My Next EU4 Dynasty - From Hisn Kayfa to Ayyubids!!

[Abe Sargent]

Reconciliation, Restoring Medina and Incorporating Egypt

We finish the Mission called “Recover Egypt” which gives us an event that fires called “Fate of the Mamluks” where I choose Reconciliation or We Cannot Trust Them. If I choose the 1st I can get their Mercs and special units and 20 years of -1% Unrest and +5% Merc Discipline! If I choose the latter we get +5 Army Professionalism, and for 20 years -10% Army Maint. and better Army Tradition Decay.

Let’s reconcile

Next is Claim the Caliphate.

I order my troops out of our space

I pass an edict called “Restore the Cradle of Gold” in Medina. It now makes GOLD!!!

We order built: Plantation for Coffee in Sadha, for Cotton in Ganja, Qaziniya, for Tea in East Timor, Farm Estate for Livestock in Swellendam and Aksaray, Workshop in Ambon for Cloves and Ile de Bourbon for Sugar

1 Dec, 1567 – Our ruler is now Ingenious which reduces our Tech cost

I pull colonists from Guajira and then send them to Yukpa next to Wayuu and Maracaibo

25 May – How do our new Forcelimit look? We have 200 out of 205, 5k more ordered

12 June – Our Explorer passes

1 Aug – Wayuu is with Tropical Wood – again, a little bit of a swing and miss.

Najd accepts our Vassalization offer!!

1 Oct – The Next ADM Expansion Idea is ready! This is the 4th one!!!

Viceroys – We get +10% Global Tariffs and -20% Envoy Travel Time when they come back

1 Nov – Guajira is now done colonizing!!!

Guajira – Gems that become…COAL!! 3 dev, Coastal, Grasslands, Sunni and Kurdish people here and

[Abe Sargent]

Colonizing and Bringing in Egypt

1 Jan, 1569 – I order built: Plantation for Cotton in Manfalut and Tekke; Trade Station for Spices in Ash Sharqiyeh; Farm Estate for Livestock in Saidabad and Tikrit, Workshops for Cotton in Fayum, Coffee in Bishah, Sugar in Mahe, Spices in Mogostan

11 April – All cores are done for everything save Al Wajh, Aqabah and Qasr Ibrim!!!

I offer a Parliamentary Seat to Hormuz

7 June – Dawasir accepts our Vassalization offer.

1 July – We finish our army building – can I build more post-Cores? 205 outta 208, 3 more!

2 Aug- I pull colonists from Maracaibo and then I want to send them to Panama I cannot get Isthmus ones facing west, but maybe here I can use it as both when done.

1 Oct – Natives in Panama killed

13 Oct – All cores done!!!

I hand a Parliament Seat to Antioch

1 Nov – Our stability rises

5 Jan, 1570 – I order built: Farm Estate for Livestock in Khundzia, Ghuriyun, Trade Station for Spices in Tun; Workshop for Sugar in Sinjar, Cloth in Alexandria, Maan Livestock, Spices in Bandar Langeh and Darab

Our next war is against the Timurids, I send my armies eastward.

1 Mar – The Depletion of the Beaver Event happens

12 Apr – We set up in Panama

1 May – Yukpa with Gems!!!

12 July – The Event “Ag. Revolution” fires in Al Karak.

1 Oct – We get the next Expansion Idea #5

Additional Diplomats – We get another and then Liberty Desire in our subjects is -5%

1 Nov – Maracaibo done colonizing!!!!

Maracaibo – Grasslands, coastal, 5 dev growing Coffee and Kurdish people are Sunni here.

We set up Ayyubid Colombia a Colonial Nation!!!

Our colonists in Wayuu pulled and I’ll leave them at the other two and then I send them to Sumba in the Spice Isles

[Abe Sargent]

Getting Ready for Timurid War

1 Jan, 1571 – I order built: Plantation for Cotton in Birjand, Adana; Farm Estate for Wine in Yerevan and Nakchivan; Workshops for Spices in Samawat and Hofuf.

