Symphony D.
Deity
OOC: Hey, das, since I control all the territories of Oceania (and Siam and most of India to boot) do I gain an automatic 2 Thousands per turn? 
ITNES I - An Epoch of Change
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Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
With all due respect das, and this is a wonderful NES, I'm seriously considering resigning as Gaul, especially considering Fin's retirement and failure to indicate that Dacia wouldn't sign a separate peace treaty.
To clarify, I'm not leaving because I feel like I'm "losing" the Atlantic War. I'm just non-interested with continuing a grueling war where my enemies refuse to sign or propose a reasonable peace. Also, I need to focus on my NES, and on DNES2.
So, no hard feelings. I'll rejoin as Suzhou now.
To clarify, I'm not leaving because I feel like I'm "losing" the Atlantic War. I'm just non-interested with continuing a grueling war where my enemies refuse to sign or propose a reasonable peace. Also, I need to focus on my NES, and on DNES2.
So, no hard feelings. I'll rejoin as Suzhou now.
Symphony D.
Deity
Such great faith you have that it'll be there by the time the update's over.Thlayli said:
silver 2039
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Well it does have 100,000 men and a fanatical pouplation and highest level army. I think anyone would be hard pressed to destroy it in a single turn. Even Tieh China would need to commit at least half their army to it.
OOC: I think you simply have the wrong viewpoint in what a "reasonable" peace is. The only reasonable peace that could be, from the Nortuguese and Nordrikian point of view, is one that guarantees that Gaul could not again rise to a level where they could be a challenger for power. Of course Gaul would not find such a peace reasonable, and will suffer for it.
It surprises me though that Dis doesn't realize this and proposes such ridiculous treaties as the one above.
Symphony D.
Deity
OOC: Who doesn't have that, really? Or within a level or two, anyway. And perhaps I overstate, but it'll be isolated and surrounded with no useful allies or navy at any rate. Sounds awfully similar to what he just left!
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Heh true enough. He should just stick with Gaul its not in too bad a situation.
Oruc
Reactionary
I bet its weird being on the other side of that right?
Is this the last turn of the Nes? or Just the IT?
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
It surprises me though that Dis doesn't realize this and proposes such ridiculous treaties as the one above.
I wonder what you think my aims in all of this are
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das
Regeneration In Process
IT IV Update 11 - Years 450-455 AD
Non-Military Events:
The Algonquians make a desperate effort to stop the plague in their lands; its not wholly succesful, but the Confederation seems to have withstood the brunt of the plague's assault, and even managed to start an economic recovery.
Taxes are raised in Icenia to help fund the desperate war effort (-1 Economy, Confidence).
Imperator Zalmic II (Zalmic I died in late 450) of Dacoillyria had finally made up his mind, after consulting his advisors and certain foreign representatives; Dacoillyria fully withdrew from the Second Atlantic War and from the anti-Nortuguese embargo; though some complained, their voices were drowned by the cheers of those who had grown sick of the war delaying the long-awaited economic prosperity, that, despite all, seems to have reached Dacoillyria now (+1 Economy, Confidence).
The Mordvins had issued a call to arms (+30 levy thousands).
Onoghurian Bulgharia formally adapts Nevasanghism as a state religion, as does Ugria. Meanwhile, the plans for the unification of the two states are made public; perhaps strangely, most people don't object.
Great amounts of ethnic violence occur in Didonia as more Punics try to settle there, probably invited by those in the local government that were wary of the patriotic Lucan majority; as a result, that majority was not overthrown, but still was somewhat diminished. Recognising this ploy for what it probably was, the local Lucans launched several revolts, usually not attacking the government itself, but instead storming into Phoenician quarters for lynching purposes; both sides eventually formed illegal "militias" to defend their own communities and to launch occasional counter-attacks. The government was unable to crack down, as it too was heavily unstable; members of different ethnic and religious groups as well as political parties conspired against each other, and soon enough major "revolts" begun to coincide with assassinations. This culminated with the brutal murder of Magistrate Aian Girvash in 454 (he was killed by a bunch of schismatic Elist fanatics); his younger brother Khorva Girvash was appointed Provisional Magistrate by the rest of the government, controversially enough, and since then attempted to restore order - with VERY limited success (-2 Confidence). The city is very troubled.
Gradually the last leftovers of tribal and feudal orders in most of Wagadou are eliminated in a (mostly) quiet but thorough manner; the bureaucracy created by the aging Ghana is fully in place (+1 Efficiency), and the survival of Sumbrike's empire is pretty much assured, at least for now, as the state readies itself for its first ruler succession.
The Luigeyan monastic tradition continues to flourish alongside the Dukunnugeyan one.
Luca begins to stabilise and recuperate.
The economy of southern Phoenicia more-or-less recovers (+1 Economy, Trade).
India is increasingly integrated into the Oceanic Empire; as predicted, its productivity increases (+2 Economy).
Military Events:
In several quick campaigns, the Nihonese subjugate the remaining Numic and Olmec tribes.
(-2 Nihonese Samurai thousands)
The Huanc forces plow on in the western Amazon basin, spiting man and disease.
(-4 Huanc thousands)
Outraged at the Mojo betrayal during the last parts of the war with Huancac - as well as wary over the tightening ties between the different Mojo tribes and greedy in the regards of the already-famous mineral resources in the Mojo-populated far eastern Andes - the Tiwanakans launched a second full-scale invasion of the Mojo lands. The bravery and the cunning of the Mojo warriors are powerless against the sheer numbers - and training and determination - of the invaders. Village after village fell; women and warriors were slaughtered, children and those men that didn't resist were enslaved; the former to be indoctrinated and trained into Tiwanakan warriors, all the more loyal due to lack of a family or a home other than the imperial guard, the latter to be worked to death in the mines. The latter aren't as numerous as was hoped, and exploitation of the conquered territories is slow, especially due to the various local diseases; still, it is a wealthy region, and the conquest will probably pay off in the long-term, especially as this means that the age of Mojo raids into Tiwanakan borderlands is over for good.
(-4 Tiwanakan thousands)
As it becomes increasingly apparent that the Grandfather is dead and has been that way for some time now, Tavytera - which never had any recognised succession law at all - collapses into chaos, with tribes and warlords seeking power and/or independence. The Nevasanghists and the urban populace soon become a distinct third force, resisting the attempts to control them; they and some allied warlords eventually agree to summon the Dukunnugeyans, causing a scenario distantly resembling the Khoisan one. Dukunnugeyan troops pour in, take over the key cities, defeat attackers (in most instances; there were some occasions of Tavyteran superior numbers being succesful against separate Dukunnugeyan units) and assume power (10 Tavyteran thousands to Sri Dukunnugeya); that is met with sporadic resistance only, as this takeover was clearly well-prepared and presented. By 455 most of the country was under secure Dukunnugeyan control.
