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Chijindum's Great Irony
The legacy of the great founder of Askian civilization, Chijindum, has been twisted and mutated many times throughout Askian history, viewed from different lights and used to advance various agendas. However, if there's one piece of his legacy that has not been forgotten and possibly never will be as long as Askia lives, it's his legacy as the Great Unifier. Chijindum brought the peoples of Askia together, forging a people that has lasted for thousands of years, even despite the merciless twists and turns it has taken.

This makes the state of the Askian Chijindate in the modern day a profound and cruel irony. Askia is a place divided upon lines geographic, historic, social, political, and economic, and abounds with factions that cause and seize on instabilities to make Askia's future a precarious one. The Askian Chijindate proclaims itself to be a place of undeniable unity, the ultimate evolution of a people descended from a Great Unifier whose will they carry out, and open dissent is not something that the theocracy permits or turns a blind eye too, but the loyalties of any given citizen are sharply divided. Asking a random member of the Chijindate who they supported, were they to give an open answer, could get a great deal of answers, whether pure uncertainty, diehard support for some tiny group, or support for one of the four primary factions that make up the political landscape in Askia -- the Chijindate, the military, the commercial powers, and the northern loyalists.


The first "faction" in Askia, and the one that at least mostly is in charge of the nation is the Askian Chijindate, and the orders of griots that make up the religious and to a degree scientific makeup of Askia along with it. The official government of Askia is the Chijindate, and most of the rest of the country ostensibly follows their leadership, but in reality their situation is somewhat precarious. The Chijindate does have powerful strengths that have propped it up in its position, and probably foremost among these is the very powerful base of support that they have in much of the savannah and hills regions of the country closer to the desert Tu, excepting the area around the northern coast; Wegchahiké found his first supporters among the Rulaarans of that region, and the Chijindate has since often shown favorable policy towards the inhabitants of that area, directing the military to come down hard on raiders and terrorists from across the Tu as well as rebels in the north in order to spare the peoples of the savannah from serious insecurity.

The orders of the griots are also a notable boon -- through their grasp on religion throughout most of Askia, the Chijindate maintains loyal operatives throughout most of the country, even in powerful organizations such as the military and in business conglomerates (though these operatives do not control said organizations), and the orders of scientific griots are even still today at the forefront of many discoveries, ensuring that the Chijindate's government at least does not fall harshly behind.

The Chijindate faces severe problems as well, however. For all that it does control, the Chijindate's presence is somewhat precarious outside of that far-savannah area, leaving it weaker in the north, in the desert, and even in the east -- though it does control the capital, the control over said capital is to some degree control in name. All of the other important factions in Askia are heavily present there (the military must guard it, commerce runs heavily in the large city, and loyalists to the line of Chijindum treat the capital as a place of pilgrimage, it having been the place of his birth), and when real contests for control start over Askia, the capital will be where the shifting power balance is at its most intense. It is also strongly dependent on the military to keep safe both the roads and the seas -- and as the Chiite religion places a strong emphasis on travel across roads as a major part of its religion, further elaborated on by the Chijindate to mean travel across sea as well, the Chijindate must pay whatever costs the military demands to do so.


Ever since the days of the overthrow of the monarchy, the Chijindate's military has been a cosmopolitan body. This has been thanks to necessity -- although Wegchahiké had the staunch support of the Rulaarans, and though the orders of reformist griots that pledged to him were well-trained, he could not staff the command of the military entirely with one or the other lest he offend one group. As more of the ethnicities and regions within Askia pledged to him, he had to include them, and after he defeated the monarchy and took its place, he had to include officers from the capital area around the River Konoo. Ultimately, total balancing became infeasible, and the Chijindate's military became an ultimately meritocratic body. This means that the military remains extremely capable even despite the instability in the country, but it means that it is politically very much possessed of independent desires and agendas, which it does very much seek to take advantage of.

Much like the Chijindate's government, the military has strong strengths and glaring weaknesses. Its strengths are very strong, however. The first of these strengths is that rule in the Desert Tu is essentially military -- with the desert being very sparsely populated compared to the savannah, not much governing infrastructure is in place, but as it is the military's responsibility to keep the area secure, especially the roads and towns and oases that make economic activity possible, its presence has become administrative as much as strictly military. The military has taken advantage of this, and intentionally maintains a cordial relationship with the peoples there to keep a power base. The military also is tasked with keeping the seas and highways throughout the country secure, as the Chijindate relies on these places vitally and as these areas are required for the economic flow of the entire country, and this means that the military has some degree of control over the imports and exports of Askia. This fact has led the commercial powers of Askia to very much buddy up with the military, an alliance that has proved extremely useful, furthering the military's scientific power and independence immensely and giving them a great deal of wealth.

However, the military does have some important weaknesses as well -- two of which are particularly major. Firstly, the military lacks a particularly strong heartland; though it does control most of the desert regions of Askia, these regions have small populations. Though trade flows through the Desert Tu, the base of economy and manpower in the area is not strong enough to allow the military to act totally independently, as they are reliant on resource flows from elsewhere --whether the Chijindate, the corporations of Askia, or both-- to stay active, and exerting overall national control would require dealing with the large Chijindate-loyal population of the savannah. Secondly, the military has almost constantly been too busy to plan a coup or the like; constant rebellions in the north, raiders and agents from across the desert, and the massive conflict against the Yuzuan Empire, these things have all taken manpower and attention and resources from the military, forcing them to keep most of their grabs for power internal, such as the creation of the Paasi-Kakano cruisers.

But in more recent years, the nation having recovered from the Yuzuan War, the military has been much less busy. Perhaps they could make a major adjustment soon, unless, perhaps, there is some sort of major war or other military event...


The third of Askia's factions is the "corporate powers" -- the various corporations such as Sundiata Motors that have found a truly meteoric rise in recent decades. Though Sundiata Motors is probably the most famous of the corporations that sprang up in the 19th century, it is far from the only one to have found success, and as the years approached 1900, these massive businesses grew to secure monopolies over sections of the economy, such as KBO (Konoo Banks Oil) having secured  most of the oil east of the Desert Tu, Quality Steel controlling the majority of the country's ores, Sundiata Motors being responsible for 80% of motor vehicle manufacturing in the country. Now, in the 1910s, the corporations are at the strongest point they have ever been at, holding an immense amount of economic power in Askia, and with the capacity to collectively make economic decisions which are nearly impossible to counteract.

The strengths that the corporate powers have, like those of the previous two factions, are significant. The area of largest support that the corporations have is the heartland of the country -- the area around the river Konoo where a massive portion of the Askian population resides, and the site of several of its larger cities, though the corporations don't dominate the capital, merely contributing to its tenuous balance. This grants them an immense economic strength, which is then strengthened further by heavy corporate control over many of the country's more mundane resources -- though almost all factions possess magnetofume deposits at some level, and though the government has kept an iron grasp on what Miracle Metal has been harnessed, ore and oil and the like are typically under control of the corporations. They also have a mutually beneficial relationship with the military; while they provide the military with resources and sometimes manpower, the military provides them with routes to influence beyond just the economic, and protects their trade routes, and both together have shown a capacity to reform some of the hierarchies forced into place by the Chijindate.

