This was a great game and I could tell an interesting story if someone would give me the step by step to get maps posted on a thread. somebody told me to hit the IMG button but I cannot find it. Please help and I promise a good story,
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Put the maps in jpeg format and upload them to your website. Type in its location on the web into the IMG box.
If your website was www.flip0009.com/mymaps.jpeg then it would look like this:
![url]](http://[url]www.flip0009.com/mymaps.jpeg[/url])
If your website was www.flip0009.com/mymaps.jpeg then it would look like this:
i don't have a clue
Prince,
Sorry, but I don't understand how to start. How do you get the map out of the game to begin with? I can't get the game out of full screen to get to my windows comands. Do I use saved game files or something? Help me please.
Prince,
Sorry, but I don't understand how to start. How do you get the map out of the game to begin with? I can't get the game out of full screen to get to my windows comands. Do I use saved game files or something? Help me please.
hi flip,
here is how to create a jpeg:
a) when you are playing, press alt-printscreen.
(alt is besiudes spacebar, printscreen is upper right, press them simultaneous).
The image is now on your so called clipboard,just as you can have text on it when using ctrl-c in wordpad.
b) Now I assume that you have windows2000 or better.
In the start button menu, you will find programs - accesoires - paint. Open this program.
Pressing ctrl-v will paste the image. If you have windows Me, 2000, or XP, there will be a "save as" option having a jpeg format.
Alas, W95 and W98 lack this feature. (their paint version might support gif, which will suffice as well). You will need some other application, such as a graphics program, to convert bitmaps to gif or jpg.
c) If your provider gives you some space for your own website, upload them to your website.
Else, try taking a freeware account somewhere. Set up a html-page and link from your aar to that html page.
I forgot to say, you can alt-tab while EU remains active. This will enable you to switch between EU and any other applications such as paint. Make sure you have the patch installed before doing this!
here is how to create a jpeg:
a) when you are playing, press alt-printscreen.
(alt is besiudes spacebar, printscreen is upper right, press them simultaneous).
The image is now on your so called clipboard,just as you can have text on it when using ctrl-c in wordpad.
b) Now I assume that you have windows2000 or better.
In the start button menu, you will find programs - accesoires - paint. Open this program.
Pressing ctrl-v will paste the image. If you have windows Me, 2000, or XP, there will be a "save as" option having a jpeg format.
Alas, W95 and W98 lack this feature. (their paint version might support gif, which will suffice as well). You will need some other application, such as a graphics program, to convert bitmaps to gif or jpg.
c) If your provider gives you some space for your own website, upload them to your website.
Else, try taking a freeware account somewhere. Set up a html-page and link from your aar to that html page.
I forgot to say, you can alt-tab while EU remains active. This will enable you to switch between EU and any other applications such as paint. Make sure you have the patch installed before doing this!
I forget which, but just hitting F-11 or F-12 while in play will cause the game to take a screenshot and save it to a file in the main EU folder -- this way you can take as many screencaps as you want without having to flip out of the game to deal with the clipboard. The game will save them as sequentially numbered bitmaps "screensave0", "Screensave1" etc. Then you just crop and convert them to jpg...
Austria to the Top
I am the spirit of kings, of country, of battle and the bottle. When men sit lay down in the dark after drinking their fill and fulfilling their woman, it is I who take over the real reality of their lives. I am the hosting of their life in spirit. It is then they imagine their lives from the infinite depth of a soul freed from its body to read the story of their living as remembered by the soul.
The soul asks : "Why was I there in that body?". I, as the spirit, reply with the question: "Who were you?". Thus the story begins.
(And the story. believe it or not. is what I am. Those men. in imagination freed from the bindings of death absolute memory eradication, see their lives as the story and thus make me.)
He is a man but that does not make much of story in a world full of men. He defines himself as an Austrian, coming of age in the province of Presburg and joining the army of King Maximilion I to earn his manhood in the great war of annexation against the sovereign state of Bohemia. He sees the struggle as a wrestling match between His King, Maxmillian and King Vladislav of Bohemia. In his mind it is a fight to the death even though Vladislav is outnumbered and outmatched. Maximillian had cleverly concluded a treaty with Austria’s natural enemy, the enemy by which Bohemia based it own survival, and thus Vladislav lost the wrestling match. He saw himself as one of the fingers or perhaps just a flake of skin of the giant body of his king and country as he marched in the Imperial Guard under General Karenski. It was a brutal campaign as Maxmillion did not trust any treaty with the Hungarians and demanded Karenski push his army to the limit in an effort to insure Austria got all of Bohemia. Karenski followed orders and assaulted every fortress he came upon despite the horrendous cost to his men. Of course, the Bohemian Army was the first to fall but it never had a chance pitting its meager 10,000 against the 40,000 of the Austrian Imperial guard. The Bohemian Army hardly even slowed down the Imperial Guard. Prag, Pilsen and Karlsbad were assaulted and taken despite the feeble counterattacks from the diminished Bohemian Army. Poor Vladislav never had a chance as the Imperial Army was rolling over Moravia and Silesia cutting down untrained recruits before they had any chance to rescue their country.
In three years it was over. King Maximillian had achieved the annexation of all of Bohemia’s five provinces into Austria. But the common soldier knew the true story of the war was strewn in a hundred graveyards over Bohemia. Only 2000 men had died in combat while 20,000 died from disease, starvation and cold. His King had made Austria greater but throughout Europe the kings and countries of the giant wrestling match of world history all turned their attention against Austria. It was common talk in the taverns of how Austria was hated by everyone but their natural enemy, the Hungarians. Maxmillian hungered to make war again with the weak, rich provinces of Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtenburg lying practically undefended across her borders but he was a cautious king so he summoned his Court Magicians to attend him. He demanded they peer into the future and see the results of war against the likes of Bavaria or Saxony. The Magicians went back to their workshops and smoked the magic herb of foresight and had to bring bad news to the King. Even though Austria had the power to seize and annex Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtenburg, she did not have the money to bribe other neighbors, especially Brandenburg, Poland, France and Venice to stay neutral. The kings ambition would plunge Austria into a deadly spiral of war from which she had no hope of recovery with any ambition other than simple survival.
King Maximilian listened to his Court Magicians and trusted their peering into the future. He could be satisfied as Austria was now at par with most countries of Europe. King Maxilmilian set his sights on the making of Bavaria into a vassal as Austria was the leader of a Military Alliance and Bavaria acceded to his wishes before his death in 1519. The treasury was used to upgrade the infrastructure of the country and the fortress in Tyrol but most of it was spent in bribing neighboring countries into friendship of neutrality.
King Karl V rose to the Imperial throne after his death. He inherited a country that was safe against all enemies as Austria was safe within a might alliance of Poland, Hungary, Saxony and Moldavia. No one dared attack his country but he was a man a keen military insight and bided his time until one of the inevitable Turkish wars broke out. All allies were eager to fight the Turk but the Saxons and Karl V liberated Iberia from the Turkish yoke in 1533 and placed it and its port under the banner of his empire. Even though Karl V was a man of the military, he understood the need to keep his country together as a unit. His mighty alliance would have enabled him to take possession of provinces all over Europe but that same alliance prohibited him from attacking his neighbors. So Karl V promoted judges and tax collectors and bided his time.
Austria was in a very favorable position in the world. Thanks to the diplomatic skills of her kings and the richness of her provinces, her economic and diplomatic points put her second only to Spain. Her mighty alliance was humbling the Turkish Empire as her armies were wasted against the Poles and Hungarians and her rich provinces of Eastern Europe were taken away one by one while the Maneluks of Egypt tore at her from the south and Persia from the east. While this great enemy lost its gold shield, all around Austria were tiny one and two province countries of incredible wealth and population just waiting to be plucked.
Ferdinand I rose to the throne in 1556. He immediately launched a war against the Turk and secured Croatia for the Empire.
