My Next EU4 Dynasty - Now With - Hisn Kayfa

[Abe Sargent]

My Next EU4 Dynasty!!!

Hello and happiest of days to each of you!!! Am I feeling in the mood for another round of dynasty for my beloved EU4???

Who would I Like to run with?

Here are my early options:

Korea – I’ve never run an East Asia dynasty like China or Japan unless you count the Philippines and Kamchatka. They were updated in a recent DLC I have.

Australia – A bunch of Australian Aboriginal one-province nation like North America are here and then I could unite and fight against the Europeans and colonize too.

New Zealand – Similarly 7 smaller one-province Māori nations are there and I could unify them!

Hawaii – These islands are each a smaller island, I could unite them too.

Fiji – This island chain is in three parts and again I could start, conquer and then colonize!!

Riga – This one-province Baltic Sea Bishopric is surrounded by folks and I can form Courland and Livonia and Prussia. I have never played a Bishopric- it’s in the Hansa League too. It’s updated in a major DLC I have a few years ago.

Mali – This former West Africa powerhouse is on the decline and then gets an event when you start it called “Mali in Decline” with massive rebels, but if you can stop it and redress the issues you can unlock the power of Mali!!!

Gotland – This one-province Baltic Isle wants us to start as a Pirate Republic. This too like Riga and I have never played a Pirate Republic.

Ajuuraan – This Horn of Africa East Africa minor power wants to become an Indian Ocean trader and Conquer and then colonizer and trader. It used to own the Maldives.

Trebizond – In the last update they updated everything near the Turks like this and Theodoro too. This is a former Byzantine Nation and Greek and Orthodox I could try them again for the 1st time since EU2. Black Sea and Turkey.

Any more traditional hard ones like Athens, Thedoro, Pskov, Sukhothai, Mzab that I finished that I haven’t done yet?

Melikates – Arminian and Coptic in the Levant – one province minor , the last Armenian nation. You start as a vassal too.

Auvergne – One province French minor among many vassals to it.

Hisn Kayfa – Kurdish one-province Middle East the last of the Abbasid Caliphate. You start with Ayyubid Ideas.

Manipur – Animist Jungle South Asia with the only one in the region with that faith that drops your tech and such.

SE Asia – Three one province new additions here in SE Asia that start with Stateless Societies like Rhade. Rough because everyone around you is a Tributary of Ming so they’ll defend them in wars so it’s not easy to expand.

Rhodes – Small island right next to the Turks, needs to expand to the Turks, or get eaten by them.

Makuria – Two province Coptic Nation near Mamluks and often gets smashed by them early or when you expand south the big nation of Ethiopia – you can form Nubia.

Navarra - The one-province land locked Iberian nation just next to major powers like England, Castille and Aragon.

Thoughts???

[Abe Sargent]

Alright let’s knockout a couple!!! I adore all three Africa and then many in the Middle East too and Asia and Oceania. We’ll start with the European Motherland – I am not feeling:

Gotland – No to Pirates.

Rhodes – I have done here in the Eastern Mediterranean dynasties like Naxos and Athens already, not feeling this.

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s knock out another couple of traditionally hard places:

Trebizond – Just updated sure, but have done once.

Navarra – Not easy to expand, or to by three big-bad, but not feeling it either…

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s knock two in Oceania:

Hawaii – I think that would be fun, but I’d prefer New Zealand as different and I recently Oceania as Micronesia

Fiji Minor – Just like Hawaii, already did Oceania Minor Chain in Micronesia!! Would prefer New Zealand.

Thoughts?

[Abe Sargent]

I have played Mataram, Philippines Minor and Sukhothai in SE Asia and the Indies. Then I have played Micronesia in Oceania, in the Americas the Central American Minor one province and reformed Maya and then South America one nation minor and then formed Inca. Not bad there. Then in Africa I’ve done North Africa once with Mzab a very hard start then formed Algiers with it and then Congo the day it turned Catholic in history to try that out and then Songhai and one fast 12 year long one in South Africa I lost so just three longer ones there in the entire continent.

Then in Asia I did the Kamchatka minor Kamchadals and then colonized Siberia backwards and then grabbed Alaksa too. Then in India I did one as a one-province Southern India Hindu nation and formed India.

In Eastern Europe I did the rough one-province Russia minor of Pskov Marchant Republic under Muscovy’s Aegis and got out and formed Russia. I also just did hard Crimean One-nation Theodoro it at the tip of the province with no one to go next to Genoa and Crimea. I tried Wallachia like 5 times and failed.

In the Middle East I’ve done Trebizond in Turkey, and a few in CK2 and CK1 like Georgia and then Oman in Arabia too first and turned it into an Indian Ocean trade and colonial power.

In Western Europe I’ve done Irish minor and formed Ireland and then ditto in CK3. I’ve also done Granada in Iberia twice and Aragon once in CK2. I’ve done Oldenberg in the HRE and then in Southern Europe Italtian minor Salerno and formed Italy and then Athens in Greece and then in the Mediterranean I did the Venetian Islands of Naxos and then got my freedom.

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s pull out another two!!!

Manipur – I feel like another Animist nation in the area might not be what I’m looking for. Another resilin there might be fun to try, but who are you Royal Marriaging with? Or getting strong alliances, like Mzab as an Ibadi nation there.

Melikates – This is the final Armenian holding, love to rise and form Armenia, but they are a vassal and that takes it off my list.

Thoughts!!! I am feeling Riga, New Zealand, Hisn Kayfa, Makuria, Risa, Mali and Ajuuraan too, and then the 3 SE Asia minors and then Korea and Australia too. Who do you like here?

[Abe Sargent]

Two More Pull Out:

Australia Minor – This is another fun little one, but that’s a longer bigger campaign.

Korea – I’ve never done East Asia before, and this would be fun and then is the lesser power, but that’s probably a stronger start than many takes it out.

Here’s why I like what’s left:

Riga – One nation, heavily developed in DLC, surrounded by the Livonian Order, Bishopric, in real life became Courland and then colonized Africa and then Trinidad. Nice for me to get too.

New Zealand - I adore the idea of uniting the Islands and then embracing the Pacific Ocean for Conquest and Colonization!!

Hisn Kayfa – I adore that this final holding of the Abbasid Caliphate and then you can reform it and then it’s got great Ideas too and was updated in the same place as Trebizond recently.

Makuria – This two-province Desert Nubian Coptic would be between two massive powers in the Mamluks and Ethiopia that will gobble you up, can form Nubia and then would be my first Coptic Religion playthrough.

Mali – This was also helped out by a DLC with the Mali Crisis. I adore the idea of trying to reboot this harder nation like the Timurids past their prime and on the way out too.

Ajuuraan – Easier start like Oman not near any baddies that will eat them up. Starts with 10 and a vassal too.

SE Asia - I like that these three are Stateless as their form of government I have never played and then outside of them we cannot attack any one nearby after unifying them without annoying Ming. Nice little challenge, right?

Which of these final 7 are you feeling?

[Abe Sargent]

Alright I’ll pull another pair out. We are pulling:

Ajuuraan – Too easy of a start.

