Message from the King of Portugal arrives. He refuses any type of union with Spain. Isabel is forced to order her standing frontier soldiers to enter Portugal and take it by force.

Annexation of Portugal - 10%

Are we roleplaying or playing a game where we are aware of things? Because so far I've been roleplaying, which would mean that my plan would not be as good as planned.

Sweden plans to set up schools and universities in the big cities where development of things/research will be done in the universities. The government doesn't regulate the universities.

Annexation of Scotland, complete.

Losses:
- 2,234 levies.
- 745 armoured serjeants.

Remaining host:
- 15,766 levy spearmen.
- 4,256 armoured serjeants.
- 2,000 archers.
- 500 sokesmen and 50 longships.

Free Cities are officially established across England, especially in the South and some across the Eastern coast due to trade with Sweden. Merchants flock to the cities and help conduct domestic as well as international trade, and are left broadly unregulated by the government.

The Crown levies a 30pc land tax on these Free Cities.

The council of Sweden realizes that money is a problem, so ideas are brought up.
-Take from the rich in the country, and promise them titles
-Raise taxes
-Loan from other countries
-Expand economical thinking

Ideas set in motion:
-Take from the rich, with their permission as they are promised titles
-Take up whatever loans are given (I'm looking at you Germany)
-Expand economical thinking.
I could explain why these ideas are being chosen, but I will only do so if anyone is interested.

A way to improve the economy will come to the council in 2 posts (or 29 days in other words).
Taking from the rich will happen in one post, but the money will be used poorly.
Loans are asked by every country in the  surrounding area in one post (fucking tblox come online)

The agency likes the idea of knights (seen from England), and adopts that kind of a rank for their agents.

The council realizes that the rich are rich because of the trading, and thus Sweden focuses on trading.

To trade things, one has to have things.

Sweden invests in mining iron from Kiruna and Malmberget, and seeing how Sweden now has blacksmiths that are capable of using iron, the iron will be used for the blacksmiths to sell weaponry, armour etc, and for selling to England. The weapons will also be sold to whatever country is willing to buy it of course.

With the money that The Crown Bank has lended Sweden, Sweden can focus on that task without problems.

Expected trade and weapons etc, is expected to be going on in 3 posts (or 44 days).


Oh and Sweden buys some minor tools from England

Ummm okay so what time period?

Sweden is unsure of the situation with Finland, because everything is so quite there now.

Sweden is winning, but how can Sweden take the country? What makes it Sweden's? Even if all the soldiers die, what would give Sweden the power over it? A map is the answer that comes to the council's attention.

The council demands a map be made by a GM where Sweden has Finland. These maps will be placed in Finland after the war has cooled down a bit. The troops in finland will not attack anymore until attacked upon, and instead there won't be any action until the sides eventually get bored and start conversing.

One the troops are inside they will make lives for themselves in Finland and when the new map is anounced to the world the Finns won't have much to say about it.

Some of the soldiers will still walk around in soldier clothing, but the Finns will get used to it. Once the map comes out they'll think that they've lost, and in that sense Sweden wins the war.

Expected time: Page 15

It won't be a direct loss to Finland, so Sweden's relationship with finland won't be too bad.

By page 12 Sweden will prosper and it will become a place where people can move into for trading purposes. Once we have Finland and Denmark, Sweden will use the world's map to its advantage, and take over the "Baltic sea?" so that trade will be regulated by Sweden.

Expected time: Page 22

Schools in Sweden now have Blacksmith as an education seeing how successful the profession is.

Advancement in ores and such will be made in the future, but Sweden can't say for sure. It all depends on the people getting educated, but it will at least take until page 15 until people master the art of metals and ores so much that they'll be able to create new things that haven't been before. At first it will be small things, like steel, but later Sweden will be able to make a whole lot of new things.

Expected skyscrapers made possible because of steel expected in page 506 or so.

ALRIGHTY! Time to start finally!

-Retroactive Decisions Made on Page 4 or 5-

- Germany begins recruiting more men for the army A total of 30,000 (total) foot soldiers expected by page 7. Archers are also being recruited, a total of 600 due by page 8.

-The Kaiser sends out messengers to England, Mongolia, and Spain for a declaration of friendship / alliance.

- 50% of German troops (6,000 soldiers/150 archers/500 horsemen) are sent to the German/Belgian border. An invasion is expected to start during page 5. Expected completion by page 7.

-Germany begins construction of specialized ships designed to control the waters off the coast. 20 Ships due by page 8.

England brings its troop numbers back up to pre-Scotland invasion levels, expected completion by page 7.

Annexation of Northern China complete. Mongolia enslaves surviving Chinese natives and forces them to work in Mongolian industry. Displaced Mongolian workers are drafted into the army. 10,000 additional soldiers expected to be trained by page 8.

Losses:
--1,512 footsoldiers
--192 horsemen
--45 archers

15,000 soldiers training complete. Mongolia now boasts an army size of 34,000.
Construction of 20 iron mines -- 75%