29 Mar – We get the event – Hanafi Theologians

1 Apr – We can choose the next Government Reform!

This is:

Tier 7 - Admin Cadre - Who is running our nation? I choose “Strengthen Parliament” for -10% in our Cultures and more likely to pass our stuff

13 Oct – Our Consort passes

Natives in Sumba killed

1 Nov – We vassalize Shammar!!

1 Dec – Our Parliamentary Bill is up, next is another Charter Colonies. It passes!!!!

1 Jan, 1572 – All men are in place and I DOW Timurids for their Dyes holding Bamyan

[Abe Sargent]

The 2nd Timurid/Jaunpur vs Ayyubids War

I order my troops into various places.

26 Jan – We begin to siege their capital of Kabul

15 Feb - Two fall including Bamyan

26 Feb – They capture Lakia

8 Mar – Three minors fell

6 April – Two more minors fell

23 April – Their capital and another minor fell.

25 May – The last holding on our side of Transoxiana that cut them in half is ours!!!

1 June – Panama now with Naval Supplies, and done is Wayuu!!!

Wayuu – Tropical Wood made here in Colombia by Kurdish and Sunni and then with 5 dev in Mountains, and coastal.

I pull colonists from Yukpa and send them to Australia’s 12 dev Livestock Wadjuk Natural Harbor

17 June – My armies are beginning to arrive on the far side of Transoxiana and we captured a minor.

1 July – We get the next Expansion Idea - #6!!!

General Colonization Laws – We get another colonist and +5% chance where they are there to get a better one

I send this to the Indies with a 60% chance of Cloves Halmahera

13 Aug – More minors fall, we begin to retake Lakia

17 Aug – We get an Urbanization event - we pay 1200 to help out in six cities to help out infrastructure

10 Sept – We take out the natives in Yukpa and then capture minors

1 Oct – Sumba good for Spices and we capture a minor

I begin to assault one Fort each in Jaunpur and Timurids.

25 Oct – Both fall! Next is Jaunpur’s capital

14 Nov – We win the Battle of Champaran in Jaunpur against their 23k army

9 Dec – Two minors fall

25 Dec – We win the Battle of Dagestan and begin our siege of Jaunpur

11 Jan, 1573 – We re-capture Lakia, next is their capital

24 Jan – Another minor falls and we arrived at Tarkia and begin the assault

1 Feb – Our heir gains the Silver-Tongued trait

11 Feb – Jaunpur and a minor fall.

War score 74%

19 Feb – Tarki falls – now 86% - can i get all of the good stuff east of Transoxiana?

To get everything is a 98% warscore which they won’t do.

Next is the Fort in Jaunpur of Rohtasgarh and Tirhut

25 Mar - Roh. Fell!!! - warscore of 96 – can we get everything now?



Yes we can!!!

Cores ordered and Forts mothballed

Kabul – Their capital, a nice 13 dev with Gems, Emporium, in Mountains with an Afghan and Sunni folks.

Bamyan – Wartarget – Dyes here, with “Buddha Statues” Great Work and 6 Dev in Mountains and Afghan and Sunni here too!

Gazni – Afghan and Sunni here too, grow Grain in this Mountain holding with 7 dev

Kandahar – Arid Desert with Cotton, 9 dev, and Sunni Afghans here too!

Chakhansur – Livestock grown here by Khorasani Sunnis in a 4 dev Desert

Quhistan – Also Livestock raised here on this internal, Mountain, 7 dev and Sunni with Baluchi culture.

Kharan – Baluchi Sunnis here too in this 4 dev internal Livestock Arid Desert

Chabahar – Coastal, Sunni and Baluchi, Arid Desert with Fishing and just 3 dev

Gwadar – 5 dev here, with Sunni and Baluchi and coastal, Fish in an Arid Desert

Khorasani, Afghan and Baluchi people are accepted, just as a heads up. All are Sunni too.

