Peace... Raiding the piggy bank and threats to the gold!
I move to an Administrative Republic, the extra trade income is awesome! My first Doge is ok:
I also have a slider move and I want to go further centralised, but with stability already low I don't want the stab hit result! I'll wait till next time, I moved the slider back to full free trade.
Just after this the inhabitants of Beothuk realise there is no going back and finally cave in to the seductive teachings of Shamanism! Let the spirits sing!
Life continues, the colonies slowly complete one at a time, I have to pause colonial growth while waiting for colonists, but this is no problem. As i'm already overextended I don't desire picking up more provenices untill I get some cores. Overextestion is something I can live with though. I think the benefits of centralisation outwiegh the 3.00 revolt risk. the +50% stab cost is very annoying though, and makes temples look tempting after I've completed the workshops and marketplaces.
Some people asked me about my Naval Tech, I am in fact behind. Portugal, Spain and Ireland I'm behind by 1 or 2 levels, but Burgundy, Austria and some other are up to level 29! (I guess Burgundy is still in the HRE!) I'm going to focus on catching up if i can. The sea is my first line of defence at the moment.
This event will help!
The Incan truce is up and it's a very short fight, to be honest I did them a favour, wiping out 3-4 regiment strong revolt they have been fighting since our last war. My forces easily move out of Lima (this is one reason I took it as a staging area otherwise i would find it difficult to project power into Inca, last time i got there by marching through Irish lands)
1600 this time! Woot, I complete my workshops and have made a good start on the markectplaces! I'm currently using magistrates to build roads. Does this seem a good idea? I'm over halfway to completing the roads lol. I make a serious error here and forget to guareentee them! Scandinavia declare war!! However they are not managing to project any power into Inca yet! I hope that they fail to do so, just like GB did.
Election time and I plump for a diplo candidate!
WooT!!! This guy will fix my over extention when I get a few more cores!
the next four years are full of completing colonies, building their forts and workshops etc. I bring my fleet up to my support limit of 51, 12 transports 9 light ships and the rest galleons. I also start to build some land forces as I'm at 81 regiments on a limit of 125ish... The AI will think me weak, but military maintance is so expensive!
Next election time I can't keep wounder guy! BOO! I go for a diplomat again, wanting border disputes etc and get this chump:
And shortly after I get my Spainish cores:
Sadly this is not enough to drop the overextension!
Some of you wondered why I took Lima, well as I said partly as somewhere to rest my troops between and also to get access to the centre of trade. The Cot is now worth around 700 ducats and I have a full monopoly, no other's are there, netting me about 650 a year. The same goes with Mohawk (which I did not split as I can't build a coastal cot without moving my national focus) this is worth about 1290 and I'm getting about 1200.
However Portugal has just started to reinforce her borders with me, though she has no troops in SE USA. I'm thinking it maybe time for war! Especially as she has colonies up on the west coast that could be taken and are near to completeing. With Lima as a staging post I can get some transports and galleons around there to project some power and prevent them becoming cites.
But this leads to a difficult question! I'm overextended (though I think this would go away with a ruler who's admin is over 5 as I now have more cored provs than uncored) So do I want to take those colonies for myself? I have the BB for them and some territorial gains but this means I'll be overextensing for a very long time. So no swaping of NI's etc.
Ireland will fight with Portugal again, you are right it isn't the Alliance that does it, it's the fact that she is the defender of the catholic faith!
This is no real problem, I think I could win the wars easily enough! More easily now than in a few more years. The question is whether I want the extra provs. I guess + 3 revolt risk +50% stab costs aren't so bad, but the +3 minimum revolt risk, doesn't that mean everyone wants to revolt all the time regardless of NIs/improvements etc?
The Incan Scandinavian war seems to be going no where. However I still feel that once my truce is up I should attack Inca and hold her provs until Scandinavia makes peace?
Advices please!