(-Tavytera as an independent nation, -5 Dukunnugeyan Ekadaahalokumiiyas)
The Solist forces in western Europe are increasingly confounded and attacked on about four theatres, as the rag-tag coalition of the Dawn Continent states, the Kingdom of Nortugal, the Tarunist Empire of Nordrike and the assorted Punic and Frankish rebels besiege Gaul and its remaining allies, determined to crack their shell once and for all. First and foremost, on the sea, the Nortuguese and Nordrikian fleets, though partially distracted by other issues, go to hunt for the Solist fleet that had upset their Alban plans two-three years ago. Though the Gauls had been building up their fleet lately and even (thanks to fortunate timing and storms) defeated a smaller Nortuguese "hunting" force in 451, already on the next year a series of skirmishes with the Nortuguese and Nordrikian fleets in the Alban Channel forced them to retreat into the harbour of Aemelsteldam[1]. However, that proved to be a bad decision; with the help of local National Solist Franks, the allies launched a seaborne invasion of the harbour and destroyed the cornered Gaelic fleet with advanced Byblos fire-based weapons. The Iceni, who had tried to send reinforcements, were also be-fleeted soon enough, and the naval blockade of the Solist Alba soon resumed. Meanwhile the Frankish rebellion spilled over a sizeable northeastern portion of Gaul, assisted by a Nordrikian expeditionary force (+10 Nordrikian levy thousands, +10 Gaelic levy thousands). Though eventually crushed at Remi by a mixture of Gaelic government forces, local militias and Orthodox Solist Franks and driven out of Aemelsteldam by a popular uprising, this invasion had firmly put the Gauls on the defensive, especially as the survivors managed to take refuge in some of the northeastern Gaelic fortresses. The brunt of enemy attacks came in Alba and Iberia, however. In the former, the Men of the Dawn reinforced the Nordrikians in Caledonia and joined them in the Second Iceni Campaign. Unable to receive any continental reinforcements and hard-pressed for supplies, the Solists gave battle (the Battle of Dun Brexthis) to the invaders, but found themselves completely outnumbered and outmatched. Gallant cavalry charges threw back some of the offensives, especially those of the infantry-dominated armies of the New Worlders, but in the end superior numbers and Nordrikian pikemen prevailed. The Solist army was not totally destroyed, but over the course of the next few battles it was mostly neutralised, taking refuge in the besieged Caer Deva. The second Solist army was assembled by then, consisting of reserves, those survivors that fled to the south and Iceni levies; it took defensive positions to the south, but anticlimatically the Nordrikians did not advance outside of central Icenia, preffering to digest it slowly; eventually, Caer Deva surrendered, and Emperor Solpher was taken prisoner, though Lord Soltan II, leader of the Sons of Sol, preserved the unity of the surviving Iceni forces for now. Meanwhile, the Wabanaki, Algonquian and Adenan armies rushed into Cymru, overruning it pretty quickly (having more or less gotten the hang of European warfare by now). Since then over the course of several battles the allies advanced further south, but they don't seem to be in a terrible hurry to finish off their enemies here. But arguably the worst came in Iberia, where a trully massive Nortuguese force invaded, taking advantage of the large Gaelic losses in other theatres of operations. Joined by even more Punic rebels (+10 levy thousands), the Nortuguese advanced both from Gadir and from the north (where they quickly claimed the city of Bialbo as the base for their operations), the Nortuguese defeated the far-outnumbered and outmatched Gauls in battle after battle. They were only hindered by the fortifications and the new Gaelic army that was redeployed from the Frankish theatre. Though that army managed to prevent any further advances beyond the Iber and in the nearby areas (whilst particularily fanatical and well-positioned garrisons held out in individual western forts), the rest of Iberia was gradually overran apart, though the Nortuguese took major casualties due to their somewhat rash and experimental sieging style. Gaul seems doomed; not only are things going poorly in the war, but it is also increasingly demoralised and exhausted in all spheres. Peace is needed, and there already is much talk of rebellion if it is not achieved soon (-1 Confidence, Economy). The ony good news are that their enemies are quite tired as well, and may not have the sheer willpower and determination required to assault the "Fortress Gaul". (+1 Nordrikian, Nortuguese banked eco.)
(-14 Algonquian thousands, -28 Nortuguese thousands, -14 Nortuguese levy thousands, -26 Nortuguese ships, -16 Nordrikian thousands, -7 Nordrikian levy thousands, -12 Nordrikian Berserkir thousands, -10 Nordrikian ships, -15 Roman Royal Guard thousands, -19 Wabanaki Brothers of the Blessed Cross thousands, -15 Adenan Riverine thousands, -Cymru as an independent nation, -18 Iceni thousands, -7 Iceni Sons of Sol thousands, -3 Iceni levy thousands, -15 Iceni ships, -18 Gaelic thousands, -14 Gaelic Eqites Invictii thousands, -10 Gaelic levy thousands, -50 Gaelic ships)
The Mordvin resistance continued rather poorly; though their armies had rallied, they were unable to achieve any real victories early on. It was probably an error to leave their largest army mostly inactive, with only occasional harrasment and raids against the Onoghurian positions that weren't terribly effective as the Onoghurians secured good forward positions in a series of minor battles. The Cernorusians had started their campaign well, despite not having prepared for it as thoroughly as they should have; advancing in mass, they quickly secured many borderlands and engaged the Mordvin army sent against them while it was still en route to its positions; the Mordvins resisted well, but the Cernorusians surrounded them and gradually, at a huge price to themselves, annihilated the entire army, making good use of their huge battle axes. Their own losses were far larger than expected, though, and subsequent advances were limited. The only success was in the Ugrian theatre, where the Mordvins routed the small army already there, and then fended back another, much stronger one - led by Irnik II himself and reinforced by a large Onoghurian expeditionary force. The Ugrians made good use of their Kantir units in the prelude to the battle, which helped them win despite being outnumbered. With the Ugrian and Cernorusian offensives more or less stalled, the Mordvins concentrated on the Valdakva theatre, as did the Onoghurians. Using an intricate system of catacombs and forest trails navigated by the Kantir, the Mordvins came close to breaking the siege (which was dangerously close to completion despite all the Mordvin efforts to keep the capital city supplied one way or another); however, they suffered major casualties whilst en route there, and so were unable to break the powerful lines of circum- and contravallation. The capital eventually fell (-1 Efficiency) to a rushed assault, but the charismatic Prince Vald IV and his retainers were smuggled out by the Kantir; the Mordvins then fell back somewhat and regroupped, thwarting the Onoghurian hopes for a quick northwards offensive to cripple the enemy country. However, in 454 a new complication arose with Krad Olav's Orthodox Tarunist rebellion in Palmenia and the environs; the Mordvin forces were busy blocking any further offensives from the Onoghurian alliance, and so were unable to do anything about this so far, allowing the rebellion to spread into several other nearby cities and provinces...
