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There's so many military superpowers here that my pacifist and progressist guys are probably gonna get their ass kicked... Hopefully not.
Oh boy, I was supposed to post an application yesterday but, Civ 5 tied me and I couldn't. Nonetheless, the unclaimed islands will finally have a proper nation: the Causidian League. I'll be applying today.
Antioch Quarkshire: Yellow
Hampshire: Purple
Ravenshire: Blue
Markshire: Red (West)
Briton Haylshire: Green
Causid Fawarshire: Orange (Island)
Willmoreshire: White
Nation's Name: Causidian League / RCAL
(acronym)
"I̱ di̱mokratía, i̱ af̱tonomía , diamoní̱s kai noi̱mosýni̱ . (DADN)."
Democracy, autonomy, subsistence and intelligence.
Nation's History:
The war against Antiochian Empire profoundly marks the chronology of the league. For instance, BC (before the imperial collapse) and AC (after the imperial collapse) are the designations used to label years. The time line is divided into four chapters: Classic Chapter, Warm Chapter, Cold Chapter and Glorious Chapter. The first is the ancient epoch, where tribal warfare was common and the cities had poor evolution. Alliances between the cities marks the second chapter, as well the ascension of the Antiochian Empire; the third is a three-century long age that comprehends the entire Imperial War until when Willmore Shire deceased. The last, which incorporates the period up to date, initiates with the rebuild of the city-states and is discernible by the several ideological and military revolutions that occurred.
Classic Chapter (???? BC - 1200 BC): At least 1000 tribes occupied the region of modern league, which either perished naturally or succumbed through tribal wars. Given the few records and viable sources, this epoch is unclear for historians, though it is widely known that the most proficient and expansionist tribes were the Cosaedaeai (Causidians) and Aitroshkars (Antiochians). The Cosaedaeai had a merciful view over the conquered, always accepting these as part of their society. They eliminated all neighboring tribes making their home island a hegemonic potency, in counterpart, the Aitroshkars were nicknamed as "gelid demons of the old" for their traditions were to torture and exterminate their war prisoners, sacking and posteriorly slaughtering pitilessly all of their enemy's culture. Nonetheless, they were accomplished warriors, and enlarged the Aitroshkar's domains from the middle to the southernmost of the Causidian peninsula and as far as the badlands to the west.
Warm Chapter (1200 BC - 210 BC):
The few reminiscent tribes had substantial amount of territory under their flag and developed into civilizations, these being the following five:
The expansive Antiochian Empire brought uneasiness for Maerwit, who did its best to forge friendly relationships with the ascending Fawarians and Britons. Dreading an invasion, the Maerwits nobility specialized the peasants with architectural abilities, raising powerful defenses that could block the Antiochians should an invasion occur. These, cunning and treacherous as foxes, pounced at their fearful enemies during the construction of a fortification that divided the boundaries. The Britons condemned this perfidious action and declared war shortly after, dragging its growing protectorates and their military ally Fawar into the lengthy and costly Causidian War.
Cold Chapter (210 BC - 120 AC):
One hundred and fifty thousand men organized in ten armies crossed the Morelithe River, entering into Maerwitian territory. All of the defender’s forces agglomerated on the capital, Haemptea. They equipped the city to supply 100.000 inhabitants for three years, but have not invested sufficiently on counter-siege equipment, making their obsolete gear impractical when compared to the sophisticated and capable fortification tactics. Therefore, while the population was well fed, the garrison poorly countered mobile towers and battering rams. They resisted, though, expecting some sort of Briton/Fawarian support. Unfortunately, more than six armies besieged their city, making it impractical to confront them.
Instead, the Fawarians settled as naval headquarters a frosty island, where battleships docked and they established surveillance on the enemy’s maritime activities. The Britons, seeing how hopeless their armed forces were in comparison to the warmongering Antiochians, found a convenient ally on the Ravians. These, unsatisfied by the oppression that the empire pressurized on their mainland holdings, slowly prepared their military to strike surprisingly the Antiochians. Now, with Raevii on the game, all knew these three opposing the empire as the Triple League.
