Shadow of the Andes - An Interactive Chilean AAR

zagoroth

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• Jan 30, 2012

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(shhh ;-), hardly, more like a dream sequence for a new character.)

Aragon took his horse and traveled for days on end to reach Santiago. Disguised as a common peasant, he enters, and goes towards his prey: The nearest bar. The place is crowded. Men are at their cups trading war stories, the liars putting on tough faces, and the sorry saps crying of loved ones lost. Aragon sits down beside a sorry sap, and starts to play the game.

The travel across the plains for days, the battlefield is left behind, and they enter dark and nettled forest. There is but one path, the road to Santiago, and they take it. His stride quickens through the monoliths. The trees, older then Chile herself, lean towards the group, closing in. Great monoliths observing the band, only by their permission do they pass, and by their permission will they leave.

 

rudders10

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• Jan 30, 2012

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Riccardo93 said:

((Woo! I've outlived all my predecessors and successors! But don't worry guys, he'll be dead soon...))

I personally don't even understand Andonie's reasons for starting a coup; he looked as though he wanted Gogolow to win, and he could have easily pushed for the liberals to oppose a coalition (or at least the coalition candidate)

((I do understand that he wanted to end this bickering (or at least make it stop), and at the same time ensure a liberal government would remain in power, but he could've started by using the Republican method, voting))

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((andonie wanted to implement a new system of govt that he thought was fairer and more equitable. He was planning on resigning halfway through all he wanted was this new system which he thought could not be achieved by other means. He was honourable and full of inegrity at he start of his career but as he spent longer in office it changed him. He saw that and while he used it to bring about the changes he thought the country needed in doing so he corrupted himself and his own ideals. It is the tale of a good man changed by the power. At he end he realised but still thought he could make chile better..))

 

Revan529

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((Well that makes sense, because back when he was my minister he seemed honest and trustworthy, but power and political instability would make anyone a bit scheming, especially if that person has had to fight twice to maintain power (and to lose popular support each time). Very interesting character, and vaguely reminiscent of Badajoz.))

 

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((had fun playing him, especially making him appear towards the end like he had lost the plot. Hope people remember to dislike the charachter, not the player not sure who I will play next))

 

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Abelardo de Vasces's body was found strung up in a private room in the Statesmen Hotel, London. Cause of death was ruled as suicide. A note was found in his coat.

Democracy has died, good will has died, everything I knew to be true has died. It is only fitting I die with them.​

 

Maxwell500

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((What a way to go xD, I will create my new character soon))

 

Revan529

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• Jan 30, 2012

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((They're dropping like flies! 0.0

Oh, and TH, how long is the next update going to be (1888, 1888-89, or more, because I would like to post my guy's death at the right time... since I've grown a bit attached, he has to go out with a nice ending... ))

 

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Maxwell500

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((I died at the age of 45 ))

 

Maxwell500

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((My new character might be Juan's son, who will restore his reputation ))

 

Dyranum

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((So...it seems as if the FNT-Liberal coalition has turned into an FNT-Republicano coalition. I am honestly not really that sure who my supporters are right now.))

 

ThunderHawk3

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OConner said:

Abelardo de Vasces's body was found strung up in a private room in the Statesmen Hotel, London. Cause of death was ruled as suicide. A note was found in his coat.

Democracy has died, good will has died, everything I knew to be true has died. It is only fitting I die with them.​

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You were actually the only one of the lot who was captured, but if suicide is how you want to go, far be it from me to stop your character.

Riccardo93 said:

((They're dropping like flies! 0.0

Oh, and TH, how long is the next update going to be (1888, 1888-89, or more, because I would like to post my guy's death at the right time... since I've grown a bit attached, he has to go out with a nice ending... ))

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I don't know yet. I make that call on the fly, based on whether anything worth stopping the thread for happens. You can die retroactively if you'd like, though I think we were all based on present trends expecting Mr. De Santa Rosa to continue his service to the Republic, right up until the end, warning us about "that Hitler guy" before passing away at age 132.

zagoroth said:

(I really do not see how we should have lost... More troops, half the cabinet... Oye)

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I pretty much explained it in the update, but here's the gist: Now that their characters are dead, I don't mind saying that both Juan Alvarez and Tarquino Zepeda were really bad attacking generals. That should have been obvious from Argentina. You were essentially attacking in mountainous terrain defended by guys with machine guns.

 

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"If the government is to be formed from a the defenders of the republic, shouldn't the Communistas have their place in it?

Regardless, the election is not yet over."