The weaknesses of the corporations are twofold. Firstly, as has been stated, these are corporations, plural -- several independent and individually powerful companies. Though their interests do align on a great many matters, which is what allows for them to be considered as a single faction in the first place, they do not always, and business in Askia is often cutthroat. Sometimes, the corporations will sabotage each other, or hinder each other with specialized requests from the government and military. Secondly, although Askia is not in a stable position, things are really not so unstable as to allow corporations to hire private armies, and the companies therefore require other groups to provide security and give force to their actions. This is why the corporations need their alliance with the military so strongly.


The fourth faction, rather unlike from the others, is the northern loyalists. Though Wegchahiké overthrew the monarchy a couple of centuries ago now, strong loyalties to an idea of the old line of Chijindum remain through a combination of political, religious, and ethnic/family ties. Politically, the communities of the northern coasts, and of the large island Fondinsireyaa off of the northern coast, which once served as the exiled kings' base of operations, have been disfavored by the Chijindate since the civil war, and continual conflicts with the military have caused an isolation which has strengthened the region's bonds to itself and weakened its bond with others. In religious terms, it becomes unconscionable in many northern communities to follow the hated Chijindate's dogma... which means that the old doctrines of the kingdom retain sway. And in ethnic terms, a curious coalition has emerged -- though none but one of the northern ethnicities are even truly that strongly related to Chijindum's ethnicity, they collectively claim his legacy, and the political isolation from the rest of Askia has added an element of ethnic tension which has helped bind the peoples of the northern coast and Fondinsireyaa together.

The northern loyalists are somewhat unlike the other three major factions in that their weaknesses are much more apparent on a surface-level glance than their strengths. The northern loyalists are geographically limited to an extent no other major faction is; while the other three factions do have areas of prevalence, they are free to travel almost all of the country, as they aren't outright enemies at this point... but the northern loyalists are an outright enemy belligerent, and travel to and from the north is limited, even if the northerners have become experts at smuggling themselves across military cordons. They're also in a constant state of suppression, as revolts and riots are harshly put down by the government and military, and neither of these two factions is eager to see the northerners collect themselves. Finally, there is a serious paucity of resources which the northerners have to contend with -- they have the worst access of the major factions to many major resources, as they have no access to what is found outside of the coasts and Fondinsireyaa... and as Fondinsireyaa is a fair distance from the coast, it's a difficult supply line to ply with the military patrolling the seas.

However, they do have their own deceptive strengths. In the region that they do command loyalty, the loyalists command the strongest and most stable passions of all. Despite, or perhaps because of, decades of harsh repression, the loyalties to the old regime and to the idea of the north have remained rock-solid, and the growing rift between the north and the rest of the country has only led to further solidification of these loyalties. Secondly, the northerners have become greatly skilled at managing and even thriving in times of hardship and chaos, given plenty of time and experience thanks to the conflicts with the military... should the situation on the isthmus as a whole strongly deteriorate, it is likely that the northerners will have a superior capacity to adjust quickly. And finally... well... it would seem that hidden actors of one stripe or another have been furnishing the northerners with a great deal of resources, providing them with much better technology and equipment and funding than they have had in a long, long time.


It is a careful balance of strengths and weaknesses, a dance of needs and surpluses, that has kept the Askian Chijindate balanced for decades now. The government, the military, the corporations, the northern loyalists, all of these groups have established dependencies with each other, carved out specialties, informally demarcated areas of loyalty, and/or pushed at each other in ways that have ensured a situation that kept the government in power, despite shifts and starts in the balance of power. But Askia is more disunited now than it has ever been, cleavages deepening in the peace after the Yuzuan war, and that balance seems much more fragile than it has ever been since the revolution that founded the Chijindate; even the civil war was much more clear in its outcome than the imbalances seen today. Perhaps the Chijindate will be able to use the war to distract the military and corporations, securing its control. Perhaps the military will grow in importance and shrink in patience as the war progresses, seizing power in a moment of chaos and governmental weakness. Perhaps the corporations of Askia will profit from the economic shifts that the war will necessitate, working with the military and demanding concessions from the government until they turn it. Perhaps the northern loyalists will take advantage of the hardship of war to enter their element and present their most serious threat in a long time.

But whatever the future may hold, most Askians fear the fact that they know instinctually to be true: what was once proudly Chijindum's Great Unification is now really just Chijindum's Great Irony.

[Man of Paper]

Casus Belli: Illegal Foreign Intervention in the Northern Territories

The factionalism set deep in the Askian State, kept in balance by a desire for all the emergent powers involved not to lay claim to undoing the Unification of Askia, is an issue that continually plagues efforts to dissolve insurgent groups in the country's north.

Rebels in the north have always sought to destabilize the proper powers in the nation, and have become increasingly aggressive and well-armed over the last few years. The Chijindate and military launched independent investigations into the source of the Rebel's newfound well of resources, and while the military investigation hit dead end after dead end, the Chijindate investigation bore fruit. The evidence presented to the increasingly divisive but necessary groups within Askia (can we call them an unofficial triumvirate to give them a title that makes a clear distinction between their relationships vs that of the rebels?) was clear: funds and supplies were being smuggled from Etroan ports, brought through Fondinsireyaa, and sold to the rebels on the northern shores.

When accused of working with foreign powers in order to splinter and disrupt Askia, a portion of rebel leadership vehemently denied this fact, stating they were working with people within Askia's business sector. The corporations denied this in turn, and further Chijindate investigation confirmed the corporations were being honest. The rebels and Chijindate agreed to a temporary ceasefire and negotiations commenced as both sides wanted to find out how deeply the Etroan connections went. Rebel leadership was in shambles as various movement leaders accused one another of betraying the legacy of Chijindum, and rebel anger towards the puppet leaders extended towards their Etroan masters.

While the four largest factions of Askian society were far from total agreement, they all shared an intense hatred for foreign attempts at dividing Askia's sacred borders. This hatred was deeper than one would see in a typical nation being invaded or infiltrated due to the Askian people defining themselves on every single level by the formation of their nation (their state is founded on their faith, which itself is founded on the formation and existence of Askia), and was strong enough to see rebellious activity cease while the interventionist Etroans were dealt with.

Spoiler: One Possible Scenario/Not part of the Casus Belli, but if it's liked enough we could make it canon/lore (click to show/hide)

A number of corporations, Sundiata Motors included, saw themselves as the more powerful force in Askia, and looked for opportunities to worm themselves into position to be most powerful. While their advancements were capable of pushing them to the front of the pack, the throttling they suffered at the hands of the Chijindate's griot orders and their monopoly on technological development ensured this could never happen. Meanwhile, the rebellion had proven impossible to dislodge through any measure, and were responsible for constant attrition suffered by the military and Chijindate's resources. Secret negotiations were struck between Corporate representatives and a small fraction of Rebel leadership, and eventually a deal was struck. The Corporations would support the rebellion by selling them supplies, and in return the laws tethering corporate invention to the Griots would be abolished upon their success.

The Chijindate is ever-vigilant, and quickly discovered the betrayal of the Corporations. Instead of declaring their treason publicly and potentially kicking off yet another civil war, the Chijindate saw an opportunity to act as the Great Unifier. They gave the Corporate heads two options: hang from the rope, or aid the Chijindate in fabricating evidence leading the trail of money and goods to Etroa. With their lives firmly under the Chijindate's collective thumb, the Corporate leadership agreed so long as their collaboration with rebels remained a secret. With the military kept in the dark and their investigation rapidly going off-rails as it was sabotaged by corporate and government agents, it was fairly easy for fabricated evidence to be constructed, planted, and recovered.