The ineffectual defense force could not sustain another Antiochian onslaught and, eight months after the initial obstruction, imperial general Antonine assaulted the city with only thousand men. He projected to confront less than ten thousand exhausted soldiers, while his estimation was not accurate (there were roughly 16.000 men), their fatigue deeply crippled their combating effectiveness, granting an easy victory for Antonine’s soldiers. After the battle, another general called Isla Fabio had duty of occupying the city and repressing rebellions.
Antonine took the front to push further north and, with inventive techniques, uninterruptedly went victor upon the Britons, whose repetitive defeats decreased the morale of their nation. Seeing a narrow chance of survival in the mainland, the Britons retreated to their island, Hayle. The same year, Antonine occupied Britannia (their capital). Meanwhile the Britons saw downfall as their destiny, Lerme, the head of state of Fawar, sent a massive amount of fleets to occupy the Haelian channel. If Antioch desired to advance any further towards the island, they would have to first confront the lethal Fawarian navy.
As much brilliant Antonine was, he was imprudent. The Empire had enough wealth to produce quickly top-tier vessels to counter the Fawarians; many said it would take less than a decade. Assuming of how feeble Fawar was, the only strategy they could adopt was a defensive campaign. Antonine had a bizarre bid to capture Hayle. Many says he was seeking personal glory if he could do so, while other assumes he wanted to eliminate the Britons because they killed his son, during an ambush. Regardless of his motives, Antonine believed that, if he transported a massive amount of soldiers, the vessels could not sink all of them; consequently, he could be capable of crossing the waterway. Foolishly, he proceeded with his plan. Unfortunately, at least for Antonine, he was bloody wrong.
Royal Antiochian Repellents, kindly nicknamed Fawarian fleet composed of 100 heavy assault-and-ramming vessels and 150 artillery ships, confronted the Antoninian Transport, composed of whooping 1000 ships escorted by 100 medium assault ships. The ramming vessels rammed (duh) the assault ships, leaving the transport adrift and endangered. Rather than retreating, they proceeded going farther adrift, only to be sunk progressively by the artillery ships. When they ran out of rounds, the ramming ships had no mercy (nor problem) to eliminate the survivors. Antonine, along 95.000 soldiers and other 6 generals, slept with the fishes that night.
To think about it, there is no way that 1.100 light transport ships could defeat 250 top-notch warships. Even with these odds on their favor, the admiral Cleymones saw difficulty in maintain their soldiers in check. They were frightful due to the enemy’s superior numbers. The poet Wilhelm wrote an epic poem about the battle, “Viktoris di Haeylie”, including the admiral speech, addressed to all soldiers, before the battle:
Antiochus VI, ruler of Antioch by this time, was distressed when news arrived that Fawar wholly thrashed his forces. Prior to this crushing defeat, the once mighty Antiochian Empire was vulnerable, with a few garrisoned troops on particularly strategic spots. That being said, the Ravians cherished over the Fawarian victory and promptly pounced, capturing much of Antioch’s profitable conurbations. Now, economically unstable and solidly damaged, there were few hopes of triumph; gradually, irrepressible rebellions took place, crippling even more the remnants of Antioch.
Hoping he could rebuilt his empire on the conquered Causidians’ cities, Antiochus was disillusioned when General Causidios liberated much of the subjugated civilizations. With a smaller number of soldiers (about 20.000), he overcame considerably larger garrisons of approximately 15 major cities (totalizing 100.000 soldiers). The successive losses dismantled the Antiochian pride of being nigh unbeatable on land battles and subsequently, Antiochus committed suicide, finally marking the disintegration of Antiochian Empire – without an heir the Empire succumbed.
Causidios’ victories were monumentally important and they honored him by designating the entire ethnic group and region with his name. Victories, however, win wars but don’t feed starving folks and reconstruct devastated metropolises. Fawar was the only who won on this war – their economy was untouched, and the susceptible nations wouldn’t bother accommodating their influence in exchange of monetary support.
William Moren-Shire filled the gaps Causidios left unchecked. An influent politician, he adopted a policy to assist the city-states, establishing a colony (Willmore) to nourish the necessity of raw resources. With Fawarian assistance, they resurrected, and all Causidian nations adopted the suffix “-shire” to their names, in honor of William.
