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PART 1.5 – What Might Have Been
Section 1 – Aztec and England
This section will be unique in that it will be written entirely Out of Character, and will describe my plans and results of the time between 1533 and 1600. This was played under HTTT, and since I updated to DW there is no easy way to recover it. So instead I will describe what I planned to happen here, using game screenshots.
Well, after playing Ming I had a choice of going back west or continuing east. Japan in HTTT wasn’t as interesting as it is in DW, so I decided to go across the see to Aztec. I hoped that Europeans would swarm me and I could have some fun that way. Sadly, all the European powers were at war and had lost all their fleets and/or hadn’t discovered me. Even when I tag changed they wouldn’t attack. Finally in 1540 I gave up and moved to England.
England had done rather well so far. Despite losing its French holdings to me they had gained big in Italy and especially in the north. They also had a few colonies in North America. Along with that was an explorer with a 6* Manoeuvre value! The plan was for Talena to meet him and then journey with him before returning to England.
One of my first priorities was the creation of a COT and stabilising the rampant inflation which the AI is great at accumulating. Additionally the AI had issues in a big way with the Reformation, and this fitted well into my story, since the King was a minor when he took the throne when I started playing.
This was my march into the hinterland…mainly to give me something to do while I waited for the King to grow up!
The AI had actually done a reasonable job with sliders, and it all sort of played to my advantage.
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I found it amusing that this Henry VIII would be coming to the throne with similar stats and near the same time as the historical one. I resolved to make this a conversion time.
And this was the perfect trigger for me, IC, I was going to have Talena persuade him to convert and then seize the monasteries. I have to say I was rather more successful then the real Henry VIII!
And here we are. The conversion and the claiming of DOTF. Since there were only a couple of Protestant nations around this was pretty easy. I also intervened in numerous wars on the continent, always force converting to Protestantism as would have been done by the character.
And this was a great thing too. So at the end of this section all was going well, and I’d have further success with England before the end with Henry VIII.