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A good milestone. Too bad Stalin was assasinated, he could have been of use in other ways I feel.

As for Italian Monarchy, I see no reason why it wouldn't have survived, matter of fact the Kaiser most likely would support it's retention, even if the Italian Public dosen't.
 
The Sultanate went downhill after Suleiman married the Ruthenian, probably some disposition to mental disorder in the family and the whole business with the Cage didn't help.

Sultanate went down pretty much later Suleiman's marriage, tho Suleiman is given credit for the downfall, due to the assassination of his most skilled son.

Cage didn't help, true, but some good sultans like Young Osman (dunno what he is named internationally), I. Abdülmecit or II. Abdülhamit can be seen.

Also, sultans with mental disorder were quickly taken care of.
 
Finally finished this update, there is a very big history of Italy in the 20th century (very ahistorical) so if your not in for a big read then just skip ahead the first paragraph (the big one) and go onwards to read about Social democrats and homesexual smear campaigns ...
 
Re d'Italia – The Italian Monarchy

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Victor Emmanuel III was crowned King of Italy in the year 1900. He oversaw Italy’s alliance with Germany and Austria prior to the Great War and the betrayal of that alliance during it. After the war many Italians felt hard done by with their minor gains following the war and Benito Mussolini’s Fascists swept to power in 1922 following the March on Rome. Despite being an ex Socialist Mussolini was keen on keeping the monarchy in place and indeed actively supported it. The new Fascist government seemed to go from strength to strength yet their isolation on an increasingly ‘Red’ continent and after the fall of Yugoslavia to Josip Broz (Tito) in 1926 made Mussolini paranoid about Communist expansion and all Communist Party members and suspected Communists were either exiled or executed from that year onward. Yet the unabated rise of the ideology continued even in Italy as a large underground Communist movement began to emerge to question the government. After the French Communists came to power in France in 1932 Mussolini saw little choice but to give all the support he could to the like minded Nazis following their attempted coup of 1933. This would be the decision that, ultimately, destroyed the Fascists as huge amounts of public funds streamed across the Alps towards Hitler’s Munich base. Although coming close to total victory in the early part of the war, Hindenburg’s recalling of Ludendorff from retirement to marshal the defense of the Saar and Rhineland and also his the destruction of all bridges over the Elbe would save the German Republic. From then on the war only got costly for Italy and worse for the Nazis, and in the summer of 1934 any confidence that was left in Mussolini’s government was crushed after the infamous Munich Massacre in which Nazi Brown Shirts pillaged their own city, killing 15,000 and making thousands more homeless. After this the Communists sniffed opportunity and quickly seized the initiative in the south of the country as a mixture of revolutionary workers and peasants as well as dissenting army units and foreign volunteers raced up the peninsula. Rome fell on November 21st and Victor Emmanuel III was captured. Not wanting to seem as brutal as the government they were fighting against the Communists settled for the humiliation and abdication of the King followed by an exile to the Netherlands (where he became reacquainted with Wilhelm II). As the last Fascist strongholds fell in April 1934 after Mussolini was hanged by a mob in Milan Italy joined the Comintern, the manner in which the Communists were swept to power by the people and toppled an undeniably evil government became the hallmark image of the Communist Revolution but would never be repeated again. In 1935 after Haile Selassie’s army shot down an Italian plane flying between Italian Somaliland and Eritrea the Italian army invaded Ethiopia and in 1936 it was incorporated in the Italian overseas provinces. Things then remained relatively quiet for Italy until the outbreak of WWII in 1940. In the early stages of the war Italy was on the frontline, having failed to prepare its army a small German force waltzed into the north almost unopposed until it reached Milan in the west and Ferrara in the south. With their army now in place a brutal trench war took place in northern Italy for many months. Meanwhile they faced utter defeat in Libya to a much larger and superior British army but with troops from Africa they mounted one of the most successful offensives against Germany of the war. Several hundred thousands Italians landed in Dalmatia in early 1941 and wreaked havoc behind the German lines, coming within hours of taking Venice (which would have lead to the entire German Panzer force being destroyed) yet after heavy casualties on both sides the Italians were beaten by the end of the month. Within a couple of months of this German launched Operation Legionnaire which captured all of mainland Italy. The Communist government would linger in Sicily for another year before falling to the first ever Fallschirmjäger drop of early 1942.