[u]Glorious Chapter (120 AC - 900 AC, current date):
Race:
Form of Government:
The population votes the head of state, thus granting the Causidians a pinch of democracy. His/her decisions regarding to industry, foreign policies, edicts and so forth are debated on the Causidian Council, composed of one hundred and one politics graduated in at least the following social sciences: politics, economy and rhetoric. Surprisingly, there are members in the council that are younger than forty years of age; this grants an intellectual group that should, rather than attempt to have personal gains of fortune, guarantee decisions that should benefit the entire society. (The head of state) is regularly older than 70's, for he is exceptionally skillful at countless social sciences, including all but not limited of these aforementioned.
Current Leader(s): Argio Chuffien-Shire
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Hampshire: Purple
Ravenshire: Blue
Markshire: Red (West)
Briton Haylshire: Green
Causid Fawarshire: Orange (Island)
Willmoreshire: White
Nation's Name: Causidian League / RCAL
(acronym)
"I̱ di̱mokratía, i̱ af̱tonomía , diamoní̱s kai noi̱mosýni̱ . (DADN)."
Democracy, autonomy, subsistence and intelligence.
Nation's History:
The war against Antiochian Empire profoundly marks the chronology of the league. For instance, BC (before the imperial collapse) and AC (after the imperial collapse) are the designations used to label years. The time line is divided into four chapters: Classic Chapter, Warm Chapter, Cold Chapter and Glorious Chapter. The first is the ancient epoch, where tribal warfare was common and the cities had poor evolution. Alliances between the cities marks the second chapter, as well the ascension of the Antiochian Empire; the third is a three-century long age that comprehends the entire Imperial War until when Willmore Shire deceased. The last, which incorporates the period up to date, initiates with the rebuild of the city-states and is discernible by the several ideological and military revolutions that occurred.
Classic Chapter (???? BC - 1200 BC): At least 1000 tribes occupied the region of modern league, which either perished naturally or succumbed through tribal wars. Given the few records and viable sources, this epoch is unclear for historians, though it is widely known that the most proficient and expansionist tribes were the Cosaedaeai (Causidians) and Aitroshkars (Antiochians). The Cosaedaeai had a merciful view over the conquered, always accepting these as part of their society. They eliminated all neighboring tribes making their home island a hegemonic potency, in counterpart, the Aitroshkars were nicknamed as "gelid demons of the old" for their traditions were to torture and exterminate their war prisoners, sacking and posteriorly slaughtering pitilessly all of their enemy's culture. Nonetheless, they were accomplished warriors, and enlarged the Aitroshkar's domains from the middle to the southernmost of the Causidian peninsula and as far as the badlands to the west.
Warm Chapter (1200 BC - 210 BC):
The few reminiscent tribes had substantial amount of territory under their flag and developed into civilizations, these being the following five:
• Antiochians: Heavily militarized society, their armies were inexorable conquerors and their soldiers, praised warriors. Since all of their expansionist campaigns took place on land, they had a puny navy, composed mostly of tribal transportation vessels. The capital for the empire was Quark, and the Antiochians are of the Causidian culture;
• Ravians: Their origins are unknown, yet many sources points to a minor atoll, concealed in the center of the bay. Though not as efficient in combat as the Antiochians, the Ravians had powerful spearmen and an adequate navy. Their capital was Matai, a thriving harbor municipality, and the Ravians are of the Ravinic subculture (unknown + Causidian);
• Britons: Developed culture, intelligent and flourishing society, commercially prosperous, the Britons had distant civic technology from their date. Their investment on civil affairs set aside the military requirements, and so most armies were raised and dismantled weekly, composed mostly of mercenaries. The Britons’ mainland domains were named, accordingly, as Briton, and their island, Hayle (thus the term Briton et Hayle);
• Maerwits: The less progressed of the major societies, little is known about them other than they were talented architects and defenders. Their capital was Haemptea, whose walls “were the most magnificent and extraordinary structure barbarians could build; in fact, more splendid than any Causidian could build”, as described by Antonine earlier to his assault on the city; and
• Fawarians: Differently from all other nations, they improved all fields proportionally, having a moderately intellectual society additionally to reasonable martial prowess. Their ships, however, were incomparable. The recurrent invasions enforced a forceful navy be established. “The ocean is our household, whom we shall protect with all our strength” was a Fawarian maxim that marked the society intensely.
