Take London - A Swiss AAR
Take London - A Swiss AAR (Part I)
PS: As my mother tongue is German I apologise for bad English language and typos
Historical accuracy is not intended and won’t determine the process of this story.
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Starting Position
1836 Switzerland - a lose confederation of 9 provinces (actually 22 cantons in Swiss terms) located in the very heart of Europe - is exposed 1836 to a multitude of severe risks: Growing Austrian threat in the East, worsening relations with France in the West, an obstreperous Sardinia-Piemont in the South and an instable and restive mob of small german nations in the North.
But – the biggest threat of all were Switzerlands own ministers:
Take London
1836, Bern, Cabinet Meeting
There was a curious mood in the air when the Federal President entered the cabinet room; some ministers were smirking (but suppressed their laughing) while others had expressive faces and red eyes.
The president examined their faces suspiciously, paused a moment but finally opened the meeting:
“Good morning Gentlemen. Today’s cabinet session will decide about Switzerland’s future foreign policy and …” … he interrupted his speech starring at the ministers grinning faces but then continued “… and I’ll now ask the chief of army to present his strategy plan elaborated by the ministry of defence.”
The latter took off his black hat, cleared his throat, stepped towards the large table, reached into his pocket and pulled out a crumbled paper titeled ‘Plan A’ :
At this moment the silence was gone: His colleagues figuratively exploded, bursted out laughing and pointed their fingers at him.
Everyone was convulsed with screaming laughter, lying on the floor or bashing their heads against it.
Retrospective its not entirely clear what caused Plan A to fail – maybe the fact that it was accidentally published to the press, and Switzerland was urged to extradite its author (chief of army) to the U.K.
Plan B
The further proceedings apply to Plan B, presented by the Federal President, outlining these goals:
Milestone 1 (mid-term): Become the highest ranked industry power as well as top 5 of the overall ranking
Milestone 2 (long-term): Hmm...well...what was Plan A all about ..?
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Take London - A Swiss AAR (Part I)
PS: As my mother tongue is German I apologise for bad English language and typos
Historical accuracy is not intended and won’t determine the process of this story.
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Starting Position
1836 Switzerland - a lose confederation of 9 provinces (actually 22 cantons in Swiss terms) located in the very heart of Europe - is exposed 1836 to a multitude of severe risks: Growing Austrian threat in the East, worsening relations with France in the West, an obstreperous Sardinia-Piemont in the South and an instable and restive mob of small german nations in the North.
But – the biggest threat of all were Switzerlands own ministers:
Take London
1836, Bern, Cabinet Meeting
There was a curious mood in the air when the Federal President entered the cabinet room; some ministers were smirking (but suppressed their laughing) while others had expressive faces and red eyes.
The president examined their faces suspiciously, paused a moment but finally opened the meeting:
“Good morning Gentlemen. Today’s cabinet session will decide about Switzerland’s future foreign policy and …” … he interrupted his speech starring at the ministers grinning faces but then continued “… and I’ll now ask the chief of army to present his strategy plan elaborated by the ministry of defence.”
The latter took off his black hat, cleared his throat, stepped towards the large table, reached into his pocket and pulled out a crumbled paper titeled ‘Plan A’ :
At this moment the silence was gone: His colleagues figuratively exploded, bursted out laughing and pointed their fingers at him.
Everyone was convulsed with screaming laughter, lying on the floor or bashing their heads against it.
Retrospective its not entirely clear what caused Plan A to fail – maybe the fact that it was accidentally published to the press, and Switzerland was urged to extradite its author (chief of army) to the U.K.
Plan B
The further proceedings apply to Plan B, presented by the Federal President, outlining these goals:
- Turn into a high-tech nation providing >1.5 monthly research gain
- Expand in the east and south by purchasing non-core provinces, mainly from Austria
- Finance those territorial expansions by selling technology, especially to Japan
- Warlike expansions in Europe only southwards into Italy, unless we can compete with big powers like Prussia, Austria or France.
Milestone 1 (mid-term): Become the highest ranked industry power as well as top 5 of the overall ranking
Milestone 2 (long-term): Hmm...well...what was Plan A all about ..?
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