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Now that Greece is bound to the Entente, it's time for Ireland to become a member too.
Nay! Let's not make things too easy for the Entente, turning them into a grand alliance while Mitteleuropa becomes the automatic decrepit evil empire. Why not have the Irish lured into the latter's party because of Catholic and anti-Anglo ties? Let's make this more challenging for the Entente and National France!
Ireland doesn't really gain anything for siding with anybody, I would say that they should remain neutral.
Indeed, Ireland has nothing to gain with Entente or Mitteleuropan victory. They remain neutral, they may still retain their independence. May being the key word.
That brings up the other question...what about Romania?
That brings up the other question...what about Romania?
That works too. I think the idea is that we shouldn't necessarily have every single freedom-loving or neutral country join the Entente. From what I understand, the Entente-Mitteleuropan rivalry is basically World War I frozen in ice. As such, there can be republics who could be allied with Mitteleuropa, so long as they're anti-French/British/etc. Speaking of which, are the social democratic parliamentary monarchies of Scandinavia part of the Mitteleuropa?
As of a few updates ago, they are now a part of Mitteleuropa. Ironic, considering their usual stance.
@ Strategos' Risk: Scandinavian nations are now lead by conservative militarist goverments and allied to Mitteleuropa. This was the consequence of fear of the rising Russia (Russians were having naval drills in the neighbourhood and Germans sent documents to Scandinavian leaderships about Russians plans of invasion of Scandinavia in case of war between Entente and Mitteleuropa). As for political structure of members of both blocs, Mitteleuropa is not reserved for monarchies only, they supported American Union State (which was some kind of pseudofascist republic) and they have also South African Republic in their bloc (it's an single-party republic). They probbly wouldn't mind having Ireland in Mitteleuropa too, but they would probably also ask Irish to turn their republic into monarchy ruled by German noble to seal the alliance with blood ties (in Kaiserreich scenario, Germans tried to do this in 1920s with Prince Joachim who would become Brian III).
Everyone, thanks for comments! As for Ireland, they never had good relations with Canada as the Queen still bears the title ''Queen of Canada, Carribean Federation, Australasia, Great Britain and Ireland''. Irish will probably want to make themselves sure to be recognized by Entente before the second great war starts, or they will seek German protection. Neutrality is the best choice for them. They surely won't side with Entente because they are too close to Europe and don't want to risk, but until British exiles won't recognize Ireland as sovereign and independent republic (and not as dominion from peace treaty with IRA after the Weltkrieg, note that partition of Ireland also never happened).
Oran, 17 June 2011
In the shadow of new tensions with Mitteleuropa due to rise of influence of Entente in Europe, President Dassault decided to inspect the troops of all branches of French military. First day of inspection was reserved for ground forces - Armée de Terre. With formal title of supreme commander of armed forces, President was somehow obligated to show his interest in military. After all, he also received two highest military titles of land and naval forces in the past.
5th Army Corps, commanded by General Steiner, was stationed in Oran. President decided to visit this unit because corps of General Steiner was one of the strongest units of Land Army. It was made of two brigades of AMX-56 Leclerc tanks, three motorized infantry divisions (fully equiped with Armored Personel Carriers which enabled rapid deployment and protection of troops) and mobile command center. Brigade of attack helicopters was attached to corps for close support for ground troops. Ironically, Steiner's corps was stationed near the Spanish enclave of Melilla: In fact, soldiers of both armies were looking each other trough the scopes of their rifles. As exiled Catalan nationalist, Steiner was waiting to deliver payment to Spanish unitarists that forced him to find his exile in this horrible French state in North Africa.
President Dassault met with General Steiner and good old Kurt made some jokes about French again. He said that he is ready to encounter the enemies himself, but he isn't sure if his French soldiers are ready for this. As officer of German school, Steiner was not pleased because his soldiers were not ready to adopt German discipline and way of thinking. Reporters made a reports about President's inspection of ground troops (of course the texts, photographs and footages went trough strict cenzorship to ensure that only best material is chosen and that any criticism is thrown out) and Marshal Dassault hoped that his visit will affect the morale of people in those harsh times.