Maximilian II rose to the throne in 1564 and saw the need for expansion in his country. Thanks to Ferdinand I the treasury had money, alliances ere strong, and potential enemies were weak. Maximilian II recognized that, although the rich Protestant provinces of the north were available for conquest, especially with his strongly Catholic alliance, maintaining his hold over any conquests would entail endless occupation as they would constantly revolt, especially in a time of war when the army was needed elsewhere. So he turned his eyes to the south, to the provinces of Catholic northern Italy and the coastal provinces of the A G & C. Milan, newly born, died and early death to be reborn as a province of the Empire and Catholic Mantua from Venice. The Protestant countries to the west were so enraged at Maximilian II’s arrogance at expanding his country that they declared war on Austria together and were both, in turn, invaded and incorporated with the aide of Austria’s Catholic allies. Wurtenberg had declared war against his vassal Bavaria and surrendered one of its provinces before Maximilian II could marshal his forces for a counterassa47ult and so the province of Anwalt rose from mere vassal to being a proud member of the Empire. Fired by his success, Maxmillian II marched on to conquer Wurtenberg and Thuringen even though they were Protestant countries. The economic gains for Austria in peacetime were worth the risk of revolt in war. Anyway, the future appeared to be clear. Despite the intention of moving south into Italy, the fractious northern Protestant countries would not allow Austria and her allies the respite to engage in the long sieges necessary. The enemy to the north would have to be dealt with beforehand.
Rudolf II 1575 Rudolf II doubted the policy of Maximillian II and set his sights on the weak giant of Turkey. The Manaluks and Persians were pushing the Sultan hard and so it looked like easy pickings for Rudolf II. He initialed a war at the cost of Austria’s stability and quickly overran both Serbia, Wallachia but his Hungarian allies took Kosavo thus breaking the critial land link the Austrian Empire had held as its foundation from the beginning. There was little Rudolf II could do however as the rich catholic prvince of Wallachia was too much to decline. Anyway, his hand was forced as the enemies of the north quickly pounced on Austria as well as Catholic France. Fortunately, the Poles answered the summons to aid its ally and Brandenberg was swamped with troops. The annexation gave Austria Brandenberg and Kristen while Poland King Zywump III Wasa took Madenberg. It was a time of armies marching all over his country, revolts arising everywhere, from both war exhaustion and stability problems. Rudolf II, although his armies were stronger and his leaders were able, knew the time of conquest was over or Austria might crumble. Money that could have been spent on armies flew into the coffers of paltry kings to buy peace. One by one, France, Hanseatic League, The Palatinat, Savoy, Genoa, Venice and Spain were paid off. By 1584 four more provinces were in the Empire and the armies scurried around putting down revolts. However, peace was not to last long as Turkey again went to war and the provinces of Illyria and Ragusa with its shipyards entered the empire.
Mathias 1612 The short reign of Mathias was marked by a poor stability and endless revolts in Austria’s many provinces. Armies were raised and stationed in every corner of the Empire just to be ready to put down revolts. Governors were promoted to curb inflation and the beginnings of the Austrian navy were constructed at Ragusa.
Ferdinand II 1619 The reign of Ferdinand II was marked by the steady deterioration of Austria’s alliances. He was a poor diplomat and no matter how much money he sent to Poland, it was only possible to keep them from invading, much less supporting a war elsewhere. However, Ferdinand II saw himself as a navy man and he sent traders to southern North America and found two rich provinces abandoned by the English in South Carolina and Savannah. Instead of risking a war with powerful neighbors, He sent troops to the new continent and sent them exploring to be quickly followed by traders and colonists. Colonists were expensive and so the army remained in their barracks to put down the constant Protestant revolts and separated Wallachia fell to the revolutionaries. Ferdinand II was such a poor diplomat that not even Hungary would allow his troops across the border.
Ferdinand III 1637 Ferdinand III kept to the policy of his father to seek expansion in the new world. Half the treasury went every year toward colonists while the rest was spent on an occasional manufactory and the upkeep of the armies and the building of the navy. He too was a poor diplomat and the alliances that had made Austria so powerful in the past fell apart. However, Austria expanded as colonies turned into provinces with the steady influx of money and people. Traders moved into every province they could and Austria became the leader in trade.