The Corporate Reps who met with the Rebels were faceless low-end expendable peons and all suffered from unfortunate accidents soon after the agreement between the Corporations and the Chijindate. With no ability to prove the resources they were buying came from the Corporations save for the trail that'd been manipulated to point towards Etroa, faith in Rebel leadership dropped, with some even being tried and executed by rebel-run courts overseen by the Askian state itself. While the Rebels didn't want the Chijindate to remain in power, they didn't want a foreign puppet master even more, and so they temporarily aligned themselves with their enemy to fight a greater foe.

Commander:
Hasdrubal Bowelle: (4) MoP, Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, TFF

Equipment:
Girgiza Miracle Munitions:
[insert start year here] Maimaita Automatic Rifle:
[Insert Start Year Here] Dangelo Miracled-Armored Car:
Siege Tool:
Iron Paths:
Zobe Self-Propelled Stealth Generator:
Askian Corps of Engineers:
Lethal Askian Trap Ensemble: (4) Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Man of Paper, TFF

Casus Belli:
Foreign Aggression and Subversive Actions: (0)
Illegal Foreign Intervention in the Northern Territories: (1) MoP

Lore:
Chijindum's Great Irony: (1) MoP

[Powder Miner]

Spoiler: Super Secret Sneaky-Deaky-Weaky-Bleaky-Creaky Backstory Plots (click to show/hide)

Saikou Sankara had always been a man too clever by half. Initially just a lowly griot in the lower ranks of the clergy, Sankara had a nearly unparalleled ability to scheme, playing off of divisions between local griots to rise in rank more and more until he entered the national government -- and then forging alliances and ruining enemies in order to see himself installed as the Unifier, the leader of the Askian Chijindate. Sankara was also a man with both an ego and a mission; he felt that the factionalism plaguing Askia was its greatest weakness, and felt that he was the man with the capability to put it to an end.

He elected to do so through a combination of covert operations and politicking. In Sankara's estimation, the rebels were the least serious threat of the factions within Askia -- they were a group of peoples that had fallen largely into a routine of fighting in the same ways over the same area of land, which normally ended up throwing away advantages whenever they got them in ill-advised moves... and this was a fairly correct estimation. Thusly, he judged, they were a suitable tool. In order to create a ready-made justification for a war to rally support under his rule and give the military an inevitable stalemate to focus on rather than on factional politics, and to bleed them by attrition to counter their growing strength, Sankara began to fund the rebels through a secret office of the Chijindate government. Sankara predicted that he would only have to whip up evidence in a couple of years (whether that evidence was in the end partially true or wholly false, as there WERE external actors interested in seeing Askia troubled by an insurrection who didn't understand that the military was the prime group bearing the costs) pointing the finger at the Etroans and he would have them furiously baying for war... and this was a rather correct prediction.

The corporations would still be potentially dangerous actors, however, so he would have to grab them by the balls and force them into supporting the war. The way that Sankara did this was by bringing a few choice corporate executives into his funding of the rebels, giving them positions in the production and ferrying of the goods and funding being provided to the rebels through contacts that established themselves as supposedly safe and anonymous. Then, of course, he turned around, took the blackmail material, and presented it to a council of the most powerful corporate executives and threatened to reveal the information if they dissented. The corporate executives wouldn't be facing much credible legal punishment, as there was a mixture of plausible deniability (none had personally become involved) and actual truthful denial (more than a few corporations hadn't been involved at all). However, Sankara wagered they would be placed into a difficult position and bend -- the executives who WERE involved were just high enough in rank that their presence in rebel funding could deal a serious blow to their partnership with the military, something the corporations could not allow... and this was a rather correct wager.

With the other factions dancing to his tune, Sankara's strategy was to lead them into war with the Etroans, turning all of them against the Etroans rather than against the Chijindate, and giving him room to supplant their internal powers as the military ventured out to the mountains to fight Etroa and as the corporations changed their production to war materiel. (Even the rebels would probably not react positively to an Etroan incursion, given that they saw Askia as simply THEIR rightful land and Etroa as the ancient enemy of Chijindum's line.)

This strategy... may not have been the correct one.

[Twinwolf]

Commander: Hasdrubal Bowelle
Type: Offensive
-Snipped because that’s a long ass design-

There’s a low muttering among the gathered government officials, a background hum. Not many people in the room truly wanted to be there; the idea to appoint a new Brigadier General had been hotly debated for a few years now, a nearly violent argument about whether it’s provocation or deterrence, whether one is even needed, and who it should be. Many within the government sought to put one of their own into the position; the office work can be important, logistics and such, and it wouldn’t be too provocatory. It would also put a leash on the military - as powerful as they were, they were at least nominally in the service of the Chijindate. On the other hand, there were some in high military or government positions attached more to the corps than they were to the military, and that could also work; they would understand supply lines and the wild new technology used better than anyone, after all, and provoke less anger from the northern rebels (who had been quiet, since the recent destruction of their largest cells).

And then the military had sent this man. Bowelle stood at rigid attention, as was proper deference for his government. He held to his discipline in the finest Chiite tradition. But he wore a scowl that made the politicians try to avoid his gaze as they discussed, angry from three days of this. He rarely spoke himself; he had subordinates who were more initiated in diplomacy than he and let them do the talking, to the immense relief of the politicians and priests. He simply loomed over the proceedings, his presence a stark reminder of the military’s influence in governance. The murmur of debate had started to die down, the priests and politicians ready to retire for the day.

“That’s enough.”

Hasdrubal Bowelle’s deep granite voice, though spoken softly, carried across the room as well as if he’d shouted. The room went silent.

“That’s enough,” he repeated, “Because we don’t have the time for this. You are discussing the idea of putting a priest or a businessman in a soldier’s job. You are considering putting politics above our national security. I did not bring down those rebels to clear Etroa’s invasion route.”

“You act as if we’re in a state of war, Colonel Bowelle!” Bowelle glared, but to his credit the man wouldn’t be easily cowed. “While the military may rattle sabers, we are not yet in conflict - and some may not wish to see it expedited.”

“I am well aware,” the giant man said, “But now is not the time to pretend there is another outcome. There will be war with Etroa; look at our history, and you can see that this current state of affairs is temporary. Look at Etroa’s official statements, and you can see it’s end will come soon. Look at the well funded rebels I crushed for our nation, and you can see it already has.”

There was little more discussion after Bowelle returned to silence. His promotion was approved within an hour.

Commander: Hasdrubal Bowelle
A vicious giant of a man, and a faithful Chiite who inspires his men to great valor. Due to his time in the borderlands, he knows well how to use less for more, and how to crush enemy resistance.
Type: Offensive
Passive: Redeployment: Hasdrubal Bowelle knows how to make the most of limited resources and how to put his men where they need to be; under his command, Expensive and Very Expensive equipment is used more frequently than it’s cost dictates as Bowelle redeploys heavy weaponry to where it’s needed.
Tactics:
(O) Harass and Harry: An offensive tactic in which Bowelle uses his forces for small, mobile strikes to gain an advantage for the next season’s offensive by softening it’s defenses .
(O) Retaliation: Bowelle rallies the troops after a defeat in order to bring the fight back to the enemy’s lines. When used after holding off an attack, this tactic allows Bowelle to counterattack ferociously and improve odds of success.
(D) Mobile Defense: Bowelle’s defensive lines are moving constantly, rotating in strong units to blunt enemy assaults and giving weaker ones time to rest. While his defenses are not equally strong over the whole line, it is difficult to bleed his army out.

