Knights+Hosptiallers+EoT+4


 * The Knights Hospitaller EOT Turn One**

Mil +++++ Operation Wrath (+++++). In the chance that things do not detonate in Algeria, they proletize there in order to convert as many as possible.

Econ ++ Utilsing the war as an excuse, push a massive increase in work into building up a fleet. Do this even at the expense of maintaining that economy, turning that perm econ into mil.

Morale +++++ +++++ Also Operation Wrath (+++++ +++++)

Esp 0/+++ As Operation Wrath captures cities, our counter Espionage groups locate subversive elements, especially Sparks, and target them for reducation by trained proletizers. We outmatch their espionage services significantly, and so should be able to unify the majority of Algeria under our glorious nation rapidly. (+++)

Sparks +++++ The Tower of Angels (+++++) Spoiler It has long been clear to the spark population of the Hospitallers that there is a large quantity of spark energy loose in the atmosphere. For a long time, the question has been how to harness it. Thanks to the genius of our scientists, however, we now have an idea. The Tower of Angels will be an immense tower, cored with metallic compounds that will act as a lightening rod for the energies that it is planned to acquire. It will draw these energies from the giant metastable protoplasm reductors that draw their energy from the excess z-point energy in the atmosphere, creating vast quantities of energy, allowing the spark to be ignited with extreme efficency. This energy has multiple uses: It will hopefully be helpful in experiments, allowing lightening-on-demand, and it will increase both the number and power of our sparks. The tower itself is projected to stand about five hundred meters high, and crackle with golden energy constantly. What could possibly go wrong?

WO 0

On the one hand, I'm pretty sure from an IC perspective that Algeria will fall instantly. After all, they're letting us put +++++ mil literally into their nation. Inside their walls, already distributed where they need to be, so the whole place would literally fall in a few days. On the other hand, from and OOC perspective, I’m more doubtful about wiping out a PC nation that fast. Maybe given that they will likely return with additional firepower to recover it, it will work out, but I dunno. From an IC perspective, they will have no time to evacuate anything, and the whole place will fall instantaneously. Up to you, anyway. Spoiler Operation Wrath 1. Send vast numbers of proletizers into Algeria. The priests are of course Knights of the Order, and are armed - they come in on their own ships, and in the age before border controls, should be fine. This has been allowed by the Algerians. Now, we aren't sending in that many people, but they are all highly trained knights making up our military force, so they shouldn't recognise it as anything but a mission. We have better Defensive Espionage than them, and we only need to get to the coasts anyway.

2. Utilise the full +++++ +++++ Morale that we possess to initiate a massive conversion campaign, targeting the army and sparks. This is +++++ +++++ Morale vs ++ Morale, on whatever system is used for Morale Warfare - I presume religious conversion is the poster child for Morale Combat, in the way that PR war would be for WO warfare and economic repossesions is fr Econ warfare. I presume this goes quite well.

3. Stage two is completely in violation of our agreement. (I don't know what you want to do - Maybe PM him before EOT mentioning that our Mission is massively attempting to convert, to determine his response?)

4. If they do not react to our violation of the agreement, then we continue converting them and emigrating to Malta, pushing them as far as possible. Individuals break their churches, etc, until they react. They probably won't wai for us to do that, however, and while likely hit back as we enact stage 2. We predict that they will act to stop us. Either they will throw us out, or they will supress our attempts to convert. These - attacks on priests by armed heathen soldiers preventing us from bringing the word of the Lord to infidels - are more than a big enough excuse to hit back. As such, the +++++ mil of knights (remember, morale +++++ +++++ means that they will not break ranks and tell them, which would indicate that there is no way for Algeria to know if they are mil beforehand. It's possible they will guess that they are armed and take a different path - please PM me if they do something different. Is that alright?) will react agressively, attacking the now badly weakened army. We push to occupy the cities, which happen to be where the Sparks are. We then launch a Hearts and Minds campaign with the Morale. Important note: They will have the problem of that our Missions have already infiltrated their cities, making their walls completely irrelevant. We also have the element of suprise, as we have fully mobilised +++++ mil inside their cities. They send the police force equivilent to shut down our mission, and thirty incredibly well trained knights cut them down and occupy the major buildings inside of a few hours. It would take them months to mobilse (in WWI, Germany took four weeks, and that was much smaller, much more militraised, and had railroads everywhere) an army, that at the end, is still outclassed in every way, even ignoring the morale losses that are certain. Odds on, almost all of their soldiers will never be assembled. In the first few weeks, we will likely be fighting at most - troops (presuming no losses from our 10 morale, and a full quarter of their mil is in the town guards). Therefore, we will have at least a 10:1 advantage in that time. That should be more than enough to crush them almost instantaneously.

