1592-1594 : Bosphorus Sound Toll
Great Britain disbands their army in Ireland, since it cannot be transported to their mainland.
They have no army and no navy now.
France calls us to arms against Provence. The war ends quickly with the release of Avignon
We pass the "De Heretico Contribuendo Act" for 0.50 missionaries and -5 stability.
We have some serious conquering to do. In fact, in April 1593, we declare war on the Ottomans, Karaman, Dulkadir and Ramazan at thes same time, calling our allies to arms. We make sure we arrive first in the provinces that interest us.
Persia, as a defender of the Sunni faith, joins the war as well.
It is a lot of enemies, but compared to us, they are very weak by now.
The war goes as planned, apart from a lost minor naval engagement with Oman.
Actually, our only real constraint is infamy. Our economy is so good we don't even need to mint or raise war taxes to have a positive monthly balance. We can afford using all our magistrates for improvements. Our armies and navies are huge. Our manpower is not infinite, though.
Meanwhile, Scotland and Wales have declared war on Great Britain. We finance them with generous war subsidies.
We get a core on Tennessee through a Boundary Dispute. We reelect our doge. We declare war on Baluchistan as well, since they are occupying two Timurid provinces we are also interested in, and they have a COT, Kutch.
We peace the Haasa and the Mameluks. We destroy the Persian fleet while the Oman fleet is cowering in Muscat.
Algiers and Irak white peace as well. In December 1593, the Ottomans are annexed.
Soon after that, we are informed that the Bosphorus Sound Toll happened to us. 15% Trade Bonus are not to scoffed at.
Regrettably, we are at over 10 infamy and we cannot annex immediately the other countries. We want to annex Dulkadir, Ramazan and Karaman as well. We might have to get used at being at war all the time.
We are losing 2.0 infamy a year and ideally we could annex around 110 provinces through the Holy War CB till 1650, not including the provinces we could colonize. It might be a good idea to try and make the Netherlands and Persia collapse, so that the Hordes might come back in their territories.
Persia is whitepaced.
We come too late for Kohistan - by the time we are there, they have defected to Baluchistan and cannot be colonized.
Even fighting all the time, our war exhaustion stays low - 0.68 in January 1594
Having 3 nomad provinces at our borders gives us a nice colonists bonus - We get 3.39 colonists a year.
Situation in February 1594 in the war theatres.
Adal is whitepeaced. In March 1594, the refinery in Antigua has been built. The next mission will be colonize Priangan, in Indonesia.