EU4 - Kongo Awaits - COMPLETED!

[Abe Sargent]

1 Mar, 1654 0-

I order – Church in Ceram, Ampom, Workshop in Mpasu, Mayumba

24 Mar – Cagayan converts Culture next

12 April – Poor Iron event

1 June – We are trusted around the world as honest merchants, and our trade power increases

4 June – Rebellion in Ternate

28 June – We lose

15 Aug – We lose Ternate

1 Sept – Since I am dealing with Ternate, I can’t fuss with others and I spend 50 MIL to reduce another revolt

18 Sept – I start working on claims on Portugal

2 Nov – Disease spread in our colonies. I spend money to fix them

12 Nov – We defeat the army in Halmahera

30 Dec – We retake Ternate

1 Jan, 1655 – If I wanted to, I could embrace Manufactories institution, we are at 12.3% of my world. But it would cost almost 3k, so I’ll build up my cash while my places are embracing it.

2 Feb –

Palembang – Spices, 10 development, jungle, tropical, coastal, in South Sumatra, I corer a core, 0.40 made, 0.06 unrest, next to Pasai, a local tribe. I order a Missionary here.

Next target is Lanao, next to Maguindanao

1 May – Portuguese Brazil won independence.

Now just Brazil.

16 Aug – Ternate converts

1 Oct –

Ilocos – Tea, hills, Filipino, Catholic, core, 6 dev, 0.18 here, tropical, top of Luzon, west of Cagayan, and coastal on the straight of Luzon.

I pull back my colonists in Bengkulu and send them to Sula, some islands in the Sea of Celebes, near Buru,

1 Dec – Bengkulu is Spice too

28 Jan, 1656 – Native Assimilation in Manado

1 Feb – England drops us as a rival

1 Mar – Manado is tea

23 April – I get an event:

Foreign Trade Competition Rises

Normally we’d have two meh choices. But our ruler is an Entrepreneur. So we get Use the opportunity to further foreign tax traders. We get 4 mercantilism and better loyalty from the Burghers


12 June = Yamdena converts.

[Abe Sargent]

150 year Review!!!


King Ntinu Kuba, 28, 2/6/3, Architectural Visionary, Entrepreneur

Heir – Garcia Kuba, Midas Touched, 25

Queen – Maria Theresia von Habsburg, 35, 4/3/2, Entrepreneur


We certainly have a good court right now

Accepted cultures: Kongolese, Luba, Nyasa, and Rwandan

We have Ivory and Slave Trade events, and lead the world in those, and we get +10 global tariffs, and Diplomatic Reputation

Our only rival is England

Allies – Castile, Austria,

Vassals - Bali, Maravi – Maravi is a March


We get 42.30 a month in surplus, with 108.25 income vs 65.95 expenses

We are the Defender of the faith

We have 17/18/19 tech

3 stability

We have 82000 troops with a forcelimit of 103k – 51 infantry, 20 cav, 11 cannon
We have 40 ships, forcelimit 64

Ledger:

We have the 2nd most income behind France

3rd most developed,

France is the highest tech with 60 total, Austria as well. Austria leads with 33 ideas

France is 20/20/20, and we are 6 total behind that lead

Strongest holdings by taxes:

Luba
Kalonga
Loango
Manila
Matsolo
Mpemba
Kalundwe
Ndongo
Benguela
Ampom

Non-Gold by production

Mpemba
Luba
Tidore
Ternate
Loango
Ile Bourbon
Kalonga
Cameroon
Flores
Gabon



The best potential colonies I can find are:

Tauranga – Australia, 13
Pontianak – Asia, 13
Whangarei – New Zealand, 11
Banjar, 11, Asia
Kendari, 11, Asia
Sakam, 10, Taiwan
Poso, 10, Asia


And we head down from there

Now Portugal is spreading over Australia, England is in the Pacific, and more. So there are folks well past me. I don’t want to fight either for either.

We have 121 holdings

We have the 4th largest army, and the 9th largest navy

Current value of trade goods:

5.6 cocoa
4.5 tobacco, coffee, spices, iron
4.05 salt
4.0 dyes, silk, ivory, fur
3.75 sugar
3.60 cloth
3.45 copper
3.0 cotton, chinaware, tea, slaves
2.7 tropical wood
2.5 wine
2.0 naval supplies,wool
1.70 – Grain
1.37 Fish


We are the world’s production leader is iron, spices, ivory, and slaves. We make one third of the world’s spices, 45% of its ivory, 15% of its iron, and 30% of its slaves, oh and 19% of its copper and 8% of its fish.

Current great powers

France
Ottomans
Kongo
Russia
Persia
England
Austria
Poland

[Abe Sargent]

MAPS!!!

Let me get one big zoomed out map for you



Now the Indies




I wish our color were better, sorry about that.

You can see us in the Philippines, various islands, the spice islands, the Moloccas, and more. Light green is Portugal, so you can see thy have a few islands on the map, and England is on Borneo island, south of Brunei. I am next to Sunda, Pasai, and Bali in the south.

England is in the Pacific in places like South Caledonia, Easter Island, and more. There is a large French Mexico, and English are all over the West Coast of North America, included Washington, California, and such…

Britain never formed the 13 colonies, and most of Eastern US is still uninhabited, oddly. So Scotland landed and took parts of Maryland Virginia, New England and Manhattan and long Island. Just the coastal areas, mostly.

But all of Florida, and everything from South Carolina down is untouched. Many tribes are still here, like the Inca and Aztec, and MesoAmerica was left alone. Without a full Spain, Castile was divided.

[Abe Sargent]

1 Nov – I choose the Ottomans as our rival

17 Feb, 1657 – Uniform regs increase need for dyes, cloth

1 June – We lost our Army Organizer, so I hire a level 1 Quartermaster

7 July – We finish the Plantation and our mission. Next is a mission for a Naval Manufactory in Lualuba, and I order one

1 Nov – Palembang converts. Next is culture

7 Dec – RM with Castile

13 Mar, 1658 –I fabricate a claim on Sofala

23 April – I execute a treason in my family and lose 10 prestige

1 May, Dip Tech 19 – Max Colonial Range 59, naval maintenance up, and we can build Frigate, War Galleon, and Grand Shipyards

9 Oct – Strength of Faith event, we get prestige and clergy loyalty

1 Dec – Naval Supplies in Lanao

18 Mar, 1659 – Cagayan is Kongolese

1 June – Yay!

We embrace Manufactories

We get +10% goods produced and our tech penalties drop

1 sept I pull back some settlers and send them to Aru. This small island is beyond Yamdena. It has a very low development for the area, but a very high chance of good stuff

