Rise of A Holy Empire (Tibet)

[Tsar_of_Cows]

Rise of a Holy Empire

Patola Palace, Tibet

Tibet in 1936, an isolationist nation sandwiched between a world power, the British Empire, and another, emerging power, China. Little do they know, that I'm about to take them on an aggressive, expansionist campaign, soon the sandwich of Tibet will be buttered with the err... butter of VICTORY!

Settings:
Full IC Takeover (it'd be a bit dull otherwise)
Tech Team takeover (necessary or I wouldn't be able to research more than one tech ever.
Normal difficulty
Agressive AI.

Goals:
Spread the philosophy of peace through WAR!

Contents

1. 1st Jan 1936. The Road to War
2. 1936. Politics and Patience
3. 1937. The Year When Not Much Happened.
4. 1938. The same thing we do every night, Pinky...
5. 1938. The Fall of Sinkiang
6. Oct 1938 - June 1939. And in Other News...
7. June 1938 - Jan 1940. Gentleman, No Fighting in the War Room!
8. Jan - Sep 1940 Good Things Come to Those Who Stab You in the Back and Take 'em!
9. Sep 1940 - Jan 1941 Don't Mention the War!
10. Jan 1941 - August 1941 I Have a Cunning Plan...
11. Aug 1941 - Mar 1942 The Aksu Pocket
12. Mar 1942 - April 1942 The Battle of Feyzabad
13. April 1942 - November 1942 Sorry, Could You Repeat That?
14. Nov 1942 - Jan 1943 Oh Good God No!
15. Jan 1943 - Jul 1943 The Rise of Greater Tibet!
16. Jul 1943 - Dec 1943 A Change of Plan
17. Jul 1944 - May 1944 Onward To Stalingrad! Wait... that isn't in Persia...
18. Jul 1944 - Sep 1944 Hold the Line!

The Road to War

So... January 1st 1936, war in Europe is become a distinct possibility, and up a mountain in the far east, we need to prepare, I want to see Tibetan paratroopers in Berlin/London (both?) in 1945, and we have a long way to go.

First lets check out the Tibetan Intelligence Command (TIC):

Unfortunately our "Intelligence Community" is the monastery grape vine. Apparently monk Songtsen's goat is ill again. This is grave news, but doesn't help with manipulating our enemies (unless we can sell the goat to somebody... I'll look into it), and unfortunately our Glorious Empire's coffers aren't very full after raising money to repair the leaking roof at the Palace last year. Any budget increases will have to wait.

Ok, time to check out the Holy Army of Tibet (HAT):

We seem to have 3 divisions, 1 of which is armed with some antique muskets and a few pitch-forks we found in a shed, the other 2 are actually a herd of goats that farmer Enlai said we can borrow. Don't tell him.

I think a recruitment drive is in order.

Ok, with all this quiet contemplation and stuff, surly we have some decent tech teams:

Well it seems we can only support one tech team, our glorious military academy. Which is a shed. At the back of the palace. Where one of the monks who used to be in the army tells people stories. I asked him to think about how we can improve HAT's ability to wage fast, decisive battles. I think he's looking into it, but I had to drink tea with him and listen to story about the time that he was on guard duty and something happened.

After that fiasco, I decided to put up a few posters advertising that HAT is recruiting.

I also spoke to a blacksmith about getting some more guns, and securing an order for armoured cars.

Unfortunately the armoured cars fell through. I think they couldn't get them up the mountain or something. Still we have guns and fresh recruits, and soon we shall have doubled the amount of infantry in our glorious army!

[torenico]

following.

Good Luck

[Tsar_of_Cows]

Politics and Patience:The First Year

As it stands our Glorious Leader at the helm of this Glorious Empire, is 2 years old, so the day to day running of the government is done by Reting Rimpoche. And by "day to day running" I mean pretty much everything, he is our Head of Government, Head of Security and Foreign Minister. Pretty much all this currently entails is changing the Dalai Lama's nappy, and mushing up his food so he can eat it.

Also for some reason we seem to have a Chief of the Navy and Chief of the Airforce. The former tends to a fish pond at the Palace, the latter once saw a plane. Unfortunately, that does make them the most qualified people in the country to do their respective jobs.

Anyway, I've started paving our way to glory by suggesting that we might want to think about spreading Buddhism to the surrounding countries. Soon I'll bring them round to the concept of actually coming down the mountain and shooting people.

Anyway, since our Foreign Minister was feeding our Head of Government I took the opportunity to meet some representatives of various governments. There will soon be war in Europe and which side our Glorious Empire joins could well tip the balance!

My meeting with the British didn't go so well, seems they think we should be part of China. PAH! China will surrender when the HAT's endless legions of tanks roll through Shanghai!

The Soviets really don't like us very much either. I think Stalin doesn't like kids. Godless commie scum.

Ah, now Germany at least would talk to us, but they weren't too keen on establishing trade. Still the Axis is worth considering!

