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

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 133 - The Fourth Theodoro/Yemen War

5 Jan, 1729 – All of my forces are back from China, and South East Asia to Persia, and I have added 75k mercs. Here’s my plan;

40k in Horn of Africa for Warsangali and Somalia
31k in Persia for Transoxiana
I have 7 armies on the border Yemen to spill over and grab what I need quick plus their two Forts and capital

I declare war on Yemen for their Taiz province

18 Jan – I rout the Warsangali 6k army in their capital and begin a siege

29 Jan – I defeat the Transoxiana army in Khiva

13 Feb - I arrive at the Transoxiana Capital of Urgench.

18 Feb – I capture a minor Somalia holding

26 Feb – I capture two minor Yemeni holdings and order these 4 armies to San’a to fight the defenders and begin a siege

1 Mar – Khiva and Yemeni minor fall

19 Mar – We win in San’a and begin a siege

We capture the capital of Warsangali

I have a 14% warscore

2 April – I capture the last Warsangali holding

9 April – I capture Urgench

29 April – They are besieging Al Qatif with 30k and I break off two units to help

24 May – I capture a minor of Somalia

11 July – Another Somalia minor falls

22 Aug -Another Somalia minor is ours, I head to the Capital of Merca

6 Oct – We begin the Siege of Merca

12 Oct – Palawan converts! I destroy the Shipyard and I order a Planation for the Sugar here

21 Oct – Merca falls!

42 warscore, do I want a separate peace with Somalia?

I could get 4 holdings with a badboy of 66, they have all valuable goods. Galkayo by itself is just 4 badboy. I could do that and then things like War Reparations and such.

I take from Warsangali their holding of Bosaso next to me, and go to peace, 53 for coring, that’s 11 badboy

1 Nov – Longo is a good place to raise Livestock

12 Dec – I oust them in Al Qatif

26 Feb, 1730 – I have captured the last three Somalia holdings

30 Mar - -I rout the Yemeni army

10 April – I capture two minor Yemeni holdings and move to the Fort of Sahda

25 May – Another minor Yemeni falls and I order this army to Saida

11 June – The Fort of San’a falls

1 July - Their capital of Zabid falls!

I have a 78 warscore

One of the holdings I want was captured in rebels in Somalia so I order my 40karmy back to take out the rebels and recapture the province

5 Aug – I defeat the Rebels

18 Aug – I disband my 30k merc army

27 Aug – I capture the rebel province from the rebels

Peace:



I take these four holdings for 54 badboy

I spend 240 to core them

Arabia:

Taiz – 32 dev, Mountains, Coffee grown here, Sunni Faith, Yemeni culture, 0.37 made here, Counting House, Town Hall, Conscription Center, Plantation, Stock Exchange, Training Fields, Basilica, and University here. Inland


Horn of Africa:


Las Khorey - Horn of Africa, 16 dev, Incense, Coastal Desert, Church, Workshop, Sunni faith, Somalia people, 0.13 made here, next to just us.

Galcayo – 4 dev, Steppes, Livestock, Church, Fetishist faith, Otomo culture, with a 00.01 and Arid and a Church, next to Turks and us, inland

Meregh – Livestock, 9 dev, Steppes, Sunni and Somali, coastal next to us in Hafun and Turks and Somalia, makes us 0.06

Bosaso – From Warsangali, Incense, Arid, Coastal Desert, Trade Station, Church, Counting House, 9 dev, makes us 0.76, Somali and Sunni

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 134 - Incorporating Yemen and the Horn of Africa

29 Aug,1530 - We lose our Casus Belli against Somalia since we took our claims

I claim Yemen’s Dhamar

I claim Zanzibar from Kilwa

1 Nov – Makonde is good for trading Slaves

1 Jan, 1531 – Dip Idea #3 – Grand Banquets - +1 Diplomat. I order this to build a spy network in Somalia

1 April – Phangwa is good for Livestock

1 July – Our white peace with Shun has ended

2 July – I give military access to people at war with Kilwa like Kongo

6 Oct – Event: Liturgical Reform I get power and better clergy relations

1 Nov – I lost my claim on the city of Mombasa

2 Jan, 1532 – I order:

Counting House for Livestock in Gogo, Tajura; Slaves in Hehe and Turkana; Wool in Kabardia

23 Mar – I replace a dead general

13 April – New Tech!

MIL TECH 26 – Light Infantry Companies - I get +1 land morale, and then better infantry, I upgrade.

11 June - Another General dies and I replace it

6 July – Event: Honest Admin – We get boosts to Dip reputation

2 Sept – Event – Missionaries arrive in Tanga – I choose to convert it, gain 10 authority, +10% unrest, it’s now Orthodox, I order my army from Pate to Tanga

28 Nov – Bosaso is now a core, I order a Missionary here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 135 - Longo and Makonde Built


1 Jan, 1533 – I order:

Counting Houses for Sugar in Martaban; Tea for Shymkent; Fish in Jask, Tarki and Dagestan; Wool for Qumis and Tabas; Grain in Savah and Batineh

28 June – The provinces of Taiz, Las Khourey and Galkano have cored! I order Missionaries to the latter two.

1 July – Dip Idea #4 – Benign Diplomats – We get +25% Improve Relations

1 Sept – Makonde – Slave trading, 3 dev, Trade Station ordered, Savannah, Gothic and Orthodox, we make 0.03 here, next to our holdings in Kinga and Phangwa, and north of the unclaimed holding of Wayao where I send these colonists. Next to Kilwa

30 Oct - Meragh a core – we are now all cored up and ready to rock!!!!!!!

1 Nov – 10k rebellion in Bosaso and my army is here

8 Nov – Defeated

1 Jan, 1534 – Bosaso converts! I order here an upgraded Church into a Basilica, I order a Missionary to Meragh.

We begin to annex Kazakh!

I also order:

Counting Houses for Spices in Buton, Fish in Astara and Tropical Wood in Kinga

That’s all of the Counting Houses possible

I order Basilicas in Kuma, Al Ghaydah, Bam, Dhofar, Zanjan

1 Feb – Our Natural Scientist advisor has died! I hire a level 3 Philosopher which gives us +1 prestige annually

27 April – Galkayo converts next Is Taiz, I order here a Farm Estate for the Livestock

29 May – Event: Chocolate Imports – We get –1 unrest and +10% manpower recruitment speed as a cost

1 Sept – Event: Freedom of the Press – I allow it and get +2% unrest

13 Sept – Las Khorey converts!!! I order here a Trade Station for the Incense

1 Oct – 12k rebelling in Meragh and I have an army next door

23 Oct – Defeated

1 Nov – Longo – 4 dev, Savannah, Livestock, I order a Farm Estate here, Orthodox faith, Gothic people, they make 0.03 here, next to Kilwa, Turkana and a wasteland.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 136 -The Annexation of Kazakh


1 Jan, 1735 – Our heir gains the Zealot trait; I order:

Basilicas in Jask, Soltaneh, Hamidan and Wusta

I claim Somalia’s Warsheikh and Merca and I start building up a spy network in the Commonwealth

30 April – Taiz converts! I order here nothing, it’s full.

18 July – Meragh converts and we are fully converted and cored. I order here a Farm Estate for it’s Livestock.

1 Jan, 1736 – I order:

Basilicas in Basireh, Matineh, Bender, Matrega, Iasi

Stock Exchange in:

Shirvan, Teheren, Herat, Shiraz, Isfahan, Uzkend, Yazd, Baghdad

11 Mar – Our Kilwa diplomat was discovered and ousted

1 July – Our peace treaty with Warsangali is up

1 Aug – Wayao is good for growing Livestock

7 Sept – I unlock another Age of Revolutions Ability:

I choose Unrestricted Conquest - No more coring distance.

1 Oct – Annexation is over!

Kyzylkum – Cattle, Desert, 3 dev, Farm Estate, makes us 0.59, Sunni and Kazakh I order a Missionary here, Arid

Qaraqalpak – Wool Shearers, 10 dev, Sunni and the accepted Uzbek culture,I order a Missionary here makes us 0/09

Syghnak – Livestock, desert, Sunni, Kazakh culture, Missionary ordered here, 6 dev makes us 0.32, Farm Estate here with a Church

Turkestan – Grain growers, Desert, Kazakh culture, Sunni faith, 0/18 made here,

Alty-Kudak – Desert Orthodox, Kazakh, Fishing, 6 dev, ,makes us 0.08,

Shekty – Desert, Livestock, 6 dev, Kazakh, Workshop and Farm Estate here, Sunni faith, 5 dev, 0.13 made here

There we are!!! These were formally Transoxiana so you can, again, see why I didn't go after them militarily.

Next to us in Bojnord is the one province Orthodox minor called Khorasan I begin to make nice with them by giving them a gift

2 Nov – Royal Marriage with Khorasan

I claim the Commonwealth’s Podole

4 Dec – We enter into an alliance with Khorasan

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 137 - Building a Navy


6 Jan, 1737 – I begin to improve relations with Khorasan

I order:

Stock Exchanges in Hobyo, Mashhad, Shushtar, Theodoro, Tyn, Ahvaz, Wasit, Qom, Birlad,

15 Jan – Event: Foreign Corner of Kilia – I don’t oust them and I get boosts to relations with Georgia

1 Feb – Our truce with Chagatai is over

1 May - I lose my claim on Nizwa in Oman

I pull my spy network building in Kilwa and send them to Oman

1 June – I claim Yemen’s Zabid, I pull this and send them to Genoa to build up a spy network there

1 July – Dip Idea #5 – Experienced Diplomats – We get +2 Dip reputation

22 July – Ternate hasn’t been taken by the European powers in the Indies like the rest. But I’e have to have a large navy to land troops in multiple Islands, and that would cost a lot, but Ternate doesn’t have any allies or protector’s.

Ternate’s Navy:

3 Heavy Ships
13 Light Ships
1 gally
5 Transports

I have:

6 Heavies
3 Lights
9 Galleys
17 Transports

I order a bunch of ships here in the Indies, and move my two navies to combine into one in Fak-Fak on Guinea next to them as well as dropping my 17 transport navy there and moving my 20k troops from Palawan to Fak-Fak.

I order 8 more transports and 5k more troops in Fak-Fak to wait my arrival

4 Oct – Kzyzlkum converts! Next is Turkestan, I order here a Counting House for it’s Livestock.

22 Oct – Syghnak converts! Next is Shekty, I order here nothing it’s full

6 Nov – Qaraqalpak converts! I order here a Textile Manufactory for it’s Wool shearing

29 Nov – The Commonwealth has removed us a rival

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 138 - The Modern Bureaucracy Arrives

1 Jan, 1738 – I order:

Naval Equipment Manufactory for Fish in ALty-Kuduk

Basilica in Charjuy

Stock Exchange in Suceava, Tashkent

17 Jan – My 20k army arrives in Fak-Fak

I combine my 17 transports with my 9 ship Persian Gulf fleet to one navy and hire an Admiral

1 July – I claim the Commonwealth’s holding of Oczakow

2 Aug – Our Black Sea 9 ships arrive at Fak-Fak and join my main nay we have 44 ships right now and building.

8 Sept – Event: Improved Steam Engine - +2 production in Talas

1 Oct – New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 27 – Modern Bureaucracy – I get +250 governing capacity, +10 Admin efficiency and -10% Dip cost modifier

With my new capacity I create a state in Pate and make it a nation, and then three of my colonies

23 Oct- Turkestan converts! I order here a Farm Estate for it’s grain growers


1 Jan, 1739 - I order:

Counting House in Makonde for Slaves

Basilica in Terek, Besserabia, Sari, Qom, Baghdad, Haditha,

I influence Nation on Khorasan

27 Feb – I spend 100 MIL to raise the dev on Palawan to 10 and order a Fortress here

8 Mar – Shekty converts, I order here an upgrade Workshop to Counting House for it’s Livestock

1 June – Wayao – 3 devm Livestock, Savannah, next to unclaimed Ngindo and our holding of Makonde and Phangwe next to Kilwa as well. We get .13 monthly and I order a Farm estate here

I send these colonists to Ngindo

I claim The Commonwealth’s holding of Jedysan

I max relations with Khorasan at 180 and can’t get to 190 to vassalize.

I pull my colonist and send it to Delhi to make nice, looks like they no longer view me as a rival

4 July – I influence nation Delhi

7 Aug – I enter into an alliance with Delhi. This is too many dip relations so my DIP tech will drop by 1 each month, but it’s fine. I need the ally.

Here, I’ll show you:



See how the positive is more than the negative by 2? That means alliance territory!

20 Aug – My navy is done and I have a navy of 55 ships, my army in Fak-fak is underway.

I order 30k mercs in Fak-Fak

I hire a general for my main army

1 Oct – Phangwe – 3 dev, Savannah, Livestock, Gothic, Orthodox, make us 0.25 order Farm estate, next to our holdings in Wayao, Makonde and Kinga and Kilwa

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 139 - The Theodoro/Ternate War


12 Mar, 1740 – Gujarat announces us as a rival

16 June – Ngindo sets up in a colony

1 Sept – I lose my claim on Oman’s Ibra, I claim it back

26 Sept – I have my fleet in the Halmahera sea, 25k on the ship, two merc armies next to them in Fak-Fak I declare war on Ternate

I don’t bring in any allies

I order my mercs to Manokwari on Papua next to me and my 25k to unload in Tidore

1 Nov – Our truce with the Yemeni alliance is up

16 Nov - I arrive at Tidore

28 Nov – Manokwari is ours

I order the 15k mercs to Halmahera attached to Tidore and Ternate

12 Dec – Transoxiana enters into a coalition against us

17 Dec – I capture Tidore and order this army to Halmahera

26 Dec – Warsangali enters the alliance

6 Jan, 1741 – As does Yemen

6 Feb – Halmahera is ours, I’ll wait until the mercs unload before combining and fighting the 22k defenders in Ternate

22 Mar – We arrive in Ternate with our combined army

4 April – We rout the army and gain a 12 warscore, I begin the Siege of Ternate

I order a fusillade, I order the 15k mercs to the island of Ceram via the ships

1 June – Ternate is ours!

I reject a peace offer

I have a warscore of 82, time to go shopping? I’ll keep pushing since some of their nearby Islands are pretty valuable like Ceram and Ampon

13 June – I capture their flagship!

23 June – My mercs arrive at Ceram and I order my main army to board

24 July – I capture Ceram

They have 8k in Ampom with a strait to Ceram I order my mercs there

15 Aug – We rout the army and begin the siege

13 Sept – I order my main army to the 5k island holding of Sula

Ampom is ours!

