maybe the real world war was the friends we made along the way
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Anyways, no matter how this war pans out in the end, at least we’ll know this in our hearts:
KHITAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!
Edit: I decided to edit the jojo meme to fit the colors of the Khitan tricolor flag, what better way to celebrate Cathay's color than to empthiaze its glorius colors. All other colors are heresy
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I bet having to fight in Cathay's wars is one of Diavolo's deaths
Anyways, no matter how this war pans out in the end, at least we’ll know this in our hearts:
KHITAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!
Edit: I decided to edit the jojo meme to fit the colors of the Khitan tricolor flag, what better way to celebrate Cathay's color than to empthiaze its glorius colors. All other colors are heresyeven through my personal favorite color is red!
You know, my previous comment made me realize that Black, White and Blue isn't that far off from Captain America's colors. With just a little bit of Photoshop and a name change to Captain Cathay, this Cap would be pretty simlar to OTL. Just something to think about if Superhero comics ever take off in HOI4 like OTL's 40s.
Haven't you heard? Tintin is banned for racist portrayal of the Chinese.....wait.
chinese? the Khitan are a latin people why would that matter?Haven't you heard? Tintin is banned for racist portrayal of the Chinese.....wait.
they've lost 99.99% of their chineseness and replaced it with a gallo-romance language they totally didn't steal from the franks
So, any nations you guys think might collapse from internal strife no matter who wins this war? I personally think Paraguay might collapse eventually, given that it is very multi ethnic state that only got the way they are by military conquest. So basically a mix between Austria-Hungary and Yugoslavia.
Chapter 29: The Guns Fall Silent
Chapter 29: The Guns Fall Silent
With the Road to Central Italy open, Prague Taken and Fighting against Spain and Bohemia shifting to the Pyrennes and Poland respectively, military and political figures within the Khitan Republic were now, cautiously setting the groundwork for a potential peace and victory.
Japan and the United States were still hostile, within the war and winning on thier respective fronts, but lacked the ability to influence the European Theatre in any major capacity at least so long as the Greeks held the line.
Meanwhile the Wartime economies of Europe after almost half a decade of heavy fighting were beginning to feel major strain across all sectors of civilian and military life.
The Doctrine and MIlitary strategy for the Central Powers had become clear, The Khitan Republic could not be fought while Greece still stood. The Central Powers, to win victory in the war needed to knock hostile forces back over the Bosporous, and then Hold the line against the Khitan Republic while her American Allies folded to Japan and the United States.
By fall nearly two-thirds of the Central Powers European theater had been focused on taking Central Greece, particularly the city of Thessalonike which would allow an encirclement of Athens and further pushes towards Constantinople. Augmenting this force was the majority of Bohemian Armor as well as Poison Gas and Italy's last remaining core of Zeppelin bombers.
The Greeks ultimately fought for every inch but were heavily outnumbered and outgunned. The Middle eastern line had failed to hold and the new Syrian Line was expected to at least delay the Sino-Persian advance for a time but was in desperate need of aid from Anglo-Khitan Forces from africa, still bogged down and fighting in the african interior. At Sea the Italians and Spanish had managed several key victories on the Isles of Crete and Rhodes and had even attempted bombardment of Athens by sea but were detered by anti naval artillery.
Thus the Hellenic War Cabinet enacted what was to be called, Operation Crucible, focusing its defenses on where they expected the main Thrust, Macedonia, and saw to fortifying the southern Mountains as a one last desperate defense of Thessalonike. Should the line fail to hold the Central Powers would have access to a crucial trans Aegean Port and could be free to segment away parts of Greece away and use naval superiority in tandem with their numbers to take Mainland Greece, including Athens.
Hundreds of Thousands were killed or wounded at the Battle of Macedonia on both sides, making it the largest and most costly single continuous conflict in history, but tragically, the Greek Line broke and with the Fortresses seized, Thessalonike fell during the Spring. The Fierce Greek resistance however had ultimately done what it needed to do, through the price of Hellenic Blood the Central Powers had been denied thier great victory in the east, and in the West, Rome Burned.
The Italians took the bait, pulling from Romagna to form the Latium Line through central italy to prevent a linkage between greek and Khitan forces, prioritizing Rome while the remainder of italy fell into Khitan hands. By December the Italians had managed to still hold the city, but were now encircled within thier own capital, Meanwhile a lack of support in Poland and Slovakia had led to crippling defeats of italy's allies in the North.
The Truly crushing news however was the news from America.
When the Japanese threatened to seize American held naval bases in California to prevent use by the United States, the United States responded with a Declaration of war, citing anti colonial doctrine dating back to the early 1800's that the Japanese Colony of Alaska was illegal and would be removed.
