EU4 - Now What - Mzab - Now Algiers! Finished - 11 Nov, 1444 - 3 Jan, 1821

[Abe Sargent]

Well, I lost that one in 14 years...now what? Am I still in an EU4 mood after my longest run in EU4 ever with Theodoro (here - EU4 – Dynasty with Theodoro - FINISHED - Nov. 11, 1444 - Jan. 3, 1821 - Front Office Football Central (https://forums.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=98587)) and then my loss with Butua (it's here - NewEU4 Dynasty – Who am I playing? - How About Butua? Lost! - Front Office Football Central (https://forums.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=98837)?) It was also longer than any EU3 game I played too. And...now what? One of the ones that I didn't do like Riga or Mali or New Zealand or Mzab?

[Chas in Cinti]

I'm in for following whatever!

[JonInMiddleGA]

I'll just leave the Riga flag flying from the previous thread

[Abe Sargent]

I'm in for following whatever!

Thanks!

[Abe Sargent]

I'll just leave the Riga flag flying from the previous thread

Cool cool!!!!!

[Abe Sargent]

EU4 Mzab

Am I doing Mzab? As a reminder, here are the main issues with Mzab:

North Africa, Berber, Ibadi, 2 provinces:

1. Ibadi cannot marry other non-Ibadi Islam nations – that’s just Pate in the Horn of Africa and Oman in Arabia. All of the region is Sunni. Marriages are the first aspect to building to an alliance. We’ll start with a -20 for being a heretic to the nearby nations for far away places and -40 to neighbors.
2. I am next to both Tunis and Tlemcen powers that can easily expand and take me out.
3. I have two holdings with the minimum amount of development – 3 each for 6. Most one province nations have more development like Theodoro.
4. If I do expand, the nearby Berber holdings will require more ADM power to core.
5. Your Berber national ideas and missions care about naval stuff, but we are inland.
6. Your lands are Deserts, which cost more to spend power to develop.

The good news, I am one of two nations that can form Algiers which founded in 1517.

Here are my Missions:


https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/images/f/f8/Berber_Missions.png


And here is a link to how to get them. https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Berber_missions

Here are our ideas, we start with the first two and then we unlock one every three Ideas.


Berber ideas

Notes:

For countries in the Culture icon.png Maghrebi culture group.

Traditions.png Traditions:

−25% Naval attrition
May raid coasts

Naval force limit modifier.png Barbary Pirates

+25% Naval force limit modifier

Attrition for enemies.png Desert Warfare

+1 Attrition for enemies

Trade efficiency.png Trans-Saharan Trade

+10% Trade efficiency
+20% Caravan power

Yearly navy tradition.png Corsairs

+1 Yearly navy tradition
+10% Privateer efficiency

Cavalry combat ability.png Tuareg Cavalry

+10% Cavalry combat ability
+10% Looting speed

Diplomatic relations.png Dual Diplomacy

+1 Diplomatic relation

Galley combat ability.png The Brothers Barbarossa

+20% Galley combat ability

Idea bonus.png Ambition:

+10% Global trade power



This is considered one of the hardest starts by everyone. All four of my Hardest Start Lists Linked to in my Athens dynasty listed it, one as high as #2. Not even Athens or Theodoro were on all four.

[Abe Sargent]

Let's commit to Mzab!

[ntndeacon]

Kill the Tunisians!

[Abe Sargent]

Kill the Tunisians!

That's later!

[Abe Sargent]

Founding Algiers:

https://i.postimg.cc/pVkvjB1X/Algiers-Event-1.png

https://i.postimg.cc/13V1L1Rf/Algiers-event-2.png

Only Touggourt can also form it. Here’s what we need and what we get cores on:

https://i.postimg.cc/L6bMC8pc/Algiers-event-3.png


We need the two orange and one red cored. Algiers has the same Ideas as us since they are all Berber Ideas, and it doesn’t look like there are new Missions either. The oranges are:

Tlemcen’s Dahra
Tunis’s Mitija

Then east of Mitija is the red of Annaba in Tunis.

[Abe Sargent]

https://i.postimg.cc/1RKFNLQn/20230201054927-1.jpg

Here’s our start. I have zoomed in on my cash I’m just making 0.10 monthly, pretty poor compared to Butua. I also grabbed my capital and the bottom half of our history starting the era.

Mzab – Berber culture, Ibadi faith, 3 dev, Desert, next to us and two holdings in Touggart to the east, Livestock raised here, 0.12 made here, Arid.

Laghouat – North of Mzab, south of Tunis, Tlemcen, west of Touggart, Desert, 3 dev, Arid, Livestock, Algerian culture, Sunni faith, not Ibadi.


Army:

Us - 4k – 3k infantry, 1K cavalry, in Mzab, I have a forcelimit of 6k.

Touggart – 4k, same breakdown, in their capital of Touggart

Tunis – 14k – 10k infantry, 4k cavalry

Tlemcen – 9k – 7k infantry, 2k cavalry

Djerid – 4k, same as us

Fezzan – 5k, 4k infantry, 1k cavalry

That’s the entire region.

Here’s a map:

https://i.postimg.cc/mkVFfFwN/20230201060540-1.jpg

Here I am showing the North Africa region zoomed out and the centered on Fezzan. As you can see, we have two minor nations to our east, the three provinces of Touggart, and then the two of Djerid anthem the four of Fezzan east of that, but next to big bad Mamluks.

[Abe Sargent]

Now, here let me show you the religion thing drilled into Tunis:

https://i.postimg.cc/hvK7509t/20230201060905-1.jpg

Here we are, the big bad of the region! I have zoomed into the relations. See how we start with a -30, -40 for being Ibadi and +10 for following the same school? They also are hostile and want my provinces. Tlemcen does not. So Tunis won’t likely be ally-able. But Tlemcen might.

Whoa, it looks like I can RM with local Sunnis, Which makes sense, since in real life Tlemcen and Mzab are in the same family.


https://i.postimg.cc/SNNMLDSZ/20230201061330-1.jpg

See how we start at -15 and the RM is available with a green check? That means they’ll say yes to what you are asking.


Our ruler:

Imam Hassan Zayyanid, 21 years old, small 2/1/2 abilities with a long bad life ahead of him, no heir or consort

Tech – Muslim Tech Group - My tech is 3/3/3 and we have embraced Feudalism, and we make monthly 5/4/5. I make ADM my national focus since it’s used for coring and Ideas and now I am making 7/3/4.

Religion -

Ibadi Faith: +100% chance of new heir; +10% Goods Produced

Maliki School: We get -10% dev costs. Remember that both Arid and Desert are harder to add dev to, so that’s nice. Deserts are +50 and Arid +10, so right now to add an ADM dev to Mzad would cost a massive 74 power.

I cannot convert to Sunni to help.

Converting Laghouat will cost me 0.13 monthly so I would lose 0.03 monthly, for 144 months, so I’d lose less than 5 gold. I do it.

I have two Missionaries so this keeps one free.

I move my army to Laghouat to help with Sunni rebels


Government –

Feudal Theocracy: I can use 50 power to do one of three things every 5 years for 5 years:

50 Admin – Seize Clerical Holdings - -15% Construction Costs
50 Dip – Invite Minorities from Abroad - -20% Development Costs in capital area – this requires I owe my entire capital state and I do not so I cannot select it right now
50 Mil – Sanction Holy War – I get cores on all adjacent Heathen and Pagan faiths, so I can do this and then declare war for Touggart right now with a CB.

All last 5 years. I choose none right now.

I also get these boosts:

+1 Missionary
+1% Missionary Strength
+2 Tolerance of the True Faith
+50 Governing Capacity
+5% Ulema Loyalty equilibrium

[Abe Sargent]

My Goals for Mzab –

1. Make nice with Tlemcen and Tunis.
2. Get an alliance with a major power ideally Tlemcen who doesn’t want to gobble me up or someone distant like the Mamluks. Ideally I can take out the enemy next to me and they can deal with the allies of my target.
3. Declare war on Touggart and grab it as fast as possible to prevent it from falling to Tunis and stopping my eastward expansion. This is also valuable since I can then spend time dropping my aggressive expansion built up which I nickname badboy since “Abe has been a bad boy”. I’d rather spend the early years rebuilding Touggart and removing my badboy than just building.
4. Built my army a bit and then repeat with Djerid and then Fezzan and move into their places as quickly as I can. Hopefully none of them will have allied with Tunis. That’ll be rough. Again, do this quickly.
5. After capturing everything east up to the Mamluks, then go north in Tunis and remove it as a threat combining my armies with my allies to hemorrhage it. If I can take Fezzan I’ve cut off expansion by Tunis east and then I have moved south so the big bad of North Africa will have been cornered. By then I should have a big enough army to answer them.
6. Build an actual proper navy to deal with the great sea.
7. If I have not allied with the Mamluks, do so. Otherwise look to Morocco for an ally. Cancel my Tlemcen ally. Now that I have taken out Tunis, next is Tlemcen which I need stuff from to form Algiers. This may be two or three wars based on how built up they’ve gotten with me as an ally.
8. Form Algiers. I am now THE North African Hegemon.
9. Repeat against others, maybe Mamluks, maybe Morocco, maybe the islands in the Mediterranean like Sicily. Maybe southern Italy. Move against targets of opportunity in the Mediterranena Sea or North Africa.

Ready?

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Prelude

11 Nov, 1444 - I order 1k Muslim Archers in Mzab to get me a better army on Touggart right now and I have the forcelimit for it. This costs 10 gold up front.

I offer a Royal Marriage to Tlemcen.

They agree, no consort comes. I use my other diplomat to offer Royal Marriage to hmm…I can Royal Marriage Fezzan, not Mamluks they have too many diplomatic relations, Oman? Too far away. Turks? Ditto. Oh I got it, Morocco.

We get a new consort! Zaidana, 2/5/0 and age 26

I send my extra merchant to collect in Sevilla

I name Touggart my rival

1 Dec – Tlemcen and Tunis are rivals, no one has allied with Touggart yet, and that won’t last long. I spend 50 MIL and gain claims on all three of their holdings.

I want to declare war prior to us having an ally, them, or our 1k army finishing. But I cannot until Dec 11, so I’ll wait.

I make my ruler a general and hand him my army.

3 Dec – Tunis is guaranteeing Fezzan, uh oh

Djerid also hasn’t allied with anyone either

6 Dec – Djerid allied with Tlcemcen so they have allied up.

11 Dec – Still no allies, see:

https://i.postimg.cc/DyjbxLm7/20230201072328-1.jpg

I want to declare a Holy War now before that changes and I’ll wait until my 1k is built and grown before moving to their capital from mine. But it looks like all I can do is Humiliate Rival:

https://i.postimg.cc/N0T9GnD0/20230201074932-1.jpg

Looks like the Holy War one I spent 50 MIL power on isn’t working. I cannot commit to that, so I go ahead and order a spy network built here the old fashioned way.

1 Jan, 1445 – I begin to make nice with Tlemcen we are almost ready to be allies.

10 Jan – The extra 1k army is built, but my maintenance drops to -.28, not bad, but since I am going the slow way, I disband it.

1 March – Stability rise to +1.

3 March - Event – Crisis of the Maghreb – Check this out it affects everyone:

https://i.postimg.cc/76kC5Ntn/20230201082917-1.jpg

This lasts for 5 years, you can read about it there.

1 June – Touggart is allied with Fezzan

3 Nov – I claim Touggart’s first claim

2 Dec – Alliance with Tlemcen!

https://i.postimg.cc/QtJF1WRG/20230201083615-1.jpg

As you can see we have enough of a balance to make that work! Now I have a claim on Touggart and an ally that can check Fezzan in Tlemcen, I pull my Tlemcen happy maker for making nice with Morocco, and order another 1k built in infantry. If I can pull an alliance with Morocco now that’d be wonderful.

28 Feb, 1446 - My new army is built in Laghouat, and I declare war on Touggart for their capital! I call in Tlemcen.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One - The Mzab/Touggart and Fezzan War

They don’t have a general, I order my 5k army into their capital to face their forces.

7 Mar – Tunis also declares war, so we need to beat them I split my army to Biskra, Touggart, and Ouargla and then order another 1k and a small merc force to Mzab that only costs me a little.

11 Mar- Mercs are here and I order them to Ouargla

11 April – We are losing in Touggourt until Tunis comes and wins and we start the siege.

22 April – Biskra falls to us – I order this 1k to the capital

27 April – Our mercs capture Oargla and I order this 4k army to the capital to help the siege, I’ll keep them around until after the Fezzan army arrives.

30 April – mission finished: Build to forcelimit, I get +5% morale and -5% maintenance of armies for 25 years

26 May – My 1k is built and I order it to Touggourt

8 July - I break off my non-merc and heads to Fezzan so I can grab holdings prior to Tunis. I don’t want Tunis to take their stuff and then prevent my warscore from taking all of Touggart. They have captured some holdings in Tunis and are there. I want Fezzan

Right now I have a warscore of just 24%

21 Sept – A minor in Fezzan falls – Sabha, I move to their capital Fezzan

23 Oct – Event – Sickness in Imam – I hand over some control to the nobility, our taxes drop 10% and our nobility estate loyalty rises. This lasts 10 years

12 Nov – I capture the minor of Jufra

I have a warscore of 47%

Touggourt falls but Tunis took them, don’t know why I was the siege leader since I was there first. But I can still take it in peace since I have a claim on it.

I disband my mercs

31 Dec - I capture the minor Sirt holding o the coast of Fezzan. Tunis is recapturing what Fezzan took. I order this army to the siege in Fezzan’s capital

6 Feb, 1447 – My army from Sirt arrives in Fezzan.

1 Mar – Unconditional surrender by Touggourt. I now have a warscore of 100.

I don’t want to accept until we capture Fezzan, because I have a warscore with them of 57% and with them at war with Tunis, I want to vassalize them – 51% warscore, but they won’t take it even though it’s less. Fezzan is mine!

22 April – Since Tunis cannot capture anything more from Fezzan or Touggourt, they take peace for War Reparations and all their cash.

Now I have to recapture Touggourt’s capital

13 June – Fezzan falls! I take:

https://i.postimg.cc/pr0y1MWs/20230201121723-1.jpg


17.8 badboy. Now I have put Fezzan in my orbit and Tunisia cannot remove them later.


Then I annex all of Touggourt 8 days later when my diplomat returns:

https://i.postimg.cc/C5MzNxgZ/20230201121927-1.jpg

9.3 badboy total. Just Djerid between us.

I spend 74 ADM Power coring them. High for just three 3 dev holdings. My new lands have one good trade good:

Biskra – Arid, 3 dev, Highlands, wool sheared here, next to Tunis and Djerid, and north of us, Sunni and Berber culture, they make for us nothing right now.

Touggourt – The good one, middle , next to Djerid, their former capital, Spices are traded here! Algerian Sunnis make us nothing now, Desert, 3 dev, Arid, north of Ouargla and south of Biskra

Ouargla – This Slave trading province has 3 dev, Desert, the accepted Berber culture and Ibadi faith makes us 0.03. Next to Djerid, south of Touggourt, Arid.


Fezzan – I spend prestige making nice and dropping their revolt risk. I had to take Fezzan off the board so Tunis won’t bring them in before I can get there in this war or in a future one now that they don’t have an army after losing it to Tunis. Now they can rebuild with time for their military. My hope is to swap their faith to Ibadi, marry them, and then eventually dip annex them after I bring in Djerid. Now I need to grab Djerid

Also note that I took out my competition for Algiers, now only us can form it.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two - A New Rival Arrives

My new rival is Djerid. I order my army to Touggourt to help against rebels there. When my diplomat returns I’ll start building a spy network in Djerid I need to take it down as fast as possible, ignoring badboy, because I need to beat Tunis to base Fezzan. They are allied with Tlemcen

2 July - It looks like Morocco aren’t going to ally with me since I am allied with their rival which is a -50 to allying. I pull my Moroccan making nice and begin to make nice with Fezzan

2 Aug – Djerid announced me as a rival

15 Aug – Royal Marriage with Fezzan

30 Sept – New Heir – Hassan, 3/4/2 – not bad

25 Jan, 1448 – Event – Nobles Clash – rather than get a noble rebellion I spend 25 DIP power.

2 April - Fezzan changes it’s faith to Ibadi. This increases it’s liberty desire from 0 to 27%.

1 Aug – I claim Djerid’s capital Qafsah. I move my army around

15 Aug – Army check –

Army Check:

Us – 6k, 5k infantry, 1k cavalry

Fezzan – 3k

Tlemcen, the mutual ally of us and Djerid, 8k

I can take them out with 4k mercs that cost 19.64 to hire and then they’ll arrive in 10 days. With my cash from Fezzan I’d probably be losing around .50 per month, I could DOW Djerid, take their things quickly and then move to Tlemcen, beat their army, grab some holdings and then just take peace with Djerid and reestablish our alliance with Tlemcen later.

I declare war on Djerid for Qafsah

[Chas in Cinti]

CLIFFHANGER!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Three - The Mzab/Djerid and Tlemcen War

I order my 6k from Ouargla to their 4k in Ghadames

I hire 4k mercs there

27 Aug - Our mercs arrive.

10 Sept – We rout the Djeridi army in Ghadames, I order 1k kept here and then the rest to their capital of Qafsah where the mercs are ordered.

2 Oct – Tlemcen arrives in our capital and begins a siege

10 Oct -Ghadames is ours, I order this army to Qafsah where they’ll rejoin my army.

24 Oct- All three captures are cored!

1 Nov – Stability rises to +3

24 Nov – I accept an alliance offer from Morocco, they must see me at war with Tlemcen and re ready to help.

18 Dec – Morocco declares war on a distracted Tlemcen.

I need to help Tlemcen deal with them

17 April, 1449 – I accept military access for Morocco

27 June – Qafsah falls, I order this force to break the siege in Mzab

I have a warscore of 30%, I’ll keep pushing

Missionary ordered to Biskra

23 July - We arrive in Mzab to relieve the siege

9 Aug -We win and get a +5 warscore. I order my two armies next into Tlemcen.

Since Morocco is at war with Tlemcen I want to grab some adjacent lands before Morocco grabs them all.

12 Sept – Morocco captured one before I could. I disband my mercs

21 Sept – I capture a minor holding called Titteri

I have a warscore of 37%

I do the three I can capture and then peace:

https://i.postimg.cc/nrBQF5cG/20230201182030-1.jpg

We have 13 badboy from these three holdings.

I accept

I spend 94 ADM Power coring these three holdings:

Djerdi:

Qafsah – Capital, south and west of Tunis, north of Ghadames, east of us. Tunisian culture, Sunni faith, Desert, Salt trade here, 5 dev, Arid, 0.01 made here, Salt is solid worth 3.0.

Ghadames - South of Qafsah, connects us and Fezzan, south of Tunis, east of Fezzan in Sabha, west of our expansion in Ouargia, Desert here too, 3 dev, Desert, the valuable Spices trade here, Sunni and Tunisian, Arid, they made 0.02.

We had lower dev, both Desert, Arid, Sunni, but nice trade goods.

Tlemcen:

Titteri – Next to Tlemcen, Tunis, north of us at Laghoaut, Highlands, 3 dev, Sunni faith, Algerian culture, just grain is grown here, not Arid, 0.03 made here.

Morocco remains at war with Tlemcen.

Nice three addition, now I’ll turn my attention to Tlemcen

I rival Tlemcen

I order this army to Qafsah

You can see how low my cash got with mercs.

[Abe Sargent]

CLIFFHANGER!

ANSWERED!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Four - A Fake Algiers

1 Nov – I now own all four holdings in my capital’s state, so I can spend 50 DIP power to Invite Minorities from Abroad.

30 Nov – Event – A Talented Judge – I promote him to Qadi in the region of Ouled Nail, and for 15 years I get -2 unrest, -20% construction cost

23 June, 1450 – Conversion in Laghout! Next is Touggourt

2 Sept – Tunis has declared war on Tlemcen too

24 Oct – Morocco controls every Tlemcen holding

27 Oct – Peace – They take next to us Kasdir and then everything but two for Tunis to finish off, and then Algiers is released and are next to us. I cannot form them while they exist

14 Nov – Tunis announces Aragon as a rival

12 Dec – Algiers rivals us, I reciprocate

I order my army to Titteri where we could declare war on the unallied Algiers and then annex their two holdings. I need to takeout Algiers now, luckily I have a claim on them

I order 1k in Laghouat. Algiers has a 5k army with no general to my 6k now 7k on the way.

1 Jan, 1451 – The Renaissance institution has arrived

4 Jan – Naples announced Tunis as a rival

8 Jan – My army arrives in Titteri, I DOW Algiers, and they don’t have an ally so I don’t call Morocco. I want to get these myself.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Five - The Mzab/Algiers War


I order my 6k into adjacent Ouarsenis a no-fort minor holding.

28 Jan - I arrive and their army moved from their capital next to me, so I am fighting them

8 Feb – We win the Battle of Ouarsenis!

Our general gained the Battlefield Medic trait

I chase their army to their capital

9 Feb – Our 1k is built and I order it to Ouarsenis.

27 Feb- Qafsah is a core!

2 Mar – I win a minor skirmish in their capital and order my army back to Ouarsenis

20 Mar – Another minor skirmish won another move back to their capital

23 Mar – Tunis DOW’s Algiers

29 Mar - We rout their army. I split my armies and move to Quarsenis

I have a warscore of 19 just from battles.

28 April – Ghadames is cored

9 May – Quarsenis falls I order this army back to their capital

14 May – I was warned by Tunis not to go to war, that means my next war is Tunis.

14 June – A Mission is finished:

High Income – I get for 25 years -10% con times and -25% con costs.

July 22 – Tunis arrives at the siege of the Algiers capital

1 Aug - Since my army is away at war I spend 30 MIL to brutally repress a rebellion so it drops by 30%.

1 Jan, 1452 – Our Imam gains the Careful trait which reduces aggressive expansion aka badboy by 10%

24 May – Dahra falls! I captured it and have a warscore of 100!

What am I taking?

https://i.postimg.cc/RCHtL3QJ/20230201191621-1.jpg

I can bring in both for just 12.7 badboy, so I do so. 70 to core it. TIttari that stopped in a war against someone with a core there will start again. See my low cash?

Here are my two new provinces:

Ouarsenis - Connects Tittari to Dahra, east of Morocco, west of Tunis, 5 dev, Livestock raised here, Highlands, Berber culture, Sunni faith, not Arid here either, it’s a core of mine and our war goal, 0.01 made here.

Dahra – One of the key provinces I need to make Algiers, this was the one that Tlemcen had. Coastal, next to Morocco, Tunis, and us. 9 dev, Drylands, Castle is built here, the Shia and Algerian are farmers growing grain and not Arid and it makes for us 0.01 here monthly.

Cores are ordered and ready to rock. I order my army to Quarsenis to play defense against the rebels from it or Dahra or Tittari

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Six - Another Rival Steps In

1 June – I rival Tunis. They are my next army. I need to take the two holdings east of Dahra and coastal to become Algiers.

2 July – I send a diplomat to make nice with the Mamluks since I have cores on Tunis from my Holy war earlier. I’ll be next to them if I annex Fezzan so I want them to like me. 
19 July – Titteri is now cored!

1 Mar, 1453 – I now have a +190 relations with Fezzan, can I annex them? I pull back my diplomat from the Mamluks

26 Mar – I cannot annex until 13 June in 1457 so in a few years. I send this diplomat back to the Mamluks.

31 July – 7k Algerian Separatists crossed over from Morocco into Dahra I order my army to them

24 Aug – We beat the Rebels but lost a few thousand since we were the same size stack

1 Oct – Ouarsenis is now a core!!

13 Oct – Biskra converts! Next is the Spices of Ghadames

I make a state with Titteri and Ouarsenis called Hautes Plains and I spend 35 ADM to turn them fully fleshed out.

30 Dec – Dahra is cored! All cores are done!

2 Jan, 1454 – I turn Dahra into the Barbary Coast state – I spend 45 ADM power

1 April – Touggourt converts! Next is the Salt of Qafsah.

19 June – Border Friction Event – My people don’t like my alliance with Morocco and they are agitating for us to push our claim – I can make nice and lose 33 Dip, keep my claim and have relations drop with Morocco 50 or lose my claim on Kasdir. I choose the last.

1 July – I lose my casus belli on Morocco

1 Aug – relations maxed with Fezzan but I stay there until the Annexation is ready in a few years

1 Sept – With a +78 relations I max with the Mamluks and pull back my diplomat

21 Sept – I send my diplomat to make nice with Granada in Iberia

11 Nov, 1454 – That was a busy 10 years!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seven - New Techs


1 Jan, 1455- Two New Techs, our first ones!

ADMIN TECH 4 – Temples – I can build Mosques which increase tax revenue, which I don’t have much of.

MIL TECH 4 – Pike Square – I get +0.25 Military Tactic and +.50 Military Morale

Tunis has a level 3 military tech, so this would be a good time to declare war on them.

Tunis is allied with Morocco so I would want to lose them and Granada. What I could do is DOW a minor, and then push back when Tunis DOWs me back.

1 May – New Tech:

DIP TECH 4 – Marketplace - +10 trade range and I can build Marketplaces.

22 May – Granada announces me as a rival, I rival them back.

I call back my making nice diplomat

30 May – I send it to make nice with the Turks

When I annex Fezzan, they are next to an unclaimed land for colonizing. Just as an FYI, but I’m not sure this is a colonial dynasty. I have a naval forcelimit of 12, by the by, I’d have to build 9 ships from one dock to explore.

I’ll probably do something like the military power using Quality Ideas instead to make my troops better to help ensure that I’ll win battles, but going south down the route between the Sahara on either side and into two unclaimed provinces before hitting south people would make sense. And then I could have a Conquistador on my army to explore without a huge navy I cannot afford right now.

1 Jan, 1456 – Mosque ordered for Dahra

2 Feb - Event: Foreign Inventor – A Tunisian brilliant inventor has arrived. I choose not to put him up and gain 10 prestige rather than negative with Tunis and Morocco

1 April – Oman is no more and one Ibadi friend is off the map. Pate is still around.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eight - What to do with Nobles?


1 Jan, 1457 – This is the year that I can annex Fezzan

1 April – 5k Algerian Rebellion in Titteri, I order my force over from next door.

24 April – Defeated I lost 1.6k

5 June – I pull my Turk making nice diplomat with a +77 ratio.

25 June – The diplomat arrives and I send it to Fezzan. Wanna join?

Yes! This will take until February 1459. We’ll lose 5 DIP power per month for around 95 expected cost

I pull my relations improvement diplomat from Fezzan.

3 July – And I send it to enter into Royal Marriage with the Mamluks, nice before we go next to them!

23 July – I send this diplomat to make nice with Morocco let’s keep them happy

25 Aug – Ghadames converts! Next is Dahra.

5 Feb, 1458 – Event: Land Tech Research Useless – I choose to lose 10 prestige over 100 MIL power.

1 Mar – I can enact government reform:

I can chose Noble Privileges, here are my options:

Strengthen Them - +15% manpower, +10 Amir influence
Curtail Them - +15% National tax revenue, -10 Amir Influence
Grant Noble Castle Rights - -20% Fort Maintenance, +5 Amir influence
Compromise with the Nobility - -10% Stability cost modifier
Noble Officer Corps - +0.25 Yearly Army Tradition; +0.20 Yearly Army Professionalism, +5% Amir’s Influence

All of those are strong. I feel like the best are Curtail and Strengthen, since cash now and manpower later are pretty strong. Hmm…I need to squeeze money I choose Curtail.

31 May – Qafsah converts! Next is Titteri!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Nine - Annexing Fezzan

1 Feb, 1459 – I annex the four holdings of Fezzan!

Sabha –Next to Ghadames, and south of Tunis, north of Fezzan, west of Juthra, Livestock raised here, just 3 dev, Desert, Arid, 0.03 made here, Sunni and Tunisian

Fezzan – Former capital, south of Sabha and Jufra, north of the unclaimed holding of Tajarhi a 3 dev Desert likely Livestock too. Desert, 3 dev, Arid, Sunni, Tunisian, Ivory traders, make us .01.

Juthra – North of Fezzan, east of Sabha, west of Sirt, south of Tunis, makes us 0.05 with Livestock, 3 dev, Arid, it has a Sufi Shrine so it’s -2 unrest, +2 tax income and +.10 monthly autonomy change. Sunni and Tunisian.

Sirt – Connects Juthra to Mamluks to the east, west is Tunis, coastal, Fish are caught here, 3 dev, Desert, Arid, Sunni and Tunisian, make us 0.01.

3000 troops, all infantry, I order them to join my main army in Ouarsenis

And now we have finished our first goal! We have taken all of the smaller minors off the map, and have cutoff the big bad of Tunis. And we have three bonus holdings from Tlemcen.

Hopefully the Mamluks won’t come our way anytime soon

Have you noticed just how poor this region is?

How many 3 dev Desert Arid holdings there are? I’m glad I didn’t need to take those four low value in war with a big ADM Coring.

11 Feb – I keep my Fezzan diplomat back for emergencies I have nothing left to make nice with and claims on Tunis already if you’ll recall from my theocracy Holy War.

Now I want to declare war on Tunis, and I don’t care about Granada, but I don’t want Morocco leaving me, and I am not next to anyone to DOW to get them to attack me on their own, so I need to expand south and DOW something there.

I make the Fezzan state.

2 July – With relations of 180 I max with Morocco and pullback. I send this to build a spy network in Tunis for no major reason.

8 Feb, 1460 – Event: Shady People – I get better spy network construction for a while

2 May – Tunis has declared war on us for Biskra, Morocco does not join them nor do they join us, they are now at peace with both of us. That’s a smart play by Tunis to isolate me, they tried to get our lands when we were attacked Fezzen, Tlemcen, Algiers, and more and always DOWd who I am playing against, and then I am just overextended and you bring a battle and my ally stays on the sideline.

This could be bad.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ten - The Tunisian War of Aggresion

I order a 4k merc unit in Ouarsensis to join my 10k here. I’ll wait until it arrives.

Tunis – 11k, we have 10k and will be joined by our 4k mercs before moving in

I order 10k into next to me Mitija

13 May – Mercs are here I order them to join me there.

24 May - They are sieging Qafsah

I order my 14k to redirect to Touggourt

5 July – They capture Biskra

22 July – I capture Hodna

23 Aug – We win the Battle of Laghouat we lost a few thousand.

12 Oct – I recapture Biskra

14 Oct – I begin to siege their Castle of Kef

3 Dec – The minor of Kabylia is ours

19 Jan, 1461 – I capture the minor of Mitija which I need to make Algiers.

13 April – Their army is back in Biskra

11 May – Biskra falls

19 June – The Siege of Kef is over and we captured it! Our war score jumped from 10 to 27.

Now I move to chase down their army

2 Aug – Another minor falls to me

8 Sept – The minor of Annaba falls to me

20 Oct – Another minor falls

28 Oct - I win the Battle of Kabalia

I can get a new tech:

ADMIN 5 – National Ideas - +2% Production and our first Group of ideas – I choose Exploration.

30 Nov – Another minor falls

17 Dec – I recapture Biskra, I order my army to their Capital Tunis

4 Jan, 1462 -Another minor falls

3 Mar – Titteri converts! Next is Fezzan

11 April – I win a battle in Touggourt

17 May - I begin a siege of Tunis

22 May - The Mamluks offer me an alliance. I take it!

17 June – I capture a minor

30 June – I rout their army in Tunis.

63% warscore

23 July – I capture the minor of Tripoli

4 Aug – Tunis falls!

99% warscore, I cannot get higher since I cannot touch their navies

What can I get?

This is a defensive war, so my aggressive expansion won’t be as bad.

Here are my top shots first that make Algiers:

Mitijia – 12 badboy and 15 warscore

Kabylia – 5 badboy, 10 warscore

Hodna – Connects us to Kabylia – 3 badboy, 6 warscore

Annaba – Up the coast from Kabylia – 2 badboy, 7 score

Qusitaneh - 3 badboy, 10 warscore, inland of Annaba and connects us.

Those five are 25.9 badboy and 48 warscore.

Now what about the low dev east flank near former Fezzan?

Thunaqt – 1 badboy, 6 score – coastal flank

Tripoli – 3 badboy, 9 warscore, next to it

Zuwareh – Coastal next to Tripoli, 2 badboy, 6 warscore

Kef – Fortress, internal, next to Qafsah – 4 and 7 –

Those 9 are 35.8 badboy and 76 warscore, can I do anything else?

I can get one more before coalitions start

Tataouine - Next to Zuwareh, 6 score, 3 badboy

Here’s the total –

https://i.postimg.cc/J003s3P0/20230202001450-1.jpg

Just 38.2 in a defensive war. Ready? I take it.

I disband my mercs. I order cores for Mitija, Kabylia renamed Tamurt Leqbayal, Annaba, Hodna, Kef, Qusatineh, Tripoli

West Flank -

Mitijia – Algerian, Sunni, 14 dev, Drylands, grain grower, coastal, Marketplace, Mosque, Algerian, Sunni, Natural Harbor, makes us 0.36

Kabylia named Tamurt Leqbayal – Berber, Sunni, Iron Mining, 8 dev, Highlands, 0.17 made here

Hodna – Connects us to Kabylia – 3 dev, Salt, Highlands, Algerian, Sunni, make us nothing

Annaba – Up the coast from Kabylia – Naval Supplies, 5 dev, Highlands, coastal, Berber, Sunni, .08 made here, next to Tunis.

Qusitaneh -inland of Annaba and connects us and Kef. Grain farmers, Highlands, Sunni, Berber, 0.02, 8 dev,

Kef – Fortress, internal, next to Qafsah. 5 dev, Highlands, next to Tunis, ,Sunni, wool made, Tunisian culture,

East Flank -

Thunaqt – coastal flank, 3 dev, Coastal Desert, Cloth is made here, Sunni, 0.04, Tunisian, Arid

Tripoli- Next to Thunaqt, Arid, Natural Harbor, Coastal Desert, 5 dev, cloth made here too, Tunisian, Sunni, 0.12 made here.

Zuwareh – Coastal next to Tripoli, Coastal Desert, 3 dev, Ibadi faith! Tunisian culture, Arid, nothing made here. Fishing.

Tataouine - Next to Zuwareh, Strait to island called Djerba, next to Tunis, Sunni, Tunisian, Coastal Desert, Arid, 3 dev, grain, 0.04 made here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eleven - The People's Consort

I finished a Mission to Expand:

I gain +1 tax, production and manpower in Mzab
For 25 years -`10% construction and dev costs.

I am about ready to form Algiers!

When will this mega high warscore peace treaty end? Dec 1475 so more than a decade from now. Not too bad.

Tunis could be taken out in just one more war. The big issue here is that people can attack a coastal person they are at war with and so they could DOW Tunis with a Deus Vult that lets them DOW any religion not your own. What I need is to get to the spot that I can retake it!

In my war against Tlemcen and their ally I lost my ally but Morocco offered me an alliance. Now Morocco didn’t join me defensively, but the Mamluks came knocking so I am still post war with a big local ally. They are way too powerful to go after, so I am heading south with my colony, north back to Tunis again, and then I suspect eventually west to Morocco, but not for a while. Since we are no longer allied. Next could be islands in the Mediterranean Sea or after Morocco Iberia.

So my goal now is to wait a few years, finish coring, bring in all of my cores, begin to send Missionaries, and then after I purchase 2nd Exploration Idea which gives me a colonist head south of Fezzan. And then claim Algiers after coring my two new additions, and then that should help us loads. So peace for a while to rebuild my manpower and take care of rebels and then core and colonize and stuff.

22 Aug -Tunis declares us a rival. Way too late there.

I order my 2k troops to Fezzan to get a Conquistador

16 Sept – I claim Tunis’s island of Djerba with a Castle and then their capital and Center of Trade Tunis.

1 Oct - Our heir gains the Charismatic Negotiator trait which gives him +1 Dip reputation

1 Nov – Dahra converts! Next is Sabha

Core ordered for Thubaqt

15 Nov – Event – Noble Family Requests Aid – I accept, spent 15 cash, and then gain 10 loyalty from the Amir estate

1 Dec – I order a Mosque in Oaursenis

18 Dec – Event – National Epic – We publish it and gain +1 prestige annually for 20 years but it costs 25 cash

1 Jan, 1463 - Core ordered in Tatauine which is 15 costing. One left!

20 Feb – Castille’s Civil war ended

1 June - At a cost of 30, core ordered for Zuwarah – and that’s everything started

1 Sept – I claim Tunis’s Bizerte

30 Oct – Event: A Consort of the People – Our consort is -2 unrest until she dies

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twelve - Becoming Algiers

1 Jan, 1464 – We get our first Idea!

Exploration Idea #1 -Quest for the New World – We can hire Conquistadors for army and Explorers for navy

I hire a Conquistador for my army in Fezzan and send it south with 2k

14 Feb – A bunch of cores are finished:

Mitija
Tamurt Leqbayel
Kef
Hodna

That’s cores on my Algiers stuff

I form Algiers – here is what will happen:

https://i.postimg.cc/v8tXbzXb/20230202173115-1.jpg

Here’s my new nation and flag zoomed out:

https://i.postimg.cc/gcsyf0k0/20230202173323-1.jpg

I formed it in less than 20 years!

Our new capital is Mitija 14 dev, I now accept Algerian as my culture, and we are now a kingdom so I get another diplomat which I send to build a spy network with Morocco.

I complete a Mission:

Conquer New States:

I get -25% state maintenance and -33% brutal repression for rebels for 25 years

I gain claims on Morocco

1 Mar – I can now DOW Morocco for territory

29 Mar – I discover Djardo south of Tajarahi and the natives are attacking me

11 April – Morocco announces me as a rival

17 April – More cores completed:

Annaba
Tripoli
Qusatinah

I order states

24 April – We win in Djardo, I head south

17 June – I discover a holding by Air south of Djardo

2 July – Two more cores – Tatauine and Thuraqt

14 Sept – Another Air holding here and I’ve gone as far south as I can go

1 Oct – I promote Tunisian to be an accepted culture at the cost of some DIP power

1 Nov – Now that I am in positive money after cores and states and culture shifts, I order an exploration fleet of 3 of each type of ships and 3 transports to carry my army.

I become Defender of the Faith – this gives me:

1 extra Missionary which I send to Ouarsenis

26 Nov – Naples names us a rival

8 Dec – Zuwareh cored, everything is now a core!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirteen - A New Heir is Born


12 April, 1467 - New heir is born! Meet Abu Tashufun, 4/2/0 Uh oh

16 May – Our spy in Morocco was discovered

30 Aug – Mission done, next is West African Coast

1 Nov – Exploration Idea #2 – I can get colonists! My dip should be going up much faster now and we’ll get these faster. I choose native repressions. I have several options-

Tajarhi – Next to Fezzan, three dev, cleared of natives, but just a desert

Or I could wait until finishing the exploration to see what I can uncover on the coast. Let’s do that.

19 Jan, 1468 - Our mission finishes, next is North Atlantic Sea

I found Cape Verde and Arguin on the Saharan coast of Africa. My range is 192 and that won’t hit Arguin. I could do Tenerife an islands connected to Castile and then core it and use it to grab Cape in the future.

Let’s do it, and Tenerife Is the best dev at 5 but not great trade good options. After I can sell it to Castile

1 April – I claim Tunis’s Kairwan

I pull this to make nice with Castile

18 May – Tenerife sets up

14 Sept – Mosque ordered for Mzab

2 Nov – Event – Good Supplies – We get -10% Ship cost. I build more ships

17 Dec – Diplomat in Morocco caught again

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fourteen - Alliance with Portugal

1 Jan, 1469 – I invite a scholar for 20 years from the Shafi’I school that gives me another merchant that I send to collect in Safi

I make 0.56 there

8 Feb – Mission is up, next is North Atlantic Coast

5 July – Tatauine converts! Next is Sirt

11 Aug- Exploration mission finished, next is the Caribbean Sea

I pull my Moroccan Spy network to make nice with Portugal, they are riveled to Morocco and have a positive view of us. I’d love to bring them in with an alliance

12 Sept – Juthra converts! Next is Hodna

1 Dec – With a 61 I pull my diplomat from Castile and make nice with Air

7 Jan, 1470 – Royal Marriage with the Turks.

4 Feb - Portugal has entered a Golden Era

1 Mar -Granada cannot be a rival anymore, next I choose my only option, Genoa

21 October – Exploration done, next is nothing, I need a new base to explore like Tenerife

8 Nov – I now have more ships built to get to my naval force limit of 16,I need 20 to get my Mission.

Here’s my ships:

5 Early Carrack Big Ships – the tanks
3 Barque Light Ships – these protect trade or pirate
3 Galleys that are galley type
5 Cogs – Transports

Total – 16

10 Oct – Tripoli converts! Next is Kabylia

7 Nov – Event – Build a Great Palace – I spend 23 cash and get 10 prestige and 20 legitimacy

22 Nov – Aragon is at war with the big three and I decline military access because I don’t want them in Tunis.

2 Dec – Portugal is willing to enter into an alliance!

Here, see:

https://i.postimg.cc/PrqbhkPQ/20230202193108-1.jpg

They love my navy, mutual rivals, and I need an ally to check Morocco that’s closer and can stuff on time to the big three. They are also allied with Castile so hopefully they won’t attack Tenerife after it’s built up.


Portugal’s Army – 15k.
1

17 Dec -I decline military access request from Castile who are also at war with the big three.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifteen - Considering War

7 Jan, 1471 – Tunis claims one of my holdings

1 Aug – I have two acts I can pass-

Denouncement of Sect Practices – Until Hassan passes, I get -1 national unrest, I grab it

Enforce Religious Unity – Missionary Str vs Heretics until he dies is +2, I pass it as well

28 Sept – I accept an offer of Knowledge Sharing with Portugal

1 Jan, 1472 – With 160 relations we max with Portugal, next is making nice with Mamluks

1 Feb – With relations of 90 I pull my diplomat from Air. Next is making nice with Jolof in West Africa.

1 Mar – Exploration Idea #3 – Overseas Exploration – I get a nasty +50% colonial range which is now probably enough to get to Cape Verde but Portugal is there now. With the boosted range my Explorer can do more and I send him to the coast of the Caribbean Sea.

Remember that my Berber Ideas unlock every three, so I also got Barbary Pirates - +25% Naval Forcelimit, so I have 20k and I could build another 4, but I cannot afford the upkeep right now. 4 light ships that pirate should be a nice addition to my navy and finish my Mission to build a Raiding Fleet, buti cannot see that happening long term.

I choose a naval doctrine to do boarding which increases our chance of capturing ships in combat

I have built my army to my max forcelimit of 16k

Is now the time to DOW Morocco and their two allies Tunis and Granada who are at war with Castille, Aragon and Navara?

Our Team is at peace

Us – 16k
Mamluks – 37k
Portugal – 18k

Our Foes at War:

Tunis – 7k, not fighting at home, I have not given them military access
Morocco – 28k
Granada – 1k

Us – I can hire 4k mercs and that’s 20 for me so our total is 57k from Africa and 18k from Iberia for a total of 75k

Them – 36k

Morocco is the wild card, since they would be the defender.

Here’s what I’d like to do in this plan. Move my two 16k armies to the Castle of Kef next to their holding with 7k. Hire 4k mercs there in Kef. DOW Morocco, move 20k into their holding and grab all of their stuff including their capital.

Then the Mamluks can move in while I take Tunis and rout their army and then win that and then get enough war score in a separate war with Tunis to take it out or really sandblast it in a separate peace, then move to Morocco and grab a holding or two from them and then call peace while Portugal comes from the north and smashes Granada

Several weaknesses with this plan:

1. Ternate – Morocco has captured the next door Castilian holding on the islands and then they could capture and burn down Ternate since it’s a colony. That would be rough
2. Ceuta – Portugal has a holding in Morocco called Ceuta that would be exposed and now available for capture.
3. Our Moroccan flank – Morocco are not going to sit back while we blitz Tunis on our flank and Granada in Iberia. They are coming my way, and we need to be ready for a major counterattack while my main army is tied up in Tunis.


Those are three major weaknesses. Is it worth the risk?

This is a great chance at war with Iberia but they still have 28k to my 20k in two armies with my mercs. That’s bad math. Military tech? They have 4 to our 5, good for us.

Granada is just one province away from being fully captured, and when it falls, it could be taken by Castille and then annexed and the war concluded, so this window might be closing.

What do I do?

I order my two armies to Kef in case it makes sense later.

I could take it, but taking Tunis costs twice as much since they are an ally. My peace with Tunis ends in three years I could wait until then and then DOW them. Or I could wait until Iberia was in Morocco besieging them.

Let’s wait either for a better alternative or the peace with Tunis to end.

I order some more men assembled to get ready for my first war against Morocco

26 June – Sirt converts, next is Mitija my capital.

1 July – Tenerife is good for Fish

New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 6 – Workshops – I can build Workshops and Farm Estates and Ramparts

25 July – Hodna converts, next is Qustantineh

4 Aug – Event – Marriageable Women flock to Ternate, +200 people and improved development

22 Oct – Exploration Mission done, next is North Atlantic Coast

5 Nov – Event – Excellent Year – I get +1200 manpower

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixteen - The First Algiers/Morocco and Tunis War, The Tunis Flank

1 Jan, 1473 – My diplomat maxed relations in Mamluks

12 Jan – Portugal has joined the war and 35 Castilian troops have crossed to siege Morocco so I am now in a different spot now than a few months ago. I DOW Morocco for Kasdir

The Wars

Us, Mamluks – vs Morocco and Tunis.

I order my unified army into the Tunisian holding of Bizerte

I order a merc army assembled in Kef.

9 Feb - I win in the Castle of Kairwan next to Kef and they had around 4k survive I chase them down, I cannot so I start the siege here

14 Mar- I give military access to Portugal

21 Mar- My mercs have arrived in Kairwan

31 Mar – 14k Morocco troops are in my border

1 May – Tenerife – Coastline, 8 dev, Fishing here, Ibadi Algerian making us 0.03, I send these colonists to Tajarhi rather than something I’ve discovered.

They are sieging Dahra with 15k and have 14k in Titteri

16 May - I capture a minor in Tunis

29 May – They are besieging Mitija

3 June – Exploration Mission done, next is West African Sea

10 June – Another Tunisian minor falls

13 June – Kabylia converts! Next is Thubaqt

By the by the Mamluks are besieging Djerba

30 Sept- 18k Mamluks troops arrive in Kabylia and Morocco is fleeing from the siege of our capital which is next door.

20 Oct -- Tunis captures Ouarenesis

27 Oct – The Siege of Kairwan is over!

I order:

1k next door to Susa

3k into Tunis to hold the siege in my name to keep Mamluks troops moving this way to hold,

The rest west to Dahra

10 Nov – They capture Dahra before I could arrive, I keep going

8 Dec – Susa is ours

19 Dec - We arrive next to Dahra and Morocco are in Ouarsenis so I send in my combined forces

26 Jan, 1474 – We win the battle

I have a warscore of 14%

1 Mar – Relations maxed with Jolof, next is Songhai now next to Air and us when we go south

5 Mar – Ouarsensis is ours

8 June – Exploration mission finished

Next is West African Sea Coast

18 June – We capture Tunis!

I have a warscore of 94 with Tunis. What do I want?

I can do Tunis and Kairwan that connects us but they’ll join a coalition. I do it:

https://i.postimg.cc/sf9bM6t1/20230202231212-1.jpg

I order this 3k to the west flank

I spend 266 ADM Power to core them – Tunis was 188. It’s a big prize

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventeen - The First Algiers/Morocco and Tunis War, The Morocco Flank

22 June – I get an interesting alliance offer from the Turks. Take it? I do

That treaty expires March 1487

4 Oct- I capture the minor of Kasdir from Morocco

10 Oct -We recapture Dahra

18 Oct – Conversion in Qusanineh next is Kef

20 Nov – Oran the minor in Morocco falls

I order my army to join the Mamluk siege in the Castle of Tilimsan

1 Dec - Tajahir is good for raising Livestock.

25 Jan, 1475 – Exploration mission finished! I found a bunch of open places on the West African coast

18 April – Tilimsan falls and we have a 25 warscore

24 April – Event : People Flee to the Colonies – I lose some DIP power and Tajahir grows by 300

25 May – One Moroccan minor is ours

30 May – Conversion in Thubaqt! Next is Annaba

3 June – Another minor falls, I have a war score of 28%, what can I get to leave for Iberia?

Kasdir – Wartarget, 3 badboy, 4 score

Castle of Tilimsan – 12 badboy, 13 warscore

Oran - 7 and 8 respectively

Those three are:

22.5 badboy, 25 score, and then only Tunis cares.

https://i.postimg.cc/MK94DcZS/20230202233509-1.jpg

I do the deal. I disband my mercs, I spend 147 coring these three. This peace ends 1483.

Let’s look at my 5 new captures:

Tunis:

Tunis – The big prize. Center of Trade, Mosque, 15 dev, Drylands, Natural Harbor, Cloth Trade, Tunisian culture and Sunni faith, makes us 0.60 monthly

Kairwan – Castle, next to Tunis the province, the nation and us, Highlands, 11 dev, Grain farmed here, 0.32 made here, Tunisian Sunnis


Morocco:

Kasdir – Highlands, 3 dev, Livestock, Sunni Berber, nothing made here. Next to Tilimsan and Morocco.

Tilimsan - Castle, 13 Dev, Mosque, Highlands, Cloth trade, Emporium, Berber, Sunni making us 0.07

Oran – Coastal, next to Tilimsan and Morocco – Cloth making, 7 dev Drylands, Algerian Sunnis, 0.03 made here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighteen - Bureaucratic Wonders


14 June – I split off 5k from my main army and assign my Conquistador again and I’ll send to West Africa for my next colony.

I’ll keep my main army here in Tilimsan for rebel purposes

Portugal took Tangiers and Fez from Morocco

Granada was annexed by Castile.

29 June - Our capital Mitija converts! Next is Ouarsenis

7 Oct – My army arrives at Beefada next to Jolof

2 Dec – Exploration Idea #4 – Land of Opportunity - +10% Global Settler Chance

20 Dec – Tunis and Kairwan are cores!

1 Jan, 1476 – Another Government Reform!

This is for Bureaucracy I have a massive 7 options.

What do I like?

Colonial Companies - +5% Settler Chance, -100% Minority Expulsion cost

Decentralized Bureaucracy - +2 promoted cultures, minimum autonomy in territories -5%

I like the Cultures for when you head out of this area. I like the companies for their colonial help.

I chose the Cultures one.

I pull my colonists from Tajareh, and send them to Beefada, next to Jolof. It’ll be a few years but we need to fight against European colonization and we’ll likely lose some cash.

15 Jan – I kill the natives there

1 Feb – Castille is entering a Golden Age

7 Feb – Event Foreign Inventor I make nice with Castile and raise relations 50

10 April – Colonists set up in Beefada, my colonial maintenance rose from 2 monthly to 6, an additional 4 and I am losing cash.

1 June – Uh oh. Our Imam gained the Loose Lips trait. That hurts defending against spies

I max relations with Songhai with a 93, I recall and send a diplomat to make nice with Naples and build a spy network with Morocco

13 Nov – Kef converts! Next is Tunis.

12 Dec - Exploration mission finished, next is Atlantic South American Coast

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Nineteen - Setting Up a Penal Colony

9 Jan, 1477 – All three Moroccan takings are cored! All five are done!

17 June – Event – Penal Colony in Beefada - Do I want to set one up? I get +3 local unrest but +10% settler chance. I do it.

26 June – Annaba converts, next is Kairwan

25 July – Ouarsenis converts, next is Tilimsan.

1 Sept – Mission finishes, next is South Atlantic Sea

1 Dec – Rebellion in Oran, I order my army to it

30 Dec – Defeated!

2 Jan, 1478 – We embrace the Renaissance!

I get -5% construction and dev costs, and we lose our tech penalties. I can get:

MIL TECH 6 – The Arquebus – We get a lot of stuff - +2 combat width, 0.25 tactics, infantry fire +.20, shock +0.30, and we can build barracks and get the Shaybanid Cavalry. I order upgrades.

1 Feb – Tunis is no longer a valid rival, my next is The Papal States

12 Mar - Event - A New Settlement in Beefada – It grows by 100

1 May - I claim Morocco’s Figuig

1 June – Tunisian Separatist Rebellion in Tunis, I’m next door in Kairwan, I head in

18 June – Rebellion defeated.

1 Aug - Our relations in Naples maxed, next is making nice with Benin

I get my first Age of Discovery that lasts until the Age ends. I am choosing this:

Higher Developed Colonies – All of my colonies will get +1 to all three devs when they are finished.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty - The Algiers Golden Age Begins

4 Jan, 1479 – I can start a Golden Age – Check it out here:

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The Algiers Golden Age lasts 50 years with those benefits. Nice!

1 Mar – New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 7 – Renaissance Thought – I get…another group of ideas! What do I want to do?

I cannot take Dip ideas like Trade that gives us merchants and better ability to use them or Diplomatic with more diplomats. I could grab…

Admin Ideas:

Expansion - And then get another colonist with the first Idea. It also gives me another merchant, and then a third colonist later. Right now no one is in Brazil so I could gobble that up while also expanding in Africa.

Admin Ideas – Admin has a bunch of boost for hiring merc, which I do most big wars. It also gets the ability to increase your governing capacity for states by +25%. That’s strong for a big expander like me.

Economic – Helps many things to make more money.

Religion – Gives me two more Missionaries, Deus Vult to DOW any pagan and then better Missionary stuff, but I have boost with my government, idea, and Defender of the Faith, so this is less needed than others.

Military Ideas:

Quality – Since I have a low forcelimit, making my troops better make sense.

Quantity – Let’s raise my forcelimit and manpower.

Offensive or Defensive – Military boosts for armies.

All of those have value. I am leaning to Expansion, Economic and Admin. Faster and more colonists? Better mercs and stating? Better economy?

I do Expansion.

28 April – Exploration mission is done, next is Caribbean

2 July – Event – Marriageable Women in Beefada – pop there up 200

1 Aug – Ivory in Beefada, that was good

Exploration Idea #5 -Viceroys - +10% Global Tarriffs and -20% Envoy Travel Time

8k Rebellion in Tilimsan I have my army there

13 Aug – Defeated

18 Sept – Event – Dargah – I choose, it’s a bit big, here I’ll show you:

https://i.postimg.cc/R0sV8QNB/20230203174956-1.jpg

And I show you the one I am taking, and the benefits I get for 25 years.

28 Oct – Our diplomat in Morocco was discovered

1 Dec – Kairwan converts – next is Kasdir

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-One - Tajarhi Finished

1 Jan, 1480 – That was a busy year!

16 Feb – Event – Education for the Poor? I do so and we get 1 innovativeness, +10% Ulema estate loyalty and -5% dev costs but +2% worse unrest for 10 years

1 Mar – Timsilan converts!

29 April – Event – Ship Building Boom we get -10% shipbuilding time for ten years

1 July – Tajarhi – Desert, 6 dev, Livestock, Arid, next to Fezzan and unclaimed Djado. Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.20 and this is the first colony after my age idea so it’s plus 3 dev. I am rebuilding my treasury again.

I cannot rival Genoa anymore, who’s next? Venice

1 Aug – With a +92 rating with Benin we max relations, I pull and next is France making nice

20 Sept – Missionary to Oran

1 Oct – Tunis converts – nothing is left

25 Nov – 1481 - Kasdir converts

1 Dec – Exploration mission in the Caribbean done, next Is it coast

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-Two - Desert Warfare



1 Jan, 1482 – I can get Expansion Idea #1 -+1 Colonist

This unlocks our next Barbary idea – Desert Warfare - +1 attrition in war for our enemies

I send this colonist to Brazil’s Pernambuco a 10 dev natural harbor on the point and next to a tribe.

I send my 5k conquistador there to unload.

17 Jan – Our general passes and I hire another since we are close to the war with Morocco peace occurring. He’s 2 stars

1 Mar – New Tech:

MIL TECH 7 - The Limber – We get artillery! And we can also get +0.25 military tactics, -+1 artillery fire.

Morocco has MIL TECH 5; I order 2k artillery

1 April – We set up in Pernambuco

5 April – My troops arrive.

11 April – Natives killed in Pernambuco

1 May – Our heir gains the “Free Thinker” trait which gives him -5% Idea costs

Do I need to take my army back over to Morocco for the war?

Tunis – 5k
Morocco -24k

Yeah I do

I order this army to Tilimsan

18 May – Event - Prospering Times – I get +25 ADM power and +1 base production Tenerife

6 July – New Tech –

DIP TECH 5 – Basic Financial Instruments- +20 trade range, +2% trade efficiency, I can build coastal defenses

The Ottomans DOW the Mamluks’ ally of and they are in, I decline the call because I need my main ally in the region the Mamluks, I’d join otherwise. We lose our alliance with them.

I can just do next year’s war with Portugal, but I was hoping to just call in Mamluks and then let Portugal out since they are in Africa and I don’t want to give them ideas.

I claim Morocco’s Melilla

3 Aug – With a +90 I pull my dip from France

24 Aug – Event – New Madrassh in Qafsah – We get boosts there

16 Dec – Oran converts! Everything is Ibadi!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-Three - The Second Algiers/Moroccan and Tunis War

1 Jan, 1483- Our truce with Morocco has ended

I want to declare war for Morocco and bring in Portugal, but their peace isn’t up for 7 years,

I think I can solo them with mercs, I have better MIL tech and then just focus on Morocco first and then take them out and then head to Tunis when I have a break and then take them out, ready?

I DOW Morocco for Mers el Kebir coastal and next to me

Portugal and us have split Morocco in half. All northern holdings are without a fort so I dispatch a 1k cavalry to capture them and send my main army to Figuig

Tunis is besieging Kairwan but they aren’t big enough

25 Feb – Exploration Mission is done, Portugal is in the Caribbean next is American East Coast sea

23 Mar – We defeat a 20k Moroccan army in Melilla

16 April – We rout the Moroccan army in Tetouan. With that flank fallen I split off an army to head back to the Tunisian flank

4 May – Two minors are ours

I have a warscore of 7

20 May – Melilla and Tetouan are ours

5 July – We rout the Tunisian army in Kairwan and move to their capital of Susa

21 July – We capture a minor holding of Tunis

7 Sept – A minor in Morocco falls

I head to the Castle of Meknes

14 Sept – Another Tunisian minor falls

7 Oct- The Siege of Meknes begins with a fusillade from my cannons

16 April, 1484 -Meknes falls! I have a warscore of 36

1 May – Beefada - Savannah, 8 dev, Ivory trading, Ibadi, Algerian, next to the nations of Jolof, Fulo and Kaabu and the unclaimed Sierra Leone. I make here 0.23

I order these colonists to Brazil next to us in Alagoas

15 June – I win a battle against 19k Morocco troops in Tafilalt

5 Aug – We capture Susa! Next is Djerba

21 Aug – I capture Tafilalt and another Moroccan minor

25 Sept – I rout the Moroccan army in Ifni

1 Oct – Natives rise up in Alagoas

3 Oct- Another exploration mission done, next is American East Coast Coast

17 Oct – Three Moroccan minors fall to me

8 Nov – Alagoas is burned down, I order more colonists here

4 Dec – Two more Moroccan minors have fallen

28 Dec – Another minor falls

4 Mar, 1485 – Djerba falls! I have every Tunisian holding

Annexing them?

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19.6 badboy. I accept and spend 288 coring them. Tunis is done!

Now back to Morocco:

I have an 86 warscore with Morocco

I want to grab Sale because I want to turn Morocco into my Tunis and grab all of the land around Portugal that’s Moroccan to prevent an obvious future expansion into Morocco from them

19 June – Sale is ours!

What can I take? 90% Score:

South of Portugal -

Figguig – 8 score, 4 badboy

Meknes – South of Portugal – 11 score, 8 badboy

Sale – Coast, south of Portugal, 11 score and 8 badboy

Those are south of Portugal – 19 badboy and 30 score

North of Portugal –

Oujda – 8 score, 4 badboy

Melilla – 9 score, 5 badboy - at this point, Morocco will join a coalition against us, but I want to keep pushing, since I want to protect future land grabs

Tetouan – Coastal – north of Portugal, 9 score, 6 badboy

Total – 56 score, 34.4 badboy, I wanna add my wartarget in Algeria, also by itself and next to those three.

Mers el Kabir – 5 each.

Peace:

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I disband my mercs, I order cores for: Figuig, Oujda, Melilla and Mers el Kabir, that exhausts my ADM power


Here’s my new stuff:

Tunis –

All four are coastal, Tunisians, and Sunni


Bizerte– 9 dev, Mosque, Drylands, Grain grown here, 0.37 made here. This was the isolated province leftover from last war.

Susa – Mosque, Drylands, 12 dev, Sugar growing, 0.49 made here, Next to the recently taken Sfax and south of Tunis.

Sfax – Sugar here too, 7 dev, Drylands, Mosque, surrounded by us and south of Susa, makes 0.30

Djerba – Island with a strait to Taotaine, Castle, Coastal Desert, natural harbor, just 3 dev, grain, makes us 0.07

Morocco:

North of Portugal –

Oujda – Next to Portugal, Wool, 7 dev, Highlands, 0.21, Berber, Sunni,

Melilla – Coastal, Next to Oujda, and Mers and Tetouan, north of Portugal, Fishing, 7 dev, Highlands, Sunni, Berber, 0.25 made here

Tetouan – Coastal – north and east of Portugal – next to Melilla – Mosque, 8 dev, Grain, Highlands, Moroccan culture. Sunni faith just 0,.06 made here

Mers el Kabir – Coastal – Cloth makers, 7 dev, Drylands, Algerian permanent claim, Mosque here, 0.06 made, Algerian Sunnis


South of Portugal -

Figuig – Between us and Portugal – Livestock, 6 dev, Highlands, Berber Sunnis make 0.17 monthly. North of Morocco. Arid

Meknes – South of Portugal – Castle, connects Figuig and Sale, north and east of Morocco, Mountains, 11 dev, cloth, Mosque, Moroccan Sunnis, 0.33 made here

Sale – Coast, south of Portugal, north of Morocco, west of Meknes – Moroccan and Sunni, Drylands, Mosque, grain growers., make 0.25 with 9 dev

Nasty grabs!

This peace ends 1496, I need some time to rebuild my manpower and finish coring Morocco and then move to Missionaries, Tunis was gone in three wars. The first they lost 10 mostly minor holdings, then their two big ones, then the last four now. We are the last central north Africa nation standing, and we are left in East after absorbing major wars with Morocco twice and Algeria, and the Mamluks our ally in the West North Africa and us are left!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-Four - The Loss of Portugal


19 June – I send 4 army units to Algoas so I can shah the natives

I use my 100 spy network that built up during the war in Morocco to claim:

Agadir – Coast
Ifni – Coast
Gharb – Coast next to Meknes and Sale

I send my extra diplomat to make nice with the Turks winning their war against the Mamluks with a +68 warscore in their favor

1 July – Pernambuco is good for growing Sugar!

I have to choose a new rival, Morocco can’t be it, I choose Austria over the Mamluks, Portugal or Castille

2 Sept – Event – Foreign Theologians Enliven Scholarship – I choose to incorporate them into our bureaucracy and get +50 ADM power which I spend to core Meknes

1 Oct- Our army lands in Algoas and I order to kill the locals

10 Oct – Done

1 Nov – Core ordered in Tetouan

14 Nov – Exploration mission finished, I have much of the American’s coast in north America. No one is there. Next is South Atlantic Sea

15 Jan, 1486 – Portugal announces us as a rival. Uh oh, that breaks our alliance.

Now it’s just me and the Mamluks and they are not in a great space in their war.

1 Feb – Core ordered for my last holding

Claim in Morocco for Taflilit, gold, next to Figuig

I pull my diplomat here and begin to build a spy network with Portugal

22 Feb – Our Conquistador passes and I hire a new one

I head inland of Algoas

I rivalize Portugal

2 June – France is entering a Golden Era

25 Aug – Dip Tech or Idea?

Exploration Idea #6 – Free Colonies - +10% Settler chance

11 Sept – Cores done in my four Tunisian grabbings. I order Missionaries to Sfax, Susa and Sizerte, these will take longer since they have higher dev

20 Dec – Cores done in Melilla, Figuig, Oujda, and Mers el Kabir

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-Five - Now in Brazil


2 Jan, 1487 – Relations maxed with Turks, next is making nice with Jolof

The Mamluks are at peace

24 Jan – Exploration mission done, next is South Atlantic coast

1 Feb -Event -Colonial Expansion – We get 200 settlers in the unclaimed land of Pambu – inland of Algoas, I order my Conquistador there to kill the natives

7 May – Meknes is a core –

7 July – Tetouan is a core!

1 Aug – Our truce with the Turks is over

I claim Portugal’s Fez

29 Aug – Exploration mission done, next is North Atlantic Sea

1 Sept – Relations maxed with Jolof, next is Fulo

6 Oct – Sale is cored! That’s the last

1 Dec – Event – Famine hits Algiers I get reductions to taxes for 5 years

14 Jan, 1488 – Venice announces us as a rival

1 Feb – Pernambuco – 14 dev, Sugar, Algerian, Ibadi, natural harbor, Drylands makes us 0.32

I order these colonists south of Algoas on the coast to 7 dev Cocoa holding Sergipe and I have my army here I order the natives killed

8 Feb – Completed

24 Feb – Event – Improvements in Government Tech – I get a bunch more ADM power.

1 Mar – I can choose my next Age of Discovery ability!

I choose Justified Wars - -10% badboy penalty – this lasts until the end of the Age.

1 May – New Idea! Expansion Idea #2 – I get another merchant which I send to collect in Brazil

1 June – Algoas is good for growing Coffee

I am making 0.58 from the new Merchant

19 Nov – Sfax converts! Next is Figuig

28 Dec – Bizarte converts! Next is Mers el Kabir

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-Six - Global Empire


1 Jan, 1489 – The 20 year Scholar Loan in the Sha’fi School finishes and I lost that Merchant

1 Feb – Max relations with Fuzo next is building a spy network in Morocco

I claim Portugal’s Ceuta

16 Mar – Susa converts and next is Melilla

1 April - Pambu is good for Sugar

16 Sept – Exploration mission finished – next is North Atlantic Coast

1 Nov – I clam Portugal’s Tangiers they renamed Tanger

3 Feb, 1490 – Sergipe gets the Marriageable Women event

1 April – Idea or Tech? Idea!

Exploration Idea #7 – Global Empire – I get +25% naval forcelimit and treasure fleet income

For finishing this I get – Can fabricate claims overseas in colonial regions and areas

Then I got the next Berber idea – Trans-Saharan trade I get +10% trade efficiency and +20% caravan power

26 April – Event – Playing the Courts – I side with the Ulemas and get +10% their estate loyalty

8 May – Exploration mission finished – next is Atlantic South America Sea

8 Aug – The Caribbean is declared the Fief of Portugal by the Pope

1 Nov – I claim Morocco’s Sauora

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-Seven - State and Religion

1 Jan, 1491 – Figuig converts! Next is Oujda

13k Rebellion in Meknes

1 Feb – Our peace treaty with Portugal is over after they broke our alliance, now we can attack each other I would win but for their allies of Castille and England so that won’t be happening soon

3 March – Mers el Kabir converts! Next is Sale

1 April – New Tech:

MIL TECH 8 - Pike and Shot – We get +0.25 infantry fire, +0.80 cavalry shock and we can build regimental camps.

3 April – We arrive in Meknes

10 April – We win

20 May – Melilla converts, next is Tetouan

1 June – Our diplomat in Portugal was discovered

Our ruler gains the Benevolent trait, which gives us -5% loyalty desire in subjects

1 Aug – Algoas – Algerian, Ibadi, Brazil, 9 dev, Coffee grown here, Drylands coast, 0.40 made here, I order these colonists to Ilhaus – two down from Sergipe, 7 dev with Cocoa, next to tribe in Bahia.

1 Sept – New Expansion Idea #3 – Faster Colonists - +20% colonial growth!

15 Sept – Natives in Ilhaus taken out

25 Sept – Exploration mission finished next is Atlantic South America Coast

In not good news Portugal is at war with Morocco, that’s not good for the home team

6 April, 1492 – We finish our Exploration Mission, next is nothing we are fully explored!

1 July – I accept a Royal Marriage offer from Jolof

1 Dec – Sergipe – 11 dev Cocoa, Drylands, Brazil, next to Bahia, Ibadi and Algerian making us 0.38. I send this colonist north of Pernambuco and up the coast to Paraiba a 7 dev Sugar province

Government Reform – Next is State and Religion

I have five choices, these are the ones I like:

Strengthen the Ulema - +1.5 Missionary strength, better Ulama relations

Curtail Clerical Privileges - -10% Admin tech costs, -10% Ulema relations

Expand Temple Rights – Mosques and upgrades give +33% taxes and -2 unrest

Pretty strong. Better missionaries, tech and make Mosques and their upgrades better.

I choose Expanded Temple Rights because I need that cash, North Africa is so poor.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-Eight- A Quiet Interlude


1 Jan, 1493 – I order a Workshop in Tunis. My first one.

New tech:

DIP TECH – 6 – Docks – I can steal maps and build docks

10 Mar – Oujda converts! Next is Meknes

10 June – The ruler of Jolof died and our RM ended

19 June – Sale converts, nothing left.

17 Aug – Tetouan converts

11 Nov, 1494 – 50 Year Review!!

[Abe Sargent]

Maps –

Here’s us –

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I have two pictures here – North Africa and a breakdown of our cash. You can see our only ally Mamluks east, and then Morocco and Portugal are at war to the west. It’s been a quiet war so for.

Here’s Colonial South America –

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We are in Brazil, Castille are in Columbia. No one else is there

I have three colonies in Brazil, two of which have colonists, the other will get finished next month

How about Europe?


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Sure thing! You got it!

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:

Army – 28k, in two armies, forcelimit is way higher at 38k but I don’t have that cash. It’s the 11th biggest army in the game. Breakdown:

16k infantry
10k cavalry
2k artillery

Navy – Just 16 ships with a forcelimit of 45.

Tech – Ours is 7/6/8 with a total of 21. That’s 3 behind the leader at 24.

Ideas – 10 – Venice has 13

Income - We make 27.65 monthly which is 13th best

Development – 345 – 10th best

Religions – Ibadi is 2 countries with 53 provinces, one is Pate, so the rest is me!

