New Switzerland Navy - Central Command, Somewhere in the Pacific
"So what is up with this new treaty?"
"Treaty's a joke. Sets a cap on maximum warship size and nothing else. Half the signatories where not even planning on building ships over that limit, I mean Romania signed. Romania! Their entire navy is under the limit. Hell, we didn't have a ship over that size planned until sometime in the 40's."
"So where does that leave us?"
"Well it completely screws up our plans. Treaty BBs are just the right size to counter the one's we had planned. Fortunately with the exception of the RRC, which can just dream with 35k tonners, and the American states, no Pacific power signed the treaty."
"What do we do?"
"Three options: One, we continue our original plans, as stated none of our potential enemies signed the treaty so it would not affect our plans regarding them. Two, we build the treaty busters, it will be expensive, but will give us ships second to none. Not even the French could match us. Three, we scrap our capital ship plans entirely, go completely asymmetrical, leave coastal defense to submarines, torpedo boats and aircraft. It will be unpopular, but completely devastating to an attacking enemy."
"What's your advice?"
"Wait and see, our plans are set for the next year and a half, so we can't lay down any capital ships until 1920. In the meantime we can start ordering long term items like guns. If we go asymmetrical we can use the guns for coastal defense and turbines can be sold to the civs."
QuoteFortunately with the exception of the RRC, which can just dream with 35k tonners, and the American states, no Pacific power signed the treaty.
Quoteas stated none of our potential enemies signed the treaty
Somehow I feel slighted. Either I'm not a "Power" or I'm not a "Potential Enemy". :'(
Huripari, Third Queen of the Maori, Admiral of the Fleets and the supreme uniformed commander of the nation's entire military at the ripe old age of twenty-four, set down the report she had been reading in favor of staring outright at her wife-in-law. "Did your people do this?"
Nanoha, Second Queen and Minister of Knowledge, responsible for education, propaganda, and intelligence work both foreign and domestic, shook her head. "No, these conclusions came from sections we haven't got the slightest finger in. We're reinforcing it, of course - it would take their civilian administration taking a mad start to dislodge the idea now that it has even this much currency, and from our perspective that would pay for itself in lost credibility."
"Are they blind?" Huripari asked, shaking her head, not in negation, but disbelief.
"Too used to equating us with the cousins they have stuck in their plantations and factories, I think," the other woman said thoughtfully. "After all, we're just natives, so of course we'll mind our place when the great white hero has business to attend to, and even if we didn't, it's not like we can fight - they tore apart two entire kingdoms to steal that land, after all, and it was easy."
"Buddha grant that they keep thinking like that," was the fervent answer.
The two women smiled at each other, then moved on to other business.
QuoteFortunately with the exception of the RRC, which can just dream with 35k tonners, and the American states, no Pacific power signed the treaty.
Well the point was the RRC would never build 35k tonners or dream about building them in the first place, so the treaty was a shoo-in.
Gosh...I'm offened...but you may be wrong. I'm trying to get someone to build me the Leptano...without much success, of course.
Quote from: TexanCowboy on February 28, 2010, 05:14:25 PM
Gosh...I'm offened...but you may be wrong. I'm trying to get someone to build me the Leptano...without much success, of course.
Thats because You cant afford to pay anyone enought money to build you that ship.... sorry but your country is to Poor... Heck Italia is too Poor for 35K ton+ Battle Ships
About an hour before the official CSA Press Release (January 2nd 1919?)
"Why was this meeting called in the middle of the night? It's friggin 2 o'clock!"
"It's an important telegram from the CSA."
"What is it? It better be important..."
"President Wilson, we think he is dead."
"What?"
"He was checked in to a Richmond hospital with what was officially flu-like symptoms. But our Richmond people think he has died."
"They think?"
"Well everything points to that. There's plenty of rumors floating around, some even say he was murdered. But we really don't know much."
"Don't we have anyone in the hospital, someone that could confirm? A nurse? An orderly? Anyone?"
"Unfortunately no, all our people were as far away from Richmond as possible, trying to avoid the infernal conference as much as possible."