Miracle Metal (Sphere: Shape)
-Snipped because if I don’t I hit the character limit-

Lethal Askian Trap Ensemble

-Third verse same as the first two-

Difficulty: Normal
Roll: 6+4 = 10 (Superior)

“Miracle Metal” was not, in fact, originally discovered by the Chijindate’s griots; while Askia on the whole certainly has many deposits, for the longest time it was a scientific curiosity, a conversation piece on a priest’s desk or a wealthy Ofalian merchant’s shelf. Even as it’s extraction and refinement were made easier by industrialization, it didn’t seem to be all that different than iron, and was much, much harder to get. It was not the Chijindate, but self-declared griots pledged to rebel forces that truly found out how to use it. Many of Askia’s more out-there inventions actually originate from such people, who in their desperation to find something to turn the tide were willing to be far more experimental than their more orthodox cousins in the Chijindate. In a small laboratory in a desert, a griot was injured after running an electric current through the metal, and a new weapon of war was discovered.

This particular cell of rebels, unfortunately for them, didn’t have much time to develop before they were taken down by Askian forces - but not before inflicting horrific casualties with their Miracle Metal derived traps. Impressed by this, the leader on the scene ordered the griots captured rather than killed, so they could give their knowledge to the Chijindate. In the time since then, as Miracle Metal is further developed, a set of traps using it’s unique properties were created, based on those encountered in battle with the rebels.

The “LATE” trap system is a rather violent set of traps; the wall and floor spikes are quite capable of killing due to the rapid and sudden nature of their deployment, their pressure plates concealed by dirt in the trenches; when triggered, the electrical circuit causes the metal to violently expand into spikes; one moment, the trench is empty. And then a man steps onto something more solid than the usual mud, or leans against a wall to peek a corner; suddenly spikes suddenly and violently spring out of the walls, dirt flying every which way, and if the squadron is lucky only their pointman has been skewered - and if not, they’ve lost several men without a shot. The wire trap is significantly less lethal, being, well, a tight wire; but it can be useful for slowing an advance, as miracle metal wires can be difficult to cut on the fly. There were some early tests that went… poorly, due to the soldiers needing to remember the trigger locations of every single trap, but this was able to be resolved; all of the traps are on the same electrical grid, deactivated when not in combat, so men can walk around without fear of random painful death when not under attack (from their own side, at least). This does mean that infiltrators or sneak attacks can sometimes go unmolested by the traps, but commanders consider this a small price to pay for their men being able to safely move at a speed greater than a crawl.

The more mobility oriented commanders are skeptical of its use in their fields, due to it’s stationary nature and the time it takes to set up, but those who favor defensive positions see great potential in this. The LATE system will see significant use on the defensive, but not be nearly as commonly useful when on the offensive. It is Very Expensive due to the amount of Miracle Metal required, costing 4 Miracle Metal for the traps themselves and 3 Magnetofumes for their generators at a 5-unit deficit. It is Complex on account of our currently lacking industrial scale refinement of Miracle Metal.

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It is now the Final Preliminary Phase.

This turn, you will have two responsibilities: One is to design a uniform for your soldiers. This is mostly cosmetic and for helping my descriptions.

The second, significantly more impactful thing is that you must choose your armory. Pick one from each category.

Spoiler: Preliminary Proposals (click to show/hide)

Designs
Chijindum and Chijindum’s Code of Laws: The Great Unifier Chijindum and the laws he committed to writing inspire the Askian people to this day as one of the greatest leaders in early history and the first codified set of laws, as well as being the man credited with the creation of one of the first states.
   -The Golden Road: Chijindum’s path is an example to all, and after his death many have elevated him to the level of deity. The griots of the Golden Path are peerless navigators, and the arrival of such a wandering sage is met with reverence and cheer in many communities.
   -The Iron Way: An order descended from griots who took a more martial bent. They serve the armies as officers and as spiritual advisors in equal measure, and are strong warriors in their own right.

Magnetofume Compass: Jars, pots, or other tightly fit containers that can hold magnetofumes. When opened slightly, pierced, or otherwise given a hole, the magnetofumes escape and drift north. This is incredibly useful for navigation, and was essential to not getting lost in the vast and rather featureless Tu Desert.
   -Magnetoliquid Glass Compass: Compressing magnetofumes into liquid form and capturing it in a glass vessel allows for a much longer lasting tool. Nobody goes far from home without one.
 
Sau’Lokaci: Timekeepers running on a simple magnetoglass motor, keeping accurate time even when used on ships.

Fumehide Armor: Leather armor worn by the priest-magicians of Askia when the time comes for war. It’s fairly tough in it’s own right, but the real attribute that makes it shine is the magnetic field emitted by the fumehide, making the wearer significantly harder to hit in a lethal way.

A.N.S. Queen Moreni’s Revenge: A large privateering ship of the Renaissance era, known for it’s large size and magnetoglass cannons. The cannons are rapid firing but have issues with maintaining this speed. The Revenge was a symbol of Askian naval power in the ismuth for a long while.
   -Maglock Rifles: Rifles built on the same principals of magnetoglass cannons. Faster to load due to the lack of gunpowder and more accurate for rifling. Uses fumehide thread to maintain the magnetic charge and with it a consistent fire rate.
   -Paasi-Kakano Cruisers: Ironclad cruisers using magnetized iron dust to have a shocking amount of durability for it’s armor.

Rulaaran Cavalry: Units of light cavalry that bear pistols and javelins and are armored in magnetohide. Rather than charge into the ranks, they stand off and fire their pistols and lethal magnetically charged javelins before rushing away before the enemy can retaliate.

Lanarkifume Shells: Artillery shells making use of Lanarkifumes, launching glass canisters of the fumes into the enemy ranks where they lethally shock anyone in the radius.
   -Lantarkifluid Grenade: Grenades containing Lantarkifluid, that shatter into many blobs of the stuff with electricity arcing between them to deny an area and shock anyone still in it.

Sundiata Engine and the Model S-1: A magnetic engine using magnetofluid to strengthen magnetoglass’ magnetic field and the accompanying car. The engine revolutionized civilian life, and would later be put to work in the first military ground vehicles.

Resources and Interactions
Magnetofumes: A thick, gray gas found in holes and vents across Askia with unique electromagnetic properties. At this time, not much is known about it, but it surely has potential.
   -It will persistently drift north when exposed to the air, in defiance of the direction of the wind.
   -When compressed, magnetofumes turn to a grey liquid called magnetofluid, which ripples to the north.
   -If metal is submerged in magnetofluid for long periods, it ignores the magnetic fields of other magnetofume-derived equipment and homes in on non-magnetofumic metal.
   -When magnetofluid is dumped into water and the water is boiled away, it creates the tough, leathery substance dubbed fumehide, which has a light magnetic field around it.
   -When magnetofluid is dumped into freezing water, it creates magnetoglass, a clear material that can be worked like metal and has a magnetic field pointing in whatever direction was “down” at the time of creation.
   -Magnetoglass’ magnetic field can be strengthened by magnetofluid.
   -When exposed to an alternating current, the magnetofumes become electrically charged Lanarkifumes, with bolts of electricity flying around inside of it.
   -When Lantrkifumes are compressed, they become Lantarkifluid, showing similar properties.

