A Time for War
Jan 1422, I have a whopping 16g.
Sent 4 traders to Alexandria. 2 successful, knocked out 1 Knights and 1 Cyprus trader. Down to 0g.
Oct 2, 1422, Declare war on Byzantines (only getting 1 dip a year). Morea declares war on me. I don't ask for help of allies. Forgot to prepare for war by raising maintenance until too late. Raised war taxes.
Nov 27, 1422, defeated Byzantines in Thrace. Byantines pillage Rumelia, then march to Bulgaria and Macedonia without damaging either.
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Jan 1423, 49g
March 23, 1423, Thrace falls.
March 28, 1423, Send merchant to Kutch. Successful, but lose a merchant four days later (May 2) to Mysore.
Apr 3, 1423, Byzantines annexed. Gathering forces in Macedonia to march on Morea. Plan to vassalize it. The 17 Byzantine ships seem to have vanished.
Apr 16, Fate of the Patriachate, option A, -1 stab, +100 relations with Russia, Serbia, Novgorod, Trebezond, +1 inovative. Normally I would chose option C, for the +300g and -1 narrowminded. This is an historically and logically whacked event. Logically, by maintaining the Patriarchate, the Ottomans should gain the loyalty of their Orthodox subjects. Historically, when the OE took Istabul, the Patriachate was empty. The OE re-established the Patriarchate and made it responsible for the Orthodox. It's being empty assumes that the Unification of Churches event happened, but 1423 is way too early for that.
May 1, 1423, we are forced to take a loan. I take this opportunity to send a couple merchants to Kutch. Success!
June, 1423, 2 traders to Samarkand (13g a pop). Both successful! 24.42g a year in trade in Kutch and Samarkand.
Aug 9, 1423, Morea defeated in Morea. Raised war taxes.
Sept 27, Hungary and Luxemburg declare war on Bosnia. Albania, Wallachia, Ghazi, and OE join the war.
Oct 16, 1423, Meteor sited. -1 stab. I'm now at 0 stab.
Nov 1, 1423, Now at +1 stab.
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Jan 1424, 127g
Jan 1, 1424, Great Military Reforms. Option A.
Jan 7, Serbia declares war on Bosnia. Wallachia breaks the alliance.
Apr 3, 1424, Morea becomes OE vassals and pays 25g
Jun 24, 1424, OE takes over seige in Kosovo.
Nov 5, 1424, Kosovo falls. Military is down to 5500 cav and 37 cannon. I have 75g, begin building 9000 inf in Macedonia for 72g. Bosnia and Wallachia are under seige by Hungarians.
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Jan 1425, 57g
Jan 5, 1425, Bosnia ends its vassalization to OE. With any luck, the Hungarians will capture Bosnia so I can take it from them, though it's a nasty Catholic prov.
Feb 8, 1425, Serbia makes peace with Bosnia for 24g, and Kosovo to OE.
I gather my forces in Bulgaria and wait. Wallachia and Bosnia will fall soon, and I can grab them from Hungary.
Feb 14, Sheik ul-Islam instited. +3 stab, -1 innovative. Now at +3 stab. Shift budget to Land 100%.
Apr 24, 1425, Sent two more traders to Samarkand. Both successful. Five merchants in Samarkand, four in Kutch, bringing in 2.1g monthly.
May 20, Wallachia annexed by Hungary.
July 3, OE defeats Luxemburg (size 1 army) in Wallachia and initaites seige.
July 19, Gift to State +100g
Begin building 14000 inf for 112g.
Oct 3, OE captures Wallachia, 1st Army moves towards Banat. Raised war taxes.
Oct 10, Bosnia annexed by Hungary.
Nov, defeated two Hungarian armies in Banat. Moving Imperial army to Bosnia.
Dec 7, Luxemburg defeated in Banat. Hungary offers 52g, I refuse.
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1426, 45g size 30 Hungarian army in Wallachia.
Jan 9, Absorption of Aydin, +1 centralization. Smryna to OE.
May 16, Banat falls to OE, Wallachia to Hungary.
Aug 17, Bosnia falls to OE, Hungary seiging Banat with size 46 army, raised war taxes.
Nov 27, laying seige to Wallachia.
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1427, 73g
Jan 1, begin buiding 9000 inf in Thrace.
Feb 7, Hungary offers Bosnia and 72g. I take the deal. As Banat is about to fall to the Hungarians. Relgious sliders changed to equalize Catholic with Sunni and Orthodox. With my +9 war exhaustion, I have rougly +3 revolt all over my empire. I have a respectable reputation. Time to sit around and do nothing for a while.
Feb, send six merchants to Alexandria with the 24g I get from Hungary. 2 succeful. Generating 2.6gpm.
Feb 13, City of Men's Desire, Thrace becomes capital, +2 stab (not that I need it), Thrace, Anatolia, Smyrna become Turkish and Sunni. Historically, Smyrna remained Greek and Orthodox up to the 20th Century. Instead of Smyrna, I recommend replacing it with Macedonia, which was largely Turkish until this last century.
March 23, Economic Reforms of Murad II, Break the agreements, gain a CoT in Thrace, +2 Merchantilism, +6 traders (but no money to send them anywhere).
Apr 8, RM Tlemcen.
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1428, 35g
Mar, send 6 merchants to Thrace at 2g a piece. four successful, two fail, five merchants in Thrace. 2.9gpm.
May, had to extend loan. It's at 7%.
Jun, drop military maintanence to 50%, 1.6gpm.
Aug, lvl 2 in Land, move budget to trade.
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1429 Current Status.
+36g
Tech levels: Land 2, Navy 1, Stab 3, Trade 1, Infra 1.
Dip sliders: P/A 7, D/C 3, N/I 6, FT/M 9, DD/OD 8, N/L 8, Qn/Ql 3, FS/S 4
5% interest.
1 tax collector in Angora.
Albania, Karaman, and Morea are vassals.
Alliance with Albania and Ghazi.
2 traders, 6 dips, 5 inquistors
17000 inf, 2900 cav, 37 guns could support size 37 army.