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I know the pieces fit, 'cos I watched them fall away...
The two-front war that the Poles found themselves in was indeed a big trouble for them. Not enough, however, to withdraw some troops from the western front - the Pomeranian soldiers faced huge Polish armies - huge enough to discourage Bogusław from trying to face them in a pitched battle. He therefore tried to outmanoeuvre them, by starting a few campaigns with one ultimate goal - the taking of Warszawa. He succeeded in none of those, however - the Poles could always muster enough forces to be able to drive the Pomeranian army away from their capital. Bogusław's skills enabled him to always avoid a battle, withdrawing from the region just before the arrival of the Poles. Such a cat-and-mouse-play resulted in only minor skirmishes, always won by Bogusław's force, but led to no decisive outcome in the war. The Poles kept demanding Kujawy (Cujavia) as war reparations, which Bogusław would promptly refuse. This stalemate was going on for some time, when dire news reached the King in his camp outside Konin.
Although the Russians won this war, weakening their common foe, this meant that the armies stationed in Lithuania and Ruthenia could be redirected to the west. Another piece of news followed this information, again of great importance, but this time much more positive. Most of the army besieging Inowrocław was, for some unknown reason, withdrawn from outside the city's walls. This was seen as a great occasion to break the siege, and the troops were ordered to march quickly against the Poles. The numerical superiority of the Pomeranians ensured their victory, routing their enemies from the province. Soon afterwards, a deal with the Prussian prince was received and accepted - he offered 27'000 ducats for peace, seeing Konigsberg undefended, exposed to an attack by Bogusław's army.
Quite soon afterwards, however, even more information arrived Bogusław. Bohemia, or what was left of it that was able to keep its independence from Austria since the civil war that had struck the Habsburg lands in the end of the 16th century, decided to attack Bogusław's ally, Saxony. The king found himself in a very difficult situation - he didn't want to wage war against his brothers in faith (for the Bohemians were a largely protestant people) and didn't need another war on another front - the one against Poland was problematic enough. On the other hand, he didn't feel like leaving his vassal and ally to his fate. The pragmatic choice succeeded...
With an even greater shock the news of Sweden signing a separate peace with Poland were greeted - an outrage like this one wouldn't be forgotten soon.
All of this produced a schism of sorts within the Baltic alliance: Mecklemburg and Meissen were in an alliance separate from the Pomeranian one, the Baltic State was still (alas!) allied to the treacherous Swedish, while Meissen was invited into a defensive alliance by Bohemia. This puzzle would have to wait long until it was resolved...
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Here we go. Shorter this time, but I hope you'll like it anyway
.demokratickid - be this a response to my nitpicking/suggestions regarding graphics in your AAR?
Walter Model - good to hear that this is a lust already...
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Emperor_krk said:demokratickid - be this a response to my nitpicking/suggestions regarding graphics in your AAR?
Maybe!
Well, excellent update. Hopefully that messy Baltic situation can be resolved, preferably with the sound of Pommeranian boots marching across other soon to be vanquished states...
Seems to me like Sweden should be visited in the not so near future and made example of. (Perhaps by Boguslaw's heir if not the king himself). Good luck taming the hordes!
I always felt that the AI should first discuss with human players before they decide on starting pointless and disasterous wars; or ending them on such terms.
Like the Tool reference btw.
Like the Tool reference btw.
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Most frustrating moment in EU2 I think...I hate it when my uber-well-thought-out alliance fragments because some member thinks its a good idea to use me to fight their idiotic wars. I just had to dump my allies Transylvania and Ukraine because I as the weakened Poland (AGCEEP 1648 start) couldn't afford to commit suicide against the Austrian / South Germany / Italy / Pope alliance. Argh, now it is just me and Kurland...surrounded by Prussia, Russia, the OE, and Russia...all of whom hate my guts.
But I digress. The fun question now is to see what Pomeriania does to restore its diplomatic unassailability. First order being dumping the swedish alliance?
TheExecuter
But I digress. The fun question now is to see what Pomeriania does to restore its diplomatic unassailability. First order being dumping the swedish alliance?
