IGC 2.2, EU 1.08, Free Ireland, Free Bretagne, Free Norway, Free Finland, Balkanization, Vinland, Times of Truoble, Moldovian Bujak, Pskov Ingermanland, Free/Austrian Lowlands, Chaos Hurts, (Normal/Normal)
January 1, 1492
I have been appointed the Minister of Vinland today by our king, Asegeir Egilsson. I surveyed our realm, carved out of the wilderness and the pride of all who dwelt within it. We had 400 ducats in the treasury, excellent (+3) stability and the provinces of Nova Scotia (our capital), Fundy, Micmac and Bangor, as well as our colonies in Gaspesie (Level 5), Isle Royale (Level 3) and Wabana (Level 2). We still used mostly battleaxes (Land Tech 0), but were excellent seafarers (Naval Tech 2) and skillful traders (Trade Level 1). Additionally, a Vinland princess was married to a Danish price, giving us contact with that country. She would give us excellent intelligence about what happened in the old lands. We also have 10,000 infantry and 2,000 calvary stationed in Nova Scotia.
I started by trying to send some of our merchants to earn profit for us in Europe. To my great chagrin, it was well beyond our means (I could only access the northern CoTs which were worth little, and had to pay 16 ducats per merchant). Therefore, we decided instead to use 185 ducats from our treasury to fund three colonists to our three colonies.
January 3, 1492
We recieve word that Lorraine has entered a military alliance with France, Savoy, Brittany and the Papal States. This is of little importance to us.
February 3, 1492
The Turkish heathens have joined the Swedes and the Finns in an alliance. Fortunately, they are far from Vinland's shores.
February 28, 1492
The court has recieved word that Grenada was annexed by the Spainish. We wish our fellow Christian breathren good tidings in their dealings against the heathens.
March 1, 1492
We expanded our colony in Gaspesie to a city, and Isle Royale to a Level 4 colony. However, we believe that our colonists on their way to Wabana were killed by Skraelings.
We hear that in distant Europe, the Pope has divided the world into Spainish and Portugese spheres of influence in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Alas, Vinland has been marked under the Spainsh sphere of influence! The nobles are enraged, but we lack the capability to take vengence in any way.
March 2, 1492
We learn that the Netherlands has joined the Swedish alliance (Sweden, Finland, Turkey), Portugal with the Hansa, Pommerania and Holstein, Hungary with Austria and Bohemia, Navarra with France, Brittany, Savoy, Papal States and Lorraine. Being across the sea from Europe, Vinlanders ignore these ominious tidings in Europe.
March 4, 1492
It appears that the Swiss (a nation that we know only through legends) have joined the French alliance. Again, this latest arrangment does not really impact Vinland.
March 17, 1492
Through travellers, we hear that the nation of Baden has joined with the Austrians, Bohemians and Hungarians in an alliance.
March 23, 1492
The Spainish, English and Milanese have made a devil's bargin with the heathens of distant Persia. We are troubled by these dealing the Europeans have with the heathens, but again, we can do little.
March 26, 1492
Venice has joined the Trader's Allinace (Hansa, Pommerania and Holstein, Portugal).
May 1, 1492
Using another 53 ducats from the quickly declining treasury, we send another group of colonists to Isle Royale. At the same time, we arrange to marry into the Swedish royal family, and improve our relations with Sweden.
July 1, 1492
Not much has happened this summer. We recieve word that our colonists to Isle Royale were lost in a storm. We can give only condolences to their kin, but we fear that we will be unable to sustain Vinland's growth much longer.
September 2, 1492
We decide to send another band of colonists to Isle Royale, paying anotehr 53 ducats. One of Egilsson's sons has married a French countess, reinitiating contact with the French and improving relations with them.
November 2, 1492
A message has arrived telling me that our colonists have arrived in Isle Royale safe and sound. (Isle Royale to Level 5)
November 3, 1492
Our European friends tell us that Poland-Lithuania has allied with the Trader's Alliance. On the same day, we recieve two offers of a military alliance, one from Denmark (Norway), and the other from weden (Finland, Turkey, Netherlands). We decide to join the Swedish alliance. On the same day, Naples allies with Spain (England, Persia, Milan)
November 18, 1492
We recieve word that France (Savoy, Papal States, Brittany, Lorraine, Navarra, Helvetica) has declared war on England (Milan, Naples). The Spainish and persians duck out of the English alliance.
