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

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 88 - Annexing Iraq


1 Feb, 1643 – New Tech – ADMIN TECH 20 – Absolute Authority – We get a boost to governing capacity of 250

1 April – Bam and Jask convert, next target is Kazerun,

30 June – Our ruler dies, Alexios takes over with a queen regency.

I reup our four marriages

14 July – Malamir converts

I order a Textile Manufactory in Yasuj for cloth making.

13 October – We announce the annexation of Iraq

1 Nov – Taytay – Philippines, former colony, 5 dev, Spice trade, coastline, 0.16 made here

I claim the Mamluks’ holding in Africa Hobyo

1 Jan, 1644 – New Tech – MIL TECH 20 – Killing Grounds - We can upgrade our cannons and get boosts to infantry fire

1 Feb – I order:

Plantation in Bam for it’s Cotton, Farm Estate for Livestock in Qawarism
Basilica for Mogostan,
Workshop for Kazerun’s Wine

I fabricate a claim on Yas’s Liwa

27 April – Kazerun converts!

1 July – Iraq is ours!

Haditha – Livestock, 10 dev, Shia faith, Missionary ordered, Church, Star Fort, Farm Estate, Workshopm, it’s culture is the accepted Mashriqi, I get 0.61 here from the drylands.

NEW TECH – DIP TECH 17 – Merchantman – We get Merchantman ships, can build a marketplace upgrade called trade depots, +50 colonial range.

I order my 10 Brigs in the Indies to upgrade for 120 cash.

Ditto Black Sea fleet.

The Mamluks are at war with the Turks again

5 Nov – I join the Russian invasion of Oirat and Transoxiana is their ally.

[Abe Sargent]

Before I do that, 200 year review:


MAPS



Here I am zoomed in on our area, in the Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Middle East. Nice, right?

Here’s a zoomed out map:



As you can see, Russia is in Norway, everything has been found, and the Ottomans are everywhere.

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger

We are making 181.24 cash monthly and spending 126.97 monthly.

We have colonies in the places listed on the right side of the pics.

Army forcelimit 105k, 110k army size

Navy forcelimit is 51, we have 35

We have the 4th best income per month,

With 874 we are 9th best development

We have 57 techs, three behind the leader

We have 35 Ideas

There are just 4 Orthodox nations but 384 provinces.

Our Top Ten Holdings by Taxes

1. Wasit, 15.40
2. Teheren, 15.40
3. Crimea, 15.40
4. Tabriz, 15.40
5. Tyn, 13.40
6. Rasht, 13.40
7. Shirvan, 13.40
8. Tezyl- Yar, 13.40
9. Samawat, 11.04
10. Fasa, 10.82

Our Top Ten Holdings by Production

1. 33.48 – Tabriz
2. 30.69 – Teheren
3. 28.42 – Shirvan
4. 27.91 – Suri, Lahjan
5. 25.11 – Rasht, Qazvin, Shustar, Amol


I have 96 holdings

We have the 10th largest army; we don’t chart for navies, the biggest is Venice’s 124

We are 93.8% Orthodox

Cultures of 5% or More:

Mashriqi – 13.7
Kaleeji – 8.1
Persian – 20.3
Azerbaijani – 10.4
Mazandarani – 6.2
Crimean – 9.2
Gothic – 6.1

Top Ten Trade Nodes by Power

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

Trade Goods by Current Price :

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


We are the production leader in Silk.

Great Powers

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

There are no coalitions against us even with our heavy recent badboy. That may be about to change with our current war.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 89 - The Russian-Oirat Horde War

Begin the War:

Russia
Theodoro
Trebizond

Vs

Oirat Horde
Transoxiana
Kashmir

We are the junior partner as is Transoxiana, so we cannot win then take a separate peace with them, but we could with the Oirat Horde.

I have gained stuff from Russia before like from Ajam. I don’t want to pull out I wanna get warfavors in theory, but some key holdings from Transoxiana are nice and we have some internal holdings surrounded by my stuff that need to go.

I order 30k from Semnan to their Qumis
I order 30k from Bam next door to their Fort of Zaranj
I order my 30k from Qatar to grab internal holdings

10 Dec – Qumis is ours, I head to the Fort of Bojnord

1 Jan, 1645 – Fak-Fak – Island of Papua, former colony, 3 dev, coastline, Incense trade, they make 0.08, next to Ternate. Tropical.

Rebellions in Taytay

7 Feb – I can purchase a new Splendor ability for the Age of Absolutism. I choose Harsher Treatment - -50% MIL Cost for brutally suppressing a rebellion

14 Feb – Rebellion ended

30 April – Zaranj falls! I order this army next door to Farah where 25k opposing forces are.

1 May – Samar is good for tropical wood, another miss

12 May – The internal holding of Abarquh is ours

16 May – Haditha converts

They dodged combat

I move to the Fort of Ghor

14 July – Saidabad another internal is ours

17 Dec – The Siege of Bojnord lifts and we captured it. We have a warscore of 28%. I order these troops to Bukhara to begin a siege there

2 Jan, 1646 – Russia captured the Fort of Nogay

Russia are here in Bukhara and Samarkhand besieging so I join them.

14 Mar – Ghor falls to us

1 April – Samarkhand falls to Russia

21 May – Bukhara falls

New Government Reform:

Tier 9 - Absolutism and Constitutionalism

I choose…

Divine Rights
+1 Tolerance of the True Faith
-5% Warscore Cost vs other religions

7 June – We have a 75% with everyone in. I have just a 15% warscore, and take double warscore for stuff from Transoxiana, so I could get the two internal holdings inside my territory and then that’s it.

I arrive at the Fort for Kashgar and begin the siege.

1 July – Our heir takes over the Regency ends, he is a tactical genius

I need to get him a lady friend

Austria is my target. I send a diplomat to influence nation

18 August – We get a new Queen from Tabriz

We have a new 6/0/5 heir

5 Oct – I defeat a 20k Transoxianan army

27 Nov – Kashgar falls, everyone has a 99 warscore and we have a 22 ourselves

This is the most I can do:




It’s just 15 badboy, peace for 8 years, and three simple minor holdings. I doubt Russia is sending us anything, and I don’t want a 20 year peace treaty with Transoxiana my main land addition.

I do it.

I core them for less than 70

Abarquh – Internal, Church, 5 dev, Mountains, Livestock, Persian Sunnis make us 0.02

Saidabad – Mountains, internal, Livestock, 3 dev, nothing made here, Persian and Sunni here

Qumis – 3 dev, desert, wool sheered here, Sunni faith, Khorasani culture, next to Transoxiana and us, nothing made here, this was a throw in, since I really wanted the two internal holdings we already took.

Nice!!!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 90 - Integrating Transoxiana, Take Four

I begin to build up a spy network in Oman

1 Jan, 1647 - I order:

Trade Depot in Shiraz; Isfahan; Basra; Yazd; Baghdad; Teheren; Shivran

1 April – New tech – DIP TECH 18 – Line of Battle – I can build the Galiot ship, I get better naval morale and engagement.

I pay to upgrade 6 ships in the Black Sea

1 Oct – Rebellion in Isfahan where I have 30k

17 Oct – No more

1 Nov – Explorer mission is done, next is North East Pacific Sea – I want to see if Alaska is free.

18 Nov – I spend some ADM and MIL power to increase Crimea’s dev to 30 and order a Trade Depot here

1 Jan, 1648 – I claim Oman’s Masqat

1 July – I order:

Trade Station in Taytay for Spices; for incense in Fak-Fak

21 Sept – Peace in the Arabian Peninsula, Oman took land from The Mamluks,

The Turks took a bunch of land as well.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 91 - The War for Yas


22 Sept, 1648 - Yas’s only friend is Mamluks who are guaranteeing them, and I want to grab two Mamluks holdings in Africa near my Trade Station. I declare war on Yas

I don’t call on anyone. I order my 30k forces in Qawasim to Liwa
I order my 10k into Hafun on the Horn of Africa

7 Oct – I rout the 7k Yas army

I order 30k army into inland Egypt

1 Nov – Liwa falls, after I order a fusillade

17 Nov – Hafun is ours I order the 10k south to the other coastal area we have a claim on called Hobyo

1 Jan, 1649 – Asmat – Former colony, Papua island, next to UK and us, 3 dev, Jungle, tropical, spices, making 0.14 here.

27 Jan – Hobyo falls

I want Hobyo and Hafun from Mamluks and Liwa from Yas, but that’s 38 for 35 score and they don’t want that yet, we need to capture problems

8 Feb – I upgrade the Bam Citadel special project

9 April – I arrive at a mamluk fort
30 May – Abarquh and Saidabad are cored, I order Missionaries here

28 June – I claim Oman’s Sufar

12 July – Another Mamlukian siege begins of Aswan

3 Aug – The first siege falls,

15 Aug – Aswan falls, we have a warscore of 78, I do peace

Here you can see my offer, I get the two holdings on the coast and then Liwa from Yas only Transoxiana cares and the Mamluks obviously.



Cores are less than a 100 for them they are all low dev


Hafun – The tip of the Horn of Africa, arid, next to my trading post, Incense traders, coastal desert, 7 dev, Somali people, Sunni faith, 0.07 made here

Hobyo – Two down from my holdings, arid, natural harbor, marketplace, 7 dev, grain growers, Somali Sunnis.


Liwa – Desert, next to Turks, Oman, us, Spices, Trade Station, Workshop, Shia faith, Khaleeji culture, 6 dev, Arid, 0.04 made here.

Nice trio to add to my roster.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 92 - Finishing the Philippines


1 Sept, 1649 – Samar – Philippines, former colony, tropical wood harvested here, coastline, 4 dev, 0.14 made here, that’s my last colony done.

1 Dec – I order my spy network in the Commonwealth to warm up.

1 Jan, 1650 – The next institution is here – Manufactories.

15 March – Event – Hardy Seaman – I gain +10 Naval tradition

29 Mar - Conversion done in Saidabad and Abarquh, Core finished in Qumis, I order a Missionary there

1 May – I lose my claim on Azov and thus Genoa, I also lost a claim in the Commonwealth

16 June – Event – Royal Patronage – I choose to host a Philosopher in my court

1 July – I order:

Trading Station in Asmat for Spices
Mill in Sampit and Samar for Tropical Wood
Workshop for Yasuj’s Cloth
Basilica for Katapang; Kerman

10 Dec – From Oman I claim Ask Shardiyah, I pull back this diplomat and send it to Genoa to build up a spy network.

I move my Bengal rivalry to the Commonwealth

Is my next war against the Commonwealth?

Armies:

Us – 110k, 90k on the border and move able
Russia – 220k
Georgia – 46k

Total without Mercs – 376k

Their Side:

Commonwealth – 142k
Tirol – 18k
Austria – 33k
Spain – 206k

Total without Mercs – 401k

And remember I can just bring in that 45k merc army a head of time and have that blitz their border. I am worried more about my colonies than anything else.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 93 - The War for Gold


1 Jan, 1651 – I get ready for war in the Indies on Borneo Island for Lanfang, or what’s left after the UK took it down.

29 Jan – Event – Colonial Adventures – I choose to invest in DIP TECH development over navy, and for the next ten years I get +10% to ship build cost but 100 DIP power.

