Run For Europe

The 2nd Granada War and the Annexation of Granada

Our first major task was as mentioned to elimanate muslim states in the Iberian penensula, I can't really elimanate the Religion itself from the region until later on, when I have load of cash and some stability with no or low inflation.

Our attack was not just on Granada, I have developed a staragey keeping technique learned from reading XHOSA CAMPAIGNS by this guy named tom in EU2's forums, It payed of well... especially reading the whole thing.

The Granadan wars were meant to force peace from get some cash in the process. We new Granada was weak and we knew, if we allied with Portugal, they will honor that will, so we did not accept offers of military alliance with Portugal since they broke in the first Granada wars.

on March 8, 1429, Castile declared war in Granada. I moved quickly to destroy Granada, the initial battle failed, but from there on, I breezed with the assignment. on January 3, 1430 Granada province, the only Province they had, was captured by Castile and on February 6, 1430, We annexed Granada wholelly.

With our Stragetic mingling over, I turned my attention towards the future, My Inflation was at record high 2.1% and I took me almost a whole year to finish one Baliff for Toledo.

Navarra Situation

We were keen to take over Navvara, and primarly that is why we joined the alliance with france. France declared war on england and its alliance, she called for us to join but we refused. we are solely intrested in Navarra and not england, let alone her alliance.

If we honored the alliance, it would mean that we had huge chance fighting naval battle and maybe some of our harbors would have been taken, this was out of the question for me, I would every harbour later on for the aztecs and the other people on america.

Our Stability hit bottom, taxes declined and we were in a bad situation, castile was virtually limping but we have managed to reach level 2 on both land and Naval tech, so were with europe. on April 7, 1430 Argon declared war on Navarra, we saw this as chance, Argon was in full crisis mode, The english were besieging the island province, Aragon province was taken and their only help came from.... you guessed it, us.

Feeling hopeless, I declared war on Navarra on July 27, 1432, her english buddies and the rest joined, We refused portugal's help ( accidently ) and we marched into battle.

The war is started good, we took Navarra Province and then took Béarn, abandoning Navarra province. out thoght process was to help take Béarn and come back quickly as possiple to Navarra, but the Navarrans were there before i came back and I restarted my efforts to get back Navarra.

It was kinda bad because I wanted Navarra and Béarn and Aragon ( which the Navarrans controled ) so that i can have a 100% quick war win and cut down on my maintance costs. it took me 4 years to gain back Navarra and win the war.

February 3, 1436 The Navarrans accepted our peace offer and gave us Béarn made they our Vassals ( Diplo-annexation later on could help me ) and forced Military transit. with that, all of royal marriages, all of their alliances and everything else went out the air.

Murcia Rebellions

Just before our win against the Navarrians, Murcia rebelled and defeated our weak 3K force there. little by little they grew and my inital troops, which came from Granada were only 1k compared to the 5k rebel force. it was easily defeated and went back to Granada. To kill rebellion, I devised a plan. assemble my armies in the south in Toledo, wait one month and assemble to Murcia, crush the rebellion and go back to where they were. it succeded and I created a new army in Murcia... and combined with the some armies I left there. there was a 9k army guiding murcia now, a rebellion was going to crushed no matter what.

Ok... I want to finish off Navarra sometime soon.... But I want to wait. I know I can finish them off, but I don't want to get into a huge debt, more than we are in right now.

Almost the whole war was financed with Loans, Inflation is at 2.1%.

Also, What do you think I should do with Aragon. Saved their butt when I helped them. Should Prepare a war with them or wait until later on to join in with Castile.

Aragon-Navarra War

Soon after we accepted peace with Navarra, Argon continued to hammer out the one province of Navarra that was left. It did not take them long to get what they wanted. The Navarrans were truly abandoned by their alliance. Englad accepted peace with Aragon and paid 28 Ducats, and so it was only Navarra that faced the brutal strengh of aragon.

Meanwhile, I was hoping I can bounce back economicially and take on Portugal which, we gained CB on them by an event where they harrased our merchants and we excalated the situation.

Perparation for War against Portugal

Initially we wanted to attack every Province at the same time, and there was only one Province that had 11K infantry. We did not get into a war since the Navarran war and our inflation was a capable 2.6%

As we started to build troops ( Forced Loan.... did not have any money o ) there was another war brewing up between the Nobelity in Castile, as soon as I started building my Initial troops our Civil war broke out into the puplic.

Civil War

on September 2, 1438 we went with support the Álvaro de Luna against his opponent to start the Civil war, Our Stab decreased to -3, Inflation rose up to 20+% and Rebels came from Anadulsia, Austrias and Roussillon, The First 2 were defeated immidiately, but that last one was the hardest to defeat and it took 3 months to defeat them, luckly we succeded and stopped the Civil there and then.

The Civil war was damaging, not only did it increase Inflation and decreased stability, but it also forced us to stay on route with loans. I hope to start war taxes soon, Prepare the troops I have and go against Portugal as fast as possiple.

Our Goal will be to take and secure TAGO ( CoT ) and then the rest will be east task since Protugal has no defenses on them, once we occupy all of their Iberian porvinces, we will go after the Azores and force the Portugese to a large sum payment, which hopefully we rebounce our economy and our start to colonize the rest of Europe before the game ends.

I want to know one thing.... I was wondering how you transport soldier through the sea?

Even though I have navy and 2 with galleys over 7 and each have transports. I just dont know how to move them, I tried to click here and connect this to that, but it did not work. anyways... I was also wondering if someone could advise... I want to know your opinions and what do you think.

I little push would not hurt.

Thanks!

I have done myself a disservice...

I Was playing a long ( Extremely Fast) and I made mistake. England called for me to in their alliance... and taking the chance to get a CB on them later on the game when they will refuse to accept to join me ( I was planning an Attack on FEZ ). as I was going fast, I clicked to accept them ( been clicking a lot of boxes at the time... Stability drops and Bankruptcy ) and joined a war with France... the Proplem is France almost complete finished me... they took every Northern Province... ( I was in Inflation so bad that I could not afford to make 2K cavalry and even if I afforded it... it took a so long time to make them. )

Anyways the fact is I can't continue this game and so I will quit it... and with this I gained some exprience.

One other Observation I made is I like reading the AARs and Writing AARs on my games then actually playing the game sometimes, When I playing , I actually6 think of AAR Stories... I think it comes out of my joy of reading... Expect my next AARs sometime soon, and expect it Professionally done.

Thanks to all the help too.