Scantarbia wrote:Hold on, I kind of get confused here, what we do have and what we don't have? Is there any local guerilla/groups that have the same idealism as ours? Any people who also despised the government? Have we secured any airfields and what are their capabilities (what can land on them)? Have we secured any beach heads or ports from which I could land my troops? Have we secured any city or have any FOB's? Where are the conflict zones (do we have a static frontline or an asymetric warfare)?
Alright, so:
San Javier is a nation of guerrillas. Between the 1970s and 2016 they were involved in a multi-party civil conflict involving communist forces, the ostensibly democratic but actually military controlled central government (which had little reach aside from military outside the Capitol), right wing paramilitaries, and the drug cartels. The central government, with foreign aid and an alliance with the paramilitaries, defeated the communist forces. The military of the central government and the paramilitaries merged and became the current, authoritarian military junta that controls the country, secretly working with the cartels for peace's sake. The country has been in its first peaceful period in nearly fifty years since then, with the first actual infrastructure expansions and whatnot. The people, almost universally, grew up in a state of constant war and chaos, and while they have a range of political philosophies (usually extreme ones) from the constant propaganda, they're basically seeing the first potential prosperity in their lifetimes. As such, the Peoples Freedom Coalition government has fairly widespread support, especially in the interior. Almost everyone alive on the island has some form of "military" experience because the past forty years has essentially been a defend-yourself-or-be-killed scenario. You could consider nearly any Javieran a potential guerilla, and they are all damn good at it.
The Mênnan invasion made a beachhead at the delta of the Rio Del Rosario and took Pueblo Ignacio, which is operating as their forward command and primary operations headquarters. It's a small village, but the Mênna and allies have constructed rough airfields, and the river is broad enough to be used to transport troops and supplies. Much of the southern coast is roughly controlled by invading forces, but the interior has been hard to penetrate because of ubiquitous jungle terrain and mountains. The main target for the invaders right now is Constantina, the center of Javieran oil production, but the Mênnan human wave strategy has been in effective, and the city is awful for invading forces. It's basically a stalemate, especially since the allies of the Mênna have been focused on maintenance of sea control and have been loath to fully commit more advanced tools to the war because of Mênnan behavior making the whole thing a political nightmare. Current lines are a spearhead towards Constantina from Pueblo Ignacio with a focus along the "highway" (really just a two Lane paved road as opposed to the unpaved tracks all over the place).
Forgot to mention: Javierans basically blame foreigners for their problems. The original war wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for meddling foreigners during the Cold War, and so even if many of the people have oppositional politics to one another, at this point they're more than willing to work together to throw the deuce at foreign intervention. The enemy of my enemy and all...
Our plan for the RP is to democratize the island, but leave it with a lot of resentment as a result. There wi eventually be a sequel RP where the communist government rises again, although this time backed by a general people's uprising against the foreign-backed democracy.