The Brazilians Arrive!

Ok, so after not posting on here for a while (and work taking the place of playing Dystopian Wars), I recently decided to sit down and paint a new fleet. I've been looking at another steampunk game called Aeronef, and after looking through the 1/1200 scale models of different fleets, I came across their South American fleets (I have read some SA history so I was pretty excited to see a game that covered SA in the Victorian Era.) and fell in love with the sleek, sexy, Brazilian aeronefs. They look like thin cigar zeppelins with gun decks mounted topside. Painted with gray hulls and white superstructures with banana yellow smokestacks, the fleet looked like a cool enough idea to bring over into DW.


I looked at the DW fluff, and since I like being more original when it comes to what Spartan Games wrote (for example, how they did away with the original Prussian royal family, the Hohenzollerns, and came up with some made up Santa clone named "Grunder" to rule Prussia, or how they made the Meiji emperor disappear and also the name "Japan". :P), so I created an alternate timeline for the canon "Socialist Union of South America" or SUSA, and instead reconstituted the Empire of Brazil under Dom Pedro II. I repainted my FSA airships into Brazilian colors which actually looks really good on them and will give my new fleet a more "tropical" feel.



Here is the first squadron for my "Marinha Imperial Aerea Brasileira" or "Imperial Brazilian Air Navy":

It took three coats of white to paint over the navy blue scheme I originally had for a "Yankee" fleet. I'll be adding more FSA airships to the Brazilian fleet when I get the chance as well as that cool new "Eclipse Company" Spartan Games is releasing this month.

As for background fluff: The Brazilians chafed under the new socialist regime as the young revolutionaries of Rio de Janeiro rebelled in the summer of 1868 and resurrected the old, short-lived Empire of Brazil. Which was swept away in the communist upheavals of the early 1860's. Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, was welcomed back to Rio from Portuguese exile, and immediately took command of the newly massed air fleet that the Young Brasileiros (as the rebels called themselves) had captured from nearby SUSA airfields. The subsequent "June War of Independence" saw the tanks and airforces of SUSA driven out of most of the inhabited parts of Brazil and into neighboring Argentina, Chile, and Peru. As well as a whole SUSA army bogging down in the wilds of the Amazon, to be bombed to death by a Brazilian aerial scouting flotilla.

The Brazilian armed forces consist almost entirely of air ships and fighter planes. Brazil does maintain a small land army, but the nature of the Amazon prevents large scale armies from crossing it's dense jungles, and so Brazil has come to rely almost entirely on airship patrols for border security. And with a powerful, ever growing air navy, a sea going surface fleet is also rendered somewhat useless, though there is a small flotilla (made of old purchased FSA ships) based at Sao Paulo.