I have a 99% warscore but I want to grab Sula since it has a decent trade good

4 Nov – We rout the Sula army

3 Dec – Sula is ours!

What do I want hoping for lower badboy?

Manokwari – 3 warscore

Ceram – 6 warscore

Ampom – 8 warscore

Sula – 4 warscore

Halmahera – 3 warscore

Manado – 4 warscore

The big ones are Ternate (11) and Tidore (11) – Total warscore 48 out of 99

To annex them is just 17 badboy here I’ll show you:




I disband my mercs and spend ADM equal to around 225 total.

Here are my new holdings:

Manokwari – Papua, next to us in Fak-Fak, 4 dev, tropical, Jungle, Tropical Wood, Mill and Grand Shipyard, Sunni and Papuan, makes us .1

Ceram – Island with strait to Ampom, 14 dev, Coastline Cloves are made here, they are very expensive, Trade Station, Drydock, Grand Shipyard, Sunni and Moluccan, they make us here 1.41, tropical

Ampom – Island with strait to Ceram, 19 dev, Coastline, Sunni and Moluccan culture, Tropical Wood, tropical, Mill here with Conscription Center and Grand Shipyard, they make us 0.21

Sula – Island, 8 dev, Coastline, Incense here, Moluccan and Sunni, Trade Station, Grand Shipyard, they make 0/19, tropical

Halmahera – Straits to Tidore and Ternate – 6 dev, Tea is grown here, Coastline, Sudanense people and Sunni faith, Grand Shipyard and Conscription Center, tropical, .15 made here

Manado – Island of Sulawesi next to Portugal, 13 dev, Coastline, Tea grown here, Tropical, Plantation, Conscription Center, Grand Shipyard, Sunni and Sulawesi people, making us 0.26

Ternate – Former capital, strait to Halmahera – 24 dev, Cloves, Coastline, Impressment Offices, Workshop, Shipyard, Sunni and Moluccan people, they make for us 0.38, tropical,

Tidore – Strait to Halmahera, 23 dev, Cloves, Coastline, tropical, they make for us 3.44, Sunni and Moluccan, Trade Station, Conscription Center, Counting House, Grand Shipyard

Nasty for low badboy.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 140 - Purchasing Soyo


1 Dec, 1741 – Dip Idea #6 – Flexible Negotiation – We get -20% province war score

1 Jan, 1742 – Rather than spend my money from the last two years on things like Basilicas and Stock Exchanges I’ll save for a Trading post in West Africa from Kongo, who just lost a war against Great Britain.

I need another army to protect myself in the Indies from rebels and such, I order 25k assembled on the island of Borneo.

I’ll keep my 25k army in Halmahera where I can defend from rebels there or next door in Ternate and Tidore

12 June – one of my generals dies, I make nice with Kongo

1 July – Ngindo is great at providing Ivory!

4 Nov – Our Emperor gains Expansionistic

New Tech: MIL TECH 27 – Bayonet - +.50 Infantry fire

1 Feb, 1743 – Our level 3 advisor in the military died. I hire a level 3 Army Reformer that increases my army morale by +10%

1 Mar -I lost my claim on Marib in Yemen

1 May - The final DIP Idea #7 – Diplomatic Corps – We get -10% Dip Tech Costs.

For finishing this idea group we get lowered impact on stability from DIP Actions.

18 June – The army is finished in Borneo, I order it to Manado next to Portugal on the island of Sulawesi.

27 June – Event: The Lower Burma Famine strikes our Trading Post

5 Sept:

I purchase Soyo from Kongo for 9584:



As you can see, this is next to Kongo, Britain, and then just one more positive than negative. Soyo is actually pretty well developed, but just a fishing holding:

Soyo – Trading Post, purchased from Kongo, 17 dev, Grasslands, Catholic and Congolese, Conscription Center, Drydock, Church, Grand Shipyard. I spend 120 ADM power to raise it to dev level 20 and order a Fortress here.

1 Nov – I lost my claim on Malindi in Kilwa. I claim Oman’s Nizwa and start building up a spy network in Kilwa again and pull back my making nice diplomat in Kongo

15 Dec – I claim the Commonwealth’s Zaporoze

14 April, 1744 – Event: Dubious Spending Practices I gain 2 corruption, 2 base production in Ghuriyan, -2% unrest there and +25% production there

18 Sept – Event: Production Research Flawed – I lose 50 ADM power

[Abe Sargent]

11 Nov – 300 Year Review:


Maps!!!!

Zoomed in of my area in the Black Sea, Persian Gulf, Arabia and Caspian Sea:





Looks like the Horn of Africa is in there as well. As you can see we have a lot of land in an around the Persian area and Central Asia. In the last 50 years I gained 6 holdings in Central Asia from my annexation of an Orthodox nation as well as three wars with smaller holdings in Yemen just 4 in War 1, 3 in War 2 , and one in War 3. Then I gained the Horn of Africa and then Pate in East Africa.

Now let’s turn to East Africa:



I have pulled up my last colony in the area and it’s awesome Ivory trade good Ngindo. As you can see, our Trading Post in Tanga got us next to a bunch of unclaimed territory here and then we colonized it. We have brought in a total of 15 colonies we added to our great empire with Iron, Copper, Slaves, lots of Livestock and then this one Ivory.

Now let’s zoom in on the Indies and the Philippines



Everything purple here is us. From the Philippines to Borneo to Sulawesi island to our three holdings on Papua, that’s all us. One of these, Buton, south east of Sulawesi was a Trading Post, two in the Philippines and two in Borneo were colonies well as two in Papua. We captured four on Borneo prior to the last 50 years with two gold holdings, and then in the last 50 years we added Palawan next to Taytay in that war and then the last war against Ternate that had colonized much of the region. This has a much lower badboy to dev level when Palawan was just 4 badboy to annex a nation, and you saw how low all of Ternate was. There aren’t any big areas left, the GB is on Borneo, Java island to it’s south, Spain is in the Philippines and Ajeh island to Borneo’s west. There are still smaller places on the island and in the Malay Peninsula to grab and eat up in smaller wars, but the rest are gone.

Now the map zoomed out, focusing on the Black Sea:



Russia remain our bestest ally. Love our buddies loads!!!

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:

Army - We have 316 forcelimit and 336 troops

Navy – We have a 148 forcelimit and 58 ships in the Indies

Tech – 27/26/27: Total of 80

With 587.37 we have the 3rd best income behind Britain and the Turks

With 1992 development we are third behind the Ottomans and Shun

With 204k our max manpower is 4th behind the Turks, Russians and the Brits.

Our 80 techs are just one behind the leader at 81

Our 49 ideas are tied for the most

We are one of only 12 Empires

Religions:

6 Orthodox nations; 547 holdings, that is 2nd most after Catholics and before Sunnis


Our Top Ten Holdings by Tax:

1. Pate, 33.43
2. Crimea, 22.38
3. Uzkend, 22.19
4. Mokha, 18.77
5. Samarkhand, 16.27
6. Tabriz, 16.27
7. Taiz, 15.36
8. Herat, 15.36
9. Theodoro, 14.35
10. Tie at 14.24 with Fasa, Shiraz, Samawat, Wasit, Teheren,

You can see new additions like Pate and Mokha arriving here..

Our Top Ten Holdings by Production (Non-Gold):

1. Uzkend, 91.51 – Coal
2. Tyn, 57.05 – Coal
3. Herat, 51.08 – Paper
4. Pate, 47.15 - Cloth
5. Samarkhand, 46.57 – Paper
6. Aden, 46.57 – Incense
7. Palawan, 46.12 – Sugar
8. Tabriz, 45.25 – Silk
9. Taiz, 43.63 – Coffee
10. THREE at 41.49 – Rasht. Teheren, and Shirvan – all Silk

We have loads of new entries like Palawan, Pate, Aden, Taix, and then the two Coal holdings, and get ready for the three Cloves that have a trade vale of 8 once they are incorporated. Note that one Coal, Lahijan just has a production value of 35.30 not enough to chart. My two gold have values of 69.11 (Pontianak) which would chart 2nd and then way back at 34.55 (Kuching) also not charting.

Army – Our 336k is 6th best. One major foe is Gujarat sitting 2nd at 396k which is my major reason for not heading east into India since they are the big winner in India and I am not messing with them and allied with two major holdings in Delhi and Sindh that usually were building up coalitions against me now on my side as brake against Gujarat. Russia has 235k and is less than us now.

Combined that’s 571k for anyone that thinks we are a problem.

I haven’t called Russia for an offensive war in the last 50 years and I have like a hundred favors from our helping them in theirs. But I am not leaving this thing since that has probably kept the Turks from hurting us too badly.

If my next war is against Kilwa:

Kilwa – 181k army, I’d need to bring all of my armies from Arabia down as well as the 40k in the Horn of Africa. They have a lot of low dev high trade goods like the 3 dev Ivory adjacent holding of Bagamoyo on the coast. They are allied with the 4 holding Horn of Africa nation called Geledi that replaced Somalia and they are off the map. With 75k mercs as a reserve and my Arabian armies n Pate and in my colonies and then 40k next to Warsheikh in my nation, and just bring in Geledi and then 75k reserve we should be able to deal with the 181k armies of Kilwa. That’s probably my next big battle since it’s just adjacent to my colonies and I can load them up and easily blast them. I should be able to get a lot of cheap badboy holdings, since they have a lot of low dev things just like my colonies and I can steer clear of higher dev things like Mombasa or Malindi.

I order my Arabian armies here, with 2 to Pate and the rest to my colonies and then my 40k army next to Warsheikh

Navies – Our 58 ships aren’t even top 20, the top is GB with 626 ships

Kilwa have a massive 171 ships so we’ll want to steer clear of them for naval battles


Religious %:

Orthodox – 92.6
Sunni – 5.2
Coptic – 1


Cultures with more than 5%:

Persian - 11.1
Yemeni - 9.6
Khaleeji – 5.7
Mashriqi – 6.8
Gothic – 7.6
Crimean – 5.5
Uzbek – 5.2
Khorasani – 4.9 I’ll count it it’s close
Azerbaijani – 5.9


Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Trade Value:

1. Ivory Coast, 153.12
2. Caribbean
3. North Sea
4. Malacca
5. Hangzhou
6. Champagne
7. Cape of Good Hope
8. Chesapeake Bay
9. Wien
10. Pest, 78.26

Ours:

Samarkhand – 69.52
Persia – 68.81
Crimea – 46.9
Hormuz – 19.88
Gulf of Aden? – 39.40
Basra – 9.2


Trade Goods by Current Value:

10 – Coal
8 – Cloves
5.4 – Cocoa
5.25 – Sugar
5.0 – Dyes, Silk
4.95 – Cotton
4.72 – Paper
4.5 – Iron, Tobacco
4.05 – Cloth
4.0 – Ivory
3.5 – Fur
3.45 – Glass, Copper
3.4 – Livestock
3.3 – Coffee, Spices, Salt
3.12 – Wine
3.0 – Gems, Tropical Wood, Chinaware, Tea, Naval Supplies
2.88 – Wool
2.2 – Slaves
2.00 – Fish, Grain

As you can see, Livestock has really risen in price as many of my holdings and colonies and then We have a lot of Wine in the Black Sea area like my capital that boosted in value.

We are the Production Leader in: Cloves, Incense, Spices and Silk

We are not the trade leaders in anything

Coalition Against Us:

Transoxiana – Leader, two provinces
Warsangali – one province
Yemen – Still big

Yemen is allied with Ethiopia, Mahra and Warsangali so there is a great way to push myself here in the future before the Turks do.


Eight Great Powers:

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

No longer here Russia replaced by Gujarat. We are a solid 5th.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 141 - Abolishing Slavery

27 Nov, 1744 – Event: Improved Reputation – We get +1 dip reputation for a few years

5 Dec – Every province we took from Ternate is now a core save for Manado.

I order Missionaries to Ternate, Tidore and Halmahera where my army is

I turn the Spice Islands into a state. That’s those three above holdings next to each other

I also turn into a State the Moluccas which are Sula, Ceram and Ampom and Spain’s Buru by the by.

1 Jan, 1745 – Venice is no longer a fitting rival, I choose Kilwa as my new rival
I hold off building for post-Missionary work in the Indies

8 Jan – Manado is now a core, they are all cored

23 Feb – Somalia entered the coalition against us, they have taken out Ethiopia, and have about 6 internal holding surrounded by the Turks

19 Mar - The Turks entered the coalition that’s not good, that means that Yemen is a no go for now.

1 July – I claim Genoa’s Azov and The Commonwealth’s Poltawa. I pull from Genoa and send to Syria now allied with just Somalia not the Turks anymore

4 Aug – My armies are in Africa

I pass the Abolition of Slavery Act. These things happen:

I gain 5 prestige
-1% Missionary Strength
-5% all three Tech costs
-5% National Taxes
-5% Stability cost

All of my slave provinces will stop selling Slaves – that’s

Taveta, Toghdeer, Makonde, Turkana and Hehe

So there are some benefits and weaknesses

New Tech: DIP TECH 27 – Public Punishments – We get +0.50 naval morale, and we can agitate for library with our spies

1 Sept – Here are my new trade goods:



Livestock in three, Copper in one and Tropical Wood, all upgrades to the 2.2 Slaves trade good.

I order:

Weapons Manufactory in Turkana for Copper
Mill in Makonde for Tropical Wood
Farm Estate for Livestock in Hehe, Taveta and Todgheer

1 Dec – Ngindo – 3 Dev, Ivory traders, Savannah, I order a Trade Station here, the Gothic and Orthodox people here make for us 0.04 monthly, and then it’s next to Kilwa and Wayao us.

I order a fortress in Wayao

I send these colonists to promote growth in Theodoro – right now it’s dev is 20

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 142 - Converting Ternate

22 Jan, 1746 – Halmahera converts, next is Manado where my army is. I destroy the Grand Shipyard here and order a Plantation for the Tea.

2 June – Tidore converts, next is Sula, I order here a Basilica to replace the Grand Shipyard

I order this 25k army to Ceram

10 June – Terante converts! Next is Ceram. I order here a Trade Station and destroy the Impressment Offices which are also a Manufactory.