1 April, 1660 – We max relations England. I order Workshop in Cagayan and Bikol , Church in Tondo,

1 June – Sula is fish

Admin 18 –

We get another group of ideas

I take Quality. Then Innovative

1 Oct –

Manado - Tea, 10 dev, coastline, tropical, 0.06 made here, Animist, Sulawesi, missionary sent, on Sulawesi island, 75% auto, 8% unrest


2 Nov –Ilocos now Kongolese. Workshop ordered

1 Dec – We begin to annex Bali

[Abe Sargent]

7 Feb, 1661 0 Tulangbewang is Kongolese. Workshop ordered

1 Mar – Trade Company ordered for Manila

11 Aug – Maguindanao is Kongolese. I order workshop.

1 Sept –

Bengkulu – Jungle, tropical, 8 dev, Spices, Sunni, Sumatra, 0.31 made, 1.9 unrest, 50 autonomy. Missionary heads for their shores

7 Oct – Our Queen gains 75 Dip Power in outmaneuvering her home state of Austria in an international game

11 Nov – I pull settlers from Lanao and send them to Panay, connecting Lanao with Manilla

9 Dec – Manado converts

Culture next

1 Jan , 1662 – Mil Tech 20 – We can make swivel cannon, and infantry fire increases. Swivel cannon replaces the leather ones we had

Trade Company in Ceram

22 April – Aragon and Portugal not rivals any longer

1 May – We lose prestige when a heir was a bastard

14 July – We finish our quest to put a Naval Manufactory into Lualaba. Next is

Turn Sula into a City

1 Nov – I order Workshops all over iron and copper mines back home

2 May

We integrate Bali!


Bali – Javanese, Hindu, Cloth, 10 dev, grasslands, 60% auto, core, barracks, dock, marketplace, church Tropical. Cosat. Island with straits to us in Lombok and Blambangan to the west

Blambangan – Jungle, cotton, tropical, 13 dev, next to Demak, the nation, workshop, Hindu, Javanese, 75% auto, 1.8% unrest, church,


Madura – Island just off the coast of Java in the Straits of Lombok. Tropical wood, coastline, 3 dev, 0.03 made, Javanese, Hindu, 75 auto, 1.3% unrest, shipyard, dock.

I can upgrade my government rank to Empire if I wish.

19 May – Malacca is annexed by Pasai


Hmmmm


Is it wrong to peacefully annex a Hindu nation and then immediately convert them to Catholicism and change their culture to ours? Ah well. I send Missionaries to Madura and Blambangan. I also got a couple of ships and 5k troops we are updating.

Now, have I allowed this dynasty to veer off course into the Indies overly much and not worrying about stuff like Africa? I mean, I get colonially, but I am spending badboy fighting Tidore and Ternate. Is that really what I want to keep doing?

Alright, no more wars abroad why I still have Africa to deal with. I have the nations north, the Horn,and all of that. Knock this crap off.

Portugal is now threatened by us, and allies with Castile. So I ally with them. I’ll slowly lose the Austrian tether.

I’ve been missing wars here, like a battle between Kilwa and Mombasa I could have helped with.

26 Aug – Royal Marriage with Portugal

29 Aug – I grant Portugal military access

1 Sept – New Tech

Naval 20 – costs 613, Naval Professionalism, better trade range and efficiency

So let’s take about advances a bit. Here’s what we are making:

5/12/6

We have Dip as my national focus for when I needed ot pump it up for Printing Press. So I move my national focus to Admin like normal, and we are at…

8/9/6

Now let’s math that – We get 12x8 (96)x9(108)andx6(72) annually. So I needed roughly 3 years to get enough DIP to get that level 20. Now we’ll need around 6. The next is 649. We are in a good place for tech moving forward.


Aru is Tea



16 Oct – Event:

“Properly civilized countries do not let petty commoners to attempt any kind of serious thought. The eyes of the world are upon us, and the world does not like what it sees.”

We lose 5 prestige


2 Dec –

Sula – Fish, coastline, 6 dev, core, animist, Moluccan, tropical, 0.14 made, 2.1% unrest


Next target is…

Let’s finish up the Philippines

Visayas

[Abe Sargent]

1 Feb, 1664 –

Lanao – In the Philippines, coastline, 8 development, naval supplies, 75 auto2.1 unrest, 0.03 made here. I order the Moluccas, the state of the lower part of the Philippines to become fully en-stated. That raises us to 0.36. I order a church here

I order a trade company for Maguindanao.

I recall my colonists in Aru and send them to Poso, on Sulawesi. France is moving here and just grabbed three local colonies, so I want to grab what I can now

5 Apr – Bengkuku converts

Next up is culture

I order the Missionary to Sula

I uplift the South African Plateau to full state staus, and then give Roggeveld and Highveld and Lesser Namaqualand to the nobility.

20 Aug - I pull colonists from Panay and send them to Kendari, on Sulawesi

1 Nov – Madura converts. Next up is Bali

Culture shift ordered for Madura

I take a new idea:

Quality #1: Private to Marshal, +10% infantry combat ability

1 Jan, 1665 – I order up a Trade Company in Bangka

15 Jan - Mombasa annexes Kilwa, and is now next to me.

I begin to shift my armies and main African navy

24 Feb – Blambangan converts.

15 April – Missionary sent to Lanao

28 April – Epidemic in Aru. I pay to help the natives

12 June – Sula converts

[Abe Sargent]

13 Oct – I declare Holy War vs Mombasa

I order 15,000 troops from Ibo to head into their nation, and another 15000 from Mozambique to cross Ibo and arrive at Lindi and siege

I launch my fleet and head into the Zanzibar Strait

7 Nov – We win some skirmishes at sea

1 Dec – Lindi falls and I push this army north up the coast

17 Dec – Bagamoyo falls to the 2nd army

11 Jan, 1666 – Kilwa is ours to the upcoming army

8 Feb – We take Tanga

18 Feb – We take Mzizima

4 Mar – Palembang is now Kongolese. I order a workshop here.

1 May – Maravi;s army is routed in Kilwa

16 June – They retake Lindi

20 June – We take Malindi

28 June – Bali convert.s culture next

3 Aug – We take their captital Mombasa

I order my big army to go chase them

8 Aug -= They take Ibo

19 Aug – We defeat their navy

12 Oct – We defeat their army in Ibo

15 Oct – The siege of Zanibar concludes and we took it

27 Oct – We rout their army

13 Nov – We take Ibo back

26 Nov- Lindi is back in the fold

1 May, 1667 – Panay makes coffee

12 May - Madura is now our culture

1 June – Our King is now a Charismatic Negotiator

1 July – Our Statesman passes and I hire a Trader

25 July – After almost 400 days, the siege of Lamu concludes, and we have a 100% war score

Annexing every holding they have is 83. And I get 645 gold.