31 March – Qumis converts!

1 April – New tech – DIP TECH 19 – The War Galleon – I can build Frigates, War Galleons, Shipyards, and +50 colonial range.

I order a 160 cash upgrade in the Black Sea fleet.

I declare a Holy War on Lanfang, they have two gold provinces on Borneo I want to bring in, and just four left after losing to the UK.

They are guaranteed by Sunda, we are now at war with both powers.

25 April – I begin the siege of Pontianak

8 July – Pontianak falls

23 July – I rout a 3k army in Kundian and begin a siege

11 Nov – I offer Sunda 100 for peace and they accept and pull out, just you and me.

1 Feb, 1652 – We lose another claim on the Commonwealth, I claim their holding of Zaporoce



To fully annex all four holdings is 12 badboy. Ready for peace?


Pontianak – Confucian faith, Hakka people, Jungle, 14 dev, Gold Mines, Church, Shipyard, Camp, they make 0.29, tropical.

Meliau - Jungle, tropical, grain grown here, camp, workshop, farm estate, Hindu faith, Bornean culture, next to UK.

Sambas – Bastion, tropical, fish, jungle, camp, shipyard, 10 dev, 0.08 made here. Bornean and Sunni,

Kuching – 8 dev, Church, shipyard, Jungle, tropical, Bornean, Sikh, gold mines, 0.86 made here.

I order cores for all four. That costs some ADMIN power.


26 March – Kundian is mine!

5 May – I capture Kuching, the last holding and we have a warscore of 99%

Ready for peace?

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 94 - From Kingdom to Empire

12 May, 1652 – Exploration mission is done, Alaska is all Portuguese.

That looks like it for places to colonize off the beaten path.

23 June – Cores done in Liwa, Hafun and Hobyo, Missionaries ordered for all three.

I upgrade from King to Empire!

1 Feb, 1653 – I order:

Textile Manufactory for Malamir’s Wool
Workshop for Qawasim’s Livestock
Basilica for Bahrain, Yusuj

28 May – I claim Azov

1 June – I claim The Commonwealth’s Jedysan

23 July – Event - The Non-Possessor Movement – I support the church, gain 5 authority and 10 clergy loyalty

25 Nov – Syria announce me as a rival.

5 Dec – Another exploration mission finishes, I dispatch another

Hoboyo and Hafun convert!

17 Dec – Liwa converts!

I am now making 1.06 monthly from Liwa

22 March, 1654 – Event - Pirate Raid -I spend 75 DIP to hunt them down

4 May – Our peace with Transoxiana and the Oirat horde ends as well as Kashmir and Multan. I move my army from Liwa to the border.

19 June – Event – Visit from some Shady People – I choose to get +20% spy networks built up

23 Aug – Portugal no longer considers us a rival.

1 Oct – Event – Supplies for the Cossacks – I spend 250 cash to gain their influence and support.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 95 - Purchasing Tanga


4 Mar, 1655 – I saved up some cash for a Trading Post:

I spend 3198 cash



Tanga – Purchased from Mumbasa, next to them and Kilwa, Ivory, 11 dev, coastline, Fetishist faith, Swahili culture, here is a regimental camp, Trade Station, and shipyard, they give us 0.59 in cash monthly, I destroy the Shipyard and order a Workshop here.

Nice addition to my African fun times.


7 June – All four cores are done in the Indies,

I send Missionaries to:

Kuching
Pontianak
Meliau

1 Aug – Another exploration mission done, and I send out another.

1 Sept – New Tech – DIP TECH 20 – Naval Professionalism – Boosts to trade range and +2 trade efficiency

3 Sept - Event – Chocolate Imports - I choose to push importing sinful chocolate and get for 5 years - -15 national unrest and boosts to manpower recovery speed.

9 Nov – From the Commonwealth I claim Oczakow

Transoxiana is down to 55k soldiers.

I won’t need to hire mercs for the next war, just me, Russia and Georgia can likely do it.

1 Feb, 1656 – I order:

Workshops in Taytay for Spices; Sampit and Samar for Tropical Wood, Asmat for Spices, Fak-Fak for Incense
Basilica in Qawasim

1 Mar – Meliau converts. Next is Sambas

11 Mar – Pontianak converts. I am now getting from this gold holding 2.84 monthly.

22 Mar – Kuching converts! From this gold holding I am now making 1.45 cash.

I send a Missionary to Qardho now that their religious fervor has ended

18 May – I accept an offer to share maps with Russia.

1 June – Our Emperor gains the Baffling Baboon trait which drops our dip reputation by one.

6 Oct – Another exploratory mission done, another ordered

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 96 - The Fourth Theodoro-Transoxianan War

1 Jan, 1657 – New Tech – ADMIN TECH 21 – Land Clearance – We can build Furnaces and get +2% production.

17 Jan – Sambas converts

1 Feb – 10k rebellion in Qardho of Somali Separatists

9 Feb – Defeated

12 Mar – The Commonwealth discovered our spy.

22 Mar – Qardho is converted!

1 April – I order:

Trade Station in Hafun for Incense
Textile Manufactory in Qumis for Wool


1 May – I fabricate a claim on Spices of Tun from Transoxiana.

I am ready for war on Transoxiana.

We don’t have a lot of good trading things left near us, one Spices next to me in Tun, Cotton next to me in Birjand, and that’s it, the rest of anything nearby is pretty poor, you have to dig a few into them to get to the good stuff again, and yet they can afford a 55k army, so they are still a threat. So this is really just about taking holdings of opportunity and Tun and Birjand that I have claims on.

I want to declare War on Transoxiana and then Kashmir, Oirat and Muhan would join. But Russia is currently in peace, which ends May 1662. Can we do this without the help of the big one?

Oirat Horde – Far away, 7k troops, very little left
Transoxiana – Key target, 51k
Kashmir – Next door to our target, 1k
Multan - 14k

Us – 90k on the border
Georgia - Farther away – 47k

So we have 137k vs their 73k

I hire a merc unit for the border to do this just with our eternal ally of Georgia

8 July- I declare war on Transoxiana and order 60k to siege Bojnord from Qumis and Golestan

I order my mercs and 30k into next door Fort of Zaranj from Bam and Kerman

I break off 2k cavalry from Bam to hit the coastal stuff near me

23 July – The Siege of Bojnord begins, I order a cannonade fire

26 July – Ditto Zaranj. I see 24k enemy forces fleeing from us

7 Aug – One of my generals dies in the siege

1 Sept – We are no longer a Great Power.

3 Sept – A minor falls to my 2k unit near the coast

19 Sept – Exploration mission succeeds, next is Coast of Pacific South America

11 Oct – Another minor holding falls to my 2k unit and I order it inland

17 Nov – The two Georgia armies are here.

21 Jan, 1658 – I capture another minor holding from my 2k army that repositioned to grab internal stuff.

1 Feb – Two minors fell to Trebizond and Georgia

6 Feb -Bojnord is ours, I order these two armies to the Fort of Bukhara

6 Mar – Georgia defeats the Multani army

19 Mar – I capture Birjand

25 Mar – The Siege of Bukhara begins and I order a cannonade

11 April – Georgia captures another minor.

16 April – Zaranj falls, I order these two armies to the Fort of Ghor

21 May – Two more minors are ours including Tun

27 May – We begin the Siege of Ghor and I order a fusillade

11 June – Bukhara falls, next is the capital of Samarkhand

26 June – The Siege of Samarkhand begins with a fusillade

27 July – Two more minors fall

19 Aug – Another minor is ours

8 Oct – Samarkhand falls!

I order these two armies to the 4 away Star Fort of Kashgar

I have a warscore of 43

6 Dec – We begin the Siege of Kashgar with a fusillade

20 Dec – Two more minors falls

31 Jan, 1659 – Another two minor are ours

11 Mar – 50k Transoxiana forces have arrived at Bukhara and have begun a siege

I have a 49% warsore, I could probably get a few cool things.

What I want is 51% so I try to finish the siege of Ghor prior to losing Bukhara

1 April – Exploration Mission done, next is Coast of the Eastern Indiana Ocean

8 May – Three more minors fall and now I have a 51% warscore…do it now?



Yes they do!

We get around 51 badboy, but only Transoxiana will care.

I core them all, and order my armies back

New Stuff:

Tabas – Next to us, 3 dev, Wool made by Shepherds, Desert, Sunni faith and Khorasani People, make us nothing. Arid.

Birjand – Cotton, next to us and Transoxiana, 6 dev, Mountains, Arid, Sunni, Khorasani folks, make us 0.06.

Tun – Spices grown here, Desert, Arid, 3 dev, 0.03 made here by Sunni and Khorasani folk, next to Transoxiana,

Sabzevar – Highlands, 4 dev, Wool sheared here, Sunni and Khorasani here as well, 0.01 made here, Arid, next to Transoxiana,

Nishapur – Gems mined here in the Mountains, 6 dev, 0.07 made here from the Sunni and Khorasani people.

Mashhad – Entrepôt center of trade, Marketplace, Copper mined here, 9 dev, mountains, Khorasani and Sunni people making us 0.03 monthly.

Sarakhs – Desert, next to us and Transoxiana, 5 dev, Wool sheared here, 0.04 made here, Sunni, Khorasani

Herat – Next to Sarakhs – Paper made here, Drylands, a massive 22 dev, Emporium center of trade, Marketplace, Workshop, Regimental Camp, Church, Sunni faith, Khorasani culture, making us 0.16

Konjikala – Next to Sarakhs, Arid Desert, Copper mined here, 3 dev, Weapons Manufactory, Turkmeni culture, Sunni faith, makes us 0.19 cash.

All done!

I lost 60k manpower in that war

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 97 - Incorporating Transoxiana, Take Five

29 May, 1659 - I claim Transoxiana’s Merv, a Cotton province next to us.

This peace lasts for 10 years

1 June – We become a Great Nation again!

29 June – One of my generals dies; I hire another

30 Oct – Another mission finishes, I send out one to the South Indian Ocean

13 March, 1660 – Genoa declares war on the Mamluks

1 Nov – 18k revolt in Herat, I have 30k next door in Sarakhs that I order over

23 Nov – Defeated

19 Jan, 1661 -Delhi has declared war on Transoxiana and I give them military access

1 Feb – New Tech! MIL TECH 21 – Line Infantry – I get boosts to tactics and shock

1 June – I embrace the Institution of Manufactories

I order:

Farm Estate in Saidabad and Abarquh’s Livestock
Workshop in Qardho’s Incense; Bam’s Cotton, Malamir’s Wool
Basilica for Liwa and Hobyo

1 July – New Tech! - DIP TECH 21 – The Chebeck – I can build them.

1 Sept – Event – Radical Reforms – I choose an option when my radical advisers are under scrutiny to raise our mercantilism by 5.

