das
Regeneration In Process
Its a bit too early to decide that, don't you think? 
ITNES I - An Epoch of Change
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Luckymoose
The World is Mine
das
Regeneration In Process
Technically its the deadline, but I didn't get orders from some important people, and as I said this shouldn't take long, so if Reno, erez and MjM were to hurry up...
That said, I might do without them; it depends on what exactly happens, I guess. I'll have them cooperate with their allies if they do.
That said, I might do without them; it depends on what exactly happens, I guess. I'll have them cooperate with their allies if they do.
erez87
Lord of Random
oh sorry, kind of busy with final tests in university...
than again without economic orders I feel rather doomed, can't we use economy like once in the minor updates?
than again without economic orders I feel rather doomed, can't we use economy like once in the minor updates?
Oruc
Reactionary
what do you mean you can't use economy?
erez87
Lord of Random
he said it's only military update? didn't he?
Oruc
Reactionary
well I spent econ points on stuff. you mean that we couldn't recruit anymore?
erez87
Lord of Random
I don't know... I'm still waiting for das to answer...
das
Regeneration In Process
He did. He also said you COULD send non-military orders as well... they're just unlikely to have much effect, but if its raising an army or funding the logistics, then sure, why not?
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Not to be a pesk but update coming soon I hope. 
das
Regeneration In Process
Just so that you won't wait, you people are officially NOT lucky. 
I'll have to finish it at some point tommorow.
I'll have to finish it at some point tommorow.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
das
Regeneration In Process
Someone was not paying attention. DIFFICULT, UNSTABLE SCHEDULE; TIME PROBLEMS.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
erez87
Lord of Random
Indeed and I hope it won't die, and especially that a yucky "modern" alternate history won't replace it...
Other than that I may have given das some extra work in this update ...
Other than that I may have given das some extra work in this update
...MjM
Deity
Wait, deadline today? I asked repeadtly for a deadline time with no answer.
Symphony D.
Deity
MjM
Deity
OOC: What the hell? It's the same as always, on the front page (like always), and passed 8:44 ago (like always).
Well, I didn't know that theese special mini update order mbobbers would be at the same time. I didn't get an answer.
das
Regeneration In Process
Miniupdates for Years 455-460 AD
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Second Atlantic War (or the Sunset War)
As the negotiations broke up, Dumnorix Caethaldius pledged to fight to the last drop of blood and promised ultimate victory in the name of Sol, but even to the most fanatical Solists it was clear that the situation was dire, and getting worse. Still, the treaty was quite outrageous, demanding concession of numerous core Gaelic lands amongst other things, and so it is not hard to see why Caethaldius was willing to fight on regardless. For a brief while he had managed to reinvigorate and inspire his people and warriors, and Solists elsewhere as well: in Alba, a major rebellion was organised, and though the rebels had failed to capture most of the cities they attacked it had considerably hindered Nordrikian and New Worlder operations. This gave Lord Soltan of the Iceni some breathing space and time to prepare for the battle; he levied everyone he could find, cobbling together a ragtag army which he divided into open and hidden parts; the former prepared to make a last stand, the latter begun raiding, supporting rebels and harrasing invaders (a task which it carries on to this day). The Open Army (and the surviving Gaelic and Roman Soliaders) actually didn't die in its first battle; concentrating his forces and shocking the enemy with the numbers he had gathered (their lack of training or disciplinne skillfully hidden), Lord Soltan achieved a victory at Macarea (slightly inland centre-south of the Iceni Empire); but the losses were too great, and he failed to achieve the same effect at the Solcirculus[1], where his army was routed by the combined Nordrikian/New World forces. Soltan and the remnants of his army retreated into various forts, however; some of them surrendered, but others held out for quite long. Either way, Alba fell, though with a considerable delay.
