Also in internal affairs, Yoshinobu adopted his Filipino cousin Alon Toyoyomi (3/4/6) as his heir
Oh well, would have been weird to see a non-Japanese Shogun when playing as a Japanese nation.
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It's pretty average for western media though.
But it's an added annoyance to get all those "home culture upset, x culture happy" events with each ascension to the throne.
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"Come see our new show about Japan with an all star Asian cast! It's about these identical twins played by [Chinese actor] and [Vietnamese actor] caught in a struggle with their father [Malay actor] and mother [Iranian actress] who don't want them to know about their Turkic ancestry!It's pretty average for western media though.
Also starring Kal Penn as the estranged third brother."
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England , to help out against Scotland in the recent French war. But otherwise , not really.
I am still able to release small nations that are vassalizable as Daimyos. At some point, I will run out of such nations . In that case , I will either annex directly and core , or annex and create client states. The other option is to ally feed if I want to avoid AE. I will probably switch to direct annexation once my Absolutism gets higher, since I will be able to eat big chunks
And this leads to the issue of the last idea group I picked. the better option was DIplomatic Ideas because of the province war score cost reduction . But I wanted to stretch the limit of what can be vassalized , and in that sense the +15 reasons to accept was better than the +6 I would have gotten from the Dip Rep boost in the Diplomatic group.
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I think best setup is to make Malacca Home node, push to it frrom everywhere upstream I have some control, except Nippon where I should collect. I will test both options and post screenshots in the next chapter.
As for the flagship, I think it is on semi-permanent duty in the Mediterranean and Atlantic to help with coastal sieges ( has floating batteries).
If I really want to lock down Malacca, what I should do is declare war on Ayutthaya and Bengal and let the Daimyos handle it with a bit of siege help. I am just too lazy to do that, and prefer to continue bashing Empires in Europe.
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Chapter 18: The Tragedy of Syria (1620-1630)
Chapter 18: The Tragedy of Syria (1620-1630)
We left the last chapter starting a third round of Empire bashing, with Ottomans the active target. That war was concluded in June 1620
As usual, Oda took no land and forced the enemy to release 3 vassals: Hisn Kayfa, Bosnia, and Syria. The first two were one province minors, and after influence nation, economic gifts and alliances, both agreed to become Daimyo vassals of Oda. ( even though Bosnia had cores owned by our vassal Herzegovina, they did not mind as long as it was not Oda who owned them ) . But when it came to Syria, there was a problem
The total development of the new nation was considered just slightly too large to become a vassal. Considering that the release of Syria was the main achievement of the recent war , this was disappointing. But at least , the Ottomans lost a lot of land. The Shogun was still determined to some day make Syria a vassal, so he revoked the guarantee for now, hoping that Mamluks would take a bite of it and then Oda can vassalize the remnant.
With time to spare before the truce with Poland ( who was the next target on the round of Empire bashing), Oda decided to attack the now-large Empire of Persia
Interestingly, just before the war started , the Persians declared war on the hapless Syrians. That did not change Oda's plans much . The war with Persia was rather straightforward. The armies that had recently defeated the Ottomans simply marched East, taking the mountain forts in Armenia and the Zagros mountains with relative ease. Persian armies meanwhile wasted their time of the Daimyos of Yarkand and Kashmir. There was one notable battle, and that was the fiasco of Ghor, where the general in command of a siege army died as the siege began, inviting a Persian attack. Reinforcements were rushed in, but as sometimes happens, they arrived too late to save the day, but not late enough to avoid their own annihilation
The Ghor disaster was a temporary setback. Soon more armies were recruited and Persia occupied completely . Peace was signed in 1623
Oda took the province of Mosul to connect her vassal Iraq with new nation ( and vassal) Ardalan, as well as Hisn Kayfa. But because Mosul was a core province of Aq Qoyunlu, who was being wooed for vassalization, the province was transferred to Hisn Kayfa after the peace [ again countries considering becoming vassals care a lot if you own their core, but do not mind if your subject does ] . New nations of Ardalan, Ardabil, and Luristan - all located in Western Persia and in contact with the vassals in the Armenian plateau were released and turned in Daiymos . The 4ht released nation ( Sistan) could not be turned into a vassal in time before the war with Poland started ( and would eventually become a subject of Persia again ) .
A year later, it was time for the next stop on the Empire bashing round
On Poland's side was our ally England. That did not bother Oda much as she had several Daimyos in the British isles who could occupy England while Oda took care of Poland. And taking care of Poland was done quickly. But before we get to that, we note that the poor Syrians - already at war with a big Persia- got jumped on by the Mamluks
And that made them sign a bad peace with Persia, losing much of their land.
They should have just accepted Daimyo stats, their size be damned!!!
Anyways, back in Europe, Poland was quickly occupied with Stettin falling to a combined land and naval blockade in April 1625
Oda took advantage of the presence of the fleet in the Baltic to ferry several of the armies that just took Stettin to England. These armies then invaded the unfortified coast of East Anglia .
It was then just a matter of advancing on the English capital and recovering any vassal provinces occupied by them. Peace with England followed
The new nations of Tyrone, Sligo and Munster were released to later become Daimyos of Oda. And England was made to pay money and reparations to oda. Meanwhile, Syria was fully annexed by Mamluks.
Such a brutal outcome for the poor Syrians, tasting brief independence from Turkish rule, only to be partitioned between neigboring powers [a case of the game imitating reality - or is it the other way around?]. But at least, the portions ruled by Persia were now of an appropriate size to become a Daimyo once the next round of Empire bashing starts.
And in other international news, the League war concluded between Bavaria and Austria, although by now the Catholic Palatinate was the Emperor ( Austria being rule by Maria Theresia) .
Back to the Poland war. Peace was concluded in late 1626 .
Nitra, Transylvania and Wallachia were all released ( and the Shogun made sure none were too large to vassalize) . All three promptly became Daimyos. In addition, the one province minor nations of Teutonic Order and Qasim were also granted independence. These were NOT turned into Daimyos . Initially due to time constraints before the next war. But later the Shogun's advisors recommended they stay independent allies, so that they can be given land from Poland in the next war and only after that they would become Daimyos.
In addition to making vassals out of the released nations, Oda's diplomats also managed to convince Timbuktu , Aq Qoyunlu and Avignon to join the Daimyo family as well .
Those deals were made possible by the fact that ODa had no aggressive expansion notoriety in the region, and thus improving relations, influencing nations, giving gifts and creating alliances were usually enough to ink the deals.
The next stop on our rounds was Spain . Here ODa first claimed the entire Valencia area before declaring war .
On Spain's side was Portugal again. The Portuguese were peaced out early, and made to return two provinces to Algiers. Conveniently, Algiers was in line to become the next Daimyo , so those provinces were really going to Oda!
