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EU4 Dynasty - Andean Mystique
Hello!
I was considering picking up a new dynasty for a bit here tonight. I loaded up a dynasty as the Shawneee Tribe and then as Kara Del, a one province horde next to Ming China, Oirat Horde, and other heavies. And then I decided to just do it. My favorite character from history is Zheng He. I have biographies on him and have read them. Love the guy. So I decided to move and do a EU4 dynasty on China. Here was the plan... |
EDIT - No to China. Sorrys!
Thirty Years. For most of its history, China has been insular. It’s problems have been many, and it is the great giant on feet of clay. It built the world’s biggest wall in order to keep itself safe and its enemies out. But it didn’t often look beyond itself. China thought of itself as too good to worry about that. Various factions vied for control, there was unrest, religious changes, and more. Then the Yongle Emperor, third ruler in the Ming Dynasty, took over. And things changed. He took on new building projects, finished the Wall, built massive canal projects, moved the capital to Beijing and finished the Forbidden City, and took onb a project that no one else had dreamed of. He ordered the construction of a huge fleet. At it’s head would sail a Muslim eunuch, Zheng He. The Chinese built huge turtle ships, and a had a navy so big that many ships were specialized, with one carrying clean water and a few others growing food. The goal of this navy was to explore the area, meet with local leaders and to establish relations and tribute. The era of a different take on China began, and ran for almost 30 years. Zheng He led 7 separate voyages, and landed in SE Asia in placed like Thailand, landed in India, stopped a war in Ceylon, traded with people in Arabia, and then landed in multiple places in Africa, and went as far as Zanzibar. China became the key player in the Indies and in the Indian Ocean. They expanded their influence, and everywhere they went Zheng He was able to secure trades, and more importantly, tribute. In fact, the tribute brought back was considering proof that the Yongle Emperor had the Mandate of Heaven. When he died in the mid-1420s, his successor ended the program. After his death, his son began it again that final 7th mission was sent out, but even there, it ended. China did not have the leadership to sustain the cost, emphasis, and desire to push themselves in the seas, abroad, and more. The latest rulers were too focused on the latest gossip. Thirty Years was China’s window into a world of hegemony. China assembled a fleet bigger and more powerful than any until the invention of the steam engine and the industrial revolution, and they did so centuries before the great navies of Europe were created. But what if someone followed who had the vision of the Yongle Emperor and his Admiral Zheng He? What if someone saw the opportunities of the Ming Dynasty as a platform for dominance? What if someone could establish that they had the Mandate of Heaven, and then use a willing populace to move their control outward? Would not China have become the greatest, most powerful, and fastest thalassocracy to ever rise? (That’s a maritime nation, including both colonial nations like the Dutch, and United Kingdom, as well as ancient explores of Phoenicia, or the merchant republics of Venice or Genoa). China was rooted in place by land, with the Great Wall a huge barrier to overcome. But the seas? They were open. Two oceans beckoned for Chinese dominance. |
Now I don't actually think I'm doing it. I loaded a game as Ming and looked around for about 15 minutes. Yes, it's a bit weak for a nation of that size. But I have the Mandate of Heaven and the Temple Faction backing me already. Temple is good for war and such, and I can swap to Eunuch or Bureaucracy easily enough. Even with a ruler that's at 1/1/1 abilities - the worst possible, and just a 0 stability, we're still good. We have the Mandate of Heaven and bonuses for owning the Tea and Chinaware trades. Plus it's not like I have a religion that causes a lot of problems.
So with the manpower, economy, and size, of our land, I feel that I I could easily spend a short while building up our infrastructure before lashing out with a powerful stick to begin to wrangle in neighbors, overseas kingdoms and colonies alike. So right now I am unconvinced that I'll wind up with China or anyone else at all. Sorry China |
Hmmm.....it might be fun to form Inca....
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Welcome to the Huyla people, in the central Andes Mountains. With the highland mountains around, and a large amount of grain, the Huyla are one of a variety of cultures and people here in the area.
Their capital: Huánuco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia We are green:  |
In real life, the Cuzco Kingdom, having sport of modernized the kingdom aspect of itself, began a major campaign to conquer the rest of the area. Over a few decades, Cusco will do so, and create the Incan Empire. The largest of the pre-Colombian nations. They begin this in 1438 when Apu Pachacuti Hana takes over, and begins to conquer small neighbors from the city-state of Cuzco (note the name change is correct). By 1444, they have conquered a few nearby areas including just winning a war and annexing the Chanka Nation. The ruler (a 6/5/6 horse) has been given the title Pachacuti, which means “He who shakes the earth.”
In EU4, they have four provinces now – Cuzco, Quero, Abancay, and Ayaviri. There are a full 13 Inti nations (sharing the Inti faith and in the area) Us – Huyla - 3 Muisca - 3 Quito - 4 Chimu - 5 Cajamarca - 2 Chachapoya - 2 Ichma - 1 Wanka - 2 Cusco - 4 Colla - 3 Charca - 4 Pacajes - 4 Calchaqui - 3 Of these, all but Ichma have at least 2 provinces. The # after the name is the number of provinces they have. Almost all of these provinces are inland mountains, and virtually all have rivers that run between them and neighbors. That means the defender is heavily favored. Even some coastal areas are mountains (like Lima). |
Now I chose Huyla as a “harder” start than the others for a few reasons:
1). Despite 3 provinces, all are grain, and not developed at all. 2). It is near a few major enemies – we are adjacent to two Chimu nations, and Chimu are the major threat in the northern part of the area (in fact, the Chimu were the last nation absorbed by the Incan empire). In real life, the Huyla people were conquered by Cusco in the 1460s. We are also next to Cajamarca, both provinces of Chachapoya, Wanka and Ichma. No other nation is next to five other nations, so we are vulnerable. In real life, the Huyla is the 2nd of these (after Wanka) to fall to the Cusco juggernaut 3). Our leader is not that hot. Meet Apu Hastu Huyla – 1/2/1. This is the worst leader in the area. There are a pair of 1/1/3 and a 2/1/2. But not any with 4 or 3 total stats. 4). Grain is not good. We don’t get a lot of trade and production from grain. Nearby nations have gold, gold, cloth, cocoa, cocoa and such. But we get none of that. There are also some trade nodes here, and we don’t get any of those benefits – Lima and some inland ones. But nope. And that development I mentioned? We have: Huaraz – Mountains, 5 dev, next to Chimu, Lima, and Wanka’s province of Jauja, 0.24 gold made here, with Quechua and Inti folks, 2 slots for buildings, and grain. Pisqupampa – Mountains, 3 dev, 2 slots as well, also Quechua and Inti, next to Chimu, Cajamarca’s province of Cajamarca, and both Chachapoya holdings. 0.12 money made here. Grain farmers. Huanuco – Capital, mountains, 5 development, 0.24 money here too, farmers of grainins, Quechua and Inti, and like the others – 2 open slots, and nothing built – no walls, and nothing else. That’s not a high quality set of places to start. There are 7 colonized areas next to us (and one not). Of those, they have development levels of 3, 3 (both with inland, tropical, jungle of Chachapoya). 8, 10, 3, 6, 6. All of those are better than any of ours in terms of development. We are in the middle, we have little economy to lean on, and we have nothing special to offer. Army: We begin with 5000 troops Chachapoya – 4000 Cajamarca – 5000 Ichma – 4000 Wanka – 5000 Chimu – 7000 So that’s not hot. And then add in the 9950 manpower, and such. |
Now as a member of the Andean Tech Group, there are some major disadvantages we have. All four tech groups which are considered Primitives (North America, South America, Andean, Mesoamerican) have the following constraints:
1). Reduced income from gold. Gold is not a ticket out of the area. 2). We cannot build any boats. That means we can only move by land and cannot expand navally, even if we were to take a naval province. 3). If a primitive goes to war, then they can be annexed by nations that use the CB from the Exploration Idea group. They can be easily gobbled up, no matter their size, by these. Also a colonial nation declares war on a primitive without causing a ruckus and so forth Most of the nations here are either Tribal Monarchies or Despotic ones, and about evenly split between them. The lone exception is holy state and Theocracy o fIchma in the Lima are, where the Oracle of Pachacamac is consulted by all of the local and powerful rules for centuries and centuries, since at least 700 AD. We are an Inti nation following that religion. What does that mean? Inti: +1 Tolerance of True Faith -0.05 Monthly autonomy Change +2 Conversion – Inti are easier to convert to other religions Inti nations have an authority value that increases with the ownership of larger lands and decreased autonomy in them. Authority decreases if autonomy increases in those areas. As you get more authority, you gain stability cost bonuses and reduction of unrest. So if I lower autonomy in a province by 25%, we gain 5 authority, and we lose 5 for raising it. We start with 0 Authority An Inti state with 100 authority and 10 provinces can pass a Religious Reform. When they do, their authority drops back to 0 and a pretender rebellion begins. These are the 5 reforms you can do, and you go through these various cycles: Reforms: • Organized Recruitment: Manpower Recovery Speed: +10% • Expanded Mitma Policy: Morale of armies: +10% • Reform the Cult of Inti: Yearly Legitimacy: +0.5 • Yana Lords: Colonist: +1 • Reform the Bureaucracy: Core-Creation cost: -10% Once you have all five reforms passed, if you are next to a Western nation, and you can reform the entire nation and religion. Doing so gives you a tech boost and a bonus to religious reforms later on. After we reform the Inti religion, we can westernize. But only then. |
I take a mission to Improve Relations with Ichma and send a diplomat to them to begin to do so.
Cajamarca, Chimu and Wanka have all chosen us as a rival. They only one to not go all anti-Huyla is Chachasoya. So I send our other diplomat there to begin to tie us together. We are a Tribal Monarchy. We have -10% stability cost, +20% income from vassals and -1 diplomatic relations I dispatch merchants to Lima 13 Nov, 1444 – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Chachasoya 18 Nov – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Cusco 29 Nov – Chachapoya offers us an alliance and I accept Alliances right now? Cusco/Wanka/Charca/Ichma Us and Chachapoya Cajamarrca and Quito Colla and Calchaqui I declare Chimu as a rival Quito is trying to improve relations with us 10 Dec, I accept an alliance offer from Cusco 14 Dec – Ichma accepts an offer of alliance with us. I’m comfortable with a Ichma, Cusco, and Chachapoya alliance. |
1 Jan, 1445 – We are getting relations improvements with Ichman and Quito, and Chachapoya from a bunch of folks Chimu is na an alliance with Wanka.
Cusco built a nice army and now has 10000 strong forces 3 Feb – I order 1000 more South American Spearman assembled 24 April – I order a diplomat ot fabricate a claim on the adjacent province of Cajamarca, a coffee province and the capital of their nation 20 May – I order another 1000 troops assembled. My army is moved to Pisqupampa, adjacent to to Cajamarca 5 June – We finish the quest to improve relations with Ichma and gain some reputation. Our next mission is to Make Nice with Quito as they are the rival of our rival. 16 Aug - I order another 1000 troops. That will put us at 8000 which is our forcelimit. 1 Sept – I boost our stability to 1 21 Dec – We get an event: Great Temple of Huaraz Word has reached us that the local chief in Huaraz has begun to construct an ambitious new temple for the main god of his tribe. This Huaca is venerated and also a mummified ancestor of the chief’s own lineage. Is the chief trying to build a bigger power base there? The priests of Inti in Huaraz want us to remove the Huaca to put the chief in his place. Options: 1). Order him to remove it. Gain 5 authority, 6 regiments rise up 2). Allow it to be built, +25% tax modifier, +0.10 autonomy change, -5 authority – 5 years Now normally I’d do the latter. Keeping the peace and making the cash is both really useful. But I need authority as a Inti rule.r I order him to remove it, and then my 8000 troops over to take out the rebellion in Huaraz |
7 Jan, 1446 – We arrive in Huaraz
27 Jan – We win, and lost 1560 troops in the battle. 30 Apr – Claim finished on Cajamarca. Next up is the Chimu province of Chanchan, this is their capital, and the one with the 10 development mentioned earlier. 5 July – We finish making nice with Quito. We gain 25 DIP Power and 5 prestige. Next mission is conquer Jauja, the adjacent province in Wanka. 27 July – Build a Great Palace: I choose to build it. -6 gold. +10 prestige and +20 legitimacy 12 Sept – I choose Wanka as a rival 2 May, 1447 – Claim done in Chanchan. Next is Chimbote in Chimu, the other adjacent area. 17 August – We have a new heir born! Meet Usuy, a 2/5/2 heir. He’s pretty good 4 Dec – I improve stability to 2 4 April, 1448 – Our first war on the Andeas begins. Charca and Pacajes go to war 7 May, 1448 – Claim completed 30 July – I get a naïve relative and choose to not kill him, which will give us -25% spy defense for 20 years |
11 Feb, 1449- We get The Risks of Trade:
The Merchants Guild hit on some bad times and the venture is looking a bit dicey. Do I want to : Help them out - -8 gold, gain 3 mercantilism, and the Merchant Guilds Estate gets +10 loyalty and influence. They Knew What was happening – They lose 10 loyalty and 10 influence Which brings me to a major change here. Balancing your three estates – merchants, nobles, and church. I choose the first to increase my Mercantilism. It increases my provincial trade power a bit. I now have: Clergy - 40%loyalty, 20% influence Merchants – 50% loyalty, 15% influence Nobility – 50 % loyalty, 25% influence 1 August, 1449 – I upgrade our stability to 3 1 Mar, 1450 – Normally I would declare war on Cajamarca for their capital province we have a claim on right now. I have more troops and readiness. I turned my leader into a general and am ready to hit them. I could use my ally in Chachapoya to threaten them as well. We’d win quickly enough. But there are a few issues. With this DLC< I can see everything from my allies, and there are things called favors. It’s hard to declare war and then just to get your allies to join you, unless they either have a vested interest in the war (such as a promise of territorial gains) or the use of favors. You gain favors as you help an ally when they are at war, or for time. Every two years you gain some favors. Right now I have favors with Chachapoya at 5, Ichma at 5, Cusco at 2. So it’s hard for me to declare an offensive war right now, and get everyone to help me. If I were to declare war against Cajamarca, as an example, then none of my allies would join me, but I could convince Chachapoya to join for a promise of land. I need at least 10 favors. However, Wanka and Quito would join our target. The same is true of war against Chimu or Wanka. You can also set the same attitude that they set on you back at them. For example, you might get friendly, neutral, threatened, or hostile. You can set those back, with these advantages: Friendly – More easy to create alliances Neutral – Won’t send a bunch of alliance proposals to you after you say no, Threatened – Bonuses to allying with rivals Hostile – Your vassals fabricate claims on their lands You can spend favors telling allies that you intend to go to war soon, so they will prepare by increasing army maintenance, and won’t declare war for 2 years. You can also spend them to increase trust between you and the target nation. And spending ten favors gives you an offensive brother in arms for one war. 10 favors are needed for war prep or increase trust as well. 1 Aug – I get an event and grant the Bourgeoisie some privileges and we gain Merchant Guilds Estate loyalty |
3 Feb, 1451 – the Chimu nation have fabricated a claim on our province of Huaraz
7 May, 1451 – Pacajes and Charca have come to peace. Charca annexed all of Pacajes, turning them into an 8 province powerhouse south of Colla and north of Calchaqui in the southern inhabited Andes 28 Nov – I get another Temple event, this time in Pisqupampa, and I choose o increase my authority and take out some rebels. 8 Dec – Rebellion crushed 1 Aug, 1452 – We sell some titles and make some cash! But the Nobility Estates loses 5 loyalty Based on your Estates influence, you can call on various interactions with enough loyalty or influence, or both. For example, I can Demand Military Support with my Nobility Estate, and it requires a loyalty of 30 and influence of 25. They lose 15 loyalty and I gain some military power. I can’t use that more than once/20 years. I can ask the Merchant Guilds for some cash, but it drops their loyalty and can’t be used but once/ten years. I send an insult to Cajamarca. I’m trying to get my Power Projection high enough to matter. I do the same for my other two rivals 18 Feb, 1453 – I get a new event: Oracles and Divinations We are lucky to have the Huaca Gods of our people to help interpret what the future holds. Should the future prove too difficult to penetrate then ther are other oracles in the Andes, but they take a worth gift. Hastu Huaca has been beset recently by doubts and perhaps it is time to consult the auguries. Options: 1). Consult the Oracle of our local Huaca at Huanuco 2). Travel to the Oracle of Pachacamac 3). Best not to dwell on the future I chose the 2nd option and spend some gold to travel to Lima. I get this event: Favorable Answer from the Huatuc and Hamurpa A great number of diviners are attached to any given oracle’s shrine. The Guacarimachic speak to Huacas while the Ayatapuc communicate with the dead. The Huatec achieves a prophetic mood using a holy beverage while the Hamurpa read the entrails of sacrificed llamas. All of these great diviners have now dewlt on the questions come to be posed by the ruler Hastu Huyla. The time ahead should be fruitful and successful +10 prestige Gain 1 stability (not used obviously) 3 Dec – I spend some ADM power to increase our taxbase in Huanuco |
