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Regeneration In Process
Update 6 - Year 1866
Non-Military Events:
The Holy Roman Empire, realizing that it could no longer maintain a sufficient hold on the regions of Neugranada taken by the Incans from the Portuguese occupiers, officially ceded them in reward for the Incan intervention on the Imperial side.
FK begins active conscription, even in the Kingdoms themselves (-1 Confidence, -1 Economy). Experimental iron-plated ships have been created as well, but they only seem to be particularily useful in coastal defense, the way they are now... or in riverine combat.
Portugal signed peace with FK and the other nations at war with it, ceding all the Portuguese colonies to the Federates (-1 Federate Culture). This only makes the domestic situation worse, however (-1 Economy, Confidence). Liberal and Republican groups rose up in rebellion, as did the Galician separatists. The military eventually restored order in parts of hte country with bloody massacres, but the situation is only getting worse (-1 Confidence) as General Camilo Goncalves himself has entered negotiations with the liberals, and the people of Lisbon are once more on the verge of filling the streets in riot...
Extraordinary growth of Garde Imperiale units in France causes dissent in the regular army, and beside that lots of concern at home, from the upper and lower classes alike; the upper because of the subsequent "de-elitification" of the Garde and the lower because of the general recruitment (-1 Confidence).
The Swedish government continues to exploit the recent "education boom" efficiently, as the Krag-Jurgensen rifle is designed and immediately distributed among the troops. Also, the Krupps, a family that suffered much due to its opposition to the Work-Hour reforms and support for the Junker Movement, have agreed to work for the Swedish government, producing not only high-quality steel, but also, as in their last HRE days, field artillery. It, too, has been adopted by the army (-1 Army Training). In the meantime, the Krupps and other important Imperial industrialists that supported the Swedes when they were at their strongest and then also fled for Sweden Proper (not all, but some did), along with the local emerging Swedish magnates, have stimulated the economy of South Sweden and specifically the city of Kalmar heavily (+Kalmar Economic Center). Volunteers are called up to fight the Muscovite invaders (+5 divisions) (that said, the earlier propaganda about "democracy" didn't get much support by itself - the people, while fairly patriotic, didn't in particular care about the new-fangled government system). Meanwhile, peace is signed with the HRE; New Prussia and the Stralsund Reichstag are left for the dead (-1 Confidence).
After Sweden pulled out from Germany, New Prussia was put in an unenviable situation. Many rebel leaders proposed peace negotiations, but they were silenced by the majority (-1 Confidence). Instead, mass recruitment and conscription begun. Every able man was pressed into the army; and by now, ofcourse, that wasn't much. That also meant that Dunkelheit's plans for a country-wide militia remained unpractical - there simply weren't enough people, and even less so with guns (not even all of the regular soldiers had guns).
The Sejm, as per tradition, was Outraged - this time due to the large size of war expenses. The Polish people aren't particularily happy neither (-1 Confidence), and the sudden declaration of war on HRE AND Muscovy at the same time didn't make them any happier.
Many troops were raised in Hungary, too many for the officers to control efficiently the way they are right now (-1 Army Training, Military Leadership).
Large-scale conscription is begun in Muscovy (-1 Military Leadership, -1 Confidence, -1 Economy).
The Ottomans cede the Volga region to Dalnorossia, in exchange for peace.
After the collapse of Ottoman authority in Egypt, it and Libya are handed over to the Federate protection (1 Economy from Ottoman Empire to Federated Kingdoms).
The Ottomans granted autonomy to Armenia and Georgia, thinking the war with Persia to be over. How naive...
Persians get some volunteers (+5 irregular divisions).
Hordes of Japanese immigrants flood Dalnorossian Far East and [also Dalnorossian] North America! Many Japanese-majority cities sprout up in both regions, and though this does encourage economic development (+1 Economy), especially with the fairly high quality of newly-gained Japanese cadres (+1 Education), the people don't like this unchecked immigration too much (-1 Confidence), and the Japanese are pretty hard to assimilate (-1 Culture ).
