Defeat before Dismemberment - AAR thread

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England 1574 – 1599​

Elizabeth I

During the reign of the Virgin Queen, England continued to deflated and expanding trade income colossal.
Brave English explorers explored all of the seven seas, and soon Queen Lizzy could proudly announce that every seazone was known by England. Quality British merchants filled the newly discovered cots and fantastic tales about dark continents reached England, leading to a new wave of settlers embarking for adventures elsewhere.
Frobisher, Raleigh, Cavendish and especially Sir Francis Drake will be remembered as daring and noble heroes in Britain.

All seemed to be fine and dandy in the peaceful world, but with the end of the 16th century nearing, dark clouds started to form beyond the sky. French and Brandenburger clouds.

It turned out that France secretly had prepared a massive army at the border of Austria, together with their lapdog Brandenburg. Without any warning they unleashed hell in 1589 and almost half a million troops swarmed over the Rhine border, which saw peace for generations.

The Austrian forces were squashed like a bug and quickly raised Venetian enforcements also could not stop the onslaught. England stood up for her allies tough and secured some remarkable victories with an expedition force in Brandenburg. Ultimately a large French army arrived and send the force back to home, but not before it had picnkicked before the very walls of Germany!

In the New World, any German resistance was crushed as well, with even the legendary Fort BoB surrendering to England.
Unfortunately, we had to accept a white peace, because of Venice. But, Lizzy promised herself, Fort BoB will one day see an English garrison inside her walls!

In the meantime, large investments took place in the British army and navy, for we need to prepare for another surprise dow by the French-Brandenburger axis.

 

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England 1574 – 1599​

secured some remarkable victories with an expedition force in Brandenburg. Ultimately a large French army arrived and send the force back to home, but not before it had picnkicked before the very walls of Germany!

That the 80K that lost to 15K Brandenburgian troops?

 

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That the 80K that lost to 15K Brandenburgian troops?

Well, if soldiers are picknicking it's easy to take them by surprise. Won't happen again.

 

[Seen]

Ottoman Empire

1574 – 1599​

The poor sultanate was in a state of dispair wenn its new advisor came to office. Trade was nonexistend, army demoralised and governors unkown in the inflation plagued empire. Luckily the tax incomes could gave decent basis for the hardneeded investments. In the early years the army was expanded threefold and put to use to subjegate the Khazak Horde who had the insolence of being dowed by our vassal mongolia! Clearly the horde was no match of the janisaries and it was quickly vassaled.

In the mean time the Sultan thought it would be a good idea to annoy those pesky russians by blocking them in syberia. A small "colonial war" followed invoving both parties using natives to destroy the others colonies and tps. In the end of course OE won and blocked it efficiently but for some reason Russia found the famous "northern route" and started colonising from the east !

This , and the brutal occupation of Azerbedjan could not be tollerated by the empire and war was declaired! Intial victories were unfortnatly immidiatly turned in great landgrabs so the war dragged on for far longer than needed, Our friend in Sweden who had the same hatred against the russians was more succesfull but slow to really distract Russian Khozaks. Finally after manouvering a lot a famous russian conquestador was tricked in syberia and it was efficiently controlled by the empire. After that the armies with this morale impulse utterly destroyed the main russian army and chased it halfway into russia. As a sign of its power the Sultan decided to demand all of syberia and some russian provs to start negotiations, but to its surprise this first peaceoffer was accepted! Even more glory for the muslims!

With this extra glory vassal after vassal accepted OE supremacy. New followers to the true faith were created in Saudi Arabia and more vassals to show off with.

Too its shock the advisor noticed Marocco was vassaled by the infidel in Porto. Luckily for them it got distracted wenn its loyal vassal..euh...friend Venice was brutalty attacked by imperial France.Troops all the way from india and syberia made there way to italy and fought in one battle and heped sieging anoter, but the sheer apperance on the battlefield must have frightened the French and WP wisely signed!

