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Here goes.... SOME FUN !
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1585 - 1584: The Eastern War..
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1585-1586: National Treasury: 25G --> 528G
Mamelukes (and P-L their ally) DOW Turkey, Hedjaz, Algiers, wallachia, Nubia, sweden & Serbia
Our Eastern Rival (P-L) will have his hands full...
Our Good Prince Karl is in Silesia, with 61,000 Men, the Eastern Army
Diplomacy:
1- We Declare WAR on Poland-Lithuania, and all of our allies join in.
While Modena has joined the alliance since the DOW vs the turks, and therefore our enemy,
the Mamelukes and their army drop out of the alliance. I guess they felt both Turkey AND
Austria/Hunagry was a bit much...
2- On April 5th, Spain DOW's Inca Empire.
3- On June 1st, Brandenburg /w P-L & Modena DOW Russia, Knights, Persia, Greece & Georgia (Yahoo!!!)
4- RM with Sicily done
5- Genoa settles with Modena on January 1586, and Pays 79D.
WAR Moves.
Move 1 --> Prince Karl with 30,000 men moves to Krakow, a real prize.
13,000 Infantry raised behind them in Silesia
Move 2 --> Prince Franz Josef moves to Modena, but we wait for Modena Army (61,000 men)
to make it's move to Milan, and a battle is fought with 32,000 Austrians there..
Only the Prince, with a token austrian army joins 61,000 Helvetians & 16,000 French in Modena.
They start the siege, but when the french arrive, they attempt an assault which fails
Attrition is murder on our allied armied. Over 16,000 disappear over the next 2 months..
Another assault is attempted later, which is successfull. Helvetia claims Modena, which
they settle for 237 Gold with them in a separate peace.
After the retreat of the Helvetians, 16,000 French & Savoyans, with our token force, siege Modena
again... While the Modena army sieges Genoa.
In Milan,
We lose 5000 Austrians but kill 23,000 Modenians. The Modena Army, all 37,000 of them
moves to Genoa and sieges it.
They defeat Genoa Army, but lose another 12,000 to 6000 Genoans. (2K left, retreat to Milan)
25,000 Modenians siege Genoa... Attrition for them is 3000, then 2000, then 1000 in 3 months.
They leave temporarily for Modena, hit the French/Savoyans hard, and kill 5000 of them, while losing
4000 and retreating back to Genoa... 12,000 Modenians left in genoa.
France finally captures Modena again, and reveives 10D (!) for peace.
Krakow is Sieged and by Feb 18th, Walls are at +1, then -1, then -4 by April 20th...
Krakow Fortress, and therefore province falls on May 25th, 1585.
Army moves to Pozen, which is then sieged by Prince Karl, Walls = -2 by September...
Fotress falls in November & army moves to Danzig...
Danzig sieged by Prince Karl, some reinforcemnts from Silesia.. Attrition has hit 12,000 at least
by now...
Flanders revolts too with 56,000 rebels... We crush them & lose 4000 troops
In Carthagena, the Spaniards make another move without a DOW, with 18,000 troops vs our 26,000.
We destroy 5000, & lose 4000, while they retreat to Cupica. We follow, and destroy them. They
did manage to destroy a 3000 Cupica army (no survivors), and we lose another 5000 or so through
attrition in these difficult terrains... The last battle, we lost 9000 troops, and destroyed
their 9000 survivors.
Spaniards were 18,000 strong, then 9000, before being destroyed in 3 fights.
Troops are raised in the area to replenish forces...
In January, we raise 13,000 troops in Silesia, to replace losses, and build another army ... Why ?
Because 28,000 troops, veterans all were sent to mazovia , and were destroyed by their excellent
General Stefan Bathory... They lost almost nothing while we lose most of our forward forces.
Only the Danzig army, of 18,000 or so was left from the proud 74,000 that started the campaign.
In April 17th 1586, Danzig falls to Franz.
While we have 3x provinces, Stefan Bathory, with reinforcements moves 61,000 men to Pozen
and sieges it!
We send massive reinforcements to Eastern Front, from Bavaria, Saxony and others to fill the hole.
Finally, Posen falls to Bathory. We have 2x provinces left, and Prince Franx moves to
Eastern Pomerania (trying to avoid Stefan.). Walls immediately go to -1
In an incredible twist, Stefan Bathory leaves for the South Eastern Turcish front, leaving us
pretty much alone.. Phew !
Modena settles with Savoy, and Pays 38. Then they settle with Hungary, and pay 256D!
