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1492-1510
Well the year started out slow, with 30,000 troops, and do to talks with the king of sweden, which had decided to break the kalmar union, we had not yet decided that we could leave our borders with them unguarded, so the first task was to build two more armies to help guard our borders, then, do to talks with poland, and Russia, we declared war on the teutonic order for the province of estland, to our surprise we found out sweden was at was with the order for the province of livland, they tried to take the province of estland before us, but our general took the seige over, but than the polish ally decided to go to war with the order to, and took all the sieges. After to years of waiting for Lithuania to get peace, they did, and we took estland for ourselves, and sweden took livland, and russia, which had gone to war against the order as well, had also claimed the province of polostk.
After the war, god deemed it fit to periodically give me loans, and nearly bankrupting me, i was in no shape to do anything else, and the only way the loans got paid was through my dear friend poland.
During my years of quiet, a far place the spanish called america was discovered, amazingly it was inbetween india and europe.
During this period of paying loans, we also built some more armies due to the belligerance of brandenburg, and do to swedens allaince with brandenburg we do not trust them. That is why we built more armies. It is our hope for piece in scandinavia, but we felt that we needed a strong army to secure the borders.
Brandenburg had taken all of northern Germany, and we did not agree to this, but at the time we were in no position to dispute. "We here by decree that should brandenburg attempt to expand at the expense of Poland, we will declare war and fight to take your realm from you.
We also noticed during this time period that england had brought the stubborn scots into the fold. Austria had also take all of southern germany, and switzerland, and northern italy. We took a dim view on this, but with us being so far away, and in debt, we were in no position to dispuite this, and so we let this go with no talk.
The russians also had expanded, and we know that moscow is dreaming of declaring itself the successor the roman empire.
The ottomans had also taken much territory from the mameluks and as of this report were in the process of taking more.
As of this report: Brandenburg can consider this a warning, we in denmark will no longer tolerate the naked aggression against its neighbors, especially poland.
DENMARK
Well the year started out slow, with 30,000 troops, and do to talks with the king of sweden, which had decided to break the kalmar union, we had not yet decided that we could leave our borders with them unguarded, so the first task was to build two more armies to help guard our borders, then, do to talks with poland, and Russia, we declared war on the teutonic order for the province of estland, to our surprise we found out sweden was at was with the order for the province of livland, they tried to take the province of estland before us, but our general took the seige over, but than the polish ally decided to go to war with the order to, and took all the sieges. After to years of waiting for Lithuania to get peace, they did, and we took estland for ourselves, and sweden took livland, and russia, which had gone to war against the order as well, had also claimed the province of polostk.
After the war, god deemed it fit to periodically give me loans, and nearly bankrupting me, i was in no shape to do anything else, and the only way the loans got paid was through my dear friend poland.
During my years of quiet, a far place the spanish called america was discovered, amazingly it was inbetween india and europe.
During this period of paying loans, we also built some more armies due to the belligerance of brandenburg, and do to swedens allaince with brandenburg we do not trust them. That is why we built more armies. It is our hope for piece in scandinavia, but we felt that we needed a strong army to secure the borders.
Brandenburg had taken all of northern Germany, and we did not agree to this, but at the time we were in no position to dispute. "We here by decree that should brandenburg attempt to expand at the expense of Poland, we will declare war and fight to take your realm from you.
We also noticed during this time period that england had brought the stubborn scots into the fold. Austria had also take all of southern germany, and switzerland, and northern italy. We took a dim view on this, but with us being so far away, and in debt, we were in no position to dispuite this, and so we let this go with no talk.
The russians also had expanded, and we know that moscow is dreaming of declaring itself the successor the roman empire.
The ottomans had also taken much territory from the mameluks and as of this report were in the process of taking more.
As of this report: Brandenburg can consider this a warning, we in denmark will no longer tolerate the naked aggression against its neighbors, especially poland.
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Spain
Spain
Starting AI wars which Naples brought me into were ignored as Tuscany (a none ally) tore through the Papal states with 'help' from a few thousand infantry from Naples. The Old duke of Alba was also on the scene, but left the area for Spain after realizing he was out-ranked by the Tuscan leader.
Meawhile Christopher Columbus having got 3 ships from the King and Queen, sailed to China via the 'whole world is round' theory. This is yet to be proved as he didn't find India, or China but a few islands with lot's of 'high' base tax sugar and an ancient civiliation filled with gold. Many theologians in Spain still defy Christopher's claims that the world is round - you just can't fall off the one edge via water, as there is a land full of gold in the way.
In the summer of 1498 an army of 40 thousand and a fleet of 50ships sailed for Havanna in the new world, as a basecamp to lauch an attack on the Aztec Empire (you know the place full of gold on the edge of the world). Annexation was shwift and the Spanish inquistition is killin... I mean converting the pagans as we speak.
Back to Italy and Spain re-invaded Tuscany and the Papal States, smashing apart the weak italians with the CRT advantage just discovered by the Spanish scientists.
New Spanish CRTs
The Papal States were over-run and vassalized and Marche was taken. Tuscany suffered a similar fate and Romanga was taken and Tuscany was vassalized too. All the parts of Italy of interest to Spain were now in Spanish hands, or under Spanish control.
A similar fate accured to Navarra - Alba walked in - Alba walked out 5 months later with the former treasury of Navarra and a little slip of paper saying:
Navarra = Spanish vassal = PWNED BY ALBA HAHAHA
The rest of the time was spent sending money to Austria to fight the Turks, trading in southern Europe and Alba invading Venice and coming back to Madrid again with the Venician treasury and the title deeds to Corfu.
[Need to add some more pics... more to come]
1492-1510
"Playing France is like being in the middle of a moshpit, with England, Spain, Germany, Holland, and Austria surrounding you you can be sure you'll be kicked around from time to time."
Campaigning in Italy
Like any good monarch neighbouring Italy we attempted to invade it but without succes, the Genoese wouldn't co-operate, meaning they stacked about 30k on Corsica wich will trounce any army smaller than 50k, and since our navy couldn't transport our army we just settled for a bit of cash.
Savoy went on to try to conquer neighbouring states but she had to do it on her own as France would soon be occupied with bigger problems, and left Savoy on her own, which would we a large mistake.
The Britanese war
England still wasn't over the loss of the 100-ears war, so they decided to invade Scotland, and faithfull ally off the French, soon it would also seem, that the King of England also had a claim on brittany a vassal and loayal ally to the french.
