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Inside the Central Directorature

"Your big wings would do as you say, of course, there is no way for the south to handle so many targets as we may present by them... but we already know that we shall win the war against the south... there is no way we can be beaten by their means... the issue is what happens afterwards."

"With all due respect, comrade Cheiy" Replied Secretary Hotan, "is this meeting not meant to decide upon which plan we embark against the south?"

"Forgive me, comrade Secretary, I mean not to second guess the Directorature... on behalf of the Republic, though, and as chief of its intelligence agency, I see it as my duty to consider wider challenges. If we deploy these lethal big wings... our aircraft shall have to be airborne over our territory for some time as the formations are assembled. Those that take-off first will be hard pressed to complete their sorties and to return at the fore of a massive wing... I do not believe that our air control stations can handle the strain... more importantly, to have so many aircraft loitering for so long will deplete our fuel reserves. We may crush the south in one blow, but we shall create a new problem for ourselves should the Christians or any others in the international community think to act against us."

Secretary Hotan was a fairly wise man, and had proven himself a good infantry soldier and general, but it was true that he knew little if anything of the modern age's technologies. He'd learnt his craft in the isolationist days of the eighties and ninties. It was difficult for him to bow to the judement of lower ranks, especially as his power was eaten up by the rise of young Director Koshiako, but as we've said, he was a wise man, and he bore the pains well.

DaKhiem, The Choson People's Republic of Dra-pol

That well watched video screen again blinked into life as the city-wide tannoy crackled. Hundreds of eyes turned to the huge face of the Central Directorature upon which the screen hung. Young Director Koshiako Kurosian's face went unrecognised at first. The boy leader had never before been seen by the public, and even now remained completely unknown to the outside world. The only foreigner even sure of his existance was his European-born mother.

Barely in his teens, the third Director Kurosian was revealed to his people today because of the massive importance of what had to be announced. The CPRD was to be united at last with its sister ROK.

This was no war, no! Koshiako was adamant! If it were, the thousands of 190 and 150mm guns and assorted rocket artillery facing the DMZ would be now have obliterated Seoul, thousands of aircraft would have done the same to Inch'on, Suwon, Wonju, and Kangung. This was not the case.

The Drapoel people were told to prepare for a grand new era. Of course this meant working a little harder in the short term, as their southern comrades would be in need of a helping hand, at least to begin with.


South Korea

Quite astonishing. The little triangular flag of the CPRD fluttered over Suwon air force base. Likewise over Osan air force base and the Korean Marine Corps HQ at Pal-an.

An hour earlier, during the early hours of the morning while most in the ROK slept, the first of Dra-pol's many grand tunnels had opened its two dozen exits, others soon following suit. Now over quarter of a million Drapoel soldiers, including almost the entire strength of the dreaded Red Bamboo and the infamous Banat's combat wing, were scattered throughout South Korea. They came up under the feet of Southern guards still on duty, they surprised thousands in their beds, they crippled defence nets. Thousands of commandos captured squadron after squadron of ROK aircraft, countless military personnel, sabotaged communication and transport networks, and assassinated feared figures within the capitalist republic's government and military.

Seoul was cut-off. Its inhabitants had for years understood that thousands of artillery pieces had their range, but they'd been told that they'd be evacuated in the event of war with the communist north. Not so now, it seemed. Their escape routes were cut-off by Drapoel commandos.

Millions of people were essentially hostage. If the south's military -whatever of it was not yet incapacitated- was to respond to Drapoel actions, it would do so in the knowledge that it may be delivering a death sentence to all in the capital.

Amphibious landings on either coast, airborne insertions via hundreds of old AN-2 Colt, fighter incursions into ROK airspace, and massive efforts by hand, specialised AV, and artillery in clearing minefields around the DMZ all went close to unchallenged in the opening minutes of Dra-pol's reunification of the Korean peninsula. Would there be belated resistance? Many prayed that there would not; though many of Dra-pol's tunnels under the ROK -some more than 100m deep- had belched infantry commandos and would continue to reinforce and supply them for so long as they were able to operate, others were packed full of explosives. Dra-pol had run pipes under her own capital during the Crusader War and gassed the city and its Raysian attackers- why would anyone suspect hesitation to repeat that in the south? The recent detonation by the CPRD of a more than 10kt nuclear device only added weight to arguments against resistance.

(OOC: Yes, that's right, Dra-pol (north korea) is making a second attempt at Korean unification, and has essentially caught the south with its trousers round its ankles. Hundreds of thousands in Seoul are at any given moment fifteen minutes away from extermination. Dra-pol's total military recruitment is greater than the entire population of South Korea, and with the assorted difficult tactics employed by war-hardened Dra-pol, the ROK hasn't a hope. Dra-pol's economy may be collapsing, but there are safe-guards against anyone jumping in against the isolated CPRD- Seoul is essentially hostage to Drapoel artillery, as is the Quinntonian-administered city state of Quinntonian Dra-pol (Hamhung and Hungnam). Attacking Dra-pol, largely under the leadership of a hyper-indoctrinated few psychopaths, means the death within minutes of countless millions of capitalist civilians. A difficult situation, then :) )

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Still awaiting dawn, isolated ROK units had begun to offer largely uncordinated resistance. This was mainly against smaller Drapoel detachments as they came ashore in Type D-19 amphbious tanks and APC and SAM/SPAAG variants there of, landed in or jumped from Mi-8 helicopters and AN-2 biplanes, or appeared from small exits in relatively minor tunnels.

Even far to the south, ROK military bases and other sites of importance found themselves surprised. Everyone knew that the Drapoel keenly employed tunnel warfare against the Crusader Coalition that attacked the north, and a few old tunnels had been in the past discovered near the DMZ. Some few citizens who'd tried to call attention to major tunnels capable of large scale military operations around Seoul itself had generally been dismissed as crackpots and, even so, no one was quite prepared for three metre wide tunnels running underground trains deep into the ROK's south. With tunnels in some cases constructed at 30 meters a day, the CPRD had enjoyed plenty of time since the close of the Korean War in which to under-write the South's military plans.

By the time day broke it was hoped, by the Central Directorature, that Banat operatives in South Korea would have further improved intelligence on ROK defences, especially related to minefields and other border defences. Though large sectors of defensive operation were being silenced from behind, there were still barriers to Dra-pol's speedy consolidation and securing of the south. Several PAAF jets had already been lost in isolated incidents (at least two in friendly fire accidents resulting from CPRD doctrine placing numbers of fighters ahead of advanced command systems- of course these slips would be hurridly brushed under the carpet by the pervasive Banat), and these had been just part of efforts to take-down yet more of the ROK's communication and transport infrastructure (the Drapoel were quite acustomed to moving twithout road or rail, unlike their current and likely foe). Along with Banat sabotage, the late hour, and the sheer surprise of it, Dra-pol was clearly attempting to buy as much time as possible before the wider world caught word of the reunification.

Governor Westgaard is glaring at his Commander in Chief, General Lee Gemby, "You mean to tell me that we had no idea that this kind of troop concentration was massing towards the Southern border?"
"That's mot what I am saying at all!" says General gemby, a little more loudly than he meant to, "I can tell you what kind of underwear Hotan wears, we've got that country under so much surviellance that nobody bows there nose in Dra-pol without me hearing about it! What I said is that we are unprepared!"
"What is the difference?" Westgaard countered not bothering to bring up the tunnel fiascos of recent months.
"The differnece is, is that we have no way to effectively respond in any great numbers, not enough to win this thing, but we can land 4 Divisions of Marines (80,000) in SK in three days, but I don't want to start a shooting war across the Peace Line! I'm asking for another option, the military scenarios are not good, and you know that."
"what about our Star Wars programs, that you were so adamant about? What good is over a trillion dollars in military spending?"
"Governor, not even our allies know about the extent of that program, I think it would be premture to,,,"
"Fine, Prime Minister Jesse son of Obed will be calling me in one hour. I suspect he will try a diplomatic appraoch. Though, I don't see that it is very realistic to expect even a reply from the CD."
Put the marines to sea, now!"
"Yes, sir."
WWJD
Amen.

In the Kilean war room, alarms sound. The premier is woken from his sleep.


Quintonnian Dra-Pol is contacted: whatever Kilean assitance is needed, we will give.

The first reservists are getting their phone calls.


In the predawn hours near pusan, the massive cargo planes touch down. The port needs to be turned into a bastion, a safe zone for the massive Kilean army to arrive in-country....

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Bit of ooc information:

Dra-pol is long established as essentially North Korea's big angry brother. The CPRD's military spending runs absurdly high (34% not that you'd know exactly), as does recruitment (around 4%), and indoctrination is even more intense than in the DPRK.

Contrary to the apparent belief of a few Quinntonian characters, the CPRD is largely an unknown quantity- no one even knows who's head of the communist party (the only legal party), or whether s/he, Secretary Hotan, or Director Koshiako Kurosian (who the outside doesn't even know exists) weilds real final powers. Dra-pol has been hyper isolationist for several thousand years, and by now is rather good at it, especially since the communists took power in the 1930s.

In the last war -called the Crusader War by Dra-pol- Quinntonia led a coalition of primarily capitalist Christian nations against Dra-pol, over three million people died, and Hamhung and Hungnam were taken by Quinntonia. They're now home to millions of Quinntonian civilians, surrounded by a ..modern Maginot Line. During the conflict, Dra-pol used chemical weapons at least twice, even in its own capital city. There were at least two sustained human wave attacks on Hamhung, in which thousands of 'defenders' and countless Drapoel were killed. The point being that Dra-pol, largely isolated from world opinion and political sensitivities, doesn't restrain itself much.

It'd be fairly obvious to anyone who's..erm..Dra-pol or Quinntonia that the line is a pretty serious barrier to the over-running of Hamhung.. however it offers no protection against the thousands of artillery tubes pointed at the city. Much as Seoul is covered by thousands of pieces near the DMZ. The point there is that hands are tied. DaKhiem (the CPRD capital) can -and past experience suggests no cause to think won't- order the obliteration of two multi-million people'd capitalist (ish) cities, which would happen in a matter of minutes.

There are threads out there in which I ooc and sometimes characters, such as the defector Akiyoro, speak of Drapoel military potential and intent. It might be well to get intel agencies on it before getting tens of millions of people killed and suffering military humiliation such as others (POJ? Raysia? :) ) have in the past.

OOC: Man, Dra-Pol, you have bad timing. I have just- and I mean just wrapped up a major war against.....a communist power that uses human wave attacks. Better yet, my economy is just gearing up for total war mobilization, and, beacuse of Dibujante's sudden collapse into anarchy, most of the new divisions I've raised haven't yet seen any significant combat.

My army is not yet demobilized to peacetime status, a good chunk of it somewhat regrets not being able to "come in for the big win", and the rest of it has spent eight months fighting (and slaughtering) communist militia attacking in human waves. The Kilean populace is far from war-weary, too. Truth to tell, the total collapse of Dibujante following the death of the Chairman has left most Kileanishe somehwat dissappointed- they wanted to avenge Stahlsburg in the ragnorak-style "final offensive" that never happened. They were all jacked up with propaganda at a fever pitch with nowhere to go....but now they've got Korea.


In addition: who is playing as ROK? Beacuse, if nobody steps up, I'm going to assume that the central government is stuck in some bunker in Seoul, and that Kilean troops are approved to arriive.<OOC>
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The Heimatsversammlung met for the first time in their now-rebuilt building. Their first act was to continue the wartime emergency. Anti-Dra-Pol sentiment has been building in Kilean ever since the African crisis, and public opinion has shifted somewhat seamlessly, in what Kilean political and social analysits are calling the "sept.11th effect"- Kilean wants to hit back, and hit back hard, for the devastation of stahlsburg, and, Dibujante's collapse was "too easy"- they don't feel like they've gotten payback.

In the Kilean public eye, this is the same war, and the same fight, and this is declared in several rousing speeches.

A headquarters is created for "Heersgruppe Koree" and General Anknecht, commander of II corps in the Dibujante war, is placed in command.

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The "Donner" heavy bombers were huge, lumbering beasts. The six of them lumbered over the sea of japan (didn't the Dra-Pol call it the east sea?), heading twards korea. They were bomb trucks, basically. Designed to take a lot of explosive death a long way.

For this group, it looked like somebody decided to bolt a small air defence interceptor under each wing. The land attack version of the "Longbow" heavy cruise missile was a sight to behold. It was developed as a "battleship killer" heavy antiship missile, but quickly put to other uses. Some 250 miles off the south-west coast of Korea, the missiles fall away from the bombers, engines kicking in to send the twenty-four missiles hurtling at mach 2+ twards fixed Dra-Pol positions around Seoul.

Now much lighter, the bombers turn for home. What happens now is up to the missiles internal ECM and the Dra-Pol air defense troops.
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Pusan

They came one after the other, touching down at the civilian airport. The "Raven" air superiority fighters were big beasts. Not too nimble in a dogfight, they were fast, with a big radar and a lot of loiter time. Right now they were coming in from Kilean, big shuttle tanks empty below them. The KAF groud crew waved them off the main runway. The airport was bustling with activity. SAM systems were being set up at all corners of the airport.

The refugee situation was....something else. It seemed like every Korean with the means was trying to Get Out as fast as possible. There weren't many free runways, though.

As the first Kilean interceptor wings arrive, Kilean gets it's first ground forces. One of the three Kilean airborne divisions is airlifted to Pusan, and takes control of the city. Digging in, they know that they had damn well better get some heavy forces here before Dra-Pol reaches the southern part of the country.

In the port of Pusan, nothing is happening just yet. Back in Kilean, however, all Kilean-flagged merchant ships have been nationalized. The ports are bustling with frenzied activity as cargoes are shifted and divisions organized, re-organized, shifted, and loaded. It's chaos, but the quartermaster corps is earning it's pay. The Dra-Pol naval threat isn't much, but they will still travel in convoy with escort.
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<OOC: the Kilean forces are in a similar position to the gulf war. they have to react quickly, but it will take time to bring in heavy forces. at this point, the plans are somewhat....pessimistic. if you'll note, pusan is about as south as you can get in Korea. Dra-Pol is not going to be stopped at Seoul. The Kilean government just hopes they can be stopped at all.
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The first diplomatic feelers go out to Governor Westgaard. The Kilean delegate is blunt: you need to re-form the crusader coalition.

Early morning light over the Republic of Korea saw the surrender of yet another isolated garrison to CPRD forces as they appeared as if formed of the fog from whence they came. It was clear that the People's Army's main objective was in felling ROK air defences, as missile sites and airfields drew twice as much attention as even relatively exposed army depots and barracks.

Perhaps this was hardly surprising. As air defences fell, PAAF activity increased, many of the one thousand or so rotary wing aircraft at Dra-pol's disposal -mainly Mi-8- joined with hundreds of AN-2 and L2D4 fixed wing transport aircraft in dispersing troops and supplies across northern ROK. Now SU-17D began to appear in force and with their 30mm cannon, bombs, 57 and 122mm rockets, and air to ground missiles likely based on DSJ-1 technology started to assault ROK army and marine forces. Most were waking to the realisation that they'd lost contact with certain other positions, some tried to move and found rail links and bridges sabotaged by Red Bamboo and Banat commandos, some of the most fanatically indoctrinated and intensively trained special forces ever to breathe.


While there was little that the over-whelmed Southern forces could do in isolation to stop their dismantling by the Drapoel machine, that machine's own shortcomings caused it much trouble.
The SU-17D was of course not the world’s most advanced ground attack tool, but it got high explosives from Dra-pol to South Korea, and it did it quickly. That said, it was part of an absolutely massive air force and an economy in recession. Its pilots, though fanatical, proud of their contribution, and brave, were well-trained in theory rather than practice. There wasn’t enough aviation fuel in Korea to allow the sort of flight time enjoyed by recruits in many better-funded airforces, nor were spare parts in supply enough to allow that sort of stress to be placed on airframes. Though daylight was now breaking, several rookie pilots had earlier crashed into Korea’s mountainous terrain. ROK forces were able to inflict precious few casualties on the attacking PAAF, but in spite of their numeric superiority the attackers did struggle to co-ordinate effective strikes that should have finished off all serious local resistance.

All that really meant was that more South Koreans would be left to take prisoner when the People’s Army swept through in the coming minutes. The air assault did at least manage to obliterate bridges across the Han river, amongst others, trapping ROK forces as they had in 1950.

Inchon

Serious fighting at last broke out when the CPRD tried to retake Inchon, A Type D-19 amphibious tank came ashore first, the population alerted by the burning effigy of one General Douglas MacArthur that was strapped to the tank’s front.

Before the city, blitzed by SU-17D and KJ-1 attack planes, was persuaded to surrender (confirmation of Seoul’s surrounding doubtless helped in the decision making process) the effigy had to be quietly moved to another tank. It would less funny, to the Drapoel sense of humour at least, if the tank that made the statement was found to have been knocked-out by an ROK ATGM. No no, this is the same one aboard which MacArthur returned! Yes yes, it is surprising that the flames didn’t act as a beacon, drawing more fire. [cough]

On the east coast, similar landings threatened Kansong.

All across the border, breaches were made through minefields. Some by espionage, some by artillery and bombardment, by mine-clearing vehicles, and by thousands of Drapoel feet. A massive portion of the more than sixty million person Drapoel military was now openly streaming across the border by land as well as by sea and air.

Seoul

The city was under the most dreadful hush. More than ten million people rose to find themselves surrounded by the armies of their northern neighbours. A nameless People’s Army officer claiming to be in command of the 3rd Assault Division was bellowing into a megaphone in one corner of the city, informing the people that the revolution had come. Most residents understood that they were hostage to DaKhiem’s ambition, as good as dead if anyone were rash enough to resist.

And then the missiles came. If that was more Drapoel friendly fire it was a bad sign- most of their AGMs were capable of high subsonic velocity only. If they were the result of anti-Drapoel action, now would be a fantastic time for God to cup his hands over the city, which would surely be aflame within minutes.

The missiles slammed down around the outskirts of the city, some hitting minutes old Drapoel positions, others adding to the tally of South Korean dead. The 3rd assumed it was under attack by ROK forces, and fire was given unto the city, 150 and 75mm self-propelled guns, infantry mortars, and rocket artillery dealing damage to outlying areas and focusing on military barracks. Of course some further ROK soldiers, fearing all out assault, surrendered while others began to fight back, drawing a few over-keen communist units into the suburbs (most Drapoel soldiers in the south though were veterans, the green recruits having been used to take over their duties inside the CPRD, and did not allow themselves to be pulled in). Skirmishing lasted for a few minutes, with ROK units managing to score relatively high kill ratios against an unplanned and unsupported infantry attack that was never meant to take place.

In a matter of minutes though, the Central Directorature had confirmed 1st level retaliation. 150mm and 190mm-armed HARTS across the DMZ spoke for the first time, absolutely confirming the reckless nature of attacks against the revolution at this stage. A volley of fire from twelve thousand heavy-artillery tubes showered Seoul with high explosive, fragmentation, and several chemical rounds. The city lit up as a second volley followed moments later, then a third. In less than a minute there was silence from the gun barrels.

DaKhiem was reluctantly forced from her silence as Secretary Hotan announced on any number of open channels that Seoul and Hamhung stood to be destroyed if the outside world further meddled with the Korean revolution.
ooc:There’s no one really playing the south- it was South Dalania, but his nation was deleted for inactivity, I’m afraid. I planned to write for them in some degree, but it’s fairly open for other reasonable players to negotiate with whatever ROK authorities survive.

Xiaguo is of grave concern and may enter the war. Xaiguo, is located right on top of North Korea and does not support North Korea as of already. We hope Dra-Pol can cease fire. Xiaguo does not support Dra-Pol and we ask our neighbor to call it off.

We will support South Korea and if Dra-Pol heads on by force. Xiaguo will enter the conflict by the South's side. Xiaguo supports the reunifycation of the South and the North, but not under Dra-Pol rule.
We also do not approve of Dra-Pol's war acts upon the Korean people and we kindly ask Dra-Pol to consider the Geneva Codes.

-Taiping, Xiaguo
The People's National Congress of Xiaguo has voted 58% to 42% in whether to be involved in the Korean Crisis.
The Constitutional Parliament ruled 42 to 12 votes on whether Xiaguo should be involved.
Both Congresses has voted YES thus giving permission to the goverment on promoting interferences toward the Dra-Pol invasion to unite the Korean Peninsula.

Hudecian diplomats have expressed disgust at the recent events on the Korean peninsula and warn Drapol that if they do not withdraw to pre-conflict boundaries that Hudecia will vote to go to war.

Hudecian diplomats have expressed disgust at the recent events on the Korean peninsula and warn Drapol that if they do not withdraw to pre-conflict boundaries that Hudecia will vote to go to war.

Hudecian diplomats have expressed disgust at the recent events on the Korean peninsula and warn Drapol that if they do not withdraw to pre-conflict boundaries that Hudecia will vote to go to war.

ooc: Geography check!
Where exactly is Xiaguo, and do you already recognise anyone else as existing in North Korea? Previously I've just been using China as our neighbour (and the Russian Federation over 19km or so, as I remember it) so the dispersion of our forces has left the northern border relatively weakly defended, since we're on generally good terms with Beijing. If we're to mix things up and have less friendly northern neighbours I'll have to take into account different deployments.
(For the record, Dra-pol was absolutely isolationist until a few years ago, and there's probably not a dozen people in the CPRD who've even heard of Switzerland, let alone the Geneva Convention. That's not to say that the people are stupid- they know their craft, their rifle, their Philisophy of the Kuro/Sulo Revolution, their orders, and their local folklaw, but that's about where it stops.)

While the army- and it's huge numbers of men, artillery, and panczers- is still loading on the nationalized roll on/roll off ships, the Kilean Air Forces have been flying in ever since the Dra-Pol invasion.

Two inteceptor wings (36 raven air superiority jets each) are stationed at pusan, but they, along with most of the KAF personell, are mostly concerned with keeping the port secure, as well as warding off any attempt by Dra-Pol aircraft to attack convoys coming through the tsushima straights.

In addition, an Army Air Corps aviation brigade, with it's 96 "falkon" tactical fighters (Kilean-made israeli lavi's, more or less equivalent to F-16's) has landed, but is still getting it's facilities in order and waiting for their munitions to arrive.

There are some reports leaking out from the island of Jeju-do in the tsushima straights that Kilean engineers and construction units have arrived and have begun to expand the local airport's runway.

It would seem that the entire Kilean strategic posture is very pessimistic- Pusan is being fortified, with to attempt to send any forces north just yet, and it seems as if Kilean is taking precautions for a total fall of the ROK with the construction and (probable) fortification of jeju-do.

No word has been heard from the ROK government, but so far, ROK army and civil defense has been cooperating with Kilean. Ships in pusan port are leaving, packed with refugees- but all fighting aged men must stay, and prepare the city to receive the Kilean troops, and if need be, to withstand Dra-Pol assault.

The Kilean Air Forces have not been totally quiet, however, and one squadron of Ravens is sent north from Pusan.
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At altitude in the general Inchon area, the twelve jets turn on their powerful radars. Dra-Pol jets are pounding the defenders. The Kilean pilots look at their battle-management screens with glee as targets are selected. Each jet only carries four of the big "talon" long-range missiles, but after that there are sidewinders, and after that, cannons... Their mission is mostly to just to down as many Dra-Pol jets as possible. An announcement, if you would.

The inexperienced Dra-Pol pilots and their crude jets are about to get their first taste of a combat aircraft that could fight neck-and-neck with late-model F-15's....

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The next day, the bombers are back, with twenty-four more longbows. The last strike...had not gone well. ROK civilian casualties didn't look good at all.

But then again, the Dra-Pol bombardment had looked worse, and the game of tit-for-tat had to be played.

This time, the long-range missiles carried submunition warheads designed to shred units in the open, and this time, the missiles were aimed at DaKhiem, with target prefence given to impressive things with "Kurosian" in their name. Almost bored, hundreds of miles away from their targets, the bomber crews feel their jets shudder as the massive missiles fall away....

(Rather rapid deployment by Kilean forces- inside hours without warning, even, but that's okay, we'll just push back harder, I suppose!)

Being hit so soon by non-ROK jets was not something the PAAF had expected, but owing to the fact that even the massive might of the CPRD couldn't destroy or capture South Korea's entire air force in the first morning of conflict, there was no shortage of Drapoel fighter activity.

The long range AAMs still took Drapoel aircraft by surprise, downing almost as many as were targeted, but as the still largely mysterious foreign aircraft closed a frantic retalliation began. Many SU-17D and KJ-1 strike fighters were armed entirely with ground attack munitions while some carried outboard DRAR-1 SRAAM, a missile oft called Dra-pol's Sidewinder and widely exported. Still, the radar carried by these aircraft was modest, and their agility less than fantastic when weighed down by rockets and bombs.

Patrolling SU-15D however faced less of these problems. Old aircraft, still, at Mach 2.4 they had at least some means of escaping AiM-9 missiles! Their Mach 4.5 R-40RD missiles, with range going on twice that of the Sidewinder, gave no similar quarter when fired against the attackers.

Though there was no way to keep them all in the sky at once, Dra-pol had some 4,500 SU-15D interceptors operational on the penninsula, and kept up as many as the republic's countless little airstrips could service. The Kilean aircraft would have hardly seconds before further squadrons would arrive (Mach 2.4 being quite a brisk pace, after all!).

The missile attacks of the next day changed things further. A futile attempt on Dra-pol's tiny administrative centre in the mountains, the city twice completely obliterated from the skies in the Three Day and Crusader wars, would see several thousand more South Koreans wiped out in retribution.

The fact that most of the missiles were intercepted before they even reached northern airspace mattered little, though Secretary Hotan was amongst those further impressed by the Beth Gellen CS-400 SAM system. The first missile was hit around 180km away from DaKhiem, and more followed its demise in similar fashion before some few hit the city. Several dozen civilians and air defence personnel were killed, of course. The Central Directorature's face was spattered by submunitions just a couple of years after being rebuilt. Secretary Hotan, several floors below, was hurridly informed of the fact, having slept through the strike.

He said that it didn't change anything, and that the reunification should press on precisely as planned.

Hearing that his father's immense tomb had been hit Director Koshiako Kurosian was more obviously angered, however, and demanded a lengthier bombardment of Seoul, only called-off after two minutes of solid fire, by Hotan's intervention. The Director also ordered the execution of ROK government and military personnel in Drapoel custody, along with any number of foreign businessmen and diplomats ceased in the sudden advance.

Over all it would suffice to say that since Kilean attacks began, the Drapoel advance had gained pace. This meant that casualties mounted for CPRD forces, sure enough, as they bipassed defensive positions at the risk of advance units being cut-off, but in the end ROK casualties inevitibly soared too, as the juggernaut's pedal hit the floor.

(Rather rapid deployment by Kilean forces- inside hours without warning, even, but that's okay, we'll just push back harder, I suppose!)

<OOC> hahaha, oh, man- I just noticed how fast that was. My only updates so far have been late night/early morning, so I've been a half-zombie the whole time. I'm sorry about the lightning speed with which I've reacted, I assure you, my land forces will not be so spritely. Granted, we do have detailed plans for this sort of situation, but...still.....

Sorry for some n00bness there. lemme compensate for that....

as for the hardware- i'm torn between the downside of not stating all my equipments abilities, but i don't want to spam the thread with LOOK WHAT MY STUFF CAN DO stats. if you want, I can post a full writeup of my military inside a couple of days.<OOC>

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There's cocky, there's cocky, and there is the behavior of the 31st Interceptor squadron over inchon. Spoiled on eight months of total air supremacy in Dibujante, the squadron merrily flew in confident in their ability to take down the commies and skip back to pusan.

This did not, of course, go to plan. Granted, they did take down dozens of Dra-pol ground attack craft, but this mostly meant that when the interceptors showed up, they were out of missiles.

An hour and a half later, one Raven limps back to pusan with half a wing shredded and a very shaken pilot. Two of the pilots eject over ROK territory, but the rest went down over inchon. Needless to say, they will never be heard from again.

This first brush with combat triggers a reality check in the Kilean military. These are not hordes of militia. Kilean is, for the first time, up against a powerful and established military that can go toe-to-toe with the Laandsmacht.

Furthermore, after several satillite passes, it becomes clear that Dra-Pol does not have a lot to hit. There is stuff there, yeah, but good luck getting through the huge SAM network to end up trying to hit a doorway in the side of a mountain.

On the plus side, the Korean populace is not hating kilean for the dra-pol attacks on Seoul. Not hating them yet, in any case. A propaganda offensive is in the works, mostly centered around the idea that Dra-Pol would have trashed the city anyways, and their demands are just those of a sick bastard toying with the Korean people.

ooc:Hehe, I know how that is. I can usually only get the forum to work at 5 am and stuff anyway.
Considering how much I ramble on, you shouldn't worry about going into too much length if you feel the need/desire too :)
I'd go on more, but I'm preeetty drunk.

Kilean, Governor Bishop Gerald Westagaard IV has just recieved your messages, sorry about the late date, but we have serious matters of state to attend to.
The Prime Minister of Quinntonia, Jesse son of Obed has stated in an emergency press conference this morning that Quinntonia and her colony/protectorate, Quinntonian Dra-pol has no intention of re-forming "The Crusader Colalition." Though we still are recieving billions in financial support and personel, etc. from our allies. We will allow all ships and personel a free zone in any Quinntonian Dra-pol port. whether in Hamhung or on one of the many Southern islands, about 170kms to the south is a string of islands controlled by Quinntonia.
We do suggest that you use the Southern ports, however, as we do not wnat to draw any uneccessary hostility from Dra-pol. We will also support you with fuel, materials, weapons, food, lodging, etc. but you may not fly or launch any offesive missions from Hamhung. The Quinntonian Dra-pol Navy has been put on full alert and is moving towards the embattled zone, but is under orders not to enter the fire zone. Quinntonian Naval battlegroups, and reinforcements are also being put together and sent from Quinntonia, and our reserves are being put on alert, but only as a precaution. WE ARE NOT PREPARED TO ENTERTAIN THE POSSIBILITY OF WAR!! We will help support the Democratic Republic of South Korea, but we can do so only indirectly.
We are asking for all missionaries possible to enter the disputed nation and help where they can, and many are flocking to do so.
Also, as of 1:00pm this afternoon the Capitol City of Quinntonian dra-pol, Hamhung, was placed under martial law and the government has been moved to the island city of Pekong. General Lee Gemby has taken official command of the city and is planning to begin the evacuation of many non-essential personel.
OOC- I am not going to get directly involved, but feel free to asume major support in the region from me. The naval units in the area will only fire if fired upon, and then only after they have made certain that there wasn't a mistake. The evacuation will begin soon, but I can't justify beginniong too soon. But any time anyone says things like, "I'm going to sneak attack from Hanhung!" they should be a)IGNORED or b)you should notify me, at which piont they will be considered a hostil and invading force, and measures will be taken to deal with them.
Remenber, besides Dra-pol itself, I think I am not going out on a linb here by saying that Quinntonian Dra-pol is probably the second largest military power in the area, meaning Idon't have to ship most of my stuff.
WWJD
Amen.

*tag*

The Commonwealth was taken quite aback - Well-aware that the sham communism of Dra-Pol was more militaristic than Kim Jong-Il on PCP and that the isolationist regime would have to expand to maintain it's stranglehold on south asia, it did still not expect such a bold move from the People's Army.

Stuck in between one hard place(namely, it's close allegiance to BOTH Kilean and Dra-Pol) and another(an expanding war on home soil against United Elias looming in the future), The African Commonwealth formally denounces the attack on the sovereign nation of ROK; but apart from that, does nothing whatsoever.

Still, devious minds in the high Defense Council suggest even now that a stricter military cooperation with Dra-Pol than is currently pursued, might be prudent.











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The Hudecian parliament has voted an overwhelming 297 to 6 to hand Drapol the following ultimatum.

"Drapol has 24 hours to withdraw all its forces out of the ROK and back to the pre-conflict lines or a state of war shall exist between Hudecia and Drapol. Failure to reply will be considered a rejection. Failure to comply will not be tolerated."


OOC: Just a thought, a highly militaristic and isolationist state like Drapol would not survive integration with a highly democratic and free country like ROK.

Trying to indoctrinate the people of ROK would be more trouble than it is worth and word of freedoms in the former ROK would spread to Drapol, creating a problem in the north as well when people learn that life was better in the ROK.

Countries like N. Korea survive by isolating themselves and not allowing any foreigners near enough to tell the people that life was better elsewhere. Now you are trying to integrate several million people into this culture of isolationism.

A prime display of this problem is in the novel "1984" by George Orwell. In it the governments do not try to conquer heavily populated areas like Europe because of the the inherent problem of integration. Similarly, we could not expect to conquer Drapol since we would have to try to integrate the entire population into the free world.

So.... just wondering, what is your plan to solve this problem, short of shooting everyone in the country.

So.... just wondering, what is your plan to solve this problem, short of shooting everyone in the country.

Knowing Dra-Pol, that just may be their plan.

To the African Commonwealth: being fans of realpolitik, we understand that you have aligned yourself with Dra-Pol. We think that a policy of strict neutrality (no assistance to either combatant) would best suit this situation. In addition, you could act as a third party in any peace talks.
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<OOC: here is the fighter type which is operating out of pusan<OOC>

http://mercury.operationcitadel.net/~matthias/nationstates/img/airsuperior2.jpg

Jg-11 “Raven” air superiority fighter.
Role: interceptor/air superiority
Contractor: Kilean Luftwerk/Ostendt Motorfabrik
Powerplant: 2 Ostendt motorfabrik J-3500 afterburning turbofan engines.
Speed: Mach 2.6 @ sea level.
Ceiling:67,000 feet.
Range: 650 miles combat radius with air superiority loadout.
Armament:
4 fuselage hard points for AFM-01 “Talon” missile
6 wing hard points (1 AMRAAM or 2 Sidewinders each)
1 centreline hard point
1 internal Kilean Waffenwerke 30mm cannon w/700 rounds
Avionics
ARS-31 air search radar- 200 mi range.
Etronian Defense Dynamics battle management sytem (“the silicon RIO”)
Combined IFF/Radar warning/GPS navigation suite
Chaff/Flare launcher
Vector™ integral ECM sytem.

Kilean>>

That we will, for now anyway. Should things descalate to a point where negotiations can be held, we shall be happy to host them in Kinshasa.

ooc:

A bit of rambling about the involved politics:

Yes, Dra-pol is hyper isolationist- after the Korean War the populace believed for two generations that the rest of the world was destroyed. DaKhiem played WWII and the Korean War as part of one great world-ending battle in which the outsiders finally destroyed themselves, in accordance with ancient Drapoel folklaw. The only man who travelled outside the country during that period, and who understood global politics and different social systems was assassinated (in China) by Quinntonian agents. Since Kurosian I's death Dra-pol has lost none of its rage and furvor, but much of its cunning and calculation. KI would never have attacked the south, he was old enough to remember when Director Sulo, founder of the Republic, tried it the first time. Hotan was a baby, and Koshiako's mother wasn't even born. KI was more Stalin, concerned with internal affairs and power, Hotan is a field marshal and KIII a young and enthusiastic revolutionary in a country already finished with its revolution.
The manner of the ROK's integration into the CPRD is thought-out in some respects, and less than well considered in others (mainly social issues). Kilean seems to have a basic grasp of what's likely to result from DaKhiem finding that it has made mistakes.
(We want more living space, want a bigger industrial base, and we need better farm-land considering how little cash we have spare to import food and the loss of Hamhung district to Quinntonia (look at all that lush farmland now turned into a foreign city!))

A bit of info on what sort of armaments are already visible in the operation-

SU-17D:
Fighter-bomber. Capable of Mach 2.1. Carries free-fall and laser-guided bombs, Drapoel anti-shipping missiles (DSJ-1 and Qian Wei), unguided rockets, and nuclear bombs as well as DRAR-1 air-to-air missiles.

KJ-1 Feda Kwong:
Native-designed ground-attack plane capable of Mach 1.28 and armed in similar fashion to the SU-17D.

SU-15D:
Interceptor. Capable of Mach 2.4, armed with 24km-range DRAR-1 IR-guided SRAAM (sidewinder-alike) and 50km-range radar-guided Mach 4.5 AA-6/R-40RD.
This is the most numerous Drapoel fighter.

FC-1/Super-7:
Fighter. Chinese aircraft of MiG-21 family. Capable of Mach 1.6 and great agility. Armed with DRAR-1 and AA-12/R77 AAMs. Relatively few deployed outside Dra-pol.

