[U][SIZE=6]Chimu - the gutsy natives![/SIZE][SIZE=3]- Mopping up (continued...)[/SIZE][/U] After winning a ton of naval battles and occupying all of French North America and blockading all of their European ports, France [i]finally[/i] agree in Febuary 1751 to cede their South and Central American territory to us. This takes us well into Dishonourable Scum territory but I don't care... this war has dragged on long enough. We're only losing 0.5 infamy per year so we get building another embassy. We also drop Superior Seamanship for the Cabinet national idea - we'll just have to get Superior Seamanship back as our next national idea. [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/273.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/274.png[/IMG] Yeah, like we really needed this. Hey, at least they didn't use the Dishonourable Scum CB! Genoa also laughingly declare war on us. They're an OPM so won't pose a major threat. It's June 1752 now, and by this point, Genoa and Castille have peaced out, but we're being ripped to shreds by rebellions caused by events we get by being over our infamy limit. We're losing 2 infamy per year but will still take a few years to get below our limit again... [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/275.png[/IMG] Time flies and December 1755 arrives - we've been rearranging our pirate defence 1-ship galley 'fleets' to spread them out as sparsely as possible, and kind of forgetting about the revolt problems and the Dishonourable Scum thing... we've had the odd revolts but handled them OK and now... we're no longer Dishonourable Scum! We just have an extremely bad reputation. :) We need to capture the remaining South American territories by 1769 to be able to core on them before the end of the game, which would be nice. By my calculations, this will be quite tight, though, if we're to avoid becoming Dishonourable Scum once again. We [i]may[/i] briefly need to go over our infamy limit to get the territory captured in time. For the next 5-10 years or so, however, the plan is to sit back, let revolt risk simmer down, try and catch up in tech (we're still quite far behind even average European nations; need more Free Subjects slider I think), and wait for revolt risk to go down at about 2 per year. If we capture the remaining South American territory on the Imperialism CB, it will cost us 14 infamy. As for the pirate defences, they're arranged quite nicely now. Starting at the top-left province we have (Nicaragua) and going counter-clockwise, we have a series of 1-galley 'fleets' spaced out such that each coastal sea zone is patrolled constantly by at least one fleet (all fleets are docked in a port), and as you go round counter-clockwise the fleet number increases. We have PD01 (Pirate Defence), PD02, PD03, etc. We will create more as and when needed. [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/276.png[/IMG] June 1756 gives us a slider change. We go toward Free Subjects, meaning lower tech cost, and some inflation loss too. Both very useful. [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/277.png[/IMG] We're starting to get independence events like this by March 1757: [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/278.png[/IMG] Rest assured, these scallywags will never break the unity of the hard-fought Chimu empire! In April 1759, our latest round of province cores comes along and we've got a good percentage of core provinces now. We should be able to lower minting even more, losing inflation and speeding up tech progress. [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/279.png[/IMG] In October 1761, we get land tech 36 and upgrade our cavalry to Latin Dragoons, which sound cool. Our soldiers seem to look a bit tougher, too. Legionnaires with guns? [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/280.png[/IMG] September 1762 - Our infamy is low enough now, so we decide to take out the provinces of the slightly harder of the two remaining nations on our continent - Great Britain. Genoa is an OPM so we just need to take their 1 province! Britain's capital is still London even though they've lost most of the British Isles to England, Scotland, Holland, France, Leinster, and Munster. We park our transports next to London, ready to take it just after we declare on them. Then we declare on an Imperialism CB and proceed to take their territory. [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/281.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/282.png[/IMG] Yeah, I don't think that warning is particularly applicible, given our plans... We blitzkrieg London and Britain's South American territories in a few months, and get an easy peace settlement by December 1702. We now have their South American land, and a couple of new buddies - Canada and Louisiana! [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/283.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/284.png[/IMG] First time in a while I can remember us having a few nations actually like us. Admittedly it's only because we gave them their freedom, except in the case of Mutapa - they're actually Animist and still alive somehow! Iroquois and Huron, Shamanist, just declared independence but will probably get swallowed up again by France. The one nation standing in the way between us and ownership of South America in June 1763 is Genoa, and annexing them is a formality. Taking them out will also be removing the last vestige of the Holy Roman Empire from South America, a welcome eradication: [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/285.png[/IMG] Genoa are occupied and annexed quickly, but Sardinia-Piedmont have taken leadership in the war, so we need to get them to peace out. We call our allies to arms. [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/286.png[/IMG] Navarra lands on Corsica (one of Sardinia-Piedmont's allies) and starts seiging it. We land on Sardinia-Piedmont's European home turf, and crush 'em, including occupying their capital. A peace deal is quickly agreed to: [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/287.png[/IMG] ... and with that, all of South America belongs to Chimu by January 1764, and we're in a state of peace! We'll core on all the territories we currently have before the game ends! [IMG]http://game-point.net/misc/eu3/chimu/take2/288.png[/IMG] I'm quite happy with the extent of our territory now. We have a very bad reputation, but that will simmer down to a spotless one quite quickly. The rest of the game will be geared towards improving our lot with what we have, trying to become an efficient, peaceful, and technologically advanced nation, full of manufactories, and one that promotes the virtues of Animism! As to how well we manage to do that, stay tuned for the next instalment!