JosefStalinator
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~Darkening~ said:
We should keep a tally of how many times someone says that.
NES2 VIb - Return of the Chaos.
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We should keep a tally of how many times someone says that.
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JosefStalinator said:
Heh.
Well, they'll all be surprised when I see what I've done.
You'll be surprised, Panda.
~Darkening~
Weep, Mother.
I would love to gloat about something, but since it might not work and I'd ruin the update, I won't 
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Trust me. If this doesn't work then the HRE will never fall.
.Trust me. If this doesn't work then the HRE will never fall.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
~Darkening~ said:
that sums up this update. Entirely.
das
Regeneration In Process
Not really, no. How can you sum up the update before I post it? 
das
Regeneration In Process
Update 5 (19) - Year 1785
Non-Military Events:
The recent "technologic revolution" of EUA and Japan spreads gradually into the world (HRE, Scandinavia, Xin Han China, Canada, PUNF, PUO propelled into Late Industrial Age). Meanwhile, a curious "Brain Drain War" is fought between EUA and Japan, as both seek to attract scientists from the embattled Europe; until recently, EUA was winning, but Japan overtook it this year with promises of high salaries and various bonuses (+1 Japanese Education).
Immigration into Canada picks up, as it becomes a viable, and closer, alternative to EUA as a "free haven", especially for those Egalitists that are too die-hard to stop being Egalitist and too smart to actually stay in the HRE; also, many British flee from the ravages of war and the unstable political situation, using the breach of the Imperial blockade. Many educated cadres are gained this way (+1 Education), but on the other hand the mass influx of refugees damages the average living standards (-1 Living Standards).
The EUA economy continues to boom - heavy industrialization, with use of modern machine tools and so forth, takes place in Grenada, especially in Medellin (+Medellin Economic Center), while commercial presence increases both to the west - with the new trade agreement with China and the related upsurge in trade with Japan - and to the east, where the Americans recover from the brief halt in trade caused by the Western War and again infiltrate the nascent PUF economically, also resulting in a mildly-disturbing growth of support for the EUA annexationists. It must be noted, however, that both economically and politically the PUO is becoming increasingly competitive in the region; naturally, the PUF only stands to gain from the economic competition as both the EUA and the PUO strive to "outinvest" each other (+Sen-Germaine economic center).
In PUO itself, all is coming along well; the country generally recovers from the war-time devastation, and despite an increasing shortage of slaves, there was enough of them for use as a free (as opposed to simply "cheap") workforce in PUO's new factories. Charleville generally recovers, especially as trade with Brazil picks up (+Charleville economic center). Meanwhile, national unity increases as nationalistic and xenophobic "Catholic Leagues" form all over the country (+1 Culture).
After the death of King George III during the London bombardment in 1784, Britain was left stunned, especially as his heir, George IV, was killed by an anarchist a month into his reign. Egalitist riots and mutinies (-5 British conscript divisions) broke out, but eventually order was restored by Prince Charles - George III's younger brother, who dismissed the Parliament and claimed the throne as King Charles IV; he immediately and energetically set about to save Britain, with mixed results (see military orders).
Despite some near-eschatological predictions and continued outbreaks, the dengue seems to be withering out in Europe by now, although it did opportunately knock out a few Imperial soldiers here and there, at least temporarily (-1 Imperial division).
Continued casualties and war expenses (and, ofcourse, the everpresent evil Egalitist agitators) keep fueling anti-war sentiments in the belligerent nations (-1 British, Imperial, Scandinavian, Finnish, Polish, Byzantine, Russian, Seguan, Egyptian, Persian Confidence). Also, draft riots and strikes take place in Iberia and Italy, as anti-Imperialism and nationalism revives there (-1 Imperial Culture), and even in France itself some protest the economic mobilization and centralization of state control over the crucial industries, which, though beneficial for economy (cancelling out the strain of military maintenance, at least for now), is detrimental to living standards (-1 Imperial Confidence, Living Standards). Huge military increases grind away at the Russian economy (-1 Economy), but the momentum of the early war patriotic outburst is for now maintained with persistant propaganda.
Koro Tambalili comes to power in Segu and declares the Seguian Caliphate, proceeding to preach Jihad against the Holy Roman Empire (+1 Confidence, Culture). However, the recruitment and the conscription efforts overstretch Seguian manpower and tax the economy too (-1 Economy, Confidence).
By a treaty with local tribal leaders, Scandinavia annexes British Congo, but for more southern and eastern lands, which were left to the natives; at first it was hoped for African states to emerge there, but as those regions were mostly primitive and consumed by tribal strife, they soon enough reverted back to their pre-colonial barbaric existance, sans naivity.
Almasra's efforts finally pay off, as the Bedouins in Hejjaz and the Najd join Badawistan (+10 irregular divisions).
Manchurian nationalism generally declines, both due to lack of interest and due to Japanese counter-insurgency operations.
The city of Chongqing in China rises to become a great industrial center, with its famous steel factories (+Chongqing economic center).
Military Events:
As an aside from the main campaign, Britain and Scandinavia exchange blows in north Atlantic. Although the Russians had apparently withdrew from the Faroes back to Arkhangelsk, they were immediatelly garrisoned by Charles IV's troops, who had easily repulsed the half-hearted Scandinavian attack. The British, meanwhile, struck back with aerial attacks; not daring attack France itself with its formidable air force, they took out their frustration on the Scandinavians; air fleets attacked Reykjavik and Trondheim. In both, heavy resistance was encountered, particularily surprising in Iceland, but far heavier in Trondheim where the Scandinavians have used vertically-mounted artillery as anti-airship defense, eventually forcing the British to pull back with many casualties, albeit Trondheim's harbour was damaged (mostly superficially, so it was repaired later this year). Reykjavik, however, was apparently chosen due to its remoteness as a polygon of sorts - the British not only bombarded it from above, but also had some troops jump down with parachutes, surprising the defenders and wrecking havoc at them with some sort of flamethrowing weapons and explosive mixtures. Eventually the Scandinavians recovered and counterattacked, the British airships abandoning the paratroopers (who fought to the last) to their fates, but much of Reykjavik was destroyed by the fires (-Reykjavik economic center).
(-1 British Home Guard division, -4 Scandinavian divisions, -3 British air squadrons)
The Holy Roman Empire continues its fight for hegemony... or maybe survival?
(see spotlight)
(+1 British Confidence, -Odessa, Sochi, Novgorod economic centers, +5 Russian irregular divisions)
(see OOC)
The Russian Pacific Fleet and the British commerce raiders continue their activities, concentrating on the Central Atlantic and the African coast (-Juby economic center).
After several years of trade embargo, breaking of diplomatic relations and verbal battles, the new "Seguian Caliphate" lashed out against the Holy Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Union. Having amassed a huge, fanatical, yet ill-trained army, the Seguians, much to their suspicion and surprise, received no resistance at all as they advanced into Imperial West Africa, except from a few loyal tribes that were easily overwhelmed (+1 Imperial irregular division). In Scandinavian Central Africa, there was an actual garrison, but it was completely outnumbered and distracted by a sudden Fulani rebellion in Kanem-Bornu. Overstretched, the Scandinavians were easily outmaneuvered and crushed battalion-by-battalion. Against all odds, the Seguian attack had granted them control over the greater (well, the wealthier - the Seguians didn't bother to take over all of the countryside, plus their supply routes were already overstretched, so many parts of the region were left free to fall into anarchy) portion of West Africa, and the troops are dizzy with success, their worst enemies in this campaign being attrition, not any of the feared Imperial Foreign Legions (+1 Confidence, +1 Seguian Economy (key trade routes recaptured)). But maybe this was all a gigantic trap?
(-1 Imperial irregular division, -5 Scandinavian divisions, -5 Seguian divisions, -4 Seguian conscript divisions)
Surprisingly enough, Jacques managed to raise a new army in Upper Egypt, and even staged a counterattack on the Byzantine positions in the Lower, during which the Egyptians - probably realizing that this was the decisive campaign - fought far better than at any other point of the war. Initially, some enthusiasm actually appeared, and support for Jacques briefly rebounded; and in a fierce battle, the Byzantines, who had let their guard down for one fatal moment, were crushed at Beni Suef and soon had to fight at Cairo itself, which just recently seemed completely secure! But by now, the Egyptian offensive was beginning to run out of steam; as in the past, the army, still lacking supplies and with dropping morale, begun to disintegrate; and with the arrival of Imperial reinforcements, Cairo held out, and the Egyptians were repulsed with huge casualties. Jacques wounded himself while trying to commit suicide and was captured by the Byzantines as they struck back, routing the Egyptian army, which surrendered in great numbers anyway, the survivors deserting or joining the Saharan warlords. After that, Egypt collapsed altogether in a matter of days; Yemen fell into anarchy and sectionist strife, the army in Libya was hammered out of existance by an Imperial counterattack and defecting Bedouins (3 irregular divisions from Egypt to HRE), a berzerk raid by die-hard Silver Guards on the Suez Canal was defeated, a pro-Imperial provisional government was set up in Cairo (as opposed to the pro-Byzantine provisional government in Alexandria...), and Rahman al-Marwan was pushed out with fighting from Mozambique and Egyptian East Africa by Imperials, Scandinavians and Nyamwezi rebels, though he then defeated a Scandinavian invasion of Sennar. As Impero-Byzantine control was established in the north, an unexpected new force appeared in Sennar and Upper Egypt; then again, that force wasn't strictly new. Hassan Ali bin Rabban was the grandson of Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Muhammed Ali, and thus it was fated that he too would launch a rebellion to recreate the Caliphate. It was to him that Rahman al-Marwan and his troops - and several other elements of the Egyptian military - defected. But with most of Egypt Proper occupied by the Holy Roman and Byzantine Empires, it doesn't reallyseem that Hassan Ali bin Rabban would do any better than his ancestors. Then again, his enemies are distracted elsewhere as well...
(-Egypt as a nation, -3 Imperial divisions, -2 Imperial Foreign Legions, -1 Imperial irregular division, -7 Scandinavian divisions, -3 Scandinavian Combat Engineer divisions, -2 Scandinavian squadrons, -9 Byzantine divisions)
In what was probably the most politically-confusing week ever, or at least in modern times, Sulia's government ordered an initially-succesful invasion of nearby Imperial territories, then, due to growing domestic dissent caused by alleged government negligence of domestic affairs and senseless military opportunism, was overthrown by a man named Roleo Preto, who was crowned king, immediately abdicated, declared himself head of provisional government, declared war with Holy Roman Empire over, invited Imperial troops in as allies and was executted by them, along with the rest of his government, while Sulia was placed under French "protection". By then, ofcourse, the tide on the front had turned; the Sulian army lost momentum and was routed at Massangena, and Laurenco Marques was captured by the Imperials. Some fierce resistance continued in the country's northwest, where the local commander (General Duarte Vargas) stubbornly refused to surrender - but the Imperials, assisted by the surviving natives in the north, have eventually cornered and crushed Vargas at Kuruman. The South African campaign was a (comparatively) quick and easy victory for the HRE.
(-1 Imperial division, -4 Imperial Foreign Legions, -Sulia as an independent nation)
With the new "Immortal" divisions and freshly-acquired modern weapons, the Persians inflicted a series of defeats on the Sunni rebels in Central Asia; as the latter resorted to guerrila warfare, the Persians were somewhat slowed down, unaccustomed to this, but by the end of the year nonetheless defeated most of the rebel bands worth noting, with only a minor insurgency continuing near the small town of Dashhowuz. Some other rebellions begun in Baluchistan, but they too were defeated. Meanwhile, citing Russian support for Sunni rebels and Persia's alliance with the HRE, Persia declared war on Russia; while most Russian forces were distracted in the west, the Persians invaded and conquered the Semirechye and some nearby regions, encountering mostly token resistance.
(-1 Russian division, -9 Persian divisions, -2 Persian Immortal Guard divisions)
No doubt inspired by the other rebellions against Imperial colonial rule in Asia, and possibly by the Egyptian events as well, angry mobs in Karachi and the Baluchi tribesmen just outside of it - probably with Russian assistance, due to the surprising level of organization shown by the rebels - attacked the Imperial port (Karachi, ofcourse). However there was a large garrison inside and after some very fierce fighting it had driven off the attackers, and finished them off with Persian help.
(-2 Imperial Foreign Legions, -1 Persian division)
Likewise, several rebellions in Deccan took place, but were either easily defeated or left alone for lack of manpower on the Imperial side and threat on the rebel by now.
