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Update 56

Update 56

15/07/1646 Mixtec converts; it was the last Mesoamerican pagan city. There are no pagan cities in the Americas.

Catholic Mesoamerica

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06/08/1646 Gao converts

16/10/1646 Van converts

01/12/1646 Naval 25

Persia’s rebel problem gets worse

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That’s a two province Candar that has broken free, revolt risk in Persian, Shiite provinces is around 10%. By the time Persia regains control two provinces defect and three declare independance. It's well over 130 points worth of provinces.

01/03/1647 Castile declares WAR on Candar

09/03/1647 Borno converts

31/03/1647 Sofala converts

16/04/1647 Peace with Candar, they surrender Sinope

01/06/1647 Angora defects to Castile!

21/06/1647 Awsa converts

11/08/1647 Gabu converts

13/10/1647 Conversion of Azow fails

06/01/1648 Macedonia converts

09/01/1648 Denmark declares WAR on Castile

25/01/1648 Denmark accepts annexation, Denmark fails to even be a speedbump this time around.

25/02/1648 Normandie converts

01/05/1648 Trade 25

31/05/1648 Liege converts

15/08/1648 Archangelsk converts

21/10/1648 Kazan converts

30/12/1648 Champagne converts

14/03/1649 Aleppo converts

01/05/1649 Nejd declares independence from Persia as an OPM in Basra.

01/05/1649 Castile declares WAR on Nejd

13/06/1649 Sivas converts

08/07/1649 Nejd accepts annexation – this was a 47 day assault, I just made it before my troops ran out of morale.

01/08/1649 Lithuania drop a 34 year 2* Theologian into the advisor pool – thank you.

The Court

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I’ve also shown a religious map of West Africa – Catholicism is now very widely spread. Remember there are no Catholic provinces in Africa in 1453.

31/08/1649 Quelimane converts

11/11/1649 Futa Jallon converts

01/01/1650 Land 26 – I choose Line Infantry, while I’m on the offensive overall, I try to fight defensive battles to maximise terrain bonuses. High manoeuvre rating generals are very useful to getting to a province first!

Ideally there will be no war before 01/05/1650 as my armies need to recover morale.

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Religion Report

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Castile 1st January 1640:

37 Sunni provinces
4 Shiite provinces
3 Reformed provinces
6 Protestant provinces
8 Orthodox provinces
17 Animist provinces

597 Catholic provinces

672 Total provinces

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Castile 1st January 1650:

32 Sunni provinces
10 Shiite provinces
3 Reformed provinces
3 Protestant provinces
3 Orthodox provinces
12 Animist provinces

657 Catholic provinces

720 Total provinces

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Next, I’ll do a set of screenies of various things that might prove interesting. I may also decide to start trading!

Any questions or any information you’d like to see shout up now and I’ll put it in the next post.
 
Yey, also now you can start converting the protestants and teh reformd.
 
Still some provinces to be converted, but you are doing a great job so far, soon all the Spanish Empire will be catholic and more expansion towards heretic lands will continue ;)
 
Straits of Gibraltar? That land connection doesn't hold water in my eyes (hohoho :D) but i do play IN so...

Anyway, Why not take the Mamelukes once and for all now?
 
The taint of heresy is nearly reduced utterly! :)
 
;) Feedback time

Lord Strange Burn Heretics, Burn!

Capibara What is this Spanish empire of which you speak? Castile to rule them all!

Enewald The Thousand Province Empire, that has a nice ring to it :cool:

Finding the governors, OMG how boring would that be? I bought Rome the day it came out in the UK but I was back playing EU3 within a couple of weeks - and that utterly tedious character thing was one of the main reasons.

robou The Straits of Gibraltar don't hold water? I'll have one of whatever you're drinking ;)

The Mamluks are still not an OPM, 100 points at a time makes for a lot of wars. I once took down a 2200 point Timurid Empire - Samarkand fell 25 times over a century. If only I could pull off a 1.21 style turbodefection :(

stnylan Quite!

My new 'Development Opportunity' at work has been explained to me this week - I'm going to be doing two fulltime jobs for the next three months (at least), which should be based in offices 100 miles apart :wacko: . I'm getting this because it will involve a lot of corporate politics and unhappy customer handling - just because I'm good at this stuff doesn't mean I enjoy it :(

Hopefully it won't impact on update rate but if things slow down that will be why.
 
Update 57

Update 57

The decision to Trade has been made, mainly because I’m curious as to whether I can make tech Level 60. In a similar vein economic development has been given a quick boost by spending 10,000 ducats or so on province improvements, mainly workshops and marketplaces.

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Here’s a blast from the past:

06/01/1587 Stats

BadBoy 262.78
War Exhaustion 6.72
Inflation 4.1%
Manpower 196k of 200k max
Reinforcement need 25,042
Census Tax 1612.26
Monthly income 706.6

And here’s how those numbers look now:

01/01/1650 Stats

BadBoy 635.53
War Exhaustion 0.92
Inflation 0%
Manpower 411k of 414k max
Monthly gain 17,252
Reinforcement need 7,230
Census Tax 3825.7
Monthly income 1683.0

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Behold my manpower and weep IN players – I get the impression that manpower is much more of an issue in IN. This is good, just like the boosted rebels; neither are much of a factor in 1.3.

