NationStates Jolt Archive

(see this thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=469824))

Major Luis Nogales had volunteered to help man the second roadblock at the second entrance; he now regretted that decision, seeing the Gilabad troops start shooting. Oh well; at least he'd get the first chance to shoot at those genocidal maniacs. Nogales lifted his rifle and attempted to aim out; the smoke blocked this, so he began firing into it. The others at the roadblock fired as well.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Mark Warner sent out the following message to the world community: To all peace-loving nations of the world:
The Beltway suffered an unprovoked attack this afternoon, when the Sixth Airborne Division, while deployed to Gilabad to evacuate that nation's ICLU members, was suddenly and deliberately attacked, without provocation, by tanks and aircraft of the Gilabad military. We hereby call upon all nations to help defeat Gilabad.

To: The Beltway

From: Supreme General Khonsu

Re: To battle!

Text:

This attack was unprovoked and ruthless! ALL of our available forces will assist you versus the Gilibad scum! We will send:

25,000 more troops (we have 50,000 there anyway)

1000 Black Lanner Tanks

150 Mobile Bridge Layers

1500 Shadow RSTVs (750 with TOW missiles, 750 with heavy machine guns)

250 M113A3 APC's

150 M109A6 Paladins, with 150 FAASV Supply Vehicles,

250 Dolphin II Class SSN submarines

10 Goliath Class Maritime Positioning Ships

2 Toryu Class BB Flight I/IIA Battleships

3 Talos Class MOB Modules

4 Orlan IIB CGN cruisers

6 F16E Bombers

20 UH-75 "Knighthawk" utility/assault helicopters

1 Apocalypse-Class SuperDreadnought

They won't last long! All this will be under my command. I'll gather allies too.

From: Prime Minister Quin Orbor
To: The Chief of State of Beltway
Gilabad has long been a problem. We are angered by their unprovoked attack, but we also would like to note their large defence budget and larger population. We are willing to attack Gilabad with the QSS Apocalspe. We are willing to bomb them. However, we wish to remain as anymous as possible in this war, and thus, we cannot devote any ground troops.

However, in addition to air support, we will provide funding for the world.

We shall aid you

When the enemy F-35s attacked the tank division on the ground, the formation of F-22s split into two groups, the 1st went after air threats (the F-35s) while the second went after the ground targets with their JDAM 5000 Lbs. bunker busters. The tank crews immediately retaliated, while they were being attacked, the tank commanders of each tank manned their 50. caliber anti-aircraft guns mounted on the top of each tank and opened fire on the enemy plains. A total of 10 tanks were destroyed, 5 of which the crews were able to evacuate before the tanks exploded, due to the armour that any lesser armour, would've meant the certain death of the crew. Although the tanks were being attacked from above, they were out of range of the Beltway's base's tanks, due to the 120m.m. guns on the Abrahms. With the superior 155m.m. main guns on the M-12s they were able to fire effectively ont the base with the aid of the Paladins. The Avengers fired another wave of 105 missiles at all of the airborne enemy aircraft including the C-17s.

Meanwhile at the base that the tanks launched from, there was a fierce firefight between Gilabadian MPs along with 6 squads "Alpha Force" special forces troops and the enemy Beltway soldiers.

To Lost Hills Department of Defence -
Thank you for your offer. We will accept your designs, munitions, and funds. We appreciate your support.
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine of The Beltway

To Pythogria -
We appreciate your support; could your troops help save our base? Further, do you have any aircraft you can immediately provide to help cover our base? Finally, do you have any nearby bases we can stage out of?
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine of The Beltway

To Brydog, Quaon -
Thanks for your support.
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine of The Beltway

Gilabad - The choppered-in troops aren't in a room; further, could you at least talk before just shooting? Otherwise, I have to assume that you planned war, rather than just a confrontation. Further, you forgot about my AD; I fired off Patriot missiles at your planes, and some have to go down. Finally, you didn't account for my ATGM launches. I can't reply until you account for these; sorry.

To Lost Hills Department of Defence -
Thank you for your offer. We will accept your designs, munitions, and funds. We appreciate your support.
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine of The Beltway

To Pythogria -
We appreciate your support; could your troops help save our base? Further, do you have any aircraft you can immediately provide to help cover our base? Finally, do you have any nearby bases we can stage out of?
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine of The Beltway

To Brydog, Quaon -
Thanks for your support.
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine of The Beltway
If your troops need help getting out of Gilabad, we can send a few destroyers to evacuate them.

As they broke, the F-22s immediately came under fire from the Anti-aircraft ,because the Patriot missiles are not meant to be used as SAMs, all of the Patriot missiles over-shot the aircraft, the SAMs however were able to find themselves on the tails of the F-22 fighters. The fighters immediately fired their chaff and flares to throw off the missiles and they immediately did evasive action. 8 F-22s were shot down and the pilots were able to eject. The rest who survived, immediately accquired new targets and launched 2 missiles each. Warlord Shawhabas immediately ordered 25 more F-22s in the air to reinforce the fighters currently engaged.

--Secret--
To Quaon -
We're not on the coast, and we're surrounded in a base. However, if your destroyers have cruise missiles, they could prove extremely useful. What we need most is air support.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Cardin, Minister of Defence
--End secret--

ATGMs v. tanks; Patriot is anti-air and anti-ballistic missile. Finally, the Alpha Team - Airborne conflict isn't quite done. Sorry, but one more edit, please.

Warlord Shawhabas has immediately mobilized "Task Force 122" to defend Gilabad which consists of-
-20,000,000 regular troops
-30,000 terrorists
-2000 "Alpha Force" special forces
-80,000 M-12 "battlefortress" MBTs
-110,000 M-2 Bradleys
-700,000 Humvees w/50 cal.
-90,000 Blackhawk helicopters
-50,000 Apachie attack helicopters
-50 AC-130D gunships
-12 "Westmorland" class aircraft carriers
-15 "Texas" class battle cruisers
-20 Arleigh Burke destroyers
-800 F-14 Tomcats
-800 F-18 Hornets
-900 A6E Intruders
-1000 MH-53 Pavelows
-400 A-10 "warthogs"
-250 F-22s
-250 F-35s
-300 B-2s
-3000 M1096 Paladins
-4000 SAM launchers
-2000 Patriot Missile systems
-3000 MLRS
-5000 B-52s
-6000 C-5 Galaxies
-500 C-17s
-7000 C-130 transports

Patriot missiles are meant for anti-missile only. They are not meant for anti-aircraft, but I will RP as if you had SAMs shooting at me.

--Secret--
To Quaon -
We're not on the coast, and we're surrounded in a base. However, if your destroyers have cruise missiles, they could prove extremely useful. What we need most is air support.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Cardin, Minister of Defence
--End secret--

ATGMs v. tanks; Patriot is anti-air and anti-ballistic missile. Finally, the Alpha Team - Airborne conflict isn't quite done. Sorry, but one more edit, please.
How close are you to the shore? We need to be close, but not so close that they can identify us if we are to deploy cruise missiles.

The QSS Apocalspe is currently preparing to leave Quaon.

--Secret--
Quaon -
About 1800 meters from the coast; however, we have no access to the sea. Oh well.
- MoD of The Beltway
--End Secret--

Secret IC

Attn: The Office of Prime Minister Kaine

Mr. Prime Minister,

It is with profound sadness that I write you at this hour, my Foreign Secretary having just informed me that troops from Gilabad have launched a surprise attack against your 6th Airborne Division. It goes without saying that His Majesty’s Government will provide the Beltway with any assistance requested – however it would take several days for any naval support to reach your fleet, and between 24-28 hours before significant ground troops could be airlifted and dropped into hostile territory.

Nonetheless I shall be presenting to His Majesty King George later this hour plans to deploy the HMS Adar carrier group to aid your naval forces in retrieving your division. Until the arrival of the unit, however, I wish you and your people the best in this uncertain hour.

Godspeed, Mr. Prime Minister. To both you and your troops.

Sincerely,

Alistair Tetley

Than sadly, we will not be able to assist your troops. God be with them.

--Secret IC--
Quaon -
Can you at least provide AD support from near the coast against enemy planes?
- The Beltway

To PM Alistair Tetley -
We appreciate your support; we'll hold out as long as we can. Our Second Carrier Group, now accompanied by the First Carrier group, is already heading out to the area.
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine
--End Secret--

I don't think so. The missiles are meant to go forward, not up.

Gilabad-
I must warn you that the newly resurrected GAPTS has been informed of your attack, and may be preparing to intervene. While The Beltway is not an active member, GAPTS has been created to maintain order in the world, and you are opposing that vow. I warn you again; GAPTS boasts a military force of many dozens of millions strong. Please weigh the options.

-Emperor Titus Celmaetus

To Lost Hills DoD -
We'll take any help you can send us. I've asked for a formal declaration of war, as opposed to invoking the War Powers Act (which would have only given me sixty days before requiring Congressional approval). Thank you.
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine

Gilabad - Particle beam satellites are PMT at least, and closer to FT; please remove from force list.

If I take the Particle Beam Sattelites off the list, then you must take the particle beam cannon off your JSFs.

Beltway, I need a reply on my air attack and the artillery barage done by my tanks and Paladins!

OOC - Gilabad, we have no particle beam cannons on our F-35s; they use the 25mm cannon that come standard. Please use this (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=469824) thread for OOC comments; further, we can't post our update until you account for our Anti-Tank Guided Missiles and change the encounter at the 4th division base to reflect the fact that the fight occurs outside the base, where the choppers landed.

There I changed it, and I already RPd the ATGMs on my tanks look!

OOC - Gilabad, where? Sorry if I stupidly missed it somewhere.

(OOC: 1st page 1st post!)

OOC - no ATGMs; also, as I pointed out in the other forum, Patriot can engage aircraft effectively. Sorry.

--Secret--
To Lost Hills DoD -
Your assistance is appreciated. We'll hold out as long as possible.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Cardin
--End of Secret--

I'm having to repost this, I hope this makes you happy.

When the enemy F-35s attacked the tank division on the ground, the formation of F-22s split into two groups, the 1st went after air threats (the F-35s) while the second went after the ground targets with their JDAM 5000 Lbs. bunker busters. The tank crews immediately retaliated, while they were being attacked, the tank commanders of each tank manned their 50. caliber anti-aircraft guns mounted on the top of each tank and opened fire on the enemy plains. A total of 10 tanks were destroyed, 5 of which the crews were able to evacuate before the tanks exploded, due to the armour that any lesser armour, would've meant the certain death of the crew. Although the tanks were being attacked from above, they were out of range of the Beltway's base's tanks, due to the 120m.m. guns on the Abrahms. With the superior 155m.m. main guns on the M-12s they were able to fire effectively ont the base with the aid of the Paladins. The Avengers fired another wave of 105 missiles at all of the airborne enemy aircraft including the C-17s.

Meanwhile at the base that the tanks launched from, there was a fierce firefight between Gilabadian MPs along with 6 squads "Alpha Force" special forces troops and the enemy Beltway soldiers.

In light of the Beltway's refusal to reply, I will assume he's attempting to buy time for himself! So with that said, I will continue.

The 2nd and 4th Mobile Battle group arrived on scene with 50,000 regular troops each. They were ordered by warlord Shawhabas to surround and cut off the enemy base. As the F-22s did another straffing run on the enemy base, the Paladins continued the artillery barage. Then the Battle groups, who were mounted on Humvees and Bradleys made a full scale assault to overwhelm the enemy base, with the aid of the 4th Tank division. They charged toward the base while firing. Two AC-130D gunships were on their way.

This post occurs in the seconds before the ATGMs hit and before the counter-battery fire occurs. Please see my last few posts in the other forum; sorry if you were confused. Also, sorry for the delay; please be patient, as there were recent troubles with the forum. Further, if I don't post within fifteen minutes, I'm composing a proper post. Regardless, however, unless it's been several days, do not post until I have posted. It's against proper etiquette; thus, I have to ignore this post (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10500532&postcount=33).

Artillery continued to pound the compound; one shell hit an MH-60 helicopter that had just landed, destroying the chopper and killing the twelve people aboard. Another dropped into the pool, but failed to detonate.

Counterbattery fire continued; the first volley of 36 shells was followed up by a second volley. Meanwhile, the 400 ATGMs snaked their way across the battlefield and snipers quietly prepared to shoot.

The C-17s flew out towards the coast, dropping flares and chaff as they went. The surviving 62 F-35s launched their AMRAAMs, then dropped the last flares they had in an effort to escape the missiles. Three AH-64s charged out, their crews determined to attack the enemy, even at the expense of death. Their cannons fired as they went on their 'death ride,' while they launched the last seven of their Hellfires.

Major Nogales finished his clip and reloaded. He started to fire, then realized it was useless. Captain Masters grabbed the first of the detained GSP men and asked him, simply, "Why do you do this?"

Elsewhere, at the base, the small force under the command of Sergeant Wilcox was diminishing rapidly. Although they had started with 20, they were now at only nine combatants, three of them wounded. The only way out is up, the sergeant mused, then pushed a wounded comrade back into the helicopter where the others had been pushed back into. He shouted at the pilot to take off, and then charged his opponents, shooting and whooping out a war cry. What did he care if he lived or died, as long as he was a hero?

Bring it on! Your like a bug waiting to be squashed!

-Warlord Shawhabas

6 more tanks were destroyed as they were supporting the charge made by the two battlegroups. With their anti-aircraft guns blaising, their 155m.m. mainguns were shooting any enemy vehicle that moved. As they came upon the gate of the enemy base, the Mk.19 gernaide launcher on one of the tanks destroyed the barracade and the mines laid next to it. The same happened to the next gate beside it. As the Bradleys and Humvees breached the perimeter, they deployed their troops. From the Avenger stations, they saw that there were a number of helicopters trying to escape along with more transports so another wave of 100 missiles were launched.

The C-17s on radar were closely monitered as a formation of 50 Gilabadian F-22s came in to intersept them, as they all launched 1 sidewinder at them.

Meanwhile, in the skies over the base, the reinforcements of 25 F-22s finally arrived and began immediately engaging the enemy F-35s as they immediately launched 2 sidewinders each.

OOC - Gilabad, please reply to my post. Only include losses for your aircraft and tanks from my missiles, losses from my artillery barrage and Sergeant Wilcox's wild charge, and losses from the death ride of three AH-64 helicopters.
Further, a grenade launcher won't set off anti-vehicle mines; plus, you don't ICly know about the mines. Finally, your Avengers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-1097_Avenger) only can launch 95 SAMs, not 100. Thank you.

A gernaide launcher wont set them off, but it will easily destroy them. They were destroyed when the barracade was destroyed as the mines as you said were around the barracade.

Gilabad - Your troops don't know I laid mines. You (the person) know; you (the nation) do not. Further, please make the proper reply I asked for; you may have your tanks begin to advance, but no more than that.

To Lost Hills -
We appreciate your continued efforts; our Congress has just declared war.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister

The artillery barrage, which was the last minute attempt by the Beltway forces, carried over to where the avengers were placed. As Seargent Hickam was taking a leak by a bush, an artillery shell zoomed over his head and landed 30 yards passed him as he hit the deck. He immediately got in his Avenger Humvee and with his partner still in the module, began along with the rest of the avengers, trying to avoid the enemy fire. 7 Avengers were destroyed and Sergeant Wilcox's wild charge straight against fully armed special forces, was stopped when corporal Phalanx fired his M203 at the charging group and he suffered a glancing wound to the knee.

Gilabad, please mention losses from my helos and my ATGMs. Further, please note that Wilcox was charging commandos on foot at 4th Division's base, not Bradleys and Hummers.

I know that I'm supposed to not know that they're there, but I'm saying that they were accidently destroyed along with the barracade but for some reason this doesn't carry over so 1 Humvee was destroyed, happy?

OOC - No; I've ignored your post, as I posted (in terms of the chronology of the conflict) about an event before it. Please mention the losses I've requested that you mention, then post that your tanks are beginning to advance, along with any other offensive actions you take.