Riga – Sorry European folks but I am not feeling this fun one.

[Abe Sargent]

Sorry fans of non—Middle East and Africa stuff, but the next to go is:

SE Asia – I adore this idea, but I would likely wanna colonize into the Indies, and this run I want to steer clear of my typical Colonial Auspices.

New Zealand – Ditto – love this much!!! But, again, focusing on the lack of colonial stuff this rule is needed.

I want to run both of those though.

So we are in the ME or Africa for this next run!!

[Abe Sargent]

Three left baby!!!

Alright, so who is my finalist?

Let’s knock them out in order:

#3. Mali - I love this past its prime with all of the rebel stuff to deal with, but it’s gold and strong development and 18 starting provinces means this is pretty good for the winning fun-times.

#2. Makuria – Again I love the idea of a minor two-province in between two majors, and I’ve never done a Coptic run either. But not today.

That means…

#1. Hisn Kayfa – The Winner!! I actually looked it up and it’s the last remnant of the Ayyubid not Abbasid the one online was wrong.

There are no reform options for it.

Let’s kick this thang off in a major blow!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s get this thing off!!!

Let’s start with the Ayyubid Ideas we will begin with




We begin with the boosted tax modifier early on and then -10% Shock Damage early too which is great for the local Middle East troops high in it. Then later we can get Fort Defense, boosted to manpower by 15%, +10% Morale, and then the same in Cavalry, and then -15% Core Cost, -10% stability cost and then boosts to goods and discipline too. Love it much!!!

Hasn Kayfa:

Culture – Kurdish – a subgroup of Iranian
Faith – Sunni
Government – Shiekhdom
Tech Group - Muslim
Tech: 3/3/3

About Us:




Ruler: Shiekh al-Salih Salah al-Din Ayyubid – age 29, 3/2/3 skills

Heir: al-Kamil Ayyubid, age 24 – skills of 2/3/3



Hasn Kayfa – Highlands, development of 6, Wool is here, in Kurdistan province – just a Fort here. Making us .26 here monthly!

Zoomed out:



We are next to three other nations! To our north is three province Bitlis. To our west is the bigger nation of Aq Qoyunlu which will be our first target of expansion. Then to our south and east is the larger state of Qara Qoyunlu.

My first goal is to ally with four province Dulkadir to our east past Aq Qoyunlu make nice with the Ottomans and then RM and ally them later, and then DOW Aq Qoyunlu before they can ally with the Ottomans

[Abe Sargent]

Our Mission Tree:




11 Nov, 1444 – I rival-ize Aq Qoyunlu

Our Army: 4k; 3k infantry and 1k cavalry
Our Forcelimit: 6k

I order another 2k infantry built which will get me to the first Prepare for War Mission.

I order ADM our specialty and we are making 8/4/5

I want to order Dukadir allied and then to begin building a spy network built in Aq Qoyunlu, but they aren’t good enough, so I offer Dulkadir a Royal Marriage first.

I pass the Enforce Religious Unity Edict and Missionaries are at +2% to convert

I have three Government Iqta Options – I can choose one of three:

Enhance Taxes - +15% Taxes
Land Creation - -5% Core Creation
Lenient Taxes - -15% Liberty Desire in our subjects and then +1 Dip Rep.

I choose the first!

I send Trade Envoys to:

Persia
Astrakhan

[Abe Sargent]

Our Mission Tree:




11 Nov, 1444 – I rival-ize Aq Qoyunlu

Our Army: 4k; 3k infantry and 1k cavalry
Our Forcelimit: 6k

I order another 2k infantry built which will get me to the first Prepare for War Mission.

I order ADM our specialty and we are making 8/4/5

I want to order Dukadir allied and then to begin building a spy network built in Aq Qoyunlu, but they aren’t good enough, so I offer Dulkadir a Royal Marriage first.

I pass the Enforce Religious Unity Edict and Missionaries are at +2% to convert

I have three Government Iqta Options – I can choose one of three:

Enhance Taxes - +15% Taxes
Land Creation - -5% Core Creation
Lenient Taxes - -15% Liberty Desire in our subjects and then +1 Dip Rep.

I choose the first!

I send Trade Envoys to:

Persia
Astrakhan

[Abe Sargent]

Our Mission Tree:




11 Nov, 1444 – I rival-ize Aq Qoyunlu

Our Army: 4k; 3k infantry and 1k cavalry
Our Forcelimit: 6k

I order another 2k infantry built which will get me to the first Prepare for War Mission.

I order ADM our specialty and we are making 8/4/5

I want to order Dukadir allied and then to begin building a spy network built in Aq Qoyunlu, but they aren’t good enough, so I offer Dulkadir a Royal Marriage first.

I pass the Enforce Religious Unity Edict and Missionaries are at +2% to convert

I have three Government Iqta Options – I can choose one of three:

Enhance Taxes - +15% Taxes
Land Creation - -5% Core Creation
Lenient Taxes - -15% Liberty Desire in our subjects and then +1 Dip Rep.

I choose the first!

I send Trade Envoys to:

Persia
Astrakhan

[Abe Sargent]

I press the unpause button and hopefully Aq Qoyunlu won’t ally the Turks, if they do I’ll need to wait until they are both busy.

2 Dec – They ally with the minor Turkish holding of Biapas, but…NOT THE TURKS!!!

12 Dec – We ally with Dulkadir who weirdly didn’t rival-ize our Aq Qoyunlu. Then I’ll send this guy to improve relations with the Turks

7 Jan, 1445 – We finish our first 1k Solider building

16 Jan – We are declared the Rivals of Aq Qoyunlu

06 Mar – We finish building the 2nd army and now we are at our 6k and good manpower too, so we can finish the Mission!!!!

We get:

A General with 40 Tradition – I give him my 6k army
Permanent CBs on all next door provinces
For 15 Years - +10% Army Recovery and +5% Morale!!!

Aq Qoyunlu is now allied with Ajam too, none of which are near me.

08 Mar – I DOW them, and then raise War Taxes.

I call in Dulkadir too.

[Abe Sargent]

The 1st Aq Qoyunlu and Hasn Kayfar War!!!

I hire 4k Mercs for 12.5 cash. I order my army to the Aq Qoyunlu captial and target of war

They have 7k to our 10k and Dulkadir’s 5k

10 Apr – We arrive in their Capital they fled and start a siege

3 July – They arrive in our capital to siege but don’t have enough folks

1 Aug – A Biapas unit arrives and joins them and they start it

11 Oct – Bitlas gets a claim on our province

29 Dec – Qara Qoyunlu claims our holding too

7 June, 1456 – We capture their capital and then I head to our capital to break the siege

30 June - We win the battle and then our warscore jumps like 16

5 Aug - We capture the Minor of Mardin

15 Sept – Urfa is ours too

25 Oct – Raffa is ours, I head back to their Capital where they are besieging it

20 Nov – We routed them and then another 16 war score I head north to grab the rest of their holdings

8 Dec - I reject a peace offer

8 Jan, 1457 – We capture Mush

7 Mar Feb – The last two holdings are ours!!!

We have a warscore of 95% and I go shopping:



I can get them annexed and then 140 cash

Done!!!

