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

[Abe Sargent]

5 Feb, 1660 – Get ready again.


In Kamchatka, I order the construction of an Embassy!

It should be built in a year.

I raise my maintenance for stuff again

Colonists sent to Uchamin

30 March – We kill off all of the natives in Uchamin

24 April – Another yuck – Fish in Heiltsuk. We crossed the ocean, set up colonies on another continent, and still can get away from Salmon!


10 July – I order a Temple in Chuna

4 Nov – Squamish now a full colony –

It was given to K.C.

So they get the nice fur province, but I get to keep the fish….


Next target is Tsimshian north and up coast from Kwakiutl

13 Feb, 1661 – I slay the angry 2500 natives in Tsimshian

29 March – I order a Trade Depot in Seganka

11 July – Marketplace for Chuna

With the Embassy in Kamchatka, we gained an extra Diplomat!

6 May, 1662 – Castile wants some of our land too – in Kamchatka.

2 Aug – Copper in Uchamin

Trade Depot for Chuna


16 Nov – Fur trading the price of business in Tsimshian

14 Dec – I get an event regarding Complaints about Bailiff

We have a cruel bailiff and I lose prestige, rather than stability, to kill him

[Abe Sargent]

5 Mar, 1663 –


Heiltusk – Nestled on the coast between Squamish and Kwakiutl is this fun lil’ fishing colony. With a 1 taxvalue they make 1.3 gold for us.


Next target is Nisga’a, up coast from Tsimshian

1 Jul – Canal ordered for Seganka

Oirat Horde is bringing it to the Ming and have captured roughly have of the Ming Dynasty’s land in war

24 Dec – Britain allows us military access

2 Feb, 1664 –

We finish the Quantity Ideas:

Expanded Supply Lines - -10% land attrition

And we get, for finishing it, +50 land forcelimits!!!


Whew!

10 Feb – I order a Constable for Chuna


2 May – I can build up that Merchant from Expansion Ideas, but I have no where to send it yet. No need to do that right now


Recently, Castile and Portugal built huge colonies down the west coast of South America

1 July – New Castile grants us military access

2 Feb, 1665 – Fish in Nisga’a

2 April – We build a Workshop in Chuna

1 June –


Uchamin – I order a Temple here! The Copper mines make us 2.22 gold. This Siberian ex-colony is west of Chuna, east of Baykha, South of Eastern Siberia Wasteland, and north of East, West Tunguska and Turukhan.


Next up is East Tunguska

24 July – Yi and Miao both revolt and got free from Ming.

4 Sept – Tsimshian is now a full province

We have formed another colonial nation – Kamchadal Alaska

It takes Aleut, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Nootka, heiltsku, and I’m sure it’ll have Nisga’a when it finishes.

Next up, West Tunguska

I built 2000 troops in Uchamin

[Abe Sargent]

21 Jan, 1666 – We take out the tribesman n East Tunguska

7 Apr – And now in West T too

23 June – Constable ordered for Uchamin and Canal in Maya

15 Sept – Yay? Castile no longer wants my stuff

Portugal does badly though…

We are just one province from Muscovy’s most recent explorations. If either of us takes Baykha, which is west of Uchamin and east of Mangazea, then we would be. Before that happens, I want to create a line in the sand that I can expand behind. We obviously will be border buddies sooner or later. Might as well be now, right?

There are three provinces south of the Tunguskas that are not adjacent to anyone - Chulym, Angara, and Kan.

31 Mar, 1667 – I order 2000 cavalry back in the deep part of Siberia here

2 Dec – Nisga’a is now a province and joins K.A.

Next up – might as well do Baykha, take it from Muscovy


Next Tech!

Post Office and Naval Arsenal; (Dip – 16)


Trade Range increases, as does efficiency. And we can build post offices and naval arsenals

25 Feb, 1668 – 6000 troops arrive in Baykha

1 Mar – We slaughter the 2000 natives

6 Apr – I upgrade my fleet in Kamchatka

16 Apr – Iron ore discovered in West Tunguska

New Castile has been expanding massively and rapidly in the new world for the last few years or so

9 Aug – Iron in East T too!

8 Nov – It’s a big today. Today we set up the colony in Baykha. For the first time, ever, we’ve been adjacent to an enemy that is bigger than us. And this isn’t some ally, its someone who may not like us a lot.

2 Dec – New Tech!

Textile Manu (Admin 15) – Just Textile Manu and that’s it, nothing else of value


25 Dec – Another Wave of Obscurantism event swings through

[Abe Sargent]

19 Jan, 1669 – Japan and Korea at war again. More rebel problems for China’s Ming rulers.


11 June, 1670 – We get a Successful Company event that gives us some ducats

1 Sept – The next Manufactory has arrived:

Weapons Manufactory for Yakut

20 Dec – Fur trading is the trade of the day in Baykha

16 Apr, 1671 – Japan cancelled military access we had with them…?

Japan, once again, sees us with ambition

I order some more forces built in and around Kamchatka

6 May –


East Tunguska – Temple ordered here. Iron mines, 1taxvalue, 3.67 gold, arctic.


Next target has to be Narim. It’s south west of Baykha and adjacent to Muscovy twice and Oirat once. It cuts off expansion this way.

But I can’t get to it until Baykha is a core. So I do Turukhan instead. Next to Narim, Baykha, West Tung, Ket and Tomsk. Let’s get that thing locked in now.

10 June – We kill the natives in Turukhan

4 Sept –

West Tunguska – Iron mines, temple 3.68 gold, 1 tax value


(You might remember Tunguska from the Tunguska Event, a huge crash by a an outer space object in 1908)

[Abe Sargent]

3 Jan, 1672 – I order another 1k in Uchamin for Baykha defenses

9 Apr –I send new colonists to Chulym, south of West T .

19 July – All of the natives in Chulym are down

1 Aug – New Tech!

Tenaille (Mil – 14)

Better infantry fire, combat width, and we get some new units

We get new cavalry – Asian Charge Cavalry

1 Nov, 1672 – Our King passed

Duolan is now ruling (2/3/3 – pretty weak these days – but he has an amazing heir)



I boost our stability back to 3

11 Apr, 1673 – Britain just lost a major war against Portugal, which is sad. Britain likes us.

15 June – I get news that Moscow beat us to Narim, and are colonizing it now

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1674 – Baykha is now a full fledged province and we missed getting Narim by that much


Baykha – I have ordered an Earth Rampart here. 3.19 gold made from the 1 tax value and fur trade. Next to Moscow in Mangazea and apparently Narim, next to us in Uchamin and Turukhan


We have an obvious place to go – Ket. But it’s next to Turukhan and we can’t get there yet (no core next to it). So instead…

Tomsk – next to Oirat (in Vah) and adjacent to West T, Chulym and Turukhan as well as Ket

It shuts the door. If we can get Ket that’s great, but it’s no rush

11 Jan – Fur in Turukhan



We can now Westernize…

Let’s do it!

3 stability drop. I immediately jump it back up to 1 and then 2

I don’t want to use my last ADM to get it up higher – I need to save for Westernization




31 Mar – Government Officials Resist Westernization…Ignore their demands but that’s a huge hit to power.

7 May – We kill natives in Tomsk

15 Sept – As I have chances, I’ve also been trying to build up my reputation with local colonial nations on the west side of the Americas. Portuguese Columbia and Castilian Peru and no Rio da Prata and so forth,

2 Oct – Copper in Chulym

16 Dec – Uh oh! Colonial Border Conflict event occurs

Settlers from Kamchadal California crossed the border into Nootka in Kamchadal Alaska. Alaska then sent in militia to drive them out, and got a little overzealous and raided and burned back to Squamish.

And obviously the conflict has escalated from there


I have four options:

Let Them Sort it Out – I lose prestige
Remove the Governor of K.A. – KA dislikes me, KC like me
Remove the Governor of K.C. – KC dislikes, KA likes
Sort our their difference – Lose some diplo power (which I have tons of)

I sort it out!