Oh my mistake. 6 more tanks were destroyed as the helicopters came in with their guns blazing, however this was suppressed when the Anti-Aircraft guns on the tanks re-opened fire, and when the Avenger stations fired another burst of 50 missiles at the helicopters. Another 60 Tanks were destroyed by the ATGMs.

Four? We fired 400 ATGMs at your tanks; it seems godmoddish to claim that only four were destroyed and no others damaged. Further, you've failed to account for Sergeant Wilcox's wild charge at the commandos.

Four? We fired 400 ATGMs at your tanks; it seems godmoddish to claim that only four were destroyed and no others damaged. Further, you've failed to account for Sergeant Wilcox's wild charge at the commandos.

Sorry things have been kind of hectish around here. I didn't read your post carefully. 60 Tanks were destroyed, it would have been a whole lot worse if it hadn't been for the Patriot missile systems.

About the charge by your troops, re-read that post, I edited it.

OOC - Huh? Patriot is for anti-Ballistic Missiles...I assume your troops began to advance; any other moves in the seconds before you get in range of our tanks?
I won't be able to post for a bit; please hold...

I'm sorry, I thought that your fleet was supposed to be nearing my country, anyway ignore that part.

To Pythogria -
We appreciate your support; could your troops help save our base? Further, do you have any aircraft you can immediately provide to help cover our base? Finally, do you have any nearby bases we can stage out of?
Sincerely,
PM Timothy Kaine of The Beltway

Yes, troops will come to save your base. 3 of our F16E's are on route too. We'll bomb the tanks. 20 Black Lanners are also coming. As for nearby bases...
We'll allow you to use our base near the capital.

---Later, in cover outside of Beltwayan Base---

OOC: Talcom=Black Lanners, Tiger=F16E's, Trojan=Infantry. [/OOC]

"This is Talcom 1. Gilibadian tanks sighted. Open fire!"

"Talcom 2 here. Yes sir! Engaging enemy."

"Tiger 1 here. Bombs away!"

"This is Trojan 1. We'll ambush the tanks and go after infantry."

The infantry spearheaded the attack, launching Thunderclap rounds out of the cover beside the Gilibad tanks. The Black Lanners followed, firing main guns in an enormous broadside-is attack. Bombs rained upon the tanks engaging Beltwayan forces. The rest of the infantry launched at the choppers with Thunderclaps and machine guns.

To Beltway-

Could you please take out those choppers? We don't have much AA.

---off the coast of Gilibad---

Admiral Doug sighted a Giliobadian city with his binoculars.

"Shell it, then land our troops here." he ordered.

"We should be in range in a couple hours." the First Mate replied.

"Good. Defend the battleships and the Apocalypse." Doug said.

"Yes sir!" the First Mate replied again.

OOC: To let you know, your tanks ae pretty well finished. Also, this ends with ships (and an invasion force) approaching, and tank rounds and Thunderclap rockets launching at that tank column, as well as Thunderclap rockets on a collision course with a lot of choppers.

I'm first going to ask you to recall this post as to my question of how the hell did you get your aircraft that far into my country? I'm guessing that you somehow got past all of my anti-aircraft batteries and radar systems. I have to call Godmoding on this. And how the hell did you get your fleet that close to my coast when The Lost Hills had just told me to wait for his fleet to get there. I suppose your fleet somehow bipassed my fleet.

I'm, going to have to hold on posting for a while. Goodnight!

OOC: OK, I'll make them a couple NS DAYS from your shores. They'll fight your fleet first. Also, my aircraft were in Gilibad-- at my evacuation base. Intended for spreading messages with special smoke bombs.

Hope that clears it all up.

Gilabad, your Avengers have only 45 SAMs left before they have to head back to reload. Further, please post losses to your F-22s from my AAMs and SAMs. Finally, you can't ignore the tank deployment of Pythogria; those troops were already established as being in Gilabad.
Pythogria - please give Gilabad a chance to respond to your movement; your tanks are rolling, and will probably intercept Gilabad's reinforcements, but haven't yet made it.

"All right, they're in range now; all tanks, fire at will!" messaged Brigadier General Kenneth Englehorn to the other tankers. Englehorn watched his crew, like the other 200 tank crews that survived the initial barrages of the Gilabad tanks, fire off the sabot round already loaded into it. The Gilabad troops were being foolish. They could have simply blasted away at the walls with impunity, fully knocking out all of Englehorn's tanks without his being able to even respond due to the range advantage the enemy had.

Meanwhile, Sergeant Wilcox staggered. His knee was hit, bloodied by a grenade exploding short. Pretty stupid of his enemy to use a grenade when a rifle bullet would do just as well, but hey, what did Wilcox care. Adrenaline pushed him on, kept him firing, led him to toss his rifle and draw his pistol, and rushed him right into the commandos - one of whom suddenly appeared to stagger to Wilcox's adrenaline-befogged mind. He heard a machine gun roar, felt a bullet wound him in the chest, felt another in his thigh, then fell and felt no more due to shock. He numbly observed the machine gun bullets firing into the commandos from above; he suddenly realized that the MH-60 that he had left behind must have been firing at the commandos. Then, he fell unconscious.

One squadron of F-35s flew off on a radioed mission from the Pythogrians. Another had been shot down but for two planes, and those had moved, with a third squadron, to fly cover for the C-17s. Two squadrons were busy dogfighting with the surviving F-22s. But the final twelve F-35s moved in to engage the advancing Bradleys, firing off 25mm cannon shells and Maverick AGMs.

The AH-64s had been all but wiped out by the latest Stinger launches and the machine gun fire; only one remained, quietly hovering over the main entrance, serenely firing its cannon, peaceably dealing out death and destruction to the enemy.

The C-17s climbed fast. One had taken two Stingers; the other twenty-three all had been hit by just one. However, the tiny warheads on the Stingers precluded real damage to them. They flew onwards, hoping to reach safety, wherever that would be. Where's the nearest non-Gilabad runway or tanker?

Major Nogales waited at the first roadblock as one of his men reloaded the Javelin ATGM he had just fired. He watched, unable to see through the smoke that 98 other Javelins had just been fired off and 21 more were about to launch. Meanwhile, Captain Masters, getting no reply from the handcuffed, still-nauseous, and detained GSP man, walked away. He, too, watched and waited. For some reason, as the sun began to go down, it struck Abraham Masters that this battle seemed reminiscent of Waterloo. The enemy had blasted away; now, they threw their cavalry, their tanks and armored vehicles, at the fortified infantry and dismounted cavalry. Of course, the British won at Waterloo. Would The Beltway win here?

Losses needed: Tanks, APCs, commandos, aircraft, other vehicles.

The Emperor sat musing upon the situation for a minute. "Goddam little stinkin' countries!", he thought. " Always starting a war over stupid shit."

Gen. Strickland spoke up. " Well, Alaric, what will it be? Do you want to let these morons blow the hell out of each other, or should we show them how it's done?"

" Y'know, John, it's not polite to call your allies morons."

Strickland laughed. " If the shoe fits..........."

Alaric grinned. " So true, so true. Anyway, here's what we're gonna do. Send the 41st and 88th CBGs to the international waters off Gilligan's Island...."

" Err, Alaric, that would be Gilabad."

" Gilligan, Giggly, Gilabad....whatever. Have the ships deploy over a 65 mile line of defense, staggered formation. Our official position is as observers. If Gilabad's jets cross the line into international waters, blow them the hell out of the sky. If any of our units are fired upon, respond with overwhelming force. The carriers are carrying about 275 total aircraft, and I want the
land-based Pythons at high alert. If we are attacked by Gilabad or their buddies, I want a full sea, air, and then land assault to commence. Have two more CBGs ready to sail at a moments notice, and get the Rogovs up to par. I want 250,000 Infantry and Marines hitting their beaches within 24 hours of hostilities. Have the AI Spiders ready, too. Let's say 15,000 of 'em. Send them in first. Those assholes won't know what hit 'em."

Strickland looked around the room at his commanders. " Well, gentlemen. You heard the man. MOVE!"


ooc: I'll be gone pretty much all week, so....have fun.

"Huh? Another fleet?" The Admiral said.

"They're Xeraphian." The First Mate remarked.

"Don't attack them then. They aren't involved."

"Yes sir."

"Huh? Another fleet?" The Admiral said.

"They're Xeraphian." The First Mate remarked.

"Don't attack them then. They aren't involved."

"Yes sir."


ooc: and even if we do get involved, we're on your side.

---double post---

OOC: Phew... good. I wouldn't stand a chance!

Also...

I was thinking the land battle would look like this, everyone: http://www.maj.com/gallery/awimager/Extraz/evacbasewar.bmp

And for the ocean battle:
http://www.maj.com/gallery/awimager/Extraz/seabattlemap.bmp

Acceptable?

The Citadel - Axinon

The Citadel tertiary situation room was ablaze with light when President William McConnel and Prime Minister Daniel Lawson walked into it. There were monitors on all walls, showing seemingly incoherent images. One man was in the center of it all. General Samuel Sampson, fresh out of his rehabilitation for combat injuries and sporting a fresh promotion to the highest ranking officer in Axinon's feeble Army.

"Oh, Hello Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister" said Sampson "take a seat."

McConnel and Lawson immediately accepted this offer. William McConnel was tired. The public firestorm over Axinon's Xharn debacle was just starting to fade, and what was once shaping up to be one of the most lopsided victories in Axinonian Presidential politics was suddenly becoming a race for the Executive Mansion. Daniel Lawson looked far fresher. He had just gotten back from a vacation in Dreesand, and the Senate would not confer for a half-month yet. Sitting across a metal desk was Samuel Sampson. A decorated combat veteran, Sampson was forced to retire from active service when he was nearly killed by a certain 'Bob Dobbs' in Xharn. He still maintained a fighters mentality, and had extracted major funding increases for the Army in the previous sessions of the Senate. But there was a serious look on his face this day.

"Mr. President, the dictator of the country Gilabad has been murdering members of the ILCA for no reason other than they oppose his government's politics."

A fire rose up in McConnel’s eyes, and it only grew with successive pictures on the monitors from Gilabadian state television. ILCA members getting gunned down in back streets. ILCA members getting burned alive. The ex-naval officer turned politician wanted a fight. He would not let these mass-murdering b*****ds get away with their actions. Just as he was about to say something, Lawson put his hand on the president's shoulder.

"They won't follow you into war blindly this time, sir" bluntly said the PM.

"But we can't let them get away with this" protested McConnel

"McConnel, you are my superior so I cannot tell you what to do. But as a 40 year veteran of politics, I should tell you this. You should not ask the public to declare war. You should make the public ask YOU to declare war. You want to punish those responsible for this. If the people see what these Gilabadians are doing, they are going to want you to go in and come back with the head of that genocidal dictator of theirs. We help remove a psychotic dictator, you get a huge boost in the public ratings, its a win-win. I will leak these videos that Sampson is showing us to the media, and within three days you will have your crusade for justice."

McConnel looked at the elderly man sitting before him, and slowly nodded his head in assent.

"Then it is done" said Lawson. "I will let you military men work out the actual execution of this thing while I start stirring the pot."

Within two hours McConnel had been briefed on the situation and sent out the following messages

[Highly encrypted]

To: The leaders of The Beltway, Pythogria and Lost Hills
From: William McConnel, President of Axinon and Supreme Executive of the Inonian Isles

Hello. This is William McConnel of Axinon. I have been briefed on the situation in Gilabad. All of your nations are performing great services to the world by fighting the repressive regime of Gilabad. I would like to offer my countries full military and economic support, but a formal declaration of war could take a few days to pass. Right now we can offer ballistic missile strikes from one Ballistic missile sub we own that is currently one hour from firing range of Gilabad and two OSM (Orbit to Surface Missiles) satellites that are in firing range. I hope that can help in the short term.

With the utmost respect,
William McConnel, President of Axinon and Supreme Executive of the Inonian Isles


[OOC: I do not think this is dogpiling, given the size of Gilabad compared to the anti-gilabad countries, but if Gilabad strongly opposes my joining the RP I can drop out]

Two comments; first, Gilabad surrounded my base, and second, my base is 1800 meters from the coast.

To Anxion -
Are those ballistic missiles loaded with nuclear/biological/chemical warheads? If so, we cannot countenance your using them. Even if no, we are unsure, due to the possibility that Gilabad may perceive them to be a nuclear strike and launch Gilabad's own nukes.
-Benjamin Cardin, Defence Minister of The Beltway

The Citadel - Axinon

The Citadel tertiary situation room was ablaze with light when President William McConnel and Prime Minister Daniel Lawson walked into it. There were monitors on all walls, showing seemingly incoherent images. One man was in the center of it all. General Samuel Sampson, fresh out of his rehabilitation for combat injuries and sporting a fresh promotion to the highest ranking officer in Axinon's feeble Army.

"Oh, Hello Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister" said Sampson "take a seat."

McConnel and Lawson immediately accepted this offer. William McConnel was tired. The public firestorm over Axinon's Xharn debacle was just starting to fade, and what was once shaping up to be one of the most lopsided victories in Axinonian Presidential politics was suddenly becoming a race for the Executive Mansion. Daniel Lawson looked far fresher. He had just gotten back from a vacation in Dreesand, and the Senate would not confer for a half-month yet. Sitting across a metal desk was Samuel Sampson. A decorated combat veteran, Sampson was forced to retire from active service when he was nearly killed by a certain 'Bob Dobbs' in Xharn. He still maintained a fighters mentality, and had extracted major funding increases for the Army in the previous sessions of the Senate. But there was a serious look on his face this day.

"Mr. President, the dictator of the country Gilabad has been murdering members of the ILCA for no reason other than they oppose his government's politics."

A fire rose up in McConnel’s eyes, and it only grew with successive pictures on the monitors from Gilabadian state television. ILCA members getting gunned down in back streets. ILCA members getting burned alive. The ex-naval officer turned politician wanted a fight. He would not let these mass-murdering b*****ds get away with their actions. Just as he was about to say something, Lawson put his hand on the president's shoulder.

"They won't follow you into war blindly this time, sir" bluntly said the PM.

"But we can't let them get away with this" protested McConnel

"McConnel, you are my superior so I cannot tell you what to do. But as a 40 year veteran of politics, I should tell you this. You should not ask the public to declare war. You should make the public ask YOU to declare war. You want to punish those responsible for this. If the people see what these Gilabadians are doing, they are going to want you to go in and come back with the head of that genocidal dictator of theirs. We help remove a psychotic dictator, you get a huge boost in the public ratings, its a win-win. I will leak these videos that Sampson is showing us to the media, and within three days you will have your crusade for justice."

McConnel looked at the elderly man sitting before him, and slowly nodded his head in assent.

"Then it is done" said Lawson. "I will let you military men work out the actual execution of this thing while I start stirring the pot."

Within two hours McConnel had been briefed on the situation and sent out the following messages

[Highly encrypted]



[OOC: I do not think this is dogpiling, given the size of Gilabad compared to the anti-gilabad countries, but if Gilabad strongly opposes my joining the RP I can drop out]


ooc: your'e not dog-piling. Gilabad may be larger than Axinon, Beltway, and Pythogria, but don't worry....I've got your'e back. If Gilabad objects....too bad.

Two comments; first, Gilabad surrounded my base, and second, my base is 1800 meters from the coast.

To Anxion -
Are those ballistic missiles loaded with nuclear/biological/chemical warheads? If so, we cannot countenance your using them. Even if no, we are unsure, due to the possibility that Gilabad may perceive them to be a nuclear strike and launch Gilabad's own nukes.
-Benjamin Cardin, Defence Minister of The Beltway


ooc: if Gilabad launches nukes, theyr'e done. If you use ICBMs, post them as frag warheads so there's no confusion.

We do not load our OSM batteries with nuclear warheads, save for two Guardian-Class OSM satellites. Those two are reserved for the sole purpose of nuking any enemy fleets that attack Axinon and are too powerful for our navy to stop. We find chemical weapons inefficient and a waste of space on a warhead and have laws against using biological weapons in warfare. So, no they are conventional. If you need us to fire, just send the message.

