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Reconquest of Erfurt
We take this chance to further centralise our Government. We have money, but not magistrates to build anything and further improve our country.
That and technology cost leads us to a change to Despotic Monarchy. The increased infamy limit is also nice - time to invest in North Africa?
There are a few loose cities that we should be able to conquer easily, like Ceuta or Tangiers, and that will put us ahead of any other German country when they core.
We can now build Churches. What about them? Nothing, Government tech 5 is important to enact a tax reform (Land Taxation) that gives a +1 base tax to a random province and a permanent country modifier. We only need Administrative rating of 8 - the ruling king doesn't have enough rating, but the grown up heir has.
Our armies arrive back home from Poland (yes, it is a long journey) and I noticed Thuringia is all alone.
I said I wanted to wait until I form Westphalia, but it was so nicely alone I had to strike.
Wilhelm I faces little resistance
We assault the city, but they resist. Obviously are fierce fighters that belong in Brunswick
But even fierce fighters have to eat.
Our core is recovered
And we get -1 infamy at a low cost
We take this chance to further centralise our Government. We have money, but not magistrates to build anything and further improve our country.
That and technology cost leads us to a change to Despotic Monarchy. The increased infamy limit is also nice - time to invest in North Africa?
There are a few loose cities that we should be able to conquer easily, like Ceuta or Tangiers, and that will put us ahead of any other German country when they core.
We can now build Churches. What about them? Nothing, Government tech 5 is important to enact a tax reform (Land Taxation) that gives a +1 base tax to a random province and a permanent country modifier. We only need Administrative rating of 8 - the ruling king doesn't have enough rating, but the grown up heir has.
Our armies arrive back home from Poland (yes, it is a long journey) and I noticed Thuringia is all alone.
I said I wanted to wait until I form Westphalia, but it was so nicely alone I had to strike.
Wilhelm I faces little resistance
We assault the city, but they resist. Obviously are fierce fighters that belong in Brunswick
But even fierce fighters have to eat.
Our core is recovered
And we get -1 infamy at a low cost
It is!
I'm already planning in advance - I want to be in a state of war for at least 30-40 year. Until now the longest time in war was 9 years, covering four separate wars. That is too short
When I'm ready, I want to have a worthy war!
One of the tricks I do is to keep adding countries.
When current wars are in moping up phase.
Or just when I can.
In IN one time I was at war for 72 years and added over 650 provinces.
had to stop wars lost control of WE 13.6.:sad:
Took 12 years of rebel bashing to get everything back under control.hmy:
What are settings in your game?
When current wars are in moping up phase.
Or just when I can.
In IN one time I was at war for 72 years and added over 650 provinces.
had to stop wars lost control of WE 13.6.:sad:
Took 12 years of rebel bashing to get everything back under control.
hmy:What are settings in your game?
Unexpected (and inconvenient) Call to Arms
Our land technology evolved. Of course, this is where we have been investing.
But now we shift to Government tech, because level 6 gives us a second idea.
Peace brings decadence? I'm glad Brunswick spends most of its time embroiled in wars then!
A couple months of malus or a shift towards Plutocracy?
No thanks, you guys have the money, but the other guys have the men for our kingdom to wage war.
Then stuff like this happens. Again.
Remember last time we said we'd pay them off if we were at peace? Well, we paid them off now not because we said we would, but because the timing is very inconvenient We don't have the men to fight them off in our homeland.
Finally, we get a magistrate!
We get called into another war by Poland. Reconquest of something something...
This is the force we assign to the war:
3000 men? Really? Where is the rest, you ask?
Here, either on Africa or on its way there when we got the CtA:
This is our plan: we unload all the troops in Ceuta, and then we move them piece by piece to Castillian Africa (our fleet is composed of merely 4 cogs). Afterwards, we shall declare war on Hafsids with Holy War casus belli, since Castille declared a Crusade on them but hasn't moved to wage war on them yet. Green dots are the countries we have military access with.
And this is how things are going in the Teuton front.
We waited for Poland to destroy the Teuton stacks and then sneaked into Marienburg (the capital) and Elbing. Later we made some troops and moved into Polaga, but when we saw Ostpreussen was empty, we moved there instead in order to dominate another siege.
Mecklenburg fought some naval battles in the Baltic (not very successfully I'd say) and managed to land some troops in Kurland and Ösel. In total we lead 5 sieges, including the capital. I hope to get something out of this war
Our land technology evolved. Of course, this is where we have been investing.
