Korea - Beyond the 38th Parallel (EUIV)

[Grover]

We hear of a new era dawning filled with exploration and unknown wonders in the west. The people of our great nation are intrigued. Occupying our small peninsular nation along the Sea of Japan, with the island people to our left, the sprawling Ming Empire to our south and the horde Khanate of Manchu north of us, we are itching to grow.

We believe that Korea is a great nation and a nation destined for greatness.

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King Do Yi (6/5/5) is our great leader. Our technology levels are all at 2, with everyone else in the region. We are in the Chinese group, meaning it takes us 60% more power to advance our technologies.

Our place in the world can be seen in the image below.



We are made up of seven provinces. Starting in the southwest: Jeolla, Gyeongsang is to its east. Directly north of Jeolla is Chungcheong with the capitol of Gyeonggi north of that. Gangwon borders both of them on the east. Hwanghae is north of the capitol with Pyongan and Hamgyeong the northernmost provinces.

We begin with 10,000 troops. 8,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. We have 8 galleys, 6 cogs and 3 barques in our navy.

Some of our goals are:

1. An alliance with Ming. They are the power in the east. We need to have an in with them.

2. Seize the Ryuku Islands. It sets us up with a small patch of land south of Japan.

3. Carve into Manchu territory. Expansion is our game. We want to be bold about it.

4. Colonize the Islands south of us with the potential of reaching the south of Australia.

5. Control trade across the eastern Pacific the Spice Islands.

6. Eliminate Japan. We want to control this island group as it is so close to our mainland holdings.

7. Colonize Hawaii.

8. Colonize in North America. Whether we reach it from the Bearing Sea or go from Hawaii to California. It will work for us.

[Grover]

1444
November 11
We begin by naming Manchu and Ryuku our rivals.

We start a mission to form an alliance with Ming. Perfect.

December 17
We send our barques out to protect trade in Nippon.

December 21
We enter a royal marriage with Ming. Excellent.

1445
January 22
We enter a military alliance with Ming. We gain some 10 prestige and 25 diplomatic power.

January 24
We take a mission to befriend the Oirat Horde who are the enemy of Manchu.

February 11
Ming requests are assistance as they begin a war with Manchu.

Gladly. Perhaps we can do enough to steal a province.

We call up some mercenaries to strengthen our army. Hadn't expected a war this early on.

May 28
We have begun the Siege of Haixi.

1446
March 22
Ming now controls Hinggan.

April 25
We have won the Siege of Haixi.

July 1
Ming and Manchu have made peace. Back to the status quo.

July 2
We have entered a royal marriage with Oirat Horde.

October 10
We enforce serfdom and lose 25 administrative power.

We have sent our diplomat U Ma to Tibet to improve relations.

1447
March 10
I decide to hire a Philosopher for our cabinet. He'll provide +1 to our yearly prestige.

October 9
We hire a statesman to improve our Diplomatic Reputation by 5.

1448
April 8
Chungcheong has been struck with influenza! We've quarantined the port until a year from now. Trade Power is down 100% in the city, while Goods Produced and the Local Tax and Manpower modifiers are down 50%.

July 11
It took three years, but we have finally gotten on the very good side of the Oirat Horde with a marriage and a military alliance.

We earn 5 prestige and 25 diplomatic power.

We take a mission to insult Ryuku, or rival.

August 17
We insult them and receive 5 prestige and 25 military power.

We take a mission to accumulate money.

Our other option was to conquer the Manchu province of Haixi, but we're at a truce with them until 1451.

[Grover]

1448
October 14
We have an uncooperative philosopher. We imprison him and take the 1 stability hit.

1449
February 12
We enter a royal marriage with Tibet.

March 29
We send diplomat U Ma to Dai Viet, a small country just south of Ming territory.

May 23
We send diplomat Dae Jang to Ayutthaya to improve relations.

1450 May 8
After a quiet year we get a Casus Belli against Japan for threatening our trade. It's unlikely we will act upon this.

May 14
The Oirat Horde has asked us to come to their aid in the multiple conflicts they've gotten themselves into with Chagatai and Manchu.

Our peace treaty with Manchu has another 13 months to run. We will decline the Horde's offer and take the loss of 25 prestige, as much as it hurts.

