Muskets, Cannons, Arrows and Swords

[WittyName]

1st update - The Beginning​

Neighbours

Hungary is one of the larger European powers, but that doesn't mean one of the more powerful. It lies in the south east, bordering Austria, Bohemia and Poland which hold a lot of power. To the east lies the Golden Horde... barbarians. to the south lies the Ottoman Turks, slowly growing in power. Just off Croatia lies Italy, home of the Papal State who will play a key role in the history of Hungary. Transylvania borders us, and is a vassal which mainly just helps with rebellions and will likely be peacefully annexed in the near future.

Important Information in the Known World

A war is likely to break out between Castille and Grenada on the Iberian Peninsular. Castille will most likely convert all of Grenadan territory to Catholic. Tension is heating up in Italy as Ferrara looks to Romagna held by the Papal State. France and Burgundy will most likely slowly expand washing over minor territories and they will most likely reclaim provinces from England. Minor nations in Turkey along with the Timurids beat up the Ottomans. The once mighty Byzantines are about to break. The HRE's electors are flooded with gifts from nations wanting to be the Emperor.

Short-Term Goals

1. Peacefully annex Transylvania
2. Create a reasonably sized army
3. Get more influence in the Papacy and HRE
4. Expand a little

Long-Term Goals

1. Become Holy Roman Emperor
2. Become the Pope, call for a crusade against the Ottomans and drive them off Europe and into Turkey
3. Establish colonies in the Americas and/or Asia
4. Get a massive navy and a massive army
5. Get into the 10,000s in Ducats

 

[Derahan]

great, truly great. just your name of the AAR took me through the skies and now after reading the beginning i cant wait for more. good luck!

p.s I will follow this, even from death xD

 

[thebigboss-89]

Hungary is in a challenging position between austria and ottomans, but with the right tactics its possible good luck.

 

[WittyName]

@Derahan Thanks, it took me some time to think up the title.

@thebigboss-89 Oh I need the luck.

 

[dinofs]

Hungary AARs are always interesting. Subscribed.

 

[King_Richard_XI]

Subscribe'ed. Good luck.

 

[Derahan]

es, hungarian AAR's are intresting and i think very few ever actully succede as hungary :rofl:

 

[unmerged(59077)]

Good luck.

Especially with the HRE and the 10,000 ducats. I always spend that kind of money immediately

 

[WittyName]

Potential Threats to Hungary

To efficiently become a dominant power we must expand and acquire some breathing room. Unfortunately, our neighbours are major powers or are vassals/allied with one. A good example would be the nation of Bosnia. It is a nation with 2 provinces, Hum and Bosnia. We could easily just wash over it and convert it, but it's not that easy. They are allied with the Ottomans, who are allied with Serbia. With these combined they could beat us to oblivion. Austria is more of a threat than a friend. They are constantly deploying their armies along Hungary's borders. The armies are pretty damn big for the time period with the K.u.K Armee being 22,000 strong. The Holy Roman Emperor is a Bohemian, and that means more manpower and a bigger army. The Polish aren't looking that scary any more, being harassed by rebellious peasants. Hopping over Moldavia we see the Golden Horde.. not much is known of them but they seem to be really violent.

Religion

Will be an inevitable problem to the south. Ottomans are spreading Islam around Greece, With dots of Orthodox popping up too. The European Catholics will most likely look to Hungary to rid Greece of infidels and their religions, like they look to Castille in the west. A crusade on Morocco looks imminent. Sigismund von Luxembourg has planned that if a crusade was declared on the Mamluks he would jam most of his army on to a fleet and set sail for the Holy Land, him leading the army personally. He calls it "Operation Baldwin" after the monarch of the Kingdom of Jerusalem which sadly faded away on 1291.

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[Derahan]

so this AAR is allready over?

 

[Enewald]

The author will write it here hopefully if chooses to abandon it.

What kind of save game problems you be having?

 

[Derahan]

woops, forgot my languge, sorry

 

[WittyName]

Haha guys, I forgot to edit my signature.

That was an old AAR.

 

[Derahan]

oh in that case, go forward closer to a hungarian world! xD

 

[WittyName]

I haven't unpaused it yet, Dera.

/facepalm

 

[marty99]

Good luck, especially with the colonizing the Americas part, it'd be interesting to see Hungary as a colonial power. Subscribed.

 

[blsteen]

Good luck

 

[Vladislav]

I've always wanted to play a colonial game with Hungary solely for the "wouldn't it be cool if..." factor. Good luck. What difficult level are you playing on?

 

[WittyName]

Part 2 - Shaping Europe​

Europe is looking to be the "world changer". It has been home to countries having petty wars with each other and borders occasionally change. In golden months, Catholics band to together in these crusades to venture off to strange new regions covered in yellow which is inhabited by Muslim countries which can band together against Catholic Europe in a Jihad. This is becoming old, nations are changing in strange ways. Some nations now just use it to claim new lands and bust out of cramped Europe if just for a year. This is just beginning to change in 1399, as people begin to imagine a bigger picture. For a long time Europe has believed the world to be flat. As new lands are found old civilizations are conquered.

Wait! Stop there! We need to see how Europe has reached here.

Founding of Rome and the Pyrrhic War

It starts off in a tiny village on Italy, 753BC April 21st. Romulus has created a city called Rome. It expanded, along with other civilizations such as Carthage, Egypt and the Seleucid Empire. Though not as big as these, it was a civilised society none the less. They were surrounded by barbarians, but colonised up to Gallia Cisalpina in the north and Venusia in the south. On 280BC a Roman Consul violated a naval treaty with the city of Tarentum (Magna Graeacia), which led to minor conflict ended up as the Pyrrhic War. Rome sent the 1st Legion on a task to attack the city of Tarentum, while the 2nd Legion with only 2,000 men strong would lay siege to Ager Brutus in the west which was undefended. The massive 1st Legion slayed the tiny Magna Graeacian army of 1,000 men and captured Tarentum before finally making a short journey to conquer Ager Brutus. After this, a peace treaty was signed meaning Ager Brutus would be given to Rome. The Legionaries were not done yet. After the truce with Magna expired, war was declared again. Epirus was not there to join them in the war, it was the Macedonians. Tarentum was captured immediately and total annexation was the only choice. War with Macedonia still went on.

There was no way for either of us to engage in a land battle, we both had armies of over 20 thousand men. We only had navies composed of 5 ships. A newly appointed admiral took control of the Roman fleet and went on "pirate duty". A 1-ship fleet of pirates was engaged just off Ager Brutus, and the young admiral named "Marcus Flavius Saturninus" decided to dock at Ager. this would be his last command. A Macedonian fleet appeared out of the blue, shocking the young admiral. He was determined to beat back the Macedonians in a battle that lasted a day and resulted in 1 Macedonian ship being the last remaining. This was the first Roman defeat. Macedon took advantage of this and pressed peace on Rome for 20 gold. A year later, Rome showed off some of its industrial power and had already produced 6 ships to replace the navy. Now, the senate looked west... Carthage.

Just after the annexation of Magna Graecia.​

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@marty99 Thank you. Stay tuned.

@blsteen It's needed.

@Vladislav It is definitely a cool thing to try. I've just went on a few years with Hungary and it's all ready looking good. I'm playing on medium difficulty, the only thing I've changed is lucky nations to "None".

EDIT: I will hopefully do a little "mini alternate history" of Europe, the history of Hungary and leading into Victoria 2 if it's out. Then into HoI3. You get my drift. There will be 2 more updates of "Shaping Europe".

 

[Derahan]

sooo, your going to give us a real history lesson eh? awsome