Your storytelling style is alwys appreciated but the game itself looks like it's turning into something too easy
. Well the story is worth reading.
. Well the story is worth reading.-
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So far So good. I love how you have incorporated some mythology into your AAR. Hehe I look forward to seeing more exploits of Olav and Aud almost as much as finding out what happens to Vinland.
Originally posted by T. Fournier
Your storytelling style is alwys appreciated but the game itself looks like it's turning into something too easy
I know! I think for my next AAR I'm going to have to impose some "house rules" for loaning money. That, more than anything made the game too easy. It's tedious, but once you reach a certain point in the game money is no problem whatsoever. With this game if money is no problem you have no problems.
Olaf and Aud are in for something of a surprise at the end. It'll be a bigger surprise to Olaf.... I think.
Who hath believed.....
Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
Isaiah 53:1
Before continuing my account of Vinalnd’s rise to power I see that I need to set the record straight regarding two territorial acquisitions. Between the war of the three emperors and the wars of national vengeance we annexed Thuringen. The Duke of Thuringen had already annexed Wurtemburg whereupon we admitted him to our alliance and politically annexed both provinces. With that acquisition Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands stood alone as the only independent Protestant states. I began to find myself thinking in terms of establishing a Protestant super state, though the Netherlands continued to resist the idea at great cost to our treasury. During the wars of national vengeance we also acquired the two provinces remaining to the Duke of Burgundy, namely Burgonne and Picardie by force of arms.
Now, as I have previously mentioned we were planning a war against Spain by the end of 1676. We declared war in March of 1677. Initially Spain stood alone as always, though her allies eventually rallied to her side. In April the Incas finally honored their alliance and were promptly annexed. We sent two cavalry forces out from Lima and Ayucho. One went north and the other went south. Along the way we seized and annexed the Spanish held gold provinces of Potosi and Tucmann as well. France joined in the war only to lose Berri and Champagne. Poland declared war in June and by November they had an envoy in Vaestervik begging us to relieve them of the chore of governing Polotsk and Belarus. The war of the Incan annexation took less than ten months and netted what remained of the last independent skraeling empire as well as four rich provinces in Europe. Denmark joined the fray and ceded Skane and Ostlandet. I hoped for an opportunity to settle down and digest our conquests though it was not to be.
In February of 1681 the Danes decided to declare war on Russia. When the Russian ambassador informed us we promptly declared war on Denmark and her Persian allies. Though the war with Denmark netted the provinces of Tripolitiana, and Narvik, Persia proved an utterly frustrating foe. We were unable to come to grips with them and ultimately settled for a status quo peace after they had burned a trading post in Indus. Our Dutch allies took full advantage and established a colony in Indus.
In April of 1681 the third member of the Danish alliance, the Mamelukes of Egypt, sent an ambassador to Torkel and demanded that we lift the siege of Copenhagen and sign a status quo peace with Denmark. Aud tried mightily to stifle a giggle but failed. When Torkel rejected the demand the envoy repeated it whereupon Aud laughed out loud. After the third rejection of the same demand the envoy presented Torkel with a scroll containing a declaration of war. Aud was laughing so hard tears streamed down her face. Torkel read the declaration and handed it to me. After reading it I smiled and said, “Egypt will be a worthy addition to the Union of Vinland. Welcome to the capital of your new homeland!” The Mamelukes fell almost as easily as I predicted. We had to send forces from India as well as thinning our ranks by sending a force of Marines originally recruited in Zacetacas from Vendee to Tunisia. After their conquest of Tunisia and Tripolitianna an aspiring songwriter in the corps penned the now familiar words, “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Triploi…” With the conquest of Jordan in March of 1682 the last Mameluke province was ours. We promptly annexed them and sent missionaries to Jordan. As I looked at the map it seemed that the ancient dream of re-establishing crusader states was within our reach!
