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[NATION:] Ludobravia
By: Knight Errant Date: January 9, 2013, 3:36 am
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Naming:
-Title: Confederated Ludian Kingdoms of Bravia
-General: Ludobravian Confederacy
-Common: Ludobravia
Population: ~8,000,000
Government type: Constitutional Monarchy
Current Monarch: Dreis Metterin, King Ludovig II
Capital city: Tiel, Tiel-Tiersel Adminjunct
Administrative divisions (Adminjunct): Altobravia, Bassobravia,
Caria, Tiel-Tiersel, Schweigelstein
Major cities:
Official Language: Bravic
Currency: Ludo
Religions: Marianism (93.7%)
Date of Independence: 14th June, 1562 (previously Kingdom of
Bravia from 1287)
National holiday: The Glorious 14th (14th June, date of
Ludobravia’s independence from <country above>’s rule)
National Anthem: Ludobravia!
Nation Code: LUD
Internet Code: .ld
Geography
Location: Western Europa, Northern Hemisphere/Western Hemisphere
Area: ~42,000 km2
Bordering nations: Schwabenland-Westfalen
Terrain: Alpine countryside, glacial valleys
Climate: Temperate
Highest Point: 4478m (The Tiermont)
Natural resources: Iron, silver
Natural hazards: Deep snowfall, avalanches, rockfalls, landslips
Environmental issues: Sustainability
Current environmental agreements: None
General Interest
Major Media Outlets:
National Anthem: Ludobravia!
1973 Radio Choral Recitation
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From the plains of the South
To the peaks of the North
We march along our way,
The pride of our lands
Gives strength to our hands
And carries us the day,
Ludobravia! Ludobravia,
God’s blessings grant to thee,
O Sacred Name! Eternal Flame,
Shine thy light on me!
Ludobravia!
In the fires of our hearts
Were our victories won
As Boskowe Wood did show,
The steel of our blades
It shone through the glades
And blood stained red the snow,
Ludobravia! Ludobravia,
May your heart stay true,
A thousand times in harshest climes
I’d give my life for you!
Ludobravia!
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Ludobravian History
By: Knight Errant Date: January 9, 2013, 9:21 pm
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The political history of Ludobravia stretches back to the year
1287, when the dukedoms of Altobravia and Bassobravia united to
form the Kingdom of Bravia, dominating what is now the
northernmost third of Ludobravia. For much of its history, the
Kingdom of Bravia was at war with the three smaller kingdoms to
the south: Caria, Tiel-Tiersel and Schweigelstein; as well as
fending off sporadic raids and attacks from the neighbouring
kingdoms of Schwabenland and Dlacerland to the north.
In 1382, Schwabenland launched a concerted attack on the
Bravian nations and subjugated all of them in quick succession.
Schwabenland’s hold on Bravia persisted throughout the 15th
Century, with numerous rebellions being consistently crushed by
the Schwaben occupiers.
By the latter half of the 16th Century, however, the Schwaben
grip on the Bravian valleys was weakening, and a new wave of
nationalism swept through the region. Tiel-Tiersel rebelled in
1557, and Caria and Schweigelstein offered their allegiance in
return for rights as semi-autonomous protectorates in the
Tripartite Alliance. The governors of Altobravia and
Bassobravia, however, ensured that their territories maintained
their subservience to Schwabenlandand in 1558 a combined
Schwaben-Bravian army under General Holz marched south to invade
Tiel-Tiersel. The Tripartite army was led by General Augustin
Fleme, a merchant-turned-soldier who had been hastily awarded
command of the Tripartite army. The two armies clashed at the
Battle of Hildeglade, where a decisive Schwaben cavalry charge
smashed the Carian right wing and forced a rout of the
Tripartite army. Subsequent engagements proved the superiority
of Schwaben drill training, and the Tripartite army was forced
into a campaign of guerrilla warfare in order to stop the armies
now rampaging through the Tripartite kingdoms. Notable in this
campaign was the death of General Fleme at Boskowe Wood in late
1559 when his troop of Tielian marauders was encircled in the
snow-covered pine forests of northeastern Tiel-Tiersel. The
General and his men resolved to stand their ground and fight to
the last man, and in the bitter hand-to-hand combat that
followed, Fleme was cut down along with his personal standard
bearer. The Tielians themselves were only saved from utter
annihilation by the timely arrival of the Schweigelstein
Dragoons, an elite mobile skirmishing force, whose devastating
charge collapsed the Schwaben flank and transformed a certain
victory into an ignominious defeat. To this day, the 12th
Schweigelstein Regiment bears the name “Sword Sabres” after the
famous action, and an allusion to it appears in the second verse
of the national anthem Ludobravia!.
Heavy fighting continued all across the lower valleys of the
Bravian regions, with both sides gaining victories and suffering
losses. In mid-1560, however, the flagging independence movement
was revived by the emergence of Baron Ludo Mols, a distant
descendant of the old Tielian royal family, who reluctantly
agreed to leave his mountainous stronghold and act as a
figurehead for the revolutionaries. Accounts from the time show
that the baron was initially sceptical of any chance of victory,
as the Schwabens were marching in an army of ten thousand men
from the north, but this changed when he was given command of
the newly-reformed Tripartite army, which had been equipped with
the latest weaponry from <another Europan country> and secretly
drilled away from the front lines. Seeing the chance for victory
in a fresh new army, the Baron mobilised his own household to
support the war effort and drew up a new banner for the
independence army; a tricolour of green for the valleys, white
for the snows and grey for the mountains and skies of the
Bravia-Tripartite region. To this standard rallied a fresh wave
of recruits as well as over a thousand mercenaries from
neighbouring states.
The Tripartite Army met the Schwaben Army in the Valley of
the River Opol late on the 12th of December, 1560. The river was
frozen over and each army was drawn up on one of its gently
rising banks. The Schwaben army consisted of roughly 12,000
troops; four thousand Schwabens comprising the centre and right
wing of their army apiece, and four thousand footsoldiers from
the occupied Bravian territories. In opposition to them, the
Tripartites could only muster eight thousand men total. Baron
Ludo placed three thousand Tielians on his left flank, a further
three thousand Carians and Schweigels in his centre, and 1200
mercenaries on his right flank to face the Bravians. On the
extremes of his army he placed 400 cavalry apiece, ensuring that
the elite Schweigelstein Dragoons were positioned to watch over
the mercenary right.
The battle began the next day, just before dawn as the cold
light of morning began to steal into the valley. Baron Ludo
forfeited the high ground of his slope to march down into the
valley in the hopes of drawing the opposing army into immediate
combat. The Schwabens obliged and marched off their own slopes
to face them. When they were within arquebus-shot of the
Tripartite army, the Schwabens raised their war-yells and
charged across the frozen river. During the night, however,
Baron Ludo had ordered sappers to sneak down to the river
directly in front of his centre and damage the ice. They had
also poured gunpowder into small trenches hidden by snow, and
these were now set off by means of a powder-trail fuse.
The initial explosion killed few soldiers, but it ruptured
the ice and sent much of the fisrt and second ranks plunging
headlong into the icy water. As they did so, the Carian and
Schweigel infantry to the centre opened fire with a line of
handgunners and arquebusiers, sweeping the third Schwaben rank
with a volley of lead. In the chaos and confusion the rear ranks
jostled the front ranks into the water, and the rear ranks began
to dissolve as the troops sought higher, steadier ground.
Meanwhile, on the Tripartite right flank, a troop of
Schweigel cavalry had raced ahead of the main formation and drew
up close to the oncoming Bravian regiment. As the Bravians drew
within musket-shot the detonation of the river-ice sounded clear
across the battlefield, and the Schweigels raised their lances,
atop of each fluttered the independence tricolour. The lead
cavalryman rode up and shouted “come, my brothers! We are all of
Bravia, let us fight in her name!” He was able to ride within
earshot of the Bravian commanders without being fired upon, and
General Kessel von Mieglen was reputed to have said to General
Edwin Tumpf, “well, shall we have a battle then?” It was to
Baron Ludo’s utter delight that as the Schwaben centre began to
dissolve it was suddenly impacted in the flank and the rear by
the Bravian formation, which now flew the banners given to it by
the Schweigels.