Top Ten Holdings by Tax Revenue:

1. Tunis, 20.54
2. Mitija, 13.48
3. Oran, 9.62
4. Tilimsan, 9.62
5. Mzab, 8.92
6. Susa, 7.97
7. Mers el Kabir – 7.01
8. Dahra, 6.40
9. Bizerte, 6.37
10. Meknes, 6.35

Our Top Ten Holdings by Production Revenue:

1. Tunis, 8.0
2. Pernambuco, 4.86
3. Tilimsan, 3.26
4. Mitija, 3.16
5. Alagoas, 2.99
6. Sergipe, 2.82
7. Paraiba, 2.67
8. Susa, 2.52
9. Dahra, 2.41
10. Kabylia, 2.40


Charts:

Religion –

95.9% Ibadi, 4.0% Sunni

Culture –

Tunisian – 34.5%
Berber – 23.5%
Algerian – 33.3%
Moroccan – 8.5%


Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Value:

1. Genoa – 29.74
2. Venice
3. Malacca
4. Lubeck
5. Persia
6. Rheinland
7. Wien
8. Sevilla
9. English Channel
10. Champagne, 16.80

Ours:

Tunis – 3.38


Trade Goods by Current Value:

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


The Great Powers:

1. Ming
2. Ottomans
3. France
4. Castile
5. Poland
6. Mamluks
7. Muscovy
8. Austria

Honorable Mention – England

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Twenty-Nine- Factories

Our truce with Morocco is up in Sept 96 in two years.

Portugal has been unable to grab their stuff or drop their military which is now 27k, just one thousand fewer than us. No Allies either, for now.

1 Dec – Pambu – Sugar, Dryland, internal next to Sergipe and Alagoas, Algerian, Ibadi, 7 dev makes us 0.20, and there were no colonists here and my cash/month rises to 5.31

14 Dec - Portugal claimed Figuig

1 Jan, 1495 – I get another Idea: Expansion #4 - Factories - -50% Fort Maintenance on border with Rival, and Center of Trade upgrade cost -20%.

1 Feb – I order a Workshop in Tilimsan

1 May – Do I want to accept another Royal Marriage offer from Jolof? If so I build up relations, but I cannot DOW them easily later. I accept as my ruler is getting up there, and they are allied to Songhai, a unlikely powerful West Africa Hegemon.

14 Aug – Meknes converts! Everything is converted save for Djerba the island but it has a recent conversion and is impossible to convert again for a while.

29 Sept – Event – Rains bring Fertility to Guinea area

1 Nov – Our diplomat in Portugal was discovered

14 Jan, 1496 – I arrive in the Brazilian coast of Espirito Santo and fight locals

18 Feb – I kill the natives in Sao Tome, south down the coast, I order this army back to Sale. These two can be expanded into by my colonists after finishing in Brazil while I am at war with Morocco without dispatching more troops.

23 Aug – My army arrives.

1 Sept – Truce is up.

I hire an 8k merc unit in Meknes

I am waiting for my transport fleet to head back to Dahra

10 Sept – It’s there.

I declare war for Morocco’s gold mines of Tafilalt, I do not bring in the Mamluks

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty - The Third Algiers/Morocco War

I order my 28k army from Sale into Gharb

12 Sept – Mercs arrives, I send them next door to Tadla

2 Oct – New tech:

DIP TECH 7 – Naval Ambitions – I can +115 Colonial Range, +0.30 naval morale, +10 naval engagement, i can build Impressment Offices

With the new colonial range I can send out another Explorer mission and I head to South Atlantic Sea

6 Oct – Gharb is ours I head next door to Anfa

28 Oct – Tadla is ours, next is their capital of Marrakesh

1 Nov – Anfa falls to my main army I head to Marrakesh to combine my armies in the siege

13 Nov - The siege begins with a fusillade

25 Nov – Our explorer died! I send fleet back.

14 Dec – I capture a Moroccan minor

25 Feb, 1497 – Morocco and Portugal at peace, no land exchanged, nice!

I claim Portugal’s Algarve

16 April – My fleet returns, I hire a new Explorer and head back to the South Atlantic Sea

23 April – Marrakesh falls!

25 May – I defeat 19k Moroccan troops in Demnate

I head next door to the Castle of Ouarzazete

5 June – I begin the siege with a fusillade

5 July – My cavalry capture Demnate

18 Sept - Another Minor falls.

6 Nov – Another minor is ours

27 Dec - Yet another minor falls to us

9 Jan, 1498 – We capture the Castle! I move next to our wartarget

4 Feb – New Tech!

ADMIN TECH 8 – Courthouse – we can build them and get +100 governing capacity for making things states

I can purchase another Age of Discovery ability - I choose:

Adaptive Combat Terrain – When fighting in the terrain as my capital I am much better.

27 Feb – Tafilit is ours!

18 April – Another minor falls

13 May – And another

I have a 99% warscore, what do I want?

Tafilit - 8 badboy, 9 warscore, south of Figuig

Tadla – 5 badboy and 10 score, south of Meknes

Demnate – Connects them – 4 badboy, 9 warscore

Gharb - Coast, next to Pale and Meknes – 8 badboy, 12 warscore

Sauora – Low 3 dev east of Taflilt and south of Figuig – 3 badboy and 6 warscore

That’s the most I can take before Morocco gets angry, that’s 26.8 badboy and 28 warscore

Let’s take these 5 off the map.

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I agree to the deal and then disband my 8k mercs. Cores ordered in Taftlalt and Gharb.

My stuff:

Tafilalt - South of Figuig – wartarget, Gold Mines, Mosque, 11 dev, Highlands, west of Sauora, east of Demante, north of Morocco, Arid, Emporium, Sunni and Moroccan, makes us 1.78 cash.

Tadla – South of Meknes, north and east of Morocco, north of Demnate – Copper Mines, 8 dev, Mountains, Mosque, Sunni, Moroccan, 0.34 made here

Demnate – Connects them - next to Morocco – Wool makers, 5 dev, Mountains, the great work “Ait Benhaddou”, Sunni Moroccans, just make us 0.02

Gharb - Coast, next to Pale and Meknes, north of Morocco – Natural Harbor, Grain growers, 11 dev, Drylands, Marketplace and Mosque here, Moroccan culture, Sunni faith, makes us 0.10

Sauora – Low 3 dev east of Taflilt and south of Figuig, north of Morocco – Throw in – Desert, Livestock, Arid, nothing made here, Moroccan and Sunni

Nice additions to my stuff! The gold mines and copper mines are awesome

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-One - Brazil Forms

13 May – I order 4k with my Conquistador to head back to Brazil. I’ll keep my army in Demnate

I claim:

Morocco’s

Tuat- Salt south of Sauora
Draa – Spice, next to Sauora and Tafilalt


1 July – Ilheus – Brazil, coast, Jungle, Cocoa, 10 dev, Algerian and Ibadi, it’s given too…

We have formed a colonial nation –

Algerian Brazil

They take our holdings

I send colonists to the recently vacated coastal Bahia that connects us. I’ll be Fish but 10 dev

9 Aug – I spend 26 for coring Sauora

3 Sept - The Pope has given Colombia to Castille

4 Sept – I kill the natives of Bahia

17 Sept – The colony in Bahia starts!

1 Dec – I claim Morocco’s capital of Marrakech

13 Dec – Our mission is done, next is South Atlantic Coast

1 Jan, 1499 – I order a Workshop in Dahra

1 Mar - I spend 24 to core Demnate

I order my army down to the Rio Da Plata region to grab another region’s things.

28 June – My army arrives in Rio de la Plata a COT in the La Plata region

1 July – Paraiba – Brazil, coast, Drylands, 10 dev, Sugar grown here, Algerian, Ibadi, handed to Brazil

I send them to Rio de la Plata

9 July- The Tribe moved back there, so I order them to Espirito Santo in Brazil the 6 dev Cocoa place

1 Aug – I spend 76 power to core Tadla. Now they have all started

15 Oct – Cores done in Gharb, Tafilalt and I order Missionaries to both – these will be slow

19 Oct – Explorer mission finishes – next is North Atlantic Coast

26 Nov – My colony sets up

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-Two - Allying with the Turks

1 January, 1500 – Workshop ordered for Mitijia our capital and it’s Grain

16 Jan – Sauora is cored, a Missionary is ordered here

7 Mar- I invite another Shafa’I scholar from the Mamluks and I get a 20 year Merchant which I send to collect in Brazil again.

11 April – Event – Sufi Orders Growing in Demnate – I choose to strengthen it and for ten years it gets -0.05 monthly autonomy

22 April - The tribe has moved from Rio de la Plata and I pull colonists from Bahia and send them

I collect 1.53 from Brazil

1 June – My general passes and I promote another from our ranks, a 2 star one

4 June – Royal Marriage with the Turks

9 Aug – Our diplomat in Portugal was discovered

1 Sept – Our explorer mission is finished, next is Atlantic South America C

Do I accept an alliance offer from the Turks? I do so.

6 Oct – Demnate cored! Just Tadla left! I order a state here.

11 Oct - We set up in Rio de la Plata

25 Nov – I kill the natives in Rio de la Plata

Even with my current 3rd colony I am making 1.3 cash monthly.

1 Jan, 1501 – I order a Workshop in Susa for it’s Sugar

2 Mar – Core finished in Tadla and we are all cored up!

5 Mar – Event – Marriageable Woman in Espirito Santo

5 April – New Tech –

DIP TECH 8 – Shipyards – We can build them as well as +10 trade range and +0.10 naval morale

19 Nov – Portugal claims the Tetouan holding of ours

Speaking of which I forgot to claim Morocco’s Anfa coastal next to three of my holdings

26 Dec – Explorer mission finished and next is Atlantic South America coast

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-Three - Additional Diplomats

1 Jan, 1502 – We convert Sauora next is Demnate

I order a Workshop in Kairwan for it’s Grain

1 March – Event – Growth in Port of Bahia – The COT there grows by one

I fulfill a mission –

Build Buildings – I needed 5 Workshops and Mosques – I get 50 ADM power and for 25 years we get +10% Tax Income

Next is Build a Treasury

25 Mar – We convert Tililalt and next is Tadla

I spend some DIP power to promote Moroccan to an accepted culture

1 April – Gharb converts, nothing next

Expansion Idea #5 – Additional Diplomats - I get +1 Dip Relations I can now have relations with another state like alliances and marriage without suffering penalties in my loss of DIP power

That unlocks our next Berber Idea – Corsairs - +1 annual naval tradition and +10% privateer efficiency

I have a ton of money from my promotion of Morocco so I hire a level 2 DIP advisor Navigator who gives me +20% colonial range – and I am still making cash with 5.19 spent in upkeep. I am now making 8/8/4 power monthly

16 April – I get a Royal Marriage offer from Fulo, do I take it? Sure thing

20 Oct – Explorer mission done, next is Caribbean

7 Dec – Our diplomat in Portugal was discovered

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-Four - The Founding of Colonialism in Algiers


1 Jan, 1503 - The Colonialism Institution has begun, in our area in Gharb!

Here’s what happens, here I’ll grab a screen shot:

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Wow! 100 in each Monarch power and then all of those boosts? Nasty! You also see the boost for Gharb proper.

Also see the Portugal Columbian Exchange event that just happened.

I order a Workshop in Kabylia for it’s Iron mines

8 Mar – Brazil is colonizing Rio Grande

20 April – Event – Colonial Expansion – I let Algerian Brazil expand and we lose relations with the locals

13 July – Exploration mission finished, next is Caribbean Coast

17 Oct – I join the Turks in their war against Venice

I order my army to North Africa from the Morocco border to get ready for a crossing

Oh, it looks like Morocco has joined an alliance with the Turks, so this might not be long in happening

I pull my diplomat from Portugal after claiming Jamaica and then order it to make nice with the Mamluks

7 Dec – My army arrives in our capital to play defense

New Tech:

MIL TECH 9 – Professional Officers - +0.25 tactics, +1 combat width and I can get Shamshir Infantry. I order them now before war begins and my army inland to Ouarsenis

2 Jan, 1504 – I want to order an upgraded Center of Trade in Gharb but we cannot at war, so I order a Mosque in Kairwan.

25 Jan – Demnate converts and only Tadla is left

5 Feb – Fulo is at war with Songhai, I give them military access, that’s not going to go well.

13 Mar – Exploration mission done, next is Western Indian Ocean Sea

19 June – Tadla converts and that’s the last one

1 Oct – Expansion Idea - #6 – General Colonization Law – I get another Colonist!

I send them to the African Island of Sao Tome with no natives.

15 Oct - Our general passes and I hire another this one just one star

8 Dec – Event – Merchants Suffer I spend 10 DIP power to alleviate it.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-Five - Carracks and Caravels


1 Jan, 1505 – I order a Mosque in Beefada

26 Feb – We set up in Sao Tome the Island

1 April – Esperito Santo – 10 dev, Brazilian coast, handed over, Jungle, Cocoa made here, Algerian and Ibadi

I send these colonists to Brazilian coast Sao Tome south of Esperito Santo which is given to Brazil

1 May - New Tech!

DIP TECH 9 – Carracks and Caravels – We can build those ships, and then +50 max colonial range and then we can study tech

25 May – Event – Colony in trouble – I spend cash to keep Bahia from losing colonists

1 July – Event – Qasim Benzai and his Family – I choose to put him in Brazil and gain +10% trading power there for 10 years

10 Aug – We arrive in Sao Tome in Brazil, which is next to Rio de Janeiro our next target here in Brazil

1 Nov – Rio de la Plata – 11 dev, Grain grown here, natural harbor, Algerian and Ibadi, I state it, Parana estuary, we make 0.35, Grassland, Center of Trade, La Plata colonial region,

I order these colonists to the four dev Coffee province Montevideo

1 Jan, 1506 - Naval Supplies in Sao Tome the island

I order a Mosque in Ousatineh

10 Feb – Natives killed in Montevideo, I head to Rio de Janeiro

9 Mar – Event – A Wandering Minstrel - I choose to let him play where he wants and get 50 ADM power

2 May – With a relations of 139 we are maxed with our ally Mamluks and I pull my colonist next is making nice with Castille

10 June – We set up in Montevideo

13 Aug – Natives killed in Rio de Janeiro, I head back to La Plata

11 Sept – Event – Marriageable Women in the Sao Tome Island.

8 Dec – Another Age of Discovery ability, I choose – Cavalry Armies which won’t do much with us.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-Six - Competitive Merchants


1 Jan, 1507 – I order a Mosque in Oujya

I spend 50 DIP power to invite minorities to my capital state

1 Mar - I send my La Plata Conquistador army to take out some nearby La Plata natives and then move over to Africa to help with that.

25 Mar – Exploration Done! Next is Western Indian Ocean Coast

2 April – Event – Protests in Tilimsan I agree and lose some power

23 April – Natives in Colonia killed

26 April – Portugal claim Melilla

23 May – Natives killed in Banda Oriental

5 Aug – We get the next Expansion Idea #7 – Competitive Merchants - +20% Global Trade Power – we finish and get -10% minimum autonomy in territories

Since I have finished both Expansion and Exploration I pass this policy:

Colonial Expansion - +20% settler growth and -50% native uprising chance

16 Aug – I order my 5k Conquistador army from Rio de la Plata to Benguela in Africa which has 5k natives, south of Kongo

I claim Morocco’s Island of Madeira they took from Portugal in peace

1 Dec – Relations maxed with Castille next is France

1 Jan, 1508 – Sao Tome in Brazil will make Coffee

My army has arrived in Benguela

I order a Mosque in Figuig

1 Feb – Sao Tome – African island, 8 dev, coastline, Algerian, Ibadi, making 0.08. I order these colonists to the 16 dev Center of Trade in Cape

11 Mar – Event - Disagreeing Advisor – I change my mind and agree with him and lose 10 prestige but gain 50 DIP power

1 April - Our truce with Morocco is up. I have moved my army next to them. I am still at war with Venice with the Turks, so I suspect they won’t join Morocco if I DOW them. Morocco has 11k forces so I don’t need to bring my Benguela army back.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-Seven - The Fourth Algiers/Morocco War

I DOW Morocco for the Spice province of Draa. I don’t call the Mamluks, the Turks did not join Morocco so now we are still allied with the Turks

I order my army to Draa

17 May – Draa falls, I order my army next door to the Castle of Oaurzazatete

26 May – I begin the siege with a fusillade

10 July – 1k cavalry capture the minor holding of Tuat and I order them back to the siege

12 Aug – The Protestant Reformation has begun – The Age of Discovery ends in ten years

24 Aug – Exploration Fleet done! Next is South Indian Ocean

28 Aug – I take out the natives in Benguela and pull my colonists in Sao Tome Brazil and send them over, it has a strong 10 dev and a natural harbor

18 Sept – Ouarzazatete falls!

18 Oct – I win the Battle of Sus against Morocco

16 Nov – Sus is ours

11 Dec – The Ottoman Conquest war is over and they took four holdings from Venice like Crete and Corfu, we get some power projection from beating our rival, we also got some cash

14 Dec - A minor falls in Morocco and next is their Capital Marrakesh

28 Dec – Another minor falls

2 Jan, 1509 – I hold off on building a Workshop/Mosque since I want to keep my cash free for emergency mercs.

25 Jan – Our Morocco spy was discovered

8 Feb - Another minor falls, Ifni

2 Mar – Our colony sets up in Benguela

23 August – Marrakech falls, I have a warscore of 99 let’s go shopping

Draa – Our wartarget, south of Sauora and Demnate – 12 badboy, 10 warcore

Tuiz – Inland, next to Draa, just 3 dev and don’t want to leave Draa about to be flanked – 2 badboy and 6 warscore

Madeira – I didn’t capture it, but I have a claim on it – 7 badboy, 8 warscore

21 badboy and 24 warscore -Those are my two major targets. Next is just stuff I can get before Morocco or others get upset.

What else can I toss in?

Anfa – Coastal, next to three of my holdings – 5 badboy, 9 warscore

Ouarzazate – Next to Draa, Demnate, Tafilalt, 4 badboy, 5 warscore

Anything else?

Nope, everything else pisses off Morocco


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There is what I’m taking with my 40 score and 30.9 badboy. I take them and then core – Draa – 107, Madeira – 74, Anfa - 49 and Tuat 12, I still have 46 for Ouarzazate.

My five new additions:

Draa – Our wartarget, south of Sauora and Demnate – Spice trade, 13 dev, Drylands, Emporium, next to Morocco, Moroccan and Sunni, makes us 0.68, they have built here a Mosque, Workshop and Marketplace.

Tuiz – Inland, next to Draa, just 3 dev and don’t want to leave Draa about to be flanked, next to Songhai, Desert, Salt, Arid, Tuareg culture, Sunni,. Just 0.03 made here.

Madeira – I didn’t capture it, but I have a claim on it – Island, former Portuguese colony captured by Morocco, Coastline, 9 dev, Sugar grown here, Portuguese Catholic, just 0.03 made here

Anfa – Coastal, next to three of my holdings and Morocco – Mosque here, 6 dev, Drylands, Sunni and Moroccan, 0.28 made here, Grain farmers,

Ouarzazate – Next to Draa, Demnate, Tafilalt, Morocco – Castle, Highlands. 5 dev, Berber Sunnis work the grain trade, making us 0.09 monthly,

Nice five additions!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-Eight - The Republic of Sale


23 Aug, 1509 – I’m losing money with my 5th colony, but we are about to get Bahia.

I order my main army to Draa

1 Sept – Bahia – 13 dev, Jungle, Fish, Brazil, handed to Brazil, Emporium, it has a great work called “Salvador de Bahia”, back in black after removing it from me.

12 Sept – Songhai announces us as a rival. That’s not good.

1 Dec – With 108 we finish making nice with France, next is building a spy network with Songhai

I embrace Colonialism!

I offer to share it with our eternal allies Mamluks and they accept, we’ll get 4.77 monthly until they get it.

1 Jan, 1510 – I cannot be rivals with Venice anymore, next should be Songhai but it’s not an option. I choose England.

Here’s a fun event –

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As you can see, Sale has become a pairing haven, and I can embrace Piracy and release Sale as a Pirate Republic or I can release them and vassalize them as a non-annexable March with them. I choose the latter.

They are Ibadi and add to the number of Ibadi nations

Core ordered for Ouarzazate.

I order an upgraded COT in Gharb which costs 160 cash, we get better trade +10, lower dev costs by 55 and better institution spread.

13 Mar – Event – I lose 50 MIL power

22 April – Event – Poverty in Tunis - We spend 60% taxes there for 5 years to help out and gain some power.

26 June – Event - A Talented Judge - I put him to work in Tunisia state and get some boosts.

1 July – I lose my claim on Morocco’s Agadir and Ifni

1 Oct – Uh oh. Slaves in Benguela – that could have been much better

1 Nov – Montevideo - La Plata region, Coastal, Coffee, Grasslands, 7 dev, Ibadi, Algerian, making us 0.14, I send these colonists to Colonia next door and cleansed of natives

7 Nov -Portugal has claimed Oujda

26 Dec – Draa and Anfa cores, I order Missionaries here. Those are both long, I also send a Missionary to Djerba now that their fervor has died down

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Thirty-Nine - A Great Power

1 Jan, 1511 – Cape is good for Livestock. I am going to save my cash for the Mission, I am currently making 9.2 monthly, so that’ll be a few years

I claim Morocco’s Sus next to two of my holdings

9 Mar – The Ottomans DOW the Mamluks, I pull out and stay allied my guys

We are currently 5th on the great power list by the by

Wanna see?

https://i.postimg.cc/sXydP4Wy/20230204154119-1.jpg

I got you, I am also zooming in on the cash thing for it’s breakdown. We have no penalty because we have embraced Colonialism, and only Castille has as well. We don’t have that much development, so this won’t be for long. Enjoy it!

19 April – Colonia founded

7 July – Core finished in Ouarzazate!

1 Nov – Government Reform:

This is the Administrative Cadre – who do I like? I have four options, who do I want to fill out my infrastructure – Nobles, Clergy, Merchants or Relatives?

Clergy - They get boosts and +1 free Admin Policy
Nobles – They gets boosts -10% leader cost,
Merchants - They get boosted, -10% advisor costs
Relations – That’s not good. You get corruption for an extra advisor when you got to hire

So who do I like? Clergy or Merchants? Merchants or Clergy? I like future potential of policies like the one I exacted when I finished my two Ideas, but I also like reduced costs. I choose Merchants

5 Nov – Mission of Exploration finished, Europe are not in the Indian Ocean, next is Pacific South America Sea

19 April, 1512 – Event – Mystics and Storytellers – I choose to ban and gain 10 legalism

28 May – Madeira and Tuat are cored, and that’s all of my Moroccan captures cored!

1 July – New Tech –

ADMIN TECH 9 – The Scythe – We get +2% production efficiency

29 July – Event - Influenza outbreak in Anfa, I quarantine it

1 Sept - Sao Tome - Brazilian coast, 9 dev, Jungle, handed to Algerian Brazil, Coffee, Algerian Ibadi

I pull colonists from Colonia and send them to the Desert next to Songhai Djado to set up, and then I’ll pull them and head back to Colonia to build more quickly

I now have enough cash to purchase a Manufactory, but I am saving

30 Nov – Colony set up, they head back

10 Dec – Our spy in Morocco was discovered

12 Dec – Djerba converts! Next is Tuat

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty - The Great Imam Passes

2 Jan, 1513 – At the age of 63 our ruler passes!

Our 3rd ruler in this dynasty:

Great Imam Abu Tashufin, 4/2/0, 45 years old

Consort – 23 years old, 5/5/3, Jalila

Heir – Muhammed, 2/4/1, age 0

Royal Marriage with Mamluks

22 Jan – Royal Marriage – Jolof

1 Feb – I claim Songhai’s Taudeni next to Tuat

20 Feb – Event - The Sheikh-ul-Islam – I choose the best candidate and get +5% boost to national taxes until our ruler passes

1 Mar – Anfa converts, next is Madeira which is Catholic and will take awhile

1 May – Colonia with Livestock – that was a miss

29 Aug – Draa converts! Next is the Castle of Ouarzazate

1 Sept – Cape – South Africa – This is a Center of Trade and natural harbor, 19 dev, Grasslands, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.39 with it’s Livestock!, I state it

Next is the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius – it has 9 dev and no natives

1 Dec – Our Navigator DIP tech advisor passes – is there another? Nope, I don’t hire another since I am now making 21.84 for my Mission.

1 Jan, 1514 – New Tech!

DIP TECH 10 – The Flute – We can build Flutes, War Galleys and +20 trade range and +2% trade efficacy

3 Jan – Castille is now under Papal Decree as the owner of Mexico

1 Feb – I lose my claim on Ceuta in Portugal

30 Mar – Event – Do I sell titles? If so I gain more than 500 cash and relations with merchants but lose it with the Nobility. Not normally, but since I am trying to save, I do so

24 May – I kill natives in Luanda next to Benguela

1 June – Benguela – 13 dev, Natural Harbor, Slaves, Drylands, West Central African coast south of Kongo and Luanda – Algerian and Ibadi, making us .22,

I send them to Luanda and order my army to Cape to explore.

2 July – Exploration Mission to the Pacific finished next is Pacific South America Coast, let’s see what I can find for future colonial expansion.

I claim Songhai’s Gabu next to Beefada


Songhai – allies Kanem Bornu, Jolof, Wadai, and Kano

They have 29k to our 30k and 8 MIL tech to our 9. I could call in Mamluks, call in mercs, and go to war.

Morocco’s peace is over in four years, so let’s wait until after it. I want to finish building up my cash to 2k and then I can spend it.

23 Oct – Luanda sets up

1 Nov – I lose my claim on Tangiers in Portugal

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-One - A New Rival


24 Jan, 1515 – Our diplomat spy in Morocco is discovered

2 July – Event – Advancement of the Merchants - they get 10 relations

21 July – The adjacent roving tribe in La Plata that connects my holdings called Santa Fe has pulled out and I pull my colonist from Colonia and send it over now before they return.

1 Aug – Bad news – Spain has formed and names us a rival

They stop my trade in Sevilla I send my merchant to collect in the Cape of Good Hope

25 Sept - Ouarzazate converts!

1 Oct – We have named Mauritius Dina Arobi and it’s good for Sugar

8 Nov – Exploration Mission Finishes, next is South East Pacific Sea

I see a bunch of new La Plata area to grab, I have discovered the Incas

11 Dec – Spain discovered El Dorado

1 Jan, 1516 – I pay 30 MIL power to quell a rebellion in Madeira violently

12 Jan – Santa Fe sets up

1 Mar – I have 2k cash!

I complete the Mission: Build a Treasury! I get:

-0.10 monthly inflation reduction for 25 years

My next Mission is to have TWENTY manufactories. Nasty!

Now I can spend my cash,

I order three now:

Farm Estate for Livestock in Mzab, Laghuant,Tajarhi

I’ll save the rest for my future potential war with Songhai to hire mercs

1 April – Our truce with the Turks is up

15 April – I reject a royal marriage offer from Air

22 April – Ditto Zizzau

1 May – Luanda is with Tropical Wood and Djado Slaves

2 Sept – Our alliance sharing with the Mamluks is over they have embraced it. Next? Turks

1 Nov - Tuat converts!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-Two - Quality Ideas


1 Jan, 1517 – New tech!

ADMIN TECH 10 – Modern Theocracy – We get…another Group of Idea!

What do I want?

Trade for two more Merchants and boost to trade? Admin for better Merc stuff and better states? Quality for better troops which I can get the first idea now?

I like all three, let’s do Quality

Quality Idea #1 – Private to Marshal - +10% army morale

That unlocks the next Berber Idea:

Tuareg Cavalry - +10% Cavalry combat ability; +10 looting speed

That’s a strong boost militarily

1 Feb – Colonia – La Plata, Coast, next to Montevideo and Santa Fe, 6 dev, Grasslands, Livestock, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.04

I order a Workshop in Cape for Livestock

5 July -Event – Rains Fail in Guinea Region, we lose taxes and production

14 Aug – i choose to fast in Ramadan and gain 5 legitimacy

1 Oct – Our truce with the Venice and allies is up

11 Dec – Event – Growth of Port in La Plata – it grows a level

1 Jan, 1518 – Luanda – Next to Kongo and Benguela, 9 dev, Savannah, just Tropical Wood, Algerian, Ibadi, making us 0.28.

Next is Ile de Bourbon near Mauritius in the Indian Ocean also with no native

I order Workshop in Benguela for it’s Slaves

19 Jan – Another Pirate Republic forms under my Auspices – Tetouan!

31 Jan - Portugal no longer considers us a rival. Can I swap to Songhai? Nope, I do Poland instead

23 Mar – Event- get +50 DIP power but lose 5 prestige

7 May - Madeira converts! That’s our last grab from Morocco

1 June – I claim Portugal’s Fez

Morocco’s Ifni

Songhai’s Futa Jallon

8 Sept - The Age of Discovery ends - next is The Age of Reformation and gone are all of my Age specific abilities like Justified Wars and the boosts to colonies

Our truce with Morocco is up!

I DOW them for Sus

I do not bring in Mamluks

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-Three - The Final Algiers/Morocco War


I order my 25k army into Sus from Draa

1 Oct – Dina Arobi – Algerian, Ibadi, Coastline, Sugar, 0.19, 11 dev,

I send these colonists to Banda Oriental in La Plata

21 Oct – Sus is ours

9 Nov – I rout 5k in Agadir

30 Nov – Agadir is ours

15 Dec- Ifni is ours

17 Jan, 1518 – Haha is ours, next is a siege on Marrakech

26 August – Marrakech falls!

27 Sept – A minor falls

18 Oct - Abda falls! I have a 100% warscore with Morocco!

What can I take?

To vassalize them is 77 warscore, and then I could slowly build them up into better relations like Fezzan.

That’s 52 badboy and no one not named Morocco would care.

Can I annex their 7 provinces?

Yes, I can, and it’s less badboy and no one cares


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For 72 warscore and 23 badboy I remove Morocco from the map!

Coring – Marrakech is 125, done, Sus is 102 done, 53 for Dukkala, 39 for Agadir, 26 for Abda, 22 for Haha and 12 for Ifni, all cored but I only have 66 left, all are surrounded by me.

Here we go!

Marrakech – Former capital, Castle, Barracks, Mosque, Mountains, Sugar trade,16 dev, Moroccan Sunni, makes us 0.80

Sus – War target, Highlands, Mosque, Sugar Trade, 0.64 made here, 13 dev, Sunni Berbers

Dukkala – Coastal, 6 dev, Drylands, Farm Estate, Mosque, Grain, Sunni Moroccans make us 0.32.

Agadir – Coastal – 0.22 made here Natural Harbor, Sugar trade, 9 dev, Drylands, Sunni, Berber, Mosque, Marketplace,

Abda - Coastal – Sunni, Moroccan, 3 dev, Sugar, Drylands, 0.01 made here

Haha – Coastal – Berber, Sunni, Mountains, 5 dev, grain, 0.09 made here

Ifni – Coastal – 4 dev, Coastal Desert, Fishing, Berber, Sunni, Arid, make 0.03

Nice additions

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-Four -Spain Steps In


18 Oct – I order two Manufactories: Cape, Livestock, Farm Estate and Sabha too the same

We renamed Ile de Bourbon “Dina Morgabin”

25 Oct - I order my spy network in Portugal resumed from my Moroccan one after it returns.

1 Jan, 1520 – I invite Minorites again for 50 DIP

1 Mar – I cannot Rival England anymore, my next is Spain

1 April – Sugar in Dina Morgabin

9 May – I want to get enough troops to face down Songhai In our war I order 1k artillery, 3k cavalry and 2k infantry to add to my main army.

My forcelimit is 64 to 30 current troops

1 August – Santa Fe – La Plata region, Wine, 4 dev, Grasslands connects Rio de la Plata and Colonia, Algerian, Ibadi they make for us .20. I order these colonists to African coast Inhambane next to Kilwa with a 9 dev and natural harbor in the same region as Cape

12 Aug - We kill the natives in Inhambane

1 Jan, 1521 – I order a Farm Estate Manufactory in Kasdir for Livestock

23 Feb – Cores in Marrakech, Ifni and Sus are done, Missionaries ordered here – Marrakech will be very long like 111 months long

22 April – Cores done in other four

1 May – Djado – Next to Songhai, 3 dev, Slave trading, Desert, Ibadi, Algerians, Arid, makes us 0.08 monthly

I order a fort here

I destroy my castle in Kairwan

11 June - I pull my colonists from Dina Morgabin to start one in Swellendam next to Cape with a low ferocity natives

2 Dec – Natives there killed

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-Five - Quality Education

9 Jan, 1522 - We set up in Swelledem and I pull for Dina Morgabin

2 Feb – Austria cannot be a Rival anymore, I choose France or Mamluks? Neither, one likes me and the other is our eternal ally

1 Mar – I claim Portugal’s Ceuta and Songhai’s Tenere

10 April – Quality Idea #2 - Quality Education - I get annual boosts to army and navy tradition

1 July – Knowledge Sharing with the Turks over! Anyone else? Nope.

1 Oct – Big miss in Inhambane – just Fish

1 Nov - I now have 40k troops in North Africa since Songhai has 32k

1 Jan, 1523 – I order a Farm Estate in Tatouine for Grain

10 Jan – Exploration Mission into the Pacific done -next is East China Sea coast

3 Feb - I kill 7k natives in Matsolo south of Inhambane and with 9 dev

20 Apr- Ifni coverts! Next is Abda

9 June – Songhai discovers our spy

1 July - Dina Morgabin – 11 dev, island in Indian Ocean, Sugar, Coastline, my culture and faith, makes us 0.69

Next is Matsolo

I claim Portugal’s Tangiers

29 Sept – Sus converts; next is Haha

2 Nov – Castle done in Djabo

My two armies are in Suat next to Songhai, in the western flank, I have a castle in Beefada to hold them

I hire mercs on the eastern flank behind Djabo

I DOW Songhai for Taudeni next to us on the Western flank and bring in the Mamluks

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-Six - The First Algiers/Songhai War

I order my 40k to Taudeni

1 Dec – Banda Oriental – La Plata – Wool, 3 dev, next to Montevideo, Algerian, Ibadi,

We create Algerian La Plata and hand my five holdings here. I order this colonist to the island of Mahe in the Indian ocean.

I finish the Mission to Assemble an Army and for 25 years we get +10% manpower recovery and improved army tradition

1 Jan, 1524 – Marrakech converts! Next is Dukkala

10 Jan – We capture Taudeni

13 Feb - 13k Songhai troops arrive in Beefada and begin a siege

3 May – I begin a siege in Kawar with my mercs next to Djado

30 May – They took Beefada

18 June - I begin a siege of their capital

12 July – Exploration Mission done, next is East Indian Ocean

31 July -Another alliance offer from the Turks I take it

1 Sept – The fort of Kawar falls!

12 Sept – One of my generals dies

1 Oct – We win a battle In Air against 20k with Mamluks and my mercs

21 Oct – We capture their capital of Gao!

I head to the fort of Timbuktu where one of my Pirate vassals are besieging it

8 Nov- Air falls

19 Nov – Tenere next to us falls

4 Dec – We capture the minor Karabara that connects Gao and Timbuktu

27 Dec – Another minor on the east flank falls too our mercs

31 Jan, 1525 – Another minor on the west flank is ours

1 Feb – Swellendam is good for wool

Inhambane – Natural Harbor, south of Kilwa, north of Matsolo, Jungle, 9 dev, tropical, Fishers, Ibadi and Algerian make us 0.17

I order these colonists to the Belitung Island in the Indies – they have low nasty natives.

24 Feb – Timbuktu falls! I have a warscore of 51

1 Mar – Our explorer dies on the mission and I hire another

8 April – Abda converts, next is Agadir

22 April – Two minors fall

20 May – Two more minors fall, and next is the Castle of Jenne

22 May – White peace with Jolof still likes us and with a Royal Marriage.

23 June - Another pair fell

10 Aug – Three more minors fell

26 Sept – Every eastern flank province is under our control, I disband the mercs

3 Oct – The Siege of Jenne is done!

We have a war score of 87%

What can I get?

Western Flank:

Taudeni – Wartarget, South of Tuat -2 badboy, 4 warscore

Azawad - South of Taudeni, 3 badboy, 5 warscore

Timbuktu – South of Azawad – 15 badboy, 20 warscore – That’s a big prize

Hodh - West of Timbuktu and Azawad – 4 badboy, 7 warscore

Tadmekka – East of Timbuktu, Azawad and Taudeni - 2 badboy, 5 warscore

Azawagh – East of Tadmekka, 2 and 5


Eastern Flank:

Kawar – 3 badboy and 6 warscore, South of Djado

Tenere – 2 badboy, 5 warscore, south of Djado, west of Kawar

Air – West of Tenere – 6 badboy, 9 warscore

Azbin – West of Tenere, east of Azawagh – 3 badboy and 5 warscore

That connects my takings in each flank

71 war score, badboy of 41.2 – Any other throw ins?

Damagaram – South of Kawar and Tenere – 2 badboy, 5 warscore

Here’s my takings:

https://i.imgur.com/PXq1s6i.jpg

76 war score and 43.6, I do it and core them all, none are Berber even Timbuktu is 88.

Western Flank:

Taudeni – Wartarget, South of Tuat - 3 dev, Salt, Desert, Arid, Tuareg, Sunni, make us 0.04

Azawad - South of Taudeni – Also Salt, 3 Dev, Desert, Tuareg, Sunni and arid and make us 0.04

Timbuktu – South of Azawad –The big prize – The Great Work “Sankore Madrash” Emporium, Castle, Tuareg, Sunni, 18 Dev, Steppes, Cloth trade, 0.06

Hodh - West of Timbuktu and Azawad – Wool, 5 dev, Sunni, Tuareg, Arid, Desert, 0.04 made here

Tadmekka – East of Timbuktu, Azawad and Taudeni – Desert, Arid, Wool, 3 dev, 0.02, Tuareg and Sunni

Azawagh – East of Tadmekka – Also 3 dev, Desert, Arid, Tuareg, Sunni, Livestock, nothing made here


Eastern Flank:

Kawar – South of Djado, north of what’s left of Air, - Castle, Salt, 3 dev, Desert, Arid, Sunni, Tuareg, 0.05

Tenere – South of Djado, west of Kawar – Arid, Desert, 3 dev, Livestock, Tuareg, Sunni, nothing made

Air – West of Tenere – A nice Iron Mines, Highlands, 8 dev, Sunni Tuaregs, Arid, 0.08 made here

Azbin – West of Tenere, east of Azawagh – Salt, Desert, Arid, 3 dev, Tuareg, Sunni, making us 0.05

Damagaram – South of Kawar and Tenere, also next to nation of Air and Kano – Steppes, arid, Livestock, Tuareg Sunnis with 3 dev make us 0.03

Most pretty light dev and Desert and Arid, I got one good target, again this region of Africa has low dev and mostly low trade stuff too, although Salt is now 3.30, not bad. This peace ends in 13 years in 1538 and we’ll need to be ready for the good stuff. Only three had higher than 3 dev, and one was Hodh with 5.

I might have made a mistake by not taking Songhai’s two coastal provinces to prevent Europe from coming this way and also giving me a land connection to Jolof again. Because I have white peace with Jolof I can claim their place and then attack them and likely get Songhai to agree to join them in another war in just a few years. I made the wrong call.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-Seven - Wharves


3 Oct - I order one army to hang out in Tenere and then 5k next to Beefada in the Unclaimed Sierra Leone and the rest to Timbuktu.

22 Oct – Haha Converts

1 Nov – Matsolo – Tropical Wood, that’s a miss

1 Jan, 1525 – We finish our Mission next is South China Sea Coast

12 Feb – Dukkala converts

4 Mar – We set up in Belitung

16 May – I kill the natives in Belitung

6 June – Event – Dargah remember when I posted that earlier? It happened again. I choose the one that again gives me -10% Admin tech cost.

I claim Portugal’s Bahamas

1 July – Miss in Mahe – Naval Supplies

30 Dec – Event – Monopoly Company Formed – I get a long term investment, ++50 DIP power and for ten years +15% trade income

1 Jan, 1526 – New Tech!

DIP TECH 11 – Wharves – We get another massive 100 colonial range and then we also get our next manufactory – Naval Equipment which pumps Naval Supplies, Salt, and Fish.

I order one in for Salt in Hodna

2 May – Event – Tariffs on Wine – I tax it and Algerian La Plata gets 5% of tariff value

21 May – Mission finished in South China Sea – next is East China Sea Sea

I claim Songhai’s capital Gao

1 June – New Tech Redux!

ADMIN TECH 11 – Textile Manufactory - I can build them! These are for Cloth, Silk, Wool

23 June – Agadir converts! That’s my last Moroccan conversion

26 Aug – I pull my spy builder from Portugal and send it to build one in Kongo

1 Nov – Belitung good with Coffee

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-Eight - The Algerian Golden Era Ends

1 Jan, 1527 – Mahe – 6 dev, Naval Supplies, Indian Ocean island north of Madagascar, Coastline, Algerian, Ibadi makes us 0.21

Next is Sierra Leone, south of Beefada

1 Feb – Our heir gains the Obsessive Perfectionist trait which increases build time by 10%.

28 Feb - Natives in Sierra Leone killed

31 Mar – Event – Noble Families Feud – I choose to spend 33 DIP power to settle the issue.

19 April – Sierra Leone sets up! I pull them for the island of Sula which has a big chance for Cloves past the island of Sulawesi, I order my army there from Belitung

1 July – Rebellion in our March of Tetouan.

19 July – Defeated

8 Aug – Natives in Sula killed

6 Sept – Cores finished in our claims that we took of Tenere and Taudeni – Missionaries ordered there

I promote Tuareg to an accepted culture and spend 88 DIP to do so

26 Sept – My army arrives on the Island of Buru.

1 Oct – Matsolo – South West African Coast south of Inhambane, Jungle, Tropical Wood, 9 dev, Tropical, Ibadi and Algerian makes us 0.16

I order this colonist to Buru

8 Oct – Natives there killed.

1 Nov – I lose my claim on St. Thomas

8 Dec – I claim Kongo’s Mbamba, next to Luanda

Kongo:

Allied with Bunyoro and Chockwe,

Has – 4k. Not a type, just 4k, with a Mil tech of 8 to our 9

Allies:

Bunyoro and Chokwe aren’t on my maps so I don’t see them to see how big they are. I need to keep my main army here but I could spend my Manufactory cash on mercs and take them out.

I hire the Independent Army for Luanda

31 Dec – Event - Shipwreck I lose 2544 Sailors

1 Jan, 1258 – Our peace with Jolof is over

Our Golden Era ends

5 Jan – All cores in Songhai are done, Missionary sent to Kawar

9 Jan – I DOW Kongo for Mbamba. I do not call in Mamluks who would join, or the Turks who would not.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Forty-Nine - The First Algiers/Kongo War

I order my mercs to Mbamba

23 Feb – Mbamba is ours

14 Mar – I defeat 4k in their capital of Mpemba and begin a siege

1 July – It falls!

6 Aug – Minor of Soyo is ours

1 Sept - Swellendam – Next to Cape, South African Coast – 6 dev, Steppes, Wool, Algerian, Ibadi, 0.15 made here

16 Sept – Another minor is ours

10 Oct - My Marches have arrived

31 Oct – Two minors falls

12 Dec – Two more minors are ours

23 Dec – We defeat a 6k army in Ndongo

7 Feb, 1529 – Three more minors have fallen

25 Mar – Two more captured

27 April – I begin the Siege of Nunu

29 July – Event – Urbanization – I choose to do it, gain four +1 in four places and then I spend 222 cash

24 Aug – Conversion in Taudeni and Tenere, next are Azawagh and Tadmekka

1 Sept – Belitung – Coffee, 7 dev, Island in the Indies, Coastline, Ibadi and Algerian makes us 0.26

I order these colonists to Ceram, also a high Clove chance

9 Sept – Nunu falls!

Warscore 43

7k Chokwe are next door in Munene

11 Oct - We win the battle

I head to join my March besieging Kasanje

14 Nov – Natives killed in Ceram

26 Nov – I arrive in Kasanje

23 Dec – Kawar converts, next is Azawad

1 April, 1530 – Naval Supplies in Sierra Leone

23 April – The Commonwealth announced us as ai rival

1 May – Buru Cloves, Sula just Gems

24 June - Kasanje falls! Our warscore is now 54

I keep pushing, most of what I want might be more

There is a rebellion in one of my captured Kongo places their capital I head over to take it out

6 July – Explorer Mission finished! All of the Indies and Philippines are mapped. Next is South Indian Ocean Coast

22 Aug – Rebels taken out

I claim Kongo’s Kantor next to Beefada

5 Sept – 10k Kongo forces arrive to besiege Nunu, I head over

1 Oct – Rebellion in Air – I moved my army there

9 Oct -We win in Air

12 Oct – We defeat all three nations in Nunu

Ceram sets up

I head to my Marches besieging Rund

1 Dec – I can buy my first Age of Reformation thing! This will last until it’s over. What do I want?

Religious Wars – War Score Cost vs Other Religions - -25%

Nasty!

10 Dec – We arrive in Rund

20 Feb, 1532 – Our mission in the Indian Ocean is done! I discover Australia and a 10 dev province next to tribes called Wadjuk, it’s also a natural harbor. Very aggressive natives.

Next is more Indian Ocean exploring

5 Mar – Rund is captured!

Warscore of 69%

I head to the nearby capital of Chokwe called Ishindi.

15 April – I arrive, take out a small army and begin the siege

1 June – My army arrives in Wadjuk

8 June – Natives killed, I stay here and do some exploring.

15 July – The Turks broke our alliance

10 Aug - Tadmekka and Azawagh converts, next are Damagaram and Azbin

19 Aug – Ishindi falls and I have a warscore of 81. I disband my mercs

Time for peace?

What can I get?

Mbamba – Wartarget, Up the Coast from Luanda – 6 badboy, 3 warscore

Soyo – Up the coast from Mbamba – 14 badboy and 9 warscore

Ngoyo – Up the coast from Soyo – 12 badboy, 8 warscore

Loango – Up the coast from Ngoyo – 13 badboy, 7 warscore

That’s all I can get without annoying Kongo. They have one more coastal province that I’d like to bring in, but it would annoy them. Let’s do it I want to make Kongo un takeable from Europe:

Mayumba – Up the coast from Loango – 8 badboy, 6 warscore –

Here’s what I am taking –

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

Nice! I spend around 165 coring them.

Ready?

Mbamba – Wartarget, Up the Coast from Luanda – Kongolese culture, Fetishist faith, 5 dev, Savannah, Tropical, Slaves, 0.06 made here.

Soyo – Up the coast from Mbamba – Shipyard, Tropical, Mosque, 11 dev, Grasslands, Slave trad,e, Kongolese and Fetishist, .10 here

Ngoyo – Up the coast from Soyo – Tropical, Jungle, Ivory trade, Marketplace, Shipyard, 9 dev, Fetishist Kongolese make us 0.11

Loango – Up the coast from Ngoyo – Gems here, 10 dev, Jungle, Tropical, Mosque, 0.11 made here, Kongolese, Fetishist

Mayumba – Up the coast from Loango – Catholic and Kongolese, Jungle, Tropical, Ivory trade, 6 dev, 0.03, next to unclaimed Gabon.

All nice and everything worth at least 3.0 trade good, and better dev, but all Tropical and three Jungles, harder to develop and build the wrong culture and then fun stuff.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty - Kongo Area Army Built


l order a 10k army in Luanda and Benguela, this peace is over in 1541.

17 Sept – I claim Kongo’s Anziku a Copper Mine in their north

14 Dec – Conversion in Azawad – next is Hodh

17 Dec – Our mission in the Indian is finished, next is South China Sea Sea

1 Jan, 1533 – I order a Textile Manufactory for Tunis’s Cloth

1 Mar – Rebellion in Timbuktu, I’m next door in Azawad

29 Mar – Defeated

1 Dec – Cloves in Ceram

24 Dec – Mission done, next is South China Sea Coast

1 Jan, 1534 – I claim Kongo’s capital for future wars

1 Feb – I claim Songhai’s Karabara

18 Sept – With Sula almost ready to get upped, I pull colonists and send to Ambon a strait island to Ceram with a high Clove count

24 Sept -Mission done, next is East China Sea Coast

1 Dec – Army is built in Kongo with 6k inf, 3k cav, 1k artillery

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-One - Cloves Built Up

1 Jan, 1535 – I order a Textile Manufactory for Cloth in Oran

New Idea – Quality Idea #3 - Finest of Heroes - +10% Cavalry ability

1 Feb –

Buru – Cloves, 6 dev, Island, Coastline, Tropical, I state it and Sula, 0.34 made here, Algerian, Ibadi,

Sula – Gems which are just worth 3.0 now, Algerian, Ibadi, Island, 5 dev, makes us 0.16, Tropical,

I order the other colonists to the high Clove possible Halmahera

My Conquistador explored much of Australia, next is coming back to Ambon and Halmahera to clear out natives.

28 April – Natives in Ambon killed

23 June – Natives in Halmahera killed.

Now this has a strait crossing to two separate nations – Tidore and Ternate, each one province with Cloves. So using this as a jumping off point to grab two more Cloves makes sense. They each have 5k army. Ternate doesn’t have any allies. I cannot DOW them with a CB, which is given for being next to them so I have to wait until the colony starts and then after it finishes, but I’ll keep my army here. We have 9 MIL tech to their 9, so we’ll need a bigger army.

25 July – Event - Cottage Industry – I protect my merchants and get better relations with them.

1 Aug – I need to increase my MIL investment I hire a Level 2 Military Advisor Master Recruiter who gives me +10% manpower and he costs me 4.16 monthly, that’s pretty cheap I also hire an Admin Advisor level 1 Inquisitor that gives me +2 Missionary strength for just 0.89. Nasty cheap. I am now making 11/8/5.

2 Sept – I claim Kongo’s Copper Mining Mpangu

24 Oct – Cores finished in Kongo.

23 Nov – We set up colony in Ambon

1 Jan, 1536 - Conversion in Azbin and Damagaram, next is Air and Mbamba

I order Textile Manducatory in Meknes for Cloth

Portugal have set up in La Plata and France has a colony in Brazil

1 April – Ceram – Strait to Ambon, Cloves, Island, Coastline, 9 dev, Algerian Ibadis, make us 0.51 monthly

I send these colonists to Gabon

6 May – Hodh converts! Next is Timbuktu which will take a while

19 May – Exploration mission East China Sea Coast finished, next is South West Pacific Sea

24 May – Event – Influenza out break in Beafada I quarantine it

8 July – I kill the natives in Gabon

23 Aug - Gabon set up, I pull and send to East Timor in the Indies

25 Sept – Natives killed in East Timor

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-Two - The Great Imam Passes


1 Jan, 1537 – New tech!

ADMIN TECH 12 – Early Modern Administration - +100 governing capacity for states, I can build State Houses

I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Qafsah

I turn Kongo into states

Pate is still around and Kilwa is becoming the big bad like in both of my previous destines when they took me out as Butua and grabbed the entire region with Theodoro.

I show you maps in seven years for the 100th Anniversary and we’ll see what’s where

I promote Kongolese to an accepted Culture for 88 DIP

Now they are accepted Culturally and soon will be my faith

1 May – Sierra Leone – 3 Dev, next to Beefada, coastal, next to unclaimed Karou, Naval Supplies, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.09

That was my free colony that was replaced by Gabon

29 May – La Plata is given to Portugal by the Pope

1 July – Ambon has Cloves!

1 Aug – After breaking our alliance, the treaty with the Turks ends

Halmahera with Cloves!

1 Oct – Our DIP Navigator passes, next is Colonial Governor with +2 that costs 4.10 and increases my Tariffs’ by 10%.

8 Oct – Mbamba converts and next is Soyo

1 Dec – Our Great Imam passes

Our new leader and 3rd one:

Great Imam Muhammad II, 2/4/1, age 24

Consort:

Hikmat – age 23, 4/5/3

Heir:

Muhammed III, age 0, 1/3/6 wow that’s a horrible ADM

Our new tech gains are 9/9/6

Royal Marriage - Mamluks

1 Jan, 1538 – Since our peace with Kongo is up this year I don’t build anything to save cash for emergency mercs, I’ll save my cash to hire mercs on the Guinea front.

7 Jan – Air converts, next is Mayumba

Royal Marriage – Jolof

22 Jan – I get the Sheikh event again, choose the same and get -10 ADM tech costs

1 April – New Tech!

DIP TECH 12 – Man of War – Naval Morale +0.40, Naval engagement +15

11 April – Event – Plague

I hire the Grand Company Mercs in Sierra Leone, number 25k

22 April – They have arrived

1 July – Our truce is up!

Songhai – 28k

I have 30k in Beafada and 35k in the north. I call War for Gabu between Beafada and Jolof

I call in the Mamluks

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-Three - The Second Algiers/Songhai War - The Jolof Flank

I order my 30k into Gabu
I order 35k into Gao

16 July – The Siege of Gao begins

25 Aug – Gagu is mine I head next door to Jolof

1 Sept – I see 16k in Futa Jallon combined Jolof and Songhai so I pull my Guinea army to head there

27 Sept - I see 19k more Songhai troops in Kantor next to us in Beafada so I stay here and order Mercs in Sierra to up the numbers, and then after battle I’ll dismiss them, that’s 36k for them to my current
30k.

I hire the 12k strong Dahomey Amazons and 12k strong Free Company

9 Oct – The Mercs arrive

11 Oct - They are in Gabu recapturing it

I need to wait until my mercs get better so I’ll let them do so

11 Nov – They capture it

22 Nov - 3k Kanem Bornu troops arrive in Kawar and begin a siege but that’s not enough.

1 Jan, 1539 – I order my combined troops from Beafada to Gabu

22 Jan – Soyo converts, next is Ngoyo

25 Jan – We win in Gabu but we took big losses

31 Jan – Exploration mission to the South west Pacific Sea done, next is Coast there

1 Mar – Gabu is mine

I disband the Amazons and move to Jolof

10 Mar – A minor falls to my vassals

31 Mar – Gao falls! Next is the Castle of Jenne

10 April – I capture a minor in Jolof, next is their capital of Wolof

21 April – The Siege of Wolof begins with a fusillade

22 May – I do not tax Sugar in Brazil.

28 May – We arrive at Jenne

1 June – Mayumba converts! Next is Loango

3 Aug – Peru was given to Spain by the Pope

1 Oct – Gabon is with Tropical Wood

11 Oct – Wolof falls, I head to the last Jolof province of Cayor

9 Nov – Songhai separatist rebellions are in three places near Jolof and one is in Gabu

20 Nov – Cayor is ours, I have every Jolof province, can I get a vassalization?

Annexing them is 30.6 badboy, and then the vassal is more at 37.5,

I annex them:

https://i.imgur.com/iK3AYwE.jpg

30.6 badboy and 55 warscore and no one cares coalition wise

I order them cored for 146 - now I need to deal with the mass rebels here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-Four - The Second Algiers/Songhai War - The Songhai Flank


I head to Gabu.

28 Nov - 30k Songhai are fighting rebels in Beafada

3 Dec – Gabu captured by rebels

25 Dec – 14k rebels cross to Wolof

27 Dec - We capture Jenne, I order my 35k here on the Guinean Flank

The Mamluks and our vassal have captured much of Eastern Songhai

We have a warscore of 69

28 Dec – We win in Gabu

1 Feb, 1540 – East Timor has Chinaware

2 Feb – We release the siege in Beafada

9 Mar – Two minors fall

15 Mar – Gabu is ours, I head next to Kangor and it’s 14k rebels

24 April – Two minors are ours and we win in Kangor

20 May – Kantor is ours

4 June – Futa Jallon next to Beafada is ours

I dismiss the Free Company

27 June – Another mission in the Pacific is done, next is North West Pacific Sea

21 July – Two more minors fall to us

I dismiss the Grand Company and then send my 5k army to the other Songhai coastal holding north of Jolof’s old places

1 Sept – Halmahera – Cloves, Algerian, Ibadi, next to Ternate and Tidore, Coastline, 0.24 made here,

Ternate still no ally but they have 8k troops now, so I order 5k here.

I order these Colonists to West Timor and order my army there while rebuilding

16 Sept – Another minor falls

17 Oct – The coastal province of Trarza falls, and I have a warscore of 95, what can I get:

I mostly want the wealthier things in Guinea


Gabu - Wartarget, Coastal, Connects Beafada with Siine – 6 badboy, 5 score

Trarza – Coastal, north of Cayor which we took, cuts off Songhai’s navy – 3 badboy and 4 war score

Now the two near Beafada that are strong:

Kantor -Next to Beafada, inland of Gabu - 2 badboy, 4 warscore,

No one cares, now taking the next one will annoy Songhai

Futa Jallon – 6 each, and Songhai cares, and I don’t want to push them into a coalition with Kongo with our war with them.

What could I do Songhai and no one else in this war?

Let’s push Songhai out of the battle even if they join a coalition.

I take those four, what else?

Here’s a Theoretical peace offer where I just clicked on provinces and haven’t pulled them up taking all of Western Songhai:

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

Here that’s an 87 warscore and 78.4 badboy and not even Kongo cares, but anything more brings in the locals. That’s a lot of time integrating my stuff with a ton of things, and I haven’t even looked at most of them, but this would remove Songhai as a threat.

Let’s do it!

The biggest to core is Bambuk at 72, I do it. I have two in the 50s, Messina and Segu I do, I also do a bunch of cheaper ones. Every 30+ is cored, and several smaller save for about 7 that all have small cores.

Get ready for a long list! Let’s start with Jolof:

Siine – Coastal, Workshop, Slaves, Savannah, 6 dev, Fetishist and Senegambian, makes us 0.08, Arid

Wolof- Former Capital of Jolof, Castle, Arid, 13 dev, Savannah, Fetishist and Senegambian, Mosque, Workshop, Slave trade makes 0.22

Cayor – North of Wolof, Coastal – Senegal Estuary, Arid, Savannah, Marketplace, Workshop, 8 dev, 0.11, Slaves, Fetishist and Senegambian


Songhai:

Gabu - Coastal - Rich Ivory trade, Tropical, Natural Harbor, Savannah, Senegambian and Fetishist, 8 dex, 0.08 made here

Trarza - North of Cayor, Coastal, Coastal Desert, 3 dev, Salt, Arid, Sunni, Senegambian, makes 0.02

Kantor – Ivory trade here, 3 dev, Savanah Fetishist, Senegambian, 0.06, Ttropical

Futa Jallon – West of Wagadugu’s gold mines in Bure, Ivory here, 8 dev, Hills, Fullani culture, Fetishist faith, 0.07 made here

Bambuk - North of Futa Jallon, west of Wagadugu - Gold mines, 14 dev, 14 dev, 0.98 made here, Savannah, Tropical, Sunni, Sonike culture

Galam – North west of Bambuk, east of our takings in Jolof – Arid, 7 dev, Wool, Savannah, Sunni and Fulani, 0.10 made here

Tekrur - North of Galam, east of Jolof, Also a Wool Savannah with 7 dev and Arid and Fulani, but Fetishist faith making us 0.11

Brakna – North of Teknar, east of Trarza – 3 dev Arid Desert with Livestock and Fulani Fetishist making 0.02

Tagant - East of Brakna, NE of Tekrur – Desert, Arid Slaves, Fulani and Fetishist, making 0.03

Wagadu – South of Tagant, north of Wagadugu, east of Bambak and Galam – Wool, Savannah, 5 dev, 0.06, Fetishist, Sonike culture,

Termes – North of Wagadu, east of Tagant – Arid Steppes, 3 dev, Livestock, Sonike Fetishists make us 0.01

Baghena – East of Termes, NE of Wagadu, SW of Hodh from last war – Steppes, 5 dev, Wool, Sonike Sunni, 0.06 cash made

Segu - South of Baghena, north of the nation of Wagadugu, east of Wagadu, Grain farmers, Savannah, 10 dev, Arid, Bambara Fetishists make us 0.13

Massina – Northeast of Segu, south of Baghena, Emporium, Savannah, 11 Dev, Arid, Bambara Sunni, 0.08 made here in grain

Mema – NE of Messina, south of Hodh and Timbuktu, Bambara Sunnis, 6 dev, Steppes, Grain, Arid, they make us 0.08

Again another giant intake of low dev stuff, this is this region of Africa, with more wealthier things by the coast and Jolof with three Ivory, three Slaves and one Salt. This will take a while to Core, Missionary, etc, with 18 new additions.

Nasty stuff!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-Five - Now a Majils


22 Oct - Natives dead in West Timor

1 Nov – Ambon – Ibadi, Algerian, Island, strait to Ceram, Cloves, 12 dev, 1.50 made here,

I order this colonist to Flores an island with a strait from East Timor.

I cannot Rival Songhai anymore, who’s next? Austria

1 Dec – Loango converts!

30 Dec – Natives in Flores killed, I order my army back to Halmahera

1 Jan, 1541 – Truce with Kongo and allies up but I’m too overextended to worry about that now

Core ordered for Baghena for 25

1 Feb – I claim Songhai’s massive holding Jenne and Kongo’s Ndongo

12 Feb – My army is back on Halmahera

1 April – I core Wagadu for 25

1 June – I spend 15 to core Tagant

1 July - East Timor – Chinaware, next to West Timor, Strait to Flores, 9 dev, Grasslands, Tropical, Ibadi and Algerian, making us 0.25, I state Timor it

I order these colonists to Sumbawa a strait from Flores

1 Aug – 15 ADM core cost for Brakna paid

1 Sept – A new Government Reform is passable

This is what I want my Deliberative Assembly to look like:

There are six options become a Theocracy, Republic, or:

Parliamentarianism - -1% unrest, no more Nobility estate,

Royal Decree – This increases my Absolutist max and annual gain which is used in the next Age. m

Aristocratic Court - +1 Dip Reputation, lower loss of army tradition annual

General Estates - +10% Monthly State Reform, +10% loyalty to all estates, +5% influence to them

I don’t see the Decree or swapping government type. I like all three, the bonus DIP when you are Ibadi? The bonus estates loyalty and influence, and the reduced unrest with my massive military gains. I choose Parliamentarianism. We call it the Majlis.


I start a debate in Parliament to get another Colonist for ten years.

Majils seats get these boosts:

+10% production
+10% taxes
+10% manpower
+5% sailors

Has to be a core and a state


I turn these into seats:

Mzab, Mitija, Tripoli, Tunis, Melilla, Mers el Kabir, Dahra, Marrakech, Gharb, Tafilalt, Draa

11 an odd number

1 Oct – 15 dev Core for Termes

1 Nov – 13 dev ADM for Cantor

I need 18 seats, so I also add these 8 to get to 19:

Cape, Ceram, Ambon, Dina Morgabin (Ile de Bourbon) and Dina Arobi (Mauritius), Inhambane, Kabylia and Sus

2 Dec – I kill the natives in Sumbawa, I head next to a strait to Lombok

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-Six - The War for Ternate

1 Jan, 1542 – Core ordered for Trarza at 15 and everything is now ordered!

9 Jan – Natives in Lombok killed. I send this army back Halmahera

I order a Textile Manufactory in Thuqat for Cloth

2 Mar – I pull my Kongo spy builder and order it to Wagadugu

31 July – Sumbawa sets up

I spend 50 MIL to claim a Holy War on all adject provinces

1 Aug – Ternate still doesn’t have an ally, they have 8k to our 11k. I DOW them


I order my 11k army into Ternate

19 Aug – We win and I chase them back to Halmahera

27 Aug – We rout them. I head back to their capital

21 Dec – Cores finished in the three Jolof holdings, I order Missionaries to Siine and Cayor

19 April, 1543 – Ternate falls.

Here is peace:

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

21.3 badboy, only Songhai cares. I keep my army here. Core is triple digits.

Ternate – Strait to Halmahera, Animist faith, Moluccan culture, 15 dev, Cloves, with Shipyard, Workshop and Mosque, tropical, Coastline, make 1.21 monthly, and once it’s built up with a Trade Station Manufactory? Nasty

Tidore here on the area next to Halmahera is allied to the minor Bone, I’d need a bigger army or mercs.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-Seven - Shaf'i Scholar Invited

19 April – I order a Textile Manufactory for Mers el Kabir’s Cloth

1 May – Our Military Advisor Master recruiter passes, next is Commandant, level 2, +5% military morale, costs us 5.81

Rebellion of 12k in Wolof where I have a 15k army

17 May – We win but lost 4k, that was rough

2 June – Event – Profiteering in Ben Jawad – I protect our trade against Genoa, their view of me drops 50 but we get better trade for 10 years

I lose my claim on Fez

1 Aug – A big miss, Tropical Wood in the Spice Island of Flores

19 Aug – Gabu and Futa Jallon are now cored

17 Sept – After more than a decade Timbuktu converts! Next is Wolof in former Jolof.

1 Nov – West Timor is good for Gems, but those are only 3.0 now, not that great

12k Rebellion in Messina, 25k is next door in Mema ordered over

24 Nov – Taken out

1 Dec - I lose our visiting Merchant from the Scholar.

I order a diplomat to make nice with Malacca in the Indies that has really expanded and Mamluks to get another Merchant.

20 Dec – Cores done in Bambuk, Segu, Tekrur, Mema and Galam

1 Jan, 1544 – Sumbawa is good for Tea.

13 Jan – Massina core done

19 Jan – Event – Merchants Suffering – I spend 33 DIP to alleviate it

2 Feb – Baghena core complete

1 Mar – Our relations with Mamluks is at 151 so it’s enough for another Shafi’i Scholar I bring in and send to collect in Rio de la Plata.

1 May – I am making 2.42 from Merchant

10 May – Core finished in Wagadu

16 May – Event – Tradition or Haram – I respect their practices and we +1% Missionary strength and +1.5% Tolerance of Heathens for 20 years

30 May – Oyo at war, I accept peace

16 June – Event – Colony Growth in West Timor by 200 after I spend cash

5 July – Kantor and Tagant are cored

5 Sept – Brakna is done as well

1 Oct – Gabon – Next to Mayumba to the south and north is the unclaimed Cameroon with just 3 dev, Coastal, Ibadi, Algerian, 5 dev, Tropical Wood, 0.05,

That was our extra colony building up slowly without a leader. I pull colonists from our miss in Flores and send to Lombok, strait to Bali and Sumbawa

I have enough MIL for the next Quality idea but I am also close to the next tech, I hold off since I need 432 for the next one.

2 Oct – Termes’s core is finished

16 Oct – NW Pacific Sea Exploration Mission Finished, next is Coasts there

12 Nov, 1544 - The 100 Year Review!

[JonInMiddleGA]

sidenote: You inspired me to fire up EU IV for the first time in ... a long time.

My inspiration lasted all of about an hour. It's a fantastic game in theory for me, I simply cannot play the $%@#$ thing worth the slightest damn.

Respect for your mastery, I may actually be as close to your polar opposite in ability as someone could be lol.

Carry on, just thought I'd share :)

[Abe Sargent]

MAPS!


Let’s start with North Africa:

https://i.ibb.co/xzVnTVr/20230205170704-1.jpg

This is our main area, with our cash broken down as well. In the last 50 years I’ve finished Morocco, won two wars against Songhai, one against Kongo, and colonized everywhere. The Mamluks remain a power and you can see the much smaller Songhai.

Lower Africa:

https://i.ibb.co/w0tq9ZT/20230205171437-1.jpg

You can see Kongo still a power, and Kilwa has grown into the former Mutapa, Butua, and much of the island of Madagascar. I really haven’t damage Kongo much and without a navy for upkeep they have a much bigger army. You can see my four holdings in Southern Africa, and this place has mostly 3-4 devs without chances at good things like Ivory or Slavs, but instead things like Grain, Livestock and Fishing. Therefore I just grabbed those four and slipped into the three Indian Ocean’s much better Islands

My hope is that I’ll do my Kongo war here in a few since it took me a while to build my stuff from my massive takings, but now I just have one Songhai core left plus Ternate.

Now South America:

https://i.ibb.co/vcrQ0H6/20230205172203-1.jpg

This shows you our colonies in Brazil and La Plata as well as France next to our colonial nation in Brazilian and our La Plata nation next to Portugal. You can see Spain in New Granada in the north and in the Andes as well.

We aren’t in North America and the Caribbean so I’ll skip,

Here’s the Indies:

https://i.ibb.co/86YVyvC/20230205172713-1.jpg

As you can see, Malacca has expanded most of the valuable Islands are ours but many high dev parts of Islands like Sulawesi and Borneo are available, as are two colonies with low dev but a good chance of Spices to the west of Malacca. We have every Clove holding g other than Tidore, and every colony that could be a Clove is ours, and all but one worked, but it’s more than 50% chance.

Europe:

https://i.ibb.co/gThvx2x/20230205173118-1.jpg


I don’t know what’s happening in the north and haven’t bothered exploring since I don’t want to waste time in an Expedition or two.

[Abe Sargent]

sidenote: You inspired me to fire up EU IV for the first time in ... a long time.

My inspiration lasted all of about an hour. It's a fantastic game in theory for me, I simply cannot play the $%@#$ thing worth the slightest damn.

Respect for your mastery, I may actually be as close to your polar opposite in ability as someone could be lol.

Carry on, just thought I'd share :)

Thanks for sharing!!

[Abe Sargent]

The Ledger


Army - I have 61k troops and a forcelimit of 89k so I could get much bigger. We have:

35k infantry, 18k calvary, 8k artillery

We are fourth best, top is Spain with 129k.

Our Eternal Ally – Mamluks – 45k in 10th.

Our Colonies have 18k total


Navy – I just have 16 ships:

5 Heavies
3 Lights
3 Galleys
5 Transports

I have my non-transports as my Explorer and we have a forcelimit of 84 and we could get loads more vessels.


Techs – We have 12/12/9 - for a total of 33. The most is 36 with 5 nations.

Ideas – A ton of folks have 21 we have just 17.

Income - With 104.89 we are 6th most cash, The Ottomans are 1st with 155.21

We have 13 Manufactories for our 20 needed for our Missions.

Development – 862 – 4th, the Turks are also top here with 1331

Max Manpower – 64.28k and we are 5th, the top is 151.14k the Turks

We are the only Great Imamate

We have the 7th best score

Religions – Ibadi is in 6 nations us, our two colonies, our two Pirate vassals, and Pate has made it 100 years! We have 130 Ibadi provinces out there.


Our Top Ten Provinces by Tax Revenue:

1. Tunis, 28.90
2. Marrakech, 16.84
3. Cape, 15.73
4. Mzab, 14.78
5. Gharb, 14.78
6. Mitija, 14.26
7. Oran, 14.26
8. Kairwan, 14.26
9. Sus, 13.73
10. Tafilalt, 13.14

Our Top Ten Provinces by Production:

1. Tafilalt, 43.20 – Gold
2. Tunis, 28.94 – Cloth
3. Cape – 16.47 – Livestock
4. Ambon, 15.04 – Cloves
5. Tilimsan, 12.19 – Cloth
6. Bambuk, 12.00 – Gold
7. Ternate – 11.59 – Cloves
8. Meknes, 11.22 – Cloth
9. Oran, 9.97 – Cloth
10. Qafsah. 9.58 – Salt

Note that without a core or state,Ternate is already making that cash. The other ones have Manufactories. Now, what if I pull my two Gold and Cloves?


Our Top Ten Non-Gold or Clove Provinces by Production:

1. Tunis, 28.94 – Cloth
2. Cape – 16.47 – Livestock
3. Tilimsan, 12.19 – Cloth
4. Meknes, 11.22 – Cloth
5. Oran, 9.97 – Cloth
6. Qafsah. 9.58 – Salt
7. Draa, 9.22 – Spices
8. Susa, 8.13 -Sugar
9. Mzab, 7.83 – Livestock
10. Hodna, 7.18 – Salt

Nice! Ceram would be 8 but has Cloves.

