Chapter 7: Iberia, Africa and further east...
1479 Jan: War is declared on Mali. Ottoman and Swahili join.
May: Land tech 7.
Aug: We take 7 provinces from Mali. BB is now 16.8 and WE is 5.92. We need a long period of peace, so we WP Ottomans.
Dec: A boundary dispute on Kilwa makes Swahili dead as soon as I get a Red Sea navy.
1480 Apr: Granada declares Jihad against Foix. Brandenburg, Brittany, France, Avignon, Burgundy and Provence join Foix, but only the Mamelukes join Granada. As I was just started gathering troops to take Toledo for the -2BB, I intend to intervene...
Jun: Lisboa cores.
Jul: As Foix just had a boundary dispute on Labourd I have a diplomatic insult CB, which I use. Everybody fighting Granada join bar Brandenburg, perfect! France ends up as alliance leader, which is better than Burgundy :wacko:
1481 Mar: Assaulting Vendee gets Brittany out of the war. Granada is doing OK and France is wasting time sieging rebel held Navarra with 16 regiments. The remaining army, 2 regiments is sieging Bourboun.
Apr: Replacing our ruler we get a 5/3/7 prince.
Jul: Trade 7. Granada gets a WP from Burgundy, so I ask for peace too. Granted.
Dec: Moving towards Free subjects loses us another point of stab, reaching -3.
1482 Feb: Finally Granada allows us into their territory.
Jun: Stability reaches -2.
Jul: Granada annexes Foix, perfect.
Aug: Granada takes one of their sourthern Iberian provinces and releases Guyenne from France, the rest of the alliance is harmless to them. I remove alot of french cores and some of their alliances. Unfortunately WE has risen to 6,71. Alicante is still french so taking Toledo will cut Granada in 2 :-(
1484 Aug: WE is down to 3.12 and BB is 8.1. With Ottomans being DotF we want to start a short war against Syria, get Mosul and wait the Ottomans out. When they will accept a decent peace we will start some holy wars and get a peace with the Ottomans.
Dec: War is declared on Mali to take one of their provinces. We OPM Syria.
1485 Feb: Boundary dispute on Armenia. This mean we will ignore in the next war on Persia and let it revolt and then take it.
Apr: Mali is OPM.
Sep: The first batch of Mameluke territory cores. A Red Sea navy is issued and Majerteen is colonised.
1486 Jan: Ottomans are ready to accept me to concede defeat, so I declare war on Persia and peaces Ottomans.
Aug: A 6* diplomat dies and we only get a 5* replacement.
1487 May: Naval tech 7.
Jun: Granada has been doing well, but now they ended up in a war against Burgundy. I recruit troops to obtain local parity. The real problem is HRE Austria, which has more troops than me and are not spanning 3 continents
Fortunately it seems like Burgundy cannot pass the Pyrenees to get into Iberia. Aragon in Valencia and Navarra in Navarra, breaks free from France.
Jul: We take 5 provinces of Persia and assume Armenia to break free. BB is 9.8 and WE is 7.56.
Dec: Berbera, Awsa and Haud cores.
1488 Feb: Baluchstan owned Makran is discovered.
1489 Apr: Election time, we take a chance with a new diplo guy. A 5/375 guy, which is issued general duties as close to Sibiria as I can.
May: War is declared on Ashanti, nobody joins.
Jun: Stab -1. We take Kumasi and some cash for peace with Ashanti.
1490 Jul: BB is down to 4.8 and WE is 2.56, so we declare war on Kazan. Ottomans and Kazack join.
Sep: Sweden annexes Norway and as it is more than 50 years since we have fought Sweden the core on Orkney is lost
1491 Oct: We take 4 provinces of Kazan as the stack fighting in Perm is down to 238 men. Ottomans is ready for peace so we declare war on Nogai joined by Persian and Najd. GH is also DOW'ed, Candar and Syria join. Last Sibir is DOW'ed, joined by Crimea. BB is 5.4 and WE is 3.84.
1492 Mar: As the merchant fractures, we side with the protective ones.
May: Peace with Nogai for Uralsk.