In the evening, President also visited the 4th Army Corps that was stationed some miles in the South. Mountain infantry corps was commanded by mountain warfare specialist General Noir and President Dassault was pleased with combat readiness of five mountain infantry regiments of 4th Army Corps. After the return to Algiers, general overview of situation of Land Army was delivered to President. Coast guard units that were protecting the beaches and security garrisons in unstable protectorates of Cameroon, Nigeria and Central Africa were not included in report. They lacked motorization and were mostly useful for local assigments, like defending the key points before reinforcements arrive, and suppressing insurgency. Those units were mostly drained from local manpower and represented territorial defense. Following day was reserved for inspection of air force.
Everyone, thanks for comments! As for Ireland, they never had good relations with Canada as the Queen still bears the title ''Queen of Canada, Carribean Federation, Australasia, Great Britain and Ireland''. Irish will probably want to make themselves sure to be recognized by Entente before the second great war starts, or they will seek German protection. Neutrality is the best choice for them. They surely won't side with Entente because they are too close to Europe and don't want to risk, but until British exiles won't recognize Ireland as sovereign and independent republic (and not as dominion from peace treaty with IRA after the Weltkrieg, note that partition of Ireland also never happened).
Oran, 17 June 2011
In the shadow of new tensions with Mitteleuropa due to rise of influence of Entente in Europe, President Dassault decided to inspect the troops of all branches of French military. First day of inspection was reserved for ground forces - Armée de Terre. With formal title of supreme commander of armed forces, President was somehow obligated to show his interest in military. After all, he also received two highest military titles of land and naval forces in the past.
5th Army Corps, commanded by General Steiner, was stationed in Oran. President decided to visit this unit because corps of General Steiner was one of the strongest units of Land Army. It was made of two brigades of AMX-56 Leclerc tanks, three motorized infantry divisions (fully equiped with Armored Personel Carriers which enabled rapid deployment and protection of troops) and mobile command center. Brigade of attack helicopters was attached to corps for close support for ground troops. Ironically, Steiner's corps was stationed near the Spanish enclave of Melilla: In fact, soldiers of both armies were looking each other trough the scopes of their rifles. As exiled Catalan nationalist, Steiner was waiting to deliver payment to Spanish unitarists that forced him to find his exile in this horrible French state in North Africa.
President Dassault met with General Steiner and good old Kurt made some jokes about French again. He said that he is ready to encounter the enemies himself, but he isn't sure if his French soldiers are ready for this. As officer of German school, Steiner was not pleased because his soldiers were not ready to adopt German discipline and way of thinking. Reporters made a reports about President's inspection of ground troops (of course the texts, photographs and footages went trough strict cenzorship to ensure that only best material is chosen and that any criticism is thrown out) and Marshal Dassault hoped that his visit will affect the morale of people in those harsh times.
In the evening, President also visited the 4th Army Corps that was stationed some miles in the South. Mountain infantry corps was commanded by mountain warfare specialist General Noir and President Dassault was pleased with combat readiness of five mountain infantry regiments of 4th Army Corps. After the return to Algiers, general overview of situation of Land Army was delivered to President. Coast guard units that were protecting the beaches and security garrisons in unstable protectorates of Cameroon, Nigeria and Central Africa were not included in report. They lacked motorization and were mostly useful for local assigments, like defending the key points before reinforcements arrive, and suppressing insurgency. Those units were mostly drained from local manpower and represented territorial defense. Following day was reserved for inspection of air force.
that is a very nice army, especially when compared to how small your army was at the beginning of the game. My only concern with your forces is the lack of division sized units, since the bulk of your troops are in brigade form. Oh well, I am sure it wont be too big of a problem, especially if you are going to be fighting countries like Spain, Italy, and puppet mainland France which probably have rather weak armies.