J-10:
High performance fighter capable of Mach 2 with a wide armament including DRAR-1, AA-11/R-73, PL-11, and AA-12/R77 AAMs. It'd likely be known that near a thousand of these and more than two-thousand FC-1 were imported from East Islandia, but it'd also be known that some were later sold. Many of the others have since been stripped for parts to keep others flying (not that DaKhiem has announced this), and this will mostly remain in defence of Dra-pol proper. They've been seen covering airborne command units and such around the border and out to sea.

Mi-2 Hoplite helicopter, African-Commonwealth-built ADI-AV-33 Dedicated Attack Helicopters (two squadrons), Mi-8/Mi-14 HIP helicopter (mainly engaged in hunting ROK shipping) are also in heavy use over the South.

Satellites (as we've nothing in orbit and no anti-sat weapons) might conceivably have identified DRAR-1-based SAM systems, S-125/SA-3 Goa, HQ-2B, and three Beth Gellen CS-400 battalions inside Dra-pol. The latter has been seen tested over the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea and can hit targets as far away as... Pusan, without even deploying to the border. (With 'big missiles' of limited use against agile aircraft. The smaller missle, as demonstrated against cruise missiles aimed at DaKhiem, can engage at least to the border from current locations, and could pass Chongju if moved to the border)

Drapoel tanks include a relatively small number of Beth Gellen MT-3 Hotan, a tank better armed and defended than current real-world western MBTs (in Red Bamboo formations), masses of light amphibious tanks, 115mm gun-armed 'supplimental MBTs' and 105mm gun-armed medium tanks. The latter are specially designed for agility over difficult terrain, and are currently crawling through the mountains that split Korea into east and west. DZSU-47-2 are fairly modern SPAAGs named in the Soviet fashion but otherwise entirely Drapoel (you can figure-out from the name the basic armament) and may be seen literally by the thousand.

Drapoel infantry are well armed with intermediate-chambering bullpup rifles, grenade launchers, SMGs, LMGs, mortars, RPGs, and QW-2 SAM by the thousand.

Essentially, if you plan to fly anything below 5,000m over Drapoel occupied soil the pilot better know he's on a suicide mission, because surely this much anti-aircraft defence has never been so densly concentrated. Radar coverage is great, too, as so many radar are concentrated on the penninsula, there's just no gaps through which to sneak.

I'll be back with IC developments after I eat...

OOC: :shock: so the plan IS to shoot everyone. :shock: O.K. that answers my questions.

IC: The ultimatum has passed without any official response from Drapol.

Hudecian naval groups begin leaving port heading to what was or is left of the ROK. Aboard was the VII and VIII Corps consisting of 40 000 troops and their weaponry.

The ISD teams maybe had 2 or 3 men total that spoke Korean, but right now, one of those men was standing on a pile of crates telling the crowd of nervous fighting age men how to use the GPR-4 short range antitank rockets. They were passed out to the crowd, along with small arms and ammunition. A lot of these men had military training of some sort......

...the ISD man shook his head. The thing they never tell would-be freedom fighters was that the insurgents always take more casualties. He shrugged. nothing to be done about that. At least he knew these men would fight. You'd have to be a total coward not to defend your homes in the face of invasion by psychoes like Dra-Pol.
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In the central ROK, Kilean ISD teams are active in remote mountains and valleys. The're emplacing very well-hidden weapons caches, with small arms, radios, food, and antitank rockets, plus light crew-served weapons. As part of the very pessimistic Kilean strategy, the ISD teams will hide in the hills- a very doable thing in Korea- and form/assist anti Dra-Pol resistance, which is already going somewhat underground as ROK civil defense units run to the hills.
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In Pusan, the ROK military is actually doing something. Their air force is trashed, their high command out of contact or dead, but in the south- continuing the long and not-so-proud South Korean tradition of the army doing whatever the hell it wants, a ROK officer by the name of General Lee (a fact which causes Kilean army history buffs no end of amusement) has declared himself "in control of all of free Korea"- in reality, he's in command of western Korea from Taejon on south, but he's the most organized athority around. Presently, he"s got about a Division of men dug in north of Taejon, getting slowly worn down by Dra-Pol airstrikes. Kilean high command is pleading with him to withdraw southwards to consolidate in Pusan. Gen. Lee's course of action is yet to be determined.
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The KAF space command had "high perch" recon sats over Dra-Pol long before the war started, and now they are trying to pin down the location of the long-range Beth Gellert SAM"s. Although they are capable of reaching Pusan, that probably isn't going to happen, as theatre electronic warfare aircraft (a 777 packed to the gills with electronic warfare sytems) are operating from Kilean itself and putting out enough ECM to give the birds tumors.
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Currently, six large rapid transport ships- en route to the Lombardian islands when Dra-Pol invaded- are nearing the Tsushima straight. They carry the 51st mountain division, a light unit of some 15,000 men who had been sent to fight in the rocky hills of Lombardia. The invasion precluded that foriegn adventure, however, and now they go to Korea.

In Ostendt, the first convoy sets sail. Escorted by eight frigates, in addition to the Kirov-class KNS Ostendt and it's battlegroup, the massive transport armada carries II corps, the heaviest and most feared formation Kilean fielded in the Dibujante war. Kilean has decided that significant numbers will not be fielded in time, so they might as well go for quality over quantity. The three divisions- 1st Infantry, 2nd Panczer, and 3rd Infantry- are three of the "first four" divisions. 75,000 men all told. They are all-volunteer units, not a single conscript among them.

They are also very heavy formations- 2nd Panczer being the only division totally equipped with the "Cougar" heavy MBT. It was not planned at first to send II corps, but Quinntonian Dra-pol assistance and supplies have solved the biggest problem involved with II corps- keeping their gas-guzzling heavy tanks and self-propelled artillery supplied.

The convoy will be under air cover once it get's within 800 miles of Korea, in addition to the heavy escort (most of Kilean's navy), and the SA-N-6 missiles carried in huge numbers by the Ostendt itself and it's escorts make any air attack a pretty bad idea. Not a "normal" bad idea- most normal people would consider charging into the teeth of a Kirov battlegroup from a navy paranoid about stopping airborne antiship strikes suicide- but a bad idea on a Dra-Pol level of thinking.

In total radio and emissions silence, the nationalized cargo ships leave port, making speed for the weeklong journey to Pusan. As northern Kilean shrinks behind them in the distance, two whole armies- 5th and 7th are being loaded upon the ships of the Kilean merchant marine, as well as Hyundai-built cargo vessels that just plopped their load of Korean refugees in Kilean.

5th and 7th armies are the most battle-hardened of the old formations and the best-equipped of the new ones, respectively. (5th army would take serious dispute with the earlier statement that II corps was the most feared Kilean unit in the Dibujante war- the rivalry between them is intense).

However, 5th and 7th will not sail for some time.
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The KAF fighters have been rather timid since the Inchon mission. Content to fly CAP over pusan. Not many Dra-Pol aircraft have been adventuresome, and the crushing of ROK troops to the north is sort of tying up their air assets for the time being. Hopefully there will be more forces here by the time the Dra-Pol juggernaut rolls south.

OOC: I'm assuming that Kilean is control of S. Korea.

IC: The government of Hudecia would like permission to send a one of our Air Corps to S. Korea to aid in the defence. Where would they be needed most?

A single Hudecian air defence corps consists of :

50 Avro Arrow II fighter/bombers
50 F-36T
100 F-18/H
100 F-22 Raptors

Hudecian naval vessels (en route):

2 Nimitz class carriers (w/ 100 F-18/H on each)
2 Iowa class battleships
5 Spruance class destroyers
5 Wasp class assault carriers (carrying a total of 7 000 men)
2 Province class destroyers
12 Halifax class destroyers
4 Ulsaan class frigates
20 AOR transports (carrying most of the heavy equipment and anther 13 000 men)

(ooc:No, it's not the plan, it's something that, given Drapoel ignorance, may happen if things start to go awry.)

The Central Directorature, DaKhiem

"Hudecia? This country was not part of my studies, comrade Secretary."

Director Koshiako Kurosian knew almost everything about a select few things, and nothing of almost everything else. These things happen when a boy spends his first decade in what is essentially a gym-equipped library up an isolated mountain.

"Your father never spoke of it either, comrade Director. Cho Cheiy speculates on a force similar in size to the Joshuan force obliterated outside Hamhung. We have... as you see... limited information as yet."

"Then... such a contribution may be of no importance... but it represents too dangerous a precident to be ignored. Recall the fleet.

"We must issue a warning. It may damage our stated cause, I fear, but the outsiders leave us little recourse."

The Central Directorature released a warning to the international community: the fate of none-Drapoel cities on the Korean peninsula rested on the world's complicity with the completion of the Kuro-revolution.

DaKhiem's relatively non-specific delivery and its lack of response to either the Hudecian communiqué or the beginnings of a Kilean deployment in the South was fairly characteristic of the isolationist state. That didn't make it any less surreal as People's Army Assault Divisions rolled on along their pre-decided course paying no special heed to the recent appearance of foreign jet aircraft.
The road was marked, and they were sticking to it. 1/4million special forces soldiers had done much to pave the way. Red Bamboo soldiers and Banat agents had surfaced in moderate force as far south as Taegu and Chonju, though these advance elements tended to be laying low.

By the end of the second day (the day on which Kilean fighters first engaged the PAAF) Inch'on was both wrecked and largely seccured. Seoul was still hostage to drapoel HARTS, and Yonch'on had been surrendered under threat of reduction by artillery. Yangyang was scene of some fighting after amphibious landings just north slowed in their intensity with the retreat of supporting Drapoel missileboats. Type D-19 tanks armed only with 75mm guns ran unexpectedly into a detachment of Type 88MBTs that shrugged off fire from their light guns and RPG-69I's carried by Drapoel marines. Air support was present, but again enjoyed only limited co-ordination, leaving significant ROK fighting assets intact and dealing a few more friendly casualties. A second ROK military unit broke away from the north to deal further damage upon the marines before masses of People's Army regulars fell across the border, smashing the defenders up against the marines to whom many were forced to surrender. The distraction on the ground allowed some few ROK aircraft to flee south and make for Pusan.

Ground units too attempted to flee, but most found that Drapoel commandos had long since bypassed them, and in conjuntion with the PAAF had destroyed bridges. Ch'unch'on was surrounded, and Siwon, Wonju and Kangung threatened as thousands of Red Bamboo troops fought at close quarters with those South Korean forces not too surprised to avoid capture. Wonju was already experiencing airstrikes as Secretary Hotan feared it may be less accessable to the massive ground forces pressing towards the coastal cities- it was hoped that the central cities would be shocked into surrendering without so much fighting.

It was arguably a shame that half significant ROK forces had avoided immediate capture and begun to fight isolated actions of resistance, for the units they fought were then often unable to hold prisoners. Many captured on the first morning were now dead, and one could be forgiven for assuming infamous Drapoel snipers were the main tool of combat, owing to the number of single headshots to be seen amongst the fallen.

Drapoel snipers though use 7.7mm rifle cartridges much more readily than the 8mm short rounds that felled most yet unburried Koreans.

The Commonwealth Final Senate, Portmeirion, The People's Commonwealth of Beth Gellert

The grand amphitheatre of a room hosted today one of its more sensitive debates. A nominally socialist state had, using Beth Gellen weapons as part of its vast arsenal, invaded a moderately inoffensive capitalist state.

"My regional comrades were clear in their distaste for this sort of thing, we opposed the initial attempt to aid the Choson People's Republic in its last war, and would surely oppose it again this time... comrade Graeme is a renegade!"

"Pfft."

Igo's response indicated how far that was from the worst thing he'd ever been called. The influential Commonwealth Professional Civil Servant had just implied that Beth Gellert ought to deliver more CS-400, and perhaps even the vastly improved CS-500 that now defended several Commonwealth cities. After all, he'd said, DaKhiem was going to have a lot more to protect, soon enough, and coverage of Kanggye, Pyongyang, and DaKhiem itself wouldn't be sufficient!

"We liberated Madagascar from capitalism, why not South Korea?"

"We did no such thing!"

"No! We drove out imperialists, Madagascar is barely even a mildly socialist republic, today."

There was a lot of disagreement, but in the open Beth Gellen system this usually led to inaction, which more or less constituted a victory for the, "cut ties and offer no comment" lobby. This further alienated the revolutionary Old Guard, of course. And the lobby for official condemnation of the CPRD, but they'd only managed to get one representative to the Final Senate, so no one really cared.

The Commonwealth argued on, sat as if in some time-proofed bubble as the world rolled on.

Jilin Province, China

"Back already, Father? How did you go in Madagascar?"

The increasingly tall and now slightly tanned celt flashed a quite striking smile to his middle-man.

"Sho Sulu?" He said.

"This way. He'll be glad to see you."

OOC-Man, you guys need to read some of the old threads. The last war with Dra-pol ended witha stale-mate and 3 million people dead. There were what, something like 20 million people deployed on a single front, as well, as over 12,000 aircraft of all makes. If you want to take on Dra-pol, prepare for war, don't just send 40,000 men to their deaths.
IC- For the first time since the beginning of the last war, Governor-Bishop Gerald Westgaard broadcasts over multiple open channels into Dra-pol, requesting that the CD respond and enter into diplomatic relations and start talks centered on ending the conflict peacably.
Also, the Quinntonian Dra-pol propoganda machine is now in full control of the media, and is broadcasting reports of the intolerable cruelty of the Dra-poel invasion forces of ROK. The purpose of this media attention is to saturate the public mind-set with an unreasoning fear of the Dra-poel, and with it is the opem promise to ship, at the governments expense, any and all people to the southern islands that want to leave Hamhung.
The media is also reporting normal troop movements on the Dra-pol side of the Westgaard Line, but making it look as if it is very sinister, as if they are massing for another invasion.
And, it is working, as massive amounts of people are evacuating the city in droves, at the incredible rate of 1 million people being moved a week.
Considering the population in Hamhung of almost 60 million, it will still take a long while, but all construction contracts for highrises have been cancelled, and replaced with reinforcing the Line and other military installations.
WWJD
Amen.

Meanwhile, during the latest session of Parliament in Quinntonia, at our Capitol, The City of Peace, Prime Minister Jesse, son of Obed asked the nation to join him in a national day of prayer.
The Quinnonian main media outlet, QNN, has reported that the entire Quinntonian military has been put on full alert, and that all reserves have been activated, allowing them only 24 hours to report for duty, should they be called upon.
Also, many Quinnotian Naval units, as in all the ones involved in the last war, are being sent out within two weeks, as an escort to the thousands of shipping, cargoe and transport vessels that are being leased by the Quinntonian Dra-pol government to help with the evacuation of Hamhung.
Prime Minister Jesse reiterated that this should not be looked upon as a mark of aggression, and that Quinntonia will absolutely NOT ENTER THE WAR!!! We will, however fight if need be to defend ourselves and our Dra-poel brothers in Hamhung, and are not prepared to be caught unprepared should that have to happen.
The Quinntonian Council of Bishops has aslo voted that they will open up the vast church coffers and start to supply humanitarian aid to ROK, and that will start to be put into place immediately.
WWJD
Amen.

OOC: I would like to ask permission to join the RP with several personalities and minor military assistance to be used in small operations. Naturally the Order of Jerusalem wants to fight athiests withe Christians. I would like to try to infiltrate Dra-pol and get information for the alliance. Though I havent played on Nation-states, I have RP'ed in other places before.

OOC: I understand that 40 000 men may seem like an almost insignificant contribution however, trying to mobilize and move more men at one point in time to another country is extremely difficult. I don't want to just say *poof* I mobilize 8 000 000 men and they are all 24 hours from ROK.(I don't have that many but you get my point - trying to be realistic with how I RP- my nation is just getting off peace footing)

And I am trying to be careful... wait and see how much other nations will contribute to the war before going all gung-ho about sending millions of men in. I don't want to end up alone trying to fend off Drapol by myself... 40000 men may be a lot to lose but it may be better than losing millions and still losing the war.

:lol: Not to mention the fact that Drapol is kinda a member of an alliance I am part of.

IC:

Hudecian Prime Minister Honatava visited military bases where call-up has been going on for the previous few days. Although it has been slow going, more and more units are reporting ready to begin the trip to ROK.

Cabinet also weighed its options taking into consideration the end of hostilities with Bonstock. Currently, the naval task group heading to Yemen and its additional 40 000 men could be redirected to ROK. They are within 24 hours travel to ROK. (see Bonstock Invades Yemen thread)

OOC
I assume South Dalania will RP the South Korean forces...
And stop moving!! THere's no one RPing the defenders!...yet

And you just broke everything the AA stood for; You are out of the alliance and we are all disappointed at u.

Oh shit... South Dalania got deleted... nvm then...

AND STOP INVADING! NO ONES RPING SOUTH KOREA OR AMERICA!

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IMperial Palace
Hu-kasa, East Islandia

"DAMN YOU I WILL NOT STAND FOR THAT!" Vice Premier Park Hyemin roared. Her foreign minister, a spindly man named Qiao, cringed.

"What would you have me do, Madame?" he asked, rather timidly.

"Now, now, Hye-min," Premier Chai said calmly, tapping her finger on the table. "We must not lose our temper like that; remember that we should always keep our cool."

"Damn your cool," Park muttered. "Not for you to say when your home country is being overrun and your family in danger."

"Whatever the case, we should consult with the military command council," Chai said smoothly, reaching for the phone. "Then we will get the members of the AA online...."

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Within hours, substantial naval forces were deployed to Japan; another forty ships, (comprising four surface engagement groups), three wolfpacks of eight submarines each, and a single special operations submarine detachment. Also sent were three swift craft detachments of about twenty light catamarans each, for combat within coastal waters.

Forces are due in a day (teh Region of Tropical Paradise is near Japan).

Musa Brigade, an elite unit of Korean Islandian fighter pilots, has been deployed with Jung Brigade to Japan.

the First Storm Division, wihtdrawn from combat in Allanea, has been diverted to Japan instead, along with a Marine Amphibious Assault group (two divisions aboard twenty five ships of varying classifications).

Marine forces due in two days. Fighter unit due in hours.

Knights of Jerusalem: If you think you're gonna infiltrate Dra-pol, you're off your rocker. If you really want to send special forces into Dra-Pol, just cut to the chase and shoot them in the head at the base. Closed societies are very heard to infiltrate.

Beth Gellert: Kilean will condemn in the strongest possible terms any further sales of advanced air defence systems to Dra-Pol.

Dra-Pol: well, I know that's not actually your plan per se, I was just trying to imply that any integration of the ROK would be rather messy.

<OOC: I will take control of the remaining ROK forces, just so somebody will have them. Given the fact that dra-pol had total strategic, tactical, and operational suprise, I don't think there will be enough ROK forces left to give Kilean an unseemly advantage. I'm sitting here with a copy of the International Institute for Strategic Studes The Military Balance 2002-2003, and I'll sort of assume control of all ROK forces in the south of the country, except for the airforce, which has been mostly destroyed. Basically, the only coherent forces in the ROK are one division around Taejon, the counter-infiltration brigades, some smaller units, unorganized troops running southwards, and it's civil defense troops (militia). The rest are cut off by Dra-Pol forces with very little hope of survival. I hope Dra-Pol agrees with this analyisis of the situation.<OOC>
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General Lee was pissed off. No word from the civilian leadership, Dra-Pol had pocketed most of the army stationed on the DMZ, and South Korea couldn't even mobilize it's reserves beacuse the general staff was probably dead and too many of the supply depots were blown by Red Bamboo troops. It was a disaster, and these arrogant, blond Kileanishe officers weren't exactly tactful in pointing that out.

He sighed. Their plan made sense, he hated it, but it made sense. Distribute arms to the people, leave them with cadres of special forces, and consolidate around Pusan. About a wing of aircraft- well, bits and pieces of about six or seven squadrons- had made it to Pusan, where Kilean paratroopers held the city and had ordered the civil defense forces to dig in.

As for the navy...Lee hadn't even heard from the navy. Nobody knew what happened to them. That was how badly command and control was messed up. Nobody could find the goddamn navy.

It seemed unreal. Nobody was in charge. General Lee didn't want to be in charge, but he was. He surveyed his forces.

One armored division entrenched at Taejon, blocking the intersections of higway 1, highway 25, and highway 35- basically the major routes south from the flat land around Soeul. The Kilean field marshall was screaming at him to withdraw south, but Lee had doubts. Taejon lay at one end of a taejon-pusan high speed railway. If kilean troops could just get to pusan, they could be brought up to Taejon to fight a delaying action. He had to convince them...

In addition to that, he had three counter-infiltration brigades. They'd taken heavy losses in combat with Banat and Red Bamboo. He was pulling them south to Pusan. They needed to regroup, and more importantly, secure the Pusan area against infiltrators.

The rest of his forces were a mish-mash of smaller units- 3 artillery regiments, an engineer brigade, a few battallions of marines. They were all fleeing to pusan, with the exception of the engineers, who were destroying bridges and causing rockslides along the Dra-Pol line of advance.

The air force? Currently some 39 jets- a mix of F-16's and F-4 phantoms, with 3 F-15's who somehow survived the first days of air-to-air combat. They were sidelined for the moment, getting re-organized into coherent squadrons.

Lee didn't like the Kileanishe, he didn't like them for being right. He had to follow their lead. He gave a bitter laugh. Here he was, heading up a government in exile in his own damn country.
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The mountain troops pull into pusan, to start the process of unloading. It is unclear on just where the division will be used. Kilean now has some 30,000 troops in the ROK, but they are paratroopers and light infantry. The forces able to respond quickly, most of them diverted from the lombardian islands.

The heavy units of II corps were a week away, and the Dra-Pol.....nobody knew how far off they were.

Theatre Command Headquarters, CINC Asian Operations
Tokyo, Honshu, Japan
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Massive amounts of troops began to pour in from the countryside as well as the Agrigentian homeland in Tropical Paradise (Central Pacific). The AA Rapid Reaction Forces remain on hold however, pending diction by the alliance itself as a whole. Agrigentian Naval Forces, in the form of the Second Fleet, two pursuit groups and their associated submarine forces, are en-route from the Japanese Coast to the North China Sea in the immediate vicinity of the Korean Peninsula.

The Second Fleet:
1 AGF-3 class Command Ship "Capo del Mare"
2 Invictus class Battleships
3 Arsenal Ships
2 AEGIS Fleet Guardian Arsenal Ships
5 Uccellino del Mare class Aircraft Carriers
4 Andrea Doria (NUM) Class Aircraft Carriers
5 MHC-51 Osprey Class Coastal Mine Hunters
37 Nike class Catamaran Corvettes
6 Naga Class Catamaran Cruisers
3 Re class Catamaran Marine Support Ships
8 Delfino class Catamaran Destroyers
12 DDG-993 Kidd-class destroyers
16 CG-47 Ticonderoga class Cruisers
28 DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers
31 FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates
6 T-AE 26 Kilauea class Ammunition ships
2 AO-177 Cimarron class fleet oilers
6 LHA-1 Tarawa class Ships carrying 1,000 Marines each, plus combat equipment*
3 LHD-1 Wasp class Ships each equipped with 6 F-35's and 2,000 Marines along with their LAVs and supplies.*

The Fifth Submarine Force:
12 SSN-688 Los Angeles class submarines
7 SSN-21 Seawolf class submarines
4 SSGN-726 Ohio class submarines

The Third Submarine Force:
22 SSN-21 Seawolf class submarines
8 SSN-688 Los Angeles class submarines
5 SSGN-726 Ohio class submarines

The 8th Pursuit Group:
1 WC Arsenal Ship
1 AEGIS Fleet Guardian Arsenal Ship
6 Delfino class Catamaran Destroyers
3 Animoso class Destroyers
7 Orizzonte class AAW frigates
14 Nike class Catamaran Corvettes
2 Andrea Doria (NUM) Class Aircraft Carriers

The First Submarine Force:
19 SSN-21 Seawolf class submarines
9 SSN-688 Los Angeles class submarines
5 SSGN-726 Ohio class submarines

The 10th Pursuit Group:
1 WC Arsenal Ship
1 AEGIS Fleet Guardian Arsenal Ship
6 Delfino class Catamaran Destroyers
4 Animoso class Destroyers
7 Orizzonte class AAW frigates
12 Nike class Catamaran Corvettes
2 Andrea Doria (NUM) Class Aircraft Carriers

"We must do something!" Lung said bitterly.

Adolphus shot back, "We owe those Asian Resistance zealots no favors! They betrayed our alliance during the Japann war, though our alliance with Red Tide caused hostilities."

"Well, what should we do? We cannot let communism overrun South Korea!"

"Well, we cannot do much. We can perhaps act unilaterally, only to have it be interpreted as an imperialist invasion. Otherwise, I don't think the Asians will let us fight the communists. We have a bad reputation, mostly caused by their propaganda."

"We should never have invaded Yemen. That operation was full of shit!"

von Steuben, having been sitting across from Lung, with Adolphus at the head of the table, quickly answered. "We needed a base in the area!"

"Why not Diego Garcia? No one wants it!"

"Perhaps. But this was a great demonstration of the Bonstocknian Navy."

"Admiral von Stueben, you failed us during the Japann war... that invasion from the back would never have happened if it weren't for you!"

"General Lung, what does your pathetic Air Force have to say for helping us? A few missiles at EI, and virtually no air support? If it weren't for the Navy, 250,000 Bonstocknians would be in Asian POW camps."

"Enough!" cried Adolphus. "This is madness! Red Tide got us into the Japann mess, and while I admit responsibility for Yemen, we'd best withdraw. And execute those idiots who said there was oil in Yemen."

A Bonstocknian Special Service guard standing at the side of the room smiled.

"Well, what should we do?" said Adolphus.

"We could have a massive air campaign, and bring them to their knees in one strike." said Lung.

"A Marine invasion of Okinawa!" said von Stueben.

"No! Diplomatic options for dealing with the Asian Resistance." said Adolphus.

"Assuming our deal goes well," said Lung "we should have no trouble from them anymore. We could even be allies with them. But we ought to send someone to negotiate. But who..."

"I was informed about Islandian women, who appearantly have a knack for seducing spies and diplomats." On the table he placed an old newspaper clipping. It read Latest killed in Japann war: Sven Bergsson, Bonstocknian Special Services, Taiwanese operations division; Fred Wilhelm, Bonstocknian Special Serivces, Taiwanese operations division...

"Well, do we have any women avaliable?" said von Stueben, skeptically.

Adolphus looked around. He saw a female BSS agent. "You there, name rank and unit!"

The woman responded, with a distinctive Japanese accent. "Miki Akubura, Lieutenant, Bonstocknian Special Services, Port Yuko office."

"Skills and experiance?"

"Graduate of BSS academy, fluent in Japanese and Chinese."

"Good. You're on the job. Fly to East Islandia and open up negotiations. We'll give you more orders later."

She smiled, again. Father will be most pleased, she thought.

"You said she was going to be here?" the man asked his companion. A tall, tanned native Islandian, Trun Shuwen was a graduate of the Navy Special Forces school and afterwards, served in teh Border Police. Now, he was working for the Protective Service, and was here with his partner, a pale, Caucasian Islandian by the name of Yelena Raschinova.

"Yes," Yelena replied. "This damned sun is in my eyes."

"This is Islandia," he said.

"Quiet, both of you," the Border Police officer next to them hissed. "Here she comes."

"What do you have on her?" Trun asked.

"Shes supposed to be some Bonstockian," he replied.

"Yea, they said that," Trun said sarcastically. "WHat else?"

"She's Japanese, speaks Chinese and Japanese well," his former comrade added. "Graduate of...it says BSS academy.."

Trun laughed. "Their bullshit school?" he asked.

Yelena smacked him hard. "Shut up," she said. "Its no laughing matter. Now go out and greet her, and Officer Wang will pop her if she tries to kill you."

Trun nodded and walked up to Miki. "Greetings, Madam. I am here on behalf of the Islandian government and I am here to take you to your lodgings. If you would please follow me..."

Outside, a few dozen Border Police officers, in plainclothes, dispersed throughout the crowds at Hu-kasa International Airport, watched and carried on their activities.

From the veranda, more blue-suited Border Police troops watched carefully, but casually, their weapons in hand and ready, just in case. Outside, armored Agrigentian-made cars awaited Akibura's arrival.

*****
OOC
i assume this akibura is President Akibura's daughter?

Should we make a new thread for 'negotiations'?

TO ALL ANTI- DRA POL NATIONS:

If you are sending forces to Korea, it would be best to inform Heersgruppe Koree high command of this, and attempt to organize our actions via TG. I want to create a unified high command. Kilean troops are already cooperating with surviving ROK units, and it would be best to at least divide theatres and main objectives between allies.

What would be even better would be to create a united allied command for ground and naval forces. Kilean Heersgruppe Koree should serve as the central organizational unit for integration of allied forces. We have pusan secured, and any troops sent to korea to fight shold be offloaded there to attempt to hold some sort of pusan perimiter. We can't attack in piecemeal bits and be defeated in detail.

I call for all allied ground forces to be placed under overall Kilean command (Field Marshall Anknecht would merely delegate overall objectives- they would still be under control of the nation that sent them) in and around Pusan. Naval force overall commander should be from another nation with significant sea power.

We need to fight united, getting our strategic objectives from one source. I do not propose total Kilean control over war efforts- high command will take the considerations of all nations seriously- we simply ask that other nations help us (and the people of korea) by accepting a unified command.

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3059590#3059590

ooc: Yes, President Akubura's daughter. Of course, Adolphus, Lung, and von Steuben don't know, otherwise they would have handed her over, or at least not let her go.

ic:

Looking around to see some men looking at her, Akubura's daughter grew suspicious. Hopefully, the old boxcutter in her pocket would not ever be used. Coated with a material that dispersed X-rays, it was sure to pass security. It did, after all, pass Bonstocknian security.

"Thank you, sir," she said to Trun.

Hopefully the East Islandians had not made the connection of surnames. Otherwise, she would do some hefty jailtime in Bonstock should Adolphus find out. Not to mention a seat in Asian war crimes trials alongside her father.

She had a sudden thought. I have no friends on this planet. Bonstock is against me, should they find out who I am, and certainly the Islandians are my enemies.

Of course, she had a job to do. With a copy of the proposals in her pocket, and all the Interrogation and Debate Club skills that she could muster, she prepared to do the enemy's bidding. Success, and she would certainly get a promotion. Even a seat of power in the Riksdag. Then Bonstock would fall before her.

"Right this way," the escort said, showing her to one of the cars. The man opened the door, and allowed Akubura in, and then shut the door. The car drove off to the hotel.

ooc: East Islandia utilizes Agrigentian Designed T-rays, they find everything on the molecular level then use computers to create an accurate image of any substantial matter.

ooc: East Islandia utilizes Agrigentian Designed T-rays, they find everything on the molecular level then use computers to create an accurate image of any substantial matter.

And my coatings scatter those T-rays, and make the boxcutter look like a mere stick. The ol' BSS technology department has outdone itself, once again.

<OOC>: uuh...is't there a seperate thread for you guys doing this? <OOC>

(ooc:Oh, I know you know, Kilean, I was just informing Hudecia :)
Knights of J. can try if he likes- we've not crucified anyone in months!)

Jilin Province, PR China

Sho Sulu was to be found in a pretty unimpressive little rented room. When Father was brought to him, the Banat Major was listening straight faced to modern music that was denied the Drapoel by their isolation. He found it absolutely baffling, but was trying hard to understand. Maybe he shouldn't have started with Fisticuffs Bluff, but how was he to know where to begin?

Anyway, Father's arrival was greeted with a smile and a lowering of hastily drawn Nambu 8mm.

"I heard about your work in Madagascar, comrade. DaKhiem would be glad of such weapons."

He didn't have to mention the homogeneous ethnic make-up of the penninsula, and especially of the Drapoel armed forces, more than 99% ethnic duplicates.

South Korea

Aircraft appearing over Seoul for a moment appeared to signal the end for the city, but then that would have made no sense. Dra-pol was short on aviation fuel, and crammed full of artillery shells. The L2D4 transports, as they turned out to be, unloaded supplies on the South Korean capital. Quite unexpected! Dra-pol was attempting to show that it wasn't here to kill other Koreans, and that the brief barrages of the city really were in response to foreign intervention, and not part of the original plan.

Fighting continued as CPRD forces closed in on the massive pocket of ROK resistance trapped by the destruction of Han bridges. Other People's Army forces sweeping down the west found South Koreans in full retreat, evidently hoping to reach allied forces further south. A serious ring appeared to be forming around Pusan.

"Not again!" Cursed Hotan.

With several safe paths now cut through the DMZ, more than a million Drapoel soldiers had crossed the border by the begining of day three, and two million more were working their way over. After less than two days of siege the PA commander at Wonju had lost patience. He was in serious danger of being called counter revolutionary for his delay.

Below the city evacuation orders came to the troop-supply tunnel that ran along side the B-tunnel. Characteristically short (ie malnurished) dark-skinned Drapoel dashed left and right, back to Dra-pol or into the heart of the ROK, it mattered little. The had to get out fast.

At 08:07am Wonju erupted as hundreds of tons of high explosive detonated below, killing countless thousands and bringing about the surrender of what havoc remained.

Xiannese Troops arrived near Inchon and steadily moves eastward.
46,000 troops has arrived at S. Korea.

Emperor Kim Ke arrives, shoted the guard. The Emperor in full uniform reviews the troops from his white horse siding with General Yeh.

Have you any information on Dra-Pol's advancment?-Kim
Stations near North Seoul reported to view bombers heading South East.-Yeh
Sir, Sir, Oh, 'bows' thousand years of grace my lord, said a young scout.
We are ready to take deep the soil, shall we order a defense sir?

Signal it out.

Xiannese forces take refuge in defensive position near the Eastern DMZ.


Meanwhile, a half a million troops started the invasion of Dra-Pol itself. Xiaguo is located north of Dra Pol(N. K) which transportation is easily required. Missiles has been fired at the nearby border and thousands of troops rush and advanced within 20 miles ahead of the borders. A naval blockade of North Korea is also planned.

Main Objectives
-Capture Pyongyang(North Korean capital)
-Conduct a Naval Blockade of the North
-Attack from the North
-Defend the South

OOC: Send a TG so we can coordinate this. I would like to help save the ROK.
IC

Arpad Hunyadi sat in deep silence as the aide left the room, carrying with her the order for the complete mobilization of the Imperial armies and fleets of the Hungarian empire. Hundreds of thousands of the standing army would be shipping off in the next day towards South Korea to bolster the Kilean and ROK units fighting there. The Liang forces were equipped with modified versions of Western equipment, mostly better.

303,000 men will be shipped out on planes and jets every two days until most of the Liang military is involved in the fight for Korea.


As the tired, gaunt, and yet 27-year old emperor mounted the podium to repeated camera flashes, he took the mike.

"Dra-pol's offensive into South Korea is unacceptable. The Empire maintains the right of any nation to self-determination, and we have a strong suspicion that will be denied to South Korea under the Pol Pot-like government of Dra-pol. The entire military of the Hungarian empire will be mobilized against Dra-pol, and we request them to return to the pre-war boundary. That will be all, I am not accepting questions."

Already the young man grew tired of his Imperial duties.

ooc:Near the DMZ, Xinguo? Is that a misunderstanding on my part, or did your planes/boats just get shot down for venturing recklessly close to Drapoel airspace?

For the record, though it looks like pretty much everyone who's joined so far is capable of decent RP, this may be semi-closed from now on, to new entries. I -and other players I've spoken to- don't want the thread to become too crowded. If you want to join from this point on, could you TG me or post OOC first? Cheers. I hope I'm farily open and flexible , I just don't want the thread to get too packed or flooded by noobs (newbies may be acceptable) or anything like that!

OOC: Thats fine with me. What will be the time frame? IE, when will 2 NS days be up?

ooc:Erm, it's pretty liberal. At the moment I'm just starting the third day of the invasion, so to all the rest of the world, you've known about the crisis for just three days, thus far. I'll try to keep mentioning in my posts how far into the invasion we are. I suppose the time is fluid, and largely depends on where Dra-pol is up to. Tomorrow we cross the Han in force :)

<OOC>So the Dra-Pol invasion as it stands is: basically, everything from the DMZ to the han river has been overrun/pocketed, or is about to be overrun?

In addition to that, (and lets say this is due to IC kilean military intelligence) how long should it take for Dra-Pol forces to "shake out" and march south?<OOC>

ooc: Well, it's pretty much a done deal north of the Han, anyway. I mean, there's still some resistance as the ROK forces try to contact one another and figure out if its worth holding on or not, but soon they'll realise its a lost cause in the north. Probably day 4 will see the consolidation of the north and day 5 at least airborne and tunnel-borne attempts to reinforce units further south. By the end of week one Dra-pol expects to be moving its over-land forces south of the Han.
I'm a bit unsure of the realistic speed of advance. I mean, considering that we've been massed on the border for fifty years, been digging tunnels for that long, and planning the attack for that long, we're well placed to move.. compared to outsiders reacting to the action. I don't want to get 'too' carried away though. It's difficult to balance the speed of my advance with the speed of international reaction. I mean, in reality in 1950 it took 5 days for any US intervention, which was hasty and instantly obliterated, and nearly two weeks after the NK invasion before the UN Command was created under MacArthur, but this is a different world.

