Total war: North and south next title?

**Slaists** · 06-15-2012, 19:15

Russia, the civil war of 1917-23... This was a rather dynamic war with many participating sides [communists, socialists, anarchists, royalists, nationalists (Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Georgians, Balts, Finns, etc.) , foreign powers (UK, France, Japan, even the US), run-away merc forces (leftover German armies, Czhech legion), you name it...]: much more fun than the ACW, if anyone asks me. On top of that, the detested trench warfare did not really happen to any significant extent during this conflict; cavalry was still used and armored trains [think, Trans-Siberian railway] played a significant role too.

Here, for a taste, just one little episode of this war : "...Entente Allies began their Siberian Intervention, with troops from the U.S., France, Great Britain, and Japan landing in Vladivostok, which the Czechoslovaks had controlled for some time. In Vladivostok, however, the Allied rescue of the Czechoslovak Legion got sidetracked. The Japanese forces arrived in April 1918 with 500 marines, followed by 50 British soldiers in May, 500 Americans in June, and 600 more British and some French in late June 1918. They arrived to find a changed situation, with open warfare going on between the Bolsheviks on one side and the Czechoslovak Legions and White Russians on the other. Moreover, World War I hostilities ended in November 1918, making the whole mission to bring the Czechs and Slovaks to France and fight on the Western front pointless. An already confused situation deteriorated, and the Japanese got directly involved in the fighting on the side of the Czechoslovak Legion and of White Russians when their government saw this as a territorial opportunity. By September 1918 there were 70,000 Japanese, 829 British, 1,400 Italian, 5,002 American and 107 Annamese (Vietnamese) troops under French command in and around Vladivostok. The chaos in Siberia included the arrival of eight train cars of gold bullion from the Imperial reserve in Kazan. There were atrocities by both Red Army and White Russian forces – and particularly by the Cossacks of Ataman Semenov, now in the pay of the Japanese." (as per Wikipedia)

I do not think, this war will make it into a TW game though, LOL...