The date is the 29th December 2018, and public unrest is high after the government pushed through several unpopular reforms over the Christmas season when nobody was paying attention, like a cut to the minimum wage and the removal of limits on how many hours workers can be asked to work per week. The neoliberal government say they have been forced into this position due to adverse financial conditions and the need to remain competitive with the more technologically advanced nation of Reddit.
How it works will be quite simple; you present your proposal for an action against NPCs or other players and the DM (me) ranks how likely that is to work from 1 to 10 and then rolls a virtual die against that number out of ten. You will have better luck if you propose smaller actions like, our sect seizes control of the TV station, rather than, my movement immediately grabs control of regions around and including the capital.
Factions can have as many posters as they want, for the sake of convenience I will accept posters other than the originator of the movement to make overall decisions if the original poster doesn't post that day.
I hope this sounds fun, let's try it. Remember to only propose the action and I will determine the results as DM.
Several socialist movements and local religions that attach specific value to insects in the tiny rural villages of autist islands begin to attempt a revolution, inspired by recent studies on the social lives of ants. Armed with home-made guns and various guns stolen from passing trade boats, a gang of several hundred militia storm through rural villages, occupying them. Emphasizing [italics]"The way of the ants"[/italics], a strange fusion of various ultra collectivist ideologies emphasizing group unity, Underground architecture and co-operation.
Jason Davis
Basically the ant gang but more realistic
Benjamin Sullivan
Okay, I like that phrasing of it a lot better, I'll give that, let's say a 7.
You rolled an 8.
Neglected for centuries by the mainland government, the Autist Isles have long been a refuge for oddballs and misfits, and they have more freedom than most of Aurelia purely because the government doesn't care that much what the hillbillies get up to.
Rural authorities are taken totally off guard by your sweep through the countryside and the few police or officials that resist are swiftly captured without much violence. Your movement will have to decide what to do with them, and also on a name.
The local people are somewhat supportive of your strange philosophy due to their religious and cultural beliefs and dissatisfaction with the government. You tap into a latent nationalistic impulse along your fellow autists.
While your march across the countryside is successful, by the time your militia reach the vicinity of Autism Quay, the regional capital located on the shore of the East island, local forces are dug in and fire warning shots from makeshift barricades. The Quay is more developed and connected to the mainland (being the primary port on the islands) so the population is also less supportive of you. Police forces and other resisters who see you as a bunch of crazed lunatics are clearly planning to hold the town until reinforcements arrive from central government.
Your strength: 350 militia members, 50 of them armed with light weapons they are not that well trained to use, the others with clubs, pitchforks, et cetera.
Their strength: Roughly 50 armed police officers who have moderate training with their light weapons, which are pistols and some shotguns. Around a dozen members of the armed forces that were stationed at the barracks, they are well trained with their semi-automatic rifles. 100-200 others who have answered the call to resist, they are armed with household objects or spare police batons.
Autism Quay is a small town and the government has all the main roads in their sight, with most of them blocked by cars, dumpsters, et cetera. They would be easy to scale but would give their marksmen an easy time picking off your forces. A creative approach might work better?
Your forces have successfully seized control of Weston-Chandler, which serves as a port on the western island, it is really only a village but houses a few assorted small fishing and tour boats as well as a medium sized ferry.
Juan Rivera
Taking inspiration from ants, nearby farmers are recruited to dig tunnels underneath the enemy and place bombs underneath their fortifications, while the militia who are armed with guns begin to create makeshift camouflage suits out of reeds as well as creating scopes for their guns out of wire, in order to snipe at the enemy from behind trees and bushes
In the meantime, a central hive is created in Weston-Chandler, which is a collection of underground tunnels containing storage rooms and housing for the people living there. The few intellectuals on the island (Mostly library staff) are instructed with finding ways to organize this new society, and a council is set up to organize society, mostly made out of local entymologists and religious figures.
Carter Reed
The boats are used for fishing, to supply for the village. To help the citizen population, education initiatives are pursued (mostly just volunteer teachers in small wooden schoolrooms), and farmers begin to start expanding downwards and experimenting with mushroom farms.
Xavier Rodriguez
With hints of civil unrest in the air, the president of Aurelia requests aid from their northern neighbor, Reddit. Reddit responds by sending a battalion of soldiers commanded by Colonel Elephant across the border to Stalintown a, ostensibly as part of a training exercise, to occupy the city and surrounding area.
Zachary Russell
more details about the People's Hive (nation name):
- Economic policy is central planning influenced by massive public debates - Social egalitarianism, although culture leans towards matriarchy (due to the insect worship) - Favors co-operation with other left-wing groups, apart from egoism, which it despises - Not anti-intellectual, although has a slight aversion to theoretical physics. Scientific academia is mostly focused on biology and engineering - Living conditions are cramped, but as much amneties as possible are provided. - State takes inspiration from local religion but is not a theocracy. - Insectoid aesthetics, designs look somewhat biological.
I'm interpreting this to mean more that you're getting ready to attack than actually attacking so I won't roll for a full battle.
Your plan seems sensible, but the time needed to dig tunnels is going to give the enemy more time to confer with Ulyanovsk and request reinforcements. There are no major deployments of troops near the Autist Isles, however, so a deployment of forces will take some time.
Your plan seems pretty sensible, so I'll give it a 6 out of 10. Just to clarify, the way dice rolls work, a higher number is better, since dice below your number count as successes (the lower the number the greater the success) and above as failures, the higher the number the greater the failure.
You rolled a 7 this time.
Your forces manage to scrounge up large quantities of fertiliser based explosive from nearby farms, and supportive farmers and the unarmed members of your militia begin digging from behind a hill out of sight of the Quay. With only basic tools however, this will take quite some time, and it will likely be nightfall by the time it is complete - one of your men has access to a high-powered ham radio, and manages to listen in on the enemy's panicked calls for help, so you know that the first of the government forces are likely to arrive sometime late tonight or early in the morning, which would leave you little time to prepare. You may choose to employ a few large diggers from the few larger more mechanised farms on the island, but this is likely to attract the attention of the townsfolk.
As a distraction and to attempt to pick off enemy forces, your militiamen try to camouflage themselves from the plant matter in the area. Unfortunately, in the rough conditions and without much time to prepare, they are unable to create proper ghillie suits, but your snipers cover themselves with mud and moss to provide some cover from the enemy.
You manage to create some makeshift scopes out of wire and some from scavenged binoculars and similar equipment in the surrounding area, and your best marksmen start to take potshots at the enemy in order to stop them from wondering why you've stopped advancing.
Your men take the first blood of the battle, with their first volley killing several police officers who were lacking in caution at their posts behind the barricades, and a couple of the ragtag group of civilians opposing you.
The police forces quickly dig in and take cover, but the civilian group is surprised that your group has actually attacked, it seems that many of them were expecting you to back down in the face of the police and military. The morale of about half of the group is broken, and 50 or so of the unarmed fighters flee immediately, allowing your men to take shots at a few more officers in the chaos, and even kill one of the regular troops who was in an upstairs window. The other civilians dig in and scurry down behind cover, and the police forces open fire. Your men are quite well hidden, and they have no sights, so the men armed with pistols simply pepper the surrounding countryside - however, they do manage to kill a handful of your militiamen by pure chance, once their commander directs them to aim at the likely hiding spots.