Just as the Imperials went into counteroffensive in Burma (underestimating the strenght of the rebels, and ultimately taking Ava but losing Arakan), they also went on a diplomatic offensive, announcing that they have evidence of Chinese assistance to the Burmese rebels and cutting all ties with Zhongguojing. The Chinese have fervently denied this; however, this denial coincided with border clashes between an Imperial patrol and a huge Chinese army marching through Burma. As the Chinese have already marched through Burma and thus vacated it, it remains unclear whether or not the Imperials would still go to war with China, like China went to war with... Rajput India. Declaring that the Rajputs were guilty of misruling their land and thus weakening Asia, the Xin Han Chinese government declared war on the Rajputs, and immediately stormed through the Himalayans and in a flank maneuver through northern Burma; but that maneuver proved unecessary, as the Rajputs were not expecting anything like this at all, and deployed all their troops on the southern and western borders; the only resistance that the Xin Han Chinese have encountered came from the Gurkhas in Nepal, but they were overwhelmed by superior numbers soon enough. With the help of Bengali rebels (+2 Xin Han Chinese irregular divisions), the Chinese soon occupied Bengal, and only when they invaded the Gangetic Plain itself - from the north and the east - did they encounter actual Rajput resistance, as forces were redeployed and conscripts raised. However, it was then that the Xin Han Chinese played their trump card - the air force, consisting of both airships and heavier-than-air aircraft (more sophisticated than the Russian one); this air force bombarded enemy camps and barracks, inflicting heavy casualties and doing terrible things to the morale; then, in a series of battles, the stunned Rajputs were pushed out of the Plain altogether, retreating for Delhi. The Chinese failed to give pursuit, largely due to logistical issues; it is possible also that they themselves didn't expect such success. In any case, the Rajput Empire is now unraveling - with its military defeats, it has lost what respect and fear it did have amongst the populace, and the Muslims already rose up in the west (-1 Rajput Culture, 1 Economy from Rajput Empire to Xin Han China).
(see OOC)
Lastly the Imperials mostly crushed the Sumatran revolt in a series of swift campaigns; only a few rebels are still holding out in the caves in the Barisan Mountains.
(-1 Imperial Foreign Legion)
Random Events:
The Imperial populace rallies to the great battle with Russia and Britain (+1 Culture).
Almasra continues to preach Arabian unity with much success (+1 Culture).
Gradually the Scandinavian domestic situation begins to detiriorate under war's strain (-1 Living Standards).
Crackdowns in Central Asia damage the region's famed educational facilities (-1 Persian Education).
Sabotage slows down progress on an important Brazilian project (-1 project progress).
As more and more of Krakowian educated cadres are commited to military or administrative functions, science suffers (-1 Education).
The Byzantine civil admnistrators grow increasingly overstretched (-1 Civilian Leadership).
Spotlight:
An Empire Embattled.
"We have not won yet; the French Dragon still draws breath, it still commands vast resources, it still has huge forces and loyal lackeys at its disposal. We may lose yet. But I daresay that after the blows of this year... we have gained a fighting chance."
- Anonymous Spanish revolutionary leaflet. Year 1785.
As year 1784 ended and 1785 begun, it became clear that the Second Worldwar was not to be won easily by either side. In the past year, the Russians battered the Imperial fleet badly - but not fatally; the Imperials and their Allies invaded Russia, but failed to take even Arkhangelsk, much less Moscow, while the Russian invasion of Hungary and southern Poland took Pest - but not Krakow. Neither side scored a decisive victory; neither side even came close to that, as a matter of fact. Both sides made their moves, and the counter-moves that were planned for this year were all too predictable - the Imperials wanted to reclaim naval supremacy and push the Russians out of Hungary, the Russians wanted to recapture Novgorod.
First off, we should look at the naval campaign. As the year begun, two great fleets begun to gather - the Imperial one at Dunkerque, the Russian one - near the shores of Norway, just to the west from the Skaggerak. Both sides have made plans for a decisive clash, both sides scouted out each other's positions - and both have sent out great fleets of submarines to cripple each other. Yet by now, superior depth charges and hydrophones were developed by both sides, while the submarines were still rather crude and underdeveloped; accordingly, both of the armadas have taken fairly minor damage, while both submarine flotillas were crippled. After this "pre-battle preparation", both fleets rushed off across the North Sea to face each other. How fitting it was indeed that ultimatley they converged near Devil's Hole, where previously one of the British fleets was destroyed. That battle was furious enough, but nothing compared to the Second Battle at Devil's Hole.
Though the submarines were mutually misused, the Imperials immediately made good use of their air force; it wasn't strong enough to get through the hides of the heavy Russian capital ships, but even then, the airships caused the Russians lots of grief early on. Also, while the Imperials and the Russians were still dueling from afar, another Imperial edge was brought into action as the Scandinavians struck the Russians from the east. Attacked from the west, from the east and from above, the Russians seemed doomed, but at this point, reinforcements for them arrived too in the shape of the British fleet opportunately striking at the Imperial rear. As both sides brought in their full forces now, a chaotic, frenzied battle ensued; all the modern naval battles were such due to huge firepower and mobility available on both sides, but this one was worse than the most due to the very amount of ships involved; after a while, admirals begun to lose control, while friendly fire grew to unacceptable levels, especially after a heavy fog set on the battlefield. As both sides strived to outmaneuver the other in order to get a decisive advantage, all the fleets soon mixed confusedly, and for a while it was every ship for itself. In the awfully confusing, seemingly-senseless battle that followed, entire battleships were destroyed in a matter of minutes. For several hours, Devil's Hole transformed into a flaming, smoking mess of ships firing and aflame, moving and sinking; and when the fog receded, both the Anglo-Russian and Impero-Scandinavian fleets were in shambles; but as the latter was more numerous in the first place, it had managed to win a victory far more Pyrrhic than the one at Asculum. It was a victory nonetheless; though the exhausted sailors were in no position to give chase to the limping Russians (the British fleet was mostly destroyed during the battle), the airships obliged instead and sunk many of the heavily-damaged Russian ships. But in a reminder of the hollowness of the Imperial victory at Devil's Hole, the British Blockade was reestablished in name only (well, in name mostly is more like it - still, the reestablished blockade was far weaker and more fragile), and the Imperial forces had to be withdrawn from Dover, allowing Charles IV to proclaim proudly the defeat of the French invasion.
