Chancellor's Report, 1378

Offensive action is suspended unless explicitly authorized by the Chancellor or the Kaiser! Armies on the move will be subject to attack without warning, commanders defying this order will have their men stripped from them, their funding cut off, and will find their captains ordered to take them prisoner. I urge the nobles of the Reich to declare their loyalty to the Kaiser in all haste, or to face harsh penalties!

The so called Republicans, Lothar Steffen, Arnold of Austria, Matthias Steffen, and Hermann Steffen are commanded to surrender themselves to the nearest Imperial authority immediately on pain of death! Additionally Edmund Becker, Fritz Becker, Jan Zirn, Maximillian Zirn, Maximillian von Hapsburg, Fredericus Erlach, Wenzel Steffen, Bernard Steffen, and Harold Steffen are ordered to report to the nearest Imperial authority for questioning and to reaffirm their oaths of loyalty to the Kaiser.

A time of great crisis is upon the Reich, but by God I mean to see her through it. Let all who would flout the authority of the Kaiser consider carefully the consequences. In order to leave you unruly nobles no doubt about my exact meaning, learn from the example of Stockholm. The last city of the Danes stood in defiance of the Reich and sent armies against me, Germany's greatest general. It was intolerable, but that problem has now been solved.

Stockholm now lies in ruins, having been exterminated at my command.



Any city which shelters an enemy of the Reich faces the same consequences.



Any noble who sides with these fool Republicans faces the same.



As went the Danes, so too will go advocates of the Republic.



Choose your place with care, it may be the last choice you get.

In more mundane news, I am saddened to have to report the death of Duke Dieter Bresch's wife, Demuth. My sympathies on your loss Duke Dieter.



I am much happier to report the death of the Hungarian noble who snuck across Bavaria to try to lead away that tiny army they have in France.



Poland has been reconciled with the Pope. The Theologin's Guild house in Milan was improved. There are just under twenty thousand florins available to the Reich.

And it doesn't matter. I'm coming for you Lothar. If I can ask one favor in exchange for all the aid I gave Bavaria? Don't surrender. It will be much more satisfying to take your head while your city burns around you.

Any general wishing to take offensive action in the Reich should contact me via letter for permission. (No one has been 'stripped' of command or otherwise negatively impacted by my power as Chancellor because the details of the final battle aren't 100% clear yet. The save is here:)

http://www.totalwar.org/patrons/pbm/KOTR1378-2.zip

Chancellor Fritz von Kastilien