(-53 Mordvin thousands, -17 Mordvin Kantir thousands, -21 Mordvin levy thousands, -51 Onoghurian thousands, -20 Onoghurian Onoghurets thousands, -47 Cernorusian thousands, -23 Cernorusian Ljuta Druzhina thousands, -22 Ugrian thousands, -4 Ugrian Bakkatoritta thousands)
Despite some efforts to rally the local resistance, the Bantus of "New Nsigeya" suffer defeat after defeat, and many of the tribes are persuaded to surrender in 453 in exchange for legal equality. The rest are either crushed or forced to flee north, though actually integrating all those extensive gains may be a bit difficult for the Nsigeyans. Some lands were grabbed from the Nilotic and southern Bantu tribes as well.
(-8 Nsigeyan thousands)
Dukunnugeyan expansion in Africa runs into some minor resistance.
(-1 Dukunnugeyan Ekadaahalokumiiya)
The Parhaen Eternal Legions finish off the malnutritioned Israelite rebels, though the devilish heat and poor infrastructure took its toll on the government forces as well.
(-1 Parhaen thousand, -1 Parhaen Eternal Legion)
Some limited Indian uprisings have been crushed; it would seem that the expected grand Indian insurgency had been nipped in the bud, with the subtler cultural and clandestine means probably prevalent in the Oceanic struggle against it (which is why there was so little actual fighting that we know of).
One last epic war occurs in the Far East.
(see spotlight)
(+60 Nihonese levy thousands, -3 Nihonese Economy, Trade, -2 Nihonese Confidence, -1 Nihonese Efficiency, +2 Tieh banked eco., +10 Hong Kee levy thousands, -1 Hong Kee Economy, Trade, Confidence, +1 Suzhou banked eco.)
(-71 Tieh Chinese thousands, -36 Tieh Chinese ships, -77 Hong Kee thousands, -3 Hong Kee levy thousands, -71 Hong Kee ships, -8 Oceanic thousands, -5 Oceanic Imperial Marine thousands, -26 Oceanic ships, -21 Suzhou thousands, -36 Suzhou ships, -36 Nihonese thousands, -22 Nihonese Samurai thousands, -123 Nihonese ships)
Random Events:
The "Algonquian Plague" spreads along the trading network (-3 Wabanaki thousands, -4 Adenan thousands, -1 Adenan, Wabanaki, Nortuguese Economy, -1 Wabanaki, Adenan Confidence); there have been some minor outbreaks further as well.
Numerous volunteer Ekadaahalokumiiyas units have become available to Sri Dukunnugeya via various Nevasanghist military-religious organisations, further internationalising the force (+10 Dukunnugeyan UU).
Foreign specialists assist Cernorus' transition into a new technological age (+1 Education, easing the advance into Middle Medieval Age).
Special Bonuses:
Earliest Orders: Nortugal (+1 Efficiency).
Best Map: Sri Dukunnugeya (+1 Trade).
Best Coordination Effort: Algonquian Confederation (+1 Army Quality).
Spotlight:
The Pacific War.
"All the oceans will run red with blood before this is over."
- the Lesser Prophecy of Hamilcar the Priest[2]. Year 442.
As of the early 5th Century, there were seven preeminent naval powers: Nortugal, Carthage, Dacoillyria, Aryavarta/Sindhu, Dukunnugeya, Nihon and Khmeria/Oceanica. The latter was virtually unchallangeable; the balance of power changed, especially with the fall of Carthage and Sindhu, but the Oceanic fleet remained the strongest, making good use of various technological innovations and military experience to keep the quality up whilst the quantity was provided by the extensive dockyards. But in the late 440s, sudden fears arose of the Nihonese power; their ships still were more maneuverable and ocean-worthy, and now they also gained in quantity. In 451, the threshold was crossed; after yet another naval build-up, the Nihonese fleet became larger than the Oceanic one by two ships. Though the Nihonese fleet was commited to a wide range of Pacific positions, this sudden victory in the naval race couldn't but alarm every Khmer, including the Empress. Though the Nihonese interests mostly lied in the Pacific (or Great Eastern) Ocean, whilst the Oceanics had mostly concentrated on the Indian Ocean after the Indian War, this still was a dangerous development. To the naval race we could also add the intensifying commercial competition between Nihon and Khmeria over the last few decades - the Nihonese merchants were very aggressive and infiltrated every southeast Asian port they could get into. The Oceanic Empire was not the only country concenred by the sheer naval and commercial power of Nihon; if anything, the Hong Kees, who were also losing a colonial race in the New World to the Ryusakids, were even more concerned. The Tieh Chinese, less so, but the Nihonese alliance with Suzhou was concerning to say the least, and they were also eager to reinforce their relations with the Oceanic Empire and with Hong Kong, as part of their plan to emerge from the diplomatic isolation of the 4th Century and clear themselves of their pariah status and poor reputation. That was necessary not only to prevent an anti-Tieh coalition, but also to support Emperor Guangxu's grand economic plan; it called for transformation of Tieh China into a major exporting power. That plan had already borne much fruit, with Chinese goods mass-produced in the efficient new manufactories sweeping the markets, but the Nihonese in the Khmer and Hong Kee markets provided serious competition to them as well, having also mastered the manufactorial mode of production. It is not unreasonable to say that, though each of the three countries of the Anti-Nihonese Coalition had their reasons to attack, each had a single predominant consideration: for the Oceanics it was a military one, for the Hong Kees a colonial one, and for the Chinese an economical one.
Nevertheless, all that was a matter for speculation as the Coalition didn't really provide any cause for its war; only the Hong Kees announced a "clash of interests". Nevertheless, outside of Tieh China (which had a history of acceptably good relations with Nihon), the populations mostly welcomed the declaration of war when it came. By then the forces were already in place and ready to strike. There were two macrotheatres for the war; the western (in East Asia) and the eastern (in West New World). In the former, four Oceanic fleets and a rapidly built up Tieh Chinese armada assembled in the East China Sea, creating a formidable battlegroup; two other fleets prepared to take over the Nihonese insular colonies to the southeast. The Hong Kee stance here was a defensive one; that was only fair as they had taken upon themselves to carry the burden of the war in the New World alone (not that the other allies had serious presence there). There they assembled their fleet and land forces, preparing to assault the expanding Nihonese colonial empire.