--Axinonian Orbital Weapon Command

[OOC: I'm logging off for the night, so if you need the missiles before then, you can RP it. The satellites are very hard to detect and, unless they are captured and dissected, untraceable to Axinon. They have relatively heavy armor (for a sattlite) and use a pair of laser-based Close In Weapon Systems, making them harder to destroy than a normal sattlite]

It had been long enough. The QSS Apocalspe, Quaon's pride and joy, was closing into the shores of Gilabad.

TBC

FROM: The Democratic Republic of Hamilay
TO: All Nations

The Democratic Republic notes with concern Gilabad's large population and runaway military budget against our small nation. However, The Beltway is a friend of the IASP, a friend of freedom and democracy throughout the world, and as such a friend of Hamilay. The Hamilayan military will fight alongside The Beltway and its allies to the end, with or without IASP support. We will send the 4th and 5th Armies, consisting of approximately 120,000 men each supported by three Carrier Battle Groups. We are a peaceful nation, but despite this, we will not abandon our allies under any circumstances.
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it." -Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Let it be known that on this day of the 27th of February 2006, the Democratic Republic of Hamilay has issued a declaration of war to the Rogue Nation of Gilabad and all military allies of Gilabad.

OOC: The base is on the coast and so is his CAPITAL? Only defend then, no use being shelled!

IC:

To Everyone-

Good! Gilabad's regime will fall! Once the Gilabad fleet is taken care of, our forces will land and our battleships will begin firing. Those missiles would be well-used against any large military presence in the area... and those big ones...
save one for Gilabad's capital.

Once the capital is destroyed or captured, we'll do a mop-up operation around the country if he still wants to fight.

To Beltway-

Our forces will charge within a few minutes. Don't advance until we ambush them. with those choppers gone, we should secure your base. Our battleships should begin firing after the enemy fleet is gone, and we'll shell the capital and
charge straight in.

Pythogria, how close are you to Gilabad?
Quaon - thanks for the help.
Everyone - where's the closest non-Gilabad base for my C-17s? Or am I going to have to land at and take over a deserted Gilabad air base?

To Hamilay -
Thank you for your support. Although Gilabad has a large population, one wonders how much of the population really supports the regime. Perhaps propaganda will work?
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway

OOC: I'm a day from being in firing range, but I have to get rid of GHilabad's fleet first.

Also, you can use my base for landing.

IC:

Yes... propaganda. Once we take/destroy the capital, morale should decrease a lot, mnaking propaganda even more effective.

OOC: OK, I'm starting the attack on Gilabad's fleet now.

IC:

"Enemy ships sighted! All sailors to battle stations!"

"This is NOT a drill! REPEAT! This is NOT a drill!"

That was confirmed when three torpedoes from a Gilabad submarine sunk a Pythogrian Dolphin II.

All the sailors on the various ships ran to various battle stations, readying all the guns to fire. They soon did. Torpedoes streaked, shells flew, and the massive "BOOM"s of main guns shook the earth.

OOC: Ending, again, with rounds flying. I"ll allow Gilabad to respond to my land ambush and fleet attack.

OOC - Pythogria, have you any tankers in your bases? I'd like to begin moving my land-based air force to your territory, but figure that I'll need tankers to get me there.

The QSS Apocalspe was near enough to the shore to land. Surrounded by four frigates, it carried some 4 thousand highly trained Inferno Corps troops. A squadron of jets hovered above it, preparing to provide air support to the Beltway troops.

The ship docked, and troopers hurried out. The sight was horrifying. Bullets flew from Gilabad troops who had seen the ship coming and Quaon troops fell in bloody messes. Within a few minutes, the 4 thousand became 2.

The Quaon jets attacked the Gilabad troops. The Quaon troops moved forward, firing and yelling, attempting to reach their comrades in arms, the troops of Beltway.

OOC - Uh, could everyone please wait for Gilabad? Oh, and none of your fleets probably arrived; since none were yet close enough in the last few posts, and since chronologically, we're still at dusk on the first day of the war, you need to wait for Gilabad and I to advance the storyline far enough for your ships to arrive.

OOC - Uh, could everyone please wait for Gilabad? Oh, and none of your fleets probably arrived; since none were yet close enough in the last few posts, and since chronologically, we're still at dusk on the first day of the war, you need to wait for Gilabad and I to advance the storyline far enough for your ships to arrive.
OOC: Sorry. Just assume that post happens when it would be chronologically correct.

OOC - That's okay; I just want everyone involved to fight a good clean war, without having to deal with messy chronology and such.

OK first off NO NUKES. If Nukes get involved, this turns into a noob war. I'm asking you to please use conventional weapons only. Second, Pythagria, you had no military presence in Gilabad to begin with. I don't recall you ever sending troops in while you all were evacuating the "refugees". By the way, the capitol is nowhere near the coast. About the Avenger systems, because this is taking place deep in my country, There is obviously no problem in getting supplies to them. There are steady supply lines to all of my forces.

As the Gilabadian troops began to overwhelm the Beltway base, the AC-130D gunship finally arrived, it quickly aimed its miniguns, bofors, GAUs, and it's 120M.M. howitzer at the enemy targets below and began firing. The F-22s along with their reinforcements began to re-accquire their targets and launched their XAMS at the enemy F-35s. After repeated attempts to get the C-17s from the Beltway base to land, the F-22 formation lined up behind them and launched their sidewinders. (OOC: this part was from a previous post a while back that wasn't responded to)

The enemy F-16s were quickly caught on radar as they crossed into the border. The hundreds of SAM stations on the ground began accquired the targets and began firing. 5 F-22s were launched to intercept.

The F-35 formation with their F-22 escorts, were nearing the firing range for their LASM missiles. They followed into formation. Meanwhile general tanaka was sitting in the war-room.
"This is an excellent plan to draw attention to the F-35s, while their buisy with them, our Texas class battlecruisers are slowly creaping towards them!"

OOC - Gilabad, I ignored the earlier post that had the F-22s move in on the C-17s; that post occurred before I had a chance to reply. Second, you haven't yet entered the base. Third, you haven't posted the requested losses. Fourth, I already established that my base is near (1800 meters from, although without any land route to) the coast, something you did not dispute earlier. Fifth, what is an XAMS? Sixth, no nukes. We don't have, nor do we want, nuclear weapons. And seventh, the Avengers will have to pause to reload; thus, I'll have a bit more free reign over the battlefield. Just warning you.

There has already been more than just "pauses", I will not post losses until you post the requested losses from before your post.

There has already been more than just "pauses", I will not post losses until you post the requested losses from before your post.
OOC: Calm down. No offense, but it feels just a little hostile in this war. LOL!:D

About the XAMS, I meant XMAAs. It's a new long range medium air to air missile developed by lockheed.

OOC:Thankyou I've calmed down.

Gilabad, we lost eight tanks before your tanks got into range of our tanks; further, I assumed that the F-22s hadn't quite yet arrived in the seconds before your tanks got into range. Anything else needed?

Fourteen against fifty isn't normally good odds; however, neither side really expected to run into the other, and the sun, although setting, was in the eyes of the fifty. Thus, the fourteen Beltway F-35s got the jump on the Gilabad planes; however, they weren't able to take advantage effectively. Three F-35s were downed by the fifty Sidewinders launches by Gilabad's F-22s, as did two of the twelve C-17s that had launched from the base. However, the F-35s recovered quickly, firing a barrage of 22 AIM-120 AMRAAMs and arming their remaining AAMs. The surviving C-17s, now crossing the coast, flew on, their crews mournful over the deaths of their comrades and nervous that they'd too be shot down. Further, the Patriots had reloaded, fitting themselves out with the smaller PAC-3 missiles more suited to air defence, and fired off a 64-missile barrage at the F-22s.

One AC-130D gunship had arrived and torn down a section of the wall; two F-35s of the twelve - now eleven; one had been shot down by a tank commander's MG - that had been doing ground attack runs moved to intercept, arming their last Sidewinders as they waited to close in.

Twenty-five more F-22s had been vectored in to attack The Beltway's forces; however, they were intercepted by twenty-four Beltway F-35s, four hundred meters north of the battle. The F-35s launched 48 AMRAAMs at their opponents, then dove to avoid the missiles streaking at them.

On the ground, as the Gilabad tanks continued to advance, the tanks reloaded and fired a second salvo, this one of only 162 rounds. Englehorn's tank was among the M1A2s out of action; a 155mm HEAT shell had hit the tank's side turret armor, penetrating, killing the loader, and wrecking the tank by throwing its guidance system off and even bending the gun a bit. Englehorn, barely alive, dazed and wounded, sat on the ruins of his tank and brooded. We've got to get tanks like theirs, he thought.

Four F-35s went down in the dogfight with the surviving F-22s; the rest continued to fight at the close range both sides, being composed of fighter pilots, sought, firing their 25mm cannons and their last short-range Sidewinder AAMs.

Captain Masters noticed a group of engineers standing with rifles in hand, doing nothing. He shouted, "Hey, any of you got C4? We might as well lay some down, as makeshift mines."
One of the engineers shouted back, "You know what, we got some C4 left. Where should we put it?"
Masters replied, "Follow me," then ran to the breach, followed by the engineers carrying their C4.

Major Nogales tensed. The tanks were closing in; the enemy troops approaching. He knew he had to stand and fight. But against all that? He crouched lower, then dove into the foxhole he had dug earlier. The other platoon of troops at the first roadblock, seeing the highest-ranking man among them panic, dove into their own foxholes; only the machine-gunner, who had been in the stockade for seven counts of assault in the past week, but was released for the battle, remained at his post.

Finally, the MH-60 that had safely escaped the 4th Division HQ flew off into the countryside. There was no chance it would survive an attempt to head home or to make for Pythogria, so the pilot eventually decided to land near a cave, where they could hole up for a bit.

If you don't mind, I'd like to have the people aboard the MH-60 (eight Airborne troopers (three wounded) and one pilot) survive to do a bit of Escape & Evasion; I may end up killing them off anyway. You can comfortably assume that Wilcox is dying and will be dead by the end of the first day - he suffered chest, leg, and knee wounds, after all.

OOC - Gilabad, look at this post (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10506657&posted=1#post10506657). Do you agree to those times?

OK now I will state my losses. 8 F-22s were shot down by your SAMs and 14 more tanks were destroyed by ATGM fire. 20 troops killed, 200 wounded.
(OOC: this was before your last post)

I accept that timeline!

Official Statement of President Holtz of Holy Paradise:

Holy Paradise believes all nations have a right to rule with soverignty. Gilabad found out the ACLU members were involved in illegal practices, these practices being considered murder by Gilabad, and thus, Gilabad did what they considered legally right, and their rights as a soverign nation allowed them to do this. Therefore, Holy Paradise believe the war on Gilabad is an unprovoked attack, and thus, Holy Paradise offers all forms of medical, food, fuel, and ammunition supplies to Gilabad if they need any.

Gilabad - What about losses from the dogfight and from my tanks shooting at yours as they got in range? Further, how many of the commandos died from my machine gun and pistol fire? Your next post should take up the five minutes it took to get up to the first roadblocks - of which only one is mostly unguarded; I'll post a one-minute section on the response of the roadblock troops, and then you'll post a one-minute section on entering the minefield. I (OOCly) control the mines until you enter them; in other words, I decide how many got set off by explosions during the fight at the roadblocks, but you decide how many of your tanks get blown up in the minefield. The mines are contact mines, set to a two-second time delay (to allow enemy tanks to move further in before the mines start exploding).

To President Holtz of Holy Paradise -
I'm afraid you have the situation wrong. The arrests occurred on land ceded to The Beltway, and thus on land subject to the laws of our nation; further, Gilabad made no attempts at diplomacy, simply attacking our compound and violating the agreement we had made. We did not fire the first shot in this war. Please end your offer of aid; otherwise, we are prepared to order an embargo on your nation.
Signed,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway

Holy Paradise, your aid would be much appreciated. Don't worry about a stupid embargo. The nation of Gilabad will wire 23,000,000,000$ to your nation to cover up for any losses by the "embargo" on your country.

1 Special Forces operator was killed while 3 were wounded in the wild charge made by one of the Beltway leutennants. As the operators were behind cover, and what was not destroyed by the M203 round was eventually killed by the 4 M240B machineguns and the 6 snipers armed with McMillan 50. Cal M87ELRs.
(OOC: Of the Special Forces who were behind cover, it's bad tactics even in a last ditch situation to make a blind charge against dug in special forces OOC)

15 Tanks were destroyed by enemy tank fire. Another 10 were destroyed by ATGM fire. The tank division as a whole along with the two Battlegroups, were relatively unaffected and continued their assault. The AC-130D gunship then provided cover fire for the tanks as they neared the entrances by firing at the artillery and tank positions. 10 F-22s were destroyed by the enemy F-35s however the pilots were able to bail out. The remaining F-22s fired their XMAAs at the remaining F-35s.

As the trailing F-22s near the coast followed the C-17s and were beginning to run low on fuel, decided to launch another burst of XMAAS at the fleeing C-17s and then began to return.

We accept your offer Gilabad. Aid is on the way, properly guarded, of course.

I fired 362 rounds and only killed 15 tanks? Do 120mm sabot rounds really have only a 4.1% success rate against the M12? Further, where is Holy Paradise? Perhaps it's near one of my allies...

To Holy Paradise -
Your support of our opponent is wrongheaded. We hereby impose a full embargo upon your nation and expect our allies to support us in this action. Further, we are surprised by your decision. If you believe so strongly in soverignity, why do you not support us, who were attacked before even firing a shot for actions that took place on our own territory? Why do you think that we provoked a war when we never fired a shot?
Signed,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister

OOC: I guess I didn't read the whole story. Let me read the whole thing

IC: Aid put on hold. Money wired back to Gilabad for now.

OOC: I read it, and it said it happened in his own capitol, Beltway. Also, my nation is in the region called Nasicournia.

IC: Aid continuing towards Gilabad. Money reaccepted.

The ICLU massacres occurred in his capital, but that's not why we went to war. For all anyone knows ICly, a murder may have occurred, and nobody really knows where. Oh, and not what region, but where geographically. In other words, could a shoot-down of aircraft heading to Gilabad from your territory occur? Not that I'm planning that; I don't want to have another nation at war.

To Holy Paradise -
The events that actually took place on the buses on our base is unknown. What cannot be disputed, however, is that Gilabad shot first without asking questions, without even demanding that our commander surrender the GSP officers we detained. Further, we felt within our rights in making the arrest; since it was on our territory, and since we had reason to believe that a crime (according to our laws) may have been committed on our territory, we had just cause to detain the GSP officers. Therefore, we are disturbed by your continued shipment of supplies to Gilabad.
Signed,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister

The ICLU massacres occurred in his capital, but that's not why we went to war. For all anyone knows ICly, a murder may have occurred, and nobody really knows where. Oh, and not what region, but where geographically. In other words, could a shoot-down of aircraft heading to Gilabad from your territory occur? Not that I'm planning that; I don't want to have another nation at war.

To Holy Paradise -
The events that actually took place on the buses on our base is unknown. What cannot be disputed, however, is that Gilabad shot first without asking questions, without even demanding that our commander surrender the GSP officers we detained. Further, we felt within our rights in making the arrest; since it was on our territory, and since we had reason to believe that a crime (according to our laws) may have been committed on our territory, we had just cause to detain the GSP officers. Therefore, we are disturbed by your continued shipment of supplies to Gilabad.
Signed,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister


To The Beltway: If you have no proof of what exactly happened on the buses, I cannot accept the idea of Gilabad shooting first.

OOC:Geographically, its about 750-1000 miles from Roach-Busters, if that helps. My country's kinda shaped like a backwards "C" with the capital being on the midpoint.

