A Roskanan Throne (Roskana IA Thread)
Jan 10, 2023 2:07:41 GMT -5
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Post by VoxApocrypha on Jan 10, 2023 2:07:41 GMT -5
The trenches were in terrible conditions. Little more than ditches with rotted wood scattered around the interior of what few hadn't simply become deep waterways or irrigation traps illegally rigged up by farmers in the many years since the last inspection. No one was issued citations - they couldn't use the trenches for defense anymore as it stood anyway. And if what they had heard from Marrlanian volunteers they'd gotten to interview, trench warfare was not considered a worthy path forwards. Despite the Kithium managing to effectively butcher over half a million men, at least from what they'd been told by Cult of Mars sources, the League had suffered its own immense losses throughout the course of the conflict.
Digging new ones would be pointless. They'd just be a economic drain when they had to be reinforced and the old ones potentially restored using equipment and money better sent elsewhere.
Aside from other messages such as the new found worthlessness of the single-shot rifle in the hands of a modern army, the main problem had become that what the Roskanan army had been preparing for for a fair while was going to be a downfall for it. Trench warfare was on the way out.
Though the Roskanan army could to a point perform mobile warfare, the real nature of their operations would be fighting to defend cities and supplies lines. Beyond the mountains which would be a virtually near unbreakable fortress and shielded the majority of Roskana's industrial base, every else was more than at risk - it was virtually impossible to defend it without having to potentially sacrifice vast amounts of people to hold the enemy at bay.
A lot of generals didn't take kindly to the revelation. Many others didn't know quite how to take it, and a fair lot had started to argue, a number of Doctrine reformists starting to gain traction fast in the halls of military power.
Ultimately however it was Dejanus and some others of whom would start to re-organize the armed forces despite protest, though this process would not be quick. It was a plainly difficult task. This conflict would be largely defensive, but the homefield advantage was at least something. They'd have to leverage it all the more intensely now.
The civilian government, though Civilian was a strong word, as it increasingly began to resemble a psuedo stratocracy with how much the two institutions were beginning to merge - had begun the process of drafting new legislation of various forms that would institute a Emergency Draft of anyone from 17 to 34, though guidelines existed on a species by species basis. While the circumstances that'd invoke it were nothing short of drastic, the more noticeable and widely advertised was going to be the creation of a number of national militias and auxillaries, as well as an effort to expand the merchant marine.
The militias would be regionalized, but they'd all fall under the authority of the military in wartime, and be effectively adjacent volunter services to the National Guard and the Army and Marines themselves, with few restrictions on service beyond simply a minimum acceptable age. A lot of the old stockpiles would be dug up and given for free with ammunition to the militias and auxillaries, which at a point would simply be 'anything to which might be good enough to kill a Grinvel'.
Though these were hardly society reforming changes they'd definitely be felt.
The Roskanan navy as well began to draft plans to pull out of a lot of their home ports in the East, even the Roskanan Sixth Fleet to which was based in Ald.
Many of the military bases were projected to be effectively undefendable from any sort of concentrated advance. A city centric plan of defense was organized though quickly thrown away - it was considered too static in the eyes of the doctrine reformists and to a point it was sort of right - but considering how many new tactics were clashing with the older, it wasn't cut and dry nor was there quick agreement on anything.
Eventually the basics of a plan were put down.
Defending cities in the line of advance and sacrificing towns that they'd evacuate. Mobile units would constantly harrass and bigger forces would directly confront the enemy when they went after major cities, towns and logistically important areas. It was a simplistic plan but it was the best they could agree on, though only just - forcing all the units involved back into being mobile at least more heavily than before. But many were fairly sure that it wasn't adequate enough to hold most of hte West - and the most pessimistic outcomes said it'd be weeks before they were halfway to the mountains if really even that.
Digging new ones would be pointless. They'd just be a economic drain when they had to be reinforced and the old ones potentially restored using equipment and money better sent elsewhere.
Aside from other messages such as the new found worthlessness of the single-shot rifle in the hands of a modern army, the main problem had become that what the Roskanan army had been preparing for for a fair while was going to be a downfall for it. Trench warfare was on the way out.
Though the Roskanan army could to a point perform mobile warfare, the real nature of their operations would be fighting to defend cities and supplies lines. Beyond the mountains which would be a virtually near unbreakable fortress and shielded the majority of Roskana's industrial base, every else was more than at risk - it was virtually impossible to defend it without having to potentially sacrifice vast amounts of people to hold the enemy at bay.
A lot of generals didn't take kindly to the revelation. Many others didn't know quite how to take it, and a fair lot had started to argue, a number of Doctrine reformists starting to gain traction fast in the halls of military power.
Ultimately however it was Dejanus and some others of whom would start to re-organize the armed forces despite protest, though this process would not be quick. It was a plainly difficult task. This conflict would be largely defensive, but the homefield advantage was at least something. They'd have to leverage it all the more intensely now.
The civilian government, though Civilian was a strong word, as it increasingly began to resemble a psuedo stratocracy with how much the two institutions were beginning to merge - had begun the process of drafting new legislation of various forms that would institute a Emergency Draft of anyone from 17 to 34, though guidelines existed on a species by species basis. While the circumstances that'd invoke it were nothing short of drastic, the more noticeable and widely advertised was going to be the creation of a number of national militias and auxillaries, as well as an effort to expand the merchant marine.
The militias would be regionalized, but they'd all fall under the authority of the military in wartime, and be effectively adjacent volunter services to the National Guard and the Army and Marines themselves, with few restrictions on service beyond simply a minimum acceptable age. A lot of the old stockpiles would be dug up and given for free with ammunition to the militias and auxillaries, which at a point would simply be 'anything to which might be good enough to kill a Grinvel'.
Though these were hardly society reforming changes they'd definitely be felt.
The Roskanan navy as well began to draft plans to pull out of a lot of their home ports in the East, even the Roskanan Sixth Fleet to which was based in Ald.
Many of the military bases were projected to be effectively undefendable from any sort of concentrated advance. A city centric plan of defense was organized though quickly thrown away - it was considered too static in the eyes of the doctrine reformists and to a point it was sort of right - but considering how many new tactics were clashing with the older, it wasn't cut and dry nor was there quick agreement on anything.
Eventually the basics of a plan were put down.
Defending cities in the line of advance and sacrificing towns that they'd evacuate. Mobile units would constantly harrass and bigger forces would directly confront the enemy when they went after major cities, towns and logistically important areas. It was a simplistic plan but it was the best they could agree on, though only just - forcing all the units involved back into being mobile at least more heavily than before. But many were fairly sure that it wasn't adequate enough to hold most of hte West - and the most pessimistic outcomes said it'd be weeks before they were halfway to the mountains if really even that.