Gaul itself wasn't doing much better. The suicidal naval attack (with the last few warships the Gauls had left) on the Nortuguese fleet in the Sea of Gaul did cause some damage, but not nearly as much as was hoped. In the south, the Nortuguese strangled the last pockets of resistance in Iberia, and performed an amphibious landing in Santonegia[2], reinfroced by a trans-Pyrrhenean invasion; some of the best Gaelic armies were hemmed in between the two Nortuguese armies and were crushed. The last-moment attempt to reconcile with the Punics - during which great emphasis was placed on the revealed Nortuguese plans to carve up Iberia - didn't bear much fruit, though the plans did provoke an anticlimatic uprising in 458 which had strained relations between Nortugal and its rebel allies. The Romano-Gaelic armies did link up and halt the Nortuguese advance, inflicting major casualties upon the enemy at Nemausus and at Lezoux, but themselves were too weak to reclaim Santonegia fully, only succeeding in pushing the Nortuguese back south and west and in retaking the important city of Tolosa after a brief siege. Meanwhile, in the north things were going worse, the Gauls having severely underestimated the forces arranged against them there. Their not-so- subtle attempts to get rid of the Franks had provoked a renewed uprising, and though the rebels have been defeated in the field and a brutal campaign of genocide did have partial success (especially as many of the Franks fled back across the Rhine, tying down the Wenedians who, the Gauls feared, were likely to join in an assault against them), but it tied down much forces, while the rebel army was soon bolstered considerably by fresh Nordrikian forces. The Gaelic army lost a series of costly skirmishes during the "exterminatus", and then was broken in a straightforward battle at Samarobriva. From there the Nordrikians advanced quickly, giving the Gauls no time to regroup. They captured the key fortress city of Remi and used it as a base, from where they launched raids and future attacks. Using National Solist Franks to defend their gains, the Nordrikians gained new footholds in the south; in combination with the Nortuguese campaign this was threatening to cut Gaul in twain. Though the Gauls did manage to retake Tolosa by then, their army was weak and distracted; the Nordrikians were prevented from advancing south, but nothing could stop them from attacking Aurelaeni itself. There, a fierce battle ensued, but ultimately the Gaelic defenders were broken. Dumnorix Caethaldius retreated for Kemper, the old western capital of Armorica. Gaul wasn't quite dead yet, but its spine was broken, and it was bleeding uncontrollably and babbling incomprehensively.
But then, Nortugal did something completely random and unexpected, to the dismay and outrage of its citizens and allies alike. Late in 457, while the best of the Wabanaki and Adenan armies were busy finishing off the Solists in Alba, two massive Nortuguese expeditionary forces struck without a declaration of war. The first used the Wabanaki's fleet deployment in the eastern Atlantic to launch an unopposed sneak attack on the Great Port of Sanna, in Sebayik. Serious fanatical resistance appeared later (rallied by the escaped Great King), hindering Nortuguese inlands progress, but a foothold was secured, and the Nortuguese used their sheer numbers and disciplinne to secure key strategic positions, especially the banks of the Great River[3] and the eastern coastline. Inland and moreso western strongholds and lands remained more or less out of the Nortuguese reach as they faced a fierce guerrila war, however. In Adena, things didn't go quite as planned due to considerable parts of the Adenan fleet and army remaining home; the Nortuguese did have the element of surprise, but the naval battle had delayed them and so the assault on the port of Nachni (the door into the Mississippi and the Empire) resulted in a bloody hell of an uphill battle. Still, in the end the Adenans - who had commited the best they could scrap together to the defense of the port - were cut down by the superior invaders; to make things worse, Pinnacle Chief Nichni the Sun-Blessed himself died in battle, and the Empire, never particularily stable since its first outburst of expansion, fell to chaos, amidst tribal uprisings, factionary interfighting - and the relentless Nortuguese advance, aided by the same comparatively straightforward route of advance that is always good against river-based civilisations, as was observed a thousand times by now in Egypt. Typically, most settlements far from the Mississippi escaped that fate, with the capital (where the second most fierce battle of the campaign had occured) a notable exception. By the decade's end Adena was mostly occupied, with the arrival of more Nortuguese forces from the east, but in Dawn Land the resistance grinded on. The Dawn Continent's forces in Alba have not yet been attacked, and have only received the news and confirmation of the news recently; no course of action has been decided upon either there or in the yet-unattacked Confederation.
