The Corona Classic: A nebulous Europa Universalis Game

[Dallas]

 

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[afric]

i'm gonna return you the danes you seem to have misplaced in brazil

 

[Mute]

https://strawpoll.com/x5g8y7ze

There isnt really a day we can play without excluding someone, and everyone that cant attend on those days is pretty important to the game, especially since were nearing the end

i could make a new poll for the upcoming week but i doubt much will change

 

[Mendel]

alright, if we dont get a game for this set up by the weekend we'll probably start a new one.
https://strawpoll.com/pc4z6xdg

 

[Mute]

alright, if we dont get a game for this set up by the weekend we'll probably start a new one.
https://strawpoll.com/pc4z6xdg

probably wont be avaliable friday cause caravan

 

[afric]

probably wont be avaliable friday cause caravan

really brah

 

[Mute]

alright, if we dont get a game for this set up by the weekend we'll probably start a new one.
https://strawpoll.com/pc4z6xdg

Saturday looks good then

 

[Dallas]

saturday will be the ultimate showdown (of ultimate destiny)

 

[afric]

lets hit it up a 6ish today fellas

 

[Mute]

Game in half an hour, hop on discord and we can get set up

 

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Treaty of Versailles - 1691​

 

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EMPIRE OF JAPAN
1719-1819

Tensions rise as Japan had left Ming to pursue it's own goals only a few decades ago.​

News of the revolution comes from the far west, quickly spreading through Japan,
yet the ideas are quickly snuffed out and suppressed by the Japanese Emperor.​

Japanese occupied states in mainland eastern Asia begin demanding more autonomy, eventually being
released as Free Korea and Free Manchuria, still operating under the Japanese Empire.
​

Taiwan, which was sold to Japan by Ming nearly 100 years ago begins demanding independence.​

Japan, steadily losing their power fears losing one of their main trading ports and so
the Cantonese people are exiled from Taiwan and are sent as colonists to Papua New Guinea.
Many of them die to natives.​

Japan finishes colonizing Indonesia, the Spice Islands and Papua New Guinea in 1770, despite a majority of the goods being shipped off to the Netherlands by merchants.

REPUBLIC OF JAPAN
1819-1919

At the turn of the century, Japan is hit by a series of earthquakes and tsunamis,
devastating the eastern coast and it's capital.

The Japanese emperor fails to intervene and refuses to aid them.

Ming becomes a republic in 1842.
Japan, still greatly under the influence of Ming, now a devastated nation
and after the many failures of Emperor Reizei Zhu erupts with revolutions.

The military and emperor fails to suppress the revolution,
Japan becomes a democracy and its subject states are released.

The royal family is killed to prevent them from rising to power.

Japan falls into a great depression, many of its manufactories and production facilities are shut down.
Schools and Universities also shut down due to the newly established government failing to properly fund them.

Japan, seeking to emulate the west in a desperate attempt
accepts Protestantism and many citizens begin accepting it.

Temples are converted to churches, and many cathedrals are funded
by the western countries.

Japan eventually sells the spice islands to France as a last ditch effort.
They are sold for roughly 300 million francs today.

The depression continues for nearly half a century, up until 1890.

THE FEDERAL SYNDICALIST REPUBLIC OF JAPAN
(FSRJ)​

1919-TODAY

In the early 19th century, a French man begins exploring the ideas
of syndicalism.

They went largely ignored and his ideas were dismissed as lunacy at the time.

In the early 20th century, the Japanese people rediscover his ideas, those same people unhappy
with a democratic Japan and after it's many failures to return
to it's status of a great power- Revolt once more.

The revolution is a success, and a far-left dictatorship is instated,
lead by a man that claims to make Japan powerful once more.

The man dies shortly after due to polio, his successor is his own son.

They return to their isolationist policies, left to their own devices.
The nation swaps to a closed economy, and bans all travel and immigration.

Japan today remains a shadow of the empire it once was, a closed country
located on an island, closed off to the world.

Eventually in the early 21st century, Japan opens travel under heavy restrictions and begins trading with Ming and Russia.



The future of Japan is uncertain in its current state, and people all around the world wonder what will happen.​

 

[keiiou]

 

[afric]

Portuguese Empire, 1139-1722

With the fall of the mainland territories and the Maghreb, the Monarchies retreating hold of power vanished overnight.

The De-Avis dynasty was cast to the wind, never to be seen again after the Siege of Lisboa

The winds of revolution were said to have swept the seven towers of Lisbon into the sea.

Now, across the water, the newly independent colonial nations of the ruined empire quickly seize control

Instituting the enlightenment ideas of Democracy and Liberty, the Iberian nations ponder the consequences of their newly found freedom.