This resource has the sphere of Electromagnetism.

Spoiler: Armory (click to show/hide)

Infantry
HG-16 Pistol: With the rapid rearmament of Askia, our engineers simply didn’t feel like putting time into making a pistol of their own, deciding they had better uses for the resources. Instead, they’ve acquired military surplus pistols from the Yuzuan Federation. 10 bullet magazines, reasonable stopping power, pretty solid as far as sidearms go. 1 Ore. [Cheap]

Defensive
LATE System: An assortment of Miracle-Metal using traps used to render trenches, forts, and other longer term defensive positions a bloodbath to take, including wall spikes, floor spikes, and trip wires. Powered by Magnetofumic generators. Due to the time it takes to add to a defensive, it will not be available to defend against counterattacks after taking ground, but will be very useful in defending ground once taken. 4 Miracle Metal, 3 Magnetofumes [Very Expensive], [Complex]. 

Components
Sundiata Engine: A magnetic engine using magnetofluid to strengthen magnetoglass’ magnetic field and power vehicles, and can be used in place of standard combustion engines.

Lantarkifume Shells: Artillery has access to Lantarkifume shells, an electrically charged gas that shocks the victims to death. While not, strictly speaking, toxic, you really don't want to breath it in.

Special Resources
Magnetofumes: A thick, gray gas found in holes and vents across Askia with unique properties. Throughout Askia’s history, they’ve used it’s unique qualities related to Electromagnetism. 
   -It will persistently drift north when exposed to the air, in defiance of the direction of the wind.
   -When compressed, magnetofumes turn to a grey liquid called magnetofluid, which ripples to the north.
   -If metal is submerged in magnetofluid for long periods, it ignores the magnetic fields of other magnetofume-derived equipment and homes in on non-magnetofumic metal.
   -When magnetofluid is dumped into water and the water is boiled away, it creates the tough, leathery substance dubbed fumehide, which has a light magnetic field around it.
   -When magnetofluid is dumped into freezing water, it creates magnetoglass, a clear material that can be worked like metal and has a magnetic field pointing in whatever direction was “down” at the time of creation.
   -Magnetoglass’ magnetic field can be strengthened by magnetofluid.
   -When exposed to an alternating current, the magnetofumes become electrically charged Lanarkifumes, with bolts of electricity flying around inside of it.
   -When Lantrkifumes are compressed, they become Lantarkifluid, showing similar properties.

Miracle Metal: A glossy black metal that is uniquely difficult to smelt, and has recently been discovered to have fantastic properties related to its Shape.
   -When an electric current runs through it, it will suddenly and violently change shape between it’s default and a secondary shape.

Spoiler: Commanders (click to show/hide)

Hasdrubal Bowelle
A vicious giant of a man, and a faithful Chiite who inspires his men to great valor. Due to his time in the borderlands, he knows well how to use less for more, and how to crush enemy resistance.
Type: Offensive
Passive: Redeployment: Hasdrubal Bowelle knows how to make the most of limited resources and how to put his men where they need to be; under his command, Expensive and Very Expensive equipment is used more frequently than it’s cost dictates as Bowelle redeploys heavy weaponry to where it’s needed.
Tactics:
(O) Harass and Harry: An offensive tactic in which Bowelle uses his forces for small, mobile strikes to gain an advantage for the next season’s offensive by softening it’s defenses .
(O) Retaliation: Bowelle rallies the troops after a defeat in order to bring the fight back to the enemy’s lines. When used after holding off an attack, this tactic allows Bowelle to counterattack ferociously and improve odds of success.
(D) Mobile Defense: Bowelle’s defensive lines are moving constantly, rotating in strong units to blunt enemy assaults and giving weaker ones time to rest. While his defenses are not equally strong over the whole line, it is difficult to bleed his army out.

---Armory Choices---

Infantry

Spoiler: Primary Rifle (click to show/hide)

Flechette MagRifle: A long wood and magnetoglass rifle, using aerodynamic metal flechettes in place of traditional bullets, which tend to stick into the enemy rather than pierce. Flechettes are fed into the gun from a magazine affixed to the bottom through a bolt action mechanism. It can be fired with accuracy up to six hundred meters with the basic iron sights, longer by some skilled marksmen, with a maximum range of around one thousand meters. Most soldiers can fire at a rate of around twenty-five aimed shots in a minute. There is a distinctive noise when it fires as the flechette leaves the rifled barrel, spinning rapidly to maintain accuracy. With very few moving parts besides the feeding system, it is very reliable. 1 Ore, 1 Magnetofumes. [Cheap]

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: An experimental wood and magnetoglass rifle. With a distinctive feed system on the side of the rifle shunting magnetized bullets into the barrel at every trigger pull, allowing the gun to be fired as fast as the soldier can pull the trigger, if with some risk of jamming if two shots enter the barrel too fast after each other. It can fire accurately at an effective range of around five hundred meters, if the soldier takes the time to aim, although the shots can reach eight hundred with skill and luck. It’s light enough to avoid getting in the way during a close in fight and has an attached bayonet.  1 Ore, 1 Magnetofumes. [Cheap]

Spoiler: Machine Gun (click to show/hide)

Magnetic Machine Gun: The magnetic machine gun is a tripod-mounted machine gun served by a crew of three. One man aims and fires the weapon, one man loads the bullet belts into the weapon, and the third helps to carry the ammunition required by such a weapon. In operation it is highly reliable, although it does require recharging after some time. In entrenched positions, often a second weapon is emplaced near the first so that the fire does not cease for too long while recharging. The weapon keeps up around 600 rounds per minute for as long as it has ammo, and usually lasts for around twenty minutes of sustained fire before the magnetic field starts to break down. 6 Ore, 3 Magnetofumes. [Very Expensive]

Magnetic Burst Gun: The Magnetic Burst Gun is a lighter machine gun carried and operated by a single soldier. It uses a unique quad-barreled system. When the trigger is pulled, ammunition is drawn from a specially made box magazine into each of the barrels, and they fire at once, allowing for an incredible amount of bullets going down range all at once. The magazines are around one hundred and twenty rounds apiece, allowing for thirty bursts before reloading. While it can be fired on the move, it is heavy and unwieldy for that purpose, and there’s a lot of kick to sustained firing; it’s almost always used in stationary positions with a bipod, braced against the ground or some cover. While it can’t put down the sustained fire of contemporaries, due to the need to reload, it can still be quite effective in bursts. 5 Magnetofumes, 3 Ore. [Very Expensive].

