Songhai - Abe's New EU3 Dynasty - Complete!!!

[Abe Sargent]

And So it Begins...


Feb 13, 1672 - I declare war against Algiers. Our stability drops by two.

I order armies in Libya, Tunis and Aures into the three Algierian provinces.

Venice and Tripoli join us.

Morocco and the Ottomans join Algiers (they had guaranteed their independence but were not allies). War, bloody war, and Najd and Iraq both join as well.

I order my Tunisian fleet to the Canarian Sea, my Arguin troops into Rio de Oro and my army in Zamfara where I have a missionary to Tuat. I also order the Mecca army into Medina and the Gaza army into Al Karak, plus the Diamientia army is ordered to Tabouk.

Glory for Songhai!



Mar 1 - We arrive in Biskra, the capital of Algiers, and assault the defenders.

Mar 3 - We crush the defenders and initiate the siege of Biskra.

Mar 8 - A Morocco army arrives at Kabylia and begins a siege

Marc 14 - We take Gafsa in a siege.

I offer the Ottomans peace for 150 of our ducats and they accept so they are now out of the war. Makes it much, much easier, but I cannot take Medina in this war.

I order my troops marching to Ottoman territory to halt.

I order the Mecca troops into Najd territory.

Apr 8 - We win in Cyrenaica and begin a siege here as well.

Apr 24 - After a quick assault, Cyrenaica is now in our grasp.

Apr 25 - Mahe is under siege by 1000 troops from Oman. Boy am I scared that my level 3 fort will fall to these 1000 attackers! This is why I pump up the fort levels on islands.

May 1 - We win in Najd and begin a siege

May 3 - Biskra falls to us.

May 4 - Algiers accepts peace for Gafsa, Cyrenaica, some ducats, and they are now our vassal.


Stage 1 completed

[Abe Sargent]

May 8 - We win in Tabouk and begin a siege.

May 18 - Sugar in Mauritius

May 21 - My army from The Canarias arrives in Tangiers and begins a siege. I get a Great Leader event for my treasurer and I choose to lower inflation.

May 24 - We force the Moroccans from Kabylia

June 15 - A nasty Iraqi army arrives in Judea and attacks my troops here.

July 16 - We win in Tlemcen and begin a siege of the province.

July 24 - We lost in Judea but I have ordered forces from Gaza there to defeat this ornery Iraqi army.

Aug 2 - We capture the capital of Najd.

Aug 3 - We take some ducats from Najd and they lose their cores on Mecca, Medina and Tabouk.

I order my troops in Najd to Jabal Shammar, an Iraqi province.

Aug 5 - We win in Judea against the troublesome Iraqis

Aug 10 - I assault and take Tlemcen

Aug 21 - We win a naval battle in the Coast of Morocco

Aug 21 - We win a naval battle in the Coast of Morocco

Aug 26 - We win in Kabylia

Sept 7 - We win in Gaza against the Iraqis

Sept 24 - We took Tangiers

Oct 3 - We win in Jabal Shammar and begin a siege

Oct 10 - We assault and capture Oran.

Oct 17 - I decline a white peace offer from Iraq. I want Tabouk. I believe taking a land connection to Mecca is acceptable outside of Africa lands to take.

[Abe Sargent]

Oct 23 - Agri Rev in Barwe

Oct 25 - We win in Judea again

Nov 1 - We offer 100 ducats to Oman for peace. They accept. Now its just Morocco and Iraq.

Nov 26 - We have finally crushed the Moroccan army that attacked us initially.

Dec 10 - Rio de Oro falls and I orde that army to assault the 13000 Moraccans in Sus.

Dec 12 - We fail in an assault in Mellia.

Dec 28 - We capture Atlas

Jan 3, 1673 - Dongola expands

Jan 7 - We arrive in Sus and attack the now 14000 troops here with our own 13k.

Jan 26 - We win in Sus. Siege begins

Feb 18 - We complete the mission to put a university in Sofala.

Next mission - Naval Race vs. Venice.

Mar 2 - We capture Toubkhal and I order these troops to Marrakech, the capital of the Moroccans.

Mar 12 - Mellia falls.

Mar 16 - We crush resistance in Fez and begin a siege here.

Apr 14 - We win in Marrakech and begin a siege

May 7 - Mauritius expands

May 8 - We capture Fez

Venice captures Al-Djazair

May 29 - Sus falls to us.

June 17 - Sueta falls

June 24 - Iraq drives us out of Jabal Shammar. I wasn;t paying attention. I order my gaza army into
Tabouk and thence to Jabal Shammar.

June 29 - Tuat falls to us.

Aug 10 - We assault anc capture Figuig

Aug 23 - Tabouk falls and I order my troops in Jabal Shammar to force Iraq to cede it to me.

