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EU4 - Now What - Mzab - Now Algiers! Finished - 11 Nov, 1444 - 3 Jan, 1821
Well, I lost that one in 14 years...now what? Am I still in an EU4 mood after my longest run in EU4 ever with Theodoro (here - EU4 – Dynasty with Theodoro - FINISHED - Nov. 11, 1444 - Jan. 3, 1821 - Front Office Football Central) and then my loss with Butua (it's here - NewEU4 Dynasty – Who am I playing? - How About Butua? Lost! - Front Office Football Central It was also longer than any EU3 game I played too. And...now what? One of the ones that I didn't do like Riga or Mali or New Zealand or Mzab?
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I'm in for following whatever!
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I'll just leave the Riga flag flying from the previous thread
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Am I doing Mzab? As a reminder, here are the main issues with Mzab: North Africa, Berber, Ibadi, 2 provinces: 1. Ibadi cannot marry other non-Ibadi Islam nations – that’s just Pate in the Horn of Africa and Oman in Arabia. All of the region is Sunni. Marriages are the first aspect to building to an alliance. We’ll start with a -20 for being a heretic to the nearby nations for far away places and -40 to neighbors. 2. I am next to both Tunis and Tlemcen powers that can easily expand and take me out. 3. I have two holdings with the minimum amount of development – 3 each for 6. Most one province nations have more development like Theodoro. 4. If I do expand, the nearby Berber holdings will require more ADM power to core. 5. Your Berber national ideas and missions care about naval stuff, but we are inland. 6. Your lands are Deserts, which cost more to spend power to develop. The good news, I am one of two nations that can form Algiers which founded in 1517. Here are my Missions:  And here is a link to how to get them. https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Berber_missions Here are our ideas, we start with the first two and then we unlock one every three Ideas. Berber ideas Notes: For countries in the Culture icon.png Maghrebi culture group. Traditions.png Traditions: −25% Naval attrition May raid coasts Naval force limit modifier.png Barbary Pirates +25% Naval force limit modifier Attrition for enemies.png Desert Warfare +1 Attrition for enemies Trade efficiency.png Trans-Saharan Trade +10% Trade efficiency +20% Caravan power Yearly navy tradition.png Corsairs +1 Yearly navy tradition +10% Privateer efficiency Cavalry combat ability.png Tuareg Cavalry +10% Cavalry combat ability +10% Looting speed Diplomatic relations.png Dual Diplomacy +1 Diplomatic relation Galley combat ability.png The Brothers Barbarossa +20% Galley combat ability Idea bonus.png Ambition: +10% Global trade power This is considered one of the hardest starts by everyone. All four of my Hardest Start Lists Linked to in my Athens dynasty listed it, one as high as #2. Not even Athens or Theodoro were on all four. |
Let's commit to Mzab!
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Founding Algiers:
  Only Touggourt can also form it. Here’s what we need and what we get cores on:  We need the two orange and one red cored. Algiers has the same Ideas as us since they are all Berber Ideas, and it doesn’t look like there are new Missions either. The oranges are: Tlemcen’s Dahra Tunis’s Mitija Then east of Mitija is the red of Annaba in Tunis. |
 Here’s our start. I have zoomed in on my cash I’m just making 0.10 monthly, pretty poor compared to Butua. I also grabbed my capital and the bottom half of our history starting the era. Mzab – Berber culture, Ibadi faith, 3 dev, Desert, next to us and two holdings in Touggart to the east, Livestock raised here, 0.12 made here, Arid. Laghouat – North of Mzab, south of Tunis, Tlemcen, west of Touggart, Desert, 3 dev, Arid, Livestock, Algerian culture, Sunni faith, not Ibadi. Army: Us - 4k – 3k infantry, 1K cavalry, in Mzab, I have a forcelimit of 6k. Touggart – 4k, same breakdown, in their capital of Touggart Tunis – 14k – 10k infantry, 4k cavalry Tlemcen – 9k – 7k infantry, 2k cavalry Djerid – 4k, same as us Fezzan – 5k, 4k infantry, 1k cavalry That’s the entire region. Here’s a map:  Here I am showing the North Africa region zoomed out and the centered on Fezzan. As you can see, we have two minor nations to our east, the three provinces of Touggart, and then the two of Djerid anthem the four of Fezzan east of that, but next to big bad Mamluks. |
Now, here let me show you the religion thing drilled into Tunis:
 Here we are, the big bad of the region! I have zoomed into the relations. See how we start with a -30, -40 for being Ibadi and +10 for following the same school? They also are hostile and want my provinces. Tlemcen does not. So Tunis won’t likely be ally-able. But Tlemcen might. Whoa, it looks like I can RM with local Sunnis, Which makes sense, since in real life Tlemcen and Mzab are in the same family.  See how we start at -15 and the RM is available with a green check? That means they’ll say yes to what you are asking. Our ruler: Imam Hassan Zayyanid, 21 years old, small 2/1/2 abilities with a long bad life ahead of him, no heir or consort Tech – Muslim Tech Group - My tech is 3/3/3 and we have embraced Feudalism, and we make monthly 5/4/5. I make ADM my national focus since it’s used for coring and Ideas and now I am making 7/3/4. Religion - Ibadi Faith: +100% chance of new heir; +10% Goods Produced Maliki School: We get -10% dev costs. Remember that both Arid and Desert are harder to add dev to, so that’s nice. Deserts are +50 and Arid +10, so right now to add an ADM dev to Mzad would cost a massive 74 power. I cannot convert to Sunni to help. Converting Laghouat will cost me 0.13 monthly so I would lose 0.03 monthly, for 144 months, so I’d lose less than 5 gold. I do it. I have two Missionaries so this keeps one free. I move my army to Laghouat to help with Sunni rebels Government – Feudal Theocracy: I can use 50 power to do one of three things every 5 years for 5 years: 50 Admin – Seize Clerical Holdings - -15% Construction Costs 50 Dip – Invite Minorities from Abroad - -20% Development Costs in capital area – this requires I owe my entire capital state and I do not so I cannot select it right now 50 Mil – Sanction Holy War – I get cores on all adjacent Heathen and Pagan faiths, so I can do this and then declare war for Touggart right now with a CB. All last 5 years. I choose none right now. I also get these boosts: +1 Missionary +1% Missionary Strength +2 Tolerance of the True Faith +50 Governing Capacity +5% Ulema Loyalty equilibrium |
My Goals for Mzab –
1. Make nice with Tlemcen and Tunis. 2. Get an alliance with a major power ideally Tlemcen who doesn’t want to gobble me up or someone distant like the Mamluks. Ideally I can take out the enemy next to me and they can deal with the allies of my target. 3. Declare war on Touggart and grab it as fast as possible to prevent it from falling to Tunis and stopping my eastward expansion. This is also valuable since I can then spend time dropping my aggressive expansion built up which I nickname badboy since “Abe has been a bad boy”. I’d rather spend the early years rebuilding Touggart and removing my badboy than just building. 4. Built my army a bit and then repeat with Djerid and then Fezzan and move into their places as quickly as I can. Hopefully none of them will have allied with Tunis. That’ll be rough. Again, do this quickly. 5. After capturing everything east up to the Mamluks, then go north in Tunis and remove it as a threat combining my armies with my allies to hemorrhage it. If I can take Fezzan I’ve cut off expansion by Tunis east and then I have moved south so the big bad of North Africa will have been cornered. By then I should have a big enough army to answer them. 6. Build an actual proper navy to deal with the great sea. 7. If I have not allied with the Mamluks, do so. Otherwise look to Morocco for an ally. Cancel my Tlemcen ally. Now that I have taken out Tunis, next is Tlemcen which I need stuff from to form Algiers. This may be two or three wars based on how built up they’ve gotten with me as an ally. 8. Form Algiers. I am now THE North African Hegemon. 9. Repeat against others, maybe Mamluks, maybe Morocco, maybe the islands in the Mediterranean like Sicily. Maybe southern Italy. Move against targets of opportunity in the Mediterranena Sea or North Africa. Ready? |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Prelude 11 Nov, 1444 - I order 1k Muslim Archers in Mzab to get me a better army on Touggart right now and I have the forcelimit for it. This costs 10 gold up front. I offer a Royal Marriage to Tlemcen. They agree, no consort comes. I use my other diplomat to offer Royal Marriage to hmm…I can Royal Marriage Fezzan, not Mamluks they have too many diplomatic relations, Oman? Too far away. Turks? Ditto. Oh I got it, Morocco. We get a new consort! Zaidana, 2/5/0 and age 26 I send my extra merchant to collect in Sevilla I name Touggart my rival 1 Dec – Tlemcen and Tunis are rivals, no one has allied with Touggart yet, and that won’t last long. I spend 50 MIL and gain claims on all three of their holdings. I want to declare war prior to us having an ally, them, or our 1k army finishing. But I cannot until Dec 11, so I’ll wait. I make my ruler a general and hand him my army. 3 Dec – Tunis is guaranteeing Fezzan, uh oh Djerid also hasn’t allied with anyone either 6 Dec – Djerid allied with Tlcemcen so they have allied up. 11 Dec – Still no allies, see:  I want to declare a Holy War now before that changes and I’ll wait until my 1k is built and grown before moving to their capital from mine. But it looks like all I can do is Humiliate Rival:  Looks like the Holy War one I spent 50 MIL power on isn’t working. I cannot commit to that, so I go ahead and order a spy network built here the old fashioned way. 1 Jan, 1445 – I begin to make nice with Tlemcen we are almost ready to be allies. 10 Jan – The extra 1k army is built, but my maintenance drops to -.28, not bad, but since I am going the slow way, I disband it. 1 March – Stability rise to +1. 3 March - Event – Crisis of the Maghreb – Check this out it affects everyone:  This lasts for 5 years, you can read about it there. 1 June – Touggart is allied with Fezzan 3 Nov – I claim Touggart’s first claim 2 Dec – Alliance with Tlemcen!  As you can see we have enough of a balance to make that work! Now I have a claim on Touggart and an ally that can check Fezzan in Tlemcen, I pull my Tlemcen happy maker for making nice with Morocco, and order another 1k built in infantry. If I can pull an alliance with Morocco now that’d be wonderful. 28 Feb, 1446 - My new army is built in Laghouat, and I declare war on Touggart for their capital! I call in Tlemcen. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter One - The Mzab/Touggart and Fezzan War They don’t have a general, I order my 5k army into their capital to face their forces. 7 Mar – Tunis also declares war, so we need to beat them I split my army to Biskra, Touggart, and Ouargla and then order another 1k and a small merc force to Mzab that only costs me a little. 11 Mar- Mercs are here and I order them to Ouargla 11 April – We are losing in Touggourt until Tunis comes and wins and we start the siege. 22 April – Biskra falls to us – I order this 1k to the capital 27 April – Our mercs capture Oargla and I order this 4k army to the capital to help the siege, I’ll keep them around until after the Fezzan army arrives. 30 April – mission finished: Build to forcelimit, I get +5% morale and -5% maintenance of armies for 25 years 26 May – My 1k is built and I order it to Touggourt 8 July - I break off my non-merc and heads to Fezzan so I can grab holdings prior to Tunis. I don’t want Tunis to take their stuff and then prevent my warscore from taking all of Touggart. They have captured some holdings in Tunis and are there. I want Fezzan Right now I have a warscore of just 24% 21 Sept – A minor in Fezzan falls – Sabha, I move to their capital Fezzan 23 Oct – Event – Sickness in Imam – I hand over some control to the nobility, our taxes drop 10% and our nobility estate loyalty rises. This lasts 10 years 12 Nov – I capture the minor of Jufra I have a warscore of 47% Touggourt falls but Tunis took them, don’t know why I was the siege leader since I was there first. But I can still take it in peace since I have a claim on it. I disband my mercs 31 Dec - I capture the minor Sirt holding o the coast of Fezzan. Tunis is recapturing what Fezzan took. I order this army to the siege in Fezzan’s capital 6 Feb, 1447 – My army from Sirt arrives in Fezzan. 1 Mar – Unconditional surrender by Touggourt. I now have a warscore of 100. I don’t want to accept until we capture Fezzan, because I have a warscore with them of 57% and with them at war with Tunis, I want to vassalize them – 51% warscore, but they won’t take it even though it’s less. Fezzan is mine! 22 April – Since Tunis cannot capture anything more from Fezzan or Touggourt, they take peace for War Reparations and all their cash. Now I have to recapture Touggourt’s capital 13 June – Fezzan falls! I take:  17.8 badboy. Now I have put Fezzan in my orbit and Tunisia cannot remove them later. Then I annex all of Touggourt 8 days later when my diplomat returns:  9.3 badboy total. Just Djerid between us. I spend 74 ADM Power coring them. High for just three 3 dev holdings. My new lands have one good trade good: Biskra – Arid, 3 dev, Highlands, wool sheared here, next to Tunis and Djerid, and north of us, Sunni and Berber culture, they make for us nothing right now. Touggourt – The good one, middle , next to Djerid, their former capital, Spices are traded here! Algerian Sunnis make us nothing now, Desert, 3 dev, Arid, north of Ouargla and south of Biskra Ouargla – This Slave trading province has 3 dev, Desert, the accepted Berber culture and Ibadi faith makes us 0.03. Next to Djerid, south of Touggourt, Arid. Fezzan – I spend prestige making nice and dropping their revolt risk. I had to take Fezzan off the board so Tunis won’t bring them in before I can get there in this war or in a future one now that they don’t have an army after losing it to Tunis. Now they can rebuild with time for their military. My hope is to swap their faith to Ibadi, marry them, and then eventually dip annex them after I bring in Djerid. Now I need to grab Djerid Also note that I took out my competition for Algiers, now only us can form it. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Two - A New Rival Arrives My new rival is Djerid. I order my army to Touggourt to help against rebels there. When my diplomat returns I’ll start building a spy network in Djerid I need to take it down as fast as possible, ignoring badboy, because I need to beat Tunis to base Fezzan. They are allied with Tlemcen 2 July - It looks like Morocco aren’t going to ally with me since I am allied with their rival which is a -50 to allying. I pull my Moroccan making nice and begin to make nice with Fezzan 2 Aug – Djerid announced me as a rival 15 Aug – Royal Marriage with Fezzan 30 Sept – New Heir – Hassan, 3/4/2 – not bad 25 Jan, 1448 – Event – Nobles Clash – rather than get a noble rebellion I spend 25 DIP power. 2 April - Fezzan changes it’s faith to Ibadi. This increases it’s liberty desire from 0 to 27%. 1 Aug – I claim Djerid’s capital Qafsah. I move my army around 15 Aug – Army check – Army Check: Us – 6k, 5k infantry, 1k cavalry Fezzan – 3k Tlemcen, the mutual ally of us and Djerid, 8k I can take them out with 4k mercs that cost 19.64 to hire and then they’ll arrive in 10 days. With my cash from Fezzan I’d probably be losing around .50 per month, I could DOW Djerid, take their things quickly and then move to Tlemcen, beat their army, grab some holdings and then just take peace with Djerid and reestablish our alliance with Tlemcen later. I declare war on Djerid for Qafsah |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Three - The Mzab/Djerid and Tlemcen War I order my 6k from Ouargla to their 4k in Ghadames I hire 4k mercs there 27 Aug - Our mercs arrive. 10 Sept – We rout the Djeridi army in Ghadames, I order 1k kept here and then the rest to their capital of Qafsah where the mercs are ordered. 2 Oct – Tlemcen arrives in our capital and begins a siege 10 Oct -Ghadames is ours, I order this army to Qafsah where they’ll rejoin my army. 24 Oct- All three captures are cored! 1 Nov – Stability rises to +3 24 Nov – I accept an alliance offer from Morocco, they must see me at war with Tlemcen and re ready to help. 18 Dec – Morocco declares war on a distracted Tlemcen. I need to help Tlemcen deal with them 17 April, 1449 – I accept military access for Morocco 27 June – Qafsah falls, I order this force to break the siege in Mzab I have a warscore of 30%, I’ll keep pushing Missionary ordered to Biskra 23 July - We arrive in Mzab to relieve the siege 9 Aug -We win and get a +5 warscore. I order my two armies next into Tlemcen. Since Morocco is at war with Tlemcen I want to grab some adjacent lands before Morocco grabs them all. 12 Sept – Morocco captured one before I could. I disband my mercs 21 Sept – I capture a minor holding called Titteri I have a warscore of 37% I do the three I can capture and then peace:  We have 13 badboy from these three holdings. I accept I spend 94 ADM Power coring these three holdings: Djerdi: Qafsah – Capital, south and west of Tunis, north of Ghadames, east of us. Tunisian culture, Sunni faith, Desert, Salt trade here, 5 dev, Arid, 0.01 made here, Salt is solid worth 3.0. Ghadames - South of Qafsah, connects us and Fezzan, south of Tunis, east of Fezzan in Sabha, west of our expansion in Ouargia, Desert here too, 3 dev, Desert, the valuable Spices trade here, Sunni and Tunisian, Arid, they made 0.02. We had lower dev, both Desert, Arid, Sunni, but nice trade goods. Tlemcen: Titteri – Next to Tlemcen, Tunis, north of us at Laghoaut, Highlands, 3 dev, Sunni faith, Algerian culture, just grain is grown here, not Arid, 0.03 made here. Morocco remains at war with Tlemcen. Nice three addition, now I’ll turn my attention to Tlemcen I rival Tlemcen I order this army to Qafsah You can see how low my cash got with mercs. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Four - A Fake Algiers 1 Nov – I now own all four holdings in my capital’s state, so I can spend 50 DIP power to Invite Minorities from Abroad. 30 Nov – Event – A Talented Judge – I promote him to Qadi in the region of Ouled Nail, and for 15 years I get -2 unrest, -20% construction cost 23 June, 1450 – Conversion in Laghout! Next is Touggourt 2 Sept – Tunis has declared war on Tlemcen too 24 Oct – Morocco controls every Tlemcen holding 27 Oct – Peace – They take next to us Kasdir and then everything but two for Tunis to finish off, and then Algiers is released and are next to us. I cannot form them while they exist 14 Nov – Tunis announces Aragon as a rival 12 Dec – Algiers rivals us, I reciprocate I order my army to Titteri where we could declare war on the unallied Algiers and then annex their two holdings. I need to takeout Algiers now, luckily I have a claim on them I order 1k in Laghouat. Algiers has a 5k army with no general to my 6k now 7k on the way. 1 Jan, 1451 – The Renaissance institution has arrived 4 Jan – Naples announced Tunis as a rival 8 Jan – My army arrives in Titteri, I DOW Algiers, and they don’t have an ally so I don’t call Morocco. I want to get these myself. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Five - The Mzab/Algiers War I order my 6k into adjacent Ouarsenis a no-fort minor holding. 28 Jan - I arrive and their army moved from their capital next to me, so I am fighting them 8 Feb – We win the Battle of Ouarsenis! Our general gained the Battlefield Medic trait I chase their army to their capital 9 Feb – Our 1k is built and I order it to Ouarsenis. 27 Feb- Qafsah is a core! 2 Mar – I win a minor skirmish in their capital and order my army back to Ouarsenis 20 Mar – Another minor skirmish won another move back to their capital 23 Mar – Tunis DOW’s Algiers 29 Mar - We rout their army. I split my armies and move to Quarsenis I have a warscore of 19 just from battles. 28 April – Ghadames is cored 9 May – Quarsenis falls I order this army back to their capital 14 May – I was warned by Tunis not to go to war, that means my next war is Tunis. 14 June – A Mission is finished: High Income – I get for 25 years -10% con times and -25% con costs. July 22 – Tunis arrives at the siege of the Algiers capital 1 Aug - Since my army is away at war I spend 30 MIL to brutally repress a rebellion so it drops by 30%. 1 Jan, 1452 – Our Imam gains the Careful trait which reduces aggressive expansion aka badboy by 10% 24 May – Dahra falls! I captured it and have a warscore of 100! What am I taking?  I can bring in both for just 12.7 badboy, so I do so. 70 to core it. TIttari that stopped in a war against someone with a core there will start again. See my low cash? Here are my two new provinces: Ouarsenis - Connects Tittari to Dahra, east of Morocco, west of Tunis, 5 dev, Livestock raised here, Highlands, Berber culture, Sunni faith, not Arid here either, it’s a core of mine and our war goal, 0.01 made here. Dahra – One of the key provinces I need to make Algiers, this was the one that Tlemcen had. Coastal, next to Morocco, Tunis, and us. 9 dev, Drylands, Castle is built here, the Shia and Algerian are farmers growing grain and not Arid and it makes for us 0.01 here monthly. Cores are ordered and ready to rock. I order my army to Quarsenis to play defense against the rebels from it or Dahra or Tittari |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Six - Another Rival Steps In 1 June – I rival Tunis. They are my next army. I need to take the two holdings east of Dahra and coastal to become Algiers. 2 July – I send a diplomat to make nice with the Mamluks since I have cores on Tunis from my Holy war earlier. I’ll be next to them if I annex Fezzan so I want them to like me. 19 July – Titteri is now cored! 