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Are there 2nd Reconstruction events for annexing the AUS, esp for the CSA? Since they of all the other factions would most likely impose a strong Reconstruction.
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I am loving this LP! Please keep it up indefinitely  Folks who like it may be interested in the Reds! timeline over at Alt History. It has some similarities to the KR Civil War 2, and some of the framing devices are similar too. Plus, the left wins 
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Chapter Nine: In With The New (June 1937) Katherine,  I am sure you have heard the news by now that the war has ended. I am not sure if I made the right choice doing what I did and I am tempted to wonder what other paths this nation might have traveled these past months. I cannot say that I regret the decision I made, having seen it result in our current moment of peace. It very well could have ended with me imprisoned or at the end of a rope.  I am also proud that the former professional officers of the United States military were able to make our influence felt. The foremost motivation of our armed forces is their duty to the people of the United States. In this time when American battled American, their duty was not so clear cut. Now that the popular will has prevailed in favor of the Combined Syndicates, our Navy has committed to defending the people of this nation. The guns that used to be trained on New York Harbor are now trained in the opposite direction, ready to beat back anybody who would attempt to impose a counter-revolution on Americans.  Our men in arms are ready to defend their homes from anybody and it would have been injust to indict these servicemen as criminals on the same level as MacArthur. General Rose and I had gained a significant amount of influence due to our roles in the conflict and I am very happy that we were able to engineer an amnesty for all former federal troops.  If there is one thing about my current position that is almost certainly an improvement, it is that we now have strong and loyal allies. The French have been of great help to our nation. Despite all the conflict we have suffered, I would not hesitate to support the French in a European war, a position I would have never advocated for this time last year. For better or worse, we have thrown our lot in with the Syndicalists and the enemies of the International will not rest until every member is destroyed. So we must fight there alongside our allies or die here alone.  Even if we were not to support the French in Europe, I cannot see any path forward that doesn't necessitate a conflict with the Royalists. The American democrat in me would not begrudge New England or the Pacific States if they decided to go their own way but their allegiance to Canada means that their forces will be used to impose the Royalist design on our nation. The American democrat in me refuses to see the first American Revolution undone in such a way, let alone the second.   The presence of MacArthur in Canada is possibly the surest sign of their intent one could ask for. The only thing that frightens me more than MacArthur running this country is MacArthur running this country as a puppet of the Crown. Long is supposedly in South America. Nobody in the Central Committee seems overly concerned about Long. I can't say I hold any particular ill will towards him either. I believe he wanted to help Americans but made unholy alliances with dangerous characters in order to advance his agenda. It would have backfired in the end I think.  That's not to imply that the Combined Syndicates doesn't have its own problems. The only thing that has united us to this point is opposition to every other party in the conflict. I must say that I would not be able to serve a Totalist government in good conscience and I am happy to say that the Totalist faction of the Continental Chamber has been marginalized by a coalition between the syndicates and the trade unions.  Many of the radical elements of the Continental Chamber want to aggressively dismantle the capitalist establishment. Reed has, wisely in my opinion, decided to take a more hands off approach. Instead each city has been given the authority and mandate to transition to a socialist system as best as they can, leaving to the Central Committee the mission of maintaining a military, redirecting funds and resources from wealthier areas to fund the plans of poorer areas, and maintaining a minimum standard of living and racial and religious tolerance. It will almost certainly take longer than a more direct approach but I believe less innocent people will be trampled by progress under this approach.    This system I think will work rather well because the American spirit lends itself to this type of self-governance. We are still in the very early stages of this experiment but if done well, I believe this could be more democratic than the United States ever could have hoped to be. Time will tell.  The one major question mark is how the people of the Deep South will adjust to this system. The Central Committee is quite insistent about pushing forward with its construction of Negro settlements in the South. I must give them credit for having the courage to keep on the difficult road of doing what is right. The temptation to sell out the Negro to have temporary peace is strong and it is one that our nation fell prey to in the time after the first Civil War. I have faith that time and effort will eventually heal even those centuries-old wounds.  