Chapter Forty Six
Summer Smackdown! – August 1767
This update starts with probably my biggest battle to date as I throw 87 regiments at 52 Burgundians. I have a horrible feeling I’m going to have to start assaulting with this stack to actually take any provinces before Burgundy recovers.
05/09/1767 OPM Oyo warns us. I was actually considering attacking them next as they are guaranteed by France!
The follow up battle – October 1767
Overlord! – February 1768
While the vast battles on the frontier continue inconclusively (I was forced to retreat in the previous campaign as constant fighting and attrition wore down my forces), the British based army strikes behind enemy lines.
I expect this move to eventually end in a retreat to the sea. However, it does allow me to kill some Burgundian ships, a scattering of isolated regiments and do some heavy WE damage.
October 1768 Castile warns us – which means I need to find another route to a new war with France.
November 1769 Aragon warns us as well.
The current plan is DOW Aragon, triggering all the warnings, Castile, Aragon and Oyo. Step two is to DOW Brittany to get France into a separate war. Of course I do really need to be at peace with Burgundy for this to work.
Burgundy – Jan 1769
A long and bloody campaign has broken through the Burgundian frontline and started to inflict real damage. My smallest visible stack is over twenty regiments.
01/04/1769 Stability 3 is finally regained
01/05/1769 –
Bad Event
The +2 stab doesn’t matter much now but the 2 points of innovation are a real nuisance – I don’t gain many missionaries as it is and most of the standard missionary gain techniques don’t work for Shamanists.
18/05/1769 Peten converts
Peace with Burgundy – June 1769
It was proving harder and harder to beat the Burgundians back as the territory they controlled contracted their armies became more concentrated. This is a decent peace deal, a nice chunk of the middle of France, Southern Australia and a couple more islands.
All but unbelievably, I’m not at war!
The Economy
World Map – 01/09/1769
Greater Iroquois Republic – 01/09/1769
Objectives for the next decade include:
Annexation of Aragon, Mamluks and France, Castile reduced to West Africa, Great Britain beaten twice and Burgundy driven from France proper. I also want to clean up the remaining non Iroquois provinces in Indonesia / Philippines and Australasia.
Ceterum censeo Castile esse delendam