As promised, here is the mini-AAR we wrote months ago. Since we are retiring, we will be posting it here as our final closing project, it's 100% written and formatted so just a copypaste job.After this AAR is done, we're out 
A short history of the Belgian Federation
In the year 1936, the sun dawns upon a radically changed Belgian Federation. In turbulent response to the grave economic crisis of the 1930’s, the Belgian population collectively condemned conservative capitalist parties, leading to the election of a radical left-wing alliance between social-liberals, the Belgian Worker’s Party and moderate communists. This newfound ‘Third Front’, as the socialist government was called, was led by Prime Minister of the Federation Paul-Henri Spaak. Originally a moderate socialist with a liberal background, Spaak had been elected in office by the ruling government, to take control of the crisis and restore order in Belgium.
A first move by the paternalist government was the complete elimination of all NSDAP-influenced fascist and nazi parties in the country. The ‘purple terror’, as it would become known, became the most effective repression ever executed in the history of Belgium: Within a matter of months, all head figures of the fascist and Flemish-nationalist parties had either been captured or mysteriously dissapeared.
Leon Degrelle, known as a spineless supporter of the nazi cause and noted as ‘The only useful Belgian’ by Adolf Hitler himself, was trialed for sabotage of national unity and, under loud cheers, publicly executed in Brussels. The leftist state of Belgium had become a reality.
But, a dark storm loomed at the horizon for the little country. To the East, Hitler had become the undisputed dictator of a frustrated and industrially powerfull Germany, to whom he promised the reunification of a Greater German Empire, and revenge upon the Entente that had humiliated Germany in the Great War.
Prime Minister Spaak knew that if a new war was to emerge between France and Germany, Belgium’s promised neutrality would not last long. Holding great contempt for the corrupt fascist kleptocrats in Italy and Germany, Spaak decided that Belgium would have to be prepared for the worst: A new invasion by the German Empire. In this spirit, the government ordered the construction of the Oostlinie along the Eastern rivers of Belgium.
Viktor Strydonk, a nearly retired Field Marshall and veteran from the Great War, was tasked with developing a more modern army to face the German threat. Having no industry to support tank and air warfare, Belgium had no choice but to resort to Great War tactics: Human wave doctrines, backed up with heavy artillery.
The Oostlinie defence plan foresaw a strong front around the Northern part of Belgium, which was easier to control than the treacherous forests of the Ardennes. The cities of Antwerp, Ghent, Mons and Namur were vital to the plan: If any of the four fell in an attack, Belgium would collapse. Only time would tell if the fortifications would be enough to hold back the Germans.
The year 1937 passed quickly. Spain broke down into a bloody civil war, which was eventually won by the Republican Alliance, leading to the construction of an anarcho-communist coalition. General Franco, main man of their fascist opposers, was captured in Barcelona and executed in Madrid. It was a great victory for democracy in Europe.
The Marco Polo Bridge incident led to a new Japanese invasion of the weak and corrupt states of China. Having no organised military to oppose the powerfull Japanese, their fronts crumbled quickly and soon Japanese forces were in reach of Nanjing.
In need of raw materials to fuel her industry, Belgium offered a trade to their socialist brethren in the Union of the Socialist Sovereign Republics, who gladly accepted the deal.
Song of Swans
The Last AAR of Totally Random Productions
The Last AAR of Totally Random Productions
“En laten we dit nooit vergeten
hij die voor het volk niet wil buigen
Het volk zal hem breken!”
“Et laissons-nous jamais oublier
lui qui ne veut pas plier pour le peuple
le peuple va-il briser ! »
“And let us never forget
He who will not bend for the people
The people will break him!”
-Paul-Henri Spaak
BWP, in 1938
hij die voor het volk niet wil buigen
Het volk zal hem breken!”
“Et laissons-nous jamais oublier
lui qui ne veut pas plier pour le peuple
le peuple va-il briser ! »
“And let us never forget
He who will not bend for the people
The people will break him!”
-Paul-Henri Spaak
BWP, in 1938
A short history of the Belgian Federation
In the year 1936, the sun dawns upon a radically changed Belgian Federation. In turbulent response to the grave economic crisis of the 1930’s, the Belgian population collectively condemned conservative capitalist parties, leading to the election of a radical left-wing alliance between social-liberals, the Belgian Worker’s Party and moderate communists. This newfound ‘Third Front’, as the socialist government was called, was led by Prime Minister of the Federation Paul-Henri Spaak. Originally a moderate socialist with a liberal background, Spaak had been elected in office by the ruling government, to take control of the crisis and restore order in Belgium.
A first move by the paternalist government was the complete elimination of all NSDAP-influenced fascist and nazi parties in the country. The ‘purple terror’, as it would become known, became the most effective repression ever executed in the history of Belgium: Within a matter of months, all head figures of the fascist and Flemish-nationalist parties had either been captured or mysteriously dissapeared.
Leon Degrelle, known as a spineless supporter of the nazi cause and noted as ‘The only useful Belgian’ by Adolf Hitler himself, was trialed for sabotage of national unity and, under loud cheers, publicly executed in Brussels. The leftist state of Belgium had become a reality.
But, a dark storm loomed at the horizon for the little country. To the East, Hitler had become the undisputed dictator of a frustrated and industrially powerfull Germany, to whom he promised the reunification of a Greater German Empire, and revenge upon the Entente that had humiliated Germany in the Great War.
Prime Minister Spaak knew that if a new war was to emerge between France and Germany, Belgium’s promised neutrality would not last long. Holding great contempt for the corrupt fascist kleptocrats in Italy and Germany, Spaak decided that Belgium would have to be prepared for the worst: A new invasion by the German Empire. In this spirit, the government ordered the construction of the Oostlinie along the Eastern rivers of Belgium.
Viktor Strydonk, a nearly retired Field Marshall and veteran from the Great War, was tasked with developing a more modern army to face the German threat. Having no industry to support tank and air warfare, Belgium had no choice but to resort to Great War tactics: Human wave doctrines, backed up with heavy artillery.
The Oostlinie defence plan foresaw a strong front around the Northern part of Belgium, which was easier to control than the treacherous forests of the Ardennes. The cities of Antwerp, Ghent, Mons and Namur were vital to the plan: If any of the four fell in an attack, Belgium would collapse. Only time would tell if the fortifications would be enough to hold back the Germans.
The year 1937 passed quickly. Spain broke down into a bloody civil war, which was eventually won by the Republican Alliance, leading to the construction of an anarcho-communist coalition. General Franco, main man of their fascist opposers, was captured in Barcelona and executed in Madrid. It was a great victory for democracy in Europe.
The Marco Polo Bridge incident led to a new Japanese invasion of the weak and corrupt states of China. Having no organised military to oppose the powerfull Japanese, their fronts crumbled quickly and soon Japanese forces were in reach of Nanjing.
In need of raw materials to fuel her industry, Belgium offered a trade to their socialist brethren in the Union of the Socialist Sovereign Republics, who gladly accepted the deal.
