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3199 a.a.H. Outskirts of Montdunan. An armoured unit of the Armour School of the Princely Army of Pamelia is resupplying live rounds of ammo and fuel, before being thrown into the port of Montdunan-Village, to try to repel the landing forces of the Südchristopherian Infantry of Marine.

The Ruhenian landing -before the end of the Ultimatum- was a surprise to the Pamelians, which were quick to throw all available forces at the invading enemy. The Armour School, which was on routine training manoeuvres on a forest of the north was called to immediate action, as soon the armoured vehicles were ready for action:

Resupplied on the road by trucks, the tanks had to arrive on their own to Montdunan: luckily, aside of some naval observation planes of Ruhenia, the Südchristopherians lacked naval based fighter-bombers at that point of the war.

Short of fuel, this tank of the Armour School was reached by a truck of the Supply Branch Princely Army. In face of the emergency, Amazons of Death of the Princely Guard of Pamelia are helping the supply unit in it's work, as they would need the armoured support in the oncoming battle..

After fifteen days of violent clashes, the Pamelians where ultimately successful in forcing the Ruhenian to evacuate Montdunan, capital of the Principality of Pamelia... but at extremely heavily costs: most of the more experienced, professional forces of Pamelia were lost in the battle, the navy was sunk... and the victory was only temporary: the Ruhenians retreated, only to land south of the city, in Rouche-au-Dame.

It was the first days of the Pamelchristopherian War...

3199 - 3201 a.a.H

Pamelchristopherian War

During the Second Wilzcroiser War that confronted the Kingdom of Ruhenia and the Republics of Slavkinia and Bazikstan against the Gastronomic Empire and the Caliphate of Anglasecuarnia, The Principality of Pamelia was left in a difficult situation due the revanchism of Anglasecuarnia, but tried to avoid entering in the war, secretly supporting Ruhenia during the hostilities:

However, under pressure of the Gastronomic Empire of the Ignacios and Anglasecuarnia, they where forced to cut off supplies and support to Ruhenia under treat of invasion -the so called Anglasecuarnian Emergency-. The Ruhenians felt betrayed.

And while as result of the Second Wilzcroiser War Ruhenia was annexed into the Gastronomic Empire at the end of the 3195 a.a.H, Ruhenian remnants that had fought in Slavkinia seized the Islands of Mercania, proclaiming the Kingdom of Südchristophenia.

Moved by vengance, they wanted to liberate their homeland, needing to build up their forces and resources to face the empire. The Ruhenians faced the Empire, and anybody they felt betrayed them. Marcelooneo, who during the Second Wilzcroiser War in the Slavkinian Front allowed the pass of Ignacian forces of the Empire, was invaded and annexed to Südchristophenia at the 3198 a.a.H: meanwhile in Ruhenian, the Underground Royal Army of Ruhenia kept fighting a guerrilla warfare against the Ignacian invaders, and Südchristophenia wanted to support them:

the Imperial Province of Ruhenia, landlocked and surrounded by enemies, had as only viable supply route Pamelia. And so, the Südchristopherians demanded the pass of their forces across Pamelia.

Pamelia, isolated from the international alliances, was as well under pressure of the Gastronomic Empire, who warned them of supporting the Ruhenians.

However while the Pamelians, fearing the wraith of the Empire preferred to reject the Südchristopherian demands, the southern Ruhenians took into account the attrition of war the empire was suffering in the last, more brutal of the Ignacian Wars in the Ignacian Kagastan, between the Empire and Bazikstan: and so they made a gamble: to try to conquer with a quick strike Pamelia to reach Ruhenia, hoping that the Empire wouldn't be able -or wouldn't have the will- to enter in Pamelia.

And so the Ruhenian navy of Südchristophenia sailed from the Mercanian islands to Pamelia, carrying along a landing force.

They arrived before the end of the Ultimatum, landing at the Pamelian capital, Montdunan, surprising the Pamelians, and the landing of the first forces was largely unopposed by the stunned coastal guard: but upon the invasion, the Princess Guard finally reacted, and the Amazons of Death, guard of the Princess, threw themselves against the landing grounds of the Ruhenians in the Battel of Montdunan

In a brutal urban battle, Pamelians sacrified the better of their forces to expel the Ruhenians, who were forced to rembark: however, victory was only temporary: the pamelian navy was lost, and uncontested, the Ruhenians had captured off-shore Pamelian islands where they built airfields-

The Ruhenians didn't expected such a brave resistance, but they weren't going to renounce so easily: the forces that left Montdunan landed again in southern Pamelia -in the region known as Rocher-au-Dame, largely unopposed, preparing a beach head to receive reinforcements and preparing to take Pamelia.

