Chapter 12: About missionaries and rebels
Tuscany got wrecked. Venice took one province, Sicily got released. I guess they learned being HRE emperor can be such a drag.. Especially if France is involved
Back to the east Asia Front. I made peace with Tang and Korea. I made it so that Portugal occupied Korea, by transferring occupation to them through Qing. In a follow up war, Japan can spread into Qing aswell still.
Oirat got fed to Russia, also by spreading Russia occupation into Oirat through Qing land. They started coring it, since a corridor of occupied provinces (to uncored provinces) allows coring, as explained before.
Buryatia got erased from the map. Good, since I always make the mistake of naming them Buratyia
Here’s what I waited for. Qing went bankrupt. That will make it more likely that reactionary rebels will enforce demands after I make peace…
Time to reduce those fat black letters in size now
All the low base tax provinces Qing had got spread amongst Portugal and Russia. Both ended up above 90% overextension. Not bad. I also released Yeren, and fed Mongolia its provinces back. Qing got cut down to size
The landscape in this region keeps on changing. This time its due to Bohemia.
Frankfurt is NOT an OPM anymore. Never seen Frankfurt bigger then one province until now!
Time to reduce the emperor of the HRE to OPM. I transferred occupation of Pisa (the wargoal) to ENGLAND (I could have transferred it to anyone, but I want England to have mainland European provinces) to
make the chance bigger that they send their entire army into Europe mainland. No more chilling in Londen, England, while the rest of the subjects do the heavy lifting!
Austria now holds the entire Italian east coast.
Norway.. NORWAY WTF HAPPENED TO YOUR CN?
Vinland got independent. HOW?! I don’t get it
This must be some sort of bug, unless I missed their independance war totally. IEither way, I attacked Huron, Norway protected them. But Vinland itself attacked Huron. It might be Vinland DID declare independence, and that Huron actually protected Norway.
Either way, the entire reason for this war is now gone. No more free Vinland CN for me… Sigh. I bet they’ll form Canada now. Oh well, lets take the islands, and see if we can hold them.
Pity, because the original plan was to full annex Norway to get Vinland as my own CN.
I did full annexation of Ainu and Kamchadals. They have nice fishing grounds, after all
It made me reach almost 100% overextension again.
Its over. The yellow blob in South America can’t be fed anymore. South America does have some tribes left in Brazil. But they westernized and flipped catholic.
I really don’t understand why a CN overlord can’t fabricate claims on neighbours of its CN. The only way to wipe the leftover tribes is to do NO cb wars, diplo vassalising them, or to do some tricks. But that’s something for later.
Since Poland got beat up by Bohemia, they are susceptible to opportunistic attacks. Can’t let the opportunity pass. The real war targets here are all the HRE states. The white blob is hungry, since Tuscany didn’t fill its belly enough…
As predicted, Canada formed. If only I had attacked Norway sooner… Oh well.
OMG REBELS! MILLIONS OF REBELS!
….. Send in the mercs, AND the missionaries!
At some point,
I was close to giving up, due to being tired, hungover and demoralised. I just fired Farcry 4 for a few hours, vented of steam in the Arena there, and the next day I started dealing with this problem for real.
I was expecting a BIG rebel operation after integrating my wrong religion vassals, but nothing like this.
The rebels forced me to focus my entire attention to them. I made more and more mercs, sent them into Asia through Russia and slowly started to deal with these rebels.
The best way to deal with rebels in mountains is to let them occupy EVERYTHING they can, and then to siege down ONE province. This provokes the rebels into attacking.
This province must be bad terrain to attack for the rebels, and preferably forcing them to do a river crossing if they attack. So it happened. Rebels will *always* attack if you lift an occupation somewhere (after they are chilling due to having occupied all they can).
The small stacks I took on head on, using 40k merc infantry and a few 1k stacks with cannons from subjects attached.
After each fight, I split merc army in ten, consolidated troops, and used the tiny merc regiments that needed refilling to siege down the occupied provinces. This way, consolidating the merc army never made me lose any merc regiment.
What I did get doing this was 10 merc regiments with 100-200 men in it, which I then used to siege down a province, until they refilled. IF they refilled a reasonable amount, I split that stack again, consolidated without losing single regiment, and sent the fresh filled 1k stacks to help out in the fight. I also ferried in more fresh made mercs from the Red sea. This entire operation costed me an arm and a leg in ducats.. But who cares, as long as we don't go down to 0 ducats...
I spent YEARS dealing with the rebels
The idea is to convert everything to Catholicism. I started conversions on the highest base tax provinces, and worked my way down the list. But I need more missionary power
Looking back, I probably should have integrated Portugal and Castille FIRST, to get big catholic empire BEFORE integrating the heathens and heretics. But then they wouldn’t colonize anymore. I’m not even sure I could start integrating them back then. But I’d probably have decided against it, since Castille and Portugal almost NEVER get rebels in territory I feed to them.
It all doesn’t matter now I guess.
France took the “get presence in India” mission. GOOD
They are also colonizing in the Spice islands. Keep your troops THERE France, and I’ll attack you after dealing with these rebels
Back to Europa. Lubeck fell, and I fed the last province of the Hansa to Austria, after robbing their bank. 2600 ducats!
*music*
Yummy-Yummy-Yummy I got ducats in my tummy! *music
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in case you don’t get it
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Munchen got fed to the white blob aswell. Munchen was exactly 100% warscore..
The blue blob in the North expected food aswell. Poland provided.
There’s a new BBB in town folks