Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 1:05 am
The Grand Duchy Of Nova Capile wrote:First American Empire wrote:
Maybe. This is what I'm planning on doing if I get the time to post again.
If anything, I'm interested in seeing how you would attempt to assassinate him.
Usually with established dictators (not Middle-Eastern tinpots- although Nemetz is arguably a tinpot, he's in charge of what is essentially an established and internally stable nation), you need a dissenting faction within the government to facilitate the assassination itself and prepare a transition government that can seize control and actually defuse the situation once the leader is killed. My case in point being the 20 July Plot.
Unfortunately, no such powerful dissenting faction exists within the Reich. Sure, a few generals such as Krebs are mildly annoyed by the meddling of Party officials, but this is a trivial matter. For one, they would never dream of betraying, much less beheading, the organization and leader they swore to obey. For another, there is no problem that they think killing Nemetz would solve; unlike Hitler in my earlier example, he has proven to be a generally competent leader (so far), and there is no massive problem to justify killing him. It would only result in the destabilization and likely destruction of the country and cause that they, unlike their Wehrmacht counterparts in 1944, still believed in.
So an internal conspiracy, the least risky of the options, is eliminated. What's left? A sniper? Poisoning? Dictators are paranoid and take zealous security measures for a reason.
Finally, I'll ask you: what do you hope to accomplish by assassinating Nemetz?
This isn't meant to be rhetorical, it's genuine.
I'd like to know how you think the situation will unfold should you succeed in offing him.
I'm planning to use a combination of snipers and disguised gunmen during Nemetz's next rally/speech/military parade. The idea is that a bunch of people hide among the VF soldiers in the hopes that one manages to get close enough to Nemetz to get a shot off. If they fail, I intend to try and get snipers and spies covering his expected escape routes. This is so that when he flees, he runs right into an ambush. The assassins are expendable; if they all die killing Nemetz, that's an acceptable result.
(I'm assuming it's too risky to get snipers in range of Nemetz's normal position, but I will do it if he's dumb enough to leave himself unguarded. Likewise, poisoning him is next to impossible, but I'll still take the opportunity if I get one against all odds.)
My goal is to destabilize the Capilean Reich's leadership. If I'm lucky, it'll cause a major succession crisis and throw their whole faction into chaos. Even if it doesn't, I'll still have deprived them of a unifying inspirational leader, hurt the Reich's morale significantly, and hopefully replaced him with someone else who's easier to defeat. My nation's sole goal in this war is the defeat of the Capilean Reich, so I don't care if I upset the balance of power between the other five factions.