EU4 - K'iche, (Now Maya) the New Hegemon

[Abe Sargent]

Hello all, I hope that you are having a great day today! My old PC was getting up of 7 years old, and I picked up a top of the line one a few weeks ago. One of the things I was looking forward to was later in the game EU4 play where slow down could be difficult to fight against.



Welcome to my latest dynasty. Who am I playing this time?


In my most recent dynasty I took Sukhothai in SE Asia and turned it into a regional power, allied with China. I grew to having the 2nd best economy, and a powerful army and navy. My goals recently have been to take some of the hardest nations in the 1444 start like Pskov, Sukhothai, and Athens and turn them into game winning power-houses.


So which one am I taking?


Some of my finalists in the last few times including Mzab, a poor Berber nation, Theodoro, a poor one-province at the tip of Crimea and easily eatable, Navarra surrounded on four sides by great powers of the age with no expansion possible, Sarig Yogir, small clan nation next to China and a few more.


I have never run a North American holding.


What I am looking up is something different.

How about K’iche?


Whom?

[Abe Sargent]

https://i.ibb.co/3BvHQQT/Kiche-1.png
https://i.ibb.co/VgGxLPq/Kiche-2.png


https://i.ibb.co/GkybvFp/Kiche-3.png

We are in this packed dense area to the south east coast. I have pulled up one of our regions.

[Abe Sargent]

You can check them out here:


Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%CA%BCiche%CA%BC_kingdom_of_Q%CA%BCumarkaj)


As you can see, the K'iche (spelled without the ' in the game) are one of the former Mayan Empire states in the region. They set up a while ago and are in their classic gowns right now in the mid-1400s, about 25 years before their decline begins.


Welcome to the K'iche people living in in Guatemala!

[Abe Sargent]

Oh, one quick note - please note that the game will call most nations during this era by their cultural group. So we are the K'ieche people, living in the area of state of Qʼumarkaj, which isn't fully represented by the game, as you will see soon.


I chose this nation after it came it top in an "usual dynasties to play" list online looking for inspiration. With unique ideas that resemble a powerful merchant nation, K'iche is supposed to play like the Meso-American Lubeck, founder of the Hanseatic League, and bringer of that cash.


I thought that would be a fun challenge here, and, as you'll see, we have some serious disadvantages:


(Oh, by the by, we'll be using the game's spelling)

[Abe Sargent]

Note that unlike the vast blob to most of our west, Kiche does not share any of the same religion – Nahuatl. We don’t have their DOOM counters and mechanics, and we don’t need to balance them.

Instead we are looking to the Mayan faith:

https://i.ibb.co/94ks6mW/Kiche-4.png

There you can see that we need to grow to 20, and then we can pass a reform, after which we release cores and shrink in size. Then we have to grow again, and regain that land. The national size after each reform is passed will be bigger.

Note that one of the reforms is a boost to colonists. My goal is to beeline for that and grab that and then expand colonially and militarily to help get the rest done.

[Abe Sargent]

Now let's do some window dressing for ya!


Tecun Uman has been declared a National Hero of Guatemala and they have a holiday each year to celebrate him. He was one of the last leaders of the K'iche people.

https://ljhsjblike.pbworks.com/f/Tecun%20Uman.jpg

https://visualoop.com/media/2015/04/Tecun-Uman.jpg


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5a/43/3b/5a433b9e5c7bdcc7c82d698de598a341.jpg


https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/37/C/6/cKF36aLwyDG479CjA5k87mRZLN5o2r.jpg


As you can see he's on coins and bills, statues and more. These are not a forgotten people in Guatemala at least.


Mostly in ruins now,Qʼumarkaj is big.

https://cdn.impakter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TIkal-Temple-1900x1069.jpg


Their people are still around:


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Market-Chichicastenango.jpg

[Abe Sargent]

My Goals:

1. Expand quickly into a nearby and useful place to get us a powerful economic footprint moving forward.
2. Get to 20 as mercilessly as possible, with as little time as needed.
3. Run the first development, take the colonists, and cut my nation down to 10 ish.
4. Colonize and retake those places to get back to 20
5. Repeat until I have fully evolved the Mayan faith
6. Westernize and evolve once Europe arrives
7. In the meantime expand into local areas south and take the entire region for the glory of Maya
8. Bring all of Maya under my control. Reclaim the Mayan dynasty.
9. Head north and west into those filthy Nahuatl lands and convert them after we bring them in to the true Mayan faith.
10. Evolve into the most powerful hegemon here.
11. Become the only remaining power in Central America.
12. Expand up and down to keep out and meet any Europeans
13. Westernize
14. Kick out any Europeans that bother me overly much after Westernization.

[Abe Sargent]

Here’s our land:


Guatemala – Coastal, hills, 7 dev, Cocoa plantations are the key economic holding here, Mayan and Highland Mayan culture are here, and they send us 0.50 each month.



Qumarkaj – Inland, Cocoa, Highland and Mayan, capital, Jungle, 7 dev, 0.50 made here as well



I have 5000 spearmen and I order them to 50% maintenance, and that gives me 1.78 in cash surplus monthly, a solid economic base. I send out a merchant to Mexico.

Our ruler is young and sucks.

https://i.ibb.co/RhKNrsP/Kiche-5.png

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon, Prelude – Visions of Glory


I introduce a Vision Quest. This will increase our prestige gain but rise our stability cost.

I declare Zapotec, Tzotzil and Itza as our rivals.

30 Nov – We enter into an alliance with Yocotan. They are rivals with two of our rivals, so they are a useful tool for my expansion.

1 Dec – I am getting 0.34 monthly in trade

5 Dec - We accept an ally from our eastern neighbors the Kaqchikel

7 Dec – They accept a royal marriage offer from us and we get a new Queen


3 Jan, 1445 – Royal Marriage with Yocotan

15 Jan – We accept an alliance from Cocomes


2 Mar – Royal Marriage with Cocomes.


I order 1000 more troops in my capital

25 Aug – I finish the “Build to my Force Limit” mission, and we get boosts to land stuff for 25 years


1 Nov – Our spy network in Itza is developed enough that I claim the next province over from my capital, Tzul. I jack up my maintenance. I give my ruler command of this army, and I order another 1000 troops


2 Feb, 1446 – I get a “Cycle of Creation and Destruction” event with some rebel risk.

[JonInMiddleGA]

I assume this has to be a modded option, right?

Regardless, is this grow/shrink/re-grow cycle unique to them? I can't say that I've ever seen anyone play anything with that particular rule, and I've seen more than my fair share of LP's.

[Abe Sargent]

I assume this has to be a modded option, right?

Regardless, is this grow/shrink/re-grow cycle unique to them? I can't say that I've ever seen anyone play anything with that particular rule, and I've seen more than my fair share of LP's.

No mods! It's all Mayan faiths

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 1 - Vision Found

1 Mar – I declare war for Tzul and order my army to cross the border. I only call Cocomes as they are the only ones that would join my call.


17 April – Tzul is ours and I order my army on to their capital.


26 May – After a long battle, they oust us from their capital


2 June – Another small holding grabbed by our alliance, Cocomes takes Kobox.


14 June – Cocomes wins at their capital and defeats their army


25 July – They retake Tzul after fleeing.


5 Aug – We defeat their main army in our capital.


15 Aug – Their ally captures a holding in Cocomes and moves to the capital.


30 Aug - Tzul falls and we rout their army


We have a warscore of 19%. I only need 32 to finish them completely!


22 Oct – We join armies for a siege


26 Oct – They retake Tzul with a small 1k army they build


5 Nov – We retake the holding in Cocomes


https://i.ibb.co/m47Q9pH/Kiche-6.png

Here is the current map. We dropped to 18%. My hope is that our doubled siege on Itza will win before theirs in Cocomes.


1 Jan, 1447 – I break off 1k in forces to take Tzul


16 Feb – Tzul is ours!



13 May – I have good news and bad news. We take their capital and we can bring them down! However, because we don’t have a claim on it or have captured it in battle, one of their holdings will go to Cocomes.


Here we go!



I half my maintenance.


https://i.ibb.co/B2bvYwB/Kiche-7.png Cocoa is made here too by Mayan and Highland Mayan people, and I spent the 45 ADM power to core both. Jungle, 5 dev, 0.06 made here, 75% autonomy.


Peten – The former capital of Izta, Cocoa, Jungle, north of Tzul, next to Cocomes’s new holding and our ally at Yocotan. Identical in numbers and everything else to Tzul




I spend some power to increase my stability.



We gained the Trustworthy Allies mission boost, after giving Cocomes land raised them high.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 2 - Vision Taken

1 July – After the dust settles we are making around 2.10 monthly.

I’d be prepared for some quieting.




1 Oct – Rebellion of a mighty 1000 in Tzul

22 Oct – We have a new heir, and he is 6/0/5.

26 Oct – Put down

5 March, 1448 – I get a Mayan themed event that rises our stability to 2.


11 Sept – Tzul is now a core!

28 Oct – As is Peten!

I have created the state of the Guatemalan Highlands here to administer them

5 Jan, 1449 – I increase our stability with 120 Admin monarch power.


2 Oct – We max relations with our allies and I send out some spy network development.



28 April, 1450 – After a blood sacrifice event where the king sacrifices willingly, we gain 50 power in each type.

1 Jan, 1451 – The Renaissance event occurs.


15 Mar – I order another 1k troops. My land forcelimit is 8k, I should get up to it.


11 May 0 I fabricate claims on two of our rivals


1 June – The truce with the ally of our enemy has lifted. I rivaled them by the by after we took out Itza.



6 Nov – Royal Marriage with Chorti, two over from us. I want to get an alliance with them as well


7 Dec - I fabricate another claim. We ally with Chorti

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 3 - Consolidations of Cocoa


3 July, 1453 – I fabricate a claim on the capital of Zapotec.

I found my next war target. Two of my rivals allied and they have a big lattice of helpfulness. However, Cocomes and us divide the three holdings of Belize, so I send over some folks to set up spy network there. I will also get permission to leave forces in with my ally, and then send over an army to hit them from their angle, so I can gobble up their land.


23 Feb, 1454 – We get a fun event that we use to gain some cash.


28 Mar – Cocomes refuses a trade event for feathers, and our relations drop by 50


1 June – I fabricate a claim on Belize.


1 Nov – I fabricate a claim on Zapotec and a minor near me.


1 Sept – 1456 – I fabricate a claim on Moran in Belize, and move some things around.

I’m ready to declare war on their capital of Belize.

War Sides:

Us, Cocomes, one ally to the left

Vs

Chactemal, Can Pech


Good math!

I split off 1k to take Moron and the rest to hit Chactemal’s capital at Belize.

20 Sept – They fled with their main army and march it around us to hit our capital.

4 Oct – I capture Moron. I order this army past Belize to Uaymil, their other holding

22 Oct – Joining forces with their other ally, they march to remove us from Belize.

8 Nov – Battle begins, and our local ally has their army here.

27 Nov – Despite down two thousand troops, we defeat their army in Belize.

13 Dec – Zapotec declares war against Tzotzil. If I had waited, I might have been ready to hit Zapotec while occupied.

16 Jan, 1466 – They retake Moron.

23 Jan – Our ally arrives to help out, and hits them in Moron

3 Feb – They rout the Chactemal army in Moron

11 Feb – My 1k army takes Uaymil. I send it back to Belize

4 March – Moron is again ours.

22 Mar – Belize falls!


We push on to Can Pech, where I have a claim on Champutun from my spy network.

4 Apr – We have siege on their capital of Campeche.


5 May – Our ally brings in Champutun, and then joins the two forces we have in their capital already.

5 Nov – Their capital falls!

https://i.ibb.co/BP8T96X/Kiche-10.png

I don’t have enough warscore for their final holding, Campeche, or for Moron, so I grab some cash instead. We get three holdings and force Chactemal to become our vassal.


I pay the 78 ADM power needed to start cores:

All are Mayan faith and Yucatec Culture

Belize – Sugar, port, Jungle, 9 dev, 0.27 made monthly here. It’s next to Moran, the final holding of our new vassal.


Uaymil – Jungle, Cocoa made here too, 0.07 made here, 7 dev, surrounded by Cocomes and north of Belize.


Champutun – Grasslands, coastal, 7 dev, Cocoa is farmed here too as the primary export. 0.07 made here. North of us in Peten, and divides Cocomes and Yokotan, both our allies.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 4 - Zapotec Taken


Now, with my fast growth, do I want to war against either of my neighbors to the east? If I just brought it in one or two holdings, that’d be good. I wouldn’t even need any allies.

I order 2k more troops assembled in Peten and my main army there looking for an opportunity.


I finish our High Income mission and we get bonuses to more finances for 25 years



2 Feb, 1457 – I accept a RM offer from our vassal.


25 Mar – I cannot declare war on Tzotzil. We are at peace from a few years ago still through 1460. I move my army next to Zapotec.


1 Nov – I declare a claim on Campeche.


1 Jan, 1458 – I order a Trade dip advisor to raise my dip development. This will cost us 1 cash a month, and we were making 1.75 with 100% support, so we can do it. And I am swimming in cash.


9 Mar – All of my three cores are complete!

I have to be ruthless. I am waiting for the opportunity in this war.

1 May – I declare war on Zapotec, and their adjacent Cocoa holding,.


22 June – It’s ours.

28 July – Another holding falls of theirs. I order my army to engage theirs into the one next to us.

9 Sept – We defeat them and our general and leader gained the Master of Armies trait.

19 Nov - I grant a request for military access from Cam Pech.


7 May, 1459 – Their capital falls

What do I want?

I have a 76% warscore.


https://i.ibb.co/Fbbd0Bp/Kiche-11.png

I can take the three ones highlighted green, and leave the last one for their foe in war to take out. Ready?


I spend 71 to core them.


All are Zapotek culture, ports, and Nahuatl religion and 75% autonomy.


Xoconochco – Next to my capital and Guatemala, with Cocoa farming, hills, 7 Dev, making just 0.05 for us monthly.


Tehuantepec – Up from X, and has a pretty weak Fishing contribution to our economy. 0.02, Jungle, and 5 dev.


Zapotec – The former capital, hills, Sugar is farmed here too, 5 dev, 0.03 made here for us.


I update my Military tech to #2. This enables us to have wider shock and infantry.


I order 3k more forces to bring us to our 13k forcelimit.


Cocomes announces us as a rival, and that breaks our alliance.

I reciprocate


We are now at ten, but we are massively badboyed and I need to rest a long time

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 5 - Rise Up


11 Aug - Huh, I didn’t notice, I was playing around with it but thought I had unclicked it as it was pretty weak, but looks like I accidentally took Zapotec as an vassal. Ah well!


8 Sept – My local unrest drops after I sacrifice some folks in an event.


1 Jan, 1560 – Our ruler has gained the Malevolent trait


19 Dec – I get an event that increases my relations with Yokotan.


1 Jan, 1461 – We get ADM Tech #2 – We get no bonuses.


I move my national focus to Diplomatic stuff

As of right now, I have 1.41 cash coming in monthly, and this is with the 100% maintenance of my 13k troops and my monthly 1.0 to my adviser.

1 Sept – 6k Rebellion in Xoco.

22 Sept – No longer

18 Nov – All three cores are finished!

1 Dec – With the cores done, we are now making 2.20 each place. I send a Missionary to Xoco.


1 July, 1462 – Dip Tech #2 – We increase our trade range



19 Nov – Our heir gains the Zealot trait

25 Aug, 1463 – I got a fun event:

https://i.ibb.co/bPkBdLf/Kiche-12.png

This helps to show what it looks like. Each faith has their own events. I can encourage the pilgrims,. Which costs around 20 cash, and will give me a 20 year boost to manpower and prestige. I do so.


2 Feb, 1464 – Rebellion in Zapotec


4 Mar – Defeated!


I have a pending rebellion any month now in farflung Uaymil and I spend 50 MIL to harshly suppress it rather than putting it down in the normal manner


I complete my Subjects Mission and for 25 years gain boosted annexation stuff and better relations with them

I also complete an Expand mission and my capital expands a lot.


I finish a Conquer new states mission after the Expand one, and we get some better harsh reductions and more.

23 Dec – Conversion target complete! I head up to Tehuantepec

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 6 - Yucatan Dreams


1 Apr, 1465 – I fabricate a claim in Tzotzil.

https://i.ibb.co/mSFLNLd/Kiche-14.png

While I am paused, here’s a map of the area. You can see us. Many of the neighbors have had their negative view of us drop to little. Here you can see the Aztec, without a major issue with us now.

I order my forces to Champutun. Let’s remove Campeche from the board.


13 June – I war for Campeche


I call no allies.

Me, my vassals vs them and their ally, Chorti, one of my allies, but no longer.


30 June – We rout the army in Campeche


20 Sept – We take their capital. Their ally is in Zapotec, so I order my folks over there to punch them in the face and some to head over to help with the siege in Chorti’s capital.

1 Mar, 1466 I defeat their army

17 Oct – I capture and rout Chorti’s army.

My warscore is 80

10 Nov – My forces combine in Chorti

13 Mar – 1467 – We capture Chorti

Now what with my 100 warscore?

I have a few options:

Option #1 - Take Campeche and both Chorti holdings – This gives me 14.1 badboy and will annoy to the point of coalitions Can Peche, now dead, and Comores. Not a major issue.

Option 2 – Take Campeche and vassalize Chorti – 11.6 badboy. Nah.

I TAKE THEM All. I am the Warmonger of Love.


The three badboy now up front is worth removing them and getting more and more land to get me to that first. Again I want to be ruthless right now.


This is how you do it.


Campeche – You know it. Sugar, Jungle, north of Champutun, folks here are Yucatec. I promote that culture to accepted in my nation in addition to the cores. 9 dev, 0.29 made here (it’s already part of a state)


Chortli – Naval Supplies. Jungle, 4 dev, local quality. Folks here are Highland Mayan and in the Honduras state, as an fyi. On the Gulf of Honduras, where Belize also looks onto. Our culture, 0.02 made here.


Pipil – South of Chortli, our culture and faith, port, 3 dev, Hills, also Cocoa farmers, 0.05 for the cause.


In case you care, with more than 40%< we are the world’s leading producer of Cocoa

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 7 - The Cycle of Life

28 Sept – Our Missionary is finished. Next is Zapotec proper.

1 May, 1468 – Religious rebellion in Zapotec

2 June – They capture it.

11 July – We defeat them

13 Aug – We retake Zapotec

22 Sept – Campeche is our core. As a reminder this reps adding in the infrastructure needed to run it, the integration, legalistic addition such as our judicial system, and more. We also consider it a key part of us. Chortli will be next month too, by the by.


4 Feb, 1469 – Our ruler has passed, and his great son has arrived. We have 10k pretender rebels rise up that I am ordering my troops to face down.


I break our alliance with Kaqchikel next to us that separates my nation.

5 March - Separatists capture Xoco.


11 Mar – A Royal Marriage with Yokotan gives us a new wife


18 Apr – We defeat the pretenders.


8 May – I fabricate claims on Cocomes.

19 May – We have retaken Xoco and the rebellion ends.

https://i.ibb.co/rGVX3L7/Kiche-15.png

Here is our court for you. You can see our new ruler and queen.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 8 - The Cycle of Solitude


1 April, 1470 – Zapotec converts!

3 Sept – I fabricate a claim against northern neighbor Xiu. Just assume that I continue to do so.

1 Oct –

https://i.ibb.co/JpgKG1B/Kiche-16.png


I thought you may want to see me putting down this month’s rebellion. You can track where the hotspots are and head there to be there when things rise against you

4 Jan, 1471 – We have a new heir.


I hire a level 1 tax adviser for my Admin group


My next military target is Tzotzil. Three holdings, allied with just Xiu.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 9 - The War of Two Fronts


25 Sept, 1472 – I declare war


War –

Us and our vassals

Vs

Them

18 Oct – We win against their army here in their capital Tzotzil.


I leave behind siege unit and chase their army with the rest

5 Dec – Both of my vassals capture minors in their area

7 Dec – Yokotan declares war against them as well

4 Mar, 1573 – I capture and rout their army.

11 April – I lose to the Xiu army

5 May – We defeat them

15 July – We have taken two minor Xiu forces.

3 Oct – We take the capital of Tzotzil


17 Oct – We take the capital of Xiu after being helped by our allies.


I do two separate peaces:


Xiu – I take them off the map. All three are mine. Then I take out all three Tzotzil as well.


Xiu - are in the north-western part of the Yucatan Peninsula – all are Yucatec people, and Mayan faith.


Xiu – Former capital, north of us in Campeche, inland, Jungle, 9 dev, Cocoa, with 0.11 send to us.


Ah Canul - North of Campeche and west of Xiu is this. Jungle, coastal, Cocoa, 7 dev, 0.09 made here.


Ceh Pech – North of Xiu and east of Ah Canul, coastal, grasslands, 0.13 made here, 10 dev, Cocoa.


Tzotzil – All are Mayan, inland, Lacandon people.


Tzotzil – Former capital, fishing here, 0.17 made here, Jungle, 6 dev, south of our allies of the Yocatan and north of the ones we took from Zapotec.


Lacandon – East of Tzotzil and west of Tzul, Peten, our capital and more. 6 dev, Jungle,Cocoa, 0.24 made here.


Jakaltek – South of the others, north of the Zapotec coast, next to my capital and Guatemala, Jungle, Fish, 0.17 and 6 dev here as well. Identical to Tzotzil.


That gets us to 19!

https://i.ibb.co/RyJykyJ/Kiche-17.png

Here’s a post-conquer map for ya!

I begin the annexation of our first vassal. That will peacefully get us to 20.


Let’s take this mechanic for a spin!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 10 - Fall from Grace

1 Nov - We unlock ADM Tech #3 – We can support rebels in other nations now

1 Jan, 1475 – We have finished annexing our nation!


Moran – Cocoa, Jungle, 6 dev, south of Belize and such, 0.30 made monthly here with it’s 40% autonomy.

Welcome to the party!

That gives us 20. Now we need to remove our over-expansion.

22 Feb – All but one core is finished

22 April – The last core is done, and now we can make our first religious reform.

Ready?

https://i.ibb.co/x1PF4dJ/Kiche-18.png


WHOA!

Here’s the EPIC page for you. Our stability dropped.

https://i.ibb.co/DwXLz4T/Kiche-19.png

You can see who broke off here – Xiu, Zapotec, Can Pech and parts of Belize.

Now one of the questions I wanted to ask is this – does my aggressive expansion drop? If you lose states normally yes!

Let’s check and see.


Nope! It’s still there! We are a very, bad, boy. Now if the state broke off, It’s fine. Now Zapotec is n longer our vassal.


But I’ve got my colonists! I send them to Lenca which is east of Pepil.

We enter into alliances with Can Pech and Xiu.

Maybe I can regrow partly diplomatically too?

I begin to work on spy network with old-new Belize.


14 May – Zapotec announce us as rivals.

16 June – RMs with our two new allies follow suit

7 Oct – Yocatan declares war on Zapotec and calls us to arms. I join them gladly.


22 Nov – Tehuantepec falls to us again. I spit our army here to head out to Zapotec and Xoconochco.


29 Dec – We have captured both holdings. I order my forces to help in Zapotec’s new capital, under siege by Mitla. It’s been under siege for a few months by Yokotan.


4 April, 1476 – We capture Mitla.


I offer our own peace. We take the three holdings we used to have. I won’t even bother with a map.

8 April – Zapotec is no more, Mitla was taken by our ally.

[Chas in Cinti]

following! Glad to see an EU4 dynasty again...

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 11 - Rising Up Again



1 Feb, 1477 – We get a Colonial Expansion event in Lenca.

I want to strike Miskito while the iron is hot. They are next to us in Lenca, Chortli, and Piplil. They are a one province minor tribe. They moved back and forth, and their current place is a Gold mine. If they move out, it may not be when they return.


1 Oct – Lenca is a great place for Gems!



1 Feb, 1478 – Rebellion in Zapotec

13 Feb – No longer!


1 March – Mil Tech 3 – We get +.5 land morale


5 May – I declare war on Miskito.


We are at war with them and their ally Cocomes. Xiu and Can Pech are with us.


21 May – I rout their army in Xicaque.

5 July – Two of my holdings fall to Cocomes.

11 Sept – Both were recaptured by our allies.

They are setting up a siege on my capital.

11 Dec – Cores finished from Zapotec

15 Jan, 1479 – Xicaque falls to us.


22 Feb – We oust them from my capital.


30 Apri – Coco’s minor holding Kobox is ours.


8 Sept – Coco’s capital falls

1 Nov – All of theirs are ours


I do the following:


We get Xicaque, and Kobox from Coco
Xiu gets Sotuta
We force vassal Cocomes.


https://i.ibb.co/r0ZyBMN/Kiche-20.png

The results for you, and you can see the new Yucatan map above with the new borders. The ones we didn’t take are Fishing poor.


Kobox – Coffee, Jungle, Putuan culture, 0.06 made from the 5 dev here, next to four people. Internal.


Xicaque – GOLD in the Jungle. 3 dev, 0.03 made here, Animist faith and the Miskito culture. This will be my primary Missionary target after we core it.

[Abe Sargent]

following! Glad to see an EU4 dynasty again...

WHOOT!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 12 - Reintegration's Favor


17 Nov – Yocatan announces us as arrival and breaks off our alliance. I return it.


6 Ap, 1480 – Royal Marriage with Cocomes.

2 Sept – Dip Tech 3 – We have improved colonial range, and trade efficiency.


1 Dec- Lenca – Our first colony! Gems with our culture and faith. We are making 0.25 monthly. I send these down the coast from Xicaque in Honduras.


11 Mar, 1481 – Kobox is now a core


10 Apr – War breaks o out from the Aztecs and their folks to the people on our side, like the Yocatan. I don’t let anyone cross us to fight.


10 Oct – Core in Xicaque

28 Aug, 1483 – I declare war on our neighbors, Kaqchikel


We are warring against them and Chactemal.


3 Oct – We rout their army in their capital

22 Dec – We capture a small holding of theirs


12 June, 1484 – We capture their capital


29 July – Xicaque converts!


1 Jan, 1485 – Honduras is good with the Sugar


22 June – I get an event and steal the province of Chikchinel from Cocomes. It’s Jungle, inland, and fishing.


5 Apri, 1486 – Belize falls

10 June – We take our old two holdings back Belize, and remove our foe from the map.


https://i.ibb.co/zSDkkTg/Kiche-22.png


Here you are! You can see the area coming together nicely.

Our new stuff:

Iximche – Connects Pipli with Guatemala and our capital. Gems here, 7 dev, Hills, our people in faith and culture. 0.31 coming our way


Chacujal – Connects Chortli and others to the rest, like Tzul and our capital. Also gems, but Jungle, 5 dev, same as us, 0.21 made here for us.


This gives us 21 folks, I just need to wait until our cores are complete.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 13 - Reintegration's Cost

1 Mar, 1487 – Rebellion in Moran.


22 Mar – Put down


18 Nov – Two cores down!


15 Jan, 1488 – Another core finished

And

11 Mar – The last is over. I can take my next religious reform which is….


Central Armories, +10% land battle

https://i.ibb.co/52sp712/Kiche-23.png

Here you can see our new Yucatan post-reform. Zapotec is out, and we also lost one around Tzotzil, and Belize is out, as is two of our holdings near Cocomes, and then our gold holding as well. Cocomes is out of our alliance.

Tzotzil joins our alliance.

16 April – Can Pech accepts a vassalization offer.


18 Apri – RM with Tzotzil


1 Feb, 1489 – Rebellion in Chacujal

9 Feb – Defeated

1 Mar- Admin 4 I can build Temples!

I build some in most places. I hadn’t made any expenses yet, so I was past 1000 in cash.


1 April – Honduras – No longer colony, Sugar, coastal, 0.09 made here, Jungle, 3 dev.


I send these colonists inland to Olancho which will lock in Miskito and keep them from moving out.


1 July – Mil Tech 4 – We can get better infantry again



8 Oct – Two of Belize’s holdings finished rebelling and joined Cocomes.


4 Jan, 1490 – I am getting ready for war against Zapotec, who is naked for allies save for Cocomes.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 14 - Rises and Falls

1 Jun, 1491 – I declare war for their capital. Cocomes is not ready for war and leaves their Zapotec hanging.



5 July I rout their army in their capital.

31 Aug – I have captured all three minors

1 April, 1492 – Coffee in Olancho!

2 May – We take Mitla. I annex all of Zapotec. The three we’ve had before, and:


Mitla: Jungle, Sugar, 5 dev, Huatli faith and Zapotek people. 0.02 made here and core ordered.


5 June – Tzotzil are now our vassals!

1 Jan, 1494 – Our ruler gains the Well Advised trait


1 Oct – All cores are ours, and I send a Missionary to bring Mitla to the path of light.

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov –

50 Year Review!!!

I have 17k troops which is our land limit. I am getting 1.06 surplus cash, and have 434

https://i.ibb.co/Pm0xD1p/Kiche-24.png

Here’s a map of our known world.

We are the wealthiest country we know of.

Our Top 5 Holdings by Tax:

1. Capital
2. Iximche
3. Guatemala
4. Jakaltek
5. Lenca

Top 5 by Production

1. Capital
2. Iximche
3. Lancandon
4. Guatemala
5. Chacujal


Current Value of Trades:

4.0 – Gems, Dyes, Silk, Cocoa, Ivory
3.5 – Paper
3.0 – Glass, Sugar, Cotton, Tobacco, Coffee, Spices, Chinaware, Iron, Copper, Salt, Cloth
2.5 – Incense, Grain, Wool, Wine, Fish
2.0 – Tea, Fur, Livestock, Tropical Wood, Naval Supplies, Slaves



We are the production leader in Cocoa.

Top 8 Nations

1. Ming China
2. Ottomans
3. Mamluks
4. Provence
5. Poland
6. Austria
7. Muscovy
8. England

[JonInMiddleGA]

1 Oct – Lenca is a great place for Gems!


I read that as "germs" ... and thought "probably the climate"

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 15 - Target of Opportunity


1 Jan, 1495 -After bringing in Zapotec, I only need a mid-sized 3 or 4 sized state to get me to 20 since I’m now at 16. I could do three and get my colony up. Good targets include Cocomes, Yocatan, or well Cocomes is good, they have no allies


1 May – I know that we have a super high badboy right now, but le’s push it.

I declare war on Cocomes.


19 June – Belize is ours

1 Aug – Uaymil is ours. We move to the fort of Chikinickel


1 June, 1496 – DIP TECH #4. I can build Marketplaces. I order a few.


28 July – The fort falls and I order my army to their capital

10 Dec – Mitla converts.


6 Mar, 1497 – We capture their capital


9 Mar – We remove them. I sell the fort.


Here’s the one we haven’t had before, their capital:

Ecab – Corner of the peninsula, Grasslands, fishing, 0.06, 7 dev, Yucatec, Mayan


1 May, 1498 – Our queen passes

1 July – Rebellion in Ecab

18 Jul – No longer


10 Aug – Core are finished. Ready for my next reform?


I am taking the United Army reform and that gives me -10% to land maintenance


https://i.ibb.co/2Mzk3C4/Kiche-25.png

New Map! Cocomes and Zapotec head out again. I raise my stability back to 3.

[Abe Sargent]

I read that as "germs" ... and thought "probably the climate"

:)

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 16 - Queenly Excursions


16 Dec – Cocomes and Xiu go to war.


22 May, 1499 – I declare war on Yocatan.

I order my troops in


26 June – I set up in their capital to siege.

1 Oct – Olancho – Jungle, three dev, inland, 0.09, Coffee. I send these colonists next door to Mosquito.


22 Nov - I begin sieging Kotox, the capital of the ally of my target in Itza

22 Feb, 1500 – Their capital is ours

25 Mar – Big battle win against them both in our territory. I order to support the other siege

6 Apr – Xiu declares us their rival and breaks our alliance. I join them. They took out Cocomes.


27 Oct – Our king dies. Our newest one will lead.


I marry some folks around. We get a queen.

Our court:

https://i.ibb.co/0cWmwnV/Kiche-26.png


22 Dec – Kobox falls!

https://i.ibb.co/rMVr7MM/Kiche-27.png

Here’s my peace plan. Our 71 warscore should keep us fine. We have enough to drop Kobox back from Itza, the Cocoa province, as well as the capital and Mixe from Y. We are also vassalizing their last holding.



Mixe – 5 dev, Grasslands, Chontales culture, Mayan religion, 0.03 from fishing.


Xicallanco – Their former capital, they have Cocoa, 5 dev, grasslands, port, same culture above, 0.05 made here.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 17 - K'iche's Golden Era Begins

7 June, 1501 - We announce the annexation of the vassal over at Miskita.

I can see the Portuguese here exploring.

1 Jan, 1502 – I begin our Golden Era. For the next 50 years we get massive bonuses.


3 Mar – Ready? Great!

Admin Tech 5 – I can get our first group of Ideas!!!

What do I want?



I have enough DIP and MIL to get two ideas right now…


Expansion. I take Quest for the New World and we get a colonist too!



5 May - Cores are done.

1 Aug – Mosquito with Gems


1 Dec – We have integrated Miskito! We bring back her great gold mine

30 Dec – I declare war for Belize. Again.


12 Mar, 1504 – I capture Moran and bring in the two provinces out here.


Cores ordered. When these are done we’ll level up.


1 Feb, 1505 – Rebellion in Moran.

2 Mar – Finished


19 Aug – We finish the cores and ourselves.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 18 - Arrogance Displayed


The next reform is Central Arbitration that cuts my unrest.

https://i.ibb.co/WDnkHgq/Kiche-28.png

Here you can see who left and went where. We were dropped to 15, so we are close for the final reform. I only need one major push. Like Zapotec. Note that our colony in Mosquito also went too. I order those colonists to Uluas, inland of them and Nicaragua.

We ally with our gold friends again

11 Sept – I declare war against Zapotec

I order in all of my forces from the border

26 Nov – Two minors are ours

2 Jan, 1506 – Another minor falls. We are basing their capital. Their ally(Mixtec) didn’t; join them so I suspect this is going to be fast.


15 May We ally with Itza

1 Nov – Our colony in Nicaragua is going to be good with the Coffee


26 Nov – We capture the capital of Zapotec and annex them.

1 Mar, 1507 – Rebellion in Tehuantepec.

22 Mar – Defeated.


1 Jul – Mil Tec h5 – I can build barracks. I replace my spearmen.


1 May, 1508 – Uluas with coffee


I get ready for war against the Mixtec.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 19 - Mixtec Added



3 Oct – I declare war. They have two holdings, one of which is gold. Their ally is Xiu. They don’t join again.

22 Oct – We rout their army

28 Nov – We capture the gold province. I move to Mixtec proper.


I got an event that lowered my stability but raised my MIL TECH by hundreds. I invest some ADM Power to raise it back up.



7 Sept, 1509 – Mixtec is ours.


https://i.ibb.co/rcQKw8D/Kiche-29.png


Updated map for you after we remove Mixtec from the playing field. I have highlighted our new gold holding. You can also see my explorations in South America too down there as well.

Mixtec – Capital, coastal, west of Zapotec, 8 dev, hills, grain farmers here growing that food, 0.06 made here. Mixtec culture and Nahuatl faith.



Coyolapan – Gold! Highlands, internal, 5 dev, Mixtec culture and Nahuatl faith. 0.02 made here right now.

This put us over 20.


Cores and we can get our final reform!


2 Oct – All four cores from the Zapotec war are ours.

What I am thinking about doing is doing a blitz and go deep into badboy. There’s no one here to dial me back, and I can go deep now.


1 Aug, 1511 – Rebellion in Mixtec.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 20 - The Final Spiral


22 Aug – Finished and done for


22 May. 1512 – Cores are done!


Final reform…

https://i.ibb.co/cCHpKYN/Kiche-30.png

As expected, Z and M break away. That’s it.

Now we are on our own!


My top target here is my former colony. I move my army near it.


I finish with this set of allies and vassals:

Allies -Itza, Can Pesh, Tzotzil
Vassal – Miskito, Yocotan

And that’s it. Can Pesh agrees to be vassals.

I rival the Aztecs

16 Aug – I declare war for Mosquito and their ally on Belize joins.


1 Sept – Uluas – Coffee, 6 dev, Jungle, internal, 0.07 made here. I send these colonists downstream from Mosquito and them to Ulva.


22 Oct – We begin to siege Mosquito after clearing out the defense.

9 Apr, 1513 – Mosquito is ours.


1 Aug - Nicaragua – 6 dev, Hills, Coffee, coastal, 0.07 made hre too. I send these colonists down coast to Managua


6 Dec – Belize falls!


We bring back Belize, Uaymil, and Mosquito:


Mosquito – Gems, former colony, 4 dev, Jungle, 0.16 made here.

I get ready for Xiu… they are allyless.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 21 - Lost No Longer


10 Jan, 1514 – I declare my war. Time to finish these idiots.


25 Feb – We rout their army

11 June – Skeeter is now a core

15 June – All minors are now under our control.


16 Sept – Their capital falls

8 Oct – Their fort falls.


We give Xiu province to Iza, who had captured it, and take the other 5. Good bye Xiu.

We have gained back these –

Ah Canul, Ceh Pech, Sotuta, Ecab, and Chikenshel.

Map?

https://i.ibb.co/Z6g6X0Z/Kiche-31.png


Here you go!

I pulled up Sotuta for you too.


Ready to punch idiots in the face?


Mil Tech 6 – We can make cavalry. I order some horsies!

10 Jan,1515 – Two cores finished!


16 June -I get an event and we get some more colonists in a Wave.

1 July – Cocoa in Managua

22 July – Our Queen passes


17 Oct – Two more cores are done

4 Dec – The last cores are done!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 22 - West and East

1 Feb, 1520 – Managua – 0.41 made here in the Coffee trade, 6 dev, I order a Temple here. I order these colonists down the coast to Talamanca

We announce the annexation of Yocotan!

1 June – I hire level 1 advisors for all of my open spots.


9 Aug – Two cores are finished

I have run into England in Brazil. That means if we get next to them, we can finish modernizing our faith.


10 April, 1521 – Cores done, I send a Missionary to Mixtec.

6 Dec – We have integrated Yocotan:

Tochtepec – Jungle, border, coastal, temple, 6 dev, fish, 0.27 made here monthly for the cause


We also got Mixe back as well


1 Aug, 1522 – Nicoya – 3 dev, coffee, Jungle, south of Nicaragua, coastal, 0.07 made here


This was an uncolonized colony that we got and were upkeeping for free I pull my colonists at Ulva and send them next door to Chorotega, and once they set up, I’ll return them.

30 Sept – We announce the annexation of long time vassal Can Pech.

1 May, 1523 - Ulva – Sugar, 5 dev, coastal, Jungle, I ordered a temple, 0.37 here

1 Dec – Talamanca with Cocoa!


Expansion Idea #4 – We get bonus settler growth

1 April, 1524 – Chorotega with Dyes!

Our future military conflict is big. Other than the allies and vassals we have in the Mayan section of the map, we are next to to folks. One allied to the Aztecs and the other a vassal thereof. Therefore we cannot get through them individually. Only together.

They have around 30k total including the big bad. I order another 5k troops on the border. We have a 32 forcelimit so I am building up to it.


30 Apri – Mixtec converts! Coyolapan is next

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 23 - Independent No Longer

11 Mar, 1525 – I am buying some mercs too to give me around 10k bigger forces

22 June – We announce the annexation of Miskito.

11 Dec – The perfect time to strike has arrived as a minor foe has declared independence. My main target are the adjacent, wealthy holdings of Teotitlan.


I have two armies of 17k and 22k.

31 Jan, 1526 – The first minor falls to me

22 Feb - I win a minor battle.

2 April – Two mor eminor wins

22 Apr – Two more minors fall to me

6 Aug - I break through and begin sieging the Aztec capital

7 Oct – The capital of a vassal of the Aztecs falls to our Mayan might,

22 Feb, 1527 – We win a big battle.

26 Mar – We capture the capital of my target.

1 Aprl – We have brought the gold of Xicaque back!


21 May – We rout an Aztec army.

6 June – Mexico City falls!


2 July – Conversion!


11 Aug – The battle is over. I took most of the stuff from our target and wiped out the one province vassal of the Aztecs, as well as much cash as I could.

https://i.ibb.co/9YnsLTY/Kiche-32.png

Here’s a map! You can see one of folks I took on the border selected and it’s Dyes. We brought in three Dye holdings just now. We grabbed 5 provinces over all. Two Sugar, and 3 Dyes. All Nahuatl.


Cuelaxtlan – Sugar, natural harbor, Jungle, marketplace, 5 dev, 0.07 made. Next to our recent takes. Totonac people.


Cuauhtochco – Sugar, Jungle, coastal, Totonac, 0.03, 5 dev


Teotitlan – Fort and Temple, Dyes, Mountains, Aztec folks, 8 dev, 0.10 made here thus far.


Coixtlahuacan – Dye, Aztec, Highlands, Temple, 7 dev, 0.22 made here,


Yohualtepec – Mixtec people, 8 dev, Hlls, Dyes, 0.14 made here.


Here’s a map of the entire region zoomed out

https://i.ibb.co/7NtFBSM/Kiche-33.png


You can see British South America as well as us and our allies.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 24 - Maya More


1 Dec – Rebellion in Zapotec

22 Dec – Put down

1 Jan, 1528 – We have finished bringing in Can Pesh. We brought in Campeche and Champutun again


1 May – Talamanca – Cocoa, coastal, 4 dev, Jungle. 0.21 made here. I send these colonist south to Guaymi.



1 Aug – ADM TECH #6 - I can build workshops and Farm Estates!


I order an Estate in Mixtec for its grain farmers, and Workshops in 7 places


Right now my budget is:

16.20 Taxes
7.79 Production
5.49 Trade
0.12 Vassals
0.15 Gold

Total Income Monthly – 29.76

Expenses:

Advisors: 4.26
Maintenance of States: 1.25
Fort Maintenance: 2
Colonial Main: 4
Corruption Rooting out – 1.28
Army Main: 11.54

Total Expenses - 24.58


5.19 made monthly, and around 63 annually, so one Workshop every other year (100 gold) roughly moving forward.

If I have one Missionary, that’s 2 g/month, so once the Cores are done, those will need Missionaries, but their income will rise more than that.

1 Sept – Expansion Idea #5 – Viceroys – Our global tariffs and envoy travel time are boosted.


1 Feb, 1529 – Chorotega – Dyes, Jungle, 5 dev, 0.32 cash monthly,

1 April – Rebellion in Teotitlan

3 May – Finished as we put them down.

27 July – I get an event that increases my colony’s size.

1 Aug – Tropical Wood in Guaymi.


16 Sept – Two cores are completed. I send a Missionary to Teotitlan.


I finish my build buildings mission to build some workshops.

17 Nov – More cores are done

I am now making around 13/gold per month after the Workshops were built as well as the cores being finished.



1 Oct, 1530 – Religious rebellion in Teotitlan.

5 Oct – Expansion Idea #6 – We get to have better native repression.

11 Oct – Ended!

1 Feb, 1531 – Guaymi – Tropical Wood, Jungle, 3 Dev, 0.16 made here. I send these colonists next door to Veraguas


18 May – Our Conquistador army ran into a buzzsaw of 9k natives and was killed. I sent out another

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 25 - The Great Aztec Defeat


1 Mar, 1532 – Cocoa in Veraguas


8 Oct – Conversion successful. My next target is Yohualtepec

11 Mar – 1533 – Itza agrees to be annexed


22 Sept – I begin to prepare for another war.


I am building around 10k more forces. I want to take Mexico City.


1 March, 1534 – Veraguas – Cocoa, 3 dev Jungle, 0.16 made here.


I send these colonists to Panama next door

22 May – The Tlaplanec declared war on the Aztecs.

This is my chance.

11 June – We declare war.

I have two main armies and a sieging army. My main enters Aztecs and will head for their capital.

9 July – I have defeated two battles and am sieging two places

22 Aug – I capture a minor holding.

19 Jan, 1535 – We capture the capital of a minor holding that was vassalized to the Aztecs


29 Aug – We capture Mexico City. All holdings are under ours or another’s control


1 Sept – Cocoa in Panama!

17 Oct -

https://i.ibb.co/pn52qL3/Kiche-34.png


We take four holdings in peace! Here on the map I;ve zoomed in and pulled out Mexico so you can see it there.


Our new holdings?


Mexico – Gold, 16 dev, entrepot, fortress, Highlands, 0.07 made here, Nahuatl, Aztec.


Tepeacac – Grain farmers, temple, 6 dev Highlands, 0.17 made here, Nahuatl and Aztec too

Teloloapan – Gold, 5 dev, Highlands, also Aztec and Nahuatli


Tlacopan – 15 dev, Hills, Az and N, Gold, 0.11 cash,

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 26 - With Portugal


25 Oct – Conversion successful! Next target is Coix.



1 May, 1536 – Rebellion in Coix.


1 June – Captured

2 July – We have destroyed the rebels here.

4 Aug – Rebels ousted from Coix.


24 Aug - I get an alliance offer from Portugal. Alright!

22 Nov – Smallpox outbreak in a few of our colonies hits hard


1 Dec – Panama – Natural Harbor, 3 dev, Jungle, Cocoa, 0.15 made here

I send them to Darien

1 Aug, 1537 – Rebellion in Coix again


20 Aug – We ended it

1 Sept – Rebellion in Mexico City

29 Sept – No longer

22 Nov – two cores are done

1 Dec – New Expansion Idea #7 – Let’s finish the group. Global Empire, and for finish we get help with our colonial regions and making claims.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 27 - Dynasty Struggles

4 Dec – Our ruler has passed

You can see the new court there.



7 Mar, 1538 – The last cores are done


1 Sept – Several foes are joining a coalition against us

Before too many join, I declare war on the nation of Tlapnec, next to us, and their ally Tlaxcala, also next to us. I order one army into each smaller nation


1 Nov – We finish our annexation of Itza! We bring in Kobox and Xiu


17 Nov – I win a big battle against out foes, and we also captured a small holding.


11 Jan, 1539 – We capture another minor.


22 Feb – Another minor falls

1 Apr – Conversion successful, next target

25 Apr – We win another major battle



6 May – The capital of one of our foes falls.


16 July – The other does


I have all of the holdings of our foes. We are able to take 5 holdings.



https://i.ibb.co/mB3gzQH/Kiche-37.png



You can see our expansions here.


Tlapanec – Gold, 9 dev 0.20 made here, Nahuatl, and the same culture


Up the coast is:

Yopitzinco – Fish, hills, coastal, 0.05, 7 dec


Up the coast is:


Cihuatlan – Gems, 5 dev, hills, coast, same faith and culture, 0.05 made hre



My two from the inland area are:

Cholula – Highlands, Sugar, 9 dev, 0.25, Aztec and same faith

And

Xocotla – Jungle, 10 dev, 0.28, Sugar, Aztec

https://i.ibb.co/Wyydq45/Kiche-36.png

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 28 - Mayan Dreams

1 Feb, 1540 Darien is with Naval Supplies

1 Dec – Rebellion in Cholula


22 Dec – Nope!


1 Apr, 1541 – All of the cores are now finished


More locals are joining coalitions against us, but I don’t care!

18 Jan, 1542 – We convert our target. Next? Ceut…


1 Mar – Darien – Naval Supplies, 4 dev etc…

https://i.ibb.co/M1hMJbC/Kiche-38.png

As you can see, we are about to base Britain with the next colony in Kuna, which I have sent some folks too.


1 May 1543 – Kuna is with Cocoa

15 Aug – Conversion successful! My next target is Tlapanec


1 April, 1545 – Kuna: 0.29, next to Britain, Cocoa, Jungle, 4 dev. I send colonists to two adjacent places – south to Choca and inland to Antioquia


7 July – Conversion successful! Next is Cholula.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 29 - Aztec No More

1 Jan, 1546 – I begin to get ready for war as one of my peace treaties is up later this year.


3 Sept -More smallpox hits


1 Dec – Our truce with the Aztecs is up. I DOW them. They are a one province minor now, and their ally, another one-province is moved into by us


28 Dec – I defeat both standing armies, one big enough to rout


12 feb, 1547 – I lost a lot of troops, but we won a big battle.


6 May – Conversion successful. Next? Xocotla.


21 Aug – One capital has fallen to us.


30 Nov – The other falls. I take both in peace:


Map of the area for you

You can see the war and the two holdings we grabbed.

https://i.imgur.com/iekOe6T.jpg


Texcoco – Aztec, Nahuatl, hills, gold, 12 dev, 0.07 made here.


Tlaxcala – Sugar, 13 dev, Highlands, fort, Aztec, Nahuatl, 0.23 made here.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12, K'iche, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Post-Lude - Reviewing the Century of K'iche Expansion



100 Year Review!!!

We have a forcelimit of 44 but we have 57k troops.


Cash? We are getting 7.89 in surplus.

We have more development than Portugal or Great Britain.

Our income is 2nd of those we know after GB.

Our Top Five Holdings by Tax Revenue

1. Capital
2. Cah Pech
3. Chikinchel
4. Moran
5. Belize


Our Top Five by Production

Same Five


We have the biggest army we know of


Current Value of Trade Goods:

4.0 – Dyes, Silk, Cocoa, Ivory, Gems
3.5 – Paper
3.0 – Coffee, Sugar, Cotton, Tobacco, Glass, Spices, Chinaware, Iron, Copper, Salt, Cloth
2.50 – Incense, Fish, Wool, Wine, Grain
2.0 – Slaves, Tea, Naval Supplies, Tropical Wood, Livestock, Fur


We are the trade leader in Cocoa


We are the production leader in Cocoa, Sugar, and Dyes


Powers in Order:

1. France
2. Ottomans
3. Britain
4. Mamluks
5. Aragon
6. Denmark
7. Ming China
8. Morocco

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Prelude - K'iche No More


1 June, 1548 – Coffee in Antioquia


I break our alliance with Tzotzil.


7 Jan, 1549 – We convert Xocotla. My next target is Tepeceac.


1 Mar – Gems in Choca.

5 Oct –

Ready?


https://i.imgur.com/zgPDsIx.jpg

It’s time to reform our Faith!!!


Our Techs leaps to 8/8/7.


Time for a new set of ideas:

Expansion Ideas. I get the first one - +1 Colonists. I send them to Magdelena.






We are now a Republic!


I upgrade us to a Grand Republic

I have saved a lot of power waiting for this

We get Admin Tech 9,Dip tech 9 AND 10, and Mil 8 AND 9. I could have gotten another ADMIN Tech, but I wanted my Idea for another colonist instead.


That puts us a 9/10/10. England, for comparison, is 12/11/11.


I can now build navies, and as such, can colonize outside of the “next province over”. I pull my colonists in Choco, and send them to Cartagena, next to England and on the other side. Magdalena is next to it.

I finish a big Mission:


We are now the Mayans, we become an Empire!


https://i.imgur.com/JCxlmn4.png

We change our weak leader in an election for a 4/1/1 guy.


Let’s check in on my goals:


My Goals:

1. Expand quickly into a nearby and useful place to get us a powerful economic footprint moving forward. DONE
2. Get to 20 as mercilessly as possible, with as little time as needed. DONE
3. Run the first development, take the colonists, and cut my nation down to 10 ish. DONE
4. Colonize and retake those places to get back to 20. DONE
5. Repeat until I have fully evolved the Mayan faith. DONE
6. Westernize and evolve once Europe arrives. DONE
7. In the meantime expand into local areas south and take the entire region for the glory of Maya. DONE
8. Bring all of Maya under my control. Reclaim the Mayan dynasty. DONE (Save for one holding in Tsotzil, whom I am working to build up and take out).
9. Head north and west into those filthy Nahuatl lands and convert them after we bring them in to the true Mayan faith. Working on it.
10. Evolve into the most powerful hegemon here. DONE
11. Become the only remaining power in Central America. Working on it.
12. Expand up and down to keep out and meet any Europeans. Working on it.
13. Westernize. Not yet.
14. Kick out any Europeans that bother me overly much after Westernization. Not Yet.

1 Nov –

The Great Powers of the World:

1. France
2. Ottomans
3. MAYA BABY
4. England
5. Mamluks
6. Aragon
7. China
8. Poland
9. Denmark


We can now build these: Docks, Courthouse, etc.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 1 - Growth of Maya

1 Jan, 1550 – The Printing Press has arrived


I rival Great Britain.

I put together a navy that can scout for me


22 April – I declare war on Totonac with one holding left after we blasted them previously. They are allied with Colina, so they join them.


19 May – We rout their defending army


21 June – I arrive at and begin taking a nearby capital.


13 Nov – I capture the side capital


22 Nov My conversion succeeds, next is another minor.


3 Jan, 1551 – We capture my main target from Totonac


22 May – I have captured 6 minors.


22 Oct – Colima’s Capital falls to me


I take:

https://i.imgur.com/wy1ZGJr.jpg

Four holdings in peace. My target is the Spice province you can see highlighted, as well as three others by the sea, on the other side, that have little value


Tohancapan 0 Spices, 8 dev, jungle, coast, Nahuatl, Totanac people, Temple, 0.24 cash made here monthly.

Zacatula – Grain, Hills, coastal, 0.04 cash, Nah faith, 7 dev, Tlapanec people here


Tecoman – Jungle, fish, 10- dev, Nahuatl, Tecos folks, 0.12 made here. Coastal. temple


Pururuan, - Natualt, Inland, grasslands, grain farmers, temple, Puru people, 0.06, 7 dev


I promote Aztec to an accepted culture with my Mayan Empire.


I order some artillery for the next war

I have some more folks i want to blitz out while I’m here and caring about them


I get ADM TECH 10 with another group of Ideas and I grab:


Plutocratic Ideas. I have enough Mil power to get my first idea:

Pluto 1 – I get +10% mercenaries and +25 discipline thereof

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 2 - Visceral Ablutions



5 Feb, 1552 – Another conversion successful!


7 Mar – Our Golden Age has ended

1 April – I declare war! My target this time are the two holdings in the Gulf of Mexico over my recent acquisition. They have an ally right next to me with Gold in the central mountains. Five holdings total.


22 April – Mexico City converts!!!


1 June – Cartagena with Coffee.

17 Sept – I capture the capital of my target.


29 Sept – Another fort falls


1 Nov- We grab a minor holding

1 Dec –

Antioquia – 8 dev, Mountains, inland, Cocoa, 0.18 made here

I order these colonists next door and inland to Magangue.


13 Feb, 1553 – Another conversion


1 May – Another conversion


14 Dec – We grab the capital of the other target

24 Jan, 1554 – Ready for peace?

https://i.imgur.com/qMxbVIS.jpg

We add five more holdings to the great Mayan Nation!


My targets on the Gulf of Mexico:

Tzizcoac – Jungle, Sugar, coastl, 4 dev, 0.12 made here, Mayan, Wastek people


Tamilipas – Savannah, sugar, 4 dev, Mayan, Wastek, 0.04 made here.



Central – Nahuatl –

Malinalco – Hills, Gold, 8 dev, Matlantinza, 0.81 made here. Temple


Cuztamala – Temple, Sugar, Mat and Nahuatl, Highlands, 6 dev, 0.05 made here


Acambaro – Hills, 3 dev, Otomi people, 0.01, Wool


Two fewer enemies removed from the map for our great nation!


I pull colonists from Maguage and send them to Havana.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 3 - Oblation of Blood

29 March – Three cores finished!


1 May – Magdalena with Coffee. Rebellion in Malinalinco

6 May – Another conversion succeeds.

2 June – Province taken

27 June – Remove

1 July – We get Plut Idea #2 – bonus infantry in combat

28 July – Retaken

I pull colonists from Cartagena and Magdalena and send them to Guadeloupe and Antigua


31 July – Another conversion is ours

1 Aug –

Choco – Gems, Jungle, coastal, 3 dev, 0.24 made here.


https://i.imgur.com/aXV7IBg.jpg

The Caribbean. See how Cuba and several of the Windward isles are free? Portugal has most. 2




25 Dec – We finish taking out the natives in the islands we arrived at.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 4 - Crucible of War

22 Feb, 1556 – I declare war on the Tzotzil and it’s allies

26 Mar – We win some battles

1 Sept – Another core is finished!


5 Nov – We capture my main target



11 Dec – We capture my other target


1 June, 1557 – We finish another target

https://i.imgur.com/1f4F9tH.jpg

Tlapacoyan – Highlands, 7 dev, Cotton, Nahuatl faith, Aztec people, 0.06 made here. Its on the mew border with our yellow and red neighbors where my army is.

Tzotzil – The internal province in our Mayan area was finally brought in! Jungle, 6 dev, Fishers, rocks temple and marketplace, both it’s Mayan faith and Lacandon culture are accepted. 0.27 made here monthly.


Dip Tech 11 – We can make Naval Manufactories (for Fish, Salt, and Naval Supplies) and I order three

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 5 - Crucible of Peace


28 June – I pull my colonists from Guadeloupe and send them to St. Kitts. Most of the Caribbean is under Portuguese control, so I want to bring others in.

1 Sept – Plutocratic Ideas #3 – Bill of Rights – We drop our national unrest massively in our great Republic!


11 Sept – Core finished in Tziccoac.

My next military target is the yellow nation next to us (Metztitlan) and it’s four holdings



1 Oct – Havana is going to be a great place for Tobacco!

14 Nov – Zactula converts! Next is Cutzamala.

16 Dec – I pull colonists from Antigua and send them to St. Martin


1 Jan, 1558 – Another conversion succeeds and we are out of targets right now

4 June – A core in Acambaro. I order a missionary here as well.

11 July – Tzotzil is a core.

22 July – I pull colonists from St. Martin and send them to Turks and Caicos.

1 Aug – Guadeloupe is just fish. Ah well. Miss and hit.


22 Sept – A giant influenza outbreak hits 10 of my coastal provinces and we blockade and quarantine them.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 6 - Enforcing Destiny


1 Dec – we claim the capital of Metz….

I declare war on them. They have no allies, I have an army of 20k next to them from the previous war. I don’t think I’ll need any more.

1 Jan, 1559 – DIP TECH 13 – We get much better naval morale.


3 Mar – We have captured two minors of theirs and am besieging their capital

5 Apr – Cutzamala converts!

16 May – Our final core is finished and I order up a missionary here.

I get a Colonist Rush event that increases my speed of colonial growth for a few years.

8 June – I pull colonists from St. Kitts and dispatch them to the Bahamas


1 July – I get Expansion #2 – we get an additional merchant!


7 Aug – Another conversion to Mighty Maya!

9 Jan, 1560 – Portugal breaks their alliance with us


17 Mar – Their capital falls.

22 April – Another conversion!

22 May -

https://i.imgur.com/tqUFLQN.png

After their final holding is ours, I move to remove our foe from the map!

Metztitlan – Grain, hills, Nahuatl, 5 dev here, Otomi people, 0.01 made here


Pame – 7 dev, grasslands, grain farming, Otomi and Nahuatl here as well. 0.02 made here.


Guaichichil – Animist, Chichimecan people, Mountains, GOLD, 0.13 made here, 5 dev, Castle level 2, and marketplace. I destroy the castle.


Zacatecas – Also GOLD, with 3 dev, 0.13 here too, Animist and Chi. here as well.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 7 - Expansion of Caribbean

1 Oct – Antigua with Sugar!


1 Mar, 1561 – St. Kitts with Cotton


1 Apr – Turks with Sugar!


8 May – I pull colonists from Turks and Caicos and they head to set up in Curacao. Other than Cuba and Trinidad, that’s the last unclaimed holding here.

1 July – Bahamas with Coffee

Cartagena – I order a temple here, 8 dev, natural harbor, 0.52 made here, next to other growing colonies. I pull colonists in Bahamas and send them next door to Guajira.

11 Dec – Another conversion to the Glorious Might of the Mayan Way!

1 May, 1562 – Havana – 12 dev, Coffee, with .87 made here monthly! I order these colonists next door to Canimar and I ordered a temple here


6 Aug – I pull colonists and send them next to Havana in Guane

31 Aug – Metztitlan is now a core! I order some missionaries to head there

1 Nov – Sugar is in St. Martin

1 Dec – Three more cores follow and I send another missionary to bring them under Mayan sway.

16 Dec – I get an event that gives me 200 Admin power. That’s enough for another idea, but I’ll hold off on using it and get to the next tech.

1 Jan, 1563 –

Magdelena – Next to Cartagena and Guajira – 4 dev, Coffee, Highlands, coastal, 0.16 made here monthly. After Guajira, the next place in the state that’s here is inland at Chimila.


I want to bring in Cuba and the Caribbean and not focus as much on South America right now.



1 Oct – ADM TECH #12 – I can build Textile Manufactories which can really amp up my cash in Dyes, Silk, Wool, Cloth. I order them in all four of my Dyes holdings.


1 Nov – Curacao with Cotton!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 8 - Periods of Silence

22 May, 1564 – I send more colonists to Cuba from Curacao, I want to hold them on Cuba.

1 June - Canimar with Cotton

22 June – Another conversion follows!!! Follow the bounteous glory of Maya!

1 Aug – Gems in Guajira!!! Grain in Guane….

16 Aug – Another conversion!

1 Nov – Religious rebellion in Pame

22 Nov – Finished!

1 Feb, 1465 – Pluto Idea #4 – Another Merchant! I now have merchants in Lima, Mexico City, Panama, and the Caribbean


1 July –

Guadeloupe – Fish training, 11 dev, 0.70 made here. I order a temple, and then I’ll do a workshop and a Naval Manufactory for the fish.


6 Dec – Another conversion!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 9 - Forces Against Maya

22 March, 1466 – Pame converts!

Ready for the next war?

My truce with the rest of the locals ends in the region

5 May – I hire some mercs to help with the war

One province Colima is leading a number of trade leagues and such. I declare on it, I want to take it out.

We are now at war with the entire remainder of the region – 5 enemies

21 May – I rout an army

7 Jun – Two minors are ours

5 July – I rout another army

We are beginning some sieges


22 Sept – Many more minors are ours

19 Oct – One capital falls to us after a siege

22 Oct – Another capital falls after I destroyed its walls with my artillery and assaulted it

22 Dec – The red capital falls to me


2 Feb, 1567 – We capture a fort

11 Feb – We capture the capital of Colima

5 Apr – I combine my forces assault and take their final capital. Four of their nations have no holdings left


13 May – Wanna see?

https://i.imgur.com/qo7AZFG.jpg

That’s pretty!

Time to go shopping!

https://i.imgur.com/B6llGSf.jpg

I’m bringing in these seven. As you can see, we are taking out all of the red nation next to me, as well as Colima and a random adjacent province.

All of these are Nahuatl unless otherwise stated



Tollucan – GOLD, Mountains, 1.62, 8 dev, next to Mexico City, temple, Aztec

Xilotepec – Mounts, 6 dev, grain farming, temple, Otomi, 0.07 cash made here,

Guimares – Animist, Temple, Gold, 3 dev, 0.13 made here, Guay people, mtns

Xiconaque – Animist, wool, mts, 3 dev, 0.02 made here

Xochipilan – Animst, wool, mts, 3 dev, 0.02 made here

Cuitezo – grain growers, Purepetcha folks, Highlands, 7 dev, 0.04 made here.

Sayula, grasslands, grain, 9 dev, Tecos people, 0.24 made here, temple, marketplace


I dispatch my mercs

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 10 - Movements East

1 June –

Antigua – 11 dev, Sugar, I order workshop here, 1.00 made here

Looks like I gained these guys as vassals when I took out their lord.

1 Nov – St. Kitts – 10 dev, Cotton, I order a temple here, 0.75 made here

Guane – In Cuba, 0.36 grain, 7 dev,

I order the colonists in Guane up the Cuba path

1 Jan, 1568 – Turks and Caicos Islands – 8 dev, Sugar, 0.06 cash made, I order a workshop


1 April – Canimar – grasslands, cotton, Cuba, 7 dev, 0.43 getting made here, I send them down Cuba

1 May – Rebellion in Xilotepec

2 June – Captured

15 June – Defeated

16 July – Retaken

1 Aug – Bahamas – 0.36 made here, 5 dev, Coffee grown here, I order a temple here.


8 Dec - We are leading the world in trading for Dyes!!!

17 July, 1569 – Two cores finish and Missionaries follow.

22 Oct – The rest are finished!

1 Mar, 1570 – St. Martin – Sugar, 10 dev, 0.92 cash, I order a workshop,

1 Oct – Guajira – Gems, 3 dev, tip of area, 0.19 made here, and I order a marketplace

Wanna see a map?

https://i.imgur.com/gEEMHsz.jpg

Here you are!

As you can see we are getting positive cash flow, check in with my big manpower, all ready for more wars, and more. You can see my relations getting bumped up from my new vassals, and my check in for my growth in the region.

DEP TECH 13 – I can get brigs.


2 Nov – Another conversion!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 11 - Imitations of Light

1 Mar, 1571 – Curacao – 7 dev, Cotton, natural harbor, 75% (no states left, and it’s in a state with only other Portuguese folks so no expansion opportunities) 0.08 made here.


12 Mar – Another conversion

https://i.imgur.com/ZRBoE0q.jpg


Thought you might enjoy a cash break down.

1 Dec – Escambrey – Cuba, Cotton, 7 dev, 0.54 made, and I expanded deeper on Cuba.

25 Dec – Another conversion!!

5 May,

https://i.imgur.com/9F8GPhw.jpg

We have two major things happen. The first is that an event happens that gives us Colima from our vassal. The second is that we can increase my states to 5 with this government reform. I enact it.


As I do:

I make two states – one Curacao and the other one o the new ones I took. I can pull Curacao later, but for now I get a lot of benefit.

That leaves me three states in the queue for expansion in Cuba and elsewhere.

6 Nov – Another conversion

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 12 - From People to Potentate


6 Mar, 1573 0 Another conversion!


8 May – Big news:


https://i.imgur.com/S1DCzcn.jpg


Much as a Romans, we’ve changed governments from Republic to Empire!


I spend 211 of my precious ADM power to up my stability. I was almost enough for my next idea.


Our king is a scholar. I enter into Royal Marriages with my vassals but none gave me a queen. Or an Empress.

1 Oct – Fish in Cuba

2 Nov – I pull colonists from one of the Cuban holdings to set up the internal holding next to Carategna and such and a part of that state – Chimila, and then send it back to Cuba to a different holding there.


1 June, 1574 – Religious rebellion in Xico…

22 June – Put down!

1 Aug – The folks in Xico convert!

8 Oct – Colima now a core and I send in some Missionaries

1 May, 1575 – Moron – Coba, Tobacco, 6 dev, Savanna, etc. 0.44. I send them to the last place in Cuba – Guantanamo.


1 June – New Dip Tech. Ready? I get galleass ship sand Trade Stations

This is the manufactory for these goods:

Furs
Slaves
Ivory
Spices
Incense


I have spices in one place. I order it

You’ll have noticed that slowly here and there, where possible, I’ve been moving my culture to High Mayan where it helps out.

Aug 1 – Mil Tech 10 – Better troops! New cavalry, infantry, and artillery!


World news?

France is in Canada, barely. No one else is in North America.

England continues to expand in South America. Portugal in in the Rio region making a big Brazillian power.

Future Colonization plans:

I am almost done with Cuba, and I am running into England here again and again.

Call it. Expand inward and stop Britain going around me externally, and then move in three directions:

1. Down the South American coast towards the Incas and other nations there.
2. Up Mexico to Texas
3. Inland in South America. Then?

I could head west to California, the Pacific, and more.

Or I could jump to a major port in North America and began to expand there, such as the Virginia or Chesapeake regions.

Let’s do that.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 13 - From People to Potentate


7 Jan, 1576 – In order to go ahead and get started, I pull colonists from Cuba for Chesapeake.

1 June – Dyes in Cuba!

22 June – Colima is Maya!


1 Sept – Expansion Idea #3 – Global Settler Increase – We get faster colonial growth

1 Nov – Camaguey – Cuba, I lost my states bump from Republic so I cannot state it. 5 dev, Sugar, 0.09 made here

https://i.imgur.com/ire56P5.jpg

Wanna see some of the newly discovered world? Ok! Aragon appears to have taken most of Iberia, and Castile are in Africa as far as the Grain Coast. I don’t see anyone down the Africa coast until France at Sao Tome and they are also southwest of Morocco. You can also see Portugal in Brazil over in South America as well.

22 Mar, 1578 – We have our final conversion and everyone now follows the proper Mayan way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Jul – Tobacco is best grown out in Guantanamo


1 Nov – It’s also grown in Chesapeake well too.

1 Janua, 1579 – I find a new consort among the Chitu people near the Andeas

22 Aug – I got a great work event from my level 3 advisor in military.

Pluto Idea #5 – Free Subjects – I get +10% goods produced


1 Oct- Chimila has livestock. That’s a big miss as it could have been anything from gold to gems to lots more valuable stuff.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 14 - The Andean War

21 March, 1580 = I pull from Cuba for a holding that takes me south – Cauca, coastal, south of Choco.

I see Aragon as a potential future ally so I have been working to up our relations – my rivals are France and GB, and Portugal has rivaled us. Aragon is enemies with or rivals against all of those.


10 July – I have enough ADM power for an ID, but I’m not that far from the next tech.

22 Oct – I send colonists up from us to the coastal territory there – Coahulteco on Galveston Bay.

1 Dec – Bayomo -Fish, jungle, Cuba, coastal, 5 dev, 0.06 made here


5 March, 1581 – We have a new heir!

11 Apr – GB and France are now at war

My next military target is Tairona, on whom I’ve just claimed a holding:

https://i.imgur.com/2QbMICF.jpg

Here let me show you. See the purple blob? My target is the heavily developed Mariquita, whom I just claimed. I have two armies on the border, my main one to hit the north then a capital, and a backup one for helping out, hitting armies, and more. My hope I that I can take out the whole nation in one war. But if not? That’s fine. They are ally less, save for Carib, the one province next to them

12 Aug – We have finished off Mariquita. Their armies fled before me,


1 Sept – Chesapeake – Tobacco, James estuary, 10 dev, coastal, I order these folks to next door’s Powhatan to the north.


1 Nov – Baracoa – Cuba, Dyes, jungle, coastal, 5 dev, 0.18 made

4 Mar, 1582 – We capture their capital

1 Apr – ADM TECH 13 – We get better production efficiency

9 June

We’ve captured everything…

https://i.imgur.com/RjpDJFS.jpg

I can take out Tairona and vassalize Carib. I do so.


Get ready. All have temples and workshops. All are Muisican people unless otherwise stated


Mariquita – You saw it. Tons of dev, Farm Estate, etc. I get 1.06 from it monthly already!


Moniquirra – Hills, 13 dev, 0.20 cash, salt trade, Inti faith,


Tunja – Former capital – Mountains, salt here, 11 dev, level 2 fort, 0.16 made here,


Bogota – Mountains, gems, center of trade, Inti, 0.27 made here, 16 dev

Pore – Savannah, next to Carib, tropical wood, animated people and Lakono culture, 4 dev, 0.03 made here.


Alright, now here’s the thing…

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 15 - Success Against the Lion


Notice how I brought my other army down here? Notice how my allies are down here already too? Also my new ally is sitting on 3k troops too.


It’s time to try and smash the Britain giant now that they are at war!


I declare war on Britain’s colony for Sinu



1 Sept – Cauca with gems

1 Oct – Coa… with tobacco


22 Nov – I capture and seize the colony of Trinidad, it’s now ours

We have captured a few minors and France the rest.

4 Mar, 1583 – We finally manage to corner their army.

1 Apr – We embrace the printing press!!!

8 Apr – We barely beat it

1 July – DIP TECH 15 – I get better ships.

I take what I can and leave the rest for others:

https://i.imgur.com/zKQMcL0.png

We get five holdings – Sinu, Cumana, Anzoategui, Wayuu and Altagracia. We also stole the colony of Trinidad and Tabogo, which is still growing.


They aren’t that valuable, but they were around us and in our way:


Sinu – The holding that advanced us is now OURS. Maya has grown full circle. Highlander, Cath, jungle, tropical wood, 5 dev, 0.08.


Cumana – Naval Supplies, Cath, English, grasslands, coastal, 4 dev 0.02 made here.

Anzoat – Eng, Cath, Sugar, 0.04, 5 dev, grasslands, coastal

Wayuu – Mountains, coastal, Eng, Cath, livestock is here, 10 dev, 0.04 made

Altagracia – Tropical wood, grasslands, Scottish, Cath, 8 dev, 0.04 made,

Now I want to grab the rest of the coast here and fill in the boxes.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 16 - Blood Thirst Sated


Post two wars colony check for you as you (or I) may have missed some.


Current colonies (7):

Powhatan, Doeg – north of Chesapeake but it in’s radius.

Borrado – north of us
Coahuilteco – North of Borrado

Chimila – Inland of Cartagena

Trinidad

Cauca – next to Marquita and others.

Active ones are the Chesapeake Bay ones and the Coa.


2 Feb, 1484 – Tobacco in Powhatan


1 June – I finish the mission to create a grand fleet!

I finish the next mission to dominate trade in my home trading port, I do, and it gets better for the rest of the game.

14 Nov – All of my grabbings have become cores from the first war! I have sent out two missionaries.


5 Jan, 1585 – I finish a build manufactories mission and gain thousands and thousands of cash ducats


1 Mar – Doeg is also with the tobacco

1 April – Borrado with fish

1 June – Chimila – Livestock, 5 dev, mountains, inland, part of state that includes Magdalena and Cartagena. 0.25 made here, I order a Farm Estate.


1 Aug – Trinidad – Naval Supplies, English, Anglican, coastline, 10 dev, not in a state, 0.09 made here. Land bridge to Britain

1 Sept - Rebellion in Moniquira.

20 Sept – Done!

1 Feb, 1486 – Pluto Idea #6 – Free Cities increases our caravan power from inland trading places like Bogota and Mexico City.


1 April – Cuahuilteco – Tobacco, 3 dev, steppes, Galveston Bay, Rio Grade Estuary, 0.03 made here.

I send these colonists to Caracas, I’ll be moving and connecting my new folks down the coast.

3 May – All holdings have been cored!!!

15 May – Mariquita converts and I send these missionaries to Trinidad next

I finish the mission to assemble a grand army!

22 Dec – Bogota converts and next is Pore!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 17 - The Calming Storm

1 Jan, 1587 – Rebellion in Pore

5 Feb – Put down

1 Aug – Two colonies today:


Powhatan – Tobacco, 6 dev, grasslands. 0.09 made here. I send these colonists south of…


Cauca – Gems, highlands, coastal, natural harbor, I order a workshop here, 5 dev, 0.45 made here.


South of Cauca is Pastos, down the coast and next to Quito. I will set up there, and then pull back to the Venezuela area to finish that coast.

I finish the mission to unite my home region, and we gain a ton of power


I have enough for Idea #4 in expansion, but I’ma hold off for the next tech in ADM as it gives me another slate of ideas

I am increasing my army size by around 20k to bring me up to my forcelimit

1 Jan, 1588 – Doeg – Tobacco, 6 dev, grasslands, 0.09 made here.


I send them to Coro which connects my holdings in Altagracia through the currently-sending-someone of Tacarigua, and Caracas. As soon as Tacar sets up I’ll send them back to the area. I am sending these to Manhattan.

1 June – After we embraced the printing press which is this institution, my tehcs are much lower. How much for ADMIN Tech? 523. Just 123 more than an idea.

Admin tech 14 – We can build Plantations and get another group of ideas!

Plantations are the Manufactory for these products:

Coffee
Sugar
Tobacco
Cotton
Cocoa
Tea

I order them here: Havana, my capital, 6 other cocoa provinces


I also am looking to get another group of ideas. I have them currently in Dip (finished), ADM and MIL. That means I can choose one in nay group (you can’t have more than half in one cluster of Ideas.).

Options:

Diplomatic

Trade

Naval

Admin

I do Admin, I want to get some extra states!


8 Aug – Pore finished and converted!!!

22 Aug- I pull colonists from Coro and send them to the holding south of Manhattan – Raritan (north New Jersey)

1 Nov – Coffee in Caracas

1 Feb, 1589 – DIP TECH 16 – We can get better trade ranges

1 May – Pastos with coffee

1 July – Tropical Wood in Coro


7 Sept – Trinidad converts! Go away filthy Anglicans!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 18 - Towards the North


1 Feb, 1590 – Borrado – 3 dev, Fishing, drylands, Galveston Bay, 0.02 made here


1 April – Raritan with tobacco

My MIL tech is so far behind it’s cheaper to buy than an Idea! I wanna finish the group

11 July = Another conversion!

1 Aug – Manhattan with that fur


1 Oct – Let’s finish it up!

Pluto Idea #7 – We get Emancipation with a massive boost to my manpower recovery speed.

For finishing the group I get +10% institution spread (such as the printing press).

I pass the Colonial Companies Act which needs Plutocracy and Exploration. I get +20% colonial range and +10 global settle growth

11 Oct – France took some mainland holdings from England in peace

1 Feb, 1591 Adin Idea #2 – We get cheaper core claims

1 Mar – Tecaragua with Cocoa!


22 June – I pulled colonists from Caracas to the Galapagos Islands to set up a colony there. I want to pull off any chance of Europe whipping around America.

22 Aug – Another conversion!

I send them to Maracaibo once the Islands are set up, another of the five needed to end any chance of others dipping here


1 Marc, 1592 – Caracas – Coffee, jungle, 4 dev, coastal, 0.07 made here

22 June – France rivals us

1 Jan, 1593 – I send Manhattan colonies to Unami, south of Raritan

1 Mar – Manhattan 6 dev, Hudson estuary, fur, 0.13 made here

11 Mar – Conversion in Cumana

22 June – I send Raritan colonists to Delaware


1 Aug – Raritan – Forest, 5 dev, south of Manhattan, tobacco, 0.07 made here

1 Sept – Sugar in Maracaibo


1 Dec – Pastos – 5 dev, coffee, I order plantation here, grasslands, 0.31 made here

22 Mar, 1594 – Another conversion!


2 June – We declare the annexation of Carib!


1 Aug – Coro – coastal, grasslands, tropical wood, 0.02.

I pull colonists from Maracaibo and send them south to Yukpa to set up the final o f the five needed to build a border.


1 Sept – Mil Tech 11 – I can build weapons manufactories

[Abe Sargent]

150 Year Review!

Map of the world

https://i.imgur.com/MZErddE.jpg

South America!

https://i.imgur.com/WlWsdm1.jpg

North! You can see me pushing towards myself and the continent mostly unmoved to. South America is where it’s happening

https://i.imgur.com/BeoOeXc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NsiMwyB.jpg

Africa and Europe

I have 99k troops and 37 ships. That’s the 2nd largest army we know of and the 10th best navy

We have the best income of those nations we have discovered, 3rd best development

Our Top Ten by Tax:

1. Capital
2. Tlocapan
3. Tlaxcala
4. Xocotla
5. Mexico City
6. Mariquita
7. Texomon
8. Texcoco
9. Cah Pech
10. Havana

Our Top Ten Non-Gold by Production

1. Capital
2. Antigua
3. St. Martin
4. Coix….
5. Cah Pech
6. Choratega
7. Antioquia
8. Xocotla
9. Turks and Caicos
10. Yolutatepec

We have 135 holdings

Current Value of Trade Goods:

5.25 - Paper
4.50 – Copper
4.0 – Dyes, Cocoa, Silks, Ivory
3.0 – Sugar, Coffee, Cotton, Tobacco, Spices, Gems, glass, Salt, Cloth, China, Tea, Slaves,Iron
2.80 – Fur
2.50 – Wine, Livestock
2.12 - Incense
2.0 – Grain, Fish, Wool, Naval Supplies, Tropical Wood,


Goods in which we are the trade leader:

Dyes, Cocoa, Sugar

Goods in which we are the production leader:


Dyes, Cocoa, Sugar, Tobacco


Great Powers:

1. France
2. Maya
3. Ottomans
4. GB
5. Aragon
6. Mamluks
7. Qara Q
8. Novgorod

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 19 - Desiring Maya


1 December – Naval Supplies in Galapagos


1 May, 1595 – We have annexed Carib!

https://i.imgur.com/19RvvQC.png

Yay!

1 Jul – Unami with Tobacco

11 Nov – I pull colonists from Yukpa and send them to Nanticoke

1 Mar, 1596 – Tobacco in Delaware

1 April – We can reform our government! I choose to embrace L’est est Moi and we get +5 states again

I have four states left and I make these:

Venezuela, East Cuba, Virginia, and Maracaibo,

1 Jul – Tacarigua – Cocoa, coastal, 4 dev, jungle, 0.37 made here. I order a plantation here. As you can see, being in Venezuela now and other states has increased the value of these holdings massively

6 Jan, 1597 – My Carib taking has converted to the true Mayan way!

1 April – Expansion Idea #5 – We get +1 dip relations (like vassals, marriages, etc)

1 Sept – MIL TECH 12 – We get better inf tactics

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 19 - Eagle Rivalries Renewed


1 April, 1598 – Tobacco in Nanticoke

1 June – Our peace treaty with the Brits has finished. They are at war. I declare war on Orinoco valley, the capital of their local folk here.

https://i.imgur.com/x3xXBBp.jpg

Here I’ll show you. My goal is to remove this colonial nation from the map! See how I have three armies next to it to smash away?

22 June – I win in the Venezuelan sea


22 July – Two minors are mine and I am at their capital


1 Sept – Coffee in Yukpa

2 Oct – we assault and take their fortress

9 Oct – I defeat their fleeing navy and capture two vessels

8 Nov – I have captured all of their territory and defeated and captured another vessel.


10 Nov – I have removed British Colombia from the map.


I will start with the Delta and move east. All are Catholic and English unless otherwise stated.

Guyana State:

Orinoco Delta – 11 dev, swamp, 0.08 cash


Essequibo – 3 dev, fish, Jungle, coastal – 0.01 cash


Demerara – Cocoa, jungle, coastal, 7 dev, 0.02 cash


Inland Upper Guyana –

Guasipati – Highlander, Jungle, 5 dev, tropical wood, 0.02

Pirara – Naval Supplies, Highlander, Jungle, 4 dev, 0.02


Suriname State

Paramaribo – Jungle, Welsh Anglican , 5 dev, fish, 0.02 cash, coastal

Cayenne – 6 dev, Sugar, Jungle, coastal, 0.04 cash.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 20 - The Loss of Coffee


https://i.imgur.com/8JZcGZZ.jpg

Good news and bad news. We are the ones with the dissemination of the coffee plant which drops it’s value, but we get thousands of ducats. I order some more plantations.


1 Feb, 1599 – Unami – Tobacco, I order a plantation here, 5 dev, 0.11 made here.

We have gained the trading in Tobacco boost.


I send them to the next door holding of Conoy, which is connects us from Manhattan to Chesapeake

1 Mar – Maracaibo – 5 dev, 0.35 , made, Sugar, grasslands, tropical



I have two new targets of expansion – Karankawa, north on Galveston Bay which I’ll set up and leave, and Chitimacha, the delta of the Mississippi, which another small tribe just moved out of. I want to lock it in as it’s one of the best remaining holdings and an obvious spot of expansion.
Rebels in Essequibo

22 Mar – Put down!

2 June – I pull colonists and send them to Massachusetts, another major holding here


My goal is to try and remove obvious ports of starting. Castille has been focused laserly on Africa, and Portugal Brazil and the Caribbean. England and others could easily loop over and try to set up shop there, so I need to remove the best targets off the map.


1 Oct – Delaware – coastal, coastline, 10 dev, 0.12 made here



1 Nov – MIL TECH 13 – I get better cannon.

There is an inland South America that’s part of the Maricabo state I send over some colonists from Conoy and will send them back after it’s over


1 Jan, 1600 – The latest institution, global trade, is here.

The Age of Reformation ends in 10 years


14 April – The Delta is our core!

14 July – As are the rest!

1 Sept – Galapagos – 3 dev, Naval Supplies, 0.03 cash made here

1 June, 1601 – Fish in Massachusetts. Ah well. No tobacco, fur, etc.

22 July – Sinu converts!

1 Sept – Expansion Idea #6 – Ready? +1 colonist!

I send it to Adai. West of Chitimacha and close to my current holding

1 Nov – Cotton in Chitimacha

12 Dec – After setting up Adai, I pull them and dispatch to north of Manhattan to Quinnipiac

11 Jan, 1602 – Another giant influenza outbreak

1 April – Tobacco in Conoy

13 Nov – Our heir dies on a hunting accident, but another child is there.

1 Dec – Karankawa with Cotton

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 21 - Colonial Push

1 Jan, 1603 – DIP TECH 17 – I can get merchantmen vessels and build trade depots.

1 May – Sugar in Vari…

1 July – Nantichoke – Tobacco, 8 dev, 0.06 made here, coastal, coastline

11 Dec – O Delta converts!!!

13 Mar, 1604 – Essequibo converts!

1 June – Tobacco in Quinn.

22 Aug – I have set up another minor colony in Popayan, this is internal and part of my state next to the south-western tip of my empire near the Andes.

1 Sept – Yukpa – 5 dev, coastal, Coffee, 0.31 made here,


https://i.imgur.com/brekYbB.jpg


My current cash break down, with my 76 being dropped on colonies, but I am investing my bonanza cash somewhere.

I have made ADM my national focus. Now I am getting 9/8/9 in Monarch power monthly

1 Dec – Massachusetts – 12 dev, fish, natural harbor, forest, making us .021. I send these colonists south to Wampanoag.

1 Jan, 1605 –

Conoy – 6 dev, tobacco, 0.10, coastal – I send them south of Chesapeake to Roanoke.

Chitimacha – 11 dev, Cotton, coastal, Miss.. Delta, natural harbor, I send these east to Bayougoula


1 Feb – Fish in Adai

1 Sept – Great News

I finish Expansion Ideas! I get _5 states.

I choose these:

Bogota
Guyana (Trinidad and the others I took)
Delaware Valley

And leave 2

1 Jan, 1606 – Roanoke with Tobacco

18 June – Demerara converts

1 July – Bayougoula with Salt


1 Oct – Fur in Connecticut

1 Dec – Fish in Wampanoag

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 22 - Dreams of the North


1 April 1607 – Cocoa in Popayan

1 May – Quinnipiac – 5 dev, forest, coastal, 0.08 made here.


1 Sept – MIL TECH 14 – We can build Bastions and get better forces all around the mulberry bush

19 Oct – Rebellion in Quinn

22 Dec – After a long battle and 2k mercs I made and sent over, we finally beat them. I disband the mercs

2 Feb, 1608 - I am going to set up inland colonies at Lenape and Susquehanna. These are both part of the Delaware Valley state

1 June – Karankawa – Cotton, 3 dev coastal, Galveston Bay, savanna, 0.03 made here. It’s two away from Adai and connecting to the southern point

2 Jan, 1609 – We have a claim against Fox They are next to us and in the Delaware Valley state, so I declare war on them. I have a large army next to them

15 Jan – We arrive in their home.

18 Jan – We rout their army. I order a assault on their capital.

6 Feb – It’s ours.

18 Feb – We defeat two more minors arriving at us.

4 Mar - I chase foes to Raritan and defeat them

https://i.imgur.com/4gTIhmO.jpg


Munsee is ours!

1 May – Roanoke – .011, coastal, coastline, 5 dev, tobacco – I send these colonists south to Pamlico


1 June – Variquecimeto – I order a plantation here, inland, part of Maracaibo state, 4 dev, Sugar, 0.29 made here, hills

I send the Bayou… folks to Biloxi next door.

22 Sept – I pull from Wampan… and head north of Massachusetts to Merrimack


1 Dec – Bayougoula – Salt, 5 dev, Mobile Bay, Marsh, 0.07 made here.

I send colonists to Eyeish, west of Adal and near my other lands to the west.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 23 - Absolutely Mayan

1 Jan, 1610 – Wampanoag - 6dev, fish, coastal, coastline, 0.08 cash made here

The Age of Absolutism has begun!

7 March - I order colonists from Eyeish after it sets up to set up in Androscoggin, north of Merrimack


10 May – Munsee is a core!

1 July – Adai – Fish, 4 dev, next to Chitimacha, marsh, coastal, 0.05 cash made her


1 Aug – ADMIN IDEA #4 – We get reduced interested per year

1 Oct – Connecticut – Forest, Furs, coastal, 6 dev, 0.05 cash.

I send colonists to Atakapa, the final rung to connect around the Gulf of Mexico

1 Mar, 1611 – Cotton in Biloxi

1 May – MIL TECH 15 – We get better land morale

1 June – Fish in Pamlico

1 July – Tobacco in Susquehanna

17 July – Altagracia converts!

1 Oct – Merrimack is also tobacco country

6 Nov – Munsee converts!


1 Jan, 1612 – Lenape with tobacco

1 Sept – Popayan – Cocoa, hills, 6 dev, inland near the Andes, part of Astarte I already have, I order a Plantation here, 0.53 made here monthyl.