As much as I would have very much liked to move back to our home, it is my regrettable duty to inform you that we must move again. The Central Committee has decided to abandon Washington and keep the capital in Chicago and thus, we will have to find a place to live in Illinois.    You have time to prepare as I will be headed south to Puerto Rico for a few weeks. The government has decided to make good on its anti-colonialist rhetoric by granting independence to the island. The island will need its own military and defenses and I have been tasked with going there to establish training regimens and a command structure for an island that has not been independent since before the time of Columbus.  After those few weeks though, I will sail to Baltimore and we will travel together to Chicago by train from there. I have a lot of business to attend to. A new nation needs a new intelligence service, and we are going to have to build one from scratch.  I am also looking forward to meeting the famous Helen Keller, whom the Continental Chamber has confirmed as the Secretary of Internal Security. She has accomplished an extraordinary amount despite her disabilities. I believe that such a choice will serve to foster a new brotherhood among Americans as well as advance the cause of women and the disabled. I am glad to see Jack Reed not resorting to brute repression in his choice.  There are also a number of highly important military research projects I must oversee. I wish I could tell you about the fascinating things we are exploring but the consequences if this letter were to fall into the wrong hands would be unfathomable. Suffice it to say that the implications for the world could be staggering.      The path ahead of us promises neither simplicity nor peace. For better or worse, we have committed to an almost utopian vision. Today, however, I am glad to enjoy the peace and quiet God has afforded us and to pray for the souls of the departed. Many in the Combined Syndicates are happy that a relatively amount of Syndicate Guards men died in the field. I regard every death on every side in this conflict to be an American loss. If you are not opposed, I would like to stop at Gettysburg after we depart Baltimore. It seems appropriate. Yours Truly, George END OF ACT ONE The World in June of Nineteen Thirty Seven  Peace reigns on the North American continent after eight months of ferocious fighting. There is almost no border on the continent that isn't wrought with tension. The Combined Syndicates lays claim to all of the former United States, including New England, the Pacific States of America, and the new Mexican territories. The Mexican junta and the Pacific States are locked in a tense dispute over Arizona. Canada is now regretting their decision not to annex Alaska, as it was occupied by Combined Syndicates forces without a fight after the surrender of the federal government. War is inevitable.  The Spanish Civil War is in full swing. The CNT-FAI has made the most early gains but high force densities and rough terrain could make the Carlist territories a very tough nut to crack.  The Russian Civil War is turning against the Bolsheviks. They have suffered territorial losses and appear unable to make gains against the Whites now that the Siberian conflict has ended in peace.  The Mongolian Empire and Tibet have divided the territory of the Ma warlords between themselves. The two states then broke their alliance, their common enemy destroyed. The Shangqing rebels are locked in a deadly conflict with the AOG along a narrow border between Qing and Yunnan warlord territories.  Delhi is making gains against Afghanistan and it appears that the Afghans will be forced to make concessions in exchange for peace. The rest of the world's borders are unchanged.
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I'm glad to see you're moving towards Open Society on the policy slider. It'd be tremendously depressing to see this LP end in another Goonocratic Dictatorship. Also, what does the government of Russia proper look like right now? Is it still two stripes of leftists fighting each other or have the SR-Mensheviks moved to the right? Kavak fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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Russia is now Market Liberal. They have moved to the right.
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Have the Nationalists in China risen up yet? Also could you show where are sliders are?
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Crowsbeak posted:Have the Nationalists in China risen up yet? Also could you show where are sliders are? The ROC has casualty figures in the menu but isn't on the map- they rose up and lost, apparently. East Asia's kind of weird in Kaiserreich, as it's the one part of the globe where syndicalism is basically nonexistent. The men who would've founded the Chinese Communist Party are either MIA or working for other groups, and Japan is totally devoid of serious leftists. Korea can go Social Democrat if they become independent, but that's about it.
