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I sure hope you declared war. You've got to show the world that moderate social democracy can kick annex with the best of them.
Indeed, but I still only got 1 NF to use....for now. Also, I'm terrible at foreshadowing events, but the war shall be closer to home than we wanted. (Hint: If you've been following the AAR from the start, you'll noticed how Spain expanded in Africa and when one looks at the war sides...hehe.)Great update!
I would assume you're going to need to really encourage more soldier pops via national focus because 50 brigades simply won't do it in the battle fields of Europe.
Chapter 6 part 2: The disasters of war
1914-1922
The 3rd World War kicks off when Germany attempts to re-gain control of Bohemia, as they cored the regions in the time Germany held it.
Good luck with that.
Our biggest enemy will be Spain, who's borders in Africa directly border us. The South Africa navy, as it is heading up to blockade ports in Spain, ends of finding and engaging a Spanish fleet, bound for the Cape to land enemy troops.
The invasion of Spanish Africa commences with out main armies invading Spanish Tanzania and Angola.
Battle plans.
The Germans intended (based of observing military observations) to make a push into Austria-Hungary and the North-Eastern border of France.
Can it work?
Back to the Naval battle, with 10 battleships, we easily defeat them off the coast of Cameroon!
We secure naval superiority in Africa for the time being.
The Spanish decide to invade South African Tanzania, and take on the small garrison there, bringing a defeat upon us.
We start researching Military Plans.
*From this point on, Steam went offline for me and I was not able to take screenshots for the rest of the war, so I have no screenshots of the rest of the battles and actions. I apologize in advance. :sad: The latest screenshot is after the war*
More battles ensured that the military of South Africa would be tested in the most hardest of situations. Finally, the news broke that German made peace with the Freedom Powers....ending in a defeat for the Anglo-German alliance. South Africa, having thought that the war would bring them victory, ended up on the losing side and being forced to disband the entire South African navy and half of the army.
On the bright side, somewhat...
We lose infamy faster.
At least we did not lose any lands. Al we lost was.. the trust of our allies.
Military Statistics were researched.
Germany suffered the most, having all their armies disbanded and retaining a fair navy...sorta.
Pictured: Communist Rebels.
Madagascan nationalist rise all over Madagascar. We send in the mere Zanzibar Guard to defeat the rebel forces.
We start research on Military Logistics.
The Unionist Party comes to power, ending more than..uh..20 years of Labor rule.
Research on Military Directional-ism. The goal is to get Gas Attack.
Filipino Nationalist manage to free the Philippians from Spanish Rule. Very interesting....
We start research on Army Professionalism. We must modernize our Military system!
We finally get Gas Attack!
Gaseous.
Army-making Decision starts research.
Liberia suffered a communist revolution, thus freeing them from US influence. Say, since we got enough infamy to handle it...
One of our secondary goals is finally reachable!
Germany is overthrown by communist, thus ending the Anglo-German alliance.
Russia offers us a alliance. Looks like we'll be joining a new pact!
Army Risk Management is next on the list of researching.
We core Gaborone.
The landing begins.
Hurrah!
The war is quick and swift, thus brining in thuis civilized part of Africa into the fold.
We...did it! And that colonization place can finally be owned!
Then, for the 1st time of my 1,110 hrs on record of playing Victoria 2, the "Liberty Prevails" event fires without any cheats!
Whoa! We need the prestige!
A huge rebellion breaks out all over South Africa, while at the same time, we get the offer for a alliance from Brazil of all places.
We start research on Steel Breech-loaded Artillery.
Our last colonial region in Africa is finally granted Statehood and joins with the rest of the Northern Cape region.
Russia calls us in a war to take back Northern Finland from Sweden, who is not allied with Germany anymore.
Russia is returning guys!
We start research on Deep Defense System.
Finally, the truce is over and we start building up our armies once more!
Re-building moral.
Research on Associationism starts.
We finally switch to Military-Industrial Complex!
We spend a few more years researching Phenomenalism and Experimental Psychology.
The 4th Great war breaks out with the Freedom powers fighting Communist Germany, Flanders and the United Kingdom.
USA finally joins Freedom Powers.
At one point, the UK suffers a Communist Revolution of its own. Revenge!
We include Brazil in our Sphere of Influence.
Germany at this point is bound to collapse completely.
A 3 front-war is never fun.
We decide to intervene in the 4th World War, sure of victory for us!
And with that, I end this long update. What shall happen next? What will be the future of the Anglo-German Pact? Will a new age dawn? Find out this and more when we come back to our beloved South Africa next time!
1914-1922
The 3rd World War kicks off when Germany attempts to re-gain control of Bohemia, as they cored the regions in the time Germany held it.
Good luck with that.
Our biggest enemy will be Spain, who's borders in Africa directly border us. The South Africa navy, as it is heading up to blockade ports in Spain, ends of finding and engaging a Spanish fleet, bound for the Cape to land enemy troops.
The invasion of Spanish Africa commences with out main armies invading Spanish Tanzania and Angola.
Battle plans.
