Faction/Nation Flag (Optional):
Faction/Nation Name: Horsemen
Faction/Nation Role: Tribe
Faction/Nation Territory: AOI stretches to almost all of Kentucky.
Capital City/Faction HQ: Louisville, Kentucky
Population: 7,380
Government: Tribal Despotism, with tribal battle one-on-one as the single method of electing the ruler of the tribe, for every 5 years or when the current tribal chief died.
Leaders:
- Tribal Chief Q'uoana Kilcher
- Tribal General Hans Gulcher
National/Group Ideology: Authoritarian, with the goal to expand their influence and range of area to all of Mississippi.
Military: The military's idea is based around cavalry and horses, so most of the military are cavalry corps, though existed militia force as well, with significantly fewer in numbers. Both the cavalry and the militia are armed with weapons of various types and standards, like swords, spears, bow and arrow, as well as firearms. The most advanced ballistic weaponry they can get are distributed to the tribal chief's personal bodyguard corps. From 4,000-strong military, about 1,000 of them are foot infantry with the rest being cavalry.
Major Towns or Locations: Instead of building new buildings, they repurposed old and abandoned buildings usually the one with the higher heights as outposts. They put the largest buildings with well-secured exits and entry points as warehouses and place for living. They also put the smaller buildings as armories and emergency armories.
History:
Before they came up to Louisville, they were first raised in Louisiana. In the past, Louisiana used to be very lawless before the birth of several permanent settlements, villages, cities, turned to sanctuary of safety. However, there is a tribal faction, not quite interested in settling properly due to their nomadic nature and instead decided to carve their own fate. One such faction is a tribe named Horsemen by its people and those who felt their wrath. Formed up from several small groups of Native Americans who rode on horses and the White Americans who formed some kind of traveling survivalists who realized that unity was the tool necessary for survival. At first, the leadership was very united in nature, while the tribe was more or less equipped with pre-war equipment and thus quite reckoned as a force.
However, as things progressed, the leadership broke, particularly because of the Whites insisted a single leadership under the Whites while the Natives insisted on tribal democratic leadership. As the result, those who wanted their own leadership broke off and the tribe went through major reorganization, as well as the full utilization of cavalry to promoted less use of fuel and to use the natural transportation. The conflict with their former ally came to a head one day, and the Natives won, though not without its own casualties. Later on, they decided to move to Mississippi for a safer and better land, as they argued that Louisiana was no longer a safe place for them.
They began to settled in Kentucky, moving from places to places while trading and occasional raiding for resources. As of now, they settled in Louisville, the former largest city of that state. At the same time, their army now more or less bit more diverse but still less armed than before. The new leadership put a White general and a Native American tribal chief as major leaders.