All this occured against the background of the Dawn Plague - now clearly something more than just a bubonic outbreak - spreading along the trade and supply routes across the Atlantic, with people dying by tens of thousands...
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Mordvin War
This war went on with extreme awkwardness for the first few years, as the Ugrians and Onoghurians abstained from making any serious advances, instead digging in on the present lines of confrontation; the Mordvins did continue their raids, but as their enemies got increasingly better at this the Mordvins decided not to attack the heavily-fortified invaders - not yet anyway. So all was quiet on the Oka River. Meanwhile, the Mordvin Emperor made bold, but controversial and unsuccesful efforts to peacefully end the Tarunian rebellion; the proposed union of the churches only cost him credibility at home, and no sense of national unity appeared; instead, Krad Olav consolidated and expanded his gains, claiming the title of "Lord of Palmenia" (as to avoid provoking the Nordrikians too much for now). The "Palmenians" were completely neglected by Vald, and thus were unopposed as they claimed various key positions, seriously damaging the Emperor's credibility, economy and supply routes; when the Mordvin commanders came to their senses, they had to redeploy considerable forces from the Oka theatre to stopping and turning back the rebel advance; fortunately Olav's troops weren't much of a real army, though they were numerous, and the rebels lost most of their southeastern gains.
The main theatre, as far as the Mordvins were concerned, was in Cernorus. To get more troops for the campaign against the Cernorusians, the Mordvins agreed to revise their treaty with Nadruvia, giving it its territories back and removing all the military restrictions (Nordrike's protests were mostly ignored). In exchange the Nadruvians sent a large army to help the Mordvins, and help them they did; the Cernorusians, drained by the previous battles, were decisively defeated at Polova and chased determinedly by the Mordvins who soon crossed the border into the enemy territory and threatened to overrun Cernorus in general. By then, however, the Cernorusians had raised more troops, beating back a hasty attack on the important economic and political centre of Tripolye, and receiving Onoghurian and Ugrian reinforcements. Though the second attack on Tripolye succeeded, as had the two-pronged assault on Groznygrad, the Mordvins soon found themselves strategically flanked in the east and Tripolye soon switched hands.
As the war entered its decisive phase, the Onoghurian masterplan went into action; allowing the Mordvins to ravage western Cernorus, they concentrated their forces on a swift piercing invasion of former Tarunia, defeating the insufficient Mordvin forces deployed against them (though not without taking serious casualties) and linking up with Krad Olav. Having cut the largest Mordvin-Nadruvian army and part of the Mordvin Empire from its main territories, the Onoghurians proceeded to crush the forces deployed to stop Krad Olav and swung east, whilst their forces in the Oka valley also went into offensive... but were beaten back by the well-fortified, high-morale Mordvin defenders. The attempt to end the way with one quick stroke had ultimately failed, but the odds were now clearly against Mordvinia, which was weakened and overstretched. The newly-trained forces held the line for now, but the Mordvins no longer had any chances at winning a war of attrition.
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Pacific War (or rather the Suzhou War)
Peace was signed; Nihon ceded Karafuto, the North Asian colony and the Aleut islands to Tieh China and Ryukyu, Hawawai and other Pacific island chains to Khmeria, while 2/3rds of its New World colonial empire were lost to Hong Kong; navy restrictions were put into place, and many ships were given to other countries. Nihon's days as a true great power were over, but it survived as a country and even as a colonial power; all in all, things weren't as bad as they could have been, and plans were already being made for economic recovery and defensive preparations to make sure nothing like this humiliating defeat ever happened again.
Suzhou too had signed a separate peace treaty, ceding the territories it had gained in exchange for safety. But at the same time, plans were made for the continuation of the war. The Suzhou leadership was tired of living in fear, and decided to use its momentum to destroy Tieh China.
