Editing Dystopian Wars (section)

=== The Commonwealth ===

In Dystopian Wars, Napoleon was assassinated by the Teutonic Knights & it was the Imperium who invaded Russia only to fail miserably & be faced with a hell march home over winter. Russia would still collapse however, as needing the weather to bail them out made the noble classes seem as corrupt & incompetent. This ended with the Russian Commonwealth taking over, led by a State Duma & a now significantly de-powered Tzar (though the current Tzar is increasing his already great personal leverage through good old fashioned schemes), said scheming Tzar has been consistently increasing the size of the Commonwealth, bring the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Mongolia, Ukraine & several other minor nations into the fold through calculated diplomacy. Now the largest Great Power (land-mass wise) is a true technological power, with more than simple manpower at their back. Some may say that the Commonwealth employs a secret police force to keep dissent down & the people in line, but all true citizens know that the Oprichniks do not exist & are enemy propaganda & anyone who says otherwise can expect a visit.

Russian polymath Helsinki Markov was a founding member of the Enlightened, until he turned out to be a Spy & stole the Promethius (subtle) a prototype Generator ship filled with experimental tech the turbo-nerds were keeping to themselves, studying the ship allowed the Commonwealth to catch up with the rest of the world technologically & reverse engineering the Generators allowed them to fill their coffers by selling the Blueprints.
Commonwealth tech includes cool looking Cryo-Generators that shoot beams of ice & can make Iceberg Terrain on the map, as well as Railguns that do well at every range.

No, I don't know why they aren't still called the Coalition.

'''Russia'''

During the Decemberist revolution, it was the Tzars own generals who deposed him in the end, tiring of his incompetence & excess during both the Prussian invasion & the revolutionary war. Soon afterwards a ceasefire was called & terms were arranged. Grand Duke Nikolai Rurik-Novy, a Decemberist war-hero who had reforged the scattered revolutionary cells into a coherent “White Army”, would be the new Tzar, ruling alongside the newly formed State Duma. 
After spending much of his rule modernising the army & drinking himself into an early grave, the old Tzar died passing the title to his son Vladimir, who had spent most of his life getting elected to the State Duma as well as scheming his way into being the real power behind the throne, & may or may not have hurried his old man to the grave. It’s at this point Markov steals the Prometheus giving the Commonwealth a boost in both tech & wealth. Vladimir is a scarily competent leader (unlike his drunk of a father) & is eager to increase -his own personal list off titles- the power of the Commonwealth, the calculated politicking that brought most member nations into the fold now targeted at the holdings of other Great Powers.

While the old Russian Navy was very short ranged the new Russians can do well at any distance, their Railguns literally being just as effective at every range, they even field the biggest gun in the game for long-range critical existence failures, Drill-Rams on some of their ships for up close & Cryo-Generators to freeze ships in the mid-range. This makes Russia & by extension the Commonwealth a tough & flexible force, though they still lean towards the closer range with those Drills & Generators. Also bring field Ekranoplans for skirmish shenanigans.

'''Ukraine'''

Ukraine doesn’t have a particular story attached to it as to how it was brought into the commonwealth, but they sure are here. 
Ukraine is the Submarine subfaction, all of their models are submarines & all Commonwealth subs are Ukrainian (almost all of them anyway), They have little torpedo coffins, good cruiser-sized subs & even massive subs. They don’t have a dedicated flagship, with the Ukrainian fleet giving the flagship rule to their largest sub (which normally doesn’t have it). Your opponent in general doesn’t want these things popping up behind them but the little Torpedo coffins are particularly good for their points. The big submarine is actually built from the charred remains of the Deathbringer blueprints after Nikonov stole it & burnt the factory down/ & a worse Deathbringer is no bad ship.

'''Mongolia '''

Mongolia is also here. Every faction has 3 different static “ocean platform” units for mission types that involve them. One big gun platform, one regular gun platform & one support platform. For some reason these are all being given to a random minor power that only exists in game as the crews of these immobile platforms, & in the Commonwealth this is Mongolia’s job, I guess the Russians just ship Mongolian crews out to the Platforms & Mongolia just controls all of the Commonwealth’s platforms & that’s it. Mongolia doesn’t even have a navy, it’s a Land Locked Steppe. If ever there was a faction that only needed exist as a ground army & maybe an air force it was this. Well, actually, it does has a navy, it's the tiniest navy consisting of one ship of 6-7 officers who might not have learned swimming patrolling a lake connected to Russian river. Originally created by the Soviet Union to transport materials to Russia.

'''The Black Wolf'''

Captain Nikonov & his Russian defectors that stole a valuable & now irreplaceable prototype submarine so that they could live out a life of Piracy, killing many Russian sailors & engineers & civilians in the process. The fleet of pirates that once targeted Russian shipping specifically. Well now they’re now back in line with the Kremlin.

Apparently Tzar Vladimir’s daughter Anastasia was won over by stories of his daring-do & roguish charm & set out on a mission to woo the pirate captain to annoy her father. Meeting him in Alaska she secured his Hand in marriage & bringing the famed mercenary back under the Tzar’s influence, with the Tzar going so far as to gift him one of those Mobile Fortresses’ as an engagement gift (which he has named The Anastasia).

Was seeking out Nikonov in Alaska just a rebellious outburst by the Princess to piss off her father? Or was it a more calculated move to bring this Rouge Nation under control? & if so by whom, the Tzar, his Daughter or both of them? Was marriage always part of the plan? or did Captain Nikonov net himself a Princess’s hand in marriage purely through his bad boy attitude & ruggish good looks? It’s up in their air at the moment, but either way these Black Wolves are the Tzar’s dogs now & alongside regular mercurial activities they are often sent by the Kremlin sink ships that the Russians officially don’t want sunk. The Tzar’s rivals included.

Now based out of that Mobile Stronghold mentioned above, which is usually in Alaska & not Greenland, the Black Wolf no longer has devastating munitions on every gun that doesn’t have them by default, only fields regular torpedoes, & only has a single experimental submarine (the Deathbringer). Now they are a mish mash of all the Ukrainian Subs as well as more aggressive of Russia’s ships. They are still a Merc fleet though so a single battlefleet can be fielded by every faction, which is much better since the assortment of Commonwealth ships is a lot more valuable in a faction that can’t take those by default. No longer such an emphasis on balls-out firepower but they also no longer lack so many defensive measure either.

All ships in the fleet get a special rule that makes them better at boarding & while under pressure, but only if you’re winning. The Commonwealth can take 2 Black Wolf Battlefleets, one led by the Deathbringer, & one led by the Anastasia. If the Black Wolf had access to Flagships that weren’t Unique & limited to one per game then the Commonwealth could take as many Black Wolf fleets as they wanted, but they don’t so they can’t.

'''The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth'''

Was originally invaded by the Russian Commonwealth only to fight them off with Steam-Punk Winged Hussars. This lasted for 15 years until a succession crisis allowed the Tzar to snag himself the position of Poland's king, resulting in the Russian Commonwealth becoming the Russian-Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the signing of a very Poland-sided treaty (the name was shortened to The Commonwealth after Mongolia joined). No models or units or art yet.