Your men dig in and take better cover, some of them beginning to crawl to new positions under the plant cover.
However, your men are taken off guard when the local garrison open fire with their rifles from a number of vantage points, such as attic windows, the upper floor of the town hall, the church spire, and so on. Their shots are much more accurate and precise, and they manage to kill a dozen of your troops, before they adjust to get out of the troopers' sightlines. Many of the casualties were among your snipers, and while you have plenty of men willing to take up their weapons, you have lost some of your better trained men.
Your troops and theirs enter a standoff for the next few hours (as you pursue other actions), with occasional shots from both sides, neither accomplishing much. However, your men take careful note of the positions of the enemy, and use walkie talkies from a local dairy to radio back to your field camp, where a more complete battleplan is drawn up, taking into account the enemy sightlines. In addition, many of the police and civilian forces fall back to better covered positions, with the primary gathering points appearing to be; the local police headquarters, the small military barracks and armoury, the town hall, and the church.
Over on the West island, you start to lay the first planks of your new society, and radio contact is set up between the village and your field encampment. Your reforms are successful in their first steps, with most of the population happy to abide by the advice of their religious leaders. The more educated people are happy that they are being given a position of leadership, and are cautiously optimistic about the movement. They start trying to come up with some new ideas, with a makeshift lab set up in the library.
Sounds cool man. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out haha.
Bentley Parker
I'm glad to have a player for the reactionaries, should liven things up a bit, it's a little early for you to go charging in to combat but I'm happy for you to deploy like you say - by this point the government is worried by an armed opposition to their rule, however small, and they happily accept help from the Reddit Republic.
I'll roll just to see how long it takes to deploy and how many troops/armour you can expect at this point.
You also rolled a 7.
Your forces are happily met at the border by their liaison from the government, who briefs you on the current situation and the worries of the generals. Your own government has granted you a full battalion of regular infantrymen as you asked for, but was somewhat reluctant to allow you access to heavy weapons due to political concerns and the current low intensity of the conflict. As such, your battalion consists of three rifle companies, A, B, and C (rename if you like), who are made up of 150 men each, including two lightly armed APCs, a few armoured cars and jeeps, and one light scout helicopter per company. The rest of your men are carried in regular troop trucks. You of course are situated in the headquarters company, which consists of another 150 men, including a few command trucks, a stockpile of fuel and ammunition supplies, and the tip of your spear - after much wheeling and dealing you've managed to secure 6 medium weight tanks in case of heavy resistance, as well as 6 fire support TOW vehicles. At the heart of the battalion of course is your personal command vehicle (up to you to decide, within reason).
Upon your arrival, your forces are greeted by another light rifle company from the Aurelian Army, which has also been seconded under your command. They are similar to one of your rifle companies but somewhat less well equipped and trained. You get familiar with your counterparts and the new deployment just on the Aurelian side of the border at a small military base which has been put at your command too.
ABOUT PLAYING ON THE GOVERNMENT SIDE: While I will let the revolutionaries basically decide what they want to do (since they represent the head of their movement), I will include in your rolls the likelihood of being granted the permission to do whatever it is you want to do. For example you are not likely to be allowed to ride into Ulyanovsk and take command there. As the situation breaks down, this may become less and less important, but for now you're theoretically under the command of the Aurelian government, although your personal battalion is under your actual command if you at some point decide to, for example, break your ties with the government and attempt to annex territory for Reddit instead. But, overall, have fun!
What are you orders, colonel?
Angel Turner
Buoyed by the success of the seccsionist movement on the Autist Isles, the workers on Posadasium begin to conspire among themselves. They have long been dissatisfied with the government holding so much control over their small citystate, which was has a somewhat greater amount of freedoms compared to the mainland because it is classified as a free economic zone, and has become a haven for high tech investment from home and abroad. Some workers and even local politicians are considering the current situation may be their best moment to try to seize independence - but unlike the Autist Isles, Posadasium is well guarded and garrisoned with troops, especially considering the nuclear materials on the island, and several weapons development labs. You will have to take a much more strategic and perhaps diplomatic approach (to local bourg politicians) in order to avoid your movement being wiped out instantly. Good luck! You may now submit a plan of action. You have a few dozen dedicated comrades at your command still working as normal and lying low for now.
David Myers
Taking note from the stalemate that occurred in the limited conflict and the possibility of attack by more advanced forces, several sheds and unused buildings are turned into workshops to make makeshift guns, akin to blunderbusses. The snipers collect the guns dropped from their fallen comrades, and hand them out to the militia only armed with melee weapons.
In preparation from a possible invasion from the mainland, several rowboats armed with handmade cannons begin to patrol the area, watching out for enemy boats. These rowboats are instructed to shoot several rounds at the enemy, then quickly retreat. Farmers, organized by the militia, begin to start making traps along roads in order to catch invaders, while the central hive is expanded with more living space, a basic hospital and mushroom farms.
Isaac Parker
At the front, the People's Hive Militia temporarily withdraw behind nearby hills in order to improve their strategies, while the diggers continue their plan. A militia member with a hobby for studying various battles of history and basic military strategy is elected to take command of the division and improve the tactical flexibility of the militia. The militia makes various improved weapons out of the farming tools and nearby trees, such as crossbows and small catapults, in order to provide increased ranged damage, and the militia gathers some tractors in order to reinforce and turn into makeshift tanks
Noah Hill
The People's Hive establishes communications with the Posadist gang through HAM radios, and declares its support for the Posadists, but cannot provide any aid due to the early stages of development that the Autist Isles is in, and the ongoing conflicts.
Liam Lewis
i take my antarctic army of penguins and leopard seals and kill everyone
Grayson Gomez
After several years of rising unemployment, inflation, stagnant wages, and an uresponsive government, the people of Fort Pinochet have taken to the streets in a General Strike. Protests erupt around the town hall and the local financial centers. Most of the workers have organized themselves around the Titoists, a group hailing from a local vodka distillery. They uphold the tenants of Market Socialism. They demand the workers own their workplace, the abolishment of private property, the collectivization of the banks, and sweeping democratic reforms including a new voting system. They are willing to use force if necessary. They are hoping for fruitful talks with the military, given the current governments neglect of military benefits
Jose Evans
The People's Hive sends greetings to the Titoists and suggests a cordial relationship against the government, although disapproves of your system of markets
Christian Miller
The Titoists agree to this recognition of mutual respect with the People's Hive and pledge to support all leftist revolutions against the occupying government.
Anthony Garcia
The Titoists begin their struggle by occupying government buildings and taking weaponry from the cities military depot. They attempt to enter talks with local forces hoping to convert them over to their position. If talks fail, the Titoists are ready to rely on their existent party enforcers.
Henry Moore
Made this map of autism island. The total population is ten thousand, three thousand live in autism Quay, two thousand in Weston-Chandler, and a thousand live in Sperg town. The remaining four thousand live in nearby farms.
