Kamchatka: Fire and Ice (EU4) - COMPLETE!!!

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1533, Japan has been annexing and absorbing all of the players in the islands, leaving just one, Date, who is Japan’s vassal. Soon they have to look to target Ainu, who has been very quiet.

11 Apr – And they have. They are now at war with Ainu. I called that.

1 Oct – We order a Temple for Yarmanka.

1 Jan, 1534 – Japan has already captured two of the three provinces in Hokkaido Island from Ainu

10 Jan - And they take those, in peace.

At least Ainu is still free, although down to just the Kurils and their capital at Tokachi.

26 Feb – Our explorer, Dyaluncha, has died today.

1 Oct – Temple for Tauisk

27 Jan, 1535 – Another good bank even gives us some gold

1 May – Temple for Penzhina

15 July –

National Bank, Idea Additional Annual Inflation Reduction, 3rd Idea in Economic Ideas Group

7 Sept – Japan has annexed Date

[Abe Sargent]

1 April, 1536 – Temple in Karalveyem

10 Oct – Korea has entered war with Manchu and Japan. Manchuria probably wants the lands that Korea took from Jianzhou before being annexed by Haixi. (Furdan, Yukjin)

1 May, 1537 – Temple in Kolyma

15 Nov – Tech Advance:

Trade Depot and Drydock (Dip – 8)

Extra Trade Range, and those two are build-able


16 Nov – Ming is at war with Japan and Manchu, as Korea’s ally. It’s a big old war (Japan, Manchu vs Korea, Ming)

17 April, 1538 – Temple in Omolon

16 Aug – We get poor quality copper form our mines for a few years and increased artillery cost during that time.

[Abe Sargent]

15 Mar, 1539 – Temple in Aleut

19 Oct – We invest in Debt and Loans, the next Economic Idea – this gives us better interest from loans.


And we get the Siberian Fur Trade with +10% Domestic Trade Power


1 February, 1540 – We get a Local Tax Increase in Yamanka, and the taxvalue there rises by one!

1 Mar – Constable for Karalveyem

14 Aug – I choose to focus on the knowledge aspects of a Wave of Obscurantism and we have increased unrest for a couple of years

1 Feb, 1541 – Constable for Yarmanka

19 May – Basically a white peace with the Ming/Manchu/Korea/Japan conflict.

Meanwhile, rebels have captured both Ainu provinces from Japan on Hokkaido.

9 Oct – I sailed my boat down to Japan’s shore. There are 10000 rebels in Kamikawa fighting for freedom! But Japan has 26k in Mutsu ordered to move in.

3 Mar, 1542 – I order a Constable in Kamchatka

1 Jan, 1543 – I order a Constable in Gizhiga

20 Mar – 1543 – Japan still hasn’t ousted these freedom fighters.

18 Sept – I send over another set of ships – yup, still 10k troops in the hills of northern Hokkaido.

12 Jan, 1544 – Constable for Penzhina

3 Aug – Kamikawa has gone back to Ainu, along with the 8k rebels, making a solid army.

21 Aug – I get a Gift to the State we put in the treasury

1 Sept – I order a Constable in Omolon

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1544 –

100 Year Review!


Well, it’s been another slooooooow 50 years. We took one more province in war and united the various nearby tribes under our clan’s banner. Then just a handful of colonies were fully established as well.


All of our provinces:

Kamchatka – 8.03 gold made by the fishers here. 2 tax value now, with better fort, Marketplace, Constable, and Temple

Penzhina – 2.16 Fishing here brings in a 1 tax value and a Temple, with a Constable on way.

Kagyrgyn – 3.2 as the Salmon Fishing continues up the coast. 1 tax value, and they have upgrade fort, marketplace, temple, dock, constable, and armory.

Karalveyem – 3.46 gold from the Copper Mines, and Temple/Constable additions

Omolon – Temple and Marketplace get us 3.19 gold from grain farming and 2 taxvalue.

Kolyma – Fur trading encapsulates 2.56 gold from this province with a Temple

Yarmanka – Temple, marketplace, and Constable mark the fur trading, with 5.76 gold and a 2 tax value.

Gizhiga – 1 tax value leads to 4.37 gold with a fur treading province supporting a local marketplace, constable and temple.

Tauisk – Temple here gives us 2.02 gold from working the gold mines.

Aleut – This set of islands makes us 1.68 gold from fur trading that features a Temple.


Every province has a 1 tax value unless otherwise stated, and only Yarmanka is other than Kamchatkan culture (Yukaghir). All are Shamanist. All former colonies in Siberia have a 50% autonomy while Aleut has 75%.

[Abe Sargent]

We have 4000 troops and 4 vessels.


Admin – 71st
Dip – 169th
Mil – 154th


Current value of goods:

Silk
Copper
Dyes
Cocoa
Ivory
Cloth
Fur
Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Iron
Salt
Tropical Wood
Tea
Slaves
Naval Supplies
Wine
Fish
Wool
Grain
Gold

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s get you a nice pulled out map of our explorations and Asia





As you can see, we have strong exploration of the new world down to Baja California. Meanwhile Manchu, Ming, Korea and Japan are all there for you nice and collected. The Oirat Horde is still a threat.

There’s no where near me to expand, and we don’t have the military resources to hit someone bigger than us right now. With all of that land right now you spy under our control, we only have a force limit for navy and army of 7 units each. We just can’t have a large army to strike someone. We are barely making enough to build a new 40 gold building every 11ish months and that’s with just 4 ships and 4000 army. That’s a pretty weak economy.

That’s what’s holding us down. There’s no huge prize for expansion.

Meanwhile, no one knows our location, not even Ainu. That’s a good bonus. We’re safe until someone explores Kamchatka.

This is the consequence of carving an empire from Siberia, and the arctic.


And then we got that horrendous Chief we’ve had for a while now, and that’s a huge setback.

I kind of want to wait him out and see.

I plan to continue to build our economy for a bit, then move to another colony. Meanwhile, we should also work on developing Economic Ideas, even thought that means no Admin tech development for a while. We can use the money as well as the end (new government)

[Abe Sargent]

8 Feb, 1545 – We get a Successful Bureaucracy event and gain 100 Admin power.

Centralization – more possible Advisors. Two ranks left in the Economic Ideas group!


21 Apr – Japan recaptured Shiribeshi from the rebels in Hokkaido and regained it.

10 Oct – Japan declared war again against Ainu

1 Jan, 1546 – I order a Trade Depot (60 gold) in Kamchatka


21 Aug – We get an Excellent Year event and gain some manpower

1 Jan, 1547 – We pick up a Constable in Kolyma

8 Dec – The Kurils fell to Japan and they have total control of all of the Ainu land

12 Dec - Japan has annexed Ainu. We now have Japan next to us (sorta) in the Kurils, as well as Hokkaido.

1 May, 1548 – We order a Trade Depot in Yarmanka

18 June – We get Influenza outbreak in Kagyrgyn. We quarantine them for a year which basically will cut them off, particularly economically

26 Aug – I get an event about our Military Divided. We lose some Mil Power to support defense and forts

[Abe Sargent]

1 Sept, 1549 – I order a Trade Depot in Kagyrgyn

10 Dec – We have two major rebellions in Hokkaido.

9 Feb, 1550 – Tax Base increases in Tauisk via another event

2 Mar – We get another Idea:

Nationalistic Enthusiasm – land maintenance is cut by 10%

One left!

