Pre-flight: Edinburgh is annexed (is there a reason for annexing right off? It's always been my impression that you only get a benefit after the rebellion ends so I puppet first, annex later, but maybe I'm wrong). A bit of tile micro here and there.
Sell incense to Haile and 'dora, who are friendly, and Sully. Get 5 oil out of it (all of Theodora's supply) and good gpt.
Ideology time: pick more tenets instead of Order. Order would have given us more
but Autocracy will give Gus more
.
T250:
A bunch of boats have yet to move so I explore a bit. I scour the Norwegian bay for foes, and find it lacking.
We are 30-40 turns away from battleships and there are 8 irons in the wild snowy tundra, South of Theodora. Settler bought, sent down under.
IBT:
2 Caroleans attack our ground forces in Dublin and heal right off from it.
Theodora now at peace with Gus.
T251:
2 frigates lend support and take out a Carolean, awaiting cannons to setup for a kill on #2.
IBT:
Ethiopians and Ottomans fight over missionaries in the strait of Bursa
T252:
Crossbow sent to deal with barbs.
Navy split in 2: Stockholm is good and dead as is with half our navy.
IBT:
Like Rocky says: we take the hits and keep moving forward.
T253:
Dead Carolean. GA ends. Upgrade a few rifles for Dublin. Will heal the cannon then march in
Byzantine forces will be utterly insufficient to hold us.
Ending turn within sight of swedish frigates, hoping they will expose themselves to our newly arrived fleet.
Renew Carthage's food trade route.
IBT:
New CS for Gus: Panama declares war and destroys a fishing boat.
T254:
Bay of Stockholm has 3 sparse frigs in it, I start clearing it out. I'm tempted to go for captures but it would weaken us more than it would help as long as the 8 extra iron aren't connected.
Spy in Stockholm reveals that he is plotting against Attila (who isn't), but I doubt it will change Attila's thirst for our blood.
IBT:
That's a reasonable deal, my man! except you're missing Stockholm.
Refused.
T255:
IBT:
BOMBER OUT OF DUBLIN
T256:
Assault!
*wrong screenshot of Dublin, woops*
Big problem in Stockholm: we can only bombard with 4 boats at a time due to the awkward angles of hills and the large ice shelf present. It will take time.
IBT:
T257:
To make sure the siege of Dublin and Stockholm won't drag, I burn some of our money on barracks, armory and units out of Edinburgh. Also buy 2 submarines.
IBT:
T258:
GWI shows up to reinforce Stockholm but we take it out on route.
IBT:
Vancouver sends out a wild rifleman. He probably will pillage our coal, so that's unfortunate.
T259:
I see Prora coming up and our faith has accumulated. I buy a GE in Gades to rush Prora.
Send a privateer to attack Vancouver to try and draw the rifle away from our coal.
IBT:
Vancouver's rifle takes the bait and returns home.
GWB and frigate from Stockholm mean we will lose a frigate each turn we stay there. Here's the first.
T260:
We can get 8 iron by settling down under, which allows for more frigates built, which allows for a more violent 1-time mass upgrade to battleships.
Dublin is ripe.
Stockholm is resilient.
Constantinople is almost ready, and reinforced by subs.
My assessment: we will lose 1 more frigate for every turn of this war.
I say we go 1 more turn, liberate Dublin, and then take all the money. We are not
that far from battleships, so we can keep building up a fleet, piling up money, and upgrading a force to be reckoned with in Jijiga. Then move in and sweep it out.
The terrain really screwed us over. There were 4 firing ports within 3 range, 3 of which were exposed. With battleships, we'll have no problem with terrain since at 3 (and especially 4) range without terrain blinding us, there'll be enough shells raining down to drown them.
Though I have to say that war was going surprisingly easy, even our land forces didn't see much resistance. 
I think it doesn't matter, but suggest to repeal it. 
