Reewiinite soldier in Type 51 uniform, 1932
East Africa 1930: An ORBAT Quest
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Turn 10 News, Rumours, & Updates: April-June 1932
4WheelSword
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Turn 10 News, Rumours, & Updates: April-June 1932
Project Development
Ongoing Projects
[X] Establish the Ordnance Office - Developing an arms industry from scratch will take time and effort. An Ordnance Office will allow us to delegate some of that work to specialists. (Constant Investment.)[X] Production Licensing: Machine Guns - Attempt to buy the rights to produce the ZB vz.30 in 6.5×50 mmSR. (12 Months Remain) ◻◻◻◻
[X] Establish the Carabinieri Oversight Office - No one really keeps an eye on the paramilitary police force that keeps watch over the nation. If the force is to be reformed and re-established in a new role, then oversight is needed at the very least. (Constant Investment.)[X] Organisational Reform: Police Force - While the Carabinieri is responsible for internal security, its position as a military force can compromise that. Each Region should have a specialist policing force subsidiary to its larger military formation. (6 Months Remain) ☑☑◻
[X] New Uniform Standard - The current issued uniform barely qualifies and is only truly standardised amongst the officers and the cavalry. Order new, standardised uniforms and web gear for the whole army. (6 Months Remain) ◻◻
Kismayo-Turkana Line:
Progress, Kismayo-Marsabit: 92% (Est. completion June 1932)
Progress, Marsabit-Turkana: 46% (Est. completion October 1933)
Arisaka Rifles, Orders, and Production:
Progress, Rifle Deliveries: 35% (Est. completion December 1932)
Progress, Rifle Factory: 3 rifles per day
Type 3 HMG Project:
Progress, Reverse Engineering: 20% (Est. completion March 1933)
April 1932
International Headlines
Berlin: Former Crown Prince Wilhelm endorses Adolf Hitler, breaking promises to stay out of politics.Berlin: Easter truce over! Germany beset by wave of political violence.
Pittsburgh: Vitamin C isolated for the first time by American biochemist Charles Glen King.
Szeged: Vitamin C isolated for the first time by Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi.
Berlin: Documents seized in raids on Nazi headquarters, showing plans to incite civil war by forming a secret army, seizing munitions, and cutting water supplies, are presented by police to the government.
Shanghai: Negotiations are held in the British consulate between Chinese and Japanese representatives over setting a timetable for Japanese withdrawal from China.
United States: President Roosevelt gives speech stating that prosperity depends on plans "that build from the bottom up and not the top down"
Potsdam: President of the Reichsbank and former Chancellor Hans Luther shot and wounded in Potsdam Station. Nazis blamed.
Rome: The Grand Council Of Fascism passed a resolution calling for the cancellation of all war debt to encourage economic recovery.
Berlin: Hindenburg elected President with a massive majority, a sharp contrast to March elections.
Andes Mountains: Thousands flee the eruptions of fourteen volcanoes
Berlin: German stock exchange opens for the first time in seven months.
Auckland: Thousands of unemployed people clash with police in the Queen Street Riot. Shops are looted and many are injured in a day of violence.
Berlin: President Hindenberg dissolves National Socialist paramilitary forces. Party leader Hitler responds, calling this 'last blow of despair', declares April 24th 'Retaliation day'.
Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, formally abolishes slavery in the country. Surely this will end the trade for good!
Delhi: Woman independence activist Sarojini Naidu arrested on train for violating orders to not attend Indian National Congress meeting..
Munich: NSDAP makes major gains in local elections. Party leader Adolf Hitler proclaims popular mandate, demands right to form government in Prussia.
Moscow: Kemal Attaturk and other Turkish officials visit the Soviet Union.
Shanghai: Korean assassin Yun Bong-gil throws bomb at Japanese generals at ceremony honouring Emperor Hirohito's birthday. General Yoshinori Shirakawa badly wounded, ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu permanently maimed.
May 1932
International Headlines
Tallinn: Estonia, Soviet Union signs non-aggression pact.Stockholm: Prostitute found dead, drained of blood, in Atlas area. Is another vampire serial killer on the loose?
Tokyo: Japan, China sign cease fire.
Paris: President Paul Doumer shot and killed by Russian emigre. Albert François Lebrun new president.
Wellington: 4,000 relief workers march in protest of Unemployment Amendment Act.
East Amwell: Lindbergh baby's found dead!
Mexico City: Mexico breaks off diplomatic relations with Peru.
Tokyo: Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi assassinated by 18-man group in his own home! His family and visiting American moving pictures star Charlie Chaplin were unharmed. Members of the 18-man group also threw grenades at the residence of Minister of the Interior Nobuaki Makino, the conservative Rikken Seiyukai's party headquarters, the Bank of Japan, and six electrical substations. While turning themselves in, members of the group threw grenades and shot at the Tokyo police station. The 18 terrorists have turned themselves in to the military police. Tokyo police have mobilised 10,000 officers to guard the nation's capital against further attacks.
Bombay: 88 dead after four-day race riot between Hindus, Muslims, intervening British troops.
Havana: Hundreds jailed for plot against government!
Vienna: President appoints Fatherland Front politician Engelbert Dollfuss, replacing Karl Buresch as Chancellor of Austria.
Culmore: A women's first! Aviatrix Amelia Airheart completes transatlantic solo flight.
Tokyo: Emperor Hirohito appoints Saitō Makoto as new Prime Minister.
Roma: Italy, Turkey extend non-aggression pact by 5 years.