In the meantime we had one more war to fight. Sweden declared war in February of 1682. Within four months we settled our accounts with Sweden by relieving them of Smealand to the northeast of Skane.
I longed for a period of peace and quiet but once again it was not to be. Sweden declared war on Russia in March of 1689. We thinned our garrisons in southern Sweden and relieved them of one province. Before we could settle a peace treaty with them Poland had an ambassador in Vaestervik with a declaration of war. Poland ultimately ceded Lithuania and Posen but not before Denmark and France joined the fray. Against France we achieved mixed results. I wanted to relieve them of Apulia and Vestfold, thus setting the stage for their ultimate extermination but our landing in Apulia was a bloody failure. We settled for Vestfold and Franche Comte, which at least isolated the Ile de France from the southern provinces.
Denmark was to be a different story. Once we achieved the goal of conquering all of Norway I saw that Denmark consisted of Copenhagen and Gotland. We had to make two landings on Gotland and our Russian allies sent a general to take command of the first siege of Copenhagen forcing us to retake the city when they settled for peace with Denmark in exchange for 189,000 ducats. By April of 1691 I was in the capital of my ancient homeland from which place I sailed to Gotland to negotiate with Christian V upon the fall of his last fortress. Three times I asked him to swear fealty to Torkel. Three times he refused. He was summarily beheaded, though that only happened once. A terrified Danish jarl by the name of Petersen was asked to swear fealty to the Emperor. I only had to ask once.
As Aud and I toasted the addition of our ancient homelands to the Union we received news that Algeria had declared war and had brought their Turkish allies into the fray. I commandeered a ship and sailed to Egypt. Our forces in Jordan and Egypt promptly liberated Jerusalem from the heathen yoke. We raised forces as quickly as possible in India, Egypt, and France. We thinned our forces in France and sent another expedition to North Africa. In the middle of this war Persia, though already at war with the Turks, declared war on us! We seized Iraq and their province bordering India and knocked them out of the war. We settled separate deals with Persia and Turkey (after storming Constantinople!) and focused all of our attention on our one remaining foe. From Turkey we settled for Sinai and Samaria, but at last the stars and stripes flew over Jerusalem in which place Aud and I toasted the 200th anniversary of our service to Vinland.
Algeria had waged war competently for a time but they did not have the means to stand against us indefinitely. In February of 1692 we added yet another North African territory to Vinland’s estate. Once again I hoped for a period of peace and quiet, but it was not to be….
Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
Isaiah 53:1
Before continuing my account of Vinalnd’s rise to power I see that I need to set the record straight regarding two territorial acquisitions. Between the war of the three emperors and the wars of national vengeance we annexed Thuringen. The Duke of Thuringen had already annexed Wurtemburg whereupon we admitted him to our alliance and politically annexed both provinces. With that acquisition Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands stood alone as the only independent Protestant states. I began to find myself thinking in terms of establishing a Protestant super state, though the Netherlands continued to resist the idea at great cost to our treasury. During the wars of national vengeance we also acquired the two provinces remaining to the Duke of Burgundy, namely Burgonne and Picardie by force of arms.
Now, as I have previously mentioned we were planning a war against Spain by the end of 1676. We declared war in March of 1677. Initially Spain stood alone as always, though her allies eventually rallied to her side. In April the Incas finally honored their alliance and were promptly annexed. We sent two cavalry forces out from Lima and Ayucho. One went north and the other went south. Along the way we seized and annexed the Spanish held gold provinces of Potosi and Tucmann as well. France joined in the war only to lose Berri and Champagne. Poland declared war in June and by November they had an envoy in Vaestervik begging us to relieve them of the chore of governing Polotsk and Belarus. The war of the Incan annexation took less than ten months and netted what remained of the last independent skraeling empire as well as four rich provinces in Europe. Denmark joined the fray and ceded Skane and Ostlandet. I hoped for an opportunity to settle down and digest our conquests though it was not to be.