But now we shift to Government tech, because level 6 gives us a second idea.
Peace brings decadence? I'm glad Brunswick spends most of its time embroiled in wars then!
A couple months of malus or a shift towards Plutocracy?
No thanks, you guys have the money, but the other guys have the men for our kingdom to wage war.
Then stuff like this happens. Again.
Remember last time we said we'd pay them off if we were at peace? Well, we paid them off now not because we said we would, but because the timing is very inconvenient
We don't have the men to fight them off in our homeland.Finally, we get a magistrate!
We get called into another war by Poland. Reconquest of something something...
This is the force we assign to the war:
3000 men? Really? Where is the rest, you ask?
Here, either on Africa or on its way there when we got the CtA:
This is our plan: we unload all the troops in Ceuta, and then we move them piece by piece to Castillian Africa (our fleet is composed of merely 4 cogs). Afterwards, we shall declare war on Hafsids with Holy War casus belli, since Castille declared a Crusade on them but hasn't moved to wage war on them yet. Green dots are the countries we have military access with.
And this is how things are going in the Teuton front.
We waited for Poland to destroy the Teuton stacks and then sneaked into Marienburg (the capital) and Elbing. Later we made some troops and moved into Polaga, but when we saw Ostpreussen was empty, we moved there instead in order to dominate another siege.
Mecklenburg fought some naval battles in the Baltic (not very successfully I'd say) and managed to land some troops in Kurland and Ösel. In total we lead 5 sieges, including the capital. I hope to get something out of this war
North African Campaign
The plan was to declare war on Hafsids. That did not occur. They were already at war with Castille, and they would bring in more allies. So, and since a colonisation stepping stone is what I wanted, why not go straight to Fez?
We cancelled our Military Access and declared war without CB.
Our first stopping point was Melilla - isolated and rebel held city. We moved all our armies, 4k by 4k to the city, until it fell:
Then we asked for Military Access from Marinids. It was Unlikely they would grant us that, but they did. A pleasant surprise (the Marinids were in a Truce with Fez, so that means they are not in good terms with each other).
That made things simple. The main army moved from Melilla to Ceuta (yellow line), left a siege force and continued just in time to intercept the Fezian army retreating to Rabat:
Another another small army, that came from Constatine to Melilla on foot in the meantime, reached Fez before (orange line) what was left of the Fezian army (blue-green line):
Some weakling rebels popped up at Rabat which Wilhelm destroyed quite easily:
The one-province-minor know as Ziyyanid offered us White Peace, which we accepted
North Africa is mostly composed of 1k forts. That is the case of Fez.
And Ceuta:
Rabat has a level 2 fort, so it took a little longer, specially as more forces join the siege.
Good news, Castille peaces out with Fez. I didn't want to peace out first and then just leave the remnants to be eaten by Castille.
Leading us to end this war by taking Rabat:
War is over, we think, and move our 4 cogs from the occupied Melilla to our owned Rabat. Ooops, along the way they meet a Mameluk carrack (I didn't even knew the Mameluks had boats ). Our four cogs were winning, but very close to the end of the engagement Castille sent out a vessel (Castille is also at war of Mameluks, because of their DoW to Tunisia (Hafsids):
By the way, this is the colonisation plan:
No large swaths of coast, no isolated islands (except for Hispaniola or Cuba or even Cape Verde, depending on availability). Just one or two coastal provinces to minimise effect of blockades, and inland expansion.
The plan was to declare war on Hafsids. That did not occur. They were already at war with Castille, and they would bring in more allies. So, and since a colonisation stepping stone is what I wanted, why not go straight to Fez?
We cancelled our Military Access and declared war without CB.
Our first stopping point was Melilla - isolated and rebel held city. We moved all our armies, 4k by 4k to the city, until it fell:
Then we asked for Military Access from Marinids. It was Unlikely they would grant us that, but they did. A pleasant surprise (the Marinids were in a Truce with Fez, so that means they are not in good terms with each other).
That made things simple. The main army moved from Melilla to Ceuta (yellow line), left a siege force and continued just in time to intercept the Fezian army retreating to Rabat:
Another another small army, that came from Constatine to Melilla on foot in the meantime, reached Fez before (orange line) what was left of the Fezian army (blue-green line):
Some weakling rebels popped up at Rabat which Wilhelm destroyed quite easily:
The one-province-minor know as Ziyyanid offered us White Peace, which we accepted
North Africa is mostly composed of 1k forts. That is the case of Fez.
