Cavalry was surprisingly commonplace in WWII and it saw a big spike in usage during and after the Napoleonic Era. Granted, I don't mean cavley with lanches and knights' armor, but rather just the use of horses instead of vehicles in rough terrain. I actually plan for part of Tin's army will be traditional cavalry, seeing as Tin is somewhat...backwards.

<Snipped quote by Cyclone>Griffins in the age of airplanes isn't any more odd than cavalry being used in both WW1 and WW2.
We even have these cavalry on rare (stupid) occasions attempting to charge at tanks. With the expected effect.
I can see some chivalry-obsessed cavalry reader attempting to outdo Messerschmitts in a dogfight.
Imagine "flying horsemen" armed with rifles and maybe submachineguns trying to shoot down fighters that fly twice as fast as them.

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I taste a vague hint at the Polish in your mention of charging tanks, I mind you that such information isn't very accuarate. Much like the infamous reputation the French have for being cowards. But I can't deny that it never happened. :) Anyway, elves and griffens but the rest of the world is normal. Then that seemsa bit out of place right?

<Snipped quote by Sven the Silent>Kinda but it's the same as when I came to the realization that based on my location compared to others my nation became India.
Further cemented by the fact that nations towards the east to me are basically China, Korea and Japan.
This is explicitly a fantasy setting. While magic and extremities are better to be avoided, we discussed the use of various fantasy races and unique materials.
It isn't my faults that all the other nation apps posted in the characters page use only humans so far.

Looking through what I have in my head, my nation seems like it going to turn into a Nazi Germany type thing, at least as far as the ultra-nationalism vibe I'm getting from it. Going to add some races to it as well

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I think @Alfhedil claimed an ultra jingoistic German-like state though. Its basically Nazi Germany without the Nazism and genocide.

Suprisingly it seems like almost everybody is going with some sort of fascism or autocracy. Only one Republic.

I thought that my nation would be the odd one out, as a Conservative-extremist government and one of the last remaining absolute monarchies.

@AlfhedilUm, acccording to this source, WW2 soldiers were already carrying some 40 kilos of equipment and gear.
Tripling it won't be possible, neither it makes sense.
An armor which doesn't cover mot of the limbs or such but 5mm thick would weigh around 25 kilos.
So at best you're raising their load to 65 kilos (which is of course pretty ridiculously lot),

@Alfhedil

Also, that's an absurdly large army for a nation of that size. I think Voltus said the rule was only around 6% of the population could be in the military, but even that is pretty ridiculous in my opinion. I think you'd be hard pressed to find many examples of standing armies comprising more than 3% of the population.

Then again, this is a setting where elves ride griffins into battle. -shrugs-

<Snipped quote by Alfhedil> Elves ride Griffins into battle while equipped with rifles and SMGs.
Also while it's certainly fantastical I took pains to portray them in a serious light with all the realistic issues such unit could have.
Using them to backhandedly justify your own forces is just plain uncalled for.

That being said, I have no issue with your military but I'm getting enough of people referring griffins and elves as something of an outlier.
This is a fantasy NRPG set in 1940.

Suprisingly it seems like almost everybody is going with some sort of fascism or autocracy. Only one Republic.

I thought that my nation would be the odd one out, as a Conservative-extremist government and one of the last remaining absolute monarchies.