After the the War of the Romans engulfed Europe the Serbian Empire reevalued their diplomatic stance with the European Continent. The Czars and Czarinas of the Serbian Empire first tried isolationism, and without the Empire's support the Holy Roman Empire stopped trying to take over France. The flipside was that the French Empire then tried taking over the Holy Roman Empire, all the while the Ilkhanate tried to take over Spain and the Roman Empire and Scandinavian Empire tried to take over the Ilkhanate's lands in Khiva.
The Serbian Czars then rethought their strategy to become world police. They would guarantee the independence of the French and Holy Roman Empire, would remain rivals to the Scandinavians and Romans and ally to the British Empire.
There would be no more need to intervene in French or German wars and no need to chase the British Royal Navy around the bloody world, and the Scandinavians and Romans already knew not to start shit with the Serbians.
This system worked for around a hundred years. Sure there were some wars between the great powers of Europe, but they at most killed a few hundred thousand and ended within a handful of years, and when they did happen they were not so serious as to require Serbian intervention. The Serbian Empire got to continue expanding and gardening her world Empire whilst the Continentals schemed and plotted.
I found it interesting to see the frontiers of the world. This map shows the level of Fortifications in each province, the greener the stronger the Fortresses and the redder the more they're non-existent. On the Spanish-Mongol Iberian border, on all three borders of the Holy Roman Empire - there are all areas of the world of people who feared invasions and had endured horrible bloodshed from the hands of their invaders. None were as adept fort builders however, as the Serbian Empire. In the east on the mountains and hills, on the Tibetan plateau and all the ridges of IndoChina, India and Africa, guarding against foreign pressure, foreign rebels spilling over into Serbian lands and domestic rebels - the Fortifications most heavy where the Hindus, Buddhist and Sunnis were most prolific. All of these fortifications were heavy, but none served no clearer military purpose than those on the Roman-Serbian border.
Serbia, Rome, Tyrnovo, Genoa, Iceland and Venice - all of these were great Fortresses with foreign Empires eyeing them up with ravenous hunger. In the Indian-Persian border there were state of the art fortifications and 52,000 soldiers. In the Indian ocean coast-Persian mainland border state of the art Forts faced the southside of the Persian mountains, no armies were stationed beyond the garrisons but the Indian ocean fleet would keep the Forts standing tall. Jerusalem to Egypt, the core of the Empire - there the Fortifications were greatest and the armies most numerous, with 104,000 men and over 300 ships combat ready.
By the turn of the 1600s the Serbian Empire was untouchable, without peer or superior. Its colonies were vast, its Empire was vast and her soldiers had successfully policed the Ming Empire to such an extent that after millions of reactionaries had been slaughtered, the Miroslavs of China had finally Westernized. No nation was richer, produced more goods, nor had living conditions as good as in the Serbian Empire. There had not been a war against a great power on Serbian soil ever since the war of the Romans.
Despite all of this, there were warning signs of dark times ahead that none of the Czars and Czarinas foresaw.
The Serbian Empire was vast. All provinces integrated, all colonies loyal and between the endless suppression of rebels, the spreading of the Serbs and the construction of infrastructure had created a highly productive economic superpower with the largest military and navy in the world. This had also taken up most of the Serbians' focus, and so what technological innovation they did have was mostly technological imitation of what the Romans had invented. This was not an issue when conquering the inferior nations of IndoChina, but whilst attacking the Incans or the Pueblo tribes of the Americas it became painfully clear that the Americans possessed superior rifles and cannons to the Serbian Empire's forces, and the Serbs had to begin relying on Colonial and British gunnery for their firepower whilst Serbian Gusars leveled the battlefield with devastating heavy cavalry charges. Sometimes even then it was not enough, and in one Incan-Serbian war tens of thousands of the South African expeditionary had to be ferried to decisively break the Incans through superior logistics. The Serbian military was quickly becoming the slow giant of Europe, its vastness impressive and terrifying but its actual capabilities encumbered by its own weight. Europe was an army of Davids, and Serbia was goliath.
The next warning sign was quite theatrical. In the Incan Empire a great Peruvian volcano erupted, shattering global grain and wine production. This was a slight problem for the Serbian Empire given how much it had spent in grain but its people were kept well-fed by Serbian relief funds. The Roman Empire then invaded the Holy Roman Empire with the Scandinavian Empire. The Spanish Empire came to the aid of the Holy Roman Empire but given that they had relocated their capital to Florida the Holy Roman Empire was counting on the Serbian guarantor to be their military saviour.