October 24
Our merchant, Imhae Do has been struggling because of our focus on mercantilism. We tell him he should have stayed at home if he can't handle the trade.

1451
July 9
We have maxed our relations with Dai Viet.

August 19
We have entered a royal marriage with Dai Viet.

September 8
We have maxed relations with Ayutthaya.

1452
February 5
A short four years later and we've earned enough ducats to complete the mission and earn 10 prestige.

Our next mission is to conquer the Manchurian province of Haixi.

We begin building a secondary army to our First Army of 12,000.

August 19
The armies are ready. We declare war on Manchu with the goal of taking Haixi for ourselves.

Manchu is still at war with the Mongol Khanate and Oirat Horde.

We call all willing allies. Ming joins us.

September 6
The Siege of Haixi has begin. 19,000 Korean troops take put the province to the sword.

October 16
We get an event to add +25 to diplo/admin/military power. This puts us over the top to Administrative Technology level 3: Medieval Administration.

Production Efficiency has increased by 10% and we may support rebels in other countries.

October 26
We begin the Siege of Khanka

1453
May 14
We learn Diplomatic Technology level 3: The Early Carrack.

Max Colonial Range +100, Trade Efficiency Increased by 10%, Naval Morale +0.10, but Naval Maintenance +10% as well. We may also now build the Early Carrack.

June 9
After 281 days we have won the Siege of Haixi.

I order the army of 12,000 to move to Ninguta to take it under siege.

November 21
Manchu is suing for peace.

They offer to cede Haixi to us. They will also pay us 40 ducats. We will receive 2 prestige and an 11.2 aggressive expansion relations penalty. We also gain 0.16 inflation from the ducats taken in the peace agreement.

As you'll see in the image below, Haixi adds a significant chunk of land to our growing nation.

[Grover]

1453
November 22
We earn 5 prestige for taking Haixi.

We spend 81 administrative power to turn the province into a core. This will take 16 months.

1454
March 3
We send U Ma to Lan Xang to improve relations.

March 8
We advanced to Military Technology level 3: Earthen Rampart.

Land Morale is increased by 0.50 and we can now build the Rampart. Every province already had a Rampart prior to learning this. Curious!

October 20
We make a long-term investment that sees our trade efficiency raise 15% for the next 10 y ears.

We also earn 50 diplomatic power.

1455
February 12
We send a diplomat to Oirat Horde to try and patch relations.

March 25
Haixi has become a core province. We earn 10 admin power for completing the mission.

We hold off on taking another mission. They don't really do much for us at the moment.

April 5
The Manchu culture has become an accepted culture in our nation.

We now take a mission to recover our negative stability.

April 6
We recover it using admin power. We receive 5 prestige.

August 16
A Herald from Ming has told us of the Peasants' War

1456
August 4
We send Dae Jang to Ming to improve relations.

We have maxed out relations with Lan Xang.

October 21
We have gained Increased Free Trade for 10 years. Out trade income has increased 10%, but our Spy Defense is down 10% and we lose 2 Mercantilism.

[Grover]

1456
October 22
We send U Ma to Champa to improve relations.

1457 August 15
We now have two standing armies of 10,000 men each.

1458
October 22
We get the Rush of Merchants event.

We take the monetary benefits and global tariffs are up 5.0% in our favor.

1459
January 14
We take a mission to claim the Manchurian province Ninguta.

Tae Do will lead our forces of 15,000 into Ninguta. The other 5,000 troops will look to siege Khanka.

April 13
We declare war. Ming joins us.

July 14
We lose a battle in Haixi, but Ming bails us out.

September 1
Manchu has the province of Hamgyeong under siege.

Ming has the province of Hinggan under siege.

October 21
We have won the Siege of Haixi.

The army moves to intercept the siege forces at Hamgyeong.

We easily send them fleeing.

1460
January 14
We send an army back to Ninguta as Manchu has tried to take it back with a small force.

April 16
We have begun the siege on Khanka. Ming has Hei Long Iang, Sangxing and the Manchurian capitol of Hinggan under siege. Wusului is their only unoccupied province remaining.

May 31
A Manchurian army of 9,000 attempts to regain control of Sanxing. The Ming forces are beaten back, I head in to take on the Manchurians.