Yet its plan begun going wrong from the start - that is, from the diplomatic preparation. The Nihonese plainly refused to rejoin the war, as had their individual commanders. The assassination-and-coup plot in Choson was betrayed by the local Sanghists, on whose support it relied. A Turanese rebellion did cause considerable trouble, but was ultimately crushed; as for the Altaics, they did "attack" the Chinese, launching sporadic raids; the Chinese had failed to stop them, but the Altaics failed to become anything more than a nuisance.
The main part of the Suzhou plan - the actual offensive towards Jingjing itself - started out comparatively fine; despite tons of unexpected problems (such as a completely disfunctional logistical system, the rapid mobilisation of Tieh militia and the general bitter resistance to the Suzhou progress), the Suzhou armies smashed the Tieh forces in detail and actually crossed the Huang He. The Tieh had cobbled together two major armies; one of them was encircled and massacred by the Suzhou just to the south from Jingjing, but the other took advantage of the rather heedless enemy advance to retake the bridges on the Huang He and to invade Suzhou itself from the north, where the defenders were not expecting it. Still, they were well-led and fanatical, and the Tieh failed to make lots of gains...
And the climax came as the Suzhou army - though by now thoroughly reduced in nubmers and starved - surrounded Jingjing and beat back attempts to raise the siege. Still, it was clear that siege was as good as death for the Suzhou army, now that its supply routes were completely cut and the population was evacuated from the threatened regions, leaving them with absolutely no supplies. And so with the help of closet Sanghists and other traitors within, the Suzhou troops charged into the city from all directions... It was a grizzly massacre there. The Tieh troops defended well, but the enemy overwhelmed them with numbers; the Emperor and the remaining forces had holed themselves up in the administrative and palace quarter, beating back all attempts to take it. At this point the Tieh forces from Nihon arrived; they charged and destroyed the last of the huge Suzhou horde, but by then it was too late; the palace-heart of Tieh China was burned, and the Emperor died in the flames, along with many important documents and art treasures. The Capital of Capitals was in ruins, and though Tieh China had avoided descent into anarchy (this may be partially attributed to the late Emperor's genial policy of military settlements and provincial administration reforms), it was severely shaken.
Still, even as the succession arrangements were being made and a provisional capital was being set up, the Tieh forces redeployed en masse to avenge this atrocity. Though the Suzhou defenders were no less fanatical than before, the country had simply ran out of manpower, whilst the Tieh now had an overwhelming numerical advantage... As of 460 the war wasn't over, but the northern half of the small state was lost and the rest only survived thanks to chance and bridge sabotage.
More ominously, a new rebellion in Turan had commenced, as the sudden death of the newly-ascended Emperor at the hands of a rogue Nihonese ninja destabilised things further...
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OOC
[1] Solcirculus is one of the many names given by the Albans (whose scholars often have limited grasp of Latin) to the OTL Stonehenge.
[2] Santonegia is roughly equivalent to OTL Aquitaine.
[3] the Great River=St. Lawrence River.
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Second Atlantic War (or the Sunset War)
As the negotiations broke up, Dumnorix Caethaldius pledged to fight to the last drop of blood and promised ultimate victory in the name of Sol, but even to the most fanatical Solists it was clear that the situation was dire, and getting worse. Still, the treaty was quite outrageous, demanding concession of numerous core Gaelic lands amongst other things, and so it is not hard to see why Caethaldius was willing to fight on regardless. For a brief while he had managed to reinvigorate and inspire his people and warriors, and Solists elsewhere as well: in Alba, a major rebellion was organised, and though the rebels had failed to capture most of the cities they attacked it had considerably hindered Nordrikian and New Worlder operations. This gave Lord Soltan of the Iceni some breathing space and time to prepare for the battle; he levied everyone he could find, cobbling together a ragtag army which he divided into open and hidden parts; the former prepared to make a last stand, the latter begun raiding, supporting rebels and harrasing invaders (a task which it carries on to this day). The Open Army (and the surviving Gaelic and Roman Soliaders) actually didn't die in its first battle; concentrating his forces and shocking the enemy with the numbers he had gathered (their lack of training or disciplinne skillfully hidden), Lord Soltan achieved a victory at Macarea (slightly inland centre-south of the Iceni Empire); but the losses were too great, and he failed to achieve the same effect at the Solcirculus[1], where his army was routed by the combined Nordrikian/New World forces. Soltan and the remnants of his army retreated into various forts, however; some of them surrendered, but others held out for quite long. Either way, Alba fell, though with a considerable delay.
