Let’s see, where did I leave you? Like searching for Livingston I was quite lost myself, wanting the bb wars to end but not wanting to take the ultimatums I kept being offered. And surprisingly no wars struck me in those first few years of 1570 but I had managed to convert Jeolla! I did this through the old Monty Python method of weighing each heretic and party to opposition religion to see if they weighed as much as a duck! At least it made sense to me! And it bloody worked too!
A new missionary was sent to Okinawa where Confucianism reigned, sucking out my religious slider life-blood much in the way Gala squeezed the creations right out of Salvador Dali. I’m guessing it wasn’t a pretty sight with all the paints and easels nearby. And just like Gala, my ability to fend off the demons ended when my 3 star reputation adviser died leaving me at 26.67/20.50 bb. In his place I hired a 2 star missionary since there wasn’t much to choose.
One big step into 1572 Siak rejected conversion while Yakesa accepted! It was a great conversion because Yakesa follows a ‘Pagan’ religion which left me with fewer pagan provinces to convert! Not long after, Aceh DoW’d me with their ally, Maldives... no, I still couldn’t see Maldives unless I really wanted to look.
Four months later though, Aceh agreed to this peace: giving up all available cores and paying 50 ducats. Before I started writing AARs I never bothered with forcing other nations to give up their cores but once I started investigating and seeing other nations giving up lots of land to rebels, I changed my philosophy and if a nation only has two or three provinces left and I have extra war score to spare, I’ll make them give up some of their cores.
And no, Okinawa didn’t convert but another one was sent.
Sometime while I was resting in 1573 another horrible pop-up appeared. I put down my book and hovered over each option, finally resting upon ‘Rethink policies’ of ‘Greater Social Rifts.’ I lost 1 stability, lost 2 prestige (which I never bother with anyway), a move toward plutocracy (another slider I don’t care about much unless it goes too far toward plutocracy) and 25 ducats which wasn’t much to me.
I received a new leader too, later in that year which was to help me with my missionary placement, not so much bb: admin 7 mil 4 dip 5... and he wasn’t meant to keep Korea off my back either.
Within that same month, Okinawa converted and I received this pop-up. I granted the Act of Grace and I’m thinking that if I didn’t, I might’ve started to see some fractures in my country. I lost 100 ducats which doesn’t mean much to me in this game.
A year and a half into the war with Korea I was trying to break them as I broke them last time. Sneak in through their southern lands just far enough away from Ming. If Ming was meant to go north into Siberia then that had to be but I was not going to let Korea keep DoW’ing me. Here I occupied Korea’s capital and two neighboring provinces.
Hm... I just checked the forum rules again and I found out that a joke I had here would likely be in violation. In its place, imagine something mildly funny, give a little chuckle and know that Aceh DoW’d me with their trusty Maldives ally. And Korea did another stupid thing. After my requests for a lower peace, days later they offered me the moon! I don’t understand this AI sometimes but I did receive Gangwon and Pyeongan, further disassembling Korea.
(Another pic that went missing... I'm going to have to look into this and see if its my computer or if I'm hitting some kind of F-lock before I try and save the pic.)
Since I was tied up (and not in a good way) with Korea, I agreed to a white peace with Aceh before the end of 1577. And Okinawa converted! Yes, the Ducks Plot has worked! BUT I am still at war with Ming, as seen here with some mercenaries. Every time I get into a war I keep telling myself that I need National Conscripts for my next NI.
My desire to continue the war with Ming was equal to the will of the Olson twins’ desire to eat, and so, sometime in May 1578 I agreed to renounce my vassals of Pattani and Makassar, both of which were OPMs. My bb now rests at 26.67/21.50... its still going to take me a while to burn this down.
I wasn’t getting anywhere being over the bb limit. Especially since WE reduces your capacity to recruit manpower to your reserves in MM, not that I was receiving much anyway. So when the option came again, I signed the ultimatum which removed most of my reputation, removed some WE and gave me -40% tax and - 50% manpower for the next 15 years. I was feeling worse than a bulimic at an all-you-can-eat. I wanted to consume but I... just couldn't.
My reputation advisors were removed and replaced with a 1 star missionary and a 4 star stability... my manpower? It was at a max possible of 2800.
A new missionary was sent to Okinawa where Confucianism reigned, sucking out my religious slider life-blood much in the way Gala squeezed the creations right out of Salvador Dali. I’m guessing it wasn’t a pretty sight with all the paints and easels nearby. And just like Gala, my ability to fend off the demons ended when my 3 star reputation adviser died leaving me at 26.67/20.50 bb. In his place I hired a 2 star missionary since there wasn’t much to choose.
One big step into 1572 Siak rejected conversion while Yakesa accepted! It was a great conversion because Yakesa follows a ‘Pagan’ religion which left me with fewer pagan provinces to convert! Not long after, Aceh DoW’d me with their ally, Maldives... no, I still couldn’t see Maldives unless I really wanted to look.
Four months later though, Aceh agreed to this peace: giving up all available cores and paying 50 ducats. Before I started writing AARs I never bothered with forcing other nations to give up their cores but once I started investigating and seeing other nations giving up lots of land to rebels, I changed my philosophy and if a nation only has two or three provinces left and I have extra war score to spare, I’ll make them give up some of their cores.
And no, Okinawa didn’t convert but another one was sent.
Sometime while I was resting in 1573 another horrible pop-up appeared. I put down my book and hovered over each option, finally resting upon ‘Rethink policies’ of ‘Greater Social Rifts.’ I lost 1 stability, lost 2 prestige (which I never bother with anyway), a move toward plutocracy (another slider I don’t care about much unless it goes too far toward plutocracy) and 25 ducats which wasn’t much to me.
I received a new leader too, later in that year which was to help me with my missionary placement, not so much bb: admin 7 mil 4 dip 5... and he wasn’t meant to keep Korea off my back either.
Within that same month, Okinawa converted and I received this pop-up. I granted the Act of Grace and I’m thinking that if I didn’t, I might’ve started to see some fractures in my country. I lost 100 ducats which doesn’t mean much to me in this game.
A year and a half into the war with Korea I was trying to break them as I broke them last time. Sneak in through their southern lands just far enough away from Ming. If Ming was meant to go north into Siberia then that had to be but I was not going to let Korea keep DoW’ing me. Here I occupied Korea’s capital and two neighboring provinces.
Hm... I just checked the forum rules again and I found out that a joke I had here would likely be in violation. In its place, imagine something mildly funny, give a little chuckle and know that Aceh DoW’d me with their trusty Maldives ally. And Korea did another stupid thing. After my requests for a lower peace, days later they offered me the moon! I don’t understand this AI sometimes but I did receive Gangwon and Pyeongan, further disassembling Korea.
(Another pic that went missing... I'm going to have to look into this and see if its my computer or if I'm hitting some kind of F-lock before I try and save the pic.)
Since I was tied up (and not in a good way) with Korea, I agreed to a white peace with Aceh before the end of 1577. And Okinawa converted! Yes, the Ducks Plot has worked! BUT I am still at war with Ming, as seen here with some mercenaries. Every time I get into a war I keep telling myself that I need National Conscripts for my next NI.
My desire to continue the war with Ming was equal to the will of the Olson twins’ desire to eat, and so, sometime in May 1578 I agreed to renounce my vassals of Pattani and Makassar, both of which were OPMs. My bb now rests at 26.67/21.50... its still going to take me a while to burn this down.
I wasn’t getting anywhere being over the bb limit. Especially since WE reduces your capacity to recruit manpower to your reserves in MM, not that I was receiving much anyway. So when the option came again, I signed the ultimatum which removed most of my reputation, removed some WE and gave me -40% tax and - 50% manpower for the next 15 years. I was feeling worse than a bulimic at an all-you-can-eat. I wanted to consume but I... just couldn't.
My reputation advisors were removed and replaced with a 1 star missionary and a 4 star stability... my manpower? It was at a max possible of 2800.