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-- Imperial Military Headquarters, Ostshore --
The Great Five Generals of the Empire, adorned with excessive military medals on their uniforms, gathered in the Imperial HQ. They are considered one of the foremost brilliant military tacticians the Empire had seen ever since the empire's founding. One of the Great Generals, Hans, brought a huge map of Roseby marked with the Imperial occupations of countries that they had invaded since the Spring of 1454.
The Imperial Military Headquarters is solely responsible for the Empire's planning in military strategies during wartime. They are given considerably more power during wartime by the Emperor to effectively control the war situation in the interests of the state. The Imperial HQ houses the Imperial General Staff, or the HQ for short. They take advantage of the magic telegram's efficiency in recording real-time battles, to carefully and successfully assess the tactical situation of the war and to know where they should give their supplies. The HQ is located inside the Imperial Palace, making communication with the Emperor much easier too. The Empire's Five Great Generals are; Hans,Wilhelm,Heinrich,Martha and Maria. Though, Wilhelm is seen as the most greatest of the Five Great Generals. He decisively annihilated the Summerwyn Army in the outskirts of Sienna in the final phase of the War for the Throne of Summerwyn. Though, he was unable to capture Sienna due to the reinforcements of the arrival of Confederate reinforcements and his army had begun to lost supplies and men, so he was forced to strategically retreat from Sienna.
Along with the map, Maria started to explain the war situation from the beginning until the present:
”War to Unite the Continent”
Imperial Archives
--Strategic Bombing to Destroy Italica's Industries and Morale--
--Spring of 1453--
INITIAL:
Imperial-Italican Battle of the Skies of Italica:
INITIAL:
Empire- 350 Wyverns
Italica: 430 Wyverns
RESULT:
Italican Phyrric Victory,
Imperial Strategic Victory
47 Imperial Wyverns Retreated
67 Italican Wyverns left
RESULT:
Dead Wyverns from both sides rained from the skies, resulted into hundreds of shopping stores in the district to be affected and ultimately heavily damaged by the carcasses of the wyverns and the bombs dropped during the battle ultimately resulted into heavy casualties in the district. causing thousands of civilian casualties and property damage.
-Battle of Prospera Sea-
INITIAL:
Empire-18 Heavy Imperial Warships
Italica- 14 Light Ships
RESULT:
Italican Complete Victory, Annihilation of the Imperial Second Fleet. The annihilation of the Second Imperial Fleet's Heavy Warships, the heavy warships lost against the much mobile Light Warships from the Republic. This miscalculation proved to be a decisive mistake not just to Wilhelm, but to the General Staff as well. This mistake destroyed Imperial and the HQ's prestige. culminating in more bombings to the Italican Central District.
CASUALTIES:
Second Imperial Fleet annihilated
Italican Fleet- 6 Sunk, 4 Heavily damaged.
-- Second Bombing: Surprise Night Bombing of the Central District --
Number of Wyverns Participated:
50 Wyverns
RESULT:
The panic caused a lot of disruption in government and business affairs ongoing in the city, huge property damage was inflicted to the White Palace and several government institutions as well. Overall, a huge shock to the Italican Economy.
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The Italican Campaign was planned by Wilhelm, the other generals we're not hugely supportive of his plan as they thought it's not going to work. Wilhelm ordered the half of the Imperial Fleet to defeat the Italican Navy in Prospera to strike a blow to the Italican Navy. Wilhelm hoped for a quick victory. He had hoped that the Imperial Fleet's Huge warships and numerous cannons would work against the light ships of the Italican Fleet. But, the Imperial fleet lost and this shocked the bureaucrats and the emperor himself, thus the HQ had planned a more reasonable and feasible strategy to dominate the entire continent.
as the Imperial wyvern's we're exhausted and had lost a lot of wyverns to Italica, the empire then expended more focus on the expansion of the southern part of the continent to gain more resources for the war effort. They knew, Italica won't surrender easily and while Italica's Economy is unable to stand on it's own. They would invade the Grand Ducal Confederacy and Esterloch Theocracy in the spring next year because winter is coming, their objective is to gain; resources, confiscate the warships of the Grand Ducal Confederacy and Esterloch. And to prevent trade from south roseby to Italica happen.