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Official Allanean Government Announcement

"Years ago, the evil Edolian aggressors have used extortion and blackmail to have the Free Republic of Allanea hand over the province of Axackal to them. Today, the time has come. We will avenge the oppression of Allaneans in Axackal. We will avenge our children. We will free Axackal. Onwards, Allanean warriors! Onwards, for freedom! For Allanea!"

[On the Axackali border]

The Allanean Missile Sattelites launch 10 missiles (5 MIRV's each), carrying high-yield EMP warheads (NOT nuclear weapons) at the Edolian airfields in Axackal.

Simultaneously, all artillery on the borders [1600 Allanean Smerch Launchers, 450 Iron blood MRLS sistems (including FAE launchers) and 5,000 assorted Iron Blood cannon commence firing at the Edolian positions. That happens all along the border, except where Von Tusk's unit is. The Ted Nugent Warbiker Brigade and the Elite Scout Division are there (26,000 troops, ordered to take Von Tusk ALIVE at all costs)
The 5,000 Gilgamesh Tank Destroyers and 7,000 black Eagle tanks are headed to fight the Edolian tanks, while the 3,000 Hannibal Lectors are set to pierce the Edolian ranks and continue onwards. Also, 2,000 KL-55 Helicopters are engaging the Edolian armour.

Meanwhile, the air-assault division (16,000 men, 1,000 Jason Vorhoosen Helicopters) is headed to Deriksburg (helicopters, you know).

The Empire of Indon is willing to contribute 500 tanks and 1000 infantry to fight under the command of Allanean commanders.

OOC:
WTF are you doing?

The Empire of Indon is willing to contribute 500 tanks and 1000 infantry to fight under the command of Allanean commanders.

thank you.

Official Order

"No Axackalian civilians are to be harmed. At all cost, avoid civilian casualties in Axackal "[/B]

Grumio is willing to donate 1500 rifleman, along with 200 officers, as well as 2 armored divisons to free your land.

[It's been pretty much agreed by UnAPS that if you initiated this Iron Blood's equipment would not be accepted. We're also not willing to make this anything less than a closed RP, we don't want random n00bs popping in here. Oh, and there are sufficient forces on the border that anything you send against Axackal will be stalled at the very least.]

One of the five Cobra Alexandria aerospace defense radars, this one pointing in the general direction of Axackal, had been programmed to make lower-than-usual up-and-down sweeps of the sky since the declaration for war. The primary purpose of this was to detect artillery fire along the Axackal border, it was only a matter of time before someone did something and battery/counter-battery fire needed to be detected for the Ragnarok Guns to target and speak against. Starting positions of the missiles and shells were noted and compared against accurate maps, the information was then relayed to Join Strategic Command, where it was then relayed to the six guns facing west. When the battery commanders recieved their priority lists, their first volley would be a time-on-target against the heaviest concentrations of artillery. The massive 50" ETC cannons buried in long-extinct volcanoes fired seemingly out-of-rythm shots, but the purpose was to silence several groups of batteries at once. Each shell weighed over a hundred tons, and half of that was high explosives and softball-sized ball bearings, it would not be a pleasant experience for the poor Allanean battery commanders and their troops, much less the equipment.

[I'm going to stop here, but the next attack I make will be roughly coordinated with this one.]

OOC:..Why?

[OOC: Edolia says otherwise]

[OOC again]: Awaiting Edolian losses from the artillery bombardment and the EMP MIRVs.


[IC]:

The air is filled with the screams of the dying and the roar of explosions...

100 Allanean Smerch launchers, 250 Iron Blood cannon and 100 IB MRLS launchers are destroyed.

10 more missiles (50 MIRV's) are launched at the Ragnarok emplacement with hopes to take them down with EMP.

[Oh, I forgot to mention the position of my guns. You know those two isles that I have in the Straits? My guns are on the western most one, but I haven't really advertised that fact and you haven't RPed counter-battery radar like I did. And if you must use Iron Blood's stuff, don't use it on the Axackal front.]

[ooc: If you really want to be invited, post in the OOC thread - that's open. This is an IC Closed RP thread. An Axackal-Allanea front map is being generated.]

OOC: Bump up that "Invasion of Allanea" thread... now those troops actually ARE invading you! I'll accept the Iron Blood equipment, but not 5,000 Gilgameshes. There is no way any nation could have that many.

IC:

We are sending the forces we had in the Scandanavian States city of Dublin across the border into Axacacal (sp?) to defend it from Allanean gun-toting agression! The following forces are being sent:

105,000 Troopers
45,000 Commandos
15,000 Elite Commandos
Associated Armor and Air Elements

Also, being deployed to Allanea itself is:

120,000 Troopers
30,000 Commandos
1,000 Elite Commandos
Associated Armor and Air Elements

Naval deployments are still being planned, but will come.

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"Sir, Allanea is invading Axacacal!" said an aide to the elected monarch, King Buster Boostei. "What... d*mn. Deploy the troops into Axacacal, and ready whatever troops the Military Council (OOC: A group of generals similar to the United States Joint Cheifs of Staff) thinks needed. Let's wrap this up quickly."

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General Fluffy Vanda moved her paw across the command touchscreen. "Alright, our mission is to try to take and disable the Allanean military infrastructure. We'll move half of the troopers towards this base here, near the Axacalacal (sp?) border, and take it. The other half will move towards [insert city name here], the center of Allanean arms manufacturing. The commandos and elite commandos will be held back until they are needed."

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60,000 troops began heading towards the Allanean base near Axacalacal from their staging point in the area mentioned, accompanied by one hundred MBTs, 60 light tanks, and 300 raiding vehicles floating gracefully yet menacingly across Allanea. (Think the Scorpion the UK uses in terms of role in the army.). Air support was standing by to be called in.

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Also setting out in another direction, 60000 troops accompanied by 200 MBTs, 100 light tanks, and 100 raiding vehicles, again with air support standing by, set out for the largest arms manufacturing city in Allanea.

OOC:
How is there no way I can have 5,000 Gilgameshes (I actually have 11,500 but thats another matter :roll: )? Add up the cost, subtract it from my $10 trillion military budget, subtract maintenance for one year, voila.

If you think the Gilgameshes are bad I shudder to think what your reaction would be to me posting my entire army OOB :lol: :roll: :roll: :roll:

Purchasing 5,000 Gilgameshes cost $42.5 billion. Affordable.

Allanea, how come your being so Imperialistic?

Aboard the DN Doujin
"Sir, we are getting a FLASH Priority message Doujin Military HQ."

The Admiral walked over to the communcation station and read waited as it printed out.

"Jesus, confirm?"

The XO and Weapons Officer both went to a safe hidden behind a control panel and pulled out a card and listed off a code.

"Authentic, sir."

"Alright. XO, Sound General Quarters. Signal the Fleet.. we are going in."

"Aye, sir."

*whistle blow*

"General Quarters, General Quarters - All men man your Battlestations."

Thousands of sailors started running getting ready to go into combat in the name of Doujin and the UnAPS.

"Take us to this position..."

The Admiral walked over to the Map Board and pointed..

"We will rendezvous with the Scarlet Armada and head into conflict with Allanean maritime assets. I want fighters in the air 24/7 escorting the Fleets."

As the Fleet Command (Consisting of the Main Fleet and the First, Second and Third Assault Fleets) headed North to engage Allanean forces and rendezvous with the Edolian Scarlet Armada, the two Defense Fleets that were on standby were set to Active status, and preparations were made to get all the Defense Fleets to sea.

Allanea, how come your being so Imperialistic?

Imperialistic? Moi?

[Re: Feline]

As the advance of the Felinian forces becomes evident, the remnant of the mechanized infantry is injected into the situation. 19,000 Volk AFV's, 11,000 BMP-3U's, and 200,000 infantry are sent to stop the Feline advance.

[Re: Doujin]

The Allanean Navy is currently near the Atlantic Island shores, see map.

OOC: Shouldn't we all now wait for the Edolian response?

The shock troops shall not participate in this agression, though they will protect Allaneas capital in the event of things going to hell completely. Iron Blood wishes a peaceful resolution to the conflict, and is willing to either host peace talks, or help set up talks in a neutral country.

[Allanea, since you didn't have counter-battery radar, I'm going to post your shots as misses.]

The EMP warheads detonated against the western mountain ranges, but without accurate targeting information there was no way to pinpoint which mountains the initial volley came from, and even if they had hit the right mountain the rock was heavy and porous, so a warhead would have had to literally hit a target just twenty feet wide and forty tall for the electric pulse to effect the gun. It didn't happen, and the snap shot didn't bode well for the rest of the war. Once the all clear was sounded, the guns started to fire one at a time every thirty seconds against targets of oppertunity, and they had enough ammunition to keep the barrage up for hours. This was not by any means the only bombardment that was going on, though...

Around Helsinki and New Edinburgh, cruise missile silos were opening, the forests with massive trees and multi-layered cannopies protecting the structures from being spotted. Within a window of five minutes revolving magazines were locked in place and missiles targeted. The revolving magazines in question held cruise missiles with submunition warheads, and they weren't being targetted against artillery, you didn't use half million dollar missiles for counter-battery. No, the Helsinki missiles were targeted against fleet facilities and air bases, four hundred missiles with four hundred and fifty submunitions each. The New Edinburgh missiles were also targetted against air bases, but logistics centers and units as well, and an equal number and type of missiles were dedicated against these targets. It was only the beginning, but it was a good beginning for this war.

[The cruise missiles I use are Mach 12 Scramjets with a thrust-vectoring body. The silo-launched will go into a ballistic arc that takes them to about forty miles up and brings them down almost vertically on the target. If they're engaged, they'll take evasive manuevers so long as they aren't going terminal.]

Staging Area, Operation: Portinaio
First Fleet's Current Position, Northern Haven Straits
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The large mass of ships slowed to a halt just east of Goobergunchia. Several of the ships were being refitted, refueled and replenished before the beginning of the offensive push.

Meanwhile Maritime Air Assets are beginning reconnaisance flights over the Northern portion of the Straits in an attempt to find the exact location of Allanea ships for the land-based strike aircraft of the 33rd Air Wing.

Allanea, since you didn't have counter-battery radar, I'm going to post your shots as misses.

I use sattelite imaging. I probably note the 50-inch guns as they are firing. Probably visible by those NASA optics. :D

Allanea, since you didn't have counter-battery radar, I'm going to post your shots as misses.

I use sattelite imaging. I probably note the 50-inch guns as they are firing. Probably visible by those NASA optics. :D

Allanea, since you didn't have counter-battery radar, I'm going to post your shots as misses.

I use sattelite imaging. I probably note the 50-inch guns as they are firing. Probably visible by those NASA optics. :D

OOC:

http://www.angelfire.com/ns2/regionofgay/Haven.PNG

Doujin Fleet position marked as an X

Allanea, since you didn't have counter-battery radar, I'm going to post your shots as misses.

I use sattelite imaging. I probably note the 50-inch guns as they are firing. Probably visible by those NASA optics. :D

[That isn't likely, since the guns are actually inside the mountain and you would have to know exactly where to look on a ring of mountains that average 10,000 feet in height on islands the size of the island of Hawaii. If you had real-time spysats, I'd probably buy a stroke of luck in finding one, but not all six. After all, they only ever fire once every three minutes, it takes about that long to reload. Where's the OOC thread, anyway?]

OOC: What are Volk AFV's? And 11,000 BMPs is too much. You people signifigantly underestimate maintanance costs. 42.5 Billion for the purchase, but how much for maintanance? And a ten trillion military budget would wreck any economy. You people have to be like North Korea: A huge, poorly maintained, poorly trained army that you use for bragging rights. Reduce numbers or I will treat your forces as such.

OOC: What are Volk AFV's? And 11,000 BMPs is too much. You people signifigantly underestimate maintanance costs. 42.5 Billion for the purchase, but how much for maintanance? And a ten trillion military budget would wreck any economy. You people have to be like North Korea: A huge, poorly maintained, poorly trained army that you use for bragging rights. Reduce numbers or I will treat your forces as such.
OOC:
Volks are redesigned BMP-3's with NERA and 105mm ETC.

How much for maintenance? $2.5 bil a year? I just draft mechanics, have em work for free on the weekends. Nice effective method of maintenance.

$10 tril is with 33% of the budget going to the military. My budget for the whole govt is $33,977,815,200,000. I guess until I get my description to say 'government focuses on defense' ill use 25%, which still gives me something like $8 tril.

OOC:
Furthermore, Russian equipment can be maintained by a gorilla, the T-7's might be a bit harder though.

The man in the shadows puffed on his pipe silently, and looked at his companion.

"What about Colonel Tang?" he asked, taking a sip of coconut juice.

His aide shook her head. "Not this time, sir," she replied. "You may have to get someone else."

"But at least the 8th Jump Brigade? Can I get them?" he asked anxiously.

His aide checked her list. "Roger that. Corporal Chun has released them from the CTC's roster, and they are going to be under your command as of now; as soon as we can find a staging area for them, they will leave."

"Good," he said, nodding. "What about the First Storm Division?"

"Yes," she replied. "They are ready to move out at a moment's notice; also under your command are the First and Second Pathet Cong Rangers Companies. Naval assets will be commanded by Admiral Daikin. General Pai has command of air assets, including Musa Brigade and Ishikawa Brigade."

The man nodded. "Good. Send word out to all the forces and have them ready to leave in an instant. Meanwhile, send word to the Echo Detachments XXS1 and XXZ2 to begin their deployments. Assign Sr. Colonel Jang command of their operations."

He paused for a minute, tapping his pipe against the desk. "And make sure our enemies are infiltrated thoroughly," he replied. "Very Thoroughly."

OOC: So you use slave labor to maintain your military? The parts still need to be paid for, and the slaves need food. Or else you will have to keep getting more slaves, severely draining your workforce and wrecking your economy.

And Allanea, the adjective is not Felineian, but it is Cat. Common mistake.

IC:

"Sir, satellites detect a large Allanean formation towards the area between our forces. It is composed of 30,000 infantry fighting vehicles, and 200,000 troops." said an aide to General Vanda. General Vanda kept her typical composure, and said, "Have the field sensor arrays ping them." "Yes, sir."

"Most of them are undercrewed, undermaintained, or underequipped. The forces are signifigantly sub-par." "As typical intelligence on Allanean troops, as well as common sense, indicates. But they still outnumber us. Divert the forces going to attack the base towards the city, and accelerate their rate of movement. We need to take the city before we meet up with the Allanean troops." "Yes, sir." The general thought for a moment, and then she said, "Also, deploy our four railgun units. Fire upon the Allanean formations. Then ready all of the MLRS units (OOC: 100, with 20 missiles each) and bring them to bear on the Allanean forces. Let's give them a little whats-for."

[ White House Communications Office: Bullpen ] -- 5:43 P.M.

Richard Schiff (Comm. Director), Rob Lowe (Dep. Comm. Director) and Bradley Whitford (Dep. Chief of Staff) are all in the bullpen, staring blankly at a television screen...

CNN Commentator
.. as tensions flared up between the two governments. Allanea announced their 'Free Axackal' campaign, deploying massive military battalions to liberate Axackal, an Edolian province since it was seized in a previous war between Pilot and Allanea. Several members of the world community, including Feline, the Scandinavian States and other members of the UnAPS alliance. Pilot, a member of UnAPS, has yet to formally declare its intentions in the conflict, although, Pentagon officials have confirmed that small divisions are readying in the Port of Christmas Bay.

Schiff looks down at his feet, then to Lowe...

Richard Schiff
Maybe we want to, you know, say something.

Bradley Whitford
I think we ought to know what we are going to say before we start saying it...

Richard Schiff
Rob, is John meeting with the President?

Rob Lowe
The President, John and the rest of the NST are in the situation room, and the President also has a couple of phone calls to leaders involved. I believe he is going to talk with the Edolian Prime Minister... Mr. Imperator, if you will.

The three share a laugh over the funny-sounding leader name.

Richard Schiff
Get on the phones, start telling people that. Let's try not to make it look like the President taking an afternoon nap and nobody wanted to wake him up.

All three staff members separate, returning to their respective offices...

[ White House Situation Room ] -- 5:42 P.M.

President Martin Sheen
So, any suggestions General?

General John Amos, Commander of Pilotan National Defense Forces
Mr. President, I think we can keep ourselves pretty much out of this one. There are alot of nations joining Edolias bandwagon on this one and putting another hundred thousand troops there wouldn't make the logistical situation any easy for any other nations' commanders. We are not needed for the defensive front on this matter. My suggestion to you, Mr. President, is a full version of OPLAN 11.

President Martin Sheen
... A counter-invasion?

General John Amos
Yes, sir. We have the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Fleets readying in Christmas Bay. They cna be deployed in twelve hours. At which point, if you approve the plans, we will take the Bay of Allanea and use it as the staging point for our counter-invasion.

President Martin Sheen
Well, they have defense forces there General, am I mistaken? I mean, they aren't just going to let us go in and take the port.

General John Amos
Sir, I as well as the rest of the Joint Chiefs agree they wouldn't be able to subdue those three fleets.

The President takes one more look at the diagram...

President Martin Sheen -- (after a short pause for contemplation)
John, call Congress into session for 7 P.M. tonight. Tell the Speaker there will be a vote.

The President stands up from the chair and the action is followed by assorted "Thank you, Mr. President"s.

There will be a new thread to follow on. Will post shortly.

***Executive Office; Capital City, Tiborita***

President Tibor sank back in his chair. "I don't believe these guys! Invading Axackal? The Allanean government has to know that UnAPS has a superior force. What can they be thinking?

"We don't understand," Minister Herman said. "No one in the Defense council thought that Allenea would start hostilities."

"Yeah, but they have now. And we don't have forces to support our allies." The President sunk further into his chair. Should he have pushed the Senate to seak a formal declararation of war after Athanea declared war on Edolia? That would have brought Tiboritian forces closer to the 'theatre of war' now. But no, now wasn't the time to second guess his decisions. "Alright, what do we have to do now?"

Admiral Power now spoke up. "Mr. President, right now we can send four carrier battle groups to the area, as well as two submarine squadrons to the area."

"And land forces?"

General Steele now spoke. "Mr. President, we are now mobilizing. Our light infantry divisions can get their now, but our armor divisions will take some time by traveling by sea."

"Alright, whatever. Allanea has to be stopped."

NAVAL DEPLOYMENTS ANNOUNCED:

4th Fleet and 7th Fleet will be deployed. Each one has:

1 Atlantic Class Submersible Vessels
4 Tuna Tuna Class Submersible Vessels
2 Feline Class Battleships
3 Liberty Class Frigates
5 Catnip Class Corvettes
10 Defender Class Patrol Boats

For a total of:

2 Atlantic Class Submersible Vessels
8 Tuna Tuna Class Submersible Vessels
4 Feline Class Battleships
6 Liberty Class Frigates
10 Catnip Class Corvettes
20 Defender Class Patrol Boats

New thread:

Try to halt all aggression for 24 if we could, this will need a tad bit of organization. Granted, Allanea will fall in 12, but that is ok.

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3024697#3024697

This would be the last act of the initial retaliation, and it was the coup de gras of the whole thing. Seventy-two B-20 Firehawk bomber were prepping for a mission that would see the first use of the new bombers. Once the entire wing was ready, they took off in groups of four per runway and climber to 50,000 feet. Once they reached altitude they started picking up speed, going from the speed just below the speed of sound to a Mach 1.2 supercruise. It was a long journey even at their speed, the Imperium was the size of China, but once they reached their target over the Allanea/Axackal border, it made them grin at the retribution they would sew.

"Phoenix Wing, let em have it." The young colonel, a woman with the surname of MacLeod. That family had a long and glorious history is Scandavian Air and Aerospace Forces.

All seventy-two stealth aircraft opened their bombay doors and dispensed 300,000 pounds worth of JSOW bombs... right on top of an Allanean army filled with huge and expensive T-7 tanks. The bombs themselves had a mix of Brilliant Anti-Tank, which targeted tanks by heat, and dumb submunitions for anti-personel and fragile anti-material work. They close their bay doors as quickly as possible, turned their aircraft around, and zipped back to their bases at just a little under Mach 2, which was the fastest they could go without using their non-shielded Pulse Det engines.

[I suppose if you had incredibly sensitive heat seaking SAMs you could engage them on the way back, but without the Pulse Dets going it makes the proposition tough.]

OOC:
Forces STILL deployed in Axackal:

320,000 Retalitory Guard (160,000 heavy, 80,000 medium and 80,000 mechanized)

4,000 Thunderer II Battletanks (equilivant of British Crusader tanks, but with additional AA batteries)

4,000 Scorpion LAV's (six wheeled armoured transports, can carry 10 including driver and gunner)

2,000 Hind helicopters

1,500 Orion Stealth Fighters, configured as ground attack and support bombers

6,000 Red Jagaur Commandos with 600 Chok-Mool Superheavy Battletanks (armed with a 280m howitzer and 2 30mm chain guns, they can carry 10.)

Commanded by Command General Itzcoatl, the transports are being escorted by 2 Battlegroups and 2 Carrier groups




IC:
The Retaliatory Guard spread out as reports of artillery bombardments came in, they had been on the move since uesterday and were proving to be very bad targets for static artillery, Immediately the Chok-Mool 280mm howitzers returned fire, Allanea's batteries were lit up beautifully by their continous fire.

Command General was in his Chok-Mool, his com was open and his screen was linked to Tollan Fire control, the Tollan Satellites showing him Allanea forces in real time. "Send in the Orions, ground attack Delta. All forces maintain range and advance, Have the Revenge batteries open up along with cruise missles."

His commands were relayed. The 4 Revenge Battleships off the Coast of Axackal open up with their 36in high-velocity guns, pouring in their Apollo cruise missles with the Chok-Mool howitzers.

The Orion Stealth Fighters broke over Allanea at mach speed, barely 800ft from the ground, well under radar, to fast to be hit by laser or sight targetting weapons. 750 ground atack and 750 interceptors were mixed together, the ground attack hit Allanea's batteroes and troop formations, the interceptors leap-frogged the bombers and hit any fighters that showed up.

The 2 carriers off of Axackal began launching their 500 Orion Stealth Fighters to assist.

The Retaliatory Guard moved under this umbrella, still spread wide and still moving to the border with HIND helicopters giving them close support , the Thunderer II tanks in the lead, searching for hidden and mines with their thermographic imagers. The movement is steady , deliberate and well covered.

Meanwhile the Retaliatory Guard in the Scandavian States begin mounting up to also advance.

OOC: I haven't posted losses yet as it appears Allanea did not target my troops? Probably a mistake, but a bad one.

Land Forces Currently in Axackal
I, II, III, V, VI, VII, IX, XIII, XV, XVI Imperial Legions (10)
II, III, IV, V, VI, VII Mobile Strike Legions (6)
I, III, IV, V, VIII, IX, XIII, Armored Strike Legions (7)
II, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X Urban Assault Legions (6)
I, II, III, IV, V Red Hammer Corps (5)
I, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX Missile Assault Corps (7)
III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII Air Defense Corps (6)

II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, X, XI Red Eagle Legions (8 – In reserve)
I, II, III, IV Amphibious Assault Legions (4 – In reserve)

Air Forces Currently in Axackal
I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIV Air Flotillas (11)
I, II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII Helicopter Air Legions (10)
I, II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, X, XI RX-12 Roc Unmanned Heavy Stealth Bomber Wings (9)
I, II, III, V, VI, VII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV TB-21 Light Stealth Bomber Wings (12)


Naval Forces Currently off the coast of Axackal
Hammer and Sickle Grand Taskforces
Justice and Pain Silent Strike Taskforces

Numbers (Not counting reserves)
260,000 Infantry: Fully Mechanized
48,000 Infantry: Helicopter Mechanized
4,560 B-1 Imperium Unmanned MBTs
4,000 MD-3 Manticore MBTs
1860 CD-3 Cobra Tank Killers
7,200 H-2 Hoplite 90mm Light Howitzers
4,000 H-2 Hoplite 140mm Light Howitzers
1,800 H-3 Heavy Hoplite 180mm Howitzer
1,800 H-3/U Heavy Hoplite 200mm Long Range Howitzer
6,440 Hyena-2 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
3,360 Hyena-3 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
8,880 Echidna-5 Mobile SAM Batteries
4,320 Echdna-7 Mobile Long Range SAM Batteries

4,896 G2/U Gryphon Unmanned Helicopter Gunships
3,186 YT/A-2 Hellion Fighter/Interceptors
3,186 YT/A-3 Hellion Fighter/Bombers
1,584 BX/f-25 “Barking Gerbil” Fighter Support Planes
1,584 Assorted Support (Recon, Early Warning, Electronic Warfare) Fighters
864 RX-12 Roc Unmanned Heavy Stealth Bombers
1,152 TB-21 Light Stealth Bomber Wings

Fleet numbers not given due to time and space… Look at the definitions.

Force Definitions: Land
Imperial Legions
I, II Divisions:
4,000 Legionaries
300 PH-5 Pillbug Armored Personnel Carriers
III Division:
4,000 Legionaries
400 J-2/A Jackalope Military ATVs
IV Division:
4,000 Legionaries
600 J-2/B Jackalope Combat ATVs
I Auxiliary Wing:
600 Fast Deployment Legionaries
50 A-19 Light Troop Deployment Helicopters
48 G3/U Gryphon Unmanned Helicopter Gunships
II Auxiliary Wing:
240 Echidna-5 Mobile SAM Batteries
III Auxiliary Wing:
140 Hyena-2 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
I, II Heavy Assault Columns:
60 B-1 Imperium Unmanned Main Battle Tanks
60 MD-3 Manticore Main Battle Tanks
30 CD-3 Cobra Tank Killer

Mobile Strike Legions
I, II Divisions:
2,000 Helicopter-Deployed Legionaries
200 A-19 Light Troop Deployment Helicopters
III, IV Divisions:
2,000 Helicopter-Deployed Legionaries
100 A-26 Heavy Troop Deployment Helicopters
I, II, III, IV Auxiliary Wings
36 G2/U Gryphon Unmanned Helicopter Gunships

Urban Assault Legions
I, II, III, IV Divisions:
2,850 Urban Combat Legionaries
150 Red Palace Guard Assault Specialists
200 PH-5 Pillbug Armored Personnel Carriers

Amphibious Assault Legions
I, II, III, IV Divisions:
4,000 Marines
I, II Auxiliary Wings:
240 Elite “Frogmen”
III, IV Auxiliary Wings:
160 B-1/M Unmanned Imperium Amphibious Landing Tanks

Red Eagle Legions
I, II, III, IV Divisions:
400 Airborne Legionaries
200 Special Forest Unit Airborne Legionaries
200 Special Mountain Unit Airborne Legionaries
200 Special Operations Airborne Legionaries
(Back-up Mechanization Available)
I, II Auxiliary Wings:
400 Airborne Mechanized Legionaries
25 J-2A/M Jackalope Airdrop-Capable All Terrain Vehicles
25 J-2B/M Jackalope Combat Airdrop-Capable All Terrain Vehicles

Red Hammer Corps
I, II, III, IV, V, VI Divisions
240 H-2 Hoplite 90mm Light Howitzers
160 H-2 Hoplite 140mm Light Howitzers
VII, VIII, IX, X Divisions
90 H-3 Heavy Hoplite 180mm Howitzer
90 H-3/U Heavy Hoplite 200mm Long Range Howitzer

Missile Assault Corps
I, II, III, IV, V, VI Divisions
120 Hyena-2 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
VII, VIII, IX X Divisions
120 Hyena-3 Long Range Missile Launch Systems

Air Defense Corps
I, II, III, IV, V, VI Divisions
180 Echidna-5 Mobile SAM Batteries
VII, VIII, IX, X Divisions
180 Echidna-7 Mobile Long-Range SAM Batteries

Force Definitions: Air

Squadron – 12 Fighters

Mixed Wing (Type I)
2 Squadrons – YT/A-2 Hellion Fighter/Interceptors
2 Squadrons – YT/A-3 Hellion Fighter/Bombers
1 Squadron -- Mixed
4 YT/E-1 Hellion Electronic Warfare Fighters
4 YT/R-1 Hellion Reconnaissance Fighters
4 YT/X Early Warning Vehicles
1 Squadron – BX/f-25 “Barking Gerbils”

Air Combat Wing (Type II)
4 Squadrons – YT/A-2 Hellion Fighter/Interceptors
1 Squadron -- Mixed
4 YT/E-1 Hellion Electronic Warfare Fighters
2 YT/R-1 Hellion Reconnaissance Fighters
6 YT/X Early Warning Vehicles
1 Squadron – BX/f-25 “Barking Gerbils”

Air Strike Wing (Type III)
4 Squadrons – YT/A-3 Hellion Fighter/Bombers
1 Squadron -- Mixed
4 YT/E-1 Hellion Electronic Warfare Fighters
6 YT/R-1 Hellion Reconnaissance Fighters
2 YT/X Early Warning Vehicles
1 Squadron – BX/f-25 “Barking Gerbils”
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Air Flotillas I-XV
4 Mixed Wings
4 Air Combat Wings
4 Air Strike Wings
(24 YT/A-2 Squadrons, 24 YT/A-3 Squadrons, 12 Barking Gerbil Squadrons, 12 Mixed Sqaadrons)
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Squadron – 8 Bombers

Bomber Wing
12 Squadrons (96)

RX-12 Roc Unmanned Heavy Stealth Bomber Wings I-XV
TB-21 Light Stealth Bomber Wings I-XVII
XN-1 Garuda Hypersoar Bomber Wings I-V

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G2/U Squadron – 12 Helicopters

Strike Wing
4 Strike Forces

Helicopter Air Legion (I-XX)
4 Strike Wings
(192 Helicopters)

Force Definitions: Naval

Grand Taskforces
5 Carrier Battle Groups
1 Imperätor class aircraft carrier
4 Himelburg class aircraft carriers
1 Imperatrix class missile boat carrier
6 Pythonia-SSD class surface destroyers
5 Pythonia-ASD class anti-submarine destroyers
6 Pythonia-SAD class anti-air destroyers
4 Pythonia-HBD class heavy bombardment destroyers
6 Pythonia-FDD class ABM destroyers
2 Blätterschplitt class arsenal ships
4 Gerburg class arsenal ships
2 Tetelburg class battleships
16 Landia class long-range missile boat/frigates
2 Submarine Wolfpacks
3 Lavernia class nuclear attack submarines
5 Saspa class light attack submarines
2 Submarine Strikeforces
3 Nanaki class nuclear missile submarines
3 Terson class missile submarines
1 Missile Boat Battle Groups
1 Imperatrix class missile boat carrier
2 Pythonia-SSD class surface destroyers
2 Pythonia-ASD class anti-submarine destroyers
2 Pythonia-SAD class anti-air destroyers
8 Landia class long-range missile boat/frigates
1 Arsenal Group
2 Blätterschplitt class arsenal ships
4 Gerburg class arsenal ships


Silent Strike Taskforces – 3
1 Submarine Wolfpacks
3 Lavernia class nuclear attack submarines
5 Saspa class light attack submarines
2 Submarine Strikeforces
3 Nanaki class nuclear missile submarines
3 Terson class missile submarines
1 Arsenal Groups
2 Blätterschplitt class arsenal ships
4 Gerburg class arsenal ships

<<OOC: Confused yet? Good.>>

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At the first news of Allanea’s attack, Edolian forces were striking back. Even before the rockets hit Edolia’s air bases, Titan guns were firing. Massive gouts of flame burst from their barrels as huge shells, filled with MOAB chemicals streaked towards Allanea’s capital. Before striking the ground, the highly-flammable mixture would be spread across the area, inciting a massive firestorm. With the 100 Titan guns in Edolia capable of reaching Allanea’s capital firing their barrage at a shot every five minutes, it would only be a short matter of time before the capital city was reduced to ash and rubble. The first barrage would wipe out its downtown. The hundreds of smaller Titan guns targeted Allanean airfields. Their high explosive shells would tear apart aircraft hangers and control towers. Ammunition dumps were also primary targets. As military forces waited in their fortified locations all along the border, artillery and rocket systems rained fire on Allanea positions, concentrating on tank formations. Literally millions upon millions of dollars worth of ammunition was expended as the border, especially where Allanean forces were striking, was reduced to craters. And that was but a tiny portion of the retaliation that Edolia was inflicting upon the Allaneans for their unprovoked act of aggression. With much of Edolia’s fighters in the air already, it is only a short matter of time before thousands of planes begin their long-range strikes against Allanean positions, focusing on SEAD and other air superiority missions. Hundreds of bombers rose up as well to meet the Scandavian air armada heading towards Allanea…

In the meantime, the Scarlet Navy was engaging Allanea’s fleet. With active and passive radar jamming working at full capacity, the fleet begin moving as far away as possible from the Allaneans… As hundreds of fighters take off from carriers, they keep their distance. Thousands of anti-ship rockets flare up from the arsenal ships as torpedoes streak from submarines…

As Allanean missiles streak towards Edolian airbases, anti-missile miniguns spread hundreds of thousands of rounds spinning towards them… Nevertheless, the damage they inflict is reasonable. Over 150 fighters are disabled and many facilities damaged from the attack. In the meantime, the Edolian forces are feeling the pressure from the constant Allanean barrage. Casualties are somewhere between 500-1,000…

<<OOC: I’m really sorry about this sucky post… I spent a really long time trying to figure out my military and so wasn’t in any mood to make a really nice combat post… Expect better things in the future. If I missed anything, don’t yell at me. I was going to go to bed and post tomorrow but I figured that wouldn’t be quite fair to you guys to keep you waiting…>>

OOC: I'm sorry, 'Barking Gerbils' :D

CNN: Concord Headquarters

In an emergency Congressional session held at 7 P.M. tonight, officials have confirmed that the Pilotan Congress has approved, by a vote of 90-11, to authorize the use of military force to combat the Allanean invasion of Axackal.

