1st Annual State of the Koinon Address-D
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State of the Koinon
Finance and DiplomacySpoiler Alert, click show to read:
Since the year 200 the Koinon Hellenon has witnessed ever major neighboring faction turn against her. This has caused a twofold depletion of our economy in that a. we can no longer trade with many of our long time trade partners and b. The 2 front war has cost the Koinon hundreds of thousands on minai in soldier recruitment, training, retraining, and supply. We are in such a shape that our once great economy now has to supply 6 Corps and countless other peacekeeping forces in Eastern Asia Minor and Dacia. This has constrained the Koinon to a measly 15000-20000 minai per season. Trading rights have been accepted by all of the naitons who are not at war with me that still hold their independance including Lusotanna, Parthia, Baktria, Hayas, Sarmations, and Sweboz.
The Casse have continue to stay on mainland britannia so all attempts to speak with them have failed. A fleet will soon be raised to navigate through the carthage held waters of the western mediterranean around spain and finally landing on casse with a diplomat. If we can gain trade rights with these people perhaps we can help them finally conquer southern ireland and maybe one down mount a full on invasion of Qarthadist territory in NW Europa. Unfortunately this is a long ways down the hodos as fleets must be raised, diplomacy extended, and finally persuading the casse to attack the Qarthadist beast will not be an easy thing.
In the way of enemy factions, our neighbors currently seem rather pissed at us(thanks to the stupid VH campaign behavior) and it will cost much more than the 15-20k a year to find a cease-fire out of one of these factions; but we must make every effort to attempt to procure a ceasefire from at least one of the nations now aligned against us. The general feeling among the council is that the Epirotes, who currently have a ceasefire with biQarthadist and are allied with the Ptol and AS, will be the most likely to accept a ceasefire as they are the weakest of the 4 factions now fighting against me. The Ptolemian's and Seleukids forged an alliance against me no more than 3 years after the Ptolemian's despicable treachery in sieging and taking Antiocheia. However there is another idea floating about dealing with the Aigyptians, would it be possible to muster enough money to pay off the Aigyptians to begin fighting Carthage in Northern Africa. Either way this effort will require a significant amount of money probably requiring the saving of a large percentage of the profits earned over a 2-3 year period.
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