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Antarctika, Kroando

Logan and Ky, long a thorn in the side of the Koalition, had finally provoked Malthus. First the threats on Kroandon shipping, then the laughing as Kroando's people slipped into poverty, and finally, the attack on Kroandon Forces batteling Vontanas in Gateway. Hundreds if not thousands of Kroandons now lay dead due to Loganian and Kyian attacks on the battle group... and now no more would be accepted. A second mobilization was called for, war was coming, now on a different front.

Throughout Kroando the mobilization began. The Koalitionist State was calling up millions... tens of millions of reserves to report to their various barracks' throughout the nation. Thousands of trucks rolled throughout the large nation, carrying men to and fro, as even the military capacity was stretched. Private buses, airlines and even taxi services were enrolled by the Koalitionist Military at home in order to begin this massive mobilization, simply struggeling to move the masses of men and supplies. Bases not active in a decade were suddenly rank with activity, as tank collumns rolled from the depths of storage lots unto the road of war. Highways were never closed, but often over packed, as traffic problems soared with the large numbers of vehicles being influxed to the nation. Absolutely no shit was being allowed in the area of transportation. If an accident occured, instead of closing a lane, the vehicles were plowed out of the way. A mandatory minimum speed limit was imposed, and law-enforced carpools assembled.

The sheer number of supplies that were being pushed into society caused massive problems, as the road systems were pushed to capacity. The air was filled, as the only time transport planes remained on the ground was when they were refueling or reloading. Train tracks were red hot due to the friction of constant travel, as speed norms were increased, and military supplies packed onto passenger trains, crates of ammo often lining the hall ways of trains. SDCI Missiles leaning up against toilets in the bathrooms. The Koalition was doing literally everything in it's power to jump-start the Kroandon military machine. Money in massive amounts was pumped into the cardiac system of the nation, as oil and gas purchases from foriegn suppliers hit an all time high. It was going to take time... but one thing was for sure... they were serious.

The Invasionary Force

-9,000 Kraken II MBT's.
-11,000 ID-57 Decimators
-35,000 G-24 Strikers
-12,000 C-37 Mountain Breakers
-4,000 VL-7 Demolishers
-5,100 Towed 155mm Guns
-5,000 Towed 105mm Guns
-12,700 C-24 Big Guns
-125,000 Type-4 Transport Vehicles. (Large truck with slabs of wood/metal on the side. $50,000 a piece... nothing fancy.)
-12,000 Puma IFV
-65,000 Military Grade Humvees.
-3,000,000 Combat Troops
(Upwards of 15,000,000 Logistical Troops)

-12 Cadiz Class SSBN's
-11 Tenerife Class SSBN's
-25 Negotiator Class Destroyers
-29 Nimitz Class Carriers*
-7 Modernized Iowa Class Battle Ships (Strengthened Hulls - Upgraded Missile Defense Systems - Increased Missile Firing Capacity)
-250 Visari Class Destroyers
-25 Detection Class Logistic Boats (LADAR-RADAR-SONAR Systems - 1 CIWS Gun)
-75 Repair Class Logistic Boats (Repair Equiptment - 1 CIWS Gun)
-2,100 M-Class Carriers (Massive transport ships... massive.)
-4 Overlord Class SuperDreadnoughts
*2,175 Halcon Stealth Fighters

3700 Kilometers from Logan and Ky

General Horn, infamous for his command in the Hexonian Genocide, stood at the command deck of his flagship the K.K.S Hexon, a massive mile long SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought. Some would call it ironic, the ship he now used as his flagship, named after the island he had destroyed - the island which had given him the reputation as Horn the Horrible. He now commanded a much, much larger force, with orders similar to those he had had on Hexon. Cause terror. Cause havoc. Conquor thy enemy.

[If it's alright with you, I think we should keep the No Nukes rule in place from 'Devouring the Wolves'. While this is completely your decision, if you nuke me... well... you get the idea. Also I attempted to send a force that would not be overwhelming. I think we can use the same OOC thread from devouring the wolves.]

Encrypted message sent to all Logan and Ky forces abroad

Return immediately to Logan and Ky. We repeat RETURN IMMEDIATELY. This is a direct order. Kroandan threat immenent, all available forces must report to port cities AT ONCE.

ooc: Alright from now on i'll direct all ooc talk related to this to the devouring the wolves ooc thread

All across Logan and Ky word of the impending invasion was spreading. Millions of people from the coastal towns of New Hilingrad, Lenonton, and other major cities were being evacuated to Major city centers further inland, namely Tyrins. The already densely populated capital was soon flooded with 30 million refugees from the coastal towns.

Another impact of the coming Kroandan invasion was on the economy, as millions of new missiles and weapons were being produced for the increasing number of troops, as the draft was instated for the first time in Kyan history. Items such as steel, gasoline, and food were now all being rationed to help aid in the war effort.

Finally, millions upon millions of Kyan reserves were being activated, and even more millions were being trained. We may be outgunned, thought the generals, but we will not be outnumbered.

Total Logan and Ky Military Forces
(this includes those that are returning from Gateway.)

6,000,000 Elite Legion Soldiers (The regular Kyan soldier)
16,000,000 Reserves (4,000,000 of which are drafted)
500,000 Black Mask troopers (The Elite)
5,000 Deadbolts (Ultra-Elite Snipers)

Total Naval Forces

Destroyers/Frigates/Cruisers:
40 Sovremenny Class DDG's
10 Paramount Class ADV's
4 Emperor Class Battlecruisers
3 FFM-16 FREMM Class Frigates

Aircraft Carriers:
6 Nimitz Class
1 Invincible class

Battleships:
6 Modernized Iowa Class
1 Iroquois class

Superdreadnoughts:
2 Argentine Class Galleons
1 SDC-4 Overlord Class Trimaran Superdreadnought

Amphibious:
4 Wasp Class AAS
6 San Antonio Class AAS

Total Air Forces
2703 F-16's
615 F-22's
2000 A-10 Thunderbolts
1000 AH-64 Apaches
100 UH-60 Blackhawks
1000 B-52 Stratofortress
90 B-54's
100 C-17 Globemaster's

Vehicles/Artillery
Tanks:
3500 SHBT-II Behemoth
200 M-43 Diablo
200 T-90

Armored Vehicles:
7500 Stryker APC's
100 Vextra APV's

Artillery:
10000 M198 Howitzers
500 M-150 Warrior artillery systems
50 M110 Howitzers

Fortifications/Missiles
1000 M-499 Cavalier Coastal Defense Railguns
200 Sentinel SAM launchers
5000 Juggernaut SRBM's
100 SCUD-C SRBM's
100 Peacekeeper ICBM's
50 LGM 30G Minuteman ICBM’s

WMD's
Roughly 1000 Nuclear Warheads of varying power
VX Gas

2500 Kilometers from Logan and Ky - 5 Days Later

The Kroandon fleet broke through the vast ocean with eager anticipation of the war waiting for them in Logan and Ky. Reports of the fighting in Gateway struck jealousy into the Legionnaires of Horn's Army, keeping every man polishing his C1 Assault Rifle on the hour, checking the seals on their body armor and the toughness of their helmets. The tanks were currently undergoing paint jobs, as the tanks being deployed were currently all white, matching the Kroandon landscape. Everything was being painted to fit the environment of Logan and Ky. The men could only jerk their knees and bite their nails, waiting for the opportunity to join the war...

[Basically a I'm still coming post - My next one will be at 1000km's. Also, do the numbers you have posted there include logistical troops or not? (IE, does that include non-combat personel?)]

1900 Kilometers from Logan and Ky
(At roughly the same time as your 2500 km post)

The fleet returning from Gateway was going at full speed, they hoped to get the transport ships back to Logan and Ky while still having time to engage Kroando on the open sea. The plan was simple, they would depart from the transport ships once they reached Kyan waters, they would then meet up with the rest of the Kyan fleet and take positions near the coast. They didnt want to risk engaging Kroando without the support of aircraft and missiles from the ground, for the fleet could only hold about 700 or so fighters, which would easily fall to the Kroandans 2,000 Halcons. It was absolutely essential to the war effort that Logan and Ky mantained air superiority, and therefore the carriers and their airplanes would be a major target in the impending Naval battle.

2500 Kilometers from Logan and Ky - 600 Kilometers from Enemy Fleet
[Same time as above]

The Kroandons had closed on 600 Kilometers of the fleeing Logan and Kyan fleet, the same fleet which had done battle in Gateway. The Commanders of the Kroandon Fleet salivated at the site... to destroy the fleet which had caused so much anguish, shooting down scores of Halcons, and sinking the first Tanker Class MBS in the history of the vessel's existance. These men here were the same ones whom had brought this invasion about... how proper that they die first. The six hundred kilometer gap seemed enough to protect them from any would be Kroandon strikes... but apperantly the Logan and Kyan intelligence services had never picked up word of the Valour Class Anti-Shipping Missile. (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=22&st=0#entry10195245) The missile, originally designed to wreak havoc upon SuperDreadnoughts, had earned it's place as an anti-aircraft carrier weapon. And as reports streamed back to Kroando about the strength of the Logan and Kyan airforces... it was lucky that the Kroandons possessed a large number of these.

The first one hundred sixty five Valour Class Anti-Shipping missiles rocketed off from the Negotiator Class Cruisers, streaking right for the enemy Aircraft Carriers. The missile was designed so as to not only damage the ship, but break apart itself into several smaller missiles, which would do a number on decked jets... As the missiles fired, Halcons began lifting off into the air...

"We've got something incoming sir, anti ship missiles."

"How many are we looking at?"

"Around 160 sir"

"How close are they?"

"155 miles, and closing fast"

"How come we didnt pick them up until now?!"

"Theyre sea skimming sir, and seem to have some stealth capabilitys"

"Well then, launch the praetorians!"

"Will do sir"

With that command a 3 of the Paramount class ADV's launched their Praetorian V and VI anti-air missiles. With a capability for destroying both aircraft and cruise missiles, these missiles are deadly against aerial strikes. Luckily the paramounts picked them up due to their MRT-4 RADAR system, which will detect any low flying aircraft or sea skimming missiles within 160 miles of the ship. 500 Missiles flew into the air, which was actually unneccassary considering the high accuracy of the Preatorian missiles, and collided with their targets. Those missiles wouldnt be threatening any Logan and Ky shipping today. However the Admiral was worried about the Halcons which had just taken off from the Kroandon fleet, and as such ordered the 360 F-22's to take to the air and patrol around the fleet, they were safer in the air than sitting on the deck of a carrier.

The fleet than continued on their way, attempting to increase their speed as much as they could, which was difficult considering they were nearly running on maximum anyways. The rest of the Kyan fleet was 150 km away, which meant they still had an hour or two before they met up. The Admiral would feel a lot safer with an additional few dozen destroyers and ADV's, and not to mention another aircraft carrier, which was carrying a number of Helicopters and fighters.

Kroandon Fleet - Minutes After Report of Failed Valour Strike

"Admiral... reports have all Valour Missiles shot down around 200 clicks from destination.", Lieutenant Bergun barked out as the tracking systems of the Valours went offline, indicating their premature detonation. The Lieutenant, not wanting to fall victim to the endless questioning of the Admiral, immidiately picked up the small Universal Remote, pressed a few buttons, and brought up a digital image of the Paramount ADV, a full technical breakdown of the vehicle with it. Weight, length, armor scheme, propulsion system, estimated number of crewmen, armaments... the intelligence breakdown, linked directly to the KRIA data base.

"How many Praetorians did the Logs fire at us?", grumbled Admiral Tovok as he looked over the Paramount's impressive array of weaponry. Each of the vessels was equipped with twenty Praetorian V Missile batteries, each of those batteries in turn containing ten missiles. 500 missiles had been fired... which left 100 between the three ADV's, not counting whatever others may be present. It was determined that another good wave of Valours would penetrate... or at least absorb the last of the Praetorians. By the time the batteries would be reloaded, the Halcons would have long ago engaged...

240 more were fired upon the fleet, emptying the last of the Valour slots, which would have to be reloaded in coming hours. The 240 missiles were promptly followed by a wave of 450 Halcons, which began their approach to the Logan and Kyan Fleet...

ooc: Unfortunately for you, there are several grave mistakes in youre planning here. First of all the Gateway fleet contains 5 paramounts, not 3. Also the paramounts have an automatic reloading system, so the next volley of missiles is already prepared. Additionally, the rest of my navy is about 70km away at this point, and theyre happens to be another 5 paramounts in that fleet.

IC:

"Sir, theyre seems to be another 240 missiles on the approach"

"Well then aparrently they didnt get their intelligence right, fire off another 500 praetorians"

The other 2 paramounts and the one that had already fired 100 missiles then launched off their own volley of 500 Preatorian V Anti-air missiles, once again bringing the Kroandons Valour class anti-ship missiles down into the sea. The 500 slots that had been launched earlier were now already reloaded, and it would take only the course of another minute or two for the 500 that had just been launched to be reloaded. All in all a volley of 1000 Anti-Air missiles would be ready for the Halcons once they got withink 130km, 2000 if they got within 60km (because of my other fleet). Not to mention any other anti-air missiles on other ships the fleet might have.

The 360 F-22's had now met up with an additional 20 F-16's that had launched from the carrier on the other fleet. The combined 380 Fighters flew out to meet the halcons, and once they were within 105 KM of the planes (at 250 km from my fleet), each fired 4 AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles, which means that 4 missiles were targeting each of the enemy planes, and then immediately turned to flee at their maximum speed of 2.4. They were lucky that the AMRAAM's not only had fire and forget capabilities, but that they had a longer range than the Kroandon Flyswatter missiles. However the slower 20 or so F-16's couldnt even quite reach mach 2, and the Admiral was starting to realize that by sending them into battle he may have assured their death.

Halcons Enroute - 250 Kilometers from Logan and Ky Fleet

Psssssshhhhtttttt... "Vekor three confirm readings from Helc. BCS...", Captain Nurson called into his radio, attempting to get a confirmation on the scores of LADAR Signatures on the screen. "RADAR's turning up only 20 bogies sir... awaiting orders...", Vekor three responded, checking his comprehensive RADAR system for the enemies that the LADAR had so easily revealed. The RADAR system had shown little, but this was easily accounted for due to the stealth features of most modern combat aircraft. LADAR however was not considered by most... the F-22 having no stealth features against the system. And so the F-22's came up big... on the LADAR Screens. And so did their AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles.

"Shit... all Vekors... prepare for disengage... Vekors 9, 33, 74, 96, draw manuvers ASAP.", the Captain called through the radio, informing the entire aerial force of the measures about to be taken to avoid complete obliteration. From the outset, the Halcon's were hardly in panic mode, after all, many things were already going their way. The very aircraft they were flying made the liklihood of enemy missiles taking them down slim, what with the extreme stealth employed by each of the aircraft, their RADAR signatures so small so as to be nearly immpossible to maintain by Anti-Aircraft missiles developed in the early 90's. They had no LADAR tracking to speak of, and their IR homing was rather insignificant against the stealth capabilities of the Halcon. But the Kroandons did not know what was being fired at them, so they took their precautions... all they knew was that they were outnumbered 4 to 1 by these missiles.

As the enemy missiles closed on 30 miles, RADAR Jammers were activated, RADAR jammers so sophisticated that their sensors were barraged on all channels, making their older technology rather incapable of continuing their tracking. However when the Americans had designed the missile, they took this into consideration. They designed a system that would not simply crash under a RADAR Jammer... they designed a system that would lock onto, and track the RADAR Jammer. So those thousands of missiles which had been locked onto hundreds of targets... were now all targeted at eighteen Halcons' which were soaring high, high into the air... 30,000... 40,000... 50,000... 60,000... EJECT. The vast number of enemy AMRAAMS all soared towards the source of the jamming... there were eightee sources, and over 1,500 missiles [1520 to be exact], locked onto and destroyed twelve aircraft... meaning roughly 82 missiles had destroyed each single aircraft. That meant that over 31,000,000 dollars in missiles had been fired at each aircraft. [558Million Total] The amount of missiles the Kyans were firing was another thing altogether. 1,000 missiles to knock down 400 Kroandon Missiles? With the Praetorian coming in at 1.2Million a missile, 1.2 Billion in missiles... in less than an hour. Logan and Ky may have adopted Kroadnon tactics... but would they be able to afford them was the question.

Twenty Halcons crashed into the seas, two pilots dead. And as the Halcons began heading back to the fleet, they noticed something. They noticed hundreds of F-22 RADAR Signatures popping up on their screens. Why? Why had their RADAR now failed? Well, for starters, they were traveling at Mach 2. The F-22's max speed was Mach 2.4, however at Mach 2, the RAM of a stealth plane was ripped off the aircraft due to friction, leaving it completely visible to RADAR Systems. To recoat the F-22 would cost easily... a million dollars for every aircraft. 360 Million if estimates came back correctly. The Halcons slowly moved back to fleet, eager to land and refuel after the last encounter, new squadrons of Halcons taking to the air as they landed. Twenty Halcons had been lost... but at what cost to the Kyans? Their budgets did not scrape the top of what Kroando could afford... and eventually they would discover this.

[The Halcons never came within 130km's of the ship, ergo, no shooting at them from the Praetorians, just from your aircraft.]

Casualty Report
x20 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed - 2 Pilots Dead

"How many confirmed enemy planes shot down, cadet?"

"Sir... um... 20..."

The Admirals eyes bulged out of his head, his face turning slowly red before he screamed out the following sentence:

""20??!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ANTI AIR MISSILES WE SHOT AT THOSE BASTARDS!!!"

"Well... yes... but it turns out that we're at a severe disadvantage if we dont outnumber them at least 2 to 1..."

"Well apparently. So do I get to hear any good news?"

"Well yes sir, we are now merging with the rest of the ships"

The Admiral smiled and then walked out on the deck, from here he could see the dozens of new warships at his command. The entire Kyan navy was now collected into one fleet. They were now 1800 km from the shore, and as the Admiral stood atop the deck, a few snowflakes whipped around his face, signs of the coming Kyan winter, one which would last from october until May due to their extreme northern location. Soon the great port of New Hilingrad would be frozen over.

The admiral shook his head, thinking about the weather in a time like this? It wasnt very becoming of the grand admiral of all Logan and Ky military ships. He fixed his eyes to the F-22's on deck nearby, they were being hastily reloaded and then launched. Their next fight with Kroandon fighters they wouldnt be so cautious, it was either all or nothing from this point on.

[Quick question. Did your fleets stop at 1800km and prepare for a fight? Or continue back to shore?]

1800KM's from Shore - 600KM's from Logan and Ky Fleet

General Horn walked upon the deck of the Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier, smiling as the flakes of snow fell from the sky unto the deck of the massive ship. Lifting his hand into the air, he caught a single flake and lowered it to his face, looking at the flakes detail as it slowly lost its form and melted away. "It's getting colder boys...", spoke Horn to the several heavily armored elites around him.

"Bout' damned time... I've been melting in this horrid heat.", replied the Lieutenant in charge of the General's security, commenting on what he saw as extremely warm temperatures. Then again, anything over 35 was considered extremely warm, Kroandons coming from a land that was on average, twenty below [substantially warmer in the cities]. They awaited winter with eager anticipation, this being their ideal climate and fighting atmosphere. Winter was not the grand defense it was against other invading parties... when Kroando was the nation invading, it was an advantage.

The fleet continued pushing on, they were to close 350km's before they engaged the enemy in full on naval combat, the Negotiators not being able to fire enough Valour's in one wave to penetrate the Praetorian shield of the Logan and Kyan fleet. However once they in range of the entire arsenal, it was simply a matter of numbers. Who could spam the enemy with more missiles, overwhelming the enemy fleet. Who had more missiles to fire? The Kroandons were confident as they continued ahead, full spead.

But that was not to say no missiles would be fired... fifteen Trident SLBM's were unleashed, all with non-nuclear, conventional high explosive warheads. They were fired at the massive Nimitz Class Carriers of he Kyan fleet, and each had a much higher chance of hitting. The Ballistic Missile traveled in the lower atmosphere, where once it peaked, it was extremely difficult to shoot down. On the decline, the missile would travel at speeds exceeding 12,000 miles per hour... making it near immpossible to target, let alone shoot down with even the most advanced anti-missile systems.

[This post was basically just a filler until I get 300kms from your fleet.]

ooc: What? No theyre continuing, you cant have possibly caught up with them...

[I didn't say that I caught up with them... I just said that I would not launch a full scale attack until I did. I really don't see where in that post I said I caught your fleet. I am still 500-600KM's from you, the same distance I was in the begining.]

Even though the Kyan fleet had a total of 3000 missiles per volley from the 10 paramounts (They have 20 Praetorian V SAM batteries+10 Preatorian VI SAM Batteries, with 10 missiles launched per battery per volley, and with each ship carrying over 5000 missiles) making a possible swarm of AA missiles with numbers in the tens of thousands, they found themselves at a difficult position when the SLBM's showed up on the radar. They launched a number of the missiles, but only 7 managed to hit their Kroandan targets. Another 6 of Kroando's missiles were shot down by the Kyan's CIWS guns and rolling missile mainframes. The other 2 crashed into an empty aircraft carrier, severely damaging it to the point that is is largely being abandoned, except that the surviving crew members are being airlifted out and the ship is having charges set in it to go off in the next 20 minutes, so that no Kyan intelligence can be recovered, and that the Kroandan's might stop to examine it, buying time.

Kroandon Fleet - 1000KM's From Shore

The Kroandon Fleet pushed ahead, soon coming across the flaming hulk of a half sunken Nimitz, one which let off explosions from time to time. Being roughly 600KM's behind the Kyan Fleet, they arrived nearly eighteen hours after the Kyan Fleet had abandoned the vessel. By the time they came near it, the vessel was far to unstable to risk boarding, and the thought was immediately discarded, leaving the vessel to slowly bubble into the depths. Perhaps after the conflict had ended Junkers ships would cut the wreck apart, hauling back parts of the ship to sell as scrap iron, but for now... no action was taken.

The Fleet pushed ahead...

[You can assume we are at whatever point you were going to stop at. I am just going to keep going until A - You stop and confront me. or B - I come within 100km's of New Hillinbrad. (Apologize for mispelling).]

100 Kilometers from New Hilingrad

The Kyan fleet suddenly came to a halt. The transports had departed a long time ago to unload at more southerly locations. The Admiral stood at the helm of the USN Metal Storm, an overlord class superdreadnought. As he stared into the distance, a force of 2,000 F-16's, 660 F-22's, and 500 B-52's was being prepared to launch (some taking off from airstrips in New Hilingrad, some launching from carriers or wasp class ships).

As the Kroandons got within 500 km, the Admiral smiled. They were within range. He then gave the order to launch 1664 Tomahawk anti-ship cruise missiles, which were aimed mainly at the Kroandan carriers and destroyers. In their wake would be the huge force of Kyan airplanes. This would be the Kroandon's first true test in this war...

500KM's from Logan and Ky Fleet - 600KM's from Hillingrad

Twelve seconds. That was how long it took the Helicon Battle Control System to pick up and lock onto the Kyan Tomahawk Cruise Missiles. The Helicon Battle Control System was the integrated computer electronic system which linked all parts of the Kroandon Military together. No longer would the RADAR operator call in the report to the commander, the commander to the missile controller, and the missile controlled finally fire the weapons. As the RADAR picked up the bogies, the order was immidiately sent to activate and intercept the enemy missiles. And so it happened, the two hundred and fifty Visari Class Destroyers were sitting ready, as were the two Tankers, and the four SuperDreadnoughts. The missiles moved closer... closer... closer, appearing as if they were to be sucessful in their strike against the Kroandons. As they broke 40 miles... only 200 Tomahawks remained. 2,100 SDCI's had taken out the remainder. As those 200 closed on 20 miles, only 40 remained, 300 SDCI's knocking out the others. As the tomahawks came within 1 mile, six remained, the remainder knocked out by 60 SDCI's. Of those six, one hit, the others skewed with RADAR Jammers, chaff... and of course, CIWS Guns. That one missile colided with the side of a Overlord SuperDreadnought, creating a slight tear in the armor.

The fleet then took action, the first measure would be to show the Kyan's the real meaning of the word spam. The fleet shook... no... the ocean shook as the combined strength of the Overlord SuperDreadnoughts, the Visari Class Destroyers, the Negotiator Class Cruisers, and the Tanker Class MBS's unleashed an ungodly hail of over 6,800 Valour Class and other such Anti-Shipping Missiles at the enemy, fully intent upon anihalating them then and there. All the while the SDCI's reloaded, as did the vacant shipping missile tubes and all other such weapons.

This however was not even the primary concern. The meager Kyan Fleet was but a thorn in the Kroandon side... the satellite pictures relaying a massive aerial force in the ground was a far bigger threat. Kroandon Satellites relayed images of massive Kyan Airfields, housing hundreds of F-16's and B-52's... all of which had to be destroyed immidiately. And that was where the submarines came back into the fold. Thirty two SLBM's were fired, all at various airstrips and airfields in the area, loaded with thousands of pounds of high explosives each. To destroy the enemy on the ground... that was the key.

The Halcons were all slowly taking to the air... preparing for the aerial battle that awaited.

ooc: FYI the attack was timed so that the planes would arrive shortly after the missiles. I did say that the planes would arrive in the wake of the missiles, I should have clarified and said that they would arrive very shortly afterwards. Also I object to the fact that you just added 2 missile tankers to your fleet, maybe you hoped I wouldnt notice, but either way its godmoding.