FPS Coburn
Southern Haven Sea, near Pilot

Fleet Admiral Jeremy Mackay watched from the bridge of the carrier Coburn as the 1st Free Provinces Fleet made its grand entrance into the Haven Sea. To the east, he could just make out the two westernmost islands of the Island States, and to the west Pilot's shoreline was plainly visible.

The news had come only hours ago: The shooting had begun, and Allanea had announced its intention to take Axackal by force. Mackay found this puzzling. In fact, he found the whole situation puzzling. Why the Allanean government was so keen to provoke Edolia was beyond him. No matter. My job isn't to understand why these people are doing what they're doing. My job is to stop them from doing it.

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Free Provinces Theatre Ground Forces Command
Darrell, Goobergunchia

The sun was setting as the last company of the Copiosa Scotian 2nd Army's B Corps assembled in the camp outside of Darrell. Over the past few weeks, 136,000 soldiers had been flown in to Goobergunchia, all of them highly trained and extremely well-equipped, on a par with the elite soldiers of most other nations. Commander General Zachary West, a master tactician and the highest-ranking officer in the Army, had been flown in with the first of the troops to coordinate the campaign.

Darren Etzler, the commander general's aide, strode into the tent that temporarily served as both West's command center and his quarters.

"The rest of the B Corps has arrived and joined the A Corps in camp. Three more corps, the C, D, and Special Operations A, will be joining us soon."

"That's good. Hopefully the presence of over 300,000 men on the border will keep Allanea from putting too much into their invasion of Axackal. Then again, they haven't show too much regard for the statistics of the situation so far, have they? They're not a match for the Edolians, much less the rest of the UnAPS" He shrugged. "You're dismissed, Etzler."

"Yes, sir. Thank you, sir."

Doujin Fleet Command:
1 Doujin Class Flagship(SuperUltraMegaDreadnought?)
3 Leviathon Class Battleships
10 Thunder Child Class Mk.2 Refit Battleships
12 Mackensen Class Battleships
4 Lunar Class Stealth Aircraft Carriers
8 Infusion Class Aircraft Carriers
20 Warspite Class SSGN
60 Astron Class SSN (Fast Attack)
40 Tigershark Class AOE
40 Norasia Class AOE
20 Clan Grant Class AOE
20 River Class AOE
40 Centaur Class DDG
40 Meteora Class DDG
40 Thatcher Class DDG
20 Africa Class Minesweeper/layer
20 Saviour Class Medical Ship

600 KM away from the Allanean Fleet..

"Ready?"

"All guns are go, sir."

The Admiral sighed.

"Fire."

The 30" guns of the Doujin lit up firing SCRAMJet rounds in the direction of the Allanean Fleet. Firing one round every 15 seconds(Sustained Fire, one gun fires.. 30 seconds later another fires..) the Doujin unleashes her first real-time combat salvo on an enemy Fleet.

"Jesus Christ..."

The Admiral and bridge crew stood in awe.

"She is as good as we hoped, sir. I'm recording that the shells are reaching their targeted range, 603 kilometers."

"Roger, sustain fire.."

"Yes, sir."

The Admiral walked out on deck to watch the most powerful Battleship in the world unleash her fury upon the enemy.

"God help them..", the Admiral muttered.

Forsan miseros meliora sequentur. Deo Vindice... Requiescat in pace.

("For those in misery perhaps better things will follow. God will prove us right... rest in peace")

The 30 Infantry Divisions (20,000 men including logistics support) and 10 Armored Divisions (300 tanks including logistics support) begin to take up temporary defensive positions. In the upcoming offensive, they will strike forward and eliminate their enemies.

8 Amphibious Assault Groups (20,000 marines and 30 tanks including logistics support per group) steamed up the North Haven Straight, intercepting the 4 Carrier Groups already there. 6 more carrier groups would steam north in the next few days.

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1 TIS Carrier Group:

1xNimitz Supercarrier (64 F/A-18 fighter-bombers, 3 Submarine Hunting Seahawk Helicopters, 7 Refueling Planes and 6 E-2 Radar Planes)
4xArleigh Burke Guided-Missile Destroyers
6xTiconderoga Cruisers
4xLos Angeles Attack Submarines
1xOhio Class Ballistic Missile Submarine

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1 TIS Amphibious Group (tasked into the protective sphere of an carrier group and assigned escorts):

Navy Component:

10xAssault Ships (tasked to carry 2,000 soldiers, 3 TIS-02 Heavy Tanks and 6 LCUs each)
60xLCU Landing Craft (able to carry 400 soldiers or 3 TIS-02 Heavy Tanks)
10xArleigh Burke Guided Missile Destroyers
5xTiconderoga class Cruisers

Marine Component:

20,000 Marines with logistics support
30 IST-02 Heavy Tanks with logistics support
2 AH-1 Attack Helicopters

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Doujin Military Headquarters

"Sir, we have a targetting solution."

"Gun status?"

"9 guns are loading, the rest primed and ready."

"Ok, engage ASAT protocol. Down the Allanean Sattelite platforms."

"Yes, sir!"

The Ensign enthusiastically entered a series of commands, initiating the ASAT protocol. The hundred or so Coastal Defense guns came to life, slowling raising their turrets high into the air, each one targetting a nuclear sattelite platform of Allanean origin.

"Sir, all guns report raising their turret velocity."

"Good, good.."

Several minutes passed as the control room waited for the guns to get into position.

"Sir, all guns are in place. All systems are in the green."

"Fire."

Instantaneously, 132 36" guns firing SCRAMJet propelled rounds fired.. sending a barrage of fire towards the various Allanean sattelite systems.

"Send the order, reload and get a new targeting solution. Keep this up until they are all gone."

"Yes, sir."

"I'll be in my office."

The General walked off into his office to study charts of Allanean and Axackalan Territory.

It was no surprise that the [i]Doujin and her fleet had gotten to the Allanean fleet first, they were still regrouping the spread out dreadnaughts and superdreadnaughts when they recieved word that ONI had a fix on the Allanean fleet and the Doujini fleet was on its tail. It still didn't please him, allies or not it didn't do to have a rival navy best the Emperor's. "Captain, realy orders for all guns to open fire and let the gunnery crews know that a month's extra pay and a week's extra leave will be handed out for each confirmed kill during this engagement."

"Aye aye, sir," The Captain acknowledged. "Conn, you heard the man, do as he says."

Even if the 22" ETCs didn't have the range of the 30" ETCs the Doujin had, the SCRAMjet rounds still had more range than anything save a missile. The sixteen gun Fenrir class dreadnaughts and twenty-four gun Leviathan superdreadnaughts spoke their consideral displeasre against the Allanean fleet, their voices like rolling thunder and firey steel hail. If anything, the massive bombardment the Allanean army was suffering was easy compared to what their brothers in the navy had to go against, at least the army could retreat without being destroyed in quick order.

[That isn't to say that anything less than a Thunder Child/Fenrir won't fold under the kind of onslaught your fleet is facing, but I would recommend running, it'll only open you up more.]

OOC: Now now, SS, it is only natural for the Navy of the person who.. well.. provides most of your ships for you.. to best you in an engagement :-p

Forces deployed in Axackal

120 x IDF-2 Blue Eagle Multi-role fighters
40 x EF-2 Electronic Eagles (EW escorts)
60 x AT-5 Dragon CAS
60 x F-36T Air Superiority Fighters
4 x E-720 Airborne Command Centre (AWACS + JSTARS)
6 x KC-720 Refuelers
12 x B-720 Bombers

(OOC: Don't have time now, will post later)

Major General Ricardo Johnson sighed as he looked at the map. Allanea, a large nation to be sure, had thrown itself against the entire might of UnAPS. A stupid move if he'd ever seen one. Hopelessly outnumbered, Allanea, despite its size, would fall soon.

Still, getting cocky would serve no one. With a sigh for his missed vacation, Ricardo returned his thoughts back to the plans...


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Forces Deployed:

The mobilized Mintarian military quickly sprang into action. As pilots sprang into their planes or into their control seats, sailors were also boarding ships heading for the Allanean coast.

1,500 YT-Hellions (unmanned fighters; Edolian creation) and
1,000 F-117x (manned stealth fighter/bomber. Has some AA capability)

are sent to refuel in Edolia, and then in Scandanavian States, and finally to their targets in Allanea. Splitting themselves into two equal groups, one group attacking the Allanean tanks & artillery with the F-117x's & helicopters being engaged by the fighters, while the other focuses on air bases and radar towers (and other forms of radar). Including refueling, this should only take a few hours to hit...

On the sea:

50 Hurricane-Class Submarines
30 Sea-Blue Destroyers
20 Serene-Class Cruisers
1 Blätterschplitt-Class Arsenal Ship

While these forces will take a while longer to deploy, there mission will be the same: firing Tomahawk missiles from a safe distance off-shore, they will target both the Allanean army & artillery (what remains) as well airbases & radar sites.

(OOC: Please respond w/casualties and any counter measures you take.)

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Sanchez took a moment to massage his head. So many things to consider in a war; the speeches, the companies to deal with, the military men... it was all too much. Well, almost. Maybe Allanea had just declared war to take a few years off the lifespan of the leaders... Sanchez chuckled at this, but in a moment was back to his final task before sleep:

Message To Allanea:

Allanea, you have been warned time and time again, but your own actions, yours and yours alone, have forced us to go beyond simple words, as they have not been enough to sway you from your current course.

Our only regrets will be for the deaths of our soldiers and civilians and for those Allaneans who were rational enough not to vote for the current administration. As a leader, you have done worse than fail. You have deliberately murdered your own people. Whether future generations of Allaneans will forgive you or not is their choice, but hopefully they will learn from their mistakes and we shall never have to take up this burden against them ever again. But until then your cities will burn and your military will crumble until you at least cede victory.

--Sincerely,

President Edwardo Sanchez of Mintar.

OOC: bump

OK people, let's rock and roll!

Mintar: How long RL will it take your forces to deploy?

Edolia: Losses for the tank combat?

Allanean Losses:
340 tanks
600 BMP-3U's
100 Aircraft
5,000 troops

As the Iron Bloodian forces swivel around and turn back towards the capital, the Allanean forces push onwards towards the Deriksburg. As a matter of fact, the George Mason Division is already landing it's helicopters there (OOC: remember them from the previous thread?), giving humanitarian aid and enrolling local supporters. In the meanwhile the Hannibal Lector tanks (remember them sliding through the ranks :-)?)
speed through the ranks of the Edolians, losing only 40 vehicles (calculated in the above), and then sping around, holding the enemy in pincers.

Back in Allanea

The Charlton Heston Elite Air Armada is on alert. Having lost 25 aircraft in the bombing, the pilots are eager to strike against the enemy. As the engines are howling and the pilots speed out into Axackal, each craft launches 2 Yakhont-3 missiles. 300 more are launched off the bombers, for and astounding total of 2100 missiles, targeting armour concentrations Due to a range of 800 km, they can strike any target in Axackal.

In the Capitol

4,000 Civilians have been killed. The city is being hastily evacuated.

Somewhere on the border

Major von Tusk freezes. He has seen the young Allanean soldier approaching him somewhere. And those glasses...

"Good day, Major. I am Sergeant Arnold Norton. You might remember my brother. Those fifty young men on the BMP's are my squad. I suggest you surrender now, Major".

[Doujin]
The Battle of Doujin


5 missile sats are lost

Both air armada's fly out toward the enemy. The Allanean sailors stand in awe as the roar of 2,500 aircraft fills the sky, coupled with the explosions on downed craft

5 Nanuchka-VI missile frigates are downed when the Allanean response begins.

Each aircraft launches 2 Yakhont-3 missiles towards the enemy - 5,000 missiles, an almost incredible barrage of a mix of EMP and FAE rounds.

When that is done, the Allanean subs launch 10 - just 10 - torpedoes towards the enemy craft.

[condescending tone sounds really good here]Allanea, we'll take my part of the co-ordinated combined arms campaign to the thread you made just for that special purpose. [/condescending tone sounds really good here]

OOC: EMP? -.- Doujin ships are extensively resistant to EMP pulses.. -.- The Yakhont-3 has a mixed trajectory range of 300 km, and I started bombardment at 600km, holding at 560km away now.. your aircraft would encounter my 1300-ish air superiority fighters -.-

NBC NEWS: Newsflash

Just a few hours ago, reports of official battle have been flooding into Capital Hill (the AU's white house), and it appears as if Allenea has officially made war on Edolian territory.

The President just minutes ago made this grim announcement:

[The Screen Flashes to a video of the President in front of a media conference]

"It has finally come my friends, that our ally Edolia has been finally attacked by the evil nation of Allenea. I regret to say, but on one hand I am proud to announce that I am issuing a full declaration of war on the rouge state of Allenea. Our armed corps will take a role in the official counter-invasion of Allenea, and WE WILL WIN THIS WAR!"

Media are beginning to speculate at whether or not the new Trinstar F-1 will be used, but Capital Hill has not yet ruled out its use. This will be the first conflict the Trinstar will be used in.

Already, it has become apparent of the mobilisation of troops, and it has reported that a total of 400 000 Troops have been called for duty...

OOC: EMP? -.- Doujin ships are extensively resistant to EMP pulses.. -.- The Yakhont-3 has a mixed trajectory range of 300 km, and I started bombardment at 600km, holding at 560km away now.. your aircraft would encounter my 1300-ish air superiority fighters -.-

1. Wasn't it 800?

2.And even if it wasn't, these are fighter planes, even if you noticed them the moment they take off, you need time before your planes are launched.

3. 1,000 EMP missiles and 4000 FAE missiles, post losses if any.

OOC: Fighter jets, yes, but I had fighter patrols launched as soon as i began bombardment.. and the moment you would have launched your fighters I would have launched mine..


An incredibly advanced radar and computer system first developed for the Mackensen Class, it far surpasses the Aegis system on most other naval vessels. Powerful and flexible radar system that is comprised of four panels that each emit radar waves. If allowed by the horizon, the system can track out to 800 miles (1280 km) and can simultaneously track and identify up to 1392 targets at one time. The system controls missile launched from the long range missile launchers and the system track and guide each individual missile to a individual target for up to 476 targets. If a target is eliminated, missiles are automatically guided to a new target. The system can also control missiles launched from other linked vessels as well and can also act as fire control for gun mounts.

Both a upper-lateral anda lower-lateral array are fitted in order to ensure 360 degree coverage of the airborne theatre Two reserve arrays are also carried. Short-range AS18 Suites are installed to provide back CIWS guidance and close range tracking of multiple targets.

OOC: Here is info on Yakhont-3


Country of Origin Russia
Builder Beriev
Role Amphibious anti-submarine patrol aircraft
Range 300 km mixed trajectory
120 km low trajectory
Speed Mach 2 to 2.5
Flight altitude 5 to 15 meters, final phase
Weight of warhead 200 kg [about]
Guidance active-passive, radar seeker head
Minimum target detection range 50 km in active mode
Maximum seeker head search angle 45 degrees
Propulsion
solid propellant booster stage

liquid-propellant ramjet sustainre motor
Launcher type underwater, surface ship, land
Launch method from closed bottom launch-container
Launch angle range 15 to 90 degrees
Weight 3,000 kg launch
3,900 kg in launch-container
Launch-container dimensions 8.9 meters length
0.7 meters diameter

Source: FAS.org (http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/row/ss-n-26.htm)

OOC: Allanea, I also expect you to keep posting losses for Satellites. Unless you want me to flood this thread with me continuesly firing on your satellites (yes, i butchered the word continuesly.. and I just did it again..)

As the Iron Bloodian forces swivel around and turn back towards the capital, the Allanean forces push onwards towards the Deriksburg. As a matter of fact, the George Mason Division is already landing it's helicopters there (OOC: remember them from the previous thread?), giving humanitarian aid and enrolling local supporters. In the meanwhile the Hannibal Lector tanks (remember them sliding through the ranks :-)?)
speed through the ranks of the Edolians, losing only 40 vehicles (calculated in the above), and then sping around, holding the enemy in pincers.

<<OOC: I'm sorry... I'm going to have to IGNORE that... how do you expect to get transport helicopters over one of the most heavily defended borders in the world? I forgot to mention something about a few hundred SAMs attacking them, but honestly... I figured that you would understand that for yourself.>>

The Charlton Heston Elite Air Armada is on alert. Having lost 25 aircraft in the bombing, the pilots are eager to strike against the enemy. As the engines are howling and the pilots speed out into Axackal, each craft launches 2 Yakhont-3 missiles. 300 more are launched off the bombers, for and astounding total of 2100 missiles, targeting armour concentrations Due to a range of 800 km, they can strike any target in Axackal.

Yakhont-3s, horribly suited to land combat, rain down on Edolian troop formations. Designed to knock out battleships, their effectiveness is somewhat lessoned against land forces... Their relatively low explosiveness means that nothing short of a direct hit would destroy a tank. Nevertheless,
28 B-2 Imperiums
19 MD-3 Manticores
97 troops
are killed.

In the Capitol

4,000 Civilians have been killed. The city is being hastily evacuated.
<<OOC: I would have said more considering that, if this were Manhatten they were bombarding, all the skyscrapers would be destroyed in a matter of perhaps... fifteen minutes... So perhaps 100,000 would be better... But, I'm not going to challenge your casualties.>>

An hour of bombardment passed... With the Allanean capital in ruins, the massive guns began turning their attention to the border, working to stop the Allanean tank advance on Deriksburg. Each MOAB blast was capable of tearing apart an area fifty meters in diameter. A concentrated bombardment was terrifying to watch. Massive plumes of fire shot up into the sky as hundreds of rounds smashed into the advancing Allanean columns...

Somewhere on the border

Major von Tusk freezes. He has seen the young Allanean soldier approaching him somewhere. And those glasses...

"Good day, Major. I am Sergeant Arnold Norton. You might remember my brother. Those fifty young men on the BMP's are my squad. I suggest you surrender now, Major".
<OOC: Seriously man... c'mon... you don't think we protect our officers? Try to RP them getting to Commander von Tusk before saying that they've captured him.>>

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<<OOC: What about my naval attack? A few thousands anti-ship missiles?>>

"Sir! The Allaneans outnumber is badly in tanks. It's possible for them to break through in a number of places."
"Hold the line," leftenant. Albert von Tusk smiled. The Allaneans had bitten off way more than they could chew. They were outnumbered, outgunned, out-trained and about out-anything elsed that one could say about military combat. "With Ilek-Vaad's forces as well, we don't have to worry. They have the tank power to knock out anything the Allaneans have. Black Eagles are now problem. Our CD-Cobras will smash them. I'm a bit worried about their Gilgamesh's and Lector's though. Order all troops along the border to hold fast. Our artillery alone outnumbers theirs five to one. In a prolonged war of fixed positions, we will come out victorious. Tell the troops not to budge."
"Yes sir."

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The lines were holding. The defense implacements put in by the Edolian engineers were quite effective in keeping Allanea from advancing anywhere too quickly. Of course the casualties were frightful. But with 15,000 artillery pieces and 10,000 mobile rocket systems, the Allaneans couldn't possibly be sitting pretty either.

Compounding this massive artillery support, were the thousands of fighters on the scene. Taking off, firing off their payloads, landing and continuing again, thousands of missiles were being exhausted each day. This was what Edolia's military was designed to do. Smash the enemy from long range with its massive stockpiles of weaponry. Given the state of affairs, Allanea wouldn't be able to continue its advance for much longer. Over three thousand advanced YT/A-2 Hellions, the best interceptors on the battlefield -if not the world- patrolled the skies, making sure that anything with wings that tried to challenge the fighter/bombers would get blown up before it had a chance to do any real damage.

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Casualties:
721 Infantry: Fully Mechanized
70 Infantry: Helicopter Mechanized
120 B-1 Imperium Unmanned MBTs
98 MD-3 Manticore MBTs
52 CD-3 Cobra Tank Killers
12 H-2 Hoplite 90mm Light Howitzers
67 H-2 Hoplite 140mm Light Howitzers
14 H-3 Heavy Hoplite 180mm Howitzer
26 H-3/U Heavy Hoplite 200mm Long Range Howitzer
21 Hyena-2 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
62 Hyena-3 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
25 Echidna-5 Mobile SAM Batteries
15 Echdna-7 Mobile Long Range SAM Batteries

103 G2/U Gryphon Unmanned Helicopter Gunships
92 YT/A-2 Hellion Fighter/Interceptors
72 YT/A-3 Hellion Fighter/Bombers
35 BX/f-25 “Barking Gerbil” Fighter Support Planes
26 Assorted Support (Recon, Early Warning, Electronic Warfare) Fighters
2 RX-12 Roc Unmanned Heavy Stealth Bombers
1 TB-21 Light Stealth Bomber Wings

[OOC: These are not simple cargo choppers. These are assault/cargo choppers, and I'd assume at least part of that armada would come through]

Allanean losses:

1,000 troops
300 Black Eagle tanks
200 BMP's.


[OOC: There were 26,000 troops sent to get Von Tusk, he's not protected THAT well]

"We're taking heavy losses! We need back up NOW! NOW I say!"

" I see. Put in the light infantry"

"*gasp* WHAT? 400,000 more troops?"

"Yes. And put the Charlton Heston air armada, the second and third air armada en route to hit their Titan guns"

400 Anarchist-1 planes, 400 Coulter Mark I craft, 1175 Coulter Mark II Craft, 100 B-52's, 1,000 SU-34 aircraft, 100 TU-22M3's, and 100 Howard Dean craft are bombing the Titan gun emplacements in Axackal around the clock.

The George Mason division, despite having lost a quarter of it's troops (250 helicopters) has arrived to Deriksburg.

New reports put the amount of dead in the capital to 100,000.

In orbit

A surviving sattelite is spinning somewhere above Edolia.

"We have it above Blatteshpitt now, Sir."
"Fire!"

15 ICBMs, each carrying 5 high-yield EMP's, fire directly downwards. Even if no military infrastructure is damaged, the megapolis will likely be paralyzed.

Doujin: There should be IMHO at least some ship damage, there are 2500 attacking fighters there, mind you!

2 more sattelites were lost.

OOC: I'm waiting for you to awcknoledge the fact that you couldn't possibly get all 2,500 missiles launched. Your aircraft were to fire 2,500 Yakhont's at my Fleet. What about losses from Dogfights? Seeing as I would of had around 1300 RF-37-2800 "Q" and F-109D Super Tempests there to intercept.. And how many satellites do you have?

OOC: I'm waiting for you to awcknoledge the fact that you couldn't possibly get all 2,500 missiles launched. Your aircraft were to fire 2,500 Yakhont's at my Fleet. What about losses from Dogfights? Seeing as I would of had around 1300 RF-37-2800 "Q" and F-109D Super Tempests there to intercept.. And how many satellites do you have?

3 more launch sats and lots of ABM and spy sats...

IC: 200 Anne-Coulters are lost in the dogfights, but in addition to the 2,000 missiles successfully launched, 100 low-yield EMP air-to-air missiles are launched at the doujin craft.

Waiting.

<<OOC: I would still say that given the thousands of SAM systems on the border, the helicopters would have found themselves facing a wall of lead... But... whatever... I'll go with that.

When it comes to Commander von Tusk, he's the senior commander in charge of Axackal... You don't think we're not going to put his command center way back and make it extremely well defended, do you?>>

"Commander von Tusk!"
"Give your report, Leftenant."
"The Allaneans are doing a bit better than we thought. Somehow they slipped their helicopter over the border. Their assaulting Deriksburg."
"What!?!"
"Yes, sir... They're engaging military police now."
"How many troops do we have in there?"
"We've got about ten thousand stationed in the area, sir... another few hundred Red Palace Guards."
"We can hold them off for now, especially with Allanea's policy not to harm civilians."
"Yes sir."
"But I want the V and VI Mobile Strike Legions in there ASAP."

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[For reference]
Mobile Strike Legions
I, II Divisions:
2,000 Helicopter-Deployed Legionaries
200 A-19 Light Troop Deployment Helicopters
III, IV Divisions:
2,000 Helicopter-Deployed Legionaries
100 A-26 Heavy Troop Deployment Helicopters
I, II, III, IV Auxiliary Wings
48 G2/U Gryphon Unmanned Helicopter Gunships

These will arrive in Deriksburg in approximately one hour.

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As the Allanean air forces move over the battle-line, SAM batteries begin firing of missiles in the thousands.
[Reference]
8,880 Echidna-5 Mobile SAM Batteries
4,320 Echdna-7 Mobile Long Range SAM Batteries

At the same time, each Titan gun battery is heavily defended, with all but the barrel and some targetting machinery well below ground. Only a direct hit from a missile would take it down. With a cluster of two dozen Echidna-7s for each Titan gun, the slaughter that would have to be inflicted on an attacking air force is great. Moving to support the SAM batteries, the approximately 3,000 YT/A-2 Hellions begin intercepting the Allanean air armada... Tens of thousands of air to air missiles streak out from the super-fighters...

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"We have it above Blatteshpitt now, Sir."
"Fire!"

15 ICBMs, each carrying 5 high-yield EMP's, fire directly downwards. Even if no military infrastructure is damaged, the megapolis will likely be paralyzed.

As lights go off all around the massive city, the Edolian people prepare themselves for a difficult time. As subways screech to a halt, emergency stores are brought up... Though the city, completely reliant on mass-transit, will be paralyzed for some days, it is only a matter of time before the major services are back up-and-running. Hospitals are running on immediate emergency-systems. Ever since the Edolian-NCA war when Belem disabled much of Edolia's infrastructure with EMP satellites, Edolia has been prepared for such an attack. Nevertheless, due to various accidents, some 1,210 people around the capital are killed... Revenge is promised.

The Ted Nugent Warbike Brigade and the Scout Brigade are moving top speed towards Von Tusk's projected location, ordered to catch him alive at any cost .

In the meanwhile, while burning fighter-bombers streak through the air, the Allaneans launch their own air-to-air systems (and remember, a Coulter has 25 hardpoint).


Elsewhere

"Commence operation "Axackal's First Freedom"

"Yes, sir!"

The Non-violent Warfare corps is activated. Dozens and dozens of cargo planes fly over the border, dropping out 1,000,000 M-16 assault rifles, gun-making guides, and anti-Edolian leaflets on the most pro-Allanean areas.

[I]In Deriksburg [/I

"C'mon, we don't have enough time! I want you to recruit anybody you can from the locals, and start fortifying the city ASAP."

"Yes, sir!"

"OK. Leave all the troops here, but send the choppers to hit the Strike Legions as they approach. Remember, we still have about 800 craft left, and each is carrying 4 tons of weapons."

"Yes, sir!"

OOC: I'll post losses in a bit, need to work it out.

[Allanea, it's my fault for not mentioning how many Fenrirs and Leviathans I had firing at you, I had twenty-eight Fenrirs and four Leviathans. Now, that means in the first salvo alone 536 SCRAMjet rounds were fired at your fleet, and a single one of those would destroy anything less armoured than an Iowa. And they're going to keep firing. Now, did you take losses from my cruise missile bombardment? Also, your losses were way out of proportion to the amount and type of bombs I dropped. Two million pounds worth of BAT and dumb submunitions, your tanks losses should be in the thousands and infantry in the tens of thousands.]

Meanwhile, away from the conflict....

AUSTARIAN MILITARY OUTPOST: HAVEN STRAITS

"General! This is the sixty-third load! This brings the total number of troops here to 22050 Troops!", yells Commander Brinsteel.

General Armandi looks out over the airstrip, watching the aircraft land, "Very good Commander. I want you to TRIPLE the rate of which we're shippen-em-in. I want 100 000 Troops here within 48 Hours..."

The Commander stood at attention, "Yes Sir! I'll get straight to command immediatly!"

OOC: If your wondering how im actually getting these troops in so quickly, you might want to note that they are using the Transtar F-1 (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=134011&highlight=). (Click the name for details).

[Allanea, it's my fault for not mentioning how many Fenrirs and Leviathans I had firing at you, I had twenty-eight Fenrirs and four Leviathans. Now, that means in the first salvo alone 536 SCRAMjet rounds were fired at your fleet, and a single one of those would destroy anything less armoured than an Iowa. And they're going to keep firing. Now, did you take losses from my cruise missile bombardment? Also, your losses were way out of proportion to the amount and type of bombs I dropped. Two million pounds worth of BAT and dumb submunitions, your tanks losses should be in the thousands and infantry in the tens of thousands.]

<<OOC: Don't forget the bombardment from 25,000 indirect fire artillery pieces...

Will respond to the IC stuff later..>>

Doujin Air Force Fields

Alarms sounded off as people scrambled to their fighters for their prospective mission. 4,000 F-109D Super Tempest took off for their flight to the Scandavian State / Axackal border. Stocked up with Anti-Air missiles, they are ready for conflict.

OOC: I'm dead tired.. so it's a small post.. yea..

The Ragnarok guns shifted from counter-battery fire to concentrate on the Allanean breakthoughs using the same once-every-thirty-seconds approach. The massive HE shells left two hundred foot wide craters and flung massive amounts of shrapnel to five times that distance. They fired and fired and fired and kept firing until every breakthrough corridor was covered with craters, not an inch uneffected by fire and metal. Then, they shifted to fire against anything requested by frontline troops and big enough to merit the guns' attention.

But the western guns weren't the only ones silent either, their northern brothers were being called in by naval gunnery spotters. Their unfortunate target was the Allanean fleet and their weapon of choice was rounds filled with high explosives and softball-sized tungsten ball bearings.

[I'm not going to keep RPing battery fire unless I want to shift a fire mission, so assume that they're going to keep firing.]

(OOC: Well, I usually don't use RL time to measure these things; I let it be worked out in Game Time, but since it's been several hours since my post, I think it's fair to say that they're attacking now.)

The Island States' Axackal Forces began to race for the border, hoping to encounter and destroy as many enemy tanks and infantry as possible. They were still fifty miles out, and the tanks had spread out as to not make themselves easy targets.

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The four carrier groups began to steam around the Scandavian States, making their way west. A day behind them was the rest of The Island States Navy, including the Amphibious Assault Groups carrying the marines. They would wait for Doujin to make their move, then the marines would have their day.

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President Rick Rivera's nerves were frazzled. The last round of EMP attacks on Edolia found the Nuclear Football in his lap and the launch code plastic coverings being broken before he was told it that Edolia was still in one piece. He knew if the same happened to the capital of Freeport, it would not affect the nation's Anti-Ballistic Missiles, nor affect its Strategic Nuclear Forces.

"Do we have any Anti-Satellite Technology?" Rivera asked his Minister of War.