Sept 1 - Stability gain and Dongola is now a full province

Sept 15 - We win in Marrakech when the last Moroccan army attacks us

Sept 18 - We take Safi

Oct 9 - Marrakech falls!

Just one province left, Ifni

Oct 24 - We lose in an assault on Ifni

Oct 28 - We win in Jabbal Shammar

Nov1 - We lose in Sus to the Moroccan army

Nov 29 - Ifni falls.

Nov 30 - Peace for Tabouk, Oran, Tlemcen, Atlas, Figuig, Sus, Ifni and Safi.


Let me get you a map.

[Abe Sargent]

[Abe Sargent]

The beauty of this war is that I DOWd Algiers and got Morocco and Iraq in the bargain. I used my massive warscore to cut Morocco into pieces, which will make it harder for them to move troops around and such. We had a ton of success because of our higher land tech. Compare our 28 to Morocco’s 22 and Iraq’s 21.



I order a missionary to Barwe


Alright, let’s take a look at the provinces I gained.


Cyrenaica - 23313 Berber Sunnis work the wool trade here in this coastal province adjacent to Libya and our vassals Tripoli in Sirt. There is a textile manufactory and temple here, so we are making 17,94 ducats annually.

Gafsa - 3652 Sunni Berber farmers work this internal province making us 6.97 ducats annually. This province is adjacne to Constantine, Tunis, Gabes, our vassal in Tripolitania, Aures and Algiers in Biskra. It comes with a workshop and temple.

Tabouk - This former Iraqi province has 5353 Bedouin Arabic Shiite shepherds making us 20.10 ducats annually in part due to their textile manufactory. It also has a workshop, market place, temple and courthouse. It is adjacent to Gaza and Sinai in the north, and many othe nations, incluing the Turks, Najd and Iraq. If I take Medina, I will have a land connection to Mecca.

Dongola - 6009 slave traders make us 15.56 ducats annually in this former colony. I order up a market place.


All of the Morocco provinces are Sunni and Magreb Arab except for Oran which is Berber.

Oran - This port is adjacent to Morocco in Al-Djazair and us in Tlemcen. Over a century ago, this is the province that was in Castillean hands but Morocco took it back in war, and now we pluck this wine province from them. 63394 Berber Sunnis make us 42.08 ducats here which includes a Refinery, Courthouse, Temple, Regimental Camp, Marketplace, Workshop and Constable. I order a Customs House too.

Tlemcen - South of Oran and adjacent to Atlas, Aures and Morocco in Mellila and Al-Djazair lies the shepherd province of Tlemcen where 389781 wool traders make us 23.82 ducats annually with their Teltixle Manufactory, courthouse, temple, constable, workshop and marketplace.

Atlas - Also rocking a regimental camp, textile manufactory, marketplace, worksop, temple and courthouse is the 11117 people of Atlas, making us 23.24 ducats in the wool trade. This province is adjacent to ours in Aures, Tlemcen and Figuig.

Figuig - 14003 wool traders make us 20.05 ducats annually. Textile manufactory, constable, workshop, courthouse, market place and temple.

Sus - This inland province is adjacent to Figuig and our ports in the west coast if Ifni and Sus. 46.63 ducats are made by the 5534 people in the gold trade here. Comes with Constable, workshop, marketplace, courthouse and temple.

Ifni - On the western coast lies the 7263 fishermen making us 14.68 ducats annually. Next to Sus and Safi. Workshop, marketplace, constable, courthouse and temple.

Safi - 21.12 dcuats are made in this textile manufactory town (wool). 13334 people have a workshop, marketplace, constable, temple and courthouse.


As you can tell, we nipped a lot of textile manufactoreies, which will drive up our production tech amazingly.

Oh, and my badboy took a major nosedive down, so we have to be a good boy for a while.

[Abe Sargent]

Dec 2 - I accept a war call against the Papacy again byVenice.

Dec 11 - rebels in Cayor and Tabouk

Dec 13 - Religious revolt in Zimbabwe

Dec 16 - We crush rebels in Zimbabwe

Jan 24, 1674 - Rebels taken care of in Tabouk

June 1 - We lose in Cayor

July 1 - Production Tech Increase

July 20 - Rebels in Cayor taken down.

Sept 22 - I accept a white peace with the Papacy

Sept 30 - I get a diplomatic insult but I try to ease the tension and our relations with various neighbors improves.

Oct 31 - Gift sent to Venice

Dec 3 - I order level 2 forts in all of the old Moroccan provinces that didn’t have them already. Plus another in in Cyrenaica and Tabouk

Jan 20 - 1675 - I invest in naval supremacy again in Colonial Ventures

Mar 1 - Stability increases and Mauritius expands

Aug 14 - Rebellion in Gafsa

Aug 18 - Crushed

Oct 1 - Land Tech increase. We can now build War Colleges.

