1651-1673: Transformation into a Great Power:
The years beginning with 1650AD were one of utilizing the revenues to boost our research effort and also to raise further armies. We established a trade post in Jaffna, early in 1652 and expanded our colony in Trivandrum to a city in 1653. We also raised 12000 men in Cochin to protect our trade center and our colonies in India. In August 1654, we started the colonization efforts in Kerala. It met with resistance from the local population, and we sent our army from Cochin to clear up the province. We managed to establish a colony there in early 1655. We also established a colony in Erie in 1655. In March 1657, the Turks who were in war with the Spanish burnt a French TP in Madurai and we sent an expedition to set up our trade post. This was established in early 1658. In 1659, we renewed the Military alliance with Austria, Bavaria, Cologne and Savoy. Except for the war between Turkey and the Spanish alliance, rest of the Europe was enjoying peace. This was however short-lived and the Poles (HAS BRA POM ENG) declared war on Russia (DEN) on 2nd November 1660. This was a war for which both the Poles and the Russians were not prepared and it ended with the poles suing for a status quo peace on 20th June 1661 and the Russians were very happy to accept. We were silently building up our colonies in Kerala, Mangalore and Erie and we had built a reasonably strong army in the Americas to protect our vast empire there. Ours were now the second biggest in America after the Spanish empire.
In 1664, we established a trade post in Mogadishu, near the horn of Africa. This was only to show that we had a foothold in Africa. Other than Mogadishu, we do not own a single bit of land in Africa We concentrated the next two years to further develop the fledgling colonies in Mangalore and Kerala. On 14th August 1666, the Poles (HSA ENG) declared war yet again on Russia (DEN SWE) and I am sure both armies are well equipped this time. We watched happily as a large polish army on our borders moved towards the east. In February 1667, we raised 5000 cavalry in East Prussia (23/10/70) and another 9000 men in Kurland. Our military build up has picked up steam and we will be trying to increase our standing army slowly. We only hope that the Russians and the Poles will keep fighting and it will be a protracted war. However, in March 1668, the Poles sued for peace with the Russians by paying 75d. We are informed that this decision was due to the leaking of some confidential information from some traitors and we immediately had them found and shot. Early 1669, we raised another 40 guns in East Prussia and our siege army is ready. We also renewed our Military alliance, which we may need soon. In 1671, we had new cities in Kerala and Mangalore and we immediately appointed Governors to both of them. We also raised Lvl 1 Forts in both provinces. In 1673, a new trade center opened in the province of Santal, owned by the Dutch. We immediately sent our traders to obtain a monopoly in this rich trade center and by April we achieved it. Our levels of technology at the end of 1673 were NL31, IL 9 and LL29. We are now prepared to take on the Poles. To add to our joy, the Turks (POR ALGERIA MUGHALS) declared war on the Poles (HSA ENG) on 10th September 1673. We will now use this opportunity.
1674: The First Polish War:
We started the year with a declaration of war on the Poles. The declaration was given to the Polish ambassador when he had come to wish us for the New Year and he was told that it was going to be a great year for us. All our allies (Austria, Bavaria, Savoy and Cologne) joined in our favor and Hanseatic League and the English joined in favor of the Poles. The Polish armies had still not been built to the full potential after the war with Russia and they now had a two front war. Our colonial army in America, which had been raised in anticipation of this war swung into action immediately. Except for Savannah in the south and Connecticut in the north, the British provinces were all unfortified. Our army moved swiftly capturing Hindua, Detroit, Niagara and burning their trade posts in Appalache, Allegheny, Kentucky, Yazoo and Tennessee all of which later became our trade posts and colonies. To add to our joy, the Russians declared war on the Poles on 4th October 1674. Our European army had already sieged Posen and Mazovia. We now had the poles in a tight spot from which we do not intend to leave them. On December 1631, we reached Land level 31 and we now can raise more troops by building conscription centers. On 23rd December 1674, the English offered us Detroit and Niagara and sued for peace. We happily agreed since, this means that we can concentrate on the war in Europe. Not much activity in Europe though. The Poles, now fighting against us, the Austrians their allies, the Turks and the Russians were simply outmatched and outgunned. The province of Posen fell to us on 23rd January 1675 and we moved that army to siege Lithuania. On 13th Feb 1675, the French (VEN SCOT SPA UZB) declared war on Denmark (RUS SWE) and this meant that some Swedish and Danish units fighting against the Poles might now move to defend their respective homelands. However, we were very far ahead in our war with Poles and when Warsaw fell on 23rd July 1675, we knew that the war was as good as won. However, the army from Mazovia moved on to siege Belarus. Lithuania fell to us on July 1676 and the siege of Belarus dragged on. To avoid losing more men due to winter attrition, we asked the Poles to surrender the provinces of Posen and Lithuania to us and accept peace. I am sure the Poles were happy with this result. It could have been worse. In another few months, Western Prussia, Krakow and Danzig would have fallen to our allies. However, the war gave us an almost unassailable position in North America and also in the Baltic’s.
Years 1677 – 1700
These years after the Polish war saw tremendous growth. We established and developed colonies in the whole of Midwest America. We had colonies in Allegheny, Kentucky, Tennessee, Yazoo and Appalache. We also developed our colonies in India, especially in Pondycherry and Madurai. However, the Poles still had their wars with the Turks and Russians. They were losing both by big margins. However, the Russian alliance was at the receiving end against the French. On 19th June 1678, the Poles accepted peace with Sweden by surrendering Bogutjar to them and on the 17th of Nov.; the Turks annexed the Hanseatic League, the ally of Poland. The Poles ended their war with the Turks on 30th April 1679, by offering 250d and Istria to the Turks. This would have certainly emptied their coffers after such a protracted war. The Russians finally dictated peace to the Poles by taking Polotsk and Welikia. In September 1680, we started the construction of our first conscription center in Livonia. On 3rd March 1681, the Swedes got peace from France by offering Vastergotland to them. The Danes followed suit on 19th March 1683, by offering Ostlandet, Jylland and Narvik. The French power is now almost supreme in Western Europe and the North Sea. For the next 10 years, till 1694, we concentrated on enhancing our colonies and to build developments and also increased our standing army.
On 28th October 1694, our friends and strong allies the Austrians, declared war on the Palatinate. All our allies honored their commitment to Austria and we went into war with the Palatinate and their allies the Netherlands. We immediately raised 4 transport ships in our Indian colonies to move and army into the rich Dutch trade center of Santal. We also sent an expedition to burn their trade posts in Yanam and Parlakimedi. We sent our colonists to colonize Yanam, which was accomplished, and in 1697, our troops landed in Santal and the unfortified trade center was now in our hands. On 15th March 1697, Austria annexed the Palatinate and we were told that the Dutch were considering how to get peace. The Austrian armies were roaming Dutch territory at will and had already taken Hessen and there was a siege of the Dutch capital on. In May 1698, the Austrians accepted for a peace with Netherlands by taking Hessen and 250d. We had to vacate Santal, but we still had a new colony in Yanam.
Years 1701 –1724
Entering into 18th Century, we can look behind a couple of centuries of hard and patient work now bearing fruit. In the Imperial Council, it was decided that henceforth, we would utilize the maximum and unrestrained force to grow. The first decade of the 18th century went off relatively peacefully. There were occasional revolts in Posen and Lithuania, which is to be expected, but other than that we had a good time. Our colonies were expanding and bringing in more incomes and our research was progressing at a faster pace. In the year 1714, we had a row with our neighbors in India, Mysore and we decided that we have to strike. We had a standing army of around 30000 men and cavalry. We raised 50 guns and declared war on Mysore on the 27th of October 1714. The army of Hydrabad joined in on the side of Mysore and immediately sieged our province of Yanam. We however, kept on with Mysore and the 50000+ army of Mysore was decimated. We stormed the fort, which fell to us in January 1715. The army then moved on to Bangalore, which fell to us in June 1715. We had meanwhile raised a smaller force, which was dispatched to siege Deccan. Our main army moved on to siege the capital of Hydrabad, which fell to us on January 1716, and we agreed for a peace with Hydrabad and took 250d from and the province of Yanam back. In March 1716, Deccan fell and on the 11th, we annexed Mysore.
In the next 6 years, we inaugurated cities in Yazoo and Pondy and colonized Jaffna. In June 1723, the English (POL SAX SWE VEN) declared war on the Mighty French whose alliance had just expired. This was an opportunity that we cannot miss and our army was given orders to mobilize.
