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Laburnum

Second Lieutenant
Jan 14, 2014
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Anhalt

Welcome to first AAR I am making, I will be playing as the German little Anhalt. Very small country. My AARs will not be so talkative as others as my English is not the best, straight to the point from me but please do not think I am unfriendly because of slow English! I am using new 1.4 for this so maybe so colonist?
My plan is to have a whole a whole alphabet of AARs. Starting with A, Anhalt. I will now begin my evaluation of the Anhalt.

Anhalt has one province, not many but easily expandable in the direction of the arrow in black through other one province.

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However many dangerous nations lurk around, my main concern in white arrows.

1) Saxony and Thuringia, Thuringia in a personal union. Very aggressive from my experience, hopefully will not attack me too much before I can bite back.
2) Brandenburg, could potential enemy however in my experience is often occupied fighting Teutons for Neumark and are often quite nice, a possible strong ally to start though may become superfluous after a short while and I will one day take them over too.

Madgeburg is my first target as it has a look of a vulnerable country, one province, small army. Few mercenaries and I eat it.

I will not be restarting or save reload so one chance, if I die I die and such is how the world wants it but I will try my hardest to bring glory to Anhalt. Hope you can join me and see you in Chapter 1 soon!
 

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Subbed! Lead the great Pink nation to justice! :D
 

Laburnum

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Chapter 1 - Nov 11 1444 - Feb 24 1449

As Anhalt my first decision is to find allies, as I mention Brandenburg is a good choice, also Brunswick because they are near Madgeburg.

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Whilst diplomat works on claim in Altmark I begin to try and make friends with the big emperor: Austria. Through a wedding.

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Now we have claim, Altmark will be ours, Madgeburg has however got two strong alliances: The Hansa and Saxony, Saxony may be a large problem depends on who joins with me.

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Both my allies joined me, on the Madgeburgian side they have both their alliances too. The Hansa may leave us alone but Saxony will definitely not.

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Madgeburg got a bit big for its boots and decided to attack me in my home whilst I was preparing, sadly for those, I have allies that were already prepared!

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I captured Altmark quickly and I could end it now but I had a smart idea.

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My idea is if I vassal the Saxons for two reasons: easy expansion and it get a big enemy away from me. In other news I now have an heir, this is good as otherwise I would fall into personal union with Austria! And he is not bad heir either, bit lacking in diplomacy however.

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Few more battles to wipe out small Saxon armies, want to siege Saxony, the capital.

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Bad times though, the Brunswicks made some silly enemies and now at war with Oldenburg, no problem for me so I join to be nice.

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Large Saxon army just stood in Potsdam while I take their capital, they are stupid for it. I now own Saxony but not enough for a vassalisation because they own Potsdam.

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Saxon army decides to have a go at attacking whilst we siege Leipzig, once again hey fail and I follow them to Potsdam and finish the job.

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Sadly Hanseatic army finally comes down and we are forced to hide out in Thuringen and siege there, whilst there rebels attack in Anhalt!

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Luckily for me the Oldenburgs from the war with them came down with friends with intent to take Anhalt, they defeat rebels for me! Thank you Oldenburg.

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Soon after I am still sieging Thuringen and Oldenburg makes peacetaking away half my ally Brunswick, oh well could be worse for me.

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Another small battle happens against Saxons, we win of course, we are the best.

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Now big battle happens with Hanseatic, we win once again and they retreat back to seaside in Lubeck.

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Brandenburg decides "no more war can't be bothered" and surrenders to Saxons, this has effect that Potsdam is no longer in Saxon hands, we can now vassalise the dirty Saxons!

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Also make peace with Madgeburg, full annex, we don't mess around.

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Mission complete!

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Now here is a map of good Anhalt lands and dirty Saxon land that we control, a regency is probably coming so we will have time to allow us to regain respect and to annex Saxon scum, long live Anhalt!

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Quite the conquests for little small Anhalt! :) anything in the HRE we should know about yet?
 

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Great job so far with Anhalt! I always enjoy games as German minors, and I can't wait to see what else you are going to do.
 

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Great job so far with Anhalt! I always enjoy games as German minors, and I can't wait to see what else you are going to do.

Thank you very much, next chapter will arrive shortly.
 

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Chapter 2 - Feb 24 1449 - Jul 11 1457

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No.

After my recent war a small coalition has formed against me: Luneburg and the now single Thuringia.

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After a short while a core has formed in Altmark, good times!

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It's always scary when the big powerful countries become the Papal Controller!

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We now have enough strength to rival many mediocre size nations, we have a large army. Well two horses and four men.

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The Iberian Wedding happened but I accidently closed it before printscreen. Here is proof. Strangely this time Naples was not involved and Navarra is still independent!