5 Aug, 1454 – I grant aid to the nobility as well. +5 Nobility Loyalty
1 Oct, 1454 – Now if I declare war on Cajamarca, things are looking a little different. They get Quito and Wanka as allies, and me Ichma and Chachapoya. If I flip the script and hit Wanka for their province of Jauja, then we get just Ichma and they get Cajamarca, Cusco and Chimu. That’s not happening. What about Chimu? We get no one, and they get Wanka. So there’s really just one feasible war here. Now normally I only declare war when I’m pretty convinced that I can win. I’m not sure here. The number of troops we have isn’t that much more, and we have a general who’s not that good either. So let’s find out. I declare war on Cajamarca for their capital provine which we have a claim to. I call on our allies, burning up our 10 favors, and then we march our army to their area. With mountains and rivers, this is not a guaranteed battle by any stretch. 10 October – Uh oh. I get an event of a chief conspiring against us. I choose to remove him and suffer just a 50% chance of 7000 rebels rising up, but they do. We gained 5 more authority though. That’s nice 13 Oct – Battle begins in Cajamarca 15 Oct – The Chimu is suffering an assault of 7000 rebels. 31 Oct – We win in Cajamarca. We lose 1148 troops to their 1523 The siege begins 15 Nov – A large pan Quito-Cajamarca is rallying 23 Nov – Rebels capture Huaraz 19 Jan, 1455 – Wanka had been sieging our capital, but they lifted it to head back since Ichma was doing the same to theirs 29 Jan – Wanka gained a claim on Huaraz 10 Feb – The siege of Wanka’s capital (Huancavelica) is relieved by them Meanwhile our allies in Chachapoya lost a battle. 14 Mar – Wanka arrives in Lima to face the Ichma forces 2 Apr - - The quite army, 10000 strong, arrives in Cajamarca to force us out 10 April – Wanka wins in Lima 21 Apri – We just won a major battle in Cajamarca 26 June – We win another major battle in Cajamarca, but our force was halved. 7 July – Allies capture Jauja in Wanka 21 July – A large pan-Chachapoya and Ichma force is pushing hard at the underbelly of the defeated forces of Quito and Cajamarca 14 Oct – They crush the enemy forces in Quito. They have been routed The only issue we have is the ongoing siege of Lima 24 Oct – Cajamarca falls to us 26 October – Quito is now at peace with us for a White Peace. They wanted to just end it to focus on rebuilding their army, and we had an army at the capital sieging them. We now have a warscore of 57% against Wanka and Cajamarca I can end the war right now and take Jauja from Wanka and Cajamarca from them. That would leave Wanka as a one province in their capital of Huancavelica and Cajamarca moves their capital to Wankapampa. I don’t care too much about Wankapama. It’s a lower wool province. But I don’t want to leave two one province minors for others to finish off, and the capital of Wanka is sweet gold. Ideally, I want ot take at least one of these off the map. But I do have the warscore for that, but they aren’t buying it yet. So let’s push just a little more 4 Dec – We lose in Wankapampa and are forced back. Grrr. 11 Feb, 1456 – Chachapoya captures Wankapampa The simple fact of the matter is that Cajamarca isn’t accepting an annexed loss until I take them out fully. No matter what the warscore says. Fine. I take my wins. We take Jauja from Wanka and War Reparations from Cajamarca as well as their capital. I add in a touch of gold as well. 14 February – War is over |
I order my troop to Huaraz to finish the rebels and to retake the province
We gained 9.3 aggressive expansin penalty, 5.5 prestige among us, and we get 3.6 of it, and 4 power projection/ We also completed a mission – Conquer Jauja. Manpower recovery speed and yearly prestige increase for 10 years Our additions: Jauja – Mountains, 6 development, shepherds make wool, We have a claim here, and I spend some power to make this a core. It gives us 75 manpower, 1.2 trade, 0.09 cash, and has Quecha and Inti folk. 40% autonomy, and 7.8% unrest. It is south of our holdings of Huaraz and Huanuco, east and inland of Lima, and north of Huancarelica. Like other holdings of ours, it’s next to unclaimed territory in Ucayali. Cajamarca - Mountainous 9 level, 0.10 income cocoa, I order up a core here as well, with Quechua and Inti folk here. We get 7.8% unrest and 40% autonomy. 75 manpower, and 1.2 trade power as well. Cajamarca is north of our holding in Pisqupampa, and then east and inland of three Chimu holdings –Piwra, Tucume, and Chanchan. South of Wanka,[ampa, west of Chachapoyas. I order claims on Tucume in Chimu and on Huancavelica in Wanka. Our next mission is to rebuild manpower reserves I have some cash, but I don’t have anything to do with it. Nothing to spend it on. So I hire an advisor - Yamqui Mayta Llicllic, a level 1 treasurer who’ll give me +10% tax revenue and add ot my ADM builds. I change our nations focus to Admin to build that power up. We now make 7/4/3 each month in Admin/Dip/Mil 25 Mar – Rebellion defeated 1 April – The big blob of Charca is now at war with Colla and Calchaqui 4 May – Huaraz returns to our fold |
13 June, 1556 - Here, let me show you a brief map, in case you care!
 Huyla is green. That's us! You can see a few interesting things. I zoomed in on political mode. Where the 6.9k troops from Cajamarca are is where their former province is now located. I’ve built another 1000 troops during the war for support and will have 10k when it’s all said and done. I am currently at -0.1 on my ducats, from our good advisor, but I hope to bump up our income post-cores on my two captures The other capture was the Jauja, south of our forces that just captured Huaraz back from rebels. I’ll move that army to the area. We now have 5 provinces., so I’d normally work on my authority, but we need ten to start hitting our goals, so no need to push people yet. |
5 Aug – I reject my noble who demand privileges, so I won’t drop my prestige. Their support drops by 5
1 Dec – Our army is back to 10k. Manpower is down to 2300 but will now begin to rise again 2 Feb, 1457 – I order a claim on Wankapampa 17 Feb – We gain those two cores. I move our next claim to Piwra, in Chimu 16 July – Our captured territories are now core province sof our nation I have some Estates that demand control of territory. The nobility want one of our two captures. Their loyalty will start dropping unless I give them a province. I give them Jauja. Results: Minimum autonomy 25% going forward Local Bonus manpower locally and nationally Manpower went from 75 to 469, as one example. 8 Feb, 1458 – We now have a claim against Cajamarca’s final holding of Wankapampa 14 May – Peace- Charca in the south givers away 4 provinces of theirs – Oruro, Tiaahuaneco, Choquehaca and Charcas to Colla. Charca had bee nthe one who had grown from absorbing it’s neighboir, but it’s down to 4 provinces and Colla up to 7. 10 June – Rebels are striking Chachapoya 14 Jul – They take a province in Chachapoya – Moyobamba 31 July – The rebels were defeated 10 Aug – A Comet has been sighted! Or stability drops to 2. I bump it back up to 3 with my extra ADM 13 Aug – Rebels captured and ended 1 Nov – I begin to increase relations with Quito |
25 Feb, 1459 – Advancement of the Nobility occurs. A charismatic leader emerges. They get 20 influence until 1474. That’s not good. They now have: 65% loyalty, 75% influence, and 20% territory. They could divide us considering how popular they are becoming.
17 Aug, 1460 – We get an event and gain some serious diplomatic power from making some moves with neighbors and not pushing tensions with Chachapoya 19 Oct – Event: A Suitable Wife for Usuy Huyla The priests of Inti have made it clear that Usuy Huyla must take his sister as his primary wife to please the gods. Many of his ancestors, even the God of the Sun himself have married this way within the family and kept the bloodline pure. The boy’s mother however refuses and won’t consent. The proper way to solve this schism would be to ask the ancestor, who is mummified and the head of the Panaca lineage for guidance. Options: 1). Consult Ancestor. Get 65% chance of Approval and 35% chance of Disapproval 2). Give in to his mother. Lose 5 authority 3). Disregard the mother. Gain 5 authority but lose 1 stability Losing stability is a hit. But gaining authority is very good, as you’ve seen. Nope, sorry mother. This is my kid, and the sister it is. I boost our stability again, but the double boost from this and that comet have almost wiped out my ADM power 6 Dec – Our treaty with Quito has ended |
1 June, 1461 – We finish recovering our manpower!
Bonuses – for ten years, we gt -0.5 national unrest and +10% national taxes 1 July – After that bonus we are now making a slight amount of money. Right around 0.1 a month. No need to drop the advisor now! I start taking a look to see where our next expansion targets might be. Chimu is allied with Chachapoya, and they’d swap to Chimu if we pushed them. One province Wanka would join as well. It looks like Chimu is really the only place to go. 11 Sept – Cusco has declared war on Colla, which they have started. I accept the war call. Calchaqui joined their ally Colla as well. Wanka, allied with Cusco, joined as well and I am allied with my enemy. Oddly. 11 Dec – 10000 of our troops arrive on the Colla/Cusco border. 15 Jan, 1462 – I arrive at their capital of Puno, next door, and initiate a siege. The larger Cusco army is fighting deeper in the land 27 Jan – Cusco lost a major battle and their force is retreating 22 June – By now, four provinces, all without walls, have been captured and the Cusco army is back and catching them. 20 July – Another major battle with troops from Calchaqui is lost by Cusco. 12 Aug – We get a good harvest. I put it into the treasury and get some serious cash-age. 12 Mar, 1463 – We capture Puno. More battles and provinces in the south are swapping. Our capture pushes our war score from 20s to 60. 3 May – every province of Colla is now held by us or Cusco. 25 May – Cusco wins against their forces 13 July – I moved my force from their capital to face the fleeing troops and him them hard. We dropped 40% of their force and lost 1276 forces of our own. Good swap 13 Sept – We defeat their army again 27 Sept – We rout and destroy their army 15 Oct – We get the event of a Chief Conspiring against Hastu Huyla. I kill him, gain 5 authority, we get a Loyal Chief in his place who gives us better unrest. We also get 6000 separatists in Jauja. So I send my force back to hit them. That’s ok, I did my job for my ally here. 2 Dec – Separatists capture Jauja and it will now suffer from problems for 10 years 11 Dec – Whoa! Peace: Colla gives two provinces to Cusco – Macaya and Chuquiabo. They give up three more provinces to neutral nation Charca. They pay War Reparations. They paid 100 gold, and we get 24. We gain some prestige as well. Calchaqui – War Reparations, gold, and such., We get some cash. We gain 19 favors from Cusco. 25 Dec – We defeat the rebels |
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Our starting provinces:
Huaraz:    Pisqupampa:     Our capital, Huanuco:    |
8 Feb, 1464 – Jauja is back under our control
I currently have 9 favors with Chachapoya, Ichma, and 28 with Cusco. Once war exhaustion dies back down, we may hit Chimu. 1 Mar – Our advisor passes I hire Atoc Sopa Tupac-Amaru, a prestige worker I order some troops built 15 Aug – We get an Unhappiness Among the Artisans. I abolish a tax, lose sold gold, and gain Merchant Loyalty Charca is a big ol’ nation. 7 provinces. No ally. They would say yes if we offered an alliance or a royal marriage. But I do fear that someday really down the pike that Cusco will declare war against them and we would be forced to go to war with one ally or the other. I do fear Cusco a bit though. So I will ally with Charka in other to flip the script on Cusco later on. 3 Sept – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Charca 26 Sept – They offer an alliance and we accept 1 Oct – We invest in our first tech incrase: Diplomacy 2 – We can now build The barque, but we can’t build ships so it’s not like it matters anyway |
5 Aug, 1465 – We have a good slate of stuff. 13000 troops of ours are in Cajamarca province. We can declare war on Chimu and they will get Chachapoya (sad) and Wanka. We’ll get Cusco. I can call in Ichma as well,
I’m not sure if it matters, so I spend some favors to Ask Chachapoya to increase our trust of each other. 1 Sept, 1465 – I declare war on Chimu for their capital, Chanchan. I call on my two allies. Here we go. I order my forces to Chanchan to hit them 14 Sept – We arrive in their capital, but Chimu fled 24 Sept _ I leave behind a siege unit and move to hit Chachapoya 25 Oct – We win a rough battle in our province of Pisqupampa, but wwe took too long. There are a large Chimu army moving in to finish us off. I order my force to flee 1 Dec – We chased the fleeing Chachapoya force and routed it 2 Dec – Quito declares war on Chimu 10 Dec – Wanka and Chimu are besieging Lima. Cusco and Ichma are besieging Huancavelica. 8 Jan, 1466 – We capture one of the Chimu provinces – Tumbes 15 Jan – Piwra falls to us 19 Jan – Tucume falls to us as well 1 Mar – Chimbote falls – just Chimu’s capital is left 13 Aug – Chachapoya has assembled a 6k army and moves it to our capital Huanuco 9 Dec – The first of the sieges ends. Wanka’s capital is captured by Ichma and Cusco 29 Dec – They hit the forces in my capital I get a peace offer from Wanka They offer a ton of money and War Rep. This sets back our warscore, but pulls their army out of the battle, and moreover will prevent Ichma or Cusco from taking them. So I accept. 30 Dec – With their siege of Lima, halved, the war leader from Lima ends the siege (it was close to falling to) to head back and hit us. 4 Jan, 1467 – The Chachapoya force is beaten 12 Jan – We begin to attack the Chimu force in Chimbote 10 Feb – We lose 14 Mar – Chimbote falls 1 Apr – They returned to Lima to siege 13 June – We move and drive them out of Lima. 2 Aug – Ichma captures Chimbote 12 Aug – We follow and rout the Chimu army 17 Aug – Our ruler passes in battle. His son takes over 24 Sept – We capture Chanchan, as well as a minor province of Chachapoya We now have a 98% warscore Final results. Get ready: We take from Chimu four of their five provinces – Chanchan, Tucume, Piwra, and Tumbes The last province, Chimbote, I could take if we had captured it. But we didn’t. So I vassalize Chimu rather than give it away to an ally. We take Moyombamba from Chachapoya They give up claims in Huyla and Ichma And we get a crap ton of gold as well. Now because Quito and Chimu are at war, we take over that war. I order up some cores for my 5 new additions while I push to end this war. 4 Oct – We renew our RM with Cusco 8 Oct – We crush a Quito army 10 Oct – They accept white peace During the war the Nobles gained 10% influence and this is a looming disaster. We have 25% over-extension. 8 War exhaustion. |
Our additions:
Moyobamba – Jungle, tropical, tropical wood, 3 development, the Inti people here are Chachapoyan culture, and this is only next to us and the last Chachapoyan holding. 13.8% unrest, 10% autonomy, 0.04 money. I’m starting with the Chimu provinces from the one furthest away. They are all on the coast. The first is west of Cajamarca and south of Quito, and then I’ll come down coast: Tumbes – The Chimuan people here work the farms of this grasslands province, and they have 13.4 unrest. 50% autonomy, 0.09 money, and it’s next to two Quito holdings, Cajamarca’s Wankapampa and north of ours in Piwra. 6 development. Quito has a claim on this holding. It has a Temple. Piwra – Also Inti and Chimuan, this fishing province has coastal desert, with 0.03 made from the 3 development, and 13.4% unrest and 50% autonomy. West of Wankapampa as well as the province of Cajamarca, south of Tumbes, and north of Tucume. Tucume – 3 development, coastal desert, Chimuan and Inti as well, and 13.4% unrest with 40% autonomy, but it’s a cloth making province, so that’s nice. 0.02 cash. South of Piwra, north of Chanchan and west of Cajamarca Chanchan – Now here’s the target. 10 development, has a castle at level 2, mountainous, Inti and Chimuan, 0.13 money, 12.2% unrest, 40% autonomy, and mostly some coffee as their goof of trade. North of the last Chimu province of Chimbote, south of Tucume, and west and southish of Cajamarca, Huaraz and Pisqupampa All are working on cores. Here, let me give you a map! |
 You can see our heavy expansion here. I see my next expansions as finishing the one province Wanka, Chimu, Chachapoya and/or Cajamarca. Now I can declare war on Cajamarca anytime I want to, that truce was up during the war. You can see our MIL power is almost at the level needed to level up, but after cores, our ADM certainly isn’t. Now that we have 10 provinces, once I’ve rebuilt a bit, I’ll start dropping autonomy in captured provinces increase my rebel costs in there for 30 years, but move us to 100 Authority. You can see my Authority in the button to the left of the maps in the bottom. We have plenty of gold, plenty of lots of other stuff. |
Here’s our new ruler:
Apu Usuy Huyla 2/5/2 20 years old We have a high liberty desire from Chimu, but I’ll send in a diplomat to smooth the feathers that are ruffled. A small tribe, the Charrua, moved into our line of sight, south of the Inti nations. I remove my maintenance of Chanchan. I hire a Diplomatic Advisor – Orco Varanca Auqui-Huaman, and he has +10% trade efficiency. 23 Oct – As was likely expected, Quito announces us as their rival 2 June, 1468 – We have begun to fabricate claims on various adjacent territory in Chachapoya and Quito 2 Sept – One of our agents was discovered |
28 Jan, 1469 – Great Temple of Moyobamba – Again, we order the chief to knock it off. I gain some authority, and a rebellion starts.