Al Akbar


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I got tons of pictures i will post in later if you promise to watch them

 

[BiB]

We promise

 

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Archduchy of Austria

1599 - 1624​

The tensions between France, Brandenburg and England, Venice, Austria led to a war between these blocs. Austria joined later the war due to the bad shape of his army. At this time the war was already decided and only a little skirmish happened at the French-Austrian border. Unfortunately the tensions maintained after the war. Therefore Austria decided to maintain furthermore a great army. The impressions of the wars against France triggered a discussion under the Austrian generals which resulted in the decision to transform the Austrian army from a defensive army into an offensive force. Moreover we took the last two claimed Provinces from Poland.

At this time Europe was differed into two types of countries of economical progressiveness. On the one side there were the sophisticated national economics of France, Venice, England and the Ottoman Empire. These countries were great powers due to their economics and able to determine the fate of Europe. On the other side there were the countries which had a bad economy and were minors. Austria was situated between these two groups of countries whereas he can rather be counted as a member of the first group. Already in the last century Austria has tried to hold pace with the first four countries. The Austrian government succeeded to implement a capitalistic system with high trade and production efficient and has followed the other nations in the new world. The only things which Austria lacked at the beginning of the 17th century were manufactories. Because of the many refineries England, France and Venice had already built, Austria was forced to focus on another branch. So Austria specialized on the weapon fabrication which seemed to be an excellent decision due to the rich sources of iron in Austria and the opportunity to supply a greater army which was always needed because of the French threat. Our second goal was to improve the trade income which is vitally for an economical power. In the past century Austria had created good requisites in order to be able to reach the goal. We have established a colonial empire with trade centers and have gained control of the centre of trade in Wismar. Furthermore we opened an additionally centre of trade in Vienna. And indeed we have been able to improve our trade income at 400 percent. Additionally we also improved our production efficient and finished to implement the reform of the judiciary. Now in every province a chief judge control the abidance by the law which boosts the economy due to the higher legal security. At the end Austrian economy was quite strong in all areas and was able to approach closer to the economical powers.

Unfortunately the high concentration in economical affairs neglected the Austrian navy. Although we had good relations with Portugal, they attacked us. Now we are in a war for years. Until now the Portuguese administration has refused even to discuss peace…, but we hope that we can return to our former good relations.
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gift to the state, please

 

[Ampoliros]

Who Rules The Waves? (1599 - 1624)​

At the dawn of the XVII. Century the general levels of tension in europe had once again reached the explosionpoint. From Paris to London, from Venice to Vienna there was a vague and terrifying feeling of anger and frustration. The peoples clamoured for war and sure enough.....they should have it.

Drôle De Guerre - The Strange War
Scornfuly spiting all the efforts France had made to sustain the general peace in Europe Venice and England suddenly declared war in 1600. Soon after the first battles it became increasingly clear in which disadvantaged position France was in this conflict. For one thing Venice had constructed a massive fortification-defense on their western border and this - together with a massive cavalry army of 120.000, sationed in Genoa - made an offensive against Venice very difficult, even hazardous indeed. Especialy so as France lacked decent generals at this time. Henceforth the fighting shifted to the colonies and as France lacked a serious fleet it was forced to watch helplessly as Venice and England occupied the french colonies in the Seychelles and the West Indies. The anglo-venetian attack on Afrique Central Francais was thwarted, however, leading to the complete defeat of Raleigh´s Expeditionforce and it´s ultimate withdrawal....with it´s tail between it´s legs.
The French Highcommand then decided to send a relieffleet to the West Indies, which were under heavy attack especialy by England. 100 warships with 40.000 men aboard set sail for the magnificent isles of the Carribean. Alas, fate frowned on France this time for, although some smaller english fleetdetachments were initialy defeated, once their mainfleet arrived there was little to be done besides retreating as the french fleet was outnumbered 4 to 1! Tragicaly in the following great seabattles the french fleet was sunk or set ablaze - from 100 ships not one made it back home to La Rochelle!
After this catastrophic naval defeat it was seen as pointless to continue the war and hence envoys were sent forth in order to negotiate a peace with honour. This task was most difficult as England´s Monarch seemed to be of the most greedy and dishonourable sort. His demands just kept on rising and rising and for a time things seemed bleak indeed.
In this dire hour, when France was already facing multiple foes, the cowardly Archduke proved once and for all that he did not possess any honour whatsoever. He declared war on France and started an offensive which can only be described as pathetic. For, contrary of what the Archduke in his naive dreams might have thought, the french continental army was fully intact - it had in fact not fired one shot in the entire war! 150.000 french soldiers were immediately sent to the austrian frontier to deal with the attacking army of 100.000. With ease the austrian peasants were beaten back over the Rhine and then defeated again in Darmstadt. After these defeats the spineless Archduke agreed to sign a White Peace. His treacherous backstabbing was by no means forgotten by France. It was decided there and then that Austria would be punished severly for their insolence and lack of integrity. At the same time a breakthrough was achieved with the other two combatants which allowed an end to this terrible war...
In the Peace Of Venice France was forced to cede Nice to Venice, which was acceptable to France as the people of Nice were of italian culture anyway and Cap Francais (Puerto Rico) to England. This, on the other hand, was a serious blow to french prestige. It was a deliberate insult by the old King of England, who luckily was soon ousted by a new and altogether more honorable monarch with whom a decent diplomatic solution to this problem seemed likely.

After the smoke had cleared a thorough analysis of the war was ordered by King Henri IV. What had gone wrong was the core question of this analysis. What had been the reason for defeat? The answer was soon found :
The french navy had been way too weak both in quantity and quality.

This vulnerability was subsequently rectified in the following years. Almost 500 warships were constructed and great advances made in navaltech.
With 480 warships France has - at present - the biggest navy in the entire world which, commanded by the capable Admiral Chevalier Paul, will make any colonial attack on France in the future a dangerous and uncertain venture.

Deflation please.

 

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BAR ENGLAND - 1624-16??

The new king has studied the map and has made some obeservations.

1. Russia apparently neglected colonising Siberia early on and as a result lost East Siberia to the OE.

2. OE is present not only in East Siberia but also in central Africa.

Russia is of no great concern for ENG at the moment but the OE is and we hope for the best relations with our neighbour the proud and skilled muslims of Constantinople.


3. SPA has blocked English expansion into the midwest by making TPs along the Mississippi river. Thereby displaying an excellent ability in the art of acquiring enemies without making any significant effort.

We expect an embassy from the Escorial that promises that this TP barrage will be eliminated by edit or fake war within 5 years of the start of the nextcoming session. And that SPA accepts to have The Rio Grande and the Mississippi as their natural border. Any investments made by SPA in regions traditionally belonging to England will be paid by us (after deducting the cost of conversion and loss of stab). If not SPA will be the winner of the "most hated nation in the world" reward each decade awarded to the nation who have done the worst thing possible to stop the expansion of the anglosaxon culture through out the world.


4. Venice impresses with its wealth and expansion. It clearly fared well after its excellently played first session.

It is good for us that we by tradition have such good relations.


5. Austria owns the COT in East Africa! Amazing. I am impressed! Well, unless it was simply given to them.

In contrast to most games an embargo by the Emperor might really hurt England. Is this such a game? More probable that these COTs will be taken by some gready aggressive nation.


6. Sweden is a neighbour

In Canada. Clearly an agreement must be made so that we can mutually and in peace benefit from the riches of the tundra. I have sent an ICQ request to be accepted and await your reply. That no reply have been given yesterday suggests that the commitment to the game may be less than the 99% one always hopes the rest of the players possess.


7. As we request fair play by SPA so do we advocate it regarding our own deeds. Thus the provinces of Erie and Puerto Rico will be given back to Brandenburg and France respectively.


8. The world out there is large!

Thus we aim to colonise although the taxvalues are generally bad out there and the map is so unknown to us that we regularly colonise the wrong provinces. Only gold provinces do we have an extraordinary skill in sniffing out.

9. Peace
We aim to be peaceful the next session. As always when taking over a nation there are things you want to do without having to engage in wars. Although this England appears to be in excellent shape. High marks to previous players.!

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And with that last comment I expect to be given a HUGE deflation award for this BAR (and a heap of brownie points ; of course) ).

As we aim to mint some the next session this would be most wellcome.

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Cashing in on the brownie points I kindly ask for an EDIT:
Province of Erie to BB.
province of Puerto Rico to France.
Just tell me if you want province IDs and I try to remember to put them in when I come home tonight.

