Invasion of the Netherlands[Earth III] [Archive]

Dumpsterdam

11-01-2005, 15:00

OoC: I would like to make this an Invite Only RP if Taiwanese Islands and Praetonia agree, this will sort out any unwanted guests.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=383961&page=1&pp=15

For mine and Praetonia's deployments in Belgium, the guise for my deployments are to counter the attacks of Neo Cannen and I've also scaled down the initial amount of troops to just ten divisions(150.000 men with an small amount being left in Belgium for defence) If I'm correct Praetonia doesn't want to kick off the actual invasion right away but has something else in store first.

Map to be used: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe/netherlands.jpg

IC:

Antwerp, Dumpsterdanian Command HQ

Field Marshal Talas sighed and took a cup of steaming hot tea from the plate on his desk. "The surrender hasn't been in effect for two days and already Colonial Command has us into the thick of it again."
The woman leaning against a wall opposite of him peaked at him from under her officers cap. "Be glad that you can serve your country in another way, we didn't get much fighting done against the coalition." She pushed herself away from the wall and walked towards the desk. "Besides, I need to show I am worthy of this." On the front of her cap shone a badge, the Dumpsterdanian flame and double headed eagle and Talas grinned. "Show-off, first woman ever to be promoted to Lord...sorry, Lady Admiral, hell they even threw the entire history books and navy manuals around for you." A knock on the door interrupted them.

"Enter." Talas seated himself behind his desk, chest forward shoulders back as he adjusted his medals. A man wearing an DAF uniform entered and Talas's posture cleared slacked. "Damnit Jack, I thought you where the Praetonian Commander!" Jack turned red and stuttered out his message. "You are needed in Brussels Field Marshal, a transport has been prepared for you and the Lady Admiral Raditz."

"Lazy Praetonian bastards, issue orders to the mechanised infantry and armoured divisions to take the border positions near Turnhout and Hasselt and await further instructions from me." The aide saluted, left and closed the door behind him as Talas buckled his weapons belt on and Raditz put on her black officers coat. "Our destination is not the military airfield of Brussel, where going to land just outside the city to save some time." Raditz shrugged, she couldn’t care less about where they landed she just wanted to meet the people that made her fleet what it was today. A short walk down the stairs and into the courtyard revealed the VTOL transport and its two accompanying JR Interceptor escort fighters to be ready for take-off.
Talas made a courteous bow as he helped Lady Admiral Raditz into the passenger compartment alongside a platoon of DAF regulars already strapped into their seats.

Outskirts of Brussel

The VTOL transport touched down as the platoon of regulars secured the area around it and three Rhino APC's where off-loaded down its ramp. "Area secure!" A lieutenant ran back to the transport and to Talas. "No resistance found sir, the road into the city is clear." The Lady Admiral and Field Marshall boarded the second APC as two squads piled into the remainder, the rest of the troops stayed with the landing site.

Brussels, Praetonian Forces HQ

The three APC's turned onto the plaza in front of the building, Praetonian soldiers quickly held back any wandering civilians as the Field Marshal and the Lady Admiral exited the Rhino and made their way up the stairs towards the guards stationed there. "Field Marshal Talas and Lady Admiral Raditz of the Dumpsterdanian Armed Forces are here, please notify your commander."

Moleland

11-01-2005, 15:04

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Taiwanese Islands

11-01-2005, 16:18

OOC: I can go with making this invite only; you and Praetonia can decide

IC: the Defense Intellegence Agency was scrambling to redeem itself after Congress recolved to dismiss it. The opportunity presented itself now. Days earlier an operative in Belgium reported that there are fishy activities going on amongst the Praetonian and Dumpsterdam forces.

Although the operative have asserted that they are directed towards the Scandanavian areas, and the DIA analysts have concluded that it has something to do with the ongoing Witzgallian civil war, Director Rhee decided to present this to the National Security Committee.

"These new recent and developments in Belgium are a.... um.... theat to nation ours," Rhee reported with broken language nervously. "so we must we count this threat to ours."

The Committee members are shocked by the news. "Lucky for us, the 4th Marines are just deployed into the vicinity," one said.

"But our limited forces would struggle against such formidable enemies," another said while knocking his head against the table.

"This exposes further the need to have a larger army," one of the more hawkish members stated. "But now let us deal with this military threat in the military way."

Famed General Ella Kanjcke is dispatched into the Netherland region to assume command of Commonwealth foces there. Known for her seemingly endless energy, Kanjcke's arrival raised moral and boosted confidence in the Netherlands. With her also came the young Nagamasa Sanada, one of the last few members of a line of legendary military figures.

Military enthusiasts across the Commonwealth will be watching young Sanada's first performance closely, but few believed that actual battles would be seen.

Praetonia

13-01-2005, 19:05

Dumpsterdam

13-01-2005, 19:28

"Ofcourse, lead the way." Talas nodded in a friendly way, he was happy to be among some of his countries allies, even if they did not openly say so.
The Lady Admiral suddenly halted and took a small device from her pocket, its display lit up blue with a hint of red. She sighed. "The battleship Longsword has been attacked by Wolfish naval units in the Atlantic, minor damage inflicted on the Longsword itself and the Wolfish battleship Forsaken has either been sunk or suffered serious damage. Things keep getting better around here."

She motioned for the two guards to continue the walk. "Gentlemen, sorry for the interruption, lets proceed."

Praetonia

13-01-2005, 20:06

The guards led the two Dumpsterdam Officers through a maze of wood-panelled corridors and up several flights of stairs, before arriving at the Office of the Governor of Belgium, the same Field Marshal who had won the war not too long ago. They opened the door, and the Dumpsterdam Officers went in.

"Welcome to Praetonian Belgium," said the Admiral, offering his hand to the Dumpsterdam soldiers. The Governor was sitting behind his desk, and stood up to offer a welcome also.

Dumpsterdam

13-01-2005, 20:48

"We are glad to be here, I am Field Marshal Mark Talas and this here is Lady Admiral Angelica Raditz." Talas made a gesturing motion towards the Lady Admiral as he spoke.

Some exchanging of handshakes later Talas positioned a holo projector on a table which he had requested from the Praetorians before he arrived. A flick of a switch and a fully intergrated holo map of Belgium sprung up, Talas zoomed the display picture towards Antwerp and the Northern provinces.
"As you already know, Dumpsterdanian forces have taken up position near Turnhout and Hasselt with other forces positioned near the French and German borders."

Raditz took over from Talas, her fingers slid over the map as markings of the DRN 8th fleet sprung up in the North sea. "Naval forces have been positioned in the north sea with eleven brigades of Royal Marines, landings will be made at The Hague and other cities such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam."
The pictured shifted to the Dutch/Belgium border. "Four mechanised divisions will push forward from the south towards the Rhine and head towards Katsurato, the mega city east of Emmeloord and relieve our forces that should have landed in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague."

As Raditz explained the last parts of the standard plan to the Praetorians Talas took out an old book, he threw it on the table; A bridge too far.
"You are all familiar with operation Market Garden gentlemen, I suggest we do it again and make it work. Intell suggest enemy forces will take some time to mobilise while we land forces at Arnhem, Nijmegen and 's Hertogenbosch via glider and para insertion."

Talas continued. "8th armour will advance through the strongpoints created this way with 95th mechanised as the three other mechanised divisions take routes to the centre of the country. Sixth Para will be deployed alongside specially trained units of the 5th infantry division."

"I leave the details of any naval operation up to you and Lady Admiral Raditz, seeing as my expertise lies elsewhere."

Praetonia

13-01-2005, 20:58

"Your plan is certainly... interesting..." the Admiral hesitated. Praetonia has never expressed much interest in airborne troops, "and one that I am prepared to attempt. Praetonia lacks much in the way of airborn forces, so we are pleased that you will be able to provide for that,

"As for other forces, we will of course commit most of what we currently have in Belgium, but as you are no doubt aware Praetonia is in a spot of bother militarily. Our forces are stretched thin, especially our navy. However, we do not believe that the US Navy rip-off the Taiwanese have will be any match for warship designs manufactured in Praefele.

"We have approximately 32,000 fully mechanised troops along with 300 MBTs that we can commit to this operation, and the navy can clear out any shore defences or naval forces the Taiwanese have. Then we can deploy gunboats along the major rivers, including the Rhine."

The Admiral stopped speaking, and the Horseguard Field Marshal began instead, "The Democratic Imperium does not wish to have her reputation stained by this little escapade, and so we will seek to shift the blame over to the Taiwanese. We have several schemes in mind, but timing is vital. If we attack too soon then it looks like we expected it. Leave it too long and they could take the initiative and attack, or take enough time to reinforce their defences to delay our advance long enough to crush the paratroops... you see the dilema? Do you think your forces will be able to achieve this level of precision?"

Dumpsterdam

13-01-2005, 21:10

"That depends on your plan." Talas diverted his eyes to a window for a second. "As long as you keep execute this plan within a week or two, that means from start till the actual invasion I can keep most of my troops on allert and ready to strike at any moment."

"Around twenty-thousand paratroopers will be ready for the operation and we hope that you can spare us any sort of transport aircraft or helicopters so we can deliver them all at once, not in a period of three days."

Raditz smiled at the Praetorian Admiral. "I suggest we strike Den Helder with a balistic attack, this is the primary base of operations for the Taiwanese fleet. However, most of their fleet appears to be missing and they are not at sea, so we must expect their ships to be coming from Vlissingen in Zeeland or maybe somewhere along the coast towards the north."

"Whatever the outcome, I look forward to fighting besides those who made the equipment of the Royal Navy what it is today and will continue to do so in the future."

Praetonia

13-01-2005, 21:17

"Excellent. Well then we are ready to start. However we will tell you the date of attack, and it is not to pass beyond your own command staffs until 12 hours before the actual invasion. Secrecy is vital.

"You may have any aircraft we have lying around... most likely some from the ex-Belgian airforce, so we cant promise top quality... anyway, we are able to arrange a large scale satellite-guided missile strike against the Taiwanese fleet. In fact, it may be an excellent opportunity to test a new weapon we have. It is arriving with the 15th Fleet.

"Now, is there anything else to discuss? Or can we be started?"

Dumpsterdam

13-01-2005, 21:27

"One last thing yes, I with me a disk and codes for our FFI systems. The disk has an intergrated battlefield awareness link system that allows Dumpsterdanian and Praetonian troops to communicate, share information and relay life feeds should any of our troops be carrying the propper equipment. This will be extremely important for our MBT's and mechanised forces."

Talas handed the disk and the PDA with the codes to the governor.
"The FFI codes are to make sure TACCOM recognises your ships as allied, so any nasty surprises will be left out."

Raditz switched off the holo projector and put it back in its case. "Then I suggest we begin the entire operation, good luck and god speed. I shall be at the battleship Seven Provinces."

OoC: Basicly the disk links our troops together and the Friend or Foe Indentifcation codes are to make sure no Praetorian aircraft gets a Javelin SAM shoved up their exhausts.

Praetonia

13-01-2005, 21:40

"Excellent. We also have an integrated battlefield system, which we doubt is compatible. These things never are... we will, of course, inform IT not to allow the computers to target your vehicles."

Taiwanese Islands

13-01-2005, 23:37

OOC: Invite only is good. Anyway, it should be noted that there is no real indication that I want to invade The Netherlands. You might think it a possiblity, but Im currently being attacked by Neo Cannen over Belgium, and Witzgall recently destabalised taking the majority of Belgian borders with it. Anyway...

IC: Two of the guards were on horseback, and did not appear to have been listening to the Dumpsterdam military officers. Two further guards appeared from the marble hallway, and walked out to greet them,

"Welcome Field Marshal, Admiral," one of them said, bowing his head, "if you will follow us. My Field Marshal will see you immediately.

OOC: No there isn't, otherwise I would have sent my best trained marine divisions (1st, 3rd, 5th) there, along with a few hundred aircrafts and a thousand more ships. Not to mention activating the National Total Defense System.....

IC: Ella Kanjcke had gone to Netherlands under the orders of her nations. She did not believe the DIA reports of a Praetonian invasion, and that particular agency has finally seen its days anyway.

But as she tour the defenses of Netherlands she became appalled at the lack of preparedness Commonwealth forces there have. Almost every 5 minutes young Sanada, who was accompanying her as an aide, would notice a 'serious flaw in our defenses' or a 'unbelievable situation our forces are in'.

Nagamasa Sanada was of a line of military commanders who made their tales through fighting on the defensive side. When Congress sent him along with Kanjcke, no doubt they had hoped that Sanada would inherit his ancestors' skills and fortify the Netherlands.

Upon finishing their tour, Kanjcke submitted a report for Congress, in which she repeatedly asserted that the Commonwealth must strengthen her defenses here at the Netherlands.

Extract from General Kanjcke's Report to Congress on Commonwealth Forces in Netherlands:

During my tour here I've came to realize that the Commonwealth have directed too little resources to the defense of our border regions. It is evident to me that in event of war the Commonwealth will lose these regions to any hostile nation. There is no time to lose. Without security there can be no future for our nation. I must insist that Congress and the people of the Commonwealth face this dilema. Attached is a plan drafted by Major Sanada. I blieve that full implementation of this plan is vital and should be done as soon as possible......

The plan Sanada has compiled calls for the creation of a Homeland Security Force, which will more adqueately defend Taiwanese Islands population centers, and a vast network of defense systems that would allow Commonwealth forces to maintain its longstanding position of 'minimal forces' while maximising its defensive capabilities.

Congress called upon the National Security Agency to exmine the state Netherlands defenses are in. NSA concurred with Kanjcke's report, but recommended a course of action vastly differing from Sanada's. They called for the creation of numerous Motorized Brigades and a Rapid Response Force, while expanding Commonwealth retaliatory capabilities. The best defenses are a good offense and a elastic defense.

Congress became divided over the Sanada Plans, as it came to be known as, and the NSA Plans. Conventional military thinking supports the NSA, but Congress is unwilling to fund such a large land force. On the other hand, Sanada's reputation precedes him and many military experts have viewed his plans as a innovative step that would revolutionize warfare.

Yet all this meant more waiting, talking and less action......

Praetonia

15-01-2005, 00:12

OOC: I dont see exactly how your nation could have 1,000 ships - when I was your size I had about 400 and I spent much of my military budget on the navy. Anyway, whatever.

IC: "Sir..." began Field Marshal Quellius Pila's Staff Lieutenant, breaking the prior silence in the office, "We are being attacked by Neo Cannen over the Belgium campaign, and now we attack Holland..."

"Yes? What's your point," asked the Field Marshal, irritably.

"Well will we not just enrage more Wilsonians by doing this?"

"Ah," began the Field Marshal. He was no longer annoyed, but rather happy that he could share his master plan with someone at last. It was close enough to the time of execution to safely do so, "this war will be Taiwanese. They will start it, we will finish it and Holland will be their forfeit. You see, the Taiwanese are not happy about us being here. They see it as a threat. They choose to end this threat quickly. They will attack across the border, and we will win and counterattack into Holland. That's what the outside world will believe, anyway..."

"I see," replied the Aide, knowingly. Not so far away, the plan was unfolding...

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The light was failing on the Belgium-Holland border. Just out of sight of both the Taiwanese and the Praetonian defences, eight hundred men were arrayed as if on parade. They wore Taiwanese army uniforms, and carried Taiwanese army weapons, along with training ammunition. At their fore three Praetonian Officers sat atop their horses. In front of them a double line of Imperial Guard stood to attention with fix bayonets.

"Each of you here has caused problems for the Imperium, and her occupation of Belgium Each of you have been arrested, tried and convicted of the some of the gravest of crimes. Each of you here is now being given a second chance. His Majesty's Imperial Government has deemed Belgium worthy of her own Colonial Guard. We wish to make you brave, if misguided, people the core of the new Guard.

"If you accept this offer then you must swear an oath not to betray the Imperium before your government, and whatever religious book it is that you hold dear. If you decide not to accept this offer, then you may return to prison to serve out your terms with no adverse treatment because of it. I ask that all those who wish to accept His Majesty's offer take one step forward."

These people had been specifically chosen to be the most likely to accept. Their recent day and weeks in prison had been made especially hard, so as to make the thought of returning unimagineable. Each and every one of them stepped forwards. Some of them genuinely wanted to turn over a new leaf and serve as respected soldiers of his country. Others merely rated their chances at escape higher in the army than in prison. Regardless, each one of them would soon serve the Imperium. The Officer smilied.

"Thankyou, my new friends," the Imperial Guard unfixed their bayonets and shouldered their weapons, "I knew you would accept my most generous offer," he smiled again, "and so I have made preparations for us to start your training straight away. About turn!"

The entire formation turned shabily about to face the Praetonian lines, some miles away.

"Forward - march!"

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Sergeant Gaius Castilius walked carefully along the concreted floor of the Praetonian trenchline, his boots splashing several puddles formed where the concrete has been laid unevenly. He was not expecting an attack. He was not expecting to see anything whilst he and his unit were doing their time in the trenches. The rest of the unit was deep underground in the concrete dugouts, complete with underfloor heating and television access. Someone, however, had to keep sentry and tonight it was Castilius's turn.

He turned a corner and slipped on the wet ground, just steadying himself on the trench walls. His head turned outwards and he saw something. Just a flash of light, but a flash of light where there should be nothing. He raised his rifle and looked through its optical sights. Whatever it was had vanished behind a bunch of trees.

"Sergeant Castilius, sir," came a shout from the section of trench opposite, "I can see lights ahead. Should we order the men to stand-to?"

"No, Corporal. It's quite alright. Radio the sighting back to HQ."

"Yes, sir."

The Corporal disappeared inside a shallower dugout for a few seconds, and then emerged shouting, "Stand to! Stand to! HQ expect an attack, I mean sir, any minute now sir. Stand to!" Men were rushing out of the dugouts, signalled to do so by alarms activated from one of a variety of places. Most of the men thrust their rifles over the lip of the trench with their polished bayonets glinting in the moonlight. Others ran to set up machineguns, slotting huge belts of ammunition into the feeds.

The Sergeant took position next to his men. An Officer, a Lieutenant, had also appeared with his sabre drawn.

"Courage now, men. When it all starts you shall keep firing, and they shall not break our lines," he said calmly.

The lights were appearing more and more now. The Praetonian Officers on horseback had left, as had the Imperial Guard. All that were left were men who would be mistaken for Taiwanese soldiers even at bayonet striking distance. The Lieutenant put his binoculars to his eyes, and saw the entire enemy formation suddenly appear from over the horizon.

"Steady, men... dont fire until I give the order," he said, one hand still holding the binoculars in place. He wanted to wait until the machineguns could rake back and forth, mowing down all of the enemy soldiers in deadly arcs of lead. They waited in silence. All light from the Praetonian trench line was extinguished. The Belgians didnt even know it was there.

"Ready... fire!" Suddenly massive spotlights flashed on from the Praetonian trenchline, dazzling the enemy as the Praetonian machineguns and rifles set to work. Half of the column fell instantly. Then the spotlights switched off. They had not been on for long, but it had been enough to ruin the 'enemy' night sight. It would take half an hour for their eyes to readjust.

The enemy soldiers who hadnt been killed already ducked, and began firing their weapons. The rifles recoiled, and smoke came out of the barrels, but no Praetonians were killed. To the inexperienced Belgian 'troops' they didnt even know they were firing blanks. The Lieutenant was waving his sword in the air to spur on his men. No one could hear his shouts over the deafening sound of automatic gunfire, but he was doing that too.

The machinegunners trained their weapons left and right. When they saw a body stand, silouetted against the moon light, they would pump a few dozen shots into the area. Soon everyone there was dead or dying. The Grenadiers' Companies moved out of the trenches to finish the job with bayonets. The bloody massacre was over in less than an hour, and the battle for Holland had begun.

High Priority Telegram to Taiwanese Islands PUBLIC

Last night at approximately 20:00 Praetonian forces engaged Taiwanese
forces at least 10 miles inside Praetonian Belgium. They were all cut down
whilst attempting your cowardly suprise attack. Henceforth, the Democratic
Imperium of Praetonia is in a state of war with Taiwanese Islands.

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Sulking in the narrow inlets of the rivers of Belgium, a Vulture Class Arsenal Ship (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=7944895#post7944895) prepared for her first ever attack. She was a new design, and a whole new philosophy in the Praetonian Navy. No one really liked the idea of massive, impersonal missile strikes involving hundreds of warheads designed to overwhelm the enemy defences. Still, NationStates ships were gaining increasinly high levels of anti-missile defence, and it seemed the only way to be sure of gainign victory over fleets so defenced. THey were within range of the enemy fleet without having to leave Belgian waters, and so were in little immediate danger.

"Sir, we have received confirmation from Praeton that war has been declared. The scoundrels attacked across the border!" Said the Second Officer, indignantly.

"Yes, that's enough, Commodore. We shall launch the attack now. Have we received GPS co-ordinates from our satellites?"

"Yes, sir," said a Lieutenant from the microwave communications station. They would attack from beyond visual range with no radar lock, relying only on GPS - the most accurate form of guidance the Praetonian armed forced had. THe Rear-Admiral in command took a deep breath. This was an important day for the Praetonian Imperial Navy. Could the PWS Vulture be a new HMS Dreadnaught? Maybe. All would be revealed in time.

"Open fire," he said, and suddenly the whole ship was rocked violently backwards by over 650 Lance SSMs lifting off through the hatches. This was a true Pearl-Harbour style attack. In with the missiles were anti-radiation missiles that would hopefully disable enemy targetting radar, rendering at least some of their CIWS inoperable. The game had begun, and the pieces were moving.

Taiwanese Islands

15-01-2005, 11:18

OOC: I'm capable of upholding a huge Navy essentially because I've got no Army to worry about......

IC:

A Lieutenant rushed into General Ella Kanjcke room. The bewildered lad was almost choking himself to death, staring wide eyed at the General and waving his hands about.

Sanada was discussing some new video game with the General, who recently bought Play Station 2 and was having trouble switching the power on. This abrupt interruptiond did not annoy the two, but they knew immediately that something was wrong, and Sanada swiftly clapped his hands around Lieutenant Luke Tang.

"Grab a hold of yourself," he instructed. "Take a deep breath.... calm yourself down..... good. Tell us what's wrong."

"Sir, the Praetonians just declared war on us!" Lieutenant Tang, though by now much more steady, still spoke with shivers.

Sanada's body twisted. Snapping his head around, he saw that General Kanjcke remained solemn and expressionless, though a confused pair of eyes betrayed to them that she was just as alarmed as he was.

Clearing his throat, Sanada spoke. "Why?"

"They claimed that we attacked them," the Lieutenant said. "They claimed that our forces penetrated 10 miles into their territory."

"10 miles, my foot!" Sanda exclaimed angrily. "That is outrageous! Our closet unit to their border is stationed in Amsterdam!"

"The Praetonians are just grabbing at excuses for a war with us." Ella's face darkened. "I should have known. I was overconfident."

"No one would think that the DIA was right, for a change," Lieutenant Tang said.

The General shook her head, and stood up. "Doesn't matter now. Lieutenant!"

Luke Tang straightened himself. "Lieutenant Tang reporting for duty!"

"Activate the National Total Defense System. Cable the Capital for reinforcements. Move the Naval units out of port. Prepare the Air Force." She turned towards Sanada. "Go at once and assume command of the defenses of Amsterdam. I will personally oversee the defenses at Katsurato."

The two men briskly moved out, and Ella sat down once more, preparing for the forthcoming war.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministory of the Commonwealth issued a public statement:

Taiwanese Islands have no sizeable force near the borders with Belgium. The claim by Praetonia is obviously a most treacherous lie, a set up, an disgusting attempt at justifying their immoral position.

Taiwanese Islands wants not war, but when war comes to our lands Taiwanese Islands will fight her battles. The people of Taiwanese Islands wish for peace, but when the peace is shattered we shall stand by our military and win the war.

We will fight down to the last ship, last plane, last tank, last bullet and last soul. No city, no town, no village, no street no building will be left undefended. Every sqaure inch will be fought over. And we shall triumph!

Taiwanese Islands

15-01-2005, 11:21

OOC: Where are these missiles heading towards? And I'll need some info on the specifications of these missiles.

Praetonia

15-01-2005, 11:38

OOC: "Your fleet" I dont know where it is, because you didnt tell me, but I would easily detect a large concentration of ships on satellites - Holland isnt exactly that big.

Taiwanese Islands

15-01-2005, 11:55

Praetonia

15-01-2005, 12:01

OOC: Well... I did tell Dumpsterdam. Anyway, Most of my navy operates out of Den Helder, Beverwijk and Europort. 1 carrier deployed at each except Beverwijk, which has two.

Which one are you going after? Note that my Carrier Battle Groups are away from port half the time.
OOC: Everything. Everything in range. Note that that is my first ever arsenal ship, and I dont want anything to work first time, so I'll probably RP a missile exploding in one of the cells or soemthing, but most of them will have taken off ok, and that's several hundred as I said.

I'll get Dumpsterdam to TG me the details then.

Taiwanese Islands

15-01-2005, 12:15

OOC: I still need to know more about this Lance missile of yours......

Praetonia

15-01-2005, 12:18

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=332455

Methinks we need an OOC Thread.

Taiwanese Islands

15-01-2005, 23:33

OOC: I'll post sth in IC soon, but.... Prae, how can an anti-ship missile hit ships in port??? Should I assume that these are cruise missiles?

Praetonia

15-01-2005, 23:39

OOC: I'll post sth in IC soon, but.... Prae, how can an anti-ship missile hit ships in port??? Should I assume that these are cruise missiles?
OOC: It says in the thread I linked you to. They have a range of 230km or something. Look a map of the Low Countries - they arent exactly huge.

Taiwanese Islands

15-01-2005, 23:46

OOC: Its nothing to do with range. These missiles have no way of finding their way around to ships in port. None of my ports are actually directly exposed to the ocean, and to be shooting from Belgium waters meant that your missiles would have to either fly across land or change directions half way through. Only cruise missiles can do a job like this.

Praetonia

15-01-2005, 23:49

OOC: As I said they are satellite guided, and they dont really care, nor do they know, what is underneath them. If your ports dont open onto the ocean then I dont know why I need to fire at your ships anyway...

Artitsa

15-01-2005, 23:56

ooc: Are you aware that most ASM's these days that have a long range resemble cruisemissiles and CAN fly over land... it won't effect them. All you need is a good CIE guidance for Harbour attack to determine whats the target and what isn't... not exactly hard for a nation of Praetonia's size.

Taiwanese Islands

15-01-2005, 23:58

OOC: They'll be crashing into buildings and trees..... don't tell me they fly at an altitude of 2,000 metres or something.....

To Artitsa: I know they have long ranges, but I thought most of them tend to fly low; and Praetonia appears to have fired off his from Belgium....

Praetonia

16-01-2005, 00:11

*sigh*

I dont see too many 2,000m tall trees around. Do you? It's just a massive missile attack. Missiles can fly high enough to pass over buildings etc... I dont see the problem here.

Sharina

16-01-2005, 00:35

OOC:

I must ask all of you to clarify this RP.

I don't remember Dumpsterdam staking any claim in Earth III, so I need to know how Dumpsterdam is in Earth III.

Lately, I've seen a few non Earth III people getting involved in Earth III RP's and that is causing me a bit of confusion, as I try to figure out why or how these people got involved without any land in Earth III to call "home".

Again, I'd like to see clarification. :)

Taiwanese Islands

16-01-2005, 00:37

*sigh*

I dont see too many 2,000m tall trees around. Do you? It's just a massive missile attack. Missiles can fly high enough to pass over buildings etc... I dont see the problem here.

That's my point, anti-ship missiles shouldn't be flying so high......

Dumpsterdam

16-01-2005, 00:37

OoC: I'm operating out of Belgium, I did not see any rules in your earth III thread which stated that you needed a territory first to RP here.(which basicly is what I'm doing, taking Holland)

Taiwanese Islands

16-01-2005, 00:38

(arh, enough with the tech talk.....)

Commonwealth Naval Base Beverwijk.

Admiral Tom Sierha was drinking tea with his cousin, retired General Ken Sierha, on the bridge of his Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, when Lieutenant Dan Lakre bolted into the room.

"Incoming missiles!" he screamed to the two old men. "Sir, we are under attack from Belgium!"

"Move the ships out!" Admiral Sierha snapped through the microphone.

"Sir, most of the crews are still inland! We can't move away fast enough!"

Horror flashed in the eyes of the Admiral. "All hands, abandon ship! Abdandon ship!" He ordered.

"Sir, please come this way," the Lieutenant said to the Admiral and his cousin. "One of the Corvettes are sailing out. We'll be safe abo-..."

He was cut off at that moment, as two dozen missiles slammed into the deck of the carrier. Flame erupted seemingly out of nowhere, aircrafts were blown off, and it was as though a great earthquake smashed at the ship.

The three men stared with a mixture of fear and amazement, as the carrier broke in half, and the fire engulfed them all.

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Netherlands Commonwealth Command Headquarters, Katsurato.

As Sanada and Tang made their way out of Ella's office, another young officer rushed in, almost knocking them over. Knowing that something's up, the two men followed her back in.

"Praetonian missiles just hit our Naval bases!" Lieutenant Laura Wong reported to the General.

"What? Which one?" General Kanjcke demanded. "Losses?"

"All three," the Lieutenant said. "NSA estimated that about 150-250 missiles hit all three of our ports. Den Helder was sheltered by the new Patriot systems. They have a few damaged ships, nothing serious. A dozen got hurt.

"But the other two weren't so lucky - they didn't have much in the way of warning. The Beverwijk ones weren't even operational, all because there wasn't enough funding," she said bitterly. "The Carrier Battle Group at Europort was out patrolling, so they are okay. But the Patrol Response Fleet there is......." She choked, and had to take a moment to regain her breath.

"87 ships were sunk, 41 devastated, and the remaining 72 all suffered some form of damage. Only the new KIDD class and Ticonderoga cruisers was away from port, and avoided the attack. The civic port also suffered; 39 ships sunk and 44 damaged there. We also lost our fuel and ammunitions storage.

"3,000 has been reported dead. Another 4,000 is in the hospitals. NSA estimates that there are 15,000 more casualties," the Lieutenant said with a dark look.

"What about Beverwijk?" Sanada queried.

"The submarines there are fine. But we lost all of our AEGIS ships, and 20 of the 24 Corvettes. The KIDD class was conducting an exercise away from port, so those were fine." She took a deep breath before continuing. "Both our Aircraft Carriers there have been sunk. 1,200 reported dead, 2,000 in hospitals, and NSA estimates are 4,000 more."

All four of them looked at each other gloomily. The destruction of half their naval forces was a devastating blow. The loss of life tonight was one beyond comparison in the history of Taiwanese Islands. They bowed their heads in respect to the dead.

When Sanada looked up again, he saw fierce determination in the eyes of his colleagues. He know they would have saw the same in his.

"We will get these bastards," Ella said softly. "We will make them pay."

As the other three leave her office, General Kanjcke began planning.

Taiwanese Islands

16-01-2005, 00:40

Praetonia

16-01-2005, 11:28

OOC: It should also be noted that I dont believe in the invisible force field around earths that stops people entering unless they want to invade something... anyone can attack my Earth III territory as if it were any other type of territory.

EDIT: TI - It isnt physically impossible for a missile to follow any flight pattern other than sea-skimming just because it's classed as "anti-ship". Anyway, if this happens again I'll make an OOC thread so this thread doesnt get clogged up.

Praetonia

16-01-2005, 14:57

PWS Vulture

From behind the blast-shielded windows, Rear Admiral Tipilus viewed the plasma screen displays showing the VLS cells discharging. It wasn't a pretty sight. The cameras were soon blinded by smoke, and the dirty missile trails blackened the sides of the ship. If it were not NBC sealed, the fumes would likely affect the crew.

"What was that?" Snapped the Admiral, pointing at a small flash of light amidst the grey smoke.

"I dont kn... cells 27 through 32 detonated... prematurely, sir," said the Missile Officer, nervously.

"What? How so?"

"They exploded inside the launchers, sir - most of the explosion was vented through the top of the cells, but initial reports suggest at least ten casualties."

"Damn! Piece of experimental junk," he muttered, obviosuly refering the ship, "Turn us about. Bring us to join with the Grand Belgian Fleet."

"Sir."

Grand Belgium Fleet

The seventy Praetonian warships of which the Grand Belgian Fleet composed steamed slowly out of port. They were fairly well spread, with the carriers and transports in the centre, working out through size until ASW and AA picket frigates formed the outer edge. In the air, a CAP of twenty five planes, including two AWACs craft, ensured that the fleet would be able to detect the enemy long before they got into missile range.

The towering domes phased radar arrays stretched in every direction. Onboard the PWS Tau, an Omega Class battleship, Admiral Julius Daia reviewed his orders, sent directly from Praeton. He broke the wax seal of an eagle on the heavy parchment envelope and opened up the letter inside:

HIGH PRIORITY - MOST SECRET

His Imperial Majesty's naval assets in Belgium and the English Channel under
the command of Admiral the Honourable Julius Daia are to achieve the
following official objectives in order to support the combined ground invasion
of The Netherlands:

1) Destroy or disperse all enemy vessels in the vicinity.

2) Discover and blockade all major ports and trade routes.

3) Bombard coastal positions and land marines as Imperial forces approach.

4) Take advantage of any oppurtunity presented to cause damage to the
enemy.

"Helm, move to flanking speed," he said enthusiastically, "To Holland!"

OOC: My force deployments:

2 Behemoth Class Nuclear Carriers
3 Tempest Class Nuclear Carriers

2 Omega Class Trimeran Battleships
4 Alpha Class Trimeran Cruisers
2 Trebuchet Class Trimeran Land Attack Cruisers

4 Griffin Class Trimaran Light Cruisers
2 Jolt Class Trimeran Long Range Pursuit Destroyers
10 Cassius Class Trimeran Destroyers
4 Dauntless Class Trimeran ASW Frigates
8 Earl Class Trimeran Air Defense Frigates
4 Oberon Class Trimeran Missile Defense Frigates

2 Insidious Class Electronics Warfare Destroyers
6 Legionary Class Minesweepers

5 Portland Class Nuclear Attack Submarines

2 Storm Class Trimeran Hovercraft Carriers

1 Pheasant Class Trimaran Escort Carrier

1 Griffin Class Trimaran Light Cruisers
4 Cassius Class Trimaran Destroyers
2 Oberon Class Trimaran Missile Defence Frigates
2 Dauntless Class Trimaran ASW Frigates

Dumpsterdam

16-01-2005, 16:56

Battleship Seven Provinces, 4th Fleet.

"Mi'lady Admiral, contact with the Praetorian fleet was made just two minutes ago, we are to execute plan Blue."

The Lady Admiral smiled, plan blue called for an attack on Taiwanese held Holland by air, sea and land. "Make it so, helm set sail towards Den Helder and notify the 6th fleet to commence landfall.

"Yes, Mi'lady, commencing plan Blue."

At the flick of a switch, 150 Lance ASM bursted from their VLS shells all over the fleet and headed towards Den Helder, to finish up watever the Praetorians had missed and the fleet changed course south as they crossed into territorial waters.

High above the fleet several patrols of JR interceptors did their rounds, guided by two AWAC aircraft as the ASW frigates steamed over the surface of the water, seeking for enemy submarines.

6th Fleet, Near the Dutch Coast, Leiden.

The transports snuck closer to shore, keeping low profile as they aproached hoping to avoid Taiwanese fire. Farther out to sea outside of territorial waters the 4th fleet kept a watchfull eye with a full compliment of ASW picket lines and AWAC guided airpatrols.

Antwerp, Dumpsterdanian Missile Command.

Firing targets where relayed via GPS, military airfields where the targets and Poleax missiles with modified warheads designed to rip up the tarmac of airfields where the weapons of choice.

The counter stuck at 407, the system barely held together under the strain of fire towards the north and the silo's finaly closed again; scorched pitch black.

OoC: This attack is happening at the same time as Praetonia's(roughly)

The main targets are these airfields(for the Poleaxes):

Gilze-Rijen
Leeuwarden
Soesterberg
Valkenburg
Volkel
Woensdrecht

If your not using one of them for military purposes, consider them scrapped and add in any airfields you are using.

Naval Deployment sizes:

Carrier Fleet:

1 Nimitz class carrier.
10 Karel Doorman class frigates.
6 Ticonderoga class cruisers.
12 Zeven Provincien class frigates.

Escort Group:

1 Dixie class escort carrier.
3 Karel Doorman class frigates.
1 Ticonderoga class cruiser.
5 Zeven Provincien class frigates.

Battle group:

1 Behemoth class super carrier.
18 Karel Doorman class frigates.
12 Ticonderoga class cruisers.
22 Zeven Provincien class frigates.

Revenant Pack:

4 Dolphin class attack submarines.
4 Seawolf class attack submarines.
1 Toledo class balistic missile submarine.

Current deployment:

1 Carrier Fleets.(6th fleet)
2 Battle Groups.(4th fleet)
1 Escort Groups.(6th fleet)
3 Revenant Packs.(1:3 6th fleet/2:3 4th fleet)

Plus the Seven Provinces an ISP Omega class battleship and around 11 brigades of Royal Marines for the 6th fleet.

Taiwanese Islands

17-01-2005, 03:06

The attakcs came one after the other. By the morning, when reports of further assaults finally stopped, the Commonwealth Military in Netherlands was shattered. The Naval Foces was hit hard. The Aair Forces also came under attack, but the planes were largely sheltered, and so little actual harm was done.

Commonwealth Air units are now prmarily scattered across the 12 bases in Flevoland.

General Ella Kanjcke, now made Commander in Chief of European Theatre, reorganised her remaining naval assets. The surviving ships have now all relocated to Den Helder, along with the 4 Patriot Missile Defense Systems.

Naval Units of the Commonwealth in Netherlands:

Battle Fleet:
- 1 LCC 19 Blue Ridge Class Command Ship
- 2 Nimitz Class Carrier
- 6 Virginia Class Attack Sub
- 15 Seawolf Class Attack Sub
- 6 KIDD Class Destroyer
- 12 Ticonderoga Class Crusier
- 30 Anzac Class Frigate

6 Attack Squadrons:
- 1 KIDD Class Destroyer
- 1 Brandenburg Class Frigate
- 2 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer
- 5 Eilat Class Sa'ar 5 Multi Mission Corvette
- 5 Visby Class Corvette
- 6 Commandante Class Light Combat Ship

Submarine Fleet:
- 9 Delta Class IV SMS
- 10 Seawolf Class Attack Sub
- 22 Ohio Class BMS

Dumpsterdam

22-01-2005, 23:56

It was a calm Monday morning in northern Belgium, birds sung their songs and people happily commuted to work as they did every day of the week. No, nothing could destroy this perfect day except maybe a massive invasion of Taiwanese Holland by over 60.000 Dumpsterdanian mechanised infantry supported by over a thousand tanks that would clog the highways like nothing else would.

Unfortunately, that was happening right now.

By the Dawn's early light.

Hundreds upon hundreds of transport aircraft, helicopters and their escort took off from airfields all over Praetonian Belgium on their way towards the north. Over twelve-thousand para's would deployed near Arnhem and Nijmegen, while four-thousand specially trained forces of the 5th infantry would be deployed via helicopters transports near 's Hertogenbosch along with their LBT, APC and light artillery. Every plane that had some sort of transport capability and would not be deployed for escort duty was carrying paratroopers or supplies towards their destinated drop zones. Their primary objectives where to secure the bridges over the river Rhine, Waal and Zuid Willems Kanaal.

Meanwhile in northern Belgium all major highways had been closed off to civilian traffic as the tanks of 8th armour and the APC's of the 95th mechanised advanced towards the north along the primary highways and their first objective along the line; Eindhoven, 's Hertogenbosch, Oss, Nijmegen and Arnhem. The first tank rolled over the sign saying "Welcome to Holland." and swung its turret around, no opposition, yet and DAF high command was not expecting it until near Nijmegen or as far as Arnhem.

As the invasion was coming into full gear around three other mechanised divisions started to head towards the line: Breda, Dordrecht and Rotterdam. From there they would split towards their individual objectives deeper inland.

North Sea.

The first transports of the 6th fleet now turned abruptly and started to head for the Dutch shore near The Hague, the Taiwanese had probably spotted them by now and the only chance they had was to get as close in as they could and deploy as many troops as they could, even going as far as beaching themselves to deliver the troops. 6th fleet itself stood guard inside territorial waters and would be joined shortly by 4th fleet so they could make one fist and hammer the Taiwanese fleet into oblivion.

Praetonia

23-01-2005, 19:47

The Primus Pila of the Praetonian armoured column bounced suddenly on its suspension as the Hoplite MBT (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=360189) hit the back lip of the Praetonian trenchlines. Mud fell into the vacant defensive work as tank after tank piled over, the first now pushing through the hundreds of meters of barbed wire at the fore of the trenchworks. Behind, 2,000 Mercury IFVs carrying 20,000 Imperial Guardsmen along with 400 Hoplites and over 200 Badger LSVs (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=382441), revved up their engines to strike deep into Holland. It would be a twenty mile drive to the edge of Praetonian territory and whatever resistance the Taiwanese would offer, but already the tanks were buttoned, turrets training back and forth as Badgers rushed ahead to scout the ground ahead.

"How long to the Hague?" asked an Office on the Praetonia General Staff, smiling.

"I'd bet 1,000 Praefelis on two weeks or less!" shouted another Officer over the noise of the bouncing command IFV.

"I'd raise you 2,000!" shouted the Field Marshal, "The real war will be in the North East, once the Taiwanese get a chance to react to our attack."

"And the navy? What are they doing?" Asked another Officer, curiously.

"The navy... they will sweep the seas of Taiwanese ships, blockade their ports and cut off their oil supplies. Once they run out of oil the war is over."

The navy was indeed moving. All 69 ships and 488 aircraft, all designed, built and serviced in Praefele by Imperial Praetonian Shipyards and Portland, moved to flanking speeds to approach the ports of the Netherlands. AWACs planes and EAW helicopters were in the air, hopefully ensuring that the Praetonian fleet would be able to spot anything that came their way before it could fire upon the Praetonians.

PSCA (http://s4.invisionfree.com/Praetonia/index.php?showtopic=1) aircraft flew high above the Praetonian fleet, outfitted with various AAMs, as turrets trained back and forth, up and down on the Praetonian fleet to check everything was ready for combat. VLS cells sat ever-ready to destroy whatever came close. The Imperial Navy was sailing to war.

West Cedarbrook

23-01-2005, 22:34

/* Coded Message to Taiwanese Islands Intllegence Agency - Most Top Secret */
Defense Intellegence Organiazation
Kramden of West Cedarbrook

We are following the developments in Europe, in particular the attack on Netherlands. Please advise if you see this spreading to North America and if you intend to invoke the articles of the PNAS.

/* End Coded Message */

Praetonia

23-01-2005, 22:52

OOC: The Netherlands is no where near America, and neither Dumpsterdam nor I have any assets there. It should also be stated that the rest of the world doesnt know that we are the aggressors here.

Taiwanese Islands

29-01-2005, 07:46

OOC: Hey guys, sorry about the delay. My PC had been knocked out by this weird virus thing for the last few days. I'll post as soon as I sorted things out.

Dumpsterdam

29-01-2005, 09:26

OOC: Hey guys, sorry about the delay. My PC had been knocked out by this weird virus thing for the last few days. I'll post as soon as I sorted things out.

OoC: Don't worry, just take your time.

Praetonia

29-01-2005, 20:24

OOC: Hey guys, sorry about the delay. My PC had been knocked out by this weird virus thing for the last few days. I'll post as soon as I sorted things out.
OOC: Yeah dont worry about it. These things happen/

Taiwanese Islands

30-01-2005, 01:10

(OOC: I don't see how it would take two weeks for your forces to arrive at the Hague.....)

The Netherlands High Command in Katsurato has finally gotten their acts together. Activation of the Total Armament Mechanism has been completed, the children and the elderly north of Hertogensbosch have more or less been evacuated into the fortress city of Katsurato, and the Air Force has finished relocating to Flevoland, though combat capabilities have yet to be restored.

On the second day of the war, Sanada supervised a recon mission conducted by 24 Dark Star Drones. They kept well clear of the enemy, but 5 were still lost during landing procedures. The information gathered has been sent to NSA to analyse, and the results are finally back in.

"In the North Sea: enemy transports are rushing towards our shores. Intel suggests that their destination will be the Hague." Lieutenant Laura Wong read out the telegram.

"Fools, our fleet can still sink transports," General Gimini Goscha muttered. "Tell whoever is in charge there to attack!"

"Um... Sir? Enemy naval combatants are also present in the North Sea. Our forces will be severelly outnumbered in a conflict."

"As I thought," General Kanjcke told General Goscha. "Get our ships to fire all their missiles at enemy ships, and flee north as fast as possible. Cable the Marines in Amsterdam to bail government officials out of the Hague."

Another Lieutenant answered and left the conference room to relay the orders. Lieutenant Wong continued with her reports.

"On the Land: enemy forces have crossed our borders. To the west, NSA estimates are around 60,000. In the East, there are about 30,000. Both columns are heading north through our highway systems.

"In the Air: about 800 aircrafts has appeared in our airspace. They appear to be transports, and intel suggests that their destinations will be Arnhen and Utrecht. There may be up to as much as 25,000 paratroopers."

"They are making a move against the 4th division?" General Kanjcke said to no one in particular. "Very well. Move the 4th out from Doetinchem towards Arnhem."

"Those plans are pratically sitting ducks for our air defense systems," General Thomas Barns stated. "Get the Patriot systems ready. A plane down is a hundred less to worry about."

"Too bad our Air Force is still out of commission," Goscha sighed.

The sky above Arnhem is to be defended by 9 sets of PAC-2 Missiles: 3 from Amsterdam, and 6 from Katsurato. Added to that is the PAC-3 missile systen installed in Arnhem itself.

"There's nothing else we can do now," General Barns said. "Before reinforcements arrived these would have to do."

The meeting ended, but just as the Generals are leaving, Ella Kanjcke suddenly spoke. "I've got a plan." Everyone stopped dead in their tracks, and looked back at the General.

"Lieutenant, send the subs south," She told Laura Wong, with a sudden grin. "Time for pay back."

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North Sea, Commonwealth Naval Forces

"Admiral, we have received new orders!"

Admiral Narne Nitzme turned aroudn and read a slip handed to her.

"Very well," she said, with the slightest traces of excitement. "Ready the ship."

15 minutes later, the tranquility of the seas is suddenly and brutally disrupted by the simultaenous launch of more than 1,500 missiles. Most of them are Tomahawk Anti-Ship missiles, but a few are Harppons.

As soon as the missiles took off, the ships started moving, full speed north. Their guns are readied and trained towards the East, ready to fire upon anything that showed up. AWACS planes and a few fighters are scrambled, to ensure that the sky is safe. Perhaps to reassure herself, Admiral Nitzme ordered that al ships fired their guns onces in the direction of the enemy ships.

The sailors of the Commonwealth Naval Force prayed that they would make it into port in time.

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Netherlands Air Defense Command, Patriot Batteries

"Sir, radar has detected enemy aircrafts," a young mechanic told his commanding officer. "What should we do?"

"Ah, finally," Major Zaft Mechene said. "We have been waiting. You know the drill, young man." Though Zaft himself, at the age of 22, isn't exactly old either.

As bright spots began popping up all over their radars, the 9 sets of Patriot Advanced Capability 2 Systems fired off 36 missiles in rapid successions. A second salvo of another 36 will be launched in a few moments, as soon as the soliders finished reloading.

288 missiles in total would soon be soaring through the sky.

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North Sea, Commonwealth Submarine Forces

Admiral Noriko Kazutani sailed quietly south, away from the rest of the Commonwealth ships. They have cut off all communications, for fear of giving their positions away. No one but Admiral Kazutani and General Kanjcke knows the exact target of these submarines, but one can't be too carefull.

This is almost a suicide mission, Noriko thought. I hope we got the facts right.

The 41 submarinees of the Netherlands Commonwealth Submarine Fleet quietly make their way towards their targets........

Dumpsterdam

30-01-2005, 10:31

OoC: Before I reply, it takes about...30 minutes to fly from northern Belgium to Amsterdam. I doubt you'd had that much reaction time.

Praetonia

30-01-2005, 13:28

OOC: Whose fleet are you firing at? Mine or Dumpsterdam's?

Taiwanese Islands

30-01-2005, 13:58

OoC: Before I reply, it takes about...30 minutes to fly from northern Belgium to Amsterdam. I doubt you'd had that much reaction time.

OOC: It doesn’t actually take long at all to launch missiles. My radar should have detected you as soon as you crossed over, and my military command would have ordered the Patriot missiles to open fire immediately…… I mean, Patriots intercept ballistic missiles, so planes aren’t much of an issue.

And I am only launching less than 300 missiles, in total.

Taiwanese Islands

30-01-2005, 13:59

OOC: Whose fleet are you firing at? Mine or Dumpsterdam's?

Dumpsterdam’s; I’m not exactly sure where your ships are……

Praetonia

30-01-2005, 14:15

Taiwanese Islands

30-01-2005, 14:50

OOC: They're moving North East towards Holland about 50 miles from the coast. They should be there by now... tisnt very far. As for Patriots their success against missiles has been somewhat... 'unspectacular'...

Do you have MSN or AIM?

Well..... at 70+% with two tries isn't actually bad, considering that there isn't much else.

I use MSN occassionally. Dumpsterdam should have my address.

Praetonia

30-01-2005, 14:52

OOC: Can you TG it to me. Dumpsterdam isnt on AIM and we do live in different countries...

Dumpsterdam

30-01-2005, 16:30

Taiwanese Islands

31-01-2005, 09:10

OoC: Well you did post the moving of Patriot systems into Arnhem and the evacuation of a city with over 100.000 citizens within a 30-60 minute timespan.

Our missile attacks came at night and 5-10 minutes later our main attack would have taken place.

I'll do an IC post soon as I feel better.

OOC:

.................. the PAC-3 was already there.........

For furture referrences, I have operational PAC-3 systems in Assen, Katsurato, Den Helder, Zwolle, Amsterdam and Arnhem.

Besides, the ones firing at the moment are PAC-2 systems in Katsurato and Amsterdam. There's no point in moving them since they have such a large range.

The city wasn't exactly evacuated; only children and senior citizens are taken behind the lines, mostly by taxis...... The process started as soon as my military command ordered a state of emergency.

Taiwanese Islands

01-02-2005, 19:48

OOC: didn't realize that it was only 5-10 minutes........ change to that evacuation is progressing, then

Praetonia

01-02-2005, 20:03

Praetonian Mechanised Column, Moving North-East

"Nothing as yet has been encoutered yet, sir," the Colonel in command of the vanguard over the radio.

"Very well, Colonel... carry on," replied the Field Marshal, "When is something going to happen?" He said to himself. The story was pretty much the same aboard the Praetonian fleet that was quickly approaching Holland...

Taiwanese Islands

02-02-2005, 06:48

As the conflict in Netherlands evolved into full-scale war, the Taiwanese Islands Congress meets in Jhongsing Village to discuss actions. The war has revealed the incompetence of the Commonwealth military - which is a collection of units previously owned by each individual state before the formation of the fedeal government - in defending the interests of the nation.

Without much debate, the Congress unanimously voted to issue an official declaration of war upon the Democratic Republic of Praetonia, with a writting arguing that Taiwanese Islands is on the defensive side.

Next, the Parliament voted overwhelmingly to approve of a new budget plan for a permanent military for the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Armed Forces Project has been presented to the Senate years ago, and had been rejected outright each time. Opposition, however, crumbled instantly as Praetonian assaults began in Europe.

As part of the project, the Air Forces, Sea Forces and Land Forces are formed as different branches of the Commonwealth Military. Each branch has its own Department, under the Ministory of Defense, which deals with organisational, personnell and resource distribution matters. In addition, the Joint Services Command - staffed by 3 top officers from each branch - is formed to take charge of tactical and battleground issues.

Having established the military commands, Senate authorized the creation of 30 brigades. These units will be sent out for combat within 4 weeks - a time too short to adqeuately prepare the bridages in any decent way, but a time too long, perhaps, to save Commonwealth Netherlands.

-------------------------------------------- Reference Section --------------------------------------------

Commonwealth Ministory of Defense, established 24 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
Commonwealth Air Forces, established 25 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
Commonwealth Land Forces, established 25 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
Commonwealth Sea Forces, established 26 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
Commonwealth Joint Services Command, established 26 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).

CLF 1st Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 2nd Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 3rd Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 4th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 5th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 6th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 7th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 8th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 9th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 10th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 11th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 12th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 13th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 14th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 15th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 16th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 17th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 18th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 19th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 20th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 21st Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 22nd Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 23rd Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 24th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 25th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 26th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 27th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 28th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 29th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).
CLF 30th Brigade - Activated, 27 March, CY 65 (2-2-05).

Praetonia

02-02-2005, 19:04

Truitt

03-02-2005, 00:39

Offical Message From Presidente Fonzi S. Jewitt to All Parties
After being requested to aid the Taiwanese Islands in providing cover and such, I must decline. I will not bring this offer to the Osean Council for beings that Praetonia is a New Commonwealth Pact Member, a top priority for myself and my government to keep, and that doing so is agenst my future plans, and the happenings in South America.
I will, however, like to open Germany's borders to any refugees on any sides, and if needed, I can pay for airliners to transport deep-landers to our neutral borders.
I am also requesting that the interested parties hold peace talks in a neutral nation to avoid complecations and further bloodshed. I am willing to put my presidentel possition on the line to have peace come, without military force.

Mr. F

Taiwanese Islands

03-02-2005, 07:05

OOC: You've just pulled tens of thousands of troops out of the air... I mean four weeks? You have to advertise, get these guys to join and then make guns, ammo etc and actually train them to some degree... hhmmm... I might be able to accept that, but only if they're totally inept conscripts litterally dragged out of their homes over night.

OOC: Well, they are totally inept conscripts..... I thought I made that quite clear.

But then, I've got all the weapons required, enough for 30 fully equipped divisions, from all the storefront purchases in recent years. And, as I said before, all of my population underwent basic military trainings (to shoot, throw grenades etc) in high school and colleges anyway.

Besides, I created them essentially to create lineages for my units and make my military history that much more interesting.

Taiwanese Islands

03-02-2005, 07:11

Praetonia

03-02-2005, 20:36

The Grand Fleet of Belgium, 50 Miles off the Coast of Holland

The sun rose early, bathing the Praetonian ships in light. Light sparkled off of radar domes, helicopters, windows and missiles. Missiles streaking towards the Taiwanese Fleet, which, having sailed out of port to engage the Dumpsterdam fleet in the North Sea was now being surrounded by the 69 ships of the Praetonian Fleet. They were some way off - outside of big gun and standard SSM range, but twenty of the limited number of Halberd Anti-Capital Ship Missiles carried aboard the large vessels streaked off towards the Taiwanese Carriers and other large ships.

Meanwhile, aboard the Praetonian WarShips, colours were raised, indicating their intention to give battle. The twelve 20" guns carried aboard each Omega Class Trimaran Battleship trained backwards and forwards, upwards and downwards as they prepared to rain deadly fire upon the lightly armed American ships.

OOC: Here are the stats for the missile Im firing, taken from my ftorefront (link in sink):

‘Halberd’ anti-Battleship Missile

Length: 14.28m
Diameter: 98cm
Weight: 5,281kg
Speed: Mach 1.8 Supercruise, Mach 2.6 Terminal
Range: 386km
Warhead: 2,872kg High-Explosive Fragmentation
Guidance and Countermeasures: Missile remotely guided by ship radar; ‘Simplex’ Guidance radar for course adjustments, redundancy and countermeasure avoidance; advanced computer for countermeasure avoidance; ECCM systems
Unit Cost: $3,200,000
Production Rights Cost: $475,000,000

The huge Halberd anti-Battleship missile is our answer to the BBGs that shrug off Harpoons like small arms fire. The Halberd is big and expensive, but it gets the job done. It is equipped with the most powerful solid fuel engine we can fit into a missile and the most advanced countermeasure avoidance technology we have. However, the main difference between this and any other missile is its massive 2,872kg Penetrative Explosive warhead which forms a shaped charge on impact, channeling the full force of the explosion directly into the armoured plate. The Halberd is also the most expensive missile we have, but if you see it take down a multi-billion dollar battleship, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s worth every penny. Even more so, the upgraded Halberd features RAMjet technology, making even this 5 ton behemoth faster than a Harpoon missile.

If possible can we all get this RP going again?

Euroslavia

03-02-2005, 21:10

Euroslavia throws its support behind Praetonia, one of our greatest allies, and will pledge political and moral support for their speedy victory. If military aid is requested, in the event that Praetonia's military is heavily damaged, Euroslavia will participate in the war.

Dumpsterdam

03-02-2005, 22:15

I'm currently half-dead due to this flu we have running rampant here.

I could post but unless you want me to drivel off into mindless drooling about how I love AMF, I'll do it tomorow or in the weekend.

Truitt

04-02-2005, 01:42

OOC: I stated my possition. I will take sides, but if the need comes, I may throw my weight behind Praetonia. I guess for safety reasons I shoudl do this...

IC:
Offical Statement from Osean Military Officals

Currently, all active, offencive forces that are not operating in South America (a total of 10 million, due to 3 million being in South America) will eb transfered to Germany and Austria.

With this change is the rebuilding of ex-Witzgallian military bases and construction of our own.

It is expected this operation of restoration and movement will take a few months to fully complete and cost about [Ob]2 billion, give or take a few marks.

-Airforce Lead Generali, James Conners

Taiwanese Islands

04-02-2005, 08:20

Dumpsterdam

04-02-2005, 18:54

OoC: Feeling much better now, thanks for waiting guys.

I'll just say how many Testudo CIWS I have and how many discus AMM where launched so we don’t get all confused with numbers and who/what/where.
Do remember that I have plenty of time to defend against your missile attack, that the Testudo is one of the best CIWS in the world and that the Discus AMM is an integrated part of the Testudo.

Retaliation will come after I’m completely done with your attack.

IC:

Flagship Seven Provinces.

"Milady, we have incoming fire from the Taiwanese fleet! TACCOM has already indentified and tracked over 90% of incoming, laser guidance is ready!"

Lady Admiral Raditz nodded as she waved off the reports. "Intercept, regroup and retaliate." She turned around at the same moment the window shutters on the Seven Provinces closed.

The bridge crew set to work, they knew they where safe seeing as the Seven Provinces shrugged off Harpoon ASM's like small arms fire, the tomahawks however where slow and easy meat for the eight Testudo CIWS but the rest of the fleet just had to fend for their very survival.

“Milday the fleets report that there are around 335 Testudo CIWS online and TACCOM is dispersing the fire from our AMM so no incoming gets double fire, the launching begun eight seconds ago. At our current rate we can only get a 1:2 or maybe a 2:3.” Raditz leaned on the table of the holo map, nodding to herself some more. “Continue firing, tell our Air Patrols to shoot down as many incoming as they can.”
As Raditz took a final look at the Discus AMM launch counter it stuck at 567 and refused to budge, she was told by the crew that reloads where in progress, too late to release a second volley.

Operation Market.

Airforce Marshall DeLane watched over the massive amounts of aircraft passing into Holland, her operators where doing their utter best to coordinate all efforts and to guide each plane to their designated LZ.

As the first planes reached over the Waal a flurry of red dots where visible on the holo map, incoming missiles from Arnhem and she could see both escorts and Thunderhawks responding by deploying flares and fighters doing their best to draw away fire from the huge Thunderhawks.
Forty JR type C and twenty-two JR type B where destroyed as they actively lured in missiles and where destroyed, thirty Thunderhawks didn’t make despite furious efforts from both escorts and operators. The gliders on the other hand experienced very little trouble from the missile fire and made their way towards fields just outside Arnhem, quietly and mostly unseen.

Near Nijmegen and ‘s Hertogenbosch it was a completely different story as landings and drops commenced largely unhindered and the huge prototype Thunderhawk VTOL transports swooped from the sky to deploy several platoons at a time. MBT’s and APC’s rolled forth from their bellies and the top-mounted 155mm artillery pieces where deployed to provide fire-support for advancing forces of the 5th infantry division.

Operation Garden.

Field Marshal Talas poked his head out of his Rhino command APC and waved to the tank commander sitting on the turret of his Relas MBT. “Whats the hold up? Mines?” He asked.

The tank ace shook his head. “No sir, the recon forces just returned and the column is starting to move again. We are at ‘s Hertogenbosch sir and we’ve linked up with elements of 5th infantry, recon says we’ll take the city in a few hours.” The ace popped back into the hatch of his Relas and Talas did the same and the column started moving again.

Taskforce Guardian.

The wing of ground attack aircraft carefully watched the attack from Arnhem on the air armada and made their move as soon as all of the Taiwanese missile batteries had revealed themselves and their radar guidance had been pinpointed. A sleek stream of 119 Intruder anti radar missiles dove down upon the radar stations that the Taiwanese where using to guide their anti missile systems.

OoC: Ok, I lied, I did counter-attack a tad. The Intruder is designed to home in on radar stations and destroy them. Switching off the radar won’t help seeing as the Intruder will hit the coordinates where the last radar emission was made. If radar stations are below concrete then the Intruder will attempt to smash through and detonate after coming to a standstill.

Taiwanese Islands

06-02-2005, 15:17

"Admiral! Incoming missiles!"

Admiral Nitzme snapped her head up. The most dreaded moment has arrived.

"Tell the AEGIS ships to fire their missiles!" She ordered. "Ready the CIWS guns!"

On her command, the Ticonderoga cruisers immediatly launched ten Standard Missles to intercept each of the Praetonian Halberd missiles.

"AEGIS can't shield us," Captain O'Neill said nervously, and sure enough, more than ten broke through and continued showing up as bright little green dots on the radar screen.

"Damn," Admiral Nitzme muttured. What to do now? The Praetonian missiles are strangely fast; not much can be done before they hit the ships. Time was running desperately short.......

Just then, a young Lieutenant began screaming. Nitzme whirled around, and saw ten or so glistering objects streaking through the sky, coming right at her ships.

It could not have taken more than 2 seconds, but to Admiral Nitzme - and indeed most Taiwanese Island sailors - the time seemed external. Two of the missiles smashed right into a Nimitz Class Carrier, unhindered by the CIWS. The other carrier had a bit more luck, taking out the one coming at it just before detonation, but that did not save the bridge and a squardron of planes from being demolished by missile fragments. 5 KIDD destroyers and 3 Ticonderoga cruisers were hit directly, and seemed to sunk into the waters for a second.

Time returned to normal, and flames erupted. Successive booms sent shockwaves through the water, the ships hit had been eliminated from existence, and some of the smaller ships surrounding them soon transformed into balls of fire.

By the time Nitzme got everything under control again, half her fleet has been taken down. The carrier, the 5 KIDD and the 3 Ticonderago are wrecks already, drifting towards the bottom of the ocean. Resulting blasts knocked ten or so ANZACS off course with huge fragments, killing crews and wrecking hulls.

The Admiral did not waste any time. Without the slightest hesitation she ordered the abandoning of all mediumly or more damaged ships. The remaining ships hurriedly sailed north, fleeing towards the safety that seemed light years away.

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Surviving Commonwealth Naval Surface Combatants in the North Sea:
- 1 LCC 19 Blue Ridge Class Command Ship
- 1 Nimitz Class Carrier
- 1 KIDD Class Destroyer
- 8 Ticonderoga Class Crusier (including 3 disabled)
- 18 Anzac Class Frigate

West Cedarbrook

09-02-2005, 03:12

In response to an urgent request from Taiwanese Islands, the Kramden of West Cedarbrook is transferring the following to TI for staffing in Baltimore under a 5 year lease:

Carrier Group Evanston
WCS Evanston (Carrier)
5 Guided Missle Cruisers
2 Supply Ships
9 Destroyers

Following material are offered to TI for sale at a package price of 305 Million Zugs:
77 F-18
15 F-23-1I
145 AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopters

The 7th Army will deploy to Baltimore for expeditionary force assignment in European TI duty under West Cedarbrook tactical command, TI strategic command. TI will provide transportation from Baltimore. Embarking for Baltimore now are units:
39th Ariborne Division
44th Armored Division
2nd Infantry Division
19th Infantry Division
61st Infantry Divsion

Taiwanese Islands

09-02-2005, 09:45

Commonwealth Patriot Batteries, Netherlands

"Oh damn, we are done for......" Major Zaft Mechene groaned, suddenly noticing bright dots approaching rapidly. ""Shoot those missiles down!"

Answering instinctively to their commander's shrieks, the soldiers rapidly adjusted their systems. The Patriots had just been loaded, and so 36 missiles were launched instantly. Yet the Intruders almost flew right past them, with only 8 being taken down.

PAC-2 is, Zaft thought, not adequeate for this job after all.

As the enemy missiles closed in, the final line of defense activated: the newly installed PAC-3 systems.

24 of the new Patriot Advanced Capabilities 3 missiles shot up into the sky, knocking down enemy missiles with reassuring efficiency and proving their worth despite range limitations to everyone present.

Yet despite their valiant efforts, there was not enough of them. More than one hundred warheads smashed into the fortified radar sites of the Commonwealth, quickly leveling the buildings.

Back at the Patriot sites, Major Mechene and his troops saw the screen flickered once, and died. The TMD here had been broken.

Dumpsterdam

09-02-2005, 10:30

OoC: Thanks for the update, I'll need the losses on your missile attack on my fleet also, otherwise I'll assume that I'm shooting down a decent amount of them.

I can't post anything seeing as that I'm at school and in class.

-_-'

Taiwanese Islands

09-02-2005, 10:43

OOC: oh..... well its a bit hard for my ships to actually keep track of their missiles, seeing that they are simply fleeing and they've been bashed to pieces already. I'd say you should just assume some 50% is gone or something.

Praetonia

09-02-2005, 19:34

OOC: The losses for my attack were nice, but you dont need to lose the ANZACs. The missiles are pretty powerful and will sink your Nimitz in one hit, maybe two at most, but they wont destroy other ships in the blast. I'll make an IC post later.

West Cedarbrook: Please note that TI is blockaded from the seaward side, and surrounded by my allies on the landward side, so if you want to land those troops, helicopters or planes you need to break the blockade.

Dumpsterdam: Aren't you meant to post the losses to your ships? Or did you mean something else.

Anyway, I'll make an IC post later... maybe in about half an hour.

Taiwanese Islands

09-02-2005, 19:48

OOC: I was thinking that the ANZACs were taken down by the resulting fragements....

Anyway, can you help me on my new ship once you finished?

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8148958

Praetonia

09-02-2005, 19:51

OOC: I don't think you can destroy a ship with fragments... maybe damage the radar array and possible kill some of the crew if it was unarmoured. not destroy it though.

Taiwanese Islands

10-02-2005, 04:29

OOC: okay then, i'll put back some ANZACS that were supposedly sunk. I'll still be abandoning ten or so due to damages.

Praetonia

11-02-2005, 19:40

OOC: Are you going to post any land resistance to mine and Dumpsterdams' forces? Or a naval counterattack?

Usually my posts go like this:

1) Losses
2) New, unrelated actions (if applicable)
3) Action based on losses

You only seem to be posting 1).

Taiwanese Islands

11-02-2005, 22:33

OOC: I'm still waiting for your forces to reach my defenses....... My forces are positioned in Arnhem and Amsterdam. Being outnumbered, I've decided that I would wait for you instead of seeking you out.

I haven't detected the Dumpsterdam forces yet because 1. they are 'mostly unseen' 2. my soldiers are still making their way into the city.

As for Naval Operations, I'm still organizing a fleet. It'll begin shortly though.

Dumpsterdam

12-02-2005, 13:55

Flagship Seven Provinces

The radar operator turned around to Lady Admiral Raditz, the single word coming from his lips was; "Contact"

The first harpoon hit the Seven Provinces and failed to penetrate, rocking the massive battleship slightly as more and more impacts raced over the armoured belt of the flagship. All over the fleet ships where hit as Testudo CIWS failed to keep up with the constant stream of missiles.

As the final missile was carefully picked off by a Testudo the damage became clear on both the transports and the combat ships as the first reports came in.

The 6th fleet reported that both its carriers had taken hits and that only the Nimitz was currently afloat, the Dixie was stuck on a sandbank and her three wings of aircraft where relocated to Airport Eindhoven. A good deal of the 6th fleets escorts also had recieved the brutal treatment.

The 4th fleet also recieved damage but also contained a higher amount of anti missile systems and airpatrols where stationed there and where able to prevent some of the damage.

OoC:
Remaining ships of the 6h fleet:

Carrier Fleet:

1(1 damaged) Nimitz class carrier.
6(1 damaged) Karel Doorman class frigates.
4(1 damaged) class cruisers.
8(2 damaged) Zeven Provincien class frigates.

Escort Group:

0(0 damaged) Dixie class escort carrier.
2(0 damaged) Karel Doorman class frigates.
1(0 damaged) Ticonderoga class cruiser.
3(1 damaged) Zeven Provincien class frigates.

16(8 damaged)Roman class transports.(from the original 22)

Remaining ships of the 4th fleet:

2 Behemoth class super carrier.
30(6 damaged) Karel Doorman class frigates.
18(2 damaged) Ticonderoga class cruisers.
35(5 damaged) Zeven Provincien class frigates.

If I say damaged I mean damaged to the extent that they need to be brought to a shipyard and recieve extensive repairs to be functional combat capable ships. The Roman class that where sunk and or damaged will have been able to deploy some troops and some of them have beached themselves or have sunk in shallow waters where they stick out of the water but I'll RP that tonight when I have some more time for the rest of my actions on land and my retalitation.

Taiwanese Islands

12-02-2005, 14:31

Outskirts of Arnhem, Netherlands

Divisional Headquarters, Commonwealth 4th Marine Division

General Nathan Sun and his troops were still moving into the city when news of a successful enemy deployment nearby came in. Apparently, an assault by enemy fighters had cut off the air defense systems of the area, and allowed the transports to deliver their 'cargo' in relative safety.

Panicking, General Sun ordered 5 Dark Star drones around the urban centre to search for enemy forces. Before long, news of a sizeable hostile unit were reported in. Apparently divisional in strength, the unit was supported by several combat vehicles and appeared to pose a significant threat to the 4th division.

The General immediately halted his troops and positioned each unit carefully. The 9 regiments of the division formed a cluster chain, with 3 units including the HQ at the center. When troop movements finally resumed, Commonwealth forces acted slowly and with great caution.

One regiment is an exception, though. Instead of slowing and avoiding mistakes at all costs, this regiment rushed into downtown Arnhem, and tried to capture most if not all of the strategic facilities.

Dumpsterdam

14-02-2005, 13:21

http://www.marketgarden.com/new/roadmap.jpg

6th Para, Oosterbeek.

General Steel looked over the map detailing the area around Arnhem, two brigades had landed around the city and the Taiwanese where forming up just outside to the east.

One battalion had already taken Heteren and its bridge over the Rhine and one of its companies was pushing on towards Driel.

Another company had positioned itself in the town of Wolfheze and the main force had landed near Oosterbeek and Steel had set up HQ here, his radio's where working perfectly and he was told by the airforce that operation Garden was well underway and would reach Arnhem in less then two days.
With a smile on his face he orderd two battalions forward towards the centre of Arnhem and its three bridges over the Rhine, the battalions would scout out Taiwanese strength before the remainder of the two brigades would be moved in, 1st and 7th battalion advanced through the subburbs of Arnhem and would soon encouter resistance...

Taiwanese Islands

15-02-2005, 08:08

4th Division HQ, Lathurn

General Sun arrived in his recently prepared command post in the small town of Lathurn with his 1st Headquarters Regiment. From here, he directed the troops of his division in the struggle for Arnhem. To the south, the 5th Regiment was advancing towards Muissen, carried forward by their HMMWV's. Behind them, the 7th Regiment had established itself across the river, in Westervdort, while the 6th regiment positioned itself somewhat between the 7th and the HQ regiments. In the north, the 2nd Regiment secured Rheden. The 3rd Regiment was ordered into Duiven as reserves, and the 4th Regiment marched energetically towards Velp.

Continuous Dark Star operations have revealed that Dumpstedam forces are mainly concentrated along railroads and Oosterbeek, and some are moving into the city already. General Sun's plans were to drew the enemy into a pitched urban battle, where the Commonwealth citizens may provide support with their shotguns and M-16 assault rifles.

Now that it seems enemy forces are advancing in the right directions, he ordered the 4th regiment to push west as quickly as possible, to lure in more Dumpsterdam forces. The 2nd, 6th and 7th are put on a status of highest alert, told to be ready for moving out as soon as the bulk of enemy troops are where the General wants them. The 1st is ready to provide support at any time.

But neither did he wished to put all his eggs in one basket. Sun had always believed in the doctrine of surrounding your enemies, and so the 5th and 3rd regiments are kept to the south, exactly for this purpose.......

Taiwanese Islands

16-02-2005, 18:53

bump

Taiwanese Islands

16-02-2005, 20:04

4th Regiment, Arnhem City Centre

The troops of the 4th regiment left Velp after putting up a half-heated attempt to secure the area. Afterall, The real target is downtown Arngem, not a suburb on the outskirts of the city. A little bit of show is enough there.

With his regiment pushing down 7 parrallel roads, Colonel Lucser ordered all his armour on to the street in the centre, and spread his infantry wide to scout out and prevent enemy ambushes.

Before long he and his escorts arrived at a bank. Following the evacuation orders earlier on, the bank's staff and possessions had been transfered to Katsurato for safe-keeping, and is now totally deserted.

"Good. Perfect for my command post," Colonel Lucser remarked to an aid, who quickly went about setting up the regiment headquarters.

Dumpsterdam

17-02-2005, 17:05

OoC: I've been observing the area around Arnhem so I know exactly what the advantes are of the area.

Oosterbeek lies on a raised area of ground so allows my spotters an advantage in locating your forces for my para artillery guns.

However I must warn you about sending tanks into downtown Arnhem, you'll see why in my post.

IC:

Operation Market

General Steel carefully observed the enemy advancing, both through the scopes of his spotters and via the TACCOM sattelite network, he was able to find several regiments heading towards central Arnhem and directed his two advance battalions towards the river, one hugging the river directly, advancing past the docksides and waterfronts towards the first bridge and the other guarding the left flank of the other making sure that no Taiwanese managed to get in between the line.

At the same time a battalion made its way over the railroad bridge near Oosterbeek, fully mechanised with the 6th para's Rhino APC's and two units of Relas MBT's they advanced rapidly over the road and made their way to the first Rhine bridge, intent on linking up with the 7th battalion.

Steel recognised the threat that Taiwanese troops where posing to his troops in Arnhem, an full scale artillery barrage from the 6th para's 30 155mm atillery pieces would solve it but also envoke a response and it was better to call in the Royal Airforce. A short encrypted radio transmission later three squadrons of JR-65 took off from airport Eindhoven, two interceptor squadrons and a ground attack squadron.

One wing(3 aircraft) would hit the bridge near Loo under a triple escort as the remaining 42 would engage the Taiwanese tanks in the small and narrow streets of downtown Arnhem where they would be sitting ducks for the missiles and 30mm armour piercing gunfire. Taiwanese fighters where to be expected but ground fire would probably be a minimum with most of the radar stations taken out and the fact that several of the interceptors carried Intruder missiles.

Operation Garden

Field Marshal Talas looked over the charts, noting that they had crossed into Nijmegen and that no major resistance had been detected yet, a few youths with m16's had been gunned down near Eindhoven by a Rhino APC but nothing else so far. Talas ripped the lastest report off the printer, he was told to expect Taiwanese units just south of Arnhem but strength and exact location where unknown. He silently cursed and contacted the lead tank but still no enemy...

OoC: Just remember that most of your runways are full of big craters, but I know you have VTOL aircraft.

That and as for my attacks on Arnhem, the bridge near Loo would be easy pickings seeing as its a small stone bridge and your tanks would be sitting ducks in the old city of Arnhem.

Dumpsterdam

19-02-2005, 00:11

Operation Sealion, 4th Marine Division, Leiden.

"Resistance found yet?" A weary marine luitenant asked, slashing the floatation bags on his HERO armour that had activated as he hit the water.
"No sir, we are advancing upon Rotterdam and the Rhine estuary, and upon The Hague, if our intell is correct a Taiwanese marine division will be there."

The luitenant looked over the beach, dozens of assault ships had stranded themselves here, out at sea several ran on sandbanks and others had sunk entirely, boats ferried back and forth to retrieve supplies. "Order four brigades down to the Hague, take the city and any goverment officials you can find, ALIVE."

Taiwanese Islands

19-02-2005, 13:30

(OOC: don't worry, i know exactly what i'm doing, although you ought to know that air fields don't tend to take long to repair.....)

4th Regiment, Arnhem City Centre

Colonel Lucser leaned over a bench, studying a hastily assembled map, put together after rough reports by scouts in the past few hours.

A young sergeant bumped in and reported. "Sir, SENTINEL reports enemy air units detected."

"What the hell, no one told me anything about airborne threats!"

"Umm... Sir, I took the liberty of calling Katsurato and notified them of the situation," Lieutenant Amelia Liao, who walked in behind the sergeant, added. "Our vehicles would be extremely vulnerable, sir."

"Yes, you're right," regaining his composure, Colonel Lucser sighed. "Put the AA teams on alert; spread them out around our tanks."

On his order, the M6 Bradleys attached to the unit quickly deployed themselves around the regiment's armour units, and soldiers carrying the FIM-92A Stingers dashed across the streets and took up positions on the roof of buildings.

To the east, the 40 F-35 JSF of the 4th Division flew in to defend their colleagues on the ground.

Flevoland, Air Foce Regional Command

"Ma'am, we received calls for help from the 4th Marines!" A sergeant shouted over the defeaning noises on the airfield, while the engineering companies worked to clear debris and fill in the craters created by earlier missile strikes.

"Good, sortie our Raptors!" Air General Yee-Wei Huang bellowed back.

"What about the Joint Strike Fighters, ma'am?" Her aide, Lieutenant George Kosgavi questioned. "They do have VTOL capabilities."

"No, they are almost useless on the battlefield, especially when they have to lift off vertically," General Huang told him. "Get as much Raports up there as possible. Well, there's no harm in sending off some F-35, but that's only secondary."

Outside, 24 Raptors began taking off one after another, through 2 narrow strips of air fields that've been temporarily repaired. Due to the extensive damages, what usually took less than 2 minutes is now eating up 8 minutes of valuable time. At the other end of the base, 18 JSF also took off, and the 42 fighters raced towards Arnhem to intercept enemy aircrafts.

Behind them, 12 more Raptors - damaged during the earlier attacks - were being worked on feverishly by their ground crews. In all likeliehood, they probably won't make it to the action in time, though.

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I have 80 M1A2 and 320 M2A3 on that street, protected by 48 M6 and about 80 soldiers equipped with Stinger missiles.

Praetonia

19-02-2005, 23:26

The head of the Praetonian armoured column had swept along the Western Coast of Belgium in just a few days. Little resistance was encountered, save for a few scattered insurgents who were quickly gunned down by the Praetonian IFVs.

"We've reached the seperation point, sir," an Aide reported to the Field Marshall in overall command of the operation.

"Excellent... have Lieutenant General Lupus Ripus take 5,000 men to take Amsterdam, the other 20,000 will swing East to attack Arnhem."

"Yes, sir," the aide replied and left the command IFV.

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Later that day, the Battalion commanders were assembled inside the Field Marshall's command tent to hear what was to happen the following day.

"Good afternoon, Gentleman. This is the plan of action. Colonels Terpus and Veritus shall take their Battalions and take and hold Ginkelse Heide. The remaining 18,000 troops shall sweep around to the North and attack into the town from the countryside. The two Battalions inside Ginkelse Heide shall then move in from the West, encircling the enemy on three sides and trapping them between both Praetonian and Dumpsterdanian troops and forcing them across the river to where they will crushed."

OOC: Ok, just assume that's happening then Im tired. Is there anything defending Ginkelse Heide or the countryside behind Arnhem?

Taiwanese Islands

21-02-2005, 06:25

OOC: all my forces are to the east, with a portion moving through the city.

Taiwanese Islands

22-02-2005, 05:38

Dark Star drones had long since been observing a perimeter of 4th Division formations. Suddenly, units to the north detected motion on the ground. Their operator practically jumped.

"Colonel," the young technician called. "Enemy.... Praetonian forces to the north!"

"What! How the hell did they got here so fast..... How many?"

"About 20,000," he replied. "They are pushing down into Arnhem."

The message is delivered at once to General Sun. "Talk about bad news," he muttured. The drastic change of situation called for a swift in strategy, yet Sun is a man who dreaded deviations from a pre-set plan, and lacks the ability to forment a new one anyway. "Send the 7th regiment to reinforce the 4th. Tell the 6th to come up here and move the Headquarters reigment out, and we'll attack the Praetonians from behind with the 2nd."

Upon his orders the tense Commonwealth troops began moving. Thousands of troops and vehicles piled north, and the 1st, 2nd and 6th regiments were soon cutting through the countryside from Rozendaal towards the enemy lines.

Praetonia

22-02-2005, 18:29

OOC: How are you attacking me from behind? Your entire army is in Arnhem isnt it?

Taiwanese Islands

23-02-2005, 11:13

Praetonia

23-02-2005, 19:57

OOC: No..... just one regiment. The bulk of my forces is still to the east of Arnhem; dispersed in various towns and suburbs. I went through great lengths describing this......

I only sent a regiment in to lure out enemy forces.
OOC: And my forces are in the West... how can you attack the rear of my troops without going a very long way around and almost certainly being detected?

Taiwanese Islands

24-02-2005, 06:44

Praetonia

24-02-2005, 10:39

OOC: ................. you said "18,000 troops shall sweep around to the North".

So, I'm pushing north as well and then cutting east at the rear of your forces. You may be able to detect them, though given that you don't seem to have had conducted much scouting measures I don't think you'll be able to notice my 5,000 strong force untill they closed in.
OOC: Since you're assuming that your "Dark Star" drones can atuo-detect my forces whilst ignoring my mobile SAMs, Im assuming I know everything about you and where you're going, as I also have UAVs and satellites. Now, this is what my forces have done:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/Praetonia/netherlands.jpg

and from your post, you are the blue dot (you mentioned deploying troops across the river and near that village that begins with R. I, on the other hand, have not said I'm moving North East for about 20 posts, where I was refering to moving along the coast, nothing to do with Arnhem.

Taiwanese Islands

25-02-2005, 08:01

OOC:...... I think we really have some communications issues. But this is what you said:

"Colonels Terpus and Veritus shall take their Battalions and take and hold Ginkelse Heide. The remaining 18,000 troops shall sweep around to the North and attack into the town from the countryside. The two Battalions inside Ginkelse Heide shall then move in from the West......"

Notice how the 'sweep around to the North' part came right after Ginkelse Heide? According to the map Dumpsterdam showed us, that town is rather close to Arnhem. Besides, you said the 'remaining 18,000', so by logic you would have been talking about the 20,000 which had 'swing East to attack Arnhem'.

As for the Dark Star UAV, I had been sending them out for quite a long time now. They'd be flying around as your forces showed up in the vicinty, so I do not think there is any difficulty in detecting 18,000 troops at all. Your soldiers can alway notice them and shoot them down, but either way I would know you're coming.

Praetonia

25-02-2005, 10:29

As for the Dark Star UAV, I had been sending them out for quite a long time now. They'd be flying around as your forces showed up in the vicinty, so I do not think there is any difficulty in detecting 18,000 troops at all. Your soldiers can alway notice them and shoot them down, but either way I would know you're coming.
OOC: Yes, and I have no problem with that, so long as you also assume that I know everything you're doing by having UAVs that always find what they're looking for and never get shot down also.

The north thing, clue why I wrote that, but I think I mean that the troops will attack the North of Arnhem, not randomly go North and off the map of Arnhem. Can you make a map of where your troops are?

Taiwanese Islands

25-02-2005, 12:17

OOC: I told you your soldiers could shoot my UAV down..... I'm merely saying that, since I have stationed them in a perimeter around my forces already, I would have known as your forces are rolling in. They did fail to notice the two battalions in Ginkelse Heide, or the exact amount of troops going for Arnhem.

I'll post a map of my deployments soon. I'll also add in what I think your forces are doing.

Taiwanese Islands

25-02-2005, 12:42

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/rndeno/Maps/2-26Deployments.jpg

Blue squares are my forces; one regiment each. They are moving in the directions of the blue lines. The circles are independent battalions - i.e., brigade headquarters.

The red blocks are what I perceive to be the movements of your forces.

Taiwanese Islands

25-02-2005, 22:05

bump

Dumpsterdam

25-02-2005, 22:07

OoC: Post coming sooooon, as in TONIGHT.

Praetonia

25-02-2005, 22:17

OOC: My plan: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/Praetonia/1.jpg

However, once I see you sweep around to attack me I'll react and do this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/Praetonia/reaction.jpg

This will then create a field battle to the North of Arnhem. Just so you know what's going on.

Taiwanese Islands

25-02-2005, 22:20

OOC: good, and I propose we all use maps to illustrate our troop movements from now on

Praetonia

25-02-2005, 22:35

OOC: good, and I propose we all use maps to illustrate our troop movements from now on
Agreed.

Dumpsterdam

27-02-2005, 14:49

OOC: good, and I propose we all use maps to illustrate our troop movements from now on

OoC: So I'll just skip the writing and post a map, saves me time and makes this a map-wanking RP. ;)

I don't exactly see why I need to show everything on a map, I've been extremely clear about what my forces where doing and which routes they where taking.

That and Taiwan's maps are not exactly what you could call “clear”...

IC:

Operation Market

7th Battalion arrived at the first bridge, a inspection by the engineers of the unit revealed a lack of demolition charges and across the bridge the lead elements of the 1st mechanised battalion could be seen. A company of men was left behind at the bridge with four Relas MBT's two Rhino APC's and four mobile SAM's.

The attack proceeded as before, two brigades on the north bank one preventing the other from being flanked and the third one on the south bank, advancing rapidly.

Meanwhile a good 50 kilometres from Arnhem, ground attack aircraft began releasing their missiles. The FAF missiles where guided by TACCOM and SPYSAT to their targets, armour piercing missiles for the tanks and several loaded with area detonation munitions to wound and kill infantry. Taiwanese fighters had been scrambled and they where showing up on radar or where being tracked by observers on the ground and sometimes even IR SPYSAT camera's.

The first wave of fighters would endure a barrage of 90 FAF AAM's and possibly more if they survived.

Operation Garden

The lead elements of the 8th armour cleared Nijmegen after a brief struggle with the local militia that had resulted in a destroyed Rhino and two dead regulars. The line of MBT's and APC's moved forward once again over the road towards Arnhem, recon drones and scout squads had already been sent forward and they where yet to report their findings of Taiwanese units somewhere south of Arnhem.

Both sides of the eight lane highway where packed and alongside that through the fields advanced infantry ordered to flush out any ambushes far ahead of the main column.

Operation Sealion

"First units have arrived at The Hague and Rotterdam, where moving in and onto the parliament buildings and along the beaches." A ensign bumped into the command centre where Lieutenant Thomps was still in command of 11.000 marines or so, unable to find anyone in rank he had taken up command and directed brigades towards their objectives.

"Secure the city let no-one out and if anyone resists, shoot them." Thomps replied looking over the map of the area know as the Randstad.

"Sir." The ensign replied and rushed out.

Thomps wasn't too happy, the 4th brigade's scouts had ran into militia units near Rotterdam and they where going to need some time to push out all resistance and clear the harbour so that the Royal Navy could deploy its gunboats up all major rivers.

Taiwanese Islands

28-02-2005, 07:15

OOC: I only meant that a map would be useful in illustrating what we intend........

IC:

The fighters noticed the missiles almost immediately after they were launched.

"Quick, launch our own missiles too," Yee-Wei Huang shouted into the microphone. "Raptors, fire at will, fire at will!"

Above, the Raptors each released 3 AIM-120 missiles from their hatches, and then immediately took evasive maneouvres. The lighter JSF used only two, and then scattered as the enemy missiles closed in.

From Arnhem, the 40 JSF from the 4th division each managed to shoot off 3 AMRAAM but, rather than preparing for an enemy onslaught, charged forward and raced each other towards the enemy fighters.

Not surprisingly, most could not manage to dodge the missiles fast enough, with many crashing head on with the enemy projectiles. only 15 made it through the deadly missile wall, with a futher 4 so heavily damaged that their pilots decided quite completely on their own that they would turn back.

However, the more prepared fighters from the Flevoland Air Foce Regional Command fared better. All Raptors survived the attack, with many of the missiles apparently not able to have a lock on, and only 9 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters went down. 2 more and 1 Raptor had to return to base after being clipped by a missile, but initial reports by the ground crew revealed that there was no serious damage and that the fighters could return to the sky in a matter of hours.

Meanwhile, a total of 228 AIM-120 missiles sliced through the sky towards enemy fighter concentrations.......

OOC: Is there any info on your planes and weapons?

Taiwanese Islands

05-03-2005, 07:39

OOC: just wondering..... is this RP slow?

Praetonia

05-03-2005, 12:08

OOC: I'll post today.

Praetonia

09-03-2005, 18:44

OOC: My carrier planes are this (fleet carriers): http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8024122&postcount=9

and this one (escort carriers): http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8024558&postcount=21

IC: "The enemy is crossing over to the West bank, sir," the Captain said, pointing towards the river from where he could already see a have of small pieces of road thrown up into the air by the steel tracks of tanks. The battalion was currently still in green fields, speeding towards the Arnhem sity center in IFVs and tanks that looked like massive moving hedgerows.

"Is our artillery in place?" the General shouted over the roar of the engine, which could be well heard from his position in the turret cupola, turning to face the Captain who was still manning the radio inside his tank.

"Not yet, sir, but soon."

"When the artillery is in place, have them give fire. Have the 4th and 5th Battalions swing towards Rheden before entering the city, and the 1st and 2nd towards the Dumpsterdanian forces."

"Yes, sir."

The General was confident of success, but he was still cautious. Two battalions of infantry and the one battalion of armour were kept behind in Ginkelse Heide to guard the artillery, act as a mobile reserve and also as a roadblock to cover the Brigade's retreat, should that be neccessary.

Meanwhile, thirty SeaSnake fighter/bombers had taken off from their carriers and, learning that the Dumpsterdanian airforce was under attack from most of the Taiwanese airforce, was currently heading towards their runways and airfield. They would do a much better job than the Dumpsterdanians, not only destroying runways with cluster bombs and larger explosives, but also targettting fuel, hangars, supply depots and airfield command posts.

Taiwanese Islands

12-03-2005, 23:47

General Sun felt exceedingly confident, surrounded by more than 5,000 of troops he has long since commanded. He was sure that nothing would defeat him, and that soon he would reach enemy lines, cutting them off from behind and thereby ensuring a great victory.

He was still indulging himself in his fantasies when a scout called in frantically to report thousands of enemy troops moving dirctly towards the bulk of 4th division forces. Absolutely shocked, Sun staggered around his mobile command post, unable to issue any commands at all. He was, afterall, someone who just had to do things as planned beforehand and stick to schemes as closely as possible, to the tragedy of the troops under him.

Receiving reports of enemy assaults but no instructinos from the General, the 2nd Regiment, under Colonel Kails Voldmarch, hastily formed a shaky perimeter at a small hill in the middle of nowhere. Three battalions formed a triangular base, and the fourth lay at the centre to act as reserved. They've all but lost contact with the rest of the division, and moral was low, with sporadic firing going on constantly as small groups of enemy troops appeared and left behind lead souvenirs for unfortunate soldiers here and there. Voldmarch hated to think what would happen when the main Praetonian forces launched a major offensive.

But his troops were doing extremely well, relative to the rest of the Commonwealth forces there. The 6th Regiment, having spearheaded the assault, scattered at the sight of a prepared, attacking enemy. Its commanding officer was shot dead by an enemy sniper, and chaos erupted across the unit. The little that survived and did not made a run for Katsurato fell back to where the 1st Regiment was, some unfortunately shot dead as Praetonian soldiers and others adding to the frenzied, disorganized state the headquarters regiment was in.

Before long, General Sun's panicking staff ordered the regiment north, while the equally troubled regimental commander pushed south. soon the regiment split, with two battalions moved with the General in one direction and the other two moving with Colonel Meirayne Takejou in the other, abandonin all their heavy equipments in the centre. Which was rather unfortunate, given that the headquarters regiment was designed for fire support - that is, artillery were its basic equipments.

Taiwanese Islands

12-03-2005, 23:49

OOC: I'll post a response to the air war later tonight

Taiwanese Islands

14-03-2005, 09:52

"Enemy fighters incoming, from the seas!" Lieutenant George Kosgavi whirled around, shouting for General Huang. "What should we do?"

Huang bit her nails nervously. All the Raptors airborne has fired away everything they have, and she's not prepared to use the air dominance fighters for petty dogfights.

"Very well..... Launch the remaining Raptors, and call everyone back."

With some hesitation, the Lieutenant relayed her orders down. In no time 9 of the 12 Raptors began taking off from the more or less prepared runways, but 3 were simply too damaged to fly.

Airborne within minutes, the Raptors closed in on their targets, and released their first volley of AIM-120 at 70km away. A second volley were released by 60km, and a final 9 were launched at a distance of 50km before they pulled back and raced home.

Diaga Ceilteach Impire

14-03-2005, 17:57

Praetonia

14-03-2005, 18:29

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OOC: This is spam. Please make an intelligent post or delete it.

@TI: Cool, thanks for the replies. I'll post another bit soon.

Taiwanese Islands

15-03-2005, 05:25

We of the Mighty Diaga Ceilteach Impire are ministers of death praying for war.

we ask for our part in this war against belgium and netherlands. we have many well trained men , and even our civilians are trained in the arts of war.

:mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :mp5: :mp5:

Err.... You want to join on whose side again?

Dumpsterdam

15-03-2005, 10:33

JR-K65 JackRabbit multi-role combat aircraft

Version B: Long Range Interceptor.

Crew: two, pilot and radar operator.
Wingspan: 14.5 m
Length overall: 20m
Height overall 4.5m
Weight empty, equipped : 11010kg / 27,500 kg
Engines: two Dalas X-GH engines both providing 13.000 KG of thrust.
Max speed : 3,110 kmph
Service ceiling : 30,000 m
Range: 7996 km
Radar: CAPTOR long range tracking radar.
Weapons: 1 M61A/A2 Vulcan 30mm cannon and 8 external mounts.

Version C: Ground Attack Aircraft.

Crew: one, pilot.
Wingspan: 13.5 m
Length overall: 18.5m
Height overall 4.5m
Weight empty, equipped : 9010kg / 29,500 kg
Engines: two Dalas X-GH engines both providing 13.000 KG of thrust.
Max speed : 2,160 kmph
Service ceiling : 26,000 m
Range: 3250 km
Radar: GRIFO fire control radar.
Weapons: 2 M61A/A2 Vulcan 30mm cannon, 14 external mounts and 2 internal mounts

This is the earlier version, and since its been upgraded with optical camouflage, antimissile systems(decoy launchers) ECM dome and the cannons have been housed in semi-sphere domes underneath the nose of the aircraft. Allowing the gun to aim itself while the pilot steers the aircraft in the general direction of his target. Both versions are VTOL and CC equipped and are highly manoeuvrable with the integrated combat flight systems allowing the pilot to steer the aircraft with his mind to some degree(turn left hand left makes the airplane go left, triggering middle finger fires cannon, etc.) However the airplane also comes with a standard stick and control system should the CFS ever fail. It also contains a small 20mm cannon on the back in a similar bubble as the main guns so it can fire at enemies closing in from behind(nasty surprise).

This aircraft will outmatch any aircraft built today and will pwn the JSF and the Raptor with two fingers up its nose.(I designed it to take out any RL aircraft, since most people use them, however against any other aircraft from NS its gona be a close call between how good the pilots are.)

IC:

Operation Market Garden

Steel looked over the map concerning the area around Arnhem, the holo map bleeped in response to 8th armour entering from the south over the main highway towards Arnhem. With the Praetorians already reaching Dumpsterdanian lines Steel sent his remaining men forward while keeping one battalion in reserve to guard their headquarters and artillery.

However, things where not ment to be and the DDF plans went astray…

As Field Marshal Talas ordered his lead units to secure Elden his orders where transmitted via the divisions new TACCOM system, the system fucked up and now there was an entire mechanised brigade charging through Elden and towards the bridge there without any sort of air or artillery support from 8th armour.
Talas realised his mistake to late, the brigade was already approaching the ramp to the bridge and Taiwanese forces could spring a deadly ambush at any second, reluctantly he ordered the rest of his units forward towards Huissen and catch up with the 14th mechanised brigade.

Steel cursed. “What the fuck is Talas doing?! We haven’t secured that bridge!” His aide franticly shrugged. “I don’t know sir!”
“Well get me Talas on the line damnit, otherwise where gona loose an entire brigade
here.”
The aide switched the radio on but it remained dead, only static came from it. “Sir…the radio is dead…I can’t contact 8th armour!”
Steel slammed his fist down on the table with the map, the image twisting and sizzling for a second. “Call up the artillery and fire whatever you have into Westervoort and Huissen!”
The aide took up the IFF radio, the new TACCOM system was only used to communicate between divisions and the older IFF radio’s still worked perfectly, he called up the artillery and gave coordinates to fire for all 30 guns split between both towns.

Above Arnhem

The interceptors fired their remaining batch of FAF missiles and switched on their afterburners to propel them forward to well over mach 4, their anti missile systems spewing flares and chaff as they closed into the enemy for close range dogfights.
The enemy missiles sliced into the interceptors before that could happen though and twenty of the where reduced to fiery balls as twenty-two others where damaged and turned back. As the interceptors hit the braking fans hard they began locking onto enemy fighters and preparing for a long and hard dogfight with inferior yet numerous other fighters.

Meanwhile the ground attack aircraft turned back to Eindhoven, the bridge they where gunning for was destroyed and their missiles systems where tracking well over 720 missiles heading for their targets. Whereas 500 where missiles designed to destroy tanks the other 220 where filled with area detonation munitions designed to kill and wound infantry. They would be guided by TACCOM and SPYSAT onto troop concentrations.

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