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[Servancour]

@Servancour what happen with regard to Khorasan? Did you lose a war?

Yeah, about that. I messed up.

I tried to get a few provinces from Baluchistan before Gujarat could take them. To secure the mountain provinces along with a fort. But I got more AE than I anticipated. So I had the Mamluks start a coalition war against me soon after. Which Gujarat was quick enough to use to his advantage. So I just surrendered the coalition war to get rid of it, which meant that I had to release Khorosan. Then rebels starting going way out of control.

I'm most likely going to have a hard time getting Persia back up and running. But I blame myself for that. The following war might have been easier if I wouldn't have done that.

 

[Meneth]

though they're probably also quite thoroughly devestated

Not yet, but wouldn't take much for them to become rather devastated.

 

[Dnote]

Also, why is the Ming still so weak? In real life they had vastly greater population and wealth than the countries that attacked them in this session. Though they may have had logistic problems in projecting power abroad they should have easily been able to win a defensive war (unless they were already collapsing to their own rebels).

Weak is relative here, we hit Ming whilst he was at his weakest, he was in a war to make a tributary, he had zero manpower, a quarter of his forces were mercs and he had started taking loans. Ming was literally at the point where he was about to consolidate his power, after he won the war he would've stablised completely.

Our combined forces were about 165k, which was more than his standing army at that time and we'd been preparing for the war so we had the manpower to deal with losses.

I'm not sure how powerful you expect a nation to be at that point in the game, but if Ming had stablised he would've been the most powerful nation in the game. It was our window of opportunity and we took it.

I don't know where all his manpower had gone though, can only assume he had some trouble forcing those hordes to bend to his will through the last couple of sessions.

 

[Meneth]

How did Bengal-Meneth lose Tibet during the latest northern Indian carpet siege war? His lands were barely occupied, there were not many losses due to actual fighting

20-25k rebels in mountains.

Would have helped seeing what Katz lost when he was peaced out

He got a white peace.

 

[Katzura]

And to note, I was stabbed out with a white peace this time.

 

[Meneth]

@Meneth if you re in an offensive war against Tirhut, why go for Malwa (and get stackwiped in the process) instead of siegeing tirhut down first so that you can white peace the war easily if things go south ? (unless katz assumes leadership of the war, a new mechanic of which i don't know what to say, since i don't play MP)

Because as I understood the AI alliance logic, there was no way for the Southern Indians to enter the war.

Once they joined, I literally could not get my stack out of there due to a Vijay fort.

 

[Groogy]

The same goes for Wiz/LetterZ or Groody/Dnote controlling most of China.

Groody

Groody

Groody

 

[Da9L]

This is how I have imagined my population so far during this mp

 

[Groogy]

Groovy

Groggy

Gravy's

Gooey

 

[Groogy]

Lord Hanzo I Yamana
Herald
​

The fruitful farmlands of Jiangsu have been seized for the Japanese People from the vile and arrogant ruler of the Celestial Empire. Yamana-dono have already deployed the Suo Gun lead by General Toyonari Maeda to the land of Han to subdue the forces still resisting our rightful occupation. The Japanese are next to none, the Japanese will succeed, the Japanese will rule what is ours by divine right!

Hana wa sakuragi, hito wa bushi. Ryū ga waga teki o kurau! Nihon-Jin Banzai!

- Lord Hanzo I Yamana, Daimyō of Yamana-shi, Hakushaku of Kyushu, Sanyodo, San'indo Shikoku. Protector of the Chrysanthemum Throne, First Busho of the Rising Sun. Shugo of Jiangsu province under the Grace of His Heavenly Sovereign Nara II.

 

[Groogy]

Does this now mean Dai Viet? Should Ihki feel warned?

No, that sentence is in past tense. It focuses on the one who used to be emperor. The following text though remarks on my current war with Ming and how they are "resisting" my conquest.

 

[Groogy]

It already does that, you get permanent claims on China like Qing got and there's bunch of mechanics which makes it good to be China. Ming is already falling apart from all the external invading forces(Hello!) and from the splinter Chinese states.

 

[Bratyn]

 

[Dnote]

@Bratyn I will disappointed if you don't start as a new nation every week.

 

[Trin Tragula]

 

[Bratyn]

@Bratyn I will disappointed if you don't start as a new nation every week.

Well I do hope to make this the second session that I survive I mean, I can't possibly get any further away from players...

France, obviously.

 

[Dnote]

Well I do hope to make this the second session that I survive I mean, I can't possibly get any further away from players..

This will be an interesting session then.

 

[Groogy]

It's more literate... who is that bashes through the door? ;D

 

[Dnote]

Honhonhonhon

i declare my support and undying love for:

Groody.

You mean Grooky right?

 

[Groogy]

HEED MY WORD THE WORLD SHALL BURN IN THE FIRES OF MY RAGE AND YOUR LOVED ONES PUTRID CORPSES SHALL BE ORNAMENT TO MY NEW LAND! MAY YOUR CHILDREN EYES BE SMEARED IN WASABI!