Good update.
Good update.
I agree with KM, the French National Army is larger and more capable than before (still not a fan of the Leclerc MBT, I prefer the Leopard 2 ironically enough) but I know it should be enough to get you through the weaker Mitteleuropan States to the North and West.
Thanks for comments, everyone! I'm sorry for a bit small updates, the reason is lack of time and also fact that full presentation of my current armed forces in single update would look like very confusing, so I rather divided them in three updates. After that, more action comes again, you'll be able to see developments in Europe (important events in Romania, Austria-Hungary and Eastern Europe), Irish-Canadian diplomatic conflict, internal political shift in National France and of course, the grand historical agreement with Japan.
Tunis, 18 June 2011
The second day of President's inspection of military was reserved for air force. President Dassault visited air base in Tunis, where the major part of French air fleet was currently stationed. Tunis military air base was sheltering two wings of advanced fighters (one wing of short-range and one wing of long-range fighters), air transport fleet and two wings of Portugese fighters that were temporary ''lent'' to French air force due to bad economic situation of Portugese republic which was exiled to her colonies after royalist coup in mainland Portugal. Portugese lacked resources to maintain their air fleet and French offered to take the fighters in their custodity where they would be repaired and upgraded. Portugese pilots who were also ''borrowed'' together with their planes were also glad to be able to fly together with their French comrades as they would have bigger chance in fight against German counterparts if being part of strong French air fleet. But the most important part of President's visit was the inspection of two strategic bomber squadrons in underground hangars. Those bringers of destruction were armed with nuclear weapons. President Dassault hoped that French strategic bombers would never have to drop their nuclear payload in potential war. French Air Force also possessed strong tactical ground support air fleet: Three wings of close air support light bombers and one wing of strike fighters. In the end of the day, President Dassault was photographed in fighter plane for propaganda purposes. Next day was reserved for inspection of La Royale.
Tunis, 18 June 2011
The second day of President's inspection of military was reserved for air force. President Dassault visited air base in Tunis, where the major part of French air fleet was currently stationed. Tunis military air base was sheltering two wings of advanced fighters (one wing of short-range and one wing of long-range fighters), air transport fleet and two wings of Portugese fighters that were temporary ''lent'' to French air force due to bad economic situation of Portugese republic which was exiled to her colonies after royalist coup in mainland Portugal. Portugese lacked resources to maintain their air fleet and French offered to take the fighters in their custodity where they would be repaired and upgraded. Portugese pilots who were also ''borrowed'' together with their planes were also glad to be able to fly together with their French comrades as they would have bigger chance in fight against German counterparts if being part of strong French air fleet. But the most important part of President's visit was the inspection of two strategic bomber squadrons in underground hangars. Those bringers of destruction were armed with nuclear weapons. President Dassault hoped that French strategic bombers would never have to drop their nuclear payload in potential war. French Air Force also possessed strong tactical ground support air fleet: Three wings of close air support light bombers and one wing of strike fighters. In the end of the day, President Dassault was photographed in fighter plane for propaganda purposes. Next day was reserved for inspection of La Royale.
Now THATS firepower! I cannot wait to see Mitteleuropa's precious armoured divisions shatter in the face of those bombers and strike fighters. I am looking forward to seeing what your new Navy looks like.
1985's planes? Tschk, tschk, tschk...
And using Spanish transport planes?
Decidely, France is rotten
And using Spanish transport planes?
Decidely, France is rotten
That's a lot of flying artillery and tank busters, it will surely prove useful against the Panzerwaffe.
If I may interject...
IMHO this is what I think the unlabeled Force NationaledDe l'Air Française aircraft would be:
-4.5 Generation LR Multi-Role Fighter: Dassault Rafale B or Dassault Mirage 2000-5(assuming the Short Range version already mentioned is the C model)
-4th Gen Short Range Multi-Role Fighter: Dassault Mirage 2000C
-Late Cold War Strike Fighter: Dassault Mirage 2000N
-Post Cold War Close Air Support Fighter: Dassault Mirage 2000D
-Late Cold War Strategic Bomber: Dassault Mirage IVP
Did I ever tell you that I like French aircraft...
