The Grand War

## Belligerents

### Faction 1

Kingdom of Kaphan, Kingdom of Gruvania, Xavieran Archipelago, Kingdom of Roozterlandie

### Faction 2

Kingdom of Forandredt, Kingdom of Magdorland, Shadow Ospray, Kingdom of Dresanaria

## Faction 1

### Monarch1

King Alrich III, King Meyer Bin Khalmi, King Cronos

## Faction 2

### Monarch2

King Jeremiah III, King Volkhar, King Hubert

## Casualties and Losses

### Civillian Casualties

23.000.000

The Grand War, or officially known as The Battle Of The Kings, is a 25 Year Absolute War that involved almost all nations in the entire world.

### The War

#### Background

During the Great Northern Border Conflict, a chunk of western Forandrendt became independent and was named Elovannia. During the 100 BGW Revolution, Forandrendt almost invaded Elovannia due to a breakdown of comms in the Military HQ.

Elovannian independence was welcomed with everyone, except for of course Forandrendt. And so, after signing alliances with Shadow Ospray, they declared war.

#### Prelude

During the mobilization period, the so called Grand Alliance began moving its troops along the border of Elovannia, concentrating on the middle. This was however, a diversionary attack that will be followed up by tanks moving in the flanks. The Ivory Alliance got word of it as soon as Forandrendt military started moving near the border, they soon began to mobilize and under 24 hours notice, 35 Gruvanian Army Corps were activated in part thanks to training and discipline of its soldiers.

Elovannia got the word too late when almost 80% of the planned invasion force was already near the border with Shadow Ospray soldiers awaiting in their landing craft. Magdorland with Chastonovia remained neutral as it was in no way of a war.

#### Invasion of Elovannia

During the quiet night on the 8th January, only 2 Corps was stationary in the border. On 05:00 AM the soundof artillery opening fire destroyed many tanks and soldiers on the outskirts of villages. Moments later, columns of tanks started moving on the road, this was a total suprise attack by Forandrendt. By 07:00 AM, the entire western border force was shattered as it became extremely pummeled. Shadow Ospray soldiers began landing their troops without much resistance. By the end of the day, more than 25.000 Elovannians died on the border against the loss of 3.000 Forarenian soldiers.

The Elovannian First Armored Corps managed to halt the Forarenian advance around the highway connecting to the Elovannian Capital, New Gorais. But after a month, New Gorais was taken by joint Shadow-Forarenian forces and the Elovannian monarchy had to leave out of the country by foreign aid such as Gruvania. About 150.000 Elovannian soldiers were evacuated out of the Grand Harbor under intense fire by Forarenian artillery.

#### The First Five Years

After the invasion of Elovannia, Gruvania, Kaphan, Roozterlandie, and Xaviera declared war on the Grand Alliance on first of March 1 GW. Gruvanian Army Corps soon arrived by sea and air in Xaviera in late April. Gruvanian-Kaphan-Xavieran ships began to blockade Grand Alliance Harbors and manage to sink lone destroyers in the Abyss Sea. The first major battle ensued on 7th July 1 GW when 175.000 of the Gruvanian First Army clashed against 210.000 from the Forarenian Fifth Army. The battle was a bloodbath for both sides as 45.000 Gruvanians and 40.000 Forarenian perished in the battle. The battle was named the Battle Of The Red Tulips.

Meanwhile in the Air, the air above Xaviera became hostile due to large numbers of Ivory and Grand Alliance airplanes fighting. In just the first months of fighting, 250 Fighter Aircraft were shot down by both sides. And it became more so when Forarenian Flying Aces racked up an average of 2 Aircraft per sortie. The Air War was a stalemate for both sides, and it became so during the Battle Of The Red Tulips.

The Naval War was often remarked by Ivory Officers as “A Marvelous War” because Gruvanian-Kaphan ships blockaded all harbors, thereby cutting of offshore trade. The first ship sunk was the Heavy Cruiser FNS Forandrendt, sunk in the first 2 hours of the war with 24 survivors of the 450 crew.

In 3 GW, The Forarenian Offensive began, when 3 Armies with 1.200.000 men marched into Xaviera. During spring of 3 GW, they made remarkable progress, capturing key city after key city. But during the Summer, vehicles often broke down on both sides, making the offensive ground to a halt. In the winter, the Ivory Winter Offensive led by 4 Armies of 1.760.000 men recaptured back lost ground and manage to cut off a isolated Forarenian Corps from escaping, capturing 15.000 men during the encirclement.

In 4 GW, Magdorland entered the war after its king, Jeremiah II was killed when his gunboat was sunk by Gruvanian Aircraft when they mistook it as a Forarenian Gunboat that escaped the blockade. Just at that time, the Forarenian 4 GW offensive began and soon started shelling the Xavieran Capital City. The Forarenians gradually pushed back the Kaphan Second Army and manage to encircle the capital with 50.000 Kaphan and Xavieran soldiers. At 10 September, the city was taken and all 50.000 was captured. The Ivory Alliance started to evacuate Xaviera when it became clear that Xaviera was a lost cause.