1 Mar, 1453 – I now have a +190 relations with Fezzan, can I annex them? I pull back my diplomat from the Mamluks 26 Mar – I cannot annex until 13 June in 1457 so in a few years. I send this diplomat back to the Mamluks. 31 July – 7k Algerian Separatists crossed over from Morocco into Dahra I order my army to them 24 Aug – We beat the Rebels but lost a few thousand since we were the same size stack 1 Oct – Ouarsenis is now a core!! 13 Oct – Biskra converts! Next is the Spices of Ghadames I make a state with Titteri and Ouarsenis called Hautes Plains and I spend 35 ADM to turn them fully fleshed out. 30 Dec – Dahra is cored! All cores are done! 2 Jan, 1454 – I turn Dahra into the Barbary Coast state – I spend 45 ADM power 1 April – Touggourt converts! Next is the Salt of Qafsah. 19 June – Border Friction Event – My people don’t like my alliance with Morocco and they are agitating for us to push our claim – I can make nice and lose 33 Dip, keep my claim and have relations drop with Morocco 50 or lose my claim on Kasdir. I choose the last. 1 July – I lose my casus belli on Morocco 1 Aug – relations maxed with Fezzan but I stay there until the Annexation is ready in a few years 1 Sept – With a +78 relations I max with the Mamluks and pull back my diplomat 21 Sept – I send my diplomat to make nice with Granada in Iberia 11 Nov, 1454 – That was a busy 10 years! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seven - New Techs 1 Jan, 1455- Two New Techs, our first ones! ADMIN TECH 4 – Temples – I can build Mosques which increase tax revenue, which I don’t have much of. MIL TECH 4 – Pike Square – I get +0.25 Military Tactic and +.50 Military Morale Tunis has a level 3 military tech, so this would be a good time to declare war on them. Tunis is allied with Morocco so I would want to lose them and Granada. What I could do is DOW a minor, and then push back when Tunis DOWs me back. 1 May – New Tech: DIP TECH 4 – Marketplace - +10 trade range and I can build Marketplaces. 22 May – Granada announces me as a rival, I rival them back. I call back my making nice diplomat 30 May – I send it to make nice with the Turks When I annex Fezzan, they are next to an unclaimed land for colonizing. Just as an FYI, but I’m not sure this is a colonial dynasty. I have a naval forcelimit of 12, by the by, I’d have to build 9 ships from one dock to explore. I’ll probably do something like the military power using Quality Ideas instead to make my troops better to help ensure that I’ll win battles, but going south down the route between the Sahara on either side and into two unclaimed provinces before hitting south people would make sense. And then I could have a Conquistador on my army to explore without a huge navy I cannot afford right now. 1 Jan, 1456 – Mosque ordered for Dahra 2 Feb - Event: Foreign Inventor – A Tunisian brilliant inventor has arrived. I choose not to put him up and gain 10 prestige rather than negative with Tunis and Morocco 1 April – Oman is no more and one Ibadi friend is off the map. Pate is still around. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Eight - What to do with Nobles? 1 Jan, 1457 – This is the year that I can annex Fezzan 1 April – 5k Algerian Rebellion in Titteri, I order my force over from next door. 24 April – Defeated I lost 1.6k 5 June – I pull my Turk making nice diplomat with a +77 ratio. 25 June – The diplomat arrives and I send it to Fezzan. Wanna join? Yes! This will take until February 1459. We’ll lose 5 DIP power per month for around 95 expected cost I pull my relations improvement diplomat from Fezzan. 3 July – And I send it to enter into Royal Marriage with the Mamluks, nice before we go next to them! 23 July – I send this diplomat to make nice with Morocco let’s keep them happy 25 Aug – Ghadames converts! Next is Dahra. 5 Feb, 1458 – Event: Land Tech Research Useless – I choose to lose 10 prestige over 100 MIL power. 1 Mar – I can enact government reform: I can chose Noble Privileges, here are my options: Strengthen Them - +15% manpower, +10 Amir influence Curtail Them - +15% National tax revenue, -10 Amir Influence Grant Noble Castle Rights - -20% Fort Maintenance, +5 Amir influence Compromise with the Nobility - -10% Stability cost modifier Noble Officer Corps - +0.25 Yearly Army Tradition; +0.20 Yearly Army Professionalism, +5% Amir’s Influence All of those are strong. I feel like the best are Curtail and Strengthen, since cash now and manpower later are pretty strong. Hmm…I need to squeeze money I choose Curtail. 31 May – Qafsah converts! Next is Titteri! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Nine - Annexing Fezzan 1 Feb, 1459 – I annex the four holdings of Fezzan! Sabha –Next to Ghadames, and south of Tunis, north of Fezzan, west of Juthra, Livestock raised here, just 3 dev, Desert, Arid, 0.03 made here, Sunni and Tunisian Fezzan – Former capital, south of Sabha and Jufra, north of the unclaimed holding of Tajarhi a 3 dev Desert likely Livestock too. Desert, 3 dev, Arid, Sunni, Tunisian, Ivory traders, make us .01. Juthra – North of Fezzan, east of Sabha, west of Sirt, south of Tunis, makes us 0.05 with Livestock, 3 dev, Arid, it has a Sufi Shrine so it’s -2 unrest, +2 tax income and +.10 monthly autonomy change. Sunni and Tunisian. Sirt – Connects Juthra to Mamluks to the east, west is Tunis, coastal, Fish are caught here, 3 dev, Desert, Arid, Sunni and Tunisian, make us 0.01. 3000 troops, all infantry, I order them to join my main army in Ouarsenis And now we have finished our first goal! We have taken all of the smaller minors off the map, and have cutoff the big bad of Tunis. And we have three bonus holdings from Tlemcen. Hopefully the Mamluks won’t come our way anytime soon Have you noticed just how poor this region is? How many 3 dev Desert Arid holdings there are? I’m glad I didn’t need to take those four low value in war with a big ADM Coring. 11 Feb – I keep my Fezzan diplomat back for emergencies I have nothing left to make nice with and claims on Tunis already if you’ll recall from my theocracy Holy War. Now I want to declare war on Tunis, and I don’t care about Granada, but I don’t want Morocco leaving me, and I am not next to anyone to DOW to get them to attack me on their own, so I need to expand south and DOW something there. I make the Fezzan state. 2 July – With relations of 180 I max with Morocco and pullback. I send this to build a spy network in Tunis for no major reason. 8 Feb, 1460 – Event: Shady People – I get better spy network construction for a while 2 May – Tunis has declared war on us for Biskra, Morocco does not join them nor do they join us, they are now at peace with both of us. That’s a smart play by Tunis to isolate me, they tried to get our lands when we were attacked Fezzen, Tlemcen, Algiers, and more and always DOWd who I am playing against, and then I am just overextended and you bring a battle and my ally stays on the sideline. This could be bad. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Ten - The Tunisian War of Aggresion I order a 4k merc unit in Ouarsensis to join my 10k here. I’ll wait until it arrives. Tunis – 11k, we have 10k and will be joined by our 4k mercs before moving in I order 10k into next to me Mitija 13 May – Mercs are here I order them to join me there. 24 May - They are sieging Qafsah I order my 14k to redirect to Touggourt 5 July – They capture Biskra 22 July – I capture Hodna 23 Aug – We win the Battle of Laghouat we lost a few thousand. 12 Oct – I recapture Biskra 14 Oct – I begin to siege their Castle of Kef 3 Dec – The minor of Kabylia is ours 19 Jan, 1461 – I capture the minor of Mitija which I need to make Algiers. 13 April – Their army is back in Biskra 11 May – Biskra falls 19 June – The Siege of Kef is over and we captured it! Our war score jumped from 10 to 27. Now I move to chase down their army 2 Aug – Another minor falls to me 8 Sept – The minor of Annaba falls to me 20 Oct – Another minor falls 28 Oct - I win the Battle of Kabalia I can get a new tech: ADMIN 5 – National Ideas - +2% Production and our first Group of ideas – I choose Exploration. 30 Nov – Another minor falls 17 Dec – I recapture Biskra, I order my army to their Capital Tunis 4 Jan, 1462 -Another minor falls 3 Mar – Titteri converts! Next is Fezzan 11 April – I win a battle in Touggourt 17 May - I begin a siege of Tunis 22 May - The Mamluks offer me an alliance. I take it! 17 June – I capture a minor 30 June – I rout their army in Tunis. 63% warscore 23 July – I capture the minor of Tripoli 4 Aug – Tunis falls! 99% warscore, I cannot get higher since I cannot touch their navies What can I get? This is a defensive war, so my aggressive expansion won’t be as bad. Here are my top shots first that make Algiers: Mitijia – 12 badboy and 15 warscore Kabylia – 5 badboy, 10 warscore Hodna – Connects us to Kabylia – 3 badboy, 6 warscore Annaba – Up the coast from Kabylia – 2 badboy, 7 score Qusitaneh - 3 badboy, 10 warscore, inland of Annaba and connects us. Those five are 25.9 badboy and 48 warscore. Now what about the low dev east flank near former Fezzan? Thunaqt – 1 badboy, 6 score – coastal flank Tripoli – 3 badboy, 9 warscore, next to it Zuwareh – Coastal next to Tripoli, 2 badboy, 6 warscore Kef – Fortress, internal, next to Qafsah – 4 and 7 – Those 9 are 35.8 badboy and 76 warscore, can I do anything else? I can get one more before coalitions start Tataouine - Next to Zuwareh, 6 score, 3 badboy Here’s the total –  Just 38.2 in a defensive war. Ready? I take it. I disband my mercs. I order cores for Mitija, Kabylia renamed Tamurt Leqbayal, Annaba, Hodna, Kef, Qusatineh, Tripoli West Flank - Mitijia – Algerian, Sunni, 14 dev, Drylands, grain grower, coastal, Marketplace, Mosque, Algerian, Sunni, Natural Harbor, makes us 0.36 Kabylia named Tamurt Leqbayal – Berber, Sunni, Iron Mining, 8 dev, Highlands, 0.17 made here Hodna – Connects us to Kabylia – 3 dev, Salt, Highlands, Algerian, Sunni, make us nothing Annaba – Up the coast from Kabylia – Naval Supplies, 5 dev, Highlands, coastal, Berber, Sunni, .08 made here, next to Tunis. Qusitaneh -inland of Annaba and connects us and Kef. Grain farmers, Highlands, Sunni, Berber, 0.02, 8 dev, Kef – Fortress, internal, next to Qafsah. 5 dev, Highlands, next to Tunis, ,Sunni, wool made, Tunisian culture, East Flank - Thunaqt – coastal flank, 3 dev, Coastal Desert, Cloth is made here, Sunni, 0.04, Tunisian, Arid Tripoli- Next to Thunaqt, Arid, Natural Harbor, Coastal Desert, 5 dev, cloth made here too, Tunisian, Sunni, 0.12 made here. Zuwareh – Coastal next to Tripoli, Coastal Desert, 3 dev, Ibadi faith! Tunisian culture, Arid, nothing made here. Fishing. Tataouine - Next to Zuwareh, Strait to island called Djerba, next to Tunis, Sunni, Tunisian, Coastal Desert, Arid, 3 dev, grain, 0.04 made here |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Eleven - The People's Consort I finished a Mission to Expand: I gain +1 tax, production and manpower in Mzab For 25 years -`10% construction and dev costs. I am about ready to form Algiers! When will this mega high warscore peace treaty end? Dec 1475 so more than a decade from now. Not too bad. Tunis could be taken out in just one more war. The big issue here is that people can attack a coastal person they are at war with and so they could DOW Tunis with a Deus Vult that lets them DOW any religion not your own. What I need is to get to the spot that I can retake it! In my war against Tlemcen and their ally I lost my ally but Morocco offered me an alliance. Now Morocco didn’t join me defensively, but the Mamluks came knocking so I am still post war with a big local ally. They are way too powerful to go after, so I am heading south with my colony, north back to Tunis again, and then I suspect eventually west to Morocco, but not for a while. Since we are no longer allied. Next could be islands in the Mediterranean Sea or after Morocco Iberia. So my goal now is to wait a few years, finish coring, bring in all of my cores, begin to send Missionaries, and then after I purchase 2nd Exploration Idea which gives me a colonist head south of Fezzan. And then claim Algiers after coring my two new additions, and then that should help us loads. So peace for a while to rebuild my manpower and take care of rebels and then core and colonize and stuff. 22 Aug -Tunis declares us a rival. Way too late there. I order my 2k troops to Fezzan to get a Conquistador 16 Sept – I claim Tunis’s island of Djerba with a Castle and then their capital and Center of Trade Tunis. 1 Oct - Our heir gains the Charismatic Negotiator trait which gives him +1 Dip reputation 1 Nov – Dahra converts! Next is Sabha Core ordered for Thubaqt 15 Nov – Event – Noble Family Requests Aid – I accept, spent 15 cash, and then gain 10 loyalty from the Amir estate 1 Dec – I order a Mosque in Oaursenis 18 Dec – Event – National Epic – We publish it and gain +1 prestige annually for 20 years but it costs 25 cash 1 Jan, 1463 - Core ordered in Tatauine which is 15 costing. One left! 20 Feb – Castille’s Civil war ended 1 June - At a cost of 30, core ordered for Zuwarah – and that’s everything started 1 Sept – I claim Tunis’s Bizerte 30 Oct – Event: A Consort of the People – Our consort is -2 unrest until she dies |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twelve - Becoming Algiers 1 Jan, 1464 – We get our first Idea! Exploration Idea #1 -Quest for the New World – We can hire Conquistadors for army and Explorers for navy I hire a Conquistador for my army in Fezzan and send it south with 2k 14 Feb – A bunch of cores are finished: Mitija Tamurt Leqbayel Kef Hodna That’s cores on my Algiers stuff I form Algiers – here is what will happen:  Here’s my new nation and flag zoomed out:  I formed it in less than 20 years! Our new capital is Mitija 14 dev, I now accept Algerian as my culture, and we are now a kingdom so I get another diplomat which I send to build a spy network with Morocco. I complete a Mission: Conquer New States: I get -25% state maintenance and -33% brutal repression for rebels for 25 years I gain claims on Morocco 1 Mar – I can now DOW Morocco for territory 29 Mar – I discover Djardo south of Tajarahi and the natives are attacking me 11 April – Morocco announces me as a rival 17 April – More cores completed: Annaba Tripoli Qusatinah I order states 24 April – We win in Djardo, I head south 17 June – I discover a holding by Air south of Djardo 2 July – Two more cores – Tatauine and Thuraqt 14 Sept – Another Air holding here and I’ve gone as far south as I can go 1 Oct – I promote Tunisian to be an accepted culture at the cost of some DIP power 1 Nov – Now that I am in positive money after cores and states and culture shifts, I order an exploration fleet of 3 of each type of ships and 3 transports to carry my army. I become Defender of the Faith – this gives me: 1 extra Missionary which I send to Ouarsenis 26 Nov – Naples names us a rival 8 Dec – Zuwareh cored, everything is now a core! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirteen - A New Heir is Born 12 April, 1467 - New heir is born! Meet Abu Tashufun, 4/2/0 Uh oh 16 May – Our spy in Morocco was discovered 30 Aug – Mission done, next is West African Coast 1 Nov – Exploration Idea #2 – I can get colonists! My dip should be going up much faster now and we’ll get these faster. I choose native repressions. I have several options- Tajarhi – Next to Fezzan, three dev, cleared of natives, but just a desert Or I could wait until finishing the exploration to see what I can uncover on the coast. Let’s do that. 19 Jan, 1468 - Our mission finishes, next is North Atlantic Sea I found Cape Verde and Arguin on the Saharan coast of Africa. My range is 192 and that won’t hit Arguin. I could do Tenerife an islands connected to Castile and then core it and use it to grab Cape in the future. Let’s do it, and Tenerife Is the best dev at 5 but not great trade good options. After I can sell it to Castile 1 April – I claim Tunis’s Kairwan I pull this to make nice with Castile 18 May – Tenerife sets up 14 Sept – Mosque ordered for Mzab 2 Nov – Event – Good Supplies – We get -10% Ship cost. I build more ships 17 Dec – Diplomat in Morocco caught again |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fourteen - Alliance with Portugal 1 Jan, 1469 – I invite a scholar for 20 years from the Shafi’I school that gives me another merchant that I send to collect in Safi I make 0.56 there 8 Feb – Mission is up, next is North Atlantic Coast 5 July – Tatauine converts! Next is Sirt 11 Aug- Exploration mission finished, next is the Caribbean Sea I pull my Moroccan Spy network to make nice with Portugal, they are riveled to Morocco and have a positive view of us. I’d love to bring them in with an alliance 12 Sept – Juthra converts! Next is Hodna 1 Dec – With a 61 I pull my diplomat from Castile and make nice with Air 7 Jan, 1470 – Royal Marriage with the Turks. 4 Feb - Portugal has entered a Golden Era 1 Mar -Granada cannot be a rival anymore, next I choose my only option, Genoa 21 October – Exploration done, next is nothing, I need a new base to explore like Tenerife 8 Nov – I now have more ships built to get to my naval force limit of 16,I need 20 to get my Mission. Here’s my ships: 5 Early Carrack Big Ships – the tanks 3 Barque Light Ships – these protect trade or pirate 3 Galleys that are galley type 5 Cogs – Transports Total – 16 10 Oct – Tripoli converts! Next is Kabylia 7 Nov – Event – Build a Great Palace – I spend 23 cash and get 10 prestige and 20 legitimacy 22 Nov – Aragon is at war with the big three and I decline military access because I don’t want them in Tunis. 2 Dec – Portugal is willing to enter into an alliance! Here, see:  They love my navy, mutual rivals, and I need an ally to check Morocco that’s closer and can stuff on time to the big three. They are also allied with Castile so hopefully they won’t attack Tenerife after it’s built up. Portugal’s Army – 15k. 1 17 Dec -I decline military access request from Castile who are also at war with the big three. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifteen - Considering War 7 Jan, 1471 – Tunis claims one of my holdings 1 Aug – I have two acts I can pass- Denouncement of Sect Practices – Until Hassan passes, I get -1 national unrest, I grab it Enforce Religious Unity – Missionary Str vs Heretics until he dies is +2, I pass it as well 28 Sept – I accept an offer of Knowledge Sharing with Portugal 1 Jan, 1472 – With 160 relations we max with Portugal, next is making nice with Mamluks 1 Feb – With relations of 90 I pull my diplomat from Air. Next is making nice with Jolof in West Africa. 1 Mar – Exploration Idea #3 – Overseas Exploration – I get a nasty +50% colonial range which is now probably enough to get to Cape Verde but Portugal is there now. With the boosted range my Explorer can do more and I send him to the coast of the Caribbean Sea. Remember that my Berber Ideas unlock every three, so I also got Barbary Pirates - +25% Naval Forcelimit, so I have 20k and I could build another 4, but I cannot afford the upkeep right now. 4 light ships that pirate should be a nice addition to my navy and finish my Mission to build a Raiding Fleet, buti cannot see that happening long term. I choose a naval doctrine to do boarding which increases our chance of capturing ships in combat I have built my army to my max forcelimit of 16k Is now the time to DOW Morocco and their two allies Tunis and Granada who are at war with Castille, Aragon and Navara? Our Team is at peace Us – 16k Mamluks – 37k Portugal – 18k Our Foes at War: Tunis – 7k, not fighting at home, I have not given them military access Morocco – 28k Granada – 1k Us – I can hire 4k mercs and that’s 20 for me so our total is 57k from Africa and 18k from Iberia for a total of 75k Them – 36k Morocco is the wild card, since they would be the defender. Here’s what I’d like to do in this plan. Move my two 16k armies to the Castle of Kef next to their holding with 7k. Hire 4k mercs there in Kef. DOW Morocco, move 20k into their holding and grab all of their stuff including their capital. Then the Mamluks can move in while I take Tunis and rout their army and then win that and then get enough war score in a separate war with Tunis to take it out or really sandblast it in a separate peace, then move to Morocco and grab a holding or two from them and then call peace while Portugal comes from the north and smashes Granada Several weaknesses with this plan: 1. Ternate – Morocco has captured the next door Castilian holding on the islands and then they could capture and burn down Ternate since it’s a colony. That would be rough 2. Ceuta – Portugal has a holding in Morocco called Ceuta that would be exposed and now available for capture. 3. Our Moroccan flank – Morocco are not going to sit back while we blitz Tunis on our flank and Granada in Iberia. They are coming my way, and we need to be ready for a major counterattack while my main army is tied up in Tunis. Those are three major weaknesses. Is it worth the risk? This is a great chance at war with Iberia but they still have 28k to my 20k in two armies with my mercs. That’s bad math. Military tech? They have 4 to our 5, good for us. Granada is just one province away from being fully captured, and when it falls, it could be taken by Castille and then annexed and the war concluded, so this window might be closing. What do I do? I order my two armies to Kef in case it makes sense later. I could take it, but taking Tunis costs twice as much since they are an ally. My peace with Tunis ends in three years I could wait until then and then DOW them. Or I could wait until Iberia was in Morocco besieging them. Let’s wait either for a better alternative or the peace with Tunis to end. I order some more men assembled to get ready for my first war against Morocco 26 June – Sirt converts, next is Mitija my capital. 