November 27, 1492
Greece has joined the Danish alliance (Denmark, Norway).
December 20, 1492
We learn that milan was won a battle against Savoy in Savoie.
January 1, 1493
Census day comes around, and I finally figure out why our king has been biting his fingernails nervously everytime I mention spending moeny on colonization. For we have collect a grand total of 11 ducats. I decide that we must continue our rampant colonialism, and take a loan.
At the same time we become more adapt in adminstration, and learn how to promote baliffs to tax collectors (Infrastructure Level 1). A brave adventurer, Ottar Gramse appears at our doorstep and with our blessing he goes off with a thousand brave Vinlanders to find new lands to the west and the south.
We also sent a band of colonists to Isle Royale for 51 ducats, and another to a distant land called Manhattan for 62 ducats.
January 3, 1493
We have married ourselves into the royal linage of Scotland. We have some hope for inheriting that country, but at the least we'll get some information about Scotland.
January 21, 1493
We overhear that France has won a crushing victory over teh Milanese in Milan.
February 1, 1493
The Hapsburgs have aligned their nations together, with Spain joining Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Beden in an alliance.
February 3, 1493
Russia (Crimea, Ryazan, Pskov) has gone to war with Kazan.
February 24, 1493
We have learned that Kazan have won a victory over Ryazan in Ryazan.
March 2, 1493
We have upgraded Isle Royale to a city, and established a colony in distant Manhattan. The natives there are kind folk, are sell us some furs for mear trinkets. We decide it is a good land to settle for the glory of Vinland.
March 3, 1493
Astrakhan (what foreign land is this?) has allied itself wit the Golden Horde (and they would be?). In somewhat mroe well know lands, Scotland has joined the Danish alliance, and Cologne the Austrian one. The English have recruited the heathen nation of the Mameluks to fight for them. As I hear about this, I absentmindedly wonder why they don't call the first week of every March alliance week.
March 8, 1493
We recieve word that the Kazan (who we couldn't tell apart from man eating bears) have defeated the Russians in Ryazan.
March 20, 1493
The heathen nations of nubia and the Hasfid Empire have become allies. I am more interested in smiting this annoying fly on my desk.
April 10, 1493
We hear that Ryazan have failed to beat off the Kazan in their homeland once again.
April 11, 1493
Russia has apparently won a victory over the Kazan in a land known also as Kazan.
May 2, 1493
I personally dispatch another band of hardy adventurers to Manhattan, paying 60 ducats for their passage and their supplies. I consider forcing the captains to let colonists travel for free, but eralize that it isn't worth the trouble.
May 6, 1493
England has apparently scored a victory over the Frnech in Land's End. It must really be Land's End for we have no clue where it is.
May 7, 1493
A messenger hurries into the Royal Court and informs us that Ottar Gramse has discovered the new land of Rimouski to the north of Bangor, Micmac and Fundy. I consider the risks and benefits of sending some colonists there, but I don't think its worth it just yet.
May 12, 1493
We learn that Milan has fallen to the French , and the French has annexed Milan. Nearly every Catholic nation has delivered a message of complaint to the French court, and we are no different.
May 20, 1493
A rampaging English army has been halted in Lyonnais by the Navarrese.
June 18, 1493
A combined Navarrese, Breton and Swiss army defat the English again in Bourgogne.
July 2, 1493
Manhattan has doubled in size as our new colonists land there. Soon it will become a rightful part of our glorious Vinland. We find that much money can be made there in the fur trade.
July 13, 1493
We hear that France has defeated an English army in Savoie.
July 14, 1493
We send an army (5000/2000/0) to join Ottar Gramse in further expeditions to the south. Ottar's troops head to rendevous with the Nova Scotia Regiment in Penboscot, just outside our borders.
August 4, 1493
France won a battle agaisnt England in Maine.
August 18, 1493
England wins a naval engagement against France in Donegal Bay. We wonder when this tete-a-tete will end.
August 20, 1493
Gramse is ambushed by Skraelings in Penboscot, and loses 400 men from his 1000. Beaten, they are forced to retreat to Bangor.
September 1, 1493
We dispatch yet another band of hardy pioneers to Manhattan at a cost of 58 ducats. I begin to toy with the idea of a colonization tax, but I realize that it will be too much of a hassle.
September 18, 1493
From our informant in France, we learn that Navarra has defeated the English in Gascogne, but the English beat the French in another naval battle in the irish Sea.
