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Reunited Kingdom of Great Britain and Overseas dominions -- once the mainland England was lost, Canadian and Scottish exiles were able to push the undead back, UK was saved.

Grand Republic of All Russia -- the Tsar is dead, and so is his empire.

Portugal-Brazil -- "... is not a small country."

Confederated Principalities -- Wallachia was able to break away from the Ottoman yoke, but to break the undead armies... it took more effort to defeat the Blight than to defeat the Sultan.

Denmark -- one of the least populated countries of Europe.

Sweden-Norway -- from the swamps of Lappland, to the shores of Pomerania, Sweden is back.

Republic of Poland -- the only nation of Europe that was built by survivor communities, and not by organised governments. From Krakow to Gdansk, people of Poland can finally be free.

>"Rescued Imperials from a sunken ship are spreading rumors about a new type of weapon, and engineering bureaus across the country are beginning to try to create a Ferrian response to a new word in weapons science. <...>"

from the one issue of Les Heraut Liberaux, Ferrian national newspaper.

The first Ferrian submachine gun was designed when Ferria was still neutral and non-aligned. It was designed in a matter of three weeks and it was immedeately put in production.

Cheap. Light. And... uh... it's... Yeah, I can't say anything positive about this SMG. Perhaps it was the fastest SMG by the time of manufacturing criteria. I think you can literally make one in 3 hours.

It was shooting just a little bit slower than Imperial "Defender" SMG, but does it even matter?

Who else but you? I wanted to post it on r/armor but I decided to post it here. I trust you guys more

Soldier! If you know anything that can help us, at The New London Nightly, to map out the world, it will help us greatly to increase our delivery efficiency.

We are interested in knowing of...

1. Any cities(above- or underground)

2. Areas of active skirmish

3. Any bandit camps or territories under anarchy

4. Places you know anything about, really.

By combining various headcannons we can map out the first(and probably the only) community-made G/D Expanded universe map!

Please, help this initative to not die. Thank you.

Also don't forget to check out Solace Times, they're obviously better in... everthing. Thank you in advance.

Ferria is... Or at least it was peaceful. Parliamentary monarchy that was mostly neutral, joined the war because of the ideas of humanism, end enforcement of peace. Perhaps this is the only country in this world, that I can't call fully evil. Flawed, maybe, but they were the only great power without any terrible downsides. Iron Kingdom earned it's nickname due to world's richest mines of iron ore. It's literally everywhere beneath the surface. It's so cheap that timber and carpentry were literally more expensive than iron furniture or building materials. 

Almost all branches of the Coastal Army were located in defensive fortifications, the so-called "walls". Although they were not literally walls, they were huge structures that were fortified stone and metal fortresses, for the most part still looking like walls with towers and additional buildings behind them. Such fortifications were capable of withstanding(!) wave impacts and sea storms, and on an oceanic planet where hardly all land would exceed a fraction of 1/10 of the planet's surface, where entire kingdoms went into oblivion due to sudden tides, it was truly a marvel of man's might.  

Though, the "iron walls" forced Ferrians to make their equipment compact. These rifles were the shortest of them all, barely even reaching 1.1 metres in length, with carbine version being even smaller. It wasn't seen as necessary to improve the existing system of tube-fed bolt-action rifle. Mighty Ferrian cannons and artillery were capable of destroying even Imperial ships. EVEN Imperial ships. It was... a very... convincing argument in favour of a diplomatic approach in Imperial-Ferrian relations.

We have confirmed the existance of several countries, territories and enclaves of the 'Big Two', the Royal Nation and the Golden Empire.

Not enough of information about surviving settlements.

New Birmingham was mentioned only once in the first issue of 'The New London Nightly', and... the New London itself wasn't explicitly mentioned outside of the same GE newspaper.

What I noticed so far: Solace Times is always reffering to de-facto territories. For example: Czechoslovakia is de-jure a part of the Golden Empire and Austria, but in reality, it seems to be an active frontline without any government, really.

List of settlements:

- New London(GE)

- New Birmingham(GE)

List of confirmed territories

- Britannia(GE)

- New Normandy(GE)

- Kingdom of Poland(RN)

Inspired by the Surface mode that is going to be added in the next update

The problem: Many Imperials during the earliest months of the War of the Mist were armed with flintlock or powder cap weapons, many of them were very prone to... not work, for the lack of a better word, when it rains.

The solution: Just make some shields. It protects you from the bad weather, plus, the trench gives you more chances to safely reload your weapon while your enemy has to do it in the open field. The idea of trench shields was inspired by medieval wooden shields on siege engines that were protecting them from burning arrows.

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Despite the propaganda that shows us Mistlanders with fancy Lenfield rifles, and even performing 'mad walking'(when 4+ soldiers shoot their bolt-action rifles as fast as a machine gun), at least half of the troops in the Royal Army had single-shot rifles when the War started. Although bolt-action single shot is a great improvement over the musket, Imperials still had some guts and tricks to fight back, despite the fact that their weapons were terribly, awfully, absolutely no good in comparison with rifles of the Royal Army of Mistland.

