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Who balkanized Mesoamerica? 
Also, I truly hate those earthquake events... just checking the options usually makes my game slower
Also, I truly hate those earthquake events... just checking the options usually makes my game slower
So... even though things are going fine, what do you plan to achieve by game's end? The new world conquered? Europe under your boot? Invasion of China?
So many things to hate in this update. That joke (I only actually experienced it in-game for the first time earlier this week), that song, and that accursed Earthquake event. There are so many things that could be tidied up in MEIOU and so little time before the EU4 release. Bah, enough grousing. You're bringing pretty borders to Mesoamerica and that's to be lauded.
Operation clean-up is underway.
Who balkanized Mesoamerica?
Also, I truly hate those earthquake events... just checking the options usually makes my game slower
I sure didn't, I only took half of the Maya's, which was about half of Mesoamerica at the time. I'm trying very hard to make it all fit in.
I'm glad I've got a fairly new game rig.
New world conquest yes, although I'm not sure about the east coast of South-America. Europe under my boot is a goal too. The invasion of China (and India) will come in the last decades of the game. Ming looks like a real endboss and I hope/think it will only get stronger in the next century.
Yeah, sorry about that, I just couldn't resist. The border will only become more pretty.
Chapter L: Back to the cleaning business.
January, I’m not the only on to expand my colonial empire.
1684
February, after some assaults.
That’s a COT, 3 gold, a cacao and a maize, the previous was pepper. It was also not a month too soon, with only 0.28 infamy left.
March, nice COTtage
Leon also calls me into war again against another measly Mesoamerican nation, those guys really can’t do anything themselves. Time to bully some other Mesoamerican nation myself.
I declare three separate colonial conquest wars against, Otomis, Zapotec and Maya. Which respectively have 8k, 9k and 8k soldiers.
May, I assault and
Maize and sugar.
August, there goes the next.
This leads to an interesting country against which I have a CB (those religious liberation are in the Georgia area, the one on the Europe/Asia border, where they control some Orthodox provinces).
1685
March, trade tech 35 (+1%, trade range 875).
December, my ambassador dies, he is replaced by a collector
Also, the last Maya province that has to fall. I endorse culture, as my diplomat of 27 years of service could die soon.
1486
January, I win the assault and:
That’s five provinces in total.
March, the next colonial war.
May, Serbia honours, now it’s at least somewhat of a challenge.
June, the first month (that I notice) that my monthly trade income is above 1k (1020.8).
Smolensk honours their alliance with Wallachia too.
July, the first major battle is no problem.
Not I suspected it to be any different, with a land tech gap of 11. They are routed in the battle that follows.
August, Serbia offers white peace after they have no army left and they are thoroughly blockaded, I accept as I have nothing to gain from them.
September, Smolensk and Wallachia start begging for white peace too.
November, I demand peace from Wallachia.
And accept the offer of white peace from Smolensk a day later.
1687
January, production tech 37 (+1%).
February, I can also build new factories, Köln gets a hardware factory (from 2.4 units of grain).
March, Landshut goes from 2 units of iron to 2 units of steel, a proper upgrade.
August, it’s time for a large part of the clean-up, colonial war is declared against Spain.
September, the large army of Chihuatlan is routed.
November, I build a hardware factory in Nedersticht, 2.3 units of linen will now become a lot harder. I wanted to transform the 2.2 units of copper in Guiness, but for some reason I couldn’t. I also destroy the naval arsenal in Nedersticht and build a factory instead.
Off course the King and my heir are much to good and it has to be compensated. I pray for the life of my heir. He dies, just as the laws of Paradox dictate, but luckily the King of Spain dies too.
December, you shouldn’t attack me, -4 on rolls because of mountains hurts you a lot.
1688
January, I’m glad those reinforcements were on time.
February, the 2.3 units of wine in Proensa become 2.3 units of rum (later I see that this doesn’t increase the trade value that much, as I have quite a high negative modifiers because I’m mercantile, as I’m the only producer, if I lower the demand with 50%, that is for the entire world)
April, Spain start begging for white peace.
