The first action was Malaysia, Ayutthaya, Japan, and Mavahalos occupying undefended Occitanian colonial possessions, engaging in skirmishes with colonial stacks in Australia and elsewhere.
Correction: Japan/Korea/Malaysia enter the war initially, there's some confusion and translation errors between the various embassies as China/Mavhavalos/Ayutthaya are slower to get their act together, and dow separately 6 months later.
Occitania brought a galley doomstack to Indonesia and landed approximately 20k troops (Was it larger but attritioned down?).
While their fleet was busy docked in the Indian ocean, China shipped 45k in two trips over to the island on the other side which engaged and defeated
but Indonesia was the first place for Vaniver's counter offensive, followed by the first major naval engagements where Japan's navy first defeats Occitania's galley doomstack, followed by a epic chase across the Indian ocean to Madagascar.
Around this time Hadogei landed 30k in Madagascar.
the Chinese Volunteer Army marches overland back to Saigon across the Malacca straits in preparation to be shipped over to Borneo, but instead are shipped to the America's on Korean request, another 25 transports are laid down and constructed to aid in logistics.
things start to get confusing after the Madagascar action when Hadogei peaces out after his army got wiped by Ynglings.
Some of us have our fleets operating out of contact from each other and coordination is slow
the Chinese Volunteer Army fights an engagement with unknown hostiles outside of Vancouver and scatter 16k force into the country side, and begin patrols to clean them up while reoccupying/rebuilding burnt frontier forts and towns.
Korea is pushing south into California.
The Yngling's separate from the British Navy and land 30-45k marines onto Borneo.
There was a series of engagements versus the Ynglings in the bay of Sarawok we should've won hands down but ended up bring a grapple where we lost a few times before finally winning via attrition
(I think around this time Korea lands troops and chases off the Ynglings?)
because we didnt have the Brunei-Attuhaya-Jinshi fleets converge at the sametime
then his fleet engaged the British heavies after our exhausted final victory over the Ynglings and won after ours got chased away
but at that point we were spooked and peaced out and then started cursing ourselves after Mark's upset victory over Golle
Korea fought Occitania off the Californian coast and apparently won a bunch of engagements before losing a battle presumably to a fleet of heavies

This is another rule that should have been made at game start before people bought sets and before people played to 1700. I am against any new rule for revolutionary nations because of this. Rule on it for the next great game.

-Australia???????

You need to state the land.

You may only declare a colonial war if you have colonies yourself (either colonial nations, trade companies, or provinces (including subject provinces) which are overseas with respect to you), so that your target can counter-attack and gain something.