Notable Events

Well the Spaniards started having a war. Lucky devils. Fortunately for us that means the eyes of the world are on Spain, rather than the rising threat in the east!

Our 2nd Infantry Division finished training and are now ready to hold sticks which we pretend are guns. We still have a lot of goats filling out the numbers, but I've had a breakthrough - we'll cover them in oil, light them and hope they run at the enemy! It's not like we have any cars or other things which consume our oil reserves...

A couple of months later I managed to get some old guns for the military, sadly they are really very old guns, so now we have to find some gunpowder. And cannonballs. I think we might have to use goats as a substitute for cannonballs... and possibly gunpowder too.

The Nationalists are winning the war in Spain. We didn't even have to send them any supplies either!

It seems our Military Academy had a breakthrough, one day monk Jamyang came running out of his shed proclaiming he'd had a great idea! "when fighting the enemy" he said, "we'll move around really fast, you know, like running, or even riding on trucks!" I gently pointed out that we don't have any trucks, but suggested we train some goats instead. Soon we'll have a whole new way of fighting!

After all night negotiations, I convinced Germany to give us 0.1 Supplies for 0.3 Rare Materials. This is the begining of stronger ties between our Glorious Empires!

Well that's 1936 over with, and this year I suggested to the head of government that it'd be awfully nice if we could share with our neighbours. I didn't add that I was of course, referring to bullets.


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[Lascars]

Well good luck to the mighty Tibetan goats... oups, i mean HAT. And hope one day we will see the brutal and disruptive effects of Yak Spearhead Doctrine.

[Mico94]

the yak/goat hordes shall overcome tibet's enemies!

[son of liberty]

Onward buddhist goatboys

[likk9922]

I really like this.

Onwards and upwards! Or... erm... downwards... off the mountain...

[Inner Circle]

i hope i´ll see a navy or an airforce in the future

[Tsar_of_Cows]

Originally Posted by Lascars

Well good luck to the mighty Tibetan goats... oups, i mean HAT. And hope one day we will see the brutal and disruptive effects of Yak Spearhead Doctrine.

Indeed! But first we'll need to buy some Yaks. Unfortunatly the Soviets don't like us

Originally Posted by Mico94

the yak/goat hordes shall overcome tibet's enemies!

It is only a matter of time!

Originally Posted by son of liberty

Onward buddhist goatboys

Yes! Spreading the philosophy of peace through war and exploding goats!

Originally Posted by likk9922

I really like this.

Onwards and upwards! Or... erm... downwards... off the mountain...

Thanks

Soon we shall be coming down from the mountain in a tide of blood. And goats.

Originally Posted by Inner Circle

i hope i´ll see a navy or an airforce in the future

I did try strapping some wings onto a goat and pushing it off the mountain, it didn't have the desired effect...

[Beppo]

I assume you've got full IC/tech team takeover?

And how the heck do you plan to get out of full isolationism?

-- Beppo

[Tsar_of_Cows]

Originally Posted by Beppo

I assume you've got full IC/tech team takeover?

And how the heck do you plan to get out of full isolationism?

-- Beppo

Yep, I should have posted the settings shouldn't I? full IC takeover and Techteam takeover, playing on Normal/Aggressive.

I won't be able to get out of full isolationism in any decent period of time, unless i get some fortuitous events, my goal is really just to get it far enough that I can do a DoW with getting cripplingly high dissent. I mean at the start if I DoW'd I'd get 12% Dissent which would be pretty suicidal with this few troops. I think if I can get that down to maybe 5% or so it will be manageable. I'm hoping the game will throw a decent event my way though to keep things interesting I may have to force it to

[Tsar_of_Cows]

1937. The Year When Not Much Happened.

So, 1937. Well nothing much happened in important places like Tibet during 1937 so let's talk about what happened elsewhere.

A Year in Politics

Well the Nationalists in Spain beat the Republicans. I doubt anyone much cares since our Glorious Army was not involved, no, HAT was preparing for a super secret invasion I'm planning!

Now, this is something more interesting, some minor nation called "Japan" declared war on China, who happen to own some territory I'm terribly keen on acquiring, this will play straight into our hands. When we're capable of waging an aggressive war.

Following this, China annexed one of the puny nations in the area which I was hoping to invade soon. This was slightly irritating but soon enough this land shall be ours!

Now, onto more interesting things. While these minor powers were fighting over land which isn't up a mountain and therefore is not important, I was using Tibet's considerable resources to manipulate the global economy! Resources are pouring into our storehouses now, and our stockpiles grow daily! That reminds me I need some more goat feed, some of the soldiers are wondering off, which is rather dangerous when they've got several grenades strapped to them.

1937, a Year of Technological Advances!

After his breakthrough last year, our chief of the army, brother Jamyang, came up with a whole new way of waging warfare. Our soldiers are much better trained now, and I'm confident that the 4 legged ones will stop wondering into people's gardens and exploding. I'm worried that our Great Leader might see one of these incidents, traumatising him wouldn't be a good start to our global conquest.