IC: The huge force of Kyan planes reached their destination and began releasing hell upon the Kroandan fleet. The first attack came in the form of a total of 8,000 AGM 119 Penquin anti-ship missiles, which were released at a range of 55 km from the 2,000 F-16's, they were targeting the carriers, destroyers, and cruisers, as it was determined that the overlords armour was to strong for the missile class. The F-16's then headed at full speed towards the enemy fleet, intent on bombing them into oblivion. Meanwhile the F-22's moved in from either side to assault any halcons that had taken to the air. The B-52's were taking up the back, just behind the F-16's.

The Admiral shuddered when he heard of the massive missile spam heading directly at their fleet. He did, however, manage to give the order for a full volley of Preatorian V and VI missiles, 3000 in all. The missiles were then reloaded and then fired again, so a total of 6000 Preatorians were launched. They managed to shoot down 5500 Kroandan missiles, leaving another 1,300. These were largely shot down by a number of anti-air missiles launched from other ships, CIWS guns, and firestorm missile launchers. A total of 56 missiles hit. 45 of which managed to sink 1 Iowa Class battleship and 1 Sovremenny class Destroyer. Another 6 caused superficial damage to an Argentine class galleon, and the other 5 caused some damage to a Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier.

On shore, a number of alerts were going off, warning of incoming ballistic missiles. Some were shot down by SAM batteries, but a few hit their target. Luckily, most B-52's and other heavy bombers are launched from bases much farther inland. A total of 74 A-10 Thunderbolts and 15 F-16's were destroyed, with one facility being effectively damaged beyond repair.

The Kroandan's ballistic missile strike was being met with 100 SCUD's, aiming at the overlord class superdreadnoughts.

Casualty Report
1 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Sovremenny class Destroyer SUNK
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
15 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED

[1 - I had copied that fleet write up from a previous post, before I made the Tanker, clearly I use it all of the time... but I will remove them.

2 - There is no way I would have allowed you to move over 2,000 aircraft within 55kms of me without a post, I obviously misinterpreted your post, and shall now post my reactions. I will post as your air force comes within around 200miles of my fleet. I saw your post on your aircraft 'fueling up', and assumed it'd be quite a while before over 2,000 of them were in the air.]

Kroandon Fleet - 200 Miles from Logan and Kyan Air Force

The Kroandon Fleet was once again buzzing with action as the Logan aerial forces lifted off, preparing for their arrival since the moment of their departure. The SDCI's had been restocked, the destroyers arranging themselves in defensive formations. There were over 900 Halcons filling the snowy skies above the fleet, as even more lifted off to join the fight against the enemy.

The first wave of Anti-Aerial Attack would come in the form of RIM-156 SM-2 Extended Range Block IV's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_missile), the Long-Range Anti-Aircraft Missile adopted by the Kroandon Navy as the LACI was undergoing a much needed update. This longer ranged version of the Standard Missile could intercept from 200 Miles away, with the speed, accuracy and mobility to track down and destroy not only the F-16's, but the B-52's. The Visari's their Restockable VLS tubes long having replenished themselves, unleashed ten RIM-156 SM-2's each, totalling 2,500 missiles at the approaching F-16's and B-52's. The Halcons then began heading at the enemy air armada, all 900 prepared to intercept at around 100 miles.

The SCUD's were a different issue, ones dealt with as were all ballistic missile threats to Kroandon Possessions abroad. By the Kroandon Orbital Defense System, which was now highly active after the Binarians attempted ballistic attack near Gateway. KODS [Kroandon Orbital Defense System] worked in such a manner so as to strike down ballistic missiles as they entered the lower atmosphere, firing at them interceptor missiles with EMP warheads. With such a method it was not necessary to actually hit the enemy missiles, but only to detonate in their general vacinity. And that was what the LACI EMP Interceptors did... detonated within 100 meters of the enemy SCUDs, destroyed their targetting systems, all of their electronics in general, and watched them drop harmlessly into the sea. However two of the SCUD's made it through the EMP Shield due to the unexpected nature of the attack, one of the missiles missing by over 40 meters, plunging into the ocean, the other coliding with the Overlord, causing heavy damage. The vessel would still operate, but the deck was torn apart, as was the upper hull, an several missiles batteries. Repair ships moved quickly... the vessel would likely be saved, if only due to it's massive size.

As the 2500 missiles headed towards the F-16's and B-52's the order was given for the F-16's to each fire 2 AMRAAM's each to protect the bombers, and then immediately take evasive action. The F-16's quickly turned and headed back and up, while darting and weaving, trying to avoid enemy missiles. In the meantime the B-52's were heading on, with the hope that the AMRAAM's would protect them. Luckily, despite the missiles low probablility of hitting enemy AA missiles, 4000 of them against the 500 that were tracking the B-52's provided some good odds. Nearly all were shot down, with the exception of 3, which all found their mark. However the F-16's werent quite so lucky, with about 230 of them being sent to the bottom of the sea.

They then continued on their way, until they reached 65 miles from the enemy halcons (at 165 miles from your fleet). The F-22's and F-16's then both unleashed a massive number of AMRAAM missiles. The F-22's each launched all 6 of theirs, with the F-16's launching their remaining 4. The number of missiels totaled 11,040. Over 12 for each Halcon. The F-22's then retreated back to airstrips in New Hilingrad. Their purpose for this battle was finished. The F-16's and B-52's then continued on. Their attack was to be covered, however, by another volley of Tomahawk missiles, which had been reloaded since the original strike. The 1600 Anti-ship missiles would hopefully absorb most of the Kroandon's SDCI's (especially considering that you dont have the tankers).

Casualty Report
1 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Sovremenny class Destroyer SUNK
3 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
245 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED

[How did your F-16's switch all of their weapons from Anti-Shipping Missiles to AMRAAMs? And I think it should also be pointed out that the F-16 does not possess a missile capable of knocking out Surface-to-Air Missiles. There is no modern American Missile capable of doing that, so to say that American missiles can not only do that, but do that with 50% accuracy is a godmod. The missile I designed to do that, is NS Tech, and it even, operates with 30% accuracy. What missile is it that you are using to shoot down the SAM's?]

ooc: First of all it did not have 50% accuracy. I fired 8 of them per target (they were aiming at the missiles tracking the B-52's). So lets then assume that an average of only 1 missile per the 8 actually hit their target. That gives me an accuracy rate of less than 10%. While yes the AMRAAM is not designed to take out missiles, it is stated as a possible use. Second of all the F-16's clearly have 8 or 10 hardpoints, so they could carry the 6 AMRAAMs and the anti ship missiles. Finally, yes I may be stretching the technology a bit, but your halcons are absolutely ridiculous in comparison to modern fighters.

[My Halcons are F-22's with LADAR and better stealth. How exactly are they 'ridiculous'?]

Naval Battle

As the enemy missiles closed on 30 miles, RADAR Jammers were activated, RADAR jammers so sophisticated that the sensors of the Logan AA Missiles were barraged on all channels, making their older technology rather incapable of continuing their tracking. However when the Americans had designed the missile, they took this into consideration. They designed a system that would not simply crash under a RADAR Jammer... they designed a system that would lock onto, and track the RADAR Jammer. So those thousands of missiles which had been locked onto hundreds of targets... were now, for the most part, targeted at one hundred Halcons' which were soaring high, high into the air... 30,000... 40,000... 50,000... 60,000... EJECT. A vast number of enemy AMRAAMS all soared towards the source of the jamming... there were one hundred sources, and thousands of missiles pursuing them. Those one hundred Halcons were a sacrifice... a sacrifice that absorbed over 9,000 missiles. How? Why did this work? When the Americans designed the missile, they never, in a thousand years dreamed that such large scale aerial battles would still take place in the future. The missiles were meant to be used in 1 on 1 conflicts, in which a RADAR Jammer would be the only one in a sortie, and thus, the only jet in the force would be killed.

The remainder of the 800 Halcons now had been for the last thirty seconds, moving full speed in the opposite direction, back at the fleet, putting as much distance between themselves and the pursuing missiles as possible. Now however, as they saw what they were dealing with, they turned back. A little over 2,000 missiles remained to take down the 800 Halcons... a rather quickly, 1,200 SDCI's were fired to take out the incoming missiles, 400 dropping from the number of missiles headed straight for the Halcons. The next stage was to dive as the enemy AA Missiles came within 500 meters, ducking right under the missiles, many losing their tracking of the incredibly stealthy Halcons right there. Many others regained their tracking, but were lost in the chaff, flares and fancy flying manuvers. Only 80 more fell.

And then the Kroandons leveled out, and regained their composure, raising quickly in altitude... for upon their RADAR screens blipped hundreds upon hundreds of massive signatures, those of B-52's and F-16's. There were now hundreds of Kroandons now floating dead in the waters below... and their comrades now had one thing in mind... killing those fuckers that had ended the lives of the men they had lived with for years. The 720 Halcons accelerated, coming within missile range of their Flyswatters... and unleashed four missiles each upon the hordes of enemy fighters and bombers, 2,880 missiles, the majority targeted at the B-52's. Additionally, the twenty three submarines in the area, unleashed fifty Praetorian Submarine Launched Anti-Air Missiles at the horde of B-52's.

The fleet then fired upon the anti-shipping missiles with a volley of 2,500 SDCI's and Fire storm missiles, 4 scoring hits against two Overlord SuperDreadnoughts, three to one Dreadnought, one to the other. The missiles quickly reloaded, with each Visari holding in storage over 200 missiles, which equated to 50,000 throughout the destroyers alone. Running out of missiles was an unlikely scenario at this stage of the war...

Total Casualty Report
x200 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Lightly Damaged Overlord SuperDreadnoughts
x1 Moderate-Heavily Damaged Overlord SuperDreadnought
x2 Support Vessels - Sunk

ooc: well yes, but it can also target multiple enemies at once, it has designated anti-missile missiles, it can carry 15 missiles (much more highly advanced ones at that), etc.

IC: The pilots cheered as the Halcons made their retreat. They had suspected the radar jamming, so when that occured it didnt bother them that much. However, the quick turnaround and rapid advance of the halcons did bother them... and then came the missiles. The F-16 pilots were dumbstruck as to what they would do to save the B-52's, of which the vast majority of the missiles were aimed at. Ultimately, the situation was deemed impossible, so the F-16's just dove out of the way however they could to avoid the missiles that were targeting them (which must not be too many, considering the majority of those 2880 are targeting the B-52's).

The B-52's were, unfortunately, largely shot down. Over 300 took multiple direct hits, another 150 or so took a single direct hit, while a number of others recieved numerous near misses or glancing hits. In the end only 32 planes remained operational. The F-16's, many of which were not even being targeted, did manage to effectively escape their soon to be decided fate though. About 135 F-16's were shot down in the missile attack. They then continued on their way, and were now within the range of their penquin anti-ship missiles (your halcons should be very close to my planes at this point too, however). They finally unleashed the volley that they had been waiting this whole time for. 4 Missiles per plane, with 1635 F-16's left. It totaled at over 6540 anti-ship missiles, once again aimed mainly at the carriers, destroyers, and cruisers. They then turned around and made an attempt at a retreat, with the F-16's going at their full speed of mach 2, while the remaining 32 B-52's went straight ahead, in knowledge of the fact that the Kroandan fleet would be too busy shooting down penquin missiles to bother with them (I expect that your halcons will probably shot those B-52's down rather quickly, however). The F-16's pushed their maximum speed, trying to outrun those Halcons which would most likely now be trying to shot them down before they could get back to shore and re-arm.

ooc: If you have any objections as to how I got to 55 km, they are unfounded. I had plenty of time between the missile launching and the halcon attacks/retreats. You didnt even have a large number of missiles on the halcons still ready to fire anyways, it would be something like 2 missiles per plane, with 720 planes (1440 missiles) which you'll now have a chance to shoot at my retreating fighters and the advancing bombers anyways.

Casualties
1 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Sovremenny class Destroyer SUNK
468 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
380 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED

[1. It can target multiple targets at once - So can other modern fighters. 2. It has designated Anti-Missile Missiles that work about as often as your missiles. 3. The F-16 has 10 external hard points - with no internal missile bays. The Halcon has 6 external hard points with 9 internal missile bays. Unrealistic?]

Battle for New Hillingrad

Sirens blared, the situation was serious. The Visari Class Destroyers unloaded their VLS Tubes with SDCI Varients, and their two six shot pods within seconds of the enemy F-16's releasing them. Each vessel fired over twenty Anti-Missile Missiles within fifteen seconds, their tubes having been auto-refilled, much like those of the enemy Paramounts after their previous volley to knock out the Tomahawks. Over 5,200 missiles were unleashed from the Visari's in all, the vessels lighting up the sky with the red, black and white SDCI's, all locked onto individual Penguin Anti-Shipping Missiles.

Then came the Firestorm Missile systems of the SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts. Although the F-16's had not been firing at them, they were rather intent upon firing at the missiles heading in their direction. Each SuperDreadnought possessed 60 Firestorm Missile Launchers, each of which unleashed no less than ten Anti-Missile Missiles, six hundred from each of the four ships, approximatly 2,400 more in all. Between the Negotiatior Class Cruisers, and the other supply ships, another 600 missiles were unleashed, totalling 8,200 missiles to knock out the 6,540 enemy Anti-Shipping Missiles. Hundreds of missiles made it through the shield of SDCI's and Firestorm Missiles, but there still existed a wall of lead provided by the CIWS guns before the end would be seen.

Nine Nimitz's were hit, six with survivable artificial damage, three would however, sink, and were rapidly being emptied of their cargo and crew. Twenty three Visari Class Destroyers would also sink to the bottom by the end of the day, nine more being heavily damaged. An additional nine Negotiator Cruisers would sink, five more still suffering damage to the decks and hulls. Six repair/supply ships were also blown to pieces by hits to ammunition magazines.

However this would not go unpunished. The furious Halcon Pilots, flying about in various formations, were now dangerously close to the enemy F-16's, and as they turned home, they would meet the furry of 680 angry Kroandon Pilots, each still carrying ample supplies of Flyswatter Air-to-Air Missiles. And rather quickly, they were fired, over 1800 missiles fired at the visually sited enemy F-16's, and then they still pursued, often times coming within range to use their 20mm Vulcan Gatling Guns... they would pursue for over 100KM's if they had to... at which point a final wave of 200 Flyswatters would be fired before the Halcons headed back.

Only 680 Halcons were in pursuit. That left 40 unaccounted for. Those fourty had a much, much more important task. The Logan B-52's were closing on the fleet, and fast... should they have the chance to fly over it, the damage would be massive. The fourty Halcons unleashed 120 Flyswatters at the 40enemy bombers, and then quickly raised in altitude, ready to use their Vulcan 20mm Guns should any survive the onslaught.

[I did not have a problem with your post besides the point that says I only have 2 missiles left per plane. I start with 15 missiles each, with over 720 planes. Thats 10,800. I fired 1,200 at your Air-to-Air Missiles, and 2,880 at your aircraft. Thats 4,080 fired out of 10,800. That leaves 6,720 unfired, which equates to over 9 missiles each. Even if you give or take a few thousand missiles, I still have over five missiles each.]

Total Casualty Report
Total Casualty Report
x200 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Moderate-Heavy Deck/Hull Damage
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x23 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x9 Visari Class Destroyers - Heavy Damage
x9 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x5 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x8 Support Vessels - Sunk

(I meant that you had 2 flyswatters per plane, I wasnt including the SDCI's/surface to ground missiles)

The F-16's tore apart the open space between the two fleets with wild abandon. 1800 missiles were targeting them, and their was a whole lot of enemy fighters right on their tail. A few of the F-16's were torn apart by the Kroandon's vulcan guns. The rest than began diving, turning, spinning, and whatever else was necassary to avoid the Kroandon's shower of flyswatter missiles. A total of 483 F-16's were overtaken by the enemy missiles, the rest continued on a path that would take them straight over the Kyan fleet to airstrips in New Hilingrad and forward defensive positions on the southern plains.

The B-52's found themselves being tracked by 3-4 missiles each with no support and/or method of defending themselves. They were now within a few kilometers of the enemy fleet, and every bomber managed to unleash a huge payload of high explosives and napalm on the leading few ships in the Kroandan fleet (im not sure what you have in the front), ensuring their destruction. They were then each overtaken by the Kroandan flyswatter missiles. Not a single one of the B-52's had survived this mission, and they had only managed to unload upon a small number of Kroandan ships.

(note to self, never use heavy bombers without complete air superiority. 500 B-52's is a lot of money...)

The Kroandan fleet had now closed to within 400 km of the Kyan fleet. All across the fleet, preparations were being made for the coming battle. So far the only combat that had occured between Logan and Ky and Kroando had been dogfights and missile volleys. Soon they would really be getting into the thick of this war...

ooc: How many Halcons were destroyed or moved to transports on the carriers that sunk?

Casualties
1 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Sovremenny class Destroyer SUNK
500 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
863 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED

[Well there probably wouldn't be any Air-to-Surface missiles since they were deployed strictly for air combat, but anyways, it doesn't much matter.]

Battle of New Hillingrad

General Horn looked over the burning wrecks of his fleet, scores of ships now sinking to the depths, ready to join Davy Jones' locker, where so many sailors and vessels already lay. He could not but shake his head as fire crews scurried about, hurrying in their attempts to put out the fires that scarred even the carrier he stood upon. Approximatly 46 Halcons were lost, another 200 being moved into storage upon the M Class Cargo Ships a few miles back. Though anger at the failure of the force to stop the Kyans was fresh in his mind, there was a reprieve... one which came when the hundreds upon hundreds of smoldering Logan and Ky aircraft were spotted sinking to the depths. The Kroandon pilots, which now called for help in the seas were picked up, as were the Logan and Ky pilots whom had ejected before being shot down. [How many pilots do you think I would be rescuing from your air force?] The Logan and Kyan pilots were quickly changed from their clothing to prevent hypothermia, given a series of shots to prevent illness, and thrown in seperate isolated cells aboard the many vessels of the fleet.

Horn could only smile as he looked over the ocean of fire before him, the waters burning furiously as the napalm refused to be put out, an additional five scout Visari's being overwhelmed with flame from the B-52's last strike. The fleet paid no attention, and simply pushed through, taking confidence in the fact that they had inflicted a major blow to Logan and Ky air power. The F-16's would also be returning to damaged runways... a problem which could even result in aircraft running out of fuel and crashing. [In RL, blowing up runways is equivelant to destroying aircraft in their air, as they cannot land on anything but perfectly pathed ground.]

The fleet continued forward, coming ever closer to the Logan and Kyan Fleet which stood valiantly against them in an effort to protect New Hillingrad, which stood exactly 100 Kilometers behind them. The Massive SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts pushed through the seas, the damage they had suffered being constantly repaired by the repair ships all around them, which never ceased to blast tears in armor which blue hot fire, melting steel and armor back into place, hammering on slabs of metal onto gashes and holes. The SuperDreadnought suffering the most was also under heavy repair, with a new deck practically being installed as the vessel moved ahead.

The fleet was abuzz, it was by no means a silent approach to battle. Massive carrier vessels, hauling additional supplied, unloaded scores of SDCI and Anti-Shipping Missiles, restocking the fleet with all of the various weapons and ammunitions they required as they continued forward. Repair ships and other such logisitical ships hauled missiles around on their decks, moving them from the carriers to the Destroyers, from the Dreadnoughts to the Cruisers... the vessels could not afford to be depleted of armaments, not before the battle that was about to ensue.

Everyone continued forward, ready for whatever the Kyans were going to throw at them...

Total Casualty Report
x246 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Moderate-Heavy Deck/Hull Damage
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x27 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x9 Visari Class Destroyers - Heavy Damage
x9 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x5 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x8 Support Vessels - Sunk

[I really don't have anything to do until I get within 90kms...]

"Let's see KODS shoot down this"

Those were the only words that the commander Alexei Nagoyev spoke before giving the order to unleash the massive amount of Kyan Juggernaut SRBM's. With a range of only 200 km and a speed of around mach 4, these massive missiles dont give the enemy much time to respond. Approx 2500 of them (a healthy percentage of which are aimed at the superdreadnoughts) were launched in quick succession from missile silos in and around New Hilingrad. The other 2500 were located further south, and would be used later in this war.

The Kroandan fleet was now only 100km away. Every soldier was preparing for what what come next. To kick start it, however, a missile volley was being used. Another 1600 Tomahawks were being launched for a final time, as well as 312 P-270 Moskits, which were reputed as being one of the most deadly anti ship missiles in the (RL) world. These would combine with the Juggernaut SRBM's to destroy as many Kroandan ships as possible.

The fleet now stood still, preparing it's defences. Every plane was now either in the air or on an airstrip somewhere inland. They didnt want any being destroyed on deck. The massive guns on the Argentines, Iowas, and the overlord now pointed to the horizon, ready for when the Kroandan fleet came within sight.

ooc: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=541960&highlight=juggernaut+scud

Theres a link to the juggernaut's statistics.

Battle of New Hillingrad

The Kroandon Orbital Defence System was designed to allow a 0% ballistic missile sucess rate, for it was to protect Antarctika from missile strikes... one of which could cost tens of millions of lives. There were scores of satellites over New Hillingrad, each armed with multiple Anti-Ballistic LACI EMP Warheaded weapons. Now the LACI was no where near as fast as the missiles being fired by the Logan and Ky silos, however the Kroandons had one advantage. They saw the missiles as soon as they were fired. The massive heat signatures caused by the missiles immidiately catching the attention of the IR detectors of the satellites, activating KODS less than four seconds after the missiles were fired. Now it mattered very little how fast the enemy missiles were, for the LACI's never actually had to hit the ballistic missile. It merely had to get within a few miles of it... which due to the laws of trajectory and physics, was rather easy to do. Once the LACI got within a few hundred meters, boom. The EMP was detonated, and any missile within a few miles was shut down. Thirteen were fired in all, knocking down all but nine of the SRBMs. Only three would hit their marks, the rest being taken down by Fleet based LACI's.

One hit the already heavily damaged Overlord SuperDreadnought... which was now immobilized, at least temporarily, as it's hull threatened to crack apart and collapse the entire ship. The ship was heavily damaged, and would do little besides sit still and undergo repairs... the four Tomahawks that hit it in coming minutes did not help, but still the ship refused to sink. Six Visari's were destroyed in the strike also. The wave of Logan and Ky Anti-Shipping Missiles was met by 3,800 SDCI's, leaving only five missiles to hit their marks, sinking a pair of Visari's and damaging a Negotiator.

The relatively light damage was taken, and the Kroandons returned fire... the first wave came in the form of 4,000 Valour Class Anti-Shipping Missiles, which expected the same results as before... minimal. But the real power would come from the 3 operating SuperDreadnoughts, whom at 90kms turned and presented full broadsides. Where the Kyans would wait until the enemy was in sight, the Kroandons would not, firing as soon as their guns were within range. Each SuperDreadnought possessed 24 30inch ETC guns... meaning 72 were present between all three vessels. These 72 guns unleashed a devestating volley of massive self propelled shells into the air, their guns shaking the ocean, the explosives fired done so not with great accuracy, but there were 72 of them in all. They fired at the enemy SuperDreadnoughts and other such massive vessels... for although the accuracy was not great, the targets were huge, and there were many shots...

Total Casualty Report
x246 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Heavy Damage
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x32 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x11 Visari Class Destroyers - Heavy Damage
x12 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x5 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x8 Support Vessels - Sunk

The Admiral Vladimir II stood upon the deck of a massive Overlord Class Superdreadnought, the flagship of the Kyan fleet. His cheeks were starting to turn red and his fingers were starting to turn numb, but still he stood staring across the ocean, lost in thought. He was cut short, however, by his assistant, who had walked up behind him.

"Hello sir"

"Huh? Oh its just you. What do you want?"

"We have some reports on the enemy activity, it seems that the ballistic missile strike caused minimal damage and they have launched a volley in response."

"Is that all?"

"Well yes, except for a large number of unexplained shockwaves that we just picked up."

"Shockwaves? Wait... do you know what this means..."

His words were then drowned out by the sound of a falling shell.

"Hit the Deck!" yelled the Admiral as a shell hit nearby, mutilating his assistant and sending him into a wall. His leg was broken and there was blood dripping from his mouth as he yelled into the radio...

"Return Fire, Return Fire!!!"

The Overlord's with their 24 30" guns and the Argentines with their total of 48 25" guns (equipped with long range, rocket assisted shells) then fired a full broadside, matching the Kroandon's. The Admiral then barked out another command over the radio as explosions rocked the Kyan fleet.

"Keep it up, I want those guns firing non-stop, and for gods sake shoot down those Anti-ship missiles!"

The Admiral then limped around a burning hole in the deck to the medical center. He was put under heavy sedation, and the fleet was now under the command of Rear Admiral Casby.

The Paramount class ADV's began launching their preatorian missiles in response to the Valours, and a full 2 volleys completed their goal of shooting down all the missiles except for a few, which were taken down by CIWS guns. While this was happening the fleet on full alert, as the first Kroandan broadside caused some light deck damage to the Overlord class Superdreadnought and the Argentines, as well as heavily damaging an emperor class battlecruiser and destroying a Sovremenny class destroyer. Many other ships also recieved superficial scars and burns in their armour. For the most part though, the shells just werent hitting. The range was simply much too far, there were only 10 or so total confirmed hits.

