Chapter 14: Drumbeats...
This update (and the next) required a couple of reloads due to complete brain farts - in one case, I started a war of humiliation on the wrong country (whoops, I didn't mean to call
you a corrupt megalomaniac, I meant the other guy...). One blown pause while walking away mid-war (hey, where's my army?), and a BSOD (I have a stick of RAM that needs replacing), so this has been rather interesting.
November 7, 1860: The Netherlands decides to have another go against Bavaria - and finds out what happens when Austria joins in and France intervenes. Due to French intervention, they escape with just a buttwhooping. On the same day, Portugal agrees to peace on the Status Quo - they don't have anything worth taking for the infamy.
November 21: Negele region is colonized.
December 18: Prussia's woes continue: Reactionaries enforce demands, returning the nation to an Absolute Monarchy. This helpfully clears their SoI. Now that we are both absolute monarchies, Prussia joins an alliance with us.
January 1, 1861: Socialist scum!
May 7: Yet again, Panjabi scum besiege our mission. We let it go and start putting them back in our sphere. Quite simply, we're too busy elsewhere.
August 7: This could be a problem.
November 5: We discover Functionalism. With 1870 approaching fast, we switch to State and Government - we need N&I and Machine Guns quick if we're to go after Austria and Russia and colonize.
May 9, 1862: Yemeni Anarcho Liberal rebels take over the government. I bet 95% of their population can't even spell Anarcho-Liberal.
May 1, 1863: To hasten Turkification, we enact Minority Building Restrictions.
May 9: USA annexes CSA.
February 11, 1864: Let bygones be bygones...unlike EU3, allying with secondary powers and civilized minors is rarely problematic.
March 22: Angry over their inability to spell Anarcho Liberal, Yemeni Reactionaries take over.
May 13: Spain has already taken coastal Ethiopia, and now wants part of Egypt. Too bad Egypt is in my SoI and allied. We call the Netherlands into the war so their navy can blockade Spain for me.
July 12: The Russians insult us, but it's not yet time to act against them.
October 19: Romanian Pan-Nationalists take power in Wallachia, and Moldavia joins. This gives me a 2 region satellite with no army, as opposed to 2 1-region satellites with no army.
October 25: The Spanish show off their military brilliance by sticking a large army in the desert. That's me reinforcing the army next door.
November 14: Werder is colonized. My new African possessions (ex-Ethiopian Negele, colonized Negele and Werder)
January 4, 1865: The only battle of significance in the Spanish war with us:
Mama tried:
July 7: Panjabi scum besiege our mission yet again. Grrr. Back into the sphere they go.
September 13: State and Government is researched - time for Nationalism and Imperialism. Time to eat some uncivs!
October 7: Spain agrees to white peace. It's time to prepare to knock our quarrelsome neighbors in the mouth and show them their place. Austria is first - Russia can mobilize more troops, so I want Austria taken care of first.
February 18, 1866: We are so great, we can send idiots to wander around Africa while preparing for war.
March 8: France declares war on Abu Dhabi to annex it. Argh.
March 20: Our armies are moved into position. We have 73/91 armies now (with 10 or so being built...
...so it's time to rock! We add a humiliate war goal to Wurttemburg to draw Austria (sphere leader) in. If Austria were smart, they'd stay out of the war, screwing me (since I can't walk to Wurttemburg), but they're not. Since I didn't declare on Austria directly, her sphere and allies aren't called.