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Later that year the new Italian state came into existence, with Victor Emmanuel reinstated, it had lost all its overseas territories as well as the Tyrol and Venetia but it did gain the Savoy from France and compared to the other major players of the Comintern (France and the Soviet Union) it got off lightly.

Whilst the Communist Party was universally illegal in the Berlin Pact the Socialist Party was not and after gradually regaining support the Social Democratic Party won a large majority in the 1946 Italian elections. The Party was strongly anti-Monarchist and the King was very unpopular but with blessing form Berlin he held onto his ailing power. Over the course of 1945 and 47 the Italian government slowly reduced the power of the King, hoping they could eventually have him removed. Then on December 27th Victor Emmanuel III passed away leaving the door open for the abolition of the Monarchy.

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Crown Prince Umberto was know as a petulant fool who, although more popular in Italy than his father, had gone out of favor in Berlin after making frequent complaints about the extent of German influence in Italy and once calling for the return of Venetia to Italy. Thus Wilhelm III opted against doing anything to stop the Italian Government setting up a referendum on the future of the Monarchy and whether to found a new constitution. This non-interventionist stance would also likely improve Germany’s image to the world as a benevolent protector of Europe rather than its tyrannical master.

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Whilst the victory of the Abolitionists (anti-Monarchists) was never under any real doubt however the manner in which the won the referendum was callous and disrespectful. There was a large smear campaign against the Prince, claiming that he was a homosexual and a number of men were brought forward as witnesses to that effect (yet all retracted their remarks fallowing the vote) many in the Berlin Pact showed their disgust for this ‘dirty campaign’ by the Italians and the Kaiser himself condemned it. He has not been against removing a monarch but to treat him so disrespectfully was sacrilege, sadly nothing could be done for poor Umberto he was offered the title of Duke of Wilno by the Kaiser and decided to accept it, traveling to his new home in early 1948. The Italian government now appointed a President in the place of the King and even though it was secure at home the international opinion (even that of their allies) was at a very low level.
 
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Umberto really looks like "his majesty." It would be almost impossible for me to think him more like "His gayness". So prestigious outlook :rofl: :rofl: It's sad to see Italy turn into democracy. Monarchy has that coolness factor. The same thing that has forced me to love the battleships. The coolness ;).

And hell yeah, you can write well. Great update again.
 
Umberto really looks like "his majesty." It would be almost impossible for me to think him more like "His gayness". So prestigious outlook :rofl: :rofl: It's sad to see Italy turn into democracy. Monarchy has that coolness factor. The same thing that has forced me to love the battleships. The coolness ;).

And hell yeah, you can write well. Great update again.

I found out about the gay smear campaigns when reading the wikipedia article on Umberto II apparently Mussolini had a big folio of blackmail about it incase his father went out of line and there was lots of allied propoganda about in during the war and the anti-monarchists used it to smear him during the RL referendum. So I decided to shuve it in for some more flavour in the referendum.

If you love battleships then you'll love the next update which is going to be a battleship building Kreigsmarine roundup extravaganza! :p
 
The Kriegsmarine – Pride of the German People

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Shortly after the end of the War of the Turkish Constitution, as one of his last major acts before losing in the 1947 election Meissner commissioned 6 mighty Battleships for the Kriegsmarine. In terms of power they dwarfed anything every seen before, designed with combat against aircraft carriers in mind their armour would be all but impenetrable and their guns carried a great range. Another anti-carrier aspect to the new design was the equipping of antiaircraft batteries to each and every ship in order to give them that little bit of extra edge over enemy aircraft carriers.

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The great need to increase the size of the vessels was demonstrated by this photograph above showing a model of one of the new class beside a model of the earlier planned Bismarck Class (which was cancelled due to the need for funds to be put into the Reichswehr).

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With the leading vessel (the Bismarck) weighing in at some 92,000 tons the newly named Kaiserliche Class Battleships truly were the Queens of the Sea. At the launching ceremony in Danzig on Spetember 8th 1948 their new commander (Admiral Albrecht) escorted the Kaiser himself out into the Baltic Sea. Everyone from Chancellor Heuss to the Emperor of Manchuria were present at the great celebration of German military might and the presence of these mighty ships seemed to be repaying their cost in propaganda alone.

