Do I want this? Well, yes, and no. Yes, because Morocco is a direct neighbour of my colony of Rio De Oro, and the weaker Morocco is the better. No, because at some point I may have to bring Castile down to size, and I don't want them getting too strong in the meantime.
The day after War is declared we get the following happen. It would seem that most of the nobles are going to charge up and down waving pointy sticks, while the peasantry get on with actually fighting the war. Still, it gives me some nice bonuses.
The Earl of Avranches fights a hard-won battle, albeit something of a Pyrrhic victory...
The extent of our losses coupled with the need to defend the colony against revolting natives essentially limits us to a defensive role in the war, and the death of the Earl of Avranches doesn't help at all...
However, England finally sees the light and offers us a Royal Marriage, which handily completes our mission for us!
Having once again won a Pyrrhic victory in Rio de Oro, we take a new mission to build a colony in Brazil...
Before, finally, 2 years after the war started, in May 1458, we sign an independent peace treaty with Morocco, allowing Castile to prosecute the war alone...
Although the natives are still revolting, they eventually start to tire of their warring...
and we manage to save enough admin power to take another advance...
Le Roi est Mort! Vive le Roi!... or the Portuguese equivalent thereof! Having successfully won our first war, Infante Pedro de Avis (1444-1458) ceases to be and joins the choir invisible and a new ruler is crowned... Long live King Afonso V de Avis...
The biggest thing the war did was to drain my manpower, as the pictures below indicate... from a perfectly normal 17,000 to 152, severely limiting our military options for many years...
And that concludes the first real chapter of our AAR. From this point forward, updates will be either in decade chunks or following the life of a single ruler, whichever is more convenient... see you next time! :)
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