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Sure! I'm claiming Victoria and a section of Southern Australia (not all, can't afford it point-wise). I may even relinquish more of New Guinea if asked.Raesene wrote: *** whistles innocently*** Tasmania for Tuscany ?
I'll take whatever pieces of Nerw Guinea you give up.Steve wrote:Sure! I'm claiming Victoria and a section of Southern Australia (not all, can't afford it point-wise). I may even relinquish more of New Guinea if asked.Raesene wrote: *** whistles innocently*** Tasmania for Tuscany ?
Why do you think I'm looking to invest in a major Navy? Though I may have to reconsider some things due to my Economy/Industry score. *grumbles*Siege wrote:I do wonder if some people aren't getting themselves into worlds of potential hurt with all these far-flung colonies. Having them sure is nice, but holding on to them for any amount of time when the neighbors come knocking will be the real trick.
- Instead of Wilhelm II, Friedrich III. survives his cancer due to Bismarck recommending Morell Mackenzie, who does not misdiagnose his cancer (deviation of OTL here).
- This leaves Bismarck and Friedrich III. longer in charge and prevent much of the diplomatic quagmires.
- When Wilhelm II. takes the throne after Friedrich dies in 1895, Bismarck is in a much stronger position and WIlhelm II. does not dare challenge him. Bismarck also masterfully placates the Kaiser with a token colonial policy and a more serious naval armament race, but diplomacy does much to smoothe the feelings. After all, Bismarck and the two Victorias trust each other deeply (in the OTL, only the english queen victoria did, in this TL both do due to him saving the Emperor).
- careful diplomacy prevents any sort of isolation of Germany, Bismarck dies in 1889, leaves Protege in charge
- 1914: Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo
- Austria goes to war. Germany hangs back, sees what happens.
- Balkan insurrection engulfes the Austrian Empire in civil war, Byzantine Empire and Italy (Kingdom of Italy) supply arms to insurrectionists. In 1915 Austria is close to fragmentation.
- End of 1915: Germany finally acts after signing a non-interference pact with Russia. German troops march into the Austrian Empire in small detachements, beating back insurrectionists. Germany is not fully committed to the fight yet.
- New Year 1915: Vienna Massacre. The Austrian Emperor along with the majority of the Austrian leadership/nobility are killed when a massive bomb destroys the concert hall of the Neujahrskonzert. The Kaiser's eldest son is killed, Wilhelm II. severely injured. The Bomb is later found to have been a collaboration of Italian design and serbian anarchists. Austria collapses.
- 1916: Germany declares war on Italy and marches into Austria.
- May 1916: German troops take Venice. July: Battle of Turin - Italian army is decisively beaten, encircled. French troops who try to intervene turn back when faced with German numerical superiority.
- August 1916: Faced with threatening Byzantine, French and Russian intervention, who try to prevent the creation of a german superstate, Germany agrees to a ceasefire.
- January 1917: Treaty of Rome with the following results:
a) Balkans gain independence (Shady, that would be your nation)
b) The Kingdom of Italy is destroyed. Germany gains northern Italy (as outlined above), though it does only claim it to prevent France and the Byzantine Empire from capitalizing on the collapse of Italy.
c) The rest of the Austrian Empire is absorbed into Germany as the children of Karl I. of Austria are not old enough. They are placed in the household of Wilhelm II.
d) The Tuscan Kingdom regains it independence from the former Kingdom of Italy. It had been annexed under the former Kingdom of Italy.
In the following years up to 1925 this happens:
- As the German Kaiser is a Protestant, he cannot lay claim to the thrones of Austria and Hungary. This leads to the bizarre solution of him being named Reichsverweser. The full title of the Kaiser will therefore be: Wilhelm II., Deutscher Kaiser, König von Preußen, Reichsverweser von Österreich und Ungarn. The situation is further confounded by the children of Karl I, who are the rightful heirs to the austrian part of the new empire and will be old enough in the 1930s to maybe claim the throne. Although the titles of the empire are not integrated, the rest of the empire is already closely integrated and it should be viewed as a single nation, though the hungarian/italian parts are not so smitten by the situation. The Chancellor is the deciding figure as the Kaiser never really recovered from the bombing and as the Reichstag is elected by the whole of the empire and not dependant on titles.
- The Tuscan kingdom becomes the unified Italian nation except for the German and Byzantine territories due to political skill.
I just redid the math for my colonies and found I was had around 3 million km^2, so I made the changes accordingly.Karmic Knight wrote:Updated Union of the Low Countries Distribution.