Jun: Second batch of Mamelukian territory cores.
Sep: Peace with Persia, releases Armenia.
1493 Jan: Peace with GH. Poltava would be nice as it is propably the last time I've seen it in muslim hands, but Ufa is needed for a road to more BB lands.
Feb: Netherlands is forced to release Gelre, Oldenburg and Brunswick by HRE Austria.
May: Cleves releases Münster of the Netherlands.
Jun: Boundary dispute on Salamanca.
Oct: Our 5/3/5 king dies sieging Crimea. To honour his memory we elect a 5/3/5 diplomat candidate
1494 Feb: We take what we can from Sibir. BB is only 6,3 and WE is 6,02.
March: Milan forces Netherlands to release Brabant and Utrech.
Apr: We notice that Animist Hausa has conquered muslim Kanem Bornu. This allows for a quick war without Ottomans, gaining BB and losing WE at the same time, even with our "allmighty" ruler.
Jun: A few rebels later, we can see off 3000 soldiers and a general to beat up some animists. Congo joins, but is kinda outta reach.
Jul: Sourthern Arabian Peninsula cores.
1495 Apr: We annex Hausa for 4BB (usual screenie mishap for annexation
), resulting in 8.3. WE is 5.12.
Dec: Majerteen is secured by a fort. Africa is looking secure and no europeans have QftNW yet and most have taken their 3rd idea.
1496 Jan: We reach stab 0, switch to government tech for the 3rd idea. Running at negative stability for this period, has left us with 8.7% inflation.
May: The refomation hits: Venice. Tasty provinces, but surounded by Austria. Unam Santum is due in February...
Aug: We get our first protestant province on freaking Urungwe. The missionary chance is -11.9% for the next 25 years...
Sep: Oyo and Ife is discovered. We start marching.
Oct: Muscovy attacks Smolensk which Austria joins. Exciting
1497 Feb: Government tech 11 and Unam Sanctum. Production 9 is being researched. Venice get Religious civil disorder and choose to eradicate heretics. We declare war on Oyo, joined by Congo and Armenia joined by Muscowy.
Mar: We get the Cleansing of heretic CB. Schwaben and Trent also gone blue. War is declared on Venice. I want Crete and Adriatic coast but the Ottomans should take Greece. Oyo is annexed. Venice is also fighting a trade war against the rest of northern Italy, Austria and Milan doing the most.
Jun: Armenia annexed. Milan forces Venice to release Crete :-(
Aug: France is rotten: We get 60000 rebels up north or -10%tax in Normandie for 4 years, I'll take the latter. Down south Granada is fighting the other frenchies, but this time including Armagnac, so they can reach each other. Full minting and troop building... We get a WP with Muscowy.
Dec: Benin is discovered. War is declared on Burgundy, Brittan, Milan, Navarra and Aragon join. Milan is bad, but I like Austria staying out. I spot 20 burgundian regiments down to 5500 soldier in Poutoi...
1498 Mar: The forts in Ife and Oyo are done and Benin and Ashanti are sent a letter to.
May: Granada annexes Armagnac.
Jun: We take Istria, Görz and Friuli off venetian hands. Ashanti is annexed. Benin annexed. BB is 13.4 and WE is 2.78.
Aug: Milan accept a WP.
Oct: The remaining mamelukian conquest west of Cairo cores.
1499 Jun: Granada has become DotF. We will try to get Lothringen and Valenciennes off Burgundian hand and start warring in Middle East again.
Jul: Another 6* diplomat dies and again we generate a 5* replacement.
Aug: Muscovy forces Austria to release Tirol and forms Russia. We have the heretic CB, but Russia is larger than I can handle.
1500 Jan: We are able to take our two cores, but Granada sits on the burgundian string from Poutoi to Bourgougne without peacing out. I hope they can handle themselves. BB is 10.5 and WE is 5.28.
Feb: Moving towards mercantalism gains us a collector.
Mar: War is declared on Persia, joined by Trebizond, Khiva and Sind, the latter being alliance leader.
Jul: Production 9 and Workshops. We begin building them on the isles.
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