TheExecuter
this looks grimmer and grimmer at every update. what's your warscore with poland ? you should take any money offer (for or from you), rebuild your economy and army, and work on your alliances...
demokratickid - time will show. Nothing can be said for sure now...
Vandervecken - thank you. This seems like a good idea - if Bogusław isn't too busy fighting in the south and east, he will surely 'discuss the situation' with the Swedes.
R. Daneel - nice to see someone recognised it - though not too difficult, with Schism being one of the most well-known songs by Tool. I fully agree with you in terms of the alliance engine - hopefully it will change for the better thanks to all the source code engineers...
TheExecuter - I suppose every EU2 player knows how painful it is. This game you speak of could be interesting though - Poland in 1648 is at the zenith of its power.
Don Matito - they keep demanding provinces, and what's more, they are my core provinces. I will not give them up. I won't be able to take land from Poland - hopefully I can lead this to a white peace... The warscore was between -20 and -30 back then.
All - this Sunday I'm finally going on a proper vacation to the mountains, which means no updates for at least a week. I hope I will be able to put something up before my departure though. Thank you for the readership and the votes you commit to my AAR's cause in this quarter's ACA!
Vandervecken - thank you. This seems like a good idea - if Bogusław isn't too busy fighting in the south and east, he will surely 'discuss the situation' with the Swedes.
R. Daneel - nice to see someone recognised it - though not too difficult, with Schism being one of the most well-known songs by Tool
. I fully agree with you in terms of the alliance engine - hopefully it will change for the better thanks to all the source code engineers...TheExecuter - I suppose every EU2 player knows how painful it is. This game you speak of could be interesting though - Poland in 1648 is at the zenith of its power
.Don Matito - they keep demanding provinces, and what's more, they are my core provinces. I will not give them up. I won't be able to take land from Poland - hopefully I can lead this to a white peace... The warscore was between -20 and -30 back then.
All - this Sunday I'm finally going on a proper vacation to the mountains, which means no updates for at least a week. I hope I will be able to put something up before my departure though
. Thank you for the readership and the votes you commit to my AAR's cause in this quarter's ACA!
germanpeon - so true. Both statements .
As you see, my readers, I failed to write the new update, and unfortunately won't be able to do so for at least a week. As I said in the previous post, I'm going on a vacation to my house in the Beskidy mountains, to have my time filled entirely by having fun with my friends, heavy drinking and relax...
.As you see, my readers, I failed to write the new update, and unfortunately won't be able to do so for at least a week. As I said in the previous post, I'm going on a vacation to my house in the Beskidy mountains, to have my time filled entirely by having fun with my friends, heavy drinking and relax...
Could you post a screenshot of the current political map? Would be useful to get an idea of the general situation, thanks!
I'm joining this AAR somewhat late but glad to have found it before too long. It looks to be going very good. Nice writing too Emperor_krk. Well done.
pgroves - will do, surely - in the nearest update. What exactly do you want to see? Alliances in the region, or whole Europe, or...?
Duke of Wellington - that's some kind words from you Duke - I'm honoured to see here a master writAAR like yourself.
All - I hope to write an update in the nearish future (that is, like, within the next three days). Kill me if I don't, for on Friday evening I'm going sailing for a week again to the northeast of my country. Last-minute yacht chartering ftw!
Duke of Wellington - that's some kind words from you Duke - I'm honoured to see here a master writAAR like yourself
.All - I hope to write an update in the nearish future (that is, like, within the next three days). Kill me if I don't, for on Friday evening I'm going sailing for a week again to the northeast of my country. Last-minute yacht chartering ftw!
Emperor_krk said:
Just the map which shows the countries (in Europe) in their different colours, so I can get a better idea of who owns what...
