OnwAARds Britain!
A Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg 1.0 AAR.
Progress thus far:
I. Introduction and Starting Situation
II. Building International Solidarity
III. Early Progress and the State of the World
IV. The Third International
V. Internal Progress and External Bonds
VI. The Congress of the Trade Unions
Intermezzo
VII. The World is Changing
VIII. What Goes in Britain
IX. Crossroads
X. The Indian Civil War
XI. The Great Leap Forward... into the dark. (post 1); (post 2)
XII. The Importance of Beeing Rare
secondo intermezzo
XIII. Steady as She Goes
XIV. The War Has Begun!
XV. The Reactionaries React
XVI. Republican Woes
XVII. The Joys of May
XVIII. Even More Joys of May!
XIX. The Trapped Beast
XX. Other Fronts
XXI. From Algarve to the Danube
XXII. The Keizer Runs Again
XXIII. The Keizer Runs... Yet Again
XXIV. Ends and Opportunities
XXV. New Colors on the Map!
XXVI. April Fools' Day
XXVII. Rising to the challenge
XVIII. The 2nd of the Third
A Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg 1.0 AAR.
Progress thus far:
I. Introduction and Starting Situation
II. Building International Solidarity
III. Early Progress and the State of the World
IV. The Third International
V. Internal Progress and External Bonds
VI. The Congress of the Trade Unions
Intermezzo
VII. The World is Changing
VIII. What Goes in Britain
IX. Crossroads
X. The Indian Civil War
XI. The Great Leap Forward... into the dark. (post 1); (post 2)
XII. The Importance of Beeing Rare
secondo intermezzo
XIII. Steady as She Goes
XIV. The War Has Begun!
XV. The Reactionaries React
XVI. Republican Woes
XVII. The Joys of May
XVIII. Even More Joys of May!
XIX. The Trapped Beast
XX. Other Fronts
XXI. From Algarve to the Danube
XXII. The Keizer Runs Again
XXIII. The Keizer Runs... Yet Again
XXIV. Ends and Opportunities
XXV. New Colors on the Map!
XXVI. April Fools' Day
XXVII. Rising to the challenge
XVIII. The 2nd of the Third
Greetings everyone. This here will be my second atempt at producing a serious game AAR. My previous atempt was a hardly-started Argentina vanila AAR, and the non serious ones have been a 2 page-report of a very fast Rep. Spain defeat, a glorious but eventualy abandoned Ethiopian Empire Report (Ortodox Meccah included), and finaly the First Life OnwAARds to Socialism, at the offtopic forum.
With this explained, I reckon you won't be surprised by me telling you this here AAR will be updated rarely and with great spaces in-between, so don't go expecting much.
Also, it will consist of more pictures then words, as I can't write narratives worth a eurocent.
Finaly, it's my first time playing Keiserreich, so I have no idea of what to expect. I won't be playing ahead of the AAR, so any suggestions on what to do are wellcome. Let's hear them!
That said, let's start:
The place is the island of Great Britain. The great historian Sarmatia tells us this of it:
Sarmatia said:After the defeat of France the United Kingdom’s war with Germany dragged on inconclusively for two years. In 1921 the stalemate was finally broken when Lloyd-George agreed to General Ludendorf's proposal for a "Peace with Honour". Under the terms of this treaty it was agreed that Britain would acknowledge Germany's gains from the war, whilst Germany would respect the Imperial possessions of the remaining Entente powers of Britain, Japan and Portugal. However, while Britain's overseas territories remained largely ordered and intact, the faith and support of the people in the Home Islands did not. In 1925, disaster struck: a minor labour dispute in the coalfields of South Wales quickly escalated after troops were sent in to restore order. Following the French example a General Strike was called by the TUC, and when the ‘government of national security’ sent orders for military action to quell the unrest many troops deserted to the side of the strikers, which was accompanied by a major naval mutiny. After six weeks of rioting, looting and pamphleteering on a massive scale the Royal Family were evacuated to Canada, followed by most of the country's leading politicians and large property owners. Following the ejection of the ‘Establishment’ a provisional government of revolutionary groups dissolved both Houses of Parliament, and declared that political authority in the new ‘Union of Britain’ would pass to a new Congress of Trade Unions. The British people are currently secure on their island, content to build socialism in political and economic isolation, protected by the strong Republican Air Force and Navy, and with each county protected by its own popular militia who act both as a reserve military and the new police constabularies. Yet, with the world seemingly ready to erupt into chaos, many are starting to wonder if Britain has a duty to spread the revolution to her former colonial territories. After all, the Monarchists in Canada cannot be allowed to plot against the Union indefinitely…
And the status of the World in January 1936 translates as such:
Internaly, the Union of Britain has the following government:
Worthy of note is perhabs that our Radical Socialist HoG is indeed a former CEO of an oil company. Some people have some strange stories it seems.
The Republican Army was very weakened, most of it composed of local militia prepaired more to protect the shores that could be used as landing sites by a Royalist invasion force then to actualy fight a war.
This would have to change, if the Royalist menace was to be removed for good - and if the Union was to mantain it's security from foreign reactionary forces.
The Navy, sticking to British tradition was actualy quite strong, but the numbers only hide the worries of the government. These ships are old and getting more and more inadequate for the security needs of an island nation.
As for the Air Force, it was deemed accetable - specialy as there were no enemies of the Union who could do us damage by air anyhow, but the potential of airplaces in the future conflits was to be investigated and exploited.
With modernisation of the Navy, Airforce and Army, and the increase of industrial and human potencial of the Union in mind, these were the reasearch priorities of the Goverment in January 1936.
Before anything else is done though, comrade Snowden orders the walpaper of the Strategy Room to be changed. Anyone care to help? (those 2 plus the Union Jack on the top really destroy the mood).
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