Leopold I 1658 Leopold I was to sit on the Austria’s throne for 47 years but he was not a man of war. He saw the future in winning the game of European dominance lying in production facilities and the colonies. Spain was overextended and Leopold I raised five colonies into the status of provinces of the Empire in which cotton manufactories poured money into the coffers of the state.
Josef I 1705 Josef I saw what little diplomatic gains Leopold I had earned for Austria slip between his fingers. Perhaps the Empire had become content with itself and saw the state of Europe as well enough even though Austria was just fourth in the race. Once more, the colonies and production were pushed and not the army.
Karl VI 1711 Was a restless man who did not want the century to slip away without Austria rising to prominence. He eyes the rich province of Emilia in Northern Italy and dreamed the dreams of Maxmillian II. He secured the colonies with fortifications and strong armies and declared war on Spain with no risk to stability because of a foolish trade ban from Spain. The Papal States plunged into the fray as well as Genoa and Venice, Hanseatic League, Parma, France and a host of small Protestant states but Poland was kept at bay with bribes. Spain gave Emilia away after troops laid waste to her trading posts in the New World and soon the Pope signed over Romagna into the Empire. The Hanseatic League was dealt with by giving over Western Pomerania to the Empire and Austria now stretched from the Baltic Sea to Italy. Parma’s province of Moderna entered the Empire as Parma made its exit from history.
Maria Theresia 1740 At the advent of her reign, Maria Teresa solved the problem that had beset Karl VI. She immediately used her superb diplomatic skills to woo France into friendship, marriage and then alliance so no more would France’s huge armies lay waste to Austria. Maria was tired of the constant wars and did not fear the mighty fortresses of the small protestant countries. She cut her teeth in the landscape, however, when she saw Turkey take back Serbia from the Hungarians. The long forgotten province of Wallachia, known around the palace as “Rudolf II’s blunder” was reunited with the Empire because now armies could now move freely into Wallachia’s borders. The Turk was so weak and Maria’s generals so able that she added Hellas and Albania into the Empire as well. Feeling good about herself and her Empire, Maria wasted no time in setting her sights on the country she hated the most: Saxony. This little three province kingdom with its big armies and huge fortresses had long proved a thron in the Austrian side. With a little more money and sweet talk into France’s ear she launched a campaign of annexation with huge armies and plenty of men reserve to keep the provinces quiet. It took long sieges with many canon with many battles against the Pole but at last Saxony fell into the Empire. Foolish Naples had thought to attack her and she sent her occupation troops from Northern Italy to sweep over the poor little country and absorb it quickly.
Austria was now headed straight up on the charts and number one with her only competition her strongest ally. It was now a time of greed and power as money poured into her coffers from the patient work of her more peaceful ancestors make Austria’s infrastructure second to none. Her colonies were the strongest and best defended in the new world. Maria decided on a course of total war entering into the long forgotten dream of a united HRE, Tuscany fell after long sieges but now she had the men and money to perform long siege work and still have men in reserve to put down the many revolts. it was not long before all of Italy, including the Papal States were under her control. A failed attempt to finally quiet noisy, bothersome Genoa failed as not enough men could be sailed to Sardinia to take her strongest fort.
Josef II 1780 Nearly every province in Western Europe fell into the Austrian Empire as none could withstand her might. Only a single province of the Netherlands, and Baden, which survived only by hiding behind her alliance with France, Genoa and Venice’s single province remained that was not either France or Austria. Stability was high because foolish Spain gave Austria a Causa Bella to enter into war. Josef II continued Maria’s warlike ways and cut a huge swath through Spain’s homeland, taking her richest provinces and sinking the once mighty giant to a third place finish with Poland right behind..
Leopold II 1790 Leopold II could only watch in wonder at his mighty kingdom ruled the world. Anywhere he wished to conquer he could but he just relaxed and enjoyed it.
