Let's explain some of our reasoning:
The sale of most of the empire:
The first step towards the war against the Izhakists...
I realized from conversations with various players that my empire was way, way too overextended. I had colonies from Somalia to Papua New Guinea. This was also why I was afraid of using my big army to fight various countries. I knew that if I attacked another country after Juang, I might start some sort of chain reaction and that I would be attacked by all sides.
I convinced Erez that I was his ally and that together we would take out the Alexandrine Empire, and eventually the world. In return, he told me everything that was wrong with the Sinhalese Empire. I used this information to strengthen my nation. I sold the vulnerable parts of my empire, but I wanted to keep my Pacific/Indian Ocean empire.
I was planning for a huge war against Khazaria after the sale of my empire. I was going to get the armored chariots from Erez himself, and then use them against them. I got rid of the vassal system and instead just created an alliance of independent states. I was going to use their armies to attack Khazaria, Judea, and Persia simultaneously. I had already planned to hire two 10-battalion Mercenaries, and have one of them to land on the Judean Palestinian coast and burn Jerusalem down, and another to land near the Tigris and advance and burn the Persian capital down.
My plans called for a landing on the Arabian peninsula, with a simlutaneous coastal landing in Persia. I would then use the one of those rivers that goes through Tukran to reach Khazaria, and I would bring the war to their homeland.
But soon I realized that I wouldn't have the time to fight a war that most likely be drawn out. It would require a lot of strategy and tactics, things I really don't have much time to write these days.
My plan called for the Byzantines to invade Persia, Judea, and Khazaria, and re-annex their former holdings. To take out a potential enemy, I signed an alliance with Korea, who would invade Java. From Ming China I received promises of 40-unique-unit battalions who would be deployed on various fronts against the Izhakist Alliance.
I really planned for the Alexandrines to be bait; the Izhakists would most likely have most of their army attacking Egypt with some of them attacking Baltia. This would give us the oppurtunity needed to destroy the Izhakists once and for all; and of course set up a government friendly to Sinhala and its' allies!
I do honestly believe that if I had not left the NES, my plan would have gone through and the Izhakists would have been on the defensive, everywhere. From Judea to Khazaria, they would be rushing to defend themselves.
Oh well, I look forward to the sequel of this NES, where hopefully if time allows, I will be re-taking the Sinhalese Empire...or whats left of it.