To Holy Paradise -
Gilabad shot first when its Fourth Armored Division began shooting, unprovoked, at our troops. We do not know if the GSP officers we detained shot any ICLU members on our base; however, we do know that Gilabad violated the agreement it had made with us by attacking our base.
Signed,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister

How far from Gilabad?

If I must explain why I retalliated by attacking the Beltway base, was because the Beltway detained my GSP officers for ubsurd reasons. Their argument was that a "murder" might have occured on their base when it happened in the capitol of Gilabad, Gilabad DF. It wouldn't have happened if you hadn't ubsurdly detained my GSP when they were transporting "reufugees" to your base!

OOC:about 4,200 miles from Gilabad, let's say.

IC: To Mark Warner,
He was being condemned by your nation and its allies. If it hurt the country enough, I say he has the right to attack. It is a hard matter to sort out if you ask us
Holy Paradisian Government.

If I must explain why I retalliated by attacking the Beltway base, was because the Beltway detained my GSP officers for ubsurd reasons. Their argument was that a "murder" might have occured on their base when it happened in the capitol of Gilabad, Gilabad DF. It wouldn't have happened if you hadn't ubsurdly detained my GSP when they were transporting "reufugees" to your base!
IC: To Beltway:
Gilabad has given proof that they were provoked. Gilabad still gets supplies.
Sincerely,
President John Holtz

To Holy Paradise -
We reiterate that the events - the possible murder (which may have been corroborated by eyewitness acounts; the details are hazy, due to the difficulty in contacting our base), the arrests, the attack - that took place occurred on territory legally transferred, if only temporarily, to our nation. Further, Gilabad failed to attempt to figure out what was going on, and instead went in guns blazing. If arrests on the soil of another nation are enough provocation to invade the territory of said nation without warning, then what meaning does soverignity have any more? We hope you are not misled.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister

This occurred near - a relative term - your capital; perhaps there's a piece of coastal terrain about 6 km away, and we're fighting about 1800 meters from it.

To Holy Paradise -
We reiterate that the events - the possible murder (which may have been corroborated by eyewitness acounts; the details are hazy, due to the difficulty in contacting our base), the arrests, the attack - that took place occurred on territory legally transferred, if only temporarily, to our nation. Further, Gilabad failed to attempt to figure out what was going on, and instead went in guns blazing. We hope you are not misled.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister

This occurred near - a relative term - your capital; perhaps there's a piece of coastal terrain about 6 km away, and we're fighting about 1800 meters from it.

OOC: Very well.

IC: They were detained without complete proof, and thus, Gilabad shall continue to be supplied.

To Holy Paradise -
The legality of the detention is not the issue; the response of Gilabad is. If a nation believes that another has improperly detained citizens of the first nation, it should go through proper channels, rather than invade, guns blazing. Had we been contacted by Gilabad, we would have been amenable to surrendering the GSP officers. Now, we cannot; they may even be dead, killed by Gilabad's own troops. Further, Gilabad did not formally declare war; thus, any arguments involving the condemnation are moot. Please cease your shipment of supplies to Gilabad.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister

To-Gilabad
From-General Grimm , Leader of The Holy Republic of Bloodbank
I commend you on your Attack on a enemy that dears push your might and even threatens other Nations for aiding you. I for one am welling to lead you not only money and arms but all so people who are welling to fight for your cause.

To the HR of Bloodbank -
It seems you have been misled. The Beltway did not "push Gilabad's might," as you put it; we were attacked, suddenly and without provocation. We did indeed detain GSP personnel on our own soil for what we believed to be probable cause for murder; however, Gilabad, rather than even demanding we give up the GSP personnel, attacked us. Please end your offer of aid to Gilabad; you do not want to enter the world stage as a pariah, and this offer of aid could put you in that situation.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway

Thankyu, your assistance will be much appreciated!

The Gilabadian government decided to let the Gilabadian citizens in on the action. Since all of Gilabad's citzens own firearms by law, the Gilabadian government has given each citizen over the age of 13, body armor, 3 AT4s, 6 M67 gernaides, and 2 stinger missiles. Before long, a hord of about 100,000,000 citizens were on foot or on vehicles heading to the battle scene.

OOC - Pythogria, have you any tankers in your bases? I'd like to begin moving my land-based air force to your territory, but figure that I'll need tankers to get me there.

OOC: My Goliaths could serve as tankers. Four being converted!

Also, Gilabad, I had troops in Gilabad. How else am I going to evacuate troops?

Oh, fine. New plan-- my troops have been called back and are now all on my fleet. 75,000 infantrry. As I had't declared war until later, my troops coulds go through security (but they did NO damage.)

All posts of mine regarding inland troops are now null and void.

But can somebody PLEASE tell me exactly where my fleet (and soldiers) are? I'm confused...

In response to Beltway's cause for proof. I'm guessing that you didn't think that this was enough warning? (OOC:THis was before the thing got started)

As the 4th Tank division got within sight of the Beltway base, they were ordered to hold their position as they surrounded the base and cut all ground escape off. The 400 GSP personnel assisted by setting up road blocks around the base. Meanwhile, 35 F-22 Raptors were mobilized and were armed with JDAM 5000 Lbs. bunker busting bombs and were going to be used for CAP cover. While the F-22s were on their way, a division of M1096 PAladins got in position with the M-12s and aimed their guns at the base. 50 Avenger vehicles were set up to shoot down any aircraft that were going to take off. The entire force waited for the Gilabad Electric Service to shut down the electricity for the base. In the meantime, the GSP in the buses held their ground.

"This is a clear violation of the agreement Beltway!" the leutennant yelled

Now even if this hadn't happened, it is utter stupidity to detain law enforcement officers of another country and not expect conflict.

Gilabad - I'm going to ignore that unless you mention that you have significant rebel movements and reduce the number of people in the 'horde' significantly (so that your economy keeps working and because there aren't well above 100 million military-age citizens in your capital), along with mentioning traffic jams on your highways - which will tie up your supply lines, reduce the overall number of the 'horde' (due to traffic accidents, gun accidents, etc), and significantly deplete your stockpiles of Stinger ammo, thus meaning that your Avengers won't necessarily get reloaded. If everyone's armed, by law, then anyone who dislikes the government - and there are always people who dislike the government, especially if it's a totalitarian, genocidal, and dictatorial one like yours - will be armed and ready to shoot. Further, they couldn't have been armed in the five minutes that your reply to my post is taking up in the chronology of events.
You didn't have him say "This is a clear violation of the treaty. Now give up the GSP officers, or we're going to attack." For all our commander can be assumed to know by your commander, your lieutenant could be referring to anything. A warning includes a threat and an action to take to avoid the threatened act. Diplomatic conflict is expected; warfare is not. I was hoping (and even TG'd you) that you'd demand we leave, allowing us to pull out. Now, I'm in a war I didn't really want.
Pythogria - If your troops did get loaded up aboard your ships, then your ships are close to the capital; further, Gilabad can't be expected to immediately realize your hostile intent. Therefore, you can launch a surprise attack and bombard Gilabad city and you can land your troops back in Gilabad and attempt to seize the capital. Gilabad's supply lines are damaged; further, Gilabad's command-and-control is hampered. In addition, you have a chance to win it all immediately, and Gilabad won't be able to reinforce its attack. You may even push Gilabad to end its attack on us.

To Beltway:
I see the way you nation is now. I beat Beltway want into Gilabad and had these poor souls you,who more then likely are dead, say did a crime kidnaped from their homes and dressed in GSP uniform so you could start something like this and i for one say we well not stade for it we the people of The Holy Republic of Bloodbank can not stand around and watch these poor souls be killed we still stade by a first decision.

Main Office, President's Palace, Duntovostok, capital of ChevyRocks

"Have you heard, Mr. Presdient?" said Defense Secretary Borgesov as he entered the room.
"Hear about what?"
"There's been some kind of battle breaking out between The Beltway and Gilabad."
"Battle?"
"From what we understand, Beltway forces inside Gilabad were attacked. There's fighting on the ground and in the air."
"Is this because of that ICLU incident?"
"In some manner, yes."

Johanson stood up, turned around, and looked out the window. Eighty people, executed...and they didn't have the "luxury" of dying immediately either. They slowly bled to death. And their bodies being used as target practice? That was barbaric as far as Johanson was concerned.

"So what should we do?" said the President.
"For starters, we need to know what specifically is going on, sir. An RF-40 reconnissance overflight would be very useful in getting information on how many units and what kind are invovled, even if we don't ourselves get involved."
"That's pretty dangerous, I'd think. Not from The Beltway, but Gilabad could certainly try something."
"I should hope they don't. Firing upon a military aircraft would be considered an act of war, and you know everyone else in the armed forces would be just itchin' to respond to us getting into some kind of battle. We don't have alot of choice though, sir, we're still several months away from getting anywhere with the Strategic Satellite Program."

The President thought for a moment.
"Very well, then. Order the flight. And raise the defense level, just in case."

By the way Pythogria, I will RP as if you had magicaly transported troops into the heart of Gilabad.

As the Pythogrian tanks advanced, the AC-130D gunship simply turned its guns and layed down surpressing fire on the enemy tanks. With the GAUs, Miniguns, Bofors, Vulcan cannons, and the Howitzer going, it was a real firework show! The Paladins who had stayed back to provide support for the tanks simply turned their guns also and began an artillery barage on the inbound tanks. In the F-22 formation, 4 F-22s split formation and stooped down to drop their JDAM bunker busters on the incomming tanks.

Beltway, do you not know how big Gilabad is!?! One highway isn't going to matter. There is way more than that of military aged citizens if you'd like me to increase the horde. Gilabad's budget is 57,141,832,572,442$, so for you to make the accusation that we can't afford this armament is ludicrous!

OOC: Most of them are just a bunch of drunk citizens looking for a fight. And when I say drunk, I don't mean blind drunk, I mean just buzzed drunk, so they can still see.

OOC: OK then.

IC:

Infantry fired Thunderclaps at the tanks, which destroyed the first line or so. Black Lanner rounds followed, which do serious damage. Five tanks encircled the enemy troops and fired upon the gunship, and planned to destroy the artillery as well.

F16E's then dropped bombs upon the artiullery, immediately tipping the balance a little. The remaining infantry took cover, and immediately started some high-speed tank target practice. Gilabadian infantry were fired upon by HVAR automatic rifles, and rockets were launched at the planes. (Thunderclaps are good AA weapons. Trust me.)

To Beltway-
Help! Can you help take out this gunship? This is killing our troops!

By the way, you still didn't RP the air battle between my F-22s and your F-16s!

Axinon Senate Chamber

The leak never needed to happen. Mere minutes after McConnel and Lawson had been briefed on the situation, the Axinonian News Network began running stories on the Gilabad situation. By 9:20 that night, Prime Minister Lawson had called an emergency meeting of the Senate, with all Senators either in attendance or linked up over a live, secure data network.

Standing up on the central podium of the Axinon Senate Chamber, Lawson addressed the assembled legislators.

"My fellow Senators. Gilabad has recently engaged in ruthless and unnecessary murders of ILCA members for the last week or so now. The dictator of this country has been almost totally unresponsive to negotiation, and many ILCA members were dead by the time a deal was reached. But, when things were looking up, the Gilabadian army attacked the peacekeepers, without warning or negotiation.

The good President McConnel is unable to be here at this moment, but I have in my hand here an official document stating his request for this good body to declare war on the immoral government of Gilabad and her allies. For the love of all that is good in this world, do not let Gilabad's atrocities go unavenged."

On the subsequent vote, the Senate voted 153-4 to declare war with two abstaining and 41 unable to vote due to the sudden nature of the session.

Secret IC
To: Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway
From: William McConnel, President of Axinon

Our senate has acted remarkably swiftly and we will be able to supply direct military aid as our ships can arrive.

That said, we may have a problem with Holy Paradise jumping into the conflict. Their country has a population of just over 4 billion and has a military budget three times that of Axinon (or about 162 times that of The Beltway). The scores that I received this information from may be incorrect, but I they have proved reliable in the past. If they stay out of the conflict militarily, their economic aid will be no problem.

If they decide to take military action against our nations, I would like to ask that you let us do the lion's share of the fighting on that front. Although they have a large military budget, I think we can take them.

And if you need any missile strikes to help your base, do not hesitate to ask.

With the utmost respect,
William McConnel

I also have to call Godmoding on Pythogria! You can't state the losses of your opponent! You can't just say "oh well my infantry just killed a whole bunch of your tanks the battle is mine haha!". You have to wait for the reply of the oponent!

To: All nations consitering millitary action agenst Gilabad
From: William McConnel, President of Axinon and Supreme Executive of the Inonian Isles

Any nation planning millitary action agenst Gilabad, Holy Paradise, or Bloodbank can be supplied by Axinon's millitary with pictures from our expansive spy sattlite network.

OOC: Oh! Whoops, sorry, Gilabad! I'll dio that now.

Also, when will my fleet be able to land my stuff?

IC:

"Tiger 2 here! F-22s sighted!"

"EVASIVE ACTION! EVASIVE ACTION!"

The F16E's dodged a few missiles, but Tiger 4 was very unfortunate. He was struck by missiles, and soon crashed into some Gilabad infantry.

"No..." Tiger 1 thought. 4 was his best friend.

"We'll avenge him..." Tiger 1 thought.

"RAH!!!"

Tiger 1 did an amazing dive bombing manuever, releasing his bombs straight into the heart of the gunship. He would never make it back-- he was shot down, along with his other two teammates. All were mourned, and were given the Desceased Heroics Medal.

OOC: That gunship is now VERY damaged, BTW.Sound good? Half my bombers are gone and you have a damaged gunship. OK?

EDIT: Huh? I'd think it's sort of natural for rockets to kill tanks. Besides, that made a VERY small dent in your overall force. I killed maybe 7 tanks (that is a lot of rockets.) But OK, I won't do it again. Sorry sincerely.

OK I'll accept a "damaged" gunship. Still you can't state your opponents losses! That's part of RPing even though I'll accept it this time. By the way BOMBS of all things BOMBS, there is a very minute chance of a direct hit from bombs. But since this is an RP and I can tell you are new at this, I will accept a damaged gunship.

OOC: Good. OK. Now, as for the fleet battle, can it start now please?

to Gilabad:
I'm sorry my friend but with Axinon stepping up to the plate and people in my lands getting upsit with the way thing are leading i must withdraw my deciciones. I'm sorry but intill i get thing under control i can not do anything to help you and well be pulling out of this war for now.

On the tarmac, Walker R.A.B.

Just as soon as Colonel Briggs had taxied out to the runway, the message came over his headset:

"Red-Fido Forty, Red-Fido Forty. Mission is scrubbed. Throttle down, and return to the flight line."
"Scrubbed? Why, scrubbed?"
"Well, Colonel Briggs, I've been told that the nation Axinon is willing to provide us with satellite photos of the Gilabad forces. So it won't be nessecary to have you fly all the way over there."
"Well, you better get my tanker support back then, they're damn near out of the country already."



To: Axinon
From: Erik Borgesov, Chevrokian Defense Secretary
Subject: Satellite recon

It would be greatly appreciated to have access to your satellite reconnissance photos of the Beltway-Gilabad situation. How soon would these be available?

The F-22s who were trailing the F-16s immediately fired another burst of XMAAs at the enemy aircraft. OOC:there was another group of F-22s who were engaging your F-16s ON THE COAST, not on the battlefield with Beltway, however since this is an RP I will again accept.

OOC: My F16E's are on my ships... You'd have a hard time getting there.

In the Gilabadian Space Association headquarters, there was a great concern for the number of Anxion sattelites passing over Gilabadian airspace. The decision was made to put non-nuclear charges in ICBMs and aim them at the sattelites, although the procedure had never been done before, it was worth a try. 4 ICBMs were launched.

Pythogria, LISTEN, I'm talking about the ones who supposedly attacked my tanks! Good gosh if you are going to RP at least do it without bursting my brain vessels!

Could you post your tanks' advance on our troops? Oh, and as for the commando thing - Wilcox's charge was not meant to kill all your men; it instead distracted them (from using their Stinger) long enough for the chopper to escape. ICBMs can't possibly hit satellites. If you keep the ICBM launch, all parties on our side will attempt to shoot them down and, assuming all are shot down, (or even if not - malfunctions happen), claim that you attempted a nuclear strike. It would be difficult for you to win that diplomatic argument.

To Anixon MoD -
We'll take all satellite recon photos you have available; the National Reconaissance Office has been starving for a role ever since the Western War.
Sincerely,
Ben Cardin, Defence Minister

Meanwhile, in Dover, at Dulles, in Baltimore, hundreds of aircraft, perhaps more than even in the Western War, prepared for launch. The First and Second Fighter Wings, the Third and Fourth Composite Wings, and the other active combat wings of the Beltway Security Force's Army Air Force readied themselves for the long journey to bases in Pythogria.

To: Erik Borgesov, Chevrokian Defense Secretary
From: Admiral George O'Conner

In less than thirty minutes, our global surveillance satellites will sweep Gilabad. We can download you the pictures then. One or two high resolution stationary satellites will be positioned over Gilabad within a week or two, but for the time being we can send you pictures of the combat zone every two hours or so.

OOC: EDIT: Hmm? OK, I'm backing out of this. Sorry Beltway. This is too mixed up. I've lost track of all this. Besides, my soldiers are going to get slaughtered anyway.

Sorry again. All damage by Pythogria never occured, and all those ICLU are back in Gilabad.

OOC: The only Axinonian sattlites actually over your areospace right now are the global survailence sattlites that pass over every reagon of the globe at least once every two days. All Vengance sattlites are positioned either over international waters or allied territory. Wait a week or so, then you will have sattlites to blow up. Right now there is no exceptional Axinonian sattlite triffic.

If you still want to attack the global survailence sattlites, you can do that. The odds of a direct hit on a Vengance is very slim though.

I have to go now. Good night

OK calming down.

OOC - Never mind; see Pythogria's edited post. However, you can still post the approach of your tanks to our roadblocks.

He never accepted the terms of agreement! I never said he could come in. So his troops never should've been there, but being the only one with a sense of direction here, is going to try to continue to allow him to RP.

OK back on track I guess. The Gilabadian tanks along with the two battle groups moved up to the gates of the base, the barracade was destroyed by the MK. 19 gernaide launchers on the tanks, and the first M-12 crossed the threshold unkowing about the mine-field ahead.

OOC -He's decided to back out; sorry about the confusion. Perhaps we should stop and plan a bit?

Save the planning for after I annhiala....I mean over-run your base. Continue.

(OOC: Sorry to hijack your thread guys, but Beltway, please respond in the Raven Corps factory thread.)

I'd like the base to fall; however, here's what will happen, if you agree: First, both sides' air forces are essentially wiped out by the various strikes. Second, your tanks are slowed down by the mines. Third, we load up the other 12 C-17s (sorry I didn't mention them earlier; however, they're the other ones in the transport wing I was using) in the extra time we have with whoever we can, including Englehorn and Masters, but not including The General (who commands the 6th Airborne and stays behind), Major Nogales (who gets captured from his foxhole), or the GSP officers. Fourth, you slowly penetrate the base, using the breaches made in the walls. You lose more tanks to my C4, to ATGMs, and to my surviving tanks, who form a cordon around the C-17s. Finally, we take off; your planes come to intercept, but Pythogria's planes come in and prevent a proper interception. We lose six of our C-17s, all of our heavy equipment (along with much of the rest of our equipment), and about 15,000 men (dead, wounded, captured, or missing). Perhaps we shouldn't rp the rest of the battle? After all, the more interesting part will come when everyone, including Azazia, is able to participate.

4 more tank divisions were being called in for reinforcements (if needed). In the meantime, the remaining F-22s fired yet one of their last bursts of XMAAs at the remaining F-35s. In the meantime, the gunship continued to blast away at the base, with the Paladins supporting the rear by providing artillery support. There was an M4 command and control vehicle on scene that was hidden underneath a wooded area near the battle. It was in a direct link with an Awaks nearby.

"Eagle eye, this is Groundhog over"

"Roger that Groundhog go ahead"

"We have a confirmed breach of the enemy base, please relay that to "hammerhead" (gunship) over"

"Roger that will do"

I agree however, I was going to try to get this whole "base" thing over with. But if you require a little more time than I'll let you.

OOC - I won't be able to reply until Wednesday; I have a lot of stuff to do tomorrow, and won't be on the forums nearly long enough to compose a proper post.

The advance was immediately halted right as the tanks were preparing to make the onslaught inside of it. The M4 C&C vehicle ordered all combat troops and vehicles to retreat. This was a major shock to all of the troops and vehicle operators, so they all pulled back. This was due to General Westmorlands call for 5 B-52 bombers to come in with a 65,000 bomb load each, of JDAM 5000 Lbs. bunker busting bombs and wipe out the base.
They would be in support of 5 F-22 Raptors. They were 10 minutes away.

Same here. I won't be able to post until tommorrow evening, in the meantime, Goodnight!

OOC: Same here too, I'll be off until tomorrow.

The 3rd and 5th Carrier Battle Groups, consisting of 22 capital ships each sailed for Gilabad at 0630 this morning. With them came dozens of transports carrying the Hamilayan 2nd Army, some 120,000 men. We will enter Gilabadian waters in approximately two days.

OOC: Is it far enough along that my troops can show up?

OOC: Chronologically, we have only advanced 2 hours, tops. Once the base falls, things will start moving faster.

Admiral Carrol watched the fracas through his binoculars. It was starting to get really interesting, and then Holy Paradise showed up......on Gilabad's side. " Shit", Carrol thought, " the Emperor is going to be pissed about that."

He turned to his aide. " Ensign, inform the Emperor that we have a new player. Holy Paradise is here, and theyr'e aiding Gilabad. Also, put in a request for an additional CBG. That'll bring this fleet up to five CBGs. One hundred-twenty warships should be able to maintain observation status indefinately."

" Aye, sir."


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Alaric read the Admiral's report, noting the request for an additional CBG. He yelled across the room. " John, c'mere and read this." General John Strickland, CMDR XF, strode across the room, glanced at the message, and looked up sharply. " Holy Paradise? That's in Nasicournia, right?"

"Very good, General. My thoughts exactly. We haven't heard of or from Rachel in a very long time. I'm wondering if she has her hands in this."

" Wouldn't surprise me in the least, Alaric." Reading the message one more time, he said, "Maybe it'd be a real good idea to send a few more CBGs to the fleet off Gilabad."

"Do you think HP would attack us?"

" No, but there's nothing wrong with being prepared. I'll get hold of Admiral Swenson and have him deploy three more CBGs to the waters off Gilabad. That'll bring the total up to seven. One hundred-sixty eight units gives us an edge....for now."

" Make it so, John. I certainly do hope that Rachel isn't involved, but we must be ready."

General Grimm sat in his chair reading the reports.
the more he read the more angry he got"I don't care who we have to fight I want the world to know that when I make a desione i stick with it now get the troops ready we'll soon teach Beltway and all that ally with it not to threaten our nation.
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Watching internationly T.V. General Grimm sat in his chair" Soon they well know their mistakes by tenfolds and they well learn to fear the might of The Holy Republic of Bloodbank". He Laughes and waits.

General Grimm sat in his chair reading the reports.
the more he read the more angry he got"I don't care who we have to fight I want the world to know that when I make a desione i stick with it now get the troops ready we'll soon teach Beltway and all that ally with it not to threaten our nation.
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Watching internationly T.V. General Grimm sat in his chair" Soon they well know their mistakes by tenfolds and they well learn to fear the might of The Holy Republic of Bloodbank". He Laughes and waits.
OOC: Please. Your obvously new. Please read the stickies at the top of the forum. This is no reason for war.

OOC: I was in the war just now i'm deciding to be a more active part in it and if you mean i'm doing bad at the role playing sorry i just had a very wicked ideaed and i don't want to give the plot away just yet on what i'll do so had to make it short and sweat.

OOC: I was in the war just now i'm deciding to be a more active part in it and if you mean i'm doing bad at the role playing sorry i just had a very wicked ideaed and i don't want to give the plot away just yet on what i'll do so had to make it short and sweat.
OOC: Improving your grammer would help your plot.

OOC: sorry about that I have bad spelling and my Spellcheck went out when I instelled it

The aircraft at the base in Gilabad, dubbed Camp Gitmo by The General, originally consisted of the the 12th (Transport) and 13th (Fighter) wings, with seventy-two F-35 fighters, twenty-four C-17 transports, and two KC-10 tankers. Eighteen F-35s and two C-17s had been shot down; twelve C-17s and the two tankers had yet to launch before the Gilabad forces smashed the first roadblocks and entered the minefields.

The General had ordered the landed C-17s to be loaded up with the wounded and with as many surviving Hummers as possible; this filled up two C-17s in the twenty minutes it took the Gilabad forces to fully withdraw, which launched under cover of ten F-35s coming in to rearm and refuel.

Had the Sixth Division thought it had a hope of winning, it would have probably counterattacked, and probably lost many more lives. Instead, the surviving troops, apart from the tankers, who, angry at their losses and gleeful at the withdrawl, continued to fire on the retreating Gilabad forces, pulled back to leave via the airfield.

The F-35s rearmed during the sudden, unexpected respite; further, five thousand surviving troops, although not The General, who had been shot by a sniper just before boarding, had managed to make their way on board the C-17s. Then, on the radar for the surviving Patriot launcher, which still had four PAC-3 AD missiles, five massive blips that could only be B-52s, accompanied by five tiny blips - presumably fighters - and headed for the base, became visible. The PAC-3s launched, the F-35s took off, the C-17s lifted off, and the KC-10s made their way into the air.

Captain Abraham Masters lay moaning on the C-17 as it flew on, recalling what had happened in the minutes that had passed. He had led the engineers to the breach; then, they went to work, and not a moment too soon. A soldier with a Javelin ATGM launched, apparently hitting the first tank that approached. Then, the engineers ran back - too slow; the grenades and machine gun bullets of the approaching tanks felled them. One, however, was quicker than the rest and ran to Masters, who had been shot in the thigh, tossing the Captain the detonator before the engineer died. Masters caught the detonator and pushed the button; the C4 went off, blinding him and knocking him down. Then, the orderlies had grabbed him and begun to carry him off on the stretcher; he went unconscious as they rushed him onto the plane.

Major Luis Nogales, watching the tanks blow through the roadblock and barrel into the minefield, suddenly felt an attack of shame. He had failed in his duty, and, as an officer, he had a greater responsibility than others - officers set the example to follow. The enemy troops wouldn't notice; they were too busy in the minefield, after all. So he lifted his rifle, aimed at a tank commander who was standing in the hatch trying to figure out why the column was suddenly delayed, and fired, then shifted his fire towards the other tanks. A grenade launcher on one of the tanks spat out in his direction; even the suddenly-emboldened Major Nogales knew when discretion was the better part of valor, and ducked back down into his foxhole. After the grenades detonated, Nogales looked up again. The enemy was retreating. Retreating? They were on the verge of breaking through; why would they retreat? It had to be some sort of trick...

Brigadier General Kenneth Englehorn remained unconscious. His brigade had done well; although it was down to about 150 tanks, they had managed to harass the enemy tanks rather well. He had been the first to board; The General wanted to ensure that his subordinates, the brigadier generals, would make it out alive, even if he himself did not. The medics had managed to stabilize him, and were working on cleaning his wounds at the moment.

Finally, the MH-60 landed at the only hiding place it could find before it would run out of fuel. The men made their way inside; it was a good place to hunker down, with ample food and little likelihood of being discovered. They'd get used to the smell; after all, they'd probably have to live there for a while. Nonetheless, it was disconcerting to be hiding out in an old cave, especially one where the bodies of dead rebels were still clearly visible and still clearly rotting...

(OOC: Beltway, TG.)

Once again, Admiral Carrol peered at the air battle going on over the Lost Hill/Gilabad fleets. For all its size, Gilabad was just about keeping pace with its smaller adversaries. Either they were holding back, or they weren't as well-equipped as they claimed they were.

Xeraph had seven CBGs spread out over a 95-mile, staggered formation. Two lines of 60-odd ships at full stop, 1.5 miles apart, and a third line at a 45 degree perpendicular angle to the sea/air battles going on just 20 miles away. Fourteen Kraken and Siren subs prowled the depths in a 60 mile range.

Holy Paradise hadn't made a move towards the Xeraphian fleet. As a matter of fact, none of the "enemy" had even acknowledged their existence. That was OK with the Admiral. He wasn't particularly interested in a fight at this point. They were here because The Beltway was an ally, and had requested help. But the Emperor didn't just jump right into this one. Something didn't smell right.......

"Sir, Lost Hills has launched. Shall we?" Rear Admiral Will Lovell, commander of the First Battle Group, asked. This was not his first operation in command of the Battle Group; he had planned and executed several attacks on hostile air bases in the Western War. Thus, his men trusted him and respected him, even though Lovell had never captained a ship larger than the DDG-54 Curtis Wilbur. After all, Lovell had fought; that was enough for the men.

"Radio them first; they're in charge of combined fleet operations. If yes, go ahead and launch our F-14s," replied Admiral Jonathan Greenert, former commander of the USN Seventh Fleet and now commander of The Beltway's ships deployed against Gilabad. It was an odd experience playing second fiddle to another admiral; however, he'd probably have to get used to it, given the small size and uncertain reputation of The Beltway compared with much of the rest of the world.

Lost Hills, see the OOC thread please.

"Hasn't he heard of shoot first, ask questions later? On the other hand, they didn't respond; we'll go ahead and hail them," Lovell said, then nudged an ensign to do so. Lovell was shaking, but wasn't nervous; perhaps it was an early sign of Parkinson's?

"Nothing, sir. No response at all," Ensign Jake Porter replied after a few minutes of listening. He was somewhat surprised; he half-expected the unknown fleet to reply, "We are Gilabad; leave now or we'll murder you all," or something to that effect.

"Thank you. Go ahead, order battle stations, and launch our planes; we'll save our missiles for later. Any report from our E-2s?" Greenert said.

"Nothing yet, sir; their screens are probably being blocked out by Lost Hills's missiles," replied Commodore Doug Yuroveich, chief of naval aviation for The Beltway's forces deployed against Gilabad, officially designated the Sixth Task Force. "I assume you want us to send in the Nimitz's air wing and use the Hornet's to give us a CAP, sir?"

"Yes, Commodore. Ensign Porter, please radio Admiral Walley the following message:
To: Admiral Walley, CINC of Anti-Gilabad Coalition Navy
From: Admiral Greenert, CINC of TF 6
Re: Air Support
We are sending in the following air wing to assist your forces -
36 F-35B
12 F-14B
12 S-3B
8 EA-6B. Oh, and Admiral Lovell, don't be nervous; you've already been through battles, already lost pilots. Straight-out naval battles are not especially different, from what I understand," Greenert said.

DEMOCRATIC SOVIET REPUBLIC OF KAHANISTAN
Ministry of Defense

The Government of Kahanistan is mobilizing an expeditionary force bound for Gilabad. We cannot spare many troops, as we are still rebuilding from the Pwnage conflict, however, the troops we will send will be led by some of our most experienced commanders.

We urge the Government of Gilabad to cease its militarism and mass murder of citizens who have committed no crimes.

Signed,
General Nora Kasagawa,
Minister of Defense

Total forces: 50,000

Chuck Norris-class SDN (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Chuck_Norris_class_Super_Dreadnaught) x 1
Nimitz-class carrier x 2 (total air contingent: 10 E-3 Sentry AWACS planes, 40 MiG-35's, 20 F-22's, 10 F-35's, 20 KC-10 Extenders)
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer x 30
Wasp-class transport x 10
Seawolf-class SSN x 5
Ohio-class SSGN x 2

Ground forces:
AH-64 Apache gunship x 80
UH-60 Blackhawk x 80
Merkava IV MBT x 300
Panzerhaubitze 2000 155mm howitzer x 30
13,000 infantry
3,500 marines

To General Nora Kasagawa, Minister of Defence, Democratic Socialist Republic of Kahanistan -

Thank you for your support. In these troubling times, we appreciate your help in this war. With luck, we shall prevail over the genocidal government of Gilabad.

Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway

The Axinonian 7th light fleet had been sailing for just over five hours. Already in the region for an unrelated reason, the fleet was being rushed in as fast as possible. It was the only Inonian* fleet within a day's sailing distance of Gilabad and was assigned to engage the Gilabadian fleet in conjunction with allies. It was a relatively small fleet, consisting of 8 Coon-Class Battlecruisers, 14 Seawolf-Class Attack Cruisers, 5 Hive-Class Swift Carriers and 16 Wolverine-Class Attack Subs. In about two hours they would be able to link up with the Lost Hills fleet.

To: Commander of the Lost Hills Fleet
From: Danny Garfield, Commander of Axinon 1st Quick Response Fleet

Our fleet is within 2 hours of your position. We are here to aid your fleet in its mission to break the Gilabad navy. We will update you when we enter the combat theatre.

Respectfully,
Danny Garfield

[OOC: Inon refers to Axinon as well as its colonies and protectorates Exinon, Alphinon, Riveaou and Glarvan. I will not get any Inonian countrys other than Axinon involved in this RP with the possible exception (situation pending) of the Elete Riveaou Shadowalker Unit]

From: The Confederacy of ChevyRocks
To: The Beltway

We wish to provide support for The Beltway's fight against Gilabad. At the moment, we can provide two carrier battle groups, consisting of:

Surface Fleet
2 x Duntovostok-class supercarriers
2 x Fluchtwagen-class battleships
6 x Superior-class frigates
6 x Bismark-class guided missile cruisers
14 x Hudson-class destroyers
4 x Laker-class combat support vessels
Air Combat Wing
140 x F/A-22B Sea Raptor fighters
30 x F/B-51A Swordfish fighter-bombers [DAS-4M]

We also can provide an ERB-60D AWACS plane as well as four KB-60D aerial refueling tankers. We will need an airfield to base these support planes.

Also, it will take a a day, maybe two more for the task force to arrive, the ice has gotten rather thick near our coasts and will require clearing.

Signed,
Ragnar Johanson, President of ChevyRocks
Erik Borgesov, Defense Secretary
Charles Donnell, Chief Admiral of the Navy
Robert Clayton, Commander General of the Republic Air Force

To Ragnar Johanson, President of ChevyRocks -
We gratefully accept your offer of naval and air support. With luck, our side will prove victorious over the genocidal, warmongering government of Gilabad. We truly appreciate your support in these troubling times.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway

OOC: Is it far enough along so that my ships can arrive?

TO: Lost Hills Navy/All navies of nations in conflict with Gilabad
FROM: Hamilayan 3rd/5th Carrier Battle Groups, Fleet Admiral McIver

We are approaching in range of the Gilabadian fleet. Our force composition for each battle group includes:

1x CVN-68 Nimitz-class AC carrying MiG-29s and MiG-35s
2x Ticonderoga-class Guided Missile Cruiser
3x California-class Cruiser
2x DDG-41 Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer
2x Seawolf-class Submarine
4x Gepard-class Frigate
5x Fregat-II Destroyer
3x Slava-class Cruiser

Due to a large number of troopships which must be protected we cannot spare our whole force, but the 5th Battle Group and two wings of fighters are moving in to assist against the Gilabadian Navy.

OOC: Just telegram me when my troops can attack. Also, I'm a little confused why my troops can't attack. They only left Gilabad an hour before the conflict, tops. They could be back sooner.

OOC - Hamilay, were your ships three days' sailing time from Gilabad when you declared war? Further, please post (on the OOC forum (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=469824)) stats on your troop deployment.
Quaon - TG. Also, please post (on the OOC forum (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=469824)) stats for your troops in the area.

Chevrokian Task Force, At sea...

After some 12 boredom-filled hours, the task force was finally organized. Most of the delay was from the clearing of ice near the ports, and afterwards, the ships' speed was limited as they passed through the narrow openings in the ice. After several more hours, the Garrison battlegroup met up with the Minneapolis battlegroup, and they were now all together, 34 ships in total, steaming at high speed towards the conflict.

It was cold, that was for sure. But at least the sun had finally come out and cleared the fog. Now, Admiral Thompson could see the whole task force from the top of the superstructure on the battleship C.C.S. Beltway. Interesting thing, that small standing-room box at the tops of the CCN battleships. It served no real advantage, but the ships' commanders loved the idea, from the classical naval warfare era built around "ships-of-the-line."

They may not be the biggest force with the biggest ships, but the men were enthusiastic. They wanted to fight, and that was what they would get. In about two or three days' sail, they'd be up along with well over 700 friendly naval combat vessels. Who knows how many aircraft there were, at least two or three thousand, Thompson estimated.

It would be a hell of a sight, that was for sure.

OOC - Gilabad, it's been a week. Please post soon.

Al-Bahr, Kahanistan

Admiral Katrina Dolgova boarded the RKS Chuck Norris, the superdreadnaught she had helped to design before and after the Freekish invasion of Kahanistan. She was going to command the Kahanistanian naval detachment in its offensive against Gilabad.

The fleet had completed mobilization, and Admiral Dolgova was eager to field-test her design. Not having any wine, she took a bottle of cheap vodka and smashed it against the side of the ship. That's about all this crap is good for, thought the Admiral, who did not, unlike most Kahanistanian admirals, drink hard liquor.

"Helm, signal all vessels to set a course for Southport, Velkya. We are to link with a Velkyan force before we move on Gilabad." Velkya was about four days away, but the crew were in no hurry. The fleet moved towards Velkya.

OFFICAL DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST NATION OF GILABAD

"Good evening, I'm Tim Garret and this is CNN. In an emergency session last night, the Allied Union Grand Senate (both houses) voted 321-179 in favor of a declaration of war against the Rogue Nation of Gilabad. The resolution was first put forward by President William S. Harling, who in his final year of his presidency. He stated in speech earlier today to the Senate that 'the government of Gilabad are hypocritical tyrants who must be stopped before they are allowed to overrun the nation of Beltway and enslave it's people'. The President was prompted to push for the Senate's approval after the State Department recieved calls from the Anti-Gilabad coalition to come to their aid against the massive nation of Gilabad, which had attacked Beltway peacekeepers after inviting them into their nation to evacuate ICLU members who had been the target of mass-murder by the Gilabad government. Official government reports from the Velkyan Defense Department indicate that forces from the ISAF alliance have been mobilized to aid Beltway and it's allies, but the force composition is, as usual, highly classified."

The camera pans to a suit-clad man with a picture of a soccer game in full swing. "In other news, the Southport Seagulls defeated the Belmont Bulls in an exicting soccer game over in-"

-Signal fades and winks out.-

To President William S. Harling of the Allied Union of Velkya -
We appreciate your support in these troubled times. Hopefully, we will together prevail over the genocidal government of Gilabad. Your willingness to help in our time of need will not go unnoticed.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway

OOC: I'll be pretty busy the next few days, and probably won't be able to post until Tuesday or Wednesday.

==FLASH ENCRYPTION==
SATBURST 01
FROM: GEJIGRAD CNO
TO: BELTWAY MOD
SUBJECT: GILABAD

WHILE MILSIT RMAINS
SAME IN FRENZIA, WE
ARE INTERVENING HERE.
FORCE ETA 8 DAYS.
==FLASH ENCRYPTION==


[ Forces involved:
32nd Carrier Group
-1 Myth-class SSCVN
--35 F-35 Trident
--20 Lu-27 Condor
--10 CH/UH-46 Sea Knight
-6 Vixen-class SSN
-10 Falcon-class SSGN

35th Carrier Group
-See above.

50 Pirhana-class SSLC
-2 Venerator LCC (ea)
-35 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or 18 AV-8B Harrier attack planes; 4 ASW helicopters (ea)

8th Independent Division
-1,800 troops
-300 Axis MBTs
-60 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers
-WAVE Units
--120 MGS
--180 AA/AR
--360 APC/Cargo
--300 ACAU
-180 AH-63E Wasp
-150 UH-12B Crow
-20 RU-16 Darkstar ]

Gejigrad, is this a secret deployment? If so, everyone should ignore the following response, which would be public, after all, until such time as it would be appropriate.

To Gejigrad -
We appreciate your support for our nation in these troubled times. With luck, we should together prevail over the genocidal government of Gilabad.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway

Southport, Velkya

The Kahanistanian fleet docked in the allied port. As the RKS Chuck Norris was far too large to enter the port, supplies were ferried to it by the transport vessels in the fleet, which then supplied themselves and waited for the Velkyan fleet to join them in the struggle against Gilabad.

In Rockville Harbor, final preparations were underway. Axinon's Second Battlefleet was setting sail for Valkya to join up with allied fleets, and the First Quick Response Fleet was setting sail for Bloodbank. On board the AxS Grangerford, flagship of the second battlefleet, Fleet Admiral George O'Conner was talking to Major General Thomas Garfield. Garfield would be in charge of Axinon's landing forces.

The fleet, 393 ships strong, consisted of:
1 Oblivion-Class Superdreadnought (Grangerford)
12 Dynamic-Class Battleship
25 O'Conner-Class Battleship
35 Coon-Class Battlecruiser
20 Exorcist-Class Railgun Cruiser
30 Millennium Wall-Class Anti-Missile Cruiser
50 Solomon-Class Cruiser
30 Liberty-Class Aircraft Carrier
120 Falcon-Class Destroyer
20 Firefly-Class Aircraft Destroyer
20 Pelican-Class Submarine Destroyer
20 Shipjack-Class Attack Submarine [OOC: A Portland Iorn Works Ship]
10 Stalwart-Class Ballistic Missile Submarine [OOC: Also PIW]

O'Conner expected the fleet to arrive in two days, weather permiting.

[OOC: This quick response fleet is exactly the same as the one heading to Gilabad right now except that it also has an Ultimatum-Class Superbattlecarrier (Most nations would classify it as a Superdreadnought)]

I won't be able to post again until the evening.

Southport Harbor, 6:00 PM

The entierty of the 5th Quick Response Fleet sailed alongside the massive vessel and it's escorts, and as the Axionian fleet arrived, they began to make push full ahead out of Velkya, on a southern course for Giladbad. The fleet was impressive, headed by three superdreadnoughts, with hundreds of seperate vessels of three nations. They were only three days away from the warzone, and the Velkyan component also carried two Marine Divisions for a ground assualt on Gilabad. As they said goodbye to Velkya and passed through the Southern Sea towards Gilabad, a Marine by the name of Artem Varrik sat in his bunk, cleaning out his rifle.

The long, black sniper rifle known as the RM-14 Executioner lay disassembled on the floor, as Artem carefully cleaned out the barrel, in prepartion for the landing. He felt the outside of the barrel, as he slowly ran his cleaning tool through it, cleansing the barrel of dirt and grime. After finishing up, he turned out the lights of the empty bunk, and quickly reassembled the rifle in seconds. He loaded the weapon,before flipping the safety on and tucking the rifle under his bunk.

He would have plently of oppurtunities for this rifle in the weeks ahead.

...as the RKS Chuck Norris was far too large to enter the port...

[ Kickass. 8)

And yeah, Belt. FLASH is Gejigrad's encryption system. And anything with a Myth-class is Classified: Top Secret, as it says on my factbook. ]

Gejigrad - should the fact that you are sending ships at all be kept secret? Obviously, any specs, along with compositions of forces that are kept secret, are secret. However, have you declared war, or are you simply sending a task force to help us out in secret? It matters diplomatically; further, diplomatic communiques, unless kept secret, aren't secret, so I don't want to tell the world you've declared war unless you want the world to know that. Thus, the possible ignore.

Captain Alfred Otto throttled up the engines of his E-3 and waited for clearance to take off. Around him, hundreds of other planes of the Beltway Security Force, deployed over the last few days, engaged their engines and screamed off the tarmac. The two composite wings, with all sorts of aircraft; the two traditional fighter wings, engaging their engines and rising into the sky; the bombers, both big and small, launching into the sky; the tankers, already airborne, flying out to assembly points to provide fast refueling; and the AWACS planes, like his own, now taking off.

Otto, receiving clearance, throttled up and sent his plane flying into the sky. Now, all he had to do was keep his plane steady and let the wizards in back win the battle.

[ It'll probably stick in some peoples' craws, but I'd like to keep it a secret until one day beforehand. If there's anything I've learned, its that if I give my enemies a shot at preparing for something, they will. If I declare and bang, there my ships are, it will give pause to others and hit Gilabad hard psychologically. ]

[tag]

First, I'd like to apologize for the delay, due to both the downed servers and the problem with my internet connection, but now we may continue!

OOC - Gilabad, we're glad to have you back. The situation has shifted to the third day, as we pulled out, barely and under air cover from Quaon and our surviving planes. Thus, your fleet is under attack by Lost Hills and The Beltway; one fleet from Axinon will arrive in two hours. Ten thousand anti-ship missiles have been fired at you; further, you've got sixty planes (42 F/A-22B Sea Raptor fighters and 18 FB-22B Sea Kestrel bombers) heading at you immediately, 468 planes (36 F-35B, 12 F-14B, 12 S-3B, 8 EA-6B, 256 F/A-22B, and 144 FB-22) a bit behind, and are two hours away from being in range of Lost Hills' Task Force's big guns.
Diplomatically, you're somewhat screwed; Velkya, Kahanistan, and a few other states have declared war, while I've received an anonymous donation of $20 billion from a nation that officially does not want to be known as supporting us. However, as long as you hold out, you've got a shot at survival. After all, you retain the advantage of terrain, and now any mistake we make (bombing churches, hospitals, orphanages, etc.) can be played up much more easily by you. Good luck, and let's have a nice war.
Oh, and please look at the last few pages of the OOC thread.

Secret Message:

To: The Beltway
From: The Secularist Kingdom of Maraque

Dear Beltway,

People all across the nation of Maraque applaud you for your compassion and kindness to help these poor people in need all across Gilabad.

As much as we'd like to help, we can't offer any military assistance, but what we will do is give to your cause a donation to the sum of $360 billion. You and all other nations involved in this war against the horrific nation of Gilabad will forever have the appreciation and acceptance of our people because of your courage and bravery. We wish you well.

Signed,
King Stephen D. Norris, President Darius A. Shulze

[OOC: Just to clarify for Gilabad, I have three fleets in action right now. One Quick Response Fleet (8 Battlecruisers, 14 Attack Cruisers, 5 aircraft carriers and 15 attack subs) will be linking with the Lost Hills fleet in 2 hours. Another quick response fleet is preparing to attack Bloodbank if they do not back down and one full battlefleet is joining with Velkya and Kahanistan's fleets to attack. Those fleets will arrvie in 3 days]

--Secret--
To HM King Stephen Norris and President Darius Shulze of Maraque -
Your anonymous donation of $360 billion to the cause is appreciated. We are in your debt for your support in our time of need. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mark Warner, Foreign Minister of The Beltway
--End of Secret--

From: William McConnel
To: All Allied Powers

My nation would like to help your nations fight this fight economically as well as millitarally. As per this, all allied powers can get all millitary equipment from Axinon Defense Corp. 30% off.

Respectfully,
William McConnel

Hold on a second, you can't just ignore my RP! I'm wondering how Quaon managed to give you aircover by magically appearing in my country!?! And don't even try telling me that he was allowed into my country to evacuate refugees as I specificaly said in the Terms of Agreement "TROOPS"! I've been very leeniant on your base's armaments which included TANKS, AIRCRAFT etc.

Another thing, what ever happened to my F-22s over your base, what ever happened to the B-52s in route!?!

Hold on a second, you can't just ignore my RP! I'm wondering how Quaon managed to give you aircover by magically appearing in my country!?! And don't even try telling me that he was allowed into my country to evacuate refugees as I specificaly said in the Terms of Agreement "TROOPS"! I've been very leeniant on your base's armaments which included TANKS, AIRCRAFT etc.

