Chapter 1 - The ol' switcheroo
Where are my warriors? Come out to play-ay! What are we playing? Yeah right, europa universalis IV. That´s what it was called. Man that thing looks dusty ^^. Mughals, right... I remember now. We are not doing "true heir of timur" here so we aren´t restrained in our choices which nation to play and form the mughals. Our restrictions are:
- Is not persia, mughals (duh), ottomans or hre
- does not have celestial empire government
- is iranian culture group or trukmeni, uzbek or kyrgyz
- is muslim
- owns dehli and of of three (doaba, lahore or central doab)
If you want to form the mughals the fastest way possible there are couple of usual suspects. Timmy is a good choice, mighty uzbek has the right culture, Delhi has the required provinces. We are going another route however... Jaunpur might have an ace up it´s sleeve. Game setting to very hard. Let´s go!
The start is critical. We move our armies to the delhian border on day one and wait...
No. Not for this one. Delhi was split into two parts several patches back. They have a powerful vassal, sirhind who declares independence almost immediately. We could support them get a decent ally, but we have other plans.
Oh. Snap, I see how it is.
We better get ready then. We should disinherit our shitty heir. Being muslim we don´t run the risk of falling under a pu and having no heir is even somewhat preferable as it gives you a chance of getting my favorite a talented daughter event at higher age. However having prestige is nice as well for reducing ae and we don´t have any. Maybe we should wait a bit.
5% isn´t much, but every bit counts.
One or two restarts here to get ourself a decent general with siege bonus
The estates thing is new to me. I feel like it is one annoying thing less to handle, however I´m not sure on how to make the most of it. I just going to click some buttons which seem useful to me and try to click the seize crownload button as often as i can to be able to click more buttons.
Pretty lame ass start, I know ^^. Even though we play on very hard, we are one of the most powerful nations right from the get go. Europeans are missing, but still...
Last minute alliance.
Let´s rock ´n roll For the background. Jaunpur having a diplomatic insult BEFORE sirhind declares independence isn´t a 1:10000 chance lucky start. I stumbled upon this several patches ago. Not sure what triggers it, but it seems to be somewhat hard coded. Maybe historic rivals or something like that. Anyways I did several restarts for this campaign and it did happen about one in three times. Getting this cb is curcial, as creating a claim would take too long. Sirhind declares independency within the first few month. A no cb would give us quite some ae and we would have to deal with coalitions right from the get go.
The beautiful thing is. Sirhind has a high liberty desire. He won´t lift a finger to help delhi and will keep his troops in his own territory. He also can´t declare his own war against delhi.
Getting useful allies as jaunpur can be difficult as many of the big players rival us. Chagatai has yarkand as a vassal. They are not the strongest, but we don´t want any of their clay and having them as an ally would mean only to have to fight on three fronts instead of four.
Stack-u-wipu
Sirhind is just watching. While delhi is getting murdered. Guess who is going to be next ^^
We are making the money.
Could have made a difference sirhind. But you had to be a sulky little b....
Lol, they are totally apathetic!
They are like, do whatever... we don´t care anymore...
Timmy´s vassals have declared independence. Interesting.
Being weakend, this let´s us marry timmy.
Which let´s us finish a mission. -15% ae for 20 years. Useful!
That is perfect time to peace out delhi. Let´s take all his cores and his money. Who is upset about it? Only delhi
Uhhh yeah baby. Full annexing delhi gave us their vassals for free and no extra ae )) Sirhind does have high ld, but they have a truce with us.
109 admin is a steep price, but worth it.
Ae map is laughable for what we just did. We basically doubled our dev.
Formalize our partnership with chagatai.
Strong (apathetic) duchies.
Sure Sindh, join the party.
The merc system is new to me as well. I have mixed feelings about it. In general I like the concept, but it still seems bugged. Knowing what I know now i should have gotten more of those early companies.
Sirhind does have a claim on multan. Let´s make use of that
Lul, just surpassed the ottos.
Sirhin again with the claims. Thanks bud.
Things are looking good for jaunpur.
We finished our core on delhi and annexed kashmir.
Damn. Must have forgotten to core panipat and upper doab from delhi.
Full annex multan. Coalition almost possible, can´t form as multan will be annexed and afghanistan is still at war with timmy.
We are at peace, which let´s us press this fun button. By owning delhi as a core province, we can reform delhi. This includes free claims, better ideas and we don´t even have to core panipat and upper doab, because guess what. They already have delhian cores, lul.
Yes please.
Only 38% oe to core...
Scornful insult to get our pp above 50. Haven´t forgotten everything
Malwa is next.
We humiliate them and take their vassals land, which gives us a long truce with them...
Claim on Roh.
... and we can finish two missions, which give us perma claims.
I have been watching the timmy war closely. Although timmy is loosing, transoxiana is getting war weary...
This is the time to strike. We declare on afghanistan while they are still busy with timmy. Without transoxiana this should be a cakewalk. Just have to watch that they won´t peace out timmy and become their vassals again as this would put us at war with a strong timmy.
