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Old 06-13-2018, 09:24 AM   #3362
Apollonian
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Default Re: New Reality Seeds

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Originally Posted by Astromancer View Post
Agreed, the Holy Alliance is a pact of reactionaries, with a possible exception of Prussia. Yes, this senario assumes that the bitter lessons learned durring the War of the American Revolution are totally forgotten. It isn't a realistic senario on several levels. The main exception being the question of how to invade Britain in the period between the fall of Napoleon and the coronation of Victoria. It would have taken an alliance of the whole of Europe to pull it off.

I like your idea about Prussia pulling the strings. If we have Centrum deluded into thinking they're pulling Prussia's strings, it could add layers of confusion to the game.
If you can somehow have Britain occupy France - which is serious space bat territory - you then have a place that can be invaded and a land war that the Holy Alliance can fight. The problem here is that (as countless playthroughs of Europa Universalis have taught me) Britain is a maritime power, the Holy Alliance is composed of land powers, and trying to fight on the other guy's turf is a losing strategy. And everyone knows it! Somehow, you have to get the Holy Alliance a maritime power or make Britain need to fight a land war.

Making the Alliance a maritime power is quite tricky, especially as long as the British hold Gibraltar. So... ok, going into space bat territory... Britain and France somehow come to an accord and a close alliance. This probably has to happen directly as a result of the Napoleonic wars, so let's say that instead of fully restoring the Bourbons, the French adopt a system similar to the British, with parliament balancing a fairly strong (and perhaps less incompetent) monarch. Maybe Napoleon II? This, of course, incenses the Holy Alliance, and threatens Spain - which (again through Space Bat influence) actually gets its naval act together. So now the Holy Alliance of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Spain face off against the somewhat democratic Anglo-French Alliance in a cold war that's likely to go hot soonish. Everyone's still exhausted from the Napoleonic Wars - it's only been twenty years - but tensions are rising. Meanwhile, the USA is happily trading with one and all, and the Spanish American colonies are getting restive.

Downside, aside from all the Space Bat stuff, is that it looks an awful lot like WWI verson 0.5. Or maybe that's an up side.
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