A rise from the dead: The restoration of the kingdom of Naples.

Imperial Army · 05-08-2002, 00:27

In the year 2024, Iraq conquested the world, as you know. Along with Snow King, I was sent back to the past to correct this problem.
To give you info on why I was sent back. After 9/11 the U.S. hired mafia leaders to execute a number of Arabic leaders, Sadam Hussain, Usama Bin Laden as well as a few communist leaders, mainly China. To get back leaders of these countries hired mafia muscle to hit back at the U.S., G.B, France and Russia. Those created an endless cycle. The real winners, the Italian mafia. Slowly as Italia, Russia, and even american mafia leaders gained more and more political power the world became corrupt, and when there was a shoot out at a U.N., between the Chinese and American, the U.N. dissolved at the world secotors were formed. The Arabs were able to prosper due to the fact they had little mafia rule, so they wern't any more corrupt as they started. Terrorists merged together into enormous armies, topping 10 billion, many of which were little kids. African mercinaries were hired by them also, paid for with drugs so they were the most effective killing machine ever created. The final straw in the arabic takeover was the brakeup of NATO, due to secret German opperations after they secretly took contol of France, backstabbin the US and the Brits, creating a war whcih weakend the U.S. and Britain as well as the Central European power. It was this time North America seperated itself from the rest, adding Mexico to Canada and livin in isolation for 15 years.

My job is to go back in time, and create Italy and advance the infastructure of it too make the mafia never exist, atleast the Italians, so they wont be used for assasination in the future, as well as keep the Otoman Turks at bay in europe, too keep from the formation of Yugoslavia and other communist nations to prevent the cold war and make Italy strong enough to be a factor in WWI, so Russia does not loose and communism is never able to take hold there. (My goals for now are to unite Italy, and weaken establish a balkan presence).

I have been sent back at the same time as Snow King, and are scientists who have been sent back farther in time will merge are futures together to create are the world how we want it.

I have been brainwashed of most previous knowledge of mine, I only know Geography and my goals. I will fit in nearly perfectly with that time frame and think I am from then. I have been given a small box that will send a holographic image of myself to the king of Naples, so he will think im a ghost, and grant me power. To stay alive for 300 years, I have been given an aging pill which makes 1 year take in my aging equal to five years in real time, so things fly past to me.

Snow King · 05-08-2002, 01:48

I.A.
Sorry for stealing your plot

. It's great that I can have a clear conscience as you seem to be doing well enough with your story line. By the way, I wish you good luck with Naples. Strange about that time mixup. Maybe we created two parralel universes...

Yoghurt · 07-08-2002, 02:42

Waiting for your first move I.A.

Imperial Army · 07-08-2002, 03:19

1492-1500- The Sicilian war

I got up, dusted myself off and looked around me.
"What the F*** where am I"
"The kingdom of Spain errrrrrrrrrrrrr Naples" said the peasent
"Naples where is that, thought I was going to Genoa"
"Were south of the papal states and to the west of the adriatic.
"Well atleast I got Italy...........what year is it"
"1492, what is this hell, italy, you speak of"
"nevermind, wheres the palace"
he pointed to a very large barn
"well, there goes the world........" and with that I walked over there.

After I presented my little box I was the head advisor. I got around too asking why the peasent said Spain atfirst and learned they were there vasal, Nobles were quite fond of the idea, free gifts, food and women with plenty of protection. Oh yea, by this time I lost my memory.
Well a year into my rule, uneventful except for a new taxcollector in Naples, I finally talked the nobles into letting me DoW Spain, to end this vasal state we were in. So it came Febuary 1 1493. I took 5 loans at this time. The original point was to buy off Spain but they didn't like that idea. So I still built my refinery in Naples but put a tax collector in Apulia, constructed 3 warships and sent some traders to Novgorod.
But about the war. It started off very well with 2 easy victories in Messina but it would take me untill June too capture the province. The rest of 1494 gave me 3 battles, first a loss in Sicily, then when my first group of artillery hit the battle field in Messina in October I won, then repeated this in Sicily a month later. Oh yea, we went bankrupt in April 1494 uh-oh.
1495 started off VERY nicely. The best RE possible for us right then happened. The deflation one. AHHHH no more 25%. Couple that with are win in Sicily and the first month of the year was great. April had are brewery finished. YAY beer for everyone. And are soilders would need it when they saw that Spanish army that just hit Messina. OHNO. May saw the Mameluks annexed by Turkey, good for later plans. The rest of the year wasn't nice for me or Turkey. I lost twice in Sicily, and Turkey was DoW'd by P-L, Venice and Persia.
1496 saw are first real reinforcements. Giving us 4 wins in a row, good thing they were like forces of 3,000 men. France decided to get Calais bake and the usually suspects agreed. 1497 was nice, we got Sicily giving us 3 stars now so I ask for Messina, no luck. Lost Messina to a huge Spanish army (9/2/3) and saw them heading for me. I took 50 gold from em and ran.

