[center][h1]Imperial Republic of Fuso

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[h2]March 1st, 1916[/h2]

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[h3][sub][i]Members of the 23rd Infantry storming the streets of Caister[/i][/sub][/h3][/center]
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In the early opening days of the war, everything was going smoothly for the Fuso armies, their cracks and flaws glossed over through their skirmishes with colonial forces from the Vornehm. The inadequacy of their rifles made up through sheer firepower, the flaws of their artillery cannons ignored due to the relative lack of use and the age of several traditional Fusan tactics made up through negated through pure numbers. The colonial soldiers of Vornehm had been outdone by the forces of Fuso through skill, equipment or numbers however is a debate else for another time.

[center][h3][sub]"The enemy falls before Fuso like grain to the blade!" - State Propaganda[/sub][/h3][/center]

Caister the colony was called by the west, not that Fuso really cared. There was already talks about integrating the newly conquered people into the Fusan state in the senate; some officers had already taken upon themselves to draft a few of the local men as puppet troopers. Whatever few prisoners had been captured where swiftly rounded up and marched to detention camps. As one would expect, the victorious Fusan troops were greeted with mixed arms, some cheering for their "fellow Faresian liberators", other attacking the "Hostile Subjugators".

In hindsight, the attack on Caister was a decision most harmful. Its said that the Fusan attack on the colony had inflated their egos into making them think that they could actually take on the more powerful west. However, the reason behind the Fusan victory could be attributed to the smaller, not-so-impressive garrison at Caister (most Vornehm military strength had been focused in their homelands and the Fusan's home field advantage. Only when the Vornehm send a military response in earnest did Fuso realize what modern warfare truly looked like.

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[i]Picture of the members of the 8th Banner Army marching, revealing how antiquated some Fusan regiments were.[/i][/center]