The much more aggressive Admiral Casby was now in charge of the fleet, as the Grand Admiral Vladimir had 3 shattered bones and internal bleeding. He would probably live, but would be unconscious for hours or even days, which was lucky because Vladimir would likely object to being airlifted out. He would want to stay with his fleet as they went to their very likely deaths. This honor was, however, being saved for the Admiral Casby, who was now looking over the fleet and saying a quick prayer. He then gave the order to advance towards the Kroandan fleet, they were sick of waiting. As they closed to around 50 km or so, they noticed something. They could see a dot on the horizon, then another, then more. It was the Kroandan fleet. This meant 2 things to the Admiral. 1, they could watch those bastards die. 2, they could fire the 18 inch guns. The 12 on the Overlord and the 8 on each of the Argentines (28 total) then began firing, adding the the constant shelling that was now starting to consume both fleets in flame...

Total Casualties (after the first broadside)
1 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Emperor class battlecruiser HEAVILY DAMAGED
2 Sovremenny class Destroyer SUNK
500 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
863 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED
Light damage to numerous ships in the fleet.

[Just a note, the Valour is designed to get by CIWS guns, if 3 missiles get within a few miles, then Valour Class Anti-Shipping Missile. (24 missiles get in, just letting you know.]

Battle for New Hillingrad

Admiral Kelvek scowled as he watched a pair of 25inch Kyan Shells smash into the hull of his massive Overlord, the vessel shaking, sending crewmen to the deck as the flaming black scars on the side of the black ship burned due to the immense heat of the explosion. But the massive kilometer long ship continued to fire unhindered, shells landing all about, crashing into the water due to the extremely long range they were being fired from. The three active Overlords made a line that spanned three kilometers easily, their guns pointed to the west, watching first as the blips on the RADAR screens came closer, and then finally as they could see dots on the horizon.

Kelvek ran to the front of the control room, a massive fire ball consuming a Visari not far in front of the vessel. The Admiral peered through the binoculars... and a grim smile covered his face. "Those damned Logs think they will overwhelm our guns? Show them the meaning of fire power..." The Kroandons exchanged fire with their full broadside approximatly at the exact same time the Kyans did so. However unlike the Kyans, the Kroandons included their 14inch railguns, which fired rocket propelled shells. The Kroandons also possessed seven Iowa Class Battleships, each armed with 9 16in Guns, which joined the fray the moment the enemy came into range.

The Kroandon broadside consisted of 72 30in ETC guns, 36 18in coilguns, 63 16in guns and 72 14in Railguns, which, at 50 km's, were well within firing range. Two hundred and fourty three guns in all, compared to the one hundred and twelve of the Kyan Fleet. The Kroandon fleet was taking hits, but overtime, it was expected that the superior gunpower of the Kroandon Fleet would overtake the enemy.

However this would not be the end of the Kroandon Strike, as the Logan and Kyan Fleet had overlooked something deadly important. Twenty three submarines, now sitting less than 35km's from the enemy's location. The eleven Tenerife SSH's each unleashed six 500mm Torpedo's, the twelve Cadiz's each unleashed five, totalling 126 torpedo's targeted at the enemy vessels.

Total Casualty Report
x246 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Heavy Damage
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x34 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x11 Visari Class Destroyers - Heavy Damage
x13 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x6 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x9 Support Vessels - Sunk

ooc: correction, I have the following number of guns. 24 30 inch, 48 25 inch, 28 18 inch, 54 16 inch, and 12 MK 45 5 inch guns, which can fire 20 rounds a minute at a range of 60 miles (with extended range ammunition). I also have numerous other 5" guns which will come into range later on. Anyways the total is 166 guns.

IC:

The Kyan fleet was now firing around 166 guns. These came from the Iowa class battleships, the overlords, the Argentines, and the Emperor class battlecruisers. However, this was not where the real power was coming from. The 500 M-499 Coastal defense railguns in New Hilingrad were now firing up. They had a range of 500 km, but it had been decided not to use them until absolutely necassary. The hugely powerful guns immediately began firing, and at 10 rounds a minute. They would only be able to keep it up for about 50 minutes, but that was deemed enough to annihlate the Kroandon's.

Meanwhile the Kyan fleet was taking heavy fire, and the Admiral wasnt sure how much longer he could keep this up. The Argentines were starting to take some moderate damage, and all around the fleet ships were beginning to sink. In particular one Sovremenny class destroyer's large stock of ammunition was set ablaze due to a 18" round, resulting in a huge explosion that consumed the ship and 2 nearby Paramount class ADV's. Their only hope now was the coastal defense guns, and considering that there was over 500 of them and that they could only be destroyed by bunker buster bombs or powerful ballistic missiles, it was likely that they would cause some very serious damage to the Kroandan fleet.

The 126 Torpedo's heading straight for the Kyan fleet were somewhat intercepted by a number of ASHUM guns and decoys, but quite a few scored hits on the fleet. A number of aircraft carriers, Destroyers, and Amphibious assault ships were hit by the Torpedos, a decent percentage of them being sunk. The Fleet then responded by launching 300 Mark 48 torpedos (once they were within range) from the Overlord, and then all other torpedos from every ship in the fleet (I dont want to do all the calculations right now...) at the Kroandan Sub's.

Total Casualties
1 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
2 Paramount class ADV's SUNK
2 Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers SUNK
2 Emperor class battlecruiser HEAVILY DAMAGED
3 Wasp class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
17 Sovremenny class Destroyer SUNK
500 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
863 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED
Light to moderate damage to numerous ships in the fleet.

[A gun with the range of 500kms? And can fire 10 rounds per minute? You have any stats/links to this gun.]

[A gun with the range of 500kms? And can fire 10 rounds per minute? You have any stats/links to this gun.]

Well it has to cool down for 1 minute after each magazine of 10 rounds is fired (so it will actually be able to fire continuously for 1 hour and 40 minutes without running out of ammo, not 50 minutes as I had previously stated). Also you are only 150 km from New Hilingrad now, which seems like an acceptable range for this gun. Anyways heres the link.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12090646&postcount=81

[The range of 500km's is simply ridiculous, no cannon/artillery/gun like device can possibly fire even a rocket propelled projectile that distance. 150 is still extremely iffy, especially with a 406mm Gun. A 406mm Gun might hope to reach 100kms on a good day? A 406mm Gun equates to a 16 inch gun. We both agreed that our 30in guns/812mm (on the Overlord) have a range of around 90 or 100kms, and gain, with bad accuracy. Even so, with accuracy give or take a few kms. There simply is no way a 406mm Gun fires a projectile 500kms, rail gun, ETC, coilgun or not. Not possible.

Also I should be more like 200km's from shore, I stopped around 100km's from your fleet, and your fleet was 100km's from shore.

10 rounds a minute would also split the barrel of the gun apart due to the massive, amount of heat/friction caused by firing such a massive gun, maybe 1 or 2 rounds a minute - as done with modern guns of massive calibre. An 'air cooling system' would not be able to reduce the heat quick enough... and if it did, it would again, split the barrel apart due to rapid cooling/heating of the metal. I'll let you take down a few ships, but lets just assume it's a realistic weapon? 1 round a minute, really bade accuracy at 200km's. You have 500 guns, and you'll get off two or three rounds, giving you a couple dozen hits. I'm not blaming you for this gun, as you did not make it, but the thing is a pile of steaming wankage in my eyes.

Also, I'm going to be away for most of the day, sorry for the inconvinience.]

Alright then, max 2 rounds a minute and bad accuracy at 200 km (with extended range ammo). Dont expect to destroy these gun's without, as I said before, bunker buster bombs or Ballistic missiles, and considering that you have no bomber's and youre sub's probably wont be around much longer, you might have a problem with that.

Battle of New Hillingrad

When the twelve Kyan 5in Guns came within range, eighty four Kroandon 5in Guns came within range, whith twelve such guns positioned on each of the seven Iowa's. The Kroandons were firing 251 total guns to the Logan and Ky 166 Guns. Things were running smoothly, especially as the enemy vessels began showing signs of taking torpedo fire as explosions rocked the hulls of enemy ships. The fleet was standing well, guns blaring, the enemy fleet approaching. Admiral Kelvek smiled slightly as a single 16inch shell slammed into the side of the SDC-4 Overlord he stood upon, tearing a hole in the side of the black painted war machine. He knew that whatever the Kroandons were taking, the Kyans were taking far more... this view changed however when he noticed a massive amount of enemy fire falling in the seas far in front of, and around the fleet. Hundreds upon hundreds of shells, the vast majority of which were simply exploding in the ocean, were now raining down upon the Kroandons.

He knew immidiately what this meant, it was simply confirmed as the Lieutenant informed him that there were hundreds of Coastal Rail Guns surrounding new Hillingrad. The shots were horribly innaccurate, rarely even coming within a kilometer of scoring a hit, but the threat was clear. There were far too many enemy shells falling in the vicinity of the fleet, and not more than a minute after the first shells started falling, a Negotiator Cruiser was smacked in the center, nearly cracking the ship in two.

The Kroandon Fleet immidiately went to work in countering the threat. The first counter strike would not however, come from the sea, but from space. A pair of Orbital Strike Satellites, repositioned over Logan and Ky, were now staring right at New Hillingrad. Railguns took massive amounts of power to operate, which meant that they had to have been drawing from local power plants and other such power grids. The strike began with the strategic firing of several Explosive-Tipped Depleted Uranium Rods attached to the sides of these two Satellites. The Rods were released and set on a course to collide with the various power plants and electric control centers around and inside New Hillingrad. Without power, the Rail Guns would not operate. However in all likelihood, the guns had back up generators... however those would require massive amounts of gas to power, and at the least, the Kroandons would shut down the guns for a number of minutes as the back up generators charged the guns.

The next part of the strike would of course, have to fire directly at the guns themselves. The Submarines which had only just fired a salvo of torpedo's at the enemy fleet, was preparing to do the same thing, yet again. The enemy fleet would fire in the future, 300 Mk48 torpedo's at the submarines, however not until they were within range. The maximum range of the Mk48 Torpedo was 8km's... the range of the MT-500, which the Kroandons had fired, was over 50km's. So though the enemy fleet was closing in, and fast, the Kroandons had time to do two things. [Your fleet was 50km's away, takes a good thirty to fourty minutes to travel 42kms] First they fired a round of 65 torpedo's at the enemy fleet, and then they unleashed a total of sixty Decurion SLBM's, each armed with thirty independently targetable multiple re-entry vehicles (MIRV's), each armed with over 1,000 pounds of OctaNitroCubane, the most powerful, non-nuclear material on earth. The explosion caused would be enough to at least stop the gun from firing, if not destroy it altogether. The sixty SLBM's would multiple into over 1,800 one thousand pound bombs, which meant that on average, three to four of these massive rocket powered bombs, moving at over Mach 5, would land atop the Kyan Guns.

However as this happened, the enemy fleet was closing in on 10 clicks... which meant that it would not be long before they submarines were hounded by torpedos. The order to dive was given, and dive they did. Previously sitting at 150meters, they were ordered to go down to 900meters. The sirens blared, red lights flashed, DIVE, DIVE, DIVE, was the call as crew men rushed around, most without a purpose as the every last Cadiz and Tenerife SSH and SSBN sank deeper and deeper into the depths. Splash... splash... splash... Captain Gurdoc scowled as his SONAR operator reported over 200 enemy torpedos, a number which continued to grow as the submarines continued to sink deeper by the second... boom... boom... boom... the explosions meant that there were torpedo's detonating, probably shot down by ASHUM Guns, as the explosions were not loud enough to indicate an exploding sub. BOOM. That was a sub... two, three more explosions as the friendly Tenerife's were destroyed. And then the explosions stopped, at roughly the same time the submarines dove to 900meters. Why? The operating depth of the Mk48 was 300-400 meters, and as the torpedo's passed 500... 600... 700 meters... they were crushed. The vast majority of the Kroandon subs had survived, three Tenerife's being destroyed during the dive. The subs then went on silent running, and began moving towards the city, moving slowly... and quietly... under the enemy fleet.

The Kroandons had noticeably been lacking in firing missiles over the last fifteen to twenty minutes, but no longer. All four SDC-4 Overlords unleashed 400 Anti-Shipping Missiles from their FireStorm Pods, and an additional 100 Harpoon Anti-Shipping Missiles from their VLS Tubes, totalling 2,000 Anti-Shipping Missiles. Two hundred and fifty Visari Class Destroyers unleashed twenty Valour Class Anti-Shipping Missiles each, nearly depleting their remaining stockpile, totaling 5,000 more missiles. Each of the seven Iowa's unleashed 30 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, additing 210 missiles to the equation. The twelve remaining Negotiator's each let loose their Arrow Anti-Shipping Missile pods, each of the six pods firing three missiles, totalling 216 more missiles among the Cruisers. The Arrow Class Missile was unique, in that when it closed on 500meters of the enemy fleet, it dove into the water and acted as a torpedo, so as to avoid CIWS Fire. And finally, the Visari's also fired a total of 200 ASROC-7 Depth Terror Torpedo's, which would propel the torpedo for over 30km's and then dump the torpedo 10km's from the enemy fleet, allowing them to wreak havoc.

Taking advantage of the likely overload on RADAR the enemy would be undergoing, sixty Halcons, previously flying around the fleet in defence, would speed towards the enemy fleet, behind the missile wave, and immidiately let loose ten CD/49 Twister Air-to-Surface Missiles, which although would not destroy any heavy vessels, could do easily kill crewmen, destroy RADAR and damage the enemy fleet in general. 600 missiles were added to the fray, provided they make it within 30 miles of the enemy fleet.

7,626 Missiles now streamed towards the enemy fleet, the guns continued to roar, and scores of torpedos were unleashed... another dozen or so Kroandon ships now sank to the depths, the Overlords became more and more worn every moment, and fire covered the waters... but this was war. And war was good.

Total Casualty Report
x246 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x3 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light to Moderate Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Heavily Damaged - Immobile
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x42 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x19 Visari Class Destroyers - Light to Heavy Damage
x15 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x9 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x12 Support Vessels - Sunk

The Admiral frowned as yet another explosion rocked his ship. Sirens were now blaring as the fleet was taking critical damage. The battle was, in a word, lost. There was, however, one thing left to do before the fleet sunk to the depths. They had to take out the Kroandan guns, as being bombarded into submission wasnt part of the Kyan plan. The additional 60 5 inch guns on the Kyan Iowa class battleships immediately entered the fray, which made a total of 226 guns that were now aimed at the Kroandan Battleships and Superdreadnoughts.

The Kyan response to the missile strike started with a full volley of 2400 Preatorian missiles, and then with a return fire. A total of about 3000 Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles were launched from the shore and the sea, aiming at the battleships and Superdreadnoughts. This depleted all the shore launched anti-ship missiles, and the ships were now running low on ammo too. This wasnt the only attack, however. Around 700 F-16's were still located in and around New Hilingrad, and all they had to do was launch into the air in order to launch their 4 Harpoon missiles each, they would have had more but that was all they had left on the ground. The planes then began the trip to airstrips near Tyrin's, as staying near New Hilingrad would be suicide. A total of 5800 missiles were now targeting the enemy battleships and superdreadnoughts.

The threat of the Kroandan missiles was huge, with over 5000 missiles still in the air after the preatorian strike. Another 3000 were taken down by RAM launchers, CIWS guns, and Firestorm missiles launchers. This left around 2000 still targeting the ships that werent deemed absolutely necessary for the next stage of the battle, those were protected by the Praetorians. The missiles tore apart nearly of all the Kyan destroyers, carriers, AAS ships, cruisers, and even succeeded in fatally incapacating an Argentine Class Galleon. The ships that were left now faced the threat of the Kroandan torpedoes, which caused minimal damage as most were taken down by ASHUM guns and the like. The fleet then took to the immediate threat of the Kroandan sub's, and launched around 80 MU90 Impact torpedo's from the FREMM class frigates. These were much more advanced than the Mk 48, having an operating depth of 1000 meters, which meaned that the Sub's were pretty much down on their luck. The sea here was less than a 1000 meters deep.

As the various SLBM's approached the Coastal guns, there was in attempt made to shoot them down with SAM batteries, which, in short, didnt work very well. Most of the missiles were still in the air, and they all came down on around their target. The majority of the guns were hit, but the heavily fortified bunkers took some of the blow. Around 198 were still operational. The Power plants were then hit by the Kroandan orbital strike. This failed to achieve its desired effect, however, as the area was powered in conjuction by a huge number of plants around the city. The system was unfortunately now extremely strained, however, and all around the city power was being shut off so it could be reserved for military operations.

While all this was going on, twilight was beginning to fall on the area, but not on the 2 fleets. Various explosions from the exchanging of artillery and missiles were lighting up the night sky. The Admiral looked on in dismay as the now immobile Argentine class Galleon took several more direct hits. It was now only operating about half of its guns, but it would continue to do so until it sunk to the depths, which could take hours.

Total Casualties
3 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Iroquois Class Battleship SUNK
2 Paramount class ADV's SUNK
5 Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers SUNK
1 Invincible class Aircraft Carrier SUNK
3 Emperor class battlecruiser SUNK
4 Wasp class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
4 San Antonio Class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
36 Sovremenny class Destroyer's SUNK
1 Argentine Class Galleon IMMOBILE, HEAVILY DAMAGED
1 Overlord Class Superdreadnought MODERATE-SEVERE DAMAGE
500 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
863 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED
Light to moderate damage to numerous ships in the fleet.

Battle of New Hillingrad

As always... the missiles flew. Each SDC-4 Overlord unleashed 200 Anti-Missile Missiles, 800 in all, a strategic decision on the behalf of the Admiral Kelvek, whom expected a counter strike from the Kyans after the last stunt he had ordered. The Visari's were also fully stocked, having had ample time to reload the SDCI Pods, the two hundred Destroyers unleashing on average, ten missiles each, many having had been damaged during the battle. 2,000 SDCI's streamed into the air, filling the bright night sky with red, white and black smoke... the colors of Kroando. The twelve Negotiator Class Cruisers each let loose fourty SDCI's, 500 more joining the thousands of others in the sky. What remained of the volley then made it's way through hundreds of CIWS Guns, RADAR Jammers and Counter Measures... with well over one hundred scoring hits. Four Iowa Class Battleships were hit critically, two heavily damaged.

However it was the K.K.S Fortinbraz that gave the Admiral worry. The massive SuperDreadnought was taking on water, and slowly sinking into the depths. A string of heavy artillery shells had blasted the aft hull of the vessel, severely weakening the armor of the vessel as goo and solidifying gel attempted to heal the flaming, red hot wounds of the ship. The vessel would have survived as the second layer of armor prevented excessive amounts of water from pouring on, but a string of Tomahawk missiles wrecked the deck, and penetrated the already collapsing forward hull. An ammunition magazine was soon hit, making over one hundred meters of ship into little more than a flaming anchor into the seas. The Fortinbraz was sinking, probably hitting the bottom in less than four hours... the evacuation began... but the guns still fired... most of them anyways.

The F-16's in the area however, were not let off the hook so easily, as the Halcons, just having finished deployed their missiles against the Kyan Fleet, watched in dismay as the enemy aircraft unloaded missiles upon the flaming Fortinbraz. The sixty Halcons engaged their numerically superior enemy, firing over five missiles each in near unison, 300 Flyswatter Missiles at the enemy F-16's. [If your F-16's don't come that close, assume I fired 100 more missiles at your fleet.]

Satellite imagery indicated that roughly 3/5 of the enemy Coastal Guns had been knocked out, leaving well over 100 at least semi-operational. As shells continued to pound the seas, the fleet fired off a volley of Tomahawks, 300 in all, directed at the operating enemy vessels. In order to knock out the enemy coastal guns, the fleet had to be removed... for any airstrikes would be intercepted by the fleet's missile systems. The Visari's even joined in, firing 105mm Shells in a massive arc at the enemy SuperDreadnought, which even though far away, and the guns now very innaccurate, fired none the less. The target was over a kilometer long, and hundreds of meters wide... and besides, the hundreds of Visari Guns certainly added another issue for the enemy.

Under the waves there was another issue... 80 more confirmed splashes... which meant 80 more torpedos incoming. Each of the 20 submarines fired four Acoustic Torpedo's, designed to knock out incoming torpedos... 80 on 80, 32 enemy torpedo's made it through... those torpedo's then faced over five ASHUM Guns on each submarine, knocking out the majority of the torpedos incoming. Nine hit, sinking three more subs, two Cadiz's and a Tenerife. The remaining Cadiz's unleashed from their VLS Tubes eight Anti-Shipping Missiles each... which would, due to the position of the subs, be coming up right under the enemy fleet, making it immpossible for the Kyan Praetorians to intercept them.

Total Casualty Report
x246 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light to Moderate Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Heavily Damaged - Immobile
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Sinking
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x47 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x23 Visari Class Destroyers - Light to Heavy Damage
x15 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x9 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x12 Support Vessels - Sunk
x3 Tenerif SSH's - Sunk
x3 Cadiz SSBN's - Sunk
x3 Iowa Class Battleships - Sunk
x2 Iowa Class Battleships - Moderate Damage

The Admiral ordered one more missile strike immediately following the last. Most of the ships were still reloading, but the few remaining Sovremenny class destroyer's launched their 8 P-270 Moskit missiles each, totaling 32 missiles. They had a speed of mach 2.5, and considering how close together the fleets are, the Kroandon's have no time whatsoever to reload.

The Admiral then gave the order to launch 850 Preatorian missiles, 500 at the incoming Tomahawk's and 350 at the pesky halcons which had just launched a missile strike on the fleet. He was shaken, however, by the sight of a Kroandan shell colliding with a Paramount. The shell tore off the upper part of the deck, destroying around half of its Preatorian launchers.

Damnit, thought the Admiral, that could have been useful.

The Admiral then ordered the launch of another 80 MU90 Torpedo's, which completely depleted the supply of the FREMM class frigates. He wanted as many of those sub's dead in the water as possible. Ironically, just as he finished giving the order 8 Kroandan Anti-ship missiles burst out of the water. They were shot at by CIWS guns, but 2 still collided into one of the fleets last destroyers, critically damaging it.

As always the remaining battleships, the 1 and a half operating Argentine's, the Overlord, and the coastal guns were still firing, trying to take down the Kroandan battleships and Superdreadnoughts. An eerie silence was no falling over the fleet, only broken by the incessant firing of guns. Nobody spoke. It was now dark, and little could be seen besides explosions and burning ships. Occasionally you could hear the frantic scream of an injured crew member in the water, as there were now thousands from both sides grasping various chunks of metal and other objects.

3 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Iroquois Class Battleship SUNK
2 Paramount class ADV's SUNK
1 Paramount class ADV HEAVILY DAMAGED
5 Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers SUNK
1 Invincible class Aircraft Carrier SUNK
3 Emperor class battlecruiser SUNK
5 Wasp class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
5 San Antonio Class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
38 Sovremenny class Destroyer's SUNK
1 Argentine Class Galleon IMMOBILE, HEAVILY DAMAGED
1 Overlord Class Superdreadnought MODERATE-SEVERE DAMAGE
500 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
863 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED
Light to moderate damage to numerous ships in the fleet.

Battle of New Hillingrad

Though the SDCI Pods were completely depleted, reloading only having just begun, the fleet was not caught completely unprepared. There were hundreds upon hundreds of CIWS Guns throughout the fleet, which easily mopped up the relatively small number of Anti-Shipping Missiles heading at them, all but two being knocked out, those two further damaging the sinking hulk that was the Fortinbraz. The fleets continued trading fire, small patrol craft by now filled the water, picking up the thousands of Kroandons whom filled the cold Kyan waters, the fires from the surrounding hulks of steel providing light for the rescue crews, as did the scores of flares being fired off from the ships. The massive flames spewing out of the SuperDreadnoughts guns also gave light to the effort... saving the lives of the Kroandon sailors was now a top priority.

All the while scores of Valour Class Anti-Shipping Missiles were unleashed from the Visari's and Negotiators... expecting to eventually deplete the enemy stocks of Praetorians. The Halcons engaged in their typical sacrificial technique, with six jets deploying RADAR Jammers and soaring into the sky... however the Praetorians were not equipped with such tracking equipment, which targeted the sources of the jamming, and simply crashed. However a number of hits were scored, with twelve Halcons crashing into the seas below. The submarines responded as they had before, first with acoustic torpedos, and then with ASHUM Guns and decoys, another two Tenerife's were knocked off.

Meanwhile, Admiral Kelvek had a transmission sent to the Kyan Commander... it was time to end this, he knew it, hopefully the Log on the other side did to.

Attention Logan and Kyan Commander,

We demand the surrender of all Logan and Kyan Naval Forces immidiately. Should these demands be met, we shall agree to rescue all stranded sailors from your fleet and give them proper care. Should you refuse, they shall be gunned down, or left to freeze in the waters they now defend. Choose wisely Admiral.

Grand Admiral Kelvek

Total Casualty Report
x258 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light to Moderate Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Heavily Damaged - Immobile
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Sinking
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x48 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x23 Visari Class Destroyers - Light to Heavy Damage
x15 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x9 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x12 Support Vessels - Sunk
x5 Tenerif SSH's - Sunk
x3 Cadiz SSBN's - Sunk
x3 Iowa Class Battleships - Sunk
x2 Iowa Class Battleships - Moderate Damage

I may regret this later, but I would rather see my fleet at the bottom of the ocean than in the hands of a Kroandan. You see, its basic military strategy. Either we surrender and you use these extra ships against us in New Hilingrad, or we fight to the death and youre left attempting to storm a beach with the tattered, burning remnants of your fleet.

