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At 1800 hours the First Imperial Taskforce sat just out of reach of the Edolian Titan Guns in Yasmarea. Onboard the same ship that took part in the original excersize in Axackal, the Visigoth, General Robert Dixie and Captain Arnold Clazzy (OOC: as in army captain) go over the operation once again.

"Alright, men, here it is again:

You and your special forces, Captain, are to disable the Titan guns. We are going to drop you in the area of the Titan guns so that you will not have to go far to the Titan guns. Remember: you are to destroy, disable, or capture these guns at all costs," he pointed to the guns on the map, "the location of the guns has been plugged into your Technical Officers' computers, as shown by satelites, and we expect no trouble in destroying the guns."

"Once the guns are destroyed the main force will land in Yasmarea and the special ops units are to harass the rear of any defenders. Alright, I think I am clear. Let Operation: Thunderbolt commence."

After the talk, a group of 2 VTOL aircraft, each carrying 20 men, set out for the Yasmarean coast. The 2 unstealthy aircraft flew over some AA defenses, the two aircraft being shotdown before they reached the target. The Captain survived the crash, as well as 28 others. 11 died in the crash. The two planes, being shot down seperatly, divided the forces effectively in half. The two forces, staying in contact via the Technical Officers in each group, each went towards a seperate gun.

At this time ambassadors to the UNAPS, having done so already, seemingly without notice, handed the UNAPS the Empire's declaration of war.

On a side note, I have contacted Allanea about being invited, and he says that he doubts Edolia will mind.

BUMP

OOC: Fluffy.. *sigh*


[i]Doujin Security Agency

"Alex, best take this one upstairs. It seems important."

Josh handed Alex a folder of papers.

"Jesus, isn't there enough people in this war already?"

Josh shrugged.

"Alright, it goes upstairs."

Alex got up, ran to the elevator, and went up the next 30 floors to the top floor and handed the folder to the Chief of National Security; who subsequently immediatly called Prime Minister Anoit and explained the situation to him.

National Press Room
"In light of recent events, more to the point, the nation of Fluffywuffy declaring war on our ally Edolia, we now hereby officially declare a state of open warfare with Fluffywuffy. This is an unfortunate sequence of events. At one point in time we had what we believed to be a favorable relationship with Fluffywuffy - however, their actions of late have forced our hand. More information will be released tomorrow morning. I'm afraid I cannot take questions until then. Good night."

The Minister, with a disparagin look on his face, left the Press Room and headed for his car - thinking over what was in store.

Office of Military Affairs (Our version of the Pentagon)

"Well, sir, we have been planning the Doujin alliance with UNAPS and we are prepared to handle them," said Tom Davis, a military advisor, "You see, we are aware that our entire navy needs to be present in a battle with the Doujin navy. Our plan calls for luring the Doujin navt towards the coast. As you are aware, Emperor, our recent developments in the scramjet shell deperatment has sparked the scramjet missle depertment. I feel we will take Yasmarea with ease, maybe even capture a Titan gun. From there we can launch aircraft to attack the Doujin fleet."

"While I am in full agreement that we will take Yasmarea, I feel our fleet is not in any real danger. I feel that we outnumber the Doujin navy by such a signifigant number that it will be easy to take control of the seas. 'Twill also offer us a chance to test our newly employed frigate and destroyer class vessels," said the optimistic Admiral Ronald Heshian.

The Emperor, being less optimistic than the Admiral, followed the advisor's point of view."Regardless of the state of our fleet we must still divide the Doujin navy and defeat each division. Such tactics make the utmost sense, even when one is superior, which we might be in numbers. What inteligance do we have of the Doujin shipyards?"

"Well," said the Advisor, "I think that the Doujin shipyards, if the navy is not there, is of course going to be lightly defended. They devote almost all that they have to the navy and have a rather small army and airforce. If we direct a portion of the navy to the shipyards we can, most likely, hamper production. Wouldn't that be great to come home from war and have your homes destroyed?"

"That's all well and good, Tom, but I am not willing to spare any of my ships for some wild gamble, gamble that this whole campaign is," yelled the Admiral.

"But once we take Yasmarea we can easily direct air units to cover the loss of a few ships. It would easily overcompensate."

"We will not strike the Doujiin shipyads at this time. We will take our chances at sea with Yasmarea taken. I want to be sure of a naval victory. If our fleet sinks so goes the entire plan of operation," said the Emperor with a voice of finality, "If we are to go on with Operation: Eagle Rising after Yasmarea is taken, we will need the navy"

(OOC: I will now leave you to wonder of Operation: Eagle Rising)

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Back on the ground in Yasmarea, the two groups of special ops, the Imperial Eagles, arive at the Titan gun positions and begin storming the facilities, Clazzy at the head of one of them.

The Captain masterfully commanded his men in the firefight, enjoying lesser losses than the other group, which totaled at three for Clazzy and 5 for the others.

<<OOC: So very sorry friends... I have been horribly occupied the last week or so and haven't been paying any attention to NS. I shall now be posting again, though rather irregularly. Don't think I've forgotten about you guys...