26 July –

Mombasa is now off the map.

[Abe Sargent]

We’ll start this above Ibo, and work my way up the coast. Every province is on the coast, we have noting landlocked


Lindi – 5 devel, Shia, coastland, fish, tropical, 0.01 made, 19.7 unrest, 75 autonomy, marketplace, docks, Swahili,

Kilwa – 10 dev, GOLD, church, shipyard, docks, 19.7% unrest, Sunni, Swahili

Mzizima – Slaves, 4 dev, coastline, tropical, Shia, Swahili, 19.7 unres,t 75 auto, 0.01 made

Bagamoyo – Ivory,tropical, coastline, marketplace, 3 dev, Sunni, Swahili, 19.7 unrest, 75 auto

Tanga – Ivory, coastline, tropical, church, training fields, 19.7, 75 0.09made here, 7 development.

Mombasa – Swahili, Sunni, coastline, 16 dev, tropical, coastal center of trade, 18.9 unrest, 75 auto, 013 made, church, marketplace, shipyard. Ivory.

Malindi – Iron, arid, coastline, 10 dev, church, shipyard, training fields, 0.13 made here, Swahili, Sunni.

Lamu – North is Ajuuraan, Ivory, coastline, arid, 5 dev, 14,7 unrest, 75 auto, bastion, church.

Zanzibar – Island off coast, Bastion, slaves, marketplace, 6 dev, coastal center of trade, 0.02 made, 19.7 unrest, coastline, tropical. 75 auto

I spend a couple hundred ADM to core them all

[Abe Sargent]

1 Oct – Kendari is spices

22 Nov – Lanao converts

I take a mission to reduce overextension

1 Dec – Poso is coffee

1 Jan, 1668 – Visayas is Tea

19 Apr –

I build –

Trade Company in Palembang, Belitung

13 May – I hand Sula to the clergy

I destroy the shipyard in Ternate, order a Grand One in Sula, and then order a Plantation in Cagayan and Trade Company in Mpasua, one of my internal Spices in Kongo

1 April, 1669 – Idea Quality #2: Yearly Army Tradition +1. We get our own idea as well, and get Foreign Demand for Slaves +10% production efficiency


I order –

Workshop in Lualaba, Bugonda, Lundu, Xhosa

Naval Equipment Manufactory in Bunyoro
Weapons Manufactory in Shaga

Yes, that’ s how much frigging money I’m making these days. Multiple Manufactories a year.

5 Oct – Native Assimilation in Visayas

1 Dec – I Spend 50 Mil dropping rebel chances in the islands.


Hopefully that’s the last time I need ot do that

1 April, 1670 –

I order Trade Company in Lombok, Tidore
Workshop in Sumbawa


22 April – Manado now our culture

29 July – We complete the cores o nall of the taken provinces form Mombosa

We finish our mission. Next up is Colonize Gorontalo, which is on Sulawesi island and next to Manado


I send missionaries to Bagamoyo and Mombasa and Mzizima

16 Nov – Innovative Idea #1 – Patron of the Arts, we get -1 prestige decay

10 Dec – Bengkulu is our culture now. So I order a church

[Abe Sargent]

21 Jan, 1671 – We get a Queen of the People event to fire off

27 Jan – Native Assimilation in Poso


I pull the colonists from Poso to send to Gorontolo

3 Mar

Visayas – Tea, tropical, coastline, 5 development, Philippines, Animist, 50% auoto, 0.14 made, core, Filipino,

I send this colonist to Palu, the last of the Sulawesi holdings that the local state of Makassar does not control

That is Makassar. And they do not have any allies. So I offer them an alliance and they accept

6 May – We use the Great Power ability to influence them

Workshop ordered for Bengkulu

Naval Equipment Manufactory in Ruguru
Weapons Equipment in Kanongesha
(I’m upping our salt)


5 July

Kendari – Spices, 12 development, Sulawesi culture, Animist faith, tropical, coastland, and I make Sulawesi a aste,

Next target is Tagloc in the Philippines

4 Sept –

Aru – Small islands in the Kolepom Bay, Tea, 3 dev, Animist, Moluccan, I invest the 12 ADM to core this, tropical coastline.

1 Nov –

Poso – Sulawesi, 10 dev, core, 0.45, Coffee, tropical, coastline, 0.45,

Brunei and France are in war,m and Brunei has captured the three French holdings on Borneo

1 Jan, 1672 -I proclaim a guarantee for Makassar

2 Feb – I send a gift

6 April – Subsidies for Makassar

8 May – Military access with Makassar

8 June – Would I like to establish a penal colony in Gorontalo?

I choose to send them over, the place gets bonus growth and some unrest for a while

1 July – I give Luanda to the clergy

11 July –

I order – Textile Manufactory in Lundu, Trade Company in Bengkulu

24 Dec – Bagamoyo converts

Poso is next

1 Jan, 1673 – I order a Trade Company in East Timor

We have no corruption and barely any need for budgetary expenses for that. I am steamrolling in cash, particularly production with the manufactory economy we embrace right now. I have kept my advisors minimum, we just have 10 colonial expenses , We eviscerating cash.

At 152 a month, we are 2nd in the world in cash, France has 163. Ottomans 124. Austria 93. Russia 88. England 82. Aragon 64, and Persia 61. Only four nations in the world that make less than us, make at least half as much as we do. That’s how much we make.

4 Jan – Makassar transfer her trade power to us

18 Jan – Mzizima converts! Next is Aru

1 Feb – We get a Trading in Spices bonus as the world’s leader in Spices, so we get +10% spy network construction.


13 Feb – We get an event, Two of a Kind, and we fund the Queen’s desire to continue the scientific learning of the day and we host a international expert in the natural world. We get a 3 star natural scientist advisor for 50% off.

Meet Cibund Raumbe, 3 star advisor, 30 years old, half price. We now have 10/8/6 tech development

I really want to build off that.

So I send my noble estates and welcome them. I call a diet to reduce my prestige and increase their loyalty and power. Then with that enhanced power, I for a powerful advisor diplomat, and we get a 3 star 50% off Diplomat Nkuwu Ngusseuo, for 50% off and 50% of the upkeep.

Now we are 10/10/6 growth. There are no military tech options.

