[RPU] 1925 Onwards: Flames of War Roleplay

[RPU] 1925 Onwards: Flames of War Roleplay

Credits go to all individuals who have aided me in preparing this roleplaying round, including worldwar2history, BenLundquist, and membership of The Roleplayers Union.

Consider if you will, a historical timeline in which our point of difference starts with the triple alliance and triple entente coming to the discussion table. The German Reich, retaining its monarchy only has minimal losses, holding German Angola, but being reduced to its Weimar republican shape. Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire dissolve as normal. However! An earlier stock market crash leads to an immense amount of ideological split within the earth, leading to civil wars all over the globe, Canada, America, and Brazil find themselves engulfed, while the Warlord Era continues in China, and the Russian Civil War continues endlessly. Can you find freedom in this timeline? Can you engulf the world into flames of war, or will you be cooked by its terror?

Landswap Map: https://i.imgur.com/K4fjFqx.jpg

Spanish Civil War Map: https://i.imgur.com/9HzMq6O.png

Discord Link (Yes we mandate discord. its 35-40% of the RP https://discord.gg/6ytHkmM

Base Rules:

• No Gold Usage. Usage automatically removes you from the round.
• 1 Day In Game = 3 Months in RP. This means 4 days=1 Year. The Game days will be divided into seasons, Starting Winter, 1925.

  Winter (December, January, February)

  Spring (March, April, May)

  Summer (June, July, August)

  Fall (September, October, November)

• I reserve the right to use Gold to eradicate those who violate the rules, or to penalize players for rulebreaks. Mind you, I have the capacity for lots of Gold.
• We will heavily Focus On Finishing Landswap First, meaning no official in character RP before we finish landswapping unless informed otherwise.
• Coalitions are to be “Empire Based” only unless specified otherwise, meaning, my coalition should be named the official name of my nation, have the official flag of my nation, and consist of me as well as my vassals, colonies, dominions and/or tributary states. I reserve the right to disband any coalitions not following the rules stated above. You may create multiple coalitions if slots are filled for one, just keep the flag and info same for all of them.
• NO Meatshielding under any circumstances. (Meatshielding is the act of purposely stacking infantry units onto naval vessels in an effort to limit or inhibit damage to ships)
• All alliances are to be made public. Military Alliances which are not made public will not be considered valid for calling in allies to war. To limit/stop the formation of super military alliances, I would like to ask you all to not form excessive alliances with those around you.
• Military Alliances must have an agreed upon end date announced, and can only last for up to 10 years.
• Be Respectful towards one another in all circumstances and situations. Being historical enemies or someone being mean in another round does not mean you can carry it here.
• We will be ranking players by their performance and skill within this round in coordination with The Roleplayers Union Player Ranking System to ensure that trolls and rulebreakers are either minor nations, not in the rounds, or repeat offenders are banned.

Civil War Rules:

• All Civil Wars begin when announced on the Newspaper. Players are permitted to post articles and RP the civil war from that point onward.
• All Civil wars will officially go on until Winter 1933, and All factions are untouchable by outside powers until that date. After that moment they are subject to regular rules and regulations, considered officially independent, also having their own separate tech trees.
• Civil war factions are still limited to rp tech restrictions and can upgrade their technology in the same manner as all other nations only after the civil war period ends.
• Nations are at constant war with each other upon game start. This does not necessarily mandate changing your diplomatic status to war as it would ruin your morale.
• Nations are to provide constant Share Map with LightningTurk (Japan) for confirmation that gold is not being used. This will go on for the duration of all civil wars.
• Factions cannot be attacked by any nation and/or groups outside of their respective civil war (EX: Chinese factions cant take Russian land).
• Factions within the civil wars are not permitted to attack any nation outside of their civil conflict borders.
• Outside nations are permitted to sell arms and resources, but these must have the following prerequisites:

  1. The weapon/resource amounts must be posted on the Newspaper officially prior to the sale.

  2. The weapon/resources cannot be “Loaned” to factions to be returned. All sales are final.

• All alliances between factions are considered unofficial. Backstabbing is to be expected and welcomed.
• Factions may surrender at any time, and choose one of the designated minor nations to become. When this is announced, this nation is no longer considered a belligerent in its respective civil war and will do a secondary landswap in order to take that minor state.

War Rules:

• All Wars [Excluding Civil Wars] are to be declared at least 6 hours prior to any military contact. If this rule is broken, no allies are permitted to aid the attacker, thereby inhibiting his/her ability to wage said war.
• All Conflicts are to be made public and declared through the Newspaper Before the 6 hour period can start. This can be made in the form of an ultimatum, or through a direct declaration. The title of the article on the newspaper must include X declares war on Y or some similar format. The War Goal must also be included in the article declaring war. If this is not done, I reserve the right to void your war, or inhibit allies from aiding the attacker.
• A War Declaration must be at least 200 words. Declarations of war are significant events throughout the course of the round. While war is not forbidden, it has the potential to drastically alter the game and limit a players current ability to roleplay.

  Example title: “The Ottoman Empire Declares War on Venice!”

  Example body: “Ottoman Imperial Forces move forth to secure the island of Crete for the glory of the Sublime Porte!...