The Great War, was perhaps far from over, but the War in Europe, almost certainty was. Italy asked for an Armistice six days after the Polish Request and with Italy and Poland-Bohemia out of the war the Spanish and Scandinavians, followed by Russia requested a peace with terms within the month.
By Early April, Japan and the Khitan Republic agreed to Terms of Withdrawal of Japan from Khitan China and for fighting between ANZAC and Japanese forces to cease in Vietnam. Meanwhile the several nations took it upon themselves to enact their own peaces before the congress of Ventralis, with Iran capitulating to Nationalist rebels on her Southeastern Fringes as its Government collapsed over the issue of Surrender to the Greek Republic.
The Fighting in the world was not over, but the War, almost certaintly would be.
When the Representatives for each power gathered in the Imperial Palace of Ventralis, the long awaited peace would finally be officiated, and the Path of the world would be locked on a new course one dominated by the Khitan Republic and her allies,
for better, or ill.
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We did it, As if there was any doubt...
The Americans are just too greedy for thier own good it seems. I'm not quite sure why the United States didnt merge its war with the Great War, But it didnt, and that ultimately was the straw that broke the Camel's back. The Perfidious Yanks just couldn't help themselves.
Yea, Went back and Fixed the Error, Didnt notice it at the time.
Chance of victory Pah, We clearly were always going to win... All of Europe at the same time and still victorious, also the greeks and brits Helped, but clearly they weren't essential to the war effort.
Arabia will get *something* if they are happy with that something, well thats a them problem.
To think that German Backwater could ever be anything more than a strategic region of River Danube is a pure fantasy, the Germans arent empire builders, they brew beer and make pretzels, to think they could ever threaten the powers of Europe, pah, fantasy.
See, Right Proper Patriotism, Of course we were going to win. Through strength of arms, and millions more men on the front.
Lose? The families of those lost will be compensated surely, and Nothing bad will ever happen again in Europe now that the pesky Bohemian lion as been declawed.
Shun China and the Pegu Empire both sat out the war and are probably the most notable nation to do so, Other notable neutrals are Mogadishu(Ethiopia) Tibet and Canada. Though some of these nations allowed the Japanese to Travel from one edge of Asia to the other.
I guess we'll see what shows up on the propaganda front if there is ever another world spanning war, As if people wouldn't have learned thier lessons from this one...
To throw my hat in the ring here, The Khitan Ethnicity and how 'European' their genetics are would likely vary wildly. They are definitely not French though, There was legal religion backed incest going on throughout the medieval era (And probably still exists out in the rural areas). I think its safe to say in few remaining rural areas of Normandy, Flanders, Brittany and the Northwestern Rhineland people are significantly less European looking than in the Urban and outer reaches of the empire. To give a number its probably 50-70% for most Khitan in those regions and it falls off sharply as one looks at the regions the Empire 'reconquered' during the Eu era.
They are also notably, Not Chinese. Khitans have more in common with Mongols and steppe peoples of Central Asia genetically than the Chinese, meaning for Europeans they look the same but for the Khitan there is a noticeable difference between a Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Ethnic Khitan citizen of the Empire. Add in some European Genetics to the mix and Khitan would likely be fairer, taller and have more facial hair before European Genetics are even introduced, meaning after they will not look European almost at all to European with hints of Asian descent depending on the person in question. General rule of thumb is a Khitan in the Empire would look more like IRL Asian looking Russians (With more or less Asian ancestry from that Baseline) than someone from China. Khitan out of the Empire (In Khotan) are far more close to the original Ethnic Steppe Peoples in appearance and Genealogy.
I say all this because a certain ideology where these things are way too important is now ripe to spawn in Europe. The Works are already written, it only needs a group of desperate fanatics to interpret them in a certain way.
You'll have to see. Personally I think the world will be perfectly happy under Khitan Dominance, I mean really who would object?
The clock has prepared a countdown and the race is on. Whether Rome or Athens falls first will mean one side just might emerge victorious once and for all. It'd be a grim victory for the Khitan however if the Americans finally land in Europe, hopefully the British fleet can keep them busy or it's going to be hell fighting fresh reinforcements
The Americans are just too greedy for thier own good it seems. I'm not quite sure why the United States didnt merge its war with the Great War, But it didnt, and that ultimately was the straw that broke the Camel's back. The Perfidious Yanks just couldn't help themselves.
The end is indeed within in sight, but the war is still up in the air for either side to win. Good thing Cathay still has a chance to obtain victory, let's hope it happens.
Um, I don't mean to start an argument where I shouldn't be involved, but I don't think @HIMDogson was trying to dismiss the Texas and California bit; rather, he was trying to point out the typo that referenced the Mediterranean sea instead of actual American geography,
I mean, the Mediterranean is MUCH further away from the US than the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean is, just saying.