Missionary sent to Sofala.

Oct 14 - Rebels in Tanga

Nov 1 - We discover Diego Garcia and dispatch colonists to its shores. This will likely be the last island I colonize.

Nov 21 - Rebels in Safi

Nov 23 - Defeated in just two days

Dec 6 - I order level three fortsin Safi, Ifni, Figuig, Atlas, Tlemcen, Oran, and Tabouk.

Apr 21, 1676 - Animist rebels in Sofala

May 5 - Rebels defeated in Tanga

I Adopt the Title of Khalifa. Stability cost -8%, Missionary chance +5%, +1 prestige annually.

[Abe Sargent]

May 30 - Event - Engineers are Busy, gain level 3 fort in Asyut

July 16 - Patriot rebels in Quelimane with its 0.1% revolt risk.

Aug 1 - Naval Tech increases and we can now build Admiralty.

Aug 28 - We defeat the rebels in Sofala

Aug 30 Mauritius expands.

Oct 21 - rebels crushed in Quelimane

Nov 18 - Zimbabwe converts!

Dec 3 - Once again, I decline a proposal for war from Venice for Ragusa. We are now allyless outside of our own vassals.

I send gifts to the Ottomans and Venetians.

Apr 25, 1677 - Mauritius is now a full province.


Mauritius - 1516 Sugar growers work this island next to Bourbon making us 23.58 ducats annually from both the high tax value and the trade value of sugar. I order a fort built here.


May 1 - Trade Tech Increase

May 24 - The unclaimed and unpopulated island of Diego Garcia is now our newest colony.

July 22 - Quality Ivory Event

Nov 1 - Govnment Tech Increase. I take the Scientific Revolution national idea, which will speed up my research considerably.

Nov 28- Gifts to Ottomans and Venetians again

Jan 1, 1678 - Missionary to Tabouk.

Jan 12 - Zamfara converts!

Feb 7 - rebels in Infni defeated in two days

Apr 25 - The next thing in Mauritius is a market place.

May 25 - Fort Decays event for Timbuktu and I pay the money

July 18 - I accept another alliance offer from Venice.

Aug 2 - Just for fun I order Independent rebels in Cyprus. I was caught and successful.

Aug 10 - My rebels have defeated the Cypriots and are besieging the island.

Nov 21 - Rebellion in Haud defeated in days

Jan 10 - Diego Garcia expandacia

March 3 - Our monarch has died and we are now ruled by a Regency Council until the heir is ready to lead on his own.

Limited diplomatic choices result.

I order Land Enclosures on Mauritius

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Apr 20 - Revolt in Gafsa

Apr 22 - Which we win

Apr 26 - I order a Refinery in Mauritius

May 17 - Tabouk converts!

July 5 - Barwe converts!

Oct 8 - Ogaden converts to Shiite

Nov 22 - Revolt in Kefa destroyed in two days

Dec 22 - Gifts to Ottomans and Venice

Mar 10, 1680 - Another Venice-Papacy war we agree to help them out with

Apr 12 - Missionary to Uteve

May 1 - Trade Tech Increase

May 16 - Epidemic in Berber

July 1 - Govnment Tech Increase - We can now build Tax Assessors

I order a War College built in Gao

July 13 - Diego Garcia will be a fish province

Aug 27 - Uteve converts!

Aug 31 - Diego Garcia expands

Oct 6 - Peace for ducats again.

Feb 1, 1681 - Butana is now a core

Mar 14 - Tabouk had a rebellion. Note the use of past tense.

Apr 7 - Kefa converst from Orthodox to Sunni!

May 9 - Slider-Time. I go with Centralization and we get a small pretender rebellion in Grain Coast.

May 12 - Revolt in Safi

May 17 - No longer

June 1 - Menabe and Fazughli are now cores

July 12 - Gifts to Ottomans and Venice

Aug 18 - Pretenders defeated

Mar 1, 1682 - Fort Decays event and I pay

Apr 27 - Diego Garcia expands

July 6 - I order a Tax Assessor in Gao and a few other provinces like Tunis, Alexandria, Timbuktu

I send a Missionary to Mombasa

July 21 - I canceled the navy mission and got one to build a university in Barwe

Oct 1 - Yet another Agri Rev event for Constantine. I think that migth be the fourth I’ve had.

Dec 28 - I Establish an Ibadat Khana. We get -1 national revolt risk but +6 stability cost modifier.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 30, 1683 - Agri Rev in Grain Coast

May 6 - War against Sardinia is declared and I agree to join.

May 12 - I eased the tension for a Diplomatic Insult.

