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*24th September of 1544, Landtag Hall, Riga
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So, it is how things are...- Duchess asked emissary after a short while, sitting on her special place on the right of main rostrum, attentively observing emissary standing there.
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Yes, my Lady - he said eagerly -
there is no time to lose. Danes already threatened balance with their Sund Due and recent submission of northern German cities. It is the crucial moment, when they are still exhausted by last campaign, King Gustav states that there would be no better chance to oust Denmark in future! If we will let them take over Hansa, one day we might not be able to stop that rascals... - he raised his head and looked at tribunes fulled with Confederates. Warlike representatives seemed to be convinced, looking at emissary and Duchess with their usual, crazy sight in their eyes.
Time to get things going.
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Except of that My Lady, King Gustav wished to ask about aid from your brother, duke Barnim. His military aid and access to Pomeranian ports might prove crucial. If we can gather our armies there and then, with God's support retake Hansetic cities, Danes will lost their financial support and then we can...
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Ha! - Duchess get up from her place and disrupted emissary's speech -
So that is your goal after all! Money! Bloody cash! And gooddies! Is that it?! Oh you, sweet Swedish boys... - she sighed and smiled to confused emissary for a while -
Can't you be straight at least at once? Speak your mind?...Ah...I get it now...
Sofia walked towards main rostrum and stood ahead of it, leaving Swedish emissary behind her in state of absolute confusion. She took a deep breath and, after a while of gathering power, she yelled like one of these waitress serving German beer in Bavarian bar:
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Everyone who agrees to support Vasa and drive Danes out of Germany, rise your arms up!
Two hundreds of swords, axes, pikes and rifles rose up in a moment, along with cheers and vivates. Sofia wasn't an exception, with her light cavalry sabre given as token of gratitude by Johann von Recke, Livonian Knights head.
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Good! - she yelled, waving her sabre in the air -
Now you, sweet Swedish boy! Get back to Sweden and inform your lord that we are ready anytime! Barnim will surely support us too!
During rest of Landtag session everyone was singing, cheering and expressing their hatred towards Danish King. Time to pay them back for enslaving Sweden and threatening Livonia! In all that mess and disorder Sofia somehow managed to perform votings and gain official support for a war, settle number of conscripts and war funds. Ah, Confederates...like a kids - give them Casus Belli and they will go against Satan himself.
From 10th December of 1544 Gustav Vasa, along with Sofia av Pommern-Plettenberg and Barnim together declared war on Danish Kingdom and thus Hansa, Danish lapdog at a time. A Baltic Axis was born.
*First Northern War (1544-1546)
Danish King, Christian III, was shocked with news of attack from the East. It took him so long to subjugate and seize Hansa's assets and now he was to spend most of cash to repel his grandfather's vassal and crazy duchess attacking his possessions. Madness! All plans were in place already and only execution remained. Christian was expecting Vasa to send his forces to Gotland, island claimed by both Kingdoms. Danish plan was to engage Swedish fleet here and destroy it if possible. Thus Sofia's plan originated, to deceive Danes and free Vasa's navy - Livonians will attack Gotland instead! Walther von Brandenburg landed there along with twenty eight thousands of infantry on 14th January of 1545. Livonian Navy was to face Danish Navy stationed there, consisting on seven modern warships. First battle near Visby ended with Livonians defeat, although three out of seven enemy vessels were sunk, without any casualties. A volunteer Livonian Navy was a major example of what morale means on battefield, yet size and armament of your ships is really important (that's what she said!). On 10th April remnants of Danish Gotland Squadron were caught again near Gotland, mercilessly outgunned by twenty-eight Livonian vessels. Visby has been cut off from Danish mainland; von Brandenburg assaulted city again - no such luck, yet its defenses were badly weakened, ripe to be beaten next time.
Finally on 19th November, just before start of winter city capitulated to Livonians. Confederates returned home, entrusting defence of Gotland to local nobles loyal to Vasa. Either way island would be returned to him, Sofia however came up with yet another plan to make profit from war. Soon Gustav agreed to Duchess's proposition - Gotland will be ceded to Swedish crown in exchange for easternmost, coastal part of Karelia. Northern Karelia was in Danish hands and it was included in deal as well - in the end, whole Karelia was meant to be part of Livonia after war. Von Brandenburg's expedition was sent there and seized Danish Kola on 28th March of 1546.
In meantime Gustav and Barnim had tough time with Danes, who held them off particulary well. To finally break their lines and force to unconditional surrender, Livonian Army was sent there. News of thirty thousands of soldiers led by duet Recke-Brandenburg in Pommern made heads of Hansa beg Danes for signing peace. King Christian himself was probably convinced enough that waging war against Baltic Axis is not the best idea. On 14th September 1546 in Stettin - Barnim's capital - Christian ceded Gotland, northern Karelia and most of his possessions in Skane in exchange for truce. Fair enough, but for sure it is not the end of struggling for trade and political domination in Baltic Sea.
Fin.
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Und das ist meine, eine grosse Livonische panzerkrankwagen von arbeitklasse du krosgwigk funfzig ist verboten.
I have no idea what I've just said, but believe me that everyone born in Silesia has German accent and somewhat positive attitude towards it in his blood so it sounds somewhat familiar and nice to me, yet I don't know what most of these words means. Only that they sound awesome!
And all of these things are happening because Livonia are is of backness! Took some time, effort, but in the end I missed it soo much (hope that not only I *wink*). I are full of excitations and maybe I will stop using Polandball-English before it gets too awkward (it did already).
Any of my virtue For the Glory companions here? Look, I made a thing? Is it fun? Tell mee! Now that I'm back, I want to add a bit of warlordism to our action soon, the question remains if you are fine with amount of
moddage in that AAR. If I'm not overkillin' it basically.
I surely don't want to offend any Danish people around, but in this game, Denmark sucks a bit. See when we can break it down finally
Recently (like, not really) except of Livonian story I started my very own warlord story in Darkest Hour, maybe you'd want to hang out there for a bit and see what you can see - and yes, it is simply a pure advertisementaire, I'm not gonna even lie to your face.
And 3k views, woohoo. It is nice result for a FtG-AAR, isn't it? I'm thankful to you meine ragazzi von schwerpunkt <3
Gosh, I'm just a bit too hyped...I missed Knights...and they're back finally. You know the drill guys - see you every Friday!
