Blackened Skies

[JohannaK]

OOC: Well, that went better than expected. Suddenly outnumbering both of my opponents put together surely had something to do with it, although I do those numbers to change.

 

[Mathalamus]

yeeeahhh, there's no way i can do anything now. and Russia is busy and thus unreliable.

We negotiate with the Rebel Alliance.

the leader of Greece, Prime minister..something unimportant, wishes to end the civil war. in the favor of the socialists.

we feel that, no matter what we do, the age of monarchism for Greece has ended. and it shows.

all remaining monarchist forces in Greece and elsewhere shall surrender and defect to the socialists. the government in Russia is disbanded.

the greek leader? well, the socialists can do whatever.

since i am tired of all this stuff, and im sure the GM is also tired of all that stuff, i will not be rejoining as anything.

its a great game, but i joined the wrong nation at the wrong time. sorry guys.

if Russia wants to do something, they can, though i doubt you can fight the socialists.

 

[Decamper]

Great update guys!

That socintern 29,329 hv. fighters, 3,849 lt. fighters vs. 720 hv. fighters 2395 lt. fighters for the brits and russians seems a tad lopsided.

 

[Masada]

Good update.

 

[Golgol395]

How come I'm not listed as the player for The Federal Republic of Switzerland anymore?

 

[JohannaK]

I had this piece of RP I wrote for 1934 which I was convinced I had posted but I now realise I hadn't, so here it goes.

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From Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, an exhaustive novelisation of the Zhao and Han Wars of the 1930s written in the 80s by Li Beifu:

On the varnished redwood table, eight manila envelopes laid perfectly aligned with each chair, and the people on them. Although they all wore a Zhuten suit, the colour and style signalled these men’s positions. At one head of the table, a scrawny, old but earnest, severe man in light green attire and silver-rim spectacles looked at the dossier that had been in his now open Manila envelope. His dress, unlike everyone else’s, has red at the rim of every button, pocket, flap and collar. This was the President himself, Li Zhuten. He was here as a gesture of protocol only. Opposite from him was the Army Chief of Staff and Supreme Commander Hu Diao of the Republican Army. His dress was a sandy yellow, and a regalia of ribbons and medals hung from his left breast pocket. Although he was theoretically subordinate to Zhuten, his broad presence is what kept the Republic united. His spiky moustache and feline eyes had earned him a nickname as “The Tiger of China”, surely compounded by the fame of his feats on the battlefield. To his sides, left and right, Head Admiral Zhu Peifu wore a blue version of the suit, and Air Marshal Sun Zhongrao the gray. The other four men, all in the sandy yellow uniform, were the warlords of different statures that had coalesced in defence of the Republic and prevailed.

A tenuous illumination kept their aides, sitting behind their superiors on chairs by the wall, in the shadows. President Zhuten finished his reading, left the dossier on its enveloped and looked over his glasses at Diao. At a nod of his, the other six men opened their envelopes and read the last version of War Plan Xióng. Most of them were familiar with it. Peifu and Zhongrao in particular had been active participants in its inception and preparation, and had been extensively consulted over every modification, but still they read it once more. President Zhuten, in turn, examined their faces and their hands, one by one, as sweat slipped and fingers tapped. Eventually, they were all finished, dropped the dossier and stared nervously at each other. Their men were rolling across the country to their designated deployment spots. Planes and ships were being refuelled and resupplied for the first sorties, and munitions exhaustively inventoried by logistic company clerks. The world was in a frenzy as they sat back in silence, until silence was broken.

“What is not written here, but should be obvious, is that we will face very stiff resistance.” Let out Diao, rather matter-of-factly. “Whether scouting confirms the reports or not, we should be ready for the worst. Only then can we overcome it.”

“What worries me”, interrupted one of the warlords, “is the sheer breadth of the plan. Not to mention the magnitude of these operations. If they attack first-“

“That is foreseen”, cut him Diao.

“Yes, but there is no plan after that.”