1724 – 1727: The Second Polish War
On 26th March 1724, we declared war on Poland and all our allies honored the call given by us. The Swedes, English and the Saxons joined on the side of Poland. We immediately offered a status quo peace to the Swedes and they agree. This saved us from having to wage wars on two fronts. We immediately besiege Danzig and Belarus and in America, our troops moves into besiege Savannah. Our second division moved on to capture the unfortified provinces of Alabama, Biloxi and Tuscaloosa and we burnt their trading posts in Catskill, Miamis and Tuscaloosa. We colonized all these three provinces within the next few months. The whole of 1725, we fought few wars with the English in America and repulsed the Polish attempts to dislodge us from our sieges in Danzig and Belarus. On 1st August 1725, the English offered us Alabama in exchange for peace and we agree, since we had already cleared a wide area for our expansion in America, our aim was only to consolidate in Europe.
Danzig fell to us in early 1726 and in April Belarus also fell to us. Both the armies moved into Mazovia and the fort fell to us in June 1727. The Poles offered us both Danzig and Belarus and we gratefully and gleefully accepted them. Danzig is now German and will remain so. The English war against the French was also going on equally badly.
1728 – 1730: Interlude between wars
The capture of Danzig increased our revenues still further and we had a monopoly on the trade in the whole of Eastern Europe and Baltic. We however were being denied trade in the rich CoT of Delhi, by the Mughal sultan. We had planned to route this evil empire of the infidels and liberate the masses in India. We utilized these years to build up an army on the Deccan and the army was to move through the Mughal trade post in Bombay and into Aurangabad. In April 1729, the English (POL SAX SWE BRA) declared war on Scotland (NED). The English obtained peace from the Netherlands by paying them 148d, which allowed them to concentrate on Scotland without any fears about the Netherlands.
Year 1730: The Mughal War: Expansion in North India
On 21st October 1730, we declared war on the Mughals and we did not ask our allies for help. The Mughals did so and the Turks declared war on us and managed to attack Danzig. However, we repulsed the attack and the Turks asked us for a status quo peace, which we gave them happily. Our Indian army meanwhile burnt the Mughal trading post in Bombay and had slaughtered their army in Aurangabad and was laying siege there. We established our own TP in Bombay to protect our lines. In October 1731, the Turks (UZB) declared war on Venice (POR SPA ETH POM) and called on the Mughals to honor their alliance. The Mughals were very busy with us and denounced the alliance and losing stability, which further helped us. We also watched happily when the Poles (ENG SAX SWE BRA) declared war on Russia (DEN) on 13th March 1731. In November 1731, we captured the province of Aurangabad and moved on to lay siege to Jaipur. In May 1732, the Jaipur fort falls to us and we move on to Delhi. A small army of 6000 men had been raised by the Mughals and our army pounced on them and destroyed even traces of this army and we went on to storm the fort. The fort fell on June 26, 1732 and the Mughals offered to open up their trade center and gave us the provinces of Jaipur and Aurangabad. We gladly accepted and the war came to an end. We also obtained a pre-eminent position in India and also had a monopoly in all CoT’s (Delhi, Cochin and Santal). On 26th March 1732, France declared war on Spain (POR ETH VEN POM) and west Europe was again in war. We now looked eagerly towards the war between Poland and Russia. We had to decide against whom we wanted to fight and we decided that the Poles are out as a power and the only other power that matters in this region is Russia and they have to be told that we are the super power. We built up our army on the Russian frontiers and we decided that we needed the rich province of Vologda. We spent the years 1737 and 1738 to build up our armies and we also opened a city in Bombay in the year 1737. The Poles however, obtained peace from Russia by offering Smolensk and Kursk. This did not deter us and we still decided that the Russians had already lost the bulk of their armies and were weak enough to be taken.
Year 1738 – 1740: Second Russian War:
On 26th March, 1738, we declared war on the Russians after a gap of nearly 170 years after peace was signed with the Russians in 1574 exchange for Novgorod and Ingermanland, our army was again face to face with Russia (DEN). Our armies immediately besieged Onega and Vologda and no Russian resistance was made. In May 1738, the English (POL SAX BRA) declared war on France and the French who were already facing some reverses against the Spanish now had severe problems. In Feb 1739, they offered Luxembourg to Spain in exchange for peace and now had just the English alliance to face. In December 1739 Vologda fell and the army moved into Moscow. Onega fell to our army in April 1740 and a small Russian army tried to besiege Vologda and was immediately routed by our rear guard. The walls of Moscow were breached and our victorious troops entered Moscow for the second time in History to accept the surrender of Czar, who offered the provinces of Onega and Vologda. We now had split the Russian empire into two and god willing we still have more to give to them.
