Götterdämmerung, Kaffeeklatsch und Auspufftöpfe! - AAR thread

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Bavarian misfortunes 1602 - 1625

Bavaria started the session with plans to take revenge on the Austrian Archduke, for the great betrayal. This time we would not use allies, but make the go ourselves, and mercilessly crush the cowardly Archduke.

For this aim, money was minted, armies gathered, technology increased and new offensive maneuvers practiced.

January 1609, which saw the greatest Bavarian general, Tilly take the lead of army, war was declared. And Bavaria proudly marched into Austria, demanding justice and vengeance for the wrongdoings suffered.

Alas, it didn't happen. Due to horrendous problems in chain of command, the army lost leadership for several months, and Austria was miraculously saved. Later on, the Archduke decided to take a vacation for several years, and being an honorable country, Bavaria did not attack Austria during those times. For it was the Archduke we wanted to fight, not the proud Germans living in his country.

So time went by, and Bavaria invested a bit in fortifications, conversions and the like, with nothing much happening.

However, an opportunity presented itself in the form of a great war between the Iberians and France. With even Venice marching into France, this would have been the best possible time to take revenge of the past Rhinean conflict, where France humiliated us and the Archduke, for the second time let his allies be attacked without lifting a finger.

But Bavaria, being betrayed and abandoned so many times, did not need a new enemy. We sent a letter to the King of France, stating that if France were to give us Graubuenden, an insignificant Swiss province in the Alps, we would yield our claim on the Rhinean lands. Being a Just and Wise man, the King accepted.

Finally, the Elector Prince decided to take a holiday in Kanu, and nothing much happened in Bavaria after 1620.

On-time: Deflation please

 

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Bavaria 1625-1641
The tale of those Jolly Germans with their Tasty Beer goes on

In 1625, the Bavarian Elector, prince Maximilian I had only one thought repeatedly circling his mind. Kill Kill Kill, the demons whispered to his ears. Maybe it was the name, after all Maximilan I of Austria had not been the most sensible guy, who knows, but Maximilian I of Bavaria certainly was after blood.

When Poland, the long time protector of Austria, got busy with Swedes in the north and Russians in the east, it was clear that our time had come. We knew France and Turenne was to scramble to save Austria. But with a good enough plan, that could possibly be countered. Or so we thought.

The DoW saw Bavaria marching into Austria with over 110k soldiers, lead by Tilly and some other guy whose name history books tend to forget. The plan was to swiftly kill Austrian armies, then leave the Ottomans to finish the job and just leave a small siege army behind while re-deploying the french threat.

But alas, Turenne was right at out border, and immediately when the action started, he invaded Helvetia. A few months and assaults later, France controlled all of Helvetia and moved north towards the Rhine. Tilly arrived on the scene and Bavaria fought many battles with the French, who managed to bleed bavarian armies dry and keep a third of our country in their control. Turenne then moved north to fight Brandenburg there, and he stayed busy for a good while without making much process.

Meanwhile, Poland had peaced Russia and Sweden, and now turned on Brandenburg and sent armies to help Austria. For a short while, the Austrians actually managed to cause a dangerous situation in Bavaria, occupying Straubing and even assaulting Munich. With Tilly dead (from old age), Bavaria spent the next year trying to reorganize troops and win some sieges, for Poland was using the french warscore for stabhits.

Finally Portugal declared war on France, and another battle of titans ensued, with the Iberians marching into France, and Venice attacking the french in North Italy. This relieved the pressure from Bavaria, and we started to recapture our territory and advanced once again into Austria proper. Poland was burning in rebellion too, and finally the enemies surrendered.

The demand was Tirol, Kaernten and Krain to Bavaria, Sudeten and something else (maybe Breslau) to Brandenburg. But the leaders of Austria and Poland chose exile rather than governing their diminished demesne, leaving the leaderless countries in mercy of the invading armies.

Thus, Maximilian I of Bavaria declared himself to be the rightful ruler of the Archdukes lands, and wows to do a splendid job at that.

 

[Aladar]

AAR Portugal 1625 - 1641​

A large war was being fought in Europe, and our alliance was in turmoil about what to do. Should we stand by and watch France gobble up more land in main Europe, which would increase it's power or should we join.

Many times the Kings of Spain, Portugal and the Doge in Venice talked about this. Then the Doge told us that a diplomat from France has arrived, telling him that France would attack Venice once the wars in Europe was over.