We swoop in just after afghanistan has taken back roh. 100 garison, easy game.
Innovativeness?! We are the first, wth? Guess we didn´t have to core that much yet...
Full annexing afghanistan would be too much hassle. We are going for speed and leave them one province. Coalition can´t form because of truces.
Can´t core the afghani land because we don´t have a connection to our capital.
Jangladesh, do you mind? That´s better...
100 prestige and peace. It is time to get rid of our shitty heir.
We got out at the right time. Timmy made peace with everybody.
Where to expand next? Keeping a close eye on our neighbours. Bengal is at war with orissa.
Malwa suprisingly likes us now. They probably realized that they live in a scary neighbourhood and are open for grabs. We got enough diplo slots open and aren´t planning to expand southward for now.
No, we are going east. We do have a few claims on bengal.
Bengal has military tech 4, but so do we now...
Their armies are busy sieging up orissa still. Fine by me...
We get access to the indian ocean and a lot of dosh. Also bengal is less likely to take orissas land as they don´t have a connection to it anymore. This war wasn´t high on the list, but a super-bengal might have caused problems.
We can annex sirhind for 167 dip (that´s like 17 dev). It is extremely cheap as delhi has cores on sirhind land... and we became delhi. It used to be that all of their provinces were cores and you could annex them instantly for 0 dip. Oh well, can´t have it all, can you....
Our 2 low dev province vassal baghelkhand cost 95 dip by comparison.
We start a bunch of wars with minor neighbours to get truces. I don´t take any land we don´t need at this point.
Hmm, 72/162.
I´m thinking I´m so smart at this point, but this is going to bite me in the ass at a later point
Sirhind integrated 2 days later. Tadaa!
Yay, completed missions.
India is home to some strong nations, but we aren´t exactly weak... and we got several allies. 10 years into the game and hardly anybody can touch us.
The best thing. Hardly anybody cares... muahaha.
Pretty decent start, wouldn´t you say? Ok, ok. We haven´t formed the mughals yet and the jaunpur and delhian idea set are kinda crap, but still we have a very powerful base. Eliminated a lot of little nations which can be a pain and join coalitions. We have allied chagatai, gujarat, sind and malwa... medium powers, but also candidates for a coalition but are on our side now. The remaining powers we have already fought and truces with. Bahmanis, vj and to some extend mewar are still dangerous, but they have different religions and won´t gain as much ae as the others. We will have to be careful and balance taking land from muslim and hindu nations. Especially a muslim coalition can potentially span half of the globe. So relax, take a breath and tune in next time... bye!
Where are my warriors? Come out to play-ay! What are we playing? Yeah right, europa universalis IV. That´s what it was called. Man that thing looks dusty ^^. Mughals, right... I remember now. We are not doing "true heir of timur" here so we aren´t restrained in our choices which nation to play and form the mughals. Our restrictions are:
- Is not persia, mughals (duh), ottomans or hre
- does not have celestial empire government
- is iranian culture group or trukmeni, uzbek or kyrgyz
- is muslim
- owns dehli and of of three (doaba, lahore or central doab)
If you want to form the mughals the fastest way possible there are couple of usual suspects. Timmy is a good choice, mighty uzbek has the right culture, Delhi has the required provinces. We are going another route however... Jaunpur might have an ace up it´s sleeve. Game setting to very hard. Let´s go!
The start is critical. We move our armies to the delhian border on day one and wait...
No. Not for this one. Delhi was split into two parts several patches back. They have a powerful vassal, sirhind who declares independence almost immediately. We could support them get a decent ally, but we have other plans.
Oh. Snap, I see how it is.
We better get ready then. We should disinherit our shitty heir. Being muslim we don´t run the risk of falling under a pu and having no heir is even somewhat preferable as it gives you a chance of getting my favorite a talented daughter event at higher age. However having prestige is nice as well for reducing ae and we don´t have any. Maybe we should wait a bit.
5% isn´t much, but every bit counts.
One or two restarts here to get ourself a decent general with siege bonus
The estates thing is new to me. I feel like it is one annoying thing less to handle, however I´m not sure on how to make the most of it. I just going to click some buttons which seem useful to me and try to click the seize crownload button as often as i can to be able to click more buttons.
Pretty lame ass start, I know ^^. Even though we play on very hard, we are one of the most powerful nations right from the get go. Europeans are missing, but still...
Last minute alliance.
Let´s rock ´n roll For the background. Jaunpur having a diplomatic insult BEFORE sirhind declares independence isn´t a 1:10000 chance lucky start. I stumbled upon this several patches ago. Not sure what triggers it, but it seems to be somewhat hard coded. Maybe historic rivals or something like that. Anyways I did several restarts for this campaign and it did happen about one in three times. Getting this cb is curcial, as creating a claim would take too long. Sirhind declares independency within the first few month. A no cb would give us quite some ae and we would have to deal with coalitions right from the get go.
The beautiful thing is. Sirhind has a high liberty desire. He won´t lift a finger to help delhi and will keep his troops in his own territory. He also can´t declare his own war against delhi.