And Ceuta:
Rabat has a level 2 fort, so it took a little longer, specially as more forces join the siege.
Good news, Castille peaces out with Fez. I didn't want to peace out first and then just leave the remnants to be eaten by Castille.
Leading us to end this war by taking Rabat:
War is over, we think, and move our 4 cogs from the occupied Melilla to our owned Rabat. Ooops, along the way they meet a Mameluk carrack (I didn't even knew the Mameluks had boats
). Our four cogs were winning, but very close to the end of the engagement Castille sent out a vessel (Castille is also at war of Mameluks, because of their DoW to Tunisia (Hafsids):
By the way, this is the colonisation plan:
No large swaths of coast, no isolated islands (except for Hispaniola or Cuba or even Cape Verde, depending on availability). Just one or two coastal provinces to minimise effect of blockades, and inland expansion.
I don't know about that colonisation plan? But it's your game.
any plans about natives?
any plans about natives?
No native nations in MPM. Also, base tax is all 1 in overseas provinces.
That plan is a rough sketch, if I see it is worth it, I'll probably try to take something more in the Caribbean. Still 50 years to go though.
Won't you need to colonise the coastal provinces to boost your naval forcelimits high enough to ensure 100% convoy protection for tariffs?
Great, another general. Not a great general, but a general nonetheless. No more leader-less armies going around!
Ostpreussen falls - at last.
They still don't want to accept anything but white peace with us. Sure, now I don't want any province because BB is already high enough, but at least money.
We improve in Trade, pretty much because of neighbour bonus:
Peace?
Not yet?
See, when we send our peace offers asking for some money, the Teutons refuse. I thought they were being stubborn
They were just feeling generous: paying you 25 ducats? No, we won't accept anything but to pay you all our money, and we will end the vassalisation of Kurland.
The Mameluks offer us White peace, which we accept
Now we can start moving our surplus troops from Rabat to Brunswick without fearing the Mameluke navy. We also start building a ship because Rabat is overseas and having no big ships means no tariff income.
Yeah... But that will depend on how many provinces I colonise - I prefer to focus most of my efforts in the European scenario.
Conquest of Westfalen
Lippe, that small one province minor decided to join our great realm more closely. Besides, we already have a core on them.
And that is where we move our national focus, because that is the way we want to expand into.
We use this slider move towards Centralisation
Yay, another idea!
Of course, we choose Military Drill:
Serfs are upset, and rightly so.
Our research development malus is too big and needs to be shortened. We cannot afford such a gap., Wilhelm said in a speech. Of course nobody understood what he meant, but everyone cheered.
Our discipline guy died
and we replace him for a diplomat
Military Drill NI compensates for the loss of our Commandant
We cancel Our reputation must improve mission but at this rate it would take YEARS to fulfill. God's will odds are a bit 'broken' in favour or some missions in this version of MPM (that has since been corrected) anyway, so the king didn't care.
We get a conquer Westfalen mission. The King did care about that!
We declare war:
Their single ally, Cologne, answers in their aid, only to get crushed:
In our Northern ports, an Hamburgian merchant conceives a new naval tactic that will give us a small edge:
Cautiously, the crown accepted to support the testing of that discovery.
And then this happens! Please, please don't die!
Ooofff, he lived. I'm glad, that man (he is already a man now) will bring great improvements to our country.
Wilhelm assaults the city of Cologne himself, and he achieves success.
They pay 42 ducats for us to leave the city, which we accept.
Westfalen required not one, but several assaults until it fell in Brunswickian hands
They had a lot of money to offer us (something like 150, maybe a bit more), but we are swimming in cash (over 1500 on hand) and we shall get a core on their lands:
Lippe, that small one province minor decided to join our great realm more closely. Besides, we already have a core on them.
And that is where we move our national focus, because that is the way we want to expand into.
We use this slider move towards Centralisation
Yay, another idea!
Of course, we choose Military Drill:
Serfs are upset, and rightly so.
Our research development malus is too big and needs to be shortened. We cannot afford such a gap., Wilhelm said in a speech. Of course nobody understood what he meant, but everyone cheered.
