Uniforms of Munzen

Several military uniforms from the nation of Aiers Münzen, as well some sucesor states, like the Amparpican Republic, the Amparpican Society, Stornkold and New Münzen.

Münzen was that way after the Münzen, settlers for Jorgea vassals of the Sueccian Empire, wich settled down in the Archipielago of Stornkold.

Stornkold was originally settled by the Nutks, descendants of some barbarian human tribes who served the demons of the Dark Legion, who resisted the settlement of foreigners in their ancestral lands.

The process of Settlement was slow and difficult, but finally, in the east and west of the main island, there where two sucsesful settlements:

However, with the fall of the Sueccian Empire, attacked by the MW (short name for the alliance of the Moziepolitischenmilitarsichenindustrialen-Wosta), the two colonies, fearful of what the Nutks barbarians living inland would try, proclaimed their independence: the west would become Felcheland , and the east, Münzen , the 79 d.J

the 90 d.J, Sueccia tried to take back the lost colonies, and between the 90 and the 109, Münzen fighted their first war, against the few numbers of the Sueccian expedition, supported by large numbers of Nutk barbarians promised lands and loot by the Sueccians.

In the far north, the economical situation of the new nation was precary, and the great crisis of the 120 hit with all his force the north, both Felcheland and Nutkia: So when in the 126 was discovered gold mines in the "no-man lands", the valleys and mountains inland, in hands of the Nutks, both nations claimed sovereignity over the territory.

However, as the situation extended, in 135, the new government of General Jorge Münzen -who overthrowed the socialist President Mark Vadders the 132- decided to take by force the contested lands, advancing his armed forces to the valley of Snowboard.

the "Snowboard war", fought the 135-136 was the second war of Münzen, and their first agression war, fighting against the Nutks and free gold-diggers of Snowboard, as well the Republic of Felcheland...

This war, they win in the end, was an example of how Münzen will fight in the future the wars: with incompetence, indecision, frontal dumb attacks, obsolete equipment and tactics, poorly commanded and worse trained...

To win the war, the Münzen asked for help to the Imperio Gastronómico (IG) first, promising mines and shares of the production of gold and other minerals in Snowboard... however, they finally withdraw, and Münzen hired other ally: Christophenia.

They win the war, but again, other recurring Münzen trait apeared: they didn't know to negotiate, and lost in the peace treaty the contested areas for the creation of a third nation, called "Anuchia" -the "land of the Nutks", from the old "Anutkia", new nation that will in few years annex Felcheland, and become eternal enemies of Münzen).

To pay their "hired" allies, General Münzen give them a naval base in the port of Svaddia, and mining rights in Nodia... soon, the tension between the two former allies exploded in the 140 d.J, in the "Münzen-Hydraulic alliance" war, in wich Münzen faced Christophenia, Calintropian Empire and Östria, and was defeated.

Münzen was occuped, but many refugees followed the exiled government, and settled down in the other end of the world, in the white continent of Amparpica, a New Münzen.

There, they will become one of the richer and more technological advanced nations of Aiers...

Thought a word to descrive Münzen, could be anachronism.

They where one of the most technological advanced nations, but their military was one of the most obsolete ones of western Aiers.
Not only that, but despise being a military regimen, they military was weak:

And meanwhile their experts conquered the space, discovering two planets wich humans could inhabite, the army used bolt-action rifles and horses...

Münzen was never a militaristic nation... but due their external politics, they where dragged to several wars, like the second world war of Aiers, between the Tris Tigris alliance (Bazikstan, Gofondria and Münzen, as well minor allies, like Guaderia) against the Hydraulic Alliance (Chirstophenia, Calintropian, Moritania and other allies, like part of the MW), the Greedsvalley war, the Münzen-Hette war, several short wars against Bazikstan, suposedly their ally, but a recurrent enemy, and a short imperialist race:

Some nations arrived late to the Imperialism.... Münzen was about 70 years late, in the 168, and the Münzen Empire lasted less than 3 or 4 years, before they where forced by the international comunity and the own public opinion to leave their Empire (just to be reemplaced by the UVA, most of wich where against the "Münzen Imperialism"... wich will be a cause for the third world war of Aiers).
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Münzen as well bought back their homeland from the occupation forces, and the return of their capitol to the Metropoli, when the riches where in Amparpica, can be one of the first problems of Münzen...

and after that, everything go down.

Meanwhile the government played to do space exploration and investigation, spending much more that they could afford, finally the resources of Amparpica, due the extreme explotation of them, ended in the 180

The Münzen, after living in a state that provided everything with luxury included, having a better live standard that anywhere else, suddendly faced one of the worse crisis in the history of Aiers, and the government couldn't do anything well to solve this:

The air was strange, and with some help of foreign enemies, the loyal "allies" that where the Baziks, Amparpica proclaimed independence the 188, and a brutal war followed.

A war lost by Münzen... and for the Münzen generals, the better way to solve this catastrophe was... other war.

The 190, they invaded Anuchia... and rather than war, that was a massacre, as the large but obsolete Münzen army was completely routed by the modern Nutk forces...

And then, the 191-193, followed a brutal civil war.

Münzen uniforms
Traditionally, the Münzen uniforms looked obsolete or from other time, and they used sometimes the same gear for decades... and when this equipment aged, they used their industrial might to produce new weapons...

wich where copies of old equipment: they where one of the last nations to use Bolt Action rifles.

The idea between doing "old new weapons" was that the old weapons where well know, and where fiable: so why to change?

Also, the same generals that ruled the country, owned the weapon factories, so they did great business with this corruption.

Normally, the Münzen uniforms where traditionally light green, but sometimes where used winter camouflage, or other camouflages when needed.


Still without scanner for some days. :3
So other "filler art" page with old drawings of uniforms of one of the nations of Aiers, Münzen.

2008

The Republic of Münzen was played by :3