Once we had figured out that riding goats into battle was a sound plan, we set to work on securing some better weapons for our soldiers. Jamyang is getting really into it now, and within a couple of months we secured a weapons deal with Germany to import some Mauser rifles!

Unfortunately since our entire industrial output - a blacksmith, a carpenter and a group of little old ladies who enjoy knitting - is devoted to producing uniforms for our 3rd Infantry division and military supplies to sell to other countries, we haven't been able to upgrade the equipment of our existing divisions. Once our 3rd division is ready however, it will be full steam ahead, and HAT will be superior to our neighbours armies!

Speaking of which, it seems my shrewd manipulating of the markets brought in some investment! Somebody from a neighbouring village donated $5 to the little old ladies knitting group, they bought a tea cosy and a new tea pot, which has improved morale and their output!

Time to invest in our industry a bit methinks:

Yes, soon we shall have the knowledge to build factories which will feed our war machine!

Another year Ends...

Well that's another year over. I gave the Dalai Lama some toy soldiers to play with this year. Reting isn't happy, but our Glorious Leader is.

Soon we shall be replacing our robes with combat fatigues and our sandals with jackboots!


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[Tsar_of_Cows]

The Same Thing We Do Every Night, Pinky - TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Last time I hinted that I had a super secret plan of action, this time, since our enemies will soon be on the recieving end of it anyway, I'll share it with you:

Ok, so here we see our Glorious Empire surrounded by our Puny Enemies.

Unfortunately, obviously terrified of us, our enemies are allied together with China, so when we attack one, the others will surely declare war on us.

So, the plan is as follows - 1 we'll attack Sinkiang the furthest West of our enemies, it'll be hard for them to receive reinforcements as most of the Chinese military is fighting the Japanese to the East.

2, we'll go for Xibei San Ma, they don't appear to have much of an army, and it is preoccupied on their northern border trying to hold off the Japanese.

During this time, I don't expect the strongest of these warlords, Yunnan to be sitting around feeding goats, so I'll have to leave a garrison force on our border in case they try to counter attack.


As you can tell ,this plan is flawless and doesn't at all suffer from us having virtually no soldiers. It does however, depend on the Japanese rather a lot, as long as they can keep winning, it'll give the Holy Army of Tibet a clear shot at annexing these two warlords. With this in mind, I've been watching global politics intently...

Jan-June 1938. Politics, Politics, Politics.

Well what everyone has been talking about is Germany annexing Austria. Soon Germany could actually pose a threat to us! Luckily we're on good terms.

Japan decided to show off how well they're doing by creating a whole new country. Showoffs.

And the war in the East went from this:

to this:

And now... a War!

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[Roman_legion]

Originally Posted by Tsar_of_Cows

The Same Thing We Do Every Night, Pinky - TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Rofl

Theres a button of minor AAR's right now, so I am going to follow this one too

[Tsar_of_Cows]

Originally Posted by Roman_legion

Rofl

Theres a button of minor AAR's right now, so I am going to follow this one too

I hope you enjoy reading it

[Tsar_of_Cows]

The Fall of Sinkiang

Well, as I was organising my forces to attack, Japan finally crushed China, removing Xibei San Ma and Yunnan from the picture, and leaving me with the perfect chance to take out Sinkiang:

Bwaahhahahahahaha! Soon we shall double the size of our Glorious Empire! Ok, so a few people were unhappy with the whole war thing, and I had to convince the monks that Sinkiang attacked us, not the other way around. Luckily, while meditation brings you inner enlightenment, it doesn't really tell you much about the outside world, so they bought it.

HAT wins it's first battle and marches triumphantly into Sinkiang, who obviously knew their doom approached:

no way!

It was only a matter of time, HAT crushed the enemy, and Sinkiang joins our Glorious Empire!

Celebrations back home were typically low key:

Behold our mighty empire!

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And that's the last update I'll do before we reach page 2 in this thread.. too many images and it's hard to navigate. So post if you want more AAR!

[soulking]

lol! this is one of the best minor AAR's i've ever read, keep it up.

FOR THE GOATS!!!!

[Jambor]

Now how will you grow?

And I agree with soulking!
FOR THE GOATS!!!!

[Tsar_of_Cows]

Originally Posted by soulking

lol! this is one of the best minor AAR's i've ever read, keep it up.

FOR THE GOATS!!!!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Jambor

Now how will you grow?

And I agree with soulking!
FOR THE GOATS!!!!

Afghanistan is looking like a tasty target... Other than that we mayt have to wait for political developments...

and yes, FOR THE GOATS!!!!

[soulking]

Originally Posted by Tsar_of_Cows

Thanks!



Afghanistan is looking like a tasty target... Other than that we mayt have to wait for political developments...

and yes, FOR THE GOATS!!!!

How much IC do you have now? and also, Afghanistan is the most reasonable target if the Holy Empire is not in an alliance. Also, I think Afghanistan is allied with Iran/Persia.