So when the declaration of war came the french were a bit suprised, but decided to act quickly and besieged Calais, the English however completely overran the Scottish and forced them to cede many lands to them leaving them only with their capital and the lands around it.
After Scotland was fallen, the English decided to invade Britany while the Britanese put up a good fight, they were no match for the English. The english with Britanny secured (sieged) then proceeded to raid the french provinces and defeating the brave french soldiers several times.
However with the ending of the Italian Campaign, Maréchal Foix and the Italian army returned and managaged to beat back the English to their ships. The war then turned into a staring contest accross the Channel as English naval superiority didn't allow the french to invade.
In the meanwhile researchers were busy working on a new invention: "the musket". The french got it first but couldn't use it, but when the English got it the thought it was time to invade again.
Well atleast they tried, first landing with about an army of 50k, which was beaten back by the french garrison in Calais with relative ease. Next Norfolk attempted an invasion but was thwarted wy Maréchal Foix in the plains of Burgundy in something that would result in the bloodiest battle the war had seen.
Norfolk's 40k army was met by the veterans of the Italian army led by Maréchal Foix near the town of Dijon. The battle was bloody in the senst that the English lost their entire army, and the commander was killed on the battlefield, wile the French lost about 80% of their army.
After the battle English diplomats though it was wise to accept a white peace, proposed by France many years before. The war may seem as a loss to the French but it gave them a free hand to do whatever they wanted to do in Britanny.
Rebuilding the economy
What? You don't expect me to say much here now, do you?
Well all I did was teching up (naval) and annexed Britanny that's all.
France
"Playing France is like being in the middle of a moshpit, with England, Spain, Germany, Holland, and Austria surrounding you you can be sure you'll be kicked around from time to time."
Campaigning in Italy
Like any good monarch neighbouring Italy we attempted to invade it but without succes, the Genoese wouldn't co-operate, meaning they stacked about 30k on Corsica wich will trounce any army smaller than 50k, and since our navy couldn't transport our army we just settled for a bit of cash.
Savoy went on to try to conquer neighbouring states but she had to do it on her own as France would soon be occupied with bigger problems, and left Savoy on her own, which would we a large mistake.
The Britanese war
England still wasn't over the loss of the 100-ears war, so they decided to invade Scotland, and faithfull ally off the French, soon it would also seem, that the King of England also had a claim on brittany a vassal and loayal ally to the french.
So when the declaration of war came the french were a bit suprised, but decided to act quickly and besieged Calais, the English however completely overran the Scottish and forced them to cede many lands to them leaving them only with their capital and the lands around it.
After Scotland was fallen, the English decided to invade Britany while the Britanese put up a good fight, they were no match for the English. The english with Britanny secured (sieged) then proceeded to raid the french provinces and defeating the brave french soldiers several times.
However with the ending of the Italian Campaign, Maréchal Foix and the Italian army returned and managaged to beat back the English to their ships. The war then turned into a staring contest accross the Channel as English naval superiority didn't allow the french to invade.
In the meanwhile researchers were busy working on a new invention: "the musket". The french got it first but couldn't use it, but when the English got it the thought it was time to invade again.
Well atleast they tried, first landing with about an army of 50k, which was beaten back by the french garrison in Calais with relative ease. Next Norfolk attempted an invasion but was thwarted wy Maréchal Foix in the plains of Burgundy in something that would result in the bloodiest battle the war had seen.
Norfolk's 40k army was met by the veterans of the Italian army led by Maréchal Foix near the town of Dijon. The battle was bloody in the senst that the English lost their entire army, and the commander was killed on the battlefield, wile the French lost about 80% of their army.
After the battle English diplomats though it was wise to accept a white peace, proposed by France many years before. The war may seem as a loss to the French but it gave them a free hand to do whatever they wanted to do in Britanny.
Rebuilding the economy
What? You don't expect me to say much here now, do you?
Well all I did was teching up (naval) and annexed Britanny that's all.
1492 - 1510
Timurids' decadence:
Who cares what my name is, I'm not important and my name will never be writen in books, But i had the great honor to be born in these far lands, The Sultanate of Delhi. but no honor can be compared to the opportunity of meeting Babür in person, face to face... my first impression of him was no biggie, just another man in this land. Who could anyone imagine that man would change the fate of many ppl? Now i know he's one of the Kahn Clan and he honored his ancestors very well, such a man can only be compared to Gods.
I remember when I was a young boy. inexpert, arrogant boy. my old grandfather noticed I was going to become in another decadent sultan so he decided to force me to travel far away, to see another cultures, to listen to many ppl' problems as one of them, to realize I was a man who must guide and not to subjugate in my own benefit. So I began my trip.
Timurids... my first impression of this world wasn't very good. barbarians! yes, they were barbarians, bad organized, pathetic and their sultan was even worse, they were poor and poor politics were sinking this coutry even more. I didn't understand this was the result of many years of decadence after I was back from Alexandria. During my trip in Timurid lands I used to lie about my true identity, believe me, they're not ppl one can trust easily. Imagine I identify myself as the prince of Delhi! Delhi and Timurids never had good relations, so it wasn't the time for high pretentions, I invented a name and I continued travelling. I occationally made pauses to get food and water, fortunately I had enough gold in my pockets, and when i say enough it means I had enough! I really missed my old life style in my grandfather's palace, look at me now! pretending being poor or a trader.
Nothing more to say about Timurids, by asking i realized Timurids were in decadence, Persia revolted and this country was divided in many pieces. their ppl were desperate, their cattle were thin, their women were whores, their men had no honor, and their kids were disappointed of their sad fate. this stinked and I sweared I'd never come back to this country again.
And the Travel Continued...:
I reached Persia, Persia... I thought I was living in Alexander the Great's era. Once again Persia exists. This was a true Empire! their citadels, their educated ppl, their faith and hapiness. Who would imagine some years later Ottoman Empire would bring hell to these lovely quiet lands.
Once i reached to the old kingdom of Amurabi I was amazed of their wealth and commerce, I realized tradding was ecential for a country, I was going to put this on practise some years later. Bagdad, the old capitol, it's now another great city of new brand Persia. I stayed in this city 10 days and 10 nights, I learned a lot about Europe and their wealth. I bought maps and stuff, thx Allah I was starting to have some interest in politics, economics and geography, time will show I was right.