Athens: Alexandros Papanastasiou new prime minister of Greece.
Washington: 40,000 unemployed soldiers, wives, march on capital, demanding early payment of military bonuses.
Berlin: Heinrich Bruning resigns as Chancellor: Hindenburg appoints Franz von Papen as replacement.
Belgrade: Four arrested after bomb spree: King of Yugoslavia targeted by attacks.
China: Japan agrees to withdraw troops from Shanghai.
June 1932
International Headlines
Paris: Édouard Herriot new prime minister of France.Berlin: Papen set to lose confidence vote: Hindenburg dissolves parliament.
Roma: Anarchist assassin attempts, fails to kill Italian prime minister Mussolini. The radical was executed following his arrest.
Santiago: Juan Esteban Montero steps down as President of Chile. Revolutionary junta proclaims Socialist Republic of Chile.
Panama City: Harmodio Arias Madrid elected president of Panama in general election.
Athens: Eleftherios Venizelos prime minister of Greece following general election..
London: Lord Rothermere: no safer political prophecy than that the Hohenzollerns would retake the throne of Germany within eighteen months.
Havana: 3 arrested after bomb thrown at president's motorcar.
Damascus: Muhammad Ali al-Abid appointed first president of Syria.
Berlin: Hindenburg lifts ban on NSDAP militant wing.
Asunción: Paraguay's fort Carlos A. López, in the contested Chaco region, captured and razed by Bolivian army!
New York: Parade held in honour of aviatrix Amelia Airheart's transatlantic flight.
Bangkok: Military group seizes Siamese capital city, demands constitution. King Rama VII meets with, pardons coup leaders, grants constitution.
Washington: President Herbert Hoover proposes massive reduction in global expenditure, reducing militaries by a third and abolishing guns, tanks and bombers.
Munich: NSDAP leader Hitler publishes letter demanding the imposition of martial law throughout Germany, citing dangers of communism.
Local Rumours
It's been overheard from the local IJN presence that the wave of terrorism and assassinations on May 15th was committed by Japanese army and navy personnel.
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Turn 11 Vote: July 1932
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Turn 11 Vote: July 1932
Project Development
Ongoing Projects
[X] Establish the Ordnance Office - Developing an arms industry from scratch will take time and effort. An Ordnance Office will allow us to delegate some of that work to specialists. (Constant Investment.)[X] Production Licensing: Machine Guns - Attempt to buy the rights to produce the ZB vz.30 in 6.5×50 mmSR. (9 Months Remain) ☑◻◻◻
[X] Establish the Carabinieri Oversight Office - No one really keeps an eye on the paramilitary police force that keeps watch over the nation. If the force is to be reformed and re-established in a new role, then oversight is needed at the very least. (Constant Investment.)
[X] New Uniform Standard - The current issued uniform barely qualifies and is only truly standardised amongst the officers and the cavalry. Order new, standardised uniforms and web gear for the whole army. (3 Months Remain) ☑◻
Completed Projects
[X] Organisational Reform: Police Force - While the Carabinieri is responsible for internal security, its position as a military force can compromise that. Each Region should have a specialist policing force subsidiary to its larger military formation. (Complete!) ☑☑☑[X] Establish a Veterinary Oversight Office - Bringing hundreds of horses into Reewiin and establishing breeding programs will require extensive oversight, administrative effort, and coordination. (Downsized!)
Kismayo-Turkana Line:
Progress, Kismayo-Marsabit: 100% (Est. completion June 1932)
Progress, Marsabit-Turkana: 52% (Est. completion October 1933)
Arisaka Rifles, Orders, and Production:
Progress, Rifle Deliveries: 50% (Est. completion December 1932)
Progress, Rifle Factory: 3 rifles per day
Type 3 HMG Project:
Progress, Reverse Engineering: 60% (Est. completion March 1933)
Reports
Report From the Commission For Purchase Of Military Equipment In CzechoslovakiaNegotiations are ongoing with the Zbrojovka Brno company of Czechoslovakia for the purchase of a licence and tooling for the production of their model 1930 light machine gun. It will be rechambered in the 6.5 mm Arisaka calibre and manufactured in Reewiin. They seem positive towards this prospect, though our representatives stated that it would be easier to secure an order if they could give ZB a solid estimate for how many weapons they'll receive royalties for in the immediate future.
Further inquiries with ZB have resulted in the delivery of a demonstration model of a typewriter to the Council secretarial staff. Since it only types Latin letters, it's not very useful for most of our purposes, but our correspondence with Europeans now looks very slick when we take it to the telegraph office to be sent. They have also offered their Z 9 ½-ton truck, which competed in the Monte Carlo Rally last year. They have further suggested that if we want to purchase any larger vehicles, we should deal with their Czechoslovak colleagues at Tatra. While in Brno, our representatives also acquired a licence for the vz.32 helmet from the manufacturers Gottleib Brothers and Brauchbar.
How many ZB vz.30s are we intending to build?
[ ] Enough to equip every platoon with two in a weapons squad.
[ ] Enough to equip every squad with one.
[ ] Enough to double the size of the army and equip every squad with one.
[ ] Enough to triple the size of the army and equip every platoon with two.
[ ] Write in
Defence Council Investment - July 1932
The Defence Council currently has one investment point available to be spent on the Carabinieri.Industry and Logistics
Armaments[ ] Restructure the Ordnance Office - Reduce staffing in the Ordnance Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)
Breeding and Working
Lanes, Trains, and Automobiles
Doctrine and Organisation
DCIRROReforming the Carabinieri
[ ] Organisational Reform: Wilderness Rangers - The Carabinieri is responsible for massive tracts of rural land. A specialist ranger unit trained in long-distance patrol and survival would be useful to the force as a whole. (9-Month Investment.)