September 19, 1493
The Turks go to war with the heathen Mamluks. As their allies, Sweden the Netherlands and Vinland (that's us all right) join them in war against England and the heathen Mamluks. Finland dropps out of our alliance.
September 23, 1493
We recieve word that the French have finally siezed the English channel port of Calais.
October 1, 1493
Travellers from distant lands show us the maps of a distant place known as Egypt. This "Egypt" seems to the be the capitol of the Mameluk nation, with whome we are at war.
October 12, 1493
Our massive (5600/2000/0) army under Ottar Gramse crushes 1000 naitves in Penboscot, avenging the deaths of 400 Vinlanders who died there two months beforehand.
November 1, 1493
Another messenger informs us that our colonists have arrived safe and sound in Manhattan. 300 brave souls now live there. At the same time, Ottar is ambushed by Skraelings in Sebago, but we rout them quickly using superior Vinlander calvary.
November 2, 1493
Finland has rejoined our glorious alliance. The nation of Thuringen has algined itself with Bavaria.
November 7, 1493
We have learned that the Russians have siezed the city of Kazan from the Kazan.
November 8, 1493
The Papal States lost a battle against Naples in Romagna. While we feel that some revenge has been done for the Treaty of Tordesillas, we also realized that as a vassal of Spain, a stronger Naples is not good for us.
Novwember 15, 1493
The naval war in the English Channel swings in th favor of the French, as they win this engagement in the Irish Sea.
November 25, 1493
The Mameluks have defeated the Turks in some foreign land called Aleppo.
November 28, 1493
Ottar's troops dispatch another band of Skraelings to the afterlife in Connecticut, just north of our Manhattan settlement.
December 2, 1493
The French have once again beaten the English in the Irish Sea. When will they actually strike forth and win glorious victories?
December 6, 1493
The English fleet has defated its Navarrese counterpart off the Coast of Brittany.
December 17, 1493
We once again hear the story of a Turkish army being defeated by a Mameluk one in Aleppo. Meanwhile we grumble about the dimunitive size of this year's chickens. Who can have a feast with a pile of bones?
December 27, 1493
The nation of "Kazan" has apparently beaten Ryazan in the province of Lipetsk. The Turks finally turn the tide and beat a Memeluk fleet in the Cretan Sea.
January 1, 1492
I have been appointed the Minister of Vinland today by our king, Asegeir Egilsson. I surveyed our realm, carved out of the wilderness and the pride of all who dwelt within it. We had 400 ducats in the treasury, excellent (+3) stability and the provinces of Nova Scotia (our capital), Fundy, Micmac and Bangor, as well as our colonies in Gaspesie (Level 5), Isle Royale (Level 3) and Wabana (Level 2). We still used mostly battleaxes (Land Tech 0), but were excellent seafarers (Naval Tech 2) and skillful traders (Trade Level 1). Additionally, a Vinland princess was married to a Danish price, giving us contact with that country. She would give us excellent intelligence about what happened in the old lands. We also have 10,000 infantry and 2,000 calvary stationed in Nova Scotia.
I started by trying to send some of our merchants to earn profit for us in Europe. To my great chagrin, it was well beyond our means (I could only access the northern CoTs which were worth little, and had to pay 16 ducats per merchant). Therefore, we decided instead to use 185 ducats from our treasury to fund three colonists to our three colonies.
January 3, 1492
We recieve word that Lorraine has entered a military alliance with France, Savoy, Brittany and the Papal States. This is of little importance to us.
February 3, 1492
The Turkish heathens have joined the Swedes and the Finns in an alliance. Fortunately, they are far from Vinland's shores.
February 28, 1492
The court has recieved word that Grenada was annexed by the Spainish. We wish our fellow Christian breathren good tidings in their dealings against the heathens.
March 1, 1492
We expanded our colony in Gaspesie to a city, and Isle Royale to a Level 4 colony. However, we believe that our colonists on their way to Wabana were killed by Skraelings.
We hear that in distant Europe, the Pope has divided the world into Spainish and Portugese spheres of influence in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Alas, Vinland has been marked under the Spainsh sphere of influence! The nobles are enraged, but we lack the capability to take vengence in any way.
