PART 2: 1850-1859
On March 17, 1850, I decided I was going to try to make an AAR. What convinced me was what seemed about three seconds before hand an incredibly trivial happening. Tripoli went bankrupt. I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and noticed, that Tripoli was Libya, which the Ottomans owned. So, I traded my two provinces I owned in Meccah, for a coastal province in Ottoman Libya. I landed two divisions of infantry, and a cavalry division, and DoW's Tripoli. Three months later, I pushed the Annex button.
I picked up a bit of prestige, but that's not what I wanted. I intended to sell Tripoli piece by piece to the Ottomans, for cash, tech, and land. What follows, are the screenshots of the three "Libyan Talks".
Sorry about the pretty bad quality of these pictures, they should be better in the future. Sold, bought.
The plan was, I was trying to help Greece grow, and become a stronger nation, but once I realized that Greece was a lost cause, and did not have any cash, techs, or colonies to pay for the land, I sorta gave up. I really don't want that Mediteranian land, I'd much rather have it go to Greece, but when the Scramble for Africa starts, I'll sell it to the UK or something for some African provinces.
Anyway, I allied the Ottomans, and started preparing for the inevitable, which happened:
My military was split into the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Armies, of 30,000 infantry, and 10000 cavalry each:
I mobilized my reserves, jumped in, and started attacking an unprepared Finland. My ally Prussia, decided to dishonor our alliance.
Anyway, by the end of May, 1854 I had reinforced my three armies with 4 reserve infantry divisions each, along with creating a four-division reserve army, and had established a front, with the 2nd Army getting ready to link up with the 1st Army in Tarku:
This is where things went wrong. Great Britain, France, Sardinia, AND the Ottoman's all white peaced out on the same day, June 14, 1856. I was left alone to fight one very, very angry Bear. So, the same day I counted 500,000 Russian troops about to advance into Finland, I gave up all hopes of grabbing all the provs in the Greater Finnish Peninsula, paused the game, prayed for five minutes, saved, and offered peace, taking all off occupied Finland. Mother Russia said:
So ended the Crimean War. After I demobilized my reserves (which for some reason, the game refused to let me deploy more than 20 of my 23 divisions
), reduced army spending to minimum, and settled down to build defenses all along the Russian border, while simultaneously begging Russia to forgive me so they don't steamroll me in five years. Ahh well. The Swedish situation at the end of the Crimean War, mid 1855:
Those two Finnish lumber mill's really helped...
For some reason, it won't let me train army techs any more (any ideas?
) so I did a switcheroo with Prussia:
The only other exciting thing that happened from 1855-1859, was me sitting there, cleaning my room, waiting for my steel factory to produce enough so I could click the build railroad button. Man I need a Liberal Party. by December 31's 1859, all of Scandinavian Sweden is covered in experimental railroads, with the capital and surrounding provs having early railroad. The general stuff of Sweden, December 31, 1859: