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Update 62

Update 62

29/06/1667 Conversion of Urungwe fails

23/07/1667 Bahrain converts

01/09/1667 Castile declares WAR on Baluchistan

02/09/1667 Chagatai declares WAR on Castile in support of Baluchistan

02/09/1667 Timurid Empire declares WAR on Castile in support of Baluchistan

23/10/1667 Baluchistan accepts annexation

Peace with the Timurids - 15/11/1667

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The Timurids are now an OPM, notice also Ming forces are on the move in Kazakh territory!

23/12/1667 Taiwan converts

04/01/1668 White Peace with Chagatai

25/01/1668 Kerman converts

30/01/1668 Malacca declares WAR on Castile

31/01/1668 Brunei declares WAR on Castile in support of Malacca

The timing here is slightly awkward, the extra army I’m moving to South East Asia is still in Cape Town awaiting shipping – transportation and recovering from the attrition loss will take some time.

01/02/1668 Trade 29

09/04/1668 Conversion of Bursa fails

28/06/1668 Zheteru converts

25/08/1668 Hadramut converts

23/10/1668 Malacca accepts annexation

There have been virtually no battles in this war, Brunei’s armies are far too small and primitive to stand against Castilian forces beyond 5 days.

01/12/1668 Naval 29

04/12/1668 Conversion of Mozambique fails

15/02/1669 Kazakh makes Peace with Ming ceding Argyn – so what you say?

There may be trouble ahead…

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I guess this makes all my attempts to avoid a border with Ming a bit pointless. I now border all three of the remaining serious powers, Ming, Vijayanagar and Rajputana.

17/04/1669 Hawran converts

25/04/1669 Ligore converts

16/06/1669 Bogutjar converts

01/07/1669 Anatolia defects to Castile

Peace with Brunei - 03/07/1669

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01/08/1669 Gov’t 29 – I’m now 50 years ahead of tech across all techs.

01/09/1669 Kypshak converts

25/11/1669 Ufa converts

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Religion update

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Castile 1st January 1660:

48 Sunni provinces
9 Shiite provinces
1 Orthodox province
6 Animist provinces

716 Catholic provinces

780 Total provinces

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Castile 1st January 1670:

65 Sunni provinces
4 Shiite provinces
6 Buddhist provinces
2 Animist provinces

771 Catholic provinces

848 Total provinces

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That may be a border with Ming, but that would be a slog acorss te whole of Sinkiang to get anywhere, somewhere where i would not want to march an army across. Still, i think in a war of Attrition, you will win.
 
PrawnStar said:
848 Total provinces

Only 152 left to complete your 1000-province imperium, do you have champagne in the fridge ready for the occasion? :)

I still don't understand the logic behind the AI policy regarding OPMs; you would think that, regardless of Bad Boy, a tiny country with no allies would be showering you with gold and asking to be your vassal, certainly not declaring war on a nation 848 times mightier... :confused:
 
aldriq said:
I still don't understand the logic behind the AI policy regarding OPMs; you would think that, regardless of Bad Boy, a tiny country with no allies would be showering you with gold and asking to be your vassal, certainly not declaring war on a nation 848 times mightier... :confused:

Think of Alexander, Temudjin or Timur? :p
They were all fools.
 
Enewald said:
Think of Alexander, Temudjin or Timur? :p
They were all fools.

They were certainly reckless. But OK, I'm happy to accept the odd OPMs with 6-star king-generals being brave, that still leaves scope for the rest to behave a bit more judiciously.
 
Feedback time

comagoosie While that would make sense they'll probably jump on whoever I smash up first.

Enewald I'm really not sure how the province count is going up so fast - about 60 a decade over the last 40 years - I take the number from the graph in the Ledger making the assumption that the top value is my province count. I really don't want to have to start manually counting!