Unlikely rumours of Siamese ships near Gaulle Nouvelle spread like wildfire through Federate East Indies.
Military Events:
Not facing any serious resistance, the Mayan rebels plow on into French territory, before stopping due to promises of negotiations.
As Federate troops are redeployed elsewhere, the Brazilian guerrila resistance/rebellion expands and strenghthens, especially as some of the Federate Brazilian conscripts defect (-1 Federate conscript division).
The long-anticipated war between France and the FK begins.
(see spotlight)
(-1 French Military, Civilian Leadership, Confidence, +20 French irregular divisions, +5 Federate irregular divisions, 1 Economy from France to Federated Kingdoms)
(-19 Federate divisions, -5 Federate UUs, -3 Federate irregular divisions, -11 Federate ships, -2 Portuguese ships, -13 French divisions, -24 French Garde Imperiale divisions, -17 French conscript divisions, -5 French irregular divisions, -34 French squadrons, -2 Spanish Rebel irregular divisions)
The Imperials, having signed peace with Sweden, landed the finishing blow on the New Prussians. While the latter were preparing a desperate defense of Berlin and secretly transported all their troops into the area, the Imperials quickly occupied all the New Prussian territory west of the Oder. After that, a massive assault on Berlin commenced, from all the directions. The Imperial commander didn't fall for the Prussian "surrender", demanding that the Prussian soldiers and officers all leave the city first. The Prussian forces that were hiding the countryside - those of them that weren't yet sighted and eliminated - tried to break the siege, but were fought back. Imperials seized the city after a fierce four-day assault and most of the rebel leaders, although Heinrich von Dunkelheit himself was nowhere to be seen...
(-New Prussia as an independent faction, -7 Imperial divisions, -6 Imperial Sturmtruppen divisions)
Regardless of von Dunkelheit's fate, the rebellion was over (+1 Imperial Confidence). The Imperials, however, still had to deal with Italy - and, as it turned out, Hungary, Poland and even Sweden again. The Italians went on the defensive over 2/3s of the front, massing their forces in the center to invade Styria. In spite of the early successes against only the minimal of oppositions, the advancing Italians soon enough were trapped; the Imperial forces, after some bitter fighting, overran the Italian positions in Istria and Tyrol, and then cut off the attackers from Italy itself. The Italian commander, Benito de Sanctis, tried to fight his way back to Italy, and eventually some of his forces did manage to break through the Imperial circle to reinforce the Venice garrison, but the bulk of the Italian army was destroyed in the Battle at Bolzano, under the fire of Imperial artillery and infantry. The Imperials eventually broke through towards the Po River (causing the Italian government to mobilize the local militias (+5 Italian irregular divisions)), but de Sanctis won time for the Italians to prepare the defenses at Venice and to drive the attackers back from its walls, for now.
(-4 Imperial divisions, -1 Imperial Sturmtruppen division, -7 Italian divisions, -27 Italian Bersaglieri divisions, -4 Italian irregular divisions)
However, at that point Sweden, Poland and Hungary commenced their attacks. Swedes landed in Pommerania and in Elbe's delta, breaking the peace treaty and endeavouring to reverse the results of the previous campaigns by striking out for Berlin yet again; Poles struck out for Prague after a diversionary march to Vienna; and finally, the Hungarians attacked Vienna itself. This caught the Imperials off balance and forced them to cancel some of their plans as troops were being shifted to counter the enemy advances. The Swedish re-invasion of Brandenburg was defeated quite quickly, as the attackers were caught between the Imperial forces already stationed in the region and those that moved from Holstein to take Stralsund in a quick assault and then to severe the Swedish supply routes further east. However, the other Swedish offensive fared better, penetrating far into Central Germany and defeating the Imperials at Koblenz. Meanwhile, the Poles succesfully faked preparations for an assault on Vienna, distracting Imperial forces guarding the Hungarian border northwards. As some of those forces were already recommited to the Italian front, the Hungarians managed to break through the positions of the numerically-inferior enemies, if at a large price. Supported by local Magyars and pro-Magyar Slovaks (+5 irregular divisions), the Hungarians managed to lay siege to Vienna, albeit thus far it was quite inconclusive. Meanwhile, the Poles went on, pretty much unhindered, to take Prague.