My next minor inland target here that’s a part of a state is near Bogota, Motilones. It’s a 5 dev mountain holding with a good chance for gems, sugar, cocoa, etc.

1 Nov – Fur in Androscggin

1 June, 1613 -Sugar in Eyeish

1 Sept – I pull colonists from Merrimack and send them south of Pamlico to Chicora.

1 Nov – ADMIN IDEA #5 – We get +25% Mercenaries

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 24 - Of Pirates and Allies

18 Jan, 1614 – I send Biloxi colonists next door to Mobile


17 July-


https://i.imgur.com/L8QN8bC.jpg

As you can see, the Bahamas are splitting off into a “Republic of Pirates”. I have two options. I can choose to play as New Providence and get some government reform for them. They get 36 ships,a big fat army, and more


We ally with them. I am happy to lose one province for a local, Mayan, ally.

1 Aug – Grain in Atakapa

Biloxi – 5 dev, savanna, 0.08 cash, cotton

I pull colonists in Pamlico and send them south to Waccamaw

1 April, 1615 – Pamlico – Fish, 6 dev, coastlaine, coastal, 0.06 cash


1 May – Merrimack – Tobacco, 0.07 made here, forest, coastal, 5 dev

1 Sept – Fish in Chicora

1 Nov – DIP TECH 18 – We get better naval morale

10 Mar, 1616 – Ready?

Ever since we’ve taken three vassals a long time ago in the war, we’ve had three angry vassals. But now, decades later, they have finally moved past it.

We have announced the annexation of Xalisco!

1 April – Androscoggin – 10 dev, fur, I send these colonists from Maine to Charleston in Santee.

1 Sept – Fish in Mobile

1 Oct – Susquehanna – 8 dev, forest, tobacco, 0.55 here, and I order plantation.


I send colonists from Chicora to Pensacola

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 25 - The Death of the First Emperor

1 Feb, 1617 – Tobacco in Waccamaw

1 July – Lenape – Tobacco, Plantation ordered, 6 dev, .42, forest, inland

I pull colonists from Pensacola and send them next door and east to Chatot

I state-ify West Florida

https://i.imgur.com/KWAufin.jpg

October 28 – Our king has passed! Our national stability drops but the even occurs that raises it back up.

Our new Monarch investment is 13/8/8.

Let’s do the math – It takes 400 ADM points to get an idea. 400/13 is 30 months, so every 2 and a half years.

1 May, 1618 – ADMIN Idea #6 – We get +1 potential advisor

You are going to love the last one!

1 Oct – Cotton in Santee

1 Nov – Eyeish – Forest, coastal, G. Bay, Sugar, 4 dev, 0.10 made here

10 Aug, 1619 -I pull colonists from Chatot and move them next door to Apalachee.

1 Sept – Grain in Chatot, MIL TEC 16 I can build new cannon


1 Nov – Fur in Pensacola

Atakapa – Grain, 5 dev, final G. Bay, Savannah, coastal, 0.04 made here

1 Dec – Annexation Successful.

https://i.imgur.com/pHJTFot.jpg

You can see our three holdings here!

In addition to that we have:


Amaxocotlan – 5 dev, Jungle, coastal, wool, Tepic people, Nahuatl faith


Tzappotzingo – 6 dev, hills, wool, Tepic, Nah,

I order in some missionaries t o clear it out.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 26 - To Florida and Beyond


5 Jan, 1620 – We marry a new queen with one of our vassals



1 Mar – Waccamaw – Tobacco – 5 dev, coastal, savanna, .10 sent back home

1 Sept – Mobile, fish, 6 dev, I order a naval equipment manu here, 0.35 made here,

Jan 1, 1621 – Ready?

ADMIN IDEAS #7 – This is why I took this minor weak holing. +5 states baby! And -10% Admin tech too.

I also have two acts I can…enact.

I choose to do the Colonial Admin Act that speeds up my colonial development.
I add two states:

Jalisco (Over in the area I just added)

South Carolina



I send colonists south of Santee to Cusaba and Guale

1 May – Santee – Santee River Estuary (Charleston). 7 dev, savannah, coastal, Cotton, 0.41 made here, I order a plantation here, (right now I have 6000+ gold and making around 100 cash monthly)

https://i.imgur.com/QQI6Xoa.jpg


Here I’ll show you. See how our balance is 102.23? Oh, I also took a screen shot so you could see this region. I am now just a few away from connecting my entire empire from Venezuela to Maine.


1 Aug – Apalachee with cotton

I send colonists to Yustega, east of Apalachee. I’ll set them up, and then head east to Timuca

16 Jan, 1622 – Conversion!

6 Jul – Another follows!

1 Sept – Cotton in Guale

I pull colonists from Timuca and send down Florida

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 27 - Drawing Borders

1 Mar, 1623 – Grain in Cusabo

7 May – The tribe next to us has moved. I pull colonists from Guale and send to Mocamba!

We are now colonizing the borders that will unite my realms


1 June – ADM TECH 15 – We can give forced march orders.


22 Aug – We have a coffee boom event that rises Coffee back up


8 Feb, 1624 – Another conversion!

1 April – Apalachee – Cotton, 0.05, marsh, coastal, 4 dev


1 June – Chatot – 3 dev, savannah, coastal, in the West Florida state, I order a farm estate here, grain, 0.17 made here

Let’s pause for a moment and look at where I want to go colonially next.

Save four a few Florida holdings, I have everything obvious.

Let’s me show you SA

https://i.imgur.com/zgcKVgP.jpg

Here you are. As you can see, Britain is to our east. And they connect to Portugal that has almost all of colonial east coast/ they are also in Peru.

https://i.imgur.com/CvD86jB.jpg

What I am thinking about doing is closing it. I could go inland where I am and hold the edge. Here are the northern America. As you can see, we are up to Maine. Above us is France and England. I could go inland and try to cut them off. I can also head up the western half and head to California.


For a real weird time I could slid to the Indies where no one is at yet.


My thoughts are to do these:

1. Grab Suriname and Rio Branco in the east part of the area and stop British expansion.
2. Grab Putumayos on the west flank in the Andes and cut off expansion there.
3. Finish Florida
4. Head inland in Maine and cut off people, prioritize this.
5. Head up the coast to California – make this my area where I am building slowly
6. Eventually finish South Carolina with two inland holdings there to complete that state


I pull colonists from Mocamba and send them to Maine in Passamaquoddy

1 July – Pensacola – Fur 4 dev, coastal, part of West Florida, savannah, I order a trade station here, 0.22 made here.


1 Sept- Patano and Micabo with Salt and Fur (Florida)

1 Nov – I pull colonists and send them to Penobscott in Maine

Cotton in Yustaga

21 Nov = Conversion!

I send colonists to Rio Bravo, and then I’ll head back after.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 28 - American Destiny

1 April, 1625 – After setting up in Rio Branco, I head to Putomayos and again I’ll let It grow.


1 Aug – One salt, one fur in Florida

1 Dec – Cusabo, 6 dev, South Carolina, savanna, grain, I order a farm estate, 0.35 made here

21 April, 1626 – I set up in Florida

1 Aug – Naval Supplies in Penobscot, Fur in Pas..

1 Sept – Guale – Georgia, savannah, 5 dev, .10 cash, cotton

I state-ify Maine

2 Feb, 1627 – I send Patano to Sokoi in New Hampshire

1 June – Patano, March, 3 Dev, Florida, fur, 0.05 made here

1 Oct- Sugar in Putumayos

1 Dec – Gems in Rio Branco

1 April. 1628 -I declare war on the minor of

https://i.imgur.com/VibbxZv.jpg

Micmac. Here you are, I wanna bring it under my control

16 April – We arrive.

6 June – We finished assaulting and took their capital.

8 June – I win in the south by Chesapeake against another.

We take it.

1 July – Fur in Kennebec in Maine

1 Aug – Fish and tobacco in Florida:

Timucua – Marsh, salt, 4 dev, 0.06 made here, and I order a naval equipment manufactory



1 Oct – Yustuga, Marsh, cotton, 3 dev, 0.06 made here

1 Dec – Cotton in Miami

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 29 - Trading Outside the Gulf

1 Mar, 1629 – Passamaquoddy – forest, coastal, Maine, fur, 6 dev, 0.44 made here and I order up a trading post.

I send these north to Aroostook and finish up Maine

Naval Supplies in Sokoki

1 April – Penobscot – forest, Naval Supplies, 5 dev, in Maine, I order a naval equipment manufactory here

I send these colonists to Totorames, the next holding up in Mexico. After setting up, I move them to South Carolina’s Catawba and Saluda

1 May – Mayaca – Fur, 3 dev. marsh, Florida, 0.04 made here

1 Aug – Mocama – Marsh, salt, 3 dev, order naval equipment, 0.05 made here

1 Sept – We embrace Global Trade!

We get another merchant that I send to…

Chesapeake Bay

I had enough tech for techs for a few years, but I wanted to wait so I’d get a reduced tech cost


We get:

MIL TECH 17 – better cavalry shock

DIP TECH 19 – Better boats and colonial range

ADM TECH 16 (which only cost 349 power after the removal) – I can build Mills!

Mills are the Manufactory for things that are produced:

Paper
Chinaware
Glass
Gems
Tropical Wood

I set up Mills in 3 gems, four woods

And then…

ADM TECH 17 – I get _5 states, and can build universities!

And we are halfway to 18 which is another group of ideas!!

16 Oct – Nimpuc is now a core

I state-itize Massachusetts

I upgrade Mexico to a World Trade center

22 May, 1630 – We announce the annexation of Tonala

1 Nov – Kennebec – Hills, inland, Maine, fu, 4 dev, 0.34 made here and a trade station ordered.

I send these colonists to Espachomy in the Hudson River..

22 Dec – Nimpuc converts!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 30 - Destiny Doubled


1 Jan 1631 – Only needing 431, we get ADM TECH 18!

What idea group is next?

I don’t need econ boosting ideas like Trade or Econ. I take Humanist

1 Feb – Conversion

1 June – Fur in Aroostook.

1 Aug – MIL TECH 17 – We can build a leather cannon!

4 Oct – I state ify Hudson Valley


27 Oct -

https://i.imgur.com/96lltfk.jpg


I just finished a claim on the Creek’s holding of Moratok, next to me in Virginia and a part of that state. I declare war on them

1 Nov – Sokoki – New Hampshire, naval supplies, mountains, 4 dev, 0.07 made here

I send these colonists over to Sinaloa near Baja California

9 Nov – We arrive in their home

13 Nov – Their army is routed

1 Dec – Putumayos – Andes, inner border, Sugar, jungle, 4 dev, 0.06 made here

I send these colonists to set up in Bogota’s inland Motilones, then I’ll send them south of Rio Branco into the Amazon.

18 Dec – I finish their base

29 Dec – We bring them in.

1 Feb, 1632 – Fur and Spices in colonies of mine

1 Apr – Rio Branco Gems, jungle, 3 dev, Amazon, 0.09 made here. I order a Mill

I send those colonists south of here to Barcelos.

1 Sept – Espachomy with tobacco

1 Oct –

Ais – Florida, savanna, 3 dev, fish, 0.04 made here

Calusa - Tobacco, savanna, 3 dev, Florida, 0.06 made here.

1 Dec -Naval Supplies in Saluda

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 31 - Iroquois No More


1 Jan, 1633 – Maimi – Florida, 3 dev, Cotton, marsh

I pull colonists from Espa and dispatch them to Ohlone deep on the west coast (LA). I want to establish here and then work east and south down the coast to the other fork. Much like I did with Chesapeake to my main holding

19 Apr -Conversion!

16 May – the two province Iroquois are now at war with some bigger nations


https://i.imgur.com/0RNQsOK.jpg

I want to bring them in first, so I have claims on both of their holdings, I declare war

1 June, Coffee in Sinola

28 June – Their capital is mine

1 July – Humanist Idea #1

3 Aug – I have grabbed a minor holding

11 Aug – I rout their army

Annexed!

We have also finished annexing Tenala

You saw my target, their capital

Cayuga – Hills, Fur, 5 dev, 0.04 made here, Iroquois people

Tenala –

Tizapan – Highlands, Grain, 8 dev, tepic people, Nahuatl faith 0.31 made here

Huichol – Mountains, wool, Tepic Nahuatl, 6 dev, 0.63 made here with it’s manufactory.


Tecpactitlan – Hills, wool, 4 dev, Tepic Nahuatl too, 0.18 made here


My Iroquois have taken me up to Lake Ontario.

15 Nov – Another conversion

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 32 - Trinity of Growth


1 Jan, 1534 – Aroostook – The final Maine holding, next to France and Britain. 3 dev, Fur, hills, trade station ordered, 0.25 made here

1 Mar – Tropical Wood in Barcelos

8 Aug – Conversion!

1 Dec – We gain the trading in gems boost

22 Dec – Our Iroquois are now cores!

1 Jan, 1535 - Livestock in Ohlone

22 Jan – Another conversion

1 Mar – Sugar in Montilones

1 July – Humanist Idea #2 – We get -2 national unrest

27 Sept- We announce the annexation of my final vassal!


1 Dec – Sinoloa, on the coast near Baja. I send these colonist next door to Mayo. 3 dev, forest, coffee, 0.05 cash

1 Jan, 1536 – Religious rebellion in Cayuga.

9 Jan – No longer!

1 June – Totoranes – Connected Sinolao south. Spices, 5 dev, hills, 0.09 cash made, trade station ordered

1 July – Catawba, SC, froest, 5 dev, Fur, 0.47, trade station ordered.

I send colonists to Lake Ontario to head around it (Tyoteoke)

9 July – Britain declares war on Portugal

They are right next door in South America so maybe this is a war for them?

1 Aug – Espechomy – Tobacco, forest, Hudson Valley, 0.24, 5 dev

1 Sept – Barcelos – Amazon, 4 dev, tropical wood, 0.05 dev, I send these colonists to Manaus.

11 Sept – Cayuga converts!

19 Oct – As does Onondaga!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 34 - The Storm Approaches


1 Jan, 1537 – Pennacook in New Hampshire with grain

1 April –

Ohlona – I go ahead and make it a state. Natural harbor which I upgrade, 12 dev, livestock, grasslands, coastal, 0.88 made here. I order a farm estate. I send these colonists south to Salinan

Saluda – SC, 5 dev, forest, Naval Supplies, 0.38 made here, naval equipment manufactory ordered.


DIP TECH +20 – I get better trade range


1 Nov – Mayo with fish


1 June, 1538 – Tropical Wood in Manaus

1 July – ADM TECH 19 – I can build upgrades of Temples – Cathedrals

I order around 25.

https://i.imgur.com/RORA96n.jpg

This is my cash stash with a full 8 colonies. As you can see, I’m bringing in roughly 2000 cash a year, or FOUR manufactories, 20 workshops, etc

2 Aug -

I am about to declare war:


https://i.imgur.com/ngnOMw1.jpg

I have four claims now on them, all four. I have a big army next door, I have isolated them from allies far to the south, I can blitz and take them


Ready?

We are at war

17 Aug – Dead army routed

1 Sept – Livestock in Salinan.

28 Sept – I have captured two minors

19 Oct – We finished their assault after the first one failed.

22 Nov – The last holding is ours.

We bring them all in!

Oneida – Hills, Lake Ontario, 6 dev, workshop, furs, 0.09 made here

Mohawk – East of Oneida - 6 dev, workshop, furs, 0.09 made here, hills

Mahican 0 Their former capital, Hudson Valley, 7 dev, 0.22 made here, forest, tobacco,

Pocumtuk you saw

What I am doing is pushing north to create a barrier against French Canada

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 35 - Three Wars in Three Years


1 Jan, 1639 – Iron in Allegheny

https://i.imgur.com/3tZ9k4R.jpg

Mar 30 – I just finished a claim on Blackfoot’s Seneca. I declare war. I’ll skip the details you already know

1 June - Tobacco in Atrakwaye

5 July – All ours!

I send colonists to Adirondack and Ontario.

1 Aug – Motilones – Mountains sugar, Botoa state, 5 dev, 0.63 made here

1 Feb, 1640 – Salinan – Livestock, highlands, coastal, south of (LA), 0.35 made here. I send these colonists south to Chumash

8 Mar – All four cores from our war are ours!

1 Aug – Mayo – 3 dev, desert, fish, 0.02

I send colonists up the coast to Yaqui.


22 Oct – Seneca now a core

I state-ifi the five giant state of Iroquoisia that runs from Seneca through Mohawk.

I’m about to declare war on the Lenape in the Potomac as well as Miami in the north their ally.

https://i.imgur.com/CxVmT17.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/4kkA6qG.jpg

I declare war.

22 Feb – We arrive from Susquehanna and defeat them

25 Feb – We have routed the Miami forces

1 Mar – Pennacook – New Hampshire, 6 dev, grain, hills, 0.05 made.

1 April – We capture Potampoc

22 April – Missisquoi falls!

29 April – Peace for Potomac and Missisquoi!

1 July – Manaus – Tropical Wood, Jungle, Amazon, 0.06. I send these colonists next door to Santarem, next to GB.

1 Sept – Ontario with Naval Supplies

1 Oct – Humanist Idea #4 – Years of Separatism -10


1 Nov – Chumash with Livestock too

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12b, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter Postlude - Peace and Quiet Reigns Again

1 June, 1642 – Allegheny – Iron, hills, by Lake Ontario, forest, 5 dev, 0.10

1 July – Naval Supplies in Adirondack

1 Nov – Fish in Yaqui

11 Mar, 1643 -0 I send colonists to Ohio, next to Allegheny

8 Aug – Missisquoi is now a core


1 Sept – MIL TECH #19 – I get better inf and cav

1 Jan, 1644 – Santarem now with coffee!

1 May – Chumash – Farm Estate, livestock, plains, coastal, Alta California. I order these colonists south to Kumeyaay. 5 dev, 0.34 cash.


I pull colonists from Manaus and send them to Suriname.

1 June – Ontario – 8 dev, woods, Naval Supplies, 0.09

1 Nov – We have annexed our final vassal!

Cuitzeo – Highlands, temple, grain, Maya, Purepacha tribe, 8 dev, 0.2 in sweet cash

Patzcurao - Highlands, fort I destroy, grain, temple, Nahuatl faith, Pure… tribe, 12 dev, 0,.73 cash

Ihuatzio – Nahuatl, Mountains, 8 dev, grain, farm estate, workshop, 0.78 made here

Apatzinan – Nah, Pure, drylanbds, grain, farm estate, workshop, temple, 0.97 made here, 7 dev

[Chas in Cinti]

need an updated world pic... you're expanding faster than I can keep track of... :)

[Abe Sargent]

need an updated world pic... you're expanding faster than I can keep track of... :)

:0

Okay!

[Abe Sargent]

200 Year Review!


Maps!!!

https://i.imgur.com/CF9NohZ.jpg

Here’s South America. France has set up in the far part, as well as Portugal all over, and you can see where I’ve drawn lines around GB.

https://i.imgur.com/E989s78.jpg

Here’s N. America. As you can see, we have up to Maine, and then and moving towards CA. You can also see my expansion in the north part around the lakes. I have two Conquistador armies exploring and revealing various places there.

https://i.imgur.com/gT5LRCi.jpg

Since I don’t care, here’s Eur-Asia-Africa


I have 142k of a forcelimit of 155.

I have 65 vessels of a 127 naval forcelimit

We have the most income of folks we know about

We are tied with the top DIP tech in the world but are back in the others

Our Top Ten Holdings by Taxes:

1. Capital
2. Tlocopan
3. Mariquita
4. Tlaxcala
5. Xocotla
6. Mexico city
7. Cartagena
8. Bogota
9. Havana
10. Orinoco Delta


Our Top Ten non-gold by Production:

1. Capital
2. Panama
3. Antigua
4. Bogota
5. Havana
6. Cah Pech
7. St. Martin
8. Cartagena
9. Veraguas
10. Coix…

We have 227 holdings

Our army is 2nd largest, navy is 9th

Current Value of Trade goods:

5.25 - Paper
4.50 – Glass, Spices,Iron
4.0 – Dyes, Silk, Ivory, Cocoa
3.75 – Sugar
3.60 – Cloth
3.50 – Fur
3.45 - Copper
3.30 – Coffee, Salt
3.0 – Gems, Incense, Tobacco, Cotton, China, Tea, Slaves
2.50 – Livestock, Wine
2.0 – Grain, Fish, Tropical Wood, Naval Supplies, Wool,


We are the Production leader:

Coffee
Cocoa
Dyes
Sugar
Tobacco
Cotton
Fish
Fur
Salt
Gems
Tropical Wood

We are the trade Leader:


Cocoa
Sugar
Tobacco
Coffee
Gems
Dyes

With a shout out to Gold and Cotton


Great Powers

1. Maya
2. France
3. Ottomans
4. Qara Q
5. Britian
6. Aragon
7. Russia (Formed by Novgorod)
8. Portugal


Ready for the next 200?

[Chas in Cinti]

Wow...

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter Prelude - Musings on Silence

19 Nov – Conversion in Potomac

I pull my colonists in Yaqui and send them next door to Seri.

1 Dec – Humanist Idea #5 - +2 promoted cultures

I promote Tepic and Muisca

22 Apr, 1645 – Missisquoi converts!

1 May – Atrakwaye, 3 dev, hills, 0.04 made here, tobacco

1 June – Fur in Ohio.

I pull colonists from Seri and send them next door to Tohono. This connects me up to Ohone.

22 July – I pull colonists in Kumeyaay

I send them to East Timor in the Indies.

3 Nov – Conversion

1 Jan, 1646 – Yaqui – 3 dev, fish, drylands, coastal, 0.02 made here

7 April – Another conversion!


I pass the Edict of Colonization (which I can do with both expansion and exploration ideas) and it’ll give me +20 growth and -50% native uprising. but it’ll cost me two Dip a month. In order to pay, I increase my dip advisor to 5.

https://i.imgur.com/MLyNpwI.jpg

Here’s my court. Normally the highest you can get an advisor is 3 naturally. However, if they are of your faith and culture, you can raise their ability with the circular star function. It costs cash – this cost me 1k. And then my upkeep is going to be very high. It costs me 78.13 for all three advisors. But it restores my 13/8/8 balance.