"That we do, sir," The Minister replied. "We have developed a multistage ASAT missile. The warhead will lock onto its target and destroy it, but we have to get the launch just right. We also have a 100 mW ground-based laser, that will cripple smaller sattelites and could potentially damage an orbital platform."

"Get on it, right away."

OOC: I've been away for around four hours- could anyone give me an update?

OOC: it would be nice if Allanea posted losses for my counter attack, my forces have been in Axackal for over a week IRL, and just because you forgot about them doesen't mean you can ignore them.

(OOC: Yes... well... he has a lot of nations attacking him. It's only natural that sometimes it will take a while to get back to attacks. :D )

BACK IN THE AUSTAR UNION: CAPITAL HILL

The President leaned back in his chair. He had seen a lot during his time in Presidency. Already, almost 60 000 Austarian Troops had been injected into Haven....

The Amphibious Assault Groups and the rest of the carrier groups turn around and steam back towards the South Haven Straight.

[ Capitol Hill ] -- 12:20 P.M.

President Martin Sheen
... we are faced with a danger that we can not ignore...

[ Christmas Bay Military Dock ] -- 12:19 P.M.

Commander Harrowfield
The orders have come in, sir. All three fleets are prepared, and ready for launch at the ordered times.

[ Capitol Hill CON'T ] -- 12:21 P.M.

President Martin Sheen
... In accordance with the vote by Congress, I have signed off on orders to send a military expedition force to combat the aggression of Allanea...

[ Christmas Bay Military Dock CON'T ] -- 12:22 P.M.

Commander Harrowfield -- (on phone with home)
We're leaving now...

Voice on Phone
Richard...

[ Capitol Hill CON'T ] -- 12:23 P.M.

President Martin Sheen
... We cannot, will not and shall not bow to the whims of this foolish nation...

The audience applauds the President, as he steps off the stage, looking up as a formation of fighter jets fly above...

[ Christmas Bay Military Dock CON'T ] -- 12:25 P.M.

Commander Harrowfield stands and centers his vision on the men putting the final preparations on the ships...

"... here we go."

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Military Deployments to Allanea


NAVAL DEPLOYMENTS
6th Fleet "June"
5 Ocean Transparent Class Aircraft Carriers
-- 25 UH-77a Fast Strike Aircraft/carrier
4 Ocean Transparent Class Missile Boats
6 Mayer-SD CLass Surface Destroyers
6 Mayer-ASD Class Anti-Submarine Destroyers
6 Mayer-AAD Class Anti-Air Destroyers
6 Mayer-HBD Class Heavy Bombardment Destroyers
6 Mayer-AMBD Class AMB Destroyers
7 Focus Class Arsenal Ships
2 Focus Class Battleships
20 Focus Class Long-Range Missile Frigates

7th Fleet "July"
2 United Class Submarines
5 United Class Light-Attack Submarines
6 United Class Missile Submarines
2 United Class Missile Boat Carriers
2 Mayer-SD Class Surface Destroyers
2 Mayer-ASD Class Anti-Submarine Destroyers
2 Mayer-AAD Class Anti-Air Destroyers
8 Focus Class Long-Range Missile Frigates
6 Focus Class Arsenal Ships

8th Fleet "August"
20 Tuesday Class Heavy Transports
-- 500 Regiment IV Marines/transport
20 Tuesday Class Air Transport Carriers
-- 1,000 Reigment I Marines/carrier
10 United Class Heavy-Defense Submarines
10 United Class Light-Defense Submarines
10 Mayer-ASD Class Anti-Submarine Destroyers

-- MOER DEPLOYMENTS TO BE ISSUED

These forces, stationed in Scandavian States have also begun to pour into Axackal, directly into Allanea's flank. The Retaliatory Guard already posted in Axackal (since last weekl) are still engaging the Allaneans. I'd make a more elaborate post, biut I doubt this one will even be responded to.

Deep in the Tollan Massif, The Supreme Republican Commander takes a nap.

Forces now invading from Scandavian States:

640,000 Retaliatory Guard

16,000 Red Jaguar Commandos with 1,600 Chok-Mool Super Heavy Battletanks

16,000 Thunderer II Battletanks

10,000 Scorpion LAV's

4,000 Hind helicopters

2,000 Warthog Ground assault vehicles

1,500 Orion Stealth Fighters 50/50 pocket bombers and interceptors.

These forces are commanded by Command General Adan Ring of the 4th Red Jaguar Command and are being escorted by 4 Battlegroups and 4 Carriergroups of the naval guard , those carrier groups have an additional 1,000 Orion Stealth fighters, configurable for whatever they may need to do

The Naval Forces engage any Allanean Naval Forces that are giving Doujin problems (so they're just mostly watching and saying 'Hey, cool, anyone got a camera?')

From The Aberden Herald-Sun, 10 April 2004
Reprint by permission

Copiosa Scotian forces defending the Edolian territory of Axackal are about to receive a significant boost to their strength, as the 5th and 7th Free Provinces Fleets left the Port Douglas Naval Installation early Saturday to join the forces already in-theater.

With the 6th Fleet currently preparing to sail, Copiosa Scotian naval presence in the area will be increased by 300% in the next two weeks.

In addition to the increased naval presence, troop airlifts into Goobergunchia have continued, bringing the 2nd Army to full strength at its camp near Darrell. The A, C, and D Corps will be deployed to the Goobergunchia-Allanea border, with the B Corps held in reserve.

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EXECUTIVE DEFENSE ORDER 562674
Regarding the defense of Copiosa Scotia against potential Allanean use of weapons of mass destruction

By order of the Speaker, all Allanean satellites, whether military, commercial, or scientific in nature, are to be shot down immediately upon entering Copiosa Scotian orbital space. All Allanean satellites currently in orbit above Copiosa Scotia are to be shot down simultaneously at 2:00 p.m. Capital Standard Time.

ABDFL patrols will be flown in shifts of eight hours, four planes aloft at a time. All Arrow III batteries will be placed on full alert.

Signed,
Michael MacFarlane, Speaker of the Assembly
10 April 2004

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At two o'clock, a mere fifteen minutes after the order was issued, Operation Clear Air began. DEFCLADS batteries across the country fired, targeting any and all Allanean satellites within Copiosa Scotia's orbital space. It was unlikely any actual Allanean weapons systems would be destroyed; after all, Copiosa Scotia's zero-tolerance policy on weapons in its orbital space was well-known, and though other nations certainly didn't like it, most respected it. No, the targets destroyed would most likely be unarmed, either spy sats or totally benign commercial sats. But as Copiosa Scotia had learned in its short missile exchange with United Indiastan years ago, it paid to take these precautions.

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The North Atlantic
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The carrier KDF Vogels navigated at a leasurly pace into the big Atlantic ocean. This ship, named after an old Knootian Prime Minister, was an oldie at this point in history. But she had featured in almost all conflicts since she had come into the possession of the Knootians. The carrier had been imported from Der Angst originally, but had been Knootian for quite a while now. While technically a second-hand ship the Knootians were still proud with the possession of this ship even if other Carriers like the KDF Sirithil nos Feanör had more capabilities, and ships like the battleship Zhararov had more firepower. The crew was keen on getting some good action, with relatively little danger.

The Vogels was part of a larger taskforce sent out to impede Allanean shipping in other parts of the world. Notably the smuggling lines of Allanean ships, and their trade routes with Melkor Unchained. Many corporate executives had been wary of another nation actively exporting recreational drugs and this was as good a time as any to eliminate the competition.

((OOC: The Vogels leads a carrier group of ships designed to sweep the Atlantic. The battleship Zhararov is also leading a medium-sized taskforce of 3 battleships, and a shitload of smaller vessels which is to position itself between Allanean shipping routes and Arda. Uhm, wherever Arda can be placed in the multiverse. :S Allanea can call success or failure in our trying to find them. ))


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A –Prophet- Airfield
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In several main –Prophet- military airfields, squadrons of Eurofighters landed, the planes bearing insignia of the Democratic Republic. Purple white and green flags, with a handwritten “Democraten”. Below that was an insignia of the roaring lion of the Dutch regional military with it’s motto: ‘Je Mantiendrai’.

Pilot Geert Heerma got out of his plane after the long flight across the globe. On his pilots uniform was a small blue flag with the UnAPS symbol, hastily attached. He breathed in the fresh air of the Gooberbunchian dependency as he walked to the canteen. He was hungry. The stop along the way in a western island in Ruhr had been short and he had barely had time to cram in a sandwich as his plane was refuelled.

While having a bite in the canteen, Geert went over the local winds with a pilot from Haven. This was strange territory for the Knootian.

((With several stops in-between, Eurofighter planes are arriving in –the Prophet-))

Mintar is also deploying the following troops to Goobergunchia:

(OOC: If you're not going to try and attack the transports, then you can ignore most of this.)

100,000 infantry along with 6,000 combat vehicles & 300 DTS-2 missile systems
1,500 B-1 Imperium tanks (unamanned tanks)
1,500 Manticore II tanks
400 Akin-7 howitzers
400 Paladin howitzers
200 Comanche Helicopters

Their protection while crossing the ocean is the following:

45 Sea-Blue Destroyers
20 Serene-class Cruisers
10 Hurricane submarines
2 Blätterschplitt-Class Arsenal ships

A total of 750 YT-2 Hellions have been deployed to Scandanavian States, Edolia, and Riannen and are ready to support the fleet should it come under attack.

After the troops have landed, these as well as 250 YT-2 Hellions and 1,000 F-117x fighter/bombers will be flown into Goobergunchia stopping in Edolia, Riannen, and Scandanavian states for any necessary refueling.

(OOC: Total forces deployed are these, plus the air & naval forces previously deployed which are still attacking the Allanean army & airbases/radar sites as previously specified. Still need a response on this one.)

FPS Coburn
North of Oslo, Scandavian States

"Sir, we've entered the battle zone!" the Coburn's navigational officer shouted over the bridge's ever-present dull roar.

"Very good. Scholes, hail the Doujin and Scandavian ships, then transmit my voice." He waited a moment for the communication officer's signal, then began speaking. "Esteemed allies of Copiosa Scotia, this is Fleet Admiral Jeremy Mackay of the 1st Free Provinces Fleet. Please advise as to your current situation."

The Ted Nugent Warbike Brigade and the Scout Brigade are moving top speed towards Von Tusk's projected location, ordered to catch him alive at any cost .

Albert von Tusk looked read the map. "That's quite a force they've got coming at us. Von Grest: What do you expect they're up to?"
"I would guess sir, that they're after capturing you. After the August... stituation... you're not the most popular Edolian in the Scarlet Empire." Von Tusk smiled.
"They would just love to be able to parade me around, wouldn't they?"
"I think so. The propaganda value would be great."
"These two brigades are penetrating into our territory quickly. Let's make sure that none of them gets out. I'm going to immediately relocate. Make sure that it looks like I'm here. We'll lure them along and then ambush them with a few legions of mechanized troops."
"Excellent, sir."
"It is good to be hated."

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In the darkness of the night, a small, non-descript car leaves from the Edolian HQ, heading towards one of the secondary bases. There is no indication that Albert von Tusk ever left the base.

The IX Imperial Legion (approximately 16,000 mechanized troops) are being deployed to intercept the enemy war-bikers. The Heavy Assault Columns and the II and III Auxiliary Wings are being left behind at the front.

[Reference]
Imperial Legions (Minus Heavy Assault Columns I and II and Auxiliary Wings II and III)
I, II Divisions:
4,000 Legionaries
300 PH-5 Pillbug Armored Personnel Carriers
III Division:
4,000 Legionaries
400 J-2/A Jackalope Military ATVs
IV Division:
4,000 Legionaries
600 J-2/B Jackalope Combat ATVs
I Auxiliary Wing:
600 Fast Deployment Legionaries
50 A-19 Light Troop Deployment Helicopters
48 G3/U Gryphon Unmanned Helicopter Gunships

A strike force of 24 squadrons of YT/A-3 Hellions (144 planes) will soften up enemy forces with a run-over consisting of 800 TAX-1 air-to-surface missiles, followed by a strafing with Vulcan cannon fire.

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In the meanwhile, while burning fighter-bombers streak through the air, the Allaneans launch their own air-to-air systems (and remember, a Coulter has 25 hardpoint).
<<OOC: 25 hardpoints? The fighter would have to be very large (i.e. very unmaneuverable) and would have a hell of a time competing with tiny strike fighters like the YT/A-2s (which only have eight hardpoints and don't carry a pilot). Also, in regards to your EMP missiles, they really wouldn't be all that much more effective than normal missiles. Most fighters, especially given Edolia's paranoia regarding EMP weaponry, would be heavily shielded agianst EMP, reducing the missiles' effectiveness greatly. Also, since no serious military tactician is going to make his fighters fly close together, a missile wouldn't ever get more than a single fighter in its blast radius.

And a re-cap of what has gone up against these fighter squadrons, to help you determine casualties (which should be extremely, extremely high):
Missile fire from over 10,000 SAM batteries - so perhaps five or six missiles per fighter.
Missile fire from over 3,000 extremely advanced fighters, using long, medium and short range, advanced XED missiles - perhaps another two or three missiles per Allanean fighter.
I just wanted to make sure you realize what your fighters are going in to...>>

With the Allanean fighter wings outgunned and outnumbered, the Hellion squadrons scream ahead. As EMP missiles streak towards them, their scramjets activate, sending them forward at speeds unmatchable by any manned fighter, and conducting maneuvers that will kill a human pilot. With countermeasures -including active missile jamming from electronic warfare fighters, many missiles are confused, causing them to miss their targets, plummeting to the ground.

Casualties, however, are not insignificant but as the Hellions move into dogfighting range -their forte given their unmatchable maneuverability- the Allanean fighters have little chance...
217 YT/A-2 Hellions downed

The Non-violent Warfare corps is activated. Dozens and dozens of cargo planes fly over the border, dropping out 1,000,000 M-16 assault rifles, gun-making guides, and anti-Edolian leaflets on the most pro-Allanean areas.

For now, besides launching constant sorties against the cargo planes -their bulky hulls making them easy targets- little is being done to deal with the situation. The seeds of rebellion are being sowed... it is unclear what will be reaped. <<OOC: Meaning that I'll post more on it once more time has passed.>>

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Edolian forces are still holding their ground against the Allanean onslaught. With Scandavian and Ilek-Vaadian forces taken into account as well, the defending side has over a million elite troops in Axackal, giving them a numerical as well as training advantage over the Allanean forces. It is only a matter of time before the massive casualties inflicted by a constant bombardment force the Allaneans to retreat...

<<OOC: Meaning... c'mon dude... this is hopeless...>>

OOC: Sorry for the delay.

Alpha Deployment Final Destination: Scandavian States to prepare for entry into Axackal.

I, II, and III Mechanized Divisions
30,000 soldiers armed with M16s, M4s, and M40 fragmentation grenades.
500 M1A2 Abrams tanks
100 T-95 tanks
500 AAAVs
550 Humvees
200 Paladin howitzers
150 MRLS's
50 Black Hawk attack choppers

I and II Fighter Divisions
100 F-22 Raptors
100 F/A-18 Hornets
100 A10 Warthogs
50 F-117 Nighthawks

I Bomber Division
20 B-2 bombers
20 B-52 Stratofortresses
20 B-1B Lancers

2nd Naval Fleet
1 Nimitz class Carrier w/ 50 FA/18 Hornets and 35 F-15s
LSS Van Arsden
15 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
15 Arleigh Burke class Destroyers
10 Los Angeles class SSNs
10 PH1 Pegasus
10 Iowa Class Battleships
15 Oliver Hazzard Perry class Frigates
5 Ohio class SSGNs

7th Naval Fleet
1 Nimitz class Carrier w/ 50 FA/18 Hornets and 35 F-15s
LSS Korvana
15 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
15 Arleigh Burke class Destroyers
10 Los Angeles class SSNs
10 PH1 Pegasus
10 Iowa Class Battleships
15 Oliver Hazzard Perry class Frigates
5 Ohio class SSGNs

Bravo Deployment Final Destination: Edolia to provide defense against attack.

IV and V Mechanized Divisions
30,000 soldiers armed with M16s, M4s, and M40 fragmentation grenades.
500 M1A2 Abrams tanks
100 T-95 tanks
500 AAAVs
550 Humvees
300 Paladin howitzers
150 MRLS's
50 Black Hawk attack choppers

III Fighter Division
100 F-22 Raptors
100 F/A-18 Hornets
100 A10 Warthogs
50 F-117 Nighthawks

III Bomber Division
20 B-2 bombers
20 B-52 Stratofortresses
20 B-1B Lancers

1st Naval Fleet
1 Nimitz class Carrier w/ 50 FA/18 Hornets and 35 F-15s
LSS Weston
15 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
15 Arleigh Burke class Destroyers
10 Los Angeles class SSNs
10 PH1 Pegasus
10 Iowa Class Battleships
15 Oliver Hazzard Perry class Frigates
5 Ohio class SSGNs

(The ships with color signify the commanding vessels of the entire Deployment.)
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It was dark, and clouds were covering the sea. The two Deployments were about 500 miles off the coast of Lietuveska, waiting on the order to set sail for their final destinations. Admiral Gordanski was making final preparations. Alpha Deployment would be fully ready to assault as soon as they got into the battlezone. A young aide walked up to the Admiral, and immediately came to attention. He saluted, and Gordanski returned it. He was a rather short man, but nobody ever doubted the Admiral's ability to remain calm in a crisis, and he also possessed a certain quality that made others comfortable around him. "Sir, an official message from Hvittsted has arrived." The aide handed Admiral Gordanski a brown folder. The Admiral opened it and read it. "Thank you Lieutenant." He replied a "yes sir" and walked out of the Control Tower's main deck. The Admiral then walked over to the intercom and pressed the large black button. "Reporting to Alpha Deployment. Operation: Blue Jaguar is under way. Move out immediately for our final destination." The dozens of ships began steering for course, and powering their engines. Within about 20 minutes, the Alpha Deployment was heading for Scandavian States in preparation to move into Axackal, ETA 1 RL day.
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About 30 miles away from Alpha Deployment, Bravo Deployment was also preparing to move out on the government's first orders. Admiral Johansen was reading the latest statistical data when an officer approached him. A salute was given, and Johansen rigidly returned it. He was a man of great self-discipline, and at a towering 6'5", few dared question him. "Sir, we have a communique from the Ministry of Defense." The officer gave him a manilla folder. "Thank you Major, I'll read it right away." "Yes, sir!" The officer walked away after returning another salute, and Johansen reviewed the document. He walked back up to the Control Tower, and pushed a black button to speak into the intercom system, which expanded throughout the entire Deployment. "Bravo Deployment, we are officially on the go. Operation: Stone Gargoyle is to commence immediately. Be prepared to move out within 10 minutes."
The Bravo Deployment steered course, and set off full steam headed for the shores of Edolia. They would be ready to defend their ally at any cost. ETA 1 RL day.

OOC: Sorry for the delay as well.

General Choi threw the phone on the ground in anger. It had taken a day just to obtain permission to launch attacks on Allanea. He headed outside to the hall to yell at his subordinates to let off steam.

"At ease men - TUCK THAT SHIRT IN. You may know already that our government has declared war on Allanea...."

A few minutes later, the pilots headed to their aircraft with one thing on their mind. To fight the enemy and establish air dominance.

For the opening stages of the war, the Imperium didn't risk much. They only bombarded with shell, missile, and submunition. That was about to change in a big way. The entirety of Second Army and the Marine II Corp, a combined eight mechanized infantry and two armoured divisions, crossed the border into Axackal. Over three thousand tanks and an even greater numer of fighting vehicles started towards the frontlines. Even if the Jackson could do ninety miles per hour over highway, which is a leisure the divisions took so far behind the lines, it would take them the better part of a day and a half to reach the fighting.

Some people turned out as the armour crossed the border to see what the racket was and when they saw the nearly eighty ton tanks race past with the ivory and gold flag of the Imperium flying from the lead tanks of every column, they cheered.


[I hope Edolian citizens would cheer, at least. If I took any liberties you object to, let me know.]

4 Air Craft are downed to impacting missiles on accident. The F-109D Super Tempest is extremely hardened against EMP.. I am detecting a trend in you and EMP.. Doujin only employs EMP hardened military technologies, due to this threat.

http://www.angelfire.com/ns2/doujincorp/diagram.PNG

300km out: 119 missiles destroyed by chasing jets
50km out: Over 500 missiles destroyed in medium range engagement zone
25 km: CIWS and missiles kick in

Aboard the Doujin
"SOUND THE ALARM! INCOMING!!!!"

Multiple Yakhont-3 anti-ship missiles screached towards the Doujin, several hitting her turret armor.. doing no damage. Two more Yakhont's hit a runway, rendering it unusable. Two penetrated the deck, but with no major damage done.

"EVERYONE BRACE YOURSELVE!!"

The Bridge crew all dropped to the floor as a Yakhont hit the Bridge, heavily damaging the Forward Mast.

The entire ship moaned under the assault, the crew - in their first combat situation ever - were scared for their lives. The guns resumed towards the Allanean Fleet, determined to show them the might of the most powerful Battleship on the planet.

Admiral Miller stood up, having been knocked down in the Operations Room.

"Get me damage reports, now!"

"Yes, sir.", yelled an Ensign. The entire crew was scrambling about, making emergency repairs, manning their posts, and getting ready if another assault were to happen.

A loud moan was heard throughout the ship.. and suddenly, the Forward Mast buckled.. collapsing over onto the Bridge. Many of the crew stood in awe as the vessel weaped. As if to add insult to injury, the last few missiles to hit the Doujin.. at a baseplate, effectively disabling one of her 30" Quad Turrets, disabling it.

Aboard the DN Clan Smoke Jaguar - Fast Attack Sub Taskforce

"Captain, we are in firing position."

"Alright. Fire the sonar pulse, the Fleet will know what to do from there."

"Aye, sir."

"Conn, sonar - fire up actives - one ping."

"Sonar, conn - aye"

The Clan Smoke Jaguar fired an active sonar pulse, liting itself up to the Allanean fleet... and our own.

Every submarine in the taskforce unleashed 4 ADCAP Mk. 48 torpedos, totaling 240 torpedos towards the Allanean Fleet. 20 KM back, 20 Warspite SSGNs launched their payload of 180 "Egap" Anti-Ship Missiles (Doujin version of the Yakhont-3, except more advanced targetting systems and a bit larger range.) totaling 3,600 "Egap" Anti-Ship missiles.


At the Fleet Command

The Majority of the Fleet, now at 400 KM away started firing. The 3 Leviathons and 8 Thunder Child's raised their guns and rained fire on the Allanean Fleet from afar with SCRAMJet projectiles. Nothing will stop the onslaught of the Doujin Fleet.

Venienti occurite morbo
"Meet the misfortune as it comes."


OOC: I expect you to take heavy losses, Allanea.


Damages:
The Doujin is hit 15 times. The Captain moved the ship bow on into the arriving threat. One of the Doujin's runways is rendered inoperable. One Turret had it's baseplate hit, making it inoperable.
DN Anoit - Thunder Child Class Mk. 2 Refit Battleship .:. Hit 6 times
DN Akira - Tigershark Class AOE
DN Kitara - Tigershark Class AOE
DN Valjean - Tigershark Class AOE
DN Hyde - River Class AOE
DN Hyades - River Class AOE
DN Huse - River Class AOE
DN Renaris - Norasia Class AOE
DN Hurbury - Norasia Class AOE
DN Hadrian - Norasia Class AOE
DN Bledmeer - Norasia Class AOE
DN Ailinne - Norasia Class AOE
DN Scathaig - Centaur Class DDG
DN Bolg - Centaur Class DDG
DN Nottmoor - Centaur Class DDG
DN Glenlock - Centaur Class DDG
DN Scabbard - Centaur Class DDG
DN Dagda - Centaur Class DDG
DN Valhalla - Centaur Class DDG
DN Nameless - Centaur Class DDG
DN Tempest - Centaur Class DDG
DN Ravenous - Centaur Class DDG
DN Exile - Meteora Class DDG
DN Desolate - Meteora Class DDG

Sunk:
DN Kayamone - Leviathon Class Battleship
DN Leed's Castle - Thunder Child Class Mk.2 Refit Battleship
DN Victor - Mackensen Class Battleship
DN Monmouth - Mackensen Class Battleship
DN Lion - Centaur Class DDG
DN Leopard - Centaur Class DDG
DN Lancer - Centaur Class DDG
DN Lightning - Centaur Class DDG
DN Locust - Centaur Class DDG
DN Diamond - Meteora Class
DN Argus - Meteora Class
DN Duncan - Meteora Class
DN Trebuchet - Meteora Class
DN Trident - Thatcher Class
DN Atlantis - Thatcher Class
DN Alacrity - Thatcher Class
DN Credonia - Thatcher Class
DN Avalyn - Thatcher Class
DN Moussaka Chaos - Thatcher Class
DN Hammer - Norasia Class AOE
DN Wave Knight - Norasia Class AOE
DN Wave Rider - Norasia Class AOE
DN Monmouth - Tigershark Class AOE
DN Montrose - Tigershark Class AOE
DN Northumberland - Tigershark Class AOE
DN Torbay - Tigershark Class AOE
DN Trenchant - Tigershark Class AOE
DN Trafalgar - River Class AOE
DN Imposis - River Class AOE
DN Glorious - Clan Grant Class AOE



the Doujin should recieve several hits on the turret armour, doing no dmage, two or three into the runways, knocking one out

(the turrets have about 3-5 foot titanium plating)

one turret shoulkd have its baseplate hit, knocking it out

sustain a few hits on the superstructure

nothign major, one or two deck penetration

the bridge would be hit (but the admiral should be in the operations room), and the forward mast can be heavily damaged and collapse ina dramatic RP moment
Baddabing says:

Michael aka Doujin says:
lol
Baddabing says:
all CIWS, and short range SAM systems are gonna be active
Baddabing says:
now, that is a realistic outcome based on OFFICIAL ROYAL NAVY AND US NAVY TACTICS

High-Security Communique TO: Scandavian States
FROM: Admiral Josef Gordanski, Alpha Deployment, Lietuv Naval Command

Dear Sir or Madame:

You may or may not know that a large deployment of forces is headed for your shores. Our intention is to provide aid to your government with about 90,000 combat troops, as well as other numerous armored and air assets. I am in command of two naval fleets that will be attacking enemy forces off the coast of Axackal.

If you desire a specific location in which we may unload troops and equipment, please do not hesitate to tell. Also, if there is a problem with unloading our military assets on your territory so they may move into Axackal, it is possible to arrange a different route.

I intend to provide as much aid that I possibly can, and I hope that you find our help extremely beneficial. Awaiting a reply,

Sincerely,
Admiral J. Gordanski

..::Response to Admiral Josef Gordanski::..

St. Ives would be your best unloading point, it is the closest harbor to the Axackal border. However, the Axackal front is already clogged with allied troops. Since, as far as we can tell, you don't have an assignment from High Command, might we suggest that you reinforce the Goobergunchia front that will be opened soon? Of course, we will support you however you think is best.


[Guys, let's give our current attacks a rest and let Allanea catch up.]

Admiral Gordanski was surprised the reply came so quickly. He typed a message back.

High-Security Communique TO: Scandavian States
FROM: Admiral Josef Gordanski, Alpha Deployment, Lietuv Naval Command

Dear Sir or Madame:

Very well. I will attempt to cotact Goobergunchian officials and confirm our new route with the Lietuv government. Thank you for the heads-up.

Sincerely,
Admiral J. Gordanski
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High-Security Communique TO: Goobergunchia
FROM: Admiral Josef Gordanski, Alpha Deployment, Lietuv Naval Command

Dear Sir or Madame:

You may or may not know that a large deployment of forces was headed for Scandavian States' shores. About 90,000 combat troops, as well as other numerous armored and air assets are included in our deployment. I am in command of two naval fleets that will be attacking enemy forces off the coast of Axackal.

After reaching Scandavian officials, I have come to the attention that the Axackali border with Scandavian States is too crowded. With your permission, we seek to land upon your territory, and move in from that side of Axackal. If you desire a specific location in which we may unload troops and equipment, please do not hesitate to tell.

I intend to provide as much aid that I possibly can, and I hope that you will allow us to channel through your territory so our performance may be the best it can. Thank you,

Sincerely,
Admiral J. Gordanski

ooc: Won't be able to post until after tom. Which reminds me:

Happy Easter

Allanean Navy Positions

Burning Coulters streak out across the air. 30 planes were destroyed -the heaviest losses yet. The planes continue on to land on the Island...

"Admiral! We're taking heavy casualties... And I mean heavy!!"

"What do you mean, Nigel?"

"We've lost three aircraft carriers, and 10 Nanuchka vessels, sir!"

"I see. Tell the submariners throw everything they have at that monstrous battleship. It seems to have shrugged off the first ten torpedoes."

"Aye Aye, sir!"

40 torpedoes go off towards the Doujin, and 200 Yakhont missiles scream up from the surviving vessels.

In Axackal

"Sir! We're in a situation!"

The commander swings his binoculars accross the rows of oncoming Ilek-Vaadians to his flank.

"I see. Dig in. Wait till they get into rifle range, then shoot their collective a$$."


In Allanea

As the three air armadas hit the ground, they're already expected with a new order.

"Commodore!"

"Yes, Sir!"

"I am adding two more armadas to your crew. You are going to be commanding about 3,000 aircraft. This is a great honour, Commodore."

"What if my mission, Sir?"

"The Scandavians are sending forces to support the Edolian Fascists. Bomb them off the face of the earth."

OOC: Before I post, how close are your submarines?

OOC: Before I post, how close are your submarines?

same as everything else.

In Axackal

[OOC: I hope Edolia doesn't mind me RPing two of his soldiers]

Sergenat Steven Norton, Alex' elder brother, bursts onto the highway, his combat bike doing over 150 kph. The two brigades (26,000 men total) are already deep within enemy territory (given the speed of bikes and scout buggys).

He is trailed by his squad, riding similar bikes. Suddenly, he notices two Edolian soldiers on the highway. They gasp in fear, recognising the uniform of the WarBikers, as Steven spin breaks his bike and whips out a Piranha heavy pistol with his shoulder holster. He grants each enemy the privilege of three shots - two to the chest, one to the head. He continues, smiling. "This is for my kid brother, scumbag fascists".

In the brigade headquarters

"The sattelite images tell us they sent out a 16,000 Mechanized brigade to hit us"

"16,000 ordinary troops vs. 26,000 of Allanea's best... whateever. Spread out accross the countryside. Hit them from small units."

On the Prophet Border

The Western Army activates. 800,000 Light infantry pour into Prophet on their IFV's, while the 7th air Armada flies in to engage the Knootooss Eurofighters.

Huntington Strategic Air Command Center:

Across the country it was a similar scene. Sirens blared and bomber crews were rushed into breifing areas. Pilots and Co-pilots given instructions on the mission which lay ahead. In the respective hangars crew loaded the weapons complement of the various bombers. Thousands of AGM-88C CALCM Cruise Missiles were loaded up into B-52H Bombers. The AGM-88Cs had specialized warheads, they werent just explosive, they were loaded with flamable liquid gel. The same substance that Napalm was made out of. Each of the Bomber Squadrons, 48 in all had a specific target, all of them were related, they were areas in which drug production was taking place.

It was in the international press that Allanea was dealing with multiple countries right now in a vast war over some piece of land. This was the perfect time to strike a blow to the economy of Allanea. And disrupt part of the drug trade in the world. The breifings were short and to the point, basically fly to a certain drop point, and get out of the area. The cruise missiles would do the rest. Simple really, if they encountered any problems, the Air Force was going to provide Air Support. F-15C pilots across the nation had been moblized, as had several squadrons of F-16D Fighting Falcons.

By 0900 hours the pilots had been breifed, the bombers were fueled and armed and the crews were ready to take off. By 0945, the last of the bomber squadrons were taking off from their S.A.C. bases in New Jersey and were joining formations over the North Atlantic. It would take the bombers nearly four hours before they had reached the maximum range for the AGM-88D Cruise Missiles. The bombbay doors on the nearly 600 B-52H Stratofortress Bombers openned up, the bombers were arranged much like the B-17s of old. Organized into combat groups of 144 the groups had one lead bomber, in which all the other bombers would wait upon for its own launch.

