1798-1800 The pastel claw of Doom!
Again my generals looked at the pretty paintings devised by fine Indian artisans to define our national borders. Perhaps it was due to ergot poisoning, perhaps devine inspiration! They had their orders on what to take where, and what provinces to release, just make it look like the painting!
Prussia was released from captured provinces from Barbant, a new Hindu vassal second only in tech to moi. (They got my tech when released)
A new war was started with Swench, aka, Fritzerland! (The Swedish-French blob in west Europe)
Bohemia, ever brave and willing to send men to the afterworld, jumped to their defense, along with a dozen allies and vassals. This was great and resulting in much dismemberment!
I sent my fleets on patrol routes rather than actievly hunting individual navies. This proved to be very effective over the next couple years, virtually wiping out almost all navies in Europe with all the various countries I was fighting durring that time. I saw a few navies that were going to slip past these patrols and cancelled patrol to intercept.
The mighty Swench navy was a victim of this new naval doctorine of indiscriminate drowning for all enemy sailors. (Note this fleet is still all obsolite wargalleons while my ships in the East were all Threedeckers, but size has a strength all it's own. And of course, the admiral/explorer was pretty rediculous too.)
Of course it wouldn't be a party without Spain! I had to send them an invitation as well since they had a province I wanted. Delta really didn't sound very Spanish, so I figured they wouldn't mind giving it to me in support of our Indian artisan training program.
As in the last few wars, the Hindu storm troopers killed lots of people all over. The build up of our economy had provided us with an income around 44k which worked out to about 141 per province (as mentioned earlier) but I also have a screenshot for proof. I waited till now to post it because this is where it fits into the sequence.
Anyhow, back to warmongering! The Hindu army got a bit carried away, and completely destroyed the army of Bohemia and killed their King, resulting in an attack on Bohemia by Austria, and the HRE throne going to Bar. This was such a slimey thing for Austria to do, we promptly declared war on them!
So the map was looking like this. I thought it would be cool if we'd been at war with Barbant also just for more dramatic red, but we were in a truce.
I sent spies to Barbant just to be a jerk and maybe make my vassal Sweden bigger. I'd pretty much totally wiped out their European army so figured the rebels might have success.
We slaughtered Austrians even more agressively than we did the Bohemians! Unlike the Bohemians who'd smartly built lots of lvl 4 forts, the Austrians were mostly lvl 1-2. Too bad for them!!!
We made peace with Spain taking Delta, then Bohemia + their alliance taking the one relatively meh province which about 250k people had died defending.
Then we made peace with Austria taking the provinces we needed to finish our masterpiece of geographical art. The Claw of Doom! With this border outline (Look, it's hard to make art with provinces, mmkay?) I felt -certain- that the Westerners would never threaten India, thus accomplishing my secondary objective for this AAR!
One more war vs Mams to take Alexandria was all I did, which doesn't really warrant any pics or anything else.
A big thanks to the generals and admirals who were present durring the last part of the game:
So a world map shot now; Hindustan of 1800!
Yay! The End. (Notice Portugal, who avoided war with me -entirely- since the 1600's is the real winner from Europe.