Our discipline guy died
and we replace him for a diplomat
Military Drill NI compensates for the loss of our Commandant
We cancel Our reputation must improve mission but at this rate it would take YEARS to fulfill. God's will odds are a bit 'broken' in favour or some missions in this version of MPM (that has since been corrected) anyway, so the king didn't care.
We get a conquer Westfalen mission. The King did care about that!
We declare war:
Their single ally, Cologne, answers in their aid, only to get crushed:
In our Northern ports, an Hamburgian merchant conceives a new naval tactic that will give us a small edge:
Cautiously, the crown accepted to support the testing of that discovery.
And then this happens! Please, please don't die!
Ooofff, he lived. I'm glad, that man (he is already a man now) will bring great improvements to our country.
Wilhelm assaults the city of Cologne himself, and he achieves success.
They pay 42 ducats for us to leave the city, which we accept.
Westfalen required not one, but several assaults until it fell in Brunswickian hands
They had a lot of money to offer us (something like 150, maybe a bit more), but we are swimming in cash (over 1500 on hand) and we shall get a core on their lands:
No to the Turks!
Our oldest conquest adopts our culture!
Our junior partner insults us, but they didn't mean any harm, so we forgave them.
This time the Ottomans attack Poland directly.
We need to help our ally against the warmongering Turks and the advance of Islam!
The Pope doesn't know what he is talking about - centralisation is good.
We reach Southern Poland and have our first engagement with the Ottomans
We were overwhelmed by the numeric superiority of the Turkish army, and withdrew.
For this campaign, we don't have any plans. We need to cooperate with our allies in the region to fight the Ottomans if we want to avoid failure - Bohemians and Austrians both fight along us and the Polish against the Turks.
In the meantime, the neighbouring Chernigov (a mid-size country) declares an aggression war on Poland. We join another CtA.
Poland, Austria and Bohemia take care of it rather quickly. I'm glad the South wasn't left unprotected for longer - I limited myself to moving my armies around keeping the Ottomans from entering via Transylvania, which is not yet in the war.
They march south and engage the enemy.
Our first victory in this war was engaging a retreating Ottoman army into Braila.
Braila is a choke point, if we exclude Ottoman movements through Transylvania.
That didn't last long - Transylvania joined the Ottoman Empire in the war, and we moved our armies there
A successful engagement against the Transylvanian king
A much needed advancement:
The last of the Transylvanian armies is wiped out:
Some men we left behind with the Polish (less the AI suddenly remembers to leave sieges unattended) brought us the news of a victory!
We still have our Military Accesses in the region, and we still use them extensively
Another retreating army in Braila is defeated. We take care of the timing to assure our armies arrive at the right moment
Something very important when you are trying to coordinate with allies (noticed the Polish shield in our battles?)
Austrians, Polish and Bohemians secure Transylvania.
There is a 15k stack of Ottomans on the other side of the border, which we noticed in our movements in the region - not a threat at the moment.
Our inflation is not spiralling, but we appreciate the currency revaluation nonetheless.
Price stability is a target of this government
Poland peaces Transylvania, taking Kolozs (a gold province). That should help us in this and other wars.
That Ottoman stack at the border entered via Banat and engaged the Austrian-Brunswickian army.
Victory was not possible, so we withdrew to Hungary
Ottomans are playing clever
They did successfully Incite against Merchants a few months earlier, but this time they failed.
This is a preview of our movements, since this AAR post is getting near the limit
The Austrians secure Preslav, and we follow them there (yellow)
Our main army moves along with the allied armies against the last Ottoman in Polish land in Alba, while our small re-inforcement moves to Barlad (orange line).
From there, they meet the retreating armies at Chilia (darker orange), and intercept them again at Alba (red)
We then move our armies to the front (pink).
Our oldest conquest adopts our culture!
Our junior partner insults us, but they didn't mean any harm, so we forgave them.
This time the Ottomans attack Poland directly.
We need to help our ally against the warmongering Turks and the advance of Islam!
The Pope doesn't know what he is talking about - centralisation is good.
We reach Southern Poland and have our first engagement with the Ottomans
We were overwhelmed by the numeric superiority of the Turkish army, and withdrew.
For this campaign, we don't have any plans. We need to cooperate with our allies in the region to fight the Ottomans if we want to avoid failure - Bohemians and Austrians both fight along us and the Polish against the Turks.