We’re going to be gaining a bunch of techs

Inb fact, get ready…


1 March – Dip 21 – The Checek, we can build them, and we can sabotage reputation in espionage



For getting this research early, we get bonuses for a year of trade efficiency and reduced corruption

6 Mar – The nation of Sunda joins our alliance

1 May – Maxed relations with Makassar, I withdraw that diplomat.

26 May – Native Assimilation in Panay

28 May – I proclaim a guarantee on Sunda

18 June – The Austrian ruler passes, and another rises and sends a Royal Marriage offer. I refuse. I want to wend down this diplomatic relationship. Right now I have 1 too many.

1 Jul – I break our alliance with Austria

21 July – I send a gift to Sunda

9 Aug – I pay a little MIL power to drop Kilwan rebels

1 Sept – I begin to influence Sunda.

6 Oct – Some subsidies arrive Sunda’s way

23 Nov – Robber Barons hit Beshubi. I side with the burghers and we gain +1 production in Beshubi

9 Dec – Sunda transfers trade power to us

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan, 1674 – I order a Trade Company in Sumbawa and Grand Shipyard in Sula and Trade Depot in Ternate.


21 Jan – Naval supplies on the rise after permanent navies become more of a thing

17 Feb – Aru converts

Next target is Visayas

1 Mar – Poso converts. Next? How about the Shia holding of Lindi?

5 Mar – Mombasa converts and next is Zanzibar

I order a workshop in Poso

9 May – Merchants are suffering and I send them some aid in the form of power

1 June – Sunda is our latest vassal

27 June – I send a gift to Maravi

1 Aug –

Panay – Filipino, Coffee, Animist, core, 0.23 made, 5 development, tropical, coastline, Straits to Lanao, Manila, and Visayas.

I pull my colonists from Gorontolo and send them to the last currently open holding in the Philippines the Butuan.

22 Aug – Silk is getting more and more popular.

25 aug – I deny a request for military access from Demak

30 Oct – Bali is now Kongolese

1 Nov – I order a Textile Manufactory for Bali

22 Nov – I embrace a New Idea:

Innovative #2 – Pragmatism - -25% Mercenary Maintenance

And that gives us:

Kongo’s Final Idea – Defend against the colonists - +5% military discipline

1 Dec – Our quartermaster passes. I hire a level 1 Grand Captain.

24 Dec – Native Assimilation in Gorontalo

We finish the mission to colonize it, and we get a huge bonus to colonial endeavors for a while. Next mission?

Turn Tagloc into a city

Tea in Gorontalo

29 Mar, 1675 – Conversion in Visayas

Next? Panay

2 May - I build a Trade Company in Ambom

18 May – Assimilation in Palu

1 June - Tea in Palu

14 June – I promote Molucaan culture to an accepted one

1 July - Church in Kendari, Manado, Poso – all on Sulawesi

[Abe Sargent]

1 Jan. 1676 – Tagloc is Spices

Oceania is now mostly taken. France has Hawaii, Nauru, Gilbert Islands,while England has Marshall, Midway, Tonga, New Caledonia, Society Islands, Eastern Portugal has Galapagos, and Castile has Tuamuto Islands,. Portugal is all over Australia and New Zealand and we are in the Indies and Philippines. I could grab the unclaimed New Guinea holdings or Taiwan. France is in Borneo, England is there too, and Portugal is in numerous islands as well.

I took a look. How many coastal provinces anywhere are available.

Africa? None, save for Bonny, next to England and Benin.

South America? None

North? Tons on the east coast, like Florida and the Carolinas. Nothing from Roanoke up until you get to high Canada in the arctic. From Washington state down, nothing on the west coast is unclaimed. Just some Canadian and Alaskan areas.

Asia? Just some in Siberia, around Kamchatka

1 Mar – Trade Company in Bikol

8 Apr – Revolt in Lindi


1 May – Defeated

9 May – Panay converts. Next is Buru

15 May – WHOA! I get a Monopoly Company Formed event. Choose payment in full now and get 2000 gold!

I am going to hold off on this for a moment

26 June – Native Assimilation in Palu

5 July – After those churches are done…

I order – Trading Company in Manado (which will give me another 0.51 a month), Plantation in Poso (another 0.76/month) and Trade Company in Kendari (0.51)over on Sulawesi, Trade Company on Ilocos in the Philippines (0.51) and Trade Company in Yamdena (0.39/month). It’s around 433 for each manufactory, so the 2k was basically 5 free ones. I still have 173 after those purchases. I included the hard numbers after that so you could see what the benefit of those is like later on.

We get an additional 2.5 a month or so from this stuff. So another 25 or 26 a year, which is one third of my workshop or church annually. Right now we’re building 12 manufactories.

In most circumstances, you get advancement from a building based on your development. But that’s not the case with manufactories, with are solely based off your trade good.

Here I’ll give you an example.

One of my wealthiest provinces in Manila:

14 dev, Spices, trade company, workshop and church.

We get 3.26 a month from it in tax and production. So, let me spend 63 DIP power to increase production there from 6/6/2 to 6/7/2. My production rose and our cash I now 3.44. Now I don’t normally spend that Power to make stuff better. But I do occasionally. In this game, every 10 development lets you build another building. So if I need to build something and I’m out of room, and the development is close to the next 10 or 20, then I’ll use some power to increase it. Typically that’s Military power to increase the manpower from that province. Military power is the one I use the least. ADM, which is the tax base, is used for most of my favorite Ideas, cores, and stability. Dip is used for production increases, Ideas of value, culture changes, Admirals, Explorers, and such. So it’s not usually my choice. Mil is used for reducing rebellions, but I don’t use it for that too often, you can usually tell where the rebellion I happening and move an army over per-rebellion. Other than the occasional Idea, it’s just the occasional general, and I often use my leader as my main general. So it get used for building up the development of holdings, which in turns means I have good manpower for my many wars.

Take Munene as a good example over in Central Kongo. 3/5/4 development right now, jungle spices . I upped it’s military and now with a 4 development it gets 750 manpower to me.


17 July – Conversation in Lindi. Next?> Kilwa

11 Aug – Zanzibar converts and Malindi is next.


10 Sept – I order up Workshop for Songo in Kongo, University in our capital of Mpemba (Which gives us -20% local developmental cost and another building for free)

14 Sept – Makassar is now our vassal

25 Sept – We get Sunda to slide to Catholic. It increases their liberty desire to 47% (Maravi is 76%)

14 Oct – We enter a Royal Marriage with Sunda!

1 Nov - I send a diplomat to make nice with Ryukyu

12 Nov – University ordered for Luba

27 Nov – I send a diplomat to make nice with Sulu.

1 Feb, 1677 – University for Tidore and Ternate

Trade Company in Xhosa in South Africa to pump up the wine

1 April –

Palu – Tea, tropical, Selawesi, cored, Animist, tropical, 8 development, 0.23 made here , north of Makassar, and connects with Gorontolo and Poso, 0.07 unrest,

Next target is Turkana, not of our holdings in Lake Victoria and has a potential mining here.