I disband the Mercs

We’ll do this in Top to Bottom Order:

Erzurum – Mountains, 12 dev, livestock here and Armenian and Coptic, core ordered, brings in 0.01 now

Erzincam – Mountains, also Coptic and Arminian, dev is 8 with a Copper Mine, core ordered here too.

Mush – Next to us, already a Core, Mountains, Coptic and Arminian here too, they have dev here of 9 and then Wool here too they make for us – 0.05 cash

Diyarbakir – Next to us, their ex-capital, has a Fort, Highlands with 8 dev, Livestock, Kurdish and Sunni like us, already a Core here too and make 0.09 cash.

Urfa – This 8 dev, Sunni, Drylands, I order a Core, and then has Wool and is Kurdish like us too

Mardin – Next to us is this Drylands, 7 dev, Core, Kurdish Sunnis here work the Wool trade too and then make for us just 0.07.

Ar Raqqa – Core ordered for this baby 3 dev Drylands and Livestock holding. It’s Sunni and Syrian.

We are now next to the Turks, by the by, so we need to ally them fast!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating Aq Qoyunlu

Mar 08, 1457 - Next, I’ll be peacefully incorporating Aq Qoyunlu for a few years and wear down that rough 7 thang huge aggressive expansion too although three cores there helps. We are now next to: Dulkadir, Ottomans, Trebizond, Syria and Samtskhe. Actually I might wanna bring in Trebizond next to cut off eastward expansion of the Turks.

I one diplomat to make nice with the Ottomans and then the next to build a spy network with Trebizond larger nation next to me although I already have there cores next to me permanently from that Mission, next I’ll probably grab the three province north of Bitlis, also pretty minor, assuming they have no major allies and then bring them under my Aegis before hitting up Qara Qoyunlu. They have province totals of 22 provinces, Ouchie. I’ll do Trebizond, first

Note that Rakka was changed in named to “Ar Raqqa” probably because we are Kurdish

Also note we can form Persia.

Diyarbekir had a Trade Emporium too, just as a heads up!!!

18 Mar – Our new Rival is Trebizond, and the next should be Dulkadir, but they are my ally so nope.

I give Dulkadir Military access they are at war with the Great Horde

1 Sept – I boost our Stability

1 Jan, 1458 - I claim Trebizond’s one province!!!

I move my claims to our ally of Dulkadir since they are the only obvious place after Trebizond since Bitlis is a vassal of QQ.

20 Jan – We enter into a new Royal Marriage with the Turks and we get a new Queen: Aline, 0/2/3

1 Mar – I spent 33 DIP power in an event to stop rivalry nobles

2 Apr – We max relations with the Turks. I pull m diplomat hopefully we can ally with them now.

27 Apr – We offer them an Alliance!!!




They are happy to join us!!!

We get two things today:

We can invite a Turk-iskh Scholar that follows the Shafi’i School – done!

We also finish a Mission!!! Political Security which will give us: for 20 years +10% making nice and then 10 years since we allied with the Turks - +10% combat ability

We also finish the “Expand our Domain” one to and then get -10% Aggressive expansion from neighboring countries, and tons of claims too.

Then that finishes the next mission “Abase the Turkomen” which gives us a level 2 Military Advisor Army Reformer that costs 75% less to purchase and maintain and then a massive chunk of cores too.

We hire:

Zaid Nuri – age 30, +10 Discipline

I pull my man in Dulkadir since I have cored them all. I send it back to the Ottomans to keep nice

1 July – I boost stability

26 Aug – We finish coring Urfa!!

[Abe Sargent]

Getting Ready for the Next War

29 Apr, 1449 – Bad news, Dulkadir broke off their alliance, I make them our 2nd rival

27 June – Ar Raqqa is ours and done

Our forcelimit is now 8k I order 2k more troops – 1k each cavalry and infantry

12 Oct – I state-ify the Al Jazira state with Ar Raqqa and Mardin

2 Nov – I revoke military access of Dulkadir

20 Nov – Forces done building

26 Dec – Mush done coring, i want to send a Missionary here at a cost of .70 per month and but it’ll take forever.

1 Jan, 1550 – The Renaissance institution starts

QQ and Transoxiana allied with the Turks are now at war

I won’t offer them military access those are mine.

25 Mar – Our last two holdings from our first war are done.

I turn them into states that’ll keep the cash coming.

I still have a forcelimit of 8/8

I order the Mercs assembled at Erzurum next to Trebizond where my army is

1 May - I DOW both Trebizond and their ally Georgia both, since each are the allies of the other, and I really want the holding of the latter with some nicer stuff, we are at war with both plus Georgia’s vassal, Samtskhe

[Abe Sargent]

The 1st Trebizond/Georgia and Hasn Kayfa War

I didn’t call in the Turks. Trebizond is also allied with Theodoro as a heads up

I raise war taxes

19 May, 1550 – We win in Trebizond and then begin a siege

10 Nov – We got a walls breached in Trebizond - I order an assault

26 Nov – Ours!!!

We head to Guria in Georgia

2 Dec – 11k of their combined forces arrive in Erzurum

29 Dec – We defeat them!

1 Jan, 1551 – We get our first new Tech – Military!!!

Pike Square – We get +0.25 Military Tactics and +0.5 land morale

8 Feb – Tao falls in Samtskhe

2 Mar- Guria falls

15 June – We get the next Admin Tech!!

Temples – We can build Mosques

22 Aug – We capture the captial of Samtskhe called Lomsia

20 Oct – We capture the Black Sea minor of Odishi

12 Dec – We capture Abkhazia

11 Feb, 1552 – We capture Imertiti

31 Aug - After a year long siege we capture the Georgian captial of Kartli!!! I order my army to face their 10k in Kakheti

24 Sept – We win!!!

10 Oct - Dukadir announces us as a rival too

31 Oct – Kakheti is ours

I move to their holding at Tbilisi which is a fort too, the last one.

17 Sept, 1553 – Tbilisi falls and I disband my mercs!!

I order peace!!!





No cash this time we are running out just with the land deal. We leave them two with no claims. We took Trebizond and then Georgia’s vassal off the board and then took tons of great value from the Georgia estates too. Get ready.

Here’s what we take:

Trebizond – Black Sea, Orthodox, Natural Harbor, level 2 fort, Pontic people, Mountains, 13 dev, core ordered but’s it’s pricey

Guria – Black Sea, fishing, Mountain, Georgian and Orthodox, 8 dev, claim here, core ordered

Oltu – The Tao renamed is here, with the former Samtskhe holding – Mountains here, 8 dev, also Georgia and Orthodox, Livestock, also a claim here, core ordered

Imereti – This Cloth and Coal province is next! Mountains, inland, Georgian and Orthodox too and a core ordered here too.

Kars -The former Samtskhe capital with a level 2 castle, Georgian and 8 dev and Orthodox and renamed and then wine here is made and then it’s our claim so I order it cored too.