[ ] Reinforce the Somali Border - Diverting funds to the North-Eastern border will better protect against any future Italian aggression. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Reinforce the Ethiopian Border - Diverting funds to the North-Western border will better protect against any future Ethiopian aggression. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Reinforce the Kenyan Border - Diverting funds to the Southern border will better protect against any future British aggression. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Restructure the Carabinieri Office - Reduce staffing in the Carabinieri Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)
Reforming the Army
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Establish a more formal reservist force from those claiming their pension.
[ ] Increase recruitment - Write in the desired force size.
[ ] Write in.
[ ] Write-in: What do you order?
A New Ship
You are more than welcome to ask questions about what is acceptable as a write-in vote.
There will be a 6-hour moratorium on voting to encourage discussion. The vote will close in three days.
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Turn 11 News, Rumours, & Updates: July-September 1932
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Turn 11 News, Rumours, & Updates: July-September 1932
Project Development
Ongoing Projects
[X] Establish the Ordnance Office - Developing an arms industry from scratch will take time and effort. An Ordnance Office will allow us to delegate some of that work to specialists. (Constant Investment.)[X] Production Licensing: Machine Guns - Attempt to buy the rights to produce the ZB vz.30 in 6.5×50 mmSR. (9 Months Remain) ☑◻◻◻
[X] Establish the Carabinieri Oversight Office - No one really keeps an eye on the paramilitary police force that keeps watch over the nation. If the force is to be reformed and re-established in a new role, then oversight is needed at the very least. (Constant Investment.)[X] Organisational Reform: Wilderness Rangers - The Carabinieri is responsible for massive tracts of rural land. A specialist ranger unit trained in long-distance patrol and survival would be useful to the force as a whole. (9 Months Remain) ◻◻◻
[X] New Uniform Standard - The current issued uniform barely qualifies and is only truly standardised amongst the officers and the cavalry. Order new, standardised uniforms and web gear for the whole army. (3 Months Remain) ☑◻Kismayo-Turkana Line:
Progress, Marsabit-Turkana: 52% (Est. completion October 1933)
Arisaka Rifles, Orders, and Production:
Progress, Rifle Deliveries: 50% (Est. completion December 1932)
Progress, Rifle Factory: 3 rifles per day
Type 3 HMG Project:
Progress, Reverse Engineering: 60% (Est. completion March 1933)
July 1932
International Headlines
Belgrade: Milan Srškić appointed Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.Munich: Sixteen thousand fascists and as many social democrats hold parades campaigning for the upcoming parliamentary election.
Asunción: Paraguay government sends army battalion to reclaim forts seized by Bolivian forces.
Reims: Italian Tazio Nuvolari wins automobile Grand Prix at the Reims-Gueux racetrack.
London: Britain imposes 100% import tariffs on Irish goods following Free State's refusal to pay for land.
Lisbon: President Carmona appoints Salazar 100th prime minister of Portugal.
Paris: French senate votes down female suffrage.
New York: Dow Jones industrial average at historic low!
Lausanne: Germany freed from reparation obligations after next 3 billion RM payment.
Oslo: Norwegian government declares annexation of Greenland's eastern coast.
New York: 2,000 homeless after fire in city blocks.
Newark: Aviatrix Amelia Earhart sets new women's transcontinental record: 19 hours, 14 minutes, and 40 seconds!
Washington: Riot erupts among protestors, America president decides not to attend congress for own safety.
Hamburg: 18 dead after reds, fascists clash. Papen bans all outdoor demonstrations.
Dublin: Irish Free State retaliates, raising tariffs on British goods.
Geneva: Shouting row erupts between Italian and French delegations.
Havana: 9 dead, 55 wounded in raid on communist headquarters.
Moscow: Soviet Union signs non-aggression pacts with Estonia, Finland, Poland.
Paris: Doumer's assassin on trial: I was possessed by demon.
Washington: Rifles, cavalry, tanks, and gas used to drive protesting veterans out of American capital.
Budapest: Despite French protests, Hungarian government hangs communist after speedy trial.
Los Angeles: The Summer Olympic Games opens. More under sports.
Berlin: Hitler's National Socialist party biggest after parliamentary elections with 230 seats. No coalition can form a majority: Franz von Papen remains chancellor.
La Paz: Bolivian troops capture a further three Paraguayan forts in the contested Chaco region, including Fortín Boquerón.
August 1932
International Headlines
Asunción: Paraguay declares a general mobilisation. Bolivia responds with a partial mobilisation.Stockholm: Carl Gustaf Ekman resigns as prime minister of Sweden: Felix Hamrin new prime minister.
Berlin: New laws to stop protests: prison for attack on policemen, death penalty for political terrorism!
Seville: General José Sanjurjo seizes Spanish city of Seville in coup, demands resignation of government. Azaña government's swift response sends rebels fleeing: conspirators arrested.
Los Angeles: Olympic Games end. United States dominates: 41 gold medals!
Pozzolengo: Auguste Piccard, assistant, set balloon altitude record: 16,201 metres!
Asunción: Dr. Eusebio Ayala becomes president of Paraguay.
London: Communal Award announced for India, separate elections to be established for various religious groups and castes.
Potempa: Crowd storms courthouse after death sentence is read for five fascists for murder of communist.
London: British Broadcasting Corporation begins to transmit 'television' signals on a regular basis. Futurists predict that by the year 2000, there may be a 'television' in every home, replacing the home radio.
Lancashire: 200,000 cotton workers enter strike!
San Marino: Sammarinese Fascist Party wins general election, taking all seats.
Berlin: National Socialist Hermann Göring elected president of German Reichstag.
September 1932
International Headlines
Potempa: Death sentences of the five fascists sentenced last month commuted to life imprisonment after an impassioned speech by Herr Hitler.Bogotá: Peruvian army seizes Colombian town of Leticia.
Berlin: Nearly 200,000 monarchist paramilitaries march in support of Franz von Papen.
Gospić: Gendarme station in Yugoslavia attacked by revolutionary Ustaše movement.
Asunción: The Paraguayan 1st Army Corps deploys and attacks Fortín Boquerón. A hasty assault from the march is bloodily repulsed and the Paraguayan and Bolivian forces settle into a siege. The Chaco War has begun.
Berlin: Franz von Papen threatened by vote of no confidence.
Bogotá: Colombian government pledges 10 million pesos to recapture Leticia, deploys army against Peru..
Chiaotung: Guomindang government unable to control own generals: Armies of Chinese warlords Han Fuju and Liu Zhennian clash.
Stockholm: Per Albin Hanson appointed prime minister of Sweden after elections.
Poona: After hunger striking in protest against the format of the new separate elections enforcing caste divisions, Mohandas K. Gandhi signs an agreement with B.R. Ambedkar to double the number of seats assigned to Dalits or 'untouchables'.
Athens: Liberal Party retains majority in parliamentary elections.
Ierissos: Nearly 500 dead as earthquake strikes Greece!
Havana: Four dead in wave of assassinations.
Asunción: After a month-long siege, the few remaining Bolivian soldiers in Fortín Boquerón surrender to the Paraguayan commander, Lt.-Col. Estigarribia. Both sides have suffered heavily in the fighting, not only from enemy action but also from a chronic lack of water. International commentators are surprised by this result, the smaller and poorer Paraguay being expected to lose any conflict over the Chaco, but expect that as Bolivia mobilises Paraguay will have few further victories.
Havana: University students riot in street on anniversary of student leader Rafael Trejo's death.
Turn 12 Vote: October 1932
4WheelSword
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Turn 12 Vote: October 1932
Project Development
Ongoing Projects
[X] Establish the Ordnance Office - Developing an arms industry from scratch will take time and effort. An Ordnance Office will allow us to delegate some of that work to specialists. (Constant Investment.)[X] Production Licensing: Machine Guns - Attempt to buy the rights to produce the ZB vz.30 in 6.5×50 mmSR. (6 Months Remain) ☑☑◻◻
[X] Establish the Carabinieri Oversight Office - No one really keeps an eye on the paramilitary police force that keeps watch over the nation. If the force is to be reformed and re-established in a new role, then oversight is needed at the very least. (Constant Investment.)
[X] Organisational Reform: Wilderness Rangers - The Carabinieri is responsible for massive tracts of rural land. A specialist ranger unit trained in long-distance patrol and survival would be useful to the force as a whole. (6 Months Remain) ☑◻◻
Completed Projects
[X] New Uniform Standard - The current issued uniform barely qualifies and is only truly standardised amongst the officers and the cavalry. Order new, standardised uniforms and web gear for the whole army. (Complete!) ☑☑Kismayo-Turkana Line:
Progress, Marsabit-Turkana: 61% (Est. completion October 1933)
Arisaka Rifles, Orders, and Production:
Progress, Rifle Deliveries: 65% (Est. completion December 1932)
Progress, Rifle Factory: 3 rifles per day
Type 3 HMG Project:
Progress, Reverse Engineering: 80% (Est. completion March 1933)
Reports
The Schedule of IndustryIndustry leaders have delivered a warning to the government that the local steel and machining industries are at full capacity, as they are now producing Arisaka type 38's, establishing lines for the Czech light machine gun, and attempting to clone the Type 3 HMG.
Additional requirements will require additional means beyond mere financial investment. Production on the current lines will suffer if any more requirements are placed upon them.
The January Plan
The President has come to speak in front of the Defence Council, giving a short pre-written speech on the nature of Reewiin's future. He is exceptionally pleased with the progress of developments in the last three years, content with the re-equipped units, the improved nature of the carabinieri, and the large herds of cattle and horses that are now grazing outside the city. Reewiin is wealthy, he says, even if it is suffering the same troubles as the rest of the world.
Nonetheless, there are issues: The Kutolo has sat in harbour for months with nothing more than a handful of guards aboard it. Why, he asks, is she not being used properly? Security in the cities is also clearly an issue–should there be a formal carabinieri presence there, given the failure to protect against the rioting?
There are problems, and the Defence Council is still required to solve them. In January of 1933, the President will require a new long-term plan to be presented to the House by the Council. Prepare to make your case.
The Kismayo-Marsabit Line
The first truly modern train line in Reewiin is finally finished. Two tracks have been laid side by side, one running East and the other West. Trains, D50 locomotives, and rolling stock imported from Japan are now busily shuttling iron into Kismayo and construction materials back to Marsabit. This may or may not increase the pace of construction on the second half of the line: that is yet to be seen. It will certainly increase the steel mills' production capabilities in the coastal cities, boosting the local economy.
Another effect of the new line is the presence of passenger trains, which are already bringing young men from their family farms inland out to the bustling metropolis of Kismayo. They provide the manpower for the expanding steel mills, and this excess of labour creates downward pressure on wages, further boosting the economy.
