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EU 3 Succession Game 2: A New Dawn - Page 9
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Pondo
Australia283 Posts
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
noob you have money but arent trading?!!? GOSH THIS IS SO BAD also, i find your lack of generals disturbing ;d ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/y1ldx.jpg) | ||
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Simberto
Germany11407 Posts
On December 22 2011 22:27 Pondo wrote: No volume Yes, apparently you need additional programs for that. Anyways, EU3 Sound is not THAT exciting. Also, what is that about not trading and no generals? I am trading the shit out of europe. I am just too lazy to drive everyone out of some CoT to gain all the moneys. And i have generals in major battles, they just sometimes die and i don't really need them for sieging anyways. Will start writing, meanwhile here is the savegame: http://www.mediafire.com/?x402f8svfu9vscl I am soooo scared of Giant HRE Burgundy. Next in line is 3Form, please claim your spot. Edit: Actually, i will start writing in some hours, i need to go and buy stuff now. | ||
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
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3Form
United Kingdom389 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11407 Posts
On December 23 2011 02:10 nttea wrote: I know you are good for it simberto but i still think as a general rule we shouldn't post savegame until aar is done and posted; since it would make more sense to continue from old save if the aar doesn't get posted. You are correct, that would make much more sense as a general rule. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11407 Posts
In the January of the year 1509, fear ruled the streets of Strasbourg. The war was going bad. Already most of the lands of the few allies who kept true to archbishop Louis René I, were occupied by bavarian troops, and the stories told by the numerous refugees fleeing those lands were horrifying. The Bavarian mercenaries raped, pillaged, burned and murdered seemingly at will. Mainz and Stuttgart were smoldering ruins. King Philipp Moritz I von Wittelsbach of Bavaria was still enraged about the humiliating loss his troops had suffered in the last war, and let his troops sack the captured cities at will, to make sure that they would never again oppose him. And those troops were now marching onto Alsacian ground, and they were numerous. There were three well-armed bavarians ready to fight for their piece of the plunder for every alsacian men-at-arms. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/s1BDW.jpg) And Louis René I was no longer the man he was just ten years ago. He was growing old, and weary. During the meetings with his councillors, he often fell asleep or started to ramble incoherently. At one notable instance, he started calling the wife of a swiss merchant whom he had never met before "Maria" and apologized over and over for leaving her alone. The merchant and his wife left the court deeply insulted. The bishops advisors tried to keep matters of state going as best as possible, but there was a very real power vacuum at the very top. Noone wanted to take the responsibility for making a bad choice, and so everything besides basic statesmenship was just ignored for the most part. This included the army, which luckily was led by a competent general and veteran of many wars, Franz de Dornach. Only his excellent leadership prevented the bavarian lion from swallowing the alsacian stork for the two years the war had lasted so far. After long consideration, Archbishop Louis René gave most of his authority to his protegé, a young and devout man by the name of Gottfried Müller during one of his brighter moments, which grew fewer and fewer. Müller had served the Archbishop for all his life, and was very familiar with the workings of the Alsacian state. After analyzing the situation, Müller came to the conclusion that Alsace would never be able to win this war, and that the Bavarian King knew the same. But having heard the tales of destruction from Mainz and Stuttgart, he also knew that surrender was no option. He needed to somehow convince von Wittelsbach that he needed to end the war right now. But how could he do that? Then he had an idea. Franz de Dornach was ordered to circumvent the bavarian siege of Konstanz, and charge the enemy troops in Mainz and Pfalz with the full force of his troops, while hiding any coats of Arms he would usually proudly display in battle. Müller started to aquire multiple bottles of fine wines, and sent many loyal couriers westwards under order to hide in the french forests for some weeks, and then return. Also, he hired a private tutor from Paris to help him improve his french. Then, he left Strasbourg hidden in the trunk of a merchants cart, and spent two weeks in an inn in Dijon. All of this was meant to paint a very specific picture for the Bavarian master of spies. It was a well-known