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by Beddgelert » Fri May 13, 2016 9:12 am
by The Crooked Beat » Mon May 23, 2016 4:32 pm
by Chrinthanium » Mon May 23, 2016 7:56 pm
The Crooked Beat wrote:At present, my extremely sketchy idea about Parsistani history during the Great War era has its still dangerously feeble government caught between its long-time Shieldian 'protector' and, possibly, a growing level of Walmingtonian influence brought on by Persian-Gulf oil exploration, and therefore clinging to a precarious neutrality, Parsistan probably tolerating both an Oakist and an Aventine military presence as a consequence of its inability to do anything about it in either case. Chances are, I think, that Parsistani foreign policy at that point would have amounted to a strenuous attempt to please all sides and to build-up its international credibility, in the hope that a postwar settlement would simultaneously see Shieldian influence severely curtailed and Romnika dealt damage enough to keep it quiet for the foreseeable future.
There's undoubtedly a lot more room for things to have happened both within and relating to Parsistan, particularly from a religious point of view. It's a subject which I haven't thought nearly enough about. A perfect setting for international espionage and diplomatic intrigue as well, I'd imagine!
Any Parsistani inclination to capitalize on Romnika's military misfortunes, and throw in its lot, however opportunistically, with the Oakists, might have been restrained above all by Walmington, and the Parsistani regime's sharp awareness that its minuscule armed forces could not hope to defend it against serious foreign aggression.
by Chemaki » Sat May 28, 2016 4:47 am
Beddgelert wrote:Presumably Galatia and Romnika went to war... worth noting that Galatia's population at the time was probably only about 3.2 million, and only a few cities were industrialised, and half the available forces would have briefly been directed against the Greeks in Ionia. Military aid from Geletia meant that it probably had a fairly well equipped army-group using then-advanced tactics, and with a young population may have raised as many as a third of a million men by the conflict's peak, so it's probably still believable that the Galatians might at least have thought they could win, capitalising on Romnika's internal strife at the time and having the (later probably unwelcome!) support of the Shield. Especially if Parsistan was also hostile to Romnika.
This is all assuming both Romnika and Parsistan were independent at the time and not part of some western power's empire or something (not that we wouldn't just attack them anyway, like!).
Perhaps the Shieldians mostly used Depkazi and Gallagan levies against Romnika? A couple of semi-mechanised Celtic Druidic divisions on the right flank, a shitload of Turkish Muslim cavalry on the left!
Eventually Shieldian incompetence and low morale amongst their non-Shieldian conscripts and lack of Galatian manpower would scupper the invasion, leading to a fighting retreat (on the part of the Celts, at least!) and eventual armistice involving some sort of reparations and military restrictions to Galatia's disadvantage.
Then, post war, resentment over the defeat, the failure of their Christian, imperialist allies, the debts and austerity necessitated both by the cost of the war and post-war payments to Greece and Romnika leads to left-wing insurrection and eventually open civil war that wages on and off for decades, scuppering development but eventually leading to Igovian victory.
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