Imperial Zenith - A Multiplayer AAR

The United States of America has had a frustrating beginning in the period of Victoria's upbringing and reign. Relations were built with the United Kingdom and our brothers in Texas. In fact both ourselves, the British, Spanish and French came to the aide of Texas in its defeat of Mexico in the Tex-Mex war. As a result we acquired California, while Texas acquired New Mexico.

We went onwards and colonised Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Oklahoma. From then onwards we concentrated on paying off the war debt we created -v- the Mexicans, whilst also building our influence across the Americas. We now hold Haiti, Hawaii, USCA, Venezuela, Uruguay, Bolivia and Ecuador in our sphere of influence.

After the Mexican war we also began improving our army. Many new regiments were formed, in anticipation of another war with Mexico. Indeed, an agreement was made with Texas in terms of dealing with Mexico and conducting a peace deal favourable to both ourselves and Texas. Therefore, USA will take Nevada-Utah and Texas Arizona. War was declared early in 1851 upon Mexico, but alas as soon as USA began invading Mexico, did the southern states declare independence from the Union. The Civil War had begun.

Faced with a war against large numbers in Mexico, as well as the chaos mounting in the southern states, the United States began to pull troops back towards the southern states. Accidentally, peace terms were negotiated and concluded between the US general in command of the forces in Sonores, and a white peace was reached. This arrangement probably pleased the Texans as well, as our efforts had heavily been hampered by the Civil War outbreak. Texas peaced with Mexico a month later, and now USA could fully concentrate upon defeating the Southern States.

Over the course of a year and a half, the Southern States were defeated and united back into the Union. In reality, the Southern States had no time to organise an army which could withstand the Union's well trained regiments. In fact thankfully due to Jacobin rebel activity in the North Eastern states, had the Union any divisions to bring into the field of battle in Virginia. As a result of such a position, the Union held the upper hand from the beginning. Reinforcements arrived from Texas in the form of a relief Texan army and the US armies who had been involved in the Mexican invasion efforts. They began taking back Louisiana and Arkansas, and working eastwards to link up with the other Union armies. By early 1853 the war was all but won and finally the USA was united again.

Now efforts are being made to continue the war effort against Mexico. The second invasion is being prepared!!​

Alamosa

~Introduction~

1836 did not start well for the Dutch people. Their King, William I, was struck by an instant insanity that would last until the later days of 1839. During his insanity he mainly spent his time carving phallic symbols out of cheese, and dressing up like a Russian woman.



~During William's insanity, the Stadtholder's reign~

Although Willam's personal interests during his insanity are most interesting, more important things happened to the Dutch nation. At the beginning of William's insanity the foolish stadtholder who replaced him for the time being called upon his advisers: He had a cunning plan.

The plan was to invade the rebellious Belgae living down south. The cunning part of the plan stopped existing at that point though, because the stadtholder failed to see that Belgium was in fact protected by Great Britain.

The Stadtholder was not elected because of his competence in world affairs. He was elected for the ruthless way he mastered the process of corruption.
As an effect of these unfortunate traits he was unaware of the country "Great Britain", and ordered the Dutch army to battle.

The Belgian armies held and the war failed utterly, which made The Netherlands lose all of their fleets in the West Indies, the North Sea, and the East Indies. The war also managed to eradicate every single soldier living on Dutch soil.

After the war was over the Stadtholder decided to levy many irregular troops in the East-Indies, which was part of his cunning plan in taking over the island of Hawaii in a thought-trough move of deception by utter stupidity.

Luckily, William's sanity was restored before the stadtholder could begin his stupendous adventure and William stopped dressing up like Russian women and carving up cheese. The Dutch rejoiced at the prospect of the Dutch nation rising on the world stage again.


~The continuation of William's reign~

William didn't have a pleasant return to the office. The first thing he did was banishing the stadtholder to a fertilizer factory. After this he decided it was time for better relations with France. An alliance was created. This was needed, since the Dutch home army was non-existent. He put much effort in recruiting soldiers by raising their wages, and telling his bureaucrats to focus their campaigns on raising new men for the army.

Unfortunately disaster struck: The Stadtholder's adventures had made many Dutchmen poor, and they sought to get out of their misery by turning to weed and magic mushrooms.

This in turn made some of them believe the future of the country lay in Anarcho-Liberalism, while others thought a reactionary policy should be pursued. The Dutch were clearly out of luck. First their king went insane, and then the common folk went crazy too.

Rebellions broke out. Without an army, William was helpless. Fortunately the old enemies of the Stadtholder, Belgium and Great Britain, offered help. Several rebellions were put down by the Belgians, which thereby became much admired by the King. The British papers proudly proclaimed "The Dutch people threw roses into the street ahead of the British soldiers, welcoming them as they brought peace back to the region.".

After creating a small home army to defend against rebels, he began reconstructing the Dutch fleets responsible for the defence of the home countries and the East-Indies. He also levied many Javanese soldiers in the East-Indies. He would soon have a use for them.

Since The Netherlands had dropped to a shameful 22th place in the list of the most awesome country in the world, William decided expanding the Dutch glory and wealth were of the biggest importance.

After consulting the British if they had any objections, he invaded the lands of Johore. The rich gold mines in this area would be a big help in expanding the Dutch armed forces, and paying off the huge debt.
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