May 23 - I land troops in Sardinia (right across the strait from Tunis, where I keep an army and my navy

July 1 - Land Tech Increase and we can now build swivel cannon

Aug 19 - Suakin becomes Malinese

Nov 20 - Rebellion in Tlemcen

Nov 25 - Defeated

Dec 17 - Diego Garcia expands

Dec 29 - I take increased taxbase in Cape for Road Construction event

Feb 1, 1684 - Naval Tech Increase

Apr 5 - Our new Sultan - Ismail II, Admin 6, Military 3, Diplo 7. Solid.

May 9 - Level 2 fort ordered in Mauritius

July 2 - After an assault on a level 4 fort by bringing over another army plus Venice’s troops, we crack Sardinia. I force vassalize them and take 1000 ducats.

Ha ha Venice, I took this prize from you. Foiled you!

Now they are still at war, so perhaps Venice will take my new vassal. Unrealistic, but likely. Still, I got my blood money so I’m fine.

July 6 - I accept a Najd request for military access

Sept 1 - I send a missionary to Mozambique

Dec 19 -I send colonists to Dar Nuba, another interior province by Ethiopia and Nubia areas. We have apretty good chance of taking despite hostile natives

Feb 25, 1685 - Attempt failed and sending in a new one.

Mar 12 - Agri Rev in Borno

I order a university in Barwe

May 4 - Success in Dar Nuba

Venice captured and annexed my vassal, Corsica.

July 2 - I order level 3 fort in Mauritius

July 3 - Fortification Upgrade in Butana

July 11 - Dar Nuba failed to expand

Aug 6 - Diego Garcia expands

Aug 1- Revolt in Gafsa.

Aug 18 - We win

Sept 5 - A lot of our reputation is gone, we have a good diplo guy, Tripoli and Algiers have lousy diplo guys, relations are maxed, and both say that I have a Maybe chacne of success at the annexation offer. I send to both and see which one bites.

Sept 6 - Algiers does.


Biskra - 14065 Berber Sunnis work the iron mines here making 33,08 ducats with their weapons manufactory, temple and workshop. I order a marketplace.

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Oct 10 - I send a gift to Tripoli

Oct 15 - Dar Nuba expands

Nov 3 - I Improve Frontier Defences in Fazughli

Nov 11 - I send another gift to Tripoli

Nov 25 - GOLD RUSH!

Jan 28, 1686 - Agri Rev in Katsina. I order a Customs House here

Apr 1 - Diego Garcia is now a full province.


Diego Garcia - This island province south of India is the easternmost province we’ll have. 1001 fisherman make us 10.10 ducats annually.


July 3 Constable in Mauritius

Aug 29 - Oman took out The Hedjaz and now controls Socotra

Sept 9 - Dar Nuba expands

Jan 1, 1687 - Our Land Tech Increases and we can now build level 4 forts. I order three in Mecca, Tabouk and Judea

Missionary sent to Kilwa

Feb 28 - Road Constructions in Bambuk and I buy some tax value

Mar 27 - I order a fort for Diego Garcia

June 1 - Naval Tech increase

June 6 - Slaves in Dar Nuba

July 3 - Workshop in Mauritius

Sept 7 - Dar Nuba expands

Sept 14 - I get Great Leader for one of my trade tech guys and choose to apply it to inflation reduction.

Sept 22 - Animist rebels in Mozambique

Oct 5 - Kilwa converts

Oct 10 - Agri Rev in Zamfara

Dec 17 - Rebels defeated in Mozambique

Jan 9, 1688 - A spy from Morocco was caught trying to support revolt in Kanem and succeeded. Interesting.

I fabricate claims against them. I gain an CB for a year. They want to play spy games, let them fear my wrath for a second attack.

Mar 1 - Gaza and Judea are now part of our patrimony

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Mar 15 - I DOW Morocco. My stability drops one because I have a CB.

Both of our allies are in

Apr 8 - We’ve already won a few minor battles and begun a few sieges.

Apr 24 - We win against their main army in Marrakech

Apr 28 - We assault and capture Tangiers

May 25 - We’ve won some more battles and I reject a white peace offer

June 5 - After defeating the remnants of the main Moroccan army, we assault and capture Toubkhal

June 17 - Fez falls

June 30 - We win in Tangiers

July 14 - Marrakech falls

July 21 - Ceuta falls

Aug 30 - We lose in Toubkhal

Sept 10 - Al-Djazair falls to us

Sept 12 - We assautl and capture Mellila

Sept 17 - Rio de Oro falls

Oct 9 -We defeat the Moroccan army in Toubkhal

Nov 27 - Tuat falls

I offer peace

They accept.


We take:

Tangiers - 23154 Sunni Berber fishermen make us 24.54 ducats annually. This province comes equipped with a courthouse, temple, constable, marketplace and workshop. Tangiers is a small port province un the corner of Africa right by Gilraltar on the other side of the straights. It is only adjacent to our provinces of Ceuta and Toubkhal. I order a customs house here.