Franz II 1792 Franz II was a historically oriented type of King and he enjoyed looking back on the mighty struggle of once tiny little Austria becoming the titan of the world with hardly anything but time keeping the whole world from being called Austria. For him, Austria’s success was not her stellar performances on the battlefield but the calm waiting of several monarchs who developed the infrastructure in order to set the table for mighty conquerors like Karl VI and Maria Theresia. When Europe was divided into four equal powers of France, Poland, Austria and the combined might of the little countries, it was Austria’s expansion into North America’s rich south and the manufactories there which spurred income and trade into a force that turned the tide in Austria’s favor. The switch from an alliance or neutrality from Poland to that of France gave Austria northern Europe. An earlier switch and feelers toward Russia might have turned the direction of conquest to Poland. But the money is in Northern Europe. Battles, Economics and Peace Resolutions each gave from 1000 to 1200 points while diplomats and discoveries made up the rest of the over 4000 point total.
I am the spirit of kings, of country, of battle and the bottle. When men sit lay down in the dark after drinking their fill and fulfilling their woman, it is I who take over the real reality of their lives. I am the hosting of their life in spirit. It is then they imagine their lives from the infinite depth of a soul freed from its body to read the story of their living as remembered by the soul.
The soul asks : "Why was I there in that body?". I, as the spirit, reply with the question: "Who were you?". Thus the story begins.
(And the story. believe it or not. is what I am. Those men. in imagination freed from the bindings of death absolute memory eradication, see their lives as the story and thus make me.)
He is a man but that does not make much of story in a world full of men. He defines himself as an Austrian, coming of age in the province of Presburg and joining the army of King Maximilion I to earn his manhood in the great war of annexation against the sovereign state of Bohemia. He sees the struggle as a wrestling match between His King, Maxmillian and King Vladislav of Bohemia. In his mind it is a fight to the death even though Vladislav is outnumbered and outmatched. Maximillian had cleverly concluded a treaty with Austria’s natural enemy, the enemy by which Bohemia based it own survival, and thus Vladislav lost the wrestling match. He saw himself as one of the fingers or perhaps just a flake of skin of the giant body of his king and country as he marched in the Imperial Guard under General Karenski. It was a brutal campaign as Maxmillion did not trust any treaty with the Hungarians and demanded Karenski push his army to the limit in an effort to insure Austria got all of Bohemia. Karenski followed orders and assaulted every fortress he came upon despite the horrendous cost to his men. Of course, the Bohemian Army was the first to fall but it never had a chance pitting its meager 10,000 against the 40,000 of the Austrian Imperial guard. The Bohemian Army hardly even slowed down the Imperial Guard. Prag, Pilsen and Karlsbad were assaulted and taken despite the feeble counterattacks from the diminished Bohemian Army. Poor Vladislav never had a chance as the Imperial Army was rolling over Moravia and Silesia cutting down untrained recruits before they had any chance to rescue their country.
In three years it was over. King Maximillian had achieved the annexation of all of Bohemia’s five provinces into Austria. But the common soldier knew the true story of the war was strewn in a hundred graveyards over Bohemia. Only 2000 men had died in combat while 20,000 died from disease, starvation and cold. His King had made Austria greater but throughout Europe the kings and countries of the giant wrestling match of world history all turned their attention against Austria. It was common talk in the taverns of how Austria was hated by everyone but their natural enemy, the Hungarians. Maxmillian hungered to make war again with the weak, rich provinces of Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtenburg lying practically undefended across her borders but he was a cautious king so he summoned his Court Magicians to attend him. He demanded they peer into the future and see the results of war against the likes of Bavaria or Saxony. The Magicians went back to their workshops and smoked the magic herb of foresight and had to bring bad news to the King. Even though Austria had the power to seize and annex Bavaria, Saxony and Wurtenburg, she did not have the money to bribe other neighbors, especially Brandenburg, Poland, France and Venice to stay neutral. The kings ambition would plunge Austria into a deadly spiral of war from which she had no hope of recovery with any ambition other than simple survival.
King Maximilian listened to his Court Magicians and trusted their peering into the future. He could be satisfied as Austria was now at par with most countries of Europe. King Maxilmilian set his sights on the making of Bavaria into a vassal as Austria was the leader of a Military Alliance and Bavaria acceded to his wishes before his death in 1519. The treasury was used to upgrade the infrastructure of the country and the fortress in Tyrol but most of it was spent in bribing neighboring countries into friendship of neutrality.
King Karl V rose to the Imperial throne after his death. He inherited a country that was safe against all enemies as Austria was safe within a might alliance of Poland, Hungary, Saxony and Moldavia. No one dared attack his country but he was a man a keen military insight and bided his time until one of the inevitable Turkish wars broke out. All allies were eager to fight the Turk but the Saxons and Karl V liberated Iberia from the Turkish yoke in 1533 and placed it and its port under the banner of his empire. Even though Karl V was a man of the military, he understood the need to keep his country together as a unit. His mighty alliance would have enabled him to take possession of provinces all over Europe but that same alliance prohibited him from attacking his neighbors. So Karl V promoted judges and tax collectors and bided his time.
Austria was in a very favorable position in the world. Thanks to the diplomatic skills of her kings and the richness of her provinces, her economic and diplomatic points put her second only to Spain. Her mighty alliance was humbling the Turkish Empire as her armies were wasted against the Poles and Hungarians and her rich provinces of Eastern Europe were taken away one by one while the Maneluks of Egypt tore at her from the south and Persia from the east. While this great enemy lost its gold shield, all around Austria were tiny one and two province countries of incredible wealth and population just waiting to be plucked.
Ferdinand I rose to the throne in 1556. He immediately launched a war against the Turk and secured Croatia for the Empire.
Maximilian II rose to the throne in 1564 and saw the need for expansion in his country. Thanks to Ferdinand I the treasury had money, alliances ere strong, and potential enemies were weak. Maximilian II recognized that, although the rich Protestant provinces of the north were available for conquest, especially with his strongly Catholic alliance, maintaining his hold over any conquests would entail endless occupation as they would constantly revolt, especially in a time of war when the army was needed elsewhere. So he turned his eyes to the south, to the provinces of Catholic northern Italy and the coastal provinces of the A G & C. Milan, newly born, died and early death to be reborn as a province of the Empire and Catholic Mantua from Venice. The Protestant countries to the west were so enraged at Maximilian II’s arrogance at expanding his country that they declared war on Austria together and were both, in turn, invaded and incorporated with the aide of Austria’s Catholic allies. Wurtenberg had declared war against his vassal Bavaria and surrendered one of its provinces before Maximilian II could marshal his forces for a counterassa47ult and so the province of Anwalt rose from mere vassal to being a proud member of the Empire. Fired by his success, Maxmillian II marched on to conquer Wurtenberg and Thuringen even though they were Protestant countries. The economic gains for Austria in peacetime were worth the risk of revolt in war. Anyway, the future appeared to be clear. Despite the intention of moving south into Italy, the fractious northern Protestant countries would not allow Austria and her allies the respite to engage in the long sieges necessary. The enemy to the north would have to be dealt with beforehand.
Rudolf II 1575 Rudolf II doubted the policy of Maximillian II and set his sights on the weak giant of Turkey. The Manaluks and Persians were pushing the Sultan hard and so it looked like easy pickings for Rudolf II. He initialed a war at the cost of Austria’s stability and quickly overran both Serbia, Wallachia but his Hungarian allies took Kosavo thus breaking the critial land link the Austrian Empire had held as its foundation from the beginning. There was little Rudolf II could do however as the rich catholic prvince of Wallachia was too much to decline. Anyway, his hand was forced as the enemies of the north quickly pounced on Austria as well as Catholic France. Fortunately, the Poles answered the summons to aid its ally and Brandenberg was swamped with troops. The annexation gave Austria Brandenberg and Kristen while Poland King Zywump III Wasa took Madenberg. It was a time of armies marching all over his country, revolts arising everywhere, from both war exhaustion and stability problems. Rudolf II, although his armies were stronger and his leaders were able, knew the time of conquest was over or Austria might crumble. Money that could have been spent on armies flew into the coffers of paltry kings to buy peace. One by one, France, Hanseatic League, The Palatinat, Savoy, Genoa, Venice and Spain were paid off. By 1584 four more provinces were in the Empire and the armies scurried around putting down revolts. However, peace was not to last long as Turkey again went to war and the provinces of Illyria and Ragusa with its shipyards entered the empire.