I should be concentrating instead of having discussions about, "who you'd have in your harem" (Kazu Makino!)


Damn instant messengers.

The Republic of China condemns this invasion, and urges the use of peaceful means to secure a resolution that is satisfactory to all sides involved.

President Chen
Republic of China

(OOC: Not really planning to get involved this early. *goes back to devising strategies to invade Sino*)

As the massive air wings that will support the Han crossing form up, they are detected by AEW aircraft over the tsushima straits.

Four squadrons (48 ) of Raven fighters take off from Pusan. The first two head out over the Yellow sea, while the last two to launch head directly north.

As they near the Han river (and the swarm of Dra-Pol fighters), the powerful air search radars turn on. Targets are selected, and the Talon long-range missiles are volleyed in seconds. As the Dra-Pol jets contort to evade, the second part of the operation comes into play.

Beacuse of Dra-Pol low-level AA weapons, they were forced to fly over the yellow sea- but that means they can fly low. Really low. In peacetime, the Dra-Pol radars could have detected them, but not with the theatre EW aircraft in support and with some of them carrying jamming pods.

Four squadrons of Falkon fighters (48 ) and 15 ROK F-16's head inland and pop up over the Han river, engaging the Dra-Pol aircraft in a swirling dogfight.

The Ravens turn away, and head back to Pusan. Now the operation is in the hands of the KAF's dogfighting skills.


<OOC: the Falkon is basically a Kilean version of the aborted Israeli "Lavi" project from the 80's. It's more or less analogous to an F-16, although more nimble in a dogfight and with better medium-range air-to-air abilities.

I had also had a much nicer writeup for this operation, but the forums ate it.<OOC>

Over South Korea

PAAF jets suffered heavy casualties when Kilean and ROK aircraft popped up, many ground-attack aircraft going down. Of course, the republic had almost four thousand in total, so losses inflicted by three score hostiles were not all that significant as yet.

Still, after taking a second hit while trying to carry out other operations, the Drapoel command was finally inclined to pay attention. A hurridly arranged sortie was carried out even as ground-attack aircraft fell in the north.

Three squadrons (36 or so) SU-17D raced south over east and west coasts at above Mach 2, covered by two squadrons of SU-15D flying at an easily detectable altitude over land. The general idea was to have the SU-15D draw AA fire while SU-17D attacked near Pusan. They were flying close to the extent of their range and would have little loiter time before turning about and making for Drapoel airfields in the south.

Most of the aircraft were based inside mountains, their runways only partially exposed.

The II and III Hudecian Pacific Fleets, which had been bound for Yemen but were now redirected to the ROK, were beginning to arrive.

Admiral Smetka stood silently on the flight deck of the Hudecian Elessar-class carrier. He had been expecting to fight Bonstockian imperialists, not isolationist communists. However, he supposed that it was fortunate that their fleets had already been spoiling for a brawl. Because now they had the fight of their lives.

It was during refuelling in Yokohama that that he had received word of the invasion. Hudecian intel prided itself on being quick to respond to a crisis, even if they couldn't do anything to stop it.

The parliament was already engaged in the Bonstockian crisis when this was plopped into their laps. The conservative-controlled Parliament reacted faster than the Democrat-Cabinet, upping the ante and forcing Honatava's hand this time.

Still, Smetka thought as the Korean peninsula appeared on the horizon. Hudecia has always been the most aggressive member of the AA. They are the first to respond to a crisis and the first to suggest war as an option. It wasn't because Hudecians were a war-mongering people. Mostly it was because, in a crisis, no one even considers war as an option until someone suggests it. Gets the ball rolling... play hardball... watch your enemy squirm...

Maybe that is why "chicken" is so popular in Hudecia... hmph... who knew...

Lt. Rangan checked his systems again. The long trans-pacific flight had made him very nervous. His Avro Arrow II had been flying like a dream, but still, as Pusan appeared on the horizon, he felt a sense of utter dread come over him. He was brought back to reality by the sound of his wingman's voice.

"This is squad leader," he replied.

"Lt., I'm trying to get hold of either Kilean or ROK forces to confirm our arrival but I think my radio is out."

"I'll try mine.... this is the Hudecian IInd Air Defence Corps, requesting permission to land.... come in...."

The nearly 300 Hudecian fighters and fighter/bombers glided silently through the air as they approached Pusan. Below them the silhouettes of the IInd and IIIrd naval groups were barely visible in the twilight.

Rangan's thoughts turned back to his family back in Victoria. He thought of his young daughter that he had tucked into bed before he left.. of his wife... his eyes turned towards that small photo attached to the side of the control panel...... he knew what he was doing was right... but then... why did he feel so much fear?

As the SU-17's dove down on Pusan, the flight of Lavi's on CAP were vectored to attack the SU-15's.

The SU-17's found no opposition in the air, but they did find four ROK Hawk batteries, six Kilean batteries of etronian-made "sky sweeper" long range SAM's, and the Roland SAM systems of the Kilean divisions stationed around Pusan.

Now, this didn't bring the dead refugees in the airport terminal back to life, nor did it repair the ROK F-16's destroyed, nor did it hasten the repair of the cratered runway.

But those obsolescent fighters didn't exactly go unharmed....
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II corps is at this point a mere days away, with even more troops coming in a week. The Kilean mountain and airborne divisions seem to be preparing to move out soon.

Pusan has been further fortified by retreating ROK units and civilian levies. Now effort is moved to securing outlying towns, and creating a larger network of prepared positions.

"Lt., I'm trying to get hold of either Kilean or ROK forces to confirm our arrival but I think my radio is out."


Kilean air traffic control comes back:

"you have permission to land, but be advised, runway 38 is out due to PAAF strikes."

Hudecia: being the most active member of the AA, you should TG us so we can co-ordinate our plans.

double post

ooc:Woah, I just noticed that Xinguo has drastically edited an earlier post, I have to address that before moving on...

That's all rather too fast, I was still trying to figure out where exactly your country was, and suddenly there's 46,000 troops at Inch'on! Inch'on that Dra-pol has only just attacked! How'd they get there? If they just sailed down the west coast of Dra-pol they got one hell of a kicking on the way- if they sailed down the wast coast and then back up the west they got..a hell of a kicking along the way. On the east as well? This is all rather hurridly arranged, inside a couple of days of the first sign of any need for any deployment to anywhere in the ROK- with planning like that you'll be lucky to get to the beaches, and sure as hell won't get a single man off them alive, unless he's marching into captivity. Where exactly is Xinguo.. all across the northern border? That's a pretty big border, and I have been using PC China as my neighbour, as I say. If I'd been using Xinguo as my neighbour we'd quite likely have invaded you instead/as well!

For the reccord, DaKhiem is the CPRD's capital, Pyongyang is essentially a big military facility, mainly concerned with aviation R&D, and a fighter base. It's sort of a city as so many servicemen and their families live there. DaKhiem is situated in the central mountains of Dra-pol vaguely east of Pyongyang, and has a daytime population of little more than 30,000. Kanggye is the nation's major military industrial city, and other than that and Kosong- the open city, we've a ruralised population.

I don't think I can really have Xinguo as my northern neighbour, because it messes with too many things. Kanggye was chosen partly because it was quite safe, being as we get on well with China. If our northern neighbour were potentially hostile my country would be arranged differently, and/or we'd have struck them first, to keep Kanggye away from the front.

I'm not sure how we should go about this, but a lot needs to be addressed here.

(I'll freeze events until things are clearer, and not advance further or describe the results of ROK/Kilean resistance to the air attack until then.)

(Oh, and hey, Avro Arrows! Cool, it'll almost be an honour to shoot them down/be shot down by them!)

OOC: Thanks.. I upgraded them to modern standards... because they had problems like the engine melting that couldn't be addressed then that can be now... hence the Avro Arrow II status.

About the map problem... I'm not sure how to solve it other than to allow you to adjust your troop positions to allow for a hostile China.

About your capital.. considering how hyperisolationist you are I don't think anyone could know where your capital is or where your government centers are. So for the Xiannese troops to be heading to Pyongyang would show how little the outside world really knows about Drapol.

Just to be completely clear my nation would be in the vicinity of Canada.

Quinntonian Dra-pol is now offering to provide all incoming forces with the food that they may need to keep going. We will also accept any damaged ships or wounded that require long-term care.
WWJD
Amen.

OOC
Things are quite confused...and the biggest problem is how Dra-pol attacked wihtout letting someone play SOuth Korea until Kilean stepped in.

Sigh..

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Islandian naval forces in Japan begin to reinforce their beleaugered comrades in South Korea, carriers and catamaran cruisers forming a defensive screen to protect against all incoming hostiles.

Submarines are deployed into the North China Sea and intot he strait between Korea and Japan.

Meanwhile, Musa Brigade and Jung Brigade land in airfields near China, across the strait from Korea (airfields that I used against Japann earlier).

Otherthan that, no hostile actions are recorded.

As the mountain division has been fully unloaded, the KNS Ostendt battlegroup moves to take up position off the west coast of Inchon. They'll stay at least ten miles away from the shore- moving in to provide naval gunfire support would be suicide- but the ships will be able to fire SAM's at PAAF jets over Inchon.

The Ostendt Battlegroup comprises:

1 Kirov-clas nuclear powered battle cruiser (aah, the name sounds n00bish, but kilean got this as the ex-soviet yuri andropov)

3 Udaloy destroyers
3 Soveremnyy destroyers (really about crusier-size, but designated destroyers)

The current Kilean strategy is to bleed the air forces and generally attempt to slow the Dra-Pol advance with whatever means we can until significant ground troops arrive.

<OOC: this mean's I'll be RPing a lot of interesting naval/air actions, but nothing really significant until troops arrive. For the record, I don't thinks are that confused at all. South Dalania was delted for inactivity, and the situation with the ROK has been handled seamlessly.<OOC>
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At Pusan, engineers frantically repair the damage from the Dra-Pol airstrike. The Hudecian jets are found spots on the tarmac and air traffic controlers have nervous breakdowns at learning they are now part of a tri-lingual institution.

On the island of Jeju-do, Kilean engineers have expanded the local airfield and are constructing several more runways. The first blasting has been started on what will be a large system of underground bunkers and hardened aircraft shelters. Jeju-do is quicky becoming a sort of "redoubt"

It also now has a large enough airport for the first Kilean jets to arrive there. The 5th Theatre support squadron is comprised of some 12 jets- 3 theatre ECM aircraft, 3 Airborne Radar Platforms, and 4 ground-scanning radar platforms (equivalent to JSTARS), as well as 2 airborne data managment/command post aircraft. All are basically commerical airliners stuffed to the gills with electronics. In addition, a wing of "gryphon" strike aircraft are flown in from Kilean, and begin to operate from Jeju-Do.

The "Gryphon" is a mid-range two-seat bomber/strike jet, basically equivalent to the F-111 or "Fencer".
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Kilean Air Force total aircraft in Korean theatre:

at Pusan:

61 Raven interceptors. (5 squadrons, 1 survivor of the inchon attack)

~37 ROK aircraft (various types, in various states of damage, with more coming in- yet to be organized)

108 Falkon fighters (in 9 squadrons, one of them being tactical recon)

At Jeju-Do

36 gryphon strike aircraft (three squadrons, one of them being the Basilisk tactical ECM variant- eqivalent to US "prowler")

5th Theatre support squadron. (12 various craft- AWACS/command/etc)

12 tankers (tanker version of Albatros transport)
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It is only qunitonnian supplies that can keep these jets going. In kilean, the merchant marine is still in the process of being nationalized, and the Kilean government is running around chartering or buying every roll-on/roll-off cargo ship it can get.

In addition, Kilean airways has also been nationalized. There are no more commercial flights to Kilean, as every airliner is now going to be busy carrying troops, spare missiles, and spare parts to Pusan.

For it's part, the Kilean leadership is, frankly, scared. Field Marshal Inkermann- ever the progressive type- is urging the premier to "nuke the grubby slant-eyed bastards!", although people are ignoring the old codger, while the navy is grimly claiming that a CPRD in control of the hyunidai shipyards would be a very dangerous naval power.

The ISD is being rather quiet, after they had to admit that they had no human intel sources in Dra-Pol, and they never would have them.

Worst of all, from Premier Frosh's perspective, is that there really wasn't much that Kilean could DO right now. Aside from some airstrikes, or maybe shooting down a handful of Dra-Pol jets.....

The premier made a thoughtful face. Maybe that young kid from the Air Force was right....
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Kilean is a big pack rat when it comes to military stuff. They keep it. They still have sortehouses full of WW2 era small arms.

They also still have 50 SM-02 "Riverbed" ICBM's. After kilean switched to it's classified-as-of-this-time nuclear delivery system, they were stuck with this small forces of obsolete, inaccurate missiles. They had a big throw weight, as they were made to toss big and primitive atomic warheads, but other than some noise made about using them for satillite launches, nobody really knew what to do with them....

That argument is over early in the morning as all 50 are fueled up, and carry their spankin' new conventional HE warheads all the way to Kosong. One of the missiles just outright Will Not Launch, and another blows up right after liftoff, but the other 48 scream onwards!

They carry 4,000 pound conventional warheads, and have a CEP of about a kilometer, so nobody expects them to do much to Kosong, but is sure as hell makes the Kilean general staff feel like they're doing something.

Of course, "not much" in military terms is just hell for the citizens of that poor city, as explosive fire rains down from the sky. It gets even worse later, as some 64 Kilean bombers over the Sea of Japan, at their usual 300 miles away, salvo over a hundred and twenty Longbow cruise missiles at Kosong.

<OOC: the Kilean military is rather frustrated at this time. they want to kick dra-pol ass, and badly, but aside from chucking cruise missiles at things, can't do much until significant ground forces arrive in a couple weeks.<OOC>

OOC: until we sort this out I'll just RP some details... nothing military...


Lt. Rangan led a group of fighter pilots to the control tower to get a feel for what was going on up there.

Stepping into the tower, he found it a scene of absolute confusion with Korean controllers frantically moving around trying to organize everything. Watching for a moment to see if anyone noticed their presence he finally decided to try something more aggressive.

"Does anyone here speak any English?" He loudly asked.

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Aboard Hudecian Flagship "La belle province"

"We have the II and III fleets here," the aid said pointing to a spot just off of Pusan on the big map in the command room.

"The IV naval task force is being moved to support Kilean transport efforts down here..." he said pointing to another position.

"And now the V and VI fleets are moving here too." Admiral Smetka finished. "Are they stripping the home defences?"

"There is still the I and VII naval task forces in Hudecia. They do not look likely to be moved anytime soon. We also have confirmation that the II ADC (Aid Defence Corps) has arrived in Pusan. The Hudecian military command is not sure what else to do, it looks like we have our own perogative for where we go from here."

Smetka leaned back in his chair... something didn't seem right about this whole situation. With the situation as confused as it is, things can get out of hand really quickly. "Who is in command of the ROK forces?" He asked at last.

"Someone by the name of General Lee. Not the Robert E. one however."

"I'd hope not, Robert E. Lee commanded an army that ultimately lost the war... "

Errr. Mistunderstanding aye. Not Xinguo, Xiaguo.

North of Yalu River, most of South Manchuria.

Since I didn't recieve your attack on Inchon, I will generally remove the stance of my troops and instead call out a frontal attack from the North.

A total of 680,000 Troops will invade North Korea.

Naval Ships pulling out from Yemen has set course toward East China Sea. Blockade is still at thought.

"Ahnahasaeyo to you my friends." whispers General Yeh while he overlooks thousands of troops crossing the Yalu.

(ooc: Woops, sorry about the typo. All right, I’ll try to work with the idea of Xiaguo existing north, and just assume that China’s.. still around somewhere near by, in at least partiality- we have a lot of Banat agents there doing dastardly things :) This is going to be a really long post, I’ve a lot to respond to!)

South Korea

Things hadn’t gone perfectly well- international reaction had been more rapid than anticipated. Banat sources had suggested that the Asian Alliance at least was somewhat complacent about Korea after fifty more years of characteristic Drapoel introspection. The CPRD had largely forgotten about its run-in with Kilean interests and even the few heroes of Africa who’d escaped home after a long trek to Libya were now forgotten army labourers.
Many of the jets sent to attack Pusan simply hadn’t returned, and reports from the handful that did suggested that enemy air defences far south were still in reasonably good order.

No matter, thought Hotan, the jets were cheap and the pilots less than expert. They could be replaced if need be. The only air force concern was for aviation fuel. Even the prospect of blockade did relatively little to concern the Central Directorature. Dra-pol had spent most of the Crusader War under total naval blockade, and by the end of it nothing much was changed. Of course Dra-pol had also spent most of that conflict labouring under enemy air superiority, hence today’s prevalence of ground-based air defences in the CPRD. Intelligence availed to anti-Drapoel forces and gathered by the ROK –largely based on guesswork and the unqualified information provided by defectors such as former CPRD operative ‘Akiyoro’- hinted at massive defences. Anything from 30,000-75,000 static anti-aircraft guns from 23mm to 100mm, 12,000 DRAR-1 SAM emplacements, 500 S-125/SA-3 Goa SAM emplacements, over 2,000 HQ-2B SAM launchers, as well as 11,000 D-ZSU-47-2 SPAAGs and several hundred self-propelled DRAR-1 SAM units. The PAAF existed almost exclusively for the republic’s expansion, and stood to serve little purpose there after.

Hotan was willing to see it smashed if his compensation was South Korea.

This was well, perhaps, as it became apparent that modern SAMs and aircraft were being moved in to cause damage. Kilean ships moving on Inch’on was cause for great concern. Not again! Ran the general feeling.

Of course there’d been no anti-shipping missiles to greet MacArthur’s forces.

Dra-pol

From Pyongyang and several smaller airstrips further south –many of their hangars cut into the central mountains themselves- KJ-1 attack fighters climbed into the air, payloads this time were in the form of DSJ-1 and Qian Wei anti-shipping missiles. The latter, a sea-skimming Dra-pol/Penglai joint development, possessing a 130km range would in the main be launched before their carrier aircraft even reached the Drapoel coast, provided that the Kilean’s couldn’t shoot down a stream of eighteen aircraft at more than that maximum range. Each of these fighters bore a missile below each inboard wing section, providing a considerable weight of fire.

(ooc:I don’t want to be too unrealistic- most of our airfields are tiny little efforts with one squadron or even partial squadrons stationed in underground bunkers or hangars cut into hill or mountain. As such you generally won’t see a massive wall of X-hundred aircraft coming at you, rather one squadron with another shortly behind that, then another, and so on. We haven’t enough fuel to loiter and form up into big wings, plus we’d prefer to pop up seemingly out of a mountain and hit fast, rather than forming up and giving you warning that we’re coming. I’m not sure that it’s a perfect strategy, but its what we’ve got.)
Some may find it strange that aircraft stationed at tiny isolated airstrips could switch so readily from ground-attack rockets and bombs to large anti-shipping missiles, especially in a nation supposedly suffering recession after endlessly excessive military expenditure. Some answer was provided to the omniscient observer who cared to glance below the bedrock of the Choson People’s Republic.

Thousands of Drapoel men and women ran to and fro lugging munitions, fuel, and other supplies. Here or there one fell and was caught in the wheels of a tiny underground train as it rattled through the darkness. Something akin to miniature ride-on trains seen at so many western parks, laden with children invited to duck as the vehicle passed through a fibreglass tunnel, these were instead ferrying military supplies by the ton. Here and there they slowed as blast doors were opened and closed, sometimes passing a dim light source as one or other of Sulo’s gigantic storage bunkers was brought online. “Come back to D-12-7.” One man called out to his sister as she drove a train by his post, “Haeju needs more aviation fuel!”

No one outside the Central Directorature knew exactly how much was stockpiled down there. Even many ordinary Drapoel had little idea that such complexes existed, being more than sufficiently occupied with their own daily grind and assuming the thousands of displaced workers below their feet to have been called up or executed.

South Korea

The advance continued at a relentless pace with People’s Army regular forces now crossing the Han in force. Amphibious tanks and APCs, aircraft, and tunnels lead the way as temporary bridges were slowly cast across the waters. Lesser men might have collapsed in exhaustion, but the hardy Drapoel pressed on, many clinging desperately to armoured vehicles, others marching as fast as their characteristically short legs would carry them. Here and there a ROK sniper took off a head only to find that the Drapoel carried on regardless. Soon the sniper would find himself absolutely alone and miles behind enemy lines as his comrades were over-run.

A lucky few found somewhat unexpected assistance, though. One marksman claimed to have killed eight People’s Army soldiers including two possible officers since the advanced reached him just north of Suwon. He had survived a casual volley of return fire given by 40mm knee-mortars but become quite disoriented and panicked by the unphased progress of his enemy in the face of withering sniper fire. He’d escaped and come across what appeared to be an enemy patrol. The men looked Drapoel- a little shorter than he, a little darker of skin, but they identified themselves without that baffling Drapoel dialect, identified themselves as being from Quinntonian Dra-pol, home of the proportionally largest defection since Vichy. This ROKA sniper was amongst the first of many out of luck Southern soldiers to temporarily join forces with Quinntonian Drapoel as they helped him find his unit. More than that they ambushed a People’s Army checkpoint along the way having watched it established and waited for the armoured personnel carriers to withdraw before killing all four women soldiers left on hand to staff the KPV machinegun.

Soon Red Bamboo units had to be diverted from their positions as spearheads on regular units advancing south to counter insurgency roles in captured ROK territory. The Banat too joined in, and proved rather better at it- it was more or less what they were for, after all. Still, as thousands of ROKA troops clashed with tens of thousands of CPRD regulars further south, the most vicious fighting was fought in the occupied north, between Banat and Red Bamboo on one side and Quinntonian Drapoel agents and South Korean locals on the other. Sniper duels here, sabotage and retribution against locals there.

Kosong, Dra-pol

“The Open City.” Littered with Banat spy-shops it may have been, but at least it was possible to wear pale skin or blond(e) hair without doing a disappearing act. In certain establishments it was possible to use actual currency rather than voucher-filled booklets. What little foreign investment and what few foreigners remained in Dra-pol could be found here.

Far far above what may just be –after Seoul and Hamhung- the largest city on the peninsula missiles collide as CPRD countermeasures are launched against Kilean warheads. The PAAF response is relatively modest, no one wants to expend relatively limited CS-400 stocks. Over 80% of those fired find their mark, but had the score been perfect there would not have been enough to stop every incoming missile. One of the huge ICBMs levelled the best tailor’s in Dra-pol, another set fire to the city’s main police station, and still others contributed to bringing down the second largest video screen in the country, silencing its propaganda newsreel in the middle of a speech by Secretary Hotan.

Patrolling over the Sea of Japan, one of the modified old L2D4 that acted as the PAAF’s eye-in-the-sky did this time detect incoming aircraft as Kilean bombers rumbled along far off shore. As it turned out, the detection gave just a couple of minutes warning before cruise missiles were loosed against Kosong, by which time one squadron of a dozen J-10 and two of SU-15D were en route towards the bombers. The latter aircraft wouldn’t have range enough to give chase far in the likely event that the bombers turned before their 50km range R-40RD AAMs could engage. Still, that was a lot of bombers, and it presented a less than highly manoeuvrable target that the PAAF couldn’t turn down- the J-10s at least would try for it, arming 90km range AA-12/R77 as they sprinted flat out.

Kosong was soon hit by a great many of the cruise missiles, just a few being taken out in a barrage of DRAR-1 missiles and all calibres of anti-aircraft gunnery. The docks took a pounding, several large commercial vessels –impounded at the outbreak of war- sinking in the harbour, taking the flags of various nations with them. Two sinking hulks blocked the entrance to the harbour, cranes were crippled and warehouses set ablaze. The city’s railway depot too was at least damaged in the attack as shoulder-launched SAMs whizzed about in all directions.

“Comrade Director, the Kosong Situation Report.”

Little Koshiako returned the minor secretary’s salute –unlike many older Drapoel the boy didn’t have to fight the urge to bow, he’d known nothing prior to Sulo’s teachings and didn’t have bad habits to break. He dismissed the comrade and sat to regard what he’d been handed. The cheap paper was already holed in several places, punched right through by the Black Gull Publishing Tap Dancer model typewriter that’d transcribed the report.

“Comrade Major!” Koshiako Kurosian called to the Banat officer posted outside his office. A couple of salutes later Sho Kim was taking the Director’s orders for the rounding-up of survivors in Kosong. The little experiment was over, and no one who’d tasted the moderately western lifestyle was getting out of the “Open City”. The Major was directed to a list of names and faces, foreigners who were not to be harmed –if they’d even survived the Kilean strikes- but to be detained for the immediate future. Diplomats and businessmen from China, the African Commonwealth, Beth Gellert, Taiwan, Penglai, Lusaka, Vietnam, places DaKhiem didn’t yet find sufficient cause to loathe. Their pictures and names were to be circulated amongst the troops, everyone else was staying in Kosong either as co-operative friends of the Republic or as corpses, it didn’t matter.

Northern Dra-pol

Xiaguo forces hadn’t massed on the border without DaKhiem’s notice. Though the CPRD had never previously thought of that nation as a primary enemy, paranoia had remained the Republic’s driving force. The beginning of the Xiaguo advance unleashes all hell in this remote corner of the world. Suddenly Xiaguo shipping is an acceptable target as anything within 130km of the Drapoel coast is subject to scrutiny by shore-based missile battery commanders.

So many dark little faces peered across from the southern bank of the Yalu, bayonets glinting, as had the knives of their ancestors when the Mongols came this way. The Drapoel saw before them another barbarian-horde come like so many before to force change upon their ancient little homeland. The Mongols couldn’t stick it out, nor the Japanese on either of their attempts, the Russians in imperial and Soviet manifestation, the Raysians, Happy Baseball Fans, Promise of Joshuans. To the rank and file this, with the Xiaguo, would be no different.

The only bridges across the river –those meant to carry limited trade with China- were quick to fall. Should ever present explosives be disabled the PAAF was always quick to provide an airborne means to a crossing’s end. The first yards of Drapoel soil were found riddled with mines and booby-traps thicker than acne on the unpopular child. Here lay everything that one could imagine being killed or injured by. Tank traps, anti-personnel mines, blades on this tree, trip wire between those rocks, pits with spikes, passes rigged to collapse, a nightmare as faced by the Christians when they tried to advance inland from Hamhung.

On top of that were snipers brought up shooting duck and other small, fast game. An infantry soldier was frighteningly easy pray to these men and women, and one could forget catching the communist who’d just slain your CEO, s/he’d be off on foot leading any reckless pursuers into any number of traps or ambushes. RPG-69I flew like raindrops in a monsoon, whipped into the faces of advancing forces from behind every rock and up every tree. Aircraft would enjoy the same from QW-2 SAMs, not to mention the flack from countless thousands of gun barrels.

Between Sinuiju and Pyoktong (village collectives rather than cities, in this reality) People’s Army forces fell back a little, covered by heavy artillery fire as they went. From west of Kanggye however Drapoel behaviour was different as multi-divisional forces upped-sticks and pushed back across the Yalu themselves. This area enjoyed the Republic’s second highest concentration of forces from an army of 58million various constituents. Across the entire length of the Dra-pol/Xinguo border, guns of 75, 100, 105, 115, 150 and 190mm bore and 122mm rockets began to shower absolutely anything of Xinguo that they could reach from near the border, often from fortress-like “HARTS”. In all this constituted in the first hour some six to eight thousand active artillery tubes. The little trains that ran under Dra-pol ran at a frantic pace as requests for further munitions blocks were sent back and forth.

Dra-pol’s tunnels under South Korea and many of those uncovered and destroyed below Hamhung were now fairly high-profile weapons of terror, one might say. Those that extended from the northern border were less spectacular- they didn’t reach to Xinguo’s far borders, they didn’t under write the capital, and they didn’t check every military installation in the country. They did exist, however, many lying dormant for years. They were shorter, less reliably supplied with clean air, but still useful. Assault Divisions began to filter through from the rear faces of Drapoel hillsides, shuffling through the uncomfortable passages until they came to various exits often behind the advance elements of the Xiaguo attack. It was well that Dra-pol’s special forces were several hundred thousand strong or the Red Bamboo might not have had officers spare to lead the regulars through the stifling heat of the tunnels and into the enemy rear. Assault units were attacking Xiaguo supply lines, vanguard units, and field commands within an hour of the enemy’s first attempts to cross the Yalu.

In other tunnels extending just barely across the border valves were opened and pipes driven up the final inches through the surface. Nerve gas began to pump through by the ton attacking the enemy wherever the terrain would make it difficult for Drapeol soldiers to do the job. Still more tunnels were simply blown up by hundreds of tons of TNT, ripping huge craters into the earth and sinking or blasting apart anyone above. The thunderous explosions could be heard tens of miles away much as similar spirit-shaking blasts had been heard in England as they blew apart German trenches in the Great War. A jarring experience for anyone opposed to the CPRD, and a clear stirring boost to its defenders.

Perhaps Dra-pol would just take this neighbour, instead?

As well? Several days into the war the little trails and underground rails that carried the revolution were still absolutely packed with the millions of feet mobilised for war.

Admiral Stotten had been in a lot of crises, but hadn't yet seen combat.

Well, neither had the Kilean navy. But they were seeing it now. As it became clear that no amphibious operation would be made against inchon, the descision was made that the KNS Ostendt battlegroup would be better put to use guarding Pusan.

Admiral Stotten snorted. Should have told him that before he was in range of the PAAF jets. A pillar of smoke on the horizon marked the location of the KNS Unison. The sovreyemnny class destroyer had taken two antiship missiles, and was somehow managing to stay afloat through the skill of it's damage control teams and more than a bit of luck.

The admirals thoughts were broken by a shriek as another SA-N-6 missile flew out of it's launch tube. It was followed by several more.

Stotten felt a grim pleasure. As a rule, you don't throw piecemeal air attacks at a 28,000 ton battlecruiser bristling with point defense cannons and over a hundred SAM's. The squadrons were being fought off- even with the KNS Unison slowing them down, they would make it back to Pusan. They'd gone bang-bang and shot up some PAAF jets, they'd tossed shells at Inchon, they'd lost some sailors and headed home.

A recon in force. How un-goddamn-kilean. High command had been pulling a LOT of half-assed actions in this war so far. Stotten was worried. That wasn't how Kilean commanders worked.

But it's how they were working now. Here he was at the end of the first engagement of the modern Kilean navy- and it was some pointless clash that left a couple score men dead.

He shook his head. Somebody had better start kicking asses soon.
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The "Donner" heavy bomber was designed basically to level dibujantean cities with carpet bombing and to tote big antiship missiles around. They had a 30mm cannon in the rear, yeah, but the crews sort of agreed that those were just so that they could give a "screw you!" to whoever was shooting them out of the sky.

Right now, the gunners in the heavy bombers were sort of symbolically flipping off the drapoel jets that had loosed missiles at them. The bombers dove, turned on ECM, filled the sky with chaff and flares, and opened up the throttle- but that wasn't enough. Thirteen of the mighty planes , their airframes broken, went tumbling into the sea of japan below them. The crews had ejected, probably to be picked up by SAR helicopters operating out of Pusan, but Kilean high command is faced with another "oh, damn, they can do that" moment. From now on, the bomber raids will be covered by fighters from Pusan or Jeju-do.
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General Lee was tired of waiting. But that's all he could do. The good news was that more and more stragglers were showing up, and that the Kilean mountain division had moved up to support his position. He now had a ROK division of some 25,000 men, an armored brigade, and what amounted to a ROK reinforced infantry brigade. Most of those units were ad-hoc, but they were shaking out and digging in as fast as they could.

Field Marshal Anknecht, in the first act of modesty Lee had ever seen from a Kilean, had placed the mountain division under his command. From his CP in an old courthouse, Lee could see the columns of Kilean troops going up into the hills around Taejon. He'd discovered that the Kilean division of "light" troops had brought an absurd number of artillery tubes. A regiment of the 152mm howitzers were setting up in the square right in front of him.

General Pak-Soon Lee sat there and worried. He worried with every officer (and many enlisted men) in what was left of the ROK: how soon would the drapoel be there?

Nobody knew. All they could do was fret until then. That was why there were these insignificant skirmishes at sea and in the air, that was why Kilean high command was fretting away nervous energy in minor actions. There was literally nothing that could be done. Either the transports with II corps (and later 3rd and 7th armies) would get here first, or the Dra-Pol would. It was as simple as that.

Simple. Lee hated simple.

The government of LRR condemns this invasion, and calls on Dra-pol to withdraw or face the consequences.

From the LRR houses of parliament, a telegram was sent to the ROK government, or whatever the closest thing to that might be.

At the port city of Bedford Mallard on the Bering sea, the port is full of hustle and bustle. Tanks and armored vehicles can be seen driving onto RO/RO ships in droves, rotorless helicopters are towed into the cavernous bays of the RO/ROs as well.

Overhead, flights of MiG-29KIs and Jaguar IINs in LRRN blue-grey overfly the harbor, headed for the many dark shillouettes gathered offshore.

On the bridge of the LRRNS Harriet Beecher Stowe, admiral Jared Hampton watches as a Jaguar IIN traps aboard his ship.

"How many are aboard, Mr. Warwick?"
"Eighty percent of the aircraft, and all the helicopters, sir."
"Ok. How far are they on loading up the logistics vessels?"
"They should be done by morning, sir."
"Very well. Carry on, Commander."
"Aye, sir."

Admiral Hampton looks out into the fog. Surrounding his carrier, the four other LRRN fleet carriers and a cloud of frigates wait in the frigid waters. Several miles away, the lights of Bedford Mallard can be seen, on top of cranes and freighters. The port was always busy, with oil tankers, icebreakers, freighters, and naval vessels, being the home port of the pacific fleet. The SAM and ASM radars perched on the hills surrounding the port stand gloomily in the fog. While he could not see them, he knew the missile batteries could not be far away.

The fleet prepares to set sail to their first battle in a very long time.....

Presidential Tower, People's Republic of Spyr

President Strain looked over the illuminated map built into the table in front of him. Red and white dots were clustering rapidly in and around the Korean penninsula as data came in, but matters were still sketchy. Yet, it had happened too fast... no one seemed to be taking the time to consider the Drapoel perspective. The President himself had no clue what was motivating them, and what could stop them, but unlike many, he was aware of just how incomprehensible Dra-pol currently was... and, his first objective was going to be to learn how they could be dealt with. The large number of planes and ships in the Sea of Japan, disturbingly close to Spyr, made it evident that they could not sit idly by.

"Director Aramaki?"

"Yes, sir?"

"See if we cant dispatch a special envoy to Dra-pol... the conflict will make it difficult, but we must discover how they think, to know how far they will go... and perhaps to make them understand the price they might pay."

Spyran overtures about sending an emissary for political discussions begin their attempt to reach Dra-pol, though a highly isolationist state probably doesnt have too many channels.

Spyran air and naval assets in the Sea of Japan go on alert.

(ooc:Disclaimer! I'm full of vodka!If i 'do a Yeltsin' I may wish to take it back inthe morning! :) Gosh, I almost feel guilty for drawing so many RPers into my self-centred threads without seeking out their own RPs, but that's the introspective state for you, I suppose..)

The Central Directorature, DaKhiem, the Choson People's Republic of Dra-pol

With Kosong in chaos following Kilean air strikes the republic's tenuous grip on the outside world was slipping. Still, the huge black DaKhiem-based monolith of the partially subterran Central Directorature -its imposing face again pock-marked by enemy munitions- continued its operation.

Drapoel communications technology was relatively primative, but it was apparent that some outside the republic had losely grasped this fact as signals were picked-up by one of countless under-used diplomatic stations.

"Comrade Major! Comrade Major!" Cried the teenage girl operating one of the CD's communucations terminals, her excitement drawing a senior (23yr old) Banat officer, Sho Song, to her vacinity.

"A communication... it is not from a listed source." Said the confused and anxious young girl. She looked a lot like that Yasuki, thought the Major, remembering so many Crusader War-era posters of the first Drapoel comrade to alert the Republic to outsiders on Quinntonia's first landing. Yasuki had been killed in the Three Day War, of course.

"Spyr?" Muttered the Major. He was perhaps one promotion short of seeing a map with that nation marked. Or a transfer, if he'd been in espionage or procurement he'd have know, he supposed. The Major handed to a passing runner a transcript of the initial communication and directed the child to Koshiako Kurosian's outer office.