20 Feb – Rebellion ended 11 Mar – Tyrannical Nobles are found in Jauja. I choose to…increase their loyalty and hurt the province abit. 1 Apr – We gain 1 tech in Military! Mil Tech 2 – Eastern Swarm Combat width, infantry and cavalry shock rise 1 June – Chanchan, Piwra, Tucume are now cores and Chimuan is now an accepted culture 22 June – Another spy is found fabricating claims 1 Aug – Tumbes is now a core as well We can’t build anything but defenses until our techs get developed enough. So not really. I need cores on these provinces: Cajamarca – Check Huanuco – our capital - Check Huancavelica, the capital of Wanka – Nope Cuzco – The capital of Cusco, nope And then one of these: Puno in Colla or Tiahuanaco in Colla. Chanchan or Quito. Check That’s the path to becoming the Empire of the Incas 1 Dec – Wanka moved their rivalry from us to Ichma I choose Quito as a rival. They wanted this. |
7 Jan, 1470 – Construction of a Temple happens again. I fund it. We lose 60 gold, and we build a temple for the Tincuy, the sacred confluence of two streams in Pisqupampa.
Temples increase local taxes by 40% 3 March – We get an event – Rightful Ownership: One of our subjects has seen fit to remind us of the tensions caused by owning land that is theirs. This is for Chanchan. I reject their claim, we gain 10 prestige, and Chimu’s opinion of us drops 50 and they get +15% liberty desire. 21 Aug – We get an exceptional year and gain +50% taxes for a year 15 Dec – We have a rebellion about to hit. I moved my forces down to chimu’s area 1 Jan, 1471 – As we annexed lands in war, we brought in some groups of people that were forcibly moved as Mitmaq from one region to another by their former overlords. As they are not allowed to change the way they speak, the clothes they wear, and have to take all property with tme, they yearn for home in Tumbes. I agree to allow them to relocate back. We swap taxvalue from Chanchan to Tumbes I invest it back into Chanchan with some ADM power 1 Feb, Moyobamba is now a core. 6 Feb – After taking a lot longer to warm them up than it should have, our vassal Chimu agrees to a Royal Marriage with us 7 Mar – Right now, Chachapoya feels very threatened by us and would be willing to renew marriage or alliances. But that would bring us into too many relations and we would lose 1 DIP power a month to keep that. No thanks 5 Apr – I drop the autonomous on Cajamarca, and gain some authoirty. I give my clergy Moyobamba 11 Sept – War with Charca as they declare war against Colla. They did not ask us for aid. Colla’s allies are Tapuia and Chachapoya, who are in as well. 1 Nov – Charca asks for military access. We’re allies, how do you not have that? Nope. I don’t want you to hit Chachapoya. 8 Dec – Revolt in Chanchan |
1 Jan, 1472 – We lose!
23 Jan – Separatists capture Chanchan. So annoying 24 April – We defeat the rebel army What the rebels did was a quick capture of Chanchan, and then basically turned the castle back on. So now I have to take it in a siege. 28 Mar, 1473 – Chanchan falls back to us I drop the autonomy in Piwra and then give it to the Clergy 3 June – We lost our claim on Chimbote, the final Chimu province. I cannot claim it again either, as they are our vassal. Their opinion of us has climbed to +110. That‘s with the -46 to the tyrant overlord event and -85 to the force vassalization. 20 September, 1473 – The gods have favored us with a new child, Maicu, a 4/0/6 leader. 10 Dec – The Mapuche tribe moved their capital and relocated to a closer province, in southern South America 7 Mar, 1474 – The Merchant Guild requests to take control of Chanchan. If I say no, they love 10 loyalty and influence. If I say yes, then Chanchan becomes theirs, and gets a lot of taxvalue increase….hmm…they also get 15% influence and 10 loyalty. I accept. Chanchan now has a development of 15. 1 As of right now, with a loyalty of 65% I get these benefits from the merchants: -7.5% development cost and +15% trade efficient. My nobility have lost their loyalty and influence e somewhat and are down to 55 and 58. The Clergy are 43 and 44. 22 August – We sell more titles! 17 Oct – We get a national epic. We lose some cash to push the story and for 20 years we‘ll get +1 prestige 8 Aug, 1475 – Since we’re making money and clocking in at 122 gold, I hire a 3rd advisor – a military one – Draytonamu Guacricaur, -10% land maintenance |
5 Feb, 1476 – The war is over and Charca annexes the two provinces of Colla and removes them from the map.
Calchaqui – 3 provinces. Next to…. Charca – 9 provinces. Next to… Cusco – 6 provices. Next to…. Wanka – 1 province, nex to… Huyla (Us) – 10 provinces, next to… Quito – 4 provinces Chimu, Wanka, Ichma ,Chachapoys, and Cajamarca are rocking 1 province each Muisica, far away, has 3 Our allies – Ichma, Cusco, Charca Vassal – Chimu War declared against Cajamarca would be just me and Chimu vs Calchaqui and Quito too. War against Chachapoya is just Mapuche, that tribe that moved over. But we have a truce with them for 6 more years. Wanka expires in 3. That leaves Cajamarca as our only major expansion opportunity I spend some military power to hire a nice general and send my troops to Cajamarca province next to their holding |
1 April, 1476 – I declare war against Cajamarca
I order our forces in. 24 April – We rout their army in Wankapampa – 6000 killed in an instant! I order my army next door to Canari to hit the Quito army 5 June – After reinforcements from Chimu arrive, we defeat the Quito forces in Canari. 16 July – Canari is ours 16 Aug – I chased the fleeing Quito army to Esmeraldas and defeated them again 25 Aug – We defeat and rout their Quito army. They are army-less 1 Nov – Charca does to war with Wanka and Calchaqui. 1 Ja, 1477 – An advisor of ours passes. 26 April – We capture the Quito city of Gyuayaquil 18 June – Quito falls to us 1 July – We capture Wankapampa 30 July – The final province of Quito – Esmeraldas falls to us. Total victory Here’s what we get: #1 – We take Wankapampa and end Cajamarca as a nation #2 -We take Canari from Quito. It’s next to us, we have a claim on us, and it’s a suck-y province. All of Quito is undeveloped, save for their capital province. But Canari is the best of the lot #3 – Speaking of which, we take their capital province, Quito. This will essentiqlly remove them as a threat. Don’t have a claim on it. Whoops, sorry #4 – We get 88 gold That leaves them Guayaquil and Esmeraldas 31 July – They accept peace I purchase cores for Quito, Canari, and Wankapampa. I order us to claim Esmeraldas Quito – Development of 14, they make cloth from the Caran people, worshipping the true Inti faith. 9.5% unrest, 50% autonomy, 0.16 money here, and inland and west of Esmeraldas, and Guayaquil, and north of Canari. It’s also next to 3 unclaimed territory. Through one unclaimed province is Muisica. Mountainous of course. Canari – With a temple, the Caran Inti people here harvest and make wool, and then send us -.15 with 8 development, mountains9.5% unrest and 40% autonomy. South of Guayaquil and Quito, and north of Tumbes and Wankapampa. Wankapampa – Quechua and Inti people here also make wool, and they have a temple too, with 8 development and mountains. 0.15 money, 3.9% unrest (we have our army here) and 40% autonomy. North of Cajamarca, south of Canarii, and east of Tumbes and Piwra. It’s also just touching the last of the Chachapoya holdings. |
Map time!!!
 I zoomed out for you so you can see Charca and Cusco.You can see us in the middle, the green blob. Chimu, Ichma, and Wanka are to our south, and Chachapoya is nestled in our bosom. What remains of Quit to the coast and west of us. The yellow above it is Muisica. Cusco and Charca are there too, and Charca is trying to eat up and annex Calchaqui. It’s been more aggressive than us! If it wins at doing so, I’m not sure we can take it down. Remember, historically, Cusco was the big bad of Inca, and it has grown a bit, but we ended the major threat to Cusco – Chimu. Yet we have Charca here just being a pretty big bully. These two nations will war sooner or later. And at first I allied with Charca to use them to hit Cusco, but now? I may stay with Cusco. We have 13 provinces with our recent captures, and are still the largest. If Charca annexes Calchaqui then they get to 12. I order some more troops built now that our forcelimit is grown. Another tribe, the Guarani has moved into our zone of sight in the south. |
1 Aug – We finish our mission and gain +1 prestige and +10% manpower recruitment speed for 10 years. The only mission available is to Incorporate Chimu into our Nation so I takes it
As a reminder, in two years, the truce with Wanka expires. 10 Oct – Cusco has joined the war with Wanka/Calchaqui against Charca. Netierh side has asked for me to join them. Yay for that. 2 Jan, 1478 – All three provinces of Calchaqui are under the control of Charca, and three Charca holdings under the control of Cusco. 1 Mar, Our Government tech advisor passes, and I hire another +10% national tax recruit named Coyllas Huaypalcon. 26 April – I order some more troops 13 August – I move my troops to Jauja on the southern border. 1 Jan, 1479 -Wankapampa is a part of our patrimony 12 Jan – rebels strike in Quito’s two holdings and capture Guayaquil 1 Feb – Our truce with Wanka ends I have 15000 troops on the border with Wanka. I declare war on them. Their only ally, Calchaqui is too bothered with war to care. They don’t join. I don’t call in any of my forces either. The steel is hot, and we need to strike quickly to forge it 28 Feb – Priests Citing Unrest in Tumbes After we moved in the Mitmaq people back into Tumbes, we are getting some push back from the clergy there. They claim that we are leaving behind the faith of our fathers, which is obviously baseless trash. 1). The Time has come for the Mitmaq to move on. Gain 5 authority. Either lose taxes in Tumbes or get a rebellion there 2). Give guarantees to the local priests. Lose 5 authority 3). These priests are only fit for the pit. Kill them all. Gain 10 authority and a rebellion in Tumbes as well! I begin to move my army back from Huancavelica. Unfit! Kill them all! My authority unites the Huyla people! 12 May – Rebellion ended 22 May – Ichma declare war on Wanka as well 17 June – 7000 Wanka troops are next to our siege in Huancavelica just waiting. 16 Aug – I stealth made a claim on Lima, just in case we need it later. 8 Mar, 1480 – We capture their capital. 11 Mar – We annex them and took almost 100 gold I begin to fabricate claims on the two adjacent Cusco holdings, starting with their capital Huancavelica - I order a core for this mountainous gold province – our first gold one. The Quechua Inti people here are 0.08 money, 5 development, and 2.9% unrest (army is here right now) with 40% autonomy. South of Jauja, and north of Cusco and Abancay in the Cuzco nation. East and inland of Lima, the holding of Ichma |
1 May – Our relations with Chimu are excellent. They are now at +168.
It’s time. I drop Wankapampa’s autonomy by 25% and it increases their unrest considerably. The former capitial of Cajamarca. I know have 100 authority I can pass a religious reform! Huh. Would you look at that. I can choose which reform I want. Whoa! Can I get colonists? Expanded Mitma Policy – gain 1 colonist. I could take that, and then start colonizing the nearby open territory. But that doesn’t feel right to me yet. It feels too game-y right now. I’m taking the first one. Organized Recruitment: While our subject peoples have always supplied troops for our armies, they have done so to varying degrees and in an ad-hoc manner. By formalizing the need for every subjugated area to supply soldiers, we will we able to better tap the manpower resources of our lands. +10% manpower recruitment. I take that one. We could use it Results: -2 stability -100 authority Civil war has begun! We have 9000 pretender rebels rise up in Huancavelica where my army is, and 12000 in Tucume and 11k in Cajamarca. 19 May – We win in Huancavelica. This is not a normal slate of rebels, they are fleeing 28 May – We wipe them out in Jauja I increase our stability by 1 back to 2 1 June – Canari is now a core. They capture Tucume. 10 June – Cajamarca falls I order some mercs built in Pisqupampa where I am holding up. I’m afraid that if I move it and hit one army the other adjacent one joins us 28 Aug – I defeat the army from Tucume after they moved to try and take Chanchan 14 Sept – We crush the 2nd army in Huaraz 1 Oct – The 3rd army just grabbed Wankapampa 5 Oct – Quito is now a core province 6 Oct – We recapture Cajamarca 18 Oct – We take Tucume 3 Nov – Caran is now an accepted culture 5 Nov – We lose in Wankapampa 23 Nov – I put a positive spin on things on border friction with Ichma. We lose some dip power 22 Feb, 1481 – They capture Canari 12 Mar – Claim against the province of Cusco is now good 19 Mar – We retake Wankapampa 20 June They take Quito 23 June – We take Canari back 21 July – We win in Canari 14 Aug – Huancavelica is now a core 15 Aug – We win again More border friction with Ichma, and this time I push it and get -50 relations with them 1 Sept – Quito is ours. We are playing ping-pong with their army 25 Mar, 1482 – We officially rout the 3rd army today I disband those mercs |
1 June – New Dip Tech:
Dip 3: The early Carrack Bunch of naval stuff I’ll skip plus +5%trade efficiency, +15% global settler increase and range Manpower is wiped 6 July – War ends in the south: Pacajes’s 4 provinces were freed and set free from Charca. They are back on the stage. I boost stability to 3 1 Sept – Excellent year gives us some extra manpower 2 Oct – Our truce with Chimu and Chachapoya ends I move my forces near Chachapoya’s border Chachapoya now has Quito as an ally, so the war will take longer, I need to rebuild manpower 1 May, 1483 – I begin the process of annexing Chimu. We have 200 relations. It’ll take very little time to actually do. 3 Sept – We annex Chimu +5 prestige We finish a mission and get +1 diplomatic reputation for 10 years We gain 2000 troops in their nation: Chimbote – 3 development, on the coast, Chimuan and Inti, we are already have a core on it, and the mountainous coast is a cocoa province. 0.06 money made. O unrest, 60% autonomy. North of Lima, and down coast and south of Chanchan, east of Huaraz. I drop it’s autonomy. I give it to the clergy |
1 April, 1484 – I declare war on Chachapoya
War: Us vs Mapuche, Quito, Chachapoya 12 – Rebellion in Huaraz and I gain 5 authority 23 April – We rout the Chachapoya army in their province 1 June – Rebellion ended 23 Aug – We defeat the Quito army in Wankapampa 1 Sept – I get an event. Growth in cities attracts serfs. I accept. We get +25% autonomy in Cajamarca and 30 Sept – We rout the Quito forces in their capital of Esmeraldas 23 Oct – 9000 troops from Mapuche, in the far south of South America, actually arrived at our border. Crazy! 27 Nov – They oust the siege in Chachapoyas 11 Dec – They begin a siege of our capital 12 Feb, 1485 – We capture Guayaquil 14 Mar – The Guayaquil army arrives back in Chachapoyas 31 May – Esmeraldas is ours 24 June I spend some MIL power to harshly drop rebellions right now, while we’re at war 13 Sept – We drive the Mapuche away from our capital siege 28 Sept – We rout them in Jauja 26 jan, 1486 – We get an event: Itu Celebration – There is great distress in our lands. People re suffering and many fear for the future. In times like this, an Itu celebration for the entire kingdom might lighten the minds of our subjects. The sacrifices it entails will make the Gods more likely to listen to our plights. Our priests encourage us to improve our chances and us human sacrifices Options: 1). Just use customary sacrifices – llamas, cloth, chichi and sheep 2). Humans it is. Lose 75 dip power. 3) We must focus on here and now. Neither I choose the first 28 Jan – We capture Chachapoya. Diplomacy time: We annex Chachapoyas We annex Quito and get Esmeraldas and Guayaquil. I get some cash too |
I’ll get you a map:
 Here you can see that we end really any major threats from north. Quito and Chachapoya are done. Muisica is a bit away. In the south we have Cusco, Charca, Pacajes, Calchaqui and the native nations of Guarani and Mapuche. Now I want to order cores for my territory. But I also want to get that first AM tech too. Cores are more important though. I spend almost 200 ADM power to do so. I also turn off the forts in my captured territory |
I choose a mission to improve manpower. I have good cash reserves, stability, prestige, and 19 authority. So we’re in a solid enough place.