18 Sept – Event – University of Theodoro – I spend 3k ducats, 25 ADM power to gain 3 innovationists



2 Jan, 1747 – I order:

Counting House for Incense at Las Khourey; Livestock in Phangwa; Grain in Turkestan

Stock Exchange in Sanaag

16 April – Event – Desires of the Flesh – I choose to keep quiet the affair again and lose 10 prestige

22 May – Our diplomat in Commonwealth was discovered building a spy network. I pull him

31 Aug – Sula converts! I spend 74 MIL to raise it’s dev level to 10 order here a counting House for it’s Incense. I order this Missionary to Ampom

26 Oct – Ceram converts, next is Manokwari on Papua Island. I destroy the drydock and order a Counting House for it’s Cloves

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 143 - The First Theodoro/Kilwa War


1 Jan, 1748 – I hire these mercs:

45k Fort of Zigua
30k Shamba, next to Zigua
15k Kinga – next to Zigua
18k in Pate to head north to hit unclaimed areas

9 Jan – Manado converts! They are all on the way, I hold off building things here pending my mercs and such

1 Feb – I lose my claim on Bagamoyo in Kilwa

5 Feb – My mercs have all arrived. I assign them all generals

10 July – Fortress is done in Wayao.

I declare war on Kilwa for Mombasa, I do not add in my allies.

I order my merc army in Pate west to a minor, I order the two real armies south to Fort of Lamu

My 40k Horn of Africa army heads into Warsheikh

One army heads into Bagamoyo and two to their capital of Kilwa on the coast and then two to Mauka next to Ngindo

28 July – I begin the sieges of Lamu and Kilwa

31 July – I win a battle in Warsheikh

16 Aug - My mercs in the north capture a minor

21 Aug – Makua is ours, I order this combined two armies east to Mozambique

29 Aug – Warsheikh is ours I order in

1 Sept – Kilwa is ours

4 Sept – Bagamoyo is ours

22 Sept – Two minors fall inc Mozambique

I order the two armies to Lomwe

8 Oct – Two more minors are ours

15 Oct – Syria was captured by the Turks.

I capture all of the eastern southern coastal holding I order my 2 armies that captured Kilwa inland past the colony to the Fort of Kolonga

22 Oct – I arrive at the capital of Afgooye and begin a siege

2 Nov – Two more minors hold I order the two more armies to break Kolonga

26 Nov – We begin the siege of Kolonga with an artillery fusillade

5 Dec Another minor falls to my northern mercs and I order them to help with the Siege at Lamu

26 Dec – Manokwari converts

10 Jan, 1749 – Another minor falls

13 Jan – Afoogye is ours!

22 Jan – I rout an army of 4k

18 Feb – I capture the last province of Geledi they are now fully under our control

21 Feb - Ambom converts!

1 Mar- A major army of 82k is moving past Kolonga, I want to leave behind a siege unit and order my four armies to move there but we cannot move there.

6 Mar – 56k in Makua

13 Mar – Lamu falls, I order these 80 troops to our area to help with the bigger troops we’re about to face.

I have a warscore of 41

24 Mar – my 40k army captures Dawa the last northern holding of them I order it to Malindi to capture that minor and then help our my combined army

1 April – They recapture Makua

8 April – Kalonga falls I order the 147k army next door to attack their 82k army

I have a warscore of 50

10 May – I win and gain 3 warscore

14 May – They recapture Mozambique

What can I do with my warscore of 52%?

Geledi is very high dev, I’ll steer clear of them:

Bagamoyo – 1.6 badboy

Zanzibar – 6 badboy

Mzizwa – 2 badboy

Lindi – 5 badboy

Makua – 2 badboy

That’s 15 badboy and no one but Transoxiana will care. That’s a warscore of just 11

What else could I add in with low dev and high trade goods?

Lomwe – 2 badboy

Lolo – 3 badboy

Katsekera – 4 badboy

That’s 24 badboy and 24 warscore

Still only Transoxiana will care.

What else?

Ngonde – 3 badboy, now caring is Somalia too

Tumbukwa – 3 badboy – 30 total the Turks now care so I pull off and grab these:

I’ll also toss in War Reparations:



The ones glowing:

I disband my 4 mercs, and then I spend just 140 ish ADM power for these 9 additions coring them all they are that low dev.

Ready?

Bagamoyo – 3 dev, Coastline, strait to Zanzibar, next to Tanga, Ivory trades, Swahili culture, Fetishist faith, Trade Station, Grand Shipyard they make 0.33, tropical

Zanzibar – Center of Trade like Basra and Crimea, Strait to Bagamoyo, Tropical Wood, Grand Shipyard, Stock Exchange, natural harbor, tropical, Coastline, 9 dev, 0.06 made here, Sunni faith, Swahili people

Mzizwa – Gems made here, 3 dev, Coastline, Mill, Grand Shipyard, tropical, Fetishist and Swahili, 0.26 made here. Next to Kilwa’s capital of Kilwa.

Lindi – Also next to Kilwa’s capital, 9 dev, Fishers here, I took this to cut off their capital, Coastline, Grand Shipyard, Church, tropical, they make 0.20 monthly, Sunni and Swahili

Makua – Makua culture and Fetishist, 4 dev, Ivory traders, Savannah, tropical, 0.69 made here, Trade Station and Counting House. Inland next to Lomwe and Lolo.

Lomwe – 5 dev, Savannah, Ivory trade, Trade Station, Church, Makua, Fetishist, tropical , next to Makua and Lolo and Kilwa .12 made here

Lolo – Workshop, Marketplace, 6 dev, Ivory Trade, Savannah, 0.26 made here, Nyasa people, Fetishist faith, tropical

Katsekera – 9 dev, Savannah, Ivory Trade, Trade Station, Counting House, 0.18. Fetishist and Nyasa. tropical

Ngonde – 7 dev, Ivory Trade, Savannah, Church, Workshop, 0.25 made here, tropical, Fetishist and Nyasa.

Nice additions and that war worked very well with a bunch of land but little badboy

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 144 - Taytay Turns Protestant


Peace in August 1757, I keep my armies here, I need to deal with big spread out rebellion risk and then conversions later

27 July, 1749 – I order a spy network built back up in Kilwa

7 Nov – I claim Oman’s Baraimi and that’s everything so I pull back this diplomat to make nice with the Turks once again

6 Dec – Event – Heresy – Taytay becomes Protestant

I send a Missionary there

1 Jan, 1750 – The next institution is here – The Industrial Revolution

I order in the former Ternate holdings:

Manokwari – Shipyard destroyed, Counting House ordered for Tropical Wood

Ampom – I spend 45 MIL to raise It to 20 dev and I order a Counting House for it’s Tropical Wood

Sula – Counting House ordered for it’s Incense

Manado – I destroy the Grand Shipyard for a Counting House for it’s Tea

Ternate, Halmahera – Still building the pre-war manufactory ordered after they converted

I can purchase a new Age of Revolutions ability I choose Improved Artillery Range and get +20% artillery damage from back row

I also order:

Counting Houses for Fish in Alty-Kuduk; Livestock for Meregh and Longo; Wool in Qarqalpuk

Basilica in Las Khorey

10 Jan - I start to make nice with Banten in the Malay Peninsula

Pasai on Ajeh island see me as allies and friendly, so I also build up relations with them for a potential Trade Station, I start by Influence Nationing them

31 Jan – one of my generals dies and I promote a replacement

27 Feb – I start to make nice with Pasai

They are heavily developed so a potential Post will cost serious cash, so I will save my annual cash for a few years

1 June – I claim Kilwa’s Rukwa

17 June – Warsangali left the coalition against us

23 June – Event: I choose to Hunt them Down after a pirate raid

10 Sept – Taytay converts back from Protestantism to Orthodoxy

22 Sept – Event – Anatomical Theater I agree to give limited access to corpses in the Darfur area for medical purposes, and then for 5 years +5% unrest there

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 145 - The Plague Arrives


1 April 1751 – I max relations with the Turks and call back my diplomat

22 May – Warsangali was annexed by the Turks, I send the diplomat building a spy network there to Yemen

1 June – Our level 3 ADM advisor passes, and I hire level 3 Inquisitor which gives us +2 Missionary strength.

1 Sept – Our relations with Banten max, I pull the dip, I start making nice in Malacca

15k Revolt in Katsekera – I have an army here,

6 Sept - Defeated.

9 Nov – Rebellion in Trebizond’s Ezurum 10k much bigger than the 5k defending, I order my 40k from the Horn of Africa over.

1 Feb, 1752 – I max relations with Pasai but will leave them there where I can ensure that we have good relations for the purchase.

17 Feb – Zanzibar is now a core, I order a Missionary here

24 Mar – The Commonwealth announced me as a rival again

15 May - All of the other cores are done I order Missionaries to Bagamoyo and Mzizima

5 Sept – My army arrives in Trebizond and begins to end the siege

14 Sept – We win and I order my army back to the Horn of Africa

26 Sept – Event – Plague in Turkestan I spend 700 cash to help

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 146 -Purchasing Gayo


9 Feb, 1753 – I agree with Georgia to do Institution Sharing

1 Mar- Max relations with Malacca, I pull back my dip, next is making nice with Khmer

7 April – Conversions in Mzizima and Bagamoyo, next are Lindi and Ngonde

23 May – Zanzibar converts, next is Makua

1 Sept – Our Colonial Governor level 3 advisor in DIP Tech passes and I hire a level 3 Navigator that gives us +20% colonial range.

11 Sept – Event: Rains Fail in North Lanka they get -10% trade for 5 years

1 Oct – Rebellion of 10k in Lomwe where I have an army

4 Oct – Defeated

10 Oct – Our spy network in Kilwa is discovered

1 Nov – Rebellion in Lindi, also an army here

5 Nov – Defeated

1 Jan, 1754 – New Tech:

DIP TECH 28 – Joint Stock Companies – We get +20 trade range and +2% Trade efficiency

1 Mar – All of northern Kilwa and their ally have been captured by the Ottomans in war

19 March – Ngonde converts! Next is Lolo

20 April – Makua converts! Next is Katsekera

8 May – New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 28 – Rotterham Plough – I get +2% Production efficacy

1 July – I spend 15586 to purchase the Trading Post of Gayo on Ajeh island from Pasai



Gayo – Tropical Wood, 25 dev, border of Pasai and Barus, Mill, Grand Shipyard, Basilica, the Sunni Acehnese make us 1.10 monly, Jungle, tropical, I order a fortress here.

I pull my diplomat making nice and send to Barus to make nice with them

7 July – Conversion in Lindi, next is Lomwe

1 Aug – Relations maxed with Khmer I order my diplomat returned, when it returns I’ll send it to make nice with Bengal

1 Sept - Our level 3 Army Reformer advisor passes, I hire a level 3 advisor with the calling of Military Engineer for the boosts to Fort defense

9 Sept – Event - Helping Hand, I choose to help the clergy and gain bonuses with them and 5 authority

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 147 - Ending the Coalition


1 Jan, 1755 – I order stuff in my Kilwa takings now that I have purchase my massively pricey trading post.

Counting House for Bagamoyo’s Ivory after destroying the Shipyard

Mill in Zanzibar for Tropical Wood after I spend 34 Mil to raise it’s dev to 10

Counting House for Gems in Mzizima after I destroy the Shipyard

Naval Equipment Manufactory in Lindi for Fish after I spend MIL to raise a dev to 10

100 MIL spent in Ngonde to raise from 7 to 10 and then build a Trade Station for it’s Ivory

2 Feb – Katsekera converts, I order here Basilica after spending 34 MIL to raise it from 9 to 10 dev

23 Feb – Lolo converts! I order here a upgraded Workshop into a Counting House for it’s Ivory

3 Mar – The Ottomans removed Galendi from the map

22 Mar- The Turks have left the military coalition against us! As has Transoxiana, so we now are back to our old selves note that my last two wars picked up bunches but had low badboys

3 April – Somalia left the coalition too

13 May – Yemen leaves, so my next war against them is fine

9 June – Lomwe converts, I order here nothing it’s full, and just 5 dev. Everything we took is converted and cored!!!

Kilwa’s army now is down to 135k

My army forcelimit is 337 and I have 336 so I am right at it. I am currently making a massive 258.75 monthly after costs. I order another 35k army assembled here in Africa.

1 Sept – I lose my claim on Dhamar in Yemen

1 Dec – Relations maxed with Bengal and Bharus I order my dips back

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 148 - Growth in Ilam

1 Jan, 1756 – I order:

Counting House for Ternate’s Cloves; Ngindo’s Ivory

Basilica in Sueceava, Pontianak, Talas, Bukhara

14 Jan - I order to make nice with Dai Viet and Jaunpur

21 May – Event: Empress of the People – I spend 1200 ducats to get -2 unrest until she dies

30 June – Event: Growth of the Ilam Textile Industry – Ilam loses a base manpower and now produces Cloth. It was a Wool shearer place with 10 dev making us 1.86 monthly

Ilam – 9 dev, Cloth, makes us 2.52 monthly with the same infrastructure. I spend 27 Mil to bring it back to 10.

1 Aug – I claim Kilwa’s Sena

25 Sept – Kilwa announces us as a rival

22 Nov – Our 35k army is assembled in Phangwe

I am now making 287.11

1 Dec – Rebellion of 10k in Trebizond against 5k

21 Dec – They win a long battle

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 149 - The Second Theodoro/Kilwa War

1 Jan, 1757 –

I order these mercs:

45k in Zigua
30k in Kinga
15k in Pate
18k in Shamba

I order my 40k army into Pate from the Horn of Africa

I move my armies around

27 Jan – Mercs are here

1 July – I max relations with Dai Viet and pull them back

1 Aug – Maxed relations with Jaunpur I pull it

Our truce with Kilwa ends

I declare war for their holding Rukwa

I order two armies from Pate to siege the Fort of Lumu
I order my mercs in Pate north to grab holdings
I order two armies into their capital of Kilwa
I order one army into Ibo to grab some minors and cut them off
I order four armies into the Fort of Kalongo

15 Aug – All three sieges begin with a launched cannonade

4 Sept – Kilwa falls, that’s a 12 warscore. I order them to help with the east coast army from Ibo to grab holdings and be beefy

8 Sept – Two minors fell

22 Sept - Kalonga fell, warscore is 27

I order these 146k combined forces to inland.

17 Oct – Two more minors fall

24 Oct – My giant army capture a minor, I order them to the Fort of Bemba on the border with Kongo

18 Nov – I capture the last northern minor with my mercs so I order them to join the Siege of Lemu

9 Dec- The Siege of Bemba begins, I order a fusillade

16 Dec – Two more minors are ours, I have my three east coast armies meeting up and moving on together

22 March, 1758 – We capture Lamu

6 April – I order my 3 armies to the Fort of Massapa

24 April – I capture Malindi and order my force to siege Mombasa

I have 39% warscore

13 May – Semba falls, warscore is 42%

I order them to the Fort of Ruguru

Can I do the peace I want? Last time we had 31 total with War Reparations

Here’s what I can do:

Rukwa, 2 badboy and warscore – cuts them in half

Muhambwe – 3 badboy and warscore

Tumbukwa – 3 badboy, 3 warscore

Sena – 6 badboy, 3 warscore

13 badboy and 10 warscore

Bemba, 1 badboy and 2 warscore – that’s Gold

Nsenga – 3 badboy, 2 warscore

Lamu – 9 badboy, 4 warscore, This cuts off the Turks from expanding further

25.6 badboy, 18 warscore

Now what?

Ruguru – 2 badboy, warscore

Luangwa – 2 and 2

Total – 30 badboy, 23 warscore

I call it



No coalitions forming, not even Kilwa. 9 more holdings.

I disband my 4 mercs, then I spend around 155 for all of these cores, the only pricey one was Lamu.

Lamu – Our big addition, Fortress, Trade Station, Conscription Center, Grand Shipyard, Ivory traded here, Arid, Coastline, 15 dev, 0.83 made here, Sunni and Swahili,

Rukwa – 5 dev, Salt is made here, next to Lake Tanginika, Kilwa in Tabwa, and us. Highlands, Ganda people, Fetishist faith, 0.31 made here, counting house, tropical,

Muhambwe – Tropical Wood is lumbered here, tropical, Savanna, 7 dev, next to Kilwa, Fetishist faith, Ganda culture, Mill and Counting House, they make 0.70,

Tumbukwa – Gems made here, next to Lake Malawi and Kilwa, Savannah, Mill, Counting House, 6 dev, tropical, 0.15 made here, Nyasa Fetishists

Sena – They make us 0.77 with Ivory, 10 dev, Savannah, tropical, Counting House, Conscription Center, Church, Fetishist faith, Shona people, next to almost completely Kilwa

Bemba – 3 dev, Gold miners, Fortress, Conscription Center, next to Kongo, Kilwa, Kongolese culture, Fetishist faith, Hills make us 0.70 here, tropical

Nsenga – 5 dev, Livestock raised here, Savannah, Farm Estate and Counting House, tropical, next to Kilwa, Nyasa and Fetishist, they make 0.62

Ruguru – Fortress, Naval Equipment Manufactory, Hills, 5 dev, next to Kilwa, Lake Tanginika, Salt made here, 0.35 made, Rwandan people, Fetishist faith

Luangwa – Hills, 4 dev, Gems mined here, next to Kilwa, Mill and Conscription Center, tropical, 0.30 made here by the Kongolese Fetishists.

I order my troops around, Kilwa are becoming my Transoxiana.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 150 - Cloves in Zanzibar


23 June, 1758 – I order my extra diplomat to build a spy network in Yemen

29 Sept – Event – Expanding Influence – We get a claim on Ruhunu in Sri Lanka in Kotte – they are allied with the big bad Gujarat so to expansion there.

3 Oct – One of our generals dies

1 Jan, 1759 – I destroy the drydock in the Trading Post of Soyo near Kongo and then order a Naval Equipment Manufactory for the Fish.

I destroy the Grand Shipyard in the Trading Post of Gayo and order a Counting House for it’s Tropical Wood

I order:

Trade Station for Ivory in Lolo

I spend 125 MII and 40 Dip to raise Halmahera to 10 dev and Counting House for it’s Tea

26 March – Event – Hunting Accident – Our heir dies!

Here is the new one – Manuel, 5/5/6, age 2, weak claim. Uh oh.

1 July – I pass this Act:

Grow Cloves in Zanzibar:



I control Cloves and Zanzibar. I pass it.

Zanzibar – Cloves, 0.24 made here, 10 dev, Stock Exchange, Grand Shipyard, 0.24 here, I order a Trade Station manufactory for Cloves. I destroy the Shipyard to remind me to build a Counting House later.


4 Aug – The Ottomans are at war with Yemen

11 Aug - My merchant collecting trade in Malacca was making 3.8 I send it out to Zanzibar

1 Oct – It’s now making at Zanzibar 15.77 monthly. We have home field advantage

1 Dec – I order a claim for Kilwa’s Nkoma a 10 dev Iron mine next to us.

16 Dec – Event – Impressive Quality of Troops – We gain +10 prestige

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 151 - Preparations for War


1 Jan, 1760 – I order:

Counting House in Ngonde for Ivory

Basilica for:

Ternate, Caffa, Alania, Birjand, Amol

1 Feb – I lose my claim on Warsheikh, once Somalia’s then Gamalel now the Turks. Ditto Merca

22 Mar – Event: Rainy Season Brings Fertility to Ruvuma it gets enhanced value

Another war with Kilwa and Ottomans

1 April – I fabricate a claim for the Busonga holding Kuria next to my colonies in central Africa. They are allied with Somalia and Kongo, on Lake Victoria, three total holdings

1 July – Event: Growth of the Glass Industry in Birjand, -1 base manpower, it’s now Glass. It was 10 dev the high value Cotton making us 2.76 monthly

Birjand - 9 dev Glass, 1.12 made here, I spend 39 Mil to level it up and order a Mill for the Glass.

That was a loss

1 Oct – There is a war in the Indies on Ajeh island with Pasai and Banten

1 Jan, 1761 – I order:

Basilicas in:

Adyghe, Yedishkul, Lahijan, Qazvin, Mansur, Kashan – those are all updates of Churches save for Lahijan

I keep 2k free for building in Kilwa’s holdings

1 Feb - I claim Barus’s capital next to our Trading Post

Barus - Allied with Pasai and Malacca tributary with Indrapura, and he has 17k. I order both 25k armies in the Indies next door to our Trading Post. Four holdings, very high dev

17 Feb - Rukwa and Sena cores, Missionaries ordered here

4 Mar – New Tech:

MIL TECH 28 - Curiassier – I get better units, +0.5 infantry shock,

1 Apr - I lose my claim on Mombasa in Kilwa now

1 June - Our first army arrives in Ajeh Island

I claim Mombasa from Kilwa

14 June - All of the other cores are done, Missionary ordered in Ruguru

27 Aug – I order 45k mercs for Ajeh island

8 Sept – They arrive

I order 30k mercs assembled

22 Sept – They arrive

11 Nov – My other 25k army is here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 152 - The Theodoro/Barus War


I declare war. I do not call in my allies

I order my 50k troops into the capital of Barus the rest to hold defense

21 Nov – The Siege of Barus begins

1 Dec – I lose my claim on The Commonwealth’s Podole

17 Dec – Rukwa converts, next is Luangwa

1 Jan, 1762 – Conversion in Sena next is Bemba

1 Feb – 12k Rebellion in Tumbuska I do have an army her

2 Feb – Barus falls, I order my 50k army next door to the Fortress of Batka where they have their 17k troops

10 Feb – We win against the rebels

20 Feb – We rout the Barus army and begin the siege with a fusillade

Pasai didn’t join the war since they were at war badly, so I order my mercs to Batka to help with the siege, we won’t need to head into Pasai or defend, we are at war with Malacca too.

13 April – Ruguru converts, next is Muhambwe

1 May – Rebellion in Luangwe, where we have an army

9 May – Rebellion defeated

1 June – I lose my claim on Yemen and their holding Zabid

1 July – Event – Unhappiness Among the Peasants – I spend 2k cash to make nice with them and improve their lives

16 Aug – Batak falls, I order my mercs back to my Fortress and then my two armies next door

4 Oct – I capture a minor

13 Oct – Lungwa converts, next is Nsenga

29 Oct – I defeat a 5k army in a minor holding

6 Dec – I capture Padang, and have all holdings of them under us.

I have a 54 warscore

What can I get with it?

To annex them is 74 badboy and then Indrapura will join a coalition, and 38 warscore, but they won’t do it, I need a longer war gain them. I need to grab from Malacca

Two are just high dev grain provinces, to take the Spices and Incense are a badboy of 37 and they’ll do it, with a warscore of 20. They’ll also do Parliaman, 19 badboy, and a total warscore of 27 and Barus and Indrapura will be pissed. I do the three plus war reparations:



6 Dec – I order my two armies back and my mercs disbanded – Malacca had 52k troops I was playing defense again. I spend 180 ADM power to core.

Barus – Former capital, next to Gayo, Spices traded, 32 dev, jungle, tropical, Trade Station, Counting House, Church, Marketplace, Sumatran people, Hindu faith, they make 0.55

Batak – Next to Barus and Pariaman – Fortress, Grand Shipyard, Church, Trade Station, Workshop, incense, Jungle, tropical, Sunni faith Sumatra, 33 dev, 1.62 made here,

Pariaman – Next to Barus’s last holding and Batak and Indrapura, and then it grows Grain, Drylands, 34 dev, Drydock, Shipyard, Church, Marketplace, Hindu Sumatran, makes us just .16, note no Farm Estate or Counting House.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 153 - Preparing for War #3


1 Jan, 1765 – I save my cash for buildings in Ajeh and an trading post with Dai Viet

Another peasant rebellion in Trebizond

28 Jan – I influence nation Dai Viet

12 Feb – Trebizond won the battle

27 April - Let’s look at Kilwa – they have lost two wars with the Turks and all of their northern holdings and 17 to us in two wars. They still have a solid 155k troops to call on. They had allied with Yemen, that’s gone.

Our peace ends this year October, I order mercs assembled.

I hire:

30k in Zigua
15k in Shamba
18k in Hehe
30k in Lindi

Our 45k is still rebuilding after we used him heavily in the Indies

I move my mercs south around the Fortress of Wayao

4 Aug – All mercs are assembled

9 Aug – Barus is now a core, I order a Missionary here

1 Sept – I lose my claim on Ibra in Oman

1 Oct – Our peace ends, I declare war on Kilwa for Buzinga

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 154 - The Third Theodoro/Kilwa War



I order 4 armies into Kilwa where they have 42k
I order one army to the Fort of Mombasa and another to Malindi first before joining in
I order four armies to the Fort of Kalonga

14 Oct = We arrive in our targets

19 Oct- I rout the Kilwa army

12 Nov – Malindi is ours, I order this army to Mombasa

9 Dec – Pariaman and Batak cores, Missionary ordered for Pariaman

28 Dec – I capture a minor with the mercs called Ibo and then Kilwa is ours

I have a 24 warscore

I order these three armies south to minors past us.

12 Feb, 1766 - I capture a minor

22 March – The Siege of Kolanga falls, I order them to the southern Fort of Massapa

1 Ap – Another minor falls

25 April – Another minor falls, my 4 armies from the coast combine and I send them to the northern Fort of Bushubi

28 April – 50k Kilwan forces are next to Massapa but deeper so I cannot move to them

I keep my eastern army and won’t head north to Bushubi

6 June – I capture a minor

29 June – Two more minors fall

13 July – Mombasa falls, I order these two armies to Bushubi

I have a warscore of 54%

Here’s what I could do:

Tete – 4 badboy, 3 warscore

Buzinga – 4 badboy, 3 warscore

Nope they aren’t doing just 6 warscore I need to push them more

22 July – I capture a minor

1 Sept – 22k rebellion in Ajeh, I order my armies over

22 Sept – Massapa falls, I order this combined army next door to the 50k Kilwan army

Actually I have to go to the Fort of Butua first, I’ll do that

26 Sept - Barus converts! Anything to order here? I upgrade the Marketplace to Stock Exchange

28 Sept – The Siege of Bushubi begins

1 Oct – I order a Counting House in Batak to upgrade their Workshop for it’s Incense

8 Oct- My combined 4k army captures the Gold Mines of Zimbabwe

2 Feb, 1767 – I defeat a 53k army on the border of Kongo and raise the warscore to 61

I head to peace:

Tete – 4 badboy, 3 warscore

Buzinga – 4 badboy, 3 warscore

Manyika - 3 badboy, 3 warscore

Massapa – 4 badboy, 2 warscore

Buton – 4 badboy, 3 warscore

That’s two golds, 19 badboy and 14 warscore

Buhera – 7 badboy, 4 warscore

Zimbabwe – 4 badboy, 3 warscore

29 badboy

What else?

Zumbo – 6 badboy, 3 warscore

Lala – 3 badboy, 3 warscore

Lenje - 3 badboy and warscore

Total – 41.7 badboy, 30 warscore

No coalition. They won’t do more.



