"We, the Allied Coalition, are all that separates the world from darkness. The enemy is relentless; ruthless; and shows no mercy. We cannot... we must not fail." - Gen. Edward Manson, Euro-Asian Army, addressing his troops, 1918
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 11:58 am
by New Hyannis
"Guerrilla warfare is an easy enough problem to deal with if you don't give a flying shit about global image."
~ Kumari Goranov, M.C.A.
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:10 pm
by -the Ukrainian SSR-
"Even Rome tired of the incessant body-count accrued by the WLA's so called 'tactics'. Those who advocate needless slaughter forget something, your own mothers will tire of burying their sons as they are stacked high like cords of wood." - Gen. Laberenz on ruthlessness.
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:51 pm
by New Hyannis
"The guerrilla relies on his enemy being so skittish that he will balk at doing even the most slightly controversial thing, because he fears how the so-called global community will react."
New Hyannis wrote:"The guerrilla relies on his enemy being so skittish that he will balk at doing even the most slightly controversial thing, because he fears how the so-called global community will react."
"This Colonel Bhaltair clearly doesn't know shit about guerrilla warfare. Oh well. It's not my job to correct those who are ignorant." - Captain Vekel 'Iron Hammer', Valgoran Army While reading a quote that was online.
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:22 pm
by Las Palmeras
"Las Palmeras in 1898 wasn't México in 1846. The local elite was unified. There wasn't any shortage of willing veterans. The Spanish cachés had state-of-the-art weapons then, and the vengeful Spanish preferred to not sign anything with the Americans and then funded and armed the Palmerans with what they could until 1901. The nationalized Church supported resistance. The lack of precise combined arms back then meant mobile layers of defensive forces around key cities or crossroads were optimal, as deemed from the previous local experiences.
Against a numerically overwhelming enemy, the conventional phase was quick. The National Salvation Army inflicted heavy casualties on the Americans before being overrun in the open and virtually wiped out in the Southern islands. In the North, however, where 30-60% mortality rates were the norm in the decades before..." -Excerpt from a documentary, 1898 to 1905- Birth and Death of the First Republic
"Attacking the Americans very close to civilians did force some of them to try to root out their opponents, house by house- if possible at all because of all the defense points. But many broke gentlemanly conduct and didn't care about the dead civilians or the reprisals. Not that the defenders were gentlemanly at doing this; killing civilians meant the Americans could be blamed moreso and the possible destruction or damage to entire population centers or the workforce denied the enemy of material and human resources: this was the 'all-or-nothing' gambit of the northern National Salvation Army's leaders." -Continuation
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:35 pm
by Skyhooked
"Expedition log, day 21: Our colony in Cyrodiil grows larger, we built a few houses near the old noble manor, which is used as main facility. So far we are pretty safe, and earn our money through the weapon and alcohol trade mostly, toghether with doing some mercentary work. While in Skingrad, we bought a few spellbooks and soulgems and sent them over to the lab back home.
I personally don't know, how does that mineral keep such energy inside, but know that they are charged, when you kill someone, who is "marked" with some "spell". Which makes it more complicated is that there are two types of that gem. White, which is the most common, and black state... which is very rare to find. White can take energy of non-sapient only, while black seem to be able to take from anyone. We need more studies."- Head of the expedition to other world.
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:49 pm
by Ashkera
"You either win or you die. There is nothing else." - proverb, originally attributed to a bloodthirsty general of the Second Empire, origin disputed
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:53 pm
by Las Palmeras
"The US-Palmeran War is a historiographic nightmare. Many American authors consider it began since the start of the American war with Spain, others say directly after the Spanish laid their arms down to the Palmeran staff after the putsch of the local military aristocrats. The Americans sustain it ended when the National Unity Committee's 'salvation' Army was defeated and they conditionally surrendered. In 1899. The insurgency of the Neo-Orientalist Christians from 1899 to 1905 is different. Many Palmerans consider the insurgency to be part of a same movement." -Office Lady
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:04 pm
by Escocaria
'Those idiots who want to be immortal have not realised just how soul crushing it can become; Your family and friends will wither and die around you while you remain standing, the things you build will crumble and rot while you remain untouched. I never got a choice, it just happened to me and I will forever see that day as a curse.' -Annette II on immortality 'When fighting an Escocarian you need three things; A gun, long legs and an escape route.' -Unknown British Soldier from WWI
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 7:44 pm
by Imperivm Terrae
"One thing I've learned when I served the military... most of these soldiers would bravely fight in battle, not because of patriotism, honour, valour, or whatever... it's because they expect a pay cheque at the end of the month."
- Maj. Eric Smith (retired), veteran of the First Galactic War, about his soldiers, c. 2289
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:15 pm
by Grofheim
"Heeeeeeeeeeeyyyy how's it goin!"
"Jesus Christ, what happened to the station? What did you do all night?"
"Not Another Teen Movie marathon!"
"Wh- They only made one of those!"
"Yeah, I watched it three times..."
-- Two Grofheimer Police Officers
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 12:31 am
by New Hyannis
"There is more to guerrilla warfare than knowing how to lay an effective ambush. You have to know the enemy's mind, to know how he thinks, what he wants, what he fears, and what he hopes to bring about by being here in the first place. If you don't know those things, all the tactical victories in the world won't help you."
"Never forget the crimes of our enemies. Never forget how they tried to exterminate us, never forget the death marches, the einsatzgruppen, Unit 731. Never forget the crimes of the imperialists, the atrocities they committed wherever they set foot. Never forget what happened to the Americas, to Africa, to India, to Australia. Never forget how the aristocracy and bourgeoise attempted to suppress us, how they tried to enslave us, and never, ever forget how we rose up against them and annihilated them in the fires of our glorious revolution. This is why we fight, to prevent such crimes from ever happening again, to emancipate all the peoples of the world, and establish a unified nation of all humanity under the Red Banner. We are the vanguard of a bright new future."
~Premier Thanh Nguyễn to the People's Volunteer Army, 1984
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 9:17 am
by Fatatatutti
"Rumours are circulating in the capital that Alphonse will not run against his friend Fish in the upcoming presidential election. If Fish runs unopposed, he will be the first fish to be acclaimed as President of Fatatatutti and the only fish to serve more than one term as President." -- Radio Fatatatutti News
"Rumours that the Fishist Party is using storm-trooper tactics to intimidate its opponents have not been substantiated." -- Fishist Party of Fatatatutti
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:59 am
by Gorgashia
"Guerilla Warfare is a stratagem based solely upon drawing out a war much longer than it should last. It is one of, if not the only, answer a much weaker state has against a much stronger state. It is based on the logic that, if the war lasts longer, the cost of overtaking the weaker state will outweigh any benefit the stronger state may gain. Eventually, the stronger state will become so eager to wash its hands of the ordeal that it will sue for a peace that, while not essentially in favour of the weaker state, will garuntee the survival of the weaker state. Guerrilla Warfare, essentially, is the last tool any military or organized society of some sort has against a superior force when any method of comventional resistance is dried up. Guerrilla Wafare is based around maintaining the image of a continuing conflict as well as actually continuing the conflict itself. This way both material and political will are dried up as the Guerillas have an air of paradoxical immortality as they never seem to cease crashing upon the battlements of the stronger state's occupying force and at the very least cost the occupiers money in refilling their ammunition. I call this paradoxical immortality because most guerrilla operations actually fail, the guerrillas attack, maybe ruin a convoy or two, and then the following retaliation eradicates the guerrilla unit or at the very least forces it to route. Any guerrilla force capable of winning any significant tactical victory, given the logistical sacrifices that must be made to maintain a low-profile defensive operation in occupied territory, is worthy of actual commendation. Notable Guerilla Warfare examples are the Viet Cong operations in the Vietnam War, the Spanish resistance against Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars and the Citizen-militias of the American Revolutionary War. The first drained the domestic political will of the occupying state. The second bled the resources of the occupying state to the point that its other political rivals could capitalize on this weakness and defeat the occupier in turn. The third did both, chipping away the will of the monarchy and exposing resources to attack from political rivals. On international support, Guerilla Warfare is somewhat reliant on a rival power supporting the Guerillas, the Viet Cong were supported by the Soviets, Spanish by the British and Americans by the French. A Guerilla effort in many ways needs a third party sponsorship, at the very least for the sake of organization in some cases. For example, the Free French Army was actually not the only French resistance organization during World War Two, but it was the one sponsored by the Allies and thus the one with more legitimacy than all the others, as several resistance forces were actually fighting each other for the support of the French people and resources the Allies were air-dropping into the country. As for global image... Global image has never mattered in Guerilla War, the only thing that has ever mattered is the images of the occupier and occupied and what this image is to the populaces of both forces. If the occupied believe that the war is done and done and just want to get the occupation over with, the Guerilla can fight as long as they wish but they will lose as they are transformed from noble resistance fighter for liberty and independence into a discontent rabble that makes life harder for everyone else. If the occupier believes that the war will come to no advantageous end for th cost, the occupier's military suffers the same fate of defeat as they are transformed from noble liberators or rightful conquerors into brutish imperialists or soldiers dying for nothing. To put this in other words, the world as a whole has a large stomach for tyranny in other countries, but countries themselves have little stomach for tyranny when it involves their own military forces and/or the military forces of a foreign nation in their country."
- Toka Artok, Analyist of the Department of Defence. Gorgashian Officer's Primer on Warfare Methodology.
"Gods, there's something stinking fierce of Soviet bureaucracy when you're given fucking eighteen manuals with pedantic titles like this to read over when you graduate."
"Weeds out the weak."
"Weeds out the sane more like."
- Anonymous junior officers.
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 2:49 pm
by Californiae
"It has very little to do with a desire to keep up appearances, losing a guerrilla war. It does however, have quite a lot to do with a desire to stop burying your sons in exchange for little to no territorial or economic gain." - Lt. Colonel James Masterson, F.S.A. (ret), veteran of the War in Talma
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 5:56 pm
by Euro Asian Republics
"All it took was one hit to the forward magazine and the Invincible sank with her bow severed. Only twelve sailors and officers were spared." - Journal entry by Vice Admiral Johnathan Brisbane of the Euro-Asian Navy's 1st Athenian Squadron, in the aftermath of a battle against the Cristobellans, which resulted in the loss of the Hastings-class cruiser EAS Invincible during the Euro-Cristobellan War
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 6:03 pm
by Californiae
"Shot this one rat bastard, his kid brother starts sobbing, then picks up the fucking rifle... Who the fuck teaches their kids that!?" - Sergeant Gerald Stone, F.S.M.C., deceased, suicide (1972 - 1998)
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 6:29 pm
by Rudkullar
"Doubt upon reality dripped into existence when we obliterated those Penevians with automatic grenade launchers normally only found on vehicles in our hands. It was not the pleasure of the destruction of your enemies, but rather, the confusion, the questioning, of how this was happening, that filled our minds." -An anonymous heavy assault trooper recounting the latest armed encounter with the Penevian armed forces.
"In response to question from Feedbuzz reporter, Ashkeran government denies it is responsible for Las Palmeras-themed dating game, blames 'rogue artists with anarchist sympathies.' #WeirdNews" - RP / Rooters tweet
"Is new #LasFacepalmeras game edgy scene art, or guerrilla marketing? @XNgo reports on the shrouded origins of this mysterious new dating sim, not found in any store." - news tweet
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 9:13 am
by Imperivm Terrae
"We saw the iron birds fly, and they brought forth the rods of death. Anywhere it touched, a great fire would appear, and consume all in its wake. After the iron birds, the iron beasts came in different forms. Sometimes large, other times small. They wielded swords and spears that made a noise louder than the church bells. They spat flames, flames that brought death at the blink of an eye. No matter how much we fought and prayed the death would not cease. The divine has abandoned us, all is lost. I love you, my dear wife. You will never see me again."
- A rough, creative translation of a letter by a soldier from an Early Medieval Era civilisation that the Imperial military invaded to prepare the planet for colonisation, c. 2330
"In response to question from Feedbuzz reporter, Ashkeran government denies it is responsible for Las Palmeras-themed dating game, blames 'rogue artists with anarchist sympathies.' #WeirdNews" - RP / Rooters tweet
"Is new #LasFacepalmeras game edgy scene art, or guerrilla marketing? @XNgo reports on the shrouded origins of this mysterious new dating sim, not found in any store." - news tweet
"Ha! I told the old farts that used to work with the dead Ministry of Propaganda that the new tourist ad would attract more attention than the 'abnegated' plain girl representing the 'national spirit' of self-control! Who's the budget proposal's favorite now bitches?!" -Pedro Rodriguez, Minister of Tourism
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 11:52 am