New and improved: The glory of the Moors, a Granada AAR. Now with screenshots.

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When I posted the first part of my AAR I did the mistake of using two different threads and now I want to correct that mistake. So here it is, the complete AAR all from the beginning in 1492. I have also included some screenshots.
Hope you'll enjoy reading it.

 

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Part I, 1492-1501

This is my first try to write an AAR. I play the GC and the settings are hard/aggressive and I use the Swedish patch 1.07c. In 1492 I wasn't making as much notes as I did later so it'll be less details from this year.


1492

1/1
There's a great anxiety in the streets of Granada, the infidel Spanish dogs has made a promise that once and for all wipe out the Islamic presence on the Iberian peninsula and it's rumoured that a large, 40000 men Spanish army is gathering in Toledo.
In the royal palace, where king Zueidina is meeting with his closest and most entrusted advisor (me) there is also a great anxiety, but also an even greater determination. Even though things don't look very promising at the moment we are convinced that we, with the help of Allah, not only will survive as a nation but that we also will be able to reclaim some of what is rightfully ours (Andalusia, Toledo and Gibraltar).
We only have one army made up of 15000 men infantry and 2000 men cavalry commanded by colonel Husein. It would be complete madness to engage the superior Spanish army directly at the battlefield, instead we order Husein to seize the unfortified province Murcia and await further orders there.
We also start upgrading Granadas fortification and recruit 5000 infantry and 2000 cavalry.

Winter
The Spanish army (35000, 5000, 2) lays siege on Granada. Colonel Husein, biding his time in Murcia, sends small groups of soldiers into Sierra Nevada to strike against the Spanish supply lines. This strategy is quite successful and the Spanish army soon suffers from hunger as well as diseases.

March
Our newly recruited army is ready to use, but those greenhorns without any battle experienced is a cinch for the well-trained Spanish soldiers and our men are soon running away in panic. To our great delight they manage to set some Spanish storewagons on fire. This will mean even more suffering for the already malnourished Spanish soldiers.

Spring
The remains of our fleeing army arrives in Murcia where they are put under colonel Huseins harsh drill. The Spaniards brings in smaller reinforcements from Gibraltar, but once again we succeed with a nightly raid against their storewagons and famine and diseases claims many casualties. But still their army is to big for us to dare risking our only army in an assault.

May
France (Savoy, The Papal-state) declare war on England (Naples). What a pity, we had hoped for the French to take on The Spaniards instead.

Summer
A hot, dry summer doesn't help to improve the Spaniards supply situation. Soon the time has come for us to strike back. In August our fortress shows the first signs of beginning to give way but the Spanish army now only amounts to a bit more than 20000 men. We send a messenger to Husein, ordering him to assault the Spaniards in the end of September.

29/9
Husein charges down on the from famine and diseases exhausted Spanish soldiers. A great battle takes place just outside the walls of Granada and when the day comes to an end victory is ours, the Spaniards is retreating back to Toledo. Granada is saved!!! But the war is far from over. We immediately begin to recruit more soldiers. During the following months Spain repeatedly sends in smaller units (6000-7000 men) but Huseins now battlehardened troops easily repels all attacks.

28/12
Granadas fortress is now upgraded. Now we can, at last, mount an offensive without worrying to much about the Spaniards seizing Granada.



1493

5/1
Huseins army, thanks to new recruits, now back to its original strength (15000, 2000) march into Andalusia and lays siege on Cadiz (5000 men garrison).

7/4
A new Spanish army (30000) lays siege on Granada. Now we are beginning to run short of time and we order Husein to seize Cadiz without further delay.

23/7
On the third assault Husein breaches the walls of Cadiz and the city is now ours. This is a glorious victory, three assaults and we have only lost about (1000, 1000) in troops. But we are far from safe, the Spaniards are still besieging Granada. We are holding a council of war and soon two alternatives how to continue the war emerges:
1. Attack the Spaniards in Granada in an attempt to break the siege.
or
2. A fast-forward march through the unfortified Estrameduras into Castille and lay siege to Madrid.
King Zueidina seems to favour the first alternative but I persuade him that you have to play big if you want to win big and Husein is ordered to immediately begin marching on Castille. There is a great responsibility weighing on Huseins shoulders, he just have to capture Madrid before the Spaniards capture Granada. At least Madrid only has a 5000 men garrison, otherwise this attempt had been totally futile.

30/8
Husein seizes Estrameduras. We now control three Spanish provinces, Murcia, Andalusia and Estrameduras. The king, whose nerves seems close to breaking, hopes that this will be enough to reach an favourable peace. Well, it's worth a try, we offer the Spaniards peace in exchange for Andalusia but they refuse.

19/9
Husein arrives in Castille and immediately tries to overrun the walls of Madrid and he comes close to success, losing only about (1000, 1000) troops he decimates the garrison from 5000 to 890 defenders.
But at the same time the situation is beginning to get really precarious for the brave defenders of Granada. This will be a race against time, will Huseins men be able to recuperate enough to capture Madrid before Granada falls into the hands of the Spaniards?

21/12
The brave Husein, knowing time is running short, once again charges the walls of Madrid. VICTORY!!! Now the Spaniards for sure must yield?

25/12
We now send another peace offer demanding Andalusia and 250D war indemnity in exchange for peace and the stunned Spanish king has no choice but to accept our demands.
This war was a major success, not only did we secure Granadas independence (at least for the next five years) but we also got hold of a wealthy and important province containing both a Centre of Trade and a shipyard. The war indemnity we use to upgrade the sheriff in Sierra Nevada into a bailiff and to send a personal gift to the king of France, who we hope will be an allied in the future.



1494

16/2
The Teutonic Knights (the Hanseatic League, Brandenburg, Portugal, Hannover, Venice) declares war on Pskov.

1/3
The Papal-state pays England 140D in exchange for peace.
Technical progress. We find out how to use Field Artillery (Land tech 3) and may now build canons, if they weren't so very expensive that is.

7/4
Russia (Denmark) declares war on the Kazan-Khanate.

27/4
The Teutonic Knights makes a status quo-peace with Pskov after only two months of war.
Our domestic politics works brilliant, +1 stability and 532D invested in tradetechnology as well as infrastructural-research.

5/5
A diplomate from the Hanseatic League arrives and invites us to an alliance with them and Portugal, Venice, Hannover, Teutonic Knights, Brandenburg). News about our great victory over Spain seems to have spread over Europe. Even though this isn't the alliance of our dreams (for that would be one including France) we accept their invitation. This alliance will do for now.
2/9
Russia makes peace with the Kazan-Khanate. Kazan-Khanate pays 15D in war indemnity.

11/10
England is forced into a very harsh peace agreement with France and has to give up, Wessex, Kent and Calais.

28/12
The fortress in Cadiz (Andalusia) is now upgraded.



1495

2/1
Before leaving Madrid we found and kept some newly drawn maps showing Spains discoveries in the New World. The shipyard in Andalusia provides us with one settler/year and we now decide to try to establish a tradepost on Jamaica.

12/2
We arrange a royal marriage with Maroc and tries to do the same with the Ottoman Empire but they refuse.

10/6
Sheriff in Andalusia upgraded to bailiff.



1496

2/1
Poland (Spain, Lorraine, Kurpfalz, Cologne, Helvetia) declares war on the Ottomans.

4/3
Hungary (Austria) takes advantage of the situation and declares war on The Ottomans.

1/5
Allah is smiling upon his most humble and loyal servant. We've found minerals up in the Sierra Nevadan mountains worth 500D.
We immediately send six merchants to the CoT in Genoa, we recruit a new army (14000, 3000) in Andalusia, we send a personal gift to the king of France, dramatically improving our relations, they are now up to -27 and we send a flattering letter to the King of Portugal, improving our relations (now -158).

6/6
Colonel Husein, the old hero, gets our permission to retire from the army. Awarded with the highest possible marks of honour he goes on to live a quiet and peaceful life on his estates in Andalusia that he was rewarded for his heroic military achievements. His name will forever be held high in honor by all true believers of Islam.
Colonel Jafar is appointed to be the new commander of our army.
Our first attempt to establish a trade post on Jamaica failed, so now we try again.
We arrange a royal marriage with Tunisia.

15/8
Our new army (14000, 3000) is now ready and armed in Andalusia, we put colonel Suwaida in charge.

4/9
The Ottomans is forced to pay 217D to Hungary for peace.

5/10
Poland makes a status quo-peace with the Ottomans.



1497

2/1
We begin building two transports (not much of a fleet you may think but they'll be quite useful to me as you'll see).

25/1
The trader we sent to Jamaica succeeds in establishing a trade post.

28/1
We trade maps with the Hanseatic League.

27/2
Sent a flattering letter to the King of France telling him how much we admire his great victory over the English. This improves our relation (now -9)

4/7
Our mighty fleet is now launched in the port of Cadiz.



1498

4/7
We now have 2000 newly recruited soldiers available in Andalusia, we split them up in two equally large armies. Colonel Marbat and colonel Sebha are put in charge.

22/8
Sent a flattering letter to Portugal, improving our relations. They are still far from being good though, -121.

1/11
The head of the Infidel Church signs the treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the new world between Spain and Portugal. What a insolence!

2/11
Savoy (France, the Papal-state, Scotland) declares war on Genoa (Parma, Knights of St John).



1499

5/1
We try to arrange a royal wedding with Algeria, but they refuses.

13/2
Our peace treaty with Spain is no longer in effect. Now it's time to start taking back what is rightfully ours (Toledo&Gibraltar). The Spaniards has strengthened their fortification in Toledo (after all, there is a lot of gold in those mountains) and we don't believe we are strong enough to deal with that yet. Gibraltar on the other hand has only a small garrison and should be taken quite easy, if we just could get rid of that 16000 army they have stationed there first of course. To our big surprise Spain hasn't fortified either Murcia or Estrameduras. Those arrogant Christian dogs don't seem to take us seriously. Maybe they don't think that a tiny little country like us would ever dare to wage war against their mighty empire. It'll be our greatest pleasure to teach them the opposite.
We summon the Spanish ambassador and hand over our declaration of war to him. First he just sits there staring at us with disbelief but when he realize we're deadly serious, his face turns red and he furiously leaves the room without saying a word.
We soon hear that Spain has activated their alliance and that we are now at war with Spain (Lorraine, Kurpfalz, Cologne, Poland, Helvetia, Hesse). Bah, we couldn't care less, non of these countries have the slightest possibility to send troops to southern Spain. We turn to our allies for help and The Hanseatic League, Hannover, the Teutonic Knights and Brandenburg join us in our war. The treacherous Portugal and Venice brings disgrace upon themselves and dishonour our alliance. So in practice we have one war here in Spain and another up in northern Europe (always nice to see Christians fighting Christians).
Colonel Jafar (16364, 2874) is ordered to take Gibraltar, colonel Suwaida (16000, 3000) is to march into Estrameduras and then go on to Castille. Colonel Sebha and colonel Marbat shall take their small (1000) expeditonary forces aboard a transport and then set course for The Baleares and The Canary Islands, two unfortified Spanish provinces.
Our scouts also report that the Spanish army (16000) in Gibraltar is marching towards Andalusia.

13/3
Jafar lays siege on Gibraltar.

22/3
Suwaida is intercepted by the Spanish army in Andalusia and before he has time to form his lines the Spanish charges and win a major victory. Suwaida is forced to retreat back to Sierra Nevada with what is left of his army (7005, 1044) .
Now happens something that has to be called a miracle. The entire Spanish army who has just begun to siege Cadiz, vanishes without a trace! Maybe Allah intervened and let the ground open beneath the infidels to swallow them completely. Yes, that's after all the version we're going to spread across the world, then everyone will realize which side is truly supported by the Almighty.

19/5
After having regained his strength in Sierra Nevada, Suwaida makes a swift move into Murcia and then marches on to Estrameduras.

30/7
Suwaida arrives in Estrameduras, still no Spanish troops in sight. Very strange!

26/8
Genoa makes an expensive peace with Savoy, they have to pay 238D.
Helvetia pays 102D to France in exchange for peace.

28/8
When the Spaniards finally shows up, it's a pitiful sight. A tiny army (1506) tries to recapture Etrameduras but is severely beaten by Suwaida, who kills 506 enemies while only losing 7 infantry and 2 cavalry.

10/9
Our two transports are intercepted by two Spanish warships in the Straits of Gibraltar, they immediately flees towards the Gulf of Almeira and then resumes their original courses.

22/9
Helvetia makes a status quo-peace with Savoy.

23/9
Our allies Hannover pays 101D indemnity to Kurpfalz for peace. Incompetent fools!

8/10
Hannover makes peace with Spain as well, this time paying 19D.

2/12
Colonel Marbat lands his army on The Baleares.

30/12
Colonel Sebha lands on The Canary Islands.



1500

14/5
Jafar, now reinforced with 4000 men under colonel Anaba, assaults the walls of Gibraltar for the fifth time and this time he's successful. At last Gibraltar is ours.
Jafars army is now reduced to (10836, 1769) while Anaba who just took part av the final assault only lost 101 men.

1/6
We have now learned to make cannonballs cast in one piece. (Naval Tech 3).

7/6
A Spanish army (9586) tries to drive Suwaida (5209, 685) out of Estrameduras and this time they succeed. Suwaida retreats with the remains of his army (3471, 337) into Andalusia.

26/6
Jafar och Anabas combined armies (13981, 1659) rushes into Estrameduras and in a bloody battle kills 3239 of the 8732 Spanish soldiers that just some 19 days earlier defeated Suwaida. Those Spaniards knew how to fight though, 2683 men of our infantry and 396 of our cavlary found their way to Paradise.

4/8
Jafar and Anaba marches into Castille and for the second time in less than ten years a Moorish army stands outside the walls of Madrid.

22/10
Colonel Nasiriyah and his 3000 newly recruited men reinforces the siege of Madrid.

26/11
Our trade post in Jamaica is now level 2.



1501

3/1
We're greatly surprised when we're told that Spain has made peace with France, giving Luxembourg away and paying 142D in indemnity. We summon our foreign minister and ask him how come we weren't informed that Spain and France were fighting a war. His pathetic excuses can't stop his head being separated from his body. When the survival of the nation is at stake there is no room for incompetence.
Well, at least this explains the absence of any major Spanish forces so far. But now we'd better hurry, it can't be too long before the Spanish armies arrive from the French frontier. Good thing we already ordered the remnants of Suwaidas army (3471, 337) to help in the siege.

22/1
Our allies once again disgraces themselves, first it was Hannover and this time it's the Hanseatic League who is forced to an humiliating peace with Helvetia, paying them 101D.

7/3
Moldavia now is a vassal to Russia.

14/4
The day we have long feared is now upon us, a large Spanish army (33675) led by Cordoba marches into Estrameduras. We quickly send out our scouts to find out in which direction Cordoba plans to march from there. If he chooses to go towards Castille in order to break up our siege, we would have no choice but to negotiate for peace and settle with just one province. But luckily, Cordoba takes his army to Andalusia instead, that should give us the time we need to capture Madrid.
The Hanseatic League pays another 81D in indemnity, this time to Hesse. Those allies of ours has turned out to be so useless. We just have to leave this alliance as soon as we have the possibility to join a better one, hopefully with France.

12/5
Cordoba arrives in Andalusia and lays siege on Cadiz.

17/5
When we assault the walls of Madrid for the fourth time, the defenders no longer can resist us. The city is ours! We now stand with four armies in Castille, Jafars (6175, 837), Suwaidas (2621, 167), Anabas (2195) and Nasiryahs (2585). The incompetent Suwaida (he won only one battle and that was when he heavily outnumbered the enemy) is deprived of his command and his soldiers are now part of Jafars army.

20/5
With the Spanish capital in our hands we can now force the Spaniards to accept an humiliating peace. We demand Gibraltar (because it is ours by right) and The Canary Islands (because the King needs a vacation, wars really makes him nervy), and they have no choice but to accept.
Once again our brave, victorious armies, with the help of Allah, has won a glorious victory. All that is left now is to take the well-fortified Toledo with its rich gold-mines and then Granada will be united again.
Even though we no longer fight the Spaniards our alliance is still at war with Kurpfalz as well as Helvetia. We try to make white peaces with them, but they refuse. Very well, it's not that very much fighting is going on so we just have to wait for a standstill-peace instead.

2/6
Send some missionaries to the Canary Islands to convert the infidels and we also arrange a royal marriage with the Ottoman Empire.

18/6
We expanded our trade post in Jamaica and we now have 30 men there to trade with the natives.

2/8
Our missionaries did a good job, the population on the Canary Islands are now true believers in Islam.

18/8
There's a great war in the Mid-East, Persia (the Mameluks, Georgia, Crimea) declares war on Iraq (the Ottomans, Algeria, Tripolitania, Tunisia).

24/8
Russia (Denmark, Pskov) declares war on the Kazan-khanate.



Summary:

The first 11 years of king Zueidinas glorious reign has been successful above expectations. We have fought two wars against the great power Spain and been victorious both the times. We now have four times as many provinces as we had in 1492 (and we have also established a trade post in the New World).
Our annual income is now up to 43D.
We have expanded our trade continuously over the years and now have five merchants in Andalusia, Tago and Genoa.
Inflation is up to 5%.
We have arranged royal marriages with Maroc, Tunisia and the Ottoman Empire and we have improved our relations with France (after the last war the relation is -19).
We have lost 50283 men infantry (38537 in combat, 11746 of attrition) and 8245 men cavalry (6269 in combat, 1985 of attrition).
Even though we have had great success so far we still have reason to be anxious, our position is far from safe. The total strength of our army is now only 14232 men infantry and 746 men cavalry. If Spain would choose to strike down upon us with all its power we would have a very hard time withstand them, especially since our present alliance don't seem to be very much to count on. But at least we have five years to strengthen our position.

The standing in victory points is as follows:
Country Military Economic Diplomacy Total
France 131 13 21 165
Spain -78 116 49 87
Granada 69 6 8 83


Here comes the screenshots:

An overview of Europe 1/1 1502

A close up on mainland Granada 1/1 1502


You won't come directly to the pictures but to my homepage, where all the screenshots can be found, but this is the two from part I.

 

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Part II, 1502-1517

1502


1/1
The war is over and it's now time to start developing our nation, improve our diplomatic relations and, of course, prepare for the liberation of Toledo. We take a good look at the new maps we found in the Royal Library in Madrid, to see if we can find a suitable place for another trade post and there it is, a small island called Martinique.

7/7
The trader we sent to Martinique succeeded and we now have a trade post there.
We send a flattering letter to the king of France, slightly improving our relations, now -14.

12/12
We want more trade posts and thus send another trader, this time to Parana.

16/12
The Kazan-Khanate makes peace with Russia, paying them 131D in war indemnity.



1503

3/1
Our main objective right now is to make France a good friend of ours so we just keep sending these flattering letters, again slightly improving our relations (-5).

26/5
Iraq offers 250D and Kirkuk to Crimea in exchange for peace and Crimea accepts the deal.

3/6
Scotland makes peace with Spain. Scotland gets hold of Holland.

1/7
A standstill-peace with Kurpfalz is arranged.

1/8
We learn how to use artillery support on the battlefield. (Land Tech 4).

11/8
The Mameluks and Iraq agrees on a status quo-peace.

16/8
Our attempt to establish a trape post in Parana was successful.