The S.A.C. had planned it, so that each of the 48 lead bombers would fire their payloads at almost the exact same moment. The time was now 1325 hours when the first bomber, the Vigilante, launched its 4 AGM-88D Cruise Missiles, one after another, the other combat wings launched. Hundreds upon hundreds of the missiles filling the sky. The missiles ground skimming lowered themselves to drop below radar level and fly toward their target. The missiles were preprogramed and were ordered to hit various targets around Allanea, drug fields, suspected drug labs, even the Company Headquaters of Allanean Pharmaceuticals. Back at the S.A.C. Air Generals waited for any word of impacts on the evening news.

Of course expecting some form of retaliation from Allanea, the Air Force was put on Alert. A mandatory black out was placed across the nation for the night, and the Civil Defense Guard was called into service. PAC-3 and PAC-2 Batteries, as well as Chapparal SAM Sites, Nike MIM-3 and MIM-14 Defenses were brought online as well as the BOMARC defense system for shooting down Bombers at long range. F-4J Phantom IIs filling the sky, not armed with the typical wild weasel weaponry but with AIM-7F Sparrows and AIM-9H Sidewinders. Even the navy was put on alert, and F-14B Tomcats were placed on Alert 5 status across dozens of Naval Air Stations. The country would not be caught off guard, especially after throwing the first punch.

Long before the enemy planes reach Allanea, 100 Anne Coulter Mark II planes fly out from Atlantic Island, each carrying 25 EMP missiles.

All 2,500 are launched at the enemy, then the Coulters land.

The surviving planes are met with fire from Allanea's BUK-1 defense sistems and the capital's Sky Cleaner cannon.

Still, two missiles hit the Allanean Pharmaceuticals HQ, killing 500 employees and wounding 700. Another missile lands in a marijuana field, killing four and doing damage to the tune of 45,000,000 Allanean Dollars.

Massive damage is also incurred to the Allanean Pharmaceuticals Methamphetamine factories and laboratories.

P.S. 500 warbikers were killed in Edolian attacks.

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=134650 - info about my aircraft

And coulters are by no means unmanoverable.

(OOC: Doujin and Scandinavian States, you've been hailed by my fleet. Please respond.)

Multi-post.

As the enemy warbikers race down the highway, the first elements of the V Imperial Legion are nearing them. The first wave of fire comes from the Legion's helicopter Auxiliary Wing. Though small in number compared to the horde of enemies, the 48 helicopters unleashed a torrent of laser-guided anti-personnel rockets at a range of half a klick. As they closed in to make the first wave of fire, miniguns rained lead down at the enemy bikes, tearing up the highway. Due to the fact that -because of the ban on automobiles- there are very few highways in Axackal, finding the bikers is not difficult. Coming behind the helicopters, APCs, tanks and fast-moving Jackalopes ATVs careen towards the raiders....

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The Titan guns were under heavy fire. The Allanean fighters, hell-bent on their suicidal mission, were inflicting heavy casualties. One Titan guns after another fell silent -wiped out by Allanean missile-fire. As the last of the Allanean fighters left or were shot down, only a small number of Titan guns were left...
21 Titan-Is
17 Titan-IIs
12 Titan-IIIs
8 Titan-IVs
Casualties in the air had been light, due to the Allaneans' single-minded determination to strike at the Titan guns. Only a few squadrons had been knocked from the skies.

---

"I want a situation report from the battlefield." The Imperator was confused. Not a general by training, the talk of advances and retreats wasn't fully understandable to him.
"Sir. The lines are holding. We're inflicting heavy casualties. With Allanea's artillery nearly gone, we can concentrate fully on knocking out his tanks. However, our anti-air is mostly gone. It seems they concentrted on that, leaving our artillery and tanks mostly intact. Casualties on our side are light. The pressure on our armored forces earlier in the war is drying up with Ilek-Vaad's reinforcements. It's nearly time to turn around and start heading towards Allanea, sir."
"How much do we still have defending Edolia?"
"A decent portion, sir. We discussed before the possibility of sending them to Axackal..."
"I think it's an excellent idea. With Mintar and Riannen on our borders, we're not in any danger of being invaded, especially with Allanea's allies gone."
"Yes sir. I'll order the deployments immediately."

<<OOC: I'll give the listing of the deployments later... It will take me a while. Just know that they're being deployed now. It's a few hundred thousand troops and a lot of replacement artillery and AA. With a lot of air power.>>

"Get off the highway! NOW!" Steven screams. For many, it is too late, as the highway fills with dead bodies and charred off-road bikes. But suddenly, the Scout Brigade on their high-speed buggys burrows into the Legion's flank, covering the temporary retreat of the bikers with a hail of rocket-propelled grenades, ground-to-air missiles and gunfire (16,000 elite troops).

In Allanea

From the three air armada's that come back, only 300 craft remain. They are reinforced by the 4th and 5th Armada to form a 3,000-craft joint forth sent to bombard Edolian positions.

"Activate the MidWestern Army. NOW."

"You must be kidding me."

"I'm not."

The balance of power on the border swings as 1,400,000 Allanean troops cross the border. They are trained - as anybody who lived in a gun culture :D - and they are angry, determined to die, but to kill an enemy, to sacrifice their lives to push the enemy back. The Allanean Army, numbering about 2,200,000 troops in the region, begins its onslaught as the allanean AirForce bombards the enemy.

As the eight carriers and eight amphibious groups plowed up the Southwest Allanean Bay, crews began outfitting the 512 F/A-18s with varying payloads:

(Area Suppression Group)

320 would carry 2 AIM-9 Sidewinders, 2 AIM-120 Slammers, and 6 Mk.82 dumb bombs.

(Concentrated Anti-Infantry/Anti-Tank Group)

128 would carry 2 AIM-9 Sidewinders, 2 AIM-120 Slammers, and 4 CBU-87 CEM (Cluster Bombs).

(Anti-SAM/Anti-Radar Group)

64 would carry 2 AIM-9 Sidewinders, 2 AIM-120 Slammers, and 2 AGM-88 HARM missiles.

The airplanes took off into the morning skies, the sea concealed with gently rolling fog. They could barely see the periscopes of 4 LA-class subs, only half of what was really in the area. Their job would be to attack and destroy infrastructure, such as dams and power plants. As they got higher, the ships almost disappeared into the fog (only visible as dark shapes). Their active sonars pinged away like crazy, making sure no submarines were in the Bay.

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The marines all grabbed their G3 assault rifles, put four grenades on their belts and got loaded into their LCUs. The tanks onboard the ships, all IST-02 Heavy Tanks (M60A3s), were loaded onto their LCUs with cranes before they were lowered into the water. The LCUs began to make their way ashore through the fog, with their IR goggles to guide them.

[EDIT] Tank designation correction.

I'll donate 5,000 RPG infantry Alpalcas; 15,000 heavy Assualt Rifle Alpalcas; and some rat traps to Allanean forces. Complemements of The Sunny Alpalca Land of WAR .

As the Island States' amphibious assault is underway, so are Edolia's reserve Red Eagle Legions preparing to assist. Supporting Island States marines in their venture, the II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, X and XI Red Eagle Legions are loaded into transports in the Scandavian States...

[Total numbers for reference]
12,800 Elite Airborne Legionaries
6,400 Special Forest Unit Airborne Legionaries
6,400 Special Mountain Unit Airborne Legionaries
6,400 Special Operations Airborne Legionaries
6,400 Airborne Mechanized Legionaries [on]
400 J-2A/M Jackalope Airdrop-Capable All Terrain Vehicles
400 J-2B/M Jackalope Combat Airdrop-Capable All Terrain Vehicles

These forces will airdrop over enemy lines to assist in establishing a beach-head. Elite Edolian troops will clear out defenses to make the path clear for Island States marines.

---

Albert von Tusk studied the maps. The Allaneans seemed to be determined to take Axackal at any cost of life. He laughed. This isn't the first World War...
"Tell your men to hold their ground, Leftenant. Retreat when the Allaneans have butched enough of their troops. Keep artillery well behind the lines and have them cover necessary retreats. I want all air forces on full alert. Our bomber and fighter wings will keep the casualties high for the Allaneans... let the fighters keep their own shit off our backs.

Some 3,500 YT/A-2 Hellions
1,500 of Ilek-Vaad's Orion fighter/bombers
1,500 of Mintar's YT/A-2 Hellions
An assortment of other smaller forces
are engaged with Allanea's large air flotillas.

Meanwhile, everything else the Edolian military can muster is en route to Axackal. The first things to arrive are, of course, additional fighter wings.
The VII, XI, XIII and XV Air Flotillas are dispatched to Axackal. The full 15 fighter wings are all engaging Allanean air forces.

This brings the total number of Edolian fighters in Axackal to (not counting relatively light casualties):
4,320 YT/A-2 Hellion Fighter/Interceptors
4,320 YT/A-3 Hellion Fighter/Bombers
2,160 Barking Gerbils
2,160 Support Craft

With the sheer number of early warning and electronic warfare fighters in the skies, the Edolian air force is able to gain a serious advantage in logistics, jamming Allanean radar and detecting their stealth fighters. As ships off the coast of Axackal beging turning their attention away from the beseiged Allanean fleet, even more air support is brought to bear against the Allanea air forces with thousands of anti-air missiles streaking out towards their targets...

Casualties are heavy due to Allanea's massive onslaught but should be nothing compared to the punishment that the Allanean forces are receiving.
12,000 troops dead
603 tanks of various types.

<<OOC: Too lazy to be really detailed.>>

President Rick Rivera types up a response to the Butt Slapper's troop deployment:

"If you continue to supply troops to Allanea, you will be severely punished. Do not involve yourself in this conflict or you will suddenly find it on your doorstep."

OOC: Ok, I spent hours gathering information to respond to a oneliner post. This slightly pisses me off. Also I’d like to know how my ships in the Atlantic are doing. Allanea?

I also talked with Allanea on IRC, and basically he agreed that it would be a Turkey shoot considering the amount of targets for AA and the fighters. (He expected 50% casualties.) The hundreds of aircraft will make a hell of a beep on the radars too so its going to be easy. The Tu-22m are 1967. The Tu-22m3 are 1977. They will fare poorly against the year 2000 fighter that the Eurofighter is. I compared them as well as I could, and Anne Coulter Mark II craft are equal in terms of speed etc. to Eurofighters. I’m not a technical buff like you, but we can safely assume them to be reasonably on par I think ;)

IC:
“Scramble scramble!”

The Knootian pilots ran to their fighters and hastily made for the air while the staff went into the command bunkers of the military airfields. The reservations the government officials may have had about aiding a communist nation against a fellow liberal nation were not at all present in the pilots now. They would be fighting for the runways that meant their lives.

“Get those planes off the runway, all 567 of ‘em. No use letting them stay on the airfields.”, shouted the Knootian Commander Air Von Hoesslin, in charge of Knootian air operations in –the Prophet-

“Which lunatic would attack with thousands of aircraft at once!”, commented an exited comm. officer. The Air commander glared, urging the young man to remain his calm with his look.

Communication, meanwhile, acknowledged that the Barentsburg forces would be doing the same… the Barentsburgers had planes similar to the Knootians, 3rd generation single-seat multirole fighters. The Eurofighters were predominantly loaded with Air-to-air loadouts, a ground invasion of this area had not been expected so soon and the pilots had expected for intercepting bombers and fighter escorts, at the most.

As the planes in practically all bases went for take off, Von Hoesslin was worried about attacks after this initial first wave, but those concerns would have to wait for now when facing this massive onslaught. Anything left standing would be a sitting duck for the Allaneans now. For a moment his thoughts were with how the Gooberbunchian and –Prophet- ground troops would hold, but he professionally dismissed it as irrelevant to his command situation. The had the air to worry about and that was plenty already.

“Get the local AA to give their best shot! This will be a turkey shoot for them. They’ll lose half their fighters if they don’t have anything up their sleeve,” the commander said to the communications liaison who was working frantically.

He went over all the blibs at the local radar, looking for patterns. It was as if a great invisible hand had flung thousands of knives over this little land: the planes having taken off all at once. The blibs appeared to move to spread out, “so they can attack from all sides.” “Bastards”, he muttered, “but while they encircle us their flanks are vulnerable.”

The fighters roared as they screeched away from the runways and thundered into the air. The available fighters were split off into two taskforces of several squadrons, a big first wave, and a smaller second wave. Most squadrons were assigned to the big “taskforce” first wave that had the role of engaging the fighter escorts and luring them away. The big group was needed, thought the commander. “Its impossible that Allanea would be attacking with just old junk. They must know what we have. Their best fighters are probably escorting this mess. I know I’d do it.”, he thought.

The remaining planes, meanwhile, came from squadrons taking off later in a second wave. They had been designated to slaughter the bombers coming from the North, east and west.

((OOC NOTE: the planes will engage the Allaneans AFTER Gooberbunchian / Prophet ground-based AA has fired on them in the IC timeline. I don’t wanna lose planes needlessly on Friendly Fire. AA first, then planes. (Who have to take off first anyways before they can do anything.))

(OOC: Doujin and Scandinavian States, you've been hailed by my fleet. Please respond.)

"Hail, Admiral, we're kind of busy at the moment or I would have given a more timely response. Mind helping us out?" Admiral Yu responded.

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[Allanea, I can't accept that you got information about my military that I didn't inform my allies about (the deployment), that far behind enemy lines during wartime, in a communist country. Now, I can accept you getting information about what I'm about to post, because it's more likely that you'll have sympathizers closer to your border. Also, there are still losses you haven't taken and you have failed to tell me how your army survived the bombardment Edolia and I have put it through.]

The divisions were near enough to the front that they were now off road. The tanks and infantry spread out in a nearby forest for cover and to provide a perimeter. Divisional headquarters, for the divisions that had them, were trying to get in contact with von Tusk over super encypted radios in order to coordinate. Their last intelligence brief was a day old and things might have changed, as unlikely as that seemed. The general message sent over the command frequencies they knew about was, "General von Tusk, this is the _________ division, how can we assist, over."

Meanwhile, old F-28 fighters and MiG-45 intercepters were frantically trying to reach The Prophet after long range radar had reported massive numbers of bombers and fighters taking off from Allanea and heading towards the Goobergunchian dependency. They were still two hours out and even travelling at Mach Two it was unclear if they would manage the intercept. Even if they didn't, they'd still catch the bastards going back and there'd be hell to pay when they did.

[That's 720 F-28s and 1,080 MiG-45s, both a generation ahead of F-22s and the Typhoons that Knootoss fields. I'll give it another hour before I roleplay any engagement.]

Capt. Douglas looked across the Scandavian States airfield from the cockpit of his Gripen at the first of the Tiboritian Air Defense force to arrive in Haven. An assortment of fighters and cargo planes were being refueled, or waiting to be refueled. As soon as his own fighter had topped of its tanks, he roared down the runway to his final destination, -The Prophet-.


Initial Tiboritian deployment to -The Prophet-:

12th Light Infantry Division

44 LOSAT
54 M981 FISTV
54 M119A1 Light Towed Howitzer
18 HIMARS
40 120mm Mortar
90 Avenger FAADV
36 CLAWS Air Defense Vehicle
48 AH-1Z Cobra Attack Helicopter
38 UH-60M Black Hawk Utility Helicopter
16 OH-58D Kiowa Warrior
4 EH-60 Quick Fix EW Helicopter
+Assorted engeenering vehicles, HMMWVs, Dingos, trucks...
Total Personnel: 13,309

1st Multirole Fighter Wing
96 JAS 39C/D Gripen

1st Attack Wing
96 A-10 Thunderbolt II

1st Stealth Strike Wing
96 F-117A Nighthawk

2 Carrier Battle Groups (Protecting the sealanes from Tiborita to Haven)
each with:
1 Nimitz Class CVN
2 Ticonderoga Class CG
4 Arleigh Burke Class Flight IIA DDG
1 Spruance Class DD
4 Oliver Hazard Perry class FFG
2 Los Angelas Class SSN
20 F-14D Tomcat
36 F/A-18E Super Hornet
6 EA-18G Growlers
5 KA-18SJ
4 E-2C Hawkeye AWACS
8 S-3B Viking
4 SH-60F Seahawk
2 HH-60H
22 SH-60B LAMPS III

2 SSGN Submarine Squadrons (Heading north past Jondera)
each with:
6 Ohio SSGN

In Axackal

"Commander! We're taking heavy losses!"

"Nigel?"

"Yes sir?"

"What are the losses?"

"13,000 men, 500 Black Eagle Tanks, 300 aircraft."

"Good. Push on. Send the aircraft on another bombing run, this time, direct it at their artillery."

The three surviving sattelites fire another salvo of high-yield EMP weapons at the airbases in Axackal.

Half an hour later, the oncoming Allanean craft pound the Edolian artillery

In the meanwhile, the warbiker brigade and the scout brigade team up to destroy the Legion they're fighting with superior troop amounts.

[Back in Allanea]

Production is stepped up of Anne-Coulter Mark II planes, Hannibal Lector tanks, and Smerch-M MRLS launchers to make up for the massive losses.

OOC: How much have I advanced?

In Axackal

"Commander! We're taking heavy losses!"

"Nigel?"

"Yes sir?"

"What are the losses?"

"13,000 men, 500 Black Eagle Tanks, 300 aircraft."

"Good. Push on. Send the aircraft on another bombing run, this time, direct it at their artillery."

The three surviving sattelites fire another salvo of high-yield EMP weapons at the airbases in Axackal.

Half an hour later, the oncoming Allanean craft pound the Edolian artillery

In the meanwhile, the warbiker brigade and the scout brigade team up to destroy the Legion they're fighting with superior troop amounts.

[Back in Allanea]

Production is stepped up of Anne-Coulter Mark II planes, Hannibal Lector tanks, and Smerch-M MRLS launchers to make up for the massive losses.

OOC: How much have I advanced?

The Prophetian front

The missiles take down 550 aircraft - over half of the armada, the rest manages to survive an even launch bombs and missiles at the enemy airfields due to excellent stealth and countermeasures.

In the meanwhile, Allanea's 800,000 troops are pushing onward towards the enemy bases.

In the Allanean capital

The capital stands, protected by the forces Iron Blood pulled back from the front... including 2,000 BUK-1M missiles and 1,000 long-range S-500 missile complexes...
And 500 Allanean BUK-1M's.

Suddenly, the radars discover the Scandavian air armadas.

"Enemy in range of S-500!"

"Fire two missiles each"

2,000 missiles scream out towards the enemy craft.

"Enemy in range of Buk-1M"

"Fire two missiles each!"

5000 BUK-1m missiles

"Good. Anything that survives will have to fight the Armada as it returns."

Allanea, check the Invasion thread.

OOC: Well, if your subs are over 400 km away from my fleet, how do you expect torps to hit them? And yakhonts from the ships?

[quote="Doujin"]OOC: Well, if your subs are over 400 km away from my fleet, how do you expect torps to hit them? And yakhonts from the ships?[/quote


because they constantly move one towards the other?

OOC: Who is "they". My ships are barely moving at all. We can maintain a large bombardment range.

IC:
The Warspite ships dived down and advanced towards the Allanean Fleet. With their missile payload empty, they might as well empty their torpedo loads. Another active ping went out by the DN Clan Smoke Jaguar, and another wave of torpedos dashed from the subs. 240 Mk. 48 ADCAP torpedos from the 60 Astron Fast Attack Subs, and another 100 Mk. 48 ADCAP's from the Warspite subs.

((*cough* Atlantic fleet results? *cough*))

With the first wave of ground-based AA over, the Knootian (and Barentsburg) fighters attack according to the plan as described on the last page.

For reference:

The available fighters were split off into two taskforces of several squadrons, a big first wave, and a smaller second wave. Most squadrons were assigned to the big “taskforce” first wave that had the role of engaging the fighter escorts and luring them away. The big group was [needed because the Knootians expected more then the old TU's for escorts]

The remaining planes, meanwhile, came from squadrons taking off later in a second wave. They had been designated to slaughter the bombers coming from the North, east and west.

Doujin Air Command - Scandavian States
"General, time to help our Naval friends out."

"Yes.. yes it is. Scramble all the fighters, put an extra fuel pod in them and have them hug the sea. 4 Egap's per fighter and the rest anti-air missiles, understood?"

"Yes, sir."

The crew at the airfields used by Doujin forces came to life, outfitting the Doujin Aircraft with 2 Egap Anti-Ship Missiles, 2 Fuel Pods, 4 EAW-67 'Viper' Short Range AAM, and 2 EAW-78 'Cobra' Medium-Long Range AAM.

The necessary arrangements were made. The aircraft fitted and ready, the crew understanding their mission, and the alarm sounded. All fighters quickly scrambled and proceeded to their target. 4,000 Aircraft - almost all of Doujin's "Air Force", took off screaming towards the Allanean Fleet.


OOC: I'm going to operate under the assumption that your satellites are dead now, it's been awhile and you were down to 3 launch sats, and i've continued fire onyour satellites.. so...

EAW-67 'Viper' Short Range AAM

The EAW-67 is a fifth generation air-to-air missile that provides the pilot engaging an enemy aircraft with a full sphere launch capability. The missile can be launched from very short to beyond visual range with greater probability of kill, excellent resistance to countermeasures, irrespective of evasive target manoeuvre or deployment of countermeasures. Apart from an exceptional maneverability, this missile is also directly connected to the pilot's helmet, which allows engagement of targets lateral to the aircraft, which cannot be engaged by missiles with a traditional system of targeting and guidance. T

he missile is to replace the R-73 in the Elias Air Force and is offered for export as an alternative to the R-73, ASRAAM and AIM-9X as it posseses far greater capability.

A revolutionary full sphere capability is achieved by the lock-on-after-launch combined with excellent acquisition and tracking capability. Its dual waveband Focal Plane Array (FPA) seeker and sophisticated algorithms enable acquisition of even small, low signature targets at Look-Down, adverse background and clouds environments.

The EAW-67 employs digital signal processing techniques in the seeker, as well as a microprocessor based digital flight control system. The use of Digital Signal Processing provide the seeker with better acquisition range than analogue seekers by exploiting the multiple detector elements to full advantage, as well as providing further IRCCM capability and the ability to intelligently manage fluctuating target signatures. A digital flight control system will allow the missile to optimise its flight control laws for the regime of flight, while also selectively choosing the most suitable homing algorithm parameters for the geometry of the engagement. The missile employs a unique tailored proportional navigation homing algorithm. As a result of these design features, the EAW-67 seeker is credited with the capability to engage and track targets throughout most of the forward hemisphere in excess of 65 degrees off-boresight capability, with a high tracking rate.

The aerodynamic design of the 'Viper' is by any standard the most complex in any existing AAM, and is evidently intended to provide the best possible lift throughout the flight profile of the weapon. A cruciform fixed canard is mounted on the nose to stabilise high angle of attack airflow over the cruciform canard control surfaces, which are used for pitch and yaw control. Roll control is achieved by a small pair of paddle vanes aft of the controls. The missile employs highly swept strakes along the fuselage which are intended to improve airflow characteristics over the tail surfaces. The swept tail surfaces are designed to swivel about the fuselage, this is designed to minimise lift induced rolling moments at high angles of attack in high G turns.

The long burn motor has a tailored thrust profile to achieve optimal acceleration for close-in closing engagements and high energy for terminal phase homing or end-game engagement. Thrust vectoring is not employed, the missile instead utilises aerodynamic design to achieve a high turn rate throughout the its flight envelope.

The missile employs a blast fragmentation warhead which is triggered by an active laser proximity fuse with a backup impact fuse similar to other missiles such as the AIM-9X and ASRAAM.


Specifications

Category: Short Range Air-to-Air missile
Length: 118 inches
Diameter: 6 inches
Weight: 231lb
Warhead: proximity/impact fused blast fragmentation
Guidance Type: IR
Range: 12.5nm

EAW-78 'Cobra' Medium-Long Range AAM

The EAW-78 is a medium-long range radar guided air to air missile designed to compliment and eventually replace the AIM-120 AMRAAM in the Elias Air Force. Offering more than twice the range and better accuracy, the missile offers significant advantages over current designs.

'Cobra' is a highly flexible, visual and beyond visual range, agile, air-to-air weapon system that provides a comprehensive operational capability in the most complex combat scenarios. The missile can autonomously engage air targets (whether fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, AWACS or cruise missiles) by using its active radar seeker by day or night and in all weather or dense electronic warfare environments.

A unique ramjet propulsion system ensures a range in excess of 100 km and a speed of more than Mach 4. Even when launched from extreme stand-off ranges, the missile will have the energy in the end game to defeat fast, manoeuvring targets. To ensure total target destruction, the missile is equipped with both proximity and impact fuzes and a fragmentation warhead that is detonated at the optimum point to maximise lethality.

In long-range engagements the EAW-78 heads for the target using inertial guidance and receives updated target information via data link from the launch aircraft. It transitions to a self-guiding terminal mode when the target is within range of its own radar set. The EAW-78 also has a home-on-jam guidance mode to counter electronic jamming. With its sophisticated avionics, high closing speed, and excellent end-game maneuverability, chances of escape for the target are minimal.
In the lock-on before launch mode for shorter ranged engagements, the missile's seeker can be slaved to the aircraft's radar or the pilot's helmet mounted cueing system.


Specifications

Category: Medium-Long Range Air-to-Air missile
Length: 143 inches
Diameter: 6 inches
Weight: 260lb
Warhead: proximity/impact fused blast fragmentation
Guidance Type: I/ARH
Range: 74nm

"Commander von Tusk! The V Imperial Legion is under heavy fire from warbiker brigades. If it doesn't retreat, it will be utterly destroyed."
"What are its casualties?"
"As it is sir, we've got nearly all the attack copters down and mechanized portions taking heavy fire. The tanks Wings are putting up admirable fights, however and groups of fast-deployment troops are inflicting losses as well. It looks like about 20% casualties with that number growing."
"Very well. Allow a retreat and regroup. Have them retreat to more rugged terrain. The warbikers won't be able to follow them."
"Those brigades will still be coming, sir. Unless we want a big problem, they will have to be destroyed."
"Very well. There aren't many highways. Bomb them their paths into the ground..."

---

Four squadrons of RX-12 Roc heavy stealth bombers soar overhead. The warbike brigades below have no way of knowing of the death flying above them... Silently, the first wave of bombers drops the first part of its cargo... A single Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb drops from the plane and falls towards the road below... down... down... down it plummets, boosters kicking in to direct it towards the thickest part of the Allanean formation... At two meters above the ground, instantaneously, pressure jets shoot an inflammable aluminum gas out in all directions... and explodes. Massive flames spread out in a one hundred meter spread. Anything caught within the blast is instantaneously fried. As the first bomb explodes, cluster bombers from the other bombers begin dropping all around the warbikers. A literal storm of shrapnel rains around the troops, exposed on their motorcycles and riding in the middle of the highway...

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As Allanean fighters begin striking at Edolian artillery, the two thousand remaining Echidna-5s and -7s release their storms of missiles at the Allanean fighters. Operating in shallow water, some three hundred anti-air missile boats add their firepower to the mix. But the greatest threat comes from the 2,000 YT/A-2 Hellions that swoop from the sky like tiny black eagles, releasing almost-unavoidable short-range XED-30 air-to-air missiles at the Anne Coulters, whose large size make them easier targets...

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However, not all is good... The Allaneans were advancing steadily. Despite their casualties, over two kilometers had been gained in the advance. Edolian troops were falling back. But with each step back, they made sure that Allaneans died in droves. The battle showed no signs of stopping... As soon as air superiority could be gained however, there would be nothing that the Allaneans could do... Edolian commanders are confident that soon that air superiority will be theirs.

***-The Prophet-***

The 12th Light Infantry was making its way north to help allied forces. Reports of Allanean troop strength was suprisingly high, and the 13,000 men might not be much to strengthen the front, but it was up to them to buy time until more forces could be brought into -The Prophet-.


***Scandavian States***

Tiboritian ships were busy unloading their cargo. As soon as the men of the 2nd Armor Division met up with their vehicles, they raced off to the airfield where they began their second leg of their trip; being airlifted to -The Prophet-.


2nd Armor Division

348 Leopard 3 MBT
54 PzH 2000
20 M270 MLRS
60 M1064A3 120mm Mortar Carrier
258 M113A3 APC
216 Bradley M2A3
48 Bradley M3A3 Bradley
28 Jaguar 2 Tank Destroyer
72 Bradley Linebacker Anti-Air Vehicle
32 Leflasys (SHORAD) Air Defense System
32 Avenger
32 CLAWS Air Defense Vehicles (HUMRAAM)
60 AH-64D Apache
20 RAH-66 Comanche
32 UH-60M Black Hawk
4 EH-60 Quick Fix EW Helicopter
+ Assorted HMMWVs, Dingos, trucks, engineering equipment, command vehicles...
Total Personnel: 21,567

[Allanea, check the map. My aircraft would not get into range of your capital just to get to The Prophet. Not only that, those aircraft are fourth generation stealth, how do you propose to detect them? You need to stop grasping for straws and start asking questions in the OOC thread.]

The fighters came within the two hundred mile range of the bombers just as they were turning around from their run. Each aircraft carried six of the extreme BVR missiles and they all ripple-fired them at anything that didn't ping friendly on the IFF. Then they closed to one hundred miles and rippled off two "medium" range missiles each. Finally, they started closing to the twenty mile mark to engage anything left with heat-seekers and guns.

[That's 14,400 missiles launched at one hundred miles or more and travelling at Mach 5. I should mention that they are powered the entire way, have full thrust-vectoring, and their own millimeter-band radars. I didn't post the twenty mile launch because I didn't know if you had any fighters left and wanted to give you a semi-fair shot and engaging mine. :twisted: Have fun.]

OOC EDIT for EDOLIA: My forces in Axackal are trying to get ahold of von Tusk over encypted radio, you might want to respond if you want help.

Albert von Tusk spoke into the radio. "Scandavian Forces. I read you. How may I be of assistance to you in prosecuting this great war?"

Allanean Southwest Coastline

The Island States' Navy F/A-18s began to run parrallel to the shore, dropping their Mk. 82 dumb bombs in a long swaft across the beach. In all, short of 2,000 bombs fell onto the beaches below. The cluster bomber F/A-18s and their Anti-Radar friends patroled the countryside, smashing the cluster bombs into tanks and infantry in the area.

As the fighter-bombers finished their runs and returned to their carriers, the LSUs carrying the marines and the tanks rolled onto the shore (at low tide), opening their doors to let their contents out. The tanks fired immediately, pounding the beach with 105mm rounds and .50 and 7.62mm machine guns. As they fired, a wave of naval bombardment struck the far edge of the beach, clearing away any probable strongpoints. The invasion of Allanea's southwest coast had begun.

[Allanea, I swear to god if you don't take losses from the last cruise missile and Ragnarok bombardment and this one, I'm going to drag a mod into here willing to referee RP.]

The Ragnarok guns shifted yet again and started pounding every single military equipment factory in Allanea. The factories were hit with incendiery, FAE, and HE augemented with ball bearings again and again until it could only be assumed that the factories ceased to exist.

At the same time, cruise missile silos in Helsinki, Dublin, and New Edinburgh hit ports, airfields, and air ports with incendiery, FAE, and cluster munitions in order to disable and/or destroy those facility's usefulness.

[Ragnarok guns can hit anywhere in Allanea, so when I say every single warmaking factory, I mean every one. The cruise missiles, even with boosters, have only a range to 2,000 miles, so it'll only be the facilities near the front.

EDIT: Let's say I emptied a ten-missile rotary magazine per missile type per silo. That's forty silos to the city, so 3600 total missiles fired.]

New Edinburgh
The IL76s touched down on the runways, the airfields fortified with many heavy gun and SAM emplacements. Type 98 tanks and SSX1 MBTs disembarked, their diesel engines a low rumble under the dull clamor of troops unloading and preparing for war.

Helsinki
Islandian J-series fighters streaked over the skies, beginning a combat air patrol. On the ground, several units in an array of unmarked vehicles of American and Russian design disembarked, readying for covert missions into enemy territory.

Grand Island Military Installation, Agrigento
Troops of the 1st Guards Assault Division and Kanasa Raiders were loaded aboard ships of the Forty First Amphibious Engagement Group. Escorted by two surface engagement groups, the Amphibious Assault unit set out for Edolian territory.

