NationStates Jolt Archive

"Hmmm?"
Kyung-soon whirled around, her gleaming, black hair twirling with her. She looked up at the sky, as the sun beat down on her face. In the heavens, a pair of Black Eagle jets screeched overhead. The shiny new Black Eagles were the newest addition to the Korean air force, and had already made a name for themselves as some of the best planes that had ever graced the skies, consistently beating even the best that the USAF had to offer.

Despite this, Kyung-soon only sighed, and looked back at her work. The Black Eagles, especially hers, while highly capable, also suffered from being extremely maintenance heavy, requiring basic maintenance every 100 flight hours. The time interval was expected to increase as the plane grew older, and more reliable. But for now, the plane still needed its checkup. She tightened a few connections in the computer panel and ran down the computer checklist for the highly advanced, yet frustratingly twitchy computer avionics. After she was satisfied that the plane was in fighting form, she slammed down the panel cover, and began to walk towards a group of pilots that had massed around a table where two fellow pilots played cards to pass the time.
"Wooo!" shouted one of them, as he threw down his cards in front of the other player. While the spectators began to congratulate the winner, only the loser's friends stayed back to reconcile him.
The Loser just sat there, with a dumbfounded look. Kyung-soon began to walk over to him, when the scramble siren sounded.

All around the base, pilots rushed out to their planes. Near the fighters, base defenses came online. The Prism towers began to charge up, their crystalline targeting matrices began to glow brightly, while men began to man pill boxes around the three grand cannons placed in the center of the base. Sentries in guard towers began to search for enemy contacts, while a small force of four Prism tanks, with eight Grizzly tanks powered up under them. Overhead, Black Eagle jets began to patrol the airspace.
In Kyung's Black Eagle, the radar screen began to glow with massive contacts.
"It looks like they've brought Kirovs, all fighters, make them you primary target!"
Another pilot radioed back, "They're not going anywhere."

The scene around the base was of was frantic. It seemed the Soviet onslaught had begun.


NOTE: This is just a little skirmish that A Few Rich People and I have decided to set up, to show just how we feel battles should play out in Earth CnC, There where many questions on what units should win in certain match ups and those question we felt were best answered with an example.

“The airship says the Korean base is just over this ridge,” someone near Jin-ho Yong said, “They also say the base is scrambling and tanks heading towards us.”

Even as the man said this twelve Rhino tanks rolled forward, almost crushing Jin-ho and his fellow conscripts, all fifty of them, as they rushed to engage the enemy tanks.

Far in the back, two V3 rockets began streaming into the air, leading their shots as best they could to smash the enemy prism tanks. While two more began reaching for the bases defense.

The Kirov, was still puttering forward behind even the artillery, its escort of three flak tracks meandered along side it.

"Alright, form up on me!" Shouted the commanding G.I.
A small force of 30 G.I.s ran up to the commander.
Over the radio chatter, a voice sounded over the rest,
"Alright men, there's about 50 to sixty conscripts out there. You all know that they can overpower us, but we still have the advantage of artillery and air support, and our SAWs. There may be more out there, with reinforcements coming, so conserve your ammo, we may be out here for a while."

In the air, through her canopy, Kyung saw the massive Kirov airship lumbering towards the base. On the ground, IFVs had been deployed to take it down, along 10 Rocketeers, but they wouldn't get to the Kirov for a while.
"Alright, lock on to that Kirov, and fire at will, that thing needs to be taken out if we are to have any chance. Get..."
Just as she began, the sky filled with black puffs.
"Flak!" Shouted Kyung.
"Change of plans, pull back, get some ground forces to take on those Flaktracks!

As the jets came under attack while they flew in towards the Airship, V3 rockets streaked across the sky.
"Incoming V3s!" one of the G.I.s shouted. IFVs moved in to try and take them out. They all began to fire their hover rockets in a mass flurry, but the V3s were fast moving, Actually hitting one would be difficult.

Meanwhile, in the lead Prism tank, the tank commander saw a large dust plume that covered of the horizon. He peered into his binoculars for a better view.
"We've about 15 possible contacts. Looks like some heavy armor. Be careful, they might be Apocs, get the Grizzlies up front."
"Roger that," replied the Grizzly commander, "Charlie-two-six, and two-seven, move up."
Over the radio, Kyung's voice rang loudly, "We need some one to take out the Flack Tracks guarding the Kirov. They need to get here fast, or else our base is gone!"
"Alright, we've got some enemy contacts on the ground here. We're gonna have to get through them first before we can help."
Kyung replied, "We're disengaging the Kirov, we'll try to take some of those tanks out for you."

While the tanks moved in to engage the enemy armor, an additional three IFVs moved up to provide air cover.
On the radar scope in one of the IFV, the screen bliped with two contacts.
"Two more V3s inbound!" shouted the radar operator.
"Split up the IFVs covering those G.I.s, we need our armor to survive if we want to last against those Rhinoes!" relied the commander.
"Yes sir, this is bravo-two-six, we need some extra air cover over here, send some more IFVs from sector two."

As the first six rhino tanks crested their ridge, their main batteries fired, their rounds streaking downward towards the enemy vehicles. The other six were following close behind.

“Infantry, forward,” a voice from nowhere commanded and Jin-ho found himself surging forward along with his fellows. Quickly reaching the top, now help by the twelve rhinos he began firing at the IFVs with his rifle. The roar of the tanks a mere three meters behind him mixed with the sound of rifle fire and the screaming V3s, coming continually in volleys.

Suddenly, one of the rhinos behind him collapsed from the continual fire of the enemy tanks. As its mangled parts flew up into the air a buzzing feel surrounded Jin-ho, and something seemed to impact upon the ground around the tanks, nearly knocking him off his feet.

“The tanks, they glow!”

It was true, the eleven remaining rhinos, some more damaged than others where now glowing in a sickening red/black light. The enemy’s rounds now seemed to bounce off the rhino’s and they fired with impunity.

The tank commander watched in horror as their fire bounced harmlessly off the enemy tanks.
"Charlie-two-six, disengage! All units pull back from those tanks, it looks like they're using some kind of energy shield. I have no clue what it is!"
As the Grizzlies began to reverse, one was torn apart by enemy fire. Its shattered debris raining down on the remaining tanks.
"This is Charlie-two-zero, Kyung, that energy is deflecting all of our hits, can you see it?"
Kyung relied over the radio, "Yeah, I can. I'm going in for a run, we'll see just how strong that armor really is."
"Roger that, and make it quick! They're tearing us up!" shouted the Grizzly commander as another Grizzly exploded nearby.

From her cockpit, Kyung looked at the ground. The Rhinos had changed into a strange glowing mass of blackish light.
"What the hell?..."
"That's like nothing we've ever seen before..."
Kyung began to feel panicked, and tense. We've got nothing that can punch through that... she thought.
Her uncertainty didn't last long though, as she had been through combat before, also against seemingly impossible odds.
She quickly regained control of herself, and entered a few numbers into a keypad. "AGM-65B, Armed. Ready to fire." spoke a computer voice.
Kyung locked onto one of the glowing Rhino tanks, and pressed the trigger sending the Maverick misile streaking towards its target.

On the ground, a G.I. screamed out coordinates for the Grand Cannons in the base.
"Calling in Soviet troop mass in grid square beta-charlie, six-eight-niner-four-four!"
"Roger that, Grid square beta-charlie, six-eight-niner-four-four confirmed." replied the artillery commander.
The Grand Cannons began to target their massive barrels towards the oncoming Conscript hoard. Within seconds, the guns fired their huge shells, as the ground shook from the thundering recoil.

Hopefully, the bases defenses would be able to stem the tide.

The missile streaked towards the rhino tank. Impacting upon it in a massive flowering explosion. But as through the smoke and dust the tank rolled on, still glowing.

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The shell landed within the infantry mass, hurling several to their deaths and injuring many more.

"It looks like we're holding them off!" Shouted the G.I.
"Keep firing!" Over the shouting, the thunder of the Grand Cannons continued to shake the earth.

In the sky, Kyung stared down at the rhino that was struck. Her face was frozen in shock. After a few moments. 2 more missiles streaked towards the tank.

Inside the base, a massive structure began to come alive. It looked like a half-sphere with a wave coming off its back. A shield like attachment began to move, revealing a huge spinning orb, with massive amounts of electrical discharge shooting off yowards everything around it. The orb began to glow with a bluish hue, and was blinding to look at.

The bright light could be seen across the entire battlefield. Kyung saw the flashing light, as it shown like a beacon across the horizon.
Good, she thought, lets see how they fare when half their force is wiped out of existance.