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Bingo!
You win your own slice of occupied German Africa - complete with 5,000 POWs and malaria infested jungle!
I have to ask you, Antonine, did you ever read a book Honor Guard by Dan Abnett? It is set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and involves an imperial armored/combined arms force being the honor guard for the local planet's dead king through enemy held territory to the tomb of a long dead saint.
Your armored honor guard shook loose memories of that book I read long ago!
Also, "The National City of the Dead" is a touch morbid, don't you think? It is, however, suitability Imperial
Vive L'Empereur!
Your armored honor guard shook loose memories of that book I read long ago!
Also, "The National City of the Dead" is a touch morbid, don't you think? It is, however, suitability Imperial
Vive L'Empereur!
I have to ask you, Antonine, did you ever read a book Honor Guard by Dan Abnett? It is set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and involves an imperial armored/combined arms force being the honor guard for the local planet's dead king through enemy held territory to the tomb of a long dead saint.
Your armored honor guard shook loose memories of that book I read long ago!
Also, "The National City of the Dead" is a touch morbid, don't you think? It is, however, suitability Imperial
Vive L'Empereur!
I haven't read it but since it's a Gaunt's Ghosts book I really should.
And surprisingly enough, the National City of the Dead is the actual French name of the Verdun Ossuary - as far as I can tell the mindset of 20th century France really does seem like something straight out of gothic imperialism
The Soviet Phase of the Third Weltkrieg
The exact period covered by the Third Weltkrieg is difficult to determine as it consisted not of one, decisive conflict but rather of several interlinked conflicts following on from one another. It is generally accepted, however, that since the Soviet attack on the German Empire and allies led directly to the war between the Soviets and the alliance led by the remnants of the British Empire, these conflicts can be considered part of the Third Weltkrieg as the Soviet phase.
At the onset of Canadian entry to the Third Weltkrieg, their efforts seemed doomed to failure. By the end of April 1952 the Red Army had reached the northern borders of Persia where it halted upon finding that the French Empire was already manning the pre-war borders of Persia. The only part of the country which would come under Soviet control was a long, thin slice of Persian Kurdistan where its entry from the Caucasus had been eased by the support of pro-Soviet Kurdish militias.
With only the inconsequential nation of Afghanistan standing between the Red Army and the weak state of Delhi (the remnants of the British Raj in India) the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan commencing on the 2nd of May surprised no one. Since even all the forces of the British Empire combined would be outnumbered by the Red Army it seemed certain that the only outcome of the Canadian declaration of war would be the fall of Delhi to the Soviets.
By the 12th of June, the Red Army had completely overrun Afghanistan and was massing on the borders of Delhi.
However, it was at this point that the Canadians found themselves an unlikely ally. During the First Russian Civil War a charismatic White Army officer by the name of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg had led the forces under his command into Mongolia where they defeated occupying Chinese forces and established control of the country. Whilst setting himself up as the unchallenged ruler of the small country, Ungern fell under the sway of mysticism and came to believe himself to be the reincarnation of Genghis Khan.
The remoteness and relative insignificance of Mongolia meant that, even after the victory of the whites in the First Russian Civil War, none of Ungern's neighbours chose to challenge his control of Mongolia. This in turn him to spend many years building up the Mongolian Army before taking advantage of a divided China and the Second Russian Civil War to annex vast swathes of both Siberia and China into what he termed the resurrected Mongolian Empire.
Although Ungern was undoubtedly insane and despised the democratic societies of the British Empire remnants as being "weak", he had a burning hatred of the Soviets and it was this which brought him into the Canadian camp. For on the 15th of June 1951 he stunned the world by declaring his alliance with "the King-Emperor of the British Empire".
Whilst the armies of Mongolia were slow to mobilise and archaically equipped, the offensive which they mounted against the eastern border of the Soviet Republic succeeded in reaching the Urals by September and placing enough pressure on the Soviets to halt their invasion of India at the River Indus.
From this point, the war against the Soviets in the east became a bloody conflict marked by constant back and forth fighting where no quarter was given and both Soviets and Mongolians committed atrocities against civilian populations.
A key factor in this was the differences between the armies fighting. The Red Army was modern and partially mechanised, consisting of 94 infantry divisions and fifteen armoured divisions. It could also count on the support of the large and well equipped Red Air Force. Against it was the relatively well equipped but small sepoy army of Delhi and the 200 divisions of the vast Mongolian army of conscripts who, while utterly unmechanised and largely equipped with First Weltkrieg weaponry, was led by a hard core of mounted Mongolian cavalry who proved highly effective shock troops under Ungern who had decades of experience in fighting on the Siberian steppes.
The war between these two very different forces would drag on throughout the winter seeing both Soviet advances in central Asia and Soviet retreats in India. By March 1953 the tide of war would even result in the Soviets being driven out of Afghanistan and even after months of Soviet counter offensives, August would still see the Red Army largely on the back foot.
The key reason for this was a momentous strategic error by Stavka, the high command of the Soviet military, which had seen the North Sea and Baltic coasts stripped of forces to be sent to the east.