Our heir gains the Midas Touched trait

15 Dec – Event - Sudanese Demand and Theodoro Supply – We get boosts to our relations with Sudan and better relations with my burgher estates

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 98 - Upgrading the Bam Citadel


25 Feb, 1662 – Event – Cassock Raid on us, we lose 100 ducats to help alleviate the damage done

13 May – Birjand and Tun are now cores! I order here two Missionaries

16 Aug – Another exploration mission finishes, next is the Coast of the South Indian Ocean

9 Sept – Every holding other than Herat is now a core. I order a Missionary to Tobas

1 Oct – Herat a core! All are cored.

I order another upgrade of the Bam Citadel.

4 Feb, 1663 – I begin making nice with Delhi again

25 March – Another exploration mission finished, next is North West Pacific Sea

1 July – I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactory in Jask for Fish.
Workshop for Hafun’s Incense

I’ll save the rest for my new holdings.

11 July – Tun converts, next is Sabzevar

1 Aug – Birjand converts, next is Nishapur

22 Sept – Tabas converts, next is Masshad

18 Oct – Event – United in Prayer - I choose to pray when meeting with other rulers and get a +40 relations boost with Trebizond

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 99 - The World Cries for Salt


31 Mar – 1664 -Event – Salt Crisis – for 3 years -5% production.

6 July – Delhi won their war and are now bordered to us in Herat and Birjand.

16 July – Conversion in Sabzevar next is Sarakhs.

17 Aug – Nishapur also converts, next is Herat

1 Sept = Event – Famine in North Lanka State.

23 Nov - UK Announce us as a rival

24 Dec – Another exploration mission done, next is North New Pacific Coast

1 Jan, 1665 – I order:

Trade Station in Tun for Spices
Plantation in Birjland for Cotton
Mill for Nishapur for Gems

1 Feb - Relations maxed with Delhi, I pull my diplomat back

Sindh is now next to us in the Persian Gulf instead of Transoxiana.

1 Aug – Another mission done, next is Pacific South America Sea

We finished converting Sarakhs, next is Konjikala, I order a Star Fortress in Sarakhs

1 Sept – Rebellion in Konjikala

9 Sept – Put down.

I have 114k army and a forcelimit of 144, so I order another 30k army built. 15k infantry, 10k cavalry, 5k artillery in Persia.

I get a message that I am about to max my ADM power so I raise Tun and Burjand to 10 dev each

14 Dec – Herat converts, next is…Isfahan which have gotten past their 25 year conversion boost

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 100 - Now Rivals with Venice


1 April, 1666 – I order:

Mill for Paper in Herat
Basilica in Malamir
Workshop for Wool in Qumis

1 July – Event – Gothic Colony Cottage – I choose to get +10% production and better burgher loyalty when i mint new coinage.

27 July – Our Conquistador died

10 Aug - Konjikala converts!

11 Nov – Isfahan converts!

29 Nov- Mashhad converts!

1 Jan, 1667 - I claim Transoxiana’s Bojnord

27 Feb – Our final cannon is built and my 30k army is finished. It will be stationed in Kerman and I hire a general for it.

16 Sept – Explorer mission finishes, next is ordered.

1 Nov – New Tech! ADMIN TECH 22 – The Constitution – We get another Group of Ideas and we can build Town Halls.

What do I want my next Group to be?

I choose Quantity and get the first idea: Levee en Masse – We get +25% manpower recovery speed.

1 Dec – The Two Sicilies cannot be our rival anymore so I choose Venice

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 101 - Getting Ready for the Next War

1 Jan, 1668 – I forgot to build last year, I order:

Weapons Manufactory for Copper in Mashhad
Textile Manufactory for Wool in Tabas
Workshop in Kondjika for Copper; Livestock for Saidabad; Sabzevar’s Wool
Basilica for Shiraz

1 April – Event – Improve the capital – I spend 7500 manpower to increase Theodoro’s tax by 2

1 July – Event – Production Research Flawed – We lose 50 Admin power

25 Dec – Event – The Skill of the Empress = We get -10% MIL Tech costs for 10 years

1 Jan, 1669 – I save my buildings until after our next war with Transoxiana since our peace ends this year

24 Feb – One of my generals die, i replace him

21 May – Another mission is done and that was the last one we can do. I order my fleet upgraded for 240 cash,

1 August – Our peace treaty with Transoxiana and her allies is up.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 102 - The Fifth Theodoro-Transaxonia War

I declare war for the Cotton province of Merv and call up my allies.

I order 30k in Kerman to the Fort of Zaranj

I order 30k in Birjand into an adjacent holding where there are 16k foes

I order 30k forces in Nishapur and Konjika into the Fort of Bojnord

22 Aug – I rout the army and move this army to help with Zaranj after leaving behind 2k calvary to capture the minor holding

18 Sept – The minor one falls and I order this 2k unit to start grabbing smaller minor holdings

9 Nov – Merv is ours

24 Nov – Georgia has arrived

29 Nov – Russia routs a smaller Transoxianas army

17 Dec – Another minor falls

29 Jan, 1670 The Fort of Bojnord falls to us, next is Samarkhand as Russia is besieging Bukhara

1 Mar – New Tech – DIP TECH 22 – Limes – We can build Twodecker ships, Trabukul ships, Stock Exchange upgrades of Trade Depots, and better naval morale and engagement

16 April – We arrive in Samarkhand

1 July – Samarkhand falls! I order this combined army to the Fort of Kashgar

18 Aug – After a siege of longer than year, the Fort of Zaranj falls. I just have a strong warscorebut let’s push, I order these two armies to the capital of Kashmir

23 Aug – Russia captures Bukhara

1 Sept- We arrive in Kashgar and begin the siege

30 Nov – We arrive in Kashmir and begin a siege.

2 Dec - I claim the Commonwealth’s Poltawa

25 Dec – Russia has caprured every holding of the Oirats

11 Jan, 1671 – The capital of Kashmir falls, I have a warscore of 99%, can I get their capital?

I have two internal holdings that are unconnected to the rest of the country after Delhi won their war that are pretty minor:

Zaranj – 6 warscore, badboy
Ghuriyan – 4 warsore, 3 bb

Others:

Merv – Wartarget – 6 warscore 7 bb
Charjuy – Minor, next to us to build up, 9 warscore, 6 badboy
Bukhara – Fort next to capital, 13 warscore, 16 badboy
Samarkhand - - Capital, COT, 30 warscore, 24 badboy

That’s 66 warscore and 62 badboy

Qarshi – 5 warscore, bb
Khujand – Next to Samarkhand, Silk, 9 warscore, badboy

That’s 80 and 76

What else?

Tashkent – Tea, connected to Khujand, 10 warscore, 12 badboy
Atakent – Livestock, all connected, 5 warscore, 3 badboy

Ready?



Get ready!

I order cores for them all

Internal -

Zaranj – Star Fort, 7 dev, wool sheared here, Mountains, next to Delhi, Sunni and Khorasani culture. We get 0.01 monthly.

Ghuriyan – Desert, Livestock, 3 dev, Sunni, Khorasani, makes us nothing.

Others:

Merv – Wartarget – Cotton grown here, Desert, 8 dev, Plantation, Church, Emporium, Turkmeni culture, Sunni faith, 0.38 made here

Charjuy – Drylands, Planation for Livestock, Uzbek people, Sunni faith, 6 dev, they give us 0.22

Bukhara – Fort next to capital – Salt, 15 dev, Drylands, Church, Camp, Naval Equipment Manufactory, Arid, Uzbek, Sunni, they make us 0.46 monthly.

Samarkhand - - Capital, Center of Trade – Paper made here, Great Project “Registan Square” Mill for Paper, Marketplace, Workshop, Church, Barracks, Emporium, 23 dev, Drylands, Sunni and Uzbek, they make us 0.14.

Qarshi – 4 dev, Drylands, Plantation for Cotton, Sunni, Uzbek, making us 0.20

Khujand – Next to Samarkhand – Silk grown here, Camp, Workshop, Textile Manufactory, Grasslands, 9 dev, Uzbek, Sunni, make us 0.23

Tashkent – Tea grown here, 11 dev, grasslands, Plantation, Sunni and Uzbek, they make us 0.33

Atakent – Livestock – 3 dev, Desert, Arid, Farm Estate, Uzbek Sunnis, make us 0.18

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 103 - Incorporating Transoxiana, Take 5

I order my merchant to pull from Venice and send them to Samarkhand.

I am making 6.54 from it.

1 June – Our ruler is now Industrious, +10% production

7 Aug – Event – The Non-Possessor – I gain 5 authority and cleric loyalty again

1 Jan, 1672 – New Idea – Qualitative #2 – The Young can Serve - +20% manpower

I order:

Textile Manufactory for Wool in Sabzevar and Sarakhs
Workshop for Spices in Tun; Cotton in Burjand; Fish in Jask, Gems in Nishapur

1 April – I claim Transoxiana’s Salt holding of Sozak

7 July – Since I am not at war, I order ship upgrades

1 Feb – 1673 – I lose a claim on Oman

I fabricate a claim on The Commonwealth and pull my diplomat for Oman

1 June – 21k rebellion in Samarkhand, I have 31k next door in Atakent I order over

16 July – A long battle but we won, but lost 6k

13 Nov – Merv is a core, I order a Missionary here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 104 - Conversions Aplenty

15 Marc, 1674 – Everything but Samarkhand are cores, I order missionaries to Zaranj and Ghouriyan

25 April – Samarkhand is a core

24 June – Our Omani agent was discovered

12 Dec – Merv converts, next is Charjuy; I order a Workshop here.

23 March, 1675 - Conversion in Ghuriyan, next is Atakent

I order here a Farm Estate

10 April – Zaranj converts! Next is Qarshi

I order here a Textile Manufactory

30 July – Our spy in Transoxiana is discovered I pull It back and send it to Sindh

1 Dec – Government Reform:

Level 10 – Separation of Power – I have three options, I choose

Right to Petition:

No stability loss on ruler death
+1 Dip skill

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 105 - The Arrival of the Stock Exchange

1 Jan, 1676 – Conversion is successful in Charjuy, next is Khujand, I order here a Workshop for Livestock

1 April – Atakent converts next is Tashkent, I order a Workshop here for the Livestock

27 April – Qarshi converts, next is Bukhara, I order here a Workshop for it’s Cotton

1 Nov – Quantity Idea #3 – Enforced Services- -10% building cost

12 Feb, 1677 – Conversion successful in Khujand, next is Samarkhand. I order here nothing

1 Mar – I order:

Workshop for Wool in Tabas
Basilica for Birjand; Tun, Kardho, Herat, Theodoro

I order Stock Exchanges:

Sari, Bassarabia, Trincomale, Mogostan, Lahijan, Siraf, Hormuz, Crimea, Basra,

15 May – Another conversion, in Tashkent, I order a Workshop here for it’s Tea.

1 July – Bukhara converts! I order here an upgraded Star Fort.

8 Sept – Event- Traders Demand Need – I spend 100 to help them out

30 Sept- I claim Oman’s Suhar

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 106 - A Cheating Wife Discovered

16 April – 1578 – Event – Pirates strike and I spend 75 DIP to hunt them down.

1 June - - I lose my claim on Azov

17 June – Samarkhnad converts! I order here a Stock Exchange

I order two of my armies over to Arabia.