28 June – Assimilation in Gorontalo

1 Sept – Trade Company in Inhambane

6 Nov – We finish the relations with Russia and finish that mission with some dip power. Turn Butuan into a city.

12 Nov – Buru converts. Palu next

[Abe Sargent]

5 Feb, 1678 – Weapons Manufactory in Hemba, Workshop in Muhambwe

29 Mar – We get Maravi to swap faith

9 May – Royal Marriage with Maravi

3 July – Butuan is Tea making


1 Aug –

Tagloc – Spices, Filipino, Sunni, 6 dev, 1 unrest, 0.27, cored, land connections to Butuan and Maguindanao.

Next?

Kikuyu, east of Turkana.


1 Sept – I pull back colonists to Turkana and send them to the southern most province in Taiwan – Sakam.

1 Oct – I order – Weapons Manufactory in Nduga

31 Oct – We get a event for quality of troops impressive and gain some prestige

4 Nov –

Gorontalo – 5 development, coastline, tropical, tea , cored, Sulawesi, Animist, 0.15 made, 3.9 unrest, next to Manado and Palau.

1 Jan, 1679 – New Tech

Mil 21 – We get +0.25 infantry tactics nd +.5 shock


We order a church in Palembang, and a Weapons Manufactory in Buzinza

6 Jan – Palu converts and Gorontalo next

1 Mar – Relations maxed with Ryuukyu. I proclaim a guarantee for Sulu

7 Mar – Lanau is now Kongolese

18 Mar – Blambangan as well

1 Apr – New Tech

I only need 456 for Adm 19

Admin 19 – We can build Cathedrals

14 Apr – Kilwa converts and next is Tanga

9 May – Malindi follows. Next up is Tagloc

15 May – I begin to Influence Sulu

21 May – I get a big event for family in Austria, with Dip power and better relations with Austria

20 July – I send a small gift of 25 gold to Sulu

1 Sept – I order a Weapons Manu for Nkoma

1 Dec – Native Assimilation in Turkana

1 Jan, 1680 – Turkana is Salt.

New Tech –

Dip 22 We get 7 years of great events, for being ahead of the curve. And meanwhile we have…

No decrease for Naval Attrition for staying out at sea, we get new ships of various types, can build Stock Exchange, and we get better naval morale but worse upkeep.

The next we need around 1000, which should take a decade.

1 Feb – Max relations with Sulu.

14 Feb – Gorontalo converts. Lamu is on point

[Abe Sargent]

1 April – Weapons Manufactory in Muhambwe

I order units to get near the border in East Africa

1 June – I declare a holy war against Ajuuraan, up the coast from us.

I order my 22,000 troops from Lamu to cross to their land of Pate, where they have 13k forces defending. I have 17,000 troops in an inland unclaimed province ready to hit their middle.

11 June – We get a Rigorous Researchers and get 40 power for all three.

21 June – We win in Pate. Their army is routed

22 July – We take the province of Gedo

25 July – Pate is ours

27 July – Our navy arrives in the Coast of Pepper.

13 Sept – Beledwyne is ours

1 Oct – Kikuyu is Copper

30 Oct – We take El Buur

2 Dec –

Butuan – Tea, Filipino, hills, tropical, 7 dev, -.22 made, cored, north of Tagloc, and east of Maguindanao.


These colonists are heading to the middle Taiwanese holding of Middag.

6 Dec – Disease strikes, and we pay to keep our colonies going

10 Feb, 1681 – Our great advisor, Cibind Raombe gets a development of major astronomical instruments, and gets 50 ADM power and bonus tech costs for a while.

10 Sept – We convert both Tango and Tagloc. Next is Butuan and Kendari


12 Oct – After 452 days, we capture their capital, Merca

28 Oct – We defeat their fleeing navy in t he Coast of Pepper

1 Nov – I headed into Mogadishu and defeated their army today as well

1 Dec – The province of Warshiekh in Mogadish is ours

31 Jan, 1682 – Sunda defeats some rebels that protested her religion shift

21 May – After 533 days, we take the fort at Werder

We took some minor provinces with allies and vassals as well it looks like

15 June – Kismayo falls to us

24 June – I catch up with a 7k strong army of the enemy.

27 June – Lamu converts

11 July – We win the battle

15 July – The capital of Mogadishu falls to our onslaught

1 Aug – Sakam, in Taiwan, will have chinaware

4 Aug – Barawa is ours

23 Aug – Bosaso is ours

27 Aug – My fleet arrives in the Horn of Africa

20 Sept – Two more fall to us

1 Oct – I crush their navy in the Horn

New Tech:

I only needed 433 for this one

Admin 20 – We get +12 states, and some cool governments

17 Oct – Las Cohey is ours

4 Nov – I rout Ajuuraan army in Sanaag

18 Dec – sanaag is ours

30 Dec – Kadhari converts. We get Qardho

I have an 85 warscore. The Mamluks are untouched and part of this alliance, but I think it may be time for some shopping. What can I get right now?


Most of Ajuuraan is crap. 6 grain, 5 fish, 3 wool, and one of the two Mogadishiu is wool too. No one wants fish, wool, and grain. And they are all low development for the most part as well.

So I want…these:

Pate – Next to us, up the coast, cloth, 8 dev, 0.09, barracks and church here. Swahili

Kismayo – Next up the coast Fish, 6 dev, 0.02, barracks and marketplace, savannah,

Barawa =Next up the coast, Wool, 5 dev, savannah, 0.01 made,

Merca – Capital, Naval supplies, next up the coast, 5 dev, dock, savannah, 0.02 made

Mogadishu – Ivory, next up coast, better developed than any Ajuuraan holding, best there is to take, 13 dev, Shipyardm marketplace, church, naval center of trade, 0.10 made here. Steppes.

Warsheikh – Other Mogadishu holding, up the coast, wool, this takes them out. 6 dev, desert, 0.01 made, dock,marketplace

El Buur – Iron, inland, adjacent to Warsheikh. Steppes, 0.02 made here,

Werder – Very inland, deeper than El Buur, has a fort, want to pull down their defenses, Slaves, Bastion, Highlands, 0.01 made here

Meregh – Up coast, wool, 5 dev, 0.02 made here, Steppes

Hobyo – Up coast, grain, Steppes, 4 dev, dock, 0.01 here made

Garoowe – Up coast, fish, dock, 0.01

Qardho – Upcoast, fish, Dock, Regimental Camp, 0.00

Hafun – Tip of Horn, Ivory, Up coast, 5 dev, 0.05 made here.