The Lusitanian Commonwealth 1750-Present

The Imperial Powers of Europe continue to trespass into the new world.

A new alliance, formed of the Iberian remains in the New World seeks to protect what is theirs.

After the fall of the Platte to the Danish Armies, the Lusitanian Commonwealth forms to seek peace and stability in their domain.

While the Danish Empire's glow quickly wained, the Commonwealth found itself with significant problems in the badlands of Mexica and Alaska.

While nothing more than a commonwealth of like-minded states, the Commonwealth lords over a significant amount of land.

By the 21st Century, the Commonwealth at a glance appears more like the European Union than any Empire that once claimed it. ​

 

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It's truly been a fun 34 days lads

I went from poland to the commonwealth, and got fucked so hard I migrated to Japan

I had a lot of fun making the maps early on, I hope to do it again one day


RIP to all the player nations that got eaten along the way, and congrats to those that survived until the end

Austria, Prussia, Papal State, England, Ethiopia, Mughals, you will be missed


This was probably the most fun I've had in ages playing games, can't wait for the next one

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[Dallas]

THE DANISH REALM, 1715
For Gud og Danmark
For God and Denmark

THE AGE OF EUROPEAN ABSOLUTISM
1675 - 1715

ADOLF I
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCE OF THE DANISH REALM
PROTECTOR OF THE FREE CITIES
PRINCE OF WESTERN ISLES
REGENT OF ULSTER
REGENT OF ESTONIA
PRINCE OF ICELAND
PRINCE OF VINLAND
PROTECTOR OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH

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The remaining years of Adolf's rule was a slow and painful recession into a withering sickness he had contracted on campaign in India. Adolf would lead India in 1676, withdrawing Danish forces from the continent, a failure to his court and country. He brought with him, festering in his arms and legs, leprosy. The necrosis made him feeble and his consort Margrethe would oversee the policy decisions of the realm during this time.

After years of inconsistency, political brinkmanship and territorial disputes, Russia and Denmark rescinded their alliance towards the end of Adolf's life.

Adolf I died in 1679.

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CHRISTIAN III
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCE OF THE DANISH REALM
PROTECTOR OF THE FREE CITIES
PRINCE OF WESTERN ISLES
REGENT OF ULSTER
REGENT OF ESTONIA
PRINCE OF ICELAND
PRINCE OF VINLAND
PRINCE OF INDIEN
PRINCE OF THE SOUTHERN POSSESSIONS
PROTECTOR OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES

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Like the namesake of Christian the Great (Christian II), who unified the crowns of Scandinavia under Denmark, Christian III would bring Denmark to its peak of genuine imperial wealth and power.

Crowned in 1678, Christian's succession was challenged by the Swedish noble Vilhelm Ulfeldet - triggering a short succession crisis that ended with the Swedish defeat at the Battle of Hälsingland. Following this, reprisals against the Swedish were carried out - Danish supremacy in the courts, the nobility and the military was strengthened, often replacing officials with more loyal Norwegian subjects.

In 1679, the Franco-Prussian War drew many Danish military observers; witnessing the stunning maneuvers of the French army against the advanced German forces and reporting back to the military college in København. The fact that a major European war was approaching seemed to be common knowledge among Europe's leading powers and Denmark was reassured that it's support of the Ligue de Paris and French hegemony. To appeal to its benefactors further, Denmark sold the costly Brazillian colonies first secured by Fredrick the Conqueror, returning them to Portugal in return for Pacific islands.

The alliance was called upon 1682, when the Great Global War began - and a combined force of over a million Ottoman and Russian soldiers crossed the Danube into French controlled Germany, catching the emperor by surprise and overwhelming the entire frontier. Immediate reinforcements were dispatched from Portugal, from the Netherlands and from the Danish Realm to assist their French ally in the Austrian Alps. The armies would meet, on equal ground, outside the town of Salzborg - the first great battle of the war.

The Eastern Coalition forces, relying on their vastly superior numbers, overwhelmed the League's forces in their first encounter. The week long engagement ended in a total defeat for French forces and the withdrawal of the allies towards the west. They were to meet again at the Battle of Ulm in 1685, and were again defeated by the Coalition of the east. By this time, Chinese forces, who had long been contained and menaced by Russian and Ottoman encroachment, had crossed the vast steppe and were now fighting in the far fringes of European Russia, cutting off the Tsar's base of supply. Pushed into a crisis, the Tsar and the Sultan attempted a knockout blow - cutting through the low country between the Netherlands and France to take Paris. Their attack was met in Luxemborg and halted; two massive armies clashing for the fate of France, for the fate of Europe. The fight was close; the emperor's forces were nearing breaking point, the Dutch and Portugese mercenaries broke, then rallied, then fought on. Defeat looked certain - by the third day of battle, both sides had fought to a point of total exhaustion, hundreds of thousands had perished in the march to France and the battle and the situation looked grim.