10/9
Another flattering letter to France gives our relation another small improvement (3).



1504

1/1
Guess what. We send a flattering letter to France improving our relations a little bit more (10). Now they will soon like us enough to let us join their alliance.

21/1
We are getting really tired of this so called war we are having with Helvetia so we send one of our diplomats with an offer for a white peace and they accept.

9/4
The Ottomans receive Kurdistan from Persia in exchange for peace.

30/4
The Spaniards are not doing very well right now. This time they have to give up Sardinia to the Papal-state in order to get peace.

7/5
We expanded our trade post in Martinique.



1505

1/1
Our annual income is just not large enough to make us ready for the next war. The King and I discuss this matter and I decide it's time to go to the Bank of Granada and get some extra money. I send five of my servants and order each of them to take a 200D loan. When the King realize that I'm actually going to loan 1000D, all at the same time, he stares at we with astonishment written all over his face. We'll never be able to pay back so much money, we'll go bankrupt, he says. No, of course we won't be able to pay it back, just the thought of us being able to collect 1000D in five years is ridiculous, I tell him. But don't you worry, I've everything figured out. When the time comes for us to pay back all our loans we simply tell the bank that we don't have any money. I mean what can they do? After all you're the King, aren't you?
The King, as usual, can't withstand my brilliant rhetorics and we now have 1000D to spend.
First of all we send personal gifts to France, greatly improving our relations (53) and to Maroc (a former vassal we hope) with the same result, our relations now up to (3).
Then we begin to reinforce the fortress in Gibraltar and finally we order two new armies to be recruited. One in Sierra Nevada (6000, 2000, 20) and one in Andalusia (7000, 1000, 10).

3/1
Iraq makes peace with Persia, paying 121D in indemnity.

25/2
The Hanseatic League (still our ally) once again humiliates themselves when they makes peace with Poland giving away Western Pommerania, Bremen and 44D.

1/3
We can't stay in this alliance anymore. The disgrace of our allies soon will infect us too, in the eyes of the other countries. We summon the Hanseatic ambassador and let him know that our participation in this alliance from now on is history.
We then send a message to France asking them if they would let us join their alliance (already including Savoy, the Papal-state, Scotland, Lorraine, Kleve) and they agree to it. At last, all our flattering letters and gifts to the French king have paid off.

4/5
We start building 4 more transports in Andalusia.

9/5
Our trade post in Martinique is now up to level 3.

7/11
We start recruiting even more troops (9000, 1000) in Andalusia.



1506

27/1
Navarre is now a vassal to England.

18/5
We expand our trade post in Jamaica (level 4).

4/7
Now, the time has finally come for us to take back Toledo and unite Granada once and for all!
We declare war on Spain and France, Scotland, Kleve join us, Lorraine and the Papal-state dishonours the alliance while Savoy is already at war with Spain
Spain also activates their alliance and Poland, Helvetia, Kurpfalz, Hesse, Naples, Cologne are now in the war as well.
We are going in this war with two armies, colonel Fayoums (15653, 0, 30) in Sierra Nevada and colonel Mafras (19198, 4719) in Andalusia. (you may wonder what happened to colonel Jafar and Anaba from the last war, well you see the King has this paranoia about his officers plotting against him, therefore he changes the commanding officers of his armies every now and then).
Fayoum is ordered to take Toledo and Mafra to take Castille and, as usual the unfortified Estrameduras on the way.
We also recruit a small army (1000) in Gibraltar to see if we can take control of the Baleares as well.
There are yet no signs of any Spanish troops, perhaps they are all busy fighting Savoy.

30/7
Mafra marches in to Estrameduras and immediately moves on to Castille.

1/8
We receive an update of the war situation from our allies:
Cordoba (28006) is on his to France.
An Halvetian army (45165) is besieging Lyonnais.
The French is feverishly recruiting new troops while two armies, one (20605) and the other (21978) under La Palice is marching south from northern France.
In Holland, 9000 Scots are fighting 9000 men from Hesse while Spanish armies are moving in from the Hague (15840) and Friesen (3960).
There are also armies on the march from Kurpfalz, a huge one (51160) under van Sickingen, Cologne and Kleve.

9/8
Fayoum, now (14913, 0, 30) arrives in Toledo and lays siege to the city.
Our scouts report the presence of 4110 Spanish soldiers in Murcia, nothing to worry about.

5/9
Mafra (17445, 4369) arrives in Castille and we're now besieging Madrid, again, the citizens must be pretty used by now.
Colonel Azzer is put in command of our new (1000) army in Gibraltar.

1/10
A new update from our allies:
Cordoba seems to be heading for Kleves where Düsseldorf is already besieged by large forces from Kurpfalz, Hesse and Cologne. France has gathered an army (32670) in Ile de France but La Palice has lost a battle to the Helvetian army in Lyonnais.

16/10
Azzer is boarding our fleet who then set sails for The Baleares.
The Spanish army in Murcia is suddenly gone, perhaps they to boarded a fleet.

7/11
Düsseldorf has fallen to Cordoba and Spain waste no time but annexes Kleve.

26/11
Our fleet arrives to the Baleares just to find out that there's some 3000 Spanish soldiers stationed on the island. No use trying to land our troops there so we set sails for the Gulf of Almeira instead.
We spot a Spanish army (10782) in Aragonia and one in Leon (6736).

14/12
The Army from Leon marches into Estrameduras and the province is now in Spanish hands.

24/12
The Spaniards are landing 3878 cavalry on the Canary Islands and they are met by our army (2235) there.



1507
9/1
The Spanish cavalry have now completely destroyed our army on the Canary Islands.
The latest news from the war in France:
The French province of Luxembourg is now under siege by no less than 116000 enemy troops.
The Helvetian army now down to (21587) has stopped sieging Lyonnais and is now moving north, rampaging the French countryside.
La Palise (28514) is also heading north while Cordoba and another Spanish army is going south.

21/1
Azzer (961) lands in Murcia and then starts marching to Estrameduras.
We start recruiting 5000 new troops in Andalusia.

13/3
Azzer is now in control of Estrameduras

16/3
For the second time Mafra is charging the walls of Madrid and this time he's unstoppable. Mafra did an excellent job in this siege, in two attempts to storm the walls he only lost 817 infantry and 164 cavalry so his army is now (16628, 4205).
As we are by now very familiar with the streets of Madrid we quickly take a walk to the Royal Library where we are met by the principal librarian already waiting for us with all the latest maps ready. We examine the maps and find out that Spain have discovered a new nation of heathens in the New World, the Aztecs. We also find a nice little island, Curacao, that seems like a good place for our next trading post.
Our next order to Mafra is to take Valencia.

17/3
Yet another update on the war:
A French army (16442) is now in Helvetia besieging Zürich.
The huge army in Luxembourg are now trying to breach the walls.

26/3
Colonel Adrar is given the command over our new (5000) army in Andalusia.

2/4
Mafra arrives in Valencia and is laying siege to its minimal fortress with only 5000 men in the garrison.

12/4
Helvetia makes peace with France paying 141D in indemnity.
A large Spanish army (25600) shows up in Aragonia, where are they heading?

23/4
The French now report that they have lost Luxembourg to Kurpfalz and that Cordoba is in Lyonnais with a huge army (56972) marching south. This could be really bad news for us and we pray to Allah that he's not coming towards us.

29/5
The Spanish army in Aragonia has now reached Estrameduras but then, instead of marching to Castille to liberate their capital or to Toledo to raise our siege they are ordered back north again.

1/6
French makes peace with Hesse (status quo) and with Cologne (who has to pay 250D to France).

10/8
After almost exactly 11 months of siege Toledo surrenders to colonel Fayuom, now (12070, 0, 30). The Spaniards immediately offers us Toledo and Murcia in exchange for peace. The King, of course, wants us to accept but with no Spanish troops in sight and Valencia under siege, I decide that we don't accept their offer. If there's going to be peace in this war, it'll be on our terms.

1/9
Fayoum joins Mafra in the siege of Valencia and together they try to storm the walls but the Spanish defenders here are much tougher than their compatriots in Madrid and they quite easily repel our assault.
The supply situation in Valencia isn't very good so we order Mafra back to Castille to wait there until Fayoums cannons have done their work on the walls.

16/9
We are informed that van Sickingen and his 8601 men from Kurpafalz is besieging Pau, in the French province Béarn.

1/10
Our spies tells us that the peasants in Roussillion, tired of Spains constant wars, are now revolting. Excellent!

20/10
The trader we sent to Curacao failed to establish a trade post.

1/12
Allah is good to us, we receive a report from our ally Savoy and it turns out that Cordoba wasn't after us, instead he is now in Nice besieging the city. However he only commands a small army (9474) and nobody seems to know anything about what happened to the rest of his army. The Savoyans aren't worried though, they have a large army of 56972 men under Bayard on its way to Nice from Savoy.

13/12
We make a new attempt to establish a trade post in Curacao.
Mafra is ordered into Valencia again.

28/12
Mafra arrives in Valencia and again joins Fayoum in an attempt to storm the walls but these Spaniards really know how to fight and again we fail. The defenders are now down to only 1167 men, so next time I'm sure we'll succeed. Mafra marches back to Castille.



1508

16/1
France aren't doing very well right now, an ashamed French diplomat informs us that Béarn now is controlled by Kurpfalz.

12/2
We order Adrar (4751) to reinforce Fayoum in Valencia.
It's also reported that Cordoba was severely beaten in Nice and that he's retreating to Savoy with the remnants of his army (2305) with Bayard (38575) chasing him.
At the same time 31073 men from Spain and Cologne are laying siege to Besancon in Franche Comte (currently controlled by the French).

18/4
For the third time Mafra marches into Valencia and join Fayoum and Adrar in another charge against the walls.

25/4
At last, Valencia is now in our hands.

28/4
Now it's time for peace. Again we humiliate the Spaniards, demanding Toledo, Valencia and 250D in war indemnity. They humbly accept our offer but since they don't have 250D we have to settle with what they got, 69D.
Oh, what a glorious day! It took us 16 years but now we have what we have always dreamed about, a united Granada.
We stand with three armies in Valencia, Fayoums (7538, 0, 30), Mafras (8987, 2677) and Adrars (4727). Adrar was severely wounded in the siege (he lost both a leg and an eye) so his soldiers join Mafras army, now (13714, 2677).
We are still at war with Helvetia but offer them a white peace and they accept.
France is still at war with Spain, Poland, Kurpfalz, Naples and Savoy is still at war with Spain. (Not that we care, let the Christians fight).
We decide our next goal is to improve our relations with Maroc enough to be able to make them our vassal and we start by sending them a flattering letter. This improves our relation (46).

4/6
Update from our allies:
Franche Comte are now back in Spanish hands but Roussillon is now controlled by the rebels.
La Palice (17537) is now trying to take back Luxembourg from Kurpfalz while 6010 men from Kurpfalz is besieging Champagne.
The Scots also reports that Holland is revolting.

16/7
We now have a trade post in Curacao.

4/9
Hannover is now a vassal to Saxony.
We send a flattering letter to Maroc (61).

13/11
Kurpfalz makes a good peace with France receiving Béarn and Luxembourg in the peace negotiations.

19/11
Cyrenacia is now a vassal to the Ottomans.

18/12
Spain makes a status quo-peace with the Hanseatic League and they also makes peace with France receiving 71D in indemnity.

21/12
Another flattering letter to Maroc improves our relation (76).



1509

1/1
Our missionaries did a good job on the Canary Islands but some stubborn Christians took refuge in the mountains. These infidels, still loyal to the king of Spain have grown in strength (2486) and are now revolting, taking control of the unfortified and undefended island.
We start recruiting a new army (3000, 1000) in Gibraltar to quell the rebellions.
We also decide it's time to expand our trade post in Martinique into a colony and send away a settler.

5/1
Hesse is now a vassal to Kurpfalz.
We are also informed that the Spanish province of Flandres now is controlled by rebels.

3/3
Our new army is ready in Gibraltar, colonel Husein is put in charge.

13/3
Tuscany is now a vassal to France

10/5
Nasiryah, a courageous young Andalusian nobleman has built a ship and offers to sail out and explore the seas in the name of king Zueidina and Granada.

1/7
There's a rebellion in Valencia but Mafra easily defeats the rebel scum on the battlefield but annoying enough, forces still loyal to Spain in the city of Valencia, surprised and overwhelmed our garrison there and it's now controlled by them. Well, Mafra will soon have all their heads on poles.
Our colonization of Martinique was successful, now we'll just keep building it up until we have a city there.
We get the news that the Spaniards now have control of Roussillon again.

20/8
Husein lands on the Canary Islands but the infidel rebels fight like zealots and Husein is forced to withdraw back to the ships. The rebels are now down to 2005 men.

29/10
Hungary (Austria) declares war on the Ottomans (Iraq, Algeria, Tripolitania, Tunis, Cyrenacia).

26/11
Our fleet returns back to Andalusia with Huseins army. We pay a visit to the legendary hero from the first Spanish war, Husein, who still lives on his estates in Andalusia just to make sure this new incompetent colonel isn't a relative to him. He isn't and therefore he's no longer a colonel, his troops join colonel Azzers army instead (2828, 780).

8/12
We send a trader to expand our trade post in Curacao.



1510

1/1
The day the King had worried about is here, it's time for us to repay our loans. I tell the King I'll deal with this problem. I contact the bank and tell them that we just don't have any money to give them. Then we have no choice but to extend the loans for another five years, with a much higher interest, the say. That's fine, I say (in your dreams, I think) and I then leave the bank.
We send another settler to Martinique and then we send a flattering letter to Maroc, improving our relation (104). After that we have 8D left and I order our ministry of finance to put all of our monthly income in research. He points out that if we do that we'll lose 10D every month and that we'll go bankrupt within two months. Yes, I'm very well aware of that, that's the whole point, I tell him.

1/3
With 0D in the public treasury, a monthly income of -10D and no more loans available the state of Granada is declared bankrupt. There's great unrest among the people (-3 stability loss down to 0) and among the soldiers (morale down from strong to disciplined) but all our loans are now gone and inflation is down to 8%.
We now plunge all our monthly income (except 1-2D) into increasing stability.

5/6
Our trade post in Curacao is expanded.

6/6
The settler we sent to Martinique has successfully arrived.
We are told by the French that Kurpfalz have lost Béarn to rebel forces.

14/6
Mafra recaptures Valencia and the few rebels that survived the assault will soon wish they hadn't.

25/7
Hungary makes peace with the Ottomans, demanding 80D in indemnity.

19/8
Aden is now a vassal to Oman.

27/8
Würtemberg is now a vassal to Austria.



1511
1/1
Stability is now up to 1.
We send another settler to Martinique.

9/2
Baden is now a vassal to Helvetia.

19/2
Lorraine leaves our alliance to become a vassal to Austria.
The French informs us that Genoa now is part of our alliance.

22/5
It's time for us to strengthen our ties with the rest of the true Muslim-world (not those bloody Shiites of course) and we therefore arrange royal marriages with Algeria, Iraq, Tripolitania and the Crimean-Khanate.

7/6
Our colony in Martinique now has some 300 inhabitants.

14/9
Brandenburg is now a vassal to The Hanseatic League.

1/10
Stability now up to 2.

3/11
Spain makes peace with Savoy who pays 106D in indemnity.
We are also informed that Spain has lost Artois and Hainaut to rebel forces and that the French province Kent has revolted and Dover is now being sieged by the rebels.



1512

1/1
We send another settler to Martinique.

1/2
King Zueidana informs me that he has (without my knowledge) personally financed an addition to the fortification in Toledo and that it's now complete.

1/4
We are shocked yet happy when we receive the news that the rebellions in Artois and Flandres wasn't just another ordinary rebellion but instead part of a national liberation movement and that this movement now have declared Burgundy an independent country. This new country consists of Franche Comte, Flandres, Artois and Luxembourg (the capital).
Spain is of course eager to regain their lost provinces and Poland, Helvetia, Hesse and Cologne intervene to help them.

6/6
The settler we sent to Martinique was lost at sea.

1/7
The people are happy again and our stability is now back to normal, 3. But we still have trouble with the soldiers morale and that's a problem because there's no use to send forces to Wipe out the rebels on the Canary Islands as long as the morale isn't on top.

16/7
Thüringen is now a vassal to Bavaria.

22/9
The French ambassador informs us that all their troubles with rebels in their English provinces now are solved.
We send a flattering letter to Maroc and our relations are now up to (130).



1513

1/1
We send a settler to Martinique.

2/1
There seems to be some disturbance among the Christians, involving some guy named Martin Luther. The Catholics talk about this new form of Christianity in terms of Protestantism and they're really upset and worried. Suits us just fine!

21/3
We keep up our correspondence with Maroc sending another flattering letter (145).

7/6
We expanded our colony in Martinique.

26/9
Burgundy makes peace with Cologne ceding Artois and paying 250D in indemnity.

10/12
Burgundy makes a status quo-peace with Hesse.

12/12
We send another settler to Martinique.



1514

2/1
We start recruiting new soldiers (1000, 1000) in Andalusia and send a flattering letter to Maroc (170).

25/3
Tripolitania is now a vassal to Iraq.

18/5
Martinique now has some 500 inhabitants.

22/8
We just keep these flattering letters coming and with great results, our relation with Maroc is now (194).

20/10
We can now ask Maroc to become our vassals and so we do but they refuse and our relation drops to (165).



1515
1/1
We send an flattering and apologetic letter to Maroc and it works, relations go up to (192).
Another settler sets course for Martinique.

28/1
King Zueidina is making a speech to the people of Granada about the necessity for a small nation like ours to have a strong army in order to defend itself against big powermongering nations like Spain. And this speech really touches the heart of our citizens (no big surprise, after all it was I who wrote it) and a new army (5000, 1000) is created.

1/3
The morale of our armies are now back at full strength. At last we'll be able to get rid of the infidel rebels on the Canary Islands.

3/6
Tunisia is now a vassal to Algeria.

6/6
We succeed in expanding our colony in Martinique.
Azzer (4136, 1828) lands on the Canary Islands

21/6
Azzer finally finds and engages the rebels on the battlefield but he loses and again are our army forced to flee back to the ships. This is getting really annoying. But at least he managed to kill off some rebels and there's now only 698 remaining.

24/7
Russia (Moldavia, Denmark, Pskov) declares war on the Kazan-Khanate.

1/9
Valencia is revolting again, but colonel Mafra knows for sure how to deal with this sort of scum.

15/10
Azzer returns in great shame to Andalusia, but he'll soon be back on the Canary Islands, as a regular soldier in colonel Idriss army.

13/12
We make a new offer to Maroc, asking them if they don't want to be our vassals but they refuse again, relations dropping to (170). They just don't know what's best for them.
We send a settler to Martinique, if this one succeeds Martinique will grow into a town.



1516

20/1
Idriss lands on the Canary Islands and this time the rebels are defeated.
The Kazan-Khanate makes peace with Russia, paying 112D in indemnity.

21/1
Send another flattering and even more apologetic letter to Maroc and relations are now up to (191).

11/4
The French let us know that we have a new member of our alliance, the Knights of St John. We are not very pleased to hear that, those knights have always been fierce enemies to all the members of the true faith. We'll never help them fight any wars, that's for sure (but of course we don't say anything about that to our friends from France).