May, I build a hardware factory in Brugge. Sure, 2.7 units of Cloth is nice, but as hardware is worth 40 ducats more per unit I’ll change it. This adds 180 to the trade value and 350 to the production in Brugge. This also turns Brugge into the most valueable COT at 2162 vs 2146 of Jiangsu Nanjing (which has coal, china ware, cotton and more expensive stuff, some of which produce 6.5 units, like steel). I think I know where my invasion of China will be.
June, Hm, sure, it’s a lot, but I don’t use naval tradition that much. I just use 100 ships a fleet, I need army tradition more.
July, the 2.6 units of cloth in Gent become ammunition. This is more about producing a lot of units of high trade value that turning low value trade goods into new stuff. 1.2 units of grain into ammo is a smaller improvement than 2.6 units of cloth into ammo.
1689
May, production tech 38 is reached.
The stock exchange will be built when the road network is done ( in about a year and a half).
June, the sieges in Spain and their colonies take quite long. I’ve had zero infamy for a few years now, while I could lose 2.9 of it per year. Time for some fun, I built three more armies of 25-30 k each. Enough to be the 7th in the world if I hadn’t any soldiers left.
August, more soldiers are always nice. Even though the difference isn’t that big.
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1690
April, sieges are slow indeed.
I’m now ahead of schedule with most techs (I think), so I’ll mint for a year, I need cash and 0.87 inflation will be gone soon if I mint a bit less. It could give me about 31.2k/year.
June, the siege of Castilla la Vieja is won, let their WE rise even more.
Next time, it’s party time. I think I want to kick it up a notch with the speed of this AAR. If I can manage it I want to be mostly done with it before EUIV comes along. That’s because I think I want to write a gameplay AAR for that one too.
January, I’m not the only on to expand my colonial empire.
1684
February, after some assaults.
That’s a COT, 3 gold, a cacao and a maize, the previous was pepper. It was also not a month too soon, with only 0.28 infamy left.
March, nice COTtage
Leon also calls me into war again against another measly Mesoamerican nation, those guys really can’t do anything themselves. Time to bully some other Mesoamerican nation myself.
I declare three separate colonial conquest wars against, Otomis, Zapotec and Maya. Which respectively have 8k, 9k and 8k soldiers.
May, I assault and
Maize and sugar.
August, there goes the next.
This leads to an interesting country against which I have a CB (those religious liberation are in the Georgia area, the one on the Europe/Asia border, where they control some Orthodox provinces).
1685
March, trade tech 35 (+1%, trade range 875).
December, my ambassador dies, he is replaced by a collector
Also, the last Maya province that has to fall. I endorse culture, as my diplomat of 27 years of service could die soon.
1486
January, I win the assault and:
That’s five provinces in total.
March, the next colonial war.
May, Serbia honours, now it’s at least somewhat of a challenge.
June, the first month (that I notice) that my monthly trade income is above 1k (1020.8).
Smolensk honours their alliance with Wallachia too.
July, the first major battle is no problem.
Not I suspected it to be any different, with a land tech gap of 11. They are routed in the battle that follows.
August, Serbia offers white peace after they have no army left and they are thoroughly blockaded, I accept as I have nothing to gain from them.
September, Smolensk and Wallachia start begging for white peace too.
November, I demand peace from Wallachia.
And accept the offer of white peace from Smolensk a day later.
1687
January, production tech 37 (+1%).
February, I can also build new factories, Köln gets a hardware factory (from 2.4 units of grain).
March, Landshut goes from 2 units of iron to 2 units of steel, a proper upgrade.
August, it’s time for a large part of the clean-up, colonial war is declared against Spain.
September, the large army of Chihuatlan is routed.
November, I build a hardware factory in Nedersticht, 2.3 units of linen will now become a lot harder. I wanted to transform the 2.2 units of copper in Guiness, but for some reason I couldn’t. I also destroy the naval arsenal in Nedersticht and build a factory instead.
Off course the King and my heir are much to good and it has to be compensated. I pray for the life of my heir. He dies, just as the laws of Paradox dictate, but luckily the King of Spain dies too.