Predictably enough, the Imperials sacked and abandoned Odessa and Sochi, as they did in the First Worldwar. While the Imperial/Allied forces were gathering for an offensive in Hungary, in the north defenses were prepared by the Scandinavian combat engineers on the Segezha-Buy Line in northwestern Russia. However, the weather and the terrain, and the Cossack raids, slowed down progress considerably, allowing the Russians to marshall great forces for an offensive on Novgorod. Although the defenders did manage to prepare some defenses, and also had something of a technological edge due to recent arms deals that resulted in the Allied forces in the region receiving brand new automatic rifles and recoil-operated machine guns, the Russians had overwhelming numerical superiority, and also some technological advances of their own - specifically, powerful heavy artillery, even stronger than the versions used in Hungary. After a powerful barrage, Russian forces charged and despite taking terrible casualties overwhelmed the trenches and captured Vologda; in the Third Battle at Vologda, they had succesfully outmaneuvered the counterattacking Imperials and all but encircled them; though eventually most of the Imperial army in the region got away, the situation was clearly critical, and so it was decided to pull back in full order into Lithuania and Karelia. The continued Russian attacks nearly turned the retreat into a rout, but Imperial disciplinne prevailed and the Russians decided to forget about Karelia for the moment; Lithuania, however, was their next destination. But the Russian army was weakened and exhausted by the fighting, and faced with an uncertain supply situation; though it did push the Impero-Krakowian forces out of most of Livonia, Pskov and Belarus, Lithuania itself remained safe in Krakowian hands, and the Krakowian army was also mostly preserved in tact, while the Imperials regroupped.
Meanwhile in Hungary, all was quiet for a while; the Russians had cracked down on most of the rebels behind their lines, but made virtually no moves beyond that. A war was fought in the air, as the formidable Russian air force was partially countered by the Krakowian vertically-mounted artillery (rather like the Scandinavian idea used at Trondheim). This has prevented the Russian air force from bombarding Krakow into nothingness, but the Russians too won an aerial (and technological) victory of their own later in the year when they employed heavier-than-air aircraft (apparently not related to the Chinese designs) against the Imperial air force sent to bombard Russian positions in the Great Hungarian Plain in preparation for the big offensive. Though rather crude, the Russian aircraft still surprised the Imperials and in combination with the adaptation of the Polish idea have humbled the Imperial airfleet. Despite this sudden setback, the Imperials were still keen on attacking; having still managed to bombard some of the Russian positions, the Imperials managed to force a crossing of the Danube at several points, and then deployed a new weapon of their own - armoured cars. They had numerous disadvantages, especially in their primitive state, but they were perfect for what the Imperials used them as. In combination with offensively-inclined Imperial infantry, the armoured cars managed to break the Russian frontline in the flat Hungary at several points, and as another Imperial force struck from the north, the Russians had no choice but to fall back to the mountainous Transylvania. The front froze there for a while until the Imperials attacked once more - this time mostly with infantry - both from the west and from the Byzantine territory in the southeast. Surprised by that second attack, the Russians took many casualties; they once more had to retreat, fighting their way through Galicia, but many of them were eventually cut off and after a failed breakout attempt a good two-thirds of the surviving parts of the former Russian Army of Hungary had surrendered after a skillful Imperial war of maneuver.
That victory was a very reassuring one, and soon the Imperials have decided to exploit it, instead of letting the opportunity slip out of their hands altogether as happened at Novgorod. An Impero-Krakowian counterattack in Belarus and Ukraine was planned and executd; once more, the Imperials made good use of multipronged attack, outflanking the Russians and eventually retaking Minsk. However, the Russian airforce delayed the Allied advance in the Ukraine itself, and the survivors of the Army of Hungary had fought a very skillful fighting retreat, winning time for more defenses to be prepared in the Ukraine. As reinforcements were deployed, volunteer units formed and new armies conscripted, the Imperials found themselves incapable of advancing in Ukraine; a half-hearted assault on Zhitomir was thwarted, and after that the Russians had firmly sealed the gaps in the Russian frontline, blocking any further advances. Thus the Allied invasion had stalemated, and though the later Russian counteroffnesive had failed to force the enemy out of either Belarus or Ukraine (minor gains were made in both), it was clear that here, too, no decisive victory would come. And thus the war still remained in the balance - but it seems as if either a decisive campaign will come in 1786, either it will not come at all...
Lastly, and most ominously... as the Imperial military fortunes remained, despite all, uneven, the draft rioters in the southern prefectures got ever more bold. With most Imperial forces away in Russia, they rose up; though defeated in Castille by the Madrid Garrison and in Lombardy by the Imperial reaction force, the nationalist, egalitist and republican rebels soon gained ground, taking over Portugal and parts of both Spain and Italy, using guerrila tactics and showing surprising cooperation and organization (especially for what seemed to be a set of spontaneous rebellions at first). The Imperial forces deployed against them have ofcourse made gains, but ultimately they proved unsuccesful in completely crushing this insurgency. Now more than ever, the HRE is fighting for its own survival - both at home and abroad. And now the victory is less assured than ever before.
NPC Diplo:
OOC:
Swiss, congratulations, your bad luck and quick death have chances of becoming notorious, you have two cows, they both are immediately quashed by an iceberg from outer space making an emergency landing.
Sorry about any misinterpretations of orders made.
Sadly I lost parts of the update (specifically, the spotlight and the Chinese invasion) in a crash and had to redo them; quality suffered, ofcourse, especially as I had already done most of the casualties and forgot what they were exactly; I assure you that they were heavy, in the former case at least. However, I haven't the time to recover them... Maybe I'll try that later if any of you really need that. Don't worry, the stats on the mainpage are done, I only mean the casualties in the update itself. Also, this was a cause of a major delay, though I still finished this update pretty fast, IMHO.
Non-Military Events:
The recent "technologic revolution" of EUA and Japan spreads gradually into the world (HRE, Scandinavia, Xin Han China, Canada, PUNF, PUO propelled into Late Industrial Age). Meanwhile, a curious "Brain Drain War" is fought between EUA and Japan, as both seek to attract scientists from the embattled Europe; until recently, EUA was winning, but Japan overtook it this year with promises of high salaries and various bonuses (+1 Japanese Education).
Immigration into Canada picks up, as it becomes a viable, and closer, alternative to EUA as a "free haven", especially for those Egalitists that are too die-hard to stop being Egalitist and too smart to actually stay in the HRE; also, many British flee from the ravages of war and the unstable political situation, using the breach of the Imperial blockade. Many educated cadres are gained this way (+1 Education), but on the other hand the mass influx of refugees damages the average living standards (-1 Living Standards).
The EUA economy continues to boom - heavy industrialization, with use of modern machine tools and so forth, takes place in Grenada, especially in Medellin (+Medellin Economic Center), while commercial presence increases both to the west - with the new trade agreement with China and the related upsurge in trade with Japan - and to the east, where the Americans recover from the brief halt in trade caused by the Western War and again infiltrate the nascent PUF economically, also resulting in a mildly-disturbing growth of support for the EUA annexationists. It must be noted, however, that both economically and politically the PUO is becoming increasingly competitive in the region; naturally, the PUF only stands to gain from the economic competition as both the EUA and the PUO strive to "outinvest" each other (+Sen-Germaine economic center).
