Languish Universalis - AAR thread

[Alcibiades]

The next few decades proved very important for the Russians.  Resources were pooled, and the Lithuania and Novgorod crumbled.  Much land was added to the Russian Empire, yes Empire now, with much help from the Turks.  Ryazan was brought into the fold diplomatically, upon which we received the mission to Subjugate Novgorod.  We embarked upon this mission, but or worthless ally, the Ukranians, dragged half of the world into this war with us.  Slowly we are being pushed back in the West by Hungarians, Germans, and Poles.  But we have space to give....just a matter of time until we mount out counteroffensive.

Signed,

[Tamas]

A dull session for France, altough not without significant gains. Inflation is being fought very effectively, not only by a very talented master of mint, but by the national bank which has been founded. Still this effort keeps the treasury quite low compared to what it could be.

Brittany accepted to be ruled more directly from Paris which saw a valuable coastline added to the realm, and a police action to keep greedy Milan out of French sphere of influence saw Provence annexed and a province of Aragon's taken.

Honoring alliance with Castille turned out to be costly because of a forgotten force-vassalization of Avignon plumetted French stability when we had to declare war on the bastards.

However, France is still happy to call Spain an ally, to show this they even helped in their North African crusade, agreeing to the burden of keeping two African provinces at peace.

[Solmyr]

The world in 1504

[katmai]

Milan's last 30 years have been productive to say the least.

First it was decided to officially add the western part of Sicily to the Kingdom and with the assistance of Castile who agreed to take Malta in exchange we did just that.
It was then in 1478 with the understanding of our allies that we marched on Rome and ended the Papal control on the Italian peninsula.
The next step for Milan was to embrace the thinking of our friends in Toledo and London had and started looking West young man, in doing so we sent our first explorers to discover the continent of Africa and then Colonists to Rio Oro south of Morocco.

In doing so we angered the Moroccan government who then had the audacity to Declare war on us. After initial losses of our colonies that were lightly defended we sent just over 20k men to show Morocco how much of an error on their part it was to tussle with Milan.
In the end we took back our two colonies, and three provinces that had belonged to Morocco.

We ended the session just after the turn of the century having spent last 10 years or so sending out Milanese explorers as far West as the Americas (where we kept running into Spanish settlements) around Tierra Del Fuego in South America and as far east  down past Cape Horn and all the way to  the Indian subcontinent. (where we ran into Ottomans)

[Slargos]

You can't kill the Ottomans
The Ottomans will live on

The Venetians tried to kill the Ottomans
But they failed as they were smited to the ground

The Mamelukes tried to kill the Ottomans
But they failed as they were stricken down to the ground

The Nogai tried to kill the metal

Hahahahaha

they failed as they were thrown to the ground

Aiiaaaaaiiieeeyeah Aiiaaaaaiieeeyeah

Ledioedieeeelediodieeeeee

No one can destroy the Ottomans
The Ottomans will strike you down with a vicious blow
We are the vanquished foes of the Ottomans
We tried to win for why we do not know

Baluchistan tried to destroy the Ottomans
But the Ottoman Empire had its way
Persia then tried to dethrone the Ottomans
But the Ottomans were in the way
Candar tried to destroy the Ottomans
But the Ottomans were in the way
Qara Koyunlu tried to destroy the Ottomans
But the Empire was much too strong
Serbia tried to defile the Ottomans
But Serbia was proven wrong
Yeah!

Ottoman Empire!
It comes from hell....


 

[Habbaku]

The Nogai tried to kill the metal

You missed an edit in your paraphrasing of the song. 

[sbr]

The Nogai tried to kill the metal

You missed an edit in your paraphrasing of the song. 

I couldn't get the tune in my head quite right until I saw this, thanks.

FWIW, I am reading and enjoying this quite a bit, not that any of you give a shit.

[katmai]

I care!

Even if you are a dirty Duck lover.

[Slargos]

The Nogai tried to kill the metal

You missed an edit in your paraphrasing of the song. 

No I didn't. I knew I would have to leave one in there for the imbecilles.



*cough*



*crickets*

[katmai]

The Nogai tried to kill the metal

You missed an edit in your paraphrasing of the song. 

No I didn't. I knew I would have to leave one in there for the imbecilles.



*cough*



*crickets*

I still don't get it

[Tamas]

France has been in an interesting situation. If you consult the statistics posted in the other thread you will see data which indicates the masters of europe (the french) fell behind in relative power, which must be true to some extent, but it did not feel that way.

Slowly reducing the attricious inflation level took much spending and had to be put on hold for a while when engaged in the very expensive measure of turning Bermuda (which we bought from Castille) into a city. It has had the national focus, altough there are some advisors who suggest now that focus should switch to north africa in order to form a new center of trade there...

And that would be possible due to the most successful crusade in history ever since the liberation of Jerusalem. Tunis is now a vassal of France, while almost all of Algiers is now not only under French rule, but has been converted to Christianity, apart from a couple of provinces.

The continued integration of the French vassals (only one, plus the issue of one-province Burgundy remains) took a hit on centralization efforts, which in turn made some foolish nobles repeatedly think they could follow their own twisted ambitions. As a result, stability has been an issue, but an issue ketp under control. With stability fluctuating, churches and workshops built in the entire realm, the King felt it appropriate to keep the military on an artifically low  level, somewhat less than 90 thousand troops instead of the app. 120 thousands the enlarged kingdom could easily maintain.

[Solmyr]

El map

[Solmyr]

So if we aren't going to continue that other game, how about some summary from everyone on their strategy? Would be an interesting analysis IMO.

[katmai]

Strategy?

Lie, cheat, steal and do everything to make Italy a colonial power.

[Alcibiades]

He stole Russia's lunch money