 

[Rinak]

The Sultan did not have many plans for this session, other than helping his trusted friends in Venice and England defend themselves in a forwards manner from the French. A close eye would need to be kept on the mean russians, who were desperate to take Siberia back but who had refused all reasonable offers.

As expected, the Russians launched a war in Siberia, and despite the difficulties of supporting troops so far away, and the lack of any real leaders, the defence went well, with Russia being forced to cede 3 provinces in Siberia, including a COT that had appeared. This was good indeed.

A few years later, the discontents within the Empire decided to make a fuss, causing great problems everywhere. A sudden paralysation of the Sultan did not help matters, and by the time he returned areas of the Empire had been taken over by the rebels. Knowing this would easily have been stopped had he been there, the Sultan was greatly displeased at the Russian attack that came soon after, which had allowed no time for the Empire to recover from his absence, and has vowed Russia will pay for striking at such a time.

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-3 BB please

 

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The Most Serene Republic of Venice 1599-1624

In the year 1599 Venice and England declared war on the petty country of France and his loyal lapdog Brandenburg. England was determined to conquer the mighty fort BoB in order to rename it to fort BiB, a more fitting name, while Venice simply wanted to unite all Italians under the real of the stable republic.
After a couple years of fighting the French navy was sunk and Venice could add the last Italian cultured province to the realm: Nice.

England, because of the high war costs, took in addition to the Brandenburger colonies in North America also the rich island of Puerto Rico, which greatly upsetted France.

After this glorious war, Venice made it her goal to expand her wealth and upgraded trading activities in the rest of the world, while maintaining friendly relations with all her neighbours. Venice grew worried with the quarrel in the east between Russia and the Ottoman Empire though. It would be in our interest to restore peace there and according to Doge 'Kaffeeklatsch' the only way to reach this goal was to return the Siberian colonies to Russia, for it was certain that Russia would keep attacking till it got the east back. Venice was and is willing to compensate the great Sultan of the Ottoman Empire financially to make this possible.

We discovered two gold mines in Japan and thus took it from them.

For the rest it was quite a peaceful session. France build a formidable navy after their former defeat, which slightly worried Venice but the pen still proved to be mightier than the sword.

 

[Ampoliros]

The Age Of Rage (1624 - 1644)​

Paris, february 1st, 1637 :

"Never has there been a time, when peace was as far from these bloodsoaked lands as now" King Luis XIII. said, staring thoughtfully out of the window of his palace, watching as thousands of his soldiers assembled, "and tomorrow we shall send an entire generation to their deaths!"
"Alas, most enchalted King, they may die but they shall not die invane." Vicomte Turenne responded with a grim and determined face, "We shall teach the Austrians a lesson they shall never forget!"

There was little left to say. On the very next morning a gigantic column of highly organised and superbly equipped french stormtroopers began it´s treck eastwards, in complete secrecy. It was led by Vicomte Turenne himself and supposed to link up with the 2. and 3. army, already mobilised and ready for action in Lorraine. Still, the austrians knew of course what was coming to them. They had been warned repeatedly by the french King of the grim fact that he would demand satisfaction for the cowardly treachery Austria had engaged itself in. They had had over 10 years to prepare their frontier and make themselves ready for what was to become to most terrible war to date. Little did Turenne know at the time that this war would lead him from success to success to lofty heights before finaly killing him mercilessly on the eve of victory...

Operation "Kaiserschmarrn II"