Now the really good stuff as if Cloth and Coal weren’t good enough

Kartli – The former Georgia capital with SILK and 10 dev, level 2 castle, Mountains and Georgian Orthodoxes worship here too – I order it cored.

Tbilisi – DYES here!!! It’s Georgian and Orthodox too, Mountains, I order a core here with 10 dev

Kakheti – Drylands, out of Admin Tech cannot core it, 9 dev with Wine here too, Georgian and Orthodox here too!!

Yay for these 8 new holdings,

Next is Dulkadir!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating the Three Orthodox Nations

Sept 17, 1453 – We finish a Mission. It’s the next one after “Abase Turkmenistan” of “Safeguard Caucasia” which gives us 100 Military Power, -10% Separation in the Caucasia Region and we gain some cores too.

Oct 12 - I spend some MIL to raise the dev of our Home to 10 and then we finish another mission called “The Last Bastion” for 10 years we get -50% Maint and then +50% Attrition there

1 Feb, 1454 – Core Ordered for Kakheti!!!

I order a Mosque in our capital

26 Feb – The Ottomans want us to send them troops to lower our favors, done.

3 May – Our Peace Treaty for Dukladir for cancelling their military access is done and we can now DOW each other.

Byzantium is still around.

I order a Spy Network bult in 6 province to our east Mid-Turkey nation called Eretna – no claims on them. Ideally that would be great after Dulkadir to grab them and expand east before the Turks do so west.

Sorry I forgot to mention that Tbilisi has a Great Project called “Narikala Fortress”

1 Nov – We get the next Dip Tech!!!

Marketplaces – We can build them

1 Jan, 1455 – We have land forcelimit of 8/11 I order 2k infantry and 1k cavalry

3 Feb – Our new Rivals are – Eretna and QQ

20 Aug - I send a Missionary to Erzincan for a +0.7 chance per month.

1 Nov - Army built

27 Nov – We get an alliance offer from the Great Horde! Do I want to carve up the northern front with them? Nope Turkey is next. I decline

1 Dec – We get a claim on Eretna’s Sivas right next to us.

The Mamluks have take three south-central Turkish holdings that were Karaman’s then next to the Turks

1 Jan, 1456 - Eretna DOWs them trying to finish them off.

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating the Three Orthodox Nations, Part Two

13 Jan, 1456 – We get an event and choose to confirm law, get a +10% Ulema Loyalty and cross 60% which is our next Mission – “Appease the Ulema” for this we get - +25 Legalism move. Next is build some Mosques

02 Nov – The two remaining Karaman provinces are off the map – Eretna grows by 2 and is 8 big now

18 Nov – Cores done in our four new systems of Trebizond, Guria, Kars and Olnu

I stateify the latter three.

1 Jan, 1457 – We order a Mosque in Trebizond

1 Mar – We get new Military Tech!! It’s 5

Standardized Pikes – It allows Muslim Duel Infantry – I swap over and then better calvary shock at +0.2 and infantry shock at +.15

23 Mar – QQ rivalizes us back

2 Apr – The province of Kakheti is cored!!

20 April - The last three holdings are cored!!

I state all four of them.

1 June – We order mercs for the next battle

1 Sept – We DOW Dulkadir and are at war with them, their two allies Candar and Gazimakh.

[Abe Sargent]

The 1st Dulkadir and Hasn Kayfa War!!!!

I order my troops into their space

I raise War Taxes

24 Oct – We captured our wartarget Malayta

27 Oct – We capture Divrigi, we head to besiege their main with our mercs

2 Dec – Ayntab falls

1 Jan, 1458 – Our Shiekh is now righteous!!!

24 Jan - We capture Kaysera and then head to Candar’s captiral of Sinop with my main army

01 Feb – We get the next Tech for ADMIN!!! But I’ll wait until post war since I won’t drop my ADM too much for coring.

24 Feb – We arrive at Sinop and then begin their siege.

13 March – We capture Dulkadir’s captial of Marash, I order them to Sinop

14 Sept – We get an event and get a 2 level Trade Adviser for 2 half cost named Ghayath Aybuk and he’s 30 I hire him we need the DIP tech increased although that takes me negative

7 Jan, 1459 – We capture Sinop!! Next is Kastamondu where their army is hiding

30 Jan – We thump their army

2 Feb – I get a peace offer from Kandar I decline, I am looking for more than cash and War Reparations

18 Mar – We capture the last Kandar holding which is a nicer Copper mines on the Black Sea

Peace first with Kandar:




We get both of their holdings, 45 cash, and then I disband my mercs

Kastamondu – Turkish, Sunni, Copper here, Black Sea, 10 dev, with Foothills. Core ordered

Sinop – 8 dev, Grasslands, Turkish, Sunni, 8 dev, Level 2 Castle, core ordered, Natural Harbor, Black Sea, Naval Supplies and has a Mosque and Marketplace here.

26 March – And now Dulkadir!



I take them all and then 75 cash too

Kayseri – This Silver Mine are Highlands, 8 dev, core ordered, Sunni faith and Turkish people, and then

Marash – The former Capital, Turkish Sunni and then Highlands, 7 dev, Wool here, core ordered which is less since that was our claim.

Divrigi – This northern core ordered also cheap and then has a Great Project called “Divrigi Hospital and Mosque”, Mountains, with 6 dev, Wool and then Turkish but Shia.

Malayta – This Cloth making province is 5 dev, Turkish and Shia here too, we had a claim so a core here is less, Highland

Ayntab – 4 dev, also had a claim here very cheap with the 4 dev to start it, and then Drylands, Wool, Turkish and Sunni here too.

Yay for wars!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating Dulkadir and Kandar, Part One

30 Mar – We get permission from the Turks to use their land and then send my army back to Trebizond.

Our New Rivals are: Byzantium

I mothball our forts.

Mosque ordered in Mush

25 May – Circassia finished off Georgia and they are now our neighbor and we have claims there.

I promote Georgia Culture as accepted

Rebellion in Ar-Raqqa of 2k

1 June – We enact a new Government Reform!!!

We choose:

Tier 2 Noble Privileges – Curtail Noble Privileges – +15% Taxes

28 June -Rebels capture it

9 July – We arrive and then kill them

1 Aug – We get the Next Admin Tech and it’s a key one!!!

National Ideas – We can choose them! We also get +2% Government Eff.

Which do I Like Here? Religious? Economic because we are losing cash? Trade? Offensive or Quality in Military? Religious

1 Sept – We get an event for Moorish Refugees we spend some power to resettle in Erinzan

1 Jan, 1460 – We order a Mosque in Tbilisi

17 Feb - I have a forcelimit of 11/15. I order another 4k troops assembled

15 Mar – We finish a Mission to build 5 Mosques and we get for ten years -10% con costs. Since at least three are in Heathen Provinces like Trebizond and Sihon we get a “Jizya Tax” for 10 years for +1 tolerance of Heathens and then +15% tax

12 May – We sight a Comet and stability drops one

10 Oct - We finish our army building

17 Oct – We finish converting Erzinican! Next is Silk province Kartli

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating Dulkadir and Kandar, Part Two

1 Jan, 1461 – I order a Mosque in Erzincan

1 Feb – Austria is now a great power

1 Apr – We fabricate a claim on the Paper making province of Amaya in Eretna

8 May – Our stability rises

Our ally the Ottomans are having massive rebel issues

1 Dec – We get our 1st Idea in Religious!!!

Missionary Schools - +1 Missionary and then -50% Maint Cost

I order the next one for Tbilisi’s Dyes.

