Pink India - A Cochin Meiou AAR

[TonyJoe]

This is fun - I'll be reading. What will it take in the far future for you to turn on Vijayanagar?

[DDRJake]

So after a fair bit of mulling it over, My end goals have been decided.

1. Disband the HRE. What is the HRE? We Indians have no idea, but we will find it and destroy it. Whatever it is...
2. Remove all muslims from the Indian region and ensure that only Hindus exist here. Strength through unity!
3. Bring all the manliest nations in the world back to their Former glory. Cochin, Cornwall, Anhalt, Holstein, Mazovia, Sunda, Corfu and whoever else shows themself as bearing the emblem of Manliness shall become part of the permanant pink alliance each owning a respectable chunk of land.

Farfetched? Not at all. No power on God's Pink earth can stop this movement. What's more, these nations shall spread the Hindu faith in their respective regions!

Now back to the uphill climb. And it's just getting that bit steeper. Cham Pa, the last bastion of Hinduism has been utterly wiped out by Att...Ayut....Athay.....some green bastards who have also locked out a whole bunch of my merchants from their rich CoTs and putting a strain on my economy.

Yeah, those so-and-sos

A revenge killing is ordered and any of these unfortunate south-east Asians who decided landing on the Raj's lands quickly found themselves put to sword. It was a messy fight. Cochin has not yet taught its people which end of the blade to hold or how to project the arrows using the bow. The job is done none the less. Bengal, seeing that the already laughably weak Cochin troops are away on shore leave put their bigger and better navy than ever before to good use and after giving them a good battering and stealing many ships, keep the Cochin navy docked.





A stalemate is fought to and while white peace is put on the tables by the Hindu-exterminators, the old and cunning king decides this is the perfect excuse to end the guarantee of Yuan which has lead to countless wars with Ming which, while costing no Indian lives, has hampered trade in the area, something vital to the otherwise gutted Cochin economy. This was sadly the king's final act as head of state and ruler of the Hindus. His death marked the end of a legacy. High hopes were held for the new king who sealed the integration of both the close bretheren of Madurai and the distant puppet state of Sunda. Shame he turned out to be such a dick.

next to decietful and hopeless spender, this is the absolute worst trait. Damn you!

Heaven only knows what Ceylon was thinking. They were obviously too impatiant to wait on becoming part of the glorious empire and chose to speed things up a bit



Twice the size, twice the forcelimit and with a pair of reasonably strong vassals and Vijay by my side. It won't be too long before Delhi starts getting the fright and throwing down everything they have at us. The time will come to strike, but for now, I'll need to feed my first new member of the Pink Alliance.



Those are some nice Hindu lands for them. They are rich and well defended though. To war!

[dragonizer]

War is the game! All the rest is just to enable war.
I am a warmonger

[homy_dog34]

Ah, wonderful. The MANLIEST OF ALL MEN shall rule the world!

[Qorten]

Good progress! Those are indeed ambitious goals, but given your earlier efforts with tribal nations that you brought to an excellent end I have little doubt that you'll manage to fulfill at least two out of three.

[DDRJake]

India in Indonesia

There's nothing quite like fighting a superior foe. Surabaya declared a war upon my vassal Sunda with the I Am A Dick CB. They bring in their little pals Mataram and the isolationist nation of Makassar to spice things up a bit while Sunda brings in myself, Jaffna and Vijay. Vijay and Jaffna barely have a cog between them and my navy is a little low on moral so I switch out Patron of the Arts for Superior Seamanship again and prepare for battle. In terms of naval power we are fairly evenly matched but on land they overpower us by far. The Couchin army remains at home while troops are recruited to make an army 14,000 strong. The navy sets sail to clear a path and scout the area.



Surabaya is taking no prisoners so the hastilly recruited and ill equiped Cochin army is brought in to relieve some of the seiges. The spread out nature of the navies around the Indonesian island makes coordinating land assault difficult but a beach head is prepared with stunning results with Goda Koykial leading the army and Rama Koykial instructing the navy with assistance from Vijay's own somewhat able Markandeya Chatterji. Some things are best kept in the family

A surprising display of competence from the Pink warriors

Encouraged by the naval abilities of Cochin, Vijay sets sail with their modest navy and lands on the island of Madura and also lands troops on Makussar's land, easing some of the war effort but not quite dealing with the war elephant in the room: Surabaya's massive army. While on paper the Pink Alliance has far more troops, 28,000 of them are Vijay's army which he is unable to ship across in any meaningful numbers.



Sunda's national focus province of Ceribon falls but the swift navy of Cochin ensures the occupation is lifted before the turn of the month. After a series of small skirmishes inside Sunda's borders, the situation looks less then ideal.

Yes we have more sticks, but their sticks come to a point

Makassar eventually submits and the Nobels of Bone take control of the country. Bone's foreign policy, while not as manly as needed to be a member of the Pink Alliance, is much prefered by the Raj of Cochin. Money is also demanded in the deal which is added to the savings put together in order to pay the looming 1000 ducat loan provided (assumidly) by the trusting nobels of Vijay. Although another foe is put down, it is clear that once finished with taking the Sundan capital, Surabaya will begin a counterattack. Cochin's men are swiftly shown the sharp(er) end of their sticks, lectured once more in how to string their bows and sent to a do or die battle.

