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As a brief preview of this AAR, I have prepared my interview with a person who likes to be called the stig *a racing driver*

"..."

"This, my first AAR, will be mainly gameplay based, with little to no aspects of roleplay in It, as, in my opinion, they have been used a lot lately."

"..."

"It will have a lot of screenshots In It, yes. It will be in Ironman mode (my first time playing It) and I'll aim to play either until
a. people get bored
b. I get bored/die
c. I get to 1820
d. I get annexed.

"...?!"

"Yes, even If I get destroyed by Russia but still survive I will carry on unless It gets too boring."

"..."

"I don't have any real aims as I don't have any experience on eu iv really, I usually just sit looking at the single player screen wondering who to play."

"...!"

"Well that is hardly-anyway, I think that is about enough as I doubt anyone really wants to read any more '...s'

Let's begin

part 1-begginings​


Since 1441 a new heir took to the the throne, a fine fellow named 'Haji I the mad'.


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well, I know that doesn't sound too good but he can't be THAT bad, right?


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...never mind then.

anyhow, we started off, as you probably know, with Crimea. Nicely tucked into eastern Europe with a lovely slave trade with the Ottomans, who I'd managed to get an early alliance with early on, as well as Nogai for whatever reason.


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So what would our first course of action be?



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ah yes, that little yellow smudge that is undeservingly in *my* land. Such a pathetic place should stay...somewhere else. No allies, no annoying vassal related things. It seems perfect.

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In 365 days It will be mine! Muahahahah.






So, as I waited around watching my economy collapse, waiting for the claim to be fabricated, an interesting offer came in from the northern allies

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Whilst Haji did various madmanesque things such as eating his best general's scab, the one adviser in the whole of Crimea decided to accept It.


a few months later​

As the months rolled on nothing happened. The Ottomans still couldn't finish off a one province Albania and some of the alliance offers were just bordering on as mad as the king who denied them was.


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despite all this hassle, soon the message that the royal house in Crimea had been waiting for...



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with that the king leapt to his feet, and wrote what will become one of the most famous letter to ever be recovered...





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and with that, Crimea were at war...









 

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I hope you looked at alliances carefully. Since Genoa is in the HRE, Austria will become the war leader and call in her allies. These normally include Hungary, Poland, Burgundy, France, or any combination of those 4. The ottomans are strong, but even they will lose to an alliance like that... Crimea is a very difficult start, especially for a common player like you claim to be. Good luck.
 

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I hope you looked at alliances carefully. Since Genoa is in the HRE, Austria will become the war leader and call in her allies. These normally include Hungary, Poland, Burgundy, France, or any combination of those 4. The ottomans are strong, but even they will lose to an alliance like that... Crimea is a very difficult start, especially for a common player like you claim to be. Good luck.

I only realised that after declaring war :d
 

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I only realised that after declaring war :d

That's going to really suck... Don't feel bad though, I actually played Crimea once and made that mistake myself. I'd suggest focusing on going east for now, it's easier, and Genoa usually collapses to rebels. Or you can wait for Austria to be in another war. Like I said though, Crimea is HARD. I'd pick a horde like Nogai or Uzbeck over them anyday...
 

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Also if you had left it there...they count as a western core you are beside.
 

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Is the Golden Horde weak at this point? I have plenty of cores there.

You are allied with Ottomans and Nogai. I don't know if Otto's would help, but Nogai would, and you can build a decent number of troops.
 

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This should be fun, Crimea is a very interesting choice of nation! And so is Austria the warleader assuming Genoa called upon them for help?
 

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Chapter 2-the first war​

Haji I the Mad, upon declaring war on the Genoans was met by a shouting to from the one adviser.

"YOU FOOL!" He bellowed in a mix of anger and fear "THEY'RE IN THE HRE!"

The king tilted his head,and in a slurred voice, droned on in a nearly un-understandable manner.

"What is this?" His eyes dashed from left to right. "I have never heard of this 'Australia',"

"It's Austria, sir. Australia is nothing, and It never will be anything." The adviser had calmed down. How many of the HRE could join anyway?





As soon as the war started, the Ottomans joined, and the far away county of 'Austria' joined in.

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As Genoa wracked up what little forces they had, suddely our friends to the east decided that they would declare war on us.
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sigh.

Luckily both our allies joined, though I'm not sure how much help they'll truly be.