Ceuta - Coastal province east of Tangiers and west of Mellia, also adjacent to Toubkhal and Fez. 8607 Berber Sunni fishermen make us 23.33 ducats annually. Comes with courthouse, temple, constable, workshop and marketplace. I order Land Enclosures here. I order a customs house here.

Toubkhal - Another coastal province connecting Tangiers and Ceuta to the north with Safi to the south and touching the Moroccan provinces of Marrakech and Fez to the east and southeast. 23418 shepherds make us 21.32 ducats annually largely supplemented by the textle manufactory here. It also comes with the basic five improvements seen elsewhere. I order a elvel 2 fort. The home of Sunni Berbers

Mellila - 17314 Maghreb Arabic Sunni farmers make us 11.99 ducats. The ssame base five items are here with a regimental camp as a supplement. This coastal province is next to Atlas, Tlemcen and Ceuta, plus the Moroccan province of Fez.

Al-Djzair - The NE corner of the remaining Moroccan territory was sliced off and handed to us in this war. 114390 Berber Sunni farmers make us 22.38 ducats annually with a solid portion of that coming from a University. The place also has the standard five buildings plus a regimental camp. I Promote Land Enclosures. I order a Customs House constructed here. This port is west of Kabylia, northwest of Biskra, north of Aured, east of Oran and northeast of Tlemcen.


The result of this is that Morocco is down to four provinces - Rio de Oro and Tuat, which are former Portugese colonies, and Marrakech and Fez which are now cut off from water.

[Abe Sargent]

Nov 30 - I accept war against the Papacy again.

Dec 4 - We get a nasty little event - Monetary Reforms. We can Enact Them and lose two stability or gain 3 inflation from not doing so. Neither is good, but I choose the inflation bump.

Jan 15, 1689 - We land troops in Roma and begin a siege

Feb 4, 1689 - Dar Nuba expands

Apr 5 - Missionary sent to Sena

Apr 18 - Peace is declared with the Papacy without ever taking their capital.

June 1 - Stab increases back to full

June 13 - Dar Nuba expands

July 13 - I proclaim a guarantee for Morocco so I can DOW anyone who tries to poach my final four provinces before I get another chance to.

Jan 20, 1690 - Mozambique converts!

Mar 12 - We complete a university in Barwe which also completes the mission. The next mission is to build a Fine Arts Academy in Zimbabwe

May 1 - We have both Production and Trade techs increase

June 3 - Dar Nuba expands

I order a level 2 fort in Diego Garcia and a Customs House in Mauritius

I order a level 4 fort in Gaza, Sinai, Diamientia and Alexandria.

Sept 1 - Govnment Tech Increase

Oct 7 - Sofala converts!

Oct 19 - We get Fortification Improvement - a level 4 fort in Tlemcen

Nov 15 - Sena converts!

That’s three of the ex-Mutapan provinces converting in year.

Jan 14, 1691 - Rebels in Oran

Feb 14 - We win in Oran

Apr 10 - Dar Nuba expands

May 29 - Quality Ivory event

June 1 - Abomey is now a core

June 5 - Level 4 forts ordered in Tunis and Constantine

July 17 - Missionary sent to Masapa

Jan 1, 1692 - I order level 4 forts in Cape Verde, St. Helena and The Canarias

June 18 - Revolt in Biskra

June 27 - Defeated

Sept 1 - Dar Nuba is now a full province

Dar Nuba - east of Fazughli and adjacent to several unclaimed provinces is the 6001 slave traders of Dar Nuba. Making 16.41 ducats annually for us, I order a market place here.

[Abe Sargent]

Sept 30 - I get an event - Sultan’s Reputation Tarnished, I Embrace it and gain one badboy rather than lose a stability to solve it.

Jan 9, 1693 - I decline to join Venice in another anit-Ragusa campaign but I send them a gift to make up for it.

Jan 15 - What to Mahe Bourbon and Mauritius have in common? A level 4 fort was ordered in each today.

May 13 - Cultural Assimilation event - Mogadishu is now Malinese

Sept 6 - We gain a lvl 3 fort in Al-Djazair

Oct 2- Agri rev in Zamfara

Missionary sent to Urungwe

Nov 22 - Agri Rev in Grain Coast

Dec 20 - I join Venice in a war against some European powers

Feb 10, 1694 - The Ottomans are now at war with Venice.

June 18 - Mombasa converts!

July 2 - I order a Customs House in Mombasa

July 12 - Rebellion in Tangiers

Aug 14 - Rebels slapped and beaten

Sept 7 - We give Austria 25 ducats for peace with their alliance.

