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I'll start this off with a general AAR about the entire game, later I'll make a country specific one 
At the start of our game, the world looked like this:
Players:
Matija - Austria
Joohoo - France
Yeka - England
LuisPivo - Portugal
Von Loch Ness - Sweden
Labalag - Ottoman Empire
Trash - Castile
Ozzeh - Muscowy
All sorts of colors readying to become big blobs by swallowing other colors
Since joohoo would be late, LuisPivo subbed France for the first 90 minutes, and let his portugal be run by the (in this case suprisingly competent) AI.
Castile and Portugal were pretty quiet the entire session, a few small wars against nearby minors but except for that mainly building up their economy. Getting ready for some serious colonizing I bet Castile was waiting for 1476 of course, to turn into Spain and inherit Aragon.
England started by consolidating it's grip on scotland and eire, vassalazing the Ireland minors and Scotland at around 50% of the game. France just wanted to gain territory and unite its country. Burgundy grew and grew too, but was eventually attacked by both England and France. France DoWed England, and gained Gascogne in exchange for the Dutch Provinces.
France ended the session with LOADS of BB, as you can imagine
Austria and OE seemed to be bent upon carving up Venice ASAP The poor venetians lost province after provice to the evil warmongers. Aus and OE also gradually expanded by slorping up some provinces of the numerous minors nearby.
Then, Austria realised something: The Pope (whom the italians started calling "Darth Ratzinger") was possesed by the devil:
Of course, the Emperor could not let this heresy go unpunished! So, he just started to randomly conquer italian provinces.
Other nations are still looking for proof that the Austrian emperor is actually an evil warmonger, who is just looking to expand his white blob even further.
Perhaps a gangbang is in order?
Sweden and Muscowy in the north eyed eachother suspiciously, but decided to leave eachother alone Sweden went for the teutonic order and the CoT in Kurland, conquering some provinces around the Baltic Sea. They lost one after an AI gangbang, but overall the profit has been good for Sweden.
Muscowy conquered novgorod and some of the minors around it, and one province from the mongols.
At the end of the game, the world looked like this:
Take special notice of all the white in Italy
After you've done that, again take special notice of all the white in italy
All in all it was a fun first session. Although we didn't play that many years, lots of stuff happened and everyone warmongered happily (except of course for the good boys Castile and Porto).
Austria got too many good random events though. I mean, 2 gifts to the state in 16 years? You have got to be kidding me.
At the start of our game, the world looked like this:
Players:
Matija - Austria
Joohoo - France
Yeka - England
LuisPivo - Portugal
Von Loch Ness - Sweden
Labalag - Ottoman Empire
Trash - Castile
Ozzeh - Muscowy
All sorts of colors readying to become big blobs by swallowing other colors
Since joohoo would be late, LuisPivo subbed France for the first 90 minutes, and let his portugal be run by the (in this case suprisingly competent) AI.
Castile and Portugal were pretty quiet the entire session, a few small wars against nearby minors but except for that mainly building up their economy. Getting ready for some serious colonizing I bet
Castile was waiting for 1476 of course, to turn into Spain and inherit Aragon.England started by consolidating it's grip on scotland and eire, vassalazing the Ireland minors and Scotland at around 50% of the game. France just wanted to gain territory and unite its country. Burgundy grew and grew too, but was eventually attacked by both England and France. France DoWed England, and gained Gascogne in exchange for the Dutch Provinces.
France ended the session with LOADS of BB, as you can imagine
Austria and OE seemed to be bent upon carving up Venice ASAP
The poor venetians lost province after provice to the evil warmongers. Aus and OE also gradually expanded by slorping up some provinces of the numerous minors nearby. Then, Austria realised something: The Pope (whom the italians started calling "Darth Ratzinger") was possesed by the devil:
Of course, the Emperor could not let this heresy go unpunished! So, he just started to randomly conquer italian provinces.
Other nations are still looking for proof that the Austrian emperor is actually an evil warmonger, who is just looking to expand his white blob even further.
Perhaps a gangbang is in order?
Sweden and Muscowy in the north eyed eachother suspiciously, but decided to leave eachother alone
Sweden went for the teutonic order and the CoT in Kurland, conquering some provinces around the Baltic Sea. They lost one after an AI gangbang, but overall the profit has been good for Sweden. Muscowy conquered novgorod and some of the minors around it, and one province from the mongols.
At the end of the game, the world looked like this:
Take special notice of all the white in Italy
After you've done that, again take special notice of all the white in italy
All in all it was a fun first session. Although we didn't play that many years, lots of stuff happened and everyone warmongered happily (except of course for the good boys Castile and Porto).