“The plan is to go on with the plan. Our primary objective does not change.”

“I understand its importance, but if the offensive were to fail… I’m not sure we can hold the line across the whole front. These distances…”

“Excuse me, gentlemen.” Everybody turned to the President, whose eyes moved fluidly, decidedly and slowly from man to man. “We cannot doubt now. I will do everything in my hand, and I expect you to do no less, for the survival of the Republic and myself. I understand that some of you have the reverse priority. The fact is, if we lose, we all lose. I expect that you will do everything human and inhumanly possible for the Republic, and I will do everything human and inhumanly impossible to make your job easier.”

None of them having expected the President to open his lips, they all now looked at him with a mix of suspicion, confusion, and reassuredness. Only Hu Diao looked straight at him with the same fierce stare that the President had locked on him, and without either of them moving, he slammed his palm of the precious table.

“Gentlemen! We have a war to win! Your aides have been given the codebooks and the radio frequencies for your communications teams, and all is ready for you at the pre-established command positions.” Yelled, almost barked, the imposing General. His stare was still locked with Zhuten’s. “For the Republic!” Six echoes repeated his last three words before getting lost at the other side of the door.

 

[JohannaK]

The Battle for China, Chinese War Efforts 1925-1945

Annex IX: Han Military Dress​

As part of the efforts to instill a national identity into the Han people, a new suit was introduced, which came to be known as the Zhuten suit, due to it being the President’s initiative, and his constant donning of it in public. The standard Zhuten suit consists of a tunic closed with five buttons, with four outside pockets, three sleeve buttons on each sleeve, and matching trousers. While the civilian etiquette version hid the pockets and, eventually, the buttons, leaving only the flaps visible, the basic version was adopted by the armed forces.

In keeping with the symbolic color-coding that impregnated the Han administration from flag to fashion, the army uniform was of a sandy yellow, with a red rim over the sewing, which was soon discarded except for officer’s uniforms. Also imposed from above, apparently stemming from Zhuten’s firm Daoist believes, was the austerity and relative inconspicuousness of insignia and condecorations. Conforming to the Daoist virtue of humility, insignia was limited to a collar add-on and cap band colour-coding. Medals and awards, in a pretty much unique case, were all fashioned as buttons or button covers, to be worn as part of the uniform. Uniform regulations explicitly limit the number of buttons to fifteen, effectively limiting the number of awards that anyone could display to fifteen as well.

Here is an example uniform, wearing the Presidential Award and the Qing Campaign Service Award but no collar insignia. The Presidential Award is the highest honour, military and civilian, of the Han Republic. It is awarded for extraordinary service to the Republic, typically awarded to extraordinary researchers or managers in peacetime, and which was usually awarded to soldiers for acts that saved larger units or positions at the cost of their lives. Thus for a NCO to display it on his uniform was a sign of great prestige and valour.

Spoiler Enlisted Officers Insignia :

Rank​

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Collar Insignia
Private​

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Private First Class​

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Corporal​

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Sergeant​

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Staff Sergeant​

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Sergeant First Class​

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Master Sergeant​

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First Sergeant​

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Sergeant Major​

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Spoiler Commissioned Officers :

Rank​

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Collar Insignia
Lieutenant​

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Captain​

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Major​

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Lieutenant Colonel​

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Colonel​

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Brigadier​

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Major General​

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Lieutenant General​

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General​

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Field Marshal​

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The extraordinary rank of Generalissimo also existed, although it was only vested once, on Hu Diao, Second President of the Republic and its foremost military genius.

Rank​

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Collar Insignia​

Generalissimo|

 

[Robert Can't]

Extract from A Respectable European Newspaper

Nuwara Eliya Passes Legislation Disbanding the Council of Princes

In the first amendment of the controversial Indian Education Act (1934) the Parliament and Nuwara Eliya has removed the part of the act creating the Council of Princes following the start of the Rebellion in India. The Governor-General gave Royal assent without hesitation and the Duchess of Gunfleet gave a speech yesterday in which she outlined how she would be prepared to put those princes who remained loyal to the Crown on the Indian honours list for this year and would attempt to have them elevated to the House of Lords.