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We easily won the first battle, and battles with the golden horde began. Annoyingly they want a province the complete other side of my country, which would really mess up the borders (yes,I am one of those people.)

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no matter how much we thrashed the opposition by, the Horde just kept rushing into a suicidal battle, outnumbered, outclassed and out-teched. Whilst we may be distracted from Genoa (Austria still has decided against doing anything) Crimea are far from defeat.

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the relentless armies being crushed by Crimean might.


*sudden crash*

fdsfjidsfhidshidsgfffffffffffff

well, nothing could've changed-right?

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T-T

So anyhow...The only reason we lost It was due to morale, and we still have a large amount of troops. Just the defense bonus is gone...I'm sure It will be fine.

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well. That is something at least...

In another stroke of luck, the Golden siege was abandoned for no particular reason and watched from across the border. Soon after Nogai finally decided to help and sent 10,000 charging across the country. About time. Our troops had soon regathered their composure 8,000 well trained cavalry and infantry headed to
*our* land.

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After a small battle between Nogai and The Golden Horde the occupation of Genoa begins. Though just to the east a new threat was looming...


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and Georgia really needs to make It's mind about us...

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as the months rolled on, nothing much other than a small, hopeless Timurid army that got smashed by Nogai happened. But soon enough signs began to show that the war may be finishing soon...

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before we could get too far with that, the golden horde emerged victorious over Nogia and returned to Crimea.

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e.o

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So, we left them to occupy a province or two since there, until I got more morale, was nothing I could do. Hopefully Genoa would remain untouched.

So, as two wars waged on, one almost over, one just about starting...Haji could tell ruling Crimea was no easy task.
 

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Ouch. I assume that GH allied timurids and that's why they are in the war? That's really unlucky. Where are the Ottomans? You haven't mentioned them. Are they preventing ships from getting to you? I assume you are already ahead of this, but I would recommend falling back to your cap and getting another 5-7K mercs. I hope you can win both wars!
 

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Ouch. I assume that GH allied timurids and that's why they are in the war? That's really unlucky. Where are the Ottomans? You haven't mentioned them. Are they preventing ships from getting to you? I assume you are already ahead of this, but I would recommend falling back to your cap and getting another 5-7K mercs. I hope you can win both wars!

The Ottomans have done nothing against the Golden Horde, and against Austria they got blockaded a lot. They've won a few big battles but nothing too helpful.
 

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Chapter 3-Outnumbered​


With Nogai being forced to split our alliance, I now had no way of seeing what the Timurids were doing.

All the Ottomans had done was be blockaded.

It was quickly all going to hell.

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one province had been occupied and now another stack came in for a second. Occupying Genoa was painfully slow...


So, in a desperate attempt to speed It up we send another army there-It's now a race to occupy first before a final battle takes place which could possibly settle both wars

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In other news, the Ottomans finally managed to annex Albania.


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More and more enemies flooded Crimea. Austria had arrived, the hordes of soldiers flooded in relentlessly...There was nothing we could do. The Ottomans are strong, but even their efforts looked in vain. We had 12,000 men overall. The Golden Horde had more than that just in our lands. With plenty to spare.

We were outnumbered.



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When Asov was under our control there was little celebration. Despite all this the Austrians didn't want to accept any sort of peace. The Golden Horde still stood strong, terrorizing the population.


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Genoa had built up an army again, forcing our already weakened troops to split.

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In slightly better news, the Golden Horde were willing to accept white peace. After losing so much to them I didn't want to do It-but we'd get our revenge some day...some day
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Though that still left the other war, one that I accept no other than a victory for after all that we've been through.


But as the Ottomans cleared immediate threats in Crimea, the question came up of...


What now? Austria is so far away, we have no way of attacking them- And they're not willing to accept even white peace. Stalemate...


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So, as the war against Genoa and Austria still rages on, with no end in sight...victory was a long way away.
 

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Part 4-something new

15,000 Crimean troops marched towards Moldovia, at the border 2,000 Austrian troops were ready for It. Better armed yet horribly outnumbered, no-one knew what would happen. A nervous atmosphere was flooding the camp. Upon arriving the Crimean troops took no delay in attacking. They didn't expect it to happen today, in fact rumors were that the troops had been denied access by the Moldovian rulers. They were wrong.

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"King, King!" The adviser shouted, running down the hallway.

Haji I looked up from the lump of metal he'd been playing with.

"M?"

"The emperor!" The adviser had a look in his eyes which by modern day standards would be classed as high. "He is willing to give us Azov!"

"Other?"

"Not the other province but we've won It!"

The king cheered in an odd manner, but that didn't matter. Finally, after years of battling, deaths and fighting. It was over.


the offer was sent...

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and we had won.



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Upon winning the war crowds across the country errupted in celebration, parties were held nation-wide and a new respect for Crimea had come to existed. We'd tackled the HRE. And we had won...





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In the following months not much happened, It was all about recovery. Though some things always stay the same.



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ridiculous alliance offer


Also the king got an *ahem* obsessive girlfriend. She said things such as


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a perfect match.




Anyway...



So, It took a considerable amount of time to gain our manpower back, though our economy was doing half decently, now with about 100 ducats.

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But for now, for the first time since Haji I the mad took the throne, things were going ok...
 

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So you did get Azov. Good job! It's a good thing you didn't take Kaffa though, you can westernize off of them. Also, you first idea is coming up soon. I recommend Administrative Ideas so you can reform you government. Lithuania will come knocking soon so be careful...
 

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So you did get Azov. Good job! It's a good thing you didn't take Kaffa though, you can westernize off of them. Also, you first idea is coming up soon. I recommend Administrative Ideas so you can reform you government. Lithuania will come knocking soon so be careful...

I'll probably try and improve relations with Lithuania, at the moment they're something like -75 at the moment.
 

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part 5- peace at last?


For 5 long, hard years Haji I the mad and Crimea had viciously fought with opponents far and wide, from hordes to empires and had been through a lot. Many men had been lost, though now It was over. We had won.


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Crimea hadn't had to take out any loans, and now sat compfortably with around 100 ducats due to Haji's adviser being financially aware-unlike the ruler.


In two years we would be able to re-ally with Nogai, who were perfectly willing to do so. The Golden Horde couldn't do anything about It, unless they wanted another war with what would eventually be the trio of us, the Ottomans and Nogai.


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As the months rolled by not much happened, though around the discovered world (In this case, Asia and easternmost Europe) some interesting things had happened in the time we'd not been paying attention.

Firstly, Uzbek were really growing to a great size, destroying the countries, even the usually strong Muscovy, around them.


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As I'd imagine is the normal on the other hand, modern day India is still largely fragmented, with no sign of unity any time soon, but the regional powers are now beginning to show.



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In Japan I'm not sure what else has happened since I don't really know what It's like at the start, though Japan really hasn't shown signs of uniting this area.


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I don't think there was much change anywhere else, with the exception of one or two provinces. In Europe news had come that It was almost the same, the Danes held that small bit of Sweden (I can't remember the name). It was so the same that even Granada and Navarra were still alive.


Nothing much happened involving Crimea, while other wars waged on the most exciting thing that happened to us was a desperate country seeking a way to survive the inevitable Ottoman blob.

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still no


*sudden crash*
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e.o


Well, I'm sure not that much could've changed, right?


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hm, I guess so...for now.


By now about a year of peacetime had past and Crimea had recovered nicely. Coring Asov was well under way and soon we'd be able to re-ally with Nogai.

We went along doing average things, using our diplomats not for war but for improving relations with neighbering Moldovia and the nearbyish monster that is Uzbek. But soon, as our troops hit 15,000, we'd have to start thinking about our next target.

I had no intention of going after Kaffa, I'm not sure if the Ottomans would want to waste all those troops again defending me from the HRE.

Though I may well have had the troops to take on Lithuania alone, I'm sure they'd have a batch of monstrous allies ready to tear me apart, so not them.

But what about the Golden horde?


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hm...do you think they'll join in? Uzbek are a daunting sight to behold, but maybe they're too busy ripping up hordes to notice us?


Now Crimea was all better, Haji I had no clue what to do next...
 

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The Golden Horde and Georgia would be your best bet. Georgia is probably weaker, and it would allow you to eventually attack Qara. At the same time though you might annoy Ottomans... Uzbek isn't that bad. If Nogai joins you will be able to kill GH before Uzbec even gets close. But then again based on Haji's diplomacy with Genoa, he might declare war on both at once. And Lithuania for good measure. Well whatever you choose, I wish you luck.