Year 1600-1609 (Oman Rehabilated)
Year 1600.
Reputation:Respectable(BB=3);
Income=$273/mth; Stabilty cost:$1808;
Army:125k, Navy:124; Losses:667k, 45ships
(changed to total army figures since both cavalry and inf are equally important now, and also to simplify)
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SITUATION:
Again, not much war in Europe, although I am sure the Russians will soon go after GH.
Technology:
Land/Naval Tech - OE 16/16.
Most western/northern Europe have good Land Tech >15 while the naval tech is good for those maritime ones.
Russia, Poland, Songhai, Indian countries have land tech around 10-12.
Golden Hordes, Zimbabwe Zanzibar, Nubia: Land Tech <5.
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The War Against Oman, 1601-04
Oman had been minding its own business all the while but it is still an irritating issue to us as it is Shia. So, preparations began, by moving men, from southern afrika to Zanzibar, and loading men in Basrah to take out the provinces in Arab peninsular.
It took a LONG time before our army was rounded up and reached Zanzibar, and we Declared War on April 1601.
(Zimbabwe, as expected, dishonoured its alliance (since it has no knowledge of where Oman is) and saved us the trouble of waiting for the alliance to expire.)
In any case, Oman didn't have ANY standing army at all, and the fresh recruits in Zanzibar were easily put down. By June 1601, all the non-TP provinces, 4 in Arabia and Zanzibar, were under siege.
All cities fell by August 1602, (but there is no hurry as I needed to get some extra diplomats, since my monarch is only giving 1 per year).
In the meantime, Oman was willing to give up all provinces (a dozen TPs and Zanzibar included) for peace but we were not interested.
On April 1604, peace was signed on our terms:]
Oman to change religion.
That is what we wanted, no less, no more.
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Persia DoW Uzbek and started a war with the Khanate Gang (Uzbek, Chagtai, Khazak). However, it did well enough to gain 6 provinces from Uzbek, including the Turkish provinces in our agenda.
1603:
Russia DoW GH. We had to turn down the request for help for the end of the GH, with its pathetic economy and Technology, is inevitable. The war ended with Russia taking 3 provinces, leaving 6 with the GH.
*Turko-Persian conflicts
ersians take advantage of ottoman instability* Event:
Since Persia is no more Shia, a war is useless and also dangerous (4BB, I think). So, chose "Concentrate on the Rebels", which gave 2 revolts, Stab -1.
Malwa and Hyderabad DoW the Mughals (& Georgia) in 1604. While we pondered the issue, Gujarat, Hedjaz, Aden and Sibir DoW Persia in 1605. We promptly improved our relationship with the Persians, as Sibir has one Turk province we want.
After much struggle against the Gujarat-Sibir-Hedjaz coaliation, Persia finally felt it necessary to ask for our alliance in April 1607!
The War Against Sibir and Hedjaz, 1607-09
Our intention is to grab the Turk province of Alga for a 1BB cost, as it is possible since we joined Persia in its efforts to
defend against a DoW by Gujarat and her allies. Of course we cannot make a separate peace with anyone before gaining our objectives. This means defending our Bombay colony against Gujarat while having an eye on Hedjaz.
Land Technology: Gujarat 11, Hedjaz 10, Sibir 3!.
July saw units from Sibir and Hedjaz wandering our eastern provinces, as we were redeploying our forces. Gujarat sent a huge army to Bombay and we evacuated our forces to the sea, hoping Gujarat will be attritioned badly as it sieges Bombay. The sea battles with Gujarat were not a problem, though.
We definitely have enough men to fight both Hedjaz and Sibir but the main problem is Suppy (and Winter in Sibir). So, it is a slow moving operation, with small units sent on correct dates to minimise attrition.
Nevertheless, by December, 2 provinces in Sibir fell to our assaults while we are on our way to completely covering all 4 Hedjaz provinces.
1608:
The year began with Gujarat assaulting Bombay. It was a failure, and we rushed our ships to drop our 8k men over 25k tired enemy, landing exactly on the 30th January, to have maximum attrition on the Gujarathis the following day. It was a rout but we decided not to follow them into Gujarat, as our aims are in Sibir.
As the snow melted, we successfully assaulted 4 more Sibir provinces between May-Oct. This forces a peace treaty on November:
Sibir is to give up Alga and pay $200.
In the meantime, Gujarat again came with 36k into Bombay in July, forcing a fast evacuation. Again they failed to assault the Medium fort (7.5k) and again we landed and routed them on December.
However, we waited until the last of Hedjaz's provinces fell to us on Nov. 1609 before making peace for some money with Gujarat, Aden and Hedjaz. (We have no need of the Hedjaz to be our vassals, for now at least).
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OTHER EVENTS:
Received another Conquistador in 1600. He was used to explore some left-out areas in Afrika, and to easily establish a colony in Mahe.
1602: Received Mili-Access from Lenape, to explore the American shores. Surprisingly, Lenape has Land/Naval=13/15. No wonder it is holding out nicely against England.
Land Tech18 (CRT level) researched on 1609.
A wrong-timed event:
*Exceptional Year* Event, with $200 and -10% inflation, while we don't have any inflation.
Spain: *The Expulsion of the Morisques* Event: "Expel the Heretics".
*Prepare to Join the Evangelic Union* Event, followed by
*Prepare to Join the Catholic League* Event.
Venice takes some colonial provinces from Portugal. There goes our secret dream of annexing Venice!
Missionaries: 1 sent, failed. Anyway only Istria left.
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End Of Decade Notes:
Instead of Uzbek, it is now Persia which has a lot of Turk provinces. A war with Persia always bring fears of high casualties.
BTW, this thing about it costing just 1BB for taking province in a 'defensive' war was not very clear to me until I saw a post in the forum, which also stated you lose the 'defender' tag once you make peace with someone; unless you were the one directly DoWed.