After that change, I am still bringing in that cash:

https://i.imgur.com/F3KKzKy.jpg

It’s basically winds up that the policy cost is being paid by cash. You can also see the current 10K in cash I’m sitting on, as well as my other things up there

Oh, and once I set up in East Timor, I can swap my advisor for something else, I won’t need a Navigator’s +20% range.


1 July – Gems in Suriname

1 Sept – Humanist Idea (needs 395) +6 – We get +30 influence relations

1 Oct – Fish in Kumeyaay

22 Dec – Conversion!

[Abe Sargent]

Wow...


:)

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 1 - Shawnee Dreams

1 Jan, 1647 – Adirondack – 3 dev, Naval Supplies, hills, 0.02 made here

I pull colonists in Tohono and send to Miwak, north of Ohone. We’ll head up the coast.

1 June – In Tohono we have Livestock

1 Aug – Seri has Livestock. I had a 20% chance for Salt or Gold on a bunch of holdings here on the coast and didn’t hit either.

20 Feb, 1648 – Conversion!

1 Mar – Ohio – 3 dev, woods, fur, 0.05, I send these colonists south to Shattaras

19 June

https://i.imgur.com/Mobetsj.jpg

I am about to declare war on the Shawnee. I have two armies next door, and this will help me leap over them and head up to Michigan. As you can see I have two armies of 18k troops at the gates. This is another key in moving down the great lakes to head off Europe from coming down.

17 July – We rout their army

11 Aug – Wabash is ours.

1 Sept – Santerem – Amazon, Brazil, next to GB, 4 dev, jungle, coffee, 0.05 made here.

1 Oct – East Timor with spices. Miwok with Fish

2 Oct – We lose an assault on Chillicothe

22 Nov – their capital of Chillicothe is ours too.

29 Nov – Erie falls,

30 Nov – Peace!

You’ve seen Chillicothe

Erie – 0.07, 7 dev, fur, woods

Wabash – 4 dev, woods, grain, 0.03 made here

I pull colonists from Shattereh and send them west of Erie to Wyandot.


MIL TECH 20 – We get swivel cannons!

ADM TECH 20 - +5 states. I add Maryland to my state hood

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 2 - Restoring Solitude

4 April – 1649- Wanna see my most up to date N America map after a lot of exploring has happened?

https://i.imgur.com/PUWtNGK.jpg

Here you go! As you can see, Britain has expanded in a small way, but France hasn’t done much here.

My next colonial goals:

1. Have one colonist doing up the west coast – Right now – Miwak.
2. Have one colonist in the Indies – East Timor now, West Timor next
3. Have one colonist in the Mid-West. Wyandot now.
4. Have colonies without colonists in Mid_west in places as well as taking Baja California, much as I did Florida.
5. Have 4th colonist in other places as needed. Right now he’s in Suriname


Actually, I can pull him from Suriname and send him to Honiasont (Pittsburgh) and claim Westsylvania as a state. It has more than a 20% chance of being copper or iron


18 May – Conversion


1 Jan, 1650 – The new modern thing is going to be Manufactories

19 Jan – Cores finished in Erie and Chillicothe, I order missionaries next

11 Mar – Wabash a core!

I state-ify Ohio

1 May – Fur in Wyandot

I order colonists to Paipai the first Baja CA holding.

1 Aug - Suriname – Gems, 4 dev, jungle, 0.08 cash, inland

I send the Paipia colonists next to Nakipa

The Baja have good chances of Salt and Gold.

22 Nov – We have a tobacco rising event!

1 Dec – Honiasont with Iron!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 3 - Peace in the Time


1 Jan, 1651 – Grain in Shatteras

Humanist Idea #7 – We finish the group!

We get +2 tolerance of heathens, and for finishing the group -10% idea cost.


We can get two acts. I pass the Cultural Recognition Act which gives me +10% spread of advancements and +1 promoted culture. I also promote Iroquois

https://i.imgur.com/zjWTUIl.jpg

And both of my leaders to level 4. I am now making 13/8/9.


I find an Indian trade company, and get a bonus merchant that I send to Mississippi River

1 April – Kumeyaay – Fish, drylands, 6 dev, naval equipment ordered, 0.48 made here. In the Atla CA State.


1 May – East Timor – 10 dev, Spices, I made Timor a state, I order a trade station here, Animist, local culture (we had some native assimilation events that sped it up). 0.98 made here. I order these to West Timor and some troops assembled to clear off the others.


11 May – Erie and Chillicothe convert!

I am finishing up Baja CA!

1 Dec –

Miwok – Fish, 4 dev, I had send these to help set up in Baja. After, they’ll head north to Pomo. Savanna, 0.22 made here, I order a manufactory

Tohono – Desert, coastal, connector for CA and us, 3 dev, Livestock


1 Mar, 1652 – Gold in Paipai, and


Seri – 4 dev, desert, coastal, livestock, border of CA to us.

22 May – Another Portuguese/ English war sprouted up

22 Dec – Wabash converts!

1 Jan, 1653 – Wyandot – Woods, 5 dev, part of my state in Ohio, 0.52, Fur, trade station ordered, I order them north to Potawatomi (Detroit). After it sets up, I’ll head to other nearby places to Wyandot – Mascouten, and Miami.


6 Mar – Our queen passes

1 Apr – Honiasont – Iron, Emporium which I level up, weapons manu ordered, part of Westsylvania, 0.53 made here from 5 dev. I order these colonists east to Juniata, the final Westsylvania holding.

1 sept – Livestock in Nakipa (Baja C)

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 4 - Gold Dreams


1 Jan, 1654 – Livestock in Pomo as well

1 Feb – Tea in West Timor

1 Jan, 1655 – In Cochima, Gold!!!

1 Mar – DIP TECH 21 – I can build Chebecks (Galley style ship not good for open seas but great on Black Sea, Med Sea, etc)

1 Apr – Shatteras – 4 dev, woods, grain, 0.02 made here


1 May – Guaycura in Baja with Livestock

1 June – In Juanita we have Copper

1 July – Fur in Potawatomi

I send colonists to Flores from West Timor

1 Sept – ADM TECH #21 – We can make Furnaces, for coal later

15 Feb, 1656 – War in Port/Eng is over.

https://i.imgur.com/TjqYjI0.jpg


Here are the Indies. Note that the Mamelukes have expanded here colonially. We have Castile in the Andamans over by Khmer, Portugal in a few islands. They know of the area and are here. They just haven’t entered the Indies proper, but we have. We have come in from the east side and jumped the Pacific Ocean. We haven’t; touched anywhere else, like New Zealand, Australia, etc


We have an Aragonese colony in Africa, and the Dutch have arrived in South America. Lots of competition.

These are active colonizers:

Aragon
Netherlands
England
France
Castille
Mamelukes
Portugal
Maya

I am changing my goals.

I pull my colonists in Juanita and send it to Ambom, over in the Spices Islands proper over in the Banda Sea. It takes more than 400 days to arrive. I’ll set up and then set up another and slow grow here. This will be my new Florida or Baja CA.


My goal is to set up a few colonies here and expand in the Spice islands more quickly. They are more valuable than another 3 or 4 dev fish or Livestock holding on the west coast. I’ll still keep a colonizer there moving up and one in the Midwest, but my extra dork is being committed to here. I don’t need another 10 Furs, Cottons, Tobaccos, Fishes, Livestocks, and Grains any time soon.


1 May – Pomo – Mountains, coastal, 3 dev, 0.04, Livestock, I send these colonists up the coast to Yuki

1 June – West Timor – 10 dev, Tea, grasslands, 0.66 made here, plantation ordered,

1 Oct – Paipai – Gold, 4 dev, Baja CA, I make Baja a state due to its two gold mines, I order a Trade Depot here

I pull colonists from Flores and sent them to Ceram, with a strait connect to Ambom.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 5 - Death into Life


1 Feb, 1657 – Naval Supplies in Miami

https://i.imgur.com/1V4vIgQ.jpg

Know what? I have pushed all of my advisors up to level 5, just to see what would happen. I’m losing 3 gold a month with my massive advisor maintenance and this is with ten colonies right now as well, as we finish off Baja California, that should drop. Right now we have two about ready to finish. I thought about dropping my naval or army maintenance to stay at positive cashflow, but with 9382, I can do this for years and remain above 9000 cash, although eventually I’d wanna change it. This raises my advisers level to 14/8/10 though.


9 April – At the age of 68 our ruler has died!

I spend 193 ADM TO boost my stability back up wiping me out for a bit.

27 April – Royal Marriage with Quito gives us a queen

https://i.imgur.com/W2kJaWm.jpg

As you can see, my new ruler is a very, very weak 2/1/2, dropping me to 11/6/9 with my level 5 advisers. You can see my heir, his younger brother, there who’s much better. The heir has gained infertile, which is not good. However, he is expansionistic.

I’ll show you:

https://i.imgur.com/2ImoWxj.jpg

This is my stability and expansion tab. This is where you’d see my rebels or issues if we have any (we don’t). You can see my colonial range and colonial growth there. I am getting 180 colonists per year in a colony that doesn’t get any boosts. That means one colony will finish in 5.5 years, without any additional help. With a colonist there, there is a chance each month to get some free boosts, and we get the occasional event due to me taking the ideas expansion and exploration to boost a colony with a few hundred people every couple of years or so. (I just got one for Miami a few months ago)

Now, let’s compare that:

UK that has invested heavily? 120
Dutch? 65
France? 105

We have made this our thing, and the Emperor agrees.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 6 - Spice Dreams

1 May – Fur in Mascouten.

1 June - I make Michigan a state –

Potawatomi – Fur, Emporium, level 2, 0.67, 6 dev, I order a trade station, and send these colonists north to Okouara, in Michigan, with a strait across to Canada

19 Aug – East Timo converts.


23 Aug – GB Declares war against Holland

1 Sept – I can see Castile in the pacific ocean.

Nakipi – Baja, Livestock, desert, 3 dev, I0.27 made here, I order a Farm Estate

16 Oct – We have tropical wood’s price rise

1 Nov – Cochimi – Coastal Desert, Bala, 5 dev, GOLD, 0.45 made here, I order a trade depot,


12 Dec – I set up a colony in Ceram and pulled the colonists for Yamdena


Let me give you an example of how being in a state matters, even for lower dev stuff:

https://i.imgur.com/7paGFxg.jpg

This was brought in as a part of the state of Maracaibo, and with a plantation and workshop it’s now making us 1.58 with just 4 dev. See how useful being in a state can be?

8 Jan, 1658 – Conversion!

We are fully Mayan again!


1 May – Juanita – Copper, Westsylvania, 6 dev, 0.56 made here, I order a weapons manufactory, hills

1 July – Yuki on the west coast with fish

1 Sept -In Ampon we have Chinaware

1 Oct _ Fur in Michigan’s Okouara.


1 Dec – In Flores we have Spices

1 April, 1659 – Guaycara – Baja, coastal desert, livestock, 4 dev, 0.28 made here

1 May – Miami – 3 dev, woods, 0.03, naval supplies

I pull colonists from Yuki and head north to Klamath

1 July - In Ceram we have Spices

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 7 - Chinaware Dreams

1 Jan, 1660 – MIL TECH 21 We can get infantry shock

Great Britain lost the war and is no longer a valid rival. I just have France.

1 July – Chinaware in Yamdena

1 Sept – Mascouten – Michigan, 3 dev, fur, woods, 0.23, trade station ordered

I pull colonists in Okuara for a while and send them to set up west of Mascouten in Wea on the south end fo Lake Michigan (Chicago).


I send my colonists in Ampon to Sumba

1 Nov – Okoaura – 5 dev, Michigan woods, next to the province Michigan and strait to Canada. 0.46 made here. I’ll set up in Canada at Odawa, and then pull back and grab Michigan, and pull back and finish Wea.

I pull from Klamath north to Siuslaw on the west coast.


I embrace the Manufactories Institution!

1 Jan, 1661 –

Ampon – 13 dev, coastline, Chinaware, 1.08, I order a mill, we have a strait to Ceram and we made it a state.


Yuki – West Coast, 3 dev, mountains, fish, 0.02 made here


1 June – Fish in Klamath

1 Jan, 1662 – We get the trading in Fur bonus

1 June – Flores – Spices, 12 dev, part of the Timor state, coastline, 10.7 made here, trade station ordered, stratis from East Timor and to Sumbawa

1 Aug – Ceram – Spices, 7 dev, next to Ampon, I order a trade station, 0.800 made here

1 Sept – Fur in Wea

1 Oct – Spices in Sumba

1 Nov – Salt in Siuslaw (West Coast)


1 Dec – Yamdena – Chinaware, 10 de, Mill ordered, part of the Moluccans estate along with Buru, Aru, Sula and this, I state is, with my final state. 0.65 made here.


I order these colonists to Buru.

I pull colonists from Siuslaw and send north to Chinook, the Columbia River Estuary.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 8 - Haida No More

15 Jan, 1663 – I pull colonists in Sumba and send them to Sulu.

1 May – Naval Supplies in Odawa (Canada side of Lake Huron)

10 Oct – After setting up in Chinook, I pull these back to head north to Chehalis, and then I’ll come back here

1 Nov – Naval Supplies in Michigan

1 Dec – ADM TECH #22 – I can build Town Halls and I ca get another group of ideas

I have enough Dip that I can get two of those, or one MIL

We do DIP Ideas. I get the first two:

+1 Diplomat
+ Dip. Relations

1 July – Fur in Chinook

Wea – South part of Lake Michigan, I send these colonists north around the lake to Illinois. 3 dev, fur, 0.04 made

https://i.imgur.com/eLUVnKO.jpg

I’m about to take out the Haida. See my two armies, including my big one? Their three holdings and preventing me from heading north.


21 July - I declare war on Haida.

18 Aug – We defeat their army and it flees.

18 Sept – We capture one minor.

1 Oct – Klamath – 3 dev, mountains, fish, 0.02

22 Oct – The other minors falls

29 Oct – We have finished assaulting and captured their capital

31 Oct – We have taken Haida

You’ve seen their capital

Salish – Woods, furs 0.08 made here, 6 dev

Okanagan – 5 dev, fur, hills,

4 Nov – We enter into an alliance with Castile.

5 Dec – Castile will let us use their ports.

7 Dec –Castile asks our help in the war against France where they were attacked, and I agree to defend them.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 8 - To Africa

22 Jan, 1665 – We capture two minors in French Canada

France and Spain go to peace. Maybe France was surprised when we jumped on board.

1 Mar – Sumba – Island, Spices, 8 dev, trade station ordered I state the Sunda Islands, 0.71 made here,

1 June – DIP IDEA #3 - ,or ediploamts

1 July – In Sula we have Tea

1 Sept – In Buru we have Spices

1 Oct- In Chehalis we have Livestock

1 Feb, 1666 – Livestock in Illinois as well

21 Feb – One core from Haida finished!

I pull colonists in Chinook and send them north of Haida. I’ll also pull those after they set up and send to the island nearby called Nootka


1 Mar – Siuslaw – 5 dev, mountains, salt, 0.07 made here

22 Apr – The other two are core-d from Haida as well

FYI – Current World Map

https://i.imgur.com/r8QUSRe.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GmDT4TD.jpg

See how Portugal is deep in Australia? But they aren’t in New Zealand, and France is in Easter Island and you can see Castile north of Australia.


1 Nov – Odawa – 3 dev, woods, Lake Huron, Canada side, 0.03 made here, naval supplies


Chinook – Columbia River estuary, 6 dev, fur, 0.12 made here, woods


https://i.imgur.com/Uccpd5R.jpg

I am going to purchase an ivory trading post next to Castile in Gabon and Kongo. See how it’s just 1139?

We purchase Mayumba

I upgrade a few parts for around 2k and I order a trade station to increase it’s ivory:

https://i.imgur.com/12VK3mx.jpg

Here it is. We are currently getting 1.10 in case before the trade station is built

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 9 - Ivory Awaits

9 Jan, 1667 – I purchase Ngoyo from Kongo as well, for more than 2k.


As it’s in the same trade region, we won’t need to spend the same cash.

https://i.imgur.com/ZQzR12t.jpg

Here it is. I spent about 6k total for the holdings and upgrades


1 Mar – Michigan – 5 dev, woods, Naval Supplies. 0.27 made, naval equipment manu ordered. I send colonists to Menominee (The UP)

I pull colonists from Sulu to Sumbawa

From Buru to Lombok

22 Aug – Conversion

I do the same on the other coast with Mutapa in Ibo

https://i.imgur.com/j7bPCiL.jpg

I’ll buy Mozambique to my south later once I have another 1k or 2k in cash to spare

1 Dec - Dip Idea #5 – We get better rep building

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 10 - Two Tribes Gone

1 Mar, 1668 – Sula – 6 dev, Tea, 0.45 made here, plantation ordered.

1 Jul – Buru – 6 dev, 0.71, Spices, trade station ordered


I pull colonists from Sumbawa to Aru in the same state as Sula, Buru and Yamdena. After they set up, I’ll grab another island here – likely Manado on Sulawesi island.

1 Aug – Naval Supplies in Squamish

Chehalis – Livestock, mountains, 3 dev, 0.04 cash

https://i.imgur.com/Afb7Kcd.jpg

22 Aug – I declare war on the Chinook

1 Oct – Menomee with Naval supplies too

13 Oct - Peace and annexed

1 Dec – Illinois – Savanna, 3 dev, 0.04 cash, livestock

I pull colonists from West Coast for the Midwest and order them I set up in Winnebago which connects Illinois and Menomee.


https://i.imgur.com/v14uUiC.jpg

I declare another war against Caddo.

1 Jan, 1669 – MIL TECH 22 – I can get better artillery. I’ll wait until after the war.

11 April – After a failed assault slowed me down, I took out Caddo and got their holding


I pull colonists from Winnebago and send them west to Masquakie


1 June Naval Supplies in Heiltusk (West Cosat) and gold in Nootka


22 June – Conversion successful

1 Dec – Lombok has Tea

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 11 - Slow Burn West



22 Jan, 1670 – I pull colonists in Masquakie and send east to Wahpeton, then after they take I’ll forward them to the west coast again and head to Kwakiutl

1 Sept – Menominee – hills, Naval Supplies, 4 dev, 0.05 mad ehere

I order these colonists next door to Noquet

11 Sept – More cores finishes

1 Oct – Spices in Sumbawa


8 Oct –

I am about to declare war again

https://i.imgur.com/CPwiRTE.jpg

On the Arapaho. The fastest way to get around Lake Superior is to grab this holding and leap over to Makoua after setting up Noquet, where my army is.

This will also put us at war with the Sioux

https://i.imgur.com/bpsftFX.jpg

But no one else

1 Nov – Squamish – Woods, 6 dev, naval supplies, 0.08 made here

28 Dec

https://i.imgur.com/zYErvSk.jpg

100% warscore, captured both

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 12 - Of Cloth and Iron

19 Jan,1671 – Noquet was set up, I leap over my latest possession to

22 Jan – We ally with Mutupa in Africa near our holdings in Ifo

1 May – Fur in Winnebago


1 June – Livestock in Mesquakie


1 Jan, 1672 – Aru has Spices

Lombok – 8 dev, Tea, next to Bali in Sunda.


I send these colonists to Sulawesi, west of Manado in Gorontalo

1 Feb = Spices in Manado

22 Mar - I pull west coast and move up to Tshimian


1 April – Wahpeton with Naval Supplies

I purchase Bali for 1798.

https://i.imgur.com/HDh4UPc.jpg

I don’t need to invest anything more, and it’s in my state already. I order a textile manufactory for its cloth

1 May – Kawitul (West Coast) is with Fish


1 June – DIP IDEA #6 – We get -20% province war score

22 June – Conversion!

I am getting ready for a big(ish) war.

1 Sept – Iron in Makoua

1 Oct – Nootka – Gold, 4 dev island, 0.27 made here

Heiltsusk – West coast, hills, 5 dev naval supplies, 004 made here.

11 Oct – Another conversion

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 13 - Moving North with Blood

29 Oct –

I am about to declare war on the buffer state between us. I’d like to take out the entire area. I have three armies here to assault it

Ready?

8 Dec – One minor is mine

15 Dec – Another follows

2 Jan, 1673 – We capture their capital

20 Feb:

https://i.imgur.com/gKjRxpQ.jpg


All captured!

Again, my goal is to build up borders with these

Niagara – 9 dev, woods, fur, 0.11 made here

Soto – 6 dev forest (not woods), naval supplies, 0.08 made here

Nipissing – 6 dev, forest, fur, 0.08 made here

Tionontate – 6 dev, woods, tobacco

Tkaronto – 5 dev, woods, tobacco

Kichsipi – 8 dev, furs, woods

Huron – (It’s Missassage on the map) – 8 dev fur, woods


Ready?

I order cores for all of these

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 14 - To Africa and Death


1 Mar – Iron in Noquet

30 Mar – For 2235 I purchase Mozambique

https://i.imgur.com/m4cC6kI.jpg

As you can see, it already has a trade station and I making that sweet, sweet cash and trade in the ivory market. I’d like to grab a few more ivory holdings, in order to try and become a big ivory dealer. Mutapa is the trade and production leader in Ivory for the world

https://i.imgur.com/9n3wD5X.png

Here are our productions leading, as well as those we lead in trading.

1 Dec – Gorontalo with Spices

Manado – 10 dev, northeast corner of Sulawesi island, 0.29 (I‘m out of states), and I order a trade station here. I send these colonists to Sulawesi’s Palu

I pull colonists from the west coast’s Tsimshan and am sending it to Sulawesi’s Poso

1 Jan, 1674 – Tsimshan with gold!

22 Feb – Conversion

1 Apr – Sumbawa – 9 dev, spices, 1.04 made here, grasslands, island, I order a trade station here post-haste.

22 May -Another conversion!

22 June - 5 cores finished

1 Aug – Makoua – Iron, forest, 3 dev, 0.06 made, weapons manufactory ordered.

I send these colonists to Ojibwa next to Britain. This will block them. After, I’ll pull out and head to Wappus which is one closer to the west and stopping them more.


1 Sept – Winnebago – woods, 5 dev, fur, 0.06 made here

22 Sept – Two more cores

1 Oct – DIP IDEA #7 – We finish the set. We get -10% DIP TECH Cost and no impact on stability for dip actions

I can make four new acts. Do I want any?

