First moves. January 1492- January 1499
January 1492: My first action is to search for more allies to hold France's ambitions. I try with Lorraine, and much to my joy, They agree joining my alliance.
Our army, of 31000/3000/2 marches south towards Granada. A smaller army, 4000/2000 marches towards Murcia to keep the province secure as it has no fortifications.
I order Columbus to move towards the Canary islands so he can move west from there.
I order 8000 infantrymen to train in Flandres while 2000 horsemen are getting ready at Hainaut.
7-January. The foolish moors of Granada are moving west. Maybe they plan to siege andalucia?. If they plan to do it, that favors me. I order my troops to delay their movement so they arrive on Granada after the moors have left the province.
23-January. The moor army sieges Andalucia. Poor fools, I am on a brink to reach Granada...
1-February 1492: The King orders me to conquer Lyonnais. Tough objective, because I pretended not to get into problems with France too soon...
Sierra Nevada gets sieged. Soon Granada will be ours.
22-February. Columbus reaches the Canary islands. I order him to move westwards. If he was wrong in his affirmation of the earth being spheric he will soon fall into the immensity of the Space....
The Palatinate offers us a royal Marriage. Perfect, everything that means Spain being a friend of France's enemies is good for me, so I accept.
March 1492: a force of 5000 moor levies are raised on Sierra Nevada, but my army soon puts them on retreat, their path is north, towards Toledo. I order a part of my army to keep the siege of Sierra Nevada while I move west to assist Andalucia, wich walls are seriously weakened (-2)
Austria invites us into a royal marriage. We are more than happy to accept it.
3-April. Big battle on Andalucia. The spanish troops (19800/1500/2) clash with the moors (13000/1550). I have no doubts on how will this end...will be victory for us, of course.
6-April. Damned heathens!!! just as I was getting the upper hand on the battle, the leavies I put on retreat on Sierra Nevada (wich moved to Toledo and now seem to have turned back to Andalucia) arrived into the scene and put my army on the retreat!!
I've lost some 4500 infantry man and almost 1000 horsemen. Even worse I lost both artillery guns. Moor losses are not light either, I estimate they lost some 8000 men and 500 horsemen. But andalucia's walls are very weakened...
Crimea and Russia declared war on Kazan.
1-May 1492. Andalusia is still resisting,but barely (-4). My retreating army is moving towards Toledo so I recalled my troops from Murcia into Sierra Nevada. I will assault the city (wich now is -2) and take it before I lose Andalucia.
The levies in Flandres and Hainaut are ordered to move to Artois. I order a further 4000/1000 to be raised.
Also, I send an ambassador To the Palatinat, and I achieve them joining our glorious alliance. France is going to have more than a headache if they want to attack Spain...
7-May, Murcia army reaches to SIerra Nevada. The assault starts, but they fail to take the city. Our assaut hurts the heathens wich lose 500 men for the loss of less than 100 spaniards. But Andalusia is in a very bad shape...If it falls the war will last much longer than expected.
1-June 1492. With the morale a bit recovered, I order my main army units, now in toledo, to atack Andalucia again. We'll see if they arrive in time, and if they can put the moors on the retreat..
19 June. My army arrives into Andalusia (13500/290 spanish vs 9500/3050 moors) and wins a glorious battle. 4500 infantrymen and 800 moor horsemen die for insignificant losses in our side...
July 1492. I send a diplomat to my Vassals on Naples to join our alliance. They refuse. This incredible negative to join us should be answered with a strong measure...but for now we wont say a thing.
Genoa tries to arrange a royal marriage with us. I accept it.
The heathen moors arrive to Toledo after fleeing from Andalucia. They are too few, and I want them to be distracted there. So I will let them there unless the fortress is threatened.
September 1492. After one month of almost no activity, the walls at Sierra Nevada suffer a serious blow when we mine them (-6)...the city will be soon ours...
An ambassador from Grenada comes and tries to arrange a peace...asking for 136d. We laugh.
5-October 1492. Kazan is fully annexed by Russia.
The walls of Sierra NEvada suffer yet another blow (-7). But they are taking too much time already.
7-NOvember 1492. Columbus is in the middle of the atlantic, suffering from some attrition. I call him back to the Canary Islands...so far he hasnt found the border of the earth nor fallen into the space.
17-NOvemver 1492. This is a proud and glorious day for the Catholic cause!. SIerra Nevada has fallen, and Grenada is annexed to Spain!!!
I call my fleet from Galicia to Murcia. I will send the strongest part of my army to Catalonia to keep an eye on Navarra and France, and I will send the rest (some 8500 infantrymen) to Sicily to garrison it.
1-January-1493. The taxes give us 272d. Wonderful. I invest to create tax collectors in my two richest provinces, Toledo and Andalucia, while I fortify Murcia.
1-February 1493. I order 4000 infantrymen and 2000 horsemen on Flanders. They will move south towards Artois as soon as they are ready.
17-february: the fleet reaches murcia. I order the army there (8500infantrymen) to embark. I offer a royal marriage to Lorraine and they accept.
4-March 1493: Columbus arrive to the Canary islands. I immediatly order him west as soon as he has embarked fresh food and water.
Crimea and Russia now declare war on the Golden Horde.
I notice the French are fortifying Ile de France and Lyonnais. Definitely I wont be able to fullfit the task of conquering Lyonnais on time...I hope that my success in Granada saves me from being beheaded!
9-June. The Royal Fleet (8/15/2) reaches Messina and deploys the troops there. I recall the warships and transports to Spain but I let the galleys there.
8-August. Columbus was right!!! at least in part. His fleet located today a group of islands, and even landed on one to claim that land as the Kings' of Spain property. He called this first island as 'San Martin'. So far they have no knowledge on what is there in those islands, nor if it is Cathay or another land. But definitely that is a conquerable territory!!! I order him to move SoutWest and keep on exploring.
9-September. Poland-Lithuania and the Hanseatic League declare war on the Teutonic order.
12-November. The Golden horde pacts a peace with Russia, The Golder horde pays 9d to the russians. Few compensation for a costly war.
7-December. Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, but his fleet starts to feel the attrittion. Still all islands,although discovered,are terra incognita. I order Columbus back to the Canary islands.
That same day the Heathen Turks declared war on the Mameluks. Fine with me, let the Heathens die in their own wars.
1-January 1494. Taxes gives us 308d, wich added to the previous money we already had in the arks, is a total of 392d . Wonderful. I call for a Tax collector in Flandes and build fortifications in Extremadura. I build a 8000/2000
in Flandres. That leaves us with 84d. After sending merchants, that ammount is decreased to 47d.
France is fortificating Champagne (where they already have a 27000 men army) and Guyenne. Those bastards...I'm sure they are planning something.
1-March. One of my closest collaborators in the Army gives me a wonderful new. We now have found easy ways to use the artillery on the field, so we can build it on our own. THe downside is that those weapons are really expensive. Still I plan to add them into my armies as soon as possible.
2-May. Columbus reaches the Canary islands. He has lost one ship on the trip due attrition, but the new lands discovered make up for that loss. I order him to return to the New World as soon as possible.
9-July. I see the 27000 french men on Champagne moving south...where are they going?...maybe to get positions to jump on the Framche comte?
13-July. Another 26500 men french army is moving westward in Languedoc. My alarm is increasing. I call for 2000 infantrymen to be built in Catalonia.
3-August. Seems that the Evil Turk has received a severe beating...today a peace is signed between them and the Mameluks, where they give up 250d.
1-September. The 27000 men coming from Champagne are on Languedoc now, moving East. I bet they go to the Provence, to get ready to siege Milan as soon as the war starts. THe other 26500 men are moving towards Bearn. I order my army at Catalonia to move to Gerona. Those mountains will help me in the defence.
I try to get more members into our alliance. Thuringen, Hessen ,Babaria, Baden, even the powerful Austria...but all answer 'no'. Seems that they want to stay clear of the now clearly incoming war.
1-December. Today is a happy day for all the Catholic community, as Andalucia converted to the True Faith. Now if only Sierra Nevada converts too...
1-January 1495. 308d again, total of 348d. I call for massive army buildings in Catalonia (8000/2000) and Flanders (2000 men and 20 cannons)
Colonna is put in command of the armies in Gerona. Cordoba gets the command of the army at Artois. Both are awesome generals.
Manuel I rises to the Portuguese throne.
the french now are fortifying Boulogne
4-august...calm. Nothing. Is strange...
Columbus reaches the Canary islands after yet another trip full of discoveries. This time he lost its second ship so I order him back to andalucia. His next trip will happen when a Conqueror is ready to get the glory of colonizating the New World.
