Post by Greywall on Nov 8, 2020 17:23:38 GMT -5
OOC: Listed is a rough outline of the Fifth Staol war AKA The Great War. This a work in progress as it involves several player nations, please add to what you'd like your nation's involvement or add more detail to your liking, this is an absolute rough draft and missing a lot of detail. As I got to writing just this its clear this conflict is HUGE and will take time for everything to get added in. If anything needs to be changed let me know!
No conflict has had the far reach and destructive horror of the Fifth Staol War. A conflict that expanded over the world of Ouhiri and nearly saw the balance of power shift to one nation.
1930-1934 Rising tensions in the North
The Triple Entente, Ulster-Gaelia, Lusatia and Eonia, was at the time the most powerful political alliance in Ouhiri. The alliance for years maintained balance in Northern Reseria and vastly expanded trade, military cooperation, and even technological advancements. However the alliance was also a natural deterrent to the Galra Empire, since the 1900's Galra had expanded its borders and built a massive military force to challenge the Entente. With Galra's build up of military and industrial projects, their need for resources began to outpace what they ideally could do and border conflicts with Lusatia and Eonia began. Eonia's Shah, a man of little foresight and patience, directly threatened Galra with war. Using this as the excuse they needed, Galra invaded Eonia and Lusatia beginning the Fifth Staol War.
1934-1936 The Northern War
September 5th, 1934.
Galra launches the largest invasion in recorded history against both Lusatia and Eonia, in what was called the Blitzkrieg, Galra devastated both countries and gained ground quickly. Ulster-Gaelia declared war on Galra a week later but Galra had prepared for the island nation to enter the war and sent the bulk of its air and naval forces to besiege Gaelia.
Galra found success in Eonia destroying their defenses and driving deep into their territory through combined arms and large scale armored division deployments. By the winter of 34' half of Eonia was overrun by Galra. In Lusatia, the Galra offensive was stopped by the determined and hardened Lusatian army, a rapid response of digging trenches and quick mobilization stopped Galra from driving far into Lusatia and into a brutal ground war. In Ulster-Gaelia the new Royal Air Force was confronted with the Herculean task of fighting a massive aerial campaign designed to break them out of the war. Galra committed to a 24/7 nonstop assault on the islands from May 1935 to August 1937. Ulster-Gaelia successfully defended their islands but Galra sent their naval fleet away from the channel to harass Gaelian shipping in the shawbalt beginning an extensive naval campaign between the Empire and UKUG. In 1936 the Emperor of Galra began to realize the Entente was regaining ground due to the fact that they could keep fighting as long as Staol flowed from Ada Koi. Seeing a chance to end the war and make Galra the central power in the world, the Emperor ordered the unthinkable, a full invasion of Ada Koi.
1936-1939 A Global War
The invasion of Ada Koi shocked the world and ended Staol shipments everywhere, Galra immediately demanded nations not involved in the war to concede to their control of Ada Koi or risk never getting Staol again. With the global supply of Staol cut off, several nations began to enter the war against Galra. Rombarda, Ashigawa, Amali, Neverra and Kumosenkan declared war on Galra. Rombarda, Ashigawa and Neverra deployed a large invasion force to Ada Koi to liberate it. Kumosenkan agreed to assist Ulster-Gaelia in the naval campaign as well as send pilots and aircraft with Ashigawa to help end the battle of Gaelia. Ada Koi insurgents waged an underground resistance to free their country, desperately fighting against a brutal Galra occupation now being bulked with thousands of conscripts from occupied Eonia and slave soldiers from occupying the Agrarian Republic. Facing war on all fronts, Galra entered a state of total war forcing every able bodied person to the front.
