Chapter Seventy
War with Wuerttemberg - September 1707
The full alliance is Khmer (What!?!), Brabant, the Ottomans, Wurttemberg, Milan and Majapahit. The new war also prompts a couple more revolts, Hamburg and Oudh. Thakhet rebels later in the month.
Majapahit is annexed before the end of the month and Milan is annexed at the start of October. The month also sees a warning from Dai Viet and uprisings in Ulaanchab and Sukthothai.
Peace with the Ottomans - October 1707
It’s the first time for many years I’ve actually made peace with the Ottomans directly but Thrace gave me enough war score for Corfu.
Goa cores at the start of November, Altai revolts and Austria sends a warning. I’m beating Wurttemberg, haven’t really got to grips with Khmer and am hiding from the Brabanter doomstack.
Peace with Wurttemberg - December 1707
The New Year starts with France throwing around a wave of guarantees and warnings - which is promising. Goa converts while Baden and Kham revolt. February brings a core on Khandesh and four rebellions; Arakan, U-Tsang, Kassel and Poznan. The war’s a quiet set of sieges for the next three months although Istria revolts in April. May sees revolts in Moravia and Osel. June brings cores; Orissa, Burgas, Bulgaria and Edirne.
Peace with Brabant - June 1708
Jylland revolts as does Mecklenburg a few weeks later. Persian is lost as an accepted culture in July 1708 - the expansion of the Horde has minimised the Persian contribution.
Peace with Khmer - August 1708
Sunni Khmer is now an OPM.
I pay Sweden off for 50 ducats a few days later. There’s three revolts in response; Munster, Cuttack and Lanzhou. France is now at peace with Great Britain; there’s a huge troop build up on my western frontier.
Portugal declares War - October 1708
It’s nice to see France in there, they should be able invade the Castilian mainland for some useful war score. My problem is in Java and Sumatra where there are large Portuguese forces defending level 4 fortresses - and Java is full of vulnerable colonies…
Burgundy is peaced out for their treasury of 437 ducats in January - I build a few more marketplaces. Sumatra is going well, Java badly.
February starts with revolts in Friesland and Vientiane. It’s Bhutan the next month when Riga also converts.
France is going head to head with Castile and Portugal in Iberia. War score is going against me but French armies will surely concentrate properly at stage… Portuguese forces in Sumatra have been destroyed and I’m besieging the fortress. Java is in the balance, I’m down a colony and while I have the 13 regiment Portuguese stack on the run my 12 regiments are down to barely 4000 men.
April sees revolts in Amdo and Raichur Doab
Since I’m stuck in this rather large war I’ll clear those warnings I’ve picked up.
War with Croatia - May 1709
More craziness on the war leader front; the whole enemy alliance is Dai Viet, Brabant, Austria, Croatia and Meissen. Remember Meissen is allied to the Ottomans so they will survive, the good news is this resets the 50 year clock on my core on their province. Qamdo revolts.
Croatia is annexed as June starts and Meissen peaced out for 2500 ducats (where from?). I throw about 2000 ducats at another wave of marketplaces. There’s a revolt in Metz later in the month. Kuznetsk cores in July and I make peace with Brabant.
OPM Liege sends me a warning again - this time I really will try and annex them. Cuttack also converts, only Silhet remains Hindu.
August sees Austria OPM’d with a haul of 594 ducats as well as Steiermark. Smaland converts and Krain revolts.
The war in Iberia is turning around as French doomstacks start knocking the Castilians around.
I make peace with Dai Viet in October taking a single connected province.
There are uprisings in Kyaukse and Brahmaputra during the month. November has revolts in Oberpfalz and Sukthothai. I also get a Boundary Dispute core on Wurttemberg.
January 1710 starts with another round of revolts; Fyn Metz and Vijaya. February has more revolts; Olonets, Kalisz and Tshiyet Noyan. I do make headway in coastal Siberia taking a couple of settlements.
Kohistan cores in March 1710 while Dalmatia and Mecklenburg revolt. April’s rebels are in Silhet and Luxembourg. I get to August before the next set of rebels; Luneburg and Nile.
Mongnai revolts in September. I’m still stuck in sieges around the two Portuguese fortresses in the East Indies! War score is now about zero while French, Portuguese and Castilian war exhaustion is climbing into the teens. One thing is clear my Muslim Musketeers can’t really go up against the Line Infantry the Latins are now deploying.
October’s revolts are in Ratibor and Naga. Kurland cores in November as do Altmark and Mecklenburg a month later. Kachin revolts. The start of 1711 sees a revolt in Minangkabau, awkward as I’ve no spare troops in the area.
Dalmatia revolts as February 1711 starts and there are a couple of cores; Muscat and Delhi. All I need to form the Mughal Empire is peace. Ostpreussen converts. More cores in March, Vorpommern and Niederlausitz and also more rebels in Vijaya and Diego Garcia.
By the start of April 1711 I’m tired of being caught up in defensive wars with little to gain…
War with Ming - April 1711
The keen-eyed will notice my ship numbers are changing - I’m trying to pick off stray Portuguese and Castilian squadrons in the Indian Ocean. Treviso, Kyaukse and Cuttack revolt at the news. Liege is annexed within days.
Delta cores at the start of May. The month also has uprisings in Chin and Chittagong. Revolts are sufficiently common in South East Asia my troops there haven’t been able to participate in the invasion of China.
Meanwhile the situation in the West…
I have eventually taken the Portuguese fortresses I want in the East Indies although my fleet has been caught and mauled in the Persian gulf.
June brings more cores; Telingana, Bastar, Parlakimidi and Gondwana. It also brings five revolts; Corfu, Krain, Hannover, Dali and Silhet. July has revolts in Hovd and Smaland. August has more rebels, Indravati and a second spawn in Dali. September’s revolts are Chittagong, Hovd and Kham.
The war with Portugal has all but stalemated with not quite enough war score to force a peace deal. The French doomstacks are moving back to the frontline and all the other parties are struggling. Elsewhere Ming as seized my ex-French colony of Visayas (what’s left of my fleet is hiding in Persian Gulf ports) and Danish nationalists have taken Fyn. Castilian blockades mean I can’t do anything about that!
There’s a revolt in Holland in December around the same time Castilian blockaded Corfu falls to rebels and I make peace with Manchu.
Peace with Manchu - December 1711
OPM and you can see some of the colonial seizures further north.
1712 starts with a warning from the Mamluks! There are also uprisings in Hormouz, Golconda and Hovd (the third one!). Franken revolts in February.
I’ve just over 50 war score against Ming and they’ve sent a 30+ regiment stack into tropical South East Asia. Portugal still isn’t interested in peace at +1 war score.
Malwa cores in March as do Gharchistan and Urumqi a month later. Vorpommern and Halland revolt. Sinope culturally assimilates this month - the first province to do so in decades. Hovd revolts again in June! Hsenwi does as well. Pressburg cores in July and it’s time to make peace with Ming as war exhaustion is starting to get away from me.
Peace with Ming - July 1712
Notice the lost island colony in the Philippines. In case you’re wondering why those provinces there are two reasons. Firstly they are high attrition so taking them means I won’t have to fight through them again and also they are adjacent to a block of uncored and hence garrisoned land come the next TSC.
War exhaustion is 6.19 and BB 420.45 / 14.00
Berg, Rayong and Keng Tung all rise in rebellion.
The problem I have with the Portuguese war is I don’t really have any way of hurting these guys. I need the French to smash Castile and break into Portugal but so far that’s not happened. All three countries are suffering although Portuguese war exhaustion is actually falling at the moment. They are picking off my islands. I could make peace by handing over several French colonial territories…
Rebel Count = 2857 (+79)
Rebels = 13,566,000 (+344,000)
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