The Captain masterfully commanded his men in the firefight, enjoying lesser losses than the other group, which totaled at three for Clazzy and 5 for the others.
You have to RP the storming of the facilities... I would warn you though that unless you have something up your sleeve, you wont find that the facilities would be particularly... easy... to capture. Each Titan gun has an underground control bunker with secure entrances. I would estimate that for your average Titan-I guns, there would be about 40 technical and administrative staff (all of whom have basic firearm training), plus perhaps a similar number of military personal (half guards, half man the anti-air defenses). So, these groups would have to go through about 80 men, all of whom would either carry guns or would be able to get them very quickly with a trip to the armory. And that's if you managed to get inside the facility. As there are guarded blast-doors that lead into the place, it would be rather difficult to waltz in. My point is that though ground forces would perhaps be the most cost-effective way of taking down Titan guns, you would want heavy weaponry, not special ops troops who storm the bunkers. They would just end up getting slaughtered.>>

General Feraro Vicazi stared at the face in the computer monitor. "My lord." He nodded towards his sovereign. He was Yasmarean and remembered the days of the country's independence, before it had been absorbed into the Empire. Nevertheless, like most of his countrymen, he was fiercly loyal to Edolia and the Scarlet Throne. "The Yasmarean people are ready to fight."
"I know, General." The Imperator nodded respectfully. "I know. I wish there was more that Edolia could do for you."
"I understand, sir. The Allaneans are putting up a great fight. We shall do what we can, though. Our militias will make the Fluffywuffians bleed if they try to land."
"I am sure they shall. But how many thousands of Yasmareans will bleed also?" The Imperator thought. "I will see what I can do to get you air support. Our fleets are blockading Allanea and cannot come to your assistance, lest thousands of foreign troops find their way into Axackal. General. Let me get in contact with von Durenburg and von Tusk. We may be able to spare a flotilla or two." Vicazi bowed in his seat.
"Your subjects in Yasmarea thank you for whatever you can spare. If we fight alone, we fight alone. If we fight with your help, then we gladly fight with your help." The Imperator smiled.
"I am unworthy to serve such a people. Good luck, my friend."

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The streets of Yaz, the capital of Yasmarea, were filled with militiamen, marching in formation. Yasmarea, being the Empire's most far-flung province, had a comparatively much larger militia than Edolia proper. Of the province's 35,000,000 people, some 300,000 militia-men could be called up to fight for the Empire. And they were out in force. 200,000 men marched through the streets. Occasionally interspersed with the troops were tanks. They were mostly old MD-2 Manticores -Yasmarean militias were the only military forces in the Empire that still used them- but there were also the occasional MD-3s or B-1 Imperiums. The troops were on a last parade before moving to the coast to defend against a landing.

The call was already going out and hundreds of thousands more of brave men and women were heeding it. An additional 400,000 men would be called up to defend Yasmarea. Though they would have no military training, they were brave and willing to die for their people. As camps were set up around Yaz, veterans -many of whom who had fought the Edolians during the great invasion- drilled new soldiers.

<<OOC: I'll continue this tomorrow sometime. There will be a few more things but I need to sleep... it's midnight.>>

OOC: Damn, you lucked out Fluffywuffy ;). And by the way, your "scramjet" rounds / missiles and whatnot, I do recall you posting about that - your prices per round were horribly under the price it would be for one round. (Hundreds of dollars instead of the high hundreds of thousands)

The Empire of Doujin retracts the previous comment made by the late Inte Anoit, and points out that all declarations of war by the previous government have been nulled.

Emperor Miller,
Empire of Doujin

OOC: It's my error on the cost of a scramjet (or for those who wish to be proper, SCRAMjet) shell. I apologize for any possible IGNOREing that may have occured due to my underpricing of my shells. I am sure that once you read this apology you will find it within your heart to forgive me.

As for Edolia......I was thinking myself on how these men got in, so let's just say they were all slaughtered. It may be possible for them to actualy storm the facilities if they got in, (the group all together at one time vs. scattered forces of technitions and gaurds) however let's assume they just died as I do not have time to type up such meticulous details.

IC:

General Dixie paced about nervously in his command room, staring at the infernal radio from time to time, listening to any of the roars he occasionaly could pick up. It had been hours he he still had not heard from his commandos; he was beggining to worry.

Finally bored out of his mind by the endless pacing, and somewhat tired, the worrisome commander finally found his lonely chair and made do. Still nothing. One hour, two hours, three hours; again and again he recieved no word. At length the boredom and worry burst in one, loud yell.

"Blast those commandos!"

Facing the realization of his misfortune, Dixie was forced to call upon more dangerous forms of destroying the guns-his own guns. For this he called on Admiral von Rhode.

"My good Admiral, it appears that our ground forces have become our first casualties in this conflict. It is because of this I call upon you. The guns must be destroyed, we wont just sit there while being shot at, and it appears only our battleships can do this without flying over anti-aircraft fire or being shot at by ground forces. It is unlikely that a single battleship, being so far from an immobile target, will be hit."

"I agree."

"Well then, I propose we send out a single battleship in order to target the gun. What was the gun's estimated range again?"

"I believe it was one thousand kilometers. We should be able to hit the gun at about that range, I believe. Much closer if we want to send the smaller guns."

"What ship shall we send?"

"Well, why not send the Lombard? It is not being used for any special purpose. Well, that is what we send then. You agree?"

"I do, my good Admiral. Well, let's begin."

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The Lombard crept into range of the Titan guns, always keeping in motion to avoid being shot and always swerving left and right to avoid possible submarine attack.

After traveling some hundred kilometers, the Lombard could finally target the nearest Titan gun, using satelites to locate the target, and at this time the guns opened up, firing 10 of the Lombard's load of scramjet shells. It was not known if the shells would have too much of an effect, but it was worth a try. In addition to firing at the gun, two other shells were directed for two fortified positions in Yasmarea.

The ship's captain was nervous; he feared a surprise attack. Though he was confident that he would alert the main fleet to the attack, he was not sure if he would survive an encounter with a fleet.

Intending for his vessel not to be captured, he ordered his men to prepare to scuttle the craft if needed.

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Back aboard the Visigoth, General Dixie finally got word from the last "surviving" member of the commando team.

"Failed...shot down...too many....wounded........dyin-"

The transmission, in all its granduer, ended.

After a long debate aboard the Visigoth, eternal flagship, it was decided just to begin the ground offensive. Tarying just increased enemy readiness, it was decided, and thus the operation, with or without the Titans knocked out, would commence.

The 10 battleships in the taskforce, Visigoth, Lombard, Indomitable, Invincible, Destroyer, Annihilator, War-bringer, Demolisher, Uncrushable, and Almighty, set out with the transport ships to draw fire away from them and to provide support in the amphibious operation.

Following the battleships come 2 Lunar class carriers, full of CAS aircraft and the various smaller support ships. The entire fleet kept moving to minimize hits, swerving randomly to avoid torpedoes from possible subs.

The transports carry 600,000 troops and heavy supplies.

OOC: Sorry for the retardedness (low quality) of this reply, it is late

From Coventry on the west Coast of Ilek-Vaad the Yasmaran task force departed. The 8 Atlas transports were loaded with 3 Retaliatory Guard armies and are being escorted by 4 Battlegroups and 3 Carriergroups.

Aboard the Battleship Revenge Command General Ibn Bainars contacted the Fluffywuffyians

"Warriors of the nation of Fluffywuffy, the Republican Council has given mandate to our Supreme Republican Commander to end the fighting that is plagueing the region of Haven. It is our home and we will remove these various ignorant and unnecessary conflicts that are damaging OUR region. We will very shortly be upon your backs. We will not attack if you and your men realize your folly and remove yourselves from our region. If you remain, then we will gladly engage you, if you wish to fight, we can fight, if you wish to honourably depart then we will not hinder you. Good day."

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OOC: THe naval Guard submarines are already fanning out in advance. The Naval Guard are assembling themselves obliqulely to the Fluffywuffy ships to wedge them away from the shore possibly, or to possibly turn their flank back onto themselves.

The Current Naval Guard forces assembled are 4 Battlegroups and 3 Carrier Groups, consisting of :

Battlegroups

8 Revenge class battleships (stats posted in orginal Allanea/Edolia war thread) 48 Cruisers (equivilant to Ticonderoga class) 48 Frigates ( type 23 RN frigates) 60 Destroyers (type 42 RN destroyers) 48 Trident submarines 40 Wolfhound 'stealth' submarines.

Carriergroups

3 Tollan class carriers with 250 Orion VTOL stealtyh fighters each, 45 destroyers 30 cruisers 36 wolfhound subs, 36 Trident subs.

They are arrayed in an arc with the Revenge Battleships spaced along the front, the Carriergroups are lagging about 500 miles behind the Battlegroups shirlding the Atlas Transports. The range of the Orion fighters is 1,500 miles so they can still cover the Battlegroups as well.

Ilek-Vaad's radar are following Fluffwiffy's every move , Ilek-Vaad's thermographic satellites can even pick submarines out of the water and betray their positions.

OOC: Now that I am awake and more able to function, this should go much easier. First off, it matters not if you have stealthy aircraft; opticaly and thermaly guided machineguns (computer aimed systems, such as on the Halifax (?) frigate) will be able to track them and shoot them down. Also, thermal guided missles will hit the aircraft; you have only so much chaff.

IC:

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To: Ilek-Vaadian Commander
From: Admiral von Rhode of Fluffywuffy

I have heard your pleas for peace and I can say that if it were up to me none of the battles of this war would have occured. However, such a descision is in the hands of the great and glorious Emperor of Fluffywuffy, God bless him, and I have loyaly sworn service to him, on my honor. Regardless of the Emperor's stance on the UnAPS, two of our allies are involved in this war and we must stand beside them, as you are doing with your allies.

We honor your commitment to your ally, but we also honor our commitment. Thus, without further ado, I must inform you that our ships will take hostile action towards your ships unless I recieve your unconditional surrendor, and until them we will engage in battle upon the high seas. May the best navy win.
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OOC: Because I was very vague on 'various support ships' I must further define my deployed naval forces.

I should also take the time to explain that my navy is built around OMG missiles!' while most navies use 'OMG aircraft!' Because of such sinking a carrier isnt considered a large loss, unless you count these Doujin built carriers. Those probably wont be replaced by him any time soon, but then again they are not armed for offense against ships, just land attack with some E-2s to help my ships aim thier missiles.

This is my navy's dual purpose. Almost every ship has a 6 inch gun so that it can help, however limited, target ground forces and provide artilery for beach-assaulting units.

So far we have:

10 Emperor-class battleships (BB-04)

Visigoth, Lombard, Indomitable, Invincible, Destroyer, Annihilator, War-bringer, Demolisher, Uncrushable, and Almighty

States posted in some long-dead storefront. Essentialy, they combine 'OMG missles!' and 'OMG cannons!' in one sexy package.

2 Lunar-class carriers-modified for hydrogen engines

Ostrogoth and Frank

Then comes the random unnamed ships (too boring for me to name).

60 Vandal-class frigates (IFG-60)

These are monohull frigates of size similar to an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate. They are armed with a 6 inch gun and 2 2x2 Yakhont-3 launchers (16 missles on board ship, 8 launchers), a 40mm anti-air cannon, computer guided, and two chaff launchers. As with all Imperial vessels, they have hydrogen fuel cell engines (make note of this, assume it on all of my ships).

40 modified Spruance-class destroyers

Changed the 8 Harpoon missles to 4 Yakhonts, 5 inch to 6 inch

20 Saxon-class missle cruisers

Essentialy a Zumwalt, the Saxon uses the missle cells of the Zumwalt well (the Zumwalt having 128-256 of them). Rather than have this ship be built for land attack (which it can do with its 6 inch gun), it was built to strike at enemy fleets. The ship is armed with 120 Yakhont-3 VLS cells, with 360 missles aboard.

