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1 April, 1587 – Our truce with Naples ends
The coalition against us is big, but some, like Baden, have begun to leave it.
How you see my aggressive expansion changes on who you are:
Morocco - -8 penalty right now, and we are not allied with them
Austria? -341 penalty right now, and neither are rivaled nor enemies of each other
Similar Venice, Savoy and such.
But northern provinces with less interest in Italy?
Utrecht - -44penalty
Holland? With whom we’ve been at war? -46
Mainz? -53
Saxony? -126
Sweden - -85, Denmark, -110,
How about some non-allied Muslims?
0 penalty. They don’t care
Orthodox?
Lithuania - -13
Kiev - -17
Russia, who is my Rival, just -13
So the issue folks have with my massive and ongoing expansion relates to their interested in the area in which I was expanding.
27 April – Two folks are trying to poach the rest of Aragon.
7 May – Massina now a core, and I order the fort here upgraded
9 July – Palencia converts and Ancona is next
15 Aug – My other three holdings are now cored.
1 Sept – Cartagena is now a full province (8 dev, jungle, Coffee, natural harbor)and that leads to the creation of the Garnatah Colombian colonial nation
10 Sept – Asturias and Cantabria have converted. Next? Malta and Saraqusa
I have finished a mission to Retake Sicily and an event happens:
The Emirate of Sicily – II have two options:
Option 1 – Release Sicily as the Emirate of Sicily, a March vassal of ours, and use them as a buffer state against the north. We get cores on the areas of Italy in – Cantabria, Lazio-Campania, and Apulia.
We already have many of those holdings, or temporary cores. The buffer state really isn’t needed.
Option 2 – Keep Sicily. For the next 20 years it gets +3% Missionary str and +50% trade power
I choose Option 2.
1 Mar, 1588 –
Androscoggin – Furs, 10 dev, Woods, 0.77 made here. In southern Maine.
I can’t go west because a tribe has moved there. I go inland and east to Kennebec instead
I start working to build up a spy network and I need to send over a decent army
1 May –
Alcantara – 5 dev, Jungle, given to Brazil to help fortify against expansion east by Holland
I send these colonists to Whydah, east of Gold Coast
30 May – The natives of Whydah are slain
I am building up another Italian army, keeping one in Sicily, and the other in Roma, with my third in Urbino
1 Oct – Four leave the coalition against us
19 Oct – Naples, Austria, and Alsace left it as well
1 Nov – Now 6 more left it
1 Dec – Three more. Malta converts. Balarm is next
27 Dec – Saraqusa converts. Nothing is ready yet.
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