The War of Our Fathers
The War of Our Fathers began in 1900 when the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand refused to concede his rite to the throne for the purposes of marriage. This betrayed the trust of his lover Sophie Chotek causing her father, Count Bohuslaw Chotek, to request the German Kaiser to organize his standing forces and march on Austro-Hungary to force abdication. Germany quickly besieged the lands seeing this as a chance for border expansion, and assassinated the archduke taking the lands and causing many other European nations to become concerned with Germany and issue an ultimatum. Germany saw this as an act of suppressing their empire and marched towards Russia angering their ally France and beginning the two fronts of the war. They marched in formation participating in "civilized combat" against the units moved up by other European nations as they prepared their homefronts thinking this to be no more than a territorial skirmish. Though as the Germanic forces drew near there grew concern with the Italians sending in their standing armies to assist the Huns as they had now become known by the countries they marched on, a reference to their barbaric nature.
Once the Germans had marched onto the homefronts the combat grew tedious and both began implementing the method of trench warfare utilizing small dug in positions and buildings which as the time passed formed into trench systems that spanned countries with a cratered and body-littered fields that laid in-between the nations trenches. Artillerists besieged the trenches from both sides with intermittent infantry charges from both sides, who after months of fighting had abandoned their civility, and occasionally one side would send a cavalry charge that was quickly halted by the machine guns which were now the accepted warfare method. This war has now reached a stalemate as charges are led against opposing trenches rarely taking the trench and pushing the enemy back and just resulting in massive lost of life.
While guns are now the standard infantry weapon for this war allowing ranged combat as the primary attack method melee weapons are still common with both armies having entire units dedicated to melee and unarmed fighting. The two also get mixed sometimes as rifle infantry haven't completely abandoned the old ways with some carrying tower shields to protect them during charges and assaults. Magic users aren't a common site in the war but they aren't rare and while most can be found in the support lines some are fighters using powerful magic to besiege, blast, poison, slow, etc. enemies. This has led to individualized units dedicated to a single method of combat and some units which mix having multiple forms of combatants within their ranks.
Allied Forces | Central Forces |
---|---|
France | Germany |
British Empire | Austria-Hungary |
Russia | Ottoman Empire |
United States | Bulgaria |
Serbia | Italy |
Spain | Greece |
Portugal | Japan |
Romania | Poland |
British Colonies | |
Poland |
This war is viewed differently by most people for while some justify the German actions others justify the actions taken by Allied countries and some believe this entire thing to be a useless land squabble that will only leave millions dead.
Very few things have been collectively banned by both sides, and with the lack of a standard governing body for rules of war the only thing that has been collectively been banned by all sides is the spell; power word kill and necromancy. In addition there is a collectively agreed upon rules of war but not all countries follow these rules and unless there is outstanding evidence these people aren't charged.
Conflict Type
War