THe war with Spain is ongoing as the chapter ends. Oda had occupied all Spain's provinces in Europe, but Spain's American Colonies are preventing Spain from outright surrender. And options for the peace are being studied. In particular, the question to address is how to release Aragon and turn it into a Daimyo. Since Aragon is very large- much larger than Syria- the only way to make them a Daimyo is to first reduce their size.
We close with a view of the Odan "Empire"
As you can see, Oda is steadily gaining land in Europe . BUt remarkably, she is not regarded as an aggressive expander.
We left the last chapter starting a third round of Empire bashing, with Ottomans the active target. That war was concluded in June 1620
As usual, Oda took no land and forced the enemy to release 3 vassals: Hisn Kayfa, Bosnia, and Syria. The first two were one province minors, and after influence nation, economic gifts and alliances, both agreed to become Daimyo vassals of Oda. ( even though Bosnia had cores owned by our vassal Herzegovina, they did not mind as long as it was not Oda who owned them ) . But when it came to Syria, there was a problem
The total development of the new nation was considered just slightly too large to become a vassal. Considering that the release of Syria was the main achievement of the recent war , this was disappointing. But at least , the Ottomans lost a lot of land. The Shogun was still determined to some day make Syria a vassal, so he revoked the guarantee for now, hoping that Mamluks would take a bite of it and then Oda can vassalize the remnant.
With time to spare before the truce with Poland ( who was the next target on the round of Empire bashing), Oda decided to attack the now-large Empire of Persia
Interestingly, just before the war started , the Persians declared war on the hapless Syrians. That did not change Oda's plans much . The war with Persia was rather straightforward. The armies that had recently defeated the Ottomans simply marched East, taking the mountain forts in Armenia and the Zagros mountains with relative ease. Persian armies meanwhile wasted their time of the Daimyos of Yarkand and Kashmir. There was one notable battle, and that was the fiasco of Ghor, where the general in command of a siege army died as the siege began, inviting a Persian attack. Reinforcements were rushed in, but as sometimes happens, they arrived too late to save the day, but not late enough to avoid their own annihilation
The Ghor disaster was a temporary setback. Soon more armies were recruited and Persia occupied completely . Peace was signed in 1623
Oda took the province of Mosul to connect her vassal Iraq with new nation ( and vassal) Ardalan, as well as Hisn Kayfa. But because Mosul was a core province of Aq Qoyunlu, who was being wooed for vassalization, the province was transferred to Hisn Kayfa after the peace [ again countries considering becoming vassals care a lot if you own their core, but do not mind if your subject does ] . New nations of Ardalan, Ardabil, and Luristan - all located in Western Persia and in contact with the vassals in the Armenian plateau were released and turned in Daiymos . The 4ht released nation ( Sistan) could not be turned into a vassal in time before the war with Poland started ( and would eventually become a subject of Persia again ) .
A year later, it was time for the next stop on the Empire bashing round
On Poland's side was our ally England. That did not bother Oda much as she had several Daimyos in the British isles who could occupy England while Oda took care of Poland. And taking care of Poland was done quickly. But before we get to that, we note that the poor Syrians - already at war with a big Persia- got jumped on by the Mamluks
And that made them sign a bad peace with Persia, losing much of their land.
They should have just accepted Daimyo stats, their size be damned!!!
Anyways, back in Europe, Poland was quickly occupied with Stettin falling to a combined land and naval blockade in April 1625
Oda took advantage of the presence of the fleet in the Baltic to ferry several of the armies that just took Stettin to England. These armies then invaded the unfortified coast of East Anglia .
It was then just a matter of advancing on the English capital and recovering any vassal provinces occupied by them. Peace with England followed
The new nations of Tyrone, Sligo and Munster were released to later become Daimyos of Oda. And England was made to pay money and reparations to oda. Meanwhile, Syria was fully annexed by Mamluks.
Such a brutal outcome for the poor Syrians, tasting brief independence from Turkish rule, only to be partitioned between neigboring powers [a case of the game imitating reality - or is it the other way around?]. But at least, the portions ruled by Persia were now of an appropriate size to become a Daimyo once the next round of Empire bashing starts.
And in other international news, the League war concluded between Bavaria and Austria, although by now the Catholic Palatinate was the Emperor ( Austria being rule by Maria Theresia) .
Back to the Poland war. Peace was concluded in late 1626 .
Nitra, Transylvania and Wallachia were all released ( and the Shogun made sure none were too large to vassalize) . All three promptly became Daimyos. In addition, the one province minor nations of Teutonic Order and Qasim were also granted independence. These were NOT turned into Daimyos . Initially due to time constraints before the next war. But later the Shogun's advisors recommended they stay independent allies, so that they can be given land from Poland in the next war and only after that they would become Daimyos.
In addition to making vassals out of the released nations, Oda's diplomats also managed to convince Timbuktu , Aq Qoyunlu and Avignon to join the Daimyo family as well .
Those deals were made possible by the fact that ODa had no aggressive expansion notoriety in the region, and thus improving relations, influencing nations, giving gifts and creating alliances were usually enough to ink the deals.
The next stop on our rounds was Spain . Here ODa first claimed the entire Valencia area before declaring war .
On Spain's side was Portugal again. The Portuguese were peaced out early, and made to return two provinces to Algiers. Conveniently, Algiers was in line to become the next Daimyo , so those provinces were really going to Oda!
THe war with Spain is ongoing as the chapter ends. Oda had occupied all Spain's provinces in Europe, but Spain's American Colonies are preventing Spain from outright surrender. And options for the peace are being studied. In particular, the question to address is how to release Aragon and turn it into a Daimyo. Since Aragon is very large- much larger than Syria- the only way to make them a Daimyo is to first reduce their size.
We close with a view of the Odan "Empire"
As you can see, Oda is steadily gaining land in Europe . BUt remarkably, she is not regarded as an aggressive expander.
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Well Syria, you had your chance to be part of something great, so it's your own fault you no longer exist!
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A useful hunting accident?!
What a surprise!Do you need them to become a vassal? You could just make them a useful independent ally. Or you could take one Aragonese core from Spain and then release Aragon from yourself, feeding them cores next war.
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As usual , very good suggestions. I could make them a useful ally, but that does occupy a diplo spot. And if I release but do not ally or continue to guarantee, they can end up losing land back to Spain ( like happened with Syria losing land to Persia). This also happened with Moldavia , which I released as free nation but did not vassalize because I owned one of their core. They ended up on a losing war with Ottomans ( allied to someone else). (I think this is in the upcoming chapter).
The second option to take one province and feed them cores will work, but I end up with the full Aggressive Expansion cost, because I cannot declare reconquest wars ( Daimyos were nerfed so you cannot use their CBs as their overlord). If I am to eat the AE, it is better to just simply annex directly and then hand to vassal ( because war score cost is calculated on my admin efficiency, which is improving as I raise absolutism).