I disband my mercs and spend 189 ADM Power for this decade of debauchery

Tete – Savannah, 8 dev, Entrepôt, Ivory Traders, Shona, Fetishist, Counting House, Church, tropical, 0.16

Buzinga – North not on map, Lake Victoria, Savannah, Iron Miners, Weapons Manufactory, 8 dev, Church, 0.61 made here Takama, Fetishist

Manyika - South of Tete, Ivory, Highland, 7 dev, Shona, Fetishist, 0.96 made here, Trade Station, Counting House,

Massapa – Fortress south of Tete, west of Manyika, Gold mining, Conscription Center, 9dev, Highlands, 1.42 made here, Fetishist, Shona

Butua – Gold Mines, Fortress, south of Massapa, Church, 7 dev, Highlands, Shona, Fetishist, makes us 0.77

Buhera – East of Butua – 16 dev, Ivory, I grabbed it to connect Zimbabwe, Highlands, Conscription Center, Counting House, Church, Shona, Fetishist makes us 1.08

Zimbabwe – Gold mines, south of Buhera – Entrepot, Highlands, 6 dev, Shona, Fetishist, unique called “City of Khami” 0.12 Shona Fetishist

Zumbo – 13 dev, Ivory Trade, Savannah, Counting House, Conscription Center, Church, 0.20 made here, Shona and Fetishist north of Massapa

Lala – Border with Kongo – 6 dev, Hills, Tropical Wood, Kongolese Fetishist, Mill and Conscription Center, 0.11 ,made here

Lenje - Border with Kongo, Savannah, Livestock raised here, 7 dev, Counting House and Farm Estate here, making us .18, Shona and Sunni

There we are!!!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 155 - The Theodoro/Indrapura War

Peace until March 1775 in 8 years

10 Mar – Pariaman converts! I order a Farm Estate here for the Grain

12 April – By the by, next to Zimbabwe is an unclaimed territory called Lower Limpopo I can send colonist too I pull colonists from our capital and send them too here

13 May – I kill the natives there

18 Sept – The Turks declared themselves as The Military Hegemon

21 Oct – Event - Boundary Dispute – I gain a claim on Kilwa’s Kalonga but our relations drop

1 Dec – I claim Kilwa’s Tabwa a copper mining province next to us and Kongo

1 Jan, 1768 – I don’t order anything I wait to build up when the Cores/Missionaries are done and saving for institutional embracement which needs 7882 and I have 5517

21 April – I claim Indrapura’s gold province of Pagarruyung on Ajeh island

They are allied with Malacca, I order mercs to hold the post in Malacca

I hire two Merc units in Gayo. Malacca has 56k

29 April – The first merc unit arrives

10 May – I know have 75k in Gayo.

I declare war for Pagarruyung

I order my two 25k armies into them

24 June – We capture it, I order my armies to the capital Indrapura

16 July – I begin the Siege with a fusillade

1 Nov – I lose my claim on Nizwa in Oman

1 Jan, 1769 – I lose my claim on The Ottoman’s Zaporze

18 May – Indrapura falls

I have a warscore of 18

2 June – They arrive a 29k army in my trading post in SE Asia Martaban

24 June – New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 29 – Rights of Man – We get another Group of Ideas we’ll grab it after the war

I order my combined forces to the Malaccan Fort of Lankat which they took from Pasai

23 Aug – I defeat an army of 12k Malaccan forces in Pasai

9 Sept – We begin the Siege of Lankat

I have a 26 warscore

7 Dec – Buzinza is a core, I order Missionary here

I launch an assault

27 Dec – We capture Lankat, I have a warscore of 42

30 Jan 1769 – I capture Deli a minor and it’s 44.

They won’t take peace and 12k landed in their capital so I order my army back there

1 Mar – Lower Limpopo is good for Gems

4 Mar – The cores all are done, I order Missionaries to Lala and Lexie

19 May - I rout their army in Indrapura

I make offer to annex them





As you can see, we are getting 27 badboy and only Barus will care.

I go to peace, 86 ADM power needed

Pagarruyung – Gold, Jungle, Tropical, Sumatran culture, Theraveda faith, 12 dev, 0.90 made here, internal, Barracks, Stock Exchange, Church

Indrapura – Coast, Jungle, 29 dev, tropical, Fortress, Counting House, Stock Exchange, Church, Grain, Hindu Sumtran, they make us .31 monthly

I disband the mercs

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 156 - Embracing Industrialization


1 June, 1770 – What Idea do I want?

I like Admin that gives you boosts to mercs and other things.

1 July – I lose my claim on Genoa and her Azov

Also Poltawa in the Commonwealth

I build spy networks in both

13 Aug – Our Empress has died

17 Oct – Conversion successful in Buzinza, next is Zumbo

1 Dec – I claim Kilwa’s Sofala

I embrace Industrialization, the final Institution!!!

Our tech reduction stops, New Tech!

MIL TECH 29 – Defense in Depth – I can get better cannons I upgrade

1 Jan, 1771 – I spend 72 MIL to raise Buzinza to level 10 dev and order a Counting House here for it’s In industry

15 Jan – Lala converts! Next is Massapa and this is full

1 April – Lanje converts, next is Zimbabwe, and I order here nothing its full

18 April – Our Admiral died I order another

1 June – Rebellion of 15k in Buhera I have an army here

8 June – Rebels no more.

9 Sept – Zumbo converts! Anything to order here? Church upgraded to Basilica

Next is Butua

1 Dec – Truce with Barus is up

5 Dec – Massapa converts, next is Buhera

11 Dec – Event – Famine in Mombasa Region

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 157 - Waiting for the Next War

1 Jan, 1772 – I don’t order anything, I wanna save for finished Missionary things and a Dai Viet trading post. Right now I have 3262 and the Trading Post should be purchasable in a year or two.

After coring all of my Kilwa things, where does my forcelimit rest?

358 forcelimit, 371 troops

I am making a power boost of cash monthly to the tune of 281.64.

I order another 35k army assembled in Africa

My cash dropped to 2671

1 Feb – Zimbabwe converts! Next up is Manyika

1 April – Our heir is now a Conqueror

16 July – Butua converts!!! Next is Tete

10 Nov – Buhera converts! That’s everything save for the current Missionaries

8 Dec – Manyika converts!

20 Dec – I claim Genoa’s Azov and remove my spy

I send them to Pegu to build a spy network

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 158 - The Theodoro/Pegu War

22 Jan, 1773 – Core in Pagarruyung! I order a Missionary here

Pegu one province, 6k troops, no allies

I order 25k from Ajeh island to my Trade Station next to Pegu

27 Mar – They arrive

I could declare Imperialism Casus Belli and take them. I do that and claim war for Pegu.

11 April – I rout their 6k army and gain 12 warscore

21 May – We convert Tete

22 May – Indrapura a core I order a Missionary here

22 July – We capture Moulmein and we have a 100 warscore:



Peace for 4 badboy, no coalition no one cares

Moulmein – Chinaware, Coastal, Mill, 23 ADM core ordered, Workshop, Conscription Center, 11 Dev, Jungle, Tropical, Mon Culture, Theravada faith, 0.13 made here.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 159 - Purchasing Kauthara


1 Sept, 1773 – Lower Limpopo – 3 dev, Savannah, Gems, Gothic, Orthodox, Mill ordered, surrounded by Kilwa and next to Zimbabwe.

4 Sept - I am next to two Ayutthaya holdings so I move to buildup a spy network here. They are allied with Malacca.

My 35k army was build during the war. I am making 236.43 now.

Heading into War 4 with Kilwa in a year and a half, they are still able to afford an army of 168k, that’s close to the 180k we fought against the first time. They also have lost two allies and around 28 holdings to us and then two wars to the Turks, and that’s including all of their northern holdings to the Turks. They have lost four Gold to us in the three we just took and Bemba we took a while ago, but they still have two golds, Kilwa their capital and Sofala that I claimed.

16 Dec – Pangarruyung is converted!

I order a Counting House for Grain in Parisaman

1 Feb, 1774 - I purchase a Trading Post from Dai Viet:

7456:



Kauthara – Tropical, Coast, Savannah, 10 dev, Incense next to Khmer, Mahayana faith, Cham culture, here are built Grand Shipyard, Church, Workshop, I order the Shipyard destroyed and a Trade station built here. They make for us 0.21 monthly, it’s a low dev, but the higher ones I couldn’t afford.

1 Mar – Our mercs have rebuilt and are ready for hire again

1 April – I claim Jedysan in the Commonwealth

1 May – Admin Idea #1 – Organized Mercenary Payments - -10% Mercenary costs

30 May – My DIP power is about to hit the cap, so I spend some bringing up the dev in Togdheer to 10 and order a Counting House for the Livestock here

22 June – Indrapura converts!!! I order a Farm Estate for it’s grain.

1 July - Our level 3 DIP advisor Navigator dies and I hire a level 3 Naval Reformer with +10 naval morale

1 Sept – In preparation for the war about to begin on March 1st, I order these mercs:

45k Fort of Wayao
30k Lindi
15k Phangwe
18k Katsekera

11 Sept – Three mercs arrived

22 Oct – Our last army arrives

1 Dec – I lose the claim to Oman and their Baraimi

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 160 - The Third Theodoro/Kilwa War


1 March, 1775 – The truce with Kilwa has ended

22 Mar – I declare war for Kilwa’s Sofala

They have 24k in Shagwe I move two armies into it

I combine my Zimbabwe and Lower Limpopo into one place at a nearby minor

I order one unit into Mombasa and another to Malindi first

Two units to Kilwa, and a combined three to Kalonga’s Fort

10 April – I defeat the army in Shangwe

26 April – All three sieges begin with a fusillade

28 April – Two minors and Kilwa are ours, I order the Kilwa sieging units south to Ibo

29 April – I capture Shangwe

3 May – Malindi is ours

28 May- - Our wartarget Sofala is ours

25 June – Ibo is ours

1 July -I combine three armies and capture Qualimane

5 Au g- Another minor is ours

18 Aug – They are besieging Lango, I break off an army in Mombasa to head over

2 Sept – Another minor falls

11 Sept – They capture Lango

16 Sept – I have captured all seaside holdings and order these two armies back to help the Siege at Mombasa

30 Sept – Kalonga falls, I have a warscore of 42 but I’ll keep pushing

16 oct- I capture a minor and order my 106k in the south to besiege the Fort of Swazi

24 Oct – The land 50k in Tajura, and that’s enough to siege the fortress there.

I need to win this more quickly.

What would they want with our 45:

Nothing

1 Nov – I capture a minor and order my 144k 4 armies to head to Tajura

5 Nov – The Siege of Swazi has begun

1 Jan, 1776 – We rout the army in Lango

21 Jan – Lango is ours again

4 May – The Fort of Swasi falls and there are people next to it so I move him to face them

25 May – I win in Mtetwa

28 May – I win in Transvaal

We now have a 59 warscore, wilk they settle?

Nope

They landed another army in Tajura and have 68k total there

1 June – I hire another level 3 advisor in MIL TECH

13 June – after captured the three minors in the south I’ll head to the Fort Bushabi

20 June – Spain no longer considers us a rival

12 July – We capture Mombasa I order our army to Lake Victoria

25 July – Moulmein is now a core, I order a Missionary here.

2 Aug – They capture Tajura

2 Sept – We defeat their army in Tajura

I have 86 percent after their defeat.
Let’s go shopping:

Sofala – 10 badboy, 3 warscore

Shangwe – 3 and 3

Tabwa – 7 badboy and 4 warscore

Nkoma – 7 bb and four score

Bafutiriu – 4 bb, 3 score

Buyogoma – 3 and 3

Bushubi – 4 bb and 3 score

Total – 38 badboy, 23 score,

How about:

Shaga - 3 each

That’s the most I can do with War Reps



I spend ADM equal to around 186 coring them and order my Mercs disbanded – no coalitions, not even them.

Sofala – Coastal, Coastline, Gold, Wartarget, 16 dev, 0.71 made here, Natural Harbor, tropical, Church, Grand Shipyard, Conscription Center, Swahili, Sunni

Shangwe – Surrounded by me – 6 dev, Savannah, Livestock, Farm Estate, Counting House, makes 0.16, Shona, Fetishist

Tabwa – Copper Mines, next to Kongo border, 14 dev, Highlands, Luba culture, Fetishist faith, Workshop, Church, Training Fields, makes 0.12 tropical

Nkoma – Connects us, Iron Mining Hills, Lake Tanginika, 16 dev, Rwandan, Fetishist, 1.46, tropical, Weapons Manufactory, Counting House, Church

Bafutiriu – Border with Kongo, 8 dev, Grain, Hills, Farm Estate and Counting House, 0.41 made here, Rwandan and Fetishist,

Buyogoma – Free, 7 dev, Savannah, Grain, tropical, Farm Estate, Conscription Center, .06, Rwandan and Fetishist

Bushubi – Fortress, Rwandan, Catholic, Farm Estate, Grain growers, next to two of them and three of us, Hills, 9 dev, 0.30 made here, tropical

Shaga - Lake Victoria, Ganda Fetishist, Highlands, Livestock, 7 dev, Farm Estate, Counting House, 0.56 made here

Nice 8 additions to the queue! This has important border holdings, a key Gold, and more!

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 161 - City of Khami Begun



2 Sept, 1776 - I can choose a new Age of Revolutions ability – what would I like?

None fit – Loyal Subjects – Liberty Desire -25%

1 Oct – Kilwa is no longer a valid rival, I choose Westphalia

30 Oct – Event: Improvements in Naval Tech, I gain a bunch of DIP tech but +0.5 inflation boost

1 Dec – Our truce with Malacca is up!

I claim the Commonwealth’s Oczakow

1 Jan, 1777 – I do not build any new buildings, I am waiting to upgrade in a few places post cores and Missionaries and saving 5k for the Zimbabwe special project

16 Feb - Barus insulted us

14 April – I claim Ayutthaya’s Capital and Chinaware province Sukhothai – a nation I played in an earlier run in EU4.

2 May – Our spy in Kilwa was discovered and ousted

3 June – Bengal is at war with Khmer and I grant them access

19 June - Moulmein converts, anything orderable here? I update the Workshop to a Counting House for it’s Chinaware.

21 July – Since my next war is likely to be on Ajeh to finish off Barus, and now that we have converted Moulmein there is no revolt risk here, I order my 25k army to next to Barus in Pariaman

1 Sept – In Zimbabwe I order:

City of Khami to level 3 – 5k gold

Results:
-5% tech costs
-30% to fabricate claims

And there +25% to defensiveness

It’ll finish Feb 13, 1817 but I can spend 250 gold to speed it by 730 days each so it’s a cash sink

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 162 - The War for Padang

1 Jan, 1778 – I wanna save cash for builds from Kilwa and then mercs in Ajeh to hold serve for the Barus war against the Malacca. I have 1515 and am making 283.65 monthly.

11 Mar – Admin Idea #2 – Adaptability - -25% in Core Creation Costs, nice for big wars.

1 June – Westphalia announce us as rivals, they have taken over much of Germany

2 July – My Dip is about hit the 99 cap so I spend 98 in Galcayo to raise our dev to ten and order a Counting House for the Livestock here.

2 Sept - Khmer are mostly removed from Southeast Asia and now Dai Viet is most of it, and we are no longer next to them

I claim the Commonwealth’s Poltawa and then pull this diplomat to make nice with Dai Viet

1 Oct – I claim Ayutthaya’s next door holding of Phra Bang, the only other one next to me, and it’s a high dev Tropical Wood holding. I pull my dip and order to remain after arriving until my war

I order these mercs to Ajeh island:

45k Gayo
30k Barus


Malacca has 58k troops

So my 50k there plus this 75k should hold the fort nicely

10 Oct – My mercs arrive

I declare war for Barus’s Padang it’s not that value, just a high value grain holding.