I have 116 provinces! Most are pretty poor

We have no inflation

Charts:

Religion:

Ibadi – 83.6%
Fetishist – 10.3%
Sunni – 5.1%
Animist -1.0%

Cultures:

Algerian – 34.8%
Berber – 17.6%
Kongolese – 5.9%
Moroccan – 17.7%
Tuareg – 5.7%
Tunisian – 17.3%


Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Traded:

1. Sevilla, 52.08
2. Venice
3. Caribbean
4. Genoa
5. English Channel
6. Wien
7. Constantinople
8. Krakow
9. Persia
10. Malacca, 23.19


Ours:

Brazil – 8.13
Cape – 2.09
Tunis – 6.83
Rio de la Plata -
Timbuktu – 9.85
Safi – 6.69

Trade Goods by Current Value -

8.0 - Cloves
4.50 - Copper, Coffee
4.37 – Paper
4.0 – Dyes, Silk, Ivory, Cocoa
3.60 – Cloths
3.30 – Salt
3.0 – Gems, Glass, Tobacco, Sugar, Cotton, Spices, Chinaware, Slaves, Iron
2.70 – Fur
2.50 - Livestock, Wine, Tea
2.12 - Incense
2.0 – Grain, Fish, Naval Supplies, Tropical Wood, Wool

How much Wool, Fish, Grain or Livestock are in my region?

Which are we the production leader in?

Cloves obviously

Nothing else

There are no coalitions against me

Great Powers:

1. Spain
2. Ottomans
3. France
4. Algiers
5. Commonwealth
6. Austria
7. Mamluks
8. England


Good stuff!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-Eight - The Reiter Discovered



1 Jan, 1545 - I do not spend my cash for a Manufactory, saving it for mercs against Kongo.

6 Jan – Trarza is cored!

1 Feb – New Tech!

MIL TECH 10 – Reiter - We get +25% maneuver and then we get better cannons and cavalry called ”Qizilbash Cavalry” I upgrade both

1 April – I can get another Age of Reformation ability! I choose:

Institutional Spread - +10% in my Ibadi provinces.

Military look, armies:

Kongo – 12k
Bunyoro – 12k
Chokwe – 7k

31k total

I have a 10k army on the coast to protect against Rebels and keep us save from a Kongo attack so it makes sense to attack Kongo now with mercs and my army at 10 MIL to their 9 with upgraded cannon and cavalry.

I hire a 37k merc unit called the Independent Army in Soyo

13 April – They arrive. I am still making cash, but I spent a few hundred on them

I DOW Kongo’s Copper Mine of Anziku

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Fifty-Nine - The Second Algiers/Kongo War

I order my army into their capital of Mpempa

2 May - We begin the Siege

14 June – Siine converted! Next is Tagant

4 July – Event -Colonial Disaster – I spend 50 DIP to prevent a -200 hit

1 Aug – Cayor converts! Next is Kantor

West Timor – Gems, Grasslands, 10 dev, next to East Timor, Ibadi, Algerian, makes us 0.38

I send these colonists to the Spice Island of Yamdena with 9 dev in the Timor State that I already made. I order my army from Ternate there to take out the natives.

17 Sept – Mpempa is ours, there is an 11k army next door in Mbata I head to

10 Oct – We win the Battle of Mbata. I head to the Fort of Kasanje.

15 Nov – We arrive and begin a siege.

21 Dec – Ternate is cored!

24 Dec – We kill the natives in Yamdena

2 Jan, 1546 – 7k Chokwe forces have arrived to siege us in Imhambane’s Castle next to Kilwa, I pay for a small merc force next door in Matsolo, I hire the 12k Free Company.

12 Jan – They arrive and now I am losing cash so this needs to be quick

1 Feb – With a 102 I have maxed relations with Malacca, I pull my diplomat

1 Mar – 10k rebellion in Futa Jallon, I have 15k two over in Galam I send over

10 April - We win in Futa Jallon – I lost 3.4k

23 April – After my mercs built up morale a few months I order them to Inhambane

7 May – Kasanje falls! I have a war score of 30%. I head nearby to the capital of Chokwe Ishindi.

28 May – We win in Inhambane and I dismiss the mercs

3 June - Exploration Mission in the NW Pacific Coast finished! Next is NE Pacific Sea

16 June – We begin the siege of Ishindi

1 July – Sumbawa – Strait to Lombok and Flores, Grasslands, Tea, Tropical Island, Ibadi, Algerian, makes us .15 from 8 dev

I send them to the island of Sunda to the south of this.

4 July – Wuluf converts! Next is the big one – Ternante

12 Aug - 14k Kongo troops arrive to recapture our wartarget in Anziku

1 Sept – Our ADM advisor Inquisitor dies that gave us the awesome +2 Missionary strength. I hire level 1 Natural Scientist that gives us +10% production.

5 Sept – They recapture Anziku

1 Oct – Flores – Tropical Wood, Timor State connects with straits to Timor and Sumbawa, 11 dev, Ibadi, Algerian, 0.39 made here.

That was our free colony, so I pull colonist from Lombok and send them to the Sulawesi holding of Manado with 10 dev

12 Oct – Kongo has begun to siege their capital again

1 Dec – Ishindi falls, I order my army to Mpempa

1 Mar, 1547 – With a relations of 179 we max with the Mamluks I pull my diplomat

I lose my claim on Ceuta

18 Mar – We win in Mpampa and we have a warscore of 36%, next is the Castle of Rund two away from Ishindi.

22 Mar – I send my Mamluk diplomat to build a spy network in Portugal.

I order 1k soldiers in Loango to capture minors while I am dealing with the Siege

19 May – It’s built.

5 July – Anziko is ours

18 Aug – Mpangu is ours

5 Sept – Rund falls, we have a warscore of 50%

Next is the Fort of Kusu near the eastern border

Before I do that 6k Chokwe troops are in their other holding, I head over to take them out

3 Oct – A minor falls

15 Oct – I rout the army in Chokwe and move to the Fort

29 Oct – Another minor falls

24 Nov – Another minor

13 Jan, 1548 – I now have every holding in Kongo next to me

1 Feb – We kill the natives in Manado.

3 Feb – Tagrant is converted, next is Termes, which will take forever

8 Feb – Our siege in Kusu begins

5 Mar – A minor falls

3 April – Event – Military Research - I get100 MIL power after investing in the army

8 May – Minor ours

26 May – Kusu is ours! I have a warscore of 68%, what can I get?

There are three I have claims on I like loads.

Here we go:

Songhai will get upset at anything

Anziku – Wartarget, inland next to Ngoyo and Loando - 8 badboy,4 warscore

Mpangu – South of Anziku, East of us in Ngoyo, Soyo – 9 badboy and 6 warscore

Move down three to:

Ndongo – Inland, east of us in Luanda – 9 badboy, 7 warscore

My key three targets are 17 score and 25 badboy and only Songhai cares. Now any thing else we can take without annoying Kongo is gravy

Songo - East of Anzkiu and Mpangu – 6 badboy, 5 warscore

Mbwilla – Inland, south of their capital, north of Ndongo, east of us in Loanda and Mbamba, 6 score and badboy, and that’s it I cannot get anything else.

https://i.ibb.co/TcwbX0k/20230205201618-1.jpg

Total is 37.6 badboy and 28 score. Peace with 5, four have strong trade goods. I spend 177 coring them, I disband my mercs.

Anziku – Wartarget, inland next to Ngoyo and Loando - Copper Mines, 6 dev, Tropical, Jungle, Kongolese, Fetishist, 0.21 made here

Mpangu – South of Anziku, East of us in Ngoyo, Soyo – Copper here too – also 6 dev, Grasslands, Kongolese and Fetishist, making us 0.21, Tropical

Ndongo – Inland, east of us in Luanda – Emporium, Tropical, Highlands, 7 dev, Slaves, Fetishist faith bur Mbunbu culture, makes us 0.17

Songo - East of Anzkiu and Mpangu – Spices traded here, Tropical Jungle, 4 dev, Kongolese Fetishist, makes us 0.11

Mbwilla – Inland, south of their capital, north of Ndongo, east of us in Loanda and Mbamba – Grain, Grasslands, 5 dev, Mbundu Fetishists, 0.11

Nice five additions with Spices, two Copper, one Slave and an Emporium Center of Trade

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty - Allying Malacca

26 May - I order a claim for Kongo’s Kasanje Castle next to me

29 June – Ternate converts, next is Brakna

1 Aug – I lose my claim on Portugal’s Tangiers and then claim it again.

Tidore is at war.

1 Oct – Lombok is with Spices

There is a level 1 Inquisitor appearing in the Admin advisor and I hire him

15 Nov -Another 6 transports in the Indies arrive and will join our 5 transports here for my 11k army

I need to get Tidore now before they lose their war, they have 8k in their colony in Manokwari I order my 11k next to it.

1 Jan, 1549 – I order Farm Estate in Dahra for Grain.

1 Feb - I again have enough MIL For their 4th Quality idea but the next tech is just 462

6 March – My 11k is in Fak-Fak, now I need my navy back to get my army across the strait

1 April – Rebellion in Segu

13 April – No longer

1 May – Sumba has Incense

1 June – Yamdena with Spices

24 June – Kantor converts! Next is Wagadu

1 July – New Tech!

MIL TECH 11 - Matchlock Musket – I get 2 combat width, +0.50 cavalry fire, +0.20 infantry shock and I can build a Weapons Manufactory

And…

DIP TECH 13 – Chartered Companies - +2% Trade efficiency and then we get to build a Brig ship

24 July - Tidore’s army arrives back home

1 Aug – Royal Marriage with Malacca – I only have four relations and I can have 5, so I added one

26 Aug – Bali have insulted us.

1 Nov – Manado is good for growing Coffee

1 Dec – Alliance offer from Malacca - do I want it? They have: 19k troops, and the 4th biggest fleet at 67 ships, they would be a great regional ally. I accept

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-One - Fleet Upgraded

1 Jan, 1550 – The Printing Press Institution has arrived

New tech!

ADMIN TECH 13 – Improved Drainage - +2% Production Efficiency

I order:

Weapons Manufactory for Iron in Kabylia

3 April – Event – Embarrassing Relative- - lose 5 prestige

20 May – I order a fleet in the Indies that can beat Tidore

They have 4 Lights and I order 5 Heavy Carracks and 8 Light Caravels

28 July – Anziku and Mpangu are done with cores

1 Aug – I claim Portugal’s Fez and Kongo’s Matamba
 
31 Oct – Songo cored

5 Dec - I order my Conquistador back to Sulawesi to clear out some natives.

1 Jan, 1551 – No buildings this year since I spent my cash on ships

23 Jan – We get there and I order my force west to future areas to clear out for future colonial efforts

1 Feb – Termes converts, next is Anziku

Our MIL Advisor Commandant, the new one is another level 2 Commandant

16 Feb – I kill the natives in Gorontalo next to Manado

1 Mar - Sumba - Island, south of our areas, Coastline, 6 dev, Ibadi, Algerian, Incense, Tropical, makes 0.09.

I order these colonists to Gorontalo

8k Rebellion in Galam where I have a 15k army

14 Mar – We win

25 Mar – Natives in Palu next to Gorontalo are killed

28 Mar - Mbwila and Ndongo cored, all are done!

Brakna converted, next is Mpangu

22 April – Natives in Poso killed next to Palu

I head back

31 May – Exploration mission done, I order upgrades

1 July – I lose my claim on the Bahamas

Once my Exploration navy finishes the upgrade we should be able to take out Tidore

14 August - I combine my 11 brigs and my upgraded exploration fleet so they cannot take out the coney one

19 Sept – Europe is at war with West African powers

I offer military access to everyone at war in the Portuguese Conquest of Dahomey – them, Oyo, Wagadugu and Kanu.

1 Jan, 1552 – I hold off and don’t order anything in case of the war for Tidore needs some help

1 Feb – Yamdena – Spices, Timor State, 10 dev, Ibadi, Algerians, Coastline, make us 0.79

I order these colonists to Palu

1 Mar – I launch my fleet.

I declare war on Tidore for Tidore. I don’t call Malacca

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-Two - The Algerian War for Tidore


I order 11k into Manokwari from Fak-Fak which is no longer a colony but full province where their 8k are, they have colonizing Poso that I cleared.

12 Mar – I win a naval battle in the Halmahera Sea

25 Mar – Wagadu converts, next is Ndongo

19 Apr – We win a battle in Manokwari and I order my army to leave and chase them down

14 July – Manokwari is ours

1 Aug - They capture Gorontalo

8 Sept- We arrive in Tidore and kill a small army here

10 Oct – Anziku converts! Next is Mbwila

1 Dec – Manado – Sulawesi – Coffee, 10 dev, Coastline, 0.26 made here, next to Gorontalo, Ibadi and Algerian, I order these colonists to Sulawesi’s Kendari

1 Feb, 1553 – Tidore Falls! I have a 100% warscore

I take the colony and both holdings:

https://i.ibb.co/7gh1z7h/20230206000001-1.jpg


For 32.2 bad boy and only Songhai cared. I spend 152 Adm power to core:

Tidore - The big one, Cloves, 16 dev, Animist, Shipyard, Regimental Camp, Workshop, strait to Halmahera, Molaccan culture, Tropical makes 0.18

Manokweri – 3 dev, Papua, Spices, Tropical, Jungle, Animist, Papuan, 0.05 here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-Three - Incorporating Tidore


1 Feb – I split my navies back and order my army to Kendari and my colonist back to Gorontalo

What’s happening with the massive Portugal and West Africa war? Portugal is losing by 7

My navy is built in the Indies, I combine it in Ceram

4 Feb – Explorer Mission to North East Pacific Coast

1 Mar – I give my 13 ship fleet to a Admiral I just hired and hand it a Protect Trade mission in Cape where they can be close.

13 Mar – I order Weapons Manufactory in Tadla for Copper.

11 April – Natives in Kendari in Sulawesi Isle are cleared out. It’s also next to one province Buton allied with two province Luwu both on Sulawesi which I could bring in Militarily.

This may happen soon, and Buton is strait away so I stop my fleet going to Cape which would only make me .37 more in trade and head back home, Here’s why this is fast:

Luwu normally would have 4, Malacca took 2 and their peace is in three years in 1556. So if I want to pull this prior to Malacca gobbling them I need to DOW them prior to that peace ending. They have two Spices and one Iron, all highly valuable things.

Buton – 2k Army
Luwu – None right now

My 5k great ships and 8k lights are more than Buton’s 3 Galleys and Luwu’s 3 heavies and 4 gallies

1 May – I claim Kongo’s Malem and Portugal’s Ceuta

I pull my spy network from Portugal and keep it back for the soon to be war in Sulawesi since I might need two with the Dip delays being month’s long

2 May – Our fleet has arrived, I spend 50 MIL to claim Holy War on all adjacent provinces. This will give me claims on both Luwu holdings next to me.

3 May – I DOW Luwu for Kolanka and I cannot call in Malacca

Buton joins

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-Four - The Algerian War for Kolanka and Buton

I sent my 11k to Buton since they are the only one with an army

15 May – I win a Naval Battle against Luwu

29 May – Butoni Army defeated, siege begins

1 Aug - Poso is a miss with Naval Supplies

29 Aug – Ndongo converts! Next is Futa Jallon

24 Oct – Buton falls, I order my army to Luwu’s Kolanka

31 Oct – I defeat the Buton fleet that fled their harbor and captured four – two transports and two galleys

1 Dec – Lombok – Strait to the nation of Bali and us at Sumbawa, Algerian, Ibadi, Grasslands, 6 dev, makes us 0.07

I take Buton in a separate peace deal:

https://i.ibb.co/7GYcgCS/20230206074923-1.jpg

For 14.5 badboy, and I spend 31 to core it

26 Dec – Kendari sets up

13 Jan, 1554 – Kolanka is ours

3 Feb - I arrive at Palopo the capital of Luwu but this has a Castle in it and will take longer than a usual siege. I order 1k artillery in Manado to head over after getting built

I also order my 4 captured ships to port since they need repairs

20 Feb - I begin to build a spy network with Bone, south of Luwu

27 April – Event – Warriors do not Read Books - I get +10% Admin and Dip tech costs for 5 years

30 May – Artillery built I order it over

1 July – Gorontalo is good for Spices, much better than Poso

1 Aug – Peace with Songhai and her allies is up

12 Aug – Cannon arrives – I order a fusillade

14 Sept – Kongo finds our spy network

1 Oct – Palu is with Incense

17 Dec – Palopo falls and I have a 100% warscore, I don’t wait to fight their navy, let’s take this now

https://i.ibb.co/QFk7Bhz/20230206080634-1.jpg

Only next door two provinces Bone and Songhai care. 21.6 badboy. I spend 32 for Kolanka and 35 for Palopo.

Buton – Island chain with strait crossing to Kendari, 6 dev, Spices, they have built Dock and Workshop, Sulawesi culture, Animist faith, Coastline, tropical, 0.06 made here

Kolanka – Also Sulawesi and Animist, next to Kendari, Poso and Palopo, Coastline, 7 dev, Spices, Workshop, Mosque, Shipyard, Jungle, 0.13 made here

Palopo – North of Malacca, Bone, open space in Mamuju, Hills, Iron mine, Sulawesi Animist 7 dev, Castle, Mosque, Workshop, make us .11.

Nice!

Now, back to Africa

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-Five - Now an Empire


17 Dec – I leave behind my army to help rebels there

My ships I took are healed, and I order my two captured transports to join my fleet and then my captured galleys to join my fleet and then I order my fleet to rebuild

1 Jan, 1655 - I order Farm Estate for Metija’s Grain

I can now claim an Empire! Let’s do it!

Here are the benefits:

I get all Maghreb cultures accepted
Our governing capacity increases and I can make more states
Better absolutism for the next age

Right now there are there just 8 other empires beside us like Ming and Inca and Turks, Austria, France, Ethiopia, Japan and Songhai

I turn these to states:

Niger Bend – Timbuktu and Mema

Jolof – Wolof, Trarza, Siine, Cayor

Futa Jallon – Gabu, Futa Jallon, Kantor

North Sulawesi – Manado, Gorontalo, Pasu, Poso, Mamuju after colonized

How’s our war in West Africa with Europe? They are losing -16

4 Mar – What I want to do now is finish in my 4 colonies on Sulawesi and then colonize the rest of the west African coast starting near African nations in order to stop that from happening again.

25 April – Exploration mission finished, next is South East Pacific Sea

1 May – Kendari good for Incense

1 July - Benguela was given a seat in Parliament

I claim Bone’s Waju

22 July – Mbwilla converted! Next is Gabu

1 Aug – Revolt in Mpangu

I order my army in

4 Sept – They capture it

5 Oct – Tidore is a core!

10 Oct – Rebels defeated

11 Nov - It’s ours again!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-Six - Getting Ready for War

1 Jan, 1656 – It looks like Portugal is now at peace and lost her colony on the West African Shore to Dahomey, this happened with Morocco’s war when they couldn’t cross us to attack and built up warscore over time.

I need another seat in Majils so I promote Ternate

I upgrade my captured navy for 44

I order:

Farm Estate for Kairwan’s Grain

I have 545 left for mercs for my soon to be 3rd War with Songhai, I move my army near it:

Songhai – 15k

16 Jan – Tekrur converts – next is Tidore

5 Feb – Core done in Manokwari!

17 Feb – Futa Jallon converts – next is Manokwari

28 Feb – Event – Rigorous Researchers - +40 in each power

1 Mar – Parliament has passed ”Charter Colonies” for ten years, +1 colonist and +20 Settler Increase. I send these to Whydah next to Dahomey and Benin on the West Coast, I order my Kongo army over to clear out the locals

29 Mar – My armies are in place around Songhai.

I DOW for Songhai’s Iron Mines of Bendugu, I do not call in Mamluks

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-Seven - The Third Algiers/Songhai War


I order 25k into their capital of Gao and 15k into Bendugu

1 April – Our truce with Kongo ends

14 April – We begin the siege of Gao

23 May – Bendugu falls

12 June – 15k Songhai troops are besieging us in Djado

6 July – Another minor falls to our 15k army, next is the Castle of Jenne

27 July – Gao falls and I order my army to Djado

28 Aug – Looks like Jenne is no longer a Castle and we capture it

12 Oct – A minor falls

1 Nov – We win in Djado and relieve the siege

12 Nov – Another minor falls as my Colonial Nations and Pirate Marches are here capturing things

25 Nov – All of western Songhai left from our two wars is ours, and I have a warscore of 57, let’s keep pushing.

5 Dec – Buton is now a core!

1 Jan, 1557 – Poso – 10 dev, Naval Supplies, Sulawesi Island, Animist, Malaccan, Coastline, makes us 0.20, Tropical

Kendari – Sulawesi island, Grasslands, 12 dev, Ibadi faith, Algerian culture, Tropical, Incense, 0.19 made here

I order the colonists to Ivory Coast each of Portugal’s old holding in Dahomey

4 Jan – Natives killed in Whydah

Denmark is colonizing Grain Coast

1 Feb – We gain the Trading in Cloves effect and we get +5% trade efficiency

28 Feb – Natives killed in Ivory Coast

1 Mar – Palu – Natural Harbor, Sulawesi island, Coastline, Incense, 8 dev, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.32.

I order these colonists east of Benin on the coast of Bonny

23 Mar – All Songhai holdings are ours with an 88%

What can I get?

West Songhai -

Bendugu – Wartarget, 4 score, 6 badboy

Gwiriko – South of Bendugu – 5 score, 3 badboy

Jenne – North of Gwiriko and next to Bendugu – 22 score, 21 badboy – that’s a big one

Kala – North of Jenne, 7 score, 8 badboy,

Sah – North of Kala, 8 each

Karabara – East of Sah, 9 badboy, 8 warscore

That’s all of West Songhai left with 53 score and 55 badboy.

Can I nab anything on the east end?

East Songhai -

Itesan – 4 badboy, 6 warscore

Ader – West of Itesan, 4 badboy, 5 warscore

Gobir – South of Itesan and Ader – 7 badboy, 8 warscore

That’s it!

https://i.ibb.co/XJv1fqK/20230211133105-1.jpg

Only Songhai and Bone care! 72 score and 70.4 badboy! Peace! Coring costs 366 ADM with 98 to Jenne

West Songhai -

All are next to Wagadugu

Bendugu – Wartarget, Iron Mines, Bozo Culture, Fetishist Faith, 7 dev, Savannah, tropical, 0.08

Gwiriko – South of Bendugu – Tropical, 3 dev, Grain, Savannah, makes us 0.02, Dyala Fetishists.

Jenne – North of Gwiriko and next to Bendugu – Our key addition – Emporium, Arid, Mosque, has great project named “Great Mosque of Djenne” 22 dev, Cloth, Sunni, Bozo , 0.39 made here

Kala – North of Jenne, Arid, Fishing Marsh with 9 dev, Bozo Fetishists make 0.22

Sah – North of Kala, Marsh, Arid, Bambara culture, Fetishist faith, 8 dev, grain growers, make us 0.08

Karabara – East of Sah, 0.16 made here, Steppes, 8 dev, Fishing, Arid, Songhai culture, Sunni faith, next to Songhai’s capital of Gao.

East Songhai -

Itesan – North of the nation of Kano, the accepted Tuareg culture, Sunni faith, Livestock, 5 dev, Steppes, Arid, makes us 0.14

Ader – West of Itesan, next to Songhai, Sunni, Tuareg, 5 dev, Steppes, Livestock, Arid, 0.02

Gobir – South of Itesan and Ader – Next to Songhai, the nation of Kano and Zazzou – Arid, Iron Working, Savannah, 9 dev, Sunni and Hausa, Arid, 0.07

Jenne is awesome and two Iron provinces are nice too.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-Eight - A Busy 3/4s of a Year


23 Mar – I order my 25k army to Ader and my 15k to Jenne

I purchase another Manufactory this time a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Inhambane’s Fish

This truce expires in 12 years in July 1569, hopefully Songhai will still be okay then

1 April – Gorontalo – Sulawesi Island, Spices, 5 dev, Coastline, 0.29. Algerian and Ibadi. I send this colonist to a East of Bonny Calabar, my non-colonist holding is gone, I pull my Whydah colonists and send them to South Africa’s

Actually Spain is in South Africa’s Xhosa and Delagoa Bay, that’s not good.

I send them to Mtetwa south of Matsolo – I need to colonize next to Kilwa to prevent Spain coming north, I order my army from the Indies to Matsolo to take out natives locally

27 May – Gabu converts, next is Poso

5 June – Natives killed in Bonny

12 June – Tidore converts! Next is Buton

1 July – Our truce with Bone is up

Our DIP Trader Advisor passes, I hire level 2 Navigator that gives us +20% colonial range

10 Aug – Natives in Calabar killed

18 Aug – Cores finished in Palopo and Kolaka in Sulawesi Island

I claim Bone’s Bone

20 Sept – Manokwari converts next is Palopo

6 Oct – Our Explorer passes, I hire another

20 Dec – Natives in Mtetwa are killed

Denmark is colonizing Karou next to us and Grain Coast on the West African Coast

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Sixty-Nine - Corvettes Discovered


1 Jan, 1558 – I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Sat in Tuat.

1 April – Fish in Ivory Coast, I pull them and send them to Cameroon which connects my Kongo places with Calabar and Bonny

6 April – Natives in Cameroon killed, I order my army back south to Kongo

1 June – New Idea – Quality Idea #4 – Corvettes – I get +5% Ship Durability and we unlocked another Berber Idea:

Dual Diplomacy - +1 Dip relations

1 July – Another Age of Reformation Ability can be purchased.

Mercs - +5% Mercenary discipline

24 July – My troops arrive on the Kongo border


Kongo: 12k
Bunyoro – 13k
Kazembe – 9k

With the 12 on the border plus another Merc unit I could wage war plus have my 13k in South Africa as a reserve.

6 Aug- Poso converts, next is Kolaka

1 Sept – Whydah with Fish, our Conquistador passes, and I hire another, just level 1

1 Jan, 1559 – I don’t order a Manufactory since I am saving for a future war with Kongo

1 Feb – Bonny is a great place for Dyes!

18 Feb – Buton converts, next is Trarza

1 Mar – Calabar just Fish

26 Mar – Ader and Itesan’s cores are finished

1 April - I have to have another seat, I promote Tidore

1 June –

I declare the third war for Kongo for their minor holding of Mbata behind their capital and connects our holdings

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy - The Third Algiers/Kongo War

I don’t call in my allies, I order my 12k to Mbata and I hire the 27k Grand Company in Soyo.

8 June – Palopo converts, next is Ader

14 June – The mercs arrive and I order them to Kongo’s capital

19 June – Event – A New Settlement, +100 people in Cameroon

1 July – 13k Rebellion in Bambuk, I have 15k nearby

Mtetwa good for Slaves

21 July – Mbata is ours and I order this 12k army to the capital siege

2 Aug – Rebels capture Bambuk

19 Aug – We capture their capital, next is the Castle of Kasanje

I hire a 1k cavalry army built in my colony near Kongo to capture small stuff

I have a warscore of 32%

1 Sept – Naval Supplies in Cameroon

17 Sept – We barely defeat the rebels in Bambuk

29 Sept – The Siege of Kasanje begins

18 Oct – We retook Bambuk

29 Oct- Explorer finishes, next is Pacific South America coast

18 Nov –my 1k army is created, but Kongo has 17k plus 9k from their ally near the border so I won’t move out

25 Nov – Cores finished in Jenne, Bendugu, Sah, Kala and Karabara

26 Mar, 1560 – Cores finished in Gwariko and Gobir, everything is ours!

1 April – Rebellion in Ader, where my 25k army is

9 April – Kasenje is ours, we have a warscore of 44% I try to chase down their army

23 April – Kolaka converts, next is Itesan

20 May – We rout a 14k army in Shinje

16 June – Shinje ours, next is the Castle of Rund

Actually I have a warscore of 53 and normally they won’t let me take too much without joining a coalition. What can I get now?

I can get their valuable capital and two minor holdings before they get annoyed.

https://i.ibb.co/LN3P0NG/20230211151838-1.jpg


Here are the three I am taking for a 30 warscore and 33.6 badboy – I do it and pay 79 for their capital and then 34 for the other two. I disband my mercs

Mpempa – Former capital, next us, Iron mining, Grasslands, Trade emporium, Tropical, 18 dev, the accepted Kongolese culture with a Catholic faith, has the great work “M’banza-Kongo” they have built here Barracks, Mosque, Marketplace, making 0.38

Mbata – Inland of Mpempa, next to Kongo, Also Grasslands, Grain, Kongolese culture and fetishist faith, 5 dev, tropical, makes 0.14

Malem – Throw in, Slave trading, next to Kongo and us, south of the area, north of a wasteland called the Kalahari Desert, 0.07 made here, Highlands, 3 dev, Fetishist faith and Mbangala culture, tropical


One great addition and two throw ins, one with a strong trade good at 3.0

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-One - The Great Imam Dies

16 June - I order my 12k army to Mpempa and then my 1k to join them

This peace ends in 8 years in 1568 since it was a low warscore

I have claims on all 4 adjacent Kongo holdings so I pull my diplomat and send to Wagadugu

Wagadugu allied with Zazzou, Dahomey, Oyo and Dagbon

Zazzou – 4k
Dahomey – 4k
Oyo – 5k
Dagbon – 4k

They have 17k themselves plus allies, they have Dyes, Ivory, Spices, and Gold, in West Africa.

17 Aug – Our High Imam has passed!

Our next ruler is

Muhammed III, 23, not married

1/3/6, very different militarily, his dad was a DIP specialist if you’ll recall, right now we are making 8/8/11 investment monthly.

I need to get him a consort. I offer a RM to Mamluks, no new Consort

4 Sept – The Turks accept, our new Consort is Nurbanu, a 2/5/3 Age 18

Another Royal Marriage with Malacca

1 Oct – I get the event for choosing our Sheik and choose the most qualified for another -10% Admin tech costs

1 Nov – Our Inquisitor Adviser passes and I hire another but just level 1

Both Spain colonies in South Africa are done but she is not here any more

1 Jan, 1561 - I don’t order a Manufactory since I might go to war with Wagadugu

I finish the Mission to Build 20 Manufactories, I get for 25 years +10% production and 2252 cash, next is Imperial Conquest

I spend 1k to build in Tunis the great work “Holy City of Kairouan” which when built gives me +0.5 Tolerance of the True Faith and +33% institution spread and boosts to monthly piety

1 Feb, I DOW for Wagadugu’s Gold Mining of Bure and do call in Mamluks

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-Two - The First Algerian/Wagadugu War

I order 15k from Futa Jallon to Bure
25k into Haayre

I hire 40k Independent Army for 950 for a cost of 20 monthly to Gwikio

My mercs arrive and I order them to the capital

7 Mar – Ader converts, next is Gwiriko

16 Mar – Two minors fall

21 Mar- We arrive in Wagadugu and being the siege

1 April – Calabar -Jungle, 3 dev, Natural Harbor, tropical, next to Cameroon and Bonny, Fish, Algerian Ibadi make us 0.04, I send these colonists to South Africa’s Natal, connecting us in Mtetwa and Spain on the coast.

A minor army begins in Gobir

I pull my 25k army to head over and take it out, but we won’t arrive until it’s taken

7 Apr – explorer done, next is American east Coast Sea

1 May – Gobir falls

8 May – New Heir Ibrahim is born with very even 4/4/4 stats

18 May - Itesan falls

7 June – We arrive in Gobir

24 June _ They capture another of mine

27 June - We capture three of theirs

7 July – We recapture Gobir

9 July – Our mercs capture Wagadugu I order them to our holdings to help against their combined 23k army

1 Aug – Another minor fall to us on the west flank

Bonny - Between Calabar and Benin, Dyes, 4 dev, Jungle, tropical, 4 dev, Algerian, Ibadi. 0.04 made here.

I order these colonists to South Africa’s holding of Lesser Namaqualand coastal, next to Cape

20 Aug – We retake Itesan

The Mamluks arrive on the flank and we join them heading to Azbin where their 23k are

21 Sept – We win the Battle of Azbin and order the mercs to the capital of Zazzau next to us which has a Castle so it’ll be slower

1 Oct – Mtetwa – South Africa, south of Matsolo, Slave, Jungle, 3 dev, Ibadi Algerians making us 0.03

I send these colonists inland to Highveld inland of this, Natal and Spain

4k are in Bonny I order my Kongo army over

9 Oct – Another minor falls to me

23 Oct – We recapture Azbin I order my 25k to join the siege in Zazzau

31 Oct – Bonny falls

1 Nov – New Tech:

DIP TECH – The Gallelas – I can build that ship and Trade Station a Manufactory for traded goods like Ivory, Slaves, Incense and Spices

16 Nov – Calabar falls

19 Nov – Another minor falls to my 15k

25 Dec – Trarza converts next is Mema

1 Jan, 1562 – Another minor falls to my 15k

4 Jan – The Mamluks win a big military battle

10 Feb – Another manor falls to my 15k

1 Mar – I retake Calabar with my Kongo army

26 Mar – Another minor falls to me

7 April – Bonny is ours again

18 April – The capital of Zazzau is ours!

I have a warscore of 80%, What can I get?


Let’s start with the wealthy West Africa:

Bure – Gold Mine, wartarget, - SW Corner, 7 score, 15 badboy

Do – North of Bure, SE Corner, 10 badboy, 8 score

I cannot do too much, just the five West provinces are 54 badboy and 40 warscore and they annoy Kongom, Songhai, and Wagadugu too

But I can do four, but not the middle one:

https://i.ibb.co/NntChvw/20230211165019-1.jpg

Just those four for 27 score and 33.7 badboy. I do it and spend 129 to core them with my ADM power.

Ready?

Bure – Gold Mine, wartarget, - SW Corner, tropical, Mosque here, Hills, 14 dev, Mali people, Fetishist faith, 1.16 made here

Do – North of Bure, NW Corner, - Livestock, Mosque, 9 dev, Savannah, Mali, Fetishists, 0.16 made here, tropical,

Bagoe – SE Corner, south of Sibiridugu – Dyes made here, Textile Manufactory, Mosque, 3 dev, Savannah, Dyoda Fetishists making us 0.46

Sibiridugu – NE Corner, Spice trade, 5 dev, Tropical, Fetishist Mali, 0.05 made here, Tropical Savannah

Three great trade goods and a throw in Livestock. Not as big as I was hoping

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-Three - Three Colonies Finished

18 April, 1562 – I order my 15k army to Bure and my 25k army to Jenne and I disband my mercs.

1 May – Ivory Coast – 4 dev, Algerian Ibadi, Fish, Jungle, tropical, makes us 0.02, next to Denmark and Dahomey

I spend 1k and order the upgrade of my Great Work in Timbuktu which when built will give me +15% Institution Spread and better relations with my Ulema estate.

4 May – Event – I lose 50 ADM power

I finish the Mission to Establish an Empire for 25 years we get -5 Separatism from my vassals and colonial nations

9 June – Portugal again announce us as a rival

18 June – Mpempa and Mbata are cored!

30 June – Itesan converts, next is Mpempa

8 July – Exploration mission done, next is American East Coast Coast

1 Aug – Stability rises back to +3

1 Sept – Cameroon – Naval Supplies – 4 deev, Jungle, Tropical, connects Calabar with Gabon and Kongo, Ibadi, Algerian, 0.07 made here

I order these colonists inland in South Africa to Great Karoo, which connects us in Highveld with us in Cape and Swellendam and is inland of Spain, we have now taken every coastal and inland holding here in South Africa, leaving just more inland holdings. We’ll move on now. I order my Indies army from South Africa to Sulawesi

7 Sept – Natives in Great Karoo killed

1 Dec – New tech:

MIL TECH – 12 – Spanish Square – I get new infantry called Muslim Musketeer I upgrade to, and I get +0/25 tactics

1 Jan, 1563 – Wagadugu at war with Benin I give them access

I order a Trade Station Manufactory for Ceram’s Cloves and Ambon’s too

16 Feb – Our army arrives back on Sulawesi

19 Feb – Malem now a core, all Kongo ones are ours now

1 April – Whydah – Our free colony is now built – Between Dahomey and Benin, coast, Jungle, tropical, 3 dev, fishers, Ibadi, Algerian make us 0.02

I pull my colonists from Natal and send to the island of Sulawesi’s unclaimed Mamuju

21 April – Explorer to American east coast finishes, next is SE Pacific Sea Sea

Everything in the East Coast from Mexico, Florida to Canada is taken. I cannot get to the unclaimed California since my range isn’t good enough, so I might want to grab a random colony on South America west coast to get me there or the Pacific islands

Spain is in the Comoros Islands between Madagascar and the mainland.

I need to next grab the minor islands on the Indies heading in with 3 dev, like the four holdings in Andamans, Christmas Island and Nias and Mentawai and Bengkulu on the main island facing the Indian

1 June – Lesser Namaqualand with Livestock

13 June – Event - Marriageable Women in Lesser Namaqualand

22 Aug – Natives killed in Mamuju

1 Sept – I spend 80 DIP to promote Moloccan to my accepted Culture list, I have three slots left

1 Nov – Highveld is with Gems!

I pull colonists from the meaningless Lesser Namaqualand to head to Bengkulu next to Malacca on the Ajeh island facing the Indian. I don’t want Europe there making war with everyone next to it.

I order my army over from Sulawesi Island

29 Nov – Wagadugu captured us building up a spy network

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-Four - Two Fast Years


1 Jan, 1564 – Natal also with the Gems! It had a good shot at Gold too

I order a Trade Station for Cloves in Buru

31 Jan – Natives killed in Bengkulu

1 Mar - Our Shalaf’I Scholar leaves.

I make nice with the Mamluks to get another

20 May - We set up in Mamuju

1 Aug – Great Karoo? Great for grains. Boring

6 Sept – They discover our spy in Songhai

11 Nov – Mpempa converts, next is Bendugu

I begin to get ready for my war against Bone in Sulawesi.

I combine my navies so that we’ll be able to move around in the Flores Sea.

Navy –

Bone – 3 heavies, 3 lights, 3 galleys

Their allies:

Brunei – 1 Light, 20 Galleys

Kutai – 1 light, 9 Galleys


My main navy – 5 heavies, 9 lights, 2 Gallies, but the Flores Sea is good for Galleys, so we need to up that navy here In order to win. I got enough for Bone, and one for Kutai, but Brunei might win and then all three combined are nasty. Our ally is:

Malacca – 5/17/27 so they should be able to defeat any of them, but my issue with calling them is that they have 28k troops here on Sulawesi Island next to Bone they could grab and then win or I couldn’t take. All I could probably get is next door Wajo and then they’d take the capital of Bone, which is a much better holding, but they are at war right now, so we need to grab this

Actually Malacca are now allied with Bone so we’ll just let them go.

1 Jan,1565 – I order for Cloves a Trade Station in Halmahera

Rebellion in Kala, my army is next door in Jenne

21 Jan - Cores done in all four provinces taken in my Wagadugu war.

25 Jan – Rebels defeated

1 Mar – I spend 50 MIL to claim more stuff for Holy War

29 Mar – Mema converts! Next is Bagoe

12 April – I claim the Scholar and send my new Merchant to collect from Congo.

23 May – Mission done by Explorer, next is SE Pacific Coast

4 June – I send my Mamluk making nice diplomat to build a spy network in Kano which just took out Benin in war and are next to us

26 July – Event – Shipbuilding Problems – For the next 10 years +50% Shipbuilding time

1 Oct – Swing and a miss – Mamuju just Naval Supplies

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-Five - Scientific Experimentation Leads to Administration

1 Jan, 1566 – Lesser Namaqualand – South Africa, 6 dev, Steppes, Livestock, Arid, Ibadi Algerians make 0.12, coast, north of Cape

That was one of our free colonies, I order colonists from Great Karoo to Borneo’s unclaimed Katapang next to some locals and I order my 13k here from Sulawesi

New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 14 – Scientific Experimentation - We can build the Manufactory for growing things like Sugar and Coffee and Tea and Cocoa, Plantation. We also can get another Group of Ideas!

What do I want? I have one in each group ADM, DIP, and MIL so I can get anything I want.

Here are some that appeal:

ADM - Religious – You’ll get two bonus Missionaries, Deus Vult against any pagan, better Missionary str at +3% at Idea #3. It’s pretty good at spreading the Ibadi love. But right now I have three and free CBs with my Holy War on my adjacent stuff, so this is less valuable than before. It’s in my hard to build right now ADM queue fighting with techs and core with a lower one right now.

ADM – Admin – Better Merc stuff in several cases, #2 is reduced Core Costs by 25%, strong, and then when finished our states grow by +25%.

DIP – Trade – By the time this is over I’ll get three more Merchants and a boosted 10%% Trade efficiency, and this is not competing for anything in DIP


I do Admin ideas. My next Quality Idea is soon, but I don’t want another MIL idea when we still have more to go

I order a Trade Station in Ternate after destroying their Shipyard

Kongo appears to be at war with Kilwa

1 Mar – Our 10 year boosted colonist is gone. I offer it again

1 May- Bengkulu with Tropical Wood – miss

16 May – Explore mission done! Next is Indian Ocean

1 June – Quality Idea #5 – Naval Drill - +10% Naval Morale

12k Rebellion in Bure, my 25k is next door in Wagoe ordered over

11 July – Rebellion defeated

1 Oct – Highveld – Gems now, Coal later, Inland, next to Spain and Natal and Great Karoo, Desert, Arid, 0.08, 5 dev, Ibadi and Algerian

6 Oct – Natives in Katapang killed

1 Jan, 1567 – In Tidore, I destroy a Shipyard for a Trade Station

15 Jan – Our Crown Colony Brazil Dow’d a native called Tupiniquim

24 Jan – Explorer Mission done, next coast

3 Feb – Katapang sets up

21 May – Coast explored, next is Indian Sea

25 July – Wagadugu at peace!

9 Sept – Our explorer passes

1 Oct - Great Karoo – Inland, South Africa, connects Highveld and Swellendam and Cape, next to Spain, Drylands, 7 dev, grain, 0.09, Algerian, Ibadi

I pull colonists from Mamuju and send them to the Indian Ocean island of Hollhavi with no one there. It’s just 3 dev, has a great chance of good trade goods,

I’ll set up and then pull back and send back closer to the Indies.

15 Nov – I hire another explore and send them to the Indian Ocean

27 Nov – Bagoe converts, next is Sibiridugu

22 Dec – Our spy network in Songhai was discovered

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-Six - Economic Matters


1 Jan, 1568 – I order a Plantation for Belitung’s Coffee.

9 Jan - Bendugu converts! Next is Karabara

1 April – Natal - Coast, South Africa, next to Spain, Mtetwa and Highveld, Jungle, 5 dev, Gems, Ibadi Algerians make us 0.08

Government Reform:

Next is Tier 7 - Economical Matters

Basically, how do I want to do trade? Options include Free Trade, Empower the Burghers, Exploitation of the New World, among others.

I like many. I am making less from Trade than Production and Taxes, so I choose “Embrace the Economic Theory” and get +10% Production efficiency

With my extra colony done in Natal, I pull my colonists from Bengkulu and send them to Borneo next to Katapang called Sampit

22 April – Sampit natives killed

17 May – The next exploration mission is done, next is Coast, and that’s the last thing I don’t know about

1 July - Truce with Kongo and their allies are up! I’ll wait until after Songhai next year to.

1 Aug – I could likely take those two colonies from Denmark that connect me to Ivory Coast from Sierra Leone, since Denmark has just 6k troops and they are only allied with Oldenburg, but that’ll be after my war with Songhai next year

1 Sept – Our explorer finished and we have discovered everything!

I combine my two fleets

1 Oct - Another miss with Naval Supplies in Katapang

1 Nov – Mamuju – Sulawesi Island, north of Malacca, Hills, Naval Supplies, coast, 0.42, 10 dev, tropical, Algerian Ibadis

I pull colonists from Hollhavi and send to Mentawai on the Indian ocean and just outside the island of Atjeh, also with 3 dev and good chance of things like Spice and just 500 natives and low ferocity and aggressiveness.

1 Jan, 1569 – ADM Idea #1 – Organized Mercenary Payments - -10% Merc cost

I have 1190 cash and don’t buy anything with my builds to save for the Songhai war which could begin this year

22 April - We set up in Sampit

30 May – Event - +200 in Katapang but I spent 30 cash

1 July – Truce with Songhai and her allies is done

Here are the correct level of armies

Songhai – 12k
Kano – 9k – but they could build a lot
Kanem Bornu – 1k
Wadai – 5k

I have 15k next to Gao their capital and 25k next to Kano and the eastern flank. I declare war for Gao. I don’t call on the Mamluks

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
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Chapter Seventy-Seven - The Fourth Algiers/Songhai War

I spend 780 hiring the Independent Army.

Wadai did not join them

I order my 25k into Kano

12 July - Army arrives I order it to Gao with my 15k

19 Aug - A Kano minor falls, it’s got Dyes

I head to their capital of Kano

1 Oct – Bengkulu – Indian Ocean Coast, next to Malacca and Indrapura, and then has Jungle, 8 Dev, Tropical Wood now, Coal later, Ibadi Algerians makes 0.47.

I have to give another seat, and I give it to Sugar of Agadir

I pull colonists from Katapang and send to Nias, very similar to Mentawai

15 Oct - Gao falls! I have a warscore of 23

28 Oct – Kano’s capital of Kano is ours, warscore of 41

I order to the capital of the one province Kanem Bornu

22 Nov – We begin the siege

27 Nov – A minor in Songhai is ours

1 Jan, 1570 – We win a battle against the combined Songhai forces in Gurma.

1 Feb – Our truce with Wagadugu and allies is up!

9 Feb – Two Songhai minors fall

25 Mar – We capture the last Songhai holding

7 Apr – Another win against Songhai army in Kano

8 May – We capture the capital of Kanem Bornu

I have a warscore of 79

What can I get?

They only have 6 holdings left, but one is their good developed capital Gao

To take them all is just 46 badboy, 48 score, and would annoy Dagbon and Zazzau. The latter is a 2 province I don’t care about, Dagbon though is a decent sized with 6 holdings. And they won’t do it anyway, what I need to do is pull out Kano and Kanem Bornu.

I can take just Daura for 12 badboy and 14 score, I do it:

https://i.ibb.co/Q8z2bRB/20230211203331-1.jpg

Peace, I spend 35 to core.

21 May – Peace with Kanem Bornu for 3.5 badboy with War Reparations

25 May – I can do annexation but now Kano will care. Do I care?

I need to take them off the map, I do it:

https://i.ibb.co/s9yGTDd/20230211203717-1.jpg

46.1 badboy. I spend a massive 186 for Gao, and then 40 for Zarmaganda and that’s it

From Kano –

Daura – 7 dev, Dyes, Savannah, next to Kano and Air, Workshop and Mosque, Hausa people, Sunni faith, makes 0.16 Arid


From Songhai –

Gao – Former capital, Trade Center Emporium, Cloth, Steppes, 20 dev, Arid, Songhai culture, Sunni faith, 0.99, Mosque

Aribanda – South of Gao, Grain, Steppes, Arid, Songhai Sunnis, 9 dev, 016 made here

Zarmaganda – East of Aribanda, Songhai Fetishists, Wool, Steppes, Arid, 8 ev, made here is 0.17

Gurma – South of Aribanda, north of Dagbon, Ivory trade, 4 dev, Savannah, 0.04, Mossi and Fetishist

Dendi – East of Gurma, north of Dagbon, Savannah, Arid, grain, 0.18, 11 dev, Songhai and Sunni

Dallol – East of Dendi, next to Zazzou, Grain, 5 dev, Arid Savannah, Songhai Fetishist make us 0.04

There we go! No more Songhai, another Hegemon brought low under our power!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-Eight - A Fast Interlude

25 May – I order 15k to next to Denmark and 25k to Gao

I disband my mercs

My next war is against Denmark, which will likely take a while but just two holdings while I rebuild my ADM power with cores.

I build a spy Network with Dagbon

1 Aug - I order a core for Dallol

Portugal is given Australia by the Pope

24 Aug – Sibiribugu converts, next is Do

1 Sept – Sampit with Spice!

Spain is in the Island Aru in the Indies

1 Oct – Quality Idea #6 - Copper Bottoms – We get -25% Naval attrition

We finish another Berber idea – The Brothers Barbarossa - +20% Galley Combat

That’s our last Berber Idea

1 Jan, 1571 – I order a Plantation for Susa’s Sugar and Dina Arobi’s too

I DOW Denmark’s Karou, I order my 15k over

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-Eight - The Algerian War for Danish West Africa


31 Jan – Karabara converts! Next is Malem

1 Feb - Core ordered for Dendi

13 Feb – Karou is ours, I order to Grain Coast.

12 Mar – Event – Consort of the People – We get -2% Revolt risk until our ruler passes

28 Mar – Grain Coast is ours!

1 June – Hollhavi just Fish it had more than 60% of good stuff like Coffee and Spices and Tea, but swung and missed

Core for Aribanda ordered

23 June – Event – Volcanic Eruption in Belitung it’s much worse
Kongo lost to Kilwa badly and a bunch of minors broke out

1 Aug – Katapang – Borneo Island, next to our colony Sampit, next to Lanfang with three provinces two of which are Gold, Algerian, Ibadi, Tropical, Jungle, 8 dev, Naval Supplies makes 0.06

Core ordered for Gurma, our last one.

I order a spy network built for Lanfang

Lanfang – 12k

Allies:

Kutai - 9k
Sunda – 20k

Sunda is the problem

I order Colonists from Sampit and send to Fak-Fak on Papua next to Manokwari

I order my army over to Papua

1 Dec – Mentawai with Tea!

1 Jan, 1572 – I order for Sugar in Dina Morgrabin a Plantation.

I have a warscore of 15, can I get the two 3 warscore holdings?


https://i.ibb.co/jR0X70Z/20230211220120-1.jpg


I sure can! I spend very little coring them since they are former colonies with low dev

Karou – Next to us in Sierra Leone and Grain Coast – 4 dev, Jungle, Fishing, Fetishist faith, Dyola Culture, make 00.02

Grain Coast – Connects Karou and Ivory Coast – Dyola and Fetishists here as well, Jungle, tropical, Tropical Wood, 3 dev makes 0.01

Not great, but connects us.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Seventy-Nine - Dissemination of the Coffee Plant

1 Jan, 1572 – I order my 15k to the new holding of Daura

Next is the much smaller Kongo they are down to just four provinces

16 Mar – Event – Rigorous Researchers – another 40 in each power

1 Sept – I claim Dagbon’s home Dye province

13 Sept – Natives killed in Fak-Fak

Denmark has moved to South America next to Brazil.

1 Nov – Spices in Nias

23 Dec – One of our generals dies

1 Jan, 1573 – I order a Trade Station for Slaves in Benguela; Plantation in Sus for Sugar

24 Jan – We get a major event – I’ll show you:

https://i.ibb.co/d24qBTj/20230211222026-1.jpg

Coffee has dropped in price, but it happened in Belitung so we get boosts, Coffee is now 3.30

I spend 1k to start building in Mpempa the former capital of Kongo which when finished will - +20% Institution Spread in Ibadi provinces and +10% Reform progress

I also order for Draa’s Spices a Trade Station manufactory

30 Jan – Malem converts! Next is Segu but it’s 7 years long to finish

1 Mar – Gao is now a core!

5 April – Core done in Dallol

12 May – Duara core finished as well

29 May – Now Zarmaganda

1 June – Sampit – Borneo, next to Brunei and Katapang. Spices, Ibadi Algerians, Tropical, Jungle, makes us 0.08

I pull colonists from Mentawai and send to Papua’s Asmat next to Fak-Fak

14 June – Bahmanis announces us as a rival

I claim Lanfang’s Pontianak the gold mine next to me

1 Aug – The Parliament has passed the law! For the next years another colonist and +20 growth

I order this colonist to Papua’s Yos Sudaraso next to Asmat

5 Aug – I kill the natives in Asmat

In case I declare war for Lanfang,

Here’s what the navies of them and their allies have:

Lanfang – 1 light, 3 galleys
Sunda – 1 heavy, 3 lights, 16 galleys
Kutai – 0 heavies 1 light, 12 galleys

Malacca – 6/39/27 – That’s enough, we can DOW with Mercs

26 Sept – We kill natives in Yos Sudaraso

21 Nov- Conversion in Gwariko, next is Dallol

29 Nov – Do converts, next is Zarmaganda

1 Jan, 1574 – I have 2034 cash, I order 2 Manufactories in Sfax for Sugar in Plantation, Ivory Trade Station in Fezzan

ADMIN Idea #2 – Adaptability - -25% Core Creation Cost

Nice!

I‘ll use the rest of the cash for Mercs in Borneo

I spend 879 for the 40k strong Independent Army in Katapang

11 Jan – It arrives

I DOW for Lanfang’s Pontianak and order my Mercs in, I call in Malacca

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty - The First Algerian/Lanfang War

2 Feb – Dendi is now a core!

22 Feb – We defeat a 12k army in their holding and begin the siege

21 Mar – I spend 50 DIP to invite Minorities

1 April – Incense in Fak-Fak

16 May – Event - +50 ADM power but boosted inflation

13 July – Pontianak falls!

Malacca is besieging the Castle of Kundian, I order my mercs to Meliau where their army is hanging out.

3 Aug – Gurma is now a core

1 Sept – We win the Battle of Meliau

Mentawai – Islands, outside of Indies, Indian Ocean, near Ajeh, Tea, 3 dev, Coastline, Algerian Ibadis make us 0.04

I pull colonists in Nias and send to Papua’s Daru next to Yos Sodoro

3 Sept – Cores done in Grain Coast and Karou

All cores are done!

30 Sept – Meliau is ours, I head to Kutai

25 Nov – Malacca captures Kundian, under them so they would get it in peace

War score 27%

4 Jan, 1575 – We capture Kutai’s Paser

2 Feb – We win the Battle of Samarinda and begin to take it

1 Mar – Nias – Same as Mentawai, Spices instead of Tea, makes us 0.04

I pull colonists from Fak-Fak and send to Papua’s Kerema

13 Mar - Samarinda is ours, next is the capital of Kutai

1 April – Rebellion in Zarmaganda, I have my 25k army here

20 April – Rebels defeated

1 May – New Tech!

DIP TECH 15 – The Galleon – I can build them and Early Frigates, +15 Settler Growth,

30 May – Natives killed in Daru

19 June – 25k Sunda force in Bali besieging us

I hire 26k in Flores two away to hold the line

18 Aug – Sumbawa falls to Sunda next to Flores by Strait where my bigger army will hold them

1 Sept – Asmat with Fish

3 Sept – We capture a minor Sunda holding on Borneo Island

24 Sept – Natives in Kerema killed

1 Oct – Hollhavi – Indian Ocean Island – Fish, 3 dev, Coastline, .02, Algerian Ibadis

I pull Colonists from Asmat on Papua and send to Hanubada

25 Dec – Minor Kutai holding falls to Malacca

1 Jan, 1576 – Yos Sodero with Fish

6 Mar – Kutai falls!

I have a warscore of 57%

I need to get Sunda out of this war

27 April – Our mercs crossed, won in Sumbawa

23 May – Segu converts! Next is Grain Coast

26 May – We retake Sumbawa, can I get a peace with them?

They are happy with a white peace now now it’s just Kutai and Lanfang

I now have a 100 warscore against Kutai and Lanfang

I fabricate a claim on Dagbon and pull my diplomat so I can make peace

13 June – Diplomat is back from Dagbon, what can I get?

Lanfang –

Pontianak – Wartarget, 24 badboy, 12 warscore

Meliau – Inland next to Pontianak and Katapang – 14 score and 14 badboy too

I’ll keep Lanfang’s Kundian for us later if I have the score I’ll hand it to Malacca, but it’s a gold mine

Kutai –

Paser – 4 badboy, coastal next to Sunda, Brunei, 16 score

Samarinda – North of Paser, south of Kutai’s capital -16 score, 7 badboy

Total – 58 score, 49 badboy, only Zazzou cares, handing Malacca Kundian is 22 more warscore, but I don’t do it

Here we go!

https://i.ibb.co/zQLrX4w/20230212000317-1.jpg

I make the deal and spend 154 to core all four. I disband my mercs

Lanfang –

Pontianak – Wartarget, - Gold Mines, coastal, Regimental Camp, Mosque, Shipyard, 18 dev, tropical, Jungle, Confucian faith, Hakka culture

Meliau – Inland next to Pontianak and Katapang – Bornean Culture, Hindu faith, Farm Estate for Grain, Regimental Camp and Workshop, Jungle, Tropical, 0.46 cash


Kutai –

Paser – Coastal next to Sunda, Brunei, Spices, Jungle, Tropical, 11 dev, 0.22 made, Bornean Sunnis, Workshop, Mosque, Shipyard

Samarinda – North of Paser, south of Kutai’s capital - .15, Spices, 8 dev, Jungle, Tropical, Sunni Bornean, Workshop Mosque here

Three great additions and a random grain.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-One - Drought Strikes

13 June - I claim Lanfang’s Kundian and then pull my diplomat

I order:

Slaves in Siine for Trade Station
Mayumba Ivory Trade Station

26 July - Natives killed in Hanubada

6 Aug – I spend 50 MIL to claim Holy War on all adjacent places

22 Aug – Dallo converts! Next is Karou

29 Aug – I send a diplomat to make nice with Malacca and another to make nice with Ayutthaya

1 Oct – Spices in Daru!

1 Nov – Our truce with Kano is up

1 Feb, 1577 – Fak-Fak – Papua, Incense, Coastline, 3 dev, Algerian Ibadis, make us 0.02,

I pull colonists from Daru and send to Lae in Papua

I order a Trade Station for Kantor’s Ivory

6 Mar – Event _ Rains fail in Kalimantan

10 May – Natives killed in Lae

6 July – I pull colonists from Yos Sudarso and send to the last Papua holding of Madang

7 Aug – Natives killed in Madang

I order my army to the Philippines where there are some unclaimed places

1 Oct – Kerema with Spices,

Our truce with Denmark ends!

27 Nov – We arrive in the Philippines

23 Dec - Grain Coast converts, next is Songo

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-Two -Benefits for Mercenaries


1 Jan 1578 – Admin Idea #3 – Benefits for Mercenaries - -15% Maintenance

I order a Trade Station for Gabu’s Ivory and Ivory in Futa Jallon as well

18 Jan – Event – Military Investment? I choose to invest in army and get +100 MIL

I have enough for another Idea but I am close to the next Tech so I hold off

6 April – Karou converts and next is Gurma

1 May – Hanubada is good for Incense

1 June – New Tech!

MIL TECH 13 – Trunnions – I get better artillery and +0.40 artillery fire and +.1 artillery shock

Kongo – 4 holdings, 3k forces, allied with Chokwe, one holding, has 2k, my 13k here is enough

That’s my next target

1 July – I DOW Kongo for the Castle of Kasanje next to us

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-Three - The Final Algiers/Kongo War



I don’t call on anyone.

I order my 13k into Kasanje from Malem, I hire the Free Company of 13k for emergences

12 July – We begin the siege

15 July – Pontianak now cored

2 Aug- Their Army arrives at Songo and I pullback to fight them and leave behind the Free Company

28 Aug – They capture Songo

16 Sept – The other three cores are done!

1 Oct – Yos Sodoro – Papua – Jungle, Tropical,Fishing, 3 dev, Ibadi Algerian make 00.02

Asmat – Papua – Jungle, Tropical, Ibadi Algerians work the fishing trade 3 dev,making 0.02

I pull colonists from Kerema and send to the Philippine’s Tagloc

5 Oct – Natives killed in Tagloc

I pull colonists from Hanubada and send to Caraga next to Tagloc

2 Nov – I rout the army in Songo

4 Dec – We take Songo

I head back to Kasenje,

8 Dec – Kasenje falls, next is their capital of Kumbana

1 Jan, 1579 – I max relations with Malacca and pullout ,next is making nice with the Turks

15 Jan – We arrive in Kumbana and begin the siege.

1 Feb – Two minors fall

15 Mar – Kumbana falls, next is Chokwe

1 June – Madang with Tropical Wood

6 June – We defeat the army in Chokwe, next is the siege

1 July – Daru – Papua – 4 dev, Spices, tropical, Jungle, Ibadi and Algerian make us 0.3

I pull colonists in Lae and send to Leyte in the Philippines

4 July Natives in Caraga killed

6 Dec – Native in Leyte killed

Conversion in Songo next is Sah

28 Jan, 1580 – the Commonwealth drops us as a rival

12 Feb – Chokwe falls I have every holding!

I only have a 99 war score

What can I get?

All five, the four Kongo and Chokwe:

https://i.ibb.co/sjW8q3k/20230212012914-1.jpg

For 47 score and 51.7 badboy no one cares. I do the deal and spend ADM of 84 for the five and disband the Free Company

Ready?

Kongo –

All are Slave traders

Kasenje – Castle, Savannah, 6 dev, tropical, Mbangala culture, Fetishist faith, makes 0.05

Shinje – North of Kasenje, 7 dev, Savannah, same culture and faith, makes us 0.06

Yaka – North west of Shinje, west of Kumbana - Mosque, Yaka culture, Fetishist, Savannah, tropical, s0.11, 8 dev

Kumbana – East of Yaka, Northeast of Shinje, Grasslands, Yaka Fetishists, 5 dev, 0.04, tropical

Chokwe –

Chokwe – East of Kasenje, surrounded by others, Workshop, Mosque, Ivory, Savnanah,7 dev, Chokwe culture, Fetishist faith, tropical, makes 0.12

Kongo is off the board! That was way sooner than I thought since Kilwa blew them down

Note that we didn’t have a Coalition joining us from West Africa so we are probably good there next.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-Four - A New Rival


12 Feb – I move my army to Shinje

1 Mar – Lae is good for Tea!

31 Mar – I start building a spy network in Kazembe next to us in the Kongo region

I order:

Plantation for Sugar in Abda and Madeira

7 May – Brazil DOW’s Denmark to bring in their possession

France announces us as a rival

2 June – Event – Education for the Poor? - I do it

1 Aug – I lose my claim on Bone’s Wajo

27 Sept – Uh oh. The Turks have DOW’d the Mamluks.

Mamluks – 58k
Turks – 258k

I don’t want to lose my eternal ally, but I don’t want to lose a bunch of land either. What do I do? I stay out and I order a 25k army assembled.

Right now:

69k troops
145k forcelimit

Right now MIL Maintenance is 31.71

1 Nov – Rebellion in Dendi

5 Dec – Gurma converts, next is Kala

17 Dec – We won in Dendi

1 Jan, 1581 – I order a Plantation for Coffee in Manado and for Salt in Trarza a Naval Equipment Manufactory

1 Feb – Relations maxed with the Turks at 200, I pull them and send them to build a spy network in Bone

1 Mar – Kerema – Papua – 3 dev, Spices, Jungle, tropical, Ibadi and Algerian makes us 0.03

Caraga with Fish – just a 8%

I pull colonists from Madang in Papua and send to the Philippines in Samar next to us in Leyte

26 Mar - Natives killed in Samar

30 Mar – the Ruler of the Turks passes, a new Royal Marriage is entered into

1 May – Tagloc with Fish another miss at just 8%

1 June – Truce with Sunda is up!

1 Sept – Hanubada – Papua – Incense, 3 dev, Ibadi Algerians, Tropical, Jungle, making 0.02

Quality Idea #7 – Massed Battery - +10% Artillery ability

For finishing we get +5% Discipline and we can unlock two Acts with Expansion or Exploration.

I choose The Mining Act, Military Policy, Land Leader +1 Fire

I pull colonists from Caraga and send to the Philippines in Bikol

1 Oct – Natives in Bikol killed

12 Oct – Event – Madang struck by Yellow Fever I quarantine it

29 Oct – Event – Sus changes to Sunni again

1 Nov – Rebels in Montevideo in La Plata

27 Dec – Zarmaganda converts! Next is Sus, again

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-Five - The Malacca War Against Sunda


1 Jan, 1582 – I order Trade Station for Spices in Gorontalo

4 Feb – Malacca has Declared War against Sunda and I join them

Sunda’s allies are Kutai, Bali, Indrapura, and Lanfang

Luckily I only bought one Manufactory so I have enough for two units of mercs

I hire the 40 Independent army in Borneo for just 652

I hire the 27k strong Kutai Company in Sumbawa

15 Feb – Kasanje now a core! My 40k mercs are here and I order them into Lanfang

My 27k here and I order them to Bali

25 Feb – Kutai is in Samarinda with 4k

13 Mar - I win the Battle of Lombok against Bali

20 Mar – Samarinda falls

4k are in Bengkulu

1 Apr – Madang – Papua – Tropical Wood, 3 dev, Algerian Ibadis, Jungle, tropical, 0.02 made here

Leyte also with Tropical Wood

16 Apr – Bengkulu falls to Indrapura

I win a battle against Lanfang in Pontianak

14 May – Cores done in Shinje, Yaka, Chokwe and Kumbana

I claim Lwena in Kazende

10 June – We begin the Siege of Kundian in Lanfang and this is a Castle so it’ll take a while

16 June – Bali falls. Can I get it in peace?

Nope I’m a junior partner and they are too

I order my mercs to cross the strait from Bali to the island of Java and then hit them

14 July – Paser falls to Kutai

16 Aug – We capture a minor Sunda holding

21 Aug – Malacca peace with Bali – war reparations and cash

1 Sept – I lose my claim on Bone’s Bone, I claim it’s Wajo

28 Sept – Another Sunda minor falls to me

17 Oct – Event -Minorities flock to Lae, it gets +400 but Sunni

We win the Battle of Demak against 23k and begin to take it.

Lae – Papua -Tea, Algerian Sunni. Tropical Grasslands, making us 0.02 monthly

Papua is done!

I pull Colonists from Tagloc and send to the 500 strong and mild Kiribati in the Pacific

My 25k are done by the by

22 Nov- Damak falls, I head to the capital of Sunda Pakuan

1 Dec - Kundian falls!

Can I get it in peace with Sunda?

https://i.ibb.co/WW84BQq/20230212091802-1.jpg

Clearly they wanted me out of their island gobbling all of the land. 9.4 badboy, I order my mercs disbanded and coring it is just 29

Kundian – Gold, Coastal, Borneo Island, Castle, Shipyard, Bornean culture, Sunni faith, 9 dev, tropical Jungle, 0.45 made

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-Six - A Short Interim Period


27 Dec – Sah converts; next is Kasanje

1 Jan, 1583 – Our military maintenance rose 12 to 43.11 with the 25k built, I order my25k south to the next war from the border with Mamluks

19 Jan – One of our generals passes

1 April – My 13k in the Philippines arrives at the north island to get ready for more colonizing up there

6 May – My 25k army arrives

Wagadugu – 13k
Dahomey – 9k
Zazzau – 5k

Total – 27k

I have a few hundred ADM power for cores, and only one core from the surprise last war.

I am only a few months from ADM Idea #4 but that’s an interest reduction, not that important here.

I DOW for Wagadugu’s Ivory in Kong, I don’t call in the Turks as they wouldn’t join me

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-Seven - The Second Algiers/Wagadugu War

15k into Joma’s 6k rebels surrounded by me
25k from Gurma to Bilanga
25k from Daura to Zazzou’s capital of Zamfara

1 June – 9k Dahomey in Whydah

23 June – We lose Whydah but capture Joma and Bilanga I chase their army

27 July – We win a Battle against 13k in Yatenga

1 Aug - Our Colonial Policy ended – I try again

I can get the next Idea but I hold off until post war

24 Aug – Kong falls

31 Aug – So does Yatenga – next their capital of Wagadugu

25 Sept – Dahomey captures the Ivory Coast

12 Oct -Bonny falls to Zazzou I order my Kongo army there

We capture Wagadugu

26 Nov – A Wagadugu minor falls

14 Dec – Zamfara falls in Zazzou

Sus converts, next is Kumbana

I have a warscore of 70% I keep pushing

1 Jan, 1584 – Cameroon falls

4 Feb – Kebbi in Zazzou falls, that’s their last one

Two more minors in Wagadugu are ours

13 Feb – Kala converted next is Yaka

16 Feb – We win a battle in the Grain Coast against Dahomey with my 15k army

1 Mar – The last Wagadugu holding is ours we have a warscore of 83, what can I get?

Joma – Surrounded by us, 31 badboy, 19 warscore

Kong – Wartarget, south of main area – 8 badboy, 5 warscore,

That’s it without getting Wagadugu mad, but if I wound them badly enough, what else can I get?

Lobi – North of Kong – 7 badboy, 6 warscore

Yatenga – North of Lobi – 14 badboy, 10 score

Haayre – North of Yatenga, 4 badboy 5 warscore

https://i.ibb.co/X3nDJk3/20230212100454-1.jpg

64.2 badboy 45 score and only our target cares! Peace! Cores ordered for Joma is 75, and the other four are 54.

Joma – Surrounded by us – Mosque, Marketplace, Trade Center Emporium, 23 dev, Grain, Savannah, tropical, Mali and Fetishist, making us 0.26

Kong – Wartarget, south of main area – Ivory traders, 6 dev, Jungle, Tropical, Dyola Fetishists here make us 0.06

Lobi – North of Kong – Gold mine – Dyola, Fetishist, Savannah, 5 dev, .84 made here, tropical, next to Wagadugu

Yatenga – North of Lobi – Arid, Savannah, Livestock with a Farm Estate and Mosque, Mossi, Fetishists 0.17 from 8 dev, Wagadugu

Haayre – North of Yatenga, Wagadugu - Ivory, 3 dev, Savannah, Bozo people, Fetishist faith, Arid, 0.03 made here

Like I said they were much better trade goods – two Ivory, one gold in those five. They have four left

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-Eight - Three Filipino Provinces Finished

1 Mar – I order my 15k army to Lobi and 25k to Joma and the other 25k to Gobir here.

I order:

Trade Station for Yamdena’s Spices and Gorontalo’s as well

I claim Rund in Kazembe

28 May – I spend 50 MIL to claim Holy War on our neighbors, now a bunch more after the war.

I also spend 50 DIP to invite minorities

1 Jul – Bikol with Naval Supplies

1 Aug – Incense in Samar

1 Sept – I claim Bone’s Bone and pull my spies

4 Dec – Sambas is now a core!

1 Jan, 1585 – Admin Idea #4 – Bookkeeping - -0.50 interest annually

I order:

For Slaves in Ouargla Trade Station, Soyo too for the same

8 Feb – Kasanje converts! Next is Mbata

26 Mar – In Kongo, one province Lunda captures the three above her and brought them in

1 April – Caraga – The Philippines – Connects Tagloc to Leyte, next to Butuan, Coastline, 3 dev, Fishing, Ibadi Algerians make us 0.02, tropical

I pull colonists from Leyte and send to the North Island’s Cagayan

4 April – Natives in Cagayan killed

1 June – Tagloc – The Philippines – Near Caraga, Brunei, Butuan, Fish here too, 6 dev, Hills, Ibadi and Algerian making us 0.05, tropical

I pull colonists from Bikol and send them to Ilocos on the North Island

5 June - Natives there killed

6 July – With great relations with the Turks, we invite a Hanafi Scholar who gives us a -5% Admin Tech Cost for 20 years

1 Aug – Leyte – The Philippines – Strait to Caraga, next to Samar, Strait to Cebu, - Tropical Wood, Coastline, 5 dev, Algerian Ibadis make us 0.08, tropical

1 Oct- Our truce from breaking our alliance with the Mamluks is up

Their war with the Turks is over but they are at war with the Ajuurraan and their allies like Aden and Funj

I could DOW Mamluks for Banghazi next to Sirt and then take some coastal provinces. I order my 25k army to Sirt

Mamluks – 70k
Adan – 22k but with mercs we could do it, I could order another 25k army from West Africa and join one merc of 40k to have a max of 90k

I do it, I order my other25k army to Jufra next to Sirt

1 Jan, 1586 – Tropical Wood in Kiribati

9k Yakan Separatists Rebel in Yaka, next to our 15k army

1 Feb - We win in Yaka

Our army is in Sirt

3 Mar – Cores done in all 5 provinces we took from Wagadugu

11 Mar – Kumbana converts; next is Haayre

7 April – Our army arrives in Jufra

I DOW Mamluks for Bangazi, and we lose a stability for having a Royal Marriage

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Eighty-Nine - The First Algiers/Mamluks War, Part One


I hire 40k mercs for the cost of 822 in Sirt and order my 50k to Bangazi

I send the mercs after they arrive.

