The Turbulent Years

The Turbulent Years were a roughly 45 year period in the first half of the 20th century that saw multiple major wars break out all over Werbia, the most important ones being the Great Astrat War and Jupitorman Imperial War. It would lead to the deaths of millions and collapse of multiple governments and civil wars, making everyone realise the true horrors of war and put aside their differences, bringing upon the world the current state of peaceful coexistance and positive relations between most major powers.
==Background==
===Vilandian Coup (1917)===
The Vilandian people, after years of living under an ineffective government, which squabbled and fought over political issues the people didn't see as important instead of improving the country and the lives of it's citizens, were getting tired of the old government and wanted something new, a change in leadership. The army - full of overambitious generals who saw the government stop their careers in their tracks due to "dumb political reasons" or being scared of them - was looking to remove the current politicians from power and install themselves as absolute dictators, allowing them to advance their careers and earn as much money as they wanted. Here, the interests of the poor people and those of the greedy army had collided, allowing way for a uneasy coalition, which began in the early months of 1917, as the army began to spread around rumors of the government planning a new project, which would be devastating to the populace, leading the populace to sway towards the military and giving them more power. The military would begin planning a plot to overthrow the government, over the period of multiple months slowly assasinating one government official after another, until finally by August of 1917 they felt safe enough to challenge the government directly, beginning a open revolt and calling upon the people to help them storm government buildings in all major provinces, which allowed to quickly secure said provinces and take control of Viland, deposing the old government, by just the end of September. This coup would not go unnoticed by outside powers such as Neuver and Mawbol, which had their own interests in Somorcos and had cooperated with the old regime, viewing the new military junta as an illegitimate government which was against their interests, beginning to slowly put in place a blockade of Viland over the rest of 1917 and 1918, attempting to starve the country out and force it to restore the democratic government, though this wouldn't go as planned.
===Astrat Ship Sinkings (1918-1919)===
On November 16th, 1918, a cargo ship travelling from Neuver to Mawbol was mysteriously sunk in the middle of the Astrat Sea. Mawbol search ships would arrive to the area on the 18th, finding the shipwreck and 47 dead crew members. As they continued searching the area, they suddenly spotted smoke stacks in the distance, noticing two dreadnoughts as they approached the smoke stacks. A Mawbol ship would fire on one of the dreadnoughts, with it firing back and resulting in a minor fire fight. One of the dreadnoughts would escape, while the other was captured and brought to Rakul City Port by November 20th. After an inspection and interrogation of the crew, a burnt flag would be found hidden in the corner of the engine room, slightly resembling the flag of Viland, which would be confirmed by the crew members of the ship. After more interrogation, an official report would be published by the Mawbol Navy on December 8th, stating that the sinking of the cargo ship was the result of an attack on it by two Vilandian war ships, with the intent of capturing the ship to prevent it from arriving in Mawbol as retaliation for the blockade imposed by Mawbol, Neuver and Akail on Viland a year earlier do to the establishment of a dictatorship in Viland after a military coup against the democratically-elected government. Viland would quickly answer to these accusations, claiming them to be completely false and unwarranted, instead presenting the idea that Mizandia or even Mawbol itself sunk the ship, though Vilandian officials failed to provide any solid proof for this.
On January 11th, 1919, another cargo ship would be sunk on its way from Akail to Mawbol, with the suspect once more being Viland, though they again denied any involvement. Over the following months, more and more ships would be sunk, with most sinkings occurring inside the South Astrat SeaWhile the South Astrat Sea has been accepted as the main name for the region, some have also called it the South Mawbol Sea, sometimes even splitting it in half with a North Akail Sea in the south. do to it being right next to Viland and containing the most trade vessels, most taking similar routes to Yellow City or other cities in Yellowia, North Rakul and South Rakul. On March 2nd, the then president of Mawbol, Sir William Partner, would make a strong and threatening speech against Viland. "Our condemnation of Viland and the ensuing blockade will remain in full place whatever those Vilandians try. They may sink every single ship in the Astrat Sea and we won't lift a finger. They may raid and burn our coasts every single day for every single year ever, but we won't back down. Mawbol will not bow to Viland, Mawbol's allies won't bow to Viland, the people of Mawbol, the heart of this nation, shall and will not ever bow to Viland! Those Vilandian bastards will pay the price soon, sooner than anyone, even they expect, even we expect. They will see their land brought to kneel, set aflame and burnt like a wooden house, and it will collapse like a burning house. Mawbol will not bow to Viland! Never shall we bow! Never! I repeat - never! Long live Mawbol, down with Viland!" Following this speech, tensions between Mawbol and Viland would continue to heat up, especially after the sinking of the passenger ship MSS Mawbolitiana on March 17th, in which 46 passengers died and 17 other were never found, while the other 22 were captured and held hostage by Vilandian ships for four days before a Mawbol fleet managed to defeat the ships and force them to hand over the hostages. This would become a major controversy all over the Astrat Sea Region and even all of Werbia, with most countries condemning Viland on the actions of it's navy, with Mawbol issueing a strong warning, declaring that if another passenger ship was sunk, Mawbol would land troops in Viland to sort the situation out by force.
By the middle of May, Mawbol and Akail began discussing an official alliance against Viland, with joint military exercises already started back on May 7th. Viland, feeling obviously threatened, would focus even more ships on raiding Mawbol and Akail merchant vessels, sinking around 22 ships in a week. With the economy declining do to the sinkings, Mawbol would be forced to act even more aggressively, sending a fleet of nine ships lead by the MSS Astratia to sink any Vilandian dreadnought in the South Astrat Sea. Over a month long campaign from May 20th to June 18th, eight dreadnoughts and over 15 other Vilandian warships would be sunk, the campaign ending with the Battle of The South Mawbol Sea. The battle would begin with a sighting of three Vilandian warships during the early hours of June 14th, with the MSS Astratia and the other Mawbol ships moving to capture them. As the two fleets neared one another, the captain of the MSS Astratia would order a warning shot to be fired, with it by accident hitting one of the Vilandian ships. The ship, sinking, would fire back two shots at the MSS Astratia, one missing and the other hitting a different Mawbol ship, which sunk in two minutes. As the fog began to set away, the MSS Unitaria would spot four more Vilandian ships aproaching, three of them dreadnoughts. The MSS Astratia would fire at another Vilandian ship, sinking it and damaging the one next to it. In response, one of the Mawbol ships would be fired upon by all of the Vilandian ships, every single shot missing, before the Mawbol ship managed to hit a Vilandian dreadnought on it's second try, sinking it. The battle would continue for 20 more minutes, with repeated shots from the MSS Unitaria and MSS Astratia dealing major blows to the Vilandians, even managing to sink the dreadnought VMS Valtor, finally forcing the remaining Vilandian ships to retreat and sail to port for repairs, though one of them would be cut off and sunk on June 17th by the MSS Marannia. Following the Battle for the South Mawbol Sea, Vilandian raiding operations would mostly cease do to the loss of far too many dreadnoughts and other warships, crippling the naval capabilities of Vilandia. On June 23rd, Mawbol and Akail would finally formalize their treaty, with Sir William Partner saying he would soon invite other nations to the alliance to corner Viland. Viland, terrified by this posibility, would begin to plan an invasion of Mizandia, considering them a very likely candidate for joining the alliance. 
===Vilandian-Mizandian War (1919-1920)===
On the morning of July 8th, three Vilandian warships and one dreadnought were spotted in the fog near Williama by coast guard, sending out a single ship to meet them. As soon as the fog went away, the dreadnought opened fire on the small ship, blowing a massive hole in the side of it. After having neutralized the single ship, the dreadnought and other ships entered the harbor at Williamore at around 8:45 AM, the city surrendering without a fight. Being informed of the surrender at 9:00 AM, the governor of Williama would attempt to escape, being cut off by the Vilandian ships, who had already managed to make it to Williamsport. The governor would be left no choice but to surrender, handing over the island to Vilandian forces. At 2:25 PM, the Vilandian troops would land on the south coast of the island of Mizandia, taking control of Reiviermunte without much resistance, while street fighting broke out in Zezea and Haervill, the cities only falling by July 10th. During July 9th, Dilid and Reivier would fall after some fighting, but in most other cities Vilandian forces would fail to landdo to poor weather or a strong Mizandian naval response before landings could take place. For the next week, minor skirmishes would take place in the south over Čečoz while the Battle of Dilid raged on simultaneously, both remaining a stalemate. By July 16th, the first Mawbol and Akail war armaments and volunteers would begin arriving to help the Mizandians, forcing Vilandia to send even more troops and most of it's remaining ships to defend its position on the coast. Among these ships would be the dreadnought VMS Altonbridge. 
As the fog set away at the sun rose on July 20th, the 14 ship large Mizandian fleet patrolling the waters around Mottuor would see six Vilandian ships in the distance nearing them. As the two fleets met, the Vilandians, lead by the Altonbridge and Vismian would open fire, sinking three Mizandian ships immediately at the start of the battle. But following this first success, the Vilandians would quickly be overpowered, resulting in three ships being sunk. The captain of VMS Altonbridge, realising the situation was deteriorating far too quickly, ordered a insane suicide charge of the Altonbridge and Vismian, the two ships storming into the center of the Mizandian formation, the Vismian managing to sink two before being sunk, while the Altonbridge's rampage would continue for 15 minutes, destroying 5 ships and neutralising another before being sunk. The battle would result in the total collapse of the Vilandian fleet, removing any ability to easily supply the invasion force on Mizandia, leaving them to their fate. This would quickly begin to take a toll on the fighters, leading to both Dillid and Zezea falling in late July, followed by Reivier in early August. The Vilandian government, fearing the total fall of their holdings, would organise "Operation: Northern Thunder", sending their last ten warships north with around 40 thousand men on them, managing to evade Mawbol and Mizandian ships with almost no issues, landing the troops on August 15th. A massive Vilandian counter-push immediately commenced, with Čečoz and Bilinn in Vilandian hands by August 24th. The south would finally be secured on August 28th after the Storming of Mesjata, in which 27 thousand Vilandian troops descended on the city from all directions, breaking through the defenses and capturing the governor of Majomi, forcing the entire state to surrender. After this suprising turn of events, Bornia would officially announce it's support for Vilandia.
Vilandian armies would advance north, reaching and surrounding Inlette by September 2nd, attempting and failing to starve out the city, as Mawbol ships began supplying the city with food and water. Multiple attempts to storm the city would take place on the 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 13th, all failing and leading to around 12 thousand Vilandian casualties, greately diminishing the ability of the Vilandian army to push further. Also around the same time, an attack on Jeuzdoirma City was carried out by the rest of the Vilandian army, barely succeeding in capturing the city and bringing the Vilandian offensive to a complete halt. For the next 3 months, minor clashes would take place between Mizandian guerilla fighters and the roughly 18 thousand strong Vilandian army, which was at this point starving and without any supplies do to the strengthening of the naval blockade on Viland, not allowing it to supply it's troops. By late December, Mizandia would finally manage to reorganise its army, launching a counterattack against Viland, retaking Jeuzdoirma City on December 25th, Mee on the 27th, Bosztu on the 29th and a few other cities over the following weeks. The counteroffensive would stop on January 7th atfer the Battle of Mesjata, in which Mizandian forces attacked the city, but were surrounded in the city center and set upon and slaughtered, with 14 thousand Mizandians dying and leading to the Mizandian army once more collapsing, forcing the government to resort to guerilla fighters again. A complete stalemate would set in after this, with other countries taking the time to choose who they support and sending supplies. Some of the countries supporting Viland would include the previously mentioned Bornia, Seirmor, Bardalia and Menzer, while Mizandia would be supported by Mawbol, Akail, Neuver, Cornia, Num, Oiber and Atelia. The most major battles in this period were the Battle of Podiom on February 14th and the Battle of Hekler on March 26th, which both were Vilandian victories. By April of 1920, both Vilandia and Mizandia began considering making a truce, as by now the stalemate had gone on for around four months. Meanwhile other countries began seeing the war as pointless and thought it was being dragged on, so most supporting countries simply stopped their support, with Bardalia being threatened to stop by Mawbol and Cornia, while Bornia told Vilandia to end the war by May or it would also withdraw it's support. After much consideration, Vilandian diplomats would travel to Port Mizandia to discuss peace terms with Mizandia, signing the Treaty of Port Mizandia on April 27th, concluding the war and lining out the following terms. "Vilandia will militarily occupy the provinces of Williama and Majomi for the eight following months, Mizandia will pay war reperations to Viland in the form of 150 thousand Mizandor and a exchange of war prisoners will take place between the two countries." A few days after the peace treaty, Viland would form the Republic of South Mizandia in Majomi, almost causing the war to restart, but this issue would be resolved at the Conference of Moslou, in which Mizandia agreed to recognise the republic if Viland agreed to give South Mizandia political and diplomatic independence. With this, the tensions would end for about a year, with the coalition that had formed against Viland even considering lifting the blockade, though this would never take place. 
===Tensions Rising (1920-1921)===
For the next few months, following the end of the Vizandian-Mizandian War, everything remained peaceful and calm, though feeling of mistrust could be felt floating around. Viland and Bornia would formalize their alliance on May 15th, making Neuver threaten the Bornian foreign minister and entire government the next day to end the alliance right then, but Bornia would refuse. This incident would almost spark another war, but at the last minute Mawbol forced both sides to either negotiate on a solution or be both blockaded, forcing Neuver to back off in exhange for Bornia giving them 25 thousand Gaeldor. By September, Vilandia would manage to break two terms of the peace with Mizandia, annexing the until then only occupied Williama and turning South Mizandia into a puppet state, disregarding the Conference of Moslou. Mizandia would be unable to respond do to a political crisis on it's other main island of Vijart-Sie, caused by attacks on major cities by a socialist militia wanting independence for Vijart-Sie. Though unable to militarily respond, Mizandia joined the Anti-Viland Coalition on September 13th in an attempt to scare Viland into following the peace agreements again. On December 27th, when the Vilandian occupation in Majomi and Williama was officially supposed to end, Viland would send an extra 10 thousand troops to Majomi and annex South Majomi from the Republic of South Mizandia. Mizandia in response sent in 15 thousand of it's own troops to Majomi, giving Viland a 48 hour ultimatum to leave the territory or have it seized by force. Vilandian foreign minister Kaet Bustigg would make a speech the following day to a crowd of 25 thousand people in the city center of Vaelindia, proclaiming that "Mizandia shall not and will not threaten Vilandia under any circumstances", rejecting the ultimatum an hour later. Mizandian forces would attack Vilandian positions, managing to seize most of the south in a week, before Vilandia reorganized, immediately leading to a stalemate and Mawbol intervention to end the fighting, resulting in a ceasefire and following restoration of the Treaty of Port Mizandia on January 6th.
By early February, the peace would once more begin to break down, this time do to Bardalia once more giving it's support to Viland and not ceasing after Mawbol and Neuver threatened military action if it did not stop. On February 14th, Viland and Bardalia would enter into an alliance, followed by Viland and Seirmor entering into an alliance on February 18th. Over the following month, Viland would also form military alliances with Menzer, Borein and Alk-Borein, making Mawbol feel more threatened, leading to discussing a possible alliance with Neuster, though it in the end fell through do to general disagreements between the two, such as issues with their border. Meanwhile Neuver would try to make Atelia and Sundir into it's allies, failing with Sundir, which, even though it disliked Bornia, wanted to stay neutral in order to persue scientific advancement and keep it's anti-war leaning population happy. Seeing more and more countries side against it, Viland would send more troops to South Mizandia and secretly started sponsoring regional militia groups in Mizandia, attempting to pressure the country into aligning with Viland to prevent anyone else from exerting any power over Viland. The strategy would fail, with Mizandia only aligning with Mawbol and Akail more, forcing Viland to turn to a new plan.
On March 1st, 1921, five thousand Vilandian troops would suddenly and unexpectedly storm into Baztard and disarm the local garrison of 200 men, raising the Viland flag in the city square. Mizandia would immediately protest after being informed of this, but Viland would claim Baztard had always been part of the occupied area laid out in the Treaty of Port Mizandia, which Mizandia diplomats were easily disproved, but it was too late. By now Vilandian forces had also already seized Podiom and Ložat, and were reaching the outskirts Inlette, having defeated every single army that tried to put up any resistance against them. On March 6th, Mawbol would threaten Viland with a military invasion if it didn't stop, but Viland simply ignored the ultimatum and kept on going, getting deeper into Jeuzdoirma and even reaching the south of Baschniz, beginning to siege Erma on March 10th. Seeing no other option, Mawbol would finally, with popular support, follow through with it's threat, declaring war on Viland and sending troops to help Mizandia, followed by the rest of the Anti-Viland Coalition in the next two weeks after the Mawbol declaration. Bornia would then declare war on Neuver and Mawbol on March 23rd, followed by Seirmor declaring on all of the Anti-Viland Coalition on March 25th. Over the following days the rest of Viland's allies would also declare war on the Anti-Viland Coalition, beginning the Great Astrat War.
==The Great Astrat War==
===The Early War (1921)===
====The Bardalian War (1921)====
On March 29th, Mawbol and Cornian troops crossed their borders with Bardalia in multiple places, seizing border towns and destroying any supplies they found. On April 3rd, Cornian forces would seize Mintvar, hijacking multiple trains and speeding up the advance greatly. The Bardalian army would attempt to reorganise and counter the invasion, finally managing to stop the advance by April 8th. Minor fighting would continue for the two following weeks, with no major pushes able to happen, giving Bardalia time to conscript more troops and slightly prepare them for combat. On April 18th, Cornian forces would break Bardalian lines, pushing to the city of Baerdolia and surrounding it on April 25th. Seeing enemy forces getting closer and closer to the capital, Bardalia would officially decide to surrender, but the southern army would refuse to accept this surrender, proclaiming the National Defense Army of Bardalia and continuing combat with Mawbol forces. By the middle of May, the NDAB began to push back the Mawbols, in some parts even reaching the Mawbol-Bardalia border. This would prompt a second invasion of Bardalia with around 65 thousand Cornian and 35 thousand Mawbol troops, resulting in the burning of multiple cities and destruction of roughly 450 farms and the deaths of 89 thousand civilians. The last of the NDAB would be finally crushed by mid-June, their leaders surrending on June 14th. Two days later, the official surrender of the Bardalian government would take place, ending the war, though fighting between the Anti-Viland Coalition and Bardalian forces hadn't occured since April after the de facto Bardalian surrender.
====The Mizandian Campaign (1921)====
While the war reached the rest of the world, the fighting on Mizandia continued, with the Mizandian army breaking under stress from the Vilandians. On March 16th, the Battle of Kailima would take place, being a massive Mizandian defeat, Viland only losing 2 thousand troops while Mizandia lost 17 thousand, allowing Viland to take Utrna, Mazda and Iva with no resistance, while Erma surrendered on March 19th. By March 24th, only the province Mizandarm was left in Mizandian hands, but that would only be for a few days, as Lebsta and Wiwiwim both fell on March 27th. On the 28th, 6430 Vilandian troops would storm into Port Mizandia, suprising the 3580 strong garrison defending the city, leading to their swift defeat. The Vilandians would set the city and port aflame, sinking any Mizandian ship they could find and rounding up roughly 2 thousand inhabitants and shooting, sending the rest to Lebsta as war prisoners. Following this terrifying defeat and following display of utter brutality by Vilandian forces, Mizandia would abandon it's main island and organise the largest evacuation operation in Werbian history, evacuating the 7 thousand troops and around 7 million citizens of Mizandarm (not including Lebstia, Wiwiwim and Port Mizandia as they had already been occupied) and temporary resettling them in Vijart-Sie. On April 5th, Vilandian troops would walk into Wava and Moslou, finishing the capture of the island of Mizandia. Two days later, the Republic of South Mizandia would be abolished and replaced with the Nationalist Republic of Mizandia, controlling everything from Jeuzdoirma to Mizandarm, excluding Majomi, which was fully annexed and the cities of Port Mizandia, Reivier, Mottuor, Bolschewiz and Port Mazami, which were placed under Vilandian occupation.
===The Sea War (1921-1923)===
For the first two years of the war, no major onland fighting would take place, with only minor skirmishes between Bornia and Atelia, and on Somorcos. During this period, most of the war was carried out by small fleets in the sea, who carried out raids on port cities to disrupt supplies, with the occasional large battle between two fleets inbetween. The first of these battles would take place on September 14th, 1921, when a fleet of six Bornian warships on a raiding mission to Neuver suddenly met with five Neuverian warships 30 kilometers off the coast from Neuver. The two fleets, after a few minutes of confusion, would engage in fighting after one of the Bornian ships shot at a Neuverian ship, the battle lasting a horrendously long eight hours before both fleets left with only one Bornian ship sunk, as almost every single shot fired during the battle missed. Just six days later, the two fleets would meet again, this time having an equal amount of ships and both being low on ammunition after their previous battle. A 20 minute long standoff would ensue, with only two shots being fired during the entire 20 minutes, before both fleets retreated, deciding it wasn't worth wasting their ammo on ships that didn't carry important supplies. During the months of September and October, the two fleets would encounter eachother a reported six more times, most ending in a standoff with only a few shots being fired, becoming known as the Autumn Standoffs. The final battle of this period would be the Standoff of Wisirman Plateau, as the name suggests, fought above the underwater Wisirman Plateau. It lasted roughly four hours, with both fleets performing military excersizes and chasing the others' warships, none brave enough to fire, with the ships in the end being forced to depart due to fuel supplies running dangerously low for a return to their respective home countries. Both fleets soon after would be replaced by new ones, which didn't meet as frequently and mostly tried to avoid eachother, only attacking supply ships from then on.
Meanwhile in the South Astrat Sea, a similar scene was playing out, with Seirmordian ships hunting Mawbol and Akail supply ships, having quickly figured out the usual supply routes. Akail, not wanting to lose it's ships, organised a fleet of 24 warships, including 6 dreadnoughts and sent them out to intercept, taking down seven Seirmordian ships in just two weeks. Forced to react, Seirmor decided to from now on group it's fleet into one large unit, forming a raiding party of 18 ships. The two fleets would inevitably meet, spotting eachother in the early hours of October 3rd. Akail would be the first to fire, sinking two Seirmordian ships with a single shot. The Seirmordian fleet answered back, sinking a Akail ship, beginning the battle, which would last two and a half hours, with five Seirmordian and six Akail ships sunk, many other in a poor state and barely holding on. The two fleets, not having managed to destroy the other and being too weak to continue fighting, were forced to retreat, convincing both countries that a direct fight woduln't work at sea, though Akail did soon after begin discussions on a new patrol fleet together with Mawbol and Cornia, both also suffering from enemy raids on their supply and trade ships. On November 6th, the Astrat Navy formed, including 65 Cornian, 78 Mawbol and 72 Akail warships, planning to exit port and set out for the South Astrat Sea on November 13th. Seirmor would learn of this, preparing their own strategy for dealing with the Astrat Navy, involving splitting their raiding parties up even more, with even individual ships planned to lead the Astrat Navy on empty, pointless chases to distract them. This strategy would work for fine for a long while, with only eight Seirmordian warships being sunk by the Astrat Navy over the entirety of November and early December, and the navy being forced back to port due to fuel issues, Seirmor was given a bit of time to increase the size of it's raids once more. This period would end on December 20th, when the Astrat Navy set out once more, managing to find and suprise attack the Seirmordian fleet on January 3rd, 1922, sinking 13 warships and capturing the admiral of the Seirmordian navy, though he would manage to escape on a lifeboat just days later. The battle would force Seirmor into a defensive naval position for the rest of the war, leaving the Bornian-Neuverian Front as the only active sea theatre of the war.
Over the next following months, Bornian and Neuverian ships would clash over control of the sea, in the form of raiding attacks and small battles, with no major battles occuring until July 6th. Sometime prior to the battle, Neuver began to prepare a special taskforce of 10 light ships and 10 dreadnoughts, which would be used to challenge the Bornian fleet to a major battle, in which hopefully the Neuverians would win, granting them control of the seas. The fleet set out in the later hours of July 5th, beginning the search for nearby Bornian ships, travelling the entire night with no luck until 4:55 AM, when multiple ships were spotted in the distance, quickly growing in apparent number. At 5:04 AM, one of the Neuverian dreadnoughts would suddenly be badly hit by a shot, with it sinking in mere seconds, while the battle began around the ship. Shots would be exchanged quickly, soon leaving ships alone in groups as the large amounts of smoke released from the constant shots created a massive cloud around the area, leading both friendly and enemy ships to ram into eachother by accident, the situation completely breaking down into disorder. In the ramming, 7 of the dreadnoughts and 9 of the light ships would be destroyed, with Bornia facing an even worse loss, with 6 dreadnoughts and 14 light ships lost. Once the smoke settled down, the true horrors of the battle were revealed, as thousands of small metal plates were drifting and slowly sinking to the bottom of the ocean, while many hundreads of men swam in the open waters, trying to stay afloat. The few remaining ships would pick up as many survivors as they could, quickly escaping the scene before the other side decided to reopen fire, leaving behind mass destruction and wreckage. Following the battle, low scale naval skirmishes would continue until the end of the war, but the period of large sea battles had practically ended for both sides, as most navies had payed a high price for directly attacking the other, cripling the ability to wage war on the sea almost entirely.
===The Somorcos Front (1923-1925)===
====Operation Devastation (1923)====
At 3:50 AM on January 7th, 1923, multiple artillery shells from the Vilandian side of the border came flying over and landed in Numan territory, blowing up multiple key defensive structures on the shore guarding a small cape, which was the closest and least defended landing spot on the Numan side of the river. Following roughly 15 minutes of shelling, around two thousand Vilandian troops got in to their boats and sailed over the river, landing on the bombarded cape and driving out remaining Numan soldiers with ease. They would push out a bit further to secure their positions, establishing temporary defenses at around 6:20 AM to not lose ground while awaiting further instructions. Meanwhile a bit east, Vilandian forces quickly disengaged the Numan forces guarding the border posts on the only onland route linking the two countries, quickly moving along the road down to Myalken Bridge, which leads into Inletu, fighting a one hour and twenty-five minute long battle against Numan troops to cross the bridge, finally crossing it by 6:45 AM and entering the north of Inletu. This would be the place where the first Vilandian war crime would be comitted, as three buildings were set on fire with their inhabitants still alive, with anyone trying to escape being shot down and their body thrown back inside the burning building. After managing to secure more favorable defensive positions by 10:30 AM all over the front, slowly preperations for the next offensive push would take place, launching at 14:10 AM in the cape with another round of bombardments on enemy positions for around 10 minutes, followed by a swift attack all along the front until major resistance from enemy forces was met, at which point another round of shelling would take place before another push, this strategy repeating until the troops were ordered to stop. In Inletu itself, street fighting would begin between Vilandian troops and Numan troops and civilian fighters, resulting in a hours long stalemate and only minimal gains, with the only new land secured being the coasts around the river to secure safe passage for more Vilandian troops in the coming hours. By the end of fighting on the first day at around 11:25 PM, already around 500 had died on both sides, with Viland having managed to secure key offensive and defensive points along the river to use for further attacks in the coming days, completing almost all of their objectives for the first day.
After multiple hours of preperations, involving bringing in more troops and heavy weapons, Viland was once more ready to go on the attack, repeating the previous strategy of shelling and pushing over the early hours of the 8th, making major progress in securing more of the region around the cape, gaining hold of key roads and defensive positions, while minimal pushes were made in the city, once more involving war crimes to an even larger extent than before, with around 600 civilians being simply rounded up and shot for no reason, with multiple others being beaten to death by troops "for fun". By the middle of the day, all of the fronts had been linked up and the entire river coast was secured, allowing for safe Vilandian troop and weaponry passage over the river, excluding the regular artillery strike from the Numans. Vilandian troops would continue onwards through waves of enemy defenders, managing to take a few more neighbourhoods in the city, though with less ease than before, as one building held out for a reported three hours with only 34 defenders, only five of who where profesionally trained military personel. Meanwhile outside of the city, more road links were captured as Numan forces continued slowly being pushed back and retreating, with many even being encircled and captured in the confusing retreats, all being executed. At 9:25 PM, the president of Seirmor would make a statement declaring that they had helped enough and Viland could now handle this on their own, planning to withdraw troops from the area by the 10th, though that would be drawn back to the 11th due to complications with organising the withdrawl. As the morning of January 9th set in, Vilandian forces continued pushing into Inletu, though slower than expected due to the strong resistance of the Numan troops and civilians in the city. All forces would stop offensive movements for around two hours from roughly 6 to 8 AM to allow the artillery to catch up and bombard the enemy lines, as it had begun lagging behind. Following this, the push would restart and fighting would continue for the entire day, while on the rest of the front Vilandian troops continued steady advancements, with a new front openning on another bridge crossing south of Inletu sometime before.
By January 10th, plans had been set into motion for a landing in Karletu, which officially began with a coastal bombardment by a few Vilandian ships at 11:45 AM, with the actual landings following soon. The city would quickly be overran, being almost entirely taken by just the end of the day, though it would involve a lot of bloodshed and many, many civilian deaths as a result of Vilandian brutality, with many neighbourhoods having multiple houses burnt down. Back up north around this time, Inletu would finally be abandoned by Numan fighters, falling into Vilandian hands, who would plunder what remained of the city for multiple hours before continuing the offensive. An attempt to link up the northern and southern Inletu advance would be made, though it would take a bit longer to achieve, being fully finished only by the 11th. Meanwhile other Vilandian troops continued moving south to the Isla Harma Crossing, with a plan to open a front even more south and overwhelm the Numans from multiple sides, the crossing taking place on the 12th. Quickly all around the front, the Numan defense would begin to break, with them being forced more and more back, until they finally completely retreated from the area around Inletu and Karletu, making a move south towards the next defensive lines at Atikru and Hojemu. By January 13th, Operation Devastation would end with almost all of it's goal achieved and the Numans in complete retreat, allowing Vilandian forces to rest for a few days, regroup and gain new supplies, and more heavy weaponry.
====Battle of Atikru (1923)====
Following the swift capture of Inletu and Karletu by Vilandian forces, a new problem immediately arose for Viland, as remnants of Numan troops defending the area had escaped down south to the defensive line at Atikru and Hojemu, not allowing for a full breakout into Num. After some consideration, Vilandian troops, numbered around 27 thousand by then, would begin moving in the direction of Atikru, where a majority of the Numan forces were not stationed, numbering around 13 thousand. Vilandian forces would first notice the city in the distance on the morning of January 17th, arriving to the outskirts of the city by 9:00 AM. They would first be confused, as no enemy defenders could be noticed anywhere, but slowly began to enter the city, shooting at random citizens while at it. They would suddenly find themselves facing a human barricade made up of civilians and a few military personal on the main road at around 9:20 AM, deciding to try and fight through the barricade. As they ran towards line, some of the noticed multiple artillery pieces places behind the barricade, which openned fire and shelled the incoming Vilandian forces, forcing a stop to the fighting until the Vilandian artillery managed to be set up, when it restarted with artillery fire from both sides, remaining so until the Vilandians ran out of shells by 10:15 AM, being forced to wait until more were brought in. After having their artillery resupplied, Vilandian forces reopened fire on the Numans, who responded with artillery fire of their own, with a few scattered charges in between, all of which failed. As the standoff continued, around 4 thousand Vilandian forces would be sent around to enter the city from a different direction, there meeting direct resistance from Numan troops, being forced to retreat by 3:20 AM. At 5:45 AM, after two more hours of unfruitful attempts to break the Numan defenses, Vilandian troops would retreat from the city for the day to rest, while their commanders drew up plans for either a surprise attack from the south into the city or a full on siege of it.
As the next morning began, the commanders had still not decided what to do, so they simply sent a small scouting party of 500 into the city to check if the barricade was still there, finding it intact, though with less people and only two artillery pieces. After a short fight in which 27 of the scouts died, the rest would make it back to the Vilandian camp and inform the commanders of the situation in the north. Another scouting mission soon after would confirm barricades forming in the south of the city as well, forcing around 6,000 troops to quickly be ordered there to break through before the barricades were fully set up, failing in doing so and losing 200 men in the process. Seeing that a breakthrough would not be possible at the moment, Vilandian army commander Makstfold Varlen would order troops to secure all major entraces to the city to effectively cut it off from basic supplies needed for a long-term siege. By 11:00 AM, three out of five entraces had been secured, with one being heavely guarded by Numan civilian barricades and troops, while the other had mines placed on it to discourage Vilandian forces from trying to capture it, though they would manage to capture it anyways after a 7 hour mine removal mission. With four out of the five main roads captured by the end of the day, the siege of Atikru had begun and would last multiple weeks, preventing the Vilandian plans for future offensives from happening as intended.
On January 20th, 350 Vilandian troops would be sent into the city to try and find a way around the barricades, being captured and executed, with only two managing to escape and make it back to their camp. Two days later, around 7 thousand troops would be thrown against the last uncaptured road, with the fight lasting for nine hours and ending in a Vilandian withdrawl, having lost 4 thousand troops and failed to capture the road. As the siege dragged on and the defenders continued gaining supplies through the last of the five roads, the Vilandian commanders began to get worried that they would fail to capture Atikru, planning out another attack on the uncaptured road. It began in the early hours of January 25th with a bombardment of the roads defenses from a nearby hill, which was then followed by multiple waves of fighters attacking the defenses, then again bombardment and repeating so on for the entire day, until finally the defenses were broken at around 11:55 AM, with the Vilandians quickly slaughtering all the troops they captured and lighting homes on fire while families were still inside. This rampage would continue for four hours, seeing some of the worst atrocities of the entire war commited by Vilandian troops, with thousands of innocent civilians being killed or tortured, some women facing an even worse fate. After this catastrophic event, the front would remain silent for a few days, until new attacks on the city by Vilandian forces began on the 29th, featuring multiple attempts to break the barricades all over the city, most of these attacks ending in failure. Finally of February 4th, the "Main Road Barricade" and a barricade down south would be broken, allowing Vilandian forces to rush into the city, with Numan forces and civilians fighting a last ditch effort to defend the city square and mayor's palace, managing to hold out for a whole two days before the last of them died at the hands of the Vilandians. For the few following days, Vilandian soldiers would slowly "clean" the city of any resistance, resulting in many more war crimes being commited against the civilians of Atikru. Finally on February 10th the siege would be declared officially over, with all of the troops stationed in the city and 32 thousand of the civilians having died during it, while Viland lost about 14.6 thousand troops in total. While Viland had won the siege, it had given time for Num to recruit new troops and prepare the oncoming Vilandian offensive, leading to being bogged down and turning into trench warfare.
====A More Eastern Front (1923-1924)====
While Vilandian forces were sieging the Numan city of Aitkru, on the other side of Somorcos, Seirmor was planning it's own offensive into Oiber, considering an attack through the swamp lands in the middle of the archipelago, an offensive into the slightly less inhabitated center of Oiber or along the coast of Oiber up to the capital, Fredermor and the actual seat of governance, the city of Rudenhod. In the end, Seirmor would settle on a combination of the swamp strategy and coastal strategy, planning a main offensive along the coast of Oiber with a backup offensive through the swamp lands to prevent a possible Oiberian offensive into Seirmor. On February 4th, the first Seirmordian troops crossed the border into Oiber, quickly defeating the defenders and pushing onwards to Homst-ot-Paurt, taking it early in the next day without major resistance. At the same time, major fights had broken out over Dezzsen and Faldimor up north, with the Oiberian defenders managing to hold for multiple days, forcing Seirmordian forces in the south to continue pushing onwards to Laet-ot-Paurt, where they would also be stopped, grinding the offensive to a halt by February 12th. Meanwhile further up north in the swamps, Seirmordian forces had started moving on February 6th, having reached the outskirts of Rutah and De-Princon the following day, with De-Princon falling within a day, while Rutah would take three brutal days of shelling until Oiberian forces were forced to withdraw down south to Ussota and the small town of Lemtrud. They would be followed by Seirmordian forces, who began shelling Lemtrud on the morning of February 11th, attempting multiple times unsuccesfully to take the city during the first day, with the Oiberian defenders holding until February 14th, when their lines finally broke and many of them were captured, being executed by tired, angry Seirmordian troops, all together killing 3,748 Oiberian soldiers, this event becoming known as the "Slaughter of Lemtrud". Following the capture of Lemtrud, the Seirmordian army would decide to slow down for a while and wait for the southern army to also break through, giving Oiber some time to recover from the losses it sustained during the first week of warfare.
