The Empire in the Sand

[spl]

Hello EU3 AAR community, this is my first aar so please, be patient.


Attention: Due to computer issues and the fact that the goal is virtually reached I have declared this AAR completed.




Country=Morocco
Game Version=2.1
NA Options=All set to normal.
Goals=Rule Africa!

Updates:
The Rising Star (1453-1461)
Getting Even (1461-1479)
Riches and Reaching (1479-1497)
Rasul I & The Great War (1497-1512)
Rasul II & the Italian Wars (1512-1528)
Building An Empire (1528-1542)
The African Wars (1542-1554)
Into A New Era (1554-1571)
Fall of Empires (1571-1590)
Gods Will it (1590-1615)

[spl]

Ah, Morocco, what a nation.

Morocco in 1453

Great, doesn't the country look good? 3,000 men? Whats up with that??????
Anyways...
Lets grab some advisers. Wow, 4 choices! I underestimated the muslim tech group Lets see...
adviser 1- +10 Missionary change....Why would I need that? REJECTED!
adviser 2- +9 Government investment tech,that should help alot. ACCEPTED!
adviser 3- +3 Land investment tech, well, its okay I guess. ACCEPTED!
adviser 4- +Colonist change +2%, the more the merrier ACCEPTED!

My court is settled, a 5/5/5 king and 3 advisor's.

Now I turn more narrowminded to make sure I can have a lower stability cost. (And I get 1.6 colonists a year now )

Lets start a better army up, 3 Regiments of Muslim Archer's in Tanigers.

Algiers offering me an alliance? Why not, maybe it will pay off later....

Lets put 50% of my income into Government tech for now and 40% to other invests and 10% to pay for my expenses.

Man, King 'Ali sure is a average king, I wonder if he will ever die.

I'm sick of waiting! all money to government tech! Great, we get it in sept. 1456.

Lets make our army the same as the support limit, 1 Regiments of calvary and 1 of Muslim Archers in Infi.

Oh dear! Algiers has attacked Oman! Wait, what? I shall join! Yeah, I get control! Suck it!

It looks like everyone that is Sunni is trying to attack Oman, I'll just sit back and watch I guess. Wow, Oman is down to 1 province (owned) and is still at war with 7 countries. (including OE) I shall get a new vassal! Oman has accepted! Yes! No! They were just annexed! So much for that.

Yeah! First National Idea! Quest for the New World of course! (I just got a royal marriage with Algiers also)

Brave solders going into the unknown

Our 5,000 Muslim Archers in the north have been sent down south.

All hail al-Rashid I! He has been blessed by God himself!
Stats-6/8/8

Ah, Rio de Oro explored. Lets kill those natives! Wait, we already did? Great!
Send a colonist!

Onto Arguin! WHAT! Portuguese! LOSERS! Lets kill *some* of the natives for us .

We have spotted a very large red line that leads us to beleive there is land farther east from Rio de Oro.

Solders following the large red line.

Ah! many annoying natives in Taut! Run back to the western lands!

Ah, +1 stability. Sexy. New royal marriage with Algiers. Sexy.
Trade agreement with Algiers. Sexy. 186 relations with Algiers, with 1 gift it becomes 200.

Where am I going with this? On Feb. 1 1460 Algiers became our vassal giving 1.1 ducats a month!

Continue colonizing the west coast!

The Empire in the Sand in 1460 (same in 1461 anyway )

[Capibara]

Morocco AAR, good luck, I like your writting style, it's quick, sort of funny and gives all the information, I'll be following this

[piff133]

I'll follow too. Just a warning, as soon as you enter Tuat, you're taking Tropical attrition rates. My first game I fought Songhai and ended up giving them land because the attrition rates were killing my troops faster than I could kill theirs.

[spl]

I'll follow too. Just a warning, as soon as you enter Tuat, you're taking Tropical attrition rates. My first game I fought Songhai and ended up giving them land because the attrition rates were killing my troops faster than I could kill theirs.

Exactly why I have not gone to take it yet. I have started playing the years I will cover for my next update.....Alot happens

[coz1]

Nice going so far. Morocco should be fun to play. One request - any way you can convert your screens to jpgs going forward? The PNGs take so long to load on the page.

Welcome to AAR writing! Good luck with this.

[kfijatass]

Sounds good. Going well I noticed something : Each first writAAR seems to use a lot of emotions and writes down thoughts. Not that it's bad, but neither it says a lot of the AAR's quality. Some people like it some don't.

The mild humour is good. Not too much time involved in the updates (4 years?) is also good. Wonder what will the update rate be.