4 June – Bangazi falls

28 July – Darnah falls

20 Sept – Bardiya falls

11 Nov – Tarrana falls next is the Castle of Iskandariyya


Conversion in Yaka next is Yatenga and that’s 83 months!

27 Nov – The siege begins with a fusillade

17 Dec = Spy in Kazembe found

6 Jan, 1587 – Iskandariyya falls, next is Rashid

23 Feb – Rashid is ours

My Marches are here

8 Mar – My Marches capture a minor next to Rashid

12 Mar – Mbata converts, next is 144 months of Meliau

13 April – We capture the last Mamluk holding on the Great Sea,, next their capital which 12k are already at

25 April – We arrive and fire a fusillade

24 Sept – After 192 days their capital falls and i have a warscore of 31, now to capture nearby minors

10 Nov -We capture a minor next to their capital

15 Nov – Two minors fall to our vassals

31 Dec - Three more minors fall

21 Jan, 1588 – Another minor falls

1 Feb – New tech!

MIL TECH 14 – Tenaille – We get Muslim Musketeer Cavalry I don’t upgrade at war, we can build upgraded Castles called Bastions, and we get +2 combat width and +0.40 infantry fire

I order my combined army to the Castle of Tabuk in the Levant

What I want to do is to remove the Turk border with Mamluks in Sinai and then left them have the Levant and Arabia and we’ll pick them off in Africa in future wars, and I need a big war score with my goal to grab as many coastals as my warscore will allow and the two adjacent to the Turks.

1 Mar – Cagayan will be for Fish, another miss

24 Mar – We arrive in Tabuk and begin the siege

1 May – Bikol – The Philippines – Strait to Samar, next to Tondo, Algerian, Ibadi, Coastline, Naval Supplies, 6 dev, tropical, makes 0.05 monthly

1 June – Tropical Wood In Ilocos another miss

I claim Ndongo’s Matampa

2 July – More minors have fallen

29 July – Another falls

1 Aug – Kiribati – Pacific Islands – 3 dev, Coastline, Tropical Wood, Algerian Ibadi make 005. Can I get to the west coast of North America?

Spain is in California, but I can hit it, let’s aim for Nisga’a in Cascadia far enough from any tribes to grab my stuff and use as a launching point to the region.

It’ll take 453 days to set up

11 Aug – I kill the natives in the inland north island holding of Ifugao

1 Sept – Charter Colonies Policy passes and we get another colonist and boosted growth. I send them to Gizhiga in Siberia with a high chance of gold, gems, iron and copper, and no one there

15 Sept - Tabuk falls!

I have a warscore of 42%


We need more, or do I? Can I get what I want with 42?

Taking all coastals and the ones next to the Turks are 59 warscore which they won’t do, and it would annoy the Mamluks only with a 99 badboy

But I could do these 5 –

https://i.ibb.co/VxBPrqq/20230212115453-1.jpg

Not connected to me, three coastals, one next to Turks in Gazze and a throw in Paper internal, do I want to call it here?

Let’s keep it up, I’d like to get the warscore needed to connect this to me and grab more coastal stuff and I only need a warscore of a few more to get above 59 for everything

I order my combined army to the Castle of Makkah

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ninety - The First Algiers/Mamluks War, Part Two


1 Oct - Two minors fall to Marches

22 Nov – Another 2

1 Jan, 1589- I don’t get the next Idea I am building up ADM for coring

1 Feb – Samar – The Philippines -Strait to Bikol, next to Leyte, 5 dev, Coastline, Incense, Algerian Ibadi making us 0.06

1 Mar – New Tech!

DIP TECH 16 – Maritime Law – I get +20 trade range and +2% trade efficiency

11 April – Kong is now randomly Ibadi

1 June – Rebels from Wagadugu bleed into Gao I order my 15k army over but it’ll be a while

26 July – Makkah falls! We have a warscore of 56, next is the Castle of Najran a few over

1 Sept = Separatist rebellion in Haayre

13 Sept – We begin the Siege of Najran

5 Oct – Haayre falls to rebels

15 Oct – We defeat the rebels

15 Nov – Haayre retaken

29 Jan, 1590 – Adal have recaptured two in Africa

Our foes are at peace with East Africa and Arabia

27 Feb – The Siege at Najran is over, I have a warscore of 62, what can I get?

I can get everything plus the toss in low dev Paper province:

https://i.ibb.co/qNTnQmf/20230212122436-1.jpg

For warscore of 64 and 109.4 badboy and the Mamluks and Wagadugu only care. I core everything and have 282 ADM power left

Ready? I do peace.

Bangazi - Next to Sirt, wartarget – Natural Harbor, Coastal Desert, Livestock, Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith, 6 dev, 0.02, Arid

Darnah – Next to Bangazi and Bardiya - Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith, 3 dev, Coastal Desert, Arid, Livestock makes 0.12

Bardiya – Next to Darnah and Tarrana - Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith, also arid, 3 dev, Livestock and Coastal Desert making us 0.03

Tarrana – Connects Bardiya to Iskandariyya - Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith – Coastal Desert, Fishing, Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith, 3 dev, Arid, makes 0.01

Iskandariyya – Connects Tarrana and Rashid -Castle, Shipyard, Mosque, Spices, Natural Harbor, 17 dev, Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith makes 0.25

Rashid – Connects Iskandariyya and Dumyat – Natural Harbor, Marsh, The Nile Estuary bonus, Farm Estate for Grain, Marketplace and Mosque, 10 dev, Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith, makes 0.26 not Arid.

Dumyat – Connects Rashid with Sharqiya -Nile Estuary, Farmlands, Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith, 11 dev, Shipyard, Mosque, Grain, makes 0.19

Sharqiya – Connects Dumyat with Turks and As-suways – Also Farmlands, Farm Estate for Grain, Shipyard, Mosque, Workshop, Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith. 15 dev, 0.42

As-Suways – Tip of Red Sea – Next to Turks, Sharqiya and our throw in of Atfih - Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith, 5 dev, Coastal Desert, Livestock

Atfih – South of As-Suways, surrounded by Mamluks, Paper, 7 dev, Drylands, Egyptian Culture and Sunni faith, 0.19 made here

The early additions near me sucked but as we got farther away we got better. Although not great goods – lots of Grain, Livestock, and Fish. Luckily it’s all one culture so I could elevate to accepted culture quite easily.

This ends in 11 years in 1601.

I send one 25k army to Atfih and the other to Tarrana and I disband the mercs. They were badly hit and won’t come back until 6 years in 1596. That was a long war!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ninety-One - Rebuilding

27 Feb - Let’s check in with my colonies:

We are set up in all four places in Siberia, Cascadia, and Northern Philippines

1 Mar – I sanction Holy War and get a bunch of claims on the Mamluks and Turks by the by

I upgrade my Cavalry.

1 April – Peace with Sunda and Kutai over.

14 April – Rebels in Gao from Wusudugu

15 May – Gao is captured.

I order Castles into Bastions in:

Sirt
Timbuktu
Wolof
Kasanje
Kawar
Marrakech
Borneo’s Sambas

I destroy the Castle in Djado and Tuat which were needed for my Songhai war

1 June – Cagayan – Northern Philippines – next to Ilocos, unclaimed Ifugao, Tondo nation – Hills, 6 dev, Fish, Algerian and Ibadi makes us 0.09, tropical

I order these colonists to Ifugao

13 June – I win in Gao

14 July – Gao recaptured

1 Sept – Ilocos – Northern Philippines – Next to Cagayan and Ifugao and north of Tondo, Tropical Wood, 6 dev, Hills, Tropical, Algerian Ibadi make .10.

I order them to Taytay the last unclaimed holding in the Philippines an inland in the east.

I order my army over

4 Nov – Natives killed in Taytay

1 Jan, 1591 – I order Trade Station for Mbamba’s Slaves

1 Feb – I hire a Conquistador, assign to my 13k in Taytay and order them to disembark in Siberia to explore

1 Mar – Livestock in Nisaga’a

1 April – Admin Idea #5 – Mercenary Recruitment - +25% merc manpower

10 April – Haayre converts! Next is nothing I’ll have to wait until the cores are done

1 Aug – Copper in Gizhiga! That gamble worked! That’s a 4.5 trade good.

I begin to explore Siberia

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ninety-Two - Into the Arctic


1 Jan, 1492- I order Trade Station for Slaves in Ndongo

1 Mar – Our truce with Bali ends

5 Mar Event – Dip Insult, I try to make nice and relations rise with around +60 a bunch of my neighbors

10 May – I have found two one province minors north of us in Siberia

1 July – Bengazi core! I cannot order a Missionary here it won’t take

1 Sept – I pull colonists from Ifugao and send to Siberia’s Penzhina east of us

30 Sept - Everything else from Mamluks are cored!

1 Oct – Rebellion in Yatenga, my 15k are next door

2 Nov – Defeated!

I have uncovered two inner holdings next to us in Siberia

1 Jan, 1593 – I order:

Plantation in Agadir for Sugar
Trade Station in Touggourt for Spices

16 Feb – Yatega converts!

1 Mar – Our Navigator DIP advisor passes, I hire a level 2 Statesman who boosts our Dip reputation

1 Apr - Tropical Wood in Taytay

Now that I have a Stateman, I pass the Formalize Separation of Powers – We get +0.5 Prestige annually

15 April – I find the last holding near us in Siberia and head west to find what I can

1 June – New Tech!

MIL TECH 15 – Maurician Infantry – We get +0.25 tactics, +1 land morale, and new infantry called Afsharid Reformed Infantry I upgrade to.

1 July - Tropical Wood in Ifuago

Nisag’a – Cascadia, Mountains, 3 dev, next to nothing but unclaimed things, 0.03 made here, Livestock,

I order infantry 1k here

I send these colonists north to Tlingit where there is 1k

I pull colonists from Taytay and send them north of Tlingit to Sitka with 500 natives to clear out

I wanna have 2 in Cascadia and 2 in Siberia

Our Inquisitor level 1 died, and there is a level 3 there I hire

Our new tech development is 9/7/11

31 Aug – Men finished in Nisag’a, I order them north to Tlingit

1 Sept – Gizhiga – Siberia, Copper, 3 dev, coastal, south of Omolon nation, west of Penzhina, 3 dev, Forest, Algerian Ibadi, Arctic, makes us 0.05

I order these colonists west to the coastal Tauisk – most likely Fur but another nearby holding

1 Oct – Truce with Wagadugu is up

19 Oct – Two more Siberian holdings have been found

29 Oct - The Commonwealth announced us as a rival

7 Nov – Natives killed in Tlingit

5 Dec – Natives killed in Penzhina

7 Dec – Natives killed in Sitka

1 Jan, 1594 - I order Trade Station for Spices in Ghadames

15 Jan - Malacca DOWs Brunei, I accept

We are at war with 7 powers from mighty Burnei to minor Bone

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ninety-Three - The Malacca-Algiers/Brunei War

I cannot hire my 40k for Borneo they are still rebuilding for another 2 years. I hire for Borneo 29k along with my 1k artillery left over from the last war to head to Borneo and get warscore enough to bow out, I

I hire in Sulawesi’s Palopo 14k next to Bone. And 17k in Timor.

Alright, I just want to play defense and be annoying

26 Jan – I order my mercs into Brunei and Bone

19 Feb – Tagloc captured by Brunei

I win in Wajo against 6k Bone troops and begin taking it

20 Mar – Kuching on Borneo is ours I chase their 11k army next

21 Mar – Wajo is ours, I order to the Bone capital of Bone, but it’s a Bastion and won’t fall easily

26 Mar – Brunei captured Caraga

7 April – We win in Borneo Island against their forces in Sigalang

14 Apri – Lombok captured

28 April - Leyte falls

8 May – Brunei’s Sigalang falls, next is the Bastion of Kapit

My troops in Bone aren’t enough to siege so I order more in Palopo

15 May – Samar captured

24 May – Sumbawa falls

We arrive at Sampit for sieging, but I don’t have enough artillery to launch a fusillade so this will take while

25 June – Bikol falls

10 Aug – We win in Flores with my Timor mercs and I order to Sumbawa

The Siege in Bone has begun with green reinforcements

Their navy is blocking my cross in Timor so I order my navy out to help

15 Sept – We win in Straits of Lombok and captured a Carrack and Brig, I order it to regroup in Sumba

1 Oct - Brunei captures Sampit

30 Oct – Katapang falls

11 Nov - Sumbawa ours again!

I’ll hold off on the 150 Year Review until the war is over

14 Nov – We lose another Philippines province

22 Nov – We embrace the Printing Press institution and lose that Tech loss

2 Dec – We rout the Majaphit army in Lombok

Rebellion in Lobi where my 15k army is

11 Dec – Lobi rebels fall

4 Jan, 1595 – We kill natives in Tauisk

10 Feb – Malacca peace with Kalimantan

14 Feb – Pontianak falls

10 April – We capture Kapit, next is Brunei’s capital

I arrive in Java island to siege Blambangan

1 June – Bone falls!

23 June – Brunei falls!

Malacca does peace with Bone for cash

I wanted Bone, ah well I have a warscore of 19 so I can take the one province on Borneo that connects my holdings, Barito –

https://i.ibb.co/fXyRx7x/20230212152230-1.jpg

Only the Mamluks will care, 8 score, 8.3 badboy, costs me 20 to Core

Barito – Internal connects us at Paser and Sampit, 6 dev, Spices, Tropical Jungle, Trade Station and Workshop here, makes us 0.56

I disband my mercs

[Abe Sargent]

23 June, 1595 - The 150 Year Review:

MAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let’s start with North Africa:


https://i.ibb.co/fnJhWbm/20230212152859-1.jpg

You can see us deeper in West Africa, in the place the Mamluks were, and then up to the Turks in Sinai we have all of coastal North Africa under our aegis.

South Africa:


https://i.ibb.co/pL3FsxF/20230212153144-1.jpg


You can see us deeper in Kongo, and all of the coast from Kano us and then in South Africa as well. You can see Spain’s two holdings next to us and then our future expansions here against Lunda’s four or Kazembe.

South America:


https://i.ibb.co/y59XX3R/20230212153455-1.jpg


Home of our first colony after Tenerife and then a minor holding in Africa. You can see our two colonial nations as well as Portugal in Rio, France to our north and New Granada in northern South America

North America:


https://i.ibb.co/7Y28vDT/20230212153702-1.jpg

We’ve only explored the coasts. We are in Cascadia and then Spain has Florida, New Spain and Canada under their control as well as California.

Indies

https://i.ibb.co/h2JQgb2/20230212153927-1.jpg

We have every open holding in Papua, the Philippines, the internal Islands and other places. This place is a biosphere of hotness.

I’ll show you Siberia in case you care:

https://i.ibb.co/2FrbWRV/20230212154400-1.jpg


I also zoomed in on the cash so you see my cash flow and out.

Europe Too:


https://i.ibb.co/j5qtRRd/20230212162904-1.jpg

Yup!

And there we go!

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:

Army – We have 104k against a 154k forcelimit; this is 6th best after the Turks at 271k

Navy – We have 11 heavies, 13 lights, 5 galleys, 14 transports for 43 with a forcelimit of 128, the top navy is Turks again with 140 ships

Cash – Monthly we make 182.50 which is 4th after the Turks at 309.43

Development - With 1610 development we have 2nd after the Turks just above us at 1633

Techs – We have 14/16/15 for a total of 45, the highest is at 48, multiple nations have

Ideas – We only finished 26 of a possible 28 and are behind many that have finished

There are only 6 other Empires – Sweden, Ottomans, France, Shun, Japan, Persia


There are now 7 Ibadi nations – Us, our colonies, our vassals and Pate is still around, we have a large 250 provinces

Top Ten Provinces by Tax Revenue:

1. Tunis, 33.32
2. Mers el Kabir, 16.66
3. Marrakech, 16.66
4. Mitija, 14.91
5. Cape, 14.85
6. Ternate, 14.35
7. Mzab, 14.28
8. Sus, 14.28
9. Gharb, 14.28
10. Oran, 14.21

Top Ten Provinces by Production (Any):

1. Tidore, 46.30, Cloves
2. Ternate, 46.30, Cloves
3. Tafilalt, 43.00, Gold
4. Ambon, 33.30, Cloves
5. Tunis, 26.93, Cloth
6. Ceram, 26.63, Cloves
7. Halmahera, 24.48, Cloves
8. Buru, 24.48, Cloves
9. Susa, 18.91, Sugar
10. Tie at 17.46 Dina Morgrabin and Dina Arobi

Top Ten Provinces by Production (Not Cloves or Gold):

1. Tunis, 26.93, Cloth
2. Ceram, 26.63, Cloves
3. Susa, 18.91, Sugar
4. Dina Morgrabin, 17.46, Sugar
5. Dina Arobi, 17.46, Sugar
6. Cape, 17.20, Livestock
7. Draa,16.23, Spices
8. Benguela, 16.22, Slaves
9. Sus, 14.22, Sugar
10. Siine, 12.24, Slaves

Much more diverse!

We have 224 provinces and 6 colonies


Charts:

Religion:

Ibadi – 85.8%
Sunni – 11.5%
Fetishist – 2.2%

Culture:

Algerian – 34.4%
Berber – 12.8%
Moroccan – 12.9%
Kongolese – 4.3%
Sengegambian - 4.3%
Tuareg – 6.6%
Tunisian – 13.1%


Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Traded:

1. Sevilla, 77.91
2. Constantinople
3. Caribbean
4. Krakow
5. Venice
6. Champagne
7. English Channel
8. Wien
9. Malacca
10. Persia, 37.80


Ours:

Alexandria – 22.65
Cape – 3.58
Tunis – 9.68
Safi – 9.83
Timbuktu – 10.47

Colonies:

Brazil – 14.90
La Plata -

Trade Goods by Current Value:

8.0 - Cloves
5.25 – Paper
4.50 – Copper, Tobacco
4.0 – Ivory, Dyes, Silk, Cocoa
3.75 – Sugar
3.60 – Cloth
3.50 – Fur
3.30 – Coffee, Salt
3.0 – Gems, Glass, Tropical Wood, Cotton, Spices, Chinaware, Tea, Slaves, Iron
2.50 – Livestock, Wine
2.12 – Incense
2.0 – Grain, Fish, Wool, Naval Supplies,


We are the production leader for Cloves, Sugar and Tropical Wood, and the trade leader for Cloves

No coalition against us!

The Great Powers:

1. Spain
2. Ottomans
3. France
4. Algiers
5. Commonwealth
6. Portugal
7. Bahmanis
8. England

On deck Austria

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ninety-Four - A Quick Preparation


1 July, - I order my two 25k armies back to West Africa for war against Wagadugu

I order a Bastion in Mamluks Atfih

7 July - I order our captured ships upgraded

1 Oct – Penzhina with Iron and Tauisk with Copper

I make nice with Shun and Korea

27 Oct – Conversion in Meliau

1 Nov – Admin Idea #6 – Admin Efficiency - +1 Advisor when you go to hire

1 Feb, 1596 – Livestock in Tlingit

11 Mar – My 2 25k armies have arrived next to Wagadugu

They have four holdings left, I’ll try to grab all four now.

I DOW for their capital.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ninety-Four -The First Algiers/Wagadugu War



I order 15k from Yatenga to their capital where 8k are
I order 25k into Zazzou’s capital of Zamfara
I order 25k to Dahomey’s capital

21 Mar – We win in Wagadugu’s capital and defeat their army and begin the siege

22 April – Wagadugu falls!

5 June – Minor falls to me

5 July – Bonny falls

18 July- Another minor falls

1 Aug – Sitka with Fish

19 Aug – Calabar falls

28 Aug – We capture the last province of Wagadugu

5 Oct – Zamfara falls

15 Nov – Kebbi in Zazzou is ours, we have their entire holding

13 Dec – The capital of Dahomey is ours, we have a warscore of 96

Peace:

Taking their four is just a score of 33 score and 11.5 badboy, can I get something from Dahomey?

I need to capture to grab it, I head to the coast

1 Jan, 1597 – Ifugao – Inner North Philippines province, next to Tondo – Mountains, Tropical Wood, 3 dev, Algerian and Ibadi with 0.03 made here

18 Jan – Ijebu in Dahomey coast next to Whydah ours, 99 score

1 Feb - Gold Coast and Kumasi fall

Now peace time!

I can get those four and Ijebu,

https://i.ibb.co/gm392MT/20230212173822-1.jpg

20.1 badboy, 46 score, only Mamluks care, I take peace and core 111 total for them

Wagadugu Holdings –

We’ll start north and come south

Hombori – north most, north of Liptako, Livestock, Farm Estate and Workshop, Arid, Steppes, 4 dev, Ibadi faith, yup, not a typo, Songhai culture, 0.04 made here

Liptako – North of Bilonga, south of Hombori, Farm Estate for Livestock and workshop, Arid, Savannah, Mossi Fetishists with 4 dev making 0.24

Bilonga – south of Liptako, east of Wagudugu, north of Dagbon, Workshop, Farm Estate for Grain, Savannah, 3 dev, tropical, .19, Mossi fetishists

Wagadugu – Their last good holding – North of Dagbon, west of Bilonga – Mossi Sunni, Savannah, Tropical, Grain, 13 dev, makes us 0.16

Dahomey -

Ijebu – throw in, connects us at Whydah with Kano, Yoruba people, Fetishist faith, Grasslands, just Salve trading, just 5 dev, tropical, Workshop make 0.06

Not great since I already took the good stuff, but another 5 are ours!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ninety-Five - Missionary Deep Dive


1 Feb, I order my two 25k armies back to Egypt

Mamluks and Turks at war again

Next is the Kongo region

I am close to the final Admin Idea

We have 104k out of 156k army vs forcelimit, and army is 59.65 cash, with us making 37.11 monthly. I order another 25k army in North Africa to head over to the border with Mamluks.

4 May - Here let me show you why I am having an issue with my Missionaries.

I am showing you a dialed in look at one of my recent takes from the Mamluks, the Egyptian Sunni making 10 dev province of Rashid:

https://i.ibb.co/HDhLr0X/20230216003050-1.jpg

See how I get +2 base, +2 Inquisitor, and my state and stability boost, but this is Sunni, 10 dev, not a state, and not an accepted culture? They combine to not give me anything. And I cannot make Egyptian a culture until they are state. So I need to finish the Idea Group, make states, remove that -2 penalty, accept Egyptian remove that penalty, and then begin converting the masses.

Our peace treaty with the Mamluks is ending in four years and you can see the Turks are taking all of the land to the east but nothing past us as I declined military access. They were left by their ally Adal and now have none.

In the meantime I am considering a short Kongo Region war.

Ndongo – 7k, 1 nation surrounded by us
Ally – four province size nation of Lunda, 3k

My Kongo Army of 14k should be enough for both, and then what I’d do is hold off on cores until enough ADM power to get my next idea and then core slowly while waiting for the war with Mamluks and then while warring.

I send a Missionary to Lobi – 50 months, pretty long

My next idea group has to be Religious.

1 June – Taytay – Final colony in Philippines,- Island chain to east, next to Brunei and strait to Tondo, Algerian, Ibadi, Coastline, 5 dev, Tropical Wood, makes us 0.07


This was my free colony, do I pull one in Siberia or La Plata to make one free there?

Yes I pull from Penzhina and send to Okhotsk coastal and west of us in Tauisk

5 June – Our Kongo army arrives between Ndongo and Lunda and I DOW for Ndongo’s capital and only province of Matamba! I don’t call anyone, obviously

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Chapter Ninety-Five - The First Algiers/Ndongo War


17 June – Natives in Okhotsk killed

26 June – Barito now a core from the island of Borneo!

5 July – We win in Matamba and I begin a siege, they have no Castle or Bastion so this should be quick

1 Sept – I lose my claim on Dagbon in Dagbon

22 Oct – Matamba is ours! Next the capital of Lunda, Mpasu also no defensive fortification

12 Dec – My March of Sale wins in Kuba against their 3k army

19 Jan, 1598 - They rout the Lundan army in Nunu

1 Feb – Relations maxed with Korea and Shun, I pull my diplomats

7 Feb – Mpasu falls!

12 Mar – Event – Temporary Insanity of Monarch – I choose guidance from military and lose 224 cash and 10 prestige but gain 5 army and navy tradition

9 April – Minor of Munene falls to us

22 April – Diplomats are back, next make nice with Muscovy and Solon

I have enough for the Idea

22 May – Nunu and Kuba are ours, we have every holding of Ndongo and Lunda and a 100% warscore.

Can we grab both 5 holdings from all 2 nations? Kuba was an ally, so that would be harder, let’s see what I can grab.

Ndongo:

Matamba – Wartarget, surrounded by us, 2.6 badboy, 6 warscore

Lunda:

Nunu – 10 score and badboy, west of Kuba

Kuba – Next to Kazembe, east of Nunu – 12 score and 14 badboy

I can get just two without bringing in a coalition next to me Kazembe. They have 13k. Do I care and just take Munene and Mpasu?

I take them and likely my next war in the region is against them.


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56 warscore and 44.3 badboy, I do it. My new stuff:

Ndongo:

Matamba – Wartarget, surrounded by us, Tropical Grasslands, 6 dev, Slave Trade, Mbundu Fetishists making us 0.04.

Lunda:

Nunu – 10 score and badboy, west of Kuba, north of Munene, south of Wasteland, 4 dev, Tropical Wood, Tropical Jungle, Kuba Fetishists, making us 0.04

Kuba – Next to Kazembe, east of Nunu, north of Munene and next to Mazembe, Emporium Center of Trade, Kuba Fetishist, the rich Cloth trade here, Jungle, 0.02, Tropical, 6 dev.

Munene – Center of area taken, next to Mazembe, connects Mpasu in the south with Nunu and Kuba to the north. Spice Trade, 6 dev, makes .03, Fetishist Kuba, Tropical Jungle

Mpasu – The former capital, south of Munene, next to Mazembe, makes 0.04. Spices, Savannah, 6 dev, Lunda people, Fetishist faith, tropical

Much wealthier in trade goods than the 5 I just took. Tropical Wood is now 3.0, so all were at least 3.0, including 2 Spices, 1 Cloth, and one 1 COT.

[Abe Sargent]

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Chapter Ninety-Six - Civil Service Discovered


22 May – I order my 14k into Munene to guard.

I take the last ADM Idea!

ADM #7 – Civil Service – We get -10% Admin Tech Costs.

For finishing we get +25% Governing Capacity - but I don’t have the benefits

I’ll wait until 1 June maybe they’ll be ready then.

I can pass two more acts. Do I want to pass one?

Nope, none are the free Adm I could pass. I have the Liquor Act and the Colonial Admin Act

1 June – Nope, still no more states

I core Kuba for 20

3 Aug – My 25k army is done in Sirt! I am spending 60.01 on my army now.

With just four colonies I am making 34.03 monthly

25 Aug – I un-state the four provinces in the State of Guinea, my West Coast Colonies with three low dev things and one Ivory.

I destate Quelimane which is Inhambane.

And the 6 small Western Sahara

I state:

Delta – Dumyat, Rashid and iskandarriyya

I spend 94 DIP and promote Egyptian to an accepted culture! I move Iskandarriyya to my Majils seat that Inhambane had

Missionary to Dumyat - It now has a +3.4 progress monthly.

1 Sept – Tauisk – Siberia – Rich Copper Mines at a 4.5 value, Forest, Arctic, 3 dev, west of us in Gizhega, east of Okhotsk, inland of one, making 0.04, Ibadi Algerians

I lost these colonists were my extra in the policy for 10 years, and am down to my base 3 Colonists.

I put that same as a new policy for that for debate with our Majils

New Tech!

MIL TECH 16 – Standardization of Calibre – I get new artillery, better +1 artillery fire, +0.1 artillery shock, can built Training Fields. I upgrade my armies

Core ordered for Matemba at 17 ADM and Nunu 11

1 Oct – Portugal is coming to Cascadia

1 Nov – Core for Mpasu at 17

9 Nov- One of my Conquistadors pass I hire another

Looks like we’ve finished exploring Siberia I order my army east.

11 Nov – Our colony in Okhotsk sets up!

2 Dec – Another Government Reform!

Tier 8 – Legitimization of Power:

I have 5 options like Leviathan and Machiavelli

What do I like?

I like these two:

The Social Contract - -1% national unrest; no penalties for Heretic and Heathen provinces

Two Treatises of Government - -0.05% Yearly Corruption; +1 Max promoted Cultures, Expanded Admin Cost -100%

Each has things I like! No penalties for Heretics and Heathens? Great! Then reduced corruption and another promoted culture is great too. Love them both!

Let’s try the Social Contract, before I do I am making 188.09 monthly

[Abe Sargent]

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Chapter Ninety-Seven - Ending the Century



1 Jan, 1599 - I am now making 189.45 not a big difference.

Tlingit – Cascadia connects Nisga’a and Sitka – Algerian, Ibadi, 3 dev, Mountains, Livestock, 0.04, strait to island of Haida

Sitka – North of Tlingit – Arctic, Mountains, Fish, 3 dev, makes 0.02, Ibadi Algerians. Next to Yakutat unclaimed.

I order these two colonists to Yakutat and Haida

17 Adm core for Munene ordered

I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Kawar, I have the money for another but I’ll keep it unspent for now.

11 Jan – Cores done in 5 holdings from the Wagadugu war!

18 Mar – Natives in Yakutat killed

I spend 50 DIP to invite minorities

I promote Songhai as a culture

1 June – Penzhina – Siberia, Kamchatka Peninsula – east of Gizhiga, next to all four one province tribes. Glacial, Arctic, 3 dev, Iron Mines, Algerian and Ibadi making us 0.03

4 June – Natives in Haida killed

25 July – Event – Tariffs on Tobacco – We tax and Brazil gets +5% good stuff

14 Aug – My Conquistador army returned from western Siberia to my 1k army in Jugjur, I combine them

1 Jan, 1600 – The next Institution has arrived – Global Trade.

The Age of Reformation is ending in 121 months and with it our abilities

I order a Trade Station for Djado’s Slaves and Textile Manufactory for Tripoli’s Cloth

Every Mamluk holding in Arabia and the Levant is captured by our ally the Turks. But they are not in Africa.

17 Mar – Event – Wave of Obscuritarianism – I have four options, I choose to gain 112 cash since my leader is Greedy we get that option out of a bad event.

1 May – 12k rebellion in Dumyat against my Missionary -I have my 25k army here from Sirt

19 May – Defeated and we lost around 2.1 men

1 June – Okhotsk good for finding Gems!

1 July – Relations maxed with Muscovy and Solon, I pull my diplomats

16 July – Event – I gain 50 Adm power from a Great Advisor event

1 Aug- I send my Muscovy diplomat to build a spy network in Kazembe

5 Sept – Cores done in Kuba, Nunu, and Matamba

19 Sept – I send my Solon diplomat to make nice with Japan

9 Nov – Mpasu a core!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Ninety-Eight - Metallurgy Discovered


1 Jan, 1601 – New Tech!!!

ADM TECH 16 – Just 262 power – Metallurgy – I can build the Manufactory Mill which is for Gems, Glass, Chinaware, Paper, and Tropical Wood. +2% Production efficiency

I order a Mill for Chinaware in East Timor

I don’t buy anything more I have more than 1k for mercs as this year is the Mamluks one could begin

The Mamluks – 45k, us in Egypt – 3 25k armies, so I can slowly expand without worrying about them punching me back, and hopefully I won’t need the 40k mercs like last time. Remember their ally did not join the Turks in their war so they are ally less.

5 Jan – Rashid converts! Next is Atfih in 27 months, which I cored.

30 Jan – Dumyat converts! Next is Ijebu in 33 months

19 Mar – Munene cored! All cores are done!

1 May – Our truce is up with the Indies power we were at war with like Majaphait and Brunei.

1 June – I lose my claim on a Dagbon province in West Africa

8 July – Lobi converts! Next is Matamba at 34 months

1 Aug – Treaty with the Mamluks is up, I order my two 25k armies to Atfih’s Bastion holding

13 Aug – I declare war for the Mamluks for their Cotton province of Fayyum next to Atfih

[Abe Sargent]

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Chapter Ninety-Nine - The 2nd Algiers/Mamluks War

I order my 75k to Fayyum

27 Aug – 22k of them arrive to siege Iskandarriyya

24 Sept – Fayyum is ours, I order my combined army to the siege

1 Nov – Yakutat good for Fish, yuck

15 Nov – Our heir died, a new one is Muhammad, 3/4/4, age 16

29 Nov – We relieve the siege!

1 Dec - Our heir gained the Expansionist trait

14 Jan, 1602 – We capture a minor and move to their capital of Qahirah. This has a Bastion so it’ll take a while

1 Mar – Relations maxed with Japan I pull my diplomat

1 June – Okhotsk – Siberia – next to Tauisk and unclaimed Jugjur, Grasslands, 3 dev, Gems, makes us 0.06, Algerian and Ibadi

I order these colonist to Jugjur

2 June – Natives killed there

11 June – Sale March has arrived and is taking a province by the Red Sea

4 July – They recapture Fayyum

17 July – After a fast siege, their capital of Qahriah falls!

I order my army south

21 July – Two minors fall to me

1 Aug – Separatists rise up in Munene where my army is

20 Aug – We win!

22 Aug – Fayyum falls, they have their big army next door in Ushmanayn and I order my army to it

21 Sept – We win the battle

I have a warscore of 40

13 Oct – A minor falls

26 Oct We capture Ushmanayn!

1 Nov – 11k Wagadugu Separistis in Wagadugu, I order my 15k army over

7 Nov – Another minor falls, this time to Sale

6 Dec – Another minor falls

9 Dec - We win a long campaign in Wagadugu

19 Dec – We rout 9k Mamluks troops in Girga

24 Jan, 1603 – We capture Girga

It looks like there are no more Bastions in their vast African territory, so there is nothing left to jump up the warscore.

7 Mar – Two minors fall

10 Mar – Aftih converts! Next is 35 month long Iskandarriyya

21 April – Another minor falls, I have a warscore of 51

29 May – Two minors fall

13 June – Another minor falls

6 July – Another falls

54%

7 Aug – Three more fall

New Tech!!!

DIP TECH 17 – Merchantman – We can build Trade Depots, upgraded Marketplaces, and the Merchantman ship and +50 colonial range and +20 trade range

18 Sept – Two minors fall and there is a 22k army here I move my armies to

18 Oct – We win and now have a 62% warscore

28 Oct - I rout their army

Conversion in Ijebu! Next is the 35 month long Shinje!

1 Nov - Haida – Island, strait to Tlingit, Fish, 3 dev, Cascadia, Forest, makes us 0.04 Algerian and Ibadi

I order these colonists west of Yakutat to Eyak.

24 Nov – Two more minors falls

28 Nov – Event – The faith in Yos Sudorso is now Sunni and I lose 10 prestige

1 Dec – A minor falls

Yakutat – Cascadia – Artic, 3 dev, Algerian, Ibadi, Fish, makes us .02

We form Algerian Alaska, I’ll keep one colonist here and the other two to Siberia. I order these colonist to Kolyma north and inland of Gizhaga

12 Dec – The Ottomans go to peace with the Mamluks, and they have taken the holding next to us in the Sinai peninsula so we cannot expand south of them.

17 Dec – Sale captures a minor, I order one army back to my territory in Northern Egypt.

2 Jan, 1604 – Another minor falls, one left in Africa, I order another army back

14 Jan – The last African Mamluks holding falls and I have a warscore of 77%. What can I grab?

North Egypt –

Al Gharbiya – South of us in Rashid and Dumyat, 12 score, 18 badboy,

Buhairya – West of Al Gharbiya, south of Rashid and Iskandariyya, 5 score, 8 badboy

Qahirah – Capital, south of Al Gharbiya, east of Buhairya, 33 score, 36 badboy

No one cares save the Mamluks, 50 score, 60.1 badboy

What else?

Fayyum – 5 score, 13 badboy, south of Qahirah,

Still no one cares, just the Mamluks

Bahirya – South of Buhairya, west of Fayyum, 4 score and 5 badboy

Ushmanayn - South of Fayyum, east of Bahirya – 10 score, 14 badboy

Total – 91.9 badboy and 69 score

Can I get anything else?

Akhmin – South of Ushmanayn, 8 badboy, 5 score

Farafreh – West of Akhmin, south of Bahirya – 4 score and badboy too

Anything else? I cannot get Girga, but I can get one of Ras Garab or Kharga which is better? Ras is Fish, Kharga Livestock, I do Kharga – 4 score, 3 badboy

Total –

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82 score and 106.7 badboy, just the Mamluks care! I took their capital off the map, nasty!

I do it and core their capital at 95, and then 77 for Fayyum, and Minya and 51 for Al Gharbia and then 26 for Manfalut and then 22 for Buhairya and then 15 for Bahirya and then that’s out and I don’t have the 22 total for the other two:

Al Gharbiya – South of us in Rashid and Dumyat, Farmlands, 16 dev, Farm Estate for Grain, Mosque, Workshop, makes 0.57, Egyptian and Sunni,

Buhairya – West of Al Gharbiya, south of Rashid and Iskandariyya – Desert, 7 dev, Salt, 0.07 made here, Egyptian Sunnis it’s not Arid

Qahirah – Capital, south of Al Gharbiya, east of Buhairya, Great Project “The Pyramid of Cheops”, Center of Trade Emporium, Farmlands, 31 dev, Cloth makers, Sunni and Egyptian make 0.85 with a built Bastion, Marketplace, Textile Manufactory, Barracks, Mosque, Workshop,

Fayyum – 5 score, 13 badboy, south of Qahirah, - Wartarget – Cotton growers, Mosque, 12 dev, Farmlands, 0.57, Egyptian and Sunni.

Bahirya – South of Buhairya, west of Fayyum, - Arid, Desert, 4 dev, Livestock, Egyptian and Sunni, 0.05

Ushmanayn renamed “Minya” - South of Fayyum, east of Bahirya – Sugar grown here, Plantation and Workshop built here, Egyptian and Sunni Drylands, 12 dev, .12

Akhmin renamed “Manfilut” – South of Minya, north of Mamluks – Drylands, 7 dev, Cotton grown here, Egyptian and Sunni and makes 0.19

Farafreh – West of Akhmin, south of Bahirya – Egyptian and Sunni, Arid and Desert, Livestock, 3 dev, just 0.05 made here.

Kharga – West of Mamluks, south of Farafreh – 3 dev, Livestock, Egyptian and Sunni, Arid and Desert making us 0.05 with that accepted culture and 2.5 value for Livestock.

Nice additions, mostly, with a few toss ins. Cloth, Cotton, Sugar, Salt all great.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred - Interwar Period


14 Jan - I order one 25k army to Qahirah, one to Minya and the other to Iskandariyya.

I order built:

Trade Station for Incense in Palu
Mill for Tropical Wood in Flores and in Luanda
Mill for Gems in Sula

I keep 966 unpent for emergencies

My manpower is pretty hit I’ll need to wait a bit for it to recharge or for minor wars. Desert fighting was rough.

Or mercs

19 Jan – I kill natives in Eyak

1 Feb – For 11 ADM core ordered for Farafreh

I cannot rival Austria any more next is India’s Bahmanis

1 April – Another 11 spent to core Kharga – everything is now ordered!

12 April – Natives killed in Kolyma!

Spain is in Cascadia too as is Friesland

1 May – I spend 50 MIL for claims on everything adjacent, and Holy War

21 May – Matamba converts! Next is 40 month long Gao

7 July – Malacca DOWs Brunei, I accept

I have 1202 cash for mercs. We are at war with Brunei, Bone and Madyas and that’s it.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and One - The 2nd Malacca & Algiers / Brunei War

This is a horrible time for an Indies war since I don’t have the manpower for a longer burn, and I just used my ADM power for coring my new takes in Egypt. That’s a rough hit, but Malacca are my people here and we need to keep things chummy.

I don’t have the 40k mercs available so I order 30k in Borneo’s Bastion of Sampas next to Brunei

I hire 15k on Sulawesi’s Bastion of Palopo next to Bone to join my 5k there

24 July – I order 20k from Palopo to Bone’s Wajo, and my 30k to Kuching

1 Aug – The Turks broke their alliance with us – that’s not good. Peace for 5 years and we have military access so hopefully that’ll stay.

1 Sept – We capture Wajo!

9 Sept – We win a long battle against 19k Brunei forces in our holding of Meliau

21 Oct – Kuching is ours, next is the Bastion of Kapit

22 Nov – 8k are sieging us in Samarinda that are owned by Kutai but rented to Borneo as Janissaries

6 Dec – Our Philippines holding of Samar falls to Madyas next to us on the islands

14 Dec – They capture Samarinda

7 Jan, 1605 – Bikol falls

25 Feb – Malacca retakes Samarinda

10 Mar – Caraga falls

1 April – Our first Siberian miss - Jugjur with Fish

10 April – Tagloc falls

13 June - Their Bastion of Kapit falls!

We have a 38% score with Malacca and 8 just us, so we cannot take anything yet. Malacca is besieging their capital next door, so I split my armies into two adjacent minors. Remember I had my 4k with 3k cavalry here in Borneo last war for making my mercs be able to launch a fusillade.

21 July – I invite a Shalaf’i Scholar from great relations with Alaska – I send it to La Plata to collect

12 Aug – We capture two minors. Brunei’s capital has fallen to Malacca

17 Aug – Cores done in Fayyum, Qahirah, Al Gharbia, Minya and Buhaira. Four left!

28 Sept – We capture Bone’s capital of Bone But I cannot take them both from Bone as a junior partner by Brunei.

Can I get peace from Brunei something substantial?

Malacca and I have a warscore of 82%. What can I get with my score of 29%?

Kuching – Borneo - Next to us in Sambas and Meliau. 6 warscore and 7 badboy

Sigalang – Borneo – East of Kuching, North of Meliau - 11 badboy, 9 warscore

Sibu – Borneo- North of Sigalang -13 badboy, 9 warscore,

Total – 24 score and 31.1 badboy

I can get three provinces on Borneo, but the Turks and Mamluks will join an alliance against me, and they will for even one province. Do I take these three holdings and annoy the Turks? Or just stay allied with Malacca and let them take everything?

https://i.ibb.co/Km6WcyX/20230217173041-1.jpg

Let’s do it! Cores are 89 for all three.

Kuching – Borneo - Next to us in Sambas and Meliau – Bornean, Sunni, 6 Dev, Fishers, Jungle, Tropical, makes us 0.06 with Shipyard and Mosque.

Sigalang – Borneo – East of Kuching, North of Meliau, West of Brunei – Tropical, Jungle, Gems made here, Sunni, Bornean, Mosque, Shipyard, Workshop, 0.24 made here, 10 dev

Sibu – Borneo- North of Sigalang, surrounded by Brunei - Rich Spices, 11 dev, Jungle, Tropical, Bornen, Sunni, 0.23, Barracks, Shipyard and Mosque.

Nice three random additions, well two and Fish.

I disband my mercs and order my small armies home

[Abe Sargent]

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Chapter One Hundred and Two - Flintlock Musket Brought In

17 Oct – Manfalut is now cored and Bahirya too!

6 Nov – Farafreh a core, one left!

14 Dec – I send my diplomat after returning from Brunei to make nice with England

9 Jan, 1606 – Kharya is now a core and all ex-Mamluks are cored!

8 Feb – I start building a spy network in Brunei

22 Feb – Conversion in Iskandardaiyya! Next is 30 months Minya

14 June – New Tech!

MIL TECH 17 – Flintlock Musket – We get +1 calvary shock!

1 July - 20k rebellion in Qahirah

24 July – Two armies arrived and crushed it, lost around 5k forces combined

21 Sept – Peasant rebellion in our March of Tetuatlan

11 Oct – Shinje converts! Next is 30 month Fayyum

1 Nov – Truce with Dahomey ends

5 Nov - They barely won in my March with just 2.4k left

1 Dec – Eyak will be good for fishing.

1 Jan, 1607 – I save cash for the next upgrade in Qahirah’s Pyramids next year

2 April – Event – Famine in Lower Kassai Region

16 April – Event – Minorities flee to Jugjur – I choose and they get 400 colonists and they are Sunni.

Jugjur – Siberia, next to Solon, Okhotsk – Just Fish, 3 dev, Algerian, Sunni, 0.04 made here

I order these colonists to Yarmanka east of us in Kolyma

1 May – Kolyma is Copper another hit!

6 May – 100 Natives in Yarmanka killed

1 June – I lose my claim on Lwena in Kazembe

20 Aug – Event – Expansion of the Buru Madrasah – We agree and get better tax base and production in Buru and prestige

13 Sept – Gao converts, the former capital of Songhai! Next is the 45 month Kharga

1 Oct – I lose my claim on Bone’s Wajo

31 Oct – Sigalang and Kuching are cores!

29 Nov – Event we lose 10 prestige but gain +10% ulema estate loyalty

29 Dec – Sibu now a core, everything is cored!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Three - War in Siberia

2 Jan, 1608 – I spend 1k in the Pyramid of Cheops, which, when finished, will get me:

-5% Advisor costs
+5% ulema loyalty

I have 904 more cash but I’ll save for emergencies

There are four minor tribes in Siberia’s area, two are wealthy Fur with 3.5 value and next to each other inland next to my 14k with my Conquistador

One has 5k the other 6.

I DOW Omolon by Chukchi – it’ll take 100 days to get back

I order my 14k into Omolon

21 Jan – I rout their army in Omolon

29 Jan – I rout the Khodynt army who arrives

1 Feb – Relations maxed with England I pull my diplomat

27 Feb – We capture the capital of Chukchi Omolon

20 Mar - We arrive in Khodynt’s capital of Karaveyem

29 April – We capture Karaveyem!

We have a 100% warscore:

What can I get?

https://i.ibb.co/M9YhMrp/20230217182844-1.jpg

I can get them both for 24 warscore and just 12.6 badboy, I do it. Corsaro just 36

Omolon – Chukchi capital, east of Kolyma, west of Karaveyem, north of Gizhiga – Arctic, Fur Trade, 4 dev, Forest, Tengri faith, Kamchatkan culture, makes us 0.03

Karalveyem – North of Penzhina, east of Omolon, west of a tribe, 8 dev, Forest, Fur Trade, Arctic, Mosque, Tengri faith, Yukaghir culture, makes 0.15

Nice two Fur additions

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Four - The University Established

3 May – Spain was granted Cascadia by the Pope

12 July – Every Cascadia coastal province is now under someone’s control

7 Aug – Our diplomat returns from Siberia, I send it to make nice with Solon’s master Orochoni

23 Aug – Minya converts! Next is the 45 month campaign of Farafreh!

6 Sept – Spain did the first circumnavigation of the globe

1 Jan, 1609 – Our debate policy failed, I order it again

New Tech!

ADMIN TECH 17 – For 388 ADM, we get – University – We can build them, as well as +250 Governing Capacity and +10 Admin efficiency and then -10% dev cost.

I order these states made:

Bahari – Al Gharbia, Buhaira, Qahirah, and Sharqiya - We get a lot of boosts from that stating

Kong – West Africa – Kong Ivory, Bagoe Dyes, Lobi gold and Grain in Gwirko

Manding – West Africa – Gold Mines of Bure and Bambuk, Grain in Joma’s high dev Emporium, and Livestock in Do

Katsina – Central West Africa – Iron in Gobir, Dyes in Daura

Kalimantan – Borneo – Naval Supplies in Katapang; Grain in Meliau; Fish in Kuching; Gold in Pontianak and Sambas

I order these:

Mill for Atfih’s Paper
Trade Station for Spices in Isharddariyya


That drops me to 635, no more

I need to create another Seat in the Majils, I hand it to Qahirah

Busy day!

14 Jan – I accept knowledge sharing from Frankfurt

4 Mar – I have to hand out another Seat in the Majils, so it’s Pontianak

20 Mar – Our High Imam has passed!

Our new one is Muhammad IV with 3/4/4 stats. 23 years old.

We are now making 11/8/9 monthly

No heir or consort

I offer a Royal Marriage to Malacca. No Consort

Now that we have a ADM of at least 3 again I can pass an Act: Enforce Religious Unity - +2Missionary vs Heretics Sunni and Shia

6 April – Fayyum converts! Next is 18 month long Buhaira

25 April – They got married on their own, new heir – Abdallah – 4/3/2

1 May – Event – The one after I take over each time. I choose the most fit Sheikh, and we get +5% Taxes

9 May – One of our generals dies, I hire another

1 June – I lose 13 claims

29 June – Event – Colonial Expansion – I get +200 in Kolyma for 30 cash

Kolyma – Siberia – Arctic, Rich Copper Mines, Forest, 3 dev, Ibadi and Algerian makes us 0.04 monthly. I order these colonists to Suntar Khayata

10 Aug – Event – Local Traders Demand Aid – I send them 100 cash

30 Aug – 500 natives in Suntar Khayata killed

1 Sept – Peace with Turks after breaking our alliance ends today. Uh oh.

I lose my claim on Bone’s Bone

I claim Brunei’s Kapit and pull my diplomat to build up spy network in Bone

21 Sept – War in West Africa

Kano my next target is at war with – 6k
Wadai – 5k
Dahomey – 8k
Kanem Bornu – 1k

I order 25k from Egypt over

1 Nov – Relations maxed with Orochoni, I order it returned

10 Nov- Malacca’s war is over.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Five - Eyak Finished

1 Jan, 1610 – I order:

Mill for Tropical Wood in Bengkulu

Workshops here for Cloves:

Ambon, Halmahera, Buru, Ceram,

Sugar:

Dina Arobi; Dina Morgrabin

16 Jan – Royal Marriage with Persia

29 Jan – I send my Orochoni diplomat to make nice with Two Sicilies

1 Feb – The Age of Absolutism has begun!

1 Mar - Eyak – Cascadia – Mountains, Fish, 3 dev, handed to Colonial Nation, Algerian, Ibadi

I send these colonists to Siberia’s Sakha

1 April – Yarmanka is good for Iron mining

6 April – Natives in Sakha no longer

Our DIP Navigator Advise passes, I hire a level 2 Colonial Governor with +10% Tariffs

27 April – Malacca DOWs Sunda and Majapahit, I join them.

We are at war with Brunei and those two powers on Java island

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I hire 15k in Sumbawa, I don’t have the cash for the others.

30 April – Cores done in my new Siberian holdings

4 May - My fleet wins in the Straits of Lombok against a 1 ship strong Sunda fleet

9 May – Mercs here, I order them to cross a few straits to Blambangan a Bastion

12 June – We begin the Siege of Blambangan, I don’t have enough artillery for a fusillade, so this is the long route around

1 July – We lose some men in decay and cannot siege, I order more men built nearby locally

20 July – Kharga converts! Next is Sharqiya for 22 months

19 Aug – Our mercs lose a big battle and are send back, being routed, that’s not good

6 Sept – Event – Wave of Immigration - +200 in Yarmanka

1 Oct – Our Army Reformer level 3 advisor in MIL died I hire one level 3 Grand Captain with -10% Army Maintained,

29 Oct – Buhaira converts! Next is AL Gharbia for 22 months

14 Nov – Sumbawa falls

9 Feb, 1611 – Farafreh converts! Next is Tarrana at 27 months

1 May – I have saved enough cash for 30 mercs I hire them in West Timor

13 May - I have 30k against their 26k but they have a 3 star general and then better number of cavalry and artillery, so I order more in Timor.

10 June – Malacca peace with Kutai. Cash, just Java now

1 Dec – Relations maxed with Two Sicilies, I pull my diplomat and make nice with Austria

Should I just begin my West African War? This one will likely take a while and I doubt that we’ll win anything, so using my ADM power to core the West Africa stuff would make sense.

1 Jan, 1612 - Yarmanka – Siberia, Forest, Arctic, Iron Mines, Ibadi Algerian making 0.03, I order these colonists to Verkhoyansk

4 Feb – Melakka wins! The war is over, I disperse my 30k mercs

I cancel the rest of my army building and have 7k in West Timor

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I order Workshops for:

Spices in Yamdena
Tropical Wood in Flores
Coffee in Manado
Chinaware in East Timor
Gems in West Timor

I make a State South Sulawesi – Buton’s Spices, Kendari’s Incense, Palopo’s Iron, Spices in Kolaka

I hand Buton a Majils Seat

5 Feb – Natives killed in Verkhoyansk

In West Africa the War against Dagbon by Kano and her allies continues.

My armies:

15k in Ivory Coast next to Cape Coast with 12k
14k in Bonny – my Kongo army moved, next to Kano
25k in Daura north of Kano and their capital

They have 13k sieging Dagbon’s capital

I declare war for Kano’s Biram, a 5 dev Dye next to the border

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I order my three armies in

26 Mar – Event – Monopoly Company Formed – We get 3004 cash!

1 Apr – I begin sieges in Cape Coast and Kano with fusillades

19 Apr – Minor in Kano falls, next the Bastion of Benin

17 May – Conversion in Sharqiya, next is Bardiya at 27 months

19 May – We capture Kano and have a warscore of 18!

31 May – Cape Coast is ours! Now a score of 25%

29 June – Two minors falls, I move to the capital of Kanem Bornu

31 July – Peace with Dagbon to focus on me

10 Aug – Another minor falls

23 Aug – Gold Coast in Dahomey falls as does another minor

They capture Gurma

1 Sept – Copper mines in Suntar Khayata

15 Sept _ Al Gharbia converts! Next is 27 months in Darnah

24 Sept – Another minor falls to me in Kano

5 Oct – Arbandia falls to them

10 Nov – Kanem Bornu’s capital falls!

I have a 44% warscore

19 Nov – Event – Colonial Expansion!

1 Dec – GOLD IN SAKHA!!!

1 Mar, 1613 – Truce with Brunei is up

6 May – Tarrana converts, next is 27 months for Lae

11 Aug – After 471 Days, Benin falls!

We have a warscore of 66%

I can get:

Let’s start with the coast:

Benin - 9 badboy, 19 warscore, next to us in Ijebu

Warri – Connects Benin and Bonny – 2 badboy, 5 score

Ife – Inland of Ijebu and Benin – 10 score, 8 badboy

Ondo- Inland of all three – 3 badboy, 7 warscore

Idah – Inland of Bonny, east of Ondo – 3 badboy, 6 warscore

Pindinga – Inland of Idah and Ife – 2 badboy, 6 score

Rano – inland of Pindinga, south of wartarget Biram – 5 badboy, 8 warscore

Biram – Wartarget, north of Rano, south of us – 5 badboy and warscore too

That’s a warscore of 66, my total

Can I do anything else?

Nupe – Inland of Ife and Pindinga – 4 badboy, 7 warscore

That’s it, only the Mamluks and Turks will care, not Kano

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Check this out! I do it and spend ADM equal to 133 ADM

Benin - Next to us in Ijebu – “Walls of Benin” Great Project, Bastion, Shipyard, Mosque, Natural Harbor, Niger Estuary, Ivory Traded here, Tropical, 12 dev, Jungle, Yoruba Fetishists make us 0.21

Warri – Connects Benin and Bonny – Also Tropical, Jungle, Yoruba Fetishist with 3 dev, Slave trade and 0.06 made

Ife – Inland of Ijebu and Benin – Glass trade, Castle, Mosque, 9 dev, Savannah, Tropical, Fetishist, Yoruba makes 0.15

Ondo - Inland of all three – Workshop, Jungle, Coffee grown here, Tropical, Yoruba, Fetishists, makes 0.07 with 5 dev.

Idah – Inland of Bonny, east of Ondo – Nupe culture, Fetishist faith, Ivory trade, Savannah, Tropical, 5 dev, 0.10

Pindinga – Inland of Idah and Ife – Also Nupe Fetishist, Livestock, Savannah, 0.04, 3 dev, Tropical

Rano – inland of Pindinga, south of wartarget Biram – 0.47 made here, rich Dyes trade, Textile Manufactory and Workshop, Hausa people, Fetishist faith, Tropical, Savannah, 5 dev

Biram – Wartarget, north of Rano, south of us – 5 dev, Textile Manufactory, Workshop, Dyes, Savannah, Hausa Sunni tropical, 0.64 made here

Nupe – Inland of Ife and Pindinga - Toss in for free, Tropical, Coffee, 5 dev, Savannah, Nupe, Fetishists, Workshop makes 0.12

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11 Aug –

Nice additions, two Dyes, 1 Glass, 2 Ivory, 2 Coffee, good stuff. We are also near two unclaimed internal holdings in Bauchi and Wukari. I now have a land connection from Kongo to Egypt.

I order my 25k army back to Egypt

15k from Kongo with a Conquistador to explore our unclaimed area

15k from Dahomey to Ife

I order:

Great Works Here:

1875 – Mpemba in Kongo’s former capital, when finished we get +0.5 Annual Legitimacy and +33% Institution Spread in True Faith provinces and +15% reform progress

1875 – Timbuktu – When complete -5% tech costs, 30% institution spread,

Trade Station for Incense in Kendari; Ivory for Kong;

Workshops in:

Spices in Gorontalo
Sugar in Sus and Madeira

2 Oct- Rebels cross over from Kano into Ife

16 Oct – Defeated

12 Nov – I discover a province called Yola also unclaimed but with 9k nasty people. I order this army to Kongo

I boost our stability back to +3

2 Jan, 1614 – I order:

Workshop for Spices in Ghadames and Paper in Atfih

Event – Marriageable Women in Sakha

2 Feb – Relations maxed with Austria, I pull back my diplomat

I spend 50 DIP to invite minorities

12 Feb – Natives killed in Bauchi

15 Feb – I send my Austrian Diplomat to make nice with Bengal

My next war should be Bone before the Malacca peace is up with them in 4 years.

2 May - I order my 4k from Borneo and my 7k from Timor to Palopo where I have 9k to have one army in the Indies I can use for smaller wars without mercs, I order more transports to help with a bigger fleet.

1 June – We pass Charter Colonies and get another colonist and +20 growth for ten years!

I send to Bauchi to set up and then leave for Siberia

10 July – Bardiya converts! Next is 23 month Yos Sudaraso again

12 July – Natives killed in Wukari

1 Sept – Sakha – GOLD! Siberia – 4 dev, Forest, Arctic, Ibadi and Algerian making us 0.21. I state it and its making 0.43 now.

I send these colonists to Wukari, and again we’ll set up, and head back to Siberia

21 Sept - Bauchi sets up, I pull for Siberia’s Maya

22 Oct – Darnah converts; next is Bahirya for 24 months

27 Nov – Natives in Maya killed

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1 Jan, 1615 – Naval Supplies in Verkhoyansk, uh oh.

Suntar Khayata – Siberia – Wealthy copper mines, Ibadi, Algerian, Arctic, Forest, 3 dev, makes 0.06

I order these colonists north of Maya to Kharya

I order nothing with my 1852 cash for when I to hire mercs for the Bone war against Kutai on Borneo and Brunei with 11k forces

I have 23k in Sulawesi and 2k more ordered

4 Feb – Natives killed in Kharya

1 Mar – I lose 14 claims

30 Mar – Natives killed inland of Jugjur called Stanovoy

I order my 14k to Indies to Tagloc in the Philippines

25k army done in Sulawesi island

15 May – Lae converts, next is Kuching for 25 months

13 Aug – Cores done in Benin, Idah, Biram, Ondo and Warri that I had claims on

31 Aug – My army arrives in Tagloc

I pull colonists from Wukari and send to Siberia’s Stanovoy

12 Sept – Ife now a core!

All of my armies are up.

I can’t DOW Bone it’s a tributary and Malacca would join them. I could DOW Kutai and get Bone and Sulu, or Brunei and get Bone and Sulu

I DOW Brunei for Maguindanao in the Philippines next to Tagloc

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I order my army into the Castle of Maguindanao from Tagloc for a siege
25k in Sulawesi to Waju
I hire an Independent Army with 45k troops in Borneo for 1020 cash and 22 monthly

24 Sept – Mercs here!

I order my forces to the Bastion of Kapit

17 Oct – We begin the Siege

21 Oct – Wajo falls, next is Bone

13 Nov – The other cores from Kano are finished!

They capture Lombok

10 Feb, 1616 - Minor in the Philippines falls

23 Mar – Another Philippines minor falls

24 April – Kapit is ours, next Brunei’s capital

2 June – 257 days later Maguindanao is ours!

28% warscore

5 June – Two minors in Brunei and Philippines fell to me

26 June – Yos Sudorso converts, next is Bangazi for 25 months

10 July – Brunei’s capital falls, we have a warscore of 54%

26 July – The last Brunei Philippines holding falls to us, just Borneo Island left

14 Aug – Event – Unite the Colony in Wukari +100

1 Sept- Wukari with Naval Supplies

I max relations with Bengal and recall my diplomat

9 Sept – Two Borneo Brunei falls

20 Oct – The last two Brunei are ours, all that is left is the Island of Sulu and the last holding in Bone’s capital of Bone, I have a warscore of 62%

Wait until Bone falls or grab peace now?

What could I get?

Let’s start with the Philippines:

Maguindanao – Wartarget, Castle, in the big center south island, 13 badboy, 8 score

Lanao – North of Maguindanao and next to us. 5 badboy, 8 score

Butuan – the last holding on the island, north of us and east of Lanao – 3 badboy and 6 warscore

Only the Mamluks care so far, not the Turks

Palawan – Next to Taytay, 7 badboy, 9 score

Now the Turks care

Buglas – The last holding in the Philippines,5 badboy, 7 warscore

Total 5 in the islands – 33.6 badboy, 38 warscore

Next?

Borneo Island:

Kapit – Internal, next to us and Brunei’s Capital, 2 badboy, 6 warscore

Bintulu – Coastal, connects us and Brunei’s capital and next to Kapit – 8 each badboy and warscore

Total -
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52 score and 43.5 badboy

Ready for muh stuff?

I do peace and buy Cores for 127


The Philippines:

Maguindanao – Wartarget, Castle, in the big center south island, Filipino and Animist, Spice trade, Hills, Tropical, 14 dev, has a Mosque and Workshop making 0.35

Lanao – North of Maguindanao and next to us. Shipyard, Workshop, Filipino and Hindu, Coastline, 6 dev, Tropical, Spice, 0.08

Butuan – the last holding on the island, north of us and east of Lanao – Natural Harbor, Marsh, Gems, 4 dev, Shipyard and Marketplace, Filipino and Hindu, 0.03 and Tropical

Palawan – Next to Taytay – 8 dev, Filipino and Sunni, Coastline, Tropical Sugar, has Shipyard and Workshop, makes 0.18

Buglas – The last holding in the Philippines, -Tropical Coastline, Filipino and Animist, 0.16 and 6 dev, Sugar trade and Mosque and Workshop.

Borneo Island:

Kapit – Internal, next to us and Brunei’s Capital, Bastion, Mosque, Bornean culture and Sunni faith and then Tropical Wood, 3 dev, Tropical and Jungle, making 0.10

Bintulu – Coastal, connects us and Brunei’s capital and next to Kapit – Fishing here, Bornean Sunni, 8 dev, Jungle, Tropical, Shipyard and Mosque making us .18

Great new stuff in the Philippines and two minor throw ins.

I disband my mercs

I order my 4k in Borneo left to Sibu

I order my 16k army back to Siberia and 25k back to the Palopo Bastion

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20 Oct - I order:

Mill for Loango’s Gems
Farm Estate for Lesser Namaqualand’s Livestock

Workshops here:

For Ivory in Gabu and Futa Jallon
Sugar in Sfax
Incense in Palu

I promote Moloccan as an accepted culture

I state-ify –

Kano – Dyes of Biram and Rano

Benin – Slaves in Ijebu, Warri, Ivory in Benin, Coffee in Ondo

23 Oct - Our Admiral passes and I hire another

He’s just a 1 star

26 Oct - I send my Bengali Diplomat to build a spy network with Bone again

I hand a seat in the Majils to Borneo’s Gold Sambas and Benin’s Ivory

28 Oct – Conversion in Bahirya! Next is As-Suways for 25 months

1 Nov – The price of Glass rises a lot to 4.5 from 3.0

28 Nov – France swaps from rivalling us to Austria

I send a diplomat to make nice with them

1 Jan, 1617 – Bauchi with Tropical Wood!

I don’t order anything with my 1036 cash I save it for a possible War #3 against Mamluks this year.

10 Jan – Iron is up to 4.5, Copper is down to 3.45

1 Feb – 11k rebellion in Benin, I order my 15k from Ife over

1 Mar – Verkhoyansk – Siberia – Naval Supplies now, Coal later, Forest, Arctic, Algerian, Ibadi, 3 dev makes us 0.03.

I cannot send these colonists to Siberia since the two unclaimed are next to colonies territories so I send to inland South Africa’s Mountain of Swazi with 3 dev but a high chance at something good, inland of Matsolo and Mtetwa and northeast of Highveld

7 Mar – We win against the rebels!

19 Mar - I reject an alliance offer by Persia, too far away

1 May – Peace with Mamluks is up! Militarily:

Mamluks – 26k
Fars – 7k
Funj – 7k
Gazikmukh – On the Caspian Sea far side of the Turks – 18k

Us in Egypt – 2 armies of 25k, one of 26k – 76k total.

We don’t need mercs

I order my troops to the border in Manfalut

4 June – I declare war for the Mamluks’ Guiga, a Grain province next to us that’s their capital

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25 June - Kuching converts, next is Warri for 19 months

22 July – Girga falls, I send my forces to hit them on the border province on the Red Sea of Ras Gareb

22 Aug – We win in Ras Gareb – they lost around 7k

1 Oct – Ras Garab falls

Naval Supplies in Maya

18 Oct – Two minors fall

4 Nov – Do I get a new tech in Admin during the war? It’s another Group of Ideas! I do

ADMIN TECH 18 – National Sovereignty

I take Religious Ideas

1 Dec – Iron in Kharya!

13 Dec – Two minors fell

19 Dec – Another falls

5 Jan, 1618 – Another New Tech!

DIP TECH 18 – Line of Battle – We can build the ship Galiot, +0.50 naval morale and 10 naval engagement

I order my fleet upgraded for 50

18 Feb – Three minors have fallen

15 Mar – Another minor falls

8 May – We win the Battle of Hamsian

1 June – Stanovoy with Iron! Nasty!

22 June – Hamasien falls!

I order this army to the capital of Funj in Gezira

15 July – Two more minors fall

26 July – We arrive in Gezira and begin a siege

1 Aug – 21k Mamluks are besieging us in As-Suways, I order two armies to break off and head there

6 Aug – Bangazi converts! Next is Biram in 25 months

24 Sept – Gezira falls!

13 Oct – A minor Mamluks falls to the cavalry I left behind while heading north to As-Suways

23 Oct – Cores done in every Brunei province we took save for Buglas.

4 Nov – A minor Funj falls

1 Dec – We win in As-Suways

I order my two armies to the Mamluk’s Fort of Tabuk a Bastion in Arabia

13 Dec – We capture a minor in Funj and Mamluks

10 Jan, 1619 – We begin the siege of Tabuk

27 Jan - Warri converts, and next is the 25 month campaign of Rano

29 Jan – Another minor falls

1 Mar – Our ruler gains the “Well Advised” trait!

16 Mar – Every African Mamluks holding is ours

1 April – South Africa’s Swazi with Livestock

7 June – As-Suways converts! Next is Ondo for 25 months too

1 July – I decline a peace offer from Funj for War Reparations

1 Aug – I claim Bone’s Bone and pull back my diplomat

9 Aug – Event – I tax Grain from one of our colonies

9 Oct – We embrace Global trade! We get another Merchant! I pass the Indian Trade Company Act and get another Merchant I send to:

Collect in:

Alexandria
The Moluccas

20 Oct – Bahamanis no longer rivals us

1 Nov – New Tech –

MIL TECH 18 – Carbine – 2 more combat width, +25 maneuver value, and I get better cavalry and canon, but I won’t upgrade until post war

21 Nov – The Turks Rival us, uh oh.

1 Jan, 1620 – Kharya – Siberia – Iron Mining, Arctic, Forest, Ibadi, 3 dev, Algerian, makes us 0.19 since it’s in the state I made with the Gold Mine. I order these colonists east to Yakut

Rebellion in Biram – I order my 15k over from Rano

18 Jan = Mamluks retake Dongola

28 Jan – We win in Biram

29 Jan – Rebels killed in Yakut

31 Jan – Tabuk falls, I now have a 60% warscore

What do I want? Most of the stuff near me is pretty poor trade good, like Grain, Fish, and Livestock

I’m fighting their 11k that took Dongola, I hold off to get a better warscore

1 Feb – Wukari – Inland West Africa – Tropical, Jungle, Ibadi, Algerian, Naval Supplies, makes us 0.02, that was a free colony, I pull my colonists from South Africa’s Swazi to head next to Wukari’s Yola

12 Feb – We win the Battle of Dongola and gain two more warscore

Now what do I want?

Girga – Wartarget, new capital, South of us – 8 warscore, 9 badboy

Qus - East of Girga, 3 badboy, 6 score

Ras Gareb – Red Sea, connects Qus with As-Suways – 4 score,3 badboy

Qusayr – Red Sea, south of Ras Gareb, east of Qus – 3 badboy, 5 score

Isna – South of Girga and Qus – 5 each score and badboy

Aswan – South of Isna – 6 score, 5 badboy

Qasr Ibrim – South of Aswan – 6 score, 4 badboy

Wadi Halfa – Southwest of Qasr Ibrim – 3 badboy, 6 warscore

Sahra an Nubyah – East of Wadi Halfa, southeast of Qasr Ibrim – 3 badboy, 5 warscore

Halaib – Red Sea – East of Sahra an Nubyah, south of Qusayr -2 badboy 4 warscore

Result?


