Kociuszko Insurrection - 1794 (3v1)
Creator: starhal || First Published: 09/17/2025 || Players: 4 || Size: 45x50
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starhal (09/17/2025 05:55pm | Edited: 09/17/2025 06:22pm):
Andrzej Tadeusz Kościuszko was a brevet general of the United States Continental Army during the American War of
Independence, alongside other Polish volunteers of that conflict. After Americans had won their independence, Tadeusz
Kościuszko returned his attention to his home country of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which in 1792 lost a war
against Russian Empire and Polish noble rebels under Tzar Catherine II, who just like her predecessors extended tyrranical
(as in, completely illegitimate) control over Polish-Lithuanian politics by keeping Russian garrisons on Polish territory,
present there ever since expelling Sweden from these territories during the Great Northern War (1700-1721), and after
ceding territory in the resulting second partition to Russia and Prussia was reduced to a non-functioning puppet state,
constantly pillaged by Russian troops. Under their control, Poland was also forced to abandon it's 3rd May Constitution,
which was based on the recently passed United States Constitution except for maintaining of some noble and catholic
priviledges.

Kościuszko and other revolutionaries, including Masons, immediately began planning an insurrection, seeking to overthrow
the Russian yoke and restore the Commonwealth to it's former glory, as well as restore the Constitution, free the peasants
from serfdom, and bring further reforms modeled after the United States and more recent French revolution. It was quickly
decided, that to this end Kościuszko must seize dictatorial power, and secure the support of the French, but the attempts to
do the latter failed in 1792 and french general Charles Francois Dumouriez revealed this plot to the Austrians with whom he
was secretly cooperating, and they passed this information to Russians, warning them of the upcoming rebellion. Despite this,
Russians failed to properly respond. After preparations abroad, Tadeusz Kościuszko arrived to Poland in september of 1793
to prepare within the Commonwealth itself.

A year later, after renewed attempts still failed to convince the French to support a Polish uprising, under pretext that "Poles
do not understand the concept of absolute power of the people, and cannot cause trouble for Russia", insurrection began on
12 march 1794, when Polish general Antoni Józef Madaliński refused an order to reduce the size of his army, and began a
march towards the historical (But not current) capital of Poland, Kraków. There, 12 days later, Tadeusz Kościuszko formally
began his insurrection with the following declaration:

'I, Tadeusz Kościuszko, swear in presence of God to the entire Polish Nation, that I shall not use power trusted to me for
anyone's private gain, but only for defense of the entirety of it's borders, restoration of the country's independent
selfgovernance and estabilishment of universal liberties I shall use it. So help me God and the unjust torment of His Son'

After estabilishing an army of roughly 4000 men, including almost 2000 peasant volunteers armed in majority not with
firearms but with war scythes which became a weapon symbolising this and future Polish uprisings against Russia,
Kościuszko marched northwards towards the capital of the Commonwealth in Warsaw. On 4 april, he encountered a
Russian army of at least 2900 men led by general Alexander Petrovich Tormasov, and fought a battle at Racławice.
Kościuszko achieved a staggering victory, killing over 1000 of Russian soldiers with only few hundred losses on his side,
and seizing 12 Russian cannons. While Russian army was not entirely shattered, and ultimately succeeded at stopping
Kościuszko from reaching Warsaw, this victory still created hope in Polish victory and inspired similiar insurrections in other
parts of the country: in Warsaw (17 april), Vilnus (23 april), and other cities.

The game begins at this critical point. Prussia (Blue Moon) and Austria (Yellow Comet) join Russian (Green Earth) efforts to
put down the uprising on 16 may and 30 june respectively. Rebels (Orange Star) do not have much hope of winning,
historically despite pushing Prusso-Russian troops from besieging Warsaw and chasing the former all the way to
Bydgoszcz, uprising was ultimately crushed by Alexander Suvorov, who captured Kościuszko at the battle of Maciejowice,
and then besieged Warsaw and forced it's capitulation by massacring civilian population (His arrival and the following shift of
momentum is represented in the game by Russians capturing one of Polish comtowers. Prussia has a comtower due to their
impressive drill, and the other Polish comtower is strictly for balance). Polish victory, by surviving long enough to capture the
HQs located off the map, marks instead the insurrection surviving long enought to convince France to finally lend it support.
Russo-prusso-austian victory means a historical outcome: a final partition of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, erasing it from
the map and attempting to erase it from history in 1795
starhal (09/17/2025 06:05pm | Edited: 09/28/2025 05:46pm):
Rules
- No CO powers, or a ban on Kindle, sami and tiers 0-1
- Teams: OS in team A, others in team B
- Any Fog of War setting
- Clear weather (Insurrection began after and for the most part ended before winter)
- 500 funds
- 60 unit limit (This is Eastern Europe, not China).

- Banned units: All naval, all land except infantry, mechs, recons, APCs and artillery (Representing, in that order: irregular
infantry, regular infantry, cavalry, artillery and supply carts)
- Lab unit: Infantry



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