Gaul itself wasn't doing much better. The suicidal naval attack (with the last few warships the Gauls had left) on the Nortuguese fleet in the Sea of Gaul did cause some damage, but not nearly as much as was hoped. In the south, the Nortuguese strangled the last pockets of resistance in Iberia, and performed an amphibious landing in Santonegia[2], reinfroced by a trans-Pyrrhenean invasion; some of the best Gaelic armies were hemmed in between the two Nortuguese armies and were crushed. The last-moment attempt to reconcile with the Punics - during which great emphasis was placed on the revealed Nortuguese plans to carve up Iberia - didn't bear much fruit, though the plans did provoke an anticlimatic uprising in 458 which had strained relations between Nortugal and its rebel allies. The Romano-Gaelic armies did link up and halt the Nortuguese advance, inflicting major casualties upon the enemy at Nemausus and at Lezoux, but themselves were too weak to reclaim Santonegia fully, only succeeding in pushing the Nortuguese back south and west and in retaking the important city of Tolosa after a brief siege. Meanwhile, in the north things were going worse, the Gauls having severely underestimated the forces arranged against them there. Their not-so- subtle attempts to get rid of the Franks had provoked a renewed uprising, and though the rebels have been defeated in the field and a brutal campaign of genocide did have partial success (especially as many of the Franks fled back across the Rhine, tying down the Wenedians who, the Gauls feared, were likely to join in an assault against them), but it tied down much forces, while the rebel army was soon bolstered considerably by fresh Nordrikian forces. The Gaelic army lost a series of costly skirmishes during the "exterminatus", and then was broken in a straightforward battle at Samarobriva. From there the Nordrikians advanced quickly, giving the Gauls no time to regroup. They captured the key fortress city of Remi and used it as a base, from where they launched raids and future attacks. Using National Solist Franks to defend their gains, the Nordrikians gained new footholds in the south; in combination with the Nortuguese campaign this was threatening to cut Gaul in twain. Though the Gauls did manage to retake Tolosa by then, their army was weak and distracted; the Nordrikians were prevented from advancing south, but nothing could stop them from attacking Aurelaeni itself. There, a fierce battle ensued, but ultimately the Gaelic defenders were broken. Dumnorix Caethaldius retreated for Kemper, the old western capital of Armorica. Gaul wasn't quite dead yet, but its spine was broken, and it was bleeding uncontrollably and babbling incomprehensively.
But then, Nortugal did something completely random and unexpected, to the dismay and outrage of its citizens and allies alike. Late in 457, while the best of the Wabanaki and Adenan armies were busy finishing off the Solists in Alba, two massive Nortuguese expeditionary forces struck without a declaration of war. The first used the Wabanaki's fleet deployment in the eastern Atlantic to launch an unopposed sneak attack on the Great Port of Sanna, in Sebayik. Serious fanatical resistance appeared later (rallied by the escaped Great King), hindering Nortuguese inlands progress, but a foothold was secured, and the Nortuguese used their sheer numbers and disciplinne to secure key strategic positions, especially the banks of the Great River[3] and the eastern coastline. Inland and moreso western strongholds and lands remained more or less out of the Nortuguese reach as they faced a fierce guerrila war, however. In Adena, things didn't go quite as planned due to considerable parts of the Adenan fleet and army remaining home; the Nortuguese did have the element of surprise, but the naval battle had delayed them and so the assault on the port of Nachni (the door into the Mississippi and the Empire) resulted in a bloody hell of an uphill battle. Still, in the end the Adenans - who had commited the best they could scrap together to the defense of the port - were cut down by the superior invaders; to make things worse, Pinnacle Chief Nichni the Sun-Blessed himself died in battle, and the Empire, never particularily stable since its first outburst of expansion, fell to chaos, amidst tribal uprisings, factionary interfighting - and the relentless Nortuguese advance, aided by the same comparatively straightforward route of advance that is always good against river-based civilisations, as was observed a thousand times by now in Egypt. Typically, most settlements far from the Mississippi escaped that fate, with the capital (where the second most fierce battle of the campaign had occured) a notable exception. By the decade's end Adena was mostly occupied, with the arrival of more Nortuguese forces from the east, but in Dawn Land the resistance grinded on. The Dawn Continent's forces in Alba have not yet been attacked, and have only received the news and confirmation of the news recently; no course of action has been decided upon either there or in the yet-unattacked Confederation.