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55 warscore and 39.5 badboy, let’s do it! I order cores for 127 total ADM power, pretty small stuff

Girga – Wartarget, new capital, South of us – Farm Estate for Grain, 10 dev, Drylands, 0.17 made here Egyptian and Sunni,

Qus - East of Girga, - Desert, not Arid, 3 dev, Livestock, Egyptian and Sunni Farm Estate makes 0.27

Ras Gareb – Red Sea, connects Qus with As-Suways – Fish, Arid Coastal Desert, 3 dev, Egyptian and Sunni 0.07 made here

Qusayr – Red Sea, south of Ras Gareb, east of Qus – Arid, Coastal Desert, Livestock, Egyptian and Sunni 3 dev makes 0.03

Isna – South of Girga and Qus – 5 dev, Non-Arid Desert, Livestock, Egyptian and Sunni makes 0.15

Aswan – South of Isna – Arid, Desert, Livestock, 5 dev, 0.06, Egyptian and Sunni

Qasr Ibrim – South of Aswan – Nubian and Sunni, Desert, 6 dev, Livestock, Arid, .10 made

Wadi Halfa – Southwest of Qasr Ibrim – Nubian, Coptic, Arid, Desert, Livestock, makes us 0.08 with 4 dev

Sahra an Nubyah – East of Wadi Halfa, southeast of Qasr Ibrim –0.03, 4 dev, Arid, Desert, Nubian, Coptic, Slave Trading

Halaib – Red Sea – East of Sahra an Nubyah, south of Qusayr – Slaves here too, Coastal Desert, 3 dev, Arid, Beja and Sunni, makes 0.05.

Low dev and low trade good stuff, we already took the rich and higher developed things in the last two wars, save for the 5 Coastal Deserts on the Mediterranean between Sirt and the Nile Delta

I order my army from Dongola to Qasr Ibrim, and my armies from Tabuk to Qusayr and the other to Girga.

This is a shorter ten year peace!

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12 Feb – I upgrade my cannon and cavalry to Afsharid Reform Cavalry.

I order:

This Great Work:

Pyramid of Cheops – 2.5k

Then:

Military Equipment Manufactory for Iron in Kharya, Air and Gobir
Trade Station for Kolaka’s Spices

Workshops:

For Incense in Kendari
For Cloth in Oran and Mers el Kabir

I lose my claims on Mamluks!

1 Mar – Maya – Siberia – A miss Naval Supplies, Forest, 3 dev, Algerian Ibadi, Arctic makes us 0.12

I order these colonists east to Aldan

3 Mar – Natives in Yola killed!

I send my extra diplomat to build a spy network with the Mamluks

30 April – One of our Generals died, I promote another

1 July – Bauchi- Inland West Africa – Savannah, Tropical Wood, Tropical, 3 dev, Ibadi and Algerian make us 0.03

That was another free colony

I pull colonists from Stamovoy to South Africa’s Desert Roggeveld inland of Cape, Lesser Namaqualand and west of Great Karoo

15 Aug – I join Malacca’s War Against Ayutthaya in SE Asia.

We are at war with them, and that’s it.

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Chapter One Hundred and Fifteen - Malacca and Algiers War Against Ayutthaya


Ayutthaya Navy:

0 Heavies
11 Lights
24 Gallies

Ours

11/13/5

I think I can force a landing of my 16k in Siberia with enough to make a difference.

Army? 23k, so my 16k would make sense and help out likely

They have been bifurcated by Bengal.

I’ll let Malacca deal with it, they are nearby on the Malay Peninsula, and Ii order my Mavy out,

I order 20 Merchantmen Transports in the Indies since they would join my 5 I already have to cart my 25k army around on Sulawesi

I also order some more heavies and lights and galleys to prevent getting behind

12 Sept – Event – I spend 100 cash to help Traders in need

The Turks have DOWd the Mamluks I agree to give military access to Funj

17 Sept – I win the Battle of the Java Sea

26 Sept – Biram converts! Next let’s do 25 months in Buglas’s Animist holding

1 Oct – The first Religious Idea - #1 – Church Attendance Duty - +1 Missionaries. I send it to Manfalut for 26 months

6 Oct - Natives in Roggeveld killed

10 Oct - Natives killed in Aldan

17 Oct – Event – Urbanization in 6 places, better tax value in them all.

1 Dec – With a relations maxed with France I pull my diplomat

10 Dec – I send it to make nice with Venice

1 Jan, 1621 – Stanovoy – Siberia – Iron mining, Grasslands, 4 dev, Arctic, makes us 0.04, Algerian and Ibadi, north of Solon

I kill natives in Chara east of Stanovoy and next after setting up in Roggeveld

I don’t order anything with my 1166 cash in case the Ayutthaya breaks out and assaults me and I need money for emergency mercs

8 Feb – We set up in Roggeveld, and I order back to Chara

20 Feb – Rano Converts! How about next we head to Daura for 26 months!

30 Mar - Since our next battle in the Kongo region is against Kazembe, who has 16k to my 15k, I order another 10k in the area to bring me up

30 June – Ondo is the next conversion to Ibadi! Next is Sambas at 28 months

8 Aug – Our first slate of ships are done, I order them to the island of Sumba

16 Aug – Cores done in Egypt from Aswan, Ras Gareb, Ginga and Isna

1 Oct – Ivory trade found to be good in Yola!

15 Oct – Qus and Qusayr cores are done!

1 Nov – I spend 50 MIL power for Holy War claims and get them on Mamluks again

19 Jan, 1622 – Our 25k in Kongo is done, 14k infantry, 6k cavalry, 5k artillery

1 April – Swazi – South Africa Inland – Mountains – Livestock, Algerian, Ibadi, 3 dev, make us 0.02

1 May - Rebellion in Idah

14 May – The other cores from Mamluks are done!

24 May – We win in Idah

15 Aug – Ships are finished, I order them into one navy in Sunda

1 Sept – Our truce with Kutai ends

26 Sept – Fleet is done, we now have In our spare navy:

5 heavies
4 lights
8 Galleys
25 transports,

I order my 25k army from Sulawesi to SE Asia

I hire a level 1 Admiral for it

31 Oct – Buglas converts! Next is Qusyr for 23 months

1 Nov – Aldan for Iron!

5 Dec – Manfalut converts; next is Qus for 23 months

1 Feb, 1623 - Fur in Yakut

I max relations with Venice and pull my diplomat

11 Feb – We arrive in SE Asia in a minor holding of Pursat

I send my Venice diplomat to make nice with Yue here in East Asia

20 Feb – Peace with Malacca and Ayutthaya – they take 4 in peace in the Malay Peninsula

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Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen - The First Algiers/Kazembe War


20 Feb - I order my army back to Palopo from Pursat

Now Kongo Region is next, any new allies for Kazembe?

Nope! I hire 45k mercs unit Independent Unit for 1006 cash and 20 monthly as a unit to take it out and it’s ally, since we’ll need bigger units for the sieges coming up

I DOW for the Ivory minor province of Rund,

I send my 25k into the Castle of Rund

6 Mar – My mercs arrive, they head in to

13 Mar – We begin the siege with a fusillade

25 April - Event – New Settlement in Yakut, I up the tax value instead of the pop

We convert Daura! Next is Ras Gareb at 23 months

1 June – Livestock is good for the Desert of Roggeveld

7 July – Religious Idea #2 – Church Attendance Duty - -25% Stability cost modifier

1 Aug – After 142 days, Rund is ours!

15 Sept – Inhambane is being sieged by 16k forces from Kazembe

I order my 25k army over and will keep the mercs in their territory

3 Oct – We capture a minor

14 Oct – Sambas converts and next’ll be Aswan in 25 months

1 Nov - Yola – Inland West Africa – Ivory, Algerian, Ibadi, Jungle, Tropical, 3 dev makes us

0.05

I send this colonist to Siberia’s Nukhtui

Fur in Chara!

1 Dec – Nubian Separatists in Wadi Halfa I order my army next door here

15 Dec – Our mercs capture a minor

20 Dec – Rebels defeated

14 Feb, 1624 – We arrive in Inhambane

22 Feb – We win!

1 May – Our heir gains the “Expansionist” trait!

6 May – Another minor falls

1 June – Our Colonials Expansionist Policy ends, I start another Majils debate for the same policy

16 June – Our 25k army returns

22 June – Another minor falls

7 Aug – Two minors fall, I combine my armies to the Bastion of Luapula

15 Oct – Qusayr sees the Ibadi light! Next is Isna with 25 months

14 No – The minor of Luba falls, the Kongo COT

21 Nov – Qus converts, next is 27 months in Gobir

1 Dec 15k Mamluk Separatists rise up in Girga where my army is

11 Dec – We win!

1 Jan, 1625 – I max relations with Yue and pull my diplomat

1 Feb – Aldan – Siberia – Iron, Grasslands, 3 dev, 0.04, Algerian, Ibadi, Arctic

No colonists to send

8 Feb – Another minor falls

11 Mar- After 195 days Luapula falls to us!

I have a warscore of 99% what can I get?

Ideally the stuff to Luba and then it.

Rund – Wartarget, next to us, 6 warscore, 9 badboy

Lwena – North of Chokwe, south of Rund – 6 score, 5 badboy

Kalundwe – Connects us to Luba, east of us, 9 score, 8 badboy

Luba – East of Kalundwe, 9 score, 10 baddoy

That’s 30 score and 31 badboy and only the Mamluks care, not even the Turks.

That’s the key stuff, now what?

Songye – East of us, north of Kalundwe and Luba -6 score, 5 badboy, still no Turks caring

Inshindi - East of Chokwe, SE of Lwena – 8 each, still no Turks, now what?

The next I take annoys the Turks and Kazembe. I just take those 6:

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I do peace for 119 cores.

Rund – Wartarget, next to us, Castle, Mosque, Center of trade Emporium, 9 dev, Ivory, Savannah, Tropical, Lunda Fetishists make us 0.15

Lwena – North of Chokwe, south of Rund – Lunda Fetishists, Savannah, 5 dev, Ivory, 0.07, Tropical

Kalundwe – Connects us to Luba, east of us – 7 de, Savannah, Farm Estate for Livestock, Luba here, still Fetishists, 0.36. Tropical

Luba – East of Kalundwe, - The rich Iron Mines, Center of Trade Emporium, Tropical, Savannah, 9 dev, makes .12 with Luba Fetishists.

Songye – East of us, north of Kalundwe and Luba - throw in – 4 dev, Jungle, Tropical, Grain, Luba, Fetishist, 0.03

Ishindi - East of Chokwe, SE of Lwena – Ivory, Mosque, Workshop, Savannah, Tropical, Chokwe Fetishists make us .24 from 9 dev

That’s a strong war upgrade with just one junk Grain, three Ivory, Iron, and the Livestock one already has a Farm Estate! Good stuff!

As you might recall, Kongo region we took in the last game was very rich with all of the great trade goods, as well as the stuff from South East Africa in Kilwa’s area, which I’ll hit eventually, but it’s not o my queue right now.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen - Another Great Work Started


11 Mar – I disband the mercs, and order my now 27k troops with the 2k capturing force I built to Kalundwe.

With all of this cash, I just spend 5k on the Great Work of Kairwan which will be finished in 25 years, and when finished will give me +1 Tolerance of the True Faith, +50% Institution Spread in Ibadi provinces, and a monthly boost to piety

I spend 50 DIP to invite minorities

Luckily I still have the manpower for a bigger war or a surprise defensive or offensive war

I grant land rights to my three estates left, and then gain 300 governing capacity and loyalty and influence, but we lose Absolutism in that era all about it.

I turn into a State:

Brunei – Borneo Island – These Four – Gems in Sigalang; Tropical Wood in Kapit; Spices in Sibu, Fish in Bintulu

Banjar – Borneo – Spices in all three Sampit, Barito and Pacer

Lower Niger – Ife’s Glass; Nupe’s Coffee; Pindinga’s Livestock; Idah’s ivory

Lower Sunda Islands – Indies - Tea in Sumbawa; Spices in Lombok; Incense in Sunda

West Maguindanao – Philippines - Maguindanao and Danao, both Spices

I order seats in Majils for Maguindanao, Ife, Meknes

1 April – I lose my Conquest CB on Kazembe since we took all of our claims

I order a spy network built

11 April - Conversion in Ras Gareb next is Maguindanao’s Animism for 2 0months

30 April – My trader in Tunis is making 2.31. I pull and send to Kongo

1 July – We’re now making 5.61 – a big upgrade:

Yakut – Siberia – Fur Trade, 4 dev, Forest, Ibadi Algerians, Arctic making us 0.09.

I order these colonists east to Mukhtuya

4 Aug - Natives killed there

1 Sept – I claim Mamluks’ Jeddah – Looks like the Turks finished their war and took a bunch more holdings in the Levant and Arabia

11 Nov – Aswan converts! Next is Kapit in 23 months

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen - Preparing for War

1 Jan, 1626 – Truce expired with Kano and friends. I’ll still need to finish bringing in Kazembe, but that’s likely my next spot.

I order:

Trade Station for Spices in Lombok, Sampit

Workshops in:

Air for Iron, Ivory in Kong, Grain in Dumyat

Mosque in Cape and Timbuktu

I order my 1k army from Alaska to the Indies

I need a bigger South African army than my 1k since some natives here are much bigger, so I order another 4k here

1 April – Chara – Siberia- North of Shun and Solon, east of very wealthy Lake Baikul provinces, Arctic, Woods, 9 dev, Fur trade, Algerian and Ibadi making us 0.17.

East is the 6 dev Grasslands on the north shore of the Lake where I order them called Kirenga

5 May – Natives killed there

15 July – 5k finished in Great Karoo

25 July – My Alaskan army arrives on Borneo

I order a 25k army to Kano from Egypt and my Kongo army over

1 Nov - Fur in Nukthui

13 Nov – Conversion in Isna; next is Nupe for 25 months

1 Dec – Religious Idea #3 – Get ready! Divine Supremacy - +3 Missionary Strength!

Maguindanao converts and next is 14 months in Idah!

1 Jan, 1627 – I’ll keep some cash for an emergency mercs. I order:

Trade Station for Ijebu’s Slaves
Plantation for Sumbawa’s Tea

Workshops:

For Spices in Touggourt, Tropical Wood in Lunada and Bengkulu

That leaves me 1102

15 Jan – Conversion in Gobir! Next is 13 months long Pindinga

I claim Kazembe’s Kanongesha, Copper mine

1 Feb – Truce with Brunei and allies is up

7 Mar – Our 27k Kongo army has arrived in Whydah

10 April – 25k is in Daura

Kano is still allied with Dahomey and Wadai and Kanem Bornu

I DOW them for the wealthy Dyes holding of their capital Kano where their 13k are.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen - The Third Algiers/Kano War


I order 25k to Kano

I order 15k to Dahomey’s Cape Coast

I order 25k to Dahomey’s Bastion of Abomey

13 April - 5 cores done in Kongo regions, only Luba is left since we didn’t have a claim on it

7 May - We rout their army in Kano, big warscore

1 June – 4k Kanem Bornu are in Metija, I order 25k from Egypt to knock that off

5 June – Kapit converts, next is 14 months in Lanao

7 June – I join Malacca’s War against Sunda, we are at war with them and Barus, I order 25k to Barus on the island of Sumatra

13 July – Luba cored!

18 July – Cape Coast ours, 9k Dahomey troops next door I head too

14 Aug – We win the Battle of Denkyira

1 Sept - Roggeveld – Inland South Africa – Desert, Arid, 3 dev, Algerian Ibadi, Livestock, 0.03

That was our free colony. I pull colonists from Nukthui and send to South Africa’s Senque connecting this and Lesser Namaqualand

7 Sept – Natives dead in Senque

16 Sept – Denkirya falls

30 Sept – Kano falls! We have a warscore of 46%

1 Oct – 10k Rebellion in Ife, I order my 15k over from Dahomey

13 Oct - I begin the Siege of Zazzou in Kano –

23 Oct – We capture a minor of Pariaman from Barus

1 Dec – Rebels in Ife defeated

30 Dec – Our 15k army wins a minor 5k battle in Oyo

1 Jan, 1628 – New Tech!

DIP TECH 19 – The War Galleon – We get War Galleons, Frigates, can build Naval Shipyards, and +50 colonial range and more expensive fleets

18 Jan - Nupe Converts! Next is a short 14 months in Barito

29 Jan – Oyo is ours

6 Feb – Idah is the next to Convert, Bintulu is the next to be sent a Missionary

6 Mar -After almost a year, Dahomey’s capital falls!

81% warscore, I head east

9 Mar- Pindinga converts! Next is Girga

11 Mar – Another minor falls

82 warscore what can I get?

The two I like the most have high devs:

Kano – South of Daura, west of Biram and Rano - Capital, Target, High dev, a massive 20 badboy, 14 score, only the Mamluks care

Katsina – West of Kano – 17 badboy, 18 warscore – still just Mamluks care

Zazzou – South of Kano and Katsina -8 score, 7 badboy

Yawuri – West of Zazzou, north of us in Nupe – 4 badboy, 8 score

46 score, 48.7 badboy - Still just Mamluks care - 3 things left, what else can I get? None are high dev or high value, just take the most I can without the Turks joining in.

Moshi – West of Nupe of Yawuri – 6 score, 4 badboy, only the two province Zazzou and Kano will care, anything else brings in some angry Turks

I do those 5!

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52 badboy and warscore! I do it and spend 192 for Katsina and Kano, 19 for Zazzau and I don’t have the 12 each for the other two

Kano – South of Daura, west of Biram and Rano - Capital, Target, High dev, Savanah, Tropical, Dyes, 23 dev, Barracks, Workshop, Mosque, Hausa Sunnis, they have an open slot for a Textile Manufactory they make us 1.23

Katsina – West of Kano – Rich Cloth Makers, Center of Trade Emporium, Mosque, Marketplace, Workshop, 19 dev, Savannah, Tropical, Sunni, Hausa, making us 1.10

Zazzou – South of Kano and Katsina - - Bastion, 8 dev, Savannah, Tropical, Hausa, Fetishists, Slave trade, make 0.16

Yawuri – West of Zazzou, north of us in Nupe – Plantation for Coffee, Savannah, Hausa, Fetishist, Tropical, 5 dev, 0.16 made here

Moshi – West of Nupe of Yawuri – 5 dev, Tropical Wood, Fetishist Yoruba, .13, Savannah

Nice! Everything at least 3.0 trade goods with the massive Dyes and Cloth of my two main additions.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty - Peace in the Indies


11 Mar – I order 26k from Kano back to Egypt
I order 27k from Dahomey to Kongo

I order:

Trade Station for Sunda’s Incense
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Buhaira
Mill for Glass in Ife
Plantation for Fayyum’s Cotton

I keep 1142 unspent for emergencies

1 April – Core ordered for Moshi

11 April - Event – Cultural Unrest in Barito – We get +25% autonomy there after negotiating with them

1 June – Core ordered for Yawuri

Furs in Mukhtuya

I pull colonists from Senqu and send to Siberia’s 9 dev Barguzin, east coast of Lake Baikal

4 June – Natives there killed

5 July – We capture the capital of Barus on Sumatra Island with Malacca

8 July – Sunda have captured much of Malacca on Java island I order my 25k over there

24 July – Battle won in the Coast of Ajeh

15 Aug – Event – The Riches of China – I refuse and gain a boost in relations with Shun

Lanao converts! Next is Aribanda for 15 months

24 Aug – Malacca and Barus at peace, they took two

20 Sept – I begin the siege of Sunda’s capital

I claim the Mamluks’ Yanbu al-Bahr

1 Nov – Rebellion in Qasr Ibrim where I have my army

12 Nov – We win!

7 Dec – We capture Sunda’s capital and only holding

Peace, Malacca takes Sunda as a vassal

I order my army back to Palopo.

1 Jan, 1629 – I order:

Plantation for Ondo’s Coffee
Textile Manufactory for Cloth in Timbuktu
Farm Estate for Grain in Dumyat

I have 1068 left I won’t spend for emergences

14 Feb – I send a diplomat to make nice with Shun

1 April – Barito converts! How about next we hit up Sibu for 15 months?

1 May – Conversion also done in Bintulo – next is Paser for 15 months

I lose some claims from 25 years since a Holy War

19 June - Girgha converts! Next? Sigalang! 15 months

1 July - Furs in Kirenga

18 Nov – Aribanda converts! Next is 15 months in Dendi

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-One - Star Forts Brought In


1 Jan, 1630 - New Tech!!

MIL TECH 19 – We can build upgraded Bastions called Star Forts, and we get +0.25 tactics

Our peace with the Mamluks is up this year so we may do the 4th war against them, thus I don’t purchase anything just in case we need mercs

Mamluks still allied with Fars and Gazikumukh, both far away. Funj was annexed by Horn of Africa Hegemon Adal.

Their capital is in Arabia in the Bastion of Makkah.

We only have some minor stuff left in Africa to take out after three wars just here

Mamluks – 12k easily done

I order my three armies into the three adjacent holdings, and two more artillery forces for the armies at 3k each.

1 March – Nukhtui – Siberia – Fur Trade, Woods, Arctic, 3 dev, Ibadi Algerians, making us 0.03

There were no colonists there to send on

14 Mar – Cores finished in Katsina, Kano and Zazzou

9 April – Moshi’s core finished

I hand a Majils seat to Kano.

1 June – Our Majils passes the Charter Colonies- we get a boosted colonist and 20 growth for a decade!

I send it to Siberia’s Seganka

Core finished in Yawuri – all cores are done!

1 July – Livestock in Senqu

20 July – Sibu converts, next is Benin for 15 months

1 Aug – Rebellion in Kongo’s Rund

15 Aug – Paser converts, next, Qahirah, 15 months

1 Sept – Rebels defeated in Rund.

Mukthaya – Siberia – Fur trade, 3 dev, Forest, Arctic, Algerian, Ibadi, making us 0.05.

I send these colonists to Siberia’s Seganka in the far north.

Peace up with the Mamluks!

Now the big thing I want to take from the Mamluks is their final Red Sea holding in case I cannot build enough warscore for everything to stop the Trucks crossing and taking and coring land to my rear and out flanking me. That province will be my wartarget and we’ll grab it early for a highwarscore. I might not be able to take everything since this is clearly in the Turks backyard and they might care in just a little, unlike my previous war.

I DOW the Mamluks for Suakin!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Two - The Fourth Algiers/Mamluks War

I order my three armies into three adjacent provinces

25 Sept – Sigalang converts, next is Bure for 16 months

26 Oct – Three minors fell

1 Nov – We pass Charter Colonies again! I send our new colonist to South Africa’s Griqualand inland of Great Karoo, Highveld and Senqu, 3 dev.

4 Dec – Natives killed there

Adal is at war with the Mamluks. They are allied with Aden and can cross the Red Sea into Arabia and take lands, I break off 27k army on the Red Sea and head to Mamluks’ capital called Mekkah, and I hire the 45k Independent army in As-Suways to get there faster.

16 Dec – We capture too and combine with Adal for a 3rd

29 Dec – Mercs arrive, I send them

8 Jan, 1631 – Soba in Mamluks fall and I order this army to besiege the Bastion of Tabuk

20 Jan - Another minor in Mamluks falls, ditto

1 Feb – Relations maxed with Shun I pull our diplomat

11 Feb – The last unclaimed Mamluks province in Africa is ours, Adal captured 2

1 Mar – New Idea! – Religious Idea #4 – Devoutness – We get +2 Tolerance of the True Faith

4 Mar – Conversion in Dendi, next is 16 months in Bambuk

1 May – Rebellion in Rund in Kongo where my army is

10 May – We win

27 May – The Siege of Tabuk begins with a fusillade

1 June – Just Naval Supplies in Barguzin

17 June – Makkah falls to Aden

Next is the Bastion of Najran

4 Aug – They arrive and start the siege first, so it’s theirs, anything else I can grab?

I stop and there are no more Forts so I just grab minors

1 Sept – Kirenga – Siberia - Arctic, Fur Trade, Grasslands, North Lake Baikal, 6 dev, Algerian, Ibadi, make .11

I send these south to the West Shore of Lake Baikal with an 3 dev and Center of Trade called Irkutsk

3 Sept – Natives killed in Saganka

I pull colonists from South Africa’s Griqualand and send to Siberia’s Ust-Kut

6 Sept – A minor falls

21 Sept – Three more minors fall

1 Oct – Two more minors fall

10 Nov – Benin converts! Next is Jugjur (13 months)

14 Nov – Two more fall

13 Dec – Qahirah converts! Next is 16 in Halaib

16 Jan, 1632 – Tabuk falls!

I order these two armies and my mercs to Fars

2 Feb – Conversion, next is Zazzau for 17 months

27 Mar – Two more Arabian minors are ours

13 April – Another minor falls, every Arabian province is controlled by us or Adal/Adan

I order this army to Fars, I have a warscore of 32%

16 June - I begin the siege of Fars’ Bastion of Saidabad with a fusillade

10 July – Another conversion, next is Pontianak!

11 July – Natives killed in Ust-Kut

17 July – I capture a minor Fars holding

10 Aug – Natives killed in Irkutsk

1 Jan, 1633 - Jugjur converts, next is Katsina, 17 months

1 Mar – Two rebellions in Kongo, one in Luba where my army is and the other in Kalundwe

10 Mar – We win in Luba

13 Mar – Saidabad falls, next their capital

Madinah recaptured by Mamluks

15 April – We convert Halaib and next is the Glass of Ife and 16 months

We win in Kalundwe against rebels

18 April – We capture the capital of Fars and have a warscore of 65%

What can I get?

Suakin – Red Sea, wartarget, 3 score, 2 badboy

Berber – West of Suakin, 6 score, 3 badboy

Dongola – West of Suakin, 5 score, 2 badboy

Bayuda – South of Dongola and Berber – 5 score, 2 badboy

Shendy – South of Berber, east of Bayuda – 5 score and 2 badboy

Soba – South of Bayuda and Shendy – 8 score and 5 badboy

Butana – South of Soba and Shendy – 7 score and 5 badboy

Al Qadarif – South of Butana – 6 and 4 respectively

Here’s what would happen:

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45 score and just 26.1 badboy and only the Mamluks could care, nice! I make the deal!

I spend 113 coring them:

Suakin – Red Sea, wartarget, Slave trading, Coastal Desert, 3 dev, Arid, Sunni and Beja make 0.06

Berber – West of Suakin, Arid Desert, 6 dev, Beja Sunnis, Livestock, make 0.11

Dongola – West of Suakin, Also Arid Desert, 5 dev, Grain, Nubian Sunnis make 0.07

Bayuda – South of Dongola and Berber – Nubian Sunni, Livestock, Arid Desert, 0.02, 4 dev

Shendy – South of Berber, east of Bayuda – Sunni Nubian, Drylands Grain, 4 dev, 0.04, Arid

Soba – South of Bayuda and Shendy – Center of Trade Emporium, 8 dev, Drylands, Coptic and Nubian, Arid, Grain, makes 0.07

Butana – South of Soba and Shendy – Ivory Trade, 7 dev, Steppes, Arid, Nubian Sunni makes 0.20

Al Qadarif – South of Butana – Makes 0.09 off 6 dev, Ivory Trade, Nubian, Sunni, Steppes, Arid

And that removes the Mamluks from Africa assuming they are finished here by regional Hegemon Adal

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Three - Great Mosques Added

18 April - I had enough ADM for the next tech, so I’ll wait and build back up again

I disband the mercs and order my three armies back to Africa

I spend some prestige to make nice with our Brazilian colony

I order:

Textile Manufactory for Cloth In Gao; Dyes in Kano;
Trade Station for Slaves in Warri; Ivory in Idah,
Farm Estate for Livestock in Saurora and Figuig

I save 1342 cash for later stuff

15 May – I send my diplomat who returned from the Mamluks to make nice with Khmer in SE Asia, I pull my Mamluk’s spy back

12 June – I start building a spy network with Adal

1 July – Seganka good for Naval Supplies and Livestock is good to raise in Griqualand

14 July – Zazzau converts, next target is Joma, 19 months

1 Aug – Barguzin – Siberia – 9 dev, east cost of Lake Baikal, woods, Naval Supplies, Algerian, Ibadi, not Arctic

I send these colonists south to the south shore of Lake Baikal in 8 dev Ude.

27 Aug – Natives killed in Ude

I order this 16k back to Kamchatka

17 Dec – 17k Funj Separatists cross the border from Adal into our new territory

20 Dec – Pontianak converts, nice gold is ours! Next is Bilanga for 19 months

I order my 16k from Siberia to the Indies to get ready for our next war with Brunei

1 Jan, 1634 – New Tech!!!

ADMIN TECH 19 – Cathedral – I can build Great Mosque upgrades of Mosques.

I have 2649 cash, I order two Manufactures and then will save the rest for the mercs in the Indies although I doubt that war happens soon:

I order Star Fort upgrades here:

As-Suways
Qahirah
Kawar
Sambas
Kapit

I destroy the Bastion in Atfih

30 Jan - We win against the rebels!

1 Feb – Senqu – Inland South Africa – inland of Lesser Namaqualand, west of Griqualand, north of Roggeveld – Livestock, Algerian, Ibadi, Arid Dray lands, 3 de, make 0.03

This was a free colony, I pull colonists from Siberia’s Seganka and send north of Griqualand to the Arid Desert of Tswana

1 Mar – Our leader gains the Obsessive trait and our buildings will cost +10%

19 Mar – Event – The Riches of China - I decline and get boosted relations with Shun

3 May – I decline military access to Adal

1 June - Our 16k Siberia army is next to Bali on Lombok

Here’s our future war and their ally:

Brunei – 8k
Bali – 7k
Sulu – 7k
Bone – 9k

They have grabbed a land in the Philippines so I order 4k built next to it

Portugal is in the Philippines

24 June – Katsina converts, how about we hit up Songye next for 19 months?

23 July – Ife converts! Next is 19 month Nunu

1 Sept – Fur in Ust-Kut; Naval Supplies in Irkutsk

I lose 12 claims

Peace with Kazembe up, we can DOW them anytime

I spend 50 MIL power to claim all adjacent provinces

8 Nov – 4k done in the Philippines hanging out in Maguindanao

I DOW Brunei’s capital and don’t call in my local ally Malacca

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four - The Second Algiers/Brunei War

I hire 45k mercs in Kapit next to their capital

I order 25k from Sulawesi’s Palopo to Bone’s Wajo

I order 16k from Lombok to Bali

I order my fleet out from harbor

I order 4k in the Philippines

19 Nov – The army arrives and I send it to Brunei’s capital

23 Dec – We capture the Philippines province

25 Dec – We win a Battle in Brunei and begin the siege

1 Jan, 1635 -Waju falls, next is Bone’s captial

13 Jan – Bali falls!

I have a warscore of 31%, I order this army to Bone’s capital

16 Feb – Joma converts, next is Butuan for 19 months

25 Mar – Brunei falls!

1 April – Separatists rise up in Kongo’s Ishindi

26 April – Bone falls to my combined armies!

I have a warscore of 61 I order my 25k troops to Sulu

5 May – Ishindi falls

9 May – A Brunei minor falls

12 May – I win a naval battle against Bone and capture a ship

21 May – Cores done in Dongola, Suakin and Berber

6 June – We win in Ishindi

19 June – Another Brunei minor is ours

1 July – Funj rebels in Soba, I order my army next door over

7 July – Ishindi is ours again

23 July – Conversion in Bilanga; next is 16 months in Suakin

31 July – Another minor falls

8 Aug – We win in Soba!

19 Aug – Cores finished in Bayuda, Shendy and Butana!

28 Au g- We win in Sulu and begin a siege

2 Sept – Relations maxed with Khmer, I pull back the diplomat

9 Sept- We capture the last Brunei holding, I disband my mercs

I have a warscore of 91

26 Sept – Soba a core!

5 Oct - Last core finished!

What can I get from Brunei at 91 warscore?

Brunei – Borneo - Wartarget, next to us, coastal, - 11 warscore, 15 baddoy, uh oh

Api-Api - Borneo, North of Brunei – 9 score, 8 badboy

Lehad Datu – Borneo - South of Api-Api- 8 each

Zamboanga – Philippines – 6 score, 3 badboy

Tarakan – Borneo – South of Lehad Datu – I cannot get the last Brunei holding- 8 each


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Here we go! 42 score and badboy, only the Mamluks care, I finish it – 177 ADM to core

Borneo -

Brunei – Borneo - Wartarget, next to us, coastal, - Shipyard, Marketplace, Workshop, Natural Harbor, Spice trade, 17 dev, Tropical Jungle, Bornean Sunnis make 0.79

Api-Api - Borneo, North of Brunei – Jungle, Tropical, Bornean Sunnis, Spices, 9 dev, Mosque, Barracks, Shipyard, makes 0.26

Lehad Datu – Borneo - South of Api-Api- Sunni and Bornean, Jungle, Tropical, 9 dev, Spices here too, Shipyard and Workshop, 0.25

Tarakan – Borneo – South of Lehad Datu – Just Fishing here, Tropical, Jungle, Bornean Sunnis, 8 dev, Mosque, Marketplace, makes 0.13

Philippines -

Zamboanga – Philippines – Filipino Animist, Coastline, 5 dev, Spices here too, makes 0.08 with a Workshop

Four great Spices and one random Fish. Much better than my recent Mamluks additions which had two Ivory and one Slave sand low dev everywhere

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Five - More States Made


5 Oct – I order 16k from Sulawesi to Borneo to hold out and join my 6k army on Borneo already, and 25k back from Sulu to Sulawesi.

I have created an army of 3k in Siberia to clear out natives.

I order:

Farm Estate for Livestock in Oaursenis
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Naval Supplies in Latapang

These Star Fort upgrades:

Palopo
Meknes

I order one in:

Lombok

I spend 93 DIP to promote Bornean culture

I lose my CB on Brunei’s last holding

11 Nov – Natives killed in Tswana

1 Dec – Peace treaty with Ayutthaya is up

I make nice with Bahmanis in India

1 Jan, 1636 – I order Star Fort Upgrades here:

Inhambane
Djerba
Iskandariyya


I turn into a state:

Jenne – Jenne (Cloth), Kala (Fish), Sah (Grain) and Haayre (Ivory)

Chokwe – Ishindi, Chokwe – both Ivory

Upper Nubia – Soba’s Grain, Shendy’s too, Ivory in Butana

Sennar – Al Qadarif’s Ivory

I hand Jenne and Wolof Majils seats!

26 Feb – Songye converts! Next is 19 months in Shendy

1 Mar – Our level 2 Inquisitor ADM advisor passes and I hire a level 3 one

29 Mar – Nunu converts, next is 14 month Al Qadarif

17 April – I join a Malaccan Call to Arms vs Ayutthaya

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Six - The Algiers and Malacca War vs Ayutthaya

I order my captured fleet upgraded

Ayutthaya – no troops

I order a 30k mercs on Sumatra’s Island Bengkulu and will march it over

29 April – They arrive and I send them over

2 June – Irkutsk – Siberia – West coast of Lake Baikal – Emporium, 3 dev, Woods, Naval Supplies, Algerian, Ibadi, makes 0.04

Tsawana good for Salt

I order Irkutsk colonists to Siberia’s East Tunguska

5 July – Natives killed there!

I can get an Age of Absolutism ability! What do I want?

I choose an Age ability that increases my Admin efficiency by 5%

25 July – Our High Imam passes!

Abdallah – 4/3/2; age 27

Heir – Muhammad – 2/6/1, age 0

Consort – Fatima, 5/6/6, age 28

1 Aug – Royal Marriage with Malacca

1 Sept – Seganka – Siberia – Arctic, Naval Supplies, 3 dev Forest, Algerian, Ibadi, makes 0.02

There were no colonists here to send on

New Government Reform:

We have Tier 9 – Absolutism and Constitutionalism

I have 4 options. I chose “L’etat est Moi” and gain 250 governing capacity

1 Oct – Religious Idea #5 – Religious Tradition - +1 Annual Prestige growth

23 Oct – Royal Marriage with Persia

31 Oct – Butuan converts! Next is Chokwe for 15 months!

1 Dec – Fur in Ude

14 Jan, 1637 – Ayutthaya’s capital falls to my mercs and Malaccan troops

17 Feb – We capture a minor

1 Mar – Griqualand – South Africa – Algerian, Ibadi, 3 dev, Arid Steppes, Livestock, makes 0.03

This was our free province, I pull back Siberia’s Ust-Kut and send east of Tswana next door to South Africa’s 5 dev Grassland’s Transvaal.

4 Mar – Natives in Transvaal are dead

14 Mar – Suakin converts! Next is Ishindi (16)

31 Mar – We capture another minor

1 May – Ust-Kut – Siberia – Fur Trade, Arctic, Woods, Ibadi, Algerian, 3 dev, makes us 0.03

6 May – A third minor is ours

29 May – I win a massive battle in the Gulf of Siam and captured 7 ships!

I order my fleet to Sampas to recover

14 June – Another minor falls

30 June – Peace with Lan Na

21 Jul – Another minor falls

1 Aug - Relations maxed with Bahamanis, next I make nice with Portugal since we aren’t rivals anymore

13 Aug – Shendy converts; next is Butana for 15 months

29 Aug – Another minor falls

Can I get a minor coastal province? The one next to Khmer is just a minor grain province, does it make sense to bring it in?

I have an 8 warscore and it’s 8, nope they aren’t interested.

13 Sept - We win a major battle and increased our warscore

1 Oct – Al Qaradif converts! Next? Samarinda – 16 months

8 Oct – Cores finished in Brunei and Zamboanga

11 Oct – Another minor is ours!

Next I head to their ally Yue

20 Nov – Transvaal sets up, I pull for Siberia’s Chuna

30 Dec – Natives killed there

8 Jan, 1638 – Cores done in Api-Api, Tarakan and Lehad Datu

19 Jan – I capture a Yue minor!

1 Feb – 13k rebellion in Kano

20 Feb – Chokwe converts, next is Zamboanga

1 Mar – Rebellion in Berber against the current army

4 Mar – Peace! Malacca takes a province

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Seven - From One War to the Next


4 Mar - I disband my mercs

I rival Adal

I order built these upgrades to Star Forts:

Benin
Ife

I order Star Forts here:

Tunis
Mitija


I order:

Trade Station for Haayre’s Ivory
Textile Manufactory for Jenne’s Cloths
Farm Estate for Livestock in Do

That leaves me with 1247 for emergencies

I state these:

Sabah – Borneo – Api-Api, Lehad Datu – Spices, Tarakan – Fish

I hand a Seat in the Majils to Buru

Kasai – Kongo – Ivory in Lwena, Rund, Spices in Mpasu, Slaves in Shinje and Kumbana

11 Mar – We win in Berber!

15 Mar – We win in Kano

My next war is Kazembe!

21 May – Our admiral dies, I promote another

1 Jul – Tswana – South Africa – High quality Salt, Arid, Desert, Ibadi, Algerian making us 0.05

Our truce against Kano and friends is up!

I order this colonist to Siberia’s Angara

5 July - Natives in Angara are no more

Our stability rises back to +3

28 July – Conversion in Ishindi, next is 11 months in Tarakan

21 Sept – I have a military maintenance of 83.49 and a forcelimit of 209 to 184, I order another 26k in Africa to help with future wars and play keep away.

24 Nov – Butana converts! Next is Lehad Datu at 11 months

2 Jan, 1639 – I order nothing and save my cash for mercs for the new war against Kazembe

Kazembe – 12k vs my 27k locally

I declare the 2nd war against Kazembe, this time for their minor Iron holding of Hemba

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Eight- The Second Algiers/Kazembe War


I order my 27k to Hemba

18 Jan – Conversion in Samarinda – next is Api-Api for 11 months

28 Jan – Zamboanga converted, next target is a year in Brunei

1 Feb – I can invest in Religious Ideas but I hold off until post war

1 Mar – Hemba falls!

Next is the adjacent Bastion and capital of Luapula

1 April – Ude – South coast of Lake Baikal, north of Shun – 8 dev, Fur, Algerian, Ibadi makes 0.12 on Steppes

I order these colonists west to Sayan

1 June - I pull my Portugal making nice diplomat

I send it to make nice with Persia

9 July – Conversion in Tarakan next is Lwena in 14 months

4 Sept – I capture a minor Kazembe province

21 Sept – Bengals announces us as a rival

29 Oct - Another minor falls

10 Nov – Lehad Datu converts! Next is Mpasu in 14

1 Dec – Naval Supplies in East Tunguska

5 Jan, 1640 – Conversion in Api-Api - next is 15 in Luba

12 Jan – Another minor falls!

25 Jan – Luapala falls!

19 Feb – Brunei converts! Next up is 15 months in Rund

30 Mar – Two minors fall

29 May – We lose a battle in Transvaal after they moved into South Africa, I order mercs down here to finish up

1 June – Transvaal with Naval Supplies

23 June – I capture a minor

7 July – They capture Transvaal – I have a 99% warscore, what can I get?

Hemba – Wartarget, east of Luba – 6 badboy, 4 score

Kusu – North of Hemba, east of Songye - 7 score, badboy too

Lega – Northeast of both – 6 badboy, 7 score

Upemba – South of Luba and Hemba, east of Kalundwe – 6 each

Kanongesha – South of Upemba, east of Ishindi and Lwena – 6 each

Kaonde – East of Ishindi, South of Kanongesha – 4 score, 3 badboy

Lamba – East of Kaonde – 4 score, 2 badboy

Lualaba – Surrounded by 5 – 9 score, 10 badboy

Luapula – east of Lualaba Capital – 13 score, 14 badboy

Tabwa - East of Luapula – 8 score

For annexation our badboy drops to 39.9 and a 69 warscore:

https://i.ibb.co/HgxYv0k/20230222233438-1.jpg

We have removed Kazembe from the map! 208 coring it!

I disband my mercs

Hemba – Wartarget, east of Luba – Savannah, Iron Mines, Luba, Fetishist, Tropical, 9 dev, 0.17 made here

Kusu – North of Hemba, east of Songye – Tropical Jungle, Livestock, Luba and Fetishist, 0.14 7 dev

Lega – Northeast of both – Next to Kilwa – Gems, 7 dev, Tropical Jungle, Kongolese and Fetishist making 0.04

Upemba – South of Luba and Hemba, east of Kalundwe – Hills, Salt, Luba, Fetishist, 0.16, Tropical, 5 dev

Kanongesha – South of Upemba, east of Ishindi and Lwena – Tropical, Savannah, Copper mines, 6 dev, Luba, Fetishist, makes 0.02

Kaonde – East of Ishindi, South of Kanongesha – 3 dev, Kongolese Fetishist, Savannah, Livestock, 0.09, Tropical, north of Kilwa

Lamba – East of Kaonde. North of Kilwa – 3 dev, Iron Mines, Savannah, 0.08, Bemba, Fetishist, Tropical

Lualaba – Surrounded by 5 – Workshop, Highlands, Salt, Luba Fetishists, 0.35, 9 dev, Tropical

Luapula – east of Lualaba Capital – Bastion, Mosque, Workshop, Highlands, Tropical, Luba, Fetishists, 0.27 off 14 dev

Tabwa - East of Luapula, west of Kilwa - .58 Weapons Manufactory for Copper, Workshop, Highlands, 7 dev, Luba Fetishists, Tropical

Nice 10-set!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Nine - Great Project in Demnate

7 July - I order my troops to Luapula

I order Great Project:

2500 in Demnate

Trade Station for Spices in Zamboangal; for Ishindi’s Ivory

Workshop:

Cloth in Gao; Spices in Sampit

6 Aug – Religious Idea #6 – Inquisition – We get -50% Missionary costs and bonus prestige from successful conversions!

2 Sept – Tswana falls to rebels

13 Sept – Conversion in Lwena! Next is 19 month Kano

I make nice with Dai Viet

9 Nov – I accept a Malaccan War Offer Against Khmer

Our policy has ended and I start another debate for it again!

By the by my 26k army was built in Kano and now my army maintenance is 102.84

31 Dec – We win a naval battle and capture 5 ships

22 Jan, 1641 – Mpasu converts! Next is Bayuda for 19 months

I don’t order anything to save cash for mercs

I can get New Tech!!!

DIP TECH 20 – Naval Professionalism – We get +20 trade range and +2% trade efficiency

7 April – Conversion! Next is Omolon in Siberia for 19 months

5 May – Rebels in Tswana killed!

22 May - Rund Converts! Next is 19 months in Liptako

9 June – We retook Tswana and I order my Kongo army back

1 July – Chuna? Copper!

3 July – Event: Marriagable Women in Angara

1 Aug – Naval Supplies there

1 Oct – We arrive at Khmer’s capital with my Palolop army and siege it

24 Oct – 14k Yue is in Siberia

I order 30k mercs there

1 Nov – I lose 14 claims

7 Nov – We capture a Khmer minor

9 Dec – We lose in Siberia

16 Dec - Another minor falls!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty - Peace in Southeast Asia Resumes

1 Jan, 1642 – Relations maxed with Persia, I pull back

10 Jan – Kaonde is cored!

New Tech!

MIL TECH 20 – Killing Grounds - +2 combat width, +0.5 fire, better artillery

I don’t upgrade at war

30 Jan – Another minor falls

9 Mar – Lega cored!

16 Mar – Another minor falls

28 Mar – Malacca Peace with Ayutthaya

10 April – Another minor falls

24 April – My Borneo army arrives at the capital to join our siege

1 May – Ude falls in Siberia

6 May – Kano converts! Nasty good! Next is Lega is less than a year

15 May - Sayan falls

10 July - We capture Penom Penh, the capital of Dai Viet!

Cores done in Hemba, Upemba, Kanongensha, Yue and Kusu

I cannot take anything since this is a Trade Conflict Casus Belli

14 July – Peace in Southeast Asia as Malacca takes War Reparations

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-One - Getting Ready for Another War



14 July – I disband my mercs in Siberia

I order my 22k Borneo army back to Brunei

I hand a Majils seat to Brunei

I order:

Trade Station for Spices in Mpasu; Slaves in Shinje
Weapons Manufactory for Iron in Luba

1 Sept – Our army returns, next is my 25k to Palopo

5 Sept - Bayuda converts! Next is Kaonde in 13 months

1 Oct – Furs in Sayan

East Tunguska – Siberia – Algerian, Ibadi, Naval Supplies, Forest, Arctic, 3 dev makes us 0.02

I order these colonists to West Tunguska and Uchamin

10 Oct – We finish our last three cores from Kazembe and are fully cored!

I state:
 
Zambia – Two – Iron in Lamba, Livestock in Kaonde

Shaba – Four – Upemba’s and Lualaba’s Salt; Tabwa’s and Luapula’s Copper

I hand a Majils Seat to Luapula

New Idea – Religious Idea #7 – Deus Vult! We can Declare War on adjacent non-Ibadi people!

I upgrade my cannons to Swivel Cannon

For finishing: -25% Culture Conversion Cost, +10% Ulema equilibrium

I can pass two more policies. Want one? None are Admin, which I could get for free, so nope

1 Nov – Peace is up with the Mamluks, but that’s not a road I’ll hew

I order a Star Fort at these next to Kilwa:

Lamba
Tabwa

I’ll do Lega too once it’s converted

19 Nov – Conversion in Siberia’s Omolon – Next is 14 months in Hemba

Brunei’s last province gobbled up by Kutai

Kutai – 10k

Their only ally is one province Sunda and Sulu again

I order my Brunei army to their border

1 Dec – Relations Maxed with Dai Viet, I pull my diplomat, next is building a spy network the Philippines’s Tondo.

9 Dec – I destroy my Star Fort in Kapit

28 Dec – Our army has arrived, I DOW Kutai for Sambaliung next to us in Tarakan, and I order my 22k army over to it!

Sunda did not join them.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Two- The Algiers/Sunda War


1 Jan,1643 – Liptako converts! Next is 14 months in Upemba!

22 Jan – I win a minor naval battle and capture a ship

21 Feb – Our wartarget falls

25 Feb – Samarinda falls

13 April – Minor falls

Conversion in Lega, next is Kanongesha

28 April – I begin the siege of Kutai’s capital Kutai which is a Star Fort and will take some time

1 Aug – Angara – Siberia – Naval Supplies, Forest, 3 dev, Algerian ibadi makes 0.04

I order these colonists to Siberia’s Chulym

15 Aug – Kaonde converts! Next is Kusu in 14 months

10 Sept – Natives in Chulym killed!

1 Oct – Our DIP level 3 Colonial Governor adviser dies, I hire a level 3 Navigator that increases Colonial Range again just because he’s level 3.

3 Nov – Natives killed in West Tunguska!

1 Jan, 1644 – This is the year of the 200 Year Review!

I hire 30k mercs in Borneo to grab the Kutai army and then join the siege which is going slowly

7 Jan – Natives killed in Chulym

28 Jan – Hemba converts, next is Lualaba for 15 months

25 Feb – Paser falls

7 Mar – We win the Battle of Sulu with my 25k Palopo army

8 Mar – Conversion in Upemba! Next is 16 months in Luapula

21 Mar – Barito falls

1 April – Transvaal – South Africa – Nice Grasslands with a great 5 dev, just Naval Supplies though, makes us 0.05, Ibadi and Algerian

Two left here in South Africa

16 April – Sulu falls! Warscore is 68

21 April – We win a battle in the Sulu Sea

29 April – Our mercs defeat the Kutai army in Sampit

22 June – Kanongesha is converted, next is a big one, 18 months Jenne!

24 June – Barito ours again

Our 25k army arrives from Sulu in Tarakan and I order it to Kutai

11 July – We rout their army with our mercs in Paser

28 July – Separate peace for Sulu – I annex them:


https://i.ibb.co/v4tr4s1/20230223134323-1.jpg


45 score but just 15.9 badboy, I spend 19 to core

1 Au g- I lose my claim on Bone’s captial

21 Aug – Paser is ours again

28 Aug – 451 days later, Kutai falls!

They have a 99% warscore, so I keep pu


5 Sept – We rout their fleeing navy in the Straits of Makassar

Now I have 100%!

What can I get, can I snag all three Kutai holdings?

Yes I can, and only Mamluks and a one province minor on Borneo island inland and an ally of Malacca cares:

https://i.ibb.co/BjFWrm8/20230223135035-1.jpg

Warscore 42, bigger badboy of 50.2. I do it and spend more than 240 coring all three, nasty!

I have made Kutai a State with Samarinda’s Spices so those are rough. Ready?

From Sulu:

Sulu – Filipino culture, Sunni faith, Coastline, Gems, 19 dev Mill, Shipyard, Workshop Natural harbor makes us 0.57

From Kutai:

Sambaliung – Just Fish now but the wealthy Coal later! The accepted Bornean culture and Sunni faith, Jungle Tropical, a massive 26 dev, Shipyard, Mosque, two open spots makes us a strong 0.53 with the opportunity for a Naval Equipment Manufactory and Workshop here later.

Sangkulirang – Also Jungle Tropical, Also Bornean and Sunni, Spice trade here, 15 dev, 1.11 made here, Trade Station, Workshop and Mosque

Kutai – Former capital – Bastion, Shipyard, Mosque, Workshop – Tropical Jungle, 20 dev, also Fish, Bornean Sunni, 0.60 made here

Strong dev, and two good trade goods too. They make a lot!

I order my Mercs killed and my Borneo army to remain here in Kutai

I’ll wait until after the 200 Year Review to order everythng!

20 Sept – Our Admiral died, I hire another

1 Nov – Kusu converts, next is 20 months in Dongola

I spend 110 to upgrade my captured ships

11 Nov – The 200 Year Review!

[Abe Sargent]

Maps!!


Let’s start with North Africa:


https://i.ibb.co/rZ6fpjX/20230223140504-1.jpg


Almost all is mine! As you can see other then the three Portugal in Morocco, we have everything, and the Mamluks are out in the last three wars with them. The Ottomans are next door, but just a little, and I won’t expand into their back door like Arabia or Persia or Eastern Europe. Also in the last 50 years we’ve expanded in West Africa!

Now Southern:

https://i.ibb.co/nD4J74X/20230223140733-1.jpg

In the Kongo region I have grabbed all nearby people up to the regional power of Kilwa. We have two unclaimed province in South Africa, and you can see the two Spain ones there as well. We knocked out all minors here from Kongo and Kazembe and the two allies in that war. We have a land connection from Kongo to Cairo. We are next to unclaimed territory to claim from the last war in Kazembe.


Now South America:

https://i.ibb.co/VVZDMp8/20230223141029-1.jpg

After Africa, this was our first colonial area, but we haven’t really expanded here recently. But I thought you’d enjoy a snap shot of it none the less!

How about the busy Indies?

https://i.ibb.co/rcTcxcJ/20230223141242-1.jpg

You can see our expansions in the central island of Borneo, as well as others. Every holding in Borneo is ours, Malacca’s, or their ally inland of us. We have tons of holdings in the Philippines and Papua.

How about Siberia?

https://i.ibb.co/XCSpQSq/20230223141453-1.jpg

Here you can see us about to run into Muscovy. You can also see Asia as well.

How about North America?

https://i.ibb.co/4VdpcLg/20230223141555-1.jpg

I just haven’t cared to explore the inner parts, but little has changed externally.

How about we leave you with Europe?


https://i.ibb.co/X8LTq60/20230223141708-1.jpg

I got you!

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:

Military:

Army – We have 220k forcelimit and 213k troops – We have the 2nd biggest army after the Turks at twice us and then Spain at 211k right behind us.

Navy –

16 Heavies
21 Lights
27 Galleys
47 Transports

That’s a total of 111, 5th most after the Turks with 160


Techs – 19/20/20 – 59 total. The best is 60, so we are right behind

Ideas – 35 – All done, tied for the most

Income – 384.98 – We get the MOST cash monthly! The Turks are 2nd with 379.19. I am netting 113.71 after payments and upkeep.

Development – With 2443 we are the MOST development, and this isn’t even close. The Turks at 2nd are hundreds behind with 2009

We now have 11 Empires

Religion – Ibadi – 7, Pate is still around, and we have our 5 vassals and colonial states. 389 are Ibadi!


Our Top Ten Provinces by Tax Income:

1. Qahirah – 33.45
2. Tunis – 33.45
3. Gao – 23.43
4. Timbuktu – 21.30
5. Cape – 20.07
6. Kano – 17.48
7. Oran – 17.07
8. Al Gharbia – 17.07
9. Joma – 16.20
10. 5 at 15.61 – Ternate, Mers el Kabir, Marrakech, Mitija, Iskandiyarriyya

Our Top Ten Provinces by Any Production:

1. Pontianak – 86.40 -Gold
2. Bure – 64.80 – Gold
3. Bambuk – 64.80 – Gold
4. Tidore – 59.58 – Cloves
5. Ternate – 59.58 – Cloves
6. Ambon – 59.58 – Cloves
7. Ceram – 47.66 – Cloves
8. Buru – 47.66 – Cloves
9. Talifalt – 43.20 – Gold
10. Halmahera – 41.60 – Cloves

All Cloves and Gold! You see how valuable chasing those is! What about not those?

Our Top Ten Non-Gold or Cloves Provinces by Production:

1. Qahirah – 30.95 – Cloth
2. Tunis - 29.80 – Cloth
3. Draa – 29.63 – Spices
4. Kolaka – 28.65 – Spices
5. Atfih – 28.58 – Paper
6. Dina Arobi – 26.43 – Sugar
7. Dina Morgabin – 26.43 – Sugar
8. Yamdena – 25.43 – Spices
9. Iskandiyariyya – 24.83 – Spices
10. Gao – 22.76 – Cloth

Three Cloth, one Paper, two Sugar and four Spices – very mixed bag.

More than 30 Dev?

Tunis – 34
Qahirah – 32

We have a massive 341 provinces!

We have 4 colonies in Siberia

Charts:

Religion:

Ibadi – 92.25%
Sunni – 3.7%
Fetishist – 2.5%
Tengri – 1%


Culture More than 3%:

Algerian – 21.6%
Berber – 7.1%
Bornean – 7.5%
Hausa – 4.0%
Luba – 3.8%
Kongolese – 3.0%
Egyptian – 8.2%
Moroccan – 7.3%
Tunisian -7.3%


Top Ten Trade Nodes by Current Trading Value:

1. Sevilla, 122.73
2. English Channel
3. Caribbean
4. Malacca
5. Constantinople
6. Champagne
7. Persia
8. Genoa
9. Rhienland
10. Venice, 60.95

Ours -

Timbuktu – 21.96
Alexandra – 21.23
Katsina – 13.72
Safi – 11.73
Tunis – 11.07
Kongo – 6.37
Cape – 5.54


Trade Goods by Current Value:

8.0 – Cloves
5.40 – Cocoa
5.25 – Paper
4.95 – Glass
4.50 – Tobacco, Spices, Iron
4.0 – Dyes, Silk, Ivory,
3.75 – Sugar
3.60 – Cloth
3.50 – Fur
3.45 – Copper
3.30 – Coffee, Salt
3.12 – Wine
3.0 – Slaves, Tropical Wood, Tea, Incense, Cotton, Gems, Chinaware
2.50 – Livestock
2.0 – Fish, Naval Supplies, Grain, Wool


Nice! You can see all of my good stuff like Ivory, Spices and Slaves!

We are the Production Leader:

100% - Cloves
46.3% - Slaves
33.6% - Spices
28.0% - Sugar
18.15 - Dyes

Nice stuff!

We are the trade leader in nothing

There are no coalitions against us!

Great Powers:

1. Spain
2. Algiers, Ibadi
3. Ottomans, Sunni
4. France
5. Commonwealth
6. Bahamanis, Shia
7. Bengal, Sunni
8. Austria

We have four Muslim nations in the Great Powers, and one of each branch in the game!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Three- A Period of Peace


12 Nov – I order:

Trade Station for Ivory in Lwena; Slaves in Kumbana.
Weapons Manufactory for Iron in Hemba and Lamba

Workshops here:

Cloth – Timbuktu
Spices – Lombok
Iron - Gobir
Cotton – Fayyum
Gems – Sula
Slaves – Soyo
Tea – Sumbawa
Sugar – Abda

Upgraded Great Mosque –

Qahirah
Tunis

That drops me to 983, I’ll hold off until something else comes along

1 Jan, 1645 – I order nothing until next year

1 Feb – Truce ends in the Indies with Bali, Bone

16k Rebellion in Kongo’s Luapula where m 27k army is

12 Feb - We win!

25 Feb – I order 5 ships in Sulawesi to join our navy and bring us to 100 vessels there

23 April – Event 0 We lose100 cash to help out local merchants in trouble

30 April – Lualaba converts! Next is a 20 month campaign in Moshi

Europe is at war with Tondo in the Philippines

8 May – A general dies, I promote another

My next war is likely going to be Kilwa:

Kilwa – 58k
Hormuz – Arabia – 22k

I order 26k from West Africa to Kongo and one of my Egyptian armies down here. Leaving two for Hormuz.

16 June – Chulym sets up!

1 July – Chuna – Siberia – Northern, Arctic, Copper Mining, 3 dev, Forest, Algerian Ibadi make just .03

I pull colonists from Uchamin and send to Siberia’s southern Kan

I wanted to send to South Africa, but those two are next to Kilwa, don’t want to set up only to lose my men

14 July – Big conversion in Luapula! Next is 15 in Tabwa

1 Aug – Natives killed in Lower Limpopo

4 Aug - Natives killed in Kan

22 Aug – Natives killed in Upper Limpopo

I order my South African army to Kongo behind the line of Forts to protect me

1 Nov – Fur in West Tunguska!

Our level 2 Grand Captain MIL Advisor passes, I hire a level 3 Commandant that gives me +5% morale

3 Jan, 1646 - I order:

Trade Station for Slaves in Mamuju

Workshop:

Incense – Sumba
Ivory – Mayumba Kantor

Grand Mosque:

Bambuk

I keep 1250 cash for emergencies and mercs

15 Jan – Jenne converts! Next is Kuba, 20 months

1 Mar – We didn’t pass Charter Colonies I try again

8 Mar – Two cores done – Kutai and Sambaliung!

29 Apr – Event – Rising Support in Egypt -They get +10% production and reduced unrest for 10 years

1 May – Naval Supplies in Uchamin

8 May - The last Kutai core is done, I hand Kutai a seat in the Majils

29 June – Dongola converted, next is Kutai in 13 months!

1 July – Sayam – Siberia – North of Oirat Horde, not Arctic, Fur Trade, 3 dev, Buryat culture, Tengri faith, Woods, 0.02 made here

No colonists here to send on

I send a diplomat to make nice with the Oirat

5 Aug – Event - +50 ADM from a great advisor event

And that gets us to:

DIP TECH 20 – Absolute Rulership - +250 Governing Capacity!

1 Oct – Fur in Chulym!

20 Oct – Tabwa converted next is Sambaliung!

Our armies are in Kongo ready for war!

I DOW Kilwa for their Iron province next to us called Lenje,

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Four - The First Algerian/Kilwa War

I order my two adjacent armies into Lenje

I order my 26k from Egypt into Rukwa, I hire the 45k mercs in Luapula to help on that flank

31 Oct – Core finished in Sulu!

Mercs arrives I send them to Rukwa

12 Dec – Lenje falls!

26 Dec – Moshi converts! Next is Sangkulirang in a year

1 Jan, 1647 – Rukwa falls, next is the Star Fort of Ruguru

1 Feb – Two minors fall, next is the Star Fort of Butua

23 Mar – Another minor falls

18 April – Our Scholar has left after 20 years

21 April – I capture a minor with my 5k South Africa army

12 June – Two minors fall

1 July – 15k Kilwa forces are in South Africa’s Swazi, I order one of my armies besieging Butua to head over

31 July – Swazi falls, I capture a minor


4 Aug – Kutai converts! Next is Sayan – 19 months

19 Aug – Another minor falls

6 Sept – Two of ours fell

15 Sept – We capture one of theirs and they one of ours

23 Sept – Kuba converts! Next up will be the Baghena challenge for 20 months

9 Nov – The last Northern Flank minor has fallen, they capture another of ours

31 Dec – Sambaliung converts!

Next? How about 20 months in Yawuri!

2 Jan, 1646 – Ruguru falls! I order my combined force to their captial of Kilwa

7 Jan – Conversion in Kutai’s Sangkulirang! Berber’s 20 months is next

9 Feb – Great Karoo falls

1 Mar – West Tunguska – Siberia – Ibadi, Algerian, Arctic, Forest, Fur, 3 dev makes 0.03

I order these colonists west and south to Tomsk which is next to Muscovy

9 Mar – Kilwa’s 42k recaptures one of their captured holdings

1 April – Maxed relations with Oirat, I pull my diplomat

6 April – We rout the Kilwa army in Great Karoo

I order this army back to Butua

1 May – Butua falls!

Next is the gold Bastion of Sofala next to us in Inhambane

18 May – My northern force wins the battle of Zumbo against their big army

I head to Kilwa’s capital

2 June – Minor falls to me

6 July – We recapture Zumbo

I send the Oirat Horde diplomat to make nice with Siberia neighbor Buryatia

25 Aug – Two minors falls!

4 Oct- Another minor falls

All South Africa recaptured!

22 Oct- Kilwa falls! Next is the Star Fort of Manyika

1 Nov - Sulu rebels rise, I order my Palopo army over.

21 Nov -We capture the minor gold province of Zimbabwe!

29 Nov – Another minor falls

10 Dec – Sulu falls to rebels

1 Jan, 1649 – Iron in Kan!

1 Feb – Chulym – Siberia – Woods, Ibadi, Fur Tarde, Algerian, 3 dev, Arctic, 0.05 made here

I order them to South Africa’s Lower Limpopo

9 Feb – We win the battle of Sulu

7 Mar – Sulu retaken, I order my army back to Sulawesi

Sayan converts! Next is Lamba for 13 months

20 Mar – Sofala falls!

I have a warscore of 94%, let’s call it

What can I get?

South Kilwa -

Sofala – North of Inhambane – 10 score, 9 badboy

Madanda – North of Inhambane, west of Sofala – 5 warscore, 4 badboy

Zimbabwe – West of Madanda – 7 score, 3 badboy

Butua – North of Zimbabwe – 5 each


Central Kilwa –

Lenje - Wartarget, south of two of us – 3 and 2 respectively!

Shangwe – South of Lenje, north of Butua – 6 warscore, 3 badboy

That connects South Africa with Kongo and includes three gold mines, now I’ll just take what I can:

Central:

Zumbo – East of Lenje, northeast of Shangwe – 6 score, 4 badboy

Massapa – South of Zumbo, east of Shangwe, north of Butua – 5 each


South –

Buhera – north of Zimbabwe and Madanda, east of Butua – 6 score, and 4 badboy


North –

Rukwa – East of Tabwa – 5 and 3

Ruguru- North of Rukwa – 7 score, 3 badboy

Nkoma – North of Ruguru – 8 warscore and 5 badboy

Anything else will have Kilwa join an Anti-Algiers coalition

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73 score and a 48.9 badboy – I do it!

I spend 189 coring them all:


South Kilwa -

Sofala – North of Inhambane – Gold mine, Star Fort, Trade Depot, Mosque, Natural Harbor, Nguni people, Sunni faith, 14 dev, 1.24 made here monthly

Madanda – North of Inhambane, west of Sofala – Workshop, Trade Station for Ivory, 5 dev, makes .77, Jungle, Tropical, Shona Fetishists

Zimbabwe – West of Madanda – Great Work “City of Khami” COT Emporium, Gold, Highlands, Shona and Fetishist, making us 0.18 from 5 dev

Butua – North of Zimbabwe – Gold mines, Bastion, Regimental Camp, Highlands, 7 dev, 0.49, Shona Fetishist

Buhera – north of Zimbabwe and Madanda, east of Butua – Highlands, 5 devm Ivory Trade, Trade Station, Workshop, make 0.66, Shona, Fetishist


Central Kilwa –

Lenje - Wartarget, south of two of us – 3 dev, Iron Makers, Tropical Savannah, Weapons Manufactory, Workshop, 0.12, Bemba and Fetishist

Shangwe – South of Lenje, north of Butua – Workshop, Farm Estate for Livestock, Savannah, 5 dev, Shona Fetishist, making us 0.36

Zumbo – East of Lenje, northeast of Shangwe – Shona, Fetishist, Ivory, 6 devm Savannah, Trade Station, Workshop, 0.60

Massapa – South of Zumbo, east of Shangwe, north of Butua – A 4th Gold Mines, Highlands, Mosque, Regimental Camp, 7 dev, Shona, Fetishist, makes 0.42


North –

Rukwa – East of Tabwa – 0.77, 5 dev, Highlands, Iron mines, Weapons Manufactory and Workshop, Ganda and Fetishist, Tropical

Ruguru- North of Rukwa – Salt, Tropical Hills, 6 dev, Naval Equipment Manufactory, Star Fort, Rwandan Fetishists, making us 0.32

Nkoma – North of Ruguru – Tropical, Iron here too, Weapons Manufactory and Workshop for 0.72, Rwandan Fetishists, Hills, 9 dev

That was rich! All 12 of those had at least 3.30 save for one Livestock, from Iron to Ivory to Gold to Salt. Nasty that might be my best take since they are built up with buildings and have four Gold mines.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Five - Integrating Kilwa


20 Mar – I disband my mercs

I order my South African army to head back, and my Kongo army to remain here in Butua and my Egypt army back there. I order my West African army to Ruguru and will keep it here

Spain moved into the Philippines and ousted Tondo

I state-ify:

Palawan – Palawan – Sugar; Taytay – Tropical Wood; Sulu – Gems

Kongo – Copper in Anziku, Mpangu, Grain in Mbata and Mbwila, Iron in Mpemba,

Buryatia – Siberia – Fur in Chara, Kirenga, Ude – Naval Supplies in Barguzin

Okhotsk – Siberia – Iron in Stanovoy, Fish in Jugjur, Gems in Okhotsk, Copper in Tauisk

I hand Mpamba a Majils Seat and the Gold Mine of Sakha and Cloves in Halmahera too


I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Lualaba

Workshops:

Spices in Mpasu
Iron in Lubu
Ivory in Fezzan and Idah

Great Mosque for Timbuktu

I save 988

14 April – I make nice with Solon

I spend 50 MIL for Holy War

17 May – Funj Separatists cross the border from Adal into Soba

21 May – Baghena converts-hena! Next is 14 months in Palawan

23 June – Rebels capture Soba

3 Aug – We win in Soba

28 Aug – Yawuri converts! Next up? Sulu in 17

1 Sept – Soba retaken!

14 Sept – Another conversion in Berber, next is Qasr Ibrim, 20 months

I choose a new Age of Absolutism ability!

Harsher Treatment - -50% Harsh Treatment Cost

1 Jan, 1650 – New Institution is here – Manufactories!

I order:

Weapons Manufactory in Mpempa for Iron and Stanovoy too

Workshop:

Ivory in Lwena
Gems in Loango
Naval Supplies in Poso

748 left

1 Mar – We have gained the Trading in Sugar bonus and get -20% War Exhaustion

30 April – Lamba converts! Next is Kalundwe for 20 months

I order my Sulawesi Island army to Kamchatka

1 May – Uchamin – Siberia – Naval Supplies, Forest, Arctic, 3 dev, Algerian Ibadi making us 0.02

No colonists were here to send on

I pull colonists from Lower Limpopo in South Africa and send to Upper – south of Zimbabwe, west of Lower, north of Transvaal and Swazi

1 June – We max relations with Buryatia, I pull muh diplomat

11 Aug – It arrives back and I send it to make nice with Orochoni

15 Aug – Palawan converts, next is Galam with 20 months

1 Oct – Truce with Ayutthaya is up!

That means Macca is likely to DOW quickly

24 Oct – Our Sulawesi army arrived in Penzhina in Kamchatka

1 Nov – If you’ll recall, Penzhina is next to two one province tribes that have just Fish, low priority, but why not bring them in now while rebuilding up after a big Kilwan war when I can easily grab them and move on?

I DOW Kamchadals for Kamchatka, and their ally Chavchuveny joins to our north

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Six - The War for Kamchatka


18 Feb – Sulu converts! Next shall be Soba 17 months

1 Mar -Relations maxed with Solon, diplomat pulled

17 April – Kamchatka falls!

I order my army north

22 April – Cores done in Sofala, Madanda, Rukwa and Lenje!

25 April – We win a naval battle and captured 5 ships!

1 May – Kan – South Siberia – North of Oirat Horde, 3 dev, Arctic, Iron Mines, Woods, Algerian, Ibadi making 0.04

I send them to Siberia’s Turukhan

20 May – I send the Solon diplomat to make nice with Muscovy

22 May – Qasr Ibrim converted! Next is Madnada for16 months

27 May – I replace a fallen general

21 July – Cores all done in Kilwa!

3 Aug - We arrive in Kagyrgyn

7 Aug – We rout their army and begin a siege

Adal has become Somalia

Ajurraan and Pate are gone:

Somalia – 98k
Aden - 23k
Mombasa – 20k

Total – 141k

I have in Egypt – 89k
I need a lot more.

