War of Fools

The War of Fools, known in the GUE as the Liberation War, is an armed conflict between the Great Universal Empire and the People's Republic of the Amurrhine that started in 1921. The war quickly turned into a guerilla war when PRA citizens began taking up arms and attacking GUE troops in surprise attacks.

Beginning
The war began when, during the Second Scourge Outbreak, the PRA government under Veranzilarno Kalonip evacuated the country to avoid being infected. This left the regent Nicholas Basileus as the only remaining governing authority and he declared a state of emergency and dissolved the reigning session of the Supreme People's Council. However the regent then left the country with the royal family. This left the PRA effectively with no government and a state of lawlessness ensued in the capital city of Spirova. A few days after the regent left the former PRA Minister-President who infamously was the cause for the First PRA Civil War and the Second PRA Civil War as well as leading the country during World War One, Rilan Kalonip, took power on a basis of ridding the country of the Scourge and socialism. The GUE saw this as a threat to their stability and invaded.

War Events
Merchant Massacre/ Supply Failure:


 * Massacre of neutral Hyrulian forces who weren't even employed by the government. Their shipping company volunteered crews as charters for the government, not thinking that a neutral force would be attacked.

GUE'S view on this is that these armed Hyrule ships serving their government as required bg their majority stakeholder Vladimir Ranoluv (who also leads Hyrule) were carrying supplies to the GUE'S active enemy, the PRA and these supplies of war were being delivered to a warzone. They turned back at first site of a blockade but were bombed by GUE airforces as a warning to Hyrule to not supply our enemy. Twenty men were killed. And four GUE planes were lost.

The first major GUE strike on the PRA began against the northern colony in Borealis defended by COSS. General Catman led an assault of three million men against 300,000 COSS Forces. They came from all borders of the colony for confusion. Uchijan even let them cross their border. This attack ended in encirclement and was never finished for end of the war. The colony held out for the entirety of the war (4 months) which is embarrassing as it was surrounded on all sides and heavily outnumbered COSS suffered 10,000 to 15,000 casualties and 5,000 civilian casualties.
 * Invasion of Borealis

General Roitwell led an assault on the Eastern Port Kalipnograd as his first assault. The defenders crumpled retreating for Praenutian lands and Salsuginess. Before they left they made sure to try and destroy anything useful. The GUE was forced to stop and work to end the fires set and secure the area as scourge were set free. The PRA seeing itself outnumber used Scorched earth for reasons unknown to the writer. Perhaps to slow the GUE enough to back down. But there would be no way they would have done that, for many reasons. The PRA used a tactic of destroying all useful infrastructure, burning towns and fields and releasing the Scourge as they went. Those captured would riot, fight, and refuse to work. They acted as Gorillas and were heavily oppressed on this account. The GUE heavily attempted to squash rebellion through the use of force and the use of reward.
 * Port Kalipnograd
 * Scorched Earth Policies

In preparation for the most important battle of Spirova the nearby towns had to be taken to prepare the field. The City of Alitopnigrad was quickly moved on and captured.
 * Alitopnigrad

After the arming of every man in Spirova by the Ammurhine government the GUE command decided a direct assault would be too difficult to do and cost too many lives. So the command decided upon a strategy of siege and encirclement. The forces would move around and form a wall of men around Spirova and build forts to hold the city in. All supplies would be blocked to the city and the army would simply wait for the city to starve out. This strategy proved successful and the city and nation soon surrendered realizing their doom.
 * Encirclement of Spirova


 * Events can be seen here and here.

Tactics
The usage of Guerilla war was highly present on the side of the Ammurhine. Also highly present on this time was Scorched earth warfare to leave nothing behind. All these tactics show as brave but desperate, a nation so clearly overwhelmed but bravely hoping for victory. A thing much appreciated by the Author.
 * People's Republic of the Amurrhine

Used by the GUE were mass attacks, most present in Alitopnigrad and Borealis. The use of many soldiers to overwhelm very quickly but without the use of much artillery, bombing, or armored vehicles shows a primitive, slow to adapt strategy with contempt for its citizens. Despite this these attacks proved successful against such a small foe.
 * Great Universal Empire

Also used was Bait/Beat. An anti rebel strategy the GUE tried to beat out rebel groups with JUMPSUIT agents or turned Ammurhinians who were paid well for betraying their countrymen. Following this the rebel groups would be attacked and the members thoroughly beat, executed, imprisoned, or deported as slave laborers. Those who would not work and rioters were treated the same harsh way. The whole strategic basis was that you accept the GUE rule and get well paid for it, or you didn't and were heavily punished. This stratagy was only used by GUE commanders because of the mass fighting against the army. If they had thought the people could be more docile they would have tried to appease them instead.

The final main strategy aside from Blockading used by the GUE was encirclement and siege. Instead of fighting hard at the cities the Army would sit in and wait for them to starve with supplies being blocked.

Outcome
Following these victories the Ammurhine was presented by the option of full statehood if only it would surrender. Wisely the nation chose to do this and the war was over with the GUE coming out on top and a new state in the Empire. This war left a lack of trust in the GUE and fear over a world war, a thing nobody would want, but a thing all would prepare for.