4a. Focus attacks on the coastal cities, which should allow us to sieze their economic and spark base in short order. We can mobilise much faster than them, and have a lead of a month at least in that area. That few weeks is more than enough to occupy the entire coast, and even when they rally, they will be completely outmatched by our forces. Their only hope would be accepting our occupation of their main cities and centers, retreating into the desert, and slowly wearing us down. However, our suprise will allow us to act to cut the capital off entirely, with the fleet blockading it from the sea - inside the capital, our forces will outnumber theirs, and we will first establish a cordon then approach inwards to eliminate their leadership in order to leave them scattered. As a fun side effect, this means they will likely fragment into a five or six regional hedgemons in a few months, removing any chance they had to call for help. OOC: I'm not sure how powerful plot armor is to protect their leaders, and it might allow them to just happen to be out hunting when their crackdown bursts into full war, and then somehow get the message and retreat into the desert. (Even if they were out hunting, odds on they would either ride back into the city into the trap or, even if someone someone told them, ride back in to quell the riots. But, plot armor). If so, I ask you to consider that we have a plan that should logically kill their leadership in taking into account their losses in the ensuring battle.

4b. As it turns out, the Algerian army appears to be away with the GAotA. On the one hand, this is a shame, because it means that they will not be instantly wiped out. On the other hand, it will likely allow us to occupy all of Algeria before they return - after all, we are already in place when the war starts. I don't know if they're all there or not, but either way we will be facing a smaller force if at all. This means they are forced to rely on returning with massive assistance from the GAotA to recover their territory. The capture of Algeria is almost certain, and the question is really if we can hold it.

4c. The Theosophs have agreed to let us borrow their sub-orbital laser. This has uses. It's use is only known by a few members of the grand council, and will be highly effective. According to them, it's worth +- mil, so that's +++++ +- vs 0. We use it to, when our knights are moving through the streets, incinerate ships (air or sea, either or) trying to retreat, as well as the palace of their rulers. Now, tell me what it will look like, if as the knights and their followers advance through the streets, if the palace of the current rulers is incinerated by a pillar of golden light from the heavens? It will appear to everyone, including our order, as literal divine intervention on their side. That's got to be worth both a morale boost and a boost to the effectiveness of our mass conversion of their population. God is not only real, but he incinerates the temples of the False Gods in front of the eyes of the entire damn city. I mean, it's an orbital laser. That kinda makes sense to us, but not to nineteenth century populations. It's divine fire from on high.

5. Total results - We expect that they will take some losses from the Morale Attack, and then take further attacks from the Mil attack. They are outmatched 5:1 in the first attack, and immense amounts in the second one. The army will likely both defect in large numbers due to our conversion campaign and because of standard morale collapse - ++ morale is fairly low, and the inevitable defeat in the battles should led to mass surrenders. Therefore, we will end up fighting against a group much smaller than ++, and will likely have odds of 5:1 or something. This is the worst case senario, and presumes that they have no troops away, and they have indicated that all of their troops are away. If so, then the country will fall and the question becomes if they can recover it. So, do we want to run whatever sections of Algeria that are taken - all from an IC prespective, all minus whatever if you want to avoid forcing them to take back their whole homeland

6. We do not expect other nations to intervene, because the attack on Christians that sparked it should have significant emotional pull. Remember, we may be fractured, but even protestants will be overall on our sides. I don't really expect assistance, but the Crusade to liberate our brothers in faith has significant emotional pull, and should be enough to prevent anyone intervening to help a nation no one really likes anyway. This is an era where 99% of Europa is Christian, after all. And we kinda have literal divine intervention giving us a mandate. As for the GAotA, and the Algerian army in exile? I'm sure they'll return with force. That's my problem, however.

**Response**
Investment into Mil (+) Investment into Econ Investment into Morale Investment into Sparks Investment into Espionage D Investment into Espionage O Investment into World Opinion
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Operation Wrath
 * Assets**
 * 1) +++++ mil
 * 2) +++++ ++++- morale
 * 3) +- esp d (halved for being used offensively)

Burn + econ into mil Tower of Angels (+++ spark) Imperium Containment (++ spark)