5 Aug – The first province in Hokkaido falls to rebels.

I decide to spend some money to support the rebels. That’s a new metric and I want to see how it goes. With maximum support of Ainu Freedom Fighters, it’s around 3 a month. So it’s a nice thing to try ou for a bit to see what results might spring forth


1 Oct – Japan blasted the rebels in one of the besieged provinces and ended that threat

We have gained a Support the Rebels claim against Japan

23 Nov – Japan consolidated multiple armies and 30000 troops arrived to fight against various local rebels.

6 May, 1551 –I remove my support. The rebels just don’t have the power for long term problem-making

1 Aug – Marketplace in Tauisk

1 Sept, 1552 – Trade Depot in Tauisk

1 July, 1553 – Trade Depot in Gizhiga

1 Aug – New Tech:

Star Fort (Mil – 9) We can build those, and get better Asian troops – the Asian Arquebusier

[Abe Sargent]

23 May, 1554 – Marketplace in Karalveyem ordered


1 Sept – I get a Sale of Titles event and choose to get some ducats from it.

2 Nov – Marketplace ordered for Kolyma

14 Feb – 1555 – I get another excellent bureaucracy event and 100 admin power


Smithian Economics (Final Economic Idea)

+10% Production Efficiency

That finishes this idea group which comes with a huge inflation reduction bonus

And we get Enslave the Captives, +10% production efficiency.

So that was a huge bonus.

20 Feb – Korea/Japan/Manchu/Ming at it again

27 Jan, 1556 – Trade Depot for Karalveyem ordered.

2 Sept – We get a small revolt in Aleut – 2000 peasants against our 1000 standing army.

17 Sept – We lose the battle and our forces were destroyed

1 Oct – The Oirat annexed the final Clan Council other than us, the Buryatians

[Abe Sargent]

7 Jan, 1557 – We win in Aleut and defeat the rebels.


It’s time


We have been a Siberian Clan Council all of our lives but we increasingly feel the need to move closer to a more ordered government. It will take some time to come back from, but it is worth it. The benefit of our government is the hugely reduced stability cost, but it costs with a substantial tech penality.


Therefore, we are reforming the government. It requires us to have finished one of three ideas, to invest 200 Admin Power, and to have a 3 stability

We will lose 5 stability. And we will become a Despotic Monarchy.

We have minor provincial unrest in the realm as a result.

13 Feb – Japan had the Japanese Tea Culture event

10 Apr – Trade Depot for Kolyma

2 Mar, 1558 – We increase our stability by one

7 May – Trade Depot in Omolon

7 Sept – Our Free Trade policies have given us a new Trader, an advisor.

6 Dec – Marketplace ordered for Aleut

1 Jun, 1559 – Stability boosted again

1 Sept – Marketplace for Penzhina

[Abe Sargent]

4 Mar, 1560 - +1 tax base in Kagyrgyn for another good tax event.

1 Sept - Stability rises to +1

24 Dec – I send colonists to Suntar Khayata – west and/or south of Gizhiga, Tauisk, and Yarmanak

14 April, 1561 – We have multiple provinces in Manchuria that have been captured by rebels.

21 Dec – I choose to fund a National Epic, and our prestige increases. Let the world know of the majesty of Kamchatka, Siberia, the Aleuts, and of the Kanchamdal Tribe that rules here!

29 Jan, 1562 – Bad Korean rebels can’t be good in the middle of a war.

29 July – Peace finally. Korea lost three provinces to Manchuria.

1 March, 1564 – We develop our next tech:


Carracks and Caravels (Dip – 9)

We get bonus colonial range, can build those ships, bonus naval morale and higher maintenance. Sorry.

14 April – Great news, we are able to mine copper here in Suntar Khayata as well!

We’ve had this horrible Chief/King for 40 years. It’s nasty


10 September – We have the Temporary Insanity of our King! We request Admin guidance. We lose a bunch of prestige and gold, but gain some Admin Power, so there’s that I suppose.

[Abe Sargent]

25 Feb, 1565 – We gain some additional manpower in Penzhina after local recruiting works well


1 Apr – Manchuria is having some serious problems with rebels. Hmm…

It costs me very little to support Ainu Nationalists on Sakhalin. Might as well, just in case it happens. (the cost is 0.2 a month for maxed support)



10 July – Whew!


After that bout of insanity, our King now has an heir.

Tuskul I is the heir.


Admin 1
Dip 5
Mil 3

Normally, not a good King. But he’s a lot better than our previous guy. We need our king to die soon!

I’ll keep the focus on Administrative stuff for now.


29 Nov – I accept a mission to create an army for our nation.

Now I order 1000 cavalry in Kagyrgyn, Asian Steppe Cavalry

12 Mar, 1566 – Now an Asian Arquebusier is ordered and then another

3 May – Japan has lost a province in Hokkaido but taking it back. Meanwhile, in Manchu, Korchin just won its rebellion and risen from the ashes to become a state again.

I try to rebuild relations with them

7 July – We finished our mission after the final troop was built. We have 6/8 force limit.

12 Sept – We have a large revolt in Tauisk. I order our army from Kagyrgyn over, with our King at the head. (May a rebel arrow find his head)

[Abe Sargent]

31 Jan, 1567 – Our King drove away the filthy rebels.

14 Sept – Korean Patriot rebels captured one of the lands taken by Manchuria

24 Jan, 1568 – I pull support of Ainu rebels in Sakhalin

13 June – Japan is having a Civil War!

10 July – Once again I support Ainu Nationalists in Japan – I have almost 250 gold (I was saving for when I got my next Admin tech, so I could build some stuff all at once). I don’t need to keep making cash. I don’t fund them fully – just to the level of slight losses (around 0.4 a month it seems)

14 Sept –

Our Ancestors are Watching!

I spend some gold to build a huge monument!


13 Jan, 1569 – Maxed relations with Korchin

4 June – Suntar Khayata is now self sustaining!


Suntar Khayata – West of Gizhiga, north of Tauisk, and south-west of Yaramanka lies the copper mines of Suntar Khayata. 2.49 gold are made here with a 1 tax value. I order a Temple built here. This province is southeast of Verkhoyansk, east of Sakha, and north-east of Okhotsk.


I dispatch our colonists to Okhotsk

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1570 – We get a Colonist Rush which improves our settler chances.

1 Oct – Everyone is cleaning up rebels right now, so I pull my support in Ainu

8 Jan. 1571 – Marketplace for Suntar Khayata

9 Aug – Here we go!

Workshop & Courthouse (Admin Tech – 8)

We can build both

1 Sept – Iron is available to mine in Okhotsk

Workshop ordered in Kamchatka (each one costs 10 ADM Power)

1 Nov – Workshop ordered for Gizhiga

1 Jan, 1572 – Workshop for Yarmanka

1 Mar – Workshop for Karalveyem

1 Apr – Workshop for Kolyma

29 Sept – Excellent year gains us some more manpower

1 Dec – Constable for Suntar Khayata

1 Feb, 1574 – We boost our stability back to +2

1 May – Workshop in Suntar Khayata

[Abe Sargent]

8 Mar, 1575 – Another 100 ADM Power from our good event

9 April – Ainu Nationalists rose and captured a province from Japan

1 June – Boost of stability to its max again!

3 Nov – Another province falls in Japan to the Ainu rebels

30 Jan, 1576 – Trade Depot for Suntar Khayata

1 Nov – Say hello to our newest full-fledged province!

Okhotsk – Along the coast, west of Tauisk and Suntar, we have the iron mines of this land. 2.23 is made here, and we order a temple immediately. This port has a cheap tax value of 1 and is just two provinces away from Manchuria.