Without support from the neighbours -and the Gastronomic Empire only urging them to resist, without any promise to help-, Pamelians hastily mobilised their army to try to send back to the sea the Ruhenian landing forces:

They attacked the entrenched Ruhenians in Rocher-au-Dame: the Battle of Rocher-au-Dame was costly and the pamelians suffered heavy casualties against the ruhenian trenches and naval artillery, meanwhile in the sky the Pamelian princely air force lost it's planes unsuccessfully: and as the airfields of the islands made by the Ruhenians were finished, they controlled the skies.

As more forces arrived from Südchristophenia -along with Ruhenian volunteers, escaped from the Gastronomic Empire-, the Pamelians built their own trenches in front of Rocher-au-Dame, while other defensive line was built to protect Montdunan: the Nannig Line.

For three months, the war was static in Rocher-au-Dame, as Südchristophenia continued to land materials, with unsuccessful attempts of the Pamelians to try to expel the Ruhenians, who launched some local offensives: meanwhile, the Ruhenian navy launched raids on the Pamelian shores.

The final Ruhenian offensive -along with naval landing on the rear of the Pamelian line of Rocher-au-Dame and landings of paratroopers platoons- showed the outdated defensive conception the Pamelians had used -basically fighting in the same type of trenches their grandparents used in the Anglasecuarnian Wars- and the line of Rocher-au-Dame collapsed, meaning a general retreat of the Pamelian Princely Army to the Nannig Line.

Learning from their mistakes, the Nannig Line was modernised and deepened just in time to face the Ruhenian attack, and it held: the Ruhenians sustained important casualties -that they couldn't afford for their ultimate goal-.

With a cold winter over them, the war again became static, now in front of the Nannig Line during the winter 3199-3200 a.a.H, while both sides prepared for the operations of spring 3200.

Pamelia, that bought important supplies from Anglasecuarnia and Motzabili and received some support of the Gastronomic Empire -largely outdated weapons, handed over by the Anglasecuarnians as intermediary-, placed their hopes in a general offensive in spring:

However, this will be a catastrophe for the Pamelians as Ruhenians had too made their preparations, and they launched their own counter-offensive, breaking the Pamelian line.

However, this war was being lengthier and more costly than the Ruhenians expected -and could afford-, so they decided in principle to lay siege to the city -to make it surrender- rather than assault it, as Pamelian resistance had been always fiercer than expected: will begin the Siege of Montdunan, that will last nine months.

However, as by summer of the 3200 was clear the Pamelians weren't going to quickly capitulate on Montdunan, Ruhenians made new landings north of the city and around it, to try to completely cut it off, occupying larger extensions of the Principality, while the Pamelian Army -aside of the Montdunan garrison- retreated northward, to the mountains, to what they have called the Pamelian National Redoubt -Pamelïen Redúit National-

The Pamelians where able to hold to the Redoubt and the Capital, but they understood the war was already lost and they began to try a diplomatic solution, and while some agreements seemed possible with the local military authorities of Südchristophena who had led the war, the maximalist positions of the Südchristopherian government barred any agreement.

Under pressure of the King, the Ruhenians launched an assault to Montdunan, which became a costly urban battle, meanwhile the underground royal army of Ruhenia was ordered to redirect their efforts of guerrilla they had been carrying against the Ignacians to face the Pamelian National Redoubt: However, this underground army, challenged in terms of supplies and manpower, lacked the offensive capabilities to launch a successful offensive, but tied the Pamelian forces in the National Redoubt during the battle of Montdunan.

Montdunan finally fell in january 3201, when the princess did a conditional surrender: She was to remain Princess of Pamelia and Pamelia independent in their internal issues with some degree of limited self-rule, but it became a suzerainty of Südchristophenia, which was to control the foreign policy and international relations of Pamelia.

The National Redoubt however rejected these conditions, and instead they preferred to surrender to Anglasecuarnia, who took over the northern mountains of Pamelia.

Pamelia will remain occupied by Südchristophenia until the 3224 a.a.H...

Commission for Anonymous Deviant, but certainly inspired by the Aiers Art Jam entries of and

The main tank visible is a motzabilian-made Formaggio-Talliani CA-89 Lanciere, while is visible the back of other motzabilian-made vehicle in service of Pamelia, the Formaggio-Talliani CC-272 tankette

The Battle of Montdunan
Pamelian Exiles - Journey to the East

Description

3199 a.a.H. Outskirts of Montdunan. An armoured unit of the Armour School of the Princely Army of Pamelia is resupplying live rounds of ammo and fuel, before being thrown into the port of Montdunan-Village, to try to repel the landing forces of the Südchristopherian Infantry of Marine.

