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Recently, Queen Anne raised an important question at the Parliament of Great Britain; what do we have to earn in meddling in Europe?

Nothing.

What do we get if we take our forces east?



An entire subcontinent worth of spices, cotton and tea.

Royal Navy will transport newly created India Army to fight against Ceylon, taking the rich island for ourselves.

Later, we might consider moving inland, or capture more rich lands in the Indochina.



We're poised to strike, and strike we will!



We annex Ceylon in its entirety, getting ourselves some Spices as well as extra Sugar.

Meanwhile, Explorer Squadron has been called to rejoin Royal Navy after almost a hundred years of autonomous function.



This in turn allows us to create British India Trade Company, based in Lancashire.

With this much of a boost into trade and competitiveness of our merchants, our economy will get a boost in turn.

Which will be very much useful as we had to take a loan during the war, oops.



Oh huh, Holy Roman Empire actually got a reform passed, especially under the Bohemians?

Impressive. Not of our concern, however, for Queen Anne is already planning an attack against Malacca, the rich centre of trade in Indochina.

First, however, we will need to create a separate Indian Fleet to ferry troops in the far east; having Royal Navy away from Europe during last fight against Ceylon made some people at the court worry about us being defenseless in case of an European war.



Preparations for the conquest of Malacca are suddenly marred by death of Crown Prince George - truly cursed name, this! - who had a hunting accident.

As there's no one to replace him as heir to the throne of Britain, the future of Howard dynasty is endangered.



Bah! How dare they rise against Good Queen Anne?

We will crush their little revolt!



We begin conquest of Aceh, or rather Malacca; maybe some nearby provinces as well, because the centre of trade is not as rich as we thought.

After cursory research amongst traders and seafarers, it seems that both Makassar and the Xin recently created two new CoTs, greatly cutting into Malaccan profits and influence... oh well!



And so, British India Company now owns 5 provinces, including a Centre of Trade.

Money and prestige await us!



What's this OwO?

Turns out the competition to Malacca is at the island of Brunei, just across the straits.

Hmmmm...



Rejoice! We have a heir to the throne of Great Britain, William Howard!

It's nephew of Queen Anne, from her sister's marriage, nonetheless, he is as Howard and he is of legitimate birth. Hurrah!



We couldn't help ourselves. After all - better us than other Europeans!

We will even let them keep their faiths intact, as long as they get us money! Tis we pledge!

As the time passes interrupted with our missionaries finishing their work (more often) or rebels showing up (less often), we get first colony that produces Tobacco.



Because Queen Anne cannot use her authority as Supreme Governor to have a consort, and thus a heir, she has to wait a bit.

Fortunately, we now have George; with average stats, but we will take him. Hopefully he breaks the curse of previous boys named George, who all died before becoming Kings of Britain.



Look at that lovely dark lavender Anglican shade! We're almost done with Europe, but we will probably leaving Antwerpen alone for some time due to high conversion costs.

We've also begun converting colonies, starting with Greenland.



We begin colonization of Bermuda, a lone island in middle of Atlantic Ocean. While not exactly a rich place, it is valuable strategically as a resupply port for navies.

Plans are also drawn to begin colonization of Cape in South Africa.



Bah! The other option is to add 3 more points to our already big inflation.



We ourselves however hire a better Master of the Mint after accumulating enough cultural tradition.

Minting has been further reduced, and whilst our yearly profits now linger about 90 ducats, we're finally, FINALLY, reducing inflation.



After several years of trying, we have a colony in the Cape at last.



Too late for this, Pope! If it was done earlier, I *might* have considered conversion, but now? With our Church firmly established, with few colonies remaining unconverted?

Good Queen Anne has people's support, and she will endure excommunication if need be.



An explorer from Middleton family has discovered a new continent, named 'Australia' by the British cartographers.

It's quite large, quite far, and quite barren; deserts dominate the landscape. Sir Middleton is wondering whether there will be any fertile grounds at all.



God bless Sir David Raleigh! His work brought us the stability we need, and boosts our inflation reduction to boot.



The reign of Good Queen Anne is bringing even more good events!