This shocked many as it represents an important transition from Princes to Lords. The British Raj is no longer willing to continue with the same arrangement that it has for a century to maintain Indian peace and stability. The Storin Commission has stated it will be looking into the constitutional precedent for elevating new hereditary peers from amongst the Indian Princes.

Without a doubt though the Indian Education Act (1939) represents the biggest shift in policy towards India in the entirety of the existence of the British Raj.

 

[Grandkhan]

Excellent update Nuka and Crezth!

IC:

VICTORY Victory and glory has come to the Mexican cause! The Imperials and their lapdogs, paralyzed by their own internal quests for power, have crumbled in the face of the might of the People United!

The process of military Revolution is Over - the process of Economic and Political Revolution can begin! Make no mistake, for the domestic revolution and the construction of a Fair Society is no less glorious a battle than war.

But let us celebrate, for the Mexican Anarchist Polities and Our Great Leader Ignacio, together with the Communist Party of Mexico, have secured the liberation of Mexico!

To: the Front of National Salvation, the Empire of Mexico, and their respective Officers and Soldiers
From: the Mexican Anarchist Polities and the Communist Party of Mexico

The war is over. You have been defeated, and your forces have fled to Baja California. It is abundantly clear that victory has eluded you.

In the interests of bringing about a swift end to the Civil War and not needlessly prolonging your defeat to the suffering of your men and the people of Baja California, we hereby offer yourselves and your men the following terms of surrender;

1. All Imperial forces and officers are to lay down their arms and surrender.
2. All soldiers will be offered amnesty and a return to their homes.
3. All officers will be offered amnesty and a return to their homes and the opportunity to be reintegrated into the new Mexican army after a mandatory period of re-education or exile into the United States unmolested.
4. The leadership of the Empire of Mexico and the Front of National Salvation shall be offered exile into the United States unmolested.

These are our terms. Refusal to surrender shall result in immediate liquidation. The choice is yours.

 

[Crezth]

This didn't create a new trade group. It merely made it easier to trade with Brazil *without* actually exiting the British TG, in order to circumvent the blockade that Masada has imposed upon Brazil.

OOC: Confirmed*. It's been an uncommonly hectic time for me and the stats are not completely done. I hope to get work done on them through the weekend though in terms of getting out the casualties list, double-checking everyone's stats and orders, and maybe posting a few bonus articles about the economic situation in places.

*I misunderstood. As of our last correspondence I thought you meant to pursue this action. Clearly I was wrong. The stats have been revised.

 

[jackelgull]

Nothing short of divine intervention? GG New England. Sorry I think I'm going to drop before the game forces me to drop.

 

[Communisto]

"Francis, Francis, go and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins."

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To the Nation,

For five long years the Italian soldier, sailor, airman and civilian has borne the heavy burden of war. They have met the great horror of their time with valour and the unyielding determination of the Latin soul. For King and God, you have sacrificed, from the heights of the Alps to the burning deserts of Africa.

In return, you have been betrayed.

Though the will of the Italian people could not be extinguished, it could do little against the greed and incompetence that lay curled beneath the desks of government offices. This hidden enemy, more dangerous even than the socialist Teuton, sought political aggrandizement over victory. They sent you to Greece to seek treasure and prestige for themselves while the Patria burned. They affirmed their devotion to God with lying tongues as Godless communists took the very seat of the Church. For them, posturing politics was worth more than your lives as they made enemies across the world and ruined our standing amongst the family of nations. And now, as the chickens have come home to roost, the snakes hiss of surrender and capitulation. Both to the enemy and the socialist rebels in Rome.

My friends, the humiliations are over. Your will. The Italian will, has triumphed.