[Abe Sargent]

The 125 YEAR REVIEW!!!!

I missed this a few years ago 1569 – sorry!!!

Maps!!!

Zoomed in:




Here you can see all of our non-colonial nations from Greece to Egypt to Arabia to all of the Persian Gulf holdings and all up and down the block!!

Zoomed Out, Asia, Africa and Europe:





Here you go with my cash pulled out too. I might want to break our alliance with Tunis since after the next Egyptian War we are next to them.

The Americas:





You can see us lightly in South Africa and the Columbia region. Portugal and Britain are all over, and Spain is just in South Africa with us.

The Deets!!!

Income: 411.16 cash, 3 times #2 France
Development: 2198 – far in front
Techs: 42 – tied for the most
Ideas: 27 – tied for the most
Provinces: 247

Religion:

Sunni: There are 53 nations and 583 provinces; both tops by far

Province Stuff:

Our Top Ten Holdings by Tax:

1. Cairo, 38.70
2. Baghdad AND Damascus – 35.30
3. Const. – 33.70
4. Herat, Aleppo AND Tabriz – 24.12
5. Tbilisi AND Alexendria – 19.31
6. Cape, Hisn Kayfa, AND Teheran - 16.31

Nice!!!! But…get ready…

Our Top Ten Non-Gold Holdings by Production:

1. Cairo, 65.01
2. Ceram - 41.94
3. Aleppo – 37.83
4. Baghdad, 36.63
5. Mokha – 32.71
6. Kartli, 31.19
7. Tbilisi – 29.79
8. Erizincan -29.39
9. Kastamondu – 28.38
10. Ambon – 27.33

That blows it out

Military Stuff:

Max Manpower: 212k tops
Army Forcelimit: 212k too, the most
Army: 182k THE most
Navy: 103 ships – 2nd most
Naval Forcelimits: 97 ships

Charts:

Religion: Sunni 100%
Culture: Turkish, 15.5%; Kurdish – 13.1%; Persian – 8.1%; Egyptian - 7.4%; Syrian 8.4%; Mashriqi – 6.6%

Trade Stuff:

Top Ten Trade Nodes by Value:

1. English Channel – 93.71
2. Venice – 52.22
3. Rhienland – 47.19
4. Lubeck – 47.17
5. ALEPPO – 44.06
6. Crimea – 41.37
7. Sevilla – 40.07
8. Genoa – 38.56
9. Kiev – 37.75
10. Champagne – 37.14

Trade Goods Current Value:

8.0 - Cloves
5.25 – Paper
4.50 – Coffee, Copper
4.0- Ivory, Silk, Dyes, Cocoa
3.75 – Sugar
3.60 – Cloth
3.50 – Fur
3.3 – Salt
3.0 – Gems, Glass, Cotton, Tea, Slaves, Tobacco, Spices, Chinaware, Iron
2.50 – Wine, Livestock
2.12 - Incense
2.0 – Grain, Fish, Naval Supplies, Wool, Tropical Wood,

Great Powers:

1. Us!!!!
2. France – rival
3. Austria – Ally
4. Great Britain – good relations
5. Russia – rival
6. Poland
7. Spain – Good relations
8. Portugal – Good relations

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating Transoxiana 2nd War and Claiming the Caliphate

15 Mar, 1573 – I claim a Slave holding in Madagascar.

I pull my troops back

29 Mar – We set up in Halmahera!

We order built: Trade Station for Incense in Mecca, Jeddah, Qufudah; Farm Estate for Livestock in Qus, Suez, Queseer, Gallipoli, Ferah

1 July – Our Army Reformer MIL adviser passes. Next is hmmm…there is a level 1 but I cannot promote her since she’s Kahleeji, not an accepted culture. I make it, hire her, and promote her to level 3 – she’s a Commandant that increases our morale by +5

