Gameplay AAR for now without screenies played with AGCEEP and started in the 1419 scenario. First of all I want to say I have little experience with EU2 and no experience with AGCEEP (though I did play EU1 for years). You are welcome to advise me!
Let's see the starting situation of Brandenburg first. We begin with king Friedrich I. HE has a diplomacy rating of 9, administrative 5 and military rating is 6. We have 150 ducats and our stability is at 3. Brandenburg possesses two provinces: Brandenburg proper and Magdeburg. We have a manpower pool of 10k and two armies: the Brandenburg Army lead by the king (6k infantry and 5k cavalry) and the Fränkische Garde (4k infantry and 1k cavalry). We have an alliance with Pomerania and Saxony.
The first thing I do is move one step towards innovation. The starting slider was at -1 so we are now at 0. We sign a Royal Marriage with Saxony and promote the Bailiff in Magdeburg to Tax collector.
In August 1419 Brandenburg reaches Early Renaissance in trade tech and we send 4 merchants to Mecklenburg to try our luck in trade. In Bohemia the Hussite wars erupt, we go with Express Hostility but refrain from declaring war on the Hussites. A Royal Marriage is arranged with Pomerania and Denmark asks and gets Military Access through our lands, but so far (I stopped in 1426) they have not used it.
The merchants we sent to Mecklenburg arrive in November 1419 and we gain 2 merchants there, earning approximately 2,5 ducats a month. The Acquisition of Neumark event fires for Brandenburg and we buy the Neumark (Küstrin) from the Teutonic Order for 80 ducats and change our monthly income and military upkeep to avoid having to take a loan.
We now enter the twenties. In June 1420 Brandenburg enters a Royal Marriage with Meissen, which later annexes Saxony and in 1425 changes from Meissen to Saxony. We reach Late Medieval in Naval Tech in January 1422. Not that that is very important to us, as we have no coastline (yet)!
Our merchants aren't exactly top of the line apparently, we lose the two we had in Mecklenburg in April 1422, gain 1 back a few months later and then lose him again. After that, it is now March 1423, I decide I'll stop trading for now.
Meanwhile I decided I'd put my diplo-9-king Friedrich I to good use and send Personal Gifts to Pomerania. Our inital relationship of 155 goes first to 156 (wow, +1!!!) and after a second Gift goes straight to 200. Bogislaw IX of Pomerania accepts vassalization in October 1423.
After about 6 years Brandenburg recovers enough financially to promote the Bailiff of Küstrin to Tax collector in Janaury 1426.
When we reach April 1426 I decide to quit for tonight and see what happened in Europe.
The Hundred Year's War rages off and for now on. England conquered Picardie, Caux and Normandie in addition to Gasogne and Calais but France is sieging all those provinces at the moment. Burgundy recently conquered Hainaut from Brabant and is now 4 provinces big. Poland became a vassal of Lithuania, Scotland was vassalized by England. The Teutonic Order annexed Mazovia in 1419 already. Venice conquered the Adriatic coast provinces from Hungary.
That's it for now. Maybe I'll take screenies during the next session I play!
Let's see the starting situation of Brandenburg first. We begin with king Friedrich I. HE has a diplomacy rating of 9, administrative 5 and military rating is 6. We have 150 ducats and our stability is at 3. Brandenburg possesses two provinces: Brandenburg proper and Magdeburg. We have a manpower pool of 10k and two armies: the Brandenburg Army lead by the king (6k infantry and 5k cavalry) and the Fränkische Garde (4k infantry and 1k cavalry). We have an alliance with Pomerania and Saxony.
The first thing I do is move one step towards innovation. The starting slider was at -1 so we are now at 0. We sign a Royal Marriage with Saxony and promote the Bailiff in Magdeburg to Tax collector.
In August 1419 Brandenburg reaches Early Renaissance in trade tech and we send 4 merchants to Mecklenburg to try our luck in trade. In Bohemia the Hussite wars erupt, we go with Express Hostility but refrain from declaring war on the Hussites. A Royal Marriage is arranged with Pomerania and Denmark asks and gets Military Access through our lands, but so far (I stopped in 1426) they have not used it.
The merchants we sent to Mecklenburg arrive in November 1419 and we gain 2 merchants there, earning approximately 2,5 ducats a month. The Acquisition of Neumark event fires for Brandenburg and we buy the Neumark (Küstrin) from the Teutonic Order for 80 ducats and change our monthly income and military upkeep to avoid having to take a loan.
We now enter the twenties. In June 1420 Brandenburg enters a Royal Marriage with Meissen, which later annexes Saxony and in 1425 changes from Meissen to Saxony. We reach Late Medieval in Naval Tech in January 1422. Not that that is very important to us, as we have no coastline (yet)!
Our merchants aren't exactly top of the line apparently, we lose the two we had in Mecklenburg in April 1422, gain 1 back a few months later and then lose him again. After that, it is now March 1423, I decide I'll stop trading for now.
Meanwhile I decided I'd put my diplo-9-king Friedrich I to good use and send Personal Gifts to Pomerania. Our inital relationship of 155 goes first to 156 (wow, +1!!!) and after a second Gift goes straight to 200. Bogislaw IX of Pomerania accepts vassalization in October 1423.
After about 6 years Brandenburg recovers enough financially to promote the Bailiff of Küstrin to Tax collector in Janaury 1426.
When we reach April 1426 I decide to quit for tonight and see what happened in Europe.
The Hundred Year's War rages off and for now on. England conquered Picardie, Caux and Normandie in addition to Gasogne and Calais but France is sieging all those provinces at the moment. Burgundy recently conquered Hainaut from Brabant and is now 4 provinces big. Poland became a vassal of Lithuania, Scotland was vassalized by England. The Teutonic Order annexed Mazovia in 1419 already. Venice conquered the Adriatic coast provinces from Hungary.
That's it for now. Maybe I'll take screenies during the next session I play!
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