I order 50k into Padang where they have 10k defending

9 Nov – I rout the army and begin the Siege of Padang, which is just a capital, no fort

23 Dec – Malacca lands 13k in Martaban

11 Jan, 1779 – Padang falls, I have a warscore of 18

I order my forces to the Fort of Langat on the other side of Ajeh controlled by Malacca and next to Pasai

1 Mar – Another 29k Malaccan forces land in Southeast Asia in or holding there

1 April – They capture Moulmein

20 April – The Siege of Langat begins with a cannonade

4 June – Sofala, Tabwa and Nkoma are cored, I order Missionaries there

5 Oct – The rest are cored

1 Jan, 1780 – Relations with Dai Viet maxed, I pull my diplomat

15 Jan – Langat falls. I order my troops to the adjacent now open Deli

19 Feb – Deli falls, and I have a 38 warscore.

How much for Padang?

Just 11 and just 5 badboy, I remove them from the map:



I order my mercs disbanded. 46 to Core Padang.

Padang – 29 dev, Grain, Jungle, Tropical, surrounded by us, coastal, Farm Estate, Shipyard, Workshop, open space for another building, Hindu faith, Sumatran culture, 0.39 made here, just one dev away from next building.

That was a lot cheaper than I thought it’d be badboy-wise, so I am still open in the area for new additions

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 163 - Insurance Companies Found


Feb 25, 1780 – I order diplomats to Malacca to make nice and then Oman to build a spy network.

Ayutthaya gained a few provinces from rebels capturing Khmer provinces next to us

18 April – My two diplomats arrive home from Barus, one the peace envoy and the other the spy maker, I order one to build a spy network in Kongo.

1 May – Nkoma and Tabwa convert, next are Bushubi and Buyogoma. I order a Workshop to upgrade to a Counting House in Tabwa’s Copper.

15 Aug – Sofala converts next is Bafuriru. It’s gold so there is nothing to build here

27 Sept – Trebizond’s ruler passes I offer a new Royal Marriage.

1 Nov – Revolt of 12k in Bushubi where I have an army

5 Nov – Defeated

15 Feb, 1781 – I order:

Counting House in Lower Limpopo for Gems

Basilica in:

New:

Hafun, Savah, Dagestan, Tarki,

Replacing Churches:

Kuban, Circassia, Lakia, Azarabia, Urmia and Maragheh

I spend 2k to speed up my build time in Zimbabwe to speed it up 8 times. And now it’s due 13 Feb 1801 and then I have 2k left

9 Mar – Buyogoma converts! Next is Shaga,I raise it’s dev to 10 and order a Counting house here for the Livestock

14 Mar – Bushubi converts! Next is Shangwe, I raise it’s dev from, 9 to 10 and then order a Counting House for the grain grown

4 April – My relations are maxed with Malacca and I pull my diplomat and next is making nice with Shun. I hope to buy a Trading Post there later.

24 June – The Ottomans have entered war with Genoa, is this my chance for Azov?

26 June - Conversion in Bafuriru, everything else is under Missionaries, there’s nothing to build here, it already has what’s needed.

1 August – New Tech:

DIP TECH 30 – Insurance Companies – We get boosted trade range and +2% trade efficiency

1 Dec – I claim Oman’s Ibra, they are allied with Transoxiana again and the Turks so we’ll steer clear, but if I want to wage war against Transoxiana I can bring them in. All three are high dev and low trade good things.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 164 - Impulse Warfare Discovered


1 Jan, 1782 – New Tech:

MIL TECH 30 – Impulse Warfare - +0.25 tactics, +1 land morale, better infantry I upgrade

Admin Idea #3 – Benefits for Mercenaries - -15% Merc Maintenance.

I order:

Counting House for Incense in Kauthera

Basilica’s

New:

Qazinya,

Upgraded Churches

Ardabil, Ardalan, Kirmanshah, Basra and Shatt

I order 8 more 2k in Zimbabwe

It finishes Feb 14, 1785.

I am left with 1222 in cash for upgrades

14 Jan – Shangwe and Shaga convert! There is nothing here to build up they are all developed with Manufactories and Counting Houses.

Kongo: Ally Busonga, controls 67k troops.

I move my African armies on the border with Kongo.

I leave two against Busonga

13 May – Event – Cossack Raid we spend cash to recover

24 May – Padang is cored, I cannot order a Missionary here until 1788 when their recent conversion fervor passes. I order a Counting House here to upgrade the Workshop for grain.

The Turks are at war with Portugal

13 June – Our Emperor passes.

Our new one is Manuel III, with strong 5/5/6 stats. He is 25

His heir, Manuel, age 0, 6/3/2

His wife, Photine, 3/5/1, 30 years old

I offer a RM to Russia

1 July – I claim an adjacent Ivory holding in Kongo called Lega

2 July – Royal Marriage with Georgia

18 July – I declare war for Lega from Kongo

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 165 - The First Theodoro/Kongo War

I order 2 armies into Lega
4 into the Fort of Luapula
1 each into Kaonda and Lamba

Against their ally in Lake Victoria, 38k to their capital and an army into Kuria

1 Aug - 56k arrive in our Trading Post Soyo

8 Aug – I begin the Siege of Luapala with a fusillade

17 Aug- I rout their ally army in their home of Bunyoro and initiate a siege

26 Aug – We capture Lega, I order these two to the adjacent Fort of Kusu

31 Aug – We capture Lamba and Kaonda and I order this pair to relieve the siege in Soyo

12 Sep t- I capture a minor in Lake Victoria and begin the siege of Kusu I order that army to head over and help

5 Nov – Bunyoro is ours!

Royal Marriage with Khorasan

21 Nov – I defeat an army of 16k while heading to Soyo

20 Dec – We capture the last holding in Lake Victoria and I order this army to Kusu

15 Jan, 1583 – We defeat their army in Soyo

I head next door to their capital of Mpemba

1 Feb – We max relations with Shun and I recall my diplomat

16 Feb – I get a peace offer from Busonga that gives us their non-capital two holdings for a badboy of 9.5 I decline since I don’t know what would happen coalition wise.

To annex them would cost 23.2 badboy, but without it I get two low dev good trade good holdings. But no coalition. Their capital is a 17 dev Salt province. I just do peace for the two minors, for 9.5 badboy:




I spend ADM power of 19 to core them.

1 Mar – I lose my CB on them since we had the two we took. I order a spy network built here from the Shun diplomat after it arrives.

2 May – We capture their capital of Mpemba

I order this pair to grab minors here.

I now have a warscore of 43

1 June – The Fort of Luapala falls, I order them next door to the Fort of Upemba

15 June – I capture two minors. I have a warscore of 55%

They’ll do peace.

Here is what I’d like:

Lega – 5 badboy, 3 warscore

Luapula – 8 badboy, 4 score

Hemba – 15 badboy, 8 score

Lualaba – 8 bb and 4 score

Lamba – 8 bb and 5 warscore

Anything else will build up coalitions.

Total 44.1 badboy and 24 warscore:



I agree and take peace with my 7 new provinces.

I spend 122 coring them

From Busoga:

Pubungo- Next to our colony in Lango, Savannah, 4 dev, Livestock, Farm Estate, Counting House, the Fetishist Atcoli people make us 0.13, Tropical

Kuria – On Lake Victoria, Mountains, Tropical, Naval Supplies, 5 dev, Ganda Culture, Fetishist faith, Naval Equipment Manufactory, Counting House, they make us 0.64

From Kongo, all on the border with us:

Lega – Wartarget, Ivory, Jungle, 9 dev, Rwandan, Fetishist, Tropical, Religious Zeal until May, 1812, Trade Station, Counting House, Conscription Center, they make us a massive 1.97 monthly now.

Luapula – Fortress, Church, Workshop, Highlands, Copper, 12 dev, Tropical, Luba culture, Fetishist faith, they make us 0.42

Hemba – Our “big” addition – Iron miners, a massive 22 dev, Savannah, Weapons Manufactory, Counting House, Conscription Center, room for another building, tropical, Luba, Fetishist they produce 1.37

Lualaba – Salt traders, 12 dev, Highlands, tropical, Fetishist, Luba, they have built here a Church, Workshop and Conscription Center, not a manufactory for the Salt, they make .46.

Lamba – Tropical, 10 dev, Savannah, Livestock, Farm Estate, Workshop and Conscription Center here Kongolese Fetishist, they produce monthly 0.73

Nice additions to the team!

I order my people to return

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 166 - A Peaceful Interlude



16 June, 1783 – I lose my claim on Kongo since we took our only holding they have.

As you can see I have been building up my cash reserves for the Shun Trading Post, it’s a lot.

1 Oct – I lose my claim to Kotte’s holding on the island of Sri Lanka

1 Dec – I claim Nizwa from Oman

13 Feb, 1784 – Event: Declining Power of the Nobility – they lose 10% influence

16 May – Admin Idea #4 – Bookkeeping – We get -.5 Interest per year

1 Aug – I claim Kongo’s Salt making province of Upemba

The City of Khemi project is finished!

By the by our Kongo deal is up in 1790 December

12 Dec – I move my armies to get ready with war with Kilwa

1 Jan, 1785 – Our peace treaty is up in a few months.

I order these mercs:

45k Wayao
30k Lindi
15k Makonde

13 Jan – They have all arrived

6 Feb – Pasai lost their holding next to us, Portugal captured it in war. They only have two holdings left

I order a Conscription Center in Padang with our open slot there

20 Mar- Kuria and Pubungo are cored, I order Missionaries here

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 167 - The Fourth Theodoro/Kilwa War


1 June, 1785 – Our peace treaty with Kilwa is up, I declare war for Kalonga

I order:

1 army into Mombasa, another to Malindi first

2 into Kilwa

2 in Lake Victoria into a minor

3 into the Fort of Kalonga

3 in the south to a minor

19 June – I win battles in Kalonga and Kilwa and begin sieges

22 June – The Mombasa siege begins with a cannonade

6 July – I defeat an army of25k in Lake Victoria and move two to Mombasa

14 July- Minor falls

18 July – Kilwa falls

19 July – Lega is cored and I cannot order a Missionary here, and there is nothing to build

31 July – The army that captured Malindi arrives in Mombasa

28 Aug -Two more minors fall

14 Oct - The other Kongo holdings are cored, I order a Missionary to Lamba

18 Oct – Two more minors have fallen

6 Nov – Anther minor falls, I have the coast all captured, and I order the Kilwa army to help in Kalonga

10 Nov – I order my three southern armies to begin the Siege at Swazi on the Spanish Border

20 Nov – Another minor falls

27 Nov – Kuria converts, next is Lualaba

3 Jan, 1786 – Mombasa falls!

I have a 46 warscore

7 Jan – Kalonda falls, we have a warscore of 61% I go shopping.

I can just grab my wartarget and one other holding without them having a coalition but it’s just them, I would like to get Mombasa and Malindi and call it but that’s 45.7 badboy and they’ll join a coalition which will care for later things. No one else would join, just them. I could do Kilwa and then a minor Lake Victoria holding.

Here’s what I do, Kalonga and a Lake Victoria holding, I don’t want them coalition following with people like Kongo on future wars.




I spend 52 coring them and order my mercs disassembled

Kalonga – 24 dev, Drylands, Iron Mining, Fortress, Weapons Manufactory, Conscription Center, Basilica, Town Hall, Counting House, Nyasa, Fetishist, Entrepôt, Tropical, .54 made here

Bugonda – Lake Victoria, Salt makers, Naval Equipment Manufactory, Counting House, Stock Exchange, Entrepot, tropical, Savannah, 15 dev, Ganda, Fetishist, makes .17

Cool! I’ll probably be slower here moving forward since I already took all of the lower dev things in the earlier wars. Remember that my first war took 9 provinces but just 27 badboy.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 168 - Conversions and Coring

10 Jan, 1786 – I claim Busanga’s Bunyoro, I pull back my spy.

Peace lasts until May 1792 in six and a half years.

16 Jan – Pubungo converts! Next is Luapula, I order here…nothing they have a manufactory and a Counting House,

I order my army to the border with Kongo.

15 Feb – I claim Oman’s Baraimi and that’s all three I pull my diplomat

I send my Busanga dip to Transoxiana to build a spy network and my Omani diplomat to make nice with Bengal.

1 May - Our truce with Malacca ends.

Pasai is at war with Malacca and their ally Ayutthaya. I don’t think they are long for this world.

1 June - -I lose my claim on Mombasa in Kilwa

26 July – Event: Industrialization in Taiz, it gets better tax and production value

23 Aug – Lamba converts, next is Hemba. Anything to order here? I upgrade the Workshop to a Counting House for its Livestock.

1 Sept – New Idea: Admin Idea #5 – Mercenary Recruitment – I get +25% mercenary manpower

Cash:

I am making monthly 207.11.

Army – I have 436k out of forcelimit of 399k.

I order another 35k in Africa assembled

23 Oct – Lualuba converts, next is nothing yet, anything to order here? Naval Equipment Manufactory for it’s Salt.

10 Dec- On my birthday Luapula converts! Anything to order here? Upgraded Workshop to Counting House for it’s Copper.

1 Jan, 1787 - I order nothing, I am saving for my Shun trading post, I have 12k now.

4 May – Maxed relations with Bengal, next Korea, my next Trading Post after Shun

They are friendly with me. I begin by Influencing their Nation.

16 June – I begin to improve relations with Korea

24 Aug – Hemba converts! Anything to build here? We have an open slot, Basilica for it.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 169 - Purchasing Naju


8 Feb, 1788 – the Commonwealth no longer considers us a rival.

Kalonga is a core, I order here a Missionary

19 Feb – Our 35k army is done, I order it to Kalonga to help with rebel risks, I am now making 159.85.

27 Feb – One of my generals dies

1 Mar - I lose the claim on Dhamar which was in Yemen but was taken by the Turks.

14 April – Bugunda now a core, I order a Missionary here as well

The Religious Zeal in Padang has ended so I order a Missionary here

Pasai is now a vassal of Malacca

1 Aug – Rebellion in Trebizond

30 Aug – Defeated

1 Oct – I am getting close to the cap of DIP and MIL power so I spend some upping dev levels in places

I raise Zanzibar’s Dev to 20 and order a Counting House for it’s Cloves

14 Nov – Kalonga converts, I order here nothing it’s full the brim and the most developed holding I have taken from Kilwa.