While this is happening, Eastern Pomerania falls to Franz later that yeear. The ragged survivors
leave for Pozen, for re-Capture. Only 13,000 are left out of 73,000+..
60 Brand new cannons from Silesia join him
By end of Year 1586, Walls went to +1, then -1, then -5 when the new cannons arrived.
With all allies gone from Modena, we send 7000 Infantry & 114 Cannons to Modena, to end this
front for all.
Colonizations:
1- Table: 100 colonists sent --> 90%/50G, Success, Pop = 398 now, Again in January 1586
2- catskills: Failed, and Native rebellion is put down. Again, 63%/60G
Other Countries:
Ferhad Pasha, of the Turcish Empire battles a 7000 man P-L army in Galicia, with his 25,000
man army... They win..
1587 National Treasury: 184G --> 580G
In January, 10,000 troops join the siege at pozen. They come from our faithful vassal
Hungary. Since we are in overall command, they are simply aiding us, and not taking over
which is what would have happened in Modena before...
In February, Pozen falls again to us. we need to end this war soon.
Stefan Bathory is massacring turcish armies in the south-south-east. What a Commander.
By March, Modena's walls were at -6, and on March 2nd, it falls to us.
We settle with Modena for 100D, and immediately we offer them a RM, which they accept
Relations go from -44 to -29..
Also in March, P-L offers Krakow & Pozen, which we refuse... We wish to keep Danzig, a COT !
We send all our survivors from Pozen to Mazovia, and siege it. Massive Attrition hits us as it
is Winter there.... We have 16,000 Infantry there and 93 cannons.
By June, the Walls are at +1. By September, at -2. By October, they hit -5.
The Spaniards try again...
16,000 new spanish soldiers land in Carthagena, vs 33,000 of our men. By miracle, we kill
15,000 and lose 6000 of our own. They had a conquistador, J St-Amour and he was obliged to
retreat in parts unknown...
Jan Zamojski assaults Galicia closeby and slaughters another Turcish army...
By now, we have lost at least 15,000 troops to attrition in our eastern campaign.
Again, P-L offers Pozen & Krakow.
On November 6th, Mazovia falls to our very diminished army...
Jan Zamojski moves East, towards Russia, and leaves us alone...
Colonizations:
1- Catskills
2- Table both...
Infrastructure:
1- Nicaragua, Level 1 Fort & 2000 Troops
Diplomacy:
1- P-L Peace with sweden & settle for Status Quo.
2- Wallachia settles with P-L, and pays 64D.
3- P-L settles with Helvetia and pays 28D
4- P-L settles with Turkey, Status Quo. They got off very easily, having slaughtered so many
turcish armies and possibly generals...
5- In December 1st, we offer peace to P-L for Pozen, Krakow & Danzig. They refuse, the cheeky
buggers... Then on December 22nd, they offer Pozen & Danzig and we accept. We got 2/3 of our
objectives but wanted to prevent too much war exhaustion and other countries DOW us.
Eastern Pomerania + Krakow revert back to obscure Polish rule, instead of our enlightened
one... <g>
1588 National Treasury: 450G --> 858G ! Manpower Pool: 107,000/Men every 2 Years.
Consequences of the WAR:
1- We won 2x provinces in the East, springboards for future expansion, as well as a
new COT, and a PORT in the Baltic... Excellent victory.
We now have a 2x Ports in the Med, 1 Port in the Channel area (Flanders) and now
a PORT in the Baltic. Excellent Strategic positioning for our Fleets.
BUT.
2- The Army is devastated in the region by 100,000 + losses after the hard fought war
there.. The costs were insane for this war... Thousands of Ducats...
Prinz Karlby himself lost about 80,000 men by himself, of which only 10,000 survived at the
end from his veterans and reinforcements.
3- Diplomatic relations were damaged with allies such as France, which were DOWN to -4.
We gave 100D to France, and relations went to +99 again...
4- Our BB is sky high again...
5- Interestingly, for P-L it should hurt the fact that Eastern Pomerania & West Prussia
are cutoff rom their homeland now. P-L's enemies will be able to reach P-L territory
without them being able to reinforce.
Infrastructure:
1- Massive Mobilization in South America, 6000 men raised in Carthagena, Yarumal, Cupica & Bogota
2- Danzig: 4000 troops raised + Level 2 Fortress begun.
3- Pozen: 4000 troops raised + Governor appointed.
Prince Franz Josef leaves for Pozen with 16,000 Infantry & 7000 Cavalry from Italy.
Another Invasion from Spain !
--> 23,000 Spaniards vs 46,000 Troops in Carthgena ( we are losing to attrition, but emptied
garrisons in Cupica, Bogota, Yarumal...