(-7 Swedish divisions, -4 Swedish Berserker divisions, -15 Imperial divisions, -7 Imperial Sturmtruppen divisions, -2 Imperial irregular divisions, -2 Polish divisions, -14 Hungarian divisions, -2 Hungarian irregular divisions, -4 Hungarian Royal-National Grenadier divisions)
Having re-armed their forces with the latest weaponry, the Swedes started their counter-offensive against the Muscovites. It all begun well enough: although the rather poorly-planned attempt to destroy the "Gorlorez" cannon has failed, the Swedes managed to relieve the siege of Helsingfors using concentrated artillery fire followed up by a powerful combined-arms attack. After that, however, they wasted the remnants of January and much of February doing nothing, while Muscovites brought up reinforcements and fortified their positions heavily. Tsar Alexius also persuaded the local Finnish separatists to assist him further, by providing him with ski troopers (+5 irregular divisions). And when spring came, along with the Swedish Spring Offensive, the Muscovites were quite ready for it. Swedish artillery pounding proved more severe than the Muscovites had expected, and the range of Swedish rifles was much longer than that of the Muscovite ones, but this didn't change the fact that a severely-outnumbered force was attacking a fortified, numerically-superior one. When the Swedish infantry came charging at Muscovite center and flanks, it first was shelled by the surviving Muscovite artillery, and then met with a counter-charge by hordes of conscripts. Though the casualties among the conscripts were heavy, they managed to absorb the Swedish blow and forced them to retreat while harassed by the Finns. The Swedes tried to repeat the attacks as was planned, but spreading out their forces more, and though this time they inflicted more casualties on the Muscovites and in a few cases even managed to outflank and capture some isolated fortifications, but generally, the counter-offensive has failed. A seaborne attack on Riga was the only exception, but it too failed to advance far outside of the city itself. After that, the Muscovites launched their own offensive in Finland; although the Swedish superior technology became particularily useful here, and although the "Gorlorez" cannon itself was destroyed by counter-battery fire, eventually, the numerical superiority of the Muscovites allowed them to overwhelm the Swedes, occupying all the regions of Finland that mattered. Though the Finns want their independence now...
(-5 Swedish divisions, -7 Swedish Berserker divisions, -2 Swedish irregular divisions, -10 Muscovite divisions, -7 Muscovite Lieb Guard divisions, -12 Muscovite conscript divisions, -2 Muscovite irregular divisions)
Only at winter, when the Muscovite forces supposedly bogged down in Finland, had the Poles decided to attack the Imperial ally of Muscovy. Although they too had to face far better defenses than what they had expected, they weren't as surprised by this as the Swedes and also succesfully deployed their heretofore-secret weapon, the Siemienowicz Cannon, the main advantage of which was that it was fairly mobile, and at the same time quite powerful, using explosive shells. Albeit the first, head-on offensives were repulsed just like the Swedish counter-attacks in Finland, another Polish force broke through the southernmost point in the Muscovite defenses and struck the defenders in the rear, allowing the other Polish forces to break through. Albeit the defenses near Tula held, the Poles secured Lipetsk and Kursk. As resistance grew (+5 Muscovite irregular divisions), and as the Muscovites regrouped and recovered from their early defeat, the Polish commanders decided not to launch a risky attack on Moscow yet, and instead pressed on eastwards to take Voronezh and Tambov, thus getting into position for a future offensive.
