Hello.
I've read quite a few AARs, including some by very skilled players, so I thought it was time for a story written about a rubbish country played by a rubbish player. I got Europa only about two weeks ago, and since then I have played two games.
It turns out that I'm awful at the game. I've played the Taira shogunate into Japan and Burgundy. Both ended in overextension and bankruptcy, and in the case of Japan, naval invasion by a massively superior enemy.
So I thought, perhaps it would be interesting to see a story in which there is no huge success, instead, hopeless defeat, and doom? Even I don't know what'll happen yet. I haven't started.
As far as I can see, this is the first ever Pegu AAR. I'm honoured.
So, here are the settings under which I will be playing my game:
You can see that it's on Normal difficulty. This is because as Burgundy I found it very easy to expand on Easy but then I made a stupid decision: change religion then declare war on everyone. Woops. But enough of previous games.
You can also see that I use a Mac, I'm writing this in TextEdit, and I'm listening to the songs from Eurovision 2011.
Pegu
Pegu starts off with some… scary neighbours. Taungu is five provinces and Ayutthaya six. Pegu is merely three. Arakan and Lan-Na are potential candidates for being consumed by my Most Glorious Peguish Army.
By tamius at 2011-06-11
My mission is to somehow take Ligore. Ayutthaya is a bit stronger than me from what I can see. If a nearby country attacks, I'll make an opportunistic declaration of war. If nobody else is interested in Ayutthaya I'll send a spy over, I get 0.8 per year.
By tamius at 2011-06-11
The budget. Wow, I make money! That doesn't normally happen!
By tamius at 2011-06-11
You may have noticed me asking in "quick questions/quick answers" thread why Burgundy was bankrupt. *hides*
Well, with sliders I haven't a lot of experience. I know I have one "slider move" available. Since I don't know what most of these do, I shall move my slider toward "innovative", allowing me to westernise sooner.
By tamius at 2011-06-11
Oh, I got a bad side effect. Never mind, I hope. This reduces my money a bit
First acts:
Nobody loves Pegu. Japan probably don't even know who they are.
This uses up all three of my diplomats. And even after marrying off to the King of Taungu, I'm not in line for a personal union or even a Peguish noble on the Taunguan throne. Sad. At least Tibet loves me.
The Known World in 1399
So concludes the First Chapter of this story of Pegu.
Have I made a horrible mistake yet? Can you even see the pictures?! I hope someone posts in here soon.
-tamius23
*I took this title from the current Burmese national anthem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaba_Ma_Kyei
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