African Coalition
Every turn is an opening move. Use it.
Origins
Brief: Sahelian, East African, and Southern blocs merged around mobility — shared transit, fuel pools, and matched road gauges let trucks and light units cross old borders without friction.
Ideology
Tempo is the only scorecard: fortifications slow you; long integration slows you. Control the pace of the war and consolidation follows reach — not the other way around.
Strategic identity
+1 AP every turn before city/tech modifiers; Desert Cavalry (move 3, sight 4, military_1; BAL-001) threatens cities early. Overextend and raiding income collapses before the military edge pays off.
Iconic units
- Swift Raider — Move-3 cavalry (sight 4) at military_1 — strike before enemies entrench; hit-and-run after melee if the target survives.
- Main Battle Tank — Medium armor anchors the perimeter after cavalry raids while integration finishes.
- Cyber Operations Unit — Zero-damage specialist that disrupts income and severs highway links against economic racers.
Notable cities
- Lagos — Western commercial anchor feeding interior corridors.
- Nairobi — Eastern staging node with the Coalition's fastest logistics relay.
- Johannesburg — Industrial start-state engine for early science and money.
Leaders
Amadou Diarra
Former humanitarian corridor coordinator turned Coalition military planner.
Introduced the 'four nodes per day' standard — a measurable supply rhythm instead of abstract aggression. Defining act: sustained an offensive when two allies nearly declared war over fuel priority; rerouted flows so both kept positive 'tempo' scores.
“We do not outrun the enemy. We end the turn before they lose trust in their own map.”
Active conflicts
- Early-Capture CapitalismCurrent state
Some push farther, others integrate what's taken; the 'raid vs state' storyline.
The early-capture income bonus pits field commanders against civil administrators.
- Desert vs DeltaCurrent state
The Coalition sometimes loses balance; internal factions trade action points as currency.
Desert corridors and humid deltas demand different machines and allies.
Iconic moments
- 2037 / Raid 48 Hours Before Integration · Rival perimeter
A SwiftRaider broke a perimeter two ticks before rival integration completed.
Proof that windows are about ordering, not radius.
- Shared Fuel Depot · Border of three ex-states
A shared bladder saved the campaign and spawned legal hell over milliliters of sovereignty.
Logistics officially became a diplomatic tool.
- Day of Silence · Disputed highway tile
A sanctioned no-fire pause to build a road through a disputed tile.
The Coalition first publicly called engineering 'an armistice weapon.'
Trajectory seeds
AP as Courage Tax
Heroes pay moral cost for 'extra' aggression the mechanics grant free.
Where is the line between efficiency and ethics?
Raid Without a Flag
PMCs under Coalition colors — gray near-future without cyberpunk drift.
How to tell mercenary from volunteer in a history textbook?
Tempo and Stability
Chart: captures up vs stability down — characters read it like a market board.
When does Pyrrhic dryness become defeat?