KHAN OF ALL THE RUSSIAS
An All the Russias mod Mongolian AAR.
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Mongolia! A land which in the past made the world tremble, when the knees of men and the earth itself both shook at the pounding approach of the Mongol hordes. Mongolia! Land of warriors and mysticism, the Heart of Asia. Mongolia! Land of the great Khans, masters of mankind.
But that was the past. In the centuries since, the Mongols have fallen on harder times, and had ultimately been subjugated by the Chinese.
But the Mongol Empire was not the only one to fall. As both the Chinese and Russian Empires collapsed in the second decade of the twentieth century, an opportunity arose for Mongolia to reassert itself. An opportunity seized upon by a most unlikely and dangerous individual.
Baron Roman Friederich Nickolaus von Ungern-Sternberg was born in Austria, raised in Russian Estonia and became an officer in the Tsar's cavalry. He served in the Great War with distinction, though some considered him reckless, even insane due to a head wound received in a drunken duel years earlier. No one realized the true nature of the effect caused by the saber blow however - no one, that is, besides Grigori Rasputin.
During times they were both in St. Petersburg Sternberg and Rasputin became acquainted. The Mad Monk immediately recognized the potential in the young officer and took him on as a private disciple. Together they delved deeper into mysticism and their burgeoning powers of mesmerism.
Rasputin was not a popular man in some circles, and Russia's difficulties in the Great War intensified the hatred of his enemies. Finally in 1916 he was slain by Prince Felix Yusupov and his associates while Sternberg was away at the front. Even if Sternberg had been in the capital during that fateful time it is doubtful the conspirators would have acted against him. He was known to meet with and associate with Rasputin, true, but so had many others. They did not realize what a viper they still had in their midst.
Soon afterwards came the Revolutions and the Civil War. While nominally an officer on the side of the 'Whites', the Bloody Baron seized the opportunity to take Mongolia for himself, along with a section of the Trans-Siberian railroad. The weakened Russia that emerged from the fight with the Bolsheviks was unable to press the issue, as it was unable to do with Transamur, Poland and other breakaway regions.
So it was that Mongolia gained a new Khan. A Khan equally well-versed in ancient mysticism, the mysteries of mesmerism and mentalism, and the principles of modern industrialized warfare. A reincarnation of the great Genghis, updated for the 20th century.
A new age had dawned for Mongolia, and the world. For the next decade and a half he transformed Mongolia into a military and industrial powerhouse. By 1936 he judged the time right. Once more a cry was heard across Asia, a cry that inspired flight and fear in all who heard it.
"The Mongols are coming!"
An All the Russias mod Mongolian AAR.
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Mongolia! A land which in the past made the world tremble, when the knees of men and the earth itself both shook at the pounding approach of the Mongol hordes. Mongolia! Land of warriors and mysticism, the Heart of Asia. Mongolia! Land of the great Khans, masters of mankind.
But that was the past. In the centuries since, the Mongols have fallen on harder times, and had ultimately been subjugated by the Chinese.
But the Mongol Empire was not the only one to fall. As both the Chinese and Russian Empires collapsed in the second decade of the twentieth century, an opportunity arose for Mongolia to reassert itself. An opportunity seized upon by a most unlikely and dangerous individual.
Baron Roman Friederich Nickolaus von Ungern-Sternberg was born in Austria, raised in Russian Estonia and became an officer in the Tsar's cavalry. He served in the Great War with distinction, though some considered him reckless, even insane due to a head wound received in a drunken duel years earlier. No one realized the true nature of the effect caused by the saber blow however - no one, that is, besides Grigori Rasputin.
During times they were both in St. Petersburg Sternberg and Rasputin became acquainted. The Mad Monk immediately recognized the potential in the young officer and took him on as a private disciple. Together they delved deeper into mysticism and their burgeoning powers of mesmerism.
Rasputin was not a popular man in some circles, and Russia's difficulties in the Great War intensified the hatred of his enemies. Finally in 1916 he was slain by Prince Felix Yusupov and his associates while Sternberg was away at the front. Even if Sternberg had been in the capital during that fateful time it is doubtful the conspirators would have acted against him. He was known to meet with and associate with Rasputin, true, but so had many others. They did not realize what a viper they still had in their midst.
Soon afterwards came the Revolutions and the Civil War. While nominally an officer on the side of the 'Whites', the Bloody Baron seized the opportunity to take Mongolia for himself, along with a section of the Trans-Siberian railroad. The weakened Russia that emerged from the fight with the Bolsheviks was unable to press the issue, as it was unable to do with Transamur, Poland and other breakaway regions.
So it was that Mongolia gained a new Khan. A Khan equally well-versed in ancient mysticism, the mysteries of mesmerism and mentalism, and the principles of modern industrialized warfare. A reincarnation of the great Genghis, updated for the 20th century.
A new age had dawned for Mongolia, and the world. For the next decade and a half he transformed Mongolia into a military and industrial powerhouse. By 1936 he judged the time right. Once more a cry was heard across Asia, a cry that inspired flight and fear in all who heard it.
"The Mongols are coming!"