1 Feb, 1675 – Star Fort ordered for Baykha

1 April – Provinces resist Westernization

I grant Autonomy for 10 years, and it drops national unrest but also drops taxes

15 June – Corrupt Viceroys strike and we lose 10% tariffs for 5 years

1 Aug –

Turukhan – Next to Narim (Muscowy) and a bunch of our provinces. I order an Earthen Rampart here. We get 3.08 gold from the 1 tax value and fur trade


I order folks to Ket next

I need to suck up to Oirat. I guarantee them, and then offer them military access.

5 Nov – They offer us a Royal Marriage, and I accept.

[Abe Sargent]

2 Feb, 1676 – Marketplace ordered for Baykha

I change our National Focus to nothing. All techs equal

27 Mar – I can’t get close to an alliance with Oirat, but hopefully the Royal Marriage will keep them off


1 Apr – Provinces resist again and again I grant autonomy

9 May – Fur found in Tomsk

1 Apr, 1677 – Peasants resist. I gain local unrest for 10 years and massive local taxes cut in half

Luckily, taxes aren’t where I get my income from!


11 Sept – We are out of Admin power to use to develop our stuff.

23 Jan, 1678 – I order 1000 artillery in Baykha

16 Mar – Fur in Ket

1 Apr – I get 14000 troops rebels in Maya against the process. I order an army to close.

I send my ruler at the head of our army to help fight the rebels.

We have around 50 mil power left, and I don’t want it use it on a general


5 Sept – Britain has their first colony in the Indies area – Bangka, an island just off the coast of Sumatra Island

Portugal has captured the southern part of India

[Abe Sargent]

1 Apr, 1679 – High Command resist and we lose a lot of tradition

1 May –

Tomsk – Fur trading is fun! As is making 3.08 gold off a 1 tax value.


Next up is Kan, next to Chulym and Tomsk

7 July _ Took a while, but rebels are down


1 Aug - -

Chulym – Copper for the win! 1 tax value, but 2.78 gold and next to Tomsk, Kan, and O head east to Angara (south of both Tunguskas)


1 Dec – I get a more completed map, awesome!

Morocco has some colonies in northern South America. Denmark is in Paramaribo in Brazil.

There are tons of coastal lands here that are unclaimed, which is oddly the exactly opposite of the western side of the land.


1 Apr, 1680 – We get more peasants against the system

6 Apri – I have taken out both groups of local natives in Kan and Angara


18 June – We get a Ship Building Problems event, 50% worse building for 5 years

1 Nov –

Ket – Next to Muscovy in Narim and Oirat in Agan and Vah, we are on the edge with this fur trading province. They make us 3.07 gold off 1 tax value.


Next is Judjur, adjacent to Manchu and on the coast, by Okhotsk and Maya


1 April, 1681 – This time we have our army resist again

[Abe Sargent]

8 Mar, 1682 – Copper in Kan

27 Mar- And fur in Angara

1 Apr – Uh oh. This time we have government officials and lose 100 admin power, and that puts us deep in the hole on that one

18 Aug – Trade Company ordered for Seganka

23 Oct – Naval Supplies in Jugjur

25 Nov- I take a mission to Placate Moscow!

1 Apr, 1683 – We get a new resistance, Advisers resist. Our stability drops

7 Sept – Our Admin debt was paid

8 Feb, 1684 – Moscow accepts military access into our territory

1 Apr – Reactionary forces in Jugjur rise up.

22 June – We lose in Maya

1 Dec –

Angara – Fur trading, 1 tax valuing, and 2.28 gold making. East of Kan, Chulym, and north east of Sayan, north of Irkutsk, west of Ust-Kut and south of the Tunguskas.

Stanovoy, inland of Jugjur is next

1 Feb, 1685 –

Kan – Copper 2.57 gold, 1 taxvalue and you! West of Angara,


Next target is Nukthui, south of Yakut, west of Aldan and Stanovoy, and north of Oirat at Kirenga and Chara

4 April – Another officials resist and negative adm power follow

26 June – We get a Ship Building Boom for the next 5 years with a bonus -20% reduction in time it takes

28 June – I gain a tax base in Chuna

12 Aug – Maya falls

21 Sept – We finish the rebels. Now have to re-capture Maya

[Abe Sargent]

7 Oct, 1685 –

We have completed our Westernization process!


After Westernization, with the neighbor bonus and without the cost of the Chinese Tech Group, here is an example of what I need for the next level in my techs:

Admin level 16 – 336
Diplo level 17 – 384
Military level 15 – 312

That’s really, really easy to do. We can use the next little bit to massively play catchup

19 Nov – We get pulled into some minor war with Manchuria. This is the first time they have ever asked us to join them. So I do so, against some minor lower level states. I don’t want to lose my only-ever ally. We are now at war with…Crimea and the Ottomans. Not really a major concern there.


1 Jan, 1686 – Well, I have almost 1000 gold from the past decade or so. I couldn’t spend much in the way of gold because of not wanting to use up power.

Now I can build a Unique Building. The only one left is Fine Arts Academy which just reduces the cost for stability by a bit.

I get University at level 17 Admin. That certainly is worth it.

I’ll wait for a couple of techs.

I’ll spend down to 800, but then keep that much in my treasury for a while.


I order:

Earth Rampart in Ket
Temple in Baykha
Temple in Turukhan





17 Apr – Hi Japan! They have begun to colonize Taiwan. Meanwhile Brunei is colonizing an island in the Spice Isles (Buru)

1 June – Japan has lost two revolters! Date and Ainu have declared their independence. Let’s curry favor with Ainu. Again…

The Ainu are from the same dynasty as our King, by the way


22 June – Peace with Ottomans/Crimea. That was fast!


1 July –


Jugjur – The naval supplies in this brand new colony are ready to rock! With 1 tax value, 2.37 gold, and a port, this place is south of Okhotsk, north of two Manchu holdings (Udi, Urkan) and next to our colony of Stanovoy. Let’s build a Temple here!


I’m not sure where to go next…

7 July - We re-capture Maya from the rebels

[Abe Sargent]

Let me show you the new world so you can see the things I see:



Here’s South America –



Portugal is all up and down. I don’t have the colonial range to hit the east coast of S. America, nor would I really want to. One of the benefits of Westernizing is that we can see the whole map, according to the European powers

There’s just no major direction here to explore and set up a colony.

(You can see Morocco on the coast by Trinidad and Tobago – Denmark is the red past that one Portugal colony down-coast)

[Abe Sargent]

Now North America -




You can see large battles and colonies in Central America. New Castile has continued to expand. We have Florida, the UK, French Canada, the Dutch all over the area. Vinland is a Colonial Nation of Norway. So Norway has taken a lot there. There’s also a New Norway in the Virginia, DC, Maryland area. And a New Netherlands north of Florida in the Carolinas, below Denmark who has some land there as well.


There’s just no obvious expansion area anywhere here. Clearly I don’t want to expand south of Kamchadal California. I don’t want to run up against Castile, not even New Castile. I could also expand between the two different areas of K.C. to connect them (three coastal provinces are there) but we don’t get wealthy provinces, nor do we get the proceeds of our labor.

Similarly, I could delve heavily into Western Canadia. But how much is that worth? Plus we won’t keep what we find

There are tons of Indies that are open.

But that’s not really the direction I’m liking. Too much distance, not even support via navy/army

I have the range to hit northern Australia. But that’s a bit too far.

[Abe Sargent]

Here’s Siberia close in:





These are all of the unclaimed provinces. Now, I can keep working down the Oirat, but I am expanding faster than I can build up defenses here, and I don’t know if I want to hit the Oirat in too many places (We are pink, Oirat in white, Muscovy is orange, and Manchuria is dark orange)

There are 7 provinces back here. And I think, for now, I still need to keep building my defenses and such. So we need to keep clear of everything else!