In 5 GW, The Ivory Alliance started to fall back behind the Kaphan Line, a formidable barrier that was held by the now arrived Roozterlandie First Army. The battle around the Kaphan Line soon became intense as Forarenian and Magdorlandian Armies started shelling the defences. The defence was a success as the Grand Alliance had to bypass the Chastonovian border after it declared neutrality.

#### Invasion of Kaphan (5 GW - 8 GW)

Around the same time as the Battle Of The Kaphan Line, Roozterlandie reinforcements started to come. On the 2nd of April 5 GW, tanks from the Forarenian Fifth army attacked Yajad that was held by the Gruvanian 12th Corps, Kaphan 9th Army and the Roozterlandie Second Army. The battle that was to ensue took 678.000 Ivory Casualties and 780.600 Grand Casualties. The Grand Alliance finally took Yajad on the 7th of May but the key roads were mined and a small rearguard of 30.000 men was to hold the line until the retreating Ivory Alliance armies regroup at Yuhibu City.

Once the Ivory Army regrouped on the 10th of May, they launched a minor offensive that failed at the cost of 276.000 Casualties and Grand Alliance 231.000 Casualties. By now, both sides were exhausted after months of fighting nonstop, so they were to sit on their positions until the spring of 6 GW.

Meanwhile in the sea, The Gruvanian 3rd Fleet scored a blow towards Magdorlandian First and the Forarenian Second Fleet. In the battle of Ashines Bay, the Gruvanian Carrier Air Group sunk 2 Aircraft Carriers (all of them Magdorlandians), 4 Cruisers, and 2 destroyers with the loss of aircraft carrier GNS Polk when it was hit by torpedos from submarine FNS Gorais.

In the spring of 6 GW, the Ivory launched a full offensive against the Grand Alliance that successfully retook Yajad. The Forarenian Second Army tried to take it again on the summer but was unsuccessful. On the winter of 6 GW, with reinforcements arriving from Magdorland and Shadow Ospray, the Grand Alliance launched a full invasion on Kaphan with 3.500.000 men.

The shock and suprise shook the Ivory Army to almost the brink of collapse. In the first few days, the Grand Alliance managed to take Yajad and encircle the Roozterlandie 24th Corps. On the 7th day, they besieged Yuhibu City with the Gruvanian 6th Corps in it. They captured Shakra with 30.000 Ivory Soldiers captured. By the end of the February, Eastern Kaphan was taken by the Grand Alliance with the loss of 1.3 million men against 2.4 of the Ivory Alliance. On the 14th of March of 7 GW, they took Bayhang Province but this was the last Grand Alliance victory of the Battle for Kaphan.

In January of 8 GW, with the arrival of the FN-SCARX that had been issued to all Gruvanian Soldiers, the Ivory Alliance launched an offensive to take Eastern Kaphan and was codenamed Operation Blue Star. Together with Kaphan, Roozterlandie and some Elovannian Corps that escaped the Invasion Of Elovannia and their newfound knowledge from Forarenian Military Tactics, they launched a diversionary attack towards Balahid while the main attack was to cut off key roads in Shakra and Yuhibu City. They cut off the entirety of the Forarenian Fifth Army in Balahid when their Magdorlandian counterparts failed to defend their flanks. All 670.000 men of the Forarenian Fifth Army were captured or killed when they surrendered the Kaphan Second Army on February 8 GW.

Soon after the surrender of the Forarenian Fifth Army, Magdorlandian First Army troops began to withdraw from Yajad under intense fire from Ivory Alliance Artillery whilst Forarenian Second Army arrived to defend it. During the withdrawal, the Forarenian Royal Guard was dispatched to hold the line with their Forarenian counterparts. After 10 days of retreat, the city was taken back by the Ivory Alliance.

#### Invasion of Xaviera (8 GW - 21 GW)

With their newfound experience in the field, the Ivory Alliance started to look back again to Xaviera. On the 3rd of March 8 GW, the Ivory Army started its offensive back again after a few months rest. They racked up the Forarenian Second Army again after its defence of Yajad, taking 210.000 casualties against 368.000 casualties on the Grand Alliance.

On the 9th of August 9 GW, a series of Magdorlandian skirmishes between Chastonovian soldiers in the outskirts of the border made Chastonovia declare war on the Grand Alliance and soon lend its forces with the Ivory Alliance. During this struggling times, the Forarenian King Volkhar set up a puppet state in Elovannia called the Kingdom of Dresanaria with Albert Hubert, one of the Elovannian Forandrendt supporters to become king.

10 GW marked the first full offensive by the Ivory Alliance after Operation Blue Star, it had 12.000.000 men with around 65.000 Tanks, 25.000 Fighter Jets into the offensive. By this point in the war, both alliances brought almost their entire armed forces into the war, sparing only a few reserve personnel. Tanks from the Ivory First Army Group descended along the plains of Xaviera and advanced without infantry support after they were told to finish up isolated pockets of Grand Alliance units. By mid-August the Ivory Alliance were almost at the gates of the Xavieran Capital, Athebury but were soon repulsed in the outskirts by some Corps from the Kingdom of Dresanaria.