In the meantime, the neighbouring Chernigov (a mid-size country) declares an aggression war on Poland. We join another CtA.
Poland, Austria and Bohemia take care of it rather quickly. I'm glad the South wasn't left unprotected for longer - I limited myself to moving my armies around keeping the Ottomans from entering via Transylvania, which is not yet in the war.
They march south and engage the enemy.
Our first victory in this war was engaging a retreating Ottoman army into Braila.
Braila is a choke point, if we exclude Ottoman movements through Transylvania.
That didn't last long - Transylvania joined the Ottoman Empire in the war, and we moved our armies there
A successful engagement against the Transylvanian king
A much needed advancement:
The last of the Transylvanian armies is wiped out:
Some men we left behind with the Polish (less the AI suddenly remembers to leave sieges unattended) brought us the news of a victory!
We still have our Military Accesses in the region, and we still use them extensively
Another retreating army in Braila is defeated. We take care of the timing to assure our armies arrive at the right moment
Something very important when you are trying to coordinate with allies (noticed the Polish shield in our battles?)
Austrians, Polish and Bohemians secure Transylvania.
There is a 15k stack of Ottomans on the other side of the border, which we noticed in our movements in the region - not a threat at the moment.
Our inflation is not spiralling, but we appreciate the currency revaluation nonetheless.
Price stability is a target of this government
Poland peaces Transylvania, taking Kolozs (a gold province). That should help us in this and other wars.
That Ottoman stack at the border entered via Banat and engaged the Austrian-Brunswickian army.
Victory was not possible, so we withdrew to Hungary
Ottomans are playing clever
They did successfully Incite against Merchants a few months earlier, but this time they failed.
This is a preview of our movements, since this AAR post is getting near the limit
The Austrians secure Preslav, and we follow them there (yellow)
Our main army moves along with the allied armies against the last Ottoman in Polish land in Alba, while our small re-inforcement moves to Barlad (orange line).
From there, they meet the retreating armies at Chilia (darker orange), and intercept them again at Alba (red)
We then move our armies to the front (pink).
I like that you help your ally.
Myself I never ally anyone, That way if I fall on my face it's my own fault.
Happened 2 or 3 times in 150+ games, With the house rules and setings in current game has happened 2 times allready
and I am only in 1464. Attacking into TI can be brutal.
Back OT Is crushing the infidels a goal or just supporting allies?
Myself I never ally anyone, That way if I fall on my face it's my own fault.
Happened 2 or 3 times in 150+ games, With the house rules and setings in current game has happened 2 times allready
and I am only in 1464. Attacking into TI can be brutal.
Back OT Is crushing the infidels a goal or just supporting allies?
Usually I don't ally anyone besides vassals either, because the big boys (Castille, France, England) are always drawing me into useless wars somewhere.I like that you help your ally.
Myself I never ally anyone, That way if I fall on my face it's my own fault.
Just supporting allies - Poland is a good ally to keep because it's wars don't affect my homeland, and because it has close access to Germany. Besides it also has a quite good military.
Ottomans exposed
The movements I explained earlier.
That is Erseum, a small little ally of the Ottomans. There were some Ottomans there, but for some reason they don't appear
The city of Braila surrenders!
Followed by Preslav
How does that leave the war, you may ask:
Not bad, but the AI will never make concessions on such low War Score.
Bye bye, retreating Ottomans
We teach the Ottomans how real spies act!
Well, kind of.
Some rebels in an isolated region of their empire are also just a distraction anyway
And this is the current state of the Ottoman Empire
As you can see, it's almost clear of armies.
We act to remove the small armies before they gather up:
The movements I explained earlier.
That is Erseum, a small little ally of the Ottomans. There were some Ottomans there, but for some reason they don't appear
The city of Braila surrenders!
Followed by Preslav
How does that leave the war, you may ask:
Not bad, but the AI will never make concessions on such low War Score.
Bye bye, retreating Ottomans
We teach the Ottomans how real spies act!
Well, kind of.
Some rebels in an isolated region of their empire are also just a distraction anyway
And this is the current state of the Ottoman Empire
As you can see, it's almost clear of armies.
We act to remove the small armies before they gather up:
Man that Ottoman's is big for the AI.
Yea you will need to hold capital + several prov to get anything worthwhile.
Yea you will need to hold capital + several prov to get anything worthwhile.