December, you shouldn’t attack me, -4 on rolls because of mountains hurts you a lot.
1688
January, I’m glad those reinforcements were on time.
February, the 2.3 units of wine in Proensa become 2.3 units of rum (later I see that this doesn’t increase the trade value that much, as I have quite a high negative modifiers because I’m mercantile, as I’m the only producer, if I lower the demand with 50%, that is for the entire world)
April, Spain start begging for white peace.
May, I build a hardware factory in Brugge. Sure, 2.7 units of Cloth is nice, but as hardware is worth 40 ducats more per unit I’ll change it. This adds 180 to the trade value and 350 to the production in Brugge. This also turns Brugge into the most valueable COT at 2162 vs 2146 of Jiangsu Nanjing (which has coal, china ware, cotton and more expensive stuff, some of which produce 6.5 units, like steel). I think I know where my invasion of China will be.
June, Hm, sure, it’s a lot, but I don’t use naval tradition that much. I just use 100 ships a fleet, I need army tradition more.
July, the 2.6 units of cloth in Gent become ammunition. This is more about producing a lot of units of high trade value that turning low value trade goods into new stuff. 1.2 units of grain into ammo is a smaller improvement than 2.6 units of cloth into ammo.
1689
May, production tech 38 is reached.
The stock exchange will be built when the road network is done ( in about a year and a half).
June, the sieges in Spain and their colonies take quite long. I’ve had zero infamy for a few years now, while I could lose 2.9 of it per year. Time for some fun, I built three more armies of 25-30 k each. Enough to be the 7th in the world if I hadn’t any soldiers left.
August, more soldiers are always nice. Even though the difference isn’t that big.
1690
April, sieges are slow indeed.
I’m now ahead of schedule with most techs (I think), so I’ll mint for a year, I need cash and 0.87 inflation will be gone soon if I mint a bit less. It could give me about 31.2k/year.
June, the siege of Castilla la Vieja is won, let their WE rise even more.
Next time, it’s party time. I think I want to kick it up a notch with the speed of this AAR. If I can manage it I want to be mostly done with it before EUIV comes along. That’s because I think I want to write a gameplay AAR for that one too.
Last update can be summarized as:
"a worldwide empire only needs 7 years, with no hurry, to conquer a balkanized Mexico".
Good Game!
"a worldwide empire only needs 7 years, with no hurry, to conquer a balkanized Mexico".
Good Game!
You should just wait with the Colonial provinces to defect over time. They should, since they are probably not Spanish and are anyways on wrong continent. Or so I would believe...
Enewald is right, you should be able to wait for War Dynamism to kick in and grab those colonies for 1 infamy a pop. That's some nice work there beating Spain to a pulp.
Yeah, something like that. I like those cheap infamy CB's
Yeah, I'll do that as you'll see, but I can't catch them all too.
I might beat them even more, perhaps a bit too much for their liking
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Chapter LI: It’s party time! It’s my ‘dance’ moves vs those of the rest of Europe.
1690
October, time for fun! Their friends don’t want to join the party.
My 130k troops in the neighbourhood should be able to do the job.
I order some assaults and stuff, I don’t even need to use a general.
December, I can finally build the stock exchange.
1691
February, Earthquake in Ciboney, nobody dies but there is widespread chaos (effective, -20% growth per year).
April, a year of minting, and a lot of manufactories later. Time to invest in the army technology again.
July
He’s mediocre, but at least a Dampierre stays in power.
I might as well pursue it when I’m done with Bohemia. If I’m fast enough Wallachia can stay out of the picture so I can declare war on them later.
September, the first defection.
More follow in the next months.
November, a day before the truce with Wallachia expires I declare war to Serbia.
I should have done it a few days earlier. It’s still a nice challenge though.
A few days later Hungary and some minors join in too. I should mention that my armies in Bohemia are mostly out of infantry because of successive assaults.
December, oops..
1692
January, now that’s a battle.
March, with Poland, Wallachia and Hungary in the picture I want Spain out of the picture. Operation Mesoamerica clean-up will continue later. At least I get another COT in Chichên Itzá.
Perhaps I got a little too overconfident..
The Earth dances in joy with an earthquake in Pen Itza. The temple there can’t keep up in the dance and collapses. That will make the work of the missionary at work there somewhat harder.
April, you can’t win them all, but this isn’t that bad.
There is also a meteor sighted, people are worried about all the bad news, a stability drop.
It will be regained in September. That battle will be lost and will mean a loss of an army.
May, Poland offers white peace and I gladly accept. I also offer white peace to the Pope, which he accepts. I have to keep the Pope as my buddy.
Wallachia and Portugal offer white peace a few weeks later, also accepted.
June, Hungary follows.
1693
May, time to grab the resources in the name of the Lord.
I need more ships to protect my colonies, but I think I’ll wait a bit before I order new ships to be build. It’s only a few tech levels before I get new ships.
October, they shouldn’t complain, I colonised America for them.
Basically they get more cores along the East coast.
November, I’ll switch at the end of the month if I’ve got no fights going on (it’s one more offensive shock and +1 to both morale types).
Now it’s time to renew the navy, I’ve got a new high-tech fleet to build.
1694
February, naval tech 37, 38 will be reached in December.
April, I replace the textile manufactory in Ghent with a weapons manufactory, Brugge will follow then the fort 4 there is done.
May, peace with Serbia.
I also peace out with Two Sicilies. They give me 466 ducats, reclaim some claims on the Balkans and they cut all their relations ties with Serbia.
June, all his money was belong to us.
Also, bloody Americans.
July, I don’t care about me relations with nations who aren’t the Pope. This option will give me at least some money.
August, and with that entire NA is colonised, well apart from some frozen island north of/in the Hudson bay.
I don’t really like Brandenburg, but they shouldn’t inbreed so much.
I also get an event that the American revolution failed. Off course it failed, NA will be New Lotharingia and NL only.
1695
January, I think I broke Spain.
February, naval tech 38. I want to reach 42 before I build a new navy, because than I can build Twodeckers. It looks like tech level 39 will come in December.
Well, I wanted to turn my maintenance down, but this just asks to be used.
1690
October, time for fun! Their friends don’t want to join the party.
My 130k troops in the neighbourhood should be able to do the job.
I order some assaults and stuff, I don’t even need to use a general.
December, I can finally build the stock exchange.
1691
February, Earthquake in Ciboney, nobody dies but there is widespread chaos (effective, -20% growth per year).
April, a year of minting, and a lot of manufactories later. Time to invest in the army technology again.
July
He’s mediocre, but at least a Dampierre stays in power.
I might as well pursue it when I’m done with Bohemia. If I’m fast enough Wallachia can stay out of the picture so I can declare war on them later.
September, the first defection.
More follow in the next months.
November, a day before the truce with Wallachia expires I declare war to Serbia.
I should have done it a few days earlier. It’s still a nice challenge though.
A few days later Hungary and some minors join in too. I should mention that my armies in Bohemia are mostly out of infantry because of successive assaults.
December, oops..
1692
January, now that’s a battle.
March, with Poland, Wallachia and Hungary in the picture I want Spain out of the picture. Operation Mesoamerica clean-up will continue later. At least I get another COT in Chichên Itzá.
Perhaps I got a little too overconfident..
The Earth dances in joy with an earthquake in Pen Itza. The temple there can’t keep up in the dance and collapses. That will make the work of the missionary at work there somewhat harder.
April, you can’t win them all, but this isn’t that bad.
There is also a meteor sighted, people are worried about all the bad news, a stability drop.
It will be regained in September. That battle will be lost and will mean a loss of an army.
May, Poland offers white peace and I gladly accept. I also offer white peace to the Pope, which he accepts. I have to keep the Pope as my buddy.
Wallachia and Portugal offer white peace a few weeks later, also accepted.
June, Hungary follows.
1693
May, time to grab the resources in the name of the Lord.
I need more ships to protect my colonies, but I think I’ll wait a bit before I order new ships to be build. It’s only a few tech levels before I get new ships.
October, they shouldn’t complain, I colonised America for them.