Year’s 1741- 1750: Decade of Peace:
We utilized these years to expand further in America. New colonies were established in Madras, Miamis and Jaffna and all of them expanded into cities. We had to handle small rebellions in Vologda and Onega, but nothing serious. We however, wanted to reduce the French power in the Americas, so that we can remove the last threat to our position there. However, we cannot legally fight for such reasons and our diplomats came up with a great idea. The French were currently allied with Nippon and Nippon is refusing our traders to trade in its CoT. We decided that a war on Nippon would bring the French to declare against us, giving us the opportunity to fight in America against the French.
1750: Consolidation in America:
On 16th November 1750, we declared war on Nippon and Austria and Savoy joined in our side. Cologne and Bavaria, who had no coasts thought that they cannot have any meaningful part and declined. We however, brought them back immediately. The French as expected, declared war on us and our American Regiment moved into their unfortified provinces of Hindua and Oshawa. We also burnt their trading posts in Illinois, Mississippi and Nippiseng. We will duly colonize all these areas. However, the operations in America were over by the end of 1750 and our allies were now wondering why the war is continuing. None of them were doing anything to take French territory in Europe and the Austrians were just blockading the Nippon ports. So when the French offered us Oshawa in Exchange for peace, we accepted and we immediately offered white peace to Nippon, subject to that country allowing our traders. They accepted and this short war came to a happy end. We now are the sole master of Americas` east coast and central areas.
1751 – 1763: These twelve years were used to further increase our armies and also to pacify the people of the newly conquered areas. We also developed our colonies by building forts, promoting Governors and chief judges. Almost all provinces had Governors and Chief judges. The country was now the leading nation in the world and even Spain was lagging behind. However, not all was quite in the world. On 4th October 1761, the Poles (POR MOL) declared war against Russia (DEN), despite the common knowledge that they were in no position to be successful. However, it again gave us an opportunity and we decided that it would be Russia yet again. The reason being they were the more powerful of the two and that power has to be kept in check. However, we did not enter into a war immediately, we spent the next couple of years to increase our army in the region and also raised some more troops to protect our southern provinces. On 7th April 1762, the Spanish (ENG HYD) declared war on France (SWE POM) and this was another peace of good news. With the Swedes preoccupied with their own war we need not worry about our frontiers with them. We waited till end 1763 and we renewed the Military alliance with our allies and then we were ready.
1764 – 1766 The Third Russian War:
This war was one of the easiest we have had. On 1st February 1764, our troops moved all along the line into Russia and besieged Vladimir with our Home Army and we captured the unfortified province of Arkhangelsk. By March 1764, our Army Group B was besieging Moscow and our reserve army from Ingermanland was besieging Karelia. The Russians who put up resistance were easily destroyed and our troops moved on. Vladimir fell to us in December 1764 and we moved on to besiege Moscow yet again. This time Moscow’s walls were enhanced and it fell only in May 1766, and on the 30th of May 1766, we demanded and got Arkhangelsk, Vladimir and 250d from the Russians. The Russian treasury should be near empty now after this war. This will not help them in their ongoing war with the poles. However, intelligence report indicates that the Poles are even worse placed than the Russians and will lose their war against Russia. This made us think that the Poles might be forced to cede more land to us. We set the ball rolling in this direction. Our Country was now a major player and we wanted to show that to our neighbors very often now.
1768 - 1774: Years of Frustrations and Gains:
This 7-year period was in a way, years of frustration. Our desire to wage a war against the Poles was thwarted repeatedly, because of our allies having got themselves into wars with other powers. However, the wars in which we participated on the sides of our allies also gave us new territories in areas outside Europe. In that way, we had gains also. On 11th April 1768, our closest allies, the Austrians, declared war against the Turks and we along with all our allies entered the war. This meant that we were at war with the Mughal Empire also. This pleased us very much and we immediately set out to siege the capital of the Mughals, Delhi. We also moved in a smaller army to besiege Kutch. Delhi fell to us in September 1769 and Kutch fell in December 1769. Our armies then moved into Thar and the fort was assaulted immediately. It fell to us in January 1770. Our armies were then moved to besiege Indus, Agra and Madhya. In the middle of this war, Austria again declared war and this time on France (SWE POM) and all our allies jumped into the war in favor of Austria. In the same month the Swedes tried to enter Ingermanland and they were driven out twice in the same month. The war with the French was proceeding well in Europe and in the Americas, our army moved in to capture the French provinces and colonies of Hindua, Rimoski, Micmac and Bangor.
