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1 Jan, 1577 – I can embrace the next level of DIP tech, but I am going to wait. I want to embrace the Printing Press, and we are getting close. That would drop my power needed and leave me a lot left.
1 May – I can choose another Age of Reformation ability that lasts for the Age. I choose to speed up my institutional spread
15 May – GB declared war on France and called me to it. I join them
War –
Us
Britain
Our vassals and colonial nations
Them
France
Naples
Switzerland
I order my Italian forces into Naples again.
28 May – We are besieging Narbonnais.
1 June – Sierra Leone with Ivory
1 July – Salerno is ours
I am in Labourd and the Naples new capital as well with sieges
8 Aug – The Naples capital is ours
3 Sept – I win a battle in Africa
22 Sept – I capture and seize Rio de la Plata from France
1 Oct – Great Britain takes Naples out of the war. I order one of my Italian armies into Switzerland
11 Oct – Labourd is ours
14 Oct – Narbonnais as well
29 Oct – I defeat a minor French navy and capture 3 ships
1 Nov – Beafada with Ivory
15 Nov – I am besieging Lyonnais and Avignon
1 Jan, 1578
Grain Coast – Jungle, 3 dev, Ivory, Sunni, Andalusian
I order a Plantation in Mauritius
11 Feb – The French capture and burn our colony at St. Helena
19 Feb – Avignon is ours
22 Feb – The Alps fortress of Maitland in Switzerland falls to us and I order this army to Bern, the capital of Switzerland
22 Mar – I defeat the Swiss army at Bern and set up a siege here
15 May - fabricate a claim on Messina on Sicily
12 July – Haut-Poiteau is finished sieging and is mine!
19 July – I capture the island of Sao Tome off of the African Coast from France
2 Aug – Bern falls to us.
9 Aug – GB Pulls Switzerland out of the fight
20 Aug – Lyonnais falls
I have a big-ish warscore against France of 35.
I go for a separate peace
Here is what I do:, let me force one of my diplomats back
This is my goal
I take Sao Tome
I take Labourd, a fort next to me in France
I force France to give up the African nation they just grabbed – Jolof,
Cash
The UK goes to peace before my diplomat arrives.
We only get Sao Tome.
GB took their war target and some other stuff.
Sao Tome – 4 dev, Naval supplies, French, Catholic, coastline, 0.04 made here
I recall my colonists from Sierra Leone to set back up in St. Helena
1 Sept – Napoli converts!
Next? Garundah
I order a Farm Estate in Umbria
11 Sept – Aragon and Naples are at war
3 Nov – We embrace the Printing Press.
Dip Tech 14 – We can get – better galleons, frigates, and bonus settler growth as well as colonial range.
We are left with hundreds of DIP after embracing the Press.
I begin to upgrade my fleet
16 Nov – Let’s build a Flagship!
I Choose heavy ship
I choose these three bonsues:
Command Aftercastle – Fleet gets +5% naval morale
Hull Sheathing - +50 durability of this vessel
Improved Crow’s Nest - +3 ship width when engaging
So we have a defensive buffer for a fleet.
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