The Tsunami game.... the _big_ one

[TheArchduke]

England 1607-1637

The great war was over in the year 1607. Spain agreed to leave Australia for England forever which ceded any grudges England could ever have for Spain.

Nevertheless the war had strained England´s capabilities. Forced to project power in Germany, Holland and Indonesia her income was solely used to fuel the war and french war effort.

So in the aftermath of the war England left her french ally again on his own as she ensured that the total destruction of Tuscany was avenged to some part.

So England was again alone and sought a partner on the continent and found one nation with great potential and willigness to support England: Brandenburg. Again english ducats flew into the coffers of a nation. 200 ducats were sent on a yearly basis to support the electorate which was established in the great war on demand of the english crown.

Apart from that the english explorers finished their exploration of all seas of the world. Colonists were sent out on a regular basis to finally supress the protestant heresy which was quite strong in the colonies of New England.

Also the english short-time enemy Holland which had to cede two provinces in the Indonesian area was offered to finally find his peace with England. After much negotiation it was agreed that the former trade adversaries should from now on be partners ensuing both nations to prosper. And England agreed to leave the northern spice islands in the Indonesian for Holland.
Suprisingly Holland was very keen on restoring her relationship with their reformed brothers although England helped France to humble them. This goodwill will not be forgotten.

Also Sweden and Denmark asked to gain access to the English prosperity sphere and in fact every country was invited to do so at a time. But Denmark and Holland weren´t able to settle their differences over international trade so the alliance was deterioted to some point much to the dismay of the English Crown.

Apart from the seemingly endless ducats that England poured into nations friendly to her cause the English country reached a new level of trade and infrastructure technology which boosted her income further.

On the continent after two wars with the Ottoman Empire and France the Grand Habsburg alliance was in crumbles. Spain was unable to help her allies. Austria´s economy was bleed dry. Poland without any money on her own. Venice all left alone by the allies except for the honourable polish. Russia unable to help her allies.

So at first England sought to improve her relationship and tried to free the oppressed polish souls in Wielkopolska from the Habsburgs with english money. Poland declined to however in her turn to free Prussia from the Polish reign as she argued that the HRE wouldn´t allow for a deal here. England on her turn was sure that there evidently were problems in the communication between the Allies and prepared for the dissolvement of it as the HRE announced.

Unable to do this on herself once again English ducats supported a nation on the continent to free herself and offered the hand of friendship to all former members of the Habsburg alliance. Also unwilling to support Denmark or Sweden anymore on their ventures to forcefully control African trade and shocked over Danish backstabbing in the Brandenburg-Hessen crisis England orientated her alliance in a new way.
The reformed brothers of Holland again sought for the now equal partnership from England as England was glad to her that Holland began to match her own. Also Austria to which England always kept close diplomatic ties joined the alliance followed suit by Russia Austrian´s faithful ally in the east.

England has for the last 20 years supported various nations in their buildup and in their expeditions but from now on this will stop. Only in dire danger England will again support only her allies financially together with her reformed brothers from Holland.

France and Denmark proved to be unreliable allies to the English crown and should consider themselves enemies. Sadly Spain has joined their alliance too but England as seemingly Spain want to keep up the good ties between our nations so England senses no aggression from there.
Poland sadly refused every offer by the English crown and should be considered on neutral stance with the English crown. But Poland should always know that England will stay to her allies if Poland tries any aggressive moves against them.

 

[Mowers]

Denmark. 1607-1637

Denmark had a nice quiet session and enjoyed good relations with all its neighbours.

Allied with France for protection but then the wars in Italy meant that Denmark had to look elsewhere for protection as war in Italy wasnt good for Denmark.

So Denmark joined the English alliance which was good as it meant that Denmark could build up its economy in safety and in stability. It was a happy time for Denmark and it was able to grow in peace.

Unfortunately the English crown is fixated with building up Brandenberg. Whilst Denmark supports the growth of Brandenberg it does not support its own elimination or the growth of an uber germany in 1630 odd.