So basically I take the whole coast and two decent wealthy provinces


Here’s the negotiation map, so you can see what I can see:



We would get 28 badboy

This connects me with 14 new holdings. I am updated the above list to input the details, so I don’t need to make that list twice. All are Sunni, Somali, Arid, and Coastline, 3 development, and 75% autonomy, 17.8% unrest unless otherwise noted.

[Abe Sargent]

I take a mission to reduce overextension

Next up – cash time

I upgrade the following places into states:

Lower Zambezi
Central Swahili Coast
Mozambique
Kenya
Makuana



Workshop in Kalonga
Church for Songo
Trade Company in Rund,
Weapons Manufactory in Rukwa, Kuria, Karagwe, Tabwa

1 Feb – I hand Bafuriru, Shangwe to our clergy and Lomwe and Makua to the nobility


I send a Missionary to Mogadishu

[Abe Sargent]

1 April – We lost our claim on Portugal’s Sofala

1 June –

Kikuyu – Kenyan colony, Highlands, tropical, 3 dev, Cored, copper, 0.15 made, Kongolese, Catholic, etc. Right by the Lake Victoria holdings, and inland.

Next target is Kelang, the northernmost holding in Taiwan. And now all three holdings are under our colonial watch

1 Sept – I order University in Tondo, next to Manila, Cagayan, in the Philippines as well

Weapons Manufactory in Kikuyu

22 Nov- Advancement of Merchant Class event

11 Dec – We reup our marital vows with Sunda after their leader passes

21 Dec – We convince Makassar to convert to Catholicism. And their rebellion risk rises to 50%. I spend 20 prestige to make nice and drop it to 40.

1 Jan, 1684 – I’ve been spending my ADM this year slowly investing it in cores in my taken provinces. I’m using it to order them. I currently have 5 provinces left with no core on the way.

6 Feb – Royal Marriage with Makassar

1 Mar

Quality idea #3 – Finest of Horses - +10% cavalry combat modifier

11 Apr – Butuan converts

22 May – One of our merchant vassals sinks at sea and we invest in recovery.

I am still making 95 gold a month

1 July – Trade Company in Mozambique, Naval Equipment in Benguela

1 Sept – As of today, every holding save Mogadishu is working on a core

Middag, in central Taiwan, is fish first

2 Nov – Rebellion in Mogadishu

22 Nov – Put down

29 Dec – We get an event - -10% dip investment for tech but +10% cost for ships for a decade

3 April, 1685 – I order Trade Company in Palu on Sulawesi and another in the adjacent home of Gorontalo

3 July-

Turkana – Kenyan, tropical, near Lake Victoria, Salt, 3 dev, highlands, 0.15 made here, already our culture and faith.


I recall my colonists in Taiwan south province of Sakam and send them to one of the 9 provinces in New Guinea. Manokwari, but the Sea of Ternate and right by the Spice Islands.

All of these 9 have 3 development, tropical and jungle save for two. But they have solid chances at exotic goods, and I’d rather have a 3 development with Spices or Tea or Coffee with a chance for Tropical Wood or Fish or Naval Supplies instead than a shot at yet another Slaves/Ivory province with grain and wool the other options all over Africa


1 Nov – I order Trade Company in Zumbo

1 Jan, 1686 – We have cores in Werder and El Buur concludes

I send Missionaries to both

Dip 23 –

Heavy Frigates – We can make, um, heavy frigates. And we get +25 settler growth and Max Colonial Range +150

I spend 450 to upgrade my fleet

5 Jan – Qardho is cored

7 Jan, 1686

We gain a Imperial Casus Belli against every nation in the world

8 Feb – Kismayo and Garoowe are now cores too

23 Feb – Great News - Mogadishu converts! I order a core. Kismayo is next.


2 April – Hobyo and Hafun now cores

We promote Swahili to our accepted cultures

15 May = We get a Nobles Demand Increased Pensions. Due to our Charismatic Negotiator ability we have a third option, Let the King Negotiate a better deal – We get -10% national tax modifier for better noble loyalty

1 Aug – Kelang, in Taiwan is wool.

1 Sept – I hand Pangasinan in the Philippines to the nobility

8 Sept –Merca a core

[Abe Sargent]

8 Jan, 1687 – Meregh cored

6 Feb –

Sakam – Lower Taiwan, Animist, Polynesian, Chinaware, I make Taiwan a state, Tropical, grasslands, 10 development, 2.1 unrest, 0.06 made here

I pull the colonists next door in Middag and send them to New Guinea but Portugal has taken two off the map, included the one next to Manokwari. I head to the back side. Madang

I also pull my colonists from Kelang, northern Taiwan, and send it to Yos, Sudaraso, which is on the far side of the two Portugal is building right now.

11 Mar – I hand Garoowe to the clergy

5 May – Warshiekh and Barawa are cores

1 July –

University in Mombasa, Ndongo

Trade Company in Ngoyo, Mayumba, Shinje, Kumbana

2 Sept – Pate now a core. Only Mogadishu is left

2 Oct – Makassar agrees to be annexed

1 Nov – Our great level 3 scientist passes. I head to my clergy and recruit a level 3 Inquisitor from them - 50% off hire price and sizing price:


Mutand Boussombo, 40, 3 strength +2 Missionaries


4 Dec – Rebellion in Pate.

21 Dec – Defeated

1 Jan, 1688 –

Trade Company in Yaka, Naval Equipment fpr Upemba

8 Feb – Werder and El Duur convert. Sakam and Pate are next

23 Apr – Kismaypo converts as well and Warsheikh is next

10 Dec – The Queen Theresia invites another 3 natural scientist to the throne to stay, but I decide to keep with our Inquisitor for now and we get 50 ADM power

1 Jan, 1689 –

Middag –Middle of Taiwan, tropical, fish, highlands, 7 dev, cored, Animist, Polynesian, 0.08 made here. 1.2% unrest

13 Jan – Sakam converts and Middag is next

24 Feb – A sad day dawns…


Today our King passes away!

His heir:


Garcia I Kuba:

3/4/5

Midas Touched, 58 years old


His heir is Nzinga Nkuwa Kuba, 47, strong claim, with 2/3/5 stats

We lose a stability. I spend 164 ADM to gain it back, which will set us back in tech I was going to get that next tech this year. Ah well.