FINAL WAR STATS- Time-4 years....Battles-12....Record 9-3...losses Spain- 20,000 estimated....Naples-5,000 plus 5 cannons. Peace treaty- Naples gets 50D.

In July 1497 I learned something. EVERYONE HATES ME. To prevent WWI Italy cant be hated. Plus allies are desired. So I arranged alot of Royal Marriages through this period. Including Spain (want an alliance), Austria (they like me), Hungary (possible anti-turk), Parma (hopeful vassal), Georgia (hit turkey in the back)
Venice (anti-turk), France (incase Spain doesn't happen and I wanted too see there war with Spain, which just started). Also figured out I was poor, so lets trade, sent merchants to Andalusia and Venice (not much income to send them with).
I decided with my Refinery trade wasn't big to invest on, and I already had decent infra, nor did I care too much about it. So 90% of income to LT and 10% to naval. France started winning there war, getting 250D from France plus annexing the Swiss (well this isn't good for history) Oh yea, good news Spain finally let me in to there huge alliance, lets hope I dont get dragged into countless uselss wars. I just hope a nice war with France can give me a free shot at the pope. 1499 saw the French alliance win again, Navarra getting cash from Lorraine. and I finally hit LT4, without too long to wait for 5.

Usually ill post tech levels and how long till the next, but so early in the game you can imagine it.

Morlac · 08-08-2002, 05:59

Oops -- sorry for not announcing my presence earlier. I am, of course, following this AAR.

IA-- did you consider staying a vassal of Spain? It might have made things difficult, true, but it wouldn't prevent you from gaining vassals of your own. And you could have gotten out of the alliance w/o breaking the vassalship. (Decline to participate in a war, or DOW someone they wouldn't DOW...)

I'm wondering what would have happened. Could you have dissuaded Spain from ever attacking you by staying a vassal, or would they have taken big stability hits to DOW you every time? Or at the least would you have been able to get them to take the stab hit for breaking the vassalship? I wonder...

Imperial Army · 08-08-2002, 15:22

I thought about staying a vasal.

But if im not mistaken they cant get in RM or any other alliance (this might be wrong, but im pretty sure about the RM) and since I was hated to begin with.

I also thought they get a portion of your income (obviously not too much as I think it changed like 2 gold per year)

It would have taken me years to get them to DoW me.relations start at +140......

Besides Im in there alliace now anyways, I just got out of a would have been bad war with France (they would have taken a hit at me IMO)

Yoghurt · 08-08-2002, 22:55

I have always wondered, what does IMO stands for?

