I order up: Workshop in Atapabo, plantation in Grajau

I am going to start doing Plantations for Grain. Not very effective uses of cash, but what else is there to do?

Plantations in the capital of Huánuco

I increase the Dev in Chanchan by investing in some Mil and then order a Plantation for its cocoa



2 Feb – They lose the war,and the 13 Colonies, and the other English Colonial Nations are back under the thumb of their ruler.

Matara is a core and I order a Workshop here

I hand Puerto Carreno to the clergy, Antofagasta to the nobility

1 Mar – Our level 3 DIP adviser passes. Our only level 3 options is a colonial range one, but I puck Cusichaca up anyways.

6 April – Jeremoabo and Borborema are now Quechua

25 April - I lose 10 prestige to a Wave of Obscurantism event

1 June – We gt an Assimilation in Ascuncion

11 June – Guaviere is now a core and I order up a Workshop forit

18 June –

Demands for Representation

A number of hostile publications have begun to circulate in the cities of the Inca. Anonymous yet very critical authors claim that our government is Autocratic and demand both a written constitution and a parliament where the various parts of the country can be represented. What to do?

Ban the publications - -75 ADM Power
Make vague promises of reform - +4 local unrests in Potosi and Chachapoyas for 2 years.

I choose that one – vague promises

1 Sept – I order liberty agitated for next door in French Colombia

21 Sept – We gain tax base in Asunción when we ge ta new settlement event opening.


1 Nov – Next up are Plantations in Jeremoabo, Cathedral in Borborema, and Textile Manufactory in Canari (wool). We’re going to start opening up the wool and fish markets as well (might as well)

3 Mar, 1673 –

San Joaquin – Tropical wood, tropical, jungle, 3 dev, southwest of Guapore, northwest of Chiquitos. -/17 made here, and I order my folks ewes tot Madre de Diosm, also south of the Western Amazonas wasteland

3 June –

Asuncion -Coffee, marsh, 4 dev, 0.50, Inland Center of Trade, Surrounded by Concepcion, Melodia, Chaco Central, Itapua, and .Santiago. I head south to Santiago to finish u this section of the continent

7 Aug – I order up – Workshop in Guapore; Naval Equipment in Esmeraldas; Plantation in Tumbes; Abancay

6 Oct – I get Production Improvements event for +10% production for 10 years


Trade Idea #1 –

Shrewd Commence Practice - +20% global trade power

10 Nov – San Joaquin is a core now. I order up a workshop for it.

5 Dec – Alagoas is Quechua now!

15 Dec – Rio declares independence for Portugal


I lost my alliances as Spain joined Portugal, and we are now at war with our former allies.

Including Spanish Brazil…

I order troops to cross the border to start hitting them. I also order my fleet head out and to begin to set sail.

[Abe Sargent]

19 Jan, 1674 – We arrive with 19000 troops in the fort of Inhambupe and begin a siege

5 Feb – Asuncion is core. I order up a plantation here

My intention is to war capture a bunch of Spanish Brazil holdings to help the warscore for Rio. I capture the first, Cuiaba. I’ll skip most of these small victories

I also have this fleet:

29 large ships, 9 medium, 15 transports. It can smash some folks

15 Mar – I win a minor victory in Inhambupe as we are attacked there

1 April I get an event for trading the most Tropical Wood we get -5% dev cost

We’re having some small chases and such, I’m chasing the Portuguese fleet away from the northern part of our area

16 May - I have an idea. Their fleet got away from me. But what if I loaded up an army, sailed it to Europe, and smashed with it?

20 June – As of today, we’ve taken 9 Spanish Brazil places, and are seigeing three’’


25 Aug – I win a battle in Parnagua but I can’t chase down their army to continue the advantage

5 Oct – Pambu is now Quechua

I order more troops assembled all over

I make some generals for battle

18 Jan, 1675 – Rio captures a major fort from Spanish Brazil

11 Mar – 15k troops unload in Lisboa and begin a siege. They have no troops here and would have to ship them in from somewhere

5 May – So I have sieges in Curtiba, their capital of Rio de Janeiro, and Inhambupe as well as Parnagua. Meanwhile our foes are fighting with the larger force of Rio da Plata

17 May – They lose to Rio

28 July – Caraibbas is throwing off the Portueges gauntlet.

1 Aug – Culture in Ceara is now Quechua

13 Sept – We take Rio de janeiro

20 Dec - 10k more troops arrive in Lisboa

[Abe Sargent]

13 Jan, 1676 – Caraibas won a major battle vs Spanish Brazil in the coast

12 Feb – Portugese Caraaibas have captured 2 holdings in mainland Spain

7 Mar – Paranagua falls to us

14 Mar – We take Inhambupe as well

8 May – I have been spending a few months moving my victorious armies over to smash their 30k army that rebuilt post loss to Rio da Prata



3 June – Pernambuco and Sergipe are Quechua

11 July – We win.



Suriname – Coffee, 3 dev, tropical jungle, 0.25 made, and next colonists are Yurimaguas, north of Moyobambam and Chachapoyas

29 Sept – I rout their army in Goias

1 Oct –

Caqueta – Coffee, 0.31, 4 dev, tropical jungle, and I order these colonist south to Canelo. We are east of Poyan, Neiva and Quito


1 Nov – We take Curtiba from Spanish Brazil

4 Nov – We have rebels all over.

[Abe Sargent]

Here let me show you a quick zoomed out map of Spanish Brazil so you can see.


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[Abe Sargent]

10 Dec – We get a great captain event and gain +20% morale for our armies for 10 years

7 Jan, 1677 – Rio Grande is now Quechuan

14 Mar – Suriname is a core and I order a plantation there

7 May – Peace:

Rio da Prata won its independence, as did Caraibas. Portugal pays a ton of cash and war reparations.

Of course the good thing here is that Rio is now free of the Portuguese tether

I can renew my alliance with either Portugal or Spain if I like. I expect we’ll kick out Spain like we just did with Portugal next. I get allies from other places.

9 May – We enter with an alliance with Caraibas

I need to begin to ferry over troops from LIsboa

Rio has reconfigured their name, flag, and color to just La Plata (with an Argentinian flag)

[Abe Sargent]

19 May - - New Tech – DIP TECH 22 – No naval attrition at sea, naval morale and maintained are improved. We get some new ships. We can build that Stock Exchange if you desire it.

I order these:

Naval Equipment Manu – Ceara, Para, Guayaquil

Workshop in Belem

Plantation in Guaviare,Puerto Carreno, Neiva,

Textile Manufactory – Wankapampa, Quero, Charchas, Jujuy, Tarija


And I think I’m going to stop giving these u[updates of buildings. You all know I have a ton of cash flowing in. No sense belaboring it.

5 June – Caqueta is cored and a workshop is ordered for is

11 Sept – I take a mission to rebuild manpower

2 Feb, 1678 – Get ready! I was wondering if we’d get this trade good – both Portugal and Spain got some down here. This was, literally, the final option down here as well.


Santiago – Tea! 3 dev, .16, marsh, east of the Chacos, north of Corrientes and Yareyu, south of Asunción. The next target is the random province called Ucayali which is east and next to our capital, Huánuco and some others.

6 Oct – it’s a core and I sent a Trade Company here.

13 Oct – I get a successful bureaucracy event

3 Dec – Paraiba is a core.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1679 – Idea – I get another trader

I send him to collect from Amazonas trade depot in Mutauru

1 April – Carraibas has taken the name Haiti.

More English colonies are revolting against England.



2 May –

Madre de Dios – Tropical Wood, tropical, jungle, 3 dev, 0.18. I send the colonists southeast to Moxos

New tech – MIL 23 – We get South American Dragons, cavalry shock, better tactics and such


6 July – TECH GAIN – Admin 23 –We get +20admin efficiency and +10 dev efficiency

5 Jan, 1680 – Core in Madre de Dios and I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory here


1 Mar – Our 3 star military adviser passes and the next is hired

7 June – One of our generals passes

3 Dec –

Yurimaguas – Tropical, jungle, 3 development, and what was the best thing found here? GOLD BABY! I order my colonists east to Quijos

28 Mar – We have been fabricating claims against La Plata.

6 Aug – Yurimaguas is now a core-uas

2 Oct –

Canelos – Cocoa, jungle, 4 dev, 0.44, I head the colonists east to Iquitos

There’s just one unclaimed place left!

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1682 – I hand Madre de Dioas to the clergy and San Joaquin to my nobility estates

3 Feb – I get a completed mission for recovering manpower.

I get a new idea – Trade #3 – We get +25% trade range

15 Feb – French Mexico asks for us to support their independence. Sure!

I feel like the Incan Empire is a bit of a Manifest Destiny over South America, and then a Monroe Doctrine sort of place for this hemisphere, if that makes sense

10 May – We get a Naval Investment event and DIP Power rises


15 May – Canelos is a core-lore and I order-los a Plantation-los.


24 October – I get an event with an option to steer production in colony Moxos to coffee (it’s currently Naval Supplies). It’s a lot more pricey. But I have way too much coffee made already


9 Feb, 1683 – Paraiba Is now Quechua

I order culture change of Amapa and the 4 French takings we took.