The Germans intended (based of observing military observations) to make a push into Austria-Hungary and the North-Eastern border of France.
Can it work?
Back to the Naval battle, with 10 battleships, we easily defeat them off the coast of Cameroon!
We secure naval superiority in Africa for the time being.
The Spanish decide to invade South African Tanzania, and take on the small garrison there, bringing a defeat upon us.
We start researching Military Plans.
*From this point on, Steam went offline for me and I was not able to take screenshots for the rest of the war, so I have no screenshots of the rest of the battles and actions. I apologize in advance. :sad: The latest screenshot is after the war*
More battles ensured that the military of South Africa would be tested in the most hardest of situations. Finally, the news broke that German made peace with the Freedom Powers....ending in a defeat for the Anglo-German alliance. South Africa, having thought that the war would bring them victory, ended up on the losing side and being forced to disband the entire South African navy and half of the army.
On the bright side, somewhat...
We lose infamy faster.
At least we did not lose any lands. Al we lost was.. the trust of our allies.
Military Statistics were researched.
Germany suffered the most, having all their armies disbanded and retaining a fair navy...sorta.
Pictured: Communist Rebels.
Madagascan nationalist rise all over Madagascar. We send in the mere Zanzibar Guard to defeat the rebel forces.
We start research on Military Logistics.
The Unionist Party comes to power, ending more than..uh..20 years of Labor rule.
Research on Military Directional-ism. The goal is to get Gas Attack.
Filipino Nationalist manage to free the Philippians from Spanish Rule. Very interesting....
We start research on Army Professionalism. We must modernize our Military system!
We finally get Gas Attack!
Gaseous.
Army-making Decision starts research.
Liberia suffered a communist revolution, thus freeing them from US influence. Say, since we got enough infamy to handle it...
One of our secondary goals is finally reachable!
Germany is overthrown by communist, thus ending the Anglo-German alliance.
Russia offers us a alliance. Looks like we'll be joining a new pact!
Army Risk Management is next on the list of researching.
We core Gaborone.
The landing begins.
Hurrah!
The war is quick and swift, thus brining in thuis civilized part of Africa into the fold.
We...did it! And that colonization place can finally be owned!
Then, for the 1st time of my 1,110 hrs on record of playing Victoria 2, the "Liberty Prevails" event fires without any cheats!
Whoa! We need the prestige!
A huge rebellion breaks out all over South Africa, while at the same time, we get the offer for a alliance from Brazil of all places.
We start research on Steel Breech-loaded Artillery.
Our last colonial region in Africa is finally granted Statehood and joins with the rest of the Northern Cape region.
Russia calls us in a war to take back Northern Finland from Sweden, who is not allied with Germany anymore.
Russia is returning guys!
We start research on Deep Defense System.
Finally, the truce is over and we start building up our armies once more!
Re-building moral.
Research on Associationism starts.
We finally switch to Military-Industrial Complex!
We spend a few more years researching Phenomenalism and Experimental Psychology.
The 4th Great war breaks out with the Freedom powers fighting Communist Germany, Flanders and the United Kingdom.
USA finally joins Freedom Powers.
At one point, the UK suffers a Communist Revolution of its own. Revenge!
We include Brazil in our Sphere of Influence.
Germany at this point is bound to collapse completely.
A 3 front-war is never fun.
We decide to intervene in the 4th World War, sure of victory for us!
And with that, I end this long update. What shall happen next? What will be the future of the Anglo-German Pact? Will a new age dawn? Find out this and more when we come back to our beloved South Africa next time!
Nothing quite like turning on your former buddies. It's especially shocking here because before the war, your government was socialist, and the Germans and British are now communists. I personally only try to intervene in Great Wars when I'm sure I have enough sealift or whatnot to get troops to the major battlefields.
Aye, indeed so. My transport fleet got wiped as a result of the last war, but with better ports than before, I'm sure that I can easily raise a good fleet to send a 45,000 army to the fields of Europe.
Chapter 7: The Accord of Nations
1922-1927
South Africa officially enters the 4th World War on the side of the Freedom Powers.
The 4th Great War of Europe.
To mark the occasion, we start research on Modern Divisional Structure.
The Zanzibar Guard, under the command of the famous British WW1 general Geoffrey French start to land troops on the British colony of Mauritius.
Marsjeer!
After that is occupied, we start going over to the Seychelles and occupy that in the same manor.
France makes peace with Germany, eventually getting all their cores back from the Germans and annexing poor Flanders.
Prussia is also re-created, in actual Prussia!
France offers us a Alliance. We are now fully in the Freedom Powers!
The wound is healed!
One of the largest rebellions yet strike the Union, as thousands of communist rebels rise all over South Africa.
Rebel scum.
We start research on Analytic Philosophy.
Then I encounter one of those moments where you want to say "what the tomato?"
Brazilians fighting Austrian-Hungarian troops in Egypt.
Spain declared war on Egypt to get a state (by now, Egypt is civilized) and called their ally Brazil, but Austria-Hungary intervened on behalf of Egypt. These actions would lead the Freedom Powers to action.
