A War to end all Wars

[Broken_Erika]

Emperor Franz josef was getting ready to establish a triple monarchy where Austrians Hungarians and Slavs would have Equal representaion within the empire, but ww1 broke out and they had to attend to that (if he had done that the monarchy would have been a way overcomplicated mess )

If it was still around today it would probably be called the Austro-Hungarian-Czech-Slovokian-Slovenian-Croasian-Bosnian
Polish-Rumanian-Italian-Slavian Empire

[Telescreen]

hehe thats quite ironic as well =) How on earth could all those people have "representations" when the entire thing is ruled by one man and his staff =O he would still be good 'ol Franz Loosing the archduke also made thing a bit rough finding a sucessor to the throne. And there is noooo way that the country would find a regend as strong as Franz Josef. After 60 years on the throne you probably know some stuffs about beeing the emperor ^^

[Broken_Erika]

yea, no other european monarch was as well liked by their people as franz josef, probably beacause he knew how to run the country smoothly and what his people liked and didn't like, i figure that an acurate ww1 scenario would have austria hungary disintegrate after franz josefs death in 1916, he became emperor when he was 18, and that was in 1848
By the summer of 1914 he was in the 66th year of his reign.

[jim panse]

As a native Austrian from Vienna rest assured that: (1) It is more than true that Franz Josef was a very popular ruler - almost everyone in the Habsburg Empire was born under the rule of him; (2) Franz Josef tried to solve the succession problem with his closests relatives - which failed very spectacular in the case of the heir prior to Franz Ferdinand: the then crown prince comitted suicide with his mistress in his refuge outside Vienna before 1900); (3) I think that he indeed did run his country smoothly, Erika, though I also wish to add that he rarely had significant other possibilities ...

[KASHANKA]

Yep, even I can't argue with that.

We the Poles considered the rule of Germany, Russia and Austro-Hungary as occupation, but Austro-Hungary was definitally considered the best of them all and Franz Joseph was respected even among his Polish subjects.

[jim panse]

Has anyone still this one?

[MacGalleo]

I have the version 3.1 beta
part 1

[MacGalleo]

part 2

[MacGalleo]

part 3

[jim panse]

Many thanks to you, sir