(OOC: You attacked him. Therefore, your arguement is null and void. He can now arm his bases however he likes, so long as he had the equipment in his fleet, etc.)

(OOC I'm starting where we left off OOC)

The F-22s that remained over the Beltway base, immediately detected the deployment of their aircraft. They armed what was left of their JDAMs and attacked the base, especially the runway and air defences. This was the strategy by General Westmorland to create a diversion for the B-52s. Meanwhile, the B-52s along with their F-22 escorts were almost ready to engage their targets.


Admiral Tanaka was sitting in his office having a phone conversation on a secure line with Warlord Shawhabas.

"Mr. President"

"Hey Tan what's on your mind?"

"Well sir, I think we need to stop holding back on our Navy currently in the fight. We've intimidated these idiots enough. I've got ship captains itching to get a hack at this and with all these new countries comming in, I think we're going to...well "up the ante" a bit, if you know what I mean"

"I know exactly what you mean. Anything you need, feel free to ask. I'll be commissioning more ships into "Task Force 122"

"Thankyou sir!"

(OOC: You attacked him. Therefore, your arguement is null and void. He can now arm his bases however he likes, so long as he had the equipment in his fleet, etc.)

What kind of liberal nonsense are you acting on? I allowed him to make a base with troops only. I've been extremely leeniant on his armaments. You have a problem well you can just leave the RP!

(OOC: Liberal nonsense? Look, you can't simply limit what types of weapons he can place in his base, it's crap.)

Look at the ICLU RP! I made the Terms of Agreement, if they didn't agree they didn't come in, what is it that you don't get!?! I specificaly said 25,000 troop limit! Why do I get the feeling that I'm wasting my time?

(OOC: You placed a troop limit, not an equipment limit. Again, you declared war, so any limits you placed are null and void.)

I'm not ignoring your rp; I've simply posted up to the moment you bomb. Quaon's planes were flown off a ship one hour out; however, the ship only received orders to deploy its aircraft one hour before the events of the post entitled "Evacuation I." Also, note that ships take a while to commision (as that implies assembling a crew and training them on the ships); I assume you mean that you're assigning more ships to TF 122. Oh, and if you're going to attack the base with F-22s, then you have to brave my AD first - especially if you target AD. How many of your F-22s got shot down in all your engagements? Further, note that I mentioned the air battle with your reinforcements starting 800 meters away from the base; your aircraft over my base, being outnumbered, are almost certainly dead, while the air battle with your reinforcements shifted away from the base. Even if the battle occurs over the base, how is a pilot in the middle of a dogfight going to be able to have the prescence of mind to recognize that planes are landing and think to arm a bomb? Oh, and your planes probably ran out of missiles by now. Finally, even the best stand-off bombs can't launch easily from the middle of an air battle; your F-22s were dogfighting, and if you pull them out, you'll still take losses. Note that this post takes place just before I pull out, so my Patriot missiles - all four of them - also fire at your B-52s; you probably lose 3-4 planes - after all, it's 1950s tech v. 1990s tech. Then again, I can't decide your losses for you.

As the F-22s approached, the M6 Linebackers, quiet throughout the battle, now went into action, firing their Stingers. Meanwhile, the F-35s that had been dogfighting them followed the F-22s in, shooting off their final missiles and cannon shells, distracting some enemy pilots into dogfights.

The tank crews continued to fire at the enemy tanks that remained in range, then stopped once the enemy pulled out of range. At that point, they simply waited for what would come next.

The C-17s began to engage their engines and waited to take off. The F-35s on the runways launched first, rocketing into the sky and firing off newly-loaded AIM-120 missiles at the massive targets that the B-52s presented on their radar screens. Within a minute, however, the first C-17s took off

25,000 troops were deployed, distributed as follows: 22,000 in the Sixth Airborne Division, 1,500 in the Twelveth Transport Wing, and 1,500 in the Thirteenth Fighter Wing. Note that these numbers include support staffs. About 5,200 troops escape, including air crews.
Velkya, Gilabad's right that I couldn't reinforce with my own aircraft, but wrong that I couldn't have spare weapons or reinforce from Quaon's planes. The battle lasts only about 3-6 hours.

You know what , I've had it with your very poor RPing. OH I JUST LAUNCHED 150,000,000 CRUISE MISSILES YOUR DEAD! (sarcastic). Number one, when I said commition, I meant activate more of the Navy that was on "standby". I may say again, that the capitol is nowhere near the coast. And by the way I'm really had it with your SAMs, Tanks, Aircraft etc. that would've never gotten into my country in the first place. Anything that so much as inched across my borders without permission would've been obliterated by the thousands of SAMs stationed throughout my country. FOR THE LAST TIME CEASE GODMODING!

You know what , I've had it with your very poor RPing. OH I JUST LAUNCHED 150,000,000 CRUISE MISSILES YOUR DEAD! (sarcastic). Number one, when I said commition, I meant activate more of the Navy that was on "standby". I may say again, that the capitol is nowhere near the coast. And by the way I'm really had it with your SAMs, Tanks, Aircraft etc. that would've never gotten into my country in the first place. Anything that so much as inched across my borders without permission would've been obliterated by the thousands of SAMs stationed throughout my country. FOR THE LAST TIME CEASE GODMODING!

(OOC: Quite contradicting yourself. You never placed a limit on what types of equipment he could bring in, so quit insinuating that you did. Just because he took advantage of that, doesn't give you grounds to ignore him. Next time, specify what he can and cannot bring with him. While the aircraft point is valid, any ground units that he brought with him should be allowed in.)

I clearly specified a TROOP limit. I'm warning you now to stop Godmoding! You need to get into the real world.

(OOC learn how to RP!)

(OOC: Are you oblivious to your own writing?! You never said he couldn't bring in armor and AAA, you just said how many MEN he could. And both Beltway and I are quite capable RPers and are not godmodders.)

OOC: I know i left this, but I just have to say that Velkya and Beltway are correct. You NEVER said they couldn't bring certain things. According to the agreement earlier, they could have brang NUCLEAR WEAPONS if they wanted!

Even if I didn't, I have been leeniant and allowed him to RP that way, my main point was tha there was no way Quaon could've appeared in my country to aid Beltway. I said TROOP LIMIT meaning that only troops were to be allowed, if you liberals are really that stupid and don't understand something to which everybody has to explain every single detail, why are you even RPing!?! We were at peace at that time, it was my country, I decided what came in and what didn't don't even try that slippery slope liberal argument!

[ One: Stop bitching, the lot of you. You're giving me a migraine.
Two: Stop trying to parrot your stereotype. "Liberal" is not an insult, and to use it as such marks you as the worst kind of brainless puppet. ]

Next time, be more specific about forbidding heavy weapons. People can and will take every inch they can to get a leg up on their adversaries.

For example, if you tell me I can take one guard to a conference, and you don't specify what weapons that guard can bring, I'll be bringing everything from brass knuckles to nuclear warheads to Death Stars, that you didn't say I couldn't bring.

Plus, a lot of us on these forums are a lot less liberal than you.

j00 = pwned.

OOC: I can see where you are coming from, but if you objected to Beltway bringing tanks in then you should have said that earlier in the RP.

That said, I am having difficulty understanding how the Quaon forces arrived too.

Everybody, just take a deep breath. It's not like this first battle is going to effect the outcome of the war in any percievable way.

As I have stated, I have been very leeniant on Beltway's base. I will make clear that I validate (grudgingly) the force that he says he has there. However, I am having serious difficulty getting across that I would normally have not allowed him to RP as he did, but I allowed him to, and I accept fault for that. I was just trying to say that I've been leeniant, and I will be more careful to what I say in later RPs. With that said, I want a clear and present explanation for how Quaon appeared in my capitol.

OOC: That seems fair

This is where "Task Force 122" stands after the activation of more of the Navy that was on "standby".

-20,000,000 regular troops
-30,000 terrorists
-2000 "Alpha Force" special forces
-80,000 M-12 "battlefortress" MBTs
-110,000 M-2 Bradleys
-700,000 Humvees w/50 cal.
-90,000 Blackhawk helicopters
-50,000 Apachie attack helicopters
-50 AC-130D gunships
-45 "Virginia" Class Submarines
-28 "Ohio" Class Submarines
-27 "Westmorland" class aircraft carriers
-28 "Texas" class battle cruisers
-40 Arleigh Burke destroyers
-950 F-14 Tomcats
-950 F-18 Hornets
-950 A6E Intruders
-1000 MH-53 Pavelows
-600 A-10 "warthogs"
-550 F-22s
-550 F-35s
-300 B-2s
-3000 M1096 Paladins
-4000 SAM launchers
-2000 Patriot Missile systems
-3000 MLRS
-5000 B-52s
-10 "Samurai" Self Contained Area Denial Artillery Battery (SCADAB)
-6000 C-5 Galaxies
-500 C-17s
-7000 C-130 transports

[ One: Stop bitching, the lot of you. You're giving me a migraine.
Two: Stop trying to parrot your stereotype. "Liberal" is not an insult, and to use it as such marks you as the worst kind of brainless puppet. ]

(OOC: If we're giving you a migraine, then I think it's time to click your browser window off, and take an Advil or two. If you want to argue politics, go to General and do it, not here.)

OK enough...we need to get this RP rolling again, when I get an explanation about Quaon's magical presence in my country, then I will state my losses inflicted by Beltway.

OOC - Gilabad, do you have subs? You'd be advised to include them.
By terrorists, I assume you mean trained insurgents (like the Fedayeen of Saddam's Iraq)?
TG Quaon if you want to know how Quaonese planes deployed in time. I'm not exactly sure, and am willing to rp with them having not arrived, so long as you let most (15-20) of my C-17s end up escaping. To be honest - and, yes, I know it's poor rping - I wanted to keep a few characters (Masters and Englehorn) around. And Axinon's right that it doesn't matter really what happened in the first battle; whatever men manage to escape will not be able to fight for a while, and the base will be relatively useless (from all the damage incurred by the bombs and tank shells and such) anyways.
I'm much more interested in the naval battle, anyhow; as an amateur ship designer, I'm curious as to how you design your ships. Further, naval battles are a bit easier to fight, in some ways - no need to worry about terrain, as it's all water...
Look, we're doing this rp to have fun, not to insult each other. So let's have a nice, clean war with no recriminations...

(OOC: Agreed let's get back on track. I'll let you get away with 16 C-17s, as of not all of what's left in your base can be loaded onto 15-20 C-17s anyway. OOC)

As the B-52s advanced within range, 50 MLRSs were called in along with the tanks, and at a safe distance, they began a barrage with deadly rocket fire, along with the M1096 Paladins, M-12s and the F-22s over the Beltway base.

Meanwhile, the B-52s were nearing the target above, and with the diversion caused by the F-22s below, hoped to get by without too much detection. Flying at high alttitude, they opened their payload doors and waited for the target accquisition.

One, B-52s are a huge target on radar. Two, I never thought I'd be able to evacuate everyone; besides, it will potentially make for an interesting lawsuit rp by family members of those left behind against the highest-ranking officer surviving the battle, possibly involving Gen. Westmoreland as an expert for the plaintiff or the defence. Three, I'm glad to be back on track. And four, don't necessarily expect me to post tomorrow.

Rockets and shells fell on the base that now was being rapidly abandoned. Those being left behind scrambled for the planes that were the only way out, but the transports took off without them. A few clung on for a time before falling off. One pilot remarked that it was like the old images of the fall of Saigon. Meanwhile, the GSP men, who had been forgotten about since the battle began, crouched in a deserted building of the compound, waiting for the end of the bombardment.

In the skies, four PAC-3 missiles streaked towards the B-52s, targeted - easily - by radar long (five minutes) ago. Twelve C-17s, two KC-10s, and forty F-35s made a break for the sea, hoping to find a safe haven somewhere. Six more C-17s, launched a few hours ago and still escorted by one lone F-35, flew on towards the nearest base; however, none were to be found. The F-35 ran out of fuel, and the pilot ditched, hoping that someone would find him. The C-17s continued on into the night.

Anyone currently involved who I could have landed at on the first day? Oh, and Gilabad, you get to shoot down two C-17s in the second group (which just took off).

As the C-17s took off, 6 SAM stations spotted the group and accquired targets and fired. Two were shot down (with the permission of Beltway) and before they fired another shot, General Westmorland ordered them to stand down, for he respected his opponent as soldiers not as animals.

The B-52s and F-22s flying over the base immediately fired their CHAFF and Flares. The AWAKS got on the radio "Drop the damn bombs, you can eject and save your lives, forget about the planes!" with that said the pilots immediately accquired their targets and dropped their massive payload over the target area, but not before two missiles found two B-52s halfway through their bombload, and as the planes were engulfed in flames, most of the pilots were able to eject. Two of whom were not so lucky.

I'll have to call it a night guys. I might be RPing tommorrow.

"They're not shooting," a nervous C-17 pilot said to the co-pilot. "Are they trying to trick us?"

Apparently, Gilabad was not. The remnants of the Twelveth and Thirteenth wings flew on, unmolested by their enemy. Perhaps the enemy wasn't quite yet adjusted to realizing that The Beltway was their foe? It's always odd on the first days of a war to begin to fight a nation, even one with which relations have always been tense at best...

If nobody else replies to my earlier question, I'll just claim that my C-17s land at some abandoned airfield somewhere, and late-night diplomatic efforts manage to convince the leadership of the nation in question to cede the land to us, for a fee of course. Pythogria, want to make a few billion US dollars?
Gilabad, would you mind posting specs for your carriers and battlecruisers on the OOC forum? I'm curious as to how they are armed...

OOC: Look, right now I'm a little busy. I'm going to give control of the troops I sent to Beltway.

(OOC: If we're giving you a migraine, then I think it's time to click your browser window off, and take an Advil or two. If you want to argue politics, go to General and do it, not here.)

[ Or perhaps not, since I have a vested interest in this war. And may I point out that I in no way started this "yew dum libral" bullshit? In fact, I was requesting that Gilabad stop making those kind of ridiculous "comebacks."

On another note, two more RL days until I arrive, one and a half 'til I declare war. ]

"Texas" Class Battle Cruiser
-Brief description: stealth contour, 950 ft. long, 200 ft. wide, stealthy material construction including LBPM (Layered Ballistick Protection Material): the same kind of armour on the M-12 "Battlefortress" but much thicker. Over the armour is a thin coat of carbon to further mask its radar reflection. It's powered by two small GGE Nuclear Reactors.

Armament--

-16 20 Inch GGE Naval guns
-20 5 Inch Naval guns
-15 CWIS turrets
-400 M-2 Browning 50. cal. machineguns
-150 40 m.m. Bofors canons (AA/SS)
-200 30 m.m. Vulcan cannons
-20 SAM Mk. 26 Mod. 5 launchers
-10 Mk. 32 torpedoe tubes
-10 Tomahawk Cruise missile launchers
-8 Harpoon launchers
-2 Patriot missile launchers
-4 guided depth charge launchers

OOC: Nice ship. But stats should go on the OOC forum.

To answer the Beltway's question, yes my terrorists are trained insurgents from Gilabad who have been raised with the radical Christian mindset, in other words instead of jihad as their motivation, their motivation is the preservation of Christiannity. They were also raised with the skills such as insurgency, demolitions, ambushes, weapons, communications, martial arts, etc.

