1425-1435 Hindustan or Bust!
Well, you can't have a Hindu country as your start point and an AAR title of 'Hindu Vengeance!' without trying to form Hindustan, so I was hungry for any chance to grab territory I knew I would need to achieve that aim. And as luck would have it, such chances were not hard to come by! And of course a few provinces that were just because.
I watched the Vijayanager sponsored rebels beat down the Orissa army attempting to break their siege several times. It's not every day you're actually cheering for the rebels to win, but it really made me happy to see my hard won peace deal money did not go to waste. Then a pretender from another slider shift interupted the show.
My latest King hadn't been on the throne for very long, but I was certain he'd lead to a promising future for my country! His stats were good, his legit was high, and the only problem with him was... well, he died.
Nothing hurts your warmongering like a Regency! Soon after, my rebels were victorious, adding two more provinces to my great nation and they came with super-high revolt risk. I wouldn't have had it any other way!
Orissa was now a 4PM, but and needed two more of those provinces at least for Hindustan. In order to satisfy my CB rule, I'd need to wait for the right oportunity.
I was able to reach my 'create a proper fleet' mission when rebels sieged my capitol, thus giving me the new mission to grab Lucknow for a core. Between Delhi and the Tims, Rajputana was getting completely face-stomped.
After a couple years in a regency, my new King was ready to take power! It looked like Delhi was about to annex Rajputana, so I gave them a little more time before declaring war.
I decided instead to nick a province from Bengal, who'd been annexing some Hindu nations in my self-proclaimed territorial boundary zone. It was pretty fast. I just occupied provinces with active missionaries and took what I was after. I didn't want to take more, because his other provinces would be disconnected and prone to revolt constantly.
As this was going on, Dehli did indeed annex the remains of Rajputana, never fully recovered really from their war with me. This was ideal, giving me the chance to grab all those provinces at one infamy each via religious liberation since Hindu nations do not get HW CB.
After moving my armies into place, I was ready for war! This is what our two countries looked like at the time:
With the main Delhi army assaulting a rebel occupied province, the time to strike was right then and there! (You can see them assaulting in the last screenshot) Their army was large but now at low morale so my troops raced across the border to take advantage of the situation.
With both Vijayanager and Bahir armies crashing the party, Delhi forces were beaten back and wiped out. I had to be agressive in order to take as much of India as I could while the Timmies were still sorting things out in the West, leaving India largely unmolested for now.
A quick check of what the world was looking like and I knew it was in my best interest to delay taking a Border with the Tims as long as I posibly could. With most of my nation uncored and revolt-prone, the last thing I needed was 100k Hordling troops hitting me in the West while my 30k troops were chasing rebels around all over the place.
The war was over in the first few days with the destruction of the Delhi Army, but the sieges would take another year or two. I took four provinces from Delhi, leaving a thin shield between myself and the Tims in the west.
With the Delhi war over, my next target was Orissa thanks to a mission. The best part was that they were PG'd by Ceylon, who themselves had done some expanding into the continent East of India. I needed that Island for Hindustan and this was the first chance I had to take a piece of it! I had no intention of letting that chance go to waste.
Before I could even use my shiney new CB, Orissa did something great and stupid simultaneously! Great for me, stupid for them!
In order to make sure Ceylon was in the war however, I needed to attack with my CB. And so I did! I converted my ruler to a general and he was amazing! 6 shock and 3 speed! I -HAD- to use him, he was too good not to! His very first fight would be on Ceylon, and a glorious day it would be! Except this happened.
So, awesome ruler/general dies in his first fight with no heir, new King, 20 legit, RR instantly jumps up across the country by about 5. Yay! On the plus side, Hindustan was starting to look like an inevitability.