First thing I did was adjust the treasury sliders, since the AI had decided to print a metric ton of money every month. I've adjusted it to the point where I'm printing just enough money to not cause inflation.
I then had two tech slider that were very close to completion. Land and Trade, so I went ahead and prioritised those.
Then came the matter of how to be stinking rich. Turns out that my economy is just good enough to send 1 merchant to the nearest CoT every year at the cost of sending me into debt. Naturally, I went ahead and sent him off, before adjusting treasury to the point where i'll have just enough money to not go into debt.
February, 1490
Tech completed
Formed alliance with Haasa, royal marrige with the Mamaluks
July 1490
Stability increase, yay. Working on my master plan.
Gained Casus Belli against the irish states. what?
August 1490
Rough draft of the plan
1) get rich
2) Use spies to infiltrate administrations so I know what going on
3) Start funding patriots in the turf around my own, if the rebellions are successful I make some Vassals until I have a Vassal wall
4)repeat steps 2&3 as needed
5) Solve the Mamaluk problem
Step 5 is going to be fairly tricky. In the same way that calming down a rabid hippopotamus is "interesting". the Mamaluks are the superpower of the region, and hold most centers of trade that I can afford to send merchants to. Foortunately, they are fairly trusting of me, and I plan to take advantage of that by swarming them with patriot rebels when the ppurtunity presents itself
1 week later
Holy crap, Iraq (2 provinces) is at war with the mamaluks and WINNING.
Somone has also beaten me to sponsoring patriots in mamaluk territory, not sure who.
December, 1490
Built a tade depot in Jabal Shammar. I Need MUCH more cash.
January, 1491
Iraq is losing territories. I'm guessing the Mamaluks army was busy elsewhere and they just tried a land grab. What I need now is a way to completely frak up the various alliances so I can expand into Haasa and Yemen
June, 1491
Adal just declared war on the Mamaluks, who are already at war with Iraq and a few other counties. I might join in, snatch up Mecca and a few other provinces if they start losing.
Intel report: I've seen one major Mamaluk army of roughly 13,000 troops. Adal has... 4,000 and Yemen has.... 6,000. I have 5,000. If I were to join this war, there is a chance we might actually win, but as of yet I'm not certain what to do.
August, 1491
Iraq is losing their war, badly. I'm gonna use this oppurtunity to expand, since their only ally who can actually get at me is dirt poor and just south of me. I'll wait until the new year, declare war, and pay them off. easy as pie.
September, 1491
I can finally adjust one of these sliders. Decided to move towards free trade and got a great person. Once I have the cash, I'll sack the guy that give me missionaries and put him in place.
November
Stability advisor just died. not too much of a problem at the moment.
December
Adal and the Mamaluks just made peace, adal got one of their provinces.
12,000 Mamaluk troops are advancing on Yemen. They're screwed to the point where I might declare war on them instead of Iraq (who is now harmless)
March, 1492
Yemen just lost its army. we are now at war and looking to vassalize them or get a few provinces
April, 1492
Smugglers. I don't have enough cash to stop them, so I have to take a hit to my trade
Ottomans sided with Yemen and have embargoed us.
June, 1492
Fighting a battle in Sana'a 4,000 of our guys with a Damned good general agianst 2,000 of theirs
Wiped them out completely
September, 1492
Captured Najran
October, 1492
Haasa captured Hadramut. war advantage at 32%
Made a peace offer involving us annexing Najran.
Didn't accept. TO THE CAPITOL!
or not... Mamaluks already laid seige. We'll take their major port then.
February, 1493
Adal got the time of troubles event. could get messy
May, 1493
Haasa got another of Yemen's provinces, Yemen ninja seiged the other one with an army no one knew they had
That ninja regiment is trying to retake Najran. Our's and Haasa's Armies got him cornered
June, 1493
New Ruler. pretty decent with Admin 6, military 5 and diplomacy 8
Sent another peace offer. They rejected and 2 regiments of rebels rose up in adden (which we have seiged).
June, 1494
Aden FINALLY Surrenders.
Peace offer sent: Najd and Haasa get one province each. Yemen is our vassal. Accepted!
PEACE IN OUR TIME! UNTIL I GET BORED!
August, 1495
the Mamaluks have a huge rebellion on their hands. I didn't do it
August 1496
We currently have one of the largest market shares in fars. Huzzah for extra income!
December, 1496
PATRIOT REBELS IN MY CAPITOL TERRITORY!
January 1497
Trade level 9 acquired
May 1497
Royal marrige with Jalayirids due to an event
August, 1497
4,000 of of our men fought 3,00 rebels.
the rebels won.