"Any chance to get anyone in there now?"
"Not at all, security as is tight as it could possibly be, which is why we think the story is true."
"Oh God... Ok, alert all military commands. Tell them to be on the lookout for anything suspicious, especially from a Nassau ship. Whatever is going on can't be good, and... we will be blamed for it. And get me Plan Black Mamba..."
Strange... I think there was a conversation about this in another thread... and in it you said you wouldn't try this.
DATES!
And I did NOT do it. Read carefully, I don't know anything. The rumors are floating around, everyone knows that Wilson was sick, and the CSA is acting strangely. What exactly happened? I do NOT know, but the guess everyone would be making is that he died.
Dates, Desertfox.
Dates, or it DOES NOT HAPPEN!
Everyone else posts dates, and you aren't special at all.
Best guess would be a week or two weeks even after the President's death, depending on how anyones agents can get a message from the East Coast of the CSA, across the entire continent and then at least half way across the Pacific Ocean. One assumes telegraph wires are in place between North America and the Swiss Islands or Hawaii. I doubt there is one going to Alaska except via Rohan...at best (weather and terrain could be a problem getting a line up there). Wireless doesn't have the range yet to my knowldge. Ship would take longer to get from Confederate North America to any Swiss port.
But yes, dates are essential for interactions, unless both parties are scripting events, rather than just taking action on something without knowledge that said information should be present in game, or taking a "covert" action that could be caught and start a international incident.
Mod hat on.
Dates Desertfox, dates.
I already did, its in the post...
*waits for the complaints about the date chosen*
thanks.
No complaints... all J. was trying to do was stall things until he could get sworn in.
I just do not like posts that can be randomly assigned a date after other players begin a story so as to take advantage of things they didn't think of. It gives too many opportunities to do damage to someone's nation without allowing them to react properly.
I don't mind someone, for instance, declaring war on me... but I wouldn't want something like that happening a week before something I just posted.
Now, PLEASE, DF... dates in all the other threads as well.
15 minutes after the Official CSA Press Release
"It's confirmed! The CSA publicly stated that Wilson was dead of the flu."
"At least they are not blaming us... yet."
"It still doesn't smell right. No flu symptoms among the other participants... oh my God..."
"What is it?"
"The timing... he fell sick soon after most of our diplomats in Richmond left on vacation..."
"What about it?"
"It's all clear now, but can it be... Wilson is not dead... It's an act, everything has been staged, Wilson's 'death' is just part of a dastardly plot."
"Wait, wait, WHAT?"
"Elementary my dear Watson! Wilson did not like our attempts to scupper the treaty, his death was carefully staged to coincide with our diplomats leaving Richmond. Now, after careful investigations they will be able to present 'evidence' that proves that we were responsible for his assassination and declare war on us. Same way the Italians operated, its not a coincidence the two are allied."
"But why not come out immediately and blame us? Why the cover story? Where is Wilson? Why the guards? Why have him 'die'?"
"Ah, they are trying to gain support from their allies without having to deal with public outrage. The CSA doesn't want to fight us alone. The flu is just to keep the public quiet until they have allied support. As for Wilson, he is probably hiding in a country home somewhere, taking a long vacation from being president. The guards are clear, they didn't want anyone knowing that Wilson was still alive. Once he is 'dead' they can bring out a closed empty casket. As for 'killing' him that way it is easier to bring in the French to fight for them, we know that Wilson didn't like the French, now by fooling them and having them fight us, he can get some measure of payback."
"I don't know. Anyway to know for sure? No sense in mobilizing the military is all that happened was that the CSA president died of natural causes."
"Well... we could dig up the casket. If it's empty we know for sure."
"Are you proposing robbing the grave of the CSA PRESIDENT!?"
"Well... It would work..."
"Well, I am not going that far on just smoke and mirrors. All we have is some dates, a LOT of speculation, and some guards outside a hospital. Send a few agents to the funeral, have a few more snoop around possible hiding places and send our condolences, and don't wake me up unless I'm on fire..."