Chapter 11: Kicking Castille while they are down
December 1, 1466: We lose the effects of overextension, and gain our Claim the Throne CB on Provence.
The party in Castille starts with Burgos, Viscaya, and Cantabria falling to quick assaults. With the AI preferring to keep armies together, it's sometimes good to get a few assaults in before their armies show up. In this case, 26 Castillian regiments are besieging Granada.
December 31: We hire a 4 star Commandant. 8% more death, destruction, and mayhem!
January 1, 1467: A new year. Government 11. A new idea. Espionage. Spies!!! (since Free Trade = 0 spies).
February 8: Granada is forced to cede Almeria and become a vassal of Castille. This means that we will soon actually see armies.
April 22: Nemours becomes Burgundian.
August 1: The first Castillian army shows up, having lost over 1/3rd of their provinces already. Luckily, they stop in a province that Portugal has taken, giving me some time.
September 1: Provence declares war on Orleans, for the second time. Again, they manage to lose against the OPM.
October 4: Leon falls to assault.
February 11, 1468: Sicily warns us 10 days after losing excommunication.
April 17: Madrid falls to assault, allowing the Barrois armies to go attack the Castillian armies.
September 1: A Barrois army attacks from Salamanca while the other attacks from Madrid, forcing the Castillians to retreat from Caceres.
September 23: The Barrois armies crush the Castillians at Badajoz, forcing them to flee further south.
October 1: Smelling blood, the Ottomans declare war on Castille.
October 15: 7000 more Castillians fall outside Cordoba, while Bar loses barely over 1000.
October 29: The Castillian army surrenders at Badajoz.
December 21: Castille white peaces with Portugal.
February 1, 1469: Patriot Rebels are incited in Provence, but they are eventually beaten down after a year of desperate fighting.
April, 1470: Another round of patriot rebels fall before they can return our rightful provinces to us.
January 21, 1471: Castille ends the vassalization of Granada, is forced to release Fez, Morea, and Galicia, annuls some treaties, and pays 100 ducats in reparations to Bar.
January 23: General Claude de Saint Espirit dies. 2 #$%#@^$ing days!
August 31, 1470: Generation of Cowards event. -10% discipline sucks.
August 8, 1471: Granada is excommunicated.
October 10: Holland cedes Zeeland to Portugal, giving us a border with Portugal now.
April 1, 1472: Hainaut, Vlaandern, Luxemburg, and Valenciennes core. Madrid and Toledo fall to heretics, while Tangiers and Ceuta fall to Fez Nationalists.
May 24: The Hansa annexes Magdeburg. The Hansa is now a 6 province mini-blob in Northern Germany.
June 7: Vermandois assimilates.
November 1: Castille collapses, causing the last of her African holdings to defect to Fez.
December 20: Portugal forces Provence to cede Morbihan and release Berry. This puts another nation in France, that we can't yet throw out.
January 21, 1473: Castille declares war on Granada.
July 1: Another round of patriot rebels is funded in Provence.
October 11: Castille vassalizes Granada again, and takes Gibraltar back. Castille then revokes Granada's excommunication.
April 1, 1474: Land 11: Galloglaigh infantry. We upgrade.
June 3: Provence collapses to our rebels, giving us Poitou and Anjou. The rebels were necessary since Provence is in GB's sphere of influence, they have twice my army, and 10x my navy.
August 1: Burgundy declares war on Bourbonnais, right as the rebels get close to taking them down. Burgundy promptly wipes out my rebels. 7 months later, Bourbonnais is annexed...only for Savoy to take Franche-Comte a week later. Karma's a bitch.
March 12, 1475: Brabant becomes our new National Focus.
March 19: Castille declares war on Galicia. We go help our new ally.
November 13: Galicia is annexed. However, Castille is no match for us (again). Their armies lose every battle...it's just a matter of time.
February 1, 1476: 4 more cores, now in Italy.
April 27: Provence's ruler dies, and the dreaded succession war with Austria begins!
August: Paris assimilates to Burgundian.
September 1: Theobald III reaches majority, although only in age, not in ability.
March 6, 1477: Castille renounces cores, re-releases Galicia, annuls treaties, and gives her treasury to Bar again, freeing our armies to go punk Austria. In response, Castille has the ruler of Galicia excommunicated.
April 15: The Austrian campaign starts off well, with a 3 regiment Austrian army forced to surrender in Konstanz, opening up Austria's western holdings to sieges.
June 19: The Austrian army invading Bavaria is crushed by a combined force from Bar and Bavaria.
November 23: Austria signs a white peace with Bavaria after being forcibly ejected by Barrois armies.
January 28, 1478: A large Austrian army surrenders at Karnten.
August 9: 16 regiments of the Barrois army are nearly wiped out in Slavonia while chasing down the remaining Austrian doomstack. They are wiped out for good in Steiermark the next month.
October 1: Slider move to Quality. Spies are sent to Genoa to stir up rebels, but the Milanese army crushes them.
April 20, 1479: Trent falls to siege, marking the first province to fall in Austria. While Austria has managed to keep their final army alive, the Barrois armies are keeping it penned in and small.
July 1: The Austrian army surrenders at Steiermark. A week later, Austria accepts the union between Bar and Provence, and pays 100 ducats. While the union is not as important now that Provence is an OPM again, it does prevent Austria from gaining a foothold in France, which already has enough nations.