-Admiral John Casby

The Admiral than ordered a full, simultaneous volley of every gun left in the fleet and from the coast. This was succeeded by a volley of 1136 Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles, which was all the fleet could muster by this point. Only the 3 superdreadnoughts (one of the 3 is heavily damaged and slowly sinking), 3 battleships, 3 FREMM's, 2 destroyer's, 1 Nimitz, and 8 Paramount's now remained. The fleet was a fifth of its former size, but they were still determined to fight fiercely. Any Kroandan ship's seen zipping about in the water were shot at with M2's, and Kyan rescue boats took to gathering up any soldiers in the water. The few that had drifted so far as to be among the Kroandon's were now, however, on their own. All the while the gun's of the Kyan fleet still sounded in the night.

ooc: There's no way youre going to deplete the Paramount's supply before the battle is up. Total there's been about 15,000 or so Preatorian missiles launched, I have over 50,000.

Total Casualties
3 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Iroquois Class Battleship SUNK
2 Paramount class ADV's SUNK
1 Paramount class ADV HEAVILY DAMAGED
5 Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers SUNK
1 Invincible class Aircraft Carrier SUNK
3 Emperor class battlecruiser SUNK
5 Wasp class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
5 San Antonio Class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
38 Sovremenny class Destroyer's SUNK
1 Argentine Class Galleon IMMOBILE, HEAVILY DAMAGED
1 Overlord Class Superdreadnought MODERATE-SEVERE DAMAGE
500 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
863 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED
Light to moderate damage to numerous ships in the fleet.

Battle of New Hillingrad

The SDCI Pods had, as usual, been restocked, and were prepared to answer the enemy missile strike with 2,700 missiles, which, when added to the CIWS Shield, left minimal sucess to the enemy missile strike. Hundreds upon hundreds of missiles detonated into burning clouds as they attempted to break through the still operating shield provided by the Missile-Gun-RADAR JAMMER's. It would be hours before the battle's cesation at this rate, with thousands more dead and scores more ships sunk to the depths. Or, the Kroandons could try again their Decurion SLBMs... this time, fired at the fleet.

There were still several Cadiz Class SSBN's sitting beneath the ocean, several miles away from the Logan and Kyan Fleet, loaded with dozens of Decurion Ballistic Missiles [each originally stocked with 22]. These were promptly fired... fifty missiles in all... each loaded with thirty one thousand pound MIRV's - containing massive warheads of OctaNitroCubane. The missiles soared high into the sky, peaking in sub-orbital archs, and promptly breaking apart into hundreds of preciscion guided bombs. From the fifty missiles came 1,500 of these massive bombs, which now soared down unto the surface at speeds exceeding mach 5. Shooting them down would be nigh immpossible, as they were not terribly large, and were moving at insane speeds at near verticle angles. Additionally, they would fall upon the decks of the ships they targeted, which was far less armored than the hull. They were also targeted not at the Dreadnoughts, nor at the battleships... but at the Paramounts, which had, till this time, taken little fire for the massive problem they posed.

187 one thousand pound bombs were to drop on each of the remaining eight Paramounts... which when added to the massive bombardment already being deployed, was quite considerable. To sink them to the bottom was the goal, for with them gone, unrestricted missile spams would quickly sink the remainder of what stood.

Guns still roared...

Total Casualty Report
x258 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light to Moderate Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Heavily Damaged - Immobile
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Sinking
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x48 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x23 Visari Class Destroyers - Light to Heavy Damage
x15 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x9 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x12 Support Vessels - Sunk
x5 Tenerif SSH's - Sunk
x3 Cadiz SSBN's - Sunk
x3 Iowa Class Battleships - Sunk
x2 Iowa Class Battleships - Moderate Damage

The Admiral didnt need radar to know what was coming... he saw the various SLBM's as they burst out of the water. Luckily they had been watching the area around the sub's, and a sudden burst of anti-air guns managed to take out a few missiles, before the rest rocketed out of sight. They came down with astonishing force, tearing apart most of the Paramounts. Only one of the ill-fated ships remained, and it was heavily damaged.

The fleet then took launching their last strike before the impending Kroandan missile spam. Hundreds of VLS tubes were reloaded, this time with torpedo's, not missiles. In particular the one remaining Emperor class battlecruiser launched 192 Mk 50 torpedo's using the ASROC system. These torpedo's targeted the Kroandan Iowa Class Battleships in an effort to destroy as many Kroandan guns as possible. Meanwhile the Kyan guns still kept firing, but there was a noticeable panic around the fleet as the last Nimitz, the last destroyers, and the last FREMM's were loaded with ludicrous amounts of high explosives, aimed at the Kroandan fleet, and then abandoned by means of helicopter. On each of the ships remained but a few crew member's, bravely sacrificing their lives so that they could steer the vessels full speed into the Kroandan fleet. Only the Iowa's and the superdreadnoughts now remained, still trading fire with the Kroandan fleet, aiming at anything they could hit now.

Total Casualties
3 Iowa Class Battleship SUNK
1 Iroquois Class Battleship SUNK
9 Paramount class ADV's SUNK
1 Paramount class ADV HEAVILY DAMAGED
5 Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers SUNK
1 Invincible class Aircraft Carrier SUNK
3 Emperor class battlecruiser SUNK
5 Wasp class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
5 San Antonio Class Amphibious Assault Ships SUNK
38 Sovremenny class Destroyer's SUNK
1 Argentine Class Galleon IMMOBILE, HEAVILY DAMAGED
1 Overlord Class Superdreadnought MODERATE-SEVERE DAMAGE
500 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
863 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED
Light to moderate damage to numerous ships in the fleet.

Battle of New Hillingrad

Adrmiral Kelvek grinned as the Paramounts burst into balls of fire, their massive stockpiles of Praetorian Missiles creating explosions that cast a hot wind upon his face, miles and miles away. The flames glared back off of the Admiral's black glass eye, which reflected the hell that the two fleets had made their that day... burning wrecks of ships... flaming spots of water... floating bodies and sailors grasping onto those bodies to keep themselves afloat. The sky was still bright as the fires illuminated the battle zone, identifying it for miles round... the Admiral could only wonder. 'Could you see it from New Hillingrad?'

The massive array of enemy torpedo's was responded to as best as could be done, with the Destroyers firing scores of Acoustic Anti-Torpedo Torpedos into the waters, but they were numerically not powerful enough to stem the flow. CIWS Guns were turned to the ocean, attempting to pick off as many as could be taken out. The ASHUM Guns and Guardian Turrets underneath the vessels also did their best, filling the water with explosive lead. And finally there were the countermeasures, decoys and flares of all sorts. But it was of little use, the fleet was simply too tired and exhausted to continue. Dozens of hits were scored upon the Iowas, with the battle ships soon taking refuge behind the still sinking Fortinbraz, the massive Overlord absorbing torpedo strikes as men jumped ship.

The Admiral continued watching, a smile overcoming his face as he watched the enemy ships begin moving right at the fleet... "Fireships.", said the Admiral to no one in particular, laughing to himself as he watched an Iowa explode in a ball of magnificent flame, struck by a series of torpedos in the hull. "Fireships..."

The Halcons in the sky swarmed the area, dozens of them firing Air-to-Surface Missiles, en mass at the approaching vessels, doing their best to sink the enemy fleet before it crashed into the Kroandons. Hundreds upon hundreds of missiles were let loose now, free flowing since the destruction of the Kyan Paramounts. The Visari's all turned their 105mm Autocannons to approaching vessels, the hundreds of Destroyers letting loose upon the enemy hulls in an attempt to sink them as quickly as possible. So too did the guns of the other vessels join in... but still there remained a Nimitz, on crash course for the K.K.S Grevestok, the massive SuperDreadnought whom was, although worn and damaged, no where near the point of destruction. This Overlord was one of the least damaged in the fleet, and it's loss would unbearable.

And so Admiral Kelvek ordered a pair of ships, a heavily damaged Negotiator Class Cruiser, and a heavily damaged Visari Class Destroyer, both protecting the Grevestok, were sent on crash courses with the Nimitz... of course both being abandoned before hand... the vessels crashed, exploding into massive blasts over 800 meters from it's target. The vessels blew, each of them to tiny bits of flame.

The fleet had one last breath, and it used that breath to take out the remainder of Logan and Ky's Naval Strength. The Visari's, Overlords, Negotiators and remaining Iowas fired their Valour Class Anti-Shipping Missiles, along with the many Tomahawks from the sinking Iowas... 4,000 missiles to sink the Kyan Fleet. They were joined by a concentrated strike from the Halcons, 220 of which unleashed a further 1,000 missiles upon the SuperDreadnought.

As the missiles were fired, the waters of the sea overtook the deck of the Fortinbraz.

Total Casualty Report
x258 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light to Moderate Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Heavily Damaged - Immobile
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Sunk
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x50 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x22 Visari Class Destroyers - Light to Heavy Damage
x16 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x8 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x12 Support Vessels - Sunk
x5 Tenerif SSH's - Sunk
x3 Cadiz SSBN's - Sunk
x6 Iowa Class Battleships - Sunk
x1 Iowa Class Battleships - Moderate Damage

The Admiral stared into the face of utter destruction. Over 4,000 Kroandan missiles were headed their way. He didnt even bother ordering a Preatorian strike, as there was only 1 paramount still operational. The general state of things in the Kyan fleet was now complete anarchy. The crew members had taken to either killing themselves or jumping aboard fleeing helicopters and small craft in an attempt to escape.

The Admiral Casby then took it upon himself to walk from his command center onto the deck of his Overlord Superdreadnought. He stood at attention as a storm of missiles overtook his fleet and his vessel. He died straight faced, staring into his immenent death.

The battle was over, every last Kyan ship was now either sunk or sinking, and over 60,000 Kyan sailors were either dead or stranded. The coastal gun's now fell silent, waiting for the Kroandon's next move.

All across the city of New Hilingrad Kyan soldiers were preparing for the Kroandon's next move. Around 500,000 Elite Legion soldiers were embedded in bunkers and other fortified positions. The beach was, however, noticeably lacking in fortification. A lesson was learned from the Kroandan bombardment of Vantanian positions on the shore. However, here the Kroandon's had 3, maybe 4 ships with which to rain shells upon the shore, and there was still the 200 coastal guns that they had to deal with. A large force of Kyan mechanized divisions were also waiting outside the city, waiting for their orders.

Total Casualties
The Entire Kyan Navy
500 B-52 Stratofortress Bombers DESTROYED
74 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
863 F-16 Fighting Falcons DESTROYED
58,723 Personell KIA
2,347 Personell MIA (stranded or AWOL)
The rest escaped to the shore on the various helicopters/rescue boats.

ooc: Could I get some numbers on how many Kroandon's were killed/wounded?

Battle of New Hillingrad

"General Horn, the city awaits your arrival.", reported Grand Admiral Kelvek as Horn walked into the Command deck, the General's shoulder wrapped in bloody gause, a chunk of shrapenal having been only recently removed from his rotator cuff. The General smiled, his tattered military uniform matching those of the standard Legionnaires whom prepared for the upcoming landing, not the Naval Officers whom were dressed as if they were to attend a Presidential Ball. The General had a look a homicidal insanity upon him, as he could hardly restrain his glee as the fires of Kyan ships slowly put themselves out in the winter waters of the sea.

"Thank you very much Admiral... however we are not quite ready yet.", the General replied, pointing to the screen above his head. The massive screen was a satellite depiction of New Hillingrad and the surrounding area, several key areas circled and marked up. Most of those little circles represented Kyan Gun Emplacements around the region, guns that though had stopped firing, were still ranking at the top of the Kroandon Hit List. The danger they posed to a landing force was not acceptable, as a single round could kill hundreds of Kroandons. Other targets were the airstrips in the region, with their vast number of aircraft refueling and rearming, and of course there was now the Kyan Mechanized force popping up on the IR Detectors slightly outside the city.

Throughout the night however, there was no more war. There was much work however, as thousands upon thousands of Kroandons lay wounded in the waters. Rescue crews worked around the clock dragging out stranded sailors and marines from the waters, and repair crews did the same, working to repair the many damaged vessels of the Kroandon Fleet. Repair ships lit what the guns left dark, welding steel and metal back together, healing what the Kyans had damaged. They would not be at 100%, but they would be in far better shape than they were before.

Another noticeable action was that of various supply ships transfering missiles and shells from transport carriers to the various destroyers and SuperDreadnoughts of the fleet, preparing them for the battle that was to come...

Total Casualty Report
x258 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x2 Overlord SuperDreadnoughts - Light to Moderate Damage
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Heavily Damaged - Immobile
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Sunk
x6 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Light Damage
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x50 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x22 Visari Class Destroyers - Light to Heavy Damage
x16 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x8 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Heavily Damaged
x12 Support Vessels - Sunk
x5 Tenerif SSH's - Sunk
x3 Cadiz SSBN's - Sunk
x6 Iowa Class Battleships - Sunk
x1 Iowa Class Battleships - Moderate Damage
39,653 Sailors Killed In Action
20,761 Sailors Wounded

[More wounded than you and less dead, due to my fleet being able to rescue wounded sailors.]

ooc: correction, most airfields around New Hilingrad have been abandoned since the ballistic missile strike. Any planes that enter the battle will launch from airfields just outside of Tyrin's. Anyways, ive got nothing else to say, just post your attack.

Kroandon Fleet - Dawn

General Horn looked out over the city, only 20km's away from the fleets location, the two fully functioning Overlord SuperDreadnoughts displaying their massive guns to the city, the weapons directed as the shore line. The final Iowa Class Battleship mimicked it's larger brothers, as Visari Destroyers swarmed the area, and several repair vessels tended to now surfaced submarines. The massive transport vessels, previously far, far behind the fleet, had been brought up to join the rest of the fleet, and thousands of landing craft were quickly being deployed into the body littered waters of the sea. Thousands... tens of thousands of Legionnaires were climbing rope latters down into the vessels that would bring them to war... however for many others, they climbed into their tombs.

The war was coming, all knew it, yet speaking was one thing you would not hear for miles. Intelligence reported no beach fortifications, which meant one of two things. Either the Kyans wanted to roll over and give up, which wasn't very likely based off of the battle they had just went through, or they planned to take it to urban warfare. Either way the Kroandons were going to blow the city apart... it was part of the deconstruction process that was to be completed. The Kroandons looked at the city, and saw salvation. They saw raw resources where others saw sky scrapers. The materials used to build roads would be torn up, and thrown into plants which would grind up the asphault and make new asphault, fueling the Kroandon economy. The shattered glass of windows would be melted down to make plate glass. It was simple. The Kroandons needed. The Kyans had.

As the sun rose in the east, behind the Kroandon fleet, the war resumed it's previous stance. It began with massive naval bombardment, the Visari's beging by firing over 1,500 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, each loaded with a 1000lb High Explosive Warhead, at the Kyan Coastal Rail Gun Emplacements. With roughly 200 of those guns left, that meant there were 7 to 8 missiles firing at each gun, an amount that was deemed 'excessive' in knocking out the enemy's ability to destroy the fleet, but done so anyways. However there were more, many more missiles fired, with an additional 500 fired at Logan and Kyan Mechanized divisions outside the city.

The bombardment continued with Overlord SuperDreadnoughts and the Iowa Class Battleship letting loose with their massive guns, pounding several key locations. The first was the beaches, to destroy obstacles and traps that may have been deployed, or naturally existed. Sea walls were flatened, poorly positioned buildings removed. The fire of these guns changed over the course of an hour, slowly aiming at areas with high IR Signatures. Satellites reported mass civilian exodus from the city, which meant those inside it... were enemy combatants. IR signatures from body heat, or vehicles, were taken as hostile, and their coordinates given to the fleet, which proceded to pound the city with its scores of heavy guns.

The one thing missing from this however was the third Overlord SuperDreadnought, the vessel which had been immobilized by the enemy airforce before it was ever able to join the main portion of the battle. However over the last 12 hours, it's ability to move had been regained, it's armor sured up, and it's crew replenished as rescued sailors from other vessels manned the guns. However one down side was soon taken up. It was slowly sinking, and the damage was irreparable... at least with the equipment at hand. The ship would not make it 2,000 miles to the nearest port capable of handeling it, Scolar, nor could it serve with the fleet in any proper role. So General Horn divised a unique plan for it.

The vessel began moving, at full speed, right at the coast line... intending to crash itself into the beach head. Imagine the terror of watching a kilometer long SuperDreadnought heading right for you... guns blazing, the earth quaking under it's massive momentum. Though it would hit land far before the shore line, it's million tonnes of sheer power would likely force it all the way up to the buildings of the coast. Aboard the vessel were over 45,000 Legionnaires in addition to the 10,000 man crew, whom would operate it's guns in clearing a landing area. The ship was followed by over 5,000 landing craft, hauling 50,000 men - in addition to vehicle landing craft, carrying another 500 Kraken II's and 500 ID-57's. This would be bloody.

[How bout' we just start a new casualty list for 'Part II' of the battle, then add them up at the end?]

The General Alexei Nagoyev smiled, this was what they had been waiting for. 200 Sentinel SAM launchers (heres a link http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10445382&postcount=2202) hidden in the brush around New Hilingrad, emerged from their retractable towers and unleashed 2000 short and long range SAM's, destroying the enemy Tomahawks. The 200 operational Coastal defense gun's then unleashed all their fury on the Overlord and the landing craft's that were on the beach. This would be a massacre... 200 guns firing at a kilometer long target at a range of 2-15 km? They didnt stand a chance.

In the city of New Hilingrad, the hundreds of thousands of Kyan troop's took cover as the naval bombardment got under way. The shelling was, however, noticeably lacking, thanks to the Kyan navy and it's chaotic last hours. Most of the troops were in fortified bunkers anyway, they were ordered not to emerge until the Kroandon's established a presence on the beach. The small number of soldiers that were in less fortified buildings took few hits, as a miniscule amount of guns were firing for such a large city. Only 3 Kyan's were killed when a shell crashed into the side of a building they were set up in. 7 others were wounded, and the rest of the soldiers in the building grabbed these unfortunate few and made for a more fortified position.

Outside of the city most of the Kyan's non superheavy tanks were assembled, spread out as to avoid damage from shelling. While the bulk of the Kyan main battle tanks were the SHBT-2 Behemoth III's, these were too large in mass and length/width for all but the main streets of New Hilingrad, and as such few were included in the force. They eagerly awaited their order's as they watched the coastal gun emplacements unload on the ill fated Kroandon's in their beached superdreadnought and their landing craft.

Meanwhile the Sentinel SAM launchers were being hastily reloaded, as they didnt have automatic loading system like the Paramount's. They wouldnt take any longer to reload than a Kroandan VLS, however.

ooc: ok then, new casualty list for now

Casualties
3 KIA
7 Wounded

[Before I respond, a quick question. According to the write up, each one of those SAM's contained 12 total missiles. However, 6 of those are meant for taking out missiles and other fast objects... the other 6 are meant for taking out High-Altitude Bombers, and in no way are capable of taking down cruise missiles. This would mean that only 1,200 missiles were fired at my 2,000 Tomahawks [1,500 at the Guns, 500 at the mechanized forces] - and a 100% interception rate being unlikely, at least 800 of those missiles are still in the air.]

ooc: Damnit, I knew the situation seemed to good to be true. Alright then, assume that the 1200 missiles were aimed entirely at the 1500 missiles targeting the guns. So over 300 Missiles still targeting the guns... some are destroyed by AA emplacements... 103 direct hits, destroying around 50 guns. So 148 or so guns are still operational, still enough to tear apart your forces on the land, especially considering the close range. The 500 missiles that shot at my mechanized division... well heres an rp for it.

IC: 500 Tomawak missiles came crashing down around the various Tanks stationed outside of New Hilingrad. Of these some were shot down by AA, but most made it to the ground. 54 T-90's and 37 M-43 Diablo's were destroyed in the attack.

Casualties
3 KIA
7 Wounded
50 Cavalier Coastal Defence guns DESTROYED
54 T-90 Main battle tanks DESTROYED
37 M-43 Diablo Main battle tanks DESTROYED

ooc: FYI Binaria is logged in right now... you might want to shoot him a tg...

Battle of New Hillingrad

Field Marshal Devnore grinned as he looked out over the city, which became closer by the minute as the massive SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought pushed itself through the waters, and the sand of the sea floor towards the beaches. The guns of the vessel blared, blowing away the buildings in the area, clearing them of any would be defenders. The Command Room was much like the rest of the ship... dozens of fully equipped Legionnaires standing shoulder to shoulder as a few Naval Officers attempted to keep the ship moving. Everything was going to plan... until the Tomahawks of the fleet were reported destroyed enroute to their targets. Immidiate response was given, with the Overlord firing it's 100 Tomahawks at the same list of targets, and promptly calling for the rest of the fleet to do so.

Before the Kyan Coastal Guns ever fired, the entire fleet had let loose 800 more Tomahawks upon the same locations, and another 600 at the SAM Sites themselves, which had revealed themselves from their hidden locations to IR Satellites once they had fired upon the initial wave of Tomahawks. These missiles went up en masse immidiately, far to quickly for any of the SAMs to hope to reload. The enemy guns would be taken out before they had fired any more than three or four salvos.

However they were not so quick as to avoid the first round of artillery fire. Over 100 5inch Guns around the city were now coming down on the massive Dreadnought, with nearly 50 others firing at the various landing craft that unloaded upon the coastline. The Overlord was luckily in rather good shape in terms of the deck, the damaged portion of the ship being the lower hull, a location not hit by trajectory fired artillery. The shells rained down upon the deck, slaughtering scores of sailors and crewmen, tearing the armored surface of the massive vessel apart. The Legionnaires however, were primarily located deep below deck, and the relatively small guns were not initially capable of penetrating the ships armor. [Comparing the 5 inch guns to the 30 inch guns] The Overlord would not last more than an hour under this fire, but confidence was regained as the Tomahawks overhead soared into the city.

Across the beach it the smaller landing craft faired better, with so much distance being covered, and a relatively small number of troops, there was simply too much space to be fired upon. Considering the Kyans had no real data on the exact landing positions of the Kroandons, the landing craft made it to shore, and unloaded with only modest casualties. [You have no soldiers (they would have been taken out in the bombardment) relaying coordinates to your guns, thus, you're firing blind] The Legionnaires quickly abandoned the sands however, and rushed forward to inhabit the rubble of the coastal buildings, taking cover behind piles of stone and rubble. The tanks likewise moved forward, ignoring the massive explosions that occassionally rocked the beach. The battle had begun...

Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Beached - Heavily Damaged
-1,101 Sailors - Dead
--2,683 - Wounded
x851 Legionnaires - Dead
-1,150 - Wounded
x12 Kraken II Destroyed
x21 ID-57 Decimators Destroyed

[You wouldn't have a map of the city or anything would you?]

ooc: uh, frankly, no. I can tell you, however, that it's a densely packed, industrial city. Sort of like Detroit or Chicago except much larger (10 million people in the inner city, compared to 800,000 in Detroit). Outside of it it's mostly rolling hills/grassland, until you get further inland to the Kyan forest.

IC: Finally the order was given, hundreds of thousands of Kyan soldiers emerged from all over the city. The regular soldier was equipped with an XM8 assault rifle, body armour, a desert eagle, and hand grenades. Usually one or two troops out of a squad carried an M240 or a SMAW. There were also around 750 Deadbolt snipers set up near the coastal buildings and inside the city. As the Kroandan Leggionaires moved up the beast, about 300 of the snipers began firing with their DRS-84 Sniper rifles. These were the best of the best, trained for astonishing accuracy. That was reflected by the fact that there was only a few thousand of these snipers in the entire country.

The regular Kyan soldiers also began moving up to the coastal buildings, around 5000 of them engaging the Kroandan soldiers in firefights and hand to hand combat. If the Overlord's wanted to fire on them they would be killing their own soldiers too. Around 400 soldiers carrying SMAW's took up positions and about half began firing on the Kroandan soldiers, the rest on the tanks.

Meanwhile the coastal guns were still firing, now recieving coordinates from the snipers and the soldiers near the beach. They managed to get off a few more volleys before 400 Kroandan Tomahawk missiles came down on their position. Some were destroyed by AA guns and some missed, but there was still a large number of direct hits. 70 guns were destroyed, leaving only 78 guns. The 4 rounds each they managed to get off should have done the job... but the 78 Coastal guns continued to fire, now having coordinates with which to take out the Kroandan landing craft.

Back at the tank positions, 500 Tomahawk's were descending upon them. Many of these were destroyed by a spray of AA fire from the tanks and the like. Many more collided with and destroyed large numbers of Kyan vehicles. The Tank's then recieved the order to move up through the city. 100 T-90's and 143 M-43 Diablo's began moving up the main streets, trying to avoid the Kroandan shelling.

The 600 Tomahawk missiles heading towards the SAM sites were intercepted by 1 or 2 short range SAM's from each launcher, as a few missiles had managed to be reloaded. This totaled around 300 missiles. Once these were launched, however, there was still 330 or so Kroandan missiles en route. Te Sentinel's, as all important positions around the city, had AA guns protecting them. 120 of the launchers were destroyed, leaving 80 which were now being reloaded by their crew members and the surviving crew members of the 120 that were destroyed.

