1651-1659 King Filipe II, Part 3
We get Military tech 17 in September 51, and start
our attempt to close the technology gap
Great news! Tripoli joins our alliance in October 51
As does Orissa in September 52
France and GB go to war in October 52
It’s a North American war too, with the red bits
fighting for France and the Green bits fighting for Great Britain
With war between France and GB ongoing, an English
civil war has kicked off and been resolved, with GB becoming a Republican
dictatorship under Cromwell!
Morocco are back into the alliance fold in 54,
having been forced to break their alliance with me as part of their separate
peace deal with the Ottomans in our last update
Orissa becomes another protectorate the same year
In May 55 we declare war on Yemen and their ally,
Adal. This seems like a good idea at the time
We defeat their navies shortly after was is declared
Their armies don’t last long either...
By 57 we have settled down to lay siege to the region,
and we take admin tech 20
By February 58 Adal is entirely occupied
And we force them to become our vassal in a separate
peace deal
Yemen is occupied by June 59
And are forced into an onerous peace deal, giving up
all of their territory along the Indian Ocean coast, as well as the island of
Bahrain in the Persian Gulf
Our overextension is pretty manageable though,
despite taking 6 provinces in the peace deal
Later in June we start the process of integrating
our vassal, Inca, into our country. This will take 10 years and will end with
the formation of Portuguese Peru
We celebrate the end of the war with mil tech 18. To
put things into perspective, military tech 18 is ‘costed’ to be
available without early access penalties in the year 1635. We have taken it in
1659, putting us 24 years behind the most advanced nations in Europe. However,
at the start of the update we took military tech 17, in 1651, which was a whole
29 years behind the tech curve, so we have caught up 5 years on the tech curve
in the past decade! We are also about 20 years behind in Diplomatic tech, but
by contrast we are pretty much on the power curve for Admin tech
Our war-making has had a bad side-effect though, and
we are now the target of a powerful coalition
The colonies
6 colonies became self-sustaining in this decade:
In New Zealand, the provinces of Timaru and Aorangi
(South Island) and Taranaki (North Island) completed the colonisation of New
Zealand, which is now fully ours
In the Indies, the provinces of Sumbawa (East of
Java) and Tidore (East of Sulawesi) continued our expansion in this lucrative
trade area
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