Chapter XIII: "Prussia's Final Curtain (1922-29)"
Just realized that Bavaria also has the "assert hegemony" casus belli. Hmm let's see, Prussia is severely wounded, our mutual border is in dire need of plastic surgery... hmm...
I got it: We need to destroy Prussia to prepare a unification of Germany under Bavarian leadership!
I like my chances, especially considering my much stronger allies.
This is the plan of attack:
Seize the cut-off Prussian Provence to the south, quickly eliminating the enclave of Sigmaringen and grab Alsace-Lorraine. Hold the rest of the line. Or to be more precise, first rush armies into the bordering territory of Prussia's allies (some German minors). Why? They will immediately mobilize. If I reach their ground before they can do it, their mobilized divisions will be destroyed on the spot.
First battles:
Prussia's army proved more resiliant and formidable than I had expected. Every victory was costly and we didn't plan on reserves. I had to quickly raise the defensive budget. Bavaria is in danger to bleed out! The strategy of destroying the minors before they could mobilize worked rather well. Soon Prussia was on her own.
The war took two more years though. Not because of Prussia's resistance, but a costly diplomatic blunder on my part. By accepting peace with all of her allies, I had no access to the eastern half of Prussia! Since I wasn't contend with asserting hegemony, but also demanding Alsace-Lorraine, I had to beef up my warscore.
After almost two years of diplomatic efforts, I could get Braunschweig to allow me military access. My armies immediately flooded Eastern Prussia and forced them to sign a peace deal.
Now 80% of my army was stuck in Braunschweig with no way home, d'oh again!!!
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What followed was another dick move by Austria, grabbing Brandenburg with Prussia's capitol Berlin pushing Prussia out of the Great Powers.
Two Sicilies was as cowardly as the Habsburgers and invaded me with only 20% of my army in Bavaria. Constant commie rebellions pushed Bavaria to the edge of destruction.
Two Sicilies invaded with over 200 brigades and I had to invent the elastic defence well before von Manstein. Where ever a Sicilian army appeared, I entrenched my remaining forces nearby in mountaineous terrain and lured them into the trap. It worked because they constantly had a numerical superiority. I had the terrain, fortresses and my best leader. Slowly but surely the Sicilian armies shrunk and when I finally brokered a deal with two neighbours, I unleashed my previously trapped main armies.
Were it not for the ever increasing rebellions and my high infamy, I would have pistol whipped Sicily. So I decided to only humiliate them (for 0.8 infamy) and make peace.
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Next phase: German unification
After my glorious victory over Prussia, about 10 neighbours wanted to become my allies which I accepted. Now I only had to sphere the remaining German minors to trigger the unification.
Then the crown was offered my again by the people. This time I took it, deciding to bury the monarchy with Bavaria. The new Germany should become a democracy and even the most liberal people should always be reminded that the Bavarian monarchy achieved everything they had today.
Seven years remain and I have big plans left. Many Southern American countries are almost in my SoI and I have to get Brandenburg back from Austria. The remaining years should be interesting.