Subcontinental Subtleties: An experimental comic AAR

Zzzzz...

No blood! No bone! No ash!

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• #41

Hooray for attrition!

 

Dewirix

Historically plausible

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• Nov 8, 2011

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• #42

How many Chinese brigades is that? I make it 38, with a nominal strength of 114,000. The worries about attrition seem well founded.

 

Selzro

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• #43

38 brigades sounds about right. Kashgar province, to the north of my mountains, can support just 2,000 soldiers of mine. Assuming the Chinese get more support as its owners (is it three times as much? I don't remember), that still kills off 15% of all Chinese troops per month until they reach a pathetically small sustainable number. And I didn't lure them to attack right away...

Good to have you on board, sactwu and SiikFajitas!

 

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• #44

Haha, the explanation for "No Commander" is brilliant!

 

mayorqw

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• #45

The comics are fantastic! Go Ranjit!

 

Derahan

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• #46

Some say Location, Location, Location... Well i say for you, Attrition, Attrition, Attrition!

 

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The no-named strategist's plan was bound to fail, is he not aware of the atrocious literacy of Chinese soldier POPs?

 

Fiftypence

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• Nov 9, 2011

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• #48

Selzro said:

Did you get far in your Panjab game, Fiftypence?

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I played up to about 1900. I civilised by the early 1860s, and industrialised like mad, but couldn't get beyond 9th in the rankings due to lousy prestige.

 

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• #49

Fantastic! Wars with China tend to drag on and become long and bloody affairs, but you have nice terrain to defend from.

 

Mr. Santiago

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Omen said:

Brilliant! Ranjit, you genius!

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There are a thousand men or so that'll have to disagree on that one

 

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• #51

Fighting China early may be a good thing if You can hold the mountains. They'll come at you in vast waves and take massive attrition and since most will not have leaders you'll be able to kill large numbers of them and Get lots of prestige and Warscore. So it'll help westernisation.

 

Selzro

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Hi, I've been away for the past few days and now I'm a bit ill, but since I'm back home I'll try to keep up my updates to one every day or two, provided my fever doesn't get any worse. Thandros is spot on with the strategy.

 

Selzro

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• Nov 13, 2011

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06: The Terms

 

Malurous

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Great, the Chinese have no answer for the 6000 taunting men!

 

PineconeKing

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Those 6000 taunting men... are they french? Do they say the enemy's mothers were hamsters and that their fathers smelled of elderberries?

 

Derahan

Ever doubtful

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• #56

Must've been 6,000 spartans....or juts 6,000 really pissed of sikh's

 

Selzro

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• Nov 13, 2011

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• #57

It's not so much the 6,000 taunters as the 18,000 reinforcements under Ranjit Singh who show up once each battle commences.

They've resorted to taunting since it became apparent that the Chinese soldiers are too illiterate to read the signs the vizier used last time (well spotted, Tanzhang (譚張))...


BONUS CONTENT!

China's humiliation poster, made of finest silk:

 

Zzzzz...

No blood! No bone! No ash!

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• Nov 13, 2011

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and ink harvested from the blood of our enemies!

 

Comm Cody

I am the one who outs

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Brilliant!

 

BootOnFace

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• Nov 14, 2011

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This is pretty great.