In PUO itself, all is coming along well; the country generally recovers from the war-time devastation, and despite an increasing shortage of slaves, there was enough of them for use as a free (as opposed to simply "cheap") workforce in PUO's new factories. Charleville generally recovers, especially as trade with Brazil picks up (+Charleville economic center). Meanwhile, national unity increases as nationalistic and xenophobic "Catholic Leagues" form all over the country (+1 Culture).
After the death of King George III during the London bombardment in 1784, Britain was left stunned, especially as his heir, George IV, was killed by an anarchist a month into his reign. Egalitist riots and mutinies (-5 British conscript divisions) broke out, but eventually order was restored by Prince Charles - George III's younger brother, who dismissed the Parliament and claimed the throne as King Charles IV; he immediately and energetically set about to save Britain, with mixed results (see military orders).
Despite some near-eschatological predictions and continued outbreaks, the dengue seems to be withering out in Europe by now, although it did opportunately knock out a few Imperial soldiers here and there, at least temporarily (-1 Imperial division).
Continued casualties and war expenses (and, ofcourse, the everpresent evil Egalitist agitators) keep fueling anti-war sentiments in the belligerent nations (-1 British, Imperial, Scandinavian, Finnish, Polish, Byzantine, Russian, Seguan, Egyptian, Persian Confidence). Also, draft riots and strikes take place in Iberia and Italy, as anti-Imperialism and nationalism revives there (-1 Imperial Culture), and even in France itself some protest the economic mobilization and centralization of state control over the crucial industries, which, though beneficial for economy (cancelling out the strain of military maintenance, at least for now), is detrimental to living standards (-1 Imperial Confidence, Living Standards). Huge military increases grind away at the Russian economy (-1 Economy), but the momentum of the early war patriotic outburst is for now maintained with persistant propaganda.
Koro Tambalili comes to power in Segu and declares the Seguian Caliphate, proceeding to preach Jihad against the Holy Roman Empire (+1 Confidence, Culture). However, the recruitment and the conscription efforts overstretch Seguian manpower and tax the economy too (-1 Economy, Confidence).
By a treaty with local tribal leaders, Scandinavia annexes British Congo, but for more southern and eastern lands, which were left to the natives; at first it was hoped for African states to emerge there, but as those regions were mostly primitive and consumed by tribal strife, they soon enough reverted back to their pre-colonial barbaric existance, sans naivity.
Almasra's efforts finally pay off, as the Bedouins in Hejjaz and the Najd join Badawistan (+10 irregular divisions).
Manchurian nationalism generally declines, both due to lack of interest and due to Japanese counter-insurgency operations.
The city of Chongqing in China rises to become a great industrial center, with its famous steel factories (+Chongqing economic center).
Military Events:
As an aside from the main campaign, Britain and Scandinavia exchange blows in north Atlantic. Although the Russians had apparently withdrew from the Faroes back to Arkhangelsk, they were immediatelly garrisoned by Charles IV's troops, who had easily repulsed the half-hearted Scandinavian attack. The British, meanwhile, struck back with aerial attacks; not daring attack France itself with its formidable air force, they took out their frustration on the Scandinavians; air fleets attacked Reykjavik and Trondheim. In both, heavy resistance was encountered, particularily surprising in Iceland, but far heavier in Trondheim where the Scandinavians have used vertically-mounted artillery as anti-airship defense, eventually forcing the British to pull back with many casualties, albeit Trondheim's harbour was damaged (mostly superficially, so it was repaired later this year). Reykjavik, however, was apparently chosen due to its remoteness as a polygon of sorts - the British not only bombarded it from above, but also had some troops jump down with parachutes, surprising the defenders and wrecking havoc at them with some sort of flamethrowing weapons and explosive mixtures. Eventually the Scandinavians recovered and counterattacked, the British airships abandoning the paratroopers (who fought to the last) to their fates, but much of Reykjavik was destroyed by the fires (-Reykjavik economic center).
(-1 British Home Guard division, -4 Scandinavian divisions, -3 British air squadrons)
The Holy Roman Empire continues its fight for hegemony... or maybe survival?
(see spotlight)
(+1 British Confidence, -Odessa, Sochi, Novgorod economic centers, +5 Russian irregular divisions)
(see OOC)
The Russian Pacific Fleet and the British commerce raiders continue their activities, concentrating on the Central Atlantic and the African coast (-Juby economic center).
After several years of trade embargo, breaking of diplomatic relations and verbal battles, the new "Seguian Caliphate" lashed out against the Holy Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Union. Having amassed a huge, fanatical, yet ill-trained army, the Seguians, much to their suspicion and surprise, received no resistance at all as they advanced into Imperial West Africa, except from a few loyal tribes that were easily overwhelmed (+1 Imperial irregular division). In Scandinavian Central Africa, there was an actual garrison, but it was completely outnumbered and distracted by a sudden Fulani rebellion in Kanem-Bornu. Overstretched, the Scandinavians were easily outmaneuvered and crushed battalion-by-battalion. Against all odds, the Seguian attack had granted them control over the greater (well, the wealthier - the Seguians didn't bother to take over all of the countryside, plus their supply routes were already overstretched, so many parts of the region were left free to fall into anarchy) portion of West Africa, and the troops are dizzy with success, their worst enemies in this campaign being attrition, not any of the feared Imperial Foreign Legions (+1 Confidence, +1 Seguian Economy (key trade routes recaptured)). But maybe this was all a gigantic trap?