I don’t want to colonize Jugjur, which is next along the coast and presses up against two Manchuria provinces. So I send colonists to Verkhoyansk, which is deep inland and the last stop before Eastern Siberia is overly inhabitable.


13 June, 1577 – Courthouse ordered for Kamchatka

1 Aug – All rebels ended in Japan again

[Abe Sargent]

20 Mar, 1578 – Marketplace in Okhotsk

4 May – Native tribes in Verkhoyansk hit our colony and slow it down.

30 July - I have arrived and completely destroyed the natives.

28 Sept – I choose to purge our generation of cowards and we lose thousands of manpower

1 Oct – I order Docks in Kamchatka

31 Oct – After ruling for almost 55 years, our 1/1/1 King has finally died. Yay!

Unfortunately, Tuskal I is not ready, and has a Regency Council. A Pretender has risen is Karalveyem with 6000 troops. Our stability drops.

I spend some military power for a general to lead us. Gyrgol-Gyyrgyn Alsik rises from the ranks to lead us into glory against these pretenders. We leave to put these down

27 Feb, 1579 – Battle has been joined!

16 April – We lose. I order 2000 troops built to help our forces.

12 Oct – They capture Karalveyem

16 Jan, 1580 – We barely win and begin the siege

3 Feb – We take the land

15 March – Local tax increases in Karalveyem!

8 April – Constable ordered for Okhotsk

16 June – I take a mission to improve our fleet

9 July – Tuskal has ascended to the throne. Whew!


His heir is pretty good too (5/2/3)


1 Oct – I put the great harvest we get into the treasury for more than 50 gold.

I order Drydocks in Kamchatka

Korchin and Manchuria are at war. Again.

[Abe Sargent]

25 Mar, 1581 – The fur trade rules in Verkhoyansk

3 May –

Reiter (Mil – Tech 10)

We have better cavalry, and cannons

1 July – Trade Depot for Okhotsk


1 Sept, 1582 – Workshop for Okhotsk

6 Jan, 1583 – 2 Transport vessels ordered in Kamchatka

1 Feb, 1584 – I order a Carrack ship built in Kamchatka

8 April - Uh oh. Japan has become hostile of me.

I need a friend…

17 July – Manchu has, again, annexed Korchin
5 September – Manchu has agreed to a Royal Marriage!

2 Oct – I refuse to grain privileges and export licenses (they have to be earned) which increases our legitimacy considerably


20 Dec –

The Flute (Dip – 10)

Extra Trade Range, Settler Growth enhanced, allows War Galley and Flute ships



I order another Carrack in Kamchatka

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1585 – Verkhoyansk is now self-sustaining!



Verkhoyansk – Another fur trade province as trappers and hunters find local animals for slaying and trading. 2.21 gold is made here form a 1 taxvalue land. South west for Yarmanka, and north west of Suntar Khayata.


Next up is Sakha, which is west, and inland, of Verkhoyansk, and next to Suntar K and Okhotsk as well


18 Mar – Another 100 And power from successful rulership

8 Apr – Manchu agrees to allow our troops military access

14 May – I proclaim a guarantee against Manchu

21 July – I upgraded some of my transports to Flutes and my old fleet as well.

13 Nov – I order one more Carrack in Kamchatka

2 Feb, 1586 –

The Scythe (Admin – 9)

Production efficiency increased by 10%

Multiple wars going on right now. Japan and Manchu vs Korea, Ming, and U-Tsang is the closest

It seems like Korea, Japan, Ming all know where we are now. No more hiding.

[Abe Sargent]

14 July, 1587 – Furs found in Sakha as well

2 Mar, 1588 – Marketplace for Verkhoyansk

3 October – Our king has fallen ill. We choose to delegate more to the nobles. It should last 10 years, or until he dies.

Japan has even annexed Ryukyu (Okinawa)

16 Dec 1689, Temple ordered in Verkhoyansk

22 Mar, 1590 – We pipe in marriageable women into Sakha

15 Sept – Korea has been doing very well thus far against Manchu in their war. They have five provinces.

9 Oct – Courthouse in Karalveyem

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1591 – Sakha is now self-sustaining!


Sakha – I have just ordered a temple built here. 2.64 gold, fur trade, andsuch. Inland of Okhotsk, and next to Suntar Khayata and Verkhoyaks. East of Kharya.


I head to Kharya


1 August – Constable for Verkhoyansk

25 Nov – Peace in the mega-war. Korea won some gold.


31 December – Manchu has accepted our offer of an alliance.


5 Nov, 1592 – Marketplace in Sakha

6 Jun, 1593 – Workshop in Verkhoyansk


14 Feb, 1594 – Gold can be mined in Kharya

9 Mar – Constable ordered for Sakha

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1594 –

150 Year Review!


Another fifty years have passed. We’ve added a few colonies. We’ve gotten to the point where I have max army and navy, full colony support, and I’m still making enough money to do stuff. That’s a nice benefit!

It’s been a long 150 years, but emerging from more than 50 years of a very poor Chief/King helped.

Let me start you off with a map!



Notice that Manchu and us have gotten closer on the map. You can see Korea, Japan, the Ming Dynasty of China, and a lot more. Ming is deep in Asia. Oirat has swelled after grabbed Buryatia. I’m a bit stuck here. I like having land border between me and others in Siberia. I don’t want my weaker nation next to Manchu or the Oirat Horde. Right now, incognito needs to be the way we keep playing it. We’re still on good relations with Korea and Ming, and I fear the inevitable war. But Manchu is allied with Oirat and Japan as well as us, so hopefully they will keep Ming/Korea from biting us, or Japan from grabbing Kamchatka


We have our first sight of Europeans. There look to be folks in South Africa and one of the southern islands in the Indian Ocean. We’ll see who they are and when they arrive.

[Abe Sargent]

We are ranked 74th, 123rd and 155th respectively.


We have the 22nd highest income in the world of 10.48 monthly. We are ranked 182nd overall by score

All of the other Shamanist nations have been defeated and destroyed around the globe. We are the only one left.