(Lost Hills)

The enemy formation was picked up immediately, and the GSS Freedom launched 18 additional F-35s along with the GSS Knight launching 50 F-14 Tomcats and 32 F-18s. The F-22s currently flying CAP were immediately approaching the enemy formation with the reinforcements on their way. As the six fighters went out, they noticed a large haze of small blips on their radar. The immediately recognized them as missiles and notified the fleet. The fleet immediately readied their CHAFF and flares along with the CWIS and Patriot missiles. As the missiles zoomed by the aircraft, they were seen by the crews on deck. They began firing at them first with the Bofors cannons (as they were trained to do) not as much to destroy them, but to scatter the radar guidance. The cloud of rounds began filling the sky as the Vulcan cannons along with the Lewis guns and simultaneously the CWIS began firing. Considering how the missiles were in a large group, they were easy targets for the CWIS and the patriot missiles (not to menchion the manned guns already firing rounds). As the missiles got closer, the CHAFF and flares were automaticly fired into the air, and with all of the accquisitions, most of the remaining missiles were diverted, however the blast from 100 missiles hitting the ocean nearby was enough to wound over 800 personnel on deck and 3 missiles nearly hit the GSS Honor. 20 missiles hit the GSS Freedom and another 30 hit the GSS Paveway and Liberty, injuring another 250 personnel and killing 50 personnel. Fortunately the ship was not sunk due to the QRF in the area and the holdout of the armor. The wounded were quickly airlifted viah MH-53 Pavelows and Sea Stallions. In response General Tanaka gave the order to fire with the immense 20 Inch Naval guns.

(I'll let you decide whether your fleet was in range or not, however the turrets have very accurate GPS sights, by mathematical standards, they're in range, but to make things more interesting, I'll let you decide whether they hit anything)

OOC - I'll post later today; however, even the best AD is not going to allow only two hits and three near misses. Bofors guns won't throw off radar guidance; further, missiles travel too fast for non-computer-controlled cannon.
LH - how are your cruise missiles guided? If by laser or GPS, then the chaff and flares would have failed to work, and would have only made the CIWS more likely to lock on to the chaff. If by radar or IR, then chaff and flares work; however, CIWS mounts may still lock on to chaff.

I will increase the damage done by The Lost Hills. If you noticed that I had patriot missiles and the CWIS shooting at missiles. The CHAFF is launched straight up. Any good ship designer would make it so that the CWIS couldn't turn to the angle where it's directly at the ship that it's on. The crew was trained specifically to fire a cluster of manned gun rounds in the path of incomming missiles to throw off the guidance.

(OOC: it interfears with the signal OOC)

The rounds from the enemy guns hit and struck the GSS Jackson and the GSS Mike which were at the front of the formation. The damage was very severe however the QRF were able to keep them from sinking, event though for the most part, they were in-operable.

As the enemy torpedoes were comming in, the GSS Genesis (Ohio Sub) was sitting around with most of its crew on general quarters when they detected the missiles. The captain of the ship made an immediate desicion to sacrifice his submarine for Gilabad and in the name of Christ. They fired their 8 Tomahawk cruise missiles and moved in directly in the path of the incomming torpedoes. The crew said the 23rd Psalm and an enormous explosion rocked the water as it was obliterated. 12 torpedoes got past it and hit the GSS Zenith (Arleigh Burke) and it was sunk.

OOC: I'm back finally, and it seems at a good time too.


IC:

Chevrokian Task Force, nearing Gilabad-Beltway Conflict area...

First they had the ice problem near port. Then, to add to the annoyance, the Minneapolis ran aground, and it took some time to free her. Luckily there wasn't any real damage, and they could continue with the mission.

They were still about 500 miles out from the battle, but then that's why they had aircraft carriers. On the decks, the Chevrokian Navy's new F/B-51A Swordfish fighter-bombers (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10476111&postcount=16) were being fueled and armed. Their prime weapon for the fight was the Pelican anti-ship missile (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10476147&postcount=17), CCN designation ASM-5C. It was barely a missile in the traditional sense, more or less an expendable, triple-sonic UCAV. The F/B-51s were loaded with four Pelicans each, so with 15 of them they had some 60 large AshMs. For emergencies, they also had two AMRAAM missiles each.

Meanwhile, F/A-22B Sea Raptors were on CAP duty, 20 of them at the moment. Another thirty were being loaded up with fuel and AMRAAM missiles to defend the Swordfish strike force if needed.

An ERB-60D AWACS plane was orbiting over the general area of the Chevrokian task force, ready to direct the strikes. There were also four KB-60D tankers to top off the fuel tanks of the planes, specifically the fighters, as they didn't have the range of the bigger Swordfish.

Soon after, the howl of jets could be heard from the two carriers, and over the next several minutes, the Sea Raptors flew off the decks, whereas the 99,000-lb F/B-51s lumbered down and took off, just barely. It was a dangerous mission, but they were ready to do their duty.

Give me some time to RP about the bombers you sent, but I will RP about your fighters shooting missiles.

The Arleigh Burke destroyers that were being used as a secondary screen, were in front, when they noticed the missiles comming in. The CWISs were activated destroying all but 10 which as they got closer, were thrown off by the radar jamming system, 3 of which hit very close by injuring 16 crew members.

The fighters in the air quickly responded by launching CHAFF and flares. Most of the missiles were thrown off. However 12 missiles found 12 F-14s, and they were quickly able to eject. The remaining F-14s quickly accelerated and all the remaining fired 2 Phoenix missiles (each) while the F-22s fired their XMAAs, which was cover for the F-35s who each launched 4 LRASMs (Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles) and fired in retaliation. They were very careful not to get within AA fire of the enemy ships.

Meanwhile with the sudden explosion of the friendly submarine, 25 Virginia class Subs easily identified the enemy scout sub and all of them launched 2 torpedoes each at the enemy formation.

[ Torpedo, not missile. ;)
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Admiral Tanaka immediately ordered 100 F-14s with the support of 100 F-18s into the air. They were mainly an addition to the CAP duty, but 50 F-14s diverted, going after the enemy Awaks and Tankers (easily spotted). The remaining fighters were on stand-bye over the fleet mainly against any more aviation intrusions.

[ Torpedo, not missile. ;)
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I already RPed the torpedoes. But I thankyou for your concern.

2000 terrorists borded commercial airplanes inbound for "The Lost Hills" with forged passports from countries such as the US, UK, Canada, etc. They also borded the plains in the countries of their forged passports. They were completely unarmed and came from many ethnic groups and were very fluent in many languages.

(OOC, Beltway, since your country is a democratic nation, your government would be pretty politicaly unstable. With the annhialation of 22,000 troops, this has probably stirred up controversy especially with the oppossing party [just a suggestion]).

Onboard of ERB-60D, orbiting at 42,000 ft over CCN Task Force...

"Shit..."

There was clearly something not right about the situation when that statement was heard from one of the electronics specialists.

"Colonel!! We've got unidentified radar contacts coming on screen now. Lots of them."
"How many, and can you identify?"
"27...28...29...30...they're still coming up, well over thirty sir. Fighters by the looks of it...relatively large and fast...possibly F-14s, sir."

The problem was, of course, that the AWACS and the four tankers were sitting ducks.

"Sir, it looks like there's about fifty Bandits closing on our position!"
"Get on the horn to the fleet, we need the CAP redirected to our position, fast!! And any more fighter cover they can give us!"

CIC of C.C.S. Beltway (BBN-7), a few seconds later...

"Shit..."

The Admiral also didn't have a good feeling about the situation. If they were able to send fifty F-14s to attack a couple of tankers and an AWACS plane, who knows how much airpower they have to defend their fleet. What was for sure was that the strike group of just 45 planes likely didn't have alot of chance of even getting to target.

"This is TF-06.3 to Strike Group Alpha, TF-06.3 to Strike Group Alpha...strike planes abort, return to the carriers...fighters, redirect to the tankers and provide cover."

In the next minute or so, dozens of angry communications came over the speakers in the CIC, the pilots still wanted to go...until the Admiral explained the situation.

"Now gentlemen, as much as I admire your courage and commitment to duty, I can't send you in there. If those F-14s get through and take out our support planes, then we'll have to be alot closer to launch any further strikes. And being closer, means putting our fleet at greater danger to enemy fire. Now I need the Swordfish to come back to the carriers, and I want the fighters to cover our support planes, is that understood?"

They reluctantly agreed. The strike would have to wait until later, there were more important problems. The 30 Sea Raptors in the strike wave redirected along with the 20 on CAP. That would make 50 F-14s vs. 50 F/A-22s, when the enemy arrived.

OOC:

I'm considering getting into this thread...but can Beltway, Lost Hills, or one of the other major "freedom and democracy" forces tell me why I should put up with Gilabad's borderline godmodding?

If I do decide to get into this, consider this post a placeholder-all ship/plane/troop movement orders will be going out at the IC time of this post.

Borderline Godmodin! You obviously don't take into account all of the crap I have to deal with not so much Beltway, but Pythogria, and all the other idiots who I ended up RPing with (not meaning all of you of course).

As a matter of fact you can keep your noobish hind end outta here!

The F-14s closed in on the Awaks and tankers quickly accquiring them and while 20 of them launched their Phoenix missiles, the rest hanged over for cover. General Tanaka sat reviewing the situation as the enemy had completely been lewered into their trap as 65 F-22s were in route to take on the enemy formation attempting to take on the F-14s. The F-22 formation was going to take the enemy formation from behind as planned.

(OOC I have edited one of my last posts that states the correct damage assesment caused by "The Lost Hills"

(OOC: Since my carriers DO carry these types of hypersonic interceptors, I'm going to have them aid the Chevy tankers and fleet.)

Airspace over Chevrovian Carrier Battle Group

The twelve ISF-2Zs streaked through the air, their scramjet engines sucking in the air, mixing the oxygen with hydrogen to create the burning exhaust that streaked out of the back of the fighter aircraft, which screamed towards the incoming contacts at nearly 120,000 feet. The sqaudron leader, at the head of the squadron's delta formation, began sending a radio message on the freqeuncy that the Chevrovian fleet was using.

"Attention, allied fleet, this is Coral Sqaudron of the Velkyan Naval Air Force, we have detected the approach of a wing of enemy fighters and are preparing to intercept them, over."

As they streaked overhead, each fighter armed six BVRAAM (Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile) AAM-12 missiles each, totalling 72 missiles which rested, their ball bearing warheads now armed and ready to fire. As they approach within range of their targets (250 km.), they also began to arm their medium range AMRAAM AAM-9 missiles, which would engage as soon as the enemy (if any were left) would come into range. The AAM-12s, which used a onboard RADAR to home in on a target and both IR and LADAR/LIDAR as terminal guidance, would ensure overkill on the aged F-14s.

"Shit, we've been fired upon!!!"
"Missiles coming our way!"
"Return fire and break formation!"

It was total chaos. While the enemy missiles came closer, the Sea Raptors each let loose two of their six AMRAAMs, sending some 100 missiles towards the F-14s. Communications came in from the fleeing AWACS that another group of contacts was closing in, at least sixty, no confimed indentification but some sort of stealthy fighters perhaps.

As the missiles got closer, the communications were heard back at the fleet. It too, was total chaos, as men were scrambling around the hangar decks of the two carriers, getting the remaining fighters armed ready to go. Other men were arming the air defense systems of the fleet, just in case. The Swordfish fighter-bombers were returning, and almost as soon as they were on the deck, armorers were pulling their missiles off and trying to get them below deck.

Meanwhile, the enemy missiles were in terminal distance to the Chevrokian formation. They were dropping chaff and flares all over the sky, causing the missiles to lose lock. By sheer "luck," four of the enemy missiles managed to find a target, destroying three planes; two fighters and a tanker, and severely damaging the AWACS. The two fighter pilots were able to eject, but the crew of the tanker were all killed.

Back at the fleet, a message came in from one of the allies:

"Attention, allied fleet, this is Coral Sqaudron of the Velkyan Naval Air Force, we have detected the approach of a wing of enemy fighters and are preparing to intercept them, over."

Good news, finally, thought the Admiral.

As a matter of fact you can keep your noobish hind end outta here!

You'll note that I didn't ask you for your opinion. Now, shall we keep this civil and let one of the people I actually asked for an opinion respond, or shall I turn the vocabulary that once won me a cursing contest loose on you?

OOC: I'm signing off for tonight.

Pity, you'd have been fine to answer my original query.

[ Five, four, three, *two*, *one*! ]

Official Declaration of War

+++Earlier today, the Gejigradian National Senate voted 72 to 4 on declaring war upon the nation of Gilabad, for their recent blatant disregard for human rights of their citizens. Currently, the armed forces are being mobilized for intervention. Citizen General Richard Fulke was quoted at the press release following the declaration as saying "...damn right we should get involved in this. We've got every obligation, as a responsible, democratic nation to remove regimes like this, especially when they have the possibility to begin attacking other nations, rather than their own damned folk."
+++Current force deployment is estimated at about twelve million troops of the Gejigradian Army and Air Force, and are moving to invade Gilabad at this moment. The national alert level has been raised to Yellow, and national defense units are on-call as of now....

+++The article continues for most of the front page, dealing with smaller details, but the message is glaringly clear: Gejigrad's mighty air force has turned its powerful arsenal onto the terrorist-run nation of Gilabad.

Gilabad: What are your subs shooting at with missiles? My subs? My planes? My ships? Also, I have 24 subs attacking your fleet, not just 1, and they're still launching torpedoes and stuff. Where did all your new planes come from?


See, this is the sort of thing that makes me wonder "why bother?"

You'll note that I didn't ask you for your opinion. Now, shall we keep this civil and let one of the people I actually asked for an opinion respond, or shall I turn the vocabulary that once won me a cursing contest loose on you?

(OOC:They have cursing contests?! Why wasn't I told of this?!)

OOC - Sorry, but I don't have the time or patience for this. Gejigrad, Velkya, LH, or Kahanistan can take over my military forces; see the OOC thread for most of the info you'll need. By the way, the character of the E-3 captain (Alfred Otto) is undeveloped; if you wish, you can develop him. I'll retain control of politics and diplomacy.
In reference to Gilabad's suggestion - The opposition party in The Beltway is the Republican Party; further, the fact that you launched a surprise attack is more likely going to unify our nation than to divide it - think Pearl Harbor or 9/11, not Bull Run. Finally, The Beltway is more likely to blame Gilabad than anyone in the Defence Ministry; no signs pointed to war, and the war was started by an overeager Gilabad general. Westmoreland really shouldn't have attacked in the first place, given the circumstances - especially without giving some sort of ultimatum.

That's the thing in todays world. We were all unified by 911 initially, but now the democrats are more concerned about terrorist civil rights than their own lives. So in retrospect of modern democracy, it's still just a suggestion.

I'm not going to RP with Liracia, set and done!

OOC - Gilabad, do not discuss politics in this thread or this forum. The General Forum is for that; go knock yourself out. Further, why won't you rp with Liracia?

Gilabad: What are your subs shooting at with missiles? My subs? My planes? My ships? Also, I have 24 subs attacking your fleet, not just 1, and they're still launching torpedoes and stuff. Where did all your new planes come from?

Licracia: Come on in and join the fun. I think a few more allied fleets should be showing up in the next couple days.


My mistake, it was a misprint. Torpedoes. When you RP an attack, you have to state how many are involved and in the area. You RPed one sub attacking my fleet. So now that you tell me, I will change it!

Beltway, as far as some of the crap you've been giving me, I can discuss what I want to. The reason I'm not RPing with Laracia, is because I'm not going to RP with a noob brat in which the first thing he posts is an insult!

The F-14s immediately fired their CHAFF and flares which threw off some of them missilses, but most of the F-14s were destroyed. 45 F-14s were destroyed. But as planned the F-22 formation came up behind the enemy formation, arming their XMAAs and firing 2 each at the enemy formation.

OK now you're saying six subs are attacking when you said before 24 subs were attacking WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?

Oh god. This is too much of a headache. I'm done. My troops never existed, etc, etc, etc. Gilabad, don't bother worrying about my navy or the damage I may have done.

Good luck to the rest of you.

OOC - Gilabad, to be perfectly honest, Liracia has a point. You do tend to be somewhat unwilling to take real losses. However, I've stopped rping in this thread, so it's no longer my problem.
LH - should someone take over for you? Otherwise, I'll probably just end up ignoring this thread - and to think that I started the thread (and, in a sense, the war - although Gilabad could have simply made it an international incident) in the first place...