I just got an idea, what if each person posted a little bit of backstory for the grand history with each installment usually being written by a different person. I'll do the first one.
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The Great War
Many say the Great War was started not because of one incident in Serbia as the Magyar Empire invaded but because of conflicting systems and politics of the two main power blocks in the south. Though King Bela IV credited for single-handedly starting the war, conflict between the power blocks was inevitable. Serbia, under Kavonic III, was unlike previous Kings, not folding to the Magyars. He was beloved in his country and upon the Novi Sad incident, alienated the Magyars. As street fighting between Magyars and Serbs began in Novi Sad, the Great War had begun.
The war might have been short, and not great had the former Dacian Kingdom began to fall apart. The civil war had begun in 1912 as Transylvania seceded followed by Wallachassia. Moldavia, which had been the ruling kingdom, was occupied by a war with the Anarchists of Ukraine, who were laying siege to the Odessa, capital of Moldavia.
The 'Horthy' Offensive
The first and only chance to end the war was operation Horthy. The operation, named after former king, Horthy, was an attempt to reach Belgrade within the first few weeks. After taking the city of Novi Sad, Belgrade looked within his grasp. 120,000 Magyar troops then crashed into the Danube line. King Kavonic III, was by no means an idiot and led his reserves on the front lines. Magyar troops, tired of marching, were defeated by the counter-attack which seemingly materialized out of thin air. As 130,000 fresh Serbian troops counter-attacked, the chance for a quick victory was lost, and the world was relegated to years of warfare.
As the war continued, other parties soon saw advantages to be taken by one side or another. The Tzar of Bulgaria in particular saw a possibility to attack Wallachassia. Wallachassia was mostly plains, but, along The Danube River was a system of Forts, Trenches and Bunkers. As the attack stalled, the republic of Athens, invaded Bulgaria, liberating the people, who were not Bulgarian from their Bulgarian oppressors. However, the mountainous terrain soon stalled the Athenians who were also forced into to trench warfare.
However at this point, the war was still minor and could have been avoided, that is, until the Czech Empire, invaded the Republic of Venice, starting what was know as, The Great War…
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Country: Scotland
Government: Presidential Democracy
Provinces: Scotland and Nigeria
History: Following the Battle of Culloden in the Second Jacobite Rising, the British Army, battered and having lost 4 regiments of foot to desertions, retreated south into England. This prompted King George II to sign a treaty granting Scotland her independence. The country was allowed complete freedom in her decisions and would not be under any sort of crown control.
During the first years the rivalry with the British kept Scotland’s military concentrated on the border with Britain. In the American Revolution, a force of 3000 Scottish volunteers were dispatched to America. Initially, they landed on Nova Scotia, marching through New Brunswick to the rebelling colonies before the British could dispatch a force to fight them. Here, the Scots joined the Continental forces in New York, landing at Kingsbridge, holding it for 3 hours, and then retreating to the Harlem Heights. The troops reached New Jersey two days later. The Scots were then dispatched to Philadelphia, and took the town of Camden long before Continental forces even marched south, and held the town for 2 weeks until retreating. They continued supporting Continental operations until the force finally left through Louisiana territory in 1780.
Scotland stayed neutral during the Napoleonic Wars and earned respect from other nations in doing this. The British allowed Scottish ships to pass through to blockaded Norway, the French allowed Scotland to avoid their trading blockades, and many other nations sent Scotland great gratitude for being a peacemaker. At the Vienna Conference Scotland received the Faeroe Islands from Denmark.
In 1830, the last King of Scotland, Charles III, abdicated and made a constitution. The country was turned into a republic, with Charles III, now Charles Stuart, as President. The 1834 elections re-elected him.
By 1854, Scotland had once again come to good relations with the UK. In the Crimean War, the Scottish Republic Navy dispatched 6 men of war and a dozen frigates to fight against the Russians, and they were successful in sinking the frigate Moskva.
In 1886, Nigeria was declared a colony of the Scottish republic.