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The Kaiser would pinpointed this parade as one of the happiest moments of his reign, always having had a love of the navy and especially of Battleships the idea that he now owned 6 ships that were twice the size of their main competitors was quite simply too much, some reporters say they saw the most powerful Monarch on earth shed a tear during the short day’s voyage in the Baltic. This would be the last hurrah of the Battleship, no more were laid of even planned by Germany or any of the major powers and the Kaiserliche Class would undoubtedly be the ultimate evolution of the battleship. The parade also marked the end of the great Kriegsmarine construction push that had been in progress since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1942, during which time Germany had gone from a shipbuilding novice to a maritime superpower.

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The New Kriegsmarine was centred around 3 main fleets: The 1st Battlegroup was the largest fleet by some way and commanded by Grand Admiral Raeder, the 2nd Battlegroup was the weakest fleet with just 4 capital ships yet it was under the command of the up and coming Admiral Donitz, the Grand Battleship Fleet was really an unknown quantity if its enemies could find a tactic to destroy the mighty Kaiserliche Class Battleships then it would likely become useless but if the failed to do so then these Queens of the Sea could rule the Oceans unopposed. Compared with the launching of the combat fleet the creation of the Kriegsmarine Submarine Core was highly un-publicised yet Germany now had one of the world’s most advanced and powerful submarine fleet with two main fleet of 12 wolfpacks each. The New Kriegsmarine was ready to meet any challenger but funding for future constructions was cut down drastically following the completion of the Grand Battleship Fleet, nether the less 6 of the most modern aircraft carriers on earth were now under construction in German shipyards in a hope of bolstering the now ageing German aircraft carriers already at sea.

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One question for the readers: I have alomst 10 screens for force comparisons (which is next), do you want everything in one humungous update or 3 or 4 smaller ones where I can go into more detail?
 
One question for the readers: I have alomst 10 screens for force comparisons (which is next), do you want everything in one humungous update or 3 or 4 smaller ones where I can go into more detail?


I say , go for smaller ones where you go in to detail! :)


By the way, are you planning on building any heavy or light cruisers?
 
You should get a Kaiserliche Armada for every big ocean of the world. :rolleyes:
And if you run out of ship names, just ask for some from your very dear readers. :D

Why not rename it Deutsche Friedensmarine, Kriegsmarine sounds so brutal and warmongerisch. :rolleyes:
 
BBs are good!

What about submarines?
 
So the Monarchy lost because Italy was released Social Conservative?

Anyways, a rather lame thing they did to win that campaign, at least Umberto was given solace in Wilno.



Me thinks your BB's will rule the seas. Nothing can stop them.


I go for more detail too.
 
I'd pick couple of shorter instead of one huge BANG.

Those ships are sooooooo cool. In fact, I've never played any of my games that long to see level IX Battleships :rofl:. I'd be scared as USA. Anyway, have you checked the US army. What have they produced? Do they have an army? Or do they just have 100 carriers but nothing else? :D
 
I say , go for smaller ones where you go in to detail! :)


By the way, are you planning on building any heavy or light cruisers?

I'm a bit behind on Heavy Cruiser techs so I wont be able to afford them for awhile whilst light cruisers have been too expensive for my fleets so far but they might accompany my new carrier fleet thats due at the start of 1950.

You should get a Kaiserliche Armada for every big ocean of the world. :rolleyes:
And if you run out of ship names, just ask for some from your very dear readers. :D

Why not rename it Deutsche Friedensmarine, Kriegsmarine sounds so brutal and warmongerisch. :rolleyes:


some of the carriers in production have names like ''Hermann Goering'' so they will require new names ;). But not for some time.


BBs are good!

What about submarines?

I have two fleet of 12 subs that are the highest tech before nuclear


So the Monarchy lost because Italy was released Social Conservative?

Anyways, a rather lame thing they did to win that campaign, at least Umberto was given solace in Wilno.



Me thinks your BB's will rule the seas. Nothing can stop them.


I go for more detail too.

When I released Italy they ahd a King but I think they get an event that removes the king.

I'd pick couple of shorter instead of one huge BANG.

Those ships are sooooooo cool. In fact, I've never played any of my games that long to see level IX Battleships :rofl:. I'd be scared as USA. Anyway, have you checked the US army. What have they produced? Do they have an army? Or do they just have 100 carriers but nothing else? :D

USA has built an enormous and powerful army on top of its scary navy :eek:



Anyway I'm going to do 3 or 4 updates for force comarison: 1 for Berlin Pact, 1 for Soviet Union and either 1 with Uk and USA or 1 each