War with the Dutch could be easier than the French due to the reduced numbers of troops and less advanced ships and troops. However the large numbers of Dutch ships and Troops could create sizeable opposition. We begin clashes with the Dutch forces in Algeria and prepare our forces to fight. At sea we engage a Dutch flotilla but are driven back as Dutch reinforcements pour in and overwhelm our ships.
Colonial expansion continued despite the war with small forces assisting the efforts and more success was achieved with the colonization of the western central Sahara. However despite our great size some regions have more people than our entire country which is seen by many as a weakness any could exploit.
Our focus on advancing many parts of the military tech tree as such came to an end with the third line completed we begin developing the basics of the Naval tech tree before increasing our educational ability and our troops experience and reinforcements rate.
After many fights with the Dutch forces we finally get the better of their remnants and crush and capture the last few survivors after weeks of pursing them around Algeria. This frees up our forces to begin seizing Dutch land in Algeria.
In a second naval battle after the beginning of the occupation of our holdings in the Canary Islands we destroy much of the Dutch fleet and force some ships on to rocks which wreck them as they tried to flee the battle.
Our continued colonial efforts bring us great glory again and again but obviously some administrator in our colonies have angered the local and threaten law and order in the area. This proves unacceptable but with our attention else where we can't act and hope the situation will get better on it's own. On the same day we finish colonial efforts in the eastern half of the Central Sahara.
But the Dutch obviously unwilling to keep fighting a difficult war in distant parts of this world to them decided to pull out. The opportunity of peace was taken with both hands and we where happy to end this Conflict. Morocco is on shaky grounds having to fight European powers whose ability to deploy and support troops is impossible in Morocco.
With our standing in the world increasing as we held much land and had won many wars we were considered one of the great powers of the world. great power influence was instantly sent into Spain to patch up damaged relations with them. Around the same time fellow great power Mexico was beaten into the ground hard by the USA who took all the remaining land with one of theirs claims and took a northern part of Mexico Proper.
Later it became clear that the source of Nile wasn't known and the Royal geographic society offered rewards to anyone willing to go after this price of epic proportions. We rapidly sent out an expedition to discover the source of the Nile which gather much information but failed to find it exactly so we sent out another one at once. While waiting for it to return the Ottoman Empire announced that they had found a lost tomb in the valley of the Kings belonging to the Pharaoh Tutankhamen. This left our team devastated which returned shortly afterwards having found little of real value. But our unhappiness was short lived as our expedition found the source of the Nile river and firmly put Morocco's name on the map.
on the back of these great discoveries we went onwards with the colonisation of lands in Africa with our colonization of Niger region we continued our drive east to cut off the French from valuable land to the south which we wanted for ourselves.
A Diplomat came to see the ML
British Ambassador: Ah you see great news for you and your people almighty leader of Morocco.
ML: Ok I never get great news so this may be interesting.
BA: we have realized that your people would be far better off if ruled by the almighty British Government. So it is war.
ML: really do you and your government have anything better to do then coming along and picking on us like taking more valuable land in India that is also cheaper in terms of Infamy.
BA: well we could do that but we decided that putting Morocco in it's place was a better use of our time.
(ML pulls lever and Pit opens up but BA is only just managing to balance on one edge. ML sighs and pulls another lever which causes a big red fist to burst out of wall and hit BA into pit where he is shredded by saws powered by Dogs running in wheels under them.)
Quick recon on the border told us that Almost as many troops as in the Entire Moroccan Army where just in British west Africa. It was going to be a tough and nearly impossible to win war. Just another day in Morocco.
(the Brits outnumber me by about 100 to 1. If no one minds I may have to manipulate the game to aid me. I'll give you grand tales about spies and Assassins to reward you if you say yes. If the answer is no I'll have to give up probably)