With this knowledge, we decided to strike France before the other war was over, despite our lack of general and the fear of the brilliant french general Turenne. Forces were build and in the end we declared war on France.

It started out decent for the alliance, as we took parts of southern France, after a few years of war the northern alliance peaced with France, leaving us alone to fight the mighty France, despite them having begged us numerous times to join the fight.

Hence it turned for the worse, and all of a sudden England joined forces with France and landed a huge army in Lisbon and took the capital after a short engament where the portugeuse army had to redraw north.

Such are the state of things right now, the future yet unknown.

On time cookie: -1 deflation
AAR-reward: 200d

 

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Tales of the Sultan

Many were the battles that were fought during this period as the armies of Allah looked to aid the allies of the Sultan in Bavaria and Brandenburg. Time after time the Armies of the Sultan pushed deep into Austria, killing many of those not of the faith and the city of Vienna feel to us not once, but twice. The inexhaustable armies of the Sultan sent wave after wave against the Austrians and in the end, the Archduke was defeated and his nation was split between the Germans.

Alas, for while the Sultan had been focused on Austria, the Polish kingdon was consumed by it's enemies. At this, the Sultan felt regret for he had considered the Polish Kingdom to be a worthy nation who's interests were never likely to go against our own. The Sultan may live to regret the fall of Poland-Lithuania

 

[ForzaA]

Spain 1625 - 1641​

Even the best plans might be crossed by changing situations...

For a few years, Spain did indeed build up colonies, expand trading missions - indeed, improved the economy and the whole nation.

But then it started... It began with a minor border skirmish far in the east.. But the war spread, involving more and more countries. When the French joined the war, siding against the Bavarians and Brandenburgers.

After a long debate, it was decided that we would march once more against France.. The war raged for years, but now it seems that we are defeated, and a peacetreaty is likely to be concluded shortly. The precise nature of this treaty remains the subject of speculation at this time.
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AAR reward: 200 ducats (and just a reminder: on time bonus: 1% inflation reduction)

 

[III.Selim]

China AAR 1625 - 1641​

Domestic Reports

Economy: Since the Chiyang Revolts started, chinese government military spending increased enormously. High military spending and taking cots back through force or diplomacy inflated inflation through 30%s. However, 3 cots' foreign tolls stopping china to go through bankruptcy..

Politics: Since 1623 china is having different revolts from different ethnic groups. China is being force to decentralize its powers. But chinese goverment do not want to step back against rebel scums.. Monarch is not happy with aristocratic ideology,.. unfortunately high ranked officials forcing monarch for new tariffs to increase national income but it makes peasants more angry. Only hope is decentralization and narrow-minded policy trough less education of chinese people..

International Reports
England : 30 years of bloody struggle for an eastern cot problem has been solved peacefully through diplomacy. China is still not happy with england; we will not harm them, unless they touch chinese ground..

Portugal : One of China's friend nation.. Giving chinese cot back to us was the most generous offer we had in chinese history.. We love their exotic products in our cots.. All portuguese merchants are wellcome to our cots anytime..

Russia : Lack of communication, exaggeration of military access is getting angry china.. But russia is still our peaceful friend.. And we don't want to brake this bond..

Ottoman Empire : Always our friend.. China trust all ottomans' advices.. And Since they have some hot chicks.. Royal marriage is accepted anytime ...

 

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Lest i forget:

On time bonus ---> BB reduction
If possible, i did not ask for a on time bonus last session and would like to have it now instead. I would like a BB reduction here too .

 

[ForzaA]

Spain 1641 - 1668​

At long last, Spain got the peace and calm that she craved for. With peace finally holding for more than a few years, Felipe IV finally saw the opportunity to guide his nation to colonisation of the new world, trading the various exotic goods, and sponsoring manufactories in Spain itself.

When war broke out between England, the Netherlands and Portugal, trade shipments travelling under those flags saw increased risks of being sunk, and Spanish shipments, as a result, flourished like never before, leading to the exceptional situation that the Spanish budget was, for now, the highest of all nations.

All of Spain mourned, then, when, at the age of 60, Felipe IV passed away, and left only his three year old son, Carlos II, as his heir. Not only was he far too young to rule the country, it also appeared that he was possesed by a demon of some sort.* More bad news, for Spanish traders, that is, is that the war between England, Portugal and the Netherlands seems to be coming to an end, and thus their shipping likely returning to regular.

Two decades of some economical prosperity are behind us, who knows what the future will bring..

