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Canon de 1 livre  Un artwork créé par la communauté pour Steam Artwork Par :  Grand amiral Thomas Theisman Pour le Danemark-Norvège. 1 pounder gun: Due to the very light weight of the 1 pounder cannon, it is generally not a useful piece in the majority of roles. It is supposed to be deployed principally with artillery units in Norway, where it actually can get around the mountainous country, in stark contrast to heavier guns. Constructed from bronze. 3 pounder gun: This is supposed to serve as a battalion gun, made with a bronze bore to be light enough to easily move around. The gun weight is 275 kilograms, with a length of 160cm, a bore of 7.4cm, and it fires, as one might imagine, a ball weighing 1.4 kilograms, from a charge 1/3 of its weight. A chambered bore is supposedly important for achieving important savings in cost and weight. Canon de 6 livres  Un artwork créé par la communauté pour Steam Artwork Par :  Grand amiral Thomas Theisman Pou...

Part of the most important element of any fleet is knowing what one actually intends to do with it. Therefor, the Danish navy has been performing a strategic review of what it intends to do in a war against any possible enemies - these being outlined as Russia, Sweden, Britain, France, and Spain. Not all of these are viewed as likely enemies, but plans are still drawn up nevertheless for how to engage them. The idea of these is not only to enable the war to be fought and prosecuted, but also to enable the Danish-Norwegian navy to have a firm grasp of its planning and expansion. [code]Denmark-Norway currently has a large and balanced fleet, as well as a very extensive merchant marine, and very important naval interests in both protecting this merchant marine and its commerce, defending Denmark, and keeping lines of communication open between the two ocean-separated parts of the Kingdom - Denmark and Norway. A variety of enemies might potentially threaten it, and plans against them are...

Denmark has limited colonial presence in the Orient. It has made this up to some extent through principally focusing on China, where it is in fact a highly important part of the tea trade with China. Over a third of the import of tea into Europe has come on Scandinavian hulls, and Denmark represents an  outsized proportion of this, perhaps around 2/3, therefor meaning that 20% of tea trade to Europe comes through Denmark. But in India itself, its trade and financial component is limited. Given the focus on colonial matters which is being currently encouraged by the Danish state, it has been decided that we should encourage our markets to expand there, and what could be done better than through conquest of certain vulnerable regions? In particular, Travancore! Travancore is a small state in Southern India, which recently defeated the Dutch. Fortunately, we are quite certain that in contrast we will suffer no problems against them. The state has certain commercial benefits which we...

It is of vital importance to Mysore that various elements of production of various important goods be increased, in the interest of the King, to produce revenue for the treasury, and to provide arms for the army. There are important threats which surround and face Mysore, and only through a powerful army and a replenished treasury can these be efficiently dealt with. Because these matters impinge upon the state's necessities, it has been decided to focus on three different sectors for the establishment of state manufactures or aid to set up certain sections, these being sericulture and hence silk weaving, textile manufacturers, and arms manufacturers - including muskets, cannons, and rockets. Some previous work has been done here with state encouragement for shipbuilding, but there are other sections vital to supporting the King that must receive our attention. Textiles are one of the most important industrial products, and Mysore unfortunately does not produce as much of them as...

Mysorean agricultural, ever since the time of Chikka Devaraja, dead now sadly for 20 years, has functioned upon different principles than that of the rest of India. It is highly centralized in form of taxation. In the rest of Southern India, there is an intermediary class of paleygards who collect taxes, standing as notables between the government and the peasants. The beloved Chikka Devaraja removed this and intermediary to instead collect taxes directly from the peasantry, helping to build up a much stronger and more centralized state. The land tax collectors are under the careful eye of the strong Mysorean central government, which keeps the system functional. Land tax is classified by the type of land, such as wet, dry, or garden, producing different tiers of payment by quality. Typically the peasant keeps around 1/2 of his produce, while the a majority of the remainder goes to the state and the amount left over, such as 15-20%, goes to the landlord. A number of public works prog...

Mysore is inherently a continental power, since its resources and wealth are drawn from the land. It is here that it lives or dies, as its armies face off against other states. But at the same time, the increasing European presence at sea, commercial contacts abroad, and the clear utility of warships in conflict, demonstrates that there is much advantage to be gained from having a maritime policy. It has thus been decided by the Mysorean councilors to the king to set up a naval board, for naval administration, and to draw up a strategy to be adopted to maximize the financial resources and military capacities available to the King in regards to the sea. It is the East coast of India which is the principal zone for the export of commercial products, although there is also some material along the pepper coast in Southern India, held by Travancore. However, Mysore does possess production of pepper, cardamom, betel nut, tobacco and sandalwood, as well as some precious stones, silver, gold...

Transport it must be said, is rather hard in India. There are extensive mountain and hill ranges in Southern India, which make it naturally quite difficult to travel from one place to another. Road infrastructure here is limited and meager. When the monsoons come, those roads which do exist, are washed away, leaving the traveler cut off and unable to traverse the land. Commerce by sea brings the promise of being able to carry heavier goods - it is after all far easier to move things on the ocean - than by the great buffalo trains by the transport castes on land which carry goods there, but of course, this is only available in certain jurisdictions. The same can be said about rivers: moving goods on inland water ways is far cheaper, but rivers are only found in some places, and where they are found, they are not always suitable, being too quickly flowing and dangerous, seasonal, or with insufficient water flow. So what do you do when you have a continental empire? This has been a sev...