On the dawn of february 10th, 1637, the french ambassador to Austria, Duke Condé, formaly gave notice to Archduke Ferdinand of Austria that a state of war existed before hastily jumping on a fast horse and riding back to the Rhineborder to join the 500.000 troops now engaged in assaulting the heavily fortified austrian borderprovinces. Under the command of Vicomte Turenne they simply overpowered the bordergarrisons and soon occupied all large forts but Stuttgart, which for some reason defied Turenne 2 times.
Strong austrian counterattacks failed and led to widespred routs, costing the lifes of thousands and thousands of Austrians. The both intense and passionate battles went on as did the advance eastwards, though it had by now slowed down considerably. Still, 8 austrian provinces were occupied by France after 1 year had passed and when in the Battle Of Würzburg the main force of the austrian army, 120.000 strong, was defeated so completely that it disintegrated and surrendered, the war seemed over. Turenne was ordered to return to Strassbourg, where he dug in and waited for the desired colonies to be taken. Conquering these proved to be somewhat more difficult, however, than initialy expected. The austrian defense was dogged and tough and, worse, the attrition in these tropical lands was so high that combined with a guerillia-kind of austrian defense they made a complete aquisition of the desired areas most difficult. This was so even after the austrian fleet, consisting of 25 warships was sunk. Still, as Austria was clearly beaten in Europe the Archduke was subsequently approached and urged to surrender the said colonies and thus end the war. Stubbornly, Ferdinand refused to even negotiate this matter, which perplexed Luis XIII, seeing as the war had damaged Austria´s wealth quite a bit while it had not dented the french income in any serious way. An austrian counteroffensive also forced Turenne and his men to redeploy into Austria and fight back the Longnoses yet again. Several massive battles ensued and, tragicaly, Vicomte Turenne was struck by a stray bullet while leading his men over the Rhine - the grand Fieldmarshal died, albeit heroically, before his time...

After Turenne´s death it was decided by the french high command that finding an end to this was now absolutely imperative. Hence, peace was offered for Solingen, Nassau and Darmstadt. Austria refused numerous offers at the start, again severly hurting itself through loss of stability. Finaly - oh joy - Ferdinand accepted and a long and bloody war, which had cost almost 600.000 austrian and 350.000 french soldiers their lifes, came to an end...

Peace was brief, sadly, as Venice now declared war, hotly angered by what they perceived as a breach of a gentleman´s agreement. The Doge´s plan seemed to be to land in Sable D´Ollones with 120.000 soldiers and open up a front there while 400 venetian warships blockaded the Atlantic. In a cunning nightraid the french africa-fleet managed to break through this blockade, however, and united with the mainfleet stationed in Sable D´Ollones. With 430 warships, commanded by Admiral Maile Breze (3:4:4), opening fire with a deafening roar the venetian fleet suffered many casualities in the first day of fighting. Countless venetian ships sustained broadsides and went down with all hands or exploded when their magazines caught fire. In disaray the Doge´s fleet now retreated along the spanish coast but it was pounded again and again by Admiral Maile Breze´s frigates. Ambush followed ambush and from one horizon to the other the night was illuminated by blazing venetian ships, abandoned by their terrified crews. Finaly, after losing about 120 warships the venetian fleet managed to slip through gibraltar and into safer waters. A. Maile Breze abandoned pursuit and sailed back to France. Meanwhile, the entire venetian expeditionforce, 120.000 men, had been heavily defeated and had consequently surrendered.

All in all there had been a lot of glory yet exactly because of this most gruesome slaughther France had now become all too weary of all these merciless wars and desired nothing more than peace...

Deflation please.

 

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Archduchy of Austria

1624 – 1644​

Austria still was in war with Portugal. The first priority for Austria was to sign a peace treaty to put an end to this war which has dragged on already for years. Eventually Portugal was reasonable and was willing to take a seat on the negotiation table. The result was that Austria had to cede the center of trade in Catio to Portugal, which hurt us a lot due to the fact that our goal to become a trading power further was limited.

Nevertheless Austrian primary goal was to boost his economy. Hence we built further weapon manufactories. After we had been leading in the fabrication of weapons we started as the first country to build goods manufactories, which were at this time relatively cheap to build.

After we had completed the building of manufactories we attended to the threat in the east. We started to bolster up our city walls and reinforce our army. Additionally we also religiously radicalized our troops in order to boost the moral. Finally France declared war upon us how we predicted. Unfortunately the French had succeeded to equip their army with a new generation of fire arms whereas our new fire arms were still in development. Consequently we had to see with scare how the strong walls of Darmstadt were bust only within few days by Turenne and his troops. One of another border-city fell into the hand of the enemy. Nevertheless we achieved to prevent a further advance of France into our heartland in spite of our fire arms disadvantage. In the same way, we could also defend French attacks on our colony in West Africa. Unfortunately the French managed to sink our fleet. Anyway he was only defined for transport and not for combat. However, over the years the French attacks has lost punch and we were finally able to equip our troops with new fire arms as well. For this reason, we decided to go in the offensive and indeed we were able to retake some cities. Unfortunately the French started a new offensive and nearly fully destroyed our army in a battle by Nurnberg although our army was large and had higher moral. After that we had nearly no troops and weren’t able to built reinforcements so we decided to sign peace and ceded the provinces Darmstadt, Nassau and Berg.