Gain one (1) investment point.
Machine Guns
We have obtained an agreement in principle with ZB. Our order of 350 guns had their negotiating team muttering with each other, and it appears unlikely that we will be getting a sweetheart deal on the guns. Attempts to praise the quality of the typewriter have not helped, and detailed negotiations are continuing.
Uniforms
The Army is largely happy to have received new uniforms and load-bearing equipment, but protests the overreach of the Council in not consulting them for the design and acquisition. Nonetheless, many officers have praised the new, modern look of soldiers in uniform.
Informal reports from army personnel indicate that actually getting the soldiers to wear the new uniforms and equipment is proving difficult: soldiers complain that the new blouse and western-style trousers are too warm, while the web gear makes the experience of wearing it clammy and uncomfortable. The boots are an especially loathed item, and soldiers complain of blisters and walking around in puddles of their own sweat.
The new NCO corps has more or less quashed rumours that the new boots are made of pig leather.
The weight of the new equipment is also an issue: between the uncomfortable fit and weight, much of it ends up carried by hired porters, while soldiers tend to wear a mix of old and new uniforms to keep cool.
The cavalry, and some officers, make silent protests against the uniform appearance the new uniform creates. They've taken to wearing the old or privately purchased uniforms to distinguish themselves from the enlisted infantrymen. Some junior officers have taken to wearing ostentatious hats as a sign of rank.
Defence Council Investment - October 1932
The Defence Council currently has two investment points available to be spent on any area.Industry and Logistics
Armaments[ ] Weapon Testing: Machine Guns - The Ordnance Office will buy a handful of machine guns from around the world and test them until they break. Afterwards, they will make recommendations to the Defence Council on the topic of machine gun licensing. (6-Month Investment. Recommendations will be made at the end of this process.)
[ ] Production Licensing: Machine Guns - Attempt to buy the rights to produce a machine gun design. Include a weapon available in 1931 as a Write-In. Some will be easily acquired, others will be immediately refused. (12-Month Investment. Initial production will be low-rate, and improve over time.)
[ ] Increase Funding: Type 3 - By funnelling additional investment towards the Type 3 project, it may be possible to have a prototype ready faster. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Restructure the Ordnance Office - Reduce staffing in the Ordnance Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)
Breeding and Working
[ ] Equine Acquisition: Purchase Arabians - Buy Arabian horses for service en masse from Egypt. They will be monogender, and we will not be able to maintain the line if they're used for breeding stock. They also may not be resistant to AHS/ASS. (3-Month Investment. Sufficient mass of horses should be available in as little as one year.)
[ ] Equine Acquisition: Stud Farms - Buy a small number of Arabian studs from the United States. These will make good breeding stock for future programmes. (3-Month Investment. A breeding programme can begin within the year.)
[ ] Government Action: Push for Equine Conscription - While pastoralism is not exactly a major industry in Reewiin, there are a large number of animals that could be put to wartime use, were they assessed in a proper census. (6-Month Investment. Implementation will occur at the government's pace.)
[ ] Restructure the Veterinary Oversight Office - To reduce operational costs the Veterinary Oversight Office has been shrunk significantly. Funding and personnel would allow the Office to perform specialised tasks. (3 Months, Constant Investment)
Lanes, Trains, and Automobiles
[ ] Road Expansion: Somali Coast - Build some metalled roads connecting major towns and cities. (6-Month Investment. Construction will begin during this time.)
[ ] Road Expansion: Inland Networks - Improve the unimproved road network to be more extensive and less vulnerable to flooding in the wet season. (6-Month Investment. Construction will begin during this time.)
Doctrine and Organisation
DCIRRO[ ] Establish the Information Review Team - This group will be tasked with drafting reports on various arms of the internal structure of Reewiin. (12-Month Investment. Will enable additional work in this specific area, including write-in Information Review requests.)
[ ] Information Review: Government - Determine what the civilian government wants out of their armed forces. (3-Month Investment.)
[ ] Analysis: Ethiopia - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Ethiopia. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Analysis: Britain - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Britain. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Analysis: Italy - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Italy. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Analysis: The Foreigners Have Some Good Ideas - Send observation teams overseas to take the best ideas from foreign nations. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] NEW! Send Observers: Bolivia - Send a military attaché to learn from the Bolivian army's experiences on the Chaco front. (Until recalled or conflict ends)
[ ] NEW! Send Observers: Paraguay - Send a military attaché to learn from the Paraguayan army's experiences on the Chaco front. (Until recalled or conflict ends)
Reforming the Carabinieri
[ ] Reinforce the Somali Border - Diverting funds to the North-Eastern border will better protect against any future Italian aggression. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Reinforce the Ethiopian Border - Diverting funds to the North-Western border will better protect against any future Ethiopian aggression. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Reinforce the Kenyan Border - Diverting funds to the Southern border will better protect against any future British aggression. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Restructure the Carabinieri Office - Reduce staffing in the Carabinieri Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)
Reforming the Army
[ ] Manoeuvre Training - The Army Review has determined that Reewiin's standing military is not currently fit for the task. Field manoeuvres will begin to improve this. (6-Month Investment.)
- [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
- [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Rifle Training - With an average of twenty rounds per man per year, marksmanship is of very poor quality. Regular range training will begin to improve this. (6-Month Investment.)
- [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
- [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Cavalry Training - The Cavalry are loath to conduct operations en-masse, leaving them poorly equipped for the field. Deployments into central Reewiin will begin to improve this. (6-Month Investment.)
