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Is Montenegro allowed to crown you king of Georgia? Something tells me the Georgians won't be pleased...
What's with this Milanese peace option? It's annexation or nothing. Good progress with the Mamluk war.
You are certainly using the "diplomacy" options of EUIII to their fullest extent! 
It's a shame about the reconversion of GB, but not much of a surprise. Silly AI! I can almost smell another pointless war on the horizon (but I shouldn't speak too soon given Portugal's most recent effort).
It's a shame about the reconversion of GB, but not much of a surprise. Silly AI! I can almost smell another pointless war on the horizon (but I shouldn't speak too soon given Portugal's most recent effort).
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More good progress. Though methinks you'll have to teach the Brits another lesson...
So our dear monarch grabs yet another title. I am guessing this will be the start of the process towards making them your vassals and then annexing Georgia. The war against the Mamluks seems to be going very well; I think it seems a little strange if they don’t send a peace offer. After all you have most of their lands under control so they should understand that now is the time to beg for peace…
Even as we’re about to range in on the last Mamluk provinces, Ethiopia decides it wants a piece of the action…
Successful colonizations in Panama, and in Taiwan. That’s good.
We finally hit Trade Tech 9 (woohoo!). Only a little backward, in 1636…
More battles which dismember the Mamluks. Most of their army is dead, at this point.
We take one of the old Mohammedan capitals, at Medina.
And, finally, we’ve captured enough land that the Mamluks come to a good peace agreement with us. We connect our Turkish outpost at Adana with Syria via Aleppo. And we take some Red Sea territories, which reach down toward Ethiopia. Maybe we can make an alliance with the Christian Ethiopians, and turn their long struggle with our same enemies into a mutual victory next time around!
Ethiopia’s own war with the Mamluks continues. We decide to send them a gift to help them along…
Right after we sent this money, they tripled the size of their army, which might keep them from being trounced again by her neighbors! Hopefully, she’ll pick up some of her old lands from the Mamluks, weakened as they are.
In fact, with the Ottomans pressing in from the north, and the Mamluk army virtually destroyed, I’m hopeful they’ll lose lots of land! This could switch our perennial wars from Mamluk to Ottoman, in our ongoing crusade.
Alas…
Ethiopia was not strong enough, and had no fortresses to hold back the Mamluks, who surely have advanced in their warmaking abilities for having to stand up to grand Milan. Oh well… In some years’ time, perhaps Ethiopia will become part of the Milanese hegemony anyway.
Karnten is a welcome addition to our core territory, producing gold, as it does.
In fact, our gold production has been rising dramatically in recent decades. Wild fluctuations in census and regular taxation nevertheless result in a wholesale increasing trend. Trade continues to improve. And our vassals contribute more and more all the time!
Now, finally, we have a competent combination of enemies who decide to pounce on us, all at once, in January of 1637!
This will be an interesting war – a reprise of second tier conflict in the Iberian peninsula, and yet a replay of more challenging wars against Britain and Austria at the same time!
Successful colonizations in Panama, and in Taiwan. That’s good.
We finally hit Trade Tech 9 (woohoo!). Only a little backward, in 1636…
More battles which dismember the Mamluks. Most of their army is dead, at this point.
We take one of the old Mohammedan capitals, at Medina.
And, finally, we’ve captured enough land that the Mamluks come to a good peace agreement with us. We connect our Turkish outpost at Adana with Syria via Aleppo. And we take some Red Sea territories, which reach down toward Ethiopia. Maybe we can make an alliance with the Christian Ethiopians, and turn their long struggle with our same enemies into a mutual victory next time around!
Ethiopia’s own war with the Mamluks continues. We decide to send them a gift to help them along…
Right after we sent this money, they tripled the size of their army, which might keep them from being trounced again by her neighbors! Hopefully, she’ll pick up some of her old lands from the Mamluks, weakened as they are.
In fact, with the Ottomans pressing in from the north, and the Mamluk army virtually destroyed, I’m hopeful they’ll lose lots of land! This could switch our perennial wars from Mamluk to Ottoman, in our ongoing crusade.
Alas…
Ethiopia was not strong enough, and had no fortresses to hold back the Mamluks, who surely have advanced in their warmaking abilities for having to stand up to grand Milan. Oh well… In some years’ time, perhaps Ethiopia will become part of the Milanese hegemony anyway.
Karnten is a welcome addition to our core territory, producing gold, as it does.
In fact, our gold production has been rising dramatically in recent decades. Wild fluctuations in census and regular taxation nevertheless result in a wholesale increasing trend. Trade continues to improve. And our vassals contribute more and more all the time!
Now, finally, we have a competent combination of enemies who decide to pounce on us, all at once, in January of 1637!
This will be an interesting war – a reprise of second tier conflict in the Iberian peninsula, and yet a replay of more challenging wars against Britain and Austria at the same time!
Your enemies are still waiting for you to finish one war before starting another. This alliance might have taken Milan down a century earlier. This war may be the opportunity to force Austria to release those central european provinces. You must be nearly ready to annex france.
So much for the once vaunted Mamluks! This next war should be an interesting diversion. I only wonder the shape of your forces in central Europe. I imagine that Milan is well suited to respond to threats on the Iberian peninsula and the British Isles due to recent bellicosity. How goes it in the Caribbean?
Kärnten is a Wahnsinn!
(That is/was the official slogan for Kärnten: "Carinthia is outrageous!" more or less.)
(That is/was the official slogan for Kärnten: "Carinthia is outrageous!" more or less.)
A nice peace with the Mamluks, I think your empire in the Middle East is growing nicely and coming along the way it should. This new war should be interesting I think a war on three fronts against some of your oldest enemies. I am sure Milan will win and increase its empire, but I still think this war should be interesting; they might actually put up a decent fight…
Great-Britain shouldn't be a problem: I see you still quite a bit of troops stationed there. But you seem to be spread a bit thin on the Central-European front. Are your troops still in the levant?
Interesting looking war - when oh when are you going to take Alexandria? :rofl:
How's the conversion efforts going?
How's the conversion efforts going?
Poor Ethiopians, hopefully you do them what you did to Welsh in the past.
New war seems interesting and offers more opportunities to humiliate the Perfidious Albion.
New war seems interesting and offers more opportunities to humiliate the Perfidious Albion.