Towards the end of the period Brandenberg sought to unite Germany which can only mean one thing. The elimination of Denmark. So Denmark had to say something and stop the untimely end of its kingdom by standing up for Hessen and not allowing its total destruction at the hands of the overly aggressive brandenberg.

For not actively supporting its own destruction Denmark was forced out of the English alliance and had to find others who didnt actively or indirectly support Denmarks long term destruction.

 

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Venice 1607-1637

As the second war between France and the Holy Alliance lead by Austria left Venice and its allies with a favourable peace Venice though of its western border as consilodated and absolute. Savoy, Piemonte and Lombadria with its great city Milan was now a part of the Venetian nation.

Everything now looked peaceful in Europe and in cooperation with Austria we now looked to strengthen our relations with the smaller italian nations. Modena was practically in venetian hands when, the old french and former great allies of France, Tuscany with brutality fell over the peaceful Modena.

Venice directly started negotiations with France over an intervention in the italian conflict. France was reluctant and Venice soon lost its interest as another conflict was on the rise.

The Ottoman Empire was in great inner turmoil and Venice saw an opportunity to regain the earlier lost islands of Corfu, Crete, Cyprus and Ionia. Most of the alliance started agressions against OE. OE slowly regained strength and was sent military help from Persia. This outcome was though most likely to be an massive OE defeat. Then something happend that would change the European scene.

France took opportunity of the Balkan conflict and struck at Venice. As no allies came to aid the grand nation of Italy the outcome looked grim. Only Portugal stood by Venice side and it is said they did that only due to the insanity of their current ruler.

When the core of the Coalition found that if not intervening, France would gain most of northern Italy and greatly threathend the heart of Austria, they took action against the terrible french agression. Armies of many nations fought many battles in Italy and in France. In the end only Austria and Venice stood firm but no Ventian land was taken. But as Autrias economy was in bad shape and many tongues were speaking of English financial support to the evil frogs the remains of the coalition decided to give in to France's unrighful demands.

So Savoy and Piemonte was now in french hands. The grand coalition is also chattered and Austria now stands with England and their kin.

France is now speaking of an friendship and even alliance with Venice but Venice will never ally with France as long as Piemonte is not in its righful hands. On the other hand the Austrian friendship didn't pay of very good as Istria and Genoa now are in Austrian hands and most of the rest of Italy is controlled by the same.

The Venetian future is hard to see but clear is that it is hard to be struggling between the giants of France and Austria.

 

[Johan]

Continuing the game right now.. Archduke? Aldo?

 

[Owen]

Ottoman Empire 1637 - 1643 (?)

I found the empire at war with the Mamelukes and Oman. This war was proceeding without any problems, but as soon as I arrived in Constantinople, the Sultan insisted on reform of the military. Why this couldn't wait until we reached peace I do not know, the soldiery complained, to say the least.

My allies in Persia and Algiers had already left this war, and I hoped to remove Oman from it by accepting their offer to pay thirty three ducats. Unfortunately a civil servant neglected to advise me that Oman were the alliance leader, not my own revolting warrior class. They will yet pay. Unfortunately, little to my knowledge, this minor official had friends in high places in Trabzon. When I had him drowned in the Bosphorus, they rose against the Sultan.

The Sultan was not happy and brutally supressed them with troops from Syria. These shiite troops had developed an excessive antipathy to Christians, and precipitated a state of emergency in all Orthodox provinces.

Oh! Religion is the bane of our empire. Thank Allah that several provinces have converted to the true faith in the last few years.

Our uneasy alliance with Persia looks as if it will end, that they may join with the Omanis. The shiites may be extremely misguided, but they are still of the true faith and we must stand together. Persia have made assurances that we will remain in informal alliance. I must ensure that military access is exchanged.

