The Corona Classic: A nebulous Europa Universalis Game

[liew]

Monday Tuesday and Thursday looking best

Monday looks pretty decent

 

[Mendel]

looks like oxy is more than likely going to be off tomorrow, so we'll start filling up the lobby around 6pm bst

 

[uncle kev]

looks like oxy is more than likely going to be off tomorrow, so we'll start filling up the lobby around 6pm bst

as in today? (Monday)

 

[Dallas]

as in today? (Monday)

yes.

 

[afric]

@GhostKripp we wait on ye min g

 

[keiiou]

 

[uncle kev]

absolute shekels

 

[Mute]

very fun match im enjoying japan quite a bit, especially without having to worry about being sandwiched by 4 great powers as PLC

 

[Mendel]

STATE OF THE WORLD
2 JUNE 1625​

 

[the last man]

Kingdom of Prussia
_____________________________

Friedrich Willhelm I of Hohenzollern

Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
King of Prussia
Prince of the Saxons
Prince of the Pomeranians
Prince of the Prussians

_____________________________

The Kingdom of Prussia has faced both shattering hardships and supreme victories throughout the early to mid 17th century, now led by Friedrich Willhelm the First, ultimately victorious in his multiple conquests of Austria, Saxony and the Commonwealth, both by the means of his olden mended alliance with the men of the North and by his own blade commanding the unrivalled discipline of the marching prussian armies.

Burdened by the hubris of Emperor Friedrich Willhelm the First's father, a victorious party in the Protestant League War on the last german bastions of the ancient catholic order, the Kingdom was near shattered in a failed conquest of the then-polish-claimed german soil, reduced in size and economic capacity while the people were left brooding at their sovereign's pretensions.

Emperor Friedrich Willhelm I, realizing the errors of his dynasty's past, quietly rebuilt and reformed the prussian army with innovation in doctrine and technology, all while seeking to amend the ugly seperation between the crown of the Danes and the Prussians that had occured many years prior, trading coastal fiefs and lands to secure a further stronger foothold in Lüneburg, and in turn, Greater Germany.

______________

Armed with the steel and boots of a reinvigorated alliance, the First Conquest of Saxony split the Princedom down the middle, parted and claimed under the prussian crown, laying the foundation for the future Second Conquest of Saxony, the First Conquest of Austria and the Prussian Liberation of the German Provinces of the Commonwealth.

Now, as more and more germans find themselves under the high-hoisted flag of the Kingdom of Prussia and Friedrich Willhelm; the First Protestant Emperor, a Holy Roman Empire unified under the banner of Brandenburgians, raised and paraded by all Germans, seems like an increasingly inevitable outcome in a war-ravaged Europe.

​

 

[Dallas]

THE DANISH REALM, 1625
For Gud og Danmark
For God and Denmark

OPHELIA I
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCESS OF THE DANISH REALM
PROTECTOR OF THE FREE CITIES
PRINCESS OF WESTERN ISLES
PRINCESS OF ICELAND
PRINCESS OF VINLAND

♱

Ophelia's reign was marked by a time of continental conquest, the end of religious conflict in the Danish Realm, and the founding of further Danish overseas possessions. An immediate challenge to her rule was the Count's Rebellion, wherein Count Niels Monke rose an army of forty-thousand in Jutland and Livonia, triggering a short but pivotal crisis that threatened the Von Wittelsback dynasty. The Count was defeated at the battle of Holsteen, 1563.

Following this victory, religious tensions inside the Danish Realm and across Europe had reached their boiling point - and a confrontation was building between the Protestant nations of north and west Europe and the Catholic south. The War of the Protestant League began over a minor territorial dispute between powers and ballooned into a continental war. Denmark's free cities were occupied, retaken, occupied again, before finally being freed by Prussian forces. Danish troops laid siege to England, securing the provisional capital of Norwich in 1570. Considerable tension arose in the royal court, with many generals advocating for a return to the Danelaw - expanding Danish territory into the rest of eastern England. However, the monarchy sided with the merchant classes, who in turn supported the Dutch claim to the region. It was this continued cooperation within the allies that would allow all sides to gain from the war.

As the Austro-Papist forces began to fall further back into the Holy Roman Empire, Danish forces returned to the continent and began their campaign south in the Spring of 1572, ending with the victory over Catholic forces in Prague - which Denmark would occupy until the end of the conflict. In return for Danish support, Ophelia requested that the free city of Stade be integrated into the Danish Realm. The war ended with Austria crippled and Denmark had control over a further free city.