It seems that you will indeed have to kill me - I haven't been able to put up an update within those last days. I'm sorry, my deAARs - I will try my best to compensate for this once I return from Mazury. Wish me good luck (and weather!) with the sailing...
pgroves - once it comes to the update, you will surely see one, with a comment on the situation.
maxo - this AAR isn't going to disappear all too soon - partly due to my endless procrastinating, but still. Thank you!
pgroves - once it comes to the update, you will surely see one, with a comment on the situation
.maxo - this AAR isn't going to disappear all too soon - partly due to my endless procrastinating, but still
. Thank you!
wow this is a great aar, who'd have thought pomerania could kick so much ass
look forward to more
look forward to more
I hereby declare this AAR on hold. So, after being in such a state for more than three months now, it's official. I know, I suck. I can just say that I intend to continue it, at some point in the future. What I lack to do it now is motivation for this particular story - which, I hope, shows up sooner or later. I ask all my readers of patience - and, if you like at all what I was writing here, please, don't hesitate to read and comment on the Succession Game AAR I've started participating in recently. I've always found such AARs very interesting, they also always encouraged me to play EU2 whenever I was a bit bored with this great game.
Enough bragging. Again, I invite you to read and, hopefully, enjoy Fine Feats with Finland, an Interregnum AAR.
This will be back, I promise!
Enough bragging
. Again, I invite you to read and, hopefully, enjoy Fine Feats with Finland, an Interregnum AAR.This will be back, I promise!
Remember Pomerania? Some of my old readers might know that it had been left by us in a relatively stable situation, recovered from its economical problems of the late 16th century, but politically somewhat left out, after the breaking up of the Northern Alliance. It was on the 16th of October, 1614, that the history was continued...
One could remember also the international situation around Pomerania. The huge Habsburg empire had quite recently collapsed in a civil war, separating some territories still owned by the imperial family here and there from the (if one can name it so) mainland. All that due to the national movements in Croatia and Bohemia, which took advantage of the great instability of their former opressors' government. Despite that, the fiercely counter-reformed Habsburggs still posed a threat to the Protestants to the north of them, Pomerania among those. To the east lay the lands of Poland and Lithuania, united into one, with which so many bitter wars had been fought, last of which had ended with a White Peace in August of 1614. To the north of Pomerania lay the ever-quarelling Sweden and Denmark, the latter a mere shadow of its former self. Germany remained one huge puzzle it used to since the times of Barbarossa, with the most significant powers in the region being the Archbishopric of Cologne, Archbishopric of Trier just south of the former, the Rhein Palatinate, Duchy of Hannover, and Duchy of Wurttemberg in the south. Of course, all the mentioned were nothing compared to the greatness of the two main players in the Reich: Austria and the Kingdom of Pomerania.
A state of constant tension existed since Luther's appearance in 1517 between the two great confessions of Germany - the Protestants, significant especially since the imperial parliament of Speyer (1529), and the Catholics. The situation oscillated on the verge of conflict, but almost no wars of religion similar to the great clashes in France were fought. The time for a clash finally came in the beginning of 1615, upon hearing of the Habsburg persecution of those Bohemians (the majority of them protestant) that were not able to either successfully detach their lands from the Habsburg crown or emigrate to the free Bohemian state. Especially the massacre of Bohemians at České Budějovice (Budweis) on December 22, 1614, made a great impression on their fellow Protestants to the north.
Therefore, the king of Pomerania, Bogusław XIII, organized a gathering of the former members of the Northern Alliance and other protestant powers of the region in Lübeck. The rulers of Pomerania, Sweden, Saxony, Bohemia, and Meissen decided to react swiftly to the Austrian threat. Only Christian IV of Denmark refused to send in his forces, probably due to the situation between him and the Swedish king Gustav Adolf. The Protestant coalition gathered a large army and a great sum of money for the war effort; it was decided that the conflict would be led by Gustav Adolf and Bogusław XIII, the former taking command of the 40'000 men and 80 cannons assembled in Pomerania, the latter taking his own Royal Army, about a third of the size of Gustav's, to Bohemia, to help the Czechs seize the rest of the Habsburg lands. It was decided that all cities in the region that his forces would capture would be transferred to Bohemian control as soon as possible.
Gustav II was to lead a separate campaign against the Austrian allies in the regions of Hessen and Westfalia; no land there would be taken for Sweden, all of it was supposed to be administered by Pomerania. In return, Gustav was to be allowed a free rein against the Danes, should he decide to send his own forces against them; the Swedish arch-enemies still held much of Norway, Skane and Bauslan - territories that the Swedes had long desired to take control of.