Albert von Tusk spoke into the radio. "Scandavian Forces. I read you. How may I be of assistance to you in prosecuting this great war?"

The Second Army commander laughed and responded, "General, we're here to save your ass, no offense to your men. Any big holes needing plugged? Or perhaps we can arrange a breakthrough in Allanea's line? Anything you need and we can deliver, we'll do it."

Albert von Tusk spoke into the radio. "Scandavian Forces. I read you. How may I be of assistance to you in prosecuting this great war?"

The Second Army commander laughed and responded, "General, we're here to save your ass, no offense to your men. Any big holes needing plugged? Or perhaps we can arrange a breakthrough in Allanea's line? Anything you need and we can deliver, we'll do it."

"Let's keep it simple. The Allaneans are smashing their armies into our forces. We're retreating, but it's orderly, while the Allaneans are taking horrendous casualties. My one worry is that they're going to pull a few million more troops out of their asses -perhaps gun-toting civilians. We want air superiority as fast as possible. As it is, we've got a much more powerful air force in the area, but to clean the situation up quickly, I would appreciate some Scandavian air support. Air defenses would be appreciated as well. As for ground troops, just holding the line, sopping up some more Allanean blood... that would be great."

OOC: Everyone, remember: There are Feline forces in Axacakal (sp?). I have not been using them, focusing instead on my forces in Allanea. So if someone can tell me what has been happening there, I would appreciate it.

OOC: Now having finally been accepted into UnAPS (yay for me) I cannot help but feel obliged to help in this little endeavour.

My apologies if I do accidentally overstep the mark anywhere.

IC:-
Atlantic Ocean - 200 miles East of the Freethinker Mainland

To those familiar with naval architecture, the outline of the Leviathan was distinctly recognisable by its huge silohuette even in the fierce storm that it currently drove through. The original 'Leviathon', as the class became known after the design and the shipyard that built her was bought out by DoujinCorp, she was a magnificent vessel, and was, thanks to a recent refit that resulted in a 10m extension to the hull, *technically* the second largest warship on the high seas after the oceanic behemoth that was the DN Doujin.

As the vessel plowed through forty foot waves, inside the Leviathan's conference room Rear Admiral Gurran Svensand addressed the CO's of every ship in the entire battlegroup that was spread out over twenty miles of the open sea from the Leviathan, providing it and each other with protection, supply and air cover. Pretty sight it was.

"As you well know," the Admiral barked, his small, stocky fram quivering with almost schoolboy-like excitement, "we have been ordered to sail to and commence shore bombardment against the South-Western flank of Allanea. Our battlegroup will be supporting military action by our allies, landing our own troops to aid the assault, and also attacking and destroying the command and logistics train of the Allanean military that comes within range of our guns and missiles"

"Military action against any Allanean target has been authorised. This is unconditional war, but I must stress that all international accords must be followed in our attacks. Nuclear attack has been dismissed by our government, but we must be prepared for a nuclear strike on our own forces when the Allanean government finally enters its last demise. We will take this as it comes."

"We will assume all contacts as hostile until confirmed otherwise. I need full submarine, helicopter, and escort patrols, as well as continuous airborne fighter aircraft. All combat systems are to be at full or at immediate standby status as soon as we come into range of their defences. We must be prepared for anything. Remember, this is our first coalition war, lets make a very good impression."


-20,000 feet above The Prophet, 120km South from the frontline.-


The C-5M transport shuddered as its rear ramp descended. Higher than most normal paradrops, the arriving jets needed every measure of protection they could afford. Its passengers could well-afford to adapt to this anyway. Around the plane, three hundred or so like it did the same, and around them patrolling F-22s, E-3 Sentry's and all the necessary tankers needed for such a long journey held a carefully planned formation in the moonless night sky.

Men jumped from nearly every plane. They all freefalled until they activated their own chutes just 2000 feet from the ground. Bothered by the cold and lack of light, they nevertheless completed a textbook landing onto the ground below. Above them, the formation of aircraft circled, checking everything had gone to plan. Then, a few large containers were dropped by the planes, into the heart of the landing zones. Fighters roared unseen above the clouds.

The containers opened their own parachutes, and landed near the now gathering soldiers, busy tidying up their chutes. The sides of the large metal boxs dropped away, revealing light trucks, crates of ammo, and a few machine gun and missile-armed Hummers and Land Rovers. The men nodded to each other and orders were barked from men with many stripes on their camoflauged body armour and uniform.

The horizon to the north grew red with the fighting. The besieged allied forces were trying to hold out against hundred of thousands of well-armed enemy troops. Over the space of two hours, the Freethinker soldiers piled onto the tranports, as many as could fit, and sped off North to reinforce the lines. The rest of the forces kept moving, some now dissappearing into the bush, also heading North, but with infiltration rather than combat on their minds. The last two or three thousand troops started setting up a base in the lightly cleared forest around the drop zone.

OOC:

Okay, the naval battlegroup consists of: (these are all indeginous designs btw, more details posted later)

1 Leviathan class BBN
1 Warrior Class BBN
3 Invincible class CVN
1 Formidable class CVL
3 Berlin Class CG
5 Centaur Class DDG (Batch 1)
3 Centaur Class DDG (Batch 2)
6 Horizon Class DDG
10 Ardent Class FFG
3 Broadsword Class FE
4 Excalibur Class LPD
5 Oakleaf Class LPD
2 River Class AOR
1 Tigershark Class AOE
3 Clan Grant Class AOR
15 Various Drafted Civilian Transports (Part of Merchant Navy)

Roughly 400 odd aircraft (of which 250 are fighters), and 36,000 troops and all necessary equipment. (troop numbers included primary logistics personnel)

In The Prophet, there are:

1200 men 1st and 2nd Battalion, 1st Airborne Brigade "the Pathfinders"
12,000 men 12th Airborne Division (includes basic logistics and roughly 50 hummers and 200 light trucks, troops will intergrate themselves with domestic military supply lines)

EDITS: Typos, location mistakes

Two squadrons of IDF-2 Fighters (24) fly at Mach 2, at an altitude of 150 feet. Armed in air superiority configuration, they had radar cancellation equipment on full strength, and were relying on Taiwanese AWACS for support.

With the Scandavian aircraft already engaging the enemy bombers, the IDF-2s flew closer to the action, with BVRAAMs ready.

OOC: Alright, um, Demoia is me. I've got a few nations what I call "In the pipe." You can take guesses at what that means, I'll tell you if you get it right. Or you can choose not to care. Either way, I don't care what you choose.

FPS Coburn
Near Helsinki, Scandavian States

Mackay responded to the Scandavian admiral's request almost immediately with nothing more than a short, clipped "Affirmative." He turned the radio to a fleet broadcast channel.

"Ships of the 1st Free Provinces Fleet, now hear this. Our allies have requested assistance, and we're going to give it to them. All ships, engagement formation Aleph. Full fighter screen, full sub screen." The ships began to spread out, making them less inviting targets for a mass missile strike, and fighters could be seen taking off from the deck of the FPS Freeport as well as the four smaller escort carriers.

"Frigate Group A, you're going to light up that Allanean fleet to the tune of six Pike missiles apiece. Targets of opportunity." A total of 90 sea-skimming missiles, each one capable of punching a significant hole in a battleship.

"All Defenders and Guardians, prepare to intercept missiles on the counter-strike."

Mackay folded his arms and watched. The next thirty minutes should prove very informative.

(OOC Note: I'm still actually behind the Scandavian and Doujin fleets, so I'll be fairly safe from subs for now.)

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FPS Mt. Rikks
Near Southwest Allanea

There. There they are. Fleet Admiral Eric Cantley smiled as the Island States ships came into sight through the fog. "Hail them," he said. "Let's make sure we're where we're supposed to be."

"Island States ships, this is Fleet Admiral Eric Cantley, 7th Free Provinces Fleet. We come bearing gifts, or at least a division of Copiosa Scotia's finest to help you hold that beachhead. Please advise."

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FPS James Carrick
Near Maymora, Doujin

"The 1st Fleet informs us that they have engaged the enemy, sir!" the James Carrick's communications officer announced.

"Of course they have. Mackay couldn't be bothered to wait for us, could he?" Fleet Admiral Chris Bridger quipped good-naturedly. "No need to wait for the 5th, they'll just take the entire Allanean Navy themselves. Well, if anyone can do it, it's Jeremy Mackay."

"Yes, sir. I wouldn't be too worried, we'll be there by tomorrow morning."

"Well, if we're not going to be there until morning, I think I'll retire for the night. Wake me when we pass Stockholm."

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FPS Abbey Hill
Near Pilot

Fleet Admiral Aaron Pierce allowed himself a small chuckle. If the tactical map display on the screen before him was reading correctly, his 6th Fleet had nearly caught up with the 5th, despite having left Port Douglas a full day later. I'll catch Bridger yet, he thought, and grinned.

Pierce had developed a reputation as the most fiery of the Navy's ten fleet admirals, and it's most feared. Both, in his opinion, were a little exaggerated. Part of it, of course, came from his feats in the Ferrussian War, in which he'd sent the entire Skibereen Navy to the bottom of the Black Sea, then turned about and destroyed a Fyrehartian fleet in the Bosphorus. The Skibereens had, in truth, been hopelessly outmatched from the start, and the Fyreheartians had been bottled up with no chance to hit back. Still, one could not deny that Pierce pressed every opportunity, and had a way of getting the most out of his chances and his men. The remarkable time they'd made in reaching the Haven was just one more example.

"Malinsky, send a message to Fleet Admiral Bridger for me," he told his aide. "Tell him it wouldn't look good if we showed up before him."

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Free Provinces Theatre Ground Forces Command
Darrell, Goobergunchia

That evening, the 2nd Army of Copiosa Scotia packed up and headed for the combat zone, leaving behind what staff were needed to run the command center. The C Corps, it had been decided, would join the rest of the force at the border, as the 2nd would need whatever extra punch it could get.

They traveled through the night until they came to their destination, about 60 miles from the border. There they camped for the night.

(OOC: Allanea, please respond to my request for troop numbers in the OOC thread.)

"Let's keep it simple. The Allaneans are smashing their armies into our forces. We're retreating, but it's orderly, while the Allaneans are taking horrendous casualties. My one worry is that they're going to pull a few million more troops out of their asses -perhaps gun-toting civilians. We want air superiority as fast as possible. As it is, we've got a much more powerful air force in the area, but to clean the situation up quickly, I would appreciate some Scandavian air support. Air defenses would be appreciated as well. As for ground troops, just holding the line, sopping up some more Allanean blood... that would be great."

General Cromwell thought for a moment and then responded, "I see your point, and I don't doubt it's likely the Allanean government would try something like that. My troops are Army, so I can't promise you air support beyond helos, although we do have plenty SAM batteries. I'll be sure to pass along the request, the Air Force has twenty new wings of some kind of rather nasty intercepter, and no doubt you know about the bombers from earlier. As for holding the line, we can manage that, but I'd like to keep my command together and I'm sure my Marine counter-part would as well. So, where is your need the greatest?"

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Austarian Military Outpost (Haven): Command Center
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The General commanding the entire Haven Operation stood in the command center, "It appears as if the Alleneans are going in at no consideration of their losses. Seems to me that they hope to overwhelm our allies with sheer force rather than strategy."

Strategist Peter Ethridge looked over the latest maps, "I agree General. It seems to me that they arent as trained as they claim. I mean, if they wanted to stand a chance, they wouldnt just hope that sheer numbers would get them through. They are invariably taking heavy losses, however so far their campaign has been advancing steadily in Axackal"

"Agreed," repilied the General, "So what would you reccomend so far?"

Peter smiled, "Obviously, it probably wouldnt be the best thing to fight their troops directly. Our allies can take them for now, my greatest fear is that may choose to boost the numbers, which may overwhelm our allies into a retreat. I suggest we bomb the hell out of their forces in Axackal. I suggest this come in the following form."

Peter pushed some documents accross the table.

"Very well," commented the General, "Lets begin our operations. Peter, can you get me the island missile facility on the horn?"

"Gladly Sir....", replied Peter, dialing the Missile Center, and putting them on speakerphone. Within seconds, he had let the room, and given the General his due privacy.

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Austarian Military Outpost (Haven): Missile Center
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Commander Franklin walked into Missile Command, "Boys, we have our orders direct from Island Command."

Franklin walked over to the main command station, and punched in some details into the computer. Instantly, the orders had been entered into the computer, and had been activated. Over the PA, a computerized voice came over, "Launch Sequence Activated. Launches of Stations A1 to S7 to be completed in T-120 seconds and counting..."

As the men in the missile command center looked out of the viewing window, it became apparent of the scale of the operation. This move, would possibly guarrentee the allied forces victory in Axackel.

Within two minutes, some 5000 conventional missiles were en-route towards Allenean forces in Axackel. 3000 were headed for frontline positions, while 2000 were headed directly to Allenean bases, which held the most amount of air support units.

OOC: Allenea, im expecting HUGE losses on these missile attacks, considering that mobile anti-missile units arent exactly 100% effective. Each of these missiles has a standard warhead. And if you want to claim that I dont know where your units are, then consider that my missiles are guided via sattelite, which CAN see virtually anything.

tag

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Above, and Behind Enemy Lines in Axackle
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As two un-armed planes streaked accross the sky, the battle seemed to be continuing below. On board one of the planes, the Pilot was preparing for the deployment of his payload.

"Speaker A this is Speaker B, are you ready for deployment?"

Over the radio came the reply, "This is Speaker B; confirmed ready for deployment."

The Pilot watched his instruments as he continued to fly the plane, "Speaker A; begin deployement"

"Roger that," replied the pilot of the other plane, "Begin deployment..."

The two aircraft lowered thier height, as to make sure delivery would stay on course. On queue, bot planes opened a hatch on the underbody. Instantly, thousands upon thousands of leaflets rushed out the hatch, and gently floated down to Allenean forces below.

On the ground, an Allenean soldier was walking along, when he came across one of the lealets. Picking it up with curiosity, he began to read it:


ATTENTION ALL ALLENEAN SOLDIERS!

I am sure that most, or all of you are hearing the results from the frontline! Your friends and family are being send to die by the thousands by your government, which is willing to sacrifice your life, and your family's lives without hesitation! This is a notice to all Alleneans; WE ARE FIGHTING AGAINST YOUR GOVERNMENT....NOT YOU!

Allied forces will accept all people who choose to surrender themselves to the other side. All people who choose to do so will recieve the full protection from allied forces, and will be given shelter, food, and water!

Do not continue this suicide, and save yourself, your friends and families!

From your friends and saviours, the coalition forces...

The soldier folded the note, and put it in his pocket. All around him, others were doing the same. Above them, the two planes were leaving to make the next set of drops...

OOC: Sorry if you dont want me to RP one of your soldiers. I just did it to make the storyline sound better. But I figured you wouldnt mind, considering you RPed 2 of Edolia's troops earlier...

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ABOVE HAVEN: In low-earth orbit: Onboard the space-ICBM Launcher (Sat V)
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[code:1:65ac1fd45f]SYSTEMS BEING ACCESSED BY ACCESS POINT 102.987.541

SCANNING.....

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FIRE SOLUTION ON ALLENEA (108.99), (786.116), (351.003)

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MISSILES LAUNCHED![/code:1:65ac1fd45f]

Within seconds, 12 Conventional ICBM's were launched at the following targets in Allenea:

3 at the nation's largest government command positions
9 at the nation's largest military command, and troop holding centers.

OOC: Its up to you for the losses. I would expect that most anti-missile systems wouldnt be able to stop this one, since they are being launched from space, but I would expect some command structure at least to be demolished. But like I said, up to you...

Mirari City, City-State of L'Renoville--. The Dominion Council has passed today the resolution with a vote of 12-4 from the 16 city-states granting the Akiros Armed Forces-City-State Division to join the war against Allanea.

High Judicator Majuro's Announcement
"....today, we are witnessing a war between our allies and the nation of Allanea. If we do not help our allies, tomorrow or someday, war will come to our doorstep. Therefore, by the power granted to me as High Judicator of Akiros by the Dominion Council, I therefore declare war against Allanea and remove it of its pride as a warmongering nation! Let us free the people of Allanea from its tyrant government and embrace the freedom which the City-States enjoy!"

*cheers and yells from the crowd.*

There you have it. That was the announcement or er, propaganda of the High Judicator to the Akiris broadcasted live to 500+ million Akiris across 16 City-States. According to the resolution passed approving the Council War Act 902, it is agreed that Akiros joins the war but with the "willing" support of the City-States. So far, only 12 out of 16 City-State Divisions are enlisting their Armed Forces.

Akiros Forces City-State Divisions:

L'Renoville-Muse Battlegroup:
4 Nimitz Class Carriers (carrying only 65 F/A-18 Hornets each)
12 Kilo-Class Submarines
10 Tigerclaw Class Destroyers
4 AEGIS Cruisers

view current location: http://www.implex-designs.com/datas/users/218-LRenoville.JPG

Harmonia Division(bound for The Prophet upon approval):
5,000 M1 Abrams tanks
98,000 GIs
2,000 Special Forces

Toran Republic-Matilda Division:
200 Tactical Neutralization Teams (comprising 14 highly equipped, special-trained personnel each)

view current location: http://www.implex-designs.com/datas/users/218-TNT-Harmonia.JPG

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AAF Headquarters, Port 51, Akiros
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AI: Adjutant online.

*DEFCON 2 Alert iniated.*

*Contacting UnAPS allies... encrypting. Hacker detection activated.*

voice of an Akiri commander..
Greetings comrades and allies. The Akiros Dominion has joined the war against Allanea. Although we are of lesser power compared to you, we stand to fight under the charter we are bound to. Our joining the war was inevitable after all.. *laughs* Very well, we have prepared long before we declared war. As of now, 200 independent TNTs (Tactical Neutralization Teams) and the City-State of Harmonia Division Forces are near the border of The Prophets. The L'Renoville-Muse Battlegroup is late to respond but they will be in the area in a matter of time. Forgive us our delay. The Akiris are with you all. Oh by the way, if any Allanean hacker is listening to this, it won't matter! mwahahaha..

*far voice of commander* i want to know if the Allaneans ARE really listening now! We don't want them angry at us. :wink:

*end of message. encryption halt. hacker detection active.*

*Initiating Integrated Defense Systems. Organizing Satellite Transmissions.*

*Operation Sandstorm Dominion has been approved and launched.*

[Allanea, I swear to god if you don't take losses from the last cruise missile and Ragnarok bombardment and this one, I'm going to drag a mod into here willing to referee RP.]

EDIT: Let's say I emptied a ten-missile rotary magazine per missile type per silo. That's forty silos to the city, so 3600 total missiles fired.]


OOC: SS, look at the map. There's no way you can get from Scandavian to Prophet on aircraft without getting at least in range of the S-500.

400 Aircraft are destroyed in combat with the Scandavians.

20 various weapon factories are destroyed.

The Prophetian Front.

The 800,000 men of the Eastern army slow down some fifty km inside the enemy borders, as they are met by the Tiboritan army. Even though the Tiboritans are outnumbered 20-to-1, it still takes time to beat them.

The Axackali Front

"We're advancing... but we're taking heavy casualties. We moved on two kilometers, but we lost 20,000 troops in total (5,000 troops since the last post)"

"Who cares about that? I want the Scout and Biker Brigade to turn back. Tell them to hit the edolians from the rear.

In Atlantic Island

The Islanders watched in horror as the torpedoes decimated the Allanean fleet. Within minutes, all of the fleets frigates, 5 aircraft carriers, and 5 submarines ceased to exist. The Allanean Marines where watching worriedly from the shore [/I]

In Heston-city

The Mayor points at the arms factories occupied at the Felinians.

"OK, boys, at my command, let's rock and roll!"

The 30,000 city inhabitants and the 5,000 Allanean Boyscouts attack...

OOC: You failed to respond to my attacks Allenea...post your losses and responses...

OOC: Sorry, Austar, my fault....

IC: 15,000 troops, 750 aircraft are destroyed. 25,000 civilians are killed.

As a response, the Allaneans decide to reinforce their armies in Axackal by 200,000 more troops, moved from Allanea's Southern border. The forces will be there within one NS week.

OOC: Sorry, Austar, my fault....

IC: 10,000 troops and 250 aircraft are destroyed.

As a response, the Allaneans decide to reinforce their armies in Axackal by 200,000 more troops, moved from Allanea's Southern border. The forces will be there within one NS week.

Is that all? 5000 Missiles, and 12 Conventional ICBMs were shot! Im sure it would be much more than just 10 000 dead!

The Doujin Fleet moves into coastal bombardment positions, and spy planes began relaying military positions to the Doujin Fleet Command.

"Signal the Fleet, tell them to get ready for a wait. Going to just bombard the Island. After a couple hours, we may land forces.. but right now, just bombardment suits us fine. Just hope we don't completely level the Island"

The Admiral heartily laughed with his XO, over that last comment.

Flying at twice the speed of sound just tens of metres above the ocean, the two squadrons of IDF-2s cross over into Allanean territory. One squadron was armed with small diameter bombs and the other with air superiority ordinance.

Taipei
The President approves a bill sending 50,000 troops to Axackal over the next fortnight.

OOC: You failed to respond to my attacks Allenea...post your losses and responses...

Same here. I'd also post losses for the airfields but they aren't mine but goober's to RP.
-Planes chasing yours & engaging escorts in -The Prophet- Any dogfighting or do they all run into the hands of SS?
-The bloody ships who are skimming the atlantic and placing themselves between Melkor and Haven. Even if they find nothing then please say so.

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Austarian Military Outpost (Haven): Missile Command Center
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Commander Franklin recieved word on his attack on the Alleneans, "Very Good. They have taken a fair amount of casualties. Now, I want you to send off another round of missiles. But DOUBLE the amount of missiles to 10 000. I want 100% of them hitting all of Allenean Frontline troops."

"But sir...", argued one man.

"You do what Im telling you Son! Immediatly, FIRE!" interrupted Commander Franklin.

Immediatly, the General Alarms began to sound, signalling that another launch was to be made. Once again, that computerized voice came over the PA system.

2 Minutes Later, the entire facility was overwhelmed with the roar of missiles taking off, their destination: Enemy Troops in Axackel.

OOC: Yes, I know that this is a big attack, and I know how expensive it would be, but heck, we're in to win this war, and im not going to hold back... Post losses ASAP Allenea...

OOC: And Allenia, I just realised that you only reacted to my first attack. Post your losses and responses to the following now:

- ICBM Attack (Above)
- My drop of leaflets to your soldiers (Above)

Now you also have my latest attack, my NEW missile attack...Post Losses on that too...

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In the skies, near Axackel
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This was all part of the opening of the Austarian Campaign. It would be simply a sample of what was to come for Allenean Troops...

Only 2 Hours Away from the Allenean (Axackel) Front, flew a HUGE force contingent of Fighter/Bombers. This was possibly one of the largest air attack ever made in Austarian History. The Austarian War-Machine had never really been activated before, and the troops involved were keen to set an example for wars to come.

In total, there were some 600 Fighter/Bombers...mostly Harriers from the Austarian Military Outpost. With a HUGE amount of the enemy's Air Support destroyed, they werent going to meet too much opposition. On the other hand, their orders were to take as little chances as possible, and they were to avoid direct combat at all costs.

Continuing on their way, Pilots watched their radars as missiles screamed past. They knew that they were vital, and they would fly accordingly...

OOC: Allanea, I invaded your southwest coastline. Please respond.

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In the skies above Axackal: The Fighter/ Bomber Attack
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"Alpha 6 this is Alpha 2, commencing operations against Allenean Ground Forces", reported the Pilot in one of the Harriers.

Just up ahead, he could see the Allenean Frontline. Lowering the altitude, it would become increadibly easy to attack the Alleneans. Ahead, he could already see destruction from the latest Austarian Missile Attack. There had been huge losses apparently. Closing in, the Pilot held his finger on the trigger, which would launch missles into the enemy troops. Seconds later, he pressed it.

Instantly, two of his missiles were launched, aimed at slightly different areas. As the missile roared ahead, and homed in on its target, the pilot, pulled the Harrier back. The Harrier responded well, and he began to make his way back to the Austarian Base back in Haven Straights...

Behind him, all the other 600 Fighter/Bombers were following his lead, each hitting a slightly different target on the frontline...

OOC: In other words, I have launched 1200 Fighter launched Missiles into your troops on your Axackal frontline...

Your losses are building quickly Allenea, I suggest you post them soon...

OOC: SS, look at the map. There's no way you can get from Scandavian to Prophet on aircraft without getting at least in range of the S-500.

400 Aircraft are destroyed in combat with the Scandavians.

20 various weapon factories are destroyed.


[No, I really don't. Look at the map and figure it out. So you're telling me you only have twenty factories in your entire nation that produce aircraft, tanks, APCs, small arms, missiles, and the like? When I said every one, I well and truly meant it. And that's only for this bombardment, you still haven't responded to the first one. As a matter of fact, you need to go through every attack and make sure, absolutely sure, that you have responded to it.]

Dang

Could someone sum up what is going on? I've been out this weekend and I don't feel like reading 8 pages of posts.

In Axackal

"Sir! We're in a situation!"

The commander swings his binoculars accross the rows of oncoming Ilek-Vaadians to his flank.

"I see. Dig in. Wait till they get into rifle range, then shoot their collective a$$."


[

Command General Adan Ring watched the battle unfold from his screen in his Chok-Mool. He couldn't believe the ineptitude of the Allanea Generals, absolutely no move had been made to block his advance. He clicked his com and began issueing orders

"All units, general advance, mopve in the Thunderer II's first, followed by the Scorpions. Have the Chok-Mool's hold position and pound any Allanean's that engage.Keep our air support hiting their troop formations." Command General Ring smiled and hit his red 'deploy' button "All Red Jagur, shadow the main advance, keep giving the Chok-Mool's targets, infiltrate enemy positions, leave no one alive."

The Chok-Mool's shuddered as their ramps deployed, each one disgorging 10 Red Jaguar Commandos.

All along the line the Retaliatory Guard edged into Axackal. As usual their advance was at range, using their tactical computers the could target the Allanean's from nearly a mile away. Every group of Allanean's they met they picked off and called in air-strikes and artillery barrages from the Chok-Mools The Thunderer Battletanks and Scorpion Lav's raced ahead of the troops on foot, every dug in and hardened line was merely run over by the Thunderer's or smashed by their 180mm guns, as they raced through enemy positions they tore at the Allanean's with their 30mm coaxial guns.

The Scorpions, moving at 50-60 mph, raced behind the Allanean lines and began hitting supply lines, field hospitals communication lines, The Lancer Retaliatopry Guard lead the charge, enfilading the Allanean lines, convienantly stretched into Axackal before them, in their pursuit of Von Tusk.

16,000 Red Jaguar also deployed, their steal;th enhanced by their re-active camoflage coats, nearly invisible they inched towards enemy lines and command positions, calling in Chok-Mool artillery strikes only when they are within rifle range, then mowing down Allanean's as they scatter from the Artiller strikes.

OOC: losses from this group:1,500 Retliatory Guard, 60 Thunderer II battletanks, 100 Scorpions, 25 HIND helicopters

****

Command General Itzcoatl Ordered a strike against the Allanean's. As the Allanean's poured millions of soldiers into the relatively small boder of Axackal they made prime targets for the Retliatory Guard. They simply kept position and stayed at range, mowing down the Allaneans as they drove into Axackal Command General Itzcoatl smiled at Leftenant Temal "What fools they are, they are stuck in 1945. Gaining ground means nothing, only disabling the enemy does any good, order the men to stay at range as the Allanean's advance, give ground to them and simply keep picking them off, let the fools have as much dirt as they want. They will soon realize it is coated with their blood and run!"

The Retalitory Guard does just that, giving ground steadily, staying at least 1000 ft away, strining out the Allanean advance and making it even more vulnearable to Command General Ring's flanking maneuver from the Scandavian States, the Alleanean's would either have to retreat, or face monstrous casualties.

The Allanean Warbikes, find themselves pursued by HIND helicopters as they attempt to race past the Edolian lines, easy pickings for the close air support.

Meanwhile the air support and naval support keeps pounding all Allanean positions at will, with Allanea's air defences nearly in ruins from the first strikes they now concentrate on troop formations and command targets.

OOC: losses from this group 850 Retliatory Guard, 8 Thunderer II battletanks, 25 Scorpions, 8 HIND helicopters, 5 Warthog air support vehicles

Air losses total 250 Orion Stealth Fighters

****

Deep in Tollan, the Supreme Republican Commander chuckles at the satellite images, the Allanean's were corralling themselves in a vain attempt to gain ground in Axackal, their numbers would be no match for the solid positioning and superior weapons of the Retliatory Guard, He paused and clicked on his com "Stand down the last two Retaliatory Guard armies, they will not be needed, order the Death's Heads and Sword of Danocles Wings to begin tactical strikes in Allanea proper."

****
In far orbit, the 7 Sword of Damocles squadrons silently armed their cruise missles, each one armed 10 conventional bunker busters, they soon slipped into the atmosphere reaching mach speeds, far to fast to be stopped by conventional missle defence. Simultaneously the 140 missles struck across Allanea at hardened command targets, decapitating Allanea's central command where ever it was known to be.

In the stratosphere, the 16 squadrons of Death's Head stealth bombers each deployed their 4 massively powerful Apollo cruise missles, hitting power plants, water treatment, barracks and governmental buildings, and residencies of governmental officals, the 448 missles raining down from a seemingly empty sky.


OOC: that oughta keep you busy for a while ;)

Naval Command: Haton

People's Admiral Brusilov was working in his office on some obscure form that was required for the functioning of the navy when the Minister of War walked in. "Admiral, I've just gotten word, the Prime Minister want to deploy all the ships possible. Mainly the 6th, 7th, and 9th Battlefleets, including those new Leviathon Classes. Also, you have orders to deploy the 5th Heavy Infantry in the area wherever seems most appropriate" The Admiral finished off the form and looked up. "All of the ships?" "Yes, it seems our comrades are a little hard pressed in Axackal." The Admiral nodded and put on his hat. "Well, I better be going then." He stood up and shook the Minister's hand and then walked out of the door.

HNSC Spirit of the Revolution

The Admiral looked out over the fleet, it stretched out a long way, one of the largest he had ever seen. 12 Battleships, 12 Aircraft carriers, 8 Battlecruisers and many smaller ships, and in the middle where the huge troopships. He walked up to the radio to address the fleet.

Comrades, today we set sail for Allanea. Many of us will probably not come back. If it is our time to die, we must accept it, but we will give them hell before we do. Let it be known that Hattia never gives up on a friend and never forgets an enemy. The Allanean dogs have seen fit to take land that is the sovereign territory of Edolia, and we will show them how wrong they are. We serve the motherland and the people!

"Okay, set sail, full speed..."

Just a note, I've got a division of about 15,000 soldiers already there, I'm just gonna assume they did they same thing as my allies did.

OOC
can some1 give me the terrain of Allanea and Axackal? As well as the terrain of the Northern corridor?

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Allanea-Axackal border

Three squadrons of J37s roar across the border, splitting up and flying as low as they can. To the right, a single squadron of JH34 strike fighters prepare to dump their ordnance, consisting of medium range LACMs, onto the nearby Allanean stations.

To the west, taking advantage of the penetration, a single Zero team is inserted into hostile territory, acting as reconaissance and with standing orders to stay quiet.

Echo Detachment forces are inserted further in, with orders to kill and raise as much havoc as possible.

In the north, cruise missiles and EMP missiles are launched at Allanean facilities. Two specially modified Zhou SSBNs fire fifteen thousand pounder missiles, large, gaping behemoths that nonetheless can travel at a decently fast pace and cause much spread damage, at Allanean air and naval defense facilities.

Navy Special Forces begin to scout around, looking for possible beachheads in various islands in the North, with the help of Swift-craft attack detachments.

Special Forces teams, dressed in captured Allanean uniforms, are infiltrated into enemy areas. Likewise, several detachments of Air Force SF stay in occupied areas, to act as rescue for all downed pilots.

Airstrikes with Napalm, scramjet missiles, and 15 thousand pounders are made on Allanean armored forces round the clock with H9 bombers and Tu22MEs.