Also could I become the DM when OP is offline? I'll only reply to others posts so I don't give myself a bias. I'll try and make the responses as realistic and detailed as possible.
The increasingly militant trade unions including the notorious Industrial Workers of Aurelia have begun calling for a general strike across the country. One of the branches in Stirner City has also gathered up arms for a militant uprising inside the city center and the nearby areas. Ahead of this uprising and general strike, thousands of leaflets are distributed across various towns, cities and villages as a call to action for the working masses.
Just to be clear I'm rolling whether the uprisings actually lead anywhere and which cities end up affected is up to the DM
Rolled 7 (1d10) Since OP is offline, I will be DM for this (Although the actual OP can overturn this if he wants)
Seems like there is a high chance that you'll take some territory, so I'll give you an 8/10 chance rolling to determine the outcome
Justin Barnes
We begin negotiations with the government. I roll for crumbs.
I can't remember how to roll.
Mason Garcia
Inspired by a rapid propaganda strike from the IWA, tens of thousands of urban workers strike all across the country, from Stalintown to Englesburg. The strikes are from all types of workers, although industrial workers tend to make up the majority of the strikers. In Stirner City, these strikes turn into violent conflict with the police, and Stirner City soon turns into chaos
These strikes cause massive damage to the economy of the country, and Stirner city is soon overwhelmed by the riots and the IWA takes direct control. Fortifications are set up using destroyed cars, rubble, bins and various other debris, and the loose militia manages to repel a poorly organized counterattack consisting of several hundred MP's. More adventurous members of the militia successfully overtake checkpoint Alpha through a combination of tactics and brute force, although many die in the assault.
Unfortunately for the IWA, the strikes in other areas are brutally crushed by the police, who then proceed to outlaw unions. While several villages are temporarily gained, they are all recaptured with the exception of several villages near Stirner City.
The population is generally supportive and overwhelmingly leftist, although moderate unionists make up a large percentage of the population
The government is unable to launch a second counterattack as they do not want to risk loosing men to your militia, but Stirner City is blockaded and all the roots out of the country are cut. Reddit officially condemns your revolution as an act of "Unnecessary force", and denies access to their territory.
Leo Hall
Are you moderates? Do you advocate for peaceful or violent revolution
Oliver Richardson
Rolled 4 (1d10) I'll assume you're moderates as you are trying to negotiate with the government. The IWA just launched a huge strike, but the government has banned unions. You could potentially get a town under your control, so I'll give you a 5/10 chance
Ryder Kelly
We begin a sympathy strike.
Asher Gutierrez
The unions ask for volunteers from among the population as they begin distributing captured arms from the old government's armories to fill in the gaps in equipment and after the new government is formed it begins the process of converting civilian industrial plants that produce commodities unnecessary for the coming war effort into munitions factories to produce small arms, ammunition and support equipment for the troops. People are also encouraged to start producing their own weapons as part of the local cottage industry with a campaign of "A weapon in every home, will ensure the King's fate as that of Ceasar of Rome."
Do you want to directly control territory or not? I wrote a response if you do (Basically your strike is crushed but a few hundred people escape and make a small tent city)
Jackson Ortiz
The guns produced are of poor quality, but they still work. Your militia is greatly expanded through the redistribution of arms, although they lack training and central leadership. This is really tiring. Its around one AM for me so I'll have to go to sleep soon
Owen Jackson
I'm really tired RN and any response I make in this condition will be trash. You'll probably have to wait till based OP comes back on for replies
Noah Myers
In order to seize independence, we take an assessment of everyone. What we want to know are: Who among us has a military background? Who are the most ‘left’ politicians? Are there any well-paid tech workers sympathetic to our cause? Who among us are already gun-owners? Can we distract the garrisoned troops?
For certain, our plan to drum up support involves workplace agitation and unions. Channeling workers’ dissatisfaction into revolutionary fervor is our primary goal before we carry out the insurrection.
Jonathan Evans
I'd like to deploy my troops like this specifically I assume that Area Severu was the military base you mentioned, I am leaving myself, my command company, and most of our vehicles/supplies there. this is my command vehicle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1130_Commander's_Vehicle
If I have enough action points left after this, I'd like to contact the police forces in Stalintown and make arrangements for cooperation with them
Do all inhabitants of the Autism Islands have autism? If so, why aren't there any railway connections?
Adrian Mitchell
These sound like sensible and reasonable actions in general so I'll give you a 7/10.
You roll a 1, which gives you an UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS!!!!!! Your forces are energised by your new commander, and your 'scientific' staff aid in the design of your new improvised weapons. You send half of your militiamen back to your workshops to help with development, and more sophisticated explosive compounds are created from the nearby stores of agricultural chemicals. Surprisingly, you manage to discover a quite powerful blend by random chance (and several fiery accidents), which requires a lot of manual effort in filtering, distilling, and so on, but has about 2/3rds the strength of conventional gunpower, and can be produced without a practical limit on your small scale from the stores on the island. Your science team names the material Myrmica after the European fire ant, hoping it will give a sting to your enemies. It is the perfect material to use in your blunderbusses, and your mechanics manage to create 50 rough models in the 4-5 hours of work. They are loaded by use of a giant roughly machined cartridge stuffed with Myrmica, which ejects at a high speed, some breaking into flechettes and some carrying straight on as a solid slug, and most doing a bit of both. For obvious reasons, these weapons have appalling accuracy and will likely cease to function after one or two shots (with only two cartridges produced thus far per weapon anyway), but are able to practically tear a pig in half at a range of about 15 feet.
50 more of your men are quickly handed these weapons and shown their basic operation, though each carries a decent melee weapon as backup.
Another team works to quickly scavenge the most powerful and reliable tractors and heavy vehicles in the area, and while many farms on the Autists are barely mechanised, they come up with 10 useful models on the West Island in time to deliver them to the front. Once there, they are plated with layers of thick sheet metal around the cockpit, engine, and tires, with smaller ride-on models providing scant protection to the driver, but four larger enclosed models have the driver seat completely encased in metal and operated by a combination of basic periscope and a remote radio spotter ('turn left, slow down').
Your farmers begin to construct IEDs fueled by your new explosive compound, and successfully install some small devices around the 'main roads' (such as they are) into and out of the larger settlements. They have enough power to cripple an unarmoured vehicle and wound the inhabitants, but little more. Larger devices are put into production, with lots of holes still needing to be built and limited hands to do it.
Five rowboats with mounted 'cannons' are produced, but this really only means a larger version of the infantry blunderbuss. The weapons are covered by a tarp to attempt to take the enemy by surprise, since the boats would be obliterated by even a lightly armed patrol boat long before it was into range. However, the loud bang and impressive smoke display might be enough to scare off unprepared invaders.
Construction efforts at the central hive go quite slowly considering the limited time, but the contents of the local clinic are moved underground, and some dormitories are created. Your most devoted followers are happy to start to live underground, but it will take more time and effort to convince the general population. Your biologists spend most of their time working on preparations for the mushroom farm, researching what will be the best way to proceed. They make a small start on selecting the best varieties and setting up the right growing conditions, but it will take a long time before any decent amount of food will be produced this way.
Some of your people brainstorm more improvised weapons that can be created, and a handful of crossbows are produced, enough for twenty people, and while they have a lot less power than your new blunderbusses, they can wound enemies from a much longer range, with better accuracy.
Your digging team stays low key to retain the element of surprise, and they soon report that they have dug clean through to the small municipal sewer system, which will allow your forces underground much of the town. You are alerted of this an hour or so after nightfall, which allows you to plan your next move. However, with the defenders on high alert, it is likely that someone will notice once you move into the sewers, so you should consider your next move the opening salvo of your main attack. Once you are discovered, the defenders will likely attempt to occupy your tunnels or destroy them, which will obviously be an unacceptable setback.
Your forces: 50 men armed with light weapons (mostly single shot rifles and pump shotguns) 50 men armed with your new blunderbusses 20 men armed with improvised crossbows that may wound but are unlikely to kill 200 men armed with melee weapons ready to attack if you choose (but expect their casualties to be high - they will take up the weapons of fallen comrades/enemies, however)
Your men are emboldened through hearing of another island revolt, and the two groups prepare to share ideas if not material help at this stage.
I guess I can do that, though it will require more posts, what's the command?
Jeremiah Sanchez
Never mind, I'm being lazy, I just looked it up.
I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself there! You probably should have talked to the military before trying to put your plan into action and seizing weapons, I'm giving you a 5/10, room for the plan to go either way.
Kevin Mitchell
Well that didn't work. Maybe this? If not I won't spam, pls assist.
Eli Barnes
No railway connections because its a poor rural island with very little infrastructure, although there is some dirt roads (Also I don't think they all have autism)
Anthony Baker
With every available volunteer recruited, former members of the military and police are put in charge of training them on small unit tactics and how to use their basic equipment in and out of combat, after combat training special emphasis is put on maintenance of gear to keep everything functioning since the armament industry is still only taking its baby-steps and it will likely be quite a while before it can ramp up the production to optimal levels. Since the city lacks heavy industry to produce heavier artillery pieces one of the current plants needs add an assembly line for parts of light infantry mortars to supplement the militia's arsenal.
Public bomb shelters should also be built for the civilians in the likely case that there will be an attack either from the old government's forces or a foreign power seeking to take advantage of the chaos.
Oh yeah and we'll also filter out people with special skills and training such as former managers or logistical workers and put the most qualified of them into general staff and the rest into support units like the engineers.
Andrew Campbell
The militia decides that it must attack soon, or else face invasion and a likely defeat. In order to make the invasion as likely to succeed as possible, the nearby farmers who have formed a labor army to help the militia begin to create a few structures and weapons to help the invasion go on, such as some more makeshift ghilli suits and higher quality melee weapons. The snipers and the crossbowmen find several nearby clumps of trees, and begin to dig in hidden barricades in order to duck behind, and prepare to open fire on the enemy when the attack begins, while the blunderbuss-armed soldiers and the melee-armed ones prepare for a pincer-formation rush. The tractor tanks will attack first to absorb small arms fire, 5 on each flank, while the blunderbuss militia will rush behind, soon followed by half of the unarmed militia (the remaining half stay behind and guard against a flank). At this moment, the diggers will rush into the sewers and place bombs in various locations, then quickly leave and detonate the bombs while the soldiers above are distracted by the sudden assault. The 5 fishing boats begin to circle autism quay, and are prepared to launch at any government boat that comes into sight.
Back at the central hive, the hospital chamber is somewhat expanded to accommodate for a few beds for the sick and is improved by coating the room in concrete to prevent moisture coming into the room. The living conditions in the hive are also improved by bringing in various pieces of furniture and by creating small openings to let in natural light and air, although these can easily be sealed in case of an emergency
The HAM radio operators attempt to hijack Autism Quay's radio using more moderate rhetoric (to appeal to the less religious urbanites) in order to spread propaganda and attempt to start a strike or a riot, which will distract enough of the enemy police to improve the invasion chances.
We've prepared for attack long enough, it's time to rush them with all we've got!
Dylan Young
The People's Hive requests propaganda aid in the invasion of Autism Quay, for example attempting to hijack their radio to spread pro-rioting and pro-striking propaganda.
Xavier White
The diggers attack first so they don't cause damage to my own troops. Once the bombs are detonated, the attack begins
Joseph Taylor
We cannot provide material aid but we can send advisors from our propaganda department to help in designing and distribution of your propaganda. In return we ask that you send workers to toil in our mines and factories or on the fields depending on what kind of people you have available.
We can send a few farmers (around 20) in a foreign aid group, but that's it. Our nation only has 7,000 people.
Isaiah Hughes
Well that is certainly a big enough group to form a farming collective, well send two teams with five people in each, the first one consists of former editors and journalists and the second one of various technical specialists.
Policy proposal: We ship all autistic people to the Autist Islands to live happily among themselves, without having to fear being misunderstood by judgmental neurotypicals. They are given a fair portion of our national resources to get this colony off its feet, and receive guidance to help them through any challenges they run into.
Leo Parker
What faction are you? Also, supplying for that many autists would require special education schools, large compounds, mental hospitals and all for relatively unproductive people who would probably just laugh at dumb shit all day. This is impossible in wartime.
Bentley Ward
Okay. Then I propose to start a new faction. The Front for Neurodivergent Liberation.
Revolutionary fervor has long been spreading through the many autism support groups of Aurelia and its surrounding nations. A popular scientific theory among them says that all autists descend from an ancient race that lived on the Autist Islands. There they maintained a technologically advanced civilization ruled though mathematical logic and predictable daily rituals, which it was illegal to ever disturb. While many in their ranks doubt the historical and ethnological basis of this, they generally agree about the need of an autistic homeland as a means to prevent further stigmatization of their people, and see the Autist Islands is the only viable place for it.
The recent revolutionary activity on the archipelago has confused many autistic people and made them inconsolably angry. It doesn't please them that ant-fanatics have taken over their island. Strategically minded autists (who read disturbing amounts of military history) see the upset as an excellent chance to realize their plans.
Some things they particularly dislike about the People's Hive: - The People's Hive does not enjoy theoretical physics, which the FNL greatly enjoys. - Any inspiration from religious tradition is illogical and cannot be tolerated. - Biological looking designs confuse and disturb them. Aesthetically they much prefer pragmatic, orderly and symmetrical architecture, and perverted digital drawings of video game / children's cartoons characters. - Social amenities scare them and they much prefer to be able to do everything themselves. - The aversion to egoism. The FNL has trouble understanding other people's feelings. Egoism makes a lot of sense to them. - Matriarchy makes some of them feel weird because girls. - It doesn't conform to their expectations. What they do like: - Centrally planned economics. - Social egalitarianism. They've suffered from enough social exclusion to see the benefit of it, although a bunch of them have weird superiority complexes. - Cramped living conditions. Big spaces make them confused. - They love ant farms. - Matriarchy isn't much of a problem (for some) since they've already been living their entire lives with their mums.
Rolling to establish presence on Autist Islands.
Kayden Long
Oh gawd there's too much to respond to. Tell you what I'll get to it tomorrow morning, for now if someone wants to tell me how to do dice rolls on here that would be sweet. Obviously you're free to confer amongst yourselves (however movement of goods will still take in-game time). If anyone else wants to start a splinter movement somewhere that would be all good too.
Oh and this update was cool
So I'll consider that canon, if Ant Gang wants to do more DMing on other people that's okay too. But yeah no obligation, be back to it tomorrow.
Benjamin Reyes
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Oliver Peterson
I would like to contact the Auerlian military command for orders
Christian Bennett
please respond
Grayson Wright
The People's Hive declares the FNL to be anti-collectivist and sectarian and exiles the 200 or so (Most of the autistic population) them to a small island nearby, and provides them with tents and seeds to set up a commune. We cannot deal with a counter-revolutionary movement while a battle is raging.
Wyatt Wood
A shipment of fidget spinners and various other consumer goods designed for autists is given to the FNL to persuade them to leave.
Evan Rodriguez
It's in post options and limits
Cameron Bailey
As OP is offline, I will DM a few suggestions that aren't that important (As always, OP can overturn my actions)
Cooper Brown
Rolled 10 (1d10) I'll roll for this. I doubt there would be many non-autistic people sympathetic to your cause, but a lot (lets say nearly all of them) of the autistic population would sympathize. Since the average rate of autistic people is 1/100, there would be around 70 autists in PH territory. Since the island obviously has a history of autism, let's double that to 140, and add another 60 sympathizers who join your struggle.
Your forces: 140 High-functioning autists, 60 neurotypical sympathizers. Mostly unarmed although several of them have farming tools such as pitchforks and spades, which could be used as weapons.
I'll give you a 3/10 chance that your movement poses an actual threat to the PH. If the roll fails, you are exiled to a nearby island.
Ryan Brown
Unfortunately for you, your movement completely fails.
Several autists manage to leave their parents houses and begin to attempt to fight the PH Militia, however they decide to turn back after a short while because their moms made them their chicken tendies. A group of PH militia then proceed to detain all of the attempted insurgents, as well as their sympathizers with little damage.
The PH sees no use for you, so they collect a bunch of tents, fidget spinners, seeds and various other items and ship you off to an uninhabited island to the west of Weston-Chandler (Look on the map, it's the small island with the lake on it)
These are your resources and manpower: - thirty easy-to-set-up tents - A large supply of camping gear - Several crates of seeds - ten farming tools - 40 low-functioning autists (useless) - 100 high-functioning autists (Able to do most physical tasks, slight advantage to research due to a lot of them being nerds) - 60 non-autists, mostly parents of other autists (Able to do all tasks) - Various body pillows, fidget spinners and other consumer goods
You are in a bad situation, you'll have to build up your society from scratch.
Ian Evans
Your party conducts a door-to-door census of the population, and finds out a great deal of information. However, this action arouses the government forces, who start to look into this new movement.
This is what you have found out:
- The population of Posadasium is somewhere near 30 thousand individuals, most of them skilled workers - Approximately five thousand individuals are members of the capitalist class, although four thousand of them are mere small business owners. They are mostly hostile to your movement, although a few express sympathy. - Three thousand people are middle-class scientists. They are sympathetic to your cause although they lean more towards social democracy and are somewhat pacifist - Twenty thousand are middle-class skilled workers who have a large amount of technical knowledge. They are mostly supportive of your cause - Three thousand are adults unable to work, mostly the elderly and unemployed. The unemployed are sympathetic, while the elderly are more conservative and are either opposed or indifferent with your cause - Five thousand are poorer urban workers. They do not approve of some of your more strange views but are very supportive of socialism and support your cause - Three thousand are students and children. They are sympathetic towards your movement and the children support you because they think that aliens are cool. - One thousand are agricultural workers. They support the more socialist elements of your ideology, but oppose the more esoteric elements. Overall, they sympathize with you. - Another thousand are in the military, police or are security guards. Most of them are extremely hostile to your movement but a few are sympathetic
Overall, the general attitude towards you is one of general sympathy. Most would not want to risk their lives in a violent revolution, but would join a protest led by your party.
The prevailing ideology is left-leaning social democracy
Ryder Jackson
Most of the population does not own guns, with the total individual gun owners totaling up to around five hundred people, mostly farmers. The gun owners are neutral to sympathetic about your cause, but only around fifty declare they wish to fight for you
Dylan Taylor
There are several politicians residing on the island.
Zachary Peterson
The social party and Posadasium Worker's party are in a coalition against the Freedom party. The Posadasium National Front is unpopular, but is backed by the military and is very well armed, and controls a Blackshirt-style militia of around 1000 people. Hugo Cortez is the current mayor, and is relatively popular, and has introduced various social welfare policies that are supported by the population, but there is a likely chance that the government will coup him and replace him with booth if shit hits the fan.
Bentley Evans
We organize the setup of a few websites for sympathizers. Vetting our organization to keep out the cops and feds is now important.
The very few small business owners who sympathize with us can donate a fraction of their profits to our cause.
The more pacifistic scientists and tech workers can donate money and use their intelligence to design networks and systems for cybernetic planning.
To cater to the urban workers and the agricultural workers, we will focus more on the general socialist aspects when talking with them. Although, we will have the agricultural workers let us know if any crop circles arise.
Our few sympathizers in the military and related fields can give tactical knowledge and underground training for our movement. They can also do more of the dirty work when it comes time.
For students and children, we can go full meme and drum up support for science and space exploration.
Overall, the current goal involves gaining popular support, having sympathizers becoming more intense with their support, and developing a network of organization.
As donations accumulate, firearms and ammunition will be bought as needed. Some of our supporters may have to lay low on their positions if they are to purchase the weapons, as gun stores can lean right.
We support the Social Party and the Worker’s Party coalition. We consider the National Front to be a potential danger should be avoided for now.
Landon Phillips
Rolled 3 + 1 (1d10) I'll roll to determine the outcome of your propaganda. If it gets above 5, you gain more than expected, if it gets below, your propaganda efforts are less effective and less than 2, you actually lose support. I'll add 1 because your plans seem nice.
Jayden Ramirez
Your Propaganda efforts partially work out, although it fails in some areas.
An initiative by the government to increase fearmongering amongst small business owners decreases your income from them to near-nill, and you lose a small amount of support from them.
The scientists, interested by your plans for cybernetic socialism, move to the left and a few computer programmers design models for a planned economy
The urban workers support grows a small amount, while Rural workers, although interested in your appeal to less esoteric and technical elements of your ideology, view your request on crop circles to be ridiculous and thus you neither gain nor lose popularity among them.
Your few military sympathizers either defect to you or are caught by the government, further raising suspicion. The ones that successfully defect however, provide useful information.
Students are very sympathetic to your movement and your appeal to meme culture improves this even more. The student base moves left. Your party sets up some education initiatives to teach children about space travel and astrobiology, which is somewhat successful, and gains the approval of some parents.
You set up various donation schemes, and many supporters across and outside of the country begin to donate. You get a large income, allowing you to purchase more tools for your movement.
The Social Party changes their position on you from "Misguided Idealists" to "They have a bunch of good ideas, but they are still a bit crazy". The Worker's party does not change its opinion on you.
The National Front attacks several members of your party in isolated incidents, but currently violence is not very widespread.
I will use a scale of 1 to 10 to determine how much pressure you are facing from the National Front and the Government. Due to the social-democratic city government, you are not under threat from the local government, although the national government attempts to subdue your movement with a light degree of COINTELPRO.
Currently you are 3/10 on the pressure scale, meaning that you mostly have political freedom, but some subversive activities against you are occurring, which slows down your progress a small amount.
Levi Davis
This is your current approval ratings:
- Strongly opposed (willing to use violence against you): 15%
- Opposed: 20%
- Neutral: 15%
- Supportive: 45%
- Strongly Supportive (Willing to fight for you): 5%
While a majority of the population views you as a force for good, if somewhat strange, they will not vote for you as they prefer either the Social party or the Worker's party.
Isaac Green
If you ran for elections, you would most likely get 15% of the vote, with a possible variation of 10% depending on a dice roll.
Adrian Nguyen
I suppose I meant that I we would only resort to force if talks broke down, what we're really banking on here is that local troops will see eye to eye with the cause. We want to entice them by highlighting the governments incompetence, and promises of greater autonomy and military benefits. Of we would also try and convince them of our ideology.
Ryan Phillips
I'll make a list now for the sake of my own records;
The Forces of Colonel Elephant; August: 150 riflemen with the usual anti-tank, engineer, medic etc elements mixed in 2 APCs armed with light autocannons 3 armoured cars armed with HEAT cannons 2 jeeps armed with grenade launchers 2 jeeps armed with HMG 2 engineering/ammunition jeeps 4 ambulance trucks 1 light scout helicopter 15 trucks for troops and ammo +the relevant ammo/fuel/etc supplies
Basilicus: 150 riflemen with the usual anti-tank, engineer, medic etc elements mixed in 2 APCs armed with light autocannons 3 armoured cars armed with HEAT cannons 2 jeeps armed with grenade launchers 2 jeeps armed with HMG 2 engineering/ammunition jeeps 4 ambulance trucks 1 light scout helicopter 15 trucks for troops and ammo +the relevant ammo/fuel/etc supplies
Commodus: 150 riflemen with the usual anti-tank, engineer, medic etc elements mixed in 2 APCs armed with light autocannons 3 armoured cars armed with HEAT cannons 2 jeeps armed with grenade launchers 2 jeeps armed with HMG 2 engineering/ammunition jeeps 4 ambulance trucks 1 light scout helicopter 15 trucks for troops and ammo +the relevant ammo/fuel/etc supplies
Julius: 150 riflemen with the usual anti-tank, engineer, medic etc elements mixed in 3 command trucks 3 Strykers 1 command Stryker 6 medium tanks (pick your model if you like) 6 TOW vehicles 4 ambulance trucks 1 light scout helicopter 15 trucks for troops and ammo +the relevant ammo/fuel/etc supplies
Liason company: 150 riflemen with the usual anti-tank, engineer, medic etc elements mixed in 2 APCs armed with light autocannons 3 armoured cars armed with light autocannons 4 jeeps armed with HMG 2 engineering/ammunition jeeps 4 ambulance trucks 15 trucks for troops and ammo +the relevant ammo/fuel/etc supplies
If there's anything reasonable that you need then just say so in your post and if it's something I've forgotten that you would reasonably expect to have then you had it all along.
"Elephant, this is command, your element is being designated as [you pick], your deployment-plan is received and accepted, we're glad to have some help around here. Hopefully your services won't be needed, but I bet you can whip our boys into shape anyway - they've gotten a little too comfortable lately. Your request to occupy Severu is granted, we'll roll out the red carpet. Your primary objectives are to assist us in holding order - there's some kind of hillbilly rebellion off the coast but our priority is our cities on the mainland. We've got some word about trouble maybe kicking off in Stirner province, will advise if your services are needed. Obviously, your purpose for being here is to use your own tactical knowledge and broaden our strategy a bit, so feel free to continue to submit your own plans of action - on the small scale your deployment is also totally down to you. Command out!".
Hunter Peterson
Thank you for your service haha. It feels good to let your creativity come out a bit though right?
You successfully produce some small arms, but supplies of military resources are quickly running out. Without access to the outside world, the city will quickly fall into chaos unless creative solutions are found. At this time, the Aurelian forces have allowed water services to continue, but they have cut off access to the electrical grid, severely hampering industrial activity. It seems that their goal is simply to let your little revolution burn itself out as the city grows more and more desperate. Despite the situation, the people are still well fed and optimistic at this moment, and morale is: HIGH.
You have enough food in easy access for the population for 5 days of consumption at current levels.
Water supplies are running as usual.
The electrical network has been shut off.
Industrial supplies are at a moderate level, as is fuel.
You may attempt to scavenge for more of these resources, but it will take manpower and time.
The current population is 237,000, with; 15,000 able and willing men and women to carry out combat or other duties. The remainder of the population consists of; 36,000 retirees, 46,000 children under 16, 12,000 students, 30,000 workers whose jobs are considered essential to the running of the city (water, transport, resource distribution, etc) 60,000 workers who are still continuing their lives mostly as usual, not really sure what to do. 38,000 people, consisting of some workers, some petit bourg, academics, et cetera, who are hostile to your movement and desire a return to the established order. These people are not all open about this, and appear mostly as part of the former group.
The IWA has taken effective control of the city, with any open resistance inside the city quelled, so you are free to direct the running of affairs as you see fit. More radical proposals will face more opposition, but may be needed to secure the revolution. Most people in the city have been taken totally off guard by the events of the past day, and are waiting to see which way events will fall. They neither support or oppose you, and while the chaos of recent events has shocked them, the IWA's long positive reputation and role in the city has helped to reduce panic.
You are opposed on all sides by many companies of the Aurelian Army, too many to possibly fight at present, but they are holding positions to continue the siege, neither entering your firing range or using their own heavy weapons. The army is shocked by the situation, but are doing their duty for now. They see your movement as somewhat dangerous but mostly just misguided. A negotiator from the government has delivered a secure phone to whoever is in charge, connected to a professional team of crisis managers from the administration. Their current tactic seems to be to talk softly but severely about the consequences if this situation continues, and they urge the ringleaders to surrender so that they can move in to restore order.
Your supply of weapons is small, consisting of 500 rifles and other light arms, 500 sidearms, 30 rocket launchers, 40 pieces of various explosives, and 50 grenades of various types. The 200 weapons you produced are of decent quality due to the abundance of industrial facilities in the city, but took much effort and supplies, and now that the power is cut, it will be difficult to keep going.
What do the people decide?
Hudson Hernandez
Rolled 6 (1d10) Your plan seems sensible, and has a decent chance of success, especially since you have kept the element of surprise.
I give its chances of success a 7/10 once again, we shall see what the dice determine (thanks for telling me how they work BTW, lol.)
With the less than stellar results of the crop circle joke, we carry on with a more almost anarcho-syndicalist message, focusing on control over your job and industrial democracy.
Our military supporters start a recruitment initiative primarily directed towards industrial workers for self-defense training. Weapon purchases will be the responsibility of several individuals who can disguise themselves to be more right-leaning if they have to, and will be carried out on a gradual basis. Milling out 80% lowers and/or manufacturing homemade guns is also a possibility.
Setting up a militia of our own will be a good idea for when we do a popular support rally.
Students and children are fine as-is. We will continue those programs.
Generally, we want to continue to increase the magnitude of support for our cause, so we can counter the fascists.
For the next meeting, we carry out an education course on countering COINTELPRO. We distribute the course on our networks.
Concerning elections, we seek to edge the Social/Worker’s coalition closer to our own, with the intention to absorb them. We begin running our own into positions of power in both parties.
For general public support for Posadism, our ads will focus on our appreciation for scientific and technological innovation, our support for the environment, and our support for direct democracy. Our attack ads will have a focus on the neoliberal party’s lack of long-term thought.
Isaac Foster
The goddess of fate smiles on you, but perhaps only because she is a cruel mistress.
Your diggers go barefoot and wear only soft fabrics to try to reduce noise in the echoey sewers. They wheel with them a few barrows full of Myrmica, and pack it roughly around the enemy positions. Your troops are enthused by being underground, and they carry out the mission with gusto. A line of detonation cord is laid back through to the tunnel entrance and the lead digger prepares to do the honors as your militia gets into position.
Your forces are arrayed as planned just out of eyesight when he pulls on detonation trigger, and even expecting it, everyone is momentarily stunned by the huge sound and flash as the Quay's main street is obliterated, followed shortly after by the ancilliary detonations around the side streets. By the time the sky returns to darkness, the sky is full of thick, acrid smoke, and dozens of police and resisters are are dead, with dozens more screaming for help. Your men cry out in triumph as they charge forward, the tractors being outpaced and trailing as your eager warriors face little returning fire. The flames quickly beginning to emerge give little illumination of the dark approach roads, and the riflemen of the Quay Company only manage to kill a handful of men before your forces charge into the fray at the remainder of the barricades. Lit by the flickering flames, the scene is reminicent of Dante's hell itself, and your men blow away swathes of the walking wounded at close range. In the chaos there is little room for mercy or compassion. By this point, the civilians are utterly routed, but the remaining police forces charge from their hiding places in the surrounding cafes, tackle shops, and tourist information centres, briefly taking your men by surprise in the smoke and confusion. They inflict a heavy toll in blood, now fighting like cornered animals, but your militia are just as ferocious, and the booming retort of your blunderbusses tear right through flimsy stab vests and riot helmets, launching men back into street furniture and windows. The commander of the local police, notable only by the yellow highlights on his jacket, ducks in and out of a travel agent with his shotgun crying out, slaying five of your men before he is decapitated by a cartridge which blows right through the desk he was crouching behind.
Your men cry out in triumph, but the more seasoned remind them to focus as they storm down the street towards the enemy buildings. A few designated teams meanwhile charge up stairways to blow away the enemy riflemen at close range, losing a few men themselves but eventually overpowering the better trained soldiers and splattering the walls with gore.
Based I would rather not waste my two shot guns on some poor guy limping across the street with an army blown off, but it would make sense for bad things to happen
Jaxson Butler
Additionally, with agricultural workers, we can sell them on self-sufficiency and autarky, as well as set up networks for channeling any perfectly good food that’s set to be disposed due to blemishes or whatever, into food drives for the poor, homeless, and unemployed in order to build dual power.
Blake Phillips
That makes sense, but I was envisioning a kind of hellscape where you can't tell who is holding a gun and who isn't (especially considering it's the night). The explosives under the street was exactly what I would have said too and it put me in the mood for some chaos. Anyways.
As the fighting dies down around the smoking craters that once made up the pedestrian thoroughfare, your men fire back at a few sporadic muzzle flashes from the church, before a trooper runs in and presses his damaged blunderbuss against the heavy iron lock, blowing both the lock and his weapon apart into scything metal shrapnel, leaving him wailing as he's dragged away, with his comrades storming into the Church, which is lit only by ceremonial torches. The rifleman from above fires down from the belltower, striking several men before a crossbowman manages to strike a lucky shot, piercing his eye and causing him to stumble over the balcony, falling 5 stories onto the worn stonework.
Your militia are about to burst into the back rooms, when a local cleric among them steps forward and shouts out the local religious rites of safe harbour, promising the people inside a noble surrender, as in the battles that raged across the land centuries ago. Slowly, the heavy oak door swings open, and a bishop of your religion leads out the frightened flock, which includes some of the senior community leaders and wounded police officers as well as civilians. Your medics tend to those still in their beds as matters are discussed.
Outside, the team assigned to the police station cuts down the scattered reinforcements that were off duty or in cover when the bombs went off, before storming the building and slowly clearing the corridors, with the powerful rounds cutting right through the plasterboard and causing more damage.
Your most experienced and well equipped team, relatively speaking, rushes into the army barracks, but by this time it is almost empty, with everyone on duty. They are caught off guard by a grizzled old major who cuts down several with his old service revolver before one of the few men carrying automatic weapons sprays his office with lead.
At the town hall, you face little resistance, with the government workers inside smart enough to surrender before your men blast their way inside. However, as they clear the building, they hear an analog buzzing from the richly appointed mayor's office, slowly pushing open the door to see a powerful military radio still receiving thanks to its battery pack.
"Quay garrison, please respond! This is command, we need a sitrep, now! Our naval company will reach the bay in three hours to support you, are you there?"
Autism Quay is under your control!
34 police officers have been killed. 8 Aurelian infantry have been killed. 47 hostile militiamen or civilians (difficult to tell in the carnage) have been killed. 31 wounded men have been taken prisoner, along with 45 who surrendered.
You have secured 27 intact pistols and shotguns, and 6 infantry rifles.
29 of your militiamen have been killed, and 35 have been wounded too badly to fight, while your forces expended 432 rounds of ammunition, leaving you in short supply, thankfully somewhat aided by the remaining government supplies. In addition, 24 of your blunderbusses have been destroyed or are too unsafe to use.
The town has been heavily damaged, with much of the main high street destroyed. Your men are hard at work putting out fires and tending to the wounded, but you must prepare a defence for the incoming marines. The local population is hiding in their homes, praying for the nightmare to be over.
I move Commodus company to checkpoint Alpha to assist in the siege of Stirner City and make contact with the Aurelian forces there.
Carter Turner
One of the government workers who surrendered is given the order to use the radio to broadcast a false message to the mainland to instruct them that the People's Hive movement suffered an internal rebellion while the Militia was invading Autism Quay and that reinforcements are no longer needed, as the garrison drove out the invaders.