Alexandria! its Librar¡es, I could breath knowledge everywhere I went, this wasn't another city, it was the greater city I've ever known. I'd have stayed longer in this country, the country of Mameluks, but news of a declaration of war from Ottoman Empire made me go back on my steps. It was time to return to India.
A New Empire in the East:
travelling back I made some money tradding, mameluks' meat was very appreciated in Persia, I brought a lot of water with me as well, very appreciated by thirsty travellers.
Big was my surprise when i came to Timurid Empire, it was ... different. by Asking i knew a new Sultan named Babür was now ruling this hurt country. in a year this new monarch made reformations, he even knew how to trade! how? their ppl had faith once again.
Portugal was tradding around! so were Timurids! new "fire" weapons in the battle field! new armies and wealth??? i was amazed, and frightened. I had to hurry up. My grandfather had to know about this now! Allah forgot us?
(more comming)
Mughal Empire
Timurids' decadence:
Who cares what my name is, I'm not important and my name will never be writen in books, But i had the great honor to be born in these far lands, The Sultanate of Delhi. but no honor can be compared to the opportunity of meeting Babür in person, face to face... my first impression of him was no biggie, just another man in this land. Who could anyone imagine that man would change the fate of many ppl? Now i know he's one of the Kahn Clan and he honored his ancestors very well, such a man can only be compared to Gods.
I remember when I was a young boy. inexpert, arrogant boy. my old grandfather noticed I was going to become in another decadent sultan so he decided to force me to travel far away, to see another cultures, to listen to many ppl' problems as one of them, to realize I was a man who must guide and not to subjugate in my own benefit. So I began my trip.
Timurids... my first impression of this world wasn't very good. barbarians! yes, they were barbarians, bad organized, pathetic and their sultan was even worse, they were poor and poor politics were sinking this coutry even more. I didn't understand this was the result of many years of decadence after I was back from Alexandria. During my trip in Timurid lands I used to lie about my true identity, believe me, they're not ppl one can trust easily. Imagine I identify myself as the prince of Delhi! Delhi and Timurids never had good relations, so it wasn't the time for high pretentions, I invented a name and I continued travelling. I occationally made pauses to get food and water, fortunately I had enough gold in my pockets, and when i say enough it means I had enough! I really missed my old life style in my grandfather's palace, look at me now! pretending being poor or a trader.
Nothing more to say about Timurids, by asking i realized Timurids were in decadence, Persia revolted and this country was divided in many pieces. their ppl were desperate, their cattle were thin, their women were whores, their men had no honor, and their kids were disappointed of their sad fate. this stinked and I sweared I'd never come back to this country again.
And the Travel Continued...:
I reached Persia, Persia... I thought I was living in Alexander the Great's era. Once again Persia exists. This was a true Empire! their citadels, their educated ppl, their faith and hapiness. Who would imagine some years later Ottoman Empire would bring hell to these lovely quiet lands.
Once i reached to the old kingdom of Amurabi I was amazed of their wealth and commerce, I realized tradding was ecential for a country, I was going to put this on practise some years later. Bagdad, the old capitol, it's now another great city of new brand Persia. I stayed in this city 10 days and 10 nights, I learned a lot about Europe and their wealth. I bought maps and stuff, thx Allah I was starting to have some interest in politics, economics and geography, time will show I was right.
Alexandria! its Librar¡es, I could breath knowledge everywhere I went, this wasn't another city, it was the greater city I've ever known. I'd have stayed longer in this country, the country of Mameluks, but news of a declaration of war from Ottoman Empire made me go back on my steps. It was time to return to India.
A New Empire in the East:
travelling back I made some money tradding, mameluks' meat was very appreciated in Persia, I brought a lot of water with me as well, very appreciated by thirsty travellers.
Big was my surprise when i came to Timurid Empire, it was ... different. by Asking i knew a new Sultan named Babür was now ruling this hurt country. in a year this new monarch made reformations, he even knew how to trade! how? their ppl had faith once again.
Portugal was tradding around! so were Timurids! new "fire" weapons in the battle field! new armies and wealth??? i was amazed, and frightened. I had to hurry up. My grandfather had to know about this now! Allah forgot us?
(more comming)
Austrian AAR: 1492-1510
In the year 1492 the Habsburgs started with a splintered Empire. With so many other great powers around us, we needed to secure provinces, and fast. We started by invited bavaria and the palatinat into our alliance with Bohemia and Hungary. In a few years both were diplo-vassalized. In the meantime we attacked Venice, quickly gaining the provinces of Mantua and Istria. Then we were prepared to wait a small amount of time in order to diplo-annex more minors. Northern Germany was ceded to Brandenburg, all Austrian claims relinquished.
However, France made a tricky move and attack Baden and Helvetia. Their AI vassal Savoie annexed Baden and took Schwyz from Helvetia. When I wanted to intervene, OE and Poland DoWed Hungary, which required my immediate attention. The War went well, some funds were gained from Spain. I had no leaders, still I managed to inflict heavy losses (around 90k) on OE. However, sneaky Poland took Ruthenia and Carpathia and then separate peaced Hungary for those provs. They will pay for that. OE White peaced me since I was winning the war vs them and Hungary (their goal) was out of the war due to Poland alliance peacing them (IMO Poland stabbed OE in the back).
After this, Von Frundsberg, the uber Austrian leader, spawned. I used him to quickly capture Wurzburg and Wurtemberg, which were under siege from bloody Savoie. The event to inherit Milan fired, and of course I chose to do so
Then my AI vassal Palatinate DoWed Savoie. Lovely. I honoured the call. France was in war with England and had -3 stab and 4 WE. So they WPed me. Palatinate then took Baden and Swyz from Savoie, and I took Piemonte. Stupid Helveta was vassals of Savoie, so I just annexed them. My BB got a bit high, but hey, at least I got all the provinces I wanted in that region. I then diplo-annexed Bavaria and two years later the Palatinate.
Finally my Empire wasn't so splintered anymore and looked a nice white blob Then Spain DoWed Venice, taking Corfu. I attacked Venice too, and could now achieve 100 percent warscore (I didn't have the ships to take Corfu). I vassalized Venice. Rest of the session was spent getting relations with Venice up and finally inviting them to my alliance, preparing for the diplo-annex.
