FlorisDeVijfde said:
Seems like ages we last got such an update about the game itself. Because of the immersion in those many epsidodes about the rise of Waldemar this suddenly takes some cerebral-processing adjustment
Indeed! And I find also that it's been a week since I've left general feedback!!! Seems like not that long ago, except when you consider that we've gone through 4 pages in those 7 days!
So... back with our miniseries... which started as a planned 11 updates and doubled in size to 21!!!
That was a lot of fun, though!
Draco Rexus said:
Renss, you have truly created a air of tension that sees no relief without bloodshed and mayhem.
Thank you! I take that as a very high compliment, as that was exactly what I was trying to convey -- the air of uncertainty and impending doom!
Rensslaer said:
“They will fight for their country, or they will fight for their general. But they will not fight their country for their general.”
I'm very glad so many of you liked this line.
stnylan said:
I too think that von Rediesal might be playing his own game here. The phrasing "Would you please bring the same thing you brought when Kleiber was here last" does sound slightly ominous. Innocuous, but at the same time could be a code for something disadvantageous to von Grolitz's health.
You are always so insightful! And so I am glad you were the first to mention this. So Riedesel calls his guards, Longanecker pre-empts them, and then Riedesel's guards almost screw everything up! Unintentional mass confusion. Hope it came across believably.
Coz sensed this, also, as I'm sure did others. Riedesel was trying to feel out the other side via von Grolitz in order to help unravel the plot.
KPTB, how about the whole resolution of the conflict? Did it seem realistic? I've tried to create complicated plots like this before, but this is the first I've finished!
Prussiablue & Avernite, yes, Bulow and Holstein were in the uncomfortable position of being both, desperate AND being subject to Ludendorff's control of events. Not good!
FlorisdeVijfde - Yeah, Albrecht, as it turns out, was barely even standing
Vann the Red - Thank you very much! I feel like a slave to my posting schedule sometimes, too! And I'm glad you picked up on the vague mention of the stranger Longanecker chose to bring with him, who of course turned out to be Col. Breiding...
I was playing kind of loose with the loyalty of the LifeGuards, and I hope I pulled it off. Their loyalty would be to the crowned heir, and one might presume that it would go to the most obvious heir. But when things got complicated (divided interests and loyalties) some went one way, others went the other. Breiding was one of those who started on the conservatives' side, but when it became clear what was going on he decided to switch. As I'm sure many of the LifeGuards would have. Confusion reigned pretty heavy in the command structure, as no one was quite sure who was on whose side, and even what sides were really aiming to do!
VILenin - I'm assuming that, like most college students of the time, Elizabeth would have been learning both Latin and the dominant European foreign language as a matter of course. Most upper crust students (particularly male) would also learn one or two other languages. Since in OUR (RL) timeline, the languages would be Latin and French, I assume the dominant languages most everybody would learn would be Latin and German in THIS timeline.
Draco Rexus said:
You just gotta love an escape by zeppelin! That's just awesome!
Thank you! I rather enjoyed that.
Now... Back up to the present day, so to speak!
Floris, I'm glad you enjoyed the humor over Costa Rica and Uruguay coming to the rescue of Mexico!
Avernite, you are correct -- both Transvaal and the Oranje Frei Stadt remain frei. Aber kleiner!
Draco, yes you were correct -- the Boer War and Spanish American War and Mexican War were good excuses for those countries to be staying out of badboy wars. Now, who's to say?!
Ghostwriter - Well, the Russian and French navies have been more or less trashed by the Prussians. Largest navies now (which aren't alot!) would be Germany, the USA and Britain, in reverse order, I suspect. Not sure who else would even be able to "field" a major naval force. I'm sure anything Spain had went away at the hands of the USN. I think it's just the big 3 now.
FJ44 welcome back!
Iron Skull, Peter Veenstra, Maximiliano, and
Rocketman -- thank you all very much for your readership and comments!
Renss