August 14
We beat them back, but prefer to maintain our hold on Khanka.

September 29
Manchu begins to try and take Haixi back.

October 24
Scandal at the Court!

I take the blame, lose 1 stability and move on.

October 26
PEACE!

We have reached a peace agreement with the Manchu. They have ceded the province of Ninguta to us, as well as 21 ducats.

We gain 5 prestige for completing our mission.

As you can see in the map below, Ninguta gives us another good chunk of land. We've nearly cut the Manchurian nation in half. We are fully looking to eventually take Khanka and Wusuli to give us a stronger coastal presence adjacent to Japan.

[Grover]

1460
October 27
We send Dae Jang to Lan Na to improve relations.

We take a long term mission to let our manpower reserves recover.

November 14
We enter a military alliance with Oirat Horde.

They've gotten over us rejecting their war proposal earlier, I guess.

1461
March 9
We have sent U Ma to Pegu to improve relations.

June 15
A Herald from Ming has told us that the Peasants' War has been brought to an end. Those pesky peasants and their need for reform has been quashed and their will to fight drained.

1462
October 28
We build a great palace. We gain prestige and legitimacy.

November 8
The great King Do Yi has passed into his next life.

King Hyang Yi (2/1/1) has ascended to the throne.

This is a huge hit as Do Yi was 6/5/5

Jeong (1/3/6) has become the heir to the throne.

The passing of Do Yi has resulted in a stability drop. We are at -2.

1463
March 8
We have maxed relations with Lan Na.

June 6
We have unlocked Admin Tech level 4: National Ideas.

We can now select a group of ideas.

We choose: Exploration Ideas.

Having 985 diplomatic power saved, we unlock the first two slots: Colonial Ventures (+1 colonists) and Quest for the New World. We can now purchase Conquistadors and Explorers.

A short skip from Japan is the uncolonized land of Shiribeshi. It only has a tax value of 1, but it only has 500 very docile natives and makes for a great place to start our expansion.

August 12
We have maxed relations with Pegu.

August 21
We have Hamgyeong begin work on an Early Carrack so we can explore some of the seas around us.

October 4
We send Dae Jang to Shan and U Ma to Dai Viet to improve relations.

1464
April 16
The colonial company has gone bankrupt. We step in and lose 50 ducats, but they continue to grow.

General Tae Do has passed away! Only the finest funeral will do for such a colossus of combat.

October 19
We have a government decision go awry. We lose 29 ducats rather than lose more stability.

November 22
We recruit the explorer Yeongyang Go! He will hope to uncover some undiscovered ocean territory for us. He will head east of the Sanriku Coast.

1465
February 17
Go has discovered the Kamtchatka Current. He will head back for the safety of the Tsugaru Strait before setting out again.

[Abe Sargent]

Awesome!

[Grover]

Thanks, Abe!

[Grover]

1465
March 4
We have maxed relations with Dai Viet.

March 30
We spend 108 admin power to raise stability to -1.

April 18
We send U Ma to Lan Xang to improve relations.

April 27
King Hyang Yi has passed on to his next life!

All hail the new King, Jeong Il Yi! (1/3/6)

He does not currently have an heir, but without a doubt one will soon be provided to us.

July 9
We have sent Go south of the Coast of Sakhalin to see what lies there.

September 21
Go has discovered the Coast of Kamchatka

1466
January 26
Moving north he also discovered the Bay of Ayan.

February 6
We have maxed relations with Lan Xang.

March 5
We have maxed relations with Shan.

Go has discovered the Okhotsk Sea and the Tatar Straits.

March 24
We have also discovered the uncolonized land of Udskoye. It is north of Manchuria.

May 10
We learn that fish will be produced in Shiribeshi.

October 30
We get the Rush of Merchants event and take the +5% Global Tariffs.

November 3
We send Go east of Sanriku Coast and south of Kamtchatka Current.

December 3
We learn Military Tech level 4: Pike Square. We get a tactics and morale bonus and can build the Armory, improving manpower production.

December 14
We get the National Epic and lose 10 admin power and 11 ducats for the +1 to Yearly Prestige for 10 years.

December 29
Koreans rejoice!

Bokseong (3/1/3) is the new Heir to the Throne! The succession is safe.