Unfortunately for them this was during the reign of Empress Branimira Miroslav. When the Kaiser requested Branimira's help he was rebuffed and she also managed to insult every single nation in Europe. The Ming Dynasty even cancelled their alliance with the Serbian Empire. Empress Branimira was a skilled administrator and good military strategist, but a diplomat she was not. In truth I had missclicked the Holy Roman Empire's request for help and accidentally declined it, so I truffled this up to Branimira's list of diplomatic incidents. Nevertheless, the Holy Roman Empire was given subsidies and gifts for their war and they fought the two greater Empires to a standstill. Empress Branimira's son also died on a hunting trip but Branimira had more so she was not too worried.
Years later the French Empire then called upon the Serbian Empire's help after they too were being invaded by the Romans, and at last Czar Branimira decided to teach the rest of the Miroslav family that they should not mess with the Prime Miroslavs of Serbia.
Emperor Mathew Miroslav of France attacked the Romans of the Italian Peninsula whilst Emperor Mathew Miroslav of Britain attacked Scandinavia itself. Emperor Luka of Spain would have attacked the Roman-Scandinavian forces too had they not been attacked by the Miami Native Americans again, who were in turn being attacked by the Aztec Sun Emperor. Emperor Sana of Scandinavia and Emperor Basileios II of the Roman Empire sent the bulk of their forces to attack on the Serbian front, and half a dozen years in the Ilkhanate under Empress Branimira II and the Holy Roman Empire under Kaiser Rannveig II would attack the Emperors Sana and Basileios. And while this went on the Sultanate of Brunei would start a trade war with the Serbian Empire and get invaded, whilst the Colonies of Serbian and Catalan La Plata would fight over La Plata and the Incans would expand eastwards taking over the Brazilian core. To top it all off Emperor Gongming Miroslav (who like his historical namesake Zhuge Liang) was a military genius who decided that amidst this chaos it was time to repay the Manchu, Oirat and Japanese for their endless invasions of the Ming Empire with plenty of Western bullets, without any Scandinavian or Serbian objections.
This became the First World War.
On the Italian peninsula over 120,000 French soldiers and 18,000 British allies fought 80,000 Roman Legionnaires, soundly defeated at the battle of Piedmont. More serious battles would continue in Italy with the French continually pushing south until they cornered the last 67,000 Romans in Sicily, but it was clear the French and British had won there. The British landed about 90,000 soldiers in Scandinavia split up into several army groups, later joined by a small contingent of French - but their siege was heavily slowed by winter and there were no Scandinavians to fight, all of their armies were in the Balkans or in one of the bloodier fronts.
The Serbian Front was where the carnage unfolded.
In the Indian Front the Serbian armies moved forwards to lay siege on the Roman border, in the war of the Romans long ago the Serbian-Indian forces had been defeated because they were caught off guard, now there were few hiding places for the Romans and there did not appear to be any in eastern Persia. The 104,000 from Alexandria and Jerusalem moved North to fight the Romans and ease the pressure on France, while the Serbian Navy moved out from the Canary Islands and Alexandrian ports to destroy the Scandinavian black sea fleet and the vast Roman Navy.
Czarina Branimira was quickly horrified to find that there was no way to ease the pressure on France, so to speak. The Serbian Empire was the sole and only target of the entire Scandinavian and Roman offensive. Emperor Sana and Bardas had declared war on France to bring the Serbians to war, and Branimira had fallen for the bait.
Over 400,000 of the world's best soldiers with the world's greatest commanders and the most disciplined and well-equipped, technologically advanced fighting forces attacked on the Serbian front.
Everything started going downhill from there.
At the battle of the Aegean Sea 180 Roman war galleys, and Carracks attacked the Great Merchant Marine of Serbia, destroying 27 light ships - the 242 survivors made it back to the Alexandrian port battered and bloodied but repairable. The Canary Fleet of Heavy Carracks joined up with them and awaited their repair before serious operations could take place.
At this time the battle of Al Raqqa took place on Roman Soil. 58,000 Romans fought 135,000 Serbian soldiers; the Romans lost 16,000 men whilst the Serbians lost 40,000 men and retreated back behind their Fortress line. 146,000 Scandinavian soldiers moved on Tyrnovo and Serbia, and began laying siege.