Casualties
475 KIA
1,283 Wounded
100 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
57 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED

Beaches of New Hillingrad

"Forward men! Move forward!", the intercom communication systems inside each Legionnaire's Helmet called out, instructing the bombarded Kroandons to move forward from the beaches to the defensive line that was rapidly being established where the coastal buildings once stood. Formerly beach condos, hotels and restraunts overlooking the scenic ocean, now pillboxes, trenches and bunkers. Thousands of Kroandons rushed to take cover behind the mounds of stone and fallen steel beams, attempting to save themselves from the deadly accurate fire of the snipers which seemed to inhabit the buildings adjacent to their line. Scores were knocked out, many more by the regular soldiers which made up the bulk of the enemy force, firing XM8's. The difference here however was the calibre of the gun. The XM8 fired a 5.56mm round, which was generally, not thick enough to penetrate the Kroandon Body armor, which consisted of overlapped dragonskin reinforced with ceramic plates. Most hits from the XM8's resulted in wounding shots, however this was not to say that the guns were useless... in the first thirty minutes of the landing over 2,000 Kroandon lay dead... a testament to the Kyan guns.

"Ive got a sniper at 29035K-352VB235-052... request immidiate missile strike... I repeat, sniper at 29035K-352VB235-052...", Lieutenant Grulik shouted into the CommLink inserted in his helmet, which would yield in a few moments, a Tomahawk Missile. The sniper had been spotted, but was seemingly just moving around inside the building to avoid the Kroadon Machine Gun Fire used to supress him. Now, the entire building had to go. Moments later the building exploded into a million bricks and shards of debris, and the Kroandons in the area rushed forward, a half dozen staying back to provide covering fire.

In a particularly troublesome section of the beach, where it seemed a number Kyans were holed up in a well fortified apartment building, the heavy guns were called in... armor. "God damn fuckin' Logs!", shouted Sergeant Helkurst as he ducked behind half-fallen brick pillar, clutching his arm as blood gushed from the wound he had just recieved. He threw his C1 Assault Rifle (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=14) to the ground in anger, trying to determine if the bullet had exited his arm. Just then he had to pause, as an ID-57 rolled up to within twenty feet of him, redirected it's massive Twin-Linked 30mm Gatling Guns to the building, and let all hell loose. Tens of thousands of 30mm Depleted Uranium shells cut through the walls of the building like paper, shredding whomever was inside. After what seemed like an hour, but was only a matter of seconds, the gatling guns stopped, and all was quiet.

A Kyan then popped up and fired some sort of Anti-Tank Weapon, likely a SMAW at the vehicle, creating a large blast and cloud of fire... moments later the ID-57 unleashed a number of High Explosive Rockets, and the building fell. The Kroandon Tanks boasted armor capable of withstanding quite a beating, SMAW's, RPG's, light fire of the sort would not be destroying very many. The tank quickly moved on, followed by a unit of Legionnaires whom seemed to never stop squeezing their triggers...

New Hillingrad - Overlord Beach

A large section of the beach had promptly been named, Overlord Beach, due to the massive Overlord SuperDreadnought which had washed up on it. Those Kyans brave enough to come within site of it now had to deal with the CIWS Guns which rained lead upon the surroundings. The Gatling guns, designed to take out missiles, were still more than capable of shredding infantry and even their cover. FireStorm Missile Pods likewise rang out, firing various missiles at targets inside the city, such as the Coastal Guns and SAM Emplacements - the beached Dreadnought Alone firing nearly 500 missiles which were accompanied by another 1,300 from the Destroyers. These 1800 missiles were all fired at the pesky SAM's across the city, which could, at the most hope to knock out 1200 - assuming all missiles sucessfully intercepted.

The beach head around the Overlord was the focal landing point of the Kroandon Invasion, despite the massive amount of fire coming in on the position. The Legionnaires aboard the vessel slid down escape slides which were unraveled and anchored down onshore, while others slid down ropes and others still ran down gang planks, 45,000 men in this location alone meant two things. Lots of casualties, and a foothold in the city.

Over the City

The next stage came in the form of air power from the Halcons, which would be marked with the destruction of the Coastal Guns. Following in the wake of the Tomahawk Missile Strike, over seventy Halcons would break off, each heading for a still operating Coastal Rail Gun. The SAM Sites on the ground would have been overwhelmed by the Tomahawks, and the Halcons, arriving only moments later, would have pretty much been guaranteed that any surviving SAM Site would not have any remaining missiles to knock them down. Each Halcon would unleash 9 Air-to-Surface High Explosive Armor Piercing Missiles at each Rail Gun Emplacement, ensuring that even if one or two were shot down by surrounding CIWS Guns, that the remaining six, seven or eight missiles would, at the least, disable the gun.

As the Halcons returned, they would provide air support to the Legionnaires on the ground, spraying Kyan Positions with their 20mm Gatling Guns, and firing their left over missiles at well fortified locations. They would of course fly at a rather high altitude of 15,000ft, above the cieling of most Shoulder-Fired Anti-Air Missiles.

Meanwhile, landing craft continued to move back and forth, ferrying in thousands upon thousands of Legionnaires and armored vehicles.

Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Beached - Heavily Damaged
-1,301 Sailors - Dead
--2,883 - Wounded
x3,219 Legionnaires - Dead
-3,684 - Wounded
x23 Kraken II Destroyed
x31 ID-57 Decimators Destroyed

[Did you say you had tanks in the city, or are they all outside? If so, are the tanks engaging me currently?]

ooc: before I post IC, change youre kill/wounded count. Its the same as your last post...

[Knew I missed something - also added a part that said I am still landing troops.]

ooc: The tanks are inside the city, moving to your position.

IC: The Lieutenant Drake Golubev watched in astonishment as the Kroandon's tore apart a building near the front. He supposed it made sense... there was about the same number of Deadbolt snipers in Logan and Ky as there was tanks.

The huge number of soldiers in New Hilingrad began moving in the thousands up to the front. 100,000 Elite Legion soldiers were now near the coast, still pinned down because of the Kroandon CIWS guns. Any Kroandon's that tried to break through the coastal buildings were promptly mowed down by dozens of Kyan soldiers. This massive movement of troops was part of an attempt to break the Kroandon line and force them off the beach. They still couldnt achieve this goal, however, without taking out the Kroandon Superdreadnought and tanks.

Even with their huge numbers, the Kyan line of soldiers was begginning to fall apart. They needed help, and fast. The Lieutenant that was mentioned earlier took cover inside a ruined building and promptly radioed his superiors.

"We need air support now, we cant hold much longer!"

"Dont worry Lieutenant, its already on the way. As is several divisions of armour"

143 M-43 Diablo tanks (link here http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12133337&postcount=90) and 100 T-90's were now up to the coast, they promptly burst their way onto the beach and engaged the Kroandon tanks at close range. Shortly following them, however, was the real power. 50 SHBT-2 Behemoth III tanks (link here http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11369844&postcount=3397) came up behind the surge of T-90's and Diablo's. These massive tanks could take anything the Kroandon armour could throw at them and more. Their main guns wreaked havoc upon the Kroandon tank divisions, and their machine guns/gatling guns tore apart the Kroandon soldiers.

The Sentinel SAM launchers were doomed... with only 80 of them left and 1800 missiles en route... they were utterly devastated. The Kyan guns as well fell to the Halcon strike. This was eclipsed, however, by the fact that Kyan air support was now on the way. 200 A-10 thunderbolts neared the beach (launched from a heavily defended, huge air base near Lennonton), and as they flew over it they dropped tons of 2,000 pound Mark 84 bombs, Napalm, and incediary bombs on the Overlord and the Kroandon landing craft. This would undo whatever the Kroandon's had achieved so far... even if it was at the sacrifice of the A-10's, as they were probably within range of the Kroandon fleet, and there were reports of Halcons in the area...

(note that the A-10's are too high up for infantry weapons)

Casualties
2,734 KIA
5,187 Wounded
112 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
72 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[How did the A-10's travel from Lennonton without ever showing up on RADAR? I would have had a chance to see/intercept them long before they reached the beach...]

Well, lets compromise and just say that they launched from near New Hilingrad, but i'll add to my casualty list a number of destroyed A-10's, from the missile strike you launched earlier. That work?

[I would still be able to use the SDCI's/Other Longer Ranged Missiles onboard the Overlord to fire at the A-10's before they got within 25 miles. I just can't let you "undo whatever the Kroandon's had achieved so far" - especially when I could easily intercept slow, bulky A-10's, at least with my hundreds of SAMs. That would simply kill far to many of my men to let it go. I'd be much more leniant if they were further in the city... but they are literally right around a SuperDreadnought.]

Fine, fine. In that case ill be moving another group of Behemoth's up on my next post...

Beached of New Hillingrad

"Sergeant... Helkurst! Get your ass over here! I need a spinner.", roared a frustrated Lieutenant as he finished off his clip, squeezing the trigger of the C1 Assault Rifle even as the last of the 7.82mm Bullets flew out of the gun and into the building across the street, filled with Kyans. "Helkurst! God damn it I said give me a fuckin' spinner!", the Lieutenant shouted again, not through his CommLink, but through the noise filled air, shouting again at the wounded Sergeant whom was busy firing on yet another building, attempting to dislodge a Kyan machine gun nest.

The Sergeant turned, looking like some Helghast Soldier from Killzone, and grunted, pulled out a grenade labeled EastCHN (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=16&st=0#entry401551), and tossed it to the Lieutenant, promptly resuming fire on the building across the way, the wound on his arm seemingly tolerable as a bloodied white rag was tied tight around it. The Lieutenant then, grumbling some Kroandon curses under his breath, loaded the grenade into the launcher cartridge under the barrel of his rifle, a slight smile apperaing behind his gas mask as he aimed the weapon across the road into a blown out third story window, and fired. The grenade zoomed across the the street, landing in the Kyan filled room, bouncing about for a few moments before it began to spin... and when it began to spin, a liquid began to spray out... a horribly stinking liquid... some sort of mix between gasoline and sulfur... and then the fire... the spinning grenade, spinning like a fire cracker spewed out flaming liquid into the surrounding area, the surrounding twenty five feet to be exact. The room was soon full of flame, giving the Lieutenant reason to smile as the Kyan defenders jumped out of the windows, screaming to their deaths.

"Ya see Helkurst... that's how you kill a fuckin' Log.", the Lieutenant boasted as he reloaded his weapon with a new clip, laughing to himself as he continued to shout out various ethnic slurs of the Logan people. The fire fight continued for some time, the battle seemingly going rather well as a Kraken II rolled down the street, blowing apart a building on the same street. Then came a massive explosion, and as Helkurst looked out the window to see it's cause... all sounds fell silent. The Kraken was now no more than flaming scrap iron, and the eyes of the Legionnaires looked down the road to see a monster. A titan. A Behemoth.

The Kroandons had hardly seen the massive two barreled beast before they were running for their lives, the Legionnaires rushing down the bullet ridden hallways of the building, attempting to fall back to the coastal line they considered safe. Helkurst's unit ran at full pace, the RPG-29 units occassionally stopping to fire a rocket at the beast... mainly just to irritate the crews... running, running, fearful as they watched yet another Kraken explode in the street. They had no sooner taken cover in the well fortified line than they had taken witness to another Behemoth... this one already having reached the beach head. All sorts of fire were bestowed upon it, with Kroandons firing grenades from all sides, an ID-57's unloading 30mm DU Rounds, and a Kraken even firing a high explosive 130mm Round... and still the chain guns of the beast mowed down the soldiers all about it.

Hundreds upon hundreds of Kroandons had been taken down in the Logan Counter Offensive, with scores of Kroandon tanks now litering the cities as burning hulks. However it did not take long for the Krakens to pull out the Tankacide Round (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=5). The Tankacide APFSDS Anti-Tank Round was designed for nothing other than penetrating heavy armor... being more a bullet than a shell. The tip of the tankacide was composed of osmium, the densest material on earth, desner even than all the layers of the Behemoth's armor. It traveled at speeds exceeding Mach 4, not only due to the power of the gun pushing it, but from the propulsion of the sabot, and the rounds unique arodynamic physique. The round was never shrugged off, it was, in terms of physics, not possible. The round would penetrate, and even if not all the way through, at least into the center of the tank... with the crew, where the explosive charge would go off, killing the men inside.

The Logan counter assault was valiant, however the numbers were not in their favor, with over 1,000 Kroandon Kraken II's to combat the 50 Behemoths and 250 odd lesser tanks, not to mention the 400 ID-57's, capable of taking out tanks such as the T-90. To add to the defense of the Kroandons, it must be recognized the incredible amount of air support being called in, with Halcons unleashing Anti-Tank Missiles by the minute. Tomahawks were also used, if not to knock out the massive enemy vehicles, then to knock over a building onto of it. The hope of driving the Kroandons back into the ocean ended with the next wave of reinforcements, which brought over 200 Puma IFV's, 300 G-24 Strikers (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=8), and 5,000 more men. The G-24's made their presence known immidiately, each firing a pair of AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=24) at the first Kyans they saw.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Beached - Heavily Damaged
-1,301 Sailors - Dead
--2,883 - Wounded
x6,219 Legionnaires - Dead
-9,684 - Wounded
x170 Kraken II Destroyed
x210 ID-57 Decimators Destroyed

"Sir, the counter-attack succeeded in pushing the Kroandon's back to the Coast, but they've pulled in more vehicles, and reports show that several Behemoth's have already been destroyed."

"What, how?"

"Some sort of strange, Kroandon manufactured anti-tank round. They call it the Tankacide APFSDS."

"I dont have time to worry about that. All I want to know right now is why we sent 50 Behemoth's into the battle when we have nearly 4 fucking thousand!"

"There's several hundred more at your command, ready to move up to the beach."

"Alright... heres the plan..."

The fight betweeen the Kroandon and Kyan soldiers had been intensifying for quite some time now, the latest Kyan counter offensive laying waste to hundreds of Kroandon tanks and thousands of Kroandon soldiers. The Behemoth tanks on the beach had been easily tearing apart the Kroandon's and their comparitively small tanks. Everything the Kroandon's threw at them merely bounced off or was absorbed by the Behemoth's armour, grenade launchers, RPG's, 130mm rounds, even the Halcon's anti-tank missiles had little effect. This all changed, however, when the Tankacide round was introduced. While the rounds did penetrate the Behemoth's armour, they often didnt make it all the way to the center of the tank, often being slowed down by the fearsome array of metal in the front, which was meant to allow the Behemoth's to tear through tree's/other objects, before even making it to the tanks many layered armour. If the round did make it to the center of the tank, there was roughly a 50% probability of it killing enough of the crew members or causing enough internal damage to disable the gigantic tank.

The 50 Behemoth's and their rapidly dwindling complement of T-90's and Diablo's were still on the beach attempting to fight back the massive amounts of Kroandon reinforcements when the newly created plan for another, more large scale counter attack came into effect. The gun's of the Kyan soldier's on the front went quiet for several minutes as they fell back further into the city. The silence was then broken by 400 SHBT-2 Behemoth III tanks. These represented the last of what was in New Hilingrad, and they would not go unused. The massive tanks rolled in huge columns down the main streets of New Hilingrad. Then, when they neared the beach, the tanks unloaded upon the recently abandoned buildings on the front, bringing them to the ground. They then rolled through the smoke and the rubble, hoping that some Kroandon's had moved into the buildings in the several minutes that the Kyan soldiers had been absent.

As the tanks made their explosive entrance, the 100,000 Kyan soldiers that had just fallen back charged ahead, taking cover behind the advancing tanks. The Lieutenant Drake Golubev was one of the soldiers at the head of this charge, and as he moved forward he fired his M-240 with wild abandon, slaughtering 5 Kroandon's that were attempting to hide out in an impact crater. The Lieutenant then took cover in the same crater as the M-43 Diablo he was using as cover fell to a Kroandon missile.

Casualties
3,495 KIA
6,263 Wounded
7 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
134T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
142 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[I meant to say this in my last post - when I RP killing your men, as I did with the Lieutenant and the EasCHN's, it is done for RP and story purposes, not to influence the battle. Just letting you know I'm not godmodding, just trying to do some interesting writing. I don't mind if you do the same.]

Beaches of New Hillingrad

As the Kyans fell back at the site of the latest wave of Kroandon Reinforcements, the Kroandons, to their own dismay, were ordered to halt along the line of rubble they had created during the landing, setting up defensive positions and securing a better prepared landing area for the rest of the Kroandon force. Pillboxes were set up, Legionnaires dug out primative trenches, Panzershreck V's (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=534121) were set up at key intersections, often five or six at any major area in which Behemoths were expected to advance at. Lines of Krakens likewise lined these areas, as did G-24 Strikers and direct-fire 105mm Guns.

Hundreds upon hundreds of Kroandons were unloaded during the Kyan Fallback, and yet no advance was made. Field Marshal Devnore remembered all too well what had happened the last time the Kroandons had prematurely attempted to enter the city... the Behemoths had caused severe casualties. And now satellite reports had over 400 of these massive vehicles inside the city - however there were also 3,000 Kraken II's, which promptly rolled up and took positions behind walls of stone, looking down the barren streets towards Kyan Controlled New Hillingrad. The Behemoths were tough, however the firepower the Krakens possessed collectively was not easily shrugged off. A 130mm High Explosive Shell did not bounce, it impacted, and exploded. Even if it did not penetrate, the armor would most certainly not be up to another of the same hit. But that was besides the point...

As the 400 Behemoths rolled forward, supplemented by what seemed to be tens of thousands of infantry, the guns of the fleet opened up once again. The massive 30inch guns dwarfed even the Super Heavy Battle Tanks of the Kyans, no armor, besides that of a SuperDreadnought capable of withstanding a hit from one of those. The massive shells rained down as they had before, hundreds of them, fired deep enough so that the advancing Behemoths, targeted through satellite coordinates, would come under fire, but the Kroandons, holding their positions, would be relatively safe. The guns from the SuperDreadnoughts and the Iowa were joined by strategic Tomahawk Strikes, over 460 missiles fired at the Behemoth columns as they rolled through the streets. G-24 Strikers unleashed hundreds of AvK-2's into the city, the missiles streaking down barren streets, often crashing into buildings, but often reaching their marks. The Halcons joined in, their missiles lacking the ability to single-handedly destroy one of the tanks, but when coupled with the massive amount of fire coming in from the Panzershrecks, the Kraken II's, the tomahawks, the AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles and the naval guns...

The Kroandon decision not to advance into the city seemed to have paid off, as only advanced scouts were destroyed by the Behemoth's leveling of the next row of inhabitable structures. What came next was a massive exchange of raw fire power. 80,000 Kroandons with nearly 6,000 armor against 100,000 Kyans and over 600 armor...

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Beached - Heavily Damaged
-1,301 Sailors - Dead
--2,883 - Wounded
x8,837 Legionnaires - Dead
-12,163 - Wounded
x270 Kraken II Destroyed
x310 ID-57 Decimators Destroyed

The battle that had erupted on the beach was now nothing short of brutal. For a brief moment the gatling guns of the Behemoth's and the other tanks focused on the incoming 460 Tomahawk missiles, most of which were shot down. Nearly 100,000 soldiers on each side were now engaged in close range combat with almost no cover besides that of Tanks or impact craters. The Kyan tanks easily crushed the pillboxes and other fortifications that the Kroandon's had set up. The Kroandon's did have roughly 10 tanks for every Behemoth, but this didnt change the fact that a single Behemoth could wipe out 4-5 Krakens in a matter of minutes.

The sheer number of the Kroandon tanks was beginning to irratate the General, several Behemoth's fell just from the stress of being hit by constant fire from the seemingly endless amount of Kraken's. Air support was needed badly... but there was still the matter of that Overlord sitting on the beach. With that in mind 400 F-16's and 400 A-10 Thunderbolts, the remainder of what was left near New Hilingrad (ill add to my casualty list the planes destroyed in your missile strike as I mentioned earlier). Took to the air. Once within 27 km the F-16's each unleashed 6 AGM-65 Maverick AGM's, totaling 2400 missiles aiming at the Overlord on the beach and the Kroandon troop's... mostly at the overlord. The F-16's and the A-10's then headed straight for the beach, intent on bombing the Kroandon's back to the stone age. The F-16's still held 4 AIM-120 AMRAAM's each, and were watching out for enemy Halcon's.

The now less than 300 Deadbolt snipers set up near the front were still firing with deadly accuracy upon the Kroandon soldiers. These 300 soldiers alone had already killed around 5 Kroandon's each, and were still putting rounds through the heads of any Leggionaire they could get in their sights. Unfortunately they were now partially exposed because of the new row of buildings that had been destroyed, many repositioned themselves in the rubble and other such areas.

Meanwhile the Kroandon shelling was beginning to take it's toll on the Kyan forces on the beach. The Behemoth's had been fairing very well up to this point, but as large number's of them took hits from the Kroandon shells they hastily advanced until they were extremely close to the Kroandon Kraken's and other vehicles, in the hopes that the gun's would stop firing once the risk to the Kroandon's own forces was deemed too high. The massive amounts of Kyan soldier's also began moving up the beach, now engaging in extremely close range and even hand to hand combat with Kroandon troops. All the while shells and various missiles rained upon the Kyan's positions, but they were now starting to cause some friendly fire.

The Lieutenant Drake Golubev was a witness to some of this Kroandon misfiring, a cause for celebration amongst his platoon.

(Im aware, heres a little rp killing of my own...)

"Did you see that? A Kroandon shell just shredded a squad of their own soldiers. The fuckers were trying to gun their way up the beach!" Yelled the Lieutenant Drake Golubev over the constant explosions and machine gun fire.

The Lieutenant then looked over from his current position behind a mound of sand to see a somewhat insane looking Kroandon soldier take aim and fire off several rounds from his C-1 Assault rifle. The Lieutenant barely managed to duck under the mound of sand as bullets whizzed past his head. He then blind fired his XM8 at the Kroandon, who was barely a few meters away. He took a quick look over the ledge to see what damage he had caused. The Kroandon was lying on the ground, bleeding from various places, but he was still reaching for his C-1 which he had apparently dropped. The Lieutenant hurdled over the sand he was using as cover and ran up to the Kroandon, placing his boot on the injured soldier's neck. While he probably should have taken the soldier as a POW, the Lieutenant had seen too much already. He snapped.

"GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY FUCKING BEACH YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!!" screamed the Lieutenant as he unloaded an entire magazine from his Desert Eagle into the Kroandon's head.

Casualties
8,296 KIA
14,872 Wounded
32 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
179 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
157 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
132 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED (from the missile strike earlier)
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

Overlord Beach - Airspace Surrounding

The Tomahawk strikes on the Kyan Airfields had done one thing, if not destroying the enemy airforce altogether, it would have dramatically slowed the enemies take off, should they attempt one. Fighter jets, bombers, aircraft of all sorts can only take off from perfectly prepared runways, without any bumps, cracks or... craters. The Kyan airfields would have been covered in these, leaving relatively few airstrips to put the entire Kyan Airforce into the sky. It would thus have meant the enemy would take a considerable amount of time to put 800 aircraft into an attack route towards the beach.

Regardless of the time it may have taken, the Overlord was armed to the teeth, prepared to engage massive aerial armadas single handedly. Long before the enemy aircraft came within 27km's, the SuperDreadnought unleashed a massive wave of RIM-162 ESSM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESSM) surface to air missiles upon the approaching enemy aircraft, firing these missiles while the enemy was still 50km's away. From the Firestorm Missile Pods on the deck, of which roughly 50 were operational, over 1,200 of these missiles were unleashed. Again, fired [I]before the enemy would have come within range of their Air-to-Surface Missiles. However this was not all... the Kroandons had deployed their strongest weapon long ago, the G-24 Striker. Each G-24 was armed with 8 SteelFire AvK-2 Missiles... and 2 SDCI-3 Anti-Aircraft Missiles. Of the three hundred on the beach, each fired both of their missiles, toalling 600 more Anti-Aircraft Missiles flying to intercept the Kyan Airforce.

The enemy was attempting to make airstrikes. This was the advantage only of the force that had established aerial supremacy, which the Halcons refused to give. The Flyswatters of the Halcons possessed a range of fifty miles... and there were over fifty Halcons in the immidiate area. Why would they simply allow the enemy to come closer to the forces on the beach? The answer was simple. They would not. Each of the fifty Halcons fired four Flyswatter Air-to-Air Missiles, 200 missiles in all. That put over 2,000 missiles at the approaching F-16's and A-10's...

[I]Meanwhile, on the beach...

The Behemoths were drawing fire like dead animals drew flies. Each Behemoth could expect, within five minutes, to have 16 Kraken 130mm ETC Shells, 5 AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles, 2 Tomahawk Missiles, 3 Panzershreck V rockets and 4 Halcon Air-to-Surface Anti-Tank Missiles fired at it, not to mention the massive guns of the fleet, whom seemed not to care whom they hit with their guns, however the missiles strikes on the other hand, were always far more accurate. Everything the Kroandons had was being unleashed upon the Behemoths, and if not immidiately, over time the effects would show.

The amount of fire directed upon Behemoths was only matched by the raw fury unleashed by the ID-57 Decimators upon the Kyan infantry. Each ID-57 possessed two 30mm Gatling Guns, along with two 4-Slot Rocket Pods, all of which fired constantly on infantry positions. While the enemy tanks were busy dealing with Krakens, the ID-57's gave immense support to the Legionnaires, single handedly holding sections of beach if need be. The ID-57 was proving it's worth time and again in the Stagnation Wars, helping to balance out the total number of casualties in the fight, an area the Kroandons had previously been far ahead in. Whatever advantage the Kyans had in precision and accuracy from their Snipers, was matched equally by the fire power of this weapon. When an 'Irmack' was spotted, Irmack being some strange mutation of the Kroandon words for bastard, devil, sniper and scum, an ID-57 sparyed his location in 30mm DU Shells, a round which would tear through whatever the enemy was hiding behind.

As the battle waged on, niether side seeming to be able to inflict the killed blow to the other... the Kroandons continued to land men on the beaches, over 200 landing every minute. The Krakens that were destroyed seemed to simply be replaced moments later by another one coming off of a transport craft from the sea.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Beached - Heavily Damaged
-1,301 Sailors - Dead
--2,883 - Wounded
x9,130 Legionnaires - Dead
-14,621 - Wounded
x310 Kraken II - Destroyed
x361 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x42 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed

The various missiles heading at the 800 odd aircraft worried the pilots, but the A-10's had a few tricks up their sleeves, mainly being their ALQ-131/ALQ-184 ECM pods. These effectively took the form of radar jammer's, causing a good number of the missiles targeting the A-10's to crash or miss their target, not as many as they would have liked though. These evolved Sea Sparrow missiles seemed to have some sort of mid course data link. The A-10's then released their chaff radar countermeasures once the missiles got closer, confusing them even further. These countermeasures managed to absorb most of the missiles targeting the A-10's, with only 193 being shot down. The F-16's, however, did not have the same technology on board. They did release most of their AIM-120 AMRAAM's upon launch though, and this time in waves. They didnt want the Kroandon's merely sacrificing a few of their planes, they wanted them all down. First 200 missiles were released, then another 200, so on and so forth until 1600 total AMRAAM's had been launched. The Kroandon's couldnt just attract all the missiles to the same few target's, as they would be arriving over a course of 10 minutes or so.

The F-16's then took whatever measures they could to avoid the 1,000 or so anti-air missiles heading in their direction. There was just too many too fast... 374 of the F-16's were shot down.

Meanwhile, on the beach the Behemoth's were taking heavy fire. The thousand's of Kroandon tanks and the Panzershrek V's were taking their toll. As well as the G-24 stryker's and their missiles. All the while the Kroandon's were still recieving reinforcements... the Kyan's were not. There was one more weapon that the general was ready to throw at them though, and that was the 1,000 M1131 Fire support vehicles hurtling at over 60 miles an hour down New Hilingrad. Once they neared the beach they all unleashed a number of Javelin anti-tank missiles from their Protector M151 remote weapon stations. These missiles were aimed purely at the Kroandon ID-57, which were being very pesky. The troops on the ground were also starting to focus their SMAW fire on the vehicles, as they seemed to be having little effect on the Kraken tanks.

The remaining 207 A-10 Thunderbolts and the 26 F-16's now reached 27 km from the Overlord. The A-10's then released 4 AGM-65 Maverick's each, the F-16's released 6 each. This totaled 990 missiles to take out that pesky Overlord. The planes then took a path straight over the beach and started the first bombing run, the lead A-10's releasing various 1,000 pound and 2,000 pound bombs, Mk 77 incediary bombs, and napalm.

Casualties
9,835 KIA
17,243 Wounded
96 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
191 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
162 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
374 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
325 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED (from the missile strike earlier)
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

Overlord Beach - Airspace Surrounding

The crew of the Kroandon Overlord scurried with action as the Kyan Mavericks were detected in the air, the entire vessel moving to attempt to intercept the threat posed by the enemy anti-armor missiles. Anti-Missile Missile's were fired off en masse, over 300 of the incoming projectiles being shot down over ten kilometers away. As the missiles came in closer still, the scores of CIWS Guns turned and spewed lead into the air, knocking out swaths of the missiles. Finally RADAR Jammers and Flares were fired from the ship, prematurely detonating a few missiles before they hit. However there still remaining over 500 missiles locked onto the mile long SuperDreadnought, missiles which inflicted heavy casualties to the crew on deck, tearing gashes in the armor, scarring the hull, setting much of the ship aflame. However the ship itself was not destroyed... the guns for the most part were intact, and though it was significantly damaged, the structure of the ship itself had not been altered. The AGM-65 Maverick was not of the calibre of the anti-shipping missiles the Overlord was designed to take. It did not even travel at Mach 1, where most missiles designed to take down ships moved at over Mach 3. It's warhead of 125pounds was enough to make scars in armor, but not enough to penetrate the hull. Though over 500 had died in the strike, with over another 900 wounded, the ship itself still continued to function.

As the aerial war and bombing of the Overlord continued, the men on the ground continued to slug it out with the Kyans, Legionnaires constantly unloading and reloading transports, for every time a transport unloaded a unit of twenty men, ten wounded soldiers were rushed back, loaded on the boats, and sent back to the fleet, where they would be given proper medical attention. In this way the number of Kroandon wounded on the battle field remained low, and it seemed as if a never ending supply of fresh troops were always arriving.

The ID-57's met their new opponent with glee, as Javeline missiles swirled into the air at their directions. The ID-57, as with all Kroandon tanks, did not mount machine guns in the traditional sense. They mounted CIWS Guns. Not the fully sized 25mm Beasts ontop of naval vessels, but smaller, 12.7mm CIWS Guns, with state of the art targeting systems. Now this 12.7mm Gun would not be able to knock out the Anti-Shipping Missiles that their big brother could, however it did not have to. Anti-Tank Missiles, such as the javeline, could be knocked out much easier. It had a sucess rate of about 50%, meaning that half of the tanks that would normally perish... would live. The ID-57's which were hit however, did not perish, but did lose much, In most cases the javelines suceeded in taking out at least one of the tanks massive 30mm Gatling Guns, which made it, for the most part, useless. After the battle the disabled ID-57's would be repaired, however until then, there were now a large number of tanks on the ground with no functioning guns. The Javeline, though strong, failed to break through the Kroandon armor, even upon the ID-57's. [An Abram with KE Value of 950 can withstand a Javeline. The ID-57 has a KE Value of 1,800 - the Kraken 2,250. I'd estimate the Behemoths at around 3,000.]

The ID-57's were also not quite willing to lay down to the M1131 FSV's either... not considering their guns were fully capable of shooting right through the enemy's armor. The 30mm Gatling Guns sprayed the approaching light fire support vehicles with DU armor piercing rounds, considering the M1131's only possessed 14.5mm of armor, and the Decimator's guns were capable of turning an M1A2 Abram into Swiss Cheese... the exchange should have proven interesting.

In terms of the slug match between the Kroandon Legionnaires whom took cover in their line of make-shift fortifications and the Kyans in theirs, there was little to be said of the even fight being conducted, as the two sides continued to knock one another aloof. Kroandon heavy machine guns and Automatic Grenade Launchers did their best to make up for the Kyan advantage in Snipers, but they had been lacking something serious ever since the guns of the fleet had stopped firing. [Fearing friendly fire... they now aim slightly behind your line] They lacked artillery. 88mm Mortars were becoming more common along the beach, with mortar squads setting up shop in large craters from the now disfunctional Kyan Coastal Guns. Hiding in these craters, far behind the Kroandon line, they unleashed fragmentation rounds upon Kyan positions, with roughly 300 mortars taking part in the bombardment.

In the Air

The Halcons swirled about, breaking off into various patterns as the first wave of Kyan missiles came in, in weaker strength however than they were used to. The traditional sacrifice manuver was employed, with only three Halcons sacrificing themselves for the destruction of over 60 missiles. The remaining 140, spread between 57 aircraft, were at a disadvantage when tracking the highly stealthy, quick and agile Halcons. Several SDCI's were fired at those missiles which could not be shaken, and in all, only seven more fell from the first 200.

Before the Kyans could fire their next wave however, they would have to account for the Visari's which sat in the ocean, less than two kilometers off the beach. Some twenty Destroyers unleashed fifteen RIM-162 ESSM's each, 300 in all at the remaining A-10's and F-16's, the missiles being fired at the A-10's as they just began firing upon the beaches, dropping explosives upon Kroandon positions. They would not be permitted to continue their reign of terror for very long, as reloading G-24's continued to fire upon the A-10's also. The second wave of missiles however was met as the one before, this wave however, taking down twenty Halcons. The third wave was never met, as the Halcons retreated back to the Fleet, as they were completely out of ammunition. The three waves were fired over ten minutes, by which time the survinving 30 Halcons had landed on their carriers, and had been replaced by seventy new ones, which now flew right for the beaches...

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Beached - Severely Damaged -
-1,900 Sailors - Dead
--3,483 - Wounded
x10,746 Legionnaires - Dead
-18,302 - Wounded - About 6,000 remain on the beach - others taken back to fleet
x342 Kraken II - Destroyed
x395 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x110 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x30 Halcon Stealth Fighters

ooc: add the halcon's to your casualty list... as well as some G-24 strykers, theres no way that none were destroyed since your last post.

IC:

The remaining A-10's were aware of the 300 missiles heading straight at them, as well as the Kroandon Halcon's which were now en route from the fleet. They continued with their bombing run though, as they were now directly over the enemy Overlord. Every A-10 and every F-16 dropped 2 2,000 pound bomb's on the massive ship. 466 Mk 84 2,000 pound bombs... to even suggest that the ship would survive this assault was ludicrous. Something was noticed as the bombing finished up though... planes were starting to drop out of the air. 6 of the A-10's were actually shot down during the run... 4 of which steered themselves into the huge ship, their fuel exploding on impact.

The planes then released another round of Chaff, which managed to take out quite a few of the Kroandon missiles. The A-10's then took on a suicidal strategy... they lowered their altitude. As dozen's more of the planes were overtaken by Kroandon missiles, they crashed into the Kroandon lines, causing huge amounts of damage. The ones that werent overtaken by Kroandon missiles flew low over the ground, unleashing tons of Napalm and firing their ultra powerful GAU-8 Avenger Gatling guns at the Kroandon troops and vehicles. Increasing amounts of A-10's were shot down by G-24 Stryker's and the visari's missiles as they continued their ultra destructive fly-over, or in some cases "crash-into", of the Kroandon troops.

The soldier's on the ground were still deadlocked with their Kroandon foes, but a new influx of soldier's would hopefully turn the tide. 50,000 additional soldiers now poured onto the beaches, just in time for the end of the A-10's deadly bombing run. The troop's were now starting to rush over the Kroandon fortifications, particularly on the southern end of the beach. The Kroandon focal point was near the Overlord, which was north of the point that the Kyan infantry were starting to flank the Kroandon lines. The recent influx of troops made this possible, as they now had the number's to overtake certain Kroandon positions. The thousands of soldiers that now poured over the Kroandon's southern fortifications were now firing down the line, trying to kill as many Kroandon's as possible.

Meanwhile the M1131 Fire support vehicles were encountering some difficulty from the Kroandon ID-57's, mainly in that they were being torn apart by their gatling guns. They were outrunning the huge, slow moving guns in some cases though. The vehicles were now zipping around the battlefield, unleashing their Mk 19 Grenade launcher's upon the Kroandon troops, still firing Javelin missiles, although mainly at the G-24 Stryker's now. A number of the fire support vehicles had a hand in overrunning the souther line of Kroandon's, as well as a line of Behemoth's, which had served as the main cover and power in the attack.

The Behemoth's on the beach were still engaged in massive battle's with the Kroandon Kraken's, which were the main threat to their continued presence. While many claim that such huge weapons were obselete, the Kyan general's still appreciated the role of such a destructive force.

The SMAW carrying soldier's were starting to get irratated by how inneffective they were against the Kroandon tanks. They now, however, had a new target. The huge numbers of Kroandon G-24 Strikers. These vehicles were basically humvee's with rocket launchers, not intended for use in hot combat zones. Considering that over 10,000 Kyan troops were carrying SMAW's, the Stikers likely wouldnt be around much longer. The order came from the top, a massive coordinated assault. Every Kyan on the ground carrying a SMAW quickly took aim and fired at whatever Striker was closest to their position. Well over 10,000 missiles fired... this would be ugly.

Casualties

10,920 KIA
19,103 Wounded
129 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
174 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
392 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
486 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[To suggest the A-10's and F-16's would be able to survive this long, let alone make it to the Overlord is insane... there are hundreds of missiles flying at them, how they simply continue straffing and bombing my forces does not make sense. And that they all some how regrouped and launched a strike on the Overlord, while there were still hundreds of missiles pursuing them? Stretching it a bit far. - I still find it grossly unfair that one moment there were no airfields, the next minute there are 800 aircraft coming at me. I would have pounded those airfields until they were dust long before I ever landed. It's sort of like the Tanker thing... I am however accepting it. Just don't push their durability to the point that they're able to evade missiles for hours at a time -

Also I added tank and G-24 casualties, but believe you are missing any M1311 losses.]

Beaches of New Hillingrad - Southern Half

"Incoming!", shouted a Kroandon Sergeant as a pair of large incindiary bombs pounded the beach behind his location, sending flame over the Legionnaires in his unit. The A-10's straffed the beaches, cutting down dozens of soldiers as the aircraft soared forward, soon being struck by a pair of SDCI Anti-Aircraft Missiles, sending it's wreckage into a fortified section of beach. The Sergeant grinned as the last of the A-10's crashed into the ocean, taking comfort in the fact that the enemy had lost their greatest asset, their air strength. The Sergeant's grin faded as an XM8 5.56mm round thudded into the back of his armor, causing him some intense pain, even if the round didn't penetrate to his flesh. "Fucking Logs! Men-", as the Sergeant turned about, he soon realized that there was a noticeable increase in Kyan forces, as he could see in the distance, scores of reinforcements rushing down the street. "Hold them men! Hold them here!", shouted the Legionnaire as the first Kyans began the offensive. Machine guns, tank barrels, assault rifles, grenades and missiles rained down upon the attacks... but their numbers were overwhelming...

Within twenty minutes of the Kyan assault in the south, the Kroandons had been driven north, back into the sea, or remained in one of the few pockets left. Hundreds upon hundreds of retreating Legionnaires had in fact jumped back into the landing craft they had just unloaded from, piling themselves up... the landing vessels transporting them to safer beaches near the Overlord. Along the beach hundreds... thousands of Legionnaires participated in an organized fall back, covered by the Krakens and ID-57's, which slowly rolled back through the sands, firing their massive guns at the overwhelming numbers of infantry. The Kyan assault had suceeded in driving the Kroandons back... but they had not done so without paying a price. As the Kroandons came within a few hundred meters of the flaming Overlord, and more fortified positions in the northern portion of the beach, which had repelled the assault launched. They dug into the sands, setting up heavy guns in bunkers, taking cover behind tanks when none were present.

Overlord Beach - Northern Half

The Overlord [though not hit by nearly as many bombs as you expected, for you could not get off such a coordinated assault with hundreds of missiles on them], was now little more than a large hulk of burning and torn armor. There stood holes and gashes in the armor all throughout the vessel, fired burned from many different cracks and crevicesin the hull, and the crews seemed concerned with nothing more now than dumping water on the vessel. Only a handfull of the CIWS and Firestorm Pods still worked, and the heavy guns of the ship had all been silenced, their ammunition taken deep below deck to avoid being detonated by the Kyan bombing. The ship was torn, broken and would not sail again... it now served simply as some sort of refuge for wounded Legionnaires, and bulwark for more landings.

The Northern Portion of the beach, far better reinforced than the south, had repelled the assault, however now faced being surrounded. The Kyan attempt to fire at the G-24's would end with limited sucess, as the G-24 was rarely anywhere near the front line. Able to target and fire at it's victims without actually maintaining line of site, the Kyans would have to fire over the Kroandon lines in an indirect trajectory, and hope to hit them. The few dozen that were at the front line for whatever reason were however, annihalated.

Kroandon Fleet

The Fleet had been watching for far too long when Admiral Kelvek recieved the message. 'Vol Gra Messaigron' - in old Kroandon, the phrase meant, "God shall choose", and immidiately an all out bombardment was launched upon the southern portion of the beach... the area that the Kyan surge had just occupied. It was true, there were still pockets of Kroandon resistance... however it was a loss that had to be taken. The Kyans were massing on the Southern Flank of the Kroandons on the beach, threatening to surround them. The strength of this force had to be cut, and now. Friendly fire on the troops furthern to the north was not likely, as the targets of the fleet rested a good 300 meters south of the main northern forces - and the retreating Southern Forces.

The guns of the fleet opened up, hundreds of them just as before, their massive shells ready to shake the earth. The Iowa and the two Overlords roared constantly, with High-Explosive Fragmentation Rounds raining down on the newly occupied Kyan positions, the shells each weighing in easily at over 1,000 pounds. However they were not alone, as a concentrated Tomahawk strike was launched, over 2,100 Tomahawks in all from the Visari's and Negotiators were loaded with High-Fragmentation and High Explosive Warheads, and fired unto the the southern section of the beach, blowing anything there, friend or foe, to hell.

'Vol Gra Messaigron'... mumbled the Kroandon Halcon Pilots, as they armed their vast array of Twister Air-to-Ground Missiles. The force of over 120 Halcons headed straight for the massive Kyan force, and unleashed nine missiles each, putting nearly one thousand more high explosive missiles onto the Kyan Occupied Southern Flank, quickly switching to their 20mm Gatling Guns, straffing the ground of whatever managed to live through the hell that had been unleashed.

Meanwhile, the next wave of over 4,000 Legionnaires and 200 Krakens had rolled onto the northern beach, the men looking at the flaming SuperDreadnought in anger...

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large flaming metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-2,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x14,016 Legionnaires - Dead
-22,302 - Wounded
x392 Kraken II - Destroyed
x403 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x260 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x30 Halcon Stealth Fighters

[There are now around 75,000 men on the beach, 5,000 Krakens, 4,000 ID-57's, and 200 G-24's.]

ooc: Well you said that the missiles didnt launch until the A-10's had already started bombing the beach... it wouldnt take them very long at all to get to the overlord once they were at the beach... like less than a minute...

IC: Thousand's of troops took cover as the Kroandon bombardment got under way. Various shell's fell all over the southern area of the beach, killing Kyan's as well as pockets of Kroandon resistance. They couldnt order a retreat though... not now... they were so close to their goal. As the Tomahawks got closer the various tanks's and other vehicles fired their machine guns/gatling guns in an attempt to shoot them down. This only partially worked, hundreds of missiles collided with Kyan position's across the beach, causing massive damage. Still they were ordered to advance. Whatever troops and tanks that were not killed by the bombardment in the south began moving up, firing wildly at the Kroandon positions.

Up at the very north end of the beach (not anywhere near the Overlord) an additional 30,000 soldier detachment coming in from outside of the city had just arrived, with 750 Artillery pieces and various AA guns. The detachment completed the Kyan encirclement, even if the southern end was now in tatter's and engaged in close-range combat. The 750 M198 Howitzers immediately began raining M795 155mm high explosive rounds on the Kroandon's, at roughly 3 rounds a minute. Meanwhile all sides of the Kyan encirclement were still firing on the Kroandon's, tearing apart their so far well organized assault.

The general smiled to himself as he watched the encirclement from his high vantage point. What did the Kroandon's expect? Landing on a heavily defended beach, facing a force of soldier's much larger than their own. The 500,000 soldier's in New Hilingrad was, in fact, modest compared to the whole of the Kyan army. 6,000,000 regular soldiers... with many more millions that had been drafted for this was or were in the reserves.

The Encirclement of the Kroandon's afforded one more thing to the Kyan troops, the destruction of the Kroandon strikers. Whatever had failed last time would succeed now, nearly every Kroandon position was in visual range of a Kyan one. The still around 10,000 SMAW carriers once again reloaded, aimed, and fired. Half of them aimed at the Kroandon G-24's, half of them aimed at the Kroandon infantry's defensive positions. This would have the dual effect of destroying most of the Strikers and slaughtering thousands of Kroandon infantry.

The general did have to face one fact though... they didnt honestly expect to win this battle. Even if they did succeed at pushing the Kroandon's off of the beach, they would just land again somewhere else. For now they just wanted to kill as many of the bastards as possible.

Casualties
15,107 KIA
21,812 Wounded
159 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
192 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
194 M1131 Fire Suppor Vehicles DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

Southern Beach

The heavy naval bombardment had suceeded in it's goal, buying enough time to to allow the Kroandons to dig in again, making a fortified line through the beach. The continued Kyan Assault was simply not strong enough in number, nor coordinated enough to overwhelm the Legionnaire's positions due to the massive amount of ordinance being dropped on their positions. The southern beach was covered in flames and explosions, which was enough to at least stem the Kyan Advance, buying precious time for the forces on the beach to errect proper defences... enough to again, buy more time.

The Kyan Artillery was another weapon that was illneeded at the time, as the G-24's, though mobile, were not armored to take such a beating... nor were any of the Kroadon vehicles or for that matter. The bombardment further weakened the failing Kroandon defences, which were dissolving for several reasons, not only due to the Kyan assault. A withdraw was being conducted... the reinforcements which had been pouring in, now came up empty. The landing craft landed, but upon them there were no soldiers, no tanks... there was space. The wounded were loaded up, and then crammed in more Legionnaires... and more... far more than were meant to be crammed. Slowly the the thousands of Kroandons on the beach with withdrawn... within an hour, only half the original number remained, with all of the original tanks staying in place, covering the withdraw. As the Kyans surged forward, tank guns roared, forcing them back.

Within four hours of the retreat, the last of the transports rolled back off the beach, carrying with them tanks, Legionnaires and all other manner of Kroandon equipment. The only remaining forces were inside the Overlord, which was now a steel fortress, with hundreds of stranded Kroandon Legionnaires positioned inside, firing from the cracks and gashes of the massive ships armor. The ship itself was massive complex of hallways and rooms, some half filled with water as the tide came in. The Kyans would be hard pressed to break the last point on which the Kroandons held a presence.

Fleet

With the last of the Kroandons withdrawing from the beach, there was now nothing to stop the fleet from simply pounding the beaches, as all guns opened up on Kyan positions, pounding them with 30, 18 14 and 5inch shells. Over the half hour since the last of the Kroandon withdraw, over 1,200 Tomahawks would be fired at enemy artillery positions and troop concentrations. The fleet would not stop pounding the city for 32 hours... and should the Kyans fall back, satellite imagery would follow their movement, and direct the Kroandon Guns as they moved. Should they begin moving underground again, the guns would fire on the entrances, killing those whom attempted to follow. Airstrikes were now non-stop, with a sortie flown every minute on the minute. A sortie consisted of two Halcons speeding out, and unleashing five high explosive missiles each on the Kyans, firing on artillery and infantry positions

34 Miles South of New Hillingrad

If the Kyans thought that Kroando would now pack up and go home, they were wrong. The southern landing was launched just as the Kyans surged an additional 30,000 men at the north, with over 20,000 Legionnaires hitting the beach at once, supported by another 1,000 Krakens, 1,000 ID-57's and 2,700 G-24's. The next wave, soming no more than fifteen minutes later, yielded another identicle force. The landings went on for an hour, and there were then 100,000 men, 3,000 Krakens, 2,000 ID-57 Decimators, 3,000 C-37, 1,000 VL-7 Demolishers, 1,000 Towed 155mm Guns, 1,000 Towed 105mm Guns, 2,700 C-24 Big Guns, 2,000 Puma IFV and thousands of humvees. If this was not enough to scare an enemy, perhaps the fact that there was an identicle force 34 Miles North of the City was.

With all of the Kyans drawn into the city, the landing zones to the south and north would have been empty. The landing forces quickly acted to face the Kyan force inside the city

Meanwhile, a massive supply fleet from Antarctika, coming to take home the wounded and deliver supplies came within 1,200kilometers of Logan and Ky. A Junkers Fleet traveled with them.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x15,816 Legionnaires - Dead
-25,302 - Wounded
x410 Kraken II - Destroyed
x420 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x381 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x30 Halcon Stealth Fighters

-There are still 1,200 Legionnaires and 6,000 Sailors on the Overlord [of which 5,000 are wounded]. They are all simply sitting in the SuperDreadnought, shooting at any Kyans that come near.-

The troops on the beach cheered as the Kroandon's made their retreat, by mid-afternoon they were all gone, except for the few holed up in the Superdreadnought. They were mostly wounded sailors anyways, not significant enough to warrant a raid of the ship. Word soon came of the Kroandon's and their massive landings on either side of the city, and preparations were now being made to intercept the forces before they reached the city. This was made all more harried by the resumed Kroandon bombardment and air strikes, which was killing hundred's of Kyan's as they attempted to fall back into the city.

The troops in New Hilingrad now faced several problems. The first was that no additional air support would be coming, the losses from the battle had already been too great. The second was that they now faced the possibility of being surrounded, ironic considering what had just taken place. The only support that would be coming was 500 additional M1131 Fire support vehicles and 1,000 additional artillery pieces.

They did have one advantage though, a storm was incoming. Visibility was now dropping to near zero as New Hilingrad faced it's first blizzard of the season. Storm's like this were common around here, as they were above the arctic circle. The sea's would soon start to freeze over, forcing the Kroandon fleet to go further south.

The plan was now drawn, most of the remaining tank's and artillery would now head north to engage the Kroandon army there. In the south the soldier's would rely mainly on ambush. This plan had to be pulled off perfectly, there could be no mistakes. 290 Behemoth's, 1,750 M198 Howitzers, 1,200 M1131 Fire support vehicles, and 140,000 Kyan troops now made their way north. Once they reached the edge of the city the Kroandon's were already within range, so the 1750 Artillery pieces now began firing from a range of 16 miles or so (with extended range ammuntion). The coordinates from the attack were coming mostly from IR signatures, as the troops on the ground could now barely see the barrels of their own guns due to the storm.

In the south the troops were spreading out, wearing various layers of specialized insulation so as negate the effect of their own body heat. They didnt want to show up on any Kroandon thermals. Around 120,000 Kyan troops had now taken up positions in abandoned Suburban homes near New hilingrad. They layed huge amounts of Comp B and other high explosives on several major roads... when the word was given it would be detonated. The troops set up in every available building in the Suburban area, prepared to ambush the Kroandon advance. They layed mines, set up choke points, anything to halt the advancing enemy armour. Once the order was given, the Kroandon's would be caught in a huge crossfire of SMAW's and other heavy weaponry. This was guerrilla warfare at it's best. Additionally, the surviving 250 Deadbolt Sniper's were here in the south, hungry for blood.

Meanwhile, in the city, 270,000 Kyan troops remained holed up by the Kroandon bombardment. They hoped that the armies to the north and south would hold off the enemy, but they were realists. Every soldier in that city stayed glued to the radio, waiting for news from the ongoing battle. They were also ordered to light large numbers of fires in every available fireplace, designated or makeshift. This was mainly to help the troops to the south. The Kroandon's would know something was up if 120,000 IR signatures just suddenly dropped off the map.

Casualties
15,915 KIA
24,113 Wounded
165 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
195 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
302 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

Northern Beach

Field Marshal Vurg grinned as the snow began to fall from the skies above, as the winds began to blow from the East. He could feel his body adjusting to the temperatures of his homeland, though it would probably not reach those sub-arctic temperatures, it was far more tolerable than the scortching seventy degree weather they were fighting with in Gateway. In Kroando, the Legionnaires trained in temperatures well below fifty, they in fact lived in such temperatures for seven months out of the year. A blizzard was simply a reminder of home, another reason to continue the fight. "Remind you of home don't it Colonel?", Vurg called out as the two men watched as the VL-7 Demolishers cranked their guns into the air, preparing to engage the enemy.

"I was thinking the same thing sir. I wonder if they've got the same fortune back home, such a perfect storm as this.", responded the de-helmeted officer, holding his helmet-gas mask combination under his arm, watching as one massive artillery piece after another was wheeled into position, guns cranking into the sky.

"Don't kid yourself Colonel... it's Antarctika... of course it's snowing.", laughed Vurg as he looked forward to see the C-24's, the 240mm Guns rolling into position, their tracks leaving foot deep impressions in the earth. The massive guns even still seemed dwarfed by the simply immense 406mm Guns of the VL-7 Demolishers. Gun after guns rolled into it's designated marked off zone, each gun being lined up based on size. In the front were the G-24's... then the tanks and towed 105mm Guns, which did not have the range for the fight. Then came a massive horde of 155mm Guns to match those of the Kyans, then the C-37 Mountain Breakers and their 155mm Guns, followed by the 2,700 C-24 Big Guns, and finally the 1,000 VL-7 Demolishers.

As the last of the VL-7's rolled into place however, the perfect harmony of the army was thrown off by explosions slamming into the Kroandon Artillery Batteries. So the bastards want to play games... so be it... lets play. Thought Vurg as a C-37 was blown to hell no more than fifty meters infront of his position. "Return Fire.", ordered the Field Marshal... and within seconds, thousands of guns were letting loose.The C-37 Mountain Breakers and their 155mm ETC Guns were by far the most accurate, and thus were the given the job of firing upon the enemy M198 Howitzers... however the only difference was that there were 3,000 Kroandon guns firing on 1,750 Kyan ones. As the first minute of exchange went by, the G-24's joined the fray, firing a massive volley of over 6,200 AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles into the air, each locked onto the massive heat signature of the enemy artillery.

The next volley consisted of the Kroandon 155mm Towed Guns, nearly identicle to the M198 of the Kyans. These thousand guns opened up on enemy infantry positions, still somewhat visible to satellite based High-Powered IR Detectors. They fired High-Explosive Anti-Personell Rounds, rounds which were loaded not only with high explosive, but thousands of metal beads, which would cover the impact area in bullet-like projectiles. These 155mm Guns were joined by several hundred AvK-2 Missiles from the G-24's, and 700 C-24 Big Guns - and their 240mm 400pound shells, loaded with a variation of fragmentation rounds... and napalm loaded rounds...

However the largest and arguably most imporant artillery strike was launched upon the locations of the Super Heavy Battle Tanks... the Behemoth III's. Single handedly responsible for over 800 Kroandon Tank losses, the artillery crews were more than ready to pay back the Kyans ten fold. The estimatied 300 Kyan Behemoths were tracked based off of their massive heat signatures... and were given a pounding they would not soon forget. 2,000 C-24 Big Guns fired upon their locations. Unlike the Kraken II's which they had expirienced so much sucess against, the C-24's had 240mm Guns... not 130mm, like the Krakens. One hit from one of these projectiles meant lights out. However these 2,000 guns were not the end of it... the 1,000 VL-7 Demolishers joined in, boasting guns that were as large as those fired from the Kyan Coastal Rail Guns... 406mm in calibre. These massive beasts fired round after round into the distance, the explosions caused by such rounds creating craters twenty meters in diameter. And of course, the G-24's could not exist without firing at least two AvK-2 Missiles at each tank, another 700 in all.

There were over 3,000 massive guns firing on the 300 Behemoths... over 1,700 firing on the enemy infantry... 3,000 firing on the enemy artillery... The Kyans were outgunned, 1,750 to 4,700 - not including the G-24's. And to make matters worse, the navy was now taking part, firing a total of 400 Tomahawks on Kyan Artillery Positions, and releasing another 100 Halcons to fire Air-to-Ground Missiles on Kyan Infantry, Tank and Artillery Positions... each firing six missiles, and straffing the ground with their gatling guns before returning to their carriers.

Southern Beach

Unlike in the North, there was unceartainty in the South. There were no IR Signatures to guide the hand of the artillery... there were no clear enemy targets moving to engage them. Suspicious as always, scouts were deployed. Across the line, approximatly 200 in all, two hundred Kroandon Forward Legionnaires, dressed in snow camoflague and IR-Reducing equipment, were driven closer to the suburbs of the city, where they would inspect the surroundings and move into the city...

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x17,420 Legionnaires - Dead
-27,102 - Wounded
x421 Kraken II - Destroyed
x431 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x410 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x30 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x31 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x42 C-37 Big Guns - Destroyed
x71 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x24 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed

New Hilingrad-North
They had known they were outgunned going into the battle, but the massive strike that soon came surprised even the General Nagoyev as thousands of Kroandon shell's and missiles rained down upon their positions. The M198's did the best they could to return fire on the superior number of massive Kroandon guns, while the infantry just tried to take cover from the incoming Kroandon 155mm rounds. Meanwhile the various AA emplacements were busy keeping the Kroandon missile strikes at bay. It was difficult in this weather.

The General did devise a plan, and it was similar to the one in the south. While the Artillery and Tank's were engaging the Kroandon's in a straightforward battle, the huge number's of soldier's on the ground would move forward's, unseen due to the blizzard and the extra full body insulating suits. The general thanked god that they had millions of these lying around in storage. The only problem was that they would not be able to see the Kroandon's very well either, they were already were starting to fade out on IR sensors due to the blizzard and their heavy body armour, and if they donned any more layers they would be completely invisible. 120,000 Kyan soldiers now crept forwards through the snow, here there were no suburbs though. North of New Hilingrad the land was mostly Taiga. There was rolling hills with scattered evergreens, nothing much in the way of cover. Except for the blizzard which was no affording almost no visibility.

Back at the tanks and Artillery, the 300 or so Behemoth's were taking heavy fire. The massive Kroandon guns were destroying them faster than the Kraken's ever could. Another precedent was now being set, and that was not to allow Behemoth's within range of Kroandon C-24 or VL-7 guns without proper artillery or air support. The only hope of the Behemoth's not being utterly destroyed was the 120,000 Kyan that were now spreading out to either side of the Kroandon army. The plan was for one of the 60,000 troop contingencies to engage them from the West, and then when the Kroandon's turned their fire to them for the other 60,000 troop contingency to charge in from the east, destroying and commandeering as much Kroandon equipment as possible. That was, of course, if they werent accidentally intercepted by the Kroandon's first.

The Enemy Halcons's were not gonna be let off so easy this time. As they strafed the ground with their gatling guns, they got a little too close. There was still 250 Surviving behemoths at this time, and when the 100 Enemy halcons flew by the each unleashed 12 Stinger missiles. 3000 total missiles... 30 per plane. If they wanted to fly too close too the sun... or in this case the ground, they were going to pay the price.

The tanks now began rolling forwards, they would reach the enemy in roughly 40 minutes, but would begin firing much sooner. Every time they had a clear shot the surviving tanks would unload, and then continue rolling forwards toward's the Kroandon lines.

New Hilingrad-South
"Sir, What do we do if they send scouts?" asked an anonymous Sargeant.

"Nothing, if they do send out scouts, they would only be able to spot us by sight, and everyones holed up in abondoned houses for now." replied the Colonel Nicholas Ferguson.

"What if they enter the house?"

"Still do nothing, unless they spot you. In that case a quick bullet to the head and a relocation to a safe spot should suffice. Muzze flashes will give away our positions. I dont care if you have a clear shot from 5 god damn meters, dont fire unless they see you. If that happens, get your squad the hell out of there, because you better bet that the Kroandon's will blow up that building. Remember though, we've got 140,000 troops spread all over these towns, they cant do shit short of nuking us, and I know for a fact that Malthus wont take it that far."

"Alright Sir"

Casualties
16,628 KIA
27,712 Wounded
254 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
195 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
302 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
189 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

North of New Hillingrad

The massive Kroandon bombardment continued as the Krakens and ID-57's lined themselves up in a protective arc around the artillery, still forming up the battle lines for what they expected would be a forward assault by the enemy Behemoths. The Krakens, approximatly 2,000 in all, were concentrated primarily in the center, as were the ID-57's. There were a total of 2,000 Krakens and 1,000 ID-57's in the center, while there were an additional 500 Krakens and 500 ID-57's to both the northern and southern flanks. Additionally there were a total of 60,000 Infantry in the center, and 20,000 to both the north and the south. Additionally, at each flank there were 500 Puma IFV's (another 1,000 with soldiers in the rear).

This layout spelled disaster for the Kyan Assault. Well aware for the Kyan preferance for flanking manuvers, both flanks were fully prepared for an all out assault. The Northern Flank was the first to be hit, by what seemed to by a large, old fasion infantry attack. It quickly became obvious that the enemy possessed superior numbers in the attack, but panic was not given. Firing based off the IR Signatures of the Kyan's Rifles, the ID-57's and Kraken II's toar into the enemy infantry divisions with merciless resolve. 500 ID-57's, 500 Krakens, and 500 Puma IFV's opened up in a merciless bombardment paralelled by none. The Krakens with both their 130mm Guns and their 12.7mm CIWS Guns, used now as an anti-personel weapon. The ID-57's unleashed with their dual 30mm Gatling Guns, and their 12.7mm CIWS guns, as well as 10 5in High Explosive Rockets each. And the Puma's unleashed their 30mm Autocannons on full automatic, as well as with their mounted machine guns. This all came in coordination with the 20,000 Legionnaires and their defensive positions, whom took little time in opening fire on the advancing infantry. This was all in addition to the 155mm Artillery Guns which still fired upon the advancing enemy.

When the Southern Force attacked, there would be no open gate as they expected, but a wall just as their bretheren in the north expected. [Repeat the above attack on the south.]

As the battle lines cleared up, the center force would break into action, with 500 ID-57's flanking to each side, along with 20,000 Legionnaires... there were two of these forces in total, one would move north to aid in the northern attack, one to the south, to aid in the southern one.

As this occured, the 2,000 Krakens in the center would roll forward, heading right at the enemy Behemoths as they advanced. They would begin firing as soon as the enemy came within range, and would not stop until they were all destroyed. As they were still being heavily bombarded by the artillery batteries, and constant airstrikes from Halcons, that should not have been very long. With the modest loss of 25 Halcons to Stingers, with the other 75 being well above the stinger's ceiling, the airforce was undeterred, with constant airstrikes all the while. Every minute twelve sorties were flown, each consisting of three Halcons unleashing High-Explosive Missiles upon Artillery Positions.

South of New Hillingrad

Scouts remained on observation of the suburbs. No advance made.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x17,820 Legionnaires - Dead
-27,902 - Wounded
x431 Kraken II - Destroyed
x439 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x415 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x39 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x51 C-37 Big Guns - Destroyed
x74 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x29 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed

ooc: The infantry attack wouldnt occur for quite some time, they have to walk 16 miles through a blizzard, at best they would be going at 12 minutes a mile with all their heavy equipment and the deep snow, so overall it would take them about 3.2 hours or so to get to you. I would have a while to adjust my strategy according to your heat signatures, so i'll just ignore your attack on my infantry for now. Im sorry if I confused you, I was just stating the original plan.

IC: New Hilingrad-North
The Behemoth's were now very close to the Kroandon lines, and promptly opened fire upon the 2,000 enemy Kraken's. They continued to roll foward's, their massive gun's firing in spite of the Artillery raining around them. Dozens of tanks were hit, some being destroyed and some merely disabled, still able to fire wildly at the Kroandon forces. They were, fortunately, supplemented by the 1,200 Kyan M1131 Fire support vehicles, which were now speeding towards the front lines to take a prominent role in this battle. Once within 8 km they promptly each released an AGM-114 Hellfire missile, and then another, totaling 2400 Missiles heading towards the enemy Krakens. These would not be shaken off like the javelins, with their 110 pound warhead in comparison to the Javelin's 18.5 pounds.

Shells exploded all around the Kyan M198 Howitzers as they continued to take heavy fire from the Kroandon guns. They were still intent on fighting back until the last artillery battery fell though, and continued firing.

Meanwhile the Kyan infantry en route to the Kroandon positions were recieving updates on the Kroandon formation. They were told that there was enough forces there to defend no matter what side they attacked for, but they still opted to go around either side in order to avoid the rather large tank battle that was taking place (i'll rp the actual attack on my next post).

New Hilingrad-South
No action (basically my troops are going to be sitting there, no actually rp will need to take place until you either roll your forces through or one of your scout's stumbles upon some of my soldiers.

Casualties
17,230 KIA
28,384 Wounded
287 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
302 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
253 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

(you can reply now)

[Ok, but just to clarify, the flanks are rather long [extend out easily a few miles] and curled, so if you want to go around the flanks, you would have to travel a considerable distance.]

North of New Hillingrad

This battle would fair much differently than it's predacessor, and for one reason alone. Artillery. The backbone of the Kroandon Order of Battle Revolved around artillery support, without it the KroKore Doctrine was simply not complete. The way Kroandons fought was simple. Destroy everything that stands in your way, and then fight it. The Kyans had previously won simply because they had evaded the first portion of the doctrine... they had hidden in bunkers, they had stayed out of sight. They were not destroyed by the bombardment because the Kroandons did not know they existed. The landing forces were forced to fight man to man, tank to tank, with little to no advantage in fire support.

Now it was different. There were 1,000 406mm Guns, 2,000 240mm Guns, 1,000 155mm Guns, 2,000 130mm Guns on the Krakens and thousands upon thousands upon thousands of AvK-2, Tomahawk and Air-to-Surface Missiles firing on them. It had not taken long for the enemy Super-Heavy Battle Tanks to become extinct, as according to intelligence, only three of the enemy Behemoths still remained in the north. [You had 290 in the north if I remember correctly, and 287 destroyed] The still massive Kraken Force now steamed forward, firing at the large number of M1131's before them. The Hellfire Missiles were a threat accounted for long before ever engaged, as each Kraken was armed with a 12.7mm CIWS Gun, which knocked down swaths of missiles before they ever hit. However there were scores of tanks hit, few of which were destroyed. The Hellfire Missile weighed, in certain variants, 110lbs - but it's actual warhead was never more than 20lbs. Perfect for destroying older Soviet Era Tanks such as the T-72, but rather incapable of knocking out modern tanks such as the Kraken. Nevertheless, the sheer number of missiles immobilized and disabled a good number of tanks, which would have to be repaired after the battle. [I don't believe the Hellfire has a variant with a 110lb warhead, if I'm wrong, just show me a link and I'll up my casualties.]

A quick response was given to the enemy in the form of G-24 Fired AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles, over 3,000 fired in all, well over 2 for each M1131. Additionally the 155mm Guns of the C-37 Mountain Breakers opened up, pounding the location of the enemy vehicles with a vengence.

There still remained a serious problem however... in the form of the infantry which had been reported far earlier in the engagement. It was now however, not certain where they were exactly. It was suspected that with the destruction of their only armored support, they would have fallen back into the city, but no one was sure. Intense patrols and scouting forces were deployed, over 120 humvees were sent out in all directions, equipped with IR and other such equipment. If nothing else, they would simply run into a force of 120,000... literally.

The majority of the artillery [with the exception of the C-37 Mountain breakers] resumed fire on the Kyan Artillery. Tomahawk Missiles were likewise fired en masse at the enemy aircraft, and airstrikes were non-stop.

South of New Hillingrad

After several scouts were lost, and others reported ambush possibilities, the Southern Force remained still. No attack would be launched until the cessation of the storm.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x18,210 Legionnaires - Dead
-28,202 - Wounded
x482 Kraken II - Destroyed
x210 Kraken II's - Damaged
x442 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x432 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x41 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x51 C-37 Big Guns - Destroyed
x75 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x30 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed

ooc: Yes, I had 290 after the beach battle, but overall I had 450. The casualty counts includes those lost on the beaches. Theres still 163 left, so you might want to change your casualty counts to include tanks lost to the still standing Behemoths.

IC: The Infantry were now quite close to the Kroandon lines, they wouldnt be attacking front and center, but rather to the left and right of the Kroandon front. Before they reached the Kroandons, however, some of their humvees had happened upon 3 groups of 1,000 or so Kyan soldiers, and were promptly destroyed. The groups then retreated back to the city because they were now revealed to the Kroandons. The remaining 117,000 Kyan soldiers were now very close to their target, in fact less than half a kilometer. Night had now fallen, the blizzard was still raging, and would continue into the next day. The groups on the left and right sides of the Kroandon's quickly took their positions, glad that the sound of their attack would be covered by the exchange of artillery fire and the still ongoing tank battle.

15,000 SMAW's, that was the number carried into this battle. Care was taken to make sure that this original exchange of fire would cause as much damage as possible to the Kroandon forces. The troops poured around the huge artillery force, in some cases having to dive into the snow to avoid being seen oncoming Kroandon humvees, which could be seen by the Thermal vision the soldiers had all switched on. The attempts of these vehicles was amusing to watch, as several had already been observed crashing into trees or hillsides in this chaotic blizzard. As told earlier, the main force of Kyan troops were to the front left and front-right of the Kroandon forces, but thousands of SMAW carrying soldiers and their escorts took positions on ridges and behind clumps of trees to the left, right, and behind the Kroandon forces. The order was given, they fired. 2,000 Firing at the various VL-7 Demolishers, 5,000 firing at the C-24 Big guns, 5,000 firing at the 155 mm and 105 mm guns, and 3,000 firing at the Puma IFV's.

This attack was meant to be overwhelming, and 40,000 XM8 and M240 carrying troops immediately rushed in, covering the 400-500 meter distance rather quickly, immediately unloading on the surprised Kroandon troops.

Meanwhile the M1131's were in utter chaos, around half were destroyed by the original missile strike, and more were taken down by the Kroandon artillery. 490 still managed to get off a round of Hellfires, aimed at the Kroandon G-24 Strikers, before retreating to the city. The behemoth's were also still engaged, firing off their main guns with merciless resolve.

New Hilingrad-South
(Alright then, but the storm still isnt going to let up for another day, and even when it does you wont be able to see my soldiers, unless they sit in the window like idiots.)

Casualties
17,926 KIA
29,621 Wounded
331 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
327 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[I probably should have elaborated when I said my 'flanks were curled' - It meant that my left and right flanks curled backwards to cover the vast majority of the territory surrounding my artillery. The very rear of the army is likewise guarded by 1,000 Puma IFV's and 7,000 Legionnaires - my rear force. The areas in between are filled with scouts and patrols, whom if overwhelmed, would alert the army to your presence. It would be virtually immpossible to sneak through those lines to the artillery - especially with a force that large... here, I'll draw up a map...

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/383/55572133xz0.png

Obviously you would have seen these force deployments, so I'll let you rewrite your infantry attacks if you'd like.

-Added 30 Kraken Casualties]

oh, ok then, yes I believe I will rewrite my infantry attack real quick, alright, here it is.

IC: 50,000 in the back, 70,000 collected elsewhere around the Kroandon forces. The stragety was this, they would breakthrough quickly in the back, charging through to take out the Kroandon artillery. The 50,000 troops would easily overwhelm the Kroandons in the back. The 70,000 on either sides would distract the Kroandon armour and infantry. 7,000 SMAW's in the back, many using thermobaric rockets, took careful aim and then fired upon the Kroandon Puma IFV's and the 7,000 troops. Any that survived this volley, which was unlikely partially because of the sheer number of rockets and the nature of the thermobaric weapon, were shortly overran by the 50,000 Kyan troops, which now charged through to the center, the SMAW carrying troops reloading as they jogged in the middle of the formation.

The troops now had a clear shot at the Kroandon artillery, the 7,000 SMAW carrying troops firing off another round, while the rest charged into straight hand to hand combat, chucking grenades and slaughtering the crews of the Artillery. Meanwhile the 35,000 Kyan troops on either side of the Kroandonds (70,00 total) opened fire on the Kroandon armour, Puma IFV's, and G-24 Strikers with their own 8,000 SMAW's, then unloading upon the infantry with machine gun fire while reloading the weapons.

The various soldiers now tearing through the Kroandon artillery now reveled in the fact that the Kroandon armour could not fire on them, they would just be destroying their own equipment. They were being engaged by the rest of the Kyan army anyways...

[RP'ing your forces breaking through my rear is god modding - I never said my rear force fell in one simple charge... I'll respond to your troops firing on my rear and the subsequent charge - but you have most certainly not reached the artillery. Also, I doubt the ability of thermal sensors to see through snow as thick as you described.]

Kroandon Rear - 600 Meters Behind Artillery

"Enjoyin' the weather out there?", shouted one of the various soldiers sitting atop the Puma IFV, staring out into the icy distance, laughing as one of his comrades flicked him off, resting his C1 Assault Rifle on his shoulder. The Puma was one of the front 500 which made up the very outer layer of the defensive perimeter, the bulk of the rear force. Inside this Puma sat an additional three men, while the Private on the ground was also one of three spread out over the fifty meters around the Puma. This force was not expecting enemy contact, no reports had been made of any enemy advance... however now all that changed.

As the Legionnaire flicked off his comrades in the Puma, a thermobaric explosive blew it to hell. Leaving the Kroandon Legionnaire diving to the ground. Of the 3,500 originally positioned with the 500 Puma's, 2,000 remained, now positioned in a picket line in various areas along the perimeter. The enemy could not see them for the same reason the Kroandons could not see the Kyans... thick layers of armor and clothing, and heavy snowfall. The charging Kyans would have on of two choices, take thousands of casualties by charging into fully automatic assault rifles and grenades, or root out the Legionnaires in squad attacks - a proposition that would take precious time. Regardless of which approach the Kyans took, they would be slowed down exponentially... and already the Kroandons were alerted to the enemy presence.

As the perimeter was overrun, they would come to yet another force... one identicle to the last. However it would not be unprepared, nor unaware of the coming attack. The Puma's now fired into the distance with their 30mm Autocannons, and their 5.56mm Machine Guns, supported by over 3,500 Legionnaires firing away with their C1's, launching grenades into the distance. The charging enemy would again be forced to stop, and fight - taking heavy casualties all the while. The SMAW had a maximum range of 500m, yet to suggest they could target the Puma's, even when firing at anything less than 100m was ridiculous. The enemy would have to traverse 400 meters before they had a hope of firing on the Puma's with any accuracy. As the attackers rushed forward, overwhelming the perimeter, they were taking heavy fire from the last line of defence, which would inflict severe casualties - and time limitations - on a front end assault such as the one being launched.

The rear force would not fall before holding the enemy for fifteen minutes, which was just enough time to do three things. The first of which was to call in fire support from the fleet. The fleet unleashed a total of 600 Tomahawk Missiles, loaded with BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bombs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-97/B_Combined_Effects_Bomb) unto the vast area inhabited by the charging Kyans. Each missile unleashed hundreds of these bomblets, which fell to the ground and exploded, thousands upon thousands in number, designed for anti-personel usage. The fleet also gave support in redirecting aircraft. The twenty or so Halcons previously firing on the artillery were redirected, and swept into the Kyan zone with speed, firing scores of Air-to-Surface Missiles onto the ground, sweeping in an scouring the earth with their 20mm Gatling Guns.

The next adjustment that was made was in the form of redirecting forces from the center and flanks to the rear. By the time the Kyans had broken through the rear force completely, they would stare into the barrels of over 15,000 Kroandons, 400 Humvees with mounted .50 Cals, 300 ID-57's and 100 Krakens, along with over 50 Puma's and 50 G-24's... with more pouring in by the minute. They would subsequently be fired upon by massive amounts of weaponry.

The third, and probably most important adjustment came in the simply turn around of artillery. 1,200 C-37's now faced the advancing Kyans, and rained bloody hell upon them, firing at some times, directly, like a tank.