In response, the Canadians had launched an immensely ambitious July invasion of the Soviet Republic. Using Iceland as a staging post, the bulk of the Canadian army and the Royal Navy were used in amphibious landings along the coast of Norway and Lapland as well as an ultimately ill-fated seizure of the port of Archangel.
Towards the end of September the well trained and equipped Canadian forces had secured all of Norway and Sweden with the frontline stabilising in Finland. However, this had failed to relieve pressure on the eastern front enough to help their allies and the Mongolians found themselves slowly but steadily falling back in the face of Soviet offensives.
The Soviet war effort was also being helped by the integration of Ukraine into the Soviet system, allowing occupation garrisons to be reduced in favour of making greater use of locally recruited and ideologically reliable police forces. Furthermore, the addition of Ukraine’s industry had increased the manufacturing capability of the Soviet Republic to a level that was higher than that of all the nations of the Canadian-led alliance combined. As the war went on, this allowed the Soviets to slowly increase the size of the Red Army to 100 infantry divisions and twenty armoured divisions, on top of replacing losses, while the armies of their enemies were gradually being worn down.
By the time 1954 rolled around the Red Army clearly had the upper hand with the frontlines deep inside Mongolian Siberia, despite its failure to make any significant progress south into Afghanistan, and the frontlines in Finland largely stalled with neither side able to make significant gains. The number of deaths caused by the Soviet phase of the Third Weltkrieg at this point are estimated to be at least five million.
The exact period covered by the Third Weltkrieg is difficult to determine as it consisted not of one, decisive conflict but rather of several interlinked conflicts following on from one another. It is generally accepted, however, that since the Soviet attack on the German Empire and allies led directly to the war between the Soviets and the alliance led by the remnants of the British Empire, these conflicts can be considered part of the Third Weltkrieg as the Soviet phase.
At the onset of Canadian entry to the Third Weltkrieg, their efforts seemed doomed to failure. By the end of April 1952 the Red Army had reached the northern borders of Persia where it halted upon finding that the French Empire was already manning the pre-war borders of Persia. The only part of the country which would come under Soviet control was a long, thin slice of Persian Kurdistan where its entry from the Caucasus had been eased by the support of pro-Soviet Kurdish militias.
With only the inconsequential nation of Afghanistan standing between the Red Army and the weak state of Delhi (the remnants of the British Raj in India) the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan commencing on the 2nd of May surprised no one. Since even all the forces of the British Empire combined would be outnumbered by the Red Army it seemed certain that the only outcome of the Canadian declaration of war would be the fall of Delhi to the Soviets.
By the 12th of June, the Red Army had completely overrun Afghanistan and was massing on the borders of Delhi.
However, it was at this point that the Canadians found themselves an unlikely ally. During the First Russian Civil War a charismatic White Army officer by the name of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg had led the forces under his command into Mongolia where they defeated occupying Chinese forces and established control of the country. Whilst setting himself up as the unchallenged ruler of the small country, Ungern fell under the sway of mysticism and came to believe himself to be the reincarnation of Genghis Khan.
The remoteness and relative insignificance of Mongolia meant that, even after the victory of the whites in the First Russian Civil War, none of Ungern's neighbours chose to challenge his control of Mongolia. This in turn him to spend many years building up the Mongolian Army before taking advantage of a divided China and the Second Russian Civil War to annex vast swathes of both Siberia and China into what he termed the resurrected Mongolian Empire.
Although Ungern was undoubtedly insane and despised the democratic societies of the British Empire remnants as being "weak", he had a burning hatred of the Soviets and it was this which brought him into the Canadian camp. For on the 15th of June 1951 he stunned the world by declaring his alliance with "the King-Emperor of the British Empire".
Whilst the armies of Mongolia were slow to mobilise and archaically equipped, the offensive which they mounted against the eastern border of the Soviet Republic succeeded in reaching the Urals by September and placing enough pressure on the Soviets to halt their invasion of India at the River Indus.
From this point, the war against the Soviets in the east became a bloody conflict marked by constant back and forth fighting where no quarter was given and both Soviets and Mongolians committed atrocities against civilian populations.
A key factor in this was the differences between the armies fighting. The Red Army was modern and partially mechanised, consisting of 94 infantry divisions and fifteen armoured divisions. It could also count on the support of the large and well equipped Red Air Force. Against it was the relatively well equipped but small sepoy army of Delhi and the 200 divisions of the vast Mongolian army of conscripts who, while utterly unmechanised and largely equipped with First Weltkrieg weaponry, was led by a hard core of mounted Mongolian cavalry who proved highly effective shock troops under Ungern who had decades of experience in fighting on the Siberian steppes.
The war between these two very different forces would drag on throughout the winter seeing both Soviet advances in central Asia and Soviet retreats in India. By March 1953 the tide of war would even result in the Soviets being driven out of Afghanistan and even after months of Soviet counter offensives, August would still see the Red Army largely on the back foot.
The key reason for this was a momentous strategic error by Stavka, the high command of the Soviet military, which had seen the North Sea and Baltic coasts stripped of forces to be sent to the east.