In the year 1492 the Habsburgs started with a splintered Empire. With so many other great powers around us, we needed to secure provinces, and fast. We started by invited bavaria and the palatinat into our alliance with Bohemia and Hungary. In a few years both were diplo-vassalized. In the meantime we attacked Venice, quickly gaining the provinces of Mantua and Istria. Then we were prepared to wait a small amount of time in order to diplo-annex more minors. Northern Germany was ceded to Brandenburg, all Austrian claims relinquished.
However, France made a tricky move and attack Baden and Helvetia. Their AI vassal Savoie annexed Baden and took Schwyz from Helvetia. When I wanted to intervene, OE and Poland DoWed Hungary, which required my immediate attention. The War went well, some funds were gained from Spain. I had no leaders, still I managed to inflict heavy losses (around 90k) on OE. However, sneaky Poland took Ruthenia and Carpathia and then separate peaced Hungary for those provs. They will pay for that. OE White peaced me since I was winning the war vs them and Hungary (their goal) was out of the war due to Poland alliance peacing them (IMO Poland stabbed OE in the back).
After this, Von Frundsberg, the uber Austrian leader, spawned. I used him to quickly capture Wurzburg and Wurtemberg, which were under siege from bloody Savoie. The event to inherit Milan fired, and of course I chose to do so
Then my AI vassal Palatinate DoWed Savoie. Lovely. I honoured the call. France was in war with England and had -3 stab and 4 WE. So they WPed me. Palatinate then took Baden and Swyz from Savoie, and I took Piemonte. Stupid Helveta was vassals of Savoie, so I just annexed them. My BB got a bit high, but hey, at least I got all the provinces I wanted in that region. I then diplo-annexed Bavaria and two years later the Palatinate.Finally my Empire wasn't so splintered anymore and looked a nice white blob
Then Spain DoWed Venice, taking Corfu. I attacked Venice too, and could now achieve 100 percent warscore (I didn't have the ships to take Corfu). I vassalized Venice. Rest of the session was spent getting relations with Venice up and finally inviting them to my alliance, preparing for the diplo-annex.It is my first AAR.....
Poland in 1492 was in interesting position. Surrounded by almost all strong countries on every border... the only hope for Poland is a great and long living alliance with Lithuania, which I hope will be complete in 1560….by combining two nations as fast as possible. But I have more problems till then. I become a chancellor of Poland and this was my first level of power in polish kingdom. My first problem was Brandenburg – very weak in the beginning and very motivated to fight with Poland. So our first task was to get some ally against Brandenburg. This task was accomplished by alliance with Denmark, with whom alliance give us a possibility to sleep a bit more easily…
Our first task was to get the control over Hinterpommern. Great polish King, in secret said to me that this task give us possibility to secure our trade in Danzig – what after very short consideration was very wise decision for us...
Great polish king has announced his will – what could I do?? So I ordered the forces to attack Hansetic League just after the Brandenburg did that… Brandenburg was as evil as I supposed – a snick attack on my forces just after 2 months made my great friend(field general) doomed. He had only 4k against 20k from Brandenburg… When I hear it I was furious – I ordered to make 40k of cavalry and sent those dogs from Brandenburg to hell where their belong…. But in the mean time I have reached goal – HL accepted to give us Hinterpommern for a peace…
This made this war with Brandenburg pointless – some of our marshal wish to take Kostrin but we didn’t wont to press the subject. Polish king stated his will – leave Brandenburg (for now) untouched….so we accepted an offer of white peace from Brandenburg…
We continue the war against Prussia – which was made vassal very quickly and Teutonic’s… But due to lack of another great leader we were unable to vassalize it – all sieges were taken by our great ally - leaders from Lithuania. As agree – we leave prov from Teutonic’s to Russia, Denmark and Sweden. We hope to have a good relations with all our neighbors. There was only one thing to do: vassalize Teutonic’s but due to lack of good marshals we weren’t able to do that after Prusia declaration of war against Teutonic’s….. – we even forgot about it, as our dear friends from Denmark have revived our mind…. So it will be our first task in coming years now...
As agree with OE we were prepared for an attack on Hungary. We have told about it Austria before that we will take those 2 provs from Hungary and we did that. We didn’t know that due to lack of diplomatic skill of our monarch our peace won’t be separate – he forgot about that that he was leader of our alliance with OE and he stated his will of piece in OE name too – this was very lucky to Austria ally… As an compensation polish King demanded to send 300 ducats (for his act of treachery) to OE and this demand was accomplished as fast as possible…. OE was surprised but good surprised. Thanks to that we manage to remain with good relations with OE and we hope for a good cooperation in coming years….
In the mean time we have heard a yell from Denmark – their King (not well organized with economics subjects) have taken some stupid loans… As an gift of gratitude for entering our alliance, we offered to give them money on repayment those loans and we are sure that Denmark have appreciated our help…long live our alliance!!!
In 1505 our king wish another quest for his dear chancellor: take provs from Moldawia. We have heard that he agree the subject with OE so there wasn’t any problems. For 2 provs and 250 ducats the war was over…
We see with our eyes fixed on West that our neighbors are preparing for war. Brandenburg has reached a very high level of man in armies and the same for Austria. Our hope of a stability in the region lays in alliance with Denmark and very good relations with OE. We are prepared for war – but we don’t wish to be included in any against Brandenburg or Austria.
We still hope that Austria will honor our agreement and give us Silesia as agreed in 1520…
If not – we will react on this act of treachery as we should….
Chancellor of Poland
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Poland in 1492-1510
Poland in 1492 was in interesting position. Surrounded by almost all strong countries on every border... the only hope for Poland is a great and long living alliance with Lithuania, which I hope will be complete in 1560….by combining two nations as fast as possible. But I have more problems till then. I become a chancellor of Poland and this was my first level of power in polish kingdom. My first problem was Brandenburg – very weak in the beginning and very motivated to fight with Poland. So our first task was to get some ally against Brandenburg. This task was accomplished by alliance with Denmark, with whom alliance give us a possibility to sleep a bit more easily…
Our first task was to get the control over Hinterpommern. Great polish King, in secret said to me that this task give us possibility to secure our trade in Danzig – what after very short consideration was very wise decision for us...