Population: 2 (+2 from Colonies, total of 4)
Home Territory: 2 (41,526 km2 (Dutch) + 30,528 km2 (Belgian))
Colonial Territory: 5 (the Subsidiary Union of the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Abyssinia, and Kenya), and the Subsidiary Union of the West African Coast (Cote D'Ivoire, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone), and the Special Union of Curacao and Suriname.
Industry: 4
Economy: 4 (+1 from Colonies, Total of 5)
Infrastructure: 4
Standing Military Limit: 3
Naval Focus: 2 (+2 From Industry, total of 4)
Army Focus: 3
Air Focus: 1
That should both be 4s instead of 5.Karmic Knight wrote:Updated Union of the Low Countries Distribution.
Population: 2 (+2 from Colonies, total of 5)
Home Territory: 2 (41,526 km2 (Dutch) + 30,528 km2 (Belgian))
Colonial Territory: 5 (the Subsidiary Union of the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Abyssinia, and Kenya), and the Subsidiary Union of the West African Coast (Cote D'Ivoire, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone), and the Special Union of Curacao and Suriname.
Industry: 4
Economy: 4 (+1 from Colonies, Total of 5)
Infrastructure: 4
Standing Military Limit: 3
Naval Focus: 2 (+2 From Industry, total of 5)
Army Focus: 3
Air Focus: 1
Someone claimed it, think it was the Tuscan player.Minister of Pigeonry wrote:Spain would be quite interested in the oil and coal rich regions of Queensland, not sure I can hold the whole of Queensland but a good portion at least if no one has an objection.
EDIT: Claims in Queensland
Also, what's New Caledonia looking like? I assume it's still French.
Ah yes, I was fiddling with the numbers after I found I had a colonial rating of 5, thank you for catching that.Thanas wrote:That should both be 4s instead of 5.
New Caledonia? Alrighty.Steve wrote:Someone claimed it, think it was the Tuscan player.Minister of Pigeonry wrote:Spain would be quite interested in the oil and coal rich regions of Queensland, not sure I can hold the whole of Queensland but a good portion at least if no one has an objection.
EDIT: Claims in Queensland
Also, what's New Caledonia looking like? I assume it's still French.
The northwest bit, sure, but you're separated from the north-east bit by Setz and Marius.Dark Hellion wrote:Ok. No problem. Its hard to keep track of who has what colony (hell, some of the colonists probably aren't going to know who actually runs their country). I am still going to take the rest of Zambia just for the sake of keeping a weird grey spot off the map.
Eh? I think not. I won't have a problem with Pondicherry(as I offered earlier in the thread) but I'll be damned if I'm chopped up and Shep isn't.Mr Bean wrote:Nope, need to clarify that. Still have New Zeland. Newfoundland. The very tip of India. New Zeland and one of the Caribbean islands Steve mentioned for me. Otherwise it's Hong-Kong style single city controls. If you want to take some of that old territory we can work out whatever city got seded to Britian for X years.
Why don't we both have rival claims on it? It'll give us a plot point to squabble over.Dark Hellion wrote:Ok. No problem. Its hard to keep track of who has what colony (hell, some of the colonists probably aren't going to know who actually runs their country). I am still going to take the rest of Zambia just for the sake of keeping a weird grey spot off the map.
Response? You posted something? I was going off what Steve sent me. If it's only a single port on India's cost I'm fine by that. Not like you could not march south and take it from the division of Clerks and Port authorities I'd have free to deploy to India.Lonestar wrote:Eh? I think not. I won't have a problem with Pondicherry(as I offered earlier in the thread) but I'll be damned if I'm chopped up and Shep isn't.Mr Bean wrote:Nope, need to clarify that. Still have New Zeland. Newfoundland. The very tip of India. New Zeland and one of the Caribbean islands Steve mentioned for me. Otherwise it's Hong-Kong style single city controls. If you want to take some of that old territory we can work out whatever city got seded to Britian for X years.
Seriously, you didn't even give me the courtesy of a response.
If it's less than 200,000 square kms it'd fly with 1 CT.Mr Bean wrote:OK full list if I got this right, I'll lop areas off if the points don't allow it.
Territories claimed
New Zealand
Newfoundland
Saint Helena
British India
Minor Islands claimed
Aruba
Fiji
Howland Island
Christmas_Island
Trinidad
British_Virgin_Islands
Hong Kong Style Cities controlled by Britian
Hong Kong
Melbourne (Requested)
Singapore (Requested)
Bahrain (Requested)
Will that fly with a 2 point Colony score? All told the minor islands have less landmass than Ireland