Now, where should my next targets be?

Siberia weakens me defensively for now. Investing in weaker provinces in Western North America just goes somewhere else after we work on them. Indies are too far to protect.

There is another option. I could explore the Pacific and grab islands there. But that’s not historically a path to financial success.

For now, let’s punt.

I send colonists to Siuslaw, south of Chinook.

[Abe Sargent]

21 July - I cancel the mission to placate Moscow


14 Sept – We wipe out the natives in Siuslaw – I move to the other two coastal provinces to do the same


23 Oct – Iron mines open in Stanovoy!

28 Oct – We have wiped out natives from Yuki and Klamath as well

13 Nov – Fur in Nukhtui

15 Dec – And now the same to Stanovoy!


1 Apr, 1687 – Star Fort ordered for Ket; Earthen Rampart for Tomsk

25 Aug – Constable for Jugjur

10 Jan, 1688 – Another Generation of Cowards event

13 Apr – Star Fort ordered for Turukhan

23 May – I accept a mission to build a large fort in Baykha. And I do, I order a Tenaille here (80 gold)

2 Aug – Gold found in Siuslaw

Another Ming/Machu war has begun, with allies all in

1 Oct – I boost our stability back to +2

11 Nov – Huge numbers of Pretender Rebels have just broken out all over Ming – 27000 here, 25000 there, 27000, 25000, 28000 and 24000, and 14000. That’s a lot. That is going to crush the Ming Dynasty. That many rebels, plus and invading Manchu and Yi and another war with Dai Viet and Ayutthaya? That feels like a dead China walking

[Abe Sargent]

28 Feb, 1689 – We have entered into a Royal Marriage with Ainu

1 Mar – New Tech!


Merchantman (Dip 17)

Better colonial range, trade range, trade efficiency, and we can build two new vessels (Galiot and Merchantman)

The Merchantman is our latest vessel ship

26 Apr – I land our fleet in Kamchatka and order them upgraded

I also order another Early Frigate here

26 May – Mission completed. Our next is to build a Star Fort in Tomsk. I do just that

31 July – We have too many diplomatic relations and are losing 1 dip power each month. I cancel military access with Britain to stop that.

1 Sept –

Stanovoy – The iron mines here fetch us 3.05 gold from the 1 tax value. Inland and west of Jugjur, this holding is south of Nukthui, Aldan, and Maya. It’s unfortunately next to Manchuria at Ukran and Oiratat Chara.


Next target - Klamath, south of Siuslaw, in the new World


1 Dec –

Nukthui – Fur trading is still a thing, apparently. People still want them! The low 1 tax value hurts, but we make 1.95 gold, so, um….yay? West of Aldan, northwest of Stanovoy, and south of Yakut. It’s east of unclaimed land in Mukhtuya, and north of two Oirat holdings (Kirenga, Chara)


Next up is Yuki, to finish that land connection for K.C.

14 Jan, 1690 – I ease the tension with a Diplomatic Insult event and gain some relations with Muscovy

17 Feb - KC has begun colonizing inland of their territory and they found another gold territory in Maidu

31 May – We finish that mission. Our next is to fortify Nukthui. I agree and we order that Earthen Rampart right now


30 June We get a Successful Bureaucracy Event. Yay Admin Power!

27 Aug – After trying for independence, Portuguese Brazil fails and got smashed.

Japan continues with another colony in Taiwan

2 Dec – Portugal no longer is severely coveting our land, and our relations are pretty good at +70

Castile still does though. Sad.

18 Feb, 1691 – New Tech!

Maurician Infantry (Mil 15)

We get better tactics, Asian Mass Infantry, and improved land morale

1 Apr –

Siuslaw – Gold, given to K.C.


Next colony – Flores, large island in the south of the Indies.

Somebody’s gotta move in here. Flores has 4 tax value, small numbers of relatively peaceful natives, and creates a new place for me to explore further if I desire.

[Abe Sargent]

26 Apr – Man, Ming is in a bad way. Here, let me snap a quick pic, just to show you






Dang! That’s nasty stuff right there. You can see huge rebels all over, Manchuria has troops in the north, the Oirat has taken stuff in the east, Yi has a holding, you can see where Miao and Yi have formed a while ago. Good luck Ming!

[Abe Sargent]

2 June – We finish the next mission. Our next is to Tenaille in Ket.


I also order a Workshop for Jugjur


Ainu is trying to take out Date

4 Nov – Earth Rampart ordered for Stanovoy

12 Nov – Uh oh. Our King has died!


But our new King is incredible!


Meet Tolluman a 5/6/5 king. Our heir isn’t super hot (2/3/1). Long may Tolluman reign!

Our stability drops to 1

We are making 8/9/8 in investment right now.



1 Feb, 1692 – New Tech


College & Mint (Admin 16)


We can build colleges and mints.

We renew our marriage with Manchuria and Ainu

6 Mar – Fur in Klamath

1 April – Ming is broken from the rebels

Japan absorbed Date again

3 May – I begin to improve relations with Majapahit in southern Indies (and Java particularly)


7 June – Mission completed. Next up – Turn Flores into a city

29 June – Grain in Yuki

Marketplace ordered for Jugjur, and Temple for Nukhtui

3 Dec – Oirat Horde just took 6 provinces from Ming

10 Apr, 1693 – Constable for Baykha; Temples for Angara, Kan, Chulym

13 June – Should I ally with Ainu? I could probably vassalize them later, and maybe even annex them. But I don’t know if I want to fight off Japan. But we are in a better place now. Japan is still Chinese Tech, with a 16 military tech. We are at 15 and quickly growing. Japan has 36k armies. We have 27k. That’s not that different. Add in allies (Manchu, Ainu, two colony nations) and that’s do-able. Japan has a bigger navy (53 ships vs our 26)

But that’s it. This is do-able.

We announce that we have allied with Ainu

I order another Early Frigate built


14 July - I send a small gift to Ainu of 50 gold for huge benefits

Sorry, they are too backward for vassalization.

20 Nov –

New Tech!

Customs House and Naval Base (Dip 18)

We can build those


18 Jan, 1694 – I choose Local Fortifications for an expert unearthed in Gizhiga

4 Oct – Tech Gain!


Standardization of Calibre (Mil 16)

Better cannon, better artillery fire and shock ,and we can build Arsenals

5 Nov – To prepare for more relations, I cancel our military access to New Castile

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1694 –


250 Year Review!


We’ve spent this entire 50 years increasing our colonies considerably, and have gone deep into Siberia.


Here’s a map of Asia and Europe






We’ve clearly moved in detail into Siberia. I need to keep our folks in line with borderers, but for right now, we’re fine

You can see the mass gains by the mega-Oirat Horde in the south from the Ming Dynasty in China. You can also see Ainu in Hokkaido and the Kurils, just beneath us. Muscovy has moved into Scandinavia.


Check out our techs, money, armies and such on the side.


Our allies are Manchu and Ainu. We have two colonial nations – Kamchadal Alaska and Kamchadal California.

[Abe Sargent]

Score? 53rd Admin, 109th Dip, 101st Military

33.89 gold monthly.

Most techs? 70 Least? 12

We have 50 techs and 22 ideas


Biggest Armies:

1. Oirat
2. France
3. Castile
4. Great Britain
5. Orissa
6. Qara Qoyunlu
7. Manchu
8. Ottomans
9. Poland
10. Aragon
11. Lithuania
12. Portugal
13. Timurids
14. Muscovy
15. Venice
16. Bohemia
17. Ahmednagar
18. Gujarat
19. Brandenburg
20. Malacca

Malacca has 42k. We have 27k



Biggest Navies:

1. Portugal
2. Great Britain
3. Aragon
4. Venice
5. Malacca
6. Manchu
7. Netherlands
8. The Hansa
9. France
10. Japan
11. Castile
12. Gujarat
13. Ottomans
14. Ming
15. New Castile
16. Orissa
17. Rio da Prata
18. Caraibas
19. English West Indies
20. Tunis
21. Kamchadal California

We have 27 vessels, the same as Sweden. Tunis has 34.


