Khmer Empire — Not random

Conditions

• Own Khmer
• Own Cambodia
• None of the following must occur:
  • Control Cambodia
  • Cambodia exists
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Ayutthaya and Khmer Empire are at war
  • Lan Xang and Khmer Empire are at war
  • Lan Na and Khmer Empire are at war
  • Luang Prabang and Khmer Empire are at war
  • Sukhothai and Khmer Empire are at war
  • Peasant Rebels controls Cambodia

Will happen within 10 days of January 2, 1430
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1600)

Description

By the dawn of the fifteenth century the slow, drawn-out decline of the Khmer Empire had been witnessed by its numerous enemies and neighbours for the best part of two hundred years. The gradual conversion to Theravada Buddhism had rendered the Khmer kings' long-held claim to the 'devaraja' (demi-god) status of their Hindu ancestors irrelevant, and no new temples or shrines had been built in their honour for generations. Angkor Thom - the twelfth century capital of Jayavarman VII and once the largest city in Southeast Asia - had been slowly abandoned over the previous century, largely in part to the combined effects of plague and its once vast irrigation network falling into disrepair, forcing thousands to flee the city and migrate south into lower Cambodia and the Mekong Delta. In 1431 the last Khmer king, Ponhea Yat, fled to Phnom Penh, leaving the ancient capital of Angkor Thom in ruins and its remaining population entirely at the whim of their new overlords - the Siamese kings of Ayutthaya.

Actions

A. Retreat and pull back to Phnom Penh

• Stability +1
• Centralization +1
• Land +1
• Offensive Doctrine -2
• Laos will no longer be considered a national province
• Bangkok will no longer be considered a national province
• Phuket will no longer be considered a national province
• Sarakham will no longer be considered a national province
• Mekong will no longer be considered a national province
• Cede Kwai to Ayutthaya
• Cede Phuket to Ayutthaya
• Cede Laos to Lan Xang
• Cede Sarakham to Lan Xang
• Cede Mekong to Lan Xang
• Move capital to Khmer
• -25% population in Cambodia
• +15% population in Khmer
• +10% population in Mekong Delta
• Flag graphics set to default
• Become Cambodia

B. Throw everything we have at them

• Stability -3
• Serfdom +1
• Offensive Doctrine +2
• Quality -2
• +10000 infantry in the capital province
• -400 relations with Ayutthaya
• -400 relations with Lan Xang
• -400 relations with Lan Na
• -400 relations with Luang Prabang
• -400 relations with Sukhothai
• -200
• Global revolt risk +8 for 60 months