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* (yeah yeah, I know... modern science would disagree)

AAR reward: 200 ducats (and just a reminder: on time bonus: 1% inflation reduction)

 

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Tales of the Sultan

The Sultan during these years, began his grand plan of uniting the Muslim world under his rule. It was with great pride and joy that he united the Muslim peoples of Western Arabia, ina short, sharp war, bringing them into Vassalship and then fully into the Empire (ooc I'm sure I vassalised two nations and annexed them.... but for the life of me, i can't remember who)

This was also a time for realignement in Europe as well. The Sultan left the Germanic powers, his job done there with the destruction of Austria and instead, turned to his long term friend, the Doge of Venice. And so a deal was s truck. The Sultan would protect and enhance the Natin of Venice, in return for being acknowledged as Master.

No sooner had the deal been struck, when the foul King of France invaded Venice, demanding that he be Master of Venice, the battle was brutal on the Frence side, with the Armies of France taking the bulk of Venice quickly, however the Sultan had a plan. To lure the Armies of France to Venice itself and then trap them there. And the plan worked. The Armies of France led by their greatest generals were caught in Venice and they were forced to make Peace, else face the death of their greatest leaders, leaving them open to her Enemies elsewhere.

To further enhance Venice, the Sultan arranged for France to sell the province of Genoa, hence increasing Venice's power. The future looks bright for Venice and the Sultan

 

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The Glorious Dutch 1668 - 1692

first we peaced england for a few ducats
then we concentrated on our economy once agian with increasing the trading income even more, but then out of nothing the french came and took Brabant from Me the most peacefull nation of all.We found the French attack very disrespectfull, because we gave the french maps to whole the world and this is how they repay me?!? nobody would help me so i peaced out quickly, then i started building the biggest fleet of all and reached 440d MI but then England Embergoed me! and went back to 408d

Now we have the best fleet in the world and our income is growing, but we are still a very small empire

AAR reward 200d + -1 inf (for being on time) plz

 

[Aladar]

AAR Portugal 1668 - 1692​

Peace was signed with the English after a long and hard war, which actually didn't go bad for Portugal, but NL was unable to protect the colonies and the mainland at the same time. England did have quite a large navy when we started the war.

France now attacked our allied Netherlands, but told us the demand was Brabrant only. While a hard blow for minor Netherlands, we decided that it would be a lost cause to cast our troops into the defense of NL mainland, as we could not protect if from the french hordes with landaccess.

We now concentrated on the trade and shipbuilding, and suddenly noticed that Delhi was down to 2 provinses. After waiting several years sending money to it's neighbors with CB, i decided to take matters in my own hand and joined some minors alliance. Soon after Delhi was annexed and the richest CoT in the world in now in our hands.

A few more colonies were settled, mostly in India, where our presense is strong and more and more provinses convert to christianity.

More manus where build to make sure more ships and troops can be supported, but more land/habours/shipyards will have to be acquired/build.

AAR-reward: 200d
On time cookie: -2 deflation (didn't get one last time while on time)

 

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AAR SWEDEN 1668-1692

For the 2nd time subbing in this game I became quite shocked when I saw the little respect for stab costs displayed. Income was 305d per month and stab costs were somewehre in the 5000s, i.e. a little short of 20 months full investment was needed to regain one stab point. Not very surprising it was possible to make a DP slider move right from start. Stab was luckily at 0 from start.

Serfdom slider was at 0 (-1 the previous session) and Inno at 6. Add to that that BB was above 50% of the BB cap and that the Aristo slider was at 1, the latter meaning BB decreased very slowly. The only instruction regarding DP sliders I had been given was to go naval if I liked that. Well, despite the very clear mesage sent by these DP slider positions I decided to make revolution. I went plus on serfdom. Then very peaceful policy during the session (only an aggressive move versus Nippon was made) and one more serfdom plus slider move, -2 inno because of event choices and +3 Aristo due to event choices, BB was at the end of the sesion below 50% of the cap and stab costs was down to 3400. Since income at the same time had increased from 300 to 425 or so this means it now takes only 8 months to regain one stab which means that stab costs are now under control, although still too high for my own taste. Stab is at +3 when ending.

The move towards narrowminded not only gave us more colonists but also more missionaries. At the start we only had 0.1 missionaries per year. Thus we have now converted all three catholic provinces that existed. The only provinces with wrong religion are two in the East.

When we inspected the save before the session we could to our utter astonishment see that the gold province of Yukon was uncolonised! What on earth are you doing in this game? :wacko: Thus the first action made was to send a ship with our conquistador (who presently was standing in Lappland doing nothing) around the globe. When finished the province yielded 35d but a later shit event took 15d from its mine value making it into nothing more than a normal colony after all (our other gold mine had a +10 event!).

From start we went for LT26. After that we minted heavily for some years. We used the money for colonisation and fortresses. Then we went for trade 8 and then minted a lot more. Then we went for NT21 which was good since AI England DOWed us. We had to WP them of course. Then we took some NT and LT levels and then went for trade 9 which has not yet been reached. Partly because towards the end of the session Russia cancelled her MA and revoked ours. Which meant we built 200k men, 50 ships and invested some 4000d more into fortresses. The border on Russia is now mostly large fortresses. At the start of the session it was mostly minimal (average fort level increased from 1.2 to 1.63). We also invested some in stab when BB dipped below the magic number.

 

[Ampoliros]

The Empire blossoms (1668 - 1694)​

After the polish and austrian problematics had been dealt with satisfyingly Brandenburg most desperately needed peace and calm in order to regain her equilibrium. Her economy being in shambles, wide stretches of land in constant revolt, bloody anarchy reigning supreme and her reputation soiled to a most unsavory extent the prospect of civil war lay leadenly over the Kingdom of Brandenburg. Hence after lengthy and fruitfull talks with the most noble friend and ally, the King of Great Bavaria, a peaceful policy was agreed upon. In this spirit all energies were concentrated on improving Brandenburg´s economy. 10.000 ducats were minted with which 5 weapons and 1 artmanufactory were constructed. Later on after witnessing the troubling and unethical attack on the Netherlands by France we also decided to upgrade our western fortifications in order to be prepared for any eventuality with this aggressive western neighbour.
All in all things are looking increasingly good for all Germans. We watched with delight as Bavaria engaged itself in an equaly ambitious policy of economic development and fortification.
What the future may bring remains to be seen. The Holy Roman Empire Of German Nations is prepared, as strong as ever, as valiant as ever and ready, willing and able to fight for the cause of honour, should the necessity arise...

AAR-reward : 400 ducats
On time Cookie : - 1 % Inflation
pelase.

 

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Posting here too, to be certain .

Sweden wants a BB reduction for her bonus.

 

[ForzaA]

Spain 1668 - 1692
The Succession of Carlos II​

In 1679, the 18-year-old Carlos II married Marie Louise of Orleans, daughter of Philippe I of Orléans, the only brother of Louis XIV, and at that time a comely young woman. He proved impotent and no children were born. Marie Louise became deeply depressed and morbidly obese and died at age 27, ten years after her marriage, leaving a distraught 28-year-old Charles. Still in desperate need of a male heir, the next year he married 23-year-old Maria Anna of Pfalz-Neuburg, a daughter of Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine. However, this marriage was no more successful than the first in producing the much desired heir.

With no direct heir, a succession crisis was quite possible.
On the one hand, there was Philippe d'Anjou, second son of Louis, the Grand Dauphin, eldest son and heir of Louis XIV, and Maria Anna of Bavaria. Philippe's claim came from his grandmother, Maria Theresa, the eldest daughter of king Felipe IV of Spain. He would be Felipe V on ascension.

On the other hand, there was Charles VI, second son of Leopold I Habsburg. Though long reduced in power, due to their incessant conflicts with Bavaria, the Austrian Habsburgs still had strong ties to the Habsburgs in Spain.
At present, he seems to be the most probable to succeed Carlos II, under the name of Carlos III.

To avoid a renewal of the conflict with Bavaria, Leopold's eldest son, Joseph, would remain heir to the Habsburg's personal lands in Austria, and a contract would be written in which both Joseph and Charles would waive their claim on the inheritance of the other.

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AAR reward: 200 ducats (and just a reminder: on time bonus: 1% inflation reduction)
*some of the above is from wikipedia*

 

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Building - Bavarian AAR 1668-1692

In 1668 the Duchy of Bavaria was in good shape. The Austrian wars were over and it was going to experience a long period of peace. Much like the rest of the world in these years. The war of the English against the Dutch and Portuguese was over by the early 1670s and the following twenty years would only see the short French-Dutch war for Brabant.

The long peace was good for the Bavarian treasury (well, the peace and the exceptional years the Bavarians had). So in the late 1670s and early 1680s the Duke had full treasury. But what to do with it...