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gift to the state, please

 

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ENGLAND AAR 1624-1644

We played according to plan. Building manus, colonising and trading.

The trading did not go as well as planned, partly because of the sucky monarch. But we stil managed to increase income from trade with some 30% but this was partly because of a general increase of trade values. But this king will be beheaded soon and that will take care of that problem.

We colonised mainly in Australia. For some reason Venice expanded her colonial prescence in this area as well.

We built some 10 weapon manus which I guess was my predecessor's plan since there was 12,000d saved up when I started. This meant the standing army of England could increase with 50,000 men.

To plan for the upcoming civil war we also decided to promote our legal counsels to chief judges all over.

Technologically we focussed on NT where we were a CRT behind the foremost. But we are now closing in and expect to be on par for the rest of the game.

We established friendly relations with several nations and at least neutral relations with other.

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Deflation

 

[Rinak]

An agreement was reached with Russia over Siberia, with Venice and Russia agreeing to pay a total of 4000 ducats for Siberia. The Sultan agreed to this after pressure from Venice, who have turned from the Empire after centuries of friendship. The years it took Russia to take the undefended Siberian outposts made the Sultan wonder why he had agreed, but he did not go back on his word. The loss of Siberia did wonders for the Sultans reputation, and he used the opportunity to do some house keeping within the Empire.

Vast armies were built, along with many manufactories to boost the economy. A few minor vassals were annexed at long last, and finally after decades of effort, inroads were made in India, with the vassalisation of Bundelkhand, bringing the rich Delhi COT close to ownership.

The Empire kept out of world affairs for the session, keeping a close eye on Russia who were likely to attack. A change in leadership of Russia altered the situation, but the Sultan is not sure where he stands with the new Tsar.

The Empire expects much expansion over the next few decades, and will emerge stronger than ever.

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-3BB please.

 

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The reign of Doge Kaffeeklatch jr, was as peaceful of his father. Venice increased her wealth, accepted lots of new Chinese provinces to her reign and prospered overall...till France broke a gentelman's deal.
So Venice immediately dowed when this news reached us. We are friendly towards honourable neighbours and hard for the dishonourable scum.

France, however, had a surprisingly modern navy which defeated the Venetian one. Thank God that France was war torn though and thus they send us a letter to end hostilities, to which the Doge replied:

"Luigi XIV di Francia!

The Most Serene Republic of Venice is saddened that she was forced to take up the gauntlet when France violated the treaty we signed by taking Austrian European provinces, with brute force.
However, a lengthy war will be in no-one's interest, so Venice proposes an outcome to the war that will hopefully be acceptable to all interested parties:


France returns the three conquered European provinces to Austria. In return Austria cedes her West-African possessions to the French crown.


...Afterall, this were the demands why France started the war.

Now, sir, we regret the bloodshed which has happened between our two realms and invite you to sign this deal to bring an end to this conflict. We have no demands whatsoever towards France at present and would be most delighted if we could just sign peace and put an end to this entire tragic episode.

We will then also urge the Austrian government to accept this proposal, since it would keep Austria strong in Europe, where her true destiny lies. Which use have colonial possessions anyway if you lack a navy?

We do not wish to continue this conflict at all. We beseech you, honourable lord, to join us in a good peace and a cup of coffee.

Signed,

Doge Kaffeeklatsch jr

However, Austria signed a separate deal with France and thus made the intentions of the current Franco-Venetian war pointless. Venice will seek to sign a white peace now.

 

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AAR ENGLAND - 1664-1664

We continued our peaceful buildup.

Our income from trade continues to increase and in two sessions from now we expect to have arrived at a level where no big increase is possible anymore (it is assumed that presently this level is around 3000d annually from trade).

Our warship fleet now numbers 700 led by great admirals. Thus, as it is, England rules the waves now. This is how it should be.

