Update 8
Update 8
09/04/1491 Aragon offers a Royal Marriage, accepted relations to +184
10/04/1491 Venice warns Aragon. This is interesting; an Aragonese/Venetian War opens Italy up for diplomatic realignment. Hopefully the screenshot makes that clear, both Ancona and Siena are Aragonese and Tuscany is an Aragonese Vassel. Mantua is a Venetian Vassel.
Italy
29/04/1491 Aragon enters a Military Alliance with Tuscany, three days before I can send another diplomat
01/05/1491 Production 4 – I’m ahead of time by 4 years but Production 5 is only 11 months away so I’ll keep going.
02/05/1491 Royal Marriage with Sicily relations to +49
03/06/1491 Sicily offers an alliance – accepted, relations at +64. Gifts cost 10.4 ducats and they have a diplo 3 King
Burgundy declares war on England
I honour the call hopefully (that’s a word I fear may get used a lot soon) I won’t actually have to do too much fighting.
09/08/1491 Sicily gets a new King; this one is also diplo 3!
Algiers declares!
More War – naughty of them –
BB is only 8.80 and falling at 1.25 a year right now, yes 1.25 a year!
10/10/1491 Austria accepts White Peace with England – Alliance leader to Alliance leader – my nine galleys sank two Austrian galleys in the Med. The explorer has a zero manoeuvre rating
but three for shock
Sicily drags me into another war
Another minor war – the stability drop is unwelcome but judged a diplomatic necessity.
17/02/1492 Morocco is annexed – BB at 11.28
01/03/1492 Production 5
02/04/1492 Venetian troops storm Savoy and Sicily as alliance leader vasselises. This makes Sicily even more valuable as a vassel – money is needed for the diplomatic offensive.
03/05/1492 Royal Marriage with England, a diplomat to Sicily produced a 2.4 point improvement in relations – wasteful, diplomacy works better in peace time.
08/05/1492 Peace, cores and cash. Unlike Morocco I have no core on Algiers; the BB cost to annex is too steep. I only annexed Morocco because my BB is falling so fast and I have no vassels right now.
Peace in North Africa
Gains and technological progress.
Key relations, Aragon +174, Sicily +68 and England +13
16/07/1492 Aragon gets a new king – diplo 9! Relations go to +199 after a new RM.
28/12/1492 Conversion of Kabylia fails.
01/06/1493 Production 6, Stability recovery next (+1 to +2)
02/01/1494 Ifni is converted
18/01/1494 Relations with Sicily are raised to +200
04/03/1494 Another new King in Sicily – this one is diplo 4, a vasselisation attempt is still on.
02/04/1494 Sicily rejects vasselisation, relations now +170
06/11/1494 Relations back to +192, 4 diplomats at 11.2 each!
Sicily accepts vasselisation
01/03/1495 Aragon still isn’t interested in an alliance.
Here’s a tease of a screenshot –
what have I found?