So Cuba will be given to Carribean Federation; this should actually double their IC... I'm not sure about Puerto Rico, maybe if there is an high feedback... To Zhuge Liang, I suppose that US citizens are not too happy about the current situation, but you can't expect to much after a civil war...
Oh, I want to inform you of this: anybody who had played MDS 1.6 knows that the partisan activity level is far more higher than Vanilla, and that, although the game is on Arma, the revoltrisk level never decreases. And this is manageable. The problem is that if you had a core to a nation on a province it already owns the partisan activity doesn't dissapear, and that's pretty weird. Thus I decided to mod the misc.txt file; the basic partisan level is higher, but this time it decreases over time at the same speed of Arma. This way it's perfect to represent cores like NE for Canada and many others, where the majority of the population is of the same ethnic group of the ruler but still oppose him for various reasons.
The Arab-Ottoman War
Everything started on the morning of 24 January 1006, when various car bombs exploded near the Dolmabahçe Palace, the official residence of the Sultan from 1856. The people directly responsable were never been found, but Ottoman intelligence reported that ECON was the mandator, expecially Persia. The tension between the two countries began to increase untill 5 Febbruary, when border skirmishes quickly degenerated into a full war. Egypt immediately joined the fight on ECON side, still respecting the treaty with Germany since that was a defensive war. Meanwhile Russian troops started to cross the borders with Georgia first and Armenia later, which could not longer count on Ottoman protection.
Russian Spetsnaz and Armored brigades stormed the two little countries, which were annexed in mere days. Unfortunately for the Tzar, controlling the population will be a far more difficult task, since almost nobody liked the new Slavic rulers. The relations between Moskow and Paris suffered due the Georgian annexation (only Syndicalist state in the region), but had to be maintained high to avoid a new and dangerous enemy.
The war was not going well for the Ottomans: after a month of fighting, Turkish forces were withdrawing along the entire front, losing Jerusalem and Damascus to the Egyptians and Kuwait to the Sauds, gaining only a pyrrhic victory in Kermanshah. Persian troops were also able to carry out a stunning landing on Cyprus, bypassing the Osmanlı Donanması [1].
The Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye [2] attempted to recover the territory lost in desperate counter-offensives that moved the front again in Gaza and Karbala, but this hopeless manouver was short lived: Turkmen and Sudanese reinforcements easily stopped the Ottoman attack and resumed the advance into Syria and Iraq. After five months from the begining of the war, ECON divisions were just a few miles from Tripoli and Anatolia proper, having occupied almost all of Mesopotamia and Phoenicia. The war was turning bad for Istanbul, and many started to think that a peace, at whichever cost, would have been necessary...[3]
[1] The Ottoman Navy. Is amazing how Persian AI is able to land at Cyprus and attempt to land also at Izmir while the Canado-American one can't land in Cuba...
[2] The Ottoman Army.
[3] Exact, folk; time for decision. Should the Sultan beg the Kaiser to intervene and save his country, or should the war continue (untill the Ottomans are annexed or gain the upper hand)? I have a surprise for you in each case, but the later is quite interesting...
Oh, I want to inform you of this: anybody who had played MDS 1.6 knows that the partisan activity level is far more higher than Vanilla, and that, although the game is on Arma, the revoltrisk level never decreases. And this is manageable. The problem is that if you had a core to a nation on a province it already owns the partisan activity doesn't dissapear, and that's pretty weird. Thus I decided to mod the misc.txt file; the basic partisan level is higher, but this time it decreases over time at the same speed of Arma. This way it's perfect to represent cores like NE for Canada and many others, where the majority of the population is of the same ethnic group of the ruler but still oppose him for various reasons.
The Arab-Ottoman War
Everything started on the morning of 24 January 1006, when various car bombs exploded near the Dolmabahçe Palace, the official residence of the Sultan from 1856. The people directly responsable were never been found, but Ottoman intelligence reported that ECON was the mandator, expecially Persia. The tension between the two countries began to increase untill 5 Febbruary, when border skirmishes quickly degenerated into a full war. Egypt immediately joined the fight on ECON side, still respecting the treaty with Germany since that was a defensive war. Meanwhile Russian troops started to cross the borders with Georgia first and Armenia later, which could not longer count on Ottoman protection.
Russian Spetsnaz and Armored brigades stormed the two little countries, which were annexed in mere days. Unfortunately for the Tzar, controlling the population will be a far more difficult task, since almost nobody liked the new Slavic rulers. The relations between Moskow and Paris suffered due the Georgian annexation (only Syndicalist state in the region), but had to be maintained high to avoid a new and dangerous enemy.
The war was not going well for the Ottomans: after a month of fighting, Turkish forces were withdrawing along the entire front, losing Jerusalem and Damascus to the Egyptians and Kuwait to the Sauds, gaining only a pyrrhic victory in Kermanshah. Persian troops were also able to carry out a stunning landing on Cyprus, bypassing the Osmanlı Donanması [1].
The Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye [2] attempted to recover the territory lost in desperate counter-offensives that moved the front again in Gaza and Karbala, but this hopeless manouver was short lived: Turkmen and Sudanese reinforcements easily stopped the Ottoman attack and resumed the advance into Syria and Iraq. After five months from the begining of the war, ECON divisions were just a few miles from Tripoli and Anatolia proper, having occupied almost all of Mesopotamia and Phoenicia. The war was turning bad for Istanbul, and many started to think that a peace, at whichever cost, would have been necessary...[3]
[1] The Ottoman Navy. Is amazing how Persian AI is able to land at Cyprus and attempt to land also at Izmir while the Canado-American one can't land in Cuba...
[2] The Ottoman Army.
[3] Exact, folk; time for decision. Should the Sultan beg the Kaiser to intervene and save his country, or should the war continue (untill the Ottomans are annexed or gain the upper hand)? I have a surprise for you in each case, but the later is quite interesting...
