1451
-Beni Yas falls swiftly, and I plan to take trade away from Najd.
-However, they soon sue for peace with the Mamluks, losing a province in the process, and I sue rather than fight a drawn out war, simply taking 12 ducats, Beni-Yas and a core revocation. [forgetting to screenshot in the process]
-Another mission to take another province from Najd. This time it’s Qatar. We shall wait five years, and strike at the heretics once more.
1452
-Infidels, infidels everywhere! However, upon closer inspection, it turns out to be my favourite harem girl who is a Jew. I decide not to kill her, and find some small change I left down the back of her sofa the next time I take my pleasure.
1453
-Beni Yas is a core!
-Our first tech ™ - we gain a diplomatic tech, and set about building market places. For the trade, don’t you know.
-Both disaster and delight! Shiite zealots have forced Najd to turn to the truth face of God. She is Shiite! This is excellent on the one hand. On the other, I lose my claim to Qatar.
1456
-We get bored of peace and go and fabricate a claim on Yemen, who have recently eaten Adal. This scares us.
-As if by magic, Hedjaz offers us an alliance. We conveniently forget they are heathens, and accept. In the meantime, we make money and complete a mission, which gives us
more money.
-Ha. We get a new mission to conquer Mahta, the province we are fabricating claims on. Hell to the yeah. Erm..
-WAR! Oh, and, erm, charity, apparently. Nah. We need that gold for the soldiers.
1458
-Despite taking two provinces, we press the advantage. Weak neighbours are the best type of neighbours. However, whilst besieging the capital, we get scared by 7000 Yemeni soldiers and sue for peace. [Again, screenshot forgotten: Mahra and 61 ducats]
-Oh good. Another ‘conquer’ mission. Back to Qatar! Good job I never improved relations with Najd, like my advisors suggested! Oh. Wait.
1459
-We take the ‘Trade Ideas’ path, and qquickly take the ‘Shrewd Commerce Practice’ Idea, giving us +10% global trade power . And more money.
-Och, nay! Hang on. Get that Scot out of here, the Sultan is ill… Oh wait, no he’s not, he’s dead.
-This scuppers my plans for taking Qatar. Too much rebel risk in the currently-being-missionaried ex-Yemeni province of Mahta means that I’ll wait for that to finish first.
1460
-The new Sultan decides to crack down on the heretic Mahta scum. He instigates ‘rough treatment’, reducing the revolt risk by 5%, and sends the army to the Najd border.
-Oh. Shit. Najd is guaranteed by the Mamluks. We’ll wait.
1461
-The Mamluks have their backs to us, at war with Hedjaz and The Ottomans. We risk it and declare war on Najd!
-Haha! The cowardly infidel stays fighting its own kind. Dogs!
1462
-With our faithful ally’s, Haasa, aid, we conquer everything that’s left of Najd. We take Bahrain as well as Qatar, because the Najd bastards have reverted beack to Sunni, and we need to show them who’s boss (me, by the way). Also, money.
1464
-Qatar cores
-I receive a mission to conquer Hadhramaut, the next Yemeni province along. This is interesting. Yemen has just gone a touch… awry… and conquered a vast swathe of Ethiopia and I can cut it down to size a touch. Also, my navy can, theoretically, trap its in Africa. Problem is that they are allied to The damned Mamluks. I may cut and run.
-Fuck it. WAR
-The Mamluks dishonour! Those fools Haasa betray 20 years of alliance to stab me in the back. Siding with the infidel. They will pay in blood.
1466
-Mid war, Mahta converts to the true faith. We breed them well.
1467
-And then my Sultan dies, while laying siege to the Yemeni capital. It becomes a race: every month or so the Yemeni forces have a 21% chance of taking their province, while I have a slowly increasing 7% chance. If they take their province, it will come to battle and I will lose – I have less forces (though superior) and no leader any more. I dispatch a thousand men to allied territory to fetch a leader.
-We take Sana’a! Yemen’s capital falls, and we press for peace. Money, Hadhramaut, and the release of some recently conquered Ethiopian provinces.
-Bahrain cores
