Tashuye

Tashuye is a tribal confederacy on the continent of Kaelon, formed to resist the expansion of the Coalition of Free Republics (CFR). It is organised around assemblies of tribal elders at the site of Eyokihe, and is by and large not an integrated state so much as it is a military cooperation of autonomous tribal nations. Tashuye is mostly populated by indigenous peoples of the continent, but also has minority populations of settler groups as exiles from colonies seek refuge with the confederacy. Tashuye enjoys friendly relations with the Tzopileocan Confederacy as fellow belligerents of Coalition expansion. It has also at various times entered into tacit alliances with the Beygir Empire and Archkingdom of Eredina against the CFR, but has also come into conflict with their colonial ambitions. Tashuye is widely respected and supported by other indigenous tribes of the continent that have fallen to colonial rule, and refugees from these tribes make up nearly half of its population.

Warfare
Tashuyen warfare is characterised by light cavalry making rapid raids on the fringes of the Coalition of Free Republic's colonial outposts, coupled with urban guerrilla warfare by sympathetic ethnic Tashuyens where the Coalition has successfully annexed Tashuyen lands.

The latter is most prominent on the frontier cities of Wilerson and Manfield with large disenfranchised Tashuyen minority populations. Here paramilitary groups target individual Coalition army members and police officers, so as to assassinate prominent members and cripple administration and morale in Coalition troops, as well as setting off public explosions to cause property damage, typically by using pipe bombs. One of their most famous tactics is derailing trains by placing explosives on the tracks.

The military directly controlled by the Tashuyen elders at Eyokihe is easily distinguishable from its paramilitary sympathisers, as it largely uses traditional weapons and tactics due to a lack of military supplies. Tashuye was gifted a large cache of heavy firearms and artillery by the Beygir Empire as a reward for their cooperation against the CFR, but their use has largely been limited to the heavily militarised frontier between Wilerson and Eyokihe as they do not fit into orthodox Tashuyen tactics on the peripheral regions. Firearms proved too slow and heavy for use on horseback during shock raids, so traditional bows, spears, and axes remain in use.