Ten Highest Value Trade Nodes:

Sevilla
Lubeck
English Channel
Bengal
Genoa
Ceylon
Constantinople
Rheinland
Caribbean
Ivory Coast



Trade Goods by Current Value:

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

[Abe Sargent]

Provinces:

Kamchatka – 13.92 gold
Penzhina – 4.65
Kagyrgyn – 8.73
Karalveyem – 18.15
Omolon – 5.5
Gizhiga – 23.8
Kolyma – 6.97
Yarmanka – 26.30
Verkhoyansk – 6.74
Suntar Khayata – 6.49
Tauisk – 2.79
Okhotsk – 16.18
Jugjur – Naval Supplies, 4.61
Maya – 8.5
Sakha – 6.76
Kharya – 1.99
Yakut – 22.39
Aldan – 10.10
Stanovoy – Iron, 2.93
Nukhtui – Fur, 3.58
Seganka – 17.54
Chuna – 9.85
East Tunguska - Iron, 3.96
West Tunguska – Iron, 3.96
Uchamin - Copper, 3.69
Angara - Fur, 3.64
Kan – Copper, 3.36
Chulym – Copper, 3.36
Tomsk – Fur, 2.94
Ket – Fur, 2.94
Turukhan – Fur, 3.64
Baykha – Fur, 4.01

Colonies –

Klamath – Will go to KC when completed
Yuki – Will go to KC when done
Flores


Colonial Nations:

Kamchadal California –

Kumeyaay -10.26
Cahuilla – 5.26
Chumash – 7.17
Salinana – 10.74
Miwok – 13.18
Maidu – Gold Colony
Pomo – 6.39
Siuslaw – 2.16
Yakima – 12.33
Chinook – 8.09
Chehalis – 8.39
Quileute – 9.21
Squamish – 9.21
Salish – 10.43


Kamchadal Alaska –

Nootka – 7.02
Heiltsuk – 2.91
Kwakiutl – 4.63
Tsimshian – 4.5
Nisga’a – 2.9
Aleut – 5.98


And there we are!

[Abe Sargent]

1 Dec – Klamath is now a full province and is handed to KC.

Our next colonial target is East Timor

30 Jan, 1695 - We announce a royal marriage with Brunei.

2 Apr – Ainu has agreed to become our Protectorate. This does several things to help them. For example, they get tech development reductions across the board. They’ll give us some trade power and stuff. Everybody wins!


20 Apr - I accept an alliance offer from Brunei

I order some Merchantmen in Kamchatka built

3 June – We get a Colonial Company goes Bankrupt and I pay 50 cash to keep them afloat

1 July – Yuki is now self-sustaining. Next target is West Timor

New Tech!

University (Admin 17)

New Group of Ideas and we can build University. I order one built immediately in Kamchatka.

Because we are spending tech in catching up post-Westernize, I hold off on the next Idea for now.


4 Oct – I order – Star Fort in Stanovoy, Constable in both Tunguskas

13 Nov – Chinaware in Flores

23 May, 1696 – I use a new settlement in West Timor to increase the tax value there

[Abe Sargent]

10 July – What we have been fearing has come to pass. The Oirat Horde declares war upon me!


And it’s all downhill from here

I call on Manchu, and they chose us over Oirat. The Oirat Horde is using a Horde Claim on us.

I order my army over from Jugjur to Stanovoy and thence to Chara

I order some troops built in a bunch of places

A huge Oirat army is heading for Ket

I was going to rally there but instead I move to Turukhan and build up there

19 Oct – 31000 troops arrive in Ket. They begin a siege

15 Nov – 15000 of our troops arrive in Chara and begin a siege

15 Dec – I send some newly built units into Tannu Uriankhan to try and get in a sneak siege from across the Siberia no man’s land

23 Jan, 1697 – We send our King to the forefront of the siege in Chara

I3 Feb – I order some mercs ot build our forces in the west quickly

16 Mar – I order war Taxes levied

Unfortunately, the cold winter I was hoping for in Ket was not to be.

13 Apr – We win a major battle in Chara after being supported by Manchu forces, against an army of 36,000 strong


13 Ma y- I get a Military Reform event and choose to reform the Army, whch gives us huge boneus and 200 mil power


New Tech –

Flintlock Musket – (Mil 17)

We get +1 shock of cavalry and banner Cavalry


2 June – They took Ket

24 June – We take Chara

I cut colony maintenance to help pay for this stuff


16 July – Kamchatka University, Class of 1697 – I gain 10 prestige

They are moving their Ket army to Turukhan, and it could be anyone’s battle, frankly.

They lost some people to attrition in Ket. We have built up a force 24,000 strong. This is doable

28 Sept – We lose, but we took down a bunch of their forces – they lost more than 10000 troops doing so. They are down to around 16k besieging Turukhan

I begin to order a rally point to rebuild from We have 12.7k survive

We’ll use West Tunguska


1 Oct –

Tech Increase – The War Galleon (Dip Tech – 19)

Better colonial range, naval morale and we get two new ships (Frigate, Wargalleon)


11 Oct – I am forced to take out a loan of 200 odd gold to keep the momentum our way

6 Nov – A few of our troops leak into Ket

4 Dec – I don’t know why, but their army is chasing us and arrive in West T.

24 Dec – I boost our stability to 2

11 Jan, 1698 – They arrive in Tomsk

And now to Vah? Why leaving? Where are you going Oirat?

27 jan – We captured Tannu Uriankhai

I move inland to Uliastai

1 Mar – I get caught in Ket and lose some forces there

21 April – Manchu has captured 2 provinces

I offer peace to Oirat and concede. We’re ahead in the warscore by +9%. So instead of pushing it, I just wanted to call it. But the Oirat Horde wouldn’t take a white peace. They have technically won, and we lose some prestige, but this gives me a chance to rebuild my military, defenses, and economy. I would not have been able to keep up that pace for overly long.


Meanwhile, this may have been a huge long-term hit for the Horde. They forced Manchuria to choose between them and us, and they chose us. They have created a potential long term foe.

[Abe Sargent]

31 May – I get a Colonial Ventures event and for 10 years get bonus shop costs by -10% dip tech cost

Oh, and the University grants me -5% tech costs across the board

6 June – Chinaware also in East Timor

5 July – Next Tech –

Carbine (Mil 18)

Better combat width, cannon, and we get improved maneuver in battle

4 Aug – We put down a native attack in Flores with the 3k infantry stationed here

Ming is undergoing another huge rebel problem


I pass a Policy the Agricultural Cultivation. We have completed both Quantity and Economic Ideas. It will cost one ADM each month. We get +33% land forcelmits!

Now we are able to keep the army we built up in war


1 Jan, 1699 – Great Britain is coveting our stuff. Sadly. Castile and Portugal still as well


Castile has pissed me off by colonizing two islands right by me. There’s TONS OF PLACES to go in the Indies. Why come near me? They are in Sumba, Temdena, and also Sula, near Borneo

11 Jun – China in West Timor as well.

28 Nov – I repay my loan and begin upgrading some of my ships

10 July, 1700 – Corrupt Viceroys hit again for 5 years and a tariff hit



1 Dec –

Flores – We completed our mission here Chinaware and a 5 tax value give us 10.81 gold in the long island chain. It crosses to Sumbawa and East Timor. I order an Earth Rampart here to help our next mission and Sumbawa is now the next colony target. Majapahit has a claim on this province they made against us.

