Outcast said
@Dedonus; cheers, fixed it.Time between now and the deadline is ticking away. Make sure you get your orders in. Only 7 people have sent their orders in so far.

AegonVI said
Already out of China and the East Indies. Almost out of India as soon as Pasta comes back to discussions.

solamelike said
When are we having that Africa conference by the way?

So Boerd said
Why are decolonizing?

Pepperm1nts said
That probably shouldn't happen for a bit, I think. Didn't Bismarck have to pull off some major trickery to fool the southern German states into thinking they had to unify against France? If I remember correctly, the southern German states were very reluctant to unify.

So Boerd said
He did, however, having the French as an ally rather than an enemy makes it easier. They can assent and retain autonomy, or resist and I crush them. No one will help them.

So Boerd said
He did, however, having the French as an ally rather than an enemy makes it easier. They can assent and retain autonomy, or resist and I crush them. No one will help them.

solamelike said
And now that France and Prussia are buddies..

Pepperm1nts said
Actually... that is a major point. Bismarck used tensions with France to convince the southern states to join the rest of the Prussian-dominated states. He used some trickery to provoke a French attack (and it worked, since the French declared war and suddenly the France-Prussian war happened). Without France as a big-scary-bad-guy, it's going to be difficult to convince the southern states to unify.

So Boerd said
He did, however, having the French as an ally rather than an enemy makes it easier. They can assent and retain autonomy, or resist and I crush them. No one will help them.

Pepperm1nts said
I don't want to be a cock-block - and it's probably not even in my interests so I probably won't do anything about it, in terms of military action - but whatever happened to the treaty that called for peaceful relations with German states? Unless you pull some more trickery to justify forceful annexation, it's not going to look very peaceful when Prussia steamrolls the countries it (and Austria) swore to protect.

Pepperm1nts said
I thought that said UR. I guess we have some contradicting treaties then....Well.. contradicting if the unification is done by force, at least.

solamelike said
SOOOOOOOON!