I move the 35k here to the border with Kongo

3 Dec – New Idea – ADMIN IDEA #6 – Administrative Efficiency - +1 Possible Advisors

Finishing this Idea Group will be amazing, cough…hint…cough.

16 Jan, 1789 – Event: Cooperation with the Merchant Class – Our Burgher relations improve

19 Mar – Buganda converts, and that’s our last conversion and core with the latest war against Kilwa

Anything to order here? Nope it has a manufactory, Counting House and Stock Exchange for the Emporium

1 May – Relations maxed with Korea at 115 I pull my diplomat

I purchase Naju from Korea for 18134:



It’s worth it:

Naju – 36 dev, Paper made here, Highlands, Korean people, Confucian faith, get ready for the buildings here: Mill, Town Hall, Conscription Center, Counting House, Grand Shipyard, University, Basilica, next to Korea, it makes us 2.58 cash monthly right now

I spend 100 DIP and 250 MIL to raise it to 40 and order a Fortress here.

Thanks Korea!!!

16 May – Padang converts!!! I order a Basilica here after raising it’s dev from 29 to 30

30 May – A general passes

29 June – Our making nice diplomat returns from Korea and I send it to build a spy network in Khiva

1 Aug – I lose my claim on The Commonwealth’s Halicz

1 Sept – Rebellion in Lega - I have an army here

6 Sept – Defeated!!! By us, not them in case you wondered.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 169 - The Second Theodoro/Kongo War



1 Jan, 1790 – This year our truce with Kongo is up in December. I can purchase a new Age of Revolutions ability:

Improved Force March – It doesn’t cost monarch power

2 Aug – Event: Regional Nobility Challenge Theodoro – I choose to make nice to avoid a mass rebellion in Siraf. Instead the nobles get +10% influence and we get for 20 years -50% tax and production in Siraf

1 Sept – Portugal is at war with Kilwa uh oh. I decline them and their colonial nations access.

1 Dec – Our truce with Kongo is up. I order three generals. That’s the max that gives me 7 generals and the most I can have before my MIL Power will drop.

I declare war for Kongo’s Fortress at Upemba next to me

I order:

36k into Bunyoro in Lake Victoria for their ally
Four armies into Upemba
Two into their minor holding of Kaonde
Two into their Fort of Kusu with two more two join from deeper and a month or so away
One to the minor of Kanongesha

Ready?


6 Dec - I give Kilwa military access. Good luck my bestest enemy

16 Dec – We rout the army in Bunyoro and begin that siege

Our siege begins in Kusu with a fusillade

27 Dec – Ditto Upemba

14 Jan, 1791 – We capture Kaonde

13 Feb – They begin the siege in Soyo with 53k

19 Feb – Bunyoro falls! We have a warscore of 17% with Kongo. I order these troops to a minor.

Do I take Bunyoro in a separate peace?

It’s 16.5 badboy to take it from them in another peace, and they won’t do it yet, so I hold on.

6 Mar – I capture two minors and order my three armies on the southern flank to grab one minor and then head to Soyo to relieve the siege

23 Mar – Khorasan’s ruler passes. I offer a RM to the next.

22 April – Another minor falls

15 June – We capture the Fort of Kusu, next is the Fort of Rund I order these four armies there

19 June – Another minor falls

20 July – The Siege of Upemba is over! I have a warscore of 35%, I order these to their capital

7 Sept – We oust Kilwa from Soyo

22 Sept – I capture a minor

24 Oct -Another minor falls

1 Nov – I claim Khiva’s Kopet dag

13 Dec – Another minor is ours

31 Dec – Another minor falls

1 Jan, 1792 –

Ready for shopping?

I have a warscore of 42%

Here are the ones I want:

Kaonde – 5 badboy, 3 peace

Ishindi – 4 badboy and warscore

Chokwe – 4 badboy and 3 warscore

All low dev with high trade things.

Malem – 3 badboy, 4 warscore, surrounded by Britain

Kusu – 4 badboy, 3 warcore

20.8 badboy, 17 warcore

What else?

Songye – low trade good, gets me to Cloth in Kuba, 4 each

Kuba – 7 and 6

Here’s the peace:

27 warscore and 32 badboy



I do peace and then spend less than 100 ADM power to core these 7 things

Kaonde – Tropical, Workshop, Savannah, Livestock raised here, 8 dev, Kongolese culture, Fetishist faith, 0.08 made here, next to Kongo and…

Ishindi – 7 dev, Savannah, Ivory Trade, Trade Station and Church, Chokwe people, Fetishist faith, Religious Zeal, Tropical, makes us .19, next to Kongo, the UK, and…

Chokwe – Next to UK and Ishindi, Trade Station, Counting House for Ivory, Savannah, 6 dev, 0.30 made here, Chokwe and Fetishist, tropical.

Malem – Surrounded by Britain, Highlands, 5 dev, Salt is traded here, Religious Zeal, Fetishist faith, Mbangala culture, Naval Equipment Manufactory and Counting House makes us 0.18 cash

Kusu – Fortress, Farm Estate, Conscription Center, Jungle, Tropical, Livestock, Fetishist and Luba, 7 dev, 0.11 made here, Next to Kongo and..

Songye – Connects Kuba with Kusu, Grain grown here, Farm Estate, Workshop, Jungle, Tropical, Luba Fetishists, 6 dev, 0.06 made here

Kuba – Our best addition developmentally – Next to UK, Kilwa and Songye, Cloth made here, 12 dev, Tropical and Jungle, Emporium trade center, it has built here Textile Manufactory, Counting House and Conscription Center, Kuba Fetishists, 0.37 made here.

Seven new additions

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 170 - More States


1 Feb – I made a mistake. I moved my three armies that relieved the siege of Soyo here, and now I cannot send them back except by boat, I order one army back.

Our truce ends November 1799

Last Admin Idea #7 -Civil Service – We get -10% ADMIN TECH advance, for unlocking it we get a massive +25% Governing Capacity.

That means I can make states again!

I stateify:

Batak on Ajeh for Batak, Barus and Pariaman

Buha in East Africa for my 5 holdings of Nkoma, Ruguru, Rukwa, Muhambwe and Buyogoma

Butua – The gold mines of Butua, Masasapa and randomly Shangwe

Zimbabwe - The gold mines of Zimbabwe and Buhera and Manyika

Ngonde – Ngonde, Tumbuka and Kinga

Nsenga – Nsenga, Lala, Luangwa

Like I said big stuff!!!!



12 Feb – I claim Kongo’s capital of Mpemba next to Soyo

1 May – Our truce with Kilwa ends but I am not attacking them right now I have given them military access so I cannot for their war against Portugal, the UK and Spain. I don’t care about Madagascar which Kilwa has they can take that. But I’d like to hope that they don’t peck about my Golden Goose too much.

1 June – Our Emperor gains the Martial Educator trait

I’m about to hit the DIP Cap again so I spend around 200 raising dev

1 Aug – Event – Textile Mills in Ilam – Ilam gains 4 produciton and loses 1 each tax and mil development.

1 Oct – Our level 3 advisor the Inquisitor has passed and I hire a level 3 Natural Scientist that boosts my production by 10%

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 171 - Waiting

1 Jan, 1793 – Dai Viet is divided and split into Tonkin and Annam form and Annam is next to our Trading Post we purchased from them in Kauthara

25 Feb – I accept military access from Annam

1 Sept – Rebellion in Trebizond

22 Sept – Rebels win and begin a siege

11 Dec – My first army arrives from Soyo to east Africa

I order another

20 Feb, 1794 – Event – Popular Religion – I let this local difference in faith and the key concepts run it’s course, gain +1 Missionary strength until 1809 and worse relations with the Church.

2 May – All seven cores are done I order Missionaries to Chokwe, Kaonde and Kuba

1 June – Our level 3 advisor Naval Reformer passes and I hire a level 3 Trader with +10% trade

1 Aug – New Tech –

DIP TECH 31 – Superior Ship Design - +0.50 morale and +10% ship upkeep

7 Aug – Football has arrived.

1 Sept – New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 30 – Advanced Production- +2% production efficiency

18 Oct – I claim Khiva’s Kizil-Su

I claim Kongo’s Luba

11 Nov – The 350 Year Review!!!

[Abe Sargent]

This is the penultimate review, right? I don’t usually go this late into in a dynasty

MAPS!!

Let’s start with my core area in Black Sea, Persian Gulf, and Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains.



Here we go. I have not waged a war in the Central Asia area in the last 100 years and only gained land peacefully here from diplomatic annexation. I did a few wars against Yemen and the Horn of Africa, but have not in the last 50.

Now let’s turn to my key expansion area East Africa



Here you can see my two wars with Kongo, the ones with Kilwa, our former colonies and trading posts. See Malem surrounded by the UK? You can also see Kilwa losing a massive multifront war.

Around now Southeast Asia and the Indies:




Every purple holding is ours. We are in the Indian Ocean coast of the island of Ajeh, southwest in Borneo, in the Indies, the three holdings in the Philippines, Several in Papua, two trading posts in SE Asia, and our addition from Pegu next to me. Tonkin is losing a war with Shun.

Now the map generally:



Russia remains a powerhouse in land, no war against the Turks this past 50 years, and then they are waging war with Japan for land east twice. They are rivals with Shun. We have friendly relations with them

[Abe Sargent]

Ledger:

Our allies with their armies:

Russia – 325k
Georgia – 114k
Trebizond – 7k
Khorasan - 9k
Delhi – 155k
Sindh – 17k

Us – 471k army and forcelimit of 450k

We are 6th in total army size

Navy: 58 of 217, we aren’t in the 20 top, GB is most with 909.

888.98 monthly cash, 3rd after the GB with 1860.65; we are surplusing 336.72 after the states change.

With 2801 development we are 2nd after the Turks with 4356

With 91 techs we have one more than everyone else

We are tied with 56 Ideas the most possible

There are now 13 Empires

There are just 5 Orthodox nations but we have a massive 644 between us mostly Russia and us, coming in 2nd most

There are 924 Catholic holdings for 1st.

Our Top Ten Provinces by Taxes:

1. Pate, 38.22
2. Uzkend, 23.66
3. Crimea, 23.66
4. Pariaman, 21.06
5. Tidore, 20.02
6. Ternate, 20.02
7. Mokha, 20.02
8. Taiz, 18.20
9. Batak, 17.82
10. Three with 17.20: Samarkhand, Theodoro, Tabriz

Two new additions in Ajeh are here.

Our Top Ten Provinces by Production inc. Cloves, Coal and Gold

1. Tidore, 156.14, Cloves
2. Ternate, 141.96, Cloves
3. Ceram, 115.33, Cloves
4. Uzkend, 98.19, Coal
5. Palawan, 73.90, Sugar
6. Tyn, 73.64, Coal
7. Pontianak, 69.60, Gold
8. Taiz, 68.43, Coffee
9. Aden, 67.83, Incense
10. Katapang, 62.59, Ivory

Since just one Gold was there I included all three of m major cash things.


I have 253 holdings; Russia 289


Charts:

% Religion with more than 1%:

Orthodox – 93.2
Fetishist – 3.1
Confucian- 1.1
Coptic – 1
Sunni – 1.1
Theravada – 1

Culture with at least 4%:

Azerbaijani – 4.9
Crimean – 4.5
Yemeni - 7.9
Persian – 9.0
Gothic – 7.1
Mashriqi - 5.6
Khorasani – 4.0
Uzbek – 4.1
Sumatran – 4.5
Moluccan – 4.1
Khaleeji – 4.7

Nice!

Top Ten Trade Nodes by Total Value:

1. English Channel, 740.26
2. Ivory Coast
3. Sevilla
4. Caribbean
5. Cape of Good Hope
6. Gujarat
7. Malacca
8. Constantinople
9. Rheinland
10. Lubeck, 167.62

Ours:

Crimea – 134.79
Zanzibar – 103.27
Persia – 40.33
Basra – 23.29
Hormuz – 27.62
Samarkhand – 97.43
Zambezi – 35.58
Great Lakes – 15.24

Nasty!

Trade Goods by Current Value:

10- Coal
8 – Cloves
5.4 - Cocoa
5.25 – Sugar
5.0 – Dyes, Ivory, Silk
4.95 – Cotton
4.72 – Paper
4.5 – Iron, Tobacco
4.05 – Cloth
3.5 – Fur
3.45 – Glass, Copper
3.40 – Livestock
3.30 – Coffee, Salt, Spices
3.12 – Wine
3.0 – Gems, Incense, Tropical Wood, Naval Supplies, Tea, Chinaware
2.87 – Wool
2.2 – Slaves
2.0 – Fish and Grain

Nice!

We are the production leader in:

Cloves
Incense
Silk
Ivory
Spices

All valuable

We have no coalitions against us

The 8 Great Powers:

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


We have moved up a slot to 4. No change in the top 8, just in new slots

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 172 - The Fifth Theodoro/Kilwa War - The BIG One?

1 Dec – As you can see, my Mil is about to hit the cap, but we need 1090 to hit the next tech.

9 Dec – Event – State Appointed Lay – I choose to let the church do it and gain authority and relation with them.

1 Jan, 1795 – Event – Border Dispute with Khiva I push it and gain a claim on their holding of Kungrad.

I am saving my cash for a post with Shun.

14 Jan – A General dies.

8 Feb – I hit my MIL cap prior to what is needed to level up the next tech, so I spend a few hundred to up dev on provinces

I level up a few East Africa holdings to 10 dev, and order a Conscription Center in Shaga

7 April – Chokwe converts, next is Songye, there is nothing to buy here.

15 April – Kaonde converts, next is Kusu

I order here a Farm Estate for it’s Livestock

1 May – Kuba converts, nothing is left, anything to build here? Nope it’s fully built

30 May - Kilwa lost all of her south bordering Spain and us in Lower Limpopo.

I break our military access

2 June – I allow Songhai military access they are at war with Europe

5 July – I declare war on Kilwa, they are ally less

I order:

2 armies to Mombasa
1 to Malindi and then Mombasa
1 army into the internal minor of Lundu
Two armies in the south into coastal holdings next door
Two armies into their capital

20 July – We begin the siege of Kilwa and Mombasa the latter with a fusillade

15 Aug – Two minor fall as does Kilwa

20 Aug – Malindi and another minor fall to us

25 Aug – Another minor falls

10 Sept – A minor 4k army is routed by us

I already have a 36 warscore

7 Oct – Another minor falls to us

27 Oct – I win the Battle of Mozambique against a minor army

23 Nov - Mozambique captured

2 Dec – The last coastal holding, Ibo, falls

24 Dec – Mombasa falls! We have a war score of 62%

Enough?

