TheFlyingLlama posted:

the socialists were a failure, only full communism can save us now

Hashim posted:

Sultan Utbah ibn Raed al-Zulfiqar had finally died, passing away after suffering a sudden stroke in the early hours of a bright April morning, whilst wintering in one of his Granada palaces. Utbah’s reign would come under heavy scrutiny in the following years, but historians would ultimately praise his tactful politick on the domestic and foreign fronts, with the Sultan of Al Andalus carefully - and successfully - navigating the Congress of Cádiz, the Springtime of Nations, the Iberian War, the birth of socialism, the Scramble for Africa and the Continental War. After almost sixty years of unbroken rule, Al Andalus emerges as the uncontested world superpower, with its reach stretching across the width of the globe.

With his death, however, all of that was about to change.



......

Sultan Khuzaymah, however, had plans of his own. Backed by his ardent supporters and dedicated police, Khuzaymah returned to Qadis on the first morning of 1900, fully recovered and determinedly ambitious (with a few bottles of laudanum weighing down his pockets, just in case). The string of political assassinations had proven that this “Reformed Socialism” was nothing but an unstable farce, and that despite the failed attempts of past viziers to reconcile them, Monarchism and Socialism were contradictory - and unless one prevailed, then the risk of Iberia fracturing was all too real.

Ikasuhito posted:

A Fascist Germany, an expansionist authoritarian Japan, and a large Communist West Balkans nation! What will they think of next?


Edit New update on previous page.

wiegieman posted:

We could've been moderates. We could have built the Pyrenees bulwark we will wish for against the madness of Europe. We could have broken the Khedive, instead of letting him build this war chest. You all made your choices.

RabidWeasel posted:

Al-Andalus for the people, death to the oppressors, starting with the Sultan

GSD posted:

we're going to need the

Hashim posted:

420 Gank Mid posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHtgJ3edaU

Randarkman posted:

Honestly this is a better serb song

quote:

Though the lyrics are kind of ... you know.

Lord Cyrahzax posted:

An ibn Cyrah assassinated again! The tyrant who falsely calls himself our Grand Vizier is nothing but a murderer! May the Sultan give him his justice!

Hashim posted:

puppets freak me out posted:

The only legitimate criticism of the Socialists is that they didn't go far enough.

Sultan Khuzaymah should have been deposed immediately.

Crowsbeak posted:

Look the dual monarchy is taking advantage of us in trade and are repressing are good freinds in Occitan, we just got to put an end to that. All we need is a short victorious war people.

Crazycryodude posted:

Wrap it up reformailures, the combination of Al-Andalus' failures and the Serbs' success proves that change must be won with fire and blood, not bourgeois politicking!

If When the civil war inevitably starts next update, I do rather like the parallels with another timeline's industrialized egalitarian north vs. the reactionary underdeveloped south. Gonna have to find some way to combine The Battle Hymn of the Republic with A Las Barricadas.

oystertoadfish posted:

wow, that was bloody and all but the roll of the dice hit us pretty hard on the sultan's personality too

anyway that was great, it all seems to make sense how it's unfolding. for better or for worse

edit: also the moroccans have dreadnoughts. does this game model blockades (this assumes our entire land border is enemy-occupied i guess, and maybe smuggling would keep us alive)

oystertoadfish posted:

also russia has control of constantinople, the suez canal, and the bab al-mandab for good matter (although not the entire sea of marmara, i suppose, and maybe not socotra?). that's like peter the great's wet dream

edit: our civil war seems like a good opportunity for morocco to gently caress with us, are they still really reactionary?

Hashim posted:

I actually got the liberal option first time around, but vicky is old and the game crashed so I had to wait for the event to fire again, and we ended up with a reactionary Khuzaymah!


They're an absolute monarchy again, but that doesn't mean they won't start meddling in Europe once their war with Benin ends.

Hashim posted:

Mr.Fahrenheit posted:

This is actually turning out pretty cool. I just hope we don't Balkanize AGAIN.