Austria got too many good random events though. I mean, 2 gifts to the state in 16 years? You have got to be kidding me.
Muscowy: early steps in the path to an empire
The Muscowian grand duke Vasily II sat on his throne, pretending to listen to his advisors. His thoughts wandered off, pondering about the situation of his nation. Muscowy was a vassal of the Golden Horde, and with it's five provinces not something you would call a major power. Vasily looked at the pathetic bunch of nobles trying to get his attention, and decided it could go on like this no longer. Muscowy would become a great nation, and the sole power in eastern europe!
Vasily stood and the advisors and nobles quieted. He spoke: "I have decided Muscowy should become the greatest nation in Eastern Europe. Here's how:
- First, we shall cancel our vassallige with the Golden Horde ASAP.
- Then we shall promote tax collectors throughout our entire realm
- We shall research infrastructure only, to increase production efficiency and income
- Intelligence on the other aspiring European kingdoms should be gathered, but we shall not became mingled in their affairs. Our business lies in the East.
- Sweden is the only possible threat nearby and should be treated with utmost caution.
- Domestic Policies should promote land warfare, increased PE and decreased research costs.
Those projects under way, our army is too large and costs too much to maintain. However, disbanding them would deny our fellow Muscowians the glory they deserve, so instead we shall just let them die from winter attrition is some kind of war to gain more territory.
Our wealthy neighbour of Novgorod should be our first target, they have much provinces that belong to the Muscowian Empire!"
Vasily's advisors were shockened by all these orders, but carried them out nonetheless for fear of having their testicles fed to Vasily's pigs.
War was swiftly declared upon Novgorod and their provinces were sieged. The tiny nation of Pskov dared to dishonor our military alliance, but we will deal with them later.
Novgorod's provinces were captured and a 80% warscore was achieved (since capture of Karelia and Kola was impossible due to the magical barrier preventing our troops from moving there), giving Muscowy all of Novgorod's provinces and a crapload of money. Only the capital remained of the once great white blob.
After this, Sweden declared war upon us! We decided to cave in to their demands and surrender Ingermanland, as a full scale war with Sweden was undesirable at this point.
In the meantime, pskov had captured and annexed Tver! This was most fortunate indeed, as a war could now add Tver to our kingdom without upsetting the rest of the world too much (no BB).
What was said was done, and Tver belonged to Muscowy now. Pskov became a vassal and entered our alliance once more, beside the nation of Smolensk who just liked us very much.
A new monarch arrived, Ivan III. He decided to pursue an even more agressive strategy than his predecessor, and attacked Novgorod once more. It was annexed quickly, and reforms in our economic structure were made! The trade center of Novgorod was burned and a new one opened in our glorious nation's capital of Moscow.
More money was needed, so we attacked Ryazan and slurped up their money. They were then annexed in a next attack.
With all other nations either annexed or vassalized, time had come to eye for other conquests. The mongols who had opressed us for all these years will pay! In a war with Kazan we took Tambow and some more money (using Golden Horde's troops who were also at war with them).
The time has come for Ivan to look carefully at the situation of his grown Empire now.
We now have 14 provinces instead of 5.
Our infrastructure research is 4/5 completed.
Stability is high.
We have over 800 ducats in the treasury (which were all stolen )
We are at peace.
All in all, Ivan was satisfied with the results of 16 years of conquest.
The Muscowian grand duke Vasily II sat on his throne, pretending to listen to his advisors. His thoughts wandered off, pondering about the situation of his nation. Muscowy was a vassal of the Golden Horde, and with it's five provinces not something you would call a major power. Vasily looked at the pathetic bunch of nobles trying to get his attention, and decided it could go on like this no longer. Muscowy would become a great nation, and the sole power in eastern europe!
Vasily stood and the advisors and nobles quieted. He spoke: "I have decided Muscowy should become the greatest nation in Eastern Europe. Here's how:
- First, we shall cancel our vassallige with the Golden Horde ASAP.
- Then we shall promote tax collectors throughout our entire realm
- We shall research infrastructure only, to increase production efficiency and income
- Intelligence on the other aspiring European kingdoms should be gathered, but we shall not became mingled in their affairs. Our business lies in the East.
- Sweden is the only possible threat nearby and should be treated with utmost caution.
- Domestic Policies should promote land warfare, increased PE and decreased research costs.
Those projects under way, our army is too large and costs too much to maintain. However, disbanding them would deny our fellow Muscowians the glory they deserve, so instead we shall just let them die from winter attrition is some kind of war to gain more territory.
Our wealthy neighbour of Novgorod should be our first target, they have much provinces that belong to the Muscowian Empire!"
