[OOC] Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

[Byrd Man]

More war, please.

[Dinh AaronMk]

More war, please.

@Byrd Man

There's some War.

[Byrd Man]

War. What is it good for?

[Vilageidiotx]

Dick Cheney

[Byrd Man]

"Halliburton" is his safe word.

[Dinh AaronMk]

I'm going to spoil ya'll.

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Other side of the continent from last time, second of the North American Wars. Spanish engagement with US Navy to break the blockade of Boston.

[Byrd Man]

I gotta say as much as I enjoy this game and reading about the lore and everyone's posts... it's fucking weird. I say it with nothing but complete love and affection, you fucking weirdos.

[Dinh AaronMk]

I gotta say as much as I enjoy this game and reading about the lore and everyone's posts... it's fucking weird. I say it with nothing but complete love and affection, you fucking weirdos.

@Byrd Man

North America has been a thing of beauty since Day 1 in this RP.

<3

[Vilageidiotx]

I gotta say as much as I enjoy this game and reading about the lore and everyone's posts... it's fucking weird. I say it with nothing but complete love and affection, you fucking weirdos.

@Byrd Man

[Pepperm1nts]

Pretty sure the West Canadians, who were independent, were moving in an Atlantic fleet to get involved in that battle.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Pretty sure the West Canadians, who were independent, were moving in an Atlantic fleet to get involved in that battle.

@Pepperm1nts

The famous, magical NWC Atlantic Fleet.

[Vilageidiotx]

Pretty sure the West Canadians, who were independent, were moving in an Atlantic fleet to get involved in that battle.

@Pepperm1nts

I actually reread a bunch of it back when I was digging up those posts for suggestions. It's a bitch to keep track of exactly what is going on in that fight because it goes so quickly and with so little relative detail.

[Dinh AaronMk]

I wanted to make a Wiki page for the battle of Djibouti, and the only detail I may need from Vilage and Googer are casualty reports from either side. But after that I should probably go in and re-review the First North American War page to accomodate for the extended conflict with the revised Florida, the Republic of Dixie. So when I do that I should probably pull Byrd aside so we can work on it together.

[Vilageidiotx]

I wanted to make a Wiki page for the battle of Djibouti, and the only detail I may need from Vilage and Googer are casualty reports from either side. But after that I should probably go in and re-review the First North American War page to accomodate for the extended conflict with the revised Florida, the Republic of Dixie. So when I do that I should probably pull Byrd aside so we can work on it together.

@Dinh AaronMk

Casualty reports are difficult to work out because I don't really know how large the Ethiopian military should be. The old Military Reform Bill from way way back in the old days of the MCF has the entire Ethiopian military numbering at 360,000, with 95,000 men per Sefari. With This is probably peacetime numbers though. Either way, Hassan is commanding the seventh and fourth Sefaris, with some parts of the fourth being stationed in Mogadishu and Mombasa to put up a fight should the Spanish try to occupy those cities. Hassan did not command all of his available forces at Djibouti though, because Djibouti is an isolated city in the hottest desert on the planet and the logistics of a large army in that desert wouldn't be worth defending an undefendable city. So I'm guessing probably dealing with only about ~40,000 Africans involved in Djibouti. This number gets complicated by the involvement of Harari shiftas and the Afar, but they probably couldn't be accurately accounted for anyway.

So for casualties, for Ethiopia most of these would have accrued late in the battle. The first phase of the battle, fought at night, would have seen a very low African military casualty rate, but a terribly high civilian casualty rate with the bombardment of Djibouti taking place with probably ~20,000 people still in the city. Most of those people would have tried to flee, but the city purposely set up to burn so the Spanish couldn't get it, we're still looking at probably ~10,000 or more dead civilians. This is also the phase where the Spanish would have taken heavy losses. Ethiopia's ground troops spent the battle watching from the sidelines and skirmishing with what few Spaniards managed to clear the inferno. The Ethiopian airforce only had that one jet as a significant threat, so their losses were negligible.

The next few days of the battle involved the African forces being pushed away from the city, and this is where military casualties would start to mount for them. If we are looking at ~40,000 troops on the field, and Hassan purposely slipping his forces backward to minimize casualties at the cost of losing the battle, I'd say we're looking at probably an Ethiopia casualty rate of roughly 15%. So lets go with ~1000 Ethiopian dead, ~5000 Ethiopian wounded or missing, and ~10,000 Civilian dead.

[Dinh AaronMk]

@Vilageidiotx

Good enough.

[Dinh AaronMk]

And one of the most interesting characters from "Mid-PoW":

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Marcel Hondo-Demissie lead a Congolese revolution against Ethiopia, who had managed to seize the area on a promise of protection against a withering Belgian Empire, Marcel had been born and raised during the era of the Belgian Congo and had witnessed the colonial abuses. By the seventies the Congo was swept up by the Ethiopian Pan-African Empire. But to Marcel there was little difference, in the mid-seventies he launched a revolution to oust Ethiopian suzerainty of the Congo and had succeded enough to seize Kinshasha and declare it an independent state for a brief time. While known as a brilliant strategist who had lead a rag-tag army to beat an armored column, he was also notable for his appreciation of classical music and women's clothes and make-up and not shy about it.

Ultimately, his revolution was put to the end by the Somali-born field marshal of the Ethiopian Pan-African army, Hassan al-Somalied (likely misspelled) who to draw out and cause tension in his ranks amputated the arms of the children of the tribal group that had been Marcel's largest supporters. The dissension and personal fury by the tribal commanders to put an end to Hassan's brutality sufficiently destabilized his ranks and he was able to be defeated and captured. And while Marcel faced execution, the respect shared between two commanding officers was enough that Hassan laid out the reality to him, suggesting that suicide would be a more honorable alternative than execution. Hassan gave him his knife, which Marcel killed himself with.

Hassan would later defend the amputation of the limbs of infants and children and deflect criticism with, "There's no treachery in winning" and that only treachery and dishonor is what's shouted by the losers.

[Vilageidiotx]

Mid-PoW. It's like we are ancient Egypt.

Old-PoW is when we built the great pyramids blobs. Middle-PoW was spent expanding into foreign lands forums. And New-PoW will be when we are at the height of our power and people are building statues of us everywhere.

[Dinh AaronMk]

Mid-PoW. It's like we are ancient Egypt.

Old-PoW is when we built the great pyramids blobs. Middle-PoW was spent expanding into foreign lands forums. And New-PoW will be when we are at the height of our power and people are building statues of us everywhere.

@Vilageidiotx

And then we hit Ptolemaic PoW.

[Vilageidiotx]

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And then we hit Ptolemaic PoW.

@Dinh AaronMk

Where we are really rich and make great things until Italians come and tear it all up.

[Pepperm1nts]

When someone dares you to read the Opera post in one sitting.