Somehow my troops on the way to Greece got black flagged. Probably because I started a war in Asia while they were walking abroad. Stupid bugs
I had to return to Provence and back to Greece. The idea was to place 1k stacks on all the provinces Austria has a claim on, in Ottoman land. And they made a LOT of claims, due to them having this OP militaristic ruler. They should forbid militaristic rulers in big blob countries! Well, thanks to this stupid black flag bug I couldn’t occupy these claims in my name. Oh well
See that Spanish stack? The Spanish fleet just dropped it there, and now went back for the stack that just killed the Gascon rebels. Proof again naval AI got improved a BOATLOAD (pun intended).
Ottomans got trashed by Austria, and the Austrian army then moved to the province south of it, which the Ottomans attacked with that second stack. The entire Ottoman army got routed
Saxony was the leader of the protestant league. They got trashed by Austria remember? Somehow they managed to get into a war versus 16 nations, including Muscovy. Funny enough, the leader of the Protestant league is at war with many members of its own league…
Suffice to say noone would start a league war anytime soon. Besides, who would have the guts to declare on Austria? At the end of this chapter there still hasn’t been any league war.
Ottomans and Persia keep sending troops into Edirne or Constantinople. Austria immediately scrambles then and reinforces the battle. The result is the Ottomans and Persians get sent across the Bosporus several times. The problem here is that the Ottoman fleet blocks our armies to cross the Bosporus. If only Spain and Austria would do a joint attack on the Bosporus… But that 75 fleet of the Ottomans frightened both of ‘m. BOO
Ottomans made brave attempt at sinking the Spanish fleet after it offloaded more troops into the Ottoman territory south of the Bosporus. They won thanks to their galleys. Spain sank a considerable lot of Ottoman ships though…. If only Austria had come to help but noooooooo
That’s one flaw the naval AI still has. It is bad at staging co-op naval battles versus a common enemy.
Note that I’m sieging the wargoal. I need that ticking warscore!
I started another war in Asia, doing the same old. Micromanaging for the win.
I could use more sieging troops in Asia though. I don’t expand in Asia as fast as I would like. But I still lack manpower and ducats.
That’s the big downside of my “ryukyu into Europe” campaign… The expansion in Asia is sloooow. But then again, I’m fighting in Europe now as Ryukyu before 1600
We’ll see how things develop I guess.
Khmer was the first victim of that Asian war. I fed their last province to Champa. Bye Khmer.
Another “reveal major part of the map” triggered. Going catholic as westernised Asian nation has its benefits… I see almost entire Europe, Africa and Asia now, and everything in Amercia that got discovered since the last big reveal.
Since the remains of the Ottoman fleet still blockaded the Bosporus, Austria moved into Crimea and sieged everything there. Crimea had Galicia-Volhynia as vassal (they integrated them a bit after this war started), along with Circassia. I tried to siege a bit there aswell.
Note that Crimea borders Austria now, after integrating Galicia-Volhynia. Now there is a first
I finished coring the taken French territory. Yay! Ryukyu has cores in Europe
Gascon, Acquitaine and Occitaine all became accepted cultures in the end. Austria is really going on an occupation spree… Luckily parts of their big army attached to 1k stacks of mine, which I then used to defend the siege stacks in Constantinople and Edirne.
See that spanish stack in deep Ottoman land? It split up and sieged some provinces near the spanish occupied province. In the end Spain transferred all those occupations to me.
Meanwhile, I fully occupied everything in the first Asian war, and started another one. This netted me a border with Oirat in a seperate peace deal. And Holy war cb versus a few more nations.
Time to end the first Asian war now. Pegu got fed a load of Tibetan provinces, and Pegu officially owns the Himalayas.
I took two strategic provinces for myself to get more holy war CB targets.
Note that I usually take 1 base tax provinces that are strategically placed (aka bordering lot of nations) to get holy war CB. 1 base tax equals 4 overextension, which isn't too bad, even if you can't core those provinces. It saves you tons and tons of peace deal diplo points in the end. The peace deal might "show" that a peacve costed xxx diplomatic power, but in fact all peace deals made with holy war cb, including seperate peace, will cost 0 diplo power. ZERO, ZIP, NADA
These are the targets of the second holy war.
I led one of the 1k stacks with Spanish army attached back to Provence, to kill the Occitain rebels that finally spawned. I won’t get French rebels anytime soon again now
I did white peace with Persia. They got tired (and wet
) due to crossing the Bosporus 10 times in their underwear, with their tail between their legs. I transferred occupation to Byzantium where I could.
I was getting fearful of Austria bailing out of the war, after occupying all that Crimean land. I almost vassalised Circassia for myself in a separate peace deal but I thought “HOOOLD!!! Check if they take aristocracy at some point first!!!”
Didn’t want to make the same mistake I made in the Foix run, with Lithuania. Turns out Circassia already HAD taken aristocracy. Oh well. I conjured up an alternative peace deal then. I cancelled Circassia as a vassal, took one province, war reparations and cancel alliance with Ottomans, and took their ducats. That one province near Circassia might come in handy in future. I'll just harsh treat that Black Sea Province, core it, and convert it. Should be worth it in the long run.
Note that separate peace deals can NOT give Austria the “didn’t give occupied provinces in peace deal” malus with me. That is why I did separate peace with Crimea before Austria decided to bail out of the war for a few Balkan provinces. Austria didn’t care.
