I'm sorry for leaving you all hanging durring the middle of a war. The truth is, I had forgotten I even was at war. The only country left in the war was Aragon, who had just been fighting my vassals fleets and leaving me alone completely.
Lodewijk: Well, I'm feeling like its time for a good war. Where should we go next?
Jester: Shouldn't we finish up the war we're already in first?
Lodewijk: Wait, I thought that war was over.... who left? Oh, I forgot about Arag- .... Wait a minute, where's my adviser?!?
Jester: You had him beheaded my Liege.
Lodewijk: Yes yes, I know, but usually a new one would have appeared by now.
Jester: I'm afraid we're having a hard time finding replacements. You see, no one wants to be your adviser anymore. The last few were death row prisoners that we offered the choice between dying and serving as your adviser, but most of them chose death.
Lodewijk: Why, whats wrong with being my adviser, you get to hang out here at the palace, give me stupid advice, say something stupid, and then get executed. Not a bad job all in all.
Jester: ...
Lodewijk: So I guess you're kind of like my substitute adviser then? Until they can find me a new permanent one.
Jester: NO NO! Nothing like that! I'm just a court jester!
Lodewijk: Well, you're not very entertaining...
Jester:
Lodewijk: Guard, collect this man's head and add it to the royal collection. Oh and tell the Grand Marshal to ship some of his Spanish forces down into Africa to take Aragon's capitol.
So I took this colony to see if it would prevent the "National Decline" events from firing, but apparently it won't.
Lodewijk: Hey look everyone! We have a colony now too!
Spain: Aw crap! We moved over here to get away from them!
Portugal: Great, there goes our summer homes!
Sweden: Bad enough that they're invading our homeland, now they chase us over here.
Lodewijk: Hmm, well I like the beaches and palm trees and whatnot, but the neighbors are all jerks!
The CB is that they were being such terrible neighbors.
They also hold Halland, which obviously should be part of the Netherlands. Oh... thats not part of Holland? Oh well.
Wow, thats quite an alliance.
They have almost half as many troops as me and over half as many ships! Impressive. Most impressive.
This could very well be the worst defeat in the history of the empire.
10000 losses on our side, almost 900 losses on their side. OUCH!
Province was quickly vassalized and Brunswick was annexed.
Troops from all over Europe swarm Poland once again.
Lodewijk: My family's nemesis will finally be destroyed!
Well, severely weakened, at least.
I cut off Sweden's capitol, but I doubt they will move it.
I've never seen that before. An Orthodox Iraq! :rofl:
Lodwijk: I hereby proclaim that awesome!
I need Tver.
For some reason, Portugal decided it was somehow their business what goes on in Russia. Stupid busybody, mind your own business!
Not that they could have possibly prevented the inevitable outcome.
Oh no, the awesome nation of Orthodox Iraq is under attack, we must help them!
The Byz continue to fall.
This is almost identical to what happened in real life, except coming from the West rather than the East.
It looks like Norway will have to die. I need their capitol and there's nowhere they would move it.
I forced Portugal to release the Iroquois and the Huron. They are released as interesting Catholic nations, with their native cultures as the primary culture, but all their provinces are Portuguese.
I'm moving into Persia!
Greece! Your back! And in the same spot too.
Finally my Prussian lands core!
But just before the war in Persia ended, poor Lodwijk dies. He leave behind a legacy of war and beheaded advisers for his son, Willem.
Wait wait, Willem? Isn't that missing an "i"? No, wait that would make it Williem, which isn't right either... Maybe Lodwijk was drunk when he named him. Or he was just crazy, yea, its probably that. His own name was Lodwijk, after all.
Anyway, so it is Willem that signed the peace deal with the Persians, forcing them to give up a large chunk of their homeland.
And Willem was the one who changed the empire into Prussia: