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The town of Kougube, a tiny Malinke village in the northwestern sector of the UWA, didn't seem to have a hell of a lot going for it. A ramshackle construction of wood, corrugated tin, and old tires, it bore the appearance of many rural shantytowns throughout the region, with much of the same problems. Sanitation was nonexistant. Disease was everywhere; almost %100 of the population, at one time in their life, had been infected by malaria. Not to mention the lack of any serious economic developement. Dozens of teenagers and young men sat around, not doing a great deal of anything, as if waiting for something, anything to happen while the women of the village strung up bananas and casava in rotting market stalls.

Most places in the UWA were at least marginally better. Massive public works programs were bringing health clinics, all weather roads, planting seeds and farming tools to the most backward and rural parts of the interior. Agricultural cooperatives were being organized and production was up in areas that before had barely been able to meet subsistance needs. It would have been simple to do the same with Kougube, if the aid workers and doctors sent to the town weren't constantly being shot at by the Senegalese troops positioned about 50 yards from the village perimeter. Kougube's bad luck for resting smack on the center of a winding, unguarded, ill defined border.

Senegal, apparently, claimed the town as their own. The UWA did likewise. Who was right was entirely a matter of opinion, as it's very possible the borderline did in fact run directly through the center of town. Why the Senegalese were so damned defensive about it though was another question entirely. So far as anyone could tell, it was not important to Dakar militarily or economically. Perhaps they feared a simmering Malinke revolt within their own borders, or that the UWA's massive outpouring of aid to the interior was somehow making them look bad.

Or, as was often the case, perhaps the Senegalese troops waiting near the rusted and decaying roadblocks were simply poor, underpaid, untrained teenagers without a hell of a lot else to do with their time.

Then one day, the Senegalese troops disappeared. In response, heads of the Malinke Free State province petitioned the government to send troops to the town before Senegal could make any more provacative actions. The national government, barely having even known where Kougube was on the map let alone all about what was going on, hastily complied with a small unit of 60 soldiers buoyed by Malinke police units. These had taken a few days to make camp, at which point the first developement workers (both foreign and Federation) began to show up in jeeps, pickups, and Toyota Land Cruisers.

Between them and the extra security, most of the villagers had never seen that many people in one place in their entire lives. Soldiers, police, and aid workers were swamped with unemployed young men offering to shine their shoes or carry their bags for a few UWA francs. The old malaise seemed to be disappearing with the excitement brought by the new prescence. At least, thought many of the hut-dwellers, something was happening.

The peace continued for seven days.

On a hastily erected guard tower, a rather bored Federal infantrymen stood with high powered binoculars in hand in the same place he'd stood for the past week, 4PM-8PM, every day. So confident was he of his uselessness, and of the Senegalese troopers permanent departure, his ammo and assault rifle were left lieing on the tower floor. From out of the corner of his eye he picked out.. well, it was hard to tell. from the distance he was at on the flat, rolling plain, it looks like a cloud of dust. Frankly he had it pegged for a desert animal, but he wanted to be absolutely sure.

"'Ey," the camoflage clad trooper called down to a supply carrier on the ground in his heavily accented English (as the other fellow wouldn't understand his native Vai). "Get de boss up here. He may want 'a take a look at dis."

The lieutenant picked up the binoculars. No, that dust cloud was no dromedary. Definetely military jeeps.. alot of them. He made a beeline for his bullhorn. "Battlestations, men! The Senegalese are trying to give us more shit."

The upwards of 100 security personnel took cover behind barricades, in the guard tower, or in the handful of military vehicles the force had. Machine gunners and two snipers took up positions in ditches and small mounds of dirt offering minimal cover and prepared for any hostile action.

The Senegalese convoy loomed larger and larger ahead as it sped every closer. At this distance, one could make out nearly a dozen technicals and half as many jeeps with top mounted machine guns, carrying what the lieutenant estimated to be perhaps 200 khaki-clad troops whose uniforms bore a rather varying degree of actual uniformity. Most carried SKS or old model Kalashnikov rifles or SMGs.

When the hostile Senegalese army troops approached what the commander thought was just outside machine gun range, he picked up the loudspeaker of his personal command vehicle and announced imperiously: "Attention UWA troops. You are in violation of Senegalese territory and national sovreignty. Leave immediately and you will not be fired upon."

The soldiers and police waited anctiously for word from the Lt., unsure of whether they could hold off a force twice their size. For the moment, the officer merely stared out the binoculars, turning over a plan of action in his mind..

Is this an open RP. I have some interesting ideas if it is indeed open, or semi-open, or invite and if you're willing to allow me in. :D

The battle was over almost before it started. The soldiers packed so heavily into the exposed backs of pickups and thin-skinned jeeps were incredibly easy targets. No one knew who shot first, but the first few UWA machine gun volleys cut apart Senegalese troops like tenpins. A few RPGs lobbed from cover nailed several of the technicals and the commanding officer's vehicle, leading the Senegalese force (since cut nearly in half) to beat a hasty and disorganized retreat. UWA forces persued briefly before allowing the decimated force to limp pitifully home to Dakar.

All in all, 100 Senegalese bodies were counted among the dead, along with the torn up husks of 5 enemy vehicles. Around 23 minor casualties were counted on the Federation side, with three men dead.

Lt. Vincent, a wirey muscled Liberian heading the UWA protection force made up mostly of Malinkes, was satisfied at his victory but knew well its implications. Right or wrong, they had just made a border incursion.

In all liklihood, Unified West Africa was now at war with its neighbor.

OOC: semi-open. I'm going to restrict the "I deploy 100000 troops OMFG" types who launch massive military interventions over stupid bongo wars in the third world for no reason. Whatcha have in mind.

A representative from "Tactical Solutions" a Mississippi based Private Military Corporation was in the main government building in Dakar.


(President) "Then it is agreed, you will provide us with your entire organization, 5,000 strong, and will will pay you what was your price, 90 million dollars per month, that is very generous for you to come down in the price for us."

(Rep) "Yes, 5,000 soldiers, mostly all ex-special forces from the Mississippi Special Air Assault Squads, and the Special Republican Guard. They're all experts at vertical envelopment and such."

(President) "You will provide your own equipment yes?"

(Rep) "Of course, we'd insist."

(President) "Yes, I realize our equipment is not as how shall we say, not up to par with your equipment."

(Rep) "We'll need permission to use your airspace to get our C-130s and Mi-24s into here. We'll have about 200 C-130s delivering the troops, vehicles, and supplies, and probably 50 Mi-24s to fly support. We've also taken it upon ourselves to hire some air cover a group called "Air Power" unlimited. We'll pay for them out of what you're paying us."

(President) "Thank you, that is most generous of you. Tell me, what sort of air power do they provide? Will our primitive airfields be able to handle their planes?"

(Rep) "They're going to provide 25 F-16Ds, 10 MiG-31s, 10 F-14s, and 5 F-35s. And no sir, I do not believe your runways will be adequate for these planes. But do not worry, our engineers will set right to work building airstrips to accomodate these planes."

(President) "Very good then. A pleasure to do business with you."



About the group.

Tactical Solutions: Specializes in surgical strikes against specific enemy targets. Employs 5,000 operatives. Price 200 million dollars per month, may increase if risk increases.



Ooc- What African conflict would be complete without outside involvement from mercenary groups?

OOC: Senegal is assumed, for these purposes, to have a population of 20 million and an army approaching 13,000 with only a small core of highly skilled fighters; most are underpaid, raw recruits, typical of many West African countries. Also, despite regional trends, Senegal is a multiparty democracy like the UWA. Read the Wikipedia entry on it to find out about the Southern insurgency.

C-17s and C-130s began to land on improvised dirt runways in rural Senegal, although the ones that needed to, landed on the paved runways of Dakar.


The C-17s had something specially purchased for this mission, 10 T-98 MBTs, the massive 82 ton tanks that were the MBT of the CM Armored units.

Also there were
200 BMP-3s
30 G-6 155mm SPA
300 M998 Hummers
300 M1025 Hummers (100 armed with Browning M-2s, 100 armed with MK 19 Grenade Launchers, 100 armed with M-60s)
100 Standard Cargo Trucks.
6 CM Tank Towers (2 are required to tow one T-98 out of whatever it gets stuck in)

The 5,000 operatives were all armed with the 20 inch barrel version of the XM-8 or the OICW, the vehicle crews had the MP-5N.


The C-130s thudded to a halt after the wheels touched down on the dirt runways and they gradually slowed to a stop.

The men in them swayed and shook, but they were glad the ride was over. The ramps came down and the troops filed out in orderly fashion, readying their equipment and preparing to mount their vehicles.

OOC: Before I post i think you mean 20mm. 16 INCHES is a battleship gun.

OOC: Before I post i think you mean 20mm. 16 INCHES is a battleship gun.


20 inch long barrel, not diamter :D Not the caliber :D

20mm caliber is an AA round.


Trust me, I just recently bought a 20 inch barrel AR-15.

While the mercenaries were unloading their equipment, the war had only taken a few days to escalate. Dakar had responded with a formal declaration and began incursions towards the border with Guinea, seizing several small towns before being driven out by Federal troops. An entire motorized division had been sent away from the Ivory Coast towards the border there with a small amount of troops entering across the border with Guinea-Bissau, aided by friendly anti-government Jola rebels just south of the Gambia.

Naval clashes were also reported, pitting new Kazakhland-model UWA patrol boats (Seaskim class) against similar Senegalese vessels. The more heavily armed UWA ships had sunk at least three vessels of the Senegalese navy with their fairly advanced low altitude MOSKIT anti-shipping missiles.

Currently over 11,000 motorized forces in total were either a few miles into the Senegalese border, transported by hundreds of Hummers and supported by handheld anti-aircraft weapons and 15 ZSU anti air units. 6 T-92 tanks were also among the force, with about 15 T-72BMs, late model Soviet tanks with fairly advanced late generation reactive armor.

The troops were piling into their vehicles, and mounting their T-98 MBTs. The troops inside the T-98s were happy, they knew their tanks were impervious to the main gun of basically all known MBTs on the side and front armor, and only ranges under 500 meters could penetrate the rear armor. But this had come at a price. The tanks weighed 82 tons each, cost 10 million dollars each, a full tank of gasoline would only get it about 170 miles, and the tank could not exceed 35 miles per hour on a paved road, on a dirt road it could only get about 30 miles per hour. But they didn't need to move fast, they were a mobile bunker with a crew of three.


The tanks and other vehicles began to move off towards the border region were the skirmishes were escalating into open war.


Locals in Senegal loyal to the UWA reported seeing large numbers of whites in paramilitary style uniforms and in advanced tanks, they also reported seeing advanced small arms that they could not identify.

The Parthian Governor-General of the Cameroon province began to recieve information about a border spat between the Senegalese and Unified West Africa. The UWA troops would undoubtedly win, Senegal was a third world backwoods while UWA had some civilization. But, with that victory UWA would become too powerful, threatening CM and Parthian control of Africa. Something would have to be done, and that something would have to save Senegal.

The Senegalese government had requested the mercenaries to use some of the air cover they had brought with them to attack the UWA naval craft that were causing them such headaches.


10 F-16Ds, 3 MiG-31s, 2 F-35s, and 3 F-14s would be loaded out with exocet anti-ship missiles and would launch to attack the UWA ships that were harassing the Senegalese ships.

Ynobo slapped the intelligence report onto the top of the fold-out table in the large slab of canvas and pole serving as his command tent. It appeared, once again, that he'd be facing his old adversaries.. the reports of white soldiers in the bush raised his suspicions, but a MiG overflight showing multiple T-98 assault tanks had confirmed it. Mississippi and the Fabus' were apparently up to their old tricks..

He would outwit them again, that much was certain. But before he did that, he had a rather underhanded trick to play. He handed the intelligence report, with classified sections blacked out, to a runner to take to Conakry with instructions to fax it to an independant leftist newspaper in Dakar. Let's see how the Senegalese felt about the war when they found out CM troops were running around in their territory.

The aircraft tasked to attack the UWA fleet began to make their final approach to the targets, they had taken off from airstrips in the coastal region of Senegal, and they were flying in low to avoid whatever possibility of radar the ships might have. They readied to fire their exocet missiles.



Meanwhile 3 B-2 stealth bombers had been hired from another mercenary corporation to attack the UWA presidential residence and the other main government buildings. They would be covered by 3 F-35s.

The B-2s would soon be making their approach into UWA from the south, across the ocean. They would soon cross UWA airspace.

A picture of 7 white infantry and 3 white crewmen all smiling and standing in front of a BMP-3, appeared in papers throughout the world. It was clearly obvious from the surrounding terrain that they were in Western Africa, most likely Senegal. The caption read, "Mississippians: Soldiers for hire?"

The Seaskim vessels, 2 in the open sea at the time, were far from defenseless. Each was equipped with 12 IGLA-class anti air guided missile systems, along with their 76.2 and 30mm rapid fire assault guns. Chaff launchers were also mounted to serve as defensive weaponry.

The air attack also wasn't going to go undefended by the airforce, either. Coastal radar had picked up unauthorized overflights, and an assault force of 15 SEPECAT Jaguars, 10 modified Alpha jets and 10 Mig-23 air interceptors were launched from bases in Conakry and Freetown to cause trouble for the airborne marauders.

On the ground, troops were preparing for a major operation. Tanks were being gathered for an armored spearhead, and troops drawn away from mostly secure southwestern Senegal. The Mississippian forces were at least 4 days travel away (1 and a half for the UWA troops, who didn't have to deal with gigantic tanks constantly getting bogged down on the poorly maintained roadways.)

Each of the twenty aircraft going after the boats fired 4 exocet missiles before breaking to turn away and rapidly leave the area. The missiles flew in and began to close with the ships. The ships radars began to detect incoming missiles, coming in rapidly.



The B-2s and the F-35s were about 1 mile inside UWA airspace and heading for Conakry.



The CM forces had mounted 400 soldiers into their 50 Mi-24s and would be at the front in a matter of a few hours or so. They were to fight as light infantry until the rest of the units could get there to reinforce them. They had 81mm mortars, OICWs, M-249 SAWs, Milan ATGMs, Sa-17s, Stingers, and OCSWs. The Mi-24s would fire hundreds of rockets to clear the Landing Zones of any enemy concentrations and then the troops would land, it was expected to be a hot LZ, but then the Mi-24s were armed with a variety of interesting weapons. They would stay on station to provide close fire support if it became necessary. Also 10 F-16Ds would fly strafing missions against enemy troop concentrations.

The mercenary firm decided it might need more soldiers, and so they had "Strategic Solutions" on standby in the event they needed any help. If they did need help, Strategic Solutions would be ready to provide 2 brigades of paratroopers and 1 brigade of armor and 2 brigades of mechanized infantry. At the price of 300 million dollars per month of course.

The two Seaskims were blown out of the water, but not befoe releasing dozens of IGLA missiles at their attackers. To make matters worse the interception force had finally closed with the Mississippian aircraft, emerging directly on their tails and firing off 2-6 Air-to-Air missiles each at the unlucky force.

in FREETOWN (not Conakry) where the presidential residance was located, the Air Defense Corp was incredulous. This few airplanes for this daring an assault? Did they think the UWA possessed no radar whatsoever? Though the stealth systems rendered their profiles rather low, radar crews knew something was up, and this was confirmed by the interception squadron off the coast which had, by chance, encountered the bomber overflight from a distance on their way to attack the Exeocet carrying fighters. Because of this, despite their stealth capability, the Air Defense Corp was on full alert. The capital city was to become a deathtrap for enemy planes, boasting a serious complement of ZSUs, flak guns, and most dangerously SA-20 anti-aircraft missiles. Another handful of MiG interceptors were scrambled to defend Freetown.

While the Mississippians were forging their plans, the UWA was going ahead with its own. A powerful armored spearhead was launched northwest, smashing through Senegalese army units and attempting to strike northwest around the Gambia, to cut of Dakar from the rest of the country. The 12,000 man advance had gone significantly far in the course of the day, with UWA frontline troops only 5 miles away from the Gambia's far eastern border.

The 3 F-35s and 3 B-2s approaching Freetown decided it was too risky to proceed and just dropped their bombs and turned around to head home. They needed to lighten the load for the return trip. The 20 craft that had attacked the ships, 8 were hit by missiles but in all cases the pilots managed to eject and 6 landed in ocean, 2 managed to drift to shore. The 6 in the water quickly deployed their inflattable rafts and activated their beacons.


The company decided to bring in more airpower and they sent a message to the Governor-General Henry Stahlecker of Western Sahara, "We could use the following, 50 F-16Ds, 30 Su-25s, 30 MiG-31s, 10 B-52s, 5 MiG-41s, and 10 F-35s, also send 1 Commonwealth Cavalry (Horse Cavalry) Regiment as "volunteers". The horses will be able to traverse this terrain with much greater ease. Also please loan us 2 Stalin and 2 Hitler Class ships. We thank you."


Henry Stahlecker replied, "Confirmed, the forces you requested are all en route, and are officially volunteers or mercenaries."



Hitler Class Destroyers (Arleigh Burke just renamed)
Stalin Class Frigates (Oliver Hazard Perry just renamed)

A column of 4 T-98s along with 100 hummers and 50 BMP-3s were moving out along a mostly washed out mud road, if you could even call it a road. The T-98s were in the front of the column and the lead tank suddenly became mired in the mud. The driver slammed his fist against the wheel and cursed. The tank towers were miles behind them and would take hours to get them out.

The BMPs and Hummers began to move around the bogged tank and continue on their way.

As CM's ally, Seryown will be happy to assist them, should they decide to commit their own forces. Right now we believe only mercenaries are involved and will not commit any troops to this for now.

The Parthian 7th fleet sailed into the port of Dakkar from their base in Cameroon, docking the troop transports and beginning the unloading of their weapons. The Senegalese government had hired them as mercenaries and needed the weapons being brought to save Senegal from the UWA invasion. 5,000 Immortals, about two regiments of "The Pride of Darius" (A name of an immortals division) complete with 300 M1-A2 tanks, 10 R-409s, 30 M-777s, 50 Mortars, and 500 M2-A3 Bradley IFV's rolled off the docks. Air support was massive, 45 AH-64s, 20 A-10s, 100 F-22s, 50 JSFs, and 150 F-16s were landing at airfields in Dakkar.

Federation News Network: Political Crisis in Senegal, Advance Continues

A political crisis in Senegal's parliament has erupted with the release of news tha the president has hired white Mississippian mercenaries without its consent. Delegates from the Socialist Party, which controls the unicameral legislature, announced their opposition to the continuation of the fighting, demanding that the president initiate peace talks. President Wade is a member of the Senegalese Democratic Party, a minority in Parliament.

Socialist Party leaders and their allies have used their control over the government budget to immediately suspend payment to Mississippian mercenaries brought in to help beleagured government troops, and have denounced the war itself as "belligerent and foolish." They have made repeated statements suggesting a desire to negotiate with the national government of the UWA so long as any proposed peace deal leaves Senegalese territory intact.

Prime Minister Doure and his cabinet have agreed in principle to such talks, and have made clear their intentions that no Senegalese territory be seized militarily.

The fighting on the front continued to move forward today, even as West African troops clashed with forward units of the Mississippian mercenary force. A pitched battle over the crucial eastern town of Tambacounda, northwest of the Gambian border, ended in a stalemate with both sides continuing to exchange artillery fire. The far eastern wing of the advance near the border with Mali has also continued to move forward, with domestic opposition remaining extremely low. Leaders of the Malinke and other ethnic groups in the region have declared their neutrality, refusing to support either side of the conflict.

President Doure has called on Communist Mississippi to reign in out of control mercenary factions, setting this explicitely as a condition for talks concerning the fate of 20,000 Mississippian POWs in Hogsweat, where the Federation has credibility among the leaders of the socialist rebellion.

In other news, army commanders have admitted that despite recent gains casualties are mounting, due largely to military underestimations of the fighting capacity of Senegalese soldiers. The number of dead and wounded is reported to have reached 400 today, compared to 1200 on the Senegalese side, with few reports of civilian casualties. Federation troops have largely avoided fighting in or around Senegalese townships.

The 400 members of the advanced guard landed about 1/2 mile outside the border town that was the focal point of the fighting. The 50 Mi-24s unleashed numerous rockets and missiles against the UWA forces moving up towards the town. They had no idea what was hitting them as thousands of rockets crashed down at them.


The bombs from the B-2s and rockets from F-35s that were dropped anywhere in the haste for the bombers to get back, landed in a small rural town and killed approximately 49 people.


The Western Saharan ships that were sent to Senegal arrived and began helping the shattered Senegalese naval forces train and practice for upcoming maneuvers against the UWA fleet.

The mercenary command of Tactical Solutions sent word to Strategic Solutions to send in the 4 brigades they were planning on sending. The approximately 22,000 soldiers from Strategic Solutions would be setting out from C-130s and C-17s in Western Sahara bound for Senegal.


200 mercenaries from Tactical Solutions were stationed in Dakar to guard the president against any attempted coups.

The president was meeting with Brigadier General George Cullen of Tactical Solutions.


(Cullen) "Sir, do you want us to crush the parliament or at the least the opposition party?"

(President) "I don't know, do you think that would work?"

(Cullen) "We can station over a thousand soldiers here indefinitely to protect your rule as long as you can afford it."

(President) (Laughing) "Ah, mercenaries, as long as there is money you stick around."

(Cullen) (Smiling) "So, do we have a deal?"

(President) (Smiling) "Yes, I'll wire you the money from my private swiss account. I'll want you to arrest all the opposition members simultaneously."




Throughout Dakar, squads of mercenaries began raiding the homes of the opposition members and arresting them.

UWA troops took refuge in dug-out bomb shelters or whatever cover could be had. The 1000 strong garrison force was pounded heavily, taking 300 casualties in the first few minutes. The Mississippians had badly miscalculated, however; the border town landing would sandwhich the mercenaries between the village garrison, and rear elements of the motorized division that had control over %45 of Senegalese territory. Both of these began to pound the landing infantrymen, the divisional rear guard with a few pieces of 105mm guns, and the garrison with multibarrel rocket mortars they had managed to hide from the enemy attack.

By now public opinion in Senegal had turned against the war, and the mercenaries, whom many say as escalating a conflict that could have been over yesterday. Protestors in Dakar denounced Mississippian mercenary forces, with customs officials refusing to land Parthian troops and threatening to sink their vessels if they attempt to do so forcibly. Already, the UWA and the Senegalese parliament have agreed to a ceasefire on the high seas.

Outside the town of Tambacounda, 400 mercenaries were readying to assault into the town under heavy cover fire to be provided by the 50 Mi-24s and their own mortars and grenade launchers. Six Mi-24s had to make forced landings after they were hit by hostile RPGs.

The Mi-24s immediately began firing AT-4s at the UWA howitzers, but the howitzers had killed 26 mercenaries and wounded 47.

Six of the Mi-24s had particularly nasty armaments, the mercenaries began to put NBC suits on and then gave the Mi-24s with the "Special weapons" the greenlight. 600 rockets filled with hydrogen cyanide crashed into the town and against the UWA positions. The gas would kill and dissipate completely in under 60 seconds.

The "Opposition" party of Senegal was actually a majority, in Parliament and often in the streets. Arrests and arbitrary detention of SP officials were leading to riots in the streets, often supported by the police and military. Wade had made a serious mistake counting on Senegalese security forces to enforce his decrees, as the army and police had been a nonpolitical force for decades.

Several Senegalese military units, fed-up with outside meddling in their affairs and the continuation of a completely meaningless war they were bound to lose, had declared themselves in rebellion against presidential authority, refusing to fight UWA soldiers. Almost overnight a movement had spread across the country to depose the President and his Mississippian backers.

"Good evening, Communist Mississippi diplomatic office."

"I'd like to speak to the premier. This is Ambassador William Cane," the person on the other line said in a voice laden with upper class English accent.

"I'm sorry, the Premier is - "

"Just give him a message, then. If he ever wants to see his POWs alive or salvage this conflict, tell him to reign in his mercenaries. This is not negotiable."

*click*

4 brigades of mercenaries each about 1/3 of a Division, began to deploy in Dakar to prop up the faltering government. They were all mercenaries from the Strategic Solutions Inc.




2 Brigades of Mechanized Infantry (Each 1/3 of a division)

1 Brigade of Paratroopers (1/3 of a division)

1 Brigade of Armor (1/3 of a division)

Also 1,000 horse cavalry from the Western Saharan Commonwealth Division deployed to Dakar.

A Parachute Division (Each 18,000 paratroopers, 500 C-130s to transport men and equipment, 2,500 hummers (1,500 M998, 400 M1043, 500 M1025, and 100 M1035) assorted light vehicles (200 M1083 Standard Cargo Trucks), shoulder launched weaponry (AT and AA), mortars, light artillery, and assorted reconnaissance vehicles)

A Mechanized BMP Infantry Division (Each 18,000 heavy infantry, 2,250 BMP-3s, 400 G-6 155mm SPA, 200 SA-19 Mobile SAM, and assorted reconnaissance vehicles)

A Armored Division (Each 18,000 Panzer Grenadiers, 500 T-98 Tanks, 2,250 BMP-3s, 300 G-6 155mm SPA, 200 SA-19 Mobile SAM, and assorted reconnaissance vehicles)

Chemical weapons had decimated the border settlement, killing almost the entire garrison.. along with its inhabitants. But rearward elements of the assault force deep inside Senegal launched a counterattack with hundreds of troops in Hummers and on foot, firing one last volley before closing in on the mercenary forces and engaging with RPGs and heavy machine guns. Border patrol units were also bracing for attack.

In Tambacounda, UWA forces held out valiantly agains the vastly numerically inferior mercenary garrison. Tanks and divisional artillery rained HE shells on the enemy positions while infantrymen took refuge in fortified positions and prepared to recieve the onslaught.

Chemical weapons had decimated the border settlement, killing almost the entire garrison.. along with its inhabitants. But rearward elements of the assault force deep inside Senegal launched a counterattack with hundreds of troops in Hummers and on foot, firing one last volley before closing in on the mercenary forces and engaging with RPGs and heavy machine guns. Border patrol units were also bracing for attack.

In Tambacounda, UWA forces held out valiantly agains the vastly numerically inferior mercenary garrison. Tanks and divisional artillery rained HE shells on the enemy positions while infantrymen took refuge in fortified positions and prepared to recieve the onslaught.


The sun was rapidly beginning to set and the mercenaries got out their NVGs and put away their NBC suits as they were no longer needed. The mercenaries, with their scopes, body armor, ceramic plates, Night Vision Goggles, and other modern technology, would rule the night. They readied to assault the town by firing over 500 mortar rounds against it from 12 81mm mortars over a 15 minute period. They also fired dozens of MILANS.


They began taking losses when unexpected enemies came in from the rear. They turned and fired MILANS and grenades from their OICWs and OCSWs, along with mortars, and other heavy firepower. They lost 24 killed and 61 suffered injuries. But they drove the attackers back and inflicted heavy losses on them. The superior training these ex-MSAAS soldiers had was paying massive dividends.

The sun finally went down completely and gave way to the darkness of night. About 270 mercenaries still alive and able to fight were readying to assault into the town and smash the rest of the garrison. About 40 of the wounded would stay behind and provide cover against possible enemy attacks from other directions, they would be armed with MILANS and OCSWs.

Note: Tamacounda and the border town where everything started are hundreds of miles apart. Check the map of Senegal on the CIA world factbook, you'll see it near Gambia. That's why your men are surrounded.

The defection of the Senegalese was complete. The president had become an island with almost no outside support, and white mercenaries were unable to control the streets of Dakar with the sheer volume of armed men running around, police military and civilian.

Anti-Mississippian forces had taken control of the waterfront and were destroying dock facilities to prevent Mississippian forces from landing. Organizing such a large contingent would take time and money; more than enough time for domestic forces to do their damndest to try and prevent invasion. Any beaches which were even remotely landable were mined to hell and back, and Senegalese troops began establishing beachheads against foreign invasion. The army had expanded as well, with 10000 "troops", more like volunteer militamen, recruited to aid in the defense of their nation.

Finally, a nonaggression pact had been signed between the UWA, the Senegalese military, and the remnants of Parliament which had gone into hiding. The soldiers of Tamacounda now found themselves under dual assault; from a renewed UWA offensive by the scratched but still healthy and robust motorized division, and Senegalese soldiers from the rear, which had suddenly turned against their former benefactors.

The approximately 130 T-98 tanks that had made it into Dakar, were surrounding the presidential residence and were keeping all others at bay. The 22,000 from Strategic Solutions had made it into Dakar after their C-17s and C-130s landed them outside the city. They were basically holding the government district and little else, not venturing out into the city. The 200 soldiers from Tactical Solutions had arrested all of the parliament and then sent 50 or so soldiers to form the personal guard of the president.


More soldiers were on their way. 5 entire divisions from Strategic Solutions, over 110,000 soldiers, had been hired out on the promise of granting the corporation controlling interest in mines, and other such industries after they had retaken the country from the rebels.

The 260 mercenaries in the border region along with the over 80 wounded, were being evacuated in the Mi-24s back to Dakar.

The Strategic Solutions began to deploy large amounts of paratroopers to Senegal.

5 full divisions of Strategic Solutions were now deployed to Senegal. 1 was a parachute division in Dakar, and the other 4 divisions were spread out with a brigade from a mechanized or parachute division in each major western city.

Kolda: 1 Parachute Brigade jumped in and 1 Mechanized Brigade was lifted in.

Bignona: 1 Parachute Brigade jumped in and 1 Mechanized Brigade was lifted in.

Diourbei: 1 Parachute Brigade jumped in and 1 Mechanized Brigade was lifted in.

Thies: 1 Parachute Brigade jumped in an 1 Mechanized Brigade was lifted in.

Kaolack: 1 Parachute Brigade jumped in and 1 Mechanized Brigade was lifted in.

Linguere: 1 Parachute Brigade jumped in and 1 Mechanized Brigade was lifted in.


Mississippi has pledged 50 billion dollars to "Help build Senegal a decent infrastructure and improve the standard of living for the masses."

CM engineering firms have began to lay foundations for desalination plants along the coast near Dakar to assure a steady supply of clean drinking water.

CM combat engineers are starting to build a system of paved roads and highways to link Dakar, Ties, Diourbei, Kaolack, Linguere, Richard-Toll, Podor, and Matam.

Now that the war had dragged on to a stalemate, UWA forces were increasing drastically in number. 40,000 troops were moved in from the UWA to reinforce their positions, along with Senegalese troops. In addition, regional forces were also responding. Mali and Gambia, fearing a Mississippian colony on its borders, contributed thousands of troops to the war effort. Arab Mauritania, fearful of being SURROUNDED by Mississippian colonies, did likewise. The combination of Federal, Senegalian, and foreign forces had brought the total anti-colonial units to 120,000 which were holding the coast and, more importantly, placing occupied Dakar under seige. White troops around the car were almost totally cut off by land, with air defense corp units shooting at any resupply aircraft and UWA fighters running patrols around their forces positions. Senegalese troops were also doing their part, destroying Mississippian aircraft in their interior bases while still on the ground and attacking their relatively small garrisons to great effect. These would probably be forced to surrender, but the garrison in and around Dakar seemed as strong as ever.

(sorry; Air Defense Corp has positions in the interior and so do our own military units. Your troops would be jumping on top of enemy soldiers with anti-air capability which, if you know your military history, you'd know is ridiculous and incredibly dangerous. There's a reason the Allies launched an amphibious assault on Germany and didn't try something as stupid and paradropping entire divisions into the interior.)

(And try to make ONE combat post at a time, please. If you'd waited for me you'd have seen why what you did is ridiculous.)

The Parthian fleet moved offshore to be reinforced by the approaching 2nd fleet and their troops. It was a massive armada... and soon, it would descend upon the Africans.

The following forces are off the coast of Senegal:
7 Nimitz class carriers
4 Gullien class superbattleships
12 Iowa Class Battleships
45 Ticonderoga class crusiers
55 Arleigh Burke class destroyers
45 Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates
20 Spruance class destroyers
20 Seawolf class submarines
10 Los Angeles class submarines.

Immortals-
The Elite of the Parthian Army: Trained since childhood in a grueling program and used for combat, paratroops, and special-ops as well as bodyguards for the Shah, his family, Satraps, and wealthy nobles, The Immortals are the pride of the Imperial Army Corps. They are grouped in divisions of 25,000 Men in M2-A3 Bradley IFVs and have 300 M1-A2 tanks attached to their unit. The troops are armed with XM-8 rifles or heavy weapons. Units also have mortar and M-777 Howitzer support

1st Immortals- "The Royal Guard"
2nd Immortals- "Defenders of Ahura Mazda"
3rd Immortals- "Protectors of Persepolis"
9th Immortals- “Pride of Ardashir”
10th Immortals- “Defenders of Parthia”

Infantry-
(Of good standard by most nations, Parthian infantry is well trained and ready to perform a multitude of tasks. Infantry ride into battle with M-113 APCs and a few M2-A3 IFVs. Infantry are armed with XM-8 assault rifles or heavy weapons and mortar and M-777 support. Each unit consists of 20,000 Men:

50 Infantry Divisions- 1,000,000 Men

Maintained by competent crews and constantly prepared for battle, armored divisions are a powerful Parthian force on the battlefield. Each unit contains 2,000 M1-A2 MBTs, 150 MLRS, 100 M-109 Howitzers, 10 R-409 superheavy Tanks 10 Patriot batteries, and support vehicles.

10 Armoured Divisions

Helicopter/Parachute divisions-
Trained to drop into hostile zones in either helicopters or by parachute, the 5000 strong parachute divisions are capable of taking a city with only air support. They are armed with shorter barreled XM-8s and other infantry weapons.

2 Divisions

Siege Divisions- Used to pound cities or support armies, siege units excel at what they do best. Each siege division has 500 M-109s, 300 MLRS, 200 M-107 175mm guns, 10 203mm guns, and 50 M-2001 Crusader Artillery platforms

2 Seige Divisions

Strategic Solutions decided to bring their entire force into Senegal, the entire corporation, all the resources at their disposal. They would also call in their friends from Death From Above and Airpower Unlimited.


All of Tactical Solutions and 2 Parachute and 2 Mechanized Divisions from Strategic Solutions had already deployed in various towns in Senegal. And 1 Parachute and 1 Armored Division had already deployed in Dakar.


Tactical Solutions: Specializes in surgical strikes against specific enemy targets. Employs 5,000 operatives. Price 200 million dollars per month, may increase if risk increases.

Strategic Solutions: Specializes in essentially providing an entire army for the client. Employs 27 divisions of operatives. 4 Paratrooper divisions, 4 armored divisions, 6 mobile infantry divisions, and 13 heavy infantry divisions. About 550,000 soldiers by the time you tally up the crews and such. Cost 200 billion dollars per month.

Airpower Unlimited: Specializes in providing fighters to gain air superiority. Employs 1,000 MiG-31s, 2,000 F-16s, 1,000 F-14s, and 500 F-35s. Price 100 billion dollars per month.

Death From Above: Specializes in bombers and close air support. Employs 300 B-52s, 1,000 A-10s, 3,000 Su-25s, and 2,000 Mi-24s. Cost 50 billion dollars per month.





Right now the president of Senegal knew his regime was only still in existence because of outside white mercenaries who now basically owned his country, well they were the real authority now.

The engineering units of the white companies began to build hospitals and schools and allowed their medics and doctors to treat the senegalese of their illnesses. This was part of a campaign to erode support for the rebels.


Also large amounts of food and water were being distributed to the people.

(Remember when I said semi-open? Git out, Parthia. This is between me and CM. Frankly I'm sick of your insanely large deployments and unprovoked attacks, so buzz of for the remainder of this conflict. And since Chellis and others control Cameroon, I don't acknowledge your claim to that either.)

(sorry; Air Defense Corp has positions in the interior and so do our own military units. Your troops would be jumping on top of enemy soldiers with anti-air capability which, if you know your military history, you'd know is ridiculous and incredibly dangerous. There's a reason the Allies launched an amphibious assault on Germany and didn't try something as stupid and paradropping entire divisions into the interior.)


That's why the units are accompanied by F-16Ds, Mi-24 assault helicopters, and are always preceded by bombardments of supporting weapons or cruise missiles.

Also I'd say most 1st world pilots can evade 3rd world air defense systems.

(One last thing about your mercenaries. There is no longer any regime. Almost the entire population has felt they've been sold out and defected. The president is nearly entirely alone, and the one flaw in his plan is veeeeery serious; he doesn't have any money. Not enough, anyway. Parliament controls the budget and it's out of his hands, entirely. Most likely most assets are in a friendly country. So.. your mercenaries, as it were, aren't being paid. Problem, perhaps?)

(Maybe, but not if they're supplied by first world countries like Canabia, Edolia, Lusaka, etc. I disctinctely remember him agreeing to supply SA-20 missile systems.)

(One last thing about your mercenaries. There is no longer any regime. Almost the entire population has felt they've been sold out and defected. The president is nearly entirely alone, and the one flaw in his plan is veeeeery serious; he doesn't have any money. Not enough, anyway. Parliament controls the budget and it's out of his hands, entirely. Most likely most assets are in a friendly country. So.. your mercenaries, as it were, aren't being paid. Problem, perhaps?)

Ooc- They're now being bankrolled by the rich families of the victims of the massacres in Hogsweat. Also they are being paid in part by the WKM (The WKM takes in over 500 billion dollars per year. Over 30 billion per year from membership dues alone)

(Remember when I said semi-open? Git out, Parthia. This is between me and CM. Frankly I'm sick of your insanely large deployments and unprovoked attacks, so buzz of for the remainder of this conflict. And since Chellis and others control Cameroon, I don't acknowledge your claim to that either.)

ooc: Bah, fine, it's your RP. But the deployments are reasonable for a billion+ nation such as mine. And as far as Cameroon, my allies and I both acknowlege it so I could care less about you.

(Maybe, but not if they're supplied by first world countries like Canabia, Edolia, Lusaka, etc. I disctinctely remember him agreeing to supply SA-20 missile systems.)



Point taken:



As they had attempted to land in Kolda, dozens of SA-20 missiles impacted into the C-130s and C-17s. The pilots attempted to evade them, but these defenses were largely still intact despite the preliminary attacks against them. They unlike the other major air defenses, had survived. Over 15 C-130s were shot from the sky, they were mostly carrying paratroopers, approximately 980 of the 5,000 paratroopers tasked with taking Kolda were killed before every leaving the planes.

Throughout the nation, air defenses had only managed to down a total of 32 C-130s and 12 C-17s, counting those downed near Kolda. The preliminary attacks against air defenses had been deadly effective.

Approximately 1,984 of the 32,000 paratroopers entering into the remote cities were killed in their planes not even knowing what hit them.


The paratroopers that made it to the ground took up their positions inside the cities and began preparing fortified positions and readying for enemy assaults. They also established local military authorities and placed loyalists to the Dakar regime in positions of authority.

There were now the 5,000 operatives from Tactical Solutions, well about 4,700 were still alive and they were all in Dakar rounding up enemies of the regime.

There were 22,000 soldiers from a parachute division in Dakar, along with an entire Armored Division consisting of 2,250 BMP3s, 500 T-98 tanks, 18,000 Panzer Grenadiers, and other equipment such as artillery and air defeses. They were in Dakar to basically keep the regime from falling to pieces as it seemed ready to do.

There's a reason the Allies launched an amphibious assault on Germany and didn't try something as stupid and paradropping entire divisions into the interior.)


The 101st and 82nd were parachuted in June 5th right before D-day. :D

With massive paratrooper deployments, the war had become even more stalled than before. On one hand, UWA and coalition forces were forced to retreat south towards the Gambia, while on the other, Mississippian troops south of that line had no choice but to withdraw north after finding themselves isolated, overextended, and without enough supplies to sustain an offensive.

For all practical purposes, Senegal is divided; South Senegal from the Gambia downward, and Mississippian Senegal from Dakar eastward, terminating at a line one could draw from Gambia straight east. In southern Senegal the government functions in exile, claiming the entirety of the country; in the north, white mercenaries rule practically by absolute fiat. The border between the two has become one of the most militarized in Africa, with 80,000 troops sitting on the line at the southern side.

In Dakar, the remaining divisions of the Strategic Solutions, over 400,000 soldiers with at least 1,500 T-98s and 12,000 BMP-3s, were unloading and readying to deploy for an offensive drive to retake Southern Senegal.

All of the units deployed south of Gambia had been moved north to reinforce the PMC positions there.

Currently approximately 78,000 mercenaries and 500 T-98 tanks, along with 300 G-6 155mm SPA, 500 G-5 towed 155mm SPA, 200 SA-19 Mobile SAMS, and 4,500 BMP-3s, were along the border of "Southern Senegal" "Northern Senegal".

Mississippian Senegal from Dakar eastward,

Don't you dare label it like I'm trying to claim it. We're just here to keep you from taking it and our goal is to keep you out, and keep the current regime propped up.

Ic: I'm not trying to claim it.

Ooc: I'm not trying to claim it.

Mississippian Senegal is what WE call it seeing as you control it. And let's put this on hold for today.

Mississippian Senegal is what WE call it seeing as you control it. And let's put this on hold for today.


Okay, but I may RP building fortifications and such and stuff not really needing your immediate reply. Is that okay?

I also have to work on my "Hearts and minds" campaign to win over the negroid populace that will be naturally hostile to caucasoid mercenaries being in their nation.

Ooc- Yes I'm using outdated anthropological terms, it's the "thing I'm doing" for now. Just to be different I guess. :D

Tactical Solutions has approximately 4,700 able-bodied elite special operatives in Dakar. These men are all either ex-MSAAS, ex-paratroopers, or ex-Special Pepublican Guard.


The Western Sahara Commonwealth government has sent 1,000 volunteers in the form of an elite horse cavalry regiment.


1 Commonwealth "Volunteer" Cavalry Regiment (Each 1,000 cavalry soldiers mounted on horses armed with nothing heavier than shoulder launched AT and AA weaponry. Uses OICWs, and other small arms)


Strategic Solutions has the following deployed in Senegal.

4 Mercenary Parachute Divisions (Each 18,000 paratroopers, 500 C-130s to transport men and equipment, 2,500 hummers (1,500 M998, 400 M1043, 500 M1025, and 100 M1035) assorted light vehicles (200 M1083 Standard Cargo Trucks), shoulder launched weaponry (AT and AA), mortars, light artillery, and assorted reconnaissance vehicles)

6 Mercenary Mechanized BMP Infantry Divisions (Each 18,000 heavy infantry, 2,250 BMP-3s, 400 G-6 155mm SPA, 200 SA-19 Mobile SAM, and assorted reconnaissance vehicles)

4 Mercenary Armored Divisions (Each 18,000 Panzer Grenadiers, 500 T-98 Tanks, 2,250 BMP-3s, 300 G-6 155mm SPA, 200 SA-19 Mobile SAM, and assorted reconnaissance vehicles)

13 Mercenary Infantry Divisions (Each 18,000 Heavy Infantry transported by trucks and light vehicles, 400 towed Howitzers and other artillery, 200 SA-19 Mobile SAM, and other assorted light artillery and support units)




9 of the infantry divisions are maintaining a static frontline along the border of the government controlled zone and the rebel controlled zone.

Also 2 of the infantry divisions are spread along the border with Gambia to guard against possible attack.

2 of the infantry divisions are on the border with Mauritania to guard against possible attack.

3 of the parachute divisions have broken into 3 combat brigades each and deployed 1 brigade to each of the major cities in the government zone.

1 of the parachute divisions has deployed all of their forces to guarding and patrolling Dakar.

1 of the armored divisions is guarding and patrolling Dakar.

3 of the armored divisions are being held as mobile reserves behind the line of 9 infantry divisions on the border of the two zones.

2 of the Mechanized BMP divisions have split into 3 brigades each and deployed 1 brigade to the each of the major cities in the government zone.

4 of the Mechanized BMP divisions are being held as mobile reserve along with the 3 armored armored divisions in reserve.


The 4 mechanized and 3 armored divisions are being labeled "2nd Panzer Army".


2nd Panzer Army has the strength of:

Panzer Grenadiers: 126,000 (All are mounted in BMP-3s)
T-98 MBTs: 1,500
BMP-3: 15,750
G-6 155mm SPA: 2,500
SA-19 Mobile SAM: 1,400
Assorted Reconaissance Vehicles: 700

2nd Panzer Army is currently amassing massive stockpiles of fuel, food, munitions, and other war supplies.

Currently combat engineers have laid large tracts of minefields and built numerous bunkers and lines of fortifications along the border of the two zones.

The Commonwealth Final Senate, Portmeirion, Beth Gellert (the southwestern Indian Ocean)

"...and this proves my assertion! Africa does not need help only where it all but borders The Commonwealth, the entire continent has centuries of abuse weighing upon its efforts to advance, abuse continued even today, as states this communiqué from the United West Africans themselves!"

Comrade Lucy Isko-Pendrag had made her case well enough already. She was but a New Dresden pastry chef, still, in the communist pure-democracy that was slumbering socialist giant Beth Gellert her passionate and considered argument carried political weight. True, The Igovian Soviet Commonwealth was expending the equivalent of tens-of-millions of dollars on aid to socialists in east Asia, and true, Task Force Muishkin was deployed to the Republic of Madagascar with a view to intervention in the Al Khali invasion of UAR Lusaka, but this was a nation of almost three billion comrades, buoyed by the United Nations report that called their economy one of the 250 fastest growing in the universe, and hardened by the ambitions of a militant Igovian coup. A few corrupt Senegalese and a rabble of backwards racists from North America were nothing to even a fraction of the Igovian revolution. This was precisely for what the coup had been supported by the common comrade!

Commonwealth Chief Consul comrade Chivo directed a number of his comrades to blow the huge Celtic warhorns kept in the capital and at several major ports. Carrier Group Belinus, assembled as back-up in the Lusakan, Drapoel, Glakatahn, and Nicobarese crises, was to depart for West Africa, working on believed permission to utilise UWA waters and perhaps ports. At the centre of the force was the Jonathan Netnyahu Class trimaran carrier of the same name, and around it were assembled light carriers, three classes of radar-reduced frigates, amunition ships, support tankers, hospital ships, supplies stores ships, and a squadron of Anunkai Class SSNs.

The stated aim was the protection from outside interference of internal African affairs until such time as multinational humanitarian assistance was required and practical.

The flotilla set-off, heading from Malagasy bases around the Cape and on towards the conflict north. The included cargo of withdrawn CS-400 Red Sky long-rang-high-altitude-ABM SAMs was not openly mentioned.

The Commonwealth Final Senate, Portmeirion, Beth Gellert (the southwestern Indian Ocean)

"...and this proves my assertion! Africa does not need help only where it all but borders The Commonwealth, the entire continent has centuries of abuse weighing upon its efforts to advance, abuse continued even today, as states this communiqué from the United West Africans themselves!"

Comrade Lucy Isko-Pendrag had made her case well enough already. She was but a New Dresden pastry chef, still, in the communist pure-democracy that was slumbering socialist giant Beth Gellert her passionate and considered argument carried political weight. True, The Igovian Soviet Commonwealth was expending the equivalent of tens-of-millions of dollars on aid to socialists in east Asia, and true, Task Force Muishkin was deployed to the Republic of Madagascar with a view to intervention in the Al Khali invasion of UAR Lusaka, but this was a nation of almost three billion comrades, buoyed by the United Nations report that called their economy one of the 250 fastest growing in the universe, and hardened by the ambitions of a militant Igovian coup. A few corrupt Senegalese and a rabble of backwards racists from North America were nothing to even a fraction of the Igovian revolution. This was precisely for what the coup had been supported by the common comrade!

Commonwealth Chief Consul comrade Chivo directed a number of his comrades to blow the huge Celtic warhorns kept in the capital and at several major ports. Carrier Group Belinus, assembled as back-up in the Lusakan, Drapoel, Glakatahn, and Nicobarese crises, was to depart for West Africa, working on believed permission to utilise UWA waters and perhaps ports. At the centre of the force was the Jonathan Netnyahu Class trimaran carrier of the same name, and around it were assembled light carriers, three classes of radar-reduced frigates, amunition ships, support tankers, hospital ships, supplies stores ships, and a squadron of Anunkai Class SSNs.

The stated aim was the protection from outside interference of internal African affairs until such time as multinational humanitarian assistance was required and practical.

The flotilla set-off, heading from Malagasy bases around the Cape and on towards the conflict north. The included cargo of withdrawn CS-400 Red Sky long-rang-high-altitude-ABM SAMs was not openly mentioned.

Allow me to quote UWA.

This is between me and CM.

CM has begun a dedicated campaign of propaganda primarily attempting to convince the overwhelmingly Muslim Senegalese people that the overwhelmingly Christian UWA seeks to force them to abandon Islam and adopt Christianity.

Also CM is attempting to unite Senegal by convincing them that UWA is part of the "Jewish and Masonic" New World Order conspiracy to dominate the world and that Senegal is the first step in UWA's plan for an empire to lord over the Muslim people.


CM propaganda films are being shown to the Senegalese people. However they were edited to remove the parts deemed "offensive to the Negroid race".

CM has also announced it will begin providing vaccinations against malaria to all Senegalese people who want to receive the vaccination.

Currently the most advanced treatment the Senegalese had was quinine, and only if they were lucky enough to get that. And all that would do was increase their resistance to malaria. But Schacht Pharmaceuticals Inc a company based in Mississippi owned by Dr Field Marshal Baldur Von Schacht, has made massive developments in the fields of medicine, chemistry, biology, and other areas.

OOC: No one really owns Cameroon, its an international aid orgy lead by Hamptonshire, who basically stole it from me. I do have many troops on the border and in the nation though.

OOC: Re. CM's last but one post; I don't know if you can read entire bodies of text, but you may have noticed that within mine was clear reference to a UWA communiqué directed at The Igovian Soviet Commonwealth. That is all.

OOC: Re. CM's last but one post; I don't know if you can read entire bodies of text, but you may have noticed that within mine was clear reference to a UWA communiqué directed at The Igovian Soviet Commonwealth. That is all.


Again, allow me to reiterate:


Allow me to quote UWA.

This is between me and CM.

OOC: You'll have to excuse me, because I'm drunk, but, if I can make it more clear, barely half an hour before I made my first post, BG was approached by UWA, via telegram. There. That's pretty clear, I think?

Beth, forget it. CM controls the boards, and all roleplay must be ok'ed with him first, even if it doesnt involve him. You should realize that.

OOC: I shouldn't snigger... but I'm drunk, so who's going to stop me? [sniggers]

OOC: You'll have to excuse me, because I'm drunk, but, if I can make it more clear, barely half an hour before I made my first post, BG was approached by UWA, via telegram. There. That's pretty clear, I think?

Okay, pretty clear. You could have just said so, rather than stating "Comminque from him" which could just be a propaganda barrage.

OOC: Oh, okay, sorry, like I say, I'm a touch drunk. I supposed that the OOC qualifier would have covered it as none-propaganda. Anyway, I suppose that's all for now... until something happens IC, the BG flotilla is just making its way around the Horn, bound for West Africa with fairly none-descript intent. It has volume enough only for a few thousand troops, if any are aboard, by the by.

Sigh.

Chellis, leave CM alone, okay?

Sigh.

Chellis, leave CM alone, okay?

He has my posts ignored, so he cant even see them. I dont see a problem?

He has my posts ignored, so he cant even see them. I dont see a problem?
Don't play stupid. You know he's ignoring you, so you come into his threads and bitch about him and make snide comments. It's completely unecessary, so knock it off.

Don't play stupid. You know he's ignoring you, so you come into his threads and bitch about him and make snide comments. It's completely unecessary, so knock it off.

OOC: What i posted or not, my intentions for coming into this thread were because UWA commented about me and Cameroon, and I was clearing it up. This isnt even CM's thread. I was told by a forum mod that if CM didnt like my posts, he could ask the thread creator to ask a mod to delete it.

This is UWA's thread, and in no way is he(CM) implicated in the title. I made snide comments about him because I'm a long time friend of Beth Gellert, and was joking around a little. I was following what I was already told in moderation. He has me on ignore too, so he doesn't even see what I post. If its that big of a problem, he should follow the same rules I have. I did not come here with the intention of making trouble, my name was said here and I responded. If CM doesnt like me posting on threads concerning me, he can ignore my posts. Ohh wait...

Linkage - http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=343850&highlight=chellis

This is between me and CM

Anyway, the link you provide doesn't back up your case in the slightest. Look, this thread is (was) an RP between United West Africa and Communist Mississippi. Beth Gellert is here by invite of the thread's originator. You, on the other hand, seem to be here only to make OOC comments; one about Cameroon, and another about CM (which, by the way, could be considered flamebait).

Now, I realise that you have an insatiable need to seek out threads that mention your name, but that doesn't mean you need to go posting in all of them. Furthermore, you know that there is friction between you and CM, and yet you continue to post in threads where he is a major participant. Why is this? Are you just trying to irritate him?

Let me boil this down: I have better things to do than barge into threads that I have no interest in because two players are incapable of leaving each other alone. If you have something of substance to add, do so. If not, just let it go. It's a little thing called "common courtesy".

OOC: OK, let me clarify this myself instead of being quoted by random people. My comment was directed specifically towards Parthia, not the whole of Nationstates. Frankly, I didn't want him mucking up my thread because he has a distinct tendancy to numberwank, and his participation would make the whole situation totally lopsided.

Frankly I find 500,000 mercenaries in ANY country or even existing in one company to be somewhat unrealistic, and the fact that they'd send that many troops to an obscure conflict like this one as well. But that's where it went and I'm prepared to roll with it. Yes, our intoxicated comrade Beth Gellert may participate, but in the interests of fairness and such further participation outside the three NS states already involved should be limited. Senegal can barely hold the number of troops it has straggling around it now. I'm not going to make up some hard and fast rule, but use common sense.

OOC: OK, let me clarify this myself instead of being quoted by random people. My comment was directed specifically towards Parthia, not the whole of Nationstates. Frankly, I didn't want him mucking up my thread because he has a distinct tendancy to numberwank, and his participation would make the whole situation totally lopsided.

Frankly I find 500,000 mercenaries in ANY country or even existing in one company to be somewhat unrealistic, and the fact that they'd send that many troops to an obscure conflict like this one as well. But that's where it went and I'm prepared to roll with it. Yes, our intoxicated comrade Beth Gellert may participate, but in the interests of fairness and such further participation outside the three NS states already involved should be limited. Senegal can barely hold the number of troops it has straggling around it now. I'm not going to make up some hard and fast rule, but use common sense.


Ooc- Yes but in this situation, they are involved because they are serving the role of a proxy army for Mississippi. Also note Western Sahara is nearby, and that most of the supplies are coming from there. Also ME and ML can send supplies. We are having a tough time, but we're making it. :D

OOC: UWA, check TGs. Sorry to interject like this gents. CM has been informed of this last night, btw, if you accept.

That's assuming I sent it to the right dude of course.

There were no ports in Senegal which could serve as a semi-permanent berth for the large Beth Gellertan flotilla, so the ships were redirected towards Conakry, recently having developed modern port facilities. The soldiers and sailors of the Beth Gellert navy couldn't have expected a more enthusiastic reception. Conakry's sprawling shantytowns (as well as the mining towns in the interior) were a major urban stronghold of the African Socialist Party (Marxist-Leninist), and as such the arriving ships were greeted by throngs of thousands of youth and worker cadres waving banners of solid red with stripes of the Pan-African Colors on either side.

In the interior agrarian parts of the state, Marxist thought had not taken hold firmly for the simple fact that it had little political relevance to subsistance farmers who knew little of any sort of civil society outside of tribal and local government structures, and who had already experianced many necessary land reforms. But in the urban centers of the newly emerged social democracu a increasingly literate and increasingly politicized proletariat of factory and workshop employees, shopkeepers, vendors, and the unemployed had taken up the socialist cause with a flourish. The Party was already the third largest in parliament and had been crucial in organizing unionization drives and promoting nationalization of the bauxite and diamond minesup which a significant portion of the state's economy rested.

Immediately following the pro-socialist rally, the admiral in charge of the Beth Gellertan navy was alerted that senior members of the UWA military branches wished to speak with him on issues of strategy.

The Situation in Senegal:

Despite Mississippi's best efforts propaganda efforts in the region were likely to fail, given the previous unity of the people in opposing occupation. Also, frankly, Mississippian rantings about Masonic conspiracies and new world orders would be as politically irrelevant to Senegalese village dwellers as Marxism was to their UWA counterparts. Those in the urban centers would be put off for a different reason; Senegal was an always has been a democracy, unlike other tinpot dictators in the region, a fact that many Senegalese are rightly proud. This institution has just been forcibly torn away, and resentment is high.

Malaria vaccinations are all well and good, but outside areas bordering the Gambia northern Senegal is much hotter and drier than the south. (OOC: Something I learned from a book called The Ends of the Earth, by Robert Kaplan; there is no one-shot permanent vaccination for Malaria like their is for polio. There are drugs that can increase resistance and ward off sickness once the sickness takes hold, but in general over administration can actually lower people's natural resistances to Malaria, which in West Africa is high but not impregnable.)

Slowly but surely, northern Senegal's resistance was beginning to take form and cohesion. Somewhere in a townhouse outside of Dakar, meeting in great secrecy, former military leaders and parliamentary officials had met to form the People's Liberation Army of Senegal. For the moment the organization was only theoretical, and much work would need to be done to unite disorganized and scattered liberation movements behind the PLAS banner (which, to maintain unity, was explicitely non-partisan, tribal, or poltical). For now PLAS was holding off armed struggle and taking its message to the people in secret, seeking out active dissidents and resistors and attempting to create more out of those who had thus far remained cowed and passive.

there is no one-shot permanent vaccination for Malaria like their is for polio. There are drugs that can increase resistance and ward off sickness once the sickness takes hold, but in general over administration can actually lower people's natural resistances to Malaria, which in West Africa is high but not impregnable.)



Ooc
Yes, the drugs given are usually quinine (as I mentioned :D) . But thanks to CM advanced medicine, with our massive budget, we've cured most diseases, viruses, and bacterial infections. :D

Ooc- The main reason we have so many miracle medications is we've gathered libraries of dating doing tests and research on living people. We've done high-altitude research, cold temperature research, pressure research, hot temperature research, chemical and biological weapons research, radiation research, etc, all on living people (convicts, felons, undesirables, etc)

OOC: That's really rather immaterial. You'd still find it all-but impossible to generate a "cure" for a disease that evolves just as rapidly as the drugs used against it and multiplies with astonishing speed. You could slow it down, but not cure it.

The Mercenaries began the "One hundred plan", in all the cities and areas they were in, they began handing out 100 dollars, 100 lbs of canned foods, and 100 gallons of water, to each and every Senegalese citizen they could find.

They declared, "Mississippian Private Military Conglomerate is your friend and we are here to help you!"

They even would open random cans and bottles and drink and eat to show it was good food and water and nothing was wrong with it.


In Dakar, a calculated campaign was underway, the "Racial Purity Plan". They began declaring that Senegalese were racially superior to the UWA citizens and that Senegal should assume her rightful place in West Africa. Nationalism and pride in race, tribe, and culture, were all encouraged.

2nd Panzer Army has the strength of:

Panzer Grenadiers: 126,000 (All are mounted in BMP-3s)
T-98 MBTs: 1,500
BMP-3: 15,750
G-6 155mm SPA: 2,500
SA-19 Mobile SAM: 1,400
Assorted Reconaissance Vehicles: 700



Secret: Currently the 2nd Panzer Army is readying to assault a 10 mile stretch of the UWA line, the goal is to smash through the line and rapidly roll up the UWA lines all-around, then the 9 infantry divisions making up the CM PMC frontline will push forwards and paratrooper brigades will drop in behind the UWA lines to complete the surrounding. Then the 2nd Panzer Army will race for Conakry.

The roar of the over 2,5000 155mm artillery amassed for the attack could be heard for miles around. The CM artillery was pounding the 10 mile section of the UWA line, it was to be a thirty minute bombardment, short but intense. The other sections of line were also subjected to heavy bombardment so the UWA reserves wouldn't no where to reinforce, they'd not know where the real attack was coming. Over 2,000 Mi-24s and 2,000 Su-25s flew attack sorties against the UWA frontline units, mercilessly pounding them with cannons, rockets, and bombs. 500 of the Mi-24s also carried something very deadly, hydrogen cyanide, over 60,000 rockets filled with Hydrogen cyanide crashed down on the UWA positions all along the line. The results would be deadly, within 60 seconds, tens of thousands would be dead, and about 30 seconds later the gas would dissipiate, by the time the artillery bombardment was over, it'd be more than safe for the attackers to push forward.



The rocket artillery began their bombardment, then the MLRS, cluster munitions were fired in liberal quantities. Most of the UWA units got into their trenches and stayed there, scared and frightened as the world seemed to be crashing down around them. Not the world, but over 10,000 G-5 and 2,500 G-6 artillery, along with more than 20,000 various mortars, 4,000 aircraft, etc. It was a tremendous barrage. As soon as it began, it seemed to end, the 30 minutes had passed.

CM T-98 could be heard moving towards them, across the no man's land between the two armies. Swift moving columns of storm troopers and combat engineers in the advanced guard of the BMP-3s were ready to breach the UWA defense line and clear paths for the tanks. Many of the tanks would just plow right through the UWA lines... The 2nd Panzer Army was advancing. Along a 10 mile front they'd amassed over 15,000 BMP-3s, 1,500 T-98s, 2,500 G-6 SPA, and 125,000 panzer grenadiers. It was a force almost twice as large as the entire UWA Frontline army, and it was being thrown against just ten miles of line.

On other spots throughout the line, the infantry units mounted diversionary attacks and heavy skirmishing with UWA units ensued.

"We're for Guinea, comrades! That's a first for most of us, I'll wager!"

Admiral Nicholas Edwards was fairly typical of the Igovian Soviet Commonwealth in behaving towards the men and women under his command as if they...weren't really under his command. If he didn't, they'd just mutiny anyway and elect a new commander for the duration of the voyage or operation. There was no danger of this with Edwards, who was not only one of the youngest comrades of his rank, but also amongst the most popular. The recruits had sympathised with him during the War For Malagasy Liberation when he was ordered into action with unclear and restricting rules of engagement, which resulted in the loss of 524 dead, though Edwards did not let it hamper the restoration of Madagascar's elected government.

In fact, Edwards' bad experiences with the old order had made him popular with the revolutionary Igovians now in power, and he was now much more clear in his authorisation to use force in the defence of his comrades... like any good communist, he did not consider that the term, "comrade" was border-specific. Unsubstantiated reports reaching the fleet of Mississippian violence were not warmly greeted by the Beth Gellens.

The reception at Conakry was treated with a good deal better cheer as the Igovian vessels assembled in port and just off shore, the Citadel-S radar of the fleet-defence frigates scanning far and wide against possible hostilities out to more than 400km.

Comrade Admiral Nicholas Edwards came ashore with a small security detachment. He was quite keen to meet the commanders that he'd been told required his ear. The Beth Gellens who'd come into port meanwhile were happy to chat with locals and hand out literature, booze, and maybe other minor trinkets of Igovian interest.

OOC: Calling a temporary halt to postings here for awhile.. going off to college in a few days, and there's quite a bit of packing and moving and unpacking and last minute things to be done.

OOC: Calling a temporary halt to postings here for awhile.. going off to college in a few days, and there's quite a bit of packing and moving and unpacking and last minute things to be done.


Ooc- Sounds good.

Ooc: There are over 550,000 mercenaries in nothern Senegal, they are about to be reduced to just 4 infantry divisions + the 2nd Panzer Army. (About 196,000 soldiers) The mercenaries are probably going to be shifted to defend Mississippian Libya in light of recent developments that strongly suggest DPUO is on the warpath and means to kickoff a campaign of unjustified aggression. I may just take the mercs back to Mississippi herself, not sure yet.

CM, as much as you deserve to be expunged from the Earth, I assure you that neither myself nor DPUO are planning attacks.

CM, as much as you deserve to be expunged from the Earth, I assure you that neither myself nor DPUO are planning attacks.


http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=6827107&postcount=154

OOC: I may have ingested a little too much beer, but I'm not going to attack you. Only if you build arms factories. OK? Understand?

A)- He can withdraw from the treaty if he wants.

B)- Perhaps he merely wanted to know how much stock you had in Africa.

OOC: I may have ingested a little too much beer, but I'm not going to attack you. Only if you build arms factories. OK? Understand?

Ooc- I may be drunk of my own sense of power... But last time I checked, I can do what I want in my own nations. You already have my word IC on treaties and such I'm not going to expand. Who is dumb enough to challenge AMF? You however seem willing to ignore the treaty we have signed and you are ready to start a war for my building factories? Are you on crack?

Factories means increased self-sufficiency, which means you can use them to construct a still larger armed force in the area, and keep it supplied, which means you can use it as an effectively independent staging point for attacks. No arms factories and I'm happy.

Does CM really need to fortify Libya and Egypt like the Maginot Line. Seriously, who'd attack it? It's just sand.

I know for a fact I won't. No point. I think. :p

Does CM really need to fortify Libya and Egypt like the Maginot Line. Seriously, who'd attack it? It's just sand.

You forget, we RPed making 20,000 miles of irrigation canals back and forth across the nations, and we built over 400 desalination plants in Libya alone, we also built 50 massive lakes in Libya. We spent over 2.5 trillion dollars and numerous NS years to make Libya and Egypt into lush green lands like Mississippi.

There are over 5 million commercial farms in Mississippian Egypt and Mississippian Libya.

Doesn't alter the fact that it's unlikely to be attacked.

Doesn't alter the fact that it's unlikely to be attacked.


Ooc: 1/2 the NS world has declared they hate me! My list of enemies is larger than the New York City phone book. :D It could be anybody, probably somebody like you who has declared in their drunken stupor, "I will rid the world of the evil empires!" The truth is you need us here, so you can point to us as the evil and rally your people under your banner, it silences domestic opposition to have a big and obvious foreign hostile.

Comrade, I'm not even nicely drunk. Listen. I'm not gonna attack it any time soon, certainly not on my own. But if you build arms factories, it's a different story.

CM, no one wants Egypt and Libya. They're sandbags. However, I will not take lightly any mass mobilization of forces. I'm right across the med in Spain/Portugal.

Comrade, I'm not even nicely drunk. Listen. I'm not gonna attack it any time soon, certainly not on my own. But if you build arms factories, it's a different story.


Ooc- You will not shackle us with a copy of Versailles!

CM, no one wants Egypt and Libya. They're sandbags. However, I will not take lightly any mass mobilization of forces. I'm right across the med in Spain/Portugal.


Did you totally miss the thread where I turned them into lush green farming nations? I spent time and money to do it. :D

Let me dig up the link.

Still, no one wants them. I'm not going to get into why- let's just say- Jerry Springer people.

God, we've hijacked UWA's thread. But I guess since 2/3 or more of the mercenaries are pulling out of Senegal, and the arguments reveal much of the reason behind it... I guess this is okay... Well let's finish up the arguing here and then leave this thread for UWA stuff.



Here: ME and ML into Paradise:

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=341883

Must you ruin everything? I thought changing the enviroment was not your thing. Anyway... I still do not want mass mobilizations in your African possessions. Couldn't you demilitarize them?

CM, you cannot have a Versaiiles imposed on you. It's very simple. Build arms factories and the problem starts. Don't build them, and it doesn't.

Must you ruin everything? I thought changing the enviroment was not your thing. Anyway... I still do not want mass mobilizations in your African possessions. Couldn't you demilitarize them?


Aggressors often ask their intended victims to disarm in the name of peace.

I'm only suggesting it as a way to resolve this current crisis. Remember, I'm only involved because we're just across the Med.

Interesting. Shall I just keep up arming then? And shall I arm the rest of Africa where possible? Shall I aid UWA?

You gotta make the step. No arms factories, no problem.

Interesting. Shall I just keep up arming then? And shall I arm the rest of Africa where possible? Shall I aid UWA?

You gotta make the step. No arms factories, no problem.



UWA is an aggressor nation atempting to annex Senegal. CM mercenaries are the only thing keeping it from happening.

What you say is not even remotely reliable. UWA is liberating the Senegalese. But that is beside the point. No arms factories. Clear?

What you say is not even remotely reliable. UWA is liberating the Senegalese. But that is beside the point. No arms factories. Clear?


Just like CM "liberated" Egypt and Libya. It's liberating when your allies and satellite states do it, when I do it, it's "Nazi aggression! AH!!!"

No, he's liberating them from an oppressive right-wing state, and holding them against your aggression. Two can play at propaganda.

By the way, I should mention that all this is OOC. At least I assume.

No, he's liberating them from an oppressive right-wing state, and holding them against your aggression. Two can play at propaganda.

By the way, I should mention that all this is OOC. At least I assume.


Oh yeah, we're all big boys, we can all tell OOC from IC by the content. At least I usually can and I figure most of you all can as well... Right?

Yarrn k. So anyway. Position the same. No need for arms making there. No arms factories, no problem, and I reinstate the Treaty. Until then, I abrogate it and blockade your colonies.

CM, for the sake of peace, just do it. There's no need to make arms there anyway. You can ship them in from Mississippi- you yourself said you control the Red Sea.

CM, for the sake of peace, just do it. There's no need to make arms there anyway. You can ship them in from Mississippi- you yourself said you control the Red Sea.


We control Suez, not the Red Sea... It's already been threatened to be shut to us (Red Sea) numerous times.

What about flying them in?

Meh. Nobody's gonna care. Besides which, you can bring them in by air if you want. Or perhaps - gasp - negotiate something with the people who're opposing you.

(Whew.. OK, back and ready to NS again. Since Mississippi is um, dead now.. I'll conclude this here myself/)

The massive armored thrust into the UWA-Allied lines did not come as anything much of a surprise. With the PLAS operating in nearly every corner of the country, such a huge mobilization was rather hard to miss. The relevant information passed on by Senegalese spies and informants, the Army and the militias under its command began a frantic effort to mount a delaying action against the heavy armored force.

Along the 10 mile stretch on which the thrust was to occur, bridges were mined and the country's poor, laterite roads dug up and blown out. Irrigation ditches were diverted to make the unpaved surfaces thick with sticky mud.. not to mention thousands of anti-tank mines placed by troops and guerillas. With the ground barely able to support the juggernaut T98's in the rainy season at all, mucking up the roads would be a serious deteriment to the enemy tanks which were easily bogged down and rendered immobile.

Beth Gellerten high altitude SAMs made the initial bombing runs as costly as the UWA could make it, though there's rarely anyway a defender can completely neutralize an air attack. Anti-tank guns with heavy armor piercing shells were dug in whereever they could be to knock out lead elements of the enemy force. It was a delaying tactic at best and would never defeat a concerted mercenary thrust.. but with any luck, it would buy a few days for the government to plead with the Beth Gellertens in Conakry to shore up the Senegal line.

As the first cluster bombs had ceased falling and the first tanks rumbled to life and struck against UWA infantry and light armor, it seemed as though a miracle happened. For no discernable reason, the massive mercenary force beat a hasty retreat before either side had been barely bloodied at all. Whatever developements at home had caused the Mississippian force to pull back, the news in Dakar and Freetown was greeted with spontaneous celebration and outpourings of joy. The senseless, bloody war in Senegal was finally over.. but not before 35,000 lives were lost on all sides of the conflict.

(Whew.. OK, back and ready to NS again. Since Mississippi is um, dead now.. I'll conclude this here myself/)

The massive armored thrust into the UWA-Allied lines did not come as anything much of a surprise. With the PLAS operating in nearly every corner of the country, such a huge mobilization was rather hard to miss. The relevant information passed on by Senegalese spies and informants, the Army and the militias under its command began a frantic effort to mount a delaying action against the heavy armored force.

Along the 10 mile stretch on which the thrust was to occur, bridges were mined and the country's poor, laterite roads dug up and blown out. Irrigation ditches were diverted to make the unpaved surfaces thick with sticky mud.. not to mention thousands of anti-tank mines placed by troops and guerillas. With the ground barely able to support the juggernaut T98's in the rainy season at all, mucking up the roads would be a serious deteriment to the enemy tanks which were easily bogged down and rendered immobile.

Beth Gellerten high altitude SAMs made the initial bombing runs as costly as the UWA could make it, though there's rarely anyway a defender can completely neutralize an air attack. Anti-tank guns with heavy armor piercing shells were dug in whereever they could be to knock out lead elements of the enemy force. It was a delaying tactic at best and would never defeat a concerted mercenary thrust.. but with any luck, it would buy a few days for the government to plead with the Beth Gellertens in Conakry to shore up the Senegal line.

As the first cluster bombs had ceased falling and the first tanks rumbled to life and struck against UWA infantry and light armor, it seemed as though a miracle happened. For no discernable reason, the massive mercenary force beat a hasty retreat before either side had been barely bloodied at all. Whatever developements at home had caused the Mississippian force to pull back, the news in Dakar and Freetown was greeted with spontaneous celebration and outpourings of joy. The senseless, bloody war in Senegal was finally over.. but not before 35,000 lives were lost on all sides of the conflict.


ooc- I am here, the mods let me live on as Decisive Action, but CM is dead. Just think of this like when Whittier got the axe, and then continued on as his other nation, but RPed as Whittier.

ooc- I am here, the mods let me live on as Decisive Action, but CM is dead. Just think of this like when Whittier got the axe, and then continued on as his other nation, but RPed as Whittier.

And then everyone ignored Whittier, and no one even sees him anymore.

Good example ;)

[Scratches head] Well, call me if the Igovians are required. If UWA's latest description stands then the BG task force will probably have said its farewells to the locals and been re-deployed elsewhere, if not, uhm, they'll remain on guard as ever, I suppose.

Well, everything about that description is accurate EXCEPT for the mysterious retreat part since CM is apparently still alive.. sort of. PLAS and guerilla units are fucking up the roads, attacking troop carriers and tanks in hit and run raids to slow down the advance which faces a heavy contingent of anti-tank guns at the point of attack. But basically, it can't hope to hold off the merc force for more than a few days.

Secret IC:

As part of the reform plan, Czar Roger Fabus has canceled all mercenary operations that began during his father's reign. This means that the operations in Senegal are officially ordered canceled by the DA government in Jackson City in Mississippi. However about 216,000 mercenaries (12 divisions worth) are going to remain, as the WKM is continuing to pay them. They will be mostly for holding defensive lines and the Mercenary offensive power is now obviously less than what it once was.


Ooc- Eventually the civil war in Mississippi will mean all mercenaries are withdrawn.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=356184

The massive force of mercenaries, designated the 2nd Panzer Army, is still carrying out their assault against the UWA lines, planning to overrun them and reach Dakar in a few days.


2nd Panzer Army has the strength of:

Panzer Grenadiers: 126,000 (All are mounted in BMP-3s)
T-98 MBTs: 1,500
BMP-3: 15,750
G-6 155mm SPA: 2,500
SA-19 Mobile SAM: 1,400
Assorted Reconaissance Vehicles: 700

(What's this about reaching Dakar? Dakar is on your side.)

With the delaying tactics employed against the DA mercenaries eventually becoming ineffective and threatening to overrun UWA lines, army and militia troops were eventually forced to beat a hasty retreat across the Senegalese border. By avoiding heavy direct infantry and armor engagements with the enemy forces, casualties were kept to a minimal (or at least acceptable) level, almost all artillery, infantry and tanks were withdrawn across the line.

The People's Liberation Army, on the other hand, continued to be an active threat against mercenary troops. Still supplied by UWA gunrunners with arms and ammunition, PLA cells have been carrying out attacks against both the occupying forces, as well as Senegalese quislings in their employ. The largest of these involved a simultaneous rocket attack on the now puppet President's party headquarters in Dakar coupled with several 15 minute mortar bombardments of mercenary supply stations and barracks.