Prussia pov
With us holding the Austrians in Silesia the naval force focused on blockading the Austrians to hurt their economy as much as possible. My army is beating them back slowly without many losses especially with one of the black sticks from Moltke which we are able to make 1 of them every month which while slow should be crucial with 40 things of ammo for the sticks every week. I made sure our researchers focused on improving it as the sticks and ammo are heavily degraded so improving upon it will be crucial for fighting the Austrians when it comes down to it in the future.
Netherlands pov
The war is very interesting but I made sure the volunteers were safe with Dutch Brazil making some gains in South America to aid in the growth of my economy. This has also allowed greater investment into the Panama canal which I have slowly seen become a more important priority as more evidence shows that it would be a huge position in the future. I also managed to colonize an area in Africa so I colonized a fair chunk of it with focus on stabilizing this brand new holding so that I can use it to fight the British and take back my colonies in the South easier. This did slightly hurt my economy but did benefit me in the long term as the manpower from the area is huge alongside sights of minerals that I trade for allowing me to decrease my dependence on trade with other nations.
Spanish Empire pov
The Dutch are expanding while my own expansion is struggling so I need to stop them so I can take the land for myself. So I decided to have my volunteers in the Austrian Empire capture the Dutch ones then demand full control of their planned canal in Dutch Panama.
* the captured Dutch volunteers did succeed but they are killed by the Spanish ones *
Netherlands pov
I was expanding the new colony I called Dutch Nigeria which was fairly populated and resource filled making them a crown trade of my economy. I then got reports of the deaths of my volunteers in the Austrian Empire to the Spanish volunteers in the same nation so I got easily enraged about it then threatened war with the Spanish Empire should they not pay reperations of 100000 in my currency which they denied. So I decided to pick a side to aid in fighting the Spanish while crippling the ally of the Spanish at the exact same time!
* The Netherlands joins the Prussian side *
* The Spanish Empire joins the Austrian side *
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Dutch Empire becomes a great power
Historical FictionThe Dutch Empire that was strong is hurt. The British had stolen numerous trade posts leaving them with Dutch lands in South America and the Dutch East Indies. But with a large chunk of the world still uncolonized the Dutch will expand and show the...