The largest armies in the world:

1. Oirat
2. Ottomans
3. Ming
4. Qara Qoyunlu
5. Orissa
6. Crimea
7. Timurids
8. Kilwa
9. Japan
10. Malacca
11. Manchu
12. Persia
13. Mamluks
14. Madurai
15. Gujarat
16. Ayutthaya
17. Sibir
18. Majapahit
19. Ethiopia
20. Brunei

Those are the ones we know, they do not include outside our map

Trade Goods by Value

Silk
Copper
Fur
Dyes
Cocoa
Ivory
Cloth
Slaves
Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Iron
Tea
Salt
Tropical
Naval Supplies
Wine
Fish
Wool
Grain
Gold

[Abe Sargent]

A quick province overview:

Kamchatka – 11.27 gold, many improvements, 2 taxvalue
Penzhina – 2.49 gold
Kagyrgyn – 7.53 gold (2 taxvalue)
Karalveyem – 9.28, 2 taxvalue
Omolon – 2 tax value, 4.89 gold
Kolyma – 6.26 gold
Gizhiga – 8.92 gold
Yarmanka – 10.97 gold, 2 taxvalue
Tauisk – 2.8 gold, 2 tax - Gold
Suntar Khayata – 6.77 gold - Copper
Verkhoyansk – 4.81 gold - Fur
Okhotsk – 5.59 gold - Iron
Sakha, 3.34 gold – Fur
Aleut – 2.37 gold

Current Colony – Kharya, Gold


We are not doing something right with gold. Did we neuter it?


On my economy page, we are making 0.06 gold per month. That’s in addition to trade, taxes, and production. That’s a crazy bad amount of gold.

Got it, figured it out:

“Gold is a special "trade" good. Gold does not produce any Trade Value; instead, it is converted directly into ducats. Gold production income is equal to 40 ducats per year per unit produced, with the exception of pagan and shamanist countries which receive income equal to only 1 ducat per year per unit produced. Income from gold causes inflation per year equal to half its proportion of the country's income; at 100% income inflation would increase by 0.50% per year.”



I bolded the key parts. That is a horrible decision I think. But ah well, guess my Kamchadals Siberian tribe can’t fully harness the power of gold? Errr….something like that….

Which means for me, gold is the worst possible good to flip up. I’d rather get fur or some crap.

Ah well.

[Abe Sargent]

29 Mar, 1595 - More local recruiting increases our manpower


1 Oct - I just got much of the whole map revealed. Here you go!




You can see stuff like Castille and Portugal and such. I think we have Portugal in the Indian Ocean around the Seychelles and Castille in South Africa. Could be wrong though.

Europe’s not that out of whack, nicely enough.

Nations like Ethiopia and Ming are the major offenders here.


1 Nov – Workshop in Sakha

12 June ,1596 –

Canal and Shipyard (Dip – 11)

Massive increase in colonial range. Shipyard and Canal build-able

1 Aug – Trade Depot in Verkhoyansk

16 Oct – We get an event, The House of Kakizaki is shaken. The heritage of the grandmother of the King has been brought into question. We deny and lose 5 legitimacy

12 Dec –

Matchlock Musket (Mil – 11)

Better fire, shock, width, can build barracks and weapons manufactory

4 Sept, 1597 – Trade Depot in Sakha

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1598 – Kharya is self-reliant!


Kharya – Gold mining brings us a mighty 1.09 gold here. Whoo hoo! West of Sakha and north-west of Okhotsk. South is Maya and west Yakut.

I head West.



1 Sept – We invest in the newest tech, and it’s a doozy:


Modern Theocracy (Admin 10)

Allows another group of ideas!


What do I want? Here are ones that appeal to me:

Military Ideas:

Quality Ideas - We have a small army. So lets make it the best darn army we can!

Defensive Ideas – If we get stuck in a major battle with a major player, very possible, it would be nice to have some defensive ideas to back things up with.

Naval Ideas – If we can’t win the battles at land, then why not try for Sea Superiority?


Admin Ideas:

Expansion Ideas – Getting a second colonist would be really keen. And we can get another merchant fast too (although we are still just using the one – we are too far away from a second center of trade for the other)


Diplomatic Ideas:

Maritime Ideas – Again, bolster the navy to protect the army

Trade Ideas – I’d eventually love to push trade more. Especially since our money from land is limited by location.

Diplomatic Ideas – Maybe we can save ourselves by winning the battle of the pen.



Now, I’ve blown through Economic Ideas, and in so doing, pushed us back a bit.

In the Exploration group we unlocked early, we still have these left:

Better colonial range
Better Settler Increase
Better tariffs
Another Colonist
Better naval forcelimits – When finished, permanent Claim against Pagans.

So that’s not bad either to work on, and that’s a diplomatic pace. So my next idea might now want to be diplomatic. That leaves military or Admin. Both Expansion and Quality appeal to me considerably.

Actually, now that I look at it, Quantity really appeals to me. I would love to get another colonist really quickly. But I’ma take Quantity instead so I can push my forcelimits.


11 Nov – Temple in Kharya

3 Dec, 1599 – Marketplace in Karya

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1600 – Trade Depot in Penzhina

1 April – We get a Corrupt Bureaucracy, which results in -5% taxes for 5 years

2 June – Iron mines open in Yakut

19 Oct – Castile are building colonies in the Maldives off India and in east Africa

3 Jan, 1601 – Workshop in Penzhina

7 April – We have a new settlement in Yakut that increases the tax value there,

6 Aug – new Idea investment – Oversea Exploration – 50% more colonial range

3 Sept – I have a mission to colonize Manila. No thanks!

I can now colonize to: Sulawesi and Halmahera, far south of the Philippines

Borneo Island, places like Taiwan and Guam,

The base of Baja California is Guaycura

I want Miwok. It’s on the west coast of this continent, and it’s a center of trade with a taxvalue of 4 – its my next target

29 Sept – Our General passed after ending the Pretender revelation

6 January, 1602 – Workshop for Kagyrgyn

Manchu, Ming, Japan, Korea, and Oirat have been in this huge war for about two years now, and I keep not getting called in. Its awesome

20 Oct – Another Wave of Obscurantism hits with some unrest

30 Oct – I increase our stability to +3 again

[Abe Sargent]

10 Mar, 1603 – I order a Canal built in Kamchatka (80 gold)

18 Mar - The War has ended without much changing

2 July – Japan no longer wants our land. Yay!

Let’s improve relations!

1 Sept – New Idea – Levee en Masse: +50% national manpower mod

6 Oct – Japan agrees to allow us to have military access to her

14 Mar, 1604 – Canal built in Yarmanka

4 Nov – Native uprising in Yakut

3 Jan, 1605 – Canal in Gizhiga

7 July – Yakut is now a full province!


Yakut – I order a temple in this iron mining province, with 2 taxvalue, and 3.82 gold. It’s west of Kharya and inland considerably. South are unmarked lands of Maya, Aldan and Nukktui. Southwest is Mukhuya and west is Seganka. It’s just one province away from Oirat Horde (Via Mukhtuka and Nukhtui)


I dispatch colonists to cross the ocean and head to Miwok.


26 Sept – We recruit an explorer and branch off two transports and two escort ships from our fleet. 2000 men and our fleet begin to sail the ocean.

[Abe Sargent]

9 Feb, 1606 – The colony begins at Miwok

I send a diplomat to the Haida tribe to improve relations

Right outside of Miwok is the San Francisco Bay.

