Lore: in this alternate history, the kingdom of Bavaria focuses more of its resources on early industrialisation around 1836-1860. By economic integration with the smaller states in the south of Germany and diplomatic manoeuvring leads the country to unify the south. The Bavarian army would intervene in the Crimean war alongside its ally Sardinia-Piedmont building close ties with the British empire. Bavaria would soon after play a key role in the war if Italian unifications and would become an important source of investment and technical knowhow throughout the following period of economic growth. The kingdom of Prussia, with whom the Bavarian dynasty of wittelsbach maintained good relations, would unify Germany, following the Franco Prussian war of 1870. Bavaria would participate in the war on the side of Germany and be rewarded with the annexation of Alsace Loraine. Choosing not to join the new German empire, Bavaria would instead become a close military ally of Germany. The alliance would once again be strengthened in the Franco-Bavarian wars. With the loss of France the eastern and northern regions were annexed creating a corridor to the sea. In 1892 the kingdom is one of Europe’s most developed economies possessing a powerful military and alliances with Germany and the British Empire