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Kavak posted:The ROC has casualty figures in the menu but isn't on the map- they rose up and lost, apparently. A lot of leading PRC figures end up in the Shangqing Tianguo, like Zhu De. I get a kick out of that every time.
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Kavak posted:The ROC has casualty figures in the menu but isn't on the map- they rose up and lost, apparently. Isn't there a significant chance Japan becomes the one right before Syndicalism around when the Korean independence war starts?
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Beamed posted:Isn't there a significant chance Japan becomes the one right before Syndicalism around when the Korean independence war starts? I'm not really sure what you're saying, but they never get father left than Market or Social Liberal.
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The ROC rebelled and was annexed in the span of one update. It was in update three or four.
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Beamed posted:Isn't there a significant chance Japan becomes the one right before Syndicalism around when the Korean independence war starts? I vaguely remember there use to be an event that could make Japan Syndicalist, but it no longer appears to be there.
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Chief Savage Man posted:The ROC rebelled and was annexed in the span of one update. It was in update three or four. Probably doesn't help that ROC rises up in a bunch of disjointed enclaves throughout the AOG and most of its forces are usually encircled and destroyed within days.
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I've begun playing again while following this LP, alas my ambitious backstabbing plan of the US (me playing Canada) has... backfired.   
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I would like it if you named one of our battleships or carriers the USS John Brown. Thanks.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I would like it if you named one of our battleships or carriers the CSS John Brown. Thanks. Amended and seconded.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Amended and seconded. Thirded.
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 The civil war is over and we have many more battles to fight before the work of global revolution is complete. For now though, let's take a trip into a much different nation in a much different history. For this, the first Intermission of this LP, we will be jumping into the shoes of the Mad Baron, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg. In our timeline, while Jack Reed was busy dying in the company of the Reds in the west of Russia, the Baron was with the Whites far off to the east, terrorizing Mongolia with his trademark brutality for months until the Red Army captured and executed him. In the Kaiserreich timeline, the Red Army is defeated and the Baron is able to cement his control over Outer Mongolia and southern Siberia. It is a technologically backward nation under the arch-conservative Sternberg, with no navy or air force, very little manpower and hostile neighbors. The Mad Baron nonetheless has delusions of grandeur, believing himself to be the reincarnation of Genghis Khan and destined to conquer Asia. The legendary cavalry prowess of the Mongols could make his delusions frightening real. Part One: January - April 1936  Mongolia in 1936 was potentially ascendant. The state was supposedly subject to Russia, but the impotency of the faltering democracy in Petrograd rendered their control theoretical. The Japanese Empire and its puppets to the east sought to dominate all of China. The Qing Empire to the southwest was seeking to break out of its long domination by German interests, while also fending off the Shangqing rebels in the mountains. To the south was the territory of the Muslim Ma warlords. Mongolia also bordered Alash Orda across a narrow strip of land to the west.  Mongolia laid claim to Inner Mongolia, which was controlled by Japan and the Qing Empire.  In order to take back what was rightfully Mongol, the Mad Baron will need more cavalry. Unfortunately, the population of Mongolia could barely sustain the amount of cavalry already in the field.  The Baron did what he could to promote the glories of warfare but there were only so many recruits to be had.  The Baron himself was an interesting figure. His probable mental illness manifested itself in his bizarre cruelty against the population as well as his martial prowess. His skill with cavalry was unmatched and his legacy would be written on horseback.  With too few men to put together new cavalry divisions, the Mad Baron refused to have Mongolia's handful of factories sit idle. Some said he had delusions of grandeur when he ordered the construction of airfields and convoy ships in a nation without airplanes or ports, but he considered it to be a very forward-looking investment.  