I write my brief memoirs from the Sultan's dungeons, manhandled here by a back-stabbing Greek named ISPoponos. My best wishes go to my replacement at the Sultan's right hand. I only hope that he can find enough stability to take revenge against the revolting Mamelukes and eject the Mafia from Albania.

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OOC: Apologies to all for the problem with my ISP that caused everyone a 20 minute delay. I had problems with my other providers as well when I tried them. I wonder if Vauxhall exchange is somehow overloaded?

I made a few big mistakes in game, notably not understanding that Oman was the war alliance leader, but nothing else too serious.

I won't comment on the strange events in central and western Europe, since many others are better placed. I will ask though, what the hell was the Brandenburg DoW on Morocco about?

 

[Wyvern]

Russia 1637 - 1653

The 16 years from 1637 were times of relative peace for the Russian empire as the Tsar consentrated on internal reforms, converting the Mongols peoples of the eastern steppes to the true faith and introducing sweeping taxation changes across the empire [OOC chief judges appointed in all provinces]. All this didn't come cheaply and despite the greater prosperity felt in the heartlands inflation was seen to rise slowly during the early part of this period.

This is not to say that all Russian expansion stood still whilst these changes took place. Two wars against Crimea were conducted resulting her full annexation and the consolidation of Russian interests along this coast along with the linking up of Russia's Greek Orthodox possessions.

With advances in both trade and infrastructure during this period the future looks bright for the empire. Land tech is still trailing the other great powers but is slowly catching up, and so long as the economic reforms slowly implemented throughout the last 50 years are continued Russia has no reason to fear the future.

 

[Wyvern]

Russia - the future years

Ok, I'm not going to be around next weekend so a standin is going to have to run Russia in my absence. What follows is some general advice for that player which I sincerely hope they will follow.

1. The most important thing Russia needs to do is sort out her economy, something I neglected badly the first few decade, events didn't help either. Territorial wars are all very well but this should come first now. Russian events on the whole have easy ways out of revolt risk at the expensive of crappy DP slider settings (though there are some really nice ones coming up towards the end of the century). Please do not be tempted to take the easy way out if it ruins our DP settings. A recent event pushed us back to 0 centralisation, priority should be to start pushing this back to a more centralised position of around 5 if you can make it.

Land DP is now at 5, keep it around that or even go more naval. DO NOT GO LAND we need the trade percentage!

Basic rule, if a DP slider change reduces trade or production %age don't do it, go the other way instead?

2. Point number two, and perhaps more important even than economy is this:- DO NOT TRADE RUSSIAN MAPS! EVER!

I'm the only one with knowledge of Siberia and for the safety of all the trading posts along the corridor it must remain that way. We know enough of the rest of the world already, do not be tempted to share for anything else.

3. Strategically I leave it to your discretion but the alliance with Austria England and Sweden serves Russia well. Long may it last. Watch BB, probably let it settle down a little after my recent munching of Crimea .

Well that's it for now, if I think of anything else I'll edit this post. Veterans, please point the Russian standin to this post before starting if you can, thanks .

Oh one final thing, the peace at the end of the last session following Polands rather silly invasion of Austria left Russian armies in the middle of Poland, please remember to extract them .

 

[Wyvern]

Ok here are a few screenshots of Europe and eastern Russia covering the Siberian corridor that I allow nobody in game to look at .

Only just noticed that vacant colonial spot. There used to be a chinese TP there, guess Manchu must have just destroyed it .

 

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Venice 1637-1653

During this period of relative peace the possible conflicts of Europe was crystallized. Between France and England there was a hostility by many believed severe enough to cause a new great war. Also in northern Germany there was conflicts and also smaller war among the minor German states, some of them moraly backed by the two important European alliances.

The first alliance constitutes of England, Netherlands, Austria, Russia, Brandenburg and Sweden.

The other one is constituted of France, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Hessen and Saxony.

