But Bohemia had interest in the Navy - the Guns were made by Skoda - Bohemia would probably get a positive cash flow when the Austrian Navy gets expanded.
However there may be a way. Not a way that I can promise would work, nor is it elegant in fact it is at best rather clunky. However there is just the slim possibility if you compensate the Croats with their own parliament then they might only sulk a little. So you end up with Austria-Hungary-Croatia in an all new Triple Monarchy (I did warn you this is not elegant). So there you have it an AHC for an AHC.
You might then be able to afford some more ships but it will take a lot of negations.
@RodentRevolution but then Bohemia might heavily protestbeing left out and not receiving a similar treatment. A quadruple monarchy would however be so unwieldy as to make most naval expansion projects moot.
I take it you guys have seen this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Greater_Austria
A federal solution to the problems caused by the Dual Monarchy "solution".
Would this resolve the issues of the Ausgleich and allow Vienna to have a more rationalised defence policy?
Dearly doesn't mean that. The fleet I proposed is a bigger and better fleet, but it's not a super fleet. I hadn't done any handwaves about the Dual-Monarchy having more spare cash than the UK. If anything I had in posts 36 and 37 established that A-H was not as rich as I had originally stated and therefore its going to be more difficult to find the money.Oh dearly
See here is the thing, you had a wonderful chance to attempt your AHC with and AHC and you blew it. I'll ignore the handwaves about the Dual-Monarchy having more spare cash than the United Kingdom and attempt to address the issue of how you even get to trying you KKM super fleet.
First off when you so breezily handed over Dalmatia to Hungary you may heard a noise, that was Zagreb going boom...I won't do the capital letters but suffice to say you were probably deafened and stunned. So I'll sort of forgive you for ignoring the mess as the Croats go ballistic, which they would. Of course the problem is that the Croats while kaisertreu were not exactly keen on coming under the Hungarians nor of having bits of what was considered Croatia's sphere come under Hungarians. Now even assuming the Dual-Monarchy can put out the fires the cost of military action or bribes basically result in a smaller fleet than OTL.
However there may be a way. Not a way that I can promise would work, nor is it elegant in fact it is at best rather clunky. However there is just the slim possibility if you compensate the Croats with their own parliament then they might only sulk a little. So you end up with Austria-Hungary-Croatia in an all new Triple Monarchy (I did warn you this is not elegant). So there you have it an AHC for an AHC.
You might then be able to afford some more ships but it will take a lot of negations.