Vijayanagar: Part 09: 1541-1555: Fall of Ming

I have a lot of great scripts to run analysis of my campaigns. Some of them are for debugging, or just out of curiosity, but there's also really interesting ones like this AE report:

• Jaunpur 487.18 [Truce until 1555-06-30]
• Delhi 474.28 [Truce until 1546-04-04]
• Baluchistan 265.08 [Truce until 1544-10-14]
• Chagatai 216.38 [Truce until 1543-09-29]
• Mewar 187.154 [Truce until 1553-02-27]
• Timurids 173.602 [Truce until 1545-01-14]
• Ava 157.44 [Truce until 1547-11-28]
• Mong Yang 128.44 [Truce until 1543-09-29]
• Mong Pai 123.44 [Truce until 1543-09-29]
• Mong Nai 119.44 [Truce until 1546-05-12]
• Transoxiana 110.602
• Pegu 103.506
• Lan Na 101.306 [Truce until 1547-11-28]
• Afghanistan 96.602 [Ally]
• Ayutthaya 82.306 [Truce until 1545-01-14]
• Tibet 78.988 [Truce until 1543-09-29]
• Dali 73.306 [Truce until 1545-01-14]
• Lan Xang 69.306
• Pasai 57.602 [Truce until 1543-09-29]
• Hormuz 56.602 [Ally]
• Malacca 55.602 [Truce until 1543-09-29]
• Kedah 53.602 [Truce until 1543-09-29]

Followed by long tail I'm skipping featuring entries like:

• Mamluks 34.602 [Truce until 1545-01-14]
• Ming 23.306
• Dhundhar 14.734 [Vassal]
• Champa 4.9 [Ally]
• Ajam 1.0 [Ally]

Interestingly save game doesn't contain truce expiration date, just "last_war" and "last_warscore". So no wonder actual truce expiration and truce expiration tooltip so often mismatch - each rounds it differently. Not to mention EU4 operates on 365 day calendar, so using any out of the box Date class won't quite work.

After coalition truces expires and minor war in which Pegu found itself integrated into Bharat, I thought the remaining countries won't have balls to coalition me, but they did. Chagatai, Transoxian, Lan Xang, and Tibet. After a few months it got disbanded.

Ming could finish their disaster by just losing this one province - which Shun definitely wanted as it disconnected their land. It's such 4D chess I'm sad it didn't work out for them.

Ming was suffering Unguarded Nomadic Frontier because Oirat horde grew to over 300dev and they were bordering them with one province.

They had the best idea ever - they started reconquest on Shun, got wrecked, and hoped Shun would take that one province in the peace deal.

It truns out it was unnecessary, as Oirats reformed themselves into a regular monarchy.

I took advantage of Ming being busy losing war and attacked Tibet, who was constant pain in my ass, but until now until Ming's protection.

Shun took a lot more than one province in that war. And after that Ming fragmented even more, losing their great power status to Hungary.

Meanwhile, I had a quick fight where Baluchistan ended and Punjab got their cores from Delhi.

Then it was time for Ayutthaya and related minors. And a few other very easy wars.

Punjab and Assam are my vassals.

Ming and Shun are about comparably strong dynasties, so I expect Shun to challenge Ming for the mandate when their truces expire. Korea allied both, so it's on good side of whoever wins.

My name placement is atrociously bad, I need to clean up all the minors in Indo-China so it's nice and horizontal.

There were a few other coalition attempts. Dali tried to form a coalition, but nobody else joined.

Then Malacca, Dawasir, Chagatai, Transoxiana, Kedah, and Ming. Ming would normally be a cause of concern, but they got wrecked really hard.

Afghanistan broke our alliance once our royal marriage ended with queen's death. I guess I should be paying more attention to my allies. They might join the coalition in a few months. It might look like I'm still in serious trouble, but number of potential coalition members keep shrinking and it's down to 16 countries.

Meanwhile I'm trying to get Champa, Pasai, Majapahit, and reemergent (so with no memories of my AE) Hsenwi as my vassals.

I'm also dev pushing the third time for printing press. I should be able to spawn Global Trade in my territory.

Meanwhile in the HRE, Catholic league led by emperor Saxony faces Reformed league led by archbishop of Münster. It's such a rare treat to see Reformed HRE (and it's a mod-only feature), I wish them best, even though I have no way to help them in any way.

I feel in desperate need of more missionaries. As a Christian it's stupidly easy to get 6-7:

• 1 base
• 1 religious ideas
• 1 Defender of the Faith
• 1 Jerusalem
• 1 Mecca
• 2 Counter-Reformation (Catholics only)
• 1 Rome (non-Catholics)
• 1 Alexandria (Coptic only)
• 1 Pentarchy (Orthodox only)

Muslims get up to 6 too. As Hindu I only have 2. It looks like Jaunpur holds our holy site at Varanasi which will give me 3rd. I don't think I can get more than that - there are no policies for extra missionaries.

I guess that's one factor I didn't consider in my religion rankings. I still think Hindu is fairly strong, but maybe they're not Muslim tier after all.

In theory my vassals could be converting, but so far that never happened. No idea if they broke something recent patch.