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GreatUberGeek

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Your goal is worthy of the great Eugene himself. :D
 

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I have to admit it is a nice little AAR so far. I hope that your quest for the letters of the alphabet provinces goes well but if I were you I would make a game plan to get x,y,and z next because those would be most likely to be the most difficult.
 

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Here's some I've wanted to do for a while:

• Own every coastal province in Europe.
If you want, you can step it up to the World.
Or if you want something even harder:

• Own every inland provinces in Europe.
Again, you can change the last bit as you wish.
The Possibilities are endless, these are just suggestions.
 

Laburnum

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Z is no problem, the capital of Croatia, Zagreb is there, Y is maybe a bit hard but off the top of my head I know of Yaroslavl. The Xs are all in the far east I do think so maybe we should go there see what we get on the way.

I have done research and I think bet choice for X is Xhosa, this means down Africa.
 
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You have created a nice empire on your own! Great job so far. A united Germany would be everyone else's worst nightmare come true.
 

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You have created a nice empire on your own! Great job so far. A united Germany would be everyone else's worst nightmare come true.

Thank you very much, I will have to think about forming as it will take away from the alphabetic reasoning behind Anhalt but maybe.
 

Laburnum

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Mine is pretty slow too, I feel ya pain.

It is the worst, two days to get quarter a century done, no.

Love the AAR. Stay anhalt! Don't become another featureless grey blob. Stay pink!

Also your english is perfectly understandable, so don't worry about it.

I will be pink then, I don't in general like forming countries so this is good people agree, I know the English is broken but I know everyone know what I mean to say.

Next chapter up in a bit, very exciting one too!
 

Laburnum

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Chapter 5 - Sep 24 1474 - Apr 8 1495

I hate too change plans like the wind changes but I realise going in alphabetical order was a fools idea, instead go for the hardest first, hardest is "X" in my opinion. The X I choose is Xhosa in South Africa, long way but other Xs are in the far East or America. First problem on the way, I need to get down south to expand east, and fate has made my allies a shell around Hungary, my choice of getting down.

Evident I will have to betray someone.

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I decide to go through Bohemia because Austria is emperor and Poland is pink. Here is route:

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Alliance is broken with Bohemias, never really liked them anyway, now though European politics take the game for two centuries so get ready.

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On Nieder and Ober lausitz claims are made.

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Ready to declare war when Austria stops everything with a war of their own:

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War goes on for a century before ending when Austria realises no-one want to fight anymore.

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But Poland also wants a war, I accept because I am nice.

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During this I become leader of the curia, very nice, will try and hold on to for as long as possible.

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As a result of being the curia controller we can now break royal marriage with Bohemia with no stability loss, we also find a suitable replacement in blue.

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During the proceedings Bavarian king died and Denmark takes over, in this game Denmark has also inherited Norway by now, they will be a player in the world gameI know.

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Poland eventually makes peace and in it they leave me.

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Upset about this I break marriage and ally new friend, Brandenburg. Again.

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Now without Poland to back me against Bohemias I am on my own, luckily over the time I had been waiting ducats had been piling up, I get an army on the scoreboard and above Bohemia.

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I declare war, no-one but me and Brunswick against Bohemia and Silesia, Oldenburg has also joined on Bohemia's side. Bohemian army sweeped quickly but they keep making more little ones I have to crush.

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After struggling for some time I get a siege all over the Czech.

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Time to deal with Oldenburg, I move in and end their army quick also, they do not have enough land for small armies to be as bad.

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From Oldenburg I take Hannover for Brunswick, also some ducats. Nothing too bad as I was trying to keep Agressive Expansion down for big claim from Bohemia.

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Beautiful sight here.

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Peace is made I take the four provinces I need for my land tunnel, people will no doubt have anger but for now I enjoy.

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New map, Brunswick restored to glory and me rampaging across Silesia, good times for now and ahead!

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Anhalt ambition sure is something.

I assume you started on 1.4? Taking 4 provinces from Bohemia and them not coalitioning against you ... interesting.

Are you ruling out taking exploration to get to Xhosa? I'm bad at reading comprehension. Still I think you need a colonist to bridge to the Swahili territories. Though I guess you will take expansion at some point?