Basically they get more cores along the East coast.
November, I’ll switch at the end of the month if I’ve got no fights going on (it’s one more offensive shock and +1 to both morale types).
Now it’s time to renew the navy, I’ve got a new high-tech fleet to build.
1694
February, naval tech 37, 38 will be reached in December.
April, I replace the textile manufactory in Ghent with a weapons manufactory, Brugge will follow then the fort 4 there is done.
May, peace with Serbia.
I also peace out with Two Sicilies. They give me 466 ducats, reclaim some claims on the Balkans and they cut all their relations ties with Serbia.
June, all his money was belong to us.
Also, bloody Americans.
July, I don’t care about me relations with nations who aren’t the Pope. This option will give me at least some money.
August, and with that entire NA is colonised, well apart from some frozen island north of/in the Hudson bay.
I don’t really like Brandenburg, but they shouldn’t inbreed so much.
I also get an event that the American revolution failed. Off course it failed, NA will be New Lotharingia and NL only.
1695
January, I think I broke Spain.
February, naval tech 38. I want to reach 42 before I build a new navy, because than I can build Twodeckers. It looks like tech level 39 will come in December.
Well, I wanted to turn my maintenance down, but this just asks to be used.
Border fraction... the doom of most of Europe...
I long for the old good 'Border Dispute' event.
I long for the old good 'Border Dispute' event.
What are you doing Leon? Those southern provinces will just get swarmed next time there's a war and you wont be able to hold them. I see that MEIOU somehow recognised you as the Papal Controller/Sponsor/whatever.
Awesome, a North America that is all united ready to secede
Interesting that the Europeans are still challenging your rightful place as the first among some less than
equals
Interesting that the Europeans are still challenging your rightful place as the first among some less than
equals
I long for it too, oh well, border friction will have to do.
Or just plain good old rebels will take them. Yup, MEIOU sees that the only reason the Pope has money at all is because I give him so much gifts and got half of the cardinals.
If this was EUIV and they would be in 1 coalition against me.. they might have a chance. It's just waiting now until I have all of Europe. It could be that the game is over before I can do that however.Awesome, a North America that is all united ready to secede
Interesting that the Europeans are still challenging your rightful place as the first among some less than
equals
Chapter LII: Border friction, I have a feeling this won’t be the last time.
February 1695
Let’s get this going all over the world.
March, Denmark wants out (they’ve got a rebel problem) and the army of Siena is no more. Those two brown provinces of Firenze are overseas for them, so I hope they’ll defect.
I wanted to accept the white peace offer from Denmark, but that was before I noticed that they have a province on the southern tip of India. There are some really nice resources in that neighbourhood, and it would be a nice stepping stone towards China.
At the end of the month Firenze makes peace with Chibchaya, forcing them to release Quito. Quito now only has Firenze as ally and the Inca’s as defender of the faith, but as the Inca’s are busy getting conquered by the British and I’m already at war with Firenze..
April, the Maya’s are angry.
June, I didn’t pay attention and lost 5k to Firenze in Quito. Time to get more troops in the neighbourhood. Another new 20k army it is.
I broke Bohemia too, Poland had almost completely occupied them.
This isn’t overkill at all >_>
The assault is won on the 13th.
Siena begs for white peace, declined off course.
August, Firenze wants white peace too, guess what.
December, naval tech 39 and my army lands in South-India, to find a 23k Danish army there. I know where my 6/6/2/3 general is needed. 18k vs 23k, my übergeneral vs their King (3/3/2/5), landtech 43 vs 37 and WE 0 vs 5.27. this will be an interesting fight.
1696
January, blasted.
I need more soldiers there. Oh well, I had planned to invade there anyway. So more troops is more better.
February, shiny!
It’ll last until 1716
April, you should council me about that council.
I get border friction with Serbia, but our truce ends in 3 years, so that friction won’t be long enough.
August, I win the siege of Harun Canar and demand peace. More colonial borders with the British.
Oh no, the prestige.
It’s not like I’ll never regain it (with +14.9%/year) and the other option would give me -1 stab, so yeah.
