MDS: The Arab League

[Kevyinus]

This is the thread to do with the new nation of 'The Arab League', which is a league of united Arab countries against the evil west. Reasons why all the below are listed is because they are members of the Arab League today.

Nations included:
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
Egypt
Libya
Sudan
Algeria
Bahrain
Djibouti
Mauritania
Morocco
Palestine #if independant
Somalia
Tunisia

Maybe?: (up for discussion)
United Arab Emirates*
Kuwait*
Iraq**


Capital: (up for discussion)
Meccah?
Baghdad?
Damascus?
Cairo?
Beirut?

Events:

Up for discussion


* = too "westernized"?
** = maybe they should be westernized after the GW2? (If USA wins GW2 [in the game])

(thanks to Mormegil for some of the above)

 

[unmerged(228)]

I have a few questions on what you are intending for the Arab League:

1 Are you thinking seriously about including the U.A.E, Bahrein and Kuwait? Maybe these make good pro-american targets for the Arab League (AL).
2 Are you going to include the african Arab countries such as Egypt, Lybia and Sudan?
3 Whether you include african countries in the AL or not, are you going to include additional events to represent the advance of Islam in Africa and counteractions to this advance?

 

[Gathenhielm]

Quatar is not in the game. You can safely remove them from the list.

 

[Gathenhielm]

Anything practical to do I may give you a hand.

 

[Kevyinus]

Originally posted by Timothy
I have a few questions on what you are intending for the Arab League:

1 Are you thinking seriously about including the U.A.E, Bahrein and Kuwait? Maybe these make good pro-american targets for the Arab League (AL).
2 Are you going to include the african Arab countries such as Egypt, Lybia and Sudan?
3 Whether you include african countries in the AL or not, are you going to include additional events to represent the advance of Islam in Africa and counteractions to this advance?

1. Well their in the 'who knows' catagory, we dont know what the middle east will look like by 2030. And the peoples are still Anti American, but mayb they can be 'liberate Kuwait' etc from Infidel hands or something. Its all up2 discussion people

2. Egypt yes. Lybia and Sudan are harder as they are controlled by dictatorships, but mayb they could if their leaders snuff it, and The Arab League take advantage of the situation

3. Thats an idea, but would it be plausable with the way Africa's political setup is.

 

[Kevyinus]

Originally posted by Gathenhielm
Quatar is not in the game. You can safely remove them from the list.

Ok, its gone )

Originally posted by Gathenhielm
Anything practical to do I may give you a hand.

Ok, il tell you when I have stuff to do


Redid my first post, more organised.

 

[unmerged(7924)]

Capital: What about Beirut? another candidate... IMO It should be either Damascus or Beirut. Those are the most central. Meccah is an important muslim city, but too far away. I think Damascus will be best, as Beirut lies at the coast (It's easier to attack it then, I think there's a bunch of american or british bases in th mediteranean)

 

[Kevyinus]

Originally posted by Mormegil
Capital: What about Beirut? another candidate... IMO It should be either Damascus or Beirut. Those are the most central. Meccah is an important muslim city, but too far away. I think Damascus will be best, as Beirut lies at the coast (It's easier to attack it then, I think there's a bunch of american or british bases in th mediteranean)

Il add it to the list, Damascus could be the first then if it expands enough into africa, then it could change to meccah

I did abit of reaserch and here are the current members of the Arab League:

If all these countries joined then Meccah would be fine i guess Should I add any more of these nation? I will unless theirs objections.

 

[unmerged(7924)]

Seems just fine to me.

 

[unmerged(7924)]

Oh, and I think that Cairo would be a better capital if all the african joins... I think the muslims are quite afraid of Meccah. However if was bombed, AL should get a "Jihad" event, if Kaba or something is destroyed alot of Muslims would join in a holy war aginst whoever did it.

 

[Kevyinus]

I was thinking of Meccah because if it was seated in Cairo, people would think it would be egyptian dominated, Meccah would be neutral, and holy.

 

[unmerged(7924)]

Yeah, whatever, I just thought what would happen if Meccah was erased from the map... But being the centre of the empire it'll be safe... I guess.

 

[unmerged(9563)]

My vote for capital goes to Damascus, or if Iraq is not westernized, Baghdad.

And, if Western Sahara is independent for some reason, it should join the league. (Currently owned by Morrocco, but IRL it is disputed...)

Also, Bahrain really shouldn't be in it. Its more of an American airbase just like the UAE or Qatar. Bahrain could be in the counter... American-League.

 

[unmerged(7924)]

But Bahrein against the rest of the arab world would be a short war... USA won't be there until far far too late... I don't think the Arabs complain...

 

[unmerged(9563)]

Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates against the rest of the world.

 

[unmerged(7924)]

Thought Iraq will probably join AL... If you see the situation down there now, there's not much support to the USA, so they won't become pro-american...

 

[unmerged(9563)]

Yeah but the government most likely will be pro-US.... (So maybe ultra-high RR if they choose not to join or something?)

 

[Kevyinus]

Shall I put the Choice A as Meccah, but if played by human he gets a multi choice where he wants his capital?

Cairo could also be the Capital till all the members join?

The problem with Damascus or Bhagdad is their too far north, needs to be centralised, especially if Africa joins.

Could Start Damascus --> Bhagdad --> Cairo --> Meccah?

then you get the multi choice when its in Cairo

 

[Kevyinus]

The 'Americanised' states can be squashed and divided by the Arab-Persian Allience

They would be the last countrys to join TAL, mayb like, they wont join till they know it has a large support or sumthin, or cos of the threat of war

 

[Gathenhielm]

Originally posted by Kevyinus
Shall I put the Choice A as Meccah, but if played by human he gets a multi choice where he wants his capital?


Cairo could also be the Capital till all the members join?
The problem with Damascus or Bhagdad is their too far north, needs to be centralised, especially if Africa joins.
Could Start Damascus --> Bhagdad --> Cairo --> Meccah?
then you get the multi choice when its in Cairo

Well you could let the choice of capital decide your policies. Meccah - Leaning at religous fundamentalism, Cairo - Centralism and so on.


What you could do is creating a plan on how countries can join. Maybe the federation starts out with a few countries and have their capital in Damascus. Then if Iraq joins the capital can be moved to Bhagdad. And then Egypt joins and so on...

But it is also fun to have an event that triggers when you captured the three cities in wars (their yours) or what provinces you think is needed and then you can choose to become the arab league.