The snakes have been strangled out. No longer will the soft defeatists continue to spill your blood at the altar of incompetence. From now until the hour of our victory, it will be the iron resolve of the soldier that guides the nation. To this end, we affirm the clear objective of our people: the liberation of the Patria from any and all foreign influence; to hold accountable all rebels and politicians who threatened the existence of the legitimate Italian nation; to destroy, for all time, the threat of German socialism and re-establish the central European states, free from the Godlessness of communism.

Italy stands alone no longer. The world has finally begun to recognize the true threat to tradition and peace posed by the socialist Teuton. The forces of order are on the move, and we will be there to see our cause vindicated.

If our enemies would make the mistake of doubting our conviction, let them hear it in the words of the battle-song of the Arditi.

Se non ci conoscete, guardateci sul viso.

Signed and Sealed,

Alessandro Iachino, Maresciallo del Regio Esercito e Frederico Carone, Gran Almirante della Regia Marina
Consiglio dei Salvatori, Forze Libera Italiana​

To: Russian Empire
From: Free Italian Forces

With our common military struggle in mind, we would like to discuss an immediate cessation of hostilities and a normalization of relations between our nations.

OOC: Excellent update, GMs. Czreth, great story on the last page, too.

 

[christos200]

From: Holy Roman Empire (AKA Russian Empire)
To: Free Italian Forces

We are willing to declare an immediate ceasefire and restore relations with Italy. We both face the threat of communism and we have to cooperate in order to liberate Europe from the cancer of socialism.

 

[Tee Kay]

To: the Mexican Anarchist Polities-Communist Party of Mexico
From: the Empire of Mexico

We are the soldiers who reunited the Fatherland after many years of ceaseless war. When peace was finally in sight, you denied it to our country with force of savage arms.

Now instead of reconstruction, you are about to subject the Mexican people to a dangerous experiment. You have known nothing but fire and blood, and you will no doubt rule through fire and blood, and you will tear the Fatherland asunder.

The Empire will remain steadfast in Baja California, a free corner of the Fatherland providing refuge for those who reject your fanaticism, a haven amidst the chaotic forces you are about to unleash. When the "liberators" turn bloodthirsty despots, we will answer our duty and our call.

We reject your terms.

 

[christos200]

Russian Times​

Russia smashes the Jewish World Order​

Article by Georgy Chicherin​

The invasion of the godless communist regime of Germany is not a simple military invasion to restore the Kaiser but also an ideological war against the Judeo-Communist World Order. The Jews, wanting to achieve global domination and enslave all peoples of the world, established a godless regime in Germany which wants to eradicate Christianity and the traditions of the German people and to make the Germans slaves of the New World Order. Have you not wondered why communists are atheists and persecute Christians? That is because Jews hate Christianity. They crucified Our Lord and Savior in the past and now they want to eradicate all those who follow His teachings. They know that if they eradicate Christianity, the peoples of Europe will not be able to defend themselves and preserve their traditions and will thus become slaves of the Zionist regime. As such, the Russian invasion of Germany is more than just a campaign to restore the Kaiser to his rightful throne; it is an ideological war aimed to cripple the Zionist regime and defend Christendom from the Judeo-Communist World Order.

As such I call all Germans who have preserved their traditions and are pious Christians to rise up against the atheists and defend Christendom. Do not fret! We shall defeat the Jewish regime in Germany because we have the blessing of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; because we fight in His name and for His glory. He shall protect our soldiers and grant us victory.

Christianity shall prevail!

 

[Seon]

I specifically wrote in the orders to cede control of the Rock to Germans, Nuka.

 

[Double A]

Han are Chinese. Countless emperors were Han. Only in the past few hundred years have emperors not been Han. Jurchens came in and conquered China, but in the end they became Chinese too.

Han and Cantonese are the very foundations of China. Turning your back on your heritage is sheer lunacy, for only a lunatic can deny fact.

 

[JohannaK]

?????

 

[Double A]

Your suit is dumb.

 

[JohannaK]

Tell that to Mao. He liked to wear it a lot. As did Jiang Jieshi, and Sun Zhongshan.