In 1914, The Great War began. For 3 long years, Scotland remained neutral. During these years, the Scottish Navy constantly kept up a patrol between Scotland, Shetland and the Faeroes, providing a screen against any possible German breakouts.
The Scottish Patrol Triangle
On April 6, 1917, Scotland declared war on Germany in sympathy with the United States. A force of 20,000 Scottish soldiers were sent to France, relieving two French divisions for other operations. They were then sent north to assist the British at the Second Battle of the Somme, and did so very well. At the end of the war, 3000 Scottish soldiers lay dead on the French fields, a tribute to the fact that they were deployed so narrowly.
In 1922, the Scottish Navy received the aircraft carrier Charles Stuart.
In 1929, the Wall Street crashed. Scotland was not hard-hit, another tribute, this time to the fact that they had paid off all war debts and were Economically self-sufficent.
OOB:
2 Infantry Divisions in each province, all w/Engineer
2 Armor Divisions in Aberdeen w/Engineer
4 Militia Divisions in each province w/MP
3 Motorized Divisions in Edinburgh w/Arty
3 CV
1 CVL
4 BB
3 BC
10 CA
19 CL
10 DD
6 SS
2 TP
4 Interceptor Squadrons
4 Tactical Bomber Squadrons
4 CAS Squadrons
Base IC: 77
Government: Presidential Democracy
Provinces: Scotland and Nigeria
History: Following the Battle of Culloden in the Second Jacobite Rising, the British Army, battered and having lost 4 regiments of foot to desertions, retreated south into England. This prompted King George II to sign a treaty granting Scotland her independence. The country was allowed complete freedom in her decisions and would not be under any sort of crown control.
During the first years the rivalry with the British kept Scotland’s military concentrated on the border with Britain. In the American Revolution, a force of 3000 Scottish volunteers were dispatched to America. Initially, they landed on Nova Scotia, marching through New Brunswick to the rebelling colonies before the British could dispatch a force to fight them. Here, the Scots joined the Continental forces in New York, landing at Kingsbridge, holding it for 3 hours, and then retreating to the Harlem Heights. The troops reached New Jersey two days later. The Scots were then dispatched to Philadelphia, and took the town of Camden long before Continental forces even marched south, and held the town for 2 weeks until retreating. They continued supporting Continental operations until the force finally left through Louisiana territory in 1780.
Scotland stayed neutral during the Napoleonic Wars and earned respect from other nations in doing this. The British allowed Scottish ships to pass through to blockaded Norway, the French allowed Scotland to avoid their trading blockades, and many other nations sent Scotland great gratitude for being a peacemaker. At the Vienna Conference Scotland received the Faeroe Islands from Denmark.
In 1830, the last King of Scotland, Charles III, abdicated and made a constitution. The country was turned into a republic, with Charles III, now Charles Stuart, as President. The 1834 elections re-elected him.
By 1854, Scotland had once again come to good relations with the UK. In the Crimean War, the Scottish Republic Navy dispatched 6 men of war and a dozen frigates to fight against the Russians, and they were successful in sinking the frigate Moskva.
In 1886, Nigeria was declared a colony of the Scottish republic.
In 1914, The Great War began. For 3 long years, Scotland remained neutral. During these years, the Scottish Navy constantly kept up a patrol between Scotland, Shetland and the Faeroes, providing a screen against any possible German breakouts.
The Scottish Patrol Triangle
On April 6, 1917, Scotland declared war on Germany in sympathy with the United States. A force of 20,000 Scottish soldiers were sent to France, relieving two French divisions for other operations. They were then sent north to assist the British at the Second Battle of the Somme, and did so very well. At the end of the war, 3000 Scottish soldiers lay dead on the French fields, a tribute to the fact that they were deployed so narrowly.
In 1922, the Scottish Navy received the aircraft carrier Charles Stuart.
In 1929, the Wall Street crashed. Scotland was not hard-hit, another tribute, this time to the fact that they had paid off all war debts and were Economically self-sufficent.
