Chapter Ninety Seven
I may be ready for war in September 1783 but my frontline stacks aren’t. Jiangsu and Timbuktu revolt. Quito and Tshiyet Noyan revolt in October.
War with Ryukyu - November 1783
War with Mexico - November 1783
Mexico was allied to Sweden and Venezuela and guaranteed by Great Britain. Charcas, Panama, Luanda and Patos revolt at the news. Chorotega and Natal are the normal monthly uprisings. Thang Long converts at the end of the month.
December sees another three revolts; Ganzhou, Crete and Franche-Comte.
Ryukyu is annexed just before the end of the year. January 1784 has four new uprisings; Utrecht, Little Karoo. Caranga and Magdalena. February sees revolts in Sjaelland, Magdalena and Barinas. Azeri Qarabagh culturally assimilates.
Peace with Japan - February 1784
This leaves Japan an OPM - and the only enemy province East of Cyprus.
March sees Munchen convert to Sunni and Berg revolts.
The first great battle of the war
The Swedes have better land tech than me and Latin units but their lack of cores in West Africa over the years has seen them recruit a lot of African Spearman regiments. Attrition will hurt me (about 0.5 war exhaustion!) but should see that stack wrecked before it can get back into Swedish territory. I have a small dilemma in how hard I hit Sweden as they are the only candidate for beating up the African Sunni minors.
April has revolts in; Chaco Boreal, Satsuma, Salamanca and Lyonnais.
May’s rebellions are in Shikoku, Atacama and Sakhalin.
Wadjuk cores in June. The war has come to a temporary standstill as my assault exhausted armies stand to in Mexico and I reinforce the damaged stacks in West Africa. Jinan rebels.
July sees uprisings in Fez and Poitou.
August it’s the turn of Anhui and Yucatan.
Peace with Venezuela - August 1784
I was close to 5 diplomats so I stop waiting for an offer from the AI. Venezuela is now an OPM. Sieges are taking an eternity and my battle stacks in Mexico are utterly drained. I’ve not been able to get a clean kill on the Mexican army, pushing it back but not finishing it off. At months of travel time from Horde territory the armies take along time to reinforce.
Paredarerme cores in September. The month also sees a lot of rebel activity; Settsu. Owari, Barrois, Xeres, Chaco Boreal, Nazca, Magdalena and Picunmapu. October is calmer with revolts in Navarra and Quito. November has three revolts; Glamorgan, Caceres and Huancavelica.
Morea annexed - December 1784
Take that Dwarves!
Auvergne and Huillimapu rebel later in the month.
January 1785 brings revolts in Rio Grande and Wiradjuri. Salzburg converts. The whole world conquest has ground to a halt over the last year. Measures to restart the action are needed…
February starts with another seven ex-French cores and five more uprisings; Hizen, Taranaki, Lima, Huillimapu and Patagonia Occidental. Luang Prabang converts soon after.
War with Haiti - February 1785
Cherokee as alliance leader isn’t great since I can’t get to their territory but the main point of this war is OPM Haiti and take some more French possessions. There’s another four revolts at the news; Ostmarch, Satsuma, Liguria and Guayaquil. Piedmont rebels in March.
Peace with Sweden - April 1785
Two province Sunni minor Sokoto has DOWed Sweden so I make peace and hope the Swedes reduce them to an OPM. There are revolts in Breda and Wukari. May starts with seven cores in the Ethiopia region. There are three more revolts later on; Cantabria, Picunmapu and Chaco Boreal. Ostmarch converts. Satsuma, Ordos and Rio Grande rebel in June. July brings cores on Gabes and Gafsa. Sus and Yucatan rebel during the month. Cartagena revolts in August and Barinas the next month.
Peace with Portugal - September 1785
Annoyingly I can’t quite take two European mainland provinces without starting sieges on another set of Level 5 fortresses. Still with Barcelona and maxed out Portuguese war exhaustion the main objectives have been achieved.
Peace with France - October 1785
Lyonnais and Serranos revolt later in the month. At the end of the month there’s another Great Man event…
Looking around the only plausible Sunni candidate is OPM Mali (guaranteed by newly OPM’d Sokoto). Spies into action to fabricate a CB.
This will get me back to +3 stability a decade ahead of schedule!
Rebels hit Xeres, Guayaquil, Sichuan Pendi and Thakhek.
Of course to get to Sokoto I need to get through Swedish territory…
War with Gotland - November 1785
That’s another five revolts; Gwynedd, Ile de France, Shandong Bandao, Canelos and Antioquia.
West Africa
I’m at war with:
- Great Britain and Mexico : +89 war score but I’m bogged down in Northern Mexico, this war has a long way to go to get the provinces I want.
- Cherokee and Haiti : +15 war score, I need to take Haiti’s second province and make peace. Landlocked Cherokee is an irrelevance.
- Sweden and Gotland : 0 war score, I need a few provinces to connect to Sokoto.
- Mali and Sokoto : 0 war score. 2 Sunni OPMs to be annexed.
Rebel Count = 5977 (+83)
Rebels = 28,903,000 (+353,000)
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