Spending Orders:
- Spend 1 EP on 20 Infantry Brigades.
- Spend 3 EP on 18 Anti-Air Brigades.
- Spend 1 EP on 6 Murphy Battalions.
- Spend 2 EP on 12 AS-124s Squadrons.
Operational Orders:
- The goal this turn is quite literally, to survive, and that basically means not letting the Quebecois advance, period. However, to merely survive isnt a way to viably live, and so the important secondary goal is to break out of the Peninsula are regain some of our economic advantage back (primary source EP).
- Luckily, well be getting some help, in the form of 50 Iroquois brigades that are already here, the AS-124 designs from Virginia, and 25 Virginian Infantry brigades also(to arrive in 2 months?).
- Initially, I expect the Quebecois to make a initial attack, functioning as a counterattack to the late Canadian attack last year, to possibly end the war early, and to take Toronto before the Iroquois can really make an effect. However, since the Iroquois are already at the front, they can of course immediately be effective, and will be featured on the frontline against any early Quebecois attack, not to say Canadians wont, theyll help of course, especially if it gets dire. But because the Iroquois are fresh and high in morale, they will most likely function better overall than Canadians, despite the experience difference, because the Canadian brigades need to rest up as much as they can given the situation, given that the defense of Toronto doesnt get serious/dire (this bears repeating, because if need be, all 140 allied brigades can, and should, defend the frontline if it comes close to failing). Please note, if the Quebecois dont attack early for whatever strange reason, the allied defenders are to rest up and keep on preparing the defenses.
Meanwhile, factories are to work feverishly to get those AA guns out, meaning the first 12 AA guns are to get highest production priority, and are to be immediately put to use in that early Quebecois attack, and given that it should feature Quebecois air power, should feature in Toronto (because of how small the front is, any attack, really, would feature Toronto, which takes up half the front practically, in the center too!), and because that would mean urban warfare, where AA guns thrive, I expect to see many Quebecois Mk2s down in flames during that early Quebecois attack, or at least scare off those Mk2s. My own Mk2s are to simply support the AA guns, or try and direct Quebecois Mk2s towards them, fight around them etc. The jaguars, because they arent suited to this type of fighting, are to rebase to Virginia until the allied offensive.
After those 12 AAs are made, the 20 Infs are then to be, to reinforce Canadian numbers, and then the last 6 AAs, then the AS-124s (self-explanatory), and then the Murphys. So, overall, I expect that Quebecois will attack early on, and that because I have fresher troops, some equality in numbers, and will remove the Quebecois air power quickly, if not immediately, but quickly, whether by killing their Mk2s or scaring them off, I expect their early offensive to be something of a WWI offensive. A slaughter of Quebecois, even if no one has air superiority, over a million died in the Somme, and there wasnt planes or tanks for that matter(which should feature in my tank superiority, even if the Quebecois build 48 faustins [the max for them]). So
I hope to damage the Quebecois army enough that an offensive can be launched.
By this time, I hope to launch the offensive after the land dries from the snow melting, maybe May? It will be a three stage offensive, the first a diversion, the second part, the breakout, and the third, the mop up. The first, the diversion, will feature Canadian offensives on the extreme flanks of the frontline, practically on the coastline of the east and west. The purpose of them is like I said, a diversion, it is to try and pull the Quebecois reverse away from the center of the front, mostly in front in of Toronto I guess. The offensives are not to be successful; they are to sell an offensive everywhere but the center. To sell the offensive, some limited Murphy (~10) involvement, which given Quebecois arrogance, should make it seem like thats all we have, and the new AS-124 are to show their face, to sell the offensive there and some significant Canadian Infantry involvement, and up to 20 brigades can die in selling the diversion (upper limit, if it goes over that, switch to the next paragraph). All artillery is also to be shown on and used on the flanks.
Obviously, step two, the offensive, will not be on the flanks, but the center, where hoping the Quebecois reserves, not the frontlines have been drained to the flanks (Just saying that I don't hope that there will be no one on the Quebecois center, just that there won't be alot of guys backing up the guys on the frontline). This is where the elite Virginian Infantry reinforcements are to begin their campaign in Canada. All 25 Virginian Brigades, along with roughly 15 Murphy Brigades, all the Jag brigades, and as much of Canadian brigades that can be spared without lessening the defenses of the peninsula (which the Iroquois will continue to mainly hold) to potential serious vulnerability to counterattack. Secrecy is key here; make it priority, so as to not lose the diversion some Canadians may have died to achieve.
They are to drive straight through the Quebecois center, using the Murphys and superior Virginian brigades to plow through the predominately Quebecois Infantry army, and if there are any Quebecois tanks, the Jags are to take them out, and if there is any Quebecois air power, the AS-124s and Mk2s are to take them out. Short story short, because the Quebecois air power was damaged against the early attack in Toronto, I expect to use the somewhat superior AS-124s and the Mk2s, to achieve air superiority, if only locally, to maximize my armored superiority and Inf superiority (Virginians), to break clean through the Quebecois frontline, and because there should be no or little Quebecois reserves in the center, being on the flanks, they should wheel clean through the entire Quebecois center. If getting air superiority becomes tough for whatever reason, some AA guns from Toronto can be pulled up to the front and be used as best as possible.
After the Quebecois center is broken, because the Quebecois seem to be throwing everything at me (~140?), there should be nothing in front of the Virginian attackers once the break through the frontline and where the Quebecois reserves would have been, so, they shouldnt be worried about a counterattack or an immediate one at least. Thus, they are to wheel around the back of what will become the two pockets of whatever is left of the Quebecois army, on the west and east coastlines. Then, step 3 begins, as those attackers, along with whatever is left of the armies of the that created the diversion, mop up the Quebecois army. Prisoners are to be taken, all supplies and weapons from them to be taken, and then they are to be either a. killed on the spot, or b. used for forced labor somewhere, to eventually die. I expect to eliminate maybe 100 Quebecois brigades by the time of the year that this offensive is ended, which should be late summer.
At this point, because the Virginian brigades spearheaded the breakout offensive, they should be tired, but because the Canadians didnt, but provided heavy support, they should be in some shape to drive out of the Peninsula and start towards Quebec. They should press their armored superiority, backed up by Canadian air superiority, however limited, to advance rather easily against what I expect to be inexperienced and rushed Quebecois reinforcements that were pressed to the front too quickly. Hopefully by the end of the year, the frontline can be advanced to just short of the Ottawa river.
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still of some interest to see how others do it I suppose
). Now, using influence, bribery and all that jazz, the objective is to get a large pirate fleet to attack the Tonle Sap city and loot the crap out of it. 
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) are various competitions such as plays, poetry readings, songs, and sculptures which honor the dead or dead heroes. Since this week, and specifically winter solstice, is considered the time when the boundary between the realm of the living and dead is the weakest, it is also the best time to ask a question of the Oracle or temple sanctioned necromancy divination. Also notable is the giant feasts with the dead, either families feasting with their ancestors, or communal feasting with notable dead leaders/heroes. 