It... didn't make a big difference, though. Mistlanders simply used their very fast and relatively small mobile artillery, for the first time in history of the world, keep in mind, and they used it effectively. Yes, small calibre of their artillery was not even close to the great cannons of the Immortal Empire, yet the Kingdom of Mistland showed and proved that sometimes you really don't need a giant gun when you have a dozen of smaller ones. Artillery is really complicated thing, but you should know that when you're used to naval style of using cannons, it's really difficult to adapt to use of them on the land. Both Mistland and the Empire were masters in their own style, and they had to fight each other in unfamiliar ways.

What I was talking about? Ah, yes, the trenches. Imperials 'had a habit' of building roads and fortifications whenever they're going on a military campaign. And when the War of the Mist started, they simply chose to remember old reliable way that was with them for over the 2000 years. If you can't assault, the most logical thing to do is just defend. Or retreat. Imperials tried to make these two things at the same time, because they needed some time to adapt, to make new technologies and doctrines. Digging the trenches and fortifying whatever you can fortify slowed down the Mistland's advance and made the situation at least not that terrible as it was initially. Why the trench? It's just easy and it makes your reloading of weapons more easy and safe than as if you were doing it in the open field.

Their bodies are still very soft and they can't swallow anything of the size of average adault and bigger, but they don't have all the downsides that their grown form has. Not even the narrowest of the trenches can hold them, and even the smallest hole in the ground can save the larva from the gunfire.

The body is not divided into segments yet, and the limbs with razor-sharp claws haven't even developed yet, so the larva is artificially armoured with metal plates and helmet.

They usually move in groups of two and more. It's hard to trace the movement, especially in the wet mud, especially after the rain, and the only good way to deal with these creatures is grenades, or a holy water, that makes creatures of the fog and mist feel pain and burning. We don't know why. Neither do Mistlanders, who wonder why these creatures suffer and take damage from seemingly harmless water.

Despite the appearence, and visual lack of the sensory organs, these creatures know who's friend and who's foe. Often, they are used to carry important things if it's impossible to deliver them by man. An injured soldier, lying on the bottom of the foxhole can rejoice if they see a snake with a first aid kit on it's back. It is also true that these creatures often can do simple tricks, they eat the mice and rats in the trenches, keeping them clean, their presence also scares away cockroaches and they eat the dead bodies in no man's land, making the chances of getting infected from the contact with the roting corpse significantly less.

Unlike the grown version, larva can be killed in close combat with bayonets or conventional melee weapons.

I'm not American. I'm sure I made some terrible mistakes that are clearly visible to someome from the other side of a pond, so... if you have anything to criticise here, please, feel free to do it.

In these hypothetical alternate United States many territories gained statehood differently, and the first changes were even before American War of Independence.

1. Vandalia. Proposed colony and state. Basically West Virginia, but a bit early.
2. Franklin. 1780's proposed state, and in this timeline it was accepted.
3. Seminola and Florida. Historically speaking, the Republic of Florida was located in West Florida, and I think, in this timeline, USA annexed it, and later it annexed rest of the Florida from Spanish.
4. Fulton. Named after American inventor and engineer, Robert Fulton, a man, who designed the first practical submarine in history.
5. Leavenworth. I can't find any reason for this to have even slightest chances to happen in any alternate timeline, but I'm a fan of Henry Leavenworth, so... yes, I just made this state to honour him.
6. Sequoyah. It just looks pretty.
7. New Austin. Reference to RDR2. I never understood why people always place this fictional state in Texas, essentially replacing it. I just think this is better way to place it.
8. Colourado. I just wanted to make a silly joke
9. Utah-Deseret. Historically, US Govt. was NOT fine with Latter Day Saints and their attempts to make their own state. But what if it was?

10)Jefferson. I find this proposed state more interesting than NoCal/SoCal divide that is popular in other works of alternate history.

11. New Georgia. Named after George Washington.

Any criticism or suggestions are welcomed.

As you can see, forests of the Kingdom were important in the culture of Elathrian people.

Lance Corporal and Corporal have the same rank insignia, but they differ in their weapons. Lance Corporals carry lances (and they should bloody have them, because otherwise their lieutenant will be very cross and demand an explanation for why they are not carrying their polearm), while Corporals have sabres or swords. They should at least have a dagger.

Elathrians were the first ones to actually use something green in their uniforms. They never had to fight any other country before The War of Mist and their army was mostly fighting all the hostile fauna and megafauna of their Kingdom. Basically every single Elathrian serviceman was a very skilled hunter. It was just necessary.

As you can see, there aren't a lot of... other ranks. Just 5 is not enough, is it? Well...

Making ranks is hard. I simply don't know what to use to make ranks look different.

As always, I will do my best to answer every comment.

[ANY QUESTIONS AND CRITICISM ARE WELCOMED]

At least half of these things were invented in the mud of trenches, not by engineers, but by common soldiers. Exept for the holy water. It was issued to chaplains of the Empire, and... I think you will learn about this specific part later.