16 Dec – We swap favors with the Turks for manpower

1 Jan, 1462 – We order a Mosque in Diyarbakir

1 Feb – Three cores are done in Marash, Malyota, and Divirigi!!

I state those three with Urfa.

1 April – Ayntab cored and then I don’t state it

20 May – Sinop and Kastamonu are done coring!!! I do state them

30 May – Kaseri is cored - stated too

Our forcelimit is 15/18 I order 3k more troops built

5 Sept – Great news!!! Kartli converts!!! Next is Cloth/Coal Imereti

22 Oct – Troops built – Eretna has no allies, so I can take them out without mercs

I claim another of their holdings

5 Jan, 1463 – We DOW Eretna for Amaysa

[Abe Sargent]

The Eretna and Hisn Kayna War

I order War Taxes and my troops to Sivas

1 Feb – We rout their army in Sivas!!! I begin to siege it. I split off smaller folks to capture Amaysa

31 Mar – It’s ours, next is Tokat

11 May – Done! Next is Bozok

19 June - Bozok ours and then next is Kangiri

I assault Sivas since we got a walls breached

10 July – It’s ours and then next is Kirsheher

28 July – Kangiri is ours! Next is Konya

26 Aug – Kirsheher falls. Next is Aksaray.

22 Sept – Konya is ours

1 Oct – Aksaray falls!!! We have captured every Eretna holding!!!

What can I get in peace??



This war let’s me connect my Dulkadir and Karamon ones from the previous war. I get all 8 of their holdings and then 155 cash too. I also get all three good trade value – Paper, Cloth and Salt.

In order from Left to Right:

Konya – This Salt holder, 9 dev, Core ordered, Highlands here and Turkish and Sunni

Aksaray – Core ordered, Hills, 6 dev, Livestock and Turkish and Sunni here too

Kirsheher – 6 Dev with a Drylands, core ordered, Wool Makers, Turkish and Sunni.

Kangiri – 5 dev, core ordered, Highland, wool, Sunni and Turkish here too

Amasya – Paper!!! It’s cored, Mosque here, 11 dev, Highlands, Sunni and Turkish

Bozok - Grain growers, 8 dev, Drylands, core ordered, Sunni and Turkish folks here too.

Tokot – Hills, 8 dev, Cloth makers, core ordered, Sunni faith and Turkish people here too

Sivas – The former capital, not enough ADM to core it, has a Mosque, 9 dev, Livestock, Highlands and Turkish and Sunni folks.

We won in 10 months!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Swapping Allies

We won in 10 months!!!

Our next rival are the Mamluks

20 Oct - Great news – Tbilisi converts!! Next is Malaysa’s Cloth from Shia

I promote Turkish as an accepted culture.

17 Nov – The Turks break our alliance they are threatened by us.

My next big ally could be Ajam on the far side of QQ, but they have FIVE silk holdings and then a few Dyes I would love to bring in.

I send Ajam a Royal Marriage request

1 Dec – We order a core for Sivas

19 Dec – Alliance with Ajam!!!

26 Dec – Circassia enters into a Coalition against us.

1 Jan, 1464 – I order a Mosque in Guria

14 Jan – Crimea also enters into an alliance.

30 Jan – The Ottomans cancel our military access.

20 May - We get an event to build a great palace and do so for 44 cash.

30 July - We convert Imereti!!! Next is Kars’ wine for Orthodox

25 Nov – We do another Tax choice from the Iqta

3 Dec – We get a new Military Tech 6!!!!

Arquebus – Enables Shaybanid Calvary, can build Barracks, +0.25 Tactics, infantry fire +.20 infantry shock +.30.

I swap my Calvary over.

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating Eretna

1 Jan, 1465 – I order a Mosque in Kastamondu

22 Mar - Malatya converts!! Next is Coptic Livestock Erzurum

3 June - We can get the next Dip Tech this is #5!

Basic Financial Instruments - +20 trade range, +2% Trade Eff, Naval Maint. +10% we can build Coastal Defenses

6 July – I claim the Mamluk’s Cotton holding of Adana and then the Turks’ Cloth Ankara

22 July – We get an event called “The Poor of Gori” and we direct some of its tax revenue to helping out for 10 years. We gain 10 prestige

23 Aug – Our Forcelimit is 18/20 and I order two more regiments of folks.

5 Sept – Sivas is a core!!!

1 Jan, 1466 – I order a Mosque in Marash

We finish the 2nd Religious Ideas!!

Church Attendance Duty - We get +10% Manpower in true faith holdings

1 Mar – I decline an alliance offer by Medhina

5 Mar – We finish coring two more! Amasya and Kirshehir

22 Mar – We get an Unpopular Mathematician Event which we let him speak and then gain +1 innovativeness.

26 Mar – We get an event and Trebizond converts!!!

1 April – Everyone leaves the Anti-Abe Coalition

4 May – TWO things happen today we finish building our army and then we finish converting the Kars holding next is Mush

We are now forcelimit of 21 so another 1k built

2 July – All five remaining Eretna are cored – Aksaray, Bozok, Tokat, Kangiri and Konya.

I order states in Rum with the Five central holding of Amasya, Sivas, Bozak, Kirshehir and Tokat

1 Aug – We claim the Ottoman’s Cotton holding of Teke

13 Aug – Soldiers built any more needed? Yup we gained 2 more and they are ordered too

1 Sept – The Mamluks announce us as their next rival

22 Sept – I decline an alliance from a smaller Central Asia Khorason.

27 Sept – Bad news we are now the rival of the Turks

5 Oct – Venice won against the Turks and grabbed in the Turkish area Adalia we just claimed and then Mentese, Karisi and Syrine.

Should my next war be them rather than QQ? They are only allied with Fez.

I move my army over if I can get next to Byzantium we can get it

1 Jan, 1467 – I order a Mosque in Malatya

9 Jan – Our men are built and I DOW the Turks for Ankara!!!

[Abe Sargent]

The 1st Ottoman and Hayd Kayna War

I order mercs in Kangiri and my forces to Ankara

Fez didn’t join them

Jan 25 – Mercs arrive and then I send them to Bolu.

