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Ah, the birthing of Germany. Brings a nice warm feeling to the heart, it does.
No time to rest on your laurels, though, methinks, to war?
No time to rest on your laurels, though, methinks, to war?
Umm Intesting that...
Finally Kurty... how do you make the Unification Possible(in that sense look like you partially use the GroBdeutches event from VIP with some change.
In fact you're germany looks nice.. but not, Buy or win the Luxemburg from Netherlands... that Orange Spot looks bad in the gray area od Deutchland, and Recover both Litorral and Milano.. that are very Important area.. before those Pizza-Eating Losser of Italin try to snatch for you
well waiting for more.. and answer
Att
Nivek von Beldo
Get istria, venice and poland back. then conquer russian poland, and conquer (or buy) luxemburg. it will look better and there are some good areas and a big harbour in the mediterranean is very usefull.
So, keeping Poland in Krakow and West Galicia-Lodomeria, while the rest of Poland(and Warsaw) remains Russian is your plan?
The Großdeutsche Lösung: The Austrian variation
7. The Post-War World.
The world that awoke after the creation of the Great German Empire was a quite different one. Suddenly, the British Empire had lost its primacy and had to share some of the glory with the new born State.
It was ironic to have defeated France with an army that, on the whole, was inferior in numbers to them (138 vs 93), but that only made the victory to be sweeter. It was also nice, Lichnowsky thought, to be the first industrial power of the world, even if Russians, British and Americans were close behind ("were not for my silly idea of allowing Venice and Hungary go on their own..." (1) Lichnowsky resented).
The Reichschancellor couldn't avoid smiling at the thought that Germany doubled France's population. Were not for China, Russia and the United Klingon... erm... Kingdom, Germany would be also the most populated nation of the world. Well, in due time, that issue would be solved...
Lichnowsky was apalled.
And Germany was the second biggest nation exporting goods -and also the biggest importer-. Britain, again, the first...
Lichnowsky was annoyed.
"Britain, Britain, Britain, always Britain!!!!"
But the chancellor had now more pressing matters. His heir, Joseph Felix von Mourrinen und Lichtenberg had decided to leave politics and left for Britain ("Britain, Britain, Britain, always Britain!!!!") to become the manager of a football club.
-BrITaIn, BrITaIn eVeRYwHeRe!!!! -he shouted at the top of his lungs.
And he died there and then.
The surprised and apalled Kaiser was quick to select another chancellor, while new elections, with new free parties were organized. The man for the job was Otto Kurt Leopold von Bismarck-Steiner.
(1) Venice, 8th most industrialised nation, with 145; Hungrary, 12th, with 135... sigh...
@Prutenio: I plan to recover all the German populated areas. At last time I saw Pola, it was filled with Croats and hardly a few Germans... so...
@Enewald: My mistake. It has been solved. The Germans living east of Wien will, in due time, return in the fullness of time, to return to Germany...
@Vojtechjan: Wise nations
@Serek000: Britain, grrr....
@Nivek Beldo: I did not use the GroBdeutches event from VIP, I simply modified the vanilla events. About the Netherlands, as with the rest of the world. Are there Germans?
Time will say.
@hoi2geek: Well, sooner than the rest of Poland and Ukraine will no longer be Russians...
@Dutchemperor: Interesting... I'll have to do something about that...
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Ah, but it's part of the historic German/Austrian county of Istria, is (as Dutchemperor said) a key part of your gateway to the Adriatic, and can easily be Germanised!
That said, good show! Some of Britain's colonies need to be... redistributed.
That said, good show! Some of Britain's colonies need to be... redistributed.
I've got a better idea!
Why not give the Philippines its independence, but put a Habsburg as Emperor of the Philippine Islands?
Why not give the Philippines its independence, but put a Habsburg as Emperor of the Philippine Islands?
To the Balkans! Germany might benefit from trying to forge an alliance with Persia and then double-teaming the Ottomans - the sick man of Europe should be driven firmly off the continent!
Well, Good Comparation Between the Countries(and don't worry about the low figure now.. in few year you can urpass the British easily) but again.. recover the old Land of Austria(Venezia Lombardia... and some German in the Balkans too)
The Großdeutsche Lösung: The Austrian variation
8. Under new (mis)management.
Once the former chancellor was put to rest, and once it was established that von Mourrinen und Lichtenberg was happy in Britain, the new strong man of Aus..., erm, Germa... erm,... of THE Empire, Otto Kurt Leopold von Bismarck-Steiner, began to take a view of the EMPIRE. A few days before Lichnowsky's death a new colony had been created in Southern Sudan.