That’s not happening now, but I could move one armies in Kilwa over to Egypt, and then handle them with another 28k plus 40k mercs. That would likely be a long war too.

I order in West Africa where my 15k is to build another 12kand combine them into one big army

1 Sept – Naval Supplies in Tomsk…

1 Oct – Ready for some good news? Majils votes for and approved Charter Colonies!

I order this colonist to inland Central Africa province of Bemba south of Tabwa and Luapula, just 3 dev, but four 3.0 or higher trade goods in top four options like Slaves, Copper, Iron and Tropical Wood

3 Oct – Natives killed in Turukhan!

24 Oct – Deccan announces me as a rival

17 Nov – Kalundwe converts! Next is 12 month Lenje

I order an Egyptian army to West Africa

22 Nov – Event – Colonial expansion - +200 in Tausk at the cost of 30 cash

18 Jan, 1652 – We capture Kagyrgyn!

Can I get it?

Yes!

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20 score and 3.9 badboy. I order a Core for 17

22 Jan - I park my fleet so it can recuperate

1 April – Get ready! GOLD in Lower Limpopo!

Grain in Upper

28 April – Our Diplomat is back, peace with Kamchadals!

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Pretty low 1.8 badboy and warscore! I spend 13 to core!

Kamchatka – Tengri, Glacial, 6 dev, Fish, Arctic, Kamchatkan culture, makes us 0.05, Impressment Offices here

Kagyrgyn – Glacial, 8 dev, Fish, Kamchatkan, Tengri, make 0.06

All done!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Seven - More States Made

29 April – I order:

Mill in Taytay for Tropical Wood
Trade Station for Fur in Chara, Kirenga,

Workshops:

Cloth – Jenne
Salt – Buhairya, Trarza
Naval Supplies – Mamuju

Great Mosque –

Kano, Dina Morgabin

I have left 963

2 May – Galam converts! Next is 16 months in Rukwa!

5 June – Rebels killed in Bemba

27 June – I accept Institution Sharing with Wutzburg

1 Aug – Soba converts! Next is 16 months in Zimbabwe!

Relations maxed with Orochino, I pull back my diplomat

I en-state:

Zimbabwe – Gold there, Ivory in Madanda and Buhera

Quelimane – Inhambane’s Fish, Sofala’s Gold

Butua – Gold in Butua and Massapa, Livestock in Shangwe

Buha – Iron in Nkoma and Rukwa, Salt in Ruguru

I hand Majils Seats to Sofala and Butua’s Bastion to protect and Gold

11 Sept – Austria announced us as a Rival

27 Sept – Madanda converts! Next is 16 month Sofala

1 Nov – Tomsk – Siberia – Naval Supplies, Center of Trade for the Siberian COT, North of Muscovy, 3 dev, Arctic, Woods Algerian Ibadi making 0.04. I order a Star Fort here.

I order these to Siberia’s Ket to the west

Relations maxed with Muscovy I pull my diplomat

20 Nov – Conversion in Lenje, next up is a year in Butua

23 Nov – Natives killed in Ket

1 Dec – I send our Muscovy diplomat to make nice with France

1 Jan, 1653 – 15k rebellion in Massapa, I order my army from Buhera over

I order:

Trade Station for Fur in Ude

Workshop:

Salt –Hodna
Slaves – Kumbana, Mbamba

Great Mosque:

Gao

That leaves me with 983 for the upcoming West African War against Dahomey.

14 June – Rukwa converts! Next is Massappa for 11

1 July – Slaves in Bemba

10 Aug – Zimbabwe converts! Next is 11 months in Shangwe

1 Sept – I DOW Dahomey for their Dye province Dagbon

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Eight - The First Algiers/Dahomey War


I order my 27k next door there

I order my Egyptian army to Air’s Manga

1 Oct – I lose a few claims

22 Oct – Manga captured I order next door to their 13k army

29 Oct – Dagbon falls

19 Nov- Grain Coast falls

Conversion successful, next is Buhera in 11

26 Nov – We win in Air’s Borno but their army survived

26 Dec – Borno falls

1 Jan, 1654 – Grain Coast falls

Conversion in Sofala! Next is 11 months in Ruguru

20 Jan – Core finished in Kagyrgyn

7 Feb – An Air minor falls

10 Feb – We win a battle in Grain Coast against 15k

1 Mar = Upper Limpopo – South Africa – Grasslands, 3 dev, Grain, Ibadi, Algerian, makes us 0.04

I order these to East Central Africa’s Hehe – East of us in Lukwa, and with a good chance of good trade goods

New Tech!

ADMIN TECH 21 – Land Clearance – We can build Furnaces for Coal, +2% for Production

22 Mar – We win a battle in Abomey, Dahomey’s capital, I begin the siege

26 Mar - We capture two Air minors

30 Mar – We routed an army in Abomey

1 April – Copper in Turukhan

1 May – Kamchatka a core!

We capture Cape Coast

23 May – Massapa converted, next up is Nkoma for 11 months

26 May – Two minors in Air fall, next is it’s captial

28 June – Gold Coast is ours!

11 July – Shangwe converts, next is Kamchatka in 14 months

18 Aug – Kanem, the capital of Air falls, we have every Air holding, next Kano

23 Aug – Another minor falls, I have a warscore of 79% what can I get?

Dagbon – Wartarget – Northern Part of Nation – 8 war score, 7 badboy

Gold Coast – Next to us in Whydah – 6 and 4

Cape Coast – Connects Gold Coast with Ivory Coast – 8 score,4 badboy

Denkyria – North of the Coasts - 8 warscore 6 badboy

Gyaaman - Northwest of Denkyria – 3 badboy, 6 score

Kumasi – Connects Dagbon with Denkyria – 9 each

No new coalitions that’s the most I can do they won’t give me more even though I have a higher warscore

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43 score and 33.9 badboy – I do peace and spend 102 coring them.

Ready?

Dagbon – Wartarget – Northern Part of Nation – Rich Dyes, 10 dev Savannah, Tropical, Textile Manufactory, Mosque and Workshop, making 065, Sunni and Dagomba

Gold Coast – Next to us in Whydah – Natural Harbor, Ivory trade, Jungle, Tropical, Workshop, Marketplace, Akan Fetishists, 5 dev, 0.21

Cape Coast – Connects Gold Coast with Ivory Coast – Akan Fetishist, Tropical Wood, Jungle, Tropical, 7 dev, Natural Harbor, 0.13 made, Marketplace

Denkyria – North of the Coasts -Mosque, Workshop, Tropical Jungle, Slaves, 8 dev, 0.23, Akan Fetishist

Gyaaman - Northwest of Denkyria – Plantation for Coffee, Workshop, Tropical Jungle, Akan Fetishist, 0.57, 5 dev

Kumasi – Connects Dagbon with Denkyria – 0.41, 11 dev, Ivory trade, Akan Fetishist, Tropical Jungle, Mosque and Workshop, extra space for a Manufactory

Nice additions!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Nine - Getting that Gold!


24 Aug – Natives in Hehe killed

I order my Egyptian army back and the Kilwan one back as well.

I order my 25k army back to Sulawesi from Kamchatka and my now repaired navy. I do not state Kamchatka region with it’s minor Fish.

I order:

Weapons Manufactory for Copper in Mpangu and Anziku and Tauisk

Great Mosque:

Benguela
Dina Arobi

That leaves me with 714 cash for emergencies

I order my 7k South Africa army to the open areas to colonize near me

My next war is likely Bali, Bone and Barus

1 Oct – New Tech!

DIP TECH 21 - The Chebeck – We can build this upgraded Galley

21 Oct- Buhera converts! Next is 14 months in Kagyrgyn

7 Dec – Ruguru converts too! Next? How about Zumbo in 14 months?

2 Jan, 1655 – I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Upemba

That’s it

10 May – Nkoma converts, next is 14 months in Karavelyam

19 June – Event – Minorities Flock to Turukhan - +400 pop, it’s now Sunni

Turukhan – Siberia - Sunni, Algerian, Copper Mines, Arctic, Forest I make 0.05 here

I send these colonists north to Narim

I spend 370 to upgrade my fleet.

1 Aug – Bemba – Central East Africa – Slaves, Algerian Ibadi, Hills, Tropical, 3 dev, makes 0.13

I order these colonists SE to Luangwa – Next to Kilwa

7 Aug – I kill natives in Narim

21 Sept - Kamchatka converts! Next is 16 months in Sahra an Nubyah

1 Oct – Lower Limpopo – South Africa – GOLD! 3 dev, Savannah, Algerian Ibadi making us 0.20

I state it:

Natal – Lower – Gold; Matsolo- Tropical Wood; Mtetwa – Slaves, Natal – Gems – All wealthy things

I hand a Majils seat to Zimbabwe

We are now making 0.43 after stating it

That was my free colony so I need to set up another

I pull colonists from Hehe and send to Lala, in Central East Africa, south of Luangwa – next to Kilwa

We max relations with France and I pull my diplomat

I make nice with Two Sicilies

I order 2k artillery for one of my Egyptian Armies that only have 4k

14 Dec – After adding 2k, I order my Sulawesi army to Lombok next to Bali

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty - A New Inquisitor


1 Jan, 1656 – I don’t order anything since we’ll need mercs on Sulawesi army against Bone

13 Jan – Conversion in Kagyrgyn – next is 18 months in Messina.

1 Feb – Fur in Ket

Our Inquisitor level 3 ADM Advisor passes, I hire a level 1 one to replace him

16 Feb – Zumbo converts, next is Wagadugu for 18 months

1 April – My fleet’s upgrades are all done, I order my fleet out

3 April – I want to DOW Bali for it’s capital, Bali, but they have just allied with Malacca, so that’s not happening. Hmm…what else? There are no tribes in the colonies in Americas to DOW and bring in.

How about West Africa’s two province minor Zazzau? I’ve avoided it since it’s just Grain. They are allied to Air, so I’d need a big army next to them and then a minor one for them. I order my armies over

I order my West African’s army to head over and my Kilwan army to Air

24 May – Natives killed in Luangwa

1 June – Livestock in Hehe. That’s…fine. Not great, not bad with a 2.5 trade value

26 June – Natives killed in Lala

The Commonwealth no longer considers us a Rival

5 Aug – Event – Traveling Minstrel – We get +50 ADM power for letting him play anywhere

Conversion in Karalvelyam! Next is Wadi Haifa for 19 months

26 Aug - Dahomey cores done everywhere but Denkyira

I state:

Lower Volta – Dyes in Dagbon; Ivory in Kumasi; Coffee in Gyaaman

Nice!

I hand a Majils seat to Dagbon

26 Nov – Last core done!

16 Dec – All of our armies are in place!

I DOW Zazzau for their capital Zamfara

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-One - The First Algiers/Zazzau War

I order 27k from Yawuri to their captial

I order 26k from Bauchi into Air

31 Dec – We rout the Zazzau army and begin a siege

It’s a Star Fort so get ready for a longer siege

27 Jan, 1657 – Conversion in Sahra an Nubyah – next is 11 months in Gyaaman

28 Jan – I capture an Air minor and there is 14k next door I order my army too

18 Feb – We rout the 14k Air army in Borno

22 Mar- Borno falls, next is their captial

4 Apri – Two minors fall

12 May – Another Air minor falls

31 May – Kanem falls, the Air capital – I have a warscore of 77

12 June – Another Air minor falls

1 July – Naval Supplies in Lala; Tropical Wood in Luangwe – meh

22 July – The last Air holding is ours!

24 July – Massina is now Ibabi! My next attempt is Kumasi 11 months

23 Aug – Roman Fever Strikes Luangwe

1 Sept – Relations maxed with Two Sicilies, next is making nice with Venice

20 Sept – Wagadugu converts! Next is 13 months in Denkyria

7 Oct - I rout the 3k Zazzou army they built up

2 Dec – Kebbi, the minor of Zazzou falls

16 Dec – We capture the capital of Zazzou and have a warscore of 100%!

What do I want?

Zazzou –

Zamfara – Capital, West of us in Katsina – Wartarget – 15 badboy, 11 warscore

Kebbi – West of Zamfara – 9 score, 3 badboy

That’s 20 score and 17.4 badboy

What can I grab from Air too? These are twice as pricey

Air:

The only good one next to me is their capital Kanem can I get it?

Kanem – 40 score, 15 badboy – SE of Kewar, next to Somalia

Manga – West of Kanem – 20 score, 11 badboy

Total –

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80 warscore and 43.5 badboy

I peace it up and spend 108 coring

Zazzou:

Zamfara – Capital, West of us in Katsina – Wartarget – Grain, Savannah, Farm Estate, Bastion, Great Mosque, 14 dev, Hausa and Shia, makes 0.38, Tropical

Kebbi – West of Zamfara – Also Grain – Tropical Savannah, 9 dev, Hausa and Shia, Workshop and Mosque, makes 0.15

Air:

Kanem – Former Capital - SE of Kewar, next to Somalia – Rich Paper made here – Mill, Trade Depot, Workshop, Cot Emporium, makes us 0.44, Arid Steppes,16 dev, Kanuri and Sunni

Manga – West of Kanem – Throw in – Also Kanuri and Sunni, Steppes and Arid, Farm Estate for Livestock and Workshop 9 dev, makes us 0.54.

One great grab from Air, and then just land from the other three.

I’ll want to build a Star Fort in Kanem as soon as I can

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Two - No Longer an Ottoman Rival


16 Dec – I order my 31k West African Army to remain in Zamfara, and my North Kilwa army to return

I have enough cash for the 5k for a Great Work! Which one?

Sankore Madrash – Timbuktu - -5% Tech costs, +50% Institution Spread; +10% Ulema Loyalty

I order:

Trade Station for Ivory in Al Qadarif

Great Mosque in Ambon

That’s it, I’ll save the rest of my 793 for emergencies

29 Dec- Gyaaman converts! Next is Dagbon for 13 months

1 Jan, 1658 – I send a diplomat to make nice with Shun

I don’t order anything this year

1 Feb – Ket – South Siberia - North of Muscovy – Rich Fur, Woods 3 dev, Arctic, Algerian and Ibadi makes us 0.06,

I order these colonists very north to Baykha on the northern edge of Siberia

13 Feb – Somalia announces us as a rival

28 Feb – Natives killed in Baykha

15 Mar – I have some great news!

Here I’ll show you:

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We are no longer rivals with the Turks! Awesome stuff!

I need to order Star Forts next to Somalia in Egypt and Africa. What I need to do is install the infrastructure on borders with Somalia to enable an aggressive war while holding the fort, much like we did with our Inhambane defenses in wars against Kongo and Kilwa and Kazmebe where they wasted time sieging it while I summoned defenders like mercs or sent over an army to help

These have upkeep costs attached. Right now I am spending upkeep on defenses monthly of a massive 95 . So in order to keep my costs roughly equal, I’ll destroy Castle/Bastion/Star Forts in some internal places to make this work.

I order these destroyed:

Zazzau
Sirt
Tilimsan
Ouarzazate
Beefada

18 Mar- Wadi converts, next is Gold Coast in 14 months

17 June- I spend 50 DIP to invite minorities to my capital

18 July – Kumasa converts! Next is 14 in Cape Coast

2 Sept – Copper in Narim!

5 Oct -Event – Monument in Kairwan – We get +20 prestige and it gets boosted production for a decade

18 Oct – Conversion in Kabylia - next shall be nothing, we have everything undergoing conversions now, and the cores aren’t done yet

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Three - Manufacturies Embraced


1 Jan, 1659 – We embrace Manufactories and get +10% production

I order Star Forts here:

Sharqiya – Next to Turks

Central Egypt - Next to Somalia:

Butana
Soba
Bayuda
Suakin

I have 758 left

New Tech!

MIL TECH 21 – Line Infantry- We get +0.25 tactics and +0.50 infantry shock

4 Feb – Conversion in Dagbon!

1 April – Lala – Central Eastern Africa – 3 dev, Hills, Naval Supplies, Algerian Ibadi, Tropical, makes us 0.05

I send these colonists to Hehe to speed it up since nothing else is doable right now

1 May - Relations maxed with Venice, I pull them

I send them to make nice with Engerland

24 May- Gold Coast converts!

1 June – Luangwa – Central East Africa – Next to Kilwa, Tropical Wood, 3 dev, Tropical, Ibadi Algerians, 0.06 here made

24 June – Event – Colonial Expansion – Hehe - Central East Africa – Next to Kilwa – Arid Livestock growing Highlands, 3 dev, next to unclaimed Gogo, 0.03, Ibadi and Algerian

I send colonists to Gogo

2 Aug – Event – Majils Seat granted in Sambialung after they ask

12 Aug – Natives in Gogo killed

I hire a level 3 ADM Advisor that reduces inflation and fire my level 1 Inquisitor since we are past needing it

17 Aug – We promote a General when one dies

2 Sept – Relations maxed with Shun, our diplomat is ordered to return

2 Oct – I lose 31 cliams, I spend 50 MIL for Holy War to get them back

28 Oct – Cape Coast converts!

11 Nov – I send my Shun diplomat to make nice with Algerian Alaska

19 Dec – Claims finished in all four holdings!

I state:

Kanem – Paper in Kanem

Bornu – Livestock in Manga

I order Missionaries to Zamfara- (16 months) and Kebbi

1 Jan, 1660 – I spend 160 ADM power to level up Kanem any Manga to the next level

I order Star Forts:

Kanem
Manga

Egypt:

Berber
Shendy

And that’s it

1 April – Nazim – Siberia – 4 dev, Copper Mining, Forest, Algerian, Ibadi, Arctic, 0.04, North of Muscovy

Next to two unclaimed provinces- Surgut and Mangazea – I order both colonists to them.

1 June – Natives killed in Mangazea!

10 July – And in Surgut too!

23 Sept – Event – Local Traders need Aid I spend 100

29 Oct – Event – Jugjur is now Sunni

I send a Missionary there.

11 Dec - I order my 33k from West Africa to Kilwa

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Four - Getting Ready for Kilwa


1 Jan, 1661 – I save my cash for mercs in Kilwa

1 Feb – Salt in Gogo!

1 Mar – Relations maxed with England,I pull the diplomat

1 April – With a 150+ Alaska relation, I hire Shalafi Scholar for 20 years

I send to collect in Siberia

28 April _ Zamfara converts to Ibadi!

1 May – Fur in Baykha!

1 Aug – Peace with Kilwa, my 33k army is close

1 Sept – Our MIL Advisor Commandant dies, next is a level 3 Quartermaster - +33% Reinforce speed

1 Oct- Our Colonial Policy ended, our next debate is:

Quartering of Troops - -10% Maintenance, -5% land attrition

23 Oct – Our 33k army hits the northern border of Kilwa!

I declare war for Kilwa’s northern Ivory province of Ngonde

They are joined by Hormuz

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Five - The 2nd Algiers/Kilwa War


I have two Kilwans armies on the southern flank I order them to the adjacent Bastion of Manyika, I will refer to them as the southern army, I hire a small merc force of 15k to join them

I have 33k in Rukwa on the northern flank, I have hired the 45k independent army since Kilwa still has 55k troops, and will order them into Ngonde, they will be referred to as the northern army

I have 7k in Kusu behind the Fort of Lega, they will grab the unconnected all minors area of to the rest of Kilwa area of Lake Victoria

3 Nov – Mercs arrive!

10 Nov – We begin the Siege of Manyika

17 Nov – Jugjur converts!

18 Dec – Ngonde falls!

I send them east

15 Feb, 1662 – I capture a minor next to their capital, next is Kilwa

11 Mar – Lake Tanganyika province falls to my 7k

1 April – Conversion started in Brakna, for 23 months

4 April – Kebbi converts!

19 April – After 161 days, Manyika falls!

27 April – Our Admiral dies, another is hired

5 May – A Lake minor falls

14 May – Event- Local Noble Family requests Aid- They need more than 1000 cash and I need to save for this war, so I lose 50 DIP power.

25 May – Another Lake minor falls

1 June – A southern minor falls

11 June – Kilwa falls! That’s a warscore of 37%

20 June - Another Lake minor is ours

5 July – Conversion in Manga for 18 months and Kanem for 22 begin

11 July – Two minors falls

1 Aug – The last Lake falls!

I also get the Trading in Ivory bonus! That’s’ +2 Dip Rep

I pull my dip from making nice with Alaska

5 Sept – Two more minors have fallen

19 Oct- Our southern army routs 11k In Mozambique

22 Oct – A minor falls

1 Nov – I lose my claim on Assab in Somalia

14k Rebellion in Kanem, I order an Egyptian army over to deal with it luckily it has a Bastion now

19 Nov – Mozambique falls!

26 Nov – Central minor falls

1 Jan, 1663 – I can get the next ADM tech which comes with another Group of Ideas, and we are almost at our cap of 999, so I’ll wait a few months since I have a warscore of 63, but no major bumps in score coming like no defenses are left to give me a big bump, so this is slow, but I’ll keep it for another few months

18 Jan – Two minors fell

27 Jan – I capture the colony of Phangwe which is internal to Kilwa

1 Feb – I get this Age of Absolutism Ability:

Protecting Forts – Forts on border with rival (Somalia) get -100% maintenance,.

Before taking it it’s 107.50 cash monthly, now it’s 97.0

24 Feb – Minor captured

15 Mar - Two minors fall

1 April – NEW TECH!

ADMIN TECH 22 – The Constitution – We can build Town Halls and another Group of Ideas!

I cannot get ADM Ideas since they are too many, I can get DIP or MIL ones.

I have enough power to get one now right now, and DIP #2 in just a few months

DIP –

Trade - You’ll get three more merchants from this and boosts to Trade power like

Dip - You’ll get another Diplomat now, and then another soon, and then you better Dip stuff like relations, reputation, and more!

MIL -

Quantity – I need a bigger army for tussling with Somalia and then keeping safe from the Turks. When finished, this will give you +25% Forcelimit

Offensive/Defensive – Boost my armies with these awesome Ideas.

I like all four! I do Quantity!

Quantity Idea #1 – Levee en Masse - +25% Manpower

9 April – We capture a minor

2 May – Two more minors have fallen

27 May – Another minor falls

1 June – Baykha – Siberia – Northern edge, Fur trade, Forest, Arctic, Ibadi Algerians, 3 dev, make us 0.05

I have new colonists! I send to the colony of Gogo where there are no colonists

18 June – Two minors fall!

20 July – Every mainland province fell, I have a warscore of 87% what can I get?

I want to remove the 6 province flank behind me first, although four are Grain or Livestock, it’s a weak spot for future wars.

Lake Tanginika Area:

Bafuriru – North Coast of the Lake, east of us in Lega, west of us in Nkoma – 8 warscore and 6 badboy

Lake Victoria Area:

Bushubi – East of Bafuriru, north of Nkoma – 12 warscore and 7 badboy

Buyogoma – East of Bushubi, north of Nkoma and Ruguru – 6 score and 3 badboy

Muhambwe – East of Buyogoma, north of Ruguru and Rukwa, Gogo and Hehe – 6 war score and 4 badboy

Karagwe – Southwest shore of the Lake, North of Bushubi – 9 score and 6 badboy

Buzinza – Southeast shore of Lake, east of Karagwe, north of Buyogoma and Muhambwe – 6 score and 4 badboy

Those 6 are 47 score and 31.2 badboy, now we’ll just take what I can from Kilwa that makes sense

Central Kilwa -

Ngonde – Wartarget, northwest shore of Lake Malawi, East of us in Rukwa, Luanganda and south of Gogo – 4 score and 3 badboy

Anything else will annoy Kilwa, and with a an army of 55k I don’t want that at my back.

Peace:

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51 score and then 34.50 badboy I do it! I don’t have much ADM power left to core, but I am making 12 a month, I core – 28 in Bushubi and Muhambwe, 25 in Karagwe, 23 in Buyogoma, and that leaves me with just 6 ARM but 3 cores left.

Let’s look at my 7!

Lake Tanginika Area:

Bafuriru – North Coast of the Lake, east of us in Lega, west of us in Nkoma – Farm Estate for Grain, Workshop, Hills, Tropical, Fetishist and Rwandan, 9 dev, makes us 0.48

Lake Victoria Area:

Bushubi – East of Bafuriru, north of Nkoma – Farm Estate for Grain here too, Marketplace, Regimental Camp, Hills, Tropical, Rwandan and Fetishist here, and then 12 dev and 0.12 made here

Buyogoma – East of Bushubi, north of Nkoma and Ruguru – Savannah, Tropical, Farm Estate for Grain and Regimental Camp, 5 dev, 0.31, Rwandan and Fetishist

Muhambwe – East of Buyogoma, north of Ruguru and Rukwa, Gogo and Hehe – Ganda culture, Fetishist faith, Farm Estate for Livestock, Workshop, Savannah, Tropical, 0.08 from 6 dev

Ready for the three good ones?

Karagwe – Southwest shore of the Lake, North of Bushubi – Iron Mines! Weapons Manufactory, Workshop, Fetishist and Ganda, 0.80 made here in Tropical Hills with a dev of 9

Buzinza – Southeast shore of Lake, east of Karagwe, north of Buyogoma and Muhambwe – Also Iron Mining here! Weapons Manufactory and Workshop, 6 dev, Tropical Savannah, Takama Fetishist, 0.33 made here

Central Kilwa -

Ngonde – Wartarget, northwest shore of Lake Malawi, East of us in Rukwa, Luanganda and south of Gogo – Trade Station for Ivory, workshop, 0.69 made here, 5 dev, Nyasa Fetishist, Tropical Savannah

All 7 have Manufactories already in them! Even the Grain ones are making that cash as a result.

In Lake Victoria we are next to a nation called Kitara that has 9 provinces here, they are also next to Somalia on the other end.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Six - Alliance with Deccan


20 July - I order our mercs disbanded.

I order my 7k back to the colonies in Central East Africa

I order my 33k army back to South Africa

I order the Egyptian army in Kanem back to Egypt to protect that border

I order one 28k Kilwa army to Boyogoma

I order the other to Zumbo

I order:

Star Forts in Al Qaradif pretty much surrounded by Somalia after the Trade Station for it’s Ivory was built

I have enough for 5k for a Great Work! Or could I buy a Trading Post?

I could do an alliance and/or Royal Marriage with Deccan, the Shia nation in India, and then buy a trading post from them pretty easily. Here let me show you:

https://i.ibb.co/hRKsGfp/20230225105400-1.jpg

They are in most of India, and like us lots. This would give me a jump off point for expansion in the Southern Asia region against others north, and a big person to protect like Malacca in the Indies but now I haven’t called on them after building up. Remember Bengal next door are our rival, as are with Deccan. Now I might get pulled into wars I might not really care about, like Malacca in SE Asia, but it’s a nice path in. It’s also a Great Power Hegemon that we could use against the big bad of the Turks and might keep them away like Russia did in Theodoro. I do it!

Ideally I’ll purchase a Trade Post on the border with Bengal to have a launching spot for them.

I have gained the Holy War CB against Kitara now that I am next to them.

26 Aug – Diplomat reruns – Royal Marriage with Deccan

1 Sept – 21 ADM core ordered for Bafuriru

1 Oct – For 5967 I purchase from Deccan the small Trading Post of Srikakulam:

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Srikakulam – Coastal – Down coast from Bengal, next to one province minor - 7 dev, Sugar, Tropical, Hills, Workshop, Shipyard, makes us 0.15, Hindu and Orissa.

I spend 50 DIP to invite minorities and 16 ADM to core Buzinza

1 Nov – Gems in Surkut!

Ngonde claimed for 11 ADM, we are all started!

18 Nov- I send my diplomat to build a spy network in Kitara

1 Jan, 1644 – Peace treaty with Kano and Dahomey is up!

I order my Egyptian army back

I order nothing and will hold off until next year in case we need with just 1493 cash

5 Jan – Conversion successful in Manga!

4 Feb – Event – Korean Demand and Algerian Supply – We get better relations with merchants and better production for 5 years

20 Mar – Brakna converts!

1 April – Gogo – Central East Africa – Wealthy Salt, Hills, Arid, 3 dev, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.05 cash monthly, next to Kilwa

I order these colonists north east to Nyatura it has a 50+ chance of Livestock so it probably won’t be anything good

11 April – Natives there killed

1 May – Fur in Mangazea! Speaking of quality!

3 May - Kanem converts! That’s a big one!

15 May – Event – Invest in Military – I choose +15k manpower

1 Sept – I spend some prestige to make nice with Algerian Brazil

2 Oct - I spend 50 MIL to claim Holy war and gain a bunch of claims on Kitara and Bengal and the one province minor next to me.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Seven - Alliance Broke



1 Jan, 1665 – We spend:

Star Fort in Srikakulam after destroying the Shipyard

Textile Manufactory for Cloth in Tilimsan
Trade Company for Ivory in Kumasi; Slaves in Bemba
Weapons Manufactory for Copper in Kanongesha

That drops me to 1686 so I hold off for the rest

25 Jan – Weirdly, Deccan broke their alliance with us since they want our trading post of Srikakulam

9 Mar- Kilwa have started a colony next to Nyatara in Shamba

That’s where I was going next!

26 Mar – My armies are in and around the key players in my next war in West Africa

25 Aug- Cores done in Bushubi, Muhambwe and Buyogoma!

16 Oct Another core done in Bafuriru!

Conversions ordered for 14 months in Buyogoma, Muhambwe, 21 months in Bafuriu and 24 in Bushubi

29 Oct – Event – Consort of the People – We get -2% national revolt risk until our leader dies

4 Nov – Ngonde cored!

22 Nov - Karagwe core done!

30 Nov – Event – Social Mobility- I can side with merchants or clergy and one gains +10 but the other loses 20. That’s not fair. I side with mercs

30 Dec – Buzinza cores, and that’s my last one

1 Jan, 1666 – I make these states:

Buzinza – Iron in it and Karagwe

Ngonde – Ivory for just it

I order this cash:

I spend 1k on the Great Work in Zimbabwe

And 2500 on the Jenne one

I have 1959 left for mercs

21 Jan – Our diplomat returns from building a spy network in Kitara

I DOW Kano’s capital of Ketu, the 3rd Kano war

They are allied with Kanem Bornu and Dahomey

All minor stuff outside of a few good things in Dahomey

I am at war with all three

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Eight - The 3rd Algiers/Kano War


I order 33k from Moshi to Keto where they have 10k

I order my Egyptian army to Kanem Bornu’s fort-less capital and only province Marghi

1 Feb – I lose three claims

4 Feb - We rout their army and begin the siege in Keto

1 Mar – Surgut – Gems, Siberia, North of Muscovy, Arctic, 3 dev Ibadi Algerians make us 0.05

I send these colonists west to As

14 Mar – Marghi falls! I have a war score of 21. Can I get Kanem Bornu in a separate peace? It’s just Grain, but I’d like to take them off the board

Yup!

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That’s just 7.9 badboy, and I spend 15 to core it

1 April – Nyatura with Slaves!

10 May – Ketu falls! Warscore of 22

1 June – Rebellion in Bushubi – my 28k is next door and ordered over

9 June – Our Kanem Bornu army routed 15k Dahomey troops

22 June – Oyo falls to us, next is Dahomey’s capital

4 July – We win in Bushubi

9 July – A minor Dahomey falls

1 Aug – Relations maxed with Malacca, I pull them

23 Aug – Another minor falls

1 Sept – NEW TECH:

DIP TECH 22 – Limes – We can build Twodeckers, Trabakul, the Marketplace upgrade Stock Exchange, +5 naval engagement, +0.50 naval morale and navies cost 10% more.

I spend 1272 to upgrade my main fleet and 192 for my transport one

4 Sept – Natives killed in As

1 Oct – Mangazea – Coastal, North Siberia, - A massive 7 dev, The Taz Estuary, Arctic, Fur Trade, Algerian, Ibadi makes us 0.17.

I order these colonists west to Berezov

7 Oct -I send my Malacca diplomat to make nice with Commonwealth

13 Oct – Two more minors are ours

17 Oct – Adomey falls, we have every Dahomey and Kano province and a warscore of 100%!

What can I get?

Kano:

Keto – Capital, Wartarget – 7 warscore and 6 badboy

Oyo – East of Keto – 13 score, 9 badboy

Total to annex Kano – 20 score, 15.1 badboy

Now what can I add from Dahomey?

This will be twice as expensive and anything I take Dahomey will join a coalition, but I can handle this

Dahomey:

Tenkodogo – Surrounded by us, north of them in Bonoman – 16 score, 8 badboy

Bonoman – South of them in Tenkodogo, surrounded by us – 20 score, 13 badboy

Can I get anything else?

The next one annoys Air, so I just do those two from Dahomey

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We are paying 56 warscore and netting 36.6 badboy

I do it! Cores are 149, let’s look at my 5 new holdings!

Kanem Bornu:

Marghi - South of Air – Farm Estate for Grain, Training Fields, which I destroy since it adds to my manpower only, Tropical Savannah, Fetishist Kanuri people, 0.11, 7 dev

Kano:

Keto – Capital, Wartarget – Slave trade, Mosque, Savannah, Tropical, Fetishist, Yoruba, 8 dev, makes us 0.16

Oyo – East of Keto – Yoruba Fetishist work a 12 dev Grain Trade with a Farm Estate, Workshop, Mosque, Tropical Savannah, making us a fat 0.89

Dahomey:

Tenkodogo – Surrounded by us, north of them in Bonoman – Tropical Savannah, Livestock, Farm Estate, Mosque, Mossi people, Sunni faith, making us 0.45 from 7 dev

Bonoman – South of them in Tenkodogo, surrounded by us – 12 dev, Akan Fetishist, 0.56 from the Tropical Wood trade, Tropical Savannah, Mosque, Workshop, Regimental Camp,

Three Manufactories for the low quality stuff, but the Slaves and Wood don’t have any. You can see why I hadn’t prioritized taking them off the board.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Nine - Peace for Now


17 Oct – That was a fast war!

I order my Egyptian army back

I order my 33k West Africa army to Keto

I order nothing until January

6 Nov – I send a diplomat to make nice with Xibe that has taken out Solon next to us in Siberia and has a very large nation next to us

1 Dec – We failed to pass Quartering of Troops. I try to “Reduce Trade Regulations”

22 Dec – Conversion in Buyagoma! Next is 14 months in Ngonde

26 Dec – Another conversion, this time in Muhambwe. Next is Buzizina for 14 months too

1 Jan, 1667 – I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactory for Naval Supplies in Maya and Barguzin
Mill for Gems in Okhotsk

I hold off with 1736

1 Feb – Quantity Idea #2 – The Young can Serve - +20% Manpower Recovery

10 Feb – Deccan announces us as a rival

28 April – 5k natives killed in Berezov

31 May – The Ottomans declare us as a rival again

1 Aug – Conversion in Bafiriru, next is 15 months in Karagwe

19 Oct – Bushubi converts!

1 Jan, 1668 – I order my southern Kilwa army to Lake Victoria for a future war against Kitara

I order:

Trade Station for Ivory in Butana; Slaves for Mtetwa
Farm Estate for Livestock in Kusu
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Naval Supplies in Sao Tome, Mahe,
Mill for Gems in Lega


That leaves us with 1711 cash

27 Feb – Ngonde converts!

7 Mar – Conversion in Buzinza is done too!

15 Mar – Core done in Marghi, Missionary ordered here for 20 months

I state:

Adamawana Plateau – Marghi - Grain, former colonies -Yola – Ivory; Bauci – Tropical Wood; Wukari- Naval Supplies. Those’re worth 2.0, 4.0 and 3.0 each after Naval Supplies just jumped

I hand a Majils Seat to Massapa’s Gold

1 June – Nyatura - Central East Africa – Arid Highlands, 3 dev, Slaves, next to Kilwa, Algerian, Ibadi making 0.04

There is no where else to send this colonist

26 July – Event – Drought in Guinea

18 Aug – Event – We lose 50 DIP rather than 10 prestige

19 Oct – Cores done in all Kano and Dahomey holdings!

I order Missionaries:

Ketu - 17 months
Oyo – 23 months

They are in the same state as Ife already, as are the other two in Lower Volta with Dagbon

I hand Lower Limpopo’s Gold a Majils Seat

31 Oct – Conversion in Karagwe! Next is 23 months in Bonomon!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty - Waiting for War


1 Jan, 1669 – I order:

Trade Station for Yola’s Ivory
Farm Estate for Livestock in Jufra and Kaonde and Tenere

I stay at 2774 for war with Kitara coming up, although they only have 15k, in case of bad things

1 Feb – With 80 we max relations with Xibe and pull back my diplomat

1 April - I make nice with Berau on Borneo next to me

They are Sunni so that we can Royal Marry them and maybe ally with them, I’d love to bring them in diplomatically with a vassalization

8 June – Marghi converts! Next is 26 month campaign in Tenkodogo

6 July – I hire a new general after one dies

1 Sept – Fur in As!

1 Oct – I am ready to DOW Kitara, all old cores are done. They have no defensive formations so this will be fast. They have 15k so both of my armies are next in Karagwe and Buzinza with my 7k two back to grab provinces behind the lines, and I’ll send my two big armies around Lake Victoria in a circle and meet up on the north side.

I DOW Kitara for the Salt province of Shaga

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-One - The War for Lake Victoria


I order my armies into Shaga and Nkore

4 Dec – I capture both. The western flank is next to 15k in Bunyoro and I order them in.

25 Dec – We arrive in Bunyoro

4 Jan, 1670 – Our 7k captures a minor

13 Jan – We win the Battle of Bunyoro

8 Feb – Oyo converts!

1 Mar – Bunyoro falls, next their capital

Copper in Berezov!

31 Mar – Ketu converts!

19 April – We win the Battle of Lango with my other army

28 May – Lango falls

19 June – Another minor falls

20 July – We win the Siege of their capital in Buganda

I have a warscore of 99

What can I get?

Shaga – Wartarget, East Lake Victoria Coast – 5 score and badboy

Kuria – North of Shaga, northeast Lake Victoria coast – 7 warscore and 6 badboy

Nduga – West corner of region, and Karagwe north of us in Bushubi, inland – 15 each

Buganda – Capital, west coast of Lake Victoria, north of us in Karagwe – 12 warscore, 11 badboy

Nkore – North of Nduga, west of Buganda, inland, - 10 warscore and 8 badboy

The next one will annoy them.

Can I just annex them? The warscore is below 100, but not yet, let me try and fix that

6 Aug – We rout their army

12 Aug – We capture Busoga, now a 100% warscore!

I annex Kitara

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It costs me just 13.5 badboy but a big warscore. I do it and then spend 200 even to core.

Ready?

Shaga – Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt, Workshop, 5 dev, Tropical Highlands, make us .11 with Ganga Fetishists, east of unclaimed Taveta

Kuria – North of Shaga – 5 dev, Tropical Mountains, Farm Estate for Livestock, Workshop, also Ganda and Fetishists, making 0.24, south of Somalia

Busoga – North Coast of Lake Victoria – West of Kuria – Tropical Savannah, Fishing, Mosque, Naval Equipment Manufacture, next to unclaimed territory in Turkana,

Buganda -West Cosat of Lake Victoria, west of Busoga – Emporium COT, Mosque, Workshop, Trade Depot, Tropical, Savannah, 10 dev, Fetishist faith and Ganda people making 0.23 with Salt

Nduga – Southwest of Buganda, south of Nkore – Rwandan Fetishists, Highlands, Tropical Iron Mines with Weapons Manufactory, and Mosque and Workshop, 15 dev, makes us 0.64

Nkore- West of Buganda, north of Nduga – Tropical Hills, 8 dev, Farm Estate for Grain and Workshop, making us 0.49, also Ganda Fetishists

Bunyoro – North and west of Nkore and Buganda – Salt here too, 13 dev, Naval Equipment Manufactory, Mosque, Workshop, Tropical Savannah, Ganda Fetishists make us .45

Pubungo -North of Bunyoro, west of Lango – NW corner of area, Achioli people here, Fetishist, Farm Estate for Livestock and Workshop, Savannah, Tropical, 9 dev, makes 0.67

Lango – East of Pubungo, north of Busoga, next to unclaimed land, 0.05 only, 3 dev, Livestock, nothing built here, Ganda and Sunni, Tropical and Savannah

All but one developed with Manufactories and other stuff!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Two - Getting Ready for the Next War


12 Aug – I order my extra colonists to Taveta

13 Aug – Natives killed there

I order one army back to south Kilwa border and the other here to Buganda

I order:

5k Great Work in Qahirah’s Pyramids of Cheops which when finished will give me:

-15% Advisor costs
-5% Idea cost

I keep the rest of my cash for emergencies

12 Sept - I make nice with Dai Viet

2 Oct – Bonoman converts!

1 Jan, 1671 - Truce with Air up. They are allied with Dahomey. I order my Egyptian army here

1 Apr – relations maxes with berau I recall my diplomat

6 June 0- our admiral dies, I hire another

12 June – Fleet – 121 outta 236

I order a bunch more ships for my fleet in the Indies, most great ship Twodeckers

I spend around 2200 total

Our current naval maint – 24.96

30 June-I make nice with Malay peninsula minor Kedah

1 Aug – lost my claim on Tondo

13 Aug – conversion in Tenkodogo!

1 Oct –The Majils passes the Trade practices policy! We get +10% Trade efficiency

1 Jan, 1672 – I order:

Mill for Tropical Wood In Kapit; Gems in Natal
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Azbin
Farm Estate for Livestock in Itesan, Ader, Damagaram

That leaves me 2422 for emergencies and Air’s war

1 Feb – As – Siberia, North of Muscovy, not next to open places, landlocked by Berezov – rich Fur Trade, 3 dev, Algerian Ibadi, Arctic, makes us .05

I order them to East Central Africa’s Turkana next to Somalia

8 Feb – Natives there killed

Our Consort passes

1 July – Relations maxed with Dai Viet I pull my diplomat

15 Aug – Cores done in the four I already had claims on, I send a Missionary to:

Shaga – 16 months
Nkore – 17 months
Buganda – 18 months
Nduga – 20 months

22 Aug – Event - Merchant dies without heir, I choose to claim it 1822 cash made

5 Sept – I send our Dai Viet diplomat to make nice with Sumatra island’s minor Barus

At 968 our ADM is about to hit it’s max of 999, so I spend some around 200 to up the dev of my provinces

1 Oct – Slaves in Taveta

15 Nov -5 cores in Kitara done!

I order Star Forts in Juria

I make these states:

Rwanda – 3 – Grain in Bafuriru and Bushubi; Iron in Nduga

Uganda – 3 – Grain in Nkore; Salt in Buganda; Fish in Busoga

Buganda is the COT for the Great Lakes trade depot

Missionary for 17 months In Busoga

I Dow Air’s capital of Borno. Dahomey joins them

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Three - The First Algiers/Air War


I order 33k to Dahomey’s capital and Air’s Borno

5 Dec – we win in Abomey and begin a siege

10 Dec – Our High Imam passes:

Stability drops to +2

High Imam Muhammed V 2/6/1, age 36

Heir – 1/2/1 – rough age 0

Do I spend 50 prestige to disinherit him? We have +100% with Ibadi, I do so

Consort – 2/3/3

1 Jan, 1673 – We capture Borno

I chase their army in Yola

7 Ja - Yola falls

25 Jan – RM with Malacca

5 Feb – Abomey falls!

26 Feb 0 Yola win

1 Mar – Berezov – Siberia – North of Muscovy, Copper, 3 dev, Arctic, Algerian, Ibadi, Forest makes 0.04

I head north to the coastal Obdorsk

5 Mar – Natives there no longer

I pass this decision since I have a Dip score of at least 5:

Islamic Center of Learning - +1% Missionary Strength, -5% tech costs

11 Mar – Dahomey minor falls

RM with Persia

1 Apr – Rebellion in Bunyoro, I order my army over

3 Apr – We rout the Air army!

24 Apr – the last Dahomey minor falls!

28 Apr – rebels killed

6 May – Minor falls

Warscore of 99!

What can I get?

Borno – Capital, Wartarget – 13 score 12 badboy

I can only get one more Air without annoying Somalia

Mandara – Connects Borno to Marghi – 11 score and 8 badboy

https://i.ibb.co/CQCpy7z/20230225163932-1.jpg

24 warscore and 20.3 badboy – I do it. 113 cores done

Borno – COT Emporium – Trade Depot, Mosque, Farm Estate for Grain, Kanuri and Sunni, Arid Steppes, 15 dev, make 0.71

Mandara – Tropical, Savannah, Mill for Tropical Wood and Workshop makes 0.65, 10 dev, also Kanuri but Fetishist,

Not as big as I wanted, but I got what I could and split up Air

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Four - Incorporating Air


6 May – I order the Air army back to Borno, and my 33k army to Kilwa for that peace next year since they still have 52k troops

This is a fast peace and ends in 7 years

I order:

5k in the Great Work of the Great Mosque of Djenne, which when done will give me +1 Missionary and +3% vs Heathens

I don’t spend the last 1511

29 May – Ships done - 58.85 new maint

Our new fleet:

53 large ships
47 small
27 galleys
47 transports

30 Aug – Shaga converts! Next is 19 months in Pubungo

1 Oct – relations maxed with Kedah

14 Oct – Conversion in Nkore – next is 21 months in Loango

26 Oct – Another conversion in Bunyoro – next is 59 months in Lango

29 Nov – Another conversion – Nduga

7 Dec – I send the Kedah diplomat to make nice in Portugal

16 Dec – Busoga converts!

2 Jan, 1674 – I order:

Trade Station for Spices in Lehad Datu, Api-Api

I keep 2753 for mercs

I order my fleet to East Africa for war with Kilwa

1 Feb – Slaves in Turkana

1 May – I lose 18 claims, I spend 50 MIL to declare Holy War as well as new ones on Mombasa

14 May – I replace a dead general

1 June- Stability rises to +3

1 July – Our level 3 DIP Navigator passes, I hire level 3 Trader who gives me +10% trade

28 Sept – I park our navy in Sofala

1 Nov – Truce ends with Kilwa!

They and Hormuz are at war with the Turks

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Five - Two Colonies Done


1 Jan, 1675 – I order:

Farm Estate for Livestock in Pindiga
Mill for Tropical Wood in Matsolo and Bauchi
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Fish in Tarakan and Naval Supplies in Wukari

That leaves me 3596 for mercs

14 Mar – Pubungo converts!

2 April – Event – Marriageable Women in Turkana

11 April – Our colony in Obdorsk starts

8 May – Core done in Borno! Star Fort ordered here since it’s two away from Somalia.

27 May – Missionary ordered to Kuria for 20 months

1 June – Taveta – Central East Africa – Next to Mombasa, Kilwa, Somalia, I order a Star Fort here, Arid Mountains, Slaves, 3 dev, makes 0.05, Algerian and Ibadi

I order them to Siberia’s Komi

Relations maxed with Barus I called them back

8 June – Bunyoro converts!

3 July – Natives killed in Komi

1 Aug – Turkana – Central East Africa – Next to Somalia, I order a Star Fort here, Tropical Highlands, Slaves here, 3 dev, Ibadi and Algerian making us 0.05

I order these colonists to Siberia’s Pelym

8 Aug – Mandara cored! Star Fort here too

22 Aug – Natives killed in Pelym

30 Aug – I order my navy out

23 Oct – My navy is in the Zanzibar Strait where their capital is. Their 76 ship navy is in their capital Kilwa, I want to grab Zanzibar in this battle ideally

I DOW Kilwa for the Star Fort of Manyika on the south side, Hormuz joins them, 3rd war.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Six - The Third Algiers/Kilwa War


I order my two Southern Armies into Manyika

I order my Northern Army 33k into Zigua from Nyatura

My 7k is in Kuria and will wait until the big stuff opens up

I order:

45k in Gogo to join my northern army

15k in the southern army

4 Nov- Mercs here and ordered into their targets

1 Dec = Relations maxed with Portugal

9 Dec – Sent to make nice with France

12 Dec – Zigua is ours!

12 Feb, 1676 – Two minors fall, next is their captial of Kilwa

13 April – minor falls

1 May - I do not get the next ADM tech until post war

We get a new Age of Absolutism Ability!

I get Efficient Autonomy - -50% Autonomy costs

18 May – A new heir is born with 1/3/4

21 May – Kilwa falls! Their fleet heads out to ours

28 May – Zanzibar is ours!

6 June – We win a minor naval battle

23 June – They fled into harbor in Madagascar

9 July – We capture a minor with our northern army and it’s next to 17k in Ibo, I head in

9 Aug – We rout their army in Ibo

9 Sept – Two minors falls

27 Sept – After almost a year we capture Manyika!

We have a warscore of 47%

29 Oct – Two more fall

1 Nov – Rebellion in Borno where my main army is

21 Nov – Defeated

26 Nov – Kuria converted!

1 Dec – Copper in Obdorsk!

Our Majils policy is up! Next? How about Reduce Trade Regulations again

27 Dec - Four minors fall

11 Jan, 1677 – Another minor falls

16 Feb – Four more fall

1 Mar – Quantity Idea #3 – Enforced Service - -10% costs

8 April – Final three fall, we have every mainland holding and Zanzibar with an 88% warscore

Now what do I want?

I have two major options - Grab a bunch of low dev but high trade good stuff in the south like 6 dev Ivory Manyika, 5 dev Tete Ivory and such. Or I could tryto build a line in the north to Zanzibar and grab it.

I want Zanzibar. Since I have Cloves, I can pass edict and move Cloves to them and they are a Center of Trade.

The four in the north that get me to Zanzibar and then them annoys Kilwa. But I can do the minimum of three to get there. I can also get one more in Central Kilwa, but not my wartarget, that annoys them too much.

https://i.ibb.co/HFNhM7g/20230225184121-1.jpg

That’s a 26 warscore and just a 19.7 badboy, not much to build down. Not even West Africa cares about this one. I do peace and pay 57 to core them

I pass the decision to grow Cloves

North Kilwa:

Shamba – Next to Mombasa, Us in four places and Kilwa, connects us to Bagamoyo – Arid Highlands, Slave trade, 7 dev, Swahili people, Sunni faith, makes us 0.59 with a Trade Station

Bagamoyo – Strait to Zanzibar, connects Shamba to them, south of Mombasa, coastal, Coastline, just 3 dev, Ivory, Trade Station, Tropical, Swahili Fetishists here, send us monthly 0.38, Shipyard

Zanzibar – The big addition, Strait to Bagamoyo - Center of Trade, Natural Harbor, Tropical Coastline, 9 dev, Trade Depot, Shipyard, Cloves, Swahili, Sunni, 0.29 made here

Central Kilwa:

Nsenga – Throw in – West of Kilwa – 4 dev, Tropical Savannah, Farm Estate for Livestock, Workshop, Nyasa people, Fetishist faith, 0.18 made here

That war was obviously about Zanzibar!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Seven - Measuring the World


8 April - I disband my mercs

I order my 7k back to Lake Victoria

33k back to West Africa

29k to Bagamoyo and the other to Nsenga

New Tech!

ADMIN TECH 23 – Measuring the World - +10% Admin Efficiency and -10% Dev Costs

I pull my Siberia merchant to send to Zanzibar

16 May – Relations improvement begun with Muscovy

10 July - We arrive in Zanzibar. We’re making 5.66

1 Sept – Army:

I have 246k of 285k forcelimt

I am paying monthly 120.40 for army maintenance

I want to order another army to help out.

I order a 30k army built in South Africa to stay here:

16 Sept – Lango converts!

21 Nov – Missionary sent to Borno for 40 months

1 Jan, 1678 – I order:

2.5k Great Work in Zimbabwe

Naval Equipment Manufactory for Naval Supplies in Annada
Textile Manufactory for Wool in Swellendam, Oujda, Demnate, Biskra

I keep unspent more than 2.7k

19 Feb – 19 months in Mandara Missionary dispatched

1 May – Relations maxed with France, I pull our diplomat

11 May – I send it to make nice with Orochoni

30 May – Event – We get 100 MIL

1 July – Relations maxed with Muscovy, I pull

1 Aug – I send it to make nice with Bali

31 Aug – I now have 27 transports in the Indies for my 27k army to be ferried

1 Dec – Orochino taken out by Japan I send our diplomat to make nice with them

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Eight - Upper Zambezi Stated


2 Jan, 1679 – I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactory for Fish in Jugjur,
Textile Manufactory for Wool in Kef
Farm Estate for Grain in Mbwila, Mbata, Mema, Anfa, Titteri

Great Mosque in Cape, Katsina

1 Mar – Okhotsk – Siberia, Ibadi Algerian, Coastal on the Kara Sea, 3 dev, Arctic, Copper, makes us .06

Naval Supplies in Pelym

I cannot order these colonists anywhere

27 Mar – Mandara converts!

11 April – Cores done in Shamba and Nsenga!

I make this state:

Upper Zambezi – 3 – Lala – Naval Supplies; Nsenga – Livestock; Luangwa – Tropical Wood

Livestock is 2.7, the others 3.0

Missionary order to Nsenga – 16 months and 35 to Shamba

I hand a Majils Seat to Kanem

14 May – Army done, we are spending on army maint 136.37 increase of 16 monthly

1 June – NEW TECH!

DIP TECH 23 – Heavy Frigates – We can build them, and then we get 150 colonial range and +25 settle growth

I spend 940 to upgrade my ships

9 July – Cores done in Zanzibar and Bagamoyo

I state this:

Central Swahili Coast – 2 – Cloves in Zanzibar and Ivory in Bagamoyo

Tanzania – 4 – Slaves in Shamba, Nyatura; Salt in Gogo; Livestock in Hehe

I order a Trade Station for Zanzibar’s Cloves after paying some DIP to raise it 10 from 9

I hand Zanzibar a Majils Seat

Missionaries – 16 months for Bagamoyo; 20 for the Sunni Siberia Turukhan that’s past it’s 25 year conversion boost.

1 Aug – Fur in Komi!

17 Oct _ General dies, another is hired

1 Jan, 1680 – I order:

Mill for Tropical Wood in Luangwa
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Naval Supplies in Lala; Fish in Sambaliung
Farm Estate for Grain in Haha, Sah

Great Mosque in Mpemba

1 April – Relations maxed with Bali, diplomat returns

18 April – Nsenga converts!

1 May – Relations also maxed with Japan, recalled

1 June – Event – Gold Rush! We get 8127 cash and then 1 inflation

I spend 49 ADM to reduce inflation

I order the 2.5k Great Work in Brazil’s Bahia done.

I spend 750 to finish Zimbabwe’s 2500 Great Work, and order 5k one that, when done, gives us -5% tech cost

16 Jun – I send the Bali diplomat to make nice with Austria
 
21 July – Bagamoyo converts!

I keep my Japan diplomat after he comes back to keep for my soon to be war against Air, Dahomey

9 Oct – I replace a dead admiral

1 Nov - Peace with Air and Dahomey over!

I have my armies next to them each!

I have split up my 31k army in Air to be next to each army split up, and 33k next to Dahomey

I DOW 3rd Air War for their Ivory province of Logone. Dahomey joins

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Nine - The 3rd Algiers/Air War

I order 16k to Air’s Logone where 6k are
I order 15k to Air’s Muniyo where 5k are
I order 33k to Dahomey’s Atakora where 8k are

Ready?

24 Nov – We win in Logone

27 Nov – We win in Muniyo

1 Dec – New Government Reform!

Tier 10 – Separation of Powers – Last one!

I choose: Legislative Bodies – We get +1 free policies

I choose DIP – Colonial Restriction - +10% Global Tariff

MIL – The Military Zeal Act - +5% morale, +10% siege

3 Dec – We win against the Dahomey army

31 Dec – Two minors fell in Air, next their captial!

1 Jan, 1681 – Quantity Idea #4 – Camp Followers 33% National Supply Limit

11 Jan – Atakora follows

14 Feb – Minor falls

21 Feb – A Dahomey minor falls

12 March - Conversion in Borno!

21 Mar – Dahomey’s capital falls!

Separate peace with them:

https://i.ibb.co/w01Tz2Y/20230225215636-1.jpg


43 peace, and 21.9 badboy, I do it and spend ADM equal to 44 to core Borgu and Atakora

1 May – Shamba converts!

11 May – The Air capital falls! What can I get?

I can only get one without annoying Somalia:

https://i.ibb.co/4fWk1JZ/20230225220054-1.jpg

Bedde for 9 score and 6.0 badboy

I do it and core for 36 ADM

Dahomey:

Borgu – North of Atakora – Tropical Savannah, 16 dev, Farm Estate for Grain, Workshop and Mosque, Dagumba people and Sunni faith, make us 0.50

Atakora – North of Dahomey, South of Borgu – 6 dev, Mill for Tropical Wood, Workshop, Dagumba Sunni, Savannah, Tropical, make us 0.24

Air:

Bedde - South of Air – Farm Estate for Grain, Workshop, 9 dev, Kanuri Sunni, Tropical Savannah making 0.63

Very built up with Manufactories.

Peace for this light warscore is up in just 6 years with Air but with Dahomey in 9 years.

I order my army in Air to Bedde and the other to Borgu

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty - Two Siberian Holdings Finish


11 May – I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Gogo; Fish in Melilla
Trade Station for Slaves in Nyatura
Farm Estate for Livestock in Hehe; Grain in Ouarzazete, Bizerte

That leaves us 2507 cash for the fun stuff

31 May – I send a diplomat to make nice with Transoxiana

22 Jul – Event – Religious Scholars Disagree – We lose 10 prestige and 25 ADM power

1 Aug – Pelym – Siberia – West and East of Muscovy, north of the last unclaimed province in Tura – Arctic, Ibadi Algerians, Forest, 3 dev, Naval Supplies, make 0.05

I send colonists to Tura

11 Aug – Turukhan sees the light and converts to Ibadi!

18 Aug - 4k natives killed in Tura

1 Dec – Komi – Siberia – North of Pelym, east of Muscovy, the penultimate Siberian holding – Fur Trade is rich here, 5 dev, Forest, Arctic, Ibadi Algerians make us .11

Nowhere to send these colonists either.

1 Jan, 1682 – I state:

Kara – West Siberia – 5 – Fur in As and Mangazea; Gems in Surgut; Copper in Berezov and Obdorsk – all wealthy trade goods to build up!

I hand a Majils Seat to Great Lakes COT Buganda

I order:

Farm Estate for Grain for Gwiriko, Shendy, Soba
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Fish for Karabara and Kala

That leaves me 2677 for emergencies

1 Feb – The Majils passes “Reduce Trade Regulations” - +10% for ten years

3 Mar - I have my fleet protect trade in Zanzibar to keep them local

Before, I am making 5.59…

1 April - Now I am making 19.29

17 May - Kilwa still has 55k troops, by the by. I order small troops to make my southern Kilwa 28k army bigger a bit

4 June – Event – Natives not Assisting - We lose 846

1 Aug – Relations maxed with Austria at 110, I order a return

14 Aug – I dispatch it to make nice with Scandinavia

16 Sept – I order my 33k West African nation back to Kilwa

29 Sept- Event – Local Traders need Help – I spend 100

19 Dec – Troops built and now I have 31k

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-One - Preparing for the Next Kilwa War


2 Jan, 1683 – I order:

Weapons Manufactory for Copper in Berezov and Okhotsk
Mill for Gems in Surgut
Trade Station for Fur in As and Mangazea
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Fish in Ifni

That drops me to 2508 cash

2 Mar – Army Check – 280k out of 302k. I have 22k open

I am spending 138.48

To prepare for war against Somalia at 85k, I order another 31k army, this time in West Africa, and I order my other West African army to return to Egypt

Somalia’s Navy:

15 heavy
17 light
1 galley
26 transports

I can do that in my sleep, no need to upgrade there

Here’s my plan for Somalia – 3 93k armies in Egypt, 3 93K from Kilwa, 2 64k armies and 45k mercs from West African and Air, hopefully we’ll be able to squeeze them from three sides.

24 Mar – Borgu and Atakora cores done! They are not in a state

I make a state:

Atacora Oueme – 4 – Grain in Borgu; Slaves in Ketu; Tropical Wood in Atacora and Moshi

Missionaries dispatched there

14 May – Bedde is cored! I don’t state it since it’s pretty rough with all of that Grain – Missionary sent

1 June – Relations maxed with Transoxiana I pull my diplomat

Rebellion in Borgu

5 July – Borgu falls

11 Aug – We lose to the rebels

26 Nov – We defeat the rebels

23 Dec – Borgu ours again!

1 Jan, 1684 – I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactories for Fish in Tenerife, Sirt, Zuwarah
Farm Estate for Grain in Joma, Djerba, Qusatinah

That leaves me 2447 for emergencies

5 Feb – Event – Gift to the State – we get 1744

1 June – Quantity Idea #5 – Conscripted Garrisons – Garrison Size +25%

Nice for defending against a soon to be war against Somalia

12 June – West Africa Army finished I am now paying monthly for army maintenance 193.03. That’s a big increase in cash spent.

The Mamluks no longer exist

22 July – Zanzibar finished it’s Trade Station, next is a 28 month long conversion

1 Sept – Relations maxed with Scandinavia, next is making nice with Sale

11 Oct – Event – 11k rise up in Borgu or I get -10% Missionary there for 10 years, that’s where my western army is, so I choose the former

20 Oct – Defeated

1 Nov – I lose 35 claims from a previous Holy War

I’ll hold off until after the upcoming Kilwa war to declare it again with the new border

30 Dec – Malacca ruler dies, and so with it goes the Royal Marriage – we enter into another

1 Jan, 1685 - Naval Supplies in Tura

Peace up with Kilwa

I order in unclaimed states that are territories some forcelimit rising Conscription Centers that cost 420 each and then will increase by 2 each and then take a year to build. I have 7740 and my 15k mercs for south flank are ordered

Conscription Centers:

Beefada
Sierra Leone
Karou
Grain Coast
Ivory Coast
Tuat
Taudeni
Tadmekka
Azawad
Hodh
Tarrana

That leaves me 2990 cash for my war with Kilwa

I DOW Kilwa for the 4th War, this time for Manyika again. Hormuz joins

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Two - The 4th Algiers/Kilwa War

I order my Navy to Zanzibar Strait

I order two armies and 15k mercs to Manyika on the south flank

On the northern flank I order my 33k, 31k and 7k into the minor of Zigua

16 Feb – Zigua falls

9 Apr – Minor captured, next is Kilwa

14 May – A general dies in Manyika

23 May - Kilwa falls! Their navy flees

8 June - We win a minor naval battle

7 July – Northern army captures a minor next in Ibo are 26k troops

19 July – Manyika falls!

1 Aug – Rebellion in Bedde I order my army over

6 Aug – We win in Ibo, their army survives

2 Sept – Two minors fall

2 Oct – A minor falls

26 Oct – Two minors fall

8 Nov – We win in Bedde

12 Nov – We rout the Kilwan army in Tumbuka

30 Nov – Three minors fall

9 Dec – Tumbuka falls!

28 Dec – Bedde converts!

10 Jan, 1686 – Three minors fall

24 Jan – A minor falls

7 Mar – Four more fall

23 Mar – Quelimane falls and that’s the last mainland holding of Kilwa! I have a warscore of 88, what can I net?

South Kilwa:

Manyika – Wartarget, South Kilwa – 4 score, 3 badboy

Tete – Northwest of Manyika, east of us – 6 warscore and 3 badboy

Sena – Northeast of Manyika, east of Tete – 9 warscore, 6 badboy

Lolo – North of Sena -5 warscore and 2 badboy

Lundu – Northwest of Sena, east of us, Lolo - 7 score, 5 badboy

I cannot get any others without annoying Kilwa like Quelimane


Central Kilwa:

Tumbuka – East of us, west coast of Lake Malawi – 6 warscore and 3 badboy

I cannot get Kolonga that connects it with Lundu and Lolo

North Kilwa:

Mzizma – Coastal, south of Bagamoyo, north of Kilwa’s capital – 4 warscore, 3 badboy

That’s everything I can get without dialing in a coalition with Kilwa:

https://i.ibb.co/gSrpLpB/20230226142038-1.jpg

Since the Mamluks are dead, no coalitions from anyone. I zoomed into my cash so you can see how much I am spending and making monthly. 24.2 badboy and 41 warscore.

I do the peace agreement. I spend ADM of 131 to core all seven. These are all pretty nice trade good and mostly low dev.

South Kilwa:

Manyika – Wartarget, South Kilwa – Star Fort, Trade Station for Ivory, I destroy the Star Fort it’s internal and not on the border, Shona people, Fetishist faith, 6 dev, Highlands, not tropical, makes 0.11

Tete – Northwest of Manyika, east of us – COT Emporium, 5 dev, Ivory Trade, Trade Station, Workshop, Savannah, tropical, Shona and Fetishist making us 0.32

Sena – Northeast of Manyika, east of Tete – Shona and Fetishist, 10 dev, Ivory Trade, Tropical Savannah, Conscription Center , Workshop and Trade Station making 0.91

Lolo – North of Sena - Just 3 dev, Ivory here too, Nyasa Fetishist, Tropical Savannah, Trade Station and Workshop, 0.50 made

Lundu – Northwest of Sena, east of us, Lolo – Textile Manufactory for the wealthy Cloth and Workshop, Tropical Savannah, Nyasa Fetishist, 8 dev making us 0.61


Central Kilwa:

Tumbuka – East of us, west coast of Lake Malawi – Throw In – Tropical Savannah, Gems, Mill and Workshop, 6 dev, Nyasa and Fetishist. Making .49


North Kilwa:

Mzizma – Coastal, south of Bagamoyo, north of Kilwa’s capital – Another throw in – Coastline, Tropical, Gems, Mill, Shipyard, 3 dev, Swahili Fetishist making us 0.30

Low dev but all 7 are worth at least 3.0 (Gems) and Cloth and Ivory are very wealthy, and with the built p infrastructure, even a 3 dev one is making that cash.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Three - The Old and the Infirm


23 Mar – I disband my 15k mercs

7k ordered to Nyatura

I’ll keep 3 armies here in Kilwa for our war with Somalia, and one will return to West Africa

I order 31k to Mzizma, Tumbuka and Sena

33k ordered to West Africa

I order Conscription Centers here:

Dongola
Ras Gareb
Qusayr
Azawagh
Baghena
Wagadu
Termes
Calabar
Upper Limpopo

That puts me at 2846

Somalia’s current allies – Indian Ocean - Mahra – one province don’t care
Aden – Arabia – 51k – my navy can stop them from crossing the strait and camp it
Malay Peninsula’s Kedah – Don’t care

Ideally I can take the three Red Sea provinces down to the strait of Tajura to stop the Turks from going around me into Africa

I order my navy to camp and heal up. We captured a Kilwan vessel we need to repair

30 April - Extra diplomat send to make nice with Delhi

I spend 50 MIL to claim Holy War

7 June – Event – Diplomatic Insult, I play nice and raise relations by 60 in many

23 July – I pull my Sale diplomat

I send it to Tetuaon

25 Aug – Event – I spend 10 prestige to make nice with clergy

22 Nov – Event – Rotten Boroughs - Majils seat swaps from Zimbabwe to Timbuktu and I lose a stability

I spend 159 ADM to raise it back

4 Dec – Zanzibar converts!

1 Jan, 1687 – I order:

Conscription Centers here:

Tekrur
Galam
Tagant
Brakna
Bangazi
Bardiya
As-Suways

That leaves us 3081 for emergencies

1 Feb – Quantity Idea #6 – The Old and the Infirm – We lose -5% maintained cost

1 May – Peace with Air is up, but I am waiting for my future war with Somalia, so I don’t want to build that up after rebuilding from Kilwa’s war

31 July – Atakora converts!

1 Sept – Tura – Siberia – The last one and our final colonial option. – South of Pelym – Surrounded by Muscovy, 3 dev, Mountains, Algerian Ibadi Naval Supplies make us 0.03, Naval Supplies

I order my 4k army back to east Siberia and then to head to the Indies

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Four - Bonds and Tontines

1 Jan, 1688 – I order:

Conscriptions Centers here;

Halaib
Suakin
Kagyrgyn
Qasr Ibrim
Wadi Halfa
Bayuda
Soba
Berber

Workshop –

Tropical Wood – Taytay, Matsolo
Iron – Hemba, Stanovoy
Fur – Ude, Kirenga
Copper – Mpangu, Anziku

That leaves me 3016 for emergencies

11 Jan – My navy is healed, I send it to the Bab el Mandib

25 Mar – Cores done in Sena, Tete and Manyika

I send Missionaries to all three!!

I hand Zimbabwe another Majils Seat

1 April – With a 105 relations maxed with Delhi, I pull my diplomat

3 April – My 27k army lands on the Malay Peninsula next to Kedah

26 June – The other four cores are done in Kilwa! 16 month Missionary in Lolo ordered!

16 Aug – Somalia has built up their forces and now has 146k, I cannot do that.

I send the Malay Peninsula forces back

2 Jan, 1689 – New Tech!

ADMIN TECH 24 – Bonds and Tontines – I can build Counting Houses which are upgraded Workshops and then +250 Governing Capacity!

I order:

Counting Houses in these Clove Provinces –

Ambon, Ternate, Tidore, Buru. Ceram, Halmahera, Zanzibar

Gems – Sulu
Cloth – Tunis, Qahirah, Timbuktu
Dyes – Kano
Spices – Draa, Lehad Detu, Kolaka

That leaves me 2430 cash

I DOW Air for Logone, Dahomey joins

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Five - The 4th Algiers/Air War

The 4th War Begins!

I order 31k into Abomey, Dahomey’s capital where 6k are

I order 22k to Logone where 10 are and 11 to the 3k Muniyo

19 Jan – We win in Logone and Abomey

24 Jan – We win in Muniyo

26 Feb - Logone and Muniyo fall, next is their capital

24 Mar - Abomey falls!

They won’t do a peace for it

31 Mar – General dies sieging Kotoko

10 April – Manyika converts! Next is Tumbuka for 12 months

16 May – I pull my diplomat at Tetuolan

I send one to make nice with Two Sicilies

1 June – Our level 3 ADM and DIP advisors both pass. I hire a level 3 ADM Inquisitor and a level 3 DIP Naval Reformer with 10% Naval Morale

4 June – Kotoko falls, we have every Air and Dahomey holding! What can I get without annoying Somalia?

Dahomey:

Abomey – Capital, surrounded by us, final province left – 47 warscore, 13 badboy, no one cares

Air:

Muniyo – Surrounded by us – 10 score, 6 badboy

Anything else annoys Somalia

https://i.ibb.co/g354q4w/20230226160938-1.jpg

57 warscore and 19.1 badboy.

I do it!

ADM is 58 for Abomey and 35 for Muniyo leaving me 18

Dahomey:

Abomey – Capital, surrounded by us, final province left – Get ready this is very built up - 30 dev, Tropical Savannah, Fon culture, Sunni faith, Slave Trade, they have built here Regimental Camp, Mosque, Workshop, Marketplace, has an open slot, makes 0.61 without a Manufactory which it has space for.