Chachapoyas – Inti but Chachapoyan, 0.01 money made, 3 development, tropical and jungle, grain growers, 9.3% unrest and 40% autonomy. Has a level 2 castle, and Is next to 4 of our provinces – Moyobamba, Cajamarca, Wankapampa and Pisqupampa. Guayaquil – Caran and Inti, the grasslands here feature the Guayas Estuary, which gives it +10% local trade power, which is fish. 6 development, 0.15 money, 11% unrest, 40% autonomy, it has a temple, and is south of Esmeraldas, north of Tumbes, and west of Quito and Canari. Esmeraldas – Jungle and coastal, fishing is the way of life here as well. The Inti Caran people are 11% unrest, 40% autonomy, and 0.08 cash made. North of Quito and Guayaquil. 3 Feb – We get the Celebration of the Itu event and get -1 war exhaustion and 5 prestige. 3 Sept – I get an Uncooperative Philosopher. I have no desire to lose stability, so I let him remain free, lose some clergy loyalty and some prestige. My major problem moving forward is that I am allied with my only neighbors left – Cusco and Ichma. |
1 Jan, 1487 – I end my alliance with Ichma
16 Feb – We have another chief conspiring against us. Separatists rise up in Esmeralda 8 March – Aucachic Confessors. After a recent war, guilt lies like a heavy blanket over the people. I choose to give some time to confess with a ritual of purification to the streams of Huanuco. Our War exhaustion drops. 24 March – Rebellion ended 4 Sept – Another Mitmaq event occurs. I allow them to resettle back home 8 Jan, 1488 – Chimu Separatist rebels are getting close ot pipping the cork, so I reload the Chanchan fortress and move forces there to prepare. 9 July – Guayaquil and Esmeraldas are now cores 1 Sept – Admin Tech 2 – We can now move to Despotic and Feudal Monarchies as well as Oligarchic Republic |
2 Jan 1489 – Due to my development, I am gaining Authority at 2/year pace. We’re at 37 right now. I have almost 7k in manpower, so I could try to push my authority up and do another reform. I cut autonomy in all four Quito provinces at once. It just makes sense while I’m at peace. 57 authority now
7 Mar, Chachapoyas is now a core. I cut its autonomy and give it to my nobility 31 March – New Event: Immoral Prices – Grain prices are notoriously unstable. Anything from the weather to war can disrupt the prices of it. We have a shortage of grain in a major city – Chanchan. The common people are directing their anger at the merchant guild that runs it. The merchants are claiming the higher prices in light of the shortage is natural and expected. 3 options: Force the Merchants to lower their prices (they lose 15 loyalty, 10 influence for 15 years) We shouldn’t really meddle in this crap (7 peasant regiments rise up in Chanchan, +10 merchant loyalty and influence for 15 years) We’ll pay for and distribute it ourselves. (20 gold, merchants are happy) I chose the third. I have 218 gold and climbing. 15 July – New event: The Royal Guards The honor to guard the life of Apu is heredity and belongs to a number of families in Huanuco. This honor is in itself is not a guarantee of martial prowess however. After a tour of the provinces, the chief realizes the quality of the guard could be improved by letting in new blood. I agree: We get this: Fresh Members of the Royal Guard (Unrest +0.5), Morale of Armies (+5%), Diciplcike +2.5% and it lasts until the leader Usuy dies. 2 Dec – Revolts in both Quito and Wankapampa 13 Dec – Revolt in Quito is over 9 Jan, 1490 – Wankapampa falls 15 jan – We end the rebels 16 Feb – Wankapampa is ours again 1 April – The Guarani tribe moves again. 9 May - I drop autonomy in Huancavelica, 9 Sept – Scandal at the court. I pay off an advisor to take the blame rather than accept it and lose stability |
1 Feb, 1491 – New TECH!!!
Military 3 – Late Medieval Military: We get +0.5 land morale 1 June – I order some more troops assembled 2 June – Rebellion oin Chachapoyas, where I have an army 8 June – Ended 16 June – Whoa! New Event! Alarmed Nobles A delegation from some of the finest families in Huanuco has approached Usuy demanding that the new members of the Guard be sent back home. I have two good choices: 1). Revert things back. Gain 1 stability 2). No. Gain a lot of authority but with Alienated Nobility (+5% advisor costs, +15% stability cost) until death. Nope! My authority is rising rising rising I begin to move troops next to Lima. 21 Nov – I get another Construction of a Temple event and I fund one in Tucume. I also gain…more authority! 1 Feb, 1492 - Our truce with Ichma is up. I tell Charca to declare for war. It’s time. |
So let's pause and look at a few Inca things you are seeing in this dynasty with events and culture and such
The Incan Empire and its predecessors had a policy of resettlement called the Mitma. They would relocate families, villages, and more to help populate some areas, and to distribute newly conquered people into order to reduce keeping every one in one location. Mitma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia pre-Columbian civilizations - Andean civilization | Britannica.com When a new area is conquered it would also move loyal people there to make sure that you were able to administer it without pushback. It's hard to fight back when some of your neighbors were resettled into core territories and others that are loyal to the conquerors are now living next door. It's very effective. You've seen events that refer to people that were resettled, the Mitmaq. Another Incan pre-Spanish concept is the mit'a. This system (later changed by Spanish rule and renamed the mita by historians) is mandatory public service for the good of the Incan society. Your primary form of tribute to the Incan rule was not coin or your possessions like llamas or sheep. Nope. It was service. Community driven projects like road construction and more were done. In fact, people would be expected to perform the mit'a service annually. At its height, due to the wealth of the Incan Empire, folks really only needed to work their farms and such for around 3 months of the year, so the rest was usually devoted to the mit'a. (Incan overseers were pretty flexible about time spent and what was needed elsewhere) I think you'll enjoy this copy and paste from wikpedia on the topic: Quote:
Fields of the People and community based service gives the Incan culture a very distinct one. The Spanish would come in and (of course) pervert the mit'a system in place and take advantage of it. A final creation of the Inca is the Vertical Archipelago. They created terrance (such as at Moray) towers and used them to test whether or not crops would grow at certain altitudes and then had four ecozones they used and spread out, growing things vertically, including agricultural towers, lifts, and more. Vertical archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Moray (Inca ruin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Moray was likely used as an ancient agricultural testing station |
1 March, 1492 – I declare war on Ichma
Their allies – Muisca, Cusco Ours – Charca Our wargoal is Lima. I have two 9k strong armies and order them both into Lima. 19 Mar – I not only beat the 7k troops they had, I rout them. That is an auspicious beginning 1 Apr – One of my armies arrives on the Cusco border where they have 14k troops in Huancavelica. 29 May – We dodge each other, and we capture the minor provinces of Abaney, while they are now in Huancavelica, and Charca is taking land from them in the south 3 June – Muisca arrives in Guayaquil and begins a siege 24 June – Huancavelica falls 6 Sept – charka now have 3 Cusco provinces 15 Sept – After a close battle where we lost a ton of troops, and were almost defeated, we win in Cusco against their force 27 Sept – We recapture Huancavelica I built some more forces 20 Oct – Cusco retakes Abencay from us 16 Nov – Guayaquil falls Canari is next 15 Dec – I retake Abancay 13 Feb – 1493 – Lima falls. I order this force to head up north 17 Feb – Canari falls to Muisca 22 May – We win a minor skirmish against Muisca 17 June – We win a major battle in Chachapoyas 4 Sept – Like before, we get a suitable wife event for my son. I disregard mommey 5 Sept – We rout the Muisican army Charca and Cusco have been exchanging province captures in the southern flank 13 Oct – Canari is ours again 24 March, 1494 – We retake Guayaquil 1 May – After breaking off my army from Cusco and bringing my other army and hitting them from two prongs, I won a very close battle against the main Cusco host in Abancay 9 May – Cuzo province falls to us And I have a high war score Here’s what we get: 1). Lima and the annexation of Ichma 2). Cuzco the capital of our foe 3). Abancay, the province next to us Which we all have some claims on 198 gold |
I order new claims fabricated immediately.
We have our 50 year review soon, so you’ll see stuff then. I order up some cores! Lima – Quechua and Into folk work the cloth making trade here, in this mountainous and coastal region. Lima is a Center of Trade and the location of the Oracle of Pachacamac. 11.4 unrest, 40% autonomy, 0.10 made, 6 development. South and down the cost from Chimbote, and next to Jauja and Huancavelica. Abancay – Quechu aand Inti as well, and more mountain farmers. 0.15 money, 8.9% unrest, and 40% autonomy. 9 development. Abancay is south of Huancavelica and east of Cuzco. The nation of Cusco is to the east with Ayaviri. Cuzco – Note the province is spelled with a Z and the nation with an S. 14 development from their former capital. Mountains, gold mining is the main trade, Quechua and Into folks, a level 2 castle, and 6.7 unrest (we have troops here) along with 40 autonomy and 0.28 made |
11 November, 1494 – 50 Year Review Time!
 Here’s a screen shot of the whole area. You can see us quite nicely. Cusco is now rumped but still rocking four provinces, while Charca, Pacajes, and Calchaqui are all Inti states that have small numbers too. Our next war has to be against Cusco, they are our only neighbor. Our last war hit our manpower reserves down. We were around 10k, and now down to 1.5 ish. I have an authority of 98.,and I’ll wait until it reaches 100 nautrally and then use it, instead of forcing it. That way we’ll be in a good solid place. South of the Inti nations is Charrua, Guarani and Mapuche. All of those are local tribes. We have 2/3/3 in technology. Cusco is 3/3/5. Pacajes is 2.4.3, Charca 3/4/4/, and such. We are starting to get neighbor bonuses to get us caught up. I suspect we’ll see more tech growth soon from the neighbor bonuses We have 21 provinces in 50 years. |
According to the ledger -
We are ranked 70th in the world Province overview: Our top ten provinces by tax: Quito – 8.4 Chanchan – 7.35 Canari – 7.2 Huanuco – 5.6 Esmeraldas – 5.49 Wankapampa – 5.4 Guayaquil – 4.56 Tumbes – 4.05 Piwra – 3.15 Jauja – 3.15 By Production: Quito – 3.16 Chanchan – 2.94 Cajamarca – 2.5 Cuzco – 1.85 Huancavelica – 1.39 Wankapampa – 1.31 Canari – 1.31 Esmeraldas – 1.29 Our ruler, Usuy is 2/5/2, and 47 years old. His son is 21 We make 1.45 gold a month after expenses. We have a forcelimit of 18, but we still have 2 10,000 strong forces. We have three accepted cultures – Quechua, Chimuan and Caran. We do not accept Chachapoyan. We control the trade node of Lima. Trade goods by current value: 4.5 -Copper 4.0 Dyes Silk Cocoa Ivory 3.0 Tobacco Sugar Cotton Coffee Spices Chinaware Iron Salt Cloth 2.5 Fish Wool Wine 2.0 Tropical Wood Tea Slaves Naval Supplies Fur Grain (Gold) We have an alliance and royal marriage with Charca, and no other relations at this time And there we are! |
12 May, 1495 – I get my first claim for Ayaviri in Cusco’s domain
3 July – I now have 100 authority! What next? I can get +1 colonists, bonus legitimacy, bonus army morale, or cheaper core-creation costs. Expanded Mitma Policy – The policy of moving entire villages from loyal territories into newly conquered land or into the frontier has helped expand the empire. This type of forced resettlement could also be used to resettle the population of newly conquered areas into the core territory of the empire. Strrick lands in place to forbid folks from coming back could be enacted. +1 colonist -2 stability Civil War Erupts 10000 Pretenders in Cajamarca 15000 Pretenders in Quito 8000 in Pisqupampa I boost stability back up twice. That’ll drop my admin power to a mighty 106 I choose a native policy: Native Trading Policy I want my first colony to be Cauca – this is a coastal province up the coast from Esmeraldas and is adjacent to Muisica in Neiva. 12 Aug – Quito is captured 26 Aug – Army defeated in Chanchan after it fled from both my armies 8 Sept – Pisqu falls 15 Sept – I rout one army in Chimbote 22 Dec – I retake Pisqu 25 Dec – Abancay, Cuzco and Lima are all cores 20 Feb, 1496 – I defeat a siege on Chachapoyas. 13 Mar – I rout the 2nd rebel army in Pisqu. One left, currently besieging Guayaquil, but it’s the big one 28 May – I force them away from Guayaquil and defeat them 1 June, – New Tech! Diplomatic Technology 4 – Marketplace is available and we can get trade range 10 16 June – We rout th e3rd army in Tumbes 6 July – Quito is ours again I order more forces built |
11 Jan, 1497 – I take building Cauca into an city as my next mission
13 May – Our colony is struck by illness! I send someone to help (cost of ADM power and slowed growth for5 years) Cauca will be a coffee making province 4 June – I send a diplomat to fabricate a claim against Muisica’s Neiva province 28 July – I move some Mitmaq again. Now that I can build Marketplaces, I take a look around They give me +50% local trade power. Not really interested right now. I don’t have a lot of building space in these mountains. I cut the autonomy of Lima, Abancay, Cuzco 1 May – Natives rise up and attack our colony and hurt it a bit 5 May – Event Inti Raymi, the Festival of the Sun The Yanca priests in charge of monitoring the sun have proclaimed a most opportune time to celebrate the Inti Raymi festival! The festival, which lasts a few days, involves the whole population of Huanuco as well as important chiefs from the countryside. I choose to call upon the gods themselves to participate, in addition to the people and the chiefs. Out authority increases by 15. Not making that up. Some of the chiefs rebel at being told what to do and I order them to come anyway! I choose the force them. 6 regiments each in Jauja and Abeancay 20 May – Celebration of the Inti Raymi! Gain 10 prestige 29 June – Both rebellions have ended 1 July – Pacajes offers us royal marriage. I accept 4 Nov – We get an event! Trading in Cocoa – We get +5% manpower recovery as long as we lead the world is cocoa production |
16 Feb, 1499 – Attack in Huanuco!
It seems that someone has attacked and tried to assassinate the leader! But they retreated as soon as they got near It seems like someone is trying to smear the Guard. I order an investigation to begin 3 Mar – Our truce with Muisica ends… I order an army to Cauca 1 April – Nobility have been encroaching into land in Cajamarca and slowly but surely trying to take it. I tell them to knock it off and return the land. We luckily avoid a rebellion 19 April – Plot Uncovered! The investigation into the attack reveals an amateurish plot by a group of young nobles who felt marginalized from the guard. They claim the point was not to harm anyone, just to prove a political point. I have two real options: 1). Kill them by sending them to the Sankacancha Pit! Gain some stuff 2). Forgive them, lose 5 authority, and end the Alienated Nobility event that we have I send them to die for their treason! 23 June – My army arrives in Cauca I declare war against them and move in. The Arawak Tribe is their sole ally 8 Aug – I defeat the Muisca army in Bogota 25 Aug – I end their army in Neiva. 30 Sept – The Arawak army, 9000 strong, arrives in Neiva to protest our presence. 20 Oct – We win and then capture the province 19 Jan, 1500 – They retake Neiva 12 Feb – I take Tunja, a province north of bogota 13 June – I beat some troops in Tunja 26 June –I retake Neiva again 7 July – I defeat the main Arawak army again in Bogota 6 Aug – Bogota falls to us! I get in peace: 326 gold All three Muisca province sand annex them fully: I order some cores! I send Wankapampa to the nobility estates |
4 Oct – Here let me show you a map of the area we just took:
 You can see the colony of Cauca where my 3k troops are that connect Esmeraldas with Neiva. We have the three provinces of Muisca now under our control, but we can’t see outside of it – it’s all unexplored fun time. We got a ton of authority with our events and are looking very special. Here’s let’s look at these three additions. You are going to love them: Neiva – The Muisca Inti people here work the mountains as farmers, with a developer of 13, and 9 unrest and 47.5 autonomy. 0.28 money right now. Meiva is inland and east of Cauca, and south of Bogota, and next to a lot of unclaimed land. It features a temple Bogota – The former capital of the Muisca tribe, this mountainous region is known for its high quality cocoa. With a 14 development as well, the Inti people make 0.20 with 8.2 unrest and 49.7 autonomy. Bogota is between Neiva and Tunja Tunja – The hills of Tunja are known for their salt. The Muisca and Inti people work 12 development, and have 10.8 unrest and an incredibly high 84.3% autonomy. It has a temple, and is north of Bogota. I cut the autonomy right now And now I have a 64 authority Very developed areas. Now I’m getting 3.1 authority annually |
5 Dec – I have begun to discover nearby lands to my holdings. My guess is that soon enough I’ll see it all!
5 Jan, 1501 – The natives have gotten sick from a disease we carried there earlier. I send aid ot them and get better adjustments there. 1 Mar – One of our advisors passes. I hirer Pasac Quintraru as a diplomatic guy who gives us bonus trade efficiency 1 Oct – Our military advisor passes and I hire Yamqui Maya Illaquita who increases our land forcelimits by 10% I order some more troops assembled 3 Dec – Revolt in Quito! 15 Dec – Defeated 21 Sept, 1502 – I get an event with a rush of merchant sand we’ll get more taxes for 5 years 4 May, 1503- Rebellion in Cuzco! 19 May – We win! 14 July – Neiva is now a core I drop its autonomy 14 Nov – Bogota, Tunja are both cores too I order autonomy cut in Bogota 4 Dec – We now embrace and accept the culture of Muisca! I order the culture changed in Moyobamba |
4 Mar, 1504 – Rebellion in Tunja!
29 Mar – Ended 8 April – I get an event – Declining Power of the Nobility – they lose 10 influence. Whew! 18 Aug - So how I;m bashing the rebels is simple. I get a message telling me that one group of Separatists is about to hit. I just one about the Ichman ones, in Lima. So I order an army to that location to defend. In this case ,I have 13,000 forces in Cuzco hat I send over 23 sept – I get an event _ The gOlden Era pof our Culture – gain some prestige 4 May, 1505 – Rebellion in Lima 15 May –Done 9 March, 1506 – I get a call to arms Charca, has declared war against Calchaqui. They’d like me to join. Cusco and Pacajes join Calchaqui. I kind of want to decline. Our peace with Cusco ends in two years and I want ot blitz them. I don’t want to go to war with them and gain pretty much nothing since I’m not the war leader. Now I could say yes, grab some land, and then settle for a side thing,. Okay, Im in. I move to the border |
24 April – I begin to hit Ayaviri, and my other army is moving down the Andes right now
1 June – Ayaviri is ours 3 July – My Quito army arrives the Cusco capital of Quero. 24 July – We take Puno from Cusco. 7 Aug – I begin to siege the capital of Pacajes Tiahuanaco I need to take Puno from Cusco, which is not next to me, so I need Ayaviri, Puno, and then anything else I can get. 12 Dec – I get some native assimilation of 100 in Cauca 18 Jan, 1507 – I split 1000 troops off from a sieging army and took Maraya from Cusco 1 Feb – I take Quero, the capital Huh. That was faster than I thought it’d be I can’t get peace for just Ayaviri and Puno. Alright let’s keep pushing 4 March – We take Tuiahuanaco, the capital of Pacajes! Surely that’s enough, right! I personally have a 60% against them. I can get Ayaviri or Quero, but not two holdings. Alright, I;ma keep pushing 14 Mar – We take Chuquiabo – every holding of Cusco is ours I get 265 gold, and my two targets I send a diplomat out to get more claims So I grabbed two provinces: I order some cores. I’ll grab a quick lil’ snapshot for you.  I have a ton of money, authority, power for growth and more. Ayaviri – 0.14 cash, 5.6 unrest, 40% autonomy, mountains, woold, the Aimara Inti folk here are south of two Cusco holdings – Quer and Macaya, and it connects Puno tpo the east with our holdings in Cuzco and Abancay, 9 development Puno – Aimara and Inti as well, with 6 development gold mines and a temple, 0.12 money, and east of Ayaviri and west of the capital of Pacajes. Why did I need this so much? You’ll see! |
8 April – Moyobamba is now Quechua culture.
7 May – I agree to give Charca military access since I pulled out of their war 1 April, 1508 –I have 100 authority Hmm… Yana Lords: By moving away from the hereditary local powerholders as commanders of our armies, we can instead promote a new clas of leaders chosen for their martial prowess. +10% morale of armies 12000 rebels in Tunja 13000 in Guayaquil 9000 in Huaraz I boost stability 2 May – We win in Guayaquil 12 May – Tunja is captured 15 May – We rout the rebels in Tumbes. One army down 17 May – They capture Huaraz 26 June – I win in Huaraz 18 July – I hold up in Bogota for a but to rebuild my army and morale 8 Aug – We win in Lima 17 Aug – They came to us in Bogota and lost 25 Aug – We rou the army oin Huancavelica and that army is down. 29 Aug – We capture Huaraz 30 Aug – We take down the 3rd army and rout it. 6 September: Our king has passed His son, I move our focus to diplomatic research I boost stability that dropped post-death His heir is Yahuar Hacuac Huyla, 2 years old, and 2/2/1 Our research after shifting is now 8/7/10 19 Sept – Puno and Ayaviri are now cores! 1 Nov – We retake Tunja and that civil war is over Okay, here we go, get ready.......... |
We now have the following provinces:
Puno – Core Quito - Core Cuzco – Core Huancavelica – Core Huanuco – Core Chanchan – Core Cajamarca – Core Guess what? We take on the holy mantle of the Incan Empire! We get: +25 prestige, which maxes it -1 national unrest -10% unjustified demands +1 diplomats -5 national fous cooldown We become an Empire and all Andean cultures are now accepted. They are: Quechua, Caran*, Chimuan, Caran, Muisca*, Aimara, Diaguita Asterisk is for not Andean group, but still accepted |
10 Nov – Our former ally, Charca, is no more. They were forced to turn over some land to Colla and is freed, and other was taken . Colla, a 2 province nation is now back on the map
I gain CBs on every Incan’s historical province, and they don’t end. We gain new traditions and ambitions. For example, I now have a forcelimit of 30, but I have just 29 regiments. I can ebb that up. 12 Dec – Another Mitmaq event occurs and I allow it 1 Januar, 1509 – After a long time, our first colony is now self-sufficient: Cauca – Colonies are no longer cores. Huh. I spend the 20 power it’ll take to do it. 4 development, coastal highlands with the coffee trade, Quechua and Inti people here, and 0.18 money made. My next colonial target is inland of Cauca – Popayan. It’s next to Cauca, and also connects Quito with Neiva. I finish my mission and we gain some taxes and get bonus development costs in Cauca I just slide my 3000 troops over from Cauca to Popayan 5 January – We get an event: Shrine of Viracocha After having created the world and given each ethnic group their language and cloths, Viracocha travelled from lake Titicaca from the Andes disguised as an old man. Today the route is dotted with shrines commemorating his travels. I build a temple, and we lose 100 ducats and we gain this for the rest of eternity – Shrine of Viracocha – Tolerance of the True Faith - +0.5 The only mission available is to form an alliance with Pacajes. Nope, not interested in any more hairy alliances. We are Inti. We are the Incan Empire. We are. We need none. 10 March – Cusco has declared war on Colla. Pacajes joins Cusco 1 Nov – New Tech! Military 4 – Pike Square – We get +0.25 military tactics and +0.5 land morale 2 Dec – Cauca is now a core. 26 Dec – Colla was annexed by Cusco, who is now back to 5 provinces |
10 Jan, 1510 – I order some more troops built in the southern front
3 April – So here’s a look at tech right now: As I mentioned before, we are at 8/7/10 for tech development. So take our best military. That’s 120 mil power annually. I need roughly 1400 to advance in tech (standard is 600). Roguhly every 12 years I should get a military tech advance, without any tech bonuses. And without spending any MIL power along the way. I spend ADM power more than anything else for cores, stability, and more. So we can get DIP soon, we’re at 1260 right now and rising. 16 Nov – I get a good harvest event and I choose to invest it into ADM tech 1 February, 1511 – Our colony in Popayan is a salt province 18 Sept – Event The Young Men and Women of Huancavelica The priests of Huancavelica have become concerned about too many in the are being unmarried and they hard to have families agree to matches. The priests would like for us to forcibly arrange marriages, which has happened in the past. I order the matching, I gain some authority, and the province gets +3 local unrest for 15 years 20 Sept – War breaks out in the south. Cusco declared war against Pacajes and their capital next to us. Calchaqui is on the side of Cusco. 5 July, 1512 – Event – The Coastal Peoples The coastal Chimu people re the carriers of one of the oldest cultures in the Andes. As their lands re now under our sway, we cannot help but marvel at their artisans and craftsmen. Their silversmiths, weavers and ceramicists are producing treasures such as we have never seen before. I choose the option to push integration and the 5 provinces of Chimu gain 25% autonomy, and we get this event forever: Integration of Chimu Customs - +10% stability cost, -5% Admin tech costs, -5% Dip tech costs Tech cost reductions? Sign me up! After the event, I do something awesome. I drop the autonomy in every province (except Chimbote, which I can’t do again until after next year). 30 July – Pacajes forces arrive in Quero and begin to lay siege ot Cusco I send Pacajes some cash t help subsidize their war 3 Oct - In case anyone cares, our treaty with the Arawak ended 1 Nov – New Tech Diplomatic Tech 5 – Trade Range 20, TradeEffeciency +5% 8 Dec – The siege of Quero is lifted by the Cusco force |
1 Feb, 1513 – Our trader advisor has passed. I hire…
Huayna Capac Inquill, level 1 advisor with Better Relations over time +20 So let’s discuss the Incan Empire for a bit Starting in 1438, Cusco begins a campaign that will dominate and take over the region. It didn’t end taking over the region until 1533, when the last holdouts were forced in. It took about 100 years of real life time to get to own the whole region. The Incan Empire is the largest Empire in the pre-Colombian days in the Americas. Now we still have lots to go, and while I took over in 1444, we started the first war in 1454 and begin our conquering. And while we wear the mantle of the Incan Empire, there are vast swatches of the south that are not under our control yet. Fully 14 Inti provinces are left in Cusco, Pacajes and Calchaqui. We need to bring those in, and I’d like to annex the adjacent tribal nations as well. That’s my plan for Inca. So we’re fine and on track. But as you know, its 1513. I have no idea what’s happening anywhere else on the world. We could have colonies in Southern America in Brazil, central America, the Caribbean, who knows? I could be really close to seeing European ships in our waters. And I still have two more reforms I need to do (we are at 49 authority for the next one). Know what? I’m not looking it up either. I want this to be a total surprise. We’ve all seen campaigns where colonization is slowed down by war in Europe or other factors. So getting a chance to really build up could be in the works. I don’t know. We’ll see. Europe will come. We’re at 4 authority annually now 22 Mar – Native assimilation in Popayan increases our group’s holding I know have discovered 9 provinces that are empty and surrounded our Muiscan additions 31 May – Decline of the merchant classes leads to -10 influence for the Merchants 29 Oct – I cut autonomy in Chimbote |
1 Mar, 1514 – Get ready for something very rare for us
ADMIN Tech Increase: Medieval Admin (3) Increase of production efficiency by 5% and I can support rebels in other nations now 10 Mar – Pacajes is annexed into Cusco, who is now a 10 province power after we dropped them to 3. Calchaqui and Cusco are no longer allied. 17 Mar – We are now in a RW with Calchaqui 1 May – I proclaim a guarantee for Calchaqui 1 June – I send a guarantee for Charrua as well, the small tribe south of Calchaqui. They are in the Incan sphere of influence I order my 13k strong army in Bogota to relocate to the south 21 Nov – Disagreeing Advisor occurs. I agree, keep my military adviser, lose some prestige, and gain a ton of MIL power Feb 15, 1515 – Another of the Chief Problems erupts, and I choose to slay him and I get some rebels and gained some authority 15 Mar – They capture Tunja 1 Apr – We arrive in Tunja and defeat the rebels 11 may – We retake Tunja 4 Sept – I get another arranged marriage event and I choose to arrgange marriage in Wankapampa, more authority results 1 Dec – We finish our mission to rebuild manpower! For ten years we’ll get reduced unrest and bonus taxes |
1 Jan 1516 – I cut autonomy in two more provinces and drive upo my authority again. It’s now 97
1 Sept – Who can get another reform? This guy can! Reform the Bureaucracy -10% core creation costs Civil War: 10000 troops in Lima 11000 in Canari 14000 in Esmeraldas 12 Oct – Canari and Lima are taken 15 Oct – I win a minor skirmish in Esmeraldas 13 Nov – We win in Lima 30 Nov – We rout and finish the first army in Jauja 2 Dec – I win another skirmish in Guayaquil 25 Jan, 1517 – Tumbes falls to them 11 Feb – We win a battle in the middle against army 2 4 Mar, 1517 – Truces with Cusco and Calchaqui end… 12 April – I win in Tumbes 27 April – We retake Lima 4 May – We rout an army in Piwra 15 May – We rout an army in Cajamarca 22 May – I retake Canari Civil war ended I move troops to the battlefront. |
213 Aug – I take a mission to conquer Macaya
I lost around 6000 manpower after the civil war. I hire a nice general, 2 fire, 2 shock, 4 width 13 Dec -Another nice event follows: The Huacas and the Royal Temple With the growth of the realm it has come to encompass many chiefdoms and has various Huacas, local idols, being worshipped. We could bring in all of these idols into our central worship in Huanuco. Wht do I do? I chose to move them. We lose 10 legitimacy, 1 stability ( I spend ADM to build it back up) and this event permanently: Huacas - -1 National Unrest 1 Jan, 1518 – I declare war on Cusco. They have no allies. They absorbed them all My goal is to hit the Cusco nation so hard it forgets its birthday 25 Jan – I defeat their main army in their capital of Quero after I combined tow armies to hit I had 24 Feb-We take Macaya 6 Mar - I win in Ayaviri against their army 19 April – Another holding falls to me 24 May – I defeat their army again 6 Sept – We take another Cusco holding 1 Nov – Another falls. They have cavalry so getting to catch them is harder. 27 Dec – Another province falls 1 Feb, 1519 – Another falls 11 Feb – We capture their capital Now I can move that force over and hope to get a pincer on their army 13 feb – I find a suitable wife for my son, his sister, and I gain authority to support it 11 Mar – Their final provinces falls to us. We have a 100% victory, but I want to rout and end their chances and hopes of a comeback 30 Mar - @While I encircle them, they recapture a province 4 June – We beat them! 7 June – I get a peace offer – They give me 6 provinces. Nope. 15 June – I rout their army 16 July – We retake the final province We annex all of Cusco! |
We get 34 aggressive expansion badboy, but it’s not like it matters out here. We gain prestige and manpower recover speed from the mission.
