North of Saxony, east of Hamburg, south of the Bay of Mecklenburg, and west of Berlin lies the quaint town of Ludwigslust, the center of the Demi-Bishophric of Ludwigslust-Parchim held herriditarily by the house of Henzlein. The Henzlein family, as was the case with most nobility, had married daughters, sons, nephews, nieces and cousins off to any titled takers regardless of nationality and religion for centuries, a practice that would yield bitter fruit in the 1740's. The last Demi-Bishop, Klaus August Victor Emmanuel Alfonso Heznlein, lived a life of adventure, notoriety, and quiet desperation. As a young man he served as an altar boy in St. Peter's Cathedral to Pope Innocent XIII, returned to Germany to be a leading light in the Lutheran Pietism movement, became the first native German acupuncturist, and started a business selling "nearly" smokeless powder to the Prussians in what came to be known as "Klaus' Foley". After the failure of that venture, saddled with crushing debt, he opted for a career in Baltic piracy that came to a tragic end when his ship the Plunder Mich Baby was lost with all hands off Bornholm in a freak mid-July hurricane. Few could have imagined that the loss of an eclectically religious mediocre pirate would have such out sized consequences.
The map of the campaign area.
The Combatants:
Prussia - Graf Leopold Eugene Dietrich Zeppelin von Franklinstein
Austria - Archduke Charlz Xavier Freidrick von Kaier
Britain - Wesley Willbritforce, Duke of Erin
France - Douglas, Duc d'Villefoq
Russia - Grand Duke Aleksey Petrovich Antropov of Malchow
Demi-Bishophric of Ludwigslust-Parchim - Helmut Freidrich Adenauer-Kohl