Our new investment levels total are 11/8/8


We take the Empire name and title

26 Feb – Mogadishu is a core. We finish our mission to reduce overextension. Our next is ot colonize Daru, in New Guinea, next t one of our holdings there already

I accept a Royal Marriage with Portugal

1 Mar – Our heir gains Secretive

4 Mar – RM with Castile

6 Mar – RM: Sunda

1 April – Pate converts. Merca next

3 May – RM: Maravi

We get a new queen with this one – Nyalak , 4/3/3

3 June – RM: Makassar

1 Aug – Manakweri – Tropical Wood

Cathedral in Bengkulu, Bangka

Workshop in Sakam, Kikuyu
Church in Pubungo
Trade Company in Buru
Weapons Manufactory in Luapula

I pull colonists from Manokweri and send to Daru

1 Sept – I hand Qardho to the clergy

9 Sept – I promote Sulawesi culture to accepted

1 Nov – Warshiekh is Catholic. Next is Hafun

5 Dec – Middag converts. Next is Meregh. I order a culture shift in Middag for 10 DIP

[Abe Sargent]

1 May, 1690 – We get trading in Tea and get -10% advisor costs!

1 June –

I order a Naval Equipment Manu in Mauritius,

1 Aug – Tropical Wood in Yos Sudarso as well

I recall the colonists from here and send to New Guinea in Kerema

28 Sept – Merca converts. Barawa next.

1 Oct – New Tech:

Admin 21 – I needed 529 for this

We get +5% production efficiency


1 Nov – Our Diplomat advisor passes. Next?

I hire the level 3 advisor for an initial cost of 270 and a monthly premium of 18.46 gold. We are currently making 110 monthly, so that won’t be much of a disincentive. Meet our Naval Reformer, with a morale of navies +10%!

I decide to go ahead and bite the bullet for military. I fire our advisor and hire a 3 star Commandant for 288 and 18.46 monthly. This gives us 11/9/10 creation of power.


18 Nov – Here for just two weeks, that Drillmaster leader gives us 50 Admin power

1 Jan, 1691 – We are down to 73 cash monthly made


I order:

Workshop in Palu
Trade Company in Ternate
Plantation in Blambangan


1 Feb – Church in Chokwe

I hand Meregh to my clergy

3 Mar – Say hello to Makassar!

Palopo – Hills, Sulawesi, Catholic, tropical, 14 dev, Spices, 60% autonomy, Has church and training fields, 0.51 made here monthly. I destroy the Training Fields and order a Workshop. Palopo is next to our three holdings of Palu, Poso, and Kendari here, and north of the former capital Makassar.

Makassar -- 26 development, grasslands, tropical, Spices, Core, 1.41 made here, Sulawesi, Catholic, training fields, church, university, workshop, trade depot, and shipyard. 60% autonomy. South of Palopo

Buton – Small island chain south of Sulawesi island and has straight connection with Kendari. Tropical coastline, Spices, Catholic Sulawesi, 11 development, 0.52 made here, church and training fields

We also take their 8k troops and 23 ships, fully upgraded


10 Mar – Quality 4 – Corvettes, We get +5% ship durability

1 Apr – We get a trading in Coffee bonus, and get +5% institution spread

I hand Barawa and Warshiekh, to clergy, Kismayo, Hobyo to nobility,

Good news about expansion in Ajuuraan out here was I got these low quality holdings to hand off.

1 May – Madang will make Tea

4 May – Hafun converts. Garoowe is next

I give Werder to nobles

10 June – Meregh converts. Next? How about Qardho?

[Abe Sargent]

3 Jan, 1692 –

I destroy the training fields in Makassar proper and order a Trade Company here.

Workshop in Gorontalo

1 Mar – With the extra colony, we have 6 colonies and now are making just 50 gold a month

I add a Colonial Expansion policy. This will cut my DIP power and can be used due to my two finished Idea Groups

1 Apr – Barawa converts

Hobyo is on queue next

3 May –

Kelang – The northern part of Taiwan, Highlands, Animist, Polynesian, core, wool, 6 dev, 1.2 unrest, 0.11 made here. North of Middag.


I expect our sea-based colonial expansion to end around New Guinea.

1 July – Daru is Coffee

This finishes our quest to colonize Daru, and we get more growth!

I recall diplomats in Madang and send to Lae

Right now we have +140 growth a year from colonies

Next mission? None

I don’t want any of them

I begin to move my fleet around in the Indies.

I order more troops assembled on Java Isle.

I want to take out Demak.

27 July – Our ruler passes.

The next?

Nzinga Nkuwa, 2/3/5, and he does not have an heir. He is secretive.

I spend ADM to increase our stability again

4 Aug – We offer a RM to Sunda, and we get a new queen from them, Tribuawana, 4/2/5 and 33 years old. We need to get to scrumping

2 Oct – RM with Maravi

16 Oct – Garoowe converts.

Kelang is next

24 Nov – Qardho converts

Our truce with Ajuuraan is over, if I want to take them out instead. They have 8 holdings. All grain, fish, or wool. But it’s not a major addition in terms of wealth. But it is Africa. I think Demak is likely to be hit by a colonial European power before Ajuuraan is off the table/

[Abe Sargent]

5 Jan, 1693 – Trade Company for Buton,

1 Feb – I declare a Crusade on Demak

I order 7k troops from Blambangan to Kediri and 8k from Madura over

16 Feb – We win a naval battle in the Straits of Lombok

15 Mar – We take Kediri

23 Mar – We take Surabaya

Our ally in Sunda took one of their places Karta

30 Mar – We win a naval battle in Coast of Blambangan

18 Apr – Vassals take Kendal

23 April – We take Pajang and

1 May – We beat their navy again and capture some vassals as well.

We get trading in copper and get -10% recruitment time

11 June – We win a naval battle in the Philippines.


1 July – Kerema is Spice controlled

1 Sept – Kelang converts

25 Sept – Hobyo converts

1 Jan, 1694 – I order some more artillery to help with the siege of their capital

20 July – I have an option for an weak claim 6/1/1 heir. Do I want that? Our leader is 52. He will pass somewhere. That’s not great stats. Max ADM and min other two? But we need something. So yes is it.