1 July – Tenerife is good for Fish New Tech: ADMIN TECH 6 – Workshops – I can build Workshops and Farm Estates and Ramparts 25 July – Hodna converts, next is Qustantineh 4 Aug – Event – Marriageable Women flock to Ternate, +200 people and improved development 22 Oct – Exploration Mission done, next is North Atlantic Coast 5 Nov – Event – Excellent Year – I get +1200 manpower |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixteen - The First Algiers/Morocco and Tunis War, The Tunis Flank 1 Jan, 1473 – My diplomat maxed relations in Mamluks 12 Jan – Portugal has joined the war and 35 Castilian troops have crossed to siege Morocco so I am now in a different spot now than a few months ago. I DOW Morocco for Kasdir The Wars Us, Mamluks – vs Morocco and Tunis. I order my unified army into the Tunisian holding of Bizerte I order a merc army assembled in Kef. 9 Feb - I win in the Castle of Kairwan next to Kef and they had around 4k survive I chase them down, I cannot so I start the siege here 14 Mar- I give military access to Portugal 21 Mar- My mercs have arrived in Kairwan 31 Mar – 14k Morocco troops are in my border 1 May – Tenerife – Coastline, 8 dev, Fishing here, Ibadi Algerian making us 0.03, I send these colonists to Tajarhi rather than something I’ve discovered. They are sieging Dahra with 15k and have 14k in Titteri 16 May - I capture a minor in Tunis 29 May – They are besieging Mitija 3 June – Exploration Mission done, next is West African Sea 10 June – Another Tunisian minor falls 13 June – Kabylia converts! Next is Thubaqt By the by the Mamluks are besieging Djerba 30 Sept- 18k Mamluks troops arrive in Kabylia and Morocco is fleeing from the siege of our capital which is next door. 20 Oct -- Tunis captures Ouarenesis 27 Oct – The Siege of Kairwan is over! I order: 1k next door to Susa 3k into Tunis to hold the siege in my name to keep Mamluks troops moving this way to hold, The rest west to Dahra 10 Nov – They capture Dahra before I could arrive, I keep going 8 Dec – Susa is ours 19 Dec - We arrive next to Dahra and Morocco are in Ouarsenis so I send in my combined forces 26 Jan, 1474 – We win the battle I have a warscore of 14% 1 Mar – Relations maxed with Jolof, next is Songhai now next to Air and us when we go south 5 Mar – Ouarsensis is ours 8 June – Exploration mission finished Next is West African Sea Coast 18 June – We capture Tunis! I have a warscore of 94 with Tunis. What do I want? I can do Tunis and Kairwan that connects us but they’ll join a coalition. I do it:  I order this 3k to the west flank I spend 266 ADM Power to core them – Tunis was 188. It’s a big prize |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventeen - The First Algiers/Morocco and Tunis War, The Morocco Flank 22 June – I get an interesting alliance offer from the Turks. Take it? I do That treaty expires March 1487 4 Oct- I capture the minor of Kasdir from Morocco 10 Oct -We recapture Dahra 18 Oct – Conversion in Qusanineh next is Kef 20 Nov – Oran the minor in Morocco falls I order my army to join the Mamluk siege in the Castle of Tilimsan 1 Dec - Tajahir is good for raising Livestock. 25 Jan, 1475 – Exploration mission finished! I found a bunch of open places on the West African coast 18 April – Tilimsan falls and we have a 25 warscore 24 April – Event : People Flee to the Colonies – I lose some DIP power and Tajahir grows by 300 25 May – One Moroccan minor is ours 30 May – Conversion in Thubaqt! Next is Annaba 3 June – Another minor falls, I have a war score of 28%, what can I get to leave for Iberia? Kasdir – Wartarget, 3 badboy, 4 score Castle of Tilimsan – 12 badboy, 13 warscore Oran - 7 and 8 respectively Those three are: 22.5 badboy, 25 score, and then only Tunis cares.  I do the deal. I disband my mercs, I spend 147 coring these three. This peace ends 1483. Let’s look at my 5 new captures: Tunis: Tunis – The big prize. Center of Trade, Mosque, 15 dev, Drylands, Natural Harbor, Cloth Trade, Tunisian culture and Sunni faith, makes us 0.60 monthly Kairwan – Castle, next to Tunis the province, the nation and us, Highlands, 11 dev, Grain farmed here, 0.32 made here, Tunisian Sunnis Morocco: Kasdir – Highlands, 3 dev, Livestock, Sunni Berber, nothing made here. Next to Tilimsan and Morocco. Tilimsan - Castle, 13 Dev, Mosque, Highlands, Cloth trade, Emporium, Berber, Sunni making us 0.07 Oran – Coastal, next to Tilimsan and Morocco – Cloth making, 7 dev Drylands, Algerian Sunnis, 0.03 made here. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Eighteen - Bureaucratic Wonders 14 June – I split off 5k from my main army and assign my Conquistador again and I’ll send to West Africa for my next colony. I’ll keep my main army here in Tilimsan for rebel purposes Portugal took Tangiers and Fez from Morocco Granada was annexed by Castile. 29 June - Our capital Mitija converts! Next is Ouarsenis 7 Oct – My army arrives at Beefada next to Jolof 2 Dec – Exploration Idea #4 – Land of Opportunity - +10% Global Settler Chance 20 Dec – Tunis and Kairwan are cores! 1 Jan, 1476 – Another Government Reform! This is for Bureaucracy I have a massive 7 options. What do I like? Colonial Companies - +5% Settler Chance, -100% Minority Expulsion cost Decentralized Bureaucracy - +2 promoted cultures, minimum autonomy in territories -5% I like the Cultures for when you head out of this area. I like the companies for their colonial help. I chose the Cultures one. I pull my colonists from Tajareh, and send them to Beefada, next to Jolof. It’ll be a few years but we need to fight against European colonization and we’ll likely lose some cash. 15 Jan – I kill the natives there 1 Feb – Castille is entering a Golden Age 7 Feb – Event Foreign Inventor I make nice with Castile and raise relations 50 10 April – Colonists set up in Beefada, my colonial maintenance rose from 2 monthly to 6, an additional 4 and I am losing cash. 1 June – Uh oh. Our Imam gained the Loose Lips trait. That hurts defending against spies I max relations with Songhai with a 93, I recall and send a diplomat to make nice with Naples and build a spy network with Morocco 13 Nov – Kef converts! Next is Tunis. 12 Dec - Exploration mission finished, next is Atlantic South American Coast |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Nineteen - Setting Up a Penal Colony 9 Jan, 1477 – All three Moroccan takings are cored! All five are done! 17 June – Event – Penal Colony in Beefada - Do I want to set one up? I get +3 local unrest but +10% settler chance. I do it. 26 June – Annaba converts, next is Kairwan 25 July – Ouarsenis converts, next is Tilimsan. 1 Sept – Mission finishes, next is South Atlantic Sea 1 Dec – Rebellion in Oran, I order my army to it 30 Dec – Defeated! 2 Jan, 1478 – We embrace the Renaissance! I get -5% construction and dev costs, and we lose our tech penalties. I can get: MIL TECH 6 – The Arquebus – We get a lot of stuff - +2 combat width, 0.25 tactics, infantry fire +.20, shock +0.30, and we can build barracks and get the Shaybanid Cavalry. I order upgrades. 1 Feb – Tunis is no longer a valid rival, my next is The Papal States 12 Mar - Event - A New Settlement in Beefada – It grows by 100 1 May - I claim Morocco’s Figuig 1 June – Tunisian Separatist Rebellion in Tunis, I’m next door in Kairwan, I head in 18 June – Rebellion defeated. 1 Aug - Our relations in Naples maxed, next is making nice with Benin I get my first Age of Discovery that lasts until the Age ends. I am choosing this: Higher Developed Colonies – All of my colonies will get +1 to all three devs when they are finished. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty - The Algiers Golden Age Begins 4 Jan, 1479 – I can start a Golden Age – Check it out here:  The Algiers Golden Age lasts 50 years with those benefits. Nice! 1 Mar – New Tech: ADMIN TECH 7 – Renaissance Thought – I get…another group of ideas! What do I want to do? I cannot take Dip ideas like Trade that gives us merchants and better ability to use them or Diplomatic with more diplomats. I could grab… Admin Ideas: Expansion - And then get another colonist with the first Idea. It also gives me another merchant, and then a third colonist later. Right now no one is in Brazil so I could gobble that up while also expanding in Africa. Admin Ideas – Admin has a bunch of boost for hiring merc, which I do most big wars. It also gets the ability to increase your governing capacity for states by +25%. That’s strong for a big expander like me. Economic – Helps many things to make more money. Religion – Gives me two more Missionaries, Deus Vult to DOW any pagan and then better Missionary stuff, but I have boost with my government, idea, and Defender of the Faith, so this is less needed than others. Military Ideas: Quality – Since I have a low forcelimit, making my troops better make sense. Quantity – Let’s raise my forcelimit and manpower. Offensive or Defensive – Military boosts for armies. All of those have value. I am leaning to Expansion, Economic and Admin. Faster and more colonists? Better mercs and stating? Better economy? I do Expansion. 28 April – Exploration mission is done, next is Caribbean 2 July – Event – Marriageable Women in Beefada – pop there up 200 1 Aug – Ivory in Beefada, that was good Exploration Idea #5 -Viceroys - +10% Global Tarriffs and -20% Envoy Travel Time 8k Rebellion in Tilimsan I have my army there 13 Aug – Defeated 18 Sept – Event – Dargah – I choose, it’s a bit big, here I’ll show you:  And I show you the one I am taking, and the benefits I get for 25 years. 28 Oct – Our diplomat in Morocco was discovered 1 Dec – Kairwan converts – next is Kasdir |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-One - Tajarhi Finished 1 Jan, 1480 – That was a busy year! 16 Feb – Event – Education for the Poor? I do so and we get 1 innovativeness, +10% Ulema estate loyalty and -5% dev costs but +2% worse unrest for 10 years 1 Mar – Timsilan converts! 29 April – Event – Ship Building Boom we get -10% shipbuilding time for ten years 1 July – Tajarhi – Desert, 6 dev, Livestock, Arid, next to Fezzan and unclaimed Djado. Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.20 and this is the first colony after my age idea so it’s plus 3 dev. I am rebuilding my treasury again. I cannot rival Genoa anymore, who’s next? Venice 1 Aug – With a +92 rating with Benin we max relations, I pull and next is France making nice 20 Sept – Missionary to Oran 1 Oct – Tunis converts – nothing is left 25 Nov – 1481 - Kasdir converts 1 Dec – Exploration mission in the Caribbean done, next Is it coast |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-Two - Desert Warfare 1 Jan, 1482 – I can get Expansion Idea #1 -+1 Colonist This unlocks our next Barbary idea – Desert Warfare - +1 attrition in war for our enemies I send this colonist to Brazil’s Pernambuco a 10 dev natural harbor on the point and next to a tribe. I send my 5k conquistador there to unload. 17 Jan – Our general passes and I hire another since we are close to the war with Morocco peace occurring. He’s 2 stars 1 Mar – New Tech: MIL TECH 7 - The Limber – We get artillery! And we can also get +0.25 military tactics, -+1 artillery fire. Morocco has MIL TECH 5; I order 2k artillery 1 April – We set up in Pernambuco 5 April – My troops arrive. 11 April – Natives killed in Pernambuco 1 May – Our heir gains the “Free Thinker” trait which gives him -5% Idea costs Do I need to take my army back over to Morocco for the war? Tunis – 5k Morocco -24k Yeah I do I order this army to Tilimsan 18 May – Event - Prospering Times – I get +25 ADM power and +1 base production Tenerife 6 July – New Tech – DIP TECH 5 – Basic Financial Instruments- +20 trade range, +2% trade efficiency, I can build coastal defenses The Ottomans DOW the Mamluks’ ally of and they are in, I decline the call because I need my main ally in the region the Mamluks, I’d join otherwise. We lose our alliance with them. I can just do next year’s war with Portugal, but I was hoping to just call in Mamluks and then let Portugal out since they are in Africa and I don’t want to give them ideas. I claim Morocco’s Melilla 3 Aug – With a +90 I pull my dip from France 24 Aug – Event – New Madrassh in Qafsah – We get boosts there 16 Dec – Oran converts! Everything is Ibadi! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-Three - The Second Algiers/Moroccan and Tunis War 1 Jan, 1483- Our truce with Morocco has ended I want to declare war for Morocco and bring in Portugal, but their peace isn’t up for 7 years, I think I can solo them with mercs, I have better MIL tech and then just focus on Morocco first and then take them out and then head to Tunis when I have a break and then take them out, ready? I DOW Morocco for Mers el Kebir coastal and next to me Portugal and us have split Morocco in half. All northern holdings are without a fort so I dispatch a 1k cavalry to capture them and send my main army to Figuig Tunis is besieging Kairwan but they aren’t big enough 25 Feb – Exploration Mission is done, Portugal is in the Caribbean next is American East Coast sea 23 Mar – We defeat a 20k Moroccan army in Melilla 16 April – We rout the Moroccan army in Tetouan. With that flank fallen I split off an army to head back to the Tunisian flank 4 May – Two minors are ours I have a warscore of 7 20 May – Melilla and Tetouan are ours 5 July – We rout the Tunisian army in Kairwan and move to their capital of Susa 21 July – We capture a minor holding of Tunis 7 Sept – A minor in Morocco falls I head to the Castle of Meknes 14 Sept – Another Tunisian minor falls 7 Oct- The Siege of Meknes begins with a fusillade from my cannons 16 April, 1484 -Meknes falls! I have a warscore of 36 1 May – Beefada - Savannah, 8 dev, Ivory trading, Ibadi, Algerian, next to the nations of Jolof, Fulo and Kaabu and the unclaimed Sierra Leone. I make here 0.23 I order these colonists to Brazil next to us in Alagoas 15 June – I win a battle against 19k Morocco troops in Tafilalt 5 Aug – We capture Susa! Next is Djerba 21 Aug – I capture Tafilalt and another Moroccan minor 25 Sept – I rout the Moroccan army in Ifni 1 Oct – Natives rise up in Alagoas 3 Oct- Another exploration mission done, next is American East Coast Coast 17 Oct – Three Moroccan minors fall to me 8 Nov – Alagoas is burned down, I order more colonists here 4 Dec – Two more Moroccan minors have fallen 28 Dec – Another minor falls 4 Mar, 1485 – Djerba falls! I have every Tunisian holding Annexing them?  19.6 badboy. I accept and spend 288 coring them. Tunis is done! Now back to Morocco: I have an 86 warscore with Morocco I want to grab Sale because I want to turn Morocco into my Tunis and grab all of the land around Portugal that’s Moroccan to prevent an obvious future expansion into Morocco from them 19 June – Sale is ours! What can I take? 90% Score: South of Portugal - Figguig – 8 score, 4 badboy Meknes – South of Portugal – 11 score, 8 badboy Sale – Coast, south of Portugal, 11 score and 8 badboy Those are south of Portugal – 19 badboy and 30 score North of Portugal – Oujda – 8 score, 4 badboy Melilla – 9 score, 5 badboy - at this point, Morocco will join a coalition against us, but I want to keep pushing, since I want to protect future land grabs Tetouan – Coastal – north of Portugal, 9 score, 6 badboy Total – 56 score, 34.4 badboy, I wanna add my wartarget in Algeria, also by itself and next to those three. Mers el Kabir – 5 each. Peace:  I disband my mercs, I order cores for: Figuig, Oujda, Melilla and Mers el Kabir, that exhausts my ADM power Here’s my new stuff: Tunis – All four are coastal, Tunisians, and Sunni Bizerte– 9 dev, Mosque, Drylands, Grain grown here, 0.37 made here. This was the isolated province leftover from last war. Susa – Mosque, Drylands, 12 dev, Sugar growing, 0.49 made here, Next to the recently taken Sfax and south of Tunis. [u]Sfax – [/U]Sugar here too, 7 dev, Drylands, Mosque, surrounded by us and south of Susa, makes 0.30 [u]Djerba[/U] – Island with a strait to Taotaine, Castle, Coastal Desert, natural harbor, just 3 dev, grain, makes us 0.07 Morocco: North of Portugal – [u]Oujda [/U]– Next to Portugal, Wool, 7 dev, Highlands, 0.21, Berber, Sunni, Melilla – Coastal, Next to Oujda, and Mers and Tetouan, north of Portugal, Fishing, 7 dev, Highlands, Sunni, Berber, 0.25 made here Tetouan – Coastal – north and east of Portugal – next to Melilla – Mosque, 8 dev, Grain, Highlands, Moroccan culture. Sunni faith just 0,.06 made here Mers el Kabir – Coastal – Cloth makers, 7 dev, Drylands, Algerian permanent claim, Mosque here, 0.06 made, Algerian Sunnis South of Portugal - Figuig – Between us and Portugal – Livestock, 6 dev, Highlands, Berber Sunnis make 0.17 monthly. North of Morocco. Arid Meknes – South of Portugal – Castle, connects Figuig and Sale, north and east of Morocco, Mountains, 11 dev, cloth, Mosque, Moroccan Sunnis, 0.33 made here Sale – Coast, south of Portugal, north of Morocco, west of Meknes – Moroccan and Sunni, Drylands, Mosque, grain growers., make 0.25 with 9 dev Nasty grabs! This peace ends 1496, I need some time to rebuild my manpower and finish coring Morocco and then move to Missionaries, Tunis was gone in three wars. The first they lost 10 mostly minor holdings, then their two big ones, then the last four now. We are the last central north Africa nation standing, and we are left in East after absorbing major wars with Morocco twice and Algeria, and the Mamluks our ally in the West North Africa and us are left! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-Four - The Loss of Portugal 19 June – I send 4 army units to Algoas so I can shah the natives I use my 100 spy network that built up during the war in Morocco to claim: Agadir – Coast Ifni – Coast Gharb – Coast next to Meknes and Sale I send my extra diplomat to make nice with the Turks winning their war against the Mamluks with a +68 warscore in their favor 1 July – Pernambuco is good for growing Sugar! I have to choose a new rival, Morocco can’t be it, I choose Austria over the Mamluks, Portugal or Castille 2 Sept – Event – Foreign Theologians Enliven Scholarship – I choose to incorporate them into our bureaucracy and get +50 ADM power which I spend to core Meknes 1 Oct- Our army lands in Algoas and I order to kill the locals 10 Oct – Done 1 Nov – Core ordered in Tetouan 14 Nov – Exploration mission finished, I have much of the American’s coast in north America. No one is there. Next is South Atlantic Sea 15 Jan, 1486 – Portugal announces us as a rival. Uh oh, that breaks our alliance. Now it’s just me and the Mamluks and they are not in a great space in their war. 1 Feb – Core ordered for my last holding Claim in Morocco for Taflilit, gold, next to Figuig I pull my diplomat here and begin to build a spy network with Portugal 22 Feb – Our Conquistador passes and I hire a new one I head inland of Algoas I rivalize Portugal 2 June – France is entering a Golden Era 25 Aug – Dip Tech or Idea? Exploration Idea #6 – Free Colonies - +10% Settler chance 11 Sept – Cores done in my four Tunisian grabbings. I order Missionaries to Sfax, Susa and Sizerte, these will take longer since they have higher dev 20 Dec – Cores done in Melilla, Figuig, Oujda, and Mers el Kabir |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-Five - Now in Brazil 2 Jan, 1487 – Relations maxed with Turks, next is making nice with Jolof The Mamluks are at peace 24 Jan – Exploration mission done, next is South Atlantic coast 1 Feb -Event -Colonial Expansion – We get 200 settlers in the unclaimed land of Pambu – inland of Algoas, I order my Conquistador there to kill the natives 7 May – Meknes is a core – 7 July – Tetouan is a core! 1 Aug – Our truce with the Turks is over I claim Portugal’s Fez 29 Aug – Exploration mission done, next is North Atlantic Sea 1 Sept – Relations maxed with Jolof, next is Fulo 6 Oct – Sale is cored! That’s the last 1 Dec – Event – Famine hits Algiers I get reductions to taxes for 5 years 14 Jan, 1488 – Venice announces us as a rival 1 Feb – Pernambuco – 14 dev, Sugar, Algerian, Ibadi, natural harbor, Drylands makes us 0.32 I order these colonists south of Algoas on the coast to 7 dev Cocoa holding Sergipe and I have my army here I order the natives killed 8 Feb – Completed 24 Feb – Event – Improvements in Government Tech – I get a bunch more ADM power. 1 Mar – I can choose my next Age of Discovery ability! I choose Justified Wars - -10% badboy penalty – this lasts until the end of the Age. 1 May – New Idea! Expansion Idea #2 – I get another merchant which I send to collect in Brazil 1 June – Algoas is good for growing Coffee I am making 0.58 from the new Merchant 19 Nov – Sfax converts! Next is Figuig 28 Dec – Bizarte converts! Next is Mers el Kabir |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-Six - Global Empire 1 Jan, 1489 – The 20 year Scholar Loan in the Sha’fi School finishes and I lost that Merchant 1 Feb – Max relations with Fuzo next is building a spy network in Morocco I claim Portugal’s Ceuta 16 Mar – Susa converts and next is Melilla 1 April - Pambu is good for Sugar 16 Sept – Exploration mission finished – next is North Atlantic Coast 1 Nov – I clam Portugal’s Tangiers they renamed Tanger 3 Feb, 1490 – Sergipe gets the Marriageable Women event 1 April – Idea or Tech? Idea! Exploration Idea #7 – Global Empire – I get +25% naval forcelimit and treasure fleet income For finishing this I get – Can fabricate claims overseas in colonial regions and areas Then I got the next Berber idea – Trans-Saharan trade I get +10% trade efficiency and +20% caravan power 26 April – Event – Playing the Courts – I side with the Ulemas and get +10% their estate loyalty 8 May – Exploration mission finished – next is Atlantic South America Sea 8 Aug – The Caribbean is declared the Fief of Portugal by the Pope 1 Nov – I claim Morocco’s Sauora |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-Seven - State and Religion 1 Jan, 1491 – Figuig converts! Next is Oujda 13k Rebellion in Meknes 1 Feb – Our peace treaty with Portugal is over after they broke our alliance, now we can attack each other I would win but for their allies of Castille and England so that won’t be happening soon 3 March – Mers el Kabir converts! Next is Sale 1 April – New Tech: MIL TECH 8 - Pike and Shot – We get +0.25 infantry fire, +0.80 cavalry shock and we can build regimental camps. 3 April – We arrive in Meknes 10 April – We win 20 May – Melilla converts, next is Tetouan 1 June – Our diplomat in Portugal was discovered Our ruler gains the Benevolent trait, which gives us -5% loyalty desire in subjects 1 Aug – Algoas – Algerian, Ibadi, Brazil, 9 dev, Coffee grown here, Drylands coast, 0.40 made here, I order these colonists to Ilhaus – two down from Sergipe, 7 dev with Cocoa, next to tribe in Bahia. 1 Sept – New Expansion Idea #3 – Faster Colonists - +20% colonial growth! 15 Sept – Natives in Ilhaus taken out 25 Sept – Exploration mission finished next is Atlantic South America Coast In not good news Portugal is at war with Morocco, that’s not good for the home team 6 April, 1492 – We finish our Exploration Mission, next is nothing we are fully explored! 1 July – I accept a Royal Marriage offer from Jolof 1 Dec – Sergipe – 11 dev Cocoa, Drylands, Brazil, next to Bahia, Ibadi and Algerian making us 0.38. I send this colonist north of Pernambuco and up the coast to Paraiba a 7 dev Sugar province Government Reform – Next is State and Religion I have five choices, these are the ones I like: Strengthen the Ulema - +1.5 Missionary strength, better Ulama relations Curtail Clerical Privileges - -10% Admin tech costs, -10% Ulema relations Expand Temple Rights – Mosques and upgrades give +33% taxes and -2 unrest Pretty strong. Better missionaries, tech and make Mosques and their upgrades better. I choose Expanded Temple Rights because I need that cash, North Africa is so poor. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-Eight- A Quiet Interlude 1 Jan, 1493 – I order a Workshop in Tunis. My first one. New tech: DIP TECH – 6 – Docks – I can steal maps and build docks 10 Mar – Oujda converts! Next is Meknes 10 June – The ruler of Jolof died and our RM ended 19 June – Sale converts, nothing left. 17 Aug – Tetouan converts 11 Nov, 1494 – 50 Year Review!! |