Austria did bail out 6 months later, taking Zeta in a seperate peace deal. Spain did a white peace with Ottomans. Oh well. If only you had sunk the Ottoman fleet! Spain did a white peace with Ottomans soon after. Now I was only able to do a 81% warscore peace deal instead of 100%... I should have made a deal before Austria peaced out. But I wouldn’t have been been able to get lot more out of the war anyways, since Austria had to be rewarded at least one province for their effort.
Ottomans suddenly attacked only ME a day or so after and I scrambled to make a peace deal.
Byzantium got a nice chunk of land.
I made Byzantium border with Austria now, since their militaristic young ruler died (most likely during a siege) and a diplomatic ruler became emperor. In case you wonder: no, Austria did not get the “wants your provinces” malus with me. Trust me, that’s only a (huge) problem if you border a nation with a militaristic ruler
Ayutthaya was the first victim of the second Asian war. They did siege up some provinces, but after stack wiping their army Lan Xang got their final province. Bye Ayutthaya.
The second victim of the second holy war versus Kham was Taungoo. Taungoo got some more provinces after Ming exploded, and moved capital. This enabled me to feed the 5 base tax province of them BACK to Pegu, and two other provinces to Lan Xang.
Taungoo occupied like 7 provinces of Pegu, but to no avail.
As I said before, for vassal feeding purposes only high warscore counts. If you occupy a nation 100%, you can do 100% vassal feed peace deals no matter what they sieged up.
Kham was the final victim; I reduced them to OPM.
The plan now was to move capital to Europe. But I couldn’t. WHAT?
It said I had two provinces in Africa. WTF I only got ARGUIN there!
I did an examination. Another problem seemed to thwart my plans… AAARGH!
What happened? I cleared natives on Fernando Po, the tiny island south of Benin. I started colony there, and lowered colonial maintenance so it would stay at 20 settlers. I did this to “claim” the island as mine, to avoid that other colonizers make a colony there.
The plan was to abandon the colony when I finished second Asian Holy war, move capital, and restart the colony.
But somehow Fernando PO became a full fledged colony, with Japanese culture, but WITHOUT a Ryukyu core.
Result? I couldn’t move capital, since I owned two African provinces. I can have only ONE province in Africa to qualify to move capital. AAARGH. I really have to read patch notes better.
But then I remembered Portugal had a claim on Arguin, and that Arguin used to belong to Spain. So in theory, I could core Fernando Po (yeah, I was able to CORE a full fledged colony I started.. Fernando Po simply had NO core whatsoever but it did have a fort, but it was flagged as belonging to MY nation. If anyone has a clue what happened there, please enlighten me!), move capital there, sell Arguin, and then move capital to Europe.
edit:
Originally Posted by Orkonkel
Colonies without distant overseas modifier (meaning on the same continent or connected via land to your capitol) will always start without a core for some reason. Only thing I can think of is that you kept your colonist in the colony, and it'll keep ticking up due to monthly colonial chance to bring in extra settlers. Apart from that, no idea why you would've gotten that colony.
hrmmm... You are probably right. Silly me But i can't remember i ever got a popup and pause for a colony that finished.. But i might have missed it in the wars. Or I didn't read it well.
Edit: you are right. I thought the seized scottish province finished at some point, but the popup was clearly for the Fernando Po colony. I must have sent a colonist to Fernando PO thinking i was sending him to the NW america colony...
Oh well, it got solved in the end. And that Fernando Po colony will come in handy in the far future.
There was one slight problem though. I became victim of PU mechanic
I couldn’t sell Arguin to Portugal or Spain, since they were at war. And what war! A succession war over Portugal versus Austria….
Spain had just a royal marriage with Portugal. Portugal king died heirless. This triggered a succession war, since Austria (rival of Spain) qualified to contest the succession. AARGH!
I was hoping to avoid a war between Austria and Spain
I had to dishonour my alliance with Spain when the war started. GRRRR!!!
And now Spain became hostile to me, because they had militaristic ruler. Austria occupied almost entire Spain, but forgot to siege Lisboa, the Spanish defensive wargoal. This gave Spain ticking warscore (+25 in 5 years) while Austria barely had +40 positive warscore due to sieges and battles after 5 years. In the end, Spain kept the PU, but had to release Navarra.
Oh well. I guess I can do the next war versus France with England and Austria at my side. The only problem is the French rebels. Spain won’t kill ‘m whenever new ones pop. So I *have* to take a border with Austria in the next French war. I hope I can grovel up to Spain again and re-establish this alliance at some point. Bet not.
Anyways, I made Fernando Po my capital, sold Arguin to Portugal, and moved my capital to PROVENCE. That was a nice 200 admin points wasted thanks to this colony thing, and a few years of waiting until the Spanish war ended. Oh well, my war exhaustion lowered and my vassals got a breather.
Why Provence as capital and not Gascogne you might wonder.
Granted, Gascogne would have netted me more trade income. But I would have been stuck with a Provence province at 99% local authority, since France increased it after integrating Provence.
Moving your capital makes the province you move it to 0% local autonomy. So I moved it to Provence. Gascogne and Périgord got 45% autonomy. Not too bad.
Also, if I integrate Dauphiné, and if I conquer Avignon, Lyon and Auvergne in next French war, then occitain will become dominant culture in Ryukyu, enabling me to culture shift. That might be handy if I eat entire France.
You can only culture shift if a single foreign culture is the culture in your capital and a majority of your provinces in your total province count. So I’d need more Occitain provinces then Japanese to be able to culture shift. Right? Correct me if I'm wrong.
We’ll see.. My French truce expires in 1577.
In the meantime, the Japanese couples made love in the lavender fields of their new Capital Provence.. We need more manpower, after all!
Hope you enjoyed this chapter!