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As soon as the truce expires, England attacks French; the de Valois family lost all of its southern possessions to Provence and Aragon, and only Paris remains.

Paris, a city that is rightful soil of the Lancaster family!



Even Provencal mercenaries and Aragonese fleet cannot do much; leader of the enemy alliance, Aragon, finally decides to ask for white peace, and we graciously accept their offer.



Events give us perpetual problems with stability, but fortunately a master artist has arrived at our court.

We have purchased Sir Middleton's services without delay.



It came a time to integrate Scotland and end the autonomy of Scottish people. Sure, they will be angry about this, but give them few decades and they will understand that this is for their own good.



Ah! The ever-victorious Henry V has passed away.

Long Live Empress Mary! Her heiress, Princess Anne, is almost a mirror-image of Mary; both suck at diplomacy, both have very high Administrative and Military skills.



After several years of peace, Empress Mary has to make her first policy decision - and she decides to favour the naval power of England.

Does she has plans for the future? Perhaps!



That is third revolt this year, and its not even Scots - its the Irish?

And last year, people of Antwerpen rose against Good Empress Mary. Such lack of respect to English crown is worrying.



The amount of money and prestige we accumulated allow us to finally push Castille away and become the new defender of Catholic Faith.

God be with England and the Empress!

Ah, the fair England!

While the recently crowned Henry IV is not that great, his upcoming successor is. As you can see, we've got 2 superb advisors at start, and ol' Geoffrey is useful on his own.

You might notice that we begin by creating numerous regiments. Why, would you ask?



We have cores on Normandy, Caus, Ile-de-France, Armagnac and something else in the south; meanwhile, France has claims for our possessions north of Pyrhenees (Gascogne, Labourd) and Calais.

Heck, even the Burgundians have a core on Calais. Very soon, a very bloody mess will begin.



Our personal mission at the moment is vassalization of Scotland. The thing is, they're guaranteed by France.

We really should crank up the amount of regiments, guys.



Burgundy accepted our marriage proposal; a week earlier, France has gone to war against Provence-Naples to reclaim its cores near Brittany. Standard procedure for them, really.

We will try to court Burgundy and have them as allies before the inevitable war with France.



France is distracted in a war with Naples and Provence still, it is our chance to strike. Burgundians unfortunately decided against allying us, but I think we have a chance against the French with just Portugal attending.



Accursed Scotland joined the war, but at Alencon, then Caux, we defeat and destroy the main French army, led by Charles de Valois himself (he got away).

Next few weeks we rampage in northern France, dealing with French vassal armies.



We deal with the Scots at Cumbria, and then they're destroyed at their own capital. A larger stack however looms in northern England.



France and her vassals have their stacks mostly broken and Paris has been captured. It will serve as a distraction while Henry IV sails back home to assist General Robert Knolles in defeating the Scots.

Ideal situation would be where we destroy Scottish army in detail, capture the provinces and force them to accept our seniority. We will see how the battles fare.



Thar we go! Scots have been punted in the face and lost all their units. Henry IV is besieging the provinces while Sir Robert will land in France again.

Duc de Alencon and Charles de Valois have begun siege of Paris, after all.



While Henry is away, fighting enemies of England, his court is running the administration. For example, we just expanded the bureaucracy.

Few weeks later, they help introduce young Henry to the noblemen.



Gah! The French southern army has arrived a bit sooner than expected. Sir Robert's army has been recalled to Burgundian territories (may her rulers be praised for allowing our forces to pass through).

Soon however, King Henry should be done with Scots; once we settle a peace treaty with them, we can send our second army to France.

Then, we pulverize the French troops, occupy their provinces, and break power of Valois family so hard they will never regain their power!



Well shit.

Legend has it that an old woman from Aberdeen threw a brick over the walls of the city, and the brick struck Henry IV in the head, killing him.

Young Henry V's own heir is little Mary. Hopefully we can finish the war before she has to ascend the throne.



If the Pope himself is reassured in English supremacy, who's there to stand in our way?



The Scots have been broken, and King Robert Bruce is now Duke Robert Bruce. Mwahahaha!

The Welsh have been uppity again; Henry V will deal with them, and then finally, with Sir Robert Knolles, will break the French in two!



France has no more regiments left; only its vassals, huddled in their domains, possess any fighting troops!

Now, the siegeing begins. We want to force France to hork over our rightful provinces in Normandy, then have it renounce overlordship over its vassals. If we can force them to release Champagne or maybe Toulouse as independent kingdoms, even better.



First idea, and we will be grabbing Military Drill. We will never have big armies, so let's squeeze the best from what we have.

Henry V and Robert Knolles in meanwhile are besieging various French provinces, sometimes skirmishing with small vassal armies that show up.

(Sir Robert Knolles does not see the end of war; he dies in February of 1407)



We've recovered our Norman possessions, France lost two vassals and Guyenne in the south.

Meanwhile, Burgundy has decided it wants to have son fun as well and begun a war against France.

I don't think de Valois will be getting up on their feet after this!

USMCID Commandos:

Derran: 98/100 Health (1/1 ammo) (13/15 armor)
Kyle Johnson: 100/100 Health (12/12 ammo)
Keith Robertson: 100/100 Health (12/12 ammo) (15/15 armor)
Alfred Saleworth: 94/100 Health (12/12 ammo) (13/15 armor)

Enemies:
Marine? A: -4/8HP
Marine? B: 0/8HP
Marine? C: -4/8HP
Sergeant? A: 0/11HP