(-9 Polish divisions, -2 Polish Siemienowicz Cannons, -7 Muscovite divisions, -4 Muscovite Lieb Guard divisions, -17 Muscovite conscript divisions, -2 Muscovite irregular divisions)
After nearly a month of rapidly-increasing dissent, the Croats in Ottoman territories have started an organized armed rebellion, spreading throughout the Balkans as the banner of Yugoslavic nationalism was raised. However, as the Ottomans have been preparing for this and placed their best counter-insurgency units in the Balkans, the rebels soon were stopped, pushed back and massacred. The Ottoman Guards soon restored order in the Balkans, sortof, but they failed to capture the rebel leadership, nor did they stop the low-level (for now) guerrila war in the countryside. Balkans remained a troublespot, and the Ottomans had better things to do than restore order there...
(-1 Ottoman division, -3 Ottoman Guard divisions)
...such as killing each other. For quite a while now, the ruling house and indeed the entire Turkish court was divided between two factions - a Turkish nationalist one, and a Pan-Islamic, fundamentalist one. The former was in charge thus far... and the Ottoman Empire wasn't doing very well in the last few years of the nationalist rule. This and the continued national dissent prepared the ground for a Pan-Islamist coup, led by Sultan Kalim's son Selim and the governor of Edirne, Mustafa Sinasi. With some support in the military ranks and among the masses, the coup actually had pretty good chances of success from the start, but, alas, the Pan-Islamist movement itself wasn't very well-organized. It didn't have any centralized leadership, and within it there were many factions. Only the most radical ones agreed to support Selim and Mustafa Sinasi, but they proved to be enough, for the start. A rebellion was organized, troops stationed in Constantinople mutinied and the Sublime Porte (where Kalim resided since the destruction of the High Porte) was taken in a sudden night assault. But Sultan Kalim was nowhere to be found - another wing of the Pan-Islamic movement had realized that to start any sort of a revolution now would simply doom the Ottoman Empire, with all the recent rebellions and invasions in mind, and warned him about this slightly before the coup. While he failed to nip it in the bud, he still did manage to flee for Salonika, where he took personal command of the Ottoman Guards stationed there. While Mustafa Sinasi tried to consolidate his control over the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Kalim and those troops loyal to him first secured Edirne and then assaulted Constantinople itself, with the help from the same old Pan-Islamic traitors that warned Kalim. The brief civil war ended with mass executions of the conspirators on the Taksim Square. The remaining members of the Pan-Islamic faction, including many notable clergymen, threw their support behind Kalim, possibly out of patriotism but maybe because they were playing a game of their own (+1 Confidence)...
(-3 Ottoman divisions, -2 Ottoman Guard divisions)
In spite of all the agreements between the FK, Ottoman Empire and Persia, the Egyptian rebellion continued. Having gotten a taste of power, Khalid Jaffar didn't want to lose it all, and beside that, he and his fellow rebel leaders suspected that their fates under the new Federate protectorate won't be particularily enviable. So they refused to recognize the Federate protectorates over Egypt and Libya... and the Federates didn't do anything about that. They had bigger fish to fry (see above or see spotlight, depending on your IQ). Instead, the Egyptians had to fight the Ottomans that somehow found the time to send eight Ottoman Guard divisions into Egypt. The Egyptians resisted bravely, but they had inferior training and inferior weapons. They briefly halted the Turks on the Nile, but were then overran anyway, especially as the rebellion was betrayed by the more cowardly of its leaders. The half-finished Egyptian fleet tried to break through the Turkish blockade, and ofcourse was pinned down and annihilated, though only after invading the Aegean Sea.
(-Egyptian Rebels as an independent faction, -5 Ottoman Guard divisions, -2 Ottoman squadrons)
Rebellions in undergarrisoned, unconnected (after the cession of Egypt to the FK) Ottoman Sudan begin.
The poorer Poles, especially those who had to return their lands in Prusy back to the Germans, begun moving in large amounts to Poland's African colonies, causing further violent expansion.