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Here’s us –  I have two pictures here – North Africa and a breakdown of our cash. You can see our only ally Mamluks east, and then Morocco and Portugal are at war to the west. It’s been a quiet war so for. Here’s Colonial South America –  We are in Brazil, Castille are in Columbia. No one else is there I have three colonies in Brazil, two of which have colonists, the other will get finished next month How about Europe?  Sure thing! You got it! |
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Army – 28k, in two armies, forcelimit is way higher at 38k but I don’t have that cash. It’s the 11th biggest army in the game. Breakdown: 16k infantry 10k cavalry 2k artillery Navy – Just 16 ships with a forcelimit of 45. Tech – Ours is 7/6/8 with a total of 21. That’s 3 behind the leader at 24. Ideas – 10 – Venice has 13 Income - We make 27.65 monthly which is 13th best Development – 345 – 10th best Religions – Ibadi is 2 countries with 53 provinces, one is Pate, so the rest is me! Top Ten Holdings by Tax Revenue: 1. Tunis, 20.54 2. Mitija, 13.48 3. Oran, 9.62 4. Tilimsan, 9.62 5. Mzab, 8.92 6. Susa, 7.97 7. Mers el Kabir – 7.01 8. Dahra, 6.40 9. Bizerte, 6.37 10. Meknes, 6.35 Our Top Ten Holdings by Production Revenue: 1. Tunis, 8.0 2. Pernambuco, 4.86 3. Tilimsan, 3.26 4. Mitija, 3.16 5. Alagoas, 2.99 6. Sergipe, 2.82 7. Paraiba, 2.67 8. Susa, 2.52 9. Dahra, 2.41 10. Kabylia, 2.40 Charts: Religion – 95.9% Ibadi, 4.0% Sunni Culture – Tunisian – 34.5% Berber – 23.5% Algerian – 33.3% Moroccan – 8.5% Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Value: 1. Genoa – 29.74 2. Venice 3. Malacca 4. Lubeck 5. Persia 6. Rheinland 7. Wien 8. Sevilla 9. English Channel 10. Champagne, 16.80 Ours: Tunis – 3.38 Trade Goods by Current Value: 8.0 – Cloves 5.0 – Gems 4.5 – Copper 4.37 – Paper 4.0 – Ivory, Cocoa, Silk, Dyes 3.0 – Glass, Tobacco, Sugar, Spices, Cotton, Coffee, Salt, Iron, Chinaware, Cloth 2.5 – Fish, Wool, Incense, Wine, Grain 2.0 - Livestock, Tea, Tropical Wood, Naval Supplies, Fur, Slaves The Great Powers: 1. Ming 2. Ottomans 3. France 4. Castile 5. Poland 6. Mamluks 7. Muscovy 8. Austria Honorable Mention – England |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Twenty-Nine- Factories Our truce with Morocco is up in Sept 96 in two years. Portugal has been unable to grab their stuff or drop their military which is now 27k, just one thousand fewer than us. No Allies either, for now. 1 Dec – Pambu – Sugar, Dryland, internal next to Sergipe and Alagoas, Algerian, Ibadi, 7 dev makes us 0.20, and there were no colonists here and my cash/month rises to 5.31 14 Dec - Portugal claimed Figuig 1 Jan, 1495 – I get another Idea: Expansion #4 - Factories - -50% Fort Maintenance on border with Rival, and Center of Trade upgrade cost -20%. 1 Feb – I order a Workshop in Tilimsan 1 May – Do I want to accept another Royal Marriage offer from Jolof? If so I build up relations, but I cannot DOW them easily later. I accept as my ruler is getting up there, and they are allied to Songhai, a unlikely powerful West Africa Hegemon. 14 Aug – Meknes converts! Everything is converted save for Djerba the island but it has a recent conversion and is impossible to convert again for a while. 29 Sept – Event – Rains bring Fertility to Guinea area 1 Nov – Our diplomat in Portugal was discovered 14 Jan, 1496 – I arrive in the Brazilian coast of Espirito Santo and fight locals 18 Feb – I kill the natives in Sao Tome, south down the coast, I order this army back to Sale. These two can be expanded into by my colonists after finishing in Brazil while I am at war with Morocco without dispatching more troops. 23 Aug – My army arrives. 1 Sept – Truce is up. I hire an 8k merc unit in Meknes I am waiting for my transport fleet to head back to Dahra 10 Sept – It’s there. I declare war for Morocco’s gold mines of Tafilalt, I do not bring in the Mamluks |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty - The Third Algiers/Morocco War I order my 28k army from Sale into Gharb 12 Sept – Mercs arrives, I send them next door to Tadla 2 Oct – New tech: DIP TECH 7 – Naval Ambitions – I can +115 Colonial Range, +0.30 naval morale, +10 naval engagement, i can build Impressment Offices With the new colonial range I can send out another Explorer mission and I head to South Atlantic Sea 6 Oct – Gharb is ours I head next door to Anfa 28 Oct – Tadla is ours, next is their capital of Marrakesh 1 Nov – Anfa falls to my main army I head to Marrakesh to combine my armies in the siege 13 Nov - The siege begins with a fusillade 25 Nov – Our explorer died! I send fleet back. 14 Dec – I capture a Moroccan minor 25 Feb, 1497 – Morocco and Portugal at peace, no land exchanged, nice! I claim Portugal’s Algarve 16 April – My fleet returns, I hire a new Explorer and head back to the South Atlantic Sea 23 April – Marrakesh falls! 25 May – I defeat 19k Moroccan troops in Demnate I head next door to the Castle of Ouarzazete 5 June – I begin the siege with a fusillade 5 July – My cavalry capture Demnate 18 Sept - Another Minor falls. 6 Nov – Another minor is ours 27 Dec - Yet another minor falls to us 9 Jan, 1498 – We capture the Castle! I move next to our wartarget 4 Feb – New Tech! ADMIN TECH 8 – Courthouse – we can build them and get +100 governing capacity for making things states I can purchase another Age of Discovery ability - I choose: Adaptive Combat Terrain – When fighting in the terrain as my capital I am much better. 27 Feb – Tafilit is ours! 18 April – Another minor falls 13 May – And another I have a 99% warscore, what do I want? Tafilit - 8 badboy, 9 warscore, south of Figuig Tadla – 5 badboy and 10 score, south of Meknes Demnate – Connects them – 4 badboy, 9 warscore Gharb - Coast, next to Pale and Meknes – 8 badboy, 12 warscore Sauora – Low 3 dev east of Taflilt and south of Figuig – 3 badboy and 6 warscore That’s the most I can take before Morocco gets angry, that’s 26.8 badboy and 28 warscore Let’s take these 5 off the map.  I agree to the deal and then disband my 8k mercs. Cores ordered in Taftlalt and Gharb. My stuff: Tafilalt - South of Figuig – wartarget, Gold Mines, Mosque, 11 dev, Highlands, west of Sauora, east of Demante, north of Morocco, Arid, Emporium, Sunni and Moroccan, makes us 1.78 cash. Tadla – South of Meknes, north and east of Morocco, north of Demnate – Copper Mines, 8 dev, Mountains, Mosque, Sunni, Moroccan, 0.34 made here Demnate – Connects them - next to Morocco – Wool makers, 5 dev, Mountains, the great work “Ait Benhaddou”, Sunni Moroccans, just make us 0.02 Gharb - Coast, next to Pale and Meknes, north of Morocco – Natural Harbor, Grain growers, 11 dev, Drylands, Marketplace and Mosque here, Moroccan culture, Sunni faith, makes us 0.10 Sauora – Low 3 dev east of Taflilt and south of Figuig, north of Morocco – Throw in – Desert, Livestock, Arid, nothing made here, Moroccan and Sunni Nice additions to my stuff! The gold mines and copper mines are awesome |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-One - Brazil Forms 13 May – I order 4k with my Conquistador to head back to Brazil. I’ll keep my army in Demnate I claim: Morocco’s Tuat- Salt south of Sauora Draa – Spice, next to Sauora and Tafilalt 1 July – Ilheus – Brazil, coast, Jungle, Cocoa, 10 dev, Algerian and Ibadi, it’s given too… We have formed a colonial nation – Algerian Brazil They take our holdings I send colonists to the recently vacated coastal Bahia that connects us. I’ll be Fish but 10 dev 9 Aug – I spend 26 for coring Sauora 3 Sept - The Pope has given Colombia to Castille 4 Sept – I kill the natives of Bahia 17 Sept – The colony in Bahia starts! 1 Dec – I claim Morocco’s capital of Marrakech 13 Dec – Our mission is done, next is South Atlantic Coast 1 Jan, 1499 – I order a Workshop in Dahra 1 Mar - I spend 24 to core Demnate I order my army down to the Rio Da Plata region to grab another region’s things. 28 June – My army arrives in Rio de la Plata a COT in the La Plata region 1 July – Paraiba – Brazil, coast, Drylands, 10 dev, Sugar grown here, Algerian, Ibadi, handed to Brazil I send them to Rio de la Plata 9 July- The Tribe moved back there, so I order them to Espirito Santo in Brazil the 6 dev Cocoa place 1 Aug – I spend 76 power to core Tadla. Now they have all started 15 Oct – Cores done in Gharb, Tafilalt and I order Missionaries to both – these will be slow 19 Oct – Explorer mission finishes – next is North Atlantic Coast 26 Nov – My colony sets up |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-Two - Allying with the Turks 1 January, 1500 – Workshop ordered for Mitijia our capital and it’s Grain 16 Jan – Sauora is cored, a Missionary is ordered here 7 Mar- I invite another Shafa’I scholar from the Mamluks and I get a 20 year Merchant which I send to collect in Brazil again. 11 April – Event – Sufi Orders Growing in Demnate – I choose to strengthen it and for ten years it gets -0.05 monthly autonomy 22 April - The tribe has moved from Rio de la Plata and I pull colonists from Bahia and send them I collect 1.53 from Brazil 1 June – My general passes and I promote another from our ranks, a 2 star one 4 June – Royal Marriage with the Turks 9 Aug – Our diplomat in Portugal was discovered 1 Sept – Our explorer mission is finished, next is Atlantic South America C Do I accept an alliance offer from the Turks? I do so. 6 Oct – Demnate cored! Just Tadla left! I order a state here. 11 Oct - We set up in Rio de la Plata 25 Nov – I kill the natives in Rio de la Plata Even with my current 3rd colony I am making 1.3 cash monthly. 1 Jan, 1501 – I order a Workshop in Susa for it’s Sugar 2 Mar – Core finished in Tadla and we are all cored up! 5 Mar – Event – Marriageable Woman in Espirito Santo 5 April – New Tech – DIP TECH 8 – Shipyards – We can build them as well as +10 trade range and +0.10 naval morale 19 Nov – Portugal claims the Tetouan holding of ours Speaking of which I forgot to claim Morocco’s Anfa coastal next to three of my holdings 26 Dec – Explorer mission finished and next is Atlantic South America coast |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-Three - Additional Diplomats 1 Jan, 1502 – We convert Sauora next is Demnate I order a Workshop in Kairwan for it’s Grain 1 March – Event – Growth in Port of Bahia – The COT there grows by one I fulfill a mission – Build Buildings – I needed 5 Workshops and Mosques – I get 50 ADM power and for 25 years we get +10% Tax Income Next is Build a Treasury 25 Mar – We convert Tililalt and next is Tadla I spend some DIP power to promote Moroccan to an accepted culture 1 April – Gharb converts, nothing next Expansion Idea #5 – Additional Diplomats - I get +1 Dip Relations I can now have relations with another state like alliances and marriage without suffering penalties in my loss of DIP power That unlocks our next Berber Idea – Corsairs - +1 annual naval tradition and +10% privateer efficiency I have a ton of money from my promotion of Morocco so I hire a level 2 DIP advisor Navigator who gives me +20% colonial range – and I am still making cash with 5.19 spent in upkeep. I am now making 8/8/4 power monthly 16 April – I get a Royal Marriage offer from Fulo, do I take it? Sure thing 20 Oct – Explorer mission done, next is Caribbean 7 Dec – Our diplomat in Portugal was discovered |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-Four - The Founding of Colonialism in Algiers 1 Jan, 1503 - The Colonialism Institution has begun, in our area in Gharb! Here’s what happens, here I’ll grab a screen shot:  Wow! 100 in each Monarch power and then all of those boosts? Nasty! You also see the boost for Gharb proper. Also see the Portugal Columbian Exchange event that just happened. I order a Workshop in Kabylia for it’s Iron mines 8 Mar – Brazil is colonizing Rio Grande 20 April – Event – Colonial Expansion – I let Algerian Brazil expand and we lose relations with the locals 13 July – Exploration mission finished, next is Caribbean Coast 17 Oct – I join the Turks in their war against Venice I order my army to North Africa from the Morocco border to get ready for a crossing Oh, it looks like Morocco has joined an alliance with the Turks, so this might not be long in happening I pull my diplomat from Portugal after claiming Jamaica and then order it to make nice with the Mamluks 7 Dec – My army arrives in our capital to play defense New Tech: MIL TECH 9 – Professional Officers - +0.25 tactics, +1 combat width and I can get Shamshir Infantry. I order them now before war begins and my army inland to Ouarsenis 2 Jan, 1504 – I want to order an upgraded Center of Trade in Gharb but we cannot at war, so I order a Mosque in Kairwan. 25 Jan – Demnate converts and only Tadla is left 5 Feb – Fulo is at war with Songhai, I give them military access, that’s not going to go well. 13 Mar – Exploration mission done, next is Western Indian Ocean Sea 19 June – Tadla converts and that’s the last one 1 Oct – Expansion Idea - #6 – General Colonization Law – I get another Colonist! I send them to the African Island of Sao Tome with no natives. 15 Oct - Our general passes and I hire another this one just one star 8 Dec – Event – Merchants Suffer I spend 10 DIP power to alleviate it. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-Five - Carracks and Caravels 1 Jan, 1505 – I order a Mosque in Beefada 26 Feb – We set up in Sao Tome the Island 1 April – Esperito Santo – 10 dev, Brazilian coast, handed over, Jungle, Cocoa made here, Algerian and Ibadi I send these colonists to Brazilian coast Sao Tome south of Esperito Santo which is given to Brazil 1 May - New Tech! DIP TECH 9 – Carracks and Caravels – We can build those ships, and then +50 max colonial range and then we can study tech 25 May – Event – Colony in trouble – I spend cash to keep Bahia from losing colonists 1 July – Event – Qasim Benzai and his Family – I choose to put him in Brazil and gain +10% trading power there for 10 years 10 Aug – We arrive in Sao Tome in Brazil, which is next to Rio de Janeiro our next target here in Brazil 1 Nov – Rio de la Plata – 11 dev, Grain grown here, natural harbor, Algerian and Ibadi, I state it, Parana estuary, we make 0.35, Grassland, Center of Trade, La Plata colonial region, I order these colonists to the four dev Coffee province Montevideo 1 Jan, 1506 - Naval Supplies in Sao Tome the island I order a Mosque in Ousatineh 10 Feb – Natives killed in Montevideo, I head to Rio de Janeiro 9 Mar – Event – A Wandering Minstrel - I choose to let him play where he wants and get 50 ADM power 2 May – With a relations of 139 we are maxed with our ally Mamluks and I pull my colonist next is making nice with Castille 10 June – We set up in Montevideo 13 Aug – Natives killed in Rio de Janeiro, I head back to La Plata 11 Sept – Event – Marriageable Women in the Sao Tome Island. 8 Dec – Another Age of Discovery ability, I choose – Cavalry Armies which won’t do much with us. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-Six - Competitive Merchants 1 Jan, 1507 – I order a Mosque in Oujya I spend 50 DIP power to invite minorities to my capital state 1 Mar - I send my La Plata Conquistador army to take out some nearby La Plata natives and then move over to Africa to help with that. 25 Mar – Exploration Done! Next is Western Indian Ocean Coast 2 April – Event – Protests in Tilimsan I agree and lose some power 23 April – Natives in Colonia killed 26 April – Portugal claim Melilla 23 May – Natives killed in Banda Oriental 5 Aug – We get the next Expansion Idea #7 – Competitive Merchants - +20% Global Trade Power – we finish and get -10% minimum autonomy in territories Since I have finished both Expansion and Exploration I pass this policy: Colonial Expansion - +20% settler growth and -50% native uprising chance 16 Aug – I order my 5k Conquistador army from Rio de la Plata to Benguela in Africa which has 5k natives, south of Kongo I claim Morocco’s Island of Madeira they took from Portugal in peace 1 Dec – Relations maxed with Castille next is France 1 Jan, 1508 – Sao Tome in Brazil will make Coffee My army has arrived in Benguela I order a Mosque in Figuig 1 Feb – Sao Tome – African island, 8 dev, coastline, Algerian, Ibadi, making 0.08. I order these colonists to the 16 dev Center of Trade in Cape 11 Mar – Event - Disagreeing Advisor – I change my mind and agree with him and lose 10 prestige but gain 50 DIP power 1 April - Our truce with Morocco is up. I have moved my army next to them. I am still at war with Venice with the Turks, so I suspect they won’t join Morocco if I DOW them. Morocco has 11k forces so I don’t need to bring my Benguela army back. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-Seven - The Fourth Algiers/Morocco War I DOW Morocco for the Spice province of Draa. I don’t call the Mamluks, the Turks did not join Morocco so now we are still allied with the Turks I order my army to Draa 17 May – Draa falls, I order my army next door to the Castle of Oaurzazatete 26 May – I begin the siege with a fusillade 10 July – 1k cavalry capture the minor holding of Tuat and I order them back to the siege 12 Aug – The Protestant Reformation has begun – The Age of Discovery ends in ten years 24 Aug – Exploration Fleet done! Next is South Indian Ocean 28 Aug – I take out the natives in Benguela and pull my colonists in Sao Tome Brazil and send them over, it has a strong 10 dev and a natural harbor 18 Sept – Ouarzazatete falls! 18 Oct – I win the Battle of Sus against Morocco 16 Nov – Sus is ours 11 Dec – The Ottoman Conquest war is over and they took four holdings from Venice like Crete and Corfu, we get some power projection from beating our rival, we also got some cash 14 Dec - A minor falls in Morocco and next is their Capital Marrakesh 28 Dec – Another minor falls 2 Jan, 1509 – I hold off on building a Workshop/Mosque since I want to keep my cash free for emergency mercs. 25 Jan – Our Morocco spy was discovered 8 Feb - Another minor falls, Ifni 2 Mar – Our colony sets up in Benguela 23 August – Marrakech falls, I have a warscore of 99 let’s go shopping Draa – Our wartarget, south of Sauora and Demnate – 12 badboy, 10 warcore Tuiz – Inland, next to Draa, just 3 dev and don’t want to leave Draa about to be flanked – 2 badboy and 6 warscore Madeira – I didn’t capture it, but I have a claim on it – 7 badboy, 8 warscore 21 badboy and 24 warscore -Those are my two major targets. Next is just stuff I can get before Morocco or others get upset. What else can I toss in? Anfa – Coastal, next to three of my holdings – 5 badboy, 9 warscore Ouarzazate – Next to Draa, Demnate, Tafilalt, 4 badboy, 5 warscore Anything else? Nope, everything else pisses off Morocco  There is what I’m taking with my 40 score and 30.9 badboy. I take them and then core – Draa – 107, Madeira – 74, Anfa - 49 and Tuat 12, I still have 46 for Ouarzazate. My five new additions: Draa – Our wartarget, south of Sauora and Demnate – Spice trade, 13 dev, Drylands, Emporium, next to Morocco, Moroccan and Sunni, makes us 0.68, they have built here a Mosque, Workshop and Marketplace. Tuiz – Inland, next to Draa, just 3 dev and don’t want to leave Draa about to be flanked, next to Songhai, Desert, Salt, Arid, Tuareg culture, Sunni,. Just 0.03 made here. Madeira – I didn’t capture it, but I have a claim on it – Island, former Portuguese colony captured by Morocco, Coastline, 9 dev, Sugar grown here, Portuguese Catholic, just 0.03 made here Anfa – Coastal, next to three of my holdings and Morocco – Mosque here, 6 dev, Drylands, Sunni and Moroccan, 0.28 made here, Grain farmers, Ouarzazate – Next to Draa, Demnate, Tafilalt, Morocco – Castle, Highlands. 5 dev, Berber Sunnis work the grain trade, making us 0.09 monthly, Nice five additions! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-Eight - The Republic of Sale 23 Aug, 1509 – I’m losing money with my 5th colony, but we are about to get Bahia. I order my main army to Draa 1 Sept – Bahia – 13 dev, Jungle, Fish, Brazil, handed to Brazil, Emporium, it has a great work called “Salvador de Bahia”, back in black after removing it from me. 12 Sept – Songhai announces us as a rival. That’s not good. 1 Dec – With 108 we finish making nice with France, next is building a spy network with Songhai I embrace Colonialism! I offer to share it with our eternal allies Mamluks and they accept, we’ll get 4.77 monthly until they get it. 1 Jan, 1510 – I cannot be rivals with Venice anymore, next should be Songhai but it’s not an option. I choose England. Here’s a fun event –  As you can see, Sale has become a pairing haven, and I can embrace Piracy and release Sale as a Pirate Republic or I can release them and vassalize them as a non-annexable March with them. I choose the latter. They are Ibadi and add to the number of Ibadi nations Core ordered for Ouarzazate. I order an upgraded COT in Gharb which costs 160 cash, we get better trade +10, lower dev costs by 55 and better institution spread. 