Historical Hegemon Series, 2002
Volume 12c, Maya Restored, the New Meso-American Hegemon
Chapter 17 - Papua Incorporated
1 Aug, 1681 – Salt in Sitka
1 Oct – Fak-fak with Spices, Fish in Yakutat
1 Nov –
Manokwari – 3 dev, Incense, 0.03. I hand it to my trade company
1 Feb, 1682
– Atikaki, 4 dev, forest, naval supplies
I send these colonists north to the blocking holding that will keep the UK from creeping down, and is the final aggressive move I need to make here
1 April –
Nisga’a – West coast, 3 dev, mts, coastal, 0.04 made here
16 May – Conversion in Bali!
1 July –
Tlingit – 3 dev, mountains, livestock, 004
5 Sept – I change us back to a sprawling republic! Our ancient but good ruler wasn’t getting any good play.
Here you can see me set up to push back against the British flood.
Here you can see how far into Alaska we are.
Let’s reassess my colonial needs:
1. I have finished drawing borders to the north and mid-west and south America.
2. I have taken the most valuable Indies holdings available, only lesser ones like New Guinea, or ones by many others in places like the Philippines are left. As of today, we lead the world in 27.7% of Spice production. I’m also tops in Chinaware (26%), and at 19% am only 4% from the Tea leader.
3. Taking minor, unstate-able holdings like Halmahera and others may be okay next. But all others were taken by Mameluks who arrived long ago and grabbed Borneo and south Atjeh islands as well as some minor entry way isles.
Target 1 – Finish Alaska. Do this slowly. Remove my colonists here If Portugal grabs the Aleutians while I’m taking Spics Isles I’ll consider that an okay swap.
Target 2 – Finishing fighting for the Spice Islands. Grab Papua and New Guinea, and a few lesser places here and there that aren’t state-able like Halmahera and Taytay.
Target 3 – There are some internal holdings that are part of my states, such as Louisiana and Mariquita. Get them next.
Target 4 - Grab the mines around central Appalachia, we need more iron and copper and are starting to push for those in the world. I had kept a state open for them until we got deep in the Indies.
Target 5 – Slowly, very slowly, grab South America over North. Only our sections remain unclaimed the rest of the continent is taken, finish it.
Target 6 – Although not colonial, continue to push for key trading posts. Let’s top Ivory and then look at Silk or other exotics.