Venice is confident it has nothing to fear from the two alliances as Austria and France lately has offered nothing but friendship to the Venetians. Thus, the french help in bringing order in the former anarcistic Tuscany shows its friendly status. As the major areas of probable conflicts, including European powers, are distant places like northern Germany and a land called North America Venice feels it has nothing to gain in taking part in them.

Italy is looking forward to a time of peace and prosperity. The only threat in sight is the Ottoman Empire in the east. Venice has tried to extend the non-aggression pact that expired 1648 but to no good. To face this threat the Venetians has formed an alliance with the fellow Italian nations Modena, Corsica and the Papal State.

The conclution that Venice is better off as a neutral power has made the ruler turn the back on world politics and concentrate on bringing order to the Italian peninsula and expand the trade and wealth of the country.

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In the end of this period Venice was indeed turning the back on the world. No diplomats left or entered the country. Well, even officials from other provinces hardly came to Veneto to report. During this short period it was rumoured that a great war started. Yet other people said a fool with a crown started a silly aggression soon repulsed. The Venetian government is still waiting for trustworthy information on this matter.

 

[TheArchduke]

Although I fear that my post will be deleted. I most say most impressive indeed Wyvern!

 

[Owen]

Can I suggest an accompanying thread for people to write comments in, announce the start time for the next session or even announce when a rehost is about to take place? It would save having to announce things here and then have posts removed. Best placed in the MP forum, I reckon.

This post will autodestruct just as soon as the other thread goes up.

 

[Mowers]

1607-1654

I'll start with game notes, some bits about being Denmark and a weekend round up.

Games Notes

Firstly, apart from a silly incident or two and a couple of slow starts and buggy players we had a good session all in all. ryoken fitted very well into the French role dishing out a bit of French 'justice', we had a surprise visit from Peter E and the usuals supported the game as ever. I was generally very pleased with the game and the support that I got.

On a seperate note, please do not join Tusnami unless you know you dont have issues with either your connectivity or with your computer. If you are in any doubt, run a test with someone else. If everyone did this then we could have reached 1750 by now. There is no point joining if we already have 18 players. I will only have to ask you to leave as I cant realistically fit you in and this is the least fun part of the game for me. I am sorry for those that we couldnt fit in this time, if you do have a very stable computer, the right version and a good connectivity please inform my via ICQ and I will be able to 'spot' you in vnet.

Because of these issues I will not drop for countries unless there is a war. I do not check ICQ in game and have the sound off as I get about 100 ICQ's a day and it gets very distracting. I am not bound to include anyone and I tend to react best to friendly approaches and reasoned logic. Best to approach Archduke, Mulliman, Smirfy, Wyvern or another senior player and speak to them and they will let me know.


Denmark 1607-1653

Denmark had a very eventful session doing nothing which for me was a success as we didnt get murdered by anyone despite playing a delicate balancing act between the major powers.

The Brandenberg issue was Denmarks major concern and was the dominating factor. Denmark switched alliance a number of times during the session to ensure its own safety and ensure that a healthy brandenberg as opposed to an 1870 Germany was on its southern border. Mecklenberg is a very obvious and vulnerable target and Denmark doesnt intend to support its own downfall.

There were a number of crisis points that were caused and defused by England regarding Brandenberg and Poland. Demanding that Hessen and Poland give land to the Brandenbergians caused somewhat of an ongoing storm. Poland refused to agree to its own dismemberment by England and brandenberg there was much, much tension. Expecting an assault at any point Denmark's forces were repeteadly called out, militias assembled and fishing fleets converted. Very tense times but our French allies supported us to the hilt during our moment of need and with our Swedish friends cementing our friendship.

Eventually there was some what of an outcry by the world and England publically decided not to force the issue, a statement that was widely seen as a wise and bold move. Unfortunately, despite this brave diplomatic change in policy England was then hassled by France. Unable to keep a lid on the situation the Danes, having just got home, were called out again. The nightmare scenario continued for some time until France stopped winding up the English and suggested that a friendly demilitization in America and thus relations seem to be on the mend again. A roller coaster ride for minor allies on all sides I imagine.