 

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ThunderHawk3 said:

I pretty much explained it in the update, but here's the gist: Now that their characters are dead, I don't mind saying that both Juan Alvarez and Tarquino Zepeda were really bad attacking generals. That should have been obvious from Argentina. You were essentially attacking in mountainous terrain defended by guys with machine guns.

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((Not to mention the heroic acts of the glorious and revolutionary Red Guards. ))

 

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Rogov said:

"If the government is to be formed from a the defenders of the republic, shouldn't the Communistas have their place in it?

Regardless, the election is not yet over."

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"Such logic would be beyond the capabilities of the bourgeois parties we face, Comrade."
- Ferran Martí, Alcalde de Santiago Libre

 

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• Jan 30, 2012

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ThunderHawk3 said:

You can die retroactively if you'd like, though I think we were all based on present trends expecting Mr. De Santa Rosa to continue his service to the Republic, right up until the end, warning us about "that Hitler guy" before passing away at age 132.

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((A distinct possibility, to be sure, but I'm a bit more inclined to say that will be his son or grandson, depending on how long Francisco will live (which won't be a long as his daddy))

I am one of your (more-or-less) supporters, though that move to a free trade stance ((or better yet, keep that and go laissez-faire )) would definitely increase your support amongst the liberal Republicanos (which is what all non-coupist Liberales have become probably).

 

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(I had a feeling they were bad generals after Argentina but had no other generals. If I had known de vasces woukd have supported me I would have given him a big army as well ))

Edit- I mean bad stats wise only

 

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((Just a note, TH, winter in Chile is in July and August. If it was in January it would be a nice warm summer.))

 

ThunderHawk3

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The 1886 Presidential Election: The Dust Settles​

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The 1871 and 1876 elections were won by a handful of votes; the 1881 elections won by a broken promise. The 1886 election was won by the sacrifice of Chilean soldiers. Cynically referred to by one paper as "the bloodiest election in Chilean history", the 4th Chilean Civil War had cost more than a hundred thousand Chilean lives. With Andonie's Revolutionary Army (or Amarillos, as they were called, after their habit of wearing a token of yellow somewhere to show their support for the revolution) finally defeated against all odds, the 3rd Republic could finally return to business as usual. Though many had died to bring Chile back under Republican control, Sérgio Gogołów and the office of the Presidency were finally able to confirm that all the electors were alive and accounted for.

With the defeated Andonie's retreating curses still disappearing into the night, the electors once again converged on Santiago and cast their ballots. The result was unambiguous: with 305 cast, 161 voted for Gogołów. 107 went the Communist, Renin, while the remaining 37 were liberal electors who refused to vote for either candidate. Most of the Republicanos, following Pedro Rivera's drop out of the race, had reluctantly decided to back Gogołów, seeing him as the more palatable alternative to Renin. Finally confirmed as the duly elected President of the Republic, Gogołów gave a famous remark: "I find myself in the odd position of not knowing who my allies are. Whatever promises were made at the conventions, now a distant memory, I cannot see how I might form an FNT-Liberal coalition. I can only hope that you will take my broken promise better than you did Andonie's." Granted by small chuckles and weak smiles', the new President's remark was more truth than comedy. Nearly every liberal in the country, it seemed, had either been killed during the war or fled retribution following it. Renin, following his relatively narrow defeat, could only return to the politburo to plan the Comunista's next moves.

The Congress, also disrupted by the war, was also to muster the necessary quorum in the dying days of the Civil War to elect a new army Chief of Staff. Though Juarez, the socialist candidate, made much of his political affiliation and lobbied hard for the position, the appointment ultimately fell by a slim majority to the Admiral Eduardo Alvarez, who had the endorsement of returning hero Sebastian Hidalgo and the thanks of a grateful Republic.

With order so restored to the Republic, Gogołów was left with a difficult choice in policies and cabinet, and how best to lead a Chile under socialism.

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Dyranum, I need your appointments and what you intend to do during your term of office. Remember that your general appointments need to be coordinated with Gloa.

And (argh), as a reminder there is still time to declare an election night coup should any of the remaining incumbent ministers or generals (Pedro Rivera, Sergio Gogołów, Sebastian Hidalgo, Maximillian de Conti, and Eduardo Alvarez) wish to declare one.

 

Dyranum

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((Also, forgot to add: I see what you did there with the title for the civil war.

EDIT: Also, I would really like to know the armies for General appointment.))

 

ThunderHawk3

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tamius23 said:

((Just a note, TH, winter in Chile is in July and August. If it was in January it would be a nice warm summer.))

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Du'oh. Well... too late to fix that. Some of the campaign did happen in July and August.