Nov 16 - Agri Rev in Gojjam

Jan 18, 1695 - Another Salt Crisis

Apr 4 - Revolt in Mellila

Apr 12 - Defeated

May 1 - I send colonists to Dar Ja’al, an interior province adjacent to Berber, Dongola and Butana. We have just a 50/50 chance of taking with the first hit. I;ve had bad luck recently in colonizing with Dongola and Dar Nuba so let’s hope forsome good here.

June 1 - Tunis and Gabes are now cores

June 25 - I get ANOTHER Monetary Reform event and my inflation jacks up another 3. Geez.

July 12 - Yay, Dar Ja’al expands.

Sept 22 - Dar Ja’al expands

Dec 1 - And it expands again

Jan 1, 1696 - Missionary dispatched to Zumbo. This is the final Mutapan province to get one.

[Abe Sargent]

In order to counter these inflation events I order Tax Assessors in:

Cairo
Diamientia
Sinai
Gaza
Tabouk
Judea
Mahe
Bourbon
Mauritius
Zimbabwe
Uteve
Little Karoo
Cape
Roggeveld
Great Karoo
Benguela
Kisarna
Ndongo
Kongo
Luanda
Kanem
Bagirmi
Borno
Gobir
Benin
Kumasi
Massina
Jenne
Wasuju
Bure
Segu
Bambuk
Futa Jallon
Wolof
Cape Verde
Brakna
Damagaram
Katsina
Zamfara
Zazzau
Kano
Mandara
Calabar
Bonny
Ife
Oyo
Barwe
Sena
Tabora
Ujiji
Dar Nuba
Kefa
Gojjam
Gonder
Awsa


Hopefully this will help our inflation bunches

[Abe Sargent]

Feb 9 - Dar Ja’al expands’al

Feb 22 - Figuig converts to Shiite

Mar 13 - Grain in Dar Ja’al

Apr 21 - Dar Ja’al expands

June 1 - NLD - Kordofan, next to Dar Ja’al and Dar Nuba. I believe is the final undiscovered province in l’Afrique

July 19 - This time I decline Venice’s alliance offer.

Oct 16 - Dar Ja’al expands

Feb 2, 1697 - The Tax Assessors look to be a real help in fighting the inflation bug.

Apr 25 - Tripoli rejects our annexation request

May 26 - Gift Sent

Junt 27 - Gift sent

Sept 6 - Masapa Converts!

Sept 17 - Dar Ja‘al expands

Oct 1 - Tripoli again rejects our annexation offer.

Nov 3 - Gift

Dec 4 - Gift

Jan 11, 1698 - I order level 2 fort in Tangiers and Ceuta. Level 4s in Kabylia and Ak-Djazair and Oran

Mar 6 - Tripoli rejects our kind offer again

Mar 31 - Leve 4 fort gained in Cairo.

Apr 7 - Gift to Tripoli and Missionary to Malindi

May 8 - Gift

May 24 - Sliders time. I move one Centralization and get a small pretender rebellion in Whydah

July 9 - Ag Rev in Fazughli

Sept 15 - Rebels defeated

Sept 18 - Dar Ja’al expands

Dec 1 - Production Tech Increases

Feb 1, 1699 - Tripoli accepts our offer.

I destroy the COT in Tripolitania.


Tripolitania - This port of 108634 Tuareg Sunni ivory traders makes us 32.39 ducats annually. There is a temple, regimental camp, workshop and courthouse here. I order a marketplace. Gabes and Gafsa are to the west and Sirt is to the east.

Sirt - 11073 shepherds make us 20.90. The Tuareg Sunnis have a textile manufactory, and the exact same buildings as Tripolitania after that. I order a level 3 fort built here.


Morocco is the only power left with any mainland provinces, although I consider Socotra and Madeira to be gettable as well, plus Madina.

[Abe Sargent]

Apr 27 - I invest in naval supremacy in Colonial Ventures

May 16 - Animist rebels in Zumbo

June 11 - We win in Zumbo

July 12 - Great Karoo changes to Shiite

Oct 2 - The Ottomans send us an insult. I send them a gift.


Didn't realize how close I was to the 300 Year in Review.

[Abe Sargent]

300 Year Review


We have the third most prestige of any nation.

We have 7% inflation

We get 553 ducats income, whereas the next highest, Venice, gets 360, and France gets 355.

We are several techs off the leader in every area

We have not added to our armies in a while, nor have I updated our troops with the better troops available to me. As such we have dropped to 8th in army size. We still have 3rd most big ships though.

Songhai now has 164 provinces. Great Britain is at 150 or so. France is at 123. Castille is right behind at 119 or 120.

Alexandria and Timbuktu are #1 and #2 in the world in trade.

[Abe Sargent]

Trade Goods from top to bottom:

Cloth
Chinaware
Tobacco
Salt
Coffee
Fur
Copper
Slaves
Iron
Spices
Suga
Cotton
Tea
Wine
Ivory
Fish
Naval Supplies
Grain
Wool
Gold

[Abe Sargent]

Our highest tax provinces:

Alexandria - 76.0
Timbuktu
Kongo
Cairo
Cape
Bure
Gao
Bambuk
Constantine
Zamfara
Judea
Grain Coast
Borno
Jenne
Dendi
Benguela
Ceuta
Delta
Futa Jallon
Massina
Barwe
Segu
Kumasi
Katsina - 11.1

[Abe Sargent]

Top Production Cities that are no Gold:

Timbuktu - 64.1
Gobir
Oran
Futa Jallon
Biskra
Bourbon
Mauritius
Aures
Damagaram
Tadimekket
Benin
Suakin
Awsa
Tripolitania
Gaza
Gold Coast
Sinai
Berbera
Azawadd
Taodeni
Sierra Leone
Gabu - 20.7


Salt fell in value a bit so provinces with sugar, wine, slaves and ivory rose and most of these provinces have manufactories of one sort or another

[Abe Sargent]

If we wanted to release some of our lands as vassals, here is who we could create:

Algiers
Tunisia
The Mamluks
Mali
Ashanti
Oyo
Benin
Hausa
Kanem Borno
Sokoto
Loango
Kongo
Mutapa
Swahili
Adal
Ethiopia
Tripoli

[Abe Sargent]

In celebration of 300 years of success. I would like to launch our final war.

Nov 19 - Another insult from the Ottomans

Dec 1 - I have a spy fabricate claims against Morocco. I DOW Morocco. Our stability drops by one. I order armies into Tuat, Fez, Marrakech and Rio de Oro. Only Marrakech has an army of any size. Oman and the Ottomans join war against us.

Dec 26 - Dar J’al expands and is now a full province


Dar Ja’al - 6021 farmers make us 4.3 ducats annually. I order a fort here.


Jan 7, 1700 - We win the Battle of Marrakech

Jan 9 - Fez falls after an assault

Feb 16 - I lose in Medina

Feb 27 - Marrakech falls

Apr 4 - We capture Tuat

Apr 21 - Kano changed to Shiite

May 30 - We fail an assault in Rio de Oro

June 4 - Then we try again and they have so few defenders left we win.

Morocco accepts peace for Fez, Tuat, Rio de Oro and vassalization.

Now I can turn my forces east. I want to capture Socotra from Oman and Medina from the Ottomans

[Abe Sargent]

June 4 - We pay Najd 50 ducats for peace.

July 6 - An army lands in Socotra and begins a siege.

July 16 - We lose a battle in Hawran

Aug 6 - We win in Judea

Aug 23 - We win in Medina and begin a siege

Aug 29 - Zumbo converts and we win in Al Karak. Siege begins

Sept 2 - We lose in Hawran again

Oct 1 - Trade and Govnment Tech Increase. I take the Grand Army idea.

Oct 12 - We win a battle in Medina

Nov 14 - We lose badly in Al Karak

Nov 24 - We lose in Judea

Dec 22 - We capture Medina

I order my large Medinan army to break the siege of Mecca

Feb 1, 1701 - Land Tech Increase

Feb 20 - We capture Muscat, the capital of Oman

Feb 22 - We lose in Mecca

Mar 8 - Another loss in Judea

Apr 27 - I land the Muscat army in Socotra to assist with that siege

May 1 - One of our advisors died and Naval tech Increase

June 4 - Major armies march to Judea and Mecca to relieve sieges. Level 4 forts are great!

40000 troops are marching to Judea. 19000 to Mecca

June 16 - Malindi converts

June 17 - Sinai converts to Shiite. I send in a missionary

June 29 - Socotra falls

June 30 - Oman accepts peace for Socotra and Medina.

[Abe Sargent]

And that is the final war of the campaign. With Socotra in our hands, we have a new island province. With Medina in our hands, we now have land routes to Judea and Mecca. We have the three non-captial provinces of Morocco in our grasps and Morocco is now our vassal and will be assimilated everntually.

The only three provinces in all of Africa that are not ours are three unclaimed provinces by Dar Nuba and Dar Ja’al.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, campaign done in 1701. Spend ten years absorbing terrain, dropping badboy which is rather high, then annex Morocco, then spend another 5 years reducing the rebellions and dropping badboy until I come out in 1715 or so firing on all cylinders with the only united continent in history. Then I’d have until 1821 or so to play around with a fully loaded Africa.



What else is happening in the world?

No changes in Iberia. France has not gained land in Europe. Scandinavia is growing though.

Venice has taken provinces in the Polish areas including Danzig. Mecklemburg has expanded into a 12 province power.

The Golden Horde has almost destroyed Muscowy and is overcome almost all of Russia. The Ottomans are pushing here and there and have arm of territory around Hungary reaching as far inland as Sandomierz.