OOB:
2 Infantry Divisions in each province, all w/Engineer
2 Armor Divisions in Aberdeen w/Engineer
4 Militia Divisions in each province w/MP
3 Motorized Divisions in Edinburgh w/Arty
3 CV
1 CVL
4 BB
3 BC
10 CA
19 CL
10 DD
6 SS
2 TP
4 Interceptor Squadrons
4 Tactical Bomber Squadrons
4 CAS Squadrons
Base IC: 77
History of the Czech Empire, part I:
Before: 1552: Just as in our world except that the Habsburgs never inherited Bohemia and Rudolf II was born in Prague instead.
Reign of Rudolf II 1st Golden Age of Czechia 1552 to 1612.
The first Golden Age of Bohemia started not far from the nation's foundation in the 14s. The great year when Rudolf II was born and crowned while he was still a newborn baby (the mother had the power until the king would be old enough for ruling the nation. Rudolf II however got the power when he was merely 6 years old and had recently learned to read and write) was a miraculous year for Bohemia. The crops were three times larger than the year before and the trade revenues of the country was doubled from the year before.
However the year after Rudolf II's birth wasn't very happy, The Kingdom of Poland had decided to incorporate Bohemia into his kingdom. The bohemian armies were comparising only 21000 men but led by the great leader by the name Robert Kalisz. The Polish armies were comparising over 80 thousand soldiers but with very incompetent and in fact very stupid leaders for example their own king. The fate of Bohemia was decided in the heroic battle of Delamoch in Sudetenland were the weakened by attrition army of 60 thousand polish troops with 15 thousand cavalrymen met by only 14 thousand bohemian soldiers with just 600 cavalrymen. The stupid polish king however, decided to concentrate their massive army into one huge formation of pikemen in the outer lines and cavalrymen doing hit-and-run tactics. Robert however knew better and started to arm his men with bows and arrows and had spread out a huge ammount of oil over the field the poles would approach on. Then he spread his army to the forests and hills and hid his troops, so he can encircle the polish army when it was turned to chaos. As soon as a third of the polish force had passed the oil field. ONE single bohemian PEASANT run right in with one burning STICK and threw it on the oil field which took fire and then run right into a polish wingman and was killed (both the wingman and the peasant). In just a few minutes, thousands of polish soldiers had burned to death and the polish army was panicking. HELL WAS LOOSE. A dozen of bohemian riders were also driving away a huge ammount of cattle which were set on fire and drew them at the direction of the poles who were just preparing to reorganise. At the same time, the Bohemian armies started defending from an polish winged hussar attack which were meant to get infantry reinforcements in a few minutes (those reinforcements were the ones attacked by the burning cattle). In just 23 hours more than 50 thousand poles including the polish king and just 2 bohemian soldiers and 1 bohemian volunteering peaseant had been killed and 3000 poles were under bohemian captive.
Just a few days after the battle of Delamoch however the poles had amassed a new army of 40000 soldiers with their new king and sent it right into Moravia, pillaging the local villages. When the war had lasted for just 1 year and 2 months the young Polish king was tired of the war. He decided to surrender an ammount of territory even if that would include his capital, Krakow. After a short negotiation with Robert Kalisz he decided to hand over the city of Krakow with the southwestern part of Poland (HoI2 province Krakow) to Bohemia for peace.
The coming years was peaceful for Bohemia until the fat King Rudolf II's 15th birthday when he had a short war over the throne of Austria which he won easily. In 1562 Rudolf II was throned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Will continue writing on this post later. Im just taking a break right now.
Before: 1552: Just as in our world except that the Habsburgs never inherited Bohemia and Rudolf II was born in Prague instead.
Reign of Rudolf II 1st Golden Age of Czechia 1552 to 1612.
The first Golden Age of Bohemia started not far from the nation's foundation in the 14s. The great year when Rudolf II was born and crowned while he was still a newborn baby (the mother had the power until the king would be old enough for ruling the nation. Rudolf II however got the power when he was merely 6 years old and had recently learned to read and write) was a miraculous year for Bohemia. The crops were three times larger than the year before and the trade revenues of the country was doubled from the year before.