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Also I got a claim on Wittenburg and started on Luneburg, no-one coalitions against me.

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Rebels happened in Anhalt, lost original battle but went back later and win.

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Claim on Luneburg has finished and now I can declare war, Brandenburg joined but no Brunswick, stupid weak traitors. On enemies side is the other member of the coalition: Luneburg and also Thuringia's ally Hesse, no big problems now I am larger.

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Start by wiping out armies, Only Hesse has an army after I finish my massacre.

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One very large battle happened, we won of course we are the best.

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Now we have the coalition in a siege state, however we do not have enough to siege into Hesse.

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First to fall is Luneburg, I will annex them in the final treaty.

Now I just have Thuringia to siege, they are split in two by dirty Saxon horde so is easy sieging, Hesse has reclined and are saying "Can't be bothered you're on your own".

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Thuringen fall first and goes to Brandenburg, congratulations to them I guess.

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Finally Wittenburg is falling and it is time for peace. What will I take.

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I take Wittenburg and Luneburg, this is a sign you should not coalition me unless you're willing to die, poor Luneburg with it's pretty heart flag.

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Bremen starts telling me off for being bad and coalitions me. I never liked them.

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Here is a map for you, we doubled in size this time, Austria will now return to hound us again I think.

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Damn Habsburgs. ;)
 

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Chapter 3 - Jul 11 1457 - Dec 27 1467

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No.

People are getting a small bit upset at me, whatever I guess I reap what I sow.

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Coalition declares war, very scared. The Hansa is very powerful for small size

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Here is the line up, and my troops weren't even ready for battle. I decide on a clever tactic...

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Bribery.

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Now silly Brandenburgs decide that war was all my fault and break our alliance. It become evident to me I need better allies to deal with the future.

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Cores finish, people of Hanoverian culture are now accepted by me.

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I now begin to annex vassal: Saxony, they will take a while.

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King of Brandenburg has died now I have no ties with traitor scum and I have room for new ally, and I have an idea who...

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Success, we are now best friend with Bohemia. A big country like that will hopefully deter future bad times.

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King dies, regency in power, luckily not long.

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Only one year. And new king is great, his heir even better.

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Finally Austrians accept alliance with me, we have had royal marriage for many year.

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Some coalition members decide they are bored of being angry at me so leave, good times for me.

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My traitor friend Brandenburg has managed to get core: Neumark. Maybe they will become threat?

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Oldenburg continues it's crazy takeover of Germany, they are one to watch. May be good vassal.

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Got my first cardinal, would like to get the Orleans out of Curia power, they are scary.

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Saxony annexed, good new provinces, another slot for another vassal open, have plan but next chapter.

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Bremen leaves coalition, only Hansa alone now. silly Hanseatic I can take them alone..

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Another map, note Brandenburg lost Neumark in a war against Poland, they were trying to takeover Mecklenburg and it went badly.

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Take the capital of Ming. You know you want to...
 

Laburnum

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Subbed, this is a great AAR.

Thank you, I am big fan of your AARs with their clever ideas.

Take all provinces in the world producing Iron.

Seems a bit difficult though I suppose I did ask you to take all wine province in your Chimu, so I will consider.

Take the capital of Ming. You know you want to...

I do want to though I hear it has become difficult to expand into low technology areas.
 

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Chapter 4 - Dec 27 1467 - Sep 24 1474

Before I explain my new plan for this AAR, let us tidy up the rubbish.

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Very good, now I will explain. I have decided this AAR needs direction, a goal if you will. For my first AAR I have not gone overboard, here it is:
  • Own at least one provine of each letter of the alphabet.
  • Every letter must be join to Anhalt by land by the end.
I know it is not too crazy ambition but that is because I have another 25 AARs planned and I don't wish to waste the best on the first.

After my amazing demolition of Thuringia Brunswick was so impress they decide to be our vassal, our first ally and only one to never betray us!

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We have 2 "A"s and a future "B" so we are to find "C" now, I have chosen one but it's quite long away. Meet Cuneo:

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Is owned by Savoy over in Italy, I have planned a route there, may be modified at a later date but this is the idea:

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First Austria wants help with a baby war, I say yes but not really going to bother.

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The Polish see I am good and with ambition and want in, I give them what they ask for.

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Claim finishes on Bamberg and Austria makes peace, my journey begins with war on Bavaria.

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Didn't even have to fight at all this war, Bohemia is doing it for me.

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I manage to get a siege in every province, it's very easy when Bohemia is there.

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Two out of six provinces of the way to Savoy, very good!

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Sadly this brings back the bad coalition, The Hansa has lost Lubeck though so not as bad. Hope you like the plan I think it is fun.

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