The Decline and Fall of the "Holy" "Roman" Empire
Theme of the true empire
Saxony was merely an annoying distraction. Wilk IV was determined now, more than ever, to finish the source of all the misery and oppression for the Pommeranian slavs: The "Holy Roman" Empire must fall!
Along the conflict, Pommerania was finally getting rid of the trappings of feudalism. The prince exerted greater and greater control over the country, no longer relying on unreliable lords, of which many betrayed the gods and their people and sold out to the Norse Order instead of fighting during the darker times. That time is coming to an end, and now the prince of Pommerania instead will rely on a loyal and competent class of bureaucrats to centrally rule over all the lands.
The transition to an Administrative Republic brought immediate benefits.
You live in a hovel! You live in a yurt!
Deja vu. Yet Bohemia is only one of many. That is not even close to bringing the downfall of this vile empire.
The good news is that Pommerania can afford to fight a long war.
Wilk IV died before achieving his goal of putting an end to the false empire, and considering the daunting task ahead, it may take three generations of Pommeranian princes, or even more, to finally finish the job.
Religious conflicts were hastily ended as the oftenly inert HRE woke up to the greatest threat ever to their existence. Fighting almost all of them at once won't be easy, but there will be no other way to achieve such a distant and seemingly impossible feat of dismantling it.
It was the "Holy" "Roman" Empire that spawned the hateful and intolerant zealots of the Norse and Teutonic Orders. Time for payback.
DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!
There will be no leftover of the worst Teutonic kraut once this is done.
Stupid krauts sent a massive army without a real commander ahead. This enormous strategic mistake was something they paid a very high price for. The light hussars of Pommerania and the Tabor crushed them all.
However, there was the matter of having to kill rebels all the time to ensure the fallen capitals of electors of the HRE will stay that way, and because of it, this could take many decades.
Bogislaw II died bravely in battle against rebel scum. Long live Perunsmir XI!
Soon no krauts shall ever again rule over potato.
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The false empire grows desperate. Buda also fell, and soon Wien shall fall. The scourge of the gods is coming!
The False Emperor is weak!
It still is a long, long way to bring it down. Made even longer by the constant rebel scumbags delaying further advances.
Come and try it!
Land is conquered and lost, switching hands several times. Never before in these lands have such a war happened since the days of the fall of the real Roman Empire.
Meanwhile, in England.
The "Imperial Army" proved to be nothing but a pathetic bluff. HAHAHA, and death to Russia!
The soldiers of Pommerania must be the best, to give them a better fighting chance against oftenly larger but less skilled armies. Pommerania never kept an immense standing army, even in times of war, except when they were much smaller and prepared for the bold reclaim of the Wend clay that brought them to proeminence.
Another of the Elector Princes of the false empire is now at the mercy of Pommerania, yet there are more, located mostly quite distant from each other. Military access treaties are secured with those who covet for the fall of the Empire, aware of Pommerania's ambitions being eastwards and against Bohemia, to unite all Slavs, rather than conquer Germans other than those who resettled once potato lands.
Perunsmir XI may be poor as diplomat and administrator, but he is a formidable general. Will he enter history as the one who brought the final demise of the HRE, or will he die first and have to leave such glory to his heir?
Shortly after the fall of Frankfurt, the city where the false emperors are crowned, the now far more powerful pagan and sodomite Netherlands offered an alliance to the rising Pommerania, an offer naturally accepted.
The Balkan kingdom of Croatioa also became an elector of the false empire, and that means it is time to show them which Slav is the STRONG and send them to the zoo hahaha.
With four electors left to be conquered, this ended in a situation where no matter who they declare war against, they will drag almost every single country of the false empire and more outside against them. After much thought, they decided which to attack first:
Dragging near 100% of the HRE at war against them in the process.
Stay STRONG, this will not fail! There isn't much left!
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Now only Croatia and two Italian electors remain, and fortunately, circumstances changed towards how many enemies Pommerania would have to fight at once by declaring war on the Ustasa.
However, the Bavarians, with a massive army, threatened all of this. Thus, Baden was conquered, and they stubbornly refused white peace. A token tribute was paid, insignificant next to what they were about to lose. Or perhaps win, because the fall of the false empire will sooner or later prompt conflicts for unification of the Germans. Hopefully the pagans will prevail once they start.
