Chapter 7: The Rise of the Blue and the Fall of the Red
- In the past, these so-called vikings invaded our promised land. We fought and we prevailed! We expeled them, but they came back. They are at our doors, once again. I say no more! It's our time to invade their land. To war!
This chapter's plans:
1) Expand our power in Europe
2) Continue to conquer Mexico
This chapter will cover only 17 years, much less than our previous chapters. On the last chapter, we prepared our invasion of Africa and the plan was to get small territories in Europe, just to generate a bit of AE now that would fade away in time. But something changed our plans...
Yes, the Red Monster of the East is falling. The rebels are taking control of the land. We must use this, another great opportunity has arisen for us.
The Scandinavians are alone now. And their MIL tech isn't much better than ours. Denmark has tech 15, ours is 14 for about one more year. We already have the CB to attack Denmark, so let's use it!
Burgundy will join us, we could use this to improve our relations to them. With just a few more incentives, like military access and a province we can create a royal marriage.
Meanwhile, PLC is sabotaging itself. I'm sorry, but I have to make another complain. The AI shouldn't start a westernization when its country looks like this. This is madness.
Back to the war, our army has far superior numbers to the Danish. Our general is still rubbish, but we'll have to keep him for a while, until we get enough army tradition to invest in a new one. The maneuver shall help us in these wars where we have the numbers advantage.
The Norwegian are trying to come back to America. We can't have that. This is our land!
We had many reasons to go to war against Denmark. But the real goal is to give land back to Sweden. Yes, that's right, give land back to Sweden. The total war score cost of the Swedish land is 74%, we can vassalize them like that. But we have no-CB. What if we give these two provinces back to them?
Yes, we now have the Religious War CB. We can "Cleanse the Heresy" of the Swedish.
Before we go into the war against the Swedish, let me show you what the great PLC has become. We may be able to use this. If we somehow vassalize the Commonwealth, we could return all its cores back. Maybe we could vassalize Muscovy as well and give it all the Russian territory. It's kind of weird to see Muscovy back in the game, after all, it became Russia already. To clarify, this Muscovy has no cores in the Russian territory. Anyway, a catholic Muscovy sounds very nice for us.
This caught me by surprise. I see no reason for the Ottomans to declare us as rivals. Of course, we are a great power, but we have no land they want and we aren't allied to any of its rivals (Spain and Russia). In fact, we would be of a much better use to them as an ally. We have mutual rivals and we are dominating the north while they control the southeast.
I didn't expect that both Austria and Burgundy would answer the call. Maybe it could prevent them from fighting one another. Pomerania answering the Swedish call is ideal. We have plans for them.
The swedish general is great, but not enough to stop us.
This war was fast, just two battles and the usual carpet siege. So, let's talk about the Swedish ideas. Administrative, Offensive and Quality are great picks for a vassal. Both the French and the Swedish armies are no joke, two of the strongest in the world combined with military picks. This is going very well for us.
The war results. We got a province from Pomerania and a full annex from Sweden. The plan here is to convert all the Swedish people to Catholicism before releasing them as vassals. I'm not sure if we'll be able to keep them as Catholics, since the center of reformations are still converting, but we have to try.
Let's talk about the PLC. Their total war score is 262%, so it would take at least 3 wars for us to vassalize them. We don't have that much time, the PLC cores will disappear around 1655. The best we can do is hope for the events to go our way.
I found something really strange here, a one-sided truce. I thought it happened because TO was released from the PLC, but no one else had this truce. Is it a bug?
The plan here was to bring both TO and Ruthenia in war against the PLC. That would increase the timer on the PLC cores in both of these nations. We can also feed TO and Ruthenia the Polish land to reduce the total warcosts from the PLC. Well, TO won't answer the call because of the truce (?) they have. So, we can discard this alliance. The Pomeranian province was important for us to get a CB on the PLC.
The only reason Ruthenia wouldn't join was their debt. So, we'll give them some money.
There's not much to talk about the war. One battle and the PLC troops were wiped. Carpet siege and it's over. We gave 4 provinces to Ruthenia, no more than that. We don't want them breaking from the overextesion. We have weakened the PLC enough that other countries might attack them. That's what we are hoping for. If the Teutonic Order, Brandenburg, Bohemia or Polotsk attack them, we might be able to vassalize the PLC after our truce is over. Their total warcost now is 171%
Back in Mexico, we'll keep taking the provinces we made claims.
Time to feed Sweden. We'll make both Norway and Finland as cobeligerents, we want their land for our vassal.
Another quick and simple war. The Danish troops went after a small army I left sieging Äland, that let us trap their troops there. The Swedish went after them and stack wiped.
Our vassal has increased in size substantially. Just like France, we returned as many provinces to Sweden as we could. The trust increase will be very important if we are to keep Sweden in the future.
Well, it was strange that Austria and Burgundy didn't join our last war. But, guess what happened? Yup... they are at it again. Meanwhile, Spain and Great Britain aren't doing anything. They keep fighting small natives in Central and South America, but no great powers. Portugal, somehow, lost all its alliances. It's something we could use. We would need to build at least 15 more heavy ships to fight their 14, because of our DIP tech difference. Brandenburg declared war on the PLC, but this war is taking really long.
Here's our territory. Norway has a few provinces in North America, but we'll get them soon. We are ready to take Mali. Sweden is looking strong. The game will get on a much faster pace from now on.
We are currently tech 14/11/16. Ideas are: Exploration (7), Expansion (3), Religious (7), Influence (2).
This concludes another chapter. I'd like to thank everyone who made a comment on this thread. It means a lot to me. I'm really glad that you guys are liking it!
See you next time!
Next chapter preview:
Will the plan to vassalize the Commonwealth work? Will France ever get its cores back? Will we have troops to send to Africa? Check it out on the next chapter!
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And if Spain attacks you after allying Burgundy, Commonwealth and maybe Austria, they are toast. Especially if you step in and guide their armies around with 1k stacks with attach on.