Getting useful allies as jaunpur can be difficult as many of the big players rival us. Chagatai has yarkand as a vassal. They are not the strongest, but we don´t want any of their clay and having them as an ally would mean only to have to fight on three fronts instead of four.
Stack-u-wipu
Sirhind is just watching. While delhi is getting murdered. Guess who is going to be next ^^
We are making the money.
Could have made a difference sirhind. But you had to be a sulky little b....
Lol, they are totally apathetic!
They are like, do whatever... we don´t care anymore...
Timmy´s vassals have declared independence. Interesting.
Being weakend, this let´s us marry timmy.
Which let´s us finish a mission. -15% ae for 20 years. Useful!
That is perfect time to peace out delhi. Let´s take all his cores and his money. Who is upset about it? Only delhi
Uhhh yeah baby. Full annexing delhi gave us their vassals for free and no extra ae )) Sirhind does have high ld, but they have a truce with us.
109 admin is a steep price, but worth it.
Ae map is laughable for what we just did. We basically doubled our dev.
Formalize our partnership with chagatai.
Strong (apathetic) duchies.
Sure Sindh, join the party.
The merc system is new to me as well. I have mixed feelings about it. In general I like the concept, but it still seems bugged. Knowing what I know now i should have gotten more of those early companies.
Sirhind does have a claim on multan. Let´s make use of that
Lul, just surpassed the ottos.
Sirhin again with the claims. Thanks bud.
Things are looking good for jaunpur.
We finished our core on delhi and annexed kashmir.
Damn. Must have forgotten to core panipat and upper doab from delhi.
Full annex multan. Coalition almost possible, can´t form as multan will be annexed and afghanistan is still at war with timmy.
We are at peace, which let´s us press this fun button. By owning delhi as a core province, we can reform delhi. This includes free claims, better ideas and we don´t even have to core panipat and upper doab, because guess what. They already have delhian cores, lul.
Yes please.
Only 38% oe to core...
Scornful insult to get our pp above 50. Haven´t forgotten everything
Malwa is next.
We humiliate them and take their vassals land, which gives us a long truce with them...
Claim on Roh.
... and we can finish two missions, which give us perma claims.
I have been watching the timmy war closely. Although timmy is loosing, transoxiana is getting war weary...
This is the time to strike. We declare on afghanistan while they are still busy with timmy. Without transoxiana this should be a cakewalk. Just have to watch that they won´t peace out timmy and become their vassals again as this would put us at war with a strong timmy.
We swoop in just after afghanistan has taken back roh. 100 garison, easy game.
Innovativeness?! We are the first, wth? Guess we didn´t have to core that much yet...
Full annexing afghanistan would be too much hassle. We are going for speed and leave them one province. Coalition can´t form because of truces.
Can´t core the afghani land because we don´t have a connection to our capital.
Jangladesh, do you mind? That´s better...
100 prestige and peace. It is time to get rid of our shitty heir.
We got out at the right time. Timmy made peace with everybody.
Where to expand next? Keeping a close eye on our neighbours. Bengal is at war with orissa.
Malwa suprisingly likes us now. They probably realized that they live in a scary neighbourhood and are open for grabs. We got enough diplo slots open and aren´t planning to expand southward for now.
No, we are going east. We do have a few claims on bengal.
Bengal has military tech 4, but so do we now...
Their armies are busy sieging up orissa still. Fine by me...
We get access to the indian ocean and a lot of dosh. Also bengal is less likely to take orissas land as they don´t have a connection to it anymore. This war wasn´t high on the list, but a super-bengal might have caused problems.
We can annex sirhind for 167 dip (that´s like 17 dev). It is extremely cheap as delhi has cores on sirhind land... and we became delhi. It used to be that all of their provinces were cores and you could annex them instantly for 0 dip. Oh well, can´t have it all, can you....
Our 2 low dev province vassal baghelkhand cost 95 dip by comparison.
We start a bunch of wars with minor neighbours to get truces. I don´t take any land we don´t need at this point.
Hmm, 72/162.
I´m thinking I´m so smart at this point, but this is going to bite me in the ass at a later point
Sirhind integrated 2 days later. Tadaa!
Yay, completed missions.
India is home to some strong nations, but we aren´t exactly weak... and we got several allies. 10 years into the game and hardly anybody can touch us.
The best thing. Hardly anybody cares... muahaha.
Pretty decent start, wouldn´t you say? Ok, ok. We haven´t formed the mughals yet and the jaunpur and delhian idea set are kinda crap, but still we have a very powerful base. Eliminated a lot of little nations which can be a pain and join coalitions. We have allied chagatai, gujarat, sind and malwa... medium powers, but also candidates for a coalition but are on our side now. The remaining powers we have already fought and truces with. Bahmanis, vj and to some extend mewar are still dangerous, but they have different religions and won´t gain as much ae as the others. We will have to be careful and balance taking land from muslim and hindu nations. Especially a muslim coalition can potentially span half of the globe. So relax, take a breath and tune in next time... bye!
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