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I am up for continuing, but I have very little to contribute at this moment. Maybe if I declared war on someone it would jump-start things?

If rebooting, I'm fine with that too.

One issue I have with this current game setup is simple lack of agency. As a regional power, I feel hemmed in and without control, especially when next to a lot of Great Powers. I feel like I am reacting more than acting in this game thus far. I get that there are differences between Great and Regional Powers, and maybe I was playing wrong, but still not entirely enjoyable for me yet.

Again, maybe getting into a war would fix this.
The Kingdom of Anvegad

"Well. How are we going to broach these to the King?" Said the Minister of the Interior as the last courier deposited the messages and letters intended for the head of state of Anvegad. Who was away to inaugurate the opening of a new factory to start up an Anvegad railroad program and had left the trifling matters of state to his Inner Council.

"First we deal with these messages at hand. I'll handle how to broach them to the King once they are in motion. He's more concerned about railroads than foreign policy at the moment anyway." Said the Supreme Commander as he broke the seal on a letter and scanned its contents. "But we can't cover this up either. Osland is a rising star. We can't ignore it, or we’ll get hemmed in by two Great Powers at once. Ontop of all the other issues as the world continues to turn."





Gah, still need to IC post. I haven't been able to be online to write as needed.

This game is zooming along.
The Kingdom of Anvegad
Summer 1836
Ministry of War, Supreme Commander's Office.

"An ambitious young fellow." Commented the Supreme Commander as he flipped through the extensive paper on military maneuvers published by Lieutenant Pavel Tarkov. "Very much in the spirit of General Strakov. Strategically offensive, tactically defensive."

"Ambitious indeed sir. Ambitious and dangerous."

"The two concepts fall hand-in-hand, lieutenant. And as dangerous as these ideas may be...." The Supreme Commander closed the folder and turned to the two lieutenants in the room with him, who while dressed per uniform grey and blue, were not simply young officers. "War is already rising in the Old World and New. And one day we will eventually be at war with a Great Power. We may very well have need of men such as Tarkov, if he can rise to his so-called genius reputation."

"I take it you intend to test him sir?"

"We're raising a few new battalions to fill out the ranks and free up experienced troops from garrison positions. Tarkov will be promoted to captain, as per his right upon finishing advanced officer training, and take command of a new cavalry battalion. You two will go along with him to fill out his staff. We'll see how his tactics pan out against his fellow officers in the upcoming war games. And if war comes...."

"No kind of testing ground like the battleground, sir."

"Indeed. Observe, assess, and keep tabs on who this rising star stays in touch with. Dismissed." Ordered the Supreme Commander, with the pair of lieutenants from Intelligence and Reconnaissance saluting and departing. Leaving the Supreme Commander to his thoughts of the future.

Tarkov was a danger, for certain. But war and conflict were beginning to sweep the world once again, and Anvegad's time would come once again sooner than most would think. And men like Tarkov could very well be the architects of things to come. Still, on the subject of dangerous yet capable officers, the Supreme Commander pulled out a different file from another cavalry captain. Detailing the need to integrate new weapons and pursue technological advantage over enemies. Radical ideas, yet grounded in a surprising level of reality for lofty ideas of multi-shot firearms.

Radical ideas against radical weapons. Would that be the face of things to come? The traditionalist in him scorned the idea, it was hard enough to acquire regular funding for continued expansion of the artillery they had, but the pragmatist reminded him that others may not be so inhibited. Only time would tell.
So do any of you disgusting heathens want to come up to the Holy-State of Sordogne and begin worshiping Holy Saint Glavidius or are you all still disgusting heathens who enjoy disrespecting the Saint in all his holy glory?

This message was in no way aimed towards Anvegad.


As this was not aimed at Anvegad, it is not considered.

Why mention us if it was not intended for Anvegad to begin with? :P
The Kingdom of Anvegad
Feburary 1836

Inner Council Chambers

"Ministers, its time to consider the matter of nations." Intoned the Supreme Commander, inwardly grateful that the coal problems had finally been solved with the latest criminal draft in replacement of horribly inefficient child labor the incompetent mine owners had been found using (who were also drafted to work in their own mines now). It made this closed-doors session with the rest of the Inner Council much more tolerable, along with the absence of the King who had been invited to attend the opening of a new opera house. "With the latest reports on this new railroad of Nehalania, our King has made plainly clear we cannot permit Anvegad to fall behind. Especially after the recent report on military feasibility of the railroad. While his reasoning on the matter is best left for later discussion, he was rather spot-on on some of the larger implications of that rail.

"You can't propose we build a railroad of our own so quickly?" Sputtered the Minister of the Interior. The Minister of Coin also glared at the implication the Supreme Commander of the Armies was not-so-subtly pushing.

"We can, we must, and we will. And the assets to do so are closer than you think." The Commander stabbed a finger towards the map at the center of the table, and the ministers all leaned in to see exactly where he pointed. "Sordogne. Their factories and ironworks would be ideal for supporting our industries as they are less affected by winter than we are and have resources. I propose an outreach of renewed trade agreements revised for favorable transit of industrial goods between our two countries in the interest of......co-prosperity."

"Are you sure the King would approve of this measure, Supreme Commander? Afterall this is about increasing our dependence on foreign goods."

"Leave the King to me. This is no dependence, merely taking advantage of existing assets within our reach to shorten the time needed to achieve a goal, and he only cares about the Great Powers intentions. And this will certainly strengthen our position against them. Now for the hard part: getting our own industrialists to sign off on this, but that is your job isn't it Minister of Coin?"

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An Message to the Principality of Sordogne on the Matter of Trade and Co-Prosperity.