The Nihonese were not completely unprepared; it would appear that they had a developed spy network all over the Pacific Ocean, and so knew enough to start defensive preparations immediately in 451. Still, those peraparations were somewhat haphazard; they were further complicated due to a brief, but intensive succession crisis. Soon after Tokihito II's ascension to the throne was confirmed, however, the country was thrown into a REAL crisis - the war itself begun in the earnest.
In the opening move, most of the Suzhou fleet (Suzhou being, as already reminded, an ally of Nihon) was wiped out by the Sino-Khmer task force, which proceeded to attack the Nihonese navy as well. Though the Nihonese had by then groupped together an impressive fleet of their own, it was no match for the armada of the Coalition; evasive action combined with hit-and-run attacks involving very fast fireships had managed to slightly even the odds, but it was not enough; the Oceanics struck back with their kite bombs, and eventually used their numerical superiority to force the Nihonese to a battle. Though the Nihonese fleet once again managed to escape, nearly two/thirds of it were eliminated, and the rest was forced to flee east, effectively surrendering the naval superiority to the attackers, though continuing to harry their supply and trade routes when possible. Then began the most important part - the amphibious invasion of Nihon. The Oceanics landed in Ryukyu, the Tieh Chinese landed in Kyushu; after that they progressed to take over Honshu and Shikoku. There is no need to get into tactical details; the invaders had a numerical superiority and good leadership (not to mention the absolute freedom of maneuver granted by the ), and though the defenders fought back stalwartly at every turn, inflicting huge casualties with their courageous last stands and ingenious tactics, in the end they were either overran or isolated in their forts and eventually forced to surrender. Constant uprisings and unexpected naval complications (the Nihonese fleet had rebounded and received reinforcements, launching hit-and-run attacks on the smaller naval detachments and patrols as well as the aforementioned routes) prevented the invaders from chasing the Emperor and the remaining Nihonese defenders to Hokkaido, but they weren't too keen on doing that anyway, having already achieved their goal.
The Khmers had also launched a campaign against the Nihonese South Pacific colonies, prevailing with only minimal resistance from the land garrisons (the naval detachment there had joined the main Nihonese fleet). After that their primary concern was the hunt for the ever-evasive Nihonese fleet. Though theoretically that should have been an easy task, the Pacific Ocean was a big place and the Nihonese fleet had, after some close run-ins with the strenghthened Oceanic patrols, scattered itself all over the area, concentrating on privateer activities. Eventually the Oceanics gave up on that and occupied Hawawai/Hawaii after some serious fighting the garrison and the attached naval forces. After that, it was a matter of defending the gains and the naval communications between them; the Nihonese fleet couldn't be caught, but its impact could be - and was - minimised. That said, there are reasons to believe that it was all a diversionary maneuver, and the privateering died down because of the Nihonese had already redeployed most of the fleet to the New World.
The Hong Kee operations went somewhat more poorly to say the least. Firstly we have to once more mention the fact that Suzhou was an ally of Nihon. The Suzhou have been preparing for a climatic clash with their neighbours for some time now, so the destruction of their fleet was actually something of a relief. The fact that both Hong Kong and Tieh China were against them wasn't, but the Suzhou had contingency plans for everything by now. After mobilising their army as per the decades-old plan, they assessed their situation, noted that the other Chinese states weren't terribly active in China itself, also noted that at least in the borderlands they had superior numbers... and launched a risky offensive. The first target was Fuzhou. All resistance was quickly crushed (the Hong Kees were clearly not prepared for the war; perhaps they even considered Suzhou their ally still), and the trade centre itself fell to a daring night assault assisted by some local Sanghists. The invaders swung west, forced back a Hong Kee army that tried to stop them at Mount Heng and attacked the nearby Tieh forces from the south as well as from the east. In the Battle of Nanchang, an entire Tieh army was routed by the fanatical attackers, who proceeded to secure their positions on the Yangtze. The gambit seems to have paid off splendidly, especially after another Tieh army was defeated further north and the Suzhou troops consolidated their gains - according to the Teacher's plan, these were to be their bargaining cards...
In the New World itself, things also went rather badly for the Hong Kees. There were some early successes; a small Nihonese fleet in the north was actually caught by surprise and destroyed, and the reinforced Hong Kee colonial forces overran most of the Orewi Prefecture in former Olmecia. But already at this point things begun to go wrong; the remaining Nihonese fleets evaded destruction, and groupped together into two powerful naval forces, one in the Atlantic and another in the Pacific. The former in particular easily eliminated the Hong Kee naval presence in the Carib Sea and begun capturing the Hong Kee coastline there, with the help of some local Olmec leaders that were contacted beforehand and promised autonomy under Nihonese protection. The Pacific fleet had a tougher time of it, but it inflicted serious damage upon one of the Hong Kee fleets and harrased the other, jeopardising the Hong Kee offensive plans. On the land, the invaders of the Carib Coast were joined by fresh troops from the northern prefectures; whilst the Hong Kees plowed on through Orewi and points southeast (mostly slowed down by the jungles and the diseases, as the Nihonese had redeployed most troops to the Carib Sea), these troops attacked and overran most of the Hong Kee defenders, retook the Orewi Prefecture and crushed the cut-off Hong Kee army somewhere in the jungles. Later still, naval reinforcements from the western macrotheatre arrived; the Hong Kees, now outnumbered, were also outmaneuvered and decisively thrashed, and as a finishing touch their northern colony too was occupied in 454, after troops were redeployed from Olmecia. A Nihonese raid on the Oceanic outpost in Manggondin[3] was repulsed.
All in all, the Nihonese had proved to be a greater challenge than expected, but not great enough to stop the Oceanic Empire. Still, the war isn't quite over yet; the Nihonese seem to have pretty secure positions in the colonies, and the Coalition will be hard-pressed to dislodge them or their Suzhou allies from their gains.
NPC Diplo:
From: Didonia
To: Phoenicia
We request your armed intervention against the forces of disorder in our free city.
From: Suzhou
To: The Anti-Nihonese Coalition
Are you willing to talk peace? We would gladly leave this war in exchange for certain assurances of our continued safety.
OOC:
[1] Aemelsteldam=strangely enough, OTL Calais; blame a representative of a Chinese species of bear (or raccoon) with a serious mental disorder.
[2] You may remember this fellow from the 440-445 AD update's Random Events section; he was the Elist fundamentalist leader until his recent death.
[3] Manggondin=OTL Galapagos.