OOC: Allanea, I invaded your southwest coastline. Please respond.


Allanea does not have a southwestern coastline.


The fifth Air Armada rises off the airfields to meet the Austar Fighter-Bombers in mid-air.

Still, combined casualties due to the various bombardments and attacks are as 35,000 troops in Axackal.

20 more factories and 20,000 civilians are dead due to Scandavian bombings.

In the meanwhile, the 200,000-men reinforcement discussed earlier has arrived to the field, and so have 100 tanks and 50 Smerch-M launchers made due to emergency orders.

OOC: Awaits for Edolia and Tiborita to posts before he continues.

[Allanea, this is the last time I'm going to ask you to take damages from the first cruise missile and Ragnarok bombardment against you air and sea bases, as well as airports. You've posted fighter losses, but I want to know if those things are damaged and/or inoperable. I also asked you if you only had twenty factories that produced everything your military needed, you have yet to aswer. If you fail to answer this post, I will drag TJHairball or SalusaSecondus in here to watch the RP and make sure damages are taken since you seem incapable of doing it yourself.]

Southern Hattia

Sky Commander Danilov strapped himself into his seat on one of the Tu-160 Blackjacks. He was followed by the rest of the crew. "He looked over at the pilot. "Ready?" the man nodded. Danilov gripped the seat as the huge plane began to rumble and taxi to the runway. The plane lumbered off of the ground up into the sky. He could hear the roar of the other planes following close behind.

From multiple airfields in the general area, 60 Tu-160 Blackjacks, transport planes (Carrying Hat Guard Paratroopers), tankers, and escort Su-37s headed off towards Allanea while another wave is being readied...

Hattian Base Camp: Axackal

"General, I've gotten word from the Ministry, we are to advance. Counterattack." General Andropov smiled, he could hear the fighting but hadn't gotten orders. "Good..." He strapped on his pistol and walked out to the assembled troops. He climbed up into his command vehicle and got on the radio. After viewing the Allanean positions from their spy satelites, he radioed the artillery. "Artillery, commence firing on these positions." he read out a string of coordinates. "Roger that!" said a gruff voice through the radio. He looked behind the lines to where the artillery began to unleash their fury, while the T-90Hs raised their 155mm Howitzers and began to fire on the Allaneans...

(OOC: Allanea, I think ya missed my first post on page 3... at any rate, here's a recap for the attacks on your armies in Axackal as well as new movements:

Recap For Axackal:

1,500 YT-2 Hellions + 1,000 F-117x (fighter/bomber planes) splitting into two even groups (750 Hellions + 500 F-117x). One group is focusing on bombing air bases & radar sites, the other group is attacking your armies, with Hellions focusing on any helicopters or other air while the fighter/bombers focus on infantry & ground forces.

You also have a naval bombardment of your army & airbases/radar sites from me with:

50 Hurricane-Class Submarines
30 Sea-Blue Destroyers
20 Serene-Class Cruisers
1 Blätterschplitt-Class Arsenal Ship

Participating.

Please post casualties from these attacks)

New Movements:

The forces deployed to Goobergunchia get to work quickly at the border and dig in and fortify themselves.

Air raids on Allanean military positions near the border by the 1,000 F-117x (supported by another 1,000 YT-Hellions) as well as naval bombardment (~75 ships. You can look at the exact figures if you want to find the deployment post on pg. 5) are aimed to give them time to set up.

The artillery (400 Akin-7, 400 Paladin Howitzers) are set up quickly and begin their shelling of any military targets across the border.

(OOC: What sort of stuff/how much of it is near your border to Goobergunchia?)

OOC: Allanea, I invaded your southwest coastline. Please respond.


Allanea does not have a southwestern coastline.


The fifth Air Armada rises off the airfields to meet the Austar Fighter-Bombers in mid-air.

Still, combined casualties due to the various bombardments and attacks are as 35,000 troops in Axackal.

20 more factories and 20,000 civilians are dead due to Scandavian bombings.

In the meanwhile, the 200,000-men reinforcement discussed earlier has arrived to the field, and so have 100 tanks and 50 Smerch-M launchers made due to emergency orders.

Mintar:

:

These are the forces charged with the defense of the Axackalian border.

6 Mechanized Infantry divisions: 1,000 Cougar Tanks, 2,000 Hannibal Lector tanks, 6,000 BMP-3U's, 200 KL-55 Helicopters, 100 Mi-24 Hinds, 200 Jason Voorhoosen Helicopters
20 Light Infantry Divisions: 40,000 BPN-97 APC's
1 AA Division: 500 BUK-1 missile launchers, 500 BTR-85's
The 4th Air Armada: 100 B-52's
The 5th Air Armada: 500 SU-34 aircraft, 300 Coulter Mark II aircraft, 50 B-52's, 70 Molniya-'2s (curre
The 6th Air Armada: 500 Anne Coulter Mark II craft, 70 TU-160 bombers, 300 TU-22M3's
The 7th Air Armada: 200 TU-22M craft, 500 TU-22M3's, 500 Anne Coulter Mark II craft
The 8th Air Armada: 90 Ekranoplans, 314 EA-80A planes, 200 EA-80C planes, 200 Anne Coulter Mark II craft

Allanean Government Official Announcement

Due to the fact that the UNaPS aggressors have repeatedly intruded upond Allanean land, we are forced to activate the Prisoner Act 2002.
Under this law, we grant a presidential pardon to any criminal currently in prison who will agree to fight on the Axackalian border.
We expect that about 75% of inhabitants of our prisons - that is, about 3,000,000 men - will sign up. They will be given arms and ferried to the front immediately.

******

The sign-up exceeds all expectation, when prison officials work around the clock, giving out rifles to 3,005,000 people.
50,000 die in enemy bombings while trasported to the front... but the rest arrive within several days.

The Axackalian Front, Northern Campaign

The Edolian commander drops his field binoculars.

"WHAT?"

The horizon switches colours into dull blue, as three million men charge along a front only four kilometers wide. Most of them are not even carrying rifles, just sticks with bayonets on them (obviously, the Allanean Army cannot finance suddenly arming 3,000,000 men - and who would trust 3,000,000 criminals with guns?)

60,000 more are dead even before the get into range with the enemy. Another 30,000 men are killed in the ensuing combat, but the efffect is being feld all over the front as the rest of the Allanean Army moves forward attack the Edolians on the rest of the front (not a full-scale attack, just enough to keep them from concentrating all the forces in one place). Some of the men turn back and run, but they are immediately cut down with Allanea's own machineguns, leading to 3,000 more dead.

The 200 MRLS launchers mentioned earlier are providing constant artillery support, while two air armadas (2,000 SU-34 craft, 100 heavy bombers) and 500 KL-55's are sent to bomb the enemy on this small front section.

OOC: Now I intend to await for Edolia and Tiborita to posts before we continue.

Mintar: Casualties included earlier.

OOC: I've been bombin your island there, any losses *looks at watch* ?

(OOC: Allanea, forgive me if I misunderstand, but in the quote it does say the Axackalian border. I was asking about the Goobergunchian one as that is where I am invading from. :) )

Goobergunchia:

(still waiting for response)

Axackal:

As the naval bombardment ceases and the roar of the planes died down, Ricardo Johnson paused to consider the effects of his attacks.

"The structural bombing has seemed to have little immediate effect upon the Allanean armies. We could attempt to bomb the roads, but that would hinder our own advance in to Allanea..." he mused. However, he knew that the most pressing situation was in Axackal where the Edolian army was still holding out.

Ricardo turned to an officer. "How quickly can we reinforce the Edolian positions in Axackal?"

"It would take us a few days, sir, our first landing was most of our troops ready to go that fast."

"Ready another force then, but make sure it's significant."

"Right away sir!"

As the officer hurried away, Ricardo stopped to think. If they couldn't help their allies with soldiers, there were still other things they could do...

Attacks/Movements etc:

After receiving their supplies (including more ammunition), the naval forces meet up near Axackal and launch Tomahawk missiles at the Allanean forces before moving more closely to begin direct shelling.

The combined naval forces are:

75 Sea-Blue Destroyers
60 Hurricane Subs
40 Serene-class Cruisers
3 Blätterschplitt-Class Arsenal Ships

The subs launch 8 missiles each, the destroyers launch 16 each, the cruisers launch 32 each, and the Arsenal ships launch 512 each for a total of 4,496 tomahawk missiles directed against the Allanean army. Then shelling.

In addition, the Mintarian air force is making another massive bombing of Allanean troops in/near Axackal.

3,000 YT-Hellions
1,750 F-117x's
1,250 Roc heavy bombers

Have been deployed from Mintar, stopping in Edolia, Riannen, and finally in Scandanavian states to refuel. Use of in-flight refueling is also used as necessary.

The Hellions focus on helicopters and any other air targest, while the Rocs carpet bomb Allanean positions, with the F-117x's dropping missiles as well.

Allanea does not have a southwestern coastline.
(OOC) errr... It appears (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=137941&highlight=) you do, right above unclaimed territory #6.

The Prophetian Front.

The 800,000 men of the Eastern army slow down some fifty km inside the enemy borders, as they are met by the Tiboritan army. Even though the Tiboritans are outnumbered 20-to-1, it still takes time to beat them.
(OOC) It should be noted that this front also has at least 3 mech inf divisions from Barentsburg, I guess Goobergunchia has forces there, and maybe forces from other nations. (It's hard keeping track of everyone)



***-The Prophet- Front***

Sergeant Dane flew down the road, finally bringing his HMMWV to a stop behind some shrubs. Privite Sanders took his position at the TOW launcher. This had been going on since they arrived at the front. Fire, retreat, find a new firing position, fire, retreat. The 12th light infantry has alread lost 50% of it's troop strength before the 2nd armor division arrived, and that did little to slow the pace of the Allanean advance.

"10 o'clock! 10 O'CLOCK!"

Privite Sanders swung around to his left, and fixed his sights on the Allanean tank, but is was too late. A second Allanean tank, to the privites right opened fire, obliterating the HMMWV.



***TIBCOMMPRO***

"General, we are taking heavy losses. The 12th light infantry division is down 70% strength. 2nd armor is down 40%"

General Krisp closed his eyes for a second. He hated the hopelessness of the situation, but he had to hold out until reinforcements could arrive. "When is help coming?"

"The 4th armor is on its way to the front now, the 1st mechanized infantry will be arriving shortly, followed by the 2nd mechanized. The Freethinkers are starting to arrive, and word is Feline has landed in the southwest. TMDF has the Maritime Assault Force on route to back them up. Hopefully that will take some pressure off of us."

"Alright. What's going on with you air boys?"

"Well general, we've lost 47 A-10s, 32 Gripens, and 12 F-117s. Were going to keep striking the Allanean advance into -The Prophet-. The 1st fighter wing, the second attack wing, and the 1st attack wing will arrive in theater shortly.



***in the southwest sea off the coast of unclaimed territory***

The captain made a quick scan of the horrizen. "Looks clear," he said as he sent the periscope back down.

He then looked at the video moniter for the playback.

"I think we're good," said the XO

"I agree. begin firing."

This happened five other times in the general area, as six Ohio class SSGNs sent 300 cruise missles to strike airfieds, military installations, and supply depots for -The Prophet- front.


4nd Armor Division (same as 2nd)

1st Mech Inf Division (2nd is the same)
290 Leopard 2A6 EX
54 PzH 2000
20 M270 MLRS Self-Propelled Loader/Launcher
60 M1064A3 120mm Mortar Carrier
258 M113A3 APC
216 Bradley M2A3 IFV
48 Bradley M3A3 Bradley CFV
28 Jaguar 2 Tank Destroyer
72 Bradley Linebacker Anti-Air Vehicle
32 Leflasys (SHORAD) Air Defense System
32 Avenger
32 CLAWS Air Defense Vehicles (HUMRAAM)
60 AH-64D Apache
20 RAH-66 Comanche
32 UH-60M Black Hawk
4 EH-60 Quick Fix EW Helicopter
+ Assorted HMMWVs, Dingos, trucks, engineering equipment, command vehicles...
Total Personnel: 20,838

1st Fighter Wing
96 F/A-22 Raptor

2nd Attack Wing (same as 1st)

1st Strike Wing
96 F-15E

Maritime Assault Force
1 Blue Ridge Joint Command Ship LCC
2 Ticonderoga Class CG
4 Arleigh Burke Class Flight IIA DDG
4 Oliver Hazard Perry class FFG
2 Los Angelas Class SSN
6 Samurai Class LHA
5 Austin LPD
2 Harper’s Ferry LSD
5 Whidbey Island LSD
47 LCAC
36 F-35B JSF
24 AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopter
72 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter
54 CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter
24 UH-1N Huey helicopter
78 M1A2 Abram
54 FH-155-1 155mm Towed Howitzer
20 M142 HIMAR
200 AAVP7A1
58 M113A3 APC
56 Bradley M2A3
32 Avenger
32 CLAWS Air Defense Vehicles (HUMRAAM)
+ 612 Assorted LAV
+ Assorted HMMWVs, trucks, engineering equipment, command vehicles...
Landing Capacity: 20,000 troops

Albert von Tusk watched the battle unfold. The Allaneans were indeed getting desperate. With much of their tank armies and their air force gone, nothing stood between him and total and utter victory. Von Tusk sighed. Nothing but millions of bodies ready and willing to die for Allanea. The Commander -- now General -- turned around. It was time for him to address all the field commanders.
"Warriors of Edolia," he began. "The Allaneans have seen our might. They have seen our power. They have seen and they are desperate. Though their latest maneuvers have been quite shocking, there is nothing that they can possibly do to deter us from our great cause. We have the might and the power to continue on. Glory to the Scarlet Empire!"

---

As the new Allanean offensive pushes Edolians back, casualties begin mounting at a steady rate. The order was given out at dusk. "Commence Operation Inferno"

---

Midnight... The sky was dark. Flashes of light coming from explosions provided some of the only light, revealing battlefields strewn with corposes and a landscape ravaged by war. It was about to become far more ravaged... Massive numbers of bombers flew overhead, escorted by thousands upon thousands of Edolian air superiority fighters. Roc stealth bombers, each carrying two MOAB -Massive Ordnance Air Blast- bombs were nearing their targets, all along the Allanean line. Edolia was preparing to make the largest air strike the war had yet seen. As one, the bombers reached their targets. Down, down, down dropped the 1,200 MOABs... down down down dropped another 1,200... With half of Edolia's MOAB arsenal depleted, Allanea's military would suffer...

---

Coordinated with this MOAB strike comes another wave of heavy bombing from some 250 lighter stealth bombers, working in conjunction with heavy support from 2,300 YT/A-3 Hellions. Their mission is to take out any stubborn forces that were able to survive the massive air strike.

---

Off the coast of Axackal, the newly-freed Edolian fleet moved closer to shore. As dozens of arsenal ships moved closer, their missiles were armed... Flashes of light lit up the night sky as thousands upon thousands of FOX-6 cruise missiles were launched against Allanean logistics. Not focusing on troops, which were already taking a pounding from other forces, these missiles sought out ammunition dumps, supply centers and any other logistical support. 16,000 missiles can do a lot of damage in one night...

---

As the war's bloodiest night came to an end, Edolian troops were in high spirits. The punishment that was being dished out was so massive that they were certain no enemy could resist. And news was coming that reinforcements were on the way. More Edolians were coming, along with foreigners. The Scandavians were going to be getting more closely involved. Forces had been massing, especially up North where the Edolian fleet could provide heavy support. Although artillery bombardment from their guns had not yet begun, the fleet's missiles were providing quite a bit of a helping hand. 2,500 G2/U Gryphon attack helicopters had been massing on the Northern lines and they began unleashing their massive salvos of fire, covering the advancing Edolian troops. As APCs, helicopters and other mechanized forces moved across the field, heavy air, artillery and missile support made their way a good deal easier...

---

A recap: 2,400 MOABs
16,000 FOX-6 cruise missiles
Heavy bombing from 250 light stealth bombers and 2,300 YT/A-3s
An increased artillery barrage
2,500 attack copter advance up North supporting a general assault against weakend Allanean positions.

---

Edolian casualties throughout the war:
37,250Infantry: Fully Mechanized
3,623 Infantry: Helicopter Mechanized
963 B-1 Imperium Unmanned MBTs
479 MD-3 Manticore MBTs
515 CD-3 Cobra Tank Killers
1,260 H-2 Hoplite 90mm Light Howitzers
270 H-2 Hoplite 140mm Light Howitzers
590 H-3 Heavy Hoplite 180mm Howitzer
299 H-3/U Heavy Hoplite 200mm Long Range Howitzer
1,200 Hyena-2 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
962 Hyena-3 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
6,326 Echidna-5 Mobile SAM Batteries
3,120 Echdna-7 Mobile Long Range SAM Batteries

1,216 G2/U Gryphon Unmanned Helicopter Gunships
416 YT/A-2 Hellion Fighter/Interceptors
361 YT/A-3 Hellion Fighter/Bombers
168 BX/f-25 “Barking Gerbil” Fighter Support Planes
246 Assorted Support (Recon, Early Warning, Electronic Warfare) Fighters
98 RX-12 Roc Unmanned Heavy Stealth Bombers
120 TB-21 Light Stealth Bomber Wings

Mintar: I did not misunderstand you.

Losses in the Prophet: 10,000 troops

Losses in Allanea: 10,000 civilians, 150 factories

On the Axackal front:

[OOC: this is the result of my IRC discussion with Edolia ]

As the morning rises over the charred battlefield, it is seen that the picture has changed. The Allaneans are pushing back the enemy all over the front. Indeed, 150,000 Army troops and 400,00 more Penal Battalion troops were lost, but the Allaneans continue on. The surviving 2,400,000 Penal Battalion troops are within the Edolian ranks, fighting with bayonets and picked-up Edolian rifles.

"We lot 50,000 men on the Northern part on the border. We lost most of our ammo supply there, too."

"OK. Send them some from the South. Also, put out advertisements in the papers back home, ask the civvies to donate ammo. How many aircraft have we lost this time around?"

"Not many - they concentrated on kicking our rear end on the ground. We lost 100 SU-34's and 50 bomber planes. We have about 1900 SU-34's and 70 bombers left."

"Good. Send them to bomb the Edolians with cluster bombs."

"Yes, sir."

"Pound them with the bombs and SMERCH systems, then begin another offensive, in about three hours. We need to show them who's boss"

Command General Ring glad that he had ordered his men to stay at range with the Allaneans. The Edolian onslaught was greater than he had expected, but he was more than eager to send in his men to fill in the gaps left in Allanea's lines by the Edolian bombardment. He now issued new orders

"All units, full forward, don't give them any rest after Edolia's bombardment, fill in all the gaps and secure Von Tusk's flank, have the heavier units and tank divisions mount up for a punch."

AQll across the line the Retaliatory Guard infantry with close air support from the LAV's cautiously picked at the Allanean's shattered lines, finding openings and forcing them wider, wedging themslves carefully into Von Tusk's flank.

As the infantry made good on the damage caused by Edolia's overwhelming bombardment, the Chik-Mool super heavy battletanks pulled up their out riggers and began to move in, every opening in Allanean's lines that the infantry wedged, the Thunderer II and Chok-Mool tanks poured through, quickly moving to encircle the Allanean forces, it was now retreat, or be cut off for the Allaneans.

The Red Jaguar now began to ferociously engage Allanean positions, anywhere Allanean men came into the open , the Red Jaguar pounced, causing confusion and dismay as the heavily armed , armoured and drugged Red Jaguar ignored pain and fatigue and tore to pieces any enemy they could get to.

***

Command General Itzcoatl, moved his forces in behind the Edolians as Von Tusk and his men moved into position, his Red Jaguar disembarked and moved to the front lines with the Edolain soldiers, as all the Retliatory Guard in his command moved to support an Edolain counter offensive.

***

The Air Guard began a second sortie with their OAV's and Stealth Bombers, loosing another 448 cruise missles hiting targets all over Allanea, crippling the supply and infrastructure of Allanea's armed forces.


OOC: additional casualties: 5,650 Retliatory Guard, 110 Thunderer II battletanks, 134 Scorpion LAV's 89 HIND helicopters, 15 Warthog ground attack planes and 12 Orion Stealth Fighters.

The Retaliatory Guard are still staying at range, using artillery and and the deadly long range accuracy afforded their assault rifle's tactical computers to force back the Allaneans. The Tactical computer has a thermographic mode so Allanea's hiding in bushes, regulaer houses etc. find themselves being picked off as easily as if they are in the open, that alone is enough to force the enemy back, no matter how goo they are with their guns.

Command General Ring glad that he had ordered his men to stay at range with the Allaneans. The Edolian onslaught was greater than he had expected, but he was more than eager to send in his men to fill in the gaps left in Allanea's lines by the Edolian bombardment. He now issued new orders

"All units, full forward, don't give them any rest after Edolia's bombardment, fill in all the gaps and secure Von Tusk's flank, have the heavier units and tank divisions mount up for a punch."

AQll across the line the Retaliatory Guard infantry with close air support from the LAV's cautiously picked at the Allanean's shattered lines, finding openings and forcing them wider, wedging themslves carefully into Von Tusk's flank.

As the infantry made good on the damage caused by Edolia's overwhelming bombardment, the Chik-Mool super heavy battletanks pulled up their out riggers and began to move in, every opening in Allanean's lines that the infantry wedged, the Thunderer II and Chok-Mool tanks poured through, quickly moving to encircle the Allanean forces, it was now retreat, or be cut off for the Allaneans.

The Red Jaguar now began to ferociously engage Allanean positions, anywhere Allanean men came into the open , the Red Jaguar pounced, causing confusion and dismay as the heavily armed , armoured and drugged Red Jaguar ignored pain and fatigue and tore to pieces any enemy they could get to.

***

Command General Itzcoatl, moved his forces in behind the Edolians as Von Tusk and his men moved into position, his Red Jaguar disembarked and moved to the front lines with the Edolain soldiers, as all the Retliatory Guard in his command moved to support an Edolain counter offensive.

***

The Air Guard began a second sortie with their OAV's and Stealth Bombers, loosing another 448 cruise missles hiting targets all over Allanea, crippling the supply and infrastructure of Allanea's armed forces.


OOC: additional casualties: 5,650 Retliatory Guard, 110 Thunderer II battletanks, 134 Scorpion LAV's 89 HIND helicopters, 15 Warthog ground attack planes and 12 Orion Stealth Fighters.

The Retaliatory Guard are still staying at range, using artillery and and the deadly long range accuracy afforded their assault rifle's tactical computers to force back the Allaneans. The Tactical computer has a thermographic mode so Allanea's hiding in bushes, regulaer houses etc. find themselves being picked off as easily as if they are in the open, that alone is enough to force the enemy back, no matter how goo they are with their guns.

Command General Ring glad that he had ordered his men to stay at range with the Allaneans. The Edolian onslaught was greater than he had expected, but he was more than eager to send in his men to fill in the gaps left in Allanea's lines by the Edolian bombardment. He now issued new orders

"All units, full forward, don't give them any rest after Edolia's bombardment, fill in all the gaps and secure Von Tusk's flank, have the heavier units and tank divisions mount up for a punch."

AQll across the line the Retaliatory Guard infantry with close air support from the LAV's cautiously picked at the Allanean's shattered lines, finding openings and forcing them wider, wedging themslves carefully into Von Tusk's flank.

As the infantry made good on the damage caused by Edolia's overwhelming bombardment, the Chik-Mool super heavy battletanks pulled up their out riggers and began to move in, every opening in Allanean's lines that the infantry wedged, the Thunderer II and Chok-Mool tanks poured through, quickly moving to encircle the Allanean forces, it was now retreat, or be cut off for the Allaneans.

The Red Jaguar now began to ferociously engage Allanean positions, anywhere Allanean men came into the open , the Red Jaguar pounced, causing confusion and dismay as the heavily armed , armoured and drugged Red Jaguar ignored pain and fatigue and tore to pieces any enemy they could get to.

***

Command General Itzcoatl, moved his forces in behind the Edolians as Von Tusk and his men moved into position, his Red Jaguar disembarked and moved to the front lines with the Edolain soldiers, as all the Retliatory Guard in his command moved to support an Edolain counter offensive.

***

The Air Guard began a second sortie with their OAV's and Stealth Bombers, loosing another 448 cruise missles hiting targets all over Allanea, crippling the supply and infrastructure of Allanea's armed forces.


OOC: additional casualties: 5,650 Retliatory Guard, 110 Thunderer II battletanks, 134 Scorpion LAV's 89 HIND helicopters, 15 Warthog ground attack planes and 12 Orion Stealth Fighters.

The Retaliatory Guard are still staying at range, using artillery and and the deadly long range accuracy afforded their assault rifle's tactical computers to force back the Allaneans. The Tactical computer has a thermographic mode so Allanea's hiding in bushes, regulaer houses etc. find themselves being picked off as easily as if they are in the open, that alone is enough to force the enemy back, no matter how goo they are with their guns.

*****************Operation Fort Shallow Water II******************

The UKS Navy/Army Commander James Joddana spoke about his opinion on this issue yesterday through a speech to parliament."I am prepared to send 2,000 Transport Ships carrying 120,000 Troopers, 200 Light Tanks, 300 Heavy Mech Deystroyers and 30 commanders. 50 Heavy Demolition Ships and 200 Fast Fire Ships to intercept The Alleanen Forces", he said," These Forces will meat at the newly made base called "Fort Shallow Water II. Be prepared for an aggresive and bloody battle." :evil: :evil:

Hattian Base Camp

A gruff voice came over the radio, "Sir, the Edolians have launched a massive attack on the enemy at various points." After reciting positions the General replied. "Good, get the tanks ready for a counter attack."

After marking off some positions and doing some calculations, the General Andropov was ready. Over the radio he said, "Comrades, prepare for a counter-attack, follow me!" The General opened up the hatch and attached a flagpole to the side of the turret and strung a large Hattian flag up. The T-90Hs, regular T-90s and BMPs sped at high speed forward firing on the run and crushing anything in their way, followed by Mi-28s and Su-37s.

Andropov got on the radio and switched it to the Edolian's frequency. "Comrade von Tusk, we are counterattacking at these positions." After reading out the coordinates, he continued. "Perhaps we can link up once we break through their lines and finish the rest of them off." he said in near perfect Edolian and then switched the radio over to the Ilek-Vaad frequency. "This is People's General Andropov of Hattia, we are counterattacking, I request that you help cover our flanks."

The General grimaced as a disgusting squishing sound came as the tank rolled over a pile of Allanean corpses. The sound began coming more frequently...

Hattian Bomber Wing Hotel: 0031 Hours

"Hotel 1 to all aircraft, increase altitude..." The aircraft went up above the thick clouds. "All aircraft, maintain radio silence, we are now over Allanea..."

Battle fleets 6, 7, and 9

"All ships, we are nearing Allanean waters. Aircraft carriers, put up fighter screens, be ready for anything..." Brusilov peered through his binoculars, he could barely make out the green of the coastline...

Secret IC:
Iron Blood has decided to donate its thugs to Allanea- the human waves seem to be effective. If some are sunk en route, nobody is terribly concerned, as nobody cares about them. 2.5 million thugs shall be sent to Allanea.

But, for more fun, 5 psychopath murderers shall be given to Edolia, their death sentences commuted. As they took thousands of Spetsnaz to catch in Iron Blood, we hope Edolia enjoys the challenge.
OOC:
Thugs are under Allanean control, dont care what he does with them, just posting sending them

The Edolian bombing was all the prompting that Generals Cromwell and Kerensky needed. A message went out to allied units over secure channels to put on their NBC gear. 1,584 M10 Galahad Howitzers with 155mm ETC cannons and 396 M9 Morgan MLRS with four missiles apiece launched a single volley. The chemical inside the shells and submitions was a very nasty hallucinagen that was engineered to cause severe migraines, which in turn causes extreme sensitivity to light and sound. The shells and submunitions impacted all the way up and down the Allanean line, hopefully catching them totally unprepared and rendering what was left alive combat ineffective. The next volley of shells and missiles were filled with what were in effect very big flashbangs.

[The gas itself is non-lethal, but bright lights and loud explosions have been known to cause severe and violent psychotic reactions in those exposed to the gas 90% of the time. In effect, the soldiers turn on those around them and shoot anything that makes a sound or moves. Standard submunition in the missiles are 144 and submunitions per shell is 64 (this only applies to the flashband volley in this attack.)]

"Comrades, get ready, Incoming gas!"

All over the area, tanks sealed themselves off and infantry and light vehicle crews put on their masks.

Buttoned down inside of his vehicle, General Andropov grinned. "Continue the attack!"

Allanean Southwest Coastline

The Island States' Navy F/A-18s began to run parrallel to the shore, dropping their Mk. 82 dumb bombs in a long swaft across the beach. In all, short of 2,000 bombs fell onto the beaches below. The cluster bomber F/A-18s and their Anti-Radar friends patroled the countryside, smashing the cluster bombs into tanks and infantry in the area.

As the fighter-bombers finished their runs and returned to their carriers, the LSUs carrying the marines and the tanks rolled onto the shore (at low tide), opening their doors to let their contents out. The tanks fired immediately, pounding the beach with 105mm rounds and .50 and 7.62mm machine guns. As they fired, a wave of naval bombardment struck the far edge of the beach, clearing away any probable strongpoints. The invasion of Allanea's southwest coast had begun.

OOC: Allanea asked me to post this again.

[on the South-Western Borders]

The enemy invaders are met with severe civilian resistance. While 300,000 men form the Southern Army are sent to the area, civiliaans are already fighting the enemy door-to-door. According to initial estimates, 4,000 civilians are dead.

[in Axackal ]

An Iron Blood vessel arrives at the shore. Then another. Trucks begin to unload, full of men in Bisonian prison uniforms. An Iron Blood SMERSH operative strides accros the ranks, holding his head up high, looking at the men as if they were vermin.

"Thugs! You're unworthy to be called Bisonians! You're unworthy to be called human!" He spits "But our leaders, in their infinite Mercy, decided to let you try and pay for your sins. In blood."

He pauses.

"As much as it scares me to say so, you will be given weapons. You will fight the Edolians and the UNAPS".

The crows cheers.

"Within four hours, these trucks will get you to the front."


One out for 20 Penal Battalion troops is given and AK-47 and three magazines and the rest are given sticks with bayonets on them, told that they will "get weapons from the enemy".

The huge trucks head for the front...

[Losses from Scandavian Attack: 15,000 only as troops use gas masks]

Hattian Bomber Wing Hotel: 0112 Hours

The aircraft headed towards the Southwest border, Sky Commander Danilov radioed the Island States forces, "Comrades, this is Sky Commander Danilov of Hattia, we've got 60 big bombers up here and we need some targets."

Hattian transport planes

The transports released their passengers on a HALO jump over a largely rural area. Once they hit the ground they organized and began moving towards the Allanean rear echelons.

Hattian fleet

"Admiral, the Ministry has sent orders, we are to go help our comrades from the Island States." The Admiral nodded as the messenger sent the message to the other ships. They began going forward at full speed while the carriers sent some of their aircraft out over to the IS positions...

((OOC: for the bloody hell of it I am *assuming* having engaged these Allanean fighters and having killed a few. However Allanea’s posts suggests they only attacked airfields, and they ran directly after bombing them. I also haven’t seen Goober post but I am assuming at least some airfields inoperable because of successful bombing runs. I am also assuming there was no strike after the initial one because most of Allaneas planes in the south at that time have been destroyed and because it has not been posted.

I’d also like to reaffirm my IGNORE and the alliance IGNORE in all things Bisons. Please go away. Of course I have boats lying around to transport 2,5 million prisoners in a singly day too! [/sarcasm] ))

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-the Prophet- front
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From the well over 567 eurofighters that were sent to –The Prophet-, over a hundred had been downed in fierce dogfights with the Anne Coulter fighters. But when the huge wave was over, and many of the old SU’ planes that had been thrown against the small dependency had been destroyed, a lot of the Knootian (and Barentsburg) planes could not return to their fields they had left from. About 300 of the Knootian eurofighters managed to land in the remaining airbases, the rest had to change course to Acxacal and join air superiority and anti-ground targets operations there until the runways could be repaired.