1467
February 11
Go discovers the Japan Current and heads south from there.

April 21
Go finds the Carolinas Islands, he goes south from there.

June 9
Go has found the Micronesia Sea.

July 30
Go has been lost at sea! Very sad. But he's discovered some new things for us!

September 13
We boost our stability back to -1.

[Grover]

1467
October 5
We invest in Overseas Expansion, our newest idea from the Exploration Ideas group. Our Colonial Range has been increased by 50%. As soon as we have colonized Shiribeshi, we will head for Taiwan, which already has a worth of 4 gold.

We have also learned our first Korean Idea: The Hanguel Alphabet. Technology Cost has gone down 5%.

1468
July 6
Believe it or not, I had forgotten to make Ninguta a core. We've begun that work now, it will be done in 16 months.

November 4
The Nobles Demand old rights. We accept their demands to avoid losing stability. Our revolt risk is down 1 and our national tax modifier is down 10%.

1469
April 19
Colonist Rush! For the next five years we receive a +5% settler chance and a +25 global settler increase.

July 3
Shiribeshi has become a self-sustaining colony!

+1.1 Prestige.

The new province has 1.04 tax, 2.15 production for a total of 3.19. 1.7 trade power, 1.95 trade value and 1.01 goods produced. That good is fish. Lots of fish.

July 4
We send our fleet with 4 regimens to Taiwan. Our settler will be there by the end of August.

August 28
The settler arrives and the troops land on the province. Colonization has begun. There are 6000 natives, they are very aggressive, but lack ferocity.

November 8
Ninguta is a core province!

1470
March 8
We order an Armory to be constructed in Haixi.

June 1
We get Hardy Seamen! +2 Navy tradition.

November 3
Comet Sighted!

Peasants are always superstitious, and the appearance of a comet in the sky has caused panic among our people. They are convinced that this is a sign that the end of times is near or that something bad is going to happen in the near future.

We hail this as an omen.

-1 stability, back to -2 overall.

1471
February 4
It only took forever, but we recovered our manpower! 5 prestige and 10 army tradition.

Our next mission is to fortify Shiribishi.

March 12
We send our diplomats to Oirat Horde and Manchu. I've noticed Manchu is building a rather large army.

[Grover]

October 3
We send our colonist to Kamikawa, which is north of Shiribeshi. It only has one ducat output, but that's okay. We're looking to dominate the area. As it is, Shiribishi has a land bridge onto the bulk of Japan. The three provinces above us.

Anyway, Kamikawa has 500 natives of limited aggressiveness and ferocity. Our colony should be cool there without any support.

1476
May 5
We have maxed relations with Ayutthaya.

June 28
U Ma heads to Shiba a fledgling nation on Japan.
They are one of two remaining power group on Japan that has some love for us. Ouchi, Japan, Uesugi have no love for us. Shimazu doesn't mind us either.

Ouchi is an independent nation and has broken free from the grip of Japan.

October 7
We have maxed relations with Majapahit.

November 15
Military Divided!

We choose the forts are our strength. I don't anticipate any wars in the next 10 years.

December 23
Diplomat Dae Jang heads to Assam to improve relations.

1477
March 14
We finally complete the Earth Rampart in Taiwan for 26 manpower and 1 army tradition.

April 3
We learn Military tech level 5: Standardized Pikes. +2 combat width, +.15 infantry shock.

We also take a mission to turn Kamikawa into a city.

1478
April 2
We repay a 29 ducat loan.

June 1
Shiba has disappeared, swallowed up by Japan.

June 21
Kamikawa will supply fish.

June 22
We have entered a royal marriage with Assam.

October 5
We learn our next idea in the Exploration Ideas group. Viceroys. We can establish them and global tariffs are +20%.

November 12
We lose 10 prestige ignoring the noble on our land tech being useless.

1479
January 3
We repay the second 29 ducat loan we had outstanding. We're now debt free. And also broke.

April 25
Glorious news! Yeong (3/3/3) is the new Heir to the Throne!

In the map below you've seen our modest expansion. Taiwan in the south along the Ming border and Shiribeshi and the current colonization of Kamikawa.

Ignore the hint option, I never think to disable it

[Grover]

1479
April 28
Kamikawa loses 5 aggressiveness with the Encomienda System for five years. +100% goods produced.

September 8
We have maxed relations with Assam and Oirat Horde.