Now, one can make the argument that at this point of the game I should not worry about aggressive expansion anymore. And that is probably true. But I am going to great length to avoid AE for two reasons;
1. delaying AE accumulation till I have more and more of EUrope as Daimyos will make dismantling the HRE easier
2. it is a fun challenge to come up with ways to get land without gaining AE . The run is becoming repetitive and a mini-world conquest otherwise. Also, I want to get some experience with expanding non-aggressively in preparation for my next run ( yes, I am already thinking about the next AAR
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Chapter 19: Art of The Deal ( 1630-1640)
Chapter 19: Art of The Deal ( 1630-1640)
We left the last chapter with Oda at war with Spain ( on round 3 of the Ottoman-Poland-Spain-France cycle). But the first notable event of the new decade was the beginning of the Nanban Trade incident of the Shinto faith. Like usual , the Shogun took the isolationist view.
After that it was time for peace with Spain, as more military gains were becoming harder to get.
Spain was forced to release Granada and Sardinia as independent nations . But , in contrast to more recent peace treaties, Oda also took provinces directly . That was because there were no more nations inside Spain to release. And Aragon would have been too large to become a Daimyo. The provinces Oda took were all cores of Aragon, and were distributed between Catalonia and Granada ( once the latter became a Daimyo) . That way, when the next war with Spain comes, Aragon could be released and could be turned into a Daimyo . This land grab of course created some aggressive expansion notoriety for Oda. This could become problematic for Oda as Spain was Catholic like most of Europe ( and Oda still had to dismantle the Catholic Empires of Poland, France and HRE). But for now this did not cause any issues.
This was soon followed by the vassalization of Algiers, which resulted in the two provinces that Portugal returned recently becoming part of the Odan domain. Considering that Oda gained those from a Catholic nation without incurring any Aggressive Expansion , that was a good deal for the Japanese.
After that it was France's turn.
France was allied to Scotland, who was designated as a co-belligerent since they still had cores of Irish nations that could be released to join the Daimyo family . But before we get to that, we detour to the Balkans where Serb rebels succeeded in breaking free from Poland.
Oda immediately guaranteed Serbia, to protect it from opportunistic jackals like Venice ( or Ottomans). And over time, with improved relations and gifts, Serbia became a Daimyo as well. Now Oda was very wary of Venetian growth because they were getting close to Empire status. Similarly, the SHogun had kept an eye on other growing nations, and had decided that the time had come to bring down Ayutthaya down a peg or two , as they were the largest nation not yet an Empire.
So war was declared on the Indochinese. That had the added benefit of shoring up Oda's trade situation in the far east as well.
Back in Europe the war with France and Scotland was proceeding smoothly. And it is a testimony to the power of the swarm that I do not feel the need to detail that war, and will just show one screenshot
And in international news that will be relevant down the line, a war between Mamluks and Persia was completed with a Persian victory
The unfortunate Syrians found themselves now completely under Persian occupation, with the Egyptians kicked further South. Clearly Persia was becoming one of the more problematic Empires for Oda to deal with, certainly more so than the Ottomans.
Back in Europe, peace was concluded with Scotland, with the release of future Daimyos Gaeldom, Ormond and Clanricarde.
That effectively gave Oda majority control of Ireland and a strong foothold in Britain itself. Brabant soon followed with a monetary peace ( no nations could be released, and no provinces were taken from the HRE member). Then France was to follow next, but first we detour back to Asia where Ayutthaya surrendered.
In the peace, Oda took all of Ayutthaya's provinces in Sumatra as well as their Center of Trade in Malacca node. That effectively secured Odan control of the node, and also made sure that Ayutthaya was not at risk of becoming an Empire any time soon.
Finally it was time for peace with France. Here Oda faced a similar challenge to the ones faced with Spain and with Syria before . France had no more small nations to release. Burgundy was too large . Naples could have been released, but the Shogun secretly hoped that one day rebels there would succeed. That left Brittany who was just too large to vassalize
But the Shogun did not repeat the Syria mistake. Having taken a survey of Brittany's size ahead of the peace treaty, he arranged for Cornwall to annex Finistere across the Channel. That put Brittany's development under 100 , allowing vassalization to proceed. And in February of he following year, Brittany joined the Daimyo family ( with the help of some Blackmailing espionage).
Now as we saw, Oda also had to take some land directly from France which added to the Aggressive Expansion accumulation with the Catholic nations of Europe. But Luckily for Oda, the next stops on the Empire bashing train were in the East against the Muslims nations of Ottomans and Persia. The Ottomans came up first in July 1635
And luckily for Oda, the Ottomans had allied the 6th Empire, that of Ethiopia . This saved Oda from having to work on getting a casus belli on the Ethiopians ( the plan was to get a neighboring province from Mamluks first, but that was not necessary anymore). Since maximal territorial degradation of Ethiopia was desirable, they were designated as co-belligerent, which did not affect the enemy line up at all.
The war followed the recent pattern of Odan troops leading the way against the enemy fortified cities, and letting the Daimyo swarm handle the rest. While that went on, Oda passed her 9th government reform. And the Shogun chose the Social Contract to improve the religious harmony inside the "Empire".
[I used same reform in True Tsar to keep a variety of religions in anticipation of flipping via rebels. same strat here]
By August 1637, Oda was ready for peace ( just two years were enough to conquer Ottomans, Ethiopia and their friends thanks to excellent siege ability and the swarm) . And when it make to the peace treaties, the Shogun wanted to maximize territorial gains while minimizing aggressive expansion reputation. So Odan diplomats had to be creative. In the case of Ottoman allies Kazakh and Transoxiana, they came up with the following
First Transoxiana was made to return several cores to Kazakh, while making sure the Kazakh size did not get over 100 development. Then Kazakh was made to pay money to Oda, but did not lose any land ( thanks to the cores returned from Transoxiana they actually paid more). Finally, once Oda was at peace, Kazakh was convinced to become a Daimyo , which was easy as they loved Oda for returning their provinces from Transoxiana. The end result of that deal was that Oda ended up taking a bunch of Transoxianan and Kazakh land with no aggressive expansion whatsoever.
The next deal was with Ethiopia.
The customary pattern was followed. One strategic province to Oda, with several minor nations released Unfortunately, only 2 of the 5 released nations became Daimyos ( Harer and Jimma), with the other three citing a far distance from Odan borders to accept [in hindsight, I should have just flat out annexed Ethiopian clay, since they are the only Coptic nation and no one cares about them]
Finally, it was time for peace with the Ottomans.
In the peace Oda sought to maximize gains while still limiting aggressive expansion. But unfortunately the same problem we had with Spain and France ( the lack of small nations to release) appeared again. For some reason , Bulgaria could not be released ( likely because there was an active Bulgarian rebel army at the time ) . Crimea would have been too large to make into a Daimyo. So the Shogun had Ottomans release the one province minors of Greece ( in Chios) and Achaea ( in Euboea) as well as Ryazan and Kazan near Muscovy. All could be turned into Daimyos. He then had Oda annex a few province to her and to her vassals. But the largest number of provinces went to Qasim, who was an ally of Oda ( they were released out of Poland in a previous war ) . That way Qasim, not Oda, incurred the aggressive expansion reputation, but were very thankful to Oda and were still small enough to turn into a Daimyo ( their vassalization will be carried out after they are fed more land from Poland to their west) .
With the Ottomans dealt with in this round, it was time for Persia. But first there was a change in leadership in Oda, as Yoshinobu II ( 4/2/2) abdicated in favor of his younger half-brother Yoshinobu III ( 4/6/4) , the one who became heir after the hunting accident that killed Alon the Filipino. Clearly an ambitious lad who figured out a way to the throne. May he live long and prosper!
War was then declared on Persia on the day the truce expired ( May 1, 1638)
And although it was almost the end of the decade, the war was so swiftly concluded that we get to present the peace deal in this chapter
In the peace, Persia lost almost her entire coastline ( Hormuz is the only coastal province they still own). They were made to release Fars , Sindh and Armenia as free nations ( all three can become Daimyos).They also lost one Syrian province to Lebanon so that when Syria is released in the next war, she could be turned into a proper Daimyo as well. With that peace, the Shogun hoped to fragment the Persian Empire, and maybe rebels would help their westernmost provinces ( like Syria) break free. But he may have under-estimated the Persians, for they soon declared war on the Turks
As you can see from that last map, Ottomans were getting beaten in war by Poland as well. So there are certain to be changes to the map of the region in the next chapter. If Oda is lucky some of the changes would involve Ottomans losing land to someone who is neither Persia nor Poland, so that ODa would have less work to do .
We close with a view of ODa's dominion
and her aggressive expansion reputation
We left the last chapter with Oda at war with Spain ( on round 3 of the Ottoman-Poland-Spain-France cycle). But the first notable event of the new decade was the beginning of the Nanban Trade incident of the Shinto faith. Like usual , the Shogun took the isolationist view.
After that it was time for peace with Spain, as more military gains were becoming harder to get.
Spain was forced to release Granada and Sardinia as independent nations . But , in contrast to more recent peace treaties, Oda also took provinces directly . That was because there were no more nations inside Spain to release. And Aragon would have been too large to become a Daimyo. The provinces Oda took were all cores of Aragon, and were distributed between Catalonia and Granada ( once the latter became a Daimyo) . That way, when the next war with Spain comes, Aragon could be released and could be turned into a Daimyo . This land grab of course created some aggressive expansion notoriety for Oda. This could become problematic for Oda as Spain was Catholic like most of Europe ( and Oda still had to dismantle the Catholic Empires of Poland, France and HRE). But for now this did not cause any issues.
This was soon followed by the vassalization of Algiers, which resulted in the two provinces that Portugal returned recently becoming part of the Odan domain. Considering that Oda gained those from a Catholic nation without incurring any Aggressive Expansion , that was a good deal for the Japanese.
After that it was France's turn.
France was allied to Scotland, who was designated as a co-belligerent since they still had cores of Irish nations that could be released to join the Daimyo family . But before we get to that, we detour to the Balkans where Serb rebels succeeded in breaking free from Poland.
Oda immediately guaranteed Serbia, to protect it from opportunistic jackals like Venice ( or Ottomans). And over time, with improved relations and gifts, Serbia became a Daimyo as well. Now Oda was very wary of Venetian growth because they were getting close to Empire status. Similarly, the SHogun had kept an eye on other growing nations, and had decided that the time had come to bring down Ayutthaya down a peg or two , as they were the largest nation not yet an Empire.
So war was declared on the Indochinese. That had the added benefit of shoring up Oda's trade situation in the far east as well.
Back in Europe the war with France and Scotland was proceeding smoothly. And it is a testimony to the power of the swarm that I do not feel the need to detail that war, and will just show one screenshot
And in international news that will be relevant down the line, a war between Mamluks and Persia was completed with a Persian victory
The unfortunate Syrians found themselves now completely under Persian occupation, with the Egyptians kicked further South. Clearly Persia was becoming one of the more problematic Empires for Oda to deal with, certainly more so than the Ottomans.
Back in Europe, peace was concluded with Scotland, with the release of future Daimyos Gaeldom, Ormond and Clanricarde.
That effectively gave Oda majority control of Ireland and a strong foothold in Britain itself. Brabant soon followed with a monetary peace ( no nations could be released, and no provinces were taken from the HRE member). Then France was to follow next, but first we detour back to Asia where Ayutthaya surrendered.
In the peace, Oda took all of Ayutthaya's provinces in Sumatra as well as their Center of Trade in Malacca node. That effectively secured Odan control of the node, and also made sure that Ayutthaya was not at risk of becoming an Empire any time soon.
Finally it was time for peace with France. Here Oda faced a similar challenge to the ones faced with Spain and with Syria before . France had no more small nations to release. Burgundy was too large . Naples could have been released, but the Shogun secretly hoped that one day rebels there would succeed. That left Brittany who was just too large to vassalize
But the Shogun did not repeat the Syria mistake. Having taken a survey of Brittany's size ahead of the peace treaty, he arranged for Cornwall to annex Finistere across the Channel. That put Brittany's development under 100 , allowing vassalization to proceed. And in February of he following year, Brittany joined the Daimyo family ( with the help of some Blackmailing espionage).
Now as we saw, Oda also had to take some land directly from France which added to the Aggressive Expansion accumulation with the Catholic nations of Europe. But Luckily for Oda, the next stops on the Empire bashing train were in the East against the Muslims nations of Ottomans and Persia. The Ottomans came up first in July 1635
And luckily for Oda, the Ottomans had allied the 6th Empire, that of Ethiopia . This saved Oda from having to work on getting a casus belli on the Ethiopians ( the plan was to get a neighboring province from Mamluks first, but that was not necessary anymore). Since maximal territorial degradation of Ethiopia was desirable, they were designated as co-belligerent, which did not affect the enemy line up at all.
The war followed the recent pattern of Odan troops leading the way against the enemy fortified cities, and letting the Daimyo swarm handle the rest. While that went on, Oda passed her 9th government reform. And the Shogun chose the Social Contract to improve the religious harmony inside the "Empire".
