Chapter 18: Family Reunions
The map of the world, 1548. Notice the BPB and BWB.
December 12, 1548: Somehow I ended up at war with Bohemia, with Cologne involved. I occupy Cologne and vassalize them. The goal: HRE.
January 1, 1549: Land 22: Latin Caracole Cavalry. We upgrade.
January 10: Brandenburg grabs 3 provinces from Bohemia, continuing to blob. We WP with Bohemia.
May 27, 1550: We inherit Great Britain! Oh wait...that means Francois II died, leaving me with a 3 year old heir. Hrm...this seems familiar.
June 1: Occitain is no longer accepted, but English now is. We start building an army in Britain and her colonies to cover the conversions. We also move light ships into ex-British ports to stop piracy.
September 1: National Focus moves to Oxfordshire, to cover the most provinces and London.
September 23: Persia cedes 4 provinces to Austria.
February 17, 1531: Unami is assimilated via the Assimilate Colony decision.
April 1: Government 22: New Idea. We take Land of Opportunity and take the Colonial Expansion decision (-3% colonist cost, .-3 infamy limit, +3% colonial growth).
September 1: Austria becomes dishonorable scum. Of course, they would do that when we're in a regency council. Bastards.
October: HRE voting: Brandenburg 3, Bar 2, Hesse 1, Milan 1. We need a couple more vassals.
June 1552: Weapons Manufactory started in Marches.
October 27: London converts. I was afraid this would take longer.
August 9, 1553: Alliance with Brandenburg. This might give us more chances to beat down someone.
September 1: Naval 21: Galleon.
March 1, 1554: Trade 21: Marketplace. We spam-build them to drive up trade values.
August 18: Slider move to Innovative. We look weak, losing 5 prestige.
March 1, 1555: With the first round of marketplaces complete, our COT's jump by a combined value of 186 ducats.
August 1, 1558: RM and Claim Throne on Milan. It comes to nothing, unfortunately.
February 17, 1559: Death of Merchant. We gain 1519 ducats. More are welcome to die...
May 5: Oman westernizes.
May 24: Ming closes foreign trade. It's a long walk to do something about that...
July 14: Monetary reforms event. Again, it comes during a regency council, where stability changes can be a bad idea. We take 3 inflation. Our max centralization is the only thing that helps us avoid inflation issues with these events.
January 1, 1560: Weapons Manufactory started in Cornwall. Galeazzo III de Bourbon takes the throne in Milan. The claim throne is at least marginally useful, then.
February 13: Brandenburg declares war on Poland. We have military access, and Poland is Protestant, so we ignore the call to arms. This turns out to be a bad idea - our prestige goes negative due to years of peace.
January 1, 1561: Poland cedes Plock to Brandenburg and releases Krakow. Krakow becomes Catholic.
May 28, 1561: Frederick IV de Bourbon ascends the throne.
No other major things happen on this day.
Ignore the stuff behind the message.
Fnord.
June 5: The Papal States excommunicates Aragon. Time to get moving! We have to dissolve alliances and get rid of military access, though.
June 17: Brandenburg declares war on Austria for the War of Oldenburgian Succession. Anyone to my east that might have been an issue just got taken out of the picture.
July 13: Judiciary Act enacted (RR -1, Tax -3%, +.05 yearly diplomats)
August 6: Austria annexes Krakow without a CB, making them dishonorable scum again.
We declare war on Aragon. Brandenburg joins in (not that any armies will show up). The hard part here: Aragon has a lot of African holdings I can't easily get to.
September 28: Aragon's invasion force from Genoa into Nice is crushed.
December 22: Aragon is forced to return to a union with Bar. The war was a quick assaulting strike through Aragon's exclave in NW Italy and through Aragon proper.
April 16, 1562: Milan declares war on the dishonorable scum, Austria. We need to hurry before Austria goes below the BB threshold.
August 1: Land 23: Charge Infantry.
October 20: DoW against Portugal.
September 7, 1563: Portugal is forced to accept union with Bar. Again, Portugal proper fell quick, then I had to wander through North American colonies.
September 9: DoW Castille.
December 22: Castille is forced to accept the union with Bar, after a short campaign of storming the 4 Iberian provinces that Castille has left. Castille is forced to relinquish lots of claims as well.
December 27: Austria takes Brescia and Mantua from Milan. 6 more infamy proves Austria isn't going below the BB threshold quickly.
June 23, 1564: After moving armies into place, and lowering some WE, it's time to ruuuuummmmbbbbbllllleeeeeeeeee!!!! I only have 5.7 infamy - pretty of room for new provinces.