A few hours later a poor quality radio broadcast was directed back towards the source indicating that a PAAF AN-2 (bearing friend or foe identification beacon, of course) transport could be sent to Spyr to collect diplomats and transport them back to DaKhiem if so desired.

Koshiako was, for a Drapoel, relatively willing to listen, but of coruse that didn't mean that the boy Director was ready to modify his stance or his beliefs.

Mioka-ro:

The sun is setting on the third day of the Dra-pol invasion of ROK. Mioka-ro, a developing city surrounding the sacred hill shrine and its thousand year old cheery tree, knows little of the situation with its lack of communication technology. However, the war is a topic of discussion on the Hill, where the High Council of the Socialist Federal Dominion has met in the Council Hall to discuss the unsettling news.

The Council Hall, built for by the order of the late Taran Jidoshin-ki, High Priest of the Tsuchinoki, is a temple like structure built beside the hill, inside the new wall that seperates the Hill proper from the city. It was here that, mere months earlier, Taran had been assasinated by warriors of the wolf tribe and had set in motion the formation of the Socialist Federal Dominion. Now the council halls were the territory of the High Council, nine representatives charged with the duty of forming a nation out of nomadic tribal people and a fast modernizing, urban population. The affairs of the country were put aside, for now, as the Council discussed the developing war.

"How did this happen? I thought the asian region was quieting down after that incident across the seas with Bonstock." Tsutomu Mora, a powerful and elder figure in the Mai House sat in his chair, studying the map the Council had received from their Spyran advisors.

"These things happen...Dra-pol also has Jesus-zoku holding cities in the north east. Perhaps the nation needs more land and people, to continue its fight..." Shinobu Arentaka, an elderly, wise woman from the Sawa House lounged in her chair, considering the news with an air of seriousness.

The Council went silent as the members considered the Tordian invasion of the Wan-zoku lands, now known as North Yaman, shortly before Taran took NY out of its backward isolationalism.

"To think this might have been our fate, had we not contacted the outer world..." Eiji Jidoshin, son of the late martyred priest, saw this as a chance to once again argue for a less traditional stance in all politics.

"Can it boy!" Otojiro Yakuta spoke from experience, being the oldest member of the Council, and understood the importance of what was being weighted in this situation. "This is no time to speak of politics, or get into another one of your debates of Traditionalists versus Reformers. Can't any of you see what this means?"

Eiji sat back down and let the venerable Otojiro take the floor.

"I have spoken with the Spyrans. They know much more than we do about such things, but damn it we can figure somethings out for ourselves! Dra-pol is unifying the Korean Penninsula, and may or may not run into problems with a democratic population. Nations, many in the Asian Alliance, are joining together to fight back for the weakened ROK. What these other nations are worried about is Dra-pol killing ROK citizens. But they are ignoring something far more important. They are creating a situation far worse by pressing against the Dra-pol forces."

"Do you remember when the Tordians sent Jesus-zoku missionaries into the Kari-doma? They were slaughtered...all because the Okami-zoku(Wolf Tribe) and the Tordians didn't understand each other. They were different in too many ways...and so is Dra-pol. Dra-pol has been isolationalist for centuries, millenia even! They do not think like Xiaquo citizens, or Hudecians or East Islandians. Dra-pol now understands only war and conflict. If they take the ROK people will die in this unification...but more will die if nations fight back."

"Did any of you read this? 'The Central Directorature released a warning to the international community: the fate of none-Drapoel cities on the Korean peninsula rested on the world's complicity with the completion of the Kuro-revolution.' We must urge our allies not to go to war...for the good of human life."

Later, at the Spyran Embassy

A communication is addressed Kilean, Xiaquo, Hudecia, East Islandia and Agrigento through Spyran technology from the High Council, but could be picked up by other sources.

"We of the High council urge the forces protecting the ROK, or in Xiaquo's case, the forces invading Dra-pol, to end this conflict immediately and pull out of lands claimed by Dra-pol. Since the loss of South Dalania south korea has not been a major world power and though its unification with Dra-pol may be rough it would be better than a continued conflict, in which civilians in the ROK, Quinntonian Dra-pol, Xiaquo and Dra-ol itself would be threatened, as well as spill over conflict into surrounding areas. Dra-pol has shown in the past that it will use chemical and nuclear agents against civilian populations, including its own. The best course of action is to let Dra-pol take control of south korea and try to open up forums of discussion with the isolationalist nation. It is possible that observers may be placed in ROK cities after the invasion, or Dra-pol politics could be changed after unification due to outside influence. But to continue down this road would be a mistake."

"We will pray to Heaven and the gods that you all undertsand what is at stake here. If you do not, many millions will die."

The Spyran Diplomacy Ministry was quite excited when they recieved a shaky return transmission... instructions were quickly relayed for a Drapoel craft to reach Spyr for pickup. While Spyran craft were available, it was assumed that an isolationist state would prefer to maintain control of entry and exit. Fighter escort would nevertheless stand ready to defend the craft against attack by the forces arrayed against Dra-pol.

Meanwhile, the emissary selected for the assignment, Aya Etoro, was reviewing the dossier on Dra-pol. Basic geography, a few historical notes, and a comment that Dra-pol's limited allowance of trade didnt have much of a market for Spyran electronics or infotech... the documentation was disturbingly thin. Hopefully this coming encounter would flesh the dossier out... and perhaps prevent some loss of life in the current war.

The People’s Republic of Mora Tau pledges 400 troops to the defence of the revolution. The troops, commanded by Comrade Turner, are now under the command of the Dra-pol military. If these troops are sacrificed needlessly or mistreated, the People’s Republic shall boycott Dra-pol and remove any citizens of Dra-pol from Mora Tau’s sovereign lands, although we are certain this shall not happen. Join you at the victory dinner in Seoul, eh, Comrade?

The ISD had got wind of possible alliance talks- well, diplomatic talks (but if you aren't with us, you're with the commies, aren't ya?).

The plane carrying the Spyrian ambassador would get a nasty reception about mid-way through it's flight. A squadron of Raven interceptors were screaming (low) across the yellow sea at just over mach 2.

They pop up suddenly, climbing for the jet carrying the Spyrian emissary. The jets move to surround it. Closing in, the pilot is told in very clear terms to either turn back to spyr, divert to pusan, or die.

<OOC: Kileanishe are a rather blunt people, and we just said that we don't like diplomatic hobnobbing with Dra-Pol<OOC>
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Mora Tau was a small nation-and rather harmless- but that didn't stop the aistrikes. Four "Visgoth" bombers- operating from Kilean and refuelling along the way- screamed in bleow radar, ECM screeching electromagnetic nasty as the bombs fell (not very far) to the government offices below.

Secret IC:

[code:1:a266ae342e]
From: General Zhang
To: Captain Yao

Permission is given for the aforementioned deployment to take place. Move out at 0300 hours.[/code:1:a266ae342e]

A Shang-Zhou class submarine (No-12) is deployed to the Sea of Japan.

IMPORTANT OOC STRATEGY NOTE:Not that I would diegn to interfere with this war, (have I mentioned that I don't want war with Dra-pol?), but Xiaquo has just become everyone's best freind. i suggest that Kilean and all the other powers encourage their involvement through any and all means possible, trade agrements to outright bribes. The one major thing that kept us from destroying Dra-pol in the last war was the fact that our naval blockade was ineffective against the massive imports coming overland from the north. If Xiaquo plays its cards right, and makes it a priority to cut off supply lines from China, you guys could actually begin an effective blockade.
This would, of course mean that someone would have to find out where the Dra-poel Coast Gaurd, what they call their navy, is and attack and destro it, this would go a long way to ensuring a blockade. You would then of course still have to deal with the massive amount of shore defences, but those could probably be dealt with if you massed enough aircraft and big-gun naval support, the fighters that would be scrambled against you can only attack in squadrons, not huge wings, at least not at first.
Also, make sure that you actually listen to my advice, as these adavantages won't be available for very long, the Dra-poel are a very industrious people, andd they will completely change their defenses ina far shorter time than you would think.
Oh, one more thing, though these startegies are sound, as I think that no nation outside of Dra-pol has a better idea than me what you are dealing with here, (years of warfare will do that) but don't let me sound like it'll be easy, no matter how well these things go, and no matter how well you play this, the Korea will be knee deep in blood.
IC-Kilean, the supplies are being shipped on every available military vessel. You will want for nothing as long as you are here. Keep mentioning to your allies that they can support much larger armies than other wise possible, becuase I will totally supply them. But, you had better get used to Dra-poel food.
Also, the Quinntonian Colonial Air Force has begun a massive air-drop campaign into Pusan, they are warning that they cannot offer military aid of any kind, but have begun dropping medical supplies and food to the beluegered city.
Pusan will soon also find out that at least half of those supplies are miloitary in nature, weapons, kevlar vests, ammunition, mortors, explosives, artillary ammunition for your artillary regiments, surface-to-air missiles, etc. Everything you need to defend a city. Of course, as soon as Dra-pol gets anywhere near to the city or complains that some of the supplies are of a military nature this will stop. Not the supplies, but the delivery.
WWJD
Amen.

OOC: Dra-pol, could you start an OOC thread for people to put their questions in?

"Cowards.. they are all cowards..." muttered PM Honatava as she crumpled up the latest report and pitched it into the bin. She then boldly walked out into the Parliament Hall where she took her place on the podium in front of the Senate, Parliament, Cabinet, and assorted members of the international community.

"In 1939, several high minded individuals decided that in the interests of peace and the safety of the lives of citizens of the world that one nation should be sacrificed to save the world from bloodshed."

"Six months later the world was at war.... 6 years later... after 12 MILLION people were murdered.. after millions more lives were sacrificed, the war ended.... sort of."

"Shall we then submit to a dictator... never... the nation that was surrended did not have a voice... my ancestors had no voice... they were surrendered to a dictator who would murder, rape, enslave, brutalize and humiliate them."

"The world pledged then NEVER AGAIN, would we allow such an event to occur, NEVER AGAIN, would we allow dictators to frighten the world. Hudecia will stand by that commitment, Hudecia will stand by ROK, and Hudecia intertwines its life with that of the ROK. Surrender is not an option, retreat is not a possibility, war is inevitable."

"Today, 100 S-300 will begin transporting 20 000 troops every two days to Ulsan, where this morning, the first 40 000 Hudecian troops arrived. Their heavy equipment left Victoria yesterday in the largest fleet ever assembled by Hudecia... over 100 ships carrying an additional 40 000 troops, to arrive in one week at the ROK."

"The Hudecian Navy is active in searching out the Drapol Navy and destroying it. The Hudecian air force is transfering another 300 fighters to Ulsan for its defence. More will come soon."

"We commend our allies in Xiaguo and Kilean for their unwavering support for liberties worldwide. We are proud to serve and die with you. We condemn in all possible words the cowardice of other nations, who, fearing for their own lives have decided to allow a genocide to occur. But WE shall not be silent, WE shall not turn the other way, WE will not engage in weak-willed diplomacy."

"How will Bonstock or the MC take us seriously if we are too afraid to deal with Drapol. Bonstock will see our weakness and our ineffectiveness and will strike again and again. How can we justify to our nations sending our men to fight and die against Bonstock when we cannot justify fighting Drapol." Her voice was harsh, her words cold. Beads of sweat appeared on her forehead and tears in her eyes as she thought of her father who was murdered so many years ago.

"When I hear such words, it makes my skin crawl and my blood boil. But I tell you: we shall not fail!" She empasized the last sentence of her speech with such intensity that it sent a chill through the spines of most people gathered there.

All at once the entire Senate, Cabinet, and Parliament took to their feet in a standing ovation chanting her name. Across Hudecia, the fevered pitch of patriotism lead people to cram recruiting offices with thousands of volunteers.

So it was decided...

-sky over Pusan-

"Copy that red leader..." Lt. Rangan swerved his Arrow onto a new course heading.... towards Ulsan... there he was told would be his new base of operations.

-Ulsan-

Hudecian troops marched in a long column in formal dress down the streets of Ulsan. Tanks, APCs, towed and mobile artillery, Humvees mounted with machine guns all rolled slowly towards the outskirts of town from their landing points at the docks.

40 000 men, no matter how you cut it, is a lot of men. Ulsan airport was quickly being renovated to receive the 100 S-300 air transports and their 20 000 troops and all their escorts.

-Yellow Sea-

Hudecian naval groups became aware of the situation with the Spyr and Kilean aircrafts and scrambled their own fighters to intercept. 12 navalized F-22s were launched. The pilots were not told who to shoot down however, if necessary, they would be told later.

-Yokohama harbour-

After the long trans-pacific trip the 20 000 men on board the two carrier fleets had arrived for refueling. No shore leave would be given,... but time was made available for a team to set up an emergency response center in the old occupation HQ. (OOC: this group is different from the 100 ships just sent)

to Xiaquo: you have joined the cause of freedom, the cause of justice, and the cause of basic international and human rights. This fight will not be easy, nor will it be short, but it shall be a victorious one.

To assist you, Kilean is prepared to offer you a basically unlimited line of credit and full access to Kilean military arsenals. If you want it, it is yours. (TG me for a list of arms)

Furthermore, if you would accept, the nationalized Kilean airways will soon be airlifting supplies to you as fast as possible. What those supplies may be is up to you.

In addition, Kilean requests that you allow our ground troops to be stationed in your nation to fight Dra-Pol.

to Hudecia: the same offer stands. We will give you any loan, and, save nuclear weapons, all weapon export restrictions are lifted. You have the free run of our (large) stockpiles of equipment.

In addition: with your troops at Ulsan, and mine at Pusan, we should focus on securing the Pusan-Ulsan-Taegu triangle. Kilean and ROK engineers will begin to set up positions around Taegu, which will be a fall-back position for the Kilean and ROK troops under the command of Gen.Lee.
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II Corps, under Hudecian escort, is now a mere days away. They will be the first heavy Kilean troops on the Korean penninsula, but they shall not be the last. 3rd army- the armored spearehead of Army Group South in the Dibujante war- and 7th army- the best of the fresh formations recently raised- have fully embarked. Their headquarters groups have already arrived in Pusan, and the massive fleet- over a hundred and fifty merchant ships, under escort of basically the whole Kilean navy- will set sail soon.

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Near Pusan, a large flight (25) of Il-79 transports heads towards the besieged city at low level and high speed. Above and behind the transports, a flight of 75 MiG-29KI air superiority fighters searches the sky for hostile aircraft, and watches out for Dra-pol SAM sites. For the MiGs, it would be an especially taxing flight because there were no plans to land them. The transports would dump their troops ASAP, and turn around for the coast. On their way out from northeastern LRR, they passed over the Pacific fleet and the transport fleet, en route to Pusan as well. Quite a sight, being most of the LRRN pacific fleet strength, including Udaloy, Sovremenny, Iroquois, Halifax, and Broadsword class vessels, as well as the five fleet aircraft carriers.

On board the massive transports, 1,500 Uhlans paratroopers, 30 John Henry IV wheeled APCs, and 30 AMX-10RCT infantry support vehicles sit secure in their cargo holds.

Aboard the lead Il-79, the navigator announces their entrance into Korean airspace.

"Attention Pusan airport, this is red-tail flight, requesting paradrop clearance. We have 1,500 troops ready for drop."

Aboard the lead vehicle carrier, the navigator also informs the pilot of their entrance into Korean airspace.

"Calling Pusan airport, this is Puffin flight requesting low-level vehicle release clearance."

At the Bedford Mallard large-aircraft airport (not used much by fighters because LRR fighters operate from places less suceptable to bomber and missile strikes) another force of paratroops and their equipment assembles, ready to be picked up by returning transports.

At sea, the fleet makes good speed towards Korea. Oilers and other auxillary ships trail behind the rest of the fleet, ready to repair and re-fuel the vessels if need be. In fact, two repair ships are included in the feet's battle order.

Under the sea, the group of Alukas breaks off from the main fleet, and heads towards northern Dra-pol.....

OOC
i take it that we're being backed into Pusan again? Like the last war?

and Dra-pol has a lot of AA up in his zones rite?
*******
Yellow Sea
North of the 38th Parallel

Airstrike after airstrike is launched as hundreds of scramjet EMP missiles and conventional HE missiles are fired at Dra-pol naval defense installations. Swift boats and submarines prowl the waters, seeking prey-although war has not yet been declared.

Sgt. Kyung watched as the midget submarines broke the surface. To her left, green suited troops watched and waited as they boarded the black rubber rafts, weapons at the ready.

"YOu have thirty minutes to get on shore," the captain told them. "Good luck."

She nodded, and shook his hand. The two teams descended into the boat, and the rafts quickly motored to shore.

All around the northern waters of the Korean peninsula, Islandian special forces are infiltrated into various Dra-pol controlled zones mostly by way of boat and submarine as simulatenous attacks carried out by naval forces are underway.
*******
Explosions lit up the night sky as volley after volley of cruise missiles (scramjet engine propelled) slammed into the front lines near Pusan.

Islandian forces already based in Pusan begin to attack Dra-pol forces, trying to stablize the battlefront and keep Dra-pol forces from moving further.

*******
Meanwhile, three air defence brigades are sent to Spyr, in case the Dra-poel try anything nuclear...

OOC
i take it that we're being backed into Pusan again? Like the last war?

and Dra-pol has a lot of AA up in his zones rite?
*******
Yellow Sea
North of the 38th Parallel

Airstrike after airstrike is launched as hundreds of scramjet EMP missiles and conventional HE missiles are fired at Dra-pol naval defense installations. Swift boats and submarines prowl the waters, seeking prey-although war has not yet been declared.

Sgt. Kyung watched as the midget submarines broke the surface. To her left, green suited troops watched and waited as they boarded the black rubber rafts, weapons at the ready.

"YOu have thirty minutes to get on shore," the captain told them. "Good luck."

She nodded, and shook his hand. The two teams descended into the boat, and the rafts quickly motored to shore.

All around the northern waters of the Korean peninsula, Islandian special forces are infiltrated into various Dra-pol controlled zones mostly by way of boat and submarine as simulatenous attacks carried out by naval forces are underway.
*******
Explosions lit up the night sky as volley after volley of cruise missiles (scramjet engine propelled) slammed into the front lines near Pusan.

Islandian forces already based in Pusan begin to attack Dra-pol forces, trying to stablize the battlefront and keep Dra-pol forces from moving further.

*******
Meanwhile, three air defence brigades are sent to Spyr, in case the Dra-poel try anything nuclear...

With the lack of a response to their message, the High Council once again sends out a communication. The voice is that of a young woman, who identifies herself as Gemmei Hiranuma, head of the Ii-ki, or Priests of Life.

"We have noted that the Kilean and our AA allies forces have not stopped on this road to disaster. We have come to plead to you once more, stop this conflict before it escalates. Put aside your damned pride! This is not a situation like the Bonstock invasion of Yemen...this is a people long seperated uniting under one rule. There will be problems with integrating ROK with Dra-pol, but if we open up discussion with Dra-pol, like Spyr is trying to do, then we may be able to stop this madness."

"Freedom, democracy, these are only words. What is more important is the santity of human life. And comparing Dra-pol to Nazi Germany is insane and unrational, the situations are vastly different. You must realize, there are some battles you cannot win, even if you achieve victory."

"We hope you will see the wisdom of talking with Dra-pol, instead of escalating the violence. Korean citizens are already dead because of the chaos caused by Kilean attacks. May the gods hold you all."

Spyr accepts the arrival of EI brigades to supplement its own alerted forces. Additional militia units have been called up, and regional allies are alerted to bring the combined regional defence assets online.

Sea of Japan, between Spyr and Korea

[OOC: The ambassador is being taken in a Dra-pol craft, with large Spyran diplomatic marking plates added upon its arrival in Spyr. As its a Drapoel pilot, I think he should get the response (*ulp*) but the Spyran fighter escort would also react.]

As the Kilean craft rise up towards the Dra-pol transport, the pilots of the three Spyran F-40 Falcon fighters trailing behind it tense up. A flurry of communication flies back to Spyr.

Presidential Tower, PRS
"President Strain, our mission has come under threat... our emissary has been ordered to return to Spyr or to Pusan!"

"We are on a neutral diplomatic mission to learn of Dra-pol... we are not a military target."

"The Kileans don't seem to share that belief, sir."

The President of Spyr closed his eyes for a moment, then looked up.

"The Hudecians are allied with Kilean in this conflict, and their actions in the Japann War proved that they have the wisdom not to ally with the unmeritous. Inform them of our diplomatic mission and continue escort until they reach Drapoel airspace, before diverting to Japann."

"Im not sure that is wise, si..."

"They will understand."

Back over the Sea

One of the Spyran aircraft transmitted a message to the Kilean fighters.

"Many bows and apologies, but this is a diplomatic transport on a non-military operation, carrying a neutral ambassador. Our mission is to escort it to Drapoel airspace and then depart the area, and we see no reason to alter it. We are certain that you, defender of the Republic of Korea, will not strike a neutral civilian out of the sky, and we thank you for your patience."

The Spyran fighters continue their rearguard escort of the transport.

-Hudecian Eleassar - class Aircraft Carrier-

"We kindly request that Kilean warplanes divert from their current path pursuing the Spyran diplomatic plane."

"Said nation is a member of the AA, and is pursuing a diplomatic solution to the current conflict. We take full responsibility for any actions said plane makes."

"It wouldn't hurt to let them try... its their own skins... "

-Ulsan Airport-

Hudecian marines secured the airfield and began setting up checkpoints and anti-air missile batteries all around the airport.

- Yokohama Harbour-

After refueling the fleets move out and on towards their final destination... Ulsan and the new Hudecian HQ there.

-Yellow Sea-

"Um, sir, I know that we are supposed to be trying to destroy the Drapol navy... but where do we start looking?"

"I haven't the foggiest." Came the terse reply.

"Well, we could just travel north and let them come to us," A third captain suggested.

"Guess thats about the best we can do... while we are at it we can also take a peak at what anti-naval defences they got," the admiral paused, not sure of what exactly he was looking to accomplish. "ALright, signal the fleet, we move out at 1600 hours."

OOC: I've been away for a week so you all should just bear with me.

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With some 500,000 troops stationed in Xiaguo (Northern China). The Armed Republic of Sino supports the unification of Korea, but only under South Korea. Sino sees this an example of communist expansion in Asia.

As prearranged with the Xiaguo government, several major highways had be be blocked for exclusive military traffic.

http://www.china-defense.com/armor/type98/4.jpg

Various Sinoese Air and Army Bases Across Xiaguo: 0400 Hours

A march out order was given with an intense shrill across the intercoms and propaganda towers. All personnel awoke instinctively to don on their full sets of combat dress.

Aircraft were towed out off their hangars and tanks rolled out in their thousands. IFVs soon parked outside their arranged barracks as their passengers boarded.

In the army bases, entire sections of chain link fencing had to be brought down on purpose to allow the mass movements of tanks and vehicles. J-10 and J-12s soared overhead but this time in their hundreds, followed by many H-8 stealth bombers.

With the sight of so many panzers and armed men (some sitting on their turrets with full length winter coats), once can easily discolore their uniforms from green to grey and mistaken them for Nazis. A spirit of victorious advance that was found once in the Rhine will now travel across the Yalu.

Although this is the second Chinese deployment across to Korea, for sure they are fighting on the right side. Sinoese troops will soon join their Xianese brothers on the road to eliminate this Stalinist enemy.

Korea will unite under the civilized South!

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Communique to South Korea

Dear Leaders of Sotuh Korea


The Armed Republic of Sino is willing to defeat the Dra-poel advance to ensure that your unification will be underway in the appropriate manner. We will turn over the control of Korean land under our occupation to you and once the fullest defeat of Dra-pol has occured, Sinoese troops are guaranteed to withdraw. We will also transfer all Dra-poel P.O.Ws to South Korean detention.

Yours

OOC: I've been away for a week so you all should just bear with me.

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http://www.kprf.ru/clipart/misc/chinese_army.jpghttp://www.china-defense.com/armor/type98/3.jpg

With some 500,000 troops stationed in Xiaguo (Northern China). The Armed Republic of Sino supports the unification of Korea, but only under South Korea. Sino sees this an example of communist expansion in Asia.

As prearranged with the Xiaguo government, several major highways had be be blocked for exclusive military traffic.

http://www.china-defense.com/armor/type98/4.jpg

Various Sinoese Air and Army Bases Across Xiaguo: 0400 Hours

A march out order was given with an intense shrill across the intercoms and propaganda towers. All personnel awoke instinctively to don on their full sets of combat dress.

Aircraft were towed out off their hangars and tanks rolled out in their thousands. IFVs soon parked outside their arranged barracks as their passengers boarded.

In the army bases, entire sections of chain link fencing had to be brought down on purpose to allow the mass movements of tanks and vehicles. J-10 and J-12s soared overhead but this time in their hundreds, followed by many H-8 stealth bombers.

With the sight of so many panzers and armed men (some sitting on their turrets with full length winter coats), once can easily discolore their uniforms from green to grey and mistaken them for Nazis. A spirit of victorious advance that was found once in the Rhine will now travel across the Yalu.

Although this is the second Chinese deployment across to Korea, for sure they are fighting on the right side. Sinoese troops will soon join their Xianese brothers on the road to eliminate this Stalinist enemy.

Korea will unite under the civilized South!

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Communique to South Korea

Dear Leaders of Sotuh Korea


The Armed Republic of Sino is willing to defeat the Dra-poel advance to ensure that your unification will be underway in the appropriate manner. We will turn over the control of Korean land under our occupation to you and once the fullest defeat of Dra-pol has occured, Sinoese troops are guaranteed to withdraw. We will also transfer all Dra-poel P.O.Ws to South Korean detention.

Yours

Secret IC:

[code:1:4a5b5af742]
From: General Zhang
To: Captain Yao

Permission is given for the aforementioned deployment to take place. Move out at 0300 hours.[/code:1:4a5b5af742]

A Shang-Zhou class submarine (No-12) is deployed to the Sea of Japan.

Communique to ROTA Maj. Gen. Zhang

Strategically it would be wise for Taiwan to deploy to reinforce the South while Xiaguo and Sino take the NKs down from the North.

Your Compatriot


Gen. Liu

Xiaguo will take Kilean's Great and generous offer in good and vast use.

Sinuiiju-
Three Primary Generals, Generalissimo Ye Zhao Feng, General Jo Sae Jin, and Emperor-General Kim Ke Song will lead an armies of the 800,000 South breaking the lines of Yalu river. Koreans in the Xiannese Army begin questioning natives about specific points of Dra-Pol's Army.

Pyongyang-
At this time, Xiannese consulates have began leaving the country after delays due to the dissorder in Pyongyang. Xiaguo begins gearing up missile defence systems.

Xiaguo will destroy PyongYang and crush Dra-Pol's government. We will then return it to all grace to Kilean.


Special telegram from Jo Sae Jin to Dra-Pol
"To our disgraceful enemy. You were once an ally of Xiaguo, but turning to Imperialism will not due. Prepare you armies to obtain a bashing by the the Xiannese Royal, and National armies. We will crush Pyongyang and topple the disgraceful government. Our armies will fight hard and strong. Prepare for the fall of Dra-Pol."
Sent before the Embassies were abandoned.

In order to boost morale, orchestral military music had been pre-recorded and played by the Type 63 APCs refitted with oversized loudspeakers. Loudmouth morale officers with their megaphone blabbed out the usual words of patriotic encouragement.

The entire atmosphere of the armoured column approaching the Yalu is nationalistically hypnotic.

The Kilean warplanes pull away from the diplomatic jet. Displeasure had been shown, Kilean played the "bad cop", and that was the whole point of the situation, wasn't it? After all, you couldn't well blast a diplomat out of the sky after they appeal to your sense of justice and reason....
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General Lee read ths Sino and Xiaguo telegrams, and smiles. God, he wasn't even thinking that far ahead....victory? Unification?

How about....survival?

He shook his pessimisim aside. A second front...this was good. This was very good. Support, and an international recognition of his government not-in-exile. The other good news was that he had been able to slap together another division (sort of) out of the men streaming south. 50,000 men out of an army that had been 650,000 strong last week....

It wWell, 50,000 was what he had. Plus 35,000 Kilean troops (with more on the way), plus 40,000 hudecians and LRR troops on the way...

It was impressive, but they hadn't met the Dra-Pol in a major land battle yet.....

Thousands of Rockets has demolished there targets all over the advacing territries which allowed better traveling for the armies. Xiannese troops has slowed down to prepare for Sino's stroops to get in the front line as well. To help seperate the armies of North Korea and Xiaguo as there uniforms tend to have the same colors. Xiaguo Begins to issue the new uniforms brought from Sino and also places the National Symbol on almost everything.

OOC:We should all use the same map, I recomend-
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/north_korea_pol96.jpg

-Ulsan-

Hudecian marines from the IInd Corps quickly set about turning Ulsan into a fortified city. Meanwhile the IIIrd Corps were sent up the road to begin fortifying Daegu. Although strategically, dividing ones forces in the face of such a massive onslaught was not only dangerous but maybe even reckless, Hudecian military planners were confident that they could hold Daegu as well as Ulsan. With more troops and equipment incoming in the next several days, they decided it was worth the risk. Especially for the airport there.

OOC: Xiaguo, Sino... what about Drapol's counter attack?

OOC: Xiaguo, Sino... what about Drapol's counter attack?

Secretly IC:

To All South Korean Supporting Leaders

Chances are, if we re-inforce the South enough, this war on two fronts will be as Krauted as WWII. Best if we use ballistic missiles to wear down the morale of the North.

Yours


Gen. Liu

OOC: Xiaguo, Sino... what about Drapol's counter attack?

Secretly IC:

To All South Korean Supporting Leaders

Chances are, if we re-inforce the South enough, this war on two fronts will be as Krauted as WWII. Best if we use ballistic missiles to wear down the morale of the North.

Yours


Gen. Liu

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OOC: When will Dra-pol RP their counter attack on Sinoese and Xianese forces. Xiaguo claims he's sitting right off the edge of Sinanju.

OOC: Xiaguo, Sino... what about Drapol's counter attack?

Secretly IC:

To All South Korean Supporting Leaders

Chances are, if we re-inforce the South enough, this war on two fronts will be as Krauted as WWII. Best if we use ballistic missiles to wear down the morale of the North.

Yours


Gen. Liu

===============================================

OOC: When will Dra-pol RP their counter attack on Sinoese and Xianese forces. Xiaguo claims he's sitting right off the edge of Sinanju.

OOC: Xiaguo, Sino... what about Drapol's counter attack?

Secretly IC:

To All South Korean Supporting Leaders

Chances are, if we re-inforce the South enough, this war on two fronts will be as Krauted as WWII. Best if we use ballistic missiles to wear down the morale of the North.

Yours


Gen. Liu

===============================================

OOC: When will Dra-pol RP their counter attack on Sinoese and Xianese forces. Xiaguo claims he's sitting right off the edge of Sinanju.

OOC: Xiaguo, Sino... what about Drapol's counter attack?

Secretly IC:

To All South Korean Supporting Leaders

Chances are, if we re-inforce the South enough, this war on two fronts will be as Krauted as WWII. Best if we use ballistic missiles to wear down the morale of the North.

Yours


Gen. Liu

===============================================

OOC: When will Dra-pol RP their counter attack on Sinoese and Xianese forces. Xiaguo claims he's sitting right off the edge of Sinanju.

OOC: we should wait till Drapol gets back before we go further... probably he's having trouble with Nationstates likeI am. Its messing up now and then.

OOC: we should wait till Drapol gets back before we go further... probably he's having trouble with Nationstates likeI am. Its messing up now and then.

(ooc:As it happens, the transport sent to Spyr was an AN-2 piston-engined biplane like two thousand others operating in the area, not a jet, and the chances of anyone even detecting it buzzing along just over the surface are, I'd say, pretty low, and then chasing off after it the length of Korea... Anyway, there seems to have been quite a lot of development with other nations' reactions and deployments, so I'll move our advance along a bit accordingly...)

Dra-pol

Major air assault against Drapoel naval facilities didn't go unchallenged, though they didn't stand to harm the Republic greatly. Dra-pol's Penglai-built Houjian Class missile attack boats, light marine transports, and small D/E submarines were tucked away in caves and bunkers cut into cliffs. Coastal anti-shipping missiles and guns were also generally well dug-in or else mobile and frequently moved, and almost always protected by surface to air missiles and availed of rapid reaction fighter-cover. East Islandian-built F-7 and J-10 fighters were amongst those aircraft sent up in the face of Islandian strikes.

This did at least mean that the PAAF hadn't yet assets spare to worry about Quinntonian airlifts into the south.

With widespread attempts at infiltration there could be little doubt that Islandians now took their turn to fall foul of Drapoel boobytraps and local collective snipers. They, like the Quinntonians years earlier, would find a pair of eyes peering as if from behind every tree. Children were often the first to spot foreigners as they came ashore, observing from rotationally staffed look-out posts in the treeline or hillside before calling back via radio or more often running or cycling to their local collective to alert local defence fighters. Such fighters would generally be armed with old Type-99 bolt-action rifles with which they'd snipe at intruders.

The Drapoel countryside is absolutely littered with small collective farms and workshops, many turning over the vast majority of their output to the army as patrols pass by. Each collective tends to have at least one or two if not more expert snipers, even if they be old men, women, or children, whoever has proven to be the best hunter- often game provides the main food-source for industrial collectives or even farming collectives obligated to surrender their harvest. The ruralisation of Dra-pol's massive population means that there is barely an inch of the country that will not be frequently trod, making hiding difficult. The fact that the nation is ethnically homogenous does little to help outsiders blend, and communication is hampered further by the fact that the Drapoel language is a baffling distortion of any number of other regional tongues.

Many collectives maintain an old 6.5 or 7.7mm light machinegun for local defence, and all communities are obliged to know their locale and to be prepared to intercept invaders.

Around the northern border the enemy appeared to have no clear answer to the ferocity of the Drapoel counter-attack, and commanders were getting the impression that the ill-advised assault was receiving the mauling it deserved. Still, the long-term prospect of pushing far through Xiaguo and Sino appealed to few. Presumably the Central Directorature would soon explain how this front was to be closed. Until then the People’s Army would continue as it’d started, outnumbering and out manoeuvring a hasty foe that appeared to be acting on abysmal intelligence and with no concise plan.

In DaKhiem Secretary Hotan filed Jo Sae Jin’s telegram away without much consideration. Attack our airforce research and development centre if you must, it did the HBF no good to occupy it for bloody months.

(ooc:For the record, if you’d had and diplomats in Dra-pol they’d have been in Kosong, and if they were in Kosong they were either killed in Kilean’s air strikes or arrested afterwards. Same goes for anyone else, if you’re curious. Nationals of those countries mentioned in the list given earlier are detained, but not officially arrested, and not in such immediate danger of being abused or killed (AC, BG, Spyr, PRC, and so on.))


South Korea

With foreign forces arriving by the thousand from across seas and oceans, the People's Army rolled on, crossing the Naktong from the north and driving down between that river and the Kum.

Frustrated by incidents of aggressive resistance in largely encircled areas and worried by the pace and weight of foreign intervention, Drapeol officers were authorised to act at Standard 2. Towns and cities in central ROK were smashed with none of the subtlety employed in surrounding northern towns and issuing firm requests and demands.

Suwon was reduced by sustained air strikes -something that put a not insignificant dent in PAAF fuel reserves- tanks rolled into Hwangji-ri with mechanised artillery. Along with infantry mortars and RPGs these saw any hint of resistance subjected to explosive fire. Ch'onan and Ch'ongju were attacked from within. Commandos inserted previously by some of Dra-pol's most extreme tunnels became more active, actually fighting to break out from within, taking massive casualties in the process. They had good cause to be frantic in their efforts, as both cities were shortly subjected to horrific assault from below. Tunnels not used to ferry commandos and supplies were lain with pipes or crammed with explosives. Both cities were attacked with nerve gas and areas identified prior to the invasion as likely centres of resistance or co-ordination were simply blasted apart. The isolated ROKA soldiers that were not instantly killed had no choice in their capture, most reeling with shell shock or sickness.


Still, Drapoel losses were mounting. ROK forces had killed hundreds even in their scattered pockets of futile resistance. With Quinntonian help they continued to pick off usually several dozen PA soldiers each day even in supposedly fallen territory. Friendly fire in an assortment of forms had killed easily hundreds if not thousands more Drapoel, especially since tunnels began to be blown, and action from foreign aircraft had taken down several dozen PAAF planes and a number of helicopters. Out of more than ten thousand combat aircraft available to the PAAF this meant relatively little. The attack on Kosong had by now killed over two thousand* -several score foreigners- with modest rescue efforts still under way, and casualty reports from the northern border were not yet available.

As one observed South Korea today the CPRD's People's Army was making one strike across the Naktong towards Yongdok with two assault divisions spear heading the advance. More than twenty thousand men were virtually sprinting towards their objective while larger forces crawled across the river. Still larger forces were attempting to encircle Taejon, leaving further units to ripple past towards the Southwest. A huge core mass of men and equipment trundled south between the mentioned rivers, taking over airfields as it went. Repeated small-scale air attacks were kept up against the edge of the large multi-national pocket forming in the Southeast, the intent being largely to keep same busy while the People's Army attempted to isolate and obliterate what of the ROKA had not escaped there.

In the order of 5.2million pairs of feet had by land, sea, and air crossed the 38th parallel since the invasion’s beginning some days ago. More were still coming, and with many minefields now at least partially negotiable the tide only quickened. Men came as fast as they could walk with a sack full of food and a belt full of bullets.

*ooc: If that figure seems high after the Kilean strike, it can be assumed that the Banat are taking a rather hard-line with anyone who tries to flee the city, and if it seems low it can be supposed that no one really cares to check through most of the rubble for more bodies.

I’d like to add that I –have- already posted at length on the situation in the north. Sino and Xiaguo’s forces seem to be in complete disorder and marching blindly to their deaths by the tens of thousands.. Far be it from me to editorialise, but it looks like the attack was a complete disaster and that they’ve a lot of work to do in avoiding a complete route of their forces and the rape of everything within twenty miles of the border. I don’t know where these ideas about successful attacks and advance are coming from! I hope artillery-proof umbrellas are in fashion and standard issue, because, to be blunt and realistic, they’ve just walked heedlessly into fire more concentrated than was ever seen on the Somme and done nothing but keep walking on towards.. either nothing or targets that don’t.. entirely.. exist outside the DPRK, which the CPRD is not.

People just aren’t paying enough attention (well, some are, I’m quite pleased about that, at least, even though some of them are shooting at my little guys :) )

And yes, I'm having a lot of trouble with the forums, you may have noticed that while the anti-Dra-pol side has posted about three new pages I, the only person playing this side and as such having to respond to every other post in the thread, haven't posted once. Sorry, feeling a bit stressed- damn technology! Plus I ran out of vodka.

Across the Yalu: 0900

Sinoese J-10s and J-12s cross the border for one special purpose. Take out NK targets for the sake of the ground advance. Stealth H-8 bombers soon followed but to target civilian buildings and infrastructure- structures built in the days of Mao with Chinese expertise and funding but not a word of thanks.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/images/fc-1_3.jpg
http://www.china-defense.com/aviation/J8/27-1-21287_jiayou2.jpg

OOC
wut are ur missile defences drapol? and ur air defences?

Foreigners? Most of the troops are Asian, and even if they arent korean, they look it, and speak it.

******
Missiles are launched, by the thousands, on suspected Drapoel artillery facilities. 15 thousand pounders are used, and hundreds of napalm and watergel explosives blanket entire advancing units.

Islandian built J-10s sold to Dra-pol are easily outmanuevered by teh more advanced J37, although casualty reports have yet to come in. First among the targets were the factories producing the Islandian model J-10s. Second were artillery facilities. Third were the front lines. Fourth were all naval vessels and facilites.

With a new approach to the Dra-pol advance, three amphibious assault groups have been mustered and are steaming towards the Korean peninsula, under heavy escort. In addition, various armored ships, also under heavy escort, are sent to Korea, with the express purpose of evacuating most, if not all, of the ROK civilians into prebuilt camps on friendly territory.

2 armored divisions have landed further up the coast, at Ulsan, in order to reinforce the Hudecians.

Special Operations troops land behind front lines, dressed in enemy uniforms, with plenty of explosives and weapons. Fast attack vehicles also skirt across the terrain in night raids, taking out as many as they can.

Meanwhile, huge airstrikes are launched on communications facilities, and AWACS and EW airplanes send up a constant stream of chatter and specialized transmissions in order to jam up enemy comm lines...

OOC
wut are ur missile defences drapol? and ur air defences?

Foreigners? Most of the troops are Asian, and even if they arent korean, they look it, and speak it.

******
Missiles are launched, by the thousands, on suspected Drapoel artillery facilities. 15 thousand pounders are used, and hundreds of napalm and watergel explosives blanket entire advancing units.

Islandian built J-10s sold to Dra-pol are easily outmanuevered by teh more advanced J37, although casualty reports have yet to come in. First among the targets were the factories producing the Islandian model J-10s. Second were artillery facilities. Third were the front lines. Fourth were all naval vessels and facilites.

With a new approach to the Dra-pol advance, three amphibious assault groups have been mustered and are steaming towards the Korean peninsula, under heavy escort. In addition, various armored ships, also under heavy escort, are sent to Korea, with the express purpose of evacuating most, if not all, of the ROK civilians into prebuilt camps on friendly territory.

2 armored divisions have landed further up the coast, at Ulsan, in order to reinforce the Hudecians.

Special Operations troops land behind front lines, dressed in enemy uniforms, with plenty of explosives and weapons. Fast attack vehicles also skirt across the terrain in night raids, taking out as many as they can.

Meanwhile, huge airstrikes are launched on communications facilities, and AWACS and EW airplanes send up a constant stream of chatter and specialized transmissions in order to jam up enemy comm lines...

OOC
wut are ur missile defences drapol? and ur air defences?

Foreigners? Most of the troops are Asian, and even if they arent korean, they look it, and speak it.

******
Missiles are launched, by the thousands, on suspected Drapoel artillery facilities. 15 thousand pounders are used, and hundreds of napalm and watergel explosives blanket entire advancing units.

Islandian built J-10s sold to Dra-pol are easily outmanuevered by teh more advanced J37, although casualty reports have yet to come in. First among the targets were the factories producing the Islandian model J-10s. Second were artillery facilities. Third were the front lines. Fourth were all naval vessels and facilites.

With a new approach to the Dra-pol advance, three amphibious assault groups have been mustered and are steaming towards the Korean peninsula, under heavy escort. In addition, various armored ships, also under heavy escort, are sent to Korea, with the express purpose of evacuating most, if not all, of the ROK civilians into prebuilt camps on friendly territory.

2 armored divisions have landed further up the coast, at Ulsan, in order to reinforce the Hudecians.

Special Operations troops land behind front lines, dressed in enemy uniforms, with plenty of explosives and weapons. Fast attack vehicles also skirt across the terrain in night raids, taking out as many as they can.

Meanwhile, huge airstrikes are launched on communications facilities, and AWACS and EW airplanes send up a constant stream of chatter and specialized transmissions in order to jam up enemy comm lines...

An ultimatum is delievered to Drapol. Halt the advancing battlefront, come in to talks, and peacefully settle your differences.

Drapol has three days before an offensive is launched to respond in the affirmative.

Jochaim pushed in the missile, and connected the leads. He slapped the back of the gunner.

"Los!"

The guided missile popped out of the launch tube. The launcher- along with the rest of the 3rd battalion, 2nd brigade, 13th mountain division- was dug in along this ridge, nicely commanding Highway 35.

The missile passed right over the Dra-Pol tank, and the shaped charge went off, sending a molten spike into the top of the tank's rear deck.

"nice shot team 3, very nice shot"

Jochaim was somewhat puzzled- a pleased officer? He didn't dwell on it long. He had a tripod to dismantle. The brigade- hell, the whole division- was pulling out.

He glanced one last time at the highway. The highway looked like green beetles were crawling down it in tidy lines. Dra-Pol tanks, in huge numbers...

One burning Dra-Pol tank down, god knew how many to go.
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"What? Trying to pocket us? Oh, the hell they will!"

General Lee slammed down the phone.

"aaw, crap." He said it in a suprisingly casual way. Dammit, Kilean II corps was supposed to be here by now! The kilean mountain troops and a couple of his armored brigades were keeping the Drapoel troops from forming a ring around Taejon, but that wouldn't last. He had to get out.

General Lee nodded, and turned to his aide.

"alright- we're falling back to pusan. It's tempting to try and stop them, but we're just too damn light to stop that sort of advance. We're all thats left of the ROK army, and we can't let ourselves get cut off!"

Lee was mad. He wanted to fight, not run. But it looked like running was in the cards.

The Sinoese tactics of dealing with guerillas is simple. A tank or mortar shell will make a hell of a hole where a suspected sniper is hiding. That is, if the 'sniper' is not taken out by rivals of a higher class. The Sinoese snipers use Type 88-II (7.62x54mm) while their squad level special marksmen sport the Type 79 (SVD).

http://www.sinodefence.com/army/individual/type79_sniperrifle762_1.jpg
Above: A Sinoese squad-level special marksman takes cover behind a vehicle door in a counter-sniper manouvre.

In the anger of some Sinoese commanders, some collectives were razed to the ground. Propaganda units make their broadcast in Korean urging innocent civilians not to take up arms and be critical of the action of their government dogs. Sinoese propaganda units had also issued the orders of a daylight curfew.

ooc thread: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=140522&highlight=

Now that I'm thoroughly tired of sitting at my computer the forums decide to work. Gah.

ooc: If you want to know more about the situation, the thread is crammed with information that's being widely ignored by Sino, EI, and Xinguo, and I can only assume that their forces are taking the beating of a lifetime. Seriously, oh, the humanity! Other than that, do some research before getting into a big, serious RP that has plenty of good players involved and doesn't actually need you as much as you may need it, there's tons of threads lying about with little but information on the Drapoel military. The Sinoese and such aren't generally just facing partisans- if they are its because they're following where the PA is retreating, which is precisely what we want them to do, and they're now flanked by hundreds of thousands of regulars. The partisan element is only really a concern for special forces attempting to infiltrate the republic, which as stated oh so many times is NOT THE DPRK, and is populated by a people isolated genetically and culturally for over 2,000 years with only brief and tightly controlled steps outside that norm, usually brutally erased.
Still, in the south, fair enough, I'm expecting a better fight there when we try to crush the Southeast. And yes, ROK anti-tank weapons can make a mess of most Drapoel tanks, many of which are of simple cast steel and mounting 115mm guns.


Near Kanggye, northern Dra-pol

PAAF personnel sat scanning the skies out to between five and six hundred kilometres from Kanggye their modified Citadel-S radar, part of the imported Beth Gellen CS-400 SAM system. Runners scurried by from time to time, clutching documents on roughly how many counter-revolutionary mercenaries had died on one bank or other of the Yalu.

"Ai! Look at that!" Exclaimed Sub Lieutenant comrade Kim-Tal, scrambling up from his position and hopping from the massive lift upon which the radar unit sat to solid concrete as he attempted to alert his seniors. He almost lost his footing in the leap from the rig which was part of a huge system by which the precious radar unit could be retracted below metres of concrete, for its own protection.

Still, moments later the battalion was authorised to engage -the first missiles could be launched effectively while enemy fighters were still almost 300km from the northern city, though that hardly made sure that they even took-off out of range. Just four targets were selected from amongst the incoming Sino aircraft, and eight CS-400A missiles were launched against them, due to intercept close to 180km from Kanggye. The long proven missiles, having fought in Asia and Africa, each boasted a 75-85% hit probability against agile, low signature aircraft operating in a high-jamming environment. With two to each of four aircraft it didn't take much to realise that the PAAF was going to put a dent in the attack even before it reached 100 miles from its earliest possible targets.

Less agile aircraft would be subject to the wrath of less nimble 400km+ range CS-400B missiles.

The long-range radar also served to alert less advanced systems across the relevent area. A barrage of flack went up near the border, and countless DRAR-1 SAM joined dozens of HQ-2B and S-125 Goa (many with TV guidance to improve EW resistance) were prepared to engage at 40km, 25km, and 24km (nonrespectively). Needless to say, many a missile would go up for every hostile aircraft detected within miles of the Drapoel front lines. J-10, FC-1, and SU-15D began to rise from minor airstrips and larger facilities around Kanggye.

On the ground, the People's Army continued its withering barrages, its withdrawl near the west, and its two pronged thrust meant to encircle the enemy as they advanced. Tunnel warfare continued to hasten that operation as the CPRD prepared to obliterate the pocket it sought to create.

An ALCM strike on the HQ of the Central Directorate has been ordered with an initial number of five XY-9 ALCMs. More on other government targets will follow if no surrender is achieved.

-Yongcheon-

Hudecian marines from Ulsan began setting up defences at this critical junction of roads.

-Pohang-

Hudecian Wasp-class assault carriers deposited several thousand troops into the city.

The defences were being made, but it takes two to tango.

-Waegwan-

Major bridges across the river leading to Daegu were rigged to blow with an advance team waiting there to allow for retreating ROK forces to cross. However, at the sight of Drapol forces they were to blow them... regardless of who may be on it.

-Ulsan- Hudecian HQ -

"It seems that we are in charge of the northern defences of this little chunk of the ROK. We have secured the major highways and are in the process of taking control of even the smaller ones." General O'Neil reported having just landed. "With me is the I Corps, they'll be held in reserve for now. The IV will be here tomorrow. Then.. the entire I Army will be in position."

"E. Islandian forces have also landed here." An major reported quickly.

"Well, lets get in contact with them and begin co-ordinating our defences... if they could move to Daegu and begin holding our flank along the river it would be immensely helpful."

"Well, gentlemen, our nation's eyes are on us. We have almost 1000 jet fighters and over 60 000 troops now here. Tomorrow we will have even more. We are in for the fight of our lives gentlemen, let no man forget his duty."

An ALCM strike on the HQ of the Central Directorate has been ordered with an initial number of five XY-9 ALCMs. More on other government targets will follow if no surrender is achieved.

Yeah, I already tried that, and it didn't work. Save your missiles for troops in the field.

You can't threaten Dra-Pol. They won't listen.

Hudecia:

The ROK/Kilean combined light corps is fleeing to fallback positions that Kilean engineers have prepared in Daegu. The ROK/Kilean troops should be there shortly, with the Dra-Pol not far behind. We're going to try to give them a bloody nose and keep them away from Pusan as long as possible.

Upon notification of being eyed by enemy SAMs, the Sinoese fighters try to dash back as quickly as they could. The aerial rat race is proven to be nothing but a cost to our Air Force. The Sinoese ground troops were soon forced to deploy their HQ-9s and FT-2000s as enemy aircraft soon dotted the sky. Although woodenframed aircraft may not be seen on radar, they can be intercepted by AAMG or downright strafing from a J.

Sinoese heavy artilleries (155mm and 203mm) with the heavy MRLS (273mm and 302mm) have begun pounding the nearest military targets known. If the aircraft can't do it, the artilleries will.

http://www.sinodefence.com/army/artillery/tubeartillery/plz45_5.jpg

To Kilean Armed Forces

I want to hold them at Daegu. We think we can. With the E. Islandian forces, our forces and yours combined we can give them more than a bloody nose... lets take the wind out of their sails.

But watch for a movement around Daegu to cut us off. I have the northern routes secure. Could you hold the southern routes?

To E. Islandian forces

All air forces are to be deployed in the defence of Daegu.

Secret telegram to Dra-pol:

The Arab Socialist Republic of Al Anbar would be willing to supply our friends in Dra-pol with whatever fuel was needed at a substantial reduction from market price in exchange for political assistance from Dra-pol in our endeavours.

Signed,

Minister of Oil

(Al Anbar is Lebanon-Syria-Iraq, btw.)

An ALCM strike on the HQ of the Central Directorate has been ordered with an initial number of five XY-9 ALCMs. More on other government targets will follow if no surrender is achieved.

Yeah, I already tried that, and it didn't work. Save your missiles for troops in the field.

You can't threaten Dra-Pol. They won't listen.

OOC: Did you flatten their government HQ?

Fearing a subversion of foreign fighters and supplies into Dra-pol, the Armed Republic of Sino Navy encourages a naval blockade in the area.

Fearing a subversion of foreign fighters and supplies into Dra-pol, the Armed Republic of Sino Navy encourages a naval blockade in the area.

Fearing a subversion of foreign fighters and supplies into Dra-pol, the Armed Republic of Sino Navy encourages a naval blockade in the area.

The Olympuic and Guma expressways have both been mined by Kilean engineers, and ROK antitank units are deployed along them, with ROK tank units held back in reserve.
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Lt. Park shifted his grip on the rangefinder. His family was (had been?) in seoul when Dra-Pol attacked. It was time to stop running, and start fighting.

He have the order, and closed the hatch above him. His Type 88 MBT rolled into the prepared position along the highway.

He waited, looking down those eight lanes that were bringing the Dra-Pol to his tank.
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To Al Anbar: AXIS OF EVIL! AXIS OF EVIL! AXIS OF EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!


[PS- there's a blockade]

OOC: Al Anbar... just try to get your oil freighters past the blockade.

We have hundreds of warships crawling all over the seas and we control the northern border with Drapol. Good luck getting oil into Drapol.

Otherwise, if we do catch your ships and if they are flying your flag, well... no Al Anbar ship will be safe in that area for a while. But by all means send your oil, we'd love to use it.

Dra-pol

Through the CPRD's command structures opinions differed on the northern situation. There seemed to be developing a massive clash of guns and limbs. Some saw this as, well, a rather bad thing for the republic, and for the reuinification. Thousands were dying as shells and rockets lept across the Yalu in both directions, both men and material would have to be diverted north to keep the Sinoese and Xinguo at bay.

Others believed this to be a good situation. The People's Army could easily afford to do this, they believed. After all, in the north Dra-pol had no objectives, nothing to lose by maintaining the status quo. Eventually the attackers would tire of endless casualties and realise the pointless nature of their aggression. The real fight was still south, and with seven million personnel either deployed or on the move in that direction it would be a decisive fight at that!

Still, Dra-pol maintained its "strategic reserves" at the direct command of comrade Secretary Hotan. In the Crusader War his reserves had moved suddenly to out manoeuvre invaders and trap them. Now the People's Army had thrown seven million hands south, more than four million north, leaving a mere ...37 million on defensive duties or waiting to blast forth one way or another. For now many simply patrolled the nation, transporting material from one collective to another as it was convenient.

In order to flush out Dra-poel geurillas, Sinoese troops will blow smoke into their entrances.

Over Pusan (Ulsan?) the transports begin to form up into paradrop formation, with the MiG-29KIs on the lookout for any trouble.

As the transports circle, green parachutes can be seen descending into the Pusan defense perimeter, with large white and red identification stripes to distinguish the LRR paratroopers from a potential Dra-pol assault.

In the back of one of the transports in Red-tail flight, Sergeant George Harrison waits at the door of the Il-79 carrying a pair of companies from the 2nd brigade, 56th Uhlans infantry (paratroop) division. He carries an Ak-74 assault rifle, british-style webbing with a pair of canteens, ammunition, an entrenching tool, and a flashlight, and wears the standard LRRA DPM uniform. Being A comany's "elder," he was always the first out the door, followed by the company commander, Captain Stephen Taylor (both of whom will be major characters).

"You ready to do this, Harrison?"
"You bet it, sir!"
"All paratroopers, attach your static lines!"

In unison, the men of A and B companies reach up and fix the yellow static line to the wire running down the length of the aircraft.

The loadmaster taps Captain Taylor on the shoulder.

"Clear to go, sir!"
"JURONIMO!!!!!!!!!"

Sgt. Harrison heaves himself out the side door, and freefals for a moment until the static line tugs his parachute out of the pack. The next moment, he is looking down at the grassy landing zone below him. Also below him, a pair of Il-79s make a low level pass right over a road. He watches as 8 AMX-10RCTs are pulled from the cargo bays of the Il-79s and impact the ground. His attention then turns to his men. He looks around, seeing that they are mostly alright. Except for private winters.

"Dammnit winters! Use the emergency!"

Winters falls for a few seconds, dazed at the failure of his parachute, before pulling the ripcord on his emergency chute and beginning the slow, hopefully uneventful descent to the LZ. Fortunately, Dra-pol flak was elsewhere.

Captain Taylor is the first to hit the ground, being laden with one of the company's ATGMs and a large amount of 7.62mm ammunition. He looks around, to see Sgt. Harrison falling right on top of him. Harrison lands on the back of Captain Taylor.

"Jesus, Harrison! You think you could watch it there?"
"Sorry, sir. Alright, A company over here, A company over here! Pick up the pace!"

He holds up his kalashnikov and attracts a good deal of paratroopers, who start running behind Captain Taylor as he exits the LZ.

Harrison hangs behind, collecting the last few members of A company as they land.

"Let's move! Come on!"

He marshalls the last A company troops to land towards Captain Taylor. All around the LZ, similar incidinces take place. Company commanders organize their forces and wait for orders.

Colonel Taylor stops behind a large rock. The corporal carrying the radio comes up to Taylor's position, and hands him the mouthpiece.

"This is A company, 2nd brigade 56th Uhlans infantry. We have landed at a position approximately ten miles north of Pusan and are requesting deployment orders."

Meanwhile, the AMX-10RCT batallion (forget about the John Henrys) commander, Lieutenant Colonel Jean Tourville, leads his column of 30 vehicles off the LZ. The Il-79s make a sharp turn, drawing AAA fire from the closer Dra-pol positions. More than one smoke trail can be seen from burining engines.

He brings the radio transmitter to his mouth.

"Platoon commanders, organize your vehicles and take them to the nearest ROK positions for orders. A platoon, you're with me."

Col. Tourville notices four AMX crewmen riding on the back of another vehicle.

"Kozowski, what are you doing carrying passengers?"
"Their suspension broke on landing, sir."
"So what, down to 29 vehicles. Leave them with the paratroopers, have them get the missiles off their vehicle and join Colonel Henely."
"Yes, sir."
"Let's home the rest of the division gets here real fast, eh?"
"Yes, sir."
"This is armored batallion A of the 56th Uhlans infantry calling Kilean command post, do you read Kilean command?"

Moving at a sustained 20 knots, the LRRN/LRRA task force nears the east coast of Japan. The large fleet moves quickly, and sweeps the skies and oceans with radar and sonar. The RO/RO and LPD ships stay at the center of the convoy, gaurded by the five carriers.

Admiral Jared Hampton watches from the bridge of his carrier, the LRRNS Harriet Beecher Stowe, as it plows through the water. All around, the majority, in fact almost the entirety of the pacific fleet (in terms of frigates and bigger) sails towards Pusan. The fleet was joined earlier that day by the LRRNS Robert Peary, an Iowa class battleship, and a very strange, but very cool-looking LPD, the Harry S. Truman. With little internal volume, the Truman could barely hold 300 troops. But on its deck, a good 30 Merlin HC3 transport helicopters sit tied to the deck.

"How long until we reach the deployment radius?"
"About another day and a half, sir."

At the Bedford Mallard military airport, a very large installation built to service large bombers and transports, and part of the Bedford Mallard naval base and shipyard, the next group of the 56th Uhlans prepares to greet the returning Il-79s. The full division of 5,500 men, 4,000 of whom are combat infantrymen and the rest of whom drive the AMX-10RCT light tanks and various trucks, and work as mechanics, sits ready to be air-transported in on the side of the airfield, bringing the total LRR committed force to at least 45,000 troops, not counting naval and air support.

OCC: The Il-79s and their escort have left, but if you want to attack them on the way out, I wouldn't object OCCly. Or, if you wanted to launch a long-range bomber attack on Bedford Mallard (which is south of magadan {think of LRR as eastern Siberia, from the Yenisey in the west to the mongolian border in the south}) I also wouldn't mind, although it is heavily defended.

LRR motor rifle divisions and heavy tank forces could be deployed once there is a larger area for landing, but they are optimized for home defense and are thus somewhat difficult to move en masse by air or sea, although they could make good time towards northern korea if given a land route to travel by. *hint hint*.

As for now, the airborne, light armor, and assault infantry is about all we can send.

Thousands of Xiannese troops march and invade Dra-Pol from the Yalu. Abraham Tanks provide heavy support. Mortars also shoot off and whump, whump, whump, whump. Noises go on through the night as the shells destroy countless enemy troops.

Thousands of rockets have been shot to provide more support. After failing defeats, the strategy is to send as much force as needed. The Invasion sets out from the eastern borders having Naval artillery set off from the coasts.

In order to flush out Dra-poel geurillas, Sinoese troops will blow smoke into their entrances.

You may have more luck with nerve gas :wink:

He's already used it on you- respond in kind!

In order to flush out Dra-poel geurillas, Sinoese troops will blow smoke into their entrances.

You may have more luck with nerve gas :wink:

He's already used it on you- respond in kind!

When did he use it in the North? But a good suggestion indeed. Or we can publically execute their civilians to scare the rest into submission.

More troops will be sent south to destroy Dra-Pols Northern defenses. 7million in the war, Dra-Pol. Xiaguo will then send more troops to the invasion. A predicted 2 million will be available addition to the 1million in the North.

Armored vechicle were also sent with the troops and provided supplies and defense. The naval blockade ships have also targeted Dra-Pol's coastal batteries after Dra-Pol had destroyed many supplies when Xiannese invasions were carried out.


Xiaguo will try to hold off nucleur weapons.

OOC:I would like to understand and know how you have maintained a powerful defense which backed me and Sino off everytime we invaded?

More troops will be sent south to destroy Dra-Pols Northern defenses. 7million in the war, Dra-Pol. Xiaguo will then send more troops to the invasion. A predicted 2 million will be available addition to the 1million in the North.

Armored vechicle were also sent with the troops and provided supplies and defense.


Xiaguo will try to hold off nucleur weapons.

OOC:I would like to understand and know how you have maintained a powerful defense which backed me and Sino off everytime we invaded?

Dra-pol's in a Kraut situation anyway.

ooc: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3067913#3067913

If you read down towards the bottom of that many-part post you'll see a lot of rambling about the initial response to your invasion efforts.

Millions worth of supllies will be sent to kilean in defense against Dra-Pol.

OOC:Another question for dra-Pol, Where do the tunnels reach off to? Does the tunnels go all the way to the Yalu banks?

Dral-Pol, do you adknowledge the Geneva Codes during War?

What can we do back home when our troops are at war?

ooc: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3067913#3067913

If you read down towards the bottom of that many-part post you'll see a lot of rambling about the initial response to your invasion efforts.

That would be worth the invasion effort goddamn RL NKs sneak across China to steal and kill against ethnic Koreans over the Chinese border. Such actions are even government sponsored at most times.

Start issuing propaganda!
Also try improving the economy. A good economy is always good for the Nation. Even at war, try to maintain a stable economy.

Start making weapons, researching, and plan for the wars and battles. I've started up mass producing my tanks again. the 90 one?I'm going to pay a visit to sinodefense. :D

OOC: Stop posting so quickly you two, and move the non-IC comments to the OOC thread.

ooc:Well, ideally, Xiaguo, these questions would go in the ooc thread, but whatever... Dra-pol is ... unlike to adhere to any international treaties, since the Republic was in a state of abject isolation when most were drafted. The tunnels reach at most only a couple of miles into Xiaguo territory, unlike those under the ROK that stretched far south of Seoul. We never really planned to invade you, and these are part of a paranoid defensive plan.

I'll RP this tomorrow.

OOC
i dont believe u kno the kind of damage a 15thousand pound projectile can do, even if i dont know whats going on.

I dont really have time to read very in depth either, and its not like i want to ignore you....

And if you had that many people supporting your forces, your economy would be shot, to say the least. How will you keep everyday life going for your ppl when ur nation is on a wartime footing?

or i take it that you dont...nonetheless, someone has to keep producing warmaterials, producing foodstuffs, and keeping order at home.

*******

Ten ships, most of them light destroyers and frigates, are sunk or disabled. Their crews are rescued by various aircraft based in Japan...

As missiles cascade among naval ships, EMP missiles are launched. The EMPs take out many of the projectiles sent at the Islandian fleet, and many are disabled, their guidance systems and fuses shorted out.

In the meantime, armored divisions roll towards allied territory to join up with their Hudecian comrades.

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A message is sent to Xiaguo, requesting the presence of bases for Islandian troops and permission to launch an offensive from the north.

TO LLR Armed Forces on the Peninsula:

OOC: Ulsan and Pusan are two separate towns... because of the problems inherent in moving tens of thousands of men into a small area I moved my base of operations to Ulsan.

IC: Welcome to the peninsula gentlemen. Your assistance is badly needed, it looks as if Daegu (north of Pusan, east of Ulsan) will become a major battlefield shortly.

-Ulsan-

The arrival of two more Hudecian fleets has brought an additional 20 000 men to the Peninsula, bringing Hudecia's total number of troops to over 80 000. They are quickly moved out north of Ulsan to Pohang and the surrounding area, reinforcing the 20 000 men already there.

-Yellow Sea-

6 Hudecian aircraft carriers and their escort fleets move out towards Inchon and Seoul. Radio silence is observed.

-Victoria-

The S300s began landing after their trans-pacific flight. Pilots were exchanged and they were fueled up as another 20 000 marines boarded them. (OOC: what I'm doing is trying to rapidly deploy tens of thousands of troops to ROK - however, my troops are essentially coming with their guns in hand and their ammo in the carry-ons. Their heavy equipment won't come for another week or so)

Should I intervene in this war? Hmmm....

East Islandia: please god read more OOC stuff. Dra-Pol has a wretched economy, and keeps the people loyal through fear and a loyalty cult. And please don't chuck those EMP weapons around anywhere near South Korea- we would like to re-capture a country that isn't totally shattered.
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The merchant ships and transports sail into crowded Pusan. Field Marshal Anknecht watches the men of II corps unload, and smiles. They're back. His Dibujante war command, under his direct control once again.

He summons his driver. Sitting in the jeep on the way to the port, he looks out the window. Kilean paratroopers on every corner, boarded up winddows. Not a young Korean man on the street- they were all put to work at the outskirts of the city or had been drafted into Gen.Lee's forces- Anknecht didn't like the looks of it. It was like an occupation. The scared looking old korean grandmothers stole suspect glances at the tall, nordic Kilean airborne troops. There was a hunched guarded attitude to the civilians, a nervous energy in the troops that made them keep their hands near their slung rifles.

It wasn't good. These people were scared. They had seen their government collapse and most of their country get overrun inside of a couple of weeks by the bogyeman that they never thought (never wanted to think?) would try something like this. And now these forigeners were here (forigeners like me, thought Anknecht) fighting their own crusade for their own reasons...

He shook his head. We're here to save these people. We need to start acting like it. His driver interrupted his brooding.

"sir? we're here."

Anknecht got out of the car and looked up at the huge roll-on/roll-off merchant ship. Port of Pusan workers were bustling about along with men with the sword and yoke shoulder tabs of the quartermasters corps. Already the first field grey armored vehicles were rolling out of the ship. Further down the dock, a huge crane whirred, lifting the canvas-covered bulk of a Cougar heavy tank off the deck of a container ship.

A quartermaster corps captain tossed a hardhat at Anknecht. "don't you know the regs? stop gawking and do something!"

The quartermaster realized who he just shouted at, and nervously came to attention.

Anknecht waved off his stammered apology. "where's the general?"

The reply was....courteous. Anknecht walked to the port offices. He opened the door to the main building and walked right into the familiar bustle of staff officers setting up a headquarters. He smiled. This was his element. Sidestepping past a busy private carrying the divisional standard, he walked up to three men clustered around a map table.

"Hello, boys. It's good to be back."

The three divisional commanders of II corps saluted.

"Time to kick some ass, sir?" 2nd panczers commander was one of those types.

"Lets get your tanks off the ships first, shall we?"

They got to work.
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<OOC: the divisions of II corps are all "first four" elite units. These are the best heavy divisions in the Kilean army. They have the newest equipment, the most promising officers, and are comprised totally of volunteers- not a conscript among them. This means they have a very large collective ego, but it also means they are very, very good. Also- I am aware of the setbacks of having an 80-ton tank. But I'm not going to be crossing any major rivers soon, and I have enough stockpiled fuel to feed the Cougars half-mile-to-the-gallon turbine engine.

II corps is comprised of two infantry divisions and one panczer (amored ) division. They're all very heavy and totally mechanized units, some 25,000 men per division. 2nd armored is the only division to have all of it's amored brigades outfitted with the Cougar heavy tank. 1st and 3rd infantry use the spankin' new Lion MBT (a new, balanced MBT to replace the aging T-72aust.k) introduced and put into full production in the Dibujante war, the Lion's transmission problems have since been ironed out.

PS- NO TIGER/PANTHER COMPARISONS! nothing to look at here, folks...move on...<OOC>

OCC: Where should my troops go? Daegu? Also, I am under the impression that the Kilean/ROK/Allied forces are in command of the triangle of land with the verticies of Pusan, Ulsan, and Daegu.

IC:

At Bedford Mallard, the Il-79s return to the airfield. Engines are changed by ground crews in record time, and the next 1,500 troops and their equipment are loaded onto the transports, which take off very quickly.

On the ground, the 2nd brigade organizes itself and heads towards Daegu. Captain Taylor leads his company towards the city, the RBS-56 BILL launcher slung over his back, and his L1A1 rifle cradled in his arms. They walk along the side of the road, the four unfortunate tankers carrying a pair of Hellfire launchers between them. Meanwhile, the AMX-10RCTs pass beside them, their 120mm cannons aimed to give full coverage of the road.

A few hundred yards back, Sgt. Harrison keeps watch over his squad. The 10 troops in his squad carry between them a mortar and an RBS-56 BILL ATGM.

"Keep moving, where almost there."
"Where, sarge?"
"To our positions overlooking the beautiful cirt of Daegu."

As they continue up the road, they see several AMX-10RCTs being dug into open-backed shelters. The tank crews pile dirt up onto the sides of their AMXs with their entrenching tools. The gunners test the traverse of their turrets, and zero in on the roads in and out of Daegu.

Colonel Henely, riding in a Valpen truck with a Milan tied to the roof, steps out of the truck and surveys the surrounding area.

"Company commanders, meet at my truck!"

Captain Taylor first attends to his company.

"Ok, you guys take this area here. Keep the missiles trained on the roads. Harrison?"
"Yes, sir?"
"You've got it from here."
"Yes sir. Ok, you scallywags, let's get to work on those RPG walls! MG teams, set up under those bushes there!"

The company's three 12.7mm MGs are set up to completely cover the front of the hill they had fortified. Other companies take up positions on the flanks and rear. Soon, the hill is a heavily defended strategic location. MGs are set up along the road leading down into the defended triangle to protect it from capture in case a retreat is made necessary.

Taylor runs over to the Colonel's truck, with a frightened PFC at the Milan.

"Now, here's the situation. The Drapoel forces are massing for an attack on the Daegu-Pusan-Ulsan area, especially Daegu. The major roadways are well within our gun and missile range, which will make this hill a prime target. As such, make sure your men have as much protection as possible. The heavy tree cover will make it hard for their artillery to sight us, and we are counting on air support by the time the attack gets under way."
"What kind of armor do we expect, sir?" asked Lt. Colonel Tourville.
"Be ready for anything. APCs, MBTs, tracked howitzers, anything. But they can't move any significant number of armored vehicles unless they use the roads. Is that all?"
"What's their air support?" asked the captain in charge of D company.
"Light jets mostly. We don't have very good information on the state of the Drapoel airforce. If that's all your questions, you are dismissed."

Captain Taylor heads back to his troops, to find them well dug-in.

"We're almost done with the mortar pit, sir."
"Alright, be ready for an attack very soon."

At sea, the LRR fleet reaches the deployment area. The fleet immediately goes crazy with activity, as frigates begin search patterns for submarines. Sovremenny destroyers, with AsSW being their primary task, watch for surface threats. All the while, the fleet moves ever closer to Pusan. Soon, the port is in sight.

On the LRRSV Harry S. Truman, crewmen take the tie-downs off the Merlins as the flight crews rush to preflight their aircraft.

The Robert Peary immediately heads to the coast off Ulsan, under heavy frigate escort. Her heavy guns swivel landward, ready to provide gunfire support to the defenders of the city.

On the troopships, infantry troopers climb towards the top decks of their ships. They watch as LCVPs are tied up to the sides of their ships, and light vehicles are lowered into the light landing craft. The RO/RO ships steam towards the port of Pusan, embarking an armored division consisting of MBT-5Bs, CV-9040s, and a large variety of smaller vehicles.

"Attention, port of Pusan, this is the first overseas naval task force, requesting permission and procedure to offload our troops at the port facilities."

On the deck of the Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jaguar IINs line up, ready to launch themselves into the air. They are laden with rockets and cluster munitions to use on the advancing Dra-pol forces. Already in the air, a wing of MiG-29KIs circles the battlegroup. The MiG-29KI is a medium-sized fighter with a very good radar and good loiter time.

Both E-2s are in the air, gaurded by a sizable contingent of MiGs each. However, the real stars will be the Jaguar attack jets.

Off the decks of all of the five carriers, a combined force of 50 Jaguar IINs, about 6/8 of the total Jaguar force, lurches off the ski ramps and shoots from the catapults, carrying cluster bombs and fuel-air explosives.