13 Mar – Event – I lose 50 MIL power 22 April – Event – Poverty in Tunis - We spend 60% taxes there for 5 years to help out and gain some power. 26 June – Event - A Talented Judge - I put him to work in Tunisia state and get some boosts. 1 July – I lose my claim on Morocco’s Agadir and Ifni 1 Oct – Uh oh. Slaves in Benguela – that could have been much better 1 Nov – Montevideo - La Plata region, Coastal, Coffee, Grasslands, 7 dev, Ibadi, Algerian, making us 0.14, I send these colonists to Colonia next door and cleansed of natives 7 Nov -Portugal has claimed Oujda 26 Dec – Draa and Anfa cores, I order Missionaries here. Those are both long, I also send a Missionary to Djerba now that their fervor has died down |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Thirty-Nine - A Great Power 1 Jan, 1511 – Cape is good for Livestock. I am going to save my cash for the Mission, I am currently making 9.2 monthly, so that’ll be a few years I claim Morocco’s Sus next to two of my holdings 9 Mar – The Ottomans DOW the Mamluks, I pull out and stay allied my guys We are currently 5th on the great power list by the by Wanna see?  I got you, I am also zooming in on the cash thing for it’s breakdown. We have no penalty because we have embraced Colonialism, and only Castille has as well. We don’t have that much development, so this won’t be for long. Enjoy it! 19 April – Colonia founded 7 July – Core finished in Ouarzazate! 1 Nov – Government Reform: This is the Administrative Cadre – who do I like? I have four options, who do I want to fill out my infrastructure – Nobles, Clergy, Merchants or Relatives? Clergy - They get boosts and +1 free Admin Policy Nobles – They gets boosts -10% leader cost, Merchants - They get boosted, -10% advisor costs Relations – That’s not good. You get corruption for an extra advisor when you got to hire So who do I like? Clergy or Merchants? Merchants or Clergy? I like future potential of policies like the one I exacted when I finished my two Ideas, but I also like reduced costs. I choose Merchants 5 Nov – Mission of Exploration finished, Europe are not in the Indian Ocean, next is Pacific South America Sea 19 April, 1512 – Event – Mystics and Storytellers – I choose to ban and gain 10 legalism 28 May – Madeira and Tuat are cored, and that’s all of my Moroccan captures cored! 1 July – New Tech – ADMIN TECH 9 – The Scythe – We get +2% production efficiency 29 July – Event - Influenza outbreak in Anfa, I quarantine it 1 Sept - Sao Tome - Brazilian coast, 9 dev, Jungle, handed to Algerian Brazil, Coffee, Algerian Ibadi I pull colonists from Colonia and send them to the Desert next to Songhai Djado to set up, and then I’ll pull them and head back to Colonia to build more quickly I now have enough cash to purchase a Manufactory, but I am saving 30 Nov – Colony set up, they head back 10 Dec – Our spy in Morocco was discovered 12 Dec – Djerba converts! Next is Tuat |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty - The Great Imam Passes 2 Jan, 1513 – At the age of 63 our ruler passes! Our 3rd ruler in this dynasty: Great Imam Abu Tashufin, 4/2/0, 45 years old Consort – 23 years old, 5/5/3, Jalila Heir – Muhammed, 2/4/1, age 0 Royal Marriage with Mamluks 22 Jan – Royal Marriage – Jolof 1 Feb – I claim Songhai’s Taudeni next to Tuat 20 Feb – Event - The Sheikh-ul-Islam – I choose the best candidate and get +5% boost to national taxes until our ruler passes 1 Mar – Anfa converts, next is Madeira which is Catholic and will take awhile 1 May – Colonia with Livestock – that was a miss 29 Aug – Draa converts! Next is the Castle of Ouarzazate 1 Sept – Cape – South Africa – This is a Center of Trade and natural harbor, 19 dev, Grasslands, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.39 with it’s Livestock!, I state it Next is the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius – it has 9 dev and no natives 1 Dec – Our Navigator DIP tech advisor passes – is there another? Nope, I don’t hire another since I am now making 21.84 for my Mission. 1 Jan, 1514 – New Tech! DIP TECH 10 – The Flute – We can build Flutes, War Galleys and +20 trade range and +2% trade efficacy 3 Jan – Castille is now under Papal Decree as the owner of Mexico 1 Feb – I lose my claim on Ceuta in Portugal 30 Mar – Event – Do I sell titles? If so I gain more than 500 cash and relations with merchants but lose it with the Nobility. Not normally, but since I am trying to save, I do so 24 May – I kill natives in Luanda next to Benguela 1 June – Benguela – 13 dev, Natural Harbor, Slaves, Drylands, West Central African coast south of Kongo and Luanda – Algerian and Ibadi, making us .22, I send them to Luanda and order my army to Cape to explore. 2 July – Exploration Mission to the Pacific finished next is Pacific South America Coast, let’s see what I can find for future colonial expansion. I claim Songhai’s Gabu next to Beefada Songhai – allies Kanem Bornu, Jolof, Wadai, and Kano They have 29k to our 30k and 8 MIL tech to our 9. I could call in Mamluks, call in mercs, and go to war. Morocco’s peace is over in four years, so let’s wait until after it. I want to finish building up my cash to 2k and then I can spend it. 23 Oct – Luanda sets up 1 Nov – I lose my claim on Tangiers in Portugal |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-One - A New Rival 24 Jan, 1515 – Our diplomat spy in Morocco is discovered 2 July – Event – Advancement of the Merchants - they get 10 relations 21 July – The adjacent roving tribe in La Plata that connects my holdings called Santa Fe has pulled out and I pull my colonist from Colonia and send it over now before they return. 1 Aug – Bad news – Spain has formed and names us a rival They stop my trade in Sevilla I send my merchant to collect in the Cape of Good Hope 25 Sept - Ouarzazate converts! 1 Oct – We have named Mauritius Dina Arobi and it’s good for Sugar 8 Nov – Exploration Mission Finishes, next is South East Pacific Sea I see a bunch of new La Plata area to grab, I have discovered the Incas 11 Dec – Spain discovered El Dorado 1 Jan, 1516 – I pay 30 MIL power to quell a rebellion in Madeira violently 12 Jan – Santa Fe sets up 1 Mar – I have 2k cash! I complete the Mission: Build a Treasury! I get: -0.10 monthly inflation reduction for 25 years My next Mission is to have TWENTY manufactories. Nasty! Now I can spend my cash, I order three now: Farm Estate for Livestock in Mzab, Laghuant,Tajarhi I’ll save the rest for my future potential war with Songhai to hire mercs 1 April – Our truce with the Turks is up 15 April – I reject a royal marriage offer from Air 22 April – Ditto Zizzau 1 May – Luanda is with Tropical Wood and Djado Slaves 2 Sept – Our alliance sharing with the Mamluks is over they have embraced it. Next? Turks 1 Nov - Tuat converts! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-Two - Quality Ideas 1 Jan, 1517 – New tech! ADMIN TECH 10 – Modern Theocracy – We get…another Group of Idea! What do I want? Trade for two more Merchants and boost to trade? Admin for better Merc stuff and better states? Quality for better troops which I can get the first idea now? I like all three, let’s do Quality Quality Idea #1 – Private to Marshal - +10% army morale That unlocks the next Berber Idea: Tuareg Cavalry - +10% Cavalry combat ability; +10 looting speed That’s a strong boost militarily 1 Feb – Colonia – La Plata, Coast, next to Montevideo and Santa Fe, 6 dev, Grasslands, Livestock, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.04 I order a Workshop in Cape for Livestock 5 July -Event – Rains Fail in Guinea Region, we lose taxes and production 14 Aug – i choose to fast in Ramadan and gain 5 legitimacy 1 Oct – Our truce with the Venice and allies is up 11 Dec – Event – Growth of Port in La Plata – it grows a level 1 Jan, 1518 – Luanda – Next to Kongo and Benguela, 9 dev, Savannah, just Tropical Wood, Algerian, Ibadi, making us 0.28. Next is Ile de Bourbon near Mauritius in the Indian Ocean also with no native I order Workshop in Benguela for it’s Slaves 19 Jan – Another Pirate Republic forms under my Auspices – Tetouan! 31 Jan - Portugal no longer considers us a rival. Can I swap to Songhai? Nope, I do Poland instead 23 Mar – Event- get +50 DIP power but lose 5 prestige 7 May - Madeira converts! That’s our last grab from Morocco 1 June – I claim Portugal’s Fez Morocco’s Ifni Songhai’s Futa Jallon 8 Sept - The Age of Discovery ends - next is The Age of Reformation and gone are all of my Age specific abilities like Justified Wars and the boosts to colonies Our truce with Morocco is up! I DOW them for Sus I do not bring in Mamluks |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-Three - The Final Algiers/Morocco War I order my 25k army into Sus from Draa 1 Oct – Dina Arobi – Algerian, Ibadi, Coastline, Sugar, 0.19, 11 dev, I send these colonists to Banda Oriental in La Plata 21 Oct – Sus is ours 9 Nov – I rout 5k in Agadir 30 Nov – Agadir is ours 15 Dec- Ifni is ours 17 Jan, 1518 – Haha is ours, next is a siege on Marrakech 26 August – Marrakech falls! 27 Sept – A minor falls 18 Oct - Abda falls! I have a 100% warscore with Morocco! What can I take? To vassalize them is 77 warscore, and then I could slowly build them up into better relations like Fezzan. That’s 52 badboy and no one not named Morocco would care. Can I annex their 7 provinces? Yes, I can, and it’s less badboy and no one cares  For 72 warscore and 23 badboy I remove Morocco from the map! Coring – Marrakech is 125, done, Sus is 102 done, 53 for Dukkala, 39 for Agadir, 26 for Abda, 22 for Haha and 12 for Ifni, all cored but I only have 66 left, all are surrounded by me. Here we go! Marrakech – Former capital, Castle, Barracks, Mosque, Mountains, Sugar trade,16 dev, Moroccan Sunni, makes us 0.80 Sus – War target, Highlands, Mosque, Sugar Trade, 0.64 made here, 13 dev, Sunni Berbers Dukkala – Coastal, 6 dev, Drylands, Farm Estate, Mosque, Grain, Sunni Moroccans make us 0.32. Agadir – Coastal – 0.22 made here Natural Harbor, Sugar trade, 9 dev, Drylands, Sunni, Berber, Mosque, Marketplace, Abda - Coastal – Sunni, Moroccan, 3 dev, Sugar, Drylands, 0.01 made here Haha – Coastal – Berber, Sunni, Mountains, 5 dev, grain, 0.09 made here Ifni – Coastal – 4 dev, Coastal Desert, Fishing, Berber, Sunni, Arid, make 0.03 Nice additions |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-Four -Spain Steps In 18 Oct – I order two Manufactories: Cape, Livestock, Farm Estate and Sabha too the same We renamed Ile de Bourbon “Dina Morgabin” 25 Oct - I order my spy network in Portugal resumed from my Moroccan one after it returns. 1 Jan, 1520 – I invite Minorites again for 50 DIP 1 Mar – I cannot Rival England anymore, my next is Spain 1 April – Sugar in Dina Morgabin 9 May – I want to get enough troops to face down Songhai In our war I order 1k artillery, 3k cavalry and 2k infantry to add to my main army. My forcelimit is 64 to 30 current troops 1 August – Santa Fe – La Plata region, Wine, 4 dev, Grasslands connects Rio de la Plata and Colonia, Algerian, Ibadi they make for us .20. I order these colonists to African coast Inhambane next to Kilwa with a 9 dev and natural harbor in the same region as Cape 12 Aug - We kill the natives in Inhambane 1 Jan, 1521 – I order a Farm Estate Manufactory in Kasdir for Livestock 23 Feb – Cores in Marrakech, Ifni and Sus are done, Missionaries ordered here – Marrakech will be very long like 111 months long 22 April – Cores done in other four 1 May – Djado – Next to Songhai, 3 dev, Slave trading, Desert, Ibadi, Algerians, Arid, makes us 0.08 monthly I order a fort here I destroy my castle in Kairwan 11 June - I pull my colonists from Dina Morgabin to start one in Swellendam next to Cape with a low ferocity natives 2 Dec – Natives there killed |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-Five - Quality Education 9 Jan, 1522 - We set up in Swelledem and I pull for Dina Morgabin 2 Feb – Austria cannot be a Rival anymore, I choose France or Mamluks? Neither, one likes me and the other is our eternal ally 1 Mar – I claim Portugal’s Ceuta and Songhai’s Tenere 10 April – Quality Idea #2 - Quality Education - I get annual boosts to army and navy tradition 1 July – Knowledge Sharing with the Turks over! Anyone else? Nope. 1 Oct – Big miss in Inhambane – just Fish 1 Nov - I now have 40k troops in North Africa since Songhai has 32k 1 Jan, 1523 – I order a Farm Estate in Tatouine for Grain 10 Jan – Exploration Mission into the Pacific done -next is East China Sea coast 3 Feb - I kill 7k natives in Matsolo south of Inhambane and with 9 dev 20 Apr- Ifni coverts! Next is Abda 9 June – Songhai discovers our spy 1 July - Dina Morgabin – 11 dev, island in Indian Ocean, Sugar, Coastline, my culture and faith, makes us 0.69 Next is Matsolo I claim Portugal’s Tangiers 29 Sept – Sus converts; next is Haha 2 Nov – Castle done in Djabo My two armies are in Suat next to Songhai, in the western flank, I have a castle in Beefada to hold them I hire mercs on the eastern flank behind Djabo I DOW Songhai for Taudeni next to us on the Western flank and bring in the Mamluks |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-Six - The First Algiers/Songhai War I order my 40k to Taudeni 1 Dec – Banda Oriental – La Plata – Wool, 3 dev, next to Montevideo, Algerian, Ibadi, We create Algerian La Plata and hand my five holdings here. I order this colonist to the island of Mahe in the Indian ocean. I finish the Mission to Assemble an Army and for 25 years we get +10% manpower recovery and improved army tradition 1 Jan, 1524 – Marrakech converts! Next is Dukkala 10 Jan – We capture Taudeni 13 Feb - 13k Songhai troops arrive in Beefada and begin a siege 3 May – I begin a siege in Kawar with my mercs next to Djado 30 May – They took Beefada 18 June - I begin a siege of their capital 12 July – Exploration Mission done, next is East Indian Ocean 31 July -Another alliance offer from the Turks I take it 1 Sept – The fort of Kawar falls! 12 Sept – One of my generals dies 1 Oct – We win a battle In Air against 20k with Mamluks and my mercs 21 Oct – We capture their capital of Gao! I head to the fort of Timbuktu where one of my Pirate vassals are besieging it 8 Nov- Air falls 19 Nov – Tenere next to us falls 4 Dec – We capture the minor Karabara that connects Gao and Timbuktu 27 Dec – Another minor on the east flank falls too our mercs 31 Jan, 1525 – Another minor on the west flank is ours 1 Feb – Swellendam is good for wool Inhambane – Natural Harbor, south of Kilwa, north of Matsolo, Jungle, 9 dev, tropical, Fishers, Ibadi and Algerian make us 0.17 I order these colonists to the Belitung Island in the Indies – they have low nasty natives. 24 Feb – Timbuktu falls! I have a warscore of 51 1 Mar – Our explorer dies on the mission and I hire another 8 April – Abda converts, next is Agadir 22 April – Two minors fall 20 May – Two more minors fall, and next is the Castle of Jenne 22 May – White peace with Jolof still likes us and with a Royal Marriage. 23 June - Another pair fell 10 Aug – Three more minors fell 26 Sept – Every eastern flank province is under our control, I disband the mercs 3 Oct – The Siege of Jenne is done! We have a war score of 87% What can I get? Western Flank: Taudeni – Wartarget, South of Tuat -2 badboy, 4 warscore Azawad - South of Taudeni, 3 badboy, 5 warscore Timbuktu – South of Azawad – 15 badboy, 20 warscore – That’s a big prize Hodh - West of Timbuktu and Azawad – 4 badboy, 7 warscore Tadmekka – East of Timbuktu, Azawad and Taudeni - 2 badboy, 5 warscore Azawagh – East of Tadmekka, 2 and 5 Eastern Flank: Kawar – 3 badboy and 6 warscore, South of Djado Tenere – 2 badboy, 5 warscore, south of Djado, west of Kawar Air – West of Tenere – 6 badboy, 9 warscore Azbin – West of Tenere, east of Azawagh – 3 badboy and 5 warscore That connects my takings in each flank 71 war score, badboy of 41.2 – Any other throw ins? Damagaram – South of Kawar and Tenere – 2 badboy, 5 warscore Here’s my takings:  76 war score and 43.6, I do it and core them all, none are Berber even Timbuktu is 88. Western Flank: Taudeni – Wartarget, South of Tuat - 3 dev, Salt, Desert, Arid, Tuareg, Sunni, make us 0.04 Azawad - South of Taudeni – Also Salt, 3 Dev, Desert, Tuareg, Sunni and arid and make us 0.04 Timbuktu – South of Azawad –The big prize – The Great Work “Sankore Madrash” Emporium, Castle, Tuareg, Sunni, 18 Dev, Steppes, Cloth trade, 0.06 Hodh - West of Timbuktu and Azawad – Wool, 5 dev, Sunni, Tuareg, Arid, Desert, 0.04 made here Tadmekka – East of Timbuktu, Azawad and Taudeni – Desert, Arid, Wool, 3 dev, 0.02, Tuareg and Sunni Azawagh – East of Tadmekka – Also 3 dev, Desert, Arid, Tuareg, Sunni, Livestock, nothing made here Eastern Flank: Kawar – South of Djado, north of what’s left of Air, - Castle, Salt, 3 dev, Desert, Arid, Sunni, Tuareg, 0.05 Tenere – South of Djado, west of Kawar – Arid, Desert, 3 dev, Livestock, Tuareg, Sunni, nothing made Air – West of Tenere – A nice Iron Mines, Highlands, 8 dev, Sunni Tuaregs, Arid, 0.08 made here Azbin – West of Tenere, east of Azawagh – Salt, Desert, Arid, 3 dev, Tuareg, Sunni, making us 0.05 Damagaram – South of Kawar and Tenere, also next to nation of Air and Kano – Steppes, arid, Livestock, Tuareg Sunnis with 3 dev make us 0.03 Most pretty light dev and Desert and Arid, I got one good target, again this region of Africa has low dev and mostly low trade stuff too, although Salt is now 3.30, not bad. This peace ends in 13 years in 1538 and we’ll need to be ready for the good stuff. Only three had higher than 3 dev, and one was Hodh with 5. I might have made a mistake by not taking Songhai’s two coastal provinces to prevent Europe from coming this way and also giving me a land connection to Jolof again. Because I have white peace with Jolof I can claim their place and then attack them and likely get Songhai to agree to join them in another war in just a few years. I made the wrong call. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-Seven - Wharves 3 Oct - I order one army to hang out in Tenere and then 5k next to Beefada in the Unclaimed Sierra Leone and the rest to Timbuktu. 22 Oct – Haha Converts 1 Nov – Matsolo – Tropical Wood, that’s a miss 1 Jan, 1525 – We finish our Mission next is South China Sea Coast 12 Feb – Dukkala converts 4 Mar – We set up in Belitung 16 May – I kill the natives in Belitung 6 June – Event – Dargah remember when I posted that earlier? It happened again. I choose the one that again gives me -10% Admin tech cost. I claim Portugal’s Bahamas 1 July – Miss in Mahe – Naval Supplies 30 Dec – Event – Monopoly Company Formed – I get a long term investment, ++50 DIP power and for ten years +15% trade income 1 Jan, 1526 – New Tech! DIP TECH 11 – Wharves – We get another massive 100 colonial range and then we also get our next manufactory – Naval Equipment which pumps Naval Supplies, Salt, and Fish. I order one in for Salt in Hodna 2 May – Event – Tariffs on Wine – I tax it and Algerian La Plata gets 5% of tariff value 21 May – Mission finished in South China Sea – next is East China Sea Sea I claim Songhai’s capital Gao 1 June – New Tech Redux! ADMIN TECH 11 – Textile Manufactory - I can build them! These are for Cloth, Silk, Wool 23 June – Agadir converts! That’s my last Moroccan conversion 26 Aug – I pull my spy builder from Portugal and send it to build one in Kongo 1 Nov – Belitung good with Coffee |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-Eight - The Algerian Golden Era Ends 1 Jan, 1527 – Mahe – 6 dev, Naval Supplies, Indian Ocean island north of Madagascar, Coastline, Algerian, Ibadi makes us 0.21 Next is Sierra Leone, south of Beefada 1 Feb – Our heir gains the Obsessive Perfectionist trait which increases build time by 10%. 28 Feb - Natives in Sierra Leone killed 31 Mar – Event – Noble Families Feud – I choose to spend 33 DIP power to settle the issue. 19 April – Sierra Leone sets up! I pull them for the island of Sula which has a big chance for Cloves past the island of Sulawesi, I order my army there from Belitung 1 July – Rebellion in our March of Tetouan. 19 July – Defeated 8 Aug – Natives in Sula killed 6 Sept – Cores finished in our claims that we took of Tenere and Taudeni – Missionaries ordered there I promote Tuareg to an accepted culture and spend 88 DIP to do so 26 Sept – My army arrives on the Island of Buru. 1 Oct – Matsolo – South West African Coast south of Inhambane, Jungle, Tropical Wood, 9 dev, Tropical, Ibadi and Algerian makes us 0.16 I order this colonist to Buru 8 Oct – Natives there killed. 1 Nov – I lose my claim on St. Thomas 8 Dec – I claim Kongo’s Mbamba, next to Luanda Kongo: Allied with Bunyoro and Chockwe, Has – 4k. Not a type, just 4k, with a Mil tech of 8 to our 9 Allies: Bunyoro and Chokwe aren’t on my maps so I don’t see them to see how big they are. I need to keep my main army here but I could spend my Manufactory cash on mercs and take them out. I hire the Independent Army for Luanda 31 Dec – Event - Shipwreck I lose 2544 Sailors 1 Jan, 1258 – Our peace with Jolof is over Our Golden Era ends 5 Jan – All cores in Songhai are done, Missionary sent to Kawar 9 Jan – I DOW Kongo for Mbamba. I do not call in Mamluks who would join, or the Turks who would not. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Forty-Nine - The First Algiers/Kongo War I order my mercs to Mbamba 23 Feb – Mbamba is ours 14 Mar – I defeat 4k in their capital of Mpemba and begin a siege 1 July – It falls! 