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Author Topic: The Great Weird War, my Weird setting  (Read 3564 times)

Offline winterborn

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The Great Weird War, my Weird setting
« on: March 05, 2008, 11:51:17 PM »
So, ever since i got into Weird War i have been working on my own setting. I am going to sketch it out here for comments and ideas. The basic idea behind it is to allow anything weird and pulp that i like to be able to be incorporated in it somewhere. There are also elements of VSF in it.

The Great War broke out in 1914 and proceeded as normal until 1916. This was the year the Martians invaded. Focused on Europe and North America, the Martians initialy  caused great havoc and destruction, but were eventually defeated by a virus they had no defense against.

One of their first attacks happened to be against Vienna, where the Imperial families of both Germany and Austria-Hungary had come together to celebrate a wedding between the two families. Almost the entire Imperial families of both nations was wiped out. One of the few survivors was a cousin to both Emperors, a highly decorated and talented officer of the German Infantry, Manfred von Hoenstaufen. Quickly rallying the devastated nations, Manfred was able to call on the support of the military of both nations to have himself declared Emperor of both nations. He became the GrossKaiser of GrossDeutschland. Manfred was also secretly an alumnus of the Scholomance, a secret occult training school hidden somewhere in the Balkans. He secretly rallied support from many of the alumni of the Scholomance, and other occult societies, and parlayed this support into help suppressing opposition to his rule.
Manfred effectively led GrossDeutschland during the Martian Invasion, and parlayed the devastation of the French and English into effective military gains in France. German forces were able to break through Allied lines and seize much of Eastern France.
In Russia, the Martian Invasion hastened the collapse of the Tsar, and the Revolution broke out much earlier. While the Reds still managed to eventually come out on top, the Whites were able to retain significant chunks of the Ukraine, and Western Russia, which was eventually named Belarus. GrossKaiser Manfred openly supported the Whites, eventually turning them into puppet states.
The US never entered the Great War as they had been hammered by the Martians, but threatened to enter it to keep the Germans from completely overruning France.
Britain was still able to throw the Turks out of Arabia, Palestine and take Iraq, but the Turks retained Syria and Northern Iraq.
GrossDeutsch troops were able to invade and hold Northern Italy, while Turkey reoccupied Greece.
China was broken even further, with warlords, the KMT govt, communists, and the Japanese-backed Imperial remnant in Manchuria battling it out constantly.
Japan itself had been attacked, and Tokyo had been devestated. The only thing that saved Tokyo from total destruction was a giant monster, known only s Godjira, that arose from the sea and attacked the martian tripods. A young nephew of the Emperor, Ryuhito, claimed to have summoned Godjira and was acclaimed as the Nation Saviour. The Emperor soon stepped aside, and his nephew was crowned Emperor. Ryuhito quickly established close ties with Manfred.
With the death of the Martians, the Great Powers gathered together and signed an Armistice, temporarily ending the war. No treaty was signed, and technically a state of war still exists, though no one wants to start it up again. Informal agreements exist whereby the Great Powers, the US, the UK, GrossDeutschland and the United Socialist State of Russia, undertake not to use their regular militaries outside of the Home Territories. Instead, each power has certain Expeditionary Forces that they use to assist factions in the minor nations fighting proxy wars for the Great Powers. The US has its Airborne and Marine units, the UK its Paras and Commandoes, GD uses its Fallschirmjaeger and Deutsche Ausland Korps (German Outland Corps), and the USSR uses Aerial and Naval Infantry.

As a result of the Martian invasion, there was a great deal of advanced technology left behind, and the major powers quickly moved to gather and understand what the Martians left behind. As a result, there have been many technological advances. Walkers, robots, cybernetics, advanced combat drugs, energy weapons, and many other devices have entered military service throughout the world.

Other events that happened in the Real World also happened here, for instance the Spanish Civil War broke out, but no one came out on top. Northeast Spain is under the control of Franco and the Nationalists supported by GD, Northwest Spain is under the Rule of the King and the Monarchists supported by the UK and US, and southern Spain is under the control of the Republicans, as suported by the USSR.

In the mid-20's France launched a war against Alsace, the (large) fragment of France GD had retained after the Armistice. The germans had settled many ex-soldiers in Alsace, and heavily supported the Alsatian govt and military. France was hammered in the resulting war, with Alsatian forces seizing a huge chunk of souther france, ranging from the spanish border in a meandering line through Paris to Holland. The US and UK threatened to intervene if fighting wasnt ceased, and the Germans called off the Alsatians.

Many of the colonial possessions around the world are being fought over. For instance, Belgium was abosrbed into either France or Alsace, and those two countries fight over both French and Belgian colonial possessions, and multiple factions fight it out for possession of Spanish colonies.

Japan has seized chinese coastal territories, ostensibly in the name of assisting their Manchurian 'allies'.

Small wars rage over much of the world, with Commandoes fighting Fallschirmjaeger in Madrid, US Marines against Japanese Marines in china, Soviet Aerial Infantry vs British Paras in Afghanistan, and the DAK against Soviets in the caucasus.

Basically, this allows me to play what I want in whatever style I want. The Martians had maintained secret bases in the hinterlands for years, creating monsters and recreating dinosaurs, with the MArtian defeat, these monsters and dinosaurs have escaped, thus there are many Lost World valleys around. With the rise to power of the Occult in Europe, there have been many expeditions to gather occult relics, and archaeologists have been recruited into govt service.
I just want this setting to be fun, and allow anything.

What do you think?
And in the fury of this darkest hour
We will be the light
You've asked me for my sacrifice
And I am Winter born

Offline JollyBob

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The Great Weird War, my Weird setting
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2008, 09:24:58 AM »
That's a pretty well thought out background, nice one.  :) Like you say, it should give you scope for just about any scenario you want to play.

So, is your world set in the 1930s by now? You mentioned the rise of the Occult in Europe, so I'm guessing GrossDeutchland is a kind of proto-Nazi proxy, allowing you to use existing WWII and Weird War figures etc?

Overall, very cool, and I look forward to hearing any updates you might have.  8)

 

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