"Strike wing alpha, this is hawkeye. Your first target area is northwest of Daegu. Contact local FAC for specific target information."
"Roger that, hawkeye. Kilean FAC, this is carrier strike wing Alpha, requesting specific target information for the area northwest of Daegu, over."

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/images/foch31.jpg

One of the LRR Clemenceau carriers carrying not A-7s. :oops:

ooc: Although there is, for some reason, an ooc thread, I’m going to have to say here that if you don’t have time to get fully involved in the thread then I’m going to have to start assuming that your soldiers don’t have time to fully...find the country. I recognise that Dra-pol is a very difficult quantity with which to deal, and I admit that I don’t quite know how anyone is supposed to interact with or fight effectively against it. That is why I specifically chose to have Dra-pol attack a none-player-controlled country so that you don’t have to get involved unless you really want to. Some people have paid attention and coped pretty well so far, which is cool.

Really though, even though I may be prone to ramble on and talk about my country until my fingers bleed, there’s only so many times I can repeat myself. To then read, “I dont really have time to read very in depth either” or, “And if you had that many people supporting your forces, your economy would be shot, to say the least...” without banging my head on the desk is quite a feat, I think.

Now, I’m going to do some reading offline because I think I’ve a lot of specific actions to start dealing with in the south.

OOC: Positions of Hudecian/East Islandian Forces in Southeast Korea, correct me if I'm wrong EI.

-Pohang- (north of Ulsan)

20 000 Hudecian troops including heavy artillery and an armoured division
4 Wasp-class ACs offshore guarded by:
5 Ticondera class destroyers,
3 Ulsaan frigates and
5 Halifax destroyers

-Ulsan-

20 000 Lightly armed Hudecian troops
12 AOR transports (empty)
1 Iowa battleship
5 Halifax destroyers
2 Srpuance destroyers
2 Ulsaan frigates
600 assorted fightercraft (mostly F-36Ts and F-22s but some Arrow IIs)

-Yeongcheon- (intersection of major highways northeast of Daegu)

20 000 Hudecian troops (same configuration as in Pohang)

-Daegu-

20 000 Hudecian troops (same configuration as in Pohang)
2 East Islandian armoured divisions

-To LLR forces-

Hudecian and AA forces are holding the Pohang-Daegu defences, Kilean and ROK forces are holding Daegu.

I suggest that your forces be deployed to the west of Pusan to the cities of Masan, Changwon, Jinhae. Remember, the Pusan Perimeter that was held last time did not come close to Pusan. We must give ourselves lots of room to manouvre.

-To Kilean forces-

Please set up defences in and to the south of Daegu. Holding along the Hwang-gang river. (I think thats the name of it - correct me if I'm wrong please).

This separations of forces will allow us to know accurately where our forces are and how to respond to a crisis. (OOC: it'll also avoid any confusion as to who is being attacked and make it easy for Drapol to organize his assaults, BTW, keep up the good work RPing Drapol)

-Palong Mountain- (north of Daegu)

Hudecian Humvees towing artillery and anti-air weapons began making their way to the top of the mountain. Ever vigilant for Drapol special ops, they prepared for the worst.

With the mountain top, Hudecian artillery could pound any advancing Drapol units coming from the north of Daegu.

General O'Neil smiled... if the ROK fell, it would not be for lack of trying by the Hudecian command.

OCC: Dra-pol, if I have been one of the perpetrators of this badness I would like to apologize and please tell me what I am doing wrong.

Also, the paratroopers and airborne armor are already in place near Daegu. So include 1,500 infantrymen and 29 wheeled tanks dug into a hilltop east of Daegu (is it also called Taegu?) in your attack plans for that city.

Do not forget, there is a wing of Jaguars waiting for a FAC to give them a target. Just FYI.

IC:

In Pusan harbor, RO/RO ships offload MBT-5B Tecumseh (think Leopard with better gun and armor, missiles, and an ECM system) tanks, CV-9040s, as well as CV-90 SAM (Rapier missile) and AAA variants, and John Henry IV wheeled APCs (think MOWAG Pirahna IV only where the turreted version has missiles). Along with these combat vehicles, a large number of M-925 trucks comes off the RO/ROs. LCU- and helicopter-borne troops arrive at the staging area on the dock.

Merlin HC3s ferry 50x30 troops as well as a good deal of Valpen and Pinzgauer light trucks to the staging area each trip. LCUs, the American LCU-1600 variety, transport 400 troops ashore per trip. It was imperative that the troops get into their transports and off the staging area as soon as possible, and when an MBT-5B drove into the water, it did not help things. The big tank sinks to the bottom of the harbor, and the crew is fished out of the water by dockworkers.

Soon, a steady stream of vehicles painted in standard LRRA camoflauge rumbles through Pusan headed to the perimeter. The MBT-5s take up most of two lanes of roadway, and are the first to be channeled out of the port. They are followed by the CV-90s and John Henrys. Most have only a 12.7mm MG and a Kornet launcher, but some are armed with big 20mm cannon turrets, AGM-114Ls hanging off the sides.

The first tanks reach their positions towards nightfall. The LRRA contingent looks out over the grim battlefield. Being totally inexperienced, they did not know what to expect. The few troops who had seen combat in ANL still had no idea of what a massive, badly matched battle would be like.

But if the ROK was going to fall, they would definately come back to free it. (The LRRN trains constantly in evacuations).

The commander of the 1st armored expeditionary force, Major General Ibrahim Elias, sits on the turret of his MBT-5C (for command, with a better radio and more interior room because of the significantly bigger turret), next to its 20mm cannon turret. He wears a tanker's helmet with the AEF patch sewn onto it, and, over his olive drab tanker's overalls, a DPM jacket with IR reflective dyes.

"Allied CP, this is the first AEF, General Elias speaking. About, oh," he surveys the position of his troops, "40 percent of our forces are in position. It looks like we might have a good ten percent left over for reserves. Any special orders? Also, do you know where the paratroops are?"

Meanwhile, the second shipment of airborne troops crosses into the north pacific.

On the hilltop east of Daegu, the 2nd brigade continues to fortify their position. Captain Taylor watches as the Hudecian artillery climbs the mountain road. He calls over to the Lieutenant in charge of C platoon.

"Thompson!"
"Yes, sir?"
"Keep an eye on the artillery over there. We don't want any ambushes, ok?"
"Of course, sir. C platoon, be ready to respond to an attack on the artillery on the mountain to the south."

Th Kingdom of the Vecne Mesto would like to express its support for the unification process of Korea that Dra-pol has initiated.

We offer our assistance, politically, economically and militarily to this endeavor.

We are willing to any materials that you might require, including aviation fuel. We have our ways of bypassing the blockade. We would even be willing to provide escorts for the fuel once it has landed. We see a need to protect these vital commodities.

We hope to send an envoy to discuss further co-operation between our nations.


Sincerely Yours;
President Va'lorsk

"Kilo two-one actual, Kilo two-one actual, give us position"

Jochaim was nervous. The last few days had tought him to keep an eye out for snipers. They'd gone through several officers. Right now, though, he was just trying to protect the forward air controller.

The reply came back over the radio.

"We've got the positions, mountain six-four, starting attack run."

Jochaim looked down the ridge to the highway below. The Drapoel were swarming southwards, and the Kilean mountain troops were frantically trying to slow them and buy time for allied troops to prepare defenses.

The howl of the LRR jets grew louder and louder. Jochaim tried to squeeze as much of his body as was possible beneath his helmet.

His whole brigade was going to perform a local counter-attack after the airstrike. Jochaim was not looking forward to the next several hours.
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To The Kingdom of the Vecne Mesto:

We warn you to respect the multinational blockade that has been declared around Dra-Pol, and warn you that Kilean (and assuredly allied) forces will fire upon any ships attempting to cross the blockade.

We are sending our 1st, 3rd, and 4th fleet to help the ROK and beat back the commies.

1st fleet MAIN BODY CVBG
1 Nimitz CVN
3 DDG-51 flight IIA class
3 CG-47
1 Spruance
1 Kidd
2 Perry
2 supply ships
2 Galaxy SSN
1 688iSSN

1st SAG:
10 Farragut DDg
1 fleet supply

2nd SAG
4 DDG-51
4 Farragut
1 Perry
1 supply ship

3rd FLEET
MAIN CVBG
1 Kitty Hawk class CV
2 Farragut
3 DDG-51
2 CG-51
2 perry
1Kidd DDG
3 Seawolf
1 Galaxy SSN
2 supply ships

1st ASW group
1 Kidd
1 Spruance
1 Farragut
2 Perry
1 Burke
1 Knox FF
1 logistical ship

1st SAG
4 Farragut
2 DDG-51
1 CG-47
1 Knox FF
1 light supply ship

4th Fleet:
CVBG
1 Nimitz
5 Farragut
1 DDG-51
1 CG-47
2 Perry
1 Spruance
2 Supply ships
2 688i SSN
1 Galaxy SSN

1st SAG
1 Farragut
2 DDG-51
2 CG-47
1 Perry FFG-7
1 light supply ship

FLEETWIDE Resupply group
5 fleet supply ships
3 farragut
2 DDG-51
3 CG-47
2 Kidd DDG
1 Spruance DD
3 688i SSN

We are sending our 1st, 3rd, and 4th fleet to help the ROK and beat back the commies.

1st fleet MAIN BODY CVBG
1 Nimitz CVN
3 DDG-51 flight IIA class
3 CG-47
1 Spruance
1 Kidd
2 Perry
2 supply ships
2 Galaxy SSN
1 688iSSN

1st SAG:
10 Farragut DDg
1 fleet supply

2nd SAG
4 DDG-51
4 Farragut
1 Perry
1 supply ship

3rd FLEET
MAIN CVBG
1 Kitty Hawk class CV
2 Farragut
3 DDG-51
2 CG-51
2 perry
1Kidd DDG
3 Seawolf
1 Galaxy SSN
2 supply ships

1st ASW group
1 Kidd
1 Spruance
1 Farragut
2 Perry
1 Burke
1 Knox FF
1 logistical ship

1st SAG
4 Farragut
2 DDG-51
1 CG-47
1 Knox FF
1 light supply ship

4th Fleet:
CVBG
1 Nimitz
5 Farragut
1 DDG-51
1 CG-47
2 Perry
1 Spruance
2 Supply ships
2 688i SSN
1 Galaxy SSN

1st SAG
1 Farragut
2 DDG-51
2 CG-47
1 Perry FFG-7
1 light supply ship

FLEETWIDE Resupply group
5 fleet supply ships
3 farragut
2 DDG-51
3 CG-47
2 Kidd DDG
1 Spruance DD
3 688i SSN

"Kilo two-one actual, Kilo two-one actual, give us position"

Jochaim was nervous. The last few days had tought him to keep an eye out for snipers. They'd gone through several officers. Right now, though, he was just trying to protect the forward air controller.

The reply came back over the radio.

"We've got the positions, mountain six-four, starting attack run."

Jochaim looked down the ridge to the highway below. The Drapoel were swarming southwards, and the Kilean mountain troops were frantically trying to slow them and buy time for allied troops to prepare defenses.

The howl of the LRR jets grew louder and louder. Jochaim tried to squeeze as much of his body as was possible beneath his helmet.

His whole brigade was going to perform a local counter-attack after the airstrike. Jochaim was not looking forward to the next several hours.
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To The Kingdom of the Vecne Mesto:

We warn you to respect the multinational blockade that has been declared around Dra-Pol, and warn you that Kilean (and assuredly allied) forces will fire upon any ships attempting to cross the blockade.

The Jaguars come screaming in at about mach 1.5 along the length of the highway. The jets fly so low over the Kilean troops' position that loose papers are blown away. As soon as the Jaguars are in sight of the Dra-pol troops, they are engulfed in a barrage of flak. One Jaguar takes it particularly hard, and the pilot ejects before his aircraft explodes, crashing into the valley below. However, the other 49 jets make their run.

Nose down, they empty folding fin rockets and cannon at the column below. As they climb up and away, they release cluster bomblets. However, two Jaguars are claimed to target fixation and either plow into the Dra-pol column or hit the side of the cliff. The others pull away hard and head back towards the coast, hopefully before Dra-pol fighters catch up with them....

Commander Howard Freeman flies his Jaguar two-seater. As the wing commander, he was responsible for the wing's safety. The radio was full of chatter.

"This is gull seven, my right engine's on fire!"
"Keep going, seven! If you want to eject, at least do it where you won't get shot at by ack!"
"Rob, how does my plane look?"
"Damnit, three! The back of your rudder's gone!"

Three planes lost, two pilots, probably three dead. Not the worst ever, but a dent for sure. Suddenly, Commander Freeman is brought back to awareness as he feels a heavy lurch.

"Jesus Christ! Wing, what was that?"
"Let me check.... oh man. You're missing your left gear, and the whole underbelly is shot up pretty bad. Looks like you're leaking fuel."
"I'm getting out over Pusan, copy that?"
"Yes, sir. Let's hope we don't get any company between now and then."

The wing of Jaguars races towards the safety of the MiG net over the carrier squadron. On the decks of the carriers, damage control and medical teams ready themselves, since only 10 of the 47, soon to be 45 returning jaguars escaped damage so far.

ooc: permission to enter the fray. Also HBF no longer exists or he would be here.

edit: I know HBF in real life and he said to tell Dra-pol that he would "pray that the blessed virgin wopuld have mercy upon you as no one else should" :D

Promise of Joshua! Good to have you aboard. Hell, transfer the POJ/Kilean combined corps right out of northern Dibujante!

No, seriously. We should attempt to furter co-ordinate military action against Dra-Pol. We've got a defensive ring around Pusan, but are trying to hold them off in the general south-east of the country. It's mostly light forces, except for Kilean II corps.

To the great nation of Dra-pol and their wonderous people,
We have long looked favorably upon your re-unification of the Korean peninsula. Our great Osterreich even now moves inexorably east to your support. The names of those who oppose us are probably unfamiliar to the Drapoel, but they are as imperialist as the rest, such as Kilean, IDF, and others. We offer you our full support in uniting the nations of Korea, who have so long been thrust apart by the imperialist fools. Our drive eastwards will eventually be into the nations that oppose Dra-pol, and even now we are not so far. We offer our continued moral and eventually physical support.

Signed,
Kaiser Heinrich IV
Emperor of the Jing Osterreich.
Ruler of Turkestan and Central China

The ships reached the Korean peninsula with the 1st fleet on the West Side and the 3rd and 4th on the East side. They launched a total of 486 TLAM cruise missiles with 1,000 lb warheads all over military, utility, and government facilities. The ships reloaded their cells from the supply boats and lit up their AA search radars to guide in SM-5 missiles if an air attack occured. they doubt it would since airfields were fired upon with TLAMs. The carriers launched 45 F/A-18F Super hornets each and 25 F-14Ds each with AA and AG weapons. A total of 210 combat planes were launched. 3 AWACs were in the air with 12 S-3 Viking tankers. numerous ASW helos were up.

The ships reached the Korean peninsula with the 1st fleet on the West Side and the 3rd and 4th on the East side. They launched a total of 486 TLAM cruise missiles with 1,000 lb warheads all over military, utility, and government facilities. The ships reloaded their cells from the supply boats and lit up their AA search radars to guide in SM-5 missiles if an air attack occured. they doubt it would since airfields were fired upon with TLAMs. The carriers launched 45 F/A-18F Super hornets each and 25 F-14Ds each with AA and AG weapons. A total of 210 combat planes were launched. 3 AWACs were in the air with 12 S-3 Viking tankers. numerous ASW helos were up.

The ships reached the Korean peninsula with the 1st fleet on the West Side and the 3rd and 4th on the East side. They launched a total of 486 TLAM cruise missiles with 1,000 lb warheads all over military, utility, and government facilities. The ships reloaded their cells from the supply boats and lit up their AA search radars to guide in SM-5 missiles if an air attack occured. they doubt it would since airfields were fired upon with TLAMs. The carriers launched 45 F/A-18F Super hornets each and 25 F-14Ds each with AA and AG weapons. A total of 210 combat planes were launched. 3 AWACs were in the air with 12 S-3 Viking tankers. numerous ASW helos were up.

The ships reached the Korean peninsula with the 1st fleet on the West Side and the 3rd and 4th on the East side. They launched a total of 486 TLAM cruise missiles with 1,000 lb warheads all over military, utility, and government facilities. The ships reloaded their cells from the supply boats and lit up their AA search radars to guide in SM-5 missiles if an air attack occured. they doubt it would since airfields were fired upon with TLAMs. The carriers launched 45 F/A-18F Super hornets each and 25 F-14Ds each with AA and AG weapons. A total of 210 combat planes were launched. 3 AWACs were in the air with 12 S-3 Viking tankers. numerous ASW helos were up.

The ships reached the Korean peninsula with the 1st fleet on the West Side and the 3rd and 4th on the East side. They launched a total of 486 TLAM cruise missiles with 1,000 lb warheads all over military, utility, and government facilities. The ships reloaded their cells from the supply boats and lit up their AA search radars to guide in SM-5 missiles if an air attack occured. they doubt it would since airfields were fired upon with TLAMs. The carriers launched 45 F/A-18F Super hornets each and 25 F-14Ds each with AA and AG weapons. A total of 210 combat planes were launched. 3 AWACs were in the air with 12 S-3 Viking tankers. numerous ASW helos were up.

ooc:Nah, most of you are fine, in my humble estimation. I've mainly been concerned about what's going on up north.
Erm, IDF, I don't know much about you, I admit, but I would like this to be a bit more indepth than numbers and 1st person speaking that apparently comes from a player rather than any character. I mean, I don't even know who the heck you are and you're coming to kill my little guys :)

South Korea

Osan air base was beginning to look more like part of the CPRD as more men and equipment arrived to relieve the mainly Red Bamboo and Banat forces that’d been operating at the location since the first days of fighting.

Heavier air defence systems were finally turning up to support the advance DZSU-47-2 and DRAR-1-SAM vehicles and shoulder-launched SAMs of the infantry. The PAAF was stationing significant numbers of aircraft on hand, and in the area a number of fuel dumps had been found secured by commandos. There was now a race, repeated across the occupied south, to move fuel and other useful items away from fronts or pockets of resistance. Sometimes they were taken back to the CPRD, along with a number of captured technicians and such, sometimes down into tunnels in an effort to hide them from air attack.

Over all, the advance continued, but in places it was beginning to slow. Partisan attacks, though their perpetrators were being wiped out at a horrific rate and with abject brutality, had left a few advance units waiting for supplies that’d been delayed. Drapoel commandos seemed to have gone largely unchecked almost everywhere save the south east, and they were doing a good job of cutting ROKA retreats. One Red Bamboo infantry platoon had accepted the surrender of an entire marine company that had evidently not expected to see CPRD forces as far south as these were. The South Koreans regretted their decision six hours later when it became apparent that the commandos weren’t part of a larger formation, but by then they’d long been disarmed.

One recruit, after insisting with some scorn for his commanding officer that, “we should have taken them prisoner!” was shot in the leg while trying to escape and bring help. He died, of course, hours later after receiving no care.

Some miles away, one of the foremost assault divisions was becoming strung-out as many sections slowed to await re-supply. The PA had deployed almost fifty thousand armoured vehicles to the south, and no amount of trucks, tunnels, or backs seemed able to keep them all supplied and in working order. Infantry were getting ahead of their support in various sectors across the Southeast, and at least one unit, a regiment-worth of regulars with a handful of Red Bamboo officers at its head, seemed to have had the misfortune to tickle the enemy’s nerves.

A RB Lieutenant screamed an alert to whatever air defence section might hear him. Barely a second later the roar of LRR aircraft engines drowned out his next instructions and rockets began to fall. From some way behind the infantry flack began to rise, claiming one Jaguar in a display that greatly impressed some of the less travelled recruits. The AAA wasn’t as heavy in its coverage as it might have been deeper into occupied territory. The men may over all have been quite resolute in their advance and to call them brave and tough to shake would be fair, but crowded together as they marched hastily through the uneven terrain the weight of rocketry and bombing levelled against them was jarring. Many weren’t immediately sure how to react. Not wanting to be seen in a panic all too many froze, and they died where they stood.
Throughout the bombardment a few fired small arms into the air, a single QW-2 shoulder-launched SAM popping up from the crowd. None of that would be enough to greatly trouble a fifty aircraft assault.
It was only as most of the aircraft were beginning to peel off that very many air defence soldiers had managed to shoulder SAMs, and probably more than half a dozen low-level missiles took off after the low-flying attackers.
As the now badly burned Red Bamboo Lieutenant winced and looked back at his infantry column, formerly 1,800 strong. Hundreds of his comrades were now hard to distinguish from the blackened remains of the weighty supplies they’d minutes ago been hauling on their backs.
He waved with his good arm for a few men near by to bring that KPV and follow him a couple of hundred yards to the mouth of the little valley they were in. It looked like their advance would be holding here, at least for a while. If he’d known that an entire brigade of Kilean mountain troops was part of the sporadic shooting he could hear somewhere near by he might have thought it best to turn around and go back out the other end of the valley. Of course being a Red Bamboo officer at the fore of the People’s Army’s advance he’d not have done it, despite his better judgement.
Reinforcements were just a few miles behind, but motionless below an umbrella of heavier SAMs and AAA, waiting for fuel to be brought up. None of the aircraft covering them were sent to help the battered but relatively insignificant survivors, and the LRR Jaguars that survived the attack run had every chance of an untroubled escape.

Dra-pol

The Vecne Mesto communiqué, though greeted with scepticism, received a prompt reply expressing DaKhiem’s interest in whatever help may be availed by President Va’lorsk against the reactionaries.

Joshua City; Presidential Complex

Instruct Admiral Chamberlain to proceed with all due haste to personally coordinate our actions with the Kileans. As Minister of Defense, he is uniquely qualified for the role. I will handle liason with the Quinntonians myself.

Yes Mr. President!

In that vein, I will be making inquiry of Jesse, son of Obed, if our forces can utilize the HBF military bases in and around Hamhung. Summon Ms. O'Neil from the residence as to the repurcussions involved in a total war against the Drapol. She will know the meaning of those words

Yes Mr. President (said off tone as the aide wondered why the Justice Minister needed to be summoned when she was obviously staying at the Presidential Complex)

Off Dibujante; Aboard the PJS CVN Judea. Outdoor Bridgewing

Rear Admiral Peiper message for you.

After reviewing the message the still youthful looking, newly promoted Rear Admiral glances briefly at his assembled aides and staff as the snowflakes from the Dibujantian winter blow by. He holds the message in his left hand as his right seemingly rests near the leg stripe of his uniform, but actually grabs his leg to prevent it from shaking too badly and not from the cold.

We are ordered to take Task Group Rauss under command with our own forces andf proceed at once to reinforce the blockade of Dra-pol. Remind all commanders of Directive #1 and issue appropriate orders for warshot loads aboard and aloft. I need plots of the cities and installations in Dra-pol for cruise missile fire strikes once we come within range. Request an Oscar force to carry out the above. Also ask for the SSBNs Benjamin and Agememnon. We will have a combined force of 14 Carrier Groups by the time we arrive? I presume a large land force will be deployed?

Correct on both counts sir. The whole of the 11th (Lite) and 2nd Armored Corps are loading now with the 1st Corps FMF here. The 9th and 13th Seabee Regiments is being dispatched from Netayana with the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 10th Corps. 4th and 6th Corps FMF along with 7th Armored Cav Corps.

We are also notified of a PJAF operation as well.

good good. Keep me notified. Dismissed, tend to yur duties and I know you do not enjoy staying out the cold. I will stay here for awhile.

The wind seems to change direction as the massive ship changes course and signal flags ascend the yardarm. Now Rear Admiral Jochen Peiper wondered if at last he would be allowed to fully exercise his views on proper treatment of the enemy. He had heard horrible stories from his Quinntonian counterparts and he planned on bringing the Dra-pol atrocities home to roost.


Off Netanyana

are you certain about the decoding?

yes sir. Unrestricted submarine warfare against all who approach the Drap-pol coast.

The Kilo class submarines continued on the surface near the sub tenders and their frigate escorts with the Arleigh Burke Destroyer in the background.

a short distance away Aboard the Padre Class BB(AEGIS) "Raider"

Dra-pol? What is a Dra-pol?

apparently some poor bastard in need of pain and suffering sir.

very well. change course

ooc: I have other unpleasentness planned for my everloving Dra-pol neighbors but I really need to read the thread and figure out all the possible hardship I can send your way in Christian love. :D

keep the faith

OOC:Thank You dra-Pol for explaining the tunnel situation. very well, just don'nt rp and post something about having thousands of troops coming out of my sewers..


More Mortars were used and thunder was heard throughout the worned up North. This time the battles were much easier fought and Xiannese troops seems to have it off a little "less harder" after the demolishing of Dra-Pol's Coastal batteries which had been melting the army during the earlier invasions. this time Xiaguo managed to cross the Yalu river.

Can you imagine a scenery of a barren plain. The red sun is rising above having glorying the the war. However, War is evil, death's playing game. thousands of troops are dead on the Borders. Some hundreds are being retreived. Both sides worked in silence during the night. Now t'was the morning and new recruits, volunteers, reserves, all of these brave troops have joined the fight. After realising the deafeats were bcause of the immense size of the enemy populous, Xiannese start to come in waves balancing out this scale.
Most of these men riding through the morning glow were on horses, jeeps, tanks, anything that is mobilised.You can see dust blow accross these courageous young soldiers. Not only men, but the brave women who also joined the effort since the Women's Rights were part of the new nation.

The predicted 2million soldeirs will join the 1 million comrades fighting, and Sino's forces still struggling to hold the area beyonf Yalu river.

Hundreds more Rockets were shot at Dra-pol defenses especially the air defenses. Many rockets however were defensively shot and exploded without reaching the targets but in good hopes, many rockets were sucessfully in conclusion and high hopes of a first victory sang in everyone.

Aboard a C141 leading a lot of others into Pusan

We are ordered to coordinate with the Kilean authorities. We have our own fighter cover and are bringing the 1st Airborne Division commanded by General Otto Skornsky....thats correct....the division follows with AWACS aircraft and tankers. A similiar force is headed into Hamhung....copy

In the main compartment of one of the aircraft

Military Police, we will need no MPs where we are going. You will be deployed as infantry.

But what about prisoners?

Prisoners?.......you didn't fight against the Dra-pol the last time around did you?

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ooc Needless to say large forces of C141s are approaching both Hamhung and Pusan with POJ Airborne troops aboard. They are escorted by fighter aircraft and have AWACS, tankers, EW and other aircraft along. I know that both Pusan and Hamhung have airstrips capable of handling these forces.

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Meanwhile SW of Poyyongyang; very high altitude still over the water

They may have just acquired us. Standby all weapon systems and countermeasures. Proceed towards target and activate weapons targeting

ooc: I'll let you tell me if you pick up this rather large raid of B1-b Lancers plus escorts. They will launch JDAMS at range targeted for the airfields and HARMs at any of your BG AA systems that come on line. Have a nice day :lol:

(ooc:Spyr, since we got a bit off track... well, since I got a little off track, I'm writing this as if we've been to Spyr and back, bringing your delegates along... do feel free to speak retrospectively if there's much you'd prefer to have accomplished before our chaps tried to whisk you off back to the Republic.)

Dra-pol, near Paegam

Dra-pol wasn't used to accepting foreign diplomats. The last time they'd tried was remembered to-day in the Republic as the Three Day War, and in Quinntonia as simply Kurosian's Rage. The capital had been flattened and rebuilt twice in the process, so perhaps it was less than surprising that the controversy-heavy AN-2 biplane carrying Spyrian nationals touched down half the country away.

The strip that received the aircraft was improbably short and of course unpaved, but the lumbering piston engined aircraft just about coped, the pilot was clearly experienced. Already some way above sea level, those attending had to crane their necks upwards in order to take in the most imposing view. The ancient forbidden city of Paegam, a wonder of masonry akin to that more usually found on the Indian sub continent, jutted points and giant faces through the seemingly ever present mist. The palace in which Director Koshiako Kurosian spent his first ten years sat high on the mountain, a sea of water vapor below.

Now though the third Kurosian was far away in DaKhiem's Central Directorature, and the Spyrians would have to make do with minor secretaries and a host of other figures. Almost all Drapoel to be seen out of military uniform wore near identical garmentry. It was drab, usually a faded sandy brown, and often patched up countless times- who had time to make new clothes from scratch? There was no way to pick the ever-present Banat agents from the rest, unless one was blessed with x-ray vision that'd highlight concealed weapons carried by at least some such operatives. In truth there was little need here for armament, most Drapoel being at least moderately skilled in native martial arts geared towards negating the size advantage most foreigners held over the little communists.

After much silence and a few stolen glances from unidentified figures milling about the little airstrip a relatively dignified elderly man approached the new arrivals. He was old enough to still sometimes feel an urge to bow in greeting, but over the years a few stern lectures had put him right. He saluted the foreigners and looked to one of the agents who'd accompanied them, hoping for a little clarification on the language situation before opening his mouth.

The Yalu front

Fighting on Dra-pol's northern frontier had been perhaps the heaviest conventional clash seen on the peninsula since the bloody stalemate at Hamhung all those years ago.

The hurridly organised counter attacks by the People's Army, despite seeming initially to have wrong-footed the enemy, had largely fallen foul of poor support and limited planning. Xiannese mortar and rocket attacks had put paid to a hopefully foray opposite Kanggye, where the PA hoped to open up as much space as possible between the front and the industrial centre. Of course the infantrymen on the ground hadn't given up readily, and an entire Assault Division, the 273rd, had been reduced to little more than company strength before a handfull of survivors were picked up in various states of shock.

After halting the initial counter-attack, however, enemy artillery made a limited impression upon CPRD positions. For twenty miles from the border Drapoel artillery made sure that any attempt to build-up significant forces was doomed to failure- individual HARTS, even had they been cut-off from the massive tunnels and trenches that supplied them, were blessed with magazines sufficient for a high rate of unpausing fire over several days... and they weren't cut-off. The defensive network was, by the time of the counter-attack's abandonment, still intact. As PA forces fell back across the river they were screened by rapid and heavy fire, and any artillery that did manage to close enough to return fire was engaging a pre-established battery already firing and heavily fortified. (As in, years in advance, not during the course of an intense artillery battle and commando action)

Wherever Xiannese attacks did manage to cause significant casualties- probably in areas where the terrain had made static defences weakest, and certainly not near to the city itself,- the gaps were simply being plugged by the absolutely massive reserve forces that sat rested miles behind the fighting. All that the PA seemed to be doing since the first counter attack was sitting and allowing the enemy to smash its head against the rock of CPRD. Tired soldiers were even being brought off the front line and allowed to rest in the massive reserve, something not usual for the People's Army in the past. Every now and again one HART or another would run low on HE shells and loose a few volleys of chemical munitions until those little underground trains brought up more explosive shells.

Unknown to the outside, comrade Secretary Hotan, commander of forces in the field during the Crusader War, was on his way to the north with the intention of assuming direct command of the People's Army there.


(OOC rambling about HARTS and such defences: Drapoel Hardened Artillery-Sites are often cut into solid granite, and usually house whole batteries of 115, 150, and 190mm guns, fully shielded against direct hits from even 202mm artillery and with some degree of radiation shielding. Ahead of gun caves/bunkers are usually earthwork defences, easily accessed (and evacuated) by infantry, as well as minefields, and often supporting mortar pits (sometimes behind gun caves where possible). Underground/mountain tunnels sometimes interconnect HARTS. Earthwork elements may be constructed for most HART-type emplacements inside two or three days where sufficient hands and tools are available, thus allowing for advance and consolidation into foreign territory. Usual batteries are around 4-6 guns with ten times that many personnel required. Caves and tunnels store ammunition in units of 120 rounds, and guns often sustain rates of fire of 3 units per day at even a relatively casual intensity of engagement.
Other measures designed to protect Hardened Artillery Sites include their positioning, massed firing, air defence and rear area protection. The preferred place to put an artillery battery is on a reverse slope. This keeps it out of direct observation and fires and can help to confuse flash and sound units. Another benefit is a reverse slope can help to disrupt an air attack. A good reverse slope could be a 5-20 meter depression between the hill and mountains. Who is on the forward slope? : regular units awaiting to be committed, recently activated reserves and air defence units. The Drapoel will not struggle to put a good 500+ artillery tubes per kilometre of breakthrough frontage. This gives the potential of staggering volume in terms of rounds per minute fired. This could saturate the detection capability of countermortar/battery radar. If enemy radar can target even 10% of such a volume, the fire direction centres, manual and automated, could easily be overloaded. To further complicate things, enemy artillery command and control centres are also targeted for action by long range artillery, jamming, and commandos. Within two kilometres of a HARTS will usually be placed AAHMG companies crewed by local militia women.)

Drapoel Airport, near Paegam

Aya Etoro looked around at the people around the aircraft from which she had just disembarked. She wasn't tall by normal standards, and had considered herself rather thin, but the Drapoel... the delegation had brought along some treats... chocolate, red-bean candy, and the like, knowing that Dra-pol would likely not have the spare resources for such production. But now she wished she'd brought something far more substantial.

Looking towards the man waiting to greet her, she wondered what sort of language they'd have in common. Her native Lyongian was not widespread internationally, and no one in Dra-pol would likely know it. Drapoel too, was not really an option, as information on it had not been readily available [OOC: Though, the Spyrans are avid collectors of books on all subjects. If there WAS a Dra-pol language guide, the government would have found it, and she might be able to say 'hello'].
Like all Spyrans, she was bilingual in English from public schooling, and her diplomatic studies had required further linguistic competence in Korean and Japanese, which might be known in Dra-pol. She opened with greetings in all three.

[And, if that doesnt work... for a very long time, Korea, along with Japan, Vietnam, and Spyr all shared with China their set of ideogram characters. Thus, not speaking each other's languages, many communicated through 'brush-talking', literally writing to each other on pieces of paper. Grammar takes a moment to decipher, but the characters mean that meaning is retained. Since the use of Chinese characters historically stretched from 414BCE to 1945, Im hoping at least someone in Dra-pol will know them, even if other languages arent present].

To prove my loyalty and demonstrate my allegiance to the unification process of Korea. We, the Kingdom of the Vecne Mesto intend to furnish you with as much aviation fuel as we can. My fleet is out of range and would be useless against the blockade. But I can greatly assure you that I will get through…

A promise of President Va’lorak

-Yellow Sea-

"Alright, high command has made a decision. And we must obey... Signal all vessels, Operation Thirst has commenced."

Over the next hour, hundreds of ship based cruise missiles were launched at the infrastructure of South Korea. Mostly at the major highways where military intel was sure that the Drapol troops were transporting fuel.

Although minor highways were left intact it was hoped that enough damage would be caused to slow the rapid movement of the Drapol Armed forces.

-Ulsan-

Another 20 000 Marines began landing at the Ulsan airport. Upon disembarking they took whatever transportation was available, trucks, jeeps, buses, whatever they could get their hands on and began moving out towards Yeongcheon to replace the III Corps

-Gumi-

Advance guard units of the Hudecian II Corps began arriving at this town stuck right in the middle between Daejeon and Daegu. Mostly they were lightly armed scouts looking for Drapol troops, trying to assess their enemy's positions.

-Andong-

Similar to Gumi, Humvees carrying Hudecian marines from the III Corps began moving up. Only the advance guard units had arrived so far but the men were preparing for what looked like could be more men arriving soon.

OOC: I'm not sure how far you men are Drapol... last I heard was they were at Daejeon... but that was a few days ago... I know your troops have fuel problems but I'm not sure how severe they are.

-Vancouver-

The first AOR ships began returning from the cross pacific trip. Badly in need of refueling and repairs they were immediately put to dock for refueling and a few of them to drydock for repairs.

Prime Minister Honatava was on hand to welcome the sailors back and used the opportunity to promote the war.

HART sites are proving to be too much of a nuisance for both Xiaguo and Sino's presence. The local Sinoese Air Command has launched a raid on them by H-8 stealth bombers.

DOUBLE POST

OCC: Ok, *Gets national geographic map "The Two Koreas" out* so what is the position of Dra-pol forces and the direction of the advance? I have a pocket drawn in With the major points of Waegwan in the west, just south of Gunwi in the north, Angang in the northeast, just south of Yangpo on the northern coast, just south of pusan on the souther coast, Dongeup, the Upo Wetland, and back up to Waegwan. I take it that the area in a triangle around Daegu, Ulsan, and Pusan is the most heavily defened. Is this accurate? I have Seoul, Suwon, and Daejon circled as points of Dra-pol concentration. I will probably launch more air strikes to cut the roads in and out of the pocket if they are not already cut. Is this all accurate?

