Strategy General Planning

I hate to get granular about it, but I'm thinking the first thing we need to do is come up with a heirarchy of how units are organized and names of types of soldiers so we have unit names to talk with. yes no?

which also means some are well trained and orderly, teh rest large mobs in search of meat. I would think during general attacks at first part of the plan is to let the fighters versus the cannon fodder sort themselves out.

One question I would have, do they eat A. fallen of their own soldiers, and B. fallen enemies?

That was my own thoughts as well. So disposal of the fallen, probably mass graves/pyres. and that means we DO have to worry about supply lines. Also, food stores being sent BACKWARDS. hmm. Ohh! are we going to get any kind of maps, or should we get some topo maps of our "area" and plan out ourselves?

also, just because they won't eat the enemy, doesn't mean the enemy knows that. hmmm, fear tactics....

yeah, ive been looking at the terrain. Crossing the Tarim basin directly into the Tien Shen and to their hq is... well... land war in russia in the winter kind of cunning.

disposition. the tarim basin (the large desert chunk in the north of our territory ) is largely desert overtop of old rock with frequent oil deposists and natural gas pockets. So the likelyhood is that we will have lots of little outposts tied to the infrequent oaisis and rivers that feed people to the refinerys and pumping rigs. since all the lines are predrilled, even basic mechanical pumps can bring it back up, to be refined and transported back up into the mountains. Say about 40k people, 1k priesthood, scattered throughout.

the Tarim river, which shifts and flows, is almost dead on with our northern border line as drawn, I'm thinking we may want to call it a border, the Shen of the river demands we live and farm on one side. So there can be a bit of farming that A. supplements the oasis farming for the oil workers, and B, ships produce and materials, trees, ect, to the southern moutain range. I'm thiniking much of our population would be in the moutains down towards our tibetan border, living in large villages in valleys and around mountain lakes and glaciers, where piped gas and trasported oil is used to run small manufacturies and mineral mines. thoughts?

absolutely. For when the other faction members start getting in and posting, to help avoid completely clogging this thread of general strategy, would it be too much of a bother to get threads for diplomacy, troop movements, intelligence and spying, layout and population. ?

Tell you what, I'll make you the Faction Mod, and then you can indeed start whatever threads you want

And the map area I gave you is approximate. For Tibet I'm thinking there are probably a fair number of mountain monastery city-state strongholds. Not a united nation, but not someone easily conquered.