Sorry masque for not reading sooner 
Too many AARs started too little time
Excellent work though
V AAR reader
Too many AARs started too little time
Excellent work though
V AAR reader
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Well i have something like 492 Prestige and i'm 1st in the world, shoudl i take the prestige hit of -503 i'd be down into the negatives. This would completely destroy my great power ranking, make diplomacy harder, world market prices higher and allow countries like "hamburg" and "portugal" to laugh at Mother Russia.
The most i have ever gotten from a peace resolution was 48.
The most i have ever gotten from a peace resolution was 48.
Originally posted by Alexander Seil
I should be weeping if in this game the Brits are so stupid as to land millions of troops in Crimea. But as this is a Russian AAR, I somehow feel very satisfied
Great AAR, Alain-Masque, brave of you to face the brits on the sea, I have never dared.
In my 2 games as Russia, the British only lands in 2 provinces in the Crimean war - Sevastopol and the province north of it. The rest of Russias coasts I can leave undefended.
It seems hardcoded that they land only there. They seem to begin landing with 1-2 divisons at a time and slowly increasing the number. At the end in my latest game they landed some 20-30 divisions at one time, luckily I had taken Asia minor + the Balkans so the Ottos let me of with a nice peace, 4 provinces!
Sounds like what's about to happen to me =), and yes near the end of the war Britain was landing 30-40 divisions at a time in the Crimea and was quickly gobbling up the Ukraine.
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Tsarograd
The Bloody Campaign
After the Russian victory in Constanta and in the Moldovian campaign nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers surged forward towards Istanbul.
The provinces of Silistra, Varna, Burgas, and Edirine were occupied in short order.
The year 1853 opened with 64,000 Russians under General Vorandonsky assaulting the Ottoman defences in Istanbul. The battle lasted for three weeks and nearly thirty thousand Russians died. Fortunately for the Russians Russia was able to conscript and produce troops faster than the ottomans were able to kill them.
http://pictures.care2.com/view/2/413706943
Russians taking Istanbul
Meanwhile the Ottomans suprised the remaining 40,00 Russians in the caucausas with an assault ottoman assult. The ottoman's occupied several lightly defended provinces and forced Nicholas to dispatch 50,000 of his elite Prezno Guard to the region.
Suddenly on January 24th 1853 123 English Warships were spotted sailing towards the Crimean peninsula. Seeing as there were no troops currently stationed there (after the British defeats last year it was assumed Britain had given up her futile Crimean assaults) the Russian navy, 24 warships strong, sortied out of her ports in Sevastapol. For the 21 sunk Russian ships, England lost nothing. This concluded the greatest naval battle of Russian history.
Meanwhile General Alexveev was pushing hard towards Serbia, occupying
most of Bulgaria and advancing into the Serbian provinces.
An ill-fated Ottoman attack launched against Sofia was defeated and several Ottoman Guerilla campaigns were put down, thus throwing the Ottomans in the Balkans entirely on the defensive.
By 1854 all of Serbia had been occupied and annexed and the vast majority of the Serbian Balkans were occupied by Russia.
The English had landed over 500,000 troops in Crimea and overran the Russian defences in the Ukraine. The British were making remarkable headway.
In 1855 Tsar Nicholas on his deathbed, afraid of what his imbecilic son Alexander might do to his Russian Empire, established a system of Democracy in Russia. Where all the Nobility could vote and elect representatives to the Duma (senate) which if unanimous could veto 3 resolutions a year that his son Alexander proposed. The Duma also had great internal powers. Though it's ability to affect foreign policy was limited. Tsar Nicholas also wishing to be remebered fondly by the peasents implemented 12 hour work days, Minimal Health Care, Pension funds, and a small unemployment stipend. After these acts he most ungraciously died and left his son Alexander to pay for all this.
Due to recent English advances in the Ukraine and a massive Afghan rebellion on Febuary 24th 1856 Tsar Alexander accepted peace terms.
Russia's territorial gains-
1. All lands ceded by Persia to Russia
2. All of Moldovia
3. All of Serbia
4. The province of Foca
5. The province of Novi Pazar
6. The province of Sofia
7. The province of Nis
8. The province of Constanta
http://pictures.care2.com/view/2/601150101
Russian gains. Peace event circled in red.
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Tsarograd
The Bloody Campaign
After the Russian victory in Constanta and in the Moldovian campaign nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers surged forward towards Istanbul.
The provinces of Silistra, Varna, Burgas, and Edirine were occupied in short order.