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1701 – We kill the natives in Sumbawa

7 Mar – New Tech!


Cathedral and Stock Exchange (Admin 18)

We can build those

1 Apr – Next Tech Again!


Refineries (Dip 20)

Can build Refinery and Royal Palace


9 Dec – Fort upgrade in Flores completes our mission there – Turn Sumbawa into a city

I order a Temple in Flores, Constable in Nukhtui and Angara


25 Jan, 1702 – Golden Age event gives me 5 prestige

9 Mar – New Tech!

Gustavian Infantry (Mil 19)


We get bonus military tactics, we get Asian Musketeer and can build a War College


5 July – in order to get money quickly for stuff, I order our martial army maintenance to be slashed.


19 Dec – I order Constable in Flores

1 Jan, 1703 – And we also build Constable in Kan and Tomsk

7 May – The nation of Luwu, in Makassar and Alopo (in Sulawesi Island) have been raising our relations, so I send one of our diplomats to them for the same reason.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s everyone here in the Indies against Europe

1 Oct –

East Timor – With Chinaware a go go, this tropical province is next to West Timor and can cross to Flores. We get 5.68 gold from the 2 tax value here. I order an Earthen Rampart constructed here for defense.


For my next target, I do like Lombok, which is west and adjacent to Sumbawa, but its east and adjacent to Bali (adjacent according to strait crossings that don’t need ships). Now sure I want to be bext to Bali and Majapahit yet. I want to build up our relations first.

So, let’s hit up somewhere else. I could do Ambom or Ceram, by the Brunei colony of Buru

Ming is colonizing Halmahera. No one has touched the Philippines, but I’m not interested in that right now. I could do southern Borneo, or part of Sulawesi Island.

Ambom has the best tax value, so I’ll just take it. It’s in the same Sea of Banda as East Timor and part of Flores


15 Nov – I send a dispatch to Majapahit to begin to continue to work our magic with them.

[Abe Sargent]

28 Jan, 1704 – I order built – Star Fort (Flores) and Constable (Ket), and Workshop (Tomsk)

5 Mar – We kill all of the natives in Ambom

12 May – For now, we’ve maxed relations with Majapahit

4 Oct – We order a Temple in East Timor

1 Jan, 1705 – New Tech!

The Chebeck (Dip – 21)

We get better trade range, efficiency, and we can use the Chebeck

1 Mar – West Timor now another holding of ours


West Timor – Another Chinaware tropical province, this town makes us 7.87 gold from 3 tax value. I order earthen ramparts to help defend against Castile (Insert European Power Here).


I target Ceram next, walking distance from Ambom, and close, but not strait-close to Buru and Brunei.

I order a Workshop in Kan and Constable in Chulym



8 June – Yuck. We get grain in Sumbawa

17 July – Cheap Iron for 5 years cheaper artillery cost



5 Oct – Looks like Castile and Portugal are currently not wanting my stuff, just the English

Currently an ongoing war between Muscovy and Oirat


19 Nov - I begin to improve relations with Malacca

30 Jan, 1706 – We get Diplomatic Move and I choose to improve relations with Moscow considerably and some Dip Power as well

1 Feb – I order built:

Star Fort (East Timor)
Workshop (Flores, Angara)

1 Apr – Next is a Star Fort in West Timor

18 Dec – New Tech!

Glorious Monument (Admin 19) I can build them

The next tech is big, I can swap to a an Admin Monarchy if I desire

[Abe Sargent]

9 Jan, 1707 - Another New Tech

Killing Grounds (Mil 20)

We get swivel cannons, can build Star Bastions, and get better troops again

3 Feb –

Marketplace (Flores, East Timor, Nukhtui)

5 May – Temple for West Timor

I’m building to increase my stability, so no new buildings for right now

9 July, 1708 – Tea in Ambom

5 Sept – We are proud to announce a Royal Marriage with Majapahit!!!

11 Nov - Malacca is now a protectorate of Portugal

[Abe Sargent]

We’ve had another Japan/Korea war break out

9 Feb, 1709 – Let me get you a picture of the busy Indies, as they stand now





Alright, let’s look at the map. We have Malacca on the right, Protectorate of Portugal. Portugal has colonies just to the left of Malacca and that little green island between Malacca and Borneo.

Castile has multiple provinces – all islands with the Castile dark yellow are Castile. That includes the Andamans to the west of Malacca/Ayutthaya at the top of the map and just west of Malacca below those Portugal islands. Castile has two islands near us in the south, one just by the blue island near the center.

The yellow south of Sulawesi Island and south-east of the Philippines (Ternate) are independent countries here. Then you have our Pink in the bottom in Sumbawa, Flores, East and West Timor. We also have Ambom and Ceram where those Kamchadal Pink are in the right of the Spice Isles.

Brunei is in the middle of Borneo, and also has a colony-now-province west of ours in the Spice Isles. That’s the island of Buru.

Ming has an on going colony in Halmahera, in the Spice Islands and adjacent to Ternate.

Majapahit is the long deep red nation on Java island to our west. In the south. That red island east of Malacca? That’s Great Britain. Meanwhile, Malacca have been progressing down the island by colonizing.

So, you can see Luwu on Sulawesi, Kutai, Brunei, Majapahit, Malacca, and Ternate. The tiny islands between the Philippines and Borneo are the nation of Sulu. The small yellow islands off Sulawesi is Buton.

All of those local nations we’ve been making nice with diplomatically. As well, we’re working on England, Castile, and Portugal when I get a chance.

It’s very busy right now. Left?

Southern Borneo, tip of island by Malacca, Lombok island (between us in the south) most of Sulawesi island, Philippines, a few islands here and there on the east, and then you could go east into Papua-New Guinea if you are feeling spicy. Oh, and Christmas Island is that unclaimed island south of Majapahit, it’s eligible too.

[Abe Sargent]

1 May, We boost our stability to +3


12 May – Wow! That tastes delicious! What is on that Salmon? Spices from Ceram? Let’s grow those!


1 June – I have a lot of gold…

I order a Trade Company in Flores

1 Aug – New Tech!


Limes (Dip 22)

No Naval Attrition
New Ships (Twodecker, Trabakul)


We also get some new maps from explorations:

Pacific?

Tierra Austral is a major colonial nation of Spain’s in Australia

Seems like Castile is in the Solomons; Britain, in Fiji or Tahiti (not sure); Portugal has Easter Island

We gained some new Claims with that tech advance. I have Nationalism Claims against Ainu, Manchu, and our colonial nations. We have Imperialism claims against, well, pretty much anybody.


5 Oct – New builds – Constable in East Timor, and West too actually

1 Feb, 1710 – Monopoly Company Formed. I can either gain the full benefit of it now and gain a ton of money or I can gain +15% trade efficiency for 10 years. I take the money.

I now have 802 gold!

I can build one unique building or two Manufactories!

I can build a Glorious Monument (+1 prestige annually). Or a War College (One extra leader without upkeep, and extra tradition annually. Royal Palace will increase our legitimacy annually. Fine Arts Academy? -5% stability cost.


Let’s do two manufactories.

Weapons Manufactory in Maya
Weapons Manufactory in Aldan



Dammit Portugal! They’ve put colonies in Alaska. As has Great Britain actually.


17 May – Japan won some territory from Korea

20 July – Excellent Viceroys give us +20% Global Tariffs for 5 years

4 Sept –

Sunbawa – This, ummm…..grain province, makes us 4.95 gold from its 4 tax value (after our mission was successful and raised it a bit). Sometimes you get something wealthy, and sometimes you get grain or fish or something. Tropical and ornery! East of Flores and west of the island of Lombok, which we target next for expansion.


The natives here are full of 5000 highly angry and highly ferocious natives.

