what is the plan now there is no OE navy? Blockade the living daylights out of them?
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The name of your flagship is "Zeventien Provincien” but you do not control all 17... You'll have to make work out of that... 
that is a good victory for the Dutch Fleet, though i don't spose it will mean much. Will the Swedes acctually help?
Middelkerke said:The name of your flagship is "Zeventien Provincien” but you do not control all 17... You'll have to make work out of that...
Just a second, let me think up an explanation
...Ok, in the aftermath of the Burgundian collapse (Chapter 7), Luxembourg and Artois fell under French control. In Chapter 9 the Luxembourg nobility revolted against France and captured Paris, and were granted Artois in exchange for peace. They left French Luxembourg to settle in their new province.
With the formation of the United Kingdom, the Margraviate of Antwerpen was given its own seat on the States General separate from Brabant's, due to the city's importance as a trade center.
Later in the 1520s France retakes Luxembourgian Artois, causing the populace to ask for Dutch protection. Frederik retakes the province and incorporates it back into the States General, but because the provincial government is composed of Artois and Luxembourgian elites, their former seats in the SG are combined.
And since independent Hainault is a royal protectorate of the United Kingdom (independence guaranteed), they retain their voting rights in the SG.
So at the end of Chapter 19 the SG is back to seventeen provinces, and one of the five new men-of-war built since the end of the Franco-Dutch War was named "Zeventien Provincien" in honor of the situation, and subsequently used as Daendels' flagship.
(Granted, I'm basing the list of Seventeen Provinces off the Wikipedia article and my Britannica, so maybe I'm still missing one)
Will you anex all these little countrys? The bigger your continental holdings the better... right?
The Battle of Danzig
By the end of August, Frederik had weathered Orkhan Pasha’s attacks and successfully taken Rostock. The League forces had taken a heavy beating, however. Of the 34,000 League troops that had besieged Rostock, almost 13,000 had died on the battlefield from the Turkish attacks. Hesse and Lüneburg decided to retire from the battlefield, withdrawing what remained of their 10,000 men. Frederik was left with approximately 15,000 Dutch troops, and the remaining task of defeating a second Ottoman army and liberating Danzig.
With the Dutch Navy in control of the Baltic, he transferred the fresh Knights of Danzig from Stockholm to reinforce his army. He also ordered Admiral Daendels to organize the Dutch merchant marine for a landing in Turkish Prussia. The Catholic Elector of Brandenburg refused to allow a Justifier army to march through his territory, meaning that any attack on Danzig would have to come by sea. By October Daendels was able to assemble a fleet of 15 Dutch fluyts to transfer Frederik’s army to the mouth of the Vistula. From there, they would march on the Turkish army at Danzig.
Frederik landed at Elbing on October 2, eager to defeat the Turkish army and invest Danzig before the first winter snows. With the 3,000 Polish hussars in the vanguard, his 13,000 man army set out for Danzig. Defending Danzig were 10,000 Ottoman cavalry and six Janissary regiments, as well as a battery of the Sultan’s heavy artillery.
The Knights in the Vanguard
The Ottoman commander decided to use his heavy cavalry to the fullest, and marched his army out to meet the advancing Dutch and Poles on the plains of the Vistula. Frederik formed his infantry into regimental squares with pikes facing outwards in all directions, preventing the Ottoman cavalry from coming close. Arquebusiers within the square would then fire upon the circling Turks, inflicting heavy casualties.
Battle on the Vistula Plains
Meanwhile, the Polish Knights dueled with the Turkish Sipahis in close combat with lance, saber and pistol. Again and again the Poles charged the Turkish cavalry, with cries of “Dla Boga i Gdańsku!” - For God and Danzig! The Sipahis were finally driven back, allowing Frederik’s pikemen to rush the Janissary lines.
In the face of such opposition, the Turks withdrew, abandoning Danzig. Frederik sent what remained of the Knights to cut off their retreat into Hinterpommern. Tired and exhausted, the Ottomans attempted to make a last stand at the town of Bütow, only to be defeated once and for all.
Ottoman Pomerania now lay in the hands of the victorious League, but the war was not over. In the north the Turks had raised an army of Muscovite mercenaries, and were battling the Swedish king in Estland. And despite having lost two entire armies, the Ottomans still outnumbered the League three to one. It would take further fighting to convince the Sultan to concede.
The Ottomans in Estland
Next – War in the Indies
So the Turks have territory in Russia?
And war in the Indies?!?
The West Indies?!?!
With the Turks?!?!?
How Unexpected!!!
And war in the Indies?!?
The West Indies?!?!
With the Turks?!?!?
How Unexpected!!!
Alright, youve secured some land. How do you expect to actually GET that land in a peace deal?
EUROO7 said:So the Turks have territory in Russia?
And war in the Indies?!?
The West Indies?!?!
With the Turks?!?!?
How Unexpected!!!
There are two sorts of Indies...which is more likely to have Turks in it?
And the Turks just marched their troops through Muscovy, but I figured it made more sense that they'd hire a bunch of angry Russians along the way.
germanpeon said:
Well, we're going to have to show the Sultan the light of reason...although the Netherlands won't necessarily be the recipient of Pomerania, the Holy Roman Emperor might not want a member getting too powerful.
Great AAR. So far I do not own EU3, but reading this has convinced me that it plus expansions are definitely worthwhile.
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
So fredrick is at his best when he is outnumberd.. good to know...
Will you puppet danzig or anex it?
Will you puppet danzig or anex it?
but he does control flanders, although being part of the geographical Netherlands, never one of the seventeen. Alternative history...Middelkerke said:The name of your flagship is "Zeventien Provincien” but you do not control all 17... You'll have to make work out of that...
A Cork in the Bottle
A major source of the Ottomans’ wealth was their control of the lucrative Far East trade route, which traveled up the Red Sea to their ports in Egypt. Their control of both the overland routes and the major ports on the Indian Ocean meant that they had a monopoly on spices and Eastern goods in Europe.
The Dutch had long been interested in entering the spice market. In 1516 Queen Jeanne had established colonies at the Cape of Good Hope to provide a waypoint for traders taking the long route around Africa. The Ottoman route was more direct, though, and didn’t have to brave the treacherous African coast, so it was difficult for the Dutch spice merchants to compete. What had started out as a noble venture was now becoming an economic affair. Frederik saw an opportunity to end the Ottoman spice trade and replace it with his own.
As the League of Darmstadt prepared for war in Europe, a small fleet was assembled in Joannasburg of ships borrowed from the Dutch West India Company. Commanded by Captain van Walbeeck, the five ships would be sent north to attack enemy shipping and close the Red Sea by “putting a cork in the bottle.”
The expedition’s first targets were the rich East African kingdoms, which were allied with the Ottomans. Brushing aside the feeble dhows facing him, van Walbeeck blockaded first Mombasa and then Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam. The Africans quickly agreed to pay ransom in exchange for peace, and van Walbeeck sailed further north.
The Dutch expedition finally reached the mouth of the Red Sea in November, just as Frederik was entering a liberated Danzig. The five ships took up position in the Bab-el-Mandeb, preventing any shipping from passing through. 46 Arab merchant ships were attacked and boarded, with their valuables captured or set alight. As word spread of the attacks, traffic began to dry up. Within six months trade in Alexandria and Gaza had slowed to a crawl, putting more strain on the Sultan’s treasury.
Next – Frederik in a foreign land
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