I'd suggest westernizing. Make friends with portugal - they usually have a few colonies not far from Morocco. Or take a bit of Granada and make friends with Castille. MIGHT be tough, but with tolerating the christianism and lots of gifts and beeing their neighbour, you can't do a lot more. And it's worth the cash.

[rcduggan]

good luck!

[spl]

rcduggan: Thanks, I'll need it

kfijatass: I will eventually try to westernize, but it takes alot of gifts to get the relations to 100 from -120. (And morocco is extremely poor!)

coz1: I will switch to PNG's

[t0m]

should have saved Granada, instead your Muslim brothers were eaten by the nasty Spanish. Shame on you!

[Kazmir]

kfijatass: I will eventually try to westernize, but it takes alot of gifts to get the relations to 100 from -120. (And morocco is extremely poor!)

As a Muslim, you also need 5 star statesman I'm pretty sure.

[kfijatass]

As a Muslim, you also need 5 star statesman I'm pretty sure.

country_event = {

id = 4002

trigger = {
technology_group = muslim
NOT = { innovative_narrowminded = -2 }
MIL = 6
ADM = 6
}

mean_time_to_happen = {
months = 180

modifier = {
factor = 0.95
NOT = { innovative_narrowminded = -3 }
}
modifier = {
factor = 0.95
NOT = { innovative_narrowminded = -4 }
}
modifier = {
factor = 0.9
army_reformer = 5
}
modifier = {
factor = 0.9
army_reformer = 6
}
modifier = {
factor = 0.9
advisor = statesman
}
modifier = {
factor = 1.1
NOT = { advisor = statesman }
}
modifier = {
factor = 0.9
statesman = 5
}
modifier = {
factor = 0.9
statesman = 6
}
modifier = {
factor = 0.9
any_neighbor_province = {
OR = {
technology_group = eastern
technology_group = latin
}

Go for it when you get a chance

[spl]

t0m: Its hard to fight castille with a monthly income of 13

Kazmir: Luckily, I don't

kfijatass: Doesn't look too hard, but I have to get more innovative first.

[spl]

Lets continue our success. Hm, Castille is looking suspicious, it's probably nothing though. What this? Castille has declared war on us? LAME

Great, 12,000 enemies in an occupied Tanigers.

Yes! Brittany out of the war with a white peace, Aragon and Castille left.

Wow, 4 occupied provinces....



I am DOOMED!

Or am I? France declared war on Castille!

Drive the infidel out!

White peace! Success! The desert warriors proved their value in pushing the Christians out of our land!


Close call, what to do......

Make Arguin and Rio de Oro cities! Brilliant!

Let's continue exploring.


Also-I have been using PNG images.

I sure hope that's an 2.1 bug not a save bug.

You know what this means

Well, I couldn't get anything from Tunisia. But I made Tripoli a vassal.
Hm, Mamaluks attacking Tripoli.....sorry tripoli. Bye.

Man, Tripoli lost 2 provinces and is a Mamluk vassal.

That can't be good.

I've been dreading contact with Mali.

zzzzzzzz, boring! Lets go free trade to make up for the colonist loss I will get when I move towards innovative later.

Hm, there is a magnus casus beli on castille, (casus beli is latin, why can't I have more latin? Great reason for war is magnus casus beli.)


Attack! Let us get our revenge on the dastardly Christians for fighting Granada!

It looks like Portugal, England, Scotland, and Venice at fighting Castille as well. (And it is still recovering from losing vs france)




The war continues...PEACE! I get Cordoba and 50 ducats! Cordoba is rather useless now but it will help me later since It is in Iberia and is on the coast.

*spends years trying to annex Algiers*



Morocco has grown once again!

[aldriq]

I think Morocco is a cool country to play with, I've been wanting to start a game with them, now I will see how you get on

But it's gonna be tough, even more with 2.1, particularly on the money and stability side. Good luck!

[Ahura Mazda]

Man, Tripoli lost 2 provinces and is a Mamluk vassal.

LOL this sounds familiar...

Congrats on your work in Spain too!

[Sweboy]

What is going on with the map? Shouldn't Morocco know about the countries it borders to? The land might be Terra Incognita in Europe but hardly to the next door neighbour.

Do you have any set goal like making the Iberian peninsular Muslim? Capturing the Caliphate? Killing all infidels and moving your capital to Rome?

Cool to see an none European AAR.

[Kazmir]

Ah right, played too much with Ottoman Empire so mixed up Eastern and Muslim tech group.

[Capibara]

seems like a new Muslim invasion to the Iberian Peninsula is about to start... go Morocco!

[Duke of Wellington]

Always a fine nation to see rise to greatness. Good job removing Algiers.