All this occured against the background of the Dawn Plague - now clearly something more than just a bubonic outbreak - spreading along the trade and supply routes across the Atlantic, with people dying by tens of thousands...
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Mordvin War
This war went on with extreme awkwardness for the first few years, as the Ugrians and Onoghurians abstained from making any serious advances, instead digging in on the present lines of confrontation; the Mordvins did continue their raids, but as their enemies got increasingly better at this the Mordvins decided not to attack the heavily-fortified invaders - not yet anyway. So all was quiet on the Oka River. Meanwhile, the Mordvin Emperor made bold, but controversial and unsuccesful efforts to peacefully end the Tarunian rebellion; the proposed union of the churches only cost him credibility at home, and no sense of national unity appeared; instead, Krad Olav consolidated and expanded his gains, claiming the title of "Lord of Palmenia" (as to avoid provoking the Nordrikians too much for now). The "Palmenians" were completely neglected by Vald, and thus were unopposed as they claimed various key positions, seriously damaging the Emperor's credibility, economy and supply routes; when the Mordvin commanders came to their senses, they had to redeploy considerable forces from the Oka theatre to stopping and turning back the rebel advance; fortunately Olav's troops weren't much of a real army, though they were numerous, and the rebels lost most of their southeastern gains.
The main theatre, as far as the Mordvins were concerned, was in Cernorus. To get more troops for the campaign against the Cernorusians, the Mordvins agreed to revise their treaty with Nadruvia, giving it its territories back and removing all the military restrictions (Nordrike's protests were mostly ignored). In exchange the Nadruvians sent a large army to help the Mordvins, and help them they did; the Cernorusians, drained by the previous battles, were decisively defeated at Polova and chased determinedly by the Mordvins who soon crossed the border into the enemy territory and threatened to overrun Cernorus in general. By then, however, the Cernorusians had raised more troops, beating back a hasty attack on the important economic and political centre of Tripolye, and receiving Onoghurian and Ugrian reinforcements. Though the second attack on Tripolye succeeded, as had the two-pronged assault on Groznygrad, the Mordvins soon found themselves strategically flanked in the east and Tripolye soon switched hands.
As the war entered its decisive phase, the Onoghurian masterplan went into action; allowing the Mordvins to ravage western Cernorus, they concentrated their forces on a swift piercing invasion of former Tarunia, defeating the insufficient Mordvin forces deployed against them (though not without taking serious casualties) and linking up with Krad Olav. Having cut the largest Mordvin-Nadruvian army and part of the Mordvin Empire from its main territories, the Onoghurians proceeded to crush the forces deployed to stop Krad Olav and swung east, whilst their forces in the Oka valley also went into offensive... but were beaten back by the well-fortified, high-morale Mordvin defenders. The attempt to end the way with one quick stroke had ultimately failed, but the odds were now clearly against Mordvinia, which was weakened and overstretched. The newly-trained forces held the line for now, but the Mordvins no longer had any chances at winning a war of attrition.