In the winter of 37' Eonia launched a massive Winter Assault committing over 1 million soldiers to take back the South. The assault was the bloodiest campaign of the war for the Northern nations, in March 1938 Eonia broke through the Galra military forcing the Empire to pull troops from the Western Lusatian front. In Ada Koi, the Eastern coalition ran into a problem as Galra forces dug in deep into the mountain ranges slowing the invasion down. In the summer of 1938 a conference of all the nations at war with Galra met, it was determined that more pressure was needed in the West in order to pull Galra military from the other active fronts. Gaelia, Kumosenkan, and Kaireil would launch a coastal invasion South of Lusatia in the Agrarian Republic flanking the Galra forces in Lusatia forcing them to withdraw and free the Lusatian army which was desperately needed to tip the scales of the war. On September 10th, 1939 a massive coastal invasion was launched dubbed D-Day, Gaelian, Kaireili and Kumosenkan forces successfully landed and began a full liberation of the Agrarian Republic. Galra forces retreated from Lusatia to avoid being surrounded and Galra lost its key food supplier in the war.
1940-1941 The Endgame
D-Day plunged Galra into chaos, losing the Agrarian Republic meant more than half of the food needed to feed its population disappeared in a matter of weeks. Eonia was launching a new offensive, a new Western front of Gaelian, Kumo, Kaireli, and Lusatian troops began its push into Galra, and to make matters worse the Eastern Coalition broke into Ada Koi and began liberating it quickly. The Ada Koi quickly began distributing staol feeding the coalition whose reserves nearly depleted, Eastern forces outmatched the conscripted forces almost entirely in every engagement. By 1940 the war was entirely fought in Galra, the last naval engagement for the Galra navy which was now cut off from any friendly port came at the Battle of the Nardrac where Gaelian and Kumo forces destroyed the last of Galra's fleet. Surrender terms were given to the Emperor of Galra, but he refused demanding his people fight for every inch of the empire. As coalition forces pressed on, Eonia was facing complete collapse, revolutionary forces felt they could wait no longer as the Shah was purposely sending soldiers to their deaths with poor planning and tactics. Eonia forces completely stopped their advance into Galra and Galra sent what they could to stop the Western and Eastern advancements. With revolution breaking out in Eonia, Eleria seceded and began conquering nearby regions in Touli. On January 22nd, 1941 in a desperate attempt to break the coalition advancements Galra launched an all out offensive on all fronts. The Battle of Bulge, while a brutal and effective assault was utterly futile as coalition forces held off and even gained ground following the battle. The war finally came to an end in April with Galra agreeing to terms to end the war. Galra's days as an imperialist super power ended, Eonia plunged into a bloody civil war, and economic recession plunged the world into technological stagnation.
The last great battle of the war, the battle of the Bulge saw Galra launch its last assault as an empire.
No conflict has had the far reach and destructive horror of the Fifth Staol War. A conflict that expanded over the world of Ouhiri and nearly saw the balance of power shift to one nation.
1930-1934 Rising tensions in the North
The Triple Entente, Ulster-Gaelia, Lusatia and Eonia, was at the time the most powerful political alliance in Ouhiri. The alliance for years maintained balance in Northern Reseria and vastly expanded trade, military cooperation, and even technological advancements. However the alliance was also a natural deterrent to the Galra Empire, since the 1900's Galra had expanded its borders and built a massive military force to challenge the Entente. With Galra's build up of military and industrial projects, their need for resources began to outpace what they ideally could do and border conflicts with Lusatia and Eonia began. Eonia's Shah, a man of little foresight and patience, directly threatened Galra with war. Using this as the excuse they needed, Galra invaded Eonia and Lusatia beginning the Fifth Staol War.
1934-1936 The Northern War
September 5th, 1934.
Galra launches the largest invasion in recorded history against both Lusatia and Eonia, in what was called the Blitzkrieg, Galra devastated both countries and gained ground quickly. Ulster-Gaelia declared war on Galra a week later but Galra had prepared for the island nation to enter the war and sent the bulk of its air and naval forces to besiege Gaelia.
Galra found success in Eonia destroying their defenses and driving deep into their territory through combined arms and large scale armored division deployments. By the winter of 34' half of Eonia was overrun by Galra. In Lusatia, the Galra offensive was stopped by the determined and hardened Lusatian army, a rapid response of digging trenches and quick mobilization stopped Galra from driving far into Lusatia and into a brutal ground war. In Ulster-Gaelia the new Royal Air Force was confronted with the Herculean task of fighting a massive aerial campaign designed to break them out of the war. Galra committed to a 24/7 nonstop assault on the islands from May 1935 to August 1937. Ulster-Gaelia successfully defended their islands but Galra sent their naval fleet away from the channel to harass Gaelian shipping in the shawbalt beginning an extensive naval campaign between the Empire and UKUG. In 1936 the Emperor of Galra began to realize the Entente was regaining ground due to the fact that they could keep fighting as long as Staol flowed from Ada Koi. Seeing a chance to end the war and make Galra the central power in the world, the Emperor ordered the unthinkable, a full invasion of Ada Koi.
