For God's Sake - A Castile AAR

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GooseyPasture The AI won't ally if you already have two allies or the AI country has two allies - I'm not certain about that being true in all cases but it's a good working rule. You may need to engineer a situation where the AI loses its allies.

I think that I mentioned this type of issue during my attempts to ally Aragon.

Carinthium Colonisation has got fairly confused and messy during the BB wars - colonists are still being sent as soon as I get them but there isn't much strategy involved at the moment. Regarding North America, I still have large areas of unclaimed land to expand into without going west.

I will try and do a colonial review after the next update.

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Enewald I'm not sure why Burgundy lose but I do know that the French keep surrendering :rofl:

Venice is Catholic so I'm not DOWing it - the stab hit is very difficult to recover from.

comagoosie I should have owned it - easily the biggest mistake so far o

stnylan No Turbo WC is slow - wait until it's time to take down Ming, that'll be so repetitive it'll make my attempt to diploannex Austria look interesting.

robou It's an everchanging world, who knows what the future might bring for heretics surrounded... oh wait, we can probably guess this one

Harve Welcome aboard, good to see you enjoying the AAR. I don't have the talent to write high quality fiction - I write updates for computer manuals. That said some of the people on the forum have real talent - check out Prufrock421, Director and the Yogi.

I've aimed at writing something that shows what's happening, what I'm doing and why - this is a complex game and there is always more to learn.

Short update to follow

Update 37

Update 37​

The new era of peace gets off to a good start.

29/01/1596 Picardie converts & Huancavelica converts!

01/02/1596 Land 19 Gallop cavalry, nice.

14/08/1596 Conversion of Guachichil fails

28/09/1596 Valenciennes converts

08/02/1597 Silistria converts

01/03/1597 Naval 19

05/06/1597 Zeta converts

07/09/1597 Scotland declares WAR on Castile – war exhaustion has fallen to 3.62

07/09/1597 France declares WAR on Castile in support of Scotland

10/09/1597 Venice declares WAR on Castile

14/09/1597 Castile declares WAR on Poland

15/09/1597 Burgundy declares WAR on Castile in support of Poland

15/09/1597 Saxony declares WAR on Castile in support of Poland

The diplomatic situation



The political map of Europe should see a certain degree of simplification soon.

War aims are ~100 points of territory from France, Burgundy reduced to an OPM, Scotland left intact since they keep dragging France into wars against me and the annexation of Saxony, Venice and Poland. Always check the diplomatic situation, Poland is the alliance leader.

03/10/1597 Ruppin converts

15/10/1597 Saxony accepts annexation

16/10/1597 Scotland accepts peace paying 50 ducats

09/01/1598 Venice accepts annexation – the Venetian level 1 colony in Connecticut was also seized.

01/02/1598 Production 19

01/06/1598 Conversion of Huamanga fails

02/06/1598 Leipzig converts

23/07/1598 Aztec Empire declares WAR on Castile

24/071598 Maya declares WAR on Castile in support of Aztec Empire

Peace with the Aztecs - 18/09/1598



01/10/1598 I finally remember to seize St Helena, a French colony.

05/10/1598 Conversion of Banat fails

24/10/1598 Peace with Burgundy, they are reduced to an OPM

25/10/1598 Poland accepts annexation

France resists



01/01/1599 Trade 19

13/02/1599 Conversion of Nile fails

13/02/1599 Peace with France

The new European order



Peace with war exhaustion at 4.20

01/03/1599 Gov’t 19

04/06/1599 Breslau converts

05/10/1599 Sirt converts

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Enewald France is close to speedbump status - Scotland keeps dragging them into wars against me before they have rebuilt their military.

St Helena was the last French colony - I'd forgotten about it o Outside of mainland France they have one caribbean island.

As for the TO, planning is underway...

GooseyPasture Cheers! With diplomacy a cunning plan can be worth 50 years of war so yes put the game on pause and start looking very carefully at the diplomatic situation of your targets allies

stnylan True

robou Scotland serves a purpose, once they don't their life expectancy will be short!

I've now played upto 01/01/1600 - looks like a good point for some overview type stuff so that'll come in the next couple of days. I'll try and do some maps of the empire, a colonial overview, a religious overview and stats.

Comments are always welcome and this is probably a good time to ask questions.

Update 38

Update 39





The Reformed faith remains restricted to three provinces; Avignon, Tyrone and Osel.

Protestantism is now in retreat – there aren’t all that many spread vectors left open. Outside of Castile, Protestants only live in France, Burgundy and the Teutonic Order.





The growth of Persia and Castile is very clear in this shot. Notice how Orthodoxy is in retreat in both the Balkans and the Caucasus.





All the North America pagans have been converted.





For a Martial Order of the Church the Teutonic Order has been a bit slack …





Conversion efforts are slow in the former Inca lands but progress is being made. Generally a missionary is sent shortly after the last one completes their mission, this allows me to shuffle my only garrison into place before a conversion to prevent problems with rebels.

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comagoosie It's entirely possible that France would DOW me just as happily as Scotland except they're generally still in a truce period when Scotland attack as I peace Scotland out early, particularly easy now they are an OPM.

This is actually a rather useful technique to speed up the destruction of majors - waiting five years between wars is suboptimal so don't do it. If the minor doesn't attack you, attack them - obviously not practical while the minor ally of the major is same religion as yourself.

aldriq Thanks for commenting. There has been competition and the fittest has survived

GooseyPasture Excellent, it's really good to hear that you've been able to learn from this AAR. Knowing that makes this feel less of a vanity project and more of a contribution to the community.