After two weeks of brutal fighting, Faldimor would finally fall to Seirmordian soldiers on February 21st, with the entire city having been burnt to the ground and destroyed in the violent street clashes, as Oiberian forces had tried to defend every meter of the city. The victory would be exploited to it's full potentional, with a massive encirclement of Oiberian forces being formed and squashed two days later a bit south of the city, crippling the Oiberian northern defense, while three battalions would be sent to Dezzsen, surprise attacking the Oiberian defenses there from behind on February 24th, helping the city fall under Seirmordian control by the 26th. This would be followed by a swift one week campaign in the north to take even more land, with two divisions even reaching the outskirts of Nicokima before being destroyed. In the coastal regions around Laet-out-Paurt, no major moves had taken place, with Seirmordian troops only pushing slightly closer to the city while sustaining higher and higher casualties. On February 25th, having observed the victories around Faldimor, the troops on the swamp front would once more be ordered to move forward, capturing Ussota on the 28th and reaching the outskirts of the town of Himmell on March 3rd, capturing it in a lightning attack the following day and moving towards Dursoun. At the same time, the Seirmordian forces that had captured De-Princon were moving in on Bishecktri, but were forced to move slower due to constant guerilla attacks by local militia forces which had formed during the early stages of the Seirmordian invasion, now managing to hold off their troops due to better knowledge of the regions many swamps and passes through them. The column moving to Dursoun had meanwhile been stopped by March 6th due to supply problems, with most of the supply caravans being captured by the local militias, who had started operations behind enemy lines and were hurting the capabilities of the Seirmordian army to push any further without threat of completely losing all of their supplies. Finally on March 13th, the first of their troops would reach Dursoun, beginning a two day long shelling of the city to destroy any defenses it could have prepared, moving in on March 16th and clearing out the city of resistance by the 17th, though it had previously already been deserted by most of the citizens, who were trying to escape the war. By March 22nd, almost all advances by the Seirmordian military into swampy interior had been stopped dead in their tracks by local militias and remnants of the Oiberian army, while in the south slow moves were being made around Dezzsen and Faldimor, while the front around Laet-ot-Paurt remained almost the same as it had been for the entire month.
The front would remain mostly frozen until the middle of May, with it mainly transforming into an anti-insurgency campaign for Seirmor, as it was forced to slowly mop up the resistance behind the lines, which was completely destroying supply for the troops in the swamps, making any advance practically impossible. Meanwhile in the south, the only major push that took place was an attack towards Nicomika from April 23rd to April 27th, which ended in a stalemate, with Seirmordian troops only securing a bit more territory than they had before the offensive. The break would finally come on May 16th, when Laet-ot-Paurt finally fell under Seirmordian control, the city having been turned to rubble by the multiple months of fighting over it. A very short offensive would be organised following the capture of the city, encircling and destroying multiple Oiberian armies and even managing to reach Neval, which would almost be taken on May 25th, if not for the interference of multiple Akail warships, which bombarded the Seirmordian positions, forcing them to slightly retreat and not take the city. In early June, another offensive would be started, this time aiming to once more try to take Nicomika, ending by the 10th in success, though only through brutish violence from the Seirmordians. This brutish way of fighting would only get worse over the following months, as Seirmor got more desperate due to their failure to quickly knock Oiber out of the war, being locked into a long conflict it did not wanna fight, choosing to try and end it as quickly as possible by any means, including large amounts of violence against even civilians. The next major offensive would come in late August, attempting to finally clear out the swamps of any remaining resistance and take them over in their entirety, beginning on August 23rd and ending on September 9th, with Seirmor reaching most of the goals it had set out for itself. On August 26th, Bishecktri would finally fall to Seirmordian forces, followed by Lomort-ot-Paurt on August 29th and Kroiska on August 31st, with multiple Oiberian armies being obliterated in the process, openning the door for further advances by Seirmordian soldiers, with most of the swamps having fallen by the end of the offensive, though clean-up operations behind lines would continue until the start of October. The final advances in the north during 1923 would take place around Mailin, seeing multiple weeks of combat during the middle of October, ending with the capture of Mailin on October 19th, though a few further operations would take place to secure more favorable ground south of Mailin until the middle of November. The year would end with Seirmor having managed to capture most of it's objectives in the north, though the south and especially the coast had seen less success, with a greater resistance from Oiberian soldiers and more deaths over all on both sides, forcing Seirmor to reconsider it's southern strategy and change it slightly for the new year, bringing in even more troops and heavy weaponry to the area in advance.
On the morning of January 24th, multiple shells shot from Seirmordian artillery would land in the outskirts of Neval, surprising the city's defenders and destroying multiple key defensive positions, allowing Seirmordian soldiers to quickly storm into the city, creating a strong distraction for the main operation, taking control of the port and landing troops there, which would swiftly take over the city without any large scale resistance. The next day, the Seirmordian navy would be deployed in it's entirety for the first time in roughly two years, attempting to cut off any Mawbol or Akail naval movements to the Somorcos archipelago, beginning a two week long standoff in the South Astrat Sea, which would manage to destroy 13 Akail warships and hold off any major naval support from reaching Oiber. Meanwhile, the Seirmordian army would continue moving, encircling and sieging Rickhart for five days, before the city surrendered on January 30th. Up north at the same time, Preše-ot-Paurt and Mjand had also fallen on January 27th and January 29th respectively, with Zubdeh experiencing bloody street fighting, which would last until February 3rd, when it also was captured by Seirmordian forces. The rapid advance would continue until February 17th, ending with the capture of Brosen after two weeks of fighting, which had left the city in complete ruin, many neighbourhoods having been turned to nothing more than ash by the violent warfare between the two armies, while in the north the advance had began to turn more southwards, capturing Zočaēm on February 8th, with two battalions even reaching the coast near Ķevol-Len on February 14th, encircling everything from Brosen up to Ķevol-Len, a pocket of roughly 75 thousand troops, which would take until late March to finish closing, featuring even more bloodshed and brutality from the Seirmordians, as only 3 thousand of all the troops would be taken prisoner, the rest being killed. This marked the end of the offensive, with Oiber having pushed back even more and having lost around 100 thousand troops in it's attempt to defend against the Seirmordian advance, while the Seirmordians only lost about 38 thousand troops, making it look like Oiber would fall during the year, making the major allies of the pro-Viland faction worried about the region, leading to them sending more supplies and helping Oiber in other ways to prop it up while Seirmor was taking it's time to recover.
During this entire time period, the northern swamps had remained mostly silent, with the only major push being the capture of Latdre on February 2nd, which would take place without much blood. Most of the time was instead spent dealing with new partisan pockets behind lines which had formed, forcing Seirmor to spend around 50 thousand troops on the operation, managing to only halve the militia movement by the start of March and leaving their position worse off than before the operation. On February 9th, a new offensive would begin in the north, this time moving into Num with the plan of linking up with Vilandian forces and helping them resecure their slowly collapsing front, as Seirmor could not afford for Viland to begin losing in a larger capacity. The Seirmordian forces would manage to quickly destroy the unprepared and scattered battalions which had been placed on the border incase of a possible invasion, the exact one which was in a limited scale taking place, allowing the first of their soldiers to link up with Vilandian ones on February 15th, breaking the trench warfare in that region and pushing back the Numan divisions slightly, with follow up pushes along the entire front line in Dirama being succesful and forcing the Numans a bit back. Having secured the Numan front, Seirmor could return to continuing anti-partisan operations, which would fail terribly and end in an effective stalemate, forcing the generals of the army to quickly order a second round of anti-partisan operations, being just ineffective as the first ones and leading to the deaths of 27 thousand more Seirmordian soldiers, and the partisan threat still not gotten rid off. Thus the swamps of the north would once more enter another period of absolute silence, only seeing small and scattered fighting between Seirmordian soldiers and partisan militias over trade caravans.
====The Grand Offensive (1924-1925)====
Following months of buildup by Oiber and it's allies for a counter-offensive against Seirmor, with around 500 thousand Allied ConcordA new formal alliance formed in March 1924 as a successor to the Anti-Viland Coalition troops gathered on the frontline, the first attacks would begin in late June 1924, targeting Preše-ot-Paurt, Nicomika, Zočaēm and Ķevol-Len. While Seirmordian troops would manage to hold off the advance for the first week, by the start of July they would finally be pushed back, forcing a retreat back to the major cities, leaving Mjand to be taken by Concord forces on July 7th. Heavy fighting would break out in the streets of Zubdeh and Zočaēm, with them being captured on July 16th and July 17th, while Preše-ot-Paurt had been bombarded into surrendering by just July 12th, allowing for the offensive to swiftly move onto it's final objectives, Ķevol-Len and Nicomika. The two cities would hold for surprisingly long, with Nicomika having to be surrounded and sieged until early October before it fell, while Ķevol-Len fell around September 20th after heavy street fighting and mass artillery bombardment, displacing any of the civilians that had remained in the city. With the winter quickly approaching, most military actions would be left for the new year, with the only major things during the months of October, November and December to happen being an intense increasing in partisan activity in the northern swamplands, as some of the larger partisan militias managed to receive funding and military equipment from the allies of Oiber. This would force Seirmor to send more troops into the swampy interior, depleting it of many of the soldiers it would need to defend the southern front come the new year, leaving multiple major gaps for Concord soldiers to advance through, while the increased military presence in the north didn't actually help too much, with the partisans only gaining more ground, practically wasting men in unsuccesful anti-partisan operations. And thus while Seirmor continued attempting to gain control over the land it had occupied, the Concord and Oiber used this time to prepare for a new southern offensive, with the first tanks and planes being shipped to the area along with more regular heavy equipment, aswell as around 125 thousand more Mawbol, Akail and Cornian troops to assist Oiberian forces. 
