WARNING!! several 100k of pictures!
I have completed my first GC as an indian nation (Hyderbad), and ive seen some unusal things too. Heres a quick history with pics for anyone whos interested.
The rise of hyderbad:
From the universal source of all knowledge, power and light my consciousness filtered down through the dimensions from the higher planes into the physical dimension, where I found a planet called Earth. I saw various nations of humans competing upon it. I decided to guide one to world dominance. A smaller one, for a challenge. I saw some nice architecture in india and decided to go there. In india I found a nice nation with a striking red colour shceme, and i decided that this is the one which i shall make great. Hyderabad, which i shall call hyderbad because i think the 2nd A is just silly, and it sounds better in my head that way anyway, sorry if this offends anyone.
After merging my consciousness with the leaders of this little nation and assuming control, i was ready to begin. I noticed that we are rather poor, although we are in a strong strategic position in central India. We also have the potential for colonisation of surrounding lands. Firstly however,hyderbad needed money, so the capture of a nearby CoT was in order.
An early war with gujurat got me that CoT which set me up to gain more land from the declining timurids in north west india. the hyderbad kings took an innovative attitude to try to offest some of the tech group penalty, although not so much as to stop the accumulation of settlers. We were able to found colonies along the coasts long before european sailors reached our shores. The other indian warlords must have thought that the leaders of hyderbad were crazy, as it took a lot of time, effort, troops and money to settle in these areas and defeat the native warlords. But after a while the enterprising nature of the hyderbad leardership paid off, hyderbad had effectively doubled in size, and ensured that the wealth of these lands was now in our hands and not going to become european property later.
When delhi began to collapse around 1500 (possibly due to events or some war we didnt take note of), Hyderbad was able to eventually annex all of their land. After several more small wars, uprisings by the 'mughal empire' (which claimed delhi and other provinces for some years), and a long running struggle against the near invincible vijangar forces, virtually all of india (with both CoT) was united under hyderbad control. It had been close-run and very costly, leaving me with almost crippling inflation which stayed with me for the next few centuries.
following this, i followed hyderbads CB's and attacked much of oman. Our people were so enthusiastic to go to sea that they privately funded the construction several warships, which helped hyderbad take on the excellent oman navy (or go around them... and then a conquistdor helped me take zanzibar by siege). Hyderbad now owned a nice trade empire in the indian ocean, although muscat itself remained independant for some time. The baluchistan area was traded back and forth between me and persia for a number of years. Altough i had a permanent CB on persia too, i didnt beleive i had a chance of taking those mountain provinces, and was prepared to hold the borders as they were.
However they decalred war consistently, with mameluks backing them up in the red sea area. I bribed astrakahn and their large army to help, but persia just annexed them, adding another CoT to persia. Together with diplo-annexations in arabia, they now had a huge empire. Now it was clear, this was going to be the war of two great empires! I decided to concentrate all effort on eliminating the threat from persia, so that, if we should win, we may know peace in later years and our children can grow up in peace without this constant war (or something!).
Persia at its height:
Luckily hyderbad gained some conquistadors, and using their attrition-negation bonus i was able to succesfully support the numbers of troops needed for siege in those difficult areas. A large hyderbadian fleet sailed up the persian gulf, and despite being sent back several times by the smaller, technologically inferior but determined persian navy (they must have had good captains), finally managed to take control of the persian gulf. This allowed an almost continual stream of indian soldiers to directly attack the wealthy core proivnces of persia. Masses of persian soldiers died from attrition trying to retake other border terriotries i had captured earlier. It was touch and go, various allies of persia raided hyderbad provinces here and there, but we avoided too many major setbacks and hyderbad maged to meet the enemy mostly with equal numbers and with slightly superior tech. War after war, their control was broken down, and excessive war exhaustion was avoided until hyderbad was getting near 100% victories and reaching the north shore of the caspian.
I have completed my first GC as an indian nation (Hyderbad), and ive seen some unusal things too. Heres a quick history with pics for anyone whos interested.
The rise of hyderbad:
From the universal source of all knowledge, power and light my consciousness filtered down through the dimensions from the higher planes into the physical dimension, where I found a planet called Earth. I saw various nations of humans competing upon it. I decided to guide one to world dominance. A smaller one, for a challenge. I saw some nice architecture in india and decided to go there. In india I found a nice nation with a striking red colour shceme, and i decided that this is the one which i shall make great. Hyderabad, which i shall call hyderbad because i think the 2nd A is just silly, and it sounds better in my head that way anyway, sorry if this offends anyone.
After merging my consciousness with the leaders of this little nation and assuming control, i was ready to begin. I noticed that we are rather poor, although we are in a strong strategic position in central India. We also have the potential for colonisation of surrounding lands. Firstly however,hyderbad needed money, so the capture of a nearby CoT was in order.
An early war with gujurat got me that CoT which set me up to gain more land from the declining timurids in north west india. the hyderbad kings took an innovative attitude to try to offest some of the tech group penalty, although not so much as to stop the accumulation of settlers. We were able to found colonies along the coasts long before european sailors reached our shores. The other indian warlords must have thought that the leaders of hyderbad were crazy, as it took a lot of time, effort, troops and money to settle in these areas and defeat the native warlords. But after a while the enterprising nature of the hyderbad leardership paid off, hyderbad had effectively doubled in size, and ensured that the wealth of these lands was now in our hands and not going to become european property later.
When delhi began to collapse around 1500 (possibly due to events or some war we didnt take note of), Hyderbad was able to eventually annex all of their land. After several more small wars, uprisings by the 'mughal empire' (which claimed delhi and other provinces for some years), and a long running struggle against the near invincible vijangar forces, virtually all of india (with both CoT) was united under hyderbad control. It had been close-run and very costly, leaving me with almost crippling inflation which stayed with me for the next few centuries.
following this, i followed hyderbads CB's and attacked much of oman. Our people were so enthusiastic to go to sea that they privately funded the construction several warships, which helped hyderbad take on the excellent oman navy (or go around them... and then a conquistdor helped me take zanzibar by siege). Hyderbad now owned a nice trade empire in the indian ocean, although muscat itself remained independant for some time. The baluchistan area was traded back and forth between me and persia for a number of years. Altough i had a permanent CB on persia too, i didnt beleive i had a chance of taking those mountain provinces, and was prepared to hold the borders as they were.
However they decalred war consistently, with mameluks backing them up in the red sea area. I bribed astrakahn and their large army to help, but persia just annexed them, adding another CoT to persia. Together with diplo-annexations in arabia, they now had a huge empire. Now it was clear, this was going to be the war of two great empires! I decided to concentrate all effort on eliminating the threat from persia, so that, if we should win, we may know peace in later years and our children can grow up in peace without this constant war (or something!).
Persia at its height:
Luckily hyderbad gained some conquistadors, and using their attrition-negation bonus i was able to succesfully support the numbers of troops needed for siege in those difficult areas. A large hyderbadian fleet sailed up the persian gulf, and despite being sent back several times by the smaller, technologically inferior but determined persian navy (they must have had good captains), finally managed to take control of the persian gulf. This allowed an almost continual stream of indian soldiers to directly attack the wealthy core proivnces of persia. Masses of persian soldiers died from attrition trying to retake other border terriotries i had captured earlier. It was touch and go, various allies of persia raided hyderbad provinces here and there, but we avoided too many major setbacks and hyderbad maged to meet the enemy mostly with equal numbers and with slightly superior tech. War after war, their control was broken down, and excessive war exhaustion was avoided until hyderbad was getting near 100% victories and reaching the north shore of the caspian.
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