First of all, our main army will be led by Władysław. He is hella fast, and this might help us annihilate a stack or two of GH's murderous mongoloids.
The 35 stack split into two; 20 went for Bessarabia, 15 somewhere into GH's territory.
Fight for Podolia in December ended in our retreat becasue that 15 joined 20 when we tried to fight. Ruthenia has been scorched by our troops as they fled for Krakow.
In the months between fighting, numerous saxon kingdoms (Mecklenburg, Saxony, Anhalt, to name a few) entered marriages with our Kingdom. That is fine.
Time to strike them where it hurts, because they lost about 6000 to starvation.
We won the battle of Ruthenia in May, and the beaten and routed Mongols went for Podolia. But!
Władysław is very fast, remember? He is going to beat them to Podolia and hopefully...
VICTORY! This particular GH stack had 20 regiments, all lost by now.
Another stack, 10 regiments, is besieging Poltava. Moldavia and Lithuania are besieging Horde's possessions in Crimea, so its up to Władysław and his boys to knock that stack out as well.
But this situation almost ended in disaster; the Lithuanians were getting beaten hard and our King managed to haul the Polish army in there just in time.
You have to take note of our manpower; its down to 3000 recruits left. We either end this war soon, or we're done for.
Shortly after battle at Kursk, Austria invited us into military alliance. It's a new for me; Austria usually gets uppity with me pretty fast, and doesn't agree for more than military access or marriage.
Alliance? Sure thing. The Hapsburgs are fighting with Hungarians against Bohemia, but I'm not suicidal to try get into that conflict.
Now, Władysław is pursuing the fleeing Golden Horde into Voronezh. If would be good if we can steal a province from them or two, near Moldavia preferably.
Ha ha! Eat dirt, mongols!
With another big stack crushed, GH is unfortunately still having about 50 regiments out there. Considering the world map available to us, they must be down there fighting Georgians.
Meanwhile, Władysław and the boys will now besiege Crimean territories to put some warscore in.
Just as we were doing great. Fuk.
Well, welcome aboard Jan Albert (of Pomerania I assume, considering we've got a marriage with Pomeranian Gryfs).
Unfortunately Jan Albert's Military skill doesn't translate into Military
stats, for he is slower than the Zbyszko's we have. With that 20 stack of GH rushing toward Crimea, we might have only 1 option left.
Our victory at Kursk made our troops there free for moving, which made the Golden Horde's stack stop its advance. But on 8th August, Georgia conceded defeat an we're now the only ones left fighting against the Horde.
What was supposed to be a little stack removal turned into bigass battle. We've won on 12th December, and Kharkov fortress fell soon afterwards.
First good event since the start! We take the money, this early in game 52 ducats is hella lot.
Meanwhile, Jan Albert like a fox have run to Tambow and then to Kingdom of Ryazan which agreed to military access treaty in the last minute.
Golden Horde refuses to concede defeat still, so the fighting continues on. Meanwhile, Lithuanians managed to defeat all Smolenskian rebels and are now in process of recapturing Smolensk.
Unfortunately, on 7th November 1402, Smolensk declared independence, the Lithuanians ran away rather than help, and our Army was trashed in Mogilyov.
So 20 days later, on 28th November, we had no choice but to concede defeat. We have no troops left. Smolensk has been married and allied with, so maybe they will accept vassalship?
Five years of peace and money accumulation later, we're not even half ready for this.
One day war! Who would believe this is possible? Poland, of course, manages to do it.
Aren't we great?
Two years later, on 2nd January 1409, we manage to annex Mazovia, and the mission we had grants us instant cores on Plock and Mazovia proper.
This decision is the much needed sugar we need to sprinkle on this dreary update, and a good moment to call it a day.
Maybe next war with the Horde will be more successful.
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