The year 1853 opened with 64,000 Russians under General Vorandonsky assaulting the Ottoman defences in Istanbul. The battle lasted for three weeks and nearly thirty thousand Russians died. Fortunately for the Russians Russia was able to conscript and produce troops faster than the ottomans were able to kill them.
http://pictures.care2.com/view/2/413706943
Russians taking Istanbul
Meanwhile the Ottomans suprised the remaining 40,00 Russians in the caucausas with an assault ottoman assult. The ottoman's occupied several lightly defended provinces and forced Nicholas to dispatch 50,000 of his elite Prezno Guard to the region.
Suddenly on January 24th 1853 123 English Warships were spotted sailing towards the Crimean peninsula. Seeing as there were no troops currently stationed there (after the British defeats last year it was assumed Britain had given up her futile Crimean assaults) the Russian navy, 24 warships strong, sortied out of her ports in Sevastapol. For the 21 sunk Russian ships, England lost nothing. This concluded the greatest naval battle of Russian history.
Meanwhile General Alexveev was pushing hard towards Serbia, occupying
most of Bulgaria and advancing into the Serbian provinces.
An ill-fated Ottoman attack launched against Sofia was defeated and several Ottoman Guerilla campaigns were put down, thus throwing the Ottomans in the Balkans entirely on the defensive.
By 1854 all of Serbia had been occupied and annexed and the vast majority of the Serbian Balkans were occupied by Russia.
The English had landed over 500,000 troops in Crimea and overran the Russian defences in the Ukraine. The British were making remarkable headway.
In 1855 Tsar Nicholas on his deathbed, afraid of what his imbecilic son Alexander might do to his Russian Empire, established a system of Democracy in Russia. Where all the Nobility could vote and elect representatives to the Duma (senate) which if unanimous could veto 3 resolutions a year that his son Alexander proposed. The Duma also had great internal powers. Though it's ability to affect foreign policy was limited. Tsar Nicholas also wishing to be remebered fondly by the peasents implemented 12 hour work days, Minimal Health Care, Pension funds, and a small unemployment stipend. After these acts he most ungraciously died and left his son Alexander to pay for all this.
Due to recent English advances in the Ukraine and a massive Afghan rebellion on Febuary 24th 1856 Tsar Alexander accepted peace terms.
Russia's territorial gains-
1. All lands ceded by Persia to Russia
2. All of Moldovia
3. All of Serbia
4. The province of Foca
5. The province of Novi Pazar
6. The province of Sofia
7. The province of Nis
8. The province of Constanta
http://pictures.care2.com/view/2/601150101
Russian gains. Peace event circled in red.
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I'm curious about what was the worst naval battle in Russian history...
Anyway, nice AAR.
Now this is what I call ambitious! Pounding enlightenment into the peasants. Makes me curious what´s gonna happen.You probably meant to say "vigorously" or, perhaps, "virtuously".
Re: Russification and Germanization
The majority population might oppose being diluted. So I imagine not only liberals, but also nationalists opposing such ideas irl. Apart from that, it *does* look suspiciously like genocide to me.
The majority population might oppose being diluted. So I imagine not only liberals, but also nationalists opposing such ideas irl. Apart from that, it *does* look suspiciously like genocide to me.
Originally posted by Munchkin
You probably meant to say "vigorously" or, perhaps, "virtuously".
Why not just viciously?
Virtiously?
Killling traitors is a virtue =)
Of course Nicholas was quite delusional that week so it stands to debate whether or not there actually existed traitors. The command to "stamp out the seeds or rebellion" was enforced almost exactly like the "Stamp out the Artic Mongoose" decree.
Killling traitors is a virtue =)
Of course Nicholas was quite delusional that week so it stands to debate whether or not there actually existed traitors. The command to "stamp out the seeds or rebellion" was enforced almost exactly like the "Stamp out the Artic Mongoose" decree.
Originally posted by Munchkin
Because killing traitors is never vicious.
No? I'd say it's vicious. No matter, you can always kill them in a vicious way... I bet PE agrees.
Alexander took to the throne like mud to a serf. (Which is to say he did so well at it). He was a strict man but not an unreasonable one. Of course, he abolished the Duma and his father's unreasonably expensive political reforms. He kept very few. Solidating his power he had several of his father's most prominent minsiter's exiled to siberia and his father's lover Vilma von Auchsberg executed on general principles. While he was not quite the military commander his father was, he wasn't insane either (well...except for his frequent proclmations that he had invented the "clerk".)