I begin to explore the area with my fleet after I landed my troops in Miwok

17 May – I head into the ocean first and find the Molokai Fracture Zone

11 July – Constable in Yakut

25 October – Sigh. Another purge of a generation of cowards and we lose around 5000 manpower.


13 November – We find the Gulf of California

27 Dec – Now Mazatlan Bay

22 Jan, 1607 – Now Manzanillo bay.

We found a few land provinces and a local tribe the Colima

26 March 0 New Idea Gain 0 Land of Opportunity, +20% settler increase

And we unlocked Siberian Backwoods, +15% fort defense

19 June – We find the Gulf of Tehuantepec and the Kiche people

20 July – We find the Costa Rica waterway

Workshop ordered for Yakut

20 August – We find the Gulf of Panama. We have also found some Portuguese holdings here

11 November – I order another transport and Carrack in Kamchatka

18 Dec – On the way back we uncovered the Zapotec, a small nation. And Portuguese Mexico, a trade company who is at war with the Aztec and Kiche

6 Apr, 1608 – We find the Coast of Ecuador.

17 May – Next is the Gulf of Guayaquil

6 June – We max relations with Haida

21 June – We find the Coast of Peru and multiple tribes – Chimu and Wanka

23 July – Next is the Arica Bend

1 Aug – Marketplace in Yakut

13 Aug- I try to make nice with Portugal – they have a fleet of 50 ships on this side of the continent with me.

16 Nov – Wool is in abundance in Miwok. That’ll be the resource used there.

7 Jul, 1609 – We put down an uprising in Miwok

24 Jul – Trade Depot in Yakut

29 Sept – We head a bit away from the coast and uncover the area around the Revilla Gigedo Islands

14 Nov – Then Clipperton Island

[Abe Sargent]

3 Jan, 1610 – New Idea – The Young can Serve – Manpower Recovery Speed is +20%

12 Apr – I get a Surplus Equipment event and infantry cost are reduced for a few years.

I build some troops – might as well.

24 Sept – This time we uncover the Guatemala basin

27 Oct – Our King again gets sick and agin, we delegate to the nobles

2 Nov – Maxed relations with Portugal

3 Jan, 1611 - Canal in Yakut

9 March – Natives, intrigued by our Kamchadal ways, assimilate in Miwok and we gain some population there.

Another Ming/Manchu/Korea/Japan war has begun

2 July – Cocos Ridge now

6 Sept – Canal in Karalveyem

17 Dec – I begin to make nice with Colima

11 Feb, 1612 – As of today, I have kept sailing up and down places until I have revealed most of the nearby coast. That includes all four provinces on the east side of the Gulf of California

1 May – Miwok is now self sustaining!


Miwok – With 75% autonomy, it’s a bit hamstrung, but we still have a 4 taxvalue and an important center of trade. The shepherds here bring in wool and make 3.75 gold. I order a Temple.

Up the coast is Pomo, down the coast is Salinan. We have not explored inland. I send our next batch of recruits to Salinan and I order our troops there.


20 June – Next Idea – Viceroys -+20% global tariffs

2 July – We see a squadron of navy ships, 24 strong, by Great Britain off Peru

16 August – We map the Coast of Antofagasta

20 Sept – Next is the Atacama Coast

7 May, 1613 – I order a marketplace in Miwok

I accept a mission to turn Salinan into a city.

9 June – I try to improve relations with Castile. They have set up a colony off the coast of Sumatra in Mentawai

[Abe Sargent]

18 Jan, 1614 – We find the Coast of Chile

4 Apr – We max relation building with Colima

19 June – New Tech:

Counting House and Spy Agency (Admin 11)

We can build both

2 July – Spy Agency in Kamchatka (80 gold)

2 Aug – Constable ordered for Miwok

15 Sept -=Ming and Korea are badly losing this war

16 Jan, 1615 – In what is clearly a good news, bad news situation, we find gold in Salinan. I wonder if I could sell these colonies for a ton of money?


15 Mar – I begin to work on relations with Great Britain

5 Nov – Maxed relations with Castile

Next up is New Castile which is in the new world somewhere near-ish us

1 Jan 1616 – Trade Depot for Miwok

22 Sept – We find the Golfo de Penas

16 Nov – New Idea – Enforced Service, -10% regiment costs

This unlocks Land Bought with Blood: +100% Prestige from Land battles

7 Apr, 1617 – New Idea – Free Colonists – We get another colonist!

I order our new colonists to Chumash, Arid land to the south and down the coast from Salinana

21 June – Workshop for Miwok

4 Aug – Maxed relations with Britain

1 Oct – Salinan is now a full fledged city! We finished our mission as well.


Salinan – The gold mines here, down coast from Miwok, enable us to get some tax from the 5 tax value and we get 3.5 gold. I order a Temple constructed here. Meanwhile ,Salinan is upcoast from Chumash, and inland of Yokuts and an unknown territory.

Our next colony will be upthe coast and north of Miwok in Pomo

13 Dec – The major war ended. Manchuria took 6 provinces from Ming and 3 from Korea

[Abe Sargent]

29 July, 1618 – Our Explorer passes

I honestly don’t know if I’ll get a Colonial Nation from my colonizing in the new world. Guess we’ll find out soon.

6 Sept – Relations maxed with New Castile

28 Nov – We hire a Conquistador and send him to explore in the area around our colony in this rich area.


Darkhan Kilim will lead us into the light!

3 Feb, 1619 – We find Cahuilla next to Chumash and inland.

23 March – The land inland of Salinan and Chumash is Tachi.

7 May – I’m ready to fund our first big project!

We order a Weapons Manufactory in Okhotsk!

It’ll take years to build, but it’s a nice increase of our economic wealth

2 June – We find Maidu inland of Pomo and Miwok. It’s next to the wasteland of the Great Basin. The Great Basin is inland of Yokuts, Tachi and Cahuilla as well and very large.


18 July – Our arrival in Shasta is met with native interference, but we defeat them easily enough.


16 Oct – I order a Courthouse in Miwok

24 December – I headed south and back to Cahulilla, and thence inland to find Yavapai.

31 Jan, 1620 – We find Hualapai

29 March – We discover the Apache tribe, in a province we’ll name after them.

4 April – Pomo will be suitable for farmers and grain

1 May – Constable for Salinan

3 June – We find the Navajo tribe back here in provinces that look tasty (Paiute and Navajo.).

15 July – I get an event that gives us some Dip Power –

Final Idea in Exploration - Global Empire – Naval Forcelimits Modifier +25%

And we can any time we want against fellow Pagans

1 Aug – We find the Hopi province

12 September – We find the Pima Tribe in a land called Zumi

20 Oct – Wool in Chumash as well

5 Nov – I choose to diplomatically resolve a conflict between two noble families and lose some dip power.

25 Nov – We find Pima

[Abe Sargent]

3 Feb, 1621 – We find the large tribe of Pueblo, 4 provinces strong

2 Apr – Japan is no longer allied with Manchu after breaking off their alliance.

6 July – I order a Carrack and transport built in Kamchatka

10 July – We find Chiricahua

19 Dec – We find Suma and fight off some ornery natives

2 Feb, 1622 – Workshop for Salinan

10 Feb – We find Concho

1 May – We find New Castile in Cacaxtes, as well as Coahuila

28 June – We find Jumano

23 Aug – We find Mescalero

28 Oct – Next is Jicarilla

18 Nov – Another Carrack ordered at Kamchatka

5 Mar, 1623 – We find Toboso

24 Apri – And then Tepehuan

23 June - And then both Laguneros and Zacatecas open up before us.

18 Aug – Cotoname, another New Castilian province is revealed to us.

2 Sept _ I accept a mission to fortify Salinan and order another fort here

23 Oct – Next Guachichil
14 Dec – More New Castile fun on Borrado and Tamaulipas

[Abe Sargent]

22 Feb, 1624 – Carrack ordered for Kamchatka. This will give us a max naval forcelimits navy


1 Mar – Pomo is now self-sustaining!


Pomo – North of Miwok along the beach is this coastal farming town. It makes 2.11 gold with its 2 tax value and grain harvest. Maidu is inland of it, and Yuki north and up the coast.