In February of 1681 the Danes decided to declare war on Russia. When the Russian ambassador informed us we promptly declared war on Denmark and her Persian allies. Though the war with Denmark netted the provinces of Tripolitiana, and Narvik, Persia proved an utterly frustrating foe. We were unable to come to grips with them and ultimately settled for a status quo peace after they had burned a trading post in Indus. Our Dutch allies took full advantage and established a colony in Indus.
In April of 1681 the third member of the Danish alliance, the Mamelukes of Egypt, sent an ambassador to Torkel and demanded that we lift the siege of Copenhagen and sign a status quo peace with Denmark. Aud tried mightily to stifle a giggle but failed. When Torkel rejected the demand the envoy repeated it whereupon Aud laughed out loud. After the third rejection of the same demand the envoy presented Torkel with a scroll containing a declaration of war. Aud was laughing so hard tears streamed down her face. Torkel read the declaration and handed it to me. After reading it I smiled and said, “Egypt will be a worthy addition to the Union of Vinland. Welcome to the capital of your new homeland!” The Mamelukes fell almost as easily as I predicted. We had to send forces from India as well as thinning our ranks by sending a force of Marines originally recruited in Zacetacas from Vendee to Tunisia. After their conquest of Tunisia and Tripolitianna an aspiring songwriter in the corps penned the now familiar words, “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Triploi…” With the conquest of Jordan in March of 1682 the last Mameluke province was ours. We promptly annexed them and sent missionaries to Jordan. As I looked at the map it seemed that the ancient dream of re-establishing crusader states was within our reach!
In the meantime we had one more war to fight. Sweden declared war in February of 1682. Within four months we settled our accounts with Sweden by relieving them of Smealand to the northeast of Skane.
I longed for a period of peace and quiet but once again it was not to be. Sweden declared war on Russia in March of 1689. We thinned our garrisons in southern Sweden and relieved them of one province. Before we could settle a peace treaty with them Poland had an ambassador in Vaestervik with a declaration of war. Poland ultimately ceded Lithuania and Posen but not before Denmark and France joined the fray. Against France we achieved mixed results. I wanted to relieve them of Apulia and Vestfold, thus setting the stage for their ultimate extermination but our landing in Apulia was a bloody failure. We settled for Vestfold and Franche Comte, which at least isolated the Ile de France from the southern provinces.
Denmark was to be a different story. Once we achieved the goal of conquering all of Norway I saw that Denmark consisted of Copenhagen and Gotland. We had to make two landings on Gotland and our Russian allies sent a general to take command of the first siege of Copenhagen forcing us to retake the city when they settled for peace with Denmark in exchange for 189,000 ducats. By April of 1691 I was in the capital of my ancient homeland from which place I sailed to Gotland to negotiate with Christian V upon the fall of his last fortress. Three times I asked him to swear fealty to Torkel. Three times he refused. He was summarily beheaded, though that only happened once. A terrified Danish jarl by the name of Petersen was asked to swear fealty to the Emperor. I only had to ask once.
As Aud and I toasted the addition of our ancient homelands to the Union we received news that Algeria had declared war and had brought their Turkish allies into the fray. I commandeered a ship and sailed to Egypt. Our forces in Jordan and Egypt promptly liberated Jerusalem from the heathen yoke. We raised forces as quickly as possible in India, Egypt, and France. We thinned our forces in France and sent another expedition to North Africa. In the middle of this war Persia, though already at war with the Turks, declared war on us! We seized Iraq and their province bordering India and knocked them out of the war. We settled separate deals with Persia and Turkey (after storming Constantinople!) and focused all of our attention on our one remaining foe. From Turkey we settled for Sinai and Samaria, but at last the stars and stripes flew over Jerusalem in which place Aud and I toasted the 200th anniversary of our service to Vinland.
