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The Italian Wars of the 1600s: Medici and Hapsburg storyline DMC+THE
It was a moment of speed that Fabian knew he had to face as a recent usurper to the throne of Bohemia, and the title of Kaiser was not quite his yet even though he killed the kaiser previously. He knew the one thing left to do was to bribe the main branch of the family to allow his power. However, that would be difficult and so he head down to Vienna with partisan regiments of hussars , specially trained skirmishing light foot and dragoons.
At this time, Fabian had his plan with the partisan corps: threaten the Archduke Leopold I of Austria to give up his position and therefore secure himself that throne, and force the smaller dukes to elect him after. This plan, of course, is a success and Leopold I was just King of Hungary,where he'd spend the rest of his days until he catches syphilis from royal orgies and dies.
Now, Fabian is Kaiser officially and enforces his reign to be despotic knowing the Holy Roman Empire's only problem being that it was a confederation of duchies instead of a true empire without a trace of feudalism.. During this time, he bribes the Swedes, English and Russians not to interfere as he makes his way conquering duchy after duchy unifying the empire and making the rank of Kaiser an autocratic one.
It was then at the year 1660 that Fabian looks to external affairs as he had already united his land. Also, whilst he had no heir, he had to be careful and conquer primarily through politics and to stop the other Hapsburgs, who were now primarily of the Spanish branch, from avenging his attack upon his own branch.
It was soon that Raimondo Montecuccoli, the great general from Naples(one of the military geniuses of the era), began a conquest in northern Italy threatening the Venetian allies as well as the De Medici family of Tuscany. Fabian, seeing that this could mean a reconquest of Austria, sends the partisan corps ahead of the main force. The partisan force of 6,000 men and he knew he only needed 12,000 men in the main force to successfully enter and take Italy without many logistical feats.
The partisan corps enters into near Rome and takes camp in the Apennine range to harass any Hapsburg or Papal forces daring to enter northern Italy. His force also takes some time and encamps in Venice, whilst sending a diplomatic initiative to Florence hoping that they'd join up as close comrades.
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