CatsandCradles,
thanks, nice to see I have a small but perfectly formed readership - just the kind of thing for this mini-AAR. (Ok, not a 1-page effort, but still pretty curt by my standards)
Another decade, another chance to attack China; did I mention that I was aiming to get reparations from them too? No, well if I didn’t, I shall now; it’s all very well having the manpower, but you really need cash too.
Give or take a few years of peace after that, and some copious tech trading, I sense a need for more prestige. The various parts of Italy really aren’t gearing up to unify, so the Two Sicilies are a little short on prestige, which makes it a golden opportunity for me to attack:
As for the two lumbering giants of the Germanic world, well, it seems the time has come for them to resolve who’s the boss. Given that Prussia occupies a smaller expanse of the continent and has less men under arms at the moment, their chance don’t loos too good.
What of Hamburg’s alliances? Well, still hanging onto the coat tails of the UK for one thing, and rapidly making friends with the Russians too – it doesn’t hurt to have some big friends when you are a pushy little nation.
Well, things didn’t go too well for Prussia overall, so perhaps there is room at the top table for another German nation? In order to set the record straight, a rapid campaign is started against the smaller German states.
The main weight of our army is cavalry form Tarumon, allowing rapid control of the various states in question.
For the moment, humiliation is the order of the day – it is key that our dominance of the northern parts of Germany is truly uncontested when we finally come to exert it. As a side note, we have released the lands in north America as a satellite nation, in order to keep our borders small and defensible.
Speaking of small, defensible borders, it appears that following Russian success against the Chinese, our section of Manchuria now borders theirs. Ah well, as allies we should have nothing to fear, right?
Finally, as a new decade dawns, the Prussians acknowledge defeat at the hands of the mighty French army. You may just be able to glimpse the parts of West-Prussia that were ceded to France.