- [ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Enlarge the Officers Corps - The Army of Reewiin lacks many things, one of which is small officers. While this is not a significant issue at the high level, it leaves the junior officers seriously overworked. Beginning a major drive to recruit and train new officers will shift this issue towards the positive. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Enlarge the Army - Currently, Reewiin maintains a standing Army of 6,000 men organised into five effective battalions. There are several options for enlarging this; select one or more:
- [ ] Establish a more formal reservist force from those claiming their pension.
- [ ] Increase recruitment - Write in the desired force size.
- [ ] Write in.
[ ] Confine Idle Soldiers to Barracks - We can't have the Army tarnishing its image by gambling and causing trouble on the streets! Confining the soldiers to their barracks when they don't have leave will keep them from being a nuisance. (3-Month Investment).
[ ] Give Council Position to Army Liaison - By letting an Army liaison vote on Council matters, we can reassure the Army that their concerns are given due weight. (3-Month Investment).
A New Ship
[ ] Form a Naval Service: Carabinieri Maritime Policing Unit - The Kutulo could most easily be subsumed into the Carabinieri, since they already have a boat section for policing Lake Turkana. (3-Month Investment.)
[ ] Form a Naval Service: Reewiin Army Navy - The Kutulo could be put into service under the oversight of the new Army HQ, allowing easy acquisition of trained officers and NCOs, although not necessarily ones trained in maritime warfare. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Form a Naval Service: Reewiin Navy - The Kutulo could form the nucleus of a true, independent navy for Reewiin, raised mainly from Reewiinite merchant sailors and fishermen. (9-Month Investment.)
You are more than welcome to ask questions about what is acceptable as a write-in vote.
There will be a 6-hour moratorium on voting to encourage discussion. The vote will close in three days.
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4WheelSword
The original N-body Problem
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- It/She/They
Turn 12 News, Rumours, & Updates: October-December 1932
4WheelSword
The original N-body Problem
- Pronouns
- It/She/They
Turn 12 News, Rumours, & Updates: October-December 1932
Project Development
Ongoing Projects
[X] Establish the Ordnance Office - Developing an arms industry from scratch will take time and effort. An Ordnance Office will allow us to delegate some of that work to specialists. (Constant Investment.)[X] Production Licensing: Machine Guns - Attempt to buy the rights to produce the ZB vz.30 in 6.5×50 mmSR. (6 Months Remain) ☑☑◻◻
[X] Establish the Carabinieri Oversight Office - No one really keeps an eye on the paramilitary police force that keeps watch over the nation. If the force is to be reformed and re-established in a new role, then oversight is needed at the very least. (Constant Investment.)
[X] Organisational Reform: Wilderness Rangers - The Carabinieri is responsible for massive tracts of rural land. A specialist ranger unit trained in long-distance patrol and survival would be useful to the force as a whole. (6 Months Remain) ☑◻◻
[X] Information Review: Government - Determine what the civilian government wants out of their armed forces. (3 Months Remain) ◻
[X] New Council Liaisons: Create permanent non-voting liaisons for the armed services and industry. Two will go to the armed services (one for each service, currently the Army and Carabineri), and three will be industrial representatives: one for each of the arms industry, the rail industry, the recognized unions in these industries. (3 Months Remain) ◻
Completed Projects
[X] New Uniform Standard - The current issued uniform barely qualifies and is only truly standardised amongst the officers and the cavalry. Order new, standardised uniforms and web gear for the whole army. (Complete!) ☑☑Kismayo-Turkana Line:
Progress, Marsabit-Turkana: 61% (Est. completion October 1933)
Arisaka Rifles, Orders, and Production:
Progress, Rifle Deliveries: 65% (Est. completion December 1932)
Progress, Rifle Factory: 3 rifles per day
Type 3 HMG Project:
Progress, Reverse Engineering: 80% (Est. completion March 1933)
October 1932
International Headlines
Britain: Oswald Mosley announces the formation of the British Union of Fascists.Chicago: Babe Ruth, star baseball player, gestures to the outfield before hitting a home run exactly where he pointed!
Adwa: King Vittorio Emmanuelle III begins a tour of Eritrea to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian colony.
Geneva: Britain grants independence to Iraq: new nation admitted to League of Nations.
United States: What Hath God Wrought: telegram circumnavigates globe in 4 minutes 45 seconds on telegraph centennial.
Berlin: Albert Einstein in row with scientific community: Earth 7 billion years older?
Turin: Benito Mussolini proposes four-power pact: France, Britain, Italy, Germany to maintain peace in Europe.
Milan: Mussolini: All of Europe will be fascist within a decade.
November 1932
International Headlines
Hamburg: Twelve shot in clashes between communists, national socialists.Berlin: Communists, national socialists call for strikes: 15,000 transit workers refuse work, 3 dead in clash with police.
Geneva: Swiss Social Democratic Party and National Union class during demonstration. Army suppresses strike, killing 13.
Berlin: Franz von Papen resigns as Chancellor of Germany.
France: Bomb destroys French railway: was Prime Minister target?
Berlin: National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler is offered, refuses position of chancellor.
Paris: France, Soviet Union sign non-aggression pact.
December 1932
International Headlines
Berlin: President Hindenburg appoints Kurt von Schleicher new chancellorGeneva: Mexico announces its intention to withdraw from the League of Nations.
Berlin: Fifty deputies from communist, national socialist parties clash in Reichstag lobby.
