Glory to Africa - Songhai 5.1 DW AAR

[Ashantai]

Fantastic progress!

[PrawnStar]

Very nice peace deal there! Got to love the moment when you find ther AI has given up and it's time to grab the goodies

[Swistaczek]

Episode 2 Part 3 - Castille falls.

Right after our great peace deal with Castille British decided to attack us, they also called Denmark. Our army from England is at Toledo but that wont be problem because British dont have navy ... again.

Election time comes, we choose a dip one and get 9adm3mil8dip.
After few small battles we sign WP with Great Britain, we have too much infamy to take anything.
We build new embassy in Gafsa and send army of missionaries to North Africa.

Christianity done massive damage here(Also look at reformation )

Time to grab 2pm Zapotecs before anyone else, we DoW them and move carpet siege.

Ottomans are capturing South Greece

After long siege we occupy and later annex Zapotecs for 1,6 infamy.

Yay!

One year passes in peace as we try to get rid of war exhaustion.
In 20 June 1593 another new party with old guests begins.

Our navy qucikly find and attacks they navy and we win, French lose all of their barques (15)
With their navy almost dead we move and seize all colonies we can found. We even seized one we got core on.
27 August 1594 Norway peaces out.
French WE rose to 7.22.
25 July 1595 new slider move of course towards land.

New NI - in background : French trying to capture our Mexico.

After defeating they invading army and occuping few more colonies French finnaly agree for peace.

Lots of money and 4 rich colonies + 4 colonies seized.

After defeating French we may move and continue conquering GB.After assembling small army in England we move.

After 2 months of war British lost their main stack and now we are free to move into GB.

Spanish are stealing our money! We will get this in next war

British prove no challenge to us and after less than year of war they surrender.

Our tariff effecciny has dropped to 77%, we have to build more ships.

That's one of colonies we seized from them, now they buy it for 400 ducats

After defeating GB and French third of our main enemies remain : Castille.We get military acces from Portugal, move two stacks there and DoW.Austria is DoF but they didnt join, good for 'em.

As always they drop small stacks in South America or St.Helena, we will ignore them.
We no longer have tech advantage but our millitary drill makes us better anyway.
After less than year Castille is dead.

Here we go

[homy_dog34]

Man, this is so weird to watch...

Also, when you are typing these updates, you can just center around the entire thing, and not just each individual picture.

[MrQwerty]

Great progress. Now Islam is coming back to Iberia . Good luck to you in continuing to challenge the great European powers.

[dragonizer]

2nd step complete. Great job. Munch munch munch as needed and you will be fine..

[Tallfellow]

Now you just need to take the rest of Iberia, France and GB And then ofcourse take Italy and the HRE

[PdoxNewbie]

Colonize the Europeans!

[Ashantai]

Awesome work! I'm very impressed by this AAR!

[TonyJoe]

Great progress. I love when the Euros get beat up

[Swistaczek]

Sorry everyone for not updating AAr for over a week, I was simply to lazy. I will play and give an update tomorrow.Also, as always : thanks for positive comments.

[Swistaczek]

Alright, here comes next update :
Episode 2 part 4 - End of Not-So-Great Britain.

GB loses more and more provinces to rebels as they have no army to fight them, sadly we cannot DoW them cuz of truce.

Will we have Ireland?

Since we dont like standing idle we DoW Tunisia.

Hedjaz and Candar joins war on their side.
Meanwhile GB loses more provinces :

Our 8 dip ruler gives benefits :

After long siege Tunisa falls to us

Om nom nom

Truce with GB ends, we DoW them of course.

Some more revolters :

Gonna have to wait till GB annexes them

Our troops capture GB and their holdings in Africa and Italy, meanwhile they manage to annex Algiers, also Ottomans DoW them for Libya.

Aztecs pay for backstabing us

Peace with GB :

3 provinces in North Africa and 5 in on their mainland, we are close to infamy limit(33)

We send spy to Castille and discover they have no army there, it's good opportunity for capturing our 2 core provinces.

Our armie simply move and assault everything, level 1 forts dont stand a chance.After few months war ends.

Second province is their colony in SA

Time to take care of economy, we dont earn much money because of low tax provinces.Our rich CoTs homever allows us to focus on trade.

Japan ....

Our FL is now big so we can swap NI

This allows us to enact two cool decisions : Importation Act and House of Trade.

Yay!

[dragonizer]

Great work!! Looks like France should be on the menu in about 25 years or less?

[TonyJoe]

The French war is going to be an ugly one...

[Tudyboss]

japan itself got awa and tosa?and is now hindu?IMPOSSIBRU!!!

[homy_dog34]

Excellent job, as usual.

I would take some time to cool down though.

That is, unless you want to start some infamy wars.

[MrQwerty]

Fantastic progress. Can you post the religion map of Europe? I'd like to see how far Islam has spread in England .

[Ashantai]

Excellent update. As the others have said, France looks menacing.

[Swistaczek]

France is growing strong and it's unlikely that I will invade them now because of their 180k army, while I have 150k and not all of it can be used to attack.
Epsiode 2 part 5 - Liberating Celts

Our infamy is almost near limit thus it's time to fix economy, in last part we switched NI to NTP and enacted two decisions which made our trade income to rise above everything else, we now control 3 CoTs (one in NA, Andalucia and Gobir (Africa )), full monopoly in Gobir, almost full monopoly in NA (Aztecs are spamming merchs) and monopoly in Andalucia.
Fast look at Europe :

Strong French,medicore Austria and Bavaria, Ottomans reclaiming lands.

Year later we got DoWed by evil Austria and their HRE vassal friends.

As you see they have no navy or land connection to threat us, so we simply capture Cornwall, Malta(conquered from GB) and Venezia and wait for them to give up.Meanwhile we also centralize and are at -5 now.
After 2 years of occupation we get make nice peace deal and get new mission.

Castille is allied with Aztecs and Brunswick, they have only one army in Toledo, I dont know where is rest. We DoW Aztecs and Castille simultaneously to get separate wars.

After capturing half of country we make peace deal.

Month later we get great event which lowers our infamy by 3 for 50 ducats.

Alliance offer comes from Ottomans which we gladly accept.

Religion map, North Africa is almost converted to Sunni and reformation in Europe went rather well.
22 June 1615 we DoW Mutapa.

Now Mutapa is safe from Castille.
Now we can move to conquer rest of GB, we DoW them and move our armies through revolter state to Scotland.

These areas are so poor it is better idea to release it as vassal.
We also sponsor rebels in two remaining Scottish provinces, hopefully they will defect to them.
France lost it's DoW status which means we can start new war :

We quickly capture their Carribean islands and mainland and after white peacing his allies we get good, if not great peace deal.

Portugal is now dead and we can move to Ireland.

Sadly we havent achievet what we wanted because of sneaky Sweden.

[Skefrep]

Is that France which released Northumberland ?

That Poland...