War of the First Coalition

The War of the First Coalition is an ongoing conflict centered around Central Dresanaria with the Coalition fighting against the Socialist Republic of Athonia. The conflict started when Athonian divisions invaded the neutral Chastonovia with around 30.000.000 men against Chastonovia’s 3.000.000 men.

Fulfilling the oath to protect one another from a foreign power’s invasion, The United Republic of Ivenia declared war and soon started mobilizing their armed forces for the war. Immediately after the successful Athonian Socialist Revolution did relations sour between the two powers, this was fixed during the 55 IE Conference but the peace only lasted for four years until Athonia started to prepare for war against the newly founded Coalition.

## Background

After the Athonian Socialist Revolution succeed, The Socialist overthrown the Athonian Goverment, and make the nation communist. The International reaction to this is very bad, Relations between Athonia and The Monarchs soured, as the monarch cut off diplomatic relations with Athonia in order to avoid spreading the idea of ​​a socialist revolution. The 55 IE Conference, made an agreement between Athonia and the rest of the Monarchs Power to settle Peace and not attacking each other. As they signed the agreement, many of the ministers in Athonia weren’t very happy about the terms of the agreement.

### Prelude

In 58 IE, the SROA Government started to prepare a war against Chastonovia with the aim of creating a puppet state in the Chastonovian Gap. This plan would also aim to cut off any Ivenian support from coming to aid Chastonovia as both nations signed a treaty to aid each other in case of war.

To compensate Chastonovian military quality, the Athonians had to rely on numbers to overwhelm the Chastonovian Armed Forces and to swiftly capture the Chastonovian Capital to overthrow the Royal Family, thereby severing the head of Chastonovia.

Chastonovia, with aid from Ivenia and Grevia, built fortifications as soon as they heard that the Athonian Armed Forces is massing their forces on their borders.

## The War

The war began when 100 Athonian Air Force bombers suddenly appeared in the skies on Chastonovian Cities, including the capital Alchstroph. When they dropped their payload however, they were propaganda leaflets ordering populaces of cities to surrender to “The Advancing Athonian Army”. This shocked many Chastonovians but they were quickly calmed down by local police and military units moving to their designated defence lines.

A few hours later a telephone rang in the Chastonovian Royal Palace, it was Athonian Minister of War Joseph Michael that informed the Chastonovian Queen that Athonia has declared war and urged the Queen to surrender without a fight, this was vehemently refused by the Queen who in turn started to mobilize the small but experienced Chastonovian Army.

By nightfall, artillery rang across the border as both sides exchanged volley after volley of artillery, smashing and killing anyone who were unfortunate to be standing near the blast. The next day, the signal was given for the Athonian Army to advance, they did so quickly as there was a very tight timetable to take the Chastonovian Capital. During the morning there was heavy clashes and tank battles with the Athonian 23rd Army pitted against the hopelessly outnumbered Chastonovian 1st Army guarding Southern Chastonovia. On the east, 25 million men advanced on the Chastonovian Gap just in time to close just as Ivenian reinforcements started to pour in on the other side.

But instead of going any further, the Athonian Army stopped their advance and just made camp. The Athonian Army have decided to form a rebel group there, with the propaganda leaflets in the area, 150.000 people answered the call, most of them being desperate pacifists trying to end the war. They gathered up the would-be insurgents and have them sent to the Alchstroph to set a rebellion there. After that the Athonian Army broke camp and resumed advancing, prepared to meet certain death upon the slopes of Trenda Hill.

In 2 weeks of fighting, the 1st Army, who had by now retreated to the second line of fortifications, been reduced from 600.000 to just 450.000. The 2nd Army guarding the eastern sector also fared worse, since half of the army had been cut off from the rest with 3rd Army and the Ivenian 12th Army when the gap closed. Finding a chance to finish off the 1st Army and the half-reduced 2nd Army, the Athonian Army committed its armies in the east to push back the 2nd Army and the 12th Army to further reduce the likelihood of a possible western attack by the 2nd Army.

The offensive began with the Athonian 40th, 14th, and 16th Armies advancing to the east, meeting little opposition until they met a heavy resistance from the combined Chastonovian-Ivenian armies near Lake Radog. There waves of Athonian soldiers are cut down just short of the enemy trenches as machine gun fired mowed down dozens of tightly packed formations of soldiers, with artillery finishing off any survivors. By the first month of the offensive, most of the Athonian Gap Armies had to be relocated to shore up the lines of the badly mauled 40th, 14th, and 16th Armies.

Sensing an opportunity, the Chastonovian 2nd Army launched their offensive with the support of the 1st Army by attacking the rear of the Chastonovian Gap, thereby trying to encircle the entire Athonian Gap Armies in a single devastating blow. Even with clear signs of an offensive to try to cut off the Athonian Gap Armies, the Athonian High Command did not really care as they are confident that with overwhelming numbers they will achieve victory.

In just the third day of the Chastonovian Offensive, the entire gap was cut off from any outside communication and the entire 25 million Athonian Gap Armies was encircled. Now without supply and reserve, the Athonian Gap Armies tried desperately to break away from the encirclement but relentless attacks coming from both east and west drove them even further away from their hope of escape. By the end of September, the situation had become untenable and the commander of the Athonian Gap Armies, Field Marshal Trond, surrendered, bringing him and 10 million men into captivity, with the rest either executed in droves or are too wounded to be carried away and left to die.

Several attempts were made by the units that had escaped the encirclement to attempt a rescue but all proved in vain, with said units being destroyed in the coming months from relentless fighting. The news of the surrender came with a shockwave to the Athonian High Command as they realize that their initial objective would ultimately fail and that years and years of war would only bring the Athonian Army to a breaking point.

Just as planned, the insurgents that the Athonians sent a few months before the disaster entered Alchstroph disguised as refugees, with most of them slipping away while some were caught by police. Knowing full well after one of the insurgents confessed, the Royal Family was evacuated just in time as the insurgents took over the capital by force, killing thousands of civilians that were shielding the Royal Palace. The streets ran blood that day as thousands of bodies were left in the streets with books being burned as the Athonian Flag was hoisted atop the bloody Royal Palace. Out of the 500 Royal Guards that defended the Palace that day, only 50 successfully escaped the carnage.