Introduction
My intent is to run this game for about 100 years. It is being played on the Gold version. I have made one minor change (which I will suggest in the beta forum). I made it highly unlikely that Thrace will get a CoT via the mysterious CoT creation process. A problem of concern in the beta forum is that Thrace starts with no CoT (good - Byzantium doesn't deserve one historically, and it strengthens it too much), but the game mechanics always create a CoT in 1420, defeating the purpose. If Turkey owns Thrace, a CoT will be created from an event.
Part 1 - First Moves to Uniting Anatolya - Mehmed I - 1419 to 1421
1419
It is the 18th year of the reign of the most glorious Mehmed I. In council in our capitol [Macedonia - a compromise since the historical capitol is in the same geographic area as Thrace], Mehmed thinks it is time to restore our losses caused by the depredations of Tamurlane. We have seven provinces (3 in Anatolya, 4 in the Balkans), a strong army, and weak neighbors. Byzantium is long past its prime. The Duchy of Athens is corrupt. Moldova, Wallachia, Serbia, and Albania have other worries. Anatolian countries are all weak. Teke, Duldikir, and Candar are one province countries. Karaman is three provinces and on the verge of disintegration on its own.
Our first decision is to improve the quality of armaments
)). Secondly, we secure access between the two halves of our domain (Military Access agreement with Byzantium - this is something proposed in the beta to exist at the beginning to ease Turkey's initial difficulties and keep Byzantium from DoW'ing Turkey so easily as you have to cancel MA to DoW).
May 3. DoW Karaman. It is so unstable we are worried someone else may step into the power vacuum before us. The 2nd army defeats Karaman's paltry army in early June and invests Konya. By September, Taurus is invested by the 3rd Army. The first army stays at the capitol to dissuade any of the Europeans from messing with us.
Meanwhile, Byzantium dares to suggest we become subordinate members in alliance with them - hah! Moldova, however, refuses the honor of being our alliance partner (as will everyone, and that's before our reputation went down).
1420
Konya falls on April 12. Taurus falls on June 6. Remaining Karaman forces are destroyed in Adana in June and July. Adana is besieged. Karaman is doomed. November 4 marks the next stage in the unification. We declare war on Teke. We destroy its army and besiege it by mid-December.
In other areas, Georgia refuses to ally with us in January and August. Ak Koyunlu refuse to ally with us in August and November, Hmmm, we are respectable, maybe even honorable - what's the problem?
1421
Teke cavalry raids in February and March are a great bother, but we sort it out. Adana falls in May, so we can do anything we want in peace negotiations. We decide there is no hurry.
Our Trade and Naval technology increases in January. Finally, we can place some Merchants. Other than getting one merchant into Alexandria, we have no success for some years. Serbia rejects an alliance proposal. On May 18, we send a gift to Candar - a robust bull and the putrid carcass of a lamb. They don't respond to our intimation that we are the bull and they the lamb. They will have to wait till later, then. [One DP slider change and two DoW's have our stability down - we can't afford another DoW on a coreligionist.]
Disaster. Mehmed chokes to death while eating a particularly succulent leg of lamb. Our court is in a tizzy. Was it assassination? Fate? Hubris? Murad II becomes our leader and takes command of the 1st Army.
My intent is to run this game for about 100 years. It is being played on the Gold version. I have made one minor change (which I will suggest in the beta forum). I made it highly unlikely that Thrace will get a CoT via the mysterious CoT creation process. A problem of concern in the beta forum is that Thrace starts with no CoT (good - Byzantium doesn't deserve one historically, and it strengthens it too much), but the game mechanics always create a CoT in 1420, defeating the purpose. If Turkey owns Thrace, a CoT will be created from an event.
Part 1 - First Moves to Uniting Anatolya - Mehmed I - 1419 to 1421
1419
It is the 18th year of the reign of the most glorious Mehmed I. In council in our capitol [Macedonia - a compromise since the historical capitol is in the same geographic area as Thrace], Mehmed thinks it is time to restore our losses caused by the depredations of Tamurlane. We have seven provinces (3 in Anatolya, 4 in the Balkans), a strong army, and weak neighbors. Byzantium is long past its prime. The Duchy of Athens is corrupt. Moldova, Wallachia, Serbia, and Albania have other worries. Anatolian countries are all weak. Teke, Duldikir, and Candar are one province countries. Karaman is three provinces and on the verge of disintegration on its own.
Our first decision is to improve the quality of armaments
)). Secondly, we secure access between the two halves of our domain (Military Access agreement with Byzantium - this is something proposed in the beta to exist at the beginning to ease Turkey's initial difficulties and keep Byzantium from DoW'ing Turkey so easily as you have to cancel MA to DoW).May 3. DoW Karaman. It is so unstable we are worried someone else may step into the power vacuum before us. The 2nd army defeats Karaman's paltry army in early June and invests Konya. By September, Taurus is invested by the 3rd Army. The first army stays at the capitol to dissuade any of the Europeans from messing with us.
Meanwhile, Byzantium dares to suggest we become subordinate members in alliance with them - hah! Moldova, however, refuses the honor of being our alliance partner (as will everyone, and that's before our reputation went down).
1420
Konya falls on April 12. Taurus falls on June 6. Remaining Karaman forces are destroyed in Adana in June and July. Adana is besieged. Karaman is doomed. November 4 marks the next stage in the unification. We declare war on Teke. We destroy its army and besiege it by mid-December.
In other areas, Georgia refuses to ally with us in January and August. Ak Koyunlu refuse to ally with us in August and November, Hmmm, we are respectable, maybe even honorable - what's the problem?
1421
Teke cavalry raids in February and March are a great bother, but we sort it out. Adana falls in May, so we can do anything we want in peace negotiations. We decide there is no hurry.
Our Trade and Naval technology increases in January. Finally, we can place some Merchants. Other than getting one merchant into Alexandria, we have no success for some years. Serbia rejects an alliance proposal. On May 18, we send a gift to Candar - a robust bull and the putrid carcass of a lamb. They don't respond to our intimation that we are the bull and they the lamb. They will have to wait till later, then. [One DP slider change and two DoW's have our stability down - we can't afford another DoW on a coreligionist.]
Disaster. Mehmed chokes to death while eating a particularly succulent leg of lamb. Our court is in a tizzy. Was it assassination? Fate? Hubris? Murad II becomes our leader and takes command of the 1st Army.