12/5
Nasiryah who has, up till now, being busy shipping troops to the Canary Islands and bringing back those who failed, now sets sail for Martinique with one warship and one transport.

18/5
Martinique is now a town with a population of 757 people,we start recruiting 3000 infantry to defend the island.

7/10
Nasiryah explores Tobago and Barbados.

12/10
Nasiryah arrives to Martinique and is immediately sent out again to explore the surrounding seas in the area.

1/11
When Idriss put down the rebellion on the Canary Islands some of the rebels escaped up in the mountains, now they return again with another rebellion but this time Idriss put it down quite easily.

17/12
We try to establish a new trade post in Guadeloupe, a neighbouring island to Martinique.



1517

14/1
Nasiryah explores Maracabio.

16/1
We start building a fortress in Martinique.

5/2
Nasiryah explores Yaraguay.

12/6
Nasiryah explores Amapa.

23/6
The trader we sent to Guadeloupe failed.

15/9
Nasiryah explores Maroni.

1/10
Once again the Canary Islands revolts and once again Idriss is victorious on the battlefield and drives the rebels back up into the mountains.

27/11
Burgundy makes peace with Poland, paying 123D in indemnity.


Summary:

This was another glorious period in the history of Granada. We have won another war against Spain and have been able to conquer all the four provinces that we have always considered to be ours by right. We now control five provinces on the Iberian Peninsula plus The Canary Islands. In the New World we have one town, Martinique and three trade posts.
Our annual income is now up to 62D.
We keep expanding our trade and now have five merchants in Andalusia, Tago, Genoa, Venice and Flandres.
Inflation is up to 13%.
We have also had one state-bankruptcy.
We achieved our diplomatic goal and were able to join an alliance with France. This alliance looks like this, relation in brackets :
France (109), Savoy (-43), Scotland (106), Genoa (-121) and Knights of St John (-176).
We have royal marriages with the following countries:
Maroc (200), Tunisia (103), the Ottoman Empire (31), Iraq (-36), Algeria (-49), Tripolitania (-39) and the Crimea-Khanate (-39).
We have lost 76930 men infantry (48805 in combat, 28125 of attrition) and 11452 men cavalry (7810 in combat, 3642 of attrition).
So, thing looks rather bright for the kingdom of Granada. The total strenght of our army is now 28315 men infantry (almost double to what we had in 1502), 4548 men cavalry (six times more than in 1502) and 30 cannons (compared to none in 1502).
Our fleet though, is still very small, just 1 warship and five transports.
The mighty Spain, who we feared a lot have turned out to be no more than a paper tiger. Put if they should stumble upon some competent leaders they may still pose a threat to us.
Having liberated all of Granada, we no longer have a CB against Spain so if we want to expand more our next target would rather be the Mameluks, those Shiite bastards, but to do that we first have to expand our fleet and raise more armies as well, because the troops we have now better stay in Granada. To do otherwise would be to ask the Spaniards to invade us.
On the diplomatic front our next target will be to make Maroc our vassal. It would also be nice if we, when our current alliance expires, could create a new one, including France but with us as the leaders.

The standing in victory points is as follows:
Country Military Economy Diplomacy Total
Granada 184 31 22 237
France 74 32 78 184
Russia 45 37 66 148

If you're looking for Spain I can inform you that they have dropped down to 17th place with 90 VPs.


Here are the screenshots to look for:

Granadas colonial empire in the Caribbeans 2/1 1518

An overview of Europe 2/1 1518

A close up on Burgundy (in orange, Flandres, Luxembourg and Franche Comte, the last controlled by Helvetia) 2/1 1518

A close up on mainland Granada 2/1 1518

 

[nalivayko]

Nice job. What are your plans for future expansion? Keep beating up Spain or expand in Mediterranian?

 

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Part III, 1518-1530

1518

1/3
We again try to persuade Maroc to become our vassal and this time they agree.
We upgrade our sheriff in Valencia to a bailiff.
We send a trader to Tampico.

20/5
France (Savoy, Scotland, Genoa, the Knights of St John) declares war on Lorraine and though we have no intention to send any troops we honour our alliance.

23/5
Nasiryah discovers Isthmus.

19/6
Sibiria is now a vassal to Astrakhan.
Even though we didn't send any troops to help our allies we did send an observer and he now reports that France has lost a great battle in Lorraine but they have five new armies on the march, their total numbers are almost 95000 men. An army from Savoy (29838) is also on its way.

13/8
The French under La Palice are now in Lorraine laying siege to Metz.

20/10
Nasiryah discovers Surinam.

1/11
We now have a trade post in Tampico.



1519

1/1
We receive news that Karl V has been elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Holy? Bah, I'd prefer to call it unholy.
We send a trader to Guadeloupe.
Maybe it would be a good idea to improve our relations with some of our allies, so we send a flattering letter to Savoy (-38) and after having vassalized Maroc we now intend to do the same with Algeria and therefore send them a flattering letter as well (-17).
We also start recruiting 2000 new infantry in Toledo.

1/3
Kurpfalz is really on the move, now annexing Hesse.
We start building one transport in Andalusia. It's not much, I know, but at least it's a small first step to expand our fleet.

7/7
The trader we sent to Guadeloupe failed.

12/8
Lorraine is captured by the French.

14/8
Lorraine makes peace with France, paying 250D in indemnity.

14/9
Milan is now a vassal to Genoa.

22/12
Iraq is now a vassal to Algeria.



1520

1/1
We send another trader to Guadeloupe.
Two flattering letters on their way, one to Savoy (-24) and one to Algeria (6).
We continue the expansion of our fleet, building one warship and one transport in Andalusia.

14/3
Nasiryah discovers Barahona.

1/6
The Christian rebels on the Canary Islands just won't give up, they actually succeeded in assassinating colonel Idriss and now they are revolting again but our new commanding officer, colonel Adrar seems to know as much about killing rebels as his late predecessor.

7/7
We now have a trade post on Guadeloupe.

17/8
Nasiryah discovers Tortuga.

1/9
Abrar quells another rebellion on the Canary Islands.

14/4
Abrars forces need some reinforcements and we start recruiting 1000 infantry on the Canary Islands.

8/10
Oman annexes Aden.
Since we have no plans to fight any naval battles for the moment we lower the maintenance level of our fleet to 50%.



1521

1/1
We send a trader to Antigua and we also send our usual flattering letters to Savoy (-4) and Algeria(30).

4/1
Nasiryah discovers Tocuvo.

17/1
France have really got the taste for attacking tiny, almost defenseless countries. This time they declare war on Burgundy and all the other members of our alliance join in on the slaughter (including me). Burgundys only ally England comes to their help.

19/2
Again our only contribution to the war effort is some observers and he reports that a French army (10175) is now besieging Luxembourg.

14/4
A Burgundian army (29983) lays siege to the Spanish province of Hainaut.

22/4
Russia (Moldavia, Denmark, Pskov, the Teutonic Knights) declares war on the Kazan-Khanate.

11/5
Our 3000 men army under colonel Husein lands on Dominica, a small English colony. He takes control of it and then goes back to Martinique.
The English have moved a great army (35824) in to Wessex and now lays siege to Portsmouth but at the same time an even greater French army is in Anglia besieging London and a really huge Scottish army has showed up in Lancashire and is now besieging Liverpool.

7/6
Our royal marriage with Tunisia expires and since they are now a vassal to Algeria we can't arrange a new one.

5/7
We now have a trade post in Antigua.

17/8
Austria annexes Würtemberg.

9/9
Burgundy now controls Hainaut.

16/12
The Scots have captured Lancashire and are now in Yorkshire besieging Hull. They have lost more than half of their troops though and are now down to 45476 men.
The Spaniards want to recapture Hainaut and send in 18837 soldiers to do the job.
A smaller Burgundian army is now in Champagne, laying siege to Reims.



1522

1/1
We send a trader to Guadeloupe and flattering letters to the usual suspects, Savoy (5) and Algeria (49).

2/1
Bavaria is now a vassal to Bohemia.
We upgrade our sheriff to a bailiff in Martinique.
The French now controls Anglia and they repel an English attempt do drive them out of there.

26/1
Scotland makes peace with England, adding the Marches to their kingdom. (They must have taken that province before my observer arrived).

3/3
A French army drives the Burgundians out of Champagne while another besieges Bristol.
The Spaniards have recaptured Hainaut.

9/5
A Burgundian army (12245) is once more in Champagne, besieging Reims.

6/6
We expand our trade post in Guadeloupe to level 2.

2/7
The French are able to raise the siege of Reims for the second time.

17/10
Bristol is now controlled by France.

18/10
England makes peace with France, giving up Bristol and paying 250D in indemnity.

15/11
Russia gets Lipetsk and 237D from the Kazan-Khanate in exchange for peace.

5/12
The Burgunds refuse to give up, and are now back with small armies in Hainaut as well as in Champagne.



1523

1/1
We expand our fleet even further building one warship and two transports.
We send flattering letters to Savoy (24) and Algeria (80).

9/5
Colonel Husein (2970) lands on Barahona and is immediately attacked by 400 natives. Those heathens are no match for our brave soldiers and when the battle ends every single one of them lies dead on the battlefield along with only 32 of our men.

15/5
We send a trader to Barahona.
Burgundy offers us a status quo-peace and we can't see any reason why we wouldn't accept.

6/12
We now have a trade post in Barahona.

1524

1/1
We recruit new troops (1000, 0, 10) in Sierra Nevada and we send flattering letters to Savoy (38) and Algeria (95).

27/1
Colonel Husein marches in to Tortuga and slaughters a few hundred natives there.

10/2
We send a trader to Tortuga.

26/4
France annexes Burgundy and the three provinces of the country is divided like this:
Luxembourg to France, Franche Comte to Helvetia and Flandres to Spain).

27/5
Adding Franche Comte to their kingdom wasn't enough for Helvetia so now they annexes Baden.

27/6
Naples is now a vassal to Spain.

12/9
Our attempt to establish a trade post in Totuga failed.

30/9
A group of wealthy merchants in Gibraltar are concerned that our weak navy won't be able to protect their merchantmen from pirates and therefore they provide us with seven warships to strengthen our fleet.

1/11
We now can make hackbuts (Land Tech 5).

1525

1/1
Prussia is the first country to convert to Protestantism.

2/1
We send a trader to Tortuga and a flattering letter to Algeria (109). No more letters to Savoy though, we don't need them to love us just like us a bit and they already do that now.
We recruit some more troops, (1000, 1000) in Valencia and (2000) in Andalusia.
One of our spies in Spain reports that two provinces (Roussillion and Gerona) are controlled by rebels and that a rebel army is in Catalonia, besieging Barcelona.

18/5
Catalonia is now controlled by rebels as well.

1/6
Catalonia (Gerona and Catalonia, with the capital Barcelona) declare their independence from Spain. Poland, Naples and Cologne join Spain in the war that follows.

2/6
I go to see the King and say to him that Catalonias independence, for sure must be a gift from Allah and I suggest that we immediately declare war on them and go for a quick annexation. He don't seems to be overly enthusiastic about the idea. But we have no valid reason for declaring war on them, the people won't like this and our relation with our allies will most definitely be damaged if we go for annexation, he says. Of course we have a valid reason, I say, they are small, they are weak and they are Christians. As I said before, this really is a gift from Allah and it would be blasphemy not to accept it. This will be the easiest war we have ever fought and besides, if we don't take these provinces now, then Spain surely will and we don't want that. Everything that weakens Spain strengthens us. And you know what I always say:
It is a general and necessary law of nature to rule whatever you can.
And I can assure you that when it comes to Catalonia, we can!
When it comes to our allies, well, they'll get over it, especially if we spend some money on them and by the way, France don't have a perfect record when it comes to respecting the sovereignty of smaller states either.
The King knows when he is beaten and the next thing we do is to declare war on Catalonia and since this will be such an easy war so we don't care to invite our allies.
We have three standing armies, colonel Nadjufs (11197, 2974) in Valencia, colonel Anabas (11328, 0, 30) in Toledo and colonel Moktars (6000, 1000, 10) in Sierra Nevada and we order them all to begin their march to Catalonia.

6/6
Pskov is now a vassal to Russia.
Algeria annexes Tunisia and for some reason our relation drops down to (13).

7/6
Actually we don't mind Algeria annexing Tunisia and we send them a flattering letter to let them know that, this improves our relation (37).

17/6
Nadjaf arrives in Catalonia and is met by 2494 enemy soldiers.

4/7
Nadjaf has severely beaten the Catalonians, he only lost 90 infantry and 18 cavalry in the battle and quickly moves on to Gerona where 10674 Spaniards are already besieging the walls.

12/7
Anaba arrives in Catalonia and lays siege to Barcelona.

2/8
Nadjaf arrives in Gerona and joins the Spanish soldiers in their siege, quite a bizarre situation I must say.

3/8
The trader we sent to Tortuga failed to establish a trade post there.

13/8
Gerona falls and much to the dismay of the Spaniards it's Nadjaf (now 10714, 2878) who takes control of the province.
Catalonia now offers us a status quo-peace but of course we refuse.

17/8
Moktar arrives in Catalonia to help with the siege.

29/8
Nadjaf marches in to Catalonia as well, and we now have enough soldiers to make an attempt to breach the walls.

28/9
Barcelona falls to our armies and we annex the country only four months after it declared its independence. Allah is truly on our side!!!
Our allies are upset and our relations suffer but at least France don't kick us out of the alliance. Relations with our allies is now: France (24), Savoy (-55), Scotland (47), Genoa (-184) and the Knights of St John (-200).
In the once Royal residence in Barcelona we find some maps, most likely of Spanish origin. When we examine the maps we find out that Spain has discovered yet another nation of heathens in the New World, the Incas.
We decide to let Nadjaf (9378, 2611) remain in Catalonia to deal with the expected rebellions, Moktar (5067, 827, 10) is ordered back to Gibraltar and Anaba (8602, 0, 30) to Toledo.

24/10
Stability is now up to 2.



1526

1/1
The Hanseatic League converts to Protestantism.
To honour Allah we send a missionary to Gerona along with some mosque-builders.
We'd better try to improve our relation with the French again so we send a letter to their king (34) and we send another to Algeria (60).

9/2
We recruit 1000 infantry in Toledo.

1/3
The missionary succeeded, Gerona now is a now faithful province.

29/3
Savoy is now a vassal to France.

3/6
Our royal marriage with Oman expires.

6/6
We arrange a new royal marriage with Oman (129).

7/8
Bohemia is now a vassal to Hungary.

17/9
We send a flattering letter to Algeria (83).

24/11
Stability is now back to 3.

1/12
There is a rebellion in Gerona, 11374 rebels besieges the walls.



1527

1/1
For the third time we send a trader to Tortuga and we send a flattering letter to Algeria (103).
We recruit (1000, 1000) in Valencia.

15/2
The ottomans, (Cyrenacia, Algeria, Oman, the Crimean-Khanate) declares war on the Mameluks (Venice, Portugal).

19/3
Our new recruits reinforces Nadjafs army,now (10278, 3591) in Catalonia.

4/5
Nadjaf defeats the rebels in Gerona only losing (149, 29).

2/8
Once more we've failed to establish a trade post in Tortuga.

18/10
Poland (Spain, Cologne, Naples, Kurpfalz, the Papal-state) declares war on Courland (England, Navarre).

1/12
One of our spies informs that 10890 men from Navarre are in Béarn (owned by Kurpfalz), laying siege to Pau, while 30798 Spanish soldiers is besieging Navarres capitol San Sebastian. There is also a battle between Portugal and Algeria in Algarve.

20/12
The Algerians are now besieging Elvas (Algarve).



1528

1/1
Sweden converts to Protestantism.
Navarre makes peace with Spain, paying 76D to the Spaniards.
Courland is annexed by Poland.
Stubborn as we are, we send another trader to Tortuga.
We send flattering letters to France (43) and Algeria (115).
We start recruiting (3000) in Toledo and (1000, 1000) in Catalonia.

5/3
Béarn is now controlled by Navarre.

3/5
The king makes another speech informing our people of the wonders of the New World and they really seem to believe what they hear. People are gathering in our harbours just waiting for a ship to get them overseas. (3 new settlers).

5/8
We're not very surprised to hear that our trader to Tortuga once again failed but we immediately send another one.

1/12
Our naval technology is now up to level 4.



1529

1/1
Hannover converts to Protestantism.
We send flattering letters to France (61) and Algeria (151) and we send traders to Havana and Curacao.
We recruit (2000, 1000) in Sierra Nevada.

6/3
On the fifth attempt we finally succeed in establishing a trade post in Tortuga.

1/4
Another rebellion in Gerona, 12074 rebels is besieging the city.

28/6
We expand our trade post in Curacao, now level 3.
Algeria now controls Oporto.

5/9
We fail to establish a trade post in Havana.

28/9
Nadjaf (11129, 4562) marches in to Gerona and defeats the rebel scum. Then he returns to Catalonia.

1/10
Yet another revolt, this time in Valencia where 16099 rebels lays siege to the city.

22/10
We need more troops to deal with all the rebellions and we recruit 3000 infantry in Catalonia.

9/11
Genoa annexes Milan.



1530

1/1
The nationalists in Gerona refuse to give up, this time they have gathered 12774 men.
We send a trader to Curacao and a flattering letter to Algeria (176).
We start recruiting (2000, 1000) in Catalonia.

17/1
Nadjaf (12547, 4246) battles the rebels (15926) in Valencia and it's an easy win. He then returns to Catalonia to wait for the new recruits to join his army before he puts down the rebellion in Gerona.

4/6
We expanded our trade post in Curacao. Now level 4.

19/6
Husein lands on Barbados and defeats the natives there.

21/6
The Ottomans makes peace with Venice. Istria is now part of the Ottoman Empire.

27/6
Nadjaf defeats the rebels in Gerona.

21/8
The Mameluks makes a status quo-peace with the Crimeans.

1/10
Nadjaf has to put down another rebellion in Gerona.

15/11
We send a flattering letter to Algeria (198).
11790 Portuguese soldiers are trying to take back Oporto from the Algerians.



Summary:
This was 13 relatively peaceful years in in Granadas history. We didn't plan for any wars but when Allah presented us with the opportunity we quickly seized it and managed to gain two provinces in a war that lasted less than four months. We also sailed around the New World exploring new provinces, and we managed to expand our colonial possessions with some more trade posts. So we now have seven provinces on the Iberian peninsula and the Canary Islands. In the new world we have one city, Martinique (882 inhabitants) and eight trade posts, Jamaica (4), Curacao (4), Guadeluope (2), Parana (1), Antigua (1), Tampico (1), Barahona (1) and Tortuga (1).
Our annual income is now up to 80D.
During this period we haven't cared to send any more merchants so we still have our five merchants in Andalusia, Tago, Genoa, Flandres and Venice.
Inflation is up to 16%.
On the diplomatic front we succeeded in making Maroc our vassal and our relations with our allies are slowly recovering from our annexation of Catalonia and it now looks like this:
France (68), Savoy (-35), Scotland (75), Genoa (-158) and the Knights of St John (-173).
We have royal marriages with the following countries:
Algeria (200), Iraq(92), Triploitania (90), the Crimean-Khanate (90) and the Ottomans (175).
Our total losses is now up to 87660 men infantry (53681 in combat, 33979 of attrition) and 12909 men cavalry (8676 in combat, 4230 of attrition). We have also lost two warships and three transports, all of attrition.
In conclusion, things are still looking bright for our glorious nation, the total strength of our army is now 38774 men infantry (10000 more than in 1518), 8094 men cavalry (almost double to what we had in 1518) and 40 cannons (compared to 30 in 1518).
We have made some investment in expanding our fleet and that, plus the help of some wealthy merchants, means that our fleet now begins to look quite respectable, 8 warships and as many transports (compared to 1 warship and 5 transports in 1518).
But we still feel that we need some more ships (and a lot of more soldiers) before we are ready to go after the Mameluks. But those Shiite dogs can rest assured that sooner or later we will pay them a visit, in fact this is our next goal (unless Allah presents us with another golden opportunity of course).
Diplomatically our next goal is to vassalize Algeria and we also hope that the next five years will be peaceful because then our alliance expires and we'll be able to invite France to a new alliance. with us in charge.