I move some soldiers there. I jack maintenance back up to deal with ‘em


12 Dec – We order a rampart in Sumbawa

[Abe Sargent]

13 Feb, 1711 – We order Workshop for West & East Timor

4 Aug – I begin to work on Buton’s relations by sending gifts and such.

20 Feb – Netherlands is trying to carve a piece out of a damaged Ming. Manchu is also looking to expand south again

5 Feb, 1712 – Wow. We get another Monopoly Company event and churn it into cash

Trade Company in Verkhoyansk
Trade Company in Kolyma

13 Mar – Buton agrees to becoming our Protectorate

14 May – We are proud to announce that we have reached a Royal Marriage with Luwu!

19 July – Luwu accepts our offer of an alliance

17 Sept – I send a 75 cash gift to Luwu

31 Oct – Luwu accepts our offer to become one of our Protectorate

1 Nov – Star Fort ordered for Sumbawa

1 June, 1713 –


Ambom – We farm Tea here in this tropical town and bring in 8.22 cash, from a 4 tax value. I order an earthen rampart here. Ambom can cross to Ceram.

I send colonists to Tahiti to get a little crazy!

10 Sept – Tech!

Line Infantry (Mil 21)

Shock improves


1 Dec – Another Tech!

Absolute Rulership (Admin 20)

We get +25 Admin Efficiency and can move to Absolute Monarchy, if we prefer that over Administrative one we have right now

I prefer the one we have

[Abe Sargent]

2 Jan, 1714 – Temple for Sumbawa; Marketplace in West Timor, Trade Depot in East


5 Feb – Earth Rampart in Ambom


1 Sept – Tenaille in Flores

11 Nov - Portuguese Mexico is going heavy rebellions

6 May, 1715 – Constable in Sumbawa, Star Fort in Ampom



6 June – Tea is the trade of the day in Lombok

11 July – Tech!


Heavy Frigate (Dip 24)

We get a huge colonial range boost of 150. Settler growth +25. And then the Heavy Frigate of love and destruction

I order our military budget slashed again for a bit to build up some money for a naval refit


1 Aug –

Ceram – The spices of this tropical island (with a strait to Ampom) are giving us 7.88 cash off the bat, and 3 tax value.



3 Oct – We are proud to announce a Royal Marriage with Ternate

This gives us a penalty again of -1 dip per month

I send my next batch to Mukhtuya, in Siberia.

4 Dec – We have entered an alliance with Ternate

30 Dec – We kill the natives of Mukhyuta

1 Jan, 1716 – I send a nice gift to Ternate

14 Jan – We get an Architectural Development event. I spend some cash to get bonus power in all three elements. We go in the red and are forced to take out a loan (it was better than to get a stability hit)

26 Feb – Ternate is juuuuuust this short of letting us Protectorate them

I send a diplomat to improve relations

28 Mar – I proclaim a guarantee for Ternate

14 May – Ternate agrees to join our Protectorate

7 July – Brunei is now a Protectorate of Castile

Grrr


I’ll work some more on Kutai now


1 Nov – I order my fleet to upgrade a bunch of ships

[Abe Sargent]

14 Feb, 1717 – Extra settlement in Tahiti turned to increase the tax base there


18 Apr – Spices in Tahiti

1 Nov – We order – Earth Rampart in Ceram, Temple in Ambom, Trade Depot in Flores

2 Dec – Iron mines in Mukhtuya

5 Feb, 1718 – Ming is threatened by us

10 Feb – We get an event, Cities Demand Old Rights. I accept and lose 30 legit (better than losing a stability)

8 Sept – TWO Techs


Land Clearance (Administrative Tech 21)

Production +10%



Cartridge (Mil Tech 22)

Better troops in lots of ways too long to name right now. Oh, and better cannons


9 Nov – I pull my colonist off Lombok. Ming’s colony on Halmahera was destroyed. I send in mine. Lombok will still grow +90 a year, and it’s almost there – this’ll slow it down just a bit

5 Feb, 1719 – I repay our loan

30 July – Huge conflicts and rebellion in Cosmopolitaine Brazil the French Colonial Nation


1 Nov – We order a Star Fort in Ceram and Canal in Flores

The Oirats are still in wars with a variety of neighbors

I suppose it’ll be my turn again eventually

[Abe Sargent]

26 Feb, 1720 – Natives in Lombok lose a ferocity after an accommodation

1 Aug –Tech!

The Archipelago Frigate (Dip 24)

Trade Range improved, and is our efficiency in trading it. And we get the better Frigate

9 Sept – I hire a Theologian Advisor

1 Oct – Because we have that, I pass a new National Decision:

Introduce Vision Quest - +5% stability cost: Yearly Prestige +0.5


3 Nov –

Mukhtuya – This iron mine, Siberian, province is getting an Earth Rampart. North of the Oirat Horde in Kirenga, this land is south of Seganka, Yakut, and Chuna, west of Nukhtui and east of unclaimed Ust-Kut. It makes 2.86 gold off 1 tax value.


Next?

Ust-Kut


19 Dec – We finish the local tribes in Ust-Kut

1 Jan, 1721 –

Lombok – This Tea island trade, on the tropical shore of Lombok, has a strait connection with Bali (Majapahit) and us in Sumbawa. I order a upgraded wall here too. 3 base tax, 6.67 gold.



1 July-


Tahiti – Tropical spices abound from this mid-Pacific chain of islands. With a 4 tax value but 75% autonomy (new world autonomy, as opposed to Asian 50% we get from the Indies) we still have 8.42 cash coming our way. I order a Constable


Next is Nauru in the Pacific, and far away from others


19 Oct – Halmahera is a Chinaware province

1 Dec – I build more walls in Siberia

10 Jan, 1722 – I hire a Statesman advisor

18 Feb – Promising Trader event


4 July – Workshop in Tahiti

I begin making nice with Sulu, Gifts, etc

14 Nov – Manchuria’s king dies a few days ago, the new one has allied with Oirat. I send a diplomat to work on that relation

[Abe Sargent]

9 Feb, 1723 – Sulu enters our Protectorate


27 May – Iron in Ust-Kut

7 July – Marketplace for Tahiti and a Star Fort for Lombok


We’ve had a HUGE slowdown in game speed in the last ten years or so.


I might just take this to the 300 Year Review and end it. I might get it done tonight!



1 September – Tech


The Constitution (Admin 22)

We can go to Con., Monarchy, new Idea Group, and +25% admin

I still like our Monarchy better for us


17 Feb, 1724 – We get a House of Kakizaki is Shaken event We deny and loose Legit

19 Mar – Tech

Light Cavalry (Mil 23)

Asian Dragoons enabled, better units in a variety f ways

9 July – Trade Depot in Tahiti; Marketplace in Sumbawa; Courthouse in Flores

20 Nov – After war for more than a decade, Ming loses 6 provinces to Oirat.

Our awesome King is 72. He’s going to die soon. And when he does, we’ll lose all of that awesome Power development he’s been building for us post-Westernization

8 June, 1725 – Fish is the trade of the day in Nauru

13 July – We order a Canal in Tahiti, Temple in Mukhtuya

6 Aug – We get an event that raises inflation by 1

4 Sept – Our ruler has passed!


Our new king is Tuskul II (2/3/1). His heir is not yet established

Meanwhile we have a stability drop.


I do not seek to re-establish royal marriages to nations that we have as Protectorates

My worse diplo will require fewer official relationships

16 Dec – We enter into a Royal Marriage with Manchu

Current bonuses? 5/7/4 (We get +1 Admin for adviser, and -1 for policy, and +1 diplo due to adviser)

Who next?

Majapahit might be a good choice for re-acquaintance. Brunei? Malacca? Kutai? I’m still thinking

[Abe Sargent]

17 Jan, 1726 – We boost stability back to 3

22 Jan – New Heir – Nute-nli who is 1/5/2

4 Feb – I decline a RM offer from Tunis

4 Mar -


Halmahera – Chinaware province in the Sea of Trenate and connected via strat to Ternate and another unseen island. 5.97 cash made from tropical island with 2 tax value. Let’s upgrade that wall!


I wanna wait too see what that island is (often you’ll get a free reveal)

Actually, nah….