One factor is colonisation. I generate 54 colonists every ten years and currently I send 4 colonists to a non tropical province (rough estimate that 4 colonists before 1685 should make city status by game end). That's 12 or 13 provinces, my Prod efficiency and Prestige are high enough to give me a base 69% chance on an empty province even with a Admin 3 King.

robou I'm rather hoping Ming will try marching its entire army out to the Steppes - it is possible to drain Ming's manpower pool but it's not easy. I intend to put Level 4 forts in the border provinces, sit strike armies a province back and chew up Ming troops after they've slogged all the way across Sinkiang. Give it a couple of years then I'll try landing on the coast...

aldriq I'm not sure I can justify Champagne - I'd have to explain to my girlfriend why...

I agree the OPMs really don't try the full range of diplomatic options, they sometimes try RMs but never offer military access or vassalage.

Enewald Alexander wasn't a fool he died young before ruining his reputation campaigning in Italy - think James Dean not Elvis :D

kfijatass Mathematically wrong - yes Castile is soon to be 849 times greater :rofl:

Thank you and yes WC will happen - I need to conquer the provinces to convert them.

aldriq True vey true - Gotland is playing it very cool in this game but that's probably because there is no land border rather than any genius by the AI. I may have slipped up there - I should have forced a Protestant/Reformed respawn once they were the only Catholic nation other than myself (with DV) and Lithuania (with Church Attendance Duty). Too late now.

Remember, the measure of success is the number of Catholic provinces.
 
PrawnStar said:
aldriq I'm not sure I can justify Champagne - I'd have to explain to my girlfriend why...

"Oh no honey, this champagne isn't for you! I'm celebrating my victory in a video game!"

:D

Great AAR PrawnStar, I've really enjoyed reading it. What year do you think you will have WC done, and how close do you think you will get to global catholicism?
 
dpc_4891 You have quite clearly identified the 'Champagne' problem :D

Thanks and I'm pleased you've enjoyed this AAR, I do worry it's little bit repetitive.

I'm not sure about an end date for WC - that will be a function of how many wars are needed to take out Ming and Vijayanagar, Rajputana is a lesser concern. Once I'm at war with those countries I can check that. Number of wars needed is vasselisation war score divided by 100 - a crude but reasonably accurate approach.

Global Catholicism is very unlikely but I'm hoping to convert at least everything outside the Far East, South East Asia and India as well as all Pagan and Muslim provinces. The last couple few Orthodox provinces will also be converted. These goals are conservative especially if I strike lucky with some high Admin Kings.
 
Jambor Hello, thanks for commenting! Not sure what this Spanish inquisition is but I've got a Castilian one ;)

Update to follow
 
Update 63

Update 63

28/01/1670 Conversion of Urungwe fails

25/04/1670 Conversion of Mombasa fails

01/05/1670 Naval 30

01/05/1670 Castile declares WAR on Kazakh

02/05/1670 Chagatai declares WAR on Castile in support of Kazakh

02/05/1670 Timurid Empire declares WAR on Castile in support of Kazakh

Kazakh and the Timurids are both OPMs, this war is about tidying things up before the push east.

29/05/1670 Timurid Empire accepts annexation

08/06/1670 Kazakh accepts annexation

16/06/1670 Imereti converts

21/06/1670 Peace with Chagatai, they surrender some cores – most remaining Chagatai possessions are in Northern Manchuria, there’s nothing I want anytime soon.

01/09/1670 Castile declares WAR on Qasim Khanate

02/09/1670 Lithuania declares WAR on Castile in support of Qasim Khanate

27/09/1670 Nizwa converts

10/11/1670 Conversion of Bursa fails

01/01/1671 Land 30

02/02/1671 Nadym converts – I don’t suppose there are many games where these steppe provinces end up with Level 3 and 4 fortresses!