Yea, Went back and Fixed the Error, Didnt notice it at the time.
Chance of victory Pah, We clearly were always going to win... All of Europe at the same time and still victorious, also the greeks and brits Helped, but clearly they weren't essential to the war effort.
Arabia will get *something* if they are happy with that something, well thats a them problem.
To think that German Backwater could ever be anything more than a strategic region of River Danube is a pure fantasy, the Germans arent empire builders, they brew beer and make pretzels, to think they could ever threaten the powers of Europe, pah, fantasy.
See, Right Proper Patriotism, Of course we were going to win. Through strength of arms, and millions more men on the front.
It's a fight to the finish - and everyone will lose!
(or that is what it feels like, anyway)
Lose? The families of those lost will be compensated surely, and Nothing bad will ever happen again in Europe now that the pesky Bohemian lion as been declawed
.Shun China and the Pegu Empire both sat out the war and are probably the most notable nation to do so, Other notable neutrals are Mogadishu(Ethiopia) Tibet and Canada. Though some of these nations allowed the Japanese to Travel from one edge of Asia to the other.
I guess we'll see what shows up on the propaganda front if there is ever another world spanning war, As if people wouldn't have learned thier lessons from this one...
Haven't you heard? Tintin is banned for racist portrayal of the Chinese.....wait.
To throw my hat in the ring here, The Khitan Ethnicity and how 'European' their genetics are would likely vary wildly. They are definitely not French though, There was legal religion backed incest going on throughout the medieval era (And probably still exists out in the rural areas). I think its safe to say in few remaining rural areas of Normandy, Flanders, Brittany and the Northwestern Rhineland people are significantly less European looking than in the Urban and outer reaches of the empire. To give a number its probably 50-70% for most Khitan in those regions and it falls off sharply as one looks at the regions the Empire 'reconquered' during the Eu era.
They are also notably, Not Chinese. Khitans have more in common with Mongols and steppe peoples of Central Asia genetically than the Chinese, meaning for Europeans they look the same but for the Khitan there is a noticeable difference between a Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Ethnic Khitan citizen of the Empire. Add in some European Genetics to the mix and Khitan would likely be fairer, taller and have more facial hair before European Genetics are even introduced, meaning after they will not look European almost at all to European with hints of Asian descent depending on the person in question. General rule of thumb is a Khitan in the Empire would look more like IRL Asian looking Russians (With more or less Asian ancestry from that Baseline) than someone from China. Khitan out of the Empire (In Khotan) are far more close to the original Ethnic Steppe Peoples in appearance and Genealogy.
I say all this because a certain ideology where these things are way too important is now ripe to spawn in Europe. The Works are already written, it only needs a group of desperate fanatics to interpret them in a certain way.
You'll have to see. Personally I think the world will be perfectly happy under Khitan Dominance, I mean really who would object?
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Well, America was the big winner here, even more than OTL. For almost no cost they dominate their continent.
Woo, we've won boys! Long live democracy, long live Cathay!
Since the Khitan Republic did win this war, I think its a given they will be in a much better postion than Weimar Germany was in OTL. Who knows, maybe they'll even propser and have a golden age, given that the victory will probably be enough to legitimacy the Republic. Who knows, anything can happen in the decades between this war and HOI4, but we can only hope.
Best part about this meme is that Asuka from Evangelion is actually German, so I feel this version of the meme was more appropriate than the Skinner verison in this context.
Anyway, the war is over now, so here's the last song I'll play for these updates; approritley about the end of the Great War. And may there will never be another war again.
Since the Khitan Republic did win this war, I think its a given they will be in a much better postion than Weimar Germany was in OTL. Who knows, maybe they'll even propser and have a golden age, given that the victory will probably be enough to legitimacy the Republic. Who knows, anything can happen in the decades between this war and HOI4, but we can only hope.
Yep, the idea of Germany attribiting anything to world history is, well....To think that German Backwater could ever be anything more than a strategic region of River Danube is a pure fantasy, the Germans arent empire builders, they brew beer and make pretzels, to think they could ever threaten the powers of Europe, pah, fantasy.
Anyway, the war is over now, so here's the last song I'll play for these updates; approritley about the end of the Great War. And may there will never be another war again.
In the end, we have dominance. The Central Powers will have many regrets soon, I'm sure...
Since I noticed @dragoon9105 reading @zenphoenix 's AAR just now, that gives me the the opportunity to share this link to a Worm based forum that I already shared with Zen. It's been awhile since we've referenced the Anniona's Holy Terran Empire here.
Praise the Worm, long live the Annionas!
I might be taking this fake Worm worshiping a bit too far.
Praise the Worm, long live the Annionas!