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Scotland is getting a bit ambitious...
 
Yay! great updates, and you´re going protestant!
 
stnylan yeah, but I have only five ships, so I can't really harm them ^^

Saulta thanks :)

Duke of Wellington yeah, esspescialy when fighting an army at only 1/3 of his own -.-
 
really like the battle pic, dont know why, but seeing the German eagle fight the Austrian lion made me smile. hopefully the net war will go better. Can i suggest vassalizing them for a greater humiliation?
 
Preview

I'm just playing my aar, and I promise you, there will be more war than you can eat and I ever wanted, here a short preview of a time where I had made peace with some of my enemies allready.

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It gonna get interesting, so watch out for update
 
Part eight - Road to war

Sorry to dissapoint you, but the war would have been to long to put it together with this part, so the war will follw saturday or sunday.
Also I want to say that probably much of what I wrote in this part about relegion is not true or did not happend thsi way, but its just a storry, so don't take it to serious (you've gotta be carefull with religion nowadays)

So here we are, the war against Austria is just wone, when the next war stands infront of your door. But I don’t want to waste much words on the war against England and it’s allies. Without distraction Germany had no problems repelling all attacks on their shores, so after Months of useless fighting England saw how the whole war was in vane and offered a peace for 104 Ducates. And with the signing of the peace the use of the Palatinate as a millitary ally ended, so Joachim ordered to annex it.

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Now lets take a look what happend during the years of war. In 1518 the Luther and his 95 articles became more and more popular, they even formed an own religion now, the Protestantism.

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Shortly after the reformation followed. Joachim I Nestor didn’t care for this though, he had mor important things to take care of, like the expansion of Germany. In his mind everybody could pray to whoever he wants as long as his name was christ, so he did not take any steps to supress the uprising protestantism. So it was no wonder it spread very fast in germany.

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The next couple of years were spend to build another refinery in Mainz and further consolidate the empire. One desision that was made, while the war versus England was still going on was whether or not to move the capital. Of cource, as Brandenburg founded germany, it was just right that Berlin would stay the German capital.

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The other actions were basicly a preparation for the next war, because as you see Bohemia still existed and was allied with Austria. So just three months before the truce with Bohemia anded the troops were deployed at the Border of Austria and Bohemia, but something terrible happend. Bohemia turned protestant, just one moth before the truce ran out, and even worse, it joined Alliance with France, Papal states, France and Meissen, adding the second state enclosed by germany to this Alliance.

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Joachim was furious, Not only had he now no longer a leagal reason for war against austria, also Bohemia was far out if his reach now. His first action was to annex Switzerland completely, and therby preventing that the third state inside of germany joined this alliance.

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After this was done, he did something he had not done in years.
He went to church.
After the first time in his life something went not in his will he needed guidiance. So he went to the new build Cathedral in Berlin. But his anger did not vanish, on the contrary, it even increased as he had to listen to a speech he did not understand ... he spoke french, english and german, but no latin ... and the he was counselt by an young priest. The bishop, unfortunatly for the Catholicism was in Rome right in these days to discuss how to face the new religion. Had the bishop been in Berlin, the now following events had may been prevented, but so the unexperienced priest counseled Joachim very badly, and in the and even demanded money from him to clean his soul of all sins and go to heaven. That was it, Joachim almost explodet. How could a small unimportant preist dare to demand money from him, the Emperor of Germany, the second mightiest Empire in Europe, only matched by France and maybe Spain. Wasn’t it him who increased the size of his realm by five times, who changed the sight of europe? How could such a small priest not commanding anything dare to demand annything at all? In this moment Joachim broke with the pope and catholicism, and the pope lost his last chance of stopping protestantism to enter central europe. Shortly afterwards he decided that if he converts to protestantism, Germany should do the same, after all he was germany, wasn’t he? So he changed the official statereligion to Protestantism.

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The turmoil was great in Germany, most preople were still following catholicism and many of his advisors tried to stop Joachim, but he did not listen to anybody, and startet to send missionaries out to convert the population to the new statereligion.

With the conversion the relation to all of Germanies neighbours worsend again, and after some time a diplomate badly insulted the Germany king, that was what Joachim had waited for, the chance to another war against Austria. A short decisive war to determine once and for all who is the true ruler of central europe, but he would be deeply disapointed, the now following war would neither be short nor decisive. But before we talk about this lets make a short break.
 
Time for rebel killing?
 
Part nine - 1st War of Religion

So, here we are, Germany in the mids of ist religous turmoil, with a stability on the brink of civil war. It was ahead in economic technology, but far behind its neighbours in millitary technology. Using the international charts we would say they had a landtechlevel of 5, while Milan had 9 ans France even 10. But, Germany had a King who wanted war.

