GDNES2 - The Age of War

[Giovanni Wine]

Events: July 1912

- British viceroy in India Lord Hardinge is wounded in anarchist bombing
- Japanese Meiji emperor Mutsuhito dies and is succeeded by his son, Taisho emperor Yoshihito
- Danish King Frederik VIII dies, and is succeeded by his son, Christian X
- Venezuela invades Equador
Overwhelming Venezuelan forces attacked the tiny nation of Equador, the small forces of Equador could not handle the power of the invading armies, and soon the war ended with the annexation of Equador into the Venezuelan confederation

Saluti

[Giovanni Wine]

To: France, Austria
From: Italy

You have nothing to fear from us, we have been friends for a long time, and we hope to stay that way

To: France
From: Italy

I hope our trade deals will keep going, even if you will need to rightfully better secure your borders and to enact immigration laws. (secret)I have a proposal to you, why don't you join our Spanish War, you could have the Basque Countries in exchange for your help(/secret)

To: Germany, Russia
From: Italy
(secret) I hope you will stand with your allies if the British will attack us(/secret)

To: Britain
From: Italy

We want to liberate the Spanish from their corrupted governments, you can be sure that once we will gain control of the country we will allow them very high civil rights and an equal rapresentation in the Senate, together with a very large autonomy, and you can be sure that your holdings in Gibraltar will not be touched by the war.

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Italian Projects
Military usage of airplane (giving us tiny af): done
Navy increase: 1.5 years (3 days)

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Italian Stats
Name: Kingdom of Italy
Head of state: King Vittorio Emanuele III
Prime Minister: Giolitti
Government: Monarchy
Economy: Growing
Army: Large
Navy: Large
Air Force: None
MPP: Emperor's League, Balkan Alliance

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Italian Positions toward countries:
Russia: Normal (allied)
Germany: Normal (allied)
Austria-Hungary: Friendly
Ottoman Empire: Very Friendly (allied, trading)
UK: Normal
France: Friendly (trading)
Japan: Friendly (trading)
USA: Friendly (back to friendly after peace was signed)
Brazil: Normal but getting friendlier
Argentina: Normal but getting friendlier
Cuba: Normal
China: None
Mexico: Normal to both parts

Saluti

[Giovanni Wine]

oooooops

I was about to forget this:

White Diplomacy:
To: Cuba
From: Holland

Withdraw your armies from Aruba, that island is under the Holland administration, and shall remain that way.

Events:
- Cuban elections:
As predicted by the exit polls, the Warhawks won the elections, although their small margin is not enough to allow them to govern freely without giving concessions to the Cuban Unionists:
Warhawaks: 52%
Unionists: 48%

- US Elections:
The Democrats took the upper hand this election, thanks to the bad policies started by the repubblicans, which eventually lead to the war.
The Socialist too managed to gain several votes, and are very near to the Repubblicans.
Democrats: 43%
Repubblicans: 30%
Socialists: 27%

Saluti

[Thud]

A contingent of French soldiers was reported ambushed today. Military intelligence, suspiciously quickly, has announced that Spanish forces were behind the attack. PM Crian Vayer has used the incident as an opportunity to declare war upon Spain.

From France:
To Spain: We declare war.

To Portugal: We won't expect you to participate, unless you want to. We simply cannot allow Spain to get away with attacking French troops.

To Italy (secret): We're going to help you out, in exchange for territory along the French border.

To Cuba: You heard the King. Withdraw, or face war. France considers you a friend, but we must stick by our allies here.

[gooberboob]

Cuban forces withdraw from Texas into Aruba. Cuban forces continue to hold the Florida keys, but will sell them back to the U.S. for support against any conflict from Europe.

To Holland: We will not tolerate European imperialism!! Arubans are the same as Cubans! Same language, same color, and NO EUROPEAN IMPERIALIST PIGS TELLING US WHAT TO DO!! I wave my private parts at your aunties!!

To France: You can't fight two wars on the opposite ends of the ocean and hope to avoid another revolution in your country. You should just avoid the conflict, rather than have to fight two spanish-speaking devils.

To the US. Mexico. Argentina. Venesuela. Brazil and Central America: We must stop imperialism in our hemisphere, aid me in the defense of Aruba, so we can ensure these imperialist pigs that America isn't their puppet anymore!

Cubastats.
Large Army
Medium Navy
we got a kite with a bomb again.
no space fleet
Economy: Stable -> prosperous
Industry: growing
Allies: USA; Mexican Rebels; Democratic Central Americans; All of South America.
Enemies: Holland and possibly soon France.

[Giovanni Wine]

To: France
From: Italy
(secret)
We agree... also we may help your allies in Aruba if the Cubans keep pushing.(/secret)

Saluti

[Thud]

From France:
To Cuba:
First, the majority of the inhabitants of Aruba do not speak Spanish, but Dutch, as they work at the oil refinery there.
Second, we are a democracy, we have regular revolutions. My actions are justified to my people, we have proper and rightous causus belli in both wars. Which leads me to my next point:
We declare war on you, and thumb our noses at you silly Cuban kniggets.

