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Great Duchy of Muscovy
1492 – 1512
Firstly the great duke decided to crush the treat in the south. We split our troops in two armies. One had the order to conquer Kazan. The second army had the order to overrun the territories of the great Khan. The war in Kazan proceeded well and was only slowed down through the hard winters. Unlike the war in Kazan, the war in the steppes was very exhausting. Several times the Muscovite armies were completely annihilated by Mongol riders from the rich Khanates of Crimea and Astrakhan and the cities changed repeatedly their controllers. However a really treat for Muscovy never existed and eventually we succeeded to occupy whole Kazan and the Golden Horde. An additionally push to occupy Astrakhan and Crimea we didn’t ordered because we assured these territories to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. So we dictated peace which brought us in the possession of the gold mines in Samara, an access to the wide uninhabited territories in the east which we immediately began to colonize and the steppes in the south. In the meantime Sweden got control of the Baltic coastlands which was legitimated by a Swedish-Muscovite agreement.
Afterwards we built up our army to one of the largest in Europe and attacked Lithuania in order to bring our Orthodox brothers home to mother Russia. Lithuania had no chance against the Muscovite superiority, was fully occupied after two years and forced to cede the half of his territories to Muscovy. Although the great duchy of Muscovy could double his possessions within these two decades there are still enough room to expand particularly in the east.
Province of the Netherlands
1492 - 1512
As the loyal vassals of his excellency Pibe, Archduke of Austria, the hard working Dutch peoples set out to prove their worth while enjoying a newfound degree of independence. The first item on the agenda was securing a center of trade in which to conduct business; Flandern being the personal property of his excellency, Bremen appeared the logical target. No sooner than Bremen was annexed, however, Brandenburg and England conspired to take it from the Dutch. Although Sweden responded with suitable moral outrage to this aggression and tried to help them, the Dutch armies were soon overwhelmed by English troops marching across their crops and bashing holes in the dikes, and Brandenburgian cavalry rampaging through Germany. A peace was made, but preparations for vengeance were also made. Austria, at peace with France, agreed to defend the lowlands from English piracy, while the Dutch and Sweden trained new cavalry regiments to defeat the forces of Brandenburg. Before the counter invasion was launched, however, Brandenburg agreed to cede control of Bremen and Oldenburg to the Netherlands until 1559, in addition to paying a small reparations fee. Provinces and gold exchanged hands, and the remaining years were spent in relative tranquility, trading and saving, counting every ducat, and envisioning the future glory of the Dutch people.
1492 - 1512
As the loyal vassals of his excellency Pibe, Archduke of Austria, the hard working Dutch peoples set out to prove their worth while enjoying a newfound degree of independence. The first item on the agenda was securing a center of trade in which to conduct business; Flandern being the personal property of his excellency, Bremen appeared the logical target. No sooner than Bremen was annexed, however, Brandenburg and England conspired to take it from the Dutch. Although Sweden responded with suitable moral outrage to this aggression and tried to help them, the Dutch armies were soon overwhelmed by English troops marching across their crops and bashing holes in the dikes, and Brandenburgian cavalry rampaging through Germany. A peace was made, but preparations for vengeance were also made. Austria, at peace with France, agreed to defend the lowlands from English piracy, while the Dutch and Sweden trained new cavalry regiments to defeat the forces of Brandenburg. Before the counter invasion was launched, however, Brandenburg agreed to cede control of Bremen and Oldenburg to the Netherlands until 1559, in addition to paying a small reparations fee. Provinces and gold exchanged hands, and the remaining years were spent in relative tranquility, trading and saving, counting every ducat, and envisioning the future glory of the Dutch people.