We have been colonising mainly in Australia. But when the Brandenburgians burned down the Spanish TP block in the middle West we also started doing a little in that area.

We sold the province of Erie to Brandenburg for an undisclosed number of ducats. Thus Fort Bob is back being owned by their righteous owners. It is assumed that Erie is not a base for further expansion on the North American continent but a mere summer resort, to be used by worn out Brandenburgian bureaucrats who no doubt are forced to work very hard by their Master.

It is assumed that no one colonises North America north of the Rio Grande River without the consent of the governments of ENG and SWE to which this area belongs - although presently some natives may be the only inhabitants of some of the area.

There are also some other parts that we consider to be our dominion.

And everyone is ganging poor Sweden, 4 people

England is not especially enchanted by the current beating of Sweden, although it might be more well-deserved than the hideous ganging of Austria. That was almost C&C2-class over that ganging . C&C2, a game that in its later stages was characterised by one ganging after another. Often featuring our dear Bob as the gang-instigator.

About the gang of AUS, did not Bob get out of that with a win just like that...? Poof, and AUS gave up? And the Ottomans had to pay the bill for the ganging. A bill of some 32,000d for 3 provinces, was it?

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deflation please

 

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About the gang of AUS, did not Bob get out of that with a win just like that...? Poof, and AUS gave up? And the Ottomans had to pay the bill for the ganging. A bill of some 32,000d for 3 provinces, was it?

Well at the time of peace, I did own Vienna and much of the interior of Austria and had killed Piccolimi, so yes, poof

 

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Austria is starting now an effort to sale his colonies:

Caribbean islands for 6000 ducats

Austrian-Venezuela for 3000 ducats

Austrian-Guyana for 2500 ducats

Austrian-Westafrica for 3000 ducats

I only want to sale my whole colonial Empire or nothing but the different parts of my colonial Empire could be bought by different countries. Anybody who is interested in one part of our colonial Empire is invited to contact me.

 

[labalag]

Russia 1644-1665

The session started with what we were doing the last session, peacefully building our country and promoting governors to reduce the inflation (-2.4% last session, 2% being due to an event)

On the diplomatic front a NAP with the OE was agreed to untill the end of the session so we had at least one safe front, but the OE used this to DOW a good friend of ours, the Habsburghs. Thus after the Habsburgh-Ottoman war we agreed to an alliance with the Habsburghs. As the session ended we dowed the Swedes while they were at war with the Spanish.

We didn't grow economically, but a lot was invested in land tech and we hope to catch up with the other European powers in the next session. Also we hope to reduce our inflation to acceptable levels.

Russia wishes for the next session to have friendly relations with all the Christian powers, to ensure a peacefull Europe.
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Deflation if you wouldn't mind...

 

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Archduchy of Austria

1644 – 1664​

The exhausting war against France had ended just few months before. Hence Austria had no army and no manpower and ducats to build a new one. Nevertheless Sweden, Brandenburg and the Ottoman Empire were so evil to attack the Emperor and his Archduchy. Particularly the attack of the Ottoman Empire was very evil and rude because Austria and the Ottoman Empire had a NAP. Consequently Austria had no other opportunity as to satisfy the demands of Brandenburg and Sweden, namely to cede Oppeln to the electorate and Wismar to Sweden. So another centre of trade was lost. Only the demands of the Ottoman Empire were rejected because the demands were greedy (1 cot and 2 core provinces) and the Sultan should pay for his betrayal. Thus we ordered Montecuccoli to defend Hungary with a small army. Although the Turks outnumbered us we won nearly all battles due to the brilliant war skills of Montecuccoli. Nevertheless the nearly endless troops coming from the Balkan became a problem with the time. We still lagged in manpower and Montecuccoli couldn’t be anywhere so the Turks succeeded to occupy more and more cities. Finally we had to give up after an eight year war although we had positive war score.

After a short breathing time we entered an alliance with Russia called “The imperial alliance”. Afterwards we declared war upon Sweden in order to support our allied in Iberia and take revenge on Sweden. Finally Emperor Leopold I released a new slogan for his administration: “The Empire strikes back” :rofl:

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gift to the state, please