The standing in victory points is as follows:
Country Military Economy Diplomacy Total
France 158 73 104 336
Granada 223 54 49 327
Austria ??? ?? 200 257

Spain has recovered quite well and are now up to 9th place with 170 victory points.

Here are the screenshots to look for:

The Iberian peninsula 1/1 1531

The Iberian peninsula viewed from the political map 1/1 1531

An overview of Europe 1/1 1521

Granadas colonial empire in the Caribbean 1/1 1531

The world as we know it 1/1 1531

 

[Caesar Augustus]

This is a very good AAR. Not only am I impressed with the detailed and well worded writing style, I am very much impressed by the success you have had. This one's a keeper.

 

[unmerged(1996)]

Definite candidate for the Hall of Fame, this one.

 

[hjarg]

You have made Gradada conciderable force in Europe. And in New World as well. Guess Spanish king is sitting in his throne and trying to guess what went wrong. Reconquista failed and Catalonia gaining independance And for you, there is no greater pleasure then a small stab in the back of the Christian Attacking Catalonia was really low. But a good idea anyway!
Nice going!

 

[unmerged(1034)]

wow, really good job with both granada and the AAR
nice to see them doing well rather being stomped out by spain in the first five years like they have been in just about evey GC ive played
tho, have a couple of questions for you
who did you switch granada with to make it a major power? how is that country doing?
also, did you at all modify the leaders/monarch files? or does granada had its fair share of leaders. again, i've never seen it with any, but thats mainly cuz spain usually wipes it out?
also, how many settlers/merchants/diplomats do you get annually?
lastly, ive heard some non-european nations have limits in how far they can advance their technology. does this include granada or are they on a similar technology plane as the europeans? how are your techs compared to your neighbors/the majors?
once again, good job with both granada and the AAR

 

[unmerged(2085)]

This is our path

Masse I,

One of the best AARs so far. I have also indulged the challenge of becoming a military advisor for the Sultan of Gharnata. Instead of taking Cadiz and Gibraltar, our forces took Cadiz and the rich gold mines of Toledo before January 1495.

Several questions that you may want to answer:

1. We didn't waste any ducats on softening France, instead we used it to build up our seasoned veterans and pormoting bailiffs to jump start our meager economy, is that wise ?

2. We are planning on taking the war to the Spanish throne and looking to grab Gibraltar and Murcia in about 2 more years, any strategic blunder in that ?

3. Our ships could not venture into the terra-incognita, what gives ?

Thanks,
Jundi

 

[unmerged(1706)]

Thanks a lot for all the praise and encouragement guys. I'm glad you enjoy it, makes it even more fun playing and writing this AAR. I've played the next part of it but haven't had the time to write it down and post it yet.

 

[unmerged(1706)]

Originally posted by Kessar

tho, have a couple of questions for you
who did you switch granada with to make it a major power? how is that country doing?
also, did you at all modify the leaders/monarch files? or does granada had its fair share of leaders. again, i've never seen it with any, but thats mainly cuz spain usually wipes it out?
also, how many settlers/merchants/diplomats do you get annually?
lastly, ive heard some non-european nations have limits in how far they can advance their technology. does this include granada or are they on a similar technology plane as the europeans? how are your techs compared to your neighbors/the majors?
once again, good job with both granada and the AAR

Despite me being Swedish I put Granada in Swedens place. They don't seem to suffer that much though, currently they're ranked 11th with 248 VP.
No I didn't touch the leaders/monarch files so so far I'm stuck with my crappy colonels (1, 0, 1) who for some reason change their names every time I load a saved game. And king Zueidina is still with me too.
At the present I get 8 merchants, 1 settler (thanks to the ship yard in Andalusia) and 4 diplomats (all thanks to royal diplomacy).
I'm doing fine in the tech race despite being a Muslim country. I'm first among the majors in land tech with level 6 (the others are on level 3-5), Trade tech with level 4 (3-4), and infrastructure with level 4 (2-4) and I'm second in naval tech with level 4 (England is on level 5 and the others are on level 3-4).
The standings above are a bit ahead of what I have posted in the AAR, it will happen in future parts of it.

 

[unmerged(1706)]

Re: This is our path

Originally posted by Jundi

Several questions that you may want to answer:

1. We didn't waste any ducats on softening France, instead we used it to build up our seasoned veterans and pormoting bailiffs to jump start our meager economy, is that wise ?

2. We are planning on taking the war to the Spanish throne and looking to grab Gibraltar and Murcia in about 2 more years, any strategic blunder in that ?

3. Our ships could not venture into the terra-incognita, what gives ?

Thanks,
Jundi

To answer your questions:

1. I fought my first two wars without the French as my allied so sure you can do without them, but I must say that I feel much safer with them by my side. Another thought was that when I had taken all the CB-provinces from Spain, my alliance with France would make it possible for me to expand even further on the Iberian peninsula, without me having to DOW Spain, most preferable would of course be Spain declaring war on France so I could join our allies in a defensive war. But of course it's always nice to build up your army and improve your provinces as well. If it's wise or not you'll soon find out when you keep playing.

2. As long as you have enough troops to succeed I think it's a good idea. You'd better take as much as you can before they start to upgrade their fortresses.

3. You need an explorer to do that. I got mine from a random event so all you can do right now is to wait and hope for one to show up.


Good luck crushing those infidel dogs!

 

[unmerged(1706)]

Part IV 1531-1549

1531

1/1
England converts to Protestantism. This is really starting to look good, a divided Christianity is a weaker Christianity.
We send traders to Barbados and to a small island outside the coast of Africa, St Helena.
We start recruiting 3000 infantry in Sierra Nevada.
At last the stubborn Christians on the Canary Islands have been domesticated and we no longer have to fear any rebellions there.

6/2
England makes a status quo-peace with Cologne.

8/2
Russia (Moldavia, Denmark, Pskov, the Teutonic Knights) declares war on the Kazan-Khanate.

10/3
Navarre makes a status quo-peace with Kurpfalz.

30/6
We establish a new trade post in St Helena.

2/7
The trader we sent to Barbados failed.

1/8
There is a revolt in Valencia, 15399 rebels are besieging the city walls.

10/9
Colonel Queseima (13101, 4988) defeats the rebels in Valencia.

2/11
Oporto is now back under Portuguese control.



1532

1/1
Kurpfalz converts to Protestantism.
We send a trader to Barbados.

3/2
We are glad to hear that the Ottomans have forced the Mameluks to accept a harsh peace. The Mameluks have to give up Aleppo, Lebanon and 14D in indemnity.

15/2
We offer Algeria to be our vassals but they refuse (170).

18/5
Poland makes a status quo-peace with Navarre.

4/6
We start building a fortification on the Canary Islands.

9/6
The Kazan-Khanate pays 250D to Pskov in exchange for peace.

2/7
We now have a trade post in Barbados.



1533

1/1
Helvetia converts to Protestantism.
We upgrade our sheriff in Catalonia to a bailiff.
We send a trader to St Martin and a flattering letter to Algeria (188).

6/6
The trader we sent to St Martin was lost at sea.

21/7
The Kazan-Khanate is really suffering from this war, now they have to give up Ryazan and another 250D to the Teutonic Knights.

25/7
We arrange a royal marriage with the Golden Horde.

2/9
A great scandal has shaken our court. It turns out that a few of our highest public officials have deviated from the true faith and have been worshipping Mammon for a time now. The King is furious and promise me that he will deal with these corrupt scoundrels personally. Unfortunately he goes in for his task so thoroughly that he have no time to spend on our foreign affairs. (The Kings diplomatic skills decrease for 23 months).

16/10
The Golden Horde acquires Lipetsk from Russia in exchange for peace.

7/11
Not a very good war for Russia either, this time they have to pay 250D in war indemnity to the Kazan-Khanate in order to bring this war to an end.

9/12
We arrange a royal marriage with Astrakhan.



1534

1/1
We make another attempt to establish a trade post in St Martin.
We build two transports in Andalusia.

21/2
We recruit 1000 cavalry in Sierra Nevada.

22/3
Again we offer Algeria to be our vassal and again they refuse (170).

21/6
We arrange royal marriages with Hedjaz and Nubia.

6/7
We succeeded in establishing a trade post in St Martin.

17/8
England makes peace with Spain who receives 203D in indemnity.

15/9
The Crimean-Khanate (the Ottomans, Cyrenacia, Algeria) declares war on Georgia (Persia).

20/12
We send a flattering letter to Savoy (-6).



1535

1/!
We send a trader to Santa Cruz.
We build 10 cannons in Sierra Nevada.

1/3
A new rebellion in Valencia.

9/5
What's this? England making a peace that is actually to their advantage. Such a thing has never been heard of before but now it happens when they take Bremen from the Poles.

2/9
Queseima (11916, 4721) crushes the rebellion in Valencia.
Our alliance expires.

3/9
We form a new alliance with France (104) and Scotland (120).

16/10
We recruit 2000 infantry in Valencia.

2/11
We now have a trade post in Santa Cruz.

1/12
A big number of Catalonian nationalists (22049) revolts in Catalonia.



1536

1/1
The flight from Catholicism continues (to our great delight), this time it's Brandenburg who converts. to Protestantism.
We recruit (2000, 1000) in Valencia.

4/4
The Ottomans expand their empire even further taking Georgia and 250D from the Georgians.

21/4
France annexes Savoy.

30/4
Queseima (14585, 5454) defeats the rebels in Catalonia, only losing 367 infantry and 73 cavalry.

23/5
Our royal marriages with the Crimean-Khanate, Tripolitania, Iraq and Algeria expires.

26/5
We arrange new royal marriages with Algeria (200) and the Crimean-Khanate (158)

12/8
Because we no longer face the risk of rebellions on the Canary Islands we decide to withdraw our troops (3553, 1526) from there and let them reinforce colonel Suwaidas army in Sierra Nevada, now up to (14416, 4277, 20).

17/9
Hungary annexes Bohemia.

1/12
Great technological progress. We have now reached late renaissance (level 3) in trade as well as in infrastructure and we may now create monopolies and appoint Chief Judges.



1537

1/1
Thüringen converts to Protestantism.
We are informed that Helvetia isn't part of any alliance so we decide that we'll try to add them into ours and therefore we send them a flattering letter (-75).
We send a trader to Parana.
We build two more transports in Andalusia.

3/1
We created a monopoly in the Andalusian CoT.
Colonel Masrur, the new commanding officer of our army (2561) in the New World lands in Tobago and is attacked by 2500 natives.

28/6
Cologne is now a vassal to Scotland.

25/7
We expanded our trade post in Paranas (2).

5/8
We send a flattering letter to Helvetia (-54).

18/10
The Crimean-Khanate makes peace with Persia. Kirkuk and Kouban to Persia.

28/11
Georgia makes a status quo-peace with the Crimean-Khanate.

1/12
We send a trader to Guadeloupe.



1538
1/1
The pro-Spanish opinions in Valencia is now down to so insignificant levels that we no longer have to worry about any revolts.
We send a flattering letter to Helvetia (-32) and once again asks Algeria to be our vassal but they rejects our generous offer (170).
We recruit 3000 infantry in Toledo.

5/1
After several bloody battles against the natives in Tobago, colonel Masrurs forces are now down to just 1000 men so to reinforce him we land another 1000 infantry there.

29/3
With his new reinforcements Masrus has now cleaned Tobago from hostile natives and we now try to establish a trade post there.

1/4
We send a flattering letter to Algeria (192).

14/4
Our trade post in Guadeloupe is now up to level 3.

8/7
We arrange a royal marriage with Oman.

1/9
Denmark converts to Protestantism.

6/9
The trader we sent to Tobago failed.

1/10
Parma declares its independence from France and immediately declares war on their former rulers. Scotland dishonours our alliance but we soon invite them back again. We on the other hand join the French in their war against these upstarts. Parma is a very small country (only one province, Modena) and we don't expect them to last very long against the French armies and we don't have any wishes for expanding our own territory to Italy so at first we have no plans to participate in the war. But then on the other hand, we haven't had a war in almost 13 years so our troops could sure use some action and if we can take control of their only province before the French does we may at least get some money as a reward.
Well, no time to waste then, we order colonel Suwaida (14244, 4243, 20) to board the ships and set sail for Modena.



1539

1/1
Saxony converts to Protestantism.
A new CoT has emerged in Empalme (a Spanish colony situated in the northern parts of Mexico).
We send a flattering letter to Helvetia (-7) and a trader to Tobago.
We build 10 cannons in Toledo.

19/4
Suwaida lands in Modena and defeats the 5000 defenders before he lays siege to Parma (10000 men garrison).

6/6
We now have a trade post in Tobago.

8/6
The first French troops (around 6000) arrives in Modena and our troops already suffer from attrition.

24/7
Oh those stupid French, now they land some 40000 men in Modena and now attrition is really, really taking its toll of our troops.

23/8
Spain annexes Naples.

2/12
A small rebellion in Gerona, only 7828 rebels.

6/12
We breach the walls of Parma and we now control the province and thus the entire country. Our losses have been really heavy though and our once so proud army is now down to (22, 1554, 17).



1540

1/1
We offer Parma peace in exchange for 750D in war indemnity and they have no choice but to hand over whatever they have, which turns out to be almost 300D. We then rush the remnants of our army aboard the ships and set sail for Catalonia.
The Teutonic Knights converts to Protestantism.
We have to use almost the entire indemnity to recruit new troops to replace the ones we lost, 10000 infantry in Sierra Nevada and (4000, 3000, 10) in Gibraltar.
We send another flattering letter to Helvetia (19).

7/1
Bavaria is now a vassal to Poland.

9/1
Queseima defeats the rebels in Gerona.

1/2
We send a trader to Guadeloupe.
We send a diplomat to Helvetia to ask them if they want to join our alliance and they gladly accepts (39).

30/5
Suwaidas army, now down to (0, 305, 17) finally arrives in Catalonia where they are allowed to rest for a couple of days before they start their march to Sierra Nevada.

15/6
We expand our trade post in Guadeloupe (level 4).
We are told that the Spaniards are upgrading their fortifications in Castille. That's a shame!
We recruit even more soldiers (2000, 1000) in Sierra Nevada.

7/7
Parmas dream of independence comes to an end when France annexes the country.

24/8
Hannover is now a vassal to England.

1/9
Suwaida and his men returns to Sierra Nevada where all the new recruits have gathered and now joins his army so that it's now back to its old strength, in fact it's even slightly stronger (15934, 4232, 27).



1541

9/1
We build one warship and one transport in Andalusia.
We send a trader to Guadeloupe.
We offer the Crimean-Khanate to be our vassal but they refuse (170).

7/4
We try the same thing with Algeria bur unfortunately with the same result. (170).

5/5
We expand our trade post in Guadeloupe (level 5).



1542

1/1
We upgrade the fortifications in Valencia.
We send a trader to Jamaica and a flattering letter to Algeria (183).
We are also informed that our relations with France, for some reason seems to be slowly decreasing so we send them a flattering letter as well (107).

24/5
The trader we sent to Jamaica failed.

1/11
We make another attempt to vassalize the Crimean-Khanate, but again the refuse (168).

17/11
Brandenburg is now a vassal to the Hanseatic League.



1544

1/1
We appoint a Chief Judge in Toledo and we send a trader to Curacao.

15/5
Our trade post in Curacao is now up to level 5.



1545

1/1
We send a trader to Barbados and a flattering letter to France (101).
We recruit 3000 infantry in Sierra Nevada and 2000 cavalry in Toledo.

25/3
The Kazan-Khanate is now a vassal to the Golden Horde.

2/6
We expand our trade post in Barbados (level 2).

20/7
The Crimean-Khanate is now a vassal to Astrakhan.

14/9
Denmark declares war on the Hanseatic League.



1546

1/1
Those Christians are really running wild, now some guy named Jean Calvin has come up with yet another version of this blasphemy they call religion, this one is called the Reformed church or Calvinism. Well we can just hope this will create even more diversion among the Infidels.
We send a flattering letter to France (106).
We upgrade our sheriff in Gerona to a bailiff.

22/1
Prussia is now a vassal to England.

10/4
One of our spies informs us that there's a lot of unrest in the Spanish Netherlands, it seems the people there have all turned Calvinists and that there's strong forces working for independence from Spain. Flandres and Friesen have already fallen to the rebels. Yes! This is exactly what we've been waiting for, this splitting up of Christianity just had to cause them trouble sooner or later. We wish those Calvinists the best of luck in their struggle for independence, cause if they break free, Spain will lose yet another bit of its great power.

10/5
We expanded our trade post in Barbados (level 4).

1/7
12028 Spanish separatists are revolting in Gerona.

29/7
A young and restless nobleman in search of adventures presents himself for the King. His name is Al-Rashid and he has gathered 1000 men and he's now seeking the Kings permission to go to the New World to explore new lands in the name of the King. Not only do we give him our blessing we also tells him that we'll let him use our fleet to get to the New World. Then we order our explorer Nasiryah to return to Europe because without him our fleet will have some troubles crossing the ocean.
Queseima (12809, 5699) defeats the rebels in Gerona.

6/11
We invite Algeria to our alliance and they agree to join (200). We also try do invite the Ottomans, Hedjuz, Oman and Nubia but they all refuse.

14/12
We send a trader to Aires.



1548

1/1
Helvetia is the first country to adopt to the new form of Christianity and they are now Calvinists.
We recruit (3000, 1000) in Andalusia.

13/2
Poland (Spain, Kurpfalz, the Papal-state, Portugal) declares war on the Hanseatic League.

6/3
We send a flattering letter to France (112).

1/5
Holland (Friesen, Holland, Zeeland, Flandres and the Hague) declares its independence from Spain. They declare war on Spain and Poland joins the Spaniards in their war.
We try to invite the new nation to our alliance but they don't want to join. (109).

11/6
Nasiryah is now back in Europe and is given command of our entire fleet. Al-Rashid (4000, 1000) boards the fleet and it sets sail for Martinique.

12/7
We have now established a trade post in Aires.

14/7
The Hanseatic League makes peace with Denmark. Jylland to the Hanseatic League.

17/12
Al-Rashid lands in Yaraguay and is attacked by 700 natives who he easily defeats.

25/12
We send a trader to Yaraguay.



1549

1/1
Kurpfalz and England converts to Calvinism.
We recruit (3000, 1000, 10) in Sierra Nevada.

29/3
Al-Rashid discovers Apure.

10/6
The Hanseatic League makes peace with Poland who gets Holstein and 250D in indemnity.