Bad news. This is not quite final, but I again am having schedule problems, and I am seriously unsure if I could run a NES any time soon, at least the way I want to run it (from the viewpoints of both quality and schedule consistancy; you see, I have gaps of free time here and there, but what's the point of running a NES, especially a modern NES, if some breaks may take entire months? Sorry, I just can't bring myself to do that, I will lose interest and immersion all too easily in those too quickly, as my experience here - with the occasional "updateless weeks" - had shown, and that will lead to rather sub-par updates such as this one and the previous one). So I will probably have to take an indefinite break from NES-moding; apologies to anyone who had his hopes up for an Eurasian War NES, and know that once I think the time is ripe I WILL start another NES. Oh, and a "break from moding" does not mean a "break from NESing" - if anything I will now have more time to actually participate in the NESes, as I feel that I had fallen out of them in general lately.
Anyway, I still will give out the awards and write the IT summary for this. Its been a fun experience in general; we have created quite an interesting world here, don't you think?
Non-Military Events:
The Algonquians make a desperate effort to stop the plague in their lands; its not wholly succesful, but the Confederation seems to have withstood the brunt of the plague's assault, and even managed to start an economic recovery.
Taxes are raised in Icenia to help fund the desperate war effort (-1 Economy, Confidence).
Imperator Zalmic II (Zalmic I died in late 450) of Dacoillyria had finally made up his mind, after consulting his advisors and certain foreign representatives; Dacoillyria fully withdrew from the Second Atlantic War and from the anti-Nortuguese embargo; though some complained, their voices were drowned by the cheers of those who had grown sick of the war delaying the long-awaited economic prosperity, that, despite all, seems to have reached Dacoillyria now (+1 Economy, Confidence).
The Mordvins had issued a call to arms (+30 levy thousands).
Onoghurian Bulgharia formally adapts Nevasanghism as a state religion, as does Ugria. Meanwhile, the plans for the unification of the two states are made public; perhaps strangely, most people don't object.
Great amounts of ethnic violence occur in Didonia as more Punics try to settle there, probably invited by those in the local government that were wary of the patriotic Lucan majority; as a result, that majority was not overthrown, but still was somewhat diminished. Recognising this ploy for what it probably was, the local Lucans launched several revolts, usually not attacking the government itself, but instead storming into Phoenician quarters for lynching purposes; both sides eventually formed illegal "militias" to defend their own communities and to launch occasional counter-attacks. The government was unable to crack down, as it too was heavily unstable; members of different ethnic and religious groups as well as political parties conspired against each other, and soon enough major "revolts" begun to coincide with assassinations. This culminated with the brutal murder of Magistrate Aian Girvash in 454 (he was killed by a bunch of schismatic Elist fanatics); his younger brother Khorva Girvash was appointed Provisional Magistrate by the rest of the government, controversially enough, and since then attempted to restore order - with VERY limited success (-2 Confidence). The city is very troubled.
Gradually the last leftovers of tribal and feudal orders in most of Wagadou are eliminated in a (mostly) quiet but thorough manner; the bureaucracy created by the aging Ghana is fully in place (+1 Efficiency), and the survival of Sumbrike's empire is pretty much assured, at least for now, as the state readies itself for its first ruler succession.
The Luigeyan monastic tradition continues to flourish alongside the Dukunnugeyan one.
Luca begins to stabilise and recuperate.
The economy of southern Phoenicia more-or-less recovers (+1 Economy, Trade).
India is increasingly integrated into the Oceanic Empire; as predicted, its productivity increases (+2 Economy).
Military Events:
In several quick campaigns, the Nihonese subjugate the remaining Numic and Olmec tribes.
(-2 Nihonese Samurai thousands)
The Huanc forces plow on in the western Amazon basin, spiting man and disease.
(-4 Huanc thousands)
Outraged at the Mojo betrayal during the last parts of the war with Huancac - as well as wary over the tightening ties between the different Mojo tribes and greedy in the regards of the already-famous mineral resources in the Mojo-populated far eastern Andes - the Tiwanakans launched a second full-scale invasion of the Mojo lands. The bravery and the cunning of the Mojo warriors are powerless against the sheer numbers - and training and determination - of the invaders. Village after village fell; women and warriors were slaughtered, children and those men that didn't resist were enslaved; the former to be indoctrinated and trained into Tiwanakan warriors, all the more loyal due to lack of a family or a home other than the imperial guard, the latter to be worked to death in the mines. The latter aren't as numerous as was hoped, and exploitation of the conquered territories is slow, especially due to the various local diseases; still, it is a wealthy region, and the conquest will probably pay off in the long-term, especially as this means that the age of Mojo raids into Tiwanakan borderlands is over for good.
(-4 Tiwanakan thousands)
As it becomes increasingly apparent that the Grandfather is dead and has been that way for some time now, Tavytera - which never had any recognised succession law at all - collapses into chaos, with tribes and warlords seeking power and/or independence. The Nevasanghists and the urban populace soon become a distinct third force, resisting the attempts to control them; they and some allied warlords eventually agree to summon the Dukunnugeyans, causing a scenario distantly resembling the Khoisan one. Dukunnugeyan troops pour in, take over the key cities, defeat attackers (in most instances; there were some occasions of Tavyteran superior numbers being succesful against separate Dukunnugeyan units) and assume power (10 Tavyteran thousands to Sri Dukunnugeya); that is met with sporadic resistance only, as this takeover was clearly well-prepared and presented. By 455 most of the country was under secure Dukunnugeyan control.