1 Sept – Yukpa now done colonizing!!!!

Yukpa – In Colombia with Kurdish Sunni working the Gems trade with 4 dev in Tropical Grasslands and coastal and handed away

1 Oct – We lose our claim on Yemen’s Sana’a and lose our Conquest Cb on them

We get a new Age ability!!! We choose:

Prestigious Conversions – We get prestige from them

2 Jan, 1574 – I order Workshops for Cotton in Qazinya, East Timor, Homs, Ganja, Tekke; Spices – Shatt, Ash Sharqiyeh, and Zanjan

I order another 4k troops

2 Mar – We finish an event called “Claim the Caliphate” where we get:



Here you can see our decision to choose to respect our traditions or claim the title of “Khalifa” which I am doing and then the massive number of claims we get too.

The next Mission is also done called “Dar al-Islam” where we need at least 1k dev. We get in 20 random holdings +1 Mil dev. We also get the “Black Banner of Mohammed” trait for the end of the game with a -10% Warscore vs non-Sunni folk

22 Mar – All province cores done!!!

30 May - I pull colonists from Sumba and then send them to Australia’s 12 dev Livestock Natural Harbor Wurundjeri

14 Aug – Natives there killed

We fabricate another Slave province in Madagascar

1 Sept – We get the Event “Save a Princess” and spend 500 cash to help out

14 Sept – I pull Colonists from Panama for 5 dev Fur Pelts in Canada Mosoni in the James Bay

1 Dec - We get the next and Final Expansion Idea!!!!

Competitive Merchants – We get +20% Global Trade Power and for finishing in our territories we get -10% Autonomy

[Abe Sargent]

Colonizing and Exploring

1 Jan, 1575 – I order built Fort upgrades to Bastions in: Cairo, Const, Damascus, Plovdiv, Kartli, Imereti, Lakia, Taiz and Muscat

1 Feb – Halmahera good for Coffee. Not Cloves

We gain the Trading in Spices event!!!

1 April – Our truce with Transoxiana is up we can each DOW the other

25 June – We finish exploring Australia

1 Jan, 1528 – We get a new tech MIL #15!!!

Maurician Infantry – We get a new Infantry and then they get +1 morale and +.25 fire

I order Fort Upgrades in Aden, Shihr, Aleppo, Khundzia, Yanbu, Amol, Golestan, Merv, ones brand new in Ghazi, Kharan, Kunduz; I order Great Work in Jerusalem called “Holy City”.

I claim Yemen’s Sana’a

15 Feb – Natives in Mosoni killed

22 May – Natives killed in Wurundjeri

1 Aug – Sumba done!!!

Sumba – Spices here, Kurdish and Sunni, 5 dev in the Indies

I pull Wadjuk for Sulawesi’s Kendari.

17 Oct – While searching for the Cities of Gold we find one!!!

A local minor set up in Wurundjeri so next is 8 dev Incense Bundaljung

[Abe Sargent]

Getting Ready for the Next War

1 Jan, 1577 – Our next war is against Ethiopia and Medri Bahri – I move my people near them.

We get the next DIP tech #15!!!

The Galleon – We can build Galleons and Early Frigates, Max Colonial Range +50 +15 Settler Growth

I order all of my navies berthed and upgraded. That takes my money

I pull colonists in Halmahera for the James Bay right next to us Attawapiskat with 6 dev and fishing

1 April – Great news! Panama now done

Panama – Natural Harbor, Kurdish and Sunni folk here working the Naval Supplies trade in a 3 dev Tropical Jungle

6 May – Natives in Kendari are killed

28 June – We get a Chocolate Imports Event.

26 July – Shipbuilding Boom event

We set up in Kendari

5 Oct – We set up in Bundaljung

31 Oct – Natives there killed

Attawapiskat sets up. Natives there also killed

1 Jan, 1578 – We DOW Medri Bahri for their Gems Red Sea Massawa to our south. I cannot also DOW Ethiopia too since they are allied with Portugal still

I claim Yemen’s Marib

[Abe Sargent]

The 1st Medri Bahri/Ethiopia vs Ayyubids War

1 Jan, 1577 – I order troops to their places! 2 armies on the Arabian Peninsula next to their level 2 Fort of Jazan, two sent to its capital of Mendefera and 2 to Ethiopia’s capital of El Obeid and then the rest to the border to grab the goods!!!