Can't we have more powers? I mean nation RPs are valued because you can often build your own nation from scratch.
Anyways, mech-based RPs are fun and I am tentetively interested in this.


Ditto to this.

I favor a Western Faction if this takes off.
It's very macabre, and imaginatively cold and dingy hallways are appealing to me, sir. It's Prussian-esque military, though definitely in the top three in the Old World, does not.

Anyhow. The other announcement I have is starting now instead of months I'll be running the crises through seasons. This will make time go by smoother, instead of us literally lurking through the game.


Prussian? Why does everyone seem to think I am a mini-Germany when I based my artillery and logistics stuff off Napoleonic France? Eh, gets the same end result I suppose.

Still keeping the 3-2 action system for seasons? Will our actions scale differently to the new turn length? Either way, agreed on that some smoothing of the game would make things nice so we can rush into conflict and tangled alliances all the more quickly. :)
Just post the Sanguine Empire post! It won't change anything.

Culturally my favorite nation is Skeptoni. Militarily it's Zellonia. Politically it's either Anvegad or Oslad. Cool factor is either Braiyusal or Sanguine.

Love y'all.


Politically? How is Anvegad interesting Politically? Would have thought it would be military.

Heh, well I'll just keep playing the game as its meant to be played.

"He fears his fate too much or his desserts are small/ who will not put it to the touch to win or lose it all"
-James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650)
The Kingdom of Anvegad
January 1836

Anvegad Military Academy
Classroom C


"What is the backbone of a army? Fighting spirit? Courage? Honor? Infantry? Artillery? Cavalry?" Questioned Professor Captain Palver Lynx to his audience in the spacious classroom. Rows upon rows of young officer cadets in front, veteran officers of the army in the upper seats alongside visitors from foreign lands and armies. How many generations of young officers sat in this hall, sat in these chairs?

"No. The basis of all warfare is logistics. Whether at war or at peace, in garrison or in the field of battle, logistics is the most essential factor in warfare that must be kept in mind from the lowest soldier to the highest general. I quote the words of Brigader Roland Tayber 'There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war', for he realized firsthand the difficulties of maintaining an army across distant lands and battlefields, and all too frequently won or lost battles solely on the basis of whether he had enough supplies to not only wage battle but follow up on his victories. A realization on the need to match war with the industry and support needed to run it.

This has become all the more important as gunpowder weapons are now the centerpiece of battle. Gunpowder is rarely available to be stolen, muskets and artillery cannot be made on the move, and the number of troops within a given area precludes any attempt to live off the land by foraging or pillage, thus placing high emphasis on having a stable and safe means of transport and supply of all necessities needed for soldiers on the march as well as replacement soldiers who too cannot be acquired off the land or on the march.

Let us refresh our memories on just how much goes into just a single battalion of fighting men with an attached artillery battery. Using Captain Talver's equation on approximating a standard thirty-day supply for a on-paper battalion, with the caveats-"

Glancing across his audience as his lecture ran from his mouth with practiced ease, Palver didn't have to read uniforms to know who was really taking these lessons to heart. The soldiers of Anvegad regardless of branch understood the weight of his words, for the necessities of supply, transport, and logistics had been hammered into the artillery-centric army since its conception as a formal military force. Soldiers and officers from foreign lands were of a more mixed opinion, and many did not disguise their disinterest or disbelief. Likely new transfers or invitees from cavalry troops that cared little about anything that couldn't be shot, ridden, or stabbed; or were so highborn they considered such "bean-counting" to be beneath them.

Yet this was how Anvegad fought war. Not just with great cannon and disciplined soldiers in grand bombardments, but with an ingrained and institutional understanding of what it took to maintain war centered around artillery and firearms. Math and figures alongside discipline and firepower. Industrial as well as military strength.

Some would learn today. More would have to learn in harder ways. Many would have to discover their own way of learning the importance of military logistics. "Finish the equation where you are, and complete it for homework due tomorrow. As you can see, even basic approximation calculations for thirty-day supply of a single battalion are a significant task, to the point where we have standing army units dedicated to nothing but matters of provisioning and supply. Therefore we strive to turn operational conditions into logistical advantages to reduce the weight of the shackle of logistics, such as ensuring artillery from a particular forge remain close together to ensure shared supply, and concentration of arms into Grand Batteries to reduce total amount of wagons and transit time of supply. Thus force concentration of heavy ordinance is not only martially ideal, it is far more preferable and sustainable logistically than parceling out troops along a broad front..."

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A petition to the Military Board of Provisioning

Subject: New Model Canning

Summation:

Honorable gentlemen of the Board of Provisioning, I would like to submit my product as a potential solution to the challenge proposed in the year 1832 on the matter of enhancing the nation's capabilities for preserving military rations for extended periods of time whilst remaining portable and edible.

Through various personal experiments, I have devised a improved means of preserving food within tin cans in place of standard jars and bottles which are more fragile and lengthy to manufacture and cook in. With the concepts and plans for industrial machinery I have devised, it would be possible to mass-produce canned food (primarily beef and bread with my current facilities and resources) for transit and safe consumption at later dates rather than the labor-intensive methods currently in existence to seal bottles, jars, and wax-sealed cans.

A factory built to specifications of my design and implementation would hold immense benefit towards feeding our troops or stockpiling reserves for future harsh winters. To prove my word, I am willing to submit several samples of canned food for testing and review to both military and research board at a time and date of your specification.

Attached to this letter is a more detailed summation of my methods and process I apply to patent and with the board's approval implement on as large a scale as possible for the satisfaction of soldiers and citizens alike.

Your most humble servant,
- Toran Halver

Summary:
Anvegad War Tactics: ARTILLERY ASSAULT
Anvegad is considering methods of modernization, such as advanced canning.
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