Geneva: Peace in our time? Britain, France, Germany, Italy declare disputes will not be solved with war.
Paris: War debt plan rejected, prime minister voted out. New prime minister appointed.
Europe: France, Poland, Belgium, Estonia, Hungary default on war debt payments to United States. What consequence this will have for Europe is to be seen.
Argentina: Police arrest two former presidents: seditious plot foiled?
London: British Broadcasting Corporation expands coverage to entire empire with new Empire Service.
La Paz: Heavy fighting around Saavedra in the Chaco. Both sides claim defensive victories.
Issues
The January Plan, 1933
The 1930 plan could be condensed into the following five points:- Develop a national arms industry.
- Establish a Remount Service to supply horses to the Army.
- Find a way to improve logistics through horses.
- Establish a Council-controlled Information and Analysis Office.
- Reform the Carabinieri.
The only fly in the ointment has been the Information and Analysis Office, which has been established but has generally found itself underfunded and underutilised. So far, nobody in the Treasury Department seems to have noticed that most of their time is spent twiddling their thumbs and engaging in idle speculation.
The Army are generally happy with the reforms so far, with shiny new uniforms and rifles on the top of their list of likes. They are still concerned about the lack of AT and AA weapons and are pushing for a solution to their concerns to be included in the January Plan.
The Carabinieri are very happy with their expanded and reformed role and seem to be content with their equipment, organisation, and responsibilities for now. However, some members are pushing for further expansions of the Carabinieri into the air and sea domains.
The Government is split into two camps, which your information review has provided significant amounts of information on. They can generally be split into the 'domestic policy' and 'foreign policy' branches of government.
Domestic policy advisors and important administration figures, including the President, are very pleased with the reforms so far. They consider the Defence Council to provide generally good value for money for Reewiin via their investment into the rail system, pastoralism, and the arms industry. They are especially glad that the money spent has been kept in Reewiin, allowing them to tax it back. Their only major objection is the Kutulo, which they view as an expensive potential boondoggle that exposes them to political risk if not given a purpose.
The other faction, foreign policy advisors and figures led by the Defence Minister, are unhappy with your work so far. They ask whether any of this investment has resulted in a better defended Reewiin. The Army is the same size and similarly equipped to itself three years ago. The Carabinieri's training has improved, but they aren't the nation's chief line of defence. Logistical development is all well and good, but Reewiin cannot project force because it has no force to project. While they admit the 1930 Defence Plan was enacted effectively, they must ask: what has it actually achieved?
What does the council recommend to the government and military high command? Please create a plan including at most 4 of the following options, those you consider the highest priority:
[ ] Reform The Army (Select as many of the following as needed)
- [ ] With no specific focus
- [ ] With a focus on training and leadership
- [ ] With a focus on artillery and supporting arms
- [ ] With a focus on individual equipment.
- [ ] With a focus on expansion
[ ] Establish a formal training academy (Select as many of the following as needed)
- [ ] For Infantry Officers
- [ ] For Artillery Officers
- [ ] For Cavalry Officers
- [ ] For new Officers
[ ] Resolve the question of the Kutulo (Select one of the following)
- [ ] By establishing a Navy
- [ ] By forming a special unit of an existing service
- [ ] By other means
[ ] Improve Logistics and Communications networks across Reewiin (Select as many of the following as needed)
- [ ] Improve the Roads
- [ ] Improve the Rails
- [ ] Establish telegraph and radio offices
[ ] Buy aircraft in order to form (Select as many of the following as needed)
- [ ] A Carabinieri Air Patrol
- [ ] An Army Air Corps
- [ ] An Independent Air Force
- [ ] Some other reason
[ ] Write in (Select as many times as you want, subject to QM veto)
You are more than welcome to ask questions about what is acceptable as a write-in vote.
There will be a 6-hour moratorium on voting to encourage discussion. The vote will close in three days.
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4WheelSword
The original N-body Problem
- Pronouns
- It/She/They
Turn 13 Vote: January 1933
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Turn 13 Vote: January 1933
Project Development
Ongoing Projects
[X] Establish the Ordnance Office - Developing an arms industry from scratch will take time and effort. An Ordnance Office will allow us to delegate some of that work to specialists. (Constant Investment.)[X] Production Licensing: Machine Guns - Attempt to buy the rights to produce the ZB vz.30 in 6.5×50 mmSR. (3 Months Remain) ☑☑☑◻
[X] Establish the Carabinieri Oversight Office - No one really keeps an eye on the paramilitary police force that keeps watch over the nation. If the force is to be reformed and re-established in a new role, then oversight is needed at the very least. (Constant Investment.)[X] Organisational Reform: Wilderness Rangers - The Carabinieri is responsible for massive tracts of rural land. A specialist ranger unit trained in long-distance patrol and survival would be useful to the force as a whole. (3 Months Remain) ☑☑◻
Completed Projects
[X] Information Review: Government - Determine what the civilian government wants out of their armed forces. (Complete!) ☑[X] New Council Liaisons: Create permanent non-voting liaisons for the armed services and industry. Two will go to the armed services (one for each service, currently the Army and Carabineri), and three will be industrial representatives: one for each of the arms industry, the rail industry, the recognized unions in these industries. (Complete!) ☑
Kismayo-Turkana Line:
Progress, Marsabit-Turkana: 70% (Est. completion October 1933)
Arisaka Rifles, Orders, and Production:
Progress, Rifle Deliveries: 80% (Est. completion March 1933)
Progress, Rifle Factory: 3 rifles per day
Type 3 HMG Project:
Progress, Reverse Engineering: Experiencing delays.