4 April –

Ucayli – With cocoa, tropical, 3 de,v, jungle, and 0.27 made, this place, east of Jauja, Huanuco, and south of Moyobamba and north of Cuzco is


I order colonists to the final spot that’s open Cochabamba. A 4 dev jungle south of current colony Moxos, west of Chiquitos, east of Charcas, and such.

[Abe Sargent]

4 June – Now that Cochabamba is started, let’s loo kat the world maps and how clean and pretty everything is!

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Just take a look at how pretty that is. So pretty!

Here’s the much less pretty North and Central America

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You can see the 13 Colonies, English Mexico and English Louisiana there, plus the French expansions.

Colonial Nations include – New Scotland, Nova Scotia, 13, Eng Mexico, French Mexico, French Colombia, New Netherlands, English Louisiana, and you have Scotland in Central America,

Nova Scotia is currently waging war for independence.

Here’s another pic:


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Europe?


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Ottomans still a major threat.

[Abe Sargent]

I have never made this much cash in a dynasty before. Go gold!

Monthly –

61.50 – taxes
149.75 - Production
46.13 – Trade
31.58 – Gold


Costs -

Advisers – 62.22
Army – 35.64
Navy – 19.99
Forts – 8
Colonies – 6.18


So we are making 151.95 a month.


I have 168 provinces, 4 colonies. Ranked 3rd.

[Abe Sargent]

I’m considering hanging it up. I’m in a strong place.

Long term goal is to either untether Spanish Brazil from Spain or to conquer it.


With 68 techs, we are 2 in front of anyone else in the world

With 38 ideas, we are in front of everyone in the world


3rd in manpower, 3rd in development

With 169 Inti holdings, Inti is the5th biggest religion or part of one in the world by geography. Catholic has 509, Sunni 415, Protestant 219 and Totemist 189.

Top Provinces by Taxes:

Trinidad – 23.50
Quito – 16.45
Crato – 16.16
Cuzco – 14.10
Huanuco – 14.10
Bogota – 14.10
Jujuy – 14.10
Chanchan – 12.90
Paraiba – 12.90
Neiva – 12.33

Those are the ones over 12. Another 6 have more than 10

Top Non-Gold by Production?

Trinidad – 40.53
Chanchan – 33.86
Bogota – 32.52
Sergipe – 27.72
Cajamarca – 26.61
Pore – 25.98
Cartagena – 25.98

And just three golds are in that list (Potisi, Cuzco, Arica)

With 148000 we have the largest army in the world. The Ottomans are 90k, France 98k.

53 is the 11th biggest fleet – I would want to build some more ships next

[Abe Sargent]

Trade Nodes:

Lima – 12.65 total
Cuiaba – 9.18 total
Panama – 8.16
Amazonas – 15.35

Two more we don’t have – Rio de la Plata and Brazil.

Current price of trade goods:


5.6 Cocoa

5.25 – Sugar

5.0 – Dyes, Silk

4.5 – Tobacco, Coffee, Iron

4.35 – Cotton

4.05 – Cloth

4 – Ivory

3.5 – Fur

3.45 – Copper

3.3 – Spices, Salt

3.12 – Wine

3 – Chinaware, Tea, Naval Supplies,

2.70 – Tropical Wood

2.20 Slaves

2 – Fish, Wool, Grain

Strategic Goods:

We make 4.3% of the world’s grain.
We make 5.2% of the world’s cloth
We make 7.1% of the world’s fish, the Ottomans are at 7.8 so we could close that.
We make 9.0% of the world’s salt. China leads with 9.9%.
We make 8.8% of the world’s Naval Supplies, and the Ottomans are at 9.1.
We make 8.2% of the world’s copper


We lead making 18% of the world’s gold/silver and such

We lead the world with 13.1% of wool produced, and we lead trade with 9.7%
We lead the world with 70.5% of the coffee it makes, and lead with 31% of its trade
We lead the world with 52.3% of the world’s Sugar, and tied with Haiti with 18% of its trade
We lead the world with 45.7% of its Tobacco made, and we lead with 23% traded
We lead the world with 66% of the cocoa it makes and lead with 23% of its trade
We lead the world with 31.7% of its tropical wood, and 16% of its trade as well

[JAG]

Fun dynasty to read as your EU ones always are, in case you hang it up as expected.

[Abe Sargent]

Thanks