Budget Screen and Religion in the Congo

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Armed Forces and Religion in Mutapa

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Religious intolerance and a map of Europe

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The government of Empire and a map of Lithuania

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Pie charts! Because I like pies :) :)

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Comparative Technology

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I’ve embargoed Gotland, otherwise with Latin map spread and no competition they’ll start hyperteching. I have this vision of Castilian marines hitting the beaches of Gotland around 1790 and running up against Godzilla, Robocop and the Millennium Falcon.

Look what I’ve found!

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Gotland is competing with you techwise? The land of the Crusading Sheep must be beaten if that is the case!
 
Gotland could have godzilla, sweet! :cool:

Gotland is playing how I like to. Staying small and being rich, so that if I do get invaded, the invaders are going to have to face automatic machine guns :p

You have found Japan and Ming, now what? A huge invasion of 200k men?
 
I finally finished reading through this. Great work conquering so much.

I think you should let Gotland hypertech, if only to see how far they get by the end. It'd probably be funny.
 
Feedback time

Enewald Found new provinces? Notice my Golden Helmet - I have a map :rofl:

robou Gotland has had free run at a lot of COTs for decades.

comagoosie Gotland being Swedish will probably have self assembly future tech devices with silly names, such as the IKEA combat drone :D

At this point I was expecting the usual Japanese DOW and I was getting ready for stronger measures than we've seen so far. Things have gone differently :confused:

Sybot The plan is for me to hypertech, I'm interested to know how far I can get with Castile. Comedy Gotland technology levels feature in nearly every game of 1.3 that I've played.

Update shortly.
 
Update 58

Update 58

27/01/1650 Tanga converts

20/03/1650 Tigre converts

01/05/1650 Castile declares WAR on Persia

23/06/1650 Narjan converts

If you’re wondering about the war the Persians seemed to have had 6 regiments at the start. Progress is quite quick.

01/07/1650 Castile declares WAR on the Mamluks

13/08/1650 Azow converts

26/11/1650 Suhar converts

The Mamluk war is another exercise in marching places. The Mamluks only had five regiments, four died in the defence of Cairo, the last one is bouncing around the besieged provinces southern Arabia.

10/01/1651 Oyo converts

13/03/1651 Sinope converts

29/04/1651 Peace with the Mamluks

Free Arabia

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The Mamluks have now been reduced to an OPM

Peace with Persia
- 13/05/1651

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This peace gains both remaining Orthodox provinces previously under Persian rule and positions me one war from multiple directions of attack on the Timurids. I’m hoping to be able to attack the Timurids both north of the Caspian and through the central Iranian plateau.

How badly have I hurt Persia? 17/06/1651 Gotland declares war on Persia. This isn’t entirely risk free for Gotland; I’ve fought Persian ships in the Baltic in previous wars.

18/06/1651 Moskva converts

20/08/1651 Basra converts

04/09/1651 Atjeh declares WAR on Castile

05/09/1651 Pattani declares WAR on Castile in support of Atjeh

05/09/1651 Brunei declares WAR on Castile in support of Atjeh

05/09/1651 Malacca declares WAR on Castile in support of Atjeh

It’s fortunate I’d relocated a spare army from West Africa to Makassar, along with another 51 ship strong fleet.

Indonesia

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Taiwan is a Malaccan province – it would make a fantastic jump off point for wars against Ming and Japan. Brunei is the alliance leader.

01/10/1651 Production 26

29/11/1651 Zumbo converts

09/01/1652 Osel converts

25/01/1652 Pattani accepts peace for 50 ducats

A 13000 strong army is wandering around the Malayan peninsula wrecking havoc on Malacca. Casualties are low for Castile, huge for Malacca.

04/03/1652 Peace with Malacca

Aircraft Carrier One

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17/03/1652 Makassar converts – which was useful because my forces in theatre are just a little busy right now.

05/04/1652 Castile declares WAR on Candar

07/05/1652 Candar accepts annexation

Persia’s rebel problems return

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27/06/1652 Bagamoyo converts

28/07/1652 Ile-de-France converts

25/10/1652 Peace with Atjeh

Post War Sumatra

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27/10/1652 Avignon converts

02/11/1652 Peace with Brunei, they surrender a core. Brunei has extensive holdings in South East Asia; I’m not interested in taking those yet – too many new borders, too close to Ming. War exhaustion is 1.29; I plan to let it run down over the winter before another assault on Lithuania in the spring. Lithuania recently made some substantial gains in the steppes but RR is running high and rebels are a serious problem.

01/01/1653 Naval 26

23/01/1653 Zeila converts

01/03/1653 Ulster converts

The Reformed, have been.