15 July – Event – Production research Flawed – I lose 50 ADM Power

31 July – Event – Desires of the Flesh - My wife is sleeping with an advisor. I have four options like keep silent, pay the advisor off, divorce, etc. I choose to pay him off and he leaves court.

1 Sept – My two armies are in Arabia, around 65k total. I am soon about to declare war on Oman.

Oman has 9 provinces and some have value, but not near me. They have Spices in Ash Shardiyah; Gems in Madqat, Incense in Dusta and Khofar, and Copper mining in Masirah, and I’ll need to grab one bad province on the coast to get to the other stuff.

17 Sept – A general dies, I hire another.

31 Dec – The ruler of Georgia died, we enter into a new Royal Marriage

1 Feb, 1679 – I order a few Forts into Star Forts like Meliktaes and Tabriz

I increase Samawat’s dev by 2 and order a Workshop here for it’s Spices.

27 Sept – Without me using a Missionary Yazd is now Orthodox from Zoroastrian

1 Oct – I claim Sindh’s Chabahar I pull this back to build up a spy network in Genoa

1 Nov – New Tech!!! – ADMIN TECH 23 – Measuring the World - -10% Dev cost modifier,

14 Dec – Event – Colonial Ventures – We invest and get -10% DIP TECH costs but +10% ship building cost

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 107 - The Theodoro/Oman War


14 April – 1680 – Event – Cultural Unrest – I order suppression and Tanga gets +10% revolt risk

1 June – I claim Oman’s Dhofar

1 July- I declare war for Oman’s Ash Sharqiyah. I do not call in my allies, Yemen joins them

I order 32k from Liwa into the adjacent holding of Baraimi and my 31k army from Qawasim to Suhar

1 Aug – Suhar is ours, next I order to Masqat

9 Aug – I capture the minor holding of Baraimi I order next to the Fort of Nizwa where 13k are defending

24 Aug – We rout the Nizwa army and begin the siege, I order a fusillade

7 Sept = Masqat is ours I order this army to grab next door Ash Sharqiyah and 2k calvary to head inland to Ibra

17 Sept – The Fort of Nizwa falls. I order this army to Masirah

6 Oct – The other two minors fell and I order them to Dhofar

23 Oct – Masirah is ours, I order next to Wusta

I offer peace to Yemen for 250 cash

Now I have a warscore of 99

15 Nov – Event – A Helping Hand – I choose to spend 500 cash to hire an expert on Theodoro Monument to improve our capital.

23 Nov – Wusta is ours

25 Nov – As is Dofar, we have every Omani holding until our control. Peace time!!!

It’s 67 to bring in everything, even the less valuable stuff. And 52 badboy. Who cares this time? Transoxiana, don’t care, Delhi, Sindh, and the Turks, what if I pull out three internal holdings? 41 badboy, and just Transoxiana and Delhi.

Alright, just those six coastal holdings:



I core them all for less than a 100 ADM power, and we’ll start next to Qawasim and move around the coast to Dhofar.

Batinah (Suhar on the map) – Grain farmer, Farm Estate, 12 dev, coastal desert, Church, Workshop, Omani people, Sunni faith, they make for us 0.12 in cash

Muscat (Masqat on Map) – Gems making, Coastal Desert, 12 dev, Omani and Sunni, Mill for Gems, Stock Exchanges, Workshop, 0.18 made here, Natural Harbor

Ash Sharqiyah – Spice growers, Trade Station for Spices, 9 dev, Church, Coastal Desert, 0.40 made here monthly, Sunni and Omani

Masriah – Copper mining here, Workshop, Weapons Manufactory, 5 dev, Arid Coastal Desert, Sunni and Omani and they make 0.39 here.

Wusta – Incense trade here, 3 dev Church, Coastal Desert, Mahri culture, Sunni faith, 0.04 made here Arid.

Dhofar – Incense here as well, 0.01 made here, 3 dev, nothing built here, Mahri culture, Sunni faith, Coastal Desert, Arid.


I keep these two armies here to help with revolts.

Our peace ends 1690.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 108 - Incorporating Oman


17 Dec,1680 - I start building a spy network in Yemen

2 Jan, 1681 – Our explorer dies!

I order:

Workshop for Livestock in Guriyah
Basilica in Tashkent, Samarkhand, Khuland

1 April – I claim Oman’s Fort of Nizwa

I pull this diplomat, I just want an excuse to finish them

1 May – Do I want another MIL Tech or Idea?

Let’s do the tech while I have the -10% Boost:

MIL TECH 22 – Cartridge – We get…

Better Combat Width
Better Fire for artillery and cavalry
Better shock for artillery
Better cavalry and artillery
I can build Conscription Centers

I upgrade my troops

4 June – In the Indies, Banten replaced Sunda on the Island of Sulawesi and Majapjit, I begin making nice, to buy a Trade Station from them.

I start by Influence Nation my Great Power ability

8 Aug – New Tech – DIP TECH 23 - Heavy Frigate – We can build up, I also get +150 settler range and better colonial growth

I spend 260 for upgrades

1 Nov – I accept an offer for military access against Vijayanagar in a war with Colonial Powers

8 Nov – I claim Azov

I pull back my diplomat

29 Dec – My army is at 150k and we have a forcelimit of 177, so I order another 30k army in Persia with 6k artillery, 9k cavalry, and 15k army

21 Feb, 1682 – Gujarat no longer considers us a rival

2 Apr – Event – We get +5k manpower in a nice year!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 109 - Purchasing Buton

1 Jan, 1683 – I order an upgrade of the Bam Citadel

28 Mar -Event – Rains Fail in Visayas – for 5 years they have reduced production

14 June -The army is built, holding up in Zaranj, and then I order a General for it

26 July – Cores finished in everything but Masirah, and Wusta

I order Missionaries to:

Batinah
Muscat
Ash Sharqiyah

19 Aug – Event – Local Traders Demand Aid – I again pay 100 cash to make nice

1 Sept – Rebellion in Wusta where I have my army

13 Sept – Defeated

1 Dec - Marisah and Wusta are cored.

With a relations of Banten 115 maxed I pull back my diplomat and offer to buy a Trade Station

For 4670 I purchase Buton:



Here you go.

Buton – 10 dev, Coastline, Spice trade, Sulawesi culture, Sunni faith, island chain with a strait to Portugal’s Kendari on Sulawesi, Shipyard, Church, Workshop, they send us 0.18 monthly, I destroy the Shipyard and order a Trading Station to double our Spice production.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 110 - Converting Oman


28 Jan, 1684 – Khmer has taken much of SE Asia, I order relations to improve starting with Influence Nation.

17 May – Event – Rigorous Researchers – We get +40 in all three powers

1 July – Ash Sharqiyah converts! Next is Dhofar. I order here a Workshop for the Spices

14 July – Batinah and Muscat converts! Next are Wusta and Masriah, I order nothing as they are full.

11 Aug – Uh oh, Delhi announces us a rival

2 Oct - Event – More Men for the Army - +5k manpower and +1 mil dev in Samar

30 Oct - Event – Increased Demand for Satin – I choose to step up and for 10 years we get +10% production.

1 Feb, 1685 – 8k Rebellion in Masirah,I have an army next door in Wusta

2 Mar – We defeated them!

1 May – Dhofar converts! I order here a Trade Station for the Incense

12 May – Wusta converts! Ditto a Trade Station for the same trade good

14 June – Conversion in Masirah, it’s full so there isn’t any room to build anything.

We are all converted and cored from that Omani War.

1 Aug – Our truce with Kashmir and Transoxiana is up.

I order my two armies from Arabia to Persia, actually I leave one here, Oman allied with Transoxiana

1 Sept – Quantity Idea #4 – Camp Followers – We get +33% National Supply Limit Modifier

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 111 - The Sixth Theodoro-Transoxiana War


7 Jan, 1686 - We are in peace, I declare war on Transoxiana and bring in Russia and Georgia

I order 60k to Bojnord to start a Fort Siege:

I order 30k in Oman to Nizwa

31 Jan – We rout the Omani army

22 Feb – Minor in Oman is ours

1 Mar - They have combined their armies around our recent captures

22 Mar- They capture a minor holding of Khujand

I am pulling my extra armies in sieges to meet up and force them out

2 April – another minor of ours falls.

12 April – We capture the Omani Fort of Nizwa

We have taken out Oman, I order this army to the rallying point.

22 April – Georgia has arrived

27 May – More than 100k forces arrive in Charjuy and I order my troops deeper.

30 May – I capture a Transoxiana minor

17 June – They flee the siege, and pull back into their space from my main army

1 July – Russia has started a siege of their Fort of Urgench

16 July – Two more minors have fallen

1 Aug – We capture another minor and I order this army to move to the Fort of Kochkor

13 Aug – I recapture my minors around Samarkhand

I order one army to head back to Bojnord and the other to siege the Fort of Kashgar

20 Aug - Event- Another side with the church for authority and influence

6 Sept – Another minor pair falls

19 Sept – The Siege of Kochkor has begun, they have 55k next door.

30 Sept – The Siege of Kashgar begins, I order one army to head to Kochkor to attack the nearby army

27 Oct – Two more minors have fallen

6 Nov – We capture Bojnord! I order these two armies to Kashmir

26 Dec – More minors fall

I reject a peace offer from Oman giving me their stuff I want their warscore for getting Transoxiana holdings.

I have a warscore of 73%

22 Feb, 1687 – Another minor falls

Russia is besieging Kashmir

1 Mar – We max relations with Khmer with relations of 115. But I stay to buy a Post post-war

20 April – The Commonwealth no longer considers us a Rival

28 May – Kochkor falls, and I order my giant army next door to the army holding of Chuy

11 June – Kashgar falls!

9 July – Kashmar falls to Russia after getting extra troops from us.

21 July – We defeat their army in Chuy

20 Aug – Chuy is ours. We have a warscore of 99

6 Sept- The last minor falls, we or Russia have every holding of Transoxiana, Kashmir and Oman.

They have four holdings next to me with good trade goods:


Shymkent - Tea, 4 bb, 5 warscore
Sozak – 5 warscore, 4 bb, Salt
Talas- Iron, 8 warscore, bb
Kokand – Iron, 10 warscore, 12 bb

Total – 27 warscore and badboy

Now what?

There is a very high dev Wool province next to me called Uzkend – 16 warscore, 26 badby

With those 5 only Delhi and Transoxiana will care.

I add one more minor named Kish before Sindh will join. That gives me a warscore of 48.

Here:



I order cores for around 400, Uzkend was 210 by itself

Shymkent - Tea, 5 dev, Drylands, Plantation for Tea, Uzbek, Sunni, 0.20 made here. Next to Russia.