Great polish king has announced his will – what could I do?? So I ordered the forces to attack Hansetic League just after the Brandenburg did that… Brandenburg was as evil as I supposed – a snick attack on my forces just after 2 months made my great friend(field general) doomed. He had only 4k against 20k from Brandenburg… When I hear it I was furious – I ordered to make 40k of cavalry and sent those dogs from Brandenburg to hell where their belong…. But in the mean time I have reached goal – HL accepted to give us Hinterpommern for a peace…
This made this war with Brandenburg pointless – some of our marshal wish to take Kostrin but we didn’t wont to press the subject. Polish king stated his will – leave Brandenburg (for now) untouched….so we accepted an offer of white peace from Brandenburg…
We continue the war against Prussia – which was made vassal very quickly and Teutonic’s… But due to lack of another great leader we were unable to vassalize it – all sieges were taken by our great ally - leaders from Lithuania. As agree – we leave prov from Teutonic’s to Russia, Denmark and Sweden. We hope to have a good relations with all our neighbors. There was only one thing to do: vassalize Teutonic’s but due to lack of good marshals we weren’t able to do that after Prusia declaration of war against Teutonic’s….. – we even forgot about it, as our dear friends from Denmark have revived our mind…. So it will be our first task in coming years now...
As agree with OE we were prepared for an attack on Hungary. We have told about it Austria before that we will take those 2 provs from Hungary and we did that. We didn’t know that due to lack of diplomatic skill of our monarch our peace won’t be separate – he forgot about that that he was leader of our alliance with OE and he stated his will of piece in OE name too – this was very lucky to Austria ally… As an compensation polish King demanded to send 300 ducats (for his act of treachery) to OE and this demand was accomplished as fast as possible…. OE was surprised but good surprised. Thanks to that we manage to remain with good relations with OE and we hope for a good cooperation in coming years….
In the mean time we have heard a yell from Denmark – their King (not well organized with economics subjects) have taken some stupid loans… As an gift of gratitude for entering our alliance, we offered to give them money on repayment those loans and we are sure that Denmark have appreciated our help…long live our alliance!!!
In 1505 our king wish another quest for his dear chancellor: take provs from Moldawia. We have heard that he agree the subject with OE so there wasn’t any problems. For 2 provs and 250 ducats the war was over…
We see with our eyes fixed on West that our neighbors are preparing for war. Brandenburg has reached a very high level of man in armies and the same for Austria. Our hope of a stability in the region lays in alliance with Denmark and very good relations with OE. We are prepared for war – but we don’t wish to be included in any against Brandenburg or Austria.
We still hope that Austria will honor our agreement and give us Silesia as agreed in 1520…
If not – we will react on this act of treachery as we should….
Chancellor of Poland
Star Blade
AGREEMENT FOR SILESIA?!? I will never give you Silesia. You took two provinces from Hungary that are my rightful inheritance, and someday I will take them back.
Also, your alliance peace with Hungary was lucky for Austrian ally? Man, Ruthenia and Carpathia were being sieged back, Ottoman armies were beaten and my 80k cav army was underway to Poland. My alliance had 25% warscore on you even though you controlled Carpathia and Ruthenia. You even lost a province to bloody BAVARIA once.
Evil propaganda from the Polish King. We hope no one listens to it.
Also, your alliance peace with Hungary was lucky for Austrian ally? Man, Ruthenia and Carpathia were being sieged back, Ottoman armies were beaten and my 80k cav army was underway to Poland. My alliance had 25% warscore on you even though you controlled Carpathia and Ruthenia. You even lost a province to bloody BAVARIA once.
Evil propaganda from the Polish King. We hope no one listens to it.
Only AAR - here
And to answear Your words - i can give to anyone who doubts our speak over icq in which he can read how was it... If You or me is telling the truth and only the truth - if You wish to talk about it go to main page of the Time Machine or speak with me on icq....
Star Blade
P.S.(i'm very touchy about agreements and honour - so don't prees the subject or i will post all our hostory of agreement beetwen Poland and Austria about which we have spoken on icq....)!!!!!!
Ozzeh said:
Please - leave only AAR here.
And to answear Your words - i can give to anyone who doubts our speak over icq in which he can read how was it... If You or me is telling the truth and only the truth - if You wish to talk about it go to main page of the Time Machine or speak with me on icq....
Star Blade
P.S.(i'm very touchy about agreements and honour - so don't prees the subject or i will post all our hostory of agreement beetwen Poland and Austria about which we have spoken on icq....)!!!!!!
the AAR thread is also used for Diplomacy, and as far as I can think, one country telling another that somone made up a deal is part of diplomacy.
"Surrender now, young Prince and I promise your ppl will join mine as equal"
"I will never surrender after you give your word my ppl won't suffer your wrath, Babür, give me your word if it's worth what many ppl state!"
We were outnumbered, hungry and defeated. Delhi was going to fall, the only thing i could i do was to surrender now and have some concesions for a quick one. It was all i could i do. My grandfather died a week ago, I was alone, and i really wanted to hear what to do from him... Then Babür talked back and I will remember these words the rest of my life.
"Fool, Of course i accept your demands, it is Not my style to masacrate, plund and kill. your ppl represents more than you, sultan, can imagine, men are more valuable than lands or weapons, humans can build, create, imagine..."
After a short pause Babür continued, i was very amazed at this point, Great Babür accepting a desperate call of mercy hiden in vain words of resistance... I've never met such a man, strong and terrible in the battle field, but calm and reasonable after battles. Now i understand why Allah has chosen him to rule my sultanate.
"Your ppl is safe in every city I occupied, i have to admit you're very brave boy, passing throw my territories with no protection a year ago and facing me right now with few men, outnumbered and lost in these cold lands close to the great mountains in the north, i thought you were coward or just desperate, when I found your grandfather he told me the truth about you and I realize you're worth a lot more than many enemies I faced in my life. I'm sorry, I had to invade your sultanate, but I have to admit i understimated your wisdom, young prince, you were capable enough to defend yourself and your ppl for months considering my superiority."
Many years later we both remembered this moment as funny, Babür was being condescendient, noble and pathernalist with me, I didn't know what he's seen on me after i realized he loved me. Brave like a Tiger and sensible like a woman.
"My superiority has nothing to be with God, this is all about tactics, diplomacy and commerce." he laughed for a short time "as you can appreciate I have fire weapons that I still didn't use! I only had to use these portuguese cannons" he pointed out at 10 fine cannons behind him, cannons! so those artifacts were guilty of my defeat?