To the USA: Cuba just fought a war against you, and is the only one to occupy american territory! You will simply become their ally so quickly? I do not beleive that you will. Please stay neutral in this conflict.

To AA:
Your limited alliance with me could me interpreted in such a manner that you would be obligated to assist our forces in Cuba. It states we will assist each other in Central America. A recent survey of French cartographers indicates that the West Indies is in fact a part of Central America. Still, we will not ask you to honor such a vague wording, except that you stay neutral in the conflict.

The French army has progressed through the Pierenees, and controls a small portion of Spanish land. Troops have been ordered to dig in and hold their current positions from Spanish aggression, allowing a small army to be diverted to a naval assault against Aruba. The powerful French navy announces a blockade of Cuba, and is en route to liberate Aruba, in coorperation with a larger and united BENEDEFRA taskforce.

[WRangler Rhymer]

Giovanni Wine plz read your pm i sent u as to regards with this NES.

[Giovanni Wine]

Originally posted by WRangler Rhymer
Giovanni Wine plz read your pm i sent u as to regards with this NES.

Replied

Glad to have you join in the NES WRangler

These are the stats of China:
China (purple)
Ruler: ?
Army: Medium
Navy: Medium
Air Force: None
Space Fleet: N/A
Government: Repubblic
Economy: Stable

Also from the last updated map
( http://apolyton.net/forums/attachmen...postid=1699904 )

You can see that Japan owns Manchuria, France owns some land to your south and Russia owns Mongolia.

They all got them during some wars right on the beginning of this NES (you can see all wars on the first page)

Saluti

[gooberboob]

To Holland: In order to avert war, we will allow you to operate the oil refinery withought any harrassment, we are aware of the Dutch influence, however; a majority of the people are not Dutch, they are Carribean Islanders (cia world factbook) ((OOC: additionally, the oil refinery is not nearly as large an operation this time period as it is IRL, as the first one was built in 1926))

To France: Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!!!!

To the nations of America: Who are you going to listen to, France, a nation that has taken more American Lives than the entire nation of Cuba, or Cuba, a nation that has established a beachhead ONLY, and is willing to return territory in the US without any reparations. Any American Nation backing Cuba is enough to stop France and Holland. All American Nations banded together can stop European imperialism, I implore you to listen to reason and look to the facts! As for the blocade, if they are blocading me, they are blocading the following nations with which cuba has trade routes with.

1. Britain- the British Empire is the biggest importer of Cuban products.
2. Argentina and Brazil- The french blocade means that your warships on your bases in Cuba are halted, additionally, approximately 1/3 of your exports are no longer being purchased.

Join with me in the destruction of the French Blocade!

To France: Did I mention that your mother was a hamster??

[Easthaven I]

To USA: We are pleased we have finally ended this bloodshed.


Brazillian forces in Florida begin withdrawing back into Cuba. Brazillian bases in Cuba are still on high alert.

Brazillian forces still stationed in Puerto Rico.

To Puerto Rico:
Would you like to join our Confederation? You shall be protected as if one of our own. No harm will come to you if you join us. You will recieve full aid from us.

[civman2000]

A constitutional amendment has passed in Argentina changing the term length to 3 years. THe next election will be in January 1915.

The Cuban-French war ahs brought up a major debate. The official government position so far is to stay neutral. The Socialists are calling for neutrality while the domestic situation is improved, but urge intervention on teh side of Cuba afterwards. THe Unionists are for siding with Cuba. The COnservatives and Reformists support neutrality, and some COnservatives even want to help the French! This debate overall has helped the Unionists gain popularity.

Three bombs have killed 29 Conservative Party workers and officials in one day. (SECRET) Unknown to the public, all 29 were working on the COnservative Coalition's internal investigation...

[gooberboob]

To Argentina: Your domestic situation can't improve if you can't trade with other nations, we implore you aid us against the French Menace.

[Jack_www]

To Italy:
We wish to be friends for a long time, but why do you want to invade Spain for? We demand that Spain remain indepentent. We must uphold the blance of power in Europe.

To Britain(secret):
We are now under going projects to improve our airforce and tanks. We wish our help in this project. We must be carefull with what is happening in Europe. No longer are the nations of Europe distracted by the war in the Americas.

To USA:
We are glad that you finally see reason. We wish to send you aid to rebuild your nation and wish to trade with you as well.

To China:
We wish to trade with your nation.

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Contracts have been awarded to improve airplanes and tanks. Many compaines with in Austria are starting to produce protypes to be tested and the company with the best protype will win the contract. This is expected to improve Austria economy greatly. The protypes will be done in 2 years time.

ooc:
can someone give me the year??

[civman2000]

IIRC right now it's July 1912