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Some would say, its a bad Idea to declare war on one of your neighbours, with a low stability, an Army far inferior to many of your opponents and every nation in Europe having a legal casus belly on you, but not Joachim. In his Eyes Germany was the strongest country in Europe, not challenged by anyone. It had one every war it lead sinc its foundation. Noone could compete with the germany millitary. So the German troops were brought to the Austrian and Milan Border. The Plan was easy, an Army should besiege the austrian Capital in tirol, anotherone would move through the rest of the autrian territory, destroying every Austrian army it meets, and leave men to siege the cities. The third German army was supposed to hold the line against the technological superior troops.

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The plan versus Austria suprisingly succeeded without Problems of any kind. On the Milan Front on the other hand, the war went desastrous the Army was defeated several times and reduced to 5000 men, and Schwyz was besieged, and later taken, by a huge Milan Army.
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Still that was no problem in Joachims Eyes, as, as soon as the Austrians were beaten, 50000 men were free to take on Milan. But, as you now, man proposes, God disposes. When the war was in ist hottest phase, with shwyz having fallen to milan and Lorraine being besieged, Desmond declared war onto Germany, and England and Scotland joined in.

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Bur Joachim was not concerned, what was england supposed to do, there was after all quite some water between them. So the war was continued as planed, and only moths after England declared war, All Austrian castles were taken. Everybody expected a harsh peace versus Austria, probably all its provinces but Tirol would go to Germany rumours said, but that did not happen. Only Vienna went to Germany, and Austria was allowed to stay free of germany if they convert to the Protestant believes and exchange some higher ranking officials with some closer to Germany.

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Even though not much land was taken, the outcry in the catholic world was enormus. How could Germany dare to force an independent state to convert? The pope saw the catholicism in danger and asked every loyal catholic to join forces against Germany. And they sure did...
But before any more wars were declared Germanys wara against Milan continued. With the new forces from Austria Mantua could quickly be captured and Lombardia was besieged. On the other hand Lorraine fell to Milan. When the Army that conquered Lorraine came back to Lombardia and engaged The German forces, Joachim offerd a white peace to Milan, before the battle was lost and the price for a peace would rise. Gladfully Milan accepted. But the joy of peace was dimmed, as on the same day the peace was signed, a declaration of war arrived in Germany.

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Luckly it was just brittany, so nobody was really concerned that something bad happend.

But they should have been, because this war was a sign what would follow. The first catholic states had finished their preperations and declared war. Only one week later Denmark and its allies Sweden and Lithuania joined the war against Germany. Now people started to get concerned.

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Joachim saw now his mistakes, he underestimated the willingnes of the catholic world to go to war. He quickly searched for allies, and one month after Denmark declared war, he found them. It was Austria. Now with the same relegion as Germany, and many germanfriendly officials in its high ranks it was no problem for Germany to join the alliance with Austria and Milan. Hopefully that would help, and prevent some dows.

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Unfortunatly, almost only few troops could move north to meet the new threads from Denmark and England, as rebels had taken The fortress in Lorrain while it was still in repair after the Milan assault and Salzburg was undert siege, so new troops were raised.

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When the rebells were finally beaten and a small force was left to besiege the fortress in lorraine, the war against Denmark could finally start. An offensive against Jylland could destroy the denmark army there and the fortress could be sieged. Also all counter attacks were useless. The German army stood strong.
Unfortunatly that did not solve any problems. The enemy troops in Geldre mounted up to 30000 allready, and the fortress would fall in less than a month. Also fresh schwedish and english troops landed in Pommerian. And to make it worse the people in Franche Comte started a rebellion. But that was not all. Joachims worst nightmare, and at the same time a great chance, came true. Meissen(landtech 8) declared war onto Germany (tech 5), and Bohemia (tech 5), Papal States (tech 5), Tuscany (tech 9) and the warmachine France(tech11!!), with alltogether over 230000 men joined their war against the about 60000 German soldiers. The only light in shining in these days was Austria that joined the war, although it only had 20000 men to contribute. The war of relegion had only just begun.
 
stynlan: unfortunatly it was more a running away from rebells :D

Duke and CSK The war was more than interesting, it was so interesting .. and confusing ... that I forgot to make screenies during the war :(
 
Joined a few months back, but I've mostly just been lurking around the AAR forum reading the stories. This one is so interesting, however, that I just had to break the silence. Hope you can manage to keep your head above the water while you try to take on most of Europe, and most importantly, keep telling us about it :)
 
Youre certainly proving to be popular to hate! ;) Oh well, at least it gives you something to do.
 
Duke of Wellington Thanks ...Well, I hope I can still make it interesting´, although it probably wont be to difficult with this war ^^

gorjak before I can annex Bohemia, I need to beat them first, it's still in an alliance with france and at war with me ;)

Specialist290 Wow thanks, if that isn't the biggest compliment one can get :D
Don't worry, I don't plan on stopping right now ;)

CSK Well, its much cheaper bb wise that way :p
But youre right, its looking really bad, but don't worry, it gets worse :D

stynlan Well, I would be happy with a little less to do .. maybe one france less? :cool: