Talk:North Levantine Front (Great War)

The North Levantine Front, also referred to as the Fifth Fhainn-Fiann Kin Wars and contemporarily as the Great War of Gaelic Liberation, was a theater of the Great War centered on Northern Levantia from mid-1935 to 1942. Following the escalation of the Holy Levantine Empire's civil war in Deria, Faneria declared war on Fiannria and invaded the latter's coastal regions along the Vandarch, followed by a brief rapid advance into central Fiannria. Faneria intended to force Fiannria to assent to both governments' annexation into a united Gaelic state under the Fhainnin republican model, but failed to reach the metropolitan core around Brídhavn. Fiannria's government refused to negotiate, with both countries fighting to a stalemate in the lower regions in central-western Fiannria and mountain campaigns in the north and southern borderlands. Fighting was slowed in the north and center during winter due to frosts and in late spring due to runoff creating marshy conditions. Faneria additionally seized territories from Prevalia and Caergwynn during the war. After the eventual loss of most of its gained territories in northern Fiannria, the destruction of the vast majority of its Nordskan and Kilikas fleets, a loss of faith in the war in Faneria, a new front being opened by the invasion of Lyukquar by Caergwynn, and repeated landings and repulsions along Faneria's coastlines by other Fiannrian-aligned nations, Faneria conditionally surrendered in the Second Treaty of Gaoth on March 1st, 1942.

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Ideas:

Battle of (Kuhl City)

Battle of (Kuhl City)

First Gaoth Offensive

Second Gaoth Offensive

Mhuirthead Campaign

Isles Campaign

Battle of Malin

Vandarch Offensive

Torr Campaign

Battle of Bah Torr

Mountaint Campaign

Prevalian Prevention War

Battles of Bah Lannan

Vandarch Canal Seizure

Haibne Campaign/Haibne Landings

Nordska Campaign

First-Fifth Storm Seasons (major Fhainnin pushes, 1,2,4th successful, 3rd suffered badly, 5th stalemated)

Battle of the East Gate (1st-3rd) (large strike on R/I naval garrison, if extant by then, and the mouth of the Grand Caroline to open resupply route to Deria?)

Battle of Geartheal (naval)

Lost Corps Campaign (lone Fiannrian corps trapped and besieged for over two years)

Ninerivers Campaign (initial invasion of Fiannrian Vandarch Coast)

Operation Pridewind (northern oil fields seizure by Fhainnin troops)

Operation Grenfeld (late-war large push in center, ground to halt)

Operation Giorgios (invasion of Prevalia?)

Operation Titan Star (seizure of straights from Caergwyn?)

Battle of Laewyrst (combined airship/naval battle, 1930ish - only major engagement of airship-to-airship fighting?)

Fiannrian resistance movements in occupied territories

Fiannrian quisling government - Republic of the Eastern Gaellige

=Background=

Holy Levantine Fratricides
=Early War= - push into central western Fiannria and southern cutoff area

- quickly roll southern region back into fold, establish provincial gov't

- advance into central valley stagnates with spring '30 rains

- slow advance until 1931, then stalemate with mostly mountain wars as neither side wants to escalate trench warfare (Fhainn for ideology, Fiannrians for needing time and not wanting to escalate civilian casualties/reprisals without HLE support)

- air strikes and artillery trump infantry and machine guns, excepting specialized mountaineer units, quickly escalated to an airship/aeroplane race

- Vandarch dominated even by weakened Fhainn fleet, Fiannrians dominate outer sea and push slightly into Fhainnaeran on northern border coast by 1932

- war basically inactive/minimal heavy combat 1932-1935 sans buildup and air/sea battles

1935
=Middle War= - HLE support comes in, major Fiannrian offensive pushes Fhainn back to secondary position in center, Fhainn push back in north and reignite heavy air/sea combat in the ocean and along the island-smattered coast

- more conventional trench war (still mostly playing chicken) in summers and autumn, both sides effectively don't campaign too hard in winter or early spring

- air war tilting away from airships, tanks becoming more common and 'duelling' with each other, old cavalry units, and smaller motorcycle units/dragoons in lieu of infantry charges

- any non-Fiannrian units (not seen by Fhainn as 'brothers under a different flag) that come in get a proper war instead of the almost gentlemanly fighting taking place between the land forces and repeatedly get hammered, which does start up the most bloody Fhainn-Fiannrian violence as the Fiannrians back up their foreign volunteers/allied units

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1942
Major Participants: Fhainnaeran and maybe an ally vs Fiannria, Urcea, Deric States Time Frame: May 18th, 1928 to August 1st, 1951 Results: Ceasefire ####, Peace Treaty #####, Fhainnaeran pays ###### in reparations and all prisoners are released (almost all?)

Sub-fronts: (Vandarch Coast, early land invasion and mountain skirmish with naval elements throughout war), (North coast, largely naval and mtn skirmish), (central corridor, tanks and massed infantry/artillery)

Notable things: Airships

airplanes

tanks

railroads

pan-galeicism

Fhainnin royalist remnants joining with Fiannrian army

gov't-endorsed Christmas/Holiday ceasefires (?)

War Order 1928-14: Fhainnin military order instructing high standards for following honorable rules of war and instating heavy punishments for '... butchering, brutalizing, robbing, abusing, or unduly aggressing against the citizenry of Fiannria; or for executing or maiming surrendering Fiannrian soldiery who have not spent the greater portion of their ammunition; or for inciting or compelling other soldiers to commit gross violations of existing military law.'

The Fhainnin navy of the republican era focused on the production of battlecruisers, favoring a strategy of holding the Vandarch Sea and using fast warships to contest foreign dominance over the wider world oceans.

Fhainnin design teams tend to focus on speed over and accurate long range alpha strike ability over staying power, focus on kiting and ambush tactics

Fhainnin navy entering the GW: 2 battleships, 1 prototype carrier 16 battlecruisers, 43 cruisers, 68 frigates/destroyers, 2 submarines

Fainnin air force entering the GW: 1 soft airship, 5 rigid airships (one of which was biplane carrier prototype), 400 various planes

fhainnin navy leaving the GW: 1 battleship, 12 battlecruisers, 1 carrier, 4 light carriers, 28 cruisers, 49 frigates

Fhainnin air force leaving the GW: 16 rigid airships (two of which were fitted as light plane carriers, and four others with light armor and artillery mounts), 1,200 various planes

Great War Entry Fleet (1929): 2 Battleships 7 Battlecruisers 1 Carrier (light) 30 Heavy Cruisers 0 Light Cruisers 62 Destroyers 12 Submarines 18 Airships

Great War Final Fleet: 2 Battleships 6 Battlecruisers 1 fleet carrier 3 light carriers 31 Heavy Cruisers 3 Light Cruisers 59 Destroyers 27 Submarines 14

Carrier airships scrapped postwar as tech makes biplanes useless by then, 3 other battlecruisers given to Fiannria to help repay war debt