Anyway, Denmark managed to expand trade into a number of areas including English COTS and only managed to get embargoed twice, but ended up with no embargoes. With a healthy trade income and a lovely deflationary event Denmark was able to develop a modern expeditionary navy as well as a home defense navy, a number of defensive positions and a land militia to protect our territorial integrity from would be aggressors.

Denmark policy is now at a crossroads and there will be a dramatic change in coming years as it switches to a less entwined and hopefully less dangerous policy that will ensure its integrity over time.

However, unless Brandenberg makes peace with Hessen, who it brutally attacked. (Its ok to oppress Von Pommern but not Bremen it seems) Denmark will be forced to take military action to save Hessen.


World History 1607-1653

I have (well this morning at some point) updated the opening post with a brief history. I will update it with extracts and snippets from AAR's as they go up.

 

[TheArchduke]

England 1637-1653

The last session had similarities to the Cold War.

Two power blocs had emerged as a result of the break-up of the Grand Habsburg alliance.

England leader of the alliance of Austria, Brandenburg England, Holland, Sweden and Russia.

France leader of the alliance of Denmark, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain.

OE and Persia who were more France friendly and Venice who was neutral for the time being.

And now the Brandenburg incident.
Brandenburg who had enjoyed the benevolent protection of England for decades had raised claims on more polish territory following the inheritance of Pommern. Austria and Poland also had disputes over the province of Wielkopolska which leaped deep into polish territory.

England herself had no interest in any aggressive moves but had to speak out for her alliance partners Austria and Brandenburg who claimed or possesed polish territory.
France had already protected Hessen from an attack by Brandenburg shortly before so the french court was enraged by this renewed conflict and all alliance partners prepared for war.

The situation grew quite tense and the english court was flooded with diplomatic communiques. Some alliance partner were eager to "fight it out now!" as to say others were more of a peaceful or unprepared stance. Fairly aggressive notes from France and notes of support for french attitude from the other alliance on the other hand.

The sole voice of reason seemed Denmark. Being the nation that had experienced so good ties until the Hessen-crisis she renewed her relationship and both nations agreed to let them not entangle in any way because it wouldn´t benefit both of them. Russia also was not too keen on waging another war again and so England publicly stated that she would for the time being no longer support Brandenburgish claims or let her get entangled in any war over german territory.
Without english and dutch economic help Poland and Brandenburg stopped the manovouers they had been holding on the border and it seemed again that the world would stay at peace.

France however suspected an english trick and all alliance partners soon very again fearing that England and France would wage war on each other, dragging Europe behind them.
France was worried over the english alliance and stationed troops in NA which again brought England to build up her troops also and break the RM with France and alliance partners of her who could spy on her.
France mistook that as a hostile move and the World was again on the brink of war. And again without danish mediation war would have broke out. But on both sides voices of reason were heard and with the demilitarization of NA peace was again ruling in Europe.


Internal policy:

Reaching a new trade technology level, english traders were fighting hard to recover lost ground lost during the civil war in england in 1642-1648. Also during the crisis with France Ganges a CoT under firmly control of english traders was occupied during those years as to protect it from being conquered by the Mughal Empire. Orissa happily ceded control of it to an expeditionary force under the command of Oliver Cromwell.

New colonies were established in the Americas and the english fleet was expanded and small squadrons were organized to ensure english hegemony over NA, Souther Indonesia and India.

Also Charles won the parliamentary conflict and together with the establishment of the english Commonwealth by Cromwell England was reorganized into a centralized state and the strong aristocracy had again to make concessions to the Burghers.

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Game notes:

It was really the Cold War 400 years earlier both sides fearing each other and thus nearly going to war against each other.

 

[Peter Ebbesen]

Poland 1637-1646

The early years of the reign of Wladislav IV Wasa, the "Cartographer King", were tumultous. With the hostile actions of the degenerate Habsburgs in claiming the throne of Poland, invasion seemed emminent.