Algeria had waged war competently for a time but they did not have the means to stand against us indefinitely. In February of 1692 we added yet another North African territory to Vinland’s estate. Once again I hoped for a period of peace and quiet, but it was not to be….
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You have been ridiculously successful in this aar. I think it is time for you to plan to take over the entire world, united under the US, err, Vinland flag!!!
It's tempting but for the purposes of having the ending to this story that I want I'll need to show a little more restraint than that. When i wrap it up and put a bow on it you'll see.
haha... welcome to the planet Vinland!! those idiotic remnants of countries just can't resist attacking you even though they have no chance. Finish 'em off!
*LOL*
I know! I really wish they'd fix the bad boy system. Most of my wartime expansion has been as a result of countries attacking on the basis of my bad boy rating. Still..... My alliance consists of the four top countries in the game. Finishing off my allies would be a tall order.
I see how big your country is and i see a very volatile situation. If this were a historical undertaking completely controlled by men of the times, some person (or people) would no doubt seize an opportunity to take a chunk of the kingdom away from you. Events like the death of a monarch or political turmoil would be too good to pass up for people of those times i think.
I don't know how hard you tried, but I think it would be VERY beneficial for you to diplo annex the Netherlands. You'd own all but a few French holdings in North America, and in Europe your holdings in Northern France and Northern Germany would be more consolidated.
By the way, it looks like France owns a few territories in Norway. Since you own half of France, anyway, I think they need to be annexed. Same with Sweden, you need to unite Scandinavia under Vinland!!!
Okay, I know, you've already finished the game, but I can't help commenting.
By the way, it looks like France owns a few territories in Norway. Since you own half of France, anyway, I think they need to be annexed. Same with Sweden, you need to unite Scandinavia under Vinland!!!
Okay, I know, you've already finished the game, but I can't help commenting.
Actually I haven't finished the game and I agree. If I can diploannex the Netherlands I will be in a much stronger position. As for uniting Scandanavia that is a project that's well underway. Did you read the part where I annexed Denmark?
Unbeliveably successful would be more correct term, i'd say. Vinland, a superpower in America, Europa, Asia, you name it. Truly a worldwide empire. Though i was wondering: what's your BB by now?
I have no idea. I find it is too much of a hassle to dig through the save file to find it.
Originally posted by Olaf_the_White
I have no idea. I find it is too much of a hassle to dig through the save file to find it.
...and some things are better left undiscovered, right?
Originally posted by Olaf_the_White
Actually I haven't finished the game and I agree. If I can diploannex the Netherlands I will be in a much stronger position. As for uniting Scandanavia that is a project that's well underway. Did you read the part where I annexed Denmark?
Yes, I did read that, and I'm glad to hear that uniting Scandanavia is coming, because, well, that's just cool
Keep it up, and I hope to see more aars from you, I love your writing!
Originally posted by hjarg
...and some things are better left undiscovered, right?
That's probably right. Looking up the BB rating after every playing session or running EUSpy falls into the category of "playing by the numbers" which, as I said earlier, isn't my prefered method of play. Of course if I ran EUSpy I suspect I'd only have more CtDs anyway.
Originally posted by T. Fournier
Hey, that's the reward you reap for being too successful
I know. Of course my BB probably isn't climbing as fast because almost all of my gains now are in RotW or the result of defensive wars. On one level it's kind of fun, even if it is unrealistic for Poland to continually DoW when the have a total of 5k facing 50k or more.
Originally posted by Sharur
Yes, I did read that, and I'm glad to hear that uniting Scandanavia is coming, because, well, that's just cool
Keep it up, and I hope to see more aars from you, I love your writing!
Well as I see it Sweden is one of the next "victims". France and Sweden may both get completely mil annexed before all is said and done, though Sweden does have a mighty fortress in Viborg and looks like they may make gains at Russia's expense.
As for more AARs I'm thinking about what to do next already. Poland again? The T Knights? United Prussia? Vinland 2.2? So many countries, so little time!