March 2, 1492
We learn that the Netherlands has joined the Swedish alliance (Sweden, Finland, Turkey), Portugal with the Hansa, Pommerania and Holstein, Hungary with Austria and Bohemia, Navarra with France, Brittany, Savoy, Papal States and Lorraine. Being across the sea from Europe, Vinlanders ignore these ominious tidings in Europe.
March 4, 1492
It appears that the Swiss (a nation that we know only through legends) have joined the French alliance. Again, this latest arrangment does not really impact Vinland.
March 17, 1492
Through travellers, we hear that the nation of Baden has joined with the Austrians, Bohemians and Hungarians in an alliance.
March 23, 1492
The Spainish, English and Milanese have made a devil's bargin with the heathens of distant Persia. We are troubled by these dealing the Europeans have with the heathens, but again, we can do little.
March 26, 1492
Venice has joined the Trader's Allinace (Hansa, Pommerania and Holstein, Portugal).
May 1, 1492
Using another 53 ducats from the quickly declining treasury, we send another group of colonists to Isle Royale. At the same time, we arrange to marry into the Swedish royal family, and improve our relations with Sweden.
July 1, 1492
Not much has happened this summer. We recieve word that our colonists to Isle Royale were lost in a storm. We can give only condolences to their kin, but we fear that we will be unable to sustain Vinland's growth much longer.
September 2, 1492
We decide to send another band of colonists to Isle Royale, paying anotehr 53 ducats. One of Egilsson's sons has married a French countess, reinitiating contact with the French and improving relations with them.
November 2, 1492
A message has arrived telling me that our colonists have arrived in Isle Royale safe and sound. (Isle Royale to Level 5)
November 3, 1492
Our European friends tell us that Poland-Lithuania has allied with the Trader's Alliance. On the same day, we recieve two offers of a military alliance, one from Denmark (Norway), and the other from weden (Finland, Turkey, Netherlands). We decide to join the Swedish alliance. On the same day, Naples allies with Spain (England, Persia, Milan)
November 18, 1492
We recieve word that France (Savoy, Papal States, Brittany, Lorraine, Navarra, Helvetica) has declared war on England (Milan, Naples). The Spainish and persians duck out of the English alliance.
November 27, 1492
Greece has joined the Danish alliance (Denmark, Norway).
December 20, 1492
We learn that milan was won a battle against Savoy in Savoie.
January 1, 1493
Census day comes around, and I finally figure out why our king has been biting his fingernails nervously everytime I mention spending moeny on colonization. For we have collect a grand total of 11 ducats. I decide that we must continue our rampant colonialism, and take a loan.
At the same time we become more adapt in adminstration, and learn how to promote baliffs to tax collectors (Infrastructure Level 1). A brave adventurer, Ottar Gramse appears at our doorstep and with our blessing he goes off with a thousand brave Vinlanders to find new lands to the west and the south.
We also sent a band of colonists to Isle Royale for 51 ducats, and another to a distant land called Manhattan for 62 ducats.
January 3, 1493
We have married ourselves into the royal linage of Scotland. We have some hope for inheriting that country, but at the least we'll get some information about Scotland.
January 21, 1493
We overhear that France has won a crushing victory over teh Milanese in Milan.
February 1, 1493
The Hapsburgs have aligned their nations together, with Spain joining Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Beden in an alliance.
February 3, 1493
Russia (Crimea, Ryazan, Pskov) has gone to war with Kazan.
February 24, 1493
We have learned that Kazan have won a victory over Ryazan in Ryazan.
March 2, 1493
We have upgraded Isle Royale to a city, and established a colony in distant Manhattan. The natives there are kind folk, are sell us some furs for mear trinkets. We decide it is a good land to settle for the glory of Vinland.
March 3, 1493
Astrakhan (what foreign land is this?) has allied itself wit the Golden Horde (and they would be?). In somewhat mroe well know lands, Scotland has joined the Danish alliance, and Cologne the Austrian one. The English have recruited the heathen nation of the Mameluks to fight for them. As I hear about this, I absentmindedly wonder why they don't call the first week of every March alliance week.
March 8, 1493
We recieve word that the Kazan (who we couldn't tell apart from man eating bears) have defeated the Russians in Ryazan.
March 20, 1493
The heathen nations of nubia and the Hasfid Empire have become allies. I am more interested in smiting this annoying fly on my desk.
April 10, 1493
We hear that Ryazan have failed to beat off the Kazan in their homeland once again.
April 11, 1493
Russia has apparently won a victory over the Kazan in a land known also as Kazan.