Mathias 1612 The short reign of Mathias was marked by a poor stability and endless revolts in Austria’s many provinces. Armies were raised and stationed in every corner of the Empire just to be ready to put down revolts. Governors were promoted to curb inflation and the beginnings of the Austrian navy were constructed at Ragusa.
Ferdinand II 1619 The reign of Ferdinand II was marked by the steady deterioration of Austria’s alliances. He was a poor diplomat and no matter how much money he sent to Poland, it was only possible to keep them from invading, much less supporting a war elsewhere. However, Ferdinand II saw himself as a navy man and he sent traders to southern North America and found two rich provinces abandoned by the English in South Carolina and Savannah. Instead of risking a war with powerful neighbors, He sent troops to the new continent and sent them exploring to be quickly followed by traders and colonists. Colonists were expensive and so the army remained in their barracks to put down the constant Protestant revolts and separated Wallachia fell to the revolutionaries. Ferdinand II was such a poor diplomat that not even Hungary would allow his troops across the border.
Ferdinand III 1637 Ferdinand III kept to the policy of his father to seek expansion in the new world. Half the treasury went every year toward colonists while the rest was spent on an occasional manufactory and the upkeep of the armies and the building of the navy. He too was a poor diplomat and the alliances that had made Austria so powerful in the past fell apart. However, Austria expanded as colonies turned into provinces with the steady influx of money and people. Traders moved into every province they could and Austria became the leader in trade.
Leopold I 1658 Leopold I was to sit on the Austria’s throne for 47 years but he was not a man of war. He saw the future in winning the game of European dominance lying in production facilities and the colonies. Spain was overextended and Leopold I raised five colonies into the status of provinces of the Empire in which cotton manufactories poured money into the coffers of the state.
Josef I 1705 Josef I saw what little diplomatic gains Leopold I had earned for Austria slip between his fingers. Perhaps the Empire had become content with itself and saw the state of Europe as well enough even though Austria was just fourth in the race. Once more, the colonies and production were pushed and not the army.
Karl VI 1711 Was a restless man who did not want the century to slip away without Austria rising to prominence. He eyes the rich province of Emilia in Northern Italy and dreamed the dreams of Maxmillian II. He secured the colonies with fortifications and strong armies and declared war on Spain with no risk to stability because of a foolish trade ban from Spain. The Papal States plunged into the fray as well as Genoa and Venice, Hanseatic League, Parma, France and a host of small Protestant states but Poland was kept at bay with bribes. Spain gave Emilia away after troops laid waste to her trading posts in the New World and soon the Pope signed over Romagna into the Empire. The Hanseatic League was dealt with by giving over Western Pomerania to the Empire and Austria now stretched from the Baltic Sea to Italy. Parma’s province of Moderna entered the Empire as Parma made its exit from history.
Maria Theresia 1740 At the advent of her reign, Maria Teresa solved the problem that had beset Karl VI. She immediately used her superb diplomatic skills to woo France into friendship, marriage and then alliance so no more would France’s huge armies lay waste to Austria. Maria was tired of the constant wars and did not fear the mighty fortresses of the small protestant countries. She cut her teeth in the landscape, however, when she saw Turkey take back Serbia from the Hungarians. The long forgotten province of Wallachia, known around the palace as “Rudolf II’s blunder” was reunited with the Empire because now armies could now move freely into Wallachia’s borders. The Turk was so weak and Maria’s generals so able that she added Hellas and Albania into the Empire as well. Feeling good about herself and her Empire, Maria wasted no time in setting her sights on the country she hated the most: Saxony. This little three province kingdom with its big armies and huge fortresses had long proved a thron in the Austrian side. With a little more money and sweet talk into France’s ear she launched a campaign of annexation with huge armies and plenty of men reserve to keep the provinces quiet. It took long sieges with many canon with many battles against the Pole but at last Saxony fell into the Empire. Foolish Naples had thought to attack her and she sent her occupation troops from Northern Italy to sweep over the poor little country and absorb it quickly.