On 19th August 1771, the Mughals surrendered Kutch and Thar for obtaining peace with us and we obliged. The Mughal Empire is now just a Kingdom. The French however, were very clever. Having lost much territory in the Americas to us, they got a status quo peace with the Austrians and thus robbed us of any territorial claims against them. But, still our position is America has not been compromised and we were reasonably happy. However, the war with the Turks was still progressing and we decided that Aden was a good target. Our navy from India needed a year to mobile the transports and we moved our armies into Aden. All the three provinces were stormed and captured and on 1st August 1774, we annexed the infidel nation into our Reich. Out of the three provinces two had a population of less than 5000 and we immediately dispatched our missionaries and the people in these provinces were converted to the true faith. On 17th August 1774, Austria got Mantua and 250d from the Turks and we were now at peace after 6 years.
1775 – 1780: Third Polish War
Our long time desire to go to war got fulfilled and we got all the war we wanted, when our allies, Savoy, declared war on Portugal (POL). All our allies joined in the side of Savoy and Poland honored the call of Portugal. Our army in Aden was dispatched to capture the Portuguese CoT of Zambezia and their province of Kenya. Our army from India captured the three Portuguese colonies in the islands of Brunei and burnt two trading posts. The war in Europe was on expected lines. The Poles faced a rout and we were besieging Mazovia, Podolia and Galicia. Austria was besieging Western Prussia and Savoy, Krakow. On 6th September 1778, the Portuguese offered us Zambezia and Bandjarmasin in exchange for peace and we gave them our assent. However, war with Poland was progressing well and Galicia had fallen to us by 1778. Podolia followed in early 1779 and Mazovia in September 1779. When the Russians declared war on Poland on 21st March 1779, even a child in Europe knew that Poland is now the weakest power in Eastern Europe. The country itself is now in bits and pieces. The Poles had nothing to do but to accept all the conditions that the victorious powers could lay. We got Galicia and Podolia in exchange for peace September 1779. The Austrians got Podlasia and Western Prussia and finally in May 1780, Savoy got Krakow and 131d from the Poles. The Poles still had the Russians to contend. We left them to their misery and concentrated on our rivals the Russians. We still had lot of anger against them and we wanted some more of their territory. We waited for our turn, but not for long.
1781 – 1785 Fourth Russian War & War against England
We had decided that the objective is only to prove to the Russians that they could be defeated at will by us. We wanted to visit Moscow yet again and prove to the Russians that their capital city is always within striking distance from us. We declared war on Russia (DEN) on 16th March 1781 and on the 25th March, Russia accepted peace with Poland by getting 175d and Belgorad and Donetsk. This swift decision by the Russians saved them from total collapse but did not save them from losing the war with us. Our armies had already besieged Kazan and Moscow and small bands were roaming the Russian plains and pillaging the countryside. This strategy helped in reducing the staying potential of the Russians. On 19th Feb 1783, Moscow fell yet again but Kazan was still holding out. On the 28th of July 1783, the English (VEN HYD SPA PAP) eager to get supremacy in the Americas, declared war against us. They had miscalculated our power in the Americas. Our armies immediately took Tuscaloosa and Adirondack. We then moved on to Savannah and besieged Connecticut. On the 28th of September 1783, Kazan fell to us and we obtained peace from Russia in exchange for Kazan and 250d, for which they were very happy.
The English meanwhile held on to the notion that the Spanish will help them declined all our offers for a status quo peace. We then moved on the assault gear and captured the capital of Hydrabad. They immediately offered us white peace and we agreed. The English struggled against us for another year, by which time Savannah had fallen to us. They saw sense and offered us Tuscaloosa and Adirondack in exchange for peace, which we gladly accepted, since we had been willing to give peace without any claims.
1786 – 1792: These last 6 years we just watched as our neighbors the Poles and the Russians went to war again. The Poles, today are just a shadow of their past selves. They are now like what we were 300 years ago and we have occupied the vacuum left by them. We have also demonstrated to the Russians that they have to accept the fact that we are the masters of this region. We have every reason to fell satisfied with what we had achieved in this last 300 years.
It's more like a council of all local nobles, gathering once per year. Well, doesn't matter much anyway; only the people there should not be called teutons as well.