May 2, 1493
I personally dispatch another band of hardy adventurers to Manhattan, paying 60 ducats for their passage and their supplies. I consider forcing the captains to let colonists travel for free, but eralize that it isn't worth the trouble.
May 6, 1493
England has apparently scored a victory over the Frnech in Land's End. It must really be Land's End for we have no clue where it is.
May 7, 1493
A messenger hurries into the Royal Court and informs us that Ottar Gramse has discovered the new land of Rimouski to the north of Bangor, Micmac and Fundy. I consider the risks and benefits of sending some colonists there, but I don't think its worth it just yet.
May 12, 1493
We learn that Milan has fallen to the French , and the French has annexed Milan. Nearly every Catholic nation has delivered a message of complaint to the French court, and we are no different.
May 20, 1493
A rampaging English army has been halted in Lyonnais by the Navarrese.
June 18, 1493
A combined Navarrese, Breton and Swiss army defat the English again in Bourgogne.
July 2, 1493
Manhattan has doubled in size as our new colonists land there. Soon it will become a rightful part of our glorious Vinland. We find that much money can be made there in the fur trade.
July 13, 1493
We hear that France has defeated an English army in Savoie.
July 14, 1493
We send an army (5000/2000/0) to join Ottar Gramse in further expeditions to the south. Ottar's troops head to rendevous with the Nova Scotia Regiment in Penboscot, just outside our borders.
August 4, 1493
France won a battle agaisnt England in Maine.
August 18, 1493
England wins a naval engagement against France in Donegal Bay. We wonder when this tete-a-tete will end.
August 20, 1493
Gramse is ambushed by Skraelings in Penboscot, and loses 400 men from his 1000. Beaten, they are forced to retreat to Bangor.
September 1, 1493
We dispatch yet another band of hardy pioneers to Manhattan at a cost of 58 ducats. I begin to toy with the idea of a colonization tax, but I realize that it will be too much of a hassle.
September 18, 1493
From our informant in France, we learn that Navarra has defeated the English in Gascogne, but the English beat the French in another naval battle in the irish Sea.
September 19, 1493
The Turks go to war with the heathen Mamluks. As their allies, Sweden the Netherlands and Vinland (that's us all right) join them in war against England and the heathen Mamluks. Finland dropps out of our alliance.
September 23, 1493
We recieve word that the French have finally siezed the English channel port of Calais.
October 1, 1493
Travellers from distant lands show us the maps of a distant place known as Egypt. This "Egypt" seems to the be the capitol of the Mameluk nation, with whome we are at war.
October 12, 1493
Our massive (5600/2000/0) army under Ottar Gramse crushes 1000 naitves in Penboscot, avenging the deaths of 400 Vinlanders who died there two months beforehand.
November 1, 1493
Another messenger informs us that our colonists have arrived safe and sound in Manhattan. 300 brave souls now live there. At the same time, Ottar is ambushed by Skraelings in Sebago, but we rout them quickly using superior Vinlander calvary.
November 2, 1493
Finland has rejoined our glorious alliance. The nation of Thuringen has algined itself with Bavaria.
November 7, 1493
We have learned that the Russians have siezed the city of Kazan from the Kazan.
November 8, 1493
The Papal States lost a battle against Naples in Romagna. While we feel that some revenge has been done for the Treaty of Tordesillas, we also realized that as a vassal of Spain, a stronger Naples is not good for us.
Novwember 15, 1493
The naval war in the English Channel swings in th favor of the French, as they win this engagement in the Irish Sea.
November 25, 1493
The Mameluks have defeated the Turks in some foreign land called Aleppo.
November 28, 1493
Ottar's troops dispatch another band of Skraelings to the afterlife in Connecticut, just north of our Manhattan settlement.
December 2, 1493
The French have once again beaten the English in the Irish Sea. When will they actually strike forth and win glorious victories?
December 6, 1493
The English fleet has defated its Navarrese counterpart off the Coast of Brittany.
December 17, 1493
We once again hear the story of a Turkish army being defeated by a Mameluk one in Aleppo. Meanwhile we grumble about the dimunitive size of this year's chickens. Who can have a feast with a pile of bones?
December 27, 1493
The nation of "Kazan" has apparently beaten Ryazan in the province of Lipetsk. The Turks finally turn the tide and beat a Memeluk fleet in the Cretan Sea.
