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Anyways, just finished my turn. It... didn't turn out too well for the English.
England 1460
Starting out, I immediately noticed we had a deficit of -20 ducats... We have a large amount of standing military, but having a regency council makes it hard to wage war on those French bastards. Our glorious mission to retake Normandy, the rightful lands of the English royalty. Our lands in what was once Brittany (who are now reduced a single province) will provide a great position to invade France, but alas we must play the waiting game and try to increase our money reserves as our King has yet to come of age. To this end, England has joined the Hanseatic Trade League.
While our King is still only 11 years of age, our chances of retaking Normandy have grown... In November, it broke free from France and now considers itself its own nation. Does nobody realize that those lands belong to our King?
December of this year seemed to be the point when our people grew far enough away from their Norman roots to no longer consider it as part of our realm. Normandy has so long been in the hands of our enemies it is no longer considered a core of England. Our people have largely forgotten about it, and now they cannot even tolerate Norman culture. Still, it is our rightful mission to retake those lands, and so it will be done.
1461
Our coffers are swelling nicely after lowering our military maintenance and ensuring goodwill and trade with the Hansa. November of this year saw Normandy annexed by France once again.
1463
England is still ruled by the regency council, but recent advancements in thinking have spurred innovation. There could be land on the other side of the ocean... Land uncontested by the other European powers, and land that we would not have to go to war over to take. Let our explorers set sail in this quest for the new world!
1464
April of this year saw the young king Edward IV Lancaster ascend to his rightful place as monarch of England. Now, as our people attempt to explore a new land found to the west of Iceland, our armies in Europe and on our glorious island can get to work. First of all, we must claim Lothian as our own to unite the entire island under our rule. Then, we'll see about the French problem.
1465
While our colonists attempt to build settlements on the icy shores of "Greenland", we have yet to have Cassis Belli against the Scots. However, it seems France is occupied with Burgundy, and we still consider parts of Normandy as core to England's great kingdom, so we have declared war on France, beginning the English Reconquest of Calais.
June of this year saw our colonies in Greenland expanding, so our explorers set sail to see what lay further east. Meanwhile, the seige of Caux was underway, the French having put up little resistance besides a failed seige of our fort in Moribhan. The king also decided to it was foolish to wait for some reason to attack Scotland. Uniting Brittania under the English crown was reason enough! Thus began the seige of Lothian and the War of English Agression. Munster and Tyrone, the pitiful Irish kingdoms that have thus far escaped English rule, have decided to attack our lands in Ireland in retaliation. Now they will be utterly destroyed.
1466
April of this year saw our King realize that, after France had ended its war with Burgundy (taking many provinces in the process) it would turn its huge army upon our lands in Brittany. Even though we had gain control of Caux, the French had taken Moribhan and our army of 15,000 was up against 30000 French in Picardie. So, we forged a white peace with France, and things are back as they had been in Western Europe. Meanwhile, our war with the Irish and Scottish is faring much better. We have annexed Munster, gained control of Lothian, and it won't be long til the Western Isles and Ulster fall to our armies.
May saw the end of the war with Scotland. They ceded the Western isles and renounced their claims on their old lands that had fallen under our control during the reign of Henry IV. The Scottish are our vassals for now, but it won't be long before we complete our conquest of their lands. Fortunately for Tyrone, this meant our conquest of
Ulster would have to wait until the truce we made with the Scots ends.
1467
Revolts are occurring in Munster. The nationalist rebellion managed to fight off our forces in Ireland, but by September the revolt was put down thanks to some mercenary support. Meanwhile, our exploratory navy has been lost at sea but we managed to discover the Azores. There are colonists on the way to create a new settlement. Our army, despite the costs, has been growing, and soon the time will be right for another attack on France. October saw the colonizing efforts in the Azores fail.
1470
Colonization efforts of the Azores have finally succeded in Feburary after a few failures, and our colonies in Greenland are growing and have started producing trade goods.
Soon the truce with France will end, and it appears that France is well aware of this. They have an army at least 32000 strong waiting in Armor, while in Finister our invasion force is nearly eclipsing 40000. The battle that will take place when the truce wears off will be epic.
1471
The time has come to strike back at France. In April, our truce with the French ended. While desertion has led to the reduction of our forces in Britanny, King Edward IV himself will lead our army into France with the intention of taking back Caux, Picardie, and Calais. The 2nd English Reconquest of Calais has begun, and more troops are being rounded up in the English countryside as our king marches across northern France. While our knowledge of the French armies' location is unknown following the ending of our spies's infiltration of their government, the king is confident that, this time, we will have Normandy back in English hands. Meanwhile, a new colonial effort has begun, aiming first for the land called Labrador by our explorers. There are fierce Inuit natives there, but they will be no match for our conquistadors.
