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Post by JM Games on Mar 8, 2008 12:59:48 GMT -5
"The Western Alliance "To the last man, and the last bullet" Background Originally formed as an alliance of old – style monarchist European nations against the perceived threat of Bolshevism from the east, the Alliance was shaped in the aftermath of the panic-stricken, confused Franco – Russo- German War of 1914 –15. Although the nations of Western Europe came to an understanding after a brisk, if bloody, German victory (sealed with the Franco – German Treaty of Versailles and the German – Russian Treaty of Volgograd), the war had hit Russia far harder. In the weeks and months following the signing of the Volgograd Treaty the fragile Russian economy and infrastructure simply collapsed, as a wave of religious fundamentalism, coupled with the bizarre and anarchic ideas of millenarian prophets Karl Marx and Vladimir Ulyanov swept the nation. Confronted with the rise of a new and vast entity preaching a terrifying doctrine of “Bolshevism”, the nations of Western Europe and the United States of America began to gradually bond together into an alliance, a process that was speedily completed when in 1958 newly crowned Bolshevist, self- pronounced “mystic” and fundamentalist Tsar Joseph Djugashvili initiated Operation “Barbarossa”, an immense armoured and mechanised attack over the fortified Polish border that was preceded by a number of strange, unexplained phenomena. " Got some more ideas in the works, but feel free to post your suggestions...
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Post by lochmoigh on Mar 14, 2008 14:47:12 GMT -5
So does the Western alliance include North America? South America? Are you looking for background information for the setting? I like what I have read so far.
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Post by JM Games on Mar 15, 2008 8:23:17 GMT -5
Welcome aboard :-) it's still quite exclusive at the moment....
The idea is that that Germany won the First World War but at a horrendous cost, and Western Europe bonded together into a sort of proto-EU to ensure that such a thing never happened again.
This means that the US didn't make its entrance onto the world stage in quite the same way as our timeline- they're an equal power, strong but not a superpower. And as they share many of the same values, they have joined forces with the Western Alliance (although I'm intending that the UK & Commonwealth will be a separate faction).
South America not sure about- I would figure on a guerilla war between pro-Soviet and pro-WA/ US factions (similar to the Contras in the 80s) - this is where I want player input, help develop ideas I wouldn't have thought of
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Post by JM Games on Mar 28, 2008 8:33:11 GMT -5
Background for the WA is now well underway, got some great stories in the offing- we're going to divide the fluff into three phases, pre-war (ie 1915-50), Barbarossa (the first part of the war), and a less detailed second phase of the war, dealing with the conflict widening out from Europe to include the whole world.
Each faction will have its own perspective on events, and with 10, possibly 11 factions all intertwining to a greater or lesser extent, we'll be writing up the faction fluff in historical order- the war started with the WA & Soviets, so they're first.
As always, feel free to post any ideas and if any of you fancy writing a bit of fiction, give it a shot..
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