10 Mar – Ankara is ours and then next is the fort of Sultanonui

24 Mar – We capture Bolu next is Kocaceli next to Byzantium

5 May – We capture Kocaceli next is Hudavengar and then their 3k unit hit our Ayntab and captured it

1 June – I can get the next Idea but don’t.

23 June - We thump them in Ayntab

26 June – Huda is ours! Next is Kutahya!!!

30 July – We retake Ayntab,

21 Aug – Kutahya is ours, next is helping the siege then the other stuff

11 Oct – We get a walls breached and then assault and then drop their Sultanonui and then next is Aydin and then Karashar

25 Nov – They capture Divigir, I split off people to hit them

30 Nov – We capture Karashar! Next is Hamid

15 Dec – I decline a peace offer from them for just a removal of their claims

24 Dec - Aydin is ours!!!! I disband my mercs

2 Jan, 1468 – The Turks captured Malatya

17 Jan – Hamid is ours!

30 Jan – We win in Malatya

13 Feb – We capture Denzili and then have a 93% war score.

Can I get their good Turkey holdings?



I can get them all!!! I oust the Ottoman Turks from Turkey!!! I core them all but have left just 3 ADM. All of these are Turkish and Sunni too unless otherwise stated.

Here they are:

Kocacaeli - Straight, coastal, Woods, Grain, 9 dev

Bolu – Black Sea, 6 dev, Hills, fishing here

Hudavendigar – SILK!!! Natural port, Woods, Coastal, 13 dev

Sultanolu – 10 dev, Cloth, in Hills

Ankara – War target – Cloth here too, 9 dev in Highlands

Kutahya – 8 dev, Drylands more Cloth here too

Aydin – Salt mined here , with Drylands and 6 dev

Denizli – Cloth, 6 dev, Drylands here too

Kararishar – 6 dev, Hills, Livestock here

Hamid – 8 dev, Hills, grain here

Great stuff!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating The Ottomans and Building a Fleet

Actually, one Turkish holding is still in Turkey, called Canik between Trebizond and Sinop.

I claim Constantinople!!! I mothball my forts

If I DOW Byzantium they can blockade the strait, so I’ll need a fleet to guarantee my troops can cross and then backup transports to move early. I take out a loan since no war cash came. My naval forcelimits are 16. I was hoping to build 2, 5, 5, and 10 transport Cogs so instead I’ll do 2 Early Carracks, 3 Barques, 3 Galleys and 8 Cogs.

We finish a Mission called “Fate of Anatolia” where we need to capture 25 holdings in this area. We get 20 years of -10% core costs and then we get a new mission to “Conquer the Ottomans” I need to get to 40 here and I have 31

We upgrade from a Shiekhdom to a Shahdom!!!

I order a Mosque in Kars

19 Feb – Shrivan enters into a coalition against us. So does QQ and Tunis

26 April - ….and Theodoro and the Great Horde and Gazimakh too

1 July – We can get an Age Ability that lasts until it ends I choose:

Justified Wars - -10% badboy

6 Sept – We are now allied with Fars to help with the wars

15 Dec – Fezzan too joins

7 Jan, 1489 – I order a Mosque Built in Tokat

13 Feb – Our General passes, I make my Shah and Heir Generals and then choose the better one

1 Sept – We get our 3rd Religious Idea!!!

Divine Supremacy – Our Missionaries get +3% strength

That unlocks our 2nd Ayyubid Idea:

Citadels and Fortresses - +20% Fort Defense

[Abe Sargent]

25 Year Review Thang!!!

Nov 11, 1489 – Normally I do a 50 year review, but we’ve been busy and gone from a one province to FORTY-TWO in 23 years so let’s do a mini review and maps

Maps first:




Here’s a zoomed in map with me removing the Outliners and showing you my cash. You can see the Venetian Invasion in Turkey and Greece.

Zoomed Out:




There you go!!! Our allies are Fars and Ajam

Details:

Dev: We are 3rd that we know of at 369
Max Manpower: 24.75k
Techs: 16 – one behind leader
Ideas: 3 – decent
Power Projection: 65 - 2nd best


Religion:

Sunni Prov: 2nd best 10 behind Catholic at 538
Sunni Nations: 87 – 3rd most behind Catholic and Totemist

Province Overview:


Our Top Five by Tax Revenue:

1. Hisn Kayfa, 12.72
2. Erzincan, 8.72
3. Trebizond. 8.15
4. Kastamondu, 6.49
5. Kars, 6.44

Great with Mosques

Our Top Five by Production:

1. Karti, 4.61
2. Tbilisi, 3.65
3. Erzincan, 2.74
4. Hisn Jayfa, 2.67
5. Imereti, 2.59

Not great since we don’t have Workshops

Army Size: 23k is tied for 10th most with Ayutthaya

Charts:

Sunni is 85% of us; Orthodox next at 7.3%
Culture: Turkish is 39% the most; others are Georgian at 26.8%, Kurdish 14% and Armenian at 13%

Trade Goods:

Top Five Trade Nodes:

1. Malacca, 18.06
2. Venice, 16.01 cash
3. Genoa, 15.99
4. Persia, 15.94
5. English Channel, 15.91

Very tight there from 2-5

Trade Goods Current Value:

4.0 - Gems, Silk, Dyes, Ivory and Cocoa
3.5 - Paper
3.0 - Glass, Cotton, Cloth, Coffee, Sugar, Tobacco, Spices, Chinaware, Iron, Copper, Salt
2.5 – Incense, Fish, Wool, Wine, Grain
2.0 – Livestock, Tropical Wood, Naval Supplies, Tea, Slaves, Fur,

Coalition Against Us By: Mamluks, Theodoro, Shrivan, Gazimakh, Tunis, Byzantium, The Great Horde, Fezzan, QQ and Circassia – many are tiny locals like Shrivan and Theodoro and Gazimakh.

[Abe Sargent]

Back to Incorporating the Turks

1 Jan, 1470 – I order built a Mosque in Urfa

14 Apr – Core done in Ankara’s Cloth!!!

14 May – Eruzurum converts!!! Next is Kakheti

27 May – Mush converts!! Next is Guria

19 July – Big day today!! All other new Turk holdings are cored!!

I state:

Hudavendikar – It and Kocaeli
Ankara - For it, Kangiri and Sultanonu
Germiyan – Denzili, Hamid, Kararisar and Kutahya

I pay my loan

How is our forcelimit looking for ships and men?

Men - 23/26 three more ordered, naval though same amount

1 Jan, 1471 - I order Marketplace in Ar Raqqa and Mosque in Hudavendikar

15 June - Kakheti converts – next is Orthodox Ultu

1 July - Guria converts!!! Next is Shia Holding Divrigi

We claim Venice’s Galliopli in mainland Europe

8 Oct – We can get the next Religious Idea but I hold off.

16 Oct – Venice announces us a rival

25 Dec – Royal Marriage with minor one-province holding in the Turkish peninsula called Saruhan

[Abe Sargent]

Getting Ready for the Byzantine War

Do I wage war for Byzantium even with the Coalition against me? All transports are built but not my fleet. I just have built 11 vessels though.

Any more troops I can build? 26/32, I order another 6 troops and another Galley to protect trade.

1 Jan, 1472 – I order built Mosque in Ar Raqqa and Marketplace in Trebizond and Tbilisi.

I start making nice with Poland, they are next to Byzantium and I want to set up there.