Air:

Muniyo – Surrounded by us – Arid Steppes, Farm Estate for Grain, Conscription Center, Kanuri and Sunni making us 0.07 with 9 dev.

Good stuff!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Six - The Archipelago Frigate


4 June - I order my armies out and to the captured territory

New Tech!!

DIP TECH 24 – The Archipelago Frigate - +2 trade efficiency, +20 naval engagement, I can build the Archipelago Frigate I order my navy back

24 June – I send out a diplomat to make nice with Aden

25 July – Tete converts! Next is 9 months in Mzizina

30 July – A general passes, I hire a replacement

26 Aug – Sena converts! Next is 13 months in Lundu

19 Sept – Lolo converted!

1 Nov – I lose 3 claims

1 Jan, 1690 – I order Counting Houses:

Spice – Zamboanga, Barito, Yamdena, Sampit
Cloth – Gao, Tilimsan, Oran
Tropical Wood – Taytay, Flores
Chinaware – East Timor
Iron – Air,
Grain – Dumyat, Sharqiya

That drops me to 2224 cash

1 Feb – Another Advisor passes, this time our MIL, I hire a level 3 Army Organizer who is Sunni and that increases our land forcelimit by 10%

23 Feb – Conversion in Tumbuka!

21 May – Mzizina converts too!

30 June – Event – Tea Imports – I doit and drop our national revolt risk

1 July – Right after being hired the ADM level 3 advisor Inquisitor dies I hire another level 3 ADM of the same trype

Rebellion in Lundu where my 31k are handing out

8 July – We win in Lundu

Conversion successful in Borgu!

26 Sept - Conversion also successful in Lundu

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Seven - Two New States


1 Jan, 1691 – Quantity Idea #7 – Expanded Supply Trains – We get -10% Attrition army

For finishing we get +25% land force limit!

Our force limit is now 459, we have 315

I order Counting Houses Here:

Naval Supplies – Barguzin, Katapang,
Copper – Kanongesha
Ivory – Haayre,
Salt – Upemba, Azbin
Coffee -Belitung
Slaves – Shamba, Ndongo

1 April – Navy updated, I order it to protect Zanzibar trade

Our relations with Two Sicilies maxed, I’ll pull it

I send it to make nice with Korea

1 June – Our heir gains the trait: “Kind-Hearted”

7 June – Cores done in Abomey and Muniyo

I order Missionaries to both.

I state-ify:

Lower Zambezi – 3 – Southern Kilwa – All Ivory – Tete, Sena, Zumbo

Shire - 2 of 3 – Ivory in Lolo, Cloth in Lundu

I Majils Seat Gao

1 July – Relations maxed with Aden, dip pulled

13 July – Bengal no longer rivals us

1 Aug- I send my Aden dip to make nice with the Commonwealth!

1 Jan, 1692 – I order Counting Houses:

Spice – Sangkilruing, Lombok, Gorontalo
Ivory – Ishindi, Kong
Sugar – Dina Arobi, Dina Morgabin, Sus
Dyes – Rano, Biram
Cloth – Mers el Kabir
Iron – Rukwa, Nkoma, Nduga, Luba

1 Feb – Our Majils policy finished, next why not try Reduce Trade Regulations again?

It passes!

17 July – Event – We get +50 in all powers

22 Sept- Event – I lose 10 prestige rather than 50 Adm

1 Dec – Muniyo converts!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Eight - Light Cavalry


1 Jan, 1693 – I order Counting Houses here:

Ivory – Manyika, Yola
Fish – Sambulitung,
Grain – Joma, Al Gharbia
Naval Supplies – Mahe, Sao Tome
Slaves – Shinje, Warri, Bemba
Gems – Natal, Okhotsk
Cloth – Tripoli

1 Mar – Relations maxed with both Korea and Commonwealth, pulled back

19 Mar – Commonwealth diplomat makes nice with Bengal

1 Jan, 1694 – Quiet year!

Somalia have taken Air’s captial in peace

I order Counting Houses here:

Salt - Gogo
Livestock - Mzab, Tajarhi, Kusu
Slaves - Mtetwa, Djado, Ouargla
Fish – Kala
Sugar – Minya, Susa
Grain – Gharb

23 Mar – New Tech!!!

MIL TECH 23 Light Cavalry – Lots of stuff!+0.25 tactics, +50% maneuver, +1 cavalry shock, better cavalry called “Ali Bey Reformed Cavalry” and new infantry called “Reformed Muslim Musketeers”

I upgrade my stuff

1 April – I cannot rival Somalia anymore, my new rival is Deccan

1 June – I send a Diplomat to make nice with Dai Viet

Our 4k Siberia army joins my 27k Borneo army and then I combine them and order 4 more transports here in the Indies.

29 Sept – Abomey converts!

25 Oct- I replace a dead general

11 Nov – 250 Year Review

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s start with MAPS!


North Africa:

https://i.ibb.co/VjR9MWZ/20230226223020-1.jpg

That’s now pretty boring map. We have all of North Africa ours save for three Portuguese holdings. We also have all of West Africa now save for one random French colony. And we have all of Egypt down to Somalia.


South Africa:

https://i.ibb.co/sPcbvJw/20230226223247-1.jpg

This is also pretty boring I have everything in the Kongo Region, and all colonies save for one French and two Spanish. You can see how much my 4 wars with Kilwa have turned them into a rump state with Madagascar.

South America:

https://i.ibb.co/tZzNc7C/20230226223511-1.jpg


Our first place colonially in Brazil, you can see New Granada in north, and then several nations around us. This is fully occupied. You can also see my financial situation.

North America:


https://i.ibb.co/ZgTbF37/20230226223742-1.jpg

This is all mostly undiscovered by us internally, but you can see only Spain and Portugal colors here save for us in Alaska.

Indies:


https://i.ibb.co/x3Wwysm/20230226223935-1.jpg

We have most, and then you can see Spain and Portugal in the Philippines. We have most of that as well as Papua, Borneo, Sulawesi, and more. You can also see how much our ally Malacca has expanded here without worrying about European intervention.

How about Siberia and Asia:

https://i.ibb.co/Rgty60f/20230226224200-1.jpg

You can see every Siberian province was taken by us. Pretty low dev, but all at least 3.0 trade good value, and with all of that rich Copper, Fur, and Iron this is very valuable trade goods.

We’ll finish with Europe:

https://i.ibb.co/HqW2Qqq/20230226224407-1.jpg

Nice! France is in England and Italy, Spain is northern Italy, Austria still controls the lowlands. Scandinavia has formed.

Nice!!

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:

Army – We have 315,000 troops. That is 4th after the Ottomans at 708k and just behind Commonwealth at 3rd with 326k

Navy – We have:

54 heavies
47 lights
27 galleys
75 transports

For a total of 203, which is 2nd most and just behind the 210 of the Ottomans

Techs – We have 24/24/23 for a total of 71. The most is 71!

Ideas – We have all completed and a total of 42 tied for the most with many

Income – At 791.40 we have the most by hundreds of cash. 2nd most is Ottomans at 608 and then 3rd is Spain’s 421.59

Development – With 3095 we are in front. The Turks are 2nd with 2567

Max Manpower – With 246k we are 2nd behind the Turks at 294k

There are 12 Empires

Religions – Ibadi - Pate is gone taken by Mombasa, one of my future wars. We have 6 nations and a massive 505 Ibadi holdings. There are more Ibadi than all Sunni in the world, and only Catholic has more.

Since I have so many provinces, let’s swap my three Top 10s to Top 15s

Top 15 Holdings by Tax Revenue:

1. Qahirah, 38.08
2. Tunis, 35.70
3. Gao, 26.15
4. Kano, 24.60
5. Timbuktu, 23.80
6. Cape, 21.42
7. Sambaliung, 19.62
8. Mpemba, 19.04
9. Al Gharbia, 18.72
10. Oran, 18.72
11. Katsina, 17.55
12. Jenne, 16.65
13. Sharqiyah, 16.64
14. Joma, 15.75
15. Mers el Kabir, 15.25

Top 15 Holdings by Any Production Revenue:

1. Pontianak, 92.80, Gold
2. Sofala, 81.20, Gold
3. Tidore, 76.36. Cloves
4. Ternate, 76.36, Cloves
5. Ambon, 76.6, Cloves
6. Bure, 69.60, Gold
7. Bambuk, 69.60, Gold
8. Ceram, 61.24, Cloves
9. Buru, 61.24, Cloves
10. Zanzibar, 55.65, Cloves
11. Halmahera, 53.58, Cloves
12. Sulu, 51.87, Gems
13. Qahirah, 47.61, Cloth
14. Tafilalt, 46.40, Gold
15. Zamboanga, 45.84, Spices

Only three aren’t Gold or Cloves in that list!

Top 15 Non-Gold, Non-Clove Holdings by Production Revenue:

1. Sulu, 51.87, Gems
2. Qahirah, 47.61, Cloth
3. Zamboanga, 45.84, Spices
4. Kano, 44.90, Dyes
5. Tunis, 44.63, Cloth
6. Timbuktu, 43.46, Cloth
7. Draa, 40.10, Spices
8. Jenne, 40.05, Cloth
9. Gao, 37.47, Cloth
10. Kolaka, 37.22, Spices
11. Lehad Datu, 36.22, Spices
12. Tilimsan, 35.42, Cloth
13. Yamdena, 33.08, Spices
14. Barito, 32.78, Spices
15. Sharqiya, 32.08, Grain

And there we are, mostly Cloth and Spices,

We have 436 holdings

Charts:

Religion:

Ibadi, 99.7%
Hindu, .3%

Culture more than 3%:

Algerian, 21.7%’
Berber, 5.2%
Bornean, 8.4%
Egyptian, 6.2%
Hausa, 2.9%
Kanuri, 3.6%
Kongolese, 3.7%
Moroccan, 5.4%
Tunisian, 5.4%

Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Traded:

1. Sevilla, 206.60
2. Caribbean
3. English Channel
4. Malacca
5. Constantinople
6. Bengal
7. Lubeck
8. Aden
9. Champagne
10. Persia, 76.10


Ours:

Timbuktu – 42.61
Alexandra - 22.92
Katsina – 21.62
Zambezi – 17.51
Safi – 16.24
Siberia – 15.53
Kongo – 15.49
Great Lakes – 15.06
Tunis – 14.29
Cape – 7.53


Our Colonies:

Brazil – 54.87
La Plata – 29.20


Trade Goods by Current Value:

8.0 - Cloves
5.4 – Cocoa
5.0 – Dyes
4.5 – Spices, Tobacco, Chinaware, Iron
4.05 – Cloth
4.0 – Ivory, Silk
3.75 – Sugar
3.50 – Paper, Fur
3.45 – Copper
3.30 – Salt, Coffee
3.12 – Wine
3.0 – Gems, Incense, Tropical Wood, Slaves, Cotton, Tea, Naval Supplies
2.70 – Livestock
2.25 – Wool
2.0 – Fish, Grain

We have tons of the high quality stuff.

We are the production leader in:

Cloves – 100%
Slaves – 52.5%
Ivory – 45%
Spices – 31.3%
Gems – 21.2%
Dyes – 19.8%
Tropical Wood – 17.6%

We are leading in tons of good high quality things like Ivory, Cloves and Spices and Dyes

We are trade leader with at least 20% of trade in:

Ivory – 21%
Slaves – 21%


We are also leading in Sugar, but less than 20% so no boosts

No coalitions against us

The Great Powers:

1. Spain
2. Algeria, Ibadi
3. Ottomans, Sunni
4. France
5. Commonwealth
6. Bengal, Sunni
7. Deccan, Shia
8. Austria

That’s four Christian and four Muslim powers in the Great Eight. Very balanced!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Nine - Getting Ready for War 5


11 Nov, 1694 – I order my 33k troops from West Africa to North Kilwa border

I order these built:

31k troops in West Africa
And Egypt

I order these ships for my fleet:

5 large ships in South Africa
6 light ships there

I have around 152.21 military maint and 63.77 naval and I am making 373.10 monthly in net after costs, so I have the money

8 Dec – I grant military Access to Austria at war with Spain and their colonies

4 Jan, 1695 – This year the Kilwa peace treaty comes up, so I won’t buy anything

I hire 15k in the south flank in Nsenga so they will be ready for war when this arrives, Kilwa has 41k in Lindi

18 Jan – Mercs here

1 April – Relations with Bengal at 122 I pull the diplomat back

1 June – Peace up with Kilwa!

Maxed relations with Dai Viet at 67 I pull

26 June – I Replace a dead general

7 Aug – I send my Dai Viet diplomat to make nice with Wu

1 Oct – My 33k army is in place!

I DOW Kilwa for the 5th war for their Iron mining province in the south flank called Kalonga

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy - The 5th Algiers/Kilwa War


I order my three armies on the south flank to Kalonga -15k, 2 31k

My fleet is in the Zanzibar Strati

On the north flank my three armies (7k, 33k, 31k) are ordered to the minor of Zigua

21 Nov – Both minors fall, I order my northern army to Kilwa’s capital of Kilwa

8 Jan, 1696 – We capture a minor

28 Feb – Another minor falls on the southern flank and this 77k army is next to their 43k army in Lindi, I order my army there

6 Mar – Kilwa falls! I order my armies to Lindi next door

1 April – Our DIP level 3 advisor passes, the Naval reformer, I hire a level 3 Naval Reformer to replace it

16 April – We win the Campaign in Lindi, I order half of my army to follow

I decline an alliance offer from Austria, I don’t wanna get in the Turks’ way

18 May – Lindi is ours!

I split up my armies

4 July – I rout their army in Quelimane

8 July – Three minors fall

7 Aug – Quelimane falls!

31 Aug – Four minors fall!

16 Sept – Event – Naval Research Wrong -I spend 10 prestige to avoid losing DIP power

14 Oct - The last Kilwa province in the mainland falls! I have a warscore of 86 – what can I get?

Let’s go for a big one:

Southern Kilwa:

Quelimane – Coastal, next to us in Sofala, Lolo and Sena – 16 warscore, 15 badboy

Kalonga – Wartarget, south coast of Lake Malawi, next to our Lolo and Lundu and east of Nsenga – 7 warscore and badboy

Lomwe – North of Lolo, East of Kalonga – 5 warscore and 2 badboy

Most of the others will madden Kilwa.

Not this:

Makua – Connects Quelimane and Lomwe, east of us in Lolo – 6 warscore and 4 badboy:

https://i.ibb.co/xS40dXX/20230304095502-1.jpg

5th War – 34 warscore and 27.4 badboy - I also zoomed into my cash

I take peace and then spend coring 162, more than 100 of that was the big prize…

Southern Kilwa:

Quelimane – Coastal, next to us in Sofala, Lolo and Sena – This was a big prize – 27 dev, Ivory, Tropical and Coastline, Nyasa Fetishists, 0.21 made here, Zambezi Estuary, Conscription Center, Shipyard, Stock Exchange, Drydock, Town Hall, I order destroyed here the Drydock for a Trade Station manufactory later

Kalonga – Wartarget, south coast of Lake Malawi, next to our Lolo and Lundu and east of Nsenga – 11 dev, Drylands, Iron mining, COT Emporium, Tropical, Nyasa Fetishists, Training Fields, Workshop, Weapons Manufactory and Conscription Center, makes 1.03

Lomwe – North of Lolo, East of Kalonga – Tropical Savannah, Trade Station for Ivory, Workshop, just 3 dev, makes 0.57, Makua Fetishist,

Makua – Connects Quelimane and Lomwe, east of us in Lolo – Throw in – Makua Fetishist, Ivory, Savannah, 6 dev, Trade Station, Workshop, 0.86, Tropical

Four great trade goods - Iron and three Ivory all at least 4.0.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-One - The High Imam Dies


14 Oct – I order my 31k southern flank armies to Lomwe and Quelimane

I disband my mercs

I order my two other armies back and my 33k will stay here rather than moving up

I order built:

Great Work:

Demnate - 5k in which gives me +10% trade efficacy,

I hand a Majils seat to Abomey

Star Forts:

Bedde
Marghi
Muniyo

Trade Station for Spices in Nias; Slaves in Abomey

Counting House:

Cloth – Thuqagt
Salt – Lualaba
Iron – Karagwe, Gobir
Ivory – Gabu, Futa Jallon

That leaves me 2241 for emergencies

I order my fleet to protect trade

This war ends in 1705 in nine years

Next Mombasa – they have just five provinces, but they are high development and will take a few wars to incorporate save for the southern most one.

22 Nov – I order a diplomat to make nice with Yan

1 Jan, 1697 – I don’t order anything until next year

1 July – We max relations with Wu at 89 I pull my diplomat

2 Aug – Uh oh. Portugal is gone, Spain has removed them from the map

14 Sept – I send the Wu diplomat to make nice with Engerland

12 Oct – Our High Imam dies!

Our stability drops to +2

Our new leader:

Muhammad Vi – 1/3/4 – age 21

We are still married with Malacca and Persia

I offer a RM to Bengal – They accept:

Our new Consort – Malika Bibi – 0/5/1 – age 26

I pass the Denouncement of Sect Practices act for death which drops my unrest

5 Nov – All of my boats are built in South Africa – I order them to Cape and my main navy there as well

I order another 31 army in Egypt

27 Nov – I order the best Shiekh and get a +5% tax revenue for the life of Muhammad Vi

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Two - A New Heir is Born


17 Jan, 1698 – I order:

Counting Houses Here:

Grain – Bizerte, Sah
Livestock – Cape, Lesser Namaqualand
Spices – Mpasu
Coffee – Manadu
Paper – Aftih
Fish – Karabara
Incense – Kendari
Iron – Hemba, Lenje, Buzinza

That leaves me 3020 for mercs and emergencies

Malacca’s war with Bengal and Dai Viet over and they lost a lot of territory in the Malay Peninsula and SE Asia.

Mombasa – 33k, our three northern flank armies in Kilwa should be fine.

My navy is updated in Cape and I order it back out to protect trade in Zanzibar.

I order another slate of upgrades in South Africa. Same – 5 heavies, 6 lights

7 April – A new heir Is born – 2/2/2 not great.

22 June – Event - We get +10 prestige rather than hiring a new advisor for ADM

15 Oct – Cores done from our new four options:

Kalonga and Qulimane are already cores from their states

State:

Makuana – Ivory in two in Lomwe and Makua

Missionaries ordered to:

Lomwe – 13 months
Makua – 14 months
Kalonga - 15 months
Quelimane- Get ready…128 months, wow that’s long

22 Oct – Event - +10% Legalism

1 Nov – At 90, relations maxed with Yan, I pull my diplomat

I hand a Majils seat to Quelimane

2 Jan, 1699 - I order another 31k army in Lake Victoria

It’s at 192.41 cash with 26k finished of 31k in Egypt, and I am still making 314.72 monthly

I order:

Mill for Tropical Wood in Moshi
Trade Station for Slaves in Ketu

Counting Houses Here:

Slaves – Nyatura, Benguela
Livestock – Hehe
Dyes – Bagoe
Spices – Brunei, Ghadames
Sugar – Madeira
Tropical Wood – Luangwa

That leaves me 2515 for emergencies

1 April – Relations maxed with England, I pull my dip

1 May - I lose 22 claims! Including Mombasa. I spend 50 MIL to get them back with a Holy War called for

10 Aug – 31k army finished in Egypt!

Air is at war with Somalia since their truce was up before ours was

9 Sept – Lomwe converts! Three left from Kilwa!

20 Sept – Makua converts – two left!

8 Oct – Kalonga converts just the long campaign in Quelimane left

28 Oct – Event- Tariffs too High in La Plata - I reduce and drop their taxs by 10% but our revolting there by that amount as well

15 Dec - I order my navy to the Zanzibar Strait

1 Jan, 1700 – A new Institution has arrived – The Enlightenment – as a reminder, I’ll get tech hurts every year until we embrace.

The Age of Absolutism ends in ten years

New Tech!

MIL TECH 24 – Covered Way – We get +0.25 morale, +2 combat width and can build Star Fort upgrades called Fortresses

Somalia already has it and is building them.

These cost an extra 190 cash and will take 30 months.

Bastion Upgraded Star Forts Ordered:

All 7 Egyptian provinces next to Somalia

Three next to them in West Africa – Kanem, Bornu and Mandara

Kilwa region next to Somalia – Turkana, Kuria, Taveta

That drops my cash to 3753, enough to keep open for the upcoming war with Mombasa

4 Jan – Event – Spain’s South African province of Xhosa converted to Ibadi

24 Jan – Our fleet arrives in the Zanzibar strait

I DOW Mombasa for their lower dev holding next to my three armies called Tanga, their southernmost army.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Two - The First Algiers/Mombasa War


I order my 3 armies into Tanga, which is next to their Star Fort in Mombasa.

9 Feb – We win a Naval Battle and captured 8 ships! I order those to berth in Mzizma for repairs and upgrades.

15 Feb - I send a diplomat to make nice with Japan

22 Mar- Tanga falls – next is the Siege of Mombasa

1 Apr – Peace with Air is up

12 April – We begin the siege of Mombasa with a cannonade

6 July – Another 31k from south Kilwa joins the siege

26 Aug – Our 31k army finishes in Lake Vicotria region, I order it to Mombasa

1 Nov – Our DIP Power is about to hit it’s max, I spend some upping the Dev of gold holdings like Zimbabwe and Lower Limpopo and Butua

15 Nov – Lake Victoria army arrives in Mombasa

I spend 90 to upgrade my taken ships

1 Jan, 1701 – Relations maxed with Japan I pull my diplomat

15 Mar – Ships finished in South Africa, I send them to Cape, I order another 8 heavies here

28 Mar- I send my Japan diplomat to make nice with Muscovy

1 April – 14k Separatists rise up in Quelimane where my army is

9 April – No longer

21 April - Our 20 year Shala’fi Scholar finishes, I spend 50 ADM and bring in another

1 July – Event – A Royal Influence – Our state is loving Bengal where our Consort lives, Muhumbe is now Sunni

I send a Missionary there for 20 months

12 July – The minor next to Mombasa called Malindi falls to Sale

16 Aug – After 495 days, Mombasa falls, I order north of Malindi to where their army is – Lamu

We have a warscore of 75%

Their navy flees into the Zanzibar Strait where my main navy is

1 Sept – We with the battle and capture another 6 ships I send to Mzizma

25 Sept – Quelimane converts!

27 Sept – We win the battle of Lamu

They fleet to Pate a Fortress

1 Nov – Lamu falls, I have a 90 warscore

What can I get? Without annoying anyone?

Tanga – Wartarget - Lower dev, southern of 5, Coastal, north of Bagamoyo, east of Shamba – 9 warscore, 12 badboy – wow that’s a lot.

North is their capital of Mombasa, can I get it?

Kilwa will care with just Mombasa. What else can I get?

Even just Malindi will make Kilwa upset.

So let’s make Kilwa upset then, I don’t like it, but what else can we do?

Mombasa – Captial, North of Tanga – a massive 30 warscore, 24 badboy

Malindi - North of Mombasa – Brings in Somalia, nope

https://i.ibb.co/cLWNbz5/20230304184037-1.jpg

Kilwa cares, no one else does, 39 score, and 35.9 badboy, I do it and spend 91

Tanga – Wartarget - Lower dev, southern of 5, Coastal, north of Bagamoyo, east of Shamba – Trade Station for Ivory, Counting House, Conscription Center, Grand Shipyard, 15 dev, Coastline, Tropical, Swahili and Fetishist, 1.84 made here

Mombasa – Captial, North of Tanga – COT Entrepot, a massive 39 dev, Fortress, Counting House, Conscription Center, Trade Station for Ivory, Stock Exchange, Grand Shipyard, Swahili people, Sunni faith, Tropical Coastline, makes 0.89 monthly

Nasty!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Three - Another Great Work Started


1 Nov, 1701 – I order my armies back:

31k to Lomwe
7k to Shamba
31k to Mzizma
33k to Gogo
31k to Kalonga

All next to Kilwa

I spend 5k on this Great Work:

Mpemba- When finished +1 annual legitimacy, +50% Institution Spread in Ibadi; +20% Reform growth

I order:

Trade Station for Ivory in Quelimane

Fortresses here:

West Africa:

Manga
Muniyo
Bedde
Marghi

North Africa:
 
Mitija
Djerba

Egypt Border with Turks:

As-Suways
Sharqiya

Egypt’s capital next door of Qahirah

That leaves me 1727 in cash

1 Jan, 1702 – I don’t order anything now, I’ll wait until next year

I order another 31k Egyptian army built

My land maint is 245.34 and I am making 280.85 extra after expenses and my army is 439k of 486

I order 31k from Borneo to Bagamoyo, I’ll need it against Somalia

I order my main navy to join with my new one in Cape and the captured ships from Mombasa

24 Feb – Our policy ends, I start a new debate for Emergency Impressment which gives me 36680 Sailors when passed

6 Mar – Navies combine, here it is now:

69 Heavies
68 Lights
27 Galleys
49 Transports

I order it to protect trade in Zanzibar

1 June – With a 69 relations maxed with Muscovy I pull them

13 June – Navy from Borneo arrives in Bagamoyo

Air is gone

2 July- Muscovy dip sent to make nice with Shun

6 July – I promote a new general to replace a dying one

21 Sept – Event – Naïve Relative - I lose 10 prestige

24 Oct – Event – Famine in Buzinza

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Four - Mombasa Stated

1 Jan, 1703 – I order:

Fortress Upgrades Here:

Indies:

Sambas
Kutai
Palopo
Lombok
Maguindanao

North Africa:

Tunis
Meknes

South Africa:

Sofala
Butua

2215 left

New Tech!!!

ADMIN TECH 25 – Improved Production - +2% production efficiency

7 Mar – Muhamwe converts!

9 Mar – 8 great ships are done in South Africa, I order them to assemble in Cape

Navy – We have the 3rd biggest navy after France and Ottomans

My naval maint is 86.05 and I have room for 15 more ships

I don’t order any more

1 May – New Tech!

DIP TECH 25 – The Threedeckers – I can build Threedecker upgrades and +.50 naval morale and then +10% naval maint, which is now 87.94

I order my main fleet to Mzizma where my Cape navy will arrive

20 May – I spend 3k to upgrade my navy

24 June – I order 31k from West Africa to Egypt

11 Sept – Event – Tariffs on Sugar – I agree and +5% trade with Brazil

4 Nov - Tanga and Mombasa are cored!

I state:

Mombasa – Ivory in Mombasa, Tanga,

That needed to happen

I hand a Majils Seat to Mombasa

I spend 90 DIP to promote Swahili to an accepted Cultures, that’s our last open spot, it includes Zanzibar and most nearby high things

With cores, states, and an accepted culture, I am now making:

Mombasa – 2.68
Tanga - 1.84

I order Missionaries:

Tanga – Just 9 months
Mombasa – Not bad at 27 months

1 Dec – I recall my Brazil making nice diplomat

5 Jan, 1704 - I send it to make nice with Venice

I order Fortress Upgrades:

Iskandarriyya
Inhambane
Kawar

I order Counting Houses Here:

Cloth – Jenne
Spices – Nias

That leaves me 1743 for emergencies

Our 31k army is done in Egypt, we now have an army maintenance of 230.08 I am making 308.81 monthly

25 Mar- I order my 31k from Palopo to Malacca’s Kelantan

1 April – With a 75 we max relations with Shun, I pull my diplomat

7 Aug – Tanga converts! It’s now making 2.43! Nasty!

23 Sept – Event – I lose 10 prestige rather than 50 DIP power

1 Jan, 1705 – I order my navy to the Zanzibar Strait. This year our truce with Kilwa finishes so nothing is ordered.

1 April – 1705 – Peace is done with Kilwa!

I DOW Kilwa for the Lake Malawi Ivory 7 dev province Katsekera – our 6th war

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Five - The 5th Algiers/Kilwa War

I order my three southern 31k armies to Katsekera

I order my four northern armies to minor Zigua

25 May – Both fall, my northern army is dispatched to Kilwa to siege it

19 June - I give military access to Muscovy which will mean they cannot DOW Siberia

29 June – A minor falls

13 Aug – Another minor falls, there is a 12k army next door in Ibo I order my army there

30 Aug – Kilwa falls and we win the Battle of Ibo

15 Sept – We win in the Zanzibar Strait and capture 2 large ships, I order them to Zanzibar

We also routed a 7k army in Makonde

22 Sept – I spend 150 to upgrade my ships

1 Oct- Ibo falls.

My relations with Venice maxed I pull my diplomat

19 Oct – Makonde falls, I split up my army

28 Oct- Event Local traders need aid – I spend 100 cash to help

23 Nov – Southern flank captures minor of Mozambique

5 Dec – Three northern minors have fallen

19 Jan, 1706 – We capture their last holding on the mainland

What can I get with a warscore of 71?

I was previously keeping Kilwa out of a coalition, but now I don’t care, I just don’t want Somalia or Mombasa to join:

South Kilwa:

Katsekera – Wartarget, north of us in Lomwe and Kalonga , east coast of Lake Malawi – 5 warscore and 4 badboy

Let’s do one high warscore one:

North Kilwa:

Kilwa – Capital, coastal, south of Mzizima – 24 warscore, 19 badboy

South Again:

Angoche – Coastal, North of Quelimane, SE of Makua – 8 warscore and 9 badboy

Most other things nearby bring in Somalia

Any minors I can toss in anywhere?

Yup!

North Again:

Zigua – Surrounded by six of ours, north of Kilwa’s Kinga – 9 warscore and 6 badboy

Ready?

https://i.ibb.co/kcSk1dK/20230304203901-1.jpg

46 warscore and 38.5 badboy.

I do peace and spend 156 ADM coring

South Kilwa:

Katsekera – Wartarget, north of us in Lomwe and Kalonga , east coast of Lake Malawi – Tropical Savannah, Nyasa Fetishists, 0.81 made here with 7 dev and Ivory trade, with Trade Station and Workshop

Angoche – Coastal, North of Quelimane, SE of Makua – Conscription Center, Grand Shipyard, Counting House, Tropical Coastline, the accepted Swahili culture, Sunni faith, 11 dev, making us 0.82,

North Kilwa:

Kilwa – Capital, coastal, south of Mzizima – This is a big one! “Kilwa City” great project, 22 dev, Swahili and Sunni, Natural Harbor, Tropical Coastline, Stock Exchange Grand Shipyard and Mosque, open space, makes us 5.47 from…Gold Mines!

Zigua – Surrounded by six of ours, north of Kilwa’s Kinga – Throw in – Livestock, Tropical Savannah, 7 dev, Farm Estate and Conscription Center making us 0.13, Swahili and Sunni,

Three more Swahili provinces including the big one.

This war ends 1715

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Six - Stating Mozambique


19 Jan – I order my armies to Kilwa and Angoche

I order the other four armies to next to Mombasa and Somalia

I order:

Fortress Upgrades:

Cape

Counting Houses Here:

Wool – Kef, Biskra
Livestock – Tenere, Damagaram, Ader, Sabha, Kasdir, Itesan, Pindiga, Saoura
Paper – Kanem
Tropical Wood – Bauchi, Moshi, Mandara
Sugar – Sfax
Fur - Ude

That leaves me 2461

18 Feb – Mombasa converts! It’s now making us 3.56

1 Mar – I send a diplomat to make nice with Commonwealth and Austria

31 Mar – I combine my navies in Zanzibar

27 June – Event – Quality Wool – We get 1052 cash

1 Jan, 1707 – With +60 I pull my diplomat from the Commonwealth

I do not buy anything to save my cash for a future war with Somalia which has 160k. I am removing the West Africa flank and just keep 31k here for an emergency. We have in Egypt 7 31k armies so around 210 and then 6 31k and one 33k and 7 on the south flank, so around 190k total there.

I’ll also hire mercs to support these flanks to push out.

I want to bring in Kilwa’s four holdings first.

8 Mar - I order my navy to the Res Sea Strait that connects Africa and Arabia in Mokha called Bab el Mandib
 
24 April – Our Consort has died!

14 June – My navy is there

This’ll stop Aden from marching troops to reinforce them

20 July – Cores done in everyone save for Katsekera

Missionaries:

Zigua – 20 months
Angoche – 22 months
Kilwa - 30

Zigua is a state with Tanzania already, Kilwa in Central Swahili Coast already

I state:

Mozambique – One – Ivory in Angoche -

I order my Angoche army to the southern border with Somalia

1 Sept – With an 80 our relations max with Austria I pull back my diplomat

5 Oct – I order my Kilwa army up a few

30 Oct- Event – Coffee and Tobacco- I don’t restrict and gain legalism but we also get +6 revolt risk in Zimbabwe area for 5 years

9 Dec – I hire a new general to replace one that died

20 Jan, 1708 – Katsekera now a core, Missionary here for 12 months

Armies are in place

Am I ready for the 1st war with Somalia?

Before I DOW I want to make sure I can hire mercs prior to war

I am making 318.38

I hire:

1.13k now, and 30.96 monthly the 45k army in Lake Victoria’s Busoga for the Independent Army
30k Grand Company in Egypt’s Dongola
15k Free Company in Tanga on the Southern Flank

31 Jan – Mercs are here

I have –

36k on Malay Peninsula next to Kedah which has 21k

My navy parked

Let’s do it!

I DOW for Somalia’s Egyptian Red Sea Massawa

All Allies join - we are now at war with:

Somalia
Aden
Kedah
Mahra

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Six - The 1st Algiers/Somalia War

I order my 36k to Kedah

On the South Flank I order all of my armies are ordered to the Fortress of Kikuyu

On the Egyptian flank I order to the minor of Beja

4 Feb – We win a minor naval battle, we capture a few ships, I order them to berth in our Red Sea’s Suakin to rebuild.

12 Mar – Beja is ours, next is the Fortress of Mendefera next to us

1 May – Our votes failed – next is Quartering of Troops

25 May - The Kedah army is in our Bengkulu besieging us

4 June – The southern flank captures a minor

6 June – A northern minor falls

1 Aug – I don’t invest in War Tech 25 at war

15 Aug – Kikuyu falls! Our warscore is just 1

22 Aug – We capture a west flank minor and pull back, I don’t wanna annoy them with my 31k army

25 Aug – We capture the wartarget Massawa with my mercs

7 Oct – Zigua converts!

We capture a southern flank minor

15 Oct – Mendefera falls – I head next door to 13k Aksum

22 Oct – 85k Aden armies have arrived in Sharqiya and As-Suways, I’ll head over now that we captured Mendefera and after fighting those Aksum troops

6 Nov – Angoche converts!

9 Nov – We win in Aksum and capture a northern minor with my mercs

18 Nov – Southern minor falls,

25 Dec – Two minors fall

31 Jan, 1709 – We capture Pattani in the Malay peninsula, next their captial

A minor fell, next is their capital of Mogadishu

10 Feb – Kilwa converts as does Katsekera

1 Mar – We win in As-Suways

19 Mar- We win in Sharqiya – I order my army south again

4 April – Mogadishu falls! We have a 33% warscore

13 May – Minor falls on Southern Flank

13 June – Two minors refell back to Somalia

21 June – A southern minor falls, it’s next to 28k troops in Meregh I order my army there

12 July – We win the battle of Meregh

23 July – We win the Battle of Gezira

5 Aug – They have three armies on the West Flak

I order my Norther army to the Fortress of Tegali

11 Aug- Another minor falls to us

18 Sept - Another minors falls I order my southern army to the Fortress of Degehbur

9 Oct – Another minor falls to my mercs

21 Nov – Another minor falls to us

4 Dec – I cannot get to the West Flank, I hire 30k in Marghi

26 Jan, 1710 – An 19k army recaptures the wartargget my 30k are heading over

1 Feb – The Age of Revolutions has begun!

19 Mar – The wartarget is ours again

I have a 41 warscore again

12 May – The capital of Kedah falls to me!

Now a 50% warscore

5 June – We win the campaign in West Africa’s Mandara

28 June – Tegali falls!

Next the Fortress of Darfur

26 Aug – Degehbur falls!

Next is the Star Fort of Kaffa

I have a warscore of 55%

What can I get?

If you’ll recall I want the Red Sea down to the crossing over the Red Sea to keep the Turks from heading down the coast after Aden. I’ve wiped out my manpower and need to rebuild.

I’ll take as much as possible after my Red Sea stuff until Somalia cares.

Ready?

North Somalia:

Massawa – Wartarget, Red Sea, South of Suakin – 3 warscore, 4 badboy

Assab – Red Sea, South of Massawa, 5 warscore, 3 badboy

Tajura – Red Sea, south of Assab, strait to Arabia - 8 warscore and badboy, but Somalia cares. Uh oh. What do I do? Do it and then annoy them later? I don’t want Somalia joining Kilwa. But I need to stop the Turks from crossing over, and I need to get land from my 206k manpower spent and years of fighting.

I do it.

What else?

Now it’s just good things

Can I get Mokha?

Mokha – Arabian Peninsula, strait to Tajura – Surrounded by Aden – I don’t want them to attack us from the strait – 10 warscore and badboy

Fazughli – South of us in Al Qadarif, Cuts Somalia off from western holdings – 5 score and 3 badboy

South Somalia:

Tana – North of Taveta – 7 score, 9 badboy

That’s the most I can do with Mombasa on the sidelines:

https://i.ibb.co/PgTr9jw/20230304230538-1.jpg

38 score, 36.8 badboy I do it! I spend ADM equal to 132

My new stuff!

North Somalia:

Massawa – Wartarget, Red Sea, South of Suakin – Mill for Gems, Grand Shipyard, Tigray Coptic, Arid Coastal Desert, 5 dev, makes us 0.41

Assab – Red Sea, South of Massawa – Afar and Sunni, Arid Coastal Desert – Grand Shipyard and Farm Estate for Livestock, 4 dev, 0.34 made here.

Tajura – Red Sea, south of Assab, strait to Arabia – 10 dev, Afar and Sunni, Arid and Coastal Desert, Farm Estate for Livestock and Workshop and Conscription Center 0.68 made here

Mokha – Arabian Peninsula, strait to Tajura – Surrounded by Aden – I don’t want them to attack us from the strait – Coastline, not Arid, Coffee, Afar and Sunni, 13 dev, Star Fort we can upgrade later, Workshop and Plantation, 0.36 made here

Fazughli – South of us in Al Qadarif, Cuts Somalia off from western holdings – Arid Marsh – weird combo, Salt here, Mosque and Workshop, 5 dev, Nubian and Coptic.

South Somalia:

Tana – North of Taveta – Throw in – Arid Savanah, 10 dev, Ivory trade, Conscription Center, Trade Station and Workshop, Somali culture, Sunni faith and makes us 1.19

Good stuff! We took 6 holdings, but not a major holding, so this wasn’t a major economic hit.

Peace until 1719 in nine years

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Seven - Great Work in Kilwa

26 Aug, 1710 - I order:

My 36k in Malay back to Borneo

I disband my 4 mercs – most will take years to recover, but not the 30k in the Egyptian flank, they are still fully funded.

My Egyptian armies back to Egypt

I order armies to three captured holdings

I order one southern army to Tana, the rest back to my border with Kilwa and Mombasa

That was a good military victory not a good economic one. I grabbed down to the strait in Tajura, grabbed the Arabian Mokha on the other side. Now Aden won’t be attacking our rear Fortresses in the border with the Turks but now there against a Star Fort to be upgraded to a Fortress and then I’ll build a Fortress in Tajura on the other side as a backup from Aden as well as to stop Somalia from crossing over and with my navy camping there, Aden cannot move over even after capturing Mokha

Then we bisected them with taking Fazughli. That will cut their Western Area from their main holdings, so that we can keep them from supplying them. I’ll also want to build a Fortress there so they cannot take it quickly in the next war. Everything was military in nature, save for the Ivory throw in.

Do not that all 6 goods are worth at least 3 since livestock is now a 3.40 value trade good, and that was just one in Gems. Salt is 3.3, Coffee is more than 3 and Ivory is a strong 4. That was a military take, next is economic.

By taking Mokha, the Turks cannot DOW them with a Casus Belli in the future after spreading through Aden, although they are allies. That really shuts down the Turks from spreading into my Africa. One bad thing about taking Mokha is that now when I DOW Kilwa and their Arabian Peninsula power Hormuz buddy, they can send over their troops and attack me, so we’ll now be at war here too. Hormuz has lost some land to the Turks and currently has 15k so we can siege them to bring them in in a future war.

Although the issue with Kilwa is that with few sieges proper in the last few years since they don’t have any defensive installments in the mainland, I haven’t blown through manpower in this war.

Now I need to take some time off and recover my manpower, which replaces lost men in sieges, attrition, and battles, so we blew through a strong 206k in just a few years. I cannot go to war against Kilwa or Mombasa in the soon since I need to rebuild my troops and manpower over a few years.

The next war I need to win the economic battle. But this will take a lot of wars, just like Kilwa who already has 7. But even after 7 wars and losing all of that Gold, Kilwa still has a big fat army, so we’ll need to be careful. And I cannot build troops without manpower, so I cannot add to my forces right now.

Also gone are our Sailors that you spend to make ships or to repair in ports. I send my navy to berth in Suakin where my 2 captured ships are. They are at 100% after rebuilding, and they are both light ships, and then after rebuilding I’ll send my navy back out again for trade protection in Zanzibar

Now I need to recover my manpower.

I gain 2702 per month, and we have a max of 264k

I need to update that higher and get faster manpower recovery.

There is a military building called a Training Fields that increases local manpower by 100

It costs 285 and can be built in 12 months

I order:

Great Work:

Kilwa – 2.5k to start, when finished +0.5 annual prestige, +20% ship trade power, +2 merchant trade power

Training Fields here:

West Africa:

Tekrur
Galam
Wagadu
Termes
Tagant
Baghena
Hodh
Azawad
Taudeni
Azawagh
Karou
Grain Coast
Ivory Coast

South Africa:

Great Karoo

That leaves me 2232 for cash - Getting more than 265k is my goal for this investment

Slaves are down to 2.20 – that’s not good

New Tech!

MIL TECH 25 – Royal Mortar – We get better artillery, +2 artillery fire and +0.10 shock

I order my troops upgraded

I state:

Gulf of Guinea – 4 – Dyes in Bonny, Fish in Calabar, Tropical Wood for Gabon, Naval Supplies in Cameroon – all former colonies. This is about Bonny’s Dyes

I hand a Majils Seat to Gold province in West Africa Bure

1 Sept – I spend 50 DIP inviting minorities

30 Sept- Event – Royal Patronage – I don’t spend 7446 cash to hire someone and invest

29 Oct - I accept Institution Sharing with Passau

1 Nov – My Sailors are building up again

2 Dec – Event – Monument to Zimbabwe – We get better relations, cash, and +20 prestige

31 Dec - 7k Rebellion in March Sale

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Eight - Kenya Stated


1 Jan, 1711 – I don’t order anything, I’ll wait until next year

My fleet is fully healed, I order to protect trade in Zanzibar

Deccan and the Ottomans are at war!

1 Feb – I send two diplomats to make nice with Xibe next to us in Siberia and then Scandinavia

1 May – I lose claims on a massive 35 holdings! I spend 50 MIL to Holy War for claims as well as on Arabia vs Aden and new stuff in Egypt

10 Sept – Event – Tariffs on Wine – I do it and La Plata gets +5%

2 Jan, 1712 – I order:

Textile Manufactory for Dyes in Bonny
Mill for Tropical Wood in Gabon
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Naval Supplies in Cameroon
Trade Station for Ivory in Ngoyo after raising it from 9 to 10 dev

First round of Training Fields done, now my manpower is 267k – not that much more.

My forcelimit is 512 let’s help that:

Conscriptions Centers:

Great Karoo
Farafreh
Bahiriya
Kharga

Training Fields:

Upper Limpopo
Brakna

Fortress Upgrade:

India’s Trading Post Srikalulam

I have left 2689 for emergencies

10 Jan – Our Admiral dies, I replace him with a 2 star Admiral

28 May – A general dies too

1 June – With +80, relations maxed with Scandinavia I bring them back

23 June – I send it to make nice with La Plata

30 Sept – Event – Revolt! I can drop taxes in Mukha and it loses revolt risk but gains autonomy or ignore their suffering and then +10 revolt risk there for 5 years. I choose the latter.

1 Oct- With +80, relations are maxed with Xibe, I pull them

28 Oct – The three cores I had claims to from Somalia are done!

Fazughli is already a state in Sennar, I don’t care about Massawa and then Tana?

I state:

Kenya – 4 of ours now – Ivory in Tana, Slaves in Turkana and Taveta, Livestock in Kuria,

I order these Missionaries:

Fazughli – 16 months
Massawa – 16 months
Tana - 40 months

I hand a Majils Seat to West Africa’s Joma - it’s just Grain, but it’s 23 dev

17 Dec – Xibe diplomat sent to make nice in Mongolia

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-Nine - The Abolition of Slavery Act

11 Jan, 1713 – This is the year our Mombasa peace treaty is up, but I don’t wanna war with no manpower

There is a building called a Soldier’s Household which costs 475 each and takes 60 months to build and are a Manufactory of Manpower. They are best in Grain, Livestock, Fish and Wine. For example, building this in the Grain provinces of Upper Limpopo will increase my manpower by 1500.

I order Soldier’s Households in:

Upper Limpopo
Great Karoo
Whydah
Calabar
Lango
Banghazi
Bardiyah
Tarrana

That drops me to 2232 left

28 Jan- Cores done in other three non-claim places:

I state:

Aussa – 2 of 4 – Livestock in Tajura and Assab

Tihama al-Yemen -1 of 3 – Mukha with Coffee

Missionaries:

Assab – 19 months
Tajura – 22 months

Fortress upgrade ordered in Mukha

I hand a Majils Seat to the West African Gold of Bambuk

22 Jan – Japan has taken some Xibe from the map and are now next to us in Siberia

1 Feb – Mombasa’s war peace is over

1 May - Do I wanna pass the Abolition of the Slavery Act? It’s dropped to 2.20 so it’s very low, but I have the Trade Bonus for a 25% Global Tariff. What do I do? For ten years our Missionary Strength is -1, and -5% Tech Cost.

I pass it!

1 June – We get a bunch of new trade goods!

30 Aug - Event – Muhammed and the Senegambian People – Our heir is getting close to a Senegambian Advisor. They have gone on trips, and our establishment doesn’t like how close they are. I side with our heir, we get -3 revoltrisk in those provinces, and claim strength of Muhammad drops 25%

12 Oct – I order my 6 Southern Flank Armies around Kilwa in a pincer movement since we’ll be at peace in a few years

They still have 56k so we’ll need to take that seriously

4 Nov - I spend 45 MIL to brutally suppress a rebellion in Tana since I cannot afford losing more troops

7 Dec – Conversion successful in Fazuglhi!

I order a Fortress here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty - Stating Two Kongolese Areas



1 Jan, 1714 – I order:

Soldier’s Households:

Bahiriya
Farafreh
Kharga
Isna
Ras Gareb
Qusayr

That leaves me 2320

17 May – Massawa converts!

1 June – I am building up manpower again!

1 July – Relations maxed in Mongolia with 95 diplomat pulled

6 July – Event - Establish Cantonments – I decide to lose 250 cash to raise manpower in upper Limpopo

1 Aug – The Majils passes the “Quartering of Troops” act for ten years our maintenance is -10% and attrition -5%!

16 Aug – Malacca’s ruler passes, we set up a Royal Marriage with their new one

We get a new Consort – Umniya, 1/4/3 – age 15 younger than our heir!

21 Oct - I send my Malacca diplomat to make nice with Bali

20 Nov – A general passes another is promoted

1 Jan, 1715 – This year our war with Kilwa is over, and with 20k manpower that’s feasible, so I won’t order anything else now. It’s not until October and by then my manpower could be pretty high for that war.

13 Jan – I replace another dead general

16 Jan – Conversions in Assab and Tana!

Two left!

1 April - I state:

Lower Kasai – Kongo – 4 – Spices in Songo and Munene, Tropical Wood in Nunu, Naval Supplies in Yaka

I’m not sure how I missed a double Spice with two 3.0 goods too.

Sankuru – Kongo – 3 – Cloth in Kuba; Grain in Songye, Livestock in Kalundwe

With Cloth that’s very strong

I hand a Majils Seat to West African Gold – Lobi

18 May – Tajura converts, I destroy the Conscription Center and order a Fortress here

One left!

2 Aug – Fortress upgrade finished in Mukha just prior to the war. I order a Missionary here for a longer 31 months

1 Oct – Peace with Hormuz and Kilwa up, and I have 46k manpower

Time for war!

I DOW Kilwa for their pretty high 14 dev Ivory province called Kinga on the north flank. Our 8th war.

Hormuz joins them. We are at war with them both!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-One - The 8th Algiers/Kilwa War


I order my navy to the Mozambique Channel
4 armies in the north to Kinga
3 armies in the south to Ngindo a minor on the south next to their new capital in Ibo

1 Nov – Our MIL Advisor level 3 Army Recruiter passes who increased our forcelimit, next is a level 3 Master Recruiter that increases manpower by +10%

23 Nov – Two minors fall, next is Ibo

1 Dec - I spend 45 MIL to stop a rebellion away from my troops that are fighting

27 Dec – Ibo falls, their navy is fleeing, next is the minor of Mozambique

9 Jan, 1716 – We win in the Channel against a navy of 44 ships and capture some 7 size Merchantman lower level transports I send to Kilwa

23 Jan – Two minors falls

10 Feb – Two more falls, just Mozambique on the mainland

I spend 84 to upgrade Merchantman

26 Feb – Mozambique is ours I have every mainland Kilwa province with a warscore of 34%

I order my navy to Arabia’s Gulf of Marisah

1 Mar -19k Hormoz are sieging us in As-Suways, I order two Egyptian armies over to help out

31 Mar- I capture a Hormoz minor with my Mukha army

1 April – We embrace the Institution of Enlightenment! We get -25% culture conversion costs

7 April – Deccan no longer considers us a rival!

I have split up my armies in different provinces so there is no losses to attrition, by the by

1 May – Sambaliung is now Coal!

I order a Furnace here

23 May – I capture a minor Hormuz where their 22 ship navy is and they are fleeing to us

Next is their capital of Liwa, which doesn’t have a defensive formation

30 May – We win and capture 8 vessels, 2 great ship and 6 transports, I order them to Mukha to heal

1 June – With a +82 relations maxed with Bali, dip is ordered back

1 July – Coal in Bengkulu – Furnace here too

6 July – Event – Famine in Sao Tome

18 Aug – I send my Bali diplomat to make nice with Berau

10 Sept – We win in As-Suways

12 Sept – Bad News! Our High Imam passes:

Stability drops to +2.

Our new High Imam – Muhammed Vii - 2/2/2, age 18, no wife or heir

We have 52k rebels in Yatenga in West Africa, I order 3 Kilwan armies up

18 Sept – Liwa falls! I have a warscore of 59, what can I get?

North Kilwa:

Kinga – Wartarget, next to 4 of ours – 8 warscore but 12 badboy

South Kilwa:

Mozambique – Coastal, north of Angoche, east of Makua – 14 warscore and a massive 18 badboy

Pretty much anything else of value will annoy Mombasa save for:

Ngindo – West of Mozambique, north of Makua and Lomwe – 9 warscore and 6 badboy

Ready?

https://i.ibb.co/nbVC4p4/20230305151414-1.jpg

I do peace for these three because Mozambique is a pretty nice addition for 31 score and 35.9 badboy

I core for 143 ADM power. My three new additions:

North Kilwa:

Kinga – Wartarget, next to 4 of ours – Tropical Savannah, the accepted Swahili culture, Sunni faith, 14 dev, Trade Station for Ivory, Counting House, Conscription Center, makes us 0.34

South Kilwa:

Mozambique – Coastal, north of Angoche, east of Makua – Swahili people and Sunni faith, Tropical Coastline, 20 dev, Ivory trade, two open slots, Grand Shipyard and Conscription Center. 0.93 made here

Ngindo – West of Mozambique, north of Makua and Lomwe – Throw in – 8 dev, Livestock, Swahili and Sunni, Tropical Savannnah, Farm Estate and Counting House makes .16

Two great additions, all accepted cultures

[Abe Sargent]

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Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Two - Stating South Africa

Less than a year, and we handled the Hormuz flank too!

18 Sept – I order my Liwa army back to Mukha

I order armies to my three taken places

I order my fleet to head back to Mukha to rebuild after two battles and join that navy

I state-ify:

South African Plateau – South Africa – 5 – Gems now, Coal later in Highveld; Livestock in Griqualand and Senqu and Roggeveld, Grain in Great Karoo;

That’s all about getting the Enlightenment in Highveld to get Coal

Now my rebellion

I hand a Majils Seat to Bengkulu

I order:

Trade Company for Ivory in Shinje; Spices in Songo, Munene
Mills for Tropical Wood in Ndongo, Mtetwa, Abomey
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Ouargla; Naval Supplies in Warri, Bemba,
Textile Manufactory for Wool in Djado; Cloth in Kuba
Farm Estate for Livestock in Nyatura, Shamba, Siine, Taveta, Turkana

That drops me to 2559

5 Oct – 5k rebellion in Tetuoan

14 Oct – Yatenga falls

28 Oct – Royal Marriage with Malacca, no consort

1 Nov – Liptako falls to rebels

10 Nov – Royal Marriage with Bengal – new Consort -Malika Bibi, 3/5/4 and age 21

1 Jan, 1717 – Nothing ordered – I’ll save my cash for next year

27 Jan – Jenne falls

17 Feb – Gurma falls

13 Mar - I send a diplomat to make nice with Deccan

21 May - Gwiriko falls

6 June – Aribanda too

23 Sept – As does Azawagh

11 Nov – Bendugu falls

My armies are here, I order them to the 31k in Azawagh

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Three - Becoming a Hegemon


1 Jan, 1718 – New Tech!!

ADMIN TECH 26 – Separation of Powers – Another Group of Ideas!

I take Offensive Ideas in the Military branch

Offensive Idea #1 – Bayonet Leaders - +1 leader Shock

Offensive Idea #2 – National Conscripts - -10% Recruitment Time

I order:

Farm Estate for Grain – Benguela, Kumbana, Mbamba, Ijebu; Livestock in Roggeveld, Senqu, Griqualand,
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Fish in Soyo; Naval Supplies in Yaka
Mill for Tropical Wood in Nunu; Gems in Highveld,

That leaves me 2814

12 Jan – Tadmekka falls

18 Jan – I retake Azawagh

22 Feb – 31k rebels defeated in Tadmekka, I order two armies to the 21k in Bagoe

26 Feb -Bagoe falls

19 Mar – Tadmekka is ours again

21 Mar – Cores done in all three province!

Mozambique already a state in that state, Ndinga in the Makuana state and Kinga in Ngonde

Missionaries:

Ngindo - 31 months
Kinga – 38 months
Mozambique – 50 months

I hand a Majils Seat to Mozambique

16 April – Aribanda ours again!

21 April – New Heir! 2/3/3 Hasan

1 May – Relations maxed with Berau I pull my diplomat

21 May – We rout the rebels in Bagoe!

Now just retaking these holdings

27 May _ Jenne ours again!

30 May – As is Gurma

1 June – Yatenga ours again too, the site of the rebellion

9 June – The last Somalian addition, Mukha, converts!

17 June – Bagoe ours again, I order my three Kilwa armies back

26 June – Bendigu is recaptured

9 July – I order my navy to protect trade again

I can get my first Age of Revolutions Ability - I choose:

Napoleonic Warfare – Artillery Levels vs Fort - +3

13 July – We take the last two, rebellion over!

17 Aug – I send my extra diplomat to make nice with Barus

1 Oct – I can become the “Economic Hegemon” What would that do?

Here I’ll show you:

https://i.ibb.co/kDZLXDC/20230305163726-1.jpg

Spain is the Military Hegemon. Reduced War Exhaustion, better manpower for my mercs, lower dev costs for investing power in provinces, and then it’d get better over time.

I do it, but that means that, like Spain, there would be an Economic Hegemon to take me off the map

I can ally with Bengal:

https://i.ibb.co/0h5Dgw5/20230305164116-1.jpg

Do I want to get pulled into Indian and SE Asia wars in order to protect my interests defensively? I think so, let’s do it

7 Oct – I promote a new general to replace the one that passed – he’s a surprising level 3

6 Dec – Deccan announces us as a rival again…

I pull my diplomat

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Four - Great Work Begun in Kilwa


1 Jan, 1719 – That was a busy year!

This is the year that my peace with Somalia ends but with just 128k manpower I don’t think we’ll be digging that channel, probably just Mombasa next.

I order:

Great Work:

Kilwa – 5k – This gives me the boosted trade power with Ships, merchant trade, and prestige

I have left 2553 for emergencies

30 Jan – I send my Deccan diplomat to make nice with Persia

1 Feb - Event – Coffee Imports – I choose to import and we get for 5 years +10% Fort Defense and reduced revoltrisk

23 Feb – I need to make nice with Malacca, our relations are down to -9 so I order my Barus diplomat back, so I can send one to make nice with them

2 April – I spend 140 ADM to boost our stability back to +3

1 Jul – Peace up with Somalia and allies

1 Aug - I choose Deccan as our new rival when I cannot do it anymore

1 Sept – Our level 3 ADM Advisor the Inquisitor passes, I hire a level 3 Philosopher +1 prestige each year

14 Oct – My Kilwa armies are back from West Africa and next to Mombasa

20 Oct - Ndingo converts! Two left from Kilwa

I order my Navy to the Zanzibar Strait

They have two Fortresses now, so I’d need to probably lose some manpower sieging

I order another 31k troops in Lake Victoria since I have 202.20 spent in maintenance and a forcelimit of 510k and 479k

That drops me to 129k manpower

17 Nov – Event – Tariffs on Tobacco – we do it

1 Jan, 1720 – I don’t order anything to save for emergency mercs against Mombasa

They have 26k troops in Pate two away from us so they may take their army to our stuff in Egypt

6 Jan – We have our navy in the Strait and my Kilwan army from Kinga here.

I DOW Mombasa for Malindi, next to us with a Fortress – this is the 2nd Mombasa War

Remember they are very high dev, so this might be three wars

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Five - The Second Algiers/Mombasa War


I order my 5 armies including the 7k one to Malindi

9 Jan – We win a minor naval battle

16 Jan – Another minor battle won

I capture a few light ships, I order them to berth in Tanga and restore themselves

22 Jan – Another battle won

1 Feb – We begin the Siege of Malindi with a fusillade

9 Feb – Kinga from Kilwa converts, just Mozambique left

14 Mar – Rebellion in Sale

17 April – Event – I choose to gain 50 MIL power rather than prestige

1 May – Offensive Idea #3 – Superior Firepower – Land Leader +1 fire

1 June – Coal in Highveld! I order a Furnace here

11 July – Event – Excellent Year – 10k Manpower gained

27 July – Mozambique converts, last one!

9 Oct – Event - Plague in Sharqiya – I spend more than 1k to help out

28 Dec – After almost a year, Malindi falls, I have a warscore of 49, next is their undefended capital of Lamu, a quick siege should occur

10 Feb, 1721 – Lamu fell in a month, warscore of 75% next is the Fortress of Pate where their army is.

Their navy flees to the Strait

22 Feb – We win the naval battle and captured 4 more ships I send to Tanga

28 Feb – We rout their army in Pate and gain 20 warscore

Can I get all three in peace forwards after getting 100 or should I just do two?

Peace for all three is 80, so this is doable with enough warscore

I begin the siege of Pate with a fusillade

1 April – New Tech!!!

DIP TECH 26 – The East Indiaman – We can build Great Frigates and East Indiaman

9 April – They have surrendered, their navy flees Pate, I have a 100 warscore:

https://i.ibb.co/1JGN2VM/20230305174617-1.jpg

I can get all three for 80 warscore and 57.5 badboy, no new coalitions just Kilwa and Somalia. I do peace.

I spend 131 on Malindi, 77 on Pate and 65 on Lamu, 119 ADM power left.

My three new additions:

Malindi – Wartarget, coastal, north of Mombasa, east of Taveta and SE of Tana – It’s a lot of buildings Fortress, Weapons Manufactory for Iron, Conscription Center, Town Hall, Counting House, Stock Exchange, Grand Shipyard, Great Mosque, University, Swahili culture and Sunni faith, 3.87 made here, a massive 40 dev, Arid Coastline, COT Entrepot

Lamu – Coastal, new captial, north of Malindi, south of Pate, east of Tana, south of Somalia, Also an Arid Coastline, also Swahili and Sunni, 1.55 made here, 34 dev, Stock Exchange, Grand Shipyard, University and Great Mosque, Counting House and Conscription Center, Trade Station for Ivory,

Pate – Coastal, north of Lamu, surrounded by Somalia, - Still Ibadi, COT Entrepot, Swahili, Farmlands, not Arid or Tropical, 1.62 made from 38 dev, Textile Manufactory for Cloth, Conscription Center, Counting House, Fortress, Grand Shipyard, Univerity and Great Mosque.

Nasty three additions, all Swahili and one is Ibadi already. Iron Ivory and Cloth – all at or over 4.0 trade value.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Six - Northern Swahili Stated


9 April, 1721 - We finished with 94k manpower and began with 135k – nice!

With Pate being conceded, that was faster than I thought, thanks Mombasa!

I order armies:

31k to Malindi
7k to Taveta
31k to Lamu
One army stays here in Pate
One heads to Kilwa

I order my navy to Tanga to rebuild and join my captured vessels

I order:

I spend a few thousand speeding up Kilwa’s great work

Trade Station for Ivory in Mozambique,
Farm Estate for Grain in Ketu, Songye,

Counting Houses:

Dyes – Bonny
Iron – Kabylia, Kalonga
Ivory - Sena
Livestock – Kuria, Kalundwe
Tropical Wood – Gabon, Matsolo
Wool – Swellendam
Naval Equipment - Cameroon

14 May – I hire a Shalafi Scholar

I send the Merchant back to Zanzibar

26 May – Army finished being built in Lake Victoria, maintenance is now 259.25

2 July – Furnace finished in Bengkulu, I order a Fortress here

5 Jan, 1722 – I order:

More cash spent in Kilwa, it’ll be done in a few years

Conscription Center:

Shendy
Sahra An Nubiyah
Aswan
Isna
Girga
Qus

Soldiers’ Housholds:

Dongola
Wadi Halfa
Qasr Ibrim

I keep 3513 for emergencies

1 Mar – Relations maxed with Malacca, I pull back our diplomat

13 May – I send it to make nice with Transoxiana

13 July – Event – Monopoly Company Formed, I don’t take the cash now, 12701, but instead get +15% trade and a ton of DIP power for ten years

1 Aug – With 87, maxed relations with Persia, I pull back my diplomat

31 Aug – I send it to make nice with Barus again

2 Oct – Event – I spend 10 prestige to stop from losing DIP Power

12 Oct – Cores done in Malindi and Lamu!

Malindi is a state and I cannot state Lamu until Pate is done

Missionary:

Lamu – 47 months
Malindi – 66 months

11 Dec – Pate is a core!

State:

Northern Swahili Coast – 2 of 3 – Pate’s Cloth and Lamu’s Ivory

Now that they are cores and states here is how much I am making:

Pate – 2.58
Lamu – 2.42
Malindi – 5.40

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Seven - Glorious Arms


6 Jan, 1723 – I order:

Soldiers’ Households:

Sahra an Nubyah
Aswan
Girga
Haliab
Karou
Ivory Coast


Conscription Center:

Manfalat
Darnah
Tataouine
Zuwareh
Tunis
Mema
Massina
Segu


I finish with 2860 in cash

18 July – I replace a dead general

1 Oct – Relations maxed with Barus, dip pulled

Offensive Ideas #4 – Glorious Arms - +100% Prestige from Land Battles

The next one is REALLY good, get ready…

1 Nov - Relations are also maxed with Transoxiana, I pull the diplomat here as well

10 Dec – Diplomats are back and I send them to make nice with both Dai Viet and Wu

Xipe is gone, annexed by Muscovy

7 Jan, 1724 – This is the year that our war with Kilwa ends, but it’s in December

I order:

Conscription Center:

Sirt
Cape Coast
Whydah

Soldiers’ Households:

Darnah
Tataouine
Termes
Tagant
Brakna

I have 200k manpower for Somalia again

We’ll do Kilwa, rebuild my claims, and then the 2nd War with Somalia

I spend 50 DIP to invite minorities

8 April – I order my fleet to the Mozambique Channel and then my 3 armies from Mombasa to north Kilwa. They have 40k in Ibo we’ll need to protect against

1 June – I lose claims on 21 holdings, I spend 50 Mil to claim Holy War

15 July – Event – Bad Storms hit East Timor

1 Aug - Our Majils Policy ended, next is the Impressment of Sailors again

12 Aug – Lamu converts! It’s now making us 4.58

4 Oct - Malindi converts! This time it’s making 5.91

1 Dec – Our peace treaty with Hormuz and Kilwa is up!

Their 40k has moved to Makonde only next to two 31k troops

They only have 5 mainland holdings left so we might oust them to Madagascar this war.

I DOW Kilwa for their capital – Ibo – war #9

Hormuz joins them

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Eight - The 9th Algiers/Kilwa War

I order 62k to Makonde, two into Ibo and two into the minor of Wayao and two into the minor of Phangwa

26 Dec – We rout their army in Makonde

1 Jan, 1725 – Relations maxed with Wu, I pull my dip

19 Jan – Ibo falls, I order one army north, and their navy flees

30 Jan – Two minor fall

3 Feb – We win the naval battles and captured some ships but the worst is 73% so I keep it in my navy

19 Feb - A minor falls

I order my navy to Arabia

20 Mar – The last mainland Kilwa holding falls with a war score of 33%

1 May – Dai Viet relations maxed, dip pulled

28 May – 9k in As-Suways from Hormuz, I order an Egyptian army over to knock them out

29 May – We capture a Hormuz minor

7 July – I send our Dai Viet dip to make nice with Japan

20 July – Another Hormuz holding falls, this with a navy, next is Liwa their capital

4 Aug - We win a naval battle and capture 7 ships

5 Sept – We win the battle of As-Suways

1 Dec - Liwa falls!

I have a warscore of 63 what can I get?

I cannot get all 5, they are 60, but Kilwa won’t do it, I can only do four:

https://i.ibb.co/dp76KQh/20230305202235-1.jpg

For 53 score and 51 badboy I can do everything but Lindi I do it and core for 131

Ibo – Wartarget, new capital, north of Mozambique – Tropical Coastline, Swahili and Sunni, 11 dev and Ivory, makes us 1.05 and has Trade Station, Con Center and Grand Shipyard

Wayao – North of Lomwe – Tropical Savannah, Livestock, Swahili Sunni, 1.51, Farm Estate, Con Center, Counting House, 12 dev

Phangwa – East coast of Lake Malawi – north of Wayao – 23 dev, Tropical Savannah, Swahili Sunni, 1.10, Trade Station and Con Center, Barrack, Counting House, Ivory

Makonde – North of Wayao, east of Phangwa – Tropical Savannah, 14 dev, Livestock, Swahili and Ibadi so both are accepted, Counting House, Con Center, Farm Estate

Nice four developed additions to the Algiers Empire!

One year exactly!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Nine - Kolyma Stated


1 Dec - My manpower is now 231k so I am ready for Somalia

I order my Lindi army to Kuria
My 7k up there too
I order my other armies north

I keep four armies in what we grabbed,I order my Liwa army back to Tajura in Africa

I can purchase another Age of Revolutions – I choose

Improved Artillery Range – Artillery in back row gets +20%

I now have 7 armies in the Southern Flank so around 220k with my 7k army, and then 210k in the Egyptian Flank, they have 166k so we can grab stuff

I order my army from As-Suways south

I spend 31k manpower for another army in Egypt – we have 511k of 575k and then we are paying 286.29 in cash

I’ll save my money for a 20k cost Great Work in Sharqiya called the Suez Canal

I state:

Kolyma - Siberia – 5 – Iron in Yarmanka, Copper in Suntar Khayata and Kolyma, Naval Supplies now, Coal later in Verkhoyansk, Fur in Omolon

That’s all about the Coal obviously when it embraces Enlightenment

I hand a Majils Seat to Malindi now making 6.12

1 Jan, 1726 - I hold off build for now

31 Jan - I send my extra diplomat to make nice with Venice

7 April – Event – Consort of the People – Our Consort drops revolt risk until our ruler passes

1 June – Offensive Idea #5 – Engineer Corps – We get +20% siege ability!

17 July – Event – Salt Crisis – 10% production

1 Sept- Our High Imam gains the Kind Hearted trait

14 Oct – Event – Agricultural Revolution in Dongola – I choose to give it +1 production

1 Nov – Relations maxed with Japan, I recall my diplomat

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety - The Suez Canal Begins


1 Jan, 1727 - I have 18k so I wont build anything this year either

28 Jan – I send my Japan diplomat to make nice with Austria

1 Feb – Relations maxed with Venice, diplomat pulled

13 Feb – Sent to make nice with Bohemia

1 April – I can now do the Suez Canal but I wait until I have more cash as a reserve

20 May – 31k army finished in Egypt – my maintenance is now 265.05

I am still making 489.05

4 June – All Cores done in Kilwa!

Ibo already a state with Mozambique, I cannot state the others I am out of state room due to their size

Missionaries:

Ibo – 41 months
Wayao - 43 months
Phangwa – 83 nasty

16 Aug – I grant Malacca military access

1 Oct – I replace a dead general; he’s a strong 3 stars

27 Oct - I order my 4 Kilwa armies back to the Somalia Border

1 Jan, 1728 – I order:

Great Work:

Sharqiya - I spend 20k on the Suez Canal – This does: +50% local trade power, +5% global trade power

Now this is on the border with the Turks and could be taken anytime, so it’s probably not a wise investment, but I build it

It’ll be finished in November of 1737

I keep 4472 back for emergencies

1 Feb – Relations maxed with Austria at 60 I pull my diplomat

14 Feb – Sent to make nice with England

1 Mar – Coal in Verkhoyansk! I order a Furnace here

28 April – Event – Good Weather – Canal done 90 days earlier

1 Oct – Relations maxed with Bohemia, I pull my diplomat

My 36k arrive in the Malay Peninsula

My fleet is in the Red Sea

1 Jan, 1729 – We have 10k in cash for mercs, 320k manpower. It’s time for the 2nd War Against Somalia – they have 198k so we’ll need mercs this time just like last time, this time I’ll bring in Malacca to help with the Malay Peninsula and they have a colony in the nearby Andamans that could be taken by Malacca.

I am currently making 528.21 in cash each month. I have 240k in North and 220k in South flank. Aden has 90k to really help

I hire these mercs:

Independent Army – 1.22k, 31.81 upkeep, south flanks’ Lango
Grand Company – 852 upfront and monthly in Bayuda in north

The first war was military this is economic, there are two gold mines with Fortresses in the north flank just two from me, so if I can get those, that would be huge

I’ll save the other mercs for reserves, I also have 31k in West Africa as a reserve in case they bleed over like last time.

