Chapter 5: Stuff!
El Presidente inches yet further to our first brigade. He suspects that 3 brigades are possible in the next few years. It seems like his planned Glorious Imperial Army of the Most Serene Presidential Dictatorship of Deseret (GIAMMSPD) will compose of mainly Native American troops. This is just as well, many of the natives in this area are well known for their combat prowess. At least, with sticks and rocks. Now give them a gun...
An officer for the future GIAMMSPD has died, and yet another one rises to the title of leader. He is heroic, and says yes to everything. The troops under his command will, for some reason, forget all the experience they've earned in war. Not that it makes a big difference...
Austria somehow is holding out, still with -2% warscore, is managing to make some of Prussia's underlings go bankrupt. Good for them.
Bad that we can't do anything about Frankfurt not paying their debts, though...
The Great Powers list, a few years after the last one, shows some usual things happening. The Ottoman Empire and Spain, after centuries of decline, have at last fallen in status. Bavaria, awesomest state of El Presidente's homeland of Germany, is rank 7 among world powers. Two Sicilies, the wretched inheritors of the vestigial Roman Empire, have taken over Spain's role.
North America in 1842. Deseret is in the Sphere of the mighty USA, and maintain good relations with their former masters in Mexico.
Yay, we can now start refining our vast Iron income from the (best in the union) State of Nevada into Steel! ... With our single craftsman!
Now, as per El Presidente's plans, Mormon capitalists shall devise a way to clean off the blackness from coal and make it shiny and squeaky.
Yea, this is pretty self explanatory. Look at how productive we are. We're a powerhouse. We produce more than all of the US's factories combined!
I still can't figure out why Grain is our greatest export when our land is mostly only good for shrubs and cactuses...
El Presidente jumps up an down like a busty schoolgirl when seeing this. He accepts wholeheartedly, Empirico de Mexico is now a good friend of the Mormon Dictatorship.
Wait, we're in a sphere with the US as well! Let's raise relations and ally with them!
THEN LETS FORGET TO TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF US ALLYING THE UNITED STATES. EL PRESIDENTE RULES, ETC
Stats of the USA. (taken before alliance)
Stats of Empirico de Mexico.
Explosives should improve mining efficiency, since that's what dynamite is for... but oh well...
The budget of Deseret sinks ever so lower. El Presidente is getting depressed again.
YES. ASSIMILATE THE NATIVES.
I know. Relatively boring update.