Let’s find out. And this time I don’t mind upsetting Kilwa in the coalition, just others. This might be my last war against them:

Here’s what I want:

Internal, Lundu – 8 badboy, 5 warscore

Inhambane – Coastal, next to Spain, cuts them off from expanding north into Kilwa again, 7 badboy, 4 score

Madanda - Internal after taking Inhambane, 4 badboy, 4 warscore

Mombasa -14 badboy, 6 war score,

Total - 32.3 badboy and 18 score no one is pissed not even Kilwa

Now what?

Malindi adds 13 badboy and 6 warscore, Kilwa will form a coaltion

What else?

Cheap Lake Victoria –

Busoga - low trade good, 3 badboy, and score just Kilwa remains upset

What else?

The rest of Lake Victoria:

Karagwe – Connects us on the Lake, 5 badboy, 3warscore, still just Kilwa cares

Nduga – 5 badboy, 3 score

Nkore – 6 badboy, 3 score

Quelimane – Coastal, 10 and 6 respectively

Total: 74.4 badboy and 43 peace, and just Kilwa cares, the next one will piss off others.



I make the deal and then spend Adm equal to 142 and I have a bunch of holdings I cannot core yet

Lundu – 25 dev, Cloth Makers, Savannah, internal, Tropical, Fetishist, Nyasa, Church, Counting House, Textile Manufactory, Town Hall, Conscription Center, makes us 0.55 monthly

Inhambane – Coastal, Jungle, 15 dev, Gems, Natural Harbor, tropical, Mill, Grand Shipyard, Conscription Center, next to Spain, Swahili and Sunni, .21 monthly made here.

Madanda - Internal after taking Inhambane, 13 Dev, Jungle, Ivory traded here, Shona Fetishist, not tropical, Counting House, Trade Station, Conscription Center, makes us .26

Mombasa - Fortress, Drydock, Town Hall, Conscription Center, Trade Station, Counting House, Grand Shipyard, Ivory traded here, coastal, Natural Harbor, tropical, Coastline, 38 dev, Sunni and Swahili, make us 1.14 monthly.

Malindi – Next to Mombasa, Coastal, 37 dev, Iron mined here, Arid, Coastline, Entrepot, Swahili, Sunni, Town Hall, Counting House, Drydock, Conscription Center, Weapons Manufacturer, Stock Exchange, Grand Shipyard, makes us 0.92

Lake Victoria –

Busoga - North coast, 0.36 made here, Fish, 10 dev, Savannah, tropical, Masaba people, Fetishist faith, Church, Workshop, Naval Equipment Manufactory, next to Bunyoro controlled by the nation of Busoga.

Karagwe – SW Coast of Lake, Hills, Iron Mining, 14 dev, tropical, Ganda Fetishists live here, they make .23, they have built a Church, Weapons Manufactory and Conscription Center,

Nduga – West of Karagwe, south of Nkore, Tropical, Iron is mined here as well, Highlands, 14 dev, the people here are Rwandan Fetishists, they make us 0.36, they have Weapons Manufactory, Counting House and Church,

Nkore – South of Bunyoro, west of Karagwe, high dev of 17 but just grain is farmed here, Hills, rocks a Farm Estate, Church and Workshop, Ganda people, Fetishist faith, make .14

Other with my score:

Quelimane – Coastal, North of us in Sofala and next to Kilwa, Coastline, a massive 33 dev, Ivory traded here, they make 1.01, nice, thy have built a Trade Stations, Conscription center, Stock Exchange, Grand Shipyard, Town Hall, Counting House, Nyasa, Sunni, tropical, Zambezi Estuary,

That was a huge war, and I pushed hard since that’s likely my last war against Kilwa since they are now on the radar of Europe, so I took every internal place, locked out the Lake Victoria behind my lines, grabbed the border with Spain, and then grabbed the internal Mombasa and Malindi next to me. Only 4 holdings are left, all coastal, in East Africa and then all of Madagascar. We grabbed a massive 10 holdings many high dev. None were lower than 10 dev, and only one at 10, and it’s a fish province in Lake Victoria.

And now it’s time to bring them into my infrastructure.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 173 - Purchasing Fuzhou and Allying with Shun



1 Jan, 1796 – Core ordered for Nkore

1 Mar – Core ordered for Nduga

18 Mar - Songye converts! I upgrade the Workshop to a Counting House for it’s Grain

9 April – Kusu converts, and that’s my last conversion of those possible from Kongo, two had Religious Zeal. I order here nothing it’s just level 10 with a Fortress

1 May – I grant access to a few at war with the Turks like Austria

1 June – I order a core for Mombasa for 43 ADM

1 Sept – I spend another 43 to core Quelimanne and all are now working

1 Jan, 1797 – I still hold up for a Trading Post from Shun.

7 Mar – New Tech:

MIL TECH 31 – Rifle - +1 infantry fire, +1 cavalry shock

Khiva is at war with Europe in a war against the Turks in the Spanish Conquest of the Ottomans

Khiva – 12k troops, four holdings allied with Turks, Delhi and Transoxiana

This might be a good time to wage war against them when the Turks are distracted, but I am not betting for these four holdings…

22 April - The Commonwealth is at war with the Turks and their allies.

1 July – Our Heir gains the negative Naïve Enthusiast trait = -20% improve relations

1 Aug – I have enough for the Shun trading post!

30732:



Fuzhou- 19 dev, Hills, Tea, Fortress, Church, Barracks, Natural Harbor, I order the Barrack destroyed and a Plantation here. I spend Mil to raise it to 20, it makes .63, Confucian faith, Min culture, surrounded by Shun

I start moving my army next to Kongo for our next war

16 Oct – I claim Khiva’s Karakum and recall the diplomat and make nice with Shun again

They will accept an alliance but that’s two too many, I could cut Khorasan.

Let’s do it.

31 Oct – I break my alliance with Khorasan since I was hoping to vassalize and then annex them and that never happened

1 Dec – I lose 10 prestige to break our royal ties

18 Dec –



Here you can see that Shun likes our offer more than dislikes, so we agree to be allies!!! I need a local ally to proact in SE Asia and the Indies from European expansion, since I only have 50 troops in the area, the rest are disconnected and I would lose a naval war to ferry them over with the UK or Spain.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 174 - Core and Missions


1 Jan, 1798 – I lose my claims on Azov from Genoa and Podole in the Commonwealth

29 Mar – Claims finished in 6 that I started initially, Missionaries to Inhambane, Madanda and Busoga

5 April – Nkore cored.

10 April – Annam took out much of Ayutthaya next to us, they are ally less and just have Sukhothai, I move my 25k from Ajeh to next to them.

5 June – Nduga is now a core!!!

4 July – I have a general die

13 Aug – My first 25k arrive, I order the other 25k here

I cannot declare war for Sukhothai since they are now a tributary of Shun so they would declare war back, I order my armies back to Ajeh island

5 Sept – Mombasa is now a core

I order a Conscription Center in Pagarruyung.

1 Oct – 11k rebellion in Trebizond.

26 Oct – They lose

1 Nov - With a relations of 132 I max Shun I pull my diplomat

25 Dec – Quelimane is a core, we are all cored.

Our diplomat returns from Shun and I send it to make nice with Delhi

20 Jan, 1799 – Conversion is successful in Madanda; next is Nduga

23 Feb – Event: Cossack raid – We lose 2223 cash

13 Mar – Busonga converts, next is Karagwe

1 Apr – I lose my claim on Jedysan in the Commonwealth

15 July – Inhambane converts next is Quelimane

1 Sept – I claim Kongo’s Kanongesha

1 Nov, 1799 – Our truce with Kongo and Busoga has ended

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 175 - The Third Theodoro/Kongo War


I declare war on Kongo for their Fort of Upemba

I order:

4 armies to Upemba
1 army each in the north into three minors
1 army in the south to a minor, two south to hold up in Malem
1 army to Bunyoro

25 Nov – 45k of them arrive to siege us in Soyo

2 Dec - The siege of Upemba is underway with a cannon cracking

20 Dec – Nduga converts, next is Nkore

I begin the siege of Bunyoro but they have bult a Fortress here and it’ll take a while

26 Dec – Three minor are ours and I move my two armies from Malem to head to Soyo and then the other four some to Bunyoro and some to minors

21 Jan, 1800 – We beat a 7k army in the Fort of Rund, I keep the army here to begin a siege early. We have hit the next 5 0 years but there are no more institutions.

7 Feb – Karagwe converts, next is Lundu

11 Feb – Another minor falls

16 Mar – We win in Soyo

1 April – I arrive in their capital and begin a siege with a fusillade

11 July – We captured their capital and order my army to move to nearby minors

24 Aug – Two minors fall to me

7 Sept – I defeat a 5k army

18 Sept – Upemba is ours, I order these forces to help the siege of Rund

6 Oct - Two more minors falls, I have a warscore of 58, what can I get?

Munene – 5 badboy, 4 score

Kanongesha- 10 badboy, 6 score

Upemba – 6 and 3

Kalundwe – 7 and 5

Only Kilwa cares

Anything else Kongo joins Kilwa



I spend around 60 ADM they are low dev for the most part. They have 8 left and if we do four twice more that’s two more wars. Also note that we took 5 in the first war and two from their ally, and then 7 in war 2, so that’s 16 from Kongo and two from their ally in three wars. Let’s do these four:

Munene – Spices are traded here, next to UK, us, Kongo, Jungle, Tropical, 9 dev Trade Station, Counting House, Kuba Fetishists, sends us 0.29

Kanongesha- Next to UK, Kongo, us, and then Copper Mines here, 17 dev, Luba Catholics, Savannah, Tropical, 0.47 made here, Weapons Manufactory, Church, Counting House,

Upemba – Next to Kongo’s Luba, us, Hills, Salt trade, Luba Fetishists, Tropical, Fortress, Naval Equipment Manufactory, Counting House they make 0.29

Kalundwe – Connects us, Makes 0.35 from Livestock with a Farm Estate, Counting House, Conscription Center, 13 dev, Savanna, Luba Fetishist, tropical

Another 4 African provinces for the glory of Theodoro!!! All are better goods than 3.0. That big war didn’t even take a year. It started November 1 last year and ended October 6 this year. I had enough warscore for loads more, but I stayed away from Kongo coalition building. I still have two claims on them and took two.

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 176 - Revolutionary Ideas

I order my armies back and to places with brewing rebellions.

12 Oct – Royal Marriage with Russia who’s ruler just died

9 Nov – Event: Good Harvest I choose gaining ADM power over 5556 cash

16 Nov – I send my extra spy to build a network in…huh, Oman are no longer allied with the Turks, just Transoxiana they have an army of 24k so a small strike force should be enough to take them out and Transoxiana has 26k. I order one African army to next to Transoxiana in the Fortress of Bukhara and one army to Arabia next to Oman, Russia is next to Transoxiana so I will bring them in. All five holdings are high dev and low trade value so we might not get everything.

2 Dec – Nkore converts, next is Malem

Rebellion in Lega, my army is still en route

28 Dec – Rebellion defeated

1 Jan, 1801 – New Tech:

ADMIN TECH 31 – Revolutionary Ideas - +500 growing capacity

I can make more states now:


Mombasa – Them, Malindi and Tanga

Quelimane - Them, Inhambane and Sofala

Uganda in Lake Victoria – Nkore, Buganda, Busoga

I order:

Counting House for Salt in Lualaba; Livestock in Kaonde; Grain in Nkore; Fish in Busoga

Basilica in:

Pariaman, Batak, Barus, Ngonde, Buhera, Zimbabwe, Nkoma Khoy, and Galcayo

Conscription Center In:

Bender, Iasi, Dagestan, Turkiye, Tarki, Saveh, and Kuching


1 Feb – The Ottomans are losing both wars

5 Feb – Quelimane converts, next is Malindi

11 Feb - Lundu also converts next is Mombasa

21 June – I am about to hit my DIP power cap so I spend some power raising dev

Sofala is now level 20 and I order a Stock Exchange here.

1 July – Rebellion in Kanongesha, have an army here

9 July – Rebels defeated

1 Sept – Malem converts, next is nothing

18 Dec – my army of 39k is in Arabia

1 Jan, 1802 - I lose my claim o the Commonwealth’s Oczakow

5 Feb – my army of 40k is in Bukhara, I declare war on Oman

[Abe Sargent]

The Historical Hegemon Series
Volume 12 - Theodoro
Chapter 177 - The Second Theodoro/Oman War

I order my armies in

25 Feb – I defeat the Transoxiana army

Malindi converts

27 Feb – I win in Oman and chase their army

6 Mar – I rout their army

11 Mar – Mombasa converts

23 Mar – I capture a minor in Transoxiana

27 Mar – I capture a minor in Oman

3 April – I begin the siege of Transoxiana’s capital of Urgench and Nizwa in Oman

23 April – Nizwa is ours

28 April – Urgench falls

1 May - I lose my claim on Sukhothai

25 May – Ibra is ours and I have every province of Oman, Transoxiana and a 100% warscore.

Oman’s three holdings would be 36 badboy and the Turks would care. And Kilwa. Transoxiana’s Khiva won’t annoy the Turks, but Urgench would, so I just take those three:



I do peace and then spend 108 to core them.

From Oman:

Baraimi – Inland, Desert, Omani culture, Sunni faith, Arid, Livestock, Farm Estate, Conscription Center, open space, 18 dev, makes us 0.94.

Nizwa – Inland, Desert, 32 dev, Arid, Wool, Sunni, Omani, they have built Textile Manufactory, Conscription Center, Basilica, University, Stock Exchange, Counting House, 0.48 monthly

From Transoxiana:

Khiva – Drylands, Inland, 40 dev, Uzbek culture which is accepted, Sunni faith, Entrepot, Arid, Market Town two empty building slots, Textile Manufactory, Conscription Center, Stock Exchange, Counting House, Basilica, 0.63 made here

Another fast war and three more additions, all high dev but low goods. I’ll keep my armies here for rebellion protection.