In the far east the Mongols have ceased their attacks on Tibet seeing that their advance is going nowhere in the massive mountains that comprise the Himalayas. The two have agreed on current borders.
In Korea the Japanese and Koreans continue their stalemate at the Pusan perimeter. Neither side is able to mount a final assault on the other and the result is more years of stalemate and death.
Canada, looking to break out of the encirclement of its enemies attacks its closest friend, the Sioux. The Attacks take the Sioux massively by surprise and their army is routed in many of the opening battles. But being the warlike people they are, and know that deep down the Canadians are always aggressive they prepared for this, but it would seem not well enough. The Sioux army is beaten back until it reaches the Missouri river, and there they put up a heroic stand. They hold there and put out pleas to its former enemies in the Northern Alliance, all nations who hate Canada with a passion, to take up arms once again against the feared Canadian foe. Spies for Jonathan Shade tell him that the Northern Alliance armies are once more on the move but have only moved to the borders of Canada, none have crossed the border in an offensive action, yet
(also see next paragraph for trade info)
Great Honduras slowly crawls out of economic despair, through no action of the government, but by private merchants. They put all good that would go to other nations and instead sell those at greatly discounted prices to their own citizens. It is wildly popular and despite low profits for a few seasons it gets money back into the hands of the average citizen. The Honduran on the street starves no longer. (Canada incurs no benefit from Honduran trade this turn)
Sinhala continues on its campaign of ridding the Indian Sea of pirate activity and is again wildly successful, trade again flourishes in Sinhala and coupled with the wondrous project going on in the capital (I seem to have deleted that PM, so if you could either remember or resend it to me, thatd be great, I apologize). However, the merchant expedition that Sinhala sent to the middle east finds itself in the middle of a great war. The expedition makes port in the city of Aqaba and the overzealous Islamic commander there doesnt bother to find out who they are and executes them and seizes the ships for the Islamic navy. (2 escort ships to Islamic Empire)
The Cossacks, remain peaceful at home and focus their attention on grabbing more wilderness to the north. Once again however they see only minor success as the expeditions are poorly equipped for the northern cold and those from the warm steppes of the south are unprepared for the harsh conditions.
The Middle East continues to be the largest battleground yet seen in the world. The extremely well trained Islamic Armies finish up destroying Egypt and end up pinning the remaining Egyptian and Bosnian troops on the beaches. Unable to escape the combine Christian army is destroyed almost to a man. They continue their assault into Tripoli and advance completely across the desert and are within sight of Tripoli, the capital. In the dead though it is found to be about 200 troops from Espania inside Tripoli fighting side by side with them. In Anatolia the Islamic armies meet with success despite rather heavy casualties. They nearly crush the Assyrian army but reinforcements from Byzantium, fresh from Lombardy hold them outside the city of Ankara. The Armenians allow more Byzantium troops into their country for a combined attack southward toward the Euphrates River. The Islamic troops fortify Mosul and the battle is joined there, both sides suffer large casualties. One thing of note, the Byzantine Armies are becoming more knowledgeable about war as it drags on. (+Byzantine training)
(btw Erez, all the nations south of Egypt are Christian with the exception of Adal, which is polytheistic)
In the confusion of the Fall of Egypt the Islamic armies captured a high ranking diplomat for Espania. He wont talk as to why he was there and it is now left to the Islamic commanders to deal with this prisoner.
Espania announces a commonwealth with Tripoli. Both nations retain independence but have closer trade and military ties.
Trade
Geystral - Vietnam (1/3)
Espania - Berbers (1/3), Britian (0/3), Tripoli (0/3)
Sinhala - Magdah (0/3), Satavahanihara (2/3), Arabia (2/3), Gupta (2/3), Burma (0/3)
Arabia - Sinhala (0/3)
Japan - Yamato (1/3)
Canada - Honduras (0/3)
Britian - Espania (0/3), Byzantium (0/3)
Diplomacy
Pope:
to ALL Christian Nations:
A Christian Nation has fallen to Islam! Another is on the verge of defeat. I call on all Christians of the world to do their best in fighting this scourge. All kings must send their armies to fight or I will excommunicate them.
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