Austria is down to 5 province. Venice is growing into Croatia and Slovenia.

Virtually every province in the Americas has been claimed except the extreme inland ones. Great Britain and France are at a war, and all of the GB provinces in Canada have been captured. Perhaps France will be growing at the end of this year.

Countries have been colonizing around their previous areas, just deeper. GB has colonized as far west as California although France has the western coast down to Baja California. There are a few coastal provinces in Alaska region open for colonization.

No major changes in Central and South America.

Even places like New Zealand, Tahiti, Somoa, Fiji, and such are getting gobbled up in the quest for land.

The Mughal Empire has set up a few colonies in the Indies. Portugal, France and GB have conquered land from the natives to “colonize” the region and actually colonies have begun from GB, who now has cores here, as I predicted.

GB is focusing on the Phillipines.

Japan has swept through the mainland, taking most of Korea and most of Manchu.

Ming is hemorrhaging provinces. It has lost most of SE Asia and Ryukyu has taken mainland provinces from it.

The Mughals are trying to unite India under the Islamic Star and Crescent and succeeding.

[Abe Sargent]

My comments on the game.

As always, it still needs work in the trade goods area. Take Socotra, for example. In EU, it is represented by fish. There’s really nothing you can assign it. It wasn;t known as an area for naval supplies or grain or spices. However, in real life, Socotra was much more valuable, because on it grows the Dragon’s Blood Tree. This highly unusual plant can only be found in the island and its red sap was labelled Dragon’s Blood, and it was highly sought after as a dye. Add dyes to the game, and Socotra becomes more valuable, and you can use them to help other provinces as well (Libya springs to mind).

Examples include whales, rubber, dyes, wax, and exotic foodstuffs. I’d have exotic foodstuffs found in the Americas only instead of grain. At first, they have a high trade value, but over time, their trade value harshly drops to that of grain (as nations around the world start to grow their own potatoes and peppers and such.). For Shamanist and Animist nations, however, exotic foodstuffs would have the same trade value as grain (ie very little,because they live there).

I did like the variation of trade goods over time, so it made the game more dynamic. However, perhaps the goods were a bit too dynamic. I can’t ever see spices as anything but top 5 trade good, no matter what year or the economic status looks like. Spices caused the trips to the new world and around Africa to find alterative and cheap ways to purchase spices and take away from Venice’s stranglehold on the western European spice trade. A good that is that world changing should not be anywhere but at or near the very top.

I really, really disliked the random trade good. I’ll be honest, I once did a quit and save on two occasions. One was when Fernando Po came up an ivory province and they other was when Taodeni did the same. Come on now. There are no elephants on islands or in the Sahara.

It seemed like every province was the same three (grain, ivory, slaves) with very little variance unless you made it to the South African provinces or islands. Why couldn’t there have been more fish provinces, since virtually all of the provinces are coastal? Why not more extrapolation? Wine in hilly regions, for example. Don’t make things that don’t exist, like copper or iron mines in places where there was no copper or iron, but you could add naval supplies to jungles, for example, because there are numerous examples of jungle colonies that were timbered for ships in real life.

No African empire would sell its own people into slavery for other countries, no matter how lucatrive. Can you see the Roman Empire selling its own citizens to the Germanic Tribes for cash?

I would like to see you have a decision for provinces that allows you to switch from the current trade good to a random trade good assigned to that province. Make it cost some ducats and you lose one taxbase in the province permanently. If you don’t like it, switch again, and this time you can’t get either the first or the second good, but the cost in tax value, and now add manpower, and ducats is high. This would allow an African empire to audible out of slaves. Make the Europeans find other ways to get labor for their plantations.

Add a bunch of events to cause issues with Africa empiers selling slaves. If a country has over 20 provinces, and has an African culture and over 10% of their provinces are slave provinces, start giving them some nasty stability hits and rebellions.

I’d also want slaves to be more realistic. I’d like to see slave provinces LOSE people and tax value and manpower over time.

I loved the decisions added in a previous expansion, and the missions were alright although they need tweaking. Too many were too hard or too easy, with sometimes lousy rewards and sometimes amazing rewards.

I used spies here a lot more that previously and I;v ecome to appriacte them but they are really weak or strong abilities with few in the middle. I’d like to see some of them amped up in power.

I’d love to see a spy with a steal maps option.

The whole, I’ll be your ally and then a few days or a week later I cancel our alliance is very very problematic. I had serious issues with it the entire time. That needs to be fixed.

Overall, a solid experience. Yay!

Oh, and I knew I had won the dynasty when I took Timbuktu in the first couple of years. That was when I had enough economic power that I was able to form my own empire.

[Alan T]

Nice job! Any chance to see a final full world map?

[Abe Sargent]

Anything's possible!