The next day though, the remaining pilots were in full action again in air-superiority and air-to-ground missions. ((Ratio depending on what Allanea is deploying on that front, of course.))

Frontline between Allanean and UnAPS fighters
“Target is in scope. Infrared lock enabled. Firing missiles.”, crackled a female voice over the radio. The pilot of the multipurpose fighter unleashed her payload on an Allanean Armoured Personnel Carrier skimming a tree line. As the missile impacted it left a fiery explosion, with no survivors.

“Direct hit”, the female pilot reported matter of factly as she pulled up to rejoin her wing in a delta formation after the sweep down. “That’s the last missile, boys, lets go home for a beer,” she said grinningly to her male counterparts.

---
On the other side of the front, over Allanean airspace

“Spotting Allanean fighter formation. Moving to engage. Its--- Holy SHIT its right on top of us …”

-beeeeeeep beep beep beep beepbeepbeepbipbip-

”F*CK I’M EJE…”

The pack of Anne Coulter fighters had caught the Knootian pilot by surprise, and the missiles ripped the eurofighter apart, it blackened remains falling down on the farmland below.

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the Atlantic Ocean
KDF Verborgen Schat
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The Knootian ships had been patrolling suspected Allanean trading routes for days now, and it was getting tedious. A group of sailors was casually fishing on the edge of the patrol boat that accompanied the cruiser Adema. The Knootians expected no modern fleet as resistance, and radar and other means were being used at full capacity at random intervals to spot any Allanean presence. Smuggler or otherwise.

”Maybe they were all sunk already”, commented Gerard, sailor.

“Naw…” replied one of his buddies “The UnAPS fleets are probably keeping them from trading, getting in and out.”

“Then what the f*ck are we doing here?”

“Well, I for one am fishing. And you are scaring the fish away with your exited chatter. If an officer asks, we are guarding the Atlantic. We have the hard job here, we have halve a planet to guard while they fight over a small piece of land”

The line on Gerards rod began to get pushes. “Hey! I’ve got one!”


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KNN News
-----------------------

*distant drumroll and trumpets, fading away*

A woman with Asian features presents the news:
“You’re watching KNN. The headlines.”

*background fades to troops fighting on the –The Prophet- front, which has been the centre of attention for most Knootian newsteams. Most of the pictures are actually from *behind* the frontline. Overlapsed over the footage are bulletpoint textnotes the newsreader then reads.*

-Allanean troops continue to make headway as allied forces struggle to defend
-Allied losses mount as Allanea deploys last ditch reserves
-Analyst’s: Offensive ground action into the Republic “Suicidal.”
-Knootian Casualty Counter: 257 dead, 47 wounded, 3 M.I.A.

“More on these headlines… after this”

*commercials*

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Balmora Airbase
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“Oof these canisters are heavy”, commented an assistant airport logistics officer as he carried a pink canister into a cargo plane. “You’d think gas would weigh less.”

After the reports of civilians being used in warfare, command had decided it to be a good time to fly in the so-far classified Gay spray (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2773531) into the conflict. Perhaps this non-lethal chemical weapon would make a difference against unarmed troops without gasmasks.

And as one general commented: “It will certainly be fun to watch”

Allanea Southwest Coast - Later

The marines quickly buried their 250 dead and moved the debris of their three destroyed IST-02 tanks onto the minefield they have prepared (500 feet wide between all roads leading out and laid by marines and F/A-18s with CBU-89s), covering their destroyed and normal tanks with camo-netting. 40 other IST-02 tanks were deserted in the water, victims of the sea.

The remaining marines prepared Earthen barriers to better protect and hide their tanks behind as others hulled-down in creekbeds and other low spots, while other tanks hid behind destroyed houses (with tanks given orders to flatten any house that housed resistance members). The marines dug various tank traps and erected steel barriers to further prevent enemy vehicles from getting through so easily on the roads and through the minefields. They also dug deep trenches to conceal themselves and their movements.

The relatively same configurations of F/A-18s flew in the skies, some ready to drop dumb bombs all over the enemy (including the ones which had dropped HARMs earlier) while others carried cluster bombs. Naval Destroyers gathered waters, ready to use their guns to bombard the enemy as they approached. Help was 2 days away, with double the amount of troops and tanks coming. It would be then that the breakthrough would be achieved.

[As per the spray: Can you imagine unarmed allaneans?]


Southwest coast

The half of the Southern Army deployed in the area has arrived.

"Comander, I can see them!"

"Good. Prepare to launch ATGM's"

The 400,000 troops ride into battle on 40,000 APC's. Each of these fires at least once.

The Prophet border

2,000 troops were lost due to enemy bombing runs, yet advances are made. The troops are already 100 kilometers inside Prophet, moving towards airfields. Also, 500 Anne Coulter Mark II's, 100 B-52's and 300 SU-34's - the remnants of three air armadas - are sent, again, to bomb the Knootian airfields.

[As per the spray: Can you imagine unarmed allaneans?]


Southwest coast

The half of the Southern Army deployed in the area has arrived.

"Comander, I can see them!"

"Good. Prepare to launch ATGM's"

The 400,000 troops ride into battle on 40,000 APC's. Each of these fires at least once.

The Prophet border

2,000 troops were lost due to enemy bombing runs, yet advances are made. The troops are already 100 kilometers inside Prophet, moving towards airfields. Also, 500 Anne Coulter Mark II's, 100 B-52's and 300 SU-34's - the remnants of three air armadas - are sent, again, to bomb the Knootian airfields.

Southwestern Allanea

The 17,000 men of the 7th Marine Division had already split into squads when the Allaneans arrived, and taken cover throughout the area to set an effective trap for the Allanean infantry. Snipers, well-concealed and equipped with Barrett M82A1s, fired into the engine blocks of the APCs in an attempt render them inoperable, relocated, and fired again, repeating the process as many times as necessary. Other Marines used laser target designators to mark the denser formations of APCs for Mavericks. The missiles would be delivered by a flight of 40 F/A-18s from the Mt. Rikks and the Marathon, and would do considerably more damage than the snipers.

<<OOC: You have to give the guys who have large navies around your country time to respond to Bisons' ships. We, who control the seas, wouldn't just let such massive transports go through unopposed...

Also, I hadn't realized that your criminal-troops were going to actually try to engage the Edolian forces at hand-to-hand combat. This sort of changes things. I think the casualties would have to be a lot higher... If you consider that tightly-packed troops are charging across the landscape without any cover into a mass of miniguns, anti personnel rockets and automatic rifles, a lot more than 100,000 should be dead getting there. That would mean that out of these huge masses of men, each Edolian only kills on average half a soldier (as there are about 200,000 Edolian troops on the battlefield. If you consider how advanced modern weaponry is today, the casualties would be absolutely horrenous. In WW1 armies would charge over the trenches and take 50% casualties before they got to their enemies. Of course we're talking about a much larger army here than you would see in WW1 but also much much much more advanced weaponry. Can you imagine what these massed troops would do when put up against concentrated helicopter anti-personnel rocket attack?

I'm going to respond anyway and just hope that you'll adjust casualties accordingly.

A short note on Edolian Legionaries.
The Edolian military is small, soldier wise. Out of over two billion inhabitants, the Empire chooses only about 600,000 of its very best as soldiers. These troops are trained to unmatched levels of skill. The training is compounded in a number of ways.
As the Edolian economy is based in large part on a guild system, where people find their future professions at an early age, it is a logical step to recruit soldiers at a young age as well. Edolian psycology is extremely advanced and fine-tuned to a point not reached in many other nations. One of its main parts is to understand early childhood development, including what children are psycologically and physically suited to a military life. Thus, most of Edolia's soldiers are recruited into the Legions at the age of four. For the next few years, they spend their time learning the discipline and comradery, building the relationships that will serve them well when the times comes for them to enter combat. After just a few years, they are introduced to rudimentary weaponry, mainly rifles -smaller versions made for children- and short swords. Until the age of 22, when they officially enter the armed services, they are constantly drilled in these two basic weapons, though their training expands to other equipment and weaponry as well and the virtues of discipline and comradery are of course stressed throughout the education. Another very important part of the education of an Edolian recruit is the mastery of the hongquan, "red fist" fighting style, a martial art designed in Edolia that emphasizes training for the kind of hand-to-hand combat that one would find on the battlefield. Designed to allow the user to kill quickly and efficently, hongquan is neither an elegant nor honorable martial art and places great emphasis on the use of make-shift weaponry and the short sword. Edolian Legionaries are extremely well-equipped, supplementing their advanced training. With head-to-toe combat suits, they are protected against the elements and their Kevlar-armored bodies are well-shielded against all but the most viscious shrapnel. Included among their equipment is their G-12 assault rifle, based on the American SABR experimental assault rifle. Firing caseless ammunition bullets, the G-12 is an extremely versatile weapon and carries a grenade launcher as well as a high-powered gun barrel. Much more powerful than a standard M-16 or AK weapon, the G-12 is a viscious weapon on the battlefield. The other major weapon carried by a Legionary is the Edolian short sword -for which I have never come up with a name... I should do that. A single-sided and slightly curved sword, the blade is 30 centimeters long with a heavy handle. Below that is a smaller knife blade that protrudes from the bottom of the haft for back-hand stabs.

And now, forgive me for RPing the deaths of a few Allanean criminals, but I just want to make an IC point regarding the skill of Edolian troops, especially when it comes to hand-to-hand combat.>>

Private Matt Li aimed his rifle. The Allaneneans were advancing quickly, their waves of men pouring over the cratered landscape. He fired. An enemy went down. He aimed again. "Hold your fire." The voice of Leftenant Nu von Baete came through his helmet's radio. "Arm grenades and wait for my single. Prepare full clips." All around him, soldiers stopped firing and prepared their weapons. The enemies continued to get closer, their ranks torn apart by heavy fire from machine gun emplacements and helicopters. They were nearly upon him now. Li could hear the yelling and the screaming of the criminals as they neared his men. He pulled out his short sword and stuck it into the ground before him. "On my mark!" The Leftenant yelled. "Fire!" Hundreds of grenades flew through the air. Massive explosions rocked the oncoming horde as body parts rained over the Edolian troops. "Full automatic fire! Go!" Li pulled the trigger, swinging his rifle over the advancing enemy force. Lines upon lines of Allaneans fell as the combined Edolian army cut deep swaths of them. Unfortunately, this sector of the battlefield hadn't gotten much air support and there will still quite a number of Allaneans left. "Prepare for combat!" Li shouldered his rifle and picked up his sword, moving himself into a classic hongquan fighting pose. Around him, his comrades were doing the same. The wave of Allanean troops continued forward. Matt leaped against the second one, crushing his throat with a quick jab and brining the enemy down without a sound. His second movement slit a long line down another Allanea's chest. His back-hand swipe was a blow to the temple. Bringing out his other hand, he blocked a side-swipe from an Allanean bayonet and kicked out, taking the Allanean in the groin. They were all around him now. A burst of machine gun fire dropped four of his nearest enemies. Thanking his comrade, Li leaped to the side, avoiding a punch from one of the Allaneans. His armored fist smashed the nose of another Allanean into his brain. Li's sword was covered in blood. If we had had more air support, this would be a good deal easier, he thought to himself as he cacaitated another Allanean foolish enough to get within range of his sword...

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As the Edolian military is completely mechanized, for the most part, they have a strong advantage over the Allanean criminal-army. However, in some parts of the line, soldiers are finding themselves fighting for their lives at close quarters. Casualties are not light.

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Communique to the Scandavian Commanders
"Edolian sections of the line are under heavy assault from waves of footmen. We were impressed with your gas attack against the Allanean lines and would appreciate a similar measure into our own lines, though without the flash-bangs. Our soldiers are fully protected from gas, though the Allanean criminal-soldiers are not."

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Communique to the Ilek-Vaad Commanders
"Edolian sections of the line are under heavy assault. We would appreciate it if Ilek Vaad forces could move to take the pressure off by either supporting us or launching counter-attacks. Our troops are moving into hand-to-hand combat and so large strikes are out of the question. Glory to the UnAPS."

we use our high-efficiancy spy sattelite network to moniter his actions, and we also keep three aircraft carriers at peak efficiency (in rotation), so that at least one is ready to take off at any time. In the case that he launches anything in the direction of Haven, we can be almost garunteed to intercept it well short of effective firing distance.

We divert the planes to cover the Knootian air bases. The first carrier unloads at minimum time, and the next one on the cycle is brought to full alert, and will be ready to launch within half an hour. The first carrier's planes should reach Knotoss shortly after the Allenean fighter/bombers. They engage at maximum range with heat seeking and radar-guided missiles. They then cover the air bases until Knootian forces can take over.

(OOC: Your post from Goobergunchia indicated that the forces were on the Axackali border. I'm wondering about your forces on the Goobergunchian border, which is where I am striking from. & I may have missed them, but I don't think you posted losses for the first round of airstrikes/ground + naval bombardments of your troops there. Anyway, here's a recap of what's going on at the Goobergunchian front if you need it:


The forces deployed to Goobergunchia get to work quickly at the border and dig in and fortify themselves.

Air raids on Allanean military positions near the border by the 1,000 F-117x (supported by another 1,000 YT-Hellions) as well as naval bombardment (~75 ships. You can look at the exact figures if you want to find the deployment post on pg. 5) are aimed to give them time to set up.

The artillery (400 Akin-7, 400 Paladin Howitzers) are set up quickly and begin their shelling of any military targets across the border.)

Allanea, I've launched a counterattack also...

General Andropov's troops

The tanks, showing the general level of Hattian subliety, crushed a section of woods under their treads and burst out onto the battlefield. Sighting Allanean troops downrange, the tanks began their bombardments. The regular T-90s and T-90Hs began shelling the enemy in volleys.

Above the Edolians

12 Mi-28s streaked over the hand to hand battle, "What the hell!" remarked one of the pilots, "Red 1 to all choppers, attack the enemies that are near the edges. We can't risk friendly fire." One of the pilots shot out a message to the Edolians. "Seems you guys could use some help here..." The Mi-28s began firing at the enemies that were grouped in the back (Thats what you get for massing so many troops in an area) and on the sides, perforating them with their miniguns and firing off missiles.


Danilov's Bomber's

"Commander, we've picked up laser designator signals..." Danilov smiled. "Good, initiate bombing..." He swiveled around and got on the radio and sent out a message to their allies. "Everyone, take cover, we are going to release our MOABs..."

The bombers dropped below the clouds and moved into position to release their bombs while the Su-37s ran cover missions for the bombers...

Northern Hattia

Another wave of bombers and fighters took off from various airports in the area.

OOC: Turning into a quite good military exercise. Oops if I said anything wrong. Apologies for RPing one of the allied soldiers.

Frontline, The Prophet.

A distinctly clean Hummer drove up a shell-cracked road to a series of tents and bunkers, with a mud-splattered sign reading "TIBCOMMPRO HQ" lying slanted by the wayside. Out of the vehicle popped two men in Freethinker paratrooper uniforms, one wearing the stripes of a Major General. They walked into what they assumed was the command tent, walked passed several saluting guards, and went into the briefing room.

Addressing the General in charge, the Freethinker Major General saluted, and introduced himself.

"Major-General Charles Bywater, at your service, General. Ive got 12,000 odd airborne infantry coming up the road over the next hour, my orders were to rendevous with you and intergrate ourselves with your battleplan, sir. Put us were we're needed."

-80km South of Frontline, The Prophet.-

After the last Allanean armada withdrew to refuel, another wave of Freethinker transports, escorted by F-22s, began dropping more paratroopers. The rest of the Freethinker airborne infantry, another two divisions totalling around 25,000 men, were making the jump this time.

The engineers had been busy. A primitive, bumpy grass strip was now usable, allowing the hardier transports to land. Out of their gargantuan cargo holds, Challenger 3 MBTs drove out onto the moonlight grass, turning away and driving north as the paratroopers dropped all around them.

OOC:
Okay, numbers.

12,000 troops on the Prophet frontline, w/ 9000 odd combatants armed with M-16 w/40mm GL, 66mm LAW, and grenades. There is also a liberal sprinkling of LMGs and 90mm NLAW weapons around the troops. They have roughly 50 Hummers and land rovers armed with .50 cal MGs and NLAW mounts.

24,000 more paratroopers have landed in the south, will hit the frontline tomorrow. Same equipment as landed forces. Also, 24 Challenger 3 MBTs and support vehicles have been dropped.

The Freethinker fleet will hit the SW Allanean coast tomorrow as well. Roughly 36,000 marines with them to reinforce the beacheads.

OOC: Sorry about the late post. here is one I did on another thread on the 10th:

100,000 troops that were stationed in Axackal cross the frontier into Allanea. The 100,000 troops that were in Riannen are transferred into Scandavian States and the 100,000 that was in Mintar are transferred to Axackal. The deployments will take effect in 24 hours. The crossing is immediately.

1400 fighters escort the troops across the border, scraffing and attacking miltary targets that pose a threat to forward movements. There is currently no armor units mobilzed from Phyrric in this particular theater from Axackal to Allanea.

Five Battle Fleets and 2 Assault Fleets are positioning the southwest coast of Allanea from Phyrric with anticipation of Amphibious landings. Carriers are launching fighters and attack planes for air cover and raids on the coastline.

15,000 paratroopers are being deployed to -the prophet- for additional reinforcements.

Been doing the easter thing with the kids and family, then we had to go see Peter Cottontail at University Hospital. He was hit by a drunk driver while crossing Central at San Mateo trying to get onto I-40 to head out to Phoenix. He is in critical condition at this time. The children are suffering trauma from the event and the NM Legislation is proposing a new '13 strikes, you're out' policy, it may not pass.

Anyways, IC:

Southwest Coast:

(Under the assumption that Island States and Copiosa Scotia is present here as well)

The battleships turn their broadsides to the coast and open fire. Huge explosions and fire emit from the 16 inch barrels of the Iowa and Montana class battleships.

"We have a good lock sir, there are many forces on the shores and this battle should not take too long. With a pounding like this, it would be wise to move the forces inland and engage them."

"It will be so, we must show patience in this landing. We are expecting heavy casualties, but what Amphibious landings do not?"

"The fighters from the carriers are performing around the clock strikes on targets.."

The Alexander rocks again as another salvo is fired from the guns..

"Penetration and securement of the coastline should be achieved within the next few hours. The submarines have commenced surface to surface attacks on critical targets deeper inland. The Destroyers and Cruisers have been ravaging the coast further east of here."

"We will continue until we have confirmation that a beachhead is secured. We are on a timetable here and we will achieve our objective."

A missile battery opens up and smoke fills the aft control

"Get some better ventilation in here. I hate the smell of those things, makes me gag. Send communication to CS and IS to coordinate attacks on this beach here and here. From this point, we will thrust the main batteries on this location to divert another landing."

"aye sir"

75,000 troops are being landed on the shores with another 50,000 from drop ships. 300 units of armor are spearheading the forward thrust.

The Prophet:

"Stand your ground men, dig in and spare your ammo, this is going to be a long day. When are allied forces expected to arrive?"

"There are many here, it is getting very confusing with the radio traffic and movements."

"Pay close attention to the colors, if all else fails, listen for the gunfire. Get a suppressing fire to our flank with the M60's and vulcans. Whatever shows its head, blow it off."

In Axackal:

Resistance is heavy as the troops that were advanced holds their ground. Fighter cover spots and engages any armor units that can be sighted. The number of fighters in the air makes the pilots start competing for targets as no ordinance is to be on the craft when it returns to base, not even a single round from the 50cals.

"Prep the bombers for their missions. Inform them they have a green light."

The 50 B2 bombers in Scandavian States are directed to eliminate enemy production facilities within Allanea. 5000 pounders are used for the missions.

Hattian fleet

"Admiral, it seems that there are Phyrric forces in the area also. I believe they also have the Alexander." The Admiral nodded and walked over to the radio.

[code:1:741caf1f99]
Allied Forces, TIS has requested help and we have responded. Please inform us of the position of your ships and submarines so we don't attack them.
[/code:1:741caf1f99]

The fleet neared the Phyrric ships. The 2 Leviathon class battleships (The Fist of the People and the Hammer of Hattia) pulled out in front of the rest of the fleet, and after a minute or 2 of downloading information from satellites, they unleashed their huge guns on targets far inland while aircraft from the carriers began sorties against the enemy.

[/quote]100,000 troops that were stationed in Axackal cross the frontier into Allanea[/quote]

Ignoring all those Allanean forces?

[quote]The 50 B2 bombers in Scandavian States are directed to eliminate enemy production facilities within Allanea. 5000 pounders are used for the missions./quote]

As the bombers get within range of the Allanean capital (which hold the most important military facilities), the thousands of missile systems there open fire (2,500 BUK-1m"s, 1,000 S-500's), filling the sky with anti-aircraft missile trails.

Edolia re casualties: the Casualties for that "army" were NOT 100,000. Remember that there were 3,000,000 of them initially and there's only 2,400,000 of them now.

Edolia re ships: it seems the allies in the area are doing nothing on the subject...
I deliberately gave them opportunity to bomb the trucks.... speak of it...

On the Axackal front

The Bisonian trucks unload. Rows of grim, rugged men, some holding AK-47's, but most - simple sticks with bayonet on them, stand facing the front lines.

A SMERSH officer points at the Edolian positions...


"You want your freedom - go and earn it. But remember - you flee, and our own machinegunners will shoot you without mercy like the scum you are. You can die like cowards - or fight and wind, fighting the worlds biggest evil!"

The prisoners unleash a low roar as they run towards the enemy. Some 2,000 are simply trampled under foot. 20,000 are shot as they turn to flee, and 40,000 are killed by the Edolians, but it doesn't matter. Edolian forces now face 4,900,000 barely-armed Penal Battalion forces, not counting regular Allaneans. The Penal Battalions are not being used against anything else - just Edolians.

[/quote]100,000 troops that were stationed in Axackal cross the frontier into Allanea

Ignoring all those Allanean forces?[/quote]

No, to engage.

[/quote]The 50 B2 bombers in Scandavian States are directed to eliminate enemy production facilities within Allanea. 5000 pounders are used for the missions./quote]

As the bombers get within range of the Allanean capital (which hold the most important military facilities), the thousands of missile systems there open fire (2,500 BUK-1m"s, 1,000 S-500's), filling the sky with anti-aircraft missile trails.[/quote]

B2 is stealth, missiles cannot launch without a lock.

Allanea, are you suggesting that there are 3 million troops on the Axackal border?

Edolia re ships: it seems the allies in the area are doing nothing on the subject...
I deliberately gave them opportunity to bomb the trucks.... speak of it...

(OOC: If it were possible, I'd ignore those forces twice, once because they belong to a country that doesn't exist, and again because you RPed them arriving in your country without the massive group of ships to your north even getting a shot at them. It would have been a miracle if any of those transports got through.

I really hate to b-tch, but this is a little much.)

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Austarian Military Oupost (Haven): Main Command
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As the Harriers land back on the airstrip at the Military Outpost, the General watched in agony at how the Edolians were being swamped by enemy troops. He had a live sattelite feed, which gave a full video feed from the angle above.

The General walked over to the Alcohol Cabinet, and poured himself a glass of whiskey. Pressing a button, Commander Ithiam entered the room. The General begun to tell Ithiam of his ideas.

"Commander, I want you to tell me what you think of this.", motioning to the sattelite feed, he begun, "Right now, intel reports that there are some 4,900,000 poorly armed, poorly trained troops against the Edolian's 200 000, as far as I can tell. These Edolians have been fighting hard, but I fear thy cannot fight against this enemy which is litterly surrounding them."

On the feed, it showed a mass of Allenean Soldiers.

The General continued, "You see son, whilst the Alleneans have managed to swamp our ally, they have left themselves completly vunerable to attack! Their air support has been virtually wiped out from allied attacks. All they have now is this HUGE infantry! The satfeed shows that their infantry, are crammed into this small area, and they are fighting side by side, shoulder to shoulder, front to back. I mean, some are just waiting in queue to actually get to the battlefield! Commander, I want you to launch the single largest God-Damn missile attack yet! Casualties will be so high, this will be the war! Dismissed!"

The Commander saluted and left to complete his orders, which were confimed with a signed note from the General.

The General smiled. So far the Austarians were responsible for the deaths of at least 50000 soldiers, and 750 fighters in Axackal, and they hadnt even begun to inject troops into the area yet. This was what most nations did. Most nations would start with such a bombardment, only never in history had it proved so successful. And there yet hadnt been a single Austarian casualty.

The General took a sip of his whiskey. He had just issued the warrent for the deaths of thousands, upon thousands, upon thousands of Alleneans.

As he rested, 20 000 Missiles lifted of from the Missile Facility on the island. All of these missiles were due for the massed Alleneans in Axackal.

OOC: Allenea, you HAVE to take massive casualties for this one! Your troops are so tightly packed that there should be at least 30 of your men dead from one of my missiles! And thats bare minimum that I will accept. And as for any anti-missile systems you have, I think they will be pretty much useless, considering you would find it very hard to actually fit them into the region now. You have made the mistake of clogging the area with your troops...Calculating now, Im estimating that you should fairly take losses of a minimum of 1 million, and thats taking 200 000 from the true calculation just to be extra fair. So you will now post your massive loss of about a million. ;)

OOC: Allanea, I know it's kind of hard to keep track of all this.. but you have a considerable number of ships bombarding Atlantic Island. Post losses, please.. they've been bombarding for hours.. I'd expect losses to be.. big.. targeting anything that looks even remotely military.

OOC: Allanea, I know it's kind of hard to keep track of all this.. but you have a considerable number of ships bombarding Atlantic Island. Post losses, please.. they've been bombarding for hours.. I'd expect losses to be.. big.. targeting anything that looks even remotely military.

Actually, losses should be huge nationwide as multiple fronts are taking place. I estimate the figures running by the tens of thousands every hour of everyday.

Communique to the Scandavian Commanders
"Edolian sections of the line are under heavy assault from waves of footmen. We were impressed with your gas attack against the Allanean lines and would appreciate a similar measure into our own lines, though without the flash-bangs. Our soldiers are fully protected from gas, though the Allanean criminal-soldiers are not."

Response
Roger that, we'll give you fifteen minutes to disengage to a safe distance. Strongly advise you do so, gas sends person into psychotic rage when exposee is subjected to loud sounds and bright lights. Might cause your lines to be overrun. Do you need reinforcment, over.


Once the various commanders had given their allies times to get far enough away from the criminals, four vollies of gas were sent up and down the lines, right on top of the sight of the hand to hand combat. Tests conducted suggested that effects on a live battlefield would be immedate, even without the flashbangs.

Actually, losses should be huge nationwide as multiple fronts are taking place. I estimate the figures running by the tens of thousands every hour of everyday.

The way he is fighting, it could be hundreds of thousands.

Danilov's Bombers

After recieving confirmation from the Allied troops, the bombers released their payloads. 1 MOAB each over the largest concentrations of Allanean troops (60 of them total). The Su-37s then dived and began to fire off their rockets and miniguns at the people on the ground. The bombers then turned around and headed back to Hattia at the same time as another wave departed from Hattia.

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On board the Carrier CSS Rockaxe, northwest of Axackal
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Admiral Georg: The Akiros Naval Forces will be on standby in this area. Intelligence reports have it that foreign nations have given aid to Allanea so we'll be watching. As of now, the Toran-Matilda Division(200 Tactical Neutralization Teams) and the Harmonia Division(of 5,000 M1 Abrams tanks, 98,000 GIs and 2,000 Special Forces) are changing direction towards Axackal. Akiros Forces on standby.

ooc: i won't post attacks until Allanea answers everyone's posts. :)

Somewhere over Allanean Ocean
Bypassing the fronts of war and taking the long route via the ocean, the squadron of 24 IDF-2s are able to avoid most of the fighting and concentrate on the mission at hand - fly deep into Allanean territory and dispose of oil facilities.

Edolia re ships: it seems the allies in the area are doing nothing on the subject...
I deliberately gave them opportunity to bomb the trucks.... speak of it...

<<OOC: You didn't give nearly enough time. Also, note how this is supposed to be happening. Edolians and Allaneans engage in hand-to-hand combat... While that combat is still going on Iron Blood decides to send 2.5 million prisonders over... while the combat is still going on, this massive number of people is loaded, sent, unloads and attacks... This would take months to deploy... DT is extremely militant so he might be able to talk me down to two weeks... But not two hours... Sorry.

RP the fleet coming before they land.

EDIT: Will post response to SS' gas attack/support later today. There wasn't any point in us disengaging since Edolian troops all have full-body suits that protect them from gas.>>

Southwest Allanea

The bombardments from the battleships came just as the TIS Navy's F/A-18s began their cluster bomb and dumb bomb drops all across the enemy lines. TIS Marines fires RPG-3s at the enemy APCs, helping to take them out. Some of the M-60 tanks had begun firing at range, hitting some APCs before they could get a clear shot.

In all, the marine emplacements had survived and were ready once more as their air power went back to the carriers to get more bombs (which were being brought in by ammunition ships).

Casualty list:

10,000 marines wounded
400 IST-02 Heavy Tanks disabled
6,750 marines killed
175 IST-02 Heavy Tanks killed

Remaining Forces:

22,175 Marines
582 IST-02 Heavy Tanks

((Its funny how while all this is going on Allanea is still being invaded by Feline and Co. http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=138154&highlight= )

Command General Ring, laughed at his luck again, the Allanean's were still focusing soley on the Edolians. The advance of the Retliatory Guard quickened, the Thunderer II battletanks and Chok-Mools tore into the Allanean lines as they 'guarded' the rear of the penal battalions. By now Command General Ring's forces had nearly completely cut off the advancing Allanbeans from Allanea and had disrupted their supply and communications, anything coming to the front now would have to pass through the Retliatory Guard. Axackal was cut off from Allanea and Command General Ring once again held position. The Chok-Mool's planted outriggers and began shelling Allanea proper with their 280mm howitzers while the Thunderer II battletanks drove into the rear of the Allanean's and their exposed back, covered by close air support from the warthogs and the HINDs.

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Command General Itzcoatl and his 6,000 Red Jaguar launched themselves at the penal Battalions, the inmates are no match for the heavily armed and armoured Red Jaguar, the penal battalions did not possess a weapon capable of piercing the ceramite armour of the Red Jaguar. They tear into the penal battalions with their FN-HAR .30-06 guns blazing at full auto and then hacking to pieces any that make it past the guns, they stay low and crouched as they attack using the penal fighters as cover against the Allanean lines, who now turn to see Command General Ring's Retliatory Guard armies driving straight at them!

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The Air Guard masses it's 5,000 Orion Stealth Fighters in the arena and send them i9nto Axackal , where they being to soley support Command General Ring's push and attack any Allanean forces from sending supplies or reinforcements. The Allanean's are trapped and have nowhere to go, not even up.


OOC:losses 350 Red Jaguar 1,250 Retliatory Guard, 12 Thunderer II tanks, 15 LAV's

once again losses are low because Allanea has not posted any direct attack or counter measure to my forces. I would expect heavy casualties from Allanea for my current assault, the Retliatory Guard are still fresh and have had plenty of time to encircle and hem in the Allaneans since no counter attack has even been attempted!

OOC: Allanea, please post losses regarding the bombardment of Atlantic Island. It has been going on for quite sometime.. so I expect them to be quite large. After you post losses I will begin the invasion of the Island.

EDIT: Will post response to SS' gas attack/support later today. There wasn't any point in us disengaging since Edolian troops all have full-body suits that protect them from gas.>>

[ It isn't the gas you have to worry about, because it will spread a couple hundred meters, it's the soon-to-be-psychotic prisoners with pointy sticks hell-bent on killing anything that moves. Think of it as those prisoners being on LSD and Speed at the same time.]

15 thousand pound bombs and missiles deployed from Islandian H9s plummet into Allanean formations.

Meanwhile, Islandian special forces lay in wait, seeking officers to assassinate.

OK, slowly then:


Doujin: Losses are 15,000 civilians and 5,000 Marines. Whatever survived of the namy is still launching missiles at you.

Ilek Vaad- you post is all wrong, as Allaneans are not "focusing solely on the Edolians". Only the Penal Battalions are focusing on the edolians, nothing else is.