IC:

Aboard the five carriers, the first Jaguars begin to trap. S-3 tankers re-fuel the lesser damaged Jaguars as the heavily damaged ones land. Surprisingly, there are no major accidents. Wrecked airframes are dumped into the sea, and reparable airframes are brought below with the efficcency of men high on adrenaline. The robust aircraft prove their ability to take damage and still bring their pilots home.

Near Pusan, around five Jaguar pilots eject from their crippled aircraft, and wait to be picked up by ground units.

From the LRRSV Peter Sellers, one of the two Clemenceau class carriers, a specially equipped MiG-29KI is catapulted off the deck.

On its wing pylons, cameras and thermal imaging equipment pods hang where missiles would usually go. The MiG's unenviable task was post-strike analasys, a dangerous but necessary part of the air wing's mission.

The grey-blue MiG climbs to altitude and flies towards the area of the strike. At high altitude, shoulder-launched SAMs and AAA would not be a major problem. If there were fighters or big SAMs, the MiG pilot would definately be cursing his wing commander for assigning him post-strike analasys.

At the LRRA 2nd AEF's positions northwest of Pusan, the troops prepare for the battle to come. The 40 Tiger PAH-3 attack helicopters embarked on the fleet ships familiarize themselves with the terrain, as APC- and truck-borne infantry dig in. Tank crews dig themselves three-pronged artillery shelters facing out towards the direction of the advance. Fortunately, the sea was not far, and so evacuation was always possible if things got too dire, and fire support could be provided by NMLRS systems and ship cannons. Would it be enough? The 2nd AEF was good but against millions of decently equipped Drapoel troops, they would definately take a beating. Firepower was what it hinged on, and the 2nd AEF had a lot of it. Nearly 2,100 vehicles, including 200 MBT-5s, 400 CV-90s, and 700 John Henry IV APCs, as well as many many trucks armed with 12.7mm MGs and light ATGMs belonged to the 2nd AEF. A good 15,000 of the 2nd AEF's troops were based in armored fighting vehicles, which allowed them to have squad armored support against attacking infantry and light armor.

The armada of trucks was, while nothing against heavy weapons, armed with at least a good amount of MGs and armored cabs. The 2nd AEF would not go down without a fight.

They prepare their positions on the hills and fields near Pusan.

On the deck of the Truman, armorers attach stub wings onto the sides of the Merlins, turning them into attack helicopters. AGM-114L missiles are lined up on the deck, as armorers bring them to the helicopters. Pilots are taught to use the helmet mounted missile sight and how to identify enemy tanks and armored vehicles.

Sea Kings are also armed in a similar fashion, many of them shedding their usual torpedos for ATGMs.

The Iowa battleship trains its guns on the no-man's land north of Ulsan, as its escort of seven Broadsword MOD and Duke MOD frigates do with their NMLRS batteries. The Halifax frigates continue their submarine hunting with more ferocity than ever, fearing that assault troops will be delivered to block evacuation routes via submarine.

The Sovremenny and Iroquois class destroyers lazily lob missiles inland, targeting convoys spotted by FACs and drones. If nothing else, it would frighten the Drapoel troops. The only thing the defenders of the Pusan area had an advantage in was naval power. However, it meant that the LRRN and other allied navies could not only put fresh troops on the battlefield with minimal resistance, but also provide gun and rocketfire support to the troops within a reasonable radius.

A message is sent to the IDF naval fleet:

"IDF fleet, this is the LRR pacific naval task force, wondering if you would like to consolidate naval efforts, over."

In Beijing, an LRRAF Hansa touches down at the city airport, carrying a high-level diplomatic courier.....

-Ulsan-

With each passing day, Hudecian troops dig deeper and deeper defences around this critical city. Hudecian base command organizes air defences to ensure that above all, the skies above Ulsan remain firmly in Hudecian control.

-Pohang-

This port city is also the scene of major action as Hudecian marines fortify the city and prepare to receive more troops directly into this city. East Islandian forces are encouraged to land here to avoid the traffic jams which are becoming problematic in the southeast as hundreds of thousands of foreign soldiers cram into this small corner of Korea.

-Daegu-

The last Hudecian marines move northward from this city taking positions either on the hilltop north of Daegu or moving on to Gumi further up the road.

-Daejeon-

Hudecian fighters at high altitude begin observation of advancing Drapol lines.

OOC: Hey Halifax destroyers/frigates! So I'm not the only one who uses them!

ooc: going to wait for the Dra-pol to acknowledge initial posts before I continue. Want to make sure my involvement here is ok.

USS Halsey, flagship of IDF fleet in Pacific

Admiral Williams, CO of fleet: GENERAL QUARTERS, man battle stations.

XO: aye sir.

CO: have all carriers launch aircraft

flight ops: aye sir

main F/A-18 group
Captain Romanov, CAG of Pacific fleet: All planes head for alpha targets.

Squadron leaders: yes sir, headed for targets.

The 75 F-14Ds with 6 Air to Air AMRAAMs, 2 Harpoon ASM, and 2 JDAMs
135 F/A-18Fs with 2 AMRAAMs, 2 ASRAAMs, 4 JDAM, 2 AGM65 Mavericks

They went over their targets in Pyongyang, airbases, military bases, and troop formations. They dropped their bombs and headed back to the carriers.

The fleets went to General Quarters at the same time, the numerous Farragut DDGs fired 698 Tommahawk land attack cruise missiles at other targets to destroy the enemy infrastructure and army.

Positioning of Kilean/ROK troops in korea:

1 Mountain division nearing Gumi on the Taejon-Daegu* road. Is in contact with advanced Dra-Pol troops and is mounting a fighting retreat with many local spoling attacks to buy time.

1 ROK division in prepared positions around Daegu. They are in a defensive posture, but ready to move- either to the west, or to retreat further south.

1 ROK division (provisional) in Daegu. Not as mobile, these troops are dug in and although an ad-hoc formation, have enough antitank troops and engineers to mount a good defense.

1 Kilean paratrooper division occupying Pusan. Prepared positions are continually being reinforced by these troops and local manual labor.

3 divisions (1 panczer, 2 infantry) unloading in Pusan harbor. It will take some time for the units of II corps to be ready to move and engage in combat action.

*the Korean government recently relased new spelling rules for english translations of Korean. This leads to confusion, as many "p" sounds are now supposed to be "b" sounds (i.e. it changed from Pusan to Busan) and many "T" sounds are now "D" sounds (Taegu to Daegu, from Taejon to Daejon). I hope this clears up confusion.

<OOC: just thought i'd lay out where my forces are.<OOC>

After various communiques with the Xiaguo armed forces, it was decided that Taiwan would offer support and declare war on Dra-pol...covertly. President Chen was against intervention and had many plans to cozy up with the CPRD whom he saw as a cheap source of labour, and this was truly going behind his back. General Zhang would be court-martialled if he was found out, so there were no second chances and no rescue missions.

Preparations were being made in the Shang Zhou class SSGN deployed to the Sea of Japan earlier. Cruise missiles that bore the stamp 'Made in Taiwan' had the markings filed off, as were the small Taiwanese flag stamps.

The SSGN made it's way into Xiaguo national waters and launched it's stockpile of cruise missiles at the HART sites stopping Xiaguo troops. One hundred and forty four (144) in total.

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Five more Shang-Zhou class SSGNs head to the Sea of Japan.

Outstanding Courage, General Zhang.

After news of victorious battle from accross the yalu river, The Troops were pulled back and permanent fortifications are being finished up. Engineers have begun building their own defenses considering SAM batteries.

30 miles Accross Yalu--
Xiannese forces now begin building headquarters here and naming it BeiYang. More and more forces arrives in BeiYang and begin in the construction projects. New Concrete/Steel enforced bases and walls are being created much similiar to the Alantic Wall made by the French ordered by the Nazis.





Asian Alliance Members, Sino has encouraged the use of Napalm and Neutron Bombs. I find that very useful and I would like an ok from AA members, but I would understand if you would not allow such weapons to be use. thank You..

Asian Alliance Members, Sino has encouraged the use of Napalm and Neutron Bombs. I find that very useful and I would like an ok from AA members, but I would understand if you would not allow such weapons to be use. thank You..

Even as a non AA member, I must just say this:

NONONONONONONO! If you use nukes OF ANY TYPE, even neutron weapons, it invites retaliation on all of us! Use napalm, use gas, use whatever you want- but we must NOT be the ones to use nukes first. We beg of you, we demand of you: do not use tactical nuclear weapons of any kind.

Outstanding Courage, General Zhang.

After news of victorious battle from accross the yalu river, The Troops were pulled back and permanent fortifications are being finished up. Engineers have begun building their own defenses considering SAM batteries.

30 miles Accross Yalu--
Xiannese forces now begin building headquarters here and naming it BeiYang. More and more forces arrives in BeiYang and begin in the construction projects. New Concrete/Steel enforced bases and walls are being created much similiar to the Alantic Wall made by the French ordered by the Nazis.





Asian Alliance Members, Sino has encouraged the use of Napalm and Neutron Bombs. I find that very useful and I would like an ok from AA members, but I would understand if you would not allow such weapons to be use. thank You..

Outstanding Courage, General Zhang.

After news of victorious battle from accross the yalu river, The Troops were pulled back and permanent fortifications are being finished up. Engineers have begun building their own defenses considering SAM batteries.

30 miles Accross Yalu--
Xiannese forces now begin building headquarters here and naming it BeiYang. More and more forces arrives in BeiYang and begin in the construction projects. New Concrete/Steel enforced bases and walls are being created much similiar to the Alantic Wall made by the French ordered by the Nazis.





Asian Alliance Members, Sino has encouraged the use of Napalm and Neutron Bombs. I find that very useful and I would like an ok from AA members, but I would understand if you would not allow such weapons to be use. thank You..

Asian Alliance Members, Sino has encouraged the use of Napalm and Neutron Bombs. I find that very useful and I would like an ok from AA members, but I would understand if you would not allow such weapons to be use. thank You..

Even as a non AA member, I must just say this:

NONONONONONONO! If you use nukes OF ANY TYPE, even neutron weapons, it invites retaliation on all of us! Use napalm, use gas, use whatever you want- but we must NOT be the ones to use nukes first. We beg of you, we demand of you: do not use tactical nuclear weapons of any kind.

Affirmative. Time to bring out the napalm. In 'Nam, it was the napalms and cluster bombs that kept the Charlies at bay. Now, what we need are bunker busters, napalms and of course, clusters.

So, a few million roasted commies comin' up.

Outstanding Courage, General Zhang.

After news of victorious battle from accross the yalu river, The Troops were pulled back and permanent fortifications are being finished up. Engineers have begun building their own defenses considering SAM batteries.

30 miles Accross Yalu--
Xiannese forces now begin building headquarters here and naming it BeiYang. More and more forces arrives in BeiYang and begin in the construction projects. New Concrete/Steel enforced bases and walls are being created much similiar to the Alantic Wall made by the French ordered by the Nazis.





Asian Alliance Members, Sino has encouraged the use of Napalm and Neutron Bombs. I find that very useful and I would like an ok from AA members, but I would understand if you would not allow such weapons to be use. thank You..

Dear Generalissimo Zhao


Permanent fortifications of our positions should only be considered if our attack is halted. Fortificatiosn are necassary but they should be erected quickly. The areas of need are more SAMs, more and ground systems (tanks and artilleries). Not barbed wire and walls as we are not imprisoning our selves. Frequent patrols will have to be operated along this line, with dogs, men and tanks.

Another 100,000 Sinoese Marines will be redeployed to the Yalu front from Japann. We will also require airfields for our fighters and bombers. A relentless campaign of bombing by H-8s will have to be stepped up. For now, the Sinoese have confirmed 40,000 deaths (only in almost a week of the line opening). Such appalling loses is unacceptable and a change of plan is a must. Digging in is a good idea but for how long?

Our purpose is to Kraut the commies out. but there should be more to war than stalemate. We should erect a temporary fence an en mass enough force there to enable a crushing final blow.

Yours


Liu

(ooc: Em, yeah, I think I’m just going to have to ignore the IDF contribution, I’m pretty sure I’d mentioned –after Kilean brought it up- that I’d prefer ooc interaction prior to major new participation, and I still have absolutely no idea who these guys are, where they came from, or anything like that. Plus, if we’re going to make it a numbers game, 24million PA soldiers break into all out charges in each direction, going so far as the maximum range of tunnels and air drops allow! The end! Oh, with a, Seoul and Hamhung are obliterated in a hail of fire, killing over 40million capitalist civilians in little more than an hour. So we’ll skip on that.
Oh, now, where am I? So much to deal with! Ah! Sorry, POJ, I was still in the previous-day’s mindset where you were talking of involvement but I supposed that Dra-pol didn’t yet know you were moving- we’ve no satellites or such, after all.)

Northern Dra-pol

(ooc: again, Xiaguo, does that mean that all of your attack has fallen back to your own side of the river to dig in, or that part has stayed back and part gone on- is the “30 miles across the Yalu” 30 miles into your side, or where you followed our partial retreat on our side? Sorry, I’m easily confused sometimes :) Wouldn’t want to take my next major action against a force that I miss-judge the position of by 60 miles! Hm, from Sino's words it sounds like you're sticking to the advance across our side where we fell back? Still need to confirm before we do anything new there.)

The CPRD didn’t have many really good modern radar, but then it didn’t present many big, high-value targets, either. A pain in the ..neck it must have been to attack a republic small enough for three high-power radar stations to cover all of its few above-ground static military assets. The BG Citadel radar again proved its worth, no doubt causing more regrets in the country that’d innocently given so few examples. Against low signature targets- something the system was designed to cope with- there was little chance of getting the full 600km detection range advertised by the state arsenals that produced the system. Still, when a suspicious target was identified 104km from northern Kanggye, bearing down on the front lines at Yalu, SU-15D were scrambled from one of the Republic’s three largest airstrips (the others being Pyongyang and temporarily out-of-action civilian affair at Kosong). Sent out in some haste –if the target had been detected so late it must have been something worth protecting, Hotan’s command reasoned, and as such worth stopping- the fighters reached Mach 2.4, crossing over Drapoel front-lines just before what turned out to be Sinoese bombers arrived there.

Below a sudden and ominous silence had fallen over the nearby HARTS- Hotan, working by his mentioned reasoning, had ordered batteries in the vicinity to be locked down. Howitzers were retracted, blast doors were shut, and infantry in earthwork defences on the front faces of the alerted hills scrambled for their tunnels.
Xiannese and Sinoese forces could have been forgiven for assuming that a whistle signalling an all out infantry charge as seen in the past would follow the sudden cessation of firing. Such never materialised; the Drapoel were merely bracing for a possible heavy airstrike- the ever-paranoid republic half suspected that the bombers would carry a nuclear or other unconventional payload.

Near Kanggye the Citadel radar was retracted again, meaning that Sinoese stealth aircraft temporarily blinked out of view while less advanced but closer radar attempted to pick them up again. A dozen SU-15D with IR and radar guided AAM tried to avert whatever attack was coming- if they loitered too long they too may fall foul of the flack and SAM defences co-ordinated by near-HART air defence networks.

Southern Dra-pol

A large flight of B1B Lancers was something that wouldn’t so easily slip through the first four or five hundred kilometres of the CPRD’s radar grid. The Pyongyang-based Citadel didn’t quite pull off that vaunted 600km range, but it was close enough. The big CS-400B missiles were proven to have a more than 400km range and were designed for use against exactly the type of thing that was closing on the republic. The battalion’s six launch vehicles were given a total of four targets from amongst the bombers, and six missiles were sent against them, fired when the targets were still a good 500km from Pyongyang. Sirens wailed across the airforce-city, and less advanced SAM batteries at Haeju (small port/airbase south of Pyongyang- used to ship in major aid after the Crusader war) were alerted to the incoming threat. Both facilities scrambled aircraft- twelve FC-1 and twelve SU-15D from Pyongyang, and six SU-15D from Haeju.
A HQ2B SAM battalion (three six-missile batteries) based near Haeju, over 100km south of Pyongyang, were to fire on any enemy aircraft that made it to their engagement range, meaning an attempt to intercept survivors at vaguely 140km from Pyongyang. That was, if they hadn’t already launched their weapons and turned about, or been destroyed.

South Korea

Though it was usual for the People’s Army to move and resupply cross country, by air, and underground, some use was of course being made of ROK infrastructure. Hundreds of Drapoel and hundreds of South Koreans were killed as hundreds of millions of dollars in Hudecian ordinance rained down on major highways. DRAR-1 SAM, QW-2, SA-16 and 18, AAA, and aircraft fought to bring down quite a number of missiles, but a majority impacted effectively.

Northern Dra-pol

Launch of cruise missiles from below the waves won immediate response as ASW helicopters took off.
Some static defences began to take hits even as SAM and shells zipped into the air against incoming missiles. Damage control teams dashed out with the all clear as guns opened up again to discourage any attempt to capitalise. It would be quickly evident that little critical damage had been dealt to the primary HART sites, protected on inside faces of Drapoel hills and mountains. For the most part missiles could not reach their targets without flying up and over mountains, performing feats of impressive guidance (bearing in mind that AWACs within hundreds of km are subject to assault by CS-400), and popping up, exposing themselves to all levels of defensive fire.
Still, many sites close to the coast took a pounding- forward earthwork defences were shattered in places and local air defence units disrupted. Again, damage control and reserve forces raced forwards to effect total recovery of losses almost immediately.

Having had quite enough, Secretary Hotan’s order rolled out from their bunkers, tunnels, and reinforced hangars scores of FROG-7B across the north and both coasts. High explosive, anti-personnel sub munition, and chemical warheads began to be launched en masse against Xiannese forces and towns up to near 70km from the border, and at any concentrations of shipping off shore (they’re hardly pin-point accurate missiles, but chemical warheads don’t have to explode on a bridge to cause some problems).

(I’ll be more precise about the south ..later, I need to re-read and figure out where everything is.)

OOC: Oh, could I ask people not to post major IC developments to which Dra-pol should respond until I've caught up a couple of other bits and pieces? I'm pretty much alone in trying to respond to over half a dozen different nations at once (which is great, but y'know).
Mainly I want to check about the Xiaguo/Sino advance in the north before anyone moves any further, and to take a minute myself to note down where everyone else is so I can clarify where we're up to at this stage in the south.
Anyway, I'm, by enlarge, enjoying myself thus far, and hope I'm not alone (I mean, IC I'm pretty alone, of course :) )
Cheers.

South Korea

Though it was usual for the People’s Army to move and resupply cross country, by air, and underground, some use was of course being made of ROK infrastructure. Hundreds of Drapoel and hundreds of South Koreans were killed as hundreds of millions of dollars in Hudecian ordinance rained down on major highways. DRAR-1 SAM, QW-2, SA-16 and 18, AAA, and aircraft fought to bring down quite a number of missiles, but a majority impacted effectively.

OCC: Don't forget the LRRN cruise missiles! Well, yeah mabye. More like ASMs being launched and targeted at points inland. Mostly wherever FACs and drone operators tell them to deposit the missiles.

IC:

Over the desolated highway where the Jaguar IIN made its combat debut, a lone MiG-29KI flies over at high altitude. Its camera pods click to life as they snap photos of the strike area.

"Hawkeye, this is early bird. What's the picture, over?"
"Clear as far as we can judge. Be on the lookout for SAMs."
"Roger that, hawkeye. I think I'm done here. Heading home."

The MiG does a lazy circle in the sky and heads back east to the carrier task force.

In the Pusan-Daegu-Ulsan perimeter, the LRRA forces wait for the inevitable attack, along with the few remaining ROK and the ever increasing allied forces.

Southwest of Daegu, Captain Taylor leads A company through the woods on a patrol. Their destination was a hill overlooking highway 12, near the town of Nongong. They walk through the woods, silent and tense. At the slightest sound, the whole 90-man company dives for the ground. Fortunately, they had not encountered any snipers yet.

After several hours of walking, they hear the sound of trucks. Bad ones, if Captain Taylor's automotive expertise proved right.

"Sondhar! Take your squad and the LTD and get to the top of the hill!"

Sergeant Sondhar takes his squad, which has the trusty laser target designator, and they climb up to the top of the hill. From there, they watch as poor-quality Dra-pol trucks and lines of infantry advance along the road below and the surrounding woods.

Sondhar watches as Taylor peeks his head above the log used as cover for himself, the radioman, and a few privates. What he sees convinces him to end the patrol.

Taylor makes frantic hand signals for the troops in the back of the group to get down, and starts to run up the hill to get a better view.

"What have we got here?"
"Looks like a column of Dra-pol infantry and light vehicles......there!"

Sondhar points to a tubby amphibious tank.

"Some tanks too."

Taylor motions for the troops in his platoon to start climbing to the top of the hill. They come up quickly, but apparently arouse the attention of a group of Dra-pol troops.

"Radio!"

The radioman scurries over.

"This is badlands calling bullpen, requesting missile strike on route 12, approximately 20 miles from Nongong. We have laser guidance for terminal stage."

The crackled response comes in over the radio.

"Roger that badlands. Target confirmed."
"Ok, let's go!"

Taylor waits for all his men to crest the hill and start into the valley below. Then, he and the radioman start running behind them. The Lieutenants in the lead navigate towards the nearest friendly outpost.

At sea, the LRRSV Tuskeegee, a Sovremenny class destroyer, launches three Yakhont cruise/anti ship missiles at the coordinates given by Captain Taylor. The missiles streak low over the treetops, and soon arrive over the target....

OCC: If you want to backtrack to the patrol coming across the column and the column seeing them that's fine. I guess there is a column of yours on such a big infrastructure part. Mabye.

IC:

Overhead, a formation of Il-79s paradrops another 1,500 troops and 30 AMX-10RCTs over the farmlands southwest of Ulsan....

At the port of Pusan, the RO/RO fleet prepares to pull away from the harbor, full of refugees from the conflict. They head back to Bedford Mallard, to pick up an artillery contingent.

At the docks, LRRN sailors sort out men of military age from the crowd. Families are split up, and parents and siblings cry as their husbands and sons are taken away. The sailors naturally feel very bad about this.

"This is LRRN officer of the deck for the RO/RO ship LRRSV Hercule. Do you still want us to pick out military-aged males, over?"

-Ulsan- Hudecian Command HQ-

"Our cruise missile strikes seem to have done some damage to the targeted infrastructure," a major reported to the assembled chiefs of staff in Ulsan.

"Reports of civilian casualties indicate that the highways were NOT empty as we initially thought." General O'Neil added.

"Probably, the majority of the casualties were inflicted when Drapol put up a wall of anti-missile fire to try to stop the cruise missiles," Admiral Smetka protested.

"Early reports also indicate that Drapol casualties were a minimum," the major continued.

O'Neil rolled his eyes. "The point of the mission was to disrupt major movements of Drapol forces, not cause casualties. We don't use multi-million dollar weaponry to kill people... we use them for strategic gains."

"Why not minimize civilian casualties we give warning by dropping leaflets over major urban centres... it'll warn the Drapol forces too, but maybe it'll slow them down too, which is what this entire operation is about" Admiral Smetka suggested.

-Seoul-

Leaflets dropped from high elevation fighters:

[in Korean]

"We strongly urge all citizens to avoid using any and all roads between Seoul and Daejeon. These roads will be subject to intense bombardment over the next week. People who venture out to use these roads do so at their own risk."

OOC: I am done classes for the summer so I have nothing to do, but I know that a lot of people aren't done yet. So I'll just post some non-important stuff involving the blockade and the preparation of more operations.

Aboard a C141 leading a lot of others into Pusan

We are ordered to coordinate with the Kilean authorities. We have our own fighter cover and are bringing the 1st Airborne Division commanded by General Otto Skornsky....thats correct....the division follows with AWACS aircraft and tankers. A similiar force is headed into Hamhung....copy

In the main compartment of one of the aircraft

Military Police, we will need no MPs where we are going. You will be deployed as infantry.

But what about prisoners?

Prisoners?.......you didn't fight against the Dra-pol the last time around did you?

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ooc Needless to say large forces of C141s are approaching both Hamhung and Pusan with POJ Airborne troops aboard. They are escorted by fighter aircraft and have AWACS, tankers, EW and other aircraft along. I know that both Pusan and Hamhung have airstrips capable of handling these forces.


After landing, Major General Otto Skornsky; Commander 1st Guards Airborne Division(these guys have intensive training similiar to US Ranger programs currently or Waffen SS types in WWII), meets with the Kilean force liason
I am told to report to the Kilean area commander, offer the services of my division, and place ourselves under command.

1st Guards Airborne Division (Air Cav; Ranger Trained) (24,000 men)
600 Blackhawks MH-60
500 Apache Longbows AH-64D
300 AH-1 Cobra Helocopter Gunships
200 AH-66 Comanche Attack Helocopters
50 C141 Air Transport Aircraft

ooc note: While some choppers can be transported in a c141; most of the Helocopters are being ferried with the other ground forces in route by sea. A similair force(2nd Guards Airborne) lands in Hamhung with a slightly different message.


Now Approaching Poyyongyang

Meanwhile SW of Poyyongyang; very high altitude still over the water

They may have just acquired us. Standby all weapon systems and countermeasures. Proceed towards target and activate weapons targeting




10 B-1b lancers deliver 6 Cluster Bomb type 97s each onto the airfield/hanger/motorpool complexes of Poyyongyang in addition to the major roads in and out of the city. (60 incoming)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/cbu-97.htm

10 B-1b landers deliver 4 Guided Bomb type 27 (2000lb) each onto pre-targeted bunkers and other fortifications outlined by the previous owner (HBF) This strike is designed to hit underground targets of storage and command and control (40 incoming ) http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/gbu-27.htm
ooc: I think the cooperation between Quinntonia, HBF and POJ was well established in the last war and I have since bought some of HBF naval vessels.

back to ic:
20 B-1b lancers deliver 4 2000lb JDAMS each onto onto the structures and buildings of the airfield and military complexes, governmental offices and utility centers of Poyyongyang. (80 incoming)

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/jdam.htm

OOC:

Note on Drapol: While the Pyongyang is a major military centre it is not his political centre. He said this earlier on when others tried bombing Pyongyang. Also his anti-air defences are fairly strong up there so be prepared to take casualties.

IC:

"Sir, POJ forces have just arrived in Pusan," a major reported excitedly to General O'Neil. "They have arrived with hundreds of attack helicopters and over 24 000 men."

General O'Neil thought for a moment. With 100 000 Hudecians, about 100 000 Kilean, 24 000 POJ, and only God knew how many Korean troops here, they just might hold. "They will be working with the Kilean forces I trust to hold the Daegu-Pusan line."

The arrival of the II,III and IV Corps of the II Army of Hudecia would bring an additional 60 000 troops there by the end of the week.

General O'Neil went back to his intel reports on the missile strikes near Seoul. They wouldn't win this war by brute strength. They needed a plan, and they were running out of time to put it into action.

Southern Dra-pol

A large flight of B1B Lancers was something that wouldn’t so easily slip through the first four or five hundred kilometres of the CPRD’s radar grid. The Pyongyang-based Citadel didn’t quite pull off that vaunted 600km range, but it was close enough. The big CS-400B missiles were proven to have a more than 400km range and were designed for use against exactly the type of thing that was closing on the republic. The battalion’s six launch vehicles were given a total of four targets from amongst the bombers, and six missiles were sent against them, fired when the targets were still a good 500km from Pyongyang. Sirens wailed across the airforce-city, and less advanced SAM batteries at Haeju (small port/airbase south of Pyongyang- used to ship in major aid after the Crusader war) were alerted to the incoming threat. Both facilities scrambled aircraft- twelve FC-1 and twelve SU-15D from Pyongyang, and six SU-15D from Haeju.
A HQ2B SAM battalion (three six-missile batteries) based near Haeju, over 100km south of Pyongyang, were to fire on any enemy aircraft that made it to their engagement range, meaning an attempt to intercept survivors at vaguely 140km from Pyongyang. That was, if they hadn’t already launched their weapons and turned about, or been destroyed.

ooc don't know how I missed this earlier

ic


3 of the vaunted lancers exploded in midair before they could deploy ordinance. A fourth turned back after an explosion from a near miss severely damaged some eletrical systems and caused a fuel leak which was contained with internal sealents released when the leak occured.

The remainder launched ordinance as previously posted and turned to try to outrun/outdistance the approaching fighters. No fewer than 6 were destroyed by missile fire from the fighters before the refueling F111 Aardvark LR fighter escorts( 8 total) belatedly showed up and attempted to close the Dra-pol fighters to within 35m AAMRAM range

The 1st SAG with 10 Farragut class DDGs went stealthily for the Dra-Pol fleet. Their ESM equipment found a body of 21 vessels with ESM.

USS Pharris, Farragut DDG, command ship for the SAG

CO: Set condition 1 SA,

XO aye aye, battle stations

COB: General quarters General quarters, all hands man battlestations for surface attack.

5 minutes later in CIC.

CO: light up our RADAR, have the rest of the fleet keep theirs down and fire from ours.

TAO: aye sir

RADAR: doing it now, Ok multiple targets, 21 counted sir,

CO: Weps set bearing matches and wind up 24 TASM anti-ship cruise missiles and 8 Harpoons on our ship.

Comms, have the other ships do the same

COMM: aye sir

Weps: missiles are ready and set for bearings and SPG-51 control RADAR.

COMMS; other ships are now ready. and we are on an open channel

CO: fire all set missiles, all ships you can fire to.

---240 TASMs and 80 Harpoons went for the enemy fleet.

CO: Radar, light up our AEGIS SPY-1G Air search and prepare all SM-5 missiles for launch.

Comms, send that message to the rest of the fleet, but tell them to keep their radars down for now.

The 1st SAG with 10 Farragut class DDGs went stealthily for the Dra-Pol fleet. Their ESM equipment found a body of 21 vessels with ESM.

USS Pharris, Farragut DDG, command ship for the SAG

CO: Set condition 1 SA,

XO aye aye, battle stations

COB: General quarters General quarters, all hands man battlestations for surface attack.

5 minutes later in CIC.

CO: light up our RADAR, have the rest of the fleet keep theirs down and fire from ours.

TAO: aye sir

RADAR: doing it now, Ok multiple targets, 21 counted sir,

CO: Weps set bearing matches and wind up 24 TASM anti-ship cruise missiles and 8 Harpoons on our ship.

Comms, have the other ships do the same

COMM: aye sir

Weps: missiles are ready and set for bearings and SPG-51 control RADAR.

COMMS; other ships are now ready. and we are on an open channel

CO: fire all set missiles, all ships you can fire to.

---240 TASMs and 80 Harpoons went for the enemy fleet.

CO: Radar, light up our AEGIS SPY-1G Air search and prepare all SM-5 missiles for launch.

Comms, send that message to the rest of the fleet, but tell them to keep their radars down for now.

OCC: IDF, I don't think there really is an enemy fleet. Dra-pol has kept to land, where he has a huge advantage. He would be in a very bad position if he tried to take on the combined LRR, Hudecian, Kilean, and other fleets head on.

OCC: IDF, I don't think there really is an enemy fleet. Dra-pol has kept to land, where he has a huge advantage. He would be in a very bad position if he tried to take on the combined LRR, Hudecian, Kilean, and other fleets head on.

my bad, I just was mad that no one RPed my TLAMs and air strikes on NKorea

ooc: Again, no! IDF participation is being ignored. (We don't have 21 vessels in any one body of water- there's only 24 missile boats in the whole fleet, and like LRR says, they're not even trying to come out of their caves to engage.) That's the last I'm saying on IDF. I'm working on a few responses offline while doing other things- I should be back some time tonight to move things on a bit.

OOC:30miles in Dra-Pol territory from yalu.

After news of Dra-Pols dangerous chemical missiles were launched at Xiaguo, Most were shot down fortunately for the China Region SDI network. Most were actually shot near border. Some villages were destroyed and civilian casualties were lower than expected by casualties as in injuries and health hazards very very high. Civilians are being re-located and treated.

After news of chemical warfare reached to the capital Taiping, President Wu asks the parliament to quickly bring out the neutron bombs and target Dra-Pol. "Absolutly outrageous! Innocent lives were threatened and ended when those chemical weapons sucessfully landed in Xiaguo. I feel the sorrow and the anger of the people." said President Wu during a News conference in Tai An Square.

Netron bombs are being taken out of storage and Napalms are also scheduled to be a military weapon as of today.

"Napalms will do efficient damage to Dra-Pol's [Concrete Enforced] batteries and bunkers," said General Liu, Sino.

Napalms, proved to be powerful and one of the most horrific weapons to be used on combat. Especially since Dra-Pols forces are mainly in underground tunnels and Defensive bunkers, the Napalms can either burn and smoke them out, or burn them to their graves.

Jo Sae orders an all out rocket ofensive targeting Dra-Pols defensive line.


To General Liu,

Permanent fortifications are necessary to build a good line for our sides. I am not saying that we should build permanent bases and forts across the border, we can also attack and continue with other plans. This permanet line was planned to insure a strong line of offense and defense.

We can also deploy motion sensors on suspected areas to spy on where Dra-Pol's tunnels may be located. We can then Napalm the tunnels are explore em out.

All airfields except the ones in Taiping, and Hanhai may be used by Sino's air forces. Also, may I recommend that the Government of Sino deploy aircraft carriers to the Korean Bay. Further plans of air raids are eminent. We will only accept Complete Victory and Unconditional Surrender.

Sincerely,
Ye Zhao Feng

"We have seen the enemy, they are ours."

A charge counter attack was halted as the news of chemical warheads being used was conveyed to the Sinoese commanders. All amoured vehicles (fitted with NBC protection) became crowded shelters for the countless personnel. An anti-chemical regiment has been redeployed to Xiaguo to help with cleaning up the fallout.

http://sinodefence.com/army/bkground/pap_5.jpg

OOC: What biochem agents did Dra-pol use?

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In the growing anger of Sino, the ARSN 3rd Pacific Battle Group ("Chiang Kai-shek" battlegroup) will be deployed, featuring the ARSNV Chiang Kai-shek.

OCC: And Dra-pol, a post-strike analasys jet flew over the bombing from the Jaguars and if you want to take a shot at it be my guest. Also, a trio of ASMs is headed at one of your columns on the road marked on my NG map as route 12, if that's ok. If you have already included that damage than I must have missed it.

A UltraCruise SST, flying direct from Taiwan to Xiaguo, lands at an obscure airbase somewhere rural. It is General Zhang, who is in Xiaguo for 'holidaying purposes'. Zhang was vehemently anti-communist. Now that he was not under the employment of the state, he could co-ordinate the attack here, provided no papparazzi followed him.

It was a bit of a pain getting equipment in without state support, but he had managed it. Three E-200 Naval AWACS and a squadron of F-16 "Trainers" were due to arrive next week, for a supposed 'goodwill visit'.

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Following the cruise missile strikes, a Predator UAV is launched to determine the damage.

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From a range of 70km, the SSGN Shang-Zhou launched a cluster of Meteor BVRAAMs (navalised) at approaching ASW helicopters which were detected earlier by ground radars.

Northern Dra-pol

The Xiannese, Hotan found upon his arrival at Kurosian I’s old bunker complex near Kanggye (at which he hid during KII’s brief Directorship), had gone for the initial deception. The Banat was not yet sure of the strength of the enemy force that’d followed the narrow retreat, but it had gone thirty miles deep before stopping short of fallback defences. Hotan deemed that far enough, though he was a little concerned; could plan A have fooled the enemy so completely?
Even with suspicions in mind he thought it best to act hard and fast rather than to delay and make any double bluff all the more damaging.

Just south of the Yalu-
Sub Lieutenant Sudoh-Kim seemed by comparison with his panting comrades to be unbreathing as, almost bent double, he hurried through the small access tunnel, gaining a few inches on the surface for every few yards he advanced.
“Light!” He hissed, lying through his teeth in an effort to relieve his flagging charges. Of course there was no light just yet, but he had reached the ladder. The Sub-Lt. had hardly begun to climb when a loud clang in the blackness reported a collision between a young private and part of the ventilation system. Sudoh-Kim cracked a half smile before proceeding to the surface where he slid open the viewing ports that perforated the tunnel exit’s camouflaged covering. All clear. He unlocked and swung open the tunnel door, sending an inspirational rush of fresh air down the exit shaft.
Even as he clambered out into a little clearing, the officer pulled from his shoulder the 6.5mm D-Type-86 assault rifle with which he was issued. He helped the first two of his comrades from the tunnel and began to crawl through the bushes to the beginning of a gently declining slope. The small track he expected to find was indeed visible below. No activity. Sudoh-Kim waited patiently while the rest of his company surfaced one by one and crept up to join him.
“Corporal.” He whispered, peering through field glasses directed at the opposite slope. “Is 1st company on the surface?”
The communication’s technician wasted no time in consulting his secure frequency hopping radio and returning an affirmative reply to his commanding officer’s query. That was well, thought the Sub-Lt., for someone was coming up the trail. Xiannese or Sinoese, it didn’t exactly matter. They were dead meat, now. From both sides of the shallow pass snipers, machinegunners, rocket and mortar infantry, grenadiers and fusiliers took aim on the supply column moving to support the Xiannese force embedded south of the Yalu.