1473
Our new war with France was a disaster. They now occupy Finistier and Moribhan, but are reluctant to sign a truce with us no matter what we offer them. Of course, our royal navy prevents them from attacking our lands so it seems we are at a stalemate for now. Meanwhile, on the colonial front, we have successfully built a settlement in Labrador and are exploring the surrounding regions.
The French eventually signed a truce with us, but we had to give up our cores in France (but not the Norman ones), fork over 50 ducats, and release Scotland from vassaldom.
Of course this now makes it easier for us to conquer the Scots, and we didn't lose our Breton lands in the process.
1474
Following our European army's defeat at the hands of the French, our people demanded we vassalize the Scots once more. While the king would have rather annexed them in an attempt to unite the British Isles, earning some prestige in the eyes of the English public would help soothe our bad reputation. And thus, we attacked Scotland and quickly vassalized it in June. While Scotland was no longer allied with Tyrone, the king decided to risk his country's stability in order to finish the fight with the Irish, and so our armies in Ireland marched on Ulster in May. Meanwhile, eager to conquer new lands, the king decided that Aragon, its king excommunicated by the pope, would be a prime target for the rapidly rebuilding English army. He had hoped to bring back the cogs that had transported the conquistadors to the New World but news has it that the ships were lost at sea earlier this year. And so, with the power of the Royal Navy guarding our dockyards, construction of a new fleet of cogs began.
1475
England's shaky stability has increased the dissent across our lands. The rise of the Socinian Heretics in Northumberland in April was evidence of this. Even though they were put down, it was clear that the kingdom needed stability in order to quell the rebellious words on many of its citizen's tongues. In may, our fleet of newly constructed transport ships, accompanied by the Royal Navy and filled with 11000 soldiers, caught sight of Aragon's shores. It seemed to be under its own internal strife, a pretender rebellion having control of two of Aragon's four remaining provinces. The rebel force was larger than our own, so our troops made landfall on the Aragonese islands of the Baleares instead after the English-Aragonese Excommunication War was declared.
September of this year saw the final Irish province of Ulster annexed by English troops. Our prestige is finally out of the hole it was once in after the disasters in France. Welsh nationalists rose up in Glamorgan in October, troubling news as the king and the royal army was rounding the Iberian peninsula towards Aragon. The king ordered the ships to turn around in order to restore order to England.
1476
January saw the Baleares fall under English control. The rest of Aragon is in the hands of the pretender rebel. Once the king restores order in England, our armies will move on to Portugal, who foolishly joined Aragon against us in the war. The Aragonese pretender can have the rest of Aragon, for all king Edward IV cares. Feburary saw the destruction of the Welsh nationalists, but the rise of Connacht nationalists. Our stability needs to increase, quickly. In March, the despicable Portugese siezed our colony in the Azores. They will pay dearly.
Our first blow against the Portuguese occurred in June. King Edward IV himself made landfall on the Azores, destroyed the pitiful Portuguese force stationed there, and retook the colony in the name of England.
TREACHERY! Charles James Lancaster, son of King Edward IV, attempted a coup against his father. The death of the king would have destabilized the country even further, so Charles James was executed. Now Edward has no heir, and the stability of the nation is still terrible. The heretics are back again, this time in East Anglia. Recruitment is occurring in the surrounding countryside, so the king hopes the heretics can be stopped without having to pull back from the war with Portugal and Aragon.
Alas, December saw the heretics spread their beliefs across East Anglia before a force could be mustered to stop them. Their beliefs are spreading... A rebellion 13000 strong has arisen in London, all while the royal army is fighting in Aragon. These are dark times.
1477
January. Rebellion is everywhere. Scottish patriots have taken up arms in Fife, Breton patriots are assaulting our fort in Finistere... Our army in England is still not strong enough to take on the heretics, either. February brought lighter news, despite the darkness enveloping our kingdom. Henry Lancaster was born, so the throne would be safe in English hands should king Edward fall against the Argonese or Portuguese.
1478
Heresy has spread across England like the plague. The heretics took control of London, but slowly we are driving them out of England. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the other rebellions. The Breton patriots have control of Finistere, the Connacht patriots are spreading uncontested across Ireland, Scottish patriots are running amok up north and the Socinian heretics have taken Moribhan.