We just added: Quero Macaya Chuquiabo Charcas Tiahuanaco Oruro Potosi Quillacas Chichas Choquechaca 10 provinces in one war. Good bye Cusco! I don’t have enough ADM power to core them all, so instead I’ll core just – Macaya, (some of these are cheap – Quero is just 29 for example), Quero, Tiahuanaco, Oruro, Quillacas, Chichas, and Choquechaca Map of the area taken!  I zoomed in to give you a nice view of all of the provinces You can see Quero on the upper-,leftish to Chichas, Potosi and Choquechaca that border Calchaqui. Our next mission is to reduce overextension. |
Here we go, get ready:
All provinces are Inti and Aimara unless otherwise mentioned. Remember we have claims on all of this stuff, taking it in war is easy time. They also all have 40% Autonomy and 8% unrest unless otherwise mentioned. We’re doing the back line first. The map is basically two provinces long most of the way, so one line in front, and one in back. Quero – Quechua tropical jungle with 4 development. It’s right by our earlier additions of Cuzco, Ayaviri. West of Macaya. Wool is made here, has a temple , 0.10 money made Macaya – 7 development, mountainous, both temple and barracks, grain, 0.21 money, west of Choquiabo, north of us in Puno and Ayaviri, east of Quero. Chuquiabo – 8 develop, mountains, cloth is produced, marketplace and temple, 0.29 money, west of Charcas, north of Puno and Tiahuanaco, east of Macaya. Charcas – Mountains, temple, 0.17 money, 52% autonomy, wool, 6 development, west of Choquechaca, east of Chuquiabo, and north of Oruro and Tiahuanuco Choquechaca – Mountains, gold mines, temple, 0.11 money, just 5.9 unrest but 62 autonomy, on border with Calchaqui’s Sucre, 5 development, east of Charchas, north of Potosi and Oruro Now we are heading back and doing the second front strip of land: Tiahuanaco – Mountains, temple, 55% autonomy, 9 development, grain, 0.21 cash, east of Puno, west of Oruro, south of both Chuquiabo and Charcas Oruro – 65.#% autonomy, 12.9% unrest, marketplace, copper mines, 5 development, 0.06 cash made, mountains, west of Potosi and Quillacas, east of Tiahuanuco, south of Charcas and Choquechaca Potosi – gold mountains, 10 development, 0.35 mony made, 75% autonomy, 13% unrest, south of Choquechaca, north ofg Chichas, east of Quaillcacas, Oruro. On the border with Calchaqui’s Sucre Quillacas – A little rump province south of the two strips, south of Potosi, Oruro, highlands, gold, temple, 5 development, 0.10 cash, 65% auto, 10.% unrest Chichas –On the border with Calchaqui’s Sucre, Tarija and Santa Catalina provinces. Also next to Potosi and Quillacas. Mountains, 5 dev, 0.10 cash, 65% auto, 12.9% unrest, salt, temple. And there we go. Whew! One of my main armies will be in Chachas prepping for the next war. I drop autonomy on all ten of those provinces and jack up my authority by 50! Yeah we did! |
Now we need to have The Potosi talk, Potosi is a miraculous province for a few reasons. The city of Potosi is very high up in the Andes. It’s one of the highest cities in the world by elevation (13540 feet). It’s up there. (Welcome to the Andes) .
Potosi is built by a mountain called the Cerro Rico, rich mountain. It’s rich. The mountain was rumored to be literally made of silver. It’s one the deepest, richest, silver mines in the world. In history. It was the major mine that funded the various Spanish treasure fleets and such. In fact, for decades, the Cerro Rico alone amounted for about 20% of silver production in the world. In fact, the province of Potosi in EU4 has a bonus, Cerro Rico, the increases its production considerably. You can fund anything you need from it. (Potosi became a common phrase in Spain and was mentioned in Don Quixote) Check our Potosi on Wikipedia: PotosÃ* - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As it states: “Located in the Bolivian Tin Belt, Cerro Rico de Potosi is the world's largest silver deposit and has been mined since the sixteenth century, producing up to 60,000 tonnes by 1996, and estimates are that much silver still remains. Potosi became the second largest city, and the site of the first mint, in the Americas” And now we have Potosi. |
1 Oct – I revoke my guarantees
1 Feb, 1520 – Popayan is now a full fledged city Popayan – Mountainous salt region with 5 development, 0.26 money, inland and east of Cauca, south of Neiva, and north of both Quito and Esmeraldas Next target - Cartagena – West of Tunja – the best province I can see. Or somewhere like Camana or Arequipa on the coast and south of Ayatiri, Puno and such. They have 5 development. I do: Arica – 5 developemtn, coastal desert, south and west-ish of Tiahuanaco, Oruro 4 Oct – I order cores for: Potosi Charcas 31 Oct- These are now cores – Oruro, Quero, Tiahuanaco, Chichas, Choquechaca, Quillacas, Macaya 1 Jan, 1521 –Core ordered for Chuquiabo 28 Feb – We get native assimilation in Arica 10 Sept - I order some new tech! Military 5 - Better combat width, better infantry/.cavalry shock We can build: Incan Axemen Incan Slingshots South American Forest Warriors Reformed Mountain Warriors We’re moving my military to slingers 15 Sept – I order a core for Popayan |
11 Jan, 1522 – Cores completed for Potosi and charcas
15 Mar – Done for Popayan 9 April – Core s all done. I finish my mission and get +1 diplomatic rep for ten years Turn Arica into a city! 7 Aug, Native assimilation in Arica 14 Aug –I get a prospering times. I invest in infrastructure in Chuquiabo and it gets +1 base tax and I make some Admin power 4 Oct – Rebellion in Chuquiabo 6 Nov - Ended 24 Nov – The Emperor has fallen ill. I give ruling to the nobles their loyalty increases and taxes decrease 2 Mar, 1523 – The natives tried to rise up and hit Arica, but our 3000 bodyguard troops fended off the attack 4 April – Rebellion in Potosi 11 April – Ended 10 May – 200 settlers have arrived and decided to settle Arequippa! Arequippa is coastal, next to Arica, south of two of our lands as well. 1 June – Gold in Arica! 3 Nov – Revolt in Quero 21 Nov – Done 1 Jan, 1524 -0 One of our advisers passes. I hire – Tupac Amaru Challco, a level 2 advisor in ADM to increase our value there. I have the cash to do it 2 Nov – I declare war aganst the Chalcaqui 26 Nov – I choose to invest a good harvest into ADM power 24 Dec – Sucre is ours 26 Dec – I win in their capital of Jujuy 21 Jan, 1525 – I capture Tarija 5 Feb – We rout their army in Santa Catalina 1 Mar -- Our army organizer passes. I hire level 1 reinforce speed guy Huaypalcon Quintiruara 17 Mar – Santa Catalina is ours 26 October – The capital city of Jujuy is ours I take 174 cash and all four nations of theirs I order cores for all four provinces. It took 156 total powe |
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 Here we are post war, with our four additions. Two major things of note. First ,check out the 9000 troops next to us in Tucuman province – that’s the Charrua tribe. I do have an Incan claim on them. You’ll also see our mega-high authority and we are gaining 5.5 annually so we’ll be playing that game again soon. Also note that you can see all four of these: Sucre – Mountains, Aimara, Inti, cloth, 0.3 made, 3.5% unrest, 40% autonomy, 10 development, east of our holdings of Potosi, Chichas and Choquechaca, and north of Tarija Tarija – Not mountains or highlands but….grasslands! Wool, 6 dev, 0.16 cash made, 3.5% unrest, Inti, Aimara, south of Sucre, North of both Santa Catalina and Jujuy, and east of Chichas Santa Catalina – These mountains 3 dev, shepherds make 0.06 are of Diaguita descent, and serve Inti, the great Sun God. 3.5 and 40% here too. Sotuh of Chichas and Tarija, and west of Jujuy Jujuy – The former capital is north of the Charrua tribe, and south or east or both of Tarija and Santa Catalina. Mountains, Diaguita, 8 development, 012 money, wool, and 0% unrest. (Troops present) |
1 Jan, 1526 – I’m beginning to find the previously undiscovered territory next to my new additions in Calchaqui
1 Mar _ I can now pass another reform but I am shifting my armies around to the center and north just in case they hit places up north 4 April – revolt in Tiahuanaco 16 April – Done 22 May – Let’s do it Reform the Cult of Inti While Inti, the sun, is the foremost of all of the gods of the Andes, the people also worship other Huacas. We must require all to acknowledge Inti as the main god, and the other idols turned in. Yearly Legitimacy +0.5 14000 in Cuzco 13000 in Puno 9000 in Tucume I have 12k in Canari I order to Tucume I re organize my forces in th south 7 June – I knock the army out of Puno 23 June – Tucume falls 14 July – We win in Tucume 19 July – Tiahuanaco falls 25 July – Rebel army in the north is routed in Cajamarca 3 Aug – Tucume ours again 30 Aug – We win in Tiahuanaco 14 Sept – Army routed in Arica 8 Oct – Tiahuanaco is back to ours Gold in Arequippa as well 2 Nov – I gain some DIP Power from investment chosen post-good year 8 Dec –I lose in Cuzco 11 Jan, 1527 – We win in Cuzco with a backup army 28 Jan – We rout the rebels in Ayaviri 1 Feb – Our 4 captured provinces are now all cores! 4 Aug – Now that I won’t be spending a lot of ADM moving forward, I change my national focus to admin again |
28 Jan, 1528 – Natives joins the colony in Arequipa
29 May – We get a construction of a temple event for Chimbote. I fund it. `15 June – Nobility lose 10 influence We are currently making 1.56 gold monthly 30 Sept – I’m bored. I declare war on Charrua, Mapuche joins them 31 Oct – I beat their main army 30 Jan, 1529 – I rout the Cahrrua army in San Juan, the capital of Mapuche The furthest south the Incan Empire expanded was to the Maule River. (Tucuman) but I have these claims on the tribes below us as inca, and they are in the Andes. The highest mountain in the world outside of Asia is south of Tucuman 17 Oct – Tucuman falls to us 17 Jan, 1530 – We take San Juan We get: Tucuman province - force religion to Inti Mapuche is now our vassal Tucuman – 11 development, Inti, Charruan, 0.16 money, 2.6% unrest but no autonomy, I order up a core, coffee is the trade good, mountainous, south of Santa Catalina and Jujuy. Soth of it is some unclaimed land, and then Guarani in La Rioja and our vassal Mapuche in San Juan I begin to make good with Mapuche 6 Mar – I catch priests inciting unrest in Bogota. I slay the priests, rebellion in Bogota, and I gain 10 authority. 4 April – Rebellion ended. Tunja is the biggest province with revolt risk right now, so I had an army here just in case it got uppity laters 1 Sept – Arica is now a full colony! We finish the mission and gained some good stuff there. I order up a core for it. Arica – Dev 6, coastal desert, gold, 0.29 made from it. Sotuh of Tiahuanaco and westish of Oruro. It’s also east along the coast of fellow colony Arequipa. Next target? It might be time for me to hit up the other side of South America in order to get to where the Europeans might be. I can’t upgrade my religion, or westernize, until I’m cored and next to one of their cores. But I certainly don’t see any on the west coast of S America. Hmm… There are the ones next to Tunja that I can do that are also on the border/coast and put Inca on the map: Cartegena, Magdalena, Maracaibo, Of those, Cartagena is the best,m but it’s tropical, so it would take longer to do. I send some colonists thought to grab it Before I do that, I need a strategic target. Catamarca. South of Tucuman and next to Guarani’s La Rioja. I’ll send my colonist there to set up camp, and then pull it bck and set up shop in Cartagena permanently I am swapping to a new native policy – Native Repression. It increases the frequency of the raids, but also increases global settler increase |