Spoiler: Special: (click to show/hide)

Fumehide Raiders: Soldiers specializing in trench raiding, wearing a thick fumehide coat to divert enemy weapons, and wielding handheld magnetglass shotguns and mauls charged to slam downwards with excessive force. They are used either at the tip of the spear on charges to take advantage of the initial confusion, or are deployed for night raids, taking prisoners or clearing forward machine gun or sniper nests prior to an assault. 5 Magnetofumes, 3 Ore [Very Expensive]

Lantarkic Grenadiers:  Artillery is great, but it just doesn’t always come down right where you need it; gas is useful, but you can’t really direct where the wind will blow it. The Lantarkifluid Grenadiers know this. Big, burly men trained to throw with the best of them, Lantarkic Grenadiers carry, in addition to their standard weaponry, a stock of Lantarkifluid Grenades with which to bombard the enemy. Due to their general strength, they often serve double duty as the machinegunner or other heavy-lifting roles in their squadrons.  4 Magnetofumes, 3 Ore [Expensive]

Support:

Spoiler: Vehicle: (click to show/hide)

Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: Horses are expensive to maintain, and tend to die messily when shot. Recently, however, there has been advancements in technology allowing the replacement of horses with machines. Like the Rulaaran Cavalry of old, the mechanized cavalry rides into battle swiftly - but on new ‘motorcycles’ instead of horses. They serve in similar roles to that which cavalry has been relegated to in the century of the machine gun, as messengers and scouts. However, some enterprising commanders may make use of them in the old ways - a good old cavalry charge into the flank, for which they are armed with either rifles or pistols, per preference. 4 Ore, 3 Magnetgas [Expensive]

Sundiata MW-3: The Sundiata Motor-Wagon 3 is a fairly reliable, but fuel-guzzling truck from Sundiata Industries. Compared to it’s main line of cars, the motor wagons are larger and capable of carrying far more cargo or people as needed. While expensive, they can carry a lot and are reasonably capable of going over rough terrain. They are definitely not built for combat conditions - however, they simplify the logistics and can get men where they need to be faster. 5 Ore, 4 Magnetofumes [Very Expensive]

Spoiler: Artillery (click to show/hide)

Focused Artillery:
Due to the ability of magnetofumes to charge metal to home on other, non-magnetofumic and magnetic metal, Etroa unfortunately has long since taken steps to ensure their equipment is non-magnetic. If they hadn’t, after all, we’d simply be able to point and shoot and our bullets would home to their armor or helmets, depending on the age. But Askia’s griots were up to the challenge and indeed, have found a way to make use of the property. The Focused Artillery is mostly mundane, by some standards subpar, artillery piece; it fires 30 pound shells to a range of about 7.5km. Pretty average. What’s not average is the fact all it’s shells are charged by magnetofluid, and that our forward forces are equipped with large, highly magnetic ‘Targeting Rods’ - if the men can get near enough to the enemy lines, they can plant their targeting rods… and then get the hell out of the way. Focused Artillery is uniquely accurate as a result of these rods; while other pieces can fire faster or fire larger, nothing can match the Focused Artillery for accuracy when a targeting rod is properly placed. 4 Ore, 5 Magnetofumes [Very Expensive]

Rapid Artillery:
What’s more terrifying than an explosion? Many, many explosions, at a very rapid pace. The Rapid Artillery is meant to deliver many, many explosions, at a very rapid pace. A heavier artillery piece, a large bulk of it is taken up by it’s complex but smooth ammunition feeding system and storage for fumehide linings. When put into operation, a fumehide lining is applied to the cannon to help it maintain it’s optimal firing rate. It fires 50 pound shells out to 6.5km, relatively close to the line. But what it lacks in range, it more than makes up for in rate of fire. When the lining is applied, it can fire with only a second between shells, a rain of explosives to batter and break enemy fortifications. It’s difficult and expensive to fire at high speeds for long, both for ammunition and maintenance reasons as well as for the charge of the cannon, so this rapid bombardment is often the opening salvos of an offensive.  4 Ore, 5 Magnetofumes [Very Expensive]

Naval:

Spoiler: Capital ship: (click to show/hide)

Brawler Battleship: The Brawler battleship does two things, and it does those two things very well. One: It takes hits like no tomorrow. Already thick armor reinforced with magnetically charged dust for rapid repairs gives the ship staying power in a brawl; it’s slow, but it can take hits with the best of them. It also bears six 300mm magnet-cannons, and an array of smaller cannons as well. While compared to some contemporaries it doesn’t have as many big guns, those big guns are equipped with magnetofumic generators that can keep them at maximum charge for a long time in a battle, and a unique loading system that allows them to pour out fire at an astonishing rate - the rate of fire is more limited by how heavy the shells are and their effect on the speed of loading, rather than by physically how long the weapon takes to fire. While this means it’s use as an artillery ship is limited, when the Brawler manages to close with the enemy, it can tear all but the most durable to shreds. 6 Ore, 7 Magnetofumes [National Effort]

Lantarkifume Battleship: A longer ranged and slightly cheaper battleship meant to take the enemy from the horizon. It has heavy enough armor to shrug off lighter armament altogether except in a few spaces, and is correspondingly faster. It has four 320mm cannons, and six secondary cannons. The comparatively light armament is compensated by it’s payload; Lanarkifume shells are loaded into the lighter guns; plunging fire from longer range can break open the canisters on the surface, shocking unprotected crew, while at closer range some shots can penetrate the sides and play havoc with the ships insides. Alongside the heavier fire from the main turrets creating holes for the fumes to infiltrate through, it can inflict very, very painful demises. 6 Ore, 6 Magnetofumes [National Effort]

Spoiler: Escort (click to show/hide)

:
Ambush Destroyer: Ambush Destroyers are built for speed and to punch above their weight class; they are built to come out of nowhere, punch an enemy ship in the metaphorical gut, and then screw off before they can be retaliated against. Moving at a rapid 33 knots, they have speed covered by their magnetofluid engines. Their punching power comes from their four 100mm cannons and two torpedo tubes, which seems like a minimal armament at first - but their cannons are capable of an ‘overcharge’ effect, charging their magnetic barrels to the maximum and pumping out shots at a round a second (machine gun fire by naval standards) for ten seconds - even if the shots are individually not up to the power of larger cannons, there sure are a lot of them.  3 Ore, 3 Magnetofumes [Expensive]

Steeldust Cruiser: The Steeldust Cruiser is a light cruiser, primarily useful for it’s high speed of 23 knots and it’s surprising durability. This speed allows it significant agility in the course of a battle, able to chase down smaller enemy ships and keep them from swarming the capitals it’s escorting. It also has greater armor than it’s contemporaries abroad - while it is about as thick as usual, the use of Paasi-Kakano style iron-dust armor allows it to easily make repairs. It has six guns, two primary single-mount 130mm cannons and four secondary single-mount 100mm cannons. 3 Ore, 5 Magnetofumes. [Very Expensive]

Misc

Spoiler: Trait: (click to show/hide)

Peerless Navigation: Askia was the birth place of true pathfinders and navigators for centuries, always ahead of all peers when it came to finding their way in the world both physically and metaphysically. This has extended to the modern day, but blown out of proportion to the size of the army. Askian navigators are without peer, and their men capable of great endurance. Askian troops can make better use of their environments than other nations, setting ambushes or defending natural fortresses as if they grew up in that very terrain.

Chijindum’s Legacy: The Chiite religion is deeply interwoven with Askian history. While the society is unrecognizable from the ancient era, the codes of Chijundum long defunct, what he represented still stands. In Askia’s military this manifests in a strong tradition of discipline. The soldiers of Askia, especially those of faith, hold to their duty as a lifeline in the mad world of war. Askian troops are among the most disciplined in the world; they keep their cool in all but the most awful conditions, and keep their structure organized and orderly - few are those who have seen Askian troops break into a frenzied charge or a frantic retreat, as the troops remain in control even under fire.

