Madurai army got wiped in one go. Spread and siege boys
The entire army of Mewar was sieging a province in another nation. I asked military access and attacked them. They never knew what hit them.
Mamluks provided the next batch of 9X% overextension. But my admin points are rising faster then I can spend them on coring stuff. That is troublesome
Yemen had joined the Mamluks, and I took the opportunity to wipe Yemen off the map.
Mamluks only has 3 provinces left. But after this, they only kept Cyprus and Cairo, since Alodia attacked them for their third.
I took another quantity idea. Now my armies cost even less to maintain. I made more and more troops, I always flirted with my army force limit, without any mercs left. Even that didn’t prevent the manpower pool to rise and rise.
I think my forcelimit at this point was somewhere around 450 army units, and I get about 8000 manpower each month. And rising
The -0,15 local autonomy per month in all provinces thanks to the constitutional monarchy, is slowly but steadily increasing my manpower gain and force limit.
-0,15 may not seem like much, but it means integrated vassal provinces drop from 75% local autonomy to 0% in 500 months. More or less 40 years.
Entire former Ming territory is slowly but steadily advancing to 0 local autonomy, and being converted to Catholicism.
There is one problem with this whole India operation. Portugal is being integrated. If that finishes, then all the land in India can’t be cored as overseas anymore. So I need to HURRY!
Time to use another good old trick.
I think I mentioned it already somewhere in this AAR, but
if you OCCUPY each province between a core of you and the uncored provinces you took, then you can core those provinces THROUGH the occupied territory. If the core is linked to a port that is also cored, then you can core the entire bunch of taken uncored land at once, through occupied territory.
So, I full annexed Malwa before making peace with Mewar. And started coring entire Malwa the day after. This will enable me to core KOCH as overseas territory too! As long As I’m not stupid enough to connect the taken provinces to the provinces I own in the north
This tactic of overseas coring sometimes needs some theorycrafting, and planning ahead, to be able to core stuff like this while maintaining corridors. Only to be able coring OTHER landlocked stuff without a port province link.
After that, I fed the brunt of Mewar to Russia. They can chew on the +150% coring cost
And finally, I took 99% OE from Madurai. I know I know, why not 100?! Because it can be hard to make peace deals with exact 100% overextension
Easy peasy. Right. NEEEEEXT!
Brunei. I had been making claims on all their reachable 3+ base tax provinces, and now I finally went after them. I had to force myself, as I don’t like naval invasions.
BUT, Brunei army and fleet weren’t there. They were in FLORIDE.
HUH? France attacked Majahapit, and Brunei was now allied to them. Hence Brunei invaded FLORIDE colonial nation in North America, after sailing around south America.
Funny enough, I waited until my trade fleet around Floride was in same tile as Brunei fleet, and declared war. The fleet of thirteen colonies and other colonial nations sailed to help me out, and the brunt of the Brunei fleet got sunk the first month of the war, near Florida
Siak came to the defense of Brunei. GOOD!
I also started a “fire and forget” war against a tribe in North America, Canada protected their protectorate, and called Norway in.
I ferried troops to all Norwegian islands that Norway got back thanks to rebels, and in the end I reduced Norway to OPM on Iceland.
Nova Scotia took their provinces in Canadian region. Its quite handy I full annexed Scotland a while back, I can feed everything to Nova Scotia now
Canada got occupied without much interference on my side. Funny enough, they moved their capital inland.
GOOD! I fed the entire east side of Canada to Nova Scotia. Regretting it a bit later, because I didn’t leave an option open to get holy war on Canada
Grmpf.
As said before, I noticed my admin points went UP faster then I could core. So I need admin lvl 26 and administrative efficiency level 2.
...and guess what? As it was divine providence, I had an event from a "minister" giving me -10% admin tech cost, and ANOTHER event that gave me choice between +1% missionary power (increase narrowminded) and -5% admin tech cost "increased innovative".
I had -35% neighbour bonus, terakoya (japanese culture FTW) for another -5%, civil service -10% thanks to completing administrative idea group, I was curia controller for another -5%, -36% from admin ideas I filled, -20% from events. I had 20% "increase over time" extra cost to tech up, so the event bonus nivellated that.
Long story short, I teched up from admin lvl 22 to 26.
....It costed me.... 600 admin points
The first lvl was 97 points, the last 280. Somehow I think RYUKYU *wants* me to obtain a TRUE one tag, coring everything
To recapitulate:
At admin level 1 to 21,
1 base tax of a province taken means 4% overextension. Hence 25 base tax taken equals 100% overextension
At admin level 22 to 25,
1 base tax of a province taken means 3% overextension. Hence 33 base tax taken equals 100% overextension, thanks to administrative efficiency level 1.
At admin level 26 to 28,
1 base tax of a province taken means 2% overextension. Hence 50 base tax taken equals 100% overextension, thanks to administrative efficiency level 2.
At admin level 29 to 32,
1 base tax of a province taken means 1% overextension. Hence 100 base tax taken equals 100% overextension, thanks to administrative efficiency level 3.
Are you still with me?
I hoped that being able to core 50 base tax per batch instead of 33, would enable me to spend all future admin points on coring.
Granted, administrative efficiency level 2 cost me 600+ admin points, but its worth it. Because I can now spend more admin points on coring per batch, and because my production efficiency got increased by 20%.
France monarchy got overthrown by revolutionaries. France is now Revolutionary France.
I have truce with France, so I didn’t get the bad effects of the revolution yet.
Needless to say, I wanted to crush it. But my truce lasted until 1760. Great.
Fine, let the revolution do their thing. But you won’t get the head of THIS monarch, Revolutionary FRANCE!!!!!
Luckily our quantity idea group provides enough cannon fodder to tame this revolution. And because I also filled administrative ideas, I can activate a very good policy once Quantity completes.
ANOTHER -10% army maintenance and 10% manpower recovery bonus? Yes please. That will stack nicely with the bonuses from constitutional monarchy.
Siak provided some more overextension to chew on. Let’s hope my admin points rise fast enough to once again chew on 100% OE at a time.
Mali was also an ally of Brunei (I know, what the….
).
Since I had to start with the conquest of West Africa at some point, I started NOW.
I declared on Ashanti aswell, after studying alliance patterns.
I got holy war on Ashanti! Thanks to colonizing a few provinces near Benin, based of the core on Fernando Po I obtained several hundreds years ago.
I told in chapter 4 or so that this core would come in handy someday.. Well it did. It enabled me to core the provinces from Scotland on gold coast, and to colonize the rest.
That gave me holy war on the neighbours.
The attack on Ashanti dragged all of this in. Bring it on!
I invaded Katsina from the north, and the south. The province I sold to England in the corridor, allows me to core entire Katsina as overseas. If I decide to integrate Syria, that is.