We will be spending this money on upgrading our military infrastructure, for we have a big empire and so little armed forces.



Crown Prince George is old enough to be eligible for introduction to the court!

This brings us prestige, legitimacy and even cultural tradition.



Good Queen Anne decides to address a very important issue of Great Britain - stability recovery. For that, it is now mandatory to attend church serives on Sunday.

With that implemented, Queen Anne also decides that we've explored enough of the World already (Sir Middleton has been sent to explore some more of Australia and Northeast Asia), and the Quest for it can be replaced with Press Gangs.

It will cut our naval expenses by half; that's right, cheaper shipbuilding AND cheaper maintenance.



Finally, as Anglicanism spreads and other religions lose ground in Britain, peace and stability returns truly to our glorious nation! Hurrah!

USMCID Commandos:

Derran: 87/100 Health (1/1 ammo) (4/15 armor)
Kyle Johnson: 98/100 Health (12/12 ammo)
Keith Robertson: 95/100 Health (9/12 ammo) (11/15 armor)
Alfred Saleworth: 72/100 Health (1/1 ammo) (9/15 armor)

Enemies:

Marine? A: -4/8HP
Marine? B: 0/8HP
Marine? C: -4/8HP
Marine? D: -4/8HP
Marine? E: -1/8HP
Marine? F: 0/8HP
Marine? G: -3/8HP
Marine? H: -5/8HP
Sergeant? A: 0/11HP
Sergeant? B: -2/11HP
Sergeant? C: 0/11HP
Demon? A: -5/12HP
Demon? B: -4/12HP

USMCID Commandos:

Derran: 87/100 Health (1/1 ammo) (4/15 armor)
Kyle Johnson: 98/100 Health (9/12 ammo)
Keith Robertson: 95/100 Health (9/12 ammo) (11/15 armor)
Alfred Saleworth: 72/100 Health (12/12 ammo) (9/15 armor)

Enemies:

Marine? A: -4/8HP
Marine? B: 0/8HP
Marine? C: -4/8HP
Marine? D: -4/8HP
Marine? E: -1/8HP
Marine? F: 0/8HP
Marine? G: -3/8HP
Marine? H: -5/8HP
Sergeant? A: 0/11HP
Sergeant? B: -2/11HP
Sergeant? C: 0/11HP
Demon? A: -5/12HP
Demon? B: -4/12HP

Octavius dies after just two or so years on the throne, leaving little Maximillian in the hands of his regents.

Thank god they're rather hypercompetent, otherwise our situation would've taken a turn to worse.



State economy is abhorrent mess at the moment; inflation, loan interest, missionary and military expenses.

We're minting like crazy, and even with no investments into technologies we're still near-top levels of infrastructure.



We have no other option here, unfortunately, but few weeks earlier our Stability finally got out the red!

What's even better is that the missionaries are slowly completing their work; most of Scotland, for example, follows Anglican doctrine.

And our economy has, because of that, healed; we're no longer in danger of bankruptcy, and are earning 10 ducats yearly.



May he live long and prosper, and see the end of the religious chaos in Britain!

Just in time, too, for just few weeks later Maximillian can exert his authority as Supreme Governor. Of course we take the free Stability increase.



After we have to fight corruption at expense of 1 Stability point, Anne, heiress to the throne of Britain, is born.



Aren't they persistent, huh?

We will kick their butts once more.



Raising army maintenance unfortunately drove us under the zero just near the end of the year.

Hopefully kicking Dutch ass will get us some prestige, money, hopefully both.



*deep breath*

Boi.



As Burgundians are currently the ones in control of Calais, that will be their problem to fix, ha ha ha.



We've dealt enough damage to cause Netherlands to renounce their claims to Antwerpen and give us money.

Now to deal with Burgundians, which will be much trickier; they have plenty of troops and allies on their side.



We decide to concede the war, giving Burgundy Picardy as well as losing some prestige to have them accept our terms.



An event bumped our stability up, and the stability slider also happened.

King Maximillian decided to part with the provinces in southwestern france, selling them away to help our economy regain stability. We're currently overminting simply to deal with the expenses.

PS: We sell them for a total of 340 ducats, just in time to repay a loan.



