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A History of the World According to Paradox - A Hands-Off AAR, Part Three

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Poor Byzantium, but this is what you get when you don't annex your damn vassals and westernize in EU3, you become everyone's punching bag.

The messy borders in Germany (and elsewhere) really always make me wish for an annex Cultural Sphere/Puppets decision in exchange for Infamy, It'd certainly make maps much better looking without player intervention.
 
Unsneferu said:
What's Mali's relationship to France and Frankfurt? If Frankfurt goes for Germany, they'll hopefully deliver on a Great War - wonder how Mali would intervene? Play the role of America and tip the balance?
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Well, in the 1880's, Mali has actually been allied with Frankfurt, though alliances tend to shift a lot more in V2 than in EU3.
 
dragoon9105 said:
Poor Byzantium, but this is what you get when you don't annex your damn vassals and westernize in EU3, you become everyone's punching bag.
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Actually, trying to annex its vassals is how it went over the badboy limit, and that's what really caused it to collapse in EU3. That and the incredibly long and costly war against the Timurids that gave it horrendous inflation.
 
The Americas, 1882-1888

The Americas were largely a peaceful backwater for much of the 2nd half of the 19th century. Aside from French-English wrangling over the southern part of South America and Denmark's attempts to reconquer its former colonies in the eastern part of the continent, a sort of Pax Etruriana had descended over most of the Western Hemisphere.

The peace was broken by Denmark once again 1882. It seemed a reprise of previous conflicts with Denmark invading Argentina which was once again defended by its loyal allies in Brazil. But circumstances had changed drastically since the previous war. Argentina had taken advantage of the conflicts in Europe to sell an image of itself a peaceful and free nation abroad, and had welcomed many immigrants. By 1882, the population was well over three million, five times what it had been in 1865. Brazil had not grown quite as fast but its population had doubled and now exceeded a million.

The Danes badly miscalculated the size of army they would require for victory in South America. Unwilling to risk transporting too much of its force to South America lest its enemies in Europe pounce, it sent an army of 35,000, slightly smaller than the one that had crushed Argentina twenty years before. But this time, it was far from sufficient. Though the South Americans took heavy casualties, losing over 40,000 men, the Danish force was annihilated in 1885. By the end of the year all of Danish South America was occupied by Argentina and Brazil.

Danish South America, 1886:


But the South Americans did not have the strength to hurt Denmark overseas and the pacifist Partido Socialista in Argentina had no stomach for hard bargaining. Peace was declared in 1886 with the same borders that had been there before. Even so, it was the greatest success any of the former colonies in the Americas had achieved in war with Europe.

The Argentinian success inspired the fiercely nationalist president of Peru to strike out at Bremen, which controlled an isolated area of jungle and savannah on its eastern borders. If he was aware that Bremian La Paz was a key source of tropical wood for the luxury furniture manufacturers of Frankfurt, he must have presumed that Etruria's protection would dissuade Frankfurt from acting to preserve Bremen's control of the sparsely populated region.

His assumption was proved false when Frankfurt and Bohemia declared war. Though Peru successfully brought its army--which exceeded the entire population of Bremian La Paz--across the mountains, in Europe the war was a disaster. Etruria was already involved in a war with Mali and could ill afford to fight its powerful northern neighbor. The Winter of 1887 saw devastating Frankfurter victories at Milan and Bergamo and an Etrurian attempt to open a second front in Bohemia had failed.

Invasion of Bremian La Paz, 1888:


Etrurian-Frankfurter War, 1888:


The Etrurians were forced to pay humiliating reparation payments that included surrendering the North American province of Pennsylvania to Bremen. With that defeat, Etruria's ability to protect the western hemisphere was called into question. But Argentina had proved that the New World nations could stand on their own, as their populations grew.

By the 1880's, the USA had more than 12 million people, surpassing Leinster to become the most populous nation in the hemisphere. And it was no longer merely a supplier of raw materials; more and more craftsmen came across the ocean to find work in the growing factories of Winnipeg and Fort Severn.

As the 1880's came to a close, a very different world appeared to be emerging. Two hundred years of European dominance seemed to be coming to a close as African and Asian nation ros to rival them. Though no nation of the Western Hemisphere could be taken seriously as a military threat yet, the industrialization of the USA had surpassed that of all but a handful of European nations.

Etrurian North America in 1889:

 
the U.S. has a few cores but they're in totally random places--parts of Texas and western Mexico. In any case, since they still haven't built any regiments. It appears that they can't get small arms or canned food, maybe because they're in Etruria's sphere.
 
That Byzantium will barely survive at this rate ...
i'm cusions to see if France can consolidate those horrendous borders.
 
Peru sending more troops than there are people to a region. I could only imagine what that meeting was like....
 
Sounds like the US has been enjoying some (hard coded) immigrants, how politically liberal are they? That is a massive population boost, reminds me of what could be achieved with Uruguay in Victoria!
 
Politically, the U.S. has gone as liberal as possible. Socially, they've got good schools and an acceptable minimum wage, but not much more, despite currently having a socialist government.

In Victoria 2 terms they sprawl over 5 states, but Manitoba is the only one that's entirely theirs. More than half the population lives in Manitoba and American Ontario. Despite all those immigrants, either they're assimilating incredibly fast or only getting almost all of them from a few countries because they're 88% Irish, 11% Rheinlaender.
 
Huh, that's surprising, when I saw their national value was order I had expected them to be more conservative. Honestly, I was hoping for Leinster, with the national value of liberty, to take their place, but it appears one cannot avoid a manifest destiny. They still have no army you say? Virtually all their pops are Irish? I am still holding out hope that Leinster annexes them.
 
I feel vad for poor Byzzies. But it is awesome to see them roflst5omped by Mali again and again.
 
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