Austria was now headed straight up on the charts and number one with her only competition her strongest ally. It was now a time of greed and power as money poured into her coffers from the patient work of her more peaceful ancestors make Austria’s infrastructure second to none. Her colonies were the strongest and best defended in the new world. Maria decided on a course of total war entering into the long forgotten dream of a united HRE, Tuscany fell after long sieges but now she had the men and money to perform long siege work and still have men in reserve to put down the many revolts. it was not long before all of Italy, including the Papal States were under her control. A failed attempt to finally quiet noisy, bothersome Genoa failed as not enough men could be sailed to Sardinia to take her strongest fort.
Josef II 1780 Nearly every province in Western Europe fell into the Austrian Empire as none could withstand her might. Only a single province of the Netherlands, and Baden, which survived only by hiding behind her alliance with France, Genoa and Venice’s single province remained that was not either France or Austria. Stability was high because foolish Spain gave Austria a Causa Bella to enter into war. Josef II continued Maria’s warlike ways and cut a huge swath through Spain’s homeland, taking her richest provinces and sinking the once mighty giant to a third place finish with Poland right behind..
Leopold II 1790 Leopold II could only watch in wonder at his mighty kingdom ruled the world. Anywhere he wished to conquer he could but he just relaxed and enjoyed it.
Franz II 1792 Franz II was a historically oriented type of King and he enjoyed looking back on the mighty struggle of once tiny little Austria becoming the titan of the world with hardly anything but time keeping the whole world from being called Austria. For him, Austria’s success was not her stellar performances on the battlefield but the calm waiting of several monarchs who developed the infrastructure in order to set the table for mighty conquerors like Karl VI and Maria Theresia. When Europe was divided into four equal powers of France, Poland, Austria and the combined might of the little countries, it was Austria’s expansion into North America’s rich south and the manufactories there which spurred income and trade into a force that turned the tide in Austria’s favor. The switch from an alliance or neutrality from Poland to that of France gave Austria northern Europe. An earlier switch and feelers toward Russia might have turned the direction of conquest to Poland. But the money is in Northern Europe. Battles, Economics and Peace Resolutions each gave from 1000 to 1200 points while diplomats and discoveries made up the rest of the over 4000 point total.
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I'll get maps on as soon as I can. This is complicated if you are doing it for the first time!
Okay, I got the web page set up and clipped a bunch of maps onto it but all I get is that little square. What did I do wrong now?
I'll get maps on as soon as I can. This is complicated if you are doing it for the first time!
Okay, I got the web page set up and clipped a bunch of maps onto it but all I get is that little square. What did I do wrong now?
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A short ,but never the less very interesting and most of all excellent written AAR 
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If you have uploaded your pics, you just hit the IMG button and enters the pathway to your pics.
For example write www.telia/flip/pic1.jpg
You dont need to enter the http: thing only www, be sure you get every letter right in order to show the pics. Maybe their is a dot or something wrong
Edit: You dont get any where by clicking the link above.
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Hungary
Taking over Hungary had to be done early in the game as the Causa Bella runs out soon. I did not want Hungary as that turns my front from northern europe and Italy toward Turkey. That would mean I am surrounded by four large powers in Poland, Turkey, France and the combined little countries. My intent was to have a manageable war front in just the north and south. As it turned out, my alliance of Hungary, Poland and Austria crippled Turkey and led to the Mamaluks and Persia reducing Turkey from the south. North Europe is rich and Italy is protected by the sea. With Hungary in place, all I had to do was ally with Poland or France and no great power could really hurt me.
Taking over Hungary had to be done early in the game as the Causa Bella runs out soon. I did not want Hungary as that turns my front from northern europe and Italy toward Turkey. That would mean I am surrounded by four large powers in Poland, Turkey, France and the combined little countries. My intent was to have a manageable war front in just the north and south. As it turned out, my alliance of Hungary, Poland and Austria crippled Turkey and led to the Mamaluks and Persia reducing Turkey from the south. North Europe is rich and Italy is protected by the sea. With Hungary in place, all I had to do was ally with Poland or France and no great power could really hurt me.