15 June – Uh oh. Manchu has been caught fabricating a clam on us!


Ust-Kut - 1 Nov 3.61 gold from 1 taxvalue, Ironing next to Oirat Horse in Kirenga. Next to us in Angara, East Tunguska, and Mukhtuya. North of Irkutsk.

Next?

The little island next to us was the nation of Tidore, in the Sea of Ternate. So I order folks to Palau and Vanuatu

1 April, 1527 – TECH!

The Threedeckers (Dip 25)

We get that ship, plus we get better naval morale

Rather than pay for your stuff, I get ready to upgrade my fleet – it’ll take another year-ish to get enough money to do it.


8 May – We get Manchu to ally with us again

6 June – Tidore has been working to improve their relations with us. I agree to reciprocate

1 Sept, 1728 – We upgrade the fleet

10 Nov – Our Heir gets tragically sick and dies

1 Jan, 1729 – I order a Spy Agency in Flores

31 Mar – Manchu just took 6 holdings from Ming


20 Sept – Ainu is having some Shinto rebellions going on

[Abe Sargent]

8 Apr, 1730 –

Nauru – Tropical, fishing, and low taxvlaue. But this island will be adequate someday I hope


Next up is Guam

14 June – Naval Supplies in Vanuatu

9 Aug – Horse Population Boom for 5 years decreases cavalry costs

26 Aug – Tropical Wood in Palau


13 Jan, 1732 - We have a child via a Lux Stella event and choose a 6/6/6 heir from the event.

18 Feb – Weapons Manufactory ordered for Chuna

23 Feb – Malacca took three provinces from Majapahit

3 Mar Majapahit offers an alliance and I agree

19 Apr – We renew our vows with them too

1 Aug – We order Temple in Lombok and Trade Depot in West Timor

[Abe Sargent]

2 Mar, 1733 – I order Temple in Ceram, Constable in Ampom

17 May – Military Tec

Covered Way (24)

Can build redoubts and get better in battle

10 Jan, 1734 – Naval Supplies in Guam

11 Feb – We order Temple in Stanovoy, Workshop in Nukhthui, Rampart in Ust-Kut

1 June – Tech –

Improved Irrigation (Admin 23) +!0% Production efficiency

1 Aug – Tech

The Eastindianaman (Dip 26)

We get Great Frigate, East Indianman, better colonial rang e(by 200!) and +25 settler growth!

I order settlers to return from Palau

I dispatch them to Samoa, which I just cleansed of natives

27 Sept - I recall my colonist leader from Vanuatu and order him to Tonga

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1735 –

Palau – 1 tax value and tropical woods are available here for 2.15 cash in this tropical holdings in the Pacific and with 75% autotomy


13 Jan – We order a Temple in Halmahera, Constable in Ceram and Lombok, Workshop in Ambom

21 Mar – Just for fun, I’m sailing an Explorer I just made north of Tahiti. I want to find all of this fun stuff! But I’ll skip which places I’m finding and crap like that

9 Jun – Portuguese Mexico declared war against Kamchadal California

Probably thought they were better than they are, I expect – they just finished their massive rebels, maybe looking for something to push away from the difficult in-fighting? War always brings a country together?


I don’t think they’ll win. Our nation has more troops and ships, by far. Maybe you should have picked on Alaska


2 July –

Vanuatu – Naval Supplies on the route in the Pacific is a fun stop, with 1 tax value and just 1.8 cash made in this tropical holding of ours


11 Aug – Another Horse Population Boom

4 May 1736 – We plunge into and find Midway Island

2 July – We order:

Temple (USt-Kut)
Marketplace (Angara, Kan, Mukhtuya, Tomsk)
Workshop (Chulym, West Tunguska, East Tung)
Constable (Stanovoy)


That was two years worth of money, since I was busy exploring in the Pacific

17 Oct – War Update – We have captured two provinces in Baja California and are besieging another

15 Dec – We land at the Marshall Islands and reload and head back out

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1737 – I pull our colonist from Guam

We send them to Midway

15 Apr – Hello Hawaii, with your 5000 folks!

6 Jun – I land my troops in Hawaii and stay there for a while

1 Aug –

Guam – Naval Supplies, etc. And cheap folks!

I create a Trade Company called the Philippine Charter. I give it Guam, Palau, and Nauru. It won’t let me give Vanuatu and Tahiti

24 Sept – Fish in Samoa

1 Oct – Fish in Tonga too

1 Jan, 1738 – We build:

Constable (Halmahera)
Workshop (Ceram, Lombok, Ket)
Marketplace (Ampom, Turukhan, Chulym)


11 June, 1739 – Tropical Wood in Midway


16 Nov – Special Graduating Class of 1739 from Kamchatka U

22 Nov – I order:

Marketplace (Ceram, Ket, West Tunguska, East Tung)
Trade Depot (Ampom)
Workshop (Baykha)
Constable (Turukhan, Ust-Kut, Mukhtuya)
Temple (Tomsk)

[Abe Sargent]

5 Mar, 1740 – Plague hits Omolon. I pay to keep it down. It reduces us to 5 cash

2 Apr – 200 colonists migrate from Midway to Samoa

Samoa – Fishing, 2 tax value, very little money and lots of fun. I can’t give this to our Trade Company either. Odd.


Next are sent to Hawaii

21 Aug – We get an event for Diplomatic Moves

16 Nov - Another Great Class of Kamchatka U

4 May, 1741 –

Tonga – Yet another small tax value fishing Pacific province that I can’t give to any Trade Company


Next is Micronesia

2 June – War Update? Still not a lot in the battle with K.C. and P. Mexico

1 July – We build:

Workshop (Ust-Kut, Mukthaya, Stanovoy, Turukhan)
Trade Depot (Nukhtui, Jugjur)

2 Oct – We kill the rest of the natives on Hawaii

1 Jan, 1743 – We build:

Marketplace in Lombok
Trade Depot in Angara, Kan, Chulym, Tomsk, Turukhan, Baykha
Temple in Ket


10 Feb – Sugar in Hawaii

I pull colonists off Midway and send them to Marshall Islands

1 Aug – I order:

Marketplace in Stanovoy, Ust-Kut
Trade Depot in Mukhtuya, East Tung

We are gaining roughly 25 gold a month

1 Oct – Trade Depot for West Tung

Our last order to get built prior to the 300 year Review next November


27 Dec – Tropical Wood in Micronesia

14 July, 1744 – We announced a Royal Marriage with Tidore, in the Sea of Ternate!


11 Sept – Tidore enters into a military alliance with us

Tidore Westernized, and I missed that earlier, so I can vassalize them. And they are willing (currently a check mark) I just need to drive them up in their like with me with Gifts and such. Then we can absorb them into our nation!

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1744


The 300 Year Review!!!


Let’s call it in grand fashion, after 300 years of peace and success!


Let’s begin with maps!


Here’s Siberia, Asia and Europe for ya:






So there’s Map 1. Our Siberia Holdings are a bit smoother. There’s still some stuff down there I didn’t want to move into that quickly. You can see the grossly expanded Oirat Horde, as well as our roughly-eternal ally in Manchuria. Ming is in the middle of yet another rebel horde. Ming China is a thing of the past, and you can see nations like Dai Viet, Manchu, Yi, Miao, and Oirat have just nibbled at it over time.

The red at the base of Korea is land that Japan took. Because of our support of Ainu in the north after revolting, Japan never came back and took it.

Novgorod won some wars vs Muscovy, and I have to admit, Muscovy was the best neighbor ever. I had 14000 troops stationed on the border ever since I connected to them, and they never brought over any troops, never fabricated claims against me, and never came my way at all. They helped me Westernize, and were the best neighbor I’ve had in quite a while.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, next, up, the Indies:






As you can see, it’s very similar to before, so I won’t bore you with repeating stuff. Note that Malacca is the first nation to colonize the Philippines. You can also see Malacca’s gains in Java from Majapahit. You can see Palau, our colony far to the east of the Philippines and we have Halmahera, in between all of those forces in the Sea of Ternate (which includes Tidore and Ternate)

Great Britain took Christmas Island, and Portugal the small island in the south-east. No one has touched Papua-New Guinea. Fears of this being a Castilian sea were not founded.