The Duke soon heard that his good friend the Emperor, Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg, had been building weapons manufactories and had upgraded several forts. It was also noted that France and the Ottoman Empire had forts that made the Bavarian forts look like wooden palissades.

The duke decided that something had to be done about that and hired all the building personnel that could be found in Bavaria and funded a large upgrading plan for almost all forts in Bavaria.

It took a few years, but then the duke could travel through his lands seeing forts that looked at leats a bit like the French and Turkish forts.

The Bavarians stayed at peace and the treasury again filled up. The duke was in doubt what to do now. Building forts had been nice, but it was time for a different project. While the people of Bavaria waited for the Duke to announce what the new project would be, the duke himself disappeared during a hunting trip

The Bavarian people were panicked. A regency came into power, but they had no idea what the Duke's plans were. The only thing they remembered was the major upgrade of the Bavarian forts. So they decided that was what the Duke would want. So again a small fortune was spent in upgrading forts.

When the duke eventually returned he found the treasury empty...he immediately ordered the downgrading of the forts to the level they had before he went on his secret trip. The selling of the building material was enough to get a nice treasury..but the Emperor (in his absence Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and duke of Brandenburg, had died and the Bavarian Duke had been elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire ) still hadn't decided what to do with it...

Rewards: Will let smn decide.

EDITED: As I will play next session I will decide on rewards.
AAR: +200d
On time: stategift.

 

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AAR FRANCE 1692-1708

I followed instructions. All went well. Income increased by some 20% and you gained two infra levels and also some land tech because i kept a close look out on the germans, making sure we were ahead just a little so they could never speed away from us. England was not a threat as they were AIed.

Well, not that many years from the end I was DOWed by the evil germans. They attacked with a 150k army in the north and another 150k under PE in the South.

Villars was sent to the northern front after having been forced to reatreat from the plains of Italy. While Berwick then took care of that front.

Province after province was lost and soon stabhits started coming. However the good and honorable Swedes offered an alliance and we invited them a little later. No doubt their motives were purely altruistic. This meant peace in the North for some time and I got back a few provinces. However later on the Swedes had to back out, taking two Prussian provinces as their just reward.

Later on they as well assisted us financially I believe. Ask John about that, he subbed Sweden. Our dear friend in Portugal, who had such nice suggestions before the session, now declared he would not assist us financially. He even had the impertinence of glaoting over his 12 manus he gained during the session while goind -11% inflation (apparently 2 deflations and one exceptional year).

Well, it is a little bit difficult to build soldiers at the same time as you put all money into stab.

Then NL asked for a marriage. And soon afterwards they joined the war on the German's side. They are not that difficult to handle but they do not make it more easy, that is for sure.

So, the position in the North is that NL controls Picardie and a province in the east Asia. They are down in battle score by 6 to 2 and are thus plus 6 in total war score.

Prussia controls 3 but are down in battles by 29 to 12 so total war score vs them is -15.

The problem is in the South were marshall Vendome now has taken over after Berwick. He should of course have been in charge from start, being 445 vs Berwick's 444, but unfortunately he suffered from an attack of gout and could not be persuaded to attend the arena until Berwick passed away. So, in the South the position is that they control 6 provinces and are up 46-11 in battles, for a total of +90. Eugen is doing his dirty job down there but the arrival of Vendome has given the Frenchies new hope.

At one moment Prussia offered a WP, when they were in deep shit vs Sweden, but I naturally declined since I could not let the brave Swedes hang dry.

In the colonies the position is under control, due to our relatively good stab, presently at +1. You could move in men directly to the CoT in Afrika instead of waiting for the army presently at march to arrive.

Ah yes, long before I promoted LCs all over, that is always nice when in war and getting stab hits.

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Your MP is of course not enough to withstand the current onslaught. Well, if you got John to sub France the next session, then perhaps

No one of the combattants have much MP left. I would advice to try and hold out a few years more. Something might happen, who knows...

 

[Aladar]

AAR Portugal 1692 - 1708​

A glorious session for the king of Portugal, who continues to run the country with great fortune.

Diplomatic relations had been opend with the french, as we needed their generals for a daring adventure. This however didn't lead to anything, so the folly was abandoned and instead the pagans in Congo joined our empire, soon they will all be good portugeuse.

An effort was put into infrastructure which had been neglected for many years, forts were increased in all our european provinses and we even made a new effort to convert our holdings in India, thou at a low succesrate.

A deal was made with our old enemies the English, securing wool for Portugal and wine for England and making us vassels of them. The deal spawned 4 new refineres, adding to the 5 already build (one burned ) and the 4 gained from deals with Bavaria and Venice.

Celebrating our deals with Venice, Bavaria and England the King decided to lower all prices by 10% to great joy for the entire nation.

In the last wars a large war between the germans and the french broke out, as it had often before. This time however the germans seems to be winning, after losing all the earlier wars. The french asked us to finance their war which we declined as they didn't offer anything for this. While we may be the richest country in the world, we are also one of the smallest. Our foreign aid program has recently been shut down, as large nations should be able to support themselfs.

 

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AAR Bavaria 1692-1708

In the last years of the 17th century Germany had finally recovered from the intrigues and attacks of the evil king of France. The German territories west of the Rhine were still in French hands, but any duchies eastof the Rhine that sympathised with the French had been eliminated. Only the Duchies of Brandenburg and Bavaria remained and they were ready for revenge on the French.

From 1692 on the preparation of this war was one of the main tasks of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of Bavaria, Maximillian II Emanuel.
Most of the diplomacy was done by the great Duke of Brandenburg, who was soon proclaimed king of Prussia. The Emperor did suggest the inclusion of the Dutch Republic in the German alliance. The Dutch had just a few years before been unjustly attacked by the evil French King and would surely be interested in the recovery of Brabant.

Everything was set for the attack, planned on march 1st 1703.
After some years of improving the infrastructure of Bavaria and saving money the real preparations started. The army was enlarged and the new regiments were sent to areas near the French border.

Early january a small setback for the German alliance occured. The Dutch government faced a sudden crisis and could not join the war in march.

On the first of March 1703 the war of German Revenge started. The Prussian army under von Dessau attacked from the North, while the second Bavarian army under Ludwig invaded Alsace. After a failed assault the province here was sieged. The main Bavarian army under Prinz Eugen had been sent to Milan to attack the great French general Villars there. The French were beaten several times, but Villars managed to escape and soon headed north to fight with the Prussians. Eugen in the meantime used his base in Switzerland to launch attacks in France and kept the French armies there busy, giving the third army under von Starhemberg time to siege and capture Milan and several other cities in the south.

In the meanwhile the evil Swedes, confident after the succesfull attack on Russia, attacked the unsuspecting Prussians. This war gave the French time to stop the Prussian advance in Northern France and even let them recover some lost territory. Despite some help from the Bavarians the Prussians had to accept the loss of two provinces to get peace in the north.

The peace with the Swedes did give the German alliance time to concentrate all their forces on the French again. The Dutch government had recovered as well and joined the war after all. So now in january 1708 the French resistance seems to be almost broken and the Emperor is confident that the German alliance will soon be able to recover the areas that the French had conquered from them.

AAR reward: 200d
On time reward: State gift

 

[Aladar]

AAR Portugal 1708 - 1729​

Not much to do was there for the portugeuse king, so we decided it was time to remove to yok of our oppressive rulers the english. When they dow'ed Sweden we thought now was the time, and dow'ed England at once. The troops had been ready for a while together with our fleet.

100k moved into Ireland and ½ the fleet went back to the homeland to get more. On the way there we heard that the english fleet had been sighted south of Ireland and we swifty gathered all our fleet (800 warships) and meet the english fleet. Unfortunately our supirior size was no match for Admiral Byng, so our fleet lost a few hundred warships - the english did lose some too thou.

Already new ships were being build so the loss wasn't that big. 50k more troops went into Ireland where we managed to take 2 provinses before Byng raced our fleet away and landed some 60.000 under some general, who was surely better than our random leader.

After a year of nothing happening in the war, we offered the English a white peace, but they refused. Clearly they were up to something, and soon after a fleet arrived in South America to harrash our CoT there. ½ the fleet was sent there, and soon the English had 100 less warships. After that the English offered a white peace which we accepted.

We also spent a lot of time increasing LT & NT with both gained 13 levels aswell as 1 trade level. While still a tad behind in infra, it's nothing 5 years of teching can't catch up.

Next LT we can build CC's but since we only have 10 provinses that give MP, we don't need al that much money for that. Shipyards have been build in all european provinses were the taxlevel is high enough.

Apart from the war on England only a single other war was fought, against the pagan nation in Bunka, which gained us 3 new manus. Conversions are in progress - as only 1 of 5 converted in the first attempt. Conversions in India all failed.

On time cookie: deflation
AAR-reward: 200