Sid Jairo's Europa Forumalis: Victoriuh - THE SUNNY-SIDE UP FOR AFRICA!

[Zoltan]

The Kingdom Holy Empire of Spain

GOVERNMENT

Type: Monarchy

IDEAS

National Focus: Religious
Government Preference: Centralized
National Aspiration: Expansion
Religious Acceptance: Conversion

Diplomat Preference: Intimidatory
Trade Focus: Land Routes
Naval Focus: Grand Fleet

Military Policy: Quality
Unit Type Preference: Infantry
Military Type Preference: Standing
Military Doctrine: Offensive

RESEARCH

Researching:
Army - Breech-loaded Rifles
Navy - Iron Steamers
Completed Research:
- Army -
Post-Napoleonic Thought
Military Plans
Army Professionalism
Iron Muzzle-loaded artillery
Flintlock Rifles
Military Staff System
Muzzle-loaded Rifles
- Navy -
Alphabetic Flag Signaling
Clipper Design
Battleship Column Doctrine
Steamers
Post-Nelsonian Thought
Naval Design Bureaus
Naval Plans
Naval Professionalism
- Commerce -
Infrastructure
Organized Factories
Stock Exchange
Late Classical Theory
Private Banks
Freedom of Trade  
- Culture -
Positivism
Introspectionism
Enlightenment Philosophy
The Rights of Man
Romanticism
- Industry -
Mechanical Production
Mechanized Mining
Early Railroad
Experimental Railroad
Medicine
Practical Steam Engine
Water-wheel Production

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Ongoing Wars: None
Alliances: None
Coalitions: None

Trade Partners: Prussia, Austria-Hungary, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden-Norway(?), Japan, Korea
Embargoed Nations: Transvaal
Rivaled Nations: None
also king

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[TristanLuigi]

Ottoman forces attack them while they're resting.

what happened here

also Zoltan I think Britain is blacklisted and you can't start off with all that research

[Zoltan]

what happened here

also Zoltan I think Britain is blacklisted and you can't start off with all that research

im dumb whoops lemme see if i can find a different nation real quick
also i pmed the op, op said to choose 15

[TristanLuigi]

REALLY WHAT
jairo never told me this :(
maybe bc i joined earlier

[Nonnel]

japan send troops to grorious qing

[Jairo]

REALLY WHAT
jairo never told me this :(
maybe bc i joined earlier

yeah you joined early enough that the tech gap wasn't too big

he's joining later but still gonna be ~5 techs behind so no biggie

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political map updated

usa and texas have received new colors

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what happened here

greybacks are being attacked I suppose

crossing the delaware style

[Nonnel]

oh also japan keep expanding into the pacific
marianas and such as well as eastern papua new guinea

[Operator¹]

meanwhile I am depressed about sweden-norway's tech gap

[Jairo]

meanwhile I am depressed about sweden-norway's tech gap

fear not, child where the winds are cutting and the cold is binding

great things are in store for the future

[Swat 3]

Russia asks Poland for trade.

[Jairo]

Russia asks Poland for trade.

poland's not an independent nation at this time

he's still cycling through possible nations

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also I'm gonna chop the 15 I suggested to zoltan down to 12

[Zoltan]

poland's not an independent nation at this time

he's still cycling through possible nations

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also I'm gonna chop the 15 I suggested to zoltan down to 12

did i fix it yet i looked at an actual 1850s map this time!!! also spain was listed in OP so

[Operator¹]

great things are in store for the future

TIL dynamite is a swedish invention

[Tumbleweed]

A military coalition is proposed to Paraguay and Chile against the Argentine Confederation.
Brazil finds the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata as a lunacy. The incorporation of such countries in South America would create havoc in the trading world and in the sea routes between two Brazilian provinces. A border between the Empire of Brazil and the Argentine Confederation would provide tension that would do no good to either of the two nations.

[CypherX]

prussia accepts


they also offer trade incentives to lorraine and minors to not join bavaria but rather stay in the confederation as independent states

additionally they note that joining with bavaria will make prussia unable to run railroads to them, citing the different standards and track types bavaria operates


friedrich wilhelm IV suffers a stroke. he is bedridden and his brother, wilhelm, is appointed prince regent

helmuth von moltke is appointed chief of prussian general staff

he immediately begins redesigning the strategic defense of prussia by refining and streamlining operational command