Reports
Heavy Machine Gun Project
The rifle factory had expected they would be beginning low-rate manufacture of their Type 3 heavy machine gun next month, but the project has run into significant issues. The assembled prototypes have serious reliability issues; Army inspectors note that the machine guns are in such a poor state they would consider them in dire need of repair or replacement. The rifle factory is hard at work locating the source of these problems.Defence Council Investment - October 1932
The Defence Council currently has two investment points available to be spent on any area.Industry and Logistics
Armaments[ ] Weapon Testing: Anti-Air Weapons - The Ordnance Office will buy a handful of machine guns and cannons from around the world and test them until they break. Afterwards, they will make recommendations to the Defence Council on the topic of AA weapons. (6-Month Investment. Recommendations will be made at the end of this process.)
[ ] Weapon Testing: Anti-Tank Weapons - The Ordnance Office will research a handful of field guns and large calibre rifles from around the world. Afterwards, they will make recommendations to the Defence Council on the topic of AT weapons. (6-Month Investment. Recommendations will be made at the end of this process.)
[ ] Increase Funding: Type 3 - By funnelling additional investment towards the Type 3 project, it may be possible to have a prototype ready faster. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Restructure the Ordnance Office - Reduce staffing in the Ordnance Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)
Breeding and Working
[ ] Restructure the Veterinary Oversight Office - To reduce operational costs the Veterinary Oversight Office has been shrunk significantly. Funding and personnel would allow the Office to perform specialised tasks. (3 Months, Constant Investment)
Doctrine and Organisation
DCIRRO[ ] Establish the Information Review Team - This group will be tasked with drafting reports on various arms of the internal structure of Reewiin. (12-Month Investment. Will enable additional work in this specific area, including write-in Information Review requests.)
[ ] Information Review: Government - Determine what the civilian government wants out of their armed forces. (3-Month Investment.)
[ ] Analysis: Ethiopia - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Ethiopia. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Analysis: Britain - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Britain. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Analysis: Italy - Long-term analysis of the optimal army to defend Reewiin against our eternal enemy, Italy. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Analysis: The Foreigners Have Some Good Ideas - Send observation teams overseas to take the best ideas from foreign nations. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Send Observers: Bolivia - Send a military attaché to learn from the Bolivian army's experiences on the Chaco front. (Until recalled or conflict ends)
[ ] Send Observers: Paraguay - Send a military attaché to learn from the Paraguayan army's experiences on the Chaco front. (Until recalled or conflict ends)
Reforming the Carabinieri
[ ] Restructure the Carabinieri Office - Reduce staffing in the Carabinieri Office to retain oversight of programs in progress and free up capital for investment elsewhere. This does not cost an investment point and can be done at any time. (3-Month Investment.)
Reforming the Army
[ ] Manoeuvre Training - The Army Review has determined that Reewiin's standing military is not currently fit for the task. Field manoeuvres will begin to improve this. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Marksmanship Training - With an average of twenty rounds per man per year, marksmanship is of very poor quality. Regular range training will begin to improve this, not only for the infantry but for the cavalry and artillery too. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Cavalry Training - The Cavalry are loath to conduct operations en-masse, leaving them poorly equipped for the field. Regular deployments into central Reewiin will begin to improve this. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Artillery Training - Our artillery capability is doctrinally obsolescent, with all firing conducted over open sights. More realistic training will begin to improve this. (6-Month Investment.)
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge.
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge.
[ ] Establish an Officer Academy - Our officers are currently trained in an ad-hoc fashion. The establishment of a proper Academy would allow us to educate more officers, and provide a centre for spreading doctrinal advances across the military by running a series of advanced courses and bringing able officers back as instructors. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge. (Reduces to 6-Month Investment)
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge. (Reduces to 6-Month Investment)
[ ] Establish an Infantry School - Our riflemen are currently trained in an ad-hoc fashion. The establishment of a proper School would allow us to drill our soldiers in more advanced tactics and provide a single baseline for all of our forces, so that officers can more easily assume command of troops they have not trained with. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJN institutional knowledge. (Reduces to 6-Month Investment)
[ ] Optional: Request Japanese support for this program, improving impacts and benefiting from IJA institutional knowledge. (Reduces to 6-Month Investment)
[ ] Enlarge the Officers Corps - The Army of Reewiin lacks many things, one of which is junior officers. While this is not a significant issue at the high level, it leaves the junior officers seriously overworked. Beginning a major drive to recruit and train new officers will shift this issue towards the positive. (12-Month Investment.)
[ ] Enlarge the Army - Currently, Reewiin maintains a standing Army of 6,000 men organised into five effective battalions. There are several options for enlarging this; select one or more:
[ ] Establish a more formal reservist force from those claiming their pension.
[ ] Increase recruitment - Write in the desired force size.
[ ] Write in.
[ ] Confine Idle Soldiers to Barracks - We can't have the Army tarnishing its image by gambling and causing trouble on the streets! Confining the soldiers to their barracks when they don't have leave will keep them from being a nuisance. (3-Month Investment).
A New Ship
[ ] Form a Naval Service: Carabinieri Maritime Policing Unit - The Kutulo could most easily be subsumed into the Carabinieri, since they already have a boat section for policing Lake Turkana. (3-Month Investment.)
You are more than welcome to ask questions about what is acceptable as a write-in vote.
There will be a 6-hour moratorium on voting to encourage discussion. The vote will close in three days.
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