Update 36
Update 36
13/11/1591
The Teutonic Order declares WAR on Castile. War exhaustion is 3.12
14/11/1591
Finland declares WAR on Castile in support of the Teutonic Order
14/11/1591
Castile declares WAR on Burgundy
15/11/1591
Poland declares WAR on Castile in support of Burgundy
Once my war exhaustion starts rising in a war that shouldn’t be over I might as well take down a few more heretics (and everyone likes seeing Burgundy get beaten up – sorry
merrick you chose the Dark Side). Burgundy is down to ten provinces, only one of which is still Catholic – that province, Calais, is the minimum requirement although I’ll probably go for 100points again. Poland will be peaced out as will Finland. The Teutonic Order has a real mix of religions (Catholics, Protestants, Reformed and Animist) so I’ll look for 100 points out of their 400point total.
24/11/1591
Norway declares WAR on Castile
01/12/1591 My 3* Theologian dies, there is no suitable replacement so a vacancy exists at court
01/01/1592 Gov’t 18
12/02/1592
Poland accepts White Peace
14/02/1592
The Mamluks declare WAR
15/02/1592
Kanem Bornu declares WAR in support of the Mamluks
Early summer and war progress is generally pleasing. Burgundian forts have mainly fell to assault, my forces are recovering before launching the next attack – at the moment I only have combinations of provinces that amount to either 90 or 102 war score.
The Teutonic order has lost most of its armies in Europe and the provinces are falling, uncovering Mexico is proving a slow task but the only opposition I’ve faced so far is single regiments of native spearmen.
Norway have lost a couple of ships and a small colony in the Mississippi delta – I may try for Iceland but since they are Catholic and going to stay that way it’s not a priority.
The Mamluks have trooped up, significantly. I’ve just stormed Alexandria, the plan is to use it as a base for intercepting passing armies, gaining war score and smashing up troops. I’m uncertain as to whether I want to go for a really big win over the Mamluks – it will require a lot of troops and a lot of time.
01/06/1592 Puno converts
Religion in South America
06/06/1592 Vorpommern converts
01/08/1592 Production 18
10/08/1592
Finland offers White Peace - accepted. The TO has a lot of troops in Mesoamerica and reducing the size of their alliance will make a profitable peace easier to achieve.
01/09/1592 Saxony converts to Protestant – result!
03/09/1592
Scotland declares WAR
03/09/1592
France declares WAR in support of Scotland
This doesn’t greatly complicate things – the troops fighting Burgundy will just switch to the new war in a few months time. If I get the chance I’ll seize the last couple of Scottish and French colonies but that does involve dodging the French fleets.
29/09/1592 Pfalz converts
Europe at war
The loss of Berber as an accepted culture comes as no real surprise, in fact I thought it would be lost before Portuguese or Andalucian. The map shows that while I sound as if I’m at war with a lot people there is no real problem. I am short of troops – the different theatres are so far apart that I can’t shuffle units from one front to another very easily. The silver lining to that fact is that the armies have generally recovered numbers and morale by the time they reach their new jump off point.
17/11/1592
Kanem Bornu offers White Peace - accepted
Peace with Burgundy – 19/12/1592
14/01/1593
Norway offers White Peace – accepted
06/02/1593 Sandomierz converts
Peace with the Teutonic Order – 11/02/1593
A 92 point peace deal with all gains taken in the Americas.
28/05/1591
Peace with Scotland for 50 ducats after the last two Scottish colonies were seized, Vestbygden on Greenland and Antigua in the Caribbean.
09/06/1593 Conversion of Silistria fails
20/07/1593
Castile declares WAR on the Aztec Empire
21/07/1593
Maya declares WAR on Castile in support of the Aztecs
12/08/1593
Aztecs offer peace for 782 ducats – accepted!
11/10/1593 Conversion of Zeta fails
01/12/1593 Naval 18
12/02/1593 Cyprus converts
This made me laugh
Swahili (Green), an African tech group country so no ships has just declared war on Mutapa another African tech group country – but there is someone in the way LOL
Now the serious bit – the province in between is Persia, the land north of Swahili is Mamluks – all the way back to Cairo.
Peace with France - 21/05/1594
This is a 98 point peace deal – all four provinces are Catholic, Caux and Artois both border Protestant provinces so could convert possibly wasting missionaries down the line.
01/06/1594
Crimea declares WAR on Castile – this was handy, as I’d forgot I was going to DOW them.
16/06/1594
Crimea accepts annexation
Anybody know what ‘Blitzkreig’ is in Spanish? – I had a 13000 strong army on the frontier, nine days to march into action, 1 day to defeat the Crimean single regiment then 5 days to storm the level 1 fort. Total casualties 160.
19/09/1594 Conversion of Arequipa fails
09/10/1594 Cherson converts
01/01/1595 Trade 18
The war against the Mamluks drags on, currently they are rejecting a 62 point deal at 65% war score. A conquistador is mapping the interior provinces of the Sudan and Ethiopia. I don’t want to have to fight through this land too often as the attrition is huge. I *think* this is the worst attrition area in the whole game, 10% in every province every month even before spies and looting kick in, support limits are also very low.
02/01/1595
Saxony declares WAR on Castile
03/01/1595
Burgundy joins Saxony at WAR with Castile
Always check the diplomatic situation, Saxony is the alliance leader!
04/02/1595 Conversion of Breslau fails
05/06/1595 Conversion of Ruppin fails
Peace with the Mamluks - 16/10/1595
This wasn’t what I started looking for – I wanted Judea, but I’ll take 80 war score worth of those high attrition desert provinces. Future wars against the Mamluks will probably look at driving south into Ethiopia for territorial gains and using the high value Egyptian and Syrian provinces for war score.
19/11/1595
Peace with Burgundy, they cede Hainaut, Trier and Liege.
01/01/1596
Peace with Saxony, they cede Leipzig, war exhaustion is 5.16
Europe at peace