Prussia - HOI4 - German Empire 2.0

11 Aug 1913: The Construction schedule. We now have 71 CFs. It looks a lot of work but most are short term projects.
I assign Army Group 1 to the former French-Belgian border.
In the Balkans 8th Army is sent to the Turkish border. 
In the SW Pacific I ship my sole unit in the region from Palau (it somehow survived the war) to Bismarck.
I decide to build level 6 trenches along the Vosges border with France.
I'm short on oil so I import some from Ukraine.
10th Army is ordered to garrison former Belgium and Luxembourg.
14 Aug 1913: The 2nd Treaty of Frankfurt is announced. Biggest surprise is that the Entente has been dissolved.
The Cameroun Garrison is moved out of unfriendly territory.
That does look good. Coast-to-coast German Empire.
I like the sound of German Morocco too.
I need to garrison the Overseas Territories.
I decide to use 3rd Army. I combine it with Army Afrika and rename it Armee Übersee.
I wish better relations with the United Kingdom so I initiate a diplomatic offensive.
23 Aug 1913: There are too many troops on France's northern border so I unassign 5th Army from Army Group 1.
I delete all orders the Army may have....
….then reassign it to our border with the Soviet Union.
25 Aug 1913: Bon voyage, 5th Army.
01 Sep 1913: Romania is playing games with their oil exports.
I import oil from Austria-Hungary instead. (Mental note: I need a reliable oil source.)
I intend building an ocean-going Kriegsmarine so I appoint the Kaiserliche Werft Wilhelmshaven as my Design Company.
Finally I plan the construction of 10 new Dockyards including 4 in Antwerp which I place at the top of the production queue..
That's all for this post. In the next one I address the Luftwaffe. Bis bald.

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