Sozak – Salt produced here, next to Russia and Transoxiana, 3 dev, Desert, Sunni faith and Kazakh culture, they make 0.05

Talas - Iron Miners, next to Russia and Transoxiana, Drylands, Weapons Manufactory with Church and Conscription Center, 9 dev, Sunni faith, Kyrgyz culture, they make 0.09 here.

Kokand – Iron Miners – Next to Delhi and Transoxiana, 13 dev, Grasslands, it has a bunch of buildings – Conscription Center, Weapons Manufactory, Church, Workshop, and Sunni faith, Uzbek culture, they make for us 0.84 monthly

Uzkend – Wool shearers, a massive 30 dev, Sunni faith, Kyrgyz culture, Highlands, Church and Workshop here, 0.15 made here, Coal for later after it embraces Enlightenment, next to Transoxiana.

Kish – Next to Transoxiana, random grab, Mountains, Wool shearers, 6 dev, Sunni and Uzbek, they make us 0.07 monthly.

That’s our new six from the Big Giver of Land The Big T!!!

That’s the last good trade good from here. Everything else is Grain, Livestock, Wool, other minor holdings.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 112 - Purchasing Martaban

I order 31k back to Arabia
30k in Kish
32k in Talas
31k in Sozak
33k in Kokand

1 Dec – I accept military access to our Rival Venice as they are at war with the Turks

19 Feb, 1688 – Event Shipwrecked, we lose 288 cash to recover our shipwreck.

1 April – Russia is at another war with Japan

1 June – New Idea – Quantity Idea #5 – Conscripted Garrisons – We get a nice +25% garrison size!

22 July – Event – Sepoys – I choose to Establish Sepoy Regiments and get +19k manpower and that puts me at 116k out of max of 144k

2 Sept – I claim Yemen’s next door Al Ghadiyah it’s pretty minor

Yemen is allied with the remnant of Mamluks, East Africa’s Mombasa and Warsangeli, Mahra- all minors.

They are likely my next target of expansion.

They are probably a two war option, with 5 Coffee holdings, 4 Incense, 1 Cloth, and many others.

They are only next to me and the Ottoman’s vassal of Hejaz, and they are much more developed than Oman. Like Aden’s 35 dev. It’ll be slower.

1 Nov – Trade Station with Khmer:

3873 for this Sugar province:



Martaban – On the border with Bengal and Khmer, Jungle, Tropical, Sugar made here, Plantation for the Sugar, it also has Shipyard and Workshop, 15 dev, Mon Culture, faith is Theravada, we are making 0.73 here monthly.

Good stuff!

I recall my Khmer and make nice with Bengal after it arrives.

I destroy the Shipyard and order a Star Fort here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 113 - Educating the Poor


1 Feb, 1689 – I spend DIP power to get my Trading Post in Sri Lanka to 10 dev from 8, and order a Workshop here for the Spices

1 March – My Constantinople merchant is only making 0.04 I pull it back. I send it to Aden

2 May - I am now making 2.76

27, Jan, 1690 – A general dies, I order another elevated

25 April – Event- Support for Dissidents Abroad - I choose to spend 425 cash to lower my relations with Oman and increase their rebellion risk for 5 years.

24 July – Event – Education for the Poor? – I say yes, we gain +1 innovativeness, clergy support, but for 10 years +5% revolt risk.

12 Aug – Sozak is a core, I order a Missionary here.

Dec 7 - The other 5 cores are done, I order Missionaries to Kish and Kokand

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 114 - Purchasing Tajura


1 April, 1691 – With a relations of 88 I max with Bengal and order my diplomat back

5 June – Transoxiana is now allied with Gujarat, a massive north Indian powerhouse. That’s not something I am likely to jump down since they have 185k forces. We have 180k if you’ll recall.

Sindh is allied with Delhi, Gujarat and Jaunpur, also not likely.

8 June – Sozak converts, next is Shymkent, I order here a Naval Equipment Manufactory for the Salt

27 Aug – I begin to build a spy network in Transoxiana

I claim Yemen’s Incense holding two over called Qishn

9 October – Conversion in Kish, next is Talas, I order here a Textile Manufactory for Wool.

I order:

Workshop in Dhofar for Incense and Wusta too

1 Nov - Another conversion, this time in Kokand, next is Uzkend; I order here nothing since it’s full with four buildings

1 Feb, 1692 – We lose our claim on Transoxiana’s Bojnord and that was my last claim

6 April – Shymkent converts! I order here Workshop for Tea.

22 July – Event – Death of a Merchant – We gain 1775 cash

I order up a Trading Post in a Military place, not a great holding in the Gulf of Aden

3871 later from Herar:



Tajura - It’s a strait crossing to Yemen’s Mukha – Livestock, with a Farm Estate and Workshop, Sunni faith, Afar culture, Arid, Coastal Desert, just 9 dev, 0.11 made here. Next to Hedjaz, Turks, and Herar and Yemen.

That gives me a launching point against my future war with Yemen. I use up 50 Dip to raise it’s dev to 10 and order a Star Fort here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 115 - The Arrival of the Counting House


23 Aug 1692 – Talas converts! I spend 35 Dip to raise dev from 9 to 10 and order here a Workshop for it’s iron mines.

1 Sept – New Idea – Quantity Idea #6 – The Old and the Infirm – We get-5% army maintenance cost.

13 Dec – Uzkend converts! I order a Textile Manufactory for it’s Wool industry.

We are now fully cored and converted.

22 Jan, 1693 – I decline an offer for Military Access with Spain who is at war with the Indies.

1 Mar - My new forcelimit is now 189k 9k more than I have.

Right now I am making 155 gold per month in surplus.

Here:





I am zooming into my economy so you can see where my cash is coming from and going. Should I build another 30k army even though I would be well past my forcelimit? Yeah, I do it.

I order:

15k infantry
9k Cavalry
6k artillery to assemble in Zaranj

1 Sept – Our Inquisitor adviser dies, I hire a level 3 Master of Mint.

New Tech!!! ADMIN TECH 24 – Bonds and Tontines – We get 250 governing capacity and we can built Counting Houses. Those are upgraded Workshops that cost 285 and take a year to build.

I order Counting Houses here:

Silk holdings of Tabriz; Teheren; Fasa; Lahijan; Sari; Shushtar;
Sugar in Ahvaz
Paper in Herat

That drops my cash to 375


1 Jan, 1694 – New Tech! DIP TECH 24 – The Archipelago Frigate – We get +2% trade, boost to trade range, better naval engagement, and we can build Grand Shipyards in ports and then the ship in the title.

21 Mar – I claim Transoxiana’s Bojnord

18 May – I replace a dead general

15 Aug – Our 30k army is finished, my cash being made is 129.97.

I order these Counting Houses:

Silk in Dashitan; Shrivan; Rasht; Qazvin; Amol

9 Sept – Event – Marital Bliss, We get an adviser in court of the Empress’s family


I send colonists to Shamba, inland of my trading post at Tanga, I order my army from the Horn of Africa here.

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov, 1694 – 250 Year Review:


Maps!!!!!!

Zoomed in:




As you can see, this is our stuff from Crimea to the Arabian Peninsula, Crimean Sea, Persian Gulf and mid-Persia.

Zoomed out, centered on me:




Our key ally Russia is all over the place, you can see The Ottomans are everywhere, as are the Commonwealth, Russia, UK, Spain, and more.

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:


210k army
35 ships out of forcelimit of 87

Techs – 24/24/22 – Total of 70

Ideas – 41 of 42

I promote Uzbek to an accepted culture

With 1341 development, we have the 5th most in the world. Top is 2236 Turks

We have the most techs

At 152.3k we have the 4th best potential manpower in the world. Top is 225k by Turks

With 370.63 cash monthly we have the 3rd best income, UK is first with 676.50.

We have the 6th best score

Orthodox is just 4 nations but with us and another giant Russia in there we have a massive 461 holdings. Only Catholic at 883 and Sunni at 472 have more.

Our Top Ten Holdings by Tax:

1. Crimea with 23.10
2. Tabriz with 16.800
3. Samarkhand with 16.80
4. Herat, 15.83
5. Fasa, 14.70
6. Theodoro, 14.70
7. Wasit, 14.70
8. Samawat, 14.70
9. Shiraz, 14.70
10. Tehere, 14.70


Our Top Ten Holdings by Production (Non-Gold)

1. Tabriz, 47.91 – Silk
2. Teheren – 43.92 – Silk
3. Fasa, 40.41 – Silk
4. Sari, 39.93 – Silk
5. Lahijan, 39.93 – Silk
6. Shushtar, 39.56 - -Silk
7. Ahvaz, 39.25 – Sugar
8. Herat, 39.13 – Paper
9. Dashtistan – 28.85. Silk
10. Four at 28.21 tied – Rasht, Qazvin, Amol and Shrivan


I have 142 holdings

We have the 4th biggest army after Ottomans, UK and Spain, Russia has 197k pretty close to us.

I don’t track navally

Charts:

Faith:

95.7% Orthodox
1.4% Coptic

The rest are trading posts.

% Culture with a % of more than 5:

Persian, 14.9
Uzbek, 7.1
Azerbaijani, 7.4
Mashriqi, 9.4
Khaleeji, 6.8
Khorasani, 6.2
Gothic – 5.4
Crimean, 7.2


Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Traded:

1. English Channel, 299.80
2. Sevilla
3. Caribbean
4. Ivory Coast
5. Genoa
6. Gujarat
7. Rhineland
8. Champagne
9. Constantinople
10. Wien, 88.17

Ours:

Persia – 44.70
Samarkhand, 43.26
Hormuz - 17.70
Crimea – 43.36
Basra - 23.84


Trade Goods Listed by Current Price:

5.4 - Cocoa
5.25 – Sugar
5.0 – Silk, Dyes
4.5 – Tobacco, Iron
4.05 – Cloth
4.0 – Ivory
3.5 – Paper, Fur
3.45 – Glass, Copper
3.30 – Coffee, Spices, salt
3.12 – Wine
3.0 – Gems, Incense, Cotton, Tea, Chinaware, Tropical Wood, Slaves, Naval Supplies
2.7 – Livestock
2.25 – Wool
2.0 – Grain, Fish

Production Leader:

We lead production in these goods:

Silk – 29.2%
Spices – 22.9%
Gems – 15.0%
Paper – 11.5%

There are no coalitions against us

Great Powers:

1. Spain
2. Ottomans
3. Portugal
4. UK
5. Russia
6. Shun
7. Theodoro
8. France

[Abe Sargent]

So…why do I think that the Turks have played keep away from us after one major war against us to oust us from Turkey? A few reasons.