U Ma heads for Dai Viet.

September 27
Dae Jang heads for Lan Na.

December 7
We begin construction on an armory in Gyeonggi.

1480
October 15
PLAGUE!

Pyongan has been hit with plague and will produce 10% less goods over the next 3 years.

November 19
We have gained a general with 100 tradition after an unheralded commoner surprised all in attendance by besting everyone who face him! We lose 25 prestige and legitimacy.

1481
January 6
We have maxed relations with Lan Na.

March 1
Dae Jang heads for Champa to improve relations.


April 3
Kamikawa has become self-sustaining! We gain some prestige.

We have maxed relations with Dai Viet.

Our next mission is to colonize Pose. Far to the south of Taiwan. The uncolonized province shares land with Bone and Menade (also uncolonized) and the Makassar people.

Pose is said to have 6,000 very aggressive natives. We'll send a troops of six to meet our colonist.

September 4
We reach Pose and begin colonizing. We gain Colonial Enthusiasm for 5 years increasing settler chance and global settler increase.

The troops also reach Pose to protect and serve.

Our next mission is to remove Makassar from the map. They border Pose.

September 12
We declare war and move the troops from Pose toward Makassar.

October 4
We easily take out Makassar's 1,000 troops and begin our siege.

We split the army in half and send a portion of them back to Pose.

November 14
The natives of Pose rose up and defeated our 2,000 standing army. We will attempt to recolonize once we have captured Makassar.

1482
February 20
I order an Earth Rampart built in Kamikawa.

April 8
We have begun to colonize Pose once more.

The Siege of Makassar is going slowly and stands at -28%

May 6
Pose lasts a month. We'll definitely need to keep an army there.

August 26
We have won the Siege of Makassar!

The Makassar people have been annexed through surrender. We have gained 5 prestige.

We take a mission to integrate Makassar, but we need to colonize Pose for a closer port first. This may take some time.

August 28
We begin construction on an armory in Ninguta.

November 2
We begin to colonize Pose. Third time's the charm?

We move the troops from Makassar in. A calculated risk, but we are sending another 3,000 down from the mainland.

November 15
We gain a trade income modifier through the Trade Expansion event.

November 27
3,000 brave troops hold off 5,000 natives on Pose.

The 10 colonists living there are thankful.

December 4
We begin to improve relations with our new neighbor, Brunei. They are Sunni, so we don't mesh there.

Majapahit to the south is Hindu and we can marry to them.

In the map below you get a clearer view of the east as a whole. In the south you can see the recently conquered Makassar and Pose just to the east of Brunei. Majapahit is the dark red nation south of Brunei. You may also note the huge potential for expansion through the islands here. This is how we will dominate the Pacific Ocean.

[Grover]

1483
January 30
We send Dae Jang to improve relations with Aceh. May as well get friendly with our new southern neighbors.

December 7
Pose rises up.

December 21
And is struck down.

1484
January 6
Native Assimilation in Pose! +100 population.

January 20
Ming has broken their alliance with us and declared us rivals.

Oh boy.

February 12
Pose rises up once more.

March 13
And again succumbs to defeat.

March 27
U Ma travels to Ming to improve relations. We'll try and keep this as high as possible.

April 3
Pose rises up.

April 20
And falls.

We're losing men. I'm not sure how many more uprisings we can take.

We hire a mercenary in Makassar to send to Pose.

May 3
We go into debt to support Pose.

We take out a couple of expensive loans. 39 ducats each.

June 14
Pose natives rise once more.

July 7
We beat them back again. They are tenacious.

November 17
We use 30 admin power to avoid a revolt risk in Gyeonggi

December 12
We have maxed relations with Ming. Right now that is only +70. Eesh.

December 25
We send U Ma to Manchu to improve relations.

[Grover]

Went to go back to the game, realized I hadn't done an actual hard save since the 1475 post. Looks like I am going to have to edit back to there and go ahead.

That's frustrating and stupid.

[Abe Sargent]

Yuck

[sabotai]

By default, the game autosaves every year. Did you turn that off?

[Grover]

Originally Posted by sabotai

By default, the game autosaves every year. Did you turn that off?

No, I went to playing another game, so it over-autosaved.