No


9 Oct – At the age of 61 our ruler dies.

Our heir takes over. I raise our stability back.

I look for a wife. We have an infertile ruler in his 40s so we need a younger lady.

https://i.imgur.com/MkwaNAY.jpg

Here’s our court.

As you can see, she’s great and young and hopefully soon to be a great mother. At 12/11/12 we are also getting massive power development for techs.

I married, and now enter into an alliance, with one province minor in Rhode Island.

1 Dec – Mesquakie – Savannah, 7 dev, Livestock, 0.09 made here,



This guy is much much better than his older brother.


We find our new wife from Mutapa

As you can see, she’s great and young and hopefully soon to be a great mother. At 12/11/12 we are also getting massive power development for techs.

I married, and now enter into an alliance, with one province minor in Rhode Island.

1 Dec – Mesquakie – Savannah, 7 dev, Livestock, 0.09 made here,

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 15 - Building Administratively

1 Sept, 1675 –

Wahpeton – plains, Naval Supplies,3 dev, 0.02

Aru – 5 dev, Spices, 0.58, trade station ordered.

1 Nov – Kwakutl – West Coast, mountains, coastal, 4 dev, fish, 0.02 cash

I pull colonists in Gorontalo and end them north of Tsimshian to Niga’a/ After there we’ll send north to Tlingit and then pull back to the Indies

1 Jan, 1676 – READY?

ADM 24 - This is big for two reasons. #1? I can build counting houses which is an upgraded workshop. 2ndly? We get 5 more states!

I choose:

Northern Sulawesi
Upper Canada


I promote Huron as an accepted culture

I spend down to 1000 cash and

https://i.imgur.com/zxkESJ1.jpg

This is where I’m at right now, getting 216 cash per month prior to the buildings arriving. I can afford about 20/year of the new thing, so we’ll get a lot moving forward plus the cash ramp from the best

11 Mar – Conversion in Huron and Niagara

1 May – Gorontalo – Sulawesi, 7 dev, Spices, coastline, 0.87 made here, trade station to follow

1 Aug – Chinaware in Palu

1 Oct – Noquet – Iron, 5 dev, weapons manu ordered, hills, 0.10 made here

Spices in Poso and Naval Supplies in Wappus

1 Nov – Tsimshian - West Coast – 3 dv, mountains, gold, 0.24 made here,

Jan 15, 1677 – I pull colonists from North Sulawesi and send them to New Guinea’s Manokwari and south Sulawesi’s Kendari.

A year later:

https://i.imgur.com/OrKjplY.jpg

Note my colonial maintenance fell, but you can see real results there! I buy more!

9 Feb – We vassalize our ally in Rhode Island

1 Mar – Naval Supplies in Ojibwa


22 Nov – Two more conversions!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 16 - In and Out

1 Jan, 1678 – Wappus – 3 dev forest, 0.03, naval supplies

Next is north to Atikaki, which is two way from a stopper – Quennebicon

6 Aug – I get an event and get hundreds of MIL power.

MIL TECH 23 – We get a better cavalry

1 Sept – Naval Supplies in Nisaga’a

I pull colonists in Tlingit and send them north to Sitka

1 Nov – Livestock in Tlingit

2 Mar, 1679 - I pull colonists from Kendari and send them to New Guinea’s Fak-Fak.

1 Apr – Manokwari has Incense

1 Aug – DIP TECH 22 – We can get stock exchanges and better ships

11 Aug – Our ally the Pirate Nation New providence agrees to be our vassals

2 Oc t- I pull colonists from Sitka and sent them west to Yakutat

1 Nov – Naval Supplies in Atakaki

1 Feb, 1680 – Palu – Chinaware, Mill ordered, 8 dev, coastline, next to minor province owed by foe, natural harbor, 1.01 cash made here.

Kendari with Chinaware

I pull colonists from Manokwari and send them to New Guinea to Asmat

1 June – Poso – 10 Dev, Spices, trade station ordered, 1.36 cash made here, coastline

That finishes up Northern Sulawesi for me

1 Oct – Ojibwa, border with the UK, 5 dev, forest, 0.07 made here with naval supplies


2 Nov – Conversion

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 17 - Papua Incorporated


1 Aug, 1681 – Salt in Sitka

1 Oct – Fak-fak with Spices, Fish in Yakutat

1 Nov – Manokwari – 3 dev, Incense, 0.03. I hand it to my trade company

1 Feb, 1682 – Atikaki, 4 dev, forest, naval supplies

I send these colonists north to the blocking holding that will keep the UK from creeping down, and is the final aggressive move I need to make here

1 April – Nisga’a – West coast, 3 dev, mts, coastal, 0.04 made here


16 May – Conversion in Bali!

1 July – Tlingit – 3 dev, mountains, livestock, 004

5 Sept – I change us back to a sprawling republic! Our ancient but good ruler wasn’t getting any good play.

https://i.imgur.com/Iqr5dZT.jpg

Here you can see me set up to push back against the British flood.

https://i.imgur.com/VDOBfZo.png

Here you can see how far into Alaska we are.

Let’s reassess my colonial needs:


1. I have finished drawing borders to the north and mid-west and south America.
2. I have taken the most valuable Indies holdings available, only lesser ones like New Guinea, or ones by many others in places like the Philippines are left. As of today, we lead the world in 27.7% of Spice production. I’m also tops in Chinaware (26%), and at 19% am only 4% from the Tea leader.
3. Taking minor, unstate-able holdings like Halmahera and others may be okay next. But all others were taken by Mameluks who arrived long ago and grabbed Borneo and south Atjeh islands as well as some minor entry way isles.


Target 1 – Finish Alaska. Do this slowly. Remove my colonists here If Portugal grabs the Aleutians while I’m taking Spics Isles I’ll consider that an okay swap.

Target 2 – Finishing fighting for the Spice Islands. Grab Papua and New Guinea, and a few lesser places here and there that aren’t state-able like Halmahera and Taytay.

Target 3 – There are some internal holdings that are part of my states, such as Louisiana and Mariquita. Get them next.

Target 4 - Grab the mines around central Appalachia, we need more iron and copper and are starting to push for those in the world. I had kept a state open for them until we got deep in the Indies.

Target 5 – Slowly, very slowly, grab South America over North. Only our sections remain unclaimed the rest of the continent is taken, finish it.

Target 6 – Although not colonial, continue to push for key trading posts. Let’s top Ivory and then look at Silk or other exotics.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 17 - To Indus


24 Jan, 1683 – Actually, I have enough to go shopping for another trading post. Where?


I could buy a cheap fish from Mutapa, but that’s it, valuable holdings aren’t an option and would cost 6k.

Found it!


https://i.imgur.com/HP4m1Hi.jpg

Here you go!


https://i.imgur.com/w9iWGw2.jpg


You can see the silk, upgraded harbor, textile manu ordered, cash and more. I order an army of 6k assembled. It’s a great trading post:

Wanna see my first later?



3.39 in cash. That’s a lot of cash.

My others:

Ngoyo – 4.12
Ibo – 3.59
Mozambique – 3.33

Those compare to, saw, a holding that was with me since the beginning – Guatemala. Right now I am getting 1.27 from it.



https://i.imgur.com/ZdvGTsG.jpg

Here you go!

You can see the silk, upgraded harbor, textile manu ordered, cash and more. I order an army of 6k assembled. It’s a great trading post:

Daman - It’s right next door, not as valuable, just cloth, and I order a manufactory here, but we were able to pay less due to the lower value, and right now it’s 1.10 cash monthly.

1 April – Tea in Asmat

I pull colonists in Asmat and send them next door in New Guinea to Daru


3 June – Conversion of Missouri

I send colonists to Louisana’s Natchitoches.

After setting up, I’ll send them south to Neiva and Pijaoas which are near and part of the state of Mariquita.

26 Aug – Conversion

1 Nov – Fish in Yos Sedaro in Papua NG. I pull those colonists and send them east to Kerema

Fak-Fak – Spices, NG, next to Yos and Manokwari, 0.25, 3 decv spice, coastline,

11 Nov – I send colonists to Halmahera

I proclaim a guarantee for Quito.

1 Dec – Kendari – Chinaware, 11 dev, south Sulawesi, next to two enemies, I order a Mill here, 0.41 cash made here – not a state

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 18 - To Java

1 Feb, 1684 – Sitka – 3 dev, salt, navl manufactory ordered, 0.05 made here, Alaska

1 June – Naval Supplies in Quennebegon on the border with Canada

17 Oct –

https://i.imgur.com/MMihrEU.jpg


I am about to bring the rest of South Sulawesi under my control. Three holdings here – Makassar, Buton, and Palopo belong to Luwu. As you can see with Makassar, they are incredibly valuable, and I am about to bring them home. Ready?

22 Nov – We capture Buton, they are in Kendari

12 Dec – I take them out in Kendari, they flee to Makassar

18 Jan, 1685 – We capture Palopo

28 Jan – we defeat their army

22 Mar – We capture Makassar!

We finish them

I give South Sulawesi a valuable state, all are Animist and Sulawesi culture, and have at least a temple and marketplace

Buton – 11 Dev, Spices, 0.99, coastline


Palopo – 10 dev, Spices, Hills, 0.81 cash

And you’ve seen the very well-developed Makassar – 2.82 from already!

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 19 - Palembang Awaits


1 May – we are now the trading in Spices winner

Portugal was at war with some locals and had colonies burned:

https://i.imgur.com/2oQM8gt.jpg

I have sent two colonists to them – Tulangbawang and Bengkulu

1 July – Yakutut – Alaska – mtns, 3 dev, fish, 0.02


https://i.imgur.com/X4stJY0.jpg

I buy Bharuch from Sindh for 3347 cash. It’s next to us already


1 Nov – Daru in Papua NG with Naval Supplies

I pull these colonists for Eyak in Alaska and then I’ll send them back to another place in the Indies

1 Dec – Cotton in Louisiana

1 Feb, 1686 – Cocoa in Neiva, internal near Mariquita

1 Mar – Gold in Haida in Alaska

1 Apr – Spices in Kerema in Papua NG

1 May – Coffee in Halmahera (not a good one, lits of more valuable ones)

Yos Sudaraso – Fish, Papua, 0.08 made here

9 May – Conversion

1 June – Wine in another place near Mariquia

25 Aug – 2 cores sent

26 Oct – Another core established

1 Nov – Asmat – Papua, 3 Dev, Tea, handed over to training post

https://i.imgur.com/1fmN3XJ.jpg

I purchase Banjar from the Mameluks

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 20 - Palembang Awaits

1 Jan, 1687 – Rebellion in Kamassar

27 Jan – Put down

1 Feb – DIP TECH 23 – I get heavy frigates

6 June – I promote Sulawesi to accepted culture


1 Sept – fish in Eyak. I send these colonists to Kenai next door


https://i.imgur.com/FHmuX6n.png

My current budget with a massive 11 colonies

1 Nov – ADM TECH 25 - I get better production

1 Dec – Quennebigon – 3 dev border with Canada, fish, 0.03


https://i.imgur.com/0jpVC4W.jpg

I purchase Palawan from Brunei which is next to Taytay

1 Mar, 1688 – Ivory in Tulangbawang

1 Apr – Tea in Bengkulu

1 Nov – Halmahera – 7 dev, Coffee, 0.16 made here

Mil THE 24 I can build fortresses

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 21a - Halmaheran Hosts


1 Mar, 1689 – Natchitoches, in LA, 6 dev, cotton, plantation ordered here, 0.34 made here

6 Apr – Makassar converts

1 May – Daru – Naval Supplies, 3 dev, 0.09 ,m ade here, Papua

1 June – Haida – Alaska, gold, 3 dev, 0.36 made here

I send colonists from Kenai to Kodiak


18 Aug – I am about to declare war on Ternate:

https://i.imgur.com/pKWk2S5.jpg

It’s next to us on Halmahera

2 Sept – We defeat their army

1 Oct – Kerema – 3 dev, Spices, Papua, 0.10 made here

Pijaos – Andes near Mariquita, Wine, 6 dev, in a state, I order a manufactory here, 0.69 made here

12 Jan, 1690 – We have finished the siege.

We take them.

I add it to the trading post here:

I pull colonists from Atjeh Island and send them to: Hanuabada and Lae in Papua

1 Feb – Naval Supplies in Kenai

15 April – We announce the vassalization of the Mohican tribe in Rhode Island


1 June – Bengkulu – 9 dev, Atleh island, jungle, Tea, I order a plantation and turn it over to a trade company.

1 Aug – Spices in Taytay

Neiva – Andes, 9 dev, Cocoa, 1.19 made here, I order a plantation,

22 Nov – I pull colonists in Taytay and order them to Papua’s Madang, the last holding here

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 21b - Halmaheran Hosts

1 Jan, 1691 – Tulangbawang – Ivory, trade station ordered, 10 dev, jungle, added to the trading post of Bengkulu, 1.15 made here

https://i.imgur.com/aRXJtDQ.jpg


12 Jan, - I declare war on Tidore, also next to Halmahera and very developed

22 Jan – I capture two ships in the sea

1 Feb – Eyak - Alaska, 3 dev, fish, 0.06

I pull colonists from Kodiak to Aleutian Islands, the last spot in coastal Alaska

4 Mar – We rout their army

1 April –

https://i.imgur.com/a6D0JAO.jpg

We finished annexing in the tribe,

11 June _ Ternate now a core

22 July – Tidore falls and is ours

I add it to the trading post

1 Sept – We gain the trading in Chinaware bonus!

I pull colonists from Lae and Hanuabada

I send them to Central Appalachia:

Manahoac
Shenendoah

After setting these up, I’ll pull out and head to the Indies again

2 Nov –

For 2555 I purchase Madurai from Vijayanagar

https://i.imgur.com/PcYwFdZ.jpg

As you can see, we are down by Sri Lanka and have a natural harbor and Silk.

Europe has been following our lead:

1. Castile has taken much of the Malay Peninsula with war, and are in the Philippines
2. The Ottomans have a few holdings here
3. The Mamluks too
4. France has a trading post in Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and has other posts in Asia, and has a big presence in the Pacific Ocean.
5. Tuscany has a trading post in China proper as well as another near India
6. The Netherlands have multiple trading posts in the region
7. Portugal has a trading post in India as well as most of Australia claimed as well as working on New Zealand.

Here’s a map of Asia and Oceania centered on the Indies:

https://i.imgur.com/6eJHJZd.jpg

I do something weird

I pull colonists from:

Madang and send to the Solomon Islands

As soon as they set up in Appalachia I’ll send to the handful of other Pacific islands and chains left.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 22 - Perak's Punching

1 Jan, 1692 – Kodiak with fur

13 Jan – I pull, but only Vanuatu is left. I send one set to there, and the others head to Monacan in Central App.

22 Feb – I pull colonists after setting up in the Aleutian islands and send to Siberia in Kagyryn

22 Dec – Palopo converts

27 Dec – Tidore cored

3 Jan, 1693 – Buton converts!

1 Mar – Coffee in Lae

1 April – Tea in Hanuabaida

1 June – Copper in Monacan

1 Sept – Kenai – Alaska, 4 dev, Naval Supplies, 0.08 made here forest

1 Nov – Taytay – 6 dev, coastline, Spices, I add it to a trading post here with Sulawan and Sulu, 1.17 made here


1 Feb, 1694 – Iron in Manahoac

1 Mar – Iron in Shenandoah but just Fish in Medang


16 April –

I purchase a Copper Mine in Malacca for a trading post:

Perak is a part of our nation!

https://i.imgur.com/flf4sVd.jpg

1 May – Tropical Wood in the Solomon Islands

I pull colonists in these and Vanuatu. I send them to Appalachian’s Kanawha and Monongahela


1 Jul – Fur in the Aleutian Islands

1 Aug – Kagyrgyn in Siberia has fur

1 Oct – Tropical Wood in Vanuatu

[Abe Sargent]

250 Year Review!


Pics!


https://i.imgur.com/36u7B8N.jpg

South America has changed little in the last 50 years or so. We’ve added a few holdings in the Andes but not much and you have Holland, France, Portugal and GB to our south

https://i.imgur.com/73Jaw1Y.jpg

The last 50 years I’ve been more involved in the Indies than here as well, so other than Alaska and finishing stopping the GB Rex we are fine. Note that I’m active in multiple places in the east in modern West Virginia and Kentucky.

https://i.imgur.com/wwUXHkD.jpg


I’ve zoomed in on the Indies for you as well, and you can see us here. We have a handful of other places here, but we are clearly on the eastern and southern part of the region. I could declare war en mass on Brunei, Pasai, Sunda, etc. But I’m fine.

Zoomed out of the rest of the region:

https://i.imgur.com/CH2Azc4.jpg

Enjoy

Militarily:


Of a troop forcelimit of 224k troops I have 184k

Of a naval forcelimit of 206 vessels we have 108

We get more money than the next four nations combined (England, France, Ottomans, Portugal)

Only one nation (Aragon) has more techs than we do.

We have the best ADM tech, are behind the top DIP Tech by 2, and have the 2nd best MIL Tech.

Our Top Ten Holdings by Tax Revenue:

1. Capital
2. Tlocopan
3. Tlaxcala
4. Makassar
5. Xocotla
6. Can Pech
7. Mexico City
8. Mariquita
9. Bogota
10. Sayultecas

Our Top Ten Non-Gold Holdings by Production Revenue

1. Ternate
2. Capital
3. Tidore
4. Panama
5. Havana
6. Makassar
7. Ngoyo
8. Madurai
9. Coix…
10. Chorotega


We have 358 holdings and 13 colonies

The Ottomans have the biggest army with 6k more than us

Their 198 ships is the biggest navy, and ours is 7th


https://i.ibb.co/wpGshVc/maya-56.png

Wanna see our cultural and religious pie charts?


Trade Goods by Current Price:

5.0 – Silk, Dyes
4.50 – Tobacco ,Iron, China, Spices,
4.35 – Cotton
4.05 – Cloth
4.0 – Cocoa, Ivory
3.75 – Sugar
3.50 – Fur, Paper
3.45 – Glass, Copper
3.30 – Coffee, Salt
3.12 – Wine
3.00 – Gems, Tropical Wood, Slaves, Naval Supplies, Tea, Incense,
2.70 – Livestock
2.25 – Wool
2.00 – Grain, Fish


Goods For Which We are the Production Leader:


Gems
Tropical Wood
Dyes
Naval Supplies
Grain
Fish
Cocoa
Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
China
Tea
Salt
Fur


Goods for which we get bonuses for leading trade with 20% of the market:

Gems
Dyes
Cocoa
Tobacco
Coffee
Cotton
Spices
China
Fur
Tea



The Great Powers:

1. Maya
2. France
3. Ottomans
4. Portugal
5. Russia
6. Aragon
7. Bengal
8. GB

On Deck – Delhi

Mamluks are off, but Bengal is on and Delhi moves up to 9.


The game ends in 1821. Will I play until then?

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 23 - Choctaw No More

I begin to get ready for a big, fat war in North America. It’s time


1 Jul, 1695 – Kodiak – Forest, Fur, 3 dev, 0.07 made here


https://i.ibb.co/rwSwjcC/maya-57.png

18 July - I am about to declare war on the giant Choctaw Tribe. Note how I have armies spread all over. Let’s do it!

The Cheyanne join them.

6 Sept - Four minors have joined us

5 Oct – More minors have fallen

19 Oct – The capital of Cheyanne is ours

9 Nov – We capture the Chocotaw capital

22 Dec – I capture their last holding

27 Dec – I rout their army

https://i.ibb.co/m9yhP6m/maya-58.png

I can bring them all in!

We’ll start in Caddo and head up and then over and finish with Tutelo. All are Totemist


Caddo – Arkansas 9 dev, savanna, 0.12 made here

Satuskadin – The former capital of Cheyenne, hills 3 dev naval supplies, 0.04

Pahatsi – 4 dev, naval supplies, south of Missouri, hills, 0.08 made here

Quapaw – grain, savanna, Arkansas, 4 dev, 0.08 made

Tennessee – 6 dev, woods, grain, 0.07

Chickasaw – 0.11 made, woods, 6 dev, grain

Choctaw – Farmlands, cotton, 7 dev, 0.27 made here

Tohomoe – Farmlands, grain 8 de, 0.13

Coosa = 0.11 fur, hills, 5 dev

Cherokee – 0.10, hills 5 dev, naval supplies

Cheraw – Mountains, 6 dev, tobacco, 0.14 cash

Tutelo - 0.18, hills, tobacco, 6 dev

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 24 - Osage Days and Bangka Nights


1 Jan, 1696 - I pull colonists from Appalachia to Alabama to close the gap. After I’ll head up to Wisconsin’s Sauk to do the same.


1 Feb – Naval Supplies in Monongahela – ah well, hoping for more metal


1 Mar – Monahan – Copper works, I order a weapons manu here, 0.69 made here, 7 dev, I made it into a state – my last one until we update our ADM which is close

1 April – Naval Supplies in Kanawha – another miss for metal

Rebels in the former capital of Cheyenne

2 May – They capture it


https://i.ibb.co/VHWR2Kn/maya-59.png

We purchase Bangka from Pasai, the only holding they’ll sell, for 2678. The goods news is that this island has Copper and is near me.

18 May – We defeat the rebels

19 June – We retake the holding

1 Jul – Manahoac – Iron, 7 dev, hills, weapons manu ordered, 0.65 made here

I pull my colonists in Mon and Kanawha and send them to

Missiage – Unclaimed Canada by lake Huron

Xecora – In Central America near me

https://i.ibb.co/3CCrLLh/maya-60.png

I declare war on Osage

1 Sept – Lae – on Papua NG, grasslands, 4 dev, Coffee, 0.08 made here

1 Oct – Hannubaida – 3 dev, jungle, Papua NG, Tea, 0.06 made here

https://i.ibb.co/gjffyfd/maya-61.png

Over in Siberia I finish Kagyrgyn and also begin in Karalveyem

After it sets up, I’ll war with the locals so I can take the next-door Kamchatka and Siberian holdings and leap over them

Expect me to march down Siberia.