Then, as if it were ordained by God, Christian III, Prince of Denmark, rode to the aid of his allies and joined them on the final day of fighting - April 13th - with his forces committing thirty-eight thousand fresh soldiers to battle and ultimately giving the League's forces the power to win the day.

The Eastern Coalition was defeated that day - and it was the beginning of the end for them, and for Denmark, who would never again rise to find greater glory than what was won on the fields of Luxemborg.

The consequential victories came with the Chinese intervention in Europe, aided by the Danish navy across the Baltic to unite with League forces and ultimately win the day at the Second Battle of Salzborg in 1689 Battle of Graz in 1690 - which would remain as one of the largest and bloodiest battles in world history.

The Treaty of Paris-Versailles, held over several months in both the city and imperial palace, was the second attempt at settling a peace after the Sultan walked away from a negotiated settlement two years earlier. As the world was redivided for a triumphant France, Denmark gained Finland from the concessions, returning the absent 4th Scandinavian crown to the Realm.

In 1700, the Danish South Plata is granted colonial status as the Governate of Sydplade, along with the island chain off New Holland which was named Nye Danmark. Long desired Indian possessions would soon follow with China now free to advance in all directions, spreading across the subcontinent and collapsing the Princely States of India into anarchy - which Denmark took ample advantage of, capturing possessions on both coasts and becoming the 2nd most influential European power on the Indian subcontinent, eclipsed by the vast territory of the Dutch East India Company. By 1701, the Handelsselskab's control circled the Indian Ocean, the south Pacific, the Horn, back to the North Atlantic.

In 1708, the colonial Vinnish-American War came to an end, with the Vinlandic legislature claiming superemacy in North America - a move that alarmed both European masters of Denmark and France.

By the time of Christian's death in 1715, the Danish Realm had now reached its territorial zenith.

(//The game ends here - and what follows after is a speculation)

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THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION
1716 - 1781

CHRISTIAN IV
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCE OF SCANDINAVIA
PRINCE OF WESTERN ISLES
REGENT OF ULSTER
REGENT OF ESTONIA
PRINCE OF INDIEN
PRINCE OF THE SOUTHERN POSSESSIONS
PROTECTOR OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH POLES
-LIBERATOR OF JUTLAND-

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Christian III was crowned in a time of exceptional crisis. The unthinkable had happened - the crown of France had fallen. The imperial family executed, or fled abroad to København. The Revolutionary Council swore revenge on all the monarchies that defied the Revolutionary French Empire.

Within a decade, after fighting most of what remained of its European neighbours, France invaded Denmark in 1727, plunging the Danish Realm into a fight for its very survival. The French swiftly captured the Danish Free Cities, now only Danish in name, and returned them to their Westphalian client state. The revolutionaries fought their way up Jutland, but were stopped at the straits.

With more pressing continental rivals, France opted to wait until the winter of 1728 to attempt a crossing over the frozen Danish strait. The resulting Battle of the Great Belt involved the sacrifice of the entire continental Danish navy, along with many of the finest Danish soldiers and commander from the Eastern Coalition War. Ultimately, France was halted at great cost. It would be 34 years before the Danish Realm would be reunified.

In the meantime, the Danish claim to mastery of the realm was held in question - prompting the First Constitutional Convention of 1730, where the realm was reorganised into the Scandinavian Realm, yielding major concessions to the Swedish and Norwegian Folketing.

Overseas, the increasingly expansionist colonies of Denmark struggled in their service to a far flung master, with Sydplade taking advantage of the situation in Europe to dictate its own tarrifs on trade and expand into the disintegrating Portuguese La Plata without the approval of København.

Upon the death of Napoleon I in 1763, Christian was able to reunite his kingdom.
He would not have long to enjoy his success as he was murdered by his son and heir in 1768

GUSTAV I
VON WITTELSBACH

EMPEROR OF SCANDINAVIA
EMPEROR OF VINLAND
MASTER OF THE COLONIES

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Upon his ascent to the throne, Gustav I undid many of the reforms of his predecessors and, through many internal purges and campaigns against his own nobles, sought to restore Danish supremacy - and his position as emperor of all Scandinavians.

The rights afforded to subjects and colonists were curbed, their trade routes secured by the Danish fleet, their tariffs raised to stock the Danish treasury. Colonial governors were appointed by Gustav for their loyalty alone, not elected by their colonial legislatures.

