Thanks for your support, guys 
Meanwhile, I played some more, so here is an update (the story now caught up with where I am in the game, so any advice is extremely welcome!!)
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1572 – 1598
Leap of Faith
So in 1572, our warriors sailed towards Europe. ‘Go to Holland,’ Chief Ottawa said, slowly as always even though he was quite excited.
As the ships were taking the best youth of our tribe across the waters, our Chief made two attempts to get banned from doing business in the Dutch Centres of Trade. He figured that this would be a fair reason to declare war, justifiable to us Delawares.
But the Dutch simply allowed us to trade, despite our merchants coming in droves and behaving arrogantly. So when our ships appeared near the shores of Holland, we had no choice but to go on the path of war without any apparent reason.
The Dutch were not very prepared. They had just rebelled from under Austria, and their four provinces were being protected by a mere 10,000 troops. They mounted quite a fight, however, and a lot of our warriors, unaccustomed to combat, died.
This was the tactical situation after bitter skirmishes at the beginning of hostilities, in which 11,000 of brave Delaware souls died:
You can see that we blockaded the Dutch ports and besieged their cities one after another with our two armies.
Peace talks brought us three Dutch Provinces; but we did not have much time to celebrate peace; for the same month as we signed a truce with Holland, French Catholics declared war.
We did not appreciate such behaviour, for at that time, our citizens valued peace above all; and soon rebellions flared up in all the corners of our growing Empire. When the truce with the Catholics was finally signed (in which we gained two coastal provinces from them, Calais and Picardie), our homeland was in flames of total rebellion. Luckily for us, no one else used this opportunity to wage war against us; for our old Chief might have been removed from power by angry mobs who wanted their peaceful ways back.
But eventually, the rebels calmed down, and we finished Holland off, annexing their capital with all their colonial possessions in Africa and Asia. It was not much; but at least something to compensate for the loss of life and money.
This was the new life style of the Dutch after we liberated them:
And this is how the so called ‘Low Countries’ looked after we removed their pompous architecture and replaced it with ours:
Some of the Dutch loved their new ways; so much so that Friesland immediately converted to our faith.
Last years of the XVI century were good to our people. This is why:
1. Our wise men finally aligned between themselves on the approach to monopolise trade; and we began to rake in enormous amounts of money from markets in Ohaio, Zakatekas, and Cuzco. Our merchants were now competing bravely in many of the richest European marketplaces, too.
2. We annexed Dakota and Navajo, and vassalised the Aztec Empire.
3. When France arose from aches in early 90’s, merging with the French Catholics only to immediately declare war on us, we won against overwhelming odds. They threw scores and scores of highly trained soldiers against us. But we stood strong. And we managed to take 2 our their very rich provinces in peace (Caux and Orleannais):
4. We closely studied the Dutch state archives and found their colonial maps. Immediately, we began to colonise newly discovered provinces in the Asian Spice Islands, and in South and East Africa. People of four races soon started to mix freely in the yearly Buffalo Hunting Festivals on the vast plains of Delaware Midwest: red, white, yellow and black.
Our proud Chief Ottawa learned his lessons from the fast rebellions during these first three wars; and began to gradually remove the excesses of freedom from us, turning his internal policies in the direction of serfdom.
Meanwhile, I played some more, so here is an update (the story now caught up with where I am in the game, so any advice is extremely welcome!!)
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1572 – 1598
Leap of Faith
So in 1572, our warriors sailed towards Europe. ‘Go to Holland,’ Chief Ottawa said, slowly as always even though he was quite excited.
As the ships were taking the best youth of our tribe across the waters, our Chief made two attempts to get banned from doing business in the Dutch Centres of Trade. He figured that this would be a fair reason to declare war, justifiable to us Delawares.
But the Dutch simply allowed us to trade, despite our merchants coming in droves and behaving arrogantly. So when our ships appeared near the shores of Holland, we had no choice but to go on the path of war without any apparent reason.
The Dutch were not very prepared. They had just rebelled from under Austria, and their four provinces were being protected by a mere 10,000 troops. They mounted quite a fight, however, and a lot of our warriors, unaccustomed to combat, died.
This was the tactical situation after bitter skirmishes at the beginning of hostilities, in which 11,000 of brave Delaware souls died:
You can see that we blockaded the Dutch ports and besieged their cities one after another with our two armies.
Peace talks brought us three Dutch Provinces; but we did not have much time to celebrate peace; for the same month as we signed a truce with Holland, French Catholics declared war.
We did not appreciate such behaviour, for at that time, our citizens valued peace above all; and soon rebellions flared up in all the corners of our growing Empire. When the truce with the Catholics was finally signed (in which we gained two coastal provinces from them, Calais and Picardie), our homeland was in flames of total rebellion. Luckily for us, no one else used this opportunity to wage war against us; for our old Chief might have been removed from power by angry mobs who wanted their peaceful ways back.
But eventually, the rebels calmed down, and we finished Holland off, annexing their capital with all their colonial possessions in Africa and Asia. It was not much; but at least something to compensate for the loss of life and money.
This was the new life style of the Dutch after we liberated them:
And this is how the so called ‘Low Countries’ looked after we removed their pompous architecture and replaced it with ours:
Some of the Dutch loved their new ways; so much so that Friesland immediately converted to our faith.
Last years of the XVI century were good to our people. This is why:
1. Our wise men finally aligned between themselves on the approach to monopolise trade; and we began to rake in enormous amounts of money from markets in Ohaio, Zakatekas, and Cuzco. Our merchants were now competing bravely in many of the richest European marketplaces, too.
2. We annexed Dakota and Navajo, and vassalised the Aztec Empire.
3. When France arose from aches in early 90’s, merging with the French Catholics only to immediately declare war on us, we won against overwhelming odds. They threw scores and scores of highly trained soldiers against us. But we stood strong. And we managed to take 2 our their very rich provinces in peace (Caux and Orleannais):
4. We closely studied the Dutch state archives and found their colonial maps. Immediately, we began to colonise newly discovered provinces in the Asian Spice Islands, and in South and East Africa. People of four races soon started to mix freely in the yearly Buffalo Hunting Festivals on the vast plains of Delaware Midwest: red, white, yellow and black.
Our proud Chief Ottawa learned his lessons from the fast rebellions during these first three wars; and began to gradually remove the excesses of freedom from us, turning his internal policies in the direction of serfdom.
