Can Qasim into space? - a Qasim Khanate AAR

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I hate it when the allience leader cedes their ally's land to get out of war, so cheap.

I sense you're going to get into conflict with Muscovy again but how? attacking their ally? Sb they guaranteed?

 

[JDMS]

Crush Muscowy!

 

[Tweetybird]

You must start growing faster than Lithuania, or it's game over for the Mighty Quasim Khanate.

 

[blsteen]

The Muscovites must be crushed, but the neighbourhood will no doubt look askance at the expansion of the Khanate.

 

[CatKnight]

Well, kudos to the Lithuanian AI for really mucking up your plans.

Only problem now is that if you use Lithuania to help crush Muscowy, you're going to have to turn around and kick them out to form Russia.

 

[Serbian Knight]

It's a shame about Tver. Luckily, you've proven that Moscow is beatable. When you fight them next time, you will win.

I hope so

How high is your infamy? It might be time to snatch some new provinces from Finland or Riga while you wait for the truce.

Too high, near the limits. I can't afford any expansions that are not towards Muscowy any time soon. And I have pathetic King(s).

stop doing foolish alliances and conquer all your neighbours. Saves many painful situations, like Lithuanians stealing Dver.

I plan to do that when I form Russia, not before. I need friends now in case something goes wrong.

the cunning lithuanians are the great winner of that war

The Lithuanian Grand Duke is a clever bastard.

Well, kudos to the Lithuanian AI for really mucking up your plans.

Only problem now is that if you use Lithuania to help crush Muscowy, you're going to have to turn around and kick them out to form Russia.

This game really surprises me with intelligence of AI sometimes. I'm just not sure is this just plain luck and random taking provinces, or they do have some agenda

I hate it when the allience leader cedes their ally's land to get out of war, so cheap.

I sense you're going to get into conflict with Muscovy again but how? attacking their ally? Sb they guaranteed?

Poles have been most cowardous AI nation I have ever seen in EU3. They are worse than my parrot.

And Georgia seems like a nice target

You must start growing faster than Lithuania, or it's game over for the Mighty Quasim Khanate.

Infamy is holding me down big time. I need to be really calculative here.

Crush Muscowy!

The Muscovites must be crushed, but the neighbourhood will no doubt look askance at the expansion of the Khanate.

I hope they can be crushed without much fuss

 

[Serbian Knight]

Episode 9 – Caucasian Wars

While we try to rebuild, Georgia goes to war:

Qasim have to let them, as we are in no position to go to war with Muscowy again without Lithuanian help. Besides, we would lose Finland and as ally. They can take Trebizond, it’s not like they will hold it long. Downside is that Armenia joined Trebizond, but whatever. Georgia will burn soon enough that’s for sure.

Then Persians:

This one we accept.
Georgians soon end their war, leaving Trebizond alone for now:

With Armenia likely to be annexed by Persians within few days, King decides to retreat armies home and end this war with Persia, at least from our side. Armenia is gone, and Perso-Georgian conflicts that will most likely occur in the future again might come handy to us.

Finally some cores:

Music to our ears.

Then, as expected:

Georgians will be busy in next few decades.

Qasim is one step closer to missionaries with this nice event again:

Ancient King of Qasim dies and his son takes the throne:

He is far and away from ideal King, but at least that is improvement on diplomacy 3 stat that last one had. And heir is even worse.

Archangelsk is now full Qasim territory:

Next cores are few decades away, and we probably won’t be able to wait that long before next expansion. Things are changing in the region with rise of Lithuanian power, and Qasim don’t have luxury of sitting back and waiting anymore.

Georgians realize that and warn us:

But they are stupid enough not to realize that they are our most probable target for expansion in the future.

Qara Koyunlu follow:

This we could have lived without. But month later, they demonstrate complete lack of intelligence:

Even Muscowy join us as defender of the faith:

And they are also followed by Nogai. Fun war this will be, against many weak infidels.

We took advantage of this war to take last remaining Russian province under Tatar rule:

It is Muslim, but not for long with our national idea and missionaries fast approaching.

Quickly, we took some gold from Nogai, and after collecting war taxes in January, Black Sheep is ready to go:

Hopefully, this will keep them away from our affairs for some time.

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[dinofs]

Was Finland the war leader in the war with Qara Koyunlu? :wacko:

 

[Krokerik]

Was Finland the war leader in the war with Qara Koyunlu? :wacko:

No, you can see that he had scrolled down to the bottom of the list.

 

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a key province gained here , muscovy will soon be encircled

 

[Enewald]

Do not form Russia.
It is tempting, anyone can play Russia but not everyone can play Qasim Khanate. Just because you can does not mean you have, please consider it.
There has never been a Kingdom of Russia, why now?

 

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Cautious play there, keeping infamy down I suppose?

Armenia is like a phoenix in this game. Blink, it's there, blink it's gone, blink it's there.

 

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Do not form Russia.
It is tempting, anyone can play Russia but not everyone can play Qasim Khanate. Just because you can does not mean you have, please consider it.
There has never been a Kingdom of Russia, why now?

True. Russian Empires are not so impressive, but Qasim Empires are.
It's just like the Knights forming Spain.

 

[blsteen]

yes would the qasim agree to become russia? If the welsh conquered england and scotland would it still be great britain? Or something else

 

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yes would the qasim agree to become russia? If the welsh conquered england and scotland would it still be great britain? Or something else

Yeah...the Tudors were Welsh. And the Stuarts were Scots.

 

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don't you find the name of the war you've just fought a bit odd? '2nd Qara Koyunlu Jihad against Qasim Khanate'?