1. Our ally Russia, combined with have more combined forces than the Turks. For example, right now we have 210k troops with 150k manpower, and Russia has 198k the Turks have 300k. We have 408k total against 300k. Then add in Georgia’s 70k nearby and we have 478k total. The Turks are allied with Syria and Saxony – Syria is nearby and has 61k checking Georgia.
2. Remember that event where we got big positive relations for not chasing a border dispute then I made nice? I still have border access and can cross their stuff with military access and they cannot declare war on someone with military access, and I regularly send over diplomats to make nice.
3. We are not their rival. The Turks might push things if we were declared as their rival, but we aren’t.
4. There are always easier paths of expansion. For example, the Turks haven’t gone to war with the Commonwealth either, they have gone to the Mamluks a few times.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 116 - The First Theodoro/Yemen War

1 Jan, 1695 – I claim Yemen’s Incense holding of Shihr

1 Feb - I hire a Conquistador for the Horn of Africa army heading down to my new colonial area internal of Tanga’s Trading Post, and then I order some troops built in Tanga to help build up my 13k Horn of Africa army.

Yemen and their allies:

Yemen: 78k

Mamluks: What’s left? 7k


Horn of African nations:

Mombasa: 23k
Warsangli: 6k
Mahra: 0

I order one army to our trading post of Tajura where the Star Fort is done, and the rest of my armies from Persia to Arabia to get ready on the border with Yemen, and then when we’re ready I’ll order mercs in the Horn of Africa holdings to help out.

I’ll hire 45k mercs for Qardho on the Horn of Africa and 30k mercs in Tajura to help keep us on a fast win.

30 April - Our troops arrive in Tajura

1 June – I hire the mercs and order a general for the 30k in Tajura

Our Navigator adviser passes and I hire a level 3 Trader

21 June – Our Conquistador arrives in Tanga

10 July – I kill the natives in Shamba and head north to Taveta also next to Tanga and can be colonized

5 Aug – I kill the natives in Taveta, and now move inner to hidden places westward

26 Sept – I declare war on Yemen for Qishn. I do not call my allies

I order my 45k mercs in Qardho to the holding next door to the Fort of Todgdeer of Warsangli

I order my two armies in Tajura into Yemen’s Mukha

I order my two armies in Dhofar into three holdings away in Shihr

I order my two armies in Wusta into Qishin my wartarget two in,

I order my reserve in Masirah next door to Al Ghaydah

30 Oct – We begin fighting against a 21k Yemeni army in Shihr

3 Nov – Mukha is ours and I order this next door for the Fort of Adan

7 Nov – We rout the army

5 Dec – I capture my three fast holdings in Yemen with my five armies, and I order them on.

9 Dec – I arrive a Adan and launch a fusillade.

19 Dec – Our colonists have arrived at Shamba and set up

I pull them and send them to Taveta

30 Jan, 1696 – I capture two minors in Warangli, and three in Yemen

03 Feb – my Conquistador begins a siege of Mombasa’ capital

20 Feb – A 24k Yemeni army is besieging us in Al-Qatif, I order my reserve to head over and oust it

9 Mar – Another minor falls

31 Mar – Aden falls and my warscore is now 35%

I head to the Fort of San’a

1 May - I begin the Siege of San’a and star with a fusillade

22 May – Another minor in Yemen falls

31 May – They capture Qatar, I order two more armies to head back

5 July – Two more minors fall and I move these two armies to help San’a.

21 July – They capture our holding in Hofuf

27 July – I have three armies with 95k troops in Muscat to head back slowly

5 Sept – I defeat a 30k strong Yemeni army in Liwa

21 Sept – They capture Al Qatif

24 Oct – We recapture Qatar

29 Nov – We recapture Hofuf

1 Feb, 1697 – We capture San’a I order my forces next door to the Star Fort of Sahda

5 Feb – White peace with Mombasa after we are blitzing them

Our colonists set up in Taveta

9 Feb – We finish the siege in Warsangali’s Togdheer, next is their capital of Sanaag

We now have a warscore of 68%

15 Feb – Warsangali offers me a peace for War Reparations some ash and we get no badboy. I say no

17 Feb – The siege of their Fort of Sahda has begun with a fusillade

16 Mar - I capture a minor Warsanagli holding

26 Mar – The Siege of Al Qatif is over and we recaptured it!

I order this 95k army three armies back to Yemen

5 April – The Capital of Warsangali is ours, we now have all of their holdings

I have a warscore of 76%

Let’s do peace with them now, since they connect my Horn of Africa holding and some wealthier places I can take, I don’t want big badboy though

It’s 42 badboy to remove their 5 holdings from the map, they have Slaves, Incense, and one cheap 4 badboy Fish that connects my holdings.

Here are the three I am taking for 16 badboy:



I spend 53 ADM power coring them.

Garoowe – Horn of Africa, connects us at Qardo and Hobyo, Fishers here, Coastal Desert, 3 dev, 4 badboy to take it, Arid, makes us nothing, Somali culture and Sunni faith.

Togdheer – Star Fort, Highlands, 4 dev. Slaves traded here, internal, connects our holdings in the Horn of Africa with the former capital of Warsangli, Sunni and Somali, 0.08 made here

Sanaag – The former capital, Gulf of Aden, next to Togdheer, Incense here, Workshop and Marketplace built here, 5 dev, coastal desert, Arid, 0.02 made her,

I disband my mercs

9 May – Peace offer from Yemen they offer the three places I have cores on, 955 ducats, and war reparations for 38.5 badboy

I decline, let’s see what the 72% warscore can do?

I go War Reparations and these four holdings for 47.8 badboy:



I spend down to 219 ADM power coring them

Al Ghaydah – Fishing here, coastal desert, 7 dev, arid, Shipyard here, Sunni believers, Mahri culture, makes us 0.02, just what is needed to get me to the good stuff.

Qishn – Incense, Shipyard, Conscription Center, Arid, Coastal Desert, 11 dev, Mahri and Sunni, makes us 0.06

Shihr – Incense, Arid, Natural Harbor, 22 Dev, Trade Station manufactory, Shipyard, Conscription Center, Stock Exchange, Yemeni culture, Sunni faith, 017 made here, Coastal Desert

Mukalla – 17 dev, Coastal Desert, Incense, Shipyard, Conscription Center, Trade Station, Arid, Yemeni, Sunni, Arid, 0.55 made here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 117 - Incorporating Yemen and Warsangali, Take One

9 May - I order a claim for Transoxiana’s Khiva.

6 June – Our Empress has died

1 July – Our truce with Oman and Transoxiana has ended

30 Aug - I claim Yemen’s Adan

1 Jan, 1698 – I order:

Basilica in Uzkend
Counting House for Crimea’s Salt, Ardabil’s Dyes; Samarkhand’s Paper

1 Mar - I lose my final claim on The Commonwealth and cannot declare conquest on them anymore.

13 Mar – Event – Demands for Representation – I lose 75 DIP power to Ban publications

1 May – I accept an offer for war access from Warsangali

1 Feb, 1699 – Taveta will be good for Slave trading

1 June – Rebellion in Sanaag I have 40k next door

26 June – Rebels defeated

1 Sept – 12k rebellion in Qishn I have an army here

18 Sept - Rebellion defeated

11 Oct – Natives in Tana next to Taveta killed

16 Nov – Event: The Risks of Trade – I spend 2400 cash to fix up a bad merchant decision and gain Burgher loyalty and influence

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 118 - Coring and Converting

1 Jan, 1700 – Gems are good in Shamba!

The next Institution is here – The Enlightenment which is good for Coal

3 Feb – Event – Al Ghaydah becomes Orthodox.

15 April – Qishn, Shihr, and Al Ghaydah are now cores. I order Missionaries here and a Naval Equipment Manufactory for Al Ghaydah

2 May – I claim Transoxiana’s Chuy

I pull and start building a spy network in the Commonwealth

6 July – Garoowe and Togdheer are Corse I order a missionary in the latter

1 Aug – Sanaag is a core!

16 Aug – Mukalla now a core and we are all cored

12 Nov – I claim Yemen’s Mukha

1 April, 1701 – I order:

Counting House in Cotton in Merv and Qazinya; Silk in Kashan and Kuhjand; Spices in Samawat

13 April – Togdheer converts! Next is Garoowe. I order here a Trade Station for the Slaves.

1 June – Qishn converts! Next are Mukalla! I order a Trade Station for it’s Incense

Taveta – 3 dev, Slaves, Gothic, Orthodox, Mountains, makes us 0.02, I order these colonists next door to Tana

1 Oct – I kill the natives of Zagua next to Shamba

2 Nov – I also kill the natives of Nyatura also next to Shamba

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 119 - The Emperor Passes


1 Jan, 1702 – 15k rebellion in Shihr

28 Jan – Defeated

18 Feb – Event: Rains Bring Fertility to Banjar

27 Feb – Shihr converts! Next is Sanang. I order here a Counting House after destroying the Shipyard for the incense here

1 Mar – Treaty with Mombasa ends

I claim the Commonwealth’s Podole

20 April – Garoowe converts! I order here a Naval Equipment Manufactory for it’s Fish

6 May – Event: Harvest Failure in Zanjan, we get -10 production there for 5 years

1 Aug – Event: A Visit from some Shady People – I keep them out and gain 5 prestige

6 Oct – Mukalla converts, I order here a Counting House after destroying the shipyard

New Tech!

MIL TECH 23 – Light Cavalry – we get +0.25 tactics, better infantry, I upgrade my troops and +1 cavalry shock

1 Nov - I claim the Commonwealth’s Wine holding of Oczakow

21 Nov – The Emperor has Died!

Our new ruler is Alexios VIII of Gothia, with 6/0/5 age 56.

Wife – Photine, 20, 4/2/4

Child – Alexios, 2/4/2, 0


Royal Marriage with Georgia and Russia reupped

6 Dec – RM with our Vassal Trebizond

1 Jan, 1703 – I order:

Trade Station for Slaves in Taveta

Counting Houses: Paper in Yazd, Kerman, Mianeh; Spices in Taytay; Iron in Larestan

16 Mar – Sanang converts! I order here a Trade Station for it’s Incense after spending 150 DIP and 50 MIL to raise it’s dev to 10

17 May – I accept Knowledge Sharing from Nuremberg

26 July -Event: An Empress of the People we get -2% unrest until she dies

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 120 - Finding Iron in Tana

2 Jan, 1704 – I order:

Counting House – Ivory in Katapang; Cloth in Qom and Ardalan

13 April – Our diplomat in the Commonwealth was discovered I pull it back and send to Mombasa.

9 Sept – Event: Reduce the Independence of the Church – I side with the church and gain 5 authority and 10 church loyalty

1 Oct – Tana is good for Iron!!!

1 Nov – I lose my claim on Sindh’s Chapahar and that’s my only holding so I cannot declare war on them anymore

1 Jan, 1705 – I order:

Counting Houses in Cloth for Baghdad, Yusoj, and Hamadan; Cotton for Birjand; Incense for Qardho; Gems for Muscat

1 April – Our truce with Warsangali is up!

1 June – I replace a dead general

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 121 - Finishing Quantity Ideas


1 Jan, 1706 – I spend some DIP and MIL dev to raise Hobyo to 10 Dev, and then I build a Farm Estate for it’s grain

I also order:

Counting Houses for Wine in Theodoro, Caffa; Wool for Uzkend; Livestock in Suceava

1 Feb – Quantity Idea #7 – Expanded Supply Trains, we get -10 Land Attrition and then for finishing it we get +25% Land force limits

My current force limit is:

253

I have 237, I built up a 32k Conquistador army around our colonies.