(-Tavytera as an independent nation, -5 Dukunnugeyan Ekadaahalokumiiyas)
The Solist forces in western Europe are increasingly confounded and attacked on about four theatres, as the rag-tag coalition of the Dawn Continent states, the Kingdom of Nortugal, the Tarunist Empire of Nordrike and the assorted Punic and Frankish rebels besiege Gaul and its remaining allies, determined to crack their shell once and for all. First and foremost, on the sea, the Nortuguese and Nordrikian fleets, though partially distracted by other issues, go to hunt for the Solist fleet that had upset their Alban plans two-three years ago. Though the Gauls had been building up their fleet lately and even (thanks to fortunate timing and storms) defeated a smaller Nortuguese "hunting" force in 451, already on the next year a series of skirmishes with the Nortuguese and Nordrikian fleets in the Alban Channel forced them to retreat into the harbour of Aemelsteldam[1]. However, that proved to be a bad decision; with the help of local National Solist Franks, the allies launched a seaborne invasion of the harbour and destroyed the cornered Gaelic fleet with advanced Byblos fire-based weapons. The Iceni, who had tried to send reinforcements, were also be-fleeted soon enough, and the naval blockade of the Solist Alba soon resumed. Meanwhile the Frankish rebellion spilled over a sizeable northeastern portion of Gaul, assisted by a Nordrikian expeditionary force (+10 Nordrikian levy thousands, +10 Gaelic levy thousands). Though eventually crushed at Remi by a mixture of Gaelic government forces, local militias and Orthodox Solist Franks and driven out of Aemelsteldam by a popular uprising, this invasion had firmly put the Gauls on the defensive, especially as the survivors managed to take refuge in some of the northeastern Gaelic fortresses. The brunt of enemy attacks came in Alba and Iberia, however. In the former, the Men of the Dawn reinforced the Nordrikians in Caledonia and joined them in the Second Iceni Campaign. Unable to receive any continental reinforcements and hard-pressed for supplies, the Solists gave battle (the Battle of Dun Brexthis) to the invaders, but found themselves completely outnumbered and outmatched. Gallant cavalry charges threw back some of the offensives, especially those of the infantry-dominated armies of the New Worlders, but in the end superior numbers and Nordrikian pikemen prevailed. The Solist army was not totally destroyed, but over the course of the next few battles it was mostly neutralised, taking refuge in the besieged Caer Deva. The second Solist army was assembled by then, consisting of reserves, those survivors that fled to the south and Iceni levies; it took defensive positions to the south, but anticlimatically the Nordrikians did not advance outside of central Icenia, preffering to digest it slowly; eventually, Caer Deva surrendered, and Emperor Solpher was taken prisoner, though Lord Soltan II, leader of the Sons of Sol, preserved the unity of the surviving Iceni forces for now. Meanwhile, the Wabanaki, Algonquian and Adenan armies rushed into Cymru, overruning it pretty quickly (having more or less gotten the hang of European warfare by now). Since then over the course of several battles the allies advanced further south, but they don't seem to be in a terrible hurry to finish off their enemies here. But arguably the worst came in Iberia, where a trully massive Nortuguese force invaded, taking advantage of the large Gaelic losses in other theatres of operations. Joined by even more Punic rebels (+10 levy thousands), the Nortuguese advanced both from Gadir and from the north (where they quickly claimed the city of Bialbo as the base for their operations), the Nortuguese defeated the far-outnumbered and outmatched Gauls in battle after battle. They were only hindered by the fortifications and the new Gaelic army that was redeployed from the Frankish theatre. Though that army managed to prevent any further advances beyond the Iber and in the nearby areas (whilst particularily fanatical and well-positioned garrisons held out in individual western forts), the rest of Iberia was gradually overran apart, though the Nortuguese took major casualties due to their somewhat rash and experimental sieging style. Gaul seems doomed; not only are things going poorly in the war, but it is also increasingly demoralised and exhausted in all spheres. Peace is needed, and there already is much talk of rebellion if it is not achieved soon (-1 Confidence, Economy). The ony good news are that their enemies are quite tired as well, and may not have the sheer willpower and determination required to assault the "Fortress Gaul". (+1 Nordrikian, Nortuguese banked eco.)
(-14 Algonquian thousands, -28 Nortuguese thousands, -14 Nortuguese levy thousands, -26 Nortuguese ships, -16 Nordrikian thousands, -7 Nordrikian levy thousands, -12 Nordrikian Berserkir thousands, -10 Nordrikian ships, -15 Roman Royal Guard thousands, -19 Wabanaki Brothers of the Blessed Cross thousands, -15 Adenan Riverine thousands, -Cymru as an independent nation, -18 Iceni thousands, -7 Iceni Sons of Sol thousands, -3 Iceni levy thousands, -15 Iceni ships, -18 Gaelic thousands, -14 Gaelic Eqites Invictii thousands, -10 Gaelic levy thousands, -50 Gaelic ships)
The Mordvin resistance continued rather poorly; though their armies had rallied, they were unable to achieve any real victories early on. It was probably an error to leave their largest army mostly inactive, with only occasional harrasment and raids against the Onoghurian positions that weren't terribly effective as the Onoghurians secured good forward positions in a series of minor battles. The Cernorusians had started their campaign well, despite not having prepared for it as thoroughly as they should have; advancing in mass, they quickly secured many borderlands and engaged the Mordvin army sent against them while it was still en route to its positions; the Mordvins resisted well, but the Cernorusians surrounded them and gradually, at a huge price to themselves, annihilated the entire army, making good use of their huge battle axes. Their own losses were far larger than expected, though, and subsequent advances were limited. The only success was in the Ugrian theatre, where the Mordvins routed the small army already there, and then fended back another, much stronger one - led by Irnik II himself and reinforced by a large Onoghurian expeditionary force. The Ugrians made good use of their Kantir units in the prelude to the battle, which helped them win despite being outnumbered. With the Ugrian and Cernorusian offensives more or less stalled, the Mordvins concentrated on the Valdakva theatre, as did the Onoghurians. Using an intricate system of catacombs and forest trails navigated by the Kantir, the Mordvins came close to breaking the siege (which was dangerously close to completion despite all the Mordvin efforts to keep the capital city supplied one way or another); however, they suffered major casualties whilst en route there, and so were unable to break the powerful lines of circum- and contravallation. The capital eventually fell (-1 Efficiency) to a rushed assault, but the charismatic Prince Vald IV and his retainers were smuggled out by the Kantir; the Mordvins then fell back somewhat and regroupped, thwarting the Onoghurian hopes for a quick northwards offensive to cripple the enemy country. However, in 454 a new complication arose with Krad Olav's Orthodox Tarunist rebellion in Palmenia and the environs; the Mordvin forces were busy blocking any further offensives from the Onoghurian alliance, and so were unable to do anything about this so far, allowing the rebellion to spread into several other nearby cities and provinces...
(-53 Mordvin thousands, -17 Mordvin Kantir thousands, -21 Mordvin levy thousands, -51 Onoghurian thousands, -20 Onoghurian Onoghurets thousands, -47 Cernorusian thousands, -23 Cernorusian Ljuta Druzhina thousands, -22 Ugrian thousands, -4 Ugrian Bakkatoritta thousands)
Despite some efforts to rally the local resistance, the Bantus of "New Nsigeya" suffer defeat after defeat, and many of the tribes are persuaded to surrender in 453 in exchange for legal equality. The rest are either crushed or forced to flee north, though actually integrating all those extensive gains may be a bit difficult for the Nsigeyans. Some lands were grabbed from the Nilotic and southern Bantu tribes as well.
(-8 Nsigeyan thousands)
Dukunnugeyan expansion in Africa runs into some minor resistance.
(-1 Dukunnugeyan Ekadaahalokumiiya)
The Parhaen Eternal Legions finish off the malnutritioned Israelite rebels, though the devilish heat and poor infrastructure took its toll on the government forces as well.
(-1 Parhaen thousand, -1 Parhaen Eternal Legion)
Some limited Indian uprisings have been crushed; it would seem that the expected grand Indian insurgency had been nipped in the bud, with the subtler cultural and clandestine means probably prevalent in the Oceanic struggle against it (which is why there was so little actual fighting that we know of).