Non-Military Events:
The Holy Roman Empire, realizing that it could no longer maintain a sufficient hold on the regions of Neugranada taken by the Incans from the Portuguese occupiers, officially ceded them in reward for the Incan intervention on the Imperial side.
FK begins active conscription, even in the Kingdoms themselves (-1 Confidence, -1 Economy). Experimental iron-plated ships have been created as well, but they only seem to be particularily useful in coastal defense, the way they are now... or in riverine combat.
Portugal signed peace with FK and the other nations at war with it, ceding all the Portuguese colonies to the Federates (-1 Federate Culture). This only makes the domestic situation worse, however (-1 Economy, Confidence). Liberal and Republican groups rose up in rebellion, as did the Galician separatists. The military eventually restored order in parts of hte country with bloody massacres, but the situation is only getting worse (-1 Confidence) as General Camilo Goncalves himself has entered negotiations with the liberals, and the people of Lisbon are once more on the verge of filling the streets in riot...
Extraordinary growth of Garde Imperiale units in France causes dissent in the regular army, and beside that lots of concern at home, from the upper and lower classes alike; the upper because of the subsequent "de-elitification" of the Garde and the lower because of the general recruitment (-1 Confidence).
The Swedish government continues to exploit the recent "education boom" efficiently, as the Krag-Jurgensen rifle is designed and immediately distributed among the troops. Also, the Krupps, a family that suffered much due to its opposition to the Work-Hour reforms and support for the Junker Movement, have agreed to work for the Swedish government, producing not only high-quality steel, but also, as in their last HRE days, field artillery. It, too, has been adopted by the army (-1 Army Training). In the meantime, the Krupps and other important Imperial industrialists that supported the Swedes when they were at their strongest and then also fled for Sweden Proper (not all, but some did), along with the local emerging Swedish magnates, have stimulated the economy of South Sweden and specifically the city of Kalmar heavily (+Kalmar Economic Center). Volunteers are called up to fight the Muscovite invaders (+5 divisions) (that said, the earlier propaganda about "democracy" didn't get much support by itself - the people, while fairly patriotic, didn't in particular care about the new-fangled government system). Meanwhile, peace is signed with the HRE; New Prussia and the Stralsund Reichstag are left for the dead (-1 Confidence).
After Sweden pulled out from Germany, New Prussia was put in an unenviable situation. Many rebel leaders proposed peace negotiations, but they were silenced by the majority (-1 Confidence). Instead, mass recruitment and conscription begun. Every able man was pressed into the army; and by now, ofcourse, that wasn't much. That also meant that Dunkelheit's plans for a country-wide militia remained unpractical - there simply weren't enough people, and even less so with guns (not even all of the regular soldiers had guns).
The Sejm, as per tradition, was Outraged - this time due to the large size of war expenses. The Polish people aren't particularily happy neither (-1 Confidence), and the sudden declaration of war on HRE AND Muscovy at the same time didn't make them any happier.
Many troops were raised in Hungary, too many for the officers to control efficiently the way they are right now (-1 Army Training, Military Leadership).
Large-scale conscription is begun in Muscovy (-1 Military Leadership, -1 Confidence, -1 Economy).
The Ottomans cede the Volga region to Dalnorossia, in exchange for peace.
After the collapse of Ottoman authority in Egypt, it and Libya are handed over to the Federate protection (1 Economy from Ottoman Empire to Federated Kingdoms).
The Ottomans granted autonomy to Armenia and Georgia, thinking the war with Persia to be over. How naive...
Persians get some volunteers (+5 irregular divisions).
Hordes of Japanese immigrants flood Dalnorossian Far East and [also Dalnorossian] North America! Many Japanese-majority cities sprout up in both regions, and though this does encourage economic development (+1 Economy), especially with the fairly high quality of newly-gained Japanese cadres (+1 Education), the people don't like this unchecked immigration too much (-1 Confidence), and the Japanese are pretty hard to assimilate (-1 Culture ).
Unlikely rumours of Siamese ships near Gaulle Nouvelle spread like wildfire through Federate East Indies.
Military Events:
Not facing any serious resistance, the Mayan rebels plow on into French territory, before stopping due to promises of negotiations.
As Federate troops are redeployed elsewhere, the Brazilian guerrila resistance/rebellion expands and strenghthens, especially as some of the Federate Brazilian conscripts defect (-1 Federate conscript division).
The long-anticipated war between France and the FK begins.
(see spotlight)
(-1 French Military, Civilian Leadership, Confidence, +20 French irregular divisions, +5 Federate irregular divisions, 1 Economy from France to Federated Kingdoms)
(-19 Federate divisions, -5 Federate UUs, -3 Federate irregular divisions, -11 Federate ships, -2 Portuguese ships, -13 French divisions, -24 French Garde Imperiale divisions, -17 French conscript divisions, -5 French irregular divisions, -34 French squadrons, -2 Spanish Rebel irregular divisions)
The Imperials, having signed peace with Sweden, landed the finishing blow on the New Prussians. While the latter were preparing a desperate defense of Berlin and secretly transported all their troops into the area, the Imperials quickly occupied all the New Prussian territory west of the Oder. After that, a massive assault on Berlin commenced, from all the directions. The Imperial commander didn't fall for the Prussian "surrender", demanding that the Prussian soldiers and officers all leave the city first. The Prussian forces that were hiding the countryside - those of them that weren't yet sighted and eliminated - tried to break the siege, but were fought back. Imperials seized the city after a fierce four-day assault and most of the rebel leaders, although Heinrich von Dunkelheit himself was nowhere to be seen...
(-New Prussia as an independent faction, -7 Imperial divisions, -6 Imperial Sturmtruppen divisions)
Regardless of von Dunkelheit's fate, the rebellion was over (+1 Imperial Confidence). The Imperials, however, still had to deal with Italy - and, as it turned out, Hungary, Poland and even Sweden again. The Italians went on the defensive over 2/3s of the front, massing their forces in the center to invade Styria. In spite of the early successes against only the minimal of oppositions, the advancing Italians soon enough were trapped; the Imperial forces, after some bitter fighting, overran the Italian positions in Istria and Tyrol, and then cut off the attackers from Italy itself. The Italian commander, Benito de Sanctis, tried to fight his way back to Italy, and eventually some of his forces did manage to break through the Imperial circle to reinforce the Venice garrison, but the bulk of the Italian army was destroyed in the Battle at Bolzano, under the fire of Imperial artillery and infantry. The Imperials eventually broke through towards the Po River (causing the Italian government to mobilize the local militias (+5 Italian irregular divisions)), but de Sanctis won time for the Italians to prepare the defenses at Venice and to drive the attackers back from its walls, for now.
(-4 Imperial divisions, -1 Imperial Sturmtruppen division, -7 Italian divisions, -27 Italian Bersaglieri divisions, -4 Italian irregular divisions)
However, at that point Sweden, Poland and Hungary commenced their attacks. Swedes landed in Pommerania and in Elbe's delta, breaking the peace treaty and endeavouring to reverse the results of the previous campaigns by striking out for Berlin yet again; Poles struck out for Prague after a diversionary march to Vienna; and finally, the Hungarians attacked Vienna itself. This caught the Imperials off balance and forced them to cancel some of their plans as troops were being shifted to counter the enemy advances. The Swedish re-invasion of Brandenburg was defeated quite quickly, as the attackers were caught between the Imperial forces already stationed in the region and those that moved from Holstein to take Stralsund in a quick assault and then to severe the Swedish supply routes further east. However, the other Swedish offensive fared better, penetrating far into Central Germany and defeating the Imperials at Koblenz. Meanwhile, the Poles succesfully faked preparations for an assault on Vienna, distracting Imperial forces guarding the Hungarian border northwards. As some of those forces were already recommited to the Italian front, the Hungarians managed to break through the positions of the numerically-inferior enemies, if at a large price. Supported by local Magyars and pro-Magyar Slovaks (+5 irregular divisions), the Hungarians managed to lay siege to Vienna, albeit thus far it was quite inconclusive. Meanwhile, the Poles went on, pretty much unhindered, to take Prague.
(-7 Swedish divisions, -4 Swedish Berserker divisions, -15 Imperial divisions, -7 Imperial Sturmtruppen divisions, -2 Imperial irregular divisions, -2 Polish divisions, -14 Hungarian divisions, -2 Hungarian irregular divisions, -4 Hungarian Royal-National Grenadier divisions)
Having re-armed their forces with the latest weaponry, the Swedes started their counter-offensive against the Muscovites. It all begun well enough: although the rather poorly-planned attempt to destroy the "Gorlorez" cannon has failed, the Swedes managed to relieve the siege of Helsingfors using concentrated artillery fire followed up by a powerful combined-arms attack. After that, however, they wasted the remnants of January and much of February doing nothing, while Muscovites brought up reinforcements and fortified their positions heavily. Tsar Alexius also persuaded the local Finnish separatists to assist him further, by providing him with ski troopers (+5 irregular divisions). And when spring came, along with the Swedish Spring Offensive, the Muscovites were quite ready for it. Swedish artillery pounding proved more severe than the Muscovites had expected, and the range of Swedish rifles was much longer than that of the Muscovite ones, but this didn't change the fact that a severely-outnumbered force was attacking a fortified, numerically-superior one. When the Swedish infantry came charging at Muscovite center and flanks, it first was shelled by the surviving Muscovite artillery, and then met with a counter-charge by hordes of conscripts. Though the casualties among the conscripts were heavy, they managed to absorb the Swedish blow and forced them to retreat while harassed by the Finns. The Swedes tried to repeat the attacks as was planned, but spreading out their forces more, and though this time they inflicted more casualties on the Muscovites and in a few cases even managed to outflank and capture some isolated fortifications, but generally, the counter-offensive has failed. A seaborne attack on Riga was the only exception, but it too failed to advance far outside of the city itself. After that, the Muscovites launched their own offensive in Finland; although the Swedish superior technology became particularily useful here, and although the "Gorlorez" cannon itself was destroyed by counter-battery fire, eventually, the numerical superiority of the Muscovites allowed them to overwhelm the Swedes, occupying all the regions of Finland that mattered. Though the Finns want their independence now...
(-5 Swedish divisions, -7 Swedish Berserker divisions, -2 Swedish irregular divisions, -10 Muscovite divisions, -7 Muscovite Lieb Guard divisions, -12 Muscovite conscript divisions, -2 Muscovite irregular divisions)
Only at winter, when the Muscovite forces supposedly bogged down in Finland, had the Poles decided to attack the Imperial ally of Muscovy. Although they too had to face far better defenses than what they had expected, they weren't as surprised by this as the Swedes and also succesfully deployed their heretofore-secret weapon, the Siemienowicz Cannon, the main advantage of which was that it was fairly mobile, and at the same time quite powerful, using explosive shells. Albeit the first, head-on offensives were repulsed just like the Swedish counter-attacks in Finland, another Polish force broke through the southernmost point in the Muscovite defenses and struck the defenders in the rear, allowing the other Polish forces to break through. Albeit the defenses near Tula held, the Poles secured Lipetsk and Kursk. As resistance grew (+5 Muscovite irregular divisions), and as the Muscovites regrouped and recovered from their early defeat, the Polish commanders decided not to launch a risky attack on Moscow yet, and instead pressed on eastwards to take Voronezh and Tambov, thus getting into position for a future offensive.
