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Nation: Nationalist China of course!); ´36 campaign
Setting: normal/aggresive
Mods:
-selfmade german AI (have to finish it this weekend..makes me sad seeing Ger so braindead in vanilla)
-tweaking/changing chinese techgroups in late game
Style: as good as my english will allow :wacko:
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
..extract of manifest given to Chiang Kai Shek in 1936 before meeting in Nanking, where main political goals have been set:
..It has been many times mentioned by our scholars,politicians,generals, how westerners have humiliated us. But is it so really? So often we take pride on having our civilization lasted for millenias..and yet, like small children, so often we are unable to learn from history and to look outwards.
Is it humiliating when tiger slains a lamb? It is not! Centuries ago there have been times, when China could teach and westerners had to learn. And they learned! When the tides of times have changed, westerners could teach and we did not learn! What pride is in the fact, that we invented gunpowder or compass..when westerners achieved to have better guns and better ships? It is time for us to learn, may be the last possible chance to take wisdom of foreigners..to learn how to be strong, hot to fight..how to survive.
When talking about western devils who are "violating" China. And the humiliation is not in this! It is in the fact, that the nation who has beaten China most is another asian one..Japan. The country which learned from westerners in the time when we were blind, deaf and sleeping. And they, or their Manchurian slaves, occupy our lands..the state which cannot be tollerated. For if our lands stay under foreign rule, we will never be strong enough to face our destiny.
When talking about chinese who died by japanese hands, the more humiliating is, that our, chinese warlords within more than 10 years of civil war have killed even more people! Sadly, we do not need english, german, nor japanese in order to die..our own guns,famines,murders will do it instead. While we stay divided, the world will see us as weak, untrustwothy. And who are the others, called "warlords", who claim the right to rule? Well, nothing more that what their name says - warlords, not the men of the people, not politicians..only warmongers,less than generals..people who simply have an army to back them. They do not have the power of people, nor the power of ideas. If their armies are crushed, they will vanish into nowhere, never to be remembered again. And this must be our goal..to never forget the fact, that no negotiation, no promises will stop us in forging again the unified China.
Past years have been filled with anarchy and wars, so that people have already forgotten how to work on fields, how to make children. They have learned to kill, to bury killed and to weep for them. This must not continue! We are not talking only about taking back what is ours..we are talking about building a new China. The better, the stronger, the nation and country which will proudly enter the world!
The image of China and surroundings in the middle of 19th century - the image of an empire that is no more.
And here are the faces of the men, who shaped and will be shaping the world of Asia.
From left to right:
- Sun Yat Sen (1866-1925),the founder of Kuomintang (National People´s Party). The man who contributed in overthrowing the Quing dynasty and helped to unleash the demons of civil war.
- Hirohito, even if himself undistiguished, he is the emperor of Japan - the powerfull,hungry and dangerous neighbour.
- Chiang Kai Shek - general and leader of Kuomintang and Nationalist China.
- Mao Ze Dong - chairman of Communist party of China.
The last three of named will soon clash..expect blood, suffering, deceit and daring maneuvres..expect the Empire of the Dragon to awaken!