The Mad Baron was obsessed with his dream of reestablishing the Mongolia of old. The first obstacle was Russia, whose control over Mongolia was slipping. When the president of Russia was assassinated, the Mad Baron seized upon the opportunity.  He laid claim to even somewhat Mongol lands and made enemies out of the Ma warlords and Manchu puppets in the process.    With this many enemies out there, only the toughest and most clever generals would be allowed to lead the Mad Baron's horsemen into battle. This included, naturally, the Mad Baron himself.  The cavalry could move quickly across the expansive deserts of the Chinese interior though the mountainous sections might give them some difficulty.  As Russia's troubles deepened, the Mad Baron evicted the Russian advisors from Urga and appointed native Mongols in their stead.  There was no point in waiting for new cavalry to be raised. New horsemen would need to be found outside the borders of sparsely populated Outer Mongolia.  Sternberg also sent an envoy to Tibet, who were fellow Buddhists and had designs on portions of the Muslim lands to their north.  The peace-loving Tibetans were uninterested in his proposal. Their time would come.  As would the time of those across the oceans. For now, the convoys Sternberg ordered constructed floated uselessly in Lake Baikal until an ocean port could be found to ship them to.  The backwards state prepared itself for the future as best as it could. The cavalry experts began researching new ways to modernize the cavalry and the handful of engineers that hadn't fled Mongolia for Russia were tasked to develop machinery to conduct a census. The Mad Baron was convinced that there were hundreds of thousands of Mongols that were simply hiding from him. Even if that delusion proved to be untrue, the machinery would help in future research projects.  Finally, the Mad Baron's bloodlust could not be satisfied through public executions of criminals and non-Buddhists. It was time for the horde to ride south.
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So how is the intermission working with the main LP? Just a completely separate campaign?
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Ah, now we see who the two superpowers of the LP will be.
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We must conquer Afghanistan to protect the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
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paragon1 posted:So how is the intermission working with the main LP? Just a completely separate campaign? Totally separate.
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Part Two (April-November 1936) The Baron was ready to do what was necessary to defend the Mongol minority in China.  The Ma warlords believed themselves to be strong enough to resist. The Baron knew better but the situation was complicated by the Shangqing rebels entering the fray. There would be a race to secure territory.  The Mas had four major centers of power that the Mongols would need to secure, first and foremost the capital of Urumqi.   The strategy involved cleaving the enemy forces into two with a strong attack up the middle by the Baron's personal cavalry. The leadership of the Baron made them very effective on the attack. The Ma forces were ill trained and disorganized and could not resist.  The Qing could not leave the powers of the interior to their own devices. This was their best opportunity to put an end to the Shangqing rebellion for good.  The biggest advantage the Mongols had was the same that they had always had. The mobility of the cavalry, even in rough terrain, allowed them to secure territory faster and to go on the attack again before the slow infantry of the enemy could recoup any strength.  The Shangqing pushed deep into the Gobi, cutting off the critical Ma fortress of Linhe. Mongol forces destroyed the garrison within and moved to secure it before the Shangqing.  From the crossroads province of Yumen, the Baron could disrupt the forces defending Qumul, an important city on the road to the capital of Urumqi.  The infantry in the far west of Mongolia had been mainly tasked with defending the flank of the Baron's main assault but they had an opportunity to advance on their own.  The mobile cavalry quickly shifted direction to move south, primarily to capture Xining but also to cut off a large remaining contingent of Ma forces, who were attempting to escape to the west.  The assault towards Urumqi would be left to the infantry. The victorious infantry in Linhe were sent to Yumen to allow the Baron to move out of that critical province.  The Mongol efforts in computing continued throughout the war. There would need to be accounting of what the Mongols had conquered.  To the north, the Russian civil war had erupted. The Reds and Whites did battle once again in the west while a massive new state of Siberia emerged in allegiance with Russia. This provided an opportunity.  The Mongol infantry were off the trains and began the march on Urumqi.   