The Habsburgs, as soon as they heard of the Protestant plans, themselves organized a coalition of their own, including the catholic countries of south and middle Germany: Cologne, Palatinate, and Bavaria. Thus, in the second week of January 1615, war between the two camps was declared.
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Yes, I have returned to writing this. I have played some 20 years ahead of here, and am planning to do much more in the future. Now,that I have finished my school, I have far more free time for everything, therefore I hope to be able to write a new update from time to time - hopefully one per week. Judging by the number of AARs currently active and commented, there's little chance this attracts nearly as much attention it had when I started this, but hopefully someone still wants to read some more of this.
Protestant - Catholic war
One could remember also the international situation around Pomerania. The huge Habsburg empire had quite recently collapsed in a civil war, separating some territories still owned by the imperial family here and there from the (if one can name it so) mainland. All that due to the national movements in Croatia and Bohemia, which took advantage of the great instability of their former opressors' government. Despite that, the fiercely counter-reformed Habsburggs still posed a threat to the Protestants to the north of them, Pomerania among those. To the east lay the lands of Poland and Lithuania, united into one, with which so many bitter wars had been fought, last of which had ended with a White Peace in August of 1614. To the north of Pomerania lay the ever-quarelling Sweden and Denmark, the latter a mere shadow of its former self. Germany remained one huge puzzle it used to since the times of Barbarossa, with the most significant powers in the region being the Archbishopric of Cologne, Archbishopric of Trier just south of the former, the Rhein Palatinate, Duchy of Hannover, and Duchy of Wurttemberg in the south. Of course, all the mentioned were nothing compared to the greatness of the two main players in the Reich: Austria and the Kingdom of Pomerania.
A state of constant tension existed since Luther's appearance in 1517 between the two great confessions of Germany - the Protestants, significant especially since the imperial parliament of Speyer (1529), and the Catholics. The situation oscillated on the verge of conflict, but almost no wars of religion similar to the great clashes in France were fought. The time for a clash finally came in the beginning of 1615, upon hearing of the Habsburg persecution of those Bohemians (the majority of them protestant) that were not able to either successfully detach their lands from the Habsburg crown or emigrate to the free Bohemian state. Especially the massacre of Bohemians at České Budějovice (Budweis) on December 22, 1614, made a great impression on their fellow Protestants to the north.
Therefore, the king of Pomerania, Bogusław XIII, organized a gathering of the former members of the Northern Alliance and other protestant powers of the region in Lübeck. The rulers of Pomerania, Sweden, Saxony, Bohemia, and Meissen decided to react swiftly to the Austrian threat. Only Christian IV of Denmark refused to send in his forces, probably due to the situation between him and the Swedish king Gustav Adolf. The Protestant coalition gathered a large army and a great sum of money for the war effort; it was decided that the conflict would be led by Gustav Adolf and Bogusław XIII, the former taking command of the 40'000 men and 80 cannons assembled in Pomerania, the latter taking his own Royal Army, about a third of the size of Gustav's, to Bohemia, to help the Czechs seize the rest of the Habsburg lands. It was decided that all cities in the region that his forces would capture would be transferred to Bohemian control as soon as possible.
Gustav II was to lead a separate campaign against the Austrian allies in the regions of Hessen and Westfalia; no land there would be taken for Sweden, all of it was supposed to be administered by Pomerania. In return, Gustav was to be allowed a free rein against the Danes, should he decide to send his own forces against them; the Swedish arch-enemies still held much of Norway, Skane and Bauslan - territories that the Swedes had long desired to take control of.
The Habsburgs, as soon as they heard of the Protestant plans, themselves organized a coalition of their own, including the catholic countries of south and middle Germany: Cologne, Palatinate, and Bavaria. Thus, in the second week of January 1615, war between the two camps was declared.
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Yes, I have returned to writing this. I have played some 20 years ahead of here, and am planning to do much more in the future. Now,that I have finished my school, I have far more free time for everything, therefore I hope to be able to write a new update from time to time - hopefully one per week. Judging by the number of AARs currently active and commented, there's little chance this attracts nearly as much attention it had when I started this, but hopefully someone still wants to read some more of this.