1856-1858 were the years when Russia proved herself to be a premier power of the world. The Russian rail network expanded fourfold and a Siberian railroad loomed on the horizon. Consequently China huddled into a corner and tried to make herself invisble. The mighty Russian bear next turned her iron fist upon the nation of Afghanistan. War was declared troops were dispatched. Fourty days later the Emir of Kabul's head was mounted on a pole above his palace, and the Double Headed Eagle flew from all the flagpoles in Afghanistan.
Realising his father's goal of reaching the Indian Ocean he invaded and annexed several small indian Khanates, finally establishing the first Russian indian port in the city of Gwadar.
China was pissing herself.
With the sudden invention of clerks Russian industry catipulted from 14th to 6th in the world. Meanwhile Russia maintained the second largest army in the world. Widely considered the most prestigous in the world, Russia seemed invincble.
There were dark rumours of several international coalitions being formed against Russia......
For god and the TSAR !!
http://pictures.care2.com/view/2/456500760
1856-1858 were the years when Russia proved herself to be a premier power of the world. The Russian rail network expanded fourfold and a Siberian railroad loomed on the horizon. Consequently China huddled into a corner and tried to make herself invisble. The mighty Russian bear next turned her iron fist upon the nation of Afghanistan. War was declared troops were dispatched. Fourty days later the Emir of Kabul's head was mounted on a pole above his palace, and the Double Headed Eagle flew from all the flagpoles in Afghanistan.
Realising his father's goal of reaching the Indian Ocean he invaded and annexed several small indian Khanates, finally establishing the first Russian indian port in the city of Gwadar.
China was pissing herself.
With the sudden invention of clerks Russian industry catipulted from 14th to 6th in the world. Meanwhile Russia maintained the second largest army in the world. Widely considered the most prestigous in the world, Russia seemed invincble.
There were dark rumours of several international coalitions being formed against Russia......
For god and the TSAR !!
http://pictures.care2.com/view/2/456500760
More updates coming soon i'm up to 1870 (if someone is still reading the 43 Russian AAR)
I"ll try and wrap this AAR up quickly, as i'm having a VERY COOL spain game that would make an awesome AAR.
I"ll try and wrap this AAR up quickly, as i'm having a VERY COOL spain game that would make an awesome AAR.
In 1858 a startling change occured in Russia. This change would ultimately lead to Russia's industrialisation and her entering the ranks of "modern powers"
Tsar Alexander II who had allready been dubbed the "Tsar-Enslaver" , appointed Grand Duke Nicholas Georgivich Romanov (a great uncle and Grand Duke of the baltic states the most industrialised Russian Region) to the post of "Minister of Rail". He also chaired the "Comittee for Industrialisation".
The number of Russian schools had quadrupled since 1840 and now 1 in 2 Russian men were able to read. Even some of the heathen steppemen began learning to read and founding institutions. Unfortunatley a corresponding rise in socialist tendencies. This strengthed the "Tsar-Enslaver"'s views that the peasents needed to be kept down.*
*Note: Though named the Tsar-Enslaver Tsar Alexander II actually DRASTICALLY expanded the Russian middle classes and by 1863 clerks made up 11.8% of the Russian population. The numbers of craftsmen also increased exponentially. Unfortunately Alexander II could never live down the negative stigmata attached to re-enslaving the peasents.
Tsar Alexander II who had allready been dubbed the "Tsar-Enslaver" , appointed Grand Duke Nicholas Georgivich Romanov (a great uncle and Grand Duke of the baltic states the most industrialised Russian Region) to the post of "Minister of Rail". He also chaired the "Comittee for Industrialisation".
The number of Russian schools had quadrupled since 1840 and now 1 in 2 Russian men were able to read. Even some of the heathen steppemen began learning to read and founding institutions. Unfortunatley a corresponding rise in socialist tendencies. This strengthed the "Tsar-Enslaver"'s views that the peasents needed to be kept down.*
*Note: Though named the Tsar-Enslaver Tsar Alexander II actually DRASTICALLY expanded the Russian middle classes and by 1863 clerks made up 11.8% of the Russian population. The numbers of craftsmen also increased exponentially. Unfortunately Alexander II could never live down the negative stigmata attached to re-enslaving the peasents.
Suvorov said:Bah!
hehehe...I try =)
Perhaps soon the Tsar-Enslaver will march on Peking!
Gen. Wolfe said:
Idiot! The you could just post a simple text link instead of that broken link picture!