Edolia: and such combat would also take weeks, but OK. Ignore that for a moment

IC:Somewhere, along the Allanean Ocean, the Bisonian fleet is moving, carrying 2,500,000 thugs. They are nearly 100 km from the shore when the first enemy torpedo hits.

In the Allanean Southwest

"How many troops we lost?"

"500"

"BMP's?"

"50"

"Why so low?"

"Our ATGM's out-range the tank cannons on these glorified M-60's. The casualties are from enemy aircraft."

OOC: regardless, your men are either surrounded or running away, in none of your posts did you ever mention counter attacking my advance, or attempting to turn your flank to foil my encirclement. I've been posting my flanking maneuvers for 5 days now, you've had plenty of time to react.

Ilek Vaad: OK.

"We're being surrounded, Sir. The Ilek Vaadians punched through out left flank..."

"Easy. We have about 1,800 SU'34's, 500 KL-55's, 1000 Black Eagles and 2,100 Hannibal Lector tanks on this front... hit them with them. Also, call back 500 Jason Voorhoosen combat helicopters from Deriksburg and bolster that attack with them."

Allanea, are you suggesting that there are 3 million troops on the Axackal border?
There are about 2,900,000 troops there right now, yes (after this post)

The Penal Battalions lose 1,500,000 men from the latest attacks, but the 900,000 survivors fight like madmen, driven by the gas and by desperation. Some are picking up Edolian weapons to fight with.

Edolia: post losses....

OOC: And S500's would still lock on those B-2's...

OOC: You shouldn't have anything left, Naval wise.. Bombardment from my ships + 2x Egap Anti-Ship missiles from the 4,000 planes I sent at you, 3,600 Egap Anti-Ship Missiles from my SSGns, and hundreds of torpedos...

Ilek Vaad: OK.

"We're being surrounded, Sir. The Ilek Vaadians punched through out left flank..."

"Easy. We have about 1,800 SU'34's, 500 KL-55's, 1000 Black Eagles and 2,100 Hannibal Lector tanks on this front... hit them with them. Also, call back 500 Jason Voorhoosen combat helicopters from Deriksburg and bolster that attack with them."

OOC: oh goody, a counter attack!

Command General Ring smiled as the Allanean Commanders peeled off a token force to meet his encirclement.

"This is Command General Ring, all forces, complete the encirclement, lock them in! Make them pull everything away from the Edolian's if they want to stop us!"

The Heavy Chok-Mools and the Thunderer II's sped in ahead of the infantry, smashing squarely into the advancing Allanean counter attack, the infantry and fast moving LAV's lapped round under close air support, cutting off the counter attackers and driving farther around the Allanean flanks.

OOC: Forces under Command General Ring's command, adjusted for all casualties up to date.

624,250 Retaliatory Guard

15,221 Red Jaguar Commandos with 1,600 Chok-Mool Super Heavy Battletanks

15,078 Thunderer II Battletanks

9,705 Scorpion LAV's

3,000 Hind helicopters

1,915 Warthog Ground assault vehicles

1,488 Orion Stealth Fighters 50/50 pocket bombers and interceptors.

These forces are now driving the outnumbered and out gunned counter attack back into the main Allanean force. My total losses to date are hovering right around 10%

I'll wait and see what Edolia is up to before I make a post on my forces that are with Command General Itzcoatl.

In the Allanean Southwest

"How many troops we lost?"

"500"

"BMP's?"1

"50"



That is way too low, considering the fact that I dropped 60 MOABs (Mother of all bombs) on your troops (With that many in the area, they'd have to be concentrated), along with missiles and strafing runs from the Su-37s, and bombardments from my battleships and attack runs by carrier aircraft...

And I am also counterattacking from Axackal.

SW Coast

"Get the tanks unloaded!" screamed General Zhukov at a group of soldiers standing around on the LZ. He unbuckled the radio from his belt, "Where are my snipers?" Someone tapped him on the shoulder, "We are right here sir." Zhukov nodded and clipped the radio back to his belt. "Get over there and help our comrades out. The snipers dashed over to the trenches and began firing.

6 hours later

Zhukov climbed up into his tank and planted the Hattian flag on the turret and sat down. "Everyone, follow me!" The T-90Hs and regular T-90s lept forward, they devastated enemy vehicles at far beyond their maximum range and formed an armored spearhead, which smashed into the enemy's center followed closely by the infantry with fixed bayonets.

The Imperium had waited long enough to strike, it was time to show the Allanean's what vengeance was. First through, they were going to be the prisoner battalions' executioners. It was only a matter of minutes to get to the front, and when they did IFVs and tanks alike opened fire on the prisoners. It was mostly 10mm chainguns, of which there were 7,904 scything back and forth across the lines, their six thousand round belts allowing them to use their ammo in excess to cut down the relatively unarmed prisoners. 150,976 mini-missiles streaked out one by one, or in groups, to take out concentrations of prisoners. 17,920 soldiers spilled out of already firing IFVs. One in eight carried 14mm sniper rifles that fired sabot round, the same number carried SAWs that fired blended metal rounds, and the rest carried rifles that fired the same round. The snipers and regular infantry conserved their rounds while the SAW gunners just ripped into the biggest mass of human bodies they could find. The coup de gras was CFVs calling in artillery, MRLS and HE shell alike pounded the prisoners while soldier and vehicle cut down line after line in order to keep them from advancing. Helo support had been held back, although that could change in an instant.

[Notice how with eight divisions in the field, there are only a division's worth of troops fighting? That's because I actually have realistic forces. Also, the blended metal rounds that my infantry and IFV chain guns use are one-shot-kill rounds, no matter where on the body they hit. A 5.56mm version has already been tested in Iraq, so this is modern tech. I expect at least one million dead, no bunch of prisoners with a pointy sticks are going to be able to stand up to this kind of assault.

Edolia: I'm sorry to force your hand, but this post kind of dictates that you pull back a bit so I can indescriminately engage these "forces" arrayed against us.]

OOC: Allanea, look. I was willing to play fair and take some fair losses (considering I was outnumbered), but you decided not to return the favor. Please modify your estimates to reflect the full scope of what was going on or I will start reflecting yours more often.

A distinctly clean Hummer drove up a shell-cracked road to a series of tents and bunkers, with a mud-splattered sign reading "TIBCOMMPRO HQ" lying slanted by the wayside. Out of the vehicle popped two men in Freethinker paratrooper uniforms, one wearing the stripes of a Major General. They walked into what they assumed was the command tent, walked passed several saluting guards, and went into the briefing room.
For the first time in days, General Krisp allowed a smile to cross his face. -The Prophet- front was in desire need of help.

Addressing the General in charge, the Freethinker Major General saluted, and introduced himself.

"Major-General Charles Bywater, at your service, General. Ive got 12,000 odd airborne infantry coming up the road over the next hour, my orders were to rendevous with you and intergrate ourselves with your battleplan, sir. Put us were we're needed."
"General Lee Krisp. I'm sure glad you're here. This front of the war really needs some help. Allanea has a superior force and is pushing hard into Prophet. I'm affraid we don't have much of a battle plan right now. What forces we have here are just trying to slow these Allanean pigs to buy time for the allies to bring in a decent force. And it ain't easy getting troops here, but we're slowly building up. You just missed 1st mech run through here on their way to the front. 2nd mech should be arrivin' soon. 6th armor (same as 2nd) is on its way. TADF just got new jets up there. They tell me they've got a 2nd wing of F-22s and a second wing of F-117s on the way. They also tell me they have a couple of wings of heavy bombers coming in (44 B-1, 44 B-2). Hell, now that we got another ally comin' in, I think me may just turn these bastards back.

Mikhail von Bilëburg, Grand Admiral of the Scarlet Armada observed the reports. The arsenal ship bombardment was effective in destroying the Allanean military infrastructure but he was worried that his forces wouldn't be useful in this campaign. We haven't even lost a ship in combat, he grumbled to himself. The Allanean navy was at the bottom of the ocean and major maritime hostilities had ceased. Nevertheless, there was still work to be done.

"Let's get our submarine force after those transports. Then we spread out the navies... Coordinate with our allies and let's make sure that nothing can land in Allanea. I want full patrols with aircraft [some 650 fighters are based on the carriers] over the sea. We'll sink that fleet down to the last transport. Meanwhile, I want bombardment cruisers to take over hitting Allanean positions up in Northern Axackal. Let's give the Ilek-Vaadians some support."

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Five Submarine Wolfpacks
[Total:]
15 Lavernia class nuclear attack submarines
25 Saspa class light attack submarines
Six Submarine Strikeforces
[Total:]
15 Nanaki class nuclear missile submarines
15 Terson class missile submarines

... are en route to strike at the Bisonic penal fleet. The attack submarines can carry a total of some 800 torpedoes and the missile submarines are armed with some thousand surface-to-surface missiles. Against slow-moving transports, there will be almost no chance of missed targets... The submarines close in on their prey, oblivious to the presense of the undewater beheamoths...

<<OOC: I'm going to go to bed. I'm very tired, but I'm not done. I will post tomorrow morning regarding the land front as well as some other naval stuff. Sorry that I'm keeping you guys waiting but a lot of stuff is going on with me in RL...

Allanea: I'll get those casualties to you. Don't worry about it. I am pretty good about keeping up with that stuff...>>

(OOC: I know you have a lot on your mind Allanea, but you still haven't responded to bombing and shelling of your positions at the Goobergunchian border... if I missed it, however, please point it out to me.)

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Austarian Military Outpost (Haven): Main Command Center
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General Richards sat comfortably in his armchair, watching the satfeed on his wall. Taking a sip of whisky, he stood, and put his glass back on the cabinet.

His strategist, Robert Lethinham walked into the room, saltuting the General.

"Good Afternoon, General", greeted Lethinham.
"At ease...", replied the General, and Robert relaxed, and approached the General's desk, unloading papers all over it.

"Sir, we have done incredibly well so far in our campaign against Allenea. For our first proper war, we are killing the enemy by droves. Our forces are responsible for some 1.06 million Allenean Casualties, and we havent recieved a single casualty...well, apart from that guy, but that wasnt really war-related....", begun Robert.

"Get on with it...", urged General Richards

"Well sir, im saying that we have yet to inject any actual troops into the battlefield. Over the past weeks/months that this war has been going on, we have been flying troops in. Using the Trinstar, we have had the capability to bring in about 3 Million Soldiers. Of course sir, we have also been shipping equipment, so, there are some 1 million soldiers available for combat."

"Very well, where do you suggest I deploy forces?", commented the General.

Pointing to the map, Robert begun, "Well sir, We have had massive victories in Axackal so far. We have killed the majority of the Penal Battalions. And this new move by the Scandinavians is sure to wipe whatever is left off the map. My only worry is that Allenea is forming an army on the Axackal border. Intel shows there are some 2.9 Million Soldiers on the border."

"Easy," replied the General, "So we attack that army with everything we've got, to minimize Edolian and joint losses in Axackal..."

"Exactly. I say we drop right on the border. We can take em on. But first, id like to send a wave of missiles and fighters to kill as many as possible.... Then we make the drop....of our entire forces. We bunk down, and fire like hell....."

"OK, I will send the orders right away. DISMISSED", replied General Richards, and he began to draft his orders...

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Skies above Axackal
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It was a huge attack. Never before had such an attack been made by the Austarian Forces. As the Fighter/Bomber, and Bomber contingent flew over Axackal, they could see the Allenean Penal Battallions being mowed down. Victory over those forces would surely come soon.

It total, there were 700 Fighter/Bombers, and 400 Regular Bombers.

Up ahead, the 2.9 Million Troops could be seen. It was strange, they seemed to just be going about their day in camps. They had little idea of what was to come.

Within 2 Minutes, the Austarian Contingent had arrived over their target forces.... Each Fighter/Bomber launched 4 Missiles into the compacted crowd of soldiers. And each Bomber Dropped 10 MOAB's. The devestation would be huge, and this would surely wipe out a HUGE portion of the soldiers on the Axackal Border.

As the explosions begin below, the Fighter / Bomber contingent turned back around, and headed back to base...

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Recap:

2800 Missiles Launched from the Fighter/Bombers (Expected Casualties: 56000)
4000 MOABs Dropped onto Allenean Troops (Expected Casualties: 400 000)
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OOC: Alleanea, Ive included a thing called "Expected Casualties". This is just a guide of what my forces think that they may have destroyed....Casualties are really up to you, but still remember that your forces will be concentrated...;) Your a fair RPer....

OOC: Hmmmm

IC:

-the Prophet-

The General's orders were followed quickly. The entire division broke down into combat scale units and thrust themselves into the front line. 12,000 men spread themselves along the front. In some places they shored up the nearly overrun lines, in others they established entirely new defensive positions. Tired allied soldiers welcomed the few hours reprieve they won to gather much needed sleep.

This was the paras type of war. In the Freethinker military, paratroopers were "pin-down" units first and foremost, equipped and trained for the harsh, gritty attrition war designed to bog down enemy units several times their size in order to disrupt enemy plans. The waves of Allanean soldiers and combat vehicles provided them with plenty of opputunities to put their training to a long awaited test.

The soldiers would basically hold a local battle line until the Allaneans brought in a large number of men, then they would retreat, allowing the enemy to advance, thinning in numbers, straight into hastily set ambushes and booby traps. Roads became impassable, forests merely havens of death for any enemy that came near them. It was nasty and brutal, for both sides. Within the opening hours of the fire exchanges, roughly a thousand Freethinker soldiers, or about 20% of the actual frontline combat force, were either dead or incapacitated. Like so many battlefields, the ground of the Prophet ran red with the blood of countless fathers, husbands, and sons. Most of the combat vehicles the soldiers had also bought with them were now flaming wrecks, sacrificed to the cause.

More allies arrived, but the Freethinkers simply couldnt hold the ground they were fighting for, and slowly slipped back against overwhelming odds. Then the two other paratrooper divisions arrived. Their numbers swelled with fresh men and armour, the Freethinkers counterattacked...

-UnAPS Fleet, SW Allanean Coast-

The Leviathan and her cohorts arrived off the shore of the Allanean coast, greeted to the sight of literally hundreds of friendly ships in the coalition fleet. The sky was filled with aircraft, again, all friendly, and the various insignias visible from the command deck of the Freethinker flagship confirmed just how powerful this alliance actually was.

The seagates of the LPDs opened, and LCACs and small Landing Craft began ferrying the three marine divisions ashore to join the troops already on the beachhead. Heavy fighting was audiable even out at sea, and the occasional flash on the horizon added to the atmosphere. In total, over 36,000 men were landed, fully armed marines with around 600 hundred support vehicles and over a hundred Challenger 3 MBTs, along with a few lighter Hummers for anti-infantry work. Chopperblades hissed in the early morning air as 180 Apache Longbow helicopters climbed into the air and hovered above the now beaching troops, ready to provide fire support.

Back out with the main fleet, the Leviathan and her escorts began adding their own weight of fire to the barrage of shellfire and cruise missiles being launched at the Allaneans. Over a thousand Scimitar (indeginous, supersonic Tomahawk design) LAMs and 22" shells were fired against frontline positions.

Allanea, are you suggesting that there are 3 million troops on the Axackal border?
There are about 2,900,000 troops there right now, yes (after this post)

The Penal Battalions lose 1,500,000 men from the latest attacks, but the 900,000 survivors fight like madmen, driven by the gas and by desperation. Some are picking up Edolian weapons to fight with.

Edolia: post losses....

OOC: And S500's would still lock on those B-2's...

Stop this then.

"Sir, we have a massing of 2 million 900 thousand troops located in a perfect area to all die at once. The General for Allanea has no common sense, he placed all his eggs in one basket to be smashed."

"We must do this to save lives. Drop it."

The bay doors of pod 3 from Epirus I opens up. The engine fires up as the 20 megaton slowly exits the bay and heads through the atmosphere. With the combination of gravity, propulsion, and distance, time to impact is less than 30 seconds.

OOC: A nuke? Sweet mother.

"A general from the joint chiefs storms into the office of Pyrrhus."

"Sir, we dropped a nuke, who gave this authorization?"

"I did." as the Pyrrhus raises out of his seat. :I sent a message to the admiral on Epirus I to drop it. There are nearly 3 million troops there that need to die."

"But sir, we have 100,000 there as well."

"We sacrifice a few thousand to save millions,"

"This is not rational."

"What is rational about war?"

"You know the Secretary will not approve of this action as heat will follow from the alliance. You will be placed under arrest."

"I will be arrested for saving lives, what a noble concept. Then let it be so. You are dismissed."

The general leaves the office, opens his cell phone and makes a call. "Suggestions?"

"It is in operation. Do not take any recourse at this time. Let the Pyrrhus stand as is." The connection is then lost.

General Richards sat quietly in his office, "Dear god.....must it come to this?"

The General grabbed the bottle of whiskey, and pured himself another glass, "What about my god-damn fighter/bomber contingent?"

Calculating its location, he sighed with relief, "Damn, thats close. Thank God our saviour they wont be hit with the blast..."

<<OOC: Phyrric... you do realize this is going to get you kicked out of the alliance, right?

I've just got to say, that was really not a good idea... We were winning this war. Now it's going to turn into a nuclear slugfest.>>

"Sir. We have just reported a massive nuclear explosion along the border with Axackal."
"Good lord! The Allaneans must be mad! Launch a full nuclear retaliatory strike!"
"No, sir. It wasn't the Allaneans."
"What?"
"The Phyrric."
"What the hell!? Our own allies!? Issue an immediate order of condemnation!" The Imperator stood up. "With allies like these, who the f*ck needs enemies?"
"Sir, this is a drastic step."
"Agreed. I thought the Phyrric were were reasonable. But a nuclear assault on the border with our own forces, is undenyably a stupid thing to do. We cannot associate ourselves with this. I want that condemnation wired to every news service and government in the world. And I want an immediate and unilateral cease-fire with the Allaneans. Whatever is left of our armies are going to have to get the fuck out of Western Axackal. And make it clear to the Phyrric that if they do anything else like this again, they'll be hit with a full response. From us."

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<<OOC: I'm going to see what Phyrric has to say about this before reporting my own casualties from this blast, but considering how close together Edolian and Allanean forces, were, they will be really really high. The Ilek-Vaadians too... hundreds of thousands dead...>>

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Communique to the Allanean Government
"We strongly regret the actions of a nation fighting on our side in this war and wish to make it clear that Edolia had no part in this blatent and unnecessary escalation. We are hereby asking for an immediate bilateral ceasefire between Allanean and Edolian forces to take effect immediately. We believe that we will be able to extent this ceasefire to the rest of the alliance immediately. Diplomatic actions will be taken agaginst Phyrric."

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Open Letter to the World
"We condemn this nuclear strike by the Phyrric government in the harshest language and wish to make it immediately clear that Edolia does not sanction unprovoked nuclear force. Edolian leaders in high-level confrences are currently debating what action will be taken -if any- in the continuence of prosecuting this war as well as what diplomatic steps will be taken against Phyrric."
Matthew von Pickett
Minister for Foreign Affairs

((*makes note of this and condemns.

ATTN ALL: Knootoss has just left UNAPS and withdrawn from this conflict. Other nations have followed. I expect UnAPS to know this, but Allanea probably doesn't.

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=139254 ))

[Frankly, this BS doesn't merit an IC response. I don't appreciate being used as a personal plotline punching bag without being consulted first, and I'm sure nobody else likes it either. As such, and as far as I'm concerned, there never was a nuclear explosion of any kind, any retaliation will be treated as a first strike. I suggest that my allies adopt a similar policy concerning this... incident.]

Nuclear Command: Southern Hattia

"Sir, nuclear blast detected on the Axackal border..." Lt. Commander Markov walked over to the man who just spoke. "Bloody hell, who was it?" The man tapped a few more buttons on the console. "It was... Phyrric, sir..." "Oh my god..." Markov ran over to the phone, "Get me the Prime Minister, NOW!"

Executive Building

"Sir, we've gotten reports from Nuclear Command, Phyrric has launched a nuke!" The Prime Minister grabbed the man's papers, "Holy f*ck, have we gotten any response from Andropov?" The messenger shook his head. "Damn, he was one of my best generals. What are the expected casualties?" The man picked up one of the papers, "About 99%, we were pretty close to the Allaneans, the Edolians and Ilek-Vaadian troops were almost certainly killed along with ours."

Official Statement from the Prime Minister

Hattia condemns in every way possible the actions of Phyrric, we had no part in this. We will hearby be withdrawing all of our forces from Allanea. We will also seek a cease-fire agreement with Allanea. We send our condolences to the families of the soldiers killed by this idiotic move by the Phyrric government, we will support any diplomatic action to be taken against them.

[Frankly, this BS doesn't merit an IC response. I don't appreciate being used as a personal plotline punching bag without being consulted first, and I'm sure nobody else likes it either. As such, and as far as I'm concerned, there never was a nuclear explosion of any kind, any retaliation will be treated as a first strike. I suggest that my allies adopt a similar policy concerning this... incident.]

OOC: Well, three people have acknowledged the attack, three people directly involved in the conflict. Inductive reasoning says it happened. BOOM.

OOC: *recognises too*

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Sky over Allanea
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3 rerouted Knootian espionage sattelites passed over the western outskirts of the Haven continent in the hours following the attack. Knootians were anxiously awaiting if retalliation would follow. Fortunately, the Knootians were out of this war.

(OOC: Well, I doubt Allanea will be posting casualties for Goobergunchia now...)

In an immediate response to the Phyrric nuclear strike, the Mintarian troops have spread out in an effort to minimize casualties from an effective nuclear strike. Radar is up and running, and the DTS-2 missile systems are prepared to fire at any incoming missiles. They do not, however, retreat from their positions.

Onboard the Doujin

A bright flash engulfed the Fleet, as the nuclear warhead detonated hundreds of miles away - yet even visible out in the sea.

"What.. the fuck.. was that.."

"I don't know, sir."

"Contact Military HQ, get a confirmation on whatever that was."

"Aye, sir."

The Admiral sat in his chair and started looking at spy satellites of Atlantic Island.

"Admiral, we are getting a communication. It's our reinforcements."

"Hot diggity."

The Admiral stood up and walked over to the communications panel.

"This is Admiral Miller, we are glad to see ya. We are relaying data to all ships arriving, be prepared."

"Roger that, Admiral."

The Admiral walked over to another control panel and ordered the Lieutenant operating it to relay the data from the spy runs to the arriving fleet.

OOC:
5 Fleets Arriving
<->
5 Lunar Class Aircraft Carrier
5 Thunder Child Class Mk. 2 Refit Battleship
25 Thatcher Class Destroyers
15 Centaur Class Destroyers
10 Meteora Class Destroyers
25 Astron Class Fast Attack Submarines
25 Clan Grant Class Auxilaries
10 Oakleaf Class Assault Ships
5 Saviour Class Medical Ship
Total: 125 ships

"What the hell do you mean Phyrric is using nuclear weapons?" President Rick Rivera yelled at his Minister of War.

"Mr. President, they dropped a nuclear weapon on the Axackal border. We lost a massive amount of defenders, totaling 25 Infantry Divisions and 4 Armored Divisions. They practically wiped out our main contingent in Axackal."

"Good Lord," Rivera said as he motioned his Strategic Forces general over. "Raise Strategic Forces to ORANGE/HIGH alert immediately. Bring our Anti-Ballistic Missile system to full readiness. We're doing this as a precaution, but do not make it look as if we are about to launch at any moment."

"Yes, sir."

OOC:

There are five alert levels for Strategic Forces, and they are almost self-explanitory:

Green/Safe
Yellow/Elevated
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Orange/High - current/standard precaution for current situation
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Red/Full
Black/Launch

The First Republican stepped into the antechamber of the House of the Republic. The cameras and lights are all ready.

"Citizens of Ilek-Vaad, once again we have been betrayed. The nation of Phyrric has dropped a nuclear bomb on the battlefield of Axackal where all but 2 armies of the Retliatory Guard were actively engaged in fighting the invading Allaneans. Those of our Retliatory Guard that were manning the ABC hardened Thunderer II and Chok-Mool battletanks were unaffected, but we are estimating that there are some 40,000 Vaadian casualties."

"The Republican Council has unanimously voted to declare that Phyrric is an Enemy of the Republic. We will respond. I have ordered every Sword of Damocles OAV to be re-armed with the Perun's Hammer Neutrino bombs. One will be loaded for each city in Pyrrhus. The SPEAR anti-ballistic missle batteries are still on alert but have shifted from monitoring Allanea to monitoring Phyrrus."

"In 24 hours if Phyrrus has not contacted me personally within 24 hours, we will kill every person in Phyrrhus we can."

"I have also further decided that Ilek-Vaad will suspend relations with ALL UnAPS nations and suspend our activity in the UnAPS. We have un questioningly aided our allies whenever they have needed us. We have been poorly repaid."

"I have nothing further to say."

He then leaves the room, without answering any questions.

OOC:the 24 hour deadline will be until Phyrrhus responds.

While we understand Ilek-Vaad's position and will always support the Republic despite our differences, we urge moderation. Since the cease fire has not been acknowledged by Allanea, we dare not send our helicopters to lend assitance and medivac. However, we can guarentee medical help when/if Allanea acknowledges the cease fire.

Our own losses are unconfirmed at this time, but reports indicate that they are extremely light compared to what Ilek-Vaad has suffered. Heaviest losses indicated show upwards of 6,000 dead and a few hundred tanks and IFVs. We believe at this time that this is mainly do to the fact that NBC suits were worn into the field, and that the NBC protection held up under pressure. At this time, all armour units have withdrawn 1000m from their fighting positions and soldiers are tending to the wounded on both sides.

OOC: Ho hum. Im basing nuclear damage on the effect of an actual 20 mgt blast, so apologies if anything is wrong. List of casaulties taken from other posts.

IC:

-The Prime Ministers Office-, Navarre, The Freethinkers

The Right Honourable Ted Barham, Prime Minister of the The Commonwealth of The Freethinkers, looked in pretty bad shape. He had been up most the night, his face was unshaven and several empty mugs of coffee were piling themselves in a corner of the desk that dominated the office, fighting for space with endless files and folders and graphs and lists. It had...needless to say...not been the best night of his life.

Opposite the PM sat General Robertson, looking without emotion at the Minister. In his hand another thick stack of notes and reports lay waiting to be browsed. But niether spoke, at least for the moment. In the aly dawn light, the sounds of the first people arriving at work fluttered in through the window, echoing in the foreboding silence in the room. The General decided to break the tension.

"So...what is our response, sir?". The PM looked up at Robertson with red eyes.

"Well, lets run though this again, Phyrric launched a nuclear attack with a..." The PM stuttered. The General quiped in.

"20 Megaton freefall bomb..."

"Right, which successfully detonated over Western Axackal. killing, indiscriminantly, Allanean, Edolian, Ilek-Vadd, Hattian and Scandinavian soldiers, according to preliminary reports...correct?"

"Preliminary reports only, but yes, very likely there are considerable casaulties on both sides."

"20 million tons of explosive force...I take it there was full fusion?" The PM's voice was very croaked.

"90%-100% expected yield delivered, according to reports."

"Expected enviromental effects?" The General lit a cigarette and thought about his reply.

"Lethal radiation doses spread over Western and Centrla Axackal, if I remember the class well enough, extremely high levels will descend on all Axackal and Western Allanea, this bomb was so large it would have put radioactive isotopes into the higher stratosphere....there will be dangerous levels of radiation descending over the next few weeks and months within anything in a radius of about 500 miles of the blast, due to the sheer amount of material released...This will make Chernobyl look like a housefire in terms of final damage." The PM made no sound, his tired face said it all.

"Well, Phyrric has been removed from the alliance, which means we have lost.." He counted on his fingers, "three members of the alliance so far." Robertson said nothing. Barham spoke again, slightly louder.

"Well, for orders, we'll follow our allies for the moment, call a temporary ceasefire on all fronts. Bring up our ABM and Deterrent Forces up to high alert, just in case. Whoever fires next I want to feel the full force of our wrath." The General nodded, then stood up, saluted, and left the room. The PM turned his seat around and looked out the window at the sun rising over the mountains in the distance.

Ten reserve airborne divisions, five mechanized infantry divisions, and five armoured divisions are all being transfered to the Prophet front. They will of course honor the cease fire. Ten F-125S wings have also been transfered to the Prophet.

The First Army, Army Special Operations Command, I Marine Corp, III Marine Corp, and Marine Special Operations Command are all being transfered to the Axackal front. They will also honor the ceasefire. All remaining reserve divisions have taken defensive stances around Imperial cities.

<<OOC: Scandavian States says that a 20 megaton nuclear warhead would have a blast radius of 10 miles (16 km). If that's the case, unless troops are really tightly packed, casualties for Allanea should be somewhere around 8% for his regulars with perhaps 20% of his criminals dying due to the radiation. Allied deaths should be around 2-4%, so Ilek-Vaad would lose maybe 20,000 troops (unless they are all badly clustered in the blast radius). Of course radiation sickness would get another 5% of Allaneans and perhaps 3% of allied troops.

Actually, the criminals would mostly be dead by now. They really wouldn't have much of a chance of escaping after getting involved in hand-to-hand combat with an army of martial arts masters and tanks.>>

Edolian troops had retreated back nearly ten more kilometers under the heavy assault from Allanean criminal forces when Phyrric dropped the Bomb. As the blinding light shot out from the nuclear explosion, Allaneans and Edolians alike paused their fighting to just stare, open-mouthed at the billowing mushroom cloud. Troops near the blast were incinerated immediately. Others were bombarded with radiation particles. Those that got large doses would suffer from debilitating sickness for the rest of their lives. Most of them, if they hadn't been wearing their combat suits, which provided decent radiation protection, would have died immediately. Their Allanean counterparts would not survive long. Further and further from the blast radius, the radition exposure was less. As the light from the blast faded, Edolian soldiers began immediately demanding the surrender of Allanean criminal-troops -those that would listen and didn't immediately begin fighting that is. "Your lines have been bombed! Surrender now and you will be treated well!"

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Casualties from before the nuclear explosion had been relatively light, due to the willingness of Edolian troops to give ground and fight in more advantageous positions, as well as massive superiority in training and equipment. After the nuclear explosion however, over 6,500 additional Edolian troops were killed, bringing total casualties to 49,607.

<<OOC: Will respond again when the Allaneans come back. If he agrees to the ceasefire, assume that Edolian troops are almost immediately told to stop fighting and do.>>

<<OOC: Scandavian States says that a 20 megaton nuclear warhead would have a blast radius of 10 miles (16 km). If that's the case, unless troops are really tightly packed, casualties for Allanea should be somewhere around 8% for his regulars with perhaps 20% of his criminals dying due to the radiation. Allied deaths should be around 2-4%, so Ilek-Vaad would lose maybe 20,000 troops (unless they are all badly clustered in the blast radius). Of course radiation sickness would get another 5% of Allaneans and perhaps 3% of allied troops.

Actually, the criminals would mostly be dead by now. They really wouldn't have much of a chance of escaping after getting involved in hand-to-hand combat with an army of martial arts masters and tanks.>>

Edolian troops had retreated back nearly ten more kilometers under the heavy assault from Allanean criminal forces when Phyrric dropped the Bomb. As the blinding light shot out from the nuclear explosion, Allaneans and Edolians alike paused their fighting to just stare, open-mouthed at the billowing mushroom cloud. Troops near the blast were incinerated immediately. Others were bombarded with radiation particles. Those that got large doses would suffer from debilitating sickness for the rest of their lives. Most of them, if they hadn't been wearing their combat suits, which provided decent radiation protection, would have died immediately. Their Allanean counterparts would not survive long. Further and further from the blast radius, the radition exposure was less. As the light from the blast faded, Edolian soldiers began immediately demanding the surrender of Allanean criminal-troops -those that would listen and didn't immediately begin fighting that is. "Your lines have been bombed! Surrender now and you will be treated well!"

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Casualties from before the nuclear explosion had been relatively light, due to the willingness of Edolian troops to give ground and fight in more advantageous positions, as well as massive superiority in training and equipment. After the nuclear explosion however, over 6,500 additional Edolian troops were killed, bringing total casualties to 49,607.

<<OOC: Will respond again when the Allaneans come back. If he agrees to the ceasefire, assume that Edolian troops are almost immediately told to stop fighting and do.>>