Realizing just how much of a dire situation she was in, Empress Branimira ordered the immediate recruitment of the new territorial armies to bolster the Serbian forces in the Jerusalem heartlands by another 140,000 men. Of the proud Gusars only 5,000 could be recruited, as time was of the essence and Serbia needed infantry and cannons to deliver the most firepower and men in the shortest amount of time possible. The Fortress line would buy time, but would not kill the Roman forces. Mercenaries would bolster Branimira's forces, at their height 35,000 mercenaries fought for Serbia - not enough, but enough to make a difference.
In India Branimira repeated the mistake of her forefather as 15,000 of the Indian Territorial was slaughtered with no survivors at the battle of Ghazni by Roman forces three times their number by yet another commander against whom the Serbians had no equal. A hundred years ago the armies on the Roman-Indian border had been state of the art - that was a hundred years ago, and the Serbians had grown complacent, cutting down on their defence budget as it had become overbloated and cut into their welfare and infrastructure budget. Even the Serbian Territorial army had been disbanded, but considering it was 18,000 men and hundreds of thousands were streaming past Serbia at least that was a decision which wouldn't have mattered much either way.
To make matters worse 70,000 more Romans were marching East led by Emperor Basileios II's son, Bardas Miroslav. It is no exaggeration that Prince Bardas Miroslav was the greatest general alive.
Perhaps Emperor Basileios wanted someone he could both trust and count on to destroy the Indian garrison, the eastwards expeditionary force (composed of veterans and the most well-equipped land forces in the Empire, second only to the Alexandrian Expeditionary) and the gigantic Fortress that had become of the Tibetan plateau, itself covered by 18,000 elite soldiers. Perhaps Emperor Basileios feared that his son would die if he fought in Jerusalem - or Emperor Basileious did not believe his son was needed in Jerusalem for whatever reason. The armies of the northern world were marching on the Serbian capital and their soldiers were of such inferior calibre and their Czarina giving off such an incompetent stature, and add that to the fact that Serbia always kept troops on the Indian border known whilst those in Jerusalem were kept hidden. Given Roman infiltration by spies however, they most likely knew everything anyways.
Whatever the reason, there were many Roman soldiers attacking the Indian Fortress line. Empress Branimira made the wise choice to not mobilize the armies of India for war and instead did the opposite, pulling them deep into the Subcontinent away from the fighting. 36,000 Indian soldiers escaped Roman encirclement by just 1 day - if they had hesitated by just 1 day there would have been no Serbian soldiers to fight another day. Prince Barda managed to break through the Indian Fortress line in shocking time and began taking over the Western Fortresses one by one, dividing his forces into three to speed things up.
In the Sea things were improving. The vast Serbian Navy and the vast Roman Navy were both very different; the Serbian Navy was a blue water navy meant for patrolling the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Roman Navy was a Meditteranean Armada whose sole existence was to asymmetrically challenge the Serbian fleet.
Half of the Roman Navy was caught off guard in the Aegean whilst the other half was sinking the French Navy of 71 ships off the coast of Aquitaine. Sebrian light ships sailed around the Roman War galleys, screening the Carracks as they moved aside the Roman fleet. Technological inferiority means little when you're face to face with 74 Carracks with 40 cannon - you can't stop it. The Serbian ships returned to Alexandria to repair. And although the Serbians would lose many fleets, victories in the Aegean guaranteed that towards the end the Serbian forces would gain control of the seas.
In the land things got worse.
Scandinavian infantry were found to comprise the core of the army in the battle of Hama, where 94,000 Serbians fought 101,000 Scandinavian and Roman soldiers, losing 26,000 to their 23,000. The Serbian army retreated further south and the Nordic-Roman army pushed deeper.
The second battle of the Aegean squared the Alexandrian Armada off against the last serious naval elements of the Roman Navy, and this half of their navy boasted their own heavy ships. 74 heavy ships, 155 light ships and 20 transport ships fought 32 Roman heavy ships, 27 light ships, 32 galleys and 35 transports. The Roman Navy lost all 136 ships, with two being captured while the Serbians lost 79 ships. With victory at sea assured Czarina Branimira ordered the construction of an additional 300-400 ships, which by the end of the war allowed the Serbian Navy to blockade the entirety of the Meditteranean.
But just as with the Fortresses, the Navy could not kill the Roman Legions. The victory at land was vital.