However the year after Rudolf II's birth wasn't very happy, The Kingdom of Poland had decided to incorporate Bohemia into his kingdom. The bohemian armies were comparising only 21000 men but led by the great leader by the name Robert Kalisz. The Polish armies were comparising over 80 thousand soldiers but with very incompetent and in fact very stupid leaders for example their own king. The fate of Bohemia was decided in the heroic battle of Delamoch in Sudetenland were the weakened by attrition army of 60 thousand polish troops with 15 thousand cavalrymen met by only 14 thousand bohemian soldiers with just 600 cavalrymen. The stupid polish king however, decided to concentrate their massive army into one huge formation of pikemen in the outer lines and cavalrymen doing hit-and-run tactics. Robert however knew better and started to arm his men with bows and arrows and had spread out a huge ammount of oil over the field the poles would approach on. Then he spread his army to the forests and hills and hid his troops, so he can encircle the polish army when it was turned to chaos. As soon as a third of the polish force had passed the oil field. ONE single bohemian PEASANT run right in with one burning STICK and threw it on the oil field which took fire and then run right into a polish wingman and was killed (both the wingman and the peasant). In just a few minutes, thousands of polish soldiers had burned to death and the polish army was panicking. HELL WAS LOOSE. A dozen of bohemian riders were also driving away a huge ammount of cattle which were set on fire and drew them at the direction of the poles who were just preparing to reorganise. At the same time, the Bohemian armies started defending from an polish winged hussar attack which were meant to get infantry reinforcements in a few minutes (those reinforcements were the ones attacked by the burning cattle). In just 23 hours more than 50 thousand poles including the polish king and just 2 bohemian soldiers and 1 bohemian volunteering peaseant had been killed and 3000 poles were under bohemian captive.
Just a few days after the battle of Delamoch however the poles had amassed a new army of 40000 soldiers with their new king and sent it right into Moravia, pillaging the local villages. When the war had lasted for just 1 year and 2 months the young Polish king was tired of the war. He decided to surrender an ammount of territory even if that would include his capital, Krakow. After a short negotiation with Robert Kalisz he decided to hand over the city of Krakow with the southwestern part of Poland (HoI2 province Krakow) to Bohemia for peace.
The coming years was peaceful for Bohemia until the fat King Rudolf II's 15th birthday when he had a short war over the throne of Austria which he won easily. In 1562 Rudolf II was throned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Will continue writing on this post later. Im just taking a break right now.
The Carthaginian History: Chapter 1
(History starts during Second Punic War (if you don’t know what that is, look it up somewhere))
Carthage would begin its path to ascendancy during the Second Punic wars. After victories at Trebia and Cannae, Hannibal laid siege to Rome itself. Rome’s walls were great, and Hannibal did not have the siege equipment necessary to break into the city so it became a long siege. With this, many cities of southern Italy joined Hannibal’s cause, withering the Roman sources of Manpower. After a 5-year long Siege by Hannibal’s armies, and many attempts to relive the city, Rome fell. The peace treaty, strictly limited Roman armies, and reduced the Roman Republic to a small area around Rome. The Capuan Republic would dominate southern Italy. Meanwhile Cartage continued to grow, slowly but surly reaching the Azores by 20 BC. In Hispania, Carthaginian troops conquered all but the Mountainous areas in the north. Wars with Egypt were common, but usually very few things changing. As a result of trade, the Gaul’s became more civilized by Carthaginian standards. The “empire without an emperor” it was called as it was as large as any empire seen before, but more democratic. This is why nowadays, Cartage has such a strong vibrant democracy, and it simply forms their culture.
Cartage began to have conflict against the Macedonians, their former allies over trading rights in the eastern Mediterranean. Macedonia quickly took over Carthaginian allies in Greece but the remaining war remained a stalemate, until the Dacains attacked Macedonia, forcing them to turn their attention elsewhere. Cartage was now sending troops south along the African coast and established trading with Dakar. The next 300 years until 500 AD would pass mainly peacefully as Hispania and the far south of Gaul was incorporated into Cartage.