1 Jan, 1531 – Huh. I have gained a force relocation CB against the Guarani tribe.
They stay in play, and I take their land, but then they head out somewhere else? Awesome! 3 Jan – I have a rebellion in Ayaviri, right where I have an army. 12 Jan -0ver 1 April – We set up shop in Cartagena. Arica is now a core I can see a Scottish fleet in the Gulf of Darien. 3 ships That’s odd. I don’t think anyone would have taken Scotland in the “First European You’ll See pool” 29 Sept – I get an event for growth in Huancavelica 1 Dec – Natives get uptight in Catamarca, but I have 11000 troops there, so that’s not happenig 25 Dec – Alright I want to take this CB for a spin. I declare a force relocation war against the Guarani We are at war with 4 tribes. Carib, Tupinama and Tapuia – don’t know where they are. 29 Jan, 1532 – I defeat their army in the capital of La Rioja 21 June – Tucuman is now a core 1 Sept They moved their army behind our lines and I’m chasing it with another army 4 Dec – I spend some inflation in an vent to spend and invest in ADM infrastructure and gained power 20 Dec – I defeat them in Cuzco 20 Jan, 1533 – Another defeat in Ayaviri 4 Feb – I capture La Rioja 16 Feb – I win in Puno I can’t get the land, I can just force them off. I don’t want that so I force them to change their religion and I get 144 gold I can see the enemies we fought against. |
1 March, 1534 – I am high in three techs, but ready for one:
Military 6 – Arquebus – Tactics Fire, Shock, Width are all good, we can finally build cavalry and barracks (Must have had horses spread down here) 8 July – We defeat natives in Arequipa 14 Sept – We defeat them in Catamarca as well 1 Dec – Next tech: Admin 4 – Temples – Can build them And the next ADM tech gets me our first National Idea. That’s long overdue 1 Jan, 1535 – I order a Temple in Quito 22 May – I chose a national decision – Encourage Divination - -1 National Unrest, and +5% stability cost 28 June – Disease strikes Cartagena 25 November – Our chief has died! Stability drops His son: Yahuar Hacuac Huyla, 2/2/1 29 Takes over. Meh. Our new prince Huayna Capac, 2/2/1 I get an event to revert the guard, and get a free increase of stability and I revert them to the nobility With his death, I get a Pancaca, funereal rites, and such. We can Mummify him, forget him, or elevate him to godhood. We mummify him and he takes his place over everyone and our authority increases 10,m and we spent some cash |
1 Feb, 1536 – I take a mission to rebuild manpower
6 Mar – Revolt in Potosi 2 Apr – Ended 10 July – Native assimilation in Arequipa 2 Sept – We lose a military advisor. I hire level 1 ,manpower modifier Luyes Illaquitta 1 Jan, 1537 TECH Dip Tech 6 – Shipyard. We can build them 1 Feb – I order a Temple in Bogota 22 June – Assimilation in Arequipa 1 Oct – Arequipa is now a full fledged province! Arequipa – 5 devl, 0.21 money made, gold mines, coastal desert, I ordered a core, west of Arica, and south of Puno and Tiahuanaco I’m going to skip and not bother with any native uprisings from here because I have two or three each year but I have armies in all of my provinces. 13 May, 1538 – Core in Arequipa 1 July – Event gives me +1 tax in Jauja 14 Dec – After failures to deal with ordinances there and non-enforcement, autonomy increases in Neiva |
23 April, 1539 – Event
Oracles And Divinations We head to the Oracle of Pachacamac and get good news nsand goodprestige Oh and I order a temple in Lima. Duh 1 June – Our general died 1 July –Treaty with our vassal the Mapuche ends 11 Dec – I finish our mission to rebuild our manpower reserve 1 Jan, 1540 – With the 3rd colony now gone, I’m making around 5.5 gold monthly 8 Feb – Truces expired I declare war on Guarani for their province this time, not that dorky move one 7 Mar – I defeat their force 20 Mar – I rout their army in Catamarca 1 June – I order a Temple in Cuzco 30 July – Tapuia forces (17000) arrive in Sucre and are marching inland 28 Sept – I defeat them in Puno with a middle army I make my son and heir a general and send them out. Level 2 general actually so that’s nice 10 Nov – We capture La Rioja They won’ take my peace offer. Gotta push more 30 Dec – We defeat them in Cuzco 24 Jan, 1541 – I get a cruelty of the army event. I lose 5 prestige 27 Jan – We win in Ayaviri We take them We also get some cash La Rioja – Core ordered, mountain, 40% autonomy, 0 unrest, 0.07 money sent, 6 development, coffee grown here, we get a holding between our vassal (Mapuche in San Juan) and our colony in Catamarca/. Guarani culture, Inti religion. |
Here, zoomed in map for you
 You can see the end of our Inti excursion in Jujuy and then the adventures of Tucuman, Catamarca the colony, La Rioja and finally San Juan at the bottom. Note the 100 authority and high ADM power. I take a mission to city-tize Cartagena |
2 Sept – Temple ordered for Chanchan
1 Apr, 1542 – Assimilation in Cartagena 3 June – Cartagena is now a full colony. We finish our mission. Sigh. I order a core Cartagena – 9 development, tropical jungle, coast, Important Natural Harbor gives it bonus development, trade power and naval force limits. 0.39 to us. The people here work the sweet sweet sugar trade. West of Tunja, and around many unclaimed lands. Next target should be up here as well. Nearby stuff is tough. Take Magdalena, on the coast. Tropical, 3 development,. Maracaibo – next to and coastal of Tunja? Grasslands, coastal, 5 dev, tropical. I guess we can do that. I send colonists to Maracaibo 17 Dec – We sell some titles I order a Temple in Sucre, Jujuy, Tucuman 20 Jan, 1543 – I hand Quero to the Clergy Estates 14 Feb – Cartagena is now a core 29 June – Rebellion in Cauca sparked by me denying nobility encroachment 4 July – La Rioja is now a core 15 July – We lose. 26 July – Cauca falls 15 Sept – We defeat their army in Cauca 8 Oct – Cauca back in our hands 1 Jan, 1544 – Temple ordered for Potosi 1 Oct – Temple in Ayaviri |
11 Nov, 1544 – 100 Year Review:
MAPS!  Here’s a zoomed out map for you You can Inca, and a few tribes in the South American area. I still have no idea where, if anywhere, there could be European colonies. Note our very high manpower, ADM power, stability, legitimacy, and such We have a forcelimit of 46 and 44 regiments. We have one subject – Mapuche Estates: Clergy have 40 loyalty and 51 influence, Merchants have 70 and 21 Nobility have 61 and 45 And we get bonuses for high loyalty. |
Ledger –
We are ranked 71st in the world Top ten provinces by taxes: Quito Jujuy Cuzco Bogota Chanchan Neiva Tunja Canari Chuquiabo Tiahuanaco By Production: Potosi (Dang – 15.20 right now!) Bogota Cuzco Quito Chanchan Cajamarca Tunja Chuquaibo Cartagena Arica Two colonies in there. We have 49 holdings and 2 colonies in Catamarca and Maracaibo We have around 2% inflation We have a ton of accepted cultures due to our Empire status Trade Goods Current Value 4.5 – Copper 4.0 – Dyes Silk Cocoa Ivory 3.6 – Cloth 3.0 – Tobacco Sugar Cotton Coffee Spices Chinaware Iron Salt 2.5 – Wine 2.25 – Fish 2.0 –Tea Tropical Wood Slaves Fur Grain Wool Naval Supplies (Gold) We make more X in the world that anyone else: Gold -20% Cocoa – 37% |
1 May, 1545 – We get Native Assimilation in Catamarca
1 Oct – Catamarca Since it takes just 16 ADM I’ll upgrade it to a core right now: Catamarca – Mountains, wool, 5 development, connects La Rioja and Tucuman, and 0.16 money made from it With that colony done, I’m now making an epic ton of cash – 12 gold a month 1 Jan, 1546 – I order my settlers in Maracaibo to recall so I can establish another colony, and then I’ll head back and help out. I want to start cutting off the coast a bit down south. I send colonists to Copiapo – Coastal Desert west of Larioja and Catamarca 15 April – I order a Temple for Huanuco 4 May – Catamarca is now a core 1 June – I get 200 free colonists in Puna de Atacama, which is east of Santa Catalina, Tucuman, Chichas and north of Catamaran, and west and inland of Copiapo. I send in some troops to help keep folks safe from the 500 natives there 1 Oct – Native assimilation in Maracaibo 1 Nov – Maracaibo is going to be a coffee producing colony. 23 Dec – We sell some more titles! I order Temples in… Arica Cartagena |
26 Feb, 1547 – I arrange some more marriages
1 May – Truces with the remaining tribes end 14 Oct – I force Mapuche to change their religion Now that we are the same faith, I begin to annex them 13 June, 1548 – Hold onto your butts Admin Tech 5 – Group of Ideas, +5% production What do we choose? Exploration Ideas? Get my first level right now, and crack another colonist. We can get Quest for the New World soon there after.Help me find-ish folks (just by land though) Yeah, as I look at other stuff, it has to be Exploration Ideas I spend 360 Dip to unlock Colonial Ventures. We get another colonist I spend another 360 for Quest for the New World (I thought Ideas were 400 each? Did I get a bonus somewhere and forget? I didn’t think I could unlock two already!) I can now recruit explorers and conquistadors! I spend 50 mil to recruit a Conquistador! Meet Quispe Titu Quilaco! I Give him at the head of the 4000 troops in Maracaibo and we’ll start by checking out places here, and then head east along the northern coast of the continent. I order 2000 cavalry assembled to help out I don’t have the cash to fund …wait…what happened there? Why am I now making 5.5 gold again? Is the 5% production bonus that big of a sweep? Ah yes, gold. Gold is production. So yes, I do have the cash. I’m eyeing a few places. The best colony by development prospects is Antioquia, inland and between Cartagena and Tunja, with a 7 development potential. But why don’t I hold off until I’ve found a few places with the Conquistador that may be on the coast or in better places? |
4 July – I support a young high quality clergy leader over the establishment and I Lose some prestige but gain loyalty.
I’m going to skip all of my discoveries and only tell you if I find something interesting (people, good lands for colony, etc) 2 Aug – We have finished annexation of Mapuche San Juan – Mountains, 4 dev, south og La Rioja, Animist and Mapuche culture, I send a missionary, already a cor,e 0.07 money, 60% autonomy, coffee made here. They gave us 2000 troops as well. 22 Aug – east of Maracaibo is Altagracia, a coastal, mountainous, tropical., 7 development land. 3 Oct – I see Portuguese Ships in the Venezuelan Gulf 27 Feb, 1549 – Why hello France. France is building a colony in the Orinoco Delta about four provinces down the coast from Maracaibo. I’m going to try to go inland and around Frnace ot keep exploring 10 May – I take a Convert San Juan to Inti mission 9 Dec – We have a year of exploring under our chest. I wanted to show you what I found thus far. It’s pretty open. There’s just the one French colony. But the closer I move to the tp, the more likely I am to find Europeans since the colonial range is reduced  |
19 July, 1550 – We find a Scottish province in Parnaiba. Fully built.
26 July – Four of my provinces get outbreaks of smallpox 14 Aug – The leader, Yahuar dies of smallpox: Here I’ll show you the awesome/sucky event!  As you can see, we have a dead leader, and we have one of two heirs dead as well from disease. Which side are we going to support in the war? Both have good-ish leaders (Athualpa is 1/5/5 and Huascar is 5/3/4). Huascar is harder though. That event has 7 separate pretender armies that rise up vs the 5 for Atahualpa I choose Huascar We lose 40 legitimacy, 2 stability and we get: 10000 in Chicha 6000 in these: Puna de Atacama; Santa Catalina; Quillacas; Tarija; Potosi, and Sucre Huascar is 20 The good news is that most of these are happening in the same region. Where I have troops waiting. I order my armies up and my 15k army in Ayaviri down (This is exactly what happened in Inca before Spain took it down. Disease took down the majors, and the nation was warring in Civil War) 16 Sept – Tarija falls. Many others are going to as well,obviously Sept 29 – I win in Catamarca after one left Puna. 1 Oct – I drive awa an arm in Santa Catalina 3 Nov – I win in Quillacas 7 Nov – Win in Tucoman 8 Nov - _ I grba back Santa 12 Nov – Win in La Rioja 20 Nov – I get an event about the new Huascar who’s not following a lot of traditions. I choose to placate the nobles and the stability rises 22 Nov – Army destroyed in Catamarca 26 Nov – Army destroyed in Oruro 15 Dec – New Heir to the throne – Tupac Yupanui, 5/3/3 1 Feb, 1551 – Three more provinces have fallen 15 Mar – I defeat an amry compelted in Charchas and its destroyed 30 June – All rebels defeated 13 July – I am offered a chance to set up a penal colony in Copiapo. I set it up 1 Aug – Native Assimilation in Maracaibo 21 Oct – The final province, Quillacas is ours again. Civil War is over I get an event to end the war, and I choose to be conciliatory and gain another stability, at the cost of prestige |
2 Feb, 1552 – San Juan converts, and we get a Wave of Devotion from our mission
1 July – Maracaibo is self-sustaining. I order colonists next door to Altagracia Maracaibo – 5, grasslands, tropical, 0.22 money, coffee, coastal, I’m going to start bring my Conquistador back to basecamp 2 Sept – Another outbreak of smallpox hits 1 Oct – I take turning Copiapo into a city as our next mission 24 Dec – Improvements in production Tech are here. We gain some ADM power 1 Jan, 1553 – Here’s a nice update for you: You can see we’ve gone around the horn and are now coming back in the south. Only France and Scotland are here. France is now in the province of Cumana, just two down from us in Altagracia. It looks like France is going to be our good buddy here. I send a diplomat to make nice  |
3 Mar, 1553 – Maracaibo is now a core
1 June – I have a Portuguese Fleet sailing off the coast of Arica, Peru and others 10 July – We get an event for a large levee. And we get a 25 year effect for prestige and advisors and growth of nobility loyalty 1 July, 1554 – I spend some DIP to get +50% colonial range with the 3rd ide ain the Exploration Ideas group. We also unlock Machu Picchu in our own personal line and get +1 prestige a year 1 Aug – We get bonuses for having a lot of coffee and get +10% fort defense 26 Nov – I get an event about native suffering and exploitation in Altagracia. I choose ot spend a spot of cash to aid them 25 Dec – I get a good harvest event and place the money in our ADM power 12 Apri, 1555 – Native assimilation in Puna de Atacama 10 May – I found some folks in Mesoamerica. I’ll leave them be for now 27 Sept – Native Assimilation in Altagracia |
1 June, 1556 –
Puna de Atacama – Grain, mountains, Core ordered, 3 development, 0.05 money, this former colony was between 5 of our holdings. I send the colonists here to: Coquimbo – On the coast, south of colony Copiapo, west of San juan Most of South America is pretty untainted by Europe right now. I’ll show you:  You can see the [places we have explored, the tribes we have found, the small French holdings, and the token Scottish one. You can see Central America’s borders as well. Also note the cash we’re holding onto, and the high ADM and MIL I have, getting ready for the next techs. We’re saving onto the money because the next tech brings in….Workshops! 28 Dec – We have a feud with noble families. I choose to let them fight it out and get 25% autonomy in Wankapampa, rather than get a revolt or drop or stability 21 Jan, 1557 – Puna fe Atacama is now a core part of the patrimony yof the Incan Empire 1 May – One of our military advisers passes. I hire level 1 Pomaguala Ninancoro, a reformer speed +33% guy 1 July – Admin Tech 6 – Workshop, We can build them For example, France’s tech is 12/12/13 We are at 6/6/6. Barely better than the native tribes – they are at 554, 445, 355, 556 and then we have 656 and 676 in Mesoamerica So we are right on target with everyone else, despite me throwing a bunch of cash at the problem with advisers and such I order Workshops for: Quito Cauca Bogota Tucuman (No workshops in gold provinces) |
1 Mar, 1558 – TECH GAIN – Mil 7 We get better tactics, artillery fire, shock, and we can build cannon!
16 Mar – I order a culture change to Quechua for San Juan 26 April – I order the same for Chachapoyas 24 May – I catch another wave of European Diseases in our shores 15 July – Declining power of the nobility happens and they lose 10 influence 1 Sept – Workshop ordered for Tunja 29 Dec – Military divided event. I choose +10% siege ability for a decade 1 Jan, 1559 – Cumana is now a full French province. I was hoping to see more in Caracas but they didn’t launch. 1 June – Smallpox ends Whew 1 July – Exploration Idea #4 – We get +20% settler growth 1 Sept – Workshop ordered for Chuquiabo 12 Dec – Event re: Chief conspiring against the Emperor. Rebellion in Pisqupampa after I reject him 21 Dec – We open up a new settlement in Altagracia. 6 Jan, 1560 – More smallpox breaks out 1 Feb – Pisqu falls 30 Mar – Rebels defeated 5 May – Pisqu retaken 4 Sept – Workshop in Cajamarca 29 Oct – Chachapoyas is now Quechua 21 Dec – Merchant defects event |
19 July, 1561 – San Juan now Quechua
1 Aug – Altagracia – Coffee, 8 development, mountain, coastal, 0.4 made here, core ordered, east of Maracaibo. I order colonists east along the coast in Coro, which is not a great place, simply a route to France 1 Oct – Workshop for La Rioja 4 April, 1562 – Altagracia is now a core 3 May – Caran is no longer an accepted culture 16 July – Austria is at war with France, and took French holdings. Meanwhile France has expanded two colonies to the east of their holdings (you should have come west to us!) 7 Nov – Native assimilation in Coro Workshop ordered for San Juan 21 July, 1563 – Wavering loyality of merchant guilds and they drop 10 1 Aug – Workshop in Sucre 1 Sept – Copiapo – 5 development, fish, coastal desert, west and on the coast of Catamarca, La Rioja, Sanjuan and Puna de Atacama. North of Coquinho I order another colony in Antioquia – the best land I’ve found – 7 development, but it’s inland of Cartagena, Tunja, but nice. 7 Dec – I give the clergy Puna de… |
1 Jan, 1564 – New Idea – Viceroys (+20%) global tariffs
4 Jan – I invest some good crop harvest in admin power 16 Mar – I arrange marriages in Abencay 6 Apr – Copiapo is a core 1 Sept – Workshop ordered for Tucume 25 Jan, 1565 – Whew! As of today, I have finished exploring every single land province in South America. Here we go!  This map shows the four French provinces captured by Austria. We are doing well from every angle. We’ll get another tech gain soon. |
1 Sept – Workshop for Cartagena
7 Jan, 1566 – Event – Army morale drops -10% for a decade after using bad ore used in weapons 15 Feb -= Another smallpox outbreak. 3 April – Coquimbo – Salt, 4 development, coastal, mountains, south of Copiapo and west of San Juan. 0.09 made here. I ordered it for this reason… I order settlers to Pincumapu, a natural harbor south of Coquimbo. 1 May – We lose an adviser I hire level 2 adviser (for ADM) Taraque Maras fp +2% Missionary Strength 10 Nov -0 Coquimbo is now a core 2 Dec – Muisca is no longer an accepted culture 1 May, 1567 – Workshop in Maracaibo 1 Sept – Another for Altagracia |
9 Jan, 1568 -I execute a dishonest bailiff and lose 10 prestige
1 Feb – New ADM Tech – Get ready – Noble Republic is allowed if you like and……new group of ideas! We are in a strong place with Exploration - two more until completion. Now I cannot do another Diplomatic idea, the next needs to be Military or Admin. One obvious place is Expansion. Grab it, and then use it to give me a 3rd colonist soon. We will begin to blaze through these colonies. But I don’t know how well I’ll handle that many colonies when I’m going through westernization and religion reform. Too much money. Quanity Ideas – Military. I select it, and then I take Levee en Masee - +50 manpower We get -10% Deveopment Costs from our Inca idea that’s unlocked And then spend more MIL to get The Young can Serve +20% manpower recovery speed 24 June – Colonist Rush event I want to use this event well (next ten years, +20% growth). I pull back my settlers in Picunmapu and send one to Mérida, mountains and tropical and inland and between Tunja, Maracaibo and Altagracia 1 Nov – Event – We consult the Oracle of Pachacamac Favorable answer ensues 1 Jan, 1569 – Idea – Free Colonists - +1 colonist I send this new colonist to help finish off Antioquia. I don’t have the cash for a 5th colony, I’m losing a bit on 4. 2 March – Coro – 3 development, coastal grassland, east of Alltagracia, naval supplies are grabbed here, 0.07 made, core ordered. Tropical too I order these settlers to Caracas, next to Cumana and France The money I’ll make for these few months of 3 colonies pays for the loss and then some. 18 May – Assimilation in Merida 4 Nov – Coro is a Core-o Wait…why am I making money with 4 colonies now after established Caracas? Is it cheaper to set up some colonies than others? 10 Nov – I send folks to start a colony from Antioquia to Camana. Camana is on the coast in our central area, south of Abancay, Ayaviri, and Puno, and west and up coast from Arequipa |
10 Jan, 1570 – I maximize relations with France
1 Mar – Our great Conquistador who scouted an entire continent passes. Long may his shine over the Incan Empire! 8 July – I have another festival of the Sun event. We gain some prestige 3 Dec – Scotland has started a colony next to their one province on the far corner of Brazil. 11 Dec – Idea – Enforced Service - -10% Regiment costs We also unlock the Quipu and get +10% national taxes from Incas 31 Jan – Huaraz gets +1 taxes and +2 stability issues 8 April – Frances war ends 15 Jan, 1572 – Improvements in military lead to some MIL tech arriving 1 June – Assimilation in Caracas. Right now with our events, we are getting +80 or +90 a year (with or without tropical tags) and then those with settlers in them get a chance each month to get bonus folks. Caracas, with the assimilation is already at 424. 19 Aug – France sent out two more colonies in this area. 26 Nov – More outbreaks of diseases from European contact |
1 Oct, 1573 – Scotland annexes a local tribe, the Tupinamba – they add their three provinces to their own
2 Dec – Let’s finish this thing. Global Empire -+25% naval force limits and we have now unlocked Exploration – We get a permanent CB against all primitives. 1 Ja, 1574 – 7 more provinces catch smallpox 19 Jan – I get a Good Government Policies event and bonus power in all three areas DIP power for a while is going to be used to shift cultures 1 July – Change culture in La Rioja to Quechua 1 October – Antioquia – 7 development, mountains, 0.41 money, coffee, core ordered, as I mentioned, the 7 development was about the best you could do right now, and now tropical to speak of either And now I’m making money again 6 Oct – New Idea – The Old and the Infirm - -10% land maintenance modifier 1 Nov - That cut our costs considerably for a 46k strong army. So I order another colony. I recall Camana and send to Llanos. This is inland of Coro, Altagracia and Caracas, just 4, but I want to block off too much French expansion inland 4 May, 1575 – let me zoom in on our colonies so you can see.  You can see Llanos and Caracas in the center – my current colonies, right by France, in Cumana, and the other French holdings to the east. You can see Cartagena, Antoquia, the current colony of Merida (where the 7000 soldiers are) and more. |
15 June – Antioquia is now a full core. I order a Workshop there.
7 Aug – Merida – 6 development, tropical, mountains, coffee, 0.31 cash made here, core ordered, you just saw where it is. It was a nice inland province here. Next target is…Mendoza. Totally money. South of San Juan, and east (inland) of Coquimbo and Picunmapu. HERE WE GO FOLKS!!!!!!!!!!! 1 December – CARACAS Caracas – Tropical Wood, tropical, jungle, west of France ‘s Cumana and east of Coro and north of Llanos. 0.09, 4 dev, and no one cares. Core ordered all night and day for it I hold my colonists for a moment 5 Feb, 1576 – I hand Coro to my clergy estate 1 Mar – I merge two armies to make 12000 in Caracas and I order some artillery and cavalry in Coro 1 April – Camana – Coastal Coffee, 5 development, mountains, 0.26, I send colonists to Antofagasta. This is a coastal territory, very poorly developed, upstream from Copiapa. I want to close off the coast out here. I don’t want to go south of Picunmapu – the casts down coast and up the other is poor for a long time. 10 consecutive 3 development provinces. But I want to shut off the heart of my Empire. 9 April – Merida is now a core France has gone to Hostile against us |
2 august -
Caracas is now a core I order a Reform of our Religion WHOA! I just gained 3 levels in each tech group. We are now 10/9/10 And I can Westernize as well Our forces are now South American Cavalry, Defensive American Musketeers, and Culverin. I can choose a new idea group from my techs. I want to hold off. I can get any ADM one and then 3 ideas right now. But that’d slow down my Westernization 2 Aug – We begin the Westernization Process Here’s what happens: -3 Stability +5% national unrest +50% advisor costs We spend power each turn until we westernize, and we’ll get some nasty events. Got to be strong I increase our stability by 2 I am rebuilding my army from swapping over ot new units |
2 Sept- We gained a thing – The Conquest of Pachacamac, +1 missionaries and +1 yearly prestige
28 Dec – Camana is a core 1 Jan, 1577 – Workshops for Merida and zCamana 25 April – I get an event – Advisers Resist Westernization. I ignore their demands and our stability drops 2 May – Picunmapu – 4 development, 0.07 money, mountains, coastal, important harbor, fish, core ordere, probably as far south as I’m going for a while 5 Sept – Down to just three colonies, I’m making real money What did I get from my tech advances. Anything of note? Nothing too major, unfortunately 11 Dec – Picunmapu is a core 2 Jan, 1578 – I order a castle in Caracas 23 Jan – Whoa! Great event! Excellent Minister. I get a bunch of powe,r prestige, and stability if I invest administratively. And I do 21 April – People resist Westernization. I ignore them and lose 30 legitimacy 4 July – Mendoza, the colony, pipes in 200 marriage women and gains a taxbase 1 Nov – Workshop in Coquimbo |
24 April, 1579 – Nobles resist. I ignore them. Rebellion in Abancay
7 June – They take Abancay 4 July – La Rioja now Quechay culture 17 Aug – We defeat the rebels 17 Sept – Abancay ours again There is now a colonial nation – French Colombia. France declares war on us, and their Colonial Nation joins them. We have a ton of troops and I order them from Caracas to Cumana 21 Jan, 1580 – The Dutch join the French in an alliance I don’t see any major French troops here so I have begun a siege of Cumana, their capital 1 Mar – Mendoza is now self-sustaining Mendoza - Mountains, 7 dev, 0.23 gold made, wool, south of San Juan and east of both Coquimbo and Pincumapu, and probably the southern most point here for a while. My next target is Calama, a 3 development one up the coast from Antofagasta and west of Chichas and Quillacas 21 April – We lose another stability when I refuse my advisers again 30 April – I take Orinco Delta 22 June – I capture, and then burn down a French colony – Guasipati 8 July – Castle built in Caracas 15 July – 16000 French Troops land in Caracas. I have 18 k there I order a general Here’s a comparison – They have 14 military, and I have 10 They are moving to oust us from Cumana They pull back when they see my force coming in and change their positioning. Probably didn't want to get caught between the Cumana siege force of 16k and my force of 15k coming up from Merida France has 76000 troops and French Colombia has none. But we have 46000. And I have around half up there 19 July – Cumana falls (It only had 400 in the garrison) 9 Aug – I capture Pirara and burn it to the ground as well 15 Sept – I have 28k troops in the Delta I begin to move towards the French army 20 Sept – Demarra is captured by my 8000 force 3 Oct – Mendoza is a core 9 Dec – I defeat their army in Demerrara I also captured Essequibo 18 Jan, 1581 – I win in Paramaribo against their army I combined all three forces and around 33k to do it 3 Feb – They have set up another colony in Guisipati 21 Feb – Paramabibo is our sand we now hold every French Colombia holding 27 Feb – France lands 15k troops in Cumana 23 April – I lose another 30 legitimacy 21 June - After a bunch of ping-ponging and their reinforcements, I have managed to defeat them a few more times. 22 Aug – I finally rout the armies. I lose 14000 troops doing it though. 9 Sept – I capture their colony again. I have a 40% warscore I burn the colony after they won’t give me peace Eventually France is just going to turn their full on attention to me The ledger says that France is down to 57000 troops and 75k manpower. Not a major hit 20 Oct – I invest in a stability increase 25 Nov – 7k more troops land in Caracas |
11 Jan, 1582 – I win a minor skirmish
23 Jan – I offer a Monopoly Company to form, and I get 740 gold from it! I order some more troops built 24 April – More legi lost 19 May – Army routed, all good 47% war score. You are going to have to commit more than that to faze me! Will they take peace now? Umm a white one. Wow they just don’t care about this colony. To take every one of the five holdings in Brazil is just a 5 warscore. I can take 4. I hold out. I would love to drive France out of South America all together is all they are going to do is attack me! June 24 – 10000 troops are getting ready to land in Caracas. This may be my chance ot end the war in our favor if no more come. I have 27k and growing 8 Sept – We win in Caracas 3 Oct – Now France is done I get: 376 gold Cumana, Essquibo, Demeraram Paramaribo, and Orinoco Delta As a defender, we gained a crap ton of prestige |
Map of the captured stuff:
 You can see the various provinces we took, the standing armies I have to the east in Caracas and around it, and more. No way I’d be able to beat France man-to-man, but they couldn’t commit. Why not? I was looking at armies. I was looking in the wrong place. France has a navy of 35 ships, 15 of which are transports. That’s why the most they brought over was 15k that one time. They just had the one fleet available to ferry troops from wherever they were coming So how did I beat France just now? Well a few reasons: 1). France declared war at the wrong time. They had no troops on the ground. If they had waited, built up a large army of 30-40k troops, I would have been done for. They could have written their ticket. But they didn’t. They just thought they could beast us by decree, rather then by strategy 2). They assumed the tech difference would swing the war in their favor. It didn’t 10 vs 14 is winnable. I was willing to through everything I had at winning the war and had 75% of my forces there. They didn’t. 3). They attacked me first in close battles, and in doing so, gave me an early advantage in he campaign as I was able to dictate battlefields. 4). This was not some chump army. I had 2000 cannon and 4000 cavalry in the 16k army I kept in Caracas for a rainy day. I also had 8k in the force and 14k in Bogota I could bring in. But 6000 non-infantry is something you need to account for. 5). This was the right era for a colonial victory over Europe. Take the Inca as a good historical example. After they were discovered and scouted by the Spanish, a conquest of less than 1000 troops arrived. After discovery, massive smallpox had hit the nation, devastating it, and then both the leader and heir died in that disease. The nation, torn in two by civil war and devastated by disease, was easier pickings than would otherwise have been expected. The Spanish were able to talk their ways out of battles that would have been lost, and convinced locals to join and they had around 10000 local troops on their side for the major battles. They got lucky. They had technology as their only saving grace, with huge numbers of losses. Well I have cavalry I got from Europe by bringing in horses, and I have cannon myself over the decades of them being in the area. So if a colonial power was to beat Europe, this is the right time. Meanwhile, I did something I certainly didn’t expect to do. I sort of expected to concede Brazil., Argentina and the north/east coast and areas of the continent while keeping close to the west side for ourselves. But I moved over to Caracas to get close to France, and now they annoyed me very quickly thereafter and I kicked them out. And frankly, I’m not sure that France will come back here. They are liable to find a place with less bite. While there are powers in the Caribbean and I’m sure elsewhere, only Scotland is in South America right now, and that’s the Scottish Brazil colonial nation. If I keep colonizng the coastal areas here, will I keep everyone else away? Imagine if in real life a colonial nation (not just a small colony or trading post, but a full nation) was taken and driven back and captured ad won against a European colonial power. How would the world respond? They could leave well enough alone and move on. That’s not unlikely. Or they could come back twice as angry. No one defeats God’s divine troops! I have no idea how Europe will take it. But it doesn’t look good for France to attack, and then get driven off the continent and lose everything . Anyway, Its good I have two missionaries nw. I need to convert these Catholic heathens to the proper way of worshipping and honoring multiple gods. I have to remind them of what the rest of the world already knows. Westernization is not harmed by kicking France away from our castle |
In other news, I have a metric ton of cash. Should I hold onto it until manufactories come online?
I order up some cores at the cost of around 30 power per province. Our new stuff: Cumana – Grasslands, Catholic, Francien, 0.06 taxes made, 21% unrest, 50% autonomy, coffee, coastal, tropical, west of Orincoc Delta and east of Caracas. 4 development Orinoco Delta – Protestant, Francien, 21.4% unrest, 50% autonomy, sugar, tropical. Marsh, 4 development, 0.01 cash made, west of Essequibo, east of Cumana. Essequibo – Jungle, tropical, 3 development, fish, 1.5 unrest, 50 autonomy, Francien, Catholic, 0.02 cash, west of Demerara and east of Orincoc Delta Demerara – Catholic Francien, tropical wood, jungle, tropical, 3 dev, 0.01, 17.5% unrest, 50% autonomy, west of Paramaribo and east of Essequibo Paramaribo – Catholic and Francien as well, Cocoa, tropical jungle, 3 development, 0.03, 17.5 unrest, 50% auto, east of Demerara That’s not really good. Hopefully we can get them to a slightly better place 30 Oct – Native Assimilation in Calmaa I recall my colonist in Antofagasta and send it to Iquique (Coastal, 4 dv, coastal desert, north of Calama, south of Arica, and finishes the shore here. |
6 Jan, 1583 – We’re in an odd place for a Westernization project. We are well into it. 27.7% done, and but I am still gaining tech. Which is not something I’ve seen before. Now we’re gaining it slowly. But we are gaining.
So; Quantity Idea #5 – Mercenary Contracts+25% available mercs and… We unlock this Inca bonus – Drafted Hatun Runas ,+10% manpower, and +2.5% discipline 1 Mar – I give the Clergy Estates Essequibo and Demerara 13 April – I take a national decision for us moving forward: Inti Prostelyzation - +2 Missionary Strength 24 April – Nobles Resist Westernization I get a revolt in Tumbes 1 June – Tumbes falls 4 Aug – We defeat the rebels 7 Sept – We retake Tumbes I don’t know how. But France has chosen to restart their colony in Guasipati, which is inland of the Delta and Essequibo and not on the coast. 1 Nov – Let’s commit: I take a new Idea: Economic Ideas – I buy: Bureaucracy – 10% national taxes Organized Construction - -10% build cost National Bank – Inflation is reduced by 0.1 annually We unlocked the Mit’a system Inca idea and get -10% build cost again 1 January 1584 – Antofagasta – 3 development, coastal desert, wool, 0.08 ducats, core ordered, south of Camana, north of Copiapo, and west of Puna de Atacama 24 April – Reactionaries reject Westernization. Rebellion of 7000 forces I Iquique 12 May – They die ot our forces there 1 Aug – I ordre a temple in Altagracia 9 Aug – Antofagasta is now a core I order my Caran cultures turned to Quechua 10 Sept – Growth in Abanacay gets it some more taxbase but worse unrest |
1 April, 1585 –
Llanos – Core ordered, savannah, 4 dev, sugar here, 0.16, inland and south of Coro, Caracas, Atlagracia, and tropical. I order these folks into another vacted French colony we burned down to see if I can beat them I suppose. Pirara, inland if Essequibo west of Demerara and east of France;s Guasipati. I’ts not very hot though. 27 April – Reactionaries rebel in Catamaraca. I order my army in Mendoza ot head over and smash them 15 June – Slain 12 Aug – Cores completed in the 5 French takings. I order up missionaries for Cumana and the Delta 15 Aug – Assimilation in Calama 5 Dec – Llanos is a core too 31 Jan, 1586 – We get a poor copper event and our artillery costs increase by 20% for a while 1 Feb – Revolt in Cumana! 9 Feb – We put it down (I moved my main army in the north from Caracas to adjunct Cumana) 24 April – I get a new one – Provinces get westernization resistances, and we do get -1 unrest, but +0.5 monthly autonomy change. For ten years 1 Jan, 1587 – Econ Idea #4 – Debt and Loans - -1 interest per year 18 Jan – Assimilation in Pirara 3 Mar – Calama – Coastal desert, 0.08 gold, 3 dev, wool, north of Antofagasta, south of Iquique and east of Chichas and Quillacas . Our next target is Nazca – Coastal, south of Abancay and east of Lima. It’s the final province that allows me to control the whole coast from Picunmapu all the way up to Cauca by Muisca. 24 April – I lose more Legitimacy 1 July – So apparently the Delta is next to Trinidad and can go there without boats. And it’s unclaimed and rocks 10 development. I pull a colonist from Iquique and send it here! 7 Nov – Calama is a core |
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