The Ruhenian landing -before the end of the Ultimatum- was a surprise to the Pamelians, which were quick to throw all available forces at the invading enemy. The Armour School, which was on routine training manoeuvres on a forest of the north was called to immediate action, as soon the armoured vehicles were ready for action:

Resupplied on the road by trucks, the tanks had to arrive on their own to Montdunan: luckily, aside of some naval observation planes of Ruhenia, the Südchristopherians lacked naval based fighter-bombers at that point of the war.

Short of fuel, this tank of the Armour School was reached by a truck of the Supply Branch Princely Army. In face of the emergency, Amazons of Death of the Princely Guard of Pamelia are helping the supply unit in it's work, as they would need the armoured support in the oncoming battle..

After fifteen days of violent clashes, the Pamelians where ultimately successful in forcing the Ruhenian to evacuate Montdunan, capital of the Principality of Pamelia... but at extremely heavily costs: most of the more experienced, professional forces of Pamelia were lost in the battle, the navy was sunk... and the victory was only temporary: the Ruhenians retreated, only to land south of the city, in Rouche-au-Dame.

It was the first days of the Pamelchristopherian War...

3199 - 3201 a.a.H

Pamelchristopherian War

During the Second Wilzcroiser War that confronted the Kingdom of Ruhenia and the Republics of Slavkinia and Bazikstan against the Gastronomic Empire and the Caliphate of Anglasecuarnia, The Principality of Pamelia was left in a difficult situation due the revanchism of Anglasecuarnia, but tried to avoid entering in the war, secretly supporting Ruhenia during the hostilities:

However, under pressure of the Gastronomic Empire of the Ignacios and Anglasecuarnia, they where forced to cut off supplies and support to Ruhenia under treat of invasion -the so called Anglasecuarnian Emergency-. The Ruhenians felt betrayed.

And while as result of the Second Wilzcroiser War Ruhenia was annexed into the Gastronomic Empire at the end of the 3195 a.a.H, Ruhenian remnants that had fought in Slavkinia seized the Islands of Mercania, proclaiming the Kingdom of Südchristophenia.

Moved by vengance, they wanted to liberate their homeland, needing to build up their forces and resources to face the empire. The Ruhenians faced the Empire, and anybody they felt betrayed them. Marcelooneo, who during the Second Wilzcroiser War in the Slavkinian Front allowed the pass of Ignacian forces of the Empire, was invaded and annexed to Südchristophenia at the 3198 a.a.H: meanwhile in Ruhenian, the Underground Royal Army of Ruhenia kept fighting a guerrilla warfare against the Ignacian invaders, and Südchristophenia wanted to support them:

the Imperial Province of Ruhenia, landlocked and surrounded by enemies, had as only viable supply route Pamelia. And so, the Südchristopherians demanded the pass of their forces across Pamelia.

Pamelia, isolated from the international alliances, was as well under pressure of the Gastronomic Empire, who warned them of supporting the Ruhenians.

However while the Pamelians, fearing the wraith of the Empire preferred to reject the Südchristopherian demands, the southern Ruhenians took into account the attrition of war the empire was suffering in the last, more brutal of the Ignacian Wars in the Ignacian Kagastan, between the Empire and Bazikstan: and so they made a gamble: to try to conquer with a quick strike Pamelia to reach Ruhenia, hoping that the Empire wouldn't be able -or wouldn't have the will- to enter in Pamelia.

And so the Ruhenian navy of Südchristophenia sailed from the Mercanian islands to Pamelia, carrying along a landing force.

They arrived before the end of the Ultimatum, landing at the Pamelian capital, Montdunan, surprising the Pamelians, and the landing of the first forces was largely unopposed by the stunned coastal guard: but upon the invasion, the Princess Guard finally reacted, and the Amazons of Death, guard of the Princess, threw themselves against the landing grounds of the Ruhenians in the Battel of Montdunan

In a brutal urban battle, Pamelians sacrified the better of their forces to expel the Ruhenians, who were forced to rembark: however, victory was only temporary: the pamelian navy was lost, and uncontested, the Ruhenians had captured off-shore Pamelian islands where they built airfields-

The Ruhenians didn't expected such a brave resistance, but they weren't going to renounce so easily: the forces that left Montdunan landed again in southern Pamelia -in the region known as Rocher-au-Dame, largely unopposed, preparing a beach head to receive reinforcements and preparing to take Pamelia.

