Blassland wrote:a) I wasn't being serious with the first paragraph, what I said about the military numbers is true, but I wouldn't actually break the non-aggression pact unless you did something drastically wrong. b) Border forts are called border forts for a reason, besides I could still defend the cities if need be. c) those cities each have their own militia, that's a force of 20,000 stationed in their region before you even start to add reinforcements, and because I'm on the defensive I have the upper hand. d) You're not the only person who's getting areas industrialized, I already have areas of industry else how would I be able to have such a large armed professional and conscription force, you can't get over a million muskets through trade alone. e) this is all hypothetical, the paragraph you're basing this on is one in which I'm not being entirely serious, hell I'm known for not being entirely serious. f) I have the ability to occupy as much land as I could, once again you're trying to make up my limits for me, something you can't reasonably do. g) if you're pulling more men into the fight who's going to be running the factories you need to run to get stronger? h) I'll also be stronger, once again you're not the only person advancing in this RP. i) you're assuming that if I did invade I'd do so down south, as you've pointed out you're more important areas (including your capital and main industrialized area) is in Northern Iran and the Southern Caucuses, yet another place near my border that I could take, if I did that's leave you broken and beaten without a leader, you on the other hand have to march through a lot of desert to get near my capital city and in that time I could call back a lot of forces to defend it. You're at a lot more of a disadvantage than me in this one,
But I will once again stress that that first paragraph wasn't me being entirely serious, I do want to open up communications with Kershya, and what I said about military numbers is true if you read you're app your max at wartime is 48,000 my max at peacetime is 50,000. I don't want to be seen as threatening you but I am asking you to stand down from your claims of occupied land that you're sole reason for claiming is little more than not understanding that if someone applied for that land it is their's never mind if you sent an army towards it or not.
Oh and FYI I'm not fooling around in Africa, no more than you are, I'm not only expanding my land into more temperate and richer climates I'm also gaining land which once taken and fortified will mean that the Red Sea and thereby my main anchor point is nigh on impenetrable, whilst both places you can anchor your fleet are still open to attack.
oh and need I remind you that massing forces near my border is a breach of our non-aggression pact.
Response:
A)I am relieved, although I didn't take your word as gospel I did deem it worthy of acknowledgement
B) A large portion of your military is busy in Africa
C) Point acknowledged
D) Industrialization is the main focus of my nation currently (with large European support), your nation seems to be more focused on expansion in Africa at the moment
E) Again I am relieved
F) No nation at the moment has the ability to successfully occupy all of my lands, the same goes for you
G) Around half of my population is male, my army is nowhere near 3.4 million strong so there are plenty of non-fighting men to go around
H) I am not ignoring all advancement of other nations, my post was concerning our two nations in particular. I am growing drastically more modern, but not as large
I) Between the Zagros Mountains and the Caucasus all my soldiers have to do is dig in and fight a guerilla war with full industrial support from the HSE and it`s allies, geographically speaking I am as well defended by natural borders as you are. An offensive war against state-supported guerillas in mountains that run from the Persian Gulf to the Black sea is unwinnable, not that I would have the ability to make much offensive action
You can see that I am re-organizing the military drastically. The Persian Gulf is practically owned by me, I am just as powerful as you are in the Black Sea.
Note: I am responding to your points, aggression is not wanted at all
A) yeah, probably my fault really. You can generally tell if I'm joking if the paragraph/sentence after starts off along the lines of "Seriously though..."
B) True, but overall I still have a large enough army to maintain a decent defence AND I can always pull out of Africa is my front line breaks
D) Once again True, however to keep the expansion going supplies must be made, more ammunition, muskets, uniform must be made, new cannons made horses and camels trained, it's a massive machine going on, and one that requires a serious industrial presence to work. Plus din't forget that I'm still trading with a large amount of nations including you.
F) Point, but we both have the ability to do serious damage to one another
G) Working on the same principle I could call forth a max of 3.75 million men, however you must also remember that only about half of the men in your land are able to fight unless you're willing to send the infirm, the elderly and the young to fight side by side with more able men.
H) I'm staying fairly modern as needed for a large trading Empire.
I) Like I said we could both do huge damage to each other and end up only weakening each other allowing someone else to come in and sweep us both up.
I can see you're re-organizing your military, and honestly it worries me, the men in The Caucasus are a bit too close to the border for my personal liking. Whilst we are on equal terms for the Black Sea the Persian Gulf is a lot more equal, you own the northern side whilst I control the southern and western coastline of it, meaning it's pretty much fifty-fifty really.
NOTE: I too do not want aggression, I got a bit mad earlier and I'm sorry for that, I feel like it escalated a bit quicker than I thought, hopefully we can continue to work peacefully both IC and OOC.