fact during that time that Louis-Joseph I, the duke of Burgundy, loved only one thing more than a rare wine. And that was expanding his power. The Bavarian King was now forced to assume that the naive Gottfried Müller was trying to sell alsace to Louis-Joseph I as a payment for assistance in this war. This would mean that Bavaria shares a Border with a now even more powerful Burgundy, definitively something that von Wittelsbach wanted to prevent at any cost. And so, even though they were winning the war, von Wittelsbach agreed to a peace that consisted of only a single demand: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/8XArN.jpg) The war had finally ended. All throughout Alsace, the people rejoiced. The generous peace was generally attributed to some kind of genius-level diplomacy by Gottfried Müller, who was now the de-facto ruler of Alsace, since Louis René barely even left his room anymore. The pope, who had already feared that he would lose the lands of Alsace to the Bavarian claims, was very happy to see them kept as the churchs property. Even though there had been very heated debates regarding the traditional Alsacian methods of giving a lot of power to the burghers, these same freedoms made it the ideal place for a council on how to deal with the reformation that was spreading like a wildfire throughout europe. Many of the problems that the church had, like absantee bishops, had never even appeared here. Choosing Freiburg for such an important meeting brought great fame to the diozese of Alsace. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/de5Jd.jpg) But Gottfried Müller knew that the peace would not last. It was only a matter of time until the Bavarian king would realize that there was never an agreement with Burgundy, and continue to pursue his dubious claims onto the churchs land in Alsace. He knew that he would never be able to match the Bavarians in pure manpower, and the unreliability of mercenaries had been a constant problem in the previous wars. But the smarts and ingeneuity of the Alsacian traders had filled the treasury of the diozese, and while one would normally spend that money on mercenaries in the case of war, Müller decided to go another way. He ordered 7 dozens of masterly crafted swiss Culverins for the Alsacian artillery, and it was during that visit to the gunsmiths that he discovered something that would revolutionize warfare in the times to come. The swiss gunsmith called Karl Altdorf showed him a prototype of something he called a "Hakenbüchse", or Arquebuse. Those were guns small enough to be carried and used by a single person. After a short demonstration, Müller instantly offered Karl Altdorf a salary worth of a king if he relocated his production to Strasbourg, and also stated that the Alsacian Army would need at least ten thousands of those Arquebuses, and would pay handsomely for each one of them. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/L7Gwo.jpg) Meanwhile, Philip Moritz I von Wittelsbach decided to take his conflict with the church to another level. Faced with increasing problems to justify his claims onto Alsacian Lands to the pope, he decided to convert his whole country to Calvinism and thus deny the pope his status as the head of the church, and any resulting claims on land he might have had. In his mind, this meant that the churchs land, like for example Alsace, were unjustly held and needed to be "liberated" by someone, like him. This came as a shock to Gottfried Müller. Having been raised in a monastry, he was a very pious man. He absolutely believed in the sanctity of the catholic church, and felt a need to rush in to save the faithful populace of Bavaria from being force-converted to a hereticism and lose their eternal souls into the furnace of hell. He knew that war with Bavaria was now even more inevitable then before, and this time, he himself wanted to be the aggressor. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/kLgy6.jpg) However, when approached with this idea, General Franz de Dornach simply shook his head. The soldiers needed more time to train with the arquebuses and culverins, at least another year before they were ready to fight. There were many other things that needed to be done during this time. Many a bribe were sent to Bohemia to make the Emperor more favourable of our position, and less like to interfere in the war. Alsacian trade dominance needed to be assured in every known Center of Trade to ensure that the money needed to fuel the war would continue to flow into the treasury. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/bivGO.jpg) The priests in the local churches were instructed to spread the idea that heretism invited divine retribution, and that the duty of every true christian is to combat heretics wherever possible. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. " ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/aaOIj.jpg) Then, on the 17th of november 1514, the time was finally there. War was declared against Bavaria and its allies on the grounds that they are heretics threatening the sanctity of the church. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/6vaDu.jpg) The Alsacian troops marched onto bavarian soil, and met little resistance, so unexpected was this aggression for the bavarian King von Wittelsbach. He never expected the Alsacians to attack his country, which still had a standing army which more then doubled the amount of troops Alsace could field. And so he ordered 40000 men under the command of General Karl Albrecht Scherer to attack, pursue, and mercilessly eradicate the far smaller Alsacian army. But he did not realize how much money had been spent on those few soldiers over the last 5 years, and he underestimated the military genius of General Franz de Dornach. He managed to decide the whole war in one single engagement when he lead the Bavarian Army into a valley near Konstanz, and then sprung the trap. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/SWprA.jpg) Of the more then 40000 Bavarian soldiers, only 9000 survived, and none of those were ever able to talk about the battle without shivering and breaking into tears afterwards. The Alsacian losses were neglectable. Gottfried Müller, who watched from a safe distance, wrote into his diary on that evening: "Glorious! This is the only word for it. Glorious! Arquebuses blazing, cannons roaring, all of them delivering divine justice upon the enemies of God. They say that war is the great equalizer. They say war is hell. But oh, how wrong they are. There is no equality if God is with you, when you are in divine favour. And such a rightful war is as close to heaven as you can ever come on this sinful earth. We have been chosen by the Lord to be His guards, His judge, His executors. I finally understand His plan for me. " The war continued for some time, but it was basically over. The Lion sent another army under the command of Joseph Ferdinand von Armansperk, which met the same fate as the previous one, about 50 miles to the north of the first battle. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/nDiEi.jpg) Sadly, the great general Franz de Dornach was hit by a stray arrow during that battle. He was a men of war, he was born in war, lived in war, and finally died in war, but he was also a greatly respected men. Luckily, his policy of battlefield commissions onto worthy soldiers also meant that there was no shortage of competent leaders among his lieutenants, and the most senior among them, a man by the name of Albrecht de Sickingen, promptly took control of the battle only seconds after the fatal hit on the general. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/hGuFU.jpg) Meanwhile, all of Bavaria was slowly coming under Alsacian control, enabling Gottfried Müller to dictate the terms of a peace. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/VRiG5.jpg) Ulm and Oberpfalz were to be given to the church as sovereign territory, Saxony and Würzburg were to be given complete independance from the Bavarian crown, and of course King Johann IV of Wittelsbach, who succeeded Philipp Moritz I von Wittelsbach who died during the war, was to publicly declare that he respects the catholic churchs right to hold land, and has no claims on anything she owns. Only a month into this war, Louis René I, who was still technically the ruler of the diozese of Alsace, died alone and forgotten in his room. The pope had other choice then to grant to Gottfried Müller the title Gottfried II, Archbishop of Alsace, since he did not want to provoke a power struggle during wartime which might lose that territory for the church completely. Luck was with Gottfried II, for he had been in control of the wealthy Alsacian diozese for a long enough time to be able to afford the necessary donations to encourage such a decision. This is only the first part, but i feel the quality of my writing steadily decline as i grow more and more tired, so i will finish the second part tomorrow. Any criticism would be appreciated. | ||
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Zojukanji
China393 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11407 Posts
In the spring of the year 1517, the small nation of Alsace was once again at peace. Bavaria had been beaten completely, and its king was forced to make large concessions in the Treaty of Munich which ended that war. Archbishop Gottfried II, however, was not satisfied. The heretical calvinist faith was still widespread throughout the Bavarian region. On the 12th of May 1517, Gottfried II wrote into his diary: I have received a monk from Franken by the name of Rudolf de Bocklinsau today. He says that in complete defiance of the peace accord, Bavarian troops are still cracking down upon those few still loyal to mother church, who defy the heresy the Lion spreads on his lands. Things are becoming more clear with every passing day. I have been bestowed upon a great duty by our Lord. I am His sword, His fire, His judge. Heresy is spreading, and i am His answer. Unam Sanctum, one faith. There is but one true faith, one church, one pontifex. One and one and one, makes three. Trinity. But also three different who call themselves christian, so as one became three, three must become one once again. Germany must be purged by His cleansing fire. It should have been obvious from the start, His signs were always there. It is even in my name, Gott-fried. The peace of God, which is what i need to spread in His name. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/zjTLF.jpg) So once again, preperations for war were made. The alsacian gunsmiths worked day and night at the forges, built cannons, arquebuses, bayonets and knifes, armor and helmets. Encouraged by the veterans , many of whom had returned rich and gloryful from the last war, conscription was far more successful than ever before. Within the next two years, the Alsacian army nearly doubled in size. De Bocklinsau was given the title of official Alsacien theologian, and given the duty and necessary authority to exterminate all heresy from the newly acquired territories of Ulm and Oberpfalz. The calvinist clergy was put onto the pillory, then expelled from any of the churchs land under threat of execution for the rest of their lives. Laws were enacted which limited the possesion of land, and the conduction of business within Alsacian territory to "true christians". Border patrols were instructed to carefully watch anyone crossing from Bavaria for "unchristian behaviour", and heavy taxes were applied to those who still dared to intrude. Then, only and exactly two years after the end of the great Bavaro-Alsacian war, the army marched again. Envoys were sent out to all major german states to declare the second Alsacian holy crusade against Bavaria, and call upon all "true christians" to assist in the effort to destroy all heresy on german territory once and for all. Naturally, they were completely ignored at most of those courts, as Alsace, while now being quite powerful regionally, was still leagues below the regional majors like Bohemia, Austria or Burgundy in terms of influence. But some replied, just not in the way Gottfried II had hoped they would: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/gxGky.jpg) Apparently, Johann IV von Wittelsbach had not been idle during those last two years. He had bribed, flattered, made concessions, and used every other diplomatic trick in his arsenal to forge a large reformed and protestant alliance against catholic aggression. And while not all of his allies actually honoured that commitment, enough did, most notably the mediterranean Kingdom of Aquilea, and the baltic state of Pommerania, both able to field as much troops as Bavaria. And Alsace stood nearly completely alone against the heretic confederation. With coordination, and without the element of surprise the Alsacian Arquebusiers had in the last year, they stood a good chance of beating the Alsacian army. But they were not coordinated. Each of the three armies had its own general with his own instructions from his own king, and most importantly, they were split up. The Pommeranian army was in the north, in Pommerania, the Bavarians in Bavaria, and the Aquilaeans were still at the mediterranean costs. So General Albrecht de Sickingen, who was a great scholar, and had read Julius Caesar, knew that the time was ripe for definitive action. Divide and conquer, it had worked before, and it might work here. So instead of waiting for the enemy to unite his troops, he instantly marched on Munich, where he met the Bavarian army still in disarray, and slaughtered them to the last man. Afterwards, he continued on through Augsburg, who surrendered on the spot and asked for Alsacian protection against Bavaria, towards Niederbayern where he met the last remains of the Bavarian army, and outnumbered them 3 to 1. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/5MCGr.jpg) Meanwhile, an envoy from Austria arrived at the court of Alsace. He was quite perplexed when he did not meet anyone there, since Gottfried II had, against the advice of all his advisors, adopted the habit of following his army around, and watching every battle in person. Naturally, whoever didn't want to drop into obscurity had to follow him around, too. Anyways, after reaching the army, he delivered his message: "Ahem. His most divine majesty, Vladislav I von Habsburg, King of Austria and Hungary, Duke of Bosnia and Bulgaria, Defender of the Catholic Faith, Vanquisher of the Turks and the eastern Hordes, has decreed in his most holy wisdom that any transgression of protestant troops onto Austrian soil will be seen as a declaration of war" While not taking a direct part in this war, this single decision completely changed it. The Aquilaean troops were trapped with no way to reach the battle. While technically still a part in this war, Aquilaea dropped to obscurity. Meanwhile, de Sickingen marched North, where he intercepted and destroyed the Pommeranian army in Franken and Sudety. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/J4WQ5.jpg) The rest of the war was a mere formality. Gottfried II had noticed how the Austrians explicitly stated that only protestant armies were forbidden on their soil, so he ordered de Sickingen to march onto the now-seperated Aquieae, where he squashed their inferior armies and, after beating another heretic army while marching through Pisa, forced the Aquilaean king to denounce his heretical faith, and accept subserviance to the Alsacian Church. The Bavarian King, too, was forced to publicly convert to catholicism. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/WS0aG.jpg) This concluded the first Alsacian Crusade in 1522. After the war, Gottfried II decided to release the now completely reconverted Ulm and Oberpfalz as a semi-sovereign diozese under the bishop de Bocklinsau. Faced with the recent Bohemian losses against both Poland and the protestant country of Brandenburg, the electors decided that the Bohemian lord is no longer fit to defend the integrity of the Holy Roman Empire, and decided to give that title to the single most powerful man in the Land, the Duke of Burgundy. Louis II also used that oppurtunity to also declare himself King in Burgundy. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/mSFaD.jpg) But Gottfried II had come to dislike peace. He missed the battles, especially the roaring of cannons which he now described as "the voice of angels" (He ordered daily artillery practice to be held below his castle during peacetime), and he did not want to rest while there were still heretics left inside Germany. Thus, when an Hannoverian refugee from Brunswick arrived at his court, and begged for help in freeing his homeland from the heretic Brandenburgian oppression, he instantly grabbed the opportunity and on the 6 of July 1523, Archbishop Gottfried II declared the second Alsacian Crusade against all heretics. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Ycl7K.jpg) The English and the Holsteinians, while technically taking part in the war, had absolutely no interest in ferrying troops onto mainland Germany, and thus only payed lipservice to their alliances, and left the war at the earliest opportunity in a white peace. This left the remaining german heretics in a dire situation. They were now hopelessly outnumbered by the Alsacian troops, and their whole army got surrounded and annihilated in the battle of Frankfurt, leaving Frankfurt and Hesse no choice but to surrender unconditionally. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/feY79.jpg) Brandenburg, who had be fighting a prolonged war against the polish on their eastern Front, were in no shape to fight anymore. So it came as a complete surprise when the saxons entered the war on it's last days, probably misinformed by an ill-willing spy. They were easily subdued, and the remaining countries in the war were forced to reconvert to catholicism. Brandenburg was forced to release Hannover as a souvereign country, and the Hannoveranians promptly denounced the faith which had been forced upon them by the Brandenburgian occupiers. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/KfL4h.jpg) And that is the story of the Alsacian Crusades. The State of the world in 1529: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/CI156.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/4F0Vo.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/9KEK5.jpg) | ||
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
ggwp | ||
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
 we're still in deep shit vs burgundy or austria though, how's our relations doing? | ||
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Simberto
Germany11407 Posts
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
On December 24 2011 02:03 turdburgler wrote: austria and burgundy so strong in this current game. if you leave it a while austria will collapse on its own due to going full retard in some war with a navy using nation where neither can kill each other. burgundy with hre on the other hand, i dont think is beatable, even if we go monarchy > hre, the france + lowlands too rich to be able to field a better army than them, hopefully they will randomly fall apart too. very unlikely burgundy looks rich enough that it could probably handle max war exhaustion and full frontal war against iberia/u.k/whatever. | ||
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Pondo
Australia283 Posts
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
Can't have the lands of the lord lay untended on Jesus' Birthday ! | ||
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Pondo
Australia283 Posts
On December 25 2011 18:40 Monsen wrote: Errr. Someone needs to claim his spot! Can't have the lands of the lord lay untended on Jesus' Birthday ! On December 23 2011 02:37 3Form wrote: Righto, I'm ready to play - downloading the save game now! 3Form should be posting his AAR soon :> | ||
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Simberto
Germany11407 Posts
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