Grand Alliance
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Grand Alliance | |
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| 1927–1935 | |
 Countries directly involved in the Grand Alliance.
Countries involved in the Grand Alliance through other nations.
Striped nations joined the Grand Alliance after Entente affiliation.
Principal Allied Powers:
Other Allied Nations:
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| Status | Military alliance |
| History | |
• Established | 1927 |
• Disestablished | 1935 |
The Grand Alliance, also referred to as the Allied Powers was a worldwide military alliance that countered and fought the Entente throughout the Great War. The main preceding iteration of the Great Alliance was the Tripartite Pact of Estmere, Etruria and Werania in 1923. The phrase "Grand Alliance" was coined by Weranic Emperor Leopold IV in 1926, and was used to describe the alliance throughout the war.
Whilst there was never any binding alliance on paper, the Grand Alliance contained six forefront powers (Estmere, Etruria, Narozalica, Senria, Swetania and Werania), and added many new countries throughout the duration of the conflict, particularly as the fronts expanded to the Asterias. The Grand Alliance ceased to exist in any notable form by the end of the war in 1935, and was mainly superseded by the Security Council of the Community of Nations.
Background
Main powers
Kingdom of Estmere
Etrurian Second Republic
Narozalic Republic
Republic of Senria
[background - keiou restoration, stagnation of modernization, first sakata incident]
[senrian revolution as an estmere-gaullica/xiao proxy conflict]
[the council of the senrian state is an uncomfortable compromise; public faith falls; second sakata incident is initiated by senria; this escalates into the great war when both sides call in their alliances]
[initially, senria's goal in the GW is just to survive by any means necessary; three-point plan and imahara coining "total war", plus the trauma of the Senrian Genocide, hammer home this notion of "we win or we die"]
[as the war goes on, its goal becomes dominance in coius and the dismemberment of xiaodong (Nakagawa Plan); but euclea doesn't like this, which engenders bitterness between it and the rest of the allies]
[senria comes out of the war immensely war-weary, but modernized and militarily and economically powerful; this weariness, plus tensions w/ the euclean allies, help pave the way for a return of the xiao threat]
Panswetanian Council Republic
Weranic Crown
Affiliated nations
Aucurian Republic
Azmaran Commonwealth
Kingdom of Eldmark
Commonwealth of Halland
Maracao
Kingdom
Republic
Republic of Nuxica
[background - 1789 war with Marirana, Mariranan Revolutionary War, Nuxican support for Grand Duchy, general tensions due to language differences (reee vespasians out/reeee auratians out) and Mariranan revanchism for "lost territories" and anger towards Nuxica for political influence; instability due to Nuxican Revolution]
[military junta starts to get close to gaullica and other functionalist/far-right governments; GA countries (on whom Nuxica exports a lot of resources and good to) start to reee, especially as war nears; buisiness types and nationalists in military (who are wary of marirana and gaullican domination) decide this is no bueno and purge the functionalists, installing alejandro rouco as not!caudillo; they also increase exports of weapons, resources (mainly oil), and goods to major GA countries]
[Entente attacks GA, but Nuxica stays out of it because still expanding industrial capacity post-Revolution; Entente sees this as a threat, especially given Nuxica's potential industrial capacity, and decide to invade in 1929 on some TBD pretext (probably aiding the enemy)]
[Nuxica caught flat-footed and large parts of army either rout or get encircled; rouco flips out and suspends whats left of the constitution, declares 2nd Emergency Martial Government, begins total war, and starts trying to fix the situation with mixed results]
[Mariranans do bad things to Nuxicans, probably, not sure yet; Nuxica throws bodies and artillery shells at the problem until the Entente starts thinning the front line in order to compensate; offensives into Nuxica stall so Entente gambles on encircling and capturing capital of Carutagua to force capitulation (or at least throw the government into such disarray that subsequent offensives are easier)]
[Entente throws the dice on their gamble, rouco does a Zhukov and an Order No. 227 simultaneously in order to hold the capital, *cue cacophony of screeching, tank engines, dive-bombers, and gun noises*; they make it to the capital but it ultimately doesn't work out; Halland joins war and starts helping out; Nuxican factories in the west finally manage to rev up and gets kicked into maximum overdrive; Entente forces in the area essentially used up the last of their operational strength in trying to capture Carutagua, so offensives quickly start rolling back Entente advances]
[Nuxican factories continue churning out war material, eventually enabling the Nuxican and Hallandic combined navies to achieve parity with the Entente; Nuxica aids in the bombardment of Sansluminère]
[Nuxican forces continue to roll back Entente forces and eventually pour into Marirana; rouco lets his generals cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war; once the home front is secured Nuxica begins shipping troops and soldiers around the Asterias, aiding in the liberation of Eldmark and the invasion of Nuvania (maybe Belmont as well but that seems a bit much idk)]
[a lot of Nuxican population are levelled by the war, but industrial capacity is surprisingly strong and the junta has near complete political and social supremacy now; rouco extends the Emergency Martial Government's mandate for national security and reconstruction reasons (thus ensuring that the junta will survive post-war); Nuxica kind of West Germanys the governments it occupies and/or tries to make sure they can never threaten it again]
Non-state combatants
Leaders
Estmerish Empire
- William III - King of Estmere, of Buckland, and of the Lands beyond the Sea (until 31 December 1936)
- H. H. Arterbury - Prime Minister of Estmere (until 28 August 1928)
- Augustine FitzWarren - Prime Minister of Estmere (from 28 August 1928 until 21 May 1929)
- Edward G. Norcross - Prime Minister of Estmere (from 21 May 1929)
- Wolfgar Godfredson - Commander of the Southern Front (until 1929) and Commander of the Estmerish Liberation Army (from 1929 until 1934)
Buckland
Imagua
Etruria
- General Maurizio Adriano Galtieri - Minister of War
- Field Marshal Giulio Cesare Vasari - Supreme Commander of the Etrurian Republican Army, Chief of Staff of the Commando Supremo
- General Caio Regolo Ettori - Commander of the Army in Auratia
- General Giovanni Rustici - Commander of the Army of Amathia and Piraea
- Field Marshal Serafino Augusto Lertora - Commander of the Army of the Aventines
- General Anton Bošković - Commander of the Army of Bahia and Badawiya
- General Aurelio Paolo Domenichelli - Commander of the Army of Pardaran
- Field Marshal Lazzaro Paravicini - Commander of the Army of Satria
- Admiral Vladko Dorčić - Supreme Commander of the Etrurian Republican Navy
Narozalica
- Vladislav Pudovkin – President of Narozalica, Prime Minister of Narozalica (1933–1934) and military leader
- Pavel Klemenko – Prime Minister of Narozalica (1927–1929)
- Gabriel Tozulyak – Prime Minister of Narozalica (1929–1933), Head of the Narozalic Armed Forces (from 1933)
- Michel Dudka – Prime Minister of Narozalica (from 1934) and Head of the Narozalic Armed Forces (until 1933)
- Miroslav Szemancsik – Commander of the Narozalic First Army
- Vladimir Hutnyan – Commander of Narozalic armies in Poliania
- Vendelín Rapos – Commander of Narozalic armies in Gaullica
- Mojmír Muszak – Commander of Narozalic armies in Amathia
- Maximilian Kapisinsky – Grand Admiral of the Narozalic Navy
Senria
- Katurou Imahara, Chairman of the Government of National Preservation (1927-1933), Prime Minister of Senria (from 1933), Grand Marshal of the Army
- Isao Isiyama, Speaker of Senria (until 1927), Minister without portfolio (1927-1933)
- Itigo Nakagawa, Minister of Rites, Marshal of the Navy
- Sintarou Miyake, Minister of Defense, Marshal of the Army
- Soukaku Sioda, Chief of Staff of the Senrian Republican Armed Forces, Commander of the First Army Group
- Nobuyuki Youiti, [tbd occupation role] (1933-1935), Commander of the Second Army Group
- Isoroku Nomura, [tbd occupation role] (1933-1935), Commander of the First Army
- Mituyosi Tanaka, Commander of the Second Army
- Sigenobu Waseda, Commander of the Third Army
- Itirou Tadatomo, Commander of the Fourth Army
- Hatirou Nakayama, Governor-General of Jindao (1933-1935), Commander of the Fifth Army
- Kagenori Arisaka, Commander of the Sixth Army
- Kenzirou Hazuki, Commander of the Seventh Army
- Dairoku Sugita, Commander of the Eighth Army
- Ienobu Miyazawa, Commander of the First Fleet (1929-1932)
- Hisahiro Nisinoya, Commander of the First Fleet (1932-1935)
- Ietugu Yosiyama, Commander of the Second Fleet
- Masahisa Sawamura, Commander of the Third Fleet
- Arihiro Maeba, Commander of the Fourth Fleet
- Akitosi Hanayama, General of the Senrian Republican Air Force
- Takayosi Kasamatu, Director of the Tokkeitai
Swetania
- Heinrich Lewenthal – Marshal of Swetania, Commander-in-Chief
- Wëllem Steichen – General Commissar for Military Affairs (until 30 August 1934)
- Gundaris Melderis – General Commissar for Military Affairs (from 30 August 1934)
- General Johann Jonke – Commander of the Eastern Front
- General Anton Thyssen – Commander of the Northern Front
- General Wěnceslaw Macháček – Commander of the Southern Front
- General Alois Železin – Commander of the Air Forces
- Admiral Georg Kotkas – Commander of the Naval Forces
- Cerise Candelier – General Commissar for Internal Affairs
Werania
- Leopold IV – Emperor, Commander-in-Chief
- Reinhold von Schönborn-Herz – Chancellor (1927)
- Alois Hochwälder – Chancellor (1927-1929)
- Adalbert von Kolbenheyer – Chancellor (1929-1931)
- Otto Röttgen – Chancellor (1931-1935)
- Feldmarschall Franz Gottfied von Holzgethan – Chief of General Staff (1927)
- Feldmarschall Osker von Pflanzer – Chief of General Staff (1927-1929)
- Feldmarschall Kurt Weckersdorf – Chief of General Staff (1929-1931)
- Feldmarschall Rupprecht Bormann – Chief of General Staff (1931-1935)
Aucuria
Azmara
Eldmark
Halland
Maracao
- Adelmar de Estremoz – Emperor of Maracao (until 1930)
- Renato Guimarães – President of Maracao (from 1934)
- Josué Couto – Prime Minister of Maracao (from 1934)