20/6
We now have a trade post in Yaraguay.

26/6
Al-Rashid discovers Yarumal.

23/7
Al-Rashid attacks and slains 600 natives in Tocuvo.

13/8
We send a trader to Tocuvo.



Summary:
This was 19 peaceful years not only for us but for entire Europe, not a single major war was fought only some minor. The only war we was a part of didn't gave us very much (except for a bunch of victory points) as almost all the money we got in indemnity was used to cover our losses. We have reached new levels of technology, allowing us to create monopolies and appoint Chief Judges. We have also begun to improve the infrastructure of our provinces, and even though we haven't expanded our territory in Europe or North Africa we have at least expanded our colonial possessions even further. So we now have the same old seven provinces on the Iberian peninsula and the Canary Islands but in the New World we have one city, Martinique (1090 inhabitants) and fifteen trade posts, Jamaica (5), Guadeloupe (5), Curacao (5), Barbados (4), Parana (2), Tortuga (1), Barahona (1), St Martin (1), Antigua (1), Tobago (1), Tampico (1), Yaraguay (1), Santa Cruz (1), Aires (1) and St Helena (1).
Our annual income is now up to 97D.
We have expanded our trade and now have a monopoly in Andalusia and five merchants in Tago, Flandres, Genoa, Venice, Holstein, Thrace and Empalme.
Inflation is up to 21%.
On the diplomatic front we still have Maroc as our vassal (200) and we have also tried to make Algeria our vassal but no success so far. Our alliance looks like this:
France (101), Scotland (200), Helvetia (92) and Algeria (200).
We have royal marriages with the following countries:
The Ottomans (200), Algeria (200), the Crimean-Khanate (200), Hedjaz (94), Astrakhan (91), Nubia (47), Oman (36) and the Golden Horde (-34).
Our total losses is now up to 112184 men infantry (65559 in combat, 46625 of attrition), 18552 men cavalry (10512 in combat, 8040 of attrition) and 3 cannons (all in combat). We have also lost 5 warships and 3 transports (all of attrition).
In conclusion things are still looking bright for us, our annual income is still on the rise and the total strength of our army is now 53250 men infantry (+14476 ), 13448 men cavalry (+5354) and 77 cannons (+37).
Our fleet now has 6 warships (-2) and 13 transports (+5).
We now feel that we are strong enough to take on the Mameluks so that will be our next move, we will also keep trying to make Algeria our vassal even though they seem to be very stubborn about not being vassalized.

The standing in victory points is as follows:
Country Military Economy Diplomacy Total
France 170 170 145 486
Granada 238 116 107 462
Ott.Emp. 147 47 145 349

Spain is still climbing upwards and are now in 6th place with 297 victory points.


Here comes the screenshots:

A new-born nation, Holland and northern Europe 1/1 1550

An overview of Europe 1/1 1550

Granadas colonial empire in the Caribbean 1/1 1550

North and South America 1/1 1550

 

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Oh those stupid French

Couldn't agree more . By the way, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that you can't vassalise a nation until you've got an alliance and a royal marriage with them. Or is than a diplomatic annexation I'm thinking of?

 

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Originally posted by Ariel


By the way, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that you can't vassalise a nation until you've got an alliance and a royal marriage with them. Or is than a diplomatic annexation I'm thinking of?

I made Maroc my vassal without any alliance so you don't need that, but you do need a royal marriage.

 

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Part V 1550-1572

1550

1/1
We trade maps with France (106) and we now know where India is.
We recruit (3000, 0, 10) in Valencia.

25/2
The trader we sent to Tocuvo failed.

1/3
There's a rebellion in Gerona and colonel Saada (10727,5283) battles 13428 rebels.
We send a trader to Tocuvo.

1/4
The rebel forces in Gerona are reinforced and are now up to (18125), Saada, now (8065, 4751) retreats back to Catalonia.
We recruit 2000 infantry in Catalonia.

12/4
Colonel Biskra (21423, 5130, 37) boards our fleet and then sets sail for Bay of Alexandria.

1/7
Our armies can now use early pistols (Land Tech 7).
In the trade technology we are now up to early baroque (level 4) and we're now able to refuse traders from other countries in our CoTs.

2/7
Our alliance expires.

3/7
We invite France (123), Helvetia (114), Scotland (200) and Algeria (200) to join our new alliance and they all accept.
We raise the maintenance level of our fleet to 100%.

1/8
Our infrastructure has now reached early baroque (level 4), we can now build Art Academies.

2/9
We now have a trade post in Tucovo.

26/9
The time has finally come to teach those Shiite Mameluk bastards a well-deserved lesson. We declare on the Mameluks and France, Scotland and Algeria join us in our war effort. Helvetia have no way to ever send any armies to Mameluk territory so they don't honour the alliance. We understand their position and invite them back and they accept.
The Mameluks also call for their allies to help them and Venice and Holland join the war. However the majority of their alliance (Hungary, Austria, the Teutonic Knights and the Knights of St John) turn their backs to the Mameluks.

29/10
Our fleet commanded by Nasiryah (6, 0, 13) is attacked by 9 Mameluk warships in the Bay of Alexandria.

6/11
Colonel Biskra lands in Egypt and start to siege Cairo without further delay.
As soon as the army is ashore Nasiryah flees the sea battle.

7/11
Saada loses another battle against the rebels in Gerona and his army (7305, 4199) has to retreat back to Catalonia. The rebels are now down to 5645 men.

11/11
The Mameluks offer us a 'white peace' but of course we refuse.
Biskra (20579, 4964, 37) is attacked by 10000 newly recruited Mameluks in Egypt and it's an easy win.



1551

1/1
The Mameluks are desperate to drive Biskra (20550, 4957, 37) out from Egypt and launch another attack, this time with (5432, 12170). Biskra is once again victorious but it's a bloody battle and our forces is now down to (13408, 3936, 27).

2/1
We recruit (2000, 2000) in Valencia.

28/1
The Mameluks asks for a status quo-peace but we have no interest in that.

20/2
Saada has finally put down the revolt in Gerona.

22/2
3960 mounted Mameluks attack us in Egypt but to no use.

12/4
Hedjaz is now a vassal to Oman.

8/5
Yet another peace proposal from the Mameluks. They really don't seem to understand that we won't accept a status quo-peace. We try to make our point clearer to them and send back the messenger in two pieces.
27065 Venetians have landed in Catalonia so we offer Venice a status quo-peace but they refuse. Our observers in France informs us that 25804 Dutch soldiers are laying siege to Luxembourg but Guise (75983) has taken Flandres and is now on his way to Zeeland.

14/5
A huge Venetian fleet (48, 22, 3) attacks the remnants of Nasiryahs fleet (12 transports) in the Gulf of Valencia. Nasiryah knows when he's beaten and flees to the Gulf of Almeira.

1/6
21000 Catalonians are rebelling and their first target to attack is the Venetian army there. The Venetians dispose of the rebels rather easy but they lose some 3000 men. Quite amusing if you ask me.

7/6
Our royal marriage with the Ottomans expire.

12/6
We arrange a new royal marriage with the Ottomans.

19/6
3622 Mameluk infantry attacks in Egypt but they are easily repelled.

7/7
Saada (6824, 4103) is attacked by (22367, 900) Venetians in Gerona. He quickly retreats back to Catalonia and Venice is now besieging Gerona.
We order colonel Wessera (15371, 2000, 40) to Catalonia from Toledo.

11/7
The Mameluks obviously didn't learn their lesson but send another status quo-peace offer. This time the messenger returns in four pieces.

23/7
Genoa is now a vassal to Austria.

2/8
Saada wipes out 3960 Mameluks in Egypt.

18/8
Another messenger from the Mameluks arrive and now we are up to eight pieces.
The Venetian army raise their siege and march of to who knows where.
No need for Wessera in Catalonia then so we let him stop where he is in Valencia.
We are informed that Guise (89284) now controls Zeeland as well. We have no interest in France expanding on behalf of the Dutch so we offer Holland a status quo-peace and they gratefully accept.

7/9
Cairo falls and we now control Egypt. Biskra (12473, 3803, 27) marches on to Delta.
Venice offers us a status quo-peace and we accept.

21/9
Our army in Egypt is caught by a small Mameluk army (2803). We have no problems beating them but it's annoying that we have to start our march to Delta all over again.

23/10
Spain makes peace with Holland. Holland pays 66D.

2/11
These cannons are really slowing us down and Biskra is once again caught by a small Mameluk army (3882). another easy victory.

11/11
Russia, (Pskov, Sweden, Denmark) declares war on the Kazan-Khanate (Golden Horde).

30/11
The Mameluks prove their foolishness when they send us another messenger to offer us a status-quo-peace. Sixteen small packages are returned.



1552

7/1
We send a trader to Barbados.
We recruit (2000, 1000) in Catalonia.

20/1
For the third time we are stopped from reaching Delta but this time Biskra wipes out all the 2813 Mameluks.

28/1
The Mameluks stupidity is almost as big as their heresy. Or maybe they just use us to get rid of people they don't like. Anyway they offer us a status quo-peace and get thirtytwo small packages in return.

21/2
All our new recruits in Valencia has been put under colonel Dernas command and now he lands in Alexandria with his army (4673, 1935, 10).

2/3
Derna begins with a simple victory when he fights off 7000 newly recruited Mameluks.

28/3
At last Biskra reaches Delta. He splits up his army and (5419, 1760, 13) is left in Delta under his command to besiege Damietta while the rest is sent to join Derna in Alexandria.

19/4
Al-Rashid discovers Cartagena.

30/4
We expand our trade post in Barbados (level 5).

11/5
8094 Mameluks are now in Egypt laying siege to Cairo.

29/5
Reinforcements from Delta arrives in Alexandria. Derna now has (9713, 3620, 22) troops.

4/6
Thüringen is now a vassal to Prussia.

1/7
Mameluk reinforcements arrives in Egypt and there are now 14776 Mameluks outside the walls of Cairo.

16/7
Al-Rashid discovers Bogota.

2/8
Poland annexes Venice.

A snapshot from the first Mameluk War 5/8 1552

16/8
Spain (Poland, the Aztecs, Kurpfalz, Persia) declares war on France (Scotland, Helvetia, Algeria). We would never miss an opportunity to kick some Spanish butt so of course we join the war.
We recruit (3000) in Toledo.
Wessera (15017, 1930, 40) in Valencia is ordered to take control of Castille while Saada (8824, 5103) in Gerona is ordered to Roussillon where 15416 Spaniards are waiting.

8/9
The Spaniards burn down our trade post in Tampico.

21/9
Wessera is now in Castille, laying siege to Madrid.

24/9
Saada is attacked by 48555 Spaniards in Gerona and immediately retreats back to Catalonia.

25/9
Cairo don't seem to hold very much longer. It would be disastrous for us if the Mameluks would recapture their capital so in an desperate attempt to raise the siege we order Biskra to drive the enemy out of Egypt.

10/10
The Spaniards in Gerona are marching on to France.

16/10
The Kazan-Khanate makes peace with Sweden who gets 250D in indemnity.

5/11
Even though he's heavily outnumbered Biskra charges down on the Mameluks in Egypt and in a heroic, fierce and bloody battle his (4736, 1623, 13) army forces the Mameluks (9061, 7605) to retreat. Cairo is saved! The remnants of Biskras army (1150, 1111, 8) start marching back to Delta.

13/11
Good news. The Ottomans (Cyrenacia, Hedjaz, Oman, Wallachia) declares war on the Mameluks (Holland, Hungary, Austria). Now the Mameluks have to fight a war on two fronts.

29/11
Russia makes a status quo-peace with the Kazan-Khanate.



1553

17/1
A sad day in the history of Granada. Colonel Biskras small army (1150, 1111, 8) is caught by a much larger Mameluk army (6184, 6375) and though our brave soldiers fight hard and valiantly, the Mameluk cavalry routes us and not one of our soldiers leave the battlefield alive. Biskras body is literally torn to pieces by furious Mameluk soldiers. He was a true Granadian hero and his name will forever be praised and honoured by all true Muslims. When the news of Biskras fate reaches me I take an oath that no matter how long it takes the bloody Shiites will pay the ultimate price for this ignominy.

23/1
Al-Rashid discovers Cupica and burns down the Spanish trade post there before he marches on to Isthmus.

25/1
We recruit (4000, 0 10) in Toledo.

15/2
Al-Rashid burns down the Spanish trade post in Isthmus.

28/2
Derna (9713, 3620, 22) has now breached the walls of Alexandria and the province is now ours. He is now ordered to Delta.

14/3
Al-Rashid burns down the Spanish trade post in Mosquito.
Helvetia now controls Roussillon.

15/3
Wallachia pays 250D to Austria for peace.

16/3
Saadas army reinforced with 3000 men from Toledo is now in Murcia laying siege to Cartagena.

2/4
Al-Rashid (3916, 984) wipe out 1000 Spaniards in Costa Rica (a level 3 Spanish colony) before he moves on to Nicaragua.

15/4
Spain makes peace with Helvetia. Helvetia pays 250D in indemnity.

19/4
The Crimean-Khanate declares war on Poland (Spain, Kurpfalz).

4/5
Al-Rashid now controls the Spanish colony in Nicaragua (level 1).

21/5
Derna is now in Delta and moves on to Egypt to fight the Mameluks who besieges Cairo and avenge Biskra.

29/5
We are quite surprised when 12547 Scots are landing in Gibraltar.

2/6
Al-Rashid burns down the Spanish trade post in Honduras.

28/6
Our new recruits (3000, 0, 10) from Toledo is now in Murcia helping out with the siege.

4/7
Al-Rashid now controls Guatemala, a Spanish city (700 inhabitants).

20/7
Dernas rage and urge for vengeance deceives him in the battle in Egypt and only (966, 2342, 11) survivors retreats to Alexandria.
We feel it's time for us to end this war (for now) and offer peace to the Mameluks demandin Alexandria and 500D in indemnity. They accept and Alexandria with its CoT is now a part of Granada we also get 30D which is all they got.
Alexandria is a rich province and can support a big number of soldiers so it will be a nice build-up place for our next war with the Mameluks. For there will be a next war and then another and then another until this nation of Shiite dogs is completely annihilated.
We are pleased to hear that the inhabitants of Alexandria (all true Muslims) honour us as their liberators and saviours from the Shiite yoke. Meaning that we don't have to fear any revolts in the province.

8/8
Saada storms the walls of Cartagena and Murcia is now in our control. He then starts marching his army (10524, 4241, 10) to Roussillon.
Al-Rashid burns down the Spanish trade post in Campeche.

23/8
Madrid falls and we now control Castille. Wessera (14843, 1895, 40) marches on to Aragon.

27/8
Al-Rashid burns down the Spanish trade post in Yucatan.

6/9
We are informed that 38899 French troops are in Roussillion besieging Perpignon. No use for Saada to go there then so we order him to take Estrameduras instead.

23/9
Roussillion is now under French control.

30/9
Wessera arrives in Aragon and lays siege to Saragosa.
King Zueidanea has appointed a new minister. His name is Jem and he's well-known for his brilliancy. (The kings skills increase for ten years).
Spain offers us Guatemala and Nicaragua for peace but we are not interested.

1/11
The Spaniards are now back in control in Guatemala.

16/11
Saada arrives in Estrameduras and is now besieging Badajoz.

19/11
Al-Rashid (3852, 971) loses a battle against 562, 0, 59) Spaniards in Mosquitos.

6/12
We upgrade the fortress and recruit (5000, 1000) in Alexandria.

8/12
Spain offers us Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Murcia. The King is tempted but I'm not, we have no use for two colonies that it would cost us a fortune to expand to cities. I say we wait for Wessera to take Aragon and then we can talk peace.

13/12
Spain recaptures Nicaragua.
26621 French and Scots are in Leon besieging Salamanca.



1554

3/1
We send traders to Yuacatan, Campeche and Palanas (in Africa).
We recruit (4000) in Valencia and (2000) in Toledo.
Ous observer in France informs us that 42666 men from Kurpfalz commanded by Martin Bucer is besieging Luxembourg.

8/2
Al-Rashid burns down the Spanish trade post in Cali.

19/3
The French arrives in Estrameduras taking charge of the siege. Saada (5819, 3374, 9) withdraws back to Toledo.

2/4
Wessera is reinforced with 4000 new recruits from Valencia.

5/4
The trader we sent to Palanas failed.

7/4
The Spaniards offer us Costa Rica for peace, what a joke.

24/4
Saada arrives in Toledo adding the 2000 new soldiers there to his army, now (6641, 3139, 9).

28/5
The Crimean-Khanate pays 14D to Poland for peace.

17/6
The French now controls Estrameduras.

16/8
We failed to establish a trade post in both Yucatan and Campeche.

26/11
Saada arrives in Aragon to assist in the siege.

27/11
Saragosa falls to our troops, Aragon is in our hands.
Now it's time for peace. We demand Aragon and Murcia from the Spaniards and they accept our generous offer.
Wessera (5972, 0, 36) marches back to Toledo and Saada (6552, 3122, 9) to Valencia.
We recruit (3000, 2000) in Valencia and (4000) in Toledo.
This peace really made our allies happy our relation to France is now (181) and to Helvetia (155).
Kurpfalz now controls Luxembourg.



1555
1/1
Wallachia makes a status quo-peace with Hungary.
The nationalistic sentiments in the Catalonian provinces (Catalonia and Gerona) are no longer a threat so we don't risk any more revolts there.
We construct two warships in Andalusia.

27/2
Al-Rashid moves into Caribe and gets rid of the 600 natives there.

19/3
We send a trader to Caribe.

8/7
We decrease the fleets maintenance level to 50% again.

12/7
Spain are definitely on their way down, now they have to give up Estrameduras and Roussillon to France for peace.

15/7
We offer Algeria to be our vassal but they don't want to (170).

17/8
The Ottomans makes peace with the Mameluks. Nuyssaybin to the Ottomans.

1/9
Rebellion in Murcia, 12500 rebels are laying siege to the city.

3/9
We now have a trade post in Caribe.

5/9
We send a flattering letter to Algeria (198).

7/9 Astrakhan annexes the Crimean-Khanate.

12/11
Colonel Saada ( 9336, 5080, 9) defeats the rebels in Murcia. They put up a good fight though and Saada army is down to (6900, 4732, 6) when it marches back to Valencia.

11/12
We send Nasiryah with the fleet to the New World.



1556

1/1
Felipé II, the new king of Spain is also elected new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
We recruit (4000, 1000) in Valencia.
We upgrade the sheriff to bailiff in the Canary Islands.

5/5
Al-Rashid (3180, 836) attacks 1500 natives in Apure.

1/6
A big rebellion in Aragon, 16881 rebels.

12/6
All the natives in Apure is now dead.
We send a trader to Apure.

15/7
Wallachia makes a status quo-peace with the Mameluks.

1/9
Another rebellion in Aragon, now there is 28880 rebels in the province.

21/9
Nasiryah is now in the New World and transports Al-Rashid and some new troops to Barahona, where the new troops are added to Al-Rashids army (4421, 776).

14/12
We now have a trade post in Apure.



1557

1/1
A new CoT has emerged in Holland.
We expand the fortress in Catalonia.

20/1
Al-Rashid discovers Les Cayes.

1/2
We send a trader to Les Cayes.

7/5
Persia (the Mameluks, Holland) declares war on Iraq.

8/6
Saada (10900, 5732) defeats 16989 rebels in Aragon, losing only (280, 56).

30/7
We now have a trade post in Les Cayes.

21/8
We are sorry to hear that the evil Persians have annexed our Sunni brothers in Iraq.

19/10
Tripolitania is now a vassal to Algeria.

20/10
We offer Algeria to be our vassal but they refuse (170).



1558
1/1
We send a flattering letter to Algeria (188).
We recruit (4000, 2000) in Alexandria.

5/1
Austria pays 207D to the Ottoman for peace.

14/4
Al-Rashid discovers Mobile.

24/4
We send a trader to Mobile.

26/7
Our royal marriage with the Golden Horde expires.

30/7
We try to arrange a new royal marriage with the Golden Horde but they refuse (-2).

1/8
Spanish separatists in Aragon take control of the fortress. Another 7390 rebels are outside the city.

1/9
Saada (10350, 5122) attacks the rebels in Aragon but he loses the battle and his army, now (8503, 5253) is forced to retreat to Catalonia but at least he killed off 5290 rebels.

20/9
We recruit (3000) in Catalonia.

28/11
We now have a trade post in Mobile.

1/12
12500 rebels in Murcia.

10/12
Our royal marriage with Astrakhan expires.

13/12
We arrange a new royal marriage with Astrakhan.

18/12
The 2100 rebels from Aragon attacks Saada in Catalonia but they are all wiped out.



1559

2/1
We recruit (4000, 2000) in Alexandria.

19/1
Saada (11189, 5190) marches in to Aragon and lays siege to Saragosa.

28/1
Nasiryah returns to Europe with his fleet.

11/2
Al-Rashid discovers Biloxi.

24/2
Our 6 cannons who have been stationed in Valencia reinforces Saada in Aragon.

16/4
Al-Rashid discovers Tuscaloosa.

27/4
We send a trader to Tuscaloosa.
Russia (Pskov, Sweden, Denmark, the Teutonic Knights) declares war on the Kazan-Khanate (Golden Horde).

8/6
Weesera (12655) attacks 11875 rebels in Murcia but is forced to retreat back to Toledo (8488).

22/6
Our royal marriages with Hedjaz and Nubia expires.

3/7
We arrange a new royal marriage with Nubia (157).

30/11
We now have a trade post in Tuscaloosa.



1560

1/1
We recruit (2000, 2000) in Toledo.
We upgrade the sheriff in Alexandria to a bailiff.

7/1
Kurpfalz (Spain, Poland) declares war on Hanover.

17/2
Kurpfalz makes a status quo-peace with Hanover. This was a short one.

24/2
Al-Rashid discovers Alabama.

6/3
We send a trader to Alabama.

20/3
The siege of Saragosa is over, Aragon is now under our control again. Saada and the cannons return to Valencia.

16/4
Kurpfalz is now a vassal to Holland.

15/6
Saada defeats the rebels in Murcia.

2/10
Our attempt to establish a trade post in Alabama failed.
We promote our sheriff in Gibraltar to a bailiff.

6/10
A merchant returning from a trip to Tago tells us that he was informed by a Portuguese friend that a country called Hyderabad now is a vassal to another country called the Kingdom of the Great Mogul, apparently these two countries is situated somewhere in India but he don't now exactly where.

10/11
The Kazan-Khanate pays 10D to Sweden for peace.

11/12
We send a trader to Alabama.



1561

2/1
We recruit (4000, 2000) in Alexandria.

11/2
The Kazan-Khanate males peace with Russia. Russia pays 90D in indemnity.

1/5
Aragon revolts, Saragosa is in the hands of the rebels and a small rebel army (7740) is standing outside the walls.

27/5
Our royal marriage with Algeria expires.

1/6
We arrange a new royal marriage with Algeria.

4/7
Saada (8043, 4561) defeats the rebels in Aragon and lays siege to Saragosa.

7/7
We now have a trade post in Alabama.

10/8
Six cannons from Valencia arrives in Aragon.



1562

1/1
We recruit 2000 cavalry in Toledo.

6/1
Al-Rashid discovers Alleghany.

14/1
We send a trader to Alleghany.

5/5
Saragosa falls and Aragon is back under our control. We send the cannons back to Valencia.

1/7
We can now build Galleons (Naval Tech 5) and we can also build naval equipment manufactories. We decide that it's time for us to start saving money so we can build a manufactory.

4/8
We now have a trade post in Alleghany.

2/11
Another great scandal shakes the court. One of our highest officials, and a close friend to our king, has sold information to the Spaniards. King Zueidana is outraged and he tells me he's going to spend the next 18 months down in the torture chamber to watch this traitor suffer. (The kings diplomatic skill=1 for 18 months).

23/11
Al-Rashid discovers Appalache.



1563

1/1
Georgia is now a vassal to Sweden.
We recruit (3000) in Catalonia.

8/3
Al-Rashid discovers a new country of heathens, the Iroquois and two of their provinces, Shenandoh and Mohawk. It turns out that we are the first Europeans they have ever met and we establish diplomatic relations with them (0).

11/5
Al-Rashid discovers Kentucky.

7/7
Saadas army is reinforced with the 3000 new recruits from Catalonia and is now (10079, 4374).

9/7
Our royal marriage with Oman expires.

24/7
Al-Rashid discovers Tennessee.

29/7
We arrange a new royal marriage with Oman (186).

8/8
Hanover is now a vassal to the Hanseatic League.

29/9
Al-Rashid discovers Yazoo.

6/12
We send a trader to Appalache.



1564

1/1
Scotland converts to Calvinism.
The Council of Trent. Catholic countries can now turn Counter-reformed and start converting other nations. This should be good for us because it will increase the chances for war between Christians (at least we hope so).
We build 10 cannons in Alexandria.

5/1
Cologne is now a vassal to Spain.

6/1
Al-Rashid discovers Arkansas.

7/1
Russia annexes Pskov.

26/3
Al-Rashid discovers Mississippi.

14/6
Al-Rashid discovers Illinois.

25/6
We now have a trade post in Appalache.

1/7
There's now rebellions in both Aragon, where 15481 rebels forces Saada to retreat to Gerona and in Murcia (12500 rebels).

18/8
Al-Rashid discovers Fox.

25/10
Al-Rashid discovers Miamis.

29/10
Wessera (10488, 4000) defeats the rebels in Murcia and then marches back to Toledo with (8022, 3507) men.

5/12
We send a trader to Kentucky.

25/12
Al-Rashid discovers Hindua.



1565
1/1
Austria, Spain and the Knight of St John all turns to Counter-reformed Catholicism.
A new CoT emerges in Dominica.

23/2
Al-Rashid discovers Eire.

27/5
Oman annexes Hedjaz.

28/5
We offer Nubia to become our vassal and they most gratefully accepts.

4/6
Al-Rashid discovers Irondekoit, a part of the Iroquois nation.

28/6
We now have a trade post in Kentucky.

2/7
Our alliance expires.

3/7
We invite France (165), Helvetia (200) and Algeria (200) to a new alliance and they all accept. The Scots have already found themselves a new alliance so they are out of the question.
Saragosa falls and Aragon is now controlled by the rebels.

9/8
Saada 10079, 4374) attacks the rebels (15462) in Aragon and wins a bloody battle losing (2918, 584).
He then besieges Saragosa.

26/8
We invite Nubia to our alliance and they join.

14/9
Our 6 cannons from Valencia arrives in Aragon.

21/11
Al-Rashid discovers Niagara.

8/12
We send a trader to Miamis.



1566
1/1
Genoa turns to Counter-reformed Catholicism.

7/2
Al-Rashid discovers Oshawa.

17/4
Al-Rashid discovers Huron.

23/6
Austria annexes Genoa.

10/7
We now have a trade post in Miamis.

21/7
Al-Rashid discovers Adirondak.

17/10
France (Helvetia, Algeria) declares war on Lorraine. We honour our alliance but Nubia doesn't. We invite them back immediately though.

9/11
Saada breaches the walls of Saragosa and Aragon is in our hands again. Just as we have planned all the sieges have made the population in Aragon decrease so that we now can send in some missionaries an unfortunate side-effect is that the sieges also have damaged the fortifications so that they are now down to a minimum.

13/11
Lorraine offers us a status quo-peace and we accept.

3/12
We send a trader to Yazoo.

14/12
Spain (Poland, the Aztecs, the Knights of St John, Cologne) declares war on France (Helvetia, Algeria). We join our allies in their war against the Spanish aggressors but once again Nubia dishonours our alliance and this time we let them stay outside.
We have two armies, Saadas (7161, 3790, 6) in Valencia and Wesseras (7926, 3488, 36) in Toledo. We order Saada to take Euskadia and Wessera to take Castille.
We recruit (4000) in Valencia.


1567
1/1
Spain burns down out trade post in Tocuvo.

6/1
England (Navarre, the Hanseatic League, Hanover) declares war on France (Helvetia, Algeria). We honour our alliance but immediately offers 'white peaces' to Navarre and England but they refuse.

9/1
Our missionary in Aragon succeeded, Aragon is now a Sunni Muslim province.

11/1
Spain burns down our trade post in Yaraguay.

19/1
Wessera arrives in Castille and lays siege to Madrid.

26/1
Spain burns down our trade post in Caribe.

2/2
Al-Rashid discovers Ticonderoga.

14/2
Saada arrives in Euskadia and lays siege to Bilbao.

15/2
Spain makes a status quo-peace with France. Not a very good war for us, we lost three trade posts and got nothing in return. Well, lets turn our attention to Navarre instead. We send Saada to Navarre and order Wessera to stand by in Catalonia.

21/3
Saada is now in Navarre, besieging San Sebastian.

4/4
Saada (6844, 3729, 6) is attacked by a much bigger Navarrian army (17862, 3503, 67) but in a glorious battle he forces the enemy to retreat losing only (397, 43).

4/5
The Golden Horde is now a vassal to Astrakhan.

1/6
Al-Rashid discovers Megantic.

10/6
We recruit (5000) in Valencia.

11/7
We now have a trade post in Yazoo.

24/7
Al-Rashid takes control of Bangor, an English city (731 inhabitants).

23/8
A great day for the Swedes I reckon, when they vassalize Denmark.

24/8
Al-Rashid is now in Micmac, another English city (754 inhabitants).

1/9
The Hanseatic League lands 7245 men in Navarre but Saada (6859, 3343, 6) wins another brilliant victory losing only (240, 25).

2/9
We offer a status quo-peace to the Hanseatic League but they refuse.

16/9
Portugal (the Papal-state, Scotland, Bavaria) declares war on France (Helvetia, Algeria). Seems like we've allied ourselves with the bad boy of Europe. Well, well, now we have the opportunity to liberate our Sunni brothers in Tangiers from Portuguese rule so we honour our alliance.

4/10
Our 5000 new recruits from Valencia arrives in Navarre together with the 36 cannons from Wesseras army but attrition gets to high so the 5000 soldiers are sent to Catalonia to reinforce Wessera instead.

20/11
Al-Rashid discovers Penobscot.

1/12
There's a rebellion in Aragon, 9881 rebels.



1568
24/1
Navarre now controls the French province Roussillon.

23/2
We send a trader to Yaraguay.

3/6
Wessera (10347, 3051) defeats the rebels in Aragon.

13/7
An army from Navarre (619, 4001, 64) besieges Gerona.

20/8
We now have a trade post in Yaraguay.
We offer a status quo-peace to Scotland but they refuse.
The French report that they are in Cornwall with 17645 men laying siege to Plymouth but at the same time 14852 Scots are in Wessex besieging Portsmouth and another 7763 Scots are in Bristol.

24/8
Wessera (10104, 3003) attacks Navarre (356, 3822, 65) in Gerona but he loses the battle and is forced to retreat back to Catalonia.

4/9
We recruit (4000) in Valencia.

11/10
Kurpfalz declares war on France (Helvetia, Algeria) and we intervene.

2/12
Wessera (8386, 2659) makes another attempt to drive Navarres army (0, 2933, 58) out of Gerona but again he fails, losing (1541, 308).

18/12
Our new recruits from Valencia (3844) under colonel Dammam attacks the Navarres in Gerona but are forced to retreat and only (2697) returns to Catalonia.



1569

3/1
We send a trader to Fox.
We recruit (5000) in Catalonia.

29/1
Wessera storms into Gerona again but to no use.
The French have recaptured Roussillon.

24/2
Gerona will soon fall so we're desperate to drive them out of there. This time it's Dammam (2643) who tries to defeat them but he fails miserably and no more than 739 men survives.
The French now controls Cornwall but they have lost Modena to the Papal-state.

A snapshot from the war against Navarre 24/2 1596

1/3
What a nice surprise! Unexpected scientific discoveries and inventions gives us a new naval equipment manufactory in Gibraltar.

3/3
Al-Rashid discovers Sebago.

2/4
Gerona is now controlled by Navarre.
Wessera (11014, 2185) attacks the Navarre army (0, 2363, 49) but he just can't beat them.

14/4
Prussia is now a vassal to the Teutonic Knights.

19/5
Holland (Persia) declares war on France (Helvetia, Algeria). We intervene.

2/6
San Sebastian falls to Saadas forces and we now control Navarre.

5/6
Kurpfalz makes peace with France. France receives 250D in indemnity.

24/6
The incompetent Wessera has been replaced by colonel Jafr and he marches his troops (10321, 1969) in to Gerona and finally defeats the Navarre army (0, 1444, 30).
France annexes Lorraine.
Scotland now controls Bristol.

8/7
Jafr marches back to Catalonia and lets Saadas army besiege Gerona.

10/8
We now have a trade post in Fox.

5/10
Assisted by French troops Saada (4419, 2944, 39) storms the walls of Gerona and recapture the city. We now realize that we can't annex Navarre because we're not the leader of the alliance in this war. That's too bad.

10/10
England offers us Micmac for peace but we refuse.
Navarre offers us a status quo-peace and of course we don't accept.
Jafr (9830, 1871) is now in Algarve but his orders are to Tago so he marches on.

17/10
Al-Rashid discovers Catskull.

26/10
Jafr arrives in Tago, defeats 3431 Portuguese soldiers and lays siege to Lisbon.

6/11
Al-Rashid burns down Manhattan, an English trade post.

9/11
Navarre offers us another status quo-peace. We refuse.

28/11
We burn down Delawere, a Dutch trade post.

11/12
Navarre offers us a status quo-peace and England offers us Micmac but we say no, no.

28/12
Al-Rashid arrives in Chesapeake, an English colony (174 inhabitants).



1570

1/1
The Papal-state turns to Counter-reformed Catholicism.
We demand 750D in war indemnity from Navarre and are quite pleased when they give us as much as 685D.
We start constructing a brewery in Catalonia, we upgrade the fortress in Gerona and we appoint a Chief Judge in Sierra Nevada.
We recruit (5000, 2000, 10) in Gibraltar.

3/1
We send a trader to Arkansas.

29/3
Saada (4234, 2907, 38) lands in Tangiers and wipes out 10000 Portuguese there. Then his army (2570, 2628, 37) lays siege to the city.

7/4
Al-Rashid discovers Roanoke.

22/4
We offer a status quo-peace to Holland but they refuse.
Louis Nassau and 24926 Dutch soldiers is in Picardie, besieging Amiens.

1/5
The fortress in Aragon is now controlled by rebels and 8090 rebels stand outside the city.
Our new recruits in Gibraltar are now ready and we split them up, (0, 2000, 10) is ordered to Tago to help Jafr with the siege there and (5000) is sent to Tangiers to assist Saada.
France and Helvetia (18229) are laying siege to Oporto.

10/6
Al-Rashid discovers Catabwa.

1/7
There's a rebellion in Murcia, 12500 rebels.

11/7
We burn down the English trade post in Santee.

17/7
England offers us Chesapeake for peace and we accept.

1/9
We burn down the Dutch trade post in Savannah.

24/9
We now have a trade post in Arkansas.

4/10
Lisbon falls to Jafrs troops, we now control Tago and we also steal some nice maps.
Portugal offers us a status quo-peace but our only answer is a loud laugh.

2/12
Jafr arrives in Andalusia and sends his 10 cannons to Tangiers.



1571

5/1
We send a settler to Chesapeake.
we build 10 cannons in Alexandria.

25/1
Oh, how nice! A French army (16783) has defeated the rebels in Aragon and is now besieging Saragosa.
Jafr (8013, 3064) puts down the rebellion in Murcia.
Holland, now controls Calais and Picardie and is besieging Paris.

21/2
The French capture Saragosa and Aragon is now in our hands again.
Portugal offers us another status quo-peace but we refuse.

2/4
Saada breaches the walls of Tangiers.

3/4
Portugal offers us Tangiers for peace but we want more so we refuse.

13/5
Holland makes peace with France. Picardie to Holland. How nice to see the French for once losing some territory.

13/6
Holland annexes Kurpfalz. These Dutch guys are really working hard to establish themselves as the big power in northern Europe.

14/6
The settler we sent to Chesapeake failed.

1/7
Another young noble daredevil presents himself for the King. His name is Azzer and he has gathered 1000 men and is very eager to get to the New World.

10/8
Navarre makes peace with Helvetia, paying 230D in indemnity.
Navarre makes a status quo-peace with France.

23/11
Oporto is now controlled by Helvetia.

18/12
Spain (Poland, the Aztecs, the Knights of St john, Cologne, Austria) declares war on Holland (England, Persia).



1572

2/1
We demand Tangiers and 500D from Portugal and desperate as they are, they accept and we get all the money they have, 150D.
The Sunni population in Tangiers are really happy to have gotten rid of their Catholic rulers and we don't have to fear any revolts there.
We send a settler to Chesapeake.
We recruit 3000 cavalry in Alexandria.
Helvetia and France (49877) are in Algarve, laying siege to Elvas.

21/1
Sweden declares war on Poland (Spain, the Knights of St John, Austria).

13/2
Saada (6542, 2499, 47) is now back in Andalusia.

21/3
Leaving the cannons in Andalusia, Saada marches his army to Valencia.

1/5
Murcia revolts, 12730 rebels attacks Jafr (4942, 2449) who has to retreat to Valencia.

11/6
Our colony in Chesapeake now has 278 inhabitants. There is also 500 natives there.

28/6
Saada and Jafr (10235, 4699) defeats the rebels in Murcia but not without losses, (7316, 4115) returns to Valencia.

29/6
Portugal pays 47D to France for peace.

29/7
Cologne makes peace with Holland. Cologne pays 250D in indemnity.

12/9
France receives Cornwall from England in exchange for peace.

21/12
France wishes to trade maps but we're not interested.


Summary:
After a long relatively peaceful period in Granadas as well as Europes history now followed 23 more violent years. We started the period with four years of war against the Mameluks and Spain then followed a long period of peace before Europe was dragged in to a period of constant warfare, beginning in 1566 and going on for six years. During this violent period four different alliances (a total of 15 countries) declared war on our ally, France and we were dragged in to all these conflicts. Our main enemies was Navarre and Portugal. All the wars went great for our victorious armies and we gained a lot of territory and money. So we now have nine provinces on the Iberian peninsula (which makes us the major power there as the Spaniards are down to five and the Portuguese remain at three), the Canary Islands, Tangiers and Alexandria.
Our annual income is up to 135D.
Inflation is up to 26%.
Our colonial possessions are now one city, Martinique (1414 inhabitants), one colony, Chesapeake (280 inhabitants) and twentysix trade posts, four at level 5, one at level 2 and twenty at level 1.
We have expanded our trade a bit further and have monopolies in Andalusia and Empalme, five merchants in Tago, Flandres, Holland, Holstein, Genoa, Venice, Thrace and two merchants in Dominica.
On the diplomatic front Maroc (198) and Nubia (200) is our vassals while Algeria is still refusing our offers. Our alliance looks like this:
France (162), Helvetia (200) and Algeria (200).
We have royal marriages with the following countries:
The Ottomans (200), astrakhan (200), Algeria (200) and Oman (176).
Our total losses is now up to 221137 men infantry (139562 in combat, 81575 of attrition), 37048 men cavalry (22407, 14641) and 52 cannons (48, 4). We have also lost 13 warships (1, 12) and 8 transports (all of attrition).
In conclusion things are still looking bright for our glorious nation, in fact it looks brighter than ever before. The total strength of our army is now 29297 men infantry (-9477 compared to 1549), 16952 men cavalry (+8858) and 78 cannons (+38).
Our fleet is not so impressive though, only 8 transports left (compared to 8 warships and 8 transports in 1549). But that is not such a big problem anymore as we now have a foothold in Africa (Alexandria) from where we can wage war on the Mameluks.
And that is what we plan to do next, build up our armies and teach the Shiite dogs a well-deserved lesson. For the moment we have no intention to fight the Spaniards, but should they declare war on us or any of our allies we won't hesitate to relieve them of some more of their Iberian provinces.
Diplomatically we still want to vassalize Algeria and now when we have a common border with Maroc we may try to make them a full part of our nation.

The standing in victory points is as follows:
Country Military Economy Diplomacy Total
Granada 351 289 209 850
France 194 294 217 705
Austria ? ? 303 502

Spain drops one place and are down to 7th with 376 victory points tailing the Swedes in 6th place with 378 VP.


Here are the screenshots for part V:

The Iberian peninsula 1/1 1573

An overview of Europe 1/1 1573

North America and the Caribbean 1/1 1573

South America 1/1 1573

What we know of Africa and India 1/1 1573

The Dutch on their way up 1/1 1573

 

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We are quite surprised when 12547 Scots are landing in Gibraltar.

'Excuse me laddie, but is this tha way to tha pub? No? Och buggerit, I knew we shouldae turned right at Glasgae instead...'

And if the Mameluks sent any more envoys you would have had to invest in a grinder...

LOL.

 

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Part VI 1573-1599

1573

1/1
We offer Algeria and Astrakhan to be our vassals but they both refuse (170, 170).
We recruit (2000, 1000) in Gibraltar and (5000, 1000) in Catalonia.
We send a settler to Chesapeake.

9/1
The trader we sent to Detroit failed.

2/3
The new recruits in Gibraltar join Azzer, for a trip to the New World while the soldiers in Catalonia are sent to Valencia to reinforce colonel Batnas army (7685, 2998).

1/4
Our soldiers can now use metal bullets (Land Tech 7).

8/4
Azzer boards the fleet which then sets sail for Martinique.

10/6
We expand our colony in Chesapeake (3).

10/9
We send a flattering letter to Algeria (200).

26/12
After a stop in Martinique Azzer arrives in Chesapeake. The fleet is sent back to Andalusia.



1574

1/1
We send a settler to Chesapeake.

15/2
Azzer discovers Powhatan.

20/5
Azzer discovers Susquehanna.

10/6
The Chesapeake colony is now up to level 4.

22/8
Azzer discovers Tuscarora (Iroquois).



1575

1/1
We send a settler to Chesapeake.
We recruit (5000) in Valencia.

7/2
Azzer discovers Milwauke.

21/2
The 5000 new recruits is split up even between colonel Batna (10185, 2998) and colonel Hogger (7131, 2117).

15/4
Sweden is forced to pay 250 D in indemnity to Poland for peace.

7/5
Azzer discovers Missouri.

10/6
Chesapeake is now a level 5 colony.

12/7
Azzer discovers Iowa.

6/9
Azzer discovers Minnesota.

15/10
We invite Nubia into our alliance.

7/12
We send a settler to Chesapeake.

14/12
Azzer discovers Mesabi.



1576

1/1
We appoint a Chief Judge in Catalonia.

15/2
Azzer discovers Wisconsin.

1/3
We learn to use astrolabe. (Naval Tech 6).

19/4
Azzer discovers Duluth.

16/5
The settler we sent to Chesapeake fails and this really upsets the 500 natives there who attack Al-Rashid and unfortunately they refuse to give up before every single one of them are dead.

13/6
Our royal marriage with the Ottomans expire.

17/6
We arrange a new royal marriage with the Ottomans (200).

24/6
Azzer discovers Oskosh.

26/8
Azzer discovers Sault.

6/9
We try to make Algeria our vassal but they, for some reason, prefer to keep their money for themselves (170).

27/12
Azzer discovers Michilimakinak.



1577

1/1
We send a settler to Chesapeake and a flattering letter to Algeria (185).
We build 10 cannons in Alexandria.
We try to invite our vassal Maroc into our alliance but they refuse to join. (181).

6/5
Azzer discovers Nipissing.

10/6
Chesapeake is now a city with 701 inhabitants.

7/7
Azzer discovers Nipigon.

1/8
We send a flattering letter to Maroc (200).

16/9
Azzer discovers Athabaska.

16/10
Sweden annexes Denmark and for some odd reason that makes me feel very good.

16/11
A group of patriotic, wealthy merchants have decided to give 7 warships to our fleet and for that we salute them.

4/12
We send a trader to Powhatan.

5/12
Azzer discovers Superior.



1578
1/1
We start building a fortress in Chesapeake.

7/1
Holland makes a status quo-peace with Spain.

4/6
England (Holland, Persia, Sweden, Navarre, the Hanseatic League) declares war on Scotland (Portugal, the Papal-state, the Ottomans).

14/6
We now have a trade post in Powhatan.

22/10
Azzer discovers Onandaga (Iroquois).



1579

1/1
We decide to start saving money to build a new manufactory.

5/1
Al-Rashid (3088, 510) attacks 1000 natives in Roanoke

17/1
Astrakhan annexes the Golden Horde.

19/1
We ask Astrakhan if they want to be our vassal but they don't (170).

18/2
Al-Rashid has now wiped out all the natives in Roanoke without losing a single soldier.
We send a trader to Roanoke.

27/2
Azzer discovers Hochelaga.

1/5
Azzer discovers Shawinigan.

4/7
Azzer discovers Laurentia.

29/8
We now have a trade post in Roanoke.

22/9
Azzer discovers Ottawa.



1580

1/1
We send a trader to Milwaukee and a flattering letter to Portugal (-16).

28/6
Azzer discovers Chicoutimi.

11/8
Scotland makes peace with England. Yorkshire to Scotland.

16/8
We now have a trade post in Milwaukee.

2/9
We send a flattering letter to Portugal.

3/10
One of our spies informs us that Spain is have gone bankrupt. Maybe we should take advantage of that?

2/12
We send a trader to Catabwa.



1581
1/1
We recruit (2000) in Chesapeake.
We send a flattering letter to Portugal (13).

5/3
Azzers army, reinforced with the new recruits from Chesapeake is now up to (3184, 637).

5/4
We now feel we are strong enough to teach the Mameluks another lesson so we declare war on them. France, Helvetia and Algeria all intervene but not so our vassals Nubia. We are sad to hear that our Sunni brothers in Oman and Astrakhan not only have allied themselves with the Shiites but that they actually honour their alliance and come to the heretics help. We promise ourselves though, that we won't fight our poor misled brothers unless absolutely necessary.
We have colonel Fahtis army (17893, 12327, 41) in Alexandria surrounded by enemies, 6027 Mameluks in Quattara, 10455 in Cataract and 4950 in Egypt. Fahti lets his troops wait in Alexandria for the Maeluks to do the first move.

The beginning of the second Mameluk War 13/4 1581

1/6
The largest of the Mameluks armies (10455) attacks Fahti in Alexandria but we win a great victory, annihilating the enemy while losing only (442, 63).

England (Holland, Persia, Sweden, Navarre, the Hanseatic League) declares war on France (Algeria). Helvetia dishonour the alliance and 32061 soldiers in Navarre make us do the same. (Stability down to 2).
We explain our situation for the French and they are very understanding and let us join the alliance again.
we reorganize our army in Alexandria, colonel Fahti (10451, 0, 41) is ordered to take Egypt and the other army commanded by colonel Zuwara (7000, 12264) is sent to Delta.

2/6
The Mameluks offers us a status quo-peace and we sharpens our knives again.

15/6
We now have a trade post in Catabwa.

1/8
Zuwara arrives in Delta but is ordered to march to Sinai to fight back any troops that tries to reach Egypt.
Fahti (10162, 0, 41) has arrived in Egypt and has to fight off (5881, 2757) Oman and Mameluks before his surviving troops (8909, 0, 38) can lay siege to Cairo (5000 garrison).

2/8
We feel really bad about fighting other Sunnis so we offer a status quo-peace to Oman but they obviously want this madness to continue.

4/8
Having heard about our peace offer to Oman, the Mameluks tries their luck but with the same bloody result.

20/9
Zuwara (6052, 12075) meets (4911, 10430) Mameluks in the Sinai desert. In a fierce and bloody battle the Mameluks are forced to retreat to Samaria with what is left of their army (2051, 2704). Zuwara, now (5635, 11991) chases after them.

17/10
Zuwara (3138, 11991) catches the fleeing Mameluks (638, 2216) in Samaria and wipes them out completely. He then marches on to Judea.

9/11
Zuwara (2506, 11366) wipes out another 3960 Mameluks in Judea. At the same time 9900 Mameluks are spotted in Jordan on their way to Sinai and we order Zuwara to Jordan to intercept them.

24/11
Portugal (Bavaria, the Papal-state, Scotland, the Ottomans) declares war on France (Algeria, Tuscany). We honour our alliance but then offers a white peace to Portugal and they accept.

25/11
Fahti breaches the walls of Cairo and we now control Egypt. He then marches on to Delta.

26/11
The Mameluks offer us Sinai and we find this so funny that we actually let the messenger keep his head and return home in one piece.

27/11
Zuwara wasn't fast enough and the 9900 Mameluks are now in Sinai.

5/12
Zuwara (1121, 11089) is attacked by 2994 troops from Oman in Jordan but he has no problem beating them.

9/12
We offer Oman a status quo peace but they refuse.

14/12
The Mameluk army (9584) in Sinai returns to Jordan but are slaughtered to he last man by Zuwara who then marches his army (537, 10972) to Judea.



1582

1/1
A new CoT emerges in Anglia.

2/1
Astrakhan lands an army (14224) in Alexandria and lays siege to the city.
The Mameluks again offer us a status quo-peace, I don't know if I should admire their persistence or despise their stupidity but I soon chose the second alternative.
We offer a status quo-peace to Astrakhan but they refuse.
In Iberia a Portuguese army is in Estrameduras, besieging Badajoz but at the same time, Guise and his 40900 French are on their way to Portugal.

19/1
Before Fahti reaches Delta he's caught by a small Mameluk force in Egypt, he beats them off with ease but he now has to start the march to Delta all over again.

1/2
Zuwara defeats 4000 Mameluks in Judea and then marches on to Sinai, via Samaria.

10/2
Zuwara (441, 10593) intercepts a Mameluk/Oman army (8637) in Sinai he forces them to retreat and then moves on to Egypt with 8347 cavalry.

28/3
Fahti arrives in Delta and lays siege to Damietta (5000 garrison).

6/5
Zuwara arrives in Egypt and details 1000 cavalry to take control of the Mameluk colonies Cataract and Quattara.

27/5
Sinai is now controlled by the Mameluks.

7/6
Cataract is now in our hands.

27/6
Zuwaras 7013 cavalry defeats (2970) men from Oman in Egypt.

A snapshot from the second Mameluk War 27/6 1588

29/6
Damietta falls and we now control Delta.

1/7
The Mameluks offer us Delta and Cataract and since we are beginning to run low on troops we decide that this is enough for now so we accept their offer.
We order all our armies to gather in Delta and we send a missionary to the Orthodox Cataract.
Estrameduras is now controlled by the Portuguese but that don't seem to bother Guise who is standing in Toledo with his army (12330, 8656, 25) doing nothing.

1/9
All our armies (8121, 7887, 38) have gathered in Delta and are put under colonel Fahtis command. Colonel Suwara was severely injured in the very last battle of this war and is sent to the Canary Islands to recuperate.

27/9
The missionary we sent to Cataract was successful and all the 309 inhabitants in the colony are now true Muslims.

1/12
Stability is back up to 3.

2/12
Our great victory over the Shiites really impressed our Nubian vassals so when we offer them to be a part of our nation instead of just paying tribute to us they happily accept. Even though all the Nubians are happy (we won't risk any revolts here) our relations with other countries have been damaged:
The Ottomans (100), Algeria (84), Maroc (66), France (75) and Portugal (-66).
For the moment we don't care very much about the other nations but instead we are glad to have added three provinces, Batn al Hajar (1730 inh), Nubia (3031) and Sudan (6820), all with bailiffs, Chief Judges and level 2 fortifications, to our kingdom. We also control the Nubian Army (8825, 7765) and we put colonel Mukalla in charge.

5/12
We'd better improve our relations with Maroc before they decide they don't want to be our vassals anymore so we send them a flattering letter telling them that we, of course, have no intention what so ever to try to make them a part of our kingdom as well, and they seem to fall for it (97).
The French (12176) now tries to recapture Estrameduras from Portugal.



1583

1/1
We send a settler to Cataract.

28/1
We send another flattering letter to Maroc (118).

20/2
France have to give something away for a change, Holland demands Picardie and 96D in indemnity and the French accept.

27/3
Cataract is now a level 4 colony.

2/5
Poland (Spain, the Knights of St John, Austria, Cologne) declares war on the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).

3/7
Portugal makes a status quo-peace with Tuscany.

6/8
Poland annexes Prussia.

5/11
We send the fleet to Chesapeake to bring Azzer to Africa.
The French (29334) are in Navarre, besieging San Sebastian.

8/12
We send a settler to Cataract.

14/12
Our royal marriage with Astrakhan expires.

16/12
France makes peace with Navarre. Navarre pays 250D in indemnity.
We arrange a royal marriage with Astrakhan.



1584

1/1
We send a flattering letter to Maroc (135).
We no longer risk any revolts in Aragon and Murcia.
Our fleet in Chesepeake Bay is attacked by pirates and before we manage to escape we lose one transport.

4/3
We expand our colony in Cataract (level 5).

6/10
The French (20336) are in Algarve, laying siege to Elvas when they are attacked by 6000 Portuguese. The French are victorious and the siege continues.



1585

1/1
We send a settler to Cataract and a flattering letter to Maroc (155).

26/2
Batna (9097, 2781) marches his army back to Toledo from Valencia and adds the 47 cannons left there to his forces.

30/3
We expand our colony in Cataract (6).

21/4
Azzer (3184, 637) arrives in Batn al Hajar where he is reinforced with 1000 cavalry from Mukallas army.

18/5
The Teutonic Knights pay Austria 239D for peace.

17/6
Engalnd pays 173D to France for peace.

18/8
The Hanseatic League is now a vassal to England.

1/11
Persia (England, Holland, Sweden, Navarre, the Hanseatic League) declares war on Astrakhan (Mameluks, Oman)

4/11
The Teutonic Knights make a status quo-peace with Poland.

16/11
Spain (Poland, the Knights of St John, Austria, Cologne, the Aztecs) declares war on France (Tuscany). Algeria drops out of the alliance but we can't resist an opportunity to beat up the Spaniards so we intervene.
Batna (9097, 2781, 47) moves from Toledo to Castille while Hoggar (6515, 1994) in Valencia is ordered to Euskadia.

30/11
Azzer discovers Massawa.

21/12
Batna arrives in Castille and lays siege to Madrid.



1586

1/1
Hoggar arrives in Euskadia and besieges Bilbao.
We send a settler to Cataract and a flattering letter to Maroc (170).
We recruit (4000) in Aragon.

26/2
Don Juan (16957, 3697) is now in Aragon laying siege to Saragosa (onlu 5000 defenders).

1/3
As soon as our new recruits in Aragon are ready they run off to Euskadia.

17/3
Hoggar is reinforced by the new recruits and he now has (10444, 1980) men in Euskadia.

27/3
Cataract has now grown in to a city (712 inhabitants).

3/5
An Austrian army (26000) led by Karl marches in to Aragon and the combined Spanish/Austrian forces there are now up to (37473, 4419).

13/5
Poland makes a status quo-peace with France.

28/5
Azzer discovers Keren.

2/6
Our royal marriage with Algeria expires.

7/6
We arrange a new royal marriage with Algeria (134).

22/8
Batna captures Madrid, Catalonia is ours. He then moves on to Euskadia.

19/9
Don Juan arrives in Castille with his army (11018) and tries to recapture Madrid. The Austrians (13680) are still in Aragon.

3/10
Persia makes a status quo-peace with Astrakhan.

10/10
Batna arrives in Euskadia and takes over the siege from Hoggar who moves his army (5812, 1854) to Asturias.

27/11
Azzer discovers Issas.



1587

1/1
We send a trader to Socotra and a flattering letter to Maroc (185).

29/1
Cologne makes peace with France. Cologne pays 250D in indemnity.

18/2
Bilbao falls to Batna and we now control Euskadia.

19/2
Spain offers us Euskadia for peace we refuse and demand Euskadia and 500D in indemnity. The Spaniards accept and hand over all the money they got, 186D.
We start building a brewery in Andalusia.
The new recruits from Aragon who still are in Euskadia joins Baktas army (10784, 2383, 47).

26/5
Azzer discovers Afars.

21/7
Hoggar (5685, 1828) is now in Aragon.

30/7
Batna arrives in Aragon as well.

9/7
We failed to establish a trade post in Socotra.

1/9
The Euskadians don't seem very happy about being ruled by us, at least not the 19963 of them who rebels.

9/10
Azzer discovers Ogaden.

1/12
We try to send another trader to Socotra.

18/12
Portugal pays 250D in war indemnity to France.



1588

1/1
We start building a fortress in Cataract.
We send a flattering letter to Maroc (200).
We recruit (2000, 2000) in Delta.

3/3
Algeria annexes Tripolitania and our relations drop down to (101).

2/5
Bilbao falls to the rebels and they now control Euskadia.

6/6
For some odd reason the imams are dissatisfied with our rule and the preach against us. (Stability down to 2).

9/6
The trader we sent to Socotra failed.

12/6
Our 47 cannons arrives in Catalonia.

30/7
Our royal marriage with Oman expires so we arrange a new one.

5/8
Even though our own imams are unhappy with us, their colleagues in Maroc seem to be our biggest supporters. So when we tries to annex the country they persuade their leaders to accept and then start preaching to the masses about the glory of their new rulers. Therefore we won't risk any revolts. As expected the rest of the world don't approve of us expanding our territory so relations drop down a bit, the Ottomans (23), Algeria (40), France (51). We are more than happy though, adding three provinces, Morocco (13552 inh), Toubkal (8870) and Sahara (824) to our growing nation. All the provinces have bailiffs, Chief Judges and level 2 fortifications and as an extra bonus Morocco and Toubkal have breweries and a third manufactory is on its way in Sahara. We also receives two armies and colonel Zuwara, now fully recovered from his injuries, is put in charge of the larger one (20000, 20000) in Morocco while colonel Safi is commanding the smaller one (5000, 5000) in Toubkal.

8/9
The rebels (18579) from Euskadia attacks our armies (16149, 4148) in Aragon but are wiped out completely.

7/11
Batna and Hoggar arrives in Euskadia and lays siege to Bilbao.

25/11
Don Juan (9390) has now captured Estrameduras from the French.

19/12
Our 47 cannons arrives in Euskadia.

29/12
Helvetia is now a vassal to England.



1589
1/1
We upgrade the fortress in Delta.
We send flattering letters to Algeria (52) and the Ottamans (36).

2/10
We are now in control of Euskadia again and as the population has decreased we are now able to send in a missionary.

12/11
Both our armies are now back in Aragon.

4/12
The missionary succeeded, Euskadia is now of true faith.



1590

1/1
Stability is up to 3 again.
We send a trader to Mudugh and flattering letters to Algeria (75) and the Ottomans (49).
We expand the fortress in Aragon.

6/1
France makes peace with Austria who has to cede Genoa and 130D.

30/6
We now have a trade post in Mudugh.

3/7
We now have a naval equipment manufactory in Sahara.

19/9
England (Navarre, Holland, Persia, Sweden, the Hanseatic League) declares war on France (Tuscany) and we decide to honour the alliance.
We send Batna (9921, 2211, 46) to Navarre and Al-Rashid (2497, 392) to Delaware (where the English have a trade post).

24/11
Batna arrives in Navarre and lays siege to San Sebastian.

7/11
Al-Rashid burns down the English trade post in Delaware.

23/11
French troops arrive in Navarre and our combined army is up to (12341, 7096, 77). Attrition is high so we decide to try to storm the walls. But we fail.

13/12
Hungary (Thüringen, Saxony) declares war on the Ottomans (Portugal, Bavaria).

15/12
Al-Rashid burns down an English trade post in Manhattan.



1591

28/1
We upgrade our sheriffs in Aragon and Murcia to bailiffs.
We recruit (5000) in Catalonia.

18/3
The Shiite Mameluk bastards declares war on us and to our great sorrow our brothers in Oman, Astrakhan and Algeria intervene on the Mameluks side. France intervenes on our side but Tuscany doesn't.
We have colonel Fahti (10121, 9887, 38) in Delta and colonel Mukalla (8825, 6765) in Nubia.
Fahti is sent to Egypt and Mukalla to Sinai.
We also order Safi to march to Morocco.

1/4
Our allies continue to pour in troops to Navarre and the total armies there are now up to (50576, 5333, 119). Instead of letting all our soldiers die of starvation and diseases we decide to make another attempt to storm the walls.

23/4
We burn down an English trade post in Penobscot.
Safi meets up with Zuwaras forces in Morocco.

6/5
Our two armies (24834, 24968) in Morocco is attacked by a large Algerian army (21103, 9881, 90). We are victorious and our casualties are small (762, 153) compared to the Algerians (10168, 1453, 14). Oh, this would have been a glorious victory if not for the fact that the dead enemy soldiers are not Shiite bastards or Christian dogs but Sunni Muslims like ourselves.

15/5
Al-Rashid takes control of Bangor, an English province with a city.

2/6
Fahti defeats a combined Mameluk/Oman army in Egypt and lays siege to Cairo.

3/6
We want to end this war in Algeria as quick as possible and the best way to do this is to take their capital. We rearrange our troops in Morocco and sends Zuwara (12323, 4865) to Al-Djazaiz, while Safi (11749, 19950) chases after the retreating Algerian army to stop them from interfering Zuwaras march.

5/6
Fahti (8301, 9616, 36) is attacked by 10979 Mameluks in Egypt, he defeats them and continue the siege.

18/6
Al-Rashid marches in to Micmac, another English province with a city.

1/7
A Persian army (6725) lands in Nubia.

3/7
Oman burns down our trade post in Mudugh.
Zuwara (12154, 4832) is severely beaten by (7065, 7655, 76) Algerians in Orania and only (3978, 3197) of his soldiers returns to Morocco.

1/8
Our armies are now equipped with arquebuses (Land Tech 8).
Al-Rashid burns down a Dutch trade post in Gaspésie.

2/8
Safi (11162, 19833) defeats the Algerian army (4153, 7239, 79) in Orania he then marches his army, now (5363, 18673) back to Morocco.

15/8
Mukalla (7664, 6533) battles (10702, 1765) Mameluks in Sinai, it's a fierce battle but in the end he forces the Mameluks to retreat. He then moves on in to Samaria.
We burn down a Dutch trade post in Fundy.

30/8
San Sebastian falls and Navarre is in our hands. What is left of Batnas army (35 cannons) marches back to Aragon.
We burn down Nova Scotia, another Dutch trade post.

6/9
Zuwara (3955, 3192) wipes out an Algerian army (6740) in Morocco.

25/9
Mukalla (2523, 5505) attacks a Mameluk army (10074, 1171) in Samaria, beats them and moves on to Judea.

3/10
Navarre offers us a status quo-peace but we refuse.

17/10
Mukalla (1224, 5245) meets 4061 Mameluks in Judea and after another victory moves back to Samaria again.

9/11
We burn down Rimouski, an English trade post.

13/11
Without a single casualty, Mukalla (361, 5073) defeats a Mameluk army (3000) in Samaria.

25/11
Navarre offers us another status quo-peace but we haven't changed our mind so again we refuse.
Nubia is now controlled by the Persians.

1/12
We are very pleased to hear that a large number of Catholics in Toledo have decided to convert to the true faith. (The province religion in Toledo now is Sunni).
Our armies in Morroco (7151, 21431) is attacked by 22777 Algerians, after a short battle we retreat back to Tangiers.

7/12
We burn down Quebec, an English trade post.

13/12
The English burn down our trade post in Alabama.



1592

1/1
We offer peace to Navarre, demanding 750D in indemnity and they pay us what they got, 403D.
In an attempt to save our trade posts we offer a status quo-peace to England, but they refuse.
We recruit (2000, 1000) in Chesapeake, (4000, 3000) in Alexandria, (8000) in Catalonia and (5000) in Tangiers.

22/1
The stupid Persians offer us 103D for peace and of course we accept that.

1/2
Cairo falls and we now control Egypt, Fahti immediately begins the march to Nile.

2/2
England who turned down our status quo-offer just a month ago, now offer us Micmac ( 813 inh) for peace and we are happy to accept.
We send a trader to Alabama.
We offer a status quo-peace to Oman but they refuse.
We recruit (2000, 2000) in Delta

9/3
France and Tuscany are still at war with Navarre and their armies (34685) are still there, besieging San Sebastian.
The Mameluks offer us a status quo-peace but as usual we refuse.

12/3
Fahti arrives in Nile and besieges Assuan.

28/3
Mukalla (361, 5073) attacks 5413 Mameluks in Sinai and kills all but 143 of them, he then marches to Egypt with his army, now (0, 4691).

2/5
The Spaniards have captured Estrameduras from the French.

5/6
All our new recruits from Delta and Alexandria arrives in Egypt adding some well-needed fresh troops to colonel Mukallas brave but battered army, now (5794, 9651).
The Mameluks regain control of Sinai.
Zuwara and Safi (10477, 21097) tries to drive the Algerians (22441) out of Morocco but they are forced to retreat back to Tangiers, leaving (2971, 595) of their soldiers dead on the battlefield along with 19231 Algerians.

16/7
France makes peace with Holland. Holland pays 241D in indemnity.

3/8
Mukalla (5794, 9651) is attacked by (9663, 759, 20) Mameluks in Egypt and is forced to retreat back to Delta.

8/8
We recruit (4000) in Delta.

29/8
We establish a trade post in Alabama.
Our French allies report that Alden and 17776 Englishmen is in Wessex besieging Portsmouth while at the same time 11881 French tries to recapture Bristol.

14/9
Spain makes a status quo-peace with France

26/9
England makes a status quo-peace with France.

13/12
Fahti captures Assuan and we control Nile.
The Mameluks offer us Nile but we refuse.

30/12
Astrakhan lands 4542 cavalry in Tangiers.



1593

1/1
We demand Nile and 500D from the Mameluks, they accept and hand over what they got, 44D.
We send flattering letters to Algeria, praising them for their brave armies (132), the Ottomans (83) and Oman (184).
We recruit 3000 cavalry in Aragon.
We build a fortress in Micmac.

3/1
Spain annexes Cologne.
The French are still in Navarre, now with 23756 soldiers.

4/5
We send a trader to Susquehanna.

5/7
We send a trader to Socotra.

19/8
The Ottomans receives Croatia and Serbia from the Hungarians for peace.

13/9
Thüringen is now a vassal to Sweden.

24/10
Portugal (Bavaria, the Papal-state, Scotland, the Ottomans) declares war on France (Tuscany) and we intervene. We send Batna (8667, 4441, 35) from Aragon to Tago.

29/10
The Mameluks are now a vassal to Persia. This s great news, because now they are no longer allied to our Sunni brothers, what a relief!

10/11
We now have a trade post in Susquehanna.

20/11
Spain (Poland, the Knights of St John, Austria, the Aztecs) declares war on us. What are they thinking, haven't they learned anything? Obviously not, so I guess we have to teach them yet another lesson. We turn to France and Tuscany and ask them if they want to join in on the fun but they turn us down! Very well, so be it, we have no use for those dirty French anymore, we are now strong enough to handle the Spaniards (or any other enemy) on our own.

25/12
The Portuguese captures Estrameduras from the French.
On his way to Tago, Batna receives new orders and goes for Castille instead.



1594

1/1
We recruit (3000, 1000, 10) in Aragon.

13/1
The trader we sent to Socotra failed.

15/1
A Portuguese army (10724, 528, 65) marches in to Andalusia and lays siege to Cadiz at the same time 38714 French are in Valencia marching south.

30/1
Batna reaches Castille and lays siege to Madrid.

17/2
The last Mameluk-war must have opened up the eyes of the rulers in Oman (200), Astrakhan (2009 and Algeria (143) because now they invite us to their alliance and with tears in our eyes we accept. Never again shall our swords shed the blood of our Sunni brothers.

3/4
The Teutonic Knights (the Kazan-Khanate) declares war on Poland (Spain, the Knights of St John, Austria).

16/4
The Portuguese now controls Andalusia.

19/4
Spain regrets they ever declared war on us and offers us a status quo-peace but there's no way we'll let them off the hook so easy.

1/5
Genoa declares its independence from France.

21/6
There's a battle between France and Portugal in Toledo and the French are victorious.

25/6
The Portuguese (3884, 1977, 10) arrives in Sierra Nevada and lays siege to Granada.

8/7
Spain offers us another status quo-peace but we refuse.

11/8
The Knights of St John offer us a white peace and we accept. Spain does the same but gets the opposite response.

26/9
Hoggar (5461, 943, 20) marches in to Tago and lays siege to Lisbon.
The Spaniards land an army (2583, 6465) in Morocco.
Russia (Moldavia) declares war on the Kazan-Khanate (the Teutonic Knights).

29/9
Poland offers us a white peace and we accept.

1/10
The Ottomans (6861) land in Alexandria.

7/10
England (Holland, Persia, Sweden, the Hanseatic League) declares war on Poland (Spain, the Knights of St John, Austria).

9/10
Austria offers us a status quo-peace and we accept.

4/11
We reorganize our armies in Tangiers, Safi (5276, 8556) boards the fleet for transportation to Iberia to help out with the Portuguese problem. Zuwara (1996, 11900) remains in Tangiers.

8/11
We are attacked by (2472, 6443) Spaniards in Tangiers but they are slain to the last man.

22/11
Portugal makes peace with France who have to pay 250D in indemnity. This is good, now we can send Hoggar to Asturias and let Safi stay in Tangiers. The Spaniards are getting really desperate and begs us to accept a status quo-peace but of course we won't.

19/12
This is a day of great sorrow for our glorious nation. Our beloved king Zueidana passes away, having reached the respectable age of 117 years. His 112 years on the throne (he was only 15 when crowned king) have seen Granada grow from a tiny country on the brink of extinction to a major power in Europe and he will surely be looked upon as one of the greatest king ever to sit on a throne by future generations. We declare three days of national mourning (it should have been a month, but after all, we have a war to fight). Having outlived all his children, and some of his grandchildren as well, I decide to put the kings favourite grand grandchild Beni Kassem on the throne. King Zueidana is dead, long live king Beni Kassem.



1595
1/1
We expand the fortress in Andalusia that the Portuguese destroyed.
We upgrade our sheriff in Cataract to a bailiff.

24/1
A small Spanish army (4000, 1000) is in Euskadia, besieging Bilbao.

27/1
Hoggar (5322, 915, 20) arrives in Asturias and lays siege to Burgos.

17/6
The Dutch land 7400 men in Asturias to help us with the siege.

20/7
Batna captures Madrid and Castille is now controlled by us. Batna (7854, 4279, 35) moves on to Leon.

11/8
Batna defeats 4927 Spaniards in Leon before laying siege to Salamanca.

1/12
The Edict of Tolerance, some Christian drivel to stop the fighting among the different forms of Christianity. Not that we care very much.
Austria, the Knights of St John, Spain, the Papal-state are now ordinary Catholics again.



1596

1/1
We send traders to Bisharin and Mudugh and a flattering letter to Algeria (167).
We appoint a Chief Judge in Aragon.

2/1
Genoa is annexed by France.

10/2
Burgos falls to our troops, Asturias is now ours.
Spain offers us Asturias for peace but we have decided to teach them a much harsher lesson than that so we refuse.

21/3
Batna captures Salamanca and we now control Leon.

22/3
Now we can talk peace. We demand Asturias and Leon and the humiliated Spaniards can do nothing but accept.
We send a missionary to Asturias.

24/4
We are informed that Holland has taken Artois, Hainaut, Cologne and Kleves from Spain. Sounds like the Spaniards soon will be forced to sign another humiliating peace, he he.

6/5
Yes, Spain is falling apart, the Dutch demand Artois, Cologne and Kleves for peace. The Dutch are definitely on their way up.

The Dutch on their way up 7/5 1596

9/5
The trader we sent to Bisharin failed.

22/5
The missionary succeeded, Asturias is now a Sunni Muslim province.

13/6
Spain makes a status quo-peace with England.

30/6
The trader we sent to Mudugh failed.

7/9
Ooops! How embarrassing, when Portugal made peace with France Nasiryah and the fleet was in Straits of Gibraltar and since we completely forgot to order him back to a harbour he is still there, loyally obeying his last given order to transport some troops from Tangiers to the Iberian peninsula, while his fleet slowly withers away ship by ship. When he finally arrives in Andalusia, all that is left of our once so proud fleet is 3 transports.



1597

1/1
We recruit (9000, 2000) in Toledo and build 2 transports in Andalusia.
We send a trader to Mudugh.
The Teutonic Knights make peace with Poland. The Teutonic Knights pay 167D in indemnity.
We order all the cannons (54) from Batnas and Hoggars armies to march to Aragon.

17/2
Holland makes a status quo-peace with Poland.

23/7
England makes a status quo-peace with Poland.

3/4
Scotland is now a vassal to Holland.

20/4
Hoggar (3939, 638) is nows in Aragon.

22/4
The Kazan-Khanate makes a status quo-peace with Russia.

2/5
The new recruits from Toledo arrives in Leon and reinforces Batnas army, now (14731, 5898).

6/6
England annexes the Hanseatic League.

6/7
Without us knowing the French have at some point annexed Navarre and now there's a revolt there.

9/7
We now have a trade post in Mudugh.



1598

1/1
Felipé III, the new king of Spain is elected Emperor of the (Un)'Holy Roman Empire.
We upgrade our sheriffs in Delta and Nile to bailiffs.
We recruit (2000, 2000) in Delta.

13/2
We send a trader to Mogadishu.

1/5
The Teutonic Knights are now a vassal to Sweden.

10/8
The trader we sent to Mogadishu failed.

1/12
We send a new trader to Mogadishu.



1599

1/1
We recruit (6000, 2000) in Catalonia.
We appoint a Chief Judge in Alexandria.

3/1
Hanover is now a vassal to Saxony.

27/5
We now have a trade post in Moghadishu.


Summary:
This 27 years-period started off with eight years of peace but then hell broke loose and we spent twelve of the following nineteen years in a state of war. Here's a list of the wars we fought, between which years they lasted and who the main enemy (enemies) was, 1581-1582 the Mameluks, 1585-1587 Spain, 1590-1592 Navarre, England, 1591-1593 the Mameluks, Algeria, 1593-1594 Portugal and 1593-1596 Spain.
Once again our armies were victorious and we gained new territories from Spain as well as form the Mameluks. We also had two great diplomatic successes when we peacefully annexed first Nubia and then Maroc. We now have twelve provinces on the Iberian peninsula, the Portuguese still have three, the Spaniards are down to two and the French now have one. We also have the Canary Islands and eleven provinces in Africa. Our colonial possessions is now up to three cities (Martinique (1917 inh), Micmac (880 inh) and Chesapeake (?), and 33 trade posts, four at level 5, one at level 2 and 28 at level 1).
Our annual income is up to 250D.
Inflation is up to 30%.
We have monopolies in Empalme, Andalusia and Tago, five merchants in Venice, Genoa, Flandres, Holland, Thrace and one merchant in Holstein.
On the diplomatic front we have annexed our two vassals and we have also broken our ties with France and our new alliance looks like this:
Oman (200), Astrakhan (200) and Algeria (200).
We have royal marriages with the following countries:
The Ottomans (111), Oman (200), Astakhan (200) and Algeria (200).
Our total losses are now up to 308416 men infantry (187964 in combat, 120452 of attrition), 56748 men cavalry (32410, 24338) and 81 cannons (68, 13). We have also lost 20 warships (1, 19) and 13 transports (1, 12).
In conclusion we are still doing great, we keep beating up the Spaniards whenever we fight them and we do the same to the Mameluks. The total strength of our army is now 49843 men infantry (+20546 compared to 1572), 50017 men cavalry (+33065) and 89 cannons (+11).
Our fleet on the other hand is even more pathetic than before (not my fault, I swear) and now only have 5 transports (compared to 8 in 1572).
Our next goal will be the Mameluks (again) and this time we want to take them out for good. As usual we wont bother the Spaniards anymore but if they come to us looking for trouble, then trouble they will find. One thing that annoys us is the French presence on the Iberian peninsula, in Estrameduras, so sooner or later (preferably later) we'll have to face our former allies on the battlefield .
Diplomatically we still have this almost obsessive idea about making Algeria our vassals so we'll just keep on trying.

The standing in victory points is as follows:
Country Military Economy Diplomacy Total
Granada 517 530 281 1329
France 305 498 195 998
China ? 615 ? 691

A rather unexpected guest on the top list is the Knights of St John in 7th place with 462 VP. The Spaniards have dropped down to 14th place with 373 VP.


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An overview of Europe 1/1 1600

North America and the Caribbean 1/1 1600

South America 1/1 1600

What we know of Africa and India 1/1 1600

 

[Cockney]

Great AAR can't wait to read the next part