"Great Babür, I'm really impressed, but why you extended this war, a simple demonstration of your might was enough to make me surrender (i lied)"
"I don't think so, boy, afterall you always thought I was like the other sultans that ruled my country, it's understandible, they were barbarians and terrible. I was so ashamed of the past of my country that I had to rename my Empire. This is a new beginning, and I want you to join me in my side, you and your ppl deserve to have a better life, NO! the ppl of India deserve to have a better life, and we're the only one that we have the might to change the hell they're living. Help me to bring progress, help me to bring heaven for everyone."
That was the beginning of Great Mughal Empire.
Edit: and the beginning of a sweet story of love
"I will never surrender after you give your word my ppl won't suffer your wrath, Babür, give me your word if it's worth what many ppl state!"
We were outnumbered, hungry and defeated. Delhi was going to fall, the only thing i could i do was to surrender now and have some concesions for a quick one. It was all i could i do. My grandfather died a week ago, I was alone, and i really wanted to hear what to do from him... Then Babür talked back and I will remember these words the rest of my life.
"Fool, Of course i accept your demands, it is Not my style to masacrate, plund and kill. your ppl represents more than you, sultan, can imagine, men are more valuable than lands or weapons, humans can build, create, imagine..."
After a short pause Babür continued, i was very amazed at this point, Great Babür accepting a desperate call of mercy hiden in vain words of resistance... I've never met such a man, strong and terrible in the battle field, but calm and reasonable after battles. Now i understand why Allah has chosen him to rule my sultanate.
"Your ppl is safe in every city I occupied, i have to admit you're very brave boy, passing throw my territories with no protection a year ago and facing me right now with few men, outnumbered and lost in these cold lands close to the great mountains in the north, i thought you were coward or just desperate, when I found your grandfather he told me the truth about you and I realize you're worth a lot more than many enemies I faced in my life. I'm sorry, I had to invade your sultanate, but I have to admit i understimated your wisdom, young prince, you were capable enough to defend yourself and your ppl for months considering my superiority."
Many years later we both remembered this moment as funny, Babür was being condescendient, noble and pathernalist with me, I didn't know what he's seen on me after i realized he loved me. Brave like a Tiger and sensible like a woman.
"My superiority has nothing to be with God, this is all about tactics, diplomacy and commerce." he laughed for a short time "as you can appreciate I have fire weapons that I still didn't use! I only had to use these portuguese cannons" he pointed out at 10 fine cannons behind him, cannons! so those artifacts were guilty of my defeat?
"Great Babür, I'm really impressed, but why you extended this war, a simple demonstration of your might was enough to make me surrender (i lied)"
"I don't think so, boy, afterall you always thought I was like the other sultans that ruled my country, it's understandible, they were barbarians and terrible. I was so ashamed of the past of my country that I had to rename my Empire. This is a new beginning, and I want you to join me in my side, you and your ppl deserve to have a better life, NO! the ppl of India deserve to have a better life, and we're the only one that we have the might to change the hell they're living. Help me to bring progress, help me to bring heaven for everyone."
That was the beginning of Great Mughal Empire.
Edit: and the beginning of a sweet story of love
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1492-1510 : The Muscovian Court
The year had just started, but war was already on every Muscovians mind. The time had at last come to eradicate the shame enforced upon our forebears by the infidel horse masters. There were 50.000 soldiers moving into position along the border shared with the Golden Gorde, split into two armies of 25K they were ready to harvest a centuries worth of shame in blood. As soon as the last snow melted war was declared. Sheykh Ahmad II threw away his live and the live of his fellow warriors in a senseless assault upon one of our armies. It turned out to have been the decisive battle of the campaign. As the Muscovian armies spread out and left besiegers on every province across the Northern GH, the remnants of their armies were destroyed at Samara. All that was left to do was to kick them a couple of time while they were down.
In the end of the year 1943, or November the 13th. It was decided to join in on the carving up of the Teutonic Order, war was declared. One of the main components of the Muscovian army had already traveled towards TO and upon receiving word of the declaration of war, marched into Polotsk. While Poland, Muscovy and Denmark had decided to split TO between them. Sweden had taken them all by surprise by declaring war and had promptly destroyed all of TO’s armies. While the Muscovians were impressed by the courage shown by the Swedes, it was quite enjoying, watching them struggle to overcome Livland.
During the summer of 1494 it came to the attention of the generals in command of the siege of Polotsk, that the Lithuanian monarch was just across the river and approaching fast. In desperation the general ordered an assault and an frenzied attack went underway. The attack just barely prevailed, in large parts to ingenuity of the officers who emptied entire villages in search of cannon fodder. It was with wry amusement and awe that the Muscovians then watched the Lithuanian king overtake every siege in the Baltic area.
The 1st. February of 1495 saw the King sing the “Subednik” legislature. It empowered the nobles and bound the peasants to the land they labored on, subject to every whim of their noble masters. Most importantly it made it cheaper to recruit cavalry, and the nobles promised to finance a Fine arts museum in Moscow. Later that year peace was concluded with the GH and Samara, Ufa and Astrahkan were given over to Muscovy. It had been an exquisite experience to every ethnic Russian to watch the GH humbled.
In the year 1496 peace was concluded with TO for the price of Polotsk. It was not what the Muscovians wanted from this war, but the Poles believed that they could force them to be vassals if just the Lithuanians controlled every province. This was also the year that Pskov became our vassal.
It was not until late in the year in 1500 that something of value happened. Muscovy had gone to war with GH as soon as the truce had ended. Their armies were feeble and their pride shattered, so the war would have been a foregone conclusion if it hadn’t been for the fact that the GH had allied to the Persians to the south. The muscovian armies quickly moved to siege all GH provinces and hurried south to confront the Persians. Several battles were fought in Astrakhan and Deghastan over the next year.
It was in the beginning of the 1502 that the GH relented and gave up Uralsk, Orenburg and Saratow. Battles were still being fought to the south. Where the scene was absolute pandemonium. It seemed that the Persians were already losing a war with the Ottoman empire. A siege was stolen by our forces of Armenia, a wealthy province who produced gold. It was decided that even though the province would bring great wealth to the empire, it would be best not to test the Ottomans. In the year 1503 peace was concluded with the Persians, they only lost Daghestan.
