Chapter Ninety Two
This TSC starts with 220 rebellions and 1,176,000 rebels. Based on past experience I’ll see nearly the same number again in the next two years. It’s unfortunate but I expect my armies still fighting in Iberian Castile will be distracted. Brazil on the other hand will continue as planned.
The maps don’t look much different from the last TSC barely three years ago. I’ve added a few provinces and gained a few cores but the effects are marginal in the overall picture.
January’s regular rebel check has fourteen revolts; Anhalt, Berg, Franche-Comte, Shoa, Luanda, Nevers, Limburg, Urungwe, Taranaki, Guyuan, Binh Tri Thien, Lombardia, Valencia and Roussillon.
February is calmer with only seven revolts; Halland, Limburg, Badiyat Ash Sham, Ifat, Leon, Treviso and Whangarei.
March starts with a warning from OPM Ming and the conversion of Osnabruck. The revolts are in Delhi, Kashmir and Delagoa Bay.
There are eight revolts in April; Golconda, Bali-Lombok, Karbala, Burgos, Girona, Bangalore, Taranaki and Brescia.
May has six revolts; Aorangi, Ratibor, Liaodong, Sumbawa, Jiangmen and Chittagong.
June sees six revolts; Auvergne, Guyuan, Riau, Raichur Doab, Provence and Hainaut.
Only Ferrara and Koch revolt in July.
August is back up to six rebellions; Gojjam, Antwerpen, Friesland, Liege, Bryansk and Heiloingjiang.
Ming declares War - August 1770
Well it least it means I won’t waste too many diplomats during this TSC.
September has another five revolts; Rhodes, Vastergotland, Bahrain, Budjak and Girona.
October brings seven uprisings; Riga, Istria, Koln, Azow, Kongu, Xuan Fu and Parma.
November 1770 starts with 13 cores ex French mainly in Central Europe but some in Southern Africa as well. Canada has picked up a couple of provinces in the American South West through religious defection. Great Britain continues to struggle to control it’s empire. There are seven more revolts; Azerbaijan, North Ufa, Berbera, Navarra, Ceuta, Loango and Woiworung.
Portugal sends a warning days later…
December sees six more revolts; Tara, Jaipur, Mordvar, Kerman, Quetta and Aden.
January 1771 and I’m still at war with Japan and Castile! Slow progress continues in Brazil and mainland Iberia. The war with Ming and Wu should end within months as I clear some rebels first. Milan sends a warning early in the month. Prestige is solidly stuck at -100 and there’s no plan or scheme in place just endless march and counter march.
There are also another five revolts; Bergslagen, Malindi, Sistan, Simbirsk and Bithynia.
February starts with seven more revolts; Ansbach, Zheteru, Gorka, Champassak, Gorz, Badiyat Ash Sham and Uteve.
Peace with Wu - February 1771
Wu is now an OPM, Ming is still in the war although not for much longer. Taiwan is still occupied by a local Pretender from the last TSC!
Ming annexed - February 1771
Another of the major players has gone.
March 1771 and I get another seven scattered cores. The Court has changed recently with my 6* Trade Efficiency guy dying and now I’ve been able to replace him.
Both the PE and Interest guys could trigger +2 stab events.
There are of course rebels this month; Franche Comte, Szolnok, Hovd, Bukhara, Rzhev and Fyn.
April 1771 and war exhaustion is down to zero!
Looks like I’ll come out of this war in better shape than Castile or Japan. War aims now are all of Castilian Brazil. After that there’ll be a trip to North Africa to pick up another 30k of reinforcements and then it’s time to trigger that Portuguese warning. There are eight more revolts; Artois, Mozambique, Bastar, Thang Long, Sukthothai, Altai, Liaodong and Rzhev.
May and another eight uprisings; Ceuta, Mozambique, Pegu, Blois, Messina, Tara, Solikamsk and Jabal Shammar.
June brings six more revolts; Anjou, Berg, Suhar, Jiangmen, Liangshan and Golconda.
July has another five rebellions; Chenzhou, Calais, Roma, Gorka and Berezov.
August has seven revolts; Jylland, Gorz, Nice, Crimea, Riau, Poitou and Alimuly.
September sees only five uprisings; Baden, Hainault, Harer, Lahore and Jizhou.
October also has five rebellions; Friesland, Chahar, Trent, Kisarna and Liguria.
Peruvian Independence - November 1771
Peru erupts onto the world stage - there were three occupied provinces in Castilian territory and when they got independence they took all their cores. Peru is at war with Chimu and Portugal as well as Castile.
The Global celebrations as Paddington Bear completes his long walk to freedom mean there are no revolts anywhere in the Horde in November.
December is back to normal with seven revolts; Bern, Archangelsk, Yakutsk, Osijek, Multan, Tambow and Oberlausitz.
January 1772, the last month of the TSC, has six rebellions; Lappland, Fez, Aures, Barrois, Limburg and Udong.
At this point Prestige is -100 as it’s been for the last year or more. There are 68 rebel armies still in the field but that number should start falling quickly in the next few months. I’m still at war with Japan and Castile only one more Brazilian province to capture shame it’s a level five fortress.
February starts with rebellions in Breda and Palawan.
March has a single revolt in Lienz.
June has a revolt in Lesser Namaquala and Gelre converts.
The war is still dragging on - just one more fortress and I’ve some cannons only a few days away…
Wien converts in September 1772.
Peace with Castile - September 1772
I give up on the last Castilian fortress (the Swedish border on the Amazon) as I want to move things along. This is Castilian Brazil and another chunk of North Africa. I also grabbed the Castilian colonies of Guam, Papua and Samoa during the war.
Peace with Japan - September 1772
Now I’m on the main island I don’t expect Japan to rest until annexed. I need to do some redeployments; extra troops into Brazil and a boost to the Home Islands strike force. Nagato rebels within days.
South America - September 1772
It should be clear where I’m heading in the coming war with Portugal.
Cavalry upgrade time…
Ayutthaya and Ansbach convert in October. Atlas and Ahmadnagar revolt.
November is quiet and December starts with cores on Ordos and Mantua. Breda revolts.
Infantry swap out - December 1772
From here I need about three months to get my transports in the Atlantic loaded and safely into Brazil. After that the Horde can get back to being
Hordelike.
Rebel Count = 5684 (+380)
Rebels = 27,705,000 (+1,984,000)
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