500 AD was the height of Cartage with luxuries being brought in from everywhere with access to the Mediterranean and some far away kingdoms such a Takhalar. However 500 AD would prove to be the last great year, as tribes from Asia began pushing the barbarians of the east into Germania and then Gaul. The Greeks and Macedonians were overwhelmed as the patchwork of small kingdoms could not stop the Avars, Huns, Dacians, and Goths that poured out of the steppes. Only to add to that pressure, Arabs out of Arabia, who followed a new religion called “Islam” and called them self “Muslims”. The new “Muslims” soon toppled the decedent empires of the Christian Seleucids and The Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. They ran into the Kingdoms of Armenia, Cappadonnia, and Pontus in the mountains and were slowed down but not stopped.
The Arabs continued the attack into Persia and soon toppled the Persian Empire as well. The Arabs now headed to Cartage seeing it as a weak decadent empire. The slowly made their way to Cartage and in 718 AD, the siege started. Even the thought of besieging Cartage was frightening for its 1000 year old walls stood firm and it could be re-supplied by Cartage’s fleet and merchant marine. Calls for help rang out to every kingdom and an army composed or Basques, Franks, Italians, Goths, Gauls, and Hispanians rallied to the call. Led by Charlemagne, the fleet assembled at Carthena in Hispania. The Army landed at Zama, in Cartage proper and attacked the Besiegers. Just as the attack began, Carthaginian troops sallied from the City walls. The battle was a melee as slingers and archers from the Balearic Islands fought side by side with Goths and Gauls. Frankish knights charged into lines made up of Persians, Syrians, Egyptians and Arabs. As the armies were fighting it out, the Arabs seemed to have the upper hand. The fighting by this time was on the coast with battle lines drawn. Just then, a contingent of gauls form northern Italia and mercenaries from Capua, Tarentum and Syracuse arrived. Landing behind Arab lines, the 5,000 strong force hit the Arabic lines in the rear. While they couldn’t win the battle on their own, they panicked the Arabs, who had also been frightened by the elephant charge that had just happened. At the end of the day, Cartage was safe, and Arabic expansion had been put off.
GeneralHannible said:
No. The idea is to simply dump some nations on a map and continue without prejudice. Having previous massive wars between nations (which take up a lot of space by the way) gives the campaign largescale history. Thats what I don't want. In some historys I'm finding a lot of references to IRL history. This is not alternate history, its a blank slate remember! That said, the history of your conquests remains up to you. If you want battles with the Roman Empire, or Germany or whatever, okay, I'm giving you full freedom.
Sorry for the late response to everyone by the way. Busy yesterday and of course everyone had three days off with the server downtime.
I'll be able to post a (HoI2) map with all the nations so far tomorrow, which means we're nearly ready.
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Blodwen said:
O.K. , I guess I misunderstood you, uh I'll try to post a map of Cartage sometime tonight
History of the Czech Empire, part II:
Reign of Rudolf II, 1st Golden Age of Czechia 1552 to 1612.
When Rudolf was declared emperor of The Holy Roman Empire he created radical reforms like forbiddng entertainment like jokes, theater, dancing and much more, he also decided to double the taxes and working hours in the entire Holy Roman Empire and converted the Czech Empire to a new idea of christianism called ''Calvinism''. The recent reforms triggered a civilwar and turmoil in The Holy Roman Empire, although it had also three-doubled all kind of production inside the Holy Roman Empire (including birth rates) and made it possible for Rudolf to raise an amazing army of 600000 men since a lot of jobs had dissappeared and most people had nothing to do during freetime so a huge number of people decided to join the army. After 8 years of civilwar in the Holy Roman Empire the rebels had been completely crushed and from then, the year 1570, the emperor started a huge economical growth program and vastly increased centralization and control over everything he could have use of. Rudolf II considered as well punishing the people of the Holy Roman Empire by incorporating Silesia, Saxony and Austria to the Czech Empire and considered founding a new capital to take over after the poor, extremely polluted and crowded Prague (2 million inhabitants and therefore it was the largest city in the world and was always to be) which was simply to be known as Rudolf. He immediately started laying ground for the construction of his new clean, wealthy, small capital and after 3 years of work it was home to 20000 inhabitants moved in from Prague. The rest of Rudolf II's rule was very peaceful and he spent the rest of his life with his beloved birds inside the gigantic cage letting his 21 year old son administer the empire (which he did quite well). At last he died very happily although bored and unmarried (however very fat) the year 1612. Two years later his son, Ratrivol I made suicide because of the boredom the calvinism caused.
Reign of Rudolf II, 1st Golden Age of Czechia 1552 to 1612.
When Rudolf was declared emperor of The Holy Roman Empire he created radical reforms like forbiddng entertainment like jokes, theater, dancing and much more, he also decided to double the taxes and working hours in the entire Holy Roman Empire and converted the Czech Empire to a new idea of christianism called ''Calvinism''. The recent reforms triggered a civilwar and turmoil in The Holy Roman Empire, although it had also three-doubled all kind of production inside the Holy Roman Empire (including birth rates) and made it possible for Rudolf to raise an amazing army of 600000 men since a lot of jobs had dissappeared and most people had nothing to do during freetime so a huge number of people decided to join the army. After 8 years of civilwar in the Holy Roman Empire the rebels had been completely crushed and from then, the year 1570, the emperor started a huge economical growth program and vastly increased centralization and control over everything he could have use of. Rudolf II considered as well punishing the people of the Holy Roman Empire by incorporating Silesia, Saxony and Austria to the Czech Empire and considered founding a new capital to take over after the poor, extremely polluted and crowded Prague (2 million inhabitants and therefore it was the largest city in the world and was always to be) which was simply to be known as Rudolf. He immediately started laying ground for the construction of his new clean, wealthy, small capital and after 3 years of work it was home to 20000 inhabitants moved in from Prague. The rest of Rudolf II's rule was very peaceful and he spent the rest of his life with his beloved birds inside the gigantic cage letting his 21 year old son administer the empire (which he did quite well). At last he died very happily although bored and unmarried (however very fat) the year 1612. Two years later his son, Ratrivol I made suicide because of the boredom the calvinism caused.
History of the Czech Empire part III:
Reign of Helena IV, end of the 1st Golden Age of Czechia 1612 to 1617.
After the death of Ratrivol I the 38 year old wife of Rudolf II was the onlyone of the family except her other 15 year old son Rudolf that was alive. Ratrivol I had only written a short letter of farewell and before he made suicide he ordered that his mother would become Empress of the Czech Empire until her death, then unless his mother could point out a better sucessor, his powergreedy brother Rudolf would become Emperor. Helena was not very skilled at politics and prefered to organise a parliament to govern the nation while she would watch and learn what they did and she would only have veto-right and right to vote on their propositions and decisions. The parliamentarial rule of the Czech Empire slowly created defections of city-states in the Holy Roman Empire because of the increased freedom. In 1615 Prague reached it's third million inhabitants and Helena made a proposition of changing the name of the capital Rudolf to Helena just in hope to decrease the powergreed of her second son, which the parliament voted in favour for.
In 1617 Helena died in cancer 43 years old and Rudolf III became Emperor....
Reign of Helena IV, end of the 1st Golden Age of Czechia 1612 to 1617.
After the death of Ratrivol I the 38 year old wife of Rudolf II was the onlyone of the family except her other 15 year old son Rudolf that was alive. Ratrivol I had only written a short letter of farewell and before he made suicide he ordered that his mother would become Empress of the Czech Empire until her death, then unless his mother could point out a better sucessor, his powergreedy brother Rudolf would become Emperor. Helena was not very skilled at politics and prefered to organise a parliament to govern the nation while she would watch and learn what they did and she would only have veto-right and right to vote on their propositions and decisions. The parliamentarial rule of the Czech Empire slowly created defections of city-states in the Holy Roman Empire because of the increased freedom. In 1615 Prague reached it's third million inhabitants and Helena made a proposition of changing the name of the capital Rudolf to Helena just in hope to decrease the powergreed of her second son, which the parliament voted in favour for.
In 1617 Helena died in cancer 43 years old and Rudolf III became Emperor....