Canned Durian was first used as a weapon when Imperial militia on the southern tropical front found themselves with absolute lack of grenades. Motivated by despair, some men used canned durian. Those unlucky who know how does this devil's fruit smells can confirm my words: you DON'T want to sit anywhere near it, and you definetly don't want to deal with all the tropical flies and insects that will come to feast on these fruits.

Pillumita was originally a weapon that was exclusive to Eternian troops, and it means "little pillum".

'Tortora' is a weapon of pain and torture. It was practically impossible to treat wounds caused by nails if this grenade hit you, in a chaos of battle. It was mostly hand-made, Imperials thought that this weapon was dishonourable, and not quite effective to be used, despite the fact that it's dishonourable. Still, some factories managed to set up a production of these grenades.

Dynamite. Not so practical in the muddy trenches, but still, as long as it works...

Winged hand grenade. Funnily enough, this grenade wasn't officially adopted, but it was mass produced and issued. Why so? Some documents were lost, and bureaucrats decided to simply ingore this issue and treat this weapon as if it is adopted and everything is all right.

Northern Cocktail. Before various confederated realms of the Great North, or as Imperials call it, Kratos Vorieas, officially declared war and joined Immortal Empire, food and alcohol was donated to the various imperial armies. To honour this fact, many Imperials started calling a glass bottle filled with flammable liquids, that was fused and thrown at the enemy, "Northern Cocktail".

Ordinary hand grenade. *sigh*. You know what it is, I know what it is.

Waiting for your questions! Any questions are welcomed!

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It was a short-lived republic, established by enraged colonists, and deserters that were initially sent by the Eternal Empire to punish the revolting settlers, but instead of that, soldiers joined the uprising and supported it.

Shako is standard infantry shako of the Eternal Empire, but without imperial falcon, and any regimental isnignia. Green colour matches both the clothing of the soldiers, regimental colours and pine forests of the Republic.

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Pretty much image sums my question. Allright. I will try to explain it. I will talk about World War i and World War II because both of these wars had cavalry and machine guns.

WWI: Trench warfare killed the horse. I'm not kidding. From what I know, horses were as useless as it was ever possible. I am NOT talking about logistics and using horses to carry things from point A to point B. And I also find it ironic that Americans made cavalry sword AFTER they made their best pistol, not before.

I know that Germans, China, Japan and Soviets used cavalry during WWII, but... literally 2 of these nations lost the war, China... China is a giant anomaly of the first half of the XX century, it doesn't count, and Soviets.... I don't think they really used cavalry, probably it was for propaganda and morale. German Reich easily managed to get many of the Cossacks on it's side, so I don't think that we can even count Cossacks as something successfull. Be honest with me, who even knows about cavalry in WWII besides history enthusiasts? It wasn't widely used. Tanks, planes, rockets, but cavalry? We don't think about horses when we're talking about WWII.

To me it seems that horses were obsolete by the end of 1915. Sadly...

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Allright. I get it. Eastern front and Orient, I get it. Thank you for explaining it all to me. Thank you.

Constructed before the war, and mainly used by Grand Fleet of the Empire, this gun was mostly used against the human personel of ships. And it was very effective. But, engages where navymen could've used small arms against the enemy were rare, because of naval artillery, that was sending ships to the cold embrace of Nautica... pardon me for my Imperial, I meant because of naval artillery, that was dealing with the enemy vessels on a very long range.

The name roughly translates as 'Moving gun'. Well... It definetly has moving parts. 8 rotating barrels, to be precise.

Giant stick magazines were replaced by drum magazines manufactured by… place your bets. Who do you think was making drum magazines other than Alquerra Small Arms? They could not produce their own Mitra guns because, under Imperial laws, they were considered artillery. Alquerra only produced handguns, rifles, carbines and magazines. The General Armories were making most of the parts for the 'Mitra Dynamica's and their rival, Alquerra, was making magazines for them.

But in general, most of these guns were produced by the state factories of the Eternal Empire, not by private megacorporations. And yes, despite the 'old timey' setting, the term 'megacorporation' is appropriate, because in reality, we had British East India company before we even discovered Australia properly, and belive me, they were one of the only, if not the only megacorporations that ever existed. Both Alquerra and Gen. Armouries are megacorporations, because, I belive, they are some kind of monopolists in the firearms sphere. Other factories, corporations and companies existed, but I will be honest, I am not good at naming companies, and plus it's not that important, isn't it?

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Mitra Dynamica was modified into field machine gun, because it was considered effective. The new thing added to this gun was a shield that was intended to protect the gunner from shell fragments and small calibre rounds. This gun used electrical mechanism to rotate the barrels. You can even see a trapdoor that leads to the battery chamber. This weapon used an electric mechanism to rotate the barrels. You can even see the hatch leading to the battery chamber. The number of batteries was limited. They were recharged between battles, and then replaced if they were discharged. In order not to lose the battery, the hatch to the battery chamber was locked, and the key was always kept by the senior gunner.

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'Cold embrace of Nautica' means 'certain death' in the jargon of Imperial navymen. Nautica is a goddess of seas and navigation in many of imperial polytheistic faiths.