Prussia - HOI4 - Going West

03 Sep 1912: With the war against the Russian Empire over and a Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union it's time to depart and head home. I order 1st Army to Budapest.
Next I order 9th Army to Vienna.
The two Zeppelin wings at Graz have been combined and I have selected the naval base in Montenegro as its priority target. Without reduced supplies the Entente forces will be severely hampered.
04 Sep 1912: 10th Army orders are cancelled....
….and I order it to Warsaw.
05 Sep 1912: Our Austrian ally offers us 19 divisions which I gratefully accept...
….only to discover that there are only 6 divisions!!!
The incompetents have also given Belgrade back to the Serbs - such generosity. I'll use these troops to help recover it.
Holland could no longer deliver the oil I need so I cancelled their imports and order more from Romania instead.
I also accept 3 volunteer divisions from Lenin. Volunteers are different to Expeditionary forces because I have no control over them.
08 Sep 1912: I accept a two division Expeditionary Force from Lithuania (a new state).
I assign them to 10th Army - I leave them in Lithuania though. 
15 Sep 1912: The first Austrian division to arrive is immediately committed to the battle.
16 Sep 1912: Two more divisions join them the next day.
19 Sep 1912: The Soviets have arrived. I'm curious what they will do.
22 Sep 1912: Now it is our turn to lose a merchant.
27 Sep 1912: I disband 1st Army Group and give Crown Prince Rupprecht another medal....
….then order 9th Army further west to Frankfurt.
29 Sep 1912: The first elements of 8th Army have arrived and join the battles.
02 Oct 1912: Half of 8th Army has already arrived and is making progress. The Serbs are now really under pressure with no possibility of support from outside.
That concludes this post so bis bald, folks.

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