There will always be a Hedjaz - A succession AAR

[Andre Massena]

Chapter 13:

And the reign of Sultan Djafar Hawashim ends. It was a prosperous and relatively peaceful time compared to most eras in Hedjazi history.

Djafar's main accomplishments were conquering most of Oman and vassalizing them, taking a large bite out of Persia and connecting Hormuz with mainland Hedjaz, conquering Sicily and its COT, vassalizing the Pope (I couldn't conquer because they had one more province and I had no idea where it was), and colonizing Australia and New Zealand.

Djafar's dying wish is for his successor to continue colonzing New Zealand and rid the seas of the pirates that are terrorizing the Pacific colonies.

Here is the save

 

[Andre Massena]

Chapter 14:

I ruled for ten years before my king died, but during that time I managed to expand eastwards as well as begin to dominate our centres of trade. We now have twice the income of second placed Bavaria so if we wished we could increase our army size considerably and really start conquering. The nations to the east are just too easy to expand into.

I released the Timurids from their oppressive Khorasani overlords as well as Durrani from Persia, who is now only left with one province. However, the powerful Vijayanagar still remains a menace and it might be wise to take control of the trade routes controlled by the Vijayanagar princes and take that money for ourselves.

I spent a lot of money developing level 5 and 6 buildings so that will be why we don't have very much and also I changed away from colonization, I feel that there is plenty of land to conquer near to us...

My dying wish is that in the spirit of the abolition of slavery that I passed, that you continue and institute the cultural decision, liberte, egalite, fraternite. Man was born equal and so Hedjazi men will remain.

 

[Andre Massena]

Chapter 15:

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I am winning the race! I am winning!

I have a save now where Hedjazi is an administrative republic. I even manage to have the cash ready to instantiate the policies of the revolution, as my father wanted. (dying wish. )
The last member of the kingdom stepped down for a more qualified member of the civil service, so we have a good leader but the country is still in the midst of revolution. So whoever goes next, sorry about the low stability. You'll note however that I've directed the budget towards establishing order and have the military on high alert for any revolts that would attempt to return us to the dark ages. Lastly, I got an event that gave us 0.5 inflation, so I lowered our minting until that is gone. Don't forget about it because without minting, we make a loss every year.

I'll try to get an auld AAR up soon. Plus the other one I owe. ¬_¬

Here is the save: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bgobxuiw0lomcx0/Hg-bU12ly2
Good luck! XD

Oh and, while not a dying wish, my monarch stood down so Hedjazi could flourish. He asks simply that you maintain the country's prosperity, order and freedom!

 

[Andre Massena]

Chapters 16-17:

Here it is. There's a war going on, but not with anyone of consequence. My dying request, for lack of a more accurate term, is to get the Ottomans to release the one nation you can get out of them. More details tomorrow.
https://www.mediafire.com/?dbx3ecda3cb54bo

We have tons of money, pretty much every nearby small nation is a vassal, and there's a distinct lack of things to do even though our infamy was at 0 when my turn began. I haven't had time to check out how we got to this point, but it looks like extremely smooth sailing from here out.

Oh, and the war we're in was originally to acquire Persia, but now that we have it, I hope we'll keep fighting until we get another potential vassal out of the Ottomans. Our enemies are a handful of weak nations like Khorasan, so it's nothing we can't handle.

Our treasury has alot of cash and our land and government technology is the best although i made our infamy pretty high.

Here is the save http://www.mediafire.com/download/7d2tcbphvsr0yhp/Hedjaz1791_01_13.eu3

My dying request is destroy india.

 

[Dauth]

Unable to DoW due to truce lasting longer than my turn, with death brought election 1 year in meaning I only had 4 years in office. I spent the time taking care of some minor changes to the Empire to ensure future viability. I took the NI Divine Supremacy to get missionaries and set them converting both Sicily and our Indian holdings. I fortified all completed colonies and started work on marketplaces to increase the value of our trade goods such as spices etc. For the military I brought armies into India in preparation for the next war and built a new 25 threedecker navy and removed junkers to keep us close to force limits. In the economy I expanded our merchants abroad and took places in both China and South America. I sought alliances with our neglected Russian and West African vassals which will bring manpower, if not useful armies, to battles. Infamy was reduced to ~5 and this enabled better trade abroad. Inflation increased at the expense of an event and not wanting to lose 2 stab but has been coming down slightly, with a cash injection from another event helping. Tech spending was redirected to Trade as Gov and Land have no bonuses in the immediate future and extra efficiency will offset our Merc nature in some markers, especially with non-westernised nations who are ~30 techs behind.