The tipping point had come. Gustav's dream of tethering his fractious and weakened empire together started to fall apart in 1770, when the Vinlandic Folketing issued a declaration of independence, starting a conflict that would last until 1779 and ending in the defeat of the Danish Grand Fleet at the Battle of Christianfjord.

The Treaty of Oslo granted total independence to the Vinlandic colony, ceding additional lands of the Nyeland and Greenland to the victorious North Americans.

For bringing ruin to his state, Gustav was forced to abdicate after an attempt to initiate a bloody purge of Norwegian crown loyalists backfired in 1800.

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THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
1802 - 1872

CHRISTOFFER II
VON WITTELSBACH

EMPEROR OF SCANDINAVIA
AND HER SUBJECTS BEYOND THE SEA

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A puppet for most of his rule, Christoffer was a meek, often frail ruler who took council within a corrupt set of oligarchs that now controlled the Scandinavian Realm, leaving Christoffer as a mere figurehead of ceremonial purposes, and for legitimacy within the Protestant world. Under Christoffer's long reign, the empire would decline further - ceding home rule to Iceland in 1810 through the Icelandic Althing, in addition to granting charters of expansion and colonial Folketing status to Nye Danmark and Sydplade.

Already humiliated by the Vinlandic secession, the Danish Court was helpless to respond to the contraction of its North Atlantic and North Sea trade routes by North American and Dutch merchants, plunging the kingdom into economic depression and long term regional decline.

Sensing weakness, the enemies of the realm sought to have their justice - in 1826 the ancient Dukes of Ulster, the O'Neils, returned from their centuries of exile with an army. Supported by the Lusitanian Commonwealth, who had long benefited from the O'Neil's expertise in their New World campaigns. By 1830, Ireland had fallen from the shrinking sphere of Danish influence.

Two decades later, a general uprising would engulf the Western Isles - the British Isles - as a united force of Welsh, Scots and English organised to throw foreign influence from their shores. The French would hold key ports, the Dutch would control the channel, but Denmark was cast back to Scandinavia.

Such a loss was a catastrophic, cataclysmic, existential moment for the Scandinavian Realm, who had only truly been unified by the promise of Christian I, in the 15th century, who claimed that a united Scandinavia was the only way to contain the Angles and the Scots.

For the first time since 1452, the Danelaw had once again ended. The Danish dominion over the British Isles was broken. Christoffer would succumb to old age in 1873, alone and in disgrace.

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THE MODERN AGE
1873 - 1983

OPHELIA III
VON WITTELSBACH

EMPRESS OF SCANDINAVIA
AND HER SUBJECTS BEYOND THE SEA

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Ophelia III began her rule by curbing the power of the oligarchs and enacting a series of popular reforms to the declining Scandinavian Realm. First, the Aminoff Dukes of Estonia were dismissed - and indpendence was granted to the Baltic state, allowing them full autonomy as a free nation... and watched as they were incorporated into Russia.

Second, Denmark adopted representative democracy, allowing men to vote in general elections to elect the government of the day - effectively transforming Denmark into an constitutional monarchy.

This great wave of liberal reform came at a time when the Scandinavian culture was reaching the peak of its influence globally; with the renowned artist Edvard Munch selling out exhibitions across the Union of European States. An early advocate of slavery abolition, Scandinavia now took a global role in helping end the barbaric practice, intervening in the warlord-controlled provinces of China and establishing a Handelsselskab outpost in the province of Quanzhou in 1902.

The Indiskorps Mutiny of 1905 would lead to a lengthy overseas deployment of Danish marines on both sides of the Indian subcontinent - and would become extremely costly to the Scandinavian state.

The need for expanded shipping routes in the Pacific and the rumour of a Northeast Passage to China prompted numerous Scandinavian expeditions to the north Arctic - reaching the North Pole in 1899. By 1910, the scientific had given way to the militaristic and the Scandinavian state now declared that all land 80 degrees north was under Danish protection - and would have to host Danish military and scientific outposts. This move brought the Scandinavian Empire into direct conflict with their neighbour the United Russian Federation.

The Arctic War lasted from 1915 until 1920 and ended in a Scandinavian defeat - ceding Finland and the Alund Islands, where much of the ground war had taken place.

Ophelia died in 1922, a victim of the Serbian Flu pandemic.

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CHRISTIAN V
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCE OF SCANDINAVIA
AND HER SUBJECTS BEYOND THE SEA

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After a period of regency rule, Christian V ascended to the throne at a time of global prosperity, which was soon shattered by the European Stock Market Crash of 1934.