1936-1939 A Global War
The invasion of Ada Koi shocked the world and ended Staol shipments everywhere, Galra immediately demanded nations not involved in the war to concede to their control of Ada Koi or risk never getting Staol again. With the global supply of Staol cut off, several nations began to enter the war against Galra. Rombarda, Ashigawa, Amali, Neverra and Kumosenkan declared war on Galra. Rombarda, Ashigawa and Neverra deployed a large invasion force to Ada Koi to liberate it. Kumosenkan agreed to assist Ulster-Gaelia in the naval campaign as well as send pilots and aircraft with Ashigawa to help end the battle of Gaelia. Ada Koi insurgents waged an underground resistance to free their country, desperately fighting against a brutal Galra occupation now being bulked with thousands of conscripts from occupied Eonia and slave soldiers from occupying the Agrarian Republic. Facing war on all fronts, Galra entered a state of total war forcing every able bodied person to the front.
In the winter of 37' Eonia launched a massive Winter Assault committing over 1 million soldiers to take back the South. The assault was the bloodiest campaign of the war for the Northern nations, in March 1938 Eonia broke through the Galra military forcing the Empire to pull troops from the Western Lusatian front. In Ada Koi, the Eastern coalition ran into a problem as Galra forces dug in deep into the mountain ranges slowing the invasion down. In the summer of 1938 a conference of all the nations at war with Galra met, it was determined that more pressure was needed in the West in order to pull Galra military from the other active fronts. Gaelia, Kumosenkan, and Kaireil would launch a coastal invasion South of Lusatia in the Agrarian Republic flanking the Galra forces in Lusatia forcing them to withdraw and free the Lusatian army which was desperately needed to tip the scales of the war. On September 10th, 1939 a massive coastal invasion was launched dubbed D-Day, Gaelian, Kaireili and Kumosenkan forces successfully landed and began a full liberation of the Agrarian Republic. Galra forces retreated from Lusatia to avoid being surrounded and Galra lost its key food supplier in the war.
1940-1941 The Endgame
D-Day plunged Galra into chaos, losing the Agrarian Republic meant more than half of the food needed to feed its population disappeared in a matter of weeks. Eonia was launching a new offensive, a new Western front of Gaelian, Kumo, Kaireli, and Lusatian troops began its push into Galra, and to make matters worse the Eastern Coalition broke into Ada Koi and began liberating it quickly. The Ada Koi quickly began distributing staol feeding the coalition whose reserves nearly depleted, Eastern forces outmatched the conscripted forces almost entirely in every engagement. By 1940 the war was entirely fought in Galra, the last naval engagement for the Galra navy which was now cut off from any friendly port came at the Battle of the Nardrac where Gaelian and Kumo forces destroyed the last of Galra's fleet. Surrender terms were given to the Emperor of Galra, but he refused demanding his people fight for every inch of the empire. As coalition forces pressed on, Eonia was facing complete collapse, revolutionary forces felt they could wait no longer as the Shah was purposely sending soldiers to their deaths with poor planning and tactics. Eonia forces completely stopped their advance into Galra and Galra sent what they could to stop the Western and Eastern advancements. With revolution breaking out in Eonia, Eleria seceded and began conquering nearby regions in Touli. On January 22nd, 1941 in a desperate attempt to break the coalition advancements Galra launched an all out offensive on all fronts. The Battle of Bulge, while a brutal and effective assault was utterly futile as coalition forces held off and even gained ground following the battle. The war finally came to an end in April with Galra agreeing to terms to end the war. Galra's days as an imperialist super power ended, Eonia plunged into a bloody civil war, and economic recession plunged the world into technological stagnation.
The last great battle of the war, the battle of the Bulge saw Galra launch its last assault as an empire.