On the left flank, however, the battle was not going so
smoothly. The Tielians did not have gunpowder traps of their
own, and were now being met by elite Dlacer halberdiers in a
brutal close-combat action. The fight took place atop the frozen
river itself, and many a soldier suddenly lost his footing and
met his death helpless on the ice. The Tielian commander,
General Hals, was hacked down as he defended his wounded horse
with a half-pike, and the shock of the halberdiers’ onslaught
steadily forced the Tielians back across the river. A massed
charge by the Schweigel cavalry was met with an equally
ferocious counter-charge by a squadron of mounted Dlacer
horsemen and in places the heavily-equipped cavalrymen plunged
through the ice as it gave way beneath the weight of the
combatants. When the leftermost Tielian infantry began to give
way it seemed as though the entire flank would collapse in
disorder and rout.
Seeing this, Baron Ludo’s advisors suggested that he should
train the four Tripartite cannon on the river and smash the ice,
drowning both sides to preserve his flank’s integrity. Shocked,
Ludo dismissed them all from his service and instead personally
led his household troops across the battlefield and into the
left-flank affray. His arrival at the left coincided with the
shock Bravian assault on the Schwaben centre, and within half an
hour the entire Schwaben army (save for the stalwart Dlacer
halberdiers) was in total rout to the north.
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Ludobravian Army
By: Knight Errant Date: January 9, 2013, 9:21 pm
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TBC
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Ludobravian Air Force
By: Knight Errant Date: January 9, 2013, 9:23 pm
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Composition of Ludobravian Air Assets:
1st Homeland Defence Wing
-1st Homeland Operations Squadron
-2nd Homeland Operations Squadron
17th Air Bombardment Wing
-5th Air Bombardment Squadron
-6th Air Bombardment Squadron
6th Interceptor Wing
-9th HALT Operations Squadron
10th Combat Command Wing
-3rd Air Command Squadron
21st Air Training Wing
-111st Air Training Squadron
LN-89A "Sabre" VTOL Fighter
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LN-89TT "Twin Trainer" VTOL Flight Familiarity Airframe
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Squadron Colour Schemes 2013
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Re: [NATION:] Ludobravia
By: Knight Errant Date: January 10, 2013, 5:33 pm
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Ludobravian infantry WiP:
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Re: [NATION:] Ludobravia
By: Carausius Date: January 12, 2013, 12:41 pm
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Great models K.E
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Re: [NATION:] Ludobravia
By: Knight Errant Date: January 13, 2013, 7:16 pm
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Thanks :)
Updated History and Air Force sections. Be sure to check out the
links in the Air Force section; I put a lot of time into them
and am rather proud of my work.
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Re: [NATION:] Ludobravia
By: Knight Errant Date: January 14, 2013, 7:25 pm
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LN-89TT trainer added to Air Force section.
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Re: [NATION:] Ludobravia
By: Knight Errant Date: January 24, 2013, 7:28 pm
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*NEWSFLASH*
Following the initial purchase of a batch of TANAM SAHARA-2000s
by the Ludobravian Government, the Ludobravian Armed Forces have
revealed three derivative vehicles intended to comprise the bulk
of Ludobravian fighting vehicles on the ground.
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The S-2000 "Saturn" CSV is intended to provide long-range
precision artillery and anti-tank fire support for Ludobravian
forces on the ground.
The S-2000 A3 "Jupiter" UCV is outfitted for an urban combat
scenario; the mounted machinegun is up-armoured, and the 105mm
main gun has a shorter barrel for use in confined spaces.
The LAF-13 "Orion" MBT is derived from the S-200's turret
design, and represents a new and efficient main battle tank for
the Ludobravian armed forces.
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