Golden Horde - Scourge From The East

[Iche_Bins]

I love your AAR, I read it from the beginning, but I was to lazy to answer... Now that I write my own AAR I see how much it helps if people write something, so I'm sorry I didn't write annything yet. Keep up your work, your doin great

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Thanks Iche_Bins . I too didn't realise how valuable comments are until I began my own AAR so I know how you feel.

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Sa'adat's Reign : Part 4
With the threat of the Ottoman's looming large on their horizon Hungary caved. They gave into Suleyman's demands, Hungary was vassalised. But the war with Austria would go on. Things did not look good for Austria. Not only did she face the combined might of the Holy Golden Alliance but other neighbours too looked greedily at her.

Austria at war with half of Europe​

Already her borders were breached by enemies​

So it was that the two alliances faced off against each other.

The opposing sides​

Sa'adat ordered his 20,000 strong Western Army to begin the invasion. But he had a problem. Just as the army was about to leave it was brought to his attention that there was no way they could reach Austria. Needless to say Sa'adat was furious. How could this be? His plans were so well laid, the war looked so good.

When at last the rage had cooled an emergency meeting was called of the Horde's top generals. Was there anyway to get to Austria? It emerged that there was not. The only routes to Austria were through Polish or Hungarian territory. There was no possiblity of the Polish allowing the Horde into their lands. Hungary was a trickier problem. As a vassal of the Ottomans they granted access to the Ottoman's begrudgingly. The chances of them accepting more enemy troops into their lands were slim to none.

And so it was that Sa'adat was forced to admit that the Horde and Crimea could play no part in this war. To console himself he made peace with the Mamluks on behalf of Crimea. Crimea received the province of Syria which it had controlled for some time now. He then set about making peace with Ak Koyunlu who were completely occupied. For peace Kurdistan went to the Ottomans and 125 ducats was distributed between the allies.

Still brooding over the unfortunate war against Austria Sa'adat turned to Allah. He sent a new missionary to Abkhazia in 1527.

He also tried to end the war between the Mamluks and the Horde but negiotiations were a stalemate neither side would accept the peace terms.

Not so when the Ottomans tried to make peace. They were able to make the Mamluks accept a harsh peace deal.

The Ottomans do well out of the war​

Ottoman Posessions now, they are looking strong​

Sa'adat expected Suleyman to turn his attention on Austria now but he was mistaken. The Ottomans showed little interest in heading for central Europe. The only act of the war was to defeat the Knights of St. John and lay siege to them.

Sa'adat sent a letter to Suleyman asking about the reasons. Suleyman explained that there had been several uprising throughout his growing empire and his army was required to maintain order for now. At the same time he said with Hungary vassalised already there was little to fight for until Austria challenged them, an unlikely event.

In December several nobles demanded that they gain increased rights within the Horde. It was not fair they claimed that the Horde be ruled from Crimea, more authority should be given to those of Horde birth. Faced with a possiblity of wisespread revolts Sa'adat was forced to make some concessions. Once again he sort consolation with Allah, trying to appease him by sending missionaries to convert to pagans of Sadrinsk.

1528 was a routine year. Only one blemish marked the year. A revolt arose in Poltava. As before the motivation was anti-Crimean sentiment. This continued cause of discontent worried Sa'adat. It seemed no matter what his spies did or his armies crushed the problem kept rearing it's ugly head.

In 1529 though Sa'adat was to find the problem was less like a rat and more like a hydra. The revolts he had faced before would look like minor irritations compared to the full scale uprising that began across the south west of the nation.

Mass revolts just like in days gone by​

 

[stnylan]

Aww, don't you get a feeling of nostalgia for all that red and black? This reminds me in many ways of a Timurid game I played back in 1.05 days. Much fun

 

[GrimPagan]

Looks like your peasents doesn't need any events to revolts, they do it for the joy of it.

 

[Duke of Wellington]

stynlan - It does take me back a bit

GrimPagan - I created the revolts personally

 

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I created the revolts personally

Now that's the spirit of a true Khan!

 

[billy bob]

stynlan - It does take me back a bit

GrimPagan - I created the revolts personally

YOUR CRAZY MAN! CRAZY!

 

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I created the revolts personally

That's it, man. You're done for. The stress of managing the GH was too much for you, and you have flipped over the edge.

Or, since your army couldn't fight Austria, did you do this so you would have someone to fight?

 

[Farquharson]

I think it's just a simple addiction problem - to rebel scum. All you need is one of these wonder cures - Scum-o-Patch. You stick one on your arm every morning and, hey presto, that yearning to beat up rebel scum disappears as if by magic!

 

[stnylan]

I suppose it's like fishing - it gives the Khans something to do.

 

[Duke of Wellington]

The Suebian - Thank you

billy bob - No thank you

jwolf - Gotta fight someone can't have the army growing soft now

Farquharson - I'm fine, I can stop, I can give it up any time I want, really I can.

stnylan - Yeah thats it


Actually the real reason for it is for coming events to make sense, you'll see

 

[Iche_Bins]

Ahh, what would be the horde without some nice revolts?

Well I'm curius to see whats going to happen

 

[coz1]

It is the perfidious nature of Crinea that has him creating revolts. Crimea simply does not know how to exist if it does not cause problems, primarily with these same revolts. It's simply ingrained in their psyches.

In respects, Crimea is the scorpion that asks the frog for a lift over the river. You've surely heard this before, but I will repeat it - The frog says he should not give the scorpion a ride for fear of being stung. When the scorpion replies he would not do such a thing, the frog relents and tells the scorpion to climb on his back. But then, as they approach the other side, the scorpion stings the frog. "Why did you stink me when you said you would not," the dying frog asks. The scorpion answers, "I cannot help it. It is in my nature."

But Joe could explain the evils of Crimea far better than I.

 

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Crush does filthy turks before they grow to strong! ONLY YOU SHALL BE SURPEME RULER OF THE WESTERN MUSLIMS!

 

[Iche_Bins]

Crush does filthy turks before they grow to strong! ONLY YOU SHALL BE SURPEME RULER OF THE WESTERN MUSLIMS!

Not only the western?

 

[GrimPagan]

Crush does filthy turks before they grow to strong! ONLY YOU SHALL BE SURPEME RULER OF THE WESTERN MUSLIMS!

HERESY! The mongol hordes shall rule over all muslims from Iberia to Indonesia!

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Why stop at Muslims? Nice little saying there coz, I think that it does indeed sum up Crimea well.

 

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I felt wrong enjoying this AAR so much and yet not commenting! Just want to say I always look forward to coming home and being amazed at your patience. Seriously, I pull my hair out whenever partisans show up in EVERY paradox game. To have to deal with them like this would probably drive me to blow something up o

Uhh, anyways, keep up the good work!

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Thanks GBIT . I'm glad you enjoy it, I enjoy your writing too. I still have to catch up with Spinning Sun, I've got a bit behind on keeping up with AARs of late o