September, that church council finally takes place. I send a missionary who does a bro-shake with the Pope.
November, naval tech 40, I can now build Chebeck galleys.
1697
March, listen to me old man.
April, time to try to kill the Danes in India.. again.
May, that’s better, although the Pope will have to do without my money it seems.
The Pope still needs my council on his council though. A general church council begins, I lose a missionary and get +5 relations with.. Spain.
June, finally, the first siege in Siena is won (Fràra).
July, Mantùa follows.
October, naval base 41. All my naval base belong to me!
1698
January, I win the siege of Ostmark. I’ll wait for my infamy to drop before I annex Austria.
October, yup I broke Spain.
The cleansing of heresy is because the M..something rebels took their capital. Speaking of Spain, we have no truce any more.. I move some troops around.
I need some more new general too, some have succumbed to death by winning too much. One of the new ones is 6/6/2/5, oh yeah.
November, now with all the techs right I need money to finance a new 100 ship fleet. I actually need that much to get my tariffs to 1005 again as they are at 67.7% atm. Two or three months of minting it is. That will increase the size of my navy by about 50% if they are done. I start by building dozens of Two-Deckers.
1699
January, with enough money for a whole lot ships I start to invest in land tech again.
April, with just over a 100k on the border. Time for colonial war again.
This is operation clean-up 1.5.
May, Brazil joins the Spanish side, this leads to half of South America being against me.
October, my first step in India. Which gives me a new CB too.
Madurai was converted to Catholic be either Spain or Two Sicilies somewhere in the past. I will not lose it when I conquer it. This was a nice way to get into India without having to start any wars without CB.
That leads to
That +20% is HUGE, and as Portugal is in the war I’m actually working on that mission. It will lead to 300 more ducats per month.
November, not that much big fights in this war. The number of sieges is over 30 and there are like 5 or 6 fronts (counting Mexico as 2, 1 for the North part and the isolated provinces as 2nd)
Sicily want white peace, declined. I want their colonies in Mesoamerica. You’re part of the business that has to be cleaned up.
December. To close the 17th century, a nice peace deal with Denmark.
Not a bad deal for only blockading them. On the right you can see all the sieges, including the hostile ones.
1700
February, my diplomat dies and I recruit a new one, a 5-star. I just never get a 6-star advisor.
I also pass the Joint-Stock Companies act.
The more expensive merchants are nothing compared to the +2% trade efficiency. For that 2% is enough to send 20-30 merchants to COTs, per month.
April, I win two sieges, one of them was quite long. Time for peace with Portugal. Mostly to get another player out the war. For I know it will defect, but I just want them out. The money is nice too.
June, I win the siege of Castilla la Vieja, again, and reach land tech 44 (+0.15 morale) 7 years ahead of schedule. Aragon also declared war on Spain. An indirect buddy for kicking Spain down.
After some ‘save this’ or ‘blockade that’ missions I get the mission to conquer the Inca’s. Sure, I’ll do that, perhaps even during the war with Spain, as they have to army left in northern South America.
EDIT, this was as far as I played before EUIV came out. I don't know when the next update will be.
February 1695
Let’s get this going all over the world.
March, Denmark wants out (they’ve got a rebel problem) and the army of Siena is no more. Those two brown provinces of Firenze are overseas for them, so I hope they’ll defect.
I wanted to accept the white peace offer from Denmark, but that was before I noticed that they have a province on the southern tip of India. There are some really nice resources in that neighbourhood, and it would be a nice stepping stone towards China.
At the end of the month Firenze makes peace with Chibchaya, forcing them to release Quito. Quito now only has Firenze as ally and the Inca’s as defender of the faith, but as the Inca’s are busy getting conquered by the British and I’m already at war with Firenze..
April, the Maya’s are angry.
June, I didn’t pay attention and lost 5k to Firenze in Quito. Time to get more troops in the neighbourhood. Another new 20k army it is.
I broke Bohemia too, Poland had almost completely occupied them.
This isn’t overkill at all >_>
The assault is won on the 13th.
Siena begs for white peace, declined off course.