But Otto Kurt was a bit angry. He did not like at all another East-West strentching Empire as the one which went from Mozambique to Angola. He did not like it at all. But as there was no way to know if it was Portugese or Russians -foreigners they were, of that there was no doubt-, for a moment Chancellor Bismarck-Steiner decided to let them rest. It was now a question of erasing an odd spot in the map: Sokoto.
However, he wanted first to take a view on the political situation of THE Empire. Conservatives and Liberals were quite close in the polls, with a Socialist minority and a even minor Reactionary faction fooling around. Finally, there were the Communist. Or there were not, as a 0.0% still men zero, even for a Bismarck-Steiner.
"Well, time will tell how long since strikes and quarrels begin... oh, darned democracy..." -the Chancellor mused. Then he began to review the Political parties.
Well, to begin with, the Liberal were split in several parties: the Liberaldemokrate and the Nationalliberale. The worrying thing was that the Zentrumspartei, Bismarck-Steiner's party, was a bit back the polls. Oh gosh. The disgusting thing was to see that the Sozialisten were almost as popular as the Zentrum... Some hard measures were needed. And at once!
First it was time to give some bad and good news to Sokoto. The good news that the time for modernization had come. That bad ones were their independence was to be over in a question of months. Actually it took several years to exter..., erm..., to annhi..., erm..., to civilize (yeah, that is) the Sokotians. However, the AustroGerman will knew no end!
Three years later the Sokotian resistance had been cornered to the Northeastern area of the country, but the natives resorted to make use of a very unPrussian kind of warfare: guerrillas. As if they were the Che (some years in advance), the Sokotian armies began to run away and to terrorize the conquered areas, so the colonial armies of Germany had to pursue them. In short, a boring and extenuating mess.
Finally, by late December 1888 the conquest seemed to close to be done.... However, it took six months to finish the Sokotian-German War (just in time because the Chancellor and the Kaiser were running out of patience...).
And, finally, to complete the first reorganization of the maps, Chancellor Bismarck-Steiner bought Pola back from Croatia. He even got tempted to buy Fiume but, in the last second, for unknwon reasons, he refrained from doing that.
Then... election time!
@Prutenio: Question solved, then
Thanks for the advice! @Enewald: Mmmmh... too far, methinks...
@hoi2geek: Er. The Philippines? Why?[/QUOTE]
@Serek000: Mmmmh... why not profiting the situation, indeed...
@Nivek Beldo: In the worse case, I can invade them and raze to the ground...
If you release the Philippines and eventually all of the Celtic Nations as vassals, the people in those countries will be grateful to the Emperor that they are free from their British, Spanish, and French rulers.
Nice to see the German nation united at last!
Now, time to cut the British down to size.
Now, time to cut the British down to size.
Kurt_Steiner: ..."Well, time will tell how long since strikes and quarrels begin... oh, darned democracy..." -the Chancellor mused.
neat statement ! ! yes, democracy has its faults. still, it is the best system of government available ! !
excellent update ! !
neat statement ! ! yes, democracy has its faults. still, it is the best system of government available ! !
excellent update ! !
The Großdeutsche Lösung: The Austrian variation
9. A problem and its solution.
Suddenly, a lull of inactivity seemed to overcame the Austro-German government, which seemed to be busy enough watching the events of the world unfold by themselves, as the independence of Luxembourg or the Boer War, which was a most amusing event in itself.
It was the culmination of the old rivalry between the Boers and the British Empire. However, it was a quite one-sided war, as the Republic of Transvaal did not raise a finger for her brethern of the Orange Free State when the British Empire declared war on them on August 18th, 1890. Not even when Russia went into a colonial confrontation with Persia the Dual Empire -as the Austro-German Empire was called by then - did react.
What a brotherly confederation...
The apathy was broken by middle January 1891. The Empire was approached by Russian diplomats that wanted to repeat the old alliance with Vienna, and chancellor Bismarck-Steiner accepted quite happily. Then, with the ink still fresh on the agreements, the chancellor discovered that Russia was in war, with its Greek ally, with the Ottoman Empire, Serbia, Wallachia, Moldavia, Spain and France.
The garrisons at the border with France were hastily reinforced, just in time to see the first attempts by France to recover Alsace by throwing ill-coordinated assault at divisional level, which, it goes without saying, were slaughtered in the proper and usual way in the following months. Vienna, however, was quite prone to answer France in earnest, and Africa soon become a battefield, as there were no strong fortifications that would complicate matter to a determined force ready to assault the enemy trenches. Thus, the war in Africa was soon reduced to strikes and razzias across the borders, which, entertaining as they were, led to few, if any, territoritorial changes.