The situation in the country is on a somewhat good track... whilst colonies and continental possessions in Normandy remain non-Anglican, the Isles are mostly converted. King Maximillian is even considering if holding onto the Paris is worth it, for it could fetch a big price if sold away...

Then our Theologian had to raise an issue. We had him removed, and hired a new guy in his place. Instability continues, and the end of it is nowhere to be seen.

Well this is certainly new. For the first time ever, rebels has appeared outside British Isles or France.

Emperor Edward has called for creation of a colonial force along with transport fleet which will maintain order in our overseas territories.



As the Royal Navy is fetching soldiers to Gascogne to deal with Protestant rebels, Emperor Edward decides that it is time to stop being so pompous.

He is now a King, of the progressive administrative monarchy. More magistrates and faster policy changes are the main reasons, here.



Everyone shall remember Sir Talbot as the great explorer of West and the East, no doubt about that.

As people mourn his passing, King Edward decreed that the capital of Puerto Rico will therefore be renamed 'Talbot' in memory of the brave explorer.



Castille has managed to inherit the throne of Naples with ascension of King Juan; they now own half of Italy. Very troubling.

Shortly afterwards, a revolt occurs in Talbot, capital of Puerto Rico! We need to get the colonial force going, and soon.



Finally, after many, many years of debate, King Edward VI has found the third, golden option - Church of Great Britain!

With him as the Supreme Governor of this new state Church, we can offer the people of Britain a happy compromise between both Catholic orthodoxy as well as reforms of Protestant and Reformed faiths!

Although this will bring us instability for a while longer, we now have a goal, a unity in mind, which we can pursue without hesitation!

Unfortunately this causes our allies to renounce the treaties, and we can be sure that the Pope will find his way to intervene in an attempt to bring us back into the fold. But we will stand strong and united!



As Protestant zealotry in Scotland is dying off, our missionary efforts will begin there.

Please do not ask about revolt risk in the country at the moment, the double-digit values are scary enough for myself.



With British Ruler as Supreme Governor, we can use their influence to raise stability, push sliders toward Mercantilism, and even marry local noblewomen at will to get us a heir in quite reliable way.

The stability cost increase is more of a 'cooldown' than anything.



And the faith itself has some fairly powerful bonuses, outweighed by the high Stability costs per province and the fact that having a Church of our own will get us no friends and many enemies in Europe.

Strap yourselves bois, the hard part of the game has just begun.



ISN'T IT FUN!?

Royal Navy should be able to deal with them, and our Armies shouldn't be that bad either. Hopefully?



The attempted naval invasion of Britain by the Dutch has been repelled.



After Dutch Army landed in Norfolk and their Navy split into two, Royal British Navy ambushed both parts and defeated them, causing the panicked Dutch government to sue for peace.

King Edward VI is not suicidal enough to push any demands and hastily accepted.



And finally, someone outside England has embraced true faith. First step on the long, long road to religious unity.

We also decide to pass Test Act, and while it will make heretics hate us more, it will get has 0.5 missionary yearly. Considering the amount of provinces we have, we need those holy men.



Edward VI has to personally lead armies on rebel-whacking tour across British Isles.

By the God, there's SO MANY REBELS EVERY MONTH YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE. British Isles, Normandy, then Gascogne - SUDDENLY! Rebels in Scotland! Rebels in Puerto Rico! Even more rebels in Scotland!



Gah! We ran out of money when I wasn't looking!

Oh well, one loan shouldn't kill us, and might only help us in the long run.



Just as the rebellions were getting tidied up and new ones became infrequent, Edward VI, the reformer and first Supreme Governor, has died.

Hopefully the reign of his successor Octavius will see the end of the abhorrent religious instability plaguing Britain for the past decade or so.



I've forgot about the events. I totally forgot I've made events for Anglican faith and instability it brings.

The other option was -1 to Stability and spawning of MORE REBELS, so we will have to swallow the loss of prestige this time.

Maybe this was a mistake. Maybe we should've smooched the Papal posterior and live in relative peace and prosperity, but no, we've chosen the path of 'Having front seats during a Live Disaster Feed', that is our life now, guys!