GL destroying evil turk, mamluk, then swahili will be a piece of cake
 
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Laburnum

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Anhalt ambition sure is something.

I assume you started on 1.4? Taking 4 provinces from Bohemia and them not coalitioning against you ... interesting.

Are you ruling out taking exploration to get to Xhosa?

Yes it is 1.4 but Bohemia does join coalition against me I just ran out of picture, you will see next time do not worry. I am not ruling out exploration but as I need to have land link anyway I guess I'll take two birds with one stone. I have already chosen two ideas: quantity and diplomatic.

Awesome. Love the goal you've set for yourself. We're gonna get ourselves another "Long Korea" here and that's wonderful.

For reference:
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Very nice, I did once play a game of EU3 with rule of every province could only border two others of your own, like this, as Epirus, got to stretch from India to Greece and circling Africa, good memories of a good game. Maybe I do that as one of my AARs though Epirus is not in EU4 sadly, was one of my favourite.
 

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Epirus can be released however ;) Otherwise, that is one strange world with the Danish Bavaria and the win over Bohemia. Poor Bohemia: it's either the Hussites, Austria, or an overagressive player! :D
 

Laburnum

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Chapter 6 - Apr 8 1495 - Jan 1 1500

Bohemia decides to join the coalition, it's a bit late for now Bohemia.

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Sadly Brandenburg alliance comes to a close when they call us to a war with big countries I don't want to fight: Poland and Lithuania.

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The claim on Szepes is finished but I do not declares war yet, Hungary is allies with Burgundy which has one of the biggest armies. I do not know how to get around this yet.

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I go for a white peace with England, the war was going nowhere between them and France, this damages relation with France slightly but it allowed me to get war exhaustion back down.

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Now for the first time in years I have no war, I finally begin to annex Brunswicks!

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I also replace Brunswick with Savoy, maybe a good choice, powerful, allied with my enemy Hungary though.

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But now we must stop, the new century is here and we now check out the state of the world, we will do this in pieces.

Far west Europe:

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England looking strong, only two one provinces in the way of full British Isles.
France also looking strong, only two vassals left, Brittany and Provence still around though, Provence has lost the union with Lorraine and has gained Avignon.
In Iberia the union between Aragon and Castile has ended, Granada still hanging on, Navarra taken.

Central Europe:

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From south to north, Naples looking very strong, broken free from Aragon and climbing up as well as taking Sicily.
Genoa has taken Sardinia.
Hungary has somehow gained Urbino though looks like it will lose soon.
Austria has don very little expansion, only a few around Sundgau have been annexed.
Burgundy struggling though still very strong.
Bavaria is in a union with Denmark.
Of course Bohemia is small and broken now because of me.
I am sprawling across as the main power north of Austria.
Brabant is free but falling.

My favourite, Balkans, Anatolia and Caucasus:

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Much is strange in this area.
Number one strangest occurrence is Byzantium alive and even strong, of course not enough to take back territory but may be when I enter the Ottoman game.
In Balkans Bosnia has annexed Serbia, Ragusa has two provinces now and Croatia is free.
Ottomans strangely have done very little, only Albania has changed from start, very odd. Not even any vassals.
Georgia has branched out across Candar.

Africa, or what I know of it:

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Colonising from Iberia in the west.
Mamluks have taken Tripoli, they are a future enemy of me so worrisome. They also have Dulkadir in vassalage.
Algiers may expand in near future.

North:

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Denmark inherited Norway and still keep union with Sweden.
Muscowy strongest I ever see, Russia may form, has Kazan as Protectorate.

Technologies map:

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Trier in lead, me just behind.

End of recap, If you want any ledger pages ask please.
 

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I'm interested to see your army size and techs and so on.
 

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I'm interested to see your army size and techs and so on.

For you I have the biggest armies in the world, please not I am in war with another secret country that I will show next chapter at the time of taking this, peace time army is 24,000 troops, 16,000 infantry and 8,000 cavalry.

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And technologies, all at 8, best in world behind only Trier. Also my ideas.

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