[I used same reform in True Tsar to keep a variety of religions in anticipation of flipping via rebels. same strat here]
By August 1637, Oda was ready for peace ( just two years were enough to conquer Ottomans, Ethiopia and their friends thanks to excellent siege ability and the swarm) . And when it make to the peace treaties, the Shogun wanted to maximize territorial gains while minimizing aggressive expansion reputation. So Odan diplomats had to be creative. In the case of Ottoman allies Kazakh and Transoxiana, they came up with the following
First Transoxiana was made to return several cores to Kazakh, while making sure the Kazakh size did not get over 100 development. Then Kazakh was made to pay money to Oda, but did not lose any land ( thanks to the cores returned from Transoxiana they actually paid more). Finally, once Oda was at peace, Kazakh was convinced to become a Daimyo , which was easy as they loved Oda for returning their provinces from Transoxiana. The end result of that deal was that Oda ended up taking a bunch of Transoxianan and Kazakh land with no aggressive expansion whatsoever.
The next deal was with Ethiopia.
The customary pattern was followed. One strategic province to Oda, with several minor nations released Unfortunately, only 2 of the 5 released nations became Daimyos ( Harer and Jimma), with the other three citing a far distance from Odan borders to accept [in hindsight, I should have just flat out annexed Ethiopian clay, since they are the only Coptic nation and no one cares about them]
Finally, it was time for peace with the Ottomans.
In the peace Oda sought to maximize gains while still limiting aggressive expansion. But unfortunately the same problem we had with Spain and France ( the lack of small nations to release) appeared again. For some reason , Bulgaria could not be released ( likely because there was an active Bulgarian rebel army at the time ) . Crimea would have been too large to make into a Daimyo. So the Shogun had Ottomans release the one province minors of Greece ( in Chios) and Achaea ( in Euboea) as well as Ryazan and Kazan near Muscovy. All could be turned into Daimyos. He then had Oda annex a few province to her and to her vassals. But the largest number of provinces went to Qasim, who was an ally of Oda ( they were released out of Poland in a previous war ) . That way Qasim, not Oda, incurred the aggressive expansion reputation, but were very thankful to Oda and were still small enough to turn into a Daimyo ( their vassalization will be carried out after they are fed more land from Poland to their west) .
With the Ottomans dealt with in this round, it was time for Persia. But first there was a change in leadership in Oda, as Yoshinobu II ( 4/2/2) abdicated in favor of his younger half-brother Yoshinobu III ( 4/6/4) , the one who became heir after the hunting accident that killed Alon the Filipino. Clearly an ambitious lad who figured out a way to the throne. May he live long and prosper!
War was then declared on Persia on the day the truce expired ( May 1, 1638)
And although it was almost the end of the decade, the war was so swiftly concluded that we get to present the peace deal in this chapter
In the peace, Persia lost almost her entire coastline ( Hormuz is the only coastal province they still own). They were made to release Fars , Sindh and Armenia as free nations ( all three can become Daimyos).They also lost one Syrian province to Lebanon so that when Syria is released in the next war, she could be turned into a proper Daimyo as well. With that peace, the Shogun hoped to fragment the Persian Empire, and maybe rebels would help their westernmost provinces ( like Syria) break free. But he may have under-estimated the Persians, for they soon declared war on the Turks
As you can see from that last map, Ottomans were getting beaten in war by Poland as well. So there are certain to be changes to the map of the region in the next chapter. If Oda is lucky some of the changes would involve Ottomans losing land to someone who is neither Persia nor Poland, so that ODa would have less work to do .
We close with a view of ODa's dominion
and her aggressive expansion reputation
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With the daimyo swarm and the victories over major powers, surely Oda is unstoppable at this point.
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It's a shame Ethipia had to be destroyed. I never see them do this well.
The wars are going fine, but you'll need to watch your AE since the releasables are almost gone.
The wars are going fine, but you'll need to watch your AE since the releasables are almost gone.
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Indeed. Although I was more surprised at seeing Genoa alongside Venice dominating North Italy .
Yes, and one way I tried to get around this is to feed a future vassal like I did with Qasim in last chapter: release OPM, ally, feed, THEN vassalize. As long as I do not feed the ally too much where they get too big , and as long they keep good relations with me, this should work. As you will see in next chapter, it can be tricky sometimes.
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Chapter 20: Deconstruction (1640-1650)
Chapter 20: Deconstruction (1640-1650)
The last chapter saw the end of war with Spain, followed by wars with France, Ottomans, and Persia. So, with the exception of adding Persia to the rotation, we had continued with the order of Ottomans-Poland-Spain-France. So next up would have been Poland. But then things got interrupted by our ally ( and hoprefully future vassal) Qasim .
Qasim was calling Oda into a war of conquest against Great Horde. As you may recall, Qasim was released a couple of chapters ago from Poland. And instead of vassalizing them, they were kept as a regular ally and fed Ottoman land. And it was the Shogun's hope to give them more land from Poland in the upcoming war before finally turning them into a vassal. But they apparently had their own goals. Not wanting to lose that alliance and the chance to turn them into a Daimyo, Oda honored the call. And of course the war was trivial for Oda as the swarm simply occupied all the enemy lands ( in fact Qasim did not manage to occupy any provinces themselves) . But to help conclude the war quickly, the Shogun transferred occupation of Horde land to Qasim , which led to this peace treaty
Qasim annexed two provinces from Great Horde, taking the aggressive expansion hit themselves. But despite this, Qasim was still small enough to accept vassal status with Oda. And that deal had to be done soon because when Oda went to declare war on Poland, she noticed that Qasim had also allied the Poles.
SO the Shogun decided Qasim had grown enough and turned them into another Daimyo . And it was only then that war was declared on Poland
The war turned out to be harder than expected because Venice was helping Poland as Defender of the Faith . And England had two large armies in Britain that quickly scattered Oda's vassals there. And one immediate effect of the war was that Poland quickly concluded peace with Ottomans, taking land for herself.
unfortunately Poland did not force Ottomans to release any nations or give land to 3rd parties. So the total sum of land Oda had to take away from the large Empires remained constant. but in any case, Oda wuickly occupied Central Poland, and in a replay of hte previous war, sent the fleet with loaded troops from Stettin to England. There Oda forces dealt severe defeats to teh English at Sussex and York, and helped the beleaguered Daimyos of Ireland retake their capitals.
And in Italy, ODa had to spent some manpower on battles and sieges before Venice was defeated ( although the capital city of Venezia could not be taken due to the Venetian fleet).
The first peace treaty was with England, who was made to release Wales
Wales was not too large and became a Daimyo a few months later. As for Venice, they were made to release Albania, who also became a Daimyo later on .
That left POland . Here there were still several nations that could be released, the largest being Lithuania.
A quick census of Lithuanian development showed that they could become a Daimyo after the peace, and indeed they were made so. The other released nations, Silesia and Crimea were kept independent, but still guaranteed by Oda. The plan was to give them territory in future wars before turning them into Daimyos.
After the Poland war, it would be Spain next. but in the peace interlude the Shogun took care of some housekeeping. Oda finally moved her main trade port to Malacca ( h/t @Nikolai II ) , which led to a slight increase in trade income
That move would become more beneficial over time as more Europeans colonized the East Indies and Oda gained more provinces there ( by fighting said EUropeans) . And in other international news, Ottomans lost land to Persia. And just like when they lost land to Poland, the land moved from one Empire to another, so Oda did not really care about this .
The war with Spain came next.
Again Oda found herself fighting a strong Venice ( who was defender of the Faith ) . And of the enemy nations that Oda had to conquer in this war, Venice was the toughest. Determined to crush them once and for all, the Shogun ordered the navy to challenge them for supremacy in the Mediterranean. And the initial battle did not go well for the Odan fleet, which had to withdraw at the Battle of Taranto.
But the Shogun persisted. And after Treviso fell, the fleet was moved there just opposite Venice. Then when the main Venetian fleet was spotted transporting troops in the Adriatic , far away from Venezia itself, the fleet was sallied out and a unit moved rapidly from Treviso into Venezia before the Venetian fleet could return.
After that event, the war was effectively over as Venice city was eventually captured and the venetians made to free the Italian city states of Bologna, Pisa and Ferrara.
All three italian minors would become Daimyos after the war. The defeat of Venice left Spain as the only contender on the enemy side. And here Oda had to wait a bit longer for peace because Spain's Aragonese provinces were occupied by Holland in a separate war .
And that meant Aragon could not be released as a nation out of Spain. So Oda spent the next few months preparing for the next war against France. But luckily , Holland and Spain made peace and ODa was able to release Aragon from Spain at the peace table.
By releasing Aragon from Spain, Oda was effectively "deconstructing" Spain . For if one thinks of Spain as having been created by the union of Castile and Aragon, then splitting Aragon off is very important step, at least symbolically, towards the elimination of the Spanish Empire. Similarly, this decade saw Lithuania being split off the Commonwealth, essentially deconstructing the latter into Poland and Lithuania again. And hopefully the next decade will see France part away with Burgundy, another early rival whose absorption was a step on France's road to Empire, and whose loss will be a step on her road to oblivion.
Finally before we close the decade, we will update our list of Empires, noting that Sicily , who is geographically outside of the Holy Roman Empire is actually the Holy Roman Emperor. And that Bulgaria, who is a potential vassal of Oda, claims Empire rank
The last chapter saw the end of war with Spain, followed by wars with France, Ottomans, and Persia. So, with the exception of adding Persia to the rotation, we had continued with the order of Ottomans-Poland-Spain-France. So next up would have been Poland. But then things got interrupted by our ally ( and hoprefully future vassal) Qasim .
Qasim was calling Oda into a war of conquest against Great Horde. As you may recall, Qasim was released a couple of chapters ago from Poland. And instead of vassalizing them, they were kept as a regular ally and fed Ottoman land. And it was the Shogun's hope to give them more land from Poland in the upcoming war before finally turning them into a vassal. But they apparently had their own goals. Not wanting to lose that alliance and the chance to turn them into a Daimyo, Oda honored the call. And of course the war was trivial for Oda as the swarm simply occupied all the enemy lands ( in fact Qasim did not manage to occupy any provinces themselves) . But to help conclude the war quickly, the Shogun transferred occupation of Horde land to Qasim , which led to this peace treaty
Qasim annexed two provinces from Great Horde, taking the aggressive expansion hit themselves. But despite this, Qasim was still small enough to accept vassal status with Oda. And that deal had to be done soon because when Oda went to declare war on Poland, she noticed that Qasim had also allied the Poles.
SO the Shogun decided Qasim had grown enough and turned them into another Daimyo . And it was only then that war was declared on Poland
The war turned out to be harder than expected because Venice was helping Poland as Defender of the Faith . And England had two large armies in Britain that quickly scattered Oda's vassals there. And one immediate effect of the war was that Poland quickly concluded peace with Ottomans, taking land for herself.
unfortunately Poland did not force Ottomans to release any nations or give land to 3rd parties. So the total sum of land Oda had to take away from the large Empires remained constant. but in any case, Oda wuickly occupied Central Poland, and in a replay of hte previous war, sent the fleet with loaded troops from Stettin to England. There Oda forces dealt severe defeats to teh English at Sussex and York, and helped the beleaguered Daimyos of Ireland retake their capitals.
And in Italy, ODa had to spent some manpower on battles and sieges before Venice was defeated ( although the capital city of Venezia could not be taken due to the Venetian fleet).
The first peace treaty was with England, who was made to release Wales
Wales was not too large and became a Daimyo a few months later. As for Venice, they were made to release Albania, who also became a Daimyo later on .
That left POland . Here there were still several nations that could be released, the largest being Lithuania.
A quick census of Lithuanian development showed that they could become a Daimyo after the peace, and indeed they were made so. The other released nations, Silesia and Crimea were kept independent, but still guaranteed by Oda. The plan was to give them territory in future wars before turning them into Daimyos.
After the Poland war, it would be Spain next. but in the peace interlude the Shogun took care of some housekeeping. Oda finally moved her main trade port to Malacca ( h/t @Nikolai II ) , which led to a slight increase in trade income
That move would become more beneficial over time as more Europeans colonized the East Indies and Oda gained more provinces there ( by fighting said EUropeans) . And in other international news, Ottomans lost land to Persia. And just like when they lost land to Poland, the land moved from one Empire to another, so Oda did not really care about this .
The war with Spain came next.
Again Oda found herself fighting a strong Venice ( who was defender of the Faith ) . And of the enemy nations that Oda had to conquer in this war, Venice was the toughest. Determined to crush them once and for all, the Shogun ordered the navy to challenge them for supremacy in the Mediterranean. And the initial battle did not go well for the Odan fleet, which had to withdraw at the Battle of Taranto.
But the Shogun persisted. And after Treviso fell, the fleet was moved there just opposite Venice. Then when the main Venetian fleet was spotted transporting troops in the Adriatic , far away from Venezia itself, the fleet was sallied out and a unit moved rapidly from Treviso into Venezia before the Venetian fleet could return.
After that event, the war was effectively over as Venice city was eventually captured and the venetians made to free the Italian city states of Bologna, Pisa and Ferrara.
All three italian minors would become Daimyos after the war. The defeat of Venice left Spain as the only contender on the enemy side. And here Oda had to wait a bit longer for peace because Spain's Aragonese provinces were occupied by Holland in a separate war .
And that meant Aragon could not be released as a nation out of Spain. So Oda spent the next few months preparing for the next war against France. But luckily , Holland and Spain made peace and ODa was able to release Aragon from Spain at the peace table.
By releasing Aragon from Spain, Oda was effectively "deconstructing" Spain . For if one thinks of Spain as having been created by the union of Castile and Aragon, then splitting Aragon off is very important step, at least symbolically, towards the elimination of the Spanish Empire. Similarly, this decade saw Lithuania being split off the Commonwealth, essentially deconstructing the latter into Poland and Lithuania again. And hopefully the next decade will see France part away with Burgundy, another early rival whose absorption was a step on France's road to Empire, and whose loss will be a step on her road to oblivion.