The expansive Antiochian Empire brought uneasiness for Maerwit, who did its best to forge friendly relationships with the ascending Fawarians and Britons. Dreading an invasion, the Maerwits nobility specialized the peasants with architectural abilities, raising powerful defenses that could block the Antiochians should an invasion occur. These, cunning and treacherous as foxes, pounced at their fearful enemies during the construction of a fortification that divided the boundaries. The Britons condemned this perfidious action and declared war shortly after, dragging its growing protectorates and their military ally Fawar into the lengthy and costly Causidian War.
Cold Chapter (210 BC - 120 AC):
One hundred and fifty thousand men organized in ten armies crossed the Morelithe River, entering into Maerwitian territory. All of the defender’s forces agglomerated on the capital, Haemptea. They equipped the city to supply 100.000 inhabitants for three years, but have not invested sufficiently on counter-siege equipment, making their obsolete gear impractical when compared to the sophisticated and capable fortification tactics. Therefore, while the population was well fed, the garrison poorly countered mobile towers and battering rams. They resisted, though, expecting some sort of Briton/Fawarian support. Unfortunately, more than six armies besieged their city, making it impractical to confront them.
Instead, the Fawarians settled as naval headquarters a frosty island, where battleships docked and they established surveillance on the enemy’s maritime activities. The Britons, seeing how hopeless their armed forces were in comparison to the warmongering Antiochians, found a convenient ally on the Ravians. These, unsatisfied by the oppression that the empire pressurized on their mainland holdings, slowly prepared their military to strike surprisingly the Antiochians. Now, with Raevii on the game, all knew these three opposing the empire as the Triple League.
The ineffectual defense force could not sustain another Antiochian onslaught and, eight months after the initial obstruction, imperial general Antonine assaulted the city with only thousand men. He projected to confront less than ten thousand exhausted soldiers, while his estimation was not accurate (there were roughly 16.000 men), their fatigue deeply crippled their combating effectiveness, granting an easy victory for Antonine’s soldiers. After the battle, another general called Isla Fabio had duty of occupying the city and repressing rebellions.
Antonine took the front to push further north and, with inventive techniques, uninterruptedly went victor upon the Britons, whose repetitive defeats decreased the morale of their nation. Seeing a narrow chance of survival in the mainland, the Britons retreated to their island, Hayle. The same year, Antonine occupied Britannia (their capital). Meanwhile the Britons saw downfall as their destiny, Lerme, the head of state of Fawar, sent a massive amount of fleets to occupy the Haelian channel. If Antioch desired to advance any further towards the island, they would have to first confront the lethal Fawarian navy.
As much brilliant Antonine was, he was imprudent. The Empire had enough wealth to produce quickly top-tier vessels to counter the Fawarians; many said it would take less than a decade. Assuming of how feeble Fawar was, the only strategy they could adopt was a defensive campaign. Antonine had a bizarre bid to capture Hayle. Many says he was seeking personal glory if he could do so, while other assumes he wanted to eliminate the Britons because they killed his son, during an ambush. Regardless of his motives, Antonine believed that, if he transported a massive amount of soldiers, the vessels could not sink all of them; consequently, he could be capable of crossing the waterway. Foolishly, he proceeded with his plan. Unfortunately, at least for Antonine, he was bloody wrong.
Royal Antiochian Repellents, kindly nicknamed Fawarian fleet composed of 100 heavy assault-and-ramming vessels and 150 artillery ships, confronted the Antoninian Transport, composed of whooping 1000 ships escorted by 100 medium assault ships. The ramming vessels rammed (duh) the assault ships, leaving the transport adrift and endangered. Rather than retreating, they proceeded going farther adrift, only to be sunk progressively by the artillery ships. When they ran out of rounds, the ramming ships had no mercy (nor problem) to eliminate the survivors. Antonine, along 95.000 soldiers and other 6 generals, slept with the fishes that night.