Without support from the neighbours -and the Gastronomic Empire only urging them to resist, without any promise to help-, Pamelians hastily mobilised their army to try to send back to the sea the Ruhenian landing forces:

They attacked the entrenched Ruhenians in Rocher-au-Dame: the Battle of Rocher-au-Dame was costly and the pamelians suffered heavy casualties against the ruhenian trenches and naval artillery, meanwhile in the sky the Pamelian princely air force lost it's planes unsuccessfully: and as the airfields of the islands made by the Ruhenians were finished, they controlled the skies.

As more forces arrived from Südchristophenia -along with Ruhenian volunteers, escaped from the Gastronomic Empire-, the Pamelians built their own trenches in front of Rocher-au-Dame, while other defensive line was built to protect Montdunan: the Nannig Line.

For three months, the war was static in Rocher-au-Dame, as Südchristophenia continued to land materials, with unsuccessful attempts of the Pamelians to try to expel the Ruhenians, who launched some local offensives: meanwhile, the Ruhenian navy launched raids on the Pamelian shores.

The final Ruhenian offensive -along with naval landing on the rear of the Pamelian line of Rocher-au-Dame and landings of paratroopers platoons- showed the outdated defensive conception the Pamelians had used -basically fighting in the same type of trenches their grandparents used in the Anglasecuarnian Wars- and the line of Rocher-au-Dame collapsed, meaning a general retreat of the Pamelian Princely Army to the Nannig Line.

Learning from their mistakes, the Nannig Line was modernised and deepened just in time to face the Ruhenian attack, and it held: the Ruhenians sustained important casualties -that they couldn't afford for their ultimate goal-.

With a cold winter over them, the war again became static, now in front of the Nannig Line during the winter 3199-3200 a.a.H, while both sides prepared for the operations of spring 3200.

Pamelia, that bought important supplies from Anglasecuarnia and Motzabili and received some support of the Gastronomic Empire -largely outdated weapons, handed over by the Anglasecuarnians as intermediary-, placed their hopes in a general offensive in spring:

However, this will be a catastrophe for the Pamelians as Ruhenians had too made their preparations, and they launched their own counter-offensive, breaking the Pamelian line.

However, this war was being lengthier and more costly than the Ruhenians expected -and could afford-, so they decided in principle to lay siege to the city -to make it surrender- rather than assault it, as Pamelian resistance had been always fiercer than expected: will begin the Siege of Montdunan, that will last nine months.

However, as by summer of the 3200 was clear the Pamelians weren't going to quickly capitulate on Montdunan, Ruhenians made new landings north of the city and around it, to try to completely cut it off, occupying larger extensions of the Principality, while the Pamelian Army -aside of the Montdunan garrison- retreated northward, to the mountains, to what they have called the Pamelian National Redoubt -Pamelïen Redúit National-

The Pamelians where able to hold to the Redoubt and the Capital, but they understood the war was already lost and they began to try a diplomatic solution, and while some agreements seemed possible with the local military authorities of Südchristophena who had led the war, the maximalist positions of the Südchristopherian government barred any agreement.

Under pressure of the King, the Ruhenians launched an assault to Montdunan, which became a costly urban battle, meanwhile the underground royal army of Ruhenia was ordered to redirect their efforts of guerrilla they had been carrying against the Ignacians to face the Pamelian National Redoubt: However, this underground army, challenged in terms of supplies and manpower, lacked the offensive capabilities to launch a successful offensive, but tied the Pamelian forces in the National Redoubt during the battle of Montdunan.

Montdunan finally fell in january 3201, when the princess did a conditional surrender: She was to remain Princess of Pamelia and Pamelia independent in their internal issues with some degree of limited self-rule, but it became a suzerainty of Südchristophenia, which was to control the foreign policy and international relations of Pamelia.

The National Redoubt however rejected these conditions, and instead they preferred to surrender to Anglasecuarnia, who took over the northern mountains of Pamelia.

Pamelia will remain occupied by Südchristophenia until the 3224 a.a.H...

Commission for Anonymous Deviant, but certainly inspired by the Aiers Art Jam entries of and

The main tank visible is a motzabilian-made Formaggio-Talliani CA-89 Lanciere, while is visible the back of other motzabilian-made vehicle in service of Pamelia, the Formaggio-Talliani CC-272 tankette

The Battle of Montdunan
Pamelian Exiles - Journey to the East