2 Aug –

Yos Sudarso – Tropical, tropical wood, jungle, 3 dev, in Papua, next to Asmat – Portuguese, and Daru, our next colony. 0.02 made, 75% auto

Mzizina handed to clergy

3 Oct –

Manokwari – Animist (I send a missionary), Papuan culture, tropical wood, jungle, tropical, 3 dev, 0.19 made here, cored

1 Dec – Lae is coffee

3 Feb, 1695 –

Daru – Cored, Catholic, Kongolese, coffee, topical, jungle, 3 dev, 0.22 made here

Next is Hanuabada, the last of the unclaimed holdings here,

[Abe Sargent]

28 Feb – After 689 days, we take the capital of Demak.

We annex Demak, and get 6 new holdings, 178 gold, and 29 bad boy

I spend 374 to order up cores in all six

All are Sunni, tropical and Javanese unless otherwise stated

Kediri – Jungle, fish, training fields, marketplace, 8 dev, 0.04 made here, 50% auto, 19% unrest. I move west to…

Pajang – Grasslands, 0.02, grain, 8 dev, trade depot, training fields, dock, 16.5% unrest, 75 auto

West is…

Karta – 17 dev, grasslands, Spices, 0.29 made, 19 unrest, 75 Auto, church, workshop, dock, shipyard

West is our vassal in Sunda

North is…

Kendal – Grasslands, naval supplies. Dock, trade depot, training fields 5 dev, 0.03 made here, 19 unrest and 75 auto

East is…

Demak – Cotton, grasslands, 20 dev, 0.20 made, 14.2% unrest, 75 auto, workshop, docks, university, cathedral, grand shipyard ,bastion. East too….

Surabaya – Cotton, grasslands, 19 unrest, 50% auto, workshop, church, dock, shipyard

East is usin Madura the island or us.

New mission is to turn Lae into a full city

I order:

Plantation in Daru
Trade Company in Palopo
Trade Company in Soyo
Workshop in Ngoyo, Mayumba
Cathedral in Cameroon
Naval Equipment in Buganda

[Abe Sargent]

1 April - I give Kediri to the clergy, Lindi to nobility

1 Aug –

Madang –Tea, Kongolese and Catholic already, jungle, 3 dev, core, 0.13 made, west of Lae

I pull colonists from Kerema and send it to Rabaul, an island off the cast of Papua

14 Aug – Manokwari converts

I spend the 4 DIP to swap it’s culture

11 Oct – Middag, over at Taiwan, is now our culture.

10 Jan, 1696 – Trade Company in Visayas; Cathedral in Maguindanao

13 Mar –

New Mil Tech - 22

We get +0.5 cavalry fire, +2 artillery fire, +.1 artillery shock, and we can make better artillery.

1 May –

Kerema – Spices, jungle, tropical, 3 dev, cored, Kongolese, Catholic, 0.17 made here. East of Daru, west of Hanuabada.

25 May – Death of a Merchant Event 0 We get hundreds of cash

[Abe Sargent]

190 Year Review!!!

8 July, 1696 –


200 Year Review!!!


Emperor Nzinga Nkuwa Kuba, 54, 2, 3, 5 stats, Secretive

Heir – Ntinu, 1 year, 6/1/1 weak claim

Queen Tribhuawana Sunda, 4/2/5, Midas Touched, 36 years old


We make 10/7/10 tech

We accept Swahili, sulawesi, Moloccan, Nyasa, and Rwandan cultures, in addition to to our own Kongolese.

We trade in Copper, Slaves, Ivory, Tea, Spices, and Ivory

Defender of the Faith

We have two vassals, Sunda and Maravi

Rival – Ottoman

Economy:

We make 225.41 monthly and spend 149.39 for 76.02 surplus

We have 21, 23, 22 techs

23 Ideas

We have 72 boats (out of force limit of 131) and 105 army (139 forcelimit)

We make 50 more than France, and double the Ottomans. No one else has more than 91 cash a month.

At 1453, we lead the world in development,. France is 1244 and Ottomans 1175 and then Russia 868 and Delhi 639.

The best tech nations are 24/23/23. Take France at 23 all or Papal at 24/23/22 as good examples of leaders. We are still behind


Our Top provinces by tax from best on down:

Kalonga
Luba
Loango
Ternate
Mpemba
Manilia
Mombasa
Matsolo
Busoga
Tidore
Buganda

Our top by production (not including gold)

Ternate
Tidore
Mpemba
Luba
Manila
Tondo
Kalonga
Maguindanao
Cameroon
Loango


Possible Colonies? We know of none better than 5, those are in Australia or North America. We know of two 4s, up in Kamchatka. The rest are all 3s.

We have 177 holdings.

There are only 5 employed level 3 advisors, we have three

We have the 3rd best manpower; 4th best army

The 5th biggest army in Songhai. But the difference is size is 40 from them to us. And they are another African power we’d need to unearth

We have the highest forcelimit for navy. 4th biggest navy, 3rd most sailors

[Abe Sargent]

Current Price of Goods:

5.6 – Cocoa
5.0 - Dyes ,Silk
4.5 – Tobacco, Coffee, Spices, Iron
4.05 – Cloth
4.0 – Ivory
3.75 – Sugar
3.5 – Fur
3.45 – Copper
3.3 – Salt
3.12 – Wine
3.0 – Cotton, Chinaware, Tea, Slaves, Naval Supplies
2.70 – Tropical Wood
2.00 – Wool, Fish, Grain


We are the production leader for all Iron (18.5%), Slaves (38.9%), Ivory (63.9%), Tea (49.5%), Chinaware (21.5%), Spices (51.2%), Coffee (32.8%), Copper (35.6%), Salt (17.1%), Fish (11.0%). So we have locked in mass production for 10 of the 23 products in the world, and we are 2nd in Tropical Wood to Ayutthaya. France leads in in Wine, Wool, and Cloth, and Delhi three with Cotton, Silk and Dyes. The Ottomans only lead in grain. Russia in Fur and Naval Supplies. The new world-ish, products of Cocoa, Tobacco, and Sugar are made by new world powers, like colonial nations or natives.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, let’s take some pics!!!

Map of lower Africa:



You can see our big fat blob all over.

Alright, Indies:





Note Taiwan beside the Paused note at the top, and the Philippines below that. You can see us in Sulawesi, most of Papua, and on most of Java. We have slowly pushed here with annexation of Bali, Makassar, taking Demak, as well as Ternate and Tidore. This is the extent of where I’m going. Oh, and the dark blue in Brunei island is France, that red is England, the green outside of Pasai is Portugal.

Here, let me show you various world maps

Oceania:

MAP!





Portugal has most of Australia and New Zealand. Tidore was colonizing down here, and just continued, and is south of Portugal. You can see other islands to the north and west colonized as well. There are few opportunities for expansion, and I’m not interested. Rabaul, the crescent shaped island to the east of Papua, is it.

Here’s South America


MAP



North America


MAP




Eurasia

MAP

[Abe Sargent]

Is it time to call it?

We never fought with European, and we were strong all along. No one messes with us.

But yes, it's time...

Kongo Rises!!!