(-1 Imperial irregular division, -5 Scandinavian divisions, -5 Seguian divisions, -4 Seguian conscript divisions)
Surprisingly enough, Jacques managed to raise a new army in Upper Egypt, and even staged a counterattack on the Byzantine positions in the Lower, during which the Egyptians - probably realizing that this was the decisive campaign - fought far better than at any other point of the war. Initially, some enthusiasm actually appeared, and support for Jacques briefly rebounded; and in a fierce battle, the Byzantines, who had let their guard down for one fatal moment, were crushed at Beni Suef and soon had to fight at Cairo itself, which just recently seemed completely secure! But by now, the Egyptian offensive was beginning to run out of steam; as in the past, the army, still lacking supplies and with dropping morale, begun to disintegrate; and with the arrival of Imperial reinforcements, Cairo held out, and the Egyptians were repulsed with huge casualties. Jacques wounded himself while trying to commit suicide and was captured by the Byzantines as they struck back, routing the Egyptian army, which surrendered in great numbers anyway, the survivors deserting or joining the Saharan warlords. After that, Egypt collapsed altogether in a matter of days; Yemen fell into anarchy and sectionist strife, the army in Libya was hammered out of existance by an Imperial counterattack and defecting Bedouins (3 irregular divisions from Egypt to HRE), a berzerk raid by die-hard Silver Guards on the Suez Canal was defeated, a pro-Imperial provisional government was set up in Cairo (as opposed to the pro-Byzantine provisional government in Alexandria...), and Rahman al-Marwan was pushed out with fighting from Mozambique and Egyptian East Africa by Imperials, Scandinavians and Nyamwezi rebels, though he then defeated a Scandinavian invasion of Sennar. As Impero-Byzantine control was established in the north, an unexpected new force appeared in Sennar and Upper Egypt; then again, that force wasn't strictly new. Hassan Ali bin Rabban was the grandson of Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Muhammed Ali, and thus it was fated that he too would launch a rebellion to recreate the Caliphate. It was to him that Rahman al-Marwan and his troops - and several other elements of the Egyptian military - defected. But with most of Egypt Proper occupied by the Holy Roman and Byzantine Empires, it doesn't reallyseem that Hassan Ali bin Rabban would do any better than his ancestors. Then again, his enemies are distracted elsewhere as well...
(-Egypt as a nation, -3 Imperial divisions, -2 Imperial Foreign Legions, -1 Imperial irregular division, -7 Scandinavian divisions, -3 Scandinavian Combat Engineer divisions, -2 Scandinavian squadrons, -9 Byzantine divisions)
In what was probably the most politically-confusing week ever, or at least in modern times, Sulia's government ordered an initially-succesful invasion of nearby Imperial territories, then, due to growing domestic dissent caused by alleged government negligence of domestic affairs and senseless military opportunism, was overthrown by a man named Roleo Preto, who was crowned king, immediately abdicated, declared himself head of provisional government, declared war with Holy Roman Empire over, invited Imperial troops in as allies and was executted by them, along with the rest of his government, while Sulia was placed under French "protection". By then, ofcourse, the tide on the front had turned; the Sulian army lost momentum and was routed at Massangena, and Laurenco Marques was captured by the Imperials. Some fierce resistance continued in the country's northwest, where the local commander (General Duarte Vargas) stubbornly refused to surrender - but the Imperials, assisted by the surviving natives in the north, have eventually cornered and crushed Vargas at Kuruman. The South African campaign was a (comparatively) quick and easy victory for the HRE.
(-1 Imperial division, -4 Imperial Foreign Legions, -Sulia as an independent nation)
With the new "Immortal" divisions and freshly-acquired modern weapons, the Persians inflicted a series of defeats on the Sunni rebels in Central Asia; as the latter resorted to guerrila warfare, the Persians were somewhat slowed down, unaccustomed to this, but by the end of the year nonetheless defeated most of the rebel bands worth noting, with only a minor insurgency continuing near the small town of Dashhowuz. Some other rebellions begun in Baluchistan, but they too were defeated. Meanwhile, citing Russian support for Sunni rebels and Persia's alliance with the HRE, Persia declared war on Russia; while most Russian forces were distracted in the west, the Persians invaded and conquered the Semirechye and some nearby regions, encountering mostly token resistance.
(-1 Russian division, -9 Persian divisions, -2 Persian Immortal Guard divisions)
No doubt inspired by the other rebellions against Imperial colonial rule in Asia, and possibly by the Egyptian events as well, angry mobs in Karachi and the Baluchi tribesmen just outside of it - probably with Russian assistance, due to the surprising level of organization shown by the rebels - attacked the Imperial port (Karachi, ofcourse). However there was a large garrison inside and after some very fierce fighting it had driven off the attackers, and finished them off with Persian help.
(-2 Imperial Foreign Legions, -1 Persian division)
Likewise, several rebellions in Deccan took place, but were either easily defeated or left alone for lack of manpower on the Imperial side and threat on the rebel by now.
Just as the Imperials went into counteroffensive in Burma (underestimating the strenght of the rebels, and ultimately taking Ava but losing Arakan), they also went on a diplomatic offensive, announcing that they have evidence of Chinese assistance to the Burmese rebels and cutting all ties with Zhongguojing. The Chinese have fervently denied this; however, this denial coincided with border clashes between an Imperial patrol and a huge Chinese army marching through Burma. As the Chinese have already marched through Burma and thus vacated it, it remains unclear whether or not the Imperials would still go to war with China, like China went to war with... Rajput India. Declaring that the Rajputs were guilty of misruling their land and thus weakening Asia, the Xin Han Chinese government declared war on the Rajputs, and immediately stormed through the Himalayans and in a flank maneuver through northern Burma; but that maneuver proved unecessary, as the Rajputs were not expecting anything like this at all, and deployed all their troops on the southern and western borders; the only resistance that the Xin Han Chinese have encountered came from the Gurkhas in Nepal, but they were overwhelmed by superior numbers soon enough. With the help of Bengali rebels (+2 Xin Han Chinese irregular divisions), the Chinese soon occupied Bengal, and only when they invaded the Gangetic Plain itself - from the north and the east - did they encounter actual Rajput resistance, as forces were redeployed and conscripts raised. However, it was then that the Xin Han Chinese played their trump card - the air force, consisting of both airships and heavier-than-air aircraft (more sophisticated than the Russian one); this air force bombarded enemy camps and barracks, inflicting heavy casualties and doing terrible things to the morale; then, in a series of battles, the stunned Rajputs were pushed out of the Plain altogether, retreating for Delhi. The Chinese failed to give pursuit, largely due to logistical issues; it is possible also that they themselves didn't expect such success. In any case, the Rajput Empire is now unraveling - with its military defeats, it has lost what respect and fear it did have amongst the populace, and the Muslims already rose up in the west (-1 Rajput Culture, 1 Economy from Rajput Empire to Xin Han China).
(see OOC)
Lastly the Imperials mostly crushed the Sumatran revolt in a series of swift campaigns; only a few rebels are still holding out in the caves in the Barisan Mountains.
(-1 Imperial Foreign Legion)
Random Events:
The Imperial populace rallies to the great battle with Russia and Britain (+1 Culture).
Almasra continues to preach Arabian unity with much success (+1 Culture).
Gradually the Scandinavian domestic situation begins to detiriorate under war's strain (-1 Living Standards).