The Serbian forces had spent time recovering and rebuilding, as they joined up with the few extra regiments that were being constructed in Egypt. The new Serbian Army surprised the Romans by attacking their army in Rahba. 25,000 Roman Legionnaires marching up to Aleppo were slaughtered leaderless by Zvonimir Kasjan and 110,000 Serbian soldiers, losing 10,000 men to their 25,000. It was the victory which made Czarina Branimira fire all others except Zvonimir Kasjan and Milutin Milutin, with Milutin and Zvonimir taking charge of the defence of Jerusalem.
The 30,000 Gusars still breathing were bringing the Empire to glory. For what do sons of Miroslav have to fear of bullets of bronze and iron when they are men and horses of steel?
The Serbian army pressed onwards, trying to push the Romans out of As Sahiliyah.
There they encountered a joint Nordic-Roman force under the Roman general Komitas Kyriakos, if Komitas lost that battle then the sieges on Antioch, Aleppo and Rahba - the Jerusalem segments of the Fortress line, they would all fail. More Roman and Nordic forces began pouring south into Jerusalem as Serbia proper fell and Emperor Luka and Emperor Baseilious II realized that Czarina Branimira's reputation as a ruthless and stubborn strategist was well deserved. If the Serbian forces could be neutralized then the Roman-Nord forces could march on the French with ease.
At As-Sahiliyah the forces of Komitas Kyriakos soundly defeated the Serbians. 107,000 Romans battered the 153,000 strong Serbian force, killing 37,000 Serbians and losing 29,000 Romans. General Zvonimir was the best general the Serbian Empire had to offer and General Zvonimir was the inferior to every single Roman General he faced against - and this was no slander to Zvonimir, his opponents were really just that good.
The Romans took advantage of these victories and pushed further south.
After around a half dozen years of siege all of Serbia and Tyrnovo had fallen, and with exception to some especially stubborn Fortresses (most notably, Antioch) all of the Serbian Fortress line had fallen across Persia to India. Despite the Serbian forces being so hopelessly outmatched there was hope. The Scandinavians and Romans had been drawing into their pool of able men to create the finest war machine the world had ever seen. The Serbians by contrast by virtue of the amount of gold they threw at creating efficient state farms upon which the Empire relied on to grow to such a vast size (you're not going to bite the hand that
literally feeds you after all - the principle of the Roman Empire), and the limited amount of terrible land wars in the home front meant that the only time the Serbians ever ran out of manpower was the last time they fought the Roman Empire (and to considerably more success). Czarina Branimira told her generals and her mighty soldiers this fearful truth. They could only win by the grace of God if they surrendered their will to live in the face of the will to victory. All they had to do was keep fighting, and keep losing - every time chipping away at the massed ranks of Nordic and Roman Legionnaires until at last their cannonry was protected merely by a thin blue and red line, ready to be destroyed by the charge of the last Serbians.
This news would have been bitter to them, yet Branimira told them of success and failure.
In India the entirety of the Indian border garrison had retreated inwards or was wiped out to the last man, until they found the right time to strike. They attacked the Roman siege camps laying waste to the Roman armies until their reinforcements arrived. A new Serbian general, Ratomir Serapion - he showed his prowess by defeating generals three times his superior and was sent to the Jerusalem front when the West Indian Garrison was dwindled away into nothingness by Roman reinforcements.
The only soldiers left to fight were 9,000 men who were supposed to embark on the next ship to Fiji and Christmas Island, the 18,000 strong army on the Tibetan Plateau and two groups of 6,000 men newly-raised in India to fight back. These men were amassing on the southern coast for another counterattack just as the West Indian Garrison had done before them. Czarina Branimira told them of how the West Indian's sacrifice had blunted the rapid advance of Roman soldiers into India, and all the soldiers they lost attacking Indian Fortresses were lost in vain as amidst the fighting the defenders were resupplied for more years of siege.
Every time the Serbians threw themselves at the Romans, sure the Romans would push deeper and take more Fortresses, sure they would begin concentrating further and further deeper into the heartlands until they were just one province away from Jerusalem.
Eventually they would reach a point where their ever victorious armies knock on Jerusalem's door and look around them to see only dead Romans and hundreds of thousands of Serbians. The Serbians could not afford to lose, but they could afford defeat - the Romans couldn't even afford to
win.