One last epic war occurs in the Far East.
(see spotlight)
(+60 Nihonese levy thousands, -3 Nihonese Economy, Trade, -2 Nihonese Confidence, -1 Nihonese Efficiency, +2 Tieh banked eco., +10 Hong Kee levy thousands, -1 Hong Kee Economy, Trade, Confidence, +1 Suzhou banked eco.)
(-71 Tieh Chinese thousands, -36 Tieh Chinese ships, -77 Hong Kee thousands, -3 Hong Kee levy thousands, -71 Hong Kee ships, -8 Oceanic thousands, -5 Oceanic Imperial Marine thousands, -26 Oceanic ships, -21 Suzhou thousands, -36 Suzhou ships, -36 Nihonese thousands, -22 Nihonese Samurai thousands, -123 Nihonese ships)
Random Events:
The "Algonquian Plague" spreads along the trading network (-3 Wabanaki thousands, -4 Adenan thousands, -1 Adenan, Wabanaki, Nortuguese Economy, -1 Wabanaki, Adenan Confidence); there have been some minor outbreaks further as well.
Numerous volunteer Ekadaahalokumiiyas units have become available to Sri Dukunnugeya via various Nevasanghist military-religious organisations, further internationalising the force (+10 Dukunnugeyan UU).
Foreign specialists assist Cernorus' transition into a new technological age (+1 Education, easing the advance into Middle Medieval Age).
Special Bonuses:
Earliest Orders: Nortugal (+1 Efficiency).
Best Map: Sri Dukunnugeya (+1 Trade).
Best Coordination Effort: Algonquian Confederation (+1 Army Quality).
Spotlight:
The Pacific War.
"All the oceans will run red with blood before this is over."
- the Lesser Prophecy of Hamilcar the Priest[2]. Year 442.
As of the early 5th Century, there were seven preeminent naval powers: Nortugal, Carthage, Dacoillyria, Aryavarta/Sindhu, Dukunnugeya, Nihon and Khmeria/Oceanica. The latter was virtually unchallangeable; the balance of power changed, especially with the fall of Carthage and Sindhu, but the Oceanic fleet remained the strongest, making good use of various technological innovations and military experience to keep the quality up whilst the quantity was provided by the extensive dockyards. But in the late 440s, sudden fears arose of the Nihonese power; their ships still were more maneuverable and ocean-worthy, and now they also gained in quantity. In 451, the threshold was crossed; after yet another naval build-up, the Nihonese fleet became larger than the Oceanic one by two ships. Though the Nihonese fleet was commited to a wide range of Pacific positions, this sudden victory in the naval race couldn't but alarm every Khmer, including the Empress. Though the Nihonese interests mostly lied in the Pacific (or Great Eastern) Ocean, whilst the Oceanics had mostly concentrated on the Indian Ocean after the Indian War, this still was a dangerous development. To the naval race we could also add the intensifying commercial competition between Nihon and Khmeria over the last few decades - the Nihonese merchants were very aggressive and infiltrated every southeast Asian port they could get into. The Oceanic Empire was not the only country concenred by the sheer naval and commercial power of Nihon; if anything, the Hong Kees, who were also losing a colonial race in the New World to the Ryusakids, were even more concerned. The Tieh Chinese, less so, but the Nihonese alliance with Suzhou was concerning to say the least, and they were also eager to reinforce their relations with the Oceanic Empire and with Hong Kong, as part of their plan to emerge from the diplomatic isolation of the 4th Century and clear themselves of their pariah status and poor reputation. That was necessary not only to prevent an anti-Tieh coalition, but also to support Emperor Guangxu's grand economic plan; it called for transformation of Tieh China into a major exporting power. That plan had already borne much fruit, with Chinese goods mass-produced in the efficient new manufactories sweeping the markets, but the Nihonese in the Khmer and Hong Kee markets provided serious competition to them as well, having also mastered the manufactorial mode of production. It is not unreasonable to say that, though each of the three countries of the Anti-Nihonese Coalition had their reasons to attack, each had a single predominant consideration: for the Oceanics it was a military one, for the Hong Kees a colonial one, and for the Chinese an economical one.
Nevertheless, all that was a matter for speculation as the Coalition didn't really provide any cause for its war; only the Hong Kees announced a "clash of interests". Nevertheless, outside of Tieh China (which had a history of acceptably good relations with Nihon), the populations mostly welcomed the declaration of war when it came. By then the forces were already in place and ready to strike. There were two macrotheatres for the war; the western (in East Asia) and the eastern (in West New World). In the former, four Oceanic fleets and a rapidly built up Tieh Chinese armada assembled in the East China Sea, creating a formidable battlegroup; two other fleets prepared to take over the Nihonese insular colonies to the southeast. The Hong Kee stance here was a defensive one; that was only fair as they had taken upon themselves to carry the burden of the war in the New World alone (not that the other allies had serious presence there). There they assembled their fleet and land forces, preparing to assault the expanding Nihonese colonial empire.
The Nihonese were not completely unprepared; it would appear that they had a developed spy network all over the Pacific Ocean, and so knew enough to start defensive preparations immediately in 451. Still, those peraparations were somewhat haphazard; they were further complicated due to a brief, but intensive succession crisis. Soon after Tokihito II's ascension to the throne was confirmed, however, the country was thrown into a REAL crisis - the war itself begun in the earnest.
In the opening move, most of the Suzhou fleet (Suzhou being, as already reminded, an ally of Nihon) was wiped out by the Sino-Khmer task force, which proceeded to attack the Nihonese navy as well. Though the Nihonese had by then groupped together an impressive fleet of their own, it was no match for the armada of the Coalition; evasive action combined with hit-and-run attacks involving very fast fireships had managed to slightly even the odds, but it was not enough; the Oceanics struck back with their kite bombs, and eventually used their numerical superiority to force the Nihonese to a battle. Though the Nihonese fleet once again managed to escape, nearly two/thirds of it were eliminated, and the rest was forced to flee east, effectively surrendering the naval superiority to the attackers, though continuing to harry their supply and trade routes when possible. Then began the most important part - the amphibious invasion of Nihon. The Oceanics landed in Ryukyu, the Tieh Chinese landed in Kyushu; after that they progressed to take over Honshu and Shikoku. There is no need to get into tactical details; the invaders had a numerical superiority and good leadership (not to mention the absolute freedom of maneuver granted by the ), and though the defenders fought back stalwartly at every turn, inflicting huge casualties with their courageous last stands and ingenious tactics, in the end they were either overran or isolated in their forts and eventually forced to surrender. Constant uprisings and unexpected naval complications (the Nihonese fleet had rebounded and received reinforcements, launching hit-and-run attacks on the smaller naval detachments and patrols as well as the aforementioned routes) prevented the invaders from chasing the Emperor and the remaining Nihonese defenders to Hokkaido, but they weren't too keen on doing that anyway, having already achieved their goal.