In response, the Canadians had launched an immensely ambitious July invasion of the Soviet Republic. Using Iceland as a staging post, the bulk of the Canadian army and the Royal Navy were used in amphibious landings along the coast of Norway and Lapland as well as an ultimately ill-fated seizure of the port of Archangel.
Towards the end of September the well trained and equipped Canadian forces had secured all of Norway and Sweden with the frontline stabilising in Finland. However, this had failed to relieve pressure on the eastern front enough to help their allies and the Mongolians found themselves slowly but steadily falling back in the face of Soviet offensives.
The Soviet war effort was also being helped by the integration of Ukraine into the Soviet system, allowing occupation garrisons to be reduced in favour of making greater use of locally recruited and ideologically reliable police forces. Furthermore, the addition of Ukraine’s industry had increased the manufacturing capability of the Soviet Republic to a level that was higher than that of all the nations of the Canadian-led alliance combined. As the war went on, this allowed the Soviets to slowly increase the size of the Red Army to 100 infantry divisions and twenty armoured divisions, on top of replacing losses, while the armies of their enemies were gradually being worn down.
By the time 1954 rolled around the Red Army clearly had the upper hand with the frontlines deep inside Mongolian Siberia, despite its failure to make any significant progress south into Afghanistan, and the frontlines in Finland largely stalled with neither side able to make significant gains. The number of deaths caused by the Soviet phase of the Third Weltkrieg at this point are estimated to be at least five million.
And while Russians, Mongolians and Canadians are bleeding the French Empire waits and prepares. It's time to take Moscow and Petrograd. Avenge Napoleon Antonine
When Mongolia was taking the lead for a moment... *shiver*
It's going to be hard to tell which country had it the worst in the end, here. Is America the ultimate loser for its bloody civil war? Germany for the nuclear disaster that befell it? Or perhaps Russia, which was destroyed as anything but a geographical expression after its post-war funk and then turned into a charnel house between presumably not-nice Soviets and lunatic Mongolians?
Would beating the Soviets even be that difficult...? Small army for that size of frontline, less industrial power than France alone. Is there even a point, really?
It's going to be hard to tell which country had it the worst in the end, here. Is America the ultimate loser for its bloody civil war? Germany for the nuclear disaster that befell it? Or perhaps Russia, which was destroyed as anything but a geographical expression after its post-war funk and then turned into a charnel house between presumably not-nice Soviets and lunatic Mongolians?
Would beating the Soviets even be that difficult...? Small army for that size of frontline, less industrial power than France alone. Is there even a point, really?
Don't be so gloomy. America is a nice healthy military dictatorship - a beacon of inspiration to tinpot dictators the world over!
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I have to say, even if it's probably still doomed, I'm impressed by that invasion of Scandinavia.
After seeing Mongolia cleverly take control of the whole front line I was hoping the entente would start winning and help Sternberg conquer the rest of his Mongolian Empire
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To paraphrase Montezuma, Prussians are like birds in a cage - fun to toy with.
I want to live in the universe where this was actually said (the part with the prussians anyways, I don't know if the rest is a real quote)
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OTL he reputedly said it about the Tlaxcala - a Mesoamerican polity which was completely surrounded by the Aztec empire and regularly used as a punching bag by them as a way to give young warriors some practice.
Yup, that's the Canadians.
P.S. I'll be posting an update tomorrow - only two or three more to go until I've caught up with my gameplay
Random thoughts:
* Rhine Protectorate? Make it a Rhennish Republic, we want Adenauer!
* Japan is surprisingly quiet during all of this. I guess in this timeline, both the second and third weltkriegs, for all of their horrific destruction, are really localized European wars without much theaters elsewhere. But it's surprising the Japanese didn't try grabbing any ex-German colonies.
* I wonder how the Soviets and the Indian Syndies will get along?
* How did the Mongolians get so many divisions?!?
* Late comment: I still don't understand how Mexico conquered the PSA. The U.S. would probably want that back, too.
* Rhine Protectorate? Make it a Rhennish Republic, we want Adenauer!
* Japan is surprisingly quiet during all of this. I guess in this timeline, both the second and third weltkriegs, for all of their horrific destruction, are really localized European wars without much theaters elsewhere. But it's surprising the Japanese didn't try grabbing any ex-German colonies.
* I wonder how the Soviets and the Indian Syndies will get along?
* How did the Mongolians get so many divisions?!?
* Late comment: I still don't understand how Mexico conquered the PSA. The U.S. would probably want that back, too.
Sorry for the delay in getting the next update written - I'm currently struggling to understand any of the course material this semester and this struggle keeps on eating up time I meant to write the update in.
There will be an update when I get the chance, maybe this weekend, but I'm very sorry for the delay.
P.S. Anyone who understands linear Kalman filters would be very welcome to inbox me.
There will be an update when I get the chance, maybe this weekend, but I'm very sorry for the delay.
P.S. Anyone who understands linear Kalman filters would be very welcome to inbox me.
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