Setting Part 2 

The Islamic Nation

A union of common religion has drawn much of the Middle East and North Africa into a multi-country entity whose expanding capital at New Babylon is the envy of the new age. The Islamic Nation is still experiencing the growing pains of unequal development but the immense natural wealth and populations of the countries it encompasses and its relative freedom from conflict make it the first global power.

Russia

Bouyed on hopes of stunning military success of its rapidly mobilised armies, Russia expected to march into the early years of the century as a vibrant and powerful player in world politics. Instead, hard on the heels of military reversals and massive population displacement, the monarchy was destroyed and Russia dissolved into warring states. There are a dozen powerblocks in Russia at any given time and dozens of warbands and petty kingdoms. Only one territory has retained any form of permanence, the Warlord Stainslav’s Sevatopol island fortress.

America

The Re-United states left the civil war behind and set records in modernising and railroad development that even the Islamic Nations were hard pressed to match. By the turn of the century the landscape was reshaped and military might was on the rise. Pursuing an involvement with the world policy as a defender of freedoms, America looked to spread her influence across the globe. Where the existing powers were waining America would be the shining light of the new era. Triditional roles were challenged and new scions of business and industry rose to prominence.

The call to war, to save the allies and rescue a subjugated Europe from the grasping Prussian Empire, would be the tolling of the bell on the old world and the emergence of America as the new.

The Radium device changed everything.

In the green firestorm hundreds of thousands of men were turned to white ash. Dozens of Airships and millions of tones of supplies joined them in the darkest day of the Great War to date.

America has withdrawn her manpower but pledged her industrial might. Ships guns and ammunition sails across the ocean to Europe, but perhaps never again the American soldier. 

 Setting Part 1

Europe is battered from a war that should have ended years ago but that flares and smoulders sullenly.

Britain

Girded for total war and with a people hardened to deprivation and sacrifice Britain is the closest it has ever come to losing its identity. All industry is nationalised, all freedoms curtailed and the government in the hands of a brutal industrial committie manned by the Iron Lords. Success in the Dunkirk landings bought prestige and influence and strengthened the Iron Lords grip.  

As long as Germany refuses to surrender, Britain will stand defiant.

France

With swathes of land turned into battlefields and massive casualties in the first weeks of the war, France is barely treading water. From Verdun via Reims, Amiens to Lille and on to Dunkirk the front lines bleed armies daily. The French soldier has proven dogged and brave to a fault but lessons are filtering through and the French army has become second only in experience to the Germans. With the help of Britains armies and the industrial might of America, France intends to win her country back.

Germany

An industrial giant before the war and eager to test it’s military might, Germany didn’t wait for the deadlines to pass. On July the 25th the military machine rolled into Serbia and Russia. The Balkins collapsed in days and a series of hammer blows to the barely assembling Russian army shattered it into routing hordes.

A massive rail and air lift saw the German army shift fronts in time to stem the beginnings of the French response.

Britains landing on the Dunkirk beaches shocked the Germans back tens of miles but new trench lines and fortifications contained the retreat.

Germany has the industrial might and manpower for a protracted war. It has the military leadership to back it up but, it is the people who may ultimately determine how long the conflict continues.