As the new year began, Oiber and it's allies were finishing their preparations for their offensive against Seirmor, while it was still struggling to rid the swamplands of partisans and hadn't been able to properly prepare to defend in the south against an attack by the Allied Concord. On January 15th, three truck columns set out for Brosen, quickly making it around the Seirmordian troops guarding the frontline through multiple gaps and reaching the city by the 19th, beginning a short artillery barrage against the defenders, leading the troops to abandon the city to Oiberian forces and retreat further back. The Seirmordian forces behind their lines would quickly be mopped up and forced to surrender by Cornian and Oiberian cleanup taskforces, leaving the main portion of the army to charge forward and break through the enemy lines multiple times, capturing Rickhart on January 28th and moving on to siege Neval. In the same time, Concord forces had reached the outskirts of Dezzsen and Faldimor, bombarding the cities for a week straight before the civilians rebelled and kicked the occupying Seirmordian troops, allowing the Oiberian army to move forward over the border into Seirmor and lay siege to Nehard. On February 14th, Neval would also be overran by partisans and civilian fighters who handed the city over to Oiberian troops, with a Akail naval landing liberating Laet-ot-Paurt a day later, while Homst-ot-Paurt would be liberated by partisan troops on February 18th, leaving the path open for Concord troops to enter Seirmor in the very south aswell. Seeing the southern front completely collapse, Seirmor would decide to abandon the northern swamplands, evacuating all troops from the area and sending them southeast to the new front established near Koddok and Nehard, attempting to break the encirclement and siege of Nehard four times with their new troops, failing to do so while sustaining 47 thousand casualties to only 2 thousand for the Concord in their defense. 
Meanwhile Viland, now suddenly without strong support from the east, would quickly see it's defenses overran by Numan soldiers, who were now being supplied by the Concord, helping them make swift gains into Viland, capturing Molsta and Dulsut by the start of March. Following this would come an offensive in the west, with Num managing to break the trench warfare that had kept the front static since the middle of 1923, quickly recapturing major cities such as Hojemu, Atikru and Karletu, with a final advance on Inletu coming about by March 22nd, with the battle itself taking multiple weeks to end and seeing the most bloody fighting of the Vilandian Front, with over 100 thousand casualties on both sides, not even including the civilian ones, with the battle ending on April 25th in a Numan victory, followed up by multiple Numan offensives into Viland, forcing the country to surrender by April 30th, suddenly leaving Seirmor completely alone. Things had meanwhile quickly moved along for Seirmor aswell, as Nehard finally surrendered to Concord forces on March 10th after a few weeks of fighting, quickly followed by the capture of Koddok and Nasf, with the final advance of the offensive being towards the river city of Foid, being surrounded on all sides and bombarded for a week, before eventually also surrendering on March 24th, allowing Oiberian forces to rest for a month as it and it's allies planned out a new offensive towards Misergard, Lazia and Dosharm. This also gave time for Seirmor to prepare, conscripting around 300 thousand new troops and sending them to defend Misergard and Lazia, while for the first time since the start of the battle for Somorcos sending out it's fleet on an offensive mission, trying to distract it's enemies and lead them to delaying their planned offensive, though it wouldn't work, ending with the Battle of the High Seas, in which most of the Seirmordian fleet was destroyed and what remained was captured by Concord forces. Eventually, the offensive towards Misergard would begin, leading to a month of heavy fighting before it fell on May 4th, while Lazia had surrendered three days prior, finally forcing Seirmor to realise the war was lost, surrendering on May 9th to the Allied Concord, ending the battle for Somorcos in a Numan and Oiberian victory, though a follow-up operation would take place during May to liberate Mizandia from Vilandian forces that had refused to surrender, also ending in a Concord victory. 
===The Massaer Sea War (1923)===
The war in the Masser Sea would begin on March 30th, 1921, when Menzer would declare it's support for Viland in the war, being met with an immediate pro-Mizandian response by Alk-Borein and Borein. It would take until 1923 for any real fighting to take place, with everything before mostly being small skirmishes or empty threats due to the population's anti-war sentiments and most of them being unwilling to join their armies. This would begin to change when Menzer issued another threat to Borein, demanding the country to surrender of face a massive wave of coastal bombardment, which it took as just another empty threat, until suddenly it was discovered in June of 1923 that Menzer was actually building up it's navy, forcing Borein to begin constructing better coastal defenses and prepare it's own first strike strategy, building up it's navy and army for a landing force in Menzer and also getting Alk-Borein involved in the plan. Menzer would notice this and ramp up their buildup of the navy, forcing Borein and Alk-Borein to do the same in response, beginning a cyclical pattern of naval buildup and even larger threats, at which time most people began to finally realise that a real active war may come to being soon, with protests breaking out to stop the war, though small in numbers, as most of the population preferred to not challenge the government directly and simply stayed in their homes, waiting to see what would happen next. By August, the first fleets would be sent out to patrol the waters between the three countries, causing multiple standoffs between Menzeri and Boreiner forces on their maritime borders, which at the time had been far less defined and were a major source of disagreement between the countries before the war. On September 4th, three Boreiner ships patrolling the disputed waters around Aile Vant, when suddenly one Menzeri dreadnought approached the area, threatening to open fire on the Boreiner ships if they did not leave the waters, but the ships refused, leading to a short firefight in which the Menzeri dreadnought was slightly damaged and a Boreiner ship also got hit, both sides retreating from the area afterwards. Just two days later, another standoff and firefight would take place around the Astartin Archipelago once more between Boreiner and Menzeri warships, this time four to six, with the standoff lasting around three hours and the firefight lasting around 11 minutes, with both sides once more retreating due to sustaining some damage on their ships. These and a few other skirmishes would begin to enter the war into it's next and known to be coming, more active stage, with the starting events of the stage coming soon after the first skirmishes began.
On September 13th, a 18 ship large Boreiner fleet would begin making it's way to the Menzeri owned Amzok archipelago, meeting the first Menzeri warships somewhere between the maritime border and the archipelago, engaging in battle with them for around 10 minutes before the only surviving Menzeri vessel escaped the area, quickly making it's way to the archipelago and informing the fleet and troops there of the coming attack, beginning preparations for a defense against them. The next battle would take place on September 15th near the island of Ardamin, with 6 Boreiner ships facing off against 3 Menzeri ships, the battle ending in a Menzeri victory and a Boreiner retreat, though soon after the same ships would fall victim to a battle up north around Graken island, with Menzer losing every ship that took part in the battle. The following week would see many more battles take place all over the archipelago and it's waters, with the Menzeri fleet being forced to retreat from the area by the end of September, allowing Borein to lay siege to the island of Vulcan, the largest island in he archipelago, which housed around 15 thousand troops and had a port vital to truly controlling the region's waters. The siege would begin with six Boreiner ships arriving to the area and forcing any remaining vessels in the port to surrender to them, followed by them unloading roughly 10 thousand troops which would quickly take control of the port and surrounding buildings, giving Borein uncontested control of the waters around the island and allowing it to move along with the next stage of the siege. The island would be surrounded by Boreiner warships and blockaded for a month, being regularly bombarded, with troops slowly moving in and capturing more towns on the island, until finally reaching the gates of Vulcan city, the main city of the island, and setting siege to it on October 26th. The siege would last for a week, with the defenders slowly losing their morale while the population of the city starved and began hoping for a surrender, forcing the troops defending it to finally surrender and open the gates to the Boreiners on November 3rd, ending the campaign for the Amzok archipelago and giving Menzer it's first crushing defeat.
Around the same time as the Amzok campaign began, Alk-Borein sent out it's fleet of warships and began raiding in the Sutinian Sea, sinking around 42 Menzeri commercial and transport vessels by the end of October, while Menzer was distracting with the worsening situation in Amzok, which soon fell to Boreiner forces. By the middle of November around 78 Menzeri ships had been sunk in total, finally forcing Menzer to respond, gathering up it's fleet and sending it to intercept Alk-Boreiner raiding parties, which related in many small scale clashes, though these most times ended in Alk-Boreiner victory and only increased the amount of ships lost for Menzer. Finally having enough of this by the end of November, Menzer would send it's entire Sutinian Fleet on a mission to take out all raiding parties in the sea, being specifically instructed to stick together to not allow Alk-Boreiner victories or escapes. This would turn our far more succesfully, with around 30 Boreiner ships sunk by just the end of the first week of December, forcing Alk-Borein to also change strategy and send it's own large fleet to the region, with both fleets meeting and colliding at the Battle of Disvar, which would see first time action from such ships as the NRA Romigns, NRA Desal, BR Isael, BR Duvial, BR Nosinge, ABR Brusin and the dreadnoughts ABR Jost, ABR John, NRA Gesal, BR Domen and BR Uimen, with these ships playing a key part in winning the battle for Alk-Borein, though at a high cost, as they and many other ships sunk in the battle. The Menzeri fleet would manage to make it away alive though, regrouping and attempting to sneak attack the Alk-Boreiner fleet from behind, instead being found out and themselves being surprise attacked, leading to almost the entire Menzeri Sutinian Fleet sinking, with only nine ships making it back to port in Menzer, allowing Alk-Borein to continue it's raid on commercial shipping in the Sutinian Sea, damaging Menzer's imports greatly and leading to it being unable to sustain the war for longer than half a year. The Alk-Boreiner raids would continue until the end of December, when Menzer was forced to surrender due to a offensive in the north undertaken by Borein.
During November, Borein had begun planning a mainland invasion of Menzer aimed at seizing major coastal cities and capturing the capital of Radidtk to force a quick surrender of the country and end the war. After preparations for the offensive had finished, the first Boreiner ships began moving from the Amzok archipelago to the mainland, meeting some resistance from the Menzeri navy, though most of it was preoccupied in the south dealing with the Alk-Boreiner raids, allowing Borein to defeat the few scattered fleets it found and move to attack the coastal cities of Rattinoksen and Ousk. On the morning of November 28th, Boreiner warships would open fire upon the port and coastal defenses of Rattinoksen, confusing and destroying the local garrison and their defenses, allowing Borein to swiftly seize control of the port and land it's troops on the mainland, beginning a three day long battle for the city, which ended in a victory for Borein without much trouble. Next would come Ousk, with Boreiner ships nearing the area around it on November 29th, suddenly meeting resistance in the form of a militia fleet of 26 ships, which would attempt a desperate defense of the city's port for around a whole hour with support from coastal battaries, before being eventually sunk to the sea floor, with the port being taken control of by Boreiner forces, which would then descend upon the city and capture, though it would put up far more, even civlian, resistance than expected, taking until December 8th to fall. Meanwhile in the south, after receiving reinforcements, Boreiner troops had begun to move from Rattinoksen to Radidtk, reaching the River Fasle by December 5th, where they would be stopped by a 25 thousand strong Menzeri force at the town of Hamkuti, leading to a week long battle for the town, until eventually the Menzeri force was forced to retreat back to the town of Lamshok, where another battle would take place, ending once more in a Boreiner victory and forcing any remaining Menzeri troops back to the capital. As the first Boreiner troops appeared on the horizon to the citizens and troops of Radidtk on December 17th, it was clear to the government of Menzer that this was their last chance to hold off Borein, quickly moving in all troops they could to the city in an attempt to strengthen it's defenses, though this wouldn't help much. Two days later, the first fighting on the outskirts of the city would begin, with Menzer managing to hold off for a few hours until being pushed back to the middle of the city, where they would reorganise and manage to regain some land, holding off Borein for around four days before being pushed to the city center, where they would hold out under siege until December 27th, when the remaining defenders of the city and the government of Menzer would officially surrender, with the war officially ending on January 12th with the signing of the Treaty of Melding, which defined the maritime borders between the three states of Borein, Menzer and Alk Borein, and also made Menzer pay war reperations to the two other states.
===The Northern Front (1923-1927)===
====Bornian-Atelian War (1923-1927)====
While technically the Northern Front opened at the start of the Great Astrat War, it would see minimal action for the first two years of the war, with a few naval battles taking place between Neuver and Bornia, while a tiny number of skirmishes between Bornia and Atelia would take place on land. The war on land would only truly begin in late August 1923, when Atelia, with support from Neuver, would make an attempted push to capture the port city of Blusberg and the Bornian capital of Bramburg along with a few other border cities in the hopes of quickly knocking Bornia out of the war, so that Neuver could send much needed supplies to the Somorcos Front, which had opened up earlier in the year. The advance would manage to reach the outskirts of Bramburg by September 8th, though it would be stopped at the small town of Alzburg by a three thousand strong Bornian force which had strongly fortified the town, forcing the Atelians to retreat back to the border. Meanwhile in the north, Atelian troops immediately got bogged down in the urban fighting for Blusberg, which would last all the way until October 1923, when Bornian forces would push the Atelians out of their half of the city, proceeding to then quickly storm through the weak defenses of the Atelian side and seize the entire city by November. With the failure of the two main spearheads of the advance, the Atelians would be forced to retreat from all remaining Bornian territory they had captured, returning the borders to the pre-war situation in everywhere but Blusberg. Following some discussion between military generals, the Bornian army would begin an advance into Atelia aimed at capturing Hiven, Bleider, Sindon and Chessen, as these cities were key strategic gateways into northern Atelia, with Chessen being one of the largest Atelian trading hubs. All of these cities, ith the exclusion of the mountainous Hiven, had already fallen by the middle of December with minimal resistance by Atelian forces. Meanwhile, the Siege of Hiven would continue from when it began in early December into the new year and a bit further, with the city using it's favourable terrain as an advantage to push back waves of Bornian soldiers coming up the hill it sat on, resisting capture until late January, when the Bornians switched tactics and began a week long artillery bombardment of the city, creating massive gaps in the Atelian defenses and allowing them to seize the city on January 24th, finishing their offensive into Atelia.
For the next few months, the combat on the front would once more come to a standstill, with Atelia attempting to recover from their losses and prepare their defenses while Bornia wasn't yet truly commited to an active war and didn't want to overstretch their supply lines. A few minor skirmishes would take place during March and April of 1924, though these wouldn't have any major impact on the war as a whole. The situation would only begin to change by May of 1924, when Maximilian Grossburg was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Bornian army and the field marshal responsible for the entire front with Atelia. He would quickly come to realize that an attack against Atelia needed to be launched soon, otherwise it would ended in catastrophic defeat due to the Atelians having majorly improved their defenses during the standstill and only continuing to do so now. After some deliberation over the idea, Maximilian and his generals would come up with a plan that could be used to bypass the Atelian defenses and capture their capital, which hopefully would force the country to surrender. The plan involved a major attack south of Grussil to break the Atelian defensive line in that region, which was slightly weaker than the rest of the front. Following this, another gap in the Atelian defensive line would be used to attack Kinan and Lomin from behind, before moving onto the Atelian capital of Mosell and shelling it into submission, which would hopefully force a surrender of the Atelian government and armed forces. 
The offensive would begin on June 18th with around 65 thousand Bornian troops quickly heading towards the Atelian defensive line and engaging it two days later on the 20th, breaking through it by the 26th with only minimal casualties and attempting to reach the gap in the Atelian line, arriving just a day late and finding a 30 thousand strong army waiting for them where the gap was supposed to be, forcing a battle between the two sides which the Bornians would barely win with heavy casualties, putting the entire offensive at risk of collapsing, forcing the troops to stop for a week to receive reinforcements. During that time, the Atelians managed to assemble a new army on a hill near Lomin and were prepared to cut off the Bornians if they tried to go through the area. Maximilian, obviously aware of the problems this would cause, still decided that the offensive couldn't be delayed forever, sending his forces forwards to attack the Atelians, leading to the Battle of Hill Acresoun, which Atelia would manage to win with heavy losses, though this would fail to completely stop the Bornian advance forwards, with the hill falling anyways just a week after the battle. The army would continue to move south, splitting into three columns, moving to capture Kinan, Lomin and the capital. The first army to reach their destination was the one heading to Lomin, which then proceeded to siege the city for two weeks before it's defenders surrendered of hunger, allowing that army to move and assist the main one attacking Mosell. The army moving towards Kinan would be ambushed a bit away from the city, being almost completely destroyed and forced to retreat until further reinforcements arrived, after which another offensive towards Kinan would be attempted, this time far more successful, with the city falling on July 23rd. All the armies would once more meet up and remerge at the small town of Remaen, which was 34 kilometers away from Mosell. After getting a bit closer to the city, a month long shelling of the city by artillery would begin, with the defenders making multiple breakout attempts, all of which failed, leading to high casualties on both sides. The Atelian capital would finally fall to Bornian troops on August 30th, though, to the dismay and dissapointment of Maximilian, the Atelian government had seemingly fled the city just days prior to the beginning to the siege, as they couldn't be found anywhere in the ruins of the city. With that, the Summer Offensive of 1924 had come to an end, and while most of it's goals had been achieved, Maximilian still wasn't satisfied and immediately began planning a new offensive to capture Grusfa, the new residence of the Atelian government.
The offensive would begin in October of 1924, this time involving around 300 thousand troops and being concentrated on taking over the Atelian coast along with the de facto Atelian capital of Grusfa. The first advances would be in the south towards Copean, which would fall in less than a week, openning up the way to capturing Sofoun, though the city wouldn't be taken during the offensive. Meanwhile up north, the main breakthrough was taking place, with over 250 thousand troops destroying the last Atelian defensive positions in the region and beginning a speedy advannce towards the coastal cities, taking Sindon, Chessen, Dillig and others along the way. The Atelian army would make an attempt to stop the offensive in December 1924, gathering up a new 60 thousand strong force and preparing to defend River Mascheg and the cities of Neistor and Marhell, managing to hold the Bornians off until February 1925 before being kicked out of both cities and forced to retreat to Grusfa itself, which would hold for another month while the government evacuated to Duhlin. Following the capture of Grusfa, the still roughly 200 thousand strong Bornian force would advance to Boilon, artillery shelling the city into complete destruction before the enemy troops could even react, quickly forcing them to retreat over the Duhlin River to Duhlin, where roughly 75 thousand new Atelian troops would be recruited and defenses would begin to be built, with a few thousand troops sent out to slow the Bornian advance. This would pay off for around two weeks during which the Bornians were forced to constantly fight the determined Atelian forces, though they were slowly able to crush them and make their way to the river, but here their advance would stop, as Maximilian would decide that the army needed time to rest and wasn't ready for a major fight at the time, ending the offensive there and beginning slow preparations for the next one. 
After a month of preparation, the next offensive would begin, this time aimed at capturing parts of the southwest. Bornian infantry would advance towards Blusen and Ruovier in the north and Joming in the south, planning to capture the Jillaun Hills and Basceoun. They would meet the first major resistance immediately at Ruovier, where 12 thousand Atelian troops would hold them off for around two weeks before retreating from the city due to artillery bombardment, with 4 thousand of the 40 thousand Bornians involved in the offensive being killed already. This would lead to the offensive temporarily slowing down to replace the lost men, thought it would pick back up right after. Bornian troops would continue advancing to Blusen, managing to flank and almost encircle the city in a matter of days, forcing an Atelian retreat into the Jillaun Hills. During the retreat, a group of Atelian troops would be encircled in Sofoun, with 800 dying and the rest being forced to surrender. At the same time, around six thousand Bornian troops would also move to capture the city of Konen, which was inbetween the two major advances. After a four day long struggle over the city with two thousand Atelian troops, Bornian forces would take control of the city, raising the Bornian flag over the city, a move done rarely by Bornian soldiers during history. The offensive in the north had already restarted by then as 43 thousand Bornian troops marched into the Jillaun Hills and began making bloody advances from one hill to the next, with the Atelians using their greater knowledge of the terrain to lead the Bornians into traps and bleed them to slow down their advance. After a month of fighting, Bornian troops had finally reached the outskirts of Supean and Cevail, now only numbering at around 25 thousand. Disregarding this fact, the Bornians would begin an artillery bombardment of the two cities which would last up until early September, with multiple skirmishes taking place inbetween. During the same period, Bornia would make major advances in the south, capturing Joming in just under a week into the offensive, capturing three thousand Atelian troops. With the Atelians surprised and weakened, Bornian forces would manage to advance to the next major city, Discharg, in a week, bombarding it's defenses and entering it in two weeks. The Atelians would retreat to Farhag, establishing more defenses around the city and sending a few troops to try and destroy the Bornian artilery brigades, succeeding in destroying two of them. Farhag would resist Bornian attacks for around a whole month, bleeding the Bornians dry for the first week and then forcing them into a pro-longed siege, which would end once Bornian reinforcements arrived, overwhelming the Atelians and forcing them to retreat to Basceoun. During their retreat, the Atelians would stop a the town of Vjilaun for one final battle against the Bornians, ambushing them and using artillery to kill three thousand of them, forcing the Bornians to call the southern advance to an end to recover from their losses. Back in the north, after a roughly two month bombardment, Bornian forces aggressively attacked the defenses of Supean and Cevail, breaking down parts of them for a few days and attempting to break into the city until the Atelians rebuilt the walls, forcing the Bornians to cease the attacks and regroup. After regrouping, they would try the same strategy but also bombard the cities during the night, finally breaking down their walls by October, beginning a month of bloody street fighting for them. On November 22nd, Cevail would fall to the Bornians and Supean would follow on the 25th, ending the northern offensive. This offensive would also make the Bornians reconsider their strategy and technology used in the war, as their current one had lead them to wasting half a year in taking a medium sized chunk of land at a high cost in lives. As they reconsidered their strategies, Bornia would also begin investigations into new possible vehicle ideas, which included an idea involving a mounted vehicle based upon a chasis and continous tracks, which was dubbed the "thunder fort", becoming the earliest known design of a tank. After more consideration and a few redesigns and the idea would finally being accepted by Maximilian, tank production would slowly began on the border between Atelia and Bornia, with the first few tanks being rolled out in late January and more being produced in February due to their successful application in the Grand Offensive. 
The Grand Offensive, as it would come to be known in the 1930's, would begin on February 10th, 1926, when around five thousand Bornian troops advanced to Jafat and took it in a surprise attack using artillery, cutting Hiefel off from the de facto capital of Duhlin, allowing it to be captured a day later on the 11th. Two days later on the 13th, an attack on Basceoun would begin, lasting around a week and being the first battle in the war to involve tanks, which allowed Bornia to win and push onto, and capture Suzen and Lecs by the end of the month. At the same time, Atelian forces were trying to retake Hiefel, using up their last artillery brigades during the battle and losing four thousand men before the rest of the attack force was surrounded by Bornian tanks and forced to surrender. With two victories already having been secured by tanks, the "thunder car" would be proven as a viable strategy for winning the war, leading to it being mass produced in order to speed up the offensive. As the battle of Duhlin began, Maximilian would personally arrive to the front to inspect the front, ordering an immediate attack on Duhlin with their superior firepower and artillery. This would end up being successful, cracking the defenses by March 9th, encircling the city by March 11th and forcing the forces inside the city to surrender on the 14th, capturing the Atelian government in the process. Maximilian would force them to sign the Treaty of Duhlin, which officially removed Atelia from the war, forced it to grant much of southern Atelia to Bornia as an occupation zone and granted Bornia around 850 million Civnans in reperations. While this treaty was meant to end the war, Maximilian knew that it would not, ordering the army to continue advancing. A week after the signing of the treaty, a few Atelian military generals lead by Jocus Bosshe would establish a provisional government in Morsilea, declaring that the fight was not yet over and asking the Allied Concord for assistance. On March 25th, Kosice and Gicen would fall to Bornian soldiers through the use of artillery, a few prototypes of early bomber planes and over 50 tanks, the largest amount seen yet, completely destroying the Atelian army and forcing them to retreat to Brulouse and Macaeun, which they would lose by the end of the month along with Fleming. The Atelian provisional government would attempt to reorganise at Losoun and Masau, forming a defensive formation through the use of forts and trenches, also featuring the first Atelian tanks. The Bornian army would arrive to the area in around a week, beginning a two week long battle of grinding trench warfare and tank sabotage operations. Meanwhile on the coast, Atelian armies would continue to retreat further up north to Morsilea and Gislou, where they would be beaten again and further forced to retreat to Briseoun and the surrounding highlands, where they would finally stop the Bornian advance after multiple weeks of bloody fighting. By the end of April, the offensive had finally began to stall, forcing Bornia to conscript another wave of troops to send north in an attempt to break the stalemate and continue the offensive at all costs. Meanwhile at the same time the Allied Concord was beginning to draw up plans for an invasion of southern Bornia which were leaked to the Bornian government by a double agent, causing panic in the high command and government. Maximilian would propose a naval invasion of New Mawbol to distract the Concord and give Bornia enough time to capture Atelia and move their troops down south, which after much debate the rest of the government would agree to. As the New Mawbol Campaign was began, Bornia conscripted another 400 thousand troops and ramped up tank production, sending half of them to the front between Losoun and Masau, where fighting had died down by that point. One the new tanks had arrived, they would be put to use in a major tank advance on the trenches, which would punch multiple holes in the Atelian defensive line, allowing the infantry to swiftly exploit them and surround around 20 thousand Atelian troops while the rest were forced to retreat to Breson, where they would be surrounded and quickly forced to surrender, and Greut, where they would manage to hold for around a week and three days before retreating to Fuasoun for a final last stand, holding off Bornian armies for two weeks before finally being forced to surrender in early June, closing the River Vidau Front. 
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At this point entire divisions on the Atelian side would begin to errupt into mutiny, purposefully surrendering to the Bornians in exchange for being allowed to "liberate" parts of the country, leading to the entire south falling to Bornia by the second week of April. As everything was seemingly beginning to fall apart for the Atelians, the Allied Concord, mainly spearheaded by Neuver, Mawbol and Oiber, would finally make their move and land over 50 thousand troops near Mörsberg, Lubechk, Augstiae, Blusberg and the south of Bornia, quickly capturing most of the major ports and forcing Bornia to relocate much of it's army from Atelia to the south to push back the Concord, extending the war by another month. The end result of this fighting would be a stalemate, as Bornia would recapture the north but the Concord would consolidate their hold over southern Bornia, forcing both sides to sign the Treaty of Bramburg on June 6th. The terms of the treaty would force Bornia to lower the reperations from Atelia by half and grant Atelia a few border regions as concessions for the damage inflicted during the war, though neither country would be punished any further, enforcing peace in the region for the time being, effectively closing the war if not for one front - New Mawbol. [For now keeping until the lore is fully reworked]] 
====The New Mawbol Campaign (1926-1927)====
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