While we outnumber them 2 to 1, they have a Conquistador commanding D. Juan of Austria (TRAITOR!)
Battle 1: They lose 7000 troops and retreat to Cupica. We lose 10,000 troops in this battle
Battle 2: we follow to Cupica, and kill 2000 more troops from them , while losing 4000 to losses
and attrition.
Battle 3: We follow again, and finally destroy all spaniards (those that refused to join our
army that is) and KILL their Conquistador leader. Great rejoicing is had by the ViceRoy
of the Americas and his staff. We lost over 20,000 troops but destroyed a colonial spanish
army with their leader.
Diplomacy:
1- Mamelukes sign Peace with Turkey for .... 18D ... ha ha
Colonizations:
1- Table: 95%/43G, Success ! and then we get the news that a COT appears in Table, for South Africa.
1589-90 National Treasury: 42G --> 484G ! & National Treasury: 55G --> 614G !
In January 1589, our national income is way, way down from PRE-WAR levels still.
By October 1st 1589, Stability in the Realm up to +3 again.
On July 5th, Prince Franz Josef, our General hero is dead.
Infrastructure:
1- Nicaragua gets a Level 2 Fortress
2- 7000 Troops raised in South America Compact, then another 5000.
3- Romagna raises 4000 troops and Danzig another 5000.
4- In January 1590, 10,000 Infantry is raised in danzig.
5- Another 5000 Troops raised in Pozen. Tax Collector appointed.
6- Romagna raises 4000 Cavalry.
7- Nicaragua & Danzig appoint Governors of the new territories.
Diplomacy:
1- P-L settles with Russia, and with the Austrian Empire out of the way, wins Tula from
Russia ...
2- P-L settles peace with Sweden(again) for Status Quo.
3- In October, Sibir pays 26 to Russia for peace.
4- 100G to France again, from +0 to +62 (down 99 points in 18 months !)
5- England [/w portugal, Netherlands, Venice] DOW's Spain [/w Hansa, Prussia, Scotland, Hannover
& Crimea]
Colonizations:
1- Table: 95%/43G, Success ! Pop = 793.
2- Catskills: 74%/70G, Success ! Pop= 1,612 as natives incorporated in Colony.
3- Arlen Maximillian, our Conquistador Company arrives in Mahe Island in Indian Ocean
and attempts colonization with 100 colonists: 66%/65G. A SPICE ISLAND !
This fails as they never arrive. Try again, same result..
Finally, success, Pop = 100. We send another 100 which never arrive again
(failed 3 out of 4 attempts) with 71%/58G chances.
Revolts:
Danzig revolts, with 43,000 rebels. We lose 6000 troops crushing the rebellion
Romagna revolts, and is crushed.
Spanish Incursions:
1- 800 Spanish raiders attack Azuay 23,000 colonial army and are destroyed. Idiots...
2- a much more serious 16,000 attack in Carthagena vs 31,000 garrison is narrowly defeated
with 9000 dead spaniards & 6000 austrians. They retreat in good order back on their ships
in the bay....
Carthagena is becoming the most bloody soil in the Americas !
We cannot wait for the Treaty of Tordesillas to end... Bloody Pope drawn agreements...
1591: National Treasury: 550G --> 1077G !
National Income up to 170.9/Month
We start a most worthy enterprise for the Austrian Empire A Refinery project in Bohemia,
an area of grapes and wine for people to enjoy ! Cost: 702D !
We reach Naval Technology - 9 the Compass...
France decides to share explorations , which we gladly accept. We discover that
they have a very large presence in Asia, so it is very beneficial.
The Richest COT in the world is discovered, the Delhi COT (1,663D/Year ! WOW!).
On Oct 2nd, the Edict of Tolerance is signed and Spain cannot attack us anymore...
We start dominating the COT in India, an dthen the Mughal Empire refuses our merchants
access.... Grrrrrrr... We are very hurt....
Infrastructure:
1- legal counsel appointed in Pozen.
Diplomacy:
1- 100G to France (+56 to +137!)
2- 25G to Hungary (+180 to +198)
3- 25G to Sicily (+143 to +159)
4- RM with Genoa Done (+111)
Colonizations:
1- Mahe: 76%/56G Pop = 200 Success ! Another is sent, for 81%/54G.
1592: National Treasury: 15G --> 564G !
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That's it for today....
Let me know what you think !
Take care everyone
jean
and since the english don't have a ToT to back them up, they'll have to DOW you if they want "their" colonies. just keep troops stationed there and you should be alright. 