The Khmers had also launched a campaign against the Nihonese South Pacific colonies, prevailing with only minimal resistance from the land garrisons (the naval detachment there had joined the main Nihonese fleet). After that their primary concern was the hunt for the ever-evasive Nihonese fleet. Though theoretically that should have been an easy task, the Pacific Ocean was a big place and the Nihonese fleet had, after some close run-ins with the strenghthened Oceanic patrols, scattered itself all over the area, concentrating on privateer activities. Eventually the Oceanics gave up on that and occupied Hawawai/Hawaii after some serious fighting the garrison and the attached naval forces. After that, it was a matter of defending the gains and the naval communications between them; the Nihonese fleet couldn't be caught, but its impact could be - and was - minimised. That said, there are reasons to believe that it was all a diversionary maneuver, and the privateering died down because of the Nihonese had already redeployed most of the fleet to the New World.
The Hong Kee operations went somewhat more poorly to say the least. Firstly we have to once more mention the fact that Suzhou was an ally of Nihon. The Suzhou have been preparing for a climatic clash with their neighbours for some time now, so the destruction of their fleet was actually something of a relief. The fact that both Hong Kong and Tieh China were against them wasn't, but the Suzhou had contingency plans for everything by now. After mobilising their army as per the decades-old plan, they assessed their situation, noted that the other Chinese states weren't terribly active in China itself, also noted that at least in the borderlands they had superior numbers... and launched a risky offensive. The first target was Fuzhou. All resistance was quickly crushed (the Hong Kees were clearly not prepared for the war; perhaps they even considered Suzhou their ally still), and the trade centre itself fell to a daring night assault assisted by some local Sanghists. The invaders swung west, forced back a Hong Kee army that tried to stop them at Mount Heng and attacked the nearby Tieh forces from the south as well as from the east. In the Battle of Nanchang, an entire Tieh army was routed by the fanatical attackers, who proceeded to secure their positions on the Yangtze. The gambit seems to have paid off splendidly, especially after another Tieh army was defeated further north and the Suzhou troops consolidated their gains - according to the Teacher's plan, these were to be their bargaining cards...
In the New World itself, things also went rather badly for the Hong Kees. There were some early successes; a small Nihonese fleet in the north was actually caught by surprise and destroyed, and the reinforced Hong Kee colonial forces overran most of the Orewi Prefecture in former Olmecia. But already at this point things begun to go wrong; the remaining Nihonese fleets evaded destruction, and groupped together into two powerful naval forces, one in the Atlantic and another in the Pacific. The former in particular easily eliminated the Hong Kee naval presence in the Carib Sea and begun capturing the Hong Kee coastline there, with the help of some local Olmec leaders that were contacted beforehand and promised autonomy under Nihonese protection. The Pacific fleet had a tougher time of it, but it inflicted serious damage upon one of the Hong Kee fleets and harrased the other, jeopardising the Hong Kee offensive plans. On the land, the invaders of the Carib Coast were joined by fresh troops from the northern prefectures; whilst the Hong Kees plowed on through Orewi and points southeast (mostly slowed down by the jungles and the diseases, as the Nihonese had redeployed most troops to the Carib Sea), these troops attacked and overran most of the Hong Kee defenders, retook the Orewi Prefecture and crushed the cut-off Hong Kee army somewhere in the jungles. Later still, naval reinforcements from the western macrotheatre arrived; the Hong Kees, now outnumbered, were also outmaneuvered and decisively thrashed, and as a finishing touch their northern colony too was occupied in 454, after troops were redeployed from Olmecia. A Nihonese raid on the Oceanic outpost in Manggondin[3] was repulsed.
All in all, the Nihonese had proved to be a greater challenge than expected, but not great enough to stop the Oceanic Empire. Still, the war isn't quite over yet; the Nihonese seem to have pretty secure positions in the colonies, and the Coalition will be hard-pressed to dislodge them or their Suzhou allies from their gains.
NPC Diplo:
From: Didonia
To: Phoenicia
We request your armed intervention against the forces of disorder in our free city.
From: Suzhou
To: The Anti-Nihonese Coalition
Are you willing to talk peace? We would gladly leave this war in exchange for certain assurances of our continued safety.
OOC:
[1] Aemelsteldam=strangely enough, OTL Calais; blame a representative of a Chinese species of bear (or raccoon) with a serious mental disorder.
[2] You may remember this fellow from the 440-445 AD update's Random Events section; he was the Elist fundamentalist leader until his recent death.
[3] Manggondin=OTL Galapagos.
Bad news. This is not quite final, but I again am having schedule problems, and I am seriously unsure if I could run a NES any time soon, at least the way I want to run it (from the viewpoints of both quality and schedule consistancy; you see, I have gaps of free time here and there, but what's the point of running a NES, especially a modern NES, if some breaks may take entire months? Sorry, I just can't bring myself to do that, I will lose interest and immersion all too easily in those too quickly, as my experience here - with the occasional "updateless weeks" - had shown, and that will lead to rather sub-par updates such as this one and the previous one). So I will probably have to take an indefinite break from NES-moding; apologies to anyone who had his hopes up for an Eurasian War NES, and know that once I think the time is ripe I WILL start another NES. Oh, and a "break from moding" does not mean a "break from NESing" - if anything I will now have more time to actually participate in the NESes, as I feel that I had fallen out of them in general lately.
Anyway, I still will give out the awards and write the IT summary for this. Its been a fun experience in general; we have created quite an interesting world here, don't you think?
das
Regeneration In Process
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Nice update. Pleased to see my Empire has remained intact since the start of the NES. I think this is a first. Well there was Dar-Al-Islam but it did collapse soon after. Yay! Drinks on me.
Yoshitsune
Chieftain
Great Update!
Very much so. I really really hope that this is only the end of an IT, and that you will come back to it at a later time. This truly is a very interesting world, and there are still many things left hanging. Please?
Sorry to hear that you won't be modding for a while, you truly are a great mod. But your motives are well grounded, and I agree with you that too long breaks between updates will not make for an immersive game. Hope things will clear up for you so that you'll be back to modding as soon as possible. And see you on the battlefield until then!
Thanks for a great NES, das. Now, let's see some awards!
das
Regeneration In Process
May that have something to do with the fact that you didn't invest into it in the beginning? You have to do that to start a project, you know.
Unless there is overwhelming demand for one more turn; also I might have some mini-updates to decide some wars if peace isn't reached.
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