Vasily III the newly anointed king of Muscovy had spent time and money to build up good relations with the kingdom of Georgia. So when the Crimean’s called upon us to war upon Georgia, it was done without any zeal. Muscovy ended up taking Sochi from them, thereby ending the war. It was decided by the king after this incident that Crimea was a troublesome allie and he went about alienating them. Sending the Khan of Crimea insulting verses about the breeding habits of Crimeans.
In the year of 1507 Muscovy annexed Pskov, merging the two Russian courts into one. In that summer Muscovy again declared war upon the helpless GH, which were without the protection of the Persians. The cunning planning of the king of alienating the Crimeans worked perfectly. The Crimeans refused to honor the alliance and gave us reason to attack them. Unfortunatly, the plan backfired. The Crimeans were quick to make an alliance with the Ottomans, thereby making the kings pleasure shortlived.
A stalemate has since ensued. The Muscovians refuse to make peace with the GH on the assumption that the Crimeans will promptly move in and annex the country. This the king Vasily will not see done. Therefore the provinces of GH find themselves ceaselessly occupied by Muscovian forces with no end in sight.
The year had just started, but war was already on every Muscovians mind. The time had at last come to eradicate the shame enforced upon our forebears by the infidel horse masters. There were 50.000 soldiers moving into position along the border shared with the Golden Gorde, split into two armies of 25K they were ready to harvest a centuries worth of shame in blood. As soon as the last snow melted war was declared. Sheykh Ahmad II threw away his live and the live of his fellow warriors in a senseless assault upon one of our armies. It turned out to have been the decisive battle of the campaign. As the Muscovian armies spread out and left besiegers on every province across the Northern GH, the remnants of their armies were destroyed at Samara. All that was left to do was to kick them a couple of time while they were down.
In the end of the year 1943, or November the 13th. It was decided to join in on the carving up of the Teutonic Order, war was declared. One of the main components of the Muscovian army had already traveled towards TO and upon receiving word of the declaration of war, marched into Polotsk. While Poland, Muscovy and Denmark had decided to split TO between them. Sweden had taken them all by surprise by declaring war and had promptly destroyed all of TO’s armies. While the Muscovians were impressed by the courage shown by the Swedes, it was quite enjoying, watching them struggle to overcome Livland.
During the summer of 1494 it came to the attention of the generals in command of the siege of Polotsk, that the Lithuanian monarch was just across the river and approaching fast. In desperation the general ordered an assault and an frenzied attack went underway. The attack just barely prevailed, in large parts to ingenuity of the officers who emptied entire villages in search of cannon fodder. It was with wry amusement and awe that the Muscovians then watched the Lithuanian king overtake every siege in the Baltic area.
The 1st. February of 1495 saw the King sing the “Subednik” legislature. It empowered the nobles and bound the peasants to the land they labored on, subject to every whim of their noble masters. Most importantly it made it cheaper to recruit cavalry, and the nobles promised to finance a Fine arts museum in Moscow. Later that year peace was concluded with the GH and Samara, Ufa and Astrahkan were given over to Muscovy. It had been an exquisite experience to every ethnic Russian to watch the GH humbled.
In the year 1496 peace was concluded with TO for the price of Polotsk. It was not what the Muscovians wanted from this war, but the Poles believed that they could force them to be vassals if just the Lithuanians controlled every province. This was also the year that Pskov became our vassal.
It was not until late in the year in 1500 that something of value happened. Muscovy had gone to war with GH as soon as the truce had ended. Their armies were feeble and their pride shattered, so the war would have been a foregone conclusion if it hadn’t been for the fact that the GH had allied to the Persians to the south. The muscovian armies quickly moved to siege all GH provinces and hurried south to confront the Persians. Several battles were fought in Astrakhan and Deghastan over the next year.
It was in the beginning of the 1502 that the GH relented and gave up Uralsk, Orenburg and Saratow. Battles were still being fought to the south. Where the scene was absolute pandemonium. It seemed that the Persians were already losing a war with the Ottoman empire. A siege was stolen by our forces of Armenia, a wealthy province who produced gold. It was decided that even though the province would bring great wealth to the empire, it would be best not to test the Ottomans. In the year 1503 peace was concluded with the Persians, they only lost Daghestan.
Vasily III the newly anointed king of Muscovy had spent time and money to build up good relations with the kingdom of Georgia. So when the Crimean’s called upon us to war upon Georgia, it was done without any zeal. Muscovy ended up taking Sochi from them, thereby ending the war. It was decided by the king after this incident that Crimea was a troublesome allie and he went about alienating them. Sending the Khan of Crimea insulting verses about the breeding habits of Crimeans.
In the year of 1507 Muscovy annexed Pskov, merging the two Russian courts into one. In that summer Muscovy again declared war upon the helpless GH, which were without the protection of the Persians. The cunning planning of the king of alienating the Crimeans worked perfectly. The Crimeans refused to honor the alliance and gave us reason to attack them. Unfortunatly, the plan backfired. The Crimeans were quick to make an alliance with the Ottomans, thereby making the kings pleasure shortlived.
A stalemate has since ensued. The Muscovians refuse to make peace with the GH on the assumption that the Crimeans will promptly move in and annex the country. This the king Vasily will not see done. Therefore the provinces of GH find themselves ceaselessly occupied by Muscovian forces with no end in sight.
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Brandenburg: That annoying little country
Brandenburg starts in 1492 as a 3 province minor, with similiar sized countries around it and several big countries slightly further away. Obviously it needed to kill the germans around it.
And so it was done, however the greedy and slighly obnoxious Polish King decided that Hinterpommern was obviously Polish and not German, despite the evidence provided by the latest census (result = German ) and so as the brave Brandenburgians fought and died against the hanseatic league and finally defeated the hansa's armies, the Poles sent in a leader to take my seiges, this was intolerable, especially after the long diplomatic talks the Polish King insisted on having, threatening, annoying, pleading and repeating things over and over again. For example, suggestions by the Poles that Brandenburg should cede Kustrin, Silesia and Hinterpommern for a Nap with poland were laughed at.
So the command was given and the leader was killed by the Brandenburger troops as war was declared against the poles, even though this effectively meant having to fight the Hansa again, however it was too late for Hinterpommern, as they surrendered themeselves to the Poles, seeing this Brandenburg signed a white peace with poland despite Polands assertions that "I will bloody kill you now for doing that".