"Why the hell are we even here? I want to go home"

"How did we win?" "Tactics"

A pretty stunning victory and with that the mapping of borders is assured. The provinces belonging to Surabaya and Mataram were swiftly beseiged and peace was laid down on the table with no room for the loser to appeal. The infamy gain was softened by the understanding that this was a defensive war, but Cochin's merchants will be finding it difficult to trade for a short while. All gained territories are sold to Sunda for 20 ducats in total.

We win, now activate money!

It's been a whole chapter and not even a passing glance at India. Well I'm pretty feared to look because Vijay insists on stirring trouble.



It's not like they have reconquest on half your lands.

[homy_dog34]

>Warned by Vijayanagar

*Facepalm* *Facepalm* *Facepalm*

Oh boy, you sure do have some intelligent allies.

Are you sure that Vijayanagar is manly enough? I mean, look at their color!

[DDRJake]

It could be that Vijay is going to have to learn a thing or two about foreign relations.

[homy_dog34]

lmao. well, no more alliance!

[Qorten]

It might be just a little too early to take on Delhi already?

[dragonizer]

How big is that Delhi stack on your border?
Total army comparisons please.

[gigau]

This shall be an interesting war....

At least you don't have your hands tied up in another war...


By the way, i love your end goals

[DDRJake]

Assimilation

Welp, Vijay has stood by my side all along, the least I can do is repay the favour, although this will be a war of survival. Odds of winning are somewhere between zero and nothing. Of course, part of being a man is knowing when to give and when to take. By which I mean I will give Delhi a beating and will be taking all their land. I set about fighting any smaller stacks I see and set up a full blockade. If this were on an easier setting I'd feel confident in myself, but on Very Hard mode, the AI loses a staggering 0.40 War Exhaustion per month. Add their natural Ruler's admin stat to that and you have War Exhaustion that simply doesn't budge for them untill you occupy over half of their lands. Still, I must bring out everything I have to save us from being consumed.

There goes the neighbourhood

My manpower simply melts away. My teck advantage and slider movements towards quality are beginning to show as I fight tit-for-tat against Delhi's endless troops, but in the end they have troops and I just do not. What is more, they have cores on most of this land and do not suffer much attrition as a result. Vijay has the same bonuses as Delhi get for being on Very Hard but with a mere fraction of the troops and inability to fight as one, they crumble. A valorous display of unity is shown to the Delhi troops, but it is nowhere near enough.

This is it! The deciding battle and we're winning...oh wait, here come more Muslims. We're boned.

Vijay is soon overrun. Amazingly, Delhi settle for only one province. Perhaps the Chagatai were acting up again.





I was hoping for a prosperous relationship with Vijay, however their attitude towards Delhi, while respectable, lack the charisma and forethought that a true manly nation requires. Not to mention that disgusting colour. It appears that we must become one under the manliest of Rajas. We all know what happens when you wash your Whites with your Pinks. Jaffna, who have failed to convert any of their provinces at all, are also integrated. Not for their failures, but for their increadible fighting prowess they deserve to be given the seal of Manliness.

At last, a good looking manly phallus of a name on the map, prodding into the Muslim belly of India Supreme.

Soon to come: Reclaiming every single Hindu province from Delhi.

[Rabid]

Well, that's one way to get things done! How many of your provinces are cores now?

[homy_dog34]

This manliness. It.. appeals to me...

That was a rather genius stroke right there, getting Vijayanagar. Well done!

[Tallfellow]

An excellent move to say the least! Go most manly of all nations!

[gigau]

That move on Vijayanagar was... cold, well executed but cold

Congrats

[Qorten]

Didn't see that one coming! I guess the locomotive to greatness has just gained a lot of traction.

[dragonizer]

That was something totality different than I expected!!!
Was this something preplaned or spur of moment?

[DDRJake]

Well, that's one way to get things done! How many of your provinces are cores now?

All culture group provinces which were also a core of Vijay's. The province SE of Mysore sticks out like a sore thumb there.

This manliness. It.. appeals to me...

That was a rather genius stroke right there, getting Vijayanagar. Well done!

I'm glad you can get behind the manly movement of the Permanent Pink Alliance. We're just getting warmed up.

An excellent move to say the least! Go most manly of all nations!

Many thanks

That move on Vijayanagar was... cold, well executed but cold

Congrats

There is no room for empathy when there is still the Muslim menace in Greater India.

Didn't see that one coming! I guess the locomotive to greatness has just gained a lot of traction.

There are no brakes on this rape train. It will not be by womanly Sunni hands that the structure of Greater India is rebuilt. It shall be Bigger, Pinker, Manlier and more Hindu than ever before.

That was something totality different than I expected!!!
Was this something preplaned or spur of moment?

Absolutely spur of the moment. It was always my intention to keep them as a powerful ally due to their stronger troops but their poor ideas on how to deal with Delhi were their undoing. If anything, it was a mercy killing. They no longer have to suffer their own pale, womanly country's disposition and can now be citizens of Mighty Manly Cochin. After integrating them I set about restoring relations with Delhi: mutual military access for starters.



Didn't seem to help all that much. Oh well, to arms! No Hindu dies this day!