6 Aug – Minor of Soyo is ours 1 Sept - Swellendam – Next to Cape, South African Coast – 6 dev, Steppes, Wool, Algerian, Ibadi, 0.15 made here 16 Sept – Another minor is ours 10 Oct - My Marches have arrived 31 Oct – Two minors falls 12 Dec – Two more minors are ours 23 Dec – We defeat a 6k army in Ndongo 7 Feb, 1529 – Three more minors have fallen 25 Mar – Two more captured 27 April – I begin the Siege of Nunu 29 July – Event – Urbanization – I choose to do it, gain four +1 in four places and then I spend 222 cash 24 Aug – Conversion in Taudeni and Tenere, next are Azawagh and Tadmekka 1 Sept – Belitung – Coffee, 7 dev, Island in the Indies, Coastline, Ibadi and Algerian makes us 0.26 I order these colonists to Ceram, also a high Clove chance 9 Sept – Nunu falls! Warscore 43 7k Chokwe are next door in Munene 11 Oct - We win the battle I head to join my March besieging Kasanje 14 Nov – Natives killed in Ceram 26 Nov – I arrive in Kasanje 23 Dec – Kawar converts, next is Azawad 1 April, 1530 – Naval Supplies in Sierra Leone 23 April – The Commonwealth announced us as ai rival 1 May – Buru Cloves, Sula just Gems 24 June - Kasanje falls! Our warscore is now 54 I keep pushing, most of what I want might be more There is a rebellion in one of my captured Kongo places their capital I head over to take it out 6 July – Explorer Mission finished! All of the Indies and Philippines are mapped. Next is South Indian Ocean Coast 22 Aug – Rebels taken out I claim Kongo’s Kantor next to Beefada 5 Sept – 10k Kongo forces arrive to besiege Nunu, I head over 1 Oct – Rebellion in Air – I moved my army there 9 Oct -We win in Air 12 Oct – We defeat all three nations in Nunu Ceram sets up I head to my Marches besieging Rund 1 Dec – I can buy my first Age of Reformation thing! This will last until it’s over. What do I want? Religious Wars – War Score Cost vs Other Religions - -25% Nasty! 10 Dec – We arrive in Rund 20 Feb, 1532 – Our mission in the Indian Ocean is done! I discover Australia and a 10 dev province next to tribes called Wadjuk, it’s also a natural harbor. Very aggressive natives. Next is more Indian Ocean exploring 5 Mar – Rund is captured! Warscore of 69% I head to the nearby capital of Chokwe called Ishindi. 15 April – I arrive, take out a small army and begin the siege 1 June – My army arrives in Wadjuk 8 June – Natives killed, I stay here and do some exploring. 15 July – The Turks broke our alliance 10 Aug - Tadmekka and Azawagh converts, next are Damagaram and Azbin 19 Aug – Ishindi falls and I have a warscore of 81. I disband my mercs Time for peace? What can I get? Mbamba – Wartarget, Up the Coast from Luanda – 6 badboy, 3 warscore Soyo – Up the coast from Mbamba – 14 badboy and 9 warscore Ngoyo – Up the coast from Soyo – 12 badboy, 8 warscore Loango – Up the coast from Ngoyo – 13 badboy, 7 warscore That’s all I can get without annoying Kongo. They have one more coastal province that I’d like to bring in, but it would annoy them. Let’s do it I want to make Kongo un takeable from Europe: Mayumba – Up the coast from Loango – 8 badboy, 6 warscore – Here’s what I am taking –  Nice! I spend around 165 coring them. Ready? Mbamba – Wartarget, Up the Coast from Luanda – Kongolese culture, Fetishist faith, 5 dev, Savannah, Tropical, Slaves, 0.06 made here. Soyo – Up the coast from Mbamba – Shipyard, Tropical, Mosque, 11 dev, Grasslands, Slave trad,e, Kongolese and Fetishist, .10 here Ngoyo – Up the coast from Soyo – Tropical, Jungle, Ivory trade, Marketplace, Shipyard, 9 dev, Fetishist Kongolese make us 0.11 Loango – Up the coast from Ngoyo – Gems here, 10 dev, Jungle, Tropical, Mosque, 0.11 made here, Kongolese, Fetishist Mayumba – Up the coast from Loango – Catholic and Kongolese, Jungle, Tropical, Ivory trade, 6 dev, 0.03, next to unclaimed Gabon. All nice and everything worth at least 3.0 trade good, and better dev, but all Tropical and three Jungles, harder to develop and build the wrong culture and then fun stuff. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty - Kongo Area Army Built l order a 10k army in Luanda and Benguela, this peace is over in 1541. 17 Sept – I claim Kongo’s Anziku a Copper Mine in their north 14 Dec – Conversion in Azawad – next is Hodh 17 Dec – Our mission in the Indian is finished, next is South China Sea Sea 1 Jan, 1533 – I order a Textile Manufactory for Tunis’s Cloth 1 Mar – Rebellion in Timbuktu, I’m next door in Azawad 29 Mar – Defeated 1 Dec – Cloves in Ceram 24 Dec – Mission done, next is South China Sea Coast 1 Jan, 1534 – I claim Kongo’s capital for future wars 1 Feb – I claim Songhai’s Karabara 18 Sept – With Sula almost ready to get upped, I pull colonists and send to Ambon a strait island to Ceram with a high Clove count 24 Sept -Mission done, next is East China Sea Coast 1 Dec – Army is built in Kongo with 6k inf, 3k cav, 1k artillery |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-One - Cloves Built Up 1 Jan, 1535 – I order a Textile Manufactory for Cloth in Oran New Idea – Quality Idea #3 - Finest of Heroes - +10% Cavalry ability 1 Feb – Buru – Cloves, 6 dev, Island, Coastline, Tropical, I state it and Sula, 0.34 made here, Algerian, Ibadi, Sula – Gems which are just worth 3.0 now, Algerian, Ibadi, Island, 5 dev, makes us 0.16, Tropical, I order the other colonists to the high Clove possible Halmahera My Conquistador explored much of Australia, next is coming back to Ambon and Halmahera to clear out natives. 28 April – Natives in Ambon killed 23 June – Natives in Halmahera killed. Now this has a strait crossing to two separate nations – Tidore and Ternate, each one province with Cloves. So using this as a jumping off point to grab two more Cloves makes sense. They each have 5k army. Ternate doesn’t have any allies. I cannot DOW them with a CB, which is given for being next to them so I have to wait until the colony starts and then after it finishes, but I’ll keep my army here. We have 9 MIL tech to their 9, so we’ll need a bigger army. 25 July – Event - Cottage Industry – I protect my merchants and get better relations with them. 1 Aug – I need to increase my MIL investment I hire a Level 2 Military Advisor Master Recruiter who gives me +10% manpower and he costs me 4.16 monthly, that’s pretty cheap I also hire an Admin Advisor level 1 Inquisitor that gives me +2 Missionary strength for just 0.89. Nasty cheap. I am now making 11/8/5. 2 Sept – I claim Kongo’s Copper Mining Mpangu 24 Oct – Cores finished in Kongo. 23 Nov – We set up colony in Ambon 1 Jan, 1536 - Conversion in Azbin and Damagaram, next is Air and Mbamba I order Textile Manducatory in Meknes for Cloth Portugal have set up in La Plata and France has a colony in Brazil 1 April – Ceram – Strait to Ambon, Cloves, Island, Coastline, 9 dev, Algerian Ibadis, make us 0.51 monthly I send these colonists to Gabon 6 May – Hodh converts! Next is Timbuktu which will take a while 19 May – Exploration mission East China Sea Coast finished, next is South West Pacific Sea 24 May – Event – Influenza out break in Beafada I quarantine it 8 July – I kill the natives in Gabon 23 Aug - Gabon set up, I pull and send to East Timor in the Indies 25 Sept – Natives killed in East Timor |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-Two - The Great Imam Passes 1 Jan, 1537 – New tech! ADMIN TECH 12 – Early Modern Administration - +100 governing capacity for states, I can build State Houses I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Qafsah I turn Kongo into states Pate is still around and Kilwa is becoming the big bad like in both of my previous destines when they took me out as Butua and grabbed the entire region with Theodoro. I show you maps in seven years for the 100th Anniversary and we’ll see what’s where I promote Kongolese to an accepted Culture for 88 DIP Now they are accepted Culturally and soon will be my faith 1 May – Sierra Leone – 3 Dev, next to Beefada, coastal, next to unclaimed Karou, Naval Supplies, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.09 That was my free colony that was replaced by Gabon 29 May – La Plata is given to Portugal by the Pope 1 July – Ambon has Cloves! 1 Aug – After breaking our alliance, the treaty with the Turks ends Halmahera with Cloves! 1 Oct – Our DIP Navigator passes, next is Colonial Governor with +2 that costs 4.10 and increases my Tariffs’ by 10%. 8 Oct – Mbamba converts and next is Soyo 1 Dec – Our Great Imam passes Our new leader and 3rd one: Great Imam Muhammad II, 2/4/1, age 24 Consort: Hikmat – age 23, 4/5/3 Heir: Muhammed III, age 0, 1/3/6 wow that’s a horrible ADM Our new tech gains are 9/9/6 Royal Marriage - Mamluks 1 Jan, 1538 – Since our peace with Kongo is up this year I don’t build anything to save cash for emergency mercs, I’ll save my cash to hire mercs on the Guinea front. 7 Jan – Air converts, next is Mayumba Royal Marriage – Jolof 22 Jan – I get the Sheikh event again, choose the same and get -10 ADM tech costs 1 April – New Tech! DIP TECH 12 – Man of War – Naval Morale +0.40, Naval engagement +15 11 April – Event – Plague I hire the Grand Company Mercs in Sierra Leone, number 25k 22 April – They have arrived 1 July – Our truce is up! Songhai – 28k I have 30k in Beafada and 35k in the north. I call War for Gabu between Beafada and Jolof I call in the Mamluks |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-Three - The Second Algiers/Songhai War - The Jolof Flank I order my 30k into Gabu I order 35k into Gao 16 July – The Siege of Gao begins 25 Aug – Gagu is mine I head next door to Jolof 1 Sept – I see 16k in Futa Jallon combined Jolof and Songhai so I pull my Guinea army to head there 27 Sept - I see 19k more Songhai troops in Kantor next to us in Beafada so I stay here and order Mercs in Sierra to up the numbers, and then after battle I’ll dismiss them, that’s 36k for them to my current 30k. I hire the 12k strong Dahomey Amazons and 12k strong Free Company 9 Oct – The Mercs arrive 11 Oct - They are in Gabu recapturing it I need to wait until my mercs get better so I’ll let them do so 11 Nov – They capture it 22 Nov - 3k Kanem Bornu troops arrive in Kawar and begin a siege but that’s not enough. 1 Jan, 1539 – I order my combined troops from Beafada to Gabu 22 Jan – Soyo converts, next is Ngoyo 25 Jan – We win in Gabu but we took big losses 31 Jan – Exploration mission to the South west Pacific Sea done, next is Coast there 1 Mar – Gabu is mine I disband the Amazons and move to Jolof 10 Mar – A minor falls to my vassals 31 Mar – Gao falls! Next is the Castle of Jenne 10 April – I capture a minor in Jolof, next is their capital of Wolof 21 April – The Siege of Wolof begins with a fusillade 22 May – I do not tax Sugar in Brazil. 28 May – We arrive at Jenne 1 June – Mayumba converts! Next is Loango 3 Aug – Peru was given to Spain by the Pope 1 Oct – Gabon is with Tropical Wood 11 Oct – Wolof falls, I head to the last Jolof province of Cayor 9 Nov – Songhai separatist rebellions are in three places near Jolof and one is in Gabu 20 Nov – Cayor is ours, I have every Jolof province, can I get a vassalization? Annexing them is 30.6 badboy, and then the vassal is more at 37.5, I annex them:  30.6 badboy and 55 warscore and no one cares coalition wise I order them cored for 146 - now I need to deal with the mass rebels here |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-Four - The Second Algiers/Songhai War - The Songhai Flank I head to Gabu. 28 Nov - 30k Songhai are fighting rebels in Beafada 3 Dec – Gabu captured by rebels 25 Dec – 14k rebels cross to Wolof 27 Dec - We capture Jenne, I order my 35k here on the Guinean Flank The Mamluks and our vassal have captured much of Eastern Songhai We have a warscore of 69 28 Dec – We win in Gabu 1 Feb, 1540 – East Timor has Chinaware 2 Feb – We release the siege in Beafada 9 Mar – Two minors fall 15 Mar – Gabu is ours, I head next to Kangor and it’s 14k rebels 24 April – Two minors are ours and we win in Kangor 20 May – Kantor is ours 4 June – Futa Jallon next to Beafada is ours I dismiss the Free Company 27 June – Another mission in the Pacific is done, next is North West Pacific Sea 21 July – Two more minors fall to us I dismiss the Grand Company and then send my 5k army to the other Songhai coastal holding north of Jolof’s old places 1 Sept – Halmahera – Cloves, Algerian, Ibadi, next to Ternate and Tidore, Coastline, 0.24 made here, Ternate still no ally but they have 8k troops now, so I order 5k here. I order these Colonists to West Timor and order my army there while rebuilding 16 Sept – Another minor falls 17 Oct – The coastal province of Trarza falls, and I have a warscore of 95, what can I get: I mostly want the wealthier things in Guinea Gabu - Wartarget, Coastal, Connects Beafada with Siine – 6 badboy, 5 score Trarza – Coastal, north of Cayor which we took, cuts off Songhai’s navy – 3 badboy and 4 war score Now the two near Beafada that are strong: Kantor -Next to Beafada, inland of Gabu - 2 badboy, 4 warscore, No one cares, now taking the next one will annoy Songhai Futa Jallon – 6 each, and Songhai cares, and I don’t want to push them into a coalition with Kongo with our war with them. What could I do Songhai and no one else in this war? Let’s push Songhai out of the battle even if they join a coalition. I take those four, what else? Here’s a Theoretical peace offer where I just clicked on provinces and haven’t pulled them up taking all of Western Songhai:  Here that’s an 87 warscore and 78.4 badboy and not even Kongo cares, but anything more brings in the locals. That’s a lot of time integrating my stuff with a ton of things, and I haven’t even looked at most of them, but this would remove Songhai as a threat. Let’s do it! The biggest to core is Bambuk at 72, I do it. I have two in the 50s, Messina and Segu I do, I also do a bunch of cheaper ones. Every 30+ is cored, and several smaller save for about 7 that all have small cores. Get ready for a long list! Let’s start with Jolof: Siine – Coastal, Workshop, Slaves, Savannah, 6 dev, Fetishist and Senegambian, makes us 0.08, Arid Wolof- Former Capital of Jolof, Castle, Arid, 13 dev, Savannah, Fetishist and Senegambian, Mosque, Workshop, Slave trade makes 0.22 Cayor – North of Wolof, Coastal – Senegal Estuary, Arid, Savannah, Marketplace, Workshop, 8 dev, 0.11, Slaves, Fetishist and Senegambian Songhai: Gabu - Coastal - Rich Ivory trade, Tropical, Natural Harbor, Savannah, Senegambian and Fetishist, 8 dex, 0.08 made here Trarza - North of Cayor, Coastal, Coastal Desert, 3 dev, Salt, Arid, Sunni, Senegambian, makes 0.02 Kantor – Ivory trade here, 3 dev, Savanah Fetishist, Senegambian, 0.06, Ttropical Futa Jallon – West of Wagadugu’s gold mines in Bure, Ivory here, 8 dev, Hills, Fullani culture, Fetishist faith, 0.07 made here Bambuk - North of Futa Jallon, west of Wagadugu - Gold mines, 14 dev, 14 dev, 0.98 made here, Savannah, Tropical, Sunni, Sonike culture Galam – North west of Bambuk, east of our takings in Jolof – Arid, 7 dev, Wool, Savannah, Sunni and Fulani, 0.10 made here Tekrur - North of Galam, east of Jolof, Also a Wool Savannah with 7 dev and Arid and Fulani, but Fetishist faith making us 0.11 Brakna – North of Teknar, east of Trarza – 3 dev Arid Desert with Livestock and Fulani Fetishist making 0.02 Tagant - East of Brakna, NE of Tekrur – Desert, Arid Slaves, Fulani and Fetishist, making 0.03 Wagadu – South of Tagant, north of Wagadugu, east of Bambak and Galam – Wool, Savannah, 5 dev, 0.06, Fetishist, Sonike culture, Termes – North of Wagadu, east of Tagant – Arid Steppes, 3 dev, Livestock, Sonike Fetishists make us 0.01 Baghena – East of Termes, NE of Wagadu, SW of Hodh from last war – Steppes, 5 dev, Wool, Sonike Sunni, 0.06 cash made Segu - South of Baghena, north of the nation of Wagadugu, east of Wagadu, Grain farmers, Savannah, 10 dev, Arid, Bambara Fetishists make us 0.13 Massina – Northeast of Segu, south of Baghena, Emporium, Savannah, 11 Dev, Arid, Bambara Sunni, 0.08 made here in grain Mema – NE of Messina, south of Hodh and Timbuktu, Bambara Sunnis, 6 dev, Steppes, Grain, Arid, they make us 0.08 Again another giant intake of low dev stuff, this is this region of Africa, with more wealthier things by the coast and Jolof with three Ivory, three Slaves and one Salt. This will take a while to Core, Missionary, etc, with 18 new additions. Nasty stuff! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-Five - Now a Majils 22 Oct - Natives dead in West Timor 1 Nov – Ambon – Ibadi, Algerian, Island, strait to Ceram, Cloves, 12 dev, 1.50 made here, I order this colonist to Flores an island with a strait from East Timor. I cannot Rival Songhai anymore, who’s next? Austria 1 Dec – Loango converts! 30 Dec – Natives in Flores killed, I order my army back to Halmahera 1 Jan, 1541 – Truce with Kongo and allies up but I’m too overextended to worry about that now Core ordered for Baghena for 25 1 Feb – I claim Songhai’s massive holding Jenne and Kongo’s Ndongo 12 Feb – My army is back on Halmahera 1 April – I core Wagadu for 25 1 June – I spend 15 to core Tagant 1 July - East Timor – Chinaware, next to West Timor, Strait to Flores, 9 dev, Grasslands, Tropical, Ibadi and Algerian, making us 0.25, I state Timor it I order these colonists to Sumbawa a strait from Flores 1 Aug – 15 ADM core cost for Brakna paid 1 Sept – A new Government Reform is passable This is what I want my Deliberative Assembly to look like: There are six options become a Theocracy, Republic, or: Parliamentarianism - -1% unrest, no more Nobility estate, Royal Decree – This increases my Absolutist max and annual gain which is used in the next Age. m Aristocratic Court - +1 Dip Reputation, lower loss of army tradition annual General Estates - +10% Monthly State Reform, +10% loyalty to all estates, +5% influence to them I don’t see the Decree or swapping government type. I like all three, the bonus DIP when you are Ibadi? The bonus estates loyalty and influence, and the reduced unrest with my massive military gains. I choose Parliamentarianism. We call it the Majlis. I start a debate in Parliament to get another Colonist for ten years. Majils seats get these boosts: +10% production +10% taxes +10% manpower +5% sailors Has to be a core and a state I turn these into seats: Mzab, Mitija, Tripoli, Tunis, Melilla, Mers el Kabir, Dahra, Marrakech, Gharb, Tafilalt, Draa 11 an odd number 1 Oct – 15 dev Core for Termes 1 Nov – 13 dev ADM for Cantor I need 18 seats, so I also add these 8 to get to 19: Cape, Ceram, Ambon, Dina Morgabin (Ile de Bourbon) and Dina Arobi (Mauritius), Inhambane, Kabylia and Sus 2 Dec – I kill the natives in Sumbawa, I head next to a strait to Lombok |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-Six - The War for Ternate 1 Jan, 1542 – Core ordered for Trarza at 15 and everything is now ordered! 9 Jan – Natives in Lombok killed. I send this army back Halmahera I order a Textile Manufactory in Thuqat for Cloth 2 Mar – I pull my Kongo spy builder and order it to Wagadugu 31 July – Sumbawa sets up I spend 50 MIL to claim a Holy War on all adject provinces 1 Aug – Ternate still doesn’t have an ally, they have 8k to our 11k. I DOW them I order my 11k army into Ternate 19 Aug – We win and I chase them back to Halmahera 27 Aug – We rout them. I head back to their capital 21 Dec – Cores finished in the three Jolof holdings, I order Missionaries to Siine and Cayor 19 April, 1543 – Ternate falls. Here is peace:  21.3 badboy, only Songhai cares. I keep my army here. Core is triple digits. Ternate – Strait to Halmahera, Animist faith, Moluccan culture, 15 dev, Cloves, with Shipyard, Workshop and Mosque, tropical, Coastline, make 1.21 monthly, and once it’s built up with a Trade Station Manufactory? Nasty Tidore here on the area next to Halmahera is allied to the minor Bone, I’d need a bigger army or mercs. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-Seven - Shaf'i Scholar Invited 19 April – I order a Textile Manufactory for Mers el Kabir’s Cloth 1 May – Our Military Advisor Master recruiter passes, next is Commandant, level 2, +5% military morale, costs us 5.81 Rebellion of 12k in Wolof where I have a 15k army 17 May – We win but lost 4k, that was rough 2 June – Event – Profiteering in Ben Jawad – I protect our trade against Genoa, their view of me drops 50 but we get better trade for 10 years I lose my claim on Fez 1 Aug – A big miss, Tropical Wood in the Spice Island of Flores 19 Aug – Gabu and Futa Jallon are now cored 17 Sept – After more than a decade Timbuktu converts! Next is Wolof in former Jolof. 1 Nov – West Timor is good for Gems, but those are only 3.0 now, not that great 12k Rebellion in Messina, 25k is next door in Mema ordered over 24 Nov – Taken out 1 Dec - I lose our visiting Merchant from the Scholar. I order a diplomat to make nice with Malacca in the Indies that has really expanded and Mamluks to get another Merchant. 20 Dec – Cores done in Bambuk, Segu, Tekrur, Mema and Galam 1 Jan, 1544 – Sumbawa is good for Tea. 13 Jan – Massina core done 19 Jan – Event – Merchants Suffering – I spend 33 DIP to alleviate it 2 Feb – Baghena core complete 1 Mar – Our relations with Mamluks is at 151 so it’s enough for another Shafi’i Scholar I bring in and send to collect in Rio de la Plata. 1 May – I am making 2.42 from Merchant 10 May – Core finished in Wagadu 16 May – Event – Tradition or Haram – I respect their practices and we +1% Missionary strength and +1.5% Tolerance of Heathens for 20 years 30 May – Oyo at war, I accept peace 16 June – Event – Colony Growth in West Timor by 200 after I spend cash 5 July – Kantor and Tagant are cored 5 Sept – Brakna is done as well 1 Oct – Gabon – Next to Mayumba to the south and north is the unclaimed Cameroon with just 3 dev, Coastal, Ibadi, Algerian, 5 dev, Tropical Wood, 0.05, That was our extra colony building up slowly without a leader. I pull colonists from our miss in Flores and send to Lombok, strait to Bali and Sumbawa I have enough MIL for the next Quality idea but I am also close to the next tech, I hold off since I need 432 for the next one. 2 Oct – Termes’s core is finished 16 Oct – NW Pacific Sea Exploration Mission Finished, next is Coasts there 12 Nov, 1544 - The 100 Year Review! |
sidenote: You inspired me to fire up EU IV for the first time in ... a long time.