As of right now I get 160.88 monthly

I order 35k forces in Arabia to make another army

1 April – I lose my claim on Nizwa in Oman and lost my claim on them. I order my 3rd diplomat to build up a spy network.

1 May – Shamba – Gems are mined here, 3 dev, Highlands, next to Taveta and Tanga, 0.08 made here, Gothic and Orthodox, I order colonists from Tana to Zigua next door

13 Sept – I kill natives in next to Tana Kikuyu

22 Sept – Our Empress dies

1 Oct – Our truce with Yemen and Mamluks has ended

I claim Mombasa’s capital of Mombasa and pull back my diplomat

They have 4 holdings, two Ivory, one Iron and one Cloth so all valuable

1 Dec -I can no longer claim Genoa’s Azov

1 Jan, 1707 – I order:

Mill in Shamba for Gems

Counting Houses for Spices in Hofuf, Darab and Mogostan; Livestock in Tyn; Gems in Bahrain and Qatar

1 Sept – New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 25 – Improved Production – I get +2% production efficiency

16 Sept – My 35k troops are assembled in Dhofar, I am now making monthly 134.18

18 Nov – Great Britain has declared themselves a Naval Hegemon

10 Dec – The Commonwealth has announced us as their new rival

1 Jan, 1508 – I order:

Counting House for Cloth for Kirmanshah; Salt for Yedishkul, Kyzyl-Kar, Sozak; Iron for Kokand

I enter into an alliance with Sindh

I want to make nice with a potential Persia ally

I move my national focus to Diplomacy since I have A 0 there.

I get ready for a war with Yemen and order 30k mercs in Tajura to join my army there

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 122 - The Second Theodoro/Yemen War

19 Apr, 1508 - I declare war for Yemen’s Adan

I order 61k troops next to the Fort of Adan, and troops into smaller holdings nearby

I order my 38k in the Horn of Africa to Warangali’s capital and 2k to a smaller holding

I head my Conquistador army to Mombasa

6 May - I rout the 6k army of Warsangali in their capital and begin a siege

21 May - I capture the Warsangali minor

15 June – A minor in Yemen falls and I order this 60+ army to Adam to help with the siege

19 July – I capture the capital of Warsangali

I have a warscore of 8%

26 July – Another minor falls in Yemen

6 Aug – Qatar and Hufuf are under siege and I send a few armies to help alleviate it

28 Aug – Qatar falls

6 Sept – Another minor Yemeni province falls

21 Oct – Liwa and Hofuf fall and they are besieging Al Qatif

5 Jan, 1709 – They capture Qawism

12 Jan – Al Qatif falls

1 Feb – They capture Bahrain

8 Feb – Qawasim is ours again

19 Mar – We retake Liwa

26 Mar - The Siege of Adan is finished I move to San’a

12 April - Qatar is ours again

1 May – Zigua is good for Livestock, I pull these colonists and send them to Nyatura

12 May – New Tech:

DIP TECH 25 – The Three Deckers – We get naval morale +0.50, and can build three-deckers

I order upgrades

22 May – Bahrain and Hofuf are ours again

25 June – I assault siege and capture Al Qatif

I order this 96k army to Basra where Yemen has 60k in siege

1 July – Tana – Iron workers, Savanna, 3 dev, Gothic, Orthodox, they make 0.20 here and they are next to unclaimed holding of Kikuyu

29 July – I win in Basra!

10 Aug - I rout both armies in Grane!

I order these three armies to head back to Yemen

11 Dec – I capture two minors and move to the Fort of Sahda

6 Jan, 1710 – Another minor falls army ordered to Sahda

1 Feb – The Age of Absolutism has ended the Age of Revolutions has begun!

23 May – San’a falls! I order my armies to nearby minors

20 July – Sahda falls!

23 July – Two minors are ours

5 Aug – I disband my mercs

4 Sept – We capture Mukra the last Yemeni holding, and have a warscore of 91%.

What can I get?

There are three I can take, two Livestock and Adan that will give me a badboy around 50, but won’t annoy the Ottomans, anything else puts them in a coalition, I can do four more with my warscore but with a 157 badboy. That’s not happening.

Here’s the peace:



As you can see, I have just Delhi, Transoxiana, Yemen obviously and also Somalia caring. I do peace

Kathiri – Desert, Livestock, 14 dev, Farm Estate, Workshop, Conscription Center, 00.15 made here, Arid, Sunni, Yemeni

Beihan – Mountains, Livestock, 18 dev, Arid, Farm Estate, Sunni Yemeni people, 1.09 made here, Workshop, Conscription Center, Basilica

Aden – Former capital, Incense, 35 dev, Star Fort, Mountains, Entrepot, Yemeni and Sunni, Stock Exchange, Trade Station, Workshop, University, Grand Shipyard, 0.36 made here



I order my forces back and we have peace until July 1719 in nine years. I lost 130k manpower in that war.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 123 - Incorporating Yemen Take Two



29 Sept – I pull colonists from Nyatura and send them to Kikuyu

2 Jan, 1711 I order:

Weapons Manufactory in Tana for Iron

Counting Houses for Wool in Kish, Ilam; for Livestock in Haditha, Azarba, Kuban, Mansur and Terek

I claim Yemen’s Taiz

2 Feb – I kill natives in Turkana next to Kikuyu

3 Mar – I kill natives in Lango next to Turkana

16 July – I kill natives in Gogo next to two colonies in Nyatara and Zigua

13 August – I kill natives in Hehe next to Gogo and Zigua

6 Sep – in Kinga next to Hehe and Zigua I kill natives here

25 Sept – I kill natives in Makonde next to Kinga and two other unclaimed holdings

18 Oct – I also kill natives in Phangwa next to Makonde, Kinga and another unclaimed holding

3 Nov - In Wayao next to Phangwa, Makonde and another unclaimed holding I kill the locals

21 Nov – I kill the locals in Ngindo next to Wayao

1 Jan, 1712 – I order:

Counting House: Paper for Isfahan; Tropical Wood for Sampit; Cotton for Qarshi; Incense for Sanaag, and Fak-Fak; Ivory for Tanga; Iron for Kuma and Talas

2 April – I claim Oman’s Nizwa

19 May – Event: This Cannot Stand, I hunt down pirate sand lose 75 DIP power

2 Oct – Event: Cossack Aggression we get reduced production for 3 years

1 Nov – Our Emperor is now a Martial Educator. We get -1% army annual tradition decay

7 Nov -I replace a dead general

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 124 - Zigua Finished


1 Jan, 1715 – I order:

Counting Houses for Iron in Lakia; Livestock in Adyghe, Circassia, Matrega; Wool for Alania

10 Feb – Kathiri converts and I order here a counting house upgrade of its workshop

1 June – Zigua – 3 dev, Gothic, Orthodox, Livestock, Savanna, next to us in Nyatura and then three unclaimed holdings in Gogom Hehe and Kinga. I pull colonists from Kikuyu and send them to Gogo. 0.17 made here. I order a Farm Estate here.

1 Aug – Aden converts, I order here a Counting House upgrade as well!

1 Sept – I claim Oman’s Ibra, I send this diplomat to begin to build up a spy network in Kilwa next to Tanga

1 Dec – Our trader adviser dies and I hire a level 3 Colonial Governor

1 Jan, 1716 - I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactory for Fish in Al Qatif

Counting House for Iron in Tana, Wool for Zaranj, Cotton I Bam

24 Feb – Our Emperor has died, and our heir is just 13 so there is a Regency council.

Transoxiana is losing a big war to Delhi and Sindh, Russia is at war with Japan

26 June – Our colony starts in Gogo, I pull the settlers for Hehe

14 Nov – Event: influenzas Spreads to adjacent holdings, we quarantine three more holdings

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 125 - The Arrival of the Star Fortress


1 Jan, 1717 – I order:

Counting Houses for Grain in Hoveyzah; Fish in Grane; Incense in Dhofar; Copper in Masirah; Wine in Birland

20 Feb – New Tech!

MIL TECH 24 – Covered Way – We get +0.25 military tactics, we can build fortresses an upgrade of Star Forts that cost 190 and take 30 months, I order one built in Aden, Tajura and Togdheer

18 May – Kilwa captured Mombasa’s three holdings next to me in war

1 Aug – Hehe is now a colony, I pull colonists and send them next door to Kinga

19 Nov – Alexios takes over, and the regency ends. I try to find a bride with Russia when I set up a RM and fail.

25 Nov – He marries on his own Sotiria a 17 year old with stats of 1/5/5 with a newborn heir age 0 but with horrible 1/2/2 stats, horrible

1 Dec – Our Emperor gains the fertile trait. I disinherit his kid

1 Jan, 1718 I order:

Counting Houses for Spices in Liwa, Shatt; Livestock for Qawasim; Incense in Wusta; Fish in Al Ghaydah; Wine in Iasi and Bender

27 Feb – I claim Yemen’s Marib, I pull the diplomat and start building a spy network in Somalia

18 Aug – Event: Desires of the Flesh – I find out the wife is sleeping with an advisor, I hide it and lose 10 prestige

23 Aug – We set up our colony in Kinga, and I’ll leave them here for now.

19 Oct- I claim Kilwas’ Malindi they took from Mombasa

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 126 - The Third Theodoro/Yemen War

1 Jan, 1719 – I order:

30k Mercs in Kathriri to get ready for the next war.

Counting Houses for Tea in Tashkent; Copper in Rafsanjan; Livestock in Charjuy, Atakent and Khundzia

I order 10 transports to the Indies to ferry my 10k troops from Borneo to Taytay.

2 Feb – Delhi took a bunch of Transxoiana holdings near them and released a bunch of new nations, Khiva, Uzbek, Nogai, etc. They are no longer worth a war.

1 April – I lost my claim on Bojnord.

14 April – We arrive at Taytay, there is one province left of Kutai left called Palawan next to us with the rich Sugar.

1 June – We have lost our Great Power status!

1 July – Our truce with Yemen and her allies is up, I declare a new war for Mukha

I order my Conquistador army to the last holding of Mombasa -Pate

I order my 38k army in the Horn of Africa to the capital of Warsangali

I order my six armies in Arabia to head into their army and my army to cross the Strait

I order two armies to the Fort of San’a

18 July – I won in the capital of Warsangali

1 Aug – Kikuyu – Copper mining in the 3 dev Gothic culture Orthodox faith Mountains next to unclaimed Turkana, making me 0.18, I order a Weapons Manufactory here. I pull colonists from Kinga and send then to Turkana

22 Aug – Four minor Yemeni holdings are ours and I order two to the Fort of Sahda

28 Aug - I have begun the Siege of Zabid, their new capital

7 Sept – I defeat the Mombasa army in their capital of Pate

21 Sept – Zabid falls!

1 Oct – 52k have arrived and are in Qatar

I order 3 armies to return and oust them

I have a warscore of 25%

25 Oct – Qatar falls

31 Oct – We capture the capital of Warsangali and their minor holding

8 Nov – We capture Pate, the capital of Mombasa

52% warscore

Pate is a 40 badboy holding, it’s high dev 32 with the valuable holding of Cloth

11 Dec – We have a new 2/2/3 heir, I keep him

19 Dec – They capture Liwa

With my 52% warscore, I can take just one holding without pissing off the Turks.