The battle of Ajlun showed the Serbian resolve. 175,000 Serbian soldiers under Zvonimir Kasjan fought 197,000 Nordic-Roman forces under one Komitas Kyriakos, losing 75,000 men to their 63,000. Crucially - the Serbian cavalry had made it to the cannon lines this time, losing 11,000 Gusars to kill 3,500 men of their artillery brigade. 70,000 men of their artillery brigade still lived, but Branimira had proven they could fear the Gusar's steel.
Word also came in of the devastation wrought by Nordic mercenaries who had laid waste to Serbia, and of the starving peasants whose grain was eaten by Roman soldiers. Occupation meant death for their family, if they fought only they would die.
Branimira's rhetoric worked exceedingly well and the Empire went into unrestricted total warfare, everyone from every corner of the Empire not involved in vital garrison duty was told to march to Alexandria, whether they be marching from the furthest reaches of Marrakech, Ethiopia or Brunei. All the ones in the East assembled in southwest India and all the ones in the West assembled in Egypt, the last great line of fortification still under siege by the Romans (in addition to Antioch, the Fortress behind enemy lines that refused to surrender).
Even in Serbia proper, the civilians were having none of Emperor Luka's shit. Hum was the province most damaged by mercenaries and Hum created the 1st Serbian Freefighters regiment.
True to their word they began wreaking havoc behind enemy lines, liberating their countrymen.
During all this fighting Emperor Luka died and was replaced by Emperor Vuk in Scandinavia, which was a pain as Emperor Vuk was even better at commanding. Czarina Branimira also died and was replaced by Czarina Bojana, who was luckily every bit as ruthless as her mother, if a bit more patient. She waited for her soldiers to freshen up and reach near-full strength, and waited for the Ethiopian Guard and the Marrakechen Territorial to arrive before marching off. The enemy had reached as far south as Damascus and had brought everything.
With news of the titanic battle taking place in Damascus, Kaiser Rannveig II and Empress Branimira II decided that now was the time to reverse centuries of humiliation that had been visited upon their nations by their Roman Miroslav cousins. They declared war together.
The Romans and Scandinavians were caught up in the battle of Damascus, which was quickly proving to be the greatest battle the world had ever seen. 260,000 Serbian soldiers fought 280,000 Nordic-Roman soldiers to defeat, losing 83,000 men to their 118,000. It was a strategic defeat in that the Serbians were forced back and Damascus fell shortly thereafter, but whilst the Serbians retreated back to Egypt and Jerusalem to meet up with fresh reinforcements the Romans could not cope nearly as well.
Emperor Vuk of Scandinavia knew that to wait and not strike the recovering Serbian soldiers whilst they were still demoralized and ill-prepared for another battle just yet was to wait until they were too strong to defeat. He attacked the Serbians at Nablus.
The Romans and Nords quickly got into quite the panic when they realized just how many Serbians there still were just waiting around the mount.
35,000 Romans and Nords faced 150,000 Serbians and they lost 12,000 to the Serbians' 9,000. Emperor Vuk retreated north and kept yelling at Emperor Baselious that he needed to get all of his Romans back on the frontlines as the Serbian defeat at Damascus
was all according to their plan. The Serbians had more, and more, and more.
The Roman-Nord forces moved south once more in force with 90,000 men to square off against 175,000 Serbians, valiantly killing 39,000 Serbians whilst losing 40,000 of their own and being forced out of Ajlun. Needless to say around this point the people of the Roman Empire and the Scandinavian Empire were quite tired of the war as their unstoppable gains had turned into the Holy Roman Empire pushing far east, freedom fighters and Kaiser-Mongol forces liberating Serbia proper, French forces occupying all of Italy, British forces occupying the south Scandinavian peninsula and Serbia throwing hundreds of thousands of soldiers at their legions with increasing ferocity.
In the seas the story grew direr for them too, as the Serbian Navy destroyed the Scandinavian black sea fleet in the battle for the Sea of Azov near the Crimea whilst the Holy Roman Empire destroyed their Baltic Fleet, and the Serbians blockaded every single Roman port they had.
The Romans and Nords tried to stop the Serbians from recapturing Ajlun again, as to have Ajlun be recaptured by the Serbians would be to allow them to spill out north. They sent one of their undefeated three star generals out with 85,000 men, but facing 162,000 Serbians not even the 14pips general Klas Vagn could win those odds. The Serbians pushed north again into Damascus where 137,000 Serbians fought 36,000 Nords and Romans, emerging victorious. With opposition swept away the Serbians began retaking their provinces and killing Roman siege armies, killing 18,000 at Antioch (breaking their endless years of sieges where they refused to surrender).