One of those battles.
We start research on Limited-Access Roads.
By now, Europe is still in war, with Prussia warring Germany to re-gain one of their cores and France going for the Rhine.
A comet deftly got seen.
Finally, the Freedom Powers act.
To Barcelona or bust!
The South African Armies start the invasion of Spanish Africa. Rebels rise there the moment war is declared.
More arrow-heads!
We start research on Organized Factories.
As soon as the war started, the war ends.
What do you want Russia?
A split occurs in the Alliance, and Russia and France decide to liberate the Russian-cored region of East Galicia.
Pictured: Fascist China.
Abu Dhabi is the 1st Arab colony to become a state!
Arab folks see the ballot box for the 1st time in over forever.
Research on Private Bank Money Billing Printing starts.
The war ends, and Russia expands once more.
Russian Dancing men poke Ausie-Hun in back.
We start research on Central Bank Money Bill Printing.
A Bulgaria crisis breaks out. Lets see who's in it.
Freedom Powers people plus a restored British Democracy.
One of our diplomats use rattling-saber speech in the conference room of the Great Powers, thus making everyone uppity about the crisis.
We are not North Koreans!
Everyone joins the Russian side, wanting to free Bulgaria from the Ottomans.
Give up already!!
Research starts on Modern Central Bank System.
But they don't want a free Slavic state other than Serbia, so...
I'll end the update here. Man, the world never wants to rest? Shall the Bulgarian people get their freedom from the Freedom Powers, or shall the Austrian Hungarian-Ottoman axis overcome? Find out more when we return to South Africa later!
Also, national statistics will come out soon, in case your wondering what our nationalities look like.
1922-1927
South Africa officially enters the 4th World War on the side of the Freedom Powers.
The 4th Great War of Europe.
To mark the occasion, we start research on Modern Divisional Structure.
The Zanzibar Guard, under the command of the famous British WW1 general Geoffrey French start to land troops on the British colony of Mauritius.
Marsjeer!
After that is occupied, we start going over to the Seychelles and occupy that in the same manor.
France makes peace with Germany, eventually getting all their cores back from the Germans and annexing poor Flanders.
Prussia is also re-created, in actual Prussia!
France offers us a Alliance. We are now fully in the Freedom Powers!
The wound is healed!
One of the largest rebellions yet strike the Union, as thousands of communist rebels rise all over South Africa.
Rebel scum.
We start research on Analytic Philosophy.
Then I encounter one of those moments where you want to say "what the tomato?"
Brazilians fighting Austrian-Hungarian troops in Egypt.
Spain declared war on Egypt to get a state (by now, Egypt is civilized) and called their ally Brazil, but Austria-Hungary intervened on behalf of Egypt. These actions would lead the Freedom Powers to action.
One of those battles.
We start research on Limited-Access Roads.
By now, Europe is still in war, with Prussia warring Germany to re-gain one of their cores and France going for the Rhine.
A comet deftly got seen.
Finally, the Freedom Powers act.
To Barcelona or bust!
The South African Armies start the invasion of Spanish Africa. Rebels rise there the moment war is declared.
More arrow-heads!
We start research on Organized Factories.
As soon as the war started, the war ends.
What do you want Russia?
A split occurs in the Alliance, and Russia and France decide to liberate the Russian-cored region of East Galicia.
Pictured: Fascist China.
Abu Dhabi is the 1st Arab colony to become a state!
Arab folks see the ballot box for the 1st time in over forever.
Research on Private Bank Money Billing Printing starts.
The war ends, and Russia expands once more.
Russian Dancing men poke Ausie-Hun in back.
We start research on Central Bank Money Bill Printing.
A Bulgaria crisis breaks out. Lets see who's in it.
Freedom Powers people plus a restored British Democracy.
One of our diplomats use rattling-saber speech in the conference room of the Great Powers, thus making everyone uppity about the crisis.
We are not North Koreans!
Everyone joins the Russian side, wanting to free Bulgaria from the Ottomans.
Give up already!!
Research starts on Modern Central Bank System.
But they don't want a free Slavic state other than Serbia, so...
I'll end the update here. Man, the world never wants to rest? Shall the Bulgarian people get their freedom from the Freedom Powers, or shall the Austrian Hungarian-Ottoman axis overcome? Find out more when we return to South Africa later!
Also, national statistics will come out soon, in case your wondering what our nationalities look like.
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Aye, indeed so. The poor fellow was taking advantage of Germany's beating by the Freedom Powers. Too bad the Danes forgot the Germans have a navy...
They want Iceland to be freed, actually. I find it a bit odd, but then again, it's the only free-able nation that Germany can chose from Denmark.
I really dislike when that happens. Iceland should be it's own state, so a forcibly liberated Iceland does not end up with Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Are you referencing what I think you're referencing?
A nice AAR you have here, Sigsmund – interesting country, interesting game, speedy updates... What's not to like? I've been reading for a while, so I thought now would be a good time to join the ride before its too late.
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