My inspiration lasted all of about an hour. It's a fantastic game in theory for me, I simply cannot play the $%@#$ thing worth the slightest damn. Respect for your mastery, I may actually be as close to your polar opposite in ability as someone could be lol. Carry on, just thought I'd share :) |
MAPS! Let’s start with North Africa:  This is our main area, with our cash broken down as well. In the last 50 years I’ve finished Morocco, won two wars against Songhai, one against Kongo, and colonized everywhere. The Mamluks remain a power and you can see the much smaller Songhai. Lower Africa:  You can see Kongo still a power, and Kilwa has grown into the former Mutapa, Butua, and much of the island of Madagascar. I really haven’t damage Kongo much and without a navy for upkeep they have a much bigger army. You can see my four holdings in Southern Africa, and this place has mostly 3-4 devs without chances at good things like Ivory or Slavs, but instead things like Grain, Livestock and Fishing. Therefore I just grabbed those four and slipped into the three Indian Ocean’s much better Islands My hope is that I’ll do my Kongo war here in a few since it took me a while to build my stuff from my massive takings, but now I just have one Songhai core left plus Ternate. Now South America:  This shows you our colonies in Brazil and La Plata as well as France next to our colonial nation in Brazilian and our La Plata nation next to Portugal. You can see Spain in New Granada in the north and in the Andes as well. We aren’t in North America and the Caribbean so I’ll skip, Here’s the Indies:  As you can see, Malacca has expanded most of the valuable Islands are ours but many high dev parts of Islands like Sulawesi and Borneo are available, as are two colonies with low dev but a good chance of Spices to the west of Malacca. We have every Clove holding g other than Tidore, and every colony that could be a Clove is ours, and all but one worked, but it’s more than 50% chance. Europe:  I don’t know what’s happening in the north and haven’t bothered exploring since I don’t want to waste time in an Expedition or two. |
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The Ledger Army - I have 61k troops and a forcelimit of 89k so I could get much bigger. We have: 35k infantry, 18k calvary, 8k artillery We are fourth best, top is Spain with 129k. Our Eternal Ally – Mamluks – 45k in 10th. Our Colonies have 18k total Navy – I just have 16 ships: 5 Heavies 3 Lights 3 Galleys 5 Transports I have my non-transports as my Explorer and we have a forcelimit of 84 and we could get loads more vessels. Techs – We have 12/12/9 - for a total of 33. The most is 36 with 5 nations. Ideas – A ton of folks have 21 we have just 17. Income - With 104.89 we are 6th most cash, The Ottomans are 1st with 155.21 We have 13 Manufactories for our 20 needed for our Missions. Development – 862 – 4th, the Turks are also top here with 1331 Max Manpower – 64.28k and we are 5th, the top is 151.14k the Turks We are the only Great Imamate We have the 7th best score Religions – Ibadi is in 6 nations us, our two colonies, our two Pirate vassals, and Pate has made it 100 years! We have 130 Ibadi provinces out there. Our Top Ten Provinces by Tax Revenue: 1. Tunis, 28.90 2. Marrakech, 16.84 3. Cape, 15.73 4. Mzab, 14.78 5. Gharb, 14.78 6. Mitija, 14.26 7. Oran, 14.26 8. Kairwan, 14.26 9. Sus, 13.73 10. Tafilalt, 13.14 Our Top Ten Provinces by Production: 1. Tafilalt, 43.20 – Gold 2. Tunis, 28.94 – Cloth 3. Cape – 16.47 – Livestock 4. Ambon, 15.04 – Cloves 5. Tilimsan, 12.19 – Cloth 6. Bambuk, 12.00 – Gold 7. Ternate – 11.59 – Cloves 8. Meknes, 11.22 – Cloth 9. Oran, 9.97 – Cloth 10. Qafsah. 9.58 – Salt Note that without a core or state,Ternate is already making that cash. The other ones have Manufactories. Now, what if I pull my two Gold and Cloves? Our Top Ten Non-Gold or Clove Provinces by Production: 1. Tunis, 28.94 – Cloth 2. Cape – 16.47 – Livestock 3. Tilimsan, 12.19 – Cloth 4. Meknes, 11.22 – Cloth 5. Oran, 9.97 – Cloth 6. Qafsah. 9.58 – Salt 7. Draa, 9.22 – Spices 8. Susa, 8.13 -Sugar 9. Mzab, 7.83 – Livestock 10. Hodna, 7.18 – Salt Nice! Ceram would be 8 but has Cloves. I have 116 provinces! Most are pretty poor We have no inflation Charts: Religion: Ibadi – 83.6% Fetishist – 10.3% Sunni – 5.1% Animist -1.0% Cultures: Algerian – 34.8% Berber – 17.6% Kongolese – 5.9% Moroccan – 17.7% Tuareg – 5.7% Tunisian – 17.3% Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Traded: 1. Sevilla, 52.08 2. Venice 3. Caribbean 4. Genoa 5. English Channel 6. Wien 7. Constantinople 8. Krakow 9. Persia 10. Malacca, 23.19 Ours: Brazil – 8.13 Cape – 2.09 Tunis – 6.83 Rio de la Plata - Timbuktu – 9.85 Safi – 6.69 Trade Goods by Current Value - 8.0 - Cloves 4.50 - Copper, Coffee 4.37 – Paper 4.0 – Dyes, Silk, Ivory, Cocoa 3.60 – Cloths 3.30 – Salt 3.0 – Gems, Glass, Tobacco, Sugar, Cotton, Spices, Chinaware, Slaves, Iron 2.70 – Fur 2.50 - Livestock, Wine, Tea 2.12 - Incense 2.0 – Grain, Fish, Naval Supplies, Tropical Wood, Wool How much Wool, Fish, Grain or Livestock are in my region? Which are we the production leader in? Cloves obviously Nothing else There are no coalitions against me Great Powers: 1. Spain 2. Ottomans 3. France 4. Algiers 5. Commonwealth 6. Austria 7. Mamluks 8. England Good stuff! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-Eight - The Reiter Discovered 1 Jan, 1545 - I do not spend my cash for a Manufactory, saving it for mercs against Kongo. 6 Jan – Trarza is cored! 1 Feb – New Tech! MIL TECH 10 – Reiter - We get +25% maneuver and then we get better cannons and cavalry called ”Qizilbash Cavalry” I upgrade both 1 April – I can get another Age of Reformation ability! I choose: Institutional Spread - +10% in my Ibadi provinces. Military look, armies: Kongo – 12k Bunyoro – 12k Chokwe – 7k 31k total I have a 10k army on the coast to protect against Rebels and keep us save from a Kongo attack so it makes sense to attack Kongo now with mercs and my army at 10 MIL to their 9 with upgraded cannon and cavalry. I hire a 37k merc unit called the Independent Army in Soyo 13 April – They arrive. I am still making cash, but I spent a few hundred on them I DOW Kongo’s Copper Mine of Anziku |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Fifty-Nine - The Second Algiers/Kongo War I order my army into their capital of Mpempa 2 May - We begin the Siege 14 June – Siine converted! Next is Tagant 4 July – Event -Colonial Disaster – I spend 50 DIP to prevent a -200 hit 1 Aug – Cayor converts! Next is Kantor West Timor – Gems, Grasslands, 10 dev, next to East Timor, Ibadi, Algerian, makes us 0.38 I send these colonists to the Spice Island of Yamdena with 9 dev in the Timor State that I already made. I order my army from Ternate there to take out the natives. 17 Sept – Mpempa is ours, there is an 11k army next door in Mbata I head to 10 Oct – We win the Battle of Mbata. I head to the Fort of Kasanje. 15 Nov – We arrive and begin a siege. 21 Dec – Ternate is cored! 24 Dec – We kill the natives in Yamdena 2 Jan, 1546 – 7k Chokwe forces have arrived to siege us in Imhambane’s Castle next to Kilwa, I pay for a small merc force next door in Matsolo, I hire the 12k Free Company. 12 Jan – They arrive and now I am losing cash so this needs to be quick 1 Feb – With a 102 I have maxed relations with Malacca, I pull my diplomat 1 Mar – 10k rebellion in Futa Jallon, I have 15k two over in Galam I send over 10 April - We win in Futa Jallon – I lost 3.4k 23 April – After my mercs built up morale a few months I order them to Inhambane 7 May – Kasanje falls! I have a war score of 30%. I head nearby to the capital of Chokwe Ishindi. 28 May – We win in Inhambane and I dismiss the mercs 3 June - Exploration Mission in the NW Pacific Coast finished! Next is NE Pacific Sea 16 June – We begin the siege of Ishindi 1 July – Sumbawa – Strait to Lombok and Flores, Grasslands, Tea, Tropical Island, Ibadi, Algerian, makes us .15 from 8 dev I send them to the island of Sunda to the south of this. 4 July – Wuluf converts! Next is the big one – Ternante 12 Aug - 14k Kongo troops arrive to recapture our wartarget in Anziku 1 Sept – Our ADM advisor Inquisitor dies that gave us the awesome +2 Missionary strength. I hire level 1 Natural Scientist that gives us +10% production. 5 Sept – They recapture Anziku 1 Oct – Flores – Tropical Wood, Timor State connects with straits to Timor and Sumbawa, 11 dev, Ibadi, Algerian, 0.39 made here. That was our free colony, so I pull colonist from Lombok and send them to the Sulawesi holding of Manado with 10 dev 12 Oct – Kongo has begun to siege their capital again 1 Dec – Ishindi falls, I order my army to Mpempa 1 Mar, 1547 – With a relations of 179 we max with the Mamluks I pull my diplomat I lose my claim on Ceuta 18 Mar – We win in Mpampa and we have a warscore of 36%, next is the Castle of Rund two away from Ishindi. 22 Mar – I send my Mamluk diplomat to build a spy network in Portugal. I order 1k soldiers in Loango to capture minors while I am dealing with the Siege 19 May – It’s built. 5 July – Anziko is ours 18 Aug – Mpangu is ours 5 Sept – Rund falls, we have a warscore of 50% Next is the Fort of Kusu near the eastern border Before I do that 6k Chokwe troops are in their other holding, I head over to take them out 3 Oct – A minor falls 15 Oct – I rout the army in Chokwe and move to the Fort 29 Oct – Another minor falls 24 Nov – Another minor 13 Jan, 1548 – I now have every holding in Kongo next to me 1 Feb – We kill the natives in Manado. 3 Feb – Tagrant is converted, next is Termes, which will take forever 8 Feb – Our siege in Kusu begins 5 Mar – A minor falls 3 April – Event – Military Research - I get100 MIL power after investing in the army 8 May – Minor ours 26 May – Kusu is ours! I have a warscore of 68%, what can I get? There are three I have claims on I like loads. Here we go: Songhai will get upset at anything Anziku – Wartarget, inland next to Ngoyo and Loando - 8 badboy,4 warscore Mpangu – South of Anziku, East of us in Ngoyo, Soyo – 9 badboy and 6 warscore Move down three to: Ndongo – Inland, east of us in Luanda – 9 badboy, 7 warscore My key three targets are 17 score and 25 badboy and only Songhai cares. Now any thing else we can take without annoying Kongo is gravy Songo - East of Anzkiu and Mpangu – 6 badboy, 5 warscore Mbwilla – Inland, south of their capital, north of Ndongo, east of us in Loanda and Mbamba, 6 score and badboy, and that’s it I cannot get anything else.  Total is 37.6 badboy and 28 score. Peace with 5, four have strong trade goods. I spend 177 coring them, I disband my mercs. Anziku – Wartarget, inland next to Ngoyo and Loando - Copper Mines, 6 dev, Tropical, Jungle, Kongolese, Fetishist, 0.21 made here Mpangu – South of Anziku, East of us in Ngoyo, Soyo – Copper here too – also 6 dev, Grasslands, Kongolese and Fetishist, making us 0.21, Tropical Ndongo – Inland, east of us in Luanda – Emporium, Tropical, Highlands, 7 dev, Slaves, Fetishist faith bur Mbunbu culture, makes us 0.17 Songo - East of Anzkiu and Mpangu – Spices traded here, Tropical Jungle, 4 dev, Kongolese Fetishist, makes us 0.11 Mbwilla – Inland, south of their capital, north of Ndongo, east of us in Loanda and Mbamba – Grain, Grasslands, 5 dev, Mbundu Fetishists, 0.11 Nice five additions with Spices, two Copper, one Slave and an Emporium Center of Trade |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty - Allying Malacca 26 May - I order a claim for Kongo’s Kasanje Castle next to me 29 June – Ternate converts, next is Brakna 1 Aug – I lose my claim on Portugal’s Tangiers and then claim it again. Tidore is at war. 1 Oct – Lombok is with Spices There is a level 1 Inquisitor appearing in the Admin advisor and I hire him 15 Nov -Another 6 transports in the Indies arrive and will join our 5 transports here for my 11k army I need to get Tidore now before they lose their war, they have 8k in their colony in Manokwari I order my 11k next to it. 1 Jan, 1549 – I order Farm Estate in Dahra for Grain. 1 Feb - I again have enough MIL For their 4th Quality idea but the next tech is just 462 6 March – My 11k is in Fak-Fak, now I need my navy back to get my army across the strait 1 April – Rebellion in Segu 13 April – No longer 1 May – Sumba has Incense 1 June – Yamdena with Spices 24 June – Kantor converts! Next is Wagadu 1 July – New Tech! MIL TECH 11 - Matchlock Musket – I get 2 combat width, +0.50 cavalry fire, +0.20 infantry shock and I can build a Weapons Manufactory And… DIP TECH 13 – Chartered Companies - +2% Trade efficiency and then we get to build a Brig ship 24 July - Tidore’s army arrives back home 1 Aug – Royal Marriage with Malacca – I only have four relations and I can have 5, so I added one 26 Aug – Bali have insulted us. 1 Nov – Manado is good for growing Coffee 1 Dec – Alliance offer from Malacca - do I want it? They have: 19k troops, and the 4th biggest fleet at 67 ships, they would be a great regional ally. I accept |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-One - Fleet Upgraded 1 Jan, 1550 – The Printing Press Institution has arrived New tech! ADMIN TECH 13 – Improved Drainage - +2% Production Efficiency I order: Weapons Manufactory for Iron in Kabylia 3 April – Event – Embarrassing Relative- - lose 5 prestige 20 May – I order a fleet in the Indies that can beat Tidore They have 4 Lights and I order 5 Heavy Carracks and 8 Light Caravels 28 July – Anziku and Mpangu are done with cores 1 Aug – I claim Portugal’s Fez and Kongo’s Matamba 31 Oct – Songo cored 5 Dec - I order my Conquistador back to Sulawesi to clear out some natives. 1 Jan, 1551 – No buildings this year since I spent my cash on ships 23 Jan – We get there and I order my force west to future areas to clear out for future colonial efforts 1 Feb – Termes converts, next is Anziku Our MIL Advisor Commandant, the new one is another level 2 Commandant 16 Feb – I kill the natives in Gorontalo next to Manado 1 Mar - Sumba - Island, south of our areas, Coastline, 6 dev, Ibadi, Algerian, Incense, Tropical, makes 0.09. I order these colonists to Gorontalo 8k Rebellion in Galam where I have a 15k army 14 Mar – We win 25 Mar – Natives in Palu next to Gorontalo are killed 28 Mar - Mbwila and Ndongo cored, all are done! Brakna converted, next is Mpangu 22 April – Natives in Poso killed next to Palu I head back 31 May – Exploration mission done, I order upgrades 1 July – I lose my claim on the Bahamas Once my Exploration navy finishes the upgrade we should be able to take out Tidore 14 August - I combine my 11 brigs and my upgraded exploration fleet so they cannot take out the coney one 19 Sept – Europe is at war with West African powers I offer military access to everyone at war in the Portuguese Conquest of Dahomey – them, Oyo, Wagadugu and Kanu. 1 Jan, 1552 – I hold off and don’t order anything in case of the war for Tidore needs some help 1 Feb – Yamdena – Spices, Timor State, 10 dev, Ibadi, Algerians, Coastline, make us 0.79 I order these colonists to Palu 1 Mar – I launch my fleet. I declare war on Tidore for Tidore. I don’t call Malacca |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-Two - The Algerian War for Tidore I order 11k into Manokwari from Fak-Fak which is no longer a colony but full province where their 8k are, they have colonizing Poso that I cleared. 12 Mar – I win a naval battle in the Halmahera Sea 25 Mar – Wagadu converts, next is Ndongo 19 Apr – We win a battle in Manokwari and I order my army to leave and chase them down 14 July – Manokwari is ours 1 Aug - They capture Gorontalo 8 Sept- We arrive in Tidore and kill a small army here 10 Oct – Anziku converts! Next is Mbwila 1 Dec – Manado – Sulawesi – Coffee, 10 dev, Coastline, 0.26 made here, next to Gorontalo, Ibadi and Algerian, I order these colonists to Sulawesi’s Kendari 1 Feb, 1553 – Tidore Falls! I have a 100% warscore I take the colony and both holdings:  For 32.2 bad boy and only Songhai cared. I spend 152 Adm power to core: Tidore - The big one, Cloves, 16 dev, Animist, Shipyard, Regimental Camp, Workshop, strait to Halmahera, Molaccan culture, Tropical makes 0.18 Manokweri – 3 dev, Papua, Spices, Tropical, Jungle, Animist, Papuan, 0.05 here |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-Three - Incorporating Tidore 1 Feb – I split my navies back and order my army to Kendari and my colonist back to Gorontalo What’s happening with the massive Portugal and West Africa war? Portugal is losing by 7 My navy is built in the Indies, I combine it in Ceram 4 Feb – Explorer Mission to North East Pacific Coast 1 Mar – I give my 13 ship fleet to a Admiral I just hired and hand it a Protect Trade mission in Cape where they can be close. 13 Mar – I order Weapons Manufactory in Tadla for Copper. 11 April – Natives in Kendari in Sulawesi Isle are cleared out. It’s also next to one province Buton allied with two province Luwu both on Sulawesi which I could bring in Militarily. This may happen soon, and Buton is strait away so I stop my fleet going to Cape which would only make me .37 more in trade and head back home, Here’s why this is fast: Luwu normally would have 4, Malacca took 2 and their peace is in three years in 1556. So if I want to pull this prior to Malacca gobbling them I need to DOW them prior to that peace ending. They have two Spices and one Iron, all highly valuable things. Buton – 2k Army Luwu – None right now My 5k great ships and 8k lights are more than Buton’s 3 Galleys and Luwu’s 3 heavies and 4 gallies 1 May – I claim Kongo’s Malem and Portugal’s Ceuta I pull my spy network from Portugal and keep it back for the soon to be war in Sulawesi since I might need two with the Dip delays being month’s long 2 May – Our fleet has arrived, I spend 50 MIL to claim Holy War on all adjacent provinces. This will give me claims on both Luwu holdings next to me. 3 May – I DOW Luwu for Kolanka and I cannot call in Malacca Buton joins |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-Four - The Algerian War for Kolanka and Buton I sent my 11k to Buton since they are the only one with an army 15 May – I win a Naval Battle against Luwu 29 May – Butoni Army defeated, siege begins 1 Aug - Poso is a miss with Naval Supplies 29 Aug – Ndongo converts! Next is Futa Jallon 24 Oct – Buton falls, I order my army to Luwu’s Kolanka 31 Oct – I defeat the Buton fleet that fled their harbor and captured four – two transports and two galleys 1 Dec – Lombok – Strait to the nation of Bali and us at Sumbawa, Algerian, Ibadi, Grasslands, 6 dev, makes us 0.07 I take Buton in a separate peace deal:  For 14.5 badboy, and I spend 31 to core it 26 Dec – Kendari sets up 13 Jan, 1554 – Kolanka is ours 3 Feb - I arrive at Palopo the capital of Luwu but this has a Castle in it and will take longer than a usual siege. I order 1k artillery in Manado to head over after getting built I also order my 4 captured ships to port since they need repairs 20 Feb - I begin to build a spy network with Bone, south of Luwu 27 April – Event – Warriors do not Read Books - I get +10% Admin and Dip tech costs for 5 years 30 May – Artillery built I order it over 1 July – Gorontalo is good for Spices, much better than Poso 1 Aug – Peace with Songhai and her allies is up 12 Aug – Cannon arrives – I order a fusillade 14 Sept – Kongo finds our spy network 1 Oct – Palu is with Incense 17 Dec – Palopo falls and I have a 100% warscore, I don’t wait to fight their navy, let’s take this now  Only next door two provinces Bone and Songhai care. 21.6 badboy. I spend 32 for Kolanka and 35 for Palopo. Buton – Island chain with strait crossing to Kendari, 6 dev, Spices, they have built Dock and Workshop, Sulawesi culture, Animist faith, Coastline, tropical, 0.06 made here Kolanka – Also Sulawesi and Animist, next to Kendari, Poso and Palopo, Coastline, 7 dev, Spices, Workshop, Mosque, Shipyard, Jungle, 0.13 made here Palopo – North of Malacca, Bone, open space in Mamuju, Hills, Iron mine, Sulawesi Animist 7 dev, Castle, Mosque, Workshop, make us .11. Nice! Now, back to Africa |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-Five - Now an Empire 17 Dec – I leave behind my army to help rebels there My ships I took are healed, and I order my two captured transports to join my fleet and then my captured galleys to join my fleet and then I order my fleet to rebuild 1 Jan, 1655 - I order Farm Estate for Metija’s Grain I can now claim an Empire! Let’s do it! Here are the benefits: I get all Maghreb cultures accepted Our governing capacity increases and I can make more states Better absolutism for the next age Right now there are there just 8 other empires beside us like Ming and Inca and Turks, Austria, France, Ethiopia, Japan and Songhai I turn these to states: Niger Bend – Timbuktu and Mema Jolof – Wolof, Trarza, Siine, Cayor Futa Jallon – Gabu, Futa Jallon, Kantor North Sulawesi – Manado, Gorontalo, Pasu, Poso, Mamuju after colonized How’s our war in West Africa with Europe? They are losing -16 4 Mar – What I want to do now is finish in my 4 colonies on Sulawesi and then colonize the rest of the west African coast starting near African nations in order to stop that from happening again. 25 April – Exploration mission finished, next is South East Pacific Sea 1 May – Kendari good for Incense 1 July - Benguela was given a seat in Parliament I claim Bone’s Waju 22 July – Mbwilla converted! Next is Gabu 1 Aug – Revolt in Mpangu I order my army in 4 Sept – They capture it 5 Oct – Tidore is a core! 10 Oct – Rebels defeated 11 Nov - It’s ours again! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-Six - Getting Ready for War 1 Jan, 1656 – It looks like Portugal is now at peace and lost her colony on the West African Shore to Dahomey, this happened with Morocco’s war when they couldn’t cross us to attack and built up warscore over time. I need another seat in Majils so I promote Ternate I upgrade my captured navy for 44 I order: Farm Estate for Kairwan’s Grain I have 545 left for mercs for my soon to be 3rd War with Songhai, I move my army near it: Songhai – 15k 16 Jan – Tekrur converts – next is Tidore 5 Feb – Core done in Manokwari! 17 Feb – Futa Jallon converts – next is Manokwari 28 Feb – Event – Rigorous Researchers - +40 in each power 1 Mar – Parliament has passed ”Charter Colonies” for ten years, +1 colonist and +20 Settler Increase. I send these to Whydah next to Dahomey and Benin on the West Coast, I order my Kongo army over to clear out the locals 29 Mar – My armies are in place around Songhai. I DOW for Songhai’s Iron Mines of Bendugu, I do not call in Mamluks |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-Seven - The Third Algiers/Songhai War I order 25k into their capital of Gao and 15k into Bendugu 1 April – Our truce with Kongo ends 14 April – We begin the siege of Gao 23 May – Bendugu falls 12 June – 15k Songhai troops are besieging us in Djado 6 July – Another minor falls to our 15k army, next is the Castle of Jenne 27 July – Gao falls and I order my army to Djado 28 Aug – Looks like Jenne is no longer a Castle and we capture it 12 Oct – A minor falls 1 Nov – We win in Djado and relieve the siege 12 Nov – Another minor falls as my Colonial Nations and Pirate Marches are here capturing things 25 Nov – All of western Songhai left from our two wars is ours, and I have a warscore of 57, let’s keep pushing. 5 Dec – Buton is now a core! 1 Jan, 1557 – Poso – 10 dev, Naval Supplies, Sulawesi Island, Animist, Malaccan, Coastline, makes us 0.20, Tropical Kendari – Sulawesi island, Grasslands, 12 dev, Ibadi faith, Algerian culture, Tropical, Incense, 0.19 made here I order the colonists to Ivory Coast each of Portugal’s old holding in Dahomey 4 Jan – Natives killed in Whydah Denmark is colonizing Grain Coast 1 Feb – We gain the Trading in Cloves effect and we get +5% trade efficiency 28 Feb – Natives killed in Ivory Coast 1 Mar – Palu – Natural Harbor, Sulawesi island, Coastline, Incense, 8 dev, Algerian, Ibadi, makes us 0.32. I order these colonists east of Benin on the coast of Bonny 23 Mar – All Songhai holdings are ours with an 88% What can I get? West Songhai - Bendugu – Wartarget, 4 score, 6 badboy Gwiriko – South of Bendugu – 5 score, 3 badboy Jenne – North of Gwiriko and next to Bendugu – 22 score, 21 badboy – that’s a big one Kala – North of Jenne, 7 score, 8 badboy, Sah – North of Kala, 8 each Karabara – East of Sah, 9 badboy, 8 warscore That’s all of West Songhai left with 53 score and 55 badboy. Can I nab anything on the east end? East Songhai - Itesan – 4 badboy, 6 warscore Ader – West of Itesan, 4 badboy, 5 warscore Gobir – South of Itesan and Ader – 7 badboy, 8 warscore That’s it!  