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01/03/1653 Castile declares WAR on Qasim Khanate

02/03/1653 Lithuania declares WAR on Castile in support of Qasim Khanate

15/06/1653 Conversion of Tver fails

21/08/1653 Khuzestan converts

07/01/1654 Conversion of Barwe fails

11/01/1654 Ife converts

14/03/1654 Beirut converts

01/04/1654 Trade 26

Summer 1654 pushing deep into the Steppes Castilian explorers find a land route to China

Land war with Ming looks close

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Map spread means I’ve just lost my monopoly in Cuzco – to Persia!

13/06/1654 Adana converts

01/08/1654 Antalya defects to Castile

Persian rebels

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The rebel problem has essentially developed out of the AI habit of playing at -3 teamed with maxed out war exhaustion from using war taxes and never getting a chance to recover. Relentless pressure breaks the AI’s ability to resist so always make sure you have crippled a major enemy before moving on.

I tend to treat WC as a long march across Eurasia, beating one set of majors at a time. Right now Persia and Lithuania are dying, they might be decades from annexation (they are still 500-600 points) but it’s time to find new foes.

28/08/1654 Conversion of Kilwa fails

01/09/1654 Smyrna defects to Castile

09/09/1654 Peace with Lithuania

The new Eastern frontier

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The Conquistador opening up the Steppes will now ride out of Lithuanian territory and into the Siberian wilds.

War exhaustion is 1.79

26/10/1654 Anjou converts – there is only one Protestant province left

01/11/1654 Gov’t 26 I now have Level 26 tech across the board, 46 years ahead of schedule.
 
So, you are now looking for a new enemy, but surely fighting land battles with the Ming across the vast expanses of Siberian waste land would count... no?
 
The final Protestant province ... so close.

I hope to wait is not too long.
 
Feedback time

comagoosie - Catholics ruling the world yes, the world being Catholic unlikely. I'll have to have a think about what I could have done differently to achieve a better outcome.

robou Land war with Ming is still a couple of decades away. I'll get there around the same time I'll get to India so I want to prepare, that is clear out most enemies behind the new front lines.

Enewald It's a slow road to WC because I've told you all about it. Most AARs tend to jump over the BB wars in a couple of post with some maps and then say 'I won'.

stnylan Protestants, not too long...
 
Update 59

Update 59

01/12/1654 Laristan defects to Castile

14/01/1655 Trezibon converts

21/03/1655 Tajura converts

15/06/1655 Lugansk converts

12/07/1655 Mamluks declare WAR on Castile

16/08/1655 A new King, he’s an idiot. A/D/M 3/4/4

Fernando VI

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This is hugely disappointing; the monarch’s contribution to conversion chance is 12%, that’s 8% down from 20% under the previous King.

21/08/1655 Mamluks accept annexation. Only Castile’s flag now flies on African soil.

Castilian Egypt

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The keen eyed might notice something interesting from a religious perspective in this screenie. [1]

24/08/1655 Liwa converts – sneaked in before the disappointing news of the new king arrives at the end of the month and cuts my conversion chance!

19/11/1655 Karbala converts

01/12/1655 Karaman declares independence from Persia

01/12/1655 Castile declares WAR on Karaman

03/01/1656 Karaman accepts annexation

20/02/1656 Socotra converts

30/03/1656 Conversion of Masapa fails

01/05/1656 Castile declares WAR on Persia

01/05/1656 Castile declares WAR on Sibir

02/05/1656 Kazakh declares WAR on Castile in support of Sibir

Sibir

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Diplomatic mode shows Sibir’s position very clearly. Their 5 provinces are isolated from their only allies in Kazakh by Lithuanian lands. Also notice that the provinces east of Sibir deeper into Siberia are now known to Castile.

26/05/1656 Limousin converts

Catholic Europe

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That was the last Protestant province.

01/08/1656 Production 27

30/09/1656 Conversion of Riau fails

15/11/1656 Tver converts

Peace with Persia - 12/12/1656

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24/01/1657 Fars converts

11/02/1657 - Peace with Sibir

11/02/1657 – Timurid Empire declares WAR on Castile

Destination Siberia

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11/03/1657 Conversion of Benin fails

18/06/1657 Massawa converts

28/08/1657 Conversion of Kilwa fails

11/11/1657 Kastamon converts

01/01/1658 Trade 27

Peace with Kazakh - 09/01/1658

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24/01/1658 Beni Yas converts

27/03/1658 Dhofar converts

29/06/1658 Zimbabwe converts

28/08/1658 Solikamsk converts

14/11/1658 Antalya converts

22/11/1658 Peace with the Timurids

Central Asia

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War exhaustion is 1.53 and BadBoy is 696.79

I’m being rather careful not to add extra borders yet. Ming, Rajputana and Vijayanagar are all within a couple of provinces. A border with any of these will mean a long series of wars requiring a shift in my forces from current deployment areas months of travel east. Persia and Lithuania both still need further reduction before I can safely remove my armies from those theatres.

[1] The unsettled Orthodox province of Dongola is being settled. Dongola is one of three provinces that start as Orthodox but unsettled.