A suprise Winter Offensive by the Grand Alliance forced the Ivory Alliance to settle down halfway into Xaviera. On 11 BGW, they agreed into a truce that would last until mid-July the next year. On 11 BGW the war started again by a offensive by the Grand Alliance that thrusted almost into Kaphan but were repulsed again and again by the Ivory Alliance. The war on the sea started back again when a task force under Grand Admiral Kelv attacked a Ivory Convoy carrying troops. Grand Admiral Kelv managed to destroy 1/3 of the convoy before being driven back by the Grand Admiral Clifton Marks in his flagship GNS Graycott.

Fighting slowed back again when both sides were exhausted yet again in 12 GW, this would last until 19 GW when both sides were back at offensives. Technology advancements made NVG accesible to not just special forces but regular forces too, the conscription of men from all across the war began after both sides lost considerable amounts of experienced soldiers.

The most intense fighting in the entire war aas brought up in 19 GW when 200.000 Artillery Pieces from both sides attack one-another in a desperate bid to see who will win the Battle Of Xaviera. Homes were destroyed, entire villages was razed to the ground, but soon the Grand Alliance again was withdrawing after Ivory Armies liberated Athebury after 14 years of Grand Alliance occupation.

On the 3rd of February 20 GW, the biggest naval battle in the Grand War was to commence after the entire Eastern Grand Alliance Fleets (3 Fleets, 600+ Ships) decided that they would have to break the blockade and regroup with the Western Fleet). The Battle of Abyss has begun, around 3 Grand Fleets faced against 5 Ivory Fleets. Both sides were led by seasoned Grand Admirals (Kelv commanding the Magdorland Fleet) (Indev commanding the entire Forarenian Eastern Fleet) (Clifton commanding the Gruvanian Home Fleets) (Charles commanding the Kaphan Northern Fleet). Around 60 Supercarriers participated in the battle, with around 12 of them sinking (Gruvania: 4) (Kaphan: 2) (Magdorland: 2) (Forandrendt: 4). The battle was a strategic Ivory victory due to Grand Admiral Kelv going down with his flagship, MNS Jeremiah and Forandrendt losing 1/3 of their Navy.

Around Summer of 21 GW, the battle of Xaviera was won after the Grand Alliance withdrew into their home territory. The entire campaign costed around 6.000.000 soldiers from both sides to die. Unlike other campaigns, this was by far the most deadliest of them all.

#### Battle of Forandredt (21 GW-25 GW)

The 2nd Battle of Xaviera was a strategic disaster, because they lost many of their experienced men and have to rely on conscripts to defend their homeland. King Volkhar issued a conscription policy, mobilizing 20.000.000 young men into the ever turning war. The Ivory Alliance decided that Shadow Ospray be bypassed after predicting a land war there would be costly for resources and manpower. The Forandredt theater erupted not by gunfire, but by fire itself after Forandredt decided to scorch its northern lands to destroy Ivory natural supplies that can be obtained in its forests. In Spring of 21 GW, 4 Ivory Army Groups invaded Forandredt in what they call as “The Campaign of Retribution”. At that same time, 3 whole parachute divisions landed on Elovannia to take part in operation Dresanaris, an operation to invade Elovannia by sea.

The theatre erupted into open battle as both sides laid waste into the country, scorching its forests and killing millions of civilians. On 22 GW, the tide is endlessly turning for the Grand Alliance after an unexpected victory for the Ivory Alliance, capturing the capital city Gorais at the cost of 200.000 dead. On winter, the Grand Alliance mustered almost their entire resource to make an offensive against the advancing Ivory Army Groups but it was stopped dead in their tracks and forced into their initial positions.

On 23 GW, the Kingdom of Dresanaria was overthrown by a Royalist Coup, restoring the former monarch Cronos back into power. With Ivory Corps landing in Finberg the Grand Alliance soon again decide to withdraw from Elovannia over the course of 5 months. On the 10th of October, the entire Eastern Fleet of Forandrendt surrendered into Ivory hands after their grand harbour was captured by Ivory divisions.

24 GW marked the last year of the war before peace deals would be signed the very next year. As the Ivory Alliance started to finish up Forandredt, Magdorland changed sides after they were threatened by the Ivory Alliance to “surrender or we will burn down your country.” Not knowing what to do, Forandredt launched a last and desperate attempt to do an offensive that will at least capture back Gorais but to no avail. After 24 years of constant war, King Volkhar was forced to make his country surrender or abdicate, he chose to abdicate and was succeeded by his son Zinkrieg the next day. Zinkrieg asked the Ivory Alliance to a armistice until there was a peace treaty.

25 GW brought the entire war into an end after 25 years of fighting, the peace treaty was signed in Gorais, marking an end to the war. Hours after the war had ended, trucks full of food and medical equipment was brought into every city, town, and village by the Ivory Alliance. The war-torn continent only recovered 3 years after the end when both the Grand and Ivory Alliances agreed to merge themselves into the Unity Of Nations (UN) to bring peace and prosperity in the whole world.