Crackdowns in Central Asia damage the region's famed educational facilities (-1 Persian Education).
Sabotage slows down progress on an important Brazilian project (-1 project progress).
As more and more of Krakowian educated cadres are commited to military or administrative functions, science suffers (-1 Education).
The Byzantine civil admnistrators grow increasingly overstretched (-1 Civilian Leadership).
Spotlight:
An Empire Embattled.
"We have not won yet; the French Dragon still draws breath, it still commands vast resources, it still has huge forces and loyal lackeys at its disposal. We may lose yet. But I daresay that after the blows of this year... we have gained a fighting chance."
- Anonymous Spanish revolutionary leaflet. Year 1785.
As year 1784 ended and 1785 begun, it became clear that the Second Worldwar was not to be won easily by either side. In the past year, the Russians battered the Imperial fleet badly - but not fatally; the Imperials and their Allies invaded Russia, but failed to take even Arkhangelsk, much less Moscow, while the Russian invasion of Hungary and southern Poland took Pest - but not Krakow. Neither side scored a decisive victory; neither side even came close to that, as a matter of fact. Both sides made their moves, and the counter-moves that were planned for this year were all too predictable - the Imperials wanted to reclaim naval supremacy and push the Russians out of Hungary, the Russians wanted to recapture Novgorod.
First off, we should look at the naval campaign. As the year begun, two great fleets begun to gather - the Imperial one at Dunkerque, the Russian one - near the shores of Norway, just to the west from the Skaggerak. Both sides have made plans for a decisive clash, both sides scouted out each other's positions - and both have sent out great fleets of submarines to cripple each other. Yet by now, superior depth charges and hydrophones were developed by both sides, while the submarines were still rather crude and underdeveloped; accordingly, both of the armadas have taken fairly minor damage, while both submarine flotillas were crippled. After this "pre-battle preparation", both fleets rushed off across the North Sea to face each other. How fitting it was indeed that ultimatley they converged near Devil's Hole, where previously one of the British fleets was destroyed. That battle was furious enough, but nothing compared to the Second Battle at Devil's Hole.
Though the submarines were mutually misused, the Imperials immediately made good use of their air force; it wasn't strong enough to get through the hides of the heavy Russian capital ships, but even then, the airships caused the Russians lots of grief early on. Also, while the Imperials and the Russians were still dueling from afar, another Imperial edge was brought into action as the Scandinavians struck the Russians from the east. Attacked from the west, from the east and from above, the Russians seemed doomed, but at this point, reinforcements for them arrived too in the shape of the British fleet opportunately striking at the Imperial rear. As both sides brought in their full forces now, a chaotic, frenzied battle ensued; all the modern naval battles were such due to huge firepower and mobility available on both sides, but this one was worse than the most due to the very amount of ships involved; after a while, admirals begun to lose control, while friendly fire grew to unacceptable levels, especially after a heavy fog set on the battlefield. As both sides strived to outmaneuver the other in order to get a decisive advantage, all the fleets soon mixed confusedly, and for a while it was every ship for itself. In the awfully confusing, seemingly-senseless battle that followed, entire battleships were destroyed in a matter of minutes. For several hours, Devil's Hole transformed into a flaming, smoking mess of ships firing and aflame, moving and sinking; and when the fog receded, both the Anglo-Russian and Impero-Scandinavian fleets were in shambles; but as the latter was more numerous in the first place, it had managed to win a victory far more Pyrrhic than the one at Asculum. It was a victory nonetheless; though the exhausted sailors were in no position to give chase to the limping Russians (the British fleet was mostly destroyed during the battle), the airships obliged instead and sunk many of the heavily-damaged Russian ships. But in a reminder of the hollowness of the Imperial victory at Devil's Hole, the British Blockade was reestablished in name only (well, in name mostly is more like it - still, the reestablished blockade was far weaker and more fragile), and the Imperial forces had to be withdrawn from Dover, allowing Charles IV to proclaim proudly the defeat of the French invasion.
Predictably enough, the Imperials sacked and abandoned Odessa and Sochi, as they did in the First Worldwar. While the Imperial/Allied forces were gathering for an offensive in Hungary, in the north defenses were prepared by the Scandinavian combat engineers on the Segezha-Buy Line in northwestern Russia. However, the weather and the terrain, and the Cossack raids, slowed down progress considerably, allowing the Russians to marshall great forces for an offensive on Novgorod. Although the defenders did manage to prepare some defenses, and also had something of a technological edge due to recent arms deals that resulted in the Allied forces in the region receiving brand new automatic rifles and recoil-operated machine guns, the Russians had overwhelming numerical superiority, and also some technological advances of their own - specifically, powerful heavy artillery, even stronger than the versions used in Hungary. After a powerful barrage, Russian forces charged and despite taking terrible casualties overwhelmed the trenches and captured Vologda; in the Third Battle at Vologda, they had succesfully outmaneuvered the counterattacking Imperials and all but encircled them; though eventually most of the Imperial army in the region got away, the situation was clearly critical, and so it was decided to pull back in full order into Lithuania and Karelia. The continued Russian attacks nearly turned the retreat into a rout, but Imperial disciplinne prevailed and the Russians decided to forget about Karelia for the moment; Lithuania, however, was their next destination. But the Russian army was weakened and exhausted by the fighting, and faced with an uncertain supply situation; though it did push the Impero-Krakowian forces out of most of Livonia, Pskov and Belarus, Lithuania itself remained safe in Krakowian hands, and the Krakowian army was also mostly preserved in tact, while the Imperials regroupped.
Meanwhile in Hungary, all was quiet for a while; the Russians had cracked down on most of the rebels behind their lines, but made virtually no moves beyond that. A war was fought in the air, as the formidable Russian air force was partially countered by the Krakowian vertically-mounted artillery (rather like the Scandinavian idea used at Trondheim). This has prevented the Russian air force from bombarding Krakow into nothingness, but the Russians too won an aerial (and technological) victory of their own later in the year when they employed heavier-than-air aircraft (apparently not related to the Chinese designs) against the Imperial air force sent to bombard Russian positions in the Great Hungarian Plain in preparation for the big offensive. Though rather crude, the Russian aircraft still surprised the Imperials and in combination with the adaptation of the Polish idea have humbled the Imperial airfleet. Despite this sudden setback, the Imperials were still keen on attacking; having still managed to bombard some of the Russian positions, the Imperials managed to force a crossing of the Danube at several points, and then deployed a new weapon of their own - armoured cars. They had numerous disadvantages, especially in their primitive state, but they were perfect for what the Imperials used them as. In combination with offensively-inclined Imperial infantry, the armoured cars managed to break the Russian frontline in the flat Hungary at several points, and as another Imperial force struck from the north, the Russians had no choice but to fall back to the mountainous Transylvania. The front froze there for a while until the Imperials attacked once more - this time mostly with infantry - both from the west and from the Byzantine territory in the southeast. Surprised by that second attack, the Russians took many casualties; they once more had to retreat, fighting their way through Galicia, but many of them were eventually cut off and after a failed breakout attempt a good two-thirds of the surviving parts of the former Russian Army of Hungary had surrendered after a skillful Imperial war of maneuver.