Spoiler: Primary Ally (click to show/hide)

Ofalian Confederation:
The Ofalian Confederation is a collective of island city-states and territories known for it’s hands in trade since ancient times. After it’s king failed to conquer Etroa in the classical era, the Kingdom of Ofal fractured into squabbling states, although they were all still quite loyal allies of Askia. After the mad emperor from across the seas conquered the cities, there came to be a sense of unity among them in their resistance. The individual cities are largely independent, connected by free trade laws and obligation to come to each other’s defense. Ofalian technology tends to be on the cutting edge of science, but because of the experimental nature can often have issues.

Their recently refined unique resource, Vedan Sap, allows manipulation of Living Things; they twist plants and animals alike to fit their needs. We’re not certain how far this control goes, but their initial offering of Ofalian Wardogs shows potential. The creatures resemble wolves, but during combat they seem to spontaneously grow an iron-hard shell appearing more like a turtle, capable of repelling bullets; they either accompany scouting parties as a comparatively quiet way to get a kill, or range in front of a charge to try and take machine gun nests before they turn our men to Iconan cheese. They are commanded by handlers provided by Ofal, who can give them detailed orders they will carry out. They operate as [Cheap], but as [Allied Auxillaries] they can only be deployed to one front.
 

Guanho Principality:
Formerly the Guanho Kingdom, and then later Empire, the nation of Guanho was once a foe to Askia, now a friend. The Empire of Guanho used to have one of the widest reaches in the world, being one of the first to cross the oceans to the north and colonize new lands, and with a variety of southern colonies. Shortly before the Chijindite Revolution in Askia, however, the Yuzuhuan Kingdom, natives of the overseas continent, conquered Guanho’s colony there, and others. While Guanhoan troops were fighting there, their nearer to home territories revolted, fracturing the empire. The largest piece was what would become the Guanho Principality, ruled by a non-hereditary monarch and friendly with Askia due to a large Chiite minority. They tend towards older tech, but tried and true.

They’ve long made use of a unique ore called Nicuran Ore, controlling the sphere of Motion, able to play with momentum - in ancient times, their shield walls would quite literally break before it would bend, as Nicuran Shields would become completely immovable by your average man, resisting any force that tried. In the modern day, they offer to send a corp or two of their elite Hand Ballisticians, men carrying crossbows that fire rods of Nicuran ore. Normally, this would seem quite useless, but something strange has been done to the metal, and they refer to it’s range in terms of seconds rather than distance - namely, the amount of time it will keep moving in a straight line without really caring about what gravity has to say about it. The Ballisticians are used as nearly silent long range snipers with ammunition that will simply not stop for up to thirty seconds of distance. They operate as [Expensive], and as [Allied Auxillaries] will only be deployable on one front each season.

[Powder Miner]

options discussed at length in the discord, im not doing it again in here

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (1) Powder Miner

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (0)

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (0)

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (1) Powder Miner

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (1) Powder Miner

Sundiata MW-3: (0)

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner

Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (1) Powder Miner

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (1) PowderMiner

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (1) Powder Miner

Chijindum's Legacy: (0)

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (1) Powder Miner

Guanho Principality: (0)
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

Names:
Tambamuroo is Mandinka for dagger
Kururuwa is Hausa for scream
I'm fine with Lantarkic Grenadiers
I'm also fine with Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry
Guduma is Hausa for hammer
Fisamanteeyaa is Mandinka for greatness
Duka is Hausa for beating
guano ha ha

I went for Hausa names where I thought it was more experimental magnetic shit, since the Chijindate griots have been responsible for a lot of self-destructive but very cool magnetic work, and I figured that Hausa was a good pick for the savannah-desert area since a lot of our designs with Hausa names are Chijindate-era, and the Hausa ALSO have a heavy association with the Fulani, who the Rulaarans are based off of
I went for Mandinka names where I figured it was the kind of larger-scale, more industrial shit you might see from the military-corporate alliance's scientists, since  Askia as I originally pushed for in the lore was heavily based off of the Mande empires like Ghana, Mali, and Songhai (since a famous Songhai leader was named Askia har har har)

I also went for a naming scheme for equipment of
(Name) (Year) (Adjective) (Equipment Class)

[m1895]

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (2) Powder Miner, m1895

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (1) m1895

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (1) Powder Miner

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (1) m1895

Sundiata MW-3: (0)

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
- Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (1) m1895
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (2) Powder Miner, m1895

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (2) PowderMiner,  m1895

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (1) Powder Miner

Chijindum's Legacy: (1) m1895

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (2) Powder Miner, m1895

Guanho Principality: (0)
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

My reasoning for choosing the regular MG is based on the utility of sustained fire for both mobile and trench warfare.
It's utility in mobile warfare might not be obvious to some, but it's quite simple, if your enemy is playing duck duck bullet they are stuck in that position and unable to hinder your movements, as limiting the enemy's mobility is one half of mobile warfare and not having your mobility limited is the other. You're in quite a good position.

[Light forger]

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (1) m1895

Magnetic Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (1) m1895

Sundiata MW-3: (1) Lightforger

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (2) m1895, , Lightforger
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (3) PowderMiner,  m1895, Lightforger

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (1) Powder Miner

Chijindum's Legacy: (2) m1895, Lightforger

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Guanho Principality: (0)
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

[Powder Miner]

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (1) m1895, Powder Miner
-Rename it the Hawusaroo 1905 Machine Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Lightforger
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (2) m1895, Powder Miner

Sundiata MW-3: (1) Lightforger

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (2) m1895, , Lightforger
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (3) PowderMiner,  m1895, Lightforger

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (1) Powder Miner

Chijindum's Legacy: (2) m1895, Lightforger

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Guanho Principality: (0)
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

(Hawusaroo is the Mandinka word for sword, as more or less an upsizing of the usage of the word for dagger for the flechette rifle)

[Man of Paper]

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (3) m1895, Powder Miner, MoP
-Rename it the Hawusaroo 1905 Machine Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Lightforger
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (3) Powder Miner, Lightforger, MoP

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (2) m1895, Powder Miner

Sundiata MW-3: (2) Lightforger, MoP

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (2) m1895, , Lightforger
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (3) PowderMiner,  m1895, Lightforger

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (2) Powder Miner, MoP

Chijindum's Legacy: (2) m1895, Lightforger

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Guanho Principality: (1) MoP
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

Phoneediting is fuckin sharts. Anyways, I feel like down the like the GM NPC team with the movement stuff is gonna provide better aux troops for filling in gaps we have, since it sounds like they’re more defensive and we’re definitely focused on the offensive end of things.

Going with the MW3 because I think it’ll provide a solid truck to use for the war, and while I want the motorcycle cav I’d rather see what the enemy has set up first, since that could drastically affect how we approach a cav-like element.

Opted for Peerless Navigation for now, but a good argument could sway (or cement) my vote. Peerless Navigation might come in handy doubly if we continue to go down the route of indirect warfare in the sense of traps and the like, but having an Africanized Death Korp could be neat too

[Powder Miner]

Uniforms of the Military Forces of Askia
The uniforms of the Military Forces of Askia (the official title for Askia's military) vary heavily, but there are a few key details that remain the same across most uniforms.