In August, while the ending of the war with Aragon and Portugal (with England ending up gaining the Baleares and Rousillon but losing the Azores colony) allowed King Edward to return to England to deal with the heretics, the Connacht rebellion grew to such proportions that it was decided to grant them freedom. Suddenly, all of Ireland was under the control of one Irish king. Who knows what this means for the future...
The coming of September has confirmed our fears... A new nation has formed where the kingdom of Connacht once was. It is known as Ireland. Hopefully they will stay quiet as we quell the heretics and Scottish patriots. The Welsh rebellions were also not as important as regaining removing the heretics from London and the rest of our lands, so we allowed Wales some freedom as a vassal state in November.
1479
June was the breaking point of our nation. The amount of rebellions was too much, allowing much of our northern provinces to return to Scottish rule, and our Breton lands rejoin with Brittany. Luckily this also spelled the end of the heretic control of much of our countryside but England's territory is vastly smaller than what it once was.
The threat of heresy and rebellion still looms, the lands we conquered in Aragon have been retaken by the Aragonese, our nation is considered dastardly scum by the rest of Europe, and we are deeply in debt. Things are not good for England right now. The king's only consolation is that Scotland and Wales are still our vassals, and our colonies in the new world have yet to face any real trouble. In December, a peasant rebellion 12000 strong in London sent the king's army in retreat, just as plans to reconquer Britanny were being made.
1480
The peasant rebellion has proven tough to quell, and even by April of 1480 they haven't been put down yet. Meanwhile through our explorations we have made contact with an actual nation of new world natives that calls itself Huron. We have decided that their lands are ripe for conquest, and it is now our mission to take them in the name of the king. In more troubling colony news, a Portuguese colony was found near Huron territory in a land called Narraganset. They should hope they do not interfere with Huron, else we will destroy them.
Unfortunately, the London tax revolt succeeded in November and the city is now in the hands of rebels, our army's morale just too low to lift the siege. Now that our stability has increased, the increased spending on our military will hopefully bolster morale. Our high infamy and low prestige isn't doing much to help us though.
Good news came in December when our colonies in Greenland became self-sustaining settlements.
1481
England went bankrupt again in September, leading to the end of our kingdom's short period of stability. The peasant revolts in England are almost under control, but revolts in our Greenland colonies have been successful and our debts are piling up higher and higher.
1482
With the revolts in Lincoln and London quelled, the Royal Navy set sail in January carrying an army to quell the rebellion in Greenland, and hopefully move on towards Huron.
In April, the peasant rebellion in Greenland was crushed. And the Navy set sail towards Huron. December saw our conquistador army on the edge of Huron territory, and thus war was declared and the English Conquest of Huron began.
1487
While the revolts in England are never ending and now much of the countryside under peasant control, we successfully annexed Huron this January. Certainly this will incite rebellions among the natives, but our colonial conquest is complete for now. Also, our colony in Labrador has finally become self-sustaining.
April brought the first Huron rebellion, luckily while our conquistadors were in the province. No doubt our army will break ranks despite our larger numbers. Morale has been low ever since the legitimacy of the king shrunk as low as possible.
August brought the rebel sentiment in our kingdom to a head, forcing us to give in to everyone's demands. Our Huron territory split into the nations of Huron and Iroquois.
1490
The last thirty years has seen much hardship for England. Many of our lands were lost, many wars we waged ended in failure, and only now are the people beginning to see the king as their legitimate ruler. The future is unclear, but at least for now England is at peace.
As for whoever's next, France is quite a powerhouse at the moment, and Castille, while still not finished destroying Aragon, is also pretty strong and has started to colonize the western coast of Africa. Elsewhere, Muscovy is growing bigger and bigger, now extending into Scandinavia. Persia is also in a good position to strike at Iraq and the Mamlukes, two nations in the midst of rebellion and, in the case of the Mamlukes, in the process of having provinces taken by Algiers. The Golden Horde seems to still be doing well, strangely having taken the island of Brunei (even though its completely controlled by rebels right now...). Byzantium hasn't changed much since 1460, though.
It might also be interesting to play as Ireland and strike against a weakened England. My legitimacy of 0 and prestige of -100 led to English armies of 20000 fleeing from rebel armies of 1500....
EDIT: Oh, and the Teutonic Order is still hanging on with the same 2 provinces, in case you want to play as them, Tyrant.
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