EU4 – Dynasty with Theodoro - FINISHED - Nov. 11, 1444 - Jan. 3, 1821

[Abe Sargent]

The 100 Year Review:


Maps

Here’s the Black and Caspian Seas Area




As you can see, I have lands from Crimea to the Southern Caspian Sea all connected. Georgia is between those holdings, and you can see the last holding of Trebizond and our junior partner Imerti on the Black Sea and our ally of Russia and the Commonwealth, and I lost Sinop on Turkey.

Here’s a zoomed out map centered on the area




Here is the Zoomed out map. Russia is in Scandinavia, Denmark has removed multiple holdings, the Ottomans keep pushing further and further, you can see how great the advancing Mamluks are, as well as India is now shown. Great Britain has formed.

I am making 7.17 monthly after costs, and I am saving to build a Manufactory

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:

I have 30 units out of a max of 32, 4k cannon, 8k cavalry and 18k infantry.

I have 16 boats out of a forcelimit of 22 I lost some ships to the Ottomans when they attacked me out of nowhere. I have 3 Carracks, 7 transport Cogs, and 6 Galleys

Tech – 10/9/12 – 31 total

Ideas – All 21 are done

The Ottomans are making the most cash at 160, and we are making 29.22 since most of my area are low dev and poor resources. I am making:

14.04 Tax
8.97 Production
6.05 Trade

The Ottomans are the most developed at 1033 total development, we have 329

The most techs is Two Sicilies with 36, 5 more than us

The Great Powers

1. Ming
2. Ottomans
3. Great Britain
4. France
5. Spain
6. Mamluks
7. Russia
8. Commonwealth

At 9 is Portugal

We are ranked a solid 14th.

Religious Stuff –

Orthodox is 5 nations, 239 holdings

We are the Defender of the Faith

I have 36 holdings, and only lost one, Sinop.

Top Ten Provinces by Taxes:

Crimea – 13.65
Terak – 9.75
Bessarabia – 9.75
Suceava - 9.75
Tabriz - 8.85
Theodoro- 7.80
Yedishkul – 7.80
Kyzyl-Yar – 7.70
Rasht - 7.27
Caffa - 7.20

Our Top Ten Provinces by Production:

Suceava – 10.05
Crimea – 8.52
Theodoro- 8.30
Caffa – 8.30
Tabriz – 6.22
Yedishkul – 5.89
Kyzyl-Yar – 5.81
Iasi – 5.31
Kuma - 5.24
Birlad – 4.55


With 140k the Ottomans have the largest army, Russia has 82k

Venice has the largest navy with 85 ships. UK has 84 one behind

Our nation is 80.5% Orthodox, 2.7% Coptic, 5.5 Shia and 11.1 Sunni

Our cultures with at least 5%

Crimean 21.1
Circassian – 7.3
Dagestani – 14.5%
Turkish – 7.3
Mazandarani – 8.4
Azerbaijani – 14.4
Romanian – 13.3
Pontic – 7.0
Gothic – 5.2


Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Traded Value

1. Genoa
2. Sevilla
3. Venice
4. English Channel
5. Rheinland
6. Champagne
7. Lubeck
8. Constantinople
9. Wien
10. Caribbean

Our holding Crimea is 12th best

Trade Goods Current Value:

4.50 – Coffee, Copper
4.37 – Paper
4.0 - Dyes, Silk, Cocoa, Ivory
3.75 – Sugar
3.60 – Cloth
3.30 – Salt
3.00 – Gems, Glass, Tobacco, Cotton, Spices, Chinaware, Tea, Slaves, Iron
2.7 – Fur
2.5 – Livestock, Wine
2.12 – Incense
2.0 – Grain, Fish, Tropical Wood, Naval Supplies, Wool

I have so much grain and wool, livestock and wine

There are no coalitions against us.

Because of how rare Coptic is I am not converting them

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 41 - Buying Land from Russia


I fabricate another claim for war #3 against Ajam.

1 Feb 1545 – New Tech – DIP TECH 10 – The Flute – Increased trade range, trade efficiency and we can build Flutes and War Galleys

I upgrade my six Galleys to wars for 60 cash

The Commonwealth is deep into a war with the Ottomans and they are losing

1 April – I grant a Great Synod and gain 5 authority and 10 relations with the clergy

27 April – I claim Golestan from Transoxiana

1 June – I order a Manufactory Farm Estate in Bender

18 Dec – Four cores finished

I order a Church in Amol

1 Feb, 1546 – Russia is offering to sell us the next door province Ekaterinoslav for 50.



I agree and buy it. I’ve pulled it up so you can see where it is.

Mansur – We rename it – 8 dev, Crimean culture which is accepted, Orthodox, accepted, this is in a state we already have, 90% autonomy, 0.03 made here, Livestock

Thanks Russia! I’ll do that all day long.

I order Mieneh, Zanjan and Sari to be converted

28 March- Two last cores are done, I raise Azerbaijan to a state

13 April – Our Commonwealth spy is discovered, I pull him

5 Aug – I order a Workshop in Iasi

15 Oct – Another claim on Ajem

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 42 - A New King


20 Jan, 1547 -I declare the last possible holding of Transoxiana and then pull my diplomat

16 March - Conversions in Zanjan and Mieneh; I order Missionaries to Amol

Workshop ordered in Kuma which has a Weapons Manufactory

22 Aug – Sari converts! I order a Workshop here

I’m now making 13 cash a month after bringing in coring, stating and converting those holdings.

1 Feb, 1548 – I max relations with Russia and called back my diplomats and make nice with Venice.

Genoa has expanded into North Africa and has four holdings there.

1 April – New Tech – ADMIN TECH 11 – Textile Manufactory – I can build them to increase my cloth, dyes, or silk provinces.

1 May – Our leader the King has died.

Our stability drops and I raise it.

Alexios V is the new King, 3/3/5 abilities, 33 years old, Righteous ability which increases legitimacy +1 annually

Queen Sotiria, 21 years old, 1/3/3

Heir – Skantarios, 0 years old, 3/0/4

We get an event that Sotiria is from Crimea and it gets boosts until her death.

I renew our marital vows with Russia

4 May - Mansur is now a core!

14 May – RM with Georgia

26 May - Ajam discovers our spy network so I pull out and make nice with Portugal

I am building up for a Textile Manufactory in my new area

10 Aug – Amol converts

1 April, 1549 – I order a Textile Manufactory in Silk holding Rasht.

1 Oct - I max relations with Venice at 55 and I pull back my diplomat, next is making nice with Austria

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 43 - Friends with the Turks


1 Jan, 1550 – the Printing Press Institution is here

50 maxed relations with Portugal next is France

5 Mar –Event - I ease tension in an event with the Turks and raise them to just -3.

I promote relations with the Ottomans

I have enough for another Manufactory, but I’ll hold off on my next Manufactory as I am about to get to Dip Tech 11

1 Nov – Government Reform #6 – Deliberative Assembly, I have 7 options. I can create a parliament, install clergy, create a republic, become a theocracy, etc.

I don’t like many of these. I choose the generic Estates General, and we get 10% all estates loyalty, +5 autonomy and +10% monthly reform progress.

1 Dec – New Tech – DIP TECH 11 – The Wharf - I can build Naval Equipment Manufactories that double Naval Supplies, Fish and Salt. I also get a boost to colonial range by 100.

I build this in Crimea with it’s salt.

1 April, 1551 – New Tech – MIL TECH 13 – Trunnians – better artillery fire, shock and better cannon, I order a upgrade.

1 June - With a relation of 50, I max my relations with Austria and pull back my diplomats

14 Aug – The ruler of Trebizond has died, another RM is offered

1 Sept – Relations maxed with France at 50, next is Denmark

1 Jan, 1552 – Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Yedischul ordered.

1 June – We maxed relations with the Ottomans at 112. They accept military access. They cannot declare war on us while we have access.

Next is Imereti

1 Nov – New Tech – ADMIN TECH 12 – Early Modern Administration – I can build state houses and I get bonus governing capacity.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 44 - The Third Theodoro-Ajam War

1 April, 1553 – Relations maxed with Denmark at 55, next is UK

1 August - Our peace treaty with Ajam, Oman, Syria and Nogai is up. I declare war for Teheran

1 Sept – I arrive in their capital and begin battle with an 11k size army

10 Sept – We win and begin the siege of Qom

2 Oct- Three minors have fallen

10 Dec – Qom is ours I order to the Fort of Ilam

22 Dec – 11k Syria forces arrive in Bessarabia and begin sieging me

30 Mar, 1554 – We capture Ilam, I have a warscore of 29 I keep pushing

I order myself to join the siege at the Syria capital

19 July – Battle begins in Ardakan

22 July – We win

19 Oct – I have a warscore of 47 – what can I get?

I can get my next six targets:



As you can see, I am getting three cheap holdings next to Tabriz that was already made a state and then four together in the state Iraq-e-Ajam that is able to be made into one state.

War ends. I order up cores.

Tabriz State

Khoy – Next to Georgia, Tabriz,Soran, 5 dev, wool, Mountain, Sunni, Azerbaijani, 0.11 made here

Maragheh – Next to Tabriz, Soran, Ajam, Mountainous, Wool, 5 dev, 0.01 made here


Iraq-e-Ajam State

Teheran – Silk, Entrepot, center of trade, Drylands, 17 dev, workshop. 0.11 made here, Sunni faith, Persian culture, internal

Savah – Grain, Drylands, 7 dev, Sunni and Persian here as well, 0.02 made here, next to Ajam

Qom – Former capital -Drylands, Cloth makers, 12 dev, Persian and Sunni here, 0.05 made here, next to Ajam

Semnan – Next to Ajam and Transoxiana, Desert, 6 dev, Gems, Persian, Sunni, 0.2 made here,


I order a Textile Manufactory for the Dyes in Ardabil

I stop relations improvement in Imereti and will begin a spy network in Transoxiana.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 45 - A New Rival

1 Nov, 1554 - Ajam is not a good rival anymore. I order another spy network with it.

My new rival is Two Sicilies

1 March, 1555 – We max relations with the UK

1 March, 1556 – I order a Textile Manufactory for Silk in Sari. I cut my land maintenance to really rain in cash. I am making 18.86/month,

1 Aug – I claim from Ajam the silk in Kashan

23 Oct – Cores finished in Khoy and Maragheh

1 Dec – We claim a 3rd holding in Transoxiana and I pull my diplomat and send it to Soran

1 March, 1557 – Tabriz increased dev to 20 by investing 150 mil, and then that creates space for a Textile Manufactory.

21 June -Savah and Teheren are cores!

I order a missionary to Teheren and Savah

1 Sept - Tech Increase – DEP TECH 12 – Man o War – We get better naval morale, engagement and we can build Coastal Batteries

21 Oct – Qom and Semnan are cored! I upgrade these four to a state, Missionary ordered to Qom

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 46 - A New Ally


1 May, 1558 – Naval Equipment Manufactory for Salt in Kyzyl-Yar.

1 June – I claim another holding in Soren

I pull this diplomat back for making nice with Spain.

The Ottomans are all over the Commonwealth right now

1 Oct – New Tech – ADMIN TECH 13 – Improved Drainage - +2 Production

6 Oct – The Ottomans made the Commonwealth release the Orthodox holding of Kiev. They agree to our alliance and are next to our Moldavian holdings and Mansur.

8 Nov – Royal Marriage

16 Nov – Savah converts! Next is Semnan

11 Jan, 1559 – I spend some MIL to drop a rebellion risk, since I have cut my army maintenance.

17 Feb – Teheren converts! Next is Soltanieh

11 Mar – Qom converts!

The last three recently converted and cannot be converted again this quickly.

8 May – I make nice with Kiev

1 July – Textile Manufactory in Lahijan

Big war with Ajam and Soran.

14 Jan, 1560 – Our other two conversions are complete.

Georgia annexed Imerte

1 April – I max relations with Spain!

6 June – Event – 60 DIP Power

1 Sept – I order a Textile Manufactory in Amol for it’s Silk

1 Dec – I fabricate another claim in Ajam

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 47 - The War for Kashan


1 Feb, 1561 – Another Rebellion ended with MIL power.

21 March- We kick out Soran building a spy network

1 May – Pretender rebellions in Kiev

12 May - Soran took much of Ajam, and made them release a bunch of vassals

We have back:

Two provinces unconnected called The Timurids we have a claim on next to us in the Silk province Kashan, allied with three province Fars.

Khorasan next to us, with a core since we cored them.

Yazd – One province, paper, we do not have a core


I raise my military maintenance back up

1 Aug – I declare war on the Timurids for Kashan, do not call on my allies.

23 Sept – Kashan is mine

14 Oct – I win a battle against Fars

17 Dec – I begin a siege on Fars’ capital

15 Jan, 1562 – I order a Silk helping Textile Manufactory in Teheran

22 Jan, Shiraz falls to us

17 Feb – I grant the Mamluks military access

I have a 67 warscore, I take:

Kashan and War Reparations

Here’s my new holding:



Kashan - It’s 7 dev, Mountains, Silk, Persia, Sunni, 0.17 made here, next to Ajem and Khorson

I send Missionaries to Qazvim

I maxed relations with Kiev and I pull them back

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 48 - The Inter-War Period

19 Mar, 1562 – Event- I choose +2% missionary strength

22 Nov – Qazvim converts!

I order a Church in Sari and a Workshop in Bender

1 Dec – Rebellion in Maragheh

14 Dec – Defeated

26 Feb, 1563 - I claim Ajem’s Isfahan south of Kashan

1 May – My heir has developed Loose Lips

Workshop for Mianeh and Zanjan

1 June - I begin the Golden Era! This will last for 50 Years and give us loads of boosts including +10 naval morale, army morale, -10% Power costs, and more

Soran is deep in a war with the Ottomans.

1 Feb – 1564 - I order:

Workshop in Qazvin, Church in Qom

1 May – Our peace treaty with Nogai, Syria and Ajam is over

22 May – Event Business is Booming - +5% trade efficiency

19 Aug – Fars takes two holdings from Ajam in peace

Isfanhan that was Ajam was released in peace and is now the one province holding Isfahan, with independence guaranteed by Fars

22 Aug – I accept an offer for military access by Syria

I claim Ajam’s Hamadan next to me which is a cloth province.

1 Sept – Peace with Soran and The Ottomans – they lost 4 provinces

I move my army over

21 Oct – Kashan is now a core! I order a Missionary here, I do not enstate it

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 49 - Removing Soran and Khorasan from the Map


8 Dec – I declare war for Soran’s Urmia which is in my Tabriz state

Their ally Khorason joins them, I call in mine

9 Feb, 1565 - I win two minors and move to the Fort of Ilam

10 Mar – I rout the Khorason army in Kashan and I move into their capital with my other army.

25 May- I decline an offer for Military access for the Turks for their war against the Mamluks

1 June- I lose my claim on Azov

1 Aug – New Tech – DIP TECH 13 – Chartered Companies – We can build the Brig ship and get +2% trade

5 Sept – Ilam falls to us!

9 Nov – Every Soran holding is ours, I order my main army to join my siege in Khorason’s capital

1 Dec – Iraq has formed from rebels in QQ and it’s no longer

6 Jan, 1566 - I order Workshop in Lahijan, Amol, Textile Manufactory for the Silk in Qazvin

14 Jan – Kashan converts!

15 Mar- We capture Khorason’s Ardakan

I have a 100% warscore, shopping time!

My warscore to take both Khorason and Soran off the map is 66, and I can get them all for 75 DIP power. That’s 10 provinces and gives me a massive 85 badboy which would need great cleaning, and create a potential warmongering queue of Ajam, Fars, Transoxiana, Isfahan and Syria. I want to do it, but many of these holdings are pretty minor, like two grain farmers.

Alright, let’s do it:



Here they are, but I’ll need to be a big boy, I also share 170 cash. I order cores.

Ardakan – Incense, 4 dev, Mountains, next to Transoxiana, same state as Khasan, Persian Sunnis here, make 0.01

Urmia – Also Mountains, church, wine growers, Tabriz state Kurdish culture, Sunni faith,makes us0.03

Suleilymainiyah – Wool, highlands, 6 dev next to what the Turks took from Soran, 0.06, Kurdish an Sunni

Ardalan – Inner,7 dev, cloth, mountains, Kurdish, Sunni, 0.03 made

Kirmanshah – Next to Ajam, cloth makers here too, mountains, 5 dev, Sunni, Luri culture

Ilam - Castle, wool growers, highlands, 5 dev, Kurdish, Sunni, 0.01 made here,

Khorramabad – Next to two Ajam holdings, 7 dev, Mountains, Luri, Sunni, 0.04 made here.

Hoveyah – Next to Iraq, Basra, Ajam, swamp, grain, 9 dev, Sunni, Mashriqi culture

Qayaniyah – Next to Turks and Iraq, grasslands, 7 dev, Cotton growers, Shia and Mashriqi culture, makes 0.02

Wasit – Next to Iraq, Basra, 12 dev, Farmlands, grain farmers, 0.03 cash, Sunni and Mashriqi culture.

I begin building up a spy network in Basra

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 50 - Russia's War Against Qasim

1 May, 1566 – New tech- MILITARY TECH 14 - Tenaille – We get bonus combat width, infantry power, and better cavalry and I can upgrade castles to bastions. i order my troops upgraded

I order a Bastion in Bessarabia and Crimea

1 oct – I claim Azov again and pull these and begin building up a spy network in Iraq

23 Dec – Event, I gain 100 DIP

1 Feb, 1567 – I order: Weapons Manufactory for Iron in Lakia

1 Nov – Another claim in Transoxiana; I pull this diplomat

20 Jan, 1568 – I begin working on a second army, I have 10k in Ardakan and 19k in Ilam. And I want to build up each into threats, I have a forcelimit of 46k and I only have 29k

1 Feb – I claim Baghdad in Iraq, which is next to me and pull these folks outs

13 March – I get a Noble Families Feud event and I spend 33 DIP power to stop the battle.

4 Sept – Our peace against the Timurids and Fars has finished

14 Sept – Russia has declared war on Qasim and their ally Nogai calls for us for aid, which I give, I order my army from Ilam to the border

23 Dec – Three cores done, Missionary ordered to Urmia

1 Jan, 1569 – New tech – ADMIN TECH 14 – Scientific Experimentation – We get the ability to build Plantation Manufactory that doubles the production of things like Sugar, Cotton and Coffea and Tea. Then I can get another Group of Ideas - what do I want?

Economic?
Naval or Maritime?
Offensive?


I do Offensive, we could use boosts to my military for my many battles.

10 Jan We arrive in Qasim’s capital and help the ongoing siege

2 Feb – I have a 25k large army in Ardakan

I am still making 17.58 cash

7 April – We capture the capital of Qasim

I order this army to Nogai

18 April – Cores finished

I create the State of Luristan which has four of these that we took

I order Missionaries for Qaziniya’s Cotton and Ilam’s fort

2 July – I have capture two minor Nogai holdings, they have been beat by Transoxiana

19 Aug – Event – I gain 50 DIP

3 Sept – Another Nogai is ours and I order my forces to join a siege by Kiev

30 Sept- I downgrade Circassia as an accepted culture, order my 4 provinces to change to Gothic, and then promote Persian

1 Oct – I claim Basra’s Ahvaz on the Persian Gulf

5 Oct – I begin our siege in Nogai

15 Nov – Captured

21 Nov – Urmia converts! Next isWasit

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 51 - Another Russian Purchase

9 Jan, 1570 – We capture Siber

10 Feb – With a 92 war score Russia goes to peace and takes one holding from Qasim and 6 from Nogai

I order my army back home

1 March – Claim against the second and last holding of Ajam

I order:

Farm Estate in Azarba for it’s Livestock
Church in Teheren
Workshop in Qom
 
25 Mar – Ilam converts – next is Khoy

27 March- Event – Foreign Mercenaries, I choose to hire them and then my army professionalism rises by 5 but my relations with Genoa drop 50

1 April – Offensive Idea #1 – Bayonet Leaders – We get Land Leader Shock +1

1 May – I lose a claim on Transoxiana called Golestan, I order my spy network built back up

13 July – Conversion is successful in Qazaniya and next is Maragheh

1 Oct - I send a gift to Kiev to max our relations

2 Nov – It won’t join me as a vassal, we have 77 points against and 57 in favor

19 Dec – Our army arrives back at Ilam

31 Dec -Khoy converts, next is Ardakan

24 Jan, 1571 – Our first three provinces in Carcassia are now Gothic

28 Feb – I get another offer to buy a Russian province next to me this time for 200 gold. Here I’ll show.



They are offering 200 cash for Novocherkassk. I agree.

I order a Core. We rename it it’s Crimean Name:

Tyn- 12 dev, livestock, Azov state which I already have made a state, church, an accepted Crimean cultus and Orthodox, they make us 0.08 in cash with 90% autonomy.

1 Mar- I purchase with my leftover cash a Manufactory in Kuban a Form State for it’s Livestock

26 March - Wasit converts, next is Ardalan

22 April – Maragheh is converted, next is Kirmanshah

16 Nov – Circassia is now Gothic, all have changed

1 Dec – Ardakon converts, next is Hovezah

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 52 - The Interlude Between the Stars


1 Mar, 1572 – I order a Manufactory for Qom’s Cloth a Textile Manufactory

27 Mar – Kirmanshah converts, next is Khorrambad

29 April – Event - Liturgical Reform – I choose to support and boosts with muh c;ergy and 5 authority

1 May – Rebellion in Sulaimaniyah of 9 k, I have 19k next door

21 May – We arrive and oust them

I claim my holding from Transoxiana again

21 June – We convert Ardalan next is Sulaimaniyah

1 Sept- I claim Basra’s Shatt

1 Feb, 1573 – I order a Farm estate for Matrega’s Livestock

8 Mar - Conversion in Hoveyah and Khorrambad

1 May - Our King gains the Well Advised trait

Offensive Idea #2 – National Conscripts – I get -10% recruitment time

1 June- Tyn is now a core! The amount I am getting here is now .69

20 June – Our diplomat in Transoxiana was found and they kick him out. I Send him to improve relations with Russia.

Yazd was absorbed by Transoxiana


1 Sept – Sulaimaniyah has converted and every holding we grabbed from the last war is cored and faithed.

Iraq’s ally is now at war with the Turks, Syria, so I move my army over, I want Baghdad

23 Oct – I have 24k in Wasit and my 26k army from Ardakan is enroute

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 53 - The War for Baghdad



17 Dec, 1573 – I declare war for Iraq’s Baghdad.

Their other two provinces are wool and Livestock, but Baghdad is a center of trade, cloth making holding.

Ready for war?

I move my 26k Ardakan army into Baghdad

5 Jan,1574 – We rout the 6k Iraqi army in Karbala

6 Feb – We capture the minor holding of Karbala

17 Mar – The minor holding of Haditha is ours, and I order my 24k army to Syria

7 May – The minor holding of Sinjar in Syria is ours and I head next door to the Fort of Ar-Raqqah that Georgia is already besieging

7 June – I decline a request for access by Basra to fight The Mamlusk since they are likely my next foe after Baghdad.

25 June – Baghdad is ours and I have a war score of 26. Can I get what I want?

Yup, I want Baghdad and the province that connects it and the unpassable desert to prevent the Ottomans or the Mamluks to slip past us.



Both are in the same state as Qazniya. I got for peace and order two cores.

I pull my army back from Syria but leave my big one here in Baghdad.

Baghdad – 11 dev, farmlands, Shia faith, Mashriqi culture, cloth makers, next to Iraq and us and the Ottomans and Basra, They have a center of trade, level 1 emporium, church, marketplace, and make for us 0.06 wit 85% autonomy

Karbala – Next to wasteland, Iraq, Basra, 8 dev, desert, Shia, Mashriqi, 0.04 made here in the wool trade, it has a church and a unique building called “Imam Hussein and Al-Abbas’s Holy Shrines.”

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 54 - Joining the Great Powers

1 July, 1574 – I order with my money I didn’t spend during the war:

Farm Estate for Soltanieh’s Wine
Farm Estate for Mansurs’ Livestock

11 July -Event – Anticlericalism – I side with the clergy, gain 163 cash, influence and loyalty from them but lose it from the burghers.

17 July - Shia rebels have risen in Basra

I order my diplomat to build up spy network in Iraq, for their last holdings, but it’s next to Mamluks, the Ottomans and low value, so this is just an excuse to war with Iraq if I need to.

3 August – Kiev is now a vassal of Russia.

1 Sept – At 114 our relations improvement with Russia finishes, next is making nice with Denmark who views us as friends

1 April, 1575 – I give military access to Yas in the Arabian peninsula

I order a Farm Estate for Livestock in Matrega

I finish a mission to build manufactories and I get 1116 ducats and +10% production for 25 years

1 Sept – I embrace the institution of the printing press and drop my tech minuses

New tech:

DIP TEC 14 – The Galless – I can build that ship and Trade Station which is a manufactory for traded goods like Fur, Spices, Slaves and Ivory.

I order a Trade Station in the Spice holding of Zanjan which will increase my cash there by 1.04 monthly

I upgrade my ships to Galless’s for 84

1 Oct, 1575 – Ready?



We have become a great power! We get four enhanced abilities:

1. Taking on another nations debt
2. Making them break alliances
3. Influence them to raise their tech and love of me
4. Intervene in a war

Get ready for the next era of this dynasty!

1 Nov - I max relations with Denmark at +65 and pull my diplomat

I claim Iraq’s last province

16 November – I spend 60 cash to Influence Nation on Trebizond

26 Nov – I spend 67 to influence Kiev

7 Dec – I order a diplomat to build a spy network against The Timurids

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 55 - A New King


2 Feb, 1576 – I order an Adyghe Farm Estate for Livestock

21 March – The Mamluks took out Basra in their war save for one holding next to me at Samawat a Spices province.

31 Mar – The Mamluks have announced us as a rival

1 April - I claim Samawat

1 Nov – Offensive Idea #3 – Superior Firepower - +1 Land Leader Fire

1 Jan, 1577 – I order a Farm Estate in Circassia for Livestock

10k Iraqi Separatist rebellion in Baghdad

8 Jan – Done

26 Feb – Core finished in Baghdad

It’s Shia conversion is too recent and new Missionaries won’t take for a while

27 June – Karbala is a core, I raise a state with it, Baghdad and the previously taken Qazinya, and they are now ready.

Missionary ordered for Karbalal

1 Jan, 1578 – I order a Farm Estate for Livestock in Khundzia

I claim the Commonwealth’s Jedysan on the Black Sea again as all of my cores dried-up

4 Feb – Our King has passed.

Our New King:

Skontarios with a 3/0/4 skillset, age 29, Loose Lips

Queen:

Photine, 2/1/5, Age 32,

Heir:

Alexios, 3/5/3, age 0



Royal Marriage renewed with Trebizond , Russia and Georgia

1 May – I fabricate a claim on the Timurids’ Abarquh, next to me, in a state I already have, but just 4 dev and Livestock so not really a target of key interest.

I send these dfiplomats back to Transoxiana

23 May – Event – Interest in the Military, I invest it in the army and gain 200 MIL Power

Offensive Idea #4 – Glorious Arms – I get +100% prestige for wining battles

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 56 - A New Ally

1 Jan, 1579 – I order Textile Manufactory for Cloth in Baghdad

13 May – I don’t know why, but Gujurat announced us as a rival

30 Sept – Karbala converts!

1 Jan, 1580 – I order a Farm Estate for Livestock in Terek.

New tech: ADMIN TECH 15 – Military Administration – I can order my forces to do a forced march and I can build Soldier’s Households

1 Mar – I claim the Commonwealth’s Oczakow on the Black Sea

1 April – I claim Transoxiana’s Yazd, which has paper

19 June – I send a gift to Basra

20 July – I spend 60 to Influence Basra

24 Aug – We enter into an alliance with Basra

25 Sept – I begin to improve relations with Basra

1 Jan, 1581 – Transoxiana is at war with some folks and I offer military access to:

Isfahan
Syria
Ajam

I order a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Fish in Astara

1 April – I claim The Commonwealth’s Zaporze

1 May – Our truce with Iraq and Syria is up

Offensive Idea #5 – Engineer Corps – I get +20% siege ability

10 May – Event – Reduce the Admin of the Church - I choose Protect their Independence and gain 5 authority and 10 influence.

2 June - How is my badboy looking? I took Baghdad in 1564, 17 years ago.

We still need to give it some time. Everyone left the anti-Theodoro coalition.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 57 - Bringing in Basra


My next war is likely to be Transoxiana, right?

Their armies: 79k,
I have 51k, and my forcelimit is 51k exactly
Their allies are far away Afghanistan, Kashmir and then Oirat.
We have Russia on their flank with 80k
We have Georgia nearby with 27k

They have near me armies of 10k, 2 at 21k and 27k right be me with their war.

The Mamluks have just 33k, so that’s more doable, and then we can grab the old Basran holdings that include the Center of Trade Basra, a Spice province, Sugar, and more, and then their allies are Yemen, Tunis, Mahra, Mogadishu

The Mamluks, that makes sense next. I could just take the two I have claims on from Basra and then the former capital itself which is the COT.

I also need to cut off the Transoxiana blob from coming further west, and they are next to the former Basra and now Mamluks.

I order my 26k army from Baghdad to Hoveyah next to Basra’s two holdings I have claims on and then my 25k army from Aradakan on the Transoxiana border to Wasit next to my new ally of Basra in Samawat and the Mamluks’ holding of Shatt.


2 Aug, 1581 – I recall my diplomat from building up a spy network in Commonwealth to get ready for our war

3 Oct – My 51k troops are ready, I declare War for The Mamluks’ holding of Shatt. I call Georgia and Russia, but not Basra, since our alliance is too new and I don’t have enough favors and I want to keep it out of the war for future vassalization. Georgia is close enough to help out, and Russia can war with central Asian powers like the Oirat Horde and Afghanistan.

I order my forces over into Shatt and Ahvaz


4 Nov - I capture Shatt and head to the COT in Basrah next.

7 Nov – Ahvaz is ours and I order this army to help with the siege in Basrah

13 Nov – We arrive and the siege of Basrah has begun. I spend 40 MIL power to breach their walls with a cannon fusillade to speed this up.

13 Dec – Basrah falls. I order my armies next door to Grane.

24 Dec – I leave behind my 25k army to capture Grane and my 26k one next door to the Fort of Qatif

5 Jan, 1582 – The siege of Qatif has begun. I order a military barrage for this one as well.

18 Jan – Grane is ours, I order this army to help in the siege of Qatif

28 Jan – I accept an offer for military access from Syria at war with Transoxiana

1 Feb – Qatif falls!

I order my armies to take on minor holdings

We have a warscore of 7, but my three holdings that I want only have a 15 warscore.

19 Mar – Two Arabian minors are mine

21 May – Georgia is besieging the main area of the Mamluks in the Levant and they have taken 5 minor holdings.

8 June – Two more minors fall to us and I order my two armies to besiege the fort of Makkah

1 July – The siege of Makkah has begun, I order an artillery barrage

17 July – Our spy network in Transoxiana is found and I pull it back.

2 Nov – I max relations with Basra at a nice 128

1 Feb, 1583 – A rebellion of 12k hits Ahvaz

7 Feb – Makkah falls!

I have a warscore of 28% is this enough for peace?



Yes it is, plus some cash as well! I get my three holdings.

I order my armies to Ahvaz to help with the rebellion here. I order up cores for the two that I can, I cannot to Ahvaz under siege.

Shatt – Spice trade, next to Basra and a wasteland, marsh, arid, Shia faith, Mashriki culture, 7 dev, 0.03 made here. In the State of Basra.

Ahvaz – Under siege, 11 dev, Sugar grown here, drylands, Shia and Mashriki people here as well, 0.04 made here. Next to four Transoxiana holdings. Persian Gulf. In the state of Khuszestan,

Basra – The real thing – Center of Trade, castle, church, marketplace, marsh, natural harbor, Euphrates Estuary, 11 dev, Shia faith, Mashriki people, Salt trade, they give us 0.05 and Basra State too.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 58 - Empowering Economic Theory


Nice! Basra as a Center of Trade was the real target here. I pull my merchant from Alexandria only making me 0.14 and send it to Basra to collect trade.

We now have a connected line from the central northern part of the Black Sea in Crimea west to the Caspian Sea and then south to the Persian Gulf.

With my cash and stuff I order:

Textile Manufactory for Silk in Kashan
Textile Manufactory for Wool in Kabardia

13 Mar – Basran Separatists capture Ahvaz

31 Mar – Sensing weakness the Ottomans have declared war on the Mamluks.

1 Apr – I order a spy network built up in The Mamluks

I am getting 4.39 in trade from trade in Basra.

27 April – We defeat the rebels in Ahvaz; I order one army back to Ardakan on the Transoxiana border.

19 May – We capture Ahvaz and order a core here

26 June -I send a diplomat to make nice with Venice.

1 Jan, 1584 – I order a Farm Estate for Grain in Savah

11 Jan – Event – Improve the capital? If I want, I can spend 2500 manpower to increase the taxbase in Theodoro by one. I do so.

22 Feb – Transoxiana no longer declares us as a rival.

26 July – Event – Supplies needed for the Cossacks, I choose to send them 250 and get boosts to relations

1 Aug – I claim Grane by the Mamluks next door to us. It’s only 3 dev Fishing, but that gives me a Conquest casus belli.

1 Nov – I can enact another Government Reform:

Level 7 – Economical Matters – I have seven options. I can embrace free trade or curtail the burghers. I really like two:

Embrace the Economic Theory - +10% production; +0.10 inflation reduction

Or

Empower the Burghers - +5% Trade Efficiency and Global Trade Power; +5% Burgher loyalty and +10 to their influence

Either of those works for me. Let’s look at the math:

Current Revenue Streams:

Taxes – 24.92
Production - 42.29
Trade after Basra – 12.54

Well that tells to do the production boosting one.

We embrace the economic theory.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 59 - Coring Away

1 Jan, 1585 - I order Textile Manufactory for Wool in Alania

1 Feb – At 65 we max relations with Venice and I head next to make nice with Austria

12 Mar – I find and expel a spy from The Mamluks

1 April – Our truce with the Timurids and Qasim has ended

1 Dec – Our influence on Kiev ends and I extend it

8 Dec – Shatt’s core is done; it cannot take Missionaries until 1597.

28 Dec – Russia has declared war on Nogai and their ally Qasim, I join them Nogai are in war with the Oirat Horde, so this is an attack of opportunity, I order my 26k in Ardakan to head to Qasim.

11 Jan, 1586 – I get an event that loses 10 prestige

1 Mar – I claim The Mamluks’ holding of Qatif, it’s just 4 dev fish port with a fort, but it does have a natural harbor.

26 March – Ahvaz is a core! I order a Missionary here. I have kept my 25k army here. I update it to a state and join in Hoveyah.