And so the Hansa was subjugated again and forced to give all their provinces but the token lands around their capital to Brandenburg. But no rest was given before the next war was declared against Hessen, Saxony and Hannover, and they were individually crushed despite their huge tech advantage in the final stages of the war, the well commanded and numerically superior Brandenburgians won in all battles despite not having these devil-guns. With saxony, hessen and oldenburg all vassalised to the Prince in Berlin eyes once more turned to the remnants of the Hansa with exreme predjudice. The result of that war was never in doubt, 6 thousand peasants armed with stale bread against 50,000 troops of the Brandenburg army armed with pointy sticks, still my army suffered disproportionate casulties . At the same time the southern army attack the alliance of kleves and Koln, again the outcome did not seem to be in doubt as 30,000 troops of light and happiness matched against 10,000 kolnians, however the brandenburg army was fought back 4 times by a combination of poor map reading and the misuse of the word "nein" by some of the Engish mercenaries hired that resulted in several routs as the reports by the scouts as "nein divisions" greeted with the total retreat by most of the forces.
Eventually the army previously engaged against the hansa marched south and Koln was finally crushed with a 4:60 advantage . Kleves followed without much of a fight and all of northern germany was under the rules (direct of indirect) of Brandenburg
*applause*
And although the economy may have been neglected in favour of this victory the acquistion of new lands and the plunder they supply had a healthy effect on the economy which by this point was reduced to a barter system with coins used as cheap spoons. Yet we recovered and now look to the future and more specifically at all that land not yet conquered by Brandenburg.
In non-brandenburg related news
*boo*
Austria got big and scary, however that is good for brandenburg because we like Austria.
Poland managed to alienate both the ottomans and austria, this is also good for us
France got beaten by England, good for Brandenburg because English people are better than french
Spain said they have found a new continent, Brandenburg got some funds from them so this is a good thing (if it is in fact not a publicity stunt by the King of Spain)
Denmark got into finacial difficulties, good for brandenburg because we want Danish land
Sweden obvoiusly need protection so they allies with brandenburg, good because it makes us feel important
russia got bigger, this is a good thing because they dislike poland too
no-one else has any relevance to brandenburg and are therefore irrelevant.
Deflation plz
Brandenburg starts in 1492 as a 3 province minor, with similiar sized countries around it and several big countries slightly further away. Obviously it needed to kill the germans around it.
And so it was done, however the greedy and slighly obnoxious Polish King decided that Hinterpommern was obviously Polish and not German, despite the evidence provided by the latest census (result = German
) and so as the brave Brandenburgians fought and died against the hanseatic league and finally defeated the hansa's armies, the Poles sent in a leader to take my seiges, this was intolerable, especially after the long diplomatic talks the Polish King insisted on having, threatening, annoying, pleading and repeating things over and over again. For example, suggestions by the Poles that Brandenburg should cede Kustrin, Silesia and Hinterpommern for a Nap with poland were laughed at.So the command was given and the leader was killed by the Brandenburger troops as war was declared against the poles, even though this effectively meant having to fight the Hansa again, however it was too late for Hinterpommern, as they surrendered themeselves to the Poles, seeing this Brandenburg signed a white peace with poland despite Polands assertions that "I will bloody kill you now for doing that".
And so the Hansa was subjugated again and forced to give all their provinces but the token lands around their capital to Brandenburg. But no rest was given before the next war was declared against Hessen, Saxony and Hannover, and they were individually crushed despite their huge tech advantage in the final stages of the war, the well commanded and numerically superior Brandenburgians won in all battles despite not having these devil-guns. With saxony, hessen and oldenburg all vassalised to the Prince in Berlin eyes once more turned to the remnants of the Hansa with exreme predjudice. The result of that war was never in doubt, 6 thousand peasants armed with stale bread against 50,000 troops of the Brandenburg army armed with pointy sticks, still my army suffered disproportionate casulties
. At the same time the southern army attack the alliance of kleves and Koln, again the outcome did not seem to be in doubt as 30,000 troops of light and happiness matched against 10,000 kolnians, however the brandenburg army was fought back 4 times by a combination of poor map reading and the misuse of the word "nein" by some of the Engish mercenaries hired that resulted in several routs as the reports by the scouts as "nein divisions" greeted with the total retreat by most of the forces.Eventually the army previously engaged against the hansa marched south and Koln was finally crushed with a 4:60 advantage
. Kleves followed without much of a fight and all of northern germany was under the rules (direct of indirect) of Brandenburg*applause*
And although the economy may have been neglected in favour of this victory the acquistion of new lands and the plunder they supply had a healthy effect on the economy which by this point was reduced to a barter system with coins used as cheap spoons. Yet we recovered and now look to the future and more specifically at all that land not yet conquered by Brandenburg.
In non-brandenburg related news
*boo*
Austria got big and scary, however that is good for brandenburg because we like Austria.
Poland managed to alienate both the ottomans and austria, this is also good for us
France got beaten by England, good for Brandenburg because English people are better than french
Spain said they have found a new continent, Brandenburg got some funds from them so this is a good thing (if it is in fact not a publicity stunt by the King of Spain)
Denmark got into finacial difficulties, good for brandenburg because we want Danish land
Sweden obvoiusly need protection so they allies with brandenburg, good because it makes us feel important
russia got bigger, this is a good thing because they dislike poland too
no-one else has any relevance to brandenburg and are therefore irrelevant.
Deflation plz
Sweden
In 1492 we made a great step in the Swedish history; we rid us of Danish oppression. Then it was very important for the Swedish people to secure the Baltic provinces before Moscowy, Poland or the Danish could to this. So we declared war upon the Teutonic Order and began to siege Livland. Unfortunately the Grand duchy of Lithuania marched in the Teutonic Order and took over control of the siege of Livland and the Danish siege of Estland. So we ordered our army back to Stockholm. After Poland concluded a peace with the Teutonic Order we returned and started to siege Estland and Livland. Suddenly the evil Danish took over the control of the siege of Estland. So we had to act fast to prevent a Danish Livland and made a assault to conquer Livland. As a reaction of the Danish-Polish alliance we entered a alliance with Brandenburg.
Then there was a period of peace and we could use the time and money to build a fine arts academy. Although there is royal marriage between Denmark and Sweden we look with concern about the Danish policy of armament.