I pull colonists in Sauk and send them south of Chukchi here to a unopen holding called Gizhiga. After setting up I’ll head west and down the coast to Tauisk, then to Okhotsk

Dec 9 - I take Osage off the board

Kansas – Livestock, 5 dev, grasslands, 0.09 made here

Pawnee – Grasslands, Live too, 6 dev, 0.11 made here

Omaha – Grasslands, Live, 4 dev, 0.07 made here

Oglala – Steppes, Live, 0.05, 0.09

https://i.ibb.co/7rFz5JJ/maya-62.png

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 25 - To Kamchatka

6 Mar, 1697 - Alliance formed with Quito

28 May- five cores finished

1 June – Shenandoah, 8 dev, Iron, 0.92 made here, manu ordered

28 Jul – More Choctaw cores finished

I pull colonists from Xecora and head north to Tarahumara

1 Sept – Madang – Our final holding on Papua, fish, 3 dev, jungle,

18 Oct – Rhode Island converts

I need to get some Missionary strength boosting

1 Nov – ADM TECH 26 – Five more states and we get another, our penultimate group of ideas:


Hmm…. Trade? Espionage?

Innovative

With my 16 ADM/month, I can get 2 ideas/year

1 Dec – Solomon is – Tropical Wood, 3 dev, mill ordered

https://i.ibb.co/kX4g0BT/maya-63.png


I declare war on Chukchi

1 Jan, 1698 – Naval Supplies in Missiage

1 Feb – Aleutian Islands – fur, 3 dev

1 Mar – Cotton in Alabama

1 April – Vanuatu – Tropical Wood, 3 dev, mill ordered here

13 May – Cores finished

1 June – Coffee in Xecora

I send colonists to Jugjur, north of Manchu


1 Dec – Monongahela – 4 dev, hills, naval supplies


15 Dec, –

https://i.ibb.co/p3LHHq7/maya-64.png

I finish my mission to expand overseas

All of these are Tengri faith

Kamchatka – Glacial 4 dev, Fish, 0.17

Penzhina – Glacial, 5 dev, Iron, 0.08

Omolon – Fur, forest, 4 dev, 0.06

Kolyma - Fur, forest, 4 dev, 0.06

Most of the nearby colonies have a 25% - 30% chance for Copper, Iron, and Gold – sometimes more. For example, Karalveyem has a 22.5% copper alone, plus 15 for Iron and Gold, so it’s at 38% total. And Gems too, at 5.4%.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 26 - World Tour


1 Mar, 1699 - Kanawha – 4 dev, naval supplies,

I pull colonists in Tarahumana and send them to another inner CA holding in Acaxee

MAPS:

https://i.ibb.co/gjLt3Qq/maya-65.png

Here’s N America and I have pulled Acaxee so you can see where I am colonizing right now.

https://i.ibb.co/X3WFn1h/maya-66.png

Here’s Alaska and Siberia pulled out with my current target in Jugjur north of Manchu

My goal is to finish the Siberian coast, where I have three folks currently working to set up show (it takes 460 days to get there) and then spend one colonist heading inland after I do so

https://i.ibb.co/1RLGnVs/maya-67.png

Here is our South America zoomed in. As you can see, we have a few inner holdings east of Quito that no one has grabbed but no one else can get too, as well as many holdings in the Andes, as well as north. I want to finish Central America first:

https://i.ibb.co/hHc78vc/maya-68.png

Which I’ve just zoomed in for you. These take fewer than two months to set up. I want to knock out the richer left side with wealthier shots for things like gold

https://i.ibb.co/qnbVX6x/maya-69.png

I purchase another holding next to us in Madurai from Vijayanagar

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 27 - East of Samarinda


1 Jan, 1700 – Copper in Gizhiga

We now have the Enlightenment institution – It begins in our capital!


This is the last one. Once we have embraced it, we can get coal in our holdings. Some, like Kanawha have the ability to coal up

1 Feb – DIP TECH 24 – We get increased range, better frigate


We have set up in our three Siberian coastal holdings. I pull those colonists. I send one to Yarmanka, and the rest to Central America in Languneros and Cotoname

1 Mar – Missisage – Canada, part of a state, 5 dev, forest, naval supplies, 0.36 made here

3 Mar – Conversion

1 May – Copper in Karalyvarem

11 June – Another conversion

28 Aug – Cores in Siberia

1 Oct – Livestock in Axacaxe

1 Nov – Alabama, 4 dev, savannah, Cotton, 0.05 cash made

1 Feb, 1701 – Xococa - Coffee, mountains, 4 dev,

1 Apr – Tarahumara with Coffee as well; Copper in Tauisk; Livestock in Laguneros

1 May – Sauk - Wisconsin, Naval Supplies – 3 dev, forest

1 July - Cotton in Cotoname. I send these colonists to Cacaxtes. Gold in Okhotsk

1 Aug – Innovative Idea #1 - We get reduced national unrest

1 Oct – Fur in Jugjur

2 Dec - I spend more than 3000 to purchase Samarinda from Borneo:

https://i.ibb.co/ct4mwgn/maya-70.png

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 28 - Moving Against Portugal

15 Mar, 1702 - I pull colonists from Central America and send to fill in gaps in the Carolinas at Tuscarora and Waxhaw.

1 Jul – Sugar in Cacaxtes

1 Sept – Gold in Yarmanka

4 Oct – Conversion!

1 Nov –

Laguneros – Livestock, central America, 3 dev, 0.05 made. I order a farm estate. I send colonists north to Coahilla, and then once setting up I’ll send over to Siberia’s Suntar Khayata

Gizhiga – I have made Kamchatka a state with the many rich metals and such we are gaining here. 0.49 made here, forest, coastal.


1 Dec – Mil Tech 25 – We can get better artillery

1 Feb, 1703 –

Acaxee – Mountains, (I am using CA for Central America), 3 dev, Livestock, 0.05

Cotoname – Cotton, drylands, CA, 3 dev, 0.08

15 Feb – Omaha converts

Siberia has a deeper 650+ days to get to the deeper internal ones, as an FYI

1 Mar – Karavelyem – Siberia, Copper, 5 dev, forest, weapons manu ordered, 0.63 made here


12 May – I pull colonists in the Carolinas after setting up Yadkin and head to Sakhalin

18 May – I break my alliance with Castille

19 June – I cancel my fleet basing rights with Castille

22 June – We enter into an alliance with Manchuria

11 Aug – We enter into an alliance with Vijayanagar

1 Oct – I purchase this from our new allies for a discount price:

https://i.ibb.co/xmHk3R2/maya-71.png

Portugal has taken most of central India in wars so my goal is to ally with Vijayanagar to check them

1 Dec – Tobacco in Tuscarora

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 29 - To China


1 Jan, 1704 – Tarahumara – CA, 4 dev, drylands, coffee, 0.07 made here

1 Feb – Tauisk – 4 dev, forest, coastal, Siberia, 0.13, copper

1 Mar – Livestock in Cuahilla

1 April – Okhotsk – Gold, 3 dev, coastal, grasslands, 0.64 made here

1 May – Naval Supplies in Waxhaw

25 July – Conversion

1 Aug – Jugjur - Highlands, Fur, 4 dev, Sib, Coastal, next to Manchuria, 0.14 made here

I order colonists inland of Jugjur to Stanovoy, north of Manchuria and Mongolia

Innovative Idea #2 – We get +50% innovativeness gain

16 Oct -I pull colonists from Sakhalin and send them to CA Toboso, and then to CA’s Concho

1 Dec – Cacaxtes – drylands, Sugar, CA, 3 dev

1 Mar, 1705 – Naval Supplies in Yadkin

1 April – Yarmanaka – Siberia, Gold, 3 dev, 0.64 made here, forest

18 Oct – I purchase this in Japanese China:


https://i.ibb.co/SXkX83B/maya-72.png


22 Dec – I pull colonists from Suntar Khayata and send them to an inland holding here in Siberia called Verkhoyansk

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 30 - Internalized Pressure

1 Jan, 1706 –

Cuahuila


https://i.ibb.co/CWDDTQ9/maya-73.png


Finished. Next I head up to Jumaoo and Suma, and I’ll hit Lipan as well.

13 Mar – Kansas Converts

1 April – Copper in Suntar, wool in Concho

1 June – Fish in Sakhalin

1 Sept – Innovative Idea #3 - -10% cost for tech


18 Sept – Pawnee converts!

1 Oct – Tuscarora – Tobacco, 5 dev, 0.15 made here, woods, Carolina region

1 Nov – Wool in Toboso

My current colonial goals:

1. As I find unclaimed places like Sakhalin, take them
2. Go down as far as I can in Siberia and the Russian Steppes
3. Fill in the blanks on the map. My next target are the three ones in Georgia.
4. Finish Central America.
5. I have an internal colony behind a trading post in Africa, grab it
6. Grab and take South America
7. Finish North America last

Anywhere else that’s unclaimed? None outside of Australia

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 31 - Shoshone Removed

1 Feb, 1707- Waxhaw – 3 dev, wool, Carolina, 0.04 made

I send colonists to Tanu in CA

1 June –

I declare war on the Shoshone

https://i.ibb.co/5TG7TSG/maya-74.png

22 July – I capture their capital in an assault. I head to their ally Yaqui to their south

1 Aug- Sugar in Lapan

1 Sept -Iron in Stanovoy

1 Oct – Livestock in Suma; grain in Jumano

19 Nov – Another conversion

1 Dec – Yadkin, 4 dev, woods, naval supplies, Carolinas, 0.15 made here

15 Dec -

https://i.ibb.co/zsY2qrg/maya-75.png

I have captured everything

The one you didn’t see:

Chichitames – Desert, 3 dev, Livestock, 0.04

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 32 - Yukuts As Well

2 Apr, 1708 – I pull colonist from Suma and send to Jacome in CA

18 April –

https://i.ibb.co/JkQXfXx/maya-76.png


I declare war on these folks too

1 June – Cotton in Tanu

9 June – They are ours!

1 Sept – Innovative Idea #4 - +1 advisor


18 Sept – Conversion!

I pull colonists from Tanu to Georgia’s Yamasee. After setting up there, I’ll do Muskogee and then Poweta

11 Nov - I win the war and bring them in. They are the last tribe in the area.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 33 - Consolidations


2 Feb, 1709 – Fur in Verhansk

1 April – Suntar Khayata – 3 dev, forest, Copper, Siberia, .08 made here

Dip TECH 25 – I can build three decks ships

1 May – Stanovoy – Siberia, north of Mongolia and Manchu, I Send these west to the rich Russian steppes of Chara and others like Irkutsk and Ude have very high developments out here. Iron mines, 0.10 made here, three dev

1 June – Concho – Wool, desert, 3 dev, CA

1 Aug – Sakhalin, fish, 3 dev, woods, 0.04 made here

22 Aug – Conversion

1 Sept – Livestock in Jacome

11 Sept – Core!

1 Nov – Toboso – CA, wool, drylands, 4 dev, 0.03 made

1 Jan, 1710 – The Age of Revolutions has begun


8 Mar – After setting up Poweta, I send these colonists to Africa to grab Ngindo

Wanna see North America?

https://i.ibb.co/vm6QJkt/maya-77.png

There you are! You can see that I have colonized up through Texas – central America is now ours. My next hole-filling are the three in Arkansas.

19 Mar – Another conversion

1 July – Innovative Idea #5 – We get +25% institution spread

I pull colonists from Ver… and send them to Sakha in Siberia

I pull others from Jacome and send to Natchez in Arkansas, and then I’ll set up Yazoo and Arkansas proper

1 Aug – Cotton in Yamasee

Lipan – Savannah, Sugar, 4 dev, 0.13 made here

1 Nov- Suma – 3 dev, drylands, Livestock, CA, 0.06 made here

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 34 - Dreams of Zanzibar

1 Mar, 1711 –

Jocame – 5 dev, drylands, CA, Livestock, 0.12

Jumano – 3 dev, grain, drylands 0.03 made here

22 Mar – Conversion

1 April – Tanu – 3 dev, grasslands, cotton, 0.10

1 May – Coweta with Naval Supplies

1 Sept – Verkhoyansk – 3 dev, Fur, forest, 0.10 made here

7 Nov – conversion

1 Dec – Arkansas with fur

1 Feb, 1712 – Cotton in Yazoo

1 Mar – Tobacco in Muskogee; in Chara we find

1 April – Naval Supplies in Natchez

1 May – I buy Zanzibar from Mutapa

https://i.ibb.co/ZmX7N6y/maya-78.png


We are at the end of the slave trade, fyi so they have dropped in value

1 July – Ndingo has ivory

I send Arkansas holdings to TN at Napochi, after setting up I’ll head north to Chickamauga

1 Aug – Innov Idea #6 – Better monthly war exhaustion

22 Nov – Conversion

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 35 - Dreams of Siberia


1 May, 1713 – I send colonists from Chickamauga to Yuchi and then north to Chisca

1 June – Copper in Chaka

Yamasee – GA, savannah, Cotton, 3 dev

14 Aug – Conversion

1 Feb, 1714 – Chara, 10 dev, I made it a state, fur, woods, 0.91 here. I order these colonists next door at Barguzin, also a high dev province near Lake Baikal

14 Mar – I pull colonists from Chisca to Kentucky

1 April – Coweta, Georgia, naval supplies, woods, 3 dev

1 May – Final Innovative Idea! +1 leader without upkeep and -25% upkeep cost

Any edicts I want to pass: nope

17 May – I begin the building of the Panama Canal

1 Aug – Arkansas – 6 dev, woods, fur, 0.19 made here

1 Sept – Ngindo – Ivory, 4 dev, savannah, 0.22 made here

Naval Supplies in Napochi

I send Kentucky colonists to Kaskinpando, and then to Michigamea (in Missouri)

1 Nov – Yazoo – Arkansas, 6 dev ,cotton, woods, 0.19 made here

1 Dec – Muskogee – 8 dev, tobacco, farmlands, 0.35 made here.

Chickmauga has Naval Supplies there

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 36 - Dreams of Siberia Redux


1 Jan, 1715 –

I send colonists to Iowa, and then we’ll send to Tamaora, Yankton, and Cahokia, Kilatika, Piankenshaw, and Mengkonkia

I send colonists to Maya in Siberia, and Kirenga there too

1 May – Naval supplies in Yuchi

1 July – Naval Supplies in Chisca

Sakha – Copper, 3 dev, forest, 0.08 made here

17 Aug – Conversion

1 Mar, 1716 – Naval supplies in Kentucky

5 April – Conversion

11 Nov - I pull colonists in Maya and send to Siberia in Aldan

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 37 - Dreams of Siberia Tri-dux


22 Mar, 1717 – Conversion

1 May – Napochi – 3 dev, hills, naval supplies

11 July – I send colonists to Winnipeg

1 Sept –

Chickamauga – 3 dev, hills, 0.05, naval supplies


1 Dec – Yuchi – Woods, 4 dev, naval supplies,0.06 made here

22 Jan, 1718 – Conversion!

1 Mar – Chisca – 3 dev, woods, naval supplies, 0.05

5 Mar - A giant rebel stack leaks over from Japan of 42k in China

26 Mar – Defeated by our 13k.

1 Aug – Copper in Maya

We embrace Enlightenment, and we can now embrace coal in certain provinces.

1 Nov – Kentucky – 6 dev, woods, naval supplies, 0.15 made here

1 Dec – Barguzin – 9 dev, fur, Siberia in my state here, I order these colonists east to Use. On Lake Baikal. 0.91 made here

11 Dec – Conversion!

1 Feb, 1719 – Kasinapo -naval supplies, woods, 0.15, 6 dev

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 38 - Preparing for Blood

I begin to prepare for war in South America and I order another 8k forces to help against Brazilian UK

7 Mar – I recall my colonists to Menkonkia and send them to Apache, which connects my holdings to the native nation of Pima. I’ll set up here and then dispatch them next door to Sobaipuri, then Piro and Chiricahua.

1 Apr – Fur in Winnipeg

Michigamea, Great Plains, Grain, 6 dev, savanna, 0.18 made here

1 Aug – Iowa – 5 dev, grasslands, livestock, 0.16 made here,

19 Sept – Opata converts


1 Nov – gold in Aldan in Siberia

1 Dec – Yankton – 3 dev, grasslands, great plains, Livestoc, 0.08 mad ehere

1 Feb, 1720 - Kirenga – Siberia, 8 dev, grasslands, fur, 0.77 made here as it’s the state around Lake Baikal.


I send these colonists next door to Irkutsk.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 39 - Pirates New More



1 May -Tamaroa – 4 dev, fur, great plains, 0.11 cash made here


1 Sept – Cahokia – Illinois, 7 dev, farmlands, Livestock, 0.20 made here

22 Sept – Tennessee converts!


1 Nov – Mengkonkia with Livestock

1 Dev – Kaskasia – Livestock, 6 dev, farmlands, Illinois, 0.19 made here

I turn Illinois into a state

9 Jan, 1721 – We announce the annexation of New Providence the pirates in the Bahamas. We’ll get that back


1 Mar – Kilatika, savanna, fur, 5 dev, Illinois, 0.37 made here


9 Mar – The Bahamas are back!

1 April – Livestock in Apache. That’s a miss as it had a big chance at gold.

22 May – Cherokee is now Mayan!

1 June – Livesttock in Sobaipuri

Maya – Siberia, forest, copper, 3 dev, 0.08 made here

Piankeshaw - 3 dev, woods, 0.06 made here, fur, Ohio.

1 Aug – Alan, Gold, Siberia, 3 dev, forest, 0.34. I send these colonists north to Kharya

1 Nov – Chiricahua has Livestock

1 Dec – Livestock in Ude.

Winnipeg – Savannah, 4 dev, fur, 0.09 made here

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 40 - Palembang Dreaming

1 Mar, 1722 – Livestock in Piro

9 April – Pandemic in North America around New York area

1 May - Iron in Irkutsk, Skiri with Livestock

7 June – I purchase Palembang from Pasai for 6378


https://i.imgur.com/UGusino.jpg

1 July – Coal in Munsee

11 Aug – I pull colonists from Kharya in Siberia and send them to Yakut

1 Oct – I am going to stop telling you when I get something in a colony, and you can see when it’s built

1 Feb, 1723 – Coal in Moratok

MIL TECH 26 – I get better infantry

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 41 - Brazil's Arrival

2 June - I declare war against British Brazil

1 July – Coal in Kentucky


22 July – 2 province shave fallen

1 Aug – Mengkokia – Illinois, 5 dev, Livestock, grasslands, 0.45 made here


I pull colonists in Yakut and send them to Nukhtui in Siberia

14 Oct – Three more holdings have fallen to us

18 Dec – I have finished building the Panama Canal!

1 Jan, 1724 – Ude – Siberia, Livestock, 9 dev, Lake Baikal, next to Mongolia and Oirat Horde, 0.83 made here. I order these to Ust-Urt in Siberia.

2 Feb - After chasing it, I have routed their army

23 Feb – I capture their capital

1 April – Apache – 4 dev, Mountains, livestock, next to Pima, 0.11 made here


6 May =- I have them all

It’s only a few hundred ADM to grab them all. In one fell swoop I gained more than

https://i.imgur.com/6NCUTCV.jpg

As you can see, I have zoomed out so you can see all of my new holdings. I have excised England from South America. You can see the best province, their own capital with it’s high development. Taking their hole thing was just 19 warscore. (It’s easier against colonial nations, which represents real life where large chunks of land just like this one would pass.)

Now I could spend like 30 minutes writing up each of these. However, I am going to skip that. I have one gold mine and one iron.



1 June - Sobalpiri – Desert, Livestock, 4 dev, 0.11 made here. Next to Pima and near Apache


Irkutsk – Iron mines, 4 dev,s west side of Lake Baikal. I send these colonists west ot Sayan


I now have the trading in Tropical Wood bonus!


1 Dec – Chiricahua – 3 dev, drylands, livestock, 0.06 made here

[Chas in Cinti]

Do you have any aspiration to take land in mainland Europe? Or is that not a "thing"... Would be interesting to see if you could do it...

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 42 - The Last Tribe

1 Mar, 1725 – I declare war on Pima.

1 Apr – Piro – Drylands, south of Pima, livestock, 6 dev, 0.19 made here


1 May – Skiri – Grasslands, livestock, 6 dev, Great Plains


22 May – I pull colonists in Siberia’s Ust-Kut and send them to Angara also in Siberia.


30 July – We capture the capital of Pima

1 Oct – Multiple minors are ours and Coal is in Kanawha

Wahpehte – Plains, Great Plains, 6 dev, Naval Supplies, 0.19 made here.

1 Dec – Coal in Verhanoysk

9 Dec – All of the provinces I took from Britain are now cored! I send over missionaries.

11 Feb, 1726 –

https://i.imgur.com/8yBlPWa.jpg

As you can see, I have the entire tribe under our control. I bring all of Pima in one giant fell swoop.

https://i.imgur.com/rnNTeVQ.jpg

I have zoomed out for you. You can see the Pima centered and where we are right now in North America, as well as our big haul of Pueblo for your viewing pleasure. I have ordered many cores.

[Abe Sargent]

Do you have any aspiration to take land in mainland Europe? Or is that not a "thing"... Would be interesting to see if you could do it...

Not really. I could! But not really. I could have all of the Americas, Indies, and more under my sway now if I had wanted to.

[Abe Sargent]

Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 43 - Malacca Added


1 April - Sisseton – Forest, great plains, 6 dev, naval supplies, 0.19 made here



1 May – Rebellion in Para.

22 May – Put down

4 June – For 7088 I purchase Malacca from Pasai

https://i.imgur.com/3jq2D1o.jpg

It’s in the same state as Perak, our other holding here.

9 June – Our ruler passed and we elect another bureaucratic one

31 July – We have entered into an alliance with Pasai.

Our current allies:

Manchu
Vijayanagar
Pasai
Mutapa
Quito


And these are to check Europe in India, South America, or around us in Africa, the Indies and Asia

3 Aug – For 1,656 I purchase the connecting nation, it’s poor:

https://i.imgur.com/TO4FfXn.jpg

Selangor is now ours too. Just a cheap grain holding, but it brings me together.


1 Jan, 1527 – Bungi – Wisconsin area, fur, grasslands, 3 dev, 0.07 made here.


DIP TECh 26 – better ships and colonial range


1 Feb – Coal in Guajira

1 Mar – Yanktonai – Wisconsin area, Steppes, 4 dev, grain, 0.07 made here


1 May – Usthetha – Great Plains, hills, Naval Supplies, 3 dev, 0.04 mad ehere


13 Sept – We finish our cores in south west US

1 Nov – Kharya – Forest, Siberia, Fur, 3 dev, 0.05 made