1 April- 12k revolt in Basra, I order my army over from Ahvaz

28 April – We arrive and put down the rebellion

30 April – Basra is now a core! I state-ify Basra with Shatt and Wasit, and then I order the castle upgraded to a Bastion.

22 May – We arrive in Qasim’s capital and join the small siege.

1 August – New Idea – Offensive #6 – Grand Army – We get +15% land force limit and +10% special force limit

1 Sept – Genoa is no longer a valid rival for me, but I cannot grab another at war

28 Sept – Event – Cossack Aggression, I choose to ask for aid Russia sends me Admin power

1 Oct – With a 70 rating I max relations, and next up I begin to make nice with France.

16 Nov – The Capital of Qasim falls, every Nogai holding and Qasim one is ours, Russia’s, or Oirats’

I order my army back to Ardakan

27 Nov – Peace, Russia Peace with Qasim - They take Qasim’s two holdings off the board

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 60 - The Conquerer


2 Jan, 1587 - Peace with Nogai, Russia takes 6 provinces, and we get some war cash and favors from Russia.

1 Feb – My new rival is Gujarat since they rivaled me

I order:

Livestock in Tyn for Farm Estate
Naval Equipment Manufactory in Dagestan for fish
Workshop in Solitanieh and Mansur

The Ottomans have captured all of Arabia, the Levant and Egypt from the Mamluks and have a massive warscore

2 April – I grant military access to Kiev

21 April – My army arrives back from Qasim

12 June – The Tsar of Russia has died and we enter into a new Royal Marriage with them

30 June – Russia accepts our offer to knowledge share the Printing Press for cash each month

1 July – Our truce with Yemen ends

1 Aug – Ahvaz has converted! It is now making 0.46.

I promote the Mashriqi to an accepted culture

1 Sept – New tech – DIP TECH 15 – The Galleon – I get Galleons, Early Frigates, increased settler growth and colonial range.

My army force limit is 65 and I have 51 so I start building up to it. I’ll start by adding 9k to my two mains armies in the Middle East to get to 30k each

4 Nov – Russia annexes Kiev, leaving just them, Georgia, us and Trebizond following the true faith

1 Jan,1588 – Our King gains the Conqueror trait

1 Feb – I claim a third and final Mamluks and pull them to build up spy network in Transoxiana

I order:

Trade Station in Shatt for Spices
Workshop in Terek for Livestock; in Baghdad for Cloth

14 Feb – Event – Trusted Merchants we gain temporary buff of +10% Global Trade Power

1 March – We lose our claim on Isfahan and I order my spy network built up from my diplomat making nice in France. The one province holding has Paper, is allied with Ajam’s last province and Syria, and is in a state we already have invested in.

1 April – My armies are al built

1 July – Russia embraces the Printing Press.

The Ottomans took a ton of holdings in Egypt and Israel.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 61 - Metallurgy Discovered

1 Jan, 1589 – I order:

Farm Estate for Wine in Urmia
Workshop in Kashan for it’s Silk; Tarki for it’s fish

17 Feb – The Georgian ruler has died, I offer a RM.

Russia now has 93k troops, we have 60k, Georgia has 30k, and Transoxiana has 68k. They are allied with Oirat which Russia could check, Afghanistan one province, and Kashmir with two provinces. Is it time for the big war?

I order another 10k built as a reserve and sieging unit to grab things and clean them up, 2 artillery, 3 cavalry and 5 infantry


26 July – Event – Declining Power of the Nobility, they lose 10% influence

1 August – Offensive Idea #7 – Espirit de Corps – I get +5% discipline for finishing this group I can get a boost of 5% to my army recovery speed.

1 Sept - I lose my claim on the one province of Ajam and order it built back up again.

New Tech – ADMIN TECH 16 – Metallurgy – I can build the Manufactory called the Mill that doubles produced goods like Tropical Wood, Gems, and Paper. I get +2% boost to production

1 Jan – 1590- Our truce with Tunis, the Mamluks and Mahra has ended. Anything else in Arabia that I wanna grab? A few provinces away on the Persian Gulf are a Spice and two Gems. That would be two to connect the Fishers I have holdings on, and then those five total all in the Bahrain state. All of the internal ones next to them are low value and dev grain and livestock. And then Fish and Livestock on the Gulf after the Bahrain state. It would be an easy war to grab those five from the Mamluks though. None have a dev higher than 5 and that’s Qatar.

On the other hand, Transoxiana has two silk provinces next to me and one paper, two Spices on the Gulf one down from me, so if I am going to pay for the badboy for five provinces, let’s make them count, right? I shouldn’t have done my by 10 provinces earlier since I got 80 badboy from them, but that would be a be a longer harder war.

I order:

Mill in Mieneh for Paper which will give me a massive monthly boost of 1.34
Workshop for Saveh’s Grain

I hire a two star general and hand him my army growing currently at 5k forces

15 Jan – Event Harsh Life on the Ocean – I lose 1256 sailors at sea

1 Aug – I reup our Influence Nation on Basra

1 Sept - I am shocked that no one has declared war on or absorbed Iraq’s last holding. I order them to be influenced.

2 Oct – I send Iraq a gift

3 Nov – I claim Isfahan and pull back this diplomat and send it to make nice with Iraq.

30 Nov - The Commonwealth announced us as a rival.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 62 - The First Theodoro-Transoxiana War


1 Jan, 1591 – I order:

Mill in Semnan for Gems that increases by 0.57
Workshop for Ahvaz’s Sugar; Fish in Astara

2 April – All of my armies are in their places and built up.

Ready for the war we’ve been building for a for a while? I hope to finish it by the 150 Year Review in Nov 11, 1594.


I declare war for Transoxiana’s Paper holding of Yazd. I call in Georgia, Russia, but not Basra.

I order my 10k army into the Silk province of Shushtar, my 30k army from Ahvaz into the 14k army defenders of Yasuj and then my 30k from Arzabad into Qumis to face a 1k army just built here and then take the fun stuff. My goal is to take minor holdings with the 10k one, and then protect it with the Persian Gulf 30k army.

24 April – We rout the army in Yusuj

30 April – We take Shushtar

20 May – Qumis falls; I head to the Fort of Bojord next door

29 May – I begin the siege and order a barrage

6 June – Two more minors fall

11 July – the Silk province of Fasa falls to us

15 Aug – One minor and the adjacent Silk province of Dashtishten are ours

16 Aug – Bojord falls. I order to Golestan,a tea province on the Caspian Sea I have a claim on and it in a state I already made

25 Aug – Another minor falls

13 Sept – Russia has captured some Oirat holdings.

16 Sept – the Spice Siraf falls, Golestan too

26 Sept -The Spices of Darab fall

I order this army to the Fort of Zaranj

23 Oct – Two more minors fall

30 Oct – I rout an army in Karakum

1 Nov – I lose my claim on Azov

I order my Caspian Sea army to the fort of Bukhara

22 Nov- The Siege of Zaranj has begun and I order a military barrage

7 Dec – A 3k force of foes has slipped around and are trying to take Karbala from me, I order my 10k army back to face them.

10 Dec – the Siege of Bukhara begins

15 Dec – Zaranj falls

8 Jan, 1592 – They capture Karbala

15 Jan – Another minor falls

28 Feb – We defeat the army in Karbala

19 Mar- Yazd is ours

21 Mar – We retake Karbala and i order this army back home

I have a warscore of 18

10 April – The Tsar of Russia dies and I send a RM to his heir

15 April – The Siege of Bukhara ends and we took it

I order this army next door to Samarkhand

3 May – The Siege of Samarkhand begins

6 May - Two more minors are mine

7 May – Georgia has captured the capital and only holding of Afghanistan.

Now I have a warscore of 29

13 May – I begin the Siege of Ghor

Russia has captured two holdings near the Caspian Sea

1 July – Samarkhand is ours! I order to the Bastion next door in Kish

8 July – Two more minors fall

14 July – The Siege of Kish begins

11 Aug – Apparently Russia are at war with Delhi

1 Sept- relations with Iraq Max and I pull the diplomat

I begin to make nice with Delhi, they have a 47 friendly rating with me already as they are rivals to two of my rivals, Transoxiana and Gujerat.

20 Oct – The Russians win the siege of Nogay on their border with Transoxiana on the northern coast of the Caspian Sea

13 Nov – We capture Ghor!

I have a 43 warscore

What do I really want?

Yazd – Paper, target 4 warscore
Shushtar – Silk, 4 score
Dashtisian, Persian Gulf, Silk, next to me, 5 warscore
Siraf, next, Spices, 4 score
Bandar, Spices, next to Siraf, Persian Gulf, 5 warscore

22 score total and that is doable with a badboy of 37. What else could I grab?

Golestan, Tea, Caspian Sea, 5 score, I gain 44 badboy, again doable

How about:

Larestan, Iron Mining, inland and in state of the Silk and two Spices we have listed above, badboy of 50,

Brings total to 31 warscore

Now what else could I get?

War Reparations is 41.

Ready?



Here, as you can see, they are the highlighted in green ones.

That’s a nice amount of awesomeness. I order Cores

I order my armies to return

Yazd – Paper makers, Marketplace, Center of Trade, Emporium, in the center of that map, in Isfahan state, Mountains, 8 dev, the accepted Persian culture, Zoroastrian faith, they make 0.38.

Golestan – Caspian Sea, Tea, in the same state as four other Caspian Sea takings, Drylands, 8 dev, Shia, Mazandarani culture, 0.02 made here.

Shushtar- Solo green on the left, - Silk trade, Grasslands, 5 dev, Persian, Sunni, 0.14 made here

Dashtistan – Persian Gulf, next to Avrah, Silk makers, workshop, church, regimental camp, Drylands, 7 dev, Persian and Sunni, making us 0.31

Siraf – Next to Dashtistan on the Gulf, Spices natural harbor, workshop, marketplace, Mountainous, 5 dev, 0.06 made here

Bandar Langeh – Next to Siraf, Gulf, Spices, 6 dev, Drylands, shipyard and church, Persian, Sunni, 0.18 made here

Larestan – Inland, mountains, iron mining, church, 6 dev, makes 0.04, Sunni and Persian.

I took all of my claims, so Ii order up more from Transoxiana

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 63 - Midas Touched


1 Jan, 1593 – I claim Ajam’s Hamadan and pull it back

I order:

Textile Manufactory in Khoy for Wool
Textile Manufactory in Ardalan for Cloth
Workshop for Tyn’s Livestock; for Dagestan’s Fish
Church for Wasit

21 Jan – I accept military access for Tunis in their war against Genoa

1 Feb – Our heir has gained the Midas Touched trait

11 July – I influence Delhi

27 July – I decline an offer from Venice for military access as they are at war against neighbors of mine.

20 Aug – I do accept it from Yemen in that war

1 Jan, 1594 – I order:

Textile Manufactory for Kirmenshah’s Cloth
Workshop for Spices in Shatt

19 Jan – Event -Build a Great Palace? I do!

1 Aug – With a relations of 128, I Max relations with Delhi and pull my diplomat and send it to Spain to make nice

19 Sept – I claim Transoxiana’s Silk province.


11 Nov, 1594 – 150 Year Review!!!!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Maps

Zoomed in -



Here you can see all of my stuff, like my many recent captures including Baghdad, Basra, and the ones I just grabbed around the Persian Gulf area.


Zoomed Out:




Here I have zoomed out for everything that I know about, the Ottomans are everywhere. They are the big winners of this dynasty

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger

We have 71 troops out of a forcelimit of 68.

