As you can see, we have gained 108 AE with the Ottomans. I think it will be time that we give them a visit, and a not so friendly one
.
Our DIP tech has reached lvl 10. Our fleet will have to modernise if we want to have a decent fleet meeting the standards of our time.
18 galleys were built in our harbours to replace the old galleys.
Castille hasn’t reached ADM tech 10 either like Poland, and so they began with integrating Naples AND Aragon at the same time
. Naples has just been incorporated, and now a powerful Castille is right next to my door
. Why France, why
?
This also means that the DIP tech of Castille is lacking behind, which means that their fleet is also outdated. This can become very important if we ever come into conflict with them, since controlling the Mediterranean will be essential to win a war with them.
Shortly after, we reached MIL tech lvl 10. We don’t want to lack behind on that!
We’re also trying to recover our ADM tech gap. Vassal feeding will help us a lot with this.
You can’t go wrong with some extra missionary strength. Especially with all those heathens at our doorsteps.
Hopefully with recruiting this “Great person” we will calm down our neighbours and convince them we don’t have any false meanings with our conquests.
The Ottomans still don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t have any troops there and still declare a war on Serbia
. Paradox should fix this.
And maybe also this. What defines ‘strategic interests’ exactly? They just need my permission to go to Serbia, they can’t reach them otherwise. What are they hoping for, some magical port which will teleport them to there? Oh no, sorry, those were rebels, I must apologise
.
Ah, our CB against the Knights is ready. The Knights are actually not our goal for this war, Venice on the contrary is. I made the wrong decision to release Croatia (I had to of course since I can’t core it, but still), since I couldn’t make a claim on Ferrara.
Why do I need a CB against Ferrara? Because they are only allied with the Papal State. I want a bridgehead in Italy to conquer Rome eventually, but as you can see above, The Papal State has some decent allies (Castille for example). So if I attack Ferrara, I only have to fight them and the Pope.
Can you follow
? I hope so, they say too complicated plans always fail, so I will keep them as simple as I can
!
In the meantime, why don’t we support some more rebels who will probably never rebel? We have to do something with our money
.
Our missionary has work to do! Ragusa will follow the only true faith in 62 months. This would have been easier with Religious idea group
.
Wallachia declared war on Serbia again. We’ll probably gain a CTA soon, if we can halt our ally from expanding, why not
?
Corfu, which became independent together with Naxos and Crete, finally became a part of our Empire.
Forts on islands like Corfu are just a waste of money, so we deleted them.
And with that another triumph of Greece decision popped up. I think Greece can’t be more triumphing than before.
Our ally Wallachia lost their war with Serbia, and had to give Oltenia to them
. Serbia will be punished for this bad treatment against our allies! We obviously just declared war to help our ally, why otherwise? We won’t get any benefits of it, not
?
We heavily outnumbered Serbia and Bosnia. I can’t remember why I asked Poland-Lithuania to join this war, since I can handle them on my own. Probably to boost our relations a bit.
After a quick victory, we demanded Srbija and Temes and ceded Oltenia back to Wallachia.
Oh god, Aragon has been integrated and now Spain has been formed diplomatically. How nice
! And France is getting wrecked again
. I think I have never ever more hoped for a powerful France to exist than now. In vain probably, even France can’t make a good comeback after so much trouble.
Finally, our war for Venetian Istria has begun.
The Mamluks and Wallachia joined our war, and as predicted, Venice also on the side of the Knights
.
Our first landing on Rhodes wasn’t so well. I even put some artillery on purpose in the army so they would be able to win easily. A mistake apparently
.
The Ottoman-Serbian war ended with a concede defeat on Serbia’s side. The Ottomans didn’t want military access as I already showed, but Serbia and Bosnia were so stupid to ask it for themselves
. So the Ottomans could now just walk through my land and defeat them. And because they can’t core the provinces, they just conceded defeat.
Our 2nd invasion of Rhodes has ended a little bit better than last time. We won a decisive victory and are now sieging Rhodes.
Gold and inflation, two things which go hand in hand, but faith isn’t.
Venetia got sieged, Istria is being sieged after the Mamluks sieged it first, and soon Venice will have to concede defeat.
The Polish conquest of Breslau against a blobbing Bohemia, Holstein, Wallachia, Anhalt, Brunswick and Memmingen. Bohemia is a part of the Empire, and a weak Brandenburg will protect them. Now that is what you can call a CTA
!
I want to point out that, like my war against Venice, was only for a claim against Ferrara which we can use against the Papal State. I wanted to do the same for Wallachia to weaken Bohemia. But since we didn’t have enough ADM for coring Wallachian territory, the conquest of Wallachia never happened
.
Whether we will accept this huge CTA or not, you’ll see it in the next chapter. I hope you enjoyed it
!