Finally before we close the decade, we will update our list of Empires, noting that Sicily , who is geographically outside of the Holy Roman Empire is actually the Holy Roman Emperor. And that Bulgaria, who is a potential vassal of Oda, claims Empire rank
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Oda is pretty much unstoppable at this point, onwards to the destruction of empires!
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It does indeed seem like this way would be the most amusing way to go if one wanted to get that "world domination" achievement.2. it is a fun challenge to come up with ways to get land without gaining AE . The run is becoming repetitive and a mini-world conquest otherwise. Also, I want to get some experience with expanding non-aggressively in preparation for my next run ( yes, I am already thinking about the next AAR
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i had no idea the # symbol next to fleets meant there were troops onboard. Good to know.when the main Venetian fleet was spotted transporting troops in the Adriatic , far away from Venezia itself, the fleet was sallied out and a unit moved rapidly from Treviso into Venezia before the Venetian fleet could return.
Force vassalize then diplo-annex?
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World conquest with Shogun government certainly easiest/most fun way to do it. But the run that I am practicing for is going to be very different in some ways, yet similar in others to this run. It will involve having a good number of subjects, but instead of Daimyos they will be a mix of PUs , vassals and client states. And in place of "world domination", I hope to create a European Union of sorts. I will announce it in a separate thread once I am close to finishing this run
Yes, will diplo annex if vassalizing does not demote Bulgaria's rank.
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Chapter 21: The Ones That Got Away (1650-1660)
Chapter 21: The Ones That Got Away (1650-1660)
We left the last chapter with Oda ready to pounce on France. And as soon as Aragon became a Daimyo, war was declared
The war was easy for Oda. So easy in fact, that Oda's ally Vijayanagar asked Oda to join them in attacking Bengal
Seeing that Vijayanagar had become too big , Oda declined to help them. And thus ended the last of the Indian subcontinent alliances that Oda started over a hundred years ago to contain the Bahmanis.
Back in Europe, after two years of sieges , France capitulated.
Oda took no land for herself, but forced France to release Burgundy and Naples, two very large nations. France lost more than 1 tenth of her development as a result of this.
Immediately after the war, the Shogun worked on wooing Burgundy to his side . But the Burgundians had other ideas, and applied to join the Holy Roman Empire instead
The Shogun ordered his diplomats to hurry up with improving relations with Burgundy, sending gifts and upgrading the diplomatic reputation of Oda (via Sankin Kotai edict) . He knew that the HRE was going to deliberate about Burgundy for a year, and that gave Oda time. And after some wooing, Burgundy appeared agreeable to vassalization.
It was then just a matter on waiting for Diplomats to improve relations with Burgundy before the deal was sealed. But then the Shogun got distracted by the expiration of the truce with the Ottomans .
Oda had her armies positioned north of the Black Sea , ready for an attack. But the Shogun decided against it . He had been watching with interest the large Bulgarian and Crimean separatist rebellions that the Ottomans seemed unable to put down. (the Ottomans were in the midst of a Janissary disaster it seemed ) And some of the provinces had been rebel-controlled since 1649 . So if Oda waited just long enough, the rebels would take care of downsizing the Ottomans quite a bit. And since Oda had managed to make Crimea and Bulgaria into Daimyos, she would gain provinces "for free". So the war was put on hold, and preparations were instead made for war on Persia ( and of course, we forgot about Burgundy ) .
But Oda's plans for the region were thrown off when Daimyo Wallachia declared Sengoku on BUlgaria.
Now Sengoku wars were fairly common among the Daimyos, and the Shogun welcomed them as opportunities to enforce Seppuku . But this time it was different, because Wallachia threatened to completely swallow Bulgaria. So the Shogun not only demanded Seppuku from the Wallachians, he also recruited their best general to weaken them . But beyond that, there was not much Oda could do directly to help Bulgaria [in hindsight , I should have gifted them money ] .
Meanwhile, in more "Empire" related news, the Aztecs seemed to be faring poorly against New Spain.
For Oda , this was a welcome development. The smaller the land held by Empires the better.
Back in Europe, Wallachia ended up swallowing Bulgaria completely .
The chance for BUlgarian rebels to grow Oda's domain had disappeared. Oh well, though the Shogun. ANd he proceeded with his plans to attack Persia
But then not even one month into the war, rebels enforced their demands on the Ottomans, and Bulgaria became independent again, albeit with different borders
At the same time, Crimean rebels managed to transfer several Ottoman provinces to Crimea, who was an Oda Daimyo. So in that regard, waiting on the war with Ottomans paid off, as Oda grew without incurring any expense. However, Wallachia's bad actions ended up costing us the BUlgarian provinces.
Now seeing how useful Ottoman rebels were, the Shogun decided to use the spy network inside Ottomans to support Tripolitanian rebels. Whether that would lead to a successful result remains to be seen
Now back to the war with Persia, where Japanese troops advanced methodically, taking fort after fort until they reached the Eastern borders of Persia and crossed into Bahamanis and took their capital Bidar
The fall of the Bahmani capital coincided with a peace treaty between Vijayanagar and Bengal ( the war we declined a CTA for at the start of the chapter) . Vijayanagar annexed a large swath of Bengali land, getting them close to Empire size.
Concerned about Vijayanagar's growth , the Shogun decided to end the war with Persia and Bahmanis. First the Bahmanis
The Bahmanis released Gujarat and Junagarh . Both will be turned in Daimyos later. And ceded one province to Oda to allow fabrication of claims on Vijayanagar
Then the Persians signed peace
The Persians were forced to grant independence to Syria ( again) , Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Khiva and Mewar. Effectively their entire Eastern border now consisted of Oda vassals-to-be, blocking that avenue of expansion . And all of the released nations soon became Daimyos, while Oda prepared for war against Vijayanagar
It was then time to declare a preventative war on Vijayanager
the purpose of the war was to prevent Vijayanagar from getting large enough to become an Empire. This was the case of the old adage "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure" . The war was straightforward, with Oda leading sieges and letting the swarm occupy the rest.
The nations of Jumla, Bundelkhand, Venad, Mysore, Orissa and Golkonda were all released and all of them are agreeable to becoming Daimyos [some with a margin under 15, so needed the Espionage Blackmailing idea]
And that peace treaty bring us to the end of the chapter. Oda had continued to grow with vassals, but let two prizes slip through this decade: Bulgaria and Burgundy
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1) war score for release nation depends on Oda's admin effieicency and warscore modifier. When I completed Malta forts to level 3 ( I did not show screenshot but that was done this chapter) , the cost of releasing nations dropped. This is NOT the same with allies, where feeding them provinces depends on their warscore modifiers. My next idea group will for sure be Diplmatic for the 20% war score cost reduction. At that point, I should be able to take off 300 Dev per war from each enemy ( currently I amd doing about 215 or so )
2) I am thinking of dismantling HRE in next chapter. That way I can start to Daimyo some nations in there which would make later wars easier. And get Burgundy.