We haven’t invested in the navy like I had hoped, and only have 16 ships out of a forcelimit of 24

I am making:

27.66 Tax
52.60 Production
18.63 Trade

Monthly

With 57.98 expenses, so I have 46.80 after (including war reparations)

Tech – 16/15/14 so a total of 45

Ideas – All 28

Our income is 7th best

Our development at 578 is 8th best

We are 3 behind the most techs

We have the most prestige and 2nd most power projection

There are 4 Orthodox countries but between Russia and us a massive 301 holdings; Catholics are the only Christian with more

Our Top Ten Holdings by Tax:

1. Teheren, 13.30
2. Crimea, 13.30
3. Tyn, 10.75
4. Tabriz, 10.24
5. Theodoro, 9.5
6. Qom, 9.5
7. Terek, 9.5
8. Besserabia, 9.5
9. Rasht, 9.42
10. Baghdad, 8.5

Our Top Ten Holdings by Production

1. Teheren, 28.89
2. Tabriz, 24.43
3. Crimea, 23.80
4. Qazvin, 23.64
5. Sari, 22.27
6. Lahijan, 22.27
7. Zanjan, 22.20
8. Ardabil, 22.20
9. Rasht, 20.07
10. Amol, 20.07

We have 67 provinces

Our army is the 12th largest.

Russia now has built up to 160k just 6k less than the Ottomans

Faith:

83.5% Orthodox
5.9% Shia
7.4% Sunni

Cultures of More Than 5%

Dagestani, 7.7
Gothic, 6.8
Mashriqi, 13.9
Persian, 10.6
Azerbaijani, 15.4
Mazandarani, 8.4
Crimean, 14.7
Romanian, 6.9

Top Ten Trade Nodes by Trade Value

1. Constantinople, 72.39
2. Sevilla
3. English Channel
4. Genoa
5. Venice
6. Caribbean
7. Gujarat
8. Lubeck
9. Wien
10. Champagne, 36.12

Crimea – 23.71 Total
Basra – 11.47 Total

Trade Good Current Price:

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

Great Powers

1. Spain
2. Ottomans
3. Great Britain
4. Portugal
5. France
6. Commonwealth
7. Russia
8. Theodoro

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 65 - Incorporating Transoxiana, Part One



12 Nov – Genoa is now in Pisa, 6 holdings in North Africa, and are still allied with France and the Italy gobbling Venice, so I am unlikely to get Azov any time soon, but I’ll begin fabricating a new claim here anyway.

24 Dec -Yazd and Shushtar are cores! Conversion ordered for Shushtar, but not Yazd, I want to keep my rare Zoroastrian holding. I am now making 0.80 from Yazd post core and with a state and accepted Culture.1

1 Jan, 1595 - I order

Mill for Yazd’s Paper
Trade Station for Isfahan’s Incense

I spend MIL tech to update Yazd 10 dev and can build a Workshop when the Mill is finishing in5 years

21 Mar – All of my other cores save for Golestan are done, I upgrade the Gulf Coast to a State order Missionaries to Dashtistan and Siraf

20 July – Event -Family Secret – our heir has been acting poorly in public. Keep it a secret and he loses legitimacy or scold him public and I lose prestige, I do the latter.

18 Aug – Golestan is now a core!

1 Nov – Almost every Mamluks holding is under Venetian control in their war.

26 Nov -Shushtar converts and next is Larestan.

1 Jan, 1596 -New Tech - MILITARY TECH 15 – Maurician Infantry – I get better infantry, +0.25 tactics, and land morale +1. I order my army upgraded.

I order:

Textile Manufactory for Shustar’s Silk

I’ll save the rest for two next year

21 Feb – Sarif converts, next is Bandar Langeh

3 March – Dashtittan converts, next is Golestan

19 April – Event - I lose 50 ADM power

21 Oct – Larestan converts! That’s our last one!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 66 - Converting Baghdad

1 Jan, 1597 – I order:

Textile Manufactory for Maragheh’s Wool
Farm Estate for Melikates’s Livestock

29 Jan – Bandar Langeh is now Orthodox!

31 May – Golestan converts and we are all cored, and converted, save for Yazd.

1 June – I claim Azov from Genoa and the adjacent Spice province of Darab from Transoxiana

1 July – Shatt’s conversion to Shia is done and I send a Missionary here

1 Dec - Baghdad’s conversion to Shia is finished, and I order a Missionary here as well

1 Jan, 1598 – I order:

Trade Station for Bandar Langeh’s Spices
Weapons Manufactory for Larenstan’s Iron

1 Feb -New tech – DIP TECH 16 – Development of Maritime Law - I get boosted trade range and +2% efficiency

1 Mar- I now have a landlimit raise with my new stuff, so I order 4k troops to bring my 11k force up to 15.

15 May – Event – Cossack Aggression -I lose a taxbase in Mansur

28 June – Shatt converts! With an accepted culture and faith, they are now making 1.26 monthly, I use MIL and ADM power to raise them to level 10 for more development.

21 Oct – Our general of the army in Baghdad dies and I hire another one

1 Jan, 1599 - I order:

Trade Station in Siraf for it’s Spices
Textile Manufactory in Dashtitian for it’s Silk

14 Feb – I order my 4k new troops to merge with my 11k in Yazd

27 March – Baghdad converts! It’s now making 2.01 but that’s with a manufactory.

Venice won their war against the Mamluks and took a few provinces

12 Aug – Event – Clergy Political Struggle – I can side with a young promising candidate for a leadership or stay out of it. I choose the latter and gain influence and power with them.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 67 - Converting Basra

1 Jan, 1600 – The new Institution of Global Trade has arrived, and the Age of Reformation is ending in 10 years, and we got the boosts to warscore if you’ll recall from that, so that’ll be sad to say goodbye too.

I order:

Textile Manufactory for Ilam’s Wool
Workshop for Semnan’s Gems; Ahvaz’s Sugar; Ardalan’s Cloth

1 Feb – New Tech – ADMIN TECH 17 – University – I can build Universities and I get +10% admin efficiency, -10% dev cost modifier in my holdings

1 March – Our conversation on Basra has now happened so far that I can convert it. So I send in a Missonary

1 May – 9k Yazd Separatists rise up

13 May – Defeated

1 Sept – I reup the Great Power Influence Nation for Basra

1 Oct – Ditto for Iraq
1 Nov – New Tech – MIL TECH 16 – Standardization of Calibre – We get better combat width, artillery fire, shock, and I can build training fields and upgrade my artillery which I do now.

1 Jan, 1601 – I order

Plantation for Golestan’s Tea
Workshop for Yazd’s Paper, Kirmanshah’s Cloth

3 March – Basra converts! I now make 0.74 in it’s Salt but it does not have a Manufactory if you’ll recall

1 May – I lose my claim on Iraq.

1 Dec - I claim Transoxiana’s Persian Gold Spice holding of Mogostan which is next to Bandar Langeh

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 68 - Contemplating War


1 Jan, 1602 – Our truce with Nogai is up.

I get a message that my Great Power-hood is in danger of being lost.

I order:

Textile Manufactory for Wool in Sulmainiyeh
Workshop for Arkadan’s Incense; Shushtar’s Wool

1 Feb – My truce with Transoxiana and their allies like Afghanistan and Kashmir is up. I could go to war to keep my Great Power-ness. I still have my anti-Theodoro coalition from the last war – Timurids, Ajam, Isfahan, Mamluks which I don’t care about but the Ottomans I do care about. I have a badboy of 33 right now with the Ottomans. But they are busy with a war against Venice, so I might be able to grab some stuff.

I order 5k more troops in Yazd to bring them to 20k overall

1 June – Event – The Non-Possessor Movement – I choose to support the church and gain authority and loyalty.

1 July – Here are my potential wars for getting more land and stuff for keeping my Great Power:

1. Transoxiana - The obvious. I took 7 holdings last time, grab another wealthy group to keep up appearances.
2. The Mamluks – They are beaten down by three straight losses, I could grab those five provinces next to me, two fish,two gems, one spices, keep the warscore low and hopefully not too many badboys from those.
3. Isfahan and it’s Ally Ajam – These each have one holding next to it, cloth and paper. Just two, but taking out two entire nations might in a single war might give me more badboy that just a few from the first two options.

Targets for Transoxiana might include the Copper mines next to Yazd, the three I have claims on, and maybe the higher dev 15 Wine trading post of Shiraz, but that’s a bit high for badboy with that development.

1 Dec – My King has gained the Strict trait which gives us +5% discipline

1 Jan, 1603 – I have lost my claim on Jedysah in the Black Sea Commonwealth holding.

I order:

Farm Estate for Livestock in Qazaniya
Workshops in Urmia’s Wine; Azaraba’s and Kuban’s Livestock;

7 Feb – My armies have finished building giving me 20k in Yazd, and I finish a Mission to Assemble a Great Army and I get for 25 years +10% boosted manpower recovery speed.

I move this army from Yazd to Ahvaz to siege things and capture minors and my 30k Baghdad army to Ardakan

1 May – I lose my claim on the Timurids and I order it rebuilt

19 July – All of my people are in place! But Transoxiana is part of the coalition against my badboy, so I think that they would all join me, and that includes the Turks. That also includes Isfahan, Ajam, and Timurids, all near me that I could war on, and The Mamluks.

I could declare war on The Commonwealth, but they are allied with heavies Austria and Spain, and have 104k troops and that would be a problem, but the Muslim aren’t going to care about me beating fellow Christian leagues away, just like I don’t have any badboy from my Middle Eastern wars showing up in my relations with Europe.

All seven of the adjunct holdings are poor and have Livestock, Wool, or Grain.

What about Genoa’s Azov? Their key ally Venice is losing a major battle right now with the Ottomans. Could I grab it? But I’d to be able to land multiple fleets in Italy, and I don’t have the naval infrastructure for that. They have just 26k forces and then if Venice joins them they have just 18k right now in the middle of their war with the Ottomans. If I got military access with a local, I could land one 30k army next to Genoa in Italy and then war for Azov, and the take it and start blasting their force from the land. They are also allied with The Papal states, down to just Roma, and Tuscany’s Siena is next to both. I probably wouldn’t get much badboy for just Azov.

That’s a lot of work for one 13 dev Slave trading holding.


Let’s see if I get make nice with Tuscany first and get military access.

I move to influence their nation.

21 Aug – I send Tuscany a gift

They are rivals to Genoa so they like us more than most.

22 Sept – I start making nice with Tuscany.

1 Jan, 1604 – I order:

Farm Estate for Grain in Khorrambad
Workshop in Bander Langeh for Spices; Khundzia for Livestock; Maragheh for Wool
Church in Ahvaz

16 July – Event – Cooperation with the Merchant Class, I get boosted loyalty with the burghers, +5% trade efficiency, for 10 years

16 Aug - Venice is now at a truce with the Ottomans so that’s off the table to distract them.

20 Nov – Event- I choose to make nice and gain 50 relations with Syria

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 69 - The Second Theodoro-Mamluks War

14 Jan, 1605 – I order:

Farm Estate for Hoveyah’s Grain
Workshop for Ilam’s Wool, Khoy’s Wool,

1 Mar – I lose a claim on the Commonwealth

1 April – I claim the copper holding of Rafsanjan next to Yazd in Transoxiana, and the Island of Hormoz from the Timurids.

21 April – The Mamluks left the coalition

I give military access to Yemen fighting against the Ottomans

I move next to The Mamluks, I can grab the 5 that we talked about before, two gems, one spices and two fish to get us there, all low dev.

They are at war with the Ottomans and their allies right now.


