Dragonflow
Emperor
This is my first AAR and it's about my attempts to restore Spanish glory in Europe and America or even India. I will try to make it as realistic as possible and not load games if I'm loosing a war. So let's get started.
Summer 1700
His royal majesty King Carlos II has recently appointed a cabinet of advisers. But the ministers can't say they are happy about this while we enjoy great prestige in Spain we are responsible for the great Spanish Empire. Sadly the days of glory are gone our Empire is alone with only France on our side. But with the right policies we can prevail.
The cabinet has decided that our first move should be to ensure the security our remaining European possessions. This means we need to be prepared for possible Dutch hostilities in Flandern. His royal majesty the King has ordered our diplomats to create an alliance between Spain and Westphalia. Also an alliance was created between Spain and Genoa to ensure greater security in northern Italy.
We were also able to convince the King to order the construction of two Sixth-Rate-Ships and the construction of improved roads and farms in Spain. In the Americas the construction of one extra Brigg was ordered, it should be finished by the beginning of winter.
In the middle of August of 1700 the Dutch ambassador requested a meeting with me. I wondered what the Dutch would want from us, I feared they would attack us. Sadly my fears became reality. The ambassador told me that the United Provinces and the Kingdom of Spain are at war. But the Situation became even worse as both Westphalia and Genoa refused to assist us, luckily the British and Austrians didn't join the war on Holland's side. Considering our military strength in Flandern we can only dig in and stay defensive.
This war also causes a large problem for our American trade routes, the Royal Spanish Navy in America is far to weak to defend against the Dutch.
Later this Summer we also received messages about a war in the east, seems like our Austrian Habsburg relatives have engaged them self in a two front-war against Prussia and Poland-Lithuania

Summer 1700
His royal majesty King Carlos II has recently appointed a cabinet of advisers. But the ministers can't say they are happy about this while we enjoy great prestige in Spain we are responsible for the great Spanish Empire. Sadly the days of glory are gone our Empire is alone with only France on our side. But with the right policies we can prevail.
Spoiler :

The cabinet has decided that our first move should be to ensure the security our remaining European possessions. This means we need to be prepared for possible Dutch hostilities in Flandern. His royal majesty the King has ordered our diplomats to create an alliance between Spain and Westphalia. Also an alliance was created between Spain and Genoa to ensure greater security in northern Italy.
Spoiler :

We were also able to convince the King to order the construction of two Sixth-Rate-Ships and the construction of improved roads and farms in Spain. In the Americas the construction of one extra Brigg was ordered, it should be finished by the beginning of winter.
In the middle of August of 1700 the Dutch ambassador requested a meeting with me. I wondered what the Dutch would want from us, I feared they would attack us. Sadly my fears became reality. The ambassador told me that the United Provinces and the Kingdom of Spain are at war. But the Situation became even worse as both Westphalia and Genoa refused to assist us, luckily the British and Austrians didn't join the war on Holland's side. Considering our military strength in Flandern we can only dig in and stay defensive.
This war also causes a large problem for our American trade routes, the Royal Spanish Navy in America is far to weak to defend against the Dutch.
Spoiler :

Later this Summer we also received messages about a war in the east, seems like our Austrian Habsburg relatives have engaged them self in a two front-war against Prussia and Poland-Lithuania