Chapter 17: A Core In Paris, A Core In Stockholm
If I ever do another Eu4 game, I’ll heed Ikkiks advice and make a spreadsheet that keeps track of all diplo annexation costs for all subjects. I overfed my subjects in my Foix run, and I did it again in this Ryukyu run
I don’t like fixing my own mistakes, but since this a one tag attempt, I must.
Here goes.
The idea in these last decades is to reduce all nations on the map to less then 100% warscore, and to make sure they don’t have any high base tax provinces anymore. Rebel size scales with base tax of provinces, so this habit of taking high base tax provinces first might be worth it.
Japan is the first victim, after making a load of claims again.
Ryukyu invades Japan mainland again! Like Brunei, there is really no problem to it, because I landed troops on each part of Japan.
In the first war against Brunei/Japan/Ottomans (any naval nation really) you should ask for a province on each land part, so that you can land troops in the taken provinces before declaring war. This makes their fleets useless.
England started a revolt. In London and Firenze. It seems the British really liked their Italian holiday home
Rebels are more of a problem then nation armies ever since the beginning of the 18th century.
I can safely admit they spiced things up in the last century.
Looking at London, I had a revelation
France. They have been my archenemy ever since Ryukyu tomfooled its way into obtaining a core and a capital in their territory.
I decided there and then I MUST have a core in Paris along with the planned core in Stockholm
I started claiming all parts of the blue bunny
Persia has some high base tax provinces still. I prepped a load of claims on them. Gimme!
The overall idea, doing a massive overseas coring operation, is to claim all eglible 4+ base tax overseas provinces around the globe FIRST, then the 3 base tax, and to attack when the time is right.
I attacked when Persia was fighting pretender rebels. Not that It mattered, but
attacking opportunistically is what made Ryukyu BIG.
Force of habit. Sorry Persia
This made me smile. The mighty Ryukyu fleet battles the weak Japanese fleet near Okinawa
THE BATTLE OF RYUKYU ISLANDS!
I hadn’t stared at my OPM starting position like this since 1444-1450
Considering Japan has been my PU subject, and considering I’m eating them…
Ryukyu really came a long way
Timurids have three dots in their flag. Let’s see if you like these three dots, Timmie
On a sidenote: I really like the way province names get bent and stretched to fit the terrain of the province. Look at Khujand. The KHU goes down towards the river, and the JAND is climbing the mountains on the other side of the valley..
Here I am again FRANCE!!!
Don’t resist your destiny..
A baguette will *always* get eaten in the end
This time I brought more troops and outnumbered them 5 to 1.
Needless to say, this felt really rewarding. Attacking France in Plains with 120k infantry, 12k cavalry and 80k cannons was fun to watch
Although I missed the really HARD clashes me and France fought out in the past
Now RYUKYU is the BBB! (big bad bully)
Still, France fought hard. Its amazing how they decimated 1:6 of my infantry fighting against 5 to 1 odds…
And France has low prestige. I wonder how many they would have killed with full morale bonus from max Prestige…
Ok, job done
Ryukyu is fighting 5 wars at once again, and rising.
Let’s make some peace deals.
Japan gave me 40+ base tax worth in claims, including the 9 base tax Kyoto province. All they have left now is 1-2 base tax provinces and their capital.
West Africa. I attacked everyone that was still reasonably big.
Timbuktu got reduced to OPM.
Another corridor finished
Ryukyu can now walk from the gulf of Aden to West Africa.
Finally, Fulo got annexed.
Not much left here now
This was also the first time I realised ARGUIN is mine again. Ah Arguin... The old capital of Ryukyu.
All this musing about things past incited me to re-read this AAR from the start again.
Paris fort fell. The beginning of the end.
Floride CN got occupied without a sweat. Powhatan goes into the annals of history, as the last native American nation that got erased off the map.
This might surprise you. Yeah, I decided to finish France off later on. They were slightly over 100% warscore to full annex
I took the chance to feed ENTIRE Floride CN to Portuguese Louisiana and Thirteen colonies
Looks a whole lot better now, does it?
If you tilt your head a little to the right and look at the southeast side of Portuguese Louisiana, you can now see a grinning PIG pointing a … finger at Floride.. Florida.
Did I do it on purpose? You can decide
I sent France on a diet. The blue bunny lost its belly…. And was under 100% warscore to annex now.
Timurid capital now stands alone.
I hadn’t noticed them until now, but it seems CHAGATAI is alive somehow in the northeast.
This Kazakh is also a problem. I can only declare on them with holy war AFTER I integrate Russia…
Ever since the start of this AAR, I attacked Ottomans after France. So, umm, let's attack them?
Its time to reduce you to 9x% warscore to annex, Ottomans. I want those Asian provinces.