1-January 1496. A long, long, peaceful year has gone by. Nothing has happened, strange as it may seem. I collect 309d, this time for a total of 342d. I start fortifying Flandres and Gerona. I send an expensive, beautiful arab horse to the king of Britain, son of the one wich once was owned by the king of Granada, Boabdil
The english King seems unimpressed, though, and only a moderately increase on our relations is seen (from -104 to -89). Barbarian...I'm sure that he can't see the difference between a pony and an arab horse.
Also I receive news that our infrastructure and trade is now in High renaissance,so now we can build refineries and set up trading posts.
1-August. Our navies will be fitted from now onwards with better guns (Tech advance 'early guns').
11-September. Milan offers us a Royal marriage. Of course, I accept the proposal of our ally.
January-1 1497. Calm. Nothing happened. Im starting to get nervous, but I wont invest more in building armies. I, still, start building a fortress at Estramadura, just in case that Portugal attacks, and improve too the one at Luxemburg.
1-February. The king is seriously disgusted when he realices that we have not conquered Lyonnais. He looks at me,and my neck, in anger but for this time he is clement. Now he gives me the mission to keep the Franche Comte in Spanish hands. Not easy, but much more feasible. I hope, because he clearly told me that my life is at stake on this one.
I arrange a royal marriage between Spain and Portugal.
This should make me feel calmer.In a normal situation, If france attacks I wont have to wage a 2-front war. But while assisting to the wedding I also notice that Navarra has allied itself with Portugal, while I was sure they would allign with the evil french.
That is both good and bad,Good because steals France a good ally, but bad because I am sure that when the war starts between france and Spain, Navarra will jump on us at the first chance...so dragging portugal with them into the war. Damn.
11-September. After a long long, period with no activity the Uzbeks declare war on Sibir. This time with no activity is starting to get me angry...Maybe I should attack first?
8-October. Hans rises to the Swedish trhone. Far away from here and not related with Spanish interests. Bah.
1-January 1498. 309d of tax income. Another year, no war. Ok. My plan is ready. if by 1-january of the next year the war has not started I will start it on my own. I fortify Euskadia and Aragon, and I build a 5000 men /20 cannon army in Catalonia.
I arrange a Royal marriage with Venice and try again to get Austria into my alliance. I succeed in the first, but again I fail in the second...
23-january. after a long long war, the Teutonic order arranges a peace with Poland-Lithuania. Welikia is now into Teutonic hands.
9-April. Louis XII rises to the throne in France. I divide my army at Gerona. The biggest part (22000/4500) will remain there, while 3000 men will move to Aragon. The 5000men and 20 guns from Catalonia will join this force at Aragon as fast as they can. This will be both a siege force and a reserve force, in case Navarra attacks. The forces under Collonna will beat first the French army at bearn and then hit hard to the Navarrese army if the dare to declare war at us.
I arrange the troops in a similar way at Artois. 7000 men and 20 cannons will be the force to siege Ile de france, while 19000/7000 troops will remain under Cordoba's orders.
8-June. My nation starts to feel the need to get glory in the New world. Colonial dynamism has provided my nation with 3 fresh warships with 3000 men under the command of a valiant man, our first conqueror. I order those forces to move from Baleares -where they have shown up- to Andalusia where they will join Columbus and move to the New world again.
1-July. Nivernais is being fortified by france, and 25000 men are now in Champagne. I am sure that the new French king knows I'm about to strike.
6-September. Columbus starts the trip to the New world with Alicantarra, our glorious conqueror, 3000 men and 4 warships.
1-January 1499. Ojeda waits my command,my second Conqueror. Pinzon is in Netherlands, waiting for my command. I order him to go to andalusia, where he will get Ojeda and move to the New World.
As I dont want Pinzon's fleet to be disturbed on the way to Spain, I'll delay my declaration of war until May.
In the meantime I start raising one 8000/2000 armie at Catalonia and another of 6000/2000 at Flandres as reserves for the incoming war.
7-March. Columbus arrives to Puerto Rico. I order the troops to land on the Island
1-May. Finally. War starts, at a big cost to me (-3 stability, wich now is at level 0)...but I will make up for this cost.France, The Papal states, Savoy,and Scotland against Milan, Palatinate, Lorraine and Spain. The english dishonored the alliance. Shame on them ,but I dont mind.
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