However, since this is unlikely to succeed measures are taken to prepare for defense. Enemy soldiers who were wounded in the battle too much to perform hard labor are sent to nearby farmsteads to perform light tasks for the families living there, while the ones who are either lightly wounded or simply surrendered before they were hurt are put to work building reinforcements, under close guard from Militiamen. Weapons are given to those skilled enough to use them, and sympathetic civilians in the area are drafted to replace the people lost in the battle
To prepare for an imminent naval invasion, the fisheries, docks and jetties around the area are turned into sniper posts to shoot people on board attacking boats, while several fishing boats are loaded with Myrmica (With a detonation fuse) and are equipped with powerful motors taken from speedboats at the Quay, and will be activated and sent at enemy boats (Unmanned, of course) in order to destroy them. Soldiers take up garrison in buildings facing the port in order to shoot at oncoming marines, and a regular patrol is established, consisting of blunderbuss armed militiamen. Production of blunderbusses is resumed, and scrap metal from the battle is salvaged to allow construction of more weapons.
Destroyed cars are re-positioned as fortification, and gasoline bombs are positioned under the sand of the beach, with detonation cords reaching many meters to detonators hiding in shrubs, ready to set the fuses then run back to safety.
These are my current assets:
Weapons: - 77 light arms (Pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles) - 6 assault rifles - 26 blunderbusses - 20 crossbows - Several hundred pitchforks, machetes, long knives and various other melee weapons
Manpower: - 290 Militia, most of them somewhat skilled due to combat experience, and have basic training for light arms.
Amount of assets to be produced:
Weapons: - enough blunderbusses to replace the deficit of 24 (Ones that are usable but unsafe are repurposed into bombs to be used in defense. Ones that are completely broken are scrapped to be used to make new blunderbusses) - Makeshift ranged weapons, such as launchers made to use fireworks initially planned for new years and various forms of miniature catapults and crossbows.
Manpower: - Civilians who are physically strong and willing to fight will be drafted into the front (Goal is to recruit 100 new militia members), while those who are still sympathetic but not as strong will be formed into a labor army to build fortifications. This labor army, as well as the rest of the civilians (As well as their domestic animals), will be evacuated behind nearby hills to minimize civilian casualties.
In other villages, farmers dig their own hives and begin to plan the long project of an underground highway connecting the islands, however their main focus is to draft local militia to act as guards while the main militia is defending autism Quay. 2% of village inhabitants are drafted into local militias, and are currently armed with farming tools, although they begin to work on blunderbuss workshops.
Researchers are tasked with improving the militias weapons and potentially creating a template for pistols, Gatling guns and long-range rifles. The scientists and intellectuals of the island expand their small lab with a large outdoor ranch for weapons testing.
Civilians in Autism Quay are given various easy-to-make bread and circuses in order to keep them content, and the Militia distribute propaganda in the town with the aid of the IWA propagandists
Several mid ranking officer in Ulyanovsk, dissatisfied with the Neoliberal reforms and alarmed by the revolts, decide to overthrow the monarchy. They start talking with other officers, stocking up weapons and distributing propaganda amongst soldiers. While a diverse coalition only united against neoliberalism, most of the officers are between Socdem and demsoc.
The transitionary vanguard consisting of the city's union bosses and other representatives have refused negotiations of surrender on the basis that the current government in power in Aurelia has failed in its duty in serving the interests of the city's people and that the unions of Stirner City will prove they can do a better job at it.
The city's current administration have begun drafting a list of solutions to deal with the current crisis through various efforts.
Current issues on the table as being discussed by the council:
Firstly it is decided that energy issue is to be solved with utmost haste since it is most pressing. The solution decided upon ends up being self-sufficiency rather than through the conquest of energy infrastructre due to the lack of of offensive capabilities. The task of designing and building of new solar panels and wind turbines based on the prototypes on display at the academy of applied sciences as a source of renewable energy is given to whatever engineers and engineering students are available and willing to help work on the project.
Building of new wells as a source of fresh water is to be started with the help of whatever methods are available in case the old government decides to stop the supply of water at some point once they realize the city is not surrendering. While the water from the network is still running it is to be stockpiled in large quantities until the wells are built. The government alongside redistributing food found in supermarkets and warehouses to those who need it also begins the process of setting up new rooftop greenhouses and other forms of urban agriculture to aid in the campaign of food self-sufficiency and pre-emptively combat the future possibility of starvation. Rationing is discussed but it is decided that a gradual introduction is the best course of action for now. At first all essentials according to basic nutritional stardards are to be provided for everyone but anything beyond that is to be rationed according to need.
Big-to-medium-sized private businesses are ordered to be seized by members of the militia and they are to be converted to worker co-operatives under the guidance of the city's economic planning committee. The old owners are given the option to either continue working in the business as an equal among their former employees or to be given a fixed monetary compensation from the city's treasury to work with until they find new employment. Income tax is to be adjusted so the burden falls more on those with a larger concentration of wealth or financial assets while the low income citizens are to be given a tax break. Local committees are set up all across the city by union representatives as a form of outreach to the citizens to voice concerns about any issues plaguing their communities that they wish to be solved.
The government will also try its best to keep providing the public services such as healthcare and public transportation as long as it is able to do so. Police duties are taken over by the members of union militias alongside volunteer members of local communities in the form a neighborhood watch.
Since the electricity is still out which means no TV or computers to keep people distracted, some members of the union militias decide to arrange public performances at various locations around the city as a form of entertainment, and as a way to boost morale. Performances take the forms of comedy shows and theatrical plays among others. The whole event is free for everyone to attend and is planned to become recurring depending on how succesful it is.
Rolled 2 (1d10) Left-leaning officers in the capital begin to plot a revolution, and attempt to gain support with their allies. Since this is the capital city, this revolution will take a while and require a lot of complex strategies and planning, and it will be unlikely that you will gain control in one go. I'll do a starting roll to determine how successful your initial attempts to gain support among the military.
Your plan seems reasonable but somewhat far-fetched so I'll give you a 5/10 for your attempts at gaining followers.
Jack Brooks
Rolled 10 (1d10) You rolled a 2, which means that your attempts at gaining support not only succeed, but go beyond your predictions. The population of Ulyanovsk is five hundred thousand, with a military garrison of ten thousand soldiers and five thousand police officers, as well as three hundred officers.
You have 10 mid-ranking officers in your conspiracy, who collectively control one thousand soldiers. You can assign actions to these soldiers, although if you do anything suspicious, the government will take actions against you.
The population is social-democrat leaning, with a large democratic socialist movement. The prevailing attitude in the military is war hawk liberalism, although many officers are somewhat left-leaning.
The officers under your control begin to covertly seize weapons and hide them in a few hidden storehouses around the country, and form a small group of soldiers who are in on your conspiracy. You conduct a survey of your current assets
Currently, you have: 50 Combat rifles 200 Light arms (Mainly pistols) 10 RPG's 10 Military jeeps 2 tanks
The government suspects nothing, and blames the missing weapons on the local mafia, which has grown in recent times due to the economic instability.
