{"id":4124,"date":"2020-10-17T22:23:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kalle-online.net\/blog\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2020-10-17T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T22:24:00","slug":"scramble-for-africa-belgium-strategy-deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kalle-online.net\/blog\/scramble-for-africa-belgium-strategy-deity\/","title":{"rendered":"Scramble for Africa Belgium Strategy (Deity)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s tough to write my usual historic background for a guide for the Scramble for Africa Belgium strategy. Mainly because the real “Belgium Strategy” in their Belgian colonial empire<\/a> was rather scary. Belgium, only independent from the Netherlands<\/a> since 1830, showed up for the Scramble for Africa quite late. Without support of the Belgian government (Belgium was a constitutional monarchy), Leopold II<\/a> created a state under his own rule — the Congo Free State — and achieved international recognition in 1885. This is what started a damn violent and bloody history of the Congo Free State (1885-1908), Belgian Congo (1908-1960) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a> (since 1964) \/ Zaire (1971\u20131997).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a nutshell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the Dos and Don’ts for playing Scramble for Africa as Belgium:<\/p>\n\n\n\n