The Baron's cavalry were able to cut off the retreating Ma army. Despite being numerically even matched, the Ma forces were cut off from supply and not as well trained or loyal as the Baron's horsemen and so fifty thousand men were captured or put to the sword.  The experiences of the conflict were helping the horsemen learn new cavalry tactics. The Baron had a vision of a modern cavalry army, and he was very close to getting modern weapons into the hands of his horsemen.  The infantry assault in the west succeeded in capturing the territory north of Karamay as well as cutting off a Ma division in Aletai.  They were not powerful or organized enough to assault the city just yet and so they prepared to support the planned assault from the east.  This assault came shortly, with the exhausted marchers from the west being able to advance quickly with the support from the north. The capital was nearly theirs.  Even though the enemy's surrender was close, the Baron's lust for blood could not sated. He pursued a cut off Ma division near the border with Tibet and imprisoned thousands, many of whom would never be heard from again.  The exhausted infantry occupied Urumqi and were almost instantly set upon by a counterattack.  The commander, in a flash of brilliance, captured a few Mas and threatened to kill them if the Ma forces did not capitulate.  The threat worked and Ma forces were ordered to stand down. Mongol authority over the whole of the Chinese interior was recognized formally in a ceremony in Urumqi.  The Ma warlords believed that they would be allowed to leave the nation as a condition of their surrender. The Baron had other ideas. He had them dragged to Urga, where they were publicly executed as part of a ceremony in which the Baron declared himself to be the reincarnation of Genghis Khan and announced his intent to conquer Asia.  Baron Sternberg was dead. Genghis Khan II was born.  After the pomp and insanity of that moment, the business of running an empire had to commence. The empire beyond the Mongol lands would require policing and so garrisons were ordered to keep peace in the countryside and remind the newly conquered who was in charge.  To really drive the point home, Urumqi was sacked and its stockpiles of resources looted.  Needless to say, the non-Mongol lands were rather upset with the new arrangement.  Genghis Khan II was not overly concerned with their opinion. He was already looking forward to the next conquest.  Resources would be required to build a war machine and Genghis Khan II recognized this.  The best source of resources was obviously to seize them from others. Tibet had spurned Mongolia's offer of friendship, and it was time to make them regret that.  The Tibetans were an insular people and did not have as large an army as the Ma warlords. The mountainous terrain provided them an advantage but the experience and numerical superiority of the horde negated that and then some.  A small militia provided the defense for an enormous area of land in western Tibet that would provide the easiest route to Lhasa. They were easily overwhelmed.  The Tibetans were able to break out in the west. There was nothing important over there. Lhasa was the only thing that mattered.  Genghis Khan II set upon the ancient and holy city and evicted the inexperienced defenders without much trouble.  While the Khan handled Tibet, preparations were already underway for an intervention against the Shangqing, they had conquered an area of Inner Mongolia, and this was unacceptable.  Lhasa fell and the Dalai Lama held hostage.  Genghis Khan II agreed to let the Dalai Lama live and continue to rule in Lhasa if the entire nation of Tibet would swear eternal fealty to the Khan.  They didn't have much choice but to accept.
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When I try to play Mongolia, that's usually as far as I get. Then I either DOW the Shangqing, the Qing get pissy at me for some reason (even when I accepted their offer of a split), DOW me and flood me, or Japan goes and unleashes Operation Tsunami and fucks me over even harder.
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Zeroisanumber posted:This is a dark world. Kaiserreich in general or what The Mad Baron is building right now?
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Kavak posted:Kaiserreich in general or what The Mad Baron is building right now? The Mad Baron playthrough. At least in the CSA playthrough the good guys won the civil war.
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TheMcD posted:When I try to play Mongolia, that's usually as far as I get. Then I either DOW the Shangqing, the Qing get pissy at me for some reason (even when I accepted their offer of a split), DOW me and flood me, or Japan goes and unleashes Operation Tsunami and fucks me over even harder. Ugh, I hate Operation Typhoon. There are scripting bugs for the Mongolian victory that cause isolated pockets of Manchuria to remain Japanese even after the surrender.
