A War of Mud and Steel[AH-OOC-OPEN]

[Greater Aterria]

I'll help you economically my buddy and pal, America(the true America). I got you with the cotton to make uniforms and guns to supply your troops, also got lots of crops to feed your people.

Sure thing. Although America might not need any extra guns, we got plenty.

[Red Party]

Hmmmmm, does croissant want a vist?

What are you

Egypt and co.

[Zelent]

Who is playing as the Papal States or whatever that pink around Rome on the map is, might I ask?

Alps is.

And the Papal States are a protectorate of the Holy Roman Empire.

Okie Dokie and of Florence?

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

Tag, any interesting spots still open?

[Intermountain States]

The player for Japan has not been seen since the 27th.

[Trotza]

The player for Japan has not been seen since the 27th.

And the fate of Scandinavia seems kind of up in the air.

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

Nation Application

Full Nation Name: Imperial Empire of Ethiopia and Eastern Africa (the last part was included as an attempt to impose a sense of unity in the empire

Short Nation Name: Ethiopia

National Symbols: http://states-world.ru/arms/eth-ax1.png

Capital: Addis Ababa

Territory: http://imgur.com/pLzkTTM

Form of Government: A monarchy though growing movements to increase the strength of the parliaments are gaining traction

Head of State: Zewditu, Empress of Ethiopia

Head of Government: Habte Giyorgis Dinagde

Population: 45 Million, rapid population growth as poverty continues to fade

Military Description: Modern and at the level of numerous European nations with a total army of 120,000 men due to imperial wars and well into a modern navy - Has long been expanding with modernization and new training brought on by foreigners

Economic Description: Growing at an incredible rate due to the large Persian investments and of other wealthy Africans, rapid development and a growing financial sector

Ideology: Pan-Africanism

Allegiance: Unallied

Goals: Unite eastern Africa, promote Pan-Africanism

Point of Divergence: 1889

History: Like Ethiopia in real times, the 1880’s were marked by great economic reforms as the first African nation state rose. But unlike our actual time, the country’s investments were not stopped as it became a target of colonialism. In fact, numerous nearby nations, attempting to cut off the rise of each other, continued their support for the desperate nation. As economic rise continued, the new capital was born. Laid out like a European city, it stood above the rest marking an age that would come to be called the ‘Imperial Age’. Why? For it marked the first war in which the once landlocked nation gained its coast. It’s rulers, administering for the first time a Western style government, were amazed at its efficiency. Foreigners aided the movement training a ragtag army into a truly African army with Western tactics. But using their own knowledge, the army, while small, became effective in the jungles and saharas of Africa. Soon, the empire amassed a great land with equally great financial assets. Though modernization was far from over with nearly 30 million living in poverty and a mere 16 million living in urbanized areas, it was nonetheless a start. Now seated to influence the growing changes in Europe, the Empire stands as both a bastion of African strength and a target of imperiality.

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[Togeria]

Tag, any interesting spots still open?

I remember you.

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

Tag, any interesting spots still open?

I remember you.

Didn't you play in the Napolean one?

[Togeria]

I remember you.

Didn't you play in the Napolean one?

Not sure, I think I remember your name from a steampunk RP. You were Japan and I was China.

[Western Pacific Territories]

Woahhh. Seems a bit map fillery to me. Annexing Eritrea, even Somalia is reasonable but annexing Sudan and Northeast Congo is quite the bit much.

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

Didn't you play in the Napolean one?

Not sure, I think I remember your name from a steampunk RP. You were Japan and I was China.

That one too!

[Intermountain States]

If Japan is open, perhaps Xath should RP as Japan since he seems to have experience as Japan.

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

Woahhh. Seems a bit map fillery to me. Annexing Eritrea, even Somalia is reasonable but annexing Sudan and Northeast Congo is quite the bit much.

I had that after thought as well. I probably will cut out ‘inland areas’. But I’ll probably keep the coastlines of Sudan.

[The V O I D]

Finished my post. The Confederacy is now prepping for blitzkrieg, as well as having told the British, French and others to do the same on their signal.

Meanwhile, trying to strengthen relations with the Papacy and convince Mexico to stay out of the war with the Union in return for some clay...

Which will be subsequently claimed when the Confederacy recovers from the War against the North and begins Operation: Golden Circle.

[Intermountain States]

Wait I'm confused, I thought France was on the side of the Germans who are on the side of the Yanks

[The V O I D]

Wait I'm confused, I thought France was on the side of the Germans who are on the side of the Yanks

The French were at the Raleigh Conference, so...

I guess they may pull a Switzerland?

Also, I made the Mexicans an offer they can't refuse: what's more valuable, one sparsely populated state/lost territory, or three vastly more populated lost territories, with probably higher Mexican populations within them than there are in Texas?

[Red Party]

Woahhh. Seems a bit map fillery to me. Annexing Eritrea, even Somalia is reasonable but annexing Sudan and Northeast Congo is quite the bit much.

I had that after thought as well. I probably will cut out ‘inland areas’. But I’ll probably keep the coastlines of Sudan.

We may have a problem.

[Togeria]

I don't see how a blitz could be viable in 1914.

[The V O I D]

I don't see how a blitz could be viable in 1914.

Charge in guns blazing, move my boats in through the Mississippi and fire all cannons, bombard the border guards on the Union side using cannons and such, and use cars/armored trains to bash our way through into their railways to invade using their own infrastructure.

Do it all at once, and do it out of nowhere so they have little time to react.

And then, voila, you have a BLITZ!

[Newne Carriebean7]

Wait I'm confused, I thought France was on the side of the Germans who are on the side of the Yanks

The French were at the Raleigh Conference, so...

I guess they may pull a Switzerland?

Also, I made the Mexicans an offer they can't refuse: what's more valuable, one sparsely populated state/lost territory, or three vastly more populated lost territories, with probably higher Mexican populations within them than there are in Texas?

The Brits see Canada, and we hunger for the second tea reich to appear again,come hell or high water, we'll find an excuse perfectly thought out reason to wage war on the Vatican and the north...

[Federal States of Xathuecia]

Edited the application.

I had that after thought as well. I probably will cut out ‘inland areas’. But I’ll probably keep the coastlines of Sudan.

We may have a problem.

Elaborate si vous plait!

[The V O I D]

The French were at the Raleigh Conference, so...

I guess they may pull a Switzerland?

Also, I made the Mexicans an offer they can't refuse: what's more valuable, one sparsely populated state/lost territory, or three vastly more populated lost territories, with probably higher Mexican populations within them than there are in Texas?

The Brits see Canada, and we hunger for the second tea reich to appear again,come hell or high water, we'll find an excuse perfectly thought out reason to wage war on the Vatican and the north...

But we're allies with the Vatican and Austrians, damnit!

Anyways, with your support, you'll get Canada, France gets maybe-Quebec, the Union is shrekt and the western states temporarily go to Mexico.

If all goes according to plan, that is.

[Red Party]

Edited the application.

We may have a problem.

Elaborate si vous plait!

Well, we might by allies, but I'm your neighbor to the North.

[Insaeldor]

I don't see how a blitz could be viable in 1914.

Charge in guns blazing, move my boats in through the Mississippi and fire all cannons, bombard the border guards on the Union side using cannons and such, and use cars/armored trains to bash our way through into their railways to invade using their own infrastructure.

Do it all at once, and do it out of nowhere so they have little time to react.

And then, voila, you have a BLITZ!

The French had the same idea and got 70,000 of their men mowed down by German machine gun fire in a single day during an engagement during the Battke of the Frontiers.

Without substantial air fire power or fast moving armored units you won't get far with that sort of attack, and those technologies are simply either unexplored or completely unknown to the military theorist of the time nor has technology progressed enough that to allow them to happen.