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Pacific War (or rather the Suzhou War)
Peace was signed; Nihon ceded Karafuto, the North Asian colony and the Aleut islands to Tieh China and Ryukyu, Hawawai and other Pacific island chains to Khmeria, while 2/3rds of its New World colonial empire were lost to Hong Kong; navy restrictions were put into place, and many ships were given to other countries. Nihon's days as a true great power were over, but it survived as a country and even as a colonial power; all in all, things weren't as bad as they could have been, and plans were already being made for economic recovery and defensive preparations to make sure nothing like this humiliating defeat ever happened again.
Suzhou too had signed a separate peace treaty, ceding the territories it had gained in exchange for safety. But at the same time, plans were made for the continuation of the war. The Suzhou leadership was tired of living in fear, and decided to use its momentum to destroy Tieh China.
Yet its plan begun going wrong from the start - that is, from the diplomatic preparation. The Nihonese plainly refused to rejoin the war, as had their individual commanders. The assassination-and-coup plot in Choson was betrayed by the local Sanghists, on whose support it relied. A Turanese rebellion did cause considerable trouble, but was ultimately crushed; as for the Altaics, they did "attack" the Chinese, launching sporadic raids; the Chinese had failed to stop them, but the Altaics failed to become anything more than a nuisance.
The main part of the Suzhou plan - the actual offensive towards Jingjing itself - started out comparatively fine; despite tons of unexpected problems (such as a completely disfunctional logistical system, the rapid mobilisation of Tieh militia and the general bitter resistance to the Suzhou progress), the Suzhou armies smashed the Tieh forces in detail and actually crossed the Huang He. The Tieh had cobbled together two major armies; one of them was encircled and massacred by the Suzhou just to the south from Jingjing, but the other took advantage of the rather heedless enemy advance to retake the bridges on the Huang He and to invade Suzhou itself from the north, where the defenders were not expecting it. Still, they were well-led and fanatical, and the Tieh failed to make lots of gains...
And the climax came as the Suzhou army - though by now thoroughly reduced in nubmers and starved - surrounded Jingjing and beat back attempts to raise the siege. Still, it was clear that siege was as good as death for the Suzhou army, now that its supply routes were completely cut and the population was evacuated from the threatened regions, leaving them with absolutely no supplies. And so with the help of closet Sanghists and other traitors within, the Suzhou troops charged into the city from all directions... It was a grizzly massacre there. The Tieh troops defended well, but the enemy overwhelmed them with numbers; the Emperor and the remaining forces had holed themselves up in the administrative and palace quarter, beating back all attempts to take it. At this point the Tieh forces from Nihon arrived; they charged and destroyed the last of the huge Suzhou horde, but by then it was too late; the palace-heart of Tieh China was burned, and the Emperor died in the flames, along with many important documents and art treasures. The Capital of Capitals was in ruins, and though Tieh China had avoided descent into anarchy (this may be partially attributed to the late Emperor's genial policy of military settlements and provincial administration reforms), it was severely shaken.
Still, even as the succession arrangements were being made and a provisional capital was being set up, the Tieh forces redeployed en masse to avenge this atrocity. Though the Suzhou defenders were no less fanatical than before, the country had simply ran out of manpower, whilst the Tieh now had an overwhelming numerical advantage... As of 460 the war wasn't over, but the northern half of the small state was lost and the rest only survived thanks to chance and bridge sabotage.
More ominously, a new rebellion in Turan had commenced, as the sudden death of the newly-ascended Emperor at the hands of a rogue Nihonese ninja destabilised things further...
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OOC
[1] Solcirculus is one of the many names given by the Albans (whose scholars often have limited grasp of Latin) to the OTL Stonehenge.
[2] Santonegia is roughly equivalent to OTL Aquitaine.
[3] the Great River=St. Lawrence River.
das
Regeneration In Process
About erez' and MjM's comments: people, literacy is your friend. I had posted the deadline information previously; it couldn't be that hard to find; as for this NES dying/being replaced by any other NES, hello, I just quit moding - pay attention.
I had posted the deadline information previously; it couldn't be that hard to find; as for this NES dying/being replaced by any other NES, hello, I just quit moding - pay attention. Similar threads
