Fourth quarter 1851
My Plans:
Short
Prosecute the police actions in East Africa.
Medium
Study what needs to be done about Afghanistan.
Long
Continue to pump out naval demonstrations and geographical expeditions and asking native chiefs to cede to gain PP's.
Develop the economy.
Improve relations with foreigners.
Add new colonies.
Actions by turn:
42. 2 x demo, geog basuto, brig bombay, mfg south
43. geog chitral, 2 x demo,
44. 2 x demo, geog ulundi, 3 x cede, merch dar-es-salaam, furniture munster
45. accept us defensive, 2 x demo, colony hyderabad, state turkey, local china
46. geog prome, 2 x demo, merch tanga, mombassa, canned wales
47. 2 x demo, TP tanga, dar-es-salaam, mombassa, furniture avon, local austria, belgium, denmark
Key:
Brig is short for brigade
TP for trade-post
merch for Merchant
demo for Naval demo (cost 20 money get 20 PP)
geog Geographical Expedition (cost 125 capital get 100 PP)
PP prestige points
Number after province means increase of colonial pentration
Province on own under colonial means gained in size of city
Results by turn:
43. Event:japan rejected roads; Battle:; Movement:dar-es-salaam; New unit:mfg; Control:dar-es-salaam; System:; Trade:; %SatMod:0.63; Sold:334; Colony:austria state baden, 2 x demo, cede timphu, bintulu, brunei, geog chitral, us treaty tahlequah, quebec 7,;
44. Event:tonkinese, arawak, japan roads, belgium roads; Battle:; Movement:; New unit:completed canned munster; Control:; System:trans supplies; Trade:dyes dar-es-salaam deactivated; %SatMod:0.63; Sold:337; Colony
russia commercial hesse-darmstadt, russia demanding we stop reforms to army major crisis, 2 x demo, geog failed chitral, merch failed kabul, spain colonial fernando po, mauritius 5,;
45. Event:Lagos; Battle:; Movement:gulf guinea, calcutta; New unit:furniture, completed brig calcutta, canned EM; Control:; System:; Trade:; %SatMod:0.56; Sold:333; Colony:us defenive GB, lost crisis to russia, merch dar-es-salaam, geog failed ulundi, 2 x demo, france tele antiles, netherlands colonists curacao, ;
46. Event:bugis, banjarmasin; Battle:; Movement:calcutta, cawnpore; New unit:completed opium patna; Control:; System:trans supplies; Trade:; %SatMod:0.58; Sold:346; Colony:us mutual supply expired, us defnsive agreed, state trukey, local china, 2 x demo, geog failed ulundi, merch failed tanga, balkh, customs failed santa domingo, france treaty antanaarivo, italy miss asmara, rebels obeid rebel nation, jamaica 7,;
47. Event:italy banned goods; Battle:; Movement:; New unit:canned, completed brigade bombay; Control:; System:; Trade:8 elements unpaid; %SatMod:0.59; Sold:331; Colony:turkey state refused, local expired, denmark, belgium, austria, CB greece expired, customs santa domingo, merch tanga, mombassa, geog failed prome, 2 x demo, france cede antananarivo, us pacify puget, us tele osage, south australia 7,;
48. Event:anamite, brunei, arawak, italy subsidy coal; Battle:rebels retreated mombassa; Movement:west pacific, kenya shore, mombassa; New unit:furniture, completed tropical brisbane; Control:Mombassa; System:trans supplies; Trade:50 elements unpaid; %SatMod:0.58; Sold:329; Colony:austria commercial wurtembourg, chile state bolivia, local austria, belgium, denmark, 2 x demo, ;
Notes:
1. Occupied Dar-es-salaam on turn 43 and Mombassa on turn 48. That was easy, the rebels ran away. Sent two brigades to each. This means they can be removed from the list.
2. Turn 45 new objective at Lagos, much mutteering and tut-tutting in the corridors of power, what is to be done?
3. Two new brigades added.
4. Crisis with Russia went badly on turn 45, they who have the biggest army in the world were complaining about the size of mine? How dare they, we shouted at them a lot, but they didn't seem to understand. Looking at the prestige points it appears I lost 645 whilst Russia gained 481, on goals % this put me back from 77% to 57% . So they will be added to the list.
5. Colony requested in Hyderabad.
Progress:
During the quarter I gained 307 whilst the target went up by 2820, to date 5,841 target 8,600. On this basis I will never achieve the target.
Just have to get the hamsters running faster.
Summary:
Action started with a crisis with Russia (who are now on the list). Then the holiday makers in East Africa cleared up some local problems.
Navy Board:
Develop bases across the world.
No progress.
Army board:
Create a 10 x colonial brigade force for Afghanistan.
Create a 4 x colonial brigade force for East Africa.
Create a 10 x colonial brigade force for Burma.
Built 2 brigades, to replace the troops sent to East Africa.
Trade board:
Increase satisfaction % and number of goods sold to national and colonial markets.
Start 63% 334, end 58% 329, no progress, in fact went backwards. Not sure what to do about this, think I will arrange a public enquiry.
Colonial office:
Establish more colonies and protectorates
Develop provinces in colonies
Gain maximum prestige points
The crisis which was the fault of the foreign office has put a major dent in progress, at least went for colony in Hyderabad and got protectorate in Afghanistan being established.
Foreign office:
Develop good relations with friends.
Ensure key allies are protected
That did not go well, failed in the first major crisis. Of course this was due to the army for ever demanding extra troops when they are celarly not necessary, a quiet word is often all that is required. After the committee on the crisis reports back one suggestion being considered is equipping diplomats with megaphones so they can shout louder.
Relations France(31), Prussia(19), Austria(13), US(47), Italy(9), Turkey(32), Belgium(21), Denmark(33), Greece(42), Netherlands(22), Chile(44)
Relations France(31), Prussia(19), Austria(13), US(47), Italy(9), Turkey(32), Belgium(21), Denmark(33), Greece(42), Netherlands(22), Chile(44)
No change, I forgot to make a note at the end of the previous quarter.
Taiping war:
36. China 6k casualties, taiping war started
42. China 63k casualties
48. China 78k casualties
The list:
1. Rebellious colonists
2. Mahrata
3. awadi
4. bastar
5. natalian
6. sindhi
7. burma
8. afghanistan
9. kerala
10. tasman
11. Russia
