The Historical Hegemon Series
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.