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[Nirur Torir]

Oops, sorry, forgot about about that. I'll get it here tomorrow. Until then, enjoy this picture:


I can see why they want allies, but the messenger left in annoyance after the king spent three straight days laughing at the proposal.

For the sake of reference, they've got the Poland-Lithuania alliance on three sides, with the Teutonic Order to the north. Brandenburg is that sliver of brown on the left.

[Nirur Torir]

That was a boring three years. There was no remotely interesting entertainment. I nearly went insane from boredom. I’d have given an arm to watch an infomercial! The king’s jester tried to entertain me with his horrendously bad poetry, so I shoved him out of the tower window. He made a satisfying splat. Maybe writing out what happened will occupy me for a few minutes.

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Brandenburg did not get in any wars, but we did solidify diplomatic ties with our allies. The king managed to hire some fairly good advisers:



They’ll make other nations forget about us annexing territory faster, so we can go annex more without making literally everyone in Europe declare war on us.

Denmark and Norway were allied in a war against Sweden before we allied Denmark, so we weren’t called to help fight. Here’s a picture of Sweden under siege.



Sweden was eventually forced to sue for peace, surrendering two provinces to the Danes.



Investments in government technology allowed the king to commission a National Bank!



This is very useful. It reduces inflation each month, allowing 10% of the monthly income, normally devoted to research, to be minted into Brandenburg’s coffers. It also allows greater minting during times of great need.

A cavalry regiment was formed. One of Denmark’s provinces that’s cut off from the rest of their territory by political issues was taken by rebels:

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Voice? Are you going to draw a picture of it? … Hello?

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Uh, Voice?

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Okay guess not. Well, Brandenburg’s army retook the province after the rebel army left to besiege other provinces in the HRE. Since the army was 8000 men strong, we avoided it, instead following it and liberating the occupied provinces. Nothing good has come of it, but it prevents a new nation forming with an 8000 men army.

The king has mostly been waiting for war to break out. Brandenburg makes 20 ducats a year, and we’re saving to invest in workshops once we figure out a way to efficiently build them and make money off of them.

I’m going to go celebrate the Voice leaving me now.

[nahkh]

I would say it's a damn good thing we didn't sigh that alliance with whateverland. Guess who's on Poland's next-to-annex list? Getting entangled in that war would be... troublesome. And avoiding it would cost us diplomatically.

I think it's about time to carve us up a bit more of the county. Do we have / can we cook up a casus belli against someone nearby? Pomerania maybe? Also, do we have merchants in Lübeck yet?
Aaaand I see we have +3 stability. We could declare war without a casus belli if it comes to that.
I say we conquer someone!