Next target is: Kumeyaay, Arid, south and down-coast of Chumash.

4 Apr – Uprising in Chumash sets back the colony a bit.

10 Apr – We find the Totonac tribe in Tziccoac and Tohanacapan. In fact, we can see huge water on the other side, the Tampico Bay


8 July – We find Colima at Metztitlan

13 Aug – Temple ordered for Pomo


Okhotsk, post Weapons Manufactory, looks very sexy

1 Oct – Chumash is self sustaining!


Chumash – This arid climate is good for getting wool from sheep in the hills of this coastal province, south and down-coast of Salinan and up-coast form Kumeyaay, our latest colony. Inland aare both Tahci and Chahuilla. We make 2.81 gold from the folks here.


Next target is Cahuilla

8 Oct – We finish the wall and the mission in Salinan


After those colonies are now land, I can build some more ships – yay Naval Forcelimit modifiers!

13 Oct – We find Guamares

7 Dec – Then Huichol. The rest of the land south is Colima land. But I’m going to move into it at the border here to uncover it all

1 Jan, 1625 – I accept a mission to turn Kumeyaay into a city

Temple ordered for Chumash

[Abe Sargent]

8 Apr – After finding many more Colima land, I order our troops back to Kumeyaay to protect our new colonies from natives. We’ve done a bunch of exploring here,


Let me show you North America in 1625!





So you can see the large New Castile colonial nation. You can also see a large Colima, and well as multiple Portugal colonies in central America. I’m staying away from any of these. We are the narrow strip of pink-ish around California’s coast. You can also see the four tribes of Pueblo, Pima, Navajo and Apache all there.

My intention right now is to continue to stay around California, and maybe, move a little north. Cahuilla is the last province in the area with a tax value greater than 1. So there’s no reason for me to hit all of those other inland provinces right now – might as well hit up some other places where I see some opportunity.


You can also see how useful the Girin merchant has been all game long in Manchuria. The California COT (In our own land) doesn’t get that much.

My goal is to curry favor with the major European powers, and steer clear of them.

[Abe Sargent]

10 Oct – I exterminate the natives in Cahuilla

1 Jan, 1626 – We maximize relations with a Portuguese colonial power

None of the colonial nations have autonomy in their ex-colonies. Perhaps that‘s a way out of this issue.

In Asia, Castile found spices in Mentawai, which has to be a huge incentive to drill into the Indies for them. Castile has autonomy in Maldives, for example (75%). So it’s not just us.


2 Feb – I order my Conquistador to the north to see what we can discover there

21 June – We find Kalapua, inland of Chinook and Siuslaw

9 Aug – Now Umatilla, and the Salish Tribe in Yakima.

I order Constables in Pomo and Chumash

8 Sept – Palus is found


9 Sept – Kumeyaay will also be wool shepherded in the nearby hills.

12 Oct – We find Spokane

18 Nov – And then Okanagan

21 Nov – We sight a comet and our stability drops.

10 Jan, 1627 – We find Tsilhoqotin.

2 Mar – and then Dakelh

19 Apr – And then Secwepemc

2 June – And then Ktunaxa and Tsuu Tina

15 June –

Fine Arts Academy (Admin Tech 12)

We can build the FAA as well as getting Administrative Monarchy if we want to switch government again.


Our bonuses for Ad Mon instead of our Despotic Mon are simple:

We currently have:

-10% unjustified demands in war
-1.0 National Unrest

We never use the first, since we aren’t in war that often.

So…

Admin Mon?

+10% Production Efficiency
-0.10 Monthly Autonomy Change
+%5 National Taxes

More money works, right?

I could also sub to Feudal Mon:

+10% manpower
+25% income from vassals

Admin is a nice. I think we’ll change over as soon as possible.


1 Aug – Arrive in Nimiiipu

16 Sept – Now Bohogue. I’m moving north of the wasteland of the Great Basin and south of another.

20 Nov – We arrive in Bannock

31 Dec – Goshute

[Abe Sargent]

6 Mar, 1628 – Next is Kuccuntikka

11 May – We find both Apsaakooke and Piegan

7 July – Ashshipte is mapped out for us

31 July – Wool in Cahuilla as well

18 August – We find the Shoshone Tribe in the lands of Eeelalapito and Tsisistas.

16 Oct – Lakota also is home of the Shoshone

20 Nov – New Tech!



Wharf (Dip – 12)

We can build Trade Companies and Naval Equipment Manufactories



22 Nov – We find Haaninin

26 Dec – We find Hidatsa and Itscheabine


20 Mar, 1629 – We find Mandan

17 May – Next is Arikara

1 July – We find the Tribe of Cheyenne In the Province of Yanktonai, as well as Bungi and Wahpekute and Kamoua.

I head south to go back the other way.

9 Aug - -We find Omaha

27 Sept – And then Oglala

8 Dec – And then So’taeo’o

1 Jan, 1630 – Kumeyaay is now a full province!


Kumeyaay - 5.1 tax value, very little gold, Arid, and not that great.


We have been forced to create the Colonial Nation of Kamchadal California.


Hopefully this new Kamchadal California Nation will help develop our stuff better over yonder



And, we officially move to an Administrative Monarchy


Next colony? Maya, in Siberia. West of Okhotsk, south of Kharya and Yakut

So in the K.C. they now have no autonomy. Which is very nice. So K.C. is making solid money from them. Salinan is the capital. Once Cahuilla becomes a full province it’ll join and move away from our venue.

2 May – We get 100 Admin power from another event. I use it to incrase our stability back to +3

26 May – We find Hinonoeino

5 July – And then Arapaho

1 Sept – Our next major project is approved

Trade Company in Gizhiga!

I also order our first 1000 artillery in Kamchatka

20 Sept – We find Teyas

29 Nov – We find Lipiyanes

2 Dec – Next Tech!


Spanish Square (Mil 12)

We get Banner Infantry and better tactics

The Banner infantry replace our Asian Arquebusiers

[Abe Sargent]

12 Jan, 1631 – Our presence is protested by locals in Querecho

I’m at the border of New Castile and I’m feeling things out for a bit

2 Mar – I find Lipan and the Castilian folks at Karankawa

1 June – I found some more boundaries of New Castile and move up north now to Waco and then to Wichita

21 Sept – We arrive in Caddo, are attacked by local natives, and we find the Chichasaw tribe next to us in Arkansas.

2 Dec – I find two more New Castile holdings

I’m not interested in heading any further east or north. I’ma turn back.