Dying wish is to see India fractured as to never pose a threat to our nation (as I was unable to complete this mission), this includes both Vijay and Bihar, which might necessitate the destruction of Ming, to which I am ambivalent. And to establish trade in the top 5 most valuable CoTs be they at home or abroad.

Save game is here http://www.mediafire.com/view/zu1g8wvuuu3bjwg/Hedjaz1796_12_22.eu3

 

[Andre Massena]

Chapters 19-20:

my ruler decided to focus on the North. Besides normal horde wars, the ruler declared war on Ryazan resulting in vassalisation and the biggest action made by the ruler: war with Ukraine, resulting in 5 provinces to Hedjazi Republic. Also the ruler decided to annex Georgia. At the end of his second term , War was declared against Kazan Bringing some other countries to the war. However before the war ended , the second term ended and a new bureaucrat took over the Republic

(the year should is 1804)

So i finished my two terms.My idea was to fight the steppe nomads and gain more territory.I fought the nomads and gained the provinces of Bolghar and Kazan.An
war was fought against Muscovy where i gained some province which was originally Ukrainian.It started with M but i cant remember the name right now.A border
friction war was fought against Durrani where one province was gained.Bavaria declared war on me after i declared war on Muscovy.Trebizond was annexed but
the war against Bavaria was lost.Well sort of as the only loss was 25 ducats and Crete is no more an vassal.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/b82fp9su167u77h/Hedjaz1812_12_19.eu3

 

[Andre Massena]

Chapter 21:

January 1st 1821 - The End Of A Journey
A 4 centuries long one at that!

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Well, I started by taking a look at the general situation. Quick glance at the different map modes, check the ledger, the national ideas, sliders etc... And well, the verdict? We are incredibly strong, and could possibly take on pretty much anyone.


Hedjaz at the end of the game

First enemy was Vijayanagar, as we had 3 large armies massed on their borders, they were defeated pretty easily and soon enough we controlled a large enough portion of their lands to claim the whole western Indian coast.

What I didn't notice was that this put us above the infamy limit, but when I did notice that all I thought was "Whatever". It was too late for that to harm us anyway. I wanted to do some conquering and certainly had the means to do it!

Now, a list of all the other (not so) important things I've done, kind-of in chronological order:

-Build lots of universities and fine art academies, I know it's too late for them to be worth it but I had money lying around being useless so...
-Increase army size. While we had a very large army, many parts of our realm were undefended and our armies had to constantly march from end to end. Rather than split them up I just built new armies to cover areas where there was no one. I think I conscripted a total of around 60-70,000 troops.
-Invest all into Stability(no tech gives any real bonus anymore anyway) and change the last National Idea from Divine Supremacy to Revolution and Counter-Revolution for the free casus-belli, especially against UPCA, but also because it's the coolest NI out there.
-Take the last step towards full centralization.
-(Try to)Convert the heretics of the north to the one and only True Faith.
-Fight lots of defensive wars("Dishonorable scum") during which we made some important gains. (Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod as vassals, 1 or 2 provinces in Russia, full annexation of Baluchistan and some OPM north of them. Plus lots of little money and prestige gains from lesser opponents)
-Fail to fulfill last ruler's dying wish. I did try, by getting our fleet all the way around Afrika to Egypt, then sending 30 regiments to UPCA which we declared war on by using "Revolutionary War" Casus Belli, however they had lots of European allies that joined in and my assaults against their forts failed so... Sorry.
-Declare war on the Ottomans and kick them out of Anatolia + make them revoke a few cores for added humiliation. I hate those guys, always good to see them suffer.
-Think of breaking the truce with Bavaria to take revenge on our last defeat against them, but decide against it...
-Face and fail to counter revolts in some parts of the colonial empire.

...And that was pretty much it. Was really fun while it lasted, that's truly one huge empire we built together, over the months. We should totally do this again some other time.