No one expected the Spanish Inquisition, indeed...
While an army was formed to deal with that nuisance, the German forces fighting in the Balkan front had conquered the whole Bosnia-Herzegovina and were moving deep inside the Empire, while Hungary gave, from time to time, a good beating to Serbia. Belgrade, however, kept wasting divisions against the German trenches in an attempt to expel the Dual Empire from Bosnia. Amusing and quite enternaining, but useless and very bloody. And noise, with all the guns raging...
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Then came the surrender of Wallachia, on 21 July 1891. In exchange for becoming a satellite of Vienna, Wallachia was guaranteed to keep their actual borders and, in due time, to grew bigger and powerful at the expense of the Ottoman Empire.
Not long after, on September 14th, 1891, the Ottoman Empire decided that it was wiser to surrender Bosnia than to loose Bosnia, Bulgaria and part of Macedonia to Vienna. And Bismarck-Steiner, for the time being, was willing to cut a deal. Thus another puppet/buffer state was created in the Balkans, along with Serbia, which followed the example of Wallachia. Wise boys, Bismarck-Steiner said. France, on their part, when the Ottoman defeat was complete, proposed a return to the previous status quo antebellum and the Dual Empire graciously agreeded.
Finally, on December 6th, 1892, Orange vanished as a state...
However, Bismarck-Steiner had tasted blood, and was willing to taste it again...
@hoi2geek: Interesting... I shall remember that, I hope.
@Enewald: und Steiner.
@Prutenio: Mmmh, a reason worthy of rejecting the present peacefull lull, indeed!
@GhostWriter: Yes.
To make the Balkans completely Austrian playground... keep the Rus focused elsewhere!
The Großdeutsche Lösung: The Austrian variation
10. The long road to the 20th century.
The end of the 19th century soon took a boring shape for chancellor von Bismarck-Steiner . But, when I mean boring I do mean it. Since the end of the of last confrontation with France, the most thrilling experience was to see Luxembourg become a nation of its own or the endless bickering of the German political parties, as the Liberals had a bit of an advantage over the Conservatives, who, nevertheless, defeated their bitter rivals in the elections of 1895.
Meanwhile, Brazil had given a good beating to Colombia and Venezuela and looked as the big bullier of South America.
Another colony was added to the Austro-German Empire: the Tchad, in 1889. But, as it had been previously said, the chancellor was bored to sobs.
On July, the chance to broke the boring stalemate of Europe arise. And Bismarck-Steiner jumped at it. The Balkans were bloodied by a revolutionary turmoil, as Serbs, Bulgarians and Greeks tooks arms to fight for their independence. Germany was there to help them in their fight for liberty! (1). The war began in the usuable manner, that is, with Germany doing the whole (and dirty) job and her allies sitting and waiting.
By late October the Ottoman army managed to keep at bay the German onslaught. Only in the center and the left flank of the line the Turk was defeated. This stalemate was broken by random moments of advance in the western flank, which ended with the liberation of Albania and Macedonia. Otherwise, the rest of the front remained unbroken, and soon the original stalemate returned. However, the Ottoman Empire was exhausted, and finally caved under Vienna's pressure.
The German Chancellor hurried to redo the map of the Balkans. Constanta and Ismail were given at once to the Wallachian puppet state, while Serbia received some provinces while Bismarck Steiner decided what to do with the Macedonia. Furthermore, more puppets were created: Bulgaria and Albania, under German princelings.
For a while, the Balkans would remain in peace. Then came the new century...
What to do next?
(1) Oh dear
@Enewald: That's the idea!
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Here we are. The only idea I can think of to keep going the AAR is to invade Italy to unify them by force and then... well... no foggiest idea. Kicking France is not as popular as it used to be, since I defeated them extensively in the previous war.
What's next, then? To invade Russia? To speak the truth, I'm not quite interested in that. I don't see the point but to have Poland and Ukraine independent, but... I'm not keen on that, either...
To invade Britain? Too obvious...
To invade the USA? Too far away...
You see, I'm running out of ideas...
Time to call it a day, chaps?
What's next, then? To invade Russia? To speak the truth, I'm not quite interested in that. I don't see the point but to have Poland and Ukraine independent, but... I'm not keen on that, either...
To invade Britain? Too obvious...
To invade the USA? Too far away...
You see, I'm running out of ideas...
Time to call it a day, chaps?