I take Pate from Mombasa in a separate peace

20 Jan, 1720 – I take Mukha in peace from Yemen





I order a big fat pair of cores for around 200 ADM.

Mokha – Connects my Trading Post with a strait in Tanjura to Aden and my holdings in Arabia. Coastline, Coffee is made here, 33 dev, Yemeni people, Sunni faith, Coastline, University, Grand Shipyard, Basilica, Workshop, Training Fields, Plantation for Coffee, Conscription Center,1.90 made here monthly


Pate – Cloth makers, 32 dev, Farmlands, Sunni faith, Swahili people, Entrepôt, 0.69 made here, Textile Manufactory, Conscription Center, University, Basilica, Training Fields, Grand Shipyard, Stock Exchange, Counting House.

Nice built up pair of fun times!

Peace until May 1726

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 127 - Nyatura Grown


29 Jan, 1720 – The Ottomans took out much of Somalia

10 Mar – I order 10k more troops in Taytay

27 May – Event: Pirates raid

1 July – Nyatura – 3 dev, Highlands, Livestock grown here, Gothic, Orthodox, next to Gogo, Shamba, and Zagua and then Kilwa as well, Arid, I order a Farm Estate here, 0.12 made here


I claim Somalia’s Las Khorey

1 Aug – Livestock will be grown in Gogo

19 Sept – Event: Lower Burma Famine

22 Sept – The Georgia ruler has died I offer a new Marriage Royale

1 Oct – Whoa! One of the breakaways from Transoxiana in war is Kazakh and they are Orthodox, I offer an alliance with them.

3 Nov – I enter into a RM with Kazakh!

1 Jan, 1721 – I order:

Counting Houses for Livestock in Zigua, Saidabad; Gems in Nishapur; Wool in Karbala, Malamir, Sulmaniyah, Grain in Meliau;

I order upgraded Fortresses in:

Tanga, Basra, Samawat, Ilam, Crimea, and Bessarabia

5 Mar – Our colony is set up in Turkana

1 Sept – Hehe good for Slaves; Kinga for Tropical Wood

2 Oct:

Wanna see my Africa colony growing?



I’ve zoomed in so you can see the colonies and names of the area as well as my captured territory of Pate brought up to the left and then my port of Tanga I purchased that started this.



10 Nov – Russia has declared war against Nogai which I join them

I don’t think he’ll need us, they have no allies and just 6k troops, I send over two armies at 75k to help from Arabia to help

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 128 - Enlightenment Embraced


4 Jan, 1722 – I order:

Fortresses here:

Terek, Khundzia, Meliktates, Tabriz, Haditha, Al Qatif, Zaranj, Sarakhs, Bukhara, Uzkend, Qazvin

3 Mar – I claim Somalia’s Galkayo

I pull them and starting making friends with Kazakh. I start by sending them a gift of 150 cash
24 April – All of Nogai is under Russian control

I order my forces back

1 May – The war ends with cash and war reps and stuff, no land exchanges



27 May – Gold Rush Event – We get 6k cash and 1 inflation

1 June – I lost my claim on Khiva and thus Transoxiana

27 Sept – Mokha is a core! I order a Missionary ere

1 Nov – Our Empress has died

We embrace the Enlightenment!

This costs 8464 gold

Our tech drops drop. I have enough for a new tech:

ADMIN TECH 26 – Separation of Powers – I get another Idea Group!!!

DIP TECH 26 – The East Indiaman – We get 200 colonial range, +25 settler growth, and we can build East Indiaman and Great Frigates

MIL TECH 25 – Royal Mortar – We get +2 artillery fire, +0.10 artillery shock and better artillery

For my next Group of Ideas, what do I want? I cannot take Military I have too many, I can only take Admin and Diplomatic. Which group? I choose the Diplomatic Idea which will give me more Diplomats and boosts to prestige

1 Dec – Turkana is good for Slave trading

2 Dec – Kazakh agree to be my vassal!!!

24 Dec – Pate is now a core, I order a Missionary here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 129 - The Russian-Shun War, Part One

16 Jan, 1523 – I order:

Counting House for Fish in Garoowe, Incense in Hafun

2 Feb - My army in Taytay is finished and I order a general here and 20k forces for war

I claim Kilwa’s 3 dev Ivory next to me Bagamoyo

22 Mar – Uh oh…Russia has declared war against Shun…do I join them when I have land about three away in Persia but very far away from my holdings?

Shun – 146k

I order my 6 Arabian armies to combine into two in Persia on the border with Delhi

6 May – My armies are away so I spend MIL power to drop rebellion in Mokha

I can purchase my first Age of Revolutions ability that will end when it does. What do I like? How about…

Napoleonic Warfare – We get +3 artillery levels vs Forts

29 June – Shun are besieging us in the Trading Post of Martaban

1 Sept – Tyn is now producing Coal! It’s worth 10 cash

Tyn – 2.59 monthly from 12 Dev

29 Sept - Mokha converts! I order here a Counting House for it’s Coffee

28 Feb, 1724 – My 6 armies are in Persia I order to Shun where a bunch have been taken by Russia

11 April – Martaban falls

19 April - Pate converts, I order here a Fortress after tearing down the Grand Shipyard

26 May – Event: Merchant Shipwrecked we lose 356 cash

2 Sept – Four Shun minors have fallen

24 Sept - Dip Idea #1 – Foreign Embassies - +1 Diplomat, I send it to build a spy network with Yemen

I order my three armies so siege the Fortress of Morang and then the other next door to the Star Fort of Makwanpur

24 Dec – We arrive in Morang and I use a fusillade.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 130 - The Russian-Shun War, Part Two; The War for Palawan


2 Mar, 1725 – I split off cavalry and capture two minors

7 April – Another minor falls

23 April – We arrive in Makwanpur and begin the siege

9 May – Two more minors falls

27 May – Kilwa captures our diplomat building a spy network there

1 June – I lose my claim on Chagatai and Chuy

8 June – Three more minors fall and they capture one back in Persia

16 June – Morang falls, I order this army to the Fort of Tsaparang

31 July – Three more minors fell and they captured some back

12 August – Kutai is at war with GB and a bunch of colonies. I declare war on it with my20k next door in Taytay and move it to grab it first

27 Aug – I defat the army in Palawan and begin the siege of their capital

Rebels are attacking a Shun captured holding, I break away an army to help out

1 Sept- Turkana – Slave trading, 3 dev, Orthodox, Gothic, I order a Trade Station makes .10, Highlands, next to unclaimed Lango. I send these colonists there.

3 Sept – I capture two more Shun minors

5 Sept – Our siege in Tsaparang begins with a cannon fire

22 Sept – Another Shun minor falls

19 Oct – Makwanpur falls!

I order these two armies to our trading post in Martaban to reclaim it

1 Nov – Palawan is ours!

I take it for just 4 badboy:

Core is 48:



Palawan – Next to Taytay, part of the modern day Philippines, 8 dev, Coastline, Sugar grown here, Hindu faith, Pilipino culture, Shipyard and Counting House, 0.14 made here monthly, this will be nice soon

I’ll leave my 20k army here for rebels and then religious zealots once I start converting

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 131 - The Russian-Shun War, Part Three

28 Nov, 1725 - I won against rebels in Shun and order this army to join another rebellion that struck

1 Jan, 1726 – Our Master of the Mint adviser died and I order a level 3 Natural Scientist that boots our production by 10%

24 Jan – We capture the Fort of Tsaparang, I order these three armies to Chengdu to begin the siege

1 Feb – Gogo – 3 dev, Livestock grown here, Highlands, I order a Farm Estate here, 0.26 made here, Gothic and Orthodox. Next to us in Zigua, Hehe and Nyatura and Kilwa

9 Feb – I win against rebels I order this army to help with the Trading Post siege

11 Mar -Three more minors fall

1 May - Our truce with Yemen and her allies is up

Transoxiana and Yemen join an alliance against me

14 June – I lost a big battle around 30k in our battle against Shun in Dege

I need to go to peace now and let Russia figure this out

My fleeing armies are heading into a 100+ monster.

I head to peace with just Shun and their allies

I have a 7% warscore

I offer them a white peace. They accept. I order my amies back to Arabia and the Star Fort in my Trading Post upgraded to a Fortress.

1 July – Uzkend is now with Coal! I m now making 9.83 monthly here

3 Sept – The Trebizond ruler dies, and I enter into a RM with the new one

Rebellion in my vassal of Kazakh, I sent one od my 30 armies to divert and help them put

1 Dec - I replace a dead General

Hehe – 3 dev, Slave trading Highlands holding, Gothic, Orthodox, I order a Trade Station. It makes 0.30. It’s next to our holdings in Gogo, Kinga and Zigua, and Kilwa

I raise Zigua’s dev to 10 and order a Fortress here

Kinga – Savanna, Tropical Wood, 4 dev, Gothic, Orthodox next to Zigua, Hehe, Kilwa and two unclaimed provinces of Phangwa and Makonde, I order the colonists pulled from Lango and sent to Phangwa, I order a Mill here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 132 - Integrating Palawan



1 Jan, 1727 – Coal in Lahijan – it now makes monthly 3.81 it was a Silk holding

Right now Yemen is allied with Ethiopia, Wansangali and in a coalition with Transoxiana and Somalia. If I declare war then I’d be at war with them too

Transoxiana has 19k forces, so I order 30k next door from Shun’s war

I order:

30k mercs in Mokha

And:

Counting Houses for Copper in Kikuyu, Konjikala; Livestock in Nyatura, Ghuriyan; Spices in Ash Sharqiyah; Tea in Golestan

1 April – I lose my claim on Podole in the Commonwealth

22 Sept – Our diplomat building a spy network in Yemen was discovered and ousted

1 Nov – I lost my claim on the Commonwealth and their holding of Oczakow

Our Emperor gains the Calm trait.

2 Jan, 1728 – I order:

Counting Houses in: Grain in Wasit; Wool for Khoy, Maragheh, Sabzevar; Spices for Trincomale

6 Jan – We set up our colony in Phangwe and I pull them for Makande

I join Russia in a war against Chagatai

I order my 31k from Bukhara next to Transoxiana over to help

1 Mar – Our Master Recruiter dies, next advisor for military is level 3 Military Engineer who improves fort defense by 20%

11 Mar – I arrive in the capital of Chagatai

5 April – Chuy is ours, I order this army next door to fight their 12k army

24 April – We rout their army, I order this back to Bukhara

9 May – Chagatai took peace and became a vassal of Russia. They are Orthodox

1 Aug – Dip Idea #2 – Cabinet - +1 dip relations

5 Nov – I hire 45k mercs in Kathiri

4 Dec – Palawan is now a core I order a Missionary here