This was immediately followed by outrageous claims by Brandenberg, that their little Duke had a manifest destiny to control all German speaking people, and that the king Wladislav was oppressing the Germans within his realm - and should hand over the German speaking territories to him, as was his right. As history shows, the German minority in Danzig had been loyal subjects of the Polish crown for many generations, and had known no war nor undue distress, unlike the multitudes who had suffered from Brandenburg's predatory acts on its neighbours over the last half of the preceding century, so this claim was widely discounted.

Nevertheless, as Brandenburg was in alliance with Austria and Russia, and their paymaster England, it seemed clear that Brandenburg was acting as a stooge, staging a pretext for the dismemberment of Poland.

Faced with such threat, the wise king marshalled half his army on the border with Brandenburg, where Brandenburg was busy amassing armies, and joined in defensive alliance with Denmark, Spain, France, Saxony, and Hessen raised a public outcry over these dastardly plans. Eventually, faced with widespread international condemnation, England had to publicly disavow any attack on Poland.... For the time being.

The treacherous neighbours of Poland, whom she had but recently supported with her full power, had been briefly stalled in their desire to partition Poland, and all the nations of the English alliance declared themselves satisfied with the outcome: nothing evil had been intended, it was a complete misconception on the part of the Polish that demands to hand over territory coupled with the marshalling of armies on her border and, furthermore, the booting from the alliance with Austria, should be construed as a threat.

Wladislav IV Wasa laughed.

Following this diplomatic setback, violence rocked Germany, as Sweden freed Vorpommern as a vassal. Within months, Brandenburg attacked the free state, slaughtering the defenders and annexing them. During this war, the madman from Brandenburg also fought a second war against a coalition of Bremen and the Palatinate. Truly, his warmongering knew no limits. Faced with such slaughter of imperial subjects and the attempted dissolution of electorates, the so-called Holy Roman Emperor did nothing whatsoever to defend his subjects. Truly, it must be said, the Empire was by this time no more than a name, and a joke at that.

Meanwhile, the map-trading continued, as did the investment into the sorely neglected Polish infrastructure.

However, tranquility was not to last. France began taking aggressive stances and began asking members of her alliance to leave because she needed room for Brittany in the alliance. She was even willing to pay a ridiculously small sum of money as a bribe. With the recent experiences of the Habsburg alliance, Wladislav IV was naturally not inclined to leave the alliance and stated so. Other nations in the alliance, however, were bribed to leave. During this time France began talking about war between Tuscany and Venice, but, since none of them were in the alliance, and since the alliance was defensive, as clearly stated upon entrance, by Poland, Denmark, and Spain, little heed was paid to these utterances concerning conflict in Italy - the Habsburg and Russian threat were of more immediate concern.

Great was the surprise of the wise king, when suddenly within a span of a few months, without consultation with allies, France invited Venice into the alliance after which Venice attacked Tuscany. This was a complete breach of the defensive nature of the alliance, but had obviously been Louis XIII's plan all along, and caused much consternation in Warsaw, Copenhagen, and Madrid. Though heavy at heart, Wladislav IV Wasa, honoured the alliance call nonetheless, though it caused a breach of the connection to the royal house of Tuscany, occasioning a general loss of public stability. Editors Note: Actually, Venice attacked Tuscany, which was in the French alliance, not conversely

The King waxed wroth indeed, and, calculating that bread and circuses to the value of 500d would be needed to restore stability, sent such a bill to Louis XIII, with a twelve month deadline attached. The king of France grew more than a bit bitter, and refused the ability to pay for the consequences of his actions, claiming that there had been problems of miscommunication. That seemed entirely likely, said the wise king, but that did not affect the outcome.

The world waited breathlessly on the outcome.