13 Feb – Jazan falls; I order these troops to area to help out

4 Mar – Mendefera and our war goal fell

26 Mar – Two border minors fell and El Obeid too. War score of 20% already

1 April - Halmahera is colonized!!!

Halmahera – Straight to Tidore and Ternate with Cloves, Coffee, 5 dev, Kurdish and Sunni

I pull colonists from Mosoni and send to Miwok on America’s West Coast 4 dev where Gold was and still is, hopefully we can get it.

29 April – 3 more minors fall!!!

17 May – 4 Ethiopian Minors fell

8 June – Every holding of Medri Bahri is ours!!! Next are various Forts with 2 armies to get this done, warscore is just 26%

1 July – Wadjuk is now ready to go!!!

Wadjuk - Kurdish and Sunni, in Woods, Australia, 12 dev raising Livestock.

I am trying to get them into a Colonial Nation too.

12 Aug – More minors fall!!!

8 Oct – The Siege of Harer ends and ours!!! At 55% and we assault Kaffa.

23 Oct – Kaffa is ours!!! Next is Zeila and Ogaden - warscore of 65%

21 Nov – Zeila falls! Next is the final fort – warscore is 78%

1 Dec – We have gained the Trading in Incense Bonus!!!

16 Dec – Three more minors fall

1 Jan, 1578 – Kendari good for Coffee!

21 Jan – Ogaden falls – warscore of 92%. What can I get?

Actually, what I am thinking are separate war-deals with Ethiopia since they are an ally and then would get me twice and be unlikely to drop in. What goods can I get from them?

I can get up to 59%

They have nearby Slaves and Gold I haven’t captured so i grab those.

19 Mar – All fell. What can i get? Up to 71% now



Here’s what we can do!!! All are Coptic

Enderta – 4 dev, Arid Desert, Copper here, Tigray culture

Fazughli – Marsh here, Slaves traded, Nubian with 4 dev

Asosa – Amhara folks with 6 Dev trading Slaves in Highlands with Mosque

Damot – GOLD mines!! Amhara folk in 7 dev Highlands

Gambela – Sidamo working Slaves trade in Marsh with 4 dev

Kaffa – Level 2 Fort, Barracks and Mosque in Highlands and 12 dev with Sidamo folk working the GOLD trade here too!!!!

Janjiro – Throw-in, Slaves, 5 dev in Mountains and Sidamo people

Cored!!!

We wait until the diplomat comes back – all quality stuff.

30 Mar – We annex them:



Not that much warscore with them either.

Cores ordered and Forts mothballed

Berber – 4 dev, Livestock, Coptic Arid Desert and Beja people

Shendy – Mosque, Nubian Coptic, Drylands 5 dev Grain grown here

Beja – Coptic and Beja raise Livestock in the Steppes in this 5 dev holding

Hamasien – 6 dev in Highlands, Tigray and Coptic people grow Grain

Masawa - Wartarget, Red Sea, Coastal Desert, 9 dev, Gems, with Coptic and Tigray with a Workshop

Jazan – This Red Sea Arabian Penin side is with 7 dev in Mountains, Fishing, Hejazi culture but Coptic faith and then level 2 Fort and a Mosque

Butana- Ivory here is traded in 4 dev Steppes by Coptic and Nubian folks

Al Qadarif - Steppes, Nubian and Coptic working Ivory trade with 4 dev

Mendefera – Their old capital with a level 2 Fort and Tigray Coptic growing Grain in 5 dev Highlands.

There we are – mostly low dev stuff and just three good holdings

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating 17 Coptic Holdings, Saladin’s Legacy

30 Mar, 1578 – I order built: Farm Estates for Grain in: Al Karak, Ajlun, Batineh, Livestock: Gumulcine; Textile Manu for Wool: Nizwa, Urfa, Mush, Mardin; Workshops: Cotton in Adana and Birjland, Incense in Mecca, Livestock in Khundzia, Wine in Yerevan,

I order my troops back.

11 April – We begin to vassalize Najd

28 June – We set up in Miwok!!!

1 Oct – We finish the mission “Saladin’s Legacy” with at least 10 Barracks or Ramparts and 70 army tradition. We get an event with four options to embrace him!

1. Study his Tactics – we get -10% MIL Tech and our MIL advisor per level reduces our army tradition loss.
2. His Legacy Guides our Generals - -10% General cost, they are better and we can get two more for free
3. Our Ruler Studies his Wisdom – Our rulers can’t EVER be Cruel or Craven
4. We Embrace his Spirit – We get +20 army traditions and 200 MIL

I prefer the first two. I prefer the 1st and 2nd loads. I do the 2nd since better and 2 more Generals is pretty good.

I hire more and claim Aden’s Dhamar

[Abe Sargent]

Incorporating 17 Coptic Holdings, Part 2, and Now Khalifa

1 Jan, 1579 – We order built: Workshop in Tikrit for Livestock; Farm Estate for Livestock in Abarquh, Textile Manu for Wool in Ayntab; Workshops in Manfalut for Cotton and Swellendam for Livestock

I pull colonists from Kendari for Buru a 5 dev 60% Clove Spice Island thang

Portugal is now in South Africa like Spain

1 Aug – We adopt the title of “Khalifa” with an event

1 Sept – I pull colonists from Canada’s Attawapiskat and send them to Cisaipi next door with 4 dev.

15 Sept – We get another “Saved a Princess” event with the Creek.

1 Oct – Core done for Jazan.

1 Nov – We lost our claim on Mutapa with Quelimane

I sanction Holy War and then get them for everyone from Tidore to Mutapa

1 Dec – Great news! Mosoni is now done!!!

Mosoni – Kurdish and Sunni folk in Canada work the Fur Trade with 5 dev in a Marsh on the James Bay.

1 Jan, 1580 – We lose our claims on Mahra in the Arabian Penin.

We order built: another 7k troops

Farm Estate for Livestock in Bust; Grain in Rahba and Kirkuk; Workshop for Livestock in Aksaray and Suez

21 Feb – I pull colonists from Australia’s Bundjalung to their Eora right next door

18 Mar – Natives there killed

1 April – 4 cores done in Berber, Beja, Masawa and Hamasien – Missionaries send there

I hand a seat to Ile Bourbon.

20 June – All cores done save for Shendy, Butana, Mendefera, and Al Qadarif

Missionary sent to Damot’s Gold

1 July – The last four Cores are done

18 July – We get a “Custodianship of Medina” event with us getting a Sunni Advisor in Trade Eff.

11 Aug – it took us a while to get here, but Natives in Miwok killed and then I start exploring with a Conquistador

1 Sept – Kendari done colonizing!!!

Kendari – On the island of Sulawesi, with straight to Buton and next to Luwu, with a nice 12 dev on Tropical Grasslands with Sunni and Kurdish folk here growing Coffee.

7 Sept – We had an event about a Mutiny on the sea in our vessel

8 Oct – We get the “Women among Us” and spend 1.2k hiring some to help our vessels and in port and for 20 years we get better morale and reinforce speed

1 Dec – Our Parliament Policy “Charter Colonies” is up. Next is another ten years of it

Najd is vassalized!!!!!

Al-Kariatan – Bedouin Sunnis in a 3 dev Arid Desert raising Livestock

Al-Arid – Arid Desert with Livestock, Bedouin and Sunnis with 4 dev

Sudayr – Sunnis grow Grain in the 5 dev Arid Desert and are Bedouin too.