• In all wars, there are two war leaders: one aggressor and one defender. If either leader loses its capital, that war is an automatic victory for the opposing side, and all nations are forced to come to diplomatic negotiation. Those who continue conflict will be penalized or removed from the round entirely.
• At any time, any non-vassal non-colonial nation can sue for peace. In which case, both sides will come to diplomatic talks. Keep in mind suing for peace will automatically break the alliance with the war leader it supports in that war, and all diplomatic talks must lead to peace. If you are supporting your ally, and you sue for peace with the enemy, you cannot return to that war as you will forcibly have a separate peace agreement.
• Pirating, Coastal Raiding of nations vessels and troops, and spy bombardment is allowed, however, know that it will be legitimate justification for full scale war. Pirating that turns into a province capture will count as a full war and the war article must be posted beforehand. Again, pirating or raiding must be announced on the Daily European Newspaper in order for all players to be aware. If this leads to full war, the normal war rules will take place, however, pirating or raiding that does not lead to full scale war can go on forever, or until a treaty is signed between nations involved.

Types of Wars that can be declared:

Acquire Territory: This is the default war goal for all non-civil war nations at war. You may capture up to 6 provinces with this Wargoal.

Annexation: After a nation surrenders, this will occur if the surrendering nation is less than 6 provinces, or if World Tension has reached 100%.

Civil War: Exclusive to Nationalist/Republican Spain and all civil war factions, when fighting each other. Those using this war goal will receive the full territory.

Acquire Satellite State : Vassalizes the target nation. No provinces can be captured with this wargoal. Vassals cannot declare independence.

Install Democracy/Comintern: Converts target country into an independent democracy or a Socialist Satellite of a Socialist country.

World Tension Rules:

World Tension represents the overall level of fear and anxiety that exists among the nations of the World. The number displayed can be between 0% and 100%.

Total World Tension can be higher than 100%, but there are no additional effects beyond the 100% limit—the overflow instead acts as a "buffer" against events that decrease Tension.

The level of World Tension has several impacts on the roleplay, in particular allowing or limiting political decisions or more. Generally, the higher the World Tension, the more popular support nations have for taking belligerent actions.

Note: Civil War Factions are exempt from world tension during their civil wars. Each Civil War will generate +2 World Tension each year they continue.

[u]National Ideology Rules:[/u]

A Nation's Ideology is something that changes in time, that shifts towards or away from certain sociopolitical factors. In order to integrate such a system, an ideology list for all countries has been developed.

• A Nation's Ideology will change based on the amount of provinces. this conversion time has a cap of 5 years 20 irl days.
• Note that Dominions, Colonies or Puppets cannot change their ideology. You can enforce an ideology change as a wargoal and the player will not be able to change back until the shift is completed.
• Ideologies will provide benefits or a negative impact to your nation's ability to conduct diplomacy with other nations.

Communism

Communism is a form of government based on social equality and collective ownership of the means of production.

• Comintern Governments have no limitation on World Tension or diplomatic actions.

Democracy

Democracy is a form of government in which the popular vote governs, directly or indirectly. It is characterized by a commitment to civil liberties.

• Democracies Cannot Declare War on other Democracies.

• Democracies cannot Declare war until 100 WT

• Democracies cannot send Volunteers until 50 WT

• Democracies cannot Guarantee Independence until 25 WT

• Democracies cannot establish a formal military defensive alliance until 80 WT

Nationalism

Nationalism is a form of government characterized by authoritarian nationalism.

• Nationalist Governments have no limitation on World Tension or diplomatic actions.

Monarchism

Monarchism is a form of government in which a single person rules with absolute power, to benefit the nation.

• Monarchies cannot Declare war until 25 WT

• Monarchies cannot send Volunteers until 50 WT

• Democracies cannot Guarantee Independence until 40 WT

• Democracies cannot establish a formal military defensive alliance until 40 WT

North American Tech Tree

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ciaaES9TmIclg3dc23M8UXL5WtGNmrZaRE6LQihJ8C0/edit?usp=sharing

South American Tech Tree

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XsVLKGkyn88wrAphOvhrDd31ZNJFK_ff3-y6xw3v65Q/edit?usp=sharing

West European Tech Trees

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EV2yWs5Jlt5spPEiFaGLa_U30YSshJdD1VCQkCE5cIA/edit?usp=sharing

Central European Tech Trees

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jfabt0OcbUFnVdNxWoAWJYpM9zb76ihfl3qCxPpBvRE/edit?usp=sharing

Scandinavian Tech Trees

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/167hToYxOjwJ3zZ_OgAL_9VvR5SGP6BHd8dJt8cYkI_E/edit?usp=sharing

East European Tech Trees

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10GJqXHE6nPiN3m_gXZydSegpbPUAcZMFMG9bWf7cVdU/edit?usp=sharing

Mideast Nations Tech Trees

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WNE2hkQMzp5GAC3ikQAEveyQLUkHhFtV5jTs2E7nhSs/edit?usp=sharing

African Tech Trees

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-I_W-WdOR5qDBAcwJ97L268ym62LQhyq7Ig1CfvEWu4/edit?usp=sharing

East Asian Tech Trees

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sCrtGtA90oxxl4mT2INnlNWqmXAnji9_E99H8gIoDQ8/edit?usp=sharing

Nation List: https://discord.gg/hnrSQAK

Application Format

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