9 Feb – 10k Rebel troops eek from Venice to us in Atlan and I send over my army

2 April – We win in Atlan and the Great Horde pull out.

1 June - Our next tech is done for Diplomacy Tech #6!!!

Docks – We can build Docks or steal maps

7 June – Conversion done in Dirigi

16 June – We are allied with Avaria

14 July – Oltu converts!!

20 Sept – The Mamluks pull out.

1 Jan, 1473 – We get Poland to allow our homing our troops there

We finish another tech!!! This is Military 7!!!

The Limber – We can get artillery and +0.25 Military tactics, and I order two regiments built

I order built nothing I’ll wait for Workshops until after our next tech is done soon

10 Feb – With the advent of Bronze Cannons the price of Bronze rises.

1 May – The 6th Admin tech is done!!!

Workshop – We can order them, and then the Farm Estate Manu. And Ramparts too.

I order them for Kartli and Erinzican

1 Sept – Fleet built save one vessel, cannons too, I order them to Poland’s Silistria

1 Jan, 1474 – I order a Workshop in Tilbilisi

3 Jun – We are in Silesia, I DOW Byzantium for Constantinople

[Abe Sargent]

The 1st Hisn Kayfa/Ajam/Fars vs Byzantium/QQ/Mamluks War, Part One

I order war taxes and my troops to them. It looks like the Mamluks warned me so they are in. I call in my two big allies but not the 1 province one. 2

16 June – We arrive and then begin the siege

15 July – We use our artillery to open a hole, attacked and took Constantinople!!

I order Mercs assembled and then to hit QQ and Mamluks and defend and then I take out some loans too.

12 Sept - They capture Kars, we capture the other Byzantium holding

1 Oct -We win a battle against the Mamluks in Adana

1 Nov – Adana is ours

11 Jan., 1475 – We siege and capture the Syrian Silk holding of Halab

30 Jan – In Mamluks territory we won the siege of Icel.

1 Mar – We capture two holdings in Syria

31 Mar – Kars is ours again

31 May – We capture Shakti’s one-province capital

7 July – We capture Ganja from QQ

I have a warscore of 17 how much is Constantinople? 26

6 Sept – two more minors fell

13 Oct – We sieged and captured a Syrian holding

19 Nov – More minors fall

24 Dec - Two provinces in Ajam fell so I send my main force and a merc one too to take it out.

[Abe Sargent]

The 1st Hisn Kayfa/Ajam/Fars vs Byzantium/QQ/Mamluks War, Part Two


24 Jan, 1476 – We take the siege of Al Karak in Mamluks place and it’s ours.

I take another loan

They are besieging Kartli – I send in help

27 Feb – My main army arrives and releases a sieges in Ajam

26 Mar – More minors fall

1 May – Our Army Reformer adviser passes

27 June – We win the siege of Tabouk in Arabia vs the Mamluks

6 July – We begin to besiege the Mamluk’s captial.

17 Aug – We relive a siege in Kartli

29 Aug – Their captial falls after an assault after I open up the walls with artillery

Our warscore is 32!!!

How much is Byzantium and then the Silk in Syria called Halib? We cannot do it, it’s warscore is 45. I could do some minors in QQ though.

I head more into QQ territory to take them down.

1 Nov - We captured Serbia capital of Zeta

11 Nov – We recaptured the Ajam holding

26 Dec – We siege and capture Alexandria!!

7 Jan, 1477 - War score is 43

Is this time to call it?

12 Mar – 47 warscore and I want to finish capturing Dyes and then QQ captial.

25 June – 52 warscore

11 Aug – We win a big battle in Arbil

1 Sept – We relief a siege on Zeta and gain 5 warscore

19 Sept – We capture the fort in QQ at Tabriz now recapture some minors to bring them in since I need to grab them even with claims warscore is 65%

2 Dec – We won another battle against the Mamluks and then captured more minors have a warscore of 74% so I go shopping

Actually, I pull out Serbia for War Reparations and cash, we are at 73% I use that cash to repay my loans

I disband my mercs not on the front lines

The good QQ ones on my border or next to it with stuff like Cotton, Cloth and Sugar are – Ganja, Mosil, Sinjar, and Arbil, and then if I want Baghdad for my Mission it’s three in so I’d need to get more from them of bad stuff. Meanwhile any good Mamluk border ones? Adana in Turkey is Cotton. Also, Syria’s fun Antakiya is Cloth. So. whatever gets us those plus Byzantium’s Constantinople and then next to them is a small dev Salt holding.



They just want to get it over, so I can get to 88 but not more.

That’s one Mamluks, 2 Byzantium, 3 QQ border holdings

I mothball my Forts, and then disband my holdings. Everything cored.

Here we go:

Burgas – North of Byzantium, Black Sea, Salt here with 5 dev and Grasslands then they ae Bulgarian Orthodox.

Constantinople – 20 dev, Coastal, strait with us, Greek Orthodox, with Glass, Natural Harbor in Farmlands with “Hagia Sophia” great project.

Adana – Mamluks, Coastal, on the Med. Cotton, 10 dev with Turkish and Sunni folks here and then also a Natural Harbor too in Drylands

Sinjar – Drylands, from QQ, just 5 dev, with Sugar, Sunni folks but unaccepted Mashriqi people, on our south-eastern border with QQ.

Mosul – From QQ with Cloth, has a much more developed 13 dev in Drylands with Kurdish Sunnis.

Arbil – Shia, highlands, Kurdish, 6 dev, Cloth here too.

Yay for that!!!!

We fought but I started last night and took like three hours total. Tons of stuff there.

[Abe Sargent]

The Death of our Shah

We rival Venice next

I get the next Religious Idea!!!

Devoutness – Tolerance of the True Faith - +2

We get the Next Government Reform!!

Tier 3, Bureaucracy – We choose Decentralized Bureaucracy - +2 Max Cultures, Minimum Autonomy - -5%; Estate Loyalty +5%.

I order built: Workshop in Imerti’s Cloth

18 Dec - We ally with Austria. We are both rivals with Venice. Then we are on friendly relations with Lithuania, and Hungary and Poland too for the same reasons.

Oh, and Theodoro is now with all four of Genoa’s holdings in Crimea

1 Jan, 1778 – We are now a Great Power!!! In the Turks place Obv.

1 Mar

I use my Great Power to influence:

Avaria
Shrivan
Gazimakh
Saruhan
Serbia
Crimea

7 July – Alliance with Shrivan right next to us.

11 July – Our Shah passes!!! His heir is his younger son, no kids or wife for him so I Royal Marriage everyone

Shah al-Kamil is 2/3/3 and is at the age of 58 and his wife we just married into 28 year old 4/4/3 Khadija from Shrivan

I spend 20 prestige and legit for a weak heir named Najm age 9 with good stats of 5/3/4

RM with Ajam

1 Sept – I promote Armenian as an accepted Culture

1 Nov – I move my Merchant from Crimea where he was making 1.58 to Byzantium where he is making 2.32 cash

[Abe Sargent]

Years of Peace, Take One

1 Jan, 1479 – We order built: Workshop for Amasya‘s Paper; Mosque in Oltu

I hire a level 2 Military Tech advisor Army Reformer

5 April – What is my naval forcelimit looking like? 17/18 I build another Early Carrack the best one.

Then my army is 34/37, so I order 3k more, one of each.

1 Aug – We get an event and then give the grieved from the war less conscription for 10 years.

9 Sept – Mosul and Arbil are cored!!!

I state Arbil and want to send a Missionary to its Shia Cloth-ness but it cannot be converted – it just was

7 Jan, 1480 – We order built: Workshop for Hisn Kayfa and Mosque for Kartli

1 May – We get the next ADM Religious Idea!!!

Inquisition – We get prestige when converting,

All troops are built

I hire a General for my Army

8 Aug – Adana is cored!!!

I state it

11 Dec – Poland figures out Faceting and Gem Values rise

[Abe Sargent]

Years of Peace, Take Two

1 Jan, 1481 – I order built: Workshop for Silking Hudavendikar and Mosque for Imereti

1 April – Fars wants us to trade favors for dorks done.

13 April – We get an event and Burgas converts to Sunni!!!

10 May - Great News!! Avaria agrees to be our vassal

4 July – Constantinople and Sinjar are cored!! Mosul and Sinjar are stated as is Constantinople

I start converting Constantinople

1 Nov – I rise our stability

3 Dec – Burgas is a core!!! I state them

1 Jan, 1482 – I order built: 2 Galleys since we are 18/20 Naval Forcelimit

Our army forcelimit is 37/42 5 more there

28 June – We get an event to send the Tax from Gori to the poor for 10 years to help out

1 Oct – The Shia taking in Arbil is done, I send in a Missionary there for its Shia faith

1 Jan, 1483 – I order built: Workshop for Kakheti and Mosque in Mardin.

1 Feb – Our peace deal with the Ottomans is up, and I don’t think I can risk Venice. They took out our getting nice one province Saruhan. I DOW them with no ally or any Coalition on me too.

[Abe Sargent]

The 2nd Hisn Kayfa and Ottoman War

I order my troops to Edirne, war taxes but no allies

21 Mar – Edirne their captial in the Balkans is ours. We assaulted it after opening up the walls

17 May – We capture our wartarget Saruhan and then we reject a peace off that doesn’t give us Edirne

2 June – We get the next Dip Tech #7!!!

Naval Ambitions – Max Colonial Range 115, Naval Morale +0.30; we can build Naval Impressment Offices

18 June – We win a battle in the Aegean Sea

2 Aug - I can get the next Idea in Religious but I skip it and then try to get to the next tech and then keep it to core them

15 Aug – We capture Canik from the Turks and have a 100% warscore that I use!!!



We get their three last holdings and then 70 cash, pretty much no one cares too

Cores Ordered for them all, Mothball Forts

Edirne – 14 dev, Grasslands, in our Thrace state, next to us, Greek folks here make Cloth and are Orthodox

Saruhan – Coastal, Aegean Sea, Turkish and Sunni here with a Mosque and Workshop in 8 dev, Drylands and Cotton

Canik – Black Sea, Coastal, Wine, Woods, 6 dev, Pontic folks like Trebizond next door and then Orthodox too.

While here I change Trebizond’s culture to Kurdish

[Abe Sargent]

Integrating the Turks, Round Two, Take Onedes

Wallachia next door has a gold mine I order a spy network next to Edirne - they have no allies either

1 Sept – Our Admin Advisor passes – can I get another one like that Inquisitor with +2 Missionary Str?

I hire level 1 +10% Tax Eff. 31 year old Nasir Bey

We get Mil Tech 8!!!

Pike and Shot – We can build Regimental Camps, Cavalry Shock is +0.8 and Infantry fire +0.25

11 Sept – The price of Paper rises.

Rebels in Adana, I order my army to oust them

22 Oct – Rebels gone

1 Nov - Rebels in Karishshar erupt

26 Nov – Taken out

1 Jan, 1484 – We order purchased with blood money too Workshop for Tokat’s Cloth, Mosque in Sultanonei

11 Apr – Event called “Benign Neglect” happens we get in Mush +100% tax

8 June – Event – Scandal at the Court our stability drops 1

1 Aug – Arbil converts and our heir gains the Golden Touch trait!!!

19 Aug – We vassalize Shrivan!!!

1 Sept – I cannot rival QQ anymore – next is Muscovy

17 Sept – Rebels in Hudavendikar

15 Oct – Ousted

1 Dec – Get ready for the Good stuff!!! My Admin tech hit 7!!!

Renaissance Thought – We get our 2nd Group of Ideas!!!

I can take Trade; Offensive, Quality, I take the last one let’s turn my troops into a strong force of nature!!

[Abe Sargent]

Integrating the Turks, Round Two, Take Two

1 Jan 1485 – We are making 10 cash monthly, what does my forcelimit look like? Naval 19/22 – I order one Great Carrack, 1 Galley and Barque

Land forcelimit is 42/48, I order 6k more at 3/2/1

Workshop ordered for Guria

13 June – Our general passes and I hire another

1 July – We claim Wallachia’s Cloth Province Tirnovo

1 Sept – We lost our level 2 MIL Tech Advisor Army Reformer. Next is Level 1 Grand Captain Ali Ali age 36

10 Oct – Great news – Constantinople converts!!!!

22 Oct – Saruhan is now cored and it’s already in my state

1 Jan, 1486 – I order built: Workshop in Constantinople and Mosque in Kocacaeli

18 Apr – We get Religious Zeal event and then our Missionary Strength grows.

1 June – We claim Wallachia’s Plovniv holding, not gold either.

20 July – Canik now a core!!! I order Missionary here.

4 Oct – Army done building

I move my army to Edirne

1 Nov – We get another “Age of Discovery” ability.

This is Feudal De Jure Law – I pass the Edict to drop by -5% unrest

We also get our 1st Military Quality Idea!!!

Private to Marshal – Infantry are +10% ability

That unlocks our 3rd Ayyubid Idea:

Ancestral Heritage - +10% Manpower

16 Nov – Edirne is now cored!!

Now my truce with the QQ and Mamluks is up in November 1491 in 5 years time, so I feel a smaller three province Wallachia war won’t go too amiss.

I begin to Missionary Edirne.

I DOW Wallachia for Tirnovo and order my army in

[Abe Sargent]

The Wallachia and Hisn Kayfa War

I raise war taxes.

1 Jan, 1487 – We capture Plovdiv with our 6k army, theirs is the same so I back up

12 Jan – After an assault we capture their capital of Tirnovo and move to Kostendil where their army is and then that’s actually a Copper Mine not gold.

10 Feb – We rout their army and then begin the siege of Kostendil

16 Mar – We are done here all captured and 100 Warscore!!!!

Here is what the warscore looks like:



We barely annoy anyone with those three fast additions. We also get 55 cash. I order my forts mothballed – cores for all three ordered, they are all Bulgarian culture like in Burgas and then Orthodox like it too.

Kostendil – Copper mines here, 6 dev, Woods, the Great Work “Rila Monasteries” is here

Plovdiv – Grain here with a Mosque, 8 dev, Woods here too

Tirnovo – Grasslands, Cloth here made, 9 dev,