Imperial Army · 08-08-2002, 23:09

IMO-in my opinion

Imperial Army · 09-08-2002, 23:08

1500-1515

I sat back in my chair, in the year 1513 and looked at the maps of the known world (we hear reports of other countries but I cannot locate them) The world was rather boring lately. Well are little corner atleast. I was reviewing reports I had gotten for the past 12 years or so, ever since they considered me the true country head. Various military reports showed France had grown adding Artois, then re-adding Helevetia after there successful rebellion, as well as our faithful allies Cologne. Savoy, which now included Calais, was now also there vasal. Several other unconclusional was had also been fought, mainly ending in money payments, the biggest one was between the Knights with there allies vs the Turks and theres. Money passed hands but no land but Parma had grown from this mess, atleast millitarily as there army tripled ares. The turks have expanded and subtracted at different fronts. They lost Kosovo (Venice) and Syria (Persia) and Dobrudja (Poland) but gained Croatia and Serbia from the Hungarians. Russia, some orthodox country that seemed important too me but we didn't have regular communication had attacked some khans but we only know there names.
Nothing major developed diplomatically except for the vasalage of Savoy to France, and the unvasalation of Prussia from Poland.
I then began too look over financial records, with a heavy sigh. We still were sup-par really. Earning 7.7 or so per month, 3.5 from trade, 2.4 tax and 1.8 production. Are main focus for trading has been Venice, Andalusia, Novgorod and some small trade in Flandres and Genoa. We didn't have a great position in any of them but Novgorod. And we still didn't posses a cot. The only bright side really was our Refinery which started producing profits in 1505.
I was quite happy looking at our technology report though. I had stressed this as our most important goal since we were at peace. We had made huge strides since 1500 in all fields. Our armies had level 5 technology on land and level 4 on the high sea. No upgrades are projected soon. All our money had been going into land technology save the little we put in for the navy. Infrastructure hit level 4 just days ago and quite some time ago we reached that mark in trade if only we had a cot to embargo someone.
As for our defence, we saved the money up to build ourselves a grand new fort for our capital, but we still lacked solid troops having just 6,000/1,000/25 to save ourselves in case of war.
"Uncle, Unclehelp" I wipped around from my studies too see my good friends daughter, 16 of age, standing there half naked crying.
"What happened too you, who did this"
"The pope, The pope, h-h-h-he..."
"I understand, CALL THE GENERALS" We then quickly went to war meetings.
"WE CANNOT INVADE" said a secretary of small imprtance "I agree" said 2 or 3 of the council members "We simply dont posses the troops..."
"Our current recon shows they papal states have no troops"
"But they can raise them"
"FINE, give me 15,000 infantry with 10 additional cannons and meet me in Napals, The pope has been hiding behind the cross for protection and we now learn hes made friends with the moslems of Tunisia, WE MUST STOP HIM. He's leading all of catholocism to the ground, the Turks are expanding into the balkans yet he does nothing, we must act on him and show him for what he is".

At that I set out for Rome, personally with the army given orders to invade July 21, 1513. With the current attack plan of: A unit of 6,000/0/5 too the capital of Rome, were I will meet them and lead the siege. a large group of 9000/1,000/25 to attack the only well fortified city, Emilia too the far north and a second group of 6,000/0/5 to go to the port provence of Romanga.

I simply walked up to the pope the morning of July 21st and handed him this note

We, the kingdom of Naples here by Declare War on the scandol rocked Papal States in order to save the Catholic world from your lieing and misleading ways. We will stop at nothing short of complete and total annexation of your country. May you rot.

With that our troops were off to fight a very short and easy war. There were no pitched battles and it ended March 10th after Romagna finally fell. My final looses of this war were 700 men. I gained 10 warships and 4 transport ships as well as more then doubled the size of our kingdom. The pope however brainwashed the rest of the world into hatting us after the annexation so I took a hit in relationships. Also with the new Navy and my army increases we could no longer afford to pay the army the full costs of keeping it, so maitenence had to be cut to 50%. All were small side effects of what we helped defend.

Morlac · 09-08-2002, 23:27

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperial Army
I thought about staying a vasal.

But if im not mistaken they cant get in RM or any other alliance (this might be wrong, but im pretty sure about the RM) and since I was hated to begin with.

I also thought they get a portion of your income (obviously not too much as I think it changed like 2 gold per year)

It would have taken me years to get them to DoW me.relations start at +140......

Besides Im in there alliace now anyways, I just got out of a would have been bad war with France (they would have taken a hit at me IMO)

You're right about the RM and alliance, of course. For some reason I didn't think about that...

They do get part of your income, but it might be from the annual tax. Can't remember which offhand.

Relations can always be decreased for free very easily with the otherwise useless diplomatic insult options....

Yoghurt · 10-08-2002, 19:31

Nice victory over the Pope

Imperial Army · 10-08-2002, 22:20

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

I"VE BEEN ANNEXED. Damn Turks GRRRRRRRRRR

Robb · 10-08-2002, 22:57

Life as we know it is gone.