The ground branch of the Military Forces of Askia primarily uses a rugged but loose tunic (cinched tight across the waist with a sash when necessary) and trousers as their uniform in the hot homelands of Askia, as well as light boots -- a combination of light and loose clothing that works well when in the warmth of the savannah and is essentially necessary for dealing with the heat of the Desert Tu. The sash that tightens the tunic also holds places for multiple pouches, including canteens, to aid with movement and combat in the Desert Tu in particular, but which is often useful in general. As climates grow colder, the ground forces have taken something of a page from the book of Askia's naval forces, and adopted shirts and jackets, as well as tighter and thicker trousers as their uniform of choice. These uniforms are typically colored in a way that roughly suits each environment -- there are no camouflage patterns, but desert uniforms are sand-colored, savannah uniforms green or yellow, mountain uniforms white or grey, etcetera.

The military's naval branch has taken a great deal of inspiration from the other seafaring countries of the world, taking jackets and pants of white and blue color much like many countries' navies do. This is, to some degree, a reflection of how independent from the Chijindate many naval officers are, as the seas are pretty much entirely the domain of the military, with some commercial input.

Common among both branches are two things: Firstly, as initially was put into place by the Chijindate before it fractured into the squabbling factions that we see today, the rank insignias are similar across both branches, consisting of golden lines in various patterns, representing the religious tradition of Golden Paths in the religion of Chijindum, with these patterns becoming larger and incorporating more iron color as rank increases.

Secondly, a veil for the head is incorporated in both army and navy uniforms (look up the "tagelmust"). Although originally a mark of some of the ethnicities living in the Desert Tu, these veils became increasingly popular in areas of the savannah closer to the desert as they provide protection from sand and heat. Although colored in the same way as the uniforms for combat, these veils can be golden, dark grey, or bright blue in dress uniforms. The navy also offers veils, but these are lighter and not made of cotton, instead more water resistant and meant mostly for dealing with winds and sea-spay. Naval veils are dark blue or white in color. Whether or not the veil is actually used often depends upon where the soldier in question is from (some soldiers further into the Askian core prefer slouch hats), although everyone uses them in the Desert Tu.

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (3) m1895, Powder Miner, MoP
-Rename it the Hawusaroo 1905 Machine Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Lightforger
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (3) Powder Miner, Lightforger, MoP

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (2) m1895, Powder Miner

Sundiata MW-3: (2) Lightforger, MoP

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (2) m1895, , Lightforger
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (3) PowderMiner,  m1895, Lightforger

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (2) Powder Miner, MoP

Chijindum's Legacy: (2) m1895, Lightforger

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Guanho Principality: (1) MoP
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

Uniform:
Uniforms of the Military Forces of Askia: (1) Powder Miner

Lore:
Chijindum's Great Irony: (1) Powder Miner

Casus Belli
Illegal Foreign Intervention In The Northern Territories (with Powder's behind-the-scenes lore): (1) Powder Miner

[Powder Miner]

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (3) m1895, Powder Miner, MoP
-Rename it the Hawusaroo 1905 Machine Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Lightforger
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (3) Powder Miner, Lightforger, MoP

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (2) m1895, Powder Miner

Sundiata MW-3: (2) Lightforger, MoP

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (2) m1895, , Lightforger
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (3) PowderMiner,  m1895, Lightforger

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (2) Powder Miner, MoP

Chijindum's Legacy: (2) m1895, Lightforger

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Guanho Principality: (1) MoP
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

Uniform:
Uniforms of the Military Forces of Askia: (1) Powder Miner

Lore:
Chijindum's Great Irony: (1) Powder Miner

Casus Belli
Illegal Foreign Intervention In The Northern Territories (with Powder's behind-the-scenes lore): (1) Powder Miner

[m1895]

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (3) m1895, Powder Miner, MoP
-Rename it the Hawusaroo 1905 Machine Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Lightforger
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (3) Powder Miner, Lightforger, MoP

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (2) m1895, Powder Miner

Sundiata MW-3: (2) Lightforger, MoP

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (2) m1895, , Lightforger
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (3) PowderMiner,  m1895, Lightforger

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (2) Powder Miner, MoP

Chijindum's Legacy: (2) m1895, Lightforger

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Guanho Principality: (1) MoP
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

Uniform:
Uniforms of the Military Forces of Askia: (2) Powder Miner, m1895

Lore:
Chijindum's Great Irony: (2) Powder Miner, m1895

Casus Belli
Illegal Foreign Intervention In The Northern Territories (with Powder's behind-the-scenes lore): (2) Powder Miner, m1895

[Man of Paper]

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (3) m1895, Powder Miner, MoP
-Rename it the Hawusaroo 1905 Machine Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Lightforger
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (3) Powder Miner, Lightforger, MoP

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (2) m1895, Powder Miner

Sundiata MW-3: (2) Lightforger, MoP

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (2) m1895, , Lightforger
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (3) PowderMiner,  m1895, Lightforger

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (2) Powder Miner, MoP

Chijindum's Legacy: (2) m1895, Lightforger

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Guanho Principality: (1) MoP
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

Uniform:
Uniforms of the Military Forces of Askia: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, MoP

Lore:
Chijindum's Great Irony: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, MoP

Casus Belli
Illegal Foreign Intervention In The Northern Territories (with Powder's behind-the-scenes lore): (3) Powder Miner, m1895, MoP

[/quote]

[NUKE9.13]

Primary Rifle:
Flechette MagRifle: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Tambamuroo 1895 Flechette Rifle: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Semi-Automatic MagRifle: (0)

Machine Gun:
Magnetic Machine Gun: (3) m1895, Powder Miner, MoP
-Rename it the Hawusaroo 1905 Machine Gun: (1) Powder Miner

Magnetic Burst Gun: (1) Lightforger
-Rename it the Kururuwa 1908 Burst Gun: (2) Powder Miner, Lightforger

Special:
Fumehide Raiders: (1) m1895

Lantarkic Grenadiers: (3) Powder Miner, Lightforger, MoP

Vehicle:
Rulaaran Mechanized Cavalry: (2) Powder Miner, m1895
-Rename it the Alalasuwoo 1905 Mechanical Horse: (2) m1895, Powder Miner

Sundiata MW-3: (3) Lightforger, MoP, NUKE9.13

Artillery:
Focused Artillery: (0)

Rapid Artillery: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Rapid Artillery: (1) Powder Miner
-Rename it the Guduma 1907 Heavy QF gun: (2) m1895, , Lightforger
Capital Ship:
Brawler Battleship: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Fisamanteeyaa 1910 Heavy Battleship: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Lantarkifume Battleship: (0)

Escort Ship:
Ambush Destroyer: (4) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger, MoP
-Rename it the Duka 1909 Ambush Destroyer: (3) PowderMiner,  m1895, Lightforger

Steeldust Cruiser: (0)

Trait:
Peerless Navigation: (2) Powder Miner, MoP

Chijindum's Legacy: (3) m1895, Lightforger, NUKE9.13

Primary Ally:
Ofalian Confederation: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, Lightforger

Guanho Principality: (1) MoP
-Rename them the Guano Principality ha ha ha ha

Uniform:
Uniforms of the Military Forces of Askia: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, MoP

Lore:
Chijindum's Great Irony: (3) Powder Miner, m1895, MoP

Casus Belli
Illegal Foreign Intervention In The Northern Territories (with Powder's behind-the-scenes lore): (3) Powder Miner, m1895, MoP