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TheMcD posted:When I try to play Mongolia, that's usually as far as I get. Then I either DOW the Shangqing, the Qing get pissy at me for some reason (even when I accepted their offer of a split), DOW me and flood me, or Japan goes and unleashes Operation Tsunami and fucks me over even harder. Japan attacking you is pretty much gameover, yeah. Other than that, the secret is to always build more cav and nothing else. E: Actually that's the secret to any nation because all-cav armies are just too fun. GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Dec 11, 2014 |
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Part Three: December 1936 - October 1937 Genghis Khan II, fresh off his second victorious war of the year, decided not to exact vengeance on the Tibetans as he had on the Ma warlords. They were fellow Buddhists after all, and their expertise in mountain warfare was appreciated.  With western China entirely under the control of the Khan, it was time to consider larger prey. The footsoldiers of the Mongol army would not be able to keep up across the vast expanse of Asia, and so the Khan decreed that all troops of the Mongol army, excepting the Tibetan mountain troops and garrison units, would be trained and outfitted as cavalrymen. The key to the success of the Mongol army was its mobility.  More men for both the cavalry and garrison roles were needed and the newly subjugated peoples to the south figured out quickly that the military provided the only path to a good life in this dystopia they found themselves in.  With the rebels falling, the Khan recognized that the time to attack would have to be now if anything of value was to be kept away from the Qing.  The terrain was mostly mountainous and heavily fortified. The numerical superiority of the Qing had broken the defenses in the east at great human cost and the western frontier was wide open.  The Qing had already secured the important fortress of Yan'an, leaving the capital of Baoji and Tianshui in the south to be taken. If the Mongolians could secure those towns first, then the better off they would be.  The Khan's horde and the Tibetans began their march towards Baoji.  In the north, infantry were moving to cut off advancing Qing forces. If they could be forced to reroute, the Mongolians could secure more of the rebel territory.  It was not to be.  Token rebel resistance began to show up, but they had no hope of halting the Mongol advance.   The Khan wished mostly to secure the Mongol lands around Bayan Hot as well as Zhangye in order to keep Qing influence limited to east of the Yellow River.  Lanzhou fell leaving open the road to the important southern towns. The Qing were already advancing on Baoji and the odds for beating them there seemed slim.  Nonetheless, they would try.  While the race against the Qing continued, interior affairs were not neglected. Resource development began using wealth looted from Urumqi.  As expected, the Qing made it first.  In a straight race against untrained Qing infantry, it was possible that cavalry could beat the Qing to Tianshoui.  The Mongol infantry did captured Bayan Hot first and they would attempt to clear out the Shangqing salient in Zhangye.  It was not to be. The Shangqing surrendered and the Qing declared all territory not under direct Mongol control to be part of their lands. The result was a rather ugly Qing salient, but it was not the time to confront the Qing.  The true opportunity lay to the north. The Whites were losing, and badly. Siberia were headed towards a lonely position and allowing the Bolsheviks to conquer the entire territory would likely end badly for Mongolia.  Before any of that, there was the Qing to deal with. The Khan refused to negotiate over his new territories.  Luckily, the Qing were not interested, given the threat of the Japanese.  New resource production came online in Tuva. The economy of Mongolia was getting better, even if the world turned up its nose at the Khan.  The Khan was insulted by the deals he was offered. He would have to pay the Japanese to ship the materials to port. Mongolia would seize their own ports and ship the goods to market themselves. Siberia would be his.  The Siberian puppet government was situated in two main areas. The most populous area was in the west, wide open plains providing perfect conditions for cavalry combat.  Siberian strength was situated in three fortresses along the Trans Siberian Railway, one of them being the capital Novosibirsk.  The east would be tougher. Rough mountains and hill terrain would provide better defensive positions for the enemy, but their numbers in the region were low. Most Siberian troops were attempting to hold back the Bolsheviks.  