This scene was repeated across the thirty-mile length of the Xiannese advance into the CPRD while former Drapoel front lines abandoned on the first day of fighting were treated to similar visits from below, behind, and from both sides. These positions were by design intended for abandonment and reoccupation, which well explained the collapse of the Drapoel front in one isolated area while all other sections were easily reinforced. Any minor HARTS or other defences that proved to be too heavily consolidated by the enemy were simply blown up by tons of explosives previously placed below, or else gassed in similar fashion. Everyone there was to be killed, there was no question of delaying such a sensitive operation right on the border simply to take prisoners or use a soft hand.

Of course, the reclaiming of positions on the Yalu meant that every enemy soldier to have crossed the river in pursuit of the false People’s Army retreat would now be part of a pocket completely cut off inside the CPRD, up to thirty miles from the front.

Comrade Secretary Hotan had an offer to accept their surrender forwarded to commanders in said pocket even before the Yalu was fully consolidated. It would be wise, he said, to accept while one was still physically able, and an intensive artillery barrage erupted from fall-back positions and from both east and west flanks. The PAAF began to make over-flights of the area, indicating that attempts at supply, evacuation, or support from the air would be contested.

Paegam

Aya Etoro would find that between the officials on hand there was just enough understanding of English and of Japanese for some communication to be possible. This wouldn’t be the case just anywhere in Dra-pol, but political epicentres such as the forbidden city were relatively well furnished with what few members of the party elite who’d travelled outside of the republic.
As for luxury consumer goods such as chocolate, well they’d attract a few curious glances. Most Drapoel survived on water, a little rice, a little native bread, and either fish or duck and other small game depending on their locale and the season. A few around the city, such as the little collection of ancient stone and modern prefabricated buildings was called, had at least tasted tea and local whisky or sake. Still, one could probably count on his hands the number of chocolate bars ever to have been consumed in Dra-pol outside of Hamhung. It was half likely that any such things handed out would end up in one of Kurosian I’s old trophy cabinets or museums, who knows, maybe they’d even be entombed on public display in DaKhiem with Director Kurosian III when he died. The Republic didn’t get many diplomatic gifts, not since the surface to air missile systems that were currently wreaking havoc above.
Etoro was invited to walk with the largely nameless crowd as they headed towards the ancient palace, passing under rows of long dead faces remembered in giant boulders.

South western Dra-pol

Each confirmed kill delighted air defence commanders and fighter pilots alike as big expensive B1Bs light up in the Drapoel sky. After the bombers progressed from over the sea where they were first engaged by CS-400, through the second envelope of engagement by HQ-2B SAMs, over the coast where the fighters met them, they (according to the provided link) flew well within the ceiling of Dra-pol’s most numerous SAM defences. Even after some HQ-2B and S-125 commanding radar units had been disabled (I think I remember anti-radar and such missiles being deployed, anyway) the IR-guided AAM-derivative DRAR-1 engaged. DRAR-1 being a twin or quadruple missile array of which there existed more than twelve thousand emplacements across less than 120,000sq km of territory, insured that on average each point in the Drapoel sky was covered by two launchers at least. Attacking Pyongyang meant interception by scores more missiles if the bombers wanted their weapons to function properly.
Seeing the surviving bombers turn to leave, many inexperienced SU-15D pilots continued their attack, though they’d dispensed already with their radar guided AAMs and had left only 24km range DRAR-1. They didn’t fare well roaming far from home to unexpectedly engage modern fighters. Some broke for home after hearing a belated recall order, but only four of the Pyongyang squadron returned, several shot down while other ran out of fuel after their ill advised jaunt. The SU-15D wasn’t a long-range fighter...

They returned to find the base locked down, and without proper instruction another managed somehow to crash into the blast doors of a reinforced hangar. Here and there fires indicated which hangars hadn’t been reinforced enough- a lot of aviation spare parts were destroyed in the bombing. It may not have sounded to foreign ears like the greatest tragedy ever, but FC-1 and J-10 components had been destroyed, and the Republic wasn’t sure when it could acquire more. A problem if the PAAF wanted to get good flying time out of its small core of relatively modern fighters. Most of the base’s sensitive radar equipment had been retracted tens if not hundreds of metres below ground, hence the inability of CS-400 to engage the attackers with a second volley as would have been normal. The roads around the complex had been evacuated during the lengthy warning time given by Citadel radar, but though the damaging of such minor highways wasn’t seen as a major problem, a section of above-ground railway -something fairly rare in Dra-pol- had been twisted beyond recognition. Families of servicemen had surfaced, shaken, to find that many of their prefabricated homes were blown completely away, and some didn’t surface at all, buried with their husbands and sons when some of the older, shallower bunkers and caves were hit directly.
Recovery efforts began, but the focus was on keeping the airfield operational before searching for survivors.


(ooc:sorry I’m still way behind on the south, there seems to be so much to do.)

A newly prototyped device, the 'ground sonar' is being transported to be tested in the northern Korean front.

http://www.sinodefence.com/c4i/ew/bodyguard_1a.jpg

With the escalation of the war, five amphibious assault groups, each containing two divisions each, dock at Japan, preparing for an assault on Korea's coast. Troops based in Xiaguo immediately commence bombardment of Drapol, using not conventional munitions but 15 thousand pound bombs, napalm, and high strength watergel explosives. ALthough hardened against 202mm artillery attack, 15 thousand pound bombs, wiht a hardened warhead and a two phase detonation sequence (first, a heavy watergel explosive detonates on teh bunkers, then the actual bomb explodes). Such attacks take place along the northern border, although not into Pyongyang.

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Offshore, teh thirty odd naval ships launch scramjet missiles and EMP missiles into North KOrean air defences, as many as they can spare. Five Zhou SSBNs, equipped iwth conventional munitions, fire as many Mark V missiles, with special watergel warheads, into airdefence targets and artillery targets.

H9 bombers rain standoff missiles at the Drapol advance.

Meanwhile, on the ground, Special Operations aircraft are called in to begin an airlift of trapped units, and for a while, Smoke missiles and 15 thousand pound bombs are rained into areas far north and west of the advance.

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With chemical weapons launched at Xiaguo, hundreds of sarin and SX nerve gas missiles are brought out of cold storage.

Air defence units based in Xiaguo have responded quickly to the attack, shooting as many of the missiles out of the sky as possible. (he and I agreed to allow posting of troops in his areas.)

Islandian forces based ont eh border include 3 independent air defence brigades, three artillery brigades, and 5 fighter brigades. Drapoel artillery are quickly retaliated with a large amount of MLRS attacks, as well as EMP missiles, followed by lightning quick strikes with H9s.

Sarin gas missiles (12 of them) are launched at Drapol. Civilians are evacuated from border areas in Xiaguo, and chemical biological gear are quickly cracked out.

Tropical paradise air defence is quickly put on high alert.

In retaliation, carpet bombing will being shortly....

OOC
sry, my comp is going to be downfor a while, so i wont get to RP as much.
Oh, and only two SF teams infiltrated Drapol; the rest infiltrated Drapol-held areas to facilitate resistance and coordinate stuff.

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South of Seoul
Near Suwon
Sgt Kim gazed over the smashed remnants of the countryside, sighing as she watched the enemy soldiers from her positions in the bushes. Dressed in a multi-spectral battlesuit, which rendered her and her unit invisible to even infrared and thermal imaging, her small six man team had been in country for a few days already.

"ANother airstrike's coming in," she whispered to her men. "Lay low."

Sure enough, several kilometers away, two 15 thousand pound bombs dropped onto a suspected enemy position.

"Did that do it?" one of her comrades asked.

"Hope so," she said. "Next step up is a tac-nuke."

THey watched and waited. In another hour, their exfil helo would be here, pending an EMP strike that would fry nearly every piece of electronic equipment in a radius of four kilometers.

*****
The teams up north were facing worse odds. Already, Lt. Kyung had three men killed, and they had only managed to evade the enemy by hiding in a small cave in a ravine. ON the way there, another two of his men had run into booby traps, and one of them, if not treated soon, would be dead from gangrene. THe alternative, to amputate, was not really an option at all; how could he leave with one leg?

Kyung sighed. THey had nothign but trouble since wandering into enemy territory, and the prospects were not good. They were about two kilometers from the forces that were ensnared by the Peoples ARmy, and their orders were to link up, and then provide guidance information to the aircraft that would exfil the trapped men.

Kyung didnt think he would get out alive, but just in case he didnt, he had a last resort; a two kg flask of watergel mixed with shrapnel, it was sufficient to put a four foot crater int eh ground and destroy objects in a radius of three meters.

Kyung and his men cleared out their things and left several nasty surprises for whoever would come looking. THey carried their wounded, and began the long march to link up wiht the trapped forces.

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As news began to filter in of the forces trapped behind enemy lines, Islandian aircraft took action. FIrst, a massive EMP strike was launched, disabling nearly anything electronic int he area.

Then, precision guided munitions were fired at enemy positions all along the trail, bombardiers aboard H9 aircraft dropping their munitions as close as they dared to allied troops. Likewise, aboard naval ships, all the matter of missiles were launched at northern areas, in order to divert enemy forces and take the pressure off the trapped allies.

Finally, the area was blanketed in a barrage of smoke projectiles.
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A formation of ten tiltrotor aircraft took off, followed by several more formations. They would drop into the valley under fire, and take out the stranded troops. It was a dangerous mission, and all those participating were volunteers.

They flew south and crossed the border, as a barrage of HE missiles blanketed the ground beneath them. As soon as they would hit the target zone, they would have to rely on their instruments, for the EMPs would disable their equipment also, at least for five second intervals at a time. the only other piece of equipment ath would be intact would be their NVGs, who had EMP resistant electronics built into it....

At Jeju-do, many of the pre-fab hardened aircraft shelters are complete, and the very quiet Kilean effort to fortify the island is almost complete. Warning radars, SAM sites, and command bunkers are now all in place. Overnight, a huge wave of aircraft arrives. Kilean airpower has just been dramatically increased in the Korean theatre. In addition, the first Kilean Landsmaacht Luftkorps jets arrive in Pusan, giving the army access to the dedicated ground support craft of the KLL (the KAF is primaily for air defense/air superiority/strategic strike/air defense supression while the KLL provides tactical air support for ground troops.)
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TOTAL IN-THEATRE KILEAN AIRPOWER:

Kilean Air Force
(12 jets per squadron)

9 Interceptor squadrons (Raven fighters)- 3 at Pusan, 6 out of Jeju-Do.
12 Tactical Fighter squadrons (Falkon fighters)- 8 at Pusan, 4 at Jeju-Do
3 Deep-strike squadrons (Gryphon strike craft)- 3 out of Jeju-Do
1 Electronic warfare squadron ('Basilisk' Gryphon variant) 1 at Jeju-Do
1 Theatre support squadron (misc AWACS/command craft) at Jeju-Do
3 Tanker squadrons- (tanker variant of albatros transport) all at Jeju-Do

Out of theatre assets:

97 "Donner" heavy bombers at Skarlswald and Ostendt AFB's. In 3 wings, have taken losses in Korean theatre.

64 "Visgoth" low-altitude penetration long-range bomber. All based at Neuwald AFB.


Kilean Army Air Corps

Brigade- 96 craft
Regiment-48 craft
Squadron-12 craft

2 tactical air support brigades (jaguar jets) at Pusan
2 antitank regiments (Condor prop-driven tankbusters each) at Pusan
1 air defense supression regiment (Wild Weasel A-4 variants) at Pusan.
1 close air interdiction brigade (falkon jets) at Pusan.

(In addition, one ROK fighter wing is now operable out of Pusan)

OCC: Kilean, I see you use the Jaguar too! Hooray for the Jaguar!!!!!!!

Such a nice plane. Someday I'm gonna buy one.

But yeah.....let's wait until Dra-pol catches up before posting any more actions in the south.

A summary of LRR actions:

ASM (cruise missile) strike against a Dra-pol column along highway 12 near Hwawon. A patrol (Captain Taylor's 90 person company) is heading back towards the 2nd Brigade's positions along the road from Daegu to Cheongdo.

A post-strike recon plane has flown over the Jaguar bombing site. If you want to shoot at it be my guest.

Another batallion of the 56th Uhlans has been paradropped south of Ulsan.

LRR Forces:

59 AMX-10RCT recon tanks/tank destroyers
199 (minus the one that fell into the harbor) MBT-5B Tecumseh main battle tanks
300 CV-9040 and other CV-90 variant APCs
600 John Henry wheeled APCs (cheap vehicles with good ballistic protection, NBC protection, and many of them have good weapons capacity. They can carry around 14 troops without a turret)
1,000 trucks of various shapes and sizes

about 80 various frigates
about 30 various destroyers
3 RO/RO ships
6 Whidbey Island LPDs
1 Harry S. Truman class Helicopter carrier
2 Tarawa LHDs
5 aircraft carriers

110 Sea King ASW helicopters
40 Tiger PAH-3 attack helicopters
30 Merlin HC3 transport helicopters
62 MiG-29KI navalized air superiority fighters
50 Jaguar IIN navalized ground attack aircraft (a good seven airframes lost and the rest in intensive repair)
2 E-2 Hawkeye AWACS aircraft

"This is the Merchant Ship 'Trojan Horse'. We are a Merchant Ship caring humanitarian to Seoul. We are requesting a clear path to Seoul."

... this is one of several hundred messages from merchant marines requesting entry to Seoul to deliver Humanitarian aid and safe passage for refugees. All these ships are in violation of the Kingdom of Vecne Mesto's declarations that no humanitarian aid should be delivered to non-Korean National Forces. However the KVM Fleet is not within range of these ships.

The convoy of ship numbers 531 ships and all have ship records and manifests destine for Seoul. All are declaring themselves a "Mission of Mercy".

The Kingdom of the Vecne Mesto claims that there will be "vast and punitive consequences to those captains who disobey they homeland's government".

This Convoy is well spaced and is generating an enourmous wake. Surfs up! There definitely is a large tonnage of cargo

"Get me teh red line to Xiaguo," Qiao ordered as he ran into the communications room in teh Imperial Harbor Resort.

A technician handed him a blue phone and gave him a thumbs up sign.

"Hello? President Wu? This is Foreign Minister Qiao of East Islandia," he said. "Can you spare a moment? I would like to talk to you about the neutron bomb that you plan on dropping on teh Dra-pol...."

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OOC
Islandian casualties:
twelve H9 bombers (5 crew aboard each, most killed, some rescued)
sixty troops killed
seventy troops injured from various attacks
thirty armored vehicles destroyed or disabled
someothers too... too lazy to post or think of casualties.

wait i'm not being ignored right?

and the reason for the low casualties is the introdcution of new life saving technology and the low involvement, up until now, of Islandian forces.

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The First and Second Marine Spearhead Divisions are en route to Ulsan, joining the Islandian troops already there.

EMP missile strikes are stepped up; although the full results of EMP strikes have yet to be seen, it appears unlikely that any piece of electronic equipment, even an advanced type, can last through three volleys of three hundred EMP missiles at once, fired from planes, ships, and land based positions.

MLRS sorties are launched, and hundreds of 150mm artillery shells are lobbed over the border, as many as possible and as fast as possible. Immediately after the strikes stop, bombers and strike craft begin probing attacks, first in Northern areas, then, minutes later, in coastal areas near the front, to test the state of the Air defences of DRa-pol.

15 thousand pound missiles are being launched from specially modified Zhou class SSBNs. These behemoths are slower than scramjet missiles, but not slower than regular cruise missiles, even when fitted with five scramjet engines.

OCC: Hold on there. Wait for Dra-pol to post.

Halifax class destroyers pull up to try to stop the Vecne Mesto vessels.

Communique from HNV Audrey to all blockade vessels:

Too many ships to search. Requesting all available ships including subs to move to position to stop and search the incoming vessels.

Hudecian Marines are ferrying onto vessels. Do not fire. Repeat. Do not fire.

Communication to all Allied Nations:

The military command structure of Hudecia has reached to conclusion that any attempts to attack military structures in Drapol prime is not only futile, but also counterproductive.

We feel all air strikes should occur on the front lines or in ROK territory. We seek input on this idea.

Kilean agrees with Heudecia. We've already pounded what few area targets Dra-Pol has, and now we are best served smashing their forward armies. In addition we must inform Vecne Mesto that the port is full to capacity with incoming troops and supplies. We tell the ships to turn around, and save the aid for when we have the luxury of distributing it.

Xiannese Aircraft carriers turn position and heads north.

H-5 and H-6 bombers have begun the process to join the air-raids targeting Dra-pol. The H-6, a medium bomber capable of delivering Neutron Bombs. Also, B-52 Stratofortress, a strategic bomber capable of escaping dra-Pol's air defenses. This Bomber has 8 engines and it also shoots flares desquised to look similiar to missiles ca easily trick ground defenses in trying to shoot them.

A few neutron bombs have been shot at many of Dra-Pol's Government Sectors. Xiannese forces also head out into seek and destroy mission trying to seek out enemy units withing the abandoned lines.

Then a suden order to advance came about and groups of 50,000 are sent out and finally extending a line of up to 50miles, and frequent fire from Dra-Pol forces halted the advance and troops started encamptment.



To Zhang,
Welcome to Xiaguo, ever lasting victory is scarce around here, but look around. During the frequent chemical attacks, I just want to recomend you and your forces becareful of the rural areas because of the hazardous materials still being cleaned up. Thank you, victory is ours.
-Wu Tse Min
President

A few neutron bombs have been shot at many of Dra-Pol's Government Sectors. Xiannese forces also head out into seek and destroy mission trying to seek out enemy units withing the abandoned lines.


ooc:Woah, did you just nuke DaKhiem?
[prepares operation kill-every-last-thing-in-Xiaguo-and-crucify-any-bits-big-enough]

uuuh.....dude. you told me you weren't going to use tac nukes.


now, last time i checked a neutron bomb IS A GODDAMN TACTICAL NUKE

(ooc:it's also a sure fire way to see the Final Senate stop bickering over 'possible' human rights violations and forcibly run the blockade with CS-500 systems and perhaps genetically targeted bioweapons.)

(ooc:it's also a sure fire way to see the Final Senate stop bickering over 'possible' human rights violations and forcibly run the blockade with CS-500 systems and perhaps genetically targeted bioweapons.)

Which would just ruin the whole RP.

Plus, you know, there is the matter of wanting to free the south koreans, not turn their country into a glowing bidweapon soaked wasteland.

uuuh.....dude. you told me you weren't going to use tac nukes.


now, last time i checked a neutron bomb IS A GODDAMN TACTICAL NUKE

OOC
i dont control Xiaguo. And I didnt use tac-nukes.

And whose side is Beth Gellert on?

And why are you giving up on drapol bunkers? 15 thousand pounders wreck a lot of Sh*t.

Almost any sh*t for that matter.

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Following the unexpected strike of neutron bombs, troop buildup in Xiaguo is immediately halted. However, air defence brigades are quickly rushed to Xiaguo, and conventional troops pulled out.

Once again, as they have in countless other wars, air defence brigades are ready to sacrifice their lives to save others, in the tradition of Islandian defensive forces.

Drapol, are u ignoring my 15 thousand pound bomb strikes or not?

And where is the OOC thread for this? If we have one?

oh yea, if you want to see what im using click here:

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=87067&highlight=

I am not sending bombs that can ahnhilate the whole nation, tactical-minis.

th XRA, Xiannese Royal Airforce has conducted bombardement of the Dra-Pol lines. Thousands of Troops advance and begin enforcing the attack against the enemy forces. Napalm is used ofr the fisrt time directly at the enmy forces. Millions in the North are to advance and keep the tactic of, Locate, Follow, and Kill. Taiping has been bomb numerous times during the civil war and prepares the SDI defense network on the brink. Thousands of civilians hide in bunkers and many of them have been allowed into the Government Buildings which had been completely erected to High defensive standards after the Bonstockian bombing of the People's Parliament. Xiaguo prepares for the worst.

Missile systems are on full activation and brave Airforce fighters begin patrolling the skies in ready defense.

ooc: Uhm, right, to those who haven't caught on as yet, this is pretty much frozen- we're working out the details of a Part II thread, and it almost constitutes a re-start more akin to what it should have been like first time.
It's going to be a lot more strict regarding who does and does not understand the situation, its going to sort out geography, and its going to focus on the south. The northern front and most of the attacks on Dra-pol proper are just too improbable and.. wrong to be sorted out, I'm afraid. I expect some people will find this odd, but they're probably the ones who don't even realise what's going wrong.
No offence.. there are plenty of other wars in the region on a slightly different plain of reality (them thar Germans and all).

ooc: Uhm, right, to those who haven't caught on as yet, this is pretty much frozen- we're working out the details of a Part II thread, and it almost constitutes a re-start more akin to what it should have been like first time.
It's going to be a lot more strict regarding who does and does not understand the situation, its going to sort out geography, and its going to focus on the south. The northern front and most of the attacks on Dra-pol proper are just too improbable and.. wrong to be sorted out, I'm afraid. I expect some people will find this odd, but they're probably the ones who don't even realise what's going wrong.
No offence.. there are plenty of other wars in the region on a slightly different plain of reality (them thar Germans and all).


If you're going to make a Part II thread, fine. You've been speaking in subtleties the whole time, and I'm starting to take offense. WE dont understand? Then make me unerstand, I'm willing to. You explain stuff. I'll listen. Man, I dont get your problem, but Its about time you stop being all high and mighty and claim that either we're too 'improbable' and listen to what we're saying also, instead of dismissing it all. I know what's improbable and what's not, so dont you tell me what i can and cant do. If you dont take losses, fine. Then I wont either.

I know I havent had time to read this sh*t lately, and i dotn think i will once the week starts and my tortuous descent into the end months of the year begins (standardized testing), but why the hell do you go on like this? I feel as if i'm being accused of godmodding, among other things, as you say that, oh, its only too improbable to happen, o you dont understand me and stuff.

You're right that i dont understand, but you havent done such a hot job of explaining it urself. And i'm doing exactly as my allies are doing, and you're not ignoring them, so I honestly dont kno what i'm doing wrong.

If you have another thread...well, does it matter what i think or do? You've ignored me this whole time, wihtout giving me the proper ignore message, so i suppose it doesnt really matter.

I wish you good luck in your conquest.

And if you want to buy more military sh*t, go somewhere else.

ooc: Gaaah! This is what I get for worrying about being rude in the first place, I suppose.
I haven't meant to be veiled except when IC, but it has evidently proved difficult to maintain the unique character of the nation with so many people plowing in from all sides without much considration for that uniqueness. It's my fault for leaving the thread too open early on- I'm just not good at excluding people without reason. I suppose I have it, now, at whatever cost.
This is a really involved and far-reaching affair.
I'd go on, but I'm not getting a lot of my concerns across no matter how much I try, so there's no point explaining more "shit" I suppose.

Anyway, we got some good interest going, hopefully that can be transfered over to the better defined second thread that'll be up tonight or tomorrow, depending on how distracted I get.

I doubt 85,000 troops will be much of a threat to you.

Ack, I understand Dra-Pol, I hope we can have a re-start and this time we can sort out the basics; geography, numbers, and undertsnading others. I also hope that you can, well, post about what happened or so such.

Read the Korean War OOC thread for more general info.

Ok. I was going to post deployments from my initial naval response as I believe my ships have had time to arrive and I am now back in town. I now think its best to wait, pending developments on a new thread, restart, etc.

Battle Fleet Peiper arrives off Pusan:

14 CVNs: Judah, Reuben, Midian, Simeon, Nathan, Asher, Levi, Solomon, Jehu, Jericho, Elisha, Elijah, Rahab, Jordan
*standard aircraft compliment includes squadrons of F14d and RF-11d Raysian Archangel aircraft plus SH-60 Seahawk ASW helocopters, S-3B multi-purpose Vikings, E-2C AWACS Hawkeyes and EA-6B EW Prowlers. **
45 Ticonderoga Class CGs
60 Arleigh Burke Class DDGs
8 Spruance Class DDs
26 OH Perry FFGs
7 AOE Fleet Resupply vessels
8 As-39 Sub tenders
2 MHC-51 Osprey Minesweepers

20 Seawolf Class SSN attack subs *submerged on outer listening stations*

The following landing force begins debarking with the Pusan perimeter from 50 T-AKR/LMSR Watson (Bob Hope) class transports and 2 Rt-S10 ALCTs(specs to follow in additional post):

11th Lite Armored Corps (from Dibujante theatre)
11th Armored Div(20,000men 400 m1a2 Abrams 500 Bradleys)
13th Mechanized Div(20,000men, 250 M1a2 Abrams 600 Bradleys)

3rd Armored Corps:
12th and 16th Armored Divisions (20,000men 400 m1a2 Abrams 500 Bradleys each)
3rd Mechanized Div (20,000men, 250 M1a2 Abrams 600 Bradleys)

9th Armored Corps:
8th and 9th Armored Divisions (20,000men 400 m1a2 Abrams 500 Bradleys each)
6th Mechanized Division(20,000men, 250 M1a2 Abrams 600 Bradleys)

4th and 5th Seabee Regiments(3,000men each plus equipment)

Offloading from 12 Wasp Class LHAs and 12 San Antonio Class LPDs and 1 Rt-S10 ALCT:

1st and 2nd Marine Divisions (20,000men plus 330 MAFV-1 Borden Medium Battle Tanks each) The majority of the tanks are flame equipped and the squad weapons are M249s and extended range flamethrowers(one each per squad plus M16s etc).
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Details on the Borden.

Vehicle MAFV-1 Borden Quantity: (55 each for Marine Regiments)
Crew 4 (Driver, Gunner, Commander, Loader)
Length 6.45 Meters
Width 2.72 Meters
Height 2.13 Meters
Weight 30 Metric Tonnes
Speed
Road 78 kph
Combat 57 kph
Range 300 miles
Engine
1 x General Motors DRV-9a Water-cooled 4 cycle diesel
Armament
1 x Viking Military Technologies 130mm 1st Generation Electro-Thermal-Chemical Cannon
1 x Saco Defense Industries Mk 19 Grenade Machine Gun
1 x Fabrique National M240G 7.62 x 51mm Machine Gun
1 x Hughes EX34 25mm Chain Gun
1 x Laser Target Designator
2 x Four-Tube Thunderbolt IR/Laser-Guided ATGM Launchers
Ammunition
12 x ATG-1 Mjolnir ATGMs
30 x 130mm ETC Rounds
1,000 x 7.62mm NATO
800 x .50 BMG
Defensive Systems
Layered Ceramic/Composite Alloy Armour with 3rd Gen ERA on forward surfaces and on turret.
Laser/Infrared/Microwave Threat Receptors
Charybdis MkI Laser/Infrared/Microwave Countermeasures Suite
Triphammer Active Intercept System
Kevlar Mine Matt integral to crew deck
Fully NBC-Rated Life Support System
Life Support rated for operation to -48 degrees C
15-Canister Smoke Grenade System
Anti-Spall Coating on all surfaces
Engine mounted forward of driver for enhanced crew survivability
Optics/Sensors
Low-Light Systems for the entire crew
Turret-Mounted IR Sight for both Gunner and Commander
Full Telescopic Magnification on both Natural- and Low-Light systems
Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) Millimeter Wave Radar Set
Computer-Aided Target Recognition system
Communications
Real-Time Command, Control, and Communications (RTC3) Data Link
- GPS Moving Map w' position and status of connected RTC3 units
- Connected to Auto-Diagnostic system for transmission of unit status
- Zip-Squeal Text/Data Transmission Capable
Universal Adaptor Port for Wire Communications
Hardwired Intercom System
High-Frequency Encrypted Radio
Other Systems
Automated Diagnostic System
Enhanced Fire Control System
Unit Cost $6.1M
Prime Contractor Kotterdam Motor Corporation

Notes

While the MBT-3A1 was designed for sheer firepower, the MAFV-1 has been designed from the ground up for portability. MAFV stands for Medium Armoured Fighting Vehicle. It is a tough, agile weapons platform capable of packing a punch while not being too heavy to deploy in a hurry. The MAFV-1 was designed to meet the following requirements: Its dimensions and weight must be such that one can be transported aboard a C-130, two aboard an LCAC or a C-17, and four aboard a C-5 Galaxy. The last mobility requirement can indeed be reached, but requires that the vehicles be loaded on pallets, as they are just barely narrow enough to fit two abreast.

Weaponry:

Although designed to be less than half the weight and marginally smaller, the MAFV-1 doesn't skimp overly much on firepower relative to the MBT-3A1. In fact, it mounts the same 130mm ETC cannon, maintaining a kill-range of five kilometers, with an accurate range of seven kilometers. Like the weapon on the MBT-3A1, it is more than capable of firing HEAT, AP Canister, HE-FRAG, APFSDS-T, and the 130mm ETC version of the RAKE-T, as well as the newly designed Smart Top Attack Kinetic Energy, or STAKE round. On top of all that, it can fire the new ATG-1 Mjolnir anti-tank missile from the barrel.

For anti-materiel applications, the MAFV-1 carries a 25mm cannon by Hughes mounted coaxially to the main gun, as well as a Mk. 19 Grenade Machine Gun from Saco Industries as the commander's weapon mounted in an armoured cupola to grant him a measure of protection while firing it. The loader's weapon, a M240G machine gun by Fabrique National in the 7.62mm NATO, is designed to be quickly unshipped in case of the destruction of the tank to provide extra firepower for the crew.

Two four-tube Thunderbolt missile pods are mounted, one on either side of the turret to grant further anti-armour firepower above and beyond that already supplied by the main gun. In case of critical damage to the pods, or the expenditure of their rockets, both pods are entirely disposable, and may be ejected.

Defensive Measures:

The MAFV-1 mounts a quantity of layered ceramic/composite armour sufficient to defeat up to a 120mm cannon shot within its kill range even without the ERA mounted on the forward surfaces and the turret. No armour is impregnable, though, and a point blank HEAT or APFSDS-T shot still stands a good chance of killing the tank.

Rather than relying entirely on its potent armour, the MAFV-1 also mounts the new Triphammer Active Intercept System, and a full suite of laser, microwave, and IR threat receptors and countermeasures. Also, the forward-mounted diesel engine provides a measure of protection for the crew in the case of a penetrating hit, as well as being well-insulated against heat, and exceptionally well-muffled to decrease engine noise. The composition of the aerosol "Smoke" grenades has been changed so that the cloud not only blocks line of sight visually, but it obscures infrared devices. While the enemy will certainly know that there is a tank somewhere in that cloud of smoke, it lowers the probability of a hit when they are forced to fire blind. As always with KMC-designed vehicles, the MAFV-1 is equipped with a full NBC-rated life support system to protect its crew from environmental hazards.

Fire Control:

The fire control system on the MAFV-1 is based largely on the one currently employed on the MBT-3A1, allowing it to track, target, and engage multiple moving targets, even fast moving ones such as helicopters. This can be done in defilade, on the move, at rest, and even while swimming. The targeting computer is linked into a sophisticated analysis system with an adaptive database that will even suggest an aimpoint and round type based on the past observed performance of similar targets in combat situations. Equipped with a so-called AI similar to that in some of the more sophisticated computer games, the analyzer will actually learn the weaknesses of a specific type of target given enough exposure and is, of course, pre-programmed with the known weaknesses of many standard targets.
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Battleship Group. Taking up offshore firing positions to support the perimeter and approaches to same

Battleships Padre and Raider
2 Padre(Yamato) Class Battleships (AEGIS) First turret forward of superstructure removed along with most secondary and AA guns and replaced with some modern tech. Superstructure modified to resemble Ticongeroga Class crusier(on a much larger scale) "Padre" and "Raider"

Speed:30 knots
Crew:2500
6 18' Guns in two turrets 1 forward, 1 aft
16 5' Guns in 8 twin turrets
8 20mm Phalanx CIWS AA systems
40 Tomahawks TASM/TALM Cruise missiles in 10 quad launchers
20 Harpoon missiles in 5 quad launchers
Mk 7 AEGIS system with 2 MK 41 VLS systems installed where old turret was.

escorts:

6 Ticonderoga CGs
8 Arleigh Burke DDGs
1 AOE Fleet Supply vessel
1 MHC Minesweeper
2 Seawolf Class SSNs

Blockade Group

36 Kilo Desiel Attack Subs taking up station with orders to practice unrestricted submarine warfare against non allied vessels and/or blockade runners

18 Oscar II Missile SSGNs and 6 Virginia Class SSNs deployed outside blockade line off Pusan and submerged (Senior Capt Zuriach commanding)

The Typhoon II SSBN Agamemnon and OHIO class SSBN Benjamin

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Leaving Netayana for Kilean

The CVN Joshua, CV Caleb, and the Iowa (AEGIS) Battleship "Jericho City" with

10 Ticongeroga CGs
12 Arleigh Burke DDGs
8 Spruance class DDs
32 OHPerry FFGs
2 AOE Fleet Supply ships
2 MHC-51 Minesweepers
1 AS-39 Sub Tender
6 Virginia Class SSNs
48 T-AKR LMSR Watson class transports (empty)
2 RT-S10 Amphibeous Landing Craft Transports (specs below, also empty)
12 Tarawa LHA and 12 Austin LPDs(empty)

RT-s10 Specs
The Ferrussian Coalition of Defense Agencies (FCDA) recently announced the launch of a radical new sea transport: the RT-S10. The colossal ship is a platform for any major sea-based invasion, with an integrated LCAC (hovercraft) deployment and recovery system and a maximum capacity of 2,176 M1A1 Abrams tanks*.

The transport holds up to 60 LCAC hovercrafts (sold with the transport) and the 4 elevators can altogether lower 20 hovercrafts every 10 minutes. With 16 decks for tank/personell/truck transport, and another 2 for hovercraft storage, the space limitations are few. With space in the back for fuel and food (see schematic below), the transport is largely self-sustaining, at least for short periods of time. Additional supplies are recommended for any extended voyage, as is heavy escort.

The transport is armored quite substantially, as the capacity means that losing just one transport could be potentially devastating. It is equipped with a helipad, RO/RO ramps in the front for faster loading/unloading of tanks when at a major port, and quarters for the hovercraft and tank/truck crews. Loading and unloading MUST take place in relatively calm waters.

The ships are being produced as quickly as possible, but it takes quite some time to complete a single vessel. With the included 60 LCAC hovercrafts, an RT-S10 transport costs $6 billion.

Ship Schematic (IMPORTANT)

COST: $6 BILLION

SPECIFICATIONS
Length: 712 ft.
Beam: 273 ft.
Weight (empty): 73,345 LT
Propulsion: Slow speed diesel engines
Screws: 4
Waterline (at recommended max. cargo): 50 ft.
Crew Compliment: 182

Speed
Cruising (empty): 16.2 knots
Cruising (near-full): 13.9 knots
Max. (empty): 16.85 knots
Max. (near-full): 14.4 knots

Capacity
Recommended max. cargo: 197,320 LT / 220,998.5 tons
Overload max. cargo: 305,586 LT / 342,256.5 tons
Area per cargo deck (90%): 63,099 sq. ft.
Area per cargo deck (max.): 70,110 sq. ft.
Cargo decks: 16



ooc: I figured out that an LHA/LPD combo would hold about 3,000 or so Marines and that 6 Watson class LMSRs would hold a full division of my Army (20,000men) I got the info used in those calculations from the globalsecurity.org site. I use the RT-S10s for equipment for my divisions.

Aboard RBS U-24, in the Sea of Japan.

The Ensign leaned back from the periscope. "Herr Captain, I see the Korean coast."

"Excellent. We've made good time."

"Sir, what is this mission about anyway?"

"Reconnaisence. We're trying to see what the hell these Dra-poleans are up to."

Peering into the periscope, the Ensign said, "Sir, I see a Promise of Joshua battle fleet. Perhaps... 14 carriers, dozens of escorts, and a bunch of cargo ships."

"Hmm... perhaps no help is needed by the side opposing Dra-pol."

The communications officer rushed in. "Herr Captain, High Command has picked up reports of neutron bombs against the Dra-pol capital."

"What more intel do we have?"

"Well, we already figure that these Dra-poleans have no navy nor air force, but an inexhaustable number of groundtroops."

"Hmm... maintain radio silence. I don't want anyone to know we're here."

"Yes, Herr Captain." The communications officer left. The ensign kept looking through the periscope.

Meanwhile, 12 C-17s loaded with medical supplies flew off for Pusan in a humanitarian mission.