The 1580s would see a decade of conflict among the north German states; infighting and a weakened new emperor provided the chance to add Brunswick and Luneburg to the realm. Denmark's regional rival, the Kingdom of Prussia, was invaded by the newly formed Polish Commonwealth - and turned into a rump state. The balance of power in northern Europe had changed - and the Commonwealth, and perhaps Russia, stood to benefit from this.

In 1585, a meeting between Ophelia and the Empress of France Adelaide I in the neutral city of Antwerp, where the colonial boundaries were decided for the North American continent, granting Denmark a charter in internationally recognised law. The Danish crown dependency of Vinland was decreed, by right of the Treaty of Antwerpen.

In the final year of Ophelia's life, the subject of Dithmarschen was annexed fully into the realm, ending the peasant republic once and for all.
Princess Ophelia died in 1587.

♱

SOFIE I
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCESS OF THE DANISH REALM
PROTECTOR OF THE FREE CITIES
PRINCESS OF WESTERN ISLES
PRINCESS OF ICELAND
PRINCESS OF VINLAND

♱

Crowned in København in 1587, Sofie I was faced with many immediate issues; the Duchy of Finland, which had existed with a degree of autonomy for 40 years, had been reannexed by the Tsar, a distant cousin to whom Sofie was married.

On the advice of her ministers, who were alarmed by the idea of expanding Russian influence in the Baltic and Scandinavia, and for her own personal disdain for the Tsar, the marriage was dissolved in 1590 - temporarily suspending Russian-Danish cooperation. Sofie would marry a minor noble from the newly acquired vassal of Brunswick.

Acknowledging the changing balance of power in Europe, and the need for a strong bulwark againt Papal-Austria aggression, and Polish expansion, diplomatic relations with Prussia were restored under Sofie's reign. A meeting between the Kaiser and the Princess of Denmark took place in the winter of 1592, which ended with the Treaty of Oldenburg. This agreement would see Danish forces hand over the inland free city of Luneburg, in return for the North Sea provinces of Bremen and Oldenburg. To cement the agreement, and restore Prussia's strength, Denmark would enter into a military alliance with Prussia and together they would restore Prussian supremacy.

In the tangle of diplomatic intrigue, Denmark had sought assurances from the Republic of the Netherlands, and Russia, to ensure that Prussia's wayward western provinces could be taken by force - if no agreement had been reached. Instead, through peaceful diplomacy, Sofie had restored the alliance ended by her grandfather Christoffer. By 1600, the Wars of Prussian Supremacy had ended; Saxony crushed and the Commonwealth further pressed between the Germans and the great armies of Russia.

The final years of Sofie's reign were marred by insurrection in the fringes of the realm, the most troublesome of which was the Pale Rising of 1603, where an Irish revolt came close to establishing a free Gaelic kingdom with its capital in Dublin. This was crushed by Danish forces in 1606 and the destroyed Irish capital was rechristened as Old Norse city of Dyflin, this event sparked a long term insurgency across the island of Ireland.

Sofie I died in 1609, at the crown residence in Lóndrangar, Iceland.

♱

OPHELIA II
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCESS OF THE DANISH REALM
PROTECTOR OF THE FREE CITIES
PRINCESS OF WESTERN ISLES
REGENT OF ULSTER
PRINCESS OF ICELAND
PRINCESS OF VINLAND​

♱

Ophelia II began her rule by granting the dependency of Vinland a colonial constitution and a regional assembly of high society aristocrats (Vinlandic Folketing) - rights that are not afforded to many of her European subjects. This move was calculated to increase focus on the Atlantic colonies, away from the failing and impoverished eastern lands of the realm. Livonia and Estonian lands, picked clean by Polish cossacks, endemic corruption and local revolts, increasingly seemed costly burdens to the Danish Realm and so efforts were implemented to expel troublesome minorities to the desolate Hudson Bay in the frozen interior of Vinland.

The Icelandic crownlands were confiscated from the Church of Denmark in 1615 - a sign of its weakened influence over the state. Lóndrangar, the seat of royal power outside of København, was further expanded, eclipsing Reykjavik as the territory capital. From this seat of power, statehood was granted to the territories of Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Svalbard - which had been defacto pressed into the Danish kingdom, its discovery kept as a state secret.

To solve the Irish crisis, Ophelia granted the Danish-dominated province of Ulster dominion over the Irish lands, creating the Earldom of Ulster, ruled by an appointed governor and answerable to the Danish crown. For this task, the Danish-Scot aristocrat O'Reilley family were appointed to serve, with plans being arranged to fully annex Ireland and partition the remaining English lands and colonies abroad within the next year. A similar solution is being considered for the Baltic provinces - the creation of a Baltic vassal governed from Riga.

With decades of debt amassed from building a colonial empire, Denmark has been compensated by the Netherlands as they expanded their global trade network. The Danish Realm slowly, indeterminately, is becoming less of an independent actor on the world stage. It seems fated to be relegated to a secondary colonial power, such as Portugal or Tunisia, and live at the mercy of greater global events instead of forging history themselves.

One hundred years after the Golden Age of Denmark, Ophelia - the great great granddaughter of Christian I - is poised on the edge of greatness herself. If not greatness, then ruin and vassalage.

The Danish Realm is changing, the modern world is approaching, and questions must be asked of how Denmark will continue to hold on to its corner of the known world.

♱

//great game so far, lads​

 

[Mute]

Where the fuck is vinland

 

[the last man]

THE DANISH REALM, 1625
For Gud og Danmark
For God and Denmark

OPHELIA I
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCESS OF THE DANISH REALM
PROTECTOR OF THE FREE CITIES
PRINCESS OF WESTERN ISLES
PRINCESS OF ICELAND
PRINCESS OF VINLAND

♱

Ophelia's reign was marked by a time of continental conquest, the end of religious conflict in the Danish Realm, and the founding of further Danish overseas possessions. An immediate challenge to her rule was the Count's Rebellion, wherein Count Niels Monke rose an army of forty-thousand in Jutland and Livonia, triggering a short but pivotal crisis that threatened the Von Wittelsback dynasty. The Count was defeated at the battle of Holsteen, 1563.

Following this victory, religious tensions inside the Danish Realm and across Europe had reached their boiling point - and a confrontation was building between the Protestant nations of north and west Europe and the Catholic south. The War of the Protestant League began over a minor territorial dispute between powers and ballooned into a continental war. Denmark's free cities were occupied, retaken, occupied again, before finally being freed by Prussian forces. Danish troops laid siege to England, securing the provisional capital of Norwich in 1570. Considerable tension arose in the royal court, with many general advocating for a return to the Danelaw - expanding Danish territory into the rest of eastern England. However, the monarchy sided with the merchant classes, who in turn supported the Dutch claim to the region. It was this continued cooperation within the allies that would allow all sides to gain from the war.

As the Austro-Papist forces began to fall further back into the Holy Roman Empire, Danish forces returned to the continent and began their campaign south in the Spring of 1572, ending with the victory over Catholic forces in Prague - which Denmark would occupy until the end of the conflict. In return for Danish support, Ophelia requested that the free city of Stade be integrated into the Danish Realm. The war ended with Austria crippled and Denmark had control over a further free city.

The 1580s would see a decade of conflict among the north German states; infighting and a weakened new emperor provided the chance to add Brunswick and Luneburg to the realm. Denmark's regional rival, the Kingdom of Prussia, was invaded by the newly formed Polish Commonwealth - and turned into a rump state. The balance of power in northern Europe had changed - and the Commonwealth, and perhaps Russia, stood to benefit from this.

In 1585, a meeting between Ophelia and the Empress of France Adelaide I int he neutral city of Antwerp, where the colonial boundaries were decided for the North American continent, granting Denmark a charter in internationally recognised law. The Danish crown dependency of Vinland was decreed, by right of the Treaty of Antwerpen.

In the final year of Ophelia's life, the subject of Dithmarschen was annexed fully into the realm, ending the peasant republic once and for all.
Princess Ophelia died in 1587.

♱

SOFIE I
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCESS OF THE DANISH REALM
PROTECTOR OF THE FREE CITIES
PRINCESS OF WESTERN ISLES
PRINCESS OF ICELAND
PRINCESS OF VINLAND

♱

Crowned in København in 1587, Sofie I was faced with many immediate issues; the Duchy of Finland, which had existed with a degree of autonomy for 40 years, had been reannexed by the Tsar, a distant cousin to whom Sofie was married.

On the advice of her ministers, who were alarmed by the idea of expanding Russian influence in the Baltic and Scandinavia, and for her own personal disdain for the Tsar, the marriage was dissolved in 1590 - temporarily suspending Russian-Danish cooperation. Sofie would marry a minor noble from the newly acquired vassal of Brunswick.

Acknowledging the changing balance of power in Europe, and the need for a strong bulwark againt Papal-Austria aggression, and Polish expansion, diplomatic relations with Prussia were restored under Sofie's reign. A meeting between the Kaiser and the Princess of Denmark took place in the winter of 1592, which ended with the Treaty of Oldenburg. This agreement would see Danish forces hand over the inland free city of Luneburg, in return for the North Sea provinces of Bremen and Oldenburg. To cement the agreement, and restore Prussia's strength, Denmark would enter into a military alliance with Prussia and together they would restore Prussian supremacy.

In the tangle of diplomatic intrigue, Denmark had sought assurances from the Republic of the Netherlands, and Russia, to ensure that Prussia's wayward western provinces could be taken by force - if no agreement had been reached. Instead, through peaceful diplomacy, Sofie had restored the alliance ended by her grandfather Christoffer. By 1600, the Wars of Prussian Supremacy had ended; Saxony crushed and the Commonwealth further pressed between the Germans and the great armies of Russia.

The final years of Sofie's reign were marred by insurrection in the fringes of the realm, the most troublesome of which was the Pale Rising of 1603, where an Irish revolt came close to establishing a free Gaelic kingdom with its capital in Dublin. This was crushed by Danish forces in 1606, this event sparked a long term insurgency across the island of Ireland.

Sofie I died in 1609, at the crown residence in Lóndrangar, Iceland.

♱

OPHELIA II
VON WITTELSBACH

PRINCESS OF THE DANISH REALM
PROTECTOR OF THE FREE CITIES
PRINCESS OF WESTERN ISLES
PRINCESS OF ULSTER
PRINCESS OF ICELAND
PRINCESS OF VINLAND​

♱

Ophelia II began her rule by granting the dependency of Vinland a colonial constitution and regional assembly of high society aristocrats - rights that are not afforded to many of her European subjects. This move was calculated to increase focus on the Atlantic colonies, away from the failing and impoverished eastern lands of the realm. Livonia and Estonian lands, picked clean by Polish cossacks, endemic corruption and plagued by revolts, was seeming a costly burden to the Danish Realm and so efforts were implemented to expel troublesome minorities to the desolate Hudson Bay in the frozen interior of Vinland.

To solve the Irish crisis, Ophelia granted the Danish-dominated province of Ulster dominion over the Irish lands, creating the Earldom of Ulster, ruled by an appointed governor and answerable to the Danish crown. A similar solution is being considered for the Baltic provinces.

With decades of debt amassed from building a colonial empire, Denmark has been compensated by the Netherlands as they expand their global trade network. The Danish Realm slowly, indeterminately, is becoming less of an independent actor on the world stage. It seems fated to be relegated to a secondary colonial power, such as Portugal or Tunis, and live at the mercy of greater global events instead of forging history themselves.

The Danish Realm is changing, the modern world is approaching, and questions must be asked of how Denmark will continue to hold on to its corner of the known world.

♱

//great game so far, lads​

class-A fucking KINO

 

[Black Rain (1989)]

What is the status of the only province that matters (Ulster)?

 

[Dallas]

Where the fuck is vinland

canada
[doublepost=1586213352][/doublepost]

What is the status of the only province that matters (Ulster)?

read the post - it's a client kingdom of denmark, ruled by danish elites

 

[the last man]

What is the status of the only province that matters (Ulster)?

see:

To solve the Irish crisis, Ophelia granted the Danish-dominated province of Ulster dominion over the Irish lands, creating the Earldom of Ulster, ruled by an appointed governor and answerable to the Danish crown. A similar solution is being considered for the Baltic provinces.

 

[Black Rain (1989)]

read the post - it's a client kingdom of denmark, ruled by danish elites

Ulster says nej.

 

[liew]

STATE OF THE WORLD
2 JUNE 1625​

i really must’ve left the mughals in a bad state, anyone know what country that blue state is in persia?

 

[not tiger]

holy shit who’s that big country who partitioned me in persia when i left

khorasan which the ai mughals guaranteed

 

[afric]

What is the status of the only province that matters (Ulster)?

ruled by the dansk puppet, O'Reilly. The true heirs to the earldom of Ulster, the O'Neills, have been deported to Brazil, where they have served with honour in the various Mexica Wars under the Portuguese Crown as mercenaries