J. Passepartout · 10-08-2002, 23:14

Darn! Now the Iraqis have only one man in their path.

Snow King · 11-08-2002, 02:36

Oh, that wasn't me was it? BTW, how the heck did you get annexed!? Isn't this EU 1? How the heck can you get annexed? Or did I wander into EU 2?

Anyway, I can take comfort that it isn't my Turkey. Any way, you can take comfort that Turkey is tremendous, and the fragmentation of the Ottomans that led to Iraq's independence will probably never occur.

Morlac · 11-08-2002, 03:00

My condolences on the untimely annexation. Just can't keep those wacky Ottomans down once they've gotten the urge for some Italian food...

If you want to continue the AAR without just reloading back to a save and avoiding the war, you might consider loading to your last save and switching nations. That way you can write it into the AAR as your narrator making a desperate flight for his life out of Naples and seeking refuge in Country X...

Or just start a new AAR

Imperial Army · 11-08-2002, 03:49

Im startin a new one as Frances right hand man. Savoy.

I turned myself off as a major and thus was allowed to be annexed. Played with the files.

If anyone is wondering how, It was only 5 years after my last post, Spain DoW'd the turks, I honored and they simply ran a 120 stack through my contry in less then a year (they had already annexed Venice) Just assault assault assault. And they refused peace both times and I ran out of Diplomats............

Yoghurt · 11-08-2002, 12:41

Hmm, maybe they didnt like the cats you send them

Imperial Army · 11-08-2002, 16:42

Quote:

Originally posted by Yoghurt
Hmm, maybe they didnt like the cats you send them

Must have been it............

Dale · 12-08-2002, 00:55

It's a pity that when in the Spanish or French alliances that you can get dragged screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOO" all the way into useless wars that you can't avoid, but have to pay for.

05-08-2002, 00:27	#1
Imperial Army Major Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 534	A rise from the dead: The restoration of the kingdom of Naples. In the year 2024, Iraq conquested the world, as you know. Along with Snow King, I was sent back to the past to correct this problem. To give you info on why I was sent back. After 9/11 the U.S. hired mafia leaders to execute a number of Arabic leaders, Sadam Hussain, Usama Bin Laden as well as a few communist leaders, mainly China. To get back leaders of these countries hired mafia muscle to hit back at the U.S., G.B, France and Russia. Those created an endless cycle. The real winners, the Italian mafia. Slowly as Italia, Russia, and even american mafia leaders gained more and more political power the world became corrupt, and when there was a shoot out at a U.N., between the Chinese and American, the U.N. dissolved at the world secotors were formed. The Arabs were able to prosper due to the fact they had little mafia rule, so they wern't any more corrupt as they started. Terrorists merged together into enormous armies, topping 10 billion, many of which were little kids. African mercinaries were hired by them also, paid for with drugs so they were the most effective killing machine ever created. The final straw in the arabic takeover was the brakeup of NATO, due to secret German opperations after they secretly took contol of France, backstabbin the US and the Brits, creating a war whcih weakend the U.S. and Britain as well as the Central European power. It was this time North America seperated itself from the rest, adding Mexico to Canada and livin in isolation for 15 years. My job is to go back in time, and create Italy and advance the infastructure of it too make the mafia never exist, atleast the Italians, so they wont be used for assasination in the future, as well as keep the Otoman Turks at bay in europe, too keep from the formation of Yugoslavia and other communist nations to prevent the cold war and make Italy strong enough to be a factor in WWI, so Russia does not loose and communism is never able to take hold there. (My goals for now are to unite Italy, and weaken establish a balkan presence). I have been sent back at the same time as Snow King, and are scientists who have been sent back farther in time will merge are futures together to create are the world how we want it. I have been brainwashed of most previous knowledge of mine, I only know Geography and my goals. I will fit in nearly perfectly with that time frame and think I am from then. I have been given a small box that will send a holographic image of myself to the king of Naples, so he will think im a ghost, and grant me power. To stay alive for 300 years, I have been given an aging pill which makes 1 year take in my aging equal to five years in real time, so things fly past to me. __________________ ICQ 194597301

07-08-2002, 02:42	#3
Yoghurt a.k.a. Sole Defender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Yogutopia Posts: 1,702	Waiting for your first move I.A. __________________ ..........