As for forming Russia, I believe that if any other orthodox power than Muscovy had managed to consolidate the Rus lands, it would have claimed the title of Rus-or-sth-like that. Of course Novgorodian, or Kievian, or Riazanian 'Rus' would be different than Muscovy -> Russia (NIs, sliders, goals etc). So i'd say become Russia but edit the name to your liking and continue with Qasimian traditions. On a side note, i think that if any of the Khanates had managed to restore its control over Russian principalities, it would have claimed the Orde's heritage; but you're not Muslim, so there's nothing of that sort of legacy in your country, save the - very confusing - name.

 

[Serbian Knight]

Was Finland the war leader in the war with Qara Koyunlu? :wacko:

No, you can see that he had scrolled down to the bottom of the list.

Of course not, I just scrolled down so it can be seen that Muscowy was with me

a key province gained here , muscovy will soon be encircled

There are just Lithuanians ruining the fun

Cautious play there, keeping infamy down I suppose?

Armenia is like a phoenix in this game. Blink, it's there, blink it's gone, blink it's there.

Yeah, I need to lower my infamy for what is next to come

And Armenia and Georgia are really fun places in this game, with enemy armies just comming and going:rofl:

Do not form Russia.
It is tempting, anyone can play Russia but not everyone can play Qasim Khanate. Just because you can does not mean you have, please consider it.
There has never been a Kingdom of Russia, why now?

True. Russian Empires are not so impressive, but Qasim Empires are.
It's just like the Knights forming Spain.

yes would the qasim agree to become russia? If the welsh conquered england and scotland would it still be great britain? Or something else

Yeah...the Tudors were Welsh. And the Stuarts were Scots.

don't you find the name of the war you've just fought a bit odd? '2nd Qara Koyunlu Jihad against Qasim Khanate'?

As for forming Russia, I believe that if any other orthodox power than Muscovy had managed to consolidate the Rus lands, it would have claimed the title of Rus-or-sth-like that. Of course Novgorodian, or Kievian, or Riazanian 'Rus' would be different than Muscovy -> Russia (NIs, sliders, goals etc). So i'd say become Russia but edit the name to your liking and continue with Qasimian traditions. On a side note, i think that if any of the Khanates had managed to restore its control over Russian principalities, it would have claimed the Orde's heritage; but you're not Muslim, so there's nothing of that sort of legacy in your country, save the - very confusing - name.

Some interesting points here. I planned to form Russia, but now have some doubts.

However I've got an idea. I can create new nation just for this game's purpose. A special Russia that can be formed with same conditions like real Russia, but only by Qasim Khanate. I'll probably just copy missions and decisions unless some are wrong with Qasim tradition. Qasim ruler and general names of course.

But what should I call it? al-Rus? Qasistan? Qasim Empire? al-qas'Rus? Russistan? United Provinces of Russia(but that sounds too republicish)? Someone have better idea? My favorite is al-Rus

My idea for color is to slightly edit current one, making it a little bit more greenish.

And for flag I will make something up. I love drawing flags

I want to do this for RP purposes only, as I think that it would be logical to claim title of ruler of all Russians in you have all the lands.


As for Khanate and Jihad...there are much worse things, like being called King of Khanate :rofl:
The right way would probably be to have nation culture Tatar and province Russian, but it would be hell to play. Then again, I don't really know much about region to talk about accuratly really.

 

[Serbian Knight]

Episode 10 – To Be Or Not To Be

Here we go again:

It will be interesting to see is this war going to give Persians anything, unlike previous ones.

Unlikely nation is born on Iberia

Valencia and Baleares are only thing left from once mighty Aragon that controlled almost half of Iberia and Italy. It looks like Venice will be their last enemy.

Finally, we embrace new national idea:

This will mean more missionaries. Not much, but we are in no position to choose. They are enhanced with new slider change six months later.

Once again, Persians probably regret going to war:

But some never learn. We fully expect another declaration of war on Georgia in about five years.
Some never learn indeed. Not on their nor on other’s mistakes:

Wrath of Muscowy is on them now. These constant Muscowy wars maybe can be exploited.

On north, after fifty years of waiting for two cores, Sweden finally do it:

Qasim will have to find some way to attack Muscowy without Swedes interfering. That could be fatal.

Scared of potential Lithuanian invasion, cowardly Poles seek refuge:

We accept for now. They might come handy against Muscowy, but there won’t be need to guess twice who will Qasim choose if conflict brakes between Poland and Lithuania.

But year or so later, Poles showed why they needed Qasim help:

First idea was to decline, as we don’t need war against Muscowy without Lithuania. But when after few weeks we realized that Muscowy refused to defend Orthodox brethren, we accepted this war. But no troops will leave Qasim lands.

After some scouting, we’ve found out why Muscowy refused. They are deep in Caucasia:

Ledger shows that their armies are equal to ours at this point. This might be Qasim chance. But we will have to take stability hit this time. And we need to do damage control and choose our target carefully. However, there is not much to choose from:

King Sayin Bulat II decides to take his chances.
Both Finland and Trebizond decided to abandon their allies:

Main objective is to give crushing blows to Muscowy. Lithuania can take what they want, they will be dealt with later. Lot later.

Situation is following:

Muscowy obviously have at least 20, maybe even 30 regiments in Qara Koyunly. None of their stacks in Russia have more that 3000 men. Plan is simple. Sacrifice southern Qasim lands, blitzkrieg Muscowy and bordering provinces and attack them from easternmost province of Solikamsk, as that part of Muscowy is almost defenseless. If all goes well, by the time they decide to retreat forces from Qara Koyunly, there won’t be much Muscowy to return to.

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[Enewald]

Empire of Qasim

Empire of Russians, so why not Empire of Qasim?
Empire of Romans, Empire of the house of Othman... etc...

 

[dinofs]

Qasim Khanate will crush Moscowy!