WWDE, Effects
BC 04/1 Because of the almost total destruction of technology and industrial production, most governments had fallen. Though there were centers of light, beacons of hope scattered across the world, most of it had descended into violent feudalism of one sort or another. All countries had their good and bad people, (Terry Henry Walton Chronicles, Second Dark Ages series).
Boris had maintained a relatively benevolent dictatorship in the Russian/Siberian area, sending his children to maintain relationships with other countries who had retained some form of civilization. Fiona (Boris' second child) was helping the Mongolian pack against the Sacred Clans. His youngest boys, the twins Anatoly and Leo, had been scouting the central regions and acting as diplomats to the Finnish government—one of the few true governments to survive the Fall. They’d also led missions to contact the rulers of the regions that encompassed the former states of Estonia, Latvia, and the reinvigorated royalty of Sweden.
Roads: In the Ukraine and Belarus, Ukraine and Belarus, even fifty years of winters with minimal repairs hadn't destroyed the highways. Without heavy trucks constantly running along them and breaking them down, the lighter traffic preserved them for the most part, and they were still more than adequate.
Vehicles: With the breakdown of most of the oil industry, cars, trucks, and armored vehicles had to be used sparingly. New ones couldn't be built anyway, with what limited heavy industry was available. The few heavy tanks they had managed to scavenge shortly after the Fall were mostly in bunkers around Lilith's caves—that site was too important to risk falling into anyone else's hands. His history as a Cossack had taught Boris an important lesson about horses. Even though his artillery still used them, they ate a lot every day. That made them a logistical nightmare. The fact that they were better off-road than even wide-rimmed bicycles made up for that liability with artillery. But his infantry was trained as a form of ‘Dragoon,' mounted infantry. The major difference was that the ‘mount' was a specially designed pedal-powered bike. It was something that had repeatedly been used from the middle of the twentieth century AD. Boris's single logistics battalion was fitted entirely on tricycles with a wagon bed on the back. These vehicles could carry well in excess of a ton of supplies each with trained riders. Normal bikes were restricted, even with modifications and a trailer, to three-quarters of a ton. Overall, the logistical capability was a trick stolen from the Vietnamese in their wars of the 1960s and 1970s. Without helicopters to interdict the supplies, or aircraft to bomb the roads, Boris was immensely confident his logistics would be nearly impossible to cut. If someone managed to get a force across his supply lines, then his Were patrols would savage it.
Weapons: Boris controlled one of the very few areas that still produced ammunition at all. Boris had managed to relocate a small production facility for artillery ammunition as well as ammunition for their rifles. With the efforts to minimize artillery use, they had a decent supply for even a significant period of conflict.