Christian empowers the governments of all remaining territories with Home Rule through the Act of Folketret. Home Rule and self governance is granted to Sweden, Norway, Iceland, the Faroes and all overseas colonies - becoming semi-independent subjects of a commonwealth, still economically and politically tethered to the homeland.

The escalating arms races around the world draw Denmark into a prolonged set of covert conflicts with the Russian state over the course of the 1950s. The Second Arctic War would end after the Danish defeat at Novaya Zemlya. The Treaty of Murmansk ceded control of Finnmark to the Russians, outlawed the use of the Arctic for military purposes, and imposed an international treaty territory status on the Danish archipelago of Svalbard - now ruled by an elected council of international island citizens.

These military defeats, along with the perceived decline of France's position on the European continent, meeting with the rise of the États Unis (United States) prompted Denmark to modernise its navy and prepare to reassert control over its possessions - by force if necessary.

In 1969, the Danish would intervene, at the request of the Vinlandic Federation, to assist Federal forces in their civil war against the Folkist extremist militias - the Folketstat, a far-right, fiercely independent coalition of traditionalists, libertarians and localists. The intervention would succeed in turning the tide and securing the survival of the moderate, Pro-Denmark, Federal state of Vinland. The final defeat of the Folkists at the Battle of Vestprovinser marked the start of the Danish withdrawal from Vinland.

During this conflict, Denmark granted independence to its more far flung, less economically prosperous colonies - Indiskhavn in 1970 and Nye Danmark in 1972 via referendum. Oil was discovered in Sydplade the same year and plans to release the colony were shelved.

The victory in Vinland bolstered Danish confidence and by 1983, the Danish government overturned the election of a pro-independence governor in Sydeplade, sparking international condemnation and a declaration of independence from the Platan government - a week later, Folkelandet and South Gotland Islands would be taken by Platan forces.

The South Atlantic War began when the Danish government responded with their own declaration of war and dispatched a carrier task force to retake control of the South Atlantic. The Lusitanian fleet joined with the Platan fleet and faced the Danish at the Battle of South Gotland - with the Danish narrowly routing the South American forces.

As the Danish fleet reached the island of Folkeland, an ultimatum was issued by the États Unis to cease all military operations. This ultimatum was ignored by Danish naval command.

On July 6th 1983, the Danish task force was destroyed by a tactical nuclear device, fired by an American submarine that had been shadowing the fleet. The defeat was crushing and immediate. It was the first and only use of a nuclear weapon in a combat scenario.


The following peace negotiations in the American capital of Louisville A.D. was brutal; Denmark was stripped of its remaining colonial possessions, its navy was limited in tonnage and weapons - and it was forced to establish a timetable for Swedish and Norwegian independence.

The Prince abdicated.
The war was over, and so was the dream of a Danish empire beyond the seas.

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THE NEW AGE
1983 - Present

JOHAN I
VON WITTELSBACH

-The Last Prince of Denmark-

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Johan I ascended to the throne in 1984. He ruled as a figurehead and would spend his time cutting ribbons, opening hospitals, raising money for charitable causes, particularly among the homeless and veterans of Danish conflicts.

In 1990, Johan made public his stance against nuclear weapons - and helped found the International Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (ICND).

As stipulated by the Treaty of Louisville A.D., an independence referendum led to Swedish independence in 1994, followed by Norwegian independence in 2000.

Iceland would be granted independence via referendum in 2007.

København would host the XXIX Olympiad in 2008, the ceremony was attended and opened by Johan I.

In 2018, the abolition of the monarchy was decided via referendum.
The results: 54% FOR, 46% AGAINST

The last of the Danish crownlands were returned to the Folketing on January 1st, 2020 and, in a modest ceremony in a country church in Skagen, Johan renounced his title as Prince of Denmark and dissolved the royal house of Von Wittelsbach.

The Realm of Denmark became the Republic of Denmark. A fiercely independent, isolated power perched outside the Union of European States, trading mostly with the British Confederation - their shared disdain for the continent now the only thing that unites them.

Now a private citizen, Mr. Wittelsbach retired to a purchased estate in Iceland, where he lived for the rest of his years.

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The flag of the Danish Republic, 2020

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thanks to anyone who read this, i had a lot of fun playing this game with the boys and i am looking forward to the second game!

cheers now thanks bye​

 

[Mendel]

 

[Oxy[Morons]]

was good fun
enjoyable to have two nations have a bloc that lasted the test of time throughout the game and punched far above their weight

lots of good moments

 

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France, Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, Ottomans and Ming fighting in Europe:

Japan: