IC thread here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=370484
Rules
1) This is primarily diplomatic. There will be some warfare, but generally speaking no 1 million strong armies.
2) I am OP for this.
3) Longer, fewer and more developed posts are preferred over lists of troop numbers or one-sentence replies.
4) No nukes (unless it’s a really important plot device)
5) Work things out in OOC if there’s an issue, or TG.
Clarifications:
6) Please discuss first before taking definate military action such as invasion on the OOC thread. I'll give it the go-ahead if it fits.
7) The Peninsula is fairly small, and a lot of it is pretty inhospitable. Your best military strategists claim that it'd be impossible to land and support more than 30,000 troops.Once you're in, you're in. Retconning will be allowed only in the most extraordinary of circumstances - and only for the last post made. Breaking this rule will result in darkly hilarious consequences for any of your people left on the peninsula.
Introduction
At approximately 15:45, a series of events laid in motion decades ago have culminated in a military stand-off between Caracasusian forces in the Quoris province and mercenaries from Parsoh. Parsoh has recently shifted from a generally belligerent stance towards its neighbours on the Iberis Peninsula to one of outright hostility – claiming sovereignty of large amounts of territory within disputed regions that make up the peninsula bordering Caracasus’s Quoris Province: Menthi, Carsoi and Malsti.
Caracasusian troops intervened after a Parsoh mercenary troop entered the Quoris province, briefly, to attempt the capture of several trucks fleeing the conflict in Menthi. Parsoh has issued a blanket statement that denies any wrongdoing on its part, citing that its troops were unaware of the precise location of the Caracasusian/Menthi border and were in pursuit of wanted criminals.
After a brief, but tense standoff, the Parsohian mercenary company departed back into Menthi. The trucks they claim to have been pursuing have not been heard from.
Maps
(Kindly supplied by Dogs of War)
Political map
Topographical map
Transport link map
Kindly supplied by Dogs of War.
Helipads, airport and deepwater port marked.
The red circle with a symbol of a person and a barrier marks a border crossing.
Black dotted lines are railways
Yellow lines are paved roads in good condition.
Red lines are other roads. These are often dirt tracks - four wheeled drives are advised.
Lead-up to current tensions – the past three weeks
Parsoh mercenary groups have begun seizing control of railways, demolishing bridges and capturing harvests from nearby Menthi after Menthi refused a trade deal between the two. Menthi’s comparatively weak armed forces have retreated to the three major cities of Jarka, Peni and Karthos and have dug in, leaving most of the country to fend for itself.
Carsoi, Parsoh’s western neighbour has taken the opportunity to seize territory from Menthi along its easternmost border that has been the subject of dispute between the Menthi and Carsoi for decades. Guerrilla soldiers and battalions of Menthi’s army cut off from the general retreat have begun to fight back against Carsoian soldiers.
Malsti, the westernmost province has appealed to Caracasus for aid and reinforced its own borders following a tense naval standoff between Malstian ships and Parsoh. At present, Malsti is still at peace with Carsoi, Menthi and Parsoh.
Overview
The Iberis Peninsula
The Iberis Peninsula has been home to countless despots and tyrants of various types over the last century. Caracasus has close ties to this region, it too underwent a series of significantly less successful and beneficial revolutions than Caracasus's against governments similarly created by the foreign power that previously ruled vast areas of Caracasus through a proxy government. Caracasus has felt somewhat responsible and popular support seems to overlook some of the worst of the regimes in the Iberis Peninsula in support of a common revolutionary background.
The four main states within the peninsula are as follows:
Parsoh
Parsoh is a corrupt and crumbling highly nationalistic city state occupying the tip of the peninsula. In spite of endemic corruption, Parsoh remains powerful and capable as a nation due to its position. Several major trade networks intersect its territorial waters, and it proves a natural point of trade for large areas of the continent.
Parsoh boasts a strong navy, and a relatively powerful military (the second largely mercenary in nature). It is an authoritarian state under the rule of President Jarthos. The citizens of Parsoh are either wealthy traders and businessmen – the elite who can afford Parsoh’s extortionate Upstanding Citizen levy, militia members or members of the armed forces or the poor. The regime turns a blind eye to various infractions of national and international law provided the perpetrators are not acting against the greater interests of the city.
Whilst always belligerent towards its neighbours, Parsoh has recently translated this belligerence into force – seizing territory from a neighbouring state.
Menthi
Menthi is the poorest of the four powers on the peninsula, forming a narrow strip of sparsely populated land separating Parsoh from Caracasus, Carosi and Malsti. Mostly mountainous, with small areas of lowlands primarily comprised of salt marshes, Menthi has three cities. Jarka, Peni and Karthos. Menthi has a democratic government of sorts, but after decades of open and covert warfare against its neighbours Carosi and Parsoh, relies heavily on Caracasus and other nations for aid.
The city of Jarka is Menthi's capital with a population of approximately half a million. It is the centermost city on the map.
The city of Peni is the northernmost city - it has a population of approximately 200,000.
The city of Karthos is the southernmost city. It has a population of approximately 132, 000
Carosi
Carosi is ruled by self-titled Emperor Mardock III. Mardock himself was elected president of Carosi several decades previously. Within five years he managed to establish himself as Emperor and protected his rule with a large, ruthless army.
There is little distinction in Carosi between the military and police, or indeed between either groups and priests of Mardock’s personal religion – a strange mix of paganistic ritual and new-age symbolism that demands buildings in Carosi are constructed on leylines and that the armed forces consult the stars before engaging in warfare.
Mardock’s rule and decrees have become less and less legible as the years have progressed, as have his personal appearances – leaving some to speculate as to his health.
Malsti
Perhaps the most stable state in the area, Malsti benefits greatly through exchange with Caracasus. Malsti’s government remains wary of Carosi, and devotes funds to its armed forces as a precautionary measure. Treaties exist between the two states, with sentiment between Quoris province and Malsti being that Malsti may well become part of the United Socialist States of Caracasus at some point in the future.
War crimes counter
U = Unknown or secret
S = Widely suspected
K = Common knowledge. Known and probably recorded.