But enough about that, CASA aircraft in my National French Air Force...not on my watch. I request immediately finding a successor, I will call it Dassault Tempête and it will be better than any Transports the Germans can field.
IMHO this is what I think the unlabeled Force NationaledDe l'Air Française aircraft would be:
-4.5 Generation LR Multi-Role Fighter: Dassault Rafale B or Dassault Mirage 2000-5(assuming the Short Range version already mentioned is the C model)
-4th Gen Short Range Multi-Role Fighter: Dassault Mirage 2000C
-Late Cold War Strike Fighter: Dassault Mirage 2000N
-Post Cold War Close Air Support Fighter: Dassault Mirage 2000D
-Late Cold War Strategic Bomber: Dassault Mirage IVP
Did I ever tell you that I like French aircraft...
But enough about that, CASA aircraft in my National French Air Force...not on my watch. I request immediately finding a successor, I will call it Dassault Tempête and it will be better than any Transports the Germans can field.
@ Kaiser Mobius: Indeed, those CAS bombers and strike fighters will be great tank killers, but they will be easy target for Mitteleuropean fighters if enemy fighter aircraft formations won't be neutralized before. I hope that French and allied fighters will manage to do this job.
@ Kurty: Damn, I spotted this CASA name in image, but I forgot to delete that. Let's just say this is a typo made by some bureauocrat at airlift command, he mixed some documents about Mitteleuropa air forces and reports about French Air Force, so he accidentaly typed the name of Spanish air transport instead of name of the French aircraft. Of course we're not using Spanish planes, Spain is member of Mitteleuropa, we don't use the weapons of our rivals!
@ Karaiskandar: You got that right, General Noir!
@ Razgriz 2K9: Thank you very much for your input, I like those names a lot! Our transport planes are called Dassault Tempête, not CASA, there never were CASA planes in our airforce (it was just a bureauocratic typo, lazy official will of course get cut in his wage).
Algiers, 19 June 2011
The pride of La Royale, fleet carrier FS Ferdinand Foch, was hosting an important guest, the President of the Republic himself. President visited the bridge of magnificent floating fortress and inspected the commaning officers. Then he gave a speech to gathered sailors and other members of staff on board. This fleet carrier was part of the strongest naval battle group, called Ferdinand Foch Strike Group. This formation was made of three fleet carriers (FS Ferdinand Foch, FS Philippe LeClerc and FS Jacques Massu, all named in honour of great Marechals and leaders of Republic) and dozen of destroyers (fire support against enemy ships) and frigates (assigned for additional anti-aircraft and anti-submarine defence). Philippe Petain strike group was made of fleet carrier FS Philippe Petain and two light carriers, FS Charles de Gaulle and FS Philippe de Gaulle (NOTE: Those two light carriers are sister ships, there's another bureauocratic typo here, both carriers are from 1985 generation, but FS Charles de Gaulle is better armed and has better statistics). Those carriers that also bear the names of glorious Marechals are escorted by strong escort of destroyers and frigates.
Francois Darlan Strike Group was consisted of fearfull nuclear battlecruises, escorted by frigates for anti-submarine and anti-aircraft protection. Strike group is lead by largest nuclear battlecruiser FS Francois Darlan. There was a destroyer named FS Francois Darlan in French Navy before, but it was sold to Phoenicia just before the battlecruiser who received the same name was launched. New destroyer of Phoenician Navy was named King Hiram and the first nuclear battlecruiser of Marine Nationale was named FS Francois Darlan. This way, FS Francois Darlan was ''transormed'' into battlecruiser. Special task fleet for amphibious assaults called ''Invasion Fleet'' was mix of armed landing platforms of Foundre class, transport ships of older types, and frigates for protection against enemy submarines, missiles and aircraft. Submarine Fleet was combined from Rubis class submarines and Triomphant class guided missile submarines.
At the end of the day, naval commanders assured President Dassault that Marine Nationale is ready for any kind of situation. After all, proud ships of La Royale gained a lot of experience in the past, especially in war against the navies of Syndicalist Internationale. Three carriers really celebrated themselves with many important kills: FS Ferdinand Foch eliminated two Bengali carriers, another Bengali carrier was destroyed by FS Philippe LeClerc and Brazilian carrier was neutralized by FS Philippe Petain. Many other enemy vessels like destroyers, frigates, submarines and transport ships were also destroyed by those three French carriers.
@ Kurty: Damn, I spotted this CASA name in image, but I forgot to delete that. Let's just say this is a typo made by some bureauocrat at airlift command, he mixed some documents about Mitteleuropa air forces and reports about French Air Force, so he accidentaly typed the name of Spanish air transport instead of name of the French aircraft. Of course we're not using Spanish planes, Spain is member of Mitteleuropa, we don't use the weapons of our rivals!
@ Karaiskandar: You got that right, General Noir!
@ Razgriz 2K9: Thank you very much for your input, I like those names a lot! Our transport planes are called Dassault Tempête, not CASA, there never were CASA planes in our airforce (it was just a bureauocratic typo, lazy official will of course get cut in his wage
).Algiers, 19 June 2011
The pride of La Royale, fleet carrier FS Ferdinand Foch, was hosting an important guest, the President of the Republic himself. President visited the bridge of magnificent floating fortress and inspected the commaning officers. Then he gave a speech to gathered sailors and other members of staff on board. This fleet carrier was part of the strongest naval battle group, called Ferdinand Foch Strike Group. This formation was made of three fleet carriers (FS Ferdinand Foch, FS Philippe LeClerc and FS Jacques Massu, all named in honour of great Marechals and leaders of Republic) and dozen of destroyers (fire support against enemy ships) and frigates (assigned for additional anti-aircraft and anti-submarine defence). Philippe Petain strike group was made of fleet carrier FS Philippe Petain and two light carriers, FS Charles de Gaulle and FS Philippe de Gaulle (NOTE: Those two light carriers are sister ships, there's another bureauocratic typo here, both carriers are from 1985 generation, but FS Charles de Gaulle is better armed and has better statistics). Those carriers that also bear the names of glorious Marechals are escorted by strong escort of destroyers and frigates.
Francois Darlan Strike Group was consisted of fearfull nuclear battlecruises, escorted by frigates for anti-submarine and anti-aircraft protection. Strike group is lead by largest nuclear battlecruiser FS Francois Darlan. There was a destroyer named FS Francois Darlan in French Navy before, but it was sold to Phoenicia just before the battlecruiser who received the same name was launched. New destroyer of Phoenician Navy was named King Hiram and the first nuclear battlecruiser of Marine Nationale was named FS Francois Darlan. This way, FS Francois Darlan was ''transormed'' into battlecruiser. Special task fleet for amphibious assaults called ''Invasion Fleet'' was mix of armed landing platforms of Foundre class, transport ships of older types, and frigates for protection against enemy submarines, missiles and aircraft. Submarine Fleet was combined from Rubis class submarines and Triomphant class guided missile submarines.
At the end of the day, naval commanders assured President Dassault that Marine Nationale is ready for any kind of situation. After all, proud ships of La Royale gained a lot of experience in the past, especially in war against the navies of Syndicalist Internationale. Three carriers really celebrated themselves with many important kills: FS Ferdinand Foch eliminated two Bengali carriers, another Bengali carrier was destroyed by FS Philippe LeClerc and Brazilian carrier was neutralized by FS Philippe Petain. Many other enemy vessels like destroyers, frigates, submarines and transport ships were also destroyed by those three French carriers.