Irkutsk was an important city that Mongolia had previously conducted much trade with Russia through. That would not take long to capture. The far northern city of Yakutsk and the icy port to the west would take longer.  The cavalry under the Khan was responsible for the west, the Tibetans the center, and the still unhorsed Mongol infantry the east.  The enemy had far more modern equipment but that could not help them resist the numerical superiority of the Mongols.  The march would be slow and arduous but through Siberia was the path to greatness. These men knew they would earn their horses if they did what they were asked.  The situation was different in the west. The Khan's horde brushed aside the token resistance that appeared to defend the capital.  The key to the Khan's tactics was the ability to advance and reengage the enemy before they were able to regroup from a retreat. This is what turned initial successes into routs and the Siberian troops were ejected from the capital before they had even gotten a chance to rest.  The same tactic could not be used with the infantry but the resistance there melted almost as easily.  Omsk was the next goal, and the Khan kept bullying the same division that had been fleeing him ever since he crossed the border.  With such rapid gains in the west, it was clear that the surrender of Siberia would come when the east could be tamed. An assault up both sides of Lake Baikal helped clear the way to Yakutsk.  The horde tore through Omsk and across the Irtysh River without much trouble.  With the resistance so minimal, it was clear that the entire force of the horde was much more than what was necessary. Therefore, the main horde split into two, with one force staying behind to protect the fragile supply lines left by their deep penetration.  The other force would move on to Yekaterinburg, the final stronghold of Siberia before Russia proper began.  In the east, newly trained cavalry units were deployed to complete the trip to Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean.  The stay behind force cleared out the enemy from the area south of Omsk.  With Okhotsk and Yekaterinburg almost captured, Yakutsk was the last stronghold that needed to be dealt with.  The Mongols had no problems.  The Khan pushed the Siberians out of their territory into the jaws of the Bolsheviks.  With Yekaterinburg under control, all that remained to deal with were the eastern cities of Okhotsk and Yakutsk.  A marauding group of Siberians managed to recapture the unimportant town of Barabinsk in between Omsk and Novosibirsk, which had the irritating effect of cutting off the hordes from supply. With the major objectives under control, the hordes had enough supply to wait out the Siberians.  In the west, many Mongols saw something that they had only heard about in stories. The ocean. Hopefully it would be kinder to Genghis Khan II than it was to Kublai Khan.  Yakutsk fell shortly thereafter.  Siberia was finished. The decision came to surrender to Genghis Khan II as a result of the (incorrect) belief that he would be a kinder overlord than the Bolsheviks. The empire had nearly tripled in size, gained its first port and a massive amount of resources and angry subjects to manage. Genghis Khan II was no longer a petty madman that could be safely ignored. The Mongols were feared again. csm141 fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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Well, that went better than my runs. Of course, in my runs, Siberia never revolts, the Qing always press the Taiping issue and all that good poo poo.
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Can you start using timg please? It's gotten to the point where I can't fit an entire line of text on my screen anymore.
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Dec 14, 2014 23:30
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Some people just aren't fit to witness the Khan's greatness.  *dials phone* "Hello, Japan? It's time for you to  "
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Dec 14, 2014 23:38
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GrossMurpel posted:Can you start using timg please? It's gotten to the point where I can't fit an entire line of text on my screen anymore. I've been trying to keep the images under a certain width but I keep forgetting to timg the ones that are too big. I'll go through it later and get the offenders.
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Dec 14, 2014 23:44
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So how far are we gonna push this, until we run out of conquest objectives? I'm enjoying the batshit nature of this campaign, but I miss the in-game documents and storyline of the CSA run.
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Wow, I have NEVER seen the soviets do that well in the Russian civil war. Did nobody help the Whites?
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