Chapter 11: Emir de Valois
The Brandenburg space marines are still busy with their war versus Bohemia.
They come gunning for the Mughals nevertheless..
They got routed.
Poland is being sieged, with the Ottomans watching closeby.
The Ottomans have a diesel engine, they always need a couple months before they can fire their war engine
They start by stomping the heathens on their land.
This might come as a surprise, or NOT
I had been eying the demise of France for a LONG while now.
Great Britain is close to finishing their war versus Spain. Tuscany is invading France.
The time is right to strike.
I HAVE to, as France is now guaranteed by Spain. Hence I have to attack before their war with Great Britain ends...
A month later, Great Britain did THIS
For 6 AE. Got to love very hard difficulty.
OMG the blobs
Luckily I surrounded the Ottomans almost completely.
Great Britain now borders my bridgehead port of Roussilon, and I got holy war on them directly now.
Brandenburg gets repeatedly baited on besieged forts. In the end, Akbar went on the offensive.
The AI really should learn to focus on ONE war, and not to focus half baked between two
..because, they are losing badly because of it.
King Louis de Valois said
"Screw Europe!"
...and moved the French capital to the Turks Islands in the Carribean.
Don't look at me, nothing to do with it
They only have ONE province left in Europe.. Sundgau. Just because Tuscany couldn't core it
Take a look at those cores. And France is now under 100% warscore.
Which is exactly what I was hoping for
Brandenburg focussed on Bohemia. And did this, while losing BADLY to the Mughals
Well, maybe they are right. They can't lose anything to me, so why not.
The Mughals assembled their flimsy cog fleet, and sailed for the Caribbean.
A strange corsair captain led them there, as the Mughals had no clue when it came to sailing...
The French fleet is in cape Good hope, near their colonies there.
Meanwhile, the Mughals are sieging Berlin!
And our buddy is stomping all leftover condottieri and whatnot.
It went from bad to even MORE bad for Brandenburg..
And from bad, to WORSE
The recovery nap of Louis De Valois was brutally disturbed in the Caribbean
Our cog fleet picked up the rum drunk troops, and sailed for Cape Good hope.
The corsair captain knew the way. I hope
In 1694, a comet was sighted
Akbar Shaqri cursed, and tried to hold the peasants in line.
"The ECONOMY, you fools!"
Oh well. Silly peasants.
Akbar returned to the task at hand, and kicked Brandenburg out of the war, annulling all their alliances.
And he did what he CAME for during this war.
The vassalisation of POLAND.
They have administrative and humanist idea groups, just like Manchu. Perfect vassal.
And they have cores left in Brandenburg and Teutonic order. Perfect vassal.
The peasants were in line again, and the stability went to +3 once more..
And right after, our +3 grand captain advisor became famous for his work, which allowed the Mughals to take the PRESTIGE option instead of the stability option.
+3 stab, +90 prestige, +20% morale until 1700.
Yay. Don't look at me.
And our corsair captain DID find the way to Cape Good Hope
He invaded their last provinces...
And Akbar put them out of their misery.
France got vassalised.
And forced to accept SUNNI as their new faith. France took religious as first idea, you see. And then I placated their ruler.
EMIR Louis de Valois kneeled before Padishah Shaqri!
It is now VERY sunni in the capital of France. *Cheers*
Europe wasn't amused, to say the least
A coalition started.
Persia started coring the port we gave them from Lithuania, and the Mughals kept one more bridgehead port in the Black Sea.
Taking on the coalition head on is usually not a good idea.
So, time for a good old trick.
I started looking who was allied to ANYONE in the coalition.
Tuscany is guaranteed by Great Britain. Whaddayaknow, I got holy war and reconquest cb (France) on Tuscany