Nice. This conflict however dragged on for so long that there was the risk of white peace due to lack of conflict with some electors. Now there was no other choice than to force some to become vassals until the HRE collapses.
Pommerania may gain very little in territory with this conflict waged mostly for revenged because of what the krauts did against their people. But they definitively will gain a lot of gold.
This war brought some of the best generals for the country again, including an excellent commander of cavalry for the Hussars.
Croatia had a powerful standing army. Fighting them head on would be too costly. Instead, they were baited to attack first, and at defense, the Tabor infantry was truly formidable, after all.
They fell right into the trap, and thus, the complete annihilation of their army was at hand.
And the capital of the Balkan Croatia fell
: FUCK YOU TURDLICKER! CROATIA IS NOT A BALKAN COUNTRY YOU RETARDED SACK OF SHIT, I WANT TO PUNCH YOUR FACE SO HARD ALL YOUR TEETH WILL FALL TO MAKE YOUR HORSESHIT BRAIN UNDERSTAND THAT CROATIA IS NOT A BALKAN COUNTRY!
And now, only two Italian electors remain. Yet, they will be the toughest, because both are protected by the powerful Papal State, and thus time will be of essence. There will be no second to be wasted in waiting them to surrender. A bloody assault on both capitals will be the only way, and Perunsmir XI was ready to do whatever it takes to finish this, now that it is so close to completion.
The capital of Genoa was conquered, opening the route into Savoy, one of the last two electors not yet defeated by the scourge of the gods.
To be ready for the daunting and risky assaults, Pommerania seeks to forge an army based on quality above quantity, with only the best trained and capable men accepted inside. Great military reforms are enacted in preparation for the final battles to bring an end, at last, to the False Empire.
The Pope will defend the Italian electors against the heathens, with their massive armies. Only a truly exceptional fight can avoid all the sacrifices to get this far to end for nothing, because the rebel scum is relentless, and time is running short. If only Pommerania was less tired of war, Rome would burn, for unlike Attila, they were not afraid of their false god.
Victory! It is so close now... so close.
The Hussars are sent to retake Wien from some rebel assholes first, but soon, soon the end will come for this false empire.
Modena is protected by far more extensive fortifications than Piedmont. This will be a bloody battle, and it won't be easy, but there is no other way. Several occupied capitals of the false empire are about to fall to scum of all types. They must conquer Modena, or many more decades may be wasted for this.
The small army defending it stood no chance, but the assault would determine the victory. Perunsmir XI personally led the men in the siege towers and ladders onto the heavily fortified city. Thousands died during the initial phase, but he never gave up.
Eventually, the defenders were utterly overwhelmed, and victory was getting close at hand, final victory. The sacrifice of so many thousand brave Pommeranians won't be in vain!
And at last, in 5th of February of 1610, after more than thirty years of total war...
Prince Perunsmir XI delivered the peace terms to the still occupied Wien. Among them, the complete dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire was the most important and non-negotiable. And thus, Perunsmir XI of Pommerania would become known forever in History as Perunsmir XI, Destroyer of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Already having control over Liubice, Pommerania decided to sell Gdunsk to Lithuania, for they had little claim to the Prussian trading city. Meanwhile, with the end of the false empire, what was left of the restored Nordland other than the Dutch finally united themselves under the banner of the true Emperor of the Germans: the Duke of Cleves, now more powerful than ever.
Pommerania was too exhausted with this thirty-year war to pursue aggressive expansion right now, having limited themselves to some Polish provinces and Litomerice, however, the dream of uniting all west slavs, now that the false empire and their meddling was over, was stronger than ever. In Netherlands, and perhaps in the future, Cleves as well, Pommerania may find new powerful allies. They have defied an empire and an entire Church, and they have won. What could stop Pommerania from achieving glory after glory by uniting all Slavs now? The mythical horrors of the Dagonl'nu and of the Eldritch Inca Empire? Too far away to ever be a threat.
TO BE CONTINUED
PS: You have no idea of how frustrating achieving this was because of constant rebels.