(-9 Polish divisions, -2 Polish Siemienowicz Cannons, -7 Muscovite divisions, -4 Muscovite Lieb Guard divisions, -17 Muscovite conscript divisions, -2 Muscovite irregular divisions)
After nearly a month of rapidly-increasing dissent, the Croats in Ottoman territories have started an organized armed rebellion, spreading throughout the Balkans as the banner of Yugoslavic nationalism was raised. However, as the Ottomans have been preparing for this and placed their best counter-insurgency units in the Balkans, the rebels soon were stopped, pushed back and massacred. The Ottoman Guards soon restored order in the Balkans, sortof, but they failed to capture the rebel leadership, nor did they stop the low-level (for now) guerrila war in the countryside. Balkans remained a troublespot, and the Ottomans had better things to do than restore order there...
(-1 Ottoman division, -3 Ottoman Guard divisions)
...such as killing each other. For quite a while now, the ruling house and indeed the entire Turkish court was divided between two factions - a Turkish nationalist one, and a Pan-Islamic, fundamentalist one. The former was in charge thus far... and the Ottoman Empire wasn't doing very well in the last few years of the nationalist rule. This and the continued national dissent prepared the ground for a Pan-Islamist coup, led by Sultan Kalim's son Selim and the governor of Edirne, Mustafa Sinasi. With some support in the military ranks and among the masses, the coup actually had pretty good chances of success from the start, but, alas, the Pan-Islamist movement itself wasn't very well-organized. It didn't have any centralized leadership, and within it there were many factions. Only the most radical ones agreed to support Selim and Mustafa Sinasi, but they proved to be enough, for the start. A rebellion was organized, troops stationed in Constantinople mutinied and the Sublime Porte (where Kalim resided since the destruction of the High Porte) was taken in a sudden night assault. But Sultan Kalim was nowhere to be found - another wing of the Pan-Islamic movement had realized that to start any sort of a revolution now would simply doom the Ottoman Empire, with all the recent rebellions and invasions in mind, and warned him about this slightly before the coup. While he failed to nip it in the bud, he still did manage to flee for Salonika, where he took personal command of the Ottoman Guards stationed there. While Mustafa Sinasi tried to consolidate his control over the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Kalim and those troops loyal to him first secured Edirne and then assaulted Constantinople itself, with the help from the same old Pan-Islamic traitors that warned Kalim. The brief civil war ended with mass executions of the conspirators on the Taksim Square. The remaining members of the Pan-Islamic faction, including many notable clergymen, threw their support behind Kalim, possibly out of patriotism but maybe because they were playing a game of their own (+1 Confidence)...
(-3 Ottoman divisions, -2 Ottoman Guard divisions)
In spite of all the agreements between the FK, Ottoman Empire and Persia, the Egyptian rebellion continued. Having gotten a taste of power, Khalid Jaffar didn't want to lose it all, and beside that, he and his fellow rebel leaders suspected that their fates under the new Federate protectorate won't be particularily enviable. So they refused to recognize the Federate protectorates over Egypt and Libya... and the Federates didn't do anything about that. They had bigger fish to fry (see above or see spotlight, depending on your IQ). Instead, the Egyptians had to fight the Ottomans that somehow found the time to send eight Ottoman Guard divisions into Egypt. The Egyptians resisted bravely, but they had inferior training and inferior weapons. They briefly halted the Turks on the Nile, but were then overran anyway, especially as the rebellion was betrayed by the more cowardly of its leaders. The half-finished Egyptian fleet tried to break through the Turkish blockade, and ofcourse was pinned down and annihilated, though only after invading the Aegean Sea.
(-Egyptian Rebels as an independent faction, -5 Ottoman Guard divisions, -2 Ottoman squadrons)
Rebellions in undergarrisoned, unconnected (after the cession of Egypt to the FK) Ottoman Sudan begin.
The poorer Poles, especially those who had to return their lands in Prusy back to the Germans, begun moving in large amounts to Poland's African colonies, causing further violent expansion.
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