EDITORS NOTE: The author of this piece, one I'ma Doofus, obviously was gravely mistaken concerning the actual workings out of the French-Tuscany-Venice situation. However, the outcome, one broken royal marriage, was real enough, as Poland had royal marriages with both Tuscany and Venice.

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OOC: And I really wanted to know whether I could make France pay the price of using a defensive alliance in such a way. As most people know, I do to some extent roleplay my monarchs. This means, that while you should not expect a consistent foreign policy from me as a player over a long period of time, you should expect some sort of consistency from each monarch. With the recent example of alliance abuse and near invasion in mind, there is no doubt that Wladislav IV Wasa was most wroth to see the defensive alliance he was in misused. He would have insisted on the 500d stab cost paid in full (easily payable by France within the time limit of 12 months, as France had a monthly income of about 100d) and most likely left the alliance to stand (and fall) alone, or in alliance with other nations that were only interested in a defensive alliance, if France had not. It would have been most interesting to see what developed.

However, as I had a dinner engagement that evening, I had to leave abruptly at 17:30 CET (as advertised earlier), so France most likely got away with it scot-free when some new player arrived.

I have heard rumours that a new player arrived to take control of Poland during the next seven years, declared war on Austria, and then quit when the going got tough. Most unsporting behaviour indeed, and slightly suicidal.

PS: I dare the BRA, HAB, and RUS players to claim that they had no intentions on an early partition of POL. It was very clear what was going on

 

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War on Rebels

Poland has obviously concentrated too much on their maps and has overlooked their diplomacy. What is stated above, that Venice should have been allied at some point with France is a sign of ignorance or worse.

When Tuscany was in an anarcistic state and Firenzian rebels was troubling much of Italy France agreed to let Venetian officials bring order to that province. Venice attacked Tuscany to remove the rebels (more then 31k) and France formally honored their alliance with Tuscany but took no real action.

That Poland can didn't notice that France and Venice was at war (allthough a friendly one) shows that the country of Poland holds lousy diplomats.

Poland has always been a friend of Venice but to claim that a French-Venitian alliance has at any time been formed is forgery and Venice is not tolerating that the Venetian neutrality is exposed to a slanderous campaign.

 

[Johan]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen
I dare the BRA, HAB, and RUS players to claim that they had no intentions on an early partition of POL. It was very clear what was going on

Habsburg have never been the driving force for a Polish partition, but the fact remains.

Constant arrogance from various Polish Kings who have scorned the memory of the past valiant Kings of the Empire who've died on the field of Poland to save her from the Mongol and Viking hordes.

We have bled for one hundred and fifty years for our allies and friends, while other nations gained wealth, colonies and trade.

The new policy of the Empire, is a jaded and cynical view. We will never again send out our noble knights on the field, unless the gold is paid in advance, or the security of the homeland or our true friends is at stake.

 

[Peter Ebbesen]

The Polish king hath sacked a diplomat over the recent incidents. However, he will note that the correct way to combat rebels troubling a friendly neighbour is to arrange for military access and then send in the troops: Not to declare war on said neighbour


And that is the last time I write an AAR entry in my lunch-break without a player save log on hand to consult

 

[Wyvern]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen
PS: I dare the BRA, HAB, and RUS players to claim that they had no intentions on an early partition of POL. It was very clear what was going on

The Russian court is shocked! Shocked I tell you at the news that the Polish King would dare to think we would involve ourselves in such a dastardly act....

 

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Wyvern
The Russian court is shocked! Shocked I tell you at the news that the Polish King would dare to think we would involve ourselves in such a dastardly act....

Well, a certain highly placed advisor to the Russian Court, one Gari Wyvernonov, admitted as much to a highly placed Polish source after the incident

 

[Wyvern]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen
Well, a certain highly placed advisor to the Russian Court, one Gari Wyvernonov, admitted as much to a highly placed Polish source after the incident

He must have been drunk. Too much vodka to keep off the Russian winter chill. Now don't believe everything you're told .

Hmph, can't trust anyone these days it seems....