WHAT THE FRAGOREM!?
February, 1498
Rebels dead, They were patriot rebels founded in our capitol. That stinks to high heaven of ESPIONAGE.
My money is on Oman. They recently instigated a rebels in nearby provinces.
June, 1498
the province of Bahrain, A small island just north of Qatar, defected to us for no immeadeatly apparent reason. With them came 2 regiments of Muslim Archers
July, 1498
The rebellin in Mamaluk territory is apparently worse than I initially thought. I've seen 2 armies so far, each with roughly 5-8 thousand men in them. The main Mamaluk army has 12 thousand. If shit starts to become independant, I'm gonna jump right on them
In world news: France lost some land to Burgandy, England lost land to Scotland, Morrocco is blobbing in east africa, Hindustan expanded somewhat, and the Hansa rule Denmark.
December, 1498
The rebels in Mamaluk-istan have succeeded and formed Ethiopia. Seeing how every province of the mamaluks that I can see is training troops, I decide not to go to war.
Frakking game crashes. Here's the general overview of what I've done so far.
-Declared war on the Jayalayids, vassals of the Ottomans, and occupied one of their provinces which they refuse to let go of DESPITE THE FACT THEY CAN RECAPTURE IT DUE TO IT BEING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAMALUKS
-Protestant reformation began
-Mamaluks reconquered Ethiopia which had rebelled
January, 1500
Revolt in Najran. Diverting troops to take care of them quickly.
Recruiting a few more units for the final battle with the jaya's
April, 1500
My advisors tell me that we are "properly" exploiting our Serfs. Wht he means by that I have no idea.
June, 1500
Had to take out ANOTHER loan.
<imaginative swearing>
At least the damned rebels have been put down
January, 1501
We now lay seige to J-man's capitol.
March 1501
Finally repaid a loan. I now I have 5 ducats to last me the entire year.
Fudge
Also the Germans have a new Emporer
July, 1501
We have their Capitol.
Ottomans still don't want peace.
Fuck
July, 1502
The otomans finally asked us for a white peace. we said yes.
August 1502
Iraq declared war on us. we are now at war with the Ottomans and J-dudes AGAIN!
Dammit!
November, 1502
Our third cousin has been spouting off information about our militaries and defences and other crap. I executed hime for High Treason, Espionage, Heresy, Horse theft, Unnatural acts, and fidgeting in church.
December 1502
WHAT THE HELL FINANCE DIVISION!? I HAD 22 DUCATS SET ASIDE FOR PAYING OFF THAT LOAN AND SUDDENLY I ONLY HAVE 8?! RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH:GHW"GIK"WEGJRGHFJGHS:R
January, 1503
I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR THIS QATAR! God Damn, I can't spare the manpower to put down the rovlt, I'll deal with it later!
October, 1503
Made some progress in the Iraq war, Conquered a province they took from us roughly 20 some years ago.
as much as I want to, i will not say "Mission Accomplished"
Sent some mercs to start seiging Jalahowsitspelled's southernmos province
General ragyness
April, 1504
Captured some more provinces, war is slightly in our favor now.
Repayed loan
Managed to Fund some patrots in that province THAT THE DAMNED OTTOMANS REFUSE TO GIVE UP!!!
May, 1504
PEACE IN OUR TIME! We Beat Iraq and annexed one of their Territories. We are on the way up!
And Venice burned some heretics
December, 1505
Counter-reformation in Burgundy, Waiting for the Ottoman's offers of peace to be more favorable to us. This shall take a while
August, 1507
Remember that province that the ottomans refused to let go of? GUESS WHO OWNS IT NOW, <Emphasis word of your choice>!
Peace may now be an option if i am so inclined
In am not
June, 1508
now I am. PEACE IN OUR TIME!
New Objective: pay off our debts and rebuild or economy
January, 1509
Adal has requested our aid in defeating the Mamluks. No way in hell
April, 1511
Noble wanted me to stop researching tech. Fuck 'em
September, 1511
Corruption. Everyone involved will be shot and hung from the neck until I stop finding it amusing
April, 1513
Payed off our final Loan, we are now Debt free!
May, 1513
Enacted reforms towards free trade, got another merchant advisor
February, 1514
HERETICS! IN MY PROVINCE!
march, 1515
Problem solved
August, 1518
Pretender rebels. send in our army and-WHERE THE HELL DID HE GET ALL THOSE TROOPS?!
January, 1519
Rebels are loose and Syria's declared war on us. Short of a miracle on the part of the AI, I think Nadj is finished. ah well
TURN OVER
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