8 Jan, 1632 – We find Yscani

10 Mar – Then Kiowa

19 Apr – And…Kitkehaki

27 May – Followed by Skiri

6 June – Castile is apparently colonizing the Andamans instead of moving into the Indies per se.


1 July – Cahuilla is now a full colony! We hand it to K.C.

Next target?


Chehalis, next to Salish (haida Tribe) and Yakima (Salish tribe).

10 July – Iron in Maya!

25 Sept – We find Asinaan

1 Nov – We find Mahmikiwiniyak

18 Nov – I side with the Nobles when our King becomes ill

31 Dec – We arrive in Sipiwininiwak – we also find Nehiyawewin

26 Mar, 1633 – We din Niitsitapi

27 Apr – We find Siksikawa, just northeast of the Rock Mountain Wasteland. We’ll now head this army to Chehalis to recuperate and guard against natives to the border nations.

May 30 – Our Conquistador dies in battle against some locals


1 Dec – Constable for Kharya

[Abe Sargent]

21 Nov, 1634 – A local pretender rises in Maya with 6000 rebels around him. I order our army in.

They capture Maya (colony) and sail for Penzhina

5 Mar, 1635 – We defeat the rebels in Penzhina

9 May – Timber Shortage for 5 years gives us a +30% ship cost. Ouch

19 June – Naval Supplies in Chehalis


25 Aug – I have recaptured Maya, and I exterminate the local tribesman while here

4 Apr, 1636 – After an uprising in Chehalis is put down by our army, I just go ahead and exterminate all of the folks in the area.

15 May – I send colonists to Quileute, next to Chehalis

16 Aug – Ready for the next big project?

Trade Company ordered for Yarmanka

22 Nov – We have an Excellent Minister. I choose to use it in the military and gain a bunch of tradition and military power

1 Jan, 1637 – Next Idea

The Old and the Infirm - -10% land maintenance modifier

And that gives us another Siberian Idea: Successful Raids, +15% manpower and +5% reinforce speed


24 May – I exterminate the natives in Quileute

5 July – Another land war in Asia ends with Japan winning and taking gold and some claims from Manchuria

Portugal has just started a colony in Belitung, just inside the Indies, in the Karimata Strait, north-west of Java Island and southwest of Boreo Island


26 October – Our King has passed!


Our new leader: King Kesli I 5/2/3. Pretty good, but he’s 61 already. Can’t live too long. And his heir isn’t much.

I booster our Stability right back up

1 Nov – I accept a royal marriage offer from Manchuria

Right now our tech development is 10/4/5

We have our focus in the area of strength for Kesli

So instead I move to a diplomatic focus. This gives us a 7/7/5 increase

[Abe Sargent]

10 Mar, 1638 – Colima converted to Protestant

3 July – Chehalis is fully grown!


Chehalis – The Naval Supplies are ripe here in Chehalis, next to two tribes. It goes to our Colonial Nation too, I thought it might be north enough to not be considered the same area, but apparently not.

Next colonist to Chinook, next to Chehalis. I’m still wanting to expand a bit in this area, even without keeping the land myself.


10 Aug – Next Tech!


Grand Shipyard and Road (Dip 13)

We can build road networks and the Grand SYard

Slowly and surely I am amassing an army in Quileute

30 Mar, 1639 – Fur trading is the best use of us in Quileute

7 Nov –I make a General out of our heir…

8 Feb, 1640 – I declare war on the Salish Tribe in Yakima and order our forces in.

16 Mar – Along with the local army the K.C. government was assembling there, we win in Yakima.

10 Feb, 1641 – We take Yakima

Full Annexation. Yakima is turned over to the Colonial government

1 Sept – After we rebuilt our army, time for another hit while I have my whole army here

I declare war on Haida

I order our 11,000 troops from Quileute into Salish

[Abe Sargent]

5 Feb, 1642 – Our heir dies. Our new heir is quite good. Our stability drops

I boost the stability again!

1 Apr – Quileute is now self-sustaining and turned over.

15 Nov – I send colonists to Aldan in Siberia

1 Jan, 1643 – Maya is now self sufficient

18 Jan – Fish in Chinook

10 Feb – In a siege that took 517 days, we capture Salish. Now onto Nootka and a huge battle

10 Apr – We drive them out.

12 June – They arrive in Yakima and begin a siege

6 April, 1644 – We capture Nootka and annex both provinces, which are turned over to the K.C.

Actually, we apparently remain in control of Nootka.

I order a core here

1 July – Tech Increase!


Improved Drainage (Adm -13)

We can build plantations and we get +10% production efficiency


I invest in the new big project

Weapons Manufactory in Karalveyem

Temple ordered for Maya


14 Oct – Next mission, convert Nootka to Shamanist

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1644 –

200 Year Review!!!


Alright, let’s take a look around!


We are ranked 29th in Admin, 110th in Diplomacy and 156th in Military

We make 20.90 gold a month. About double what we made 50 years ago.

The most advanced nations in the world have 55 techs total. The least have 36. We have 38 along with 18 ideas


Biggest Armies in the World

1. France
2. Oirat
3. Ottomans
4. Qara Qoyunlu
5. The Hansa
6. Orissa
7. Portugal
8. Lithuania
9. Muscovy
10. Austria
11. Great Britain
12. Aragon
13. Castille
14. Machu
15. Venice
16. Bohmia
17. Malacca
18. Gujarat
19. Jaunpur
20. Poland

Ming has been hammered and now doesn’t have enough really to defend herself (27k).

With 13k forces, we aren’t anywhere near big enough for stuff. This is actually one unit over our forcelimit.


Biggest Navies

1. Britain
2. Portugal
3. Castile
4. Aragon
5. Ottomans
6. Malacca
7. The Hansa
8. France
9. Netherlands
10. Ming
11. Venice
12. Genoa
13. Orissa
14. Naples
15. Kilwa
16. Morocco
17. Livonian Order
18. Malindi
19. Gelre
20. Siena
21. Korea

With 17, we are tied at 22nd with 3 other nations. Not bad. Want a bigger navy though.


Trade Goods, by Value

Silk
Iron
Fur
Dyes
Cocoa
Ivory
Cloth
Copper
Slaves
Wine
Tobacco
Sugar
Cotton
Coffee
Spices
Chinaware
Tea
Salt
Tropical Wood
Naval Supplies
Fish
Wool
Grain
Gold

[Abe Sargent]

Land:

Kamchatka – 14.68 gold
Penzhina – 5.04
Kagyrgyn – 9.25
Karalveyem – 10.85
Omolon – 5.67
Gizhiga – 24.76
Kolyma – 7.25
Yarmanka – 27.69
Suntar Khayata – 6.75
Tauisk – 3.09
Verkhoyansk – 7.02, Fur
Sakha – 7.25, Fur
Okhotsk – 17.10, Iron
Kharya – 1.97, Gold
Yakut – 12.43, Iron
Maya – 3.12, Iron

Colonies – Aldan (west of Maya, south of Yakut)
Chinook (Fish in southern part of area around former foes)

Nootka – Haida, Totemist, 0.69 gold, 3 taxvalue, gold, 75% autonomy,11.2% unrest
Aleut – 2.9 gold


Kamchadal California:

Cahuilla – 3.72 gold
Kumeyaay – 9.43
Chumash – 7.48
Salinan – 10.73
Miwok – 11.09
Pomo – 5.95

Chehalis – 3.44
Quileute – 4.17
Yakima – 2.84 (Shoshone, Totemist)
Salish – 1.97 (Totemist, Chinook)

[Abe Sargent]

Let’s look at some maps!

North America –










You can see us in the area around (modern Washington state and Oregon). California is there and happy as well. We’ve explored a lot more, and you can get a better sense of the players in the area.

[Abe Sargent]

Now Asia!










You can see a bit where we’ve expanded into Siberia. The nation to the far west with COVY over it is Muscovy. They’ve been colonizing down the western edge of Siberia and over Oirat Horde. Oirat has absorbed Sibir and is looking pretty nasty. With the second largest army in the world, I have no desire to tussle with them. We have no tech advantage. They have 120000 soldiers. We have 10% of that amount!

Korea/Machu/Ming/Oirat are in another of their unending wars. Ming has been defeated a few times, and you can see the Manchurian state just supplanting it someday.

I might add another colony or two down Siberia. These are poor territories, but they have good trade goods with their mines and furs. Just say no to wool and grain. And fish.



Alright, back to the dynasty, already in progress

[Abe Sargent]

16 Jan, 1645 – Most of our army has relocated from the New World.


15 May – We get a Successful Bureaucracy event again

24 June – Copper veins have been discovered in Aldan and we will have more mines built there.

14 July – Portugal has the Spice Trade super-event

Portugal want some of our provinces in the new world

12 Aug - I recall our colonist leader fro Chinook. Directly west of Yakut is Seganka. I send our colonists there.

1 Feb, 1646 – Constable in Maya

28 Aug – Road Network in Gizhiga

1 Dec – I hire Master Recruiter Yrgel Aksik, a military advisor with a level 1 capacity. He increases our manpower

1 June, 1647 – Chinook is now self sufficient. Hmmm….why isn’t this one going to our Colonial Nation? Ah, it went a few days later.


10 June -0 Nootka is now a core province!

I send in a Missionary to convert these folks

1 July – Tech Advance –


The Galleass (Dip 14)

We can build Brig and Galleass

I upgrade our fleet

[Abe Sargent]

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1648 – Workshop ordered for Maya

11 Apr – Fur trading in Seganka

3 June, 1649 – Aldan grows!


Aldan – The Copper Mines here make us 4.76 gold from the province’s 2 tax value. I order a Temple here immediately! Aldan is west of Maya, south of Yakut, east of Nukhtui and north of Stanovoy, the last two unclaimed by a major power.

I order a Marketplace in Maya and colonists to Kwakiutl, near Nootka.



27 June – I hunt down and kill all of the natives in Kwakiutl

1 Oct – New Tech:

Trunnions (Mil 13)

We get better artillery fire and shock. Better cannons. And we can build a Regimental Camp


Korea is badly breaking to some rebels

1 Nov – Korea is broken


4 June, 1650 – Marketplace for Aldan, Trade Depot for Maya

10 Aug – Our King has passed.


Atch-ytagyn is the new leader with a 6/2/4 attention to awesome.


I invest in a stability raise

Our investment, with our advisor, is a healthy 8/7/7

30 Aug – We head out and weaken some rebels in Salish that are messing with our bud the Colonial Nation of…us…and stuff?

[Abe Sargent]

5 July, 1651 – Uh oh. A Portuguese fleet, with an explorer, is sailing right by Kamchatka



6 Aug – Nootka is converted!

8 Oct –

Seganka – West of Yakut is this fun little fur trading spot south of Central Siberia’s wasteland. I order a Temple here and we are making 3.48 gold right now. South is Mukhtua, and south of that is the Oirat Horde.

I head West into Chuna

9 Apr, 1652 – Yuck. Fish in Kwakiutl


7 Dec – I get an event that Natives are not assisting in a local fur trading colony and we lose about 25 gold

1 Jan, 1653 – Rebels in Colima have won independence as Mixtec


13 Sept – Constable in Seganka; Aldan

15 Oct – Natives in Chuna rise up

22 Dec – I kill the natives in Chuna and prevent that from happening again

[Abe Sargent]

17 July, 1654 – New Idea – National Arsenal, +25% Naval Forcelimits

Just two more until I finish this idea group and get a major bonus to our situation

9 Dec – Excellent Year gives us a bunch of manpower

1 Feb, 1655 – Workshop in Seganka, Aldan

1 Mar – Iron found in Chuna!

1 May –


Kwakiutl – 2 tax value in this fishing town, 1.93 made, across the bay from us in Nootka, and we kept it. I wanna expand here.

Next up is Squamish, next to Salish, and could divert to Kamchadal California when built.


2 June - I end the lives of the natives in Squamish

I send a colonist to begin make nice with Muscovy

2 Dec – Tech advance, and get ready!



Treasury Office and Town Hall (Admin 14)

Can build Town Hall, Treasury and get another Group of Ideas!


Ones I like? Expansion’s immediate +1 Colonist as soon as we invest the first thing into it. Diplomatic’s immediate return of a Diplomat for the same We need diplomats badly to keep every one happy (Ming, Oirat, Muscovy, Japan, Manchu, Korea maybe, Portugal, Britain, Castile, and others like New Castile or Colima – not enough diplomats for that.)

I still need two Ideas in my Quantity Ideas, No military for right now. Hmmm….

Expansion Ideas. I have too!

22 Feb, 1656 – Marketplace for Seganka, Trade Depot for Aldan

Alright time to save for a major, major, major project

I get +9 gold monthly despite my over-cap military, advisor, and two colonies. So, for now, I cut my land maintenance in half in order to get some fast cash. I already have more than 200 gold. So let’s jack up my cash flow as quickly and as much as we can afford


I have an idea.


12 Dec – Rush of Colonists Event occurs

[Abe Sargent]

4 Mar, 1657 – Huge Yi Nationalists all over Ming

11 Aug – New Tech

The Galleon (Dip 15)

We get +50 colonial range, better naval morale, setter growth, we can use early frigates and galleons and get more expensive boats



4 Oct – Maxed relations with Muscovy


1 Feb 1658 –


Chuna – Iron mining is fun! 1 tax value but 3.51 gold from the Arctic land. West of us in Seganka. I intend to expand in two directions from this later (West to Uchamin, South to East Tunguska) but for now let’s head back out to the New World to finish this thang up out there!


Colonists dispatched to Heiltsuk, between Kwakiutl and Squamish

10 Mar – I kill all of the natives in Heiltsuk

16 Mar – Fur trading picks up in Squamish

14 Dec – We get a Poor Quality Copper event and that increases artillery cost for a few years

1 May, 1659 – Idea – Forced Labor - -20% Building Power Cost

Just one more quality idea


23 June – I get an Importing Naval Supplies Event. I choose to compromise with our Trade Company, increase their opinion with us, and gain some power all over the place.

1 July – Another revolter from Colima takes 5 provinces with it, Tarascan

1 Nov – Get ready:

Additional Colonists (Expansion Idea) - +1 Colonist

And we completed the Siberian Idea path with…

Hunting Expansion - +20% Global Settler Increase