07-08-2002, 03:19	#4
Imperial Army Major Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 534	1492-1500- The Sicilian war I got up, dusted myself off and looked around me. "What the F*** where am I" "The kingdom of Spain errrrrrrrrrrrrr Naples" said the peasent "Naples where is that, thought I was going to Genoa" "Were south of the papal states and to the west of the adriatic. "Well atleast I got Italy...........what year is it" "1492, what is this hell, italy, you speak of" "nevermind, wheres the palace" he pointed to a very large barn "well, there goes the world........" and with that I walked over there. After I presented my little box I was the head advisor. I got around too asking why the peasent said Spain atfirst and learned they were there vasal, Nobles were quite fond of the idea, free gifts, food and women with plenty of protection. Oh yea, by this time I lost my memory. Well a year into my rule, uneventful except for a new taxcollector in Naples, I finally talked the nobles into letting me DoW Spain, to end this vasal state we were in. So it came Febuary 1 1493. I took 5 loans at this time. The original point was to buy off Spain but they didn't like that idea. So I still built my refinery in Naples but put a tax collector in Apulia, constructed 3 warships and sent some traders to Novgorod. But about the war. It started off very well with 2 easy victories in Messina but it would take me untill June too capture the province. The rest of 1494 gave me 3 battles, first a loss in Sicily, then when my first group of artillery hit the battle field in Messina in October I won, then repeated this in Sicily a month later. Oh yea, we went bankrupt in April 1494 uh-oh. 1495 started off VERY nicely. The best RE possible for us right then happened. The deflation one. AHHHH no more 25%. Couple that with are win in Sicily and the first month of the year was great. April had are brewery finished. YAY beer for everyone. And are soilders would need it when they saw that Spanish army that just hit Messina. OHNO. May saw the Mameluks annexed by Turkey, good for later plans. The rest of the year wasn't nice for me or Turkey. I lost twice in Sicily, and Turkey was DoW'd by P-L, Venice and Persia. 1496 saw are first real reinforcements. Giving us 4 wins in a row, good thing they were like forces of 3,000 men. France decided to get Calais bake and the usually suspects agreed. 1497 was nice, we got Sicily giving us 3 stars now so I ask for Messina, no luck. Lost Messina to a huge Spanish army (9/2/3) and saw them heading for me. I took 50 gold from em and ran. FINAL WAR STATS- Time-4 years....Battles-12....Record 9-3...losses Spain- 20,000 estimated....Naples-5,000 plus 5 cannons. Peace treaty- Naples gets 50D. In July 1497 I learned something. EVERYONE HATES ME. To prevent WWI Italy cant be hated. Plus allies are desired. So I arranged alot of Royal Marriages through this period. Including Spain (want an alliance), Austria (they like me), Hungary (possible anti-turk), Parma (hopeful vassal), Georgia (hit turkey in the back) Venice (anti-turk), France (incase Spain doesn't happen and I wanted too see there war with Spain, which just started). Also figured out I was poor, so lets trade, sent merchants to Andalusia and Venice (not much income to send them with). I decided with my Refinery trade wasn't big to invest on, and I already had decent infra, nor did I care too much about it. So 90% of income to LT and 10% to naval. France started winning there war, getting 250D from France plus annexing the Swiss (well this isn't good for history) Oh yea, good news Spain finally let me in to there huge alliance, lets hope I dont get dragged into countless uselss wars. I just hope a nice war with France can give me a free shot at the pope. 1499 saw the French alliance win again, Navarra getting cash from Lorraine. and I finally hit LT4, without too long to wait for 5. Usually ill post tech levels and how long till the next, but so early in the game you can imagine it. __________________ ICQ 194597301

08-08-2002, 05:59	#5
Morlac Major Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Montclair, NJ USA Posts: 571	Oops -- sorry for not announcing my presence earlier. I am, of course, following this AAR. IA-- did you consider staying a vassal of Spain? It might have made things difficult, true, but it wouldn't prevent you from gaining vassals of your own. And you could have gotten out of the alliance w/o breaking the vassalship. (Decline to participate in a war, or DOW someone they wouldn't DOW...) I'm wondering what would have happened. Could you have dissuaded Spain from ever attacking you by staying a vassal, or would they have taken big stability hits to DOW you every time? Or at the least would you have been able to get them to take the stab hit for breaking the vassalship? I wonder... __________________ "Ahistorical" isn't a pejorative. Author of Best EU1 AAR June-October 2002 Ongoing but On-Hold AAR: Denying the Devil His Due, a Spanish IGC (EU1) AAR

08-08-2002, 15:22	#6
Imperial Army Major Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 534	I thought about staying a vasal. But if im not mistaken they cant get in RM or any other alliance (this might be wrong, but im pretty sure about the RM) and since I was hated to begin with. I also thought they get a portion of your income (obviously not too much as I think it changed like 2 gold per year) It would have taken me years to get them to DoW me.relations start at +140...... Besides Im in there alliace now anyways, I just got out of a would have been bad war with France (they would have taken a hit at me IMO) __________________ ICQ 194597301

05-08-2002, 01:48	#2
Snow King Colonel Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: ? Posts: 829	I.A. Sorry for stealing your plot . It's great that I can have a clear conscience as you seem to be doing well enough with your story line. By the way, I wish you good luck with Naples. Strange about that time mixup. Maybe we created two parralel universes...

08-08-2002, 22:55	#7
Yoghurt a.k.a. Sole Defender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Yogutopia Posts: 1,702	I have always wondered, what does IMO stands for? __________________ ..........

08-08-2002, 23:09	#8
Imperial Army Major Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 534	IMO-in my opinion __________________ ICQ 194597301

09-08-2002, 23:08	#9
Imperial Army Major Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 534	1500-1515 I sat back in my chair, in the year 1513 and looked at the maps of the known world (we hear reports of other countries but I cannot locate them) The world was rather boring lately. Well are little corner atleast. I was reviewing reports I had gotten for the past 12 years or so, ever since they considered me the true country head. Various military reports showed France had grown adding Artois, then re-adding Helevetia after there successful rebellion, as well as our faithful allies Cologne. Savoy, which now included Calais, was now also there vasal. Several other unconclusional was had also been fought, mainly ending in money payments, the biggest one was between the Knights with there allies vs the Turks and theres. Money passed hands but no land but Parma had grown from this mess, atleast millitarily as there army tripled ares. The turks have expanded and subtracted at different fronts. They lost Kosovo (Venice) and Syria (Persia) and Dobrudja (Poland) but gained Croatia and Serbia from the Hungarians. Russia, some orthodox country that seemed important too me but we didn't have regular communication had attacked some khans but we only know there names. Nothing major developed diplomatically except for the vasalage of Savoy to France, and the unvasalation of Prussia from Poland. I then began too look over financial records, with a heavy sigh. We still were sup-par really. Earning 7.7 or so per month, 3.5 from trade, 2.4 tax and 1.8 production. Are main focus for trading has been Venice, Andalusia, Novgorod and some small trade in Flandres and Genoa. We didn't have a great position in any of them but Novgorod. And we still didn't posses a cot. The only bright side really was our Refinery which started producing profits in 1505. I was quite happy looking at our technology report though. I had stressed this as our most important goal since we were at peace. We had made huge strides since 1500 in all fields. Our armies had level 5 technology on land and level 4 on the high sea. No upgrades are projected soon. All our money had been going into land technology save the little we put in for the navy. Infrastructure hit level 4 just days ago and quite some time ago we reached that mark in trade if only we had a cot to embargo someone. As for our defence, we saved the money up to build ourselves a grand new fort for our capital, but we still lacked solid troops having just 6,000/1,000/25 to save ourselves in case of war. "Uncle, Unclehelp" I wipped around from my studies too see my good friends daughter, 16 of age, standing there half naked crying. "What happened too you, who did this" "The pope, The pope, h-h-h-he..." "I understand, CALL THE GENERALS" We then quickly went to war meetings. "WE CANNOT INVADE" said a secretary of small imprtance "I agree" said 2 or 3 of the council members "We simply dont posses the troops..." "Our current recon shows they papal states have no troops" "But they can raise them" "FINE, give me 15,000 infantry with 10 additional cannons and meet me in Napals, The pope has been hiding behind the cross for protection and we now learn hes made friends with the moslems of Tunisia, WE MUST STOP HIM. He's leading all of catholocism to the ground, the Turks are expanding into the balkans yet he does nothing, we must act on him and show him for what he is". At that I set out for Rome, personally with the army given orders to invade July 21, 1513. With the current attack plan of: A unit of 6,000/0/5 too the capital of Rome, were I will meet them and lead the siege. a large group of 9000/1,000/25 to attack the only well fortified city, Emilia too the far north and a second group of 6,000/0/5 to go to the port provence of Romanga. I simply walked up to the pope the morning of July 21st and handed him this note We, the kingdom of Naples here by Declare War on the scandol rocked Papal States in order to save the Catholic world from your lieing and misleading ways. We will stop at nothing short of complete and total annexation of your country. May you rot. With that our troops were off to fight a very short and easy war. There were no pitched battles and it ended March 10th after Romagna finally fell. My final looses of this war were 700 men. I gained 10 warships and 4 transport ships as well as more then doubled the size of our kingdom. The pope however brainwashed the rest of the world into hatting us after the annexation so I took a hit in relationships. Also with the new Navy and my army increases we could no longer afford to pay the army the full costs of keeping it, so maitenence had to be cut to 50%. All were small side effects of what we helped defend. __________________ ICQ 194597301