I declare war for Somalia’s north flank minor of Beja, a Livestock providence I don’t care about

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-One - The 2nd Algiers/Somalia War

I order:

36k to Kedah’s captial on the Malay Peninsula where 19k rest

My Southern flank to the adjacent Fortress of Kikutyu

5 into Beja on the northern, and then a few to move in closer

11 Jan – Mercs are here, I order them in

13 Jan – We win a Naval Battle and capture 8 ships! I order them to Suakin to grow

19 Jan – We win in Kedah and start the siege

1 Feb – Beja falls, next is the adjacent Fortress of Mendefera

3 Feb – Another minor falls

21 April – Ibo converts!

9 May – They are besieging us in Al Qaradif

11 May – Fast, we captured Kikuyu! Next is minors along the path to the captial

9 June - Mendefera falls! South is the Fortress of Gonder we’ll move towards

23 June – Minor falls

11 July – As does another

26 July – Another falls

1 Aug – We begin the siege of Gonder

14 Aug – Aden is sieging us in As-Suways and Sharqiya with 87k troops

I’ll finish Gonder and head north

26 Aug – We capture another southern minor, next is the Fortress of Merca

25 Oct – I hire 30k mercs in West Africa since they have 41k in Kanem

21 Nov – Merca in South Africa falls – next their capital

Gonder falls - next Egypt to relieve the siege

I have a 19% warscore

19 Dec – Mercs arrive in West Africa

7 Jan, 1730 - Mogadishu falls! Next is the three away Fortress of Deghabur

15 Feb – We win a battle in southern flank

11 April – We win in Sharqiya – I order my northern army south again

30 April – We win in Kanem

14 June – Deghabur falls! Next is the Fortress of Shewa

35 warscore

1 Aug – Offensive Idea #6 – Grand Army – We get +15% forcelimit and +10% special forces

7 Sept – My north army begins the Siege of Tegali

15 Oct – We capture Kedah’s capital in the Malay Peninsula, I head next to the siege that Malacca is already doing

45 warscore

18 Nov – Shewa falls, next is the Fortress next door of Damot

48 warscore

13 Jan, 1731 -Wayao finishes converting!

23 Jan – Tegali falls! Next is the Fortress of Wadai

Warscore of 50

1 Mar – We lose a three month battle in Kanem after they combined their armies

1 June – Pattani falls to Malacca

2 June – Damot is ours! We have a 62 warscore and I am out of manpower it’s time to call it

What can I get with a 62 warscore?

I want the land to the Gold Mines and them, ideally

North Somalia:

Gambella – East of Fazugeli – 5 score, 3 badboy

Kaffa – East of Gambella – Gold – 7 score and 8 badboy

Asosa – North of Gambella, east of Fazugeli, 7 warscore, 6 badboy

Damot – East of Asosa, Gold – 5 score, 3 badboy

My key takes are 24 score and 22.6 badboy, we can do it! What else?

Now I just want decent land

Beja – Wartarget, surrounded by us - 5 score and 8 badboy

Now the rest are just filling in the blanks, not valuable

South Somalia:

Kikuyu – 6 and 7 respectively

West Somalia:

Logone – Next to us former Air holding – 8 warscore and 7 badboy

Kotoko – North of Logone, east of us former Air – throw in – 13 score, and badboy

Bagirmi – 6 score and 5 badboy

That’s it!

https://i.ibb.co/sggKqXJ/20230305234830-1.jpg

62 score and 64.3 badboy – I do it and spend coring ADM equal to 335

Ready for my cool new additions:

The goal here was to hurt them economically.

North Somalia:

Gambella – East of Fazugeli – Got me to a Gold Mine - Trade Station for Slaves, Workshop, 5 dev, Marsh, Sidamo Coptics making us .53 but they’ll change to a new trade good

Kaffa – East of Gambella – Gold – A key target – Fortress, Mosque, Con Center, 11 dev, Highlands, Sidama Coptic, 1.25 made here

Asosa – North of Gambella, east of Fazugeli, - Another connection – Trade Station for Slaves, Workshop, 8 dev, Highlands, Amhara Coptic make 0.61

Damot – East of Asosa, Gold – Another key target – Amhara Coptic, Fortress and Con Center, 0.72 5 dev, Highlands

Beja – Wartarget, surrounded by us - Arid Steppes, 12 dev, Livestock, Farm Estate, Con Center, Counting House, Amhara Sunni making us 1.16

South Somalia:

Kikuyu – North of us in Kuria, west of Tana – Mountains, Tropical, Fortress, Somali Sunni 7 dev, Livestock, 0.05

West Somalia:

Logone – Next to us former Air holding – Tropical Marsh, Fortress, Counting House, Trade Station for Ivory, 11 dev, Kanuri Fetishist making 1.79

Kotoko – North of Logone, east of us former Air – throw in – 20 dev, Grain, Kanuri Sunni, Arid Marsh, Farm Estate, Con Center, Mosque, Workshop, makes 1.42

Bagirmi – East of Logone and Kotoko – Arid Savannah, 9 dev, Tunjur Sunnis, Ivory, Mosque, Workshop, 0.82

Two Gold, two Ivory, and four Fortresses. Nice! That was a big win! We got 9 more added to our Empire!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Two - Light Infantry Company
2 June – I order my northern army back to these new captures and then a few old places.

My West African army to Logone

I disband my three mercs

I order my southern army in Damot to Kilwa and one army remains in Kikuyu

I order my Malay Peninsula army to Bengkulu

Now that I blew through my manpower but started with way more, how long will it take to recover?

Because we took land my southern army was in, we have to go the looong way around to Kilwa

29 June – Rebellion in Tetuolan

I order with my 14k:

Weapons Manufactory for Iron in Yarmanka; Copper for Kolyma and Suntar Khayata
Trade Station for Fur in Omolon; Incense in Samar,

Counting Houses:

Ivory – Mozambique, Tana, Makua, Lwena
Coal – Highveld, Bengkulu
Spices – Munene, Songo, Maguindanao
Tropical Wood – Abomey, Nunu, Loanda, Atakora,
Cloth – Kuba
Wool – Swellendam, Demnate,
Iron – Stanovoy,
Copper – Tabwa,
Naval Supplies – Poso, Mamuju, Yaka, Annaba, Wukari
Livestock – Roggeveld, Senqu, Griqualand

That leaves 3901 left.

I spend 50 DIP to invite minorities

I send my spare two diplomats to make nice with Two Sicilies and France

1 Aug – New trade goods in Asosa and Gambella

Coffee and Fur – strong!

1 Jan, 1732 – Nothing new ordered until next year

8 Jan – Event – A Talented Judge – I apply him locally and then get better stuff in Atacora Oueme

28 Jan – Event – A Royal Influence – Conversion in Wadi Halfa to Sunni, since my Queen is beloved, and then we lose 10 prestige I send a Missionary for 92 months, long

1 June – Our level 3 Advisor in MIL the Master Recruiter dies. Next? A level 3 Master Recruiter that increased my manpower by 10% too, and it’s a woman, by the by.

17 June – Event – Royal Heretic – I do not divorce our Consort, +2 national unrest for 10 years

21 Aug – I forgot to berth my navy, so I send it to Suakin now to join my 7 captured ships.

2 Sept – New Tech!!!!

MIL TECH 26 – We are behind and it’s just 256 – Light Infantry Company – We get +1 land morale, bonus 2 combat width and can build the “Muslim Mass Infantry” I upgrade.

At 977 DIP power we are reaching the MAX so I spend a couple hundred to raise dev in Clove and Coal holdings

22 Oct – Event – Death of a Merchant – we get 3632 cash

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Three - Cannon Fodder

1 Jan, 1733 – With 16k, I order:

Trade Station for Spices in Manokwari, Daru, Karema,

Great Mosques:

Abomey, Mitija, Sumbawa, Minya, East Timor, Highveld, Sambaliung,

Counting Houses:

Incense – Palu, Sumba
Cotton - Fayyum,
Sugar – Abda
Grain – Mbata, Mbwila, Anfa, Haha, Dukkala, Dahra,
Gems – West Timor, Loango
Fish – Ifni, Tenerife,
Cloth – Lundu, Katsina
Ivory – Zumbo, Madanda, Buhera, Tete, Mayumba, Kantor
Fur - Kirenga,
Livestock – Siine, Muhambwe, Tajura, Manga,
Salt – Shaga
Copper – Anziku, Mpangu,

4432 left

2 May – Our heir gains the “Babbling Buffon” trait…not good

I get a new Age of Revolutions ability. What would I like?

Naval Engagement - +20% Engagement

5 June – Cores done everywhere I had a claim on save for the two I didn’t in Kaffa and Damot

I order Missionaries:

Logone – 18 months
Gambela – 25 months
Asosa - 27 months

2 July – Relations maxed with Two Sicilies, next is making nice with the Commonwealth that are a big winner of wars against Scandinavia

7 Sept – Kaffa and Damot are cored, my gold! Can I state them?

Nope, not enough governing capacity

4 Jan, 1734 – 11k I order:

13 Counting Houses, I’ll stop detailing them

7 Great Mosques

4058 left

1 April – New Tech!

ADMIN TECH 27 – Modern Bureaucracy - We get +250 governing capacity, +10 admin efficiency and -10% dev cost modifiers

I state:

Damot – Somalia – 2 of 3 – Gold in Damot, Coffee in Ascosa.

I hand a Majils Seat to Damot

Kaffa – Somalia – 2 of 4, Gold in Kaffa, Fur in Gambela

10 April – Conversion in Phangwe! Next is 17 months in Damot

3 May – Relations maxed with France, next is Muscovy

1 June - 12k rebellion in Kaffa where my army is

10 June – We win and lost 5k troops, rough when rebuilding my manpower

12 July - My armies are all back in Kilwa

I combine my navies in Suakin and now have:

79 Large
91 Small
27 Galleys
65 Transports

I order it to Protect Zanzibar trade

18 July – Logone converts! Next is a campaign in Kaffa of 18 months

24 Oct – Event – The Families Left Behind – We ease the widows of soldiers taxes and lose 15% for 5 years

27 Oct – Event – Plague in Kotoko, I spend 1664 to help

1 Dec - The Majils passes “Reduce Trade Regulations” again

27 Dec – Get ready for this event in case you think I am lying:

https://i.ibb.co/8dBQx5v/20230310165037-1.jpg

Cannon Fodder triggers and we gain that manpower while rebuilding after a big war, nasty!

My DIP is about to run the cap again, more dev spent in Gold holdings like Zimbabwe and Pontianak

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Four - Getting Ready for War #10

1 Jan, 1735 – With 9597 cash I order:

16 Counting Houses
6 Great Mosques

Leaves me 3422

23 Jan – Event – I move 15 towards legalism and gain 25 ADM power

6 Feb – Gambela converts! Next is 35 months in Kikuyu

I order a Fortress in West Africa’s Bagirimi we just captured after I spend some DIP raising it’s dev from 9 to 10.
Ditto Kotoko one back of it

26 Feb – A general passes, I hire another

12 Mar – Asosa converts! How about next is 43 months in Beja

1 Apr – Relations maxed with Commonwealth I pull my diplomat and send to make nice with Delhi

21 June – Event – Improved Steam Engine - +2 Production in Lamba

I order 2 Egyptian armies to the border with Ottomans and then two to the border and in Arabia

1 July – Idea! Offensive Idea #7 – Espirit de Corps - +5% Discipline, and for finishing we get +5% Recover Army Morale

I enact a ADM policy:

I can get two, and we have three options. What do I like?

Vassal Taxation Policy - +50% Vassal Taxes

The Anti-Heresy Act - +3% Missionary Strength vs Heretics, +20% Religious Unity

1 Sept – 13k rebellion in Beja; 31k next door in Al Qadarif

13 Sept – Damot converts! Next is nothing, the other two are building Fortresses

13 Oct – Rebels defeated after a longer war

28 Oct – Armies in place

18 Nov – Sad news! One of our longest allies, Malacca, broke their alliance with us

Now it’s just us and Bengal

19 Dec -Event – Tadiqiyya – We lose 10 prestige, gain relations with the ulema, and move towards legalism

1 Jan, 1736 – 9699 have, this year our peace with Kilwa is up, and we have one left in Africa and then Madagascar, and then still they have 41k so I cannot take this lying down, I’ll need to ferry over troops.

I spend less, I doubt I’ll need mercs, so we’ll drop less.

I order:

15 Counting houses

Drops me to 4899

I order my navy to the Zanzibar Strait where my 33k army is

27 Jan – Kaffa converted!

18 April – I order my 33k to board

1 May – I lose my claim on 37 holdings, I spend 50 MIL for Holy War

Peace is up with Kilwa and Hormuz

9 May – My army boards, I head south to the Mozambique Channel

25 May – We arrive.

I DOW Kilwa for Lindi! This is the 10th war against the once regional powerhouse and hegemon.

Hormuz joins

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Five - The 10th Algiers/Kilwa War

I order 1 31k army into it since it’s a minor and Mukha’s 31k to Hormuz, and 31k from Tajura to join it

I order 33k in the far northern tip of Madagascar called Antankara

1 June – Relations maxed with Muscovy dip recalled

11 June - We win a major battle in the Channel and captured 14 ships

7 July – Lindi is ours

3 Aug – New Tech!

DIP TECH 27 – Public Punishment - +.50 naval morale, more expensive ship upkeeps

21 Aug – Antankara falls, I order another 31k here, I’ll hold off until they arrive

1 Sept – Wadi Halfa converts!

7 Oct – Minor in Hormoz falls!

11 Oct – Conversion in Kikuyu

19 Oct – Combined army arrives I order another 31k to Antankara where my two armies head south

25 Oct- Plague- I spend more than 1600 to help them out

30 Nov – Another two Hormuz minors fall, next is the Capital

5 Dec – Madagascar minor falls

29 Jan, 1737 – Two minors fall in Hormuz and Kilwa

1 Feb – Beja converts

8 Feb – A minor Hormuz army besieging Mukha, I order a 31k army from Beja over

3 Mar – The capital of Hormuz called Liwa falls, I order these troops back home

I have a warscore of 52%

6 April – Two Kilwa minors fall

28 May – Two more fall

I order 2 armies to their captial of Antemoro

29 July – We win the Battle of Mukha against Hormuz

1 Aug – Minor falls

17 Aug – Antemoro falls, I have a warscore 85%

What can I get?

Mainland:

Lindi – Mainland, Wartarget – Coastal, surrounded by us – 4 score, 6 badboy,

Madagascar:

Antankara - Northern point, 5 score and 3 badboy

Iboina – South of Antankara, costal – 7 warscore and 5 badboy

Tsimihety – Internal, east of Iboina – 5 warscore and 3 badboy

Maroantsetra – Coatal, east of Tsimihety and south of Antankara – 5 warscore, 3 badboy

Besalampy – East coast, south of Iboina, 6 warscore and 5 babdoy

Merina – Internal,east of Besalampy, south of Tsimhety – 8 and 7 respectively

Vatomandry – West coast, south of Maraantsetra, west of Merina – 11 warscore and 10 bad boy

Peace time commences:

https://i.ibb.co/mSPDY4W/20230310181011-1.jpg

55 score and 44.1 badboy

I do peace and spend coring 155 ADM power

Mainland:

Lindi – Mainland, Wartarget – Coastal, surrounded by us – Tropical Coastline, 8 dev, Fish, Swahili culture, Sunni faith, that’s the last Swahili accepted culture out there, Grand Shipyard makes 0.04

Madagascar:

Antankara - Northern point, - Tropical Jungle, Slaves, 4 dev, Malagasy Fetishists, Con Center and Grand Shipyard, 0.09 made here

Iboina – South of Antankara, east coastal – Tropical Savannah, Slaves here too, Malagasy and Fetishist too, Drydock, Shipyard, 8 dev makes 0.23

Tsimihety – Internal, east of Iboina – Trade Station for Slaves, Con Center, Hills and Tropical, 0.27 and 4 dev, Malagasy and Fetishist

Maroantsetra – Coastal, east of Tsimihety and south of Antankara – Slaves here too, Con Center and Grand Shipyard, Malagasy and Fetishists, Jungle and Tropical, 0.10 from 5 dev

Besalampy – East coast, south of Iboina, - Poor Fish, Tropical Savannah, Malagasy Fetishists, 0.17, 7 dev and Grand Shipyard

Merina – Internal, east of Besalampy, south of Tsimhety – Farm Estate for Grain, Con Center, Counting House, 0.71 from 13 dev, Malagasy Fetishists

Vatomandry – West coast, south of Maraantsetra, west of Merina – Natural Harbor, 0.34 made here, 15 dev, Tropical Jungle, Malagasy Sunni this time, Con Center, Drydock and Grand Shipyard, Slaves

Most are minor. Low dev ad minor trade goods, this wasn’t exactly a haul.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Five - Money Check

17 Aug – I order:

2 31k armies to remain on Madagascar and two to head back home
1 31k army to reman in Lindi

I order built:

2 Manufactories

20 Counting Houses

10 Great Mosques

Leaving me 7261 for emergencies

Note my manpower of 107k

Peace in 11 years in 48

1 Sept – Four swapped to Tropical Wood and one Livestock – nice upgrades!

4 Oct – I send my extra diplomat to make nice with Scandinavia

Korea is gone

I send Missionaries:

Bagirmi – 18 months
Kotoko – 23 months

1 Nov – 5k rebellion in Tetuoan

1 Jan, 1738 – Wanna see how much I am making?

https://i.ibb.co/R2GrYN9/20230310184103-1.jpg

I am making almost 700 month in net after expenditures. Nasty!

As you can see my military maint is 271.43.

With 10k I order: another 31k army in Egypt, and spend 31k manpower

11 Counting Houses
13 Great Mosques

4931 left

6 Feb – Event – Chocolate Imports – I have two options normally, but my Sugar trade boost gives me a third and my prestige raises 10

1 Mar – Our armies are in the mainland and we spend 440 to upgrade 22 Naval Ships

20 Mar - Revolutionary France has formed and are at war with Europe

15 Sept – Event – Hasan and the Tunisian People – This is another heir gets along with our Tunisian culture advisor and tours and such. I can turn him Tunisian, lose revolt risk in Tunisian provinces and then gain -25% claim strength and remember how last time we did that we had a big rebellion? The other option is to retire my ADM Advisor and lose 50 ADM power. My advisor is a level 3 Philosopher that I just hired since he was level 3. I choose to spend 50 and retire my Advisor

Our new one is a level 3 Natural Scientist that gives +10% production. Nasty!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Six - A New Alliance to the North

2 Jan, 1739 – With 12k I order:

5 Counting Houses
30 Great Mosque

Now I have 4934

8 Jan – I replace a dead general

Order my fleet to protect Zanzibar’s trade

3 Feb – Relations max with Scandinavia, next is making nice with Yan

20 Feb – Great news, Lindi is a core!

17 month Conversion ordered there

I begin to build a spy network with Kilwa

1 Apr – With 30k built of 31, my military maint rose to 283.46

I order another 31k in the Lake Victoria region

6 April – Conversion in Bagirimi!

26 Jul – Event – Local Traders- I send them 100

6 Aug – Kotoko converts – the last Somalian holding is Ibadi!

12 Sep - - I spend 50 DIP To invite minorities

15 Sept – Event – Maroantsetra converts to Ibadi!

20 Nov - Cores finished in Madagascar!

No states are made from this low stuff

Missionaries:

Tsimihety – 16 months
Besalampy – 17 months
Iboina – 17 months
Merina - 19 months

I hand a Majils Seat to Gold Kaffa

8 Dec – Event – Tariffs on Coffee – I do it

2 Jan, 1740 – 13k I order:

20 Great Mosques
4 Counting Houses
2 Con Center

Trading Post Upgrade:

Srikakulam – India – 0.67 made here. I order these upgrades:

Company Depot
Algerian District
Broker’s Exchange
Permanent Quarters
Officer’s Mess - +5k forcelimt

Now I am making: 1.36

My cash is down to 5306

1 Mar – 14k rebellion in Madagascar’s Vatomandry where my army is camped

10 Mar – Defeated!

20 Mar – Lindi converts! Next is 33 months in Vatomandry

29 Mar – Event – Rains Fail in Angola

25 April – Great news! I get an alliance offer from Muscovy! Do I take it? I could use a permanent ally in Siberia and Central Asia, and that’s the biggest. But it would pull me into wars I don’t care for. I do it, I could really use some Siberian assurance

1 Jun – I recall my Delhi diplomat

1 July – My Lake Victoria army is almost assembled at 30k and my land maint is now 287.51

I order a Fortress in Tana.

I order 31k in West Africa

18 Aug – Event – Another local traders need stuff, another 100 sent

2 Oct – Relations maxed with Yan, I pull.

I can get a new Age of Revolutions ability:

Anti-Revolutionary Zeal – Subjects liberty desire from development -33%

1 Dec – Our 5 year peace treaty after Malacca broke the alliance is over, we can DOW each other

Rebellion in Iboina of 14k troops, next door are 31k

31 Dec – Rebellion ended in Iboina!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Seven - Now Craven

1 Jan, 1741 – 13k, I order:

3 Counting Houses
7 Soldier’s Households in Kongo region; 4 in West Africa
6 Con Center

5563 left

I order my 36k from Bengkulu to the Malay Peninsula

I order 31k from Madagascar to Malindi

I order 31k from Lindi to the border with Somalia

30 Mar -Tsimihaty converts! There is no where else to send this Missionary

25 April – Also a conversion in Besalampy – I order Soldier’s Household here

15 May - Our Shalaf’i Scholar finishes after 20 years, I bring in another

I order my other Madagascar army to the southern Somalia border at Taveta

1 June – Another conversion, this time Iboina, I order Soldier’s Households here after raising their dev from 8 to 10.

25 June – Merina also converts. I destroy the Farm Estate for Soldier’s Households here as well

10 Aug- I have 29k built of 31k in West Africa and my new military maintenance is 301.54

1 Sept – Uh oh. Our ruler gained the “Craven” trait…

4 Oct – New Tech!!!

MIL TECH 27 – Bayonet – We get +0.5 infantry fire

18 Oct – I send my fleet to the Red Sea’s Bab el Mandeb

1 Nov – Event - I grant Lamu a Majils Seat after they want one.

1 Dec – We claim Kilwa’s captial of Antemoro

1 Jan, 1742 – This year our peace is up with Somalia, which is a big thing, so I don’t order anything. It’s not until October

28 April – Event – The Skills of the Consort – We get -10% Dip Tech advancement for a massive 20 years

1 Oct – Our truce is up!

Somalia is still allied with Aden, Mahra and Kedah

Somalia – 172k
Aden – 80k

I have 240k on the northern and southern flank

I hire these mercs on West Africa so I can bring them in:

Independent Army – 45k, 1.20k now, 32.67 monthly
Grand Company – 30k, 838 now and monthly is 22.71
Sahel Company – 30k, Will be here on November 30,

I DOW Somalia for their minor Northern Grain 6 dev province called Hamasien

I call in Bengal since they are in the Andamans and then allied in the Malay Peninsula

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Eight - The 3rd Algiers/Somalia War


1 Oct – My army in Malaysia is now an exiled army and I have to send it back, that’ll slow me down

I order:

Northern Flank:

31k to Hamasien
62k to Enderta
155k to the Fortress of Mendefera

Southern Flank:

4 armies to internal minor Ewaso Ngiro
4 more to the coastal minor of Kismayo

10 Oct – We win in Bab el Mandeb

4 Nov – Three minors fall

8 Nov – Another falls

17 Dec – Vatomandry converts!

1 Jan, 1743 – We capture a minor in the southern flank, next is the Fortress of Merca

19 Feb – Mendefera falls

Next is the Fortress of Gonder

Now that my mercs have had a few months to build up, I order to the minor of Yao with 14k

6 Mar - Bengal is besieging Kedah’s capital

23 Mar – We win in Yao

2 April – Aden begins to siege Mukha with 48k

12 April – Yao falls, next is the Fortress of Wadai

10 May – Somalia has 22k sieging Tajura

20 May - 60k begin a siege of Kaffa

29 May – Merca falls, next is the captial Mogadishu next door

10 June – I lose a battle in Sumatra in the Indies to Kedah

I hire 15k mercs in Bengkulu to help out

16 July – Mogadishu falls!

As does Gonder!

I move my northern army to relieve the siege of Tajura on the way to Mukha

I order my southern army to Kaffa

Actually I cannot get there without going the long way, so I send them to the nearby Fortress of El Buur

I send my northern army to Kaffa instead

1 Sep t- We get the Trading in Coffee trade leader

15 Sept – Wadai in West Africa falls, we move east to the Fortress of Tegali

26 Sept – We win in Sumatra with the combined army and mercs. I order us to Kedah

Looks like Bengal has captured the capital of Kedah for us

We have a warscore of 40

13 Oct – We win in Kaffa with my northern army, 31k survive, I head to the Fortress of Shewa since the other sieges stopped

20 Oct – A minor 25k army is taking a minor in our northern captured, stuff, I send two armies over to take him out

18 Nov – They recapture a minor

20 Dec – Two minors fall

1 Feb, 1744 – El Buur Falls! Next on the southern flank is the Fortress of Degehebur

I have a warscore of 50

14 April – Pattani in Malay Peninsula is ours!

I have a warscore of 57% and my manpower is exhausted, so I need to do peace soon

I disband the 15k in the Indies and order my 36k back to Bengkulu

I need to do peace now. Tegali is at 42% so I could stay in until it falls, but let’s see what my 57% can net me:

What I really want to do is connect East Africa with Egypt on the east side, rather than going around Kongo. It’s 7 to do it, can I get them all in our warscore without annoying anyone not named Kilwa and Somalia?

North Somalia:

Welayta – East of Kaffa – 6 warscore, 5 badboy

Sidamo – East of Welayta – 6 each

Dawaro – East and north of Sidamo – 5 warscore, 4 badboy

Afder – South of Dawaro – 6 warscore, 4 badboy

Southern Somalia:

Gedo – South of Afder – 7 each again

Dawa – West of Gedo – Just a 6 warscore but 9 badboy

Ewaso Ngiro – West of Dawa – 8 score, 9 badboy

That leaves me 44 score and 42.7 to connect them. What else can I get?

Kismayo – Coastal, east of Ewaso Ngiro – 13 score, 18 badboy

That’s a nice addition.

Ready?

https://i.ibb.co/HHG5XKj/20230310225329-1.jpg

57 warscore and then 60 even badboy

I do it and spend ADM equal to 234 coring these 8 new additions

North Somalia:

Welayta – East of Kaffa – Sidamo people, Coptic faith, Highlands, Plantation for Coffee and Counting House, makes a nice 1.18 with 8 dev

Sidamo – East of Welayta – Plantation for Coffee here too, Counting House, 1.20 made from 9 dev, Highlands, Oromo Fetishist

Dawaro – East and north of Sidamo – Mountains, Grain, Farm Estate, Workshop, Oromo Fetishist, 6 dev, makes 0.48

Afder – South of Dawaro – Arid and Highlands, Oromo and Fetishist, Livestock, Farm Estate, Mosque, 0.71, 7 dev

Southern Somalia:

Gedo – South of Afder – 10 dev, 0.55, Oromo Fetishist, Arid Highlands, Grain, Farm Estate, Mosque, Con Center

Dawa – West of Gedo – Makes 1.15, Wool, Desert, Arid, Somali, Sunni, 9 dev, Textile Manufactory, Counting House

Ewaso Ngiro – West of Dawa – Arid Desert, 1.74 made here, 13 dev, Sunni Somalis, Wool, Textile Manufactory, Con Center, Counting House,

Kismayo – Coastal, east of Ewaso Ngiro – A big 23 dev with Farmlands, just Fish, has Naval Equipment Manufactory, Con Center, Great Mosque, Grand Shipyard, University, Counting House, Sunni and Somali, makes a massive 2.08 monthly already.

Not great devs, or Deserts, and trade goods in places, but built up with Manufacturers everywhere and good cash as a result!

Our first war was military where I took the strait to Arabia, Mukha, and bisected them. The 2nd war was economic for gold, Ivory, and more. They had 198k last war and 172k this one. This war was for military as well connecting my nation and then a high dev throw in in Kismayo

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Nine - A Quick Interlude

14 April – I don’t order anything new.

This peace ends in 11 years in 1755

I order:

Southern armies to Dawa and Kismayo and the rest to south
I order one army back to Madagascar

I disband the three mercs

I order my three Western armies west

On the northern flank, I order armies to Sidamo and Afder

13 May – The Commonwealth announces us as rival.

1 June – Our 3 star DIP advisor Naval Reformer passes, I hire a level 3 Trader

10 July - I send my extra diplomat to make nice with

11 Nov, 1744 – The 300 Year Review!!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Maps!

Let’s start with North Africa:

https://i.ibb.co/QPkGL4r/20230310232510-1.jpg

We are now connected and have three wars against Somalia in the last 50 years. Nice! You can still see Spain in Morocco and France in that one colony.

South Africa:

https://i.ibb.co/vPRwmHr/20230310232735-1.jpg

Check this out! Kilwa has been removed from Africa and only two Spanish colonies and one French keep us from dominating the entire region

South America:

https://i.ibb.co/B3ddFcn/20230310232924-1.jpg

Our first major colonial region was Brazil and then La Plata, check out them both. Only colonies are left. Remember that Spain is now both it and Portugal, so it’s all of that stuff.

North America:

https://i.ibb.co/xqK9Pwp/20230310233148-1.jpg


Here’s where our Alaskan colony was next! Most here is unexplored.

Indies:

https://i.ibb.co/92KnSYT/20230310233322-1.jpg

Our other big colonial empire is this big region under a lot of our control.

Siberia and Asia:

https://i.ibb.co/353RBJH/20230310233455-1.jpg


Another big regional colony is Siberia.

How about Europe that I don’t care about?

https://i.ibb.co/cxLKNh0/20230310233611-1.jpg


Here you go!

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:

Military:

Army – 604k strong, 779k forcelimit – good enough for 5th most after Spain at a massive 1.20 mill

Navy – 312 out of 395 forcelimit:

79 Heavies
110 Lights
27 Galleys
96 Transports

Total – 312 3rd biggest after Turks at 413

Max Manpower – 375k – 2nd best after Spain’s 501k

Techs – 27/27/27 – 81 total, Tied for the most

Ideas – 49, tied for the most

Development – 3818, the most by far, Turks 2nd with 2967

Cash – 1603.13 – the most, 2nd best is Spain at 1064

There are 13 Empires

Ibadi – 544 provinces, 2nd most after Catholic at 775

I have 479 provinces

Charts:

Religion:

Ibadi – 98.1%
Coptic – 1%
Fetishist – 1%


Cultures of at least 3%:

Algerian – 18.9%
Berber – 4.0
Bornean - 6.5
Kanuri – 3.5
Kongolese- 2.9
Swahili – 9.4
Egyptian - 4.7
Moroccan – 4.2
Tunisian - 4.1

Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Value:

1. Sevilla, 292.19
2. English Channel
3. Caribbean
4. Malacca
5. Constantinople
6. Lubeck
7. Bengal
8. Persia
9. Venice
10. Aden, 112.70

Ours:

Zanzibar – 101.64
Brazil – 83.28
La Plata – 51.25
Cape – 46.38
Timbuktu – 40.53
Alexandria – 38.04
Zambezi - 32.38
Tunis – 31.61
Katsina – 29.27
Siberia – 24.74
Congo – 23.45
Safi – 23.06
Great Lakes – 22.64


Trade Goods by Current Price:

10.0 - Coal
8.0 - Cloves
5.40 – Cocoa
5.25 - Sugar
5.0 – Dyes, Silk
4.95 – Cotton
4.72 – Paper
4.5 – Spices, Tobacco, Iron
4.05 – Cloth
4.0 – Ivory
3.50 – Fur
3.45 – Glass, Copper
3.40 – Livestock
3.30 – Salt, Coffee
3.12 – Wine
3.0 – Gems, Naval Supplies, Tropical Wood, Tea, Chinaware, Incense,
2.2 – Slaves
2.0 – Grain, Fish

Yay!

We are the Production Leader in:

Cloves – 100%
Gems – 22%
Livestock – 14.8
Tropical Wood – 28.6
Dyes – 25%
Spices – 32.4
Ivory – 73.8
Iron – 17.5


We are the Trade Leader in:

Sugar
Coffee
Slaves
Ivory

Our Top 15 Provinces by Taxes:

1. Qahirah, 42.08
2. Malindi, 39.45
3. Tunis, 39.45
4. Abomey, 34.50
5. Gao, 28.93
6. Kano, 27.60
7. Cape, 26.30
8. Timbuktu, 26.30
9. Mitija, 26.30
10. Pate, 24.61
11. Sambaliung, 23.67
12. Oran, 23.30
13. Jenne, 23.10
14. Mpemba, 21.10
15. Al Gharbiyah, 20.87


Our Top 15 by Any Production:

1. Kilwa, 138.04, Gold
2. Bambuk, 136.80, Gold
3. Sofala, 121.60, Gold
4. Pontianak, 118.80, Gold
5. Bure, 106.40, Gold
6. Tidore, Ternate, Ambon – 99.77, Cloves
9. Sambaliung, 92.86, Coal
10. Butua, Zimbabwe, 91.20, Gold
12. Malindi, 84.22, Iron
13. Ceram, Buru, 79.81, Cloves
15. Massappa, 76 Gold


Our Top 15 by Non-Gold, Coal, Cloves Production:

1. Malindi, 84.22, Iron
2. Tunis, 71.20, Cloth
3. Pate, 70.53, Cloth
4. Sulu, 68.07, Gems
5. Jenne, 66.11, Cloth
6. Qahirah, 65.81, Cloth
7. Zamboanga, 60.71, Spices
8. Mombasa, 59.11, Ivory
9. Kano, 58.08, Dyes
10. Kalonga, 55.57, Iron
11. Mozambique, 54.99, Ivory
12. Minya, 54.72, Sugar
13. Timbuktu, 54.68, Cloth
14. Cape, 53.29, Livestock
15. Sus. 52.69, Sugar


No coalitions against me!

Great Powers:

1. Spain
2. Algeria, Ibadi
3. Ottomans, Sunni
4. Commonwealth
5. France
6. Bengal, Sunni
7. Deccan, Shia
8. Austria

Nice! Still four Muslim nations.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred - Purchasing Ningyuan

11 Nov, 1744 – As you’ll note I have an infinite amount of cash at 32k!

I order whatever I want, I won’t be able to spend down everything.

I want Fortresses in the Indies next to Malacca:

Paser – Borneo, destroyed Shipyard
Sampit – Borneo, raised dev from 8 to 10
Mamuju – Sulawesi, had an extra slot

Also Philippines next to Spain there:

Buglas
Zamboanga
Caraga

I state;

Visayas – Philippines – 3 of 5 – Sugar in Buglas; Tropical Wood in Leyte; Incense in Samar

That’s all about Buglas

I order a Fortress in:

Kilwa

Malacca is winning a war against Dai Viet

Can I purchase a Chinese Trading Post?

Wu is at war with Dai Viet as well so nope

I send a diplomat to make nice with Wu and hopefully post war we can afford a Trading Post of a nice trade good.

I order:

24 Stock Exchanges upgrades, the upgraded Marketplace
1 Soldier’s Household

That drops me to 20k

I’ll hold the rest until post Wu war for purchasing a Trading Post.

1 Dec – Our Majils policy of Trade Restriction reduction finishes, next is Emergency Impressment Act to gain 50k Sailors

1 Jan, 1745 – I order nothing

19 Jan – Event Decline of Army Quality - I choose to fight it and lose -10% manpower but gain 5% morale for ten years

22 Jan – Event – Desires of the Flesh – Consort and Advisor in an cheating relationship. I choose to keep it quiet and lose 10 prestige

1 Feb – I claim Kilwa’s Antsalova

8 Mar – Wu at peace. I need to get positive relations from them

Wu are now a Great Power and I cannot Influence Nation them as my great power

I’ll just keep my diplomat here and hope the slow path works

What about north of Korea in Yan who are friendly with me and a tributary of Japan and allied with no one? Their capital is a wealthy Coal holding, so I cannot do that. Their best coastal is Naval Supplies, they have a bunch of cheap Fish and Grain elsewhere. But they are next to Wu and I don’t want the minus from neighbor with a different relation before I buy a wealthy thing in the south.

Let’s do Grain next to their capital for just 2588:

https://i.ibb.co/FnB3R9g/20230311082810-1.jpg

I do it!

Ningyuan – Confucian faith, Zhili people, Two away from Beijing, surrounded by Yan and south of Muscovy in Josutu, Grain, 14 dev, Grasslands, making us 0.65, Farm Estate, Regimental Camp and Shipyard, with an open space,

I order a Fortress here

1 April – Many mercs are now available

21 May – My diplomat returns and I Influence Nation Malacca, which will cost cash.

1 June – Our ADM hit its cap just a few months before tech #28, I spend a couple hundred to raise the dev of holdings here and there.

I order a Fortress on 10 Dev North Philippine’s Ifugao

I state:

Said – Egypt – 5 – Cotton in Manfalut, Grain in Girga, Livestock in Qus, Asfan, Isna

This was about Manfalut

I order a Plantation in Manfalut

I hand a Majils Seat to Coal Highveld

28 July – Malacca Dip back, I Influence Nation Yan

10 Oct- Yan back, I influence nation Persia

10 Nov - I influence nation Two Silicies

20 Nov – I keep my diplomat back

1 Dec – Rebellion in March of Tetuoan, which is Shia

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and One - Rotherham Plough

1 Jan, 1746 – With 18k I order:

3 Great Mosques
19 Grand Shipyard upgrades
5 Training Field Upgrades

Total left 13k

I order another 31k to Madagascar

26 Feb – Event – Rains Bring Fertility to Moluccas

5 Mar – Army in Madagascar, I order my navy to Protect Zanzibar’s Trade – right now I am making 117.10 before

1 April – Now 164.10

15 April – Somalia’s cores done in the three places I had claims:

Kismayo already in a State = the other two aren’t state-able yet.

Missionaries:

Kismayo - 19 months
Welayta – 27 months
Ewaso Ngiro – 33 months

New Tech!!

ADMIN TECH 28 – Rotherham Plough – We get +2% Production Efficiency

DIP Policy:

I still have my Colonial one from centuries ago, I repeal it and pass a new free one called:

Letters of Marque - +50% Privateer Efficiency, +5% Ship Durability

For the latter

1 May – Relations maxed with Wu! Can I buy something good in the South?

Nope they are charging too much. Maybe later!

9 July – I send the Wu diplomat to make nice with Bengal

17 July – The other 5 Somalian Cores are done:

I state:

Hadiya – 2 of 3 – Coffee in Welata and Sidamo

Jubba – 2 of 3 – Wool in Dawa and Ewaso Ngiro

Missionaries:

Dawaro – 17 months
Afder – 17 months

I hand a Majils Seat to Coal’s Verkhoyansk

6 Aug – Event – High Imam’s Reputation Hurt – We lose a stability

6 Sep – Ottomans DOW Austria

14 Nov - Event – Foreign Wisdom I choose to gain 50 MIL rather than hire a new MIL Advisor

1 Dec – Our manpower is recovering again!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Two - Preparing for the Final Kilwa War

7 Jan, 1447 – With 24k I’ll order Fortresses in my new grabs after I finish Missionaries to my new Somalian holdings.

1 Great Mosque

Universities in all of my Gold, Coal, Clove holdings to later build up development later at -20% dev cost, and they are free – I also build them in places like Tunis and Timbuktu

15k

11 Mar - I order 31k to Madagascar

24 April – Kilwa discovered my spy network

13 June – They arrive, I order another 31k here

22 June – Event – The Families Left Behind again, I reduce taxes

1 July – Kismayo converts! Next is 14 months in Sidamo

What can I build here in my highest dev capture close to multiple Somalia holdings? I destroy the Grand Shipyard to build a Fortress.

8 Oct – Army in Madagascar, next is my navy next to Kilwa’s captial of Antemoro in the Coast of Tamotove

1 Nov - Conversion in Antsalova in Madagascar to Ibadi from our trading post

16 Dec – Welayta converts to Ibadi and next is a 19 month campaign in Dawa

Anything to build here? Nope, it’s not valuable like the other Fortresses, and just south of a couple of minors

1 Jan, 1748 – This year in March our peace with Kilwa and Hormuz is up.

I have 4 armies in Madagascar, one in Mukha and another next door in Tajura

I have 52k manpower and hopefully that will build up over time just like the 9th war against Kilwa since we really don’t have any defensive formations here.

Kilwa – 29k – so I’ll combine my two armies here into two 62k ones
Hormuz – 31k

I also order 2 31karmies to north Egypt near the border with Ottomans in case they besiege it

10 Jan - Event – Al-Hasan Kalkal – I get +1 stability from bringing him in and -10% Adm tech costs for 10 years

24 Jan – Dawaro converts! Next is Gedo for 11 months – anything to build here? Yeah this is next to 4 Somalia holdings and in easy to defend Mountains – I order a Fortress here too

4 Feb – Afder is the next to convert! It’s next to just one minor I don’t order anything here.

18 Feb – Ewaso Ngiro also converts! Anything here? Nope it’s surrounded by us

1 Mar - I can purchase a new Age of Revolutions Ability! I choose:

Unrestricted Conquest – Ignore borders for claims and cores

Our peace ends with Kilwa and Hormuz

I DOW Kilwa for the Ibadi Madagascar holding of Antsalova next to us. The 11th war. Will this be the last one?

Hormuz joins

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Three - The 11th Algiers/Kilwa War


I order:

62k to Antsalova
62k to their captial of Antemoro

11 April – Antsalova falls - I head south

31 May – One minor and Antemoro are ours, I head my Antomoro army to where 29k are in Antanosy

16 June – We win a naval battle in the Cost

5 July – We win the Battle of Antanosy and gained 8 warscore – we routed their army

14 July – Two minors fall

1 Aug – Antanosy is ours, their fleet flees

10 Aug – We win and capture 3 ships their fleet is destroyed

I have a 46% warscore

I order my fleet to Arabia’s Gulf of Masirah

15 Aug – Sidamo converts! South of just one, I don’t order a Fortress here

3 Sept – Every Kilwan holding is ours

5 Sept – Wusta in Hormuz falls, next is another minor

19 Sept – Another Hormuz minor falls, next is another minor

7 Nov- Event – Missionaries arrive in Srikakalum and it becomes Ibadi but gains +10% revoltrisk for a massive 20 years

A minor Hormuz falls, they have 27k in their capital of Liwa so I order this army to combine with the other for taking it out

17 Nov -Hormuz minor falls

20 Nov – We win in the Gulf and capture 2 ships

19 Dec – We win the Battle of Liwa and they have 12k survive – I begin the siege

I have an 84%, can I get the good stuff over at Madagascar?

I want their high dev capital, and then what ever else I can snag

All of Madagascar would be 74 warscore, but they won’t do it yet since Hormuz is still in this thing.

White peace with Hormuz pulls them out of the war. Again I don’t wanna grab land to make a big impression for Turks although they do have some nice things.

Now I have a 100% warscore with Kilwa so we can go the rest of Madagascar but I have to wait for my dip to return

1 Jan, 1749 – We get the trading bonus for Tropical Wood - -5% Dev costs

16 Jan – Gedo converts! It’s next to 4 Somalia holdings and needs a Fortress but it’s 10 dev and three things, so I destroy the Great Mosque to build one

27 Jan – Our DIP is back:

Peace?

https://i.ibb.co/6PZcPnB/20230311103937-1.jpg

74 warscore, 100 DIP, just 15 badboy. I do it and spend 188 ADM power

Ready?

All are Malagasy culture and Slaves and Tropical unless otherwise noted.

I’ll start at my wartarget and go left to right and then back to left to right

Antsalova – Wartarget, West Coast, South of Besalampy, west of Merina – Tropical Savannah, Con Center and Grand Shipyard, 7 dev, 0.16, Ibadi

Menabe – South of Antsalova, West Coast, Arid Savannah, 17 dev, Natural Harbor, Stock Exchange, Training Fields, Grand Shipyard, 0.34, Fetishist

Betsileo – Internal, east of Menabe, west of Antemaro, south of Merina – Ibadi, Highlands, 7 dev, Trade Station and Con Center, making us 0.28

Antemaro – Former Capital, East Coast, east of Betsileo, south of us in Vatomandry – the big addition - massive 26 dev, Jungle, Con Center, Stock Exchange, Grand Shipyard, Training Fields, Sunni faith, 0.52 made here

Fiherana – West Coast, south of Menabe – Arid Savannah, Fetishist, Fish, Grand Shipyard, 0.24 from 9 dev

Bara – Internal -East of Fiherana, south of Betsileo, west of Antemaro – Highlands, Fetishists, Farm Estate for Grain, Con Center, 6 dev, 0.39

Mahafaly – Southwest coast – South of Bara and Fiherana – Arid Savannah, 9 dev, Ibadi faith, Con Center and Grand Shipyard, 0.24

Antanosy – Southeast coast – east of Mahafaly, south of Antemaro – 9 dev, Highlands, Shia faith, Con Center, Grand Shipyard, 0.23

We ended Kilwa in 11 wars, but this is pretty poor, hopefully after they turn from Slaves they’ll get something better as this is all Grain and Fish and Slaves. We have Sunni, Shia and Ibadi here by the by.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Four - Joint Stock Companies

27 Jan – I order my two armies in Hormuz to Mukha and Tajura, my 2 armies from North Egypt back to their spots.

On Madagascar I order one army to remain in Bara and my fleet back to Madagascar where they can ferry the rest over to Africa, two are ordered over now

I have 83k manpower after almost a full year and then a full war in Arabia and Madagascar

I order:

4 Stock Exchanges
1 Drydock

Universities in 7 Dye and 22 Iron provinces since they are a free building

I have 24k left in cash

12 Feb – Slavery gone in Madagascar

I got 1 Grain, 1 Ivory, 2 Tropical Wood, 1 Livestock and 1 Wool, all better save for Grain

Who got Ivory? Antsalova. The big dev one got Wood which is better than the 2.2 Slaves at 3.0.

15 Mar – I send my spy network building diplomat from Kilwa to Malacca to make nice

1 April – We lose the Slave Trading bonus

1 June – I lose my claims on a lot of stuff. I spend 50 MIL power for Holy War to get them back.

3 June – One army arrives in Africa, I order the 3rd over

11 June – Dawa converts – that’s the last one from the 3rd Somalian War! Anything to build here? Great Mosque

17 June – One of my generals passes, I promote another

With 94k manpower, I order a 31k army in West Africa

My mil main is 294.26 and I am making 856.40 monthly

1 Sept – With a +192 with Bengal even though I have more space, I pull my diplomat back

4 Sept – All armies are back to Africa save for 1

18 Sept – Our admiral passes, I hire another

I leave my navy here to heal up

26 Oct – I send my Bengal dip to make nice with Hormuz

1 Jan, 1750 – New Tech!!!

DIP TECH 28 – Joint Stock Companies - +2% Trade Efficiency, +20 trade range

I have 33k.

I order:

Universities in every Ivory province which is 46 holdings!

I have 20k left

1 Mar – We passed the Emergency Impressment Act and gained 51k Sailors!

Zanzibar trade is at 151.8 I order my fleet to protect trade there

1 April – Looks like no major bumps

9 April – Event – Menabe converts to Ibadi before it’s core is done

1 July – Our level 3 MIL Advisor the Army Reformer lady passes. Next? Let’s hire a Level 3 Army Organizer with a +10% land forcelimits

10 Aug – Event – Harvest Failure in Touggcourt Region

25 Aug – Event – Coffee Imports – I do it

1 Sept - I have 30k done of 31k and now my maintenance is 318.79

9 Nov- Event – There Should be a Stable Government - I lose 10 prestige rather than 100 ADM power

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Five - Curassier

1 Jan, 1751 – Our Natural Scientist level 3 ADM advisor passes, I hire a level 3 Treasurer who gives us +10% tax

I am making 11/8/8 – you can promote an Advisor to the next level by spending cash, and we have three level 3s. That cash is between 550 and 1k for each of them. Right now I am spending 25.66 on Advisor upkeep. I raise them all to level 4. I am now making 12/9/9. They are now 71.99 upkeep

I have 25k after those raises. What now? I order:

Universities in all Cloth which is 11, then all Paper (2) and Glass (1)

21k left

28 Jan – Cores done in two that I had claims on!

I cannot state the good one yet, this will be a while!

Missionaries:

Antemoro – 52 months

1 Mar – With a +48 I pull my Malacca dip after relations maxed

30 April – Rest of cores are done!

I state:

Southern Madagascar – 4 – Tropical Wood in Antemoro, Grain in Bara, Livestock in Antanosy and Wool in Mahafaly.

I hand a Majils Seat to Antemoro

Missionaries:

Bara – 17 months
Antanosy – 27 months

I cannot send to Fiherana since they are being converted next to my propagate religion in Zanzibar

9 May – I send my Malacca merchant to Influence Nation Hormuz

12 June – It’s back, I send to make nice with Venice

1 Oct – Treasurer we just hired and promoted died. I hire a level 2 Artist that drops my cost to increase my stability and spend 395 levelling to and 889 to level 4

9 Oct – I have 178k manpower, I spend 31k to hire another 31k on the West Africa front

1 Nov – With a +54, relations maxed with Hormuz I pull my diplomat

7 Dec – I sent it to Influence Nation England and spend 4431 cash to do so

19 Dec – Event - Tariffs on Wool- I tax them

11 Jan, 1752 – I send my diplomat to make nice with England. I have 24k now

I order Universities in every Spice holding which should be a lot. It’s 30. 16kleft

18 March - Bara converts! Anything to build here? I destroy the Farm Estate and order Soldier’s Households

23 June – Fiherana converts! Anything here? It’s Fish with an open slot, I order Households here too

14 Aug – Event – Architectural Development – I spend 6500 cash to gain 200 in each power

New Tech!

MIL TECH 28 - Curassier- I get Durrani Cavalry, and +0.50 infantry shock and +25% maneuver

I upgrade my forces

This is the last cavalry upgrade possible
18 Oct- A general passes but I don’t have the MIL to hire another

21 Oct – Conversion in Antanosy – anything here to build? I spend 32 ADM to raise it from 9 to 10 and then a Soldier’s Household with this Livestock

1 Nov – With a 45, relations maxed with Venice, I pull

10 Nov – Influence Nation on Venice costs 3120, I do it

21 Nov - Sent to make nice with Austria

20 Dec – 30k of 31k done in West Africa, maintenance is now 338.24

I have 665k of a forcelimit of 885k so plenty of space to up my army more and more

I have 200k manpower and peace with Somalia rises in 2 years and 2 months, so we’ll be ready for War #4.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Six - Getting Ready for the Next Somalia War

1 Jan, 1753 - I have just 14k in cash, I order Universities for 13 Gems

Now I have 10k

25 Feb – Our Consort passes

Somalia currently has 183k and Aden 80k

1 April – With a +62, relations maxed with England, dip pulled

15 April – I influence nation Austria for around 2.2k

25 April - Sent to make nice with Bohemia

We converted the last Kilwa ever to Ibadi – Antemoro! Anything to order here? I destroy the Training Fields for a Mill for the Tropical Wood

1 Dec – With a 65, relations maxed with Austria, I order our diplomat recalled

12 Dec- Influence nation on Bohemia for 2177

24 Dec – Sent to make nice with Persia

1 Jan, 1754 – I have 15k, I just hire Universities for 6 Incense and 2 Cotton

I have 13k after

Peace with Hormuz is over

10 May – Our High Imam passes:

Our stability drops

Our new High Imam:

Hasan – 2/3/3, age 36

We are making 12/10/10

No Consort or Heir

I pass the denouncement of Sects and Practices to drop our revolt risk by 1

I need an heir soon. I offer RM to Bengal first – no Consort comes from it

I spend 130 ADM to get back to +3 stability

1 June – I send my navy to the Red Sea’s Bab el Mandeb again to stop crossing over

27 June – Event – I choose the best Sheikh

2 July – Dip back from Bengal, next I offer a RM for Persia again. Will we get a Consort?

Yup!

Khayr al-Nisa – 5/0/6 age 23

Nicely done Persia!

1 Aug – With a +65, relations maxed with Bohemia, I recall the Algerian diplomat and we won’t send it back out since I’ll keep two for emergencies in our war.

12 Sept – Navy arrives

12 Nov – Event – Shipwreck - I lose 50 DIP power to help out

1 Jan, 1755 – Peace with Somalia and allies next month

I hire for West Africa:

45k Independent Army
30k Grand Company
30k Sahel Company in Feb 25

22 Jan – Event – Gogo is now Sunni. Missionary will take 12 months to convert back to Ibadi

1 Feb – Peace up with Somalia and her allies. Any new allies I need to deal with?

Nope!

I DOW Somalia for the minor North flank Grain holding of Hamasien.

I call in Bengal, their three allies all join them

The 4th War Against Somalia has Begun

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Seven - The 4th Algiers/Somalia War


I order:

Indies – 36k from Bengkulu to Kedah’s capital

West Flank – Everyone to the minor of Yao

North:

1 into Hamasien
1 into Enderta
The rest into the Fortress of Mendefera

South:

4 into Barawa
4 into Bardera

5 Mar- three captured including wartarget, next on West Flank is the Fortress of Wadai

7 Mar - Another minor falls in the south, we are ordered to the Fortress of Merca

17 April – They arrive to siege us in Dawaro with 50k plus another two armies of 38k and 27k are in the area, after capturing Mendefera we’ll head over

1 June – Influence with Malacca expires I update it

16 June – We win the Battle of Perak in the Malay Peninsula

27 June – Merca falls in the south next is their capital of Mogadishu

38k are in Kaffa sieging us

18k are in As-Suways from Aden
 
22 July – They capture our minor of Welayta

1 Aug – We can get a new Age of Revolutions ability, we choose

Loyal Subjects - -25% Liberty Desire in same continent vassals

17 Aug – 32k Aden folks arrive at Sharqiya and are sieging us and 30k more are next door. We’ll have to head up north after capturing Mendefera

20 Aug -It falls and I order my northern flank to As-Suways

18 Sept – Wadai falls on the west flank, next is the Fortress of Tegali

23 Sept – Mogadishu falls, next is the Fortress of El Buur

1 Oct – With a +95 relations maxed with Persia, I pull my diplomat

1 Nov – I reup our influence over Persia

23 Nov – We win in As-Suways – next Sharqiya

30 Nov – On the West Flank we defeated 66k in Kobbe, no survivors

9 Dec – We win in Sharqiya, I had back to the Fortress of Gonder

They are recapturing northern flank stuff we grabbed

14 Dec – They retake a minor

1 Jan, 1756 - El Buur falls on the southern flank, next is the Fortress of Degehabur

11 Jan – 65k in Tajura sieging us, I order my northern army here first, and then to Gonder

5 Feb – Gogo is Ibadi again!

15 Feb – They pull outta Tajura

5 Mar – Pattani in the Malay Peninsula falls to Bengal, that’s a 45 warscore

I still have 42k manpower so we’ll keep pushing

5 April – We begin the siege at Gonder

6 May – The Fortress of Degehabur falls! Next is the Fortress of Shewa

48%

11 June – Gonder falls, warscore of 56%, no more manpower, we are at 64% in Tagali, wait? Or just go for it?

I wait for a week or two to see if I can grab it

19 June – Nope, it increased to 78%

I call it.

Somalia is happy for peace.

What can I get?

56% warscore

I do the best trade goods while also grabbing good territory:

North Somalia:

Hamasien – Wartarget, surrounded by me, their north most holding left – Just a 3 score, but a higher 4 badboy

Mendefera – South of Hamasien connects our Massawa to Beja- 6 warscore, 4 badboy

Aksum – Southwest of Mendefera, east of Beja – 6 each

Those thee are cheap Grain but I need to take the Fortress off the board

Enderta – East of Aksum, southeast of Mendefera – 4 warscore and 3 bb – Our first valuable grab

Ausa – South of Tajura and Assab, in that state – 7 warscore, 6 badboy

Angot – South of Assab, connects Enderta to Ausa – also in that state – 5 warscore and 4 badboy

Zeila – Coastal, east of Tajura, on Bab el Mandeb – 14 warscore and 18 badboy – that’s our high dev good addition

Mora – South of Zeila and Ausa and Tajura – 6 score and 5 bb

That’s 51 warscore and 50.3 badboy

What else can I get as a throw-in?

Degehebur – Connects Mora to Dawaro and cuts off the northern Somalia from the Horn of Africa. – 6 warscore, 4 badboy

They won’t add in 1 warscore for the Andamans

Here’s the pic:

https://i.ibb.co/d5YXJPX/20230311143559-1.jpg

All are great - 57 warscore and 55.0 badboy. I do peace for 147 ADM.

Here are my 4th war additions:

North Somalia:

Hamasien – Wartarget, surrounded by me, their north most holding left – Grain, Highlands, Arid, Farm Estate and Workshop, 6 dev, Tigray people, Coptic faith, makes 0.37

Mendefera – South of Hamasien connects our Massawa to Beja- Fortress, surrounded by us, Farm Estate for Grain, Arid Highlands, Tigray Coptic, 7 dev, 0.37

Aksum – Southwest of Mendefera, east of Beja – North of Somalia – Also Highlands, not Arid though, Also Tigray and Coptic, Also Grain with a Farm Estate and Workshop, 9 dev, 0.54 made here

Enderta – East of Aksum, southeast of Mendefera – Copper Mines, Arid Desert, 4 dev, Weapons Manufactory and Workshop, Tigray and Coptic, 0.68 made here

Ausa – South of Tajura and Assab, in that state – 10 dev, Arid Drylands, Fortress, Farm Estate for Livestock, Counting House, Con Center, Afar people, Sunni faith, making us a nice 1.55

Angot – South of Assab, connects Enderta to Ausa – also in that state – Also Arid Drylands, Also Farm Estate for Livestock and Con Center and Counting House, 5 dev, Afar Coptic, 0..20

Zeila – Coastal, east of Tajura, on Bab el Mandeb – Arid Coastal Desert, 24 dev, Incense, Natural Harbor, there is built here: Trade Station, Town Hall, Counting House, Stock Exchange, Grand Shipyard and Grand Mosque – great built up, makes us 2.10, they are Somali Sunni,

Mora – South of Zeila and Ausa and Tajura – 1.28 made here from 8 dev, Arid Desert, Coffee, Plantation, Con Center and Counting House, Harai and Sunni

Degehebur – Connects Mora to Dawaro and cuts off the northern Somalia from the Horn of Africa. – Throw in – Another Fortress – Farm Estate for Livestock, 7 dev, Otomo Fetishists, Arid Highlands, making us 0.72

That’s three more Fortresses we brought in, and another big military victory cutting off north Egypt from the Horn of Africa, 9 more nice additions.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Eight - Tea Imports

19 June - I disband my three merc armies

I order four West Armies to their flank

I order Egyptian armies to:

Zeila
Mendefera
Degehebur
Enderta

The rest to the flanks like Tajura

South Flank – Back to northern area

We didn’t fight any naval battles, so my navy is ordered to protect Zanzibar’s trade.

Peace in 11 years

13 Jul – I send my free diplomat to make nice with Japan

I have 16k I order Universities in every Sugar holding which is 12

Now I have 13k

23 July – I send my peace making diplomat to make nice with Transoxiana

1 Aug – Rebellion in Tetouan

12 Aug – A general dies, our next war is likely in 11 years so I don’t spend the MIL to hire another

19 Sept – Good-ish news, we have a new heir, Hasan, but he’s just 2/1/2

I don’t remove him from the line, our High Imam isn’t that young

14 Nov – Event – Freedom of the Press, we lose 1 innovativeness after I ban a printing

27 Nov – Our armies are all back, right now we need 66k to reinforce them and we gain 3913 monthly, so that should be pretty soon

1 Jan, 1757 – With 17k I order:

Universities in all Coffee for 10, Chinaware for 1, and Tea for 3

I have 13k left

23 Mar – Event – Tea Imports – I gain 1 mercantilism and 10 prestige when I talk up Coffee instead

[Abe Sargent]

Just as a heads up that I just finished the dynasty and we went womb to tomb once again! I'll fast post the rest here for you soon. I got up today around 4:30 am EST when I went to bed at 1:41 am and played from 4:30 am to 9:30 pm so I was in an EU4 mood today!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Nine - Giant Fire

1 Jan, 1758 – Fast year!

I have 23k I order Universities in all Copper holdings which is 15 18k left

18 Jan – Event - The Dip Approach of Khayr al-Nisa – we gain 50 DIP power

1 April – Manpower rebuilding again – that was fast

20 June - Since all 9 were claims, they are all cored today.

I state:

Ifat – 2 of 4 – Coffee in Mora; Incense in Zeila -

I hand a Majils Seat to Zeila

From 2.52 after core and state to 2.81

Missionaries:

Zeila – 14 months
Degehabur – 17 months
Enderta – 24 months
Angot – 25 months
Hamasien – 25 months too

1 Aug – Relations maxed with Japan and Transoxiana, both pulled

I influence nation Japan because I need to keep them out of Siberia – 4k

26 Oct – I send my two extra diplomats to make nice with Bali and Royal Marriage with Malacca

18 Nov – Event – University of Aldan – I choose to spend 10k to expand the University here and gain 3 innovativeness and ADM power

I am getting new the cap so I spend 200 to raise dev in places like Mitija and others.

30 Dec – I send our Malacca dip to make nice with Barus

2 Jan, 1759 – I order:

Universities in all Salt holdings – 21 total

Afterwards I have 8612 cash

Could my next war be Malacca? They have 238k, not 23.8k, so they are much bigger than Somalia, and we are based all over them on Sumatra Island with Bengkulu, on Borneo next to two of them, two on Sulawesi, their only ally is Berau. So we wouldn’t have to deal with that. Our navy is better too.

That would be hard because we have three flanks and then we’d need around 300k per flank to do it.

We’d also lose tons of manpower since we’d have to unload all of my 300k on Bengkulu over years since it’s out only holdings on the island.

1 Mar - I spend more ADM/DIP Power to raise dev of things in Mitija

14 May – With 58k manpower, I spend 31k in West Africa to make a 5th army on that flank – my mil maintenance is 339.77

18 May – A general passes

I order 14 more heavy ships in Southern Africa. My naval maintenance is 116.67

I have room for another 177 ships

19 Aug - Zeila converts! Next is Ausa for 18 months, 4.21 made here now

1 Sept – 17k Separatists rise up in Degehabur where my army is

10 Sept – Defeated and we lost 2k

5 Nov – Conversion in Angot! Anything to order here it’s next to 3 holdings. Should I Fortress this? I spend 144 ADM leveling it to level 10 and then order a Fortress here

Next is Mendefera for 26 months

Let’s look closer at Zeila (4.21) and last war’s big addition Kismayo – making 3.43

They are both Somali culture, which is very common in the upcoming Horn of Africa. I have one extra Culture in my Empire and then 4 more Somali cultures in the area, I move it to accepted since they have high dev holdings to core. I spend 90 DIP power to do so

After accepting their culture:

Zeila – 4.43
Kismayo – 3.67

14 Nov- I spend 50 DIP to invite Minorities

22 Nov – Degehebur converts! Next is 27 months in Aksum

28 Dec – Event - Giant Fire in Mentawi – 75 destructions, -2 production

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Ten - Building up a Trading Post

3 Jan, 1760 – The Industrial Revolution has begun, the next Institution has arrived.

Our level 4 DIP Trader dies, next I hire a level 3 Diplomat that gives me a +20% to making friends and then I spend 835 to level him up to 4.

After that I have 16k for Universities in Fur for a total of 19

10k left

3 Feb – event – Another freedom of the press for -1 innovativeness

1 Mar – time for new Majils debate, next is reduce trade regulations again

1 Apr – relations maxed with Barus dip pulled back

1 June – Relations maxed Bali dip recalled

3 June – I send the Barus dip to make nice with Fars

14 June – I accept an alliance offer from Malacca, hopefully they won’t break this one

29 June – Enderta converts! Next is Mora for 18

Anything to order here? Counting House

31 July - Hamasien convert, no other targets, anything to order here? Soldier’s Households replaces Farm Estate

9 Aug - 30k done of 31k, maintenance is 354.03

21 Aug – I send Bali dip to make nice with Bone on Sulawesi

2 Dec – I don’t hire a new general to replace a dead one

1 Jan, 1761- I have cash of 18k,

Trading Post Ningyuan:

Making us 1.05 cash

I order here:

Officer’s Mess - +5k forcelimit
Permanent Quarters
Company Depot
Algerian District
Broker’s Exchange
Military Admin

Now making 1.83 monthly

I have left 16k

I order Conscription Centers in 5 places

Now I have 15k

20 Feb – Ausa converts! Anything here? Nope it already has a Fortress on 10 dev

25 Mar- I have manpower of 109k I spend 31k to build another West African army

10 May – 14 large ships done, my naval maintenance is 130.14

I order them assembled in Kilwa; I order my main navy there

17 May – Shalaf’I Scholar done, I need to make nice with La Plata to get another, I send my emergency to do so Influence nation and we have 152, I hire another Scholar

1 June- I lose a bunch of claims, I spend 50 MIL to Holy War

10 July – Navy rebuilt I order it to protect trade in Zanzibar, I order another 14 large vessels

2 Oct – New tech!

ADMIN TECH 29 – Rights of Man – Our final Group of Ideas!

Trade in DIP?
Defensive in MIL?
I can get 3 Dip Ideas right now. Dip to get more diplomats?
Espionage to drop badboy in wars?

I like Diplomatic and Espionage

I do the latter

Espionage Idea #1 – Claim Fabrication - -25% Claim Rate and I can claim for Subjects

Espionage Idea #2 – State Propaganda - -20% Aggressive Expansion reduction

Espionage Idea #3 – Efficient Spies - +50% Spy Network building and +10% Siege Ability

Looks like my Suez Canal is done by the by

1 Nov – Maxed relations with Fars, I pull my diplomat

4 Nov – A general passes

5 Dec – I send my Fars diplomat to make nice with Dai Viet

Deccan are at war with Ottomans

20 Dec – France announces us as a Rival

29 Dec – Mora converts! Anything to order here? 10 dev, just next to one minor, I don’t order a Fortress here

2 left!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Eleven - Agent Training

1 Jan, 1762 – I have 18k, I spend it one:

15 Universities – That’s 16k

10 Jan - Conversion in Mendefara – Already has a Fortress, I swap a Soldier’s Households for Farm Estate

1 left

1 Feb – With Bone relations maxed I pull my diplomat

27 Feb – 30k of 31k built in West Africa, maintenance is now 367.59

7 Mar – Aksum converts! All Somalian holdings from 4th War are converted, Soldier’s Households here for the Farm Estate too

22 April – Muscovy at war with Europe, I let them have Military Access

I send the Bone diplomat to make nice with Two Sicilies

21 Aug – Event – Growth of Cloth in Swellendam – It makes Wool, now it makes Cloth, it goes from 2.57 to 3.52

1 Oct – Espionage Idea #4 – Agent Training - +1 Diplomat and -15% Advisor Cost – it’s 70.44 now, and then drops to 51.80

1 Dec – I reup our Influence over Venice

I send my extra Dip to make nice with Wu

2 Jan, 1763 – I have 18k I spend:

21 Universities

12k left

1 April – I order my 31k from Madagascar to Mombasa

1 May – Austria influence up, I send a diplomat, but this time just 791 cash, they’ve been hurt badly

Relations maxed with Dai Viet and Two Sicilies, I pull my guys back

11 May – I send my Two Sicilies to make nice with Muscovy

1 June – Event – MP in Scandal – I arrest him and now they won’t vote for us

7 July – I send the Dai Viet to make nice with Saxony

1 Aug - Wu maxed, I’ll leave it there until I can get enough cash for a Trading Post in a few months

23 Sept – I accept Institution Sharing from Utrecht

8 Oct – Event – I spend another 100 to help traders

22 Dec – A general passes

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Twelve - Buying Limchow


1 Jan, 1764 – Our influence nation ends for Bohemia I send a diplomat for another

I don’t order anything else

I keep my cash free for the Trading Post in Southern China

1 March – We embrace Industrialization we get +15% Tax and +25% manpower

10 Mar – Deccan no longer considers us a rival

1 April – I cannot rival them either, I choose to rival France

1 May – Our ruler gains the Navigator trait

14 large ships done, I order to Kilwa and our main fleet there too

15 June – Navy formed, I order Protect Trade in Zanzibar and another 14 Large ships built here

My naval Maint is 148.11

I have 233k Manpower I spend 31k to build another 31k army in West Africa

I have a land maint of 372.44

1 Aug – New Tech!!!

MIL TECH 29 – Defense in Depth – We get better Artillery, I order upgrades

This is the best

1 Sept – I can get a Trading Post in Southern China from Wu

What do I want? I’d like a Sugar, but it’s too high dev at 30, called Leichow.

I also cannot do 22 dev Chinaware to it’s east.

The best I can do is Limchow – on the border with Malacca for 22k

https://i.ibb.co/rfwrvnM/20230311184844-1.jpg

Limchow - 9 dev, Jungle, Tropical, on the Gulf of Tonkin, Incense, Trade Station and Grand Shipyard I destroy for a Fortress, Cantonese culture and Mahayana faith, makes us 1.12 monthly

I pull my making nice diplomat from Wu

8 Nov – I send it to make nice with Cologne

1 Dec – Relations maxed with Saxony and Muscovy, dips recalled

15 Dec – Saxony dip sent to make nice with Sale

30 Dec – Muscovy dip sent to make nice with Tetuoan

1 Jan, 1765 – I don’t order anything to give my cash time to recover from the Trading Post in Limchow

9 Feb – Event – Dips Exposed – I lose 25 prestige

14 Aug – 30k of 31k done in West Africa, my military maint is now 391.61

1 Dec – Espionage Idea #5 – Vetting – We get +33% Foreign Spy Detection and -0.20 Corruption

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 16 - Mzab
Chapter Two Hundred and Thirteen - A Short Interlude

3 Jan, 1766 – We have 16k, I order:

12 Universities and drop to 12k

I start rearranging my armies in the Egyptian Front

1 Feb – Our Majils didn’t pass Trade Regulations. Next? Quartering of Troops

1 July – Relations with Cologne maxed at 40 I pull and will keep my diplomat for the upcoming War

1 Dec – I order my navy to the Bab el Mandeb

2 Jan, 1767 – This year I don’t order anything, our truce is up in April

23 Feb – Our fleet arrives

1 April – Peace is up!

No new allies in Somalia, the big two:

Aden – 94k
Somalia – 194l

I have 7 armies in West Africa, 8 in Egypt and Horn of Africa, which I’ll name the southern flank moving forward.

I DOW For Somalia’s Horn of Africa’s high dev Livestock province of Barawa

I call in Bengal but NOT Malacca since they are next to Kedah and might just take it in peace separately, whereas Bengal claims them for me. I like having these two high De Fortresses falling to help our warscore.

Joining Somalia is all three allies.

The 5th War Against Somalia has begun. I have a manpower of 370k so hopefully this can last a while.