Chapter 19: The quest for the Pentarchy
January 1710: With Bill of Rights, we get liberation on all countries that have eaten at least one other country. The good news is that I can avoid stab hits this way -- the bad news is that it doesn't discount for province taking, which is what I plan on doing with it. I just promise to liberate them. If that means liberating them into Russia, then so be it
May 1710: Naval supplies in Chinook. Alexandria converts -- one step closer to sweet Pentarchy.
August 1710: Qarqan cores.
January 1711: Bolgar converts. I've had Bolgar for over two hundred years -- what was the missionary doing? You're supposed to be spreading the word of God (mostly for tax purposes), not playing chess, or cards, or whatever with the natives.
March 1711: Samogitia converts.
October 1711: Lucrative Trade -- +30 to trade tech for the next 10 months or so.
February 1712: Bukhara converts.
April 1712: Switzerland still desperately wants Parma -- I join and white peace almost immediately afterward.
May 1712: I get a Boundary Dispute on Persia for Gilan. I DOW (but have no screen shot
). Oman and Khorasan are called in by Persia; I call in Khiva and Iraq.
June 1712: Boundary Dispute with Bulgaria for Burgas. It'll keep for now.
August 1712: Yet another Boundary Dispute -- I decline it, but I forget why. The only ones I've been declining up to this point are cores on Swiss territory. I assume this is similar.
September 1712: Mighty Nepal warns us. If this is supposed to be a deterrent, they'd better have nuclear weapons.
October 1712: The Spread of Disease event fires again. Another small boost to colonist chance and overseas income for 50 ducats. Good bargain. I also crush a Persian army.
Question: do you get +1 warscore for every battle, or is it based on casualties, like Vicky 2?
November 1712: After such a demonstration of Russian power and technology, Khorasan begs for white peace. I accept. I also kill the other Persian army, to a man, with correspondingly modest casualties.
April 1713: A bunch of people leave Siberia for California -- yeah, I'd do that too. A bunch of merchants get mad because I'm researching trade tech. It's cheaper to ignore the research than to take the stab hit, although I can recover stability quite respectably at this point (about 6-9 months), even without many churches. Finally, the war with Persia ends.
For once, the Oirat Horde doesn't immediately get eaten. Rather, it has to wait until I get more territory from Persia.
June 1713: Agricultural Revolution in Tver.
November 1713: Hotan and Ladakh core.
January 1714: Wiradjuri will produce wool. Great! I have no idea where that is, but hey, free wool! Judea converts -- that just leaves Roma for the Pentarchy.
February 1714: Samarkand converts.
April 1714: Korea DOWs Ming. My, aren't we getting a bit big for our breeches? Castille has Mecca now -- it'd be fun to have, but it's not a priority.
May 1714: Anatolia converts.
June 1714: Agricultural Revolution in Kiev. The two key triggers for this (which I only now looked up
) are how innovative you are and whether or not you have an NF there. It's supposed to have a MTTH of 5000 months, with up to a 75% drop if you're less than -2 on Innovative/Narrowminded and it's on or bordering your NF. FYI. Ereskujvar loses its core.
July 1714: War with Bulgaria! It took me a while to get an army in position and burn off enough infamy so that I could annex the whole country in one go.
Yes, Bulgaria has no allies and has almost no army. I don't know how I'll sleep tonight, but I'll try.
September 1714: And Bulgaria becomes part of Russia.
I move my NF to Roma to help with conversion. I also find that the Bulgarians insisted on having their own COT. I destroy it.
September 17, 1714: The hearts of Russians everywhere are broken, as our glorious leader, Yulian Senyavin dies.
Our new leader, Mefodiy Golitsyn, is 9/4/5. He was supposed to be a diplomat!
October 1714: Beirut converts.
February 1715: In one fell swoop, the northern Japanese island becomes cored. On the other hand, rebels occupied one of my provinces (probably Chinook), so a new rebellion starts in Judea. It's quickly suppressed.
March 1715: The Kurils core.
November 1715: Sivas and Erserum core. Korea white peaces with Ming. I'm actually impressed they did that well.
December 1715: Minority Prospers fires for the first time. It's a nifty little event generated by Bill of Rights -- +10% Local Tax to a province (in this case, Bukhara) that's not your culture for four months. It's pretty frequent -- I'd say I get one once every three months or so. This is the only time I'll mention it, since it gets out of hand, like Benign Neglect used to (although that's trailing off now). Ostpreussen converts in celebration.
November 1716: Interesting. An army lands in Anatolia, kills the British, and starts taking their provinces. The flag is red with a white cross, country is purple. Who is this? I'm pretty sure they fail, but I'm surprised to see somebody else mess with Anatolia. Mus converts, perhaps in terror.
January 1717: A Thracian merchant is shipwrecked.
April 1717: Hey look, the five years must be up. War with Parma again!
May 1717: Agricultural Revolution in Smolensk. Wallachia warns me. That's not fair, I haven't been at war for years now!
June 1717: Burgas converts.
July 1717: I lose the core on Trakai.
August 1717: I gain cores on Aleut and Dornod.
September 1717: Some bored farmers build a constable in Sakhalin. Thanks guys!
February 1718: Hurray! Roma converts!
We still need Aleppo to convert for the mission, though.
May 1718: Delhi converts -- that should boost that COT nicely.
August 1718: Government 41 and a new idea -- we take Patron of the Arts.
November 1718: We re-elect Golitsyn. For some time, I labor under the false impression that Admin burns off infamy, not diplomacy. Good for taxes, though. If you notice I keep making stupid leader choices (like re-electing Golitsyn), that's why.
February 1719: Boundary Dispute on Khiva for Marv. Since Khiva's my vassal, I can't do much about this yet.
August 1719: The Pentarchy officially fires, with Aleppo converted. Check out the bonuses!
Even more fun, I get a core on Alexandria (from the mission).
December 1719: And this update comes to end. I think I declared war on the Mamluks -- I say I think because I didn't take a screen shot after this -- it could be that I was mulling it over and decided against it. In any case, you'll find out in the next update!