That victory was a very reassuring one, and soon the Imperials have decided to exploit it, instead of letting the opportunity slip out of their hands altogether as happened at Novgorod. An Impero-Krakowian counterattack in Belarus and Ukraine was planned and executd; once more, the Imperials made good use of multipronged attack, outflanking the Russians and eventually retaking Minsk. However, the Russian airforce delayed the Allied advance in the Ukraine itself, and the survivors of the Army of Hungary had fought a very skillful fighting retreat, winning time for more defenses to be prepared in the Ukraine. As reinforcements were deployed, volunteer units formed and new armies conscripted, the Imperials found themselves incapable of advancing in Ukraine; a half-hearted assault on Zhitomir was thwarted, and after that the Russians had firmly sealed the gaps in the Russian frontline, blocking any further advances. Thus the Allied invasion had stalemated, and though the later Russian counteroffnesive had failed to force the enemy out of either Belarus or Ukraine (minor gains were made in both), it was clear that here, too, no decisive victory would come. And thus the war still remained in the balance - but it seems as if either a decisive campaign will come in 1786, either it will not come at all...
Lastly, and most ominously... as the Imperial military fortunes remained, despite all, uneven, the draft rioters in the southern prefectures got ever more bold. With most Imperial forces away in Russia, they rose up; though defeated in Castille by the Madrid Garrison and in Lombardy by the Imperial reaction force, the nationalist, egalitist and republican rebels soon gained ground, taking over Portugal and parts of both Spain and Italy, using guerrila tactics and showing surprising cooperation and organization (especially for what seemed to be a set of spontaneous rebellions at first). The Imperial forces deployed against them have ofcourse made gains, but ultimately they proved unsuccesful in completely crushing this insurgency. Now more than ever, the HRE is fighting for its own survival - both at home and abroad. And now the victory is less assured than ever before.
NPC Diplo:
OOC:
Swiss, congratulations, your bad luck and quick death have chances of becoming notorious, you have two cows, they both are immediately quashed by an iceberg from outer space making an emergency landing.
Sorry about any misinterpretations of orders made.
Sadly I lost parts of the update (specifically, the spotlight and the Chinese invasion) in a crash and had to redo them; quality suffered, ofcourse, especially as I had already done most of the casualties and forgot what they were exactly; I assure you that they were heavy, in the former case at least.
However, I haven't the time to recover them... Maybe I'll try that later if any of you really need that. Don't worry, the stats on the mainpage are done, I only mean the casualties in the update itself. Also, this was a cause of a major delay, though I still finished this update pretty fast, IMHO.
das
Regeneration In Process
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Is england still NPC? If it is I take it.
Kingdom of Great Britain
Capital: London
Ruler: King Charles IV
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Centralization: Unitary
Tech. Level: Middle Industrial Age
Army (Training): 72 divisions (Good), 43 conscript divisions, 31 Home Guard divisions
Navy (Training): 8 ship squadrons (Very Good), 5 sub squadrons (Normal)
Air Force (Training): 11 squadrons (Better)
Economy: Not Bad (+1)
Size (points required): Above Medium (3)
Leadership (Military/Civilian): Competent/Competent
Infrastructure: Good
Education: Perfect
Living Standards: Higher
Culture: Hyperpatriotic
Confidence: Tolerating
Projects: Project Llama (SECRET) (3/6)
Kingdom of Great Britain
Capital: London
Ruler: King Charles IV
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Centralization: Unitary
Tech. Level: Middle Industrial Age
Army (Training): 72 divisions (Good), 43 conscript divisions, 31 Home Guard divisions
Navy (Training): 8 ship squadrons (Very Good), 5 sub squadrons (Normal)
Air Force (Training): 11 squadrons (Better)
Economy: Not Bad (+1)
Size (points required): Above Medium (3)
Leadership (Military/Civilian): Competent/Competent
Infrastructure: Good
Education: Perfect
Living Standards: Higher
Culture: Hyperpatriotic
Confidence: Tolerating
Projects: Project Llama (SECRET) (3/6)
~Darkening~
Weep, Mother.
HELL YEAH! Sorry but I quite expected to flat out lose.
. All well just use the orders I sent for the next update 
. I am sorry das 
Symphony D.
Deity
OOC: Qué?das said:
Otherwise, fairly nice. Up very early. You are a machine!
Insane_Panda
Deity
Very good update. I am confident of victory.
das
Regeneration In Process
The Iron Moderator Never Sleeps. I really should put something like that to my sig one day...
Insane_Panda
Deity
Das, why would such a large area rebel if my culture and confidence is so high?
das
Regeneration In Process
There is no accounting for all minorities, is there? Plus there was something of a downsurge in both culture and confidence, though admittedly it wasn't all that severe.
Insane_Panda
Deity
Well, should not the culture and confidence stats represent all minorities within the Empire aswell? Or does it somehow just apply to Frenchmen? I mean, at Nation Personified and Uberpatriotic I think it would be quite difficult to sustain country-wide revolts and revolution. I mean, I have been writing those stories for quite some time. Still, a bunch of disgruntled italians and spaniards manage to take control of a sizeable portion of my Empire
Also, should I expect bonuses for my General Staff story next turn?
das
Regeneration In Process
It does apply to all, but, like the other stats, is rather generalized. The French aren't the only ones loyal to you; the Basques, the Cataluns and the Dutch are, more grudgingly the Germans are: that alone constitutes what is probably the majority of your population, if we don't count the colonies. You also still have some support in Iberia and Italy; however it recently declined sufficiently for the rebels to seize control.
Yes, yes you should.
Yes, yes you should.
~Darkening~
Weep, Mother.
To Great Britian
From Segu
We offer an eternal war until the time comes that France is defeated. Your technology, however, could bring about an end to this war much sooner. We ask that you allow us to buy it off you.
@Panda: do you believe half the crap that comes out of your mouth?
- Status