August, Firenze wants white peace too, guess what.
December, naval tech 39 and my army lands in South-India, to find a 23k Danish army there. I know where my 6/6/2/3 general is needed. 18k vs 23k, my übergeneral vs their King (3/3/2/5), landtech 43 vs 37 and WE 0 vs 5.27. this will be an interesting fight.
1696
January, blasted.
I need more soldiers there. Oh well, I had planned to invade there anyway. So more troops is more better.
February, shiny!
It’ll last until 1716
April, you should council me about that council.
I get border friction with Serbia, but our truce ends in 3 years, so that friction won’t be long enough.
August, I win the siege of Harun Canar and demand peace. More colonial borders with the British.
Oh no, the prestige.
It’s not like I’ll never regain it (with +14.9%/year) and the other option would give me -1 stab, so yeah.
September, that church council finally takes place. I send a missionary who does a bro-shake with the Pope.
November, naval tech 40, I can now build Chebeck galleys.
1697
March, listen to me old man.
April, time to try to kill the Danes in India.. again.
May, that’s better, although the Pope will have to do without my money it seems.
The Pope still needs my council on his council though. A general church council begins, I lose a missionary and get +5 relations with.. Spain.
June, finally, the first siege in Siena is won (Fràra).
July, Mantùa follows.
October, naval base 41. All my naval base belong to me!
1698
January, I win the siege of Ostmark. I’ll wait for my infamy to drop before I annex Austria.
October, yup I broke Spain.
The cleansing of heresy is because the M..something rebels took their capital. Speaking of Spain, we have no truce any more.. I move some troops around.
I need some more new general too, some have succumbed to death by winning too much. One of the new ones is 6/6/2/5, oh yeah.
November, now with all the techs right I need money to finance a new 100 ship fleet. I actually need that much to get my tariffs to 1005 again as they are at 67.7% atm. Two or three months of minting it is. That will increase the size of my navy by about 50% if they are done. I start by building dozens of Two-Deckers.
1699
January, with enough money for a whole lot ships I start to invest in land tech again.
April, with just over a 100k on the border. Time for colonial war again.
This is operation clean-up 1.5.
May, Brazil joins the Spanish side, this leads to half of South America being against me.
October, my first step in India. Which gives me a new CB too.
Madurai was converted to Catholic be either Spain or Two Sicilies somewhere in the past. I will not lose it when I conquer it. This was a nice way to get into India without having to start any wars without CB.
That leads to
That +20% is HUGE, and as Portugal is in the war I’m actually working on that mission. It will lead to 300 more ducats per month.
November, not that much big fights in this war. The number of sieges is over 30 and there are like 5 or 6 fronts (counting Mexico as 2, 1 for the North part and the isolated provinces as 2nd)
Sicily want white peace, declined. I want their colonies in Mesoamerica. You’re part of the business that has to be cleaned up.
December. To close the 17th century, a nice peace deal with Denmark.
Not a bad deal for only blockading them. On the right you can see all the sieges, including the hostile ones.
1700
February, my diplomat dies and I recruit a new one, a 5-star. I just never get a 6-star advisor.
I also pass the Joint-Stock Companies act.
The more expensive merchants are nothing compared to the +2% trade efficiency. For that 2% is enough to send 20-30 merchants to COTs, per month.
April, I win two sieges, one of them was quite long. Time for peace with Portugal. Mostly to get another player out the war. For I know it will defect, but I just want them out. The money is nice too.
June, I win the siege of Castilla la Vieja, again, and reach land tech 44 (+0.15 morale) 7 years ahead of schedule. Aragon also declared war on Spain. An indirect buddy for kicking Spain down.
After some ‘save this’ or ‘blockade that’ missions I get the mission to conquer the Inca’s. Sure, I’ll do that, perhaps even during the war with Spain, as they have to army left in northern South America.
EDIT, this was as far as I played before EUIV came out. I don't know when the next update will be.
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Zomg, Pangaea reborn?
Yup. The Lotharingian engineers made it like this, made it much easier to wage war.
Indeed, it would be something different but I'm sure that it could be handled appropriately