[Abe Sargent]

The Pacific and stuff!





I had to zoom out and it’s hard. East of the Paused bar is Midway and thence to Hawaii. Below it are several islands we have. West is Guam. Tahiti is the far east island chain.

Portugal took the western edge of Australia, and southern New Zealand. Castilian Tierra Austral is strong and mighty, and even the UK took some stuff in New Zealand and New Caledonia.

[Abe Sargent]

South America!





There are still vast swaths of South America unclaimed, which strikes me as quite odd, since we have like every scrap of other places taken (you’ll see) Why Great Britain and Portugal saw the need to take every province in Alaska astonishes me, but left wealthy coastal and inland provinces in Brazil and other places untouched is beside me.

The Moroccan colony is now three provinces, And Denmark had more until colonies were burned in war. By Austria. You have Portugal, France, all over and currently under ownership is Castilen La Plata and Peru

[Abe Sargent]

Now let’s get real. North America!




We only colonized two continents. Siberia and North America. You can see us in Aleut and down through Kamchadal Alaska, and then Kamchadal California. They are still at war.

Meanwhile, Castile has spread across the map like an ugly yellow blob. All of that New Castile Yellow you see in Central America is also New Castile. They are an ugly bear. Combine with Florida and Castilian Louisiana and you have a huge problem. Note that Navajo absorbed multiple tribes around it

Anyway, you have Dutch Louisiana, and Norway’s Vinland still there. Nova Hollandia is in Canada, representing the world in Orange. You also have French Canada and the Thirteen Colonies. Don’t ignore New Norway in Virginia, Denmark and the Netherlands in the Carolinas, and such.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, now let’s look at stuff other than maps!


Our Allies: Majapahit, Tidore, Manchu
Colonial Nations: Kamchadal Alaska, Kamchadal California
Protectorates: Ainu, Sulu, Buton, Ternate, Luwu
Royal Marriage: Majapahit, Manchu, Tidore
Military Access: Via Muscovy



Ranking:

Admin – 16th
Diplo – 41st
Mil – 76th

That’s so far behind where I normally am, it’s awesome!

I intentionally left my military behind the last 25 years or so and built my economy and nation instead. Butter over guns!


We make 65.28 gold monthly. That’s 19th best. The best? Portugal with 309.54.

The most techs? 80 The least? 22 (by some revoloters). We have 73. So we mostly caught up there. 22 ideas is pretty low though. The most ideas was 46.

We have the 162nd highest score

We have 53 provinces

That includes the 4 colonies of Hawaii, Midway, Micronesia and Marshall Islands


We had 37000 troops, and again, we did not expand. The most was Oirat with 242000, and then Frnace with 175000. We have as many troops as New Castile does.

We have 30 ships. The most is Portugal with 425. Kam. Cal. has more than us!

[Abe Sargent]

We were 100% Shamanist, 97.5% Kamahatkan (Only one Yukaghiri)

Fur – 22.6%
Iron – 17.0%
Fish – 11.3%
Copper – 11.3%


Trade Goods ordered by value on the market:

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


I’m not going province by province. I’m bored. So instead, what are our top provinces?

It’s basically a list of all of my provinces with manufacotories




Flores
Yarmanka
Gizhiga
Yakut
Chuna
Maya

Etc



Alright, and we are done!

[Abe Sargent]

My assessment of the dynasty:



Well, some assessment. This is my first dynasty I’ve ever played as a pagan nation at all. Luckily I didn’t do it in a harder game (EU2, EU3). Yuck. We started way out there, and we had little in the way of war. I beat all three local one province Siberian Clan Tribe folks, and then later, much later, I took out a one province tribe in Washington State and then a two province trice right beside it. And then that was it. And those lands went to Colonial Nations.

We westernized, we swapped governments and finished with an Administrative Monarchy which worked fine from where I’m sitting. No issues here at all.


I think our presence was mostly expected based on the game. We took Kamchatka and eastern Siberia very early. Then hopped to Aleut, and then back to Siberia a bit. We waited on Siberia for a while, jumped to wealthier land abroad in California, and then built a colony there for a while, and then hopped around the New World for quite some time, building two colonial nations. Then it was back to Siberia with a lot of colonies. It wasn’t until we pushed Siberia as safely as we could before heading to the Indies to fight for what was left, and then European powers, and lots of Asian ones, moved in and expanded into the area. We grabbed a handful of colonies in the Indies (Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, East & West Timor, Halmahera, Ampom, Ceram) and that’s it. We didn’t expand militarily (although we could have, we could have taken Sulu, Tidore, Ternate, etc) instead playing nice in the area. We allied with Brunei, Majapahit, and many others. Then after influencing the area and finished our 8 islands, we hopped to the Pacific and began to gobble stuff there while filling in Siberia. Never fought for islands in the Indian Ocean, South America, Africa, Asia main continent (outside of Siberia/Kamchatka) and we steered clear for Borneo, Sulawesi, Philippines, Taiwan, etc.

Very realistic representation of a nation that united the Siberian tribes, was out of the world sight while building and switching government, and then beginning to move down.

And remember that our dynasty was hurt for a while by a 50+ year King with the worst possible stats 1/1/1. That was just awful.

I think we did well.

[Abe Sargent]

After finishing a dynasty like this, particularly one that uses a new expansion very heavily, I know folks will want my full assessment on everything.

First of all, in a game with an expansion that wanted to push the playability of pagans, there were a few rules that really hamstrung us. The first is the gold thing. Not getting full value out of gold makes no sense. It makes even less sense being tied to the one thing I can’t change – religion. Make it tied to the Siberian Clan Council or something instead. Give me the chance to change/fix it!

I also hated the autonomy for colonies near me, or next to me. This hurts people in areas with a lot of open territory. Perhaps we could have a colony, even one adjacent, start with a 50% autonomy, and have it drop over time, just like a captured province. Makes sense.

I think that mechanic was at its most laughable when we saw the one tribe move from one province (Kolyma) to another (Yarmanka) then I captured the new one and colonized the old. Even though the move happened and then we moved in, the captured land, right beside the colonized one, had its autonomy get cut over time. The difference in value of those two provinces, after centuries, is crazy.

I’ve asked for more trade goods for a long time, and after my run through with cocoa’s addition in my last EU3, I remarked that I hope it was the beginning of the floodgates. And we got three new trade goods – Tropical Wood, Dyes, and Silk. I thought they were all good changes. I also enjoyed the dynamism of how trade goods weren’t just supply and demand anymore, but there were events that changed the demand of goods. Slaves were tied to the rise of plantation goods, for example. I’ve never felt the trade goods feel more organic than I did in this run through.

I absolutely adored the new additions to provinces, nations, and such that inspired me to run this dynasty. Good stuff!



Technical Stuff – Except for my war with Oirat, I was on the fastest sim speed the entire time. I blew through years in minutes. I’ve never finished 300 years in a dynasty in four days. That’s crazy. It took me some extra time due to slowdown at the end though. Victoria II had a similar issue that kept me from coming back. I usually end my FOFC dynasties earlier than 300 years when some pre-given condition is met. I might run 200 years in a week of real life time. Maybe a little slower. This? Thsat was crazy!


I’m still in an EU4 mood actually. At this rate , I could run a whole other dynasty!

Maybe I’ll just read or something instead!


Let me know if you have any questions. I do like autonomy as a mechanic, just not as the hoser of all things colony. I think it needs some trimming. There ‘s a Steam Workshop mod to remove it, but that stuff is always buyer beware, you know?

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, all done, let me know if you have any questions -

And thanks, as always, for reading!!!

[Cap Ologist]

Enjoyed it greatly, gonna fire up up a game later.