18/02/1671 Peace with Lithuania – they cede Bolgar, Saratow, Smolensk and Mogilyov

21/04/1671 Asir converts

01/06/1671 Castile declares WAR on Persia

16/06/1671 Dayr Az Zor converts

30/09/1671 Mozambique converts

01/10/1671 Production 30

26/01/1672 Alimuly converts

05/02/1672 Pahang converts

01/04/1672 OPM Khmer declares independence from Rajputana in Udong, bordering my province of Rayong.

01/04/1672 Castile declares WAR on Khmer :D

11/04/1672 Conversion of Konya fails – Western Anatolia is proving pretty resistant to the Catholic faith.

24/04/1672 Peace with Persia

The Middle East

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01/06/1672 Trade 30

03/07/1672 Tobolsk converts

07/07/1672 Khmer accepts annexation

South East Asia

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28/09/1672 Conversion of Urungwe fails, again.

27/11/1672 Mombasa converts

01/12/1672 My 6* Theologian dies after 82 years of service – he’s awarded a State Funeral with full honours. He certainly deserves it more than the idiot who’s been running the country for the last 17 years.

29/01/1673 Conversion of Baluchistan fails

With an Admin 3 King and only a one star theologian even level 3 and 4 fortresses are only getting conversion chances up to around 50%. At least my next King won’t be worse.

01/04/1673 Castile declares WAR on Vijayanagar

02/04/1673 Bali declares WAR on Castile in support of Vijayanagar

The South East frontier

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Indonesia

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You may have noticed something reasonably important in the map of India, I don’t actually know where I’m going. Not that this matters, I intend to refuse to ask for directions and use male intuition :rolleyes:

28/04/1673 Muscat converts

01/05/1673 Gov’t 30

Early battles are bloody affairs; Vijayanagar’s forces (Land 11) tend to die in fairly large numbers. Diplomatic reports indicate Vijayanagar is worth 1066 points to vassalise – let’s call that 12 wars so they should be gone by 1750.

22/06/1673 Mocha converts

14/07/1673 Meteor sighted event fires – outstanding as young tea abusing ex-colonials say in the movies. I lose a point of stability.

Regaining Stab +3 will cost 1,058,170 and without further investment will take until April 8520. After considered reflection I hire a three star artist and have some nice pictures of the King’s favourite horses painted. This does help calm the population, if only marginally, proving the point that in a sufficiently large population there will always be weirdos.

27/09/1673 Makran converts

01/10/1673 Land 31

03/12/1673 Tashkent converts

The war is progressing slowly, few provinces have fallen but enemy casualties are high. A marine landing on Bali had to be called off after 6 regiments took 60% casualties in a couple of weeks – the garrison was 16000 strong!

04/01/1674 Ming declares WAR on Castile

04/01/1674 Ryukyu declares WAR on Castile in support of Ming

05/01/1674 Japan declares WAR on Castile in support of Ming

:eek:
 
02/02/1671 Nadym converts – I don’t suppose there are many games where these steppe provinces end up with Level 3 and 4 fortresses!
Well that defeats the purpose of nomadic herding :eek:o

It is ok once you hit the ocean you will know to go a different way other than straight.
 
I think we've long since hit the tipping point where a match doesn't really exist.

Vann
 
PrawnStar said:
You may have noticed something reasonably important in the map of India, I don’t actually know where I’m going. Not that this matters, I intend to refuse to ask for directions and use male intuition

Well, if you let your neighbours do some exploration instead of annexing them you'd see most of India by now :rolleyes:

I hope Ming is not delaying your expansion too much... can't be worse than losing your 6-star theologian though.
 
Feedback time

comagoosie Whenever I picture these heavily fortified Steppe provinces I keep thinking of a Yak stood outside Minas Morgul.

robou Don't be silly, anyway who says all the Guests are at the party yet?

Vann the Red Quite right!

aldriq My neighbours don't need to explore India, I'm reasonably sure Vijayanagar has decent maps. ;)

Enewald Messaging within the Castilian empire is instant, I have access to a futuristic comm tech, it's mouse powered :wacko:

Update within the next couple of hours...