IC:

The fleet forms up to combat the Ilek-Vaadian manuevering, ships being active pinging, and generaly defensive manuevering is taken by all ships to minimise damage from torpedo attacks and to dodge Titan and other gun systems.

Upon forming up and facing the Ilek-Vaadian ark on all sides, the fleet lets all hell loose, the massive fury of the Imperial Fleet's missile capability is shocking-it was estimated that each enemy surface ship had 16 or so Yakhont-3 supersonic cruise missiles (mach 2-2.5) flying at it-even after firing one load of missles per ship.
Naval officers onboard ships of the fleet have dubbed this battle the Battle of the Right to Yasmarea.

Command General Baibars replies tersely " As stated earlier, the Free Republic has NO alliances currently. We have been instructed to crush any forces engaged in hostilities within our region of Haven" He pauses as the Fluffywuffy fleet looses it's ordinance, he turns and watches as the Revenge class battleships anti-missle SPEAR batteries open up, sending a sheet of missles to intercept the incoming Yakhonts.

He then turns to Admiral Itzchoitl and nods.

The Admiral motions to the captain "Have all ships engage, instruct fire control that we are under attack."

The Orion fighterrs launch in waves at mach 4 the thermaly guided machine guns can see them, but are useless against them. Each Orion looses it's 8 air to surface missles at range (no dive bombing or strafing, they don't come close to the anti-air guns), unlike the backward thermal targeting of the Fluffywuffy ordinance the Comet/M3 missles (mach 3) are satellite guided augmented with image recognition.

At the same time the masive Revenge battleships target their counter parts at over 150 miles away, their main guns are still well within range. The two batteries of 48" guns on each raise nearly vertical as they discharge their high velocity jet assisted ordinance, once again satellite guided, fire controls computers also take into account roll of the sea, curvature of the earth and weather conditions, making their aim deadly (I believe in OMG guns too :) )

The Destroyers stay with the carriers and transports hovering out behind the main fleet.

The frigates and cruisers open up with their Apollo cruise missles targeting anything that gets in range. The entire Naval Guard fleet stays well out of line of sight of Fluffywuffy's fleet, relying on their long range satellite guided weapons to do their job.

Command General Baibars steadies himself as the Revenge is struck by a missle "Admiral, I thought the SPEARs would take care of enemy missles?"

The Admiral grins sheepishly "I said they were about 50/50, you don't get seasick do you?"

OOC:

The Orions have no problem dodging the AA guns but of course the missles are a different story..........

The Naval Guard as I stated, stay at range, they move in a cicular direction in whichever way they have an opening, they don't try to force their way through, they are perfectly content to wait for an opening.

The sumarines creep up carefully stalking, the Wolfhounds are stingray shaped and creep along the bottom, very hard to detect, their torpedo ports are at 45 degree angle so they can stay on the bottom and fire up at ships.

Losses early on

14 Frigates

8 cruisers

18 Orion Fighters (they're launching and returning in shifts, there are never more than 4 squadrons up at a time, making them very spaced out and hard to hit, they have plenty of room to run)

I also assume you are doing something to stop the subs?

5 Tridents

8 Wolfhounds

Several other ships have been hit and are burning, the SPEAR anti missle batteries are being moderately effective

High above the battle the Air-Guard have lunched 3 wings of Sub-orbital 'Death's Heads' stealth bombers(mach 6). Each one has 4 anti-ship air to surface missles, they have armour piercing shaped charges and are (all together now!) satellite guided, they let loose on the Battleships as well (84 missles) they then head back to Tollan to reload.

Your casualties are a little....low. Even with half of the missiles being destroyed, 8 missles per ship is a rather high number...you said yourself half the missles were taken out. With a captital ship being able to withstand 10 or so missles, I can understand none of them sinking. But a frigate, destroyer, or some cruiser should take 4-6 missles. Given the fact there are freak occurances of extreme design exceedance oon all equipment, you should take less losses than all of your fleet. Maybe a few dozen ships. Until some refuting of this arguement, or repost of losses, I will not post losses-unless it is for too long.

OOC: uhm, most ships don't go down right away, it can some times take days for a ship to go down. The fact that we are also at range (unless your ships have charged in?) will also keep the numbers down. Naval gunnery duels don't have mass sinkings right away. I wasn't expecting huge losses from you either.

I will increase the losses if you want, but I'll expect higher losses as well, it's your call.

It can sometimes take days to sink them. Mostly, it takes hours but in that time they are useless, which I believe is the technical term for casualty-you can't use it.

OOC: Okay, losses increased (post edited)

OOC: Okay, losses increased (post edited)

OOC: Okay, losses increased (post edited)

Ok, then, now I shall post my loses.

IC:

The satelite guided bombs take out the War-bringer, 8 Frigates, and 6 destroyers; sat guided bombs, if I am not mistaken, cause the bomb to go at a specific stationary target, however the targets are moving now, but there are many of them so the bombs can 'accidently' hit a ship.

Ok, then, now I shall post my loses.

IC:

The satelite guided bombs take out the War-bringer, 8 Frigates, and 6 destroyers; sat guided bombs, if I am not mistaken, cause the bomb to go at a specific stationary target, however the targets are moving now, but there are many of them so the bombs can 'accidently' hit a ship.

Ok, then, now I shall post my loses.

IC:

The satelite guided bombs take out the War-bringer, 8 Frigates, and 6 destroyers; sat guided bombs, if I am not mistaken, cause the bomb to go at a specific stationary target, however the targets are moving now, but there are many of them so the bombs can 'accidently' hit a ship.

OOC: Satellite guided missles, no bombs. The satellites track the targets as they move and correct the missles guidance. There are no dummy bombs in Ilek-Vaad

But the satelite will pass overhead within an hour or so, leaving you with nothing.

OOC:that's why we have several , and they can be programmed to adjust their orbit over a fixed spot and move with the earth's rotation.

The ships once again begin the large missle barrage, this time after the missles are fired, because of the lost ships on the Ilek-Vaadian side and my own lost ships, the missles per ship 18, and, assuming similar losses of missles will occur, 9.

The Revenge Battleships once again respond activating the SPEAR anti-missle batteries. $ of the REvenge Battleships also begin to move, with the 60 Battlegroup destroers shadowing them as they break away from the carriers. The large force begins to move north and east, moving to encircle the enemy naval forces and pin them to the coast.

Admitral Itzchoitl, in Revenge Fire Control taps at his control screen " Hit them, here, here and here, leave them a backdoor open. If we swing around here, our greater numbers will tell and we'll be able to cover them with an enfilade."

The giant plasma screens in Revenge Fire Control light up where the Admiral has indicated, the Naval Guard begin to close with enemy.

As the battleships close range they open up again with the 48" ship destroyer guns, but this time they are augmented by the 32" main guns. The 48" guns continue to lopb their satellite guided shelss while the 32" guns fire lower, sending high velocity shells scything through the enemy fleet .

The Battleships also open up with cruise missles each one fireing 2 at a time (16)

The Carriers continue to loose waves of Orion stealth fighters, the Orions beginb targeting the carriers and transports, once again staying out of AA range. They strike the decks of the carriers with their Air to surface missles, attempting to render them useless for launching and landing.

The rest of the ships continue lauching cruise missles and follow suite with the Battleships, closing range . The submarines having crept to well within range loose barrages of sonar guided torpedos, some 140 submarines begin targeting every ship in the Fluffywuffy fleet.

The Air-Guard also launch another wave of Sub-orbital bombers launching another 84 ap-anti-ship missles at the 10 enemy battleships.

OOC:
additional losses

3 cruisers, 4 frigates, 15 destroyers, 4 wolfhound submarines, 4 Trident submarines.

The Naval Guard are now aggressively engaging the fleet. 4 Battleships and 60 destroyers are moving to encircle your fleet, seeking to trap them against the coast (maker them easy pickings for Edolian coastal defences) or to force them to back water away from the encirclement to head for open seas. With the superior numbers, the Navla Guard can easily complete the encirclement.

Losses over the next couple of posts will either increase or decrease depending on whether you back out of the encirclement, stay in place, or attempt to punch through it.

It could get messy ;)

OOC: TAG

OOC: Your torpedoes will hit but the ships are, having posted such already, taking anti-torpedo manuevers and are actively pinging ships, and should be deploying ASW helicopters and should have been the entire fight.

It should be noted that the aircraft are within AA range by several hundred kilometers: you have not heard of my TWAAM-1?

Cruise missle is vague. I will assume tomahawk until proven otherwise.

Loses are as follow:

12 Frigates, 20 Destroyers, Lombard battleship damaged, 1 carrier has recieved damage and can not launch aircraft.

IC

The Admiral looked at his map of the enemy naval forces, percieving how the enemy thought and attempting to think up a counter the the entrapment, especially one that would cost the least in ships and maximise enemy casualties. He decided he must remove the enemy satelite somehow, but just how was the question. He thought about what one could see from space.

Then it came to him. It was so obvious a little child could have thought of it. Cover the skies. And so that was what he would do. Amongst other things, but this was foremost.

Imperial ships begin deploying smoke generating devices to mask the position of the fleet, sort of, from enemy satelites, Then came act two of the counter operation: an offensive. Manuevering towards the left flank of the encircling ships, the Admiral intended to go up the line of enemy ships rather than face them all at once.

The ships move into formation, accelerate to attack speed, close up, and prepare to slam into the side of the enemy ships, destroy resistance, and then move along the scattered fleet. The tight formation's main weapons at this point-the Battleships and the Cruisers- open up a highly concentrated blast of yakhonts into the ships, on this side of the enemy
"trap," and the formation aligns with the enemy line, blasting away forward.

On the remaining useable carriers, TWAAM batteries are armed, fire into the air in the direction of the enemy aircraft carrier's predicted position adn then wait for them to work on thier own accord.

OOC: so you submarines defences are 100%? Our Apollo cruise missles are basically Tomahawks. You will also notice in my earlier posts that my satellites are using thermographic imaging. Smoke, clouds , smog etc. do not impair them at all , this isn't future tech, it's the same technology that was employed by Nasa satellites to find lost Mayan cities in the Yucatan. The only thing the smoke will obstruct is your view ;)

IC:

Admiral Itzchoitl looked positively dumb-founded as the Fluffywuffy ships began billowing smoke "What the deuce? What the hell are they they doing?"

He watched the giant plasma screens as the Fluffywuffy ships began to line up for a direct assault, the Admiral laughed and began arranging his ships at the attack points in perfect defensive arcs, the enemy were blundering right into his hands!

The Destroyers and 4 Revenge Battlehips easily completed the encirclement and then arrayed themselves at the Admiral's orders to defend, and just as they finished setting up their defensive arc the Fluffywuffyians charged from the smoke.

All ships open up with everything they have, the enemy charging right into multiple broadsides at all different angles, they are caught in a pefect enfilade, receiving fire from 2 different sides at once.

OOC:
Losses 22 destroyers, 4 cruisers, 2 frigates, 22 Orion stealth fighters 12 wolfhound subs, 14 Trident subs

At this point the Naval guard have set up an enfilade, meaning that their forces are arrayed to fire on your fleet from two angles, doubling the effective fire power. All ships are now lauching missles in waves and opening up with 48" and 36" guns (for the Revenge battaleships) and 12" 1nd 6" guns (cruisers and frigates) and Vulcan Phalanx close in weapons (destroyers, these Vulcan were specifically designed by the RN to smash a pointed enemy ship assault just as this.) , The destroyers are also using their DART missle batterties and the Cruisers and Frigates are loosing their Harpoon missles , their Goalkeeper close in weapon systems along with cruise missles for the larger Cruisers.

The Orion fighters now lay off the war vessels and begin to exclusively target the carriers and troop transports ( I assume they are not part of the charge?) , the air Guard Sub-orbital bombers continue to launch 84 anti-ship missles in regular shifts.

The Revenge Battleships have taken hits but with their reactive armour plating and anti missle batteries they are still in fair shape. They are also staying at range, they have arrayed themselves behind the smaller vessles and are giving thunderous broadsides directly into the face of the Fluffywuffy assault.

Each Revenge (there are 8 of them here) has 6x48" guns and 10x32" guns that are now leveled directly in the nose of the assault.

Either way you look at it, it's pretty bad.

OOC: I am Fluffywuffy's ally and I wish to aid him in this war, but I need both sides permission.

*Tag* as RP Mod for the UnAPs Total Regional War.

Any and all problems, please direct to me.

-Ruhr

<<OOC: Short post here... just letting you guys know I'm alive and haven't forgotten about you.>>

The Lombard's assault it succesful and its target destroyed. The Titan-I gun targetted is wiped from the face of the Earth. Nevertheless, there are still 499 of the guns waiting to strike at any Fluffywuffian ships that come into range. Being Yasmarea's only real defense -besides its militia- they would hopefully be able to hold off the Fluffywuffian assault.

As the Fluffywuffian ships begin to move, 300,000 Yasmarean militia-men, under the command of General Feraro Vicazi are moved to the coast-line. However, they will not put up a resistance on the beaches and are instead preparing to put up a defense five kilometers from the coastline. The additional 400,000 raw recruits -most of whom had only gone through rudimentary training- were going to serve as a secondary line.

Total Edolian troops defending Yasmarea:
16,000 Edolian Regulars -- Very elite troops
311,000 Yasmarean militia-men -- Trained primarily for defensive work
1,612 MD-2 Manticore MBTs
752 MD-3 Manticore MBTs
125 B-1 Imperium unmanned MBTs
215 CD-3 Cobra Tank Killers
365 H-2 Hoplite 90mm Light Howitzers
261 H-2 Hoplite 140mm Light Howitzers
162 H-3 Heavy Hoplite 180mm Howitzer
99 H-3/U Heavy Hoplite 200mm Long Range Howitzer
262 Hyena-2 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
211 Hyena-3 Mobile Missile Launch Systems
508 Echidna-5 Mobile SAM Batteries
395 Echdna-7 Mobile Long Range SAM Batteries
251 G2/U Gryphon Unmanned Helicopter Gunships

As the Titan guns prepare to unleash hell on the Fluffywuffian landing craft, the Lombard is all but ignored. Only a few rocket-assisted, satellite-guided anti-ship MOAB rounds are fired. The vas majority of the guns are pointing their guns at the enemy boats... Once they move into range, all hell will break loose.

A message is sent to Ilek-Vaadian commanders:
"Though we know that you do what you do not to honor old alliances, but to maintain your nation's stability, we thank you for your assistance. Once the Fluffywuffian aggressors are gone from here, this area will see no more fighting. Edolia is fighting defensively in this war and should not be a target of Ilek-Vaadian peace-keepers. We have no fleet here, nor do we have fighters or planes. We are merely seeking to defend our people."

*BUMP*

Fluffywuffy,

As a result of your absence in posting, your peers have requested that I step in. You have until 9:00PM EST, Wednesday (or 48 hours) to post. If you do not, I will be forced to post your losses justly and in fairness to all.

Thank you,

-Ruhr

Either way you look at it, it's pretty bad.

Indeed for you it is. (Ruhr may post loses for me) Regardless of my loses, look at this funny thing: The missiles launched, total, at the Ilek-Vaadian navy is well, high, at a total of 17 missiles per ship. One more barage and it is probable that you are sunkorz. I apologize for retardness of this post, no time, exams comming up, need study time.

IC:

The remaining Imperial vessels launch a final barage of missiles and the transports then head towards shore to finally begin the assault. Yes, this RP has been amazing, and is brought to you by Coca-cola, in conjunction with BBC and Metallica.

OOC: uhm, you charged directly into my broadsides and my missles strikes. In Naval combat that is suicide. Not to mention if your ships launch all of their missles they will be hitting each. You charged DIRECTLY into me, meaning your broadsides (where most missle batteries are mounted) are facing only your own ships, you can only attack with forward fgiring weapons.

I'll wait for Ruhr's post.

Yeah, sorry. I'll have the results of the combat here tomorrow night when I finally decide a just number.

I'm just getting caught up in exams and politics and all :P .

It will be fair, I'm a fair guy. And yes, Fluffy...your last attack was a bit....unorthodox. I'd look at what Ilek said again and take it to heart :P .

The following are results of the Ilek-Vaadian Enfilade attack on all FluffyWuffy vessels.

Capitol ships: Nothing less than moderate damaged, heaviers sunk (Carriers destroyed, battleships heavily damaged (if any))

Escorts: Because of thin amour and the amount of shells in this operation, 55% with moderate to heavy damage, 35% destroyed.

Submarines: (Undecided, I do not know how good IV ASW is, or if their submarines were firing at any FluffyWuffy subs)

Landing Vessels: Due to the massive amounts of missiles, it is unlikely that any were left untouched. Because of this, I have to say that 75% of the landing vessels were destroyed, leaving 25% damaged.

Because I do not know the full figures, I have to give these percentages which are typically what's used anyways. And Ilek, FluffyWuffy did fire lots of missiles back at you. I expect to see heavier losses.

Admiral Itzchoitl watched the battle as it unfolded. His ships stayed in their defensive arc, mowing doing the charging enemy destroyers and cruisers. The entire ship shook every 5 minutes as one of the Revenge's 48" batteries fired. On the giant plasma screens the satellites showed ragged gaps opening in the Fluffywuffian assault as the greater number of Naval Guard guns tore at them.

"Wedge open those gaps!" he yelled over his comm "Where ever there is an opening take it, force them into the shore, give the Edolian guns range." he studied the images a bit closer on his personnel screen " bring in the transports now, keep air cover over them and bring their cruiser escort up to our lines."

Alla along the defensive arc destroyers quickly flooded the gaps in the enemy assault, their DART missle batteries finding targets on each side, as the destoyers held the gaps, the cruisers and frigates finally let all of their missle batteries go, seeking to end the assault and completley cripple the enemy fleet more than 24 missl;es for each Fluffywuffian ship that remained rained from the frigates and cruisers.

At the back of the Naval-Guard arc, a giant explosion lights up the sky, as a shockwaves ripples through the fleet.

"What was that?" the Admiral asks as he turns to the captain

"The Themirin Ilek-Vaad sir, it's listing to the fore, I can't see it's conning tower and communications are down."

The Massive battleship the, Themirin Ilek-Vaad, slid slowly into the sea, it's reactor room flooded, cutting off power to the pumps, screws and just about everything.

400 miles behind the battlelines the Transports and their escorts headed for the shore, keeping at least 400 miles away, and begin to unload the Retliatory Guard onto Yasmaran soil

The Cruiser escort of the transports (32 of them) speed towards the defensive arc of the main fleet, giving the Naval Guard fresh fully armed ships, turning the defensive arc into a collar, forcing the Fluffywuffian ships closer and closer to shore and the Edolian guns.

OOC: losses

1 Battleship destroyed (the Themirin Ilek-Vaad) and 1 disabled, 6 cruisers destroyed, 15 frigates, 13 destroyers, 15 trident subs and 12 wolfhound subs. ( I took 30% losses across the board in the Battlegroups that are engaged)

30 Orion stealth fighters are also shot down

The Carriers and transports stay at at least a 400 mile range from the edge of the battle, the transports starting an orderly unloading of the Retaliatory Guard.

The Battlegroups keep the Fluffywuffy fleet engaged, moving into any gaps caused caused by the Flufywuffyian losses , moving their ships in with oblique wedge formations, to give maximum firepower all along the edge of the gaps, the whole fleet slowly begins to constrict into the enemy, slowly, to stay at range and avoid the possibility of ramming.

The fighters from the carriers continue to attack the transports and the men landing as well as any carriers left.

Forces left:

Battlegroups:

6 Revenge Battleships

31 cruisers

20 frigates

10 destroyers

10 trident subs

10 Wolfhound subs

Carriegroups:

3 Tollan Carriers with 452 Orion fighters

45 destroyers

32 cruisers (now joing the battlegroups)

36 wolfhound subs

36 trident subs

IC:

Command General Baibars hails the Fluffywuffyian commander one last time

"Your fleet is in shambles. We have both lost many ships and many men. You attacked Yasmara at the request of the Phyrrhic Government, are these losses justified? If you cease fighting and agree to withdraw from Haven we will cease our attack and aid you in rescue and recovery. I will not make this offer again."

OOC: Ill delete this if you say im not allowed in. But as an ally of Fluffy i should help him.

I will also remind you that no decleration of war has come from me and so you would be the aggressor if you attack any of my ships at the current time. This is merly a positioning post.


IC: Deep beneath the waves nearly 1000 miles from the Ilek Vaad carrier groups.


The four Ohio Class SSBN's moved slowly forward at 5knots in a line abreast at 450 feet below sea level.

4000 yards infront of them were 2 Los Angeles Class 688 SSN's,IHS Raider and IHS Tuscon.

Aboard the Tuscon Captain Buck Rogers sat on his chair in the conn. His sonar men had been using the towed array and the big passive sonar in the ships bow to search for contacts infront and to the flanks of the small force for nearly 4 days.
So far all they had tracked were four merchant vessels and a single possible destroyer that had been doing close to 30 knots according to a screw count conducted before it fell off the sonar.

He was worried. The mission brief had said to expect multiple submarine contacts on their path, but they had seen none. Well, he supposed there was a major naval battle taking place which would probably have drawn most of the naval forces in the area away from his mission.
A small bell struck once and the Captain looked at the clock. Two Minutes past four. Time to check for orders.

"Ok, bring her up to periscope depth" were his only commands. The diving officer made the appropriate movement and the sub began rising.

The Captain raised the periscope and made a quick 360, upon seeing nothing he ordered the ESM mast up.

He heard the 'bing bing' as the small bell said that a message had been recieved. The periscope slid back down into its place in the floor of the command centre and the Captain stepped past it and went aft to the communications room. As he walked by the weapons panel he instinctly looked at the status board.
All 24 Tomahawk ASM lights were green and so were the two Mk48 ADCAP torpedoes and 2 Harpoon ASM missiles in the tubes.

As he walked into the comm room he had handed a piece of paper with the freshly decoded message on it.

TO: TASK FORCE 2
FROM: SSNCOMMAND
MESSAGE: HOLD AT CURRNT POS, EXPECT ORDRS TO LAUNCH WITHIN 48HRS. PLAN DELTA TO BE EXECUTED AT THIS TIME. LAUNCH CONFRMATION TO BE GIVEN BEFORE LAUNCH TAKES PLACE.
END.

The Captain looked at the message. Aboard the other subs the Captains would be reading the same thing within half an hour as they all moved to recieving depth.

OOC: the carrier groups still have their escort of 36 Wolfhound submarines and 36 Trident submarines, these never did engage in the main battle. Only the subs from the Battlegroups are engaged.

OOC: Yeah i know, i was going to cruise missile them as soon as i declared war on you. (Coupla real days time im a little busy atm)

OOC: Yeah i know, i was going to cruise missile them as soon as i declared war on you. (Coupla real days time im a little busy atm)

OOC: cruise missles against submarines?

OOC: against carriers! Whilst some will be shot down those that get through should at least damage a few taking them out of the fight!

OOC: well, that does make much more sense. You're going to be attacking me why?

OOC: well, that does make much more sense. You're going to be attacking me why?

because im fluffy's ally. Also im helping him and Allanea against Unaps!

I'm not UnAPS, I'm defending my region (Haven) from this unending and spreading conflict. I would attack the UnAPS as well except they have complied and backed down when my forces have arrived, Fluffywuffy attacked me.

I'm not UnAPS, I'm defending my region (Haven) from this unending and spreading conflict. I would attack the UnAPS as well except they have complied and backed down when my forces have arrived, Fluffywuffy attacked me.

I dont believe i sed you were Unaps did i? I said i was also allied against Unaps. Anyway i am bound by honour and duty to help fluffy, he doesnt appear to be having a good time of it atm, and neither does Allanea.

OOC: Anyhow, my last IC post with action was 5 days ago. Fluffywuffy was active 14 hours ago and actually posted in the forum three days ago. I'm waiting until the end of today and then assuming my last attack wiped out his navy and that my landing forces captured his landing forces.

Unless, I hear from Ruhr or Fluffy not to. I think I've been very reasonable in waiting 5 days in between posts :P

At 9:00PM EST tonight, the FluffyWuffy navy will be assumed destroyed.

OOC: Without fluffly i not going in, no point really! I spose he must be havin RL troubles!

OOC: Without fluffly i not going in, no point really! I spose he must be havin RL troubles!

Feel free to go in IH. And IV, you've been a good boy waiting 5 days :wink:

IC:

The Imperial Navy, although battered, still had a fighting chance in the battle, hopeless though it seemed. There was yet one trick, one final solution to be used; an act of desperation at its greatest: chemical weapons.

While it was indeed true the world mightn't aprove of such measures, the Admiral sure as heck cared not, and it was he who made the descisions, not the world. In any case, it was of course neccesary for the fleet to form up into some semblance of a line.

So the fleet, being scattered, has been ordered to move, while gunning down enemy vessels, out of the Ilek-Vaadian trap by moving into one stop within the trap and then concentrating fire on a single portion of the line at its weakest point.

Ruhr, post loses.

Remaining FluffyWuffy Fleet:

2 Command Vessels (Moderately Damaged Battleship or heavily damaged Carrier)

5 Cruisers

11 Destroyers

16 Frigates

Submarines can be left to Fluffy-Wuffy

And Fluffy-Wuffy, you do realise that submarines are unaffected from Chem-Weaps...only surface vessels will be harmed. Not only that, but there will be retaliation. That is your choice. Post your attack soon, or Ilek-Vaad will have the option of attacking again. I'll determine when it is OK for Ilek-Vaad to attack (in common courtesy to FluffyWuffy), you'll have your time if you have problems or issues IRL at the moment.

Thank you.

OOC:Ilek-Vaad's naval vessels are (like their armour) ABC hardened(Atomic,Biological ,Chemical). Only the crew on the deck would be affected, and as with most modern vessels, very few are needed on deck, and of course where the shells pierce the ships armour.

Command General Baibars hails the Fluffywffyian fleet again

"I have just been informed that a cease-fire has been called. Allanea , it's allies and the UnAPS have declared a cease fire. Our forces in Allanera are abiding by that cease-fire as well.

If your forces is to abide by this cease-fire agreement, then let me know, we will end our attack and aid you in rescue and recovery. I have been ordered by the Supreme Republican Commander to cease fire, unless you continue to attack."

OOC: Fluffy did you mean attack or go?
I can do either to assist your breakout, but exams starting next week mean that i cant aid very much and i dont like the idea of leaving my forces to be posted for by somebody else, No offense to Ruhr or anyone but i like doing it myself.

OOC:Ilek-Vaad's naval vessels are (like their armour) ABC hardened(Atomic,Biological ,Chemical).....and of course where the shells pierce the ships armour.

You should be quite pierced-you have had 17 very large, very fast, cruise missiles hit all of your ships at the same time.

IC:

"The Imperial Fleet will abide by this cease-fire. We will not engage enemy forces for the duration of the cease fire."

-The Admiral

OOC: Uhm, I have 184 surface vessels left, you have 34, how did 34 ships manage to launch 17 missles for everyone of my ships? Not to mention that chemical warheads do not penetrate armour well, the more explosives they are loaded with, the more of the chemical is incinerated and rendered useless by the blast, so if they penetrate armour well (plenty of HE in a shaped charge) the less chemical they can carry and that will be realeased.

Losses for the chemical attacks

4 destroyers, 2 cruisers, 1 frigates

1,200 seamen lost that were on deck of other ships near the attack point.

IC:

Command General Baibars contacts the Fluffywuffy commander one last time

"Your cowardly use of chemical weapons will not be forgotten. I had respected you and your men for their dignified and honourable struggle, and now you use a weapon of terror? No REAL armed forces use chemical weapons, even the most sophisticated chemical deployment systems are only 1-2% effective. Your cowardice and tactical ignorance are amazing.

May Allah curse you for your ignorance and evil!"