Vasily's advisors were shockened by all these orders, but carried them out nonetheless for fear of having their testicles fed to Vasily's pigs.
War was swiftly declared upon Novgorod and their provinces were sieged. The tiny nation of Pskov dared to dishonor our military alliance, but we will deal with them later.
Novgorod's provinces were captured and a 80% warscore was achieved (since capture of Karelia and Kola was impossible due to the magical barrier preventing our troops from moving there), giving Muscowy all of Novgorod's provinces and a crapload of money. Only the capital remained of the once great white blob.
After this, Sweden declared war upon us! We decided to cave in to their demands and surrender Ingermanland, as a full scale war with Sweden was undesirable at this point.
In the meantime, pskov had captured and annexed Tver! This was most fortunate indeed, as a war could now add Tver to our kingdom without upsetting the rest of the world too much (no BB).
What was said was done, and Tver belonged to Muscowy now. Pskov became a vassal and entered our alliance once more, beside the nation of Smolensk who just liked us very much.
A new monarch arrived, Ivan III. He decided to pursue an even more agressive strategy than his predecessor, and attacked Novgorod once more. It was annexed quickly, and reforms in our economic structure were made! The trade center of Novgorod was burned and a new one opened in our glorious nation's capital of Moscow.
More money was needed, so we attacked Ryazan and slurped up their money. They were then annexed in a next attack.
With all other nations either annexed or vassalized, time had come to eye for other conquests. The mongols who had opressed us for all these years will pay! In a war with Kazan we took Tambow and some more money (using Golden Horde's troops who were also at war with them
).The time has come for Ivan to look carefully at the situation of his grown Empire now.
We now have 14 provinces instead of 5.
Our infrastructure research is 4/5 completed.
Stability is high.
We have over 800 ducats in the treasury (which were all stolen
)We are at peace.
All in all, Ivan was satisfied with the results of 16 years of conquest.
AUSTRIAN EMPIRE: GLADIUS DEI
Europe was in flames, fighting and slaughter everywhere, numerous nations emerging and falling shortly after, it was the year when the once mighty eastern Roman Empire had fallen to the Turkish hordes. In such vile darkness a light was born in Vienna, Most Serene and Puissant Prince and Lord Matija the first elected Roman Emperor, always August, King of Germany ,Bohemia, Dalmatia, and Arch-Duke of Austria, came to the throne of Austria..
In the first years of his rule, the emperor ordered to raise the economical potential of the Austrian empire, tax collectors had been sent to all parts of the empire and after consulting the financial advisors Emperor decided to invest the most of the income into the infrastructure.
As for foreign affairs the Austrian empire wanted to make the friendship between the great countries of Bavaria, Hungary, Bohemia and Austria official and so the great Central Alliance™ was formed with the emperor of Austria on the helm.
Members of Central Alliance™ expressed their allegiance to Catholic Church, Pope and God.
One of the first out of many military conquests of the Emperor and the Central Alliance™ was war for the rightful rule of the Istria and Dalmatia.
Venice was quickly defeated and the provinces of Istria and Dalmatia came under the rule of Austria.
During that time vicious Serbian and Walachian kingdoms dared to declare war on our loyal Hungary, they were dealt with quickly and the territories of the vicious so called kingdoms were incorporated into the Hungarian kingdom.
Few years after the successful defence of Hungary went on peacefully , tax collectors have been sent to the new territories under Austrian control and trade was flourishing, also the God himself has done a miracle probably to show how pleased how he is with the Catholic Austria he as he conjured a large sum of gold (+225 ducats). *Praised be the Lord*
While the emperor was arranging his relationship with German minors in Rome the, the unholy beast(*Devil, 666 , levitation, telekinetics you know the usual stuff*
) has possessed the Pope but it wasn’t easy as the Pope was strong in faith and managed to send a message asking for help from the Emperor.The Austrian empire and the Central Alliance™ quickly raised their army’s after the arrival of the message and went to help the Pope in distress, unfortunately the various Italian minors were also obviously under the influence of the Devil so the great Catholic army’s of the alliance had to declare war on them .Armies of the alliance must have been under divine protection of the lord as they swept trough Italy and defeated every army that standed in their way. Finally they arrived to Rome , the holy presence of the Austrian army and its Emperor alone made the Devil to run away so the Pope came back under the wing of God.
Once released from the evil influence , Pope gave away the control of the provinces that were under control of Papal states to the Austrian Empire and the Emperor promised that the Austrian empire shall always defend the Pope and Catholic faith.
When the great Catholic army and the emperor came back to Vienna, another miracle happened a large sum of money (+225 ducats) materialised out of nowhere and the emperor knew the lord was pleased with his endeavours in Italy
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