The Romans enjoyed some brief successes, like at As Sahiliyah where Klas Vagn soundly defeated the Serbians killing 24,000 at the cost of 17,000 Romans, but there were just too many surviving Serbians still left that when the Serbians merely regrouped and stayed within supporting distance of one another their armies became unapproachable.
The greatest shock came when Basileios II Miroslav entered the field to break the Serbian army himself. 200,000 Romans and Nords fought against 227,000 Serbians, everyone bringing all that they could for the battle of Hama - the Romans were victorious. Basileious II was simply too great a tactical genius. 83,000 Romans and Nords died to the Serbians 82,000 men. The Serbians had run out of their bountiful pool of manpower to draw from as too many of them had died, but they were still able to recruit more men than the Romans and Scandinavians to enough of an extent as to stave off total defeat.
Now that Czarina Bojana could not push into Rome and Rome could not push into Jerusalem, Bojana took in the time to reflect upon life and look at the general chaos that had become of Europe.
Although the French, British and Serbian alliance wasn't working directly with the Spanish, HolyRoman Empire and Ilkhanate alliance, they had a common enemy and their war efforts were complemented. Serbian blockades helped the Germans and Mongols lay siege to Greece whilst the Germans and Mongols helped the freedom fighters retake Serbia. At the same time a significant contingent of Romans and Nords was spotted moving west after having pulled out from the Damascan front, moving to halt the Kaiser's eastwards push.
All the land gains the Romans and Scandinavians had made were being reversed, and worse, now they were losing land. They had bitten off more than they could chew.
The Tibetan Territorial and the new Indian garrisons began retaking the West Indian Fortresses in this time. More significant battles would take place, but none on the sheer scale as the battle of Hama, Damascus or Ajlun. After over a decade of warfare the Serbian mercenary Legion is sent to take Constantinople; they lose 10,000 men getting there but the surviving 25,000 take the city after a year of siege. At this point the Serbian army is retaking the Fortress line and taking the Roman lands going north, threatening to cut their Empire in half, and the Kaiser is showing no signs of stopping in the great European plains even after the Romans and Nords stopped his advance in Greece. The Romans have no choice but to capitulate and refocus on the Kaiser and the Khan.
Czarina Bojana didn't want any of the provinces that was turned over to them, but was going to fortify them nonetheless. While the borders look messy, they are geographically sound (and that's the only thing that mattered when expanding the Serbian Empire), with the border expanding the south-face of the mountains that was the Serbian Persian border to include one full mountain.
The Kaiser negotiated a separate peace from their ally, taking over much of Croatia while they left their Khan ally to the war (with the Ilkhanate already occupying all of Greece, they weren't really in a bad spot and negotiated a favourable peace too). Gongming Miroslav in the east utterly crushed the nomads, Manchu and Japanese with his superior western-style armies and vassalized one of the Japanese Lords as a protectorate, expanding north hard into former Manchu Lands. The Miami Coalition against Spain was crushed and Spain grew, with the Emperor there deciding that the powerful Aztec Empire needed some Jesus and that war would be inevitable some day. Revolutionaries have erupted throughout Scandinavia and the Roman Empire, attempting to overthrow the Miroslav dynasties there. The family has grown and the Mingroslavs are powerful Eastern Miroslavs, and the Spanislavs are powerful North American Miroslavs. If I can find a way to turn the Colonial Nations into Monarchies, even if they attain independence in such a way, if only to seed more Miroslav dynasties there.
Post-war recovery will be painful, but Serbia will emerge unparalleled in name and in truth. 120,000 soldiers are being raised on the Indian-Roman border and the Jerusalem core even more fortified and developed. Right now Czarina Bojana is trying to get the Spanislav Miroslav to take over the Aztecs. This war has severely shaken the Serbian Empire and it has gotten even more religiously fervent, with its people even rebelling when the Czarina doesn't want to go to war with neighbouring heathens. It is 1616 and trying to keep the Miroslav Families healthy is growing ever more difficult as conflict begets conflict and technology is increasing the destructive power of conflict. I worry about the possibility of the vile forces of Republicanism taking these moments of weakness to strike.
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