10-08-2002, 19:31	#11
Yoghurt a.k.a. Sole Defender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Yogutopia Posts: 1,702	Nice victory over the Pope __________________ ..........

10-08-2002, 22:20	#12
Imperial Army Major Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 534	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I"VE BEEN ANNEXED. Damn Turks GRRRRRRRRRR __________________ ICQ 194597301

10-08-2002, 22:57	#13
Robb Corporal Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Doha, Qatar, from Texas Posts: 156	Life as we know it is gone. __________________ Robb

10-08-2002, 23:14	#14
J. Passepartout Shah Space Invader Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 4,208	Darn! Now the Iraqis have only one man in their path. __________________ Herr Passepartout und Austria Tales da iberia- Portugal Sultans of Swing- Kingdom of Jerusalem. Little Green Men Timid Timurids? The Post-Lenkh Years; or I was a teenage dictator The Golden Pig and the Concrete Porker: A Rather Silly Story

11-08-2002, 02:36	#15
Snow King Colonel Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: ? Posts: 829	Oh, that wasn't me was it? BTW, how the heck did you get annexed!? Isn't this EU 1? How the heck can you get annexed? Or did I wander into EU 2? Anyway, I can take comfort that it isn't my Turkey. Any way, you can take comfort that Turkey is tremendous, and the fragmentation of the Ottomans that led to Iraq's independence will probably never occur.

11-08-2002, 03:00	#16
Morlac Major Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Montclair, NJ USA Posts: 571	My condolences on the untimely annexation. Just can't keep those wacky Ottomans down once they've gotten the urge for some Italian food... If you want to continue the AAR without just reloading back to a save and avoiding the war, you might consider loading to your last save and switching nations. That way you can write it into the AAR as your narrator making a desperate flight for his life out of Naples and seeking refuge in Country X... Or just start a new AAR __________________ "Ahistorical" isn't a pejorative. Author of Best EU1 AAR June-October 2002 Ongoing but On-Hold AAR: Denying the Devil His Due, a Spanish IGC (EU1) AAR

11-08-2002, 03:49	#17
Imperial Army Major Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 534	Im startin a new one as Frances right hand man. Savoy. I turned myself off as a major and thus was allowed to be annexed. Played with the files. If anyone is wondering how, It was only 5 years after my last post, Spain DoW'd the turks, I honored and they simply ran a 120 stack through my contry in less then a year (they had already annexed Venice) Just assault assault assault. And they refused peace both times and I ran out of Diplomats............ __________________ ICQ 194597301

11-08-2002, 12:41	#18
Yoghurt a.k.a. Sole Defender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Yogutopia Posts: 1,702	Hmm, maybe they didnt like the cats you send them __________________ ..........

12-08-2002, 00:55	#20
Dale Second Lieutenant Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 172	It's a pity that when in the Spanish or French alliances that you can get dragged screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOO" all the way into useless wars that you can't avoid, but have to pay for.