3) I had annexed Kiev in teh last chapter. I am working on increasing Orthodox provinces in Oda so that I can convert via rebels as soon as I get the Sakoku law achievement .
And I have beend developing Orthodox provinces with excess points, rather than Japanese or Korean provinces. For Skoku achievemet, I hve 5 of 6 needed incidents
4) speaking of achievements, I accidently got viva la revolucion when I supported Crimean rebels just before they enforced their demands on Ottomans in this chapter
We left the last chapter with Oda ready to pounce on France. And as soon as Aragon became a Daimyo, war was declared
The war was easy for Oda. So easy in fact, that Oda's ally Vijayanagar asked Oda to join them in attacking Bengal
Seeing that Vijayanagar had become too big , Oda declined to help them. And thus ended the last of the Indian subcontinent alliances that Oda started over a hundred years ago to contain the Bahmanis.
Back in Europe, after two years of sieges , France capitulated.
Oda took no land for herself, but forced France to release Burgundy and Naples, two very large nations. France lost more than 1 tenth of her development as a result of this.
Immediately after the war, the Shogun worked on wooing Burgundy to his side . But the Burgundians had other ideas, and applied to join the Holy Roman Empire instead
The Shogun ordered his diplomats to hurry up with improving relations with Burgundy, sending gifts and upgrading the diplomatic reputation of Oda (via Sankin Kotai edict) . He knew that the HRE was going to deliberate about Burgundy for a year, and that gave Oda time. And after some wooing, Burgundy appeared agreeable to vassalization.
It was then just a matter on waiting for Diplomats to improve relations with Burgundy before the deal was sealed. But then the Shogun got distracted by the expiration of the truce with the Ottomans .
Oda had her armies positioned north of the Black Sea , ready for an attack. But the Shogun decided against it . He had been watching with interest the large Bulgarian and Crimean separatist rebellions that the Ottomans seemed unable to put down. (the Ottomans were in the midst of a Janissary disaster it seemed ) And some of the provinces had been rebel-controlled since 1649 . So if Oda waited just long enough, the rebels would take care of downsizing the Ottomans quite a bit. And since Oda had managed to make Crimea and Bulgaria into Daimyos, she would gain provinces "for free". So the war was put on hold, and preparations were instead made for war on Persia ( and of course, we forgot about Burgundy
) .But Oda's plans for the region were thrown off when Daimyo Wallachia declared Sengoku on BUlgaria.
Now Sengoku wars were fairly common among the Daimyos, and the Shogun welcomed them as opportunities to enforce Seppuku . But this time it was different, because Wallachia threatened to completely swallow Bulgaria. So the Shogun not only demanded Seppuku from the Wallachians, he also recruited their best general to weaken them . But beyond that, there was not much Oda could do directly to help Bulgaria [in hindsight , I should have gifted them money ] .
Meanwhile, in more "Empire" related news, the Aztecs seemed to be faring poorly against New Spain.
For Oda , this was a welcome development. The smaller the land held by Empires the better.
Back in Europe, Wallachia ended up swallowing Bulgaria completely .
The chance for BUlgarian rebels to grow Oda's domain had disappeared. Oh well, though the Shogun. ANd he proceeded with his plans to attack Persia
But then not even one month into the war, rebels enforced their demands on the Ottomans, and Bulgaria became independent again, albeit with different borders
At the same time, Crimean rebels managed to transfer several Ottoman provinces to Crimea, who was an Oda Daimyo. So in that regard, waiting on the war with Ottomans paid off, as Oda grew without incurring any expense. However, Wallachia's bad actions ended up costing us the BUlgarian provinces.
Now seeing how useful Ottoman rebels were, the Shogun decided to use the spy network inside Ottomans to support Tripolitanian rebels. Whether that would lead to a successful result remains to be seen
Now back to the war with Persia, where Japanese troops advanced methodically, taking fort after fort until they reached the Eastern borders of Persia and crossed into Bahamanis and took their capital Bidar
The fall of the Bahmani capital coincided with a peace treaty between Vijayanagar and Bengal ( the war we declined a CTA for at the start of the chapter) . Vijayanagar annexed a large swath of Bengali land, getting them close to Empire size.
Concerned about Vijayanagar's growth , the Shogun decided to end the war with Persia and Bahmanis. First the Bahmanis
The Bahmanis released Gujarat and Junagarh . Both will be turned in Daimyos later. And ceded one province to Oda to allow fabrication of claims on Vijayanagar
Then the Persians signed peace
The Persians were forced to grant independence to Syria ( again) , Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Khiva and Mewar. Effectively their entire Eastern border now consisted of Oda vassals-to-be, blocking that avenue of expansion . And all of the released nations soon became Daimyos, while Oda prepared for war against Vijayanagar
It was then time to declare a preventative war on Vijayanager
the purpose of the war was to prevent Vijayanagar from getting large enough to become an Empire. This was the case of the old adage "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure" . The war was straightforward, with Oda leading sieges and letting the swarm occupy the rest.
The nations of Jumla, Bundelkhand, Venad, Mysore, Orissa and Golkonda were all released and all of them are agreeable to becoming Daimyos [some with a margin under 15, so needed the Espionage Blackmailing idea]
And that peace treaty bring us to the end of the chapter. Oda had continued to grow with vassals, but let two prizes slip through this decade: Bulgaria and Burgundy
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1) war score for release nation depends on Oda's admin effieicency and warscore modifier. When I completed Malta forts to level 3 ( I did not show screenshot but that was done this chapter) , the cost of releasing nations dropped. This is NOT the same with allies, where feeding them provinces depends on their warscore modifiers. My next idea group will for sure be Diplmatic for the 20% war score cost reduction. At that point, I should be able to take off 300 Dev per war from each enemy ( currently I amd doing about 215 or so )
2) I am thinking of dismantling HRE in next chapter. That way I can start to Daimyo some nations in there which would make later wars easier. And get Burgundy.
3) I had annexed Kiev in teh last chapter. I am working on increasing Orthodox provinces in Oda so that I can convert via rebels as soon as I get the Sakoku law achievement .
And I have beend developing Orthodox provinces with excess points, rather than Japanese or Korean provinces. For Skoku achievemet, I hve 5 of 6 needed incidents
4) speaking of achievements, I accidently got viva la revolucion when I supported Crimean rebels just before they enforced their demands on Ottomans in this chapter
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The Shogun needs to have Seppuku enforced upon him for his failure!
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