Only Songhai and Bone care! 72 score and 70.4 badboy! Peace! Coring costs 366 ADM with 98 to Jenne West Songhai - All are next to Wagadugu Bendugu – Wartarget, Iron Mines, Bozo Culture, Fetishist Faith, 7 dev, Savannah, tropical, 0.08 Gwiriko – South of Bendugu – Tropical, 3 dev, Grain, Savannah, makes us 0.02, Dyala Fetishists. Jenne – North of Gwiriko and next to Bendugu – Our key addition – Emporium, Arid, Mosque, has great project named “Great Mosque of Djenne” 22 dev, Cloth, Sunni, Bozo , 0.39 made here Kala – North of Jenne, Arid, Fishing Marsh with 9 dev, Bozo Fetishists make 0.22 Sah – North of Kala, Marsh, Arid, Bambara culture, Fetishist faith, 8 dev, grain growers, make us 0.08 Karabara – East of Sah, 0.16 made here, Steppes, 8 dev, Fishing, Arid, Songhai culture, Sunni faith, next to Songhai’s capital of Gao. East Songhai - Itesan – North of the nation of Kano, the accepted Tuareg culture, Sunni faith, Livestock, 5 dev, Steppes, Arid, makes us 0.14 Ader – West of Itesan, next to Songhai, Sunni, Tuareg, 5 dev, Steppes, Livestock, Arid, 0.02 Gobir – South of Itesan and Ader – Next to Songhai, the nation of Kano and Zazzou – Arid, Iron Working, Savannah, 9 dev, Sunni and Hausa, Arid, 0.07 Jenne is awesome and two Iron provinces are nice too. |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-Eight - A Busy 3/4s of a Year 23 Mar – I order my 25k army to Ader and my 15k to Jenne I purchase another Manufactory this time a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Inhambane’s Fish This truce expires in 12 years in July 1569, hopefully Songhai will still be okay then 1 April – Gorontalo – Sulawesi Island, Spices, 5 dev, Coastline, 0.29. Algerian and Ibadi. I send this colonist to a East of Bonny Calabar, my non-colonist holding is gone, I pull my Whydah colonists and send them to South Africa’s Actually Spain is in South Africa’s Xhosa and Delagoa Bay, that’s not good. I send them to Mtetwa south of Matsolo – I need to colonize next to Kilwa to prevent Spain coming north, I order my army from the Indies to Matsolo to take out natives locally 27 May – Gabu converts, next is Poso 5 June – Natives killed in Bonny 12 June – Tidore converts! Next is Buton 1 July – Our truce with Bone is up Our DIP Trader Advisor passes, I hire level 2 Navigator that gives us +20% colonial range 10 Aug – Natives in Calabar killed 18 Aug – Cores finished in Palopo and Kolaka in Sulawesi Island I claim Bone’s Bone 20 Sept – Manokwari converts next is Palopo 6 Oct – Our Explorer passes, I hire another 20 Dec – Natives in Mtetwa are killed Denmark is colonizing Karou next to us and Grain Coast on the West African Coast |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Sixty-Nine - Corvettes Discovered 1 Jan, 1558 – I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Sat in Tuat. 1 April – Fish in Ivory Coast, I pull them and send them to Cameroon which connects my Kongo places with Calabar and Bonny 6 April – Natives in Cameroon killed, I order my army back south to Kongo 1 June – New Idea – Quality Idea #4 – Corvettes – I get +5% Ship Durability and we unlocked another Berber Idea: Dual Diplomacy - +1 Dip relations 1 July – Another Age of Reformation Ability can be purchased. Mercs - +5% Mercenary discipline 24 July – My troops arrive on the Kongo border Kongo: 12k Bunyoro – 13k Kazembe – 9k With the 12 on the border plus another Merc unit I could wage war plus have my 13k in South Africa as a reserve. 6 Aug- Poso converts, next is Kolaka 1 Sept – Whydah with Fish, our Conquistador passes, and I hire another, just level 1 1 Jan, 1559 – I don’t order a Manufactory since I am saving for a future war with Kongo 1 Feb – Bonny is a great place for Dyes! 18 Feb – Buton converts, next is Trarza 1 Mar – Calabar just Fish 26 Mar – Ader and Itesan’s cores are finished 1 April - I have to have another seat, I promote Tidore 1 June – I declare the third war for Kongo for their minor holding of Mbata behind their capital and connects our holdings |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy - The Third Algiers/Kongo War I don’t call in my allies, I order my 12k to Mbata and I hire the 27k Grand Company in Soyo. 8 June – Palopo converts, next is Ader 14 June – The mercs arrive and I order them to Kongo’s capital 19 June – Event – A New Settlement, +100 people in Cameroon 1 July – 13k Rebellion in Bambuk, I have 15k nearby Mtetwa good for Slaves 21 July – Mbata is ours and I order this 12k army to the capital siege 2 Aug – Rebels capture Bambuk 19 Aug – We capture their capital, next is the Castle of Kasanje I hire a 1k cavalry army built in my colony near Kongo to capture small stuff I have a warscore of 32% 1 Sept – Naval Supplies in Cameroon 17 Sept – We barely defeat the rebels in Bambuk 29 Sept – The Siege of Kasanje begins 18 Oct – We retook Bambuk 29 Oct- Explorer finishes, next is Pacific South America coast 18 Nov –my 1k army is created, but Kongo has 17k plus 9k from their ally near the border so I won’t move out 25 Nov – Cores finished in Jenne, Bendugu, Sah, Kala and Karabara 26 Mar, 1560 – Cores finished in Gwariko and Gobir, everything is ours! 1 April – Rebellion in Ader, where my 25k army is 9 April – Kasenje is ours, we have a warscore of 44% I try to chase down their army 23 April – Kolaka converts, next is Itesan 20 May – We rout a 14k army in Shinje 16 June – Shinje ours, next is the Castle of Rund Actually I have a warscore of 53 and normally they won’t let me take too much without joining a coalition. What can I get now? I can get their valuable capital and two minor holdings before they get annoyed.  Here are the three I am taking for a 30 warscore and 33.6 badboy – I do it and pay 79 for their capital and then 34 for the other two. I disband my mercs Mpempa – Former capital, next us, Iron mining, Grasslands, Trade emporium, Tropical, 18 dev, the accepted Kongolese culture with a Catholic faith, has the great work “M’banza-Kongo” they have built here Barracks, Mosque, Marketplace, making 0.38 Mbata – Inland of Mpempa, next to Kongo, Also Grasslands, Grain, Kongolese culture and fetishist faith, 5 dev, tropical, makes 0.14 Malem – Throw in, Slave trading, next to Kongo and us, south of the area, north of a wasteland called the Kalahari Desert, 0.07 made here, Highlands, 3 dev, Fetishist faith and Mbangala culture, tropical One great addition and two throw ins, one with a strong trade good at 3.0 |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy-One - The Great Imam Dies 16 June - I order my 12k army to Mpempa and then my 1k to join them This peace ends in 8 years in 1568 since it was a low warscore I have claims on all 4 adjacent Kongo holdings so I pull my diplomat and send to Wagadugu Wagadugu allied with Zazzou, Dahomey, Oyo and Dagbon Zazzou – 4k Dahomey – 4k Oyo – 5k Dagbon – 4k They have 17k themselves plus allies, they have Dyes, Ivory, Spices, and Gold, in West Africa. 17 Aug – Our High Imam has passed! Our next ruler is Muhammed III, 23, not married 1/3/6, very different militarily, his dad was a DIP specialist if you’ll recall, right now we are making 8/8/11 investment monthly. I need to get him a consort. I offer a RM to Mamluks, no new Consort 4 Sept – The Turks accept, our new Consort is Nurbanu, a 2/5/3 Age 18 Another Royal Marriage with Malacca 1 Oct – I get the event for choosing our Sheik and choose the most qualified for another -10% Admin tech costs 1 Nov – Our Inquisitor Adviser passes and I hire another but just level 1 Both Spain colonies in South Africa are done but she is not here any more 1 Jan, 1561 - I don’t order a Manufactory since I might go to war with Wagadugu I finish the Mission to Build 20 Manufactories, I get for 25 years +10% production and 2252 cash, next is Imperial Conquest I spend 1k to build in Tunis the great work “Holy City of Kairouan” which when built gives me +0.5 Tolerance of the True Faith and +33% institution spread and boosts to monthly piety 1 Feb, I DOW for Wagadugu’s Gold Mining of Bure and do call in Mamluks |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy-Two - The First Algerian/Wagadugu War I order 15k from Futa Jallon to Bure 25k into Haayre I hire 40k Independent Army for 950 for a cost of 20 monthly to Gwikio My mercs arrive and I order them to the capital 7 Mar – Ader converts, next is Gwiriko 16 Mar – Two minors fall 21 Mar- We arrive in Wagadugu and being the siege 1 April – Calabar -Jungle, 3 dev, Natural Harbor, tropical, next to Cameroon and Bonny, Fish, Algerian Ibadi make us 0.04, I send these colonists to South Africa’s Natal, connecting us in Mtetwa and Spain on the coast. A minor army begins in Gobir I pull my 25k army to head over and take it out, but we won’t arrive until it’s taken 7 Apr – explorer done, next is American east Coast Sea 1 May – Gobir falls 8 May – New Heir Ibrahim is born with very even 4/4/4 stats 18 May - Itesan falls 7 June – We arrive in Gobir 24 June _ They capture another of mine 27 June - We capture three of theirs 7 July – We recapture Gobir 9 July – Our mercs capture Wagadugu I order them to our holdings to help against their combined 23k army 1 Aug – Another minor fall to us on the west flank Bonny - Between Calabar and Benin, Dyes, 4 dev, Jungle, tropical, 4 dev, Algerian, Ibadi. 0.04 made here. I order these colonists to South Africa’s holding of Lesser Namaqualand coastal, next to Cape 20 Aug – We retake Itesan The Mamluks arrive on the flank and we join them heading to Azbin where their 23k are 21 Sept – We win the Battle of Azbin and order the mercs to the capital of Zazzau next to us which has a Castle so it’ll be slower 1 Oct – Mtetwa – South Africa, south of Matsolo, Slave, Jungle, 3 dev, Ibadi Algerians making us 0.03 I send these colonists inland to Highveld inland of this, Natal and Spain 4k are in Bonny I order my Kongo army over 9 Oct – Another minor falls to me 23 Oct – We recapture Azbin I order my 25k to join the siege in Zazzau 31 Oct – Bonny falls 1 Nov – New Tech: DIP TECH – The Gallelas – I can build that ship and Trade Station a Manufactory for traded goods like Ivory, Slaves, Incense and Spices 16 Nov – Calabar falls 19 Nov – Another minor falls to my 15k 25 Dec – Trarza converts next is Mema 1 Jan, 1562 – Another minor falls to my 15k 4 Jan – The Mamluks win a big military battle 10 Feb – Another manor falls to my 15k 1 Mar – I retake Calabar with my Kongo army 26 Mar – Another minor falls to me 7 April – Bonny is ours again 18 April – The capital of Zazzau is ours! I have a warscore of 80%, What can I get? Let’s start with the wealthy West Africa: Bure – Gold Mine, wartarget, - SW Corner, 7 score, 15 badboy Do – North of Bure, SE Corner, 10 badboy, 8 score I cannot do too much, just the five West provinces are 54 badboy and 40 warscore and they annoy Kongom, Songhai, and Wagadugu too But I can do four, but not the middle one:  Just those four for 27 score and 33.7 badboy. I do it and spend 129 to core them with my ADM power. Ready? Bure – Gold Mine, wartarget, - SW Corner, tropical, Mosque here, Hills, 14 dev, Mali people, Fetishist faith, 1.16 made here Do – North of Bure, NW Corner, - Livestock, Mosque, 9 dev, Savannah, Mali, Fetishists, 0.16 made here, tropical, Bagoe – SE Corner, south of Sibiridugu – Dyes made here, Textile Manufactory, Mosque, 3 dev, Savannah, Dyoda Fetishists making us 0.46 Sibiridugu – NE Corner, Spice trade, 5 dev, Tropical, Fetishist Mali, 0.05 made here, Tropical Savannah Three great trade goods and a throw in Livestock. Not as big as I was hoping |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy-Three - Three Colonies Finished 18 April, 1562 – I order my 15k army to Bure and my 25k army to Jenne and I disband my mercs. 1 May – Ivory Coast – 4 dev, Algerian Ibadi, Fish, Jungle, tropical, makes us 0.02, next to Denmark and Dahomey I spend 1k and order the upgrade of my Great Work in Timbuktu which when built will give me +15% Institution Spread and better relations with my Ulema estate. 4 May – Event – I lose 50 ADM power I finish the Mission to Establish an Empire for 25 years we get -5 Separatism from my vassals and colonial nations 9 June – Portugal again announce us as a rival 18 June – Mpempa and Mbata are cored! 30 June – Itesan converts, next is Mpempa 8 July – Exploration mission done, next is American East Coast Coast 1 Aug – Stability rises back to +3 1 Sept – Cameroon – Naval Supplies – 4 deev, Jungle, Tropical, connects Calabar with Gabon and Kongo, Ibadi, Algerian, 0.07 made here I order these colonists inland in South Africa to Great Karoo, which connects us in Highveld with us in Cape and Swellendam and is inland of Spain, we have now taken every coastal and inland holding here in South Africa, leaving just more inland holdings. We’ll move on now. I order my Indies army from South Africa to Sulawesi 7 Sept – Natives in Great Karoo killed 1 Dec – New tech: MIL TECH – 12 – Spanish Square – I get new infantry called Muslim Musketeer I upgrade to, and I get +0/25 tactics 1 Jan, 1563 – Wagadugu at war with Benin I give them access I order a Trade Station Manufactory for Ceram’s Cloves and Ambon’s too 16 Feb – Our army arrives back on Sulawesi 19 Feb – Malem now a core, all Kongo ones are ours now 1 April – Whydah – Our free colony is now built – Between Dahomey and Benin, coast, Jungle, tropical, 3 dev, fishers, Ibadi, Algerian make us 0.02 I pull my colonists from Natal and send to the island of Sulawesi’s unclaimed Mamuju 21 April – Explorer to American east coast finishes, next is SE Pacific Sea Sea Everything in the East Coast from Mexico, Florida to Canada is taken. I cannot get to the unclaimed California since my range isn’t good enough, so I might want to grab a random colony on South America west coast to get me there or the Pacific islands Spain is in the Comoros Islands between Madagascar and the mainland. I need to next grab the minor islands on the Indies heading in with 3 dev, like the four holdings in Andamans, Christmas Island and Nias and Mentawai and Bengkulu on the main island facing the Indian 1 June – Lesser Namaqualand with Livestock 13 June – Event - Marriageable Women in Lesser Namaqualand 22 Aug – Natives killed in Mamuju 1 Sept – I spend 80 DIP to promote Moloccan to my accepted Culture list, I have three slots left 1 Nov – Highveld is with Gems! I pull colonists from the meaningless Lesser Namaqualand to head to Bengkulu next to Malacca on the Ajeh island facing the Indian. I don’t want Europe there making war with everyone next to it. I order my army over from Sulawesi Island 29 Nov – Wagadugu captured us building up a spy network |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy-Four - Two Fast Years 1 Jan, 1564 – Natal also with the Gems! It had a good shot at Gold too I order a Trade Station for Cloves in Buru 31 Jan – Natives killed in Bengkulu 1 Mar - Our Shalaf’I Scholar leaves. I make nice with the Mamluks to get another 20 May - We set up in Mamuju 1 Aug – Great Karoo? Great for grains. Boring 6 Sept – They discover our spy in Songhai 11 Nov – Mpempa converts, next is Bendugu I begin to get ready for my war against Bone in Sulawesi. I combine my navies so that we’ll be able to move around in the Flores Sea. Navy – Bone – 3 heavies, 3 lights, 3 galleys Their allies: Brunei – 1 Light, 20 Galleys Kutai – 1 light, 9 Galleys My main navy – 5 heavies, 9 lights, 2 Gallies, but the Flores Sea is good for Galleys, so we need to up that navy here In order to win. I got enough for Bone, and one for Kutai, but Brunei might win and then all three combined are nasty. Our ally is: Malacca – 5/17/27 so they should be able to defeat any of them, but my issue with calling them is that they have 28k troops here on Sulawesi Island next to Bone they could grab and then win or I couldn’t take. All I could probably get is next door Wajo and then they’d take the capital of Bone, which is a much better holding, but they are at war right now, so we need to grab this Actually Malacca are now allied with Bone so we’ll just let them go. 1 Jan,1565 – I order for Cloves a Trade Station in Halmahera Rebellion in Kala, my army is next door in Jenne 21 Jan - Cores done in all four provinces taken in my Wagadugu war. 25 Jan – Rebels defeated 1 Mar – I spend 50 MIL to claim more stuff for Holy War 29 Mar – Mema converts! Next is Bagoe 12 April – I claim the Scholar and send my new Merchant to collect from Congo. 23 May – Mission done by Explorer, next is SE Pacific Coast 4 June – I send my Mamluk making nice diplomat to build a spy network in Kano which just took out Benin in war and are next to us 26 July – Event – Shipbuilding Problems – For the next 10 years +50% Shipbuilding time 1 Oct – Swing and a miss – Mamuju just Naval Supplies |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy-Five - Scientific Experimentation Leads to Administration 1 Jan, 1566 – Lesser Namaqualand – South Africa, 6 dev, Steppes, Livestock, Arid, Ibadi Algerians make 0.12, coast, north of Cape That was one of our free colonies, I order colonists from Great Karoo to Borneo’s unclaimed Katapang next to some locals and I order my 13k here from Sulawesi New Tech: ADMIN TECH 14 – Scientific Experimentation - We can build the Manufactory for growing things like Sugar and Coffee and Tea and Cocoa, Plantation. We also can get another Group of Ideas! What do I want? I have one in each group ADM, DIP, and MIL so I can get anything I want. Here are some that appeal: ADM - Religious – You’ll get two bonus Missionaries, Deus Vult against any pagan, better Missionary str at +3% at Idea #3. It’s pretty good at spreading the Ibadi love. But right now I have three and free CBs with my Holy War on my adjacent stuff, so this is less valuable than before. It’s in my hard to build right now ADM queue fighting with techs and core with a lower one right now. ADM – Admin – Better Merc stuff in several cases, #2 is reduced Core Costs by 25%, strong, and then when finished our states grow by +25%. DIP – Trade – By the time this is over I’ll get three more Merchants and a boosted 10%% Trade efficiency, and this is not competing for anything in DIP I do Admin ideas. My next Quality Idea is soon, but I don’t want another MIL idea when we still have more to go I order a Trade Station in Ternate after destroying their Shipyard Kongo appears to be at war with Kilwa 1 Mar – Our 10 year boosted colonist is gone. I offer it again 1 May- Bengkulu with Tropical Wood – miss 16 May – Explore mission done! Next is Indian Ocean 1 June – Quality Idea #5 – Naval Drill - +10% Naval Morale 12k Rebellion in Bure, my 25k is next door in Wagoe ordered over 11 July – Rebellion defeated 1 Oct – Highveld – Gems now, Coal later, Inland, next to Spain and Natal and Great Karoo, Desert, Arid, 0.08, 5 dev, Ibadi and Algerian 6 Oct – Natives in Katapang killed 1 Jan, 1567 – In Tidore, I destroy a Shipyard for a Trade Station 15 Jan – Our Crown Colony Brazil Dow’d a native called Tupiniquim 24 Jan – Explorer Mission done, next coast 3 Feb – Katapang sets up 21 May – Coast explored, next is Indian Sea 25 July – Wagadugu at peace! 9 Sept – Our explorer passes 1 Oct - Great Karoo – Inland, South Africa, connects Highveld and Swellendam and Cape, next to Spain, Drylands, 7 dev, grain, 0.09, Algerian, Ibadi I pull colonists from Mamuju and send them to the Indian Ocean island of Hollhavi with no one there. It’s just 3 dev, has a great chance of good trade goods, I’ll set up and then pull back and send back closer to the Indies. 15 Nov – I hire another explore and send them to the Indian Ocean 27 Nov – Bagoe converts, next is Sibiridugu 22 Dec – Our spy network in Songhai was discovered |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy-Six - Economic Matters 1 Jan, 1568 – I order a Plantation for Belitung’s Coffee. 9 Jan - Bendugu converts! Next is Karabara 1 April – Natal - Coast, South Africa, next to Spain, Mtetwa and Highveld, Jungle, 5 dev, Gems, Ibadi Algerians make us 0.08 Government Reform: Next is Tier 7 - Economical Matters Basically, how do I want to do trade? Options include Free Trade, Empower the Burghers, Exploitation of the New World, among others. I like many. I am making less from Trade than Production and Taxes, so I choose “Embrace the Economic Theory” and get +10% Production efficiency With my extra colony done in Natal, I pull my colonists from Bengkulu and send them to Borneo next to Katapang called Sampit 22 April – Sampit natives killed 17 May – The next exploration mission is done, next is Coast, and that’s the last thing I don’t know about 1 July - Truce with Kongo and their allies are up! I’ll wait until after Songhai next year to. 1 Aug – I could likely take those two colonies from Denmark that connect me to Ivory Coast from Sierra Leone, since Denmark has just 6k troops and they are only allied with Oldenburg, but that’ll be after my war with Songhai next year 1 Sept – Our explorer finished and we have discovered everything! I combine my two fleets 1 Oct - Another miss with Naval Supplies in Katapang 1 Nov – Mamuju – Sulawesi Island, north of Malacca, Hills, Naval Supplies, coast, 0.42, 10 dev, tropical, Algerian Ibadis I pull colonists from Hollhavi and send to Mentawai on the Indian ocean and just outside the island of Atjeh, also with 3 dev and good chance of things like Spice and just 500 natives and low ferocity and aggressiveness. 1 Jan, 1569 – ADM Idea #1 – Organized Mercenary Payments - -10% Merc cost I have 1190 cash and don’t buy anything with my builds to save for the Songhai war which could begin this year 22 April - We set up in Sampit 30 May – Event - +200 in Katapang but I spent 30 cash 1 July – Truce with Songhai and her allies is done Here are the correct level of armies Songhai – 12k Kano – 9k – but they could build a lot Kanem Bornu – 1k Wadai – 5k I have 15k next to Gao their capital and 25k next to Kano and the eastern flank. I declare war for Gao. I don’t call on the Mamluks |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy-Seven - The Fourth Algiers/Songhai War I spend 780 hiring the Independent Army. Wadai did not join them I order my 25k into Kano 12 July - Army arrives I order it to Gao with my 15k 19 Aug - A Kano minor falls, it’s got Dyes I head to their capital of Kano 1 Oct – Bengkulu – Indian Ocean Coast, next to Malacca and Indrapura, and then has Jungle, 8 Dev, Tropical Wood now, Coal later, Ibadi Algerians makes 0.47. I have to give another seat, and I give it to Sugar of Agadir I pull colonists from Katapang and send to Nias, very similar to Mentawai 15 Oct - Gao falls! I have a warscore of 23 28 Oct – Kano’s capital of Kano is ours, warscore of 41 I order to the capital of the one province Kanem Bornu 22 Nov – We begin the siege 27 Nov – A minor in Songhai is ours 1 Jan, 1570 – We win a battle against the combined Songhai forces in Gurma. 1 Feb – Our truce with Wagadugu and allies is up! 9 Feb – Two Songhai minors fall 25 Mar – We capture the last Songhai holding 7 Apr – Another win against Songhai army in Kano 8 May – We capture the capital of Kanem Bornu I have a warscore of 79 What can I get? They only have 6 holdings left, but one is their good developed capital Gao To take them all is just 46 badboy, 48 score, and would annoy Dagbon and Zazzau. The latter is a 2 province I don’t care about, Dagbon though is a decent sized with 6 holdings. And they won’t do it anyway, what I need to do is pull out Kano and Kanem Bornu. I can take just Daura for 12 badboy and 14 score, I do it:  Peace, I spend 35 to core. 21 May – Peace with Kanem Bornu for 3.5 badboy with War Reparations 25 May – I can do annexation but now Kano will care. Do I care? I need to take them off the map, I do it:  46.1 badboy. I spend a massive 186 for Gao, and then 40 for Zarmaganda and that’s it From Kano – Daura – 7 dev, Dyes, Savannah, next to Kano and Air, Workshop and Mosque, Hausa people, Sunni faith, makes 0.16 Arid From Songhai – Gao – Former capital, Trade Center Emporium, Cloth, Steppes, 20 dev, Arid, Songhai culture, Sunni faith, 0.99, Mosque Aribanda – South of Gao, Grain, Steppes, Arid, Songhai Sunnis, 9 dev, 016 made here Zarmaganda – East of Aribanda, Songhai Fetishists, Wool, Steppes, Arid, 8 ev, made here is 0.17 Gurma – South of Aribanda, north of Dagbon, Ivory trade, 4 dev, Savannah, 0.04, Mossi and Fetishist Dendi – East of Gurma, north of Dagbon, Savannah, Arid, grain, 0.18, 11 dev, Songhai and Sunni Dallol – East of Dendi, next to Zazzou, Grain, 5 dev, Arid Savannah, Songhai Fetishist make us 0.04 There we go! No more Songhai, another Hegemon brought low under our power! |
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Volume 16 - Mzab Chapter Seventy-Eight - A Fast Interlude 25 May – I order 15k to next to Denmark and 25k to Gao I disband my mercs My next war is against Denmark, which will likely take a while but just two holdings while I rebuild my ADM power with cores. I build a spy Network with Dagbon 1 Aug - I order a core for Dallol Portugal is given Australia by the Pope 24 Aug – Sibiribugu converts, next is Do 1 Sept – Sampit with Spice! Spain is in the Island Aru in the Indies 1 Oct – Quality Idea #6 - Copper Bottoms – We get -25% Naval attrition We finish another Berber idea – The Brothers Barbarossa - +20% Galley Combat That’s our last Berber Idea 1 Jan, 1571 – I order a Plantation for Susa’s Sugar and Dina Arobi’s too I DOW Denmark’s Karou, I order my 15k over |
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