To think about it, there is no way that 1.100 light transport ships could defeat 250 top-notch warships. Even with these odds on their favor, the admiral Cleymones saw difficulty in maintain their soldiers in check. They were frightful due to the enemy’s superior numbers. The poet Wilhelm wrote an epic poem about the battle, “Viktoris di Haeylie”, including the admiral speech, addressed to all soldiers, before the battle:
- “The Antiochians are, unquestionably, relentless warriors. Nevertheless, there is a problem on that: warriors that fight on sea are not warriors - they are seamen. Moreover, the Antiochians can be anything, but capable seamen. On sea, we reign supreme. They will see it soon enough, for we will paint each droplet of this channel’s sea with Antiochian blood. Whichever boat sinks Antonine’s personal vessel will be paid a thousand coins. Now, get in your ships and prepare for victory, my friends: magnificent, honorable and glory-adorned victory!”
Antiochus VI, ruler of Antioch by this time, was distressed when news arrived that Fawar wholly thrashed his forces. Prior to this crushing defeat, the once mighty Antiochian Empire was vulnerable, with a few garrisoned troops on particularly strategic spots. That being said, the Ravians cherished over the Fawarian victory and promptly pounced, capturing much of Antioch’s profitable conurbations. Now, economically unstable and solidly damaged, there were few hopes of triumph; gradually, irrepressible rebellions took place, crippling even more the remnants of Antioch.
Hoping he could rebuilt his empire on the conquered Causidians’ cities, Antiochus was disillusioned when General Causidios liberated much of the subjugated civilizations. With a smaller number of soldiers (about 20.000), he overcame considerably larger garrisons of approximately 15 major cities (totalizing 100.000 soldiers). The successive losses dismantled the Antiochian pride of being nigh unbeatable on land battles and subsequently, Antiochus committed suicide, finally marking the disintegration of Antiochian Empire – without an heir the Empire succumbed.
Causidios’ victories were monumentally important and they honored him by designating the entire ethnic group and region with his name. Victories, however, win wars but don’t feed starving folks and reconstruct devastated metropolises. Fawar was the only who won on this war – their economy was untouched, and the susceptible nations wouldn’t bother accommodating their influence in exchange of monetary support.
William Moren-Shire filled the gaps Causidios left unchecked. An influent politician, he adopted a policy to assist the city-states, establishing a colony (Willmore) to nourish the necessity of raw resources. With Fawarian assistance, they resurrected, and all Causidian nations adopted the suffix “-shire” to their names, in honor of William.
[u]Glorious Chapter (120 AC - 900 AC, current date):
Race:
Form of Government:
The population votes the head of state, thus granting the Causidians a pinch of democracy. His/her decisions regarding to industry, foreign policies, edicts and so forth are debated on the Causidian Council, composed of one hundred and one politics graduated in at least the following social sciences: politics, economy and rhetoric. Surprisingly, there are members in the council that are younger than forty years of age; this grants an intellectual group that should, rather than attempt to have personal gains of fortune, guarantee decisions that should benefit the entire society. (The head of state) is regularly older than 70's, for he is exceptionally skillful at countless social sciences, including all but not limited of these aforementioned.
Current Leader(s): Argio Chuffien-Shire
Notable Figures:
- Antonine: Second greatest general of Causidian culture;
- Antiochus VI: Famed for suiciding after Causidios' victories;
- Cleymones: Great admiral that defeated Antonine on the Haylian Channel (now known as Cleymmic Strait);
- Wilheim: Important poet who described many important battles of the Causidan War;
- Causidios: Legendary general who freed the captured Causidian cities; and
- William Moren-Shire: Politician who upgraded the Foreign Affairs policy, rebuilding the Causidian cities' economies.
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Zura, I'm sorry! I swear I've taken a look at everyone's claimed lands, but the amount of different images made me get all dizzied. It's yours, rightfully, then.
I could just counter-argue you saying that I was adrift for every region I coveted were claimed beforehand. Either way, I'll just concur that I was being greedy (though an irregular archipelago isn't what you can strategic region).
AspenIvan said
Yeah, Knockout.
I could just counter-argue you saying that I was adrift for every region I coveted were claimed beforehand. Either way, I'll just concur that I was being greedy (though an irregular archipelago isn't what you can strategic region).
I will post an application soon, but for the sake of convenience I'm preventively claiming some coveted lands.
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