1 Oct – I declare war on the Mamluks’ Grane next me they only have 2500 troops right now.

I don’t waste my allies favor

4 Nov – Grane is ours and I move next door to the Fort of Qatif

19 Nov - I begin the siege

17 Mar, 1606 – Qatif falls

I order my 30k to the Fort of Tabouk and my 20k to capture minors


1 April – We lose another claim on the Commonwealth

I claim the Timurids’ Abarquh

Tabouk fell to the Ottomans so I order more base captures

1 June – Qatar is ours

20 June – I defeat a minor Mamluks army

19 July – Two more minors falls

18 Aug - The Island of Awal is ours, and the five I was hoping to bring in are ours, and I have a warscore of 11. I need to keep it up. They have a total value of 16 and 22 badboy.

12 Sept – Two coasts on the Red sea are mine – 13 warscore

21 Nov – Three more minors have fallen, warscore 15

I order a 30k army to the Fort of Nizha

18 Dec – More minors fall, warscore 17, do they want peace?



Yes they will! Cores for all five! These are also low dev that they do net even require a 100 ADM power total to core, very rare. I order my armies back.

Grane – 3 dev, Church, Gulf, Desert Coastal province, Port, Bahrain state, Fishers, Arid, Kaleeji culture, Sunni faith, they made 0.01 here

Al-Qatif – 4 dev, Gulf, Coastal Desert, castle, church, natural harbor, fishers make us 0.02, Kaleeji culture, Sunni faith, Arid

Now the good stuff

Hofuf – Coastal Desert, Gulf, Spices, 4 Dev, Kaleeji Sunnis make 0.02, Arid

Qatar – Coastal Desert, Gems, Gulf, 5 dev, Sunni and Kaleeji, make us 0.02, Arid

Bahrain – Island, Gulf strait crossings to Qatar and Al-Qatif, Gems, Coastal Desert, nothing made here, Kaleeji Sunnis, 4 dev

Remember this was just 22 badboy, with three holdings that are going to have great trade goods.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 70 - Great Nation No Longer


1 January, 1607 – With the cash that I have been saving over the war, I order:

Textile Manufactory for Kurbala’s Wool, that’s the last Manufactory that was open
Workshops for: Goleston’s Tea; Larestan’s Iron; Kabardia’s Wool; Wasit’s Grain – that’s it
Church for Mansur, Kashan

19 January – I order a new spy network built in Mamluks since we grabbed our two cores.

1 Feb – Sad News, we are no longer a Great Nation, replacing us is the Commonwealth

19 Feb – I’ll keep my 20k army in Hofuf

1 May, New Tech – MIL TECH 17 – Flintlock Musket – We get +1 cavalry shock

19 June – Russia won a ton of lands against Denmark in Scandinavia

21 Sept – Our general dies, I order another

1 Jan, 1608 – I order:

Churches in Bender, Tarki, Ardabil, Maragheh and Saveh

1 April – I Establish Sunday Schools and increase Missionary Strength by +2

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 71 - Incorporating Bahrain

1 Jan, 1610 – I fabricate a claim on Sudayr in the Mamluks

I order Churches in Khorramabad, Shustar, Goleston and Qazaniya – that’s it for churches we’re all done.

1 Feb – The Age of Absolutism is here and I lose my Age only abilities that we ran up.

I already have the boost for being a multicultural nation

30 Oct – We get conversions in Grane and Al-Qatif, next are Qatar but Bahrain recently converted and cannot be converted until October 1619

1 Jan, 1611 – Holuf converts!

I order:

Trade Station for Holuf’s Spices
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Grane’s Fish

1 Jan, 1609 – Rebellion in Qatar

11 Jan – Defeated

I order Churches in Ardalan, Shatt, Birlad, Kirmanshah, Iasi

28 Feb - Portugal announce us as rivals

1 March – I claim from the Mamluks Zufra, another Gulf coast next to Qatar

29 Mar – Peace with Mamluks and Ottomans and nasty stuff happened.

The Mamluks were forced to free Medina, Hormuz and Hejaz, Hormuz is next to me, and my claimed holding of Zufra, Syria captured provinces and their Arabian holdings are now cut off my Ottomans.

1 April - I claim the Desert province of Hafar in the Mamluks inland of me.

15 Aug – Event – The Risk of Trade – I choose to pay 250 cash to bail out a merchant and raise our burgher ratings

28 Sept – Two Cores are done. I order Missionaries to Al-Qatif and Grane.

20 Dec – The last three Cores are done, I order Bahrain turned into a State. Missionary ordered for Hofuf


1 Jan, 1610 – I fabricate a claim on Sudayr in the Mamluks

I order Churches in Khorramabad, Shustar, Goleston and Qazaniya – that’s it for churches we’re all done.

1 Feb – The Age of Absolutism is here and I lose my Age only abilities that we ran up.

I already have the boost for being a multicultural nation

30 Oct – We get conversions in Grane and Al-Qatif, next are Qatar but Bahrain recently converted and cannot be converted until October 1619

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 72 - The Russian-Nogai War


1 Jan, 1611 – Holuf converts!

I order:

Trade Station for Holuf’s Spices
Naval Equipment Manufactory for Grane’s Fish

1 July - I have 80k forces, and landlimit now of 87, so I ordr10k more built and to combine with my 20k army.

22 Aug – Russia has declared war against Nogai and asks us to join, and their ally Ajam joins. I agree

I order my 30k army from Yazd to my internal Ajam holding

13 Sept – Their 12k army fled their capital

15 Oct – I arrive in Ajam’s Hamadan and begin to siege it

19 Oct - They took Kirmanshah

18 Nov - Hamadan is mine

7 Dec – Qatar converts

9 Dec – I rout the Ajam army

18 Dec – I claim Transoxiana’s Paper province Kerman

7 Jan, 1612 – The Ottomans have left the coalition against us. That opens up Transoxiana

I claim the Mamluks holding of Hafar

12 Jan – Transoxiana leaves the coalition, and the Timurids as well

We retake our land rom Ajam, I cannot do peace as a junior partner with a junior partner. Our warscore is 71, so we might end this soon.

2 Feb – Event – Unhappiness Among the Clergy -I agree to their demands, lose prestige, gain authority and church loyalty

11 April – I fabricate a claim on Yabrin in the Mamluks.

12 May – Russia goes to peace with Nogai, they give me Hamadan for 6.3 badboy

Here I’ll show you:




You can see the peace terms there, Ajam no longer exists. I ordered a core:

Hamadan – In the Luristan State, 7 dev, Mountains, cloth trade, Sunni, Luri, they make us 0.02 cash monthly.

My army is built up.

Russia annexed Nogai and they are no longer

Transoxiana has declared war on the Timurids

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 73 - The Golden Age Ends


2 June, 1613- Our Golden Age has ended

13 Sept – Our truce with the Mamluks and Tunis is up. But there is nothing close by that I want, on the other side is a Cloth and Salt province, but building over there would be way too much badboy and lower level stuff.

26 Sept – I accept an offer of Knowledge Sharing with Wurtburg

1 Jan, 1614 – I order a Mill in Qatar and Bahrain for their Gems

1 Sept – I fabricate a claim on Al’Arid in Mamluks, and I pull this and send it to Hormuz to build up a spy network.

20 Jan, 1615 – Hamadan Core is finished! I order a Missionary

It looks like I count as European for purchasing Trade Stations abroad

I start making nice with Vijayanagar in Southern India

14 April – Transoxiana has taken the last two Timurid holdings off the map

23 August – Government Reform

Tier 8 – Legitamation of Power

I have 5 options like Leviathan or Machiavelli. I choose Two Treatises of Government - +1 promoted culture, -.05 inflation,

I promote the 7% of my nation Mazandarani Culture to accepted

1 Dec – I lose my claim on Isfahan

22 Dec – Event – Improvement of Quality of Satin – I get 2 production in Shustar

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 74 - The Theodoran Age of Exploration Begins

1 Jan, 1616 – New tech – ADMIN TECH 18 – National Sovereignty – We get another Group of Ideas!

Options:

Exploration - With holdings in the Persian Gulf, I have a base for exploration in the Indian Ocean and explore and claims things, it’s a bit late in the colonial game to go up against the bigger powers, but I do see some open spaces in the Indies like on the Island of Sulawesi, Borneo, Sumatra and I can’t see much, and Spain is in island of Belitung, could probably head over to the area and grab things. That was my original intent if you’ll recall, but then things didn’t work out that way and I audibled into a military juggernaut instead. France is all over the West Coast of Africa, but I cannot see South or much of the Indian Ocean. And I have enough DIP power to get the first Idea now.

I could do another improvement of my military as well like Quantity. .

Let’s look and see what’s available colonially. I do have the money to burn on colonies, as you have seen. In case this is the action I do, I start building a navy in the Persian Gulf since I do not know of the ocean crossing at this time.

I order 9 ships in the Gulf to be built up. 3 of each type.

Even if there is nothing out there, I could still use a Persian Gulf Fleet to help protect my borders.

13 February – Hamadad converts! I order here a Textile Manufactory for it’s Cloth

1 April - I claim Hormuz’s Qawsim which is the entrance to the Persian gulf and has a strait to Hormuz

I pull my diplomat. I also pull my Transoxiana one

14 May – I start building up my spy network in Isfahan

18 Nov – Our King has died:

Our new King is Alexios IV, 3/5/3, 38 years old, not married, no heir, Midas touched ability.

I offer RM to Georgia and we get a new Queen. Nestan-Darajan, 1/5/2, 30 years old

We also renew our vows with Russia.

1 Jan, 1617 – About half of my fleet is built here. I order 10 transports here as well

I can take a 10k army with a Conquistador to hold the serve against natives.

I order:

Workshop in Qazinya for it’s Cotton, Karbala for it’s Wool
Church in Hoveyah

1 July – I have maxed relations with Vijayanagar with 110 relations, but they are at war so I cannot try to buy a Trade Station from them. I recall my diplomat

1 Sept – I send this diplomat south to make nice with Kilwa in southern Africa to maybe buy a trading post

1 Oct – I claim Isfahan and pull this diplomat

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 75 - A New Heir


1 Jan, 1518 – I send this diplomat to make nice with the Indies nation of Sunda.

Much of my navy that aren’t transports are done

I order: Church in Qazinya, Workshop in Holuf for it’s Spices.

1 Nov – New Tech could be gotten for Diplomatic, but I’ll save it for Ideas in Exploration.

22 Dec – We get a new heir – 4/5/3, Michael

1 Jan, 1519 – The navy and transports are all built! I take the Exploration Idea, and hire an Explorer for my Gulf fleet a Conquistador for my 10k army in Al-Qatif. I should get the 2nd Idea soon.

26 Jan – I order them to explore the West Indian Ocean

20 May – I embrace the Institution of Global Trade! We get a new merchant that I send to Hormuz to collect trade

1 Sept – Event -Land Theft, I side with the Nobility and lose Clergy approval

I have maxed relations with Kilwa at 90, so I pull this diplomat back

Kilwa are willing to sell me land for a Trading Post, but the price for a nice one like Mozambique cheapest is 6,777, and I don’t have the cash for that

1 Oct – I lose my claim on Fasa in Transoxiana

29 Oct – The leader of Trebizond dies, and I offer a new RM.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 76 - Theodoro's First Trading Post


1 Jan, 1520 – I have maxed my relations with Sunda in the Indies with a +90, and I order diplomats to make nice with the Sri Lanka holding called Kotte. They seem to need less for Trade Depots, and they are at peace

12 Mar – Event – An Example to us All – I get a boosts to our three powers

1 Dec – The Commonwealth no longer consider us a rival.

1 Jan, 1521 – New Tech – MIL TECH 18 – Carbine – I get better cannon, maneuver value, and combat width. I order upgrades

4 Feb – Transoxiana are at war with Syria, Isfahan and Hormuz, that’ not going to go well for my future additions.

27 Sept – Our exploration mission is done! Next the Western Indian Ocean Coast

1 Oct – We agree to purchase the coastal province on the island of Ceylon from Kotte called Trincomale for 1395 as a Trading Post

Here let’s look:



Trincomale – 5 dev, Jungle, natural harbor, Spices, next to our buddies in Vijayanagar, it makes 0.54 monthly, has a shipyard and marketplace, and I destroy the shipyard to build a Trade Station to double my Spice production.

This can also be used as an exploration hub, but it’s not a cored state province.

1 Dec – I get the Exploration Idea #2 - Colonists I send them to Borneo;s Katapang.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 77 - Colonizing Katapang

1 Jan, 1622 – I order a Spy Network in the Commonwealth

My badboy seems to have mostly ebbed.

1 June – I lose my claim on Azov and order another spy network in Genoa

1 Aug – My next exploration mission is done, Spain is in South Africa.

Next I order my army to Katapang to protect against the local natives, then the coast of the Eastern Indian Ocean

19 Feb, 1623 – We arrive at Katapang

17 Mar – I move my armies around to get ready for War in Transoxiana

1 May – I claim the Commonwealth’s Black Sea holding Jedysan

30 May – We finished exploring. Next is South China Sea

1 July – I kill the natives in Katapang after our colony begins

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 78 - The Second Theodoro-Transoxiana War

4 Nov, 1623 – I have 30k in the Caspian Sea, 30k on the Persian Gulf, and 30k backup broken into two units

I declare war for their Mogostan, Spices, Gulf, strait to Hormuz, good while they are at war

I call on Georgia and Russia but not Basra

Only Kashmir Multan join them

8 Dec – Qumis falls and I order my army to the Fort of Bojnord

18 Dec – Three more minors fall

24 Dec – We win the Battle of Bam against a minor army

27 Jan, 1624 – Bam is ours and I move my army to the Fort of Zaranj

28 Feb –More minors fall

5 April – 3 more are ours

18 May – Transoxiana took Isfahan, Hormuz’s Qawasim,

12 June – two more minors fall

I order my main backup army to Isfahan to begin a siege

28 July – We captured the Fort of Zaranj

I order this army 2 over to the Fort of Ghor

26 Aug – Bojnord siege is over

I order this army to join Georgia in the siege of Bukhara

16 Sept – Two more minors fall

21 Oct – two more

I now have a warscore of26%

25 Nov- two more

Russia captured the Fort of Nogay

27 Dec – two more fall

5 Jan, 1625 – Rebellion in the Transoxiana holding of Shiraz that we captured are besieging it, and are 28k strong, i pull back from Isfahan to meet them

12 Jan – Exploration mission done, next is South China Sea Coast.

27 Jan -Bukhara falls!

I order two over to the Fort of Kish

10 Feb - Rebels ended, I order my army back to Isfahan

18 Feb – A 19k Transoxiana force has arrived at Mogostan my captured wartarget so I order my army back to there from Shiraz

I order some Missionaries to Larestan next door to help out

25 Feb - They unloads another 6k in Mogostan

8 Mar – My mercs arrive I’ll wait here until they have built up

16 Mar – Mogostan falls

They have an army of 25k moving towards me, so 50k total

Luckily my mercs are 45k plus my 27k in my army

28 Mar – two more minors fall

I have a 37% warscore, without captured Isfahan, what can I get?

Here’s what I want:

Kerman, paper, next to Yazd, 6 warscore
Mogostan, Spices, 8 warscore
Rafsanjan, Copper Mines, next to Kerman and Yazd, 6 warscore
Darab, Spices, connects Rafsanjan to my holdings on the Gulf, 6 warscore
Fasa, Silk, next to Darab and us, 5 warscore

Those were my key 5 and give me 35 warscore, out of 37, which they’ll do.


40 bad boy

I do it.





I order cores

In that order:

Kerman – 7 dev, desert, paper makers, Persian culture which is accepted, Sunni faith, they make 0.06

Mogostan – Persian Gulf, strait to Hormuz, drylands, spices, Khalleeji culture, Shia faith, natural harbor, 10- dev, and we get 0.07

Rafsanjan – Copper mining and weapons manufactory here, Mountains, 5 dev, Persian, Sunni, 0.40 made here.

Darab – Mountains, Spices, 5 dev, Trade Station manufactory, workshop, 0.38 made here, Persian and Sunni.

Fasa – Silk trade, church and workshop, 13 dev, mountains, Persian and Sunni

Nice additions, right?

I disband my mercs and order my troops back home

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 79 - Free Thinker


1 April, 1625 – Transoxiana is no longer a valid rival, so I choose Bengal

I order:

Workshops for Gems in Qatar and Bahrain; Cloth for Hamadan
Church in Holuf

The Ottomans are at war with the Mamluks again

1 May – I claim Azov from Genoa and pull back our diplomat

I fabricate a claim on The Commonwealth’s Black Sea holding next to us Oczakow.

1 Nov – I found an Indian Trade Company and then gain +1 Merchant and +5% Global Trade Power. I send this merchant to collect trade from Malacca

28 Dec – I order my diplomat to make nice with the Borneo nation of Lanfang which is next to my colony.

22 Feb, 1626 – Event – Foreign Trade Competition Rises – I choose to impose a new tariff, gain burgher loyalty and mercantilism.

1 May - Explorer Mission Over! Spain is in Australia, and a few isles like Belitung and Portugal is in the Timor region, England is in Sunda, Buru and the Flores and Sumbawa area. A local one nation power named Ternate has embraced colonialism and they are all over. There is a random island open called Aru, and I can see openings on part of Papua. And parts of the Philippines as well it looks like.

Next is the East China Sea Water

1 Oct – Exploration Idea #3 – Overseas Exploration - +50% Colonial Range

1 Nov – Our ruler is now a Free Thinker, this will reduce by -5% Idea costs

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 80 - Incorporating Transoxiana, Part Two


22 Jan, 1627 - One of my generals passed today, and I hire another

1 Feb – I claim The Commonwealth’s adjacent holding Zaporoze in the Black Sea region.

Russia is at war with the Oirat Horde and their four allies.

Unfortunately the Commonwealth is allied with Austria and Spain, and the nearby stuff is all low Dev and low trade goods like what we started with and the early acquisitions. So I’d have to war with three powers, get a longer war, and then take a bunch of low value stuff to which will increase my badboy.

I have 100k forces, 10k in the Indies if you’ll recall, and they have 113k, so they are more than me and all here on their own, and Austria has 30k nearby and Spain a massive 185k although much of that is likely split up, and Russia has 116k and Georgia 33k. That means we have 249k to their much higher, so that would likely be a war of opportunity only, attack fast when they are deep in a war, and then a small warscore against three nations of 12 or 13 and take my three nearby Black Sea claims with a total Dev of 12 and move on. Although I do like the idea of having a land connection from Crimea to Moldavia, but that’s a lot for very little

My current forcelimit is 91 so I am 9 over that

5 Mar – Event - Colonial Ventures – I invest in the navy. I get +10% shipbuilding cost, but -10% Diptech cost – for ten years

1 April – Kerman and Rafsanjan are now cores – they are in a state called Kerman, and I state-ify it. I order missionaries in both holdings.

Katapang will be good for Ivory

I pull this colonist and send it next door in Sampit and I order my forces to move and take out the local.

19 April – Natives are killed.

1 July – Fasa and Darab are now cores! They are in a state called Faristan and I state-ify it as well, and then send a Missionary to Fasa

1 Oct – The Ottomans have taken two holdings on the Persian Gulf from Hormuz – Zufra and Bani Yas

1 Nov - I max relations with Lanfang, next is Kutai which is next to Sampit

30 Dec – Mogostan is now a core, and I turn it into a state.

29 Jan, 1628 – Rafsanjan is converted! Next is Darab

6 Feb – Kerman converts, next is Mogostan

21 Feb - Event – Rising Support Among the Azerbaijani – I choose to elevate a popular ruler to my court and gain -2 unrest in Azerbaijani holdings and +10% production from them for ten years

2 Mar – I pull my diplomat from The Commonwealth and send it to Transoxiana.

Oman has expanded into three more holdings from Hormuz from their one holding they had, and Hormuz is out of the game.

1 May – I dissolve my alliance with the one province Basra.

27 May - Fasa converts, next is Bahrain, who is now eligible

1 Sept – New Tech – ADMIN TECH 19 – Cathedral – I can now build Basilicas which are an upgrade of Churches. Here’s let’s do a deep dive:

Cost- 285 – can be built first without building a church first:

In my capital with a small dev and just Wine, this would increase what I make by 0.08 monthly.

Crimea? 0.11

Baghdad? 0.08

Tabriz – one of my highest dev – 0.11

As you can see, it’s not this big wave of cash. Shoot, in a small dev nation like Circassia with 7 dev, this is just 0.03. So we’ll only be doing ones where this makes actual sense.

Basilicas for:

Tabriz, Crimea, Teheran, Qatar from scratch, Wasit, Tyn and Rasht

And that‘s everything with a +0.10 monthly or higher.

10 Oct – Event- Dubious Spending Practices – One of my rulers have been illegally diverting funds to Shirvan to build up the infrastructure like churches and roads. What do I do? I turn a blind eye, for 20 years Shirvan gets +25% production, -2% unrest, it also gets 2 taxbase and +10 clergy boosts, but +2 corruption. I am now making 2.97 monthly from it.

27 Nov -Darab converts there are no more targets

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 81 - The Horn of Africa

1 Jan, 1629 – I order:

Textile Manufactory for the Silk in Fasa
Workshop in Kerman with the Copper and Weapons Manufactory already here.
Mill in Kerman for doubling it’s Paper making

1 Mar – Our relations with Kutai have maxed, next is to build up a spy network in Basra

14 Mar- Mogostan converts!

1 June – Event -Georgios Yattar and his Family – A Yazd man and his family have developed rich ties with Lanfang and us and I choose to follow his policy and +10% trading in Malacca for 10 years.

2 July – Bahrain has converted!

The Ottomans have taken much of Arabia from the Mamluks in peace, as well as the western coast of the Red Sea.

27 Aug – Famine hits the North Lanka area.

1 Nov – Expansion Idea #4 – Land of Opportunity - +10 global settler increase

1 Jan, 1630 – I order Universities, which are free for size and reduce dev cost by -20% in Theodoro, Shirvan, Baghdad, Basra, Crimea. If you’ll recall we are in the Age of Absolutism and one of their goals is to get 5 Universities

My badboy with most nations isn’t that bad – Ottomans - -4, Syria - -2, Sindhi, -7, Oman, -12, Yemen - -4, the only one with a high one is Mamluks - -29 but they aren’t a threat, so I am fine to move on to my next war.

20 Jan – Exploration mission of the Sea was done, next is the coast.

24 Feb – Event – Excellent year, I choose to invest in Kyzyl- Yar and it’s taxbase increases by 2

I order an Estates there with a +.10 being made there now with that boost

1 May – I lost my claim on Hormuz

1 June – Another general dies, I replace him

27 June – The UK has declared war on Kutai and Lanfang next to us in Borneo, Portugal is joining them

The major issue here colonially is that Spain, Portugal, and the UK are all allies, so you cannot ally with one and then break the tie.

6 Sept- I buy a minor Trading Post on the Horn of Africa for 1070

Here let me show you the mechanic:



See how it pulls up the options for Posts from that nation, then you click on it, it highlights on the map and then you have a slider? That’s what happens here, and we agreed to just 1070 but you’ll why I got it pretty cheaply in a moment, but also why I wanted it.

Qardho – 3 dev, Incense, port, next to Mamluks in Hafun above us, Somali Culture, Sunni faith, 85% autonomy, I make just 0.02 here, Arid, Coastal Desert, and then I order a Trading Post here.

It’s really here for a military outpost that also happens to have a solid trade good, than anything else

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 82 - Katapang Finished


1 Jan, 1631 – I claim Basra’s Samawat

I can declare war on them starting June, 1633, they are allied with Iraq and Yas, all three one province Sunnis.

1 April – I lose my claim on Abarquah which used to be Timurids before being annexed by Transoxiana

1 Sept - I start building up a spy network for claims for Mamluks.

31 Oct- I can purchase my first Age of Absolutism ability and I grab +5% Admin Efficiency

1 Nov – Next Tech – I grab MIL TECH 19 – Gustiavian Infantry – I can upgrade my Bastions to Star Forts, I get +0.25 military tactics and better infantry. I order updates of my infantry.

12 Nov – Event – Minority faiths fleeing to Katapang – I can choose to turn Katapang colony Coptic and give it +400 colonists, I do so.

Katapang – 6 dev, Jungle, Borneo island, Ivory trade, Coptic, Gothic, makes 0.15 with 50% autonomy.

I pull my colonists next door for Aru? Taken by GB, Fak-Fak over on Papua, I order my army over there too. Spain has taken two open areas in the Philippines.

23 Nov – Exploration mission done! Next is South West Pacific Sea.

1 Mar, 1632 – I declare a claim for Transoxiana’s island of Hormuz

13 Mar – I have killed the natives in Fak-Fak

1 May – Our explorer dies and I hire another one

1 June – Sampit will be making tropical wood, that’s a miss

1 Dec – I order a trade station in Katapang for it’s ivory trade

1 Mar, 1633- Exploration Idea #5 – Viceroys – We get -20% envoy travel time and +10% tariffs

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 83 - The War for Samawat


1 June, 1633 – Our treaty with Basra ends. I have 30k armies in Qatar for Yas, Baghdad for Iraq and Shatt for Basra

I declare war on Basra for Samawat, and move my three 30k armies in.

21 June – I have routed both Iraqi and Basran armies

2 July – I have routed the Yas army, all three sieges have begun.

15 Aug – We set up our colony in Fak-Fak, I pull the colonists to head next door to Asmat and I send my troops there too.

20 Aug – Haditha and Liwa are ours, only Samawat remains

22 Aug - I decline a peace treaty from Yas

19 Sept - Natives in Asmat are killed

1 Oct – Our peace treaty with Transoxiana and their allies of Multan and Kashmir are up.

11 Oct - Samawat is ours!

I have a 100% warscore and I go to get ready and…

I don’t want Iraq, so I am letting them go

That leaves Yas and Basra

Samawat – 12 badboy

I like Yas’s holding of Liwa but I cannot take it because I am not next to it. Vassalizing it is 8 badboy. My war with Transoxiana will hopefully let me get next by taking Qawasim in Arabia, and then I could annex them in the future. Is it worth the 8 badboy now on that hope later?



Let’s do it.

Samawat – I order a core here, Marsh, 13 dev, Spice trade, Sunni faith, Mashriqi culture which is accepted, Church, Bastion, Trade Station, 0.75 monthly made here already, this is going to be a cash cow

I also finished a Mission to get two subjects, and then I get reduced dip cost for annexation for 25 years.

I move my forces to prepare for war against Transoxiana.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 84 - Arrival in the Philippines


1 Nov, 1633 – I order a Trade Station in Mogestan

1 Jan, 1634 – Our heir gained the cruel trait, uh oh

2 Feb – Event – Profiteering in Sanandaj – I chose to side with my merchants and lose relations with Iraq, and gain trade boosts for ten years in Ardalan

I begin to make nice with Yas.

30 May – Event – Agricultural Revolution in Wagit – Tax base increases by 1

Looks like I accidentally vassalized Iraq not Yas. Ah well.

17 Nov – Our colonists set up is Asmat, I cannot pull them for next door Yos Sodero because the UK is there.

I pull them for The Phillipines’s Taytay

7 Jan, 1635 – Event – Naval Power Boosts - +100 DIP power

16 Jan – One of my generals dies and I hire another one

3 April – Natives in Taytay are destroyed

18 June – Exploration mission up, next is the North West Pacific Sea

Oct 15 – Core done on Samawat, I order a Missionary here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 85 - The Third Theodoro-Transoxiana War

1 April, 1636 – Exploration Idea #6 – Free Colonies – Settler Chance +10%

14 April – We setup in Taytay

I’ll stay, we are spending 36/month on my four colonies

The UK has won their war against Kutai and took much of the island of Borneo

2 May – I hire 45k mercs for the border with Transoxiana

11 May – They arrive, I’ll give them a few months to raise their morale

20 July – Our Conquistador dies and I hire another

1 Aug – I declare war on Transoxiana for Hormuz – I order:

30k from Kashan into the Fort of Isfahan
30k from Semnan to Qumis
45k from Kerman to the fort of Zaranj
2k cavalry from Qatar to Qawasim through the Turks
28k in Mogestan to split and take three adjacent minors

5 Sept – Two minors fell, I order the army from Qumis to the Fort of Bojnord

8 Sept – Samawat converts! It’s now making 0.82

22 Sept – Two more minors are ours

11 Oct – Qawasim is ours

63k foes are moving towards us. I order more mercs by the Caspian Sea to join our siege in Bojnord.

I have 75k in Bojnord now

8 Mar, 1637 – Isfahan is ours

22 April – Bojnord falls! Their army fled deeper, I’ll keep this army together

11 May – I defeat a minor army

3 June – Two more minors

17 June – The Siege of Zaranj is done and we won!

I order them to the Fort of Ghor two away

26 June – I rout an 8k army in Sarakhs

5 July – The Commonwealth announced me as a rival

19 July – I order my 75k army to the Fort of Bukhara next to their capital

The prices of Spices have dropped

1 Aug – 30k foes are sieging us in Terek

I have a warscore of 22, not enough for what I want

I order the 45k mercs from the siege to come on back.

11 Sept – More minors fell to us, we also took Hormuz

25 Sept – Bukhara falls, next is their capital Samarkhand.

29 warscore

22 Oct – Our explorer died I hire another

27 Nov – Two more minors

2 Jan, 1638 – I order an assault on Ghor

26 Jan – Ghor falls!

Warscore is 39

27 Feb – Samarkhand falls!

Warscore is 62

Let’s go shopping

Here’s what I want in order of value and importance to me:

Hormuz – 8 badboy, 4 warscore
Qawasim – 6 badboy, 4 score
Isfahan – 12 badboy, 13 warscore

After those, what next?

Shiraz, internal of me, center of trade, higher dev, 13 badboy, 12warscore
Bam, 5 warscore, 3 badboy
Jask, in the Hormuz, state, 4 warscore, 3 badboy
Malamir – internal, 2 badboy, 4 warscore
Yasuj, 3 badboy, 3 warscore, internal
Kazerun, internal, 7 badboy, 7 warscore

That gives me 56 warscore and 55 badboy

That pisses off Transoxiana, obviously, and Mamluks, and that’s it.

I have 6 warscore left anything else that’s cheap and low score and BB?

I do have one that brings me to 60, but they won’t take it, so I do that:





Here we go!!!

I disband my mercs, and I order up some cores

Russia is at war with Japan.

New Persian Gulf additions:

Hormuz – 8 dev, drylands, island in the Persian Gulf, Center of Trade, strait to our two holdings, Gem trade, natural harbor, Sunni faith, Khaleji culture, marketplace, church, shipyard and gives us 0.29 monthly.

Qawasim - Arabian peninsula, next to Turks,Yas,Oman, 5 dev, coastal desert, Livestock grown here, also Sunni and Khaleji, with just 0.01 made here.

Jask - in the Hormuz, state, 3 dev, fishing here, desert, it was just a throw in, Sunni, Khaleeji, nothing made here. Arid

Bam – Internal, next to us and Transoxiana, 3 dev, Mountains, Cotton grown here, Arid, Baluchi culture, Shia faith, there is a unique thing here called “Bam Citadel”


Internal of my old holdings -

Isfahan – Mountains, 14 dev, Paper made here, Workshop, Bastion, Marketplace, unique building called “Maidan-e Naqsh-e Jahan,” Emporium, religious zeal from conversion won’t convert for a while, Sunni faith, Persian culture, which is accepted, it makes 0.77 monthly for us.

Shiraz - Center of trade, Wine growers and makers here, Emporium, 15 dev, Mountains, Persian Sunnis, Farm Estate, Church, Marketplace, 0.50 made here monthly.

Malamir – Shepherds grow Wool, Mountains, Sunni Luri, 3 dev, 0.03 made here.

Yasuj – Mountains here, just three dev, Cloth is made here, Luri culture and Sunni faith, 0.01 made here

Kazerun – Mountains here too, 7 dev, Wine making, Farm Estate, Church, Sunni and Luri, 0.05 made here too.

There you go! There are my 9 new holdings, all but 2 were low dev and easy to grab. We don’t have richer things like previous just one Cloth, one Paper, and one Cotton, then Gems and Wine this was really more about filling in holes and pushing myself into Arabia next to the pretty wealthy Oman.

I also spent like 2k on that war with mercs and upkeep.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 86 - Incorporating Transoxiana, Take Three


1 Mar – I order a claim on Transoxiana’s Birjand a Cotton province next to me

2 June – Event – Rogue Traders - I choose to gain 1 Mercantilism.

1 July – Good news Taytay will be a nice place to grow Spices!

26 Jan, 1639 – Mission to explore is finished next is the South East Pacific Sea all islands in the Pacific we found are taken.

27 Mar – Event – Colonial Expansion – I pay 30 cash to increase growth in Fak-Fak by 200

1 April – It’ll be good for Incense

1 July – I order:

Workshop for Kerman’s Paper; Katapang’s Ivory; Mogostans’s Spices
Basilica for Shirvan

1 Sept – We lose our final claim on The Mamluks and cannot declare war against them anymore

14 Sept – Event – Popular Syncretism – We attempt to root it out and get boosts to clergy loyalty and support.

11 Oct – We max relations with Iraq at 104, I force them to swap religions

1 Dec – I quarantine Sampit our colony when it has a fever.

1 Feb, 1640 – Royal Marriage with Iraq

1 May – Isfahan is now a core! I am getting 0.96 here now monthly.

1 June – The colony of Asmat will be good for growing those Spices

1 August – Shiraz core, Missionary ordered

1 December – Revolt in Shiraz

9 Dec – Defeated

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 87 - Sampit Finished


16 Jan, 1641 – Event – Rainy Development in Vogolkup Peninsula -We get -20% dev cost in that area

22 Feb – Hormuz and Qawasim are cored, Missionaries dispatched

22 May – All other cores are finished, I elevate states where possible

16 June – I claim The Mamluks holding of Hafun – the Horn of Africa

1 July – Shiraz converts, next is Yasuj

1 Sept – Sampit – Colony, Borneo Island, tropical wood, 5 dev, Jungle, makes 0.17. I order my colonists from Taytay to Samar in the Philippines and order my 10k army over

1 Nov – Our king gains the “Naïve Enthusiast” trait which reduces the speed of making nice.

12 Nov – Natives in Sampit killed

Exploration Idea #7 – Global Empire - +25% Naval forcelimit; We can fabricate claims overseas in our colonial regions for finishing.

1 Jan, 1642 – Rebellion in Malamir, I have forces next door in Yasuj

19 Jan – Defeated.

22 Mar – Hormuz and Qawasim converted, next are Jask and Bam

I spend some MIL to raise it to 1o dev and then order a Mill manufactory for it’s Gems.

1 June – Event – Disagreement Over Company Purchases – I choose to force things and gain development in my Ceylon Trading Post but lose rep with Vijayanagar

22 June – Our heir died, and our new heir is 2/4/3 Alexios age 11

11 July – Yasuj converts, next is Malamir

1 Sept – Our truce with Yas ended

30 Dec – Our colony in Samar starts