Kroandon Flanks

The flanking forces attempted to break through without armor, artillery or air support. A primative notion to say the least. The thermobaric explosives still failed to break through the Kroandon Tank Armor, causing damage only to the humvees and Puma's in the area, with the G-24's being positioned further behind the lines. As the Kyans opened fire, they recieved fire ten times what they gave. ID-57's and Krakens opened up, pouring explosives and gatling rounds into the enemy, as did the 20,000 odd Kroandons. Though the enemy possessed a numerical advantage of 35,000 to 20,000, they had no armored support, which put them in the role of the Zulu Tribes against the British and their Maxims. The Kyan Assault was fiercely responded to by the suprisingly still active Krakens and their ID-57 compliments, whom rather than waiting, charged at the enemy, unloading fire upon them as they did so. The infantry followed in their wake, under the cover of the advancing armor.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x20,123 Legionnaires - Dead
-30,202 - Wounded
x520 Kraken II - Destroyed
x210 Kraken II's - Damaged
x450 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x440 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x47 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x59 C-37 Big Guns - Destroyed
x81 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x35 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x510 Puma IFV - Destroyed

ooc: Yeak, I know. I was half-asleep when I posted that...

IC: The general was furious, the Kroandon's had managed to adjust to the attack much quicker than he expected. There were considering a full retreat... but there was still a possibility of destroying the artillery, even if there was thousands of casualties.

The 50,000 troops in the rear continued to dash forwards, taking massive casualties. One private fell to the ground as he watched his close friend be torn to pieces by a Kroandon gatling gun, meanwhile the bomblets were falling all around the area, tearing apart the attack. They were now informed of more Kroandon's waiting for them before they reached the artillery, including a number of tanks. In response to this thousands of troops plunged their guns into the snow or buckets of water that were being brought up in order to cool them, so the Kroandon's could target them until they got closer. 6,300 SMAW carrying troops were still left in the back, they took up positions at a distance of 50-75 meters as the Kroandon's fired their guns blindly into the distance. The order was given, they fired at whatever they could see on their thermal vision, and from what they could target by sound. 6,300 Thermobaric rockets, around half of which were aimed at the 400 tanks, the other half at the G-24's, humvees, and Kroandon infantry. The Kyan infantry then began laying down heavy M240 and XM8 fire while slowly advancing through the blizzard.

Meanwhile, at the flanks, the troops were taking cover behind whatever thy could find. Trees, small hills and banks, whatever, while blindly firing their guns at the advancing Kroandon infantry. The 4,000 SMAW carriers on each side began targeting tanks in groups of 500, essentially they would launch 8 rockets at each tank, reload, and then repeat the process. Each SMAW carrier had steel-lined pack of Ammunition, to prevent accidents such as a Kroandon round setting off a rocket.

Casualties
22,026 KIA
33,761 Wounded
340 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
360 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

(just posting this so the thread goes back up)

Rear Encounter

The chaos in the rear was little more than that, chaos. The Kyan advance could hardly expect to break through the Kroandon rear without enduring massive casualties sustained through an forced offensive, which it appeared the Kyans were not willing to launch. As the Kyans slowed and exchanged fire with the Kroandons, they gave even more time for more reinforcements to join the rear. The Kyan approach of simply 'Firing x rockets at x vehicles' was a naive belief in the possibility of such a coordinated and uniform attack. To try and coordinate 6,300 men in perfect unison? Immpossible, even on a sunny day at the training yard. To assume that many of those men did not simply... get lost in the bilzzard was a stretch, but to assume each and every one had perfectly positioned himself within range of a sleeping tank was absurd.

The Kyan Thermobaric Rocket Attack was ill-sucessful, as the Kroandons had taken the surroundings and used them to their advantages long before the Kyans had reached them. As the enemy made it through the second line of the perimeter, the Kroandon reinforcements prepared to engage the enemy, which was apperantly using IR to target the KroKore Armor. As the enemy advanced, snow was shoveled onto the tanks and vehicles from the ground, and the barrels were kept constantly cool with fire extinguishers and buckets of icy water. The rockets fired by the enemy hit with an astoundingly low sucess rate, with merely 60 tanks being destroyed, another 70 disabled. However now the Kyans met more obstacles in the way of false IR signatures. The large number of missed rockets now left the Kroandon line in flames... meaning that trying to target the enemy on IR signatures alone would result in shooting at... well... fires. The Kroandon line, still heavily supported by armor, continued pouring fire into the Kyans, not giving in the least bit as thousands more rushed to reinforce the line, supported with dozens of humvees and ID-57's.

This was however taking into consideration that there were still 1,200 C-37 Mountain Breakers (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=7) directing their barrels at the Kyans, firing six rounds a minute at the enemy force... and as if that were not enough, the 1,000 odd 105mm Guns had been brought to the rear, and were aiding in repulsing the enemy attack.

Flanks

The Kyan Assaults on the flanks were met with overwhelming armored advances, with the infantry moving forward in their wake, so as to avoid direct confrontation with them until they had been properly pounded by the Kroandon Armor. It was again, not as simple as picturing 4,000 SMAW crews lined up against 500 tanks. The tanks were spread out, the SMAW Crews, after having just ran 16 miles through a blizzard, would clearly by similarly dispersed and mixed. The effect of the rockets against the tanks being minimized by the ridiculously thick armor of the Krakens and ID-57's both. Damage was caused, this was true. However actual tank destructions were rare. And all the while, they continued firing.

Fleet

1,500 Tomahawk Missiles were fired at the Kyan Artillery... over one missile for each artillery piece... this was in conjunction with the over 2000 240mm Guns firing at them, and the roughly 200 Halcons firing at them at all times...

[My casualties are being done relative to yours. I have over 60,000 infantry, hundreds upon hundreds of Tomahawk missiles, scores of aircraft and 8000 vehicles and artillery firing heavy guns at your infantry, and killed around 4,000 - which means over half of the tanks miss every time they shoot - all of the missiles missed, and my infantry are retarded. Where you would normally have destroyed alot more tanks, I have to assume half of your rockets missed for no reason, another third are retarded, and the rest... well, tank armor.

And how did 3000 artillery pieces, hundreds upon hundreds of missiles and 3000 tanks manage to destroy only... 9 Behemoths and... 33 artillery pieces?]

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x21,001 Legionnaires - Dead
-31,202 - Wounded
x570 Kraken II - Destroyed
x320 Kraken II's - Damaged
x490 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x470 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x45 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x60 C-37 Big Guns - Destroyed
x79 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x35 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x540 Puma IFV - Destroyed

ooc: No need to get all uptight, my limited knowledge of war mostly comes from Saving Private Ryan and Full Metal Jacket, dont expect realistic figures until I get more exprienced at this. I appreciate constructive criticism, im just getting irratated at the fact that I have to cringe every time I open up this thread, knowing that i'm going to get bitched out for my latest stupid mistake. A little patience would be helpful. Sorry about the low casualties though, but the only 9 tanks being destroyed was purely because you are no longer focusing your artillery on my Behemoth's.

IC: That was it, they couldnt keep this up any longer. The General ordered a full scale retreat, already a difficult concept considering how intensely the battle was being fought, made even more hectic by the Kroandon artillery which was taking a heavy toll on the Kyan forces.

The General Alexei Nagoyev made the order, which was carried out by a number of correspondents contacting the front line by radio. The Various Brigade leaders were contacted, the correspondents having to yell in order for them to hear over the gunfire and explosions "Disengage! I repeat, Disengage, the situation has deteriorated, get your men out of there!"

Tens of thousands of troops then began running wildly from the Kroandon forces, artillery falling all around. There was a problem though, many platoon leaders, which was the standard organization for Kyan troops in this battle, had been either killed or had lost their radios. Over 4,000 soldiers were left behind. They shortly realised that they were now alone and overrun by Kroandon's, and subsequently dropped their weapons and raised their arms in surrender.

Meanwhile the infantry on the run were now in dissaray, unsure what to do. The order soon came to make for a town further north, specifically Carenville, the Logan and Ky tourist central. The town normally had a population of only 30,000, so the lodgings would be a little cramped. It would provide a good position for ambush should the Kroandon's eventually decide to invade it, however, as it was inlaid into the mountains and the forest. The troops ran the whole first mile or so, before slowing down but still going at a decent pace. They didnt want any Kroandon scouts following them.

The Tomahawk strike on the artillery did massive damage, as did the halcons strike, and they were still recieving fire from Kroandon artillery. They managed to shoot down quite a bit of the missiles with AA, but a huge number of M198's and AA guns were destroyed.

Total Casualties
34,519 KIA
57,210 Wounded
372 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
909 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

North of New Hillingrad

Field Marshal Vurg shouted in rage as he fired his K1 Assault Rifle into the distance [same as the C1, I just renamed it] at the retreating Kyan forces, ordering his own personal body guard forward with the Kroandon pursuit. "Get those Kyney bastards! Kill those damned Logs... Kill Them!", roared the Commander to the already strapped crews of the C-37's, ordering them to fire faster at the fleeing enemy. The Kroandons rushed forward in pursuit, however in the rear, they were quickly stopped dead. The Kyan disorganization which had left roughly 4,000 soldiers surrendering, stopped the Kroandons from effectively pursuing the fleeing soldiers to the north. [How far north is Carenville?] The Kroandon counter attack was stopped with taking prisoners, allowing the enemy to escape the KroKore Infantry surge.

The Kroandons initially attempted to continue the pursuit with tanks and armored vehicles, but after four Krakens crashed into one another, the pursuit was called off, and the artillery strikes were increased, as were air strikes and straffing missions. Halcons, hundreds of Halcons, not even armed with missiles, scoured the ground with their gatling guns, joining the 2,500 artillery pieces which fired into the distance... but the Kyans would still escape.

There was still the issue of the hundred or so Behemoths engaging the Kroandon Krakens. A hundred or so tanks against nearly three thousand... a valiant stand indeed, one which was taking it's toll on the Kroandon Tank Divisions. Several hundred Krakens already lay still as smoking piles of scrap metal, with reinforcements coming up to directly engage the enemy armor. Over 900 tanks sat directly infront of the Behemoths, with another 100 to either side... and now the gate was closing, as the final 50 Krakens wheeled around the back, and began firing from the rear. The remaining thousand or so odd Krakens began their blitz to the enemy armor, which was now being bombarded by everything save those guns firing at the infantry, and the 300 or so VL-7 Demolishers firing at the Behemoths.

[I]Meanwhile, on the seas...

[I assume your forces went back underground?]

The Kroandon Fleet maintained it's bombardment of the city, firing at the last seen locations of the enemy ground forces. The edges of the city were also fired upon, particularly the southern suburbs of the city, as a large number of scouts deployed by the southern force had been reported as missing.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x22.317 Legionnaires - Dead
-34,000 - Wounded
x615 Kraken II - Destroyed
x345 Kraken II's - Damaged
x510 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x500 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x51 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x63 C-37 Big Guns - Destroyed
x85 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x35 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x540 Puma IFV - Destroyed

ooc: Call it Alpine city, Carenville is a stupid name I just thought of randomly. Its about 100 or so miles east North-east, a few days walk. I'll show you where it is on the map later. FYI the Kyan mountains are sort of like the alps, except that the Kyan mountain range is longer and has the type of Pine forests I described in the ooc thread (except for at high altitudes of course, in fact the Kyan pine only grows at somewhat low altitudes such as in the valleys and foothills of the mountain range)

IC: The soldiers were now out in the Kyan wilderness, near the edge of the forest. They had lost almost 20,000 in the battle, still leaving around 100,000 which needed to get Alpine city. The Kroandon's didnt seem to be following them, but they still kept a brisk pace, wanting to begin setting up defences. Hopefully the Kroandon's wouldnt notice the troops, theyd be traveling through thick forest most of the way until reaching the city. While the city is somewhat small and remote, it remains important to the war effort due to its good defensive position and its location set about 35 miles off of one of the superhighways. It also is essentially the passageway to the mountains, and a small road connected it to Tyrins.

The troops would recieve reinforcements upon reaching the city, including helicopters and Behemoth tanks. Capture of the city would lead to a Kroandon foothold on the Superhighway, one of the main supply lines to the front and one of the important roads to Tyrins. It essentially linked the Capital city and Northwestern Logan and Ky.

The Behemoth tanks were now being surrounded by the Kroandon Krakens. They continued firing wildly, taking out as many Kroandons as physically possible. They couldnt keep this up much longer though, and soon around half of the Behemoth's were completely destroyed with more falling by the minute.

The Kyan artillery were also still firing, despite that huge Kroandon assault that had decimated their ranks. The bombardment that targeted the city was also taking its toll, and around 2,000 or so troops in the suburbs were killed, but most stayed firm. They had no coordinates, they were firing blind.

Total Casualties
37,721 KIA
60,142 Wounded
419 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
990 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[Another complaint... your 2,000 casualties are too high. As you said, I was just firing blindly at the suburbs. Probably more like 200 dead and 300 wounded.

Oh, and could you give me a brief description of Alpine City's surroundings? Such as mountains, forests, if it's in a vally, on a mountain, etc.

Almost forgot, your troops in the city (not the ones in the southern suburbs) - they are below ground still?]

North of New Hillingrad

"Move your ass you filthy log! Move it!", shouted the Kroandon in Kro-Speak, a language the Logans and Kyans most likely did not understand in the least. "Keep in line! No tricks or your dead!", the Sergeant continued, yelling through the helmet of his Honvorg Infantry Apparatus (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=32) at the line of Kyan prisoners, shoving one along as he stumbled in the falling snow. The Kyans had been rounded up, their hands bound, and forced into a line marching towards the shore, where a makeshift detainment camp had been set up, however in the storm there was little that could be done in the way of making shelter for the prisoners, as the Kroandon Legionnaires themselves simply sat in the snow, allowing their HIA's to keep them from freezing. The Kyans were given excess blankets, a number of tarps, some food and even a few electric heaters... however it was expected a large number of them would die before the storm ended. The security on their location was simple. A circle of ID-57 Decimators and alternating Legionnaire patrols, anyone trying to escape would most likely run into them, and be shot. The Kyans had been stripped of their weapons, ammunition and IR goggles, leaving them in no condition to attempt to escape let alone attack, their Kroandon captors, especially in a storm such as this.

The Kroandons worked at recovering their own dead throughout the storm however, taking back the immensely expensive equipment they woar. Finding the wounded was also a grave concern, as several hundred still sat out in the storm. For the time being, the Kroandon infantry simply seemed content on trying to stay alive.

The artillery and armored divisions however were a different story. With over 800 Krakens completely surrounding the last Behemoths, and over 1,000 C-24's and VL-7's pounding their location, they were as active as ever. The armored divisions involved continued firing constantly, knowing that if nothing else, the Behemoths would eventually run out of shells... As the fight intensified, coming to a final climax, the Kroandon G-24's, positioned back with the artillery, unleashed a hail of 400 AvK-2 Missiles, coming in unison with 100 Tomahawks from the fleet, and a string of Halcons, firing over 200 Anti-Armor Missiles each at the Behemoths in the circle.

The enemy artillery now recieved the remainder of the bombardment. The Kroandon Krakens rushed towards the enemy artillery batteries, firing their over 1500 130mm ETC Guns unto the enemy positions - positions which were all the while being bombarded by over 3000 Heavy Artillery Guns, and constant air strikes. A rather large Halcon strike of 65 Aircraft took off from the fleet, each armed with seven Air-to-Surface Missiles... over 450 missiles were unloaded upon the batteries, and then they were straffed by 20mm Gatling Fire. Additionally, roughly 45 Tomahawks were launched at similar targets. Meanwhile, back at the main Kroandon Force, the infantry had recieved their AvK-2B SteelFire Launchers... mortar looking pieces of equipment which could be loaded with a self-tracking AvK-2 Missile. Over 200 of these fired at the enemy artillery, attempting to bring about an end to the enemy threat in the north.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x22,917 Legionnaires - Dead
-35,014 - Wounded
x631 Kraken II - Destroyed
x351 Kraken II's - Damaged
x522 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x503 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x551 Puma IFV - Destroyed

ooc: Alright, i'll subtract that from this post. Yes the troops in the city are below ground (mostly). Alpine city is at a high elevation, but is surrounded on 3 sides by mountains. There is one 4 lane road leading into the city. The road goes over very steep terrain and would likely pose a problem for any tanks and/or artillery trying to reach the city, especially my Behemoth's and any towed artillery. Due to the high altitude, the vegatation around the city is mostly smaller evergreen trees, lower down in the valleys its mainly Kyan pines though.

IC: The area around the battle site was now littered with wounded Kyan soldiers. Gunshots could still be heard in the night as disabled Kyan soldiers traded shots with any Kroandon's in there sight. For the most part though, these soldiers were dying. Many were suffering from severe blood loss, dehydration, and frostbite. Any that could walk had already taken off with the retreating troops, so those left were the severely wounded. Carrying away wounded soldiers had been the last concern of the Kyan soldiers when they withdrew, although a few guilty souls had attempted to carry off some of these wounded, with varying success.

Every last Behemoth was now merely a burning pile of metal. The Kroandon's wouldnt find many wounded here, the crew members had all been killed, save for a few which would likely not survive being trapped and wounded in the twisted piles of scraps which had formerly been tanks.

The artillery pieces were now focused on the Kraken tanks, and would continue to focus on them until their eventual destruction. Various shells and missiles collided with the Howitzers as the scene descended into utter chaos, with many crew members running wildly about as if they could somehow stop the destruction. Most of the Kroandon Tomahawk missiles were shot down by AA guns, but the huge number of Kroandon artillery pieces focusing on the Kyan M198's were taking their toll. Only a few hundred were left now, and they likely wouldnt last much longer.

Total Casualties
38,023 KIA
60,910 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,525 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

Battle for New Hillingrad

The 155mm Howitzers of the Kyans had the power to knock out the charging Krakens, that much was proven by the losses endured as the vehicles made a straight run right at the besieged artillery batteries. Direct hits were the only kind that actually made any sort of impact however, with glancing hits and shrapenal simply scarring the armor. However every minute or so, it seemed another tank was blown apart, a 130mm barrel flying into the air, or a turret slumping to the ground. The assault however continued undeterred, with the Kroandon's having enough enough tanks to sacrifice in order to overwhelm the enemy. The closer they came to the enemy, the more intense the fire exchange became. The Kroandons had a number of advantages. First and foremost, they had armor. The Kraken tanks could withstand indirect hits. The Kyan Artillery could not. Secondly they had naval and air support. And finally, they had the age old end game. Numbers. Vastly superior numbers compared to those of the Kyans.

However this was not all that was going on... not in the least. There was now a concerted effort on the behalf of the Kroandons to take one of the destroyed Behemoth III's back to Kroando. Of the smoking wrecks that littered the battle field, there were few in any sort of shape to be salvaged... however one in particular was Code Named, 'The Tiny Giant'. The Tiny Giant was destroyed by a single Tankacide Round fired from the rear at it's back armor. The round simply penetrated the armor, and exploded, killing the crew, damaging the inner controls, but all in all - keeping the tank intact. The Kroandons were going to bring it back to Kroando, and reverse engineer it. It took two Krakens and four supply trucks to drag the beast to the shore...

After the enemy artillery was destroyed, the Kroandons would simply wait until the storm ended...

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x22,917 Legionnaires - Dead
-35,014 - Wounded
x682 Kraken II - Destroyed
x362 Kraken II's - Damaged
x522 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x503 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x551 Puma IFV - Destroyed

[How many feet of snow do you think fell? Also, how cold is it?]

ooc: Roughly 2 feet, temperatures around 12-18 degrees Fahrenheit, due to the close proximity to the coast. Further inland its in the single digits. The temperatures will continue to slowly decline and the port should be frozen within a few weeks. The storm should pass by morning.

IC: As the General Alexei Nagoyev watched the Kroandon's drag off several wrecked Behemoth tanks, he couldnt help but chuckle. Their invasion was based off a need for resources, and yet they had done nothing yet but lose a very significant amount of lives and metal, with only a few salvaged tanks to show for it.

The 100,000 troops now making the long trek to Alpine City, by midnight they had reached the edge of the Kyan forest. They set up camp in the sparse, smaller trees at the edge of the forest. The Kyan pine forest was no place to be at night, even for a gun carrying soldier. As the troops set in for a good 6 hours of sleep, they hard the various unstudied and in some cases even undiscovered beasts of the forest off in the distance. This trek would prove interesting to say the least.

Meanwhile the Kyan artillery were still firing at the Kraken's, which were now very close-by. Dozens were falling every couple minutes though, and soon every artillery piece had been destroyed, leaving a pile of dead and severely wounded crew members. As in the earlier battle, those that could walk had retreated, mainly to bunkers in New Hilingrad.

Total Casualties

38,987 KIA
62,011 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[Ive been really looking forward to moving through those forests...]

North of New Hillingrad

The next morning the Kroandons awoke to the view of a massive sheet of snow covering what was once the blinded battle field North of New Hillingrad. For miles in all directions there were smoking wrecks of vehicles, the fires having long been put out by the storm, but the tanks themselves still steamed as hot metal collided with snow. The icy skeletons of tanks had indeed proved an eeire site to the Kroandon Legionnaires that were securing everything up to the edge of the city, with the tanks not only under a foot or so of snow, but covered in sheets of ice. As the flaming wrecks of the tanks melted the snow that fell upon them, and the metal shells of the Krakens, Behemoths, ID-57's, G-24's and M1331 FSV's cooled, that melted snow froze into ice, leaving ice sickles hanging from the barrels of the destroyed vehicles. The night before a few Behemoths had been dragged away. Now the Kroandons were taking the rest of the field. The hundreds... thousands of destroyed tanks, artillery pieces, trucks, vehicles and other such equipment were being hauled off to transport ships on the shore. Those transport ships would load the destroyed equipment unto massive transport tankers, which would in turn take them back to Kroando. In Kroando, they would be torn apart and used for scrap iron and steel, melted down and used to refuel the Kroandon Economy. The number of jobs created not only by the war itself, but by the influx of this massive amount of steel would be great... and this was only a taste.

However the one truly chilling site around the field was not the smoldering vehicles and artillery... but the lumps. The thousands upon thousands upon thousands of lumps that covered the field for miles. These lumps indicated to those that watched the dead. The countless dead that extended for miles in all directions. Under those lumps of snow were frozen corpses. Well, frozen Kyan corpses. The Kroandon corpses were well displayed, as their heated Honvorg Infantry Apparatus Battle Suites melted the snow that fell upon them, long after they had died. The work of gathering the dead was next, as massive numbers of Logistical Personel were unloaded upon the shore, and the tens of thousands of men began work in dragging both Kyan and Kroandon corpses to the shore. The Kroandons were stripped of their HIA's, placed in massive lines upon the battle field, doused in gasoline, and burned as Kroandon Death Priests muttered prayers in Old Kroandaron, asking for their acceptance to the Halls of the Dead. After hours upon hours of burnings, the Kyan corpses were like wise lined up and burned, the Priests muttering the same odd prayers in a language none of the men on this side of the world understood. The mysterious religious practices being employed must have been rather startling to the Kyan Prisoners. [Kroandon culture/language/religion is extremely... 'unique'.]

The next morning the Kyans were made official prisoners with their introduction into the strict Kroandon version of order. Bar coded tatoos on each prisoners wrist, bar codes which would be used to identify the prisoners as they were taken to the massive Kroandon prisoner ship off the coast... where the interrogations would begin. The massive converted oil tanker was filled with dark, dreary, damp and leaky cells, over 10,000 of them in all, each meant to tightly hold two prisoners. The ship took off the next morning for the penal colony of Undermon, where they would mine stone till the end of the war.

Meanwhile, thousands upon thousands of Legionnaires were deployed upon the northern shore, reinforcing the tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and then some. Technicians and engineers worked round the clock to repair the damaged Krakens and other such vehicles, just as doctors and medical staff worked to bring the injured soldiers back to health. The Kroandon army was wounded, but no more so than the Kyans which took shelter in the sub-surface dens of New Hillingrad, and certainly less than those Kyans which crawled off to Alpine City.

Edge of Kyan Forest - Enroute to Apline City

The retreating Logan and Kyan army which now fled to the north was not to be left to make it out so easily. They had traveled well over 100 miles in arctic temperatures... they had fought some of the best soldiers in the world... they had done what the Kroandon High Command deemed immpossible, as they all predicted the army would have frozen by the time it made it half way. They said they would run out of food. Water. They would tire and die. But there they were. The satellite did not lie. A massive Kyan camp on the edge of the 'tall forest'. That night they would not rest, for the devils that commanded the Kroandon invasion had ordered chaos. A force of 100 Halcons, each loaded with nine Air-to-Surface Napalm-Loaded Missiles took off from the fleet, and traversed the 120 mile span in less than fifteen minutes. They then fired a massive hail of over 900 missiles from their aircraft at the sleeping Kyan tents, shortly before covering the field in gatling gun fire. The Halcon strike was quickly followed by a hail of over 350 Tomahawk Missiles carrying bomblets as before, meant for anti-personel use.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x22,988 Legionnaires - Dead
-35,221 - Wounded
x686 Kraken II - Destroyed
x362 Kraken II's - Damaged
x522 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x503 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x551 Puma IFV - Destroyed

[Bump.]

ooc: Sorry I havent posted for a few days, I havent even been home since Friday.

IC: Vulnerable they may have been, asleep they were not. The troops near the forest had awoken at dawn, and were just stretching and rubbing their eyes when they were radioed by forces in cities south of their position. There were Kroandon planes en route. The troops had just strapped their packs on when the first of the Kroandon missiles crashed into the ground. They then ran for their lives as the various Halcon launched missiles tore into their ranks. They made it safely to the forest without too much damage, but quite a few Kyan soldiers were killed. They then considered going back to pack up the rest of their things, but the intensely burning napalm kept them from that.

The soldiers then took a quick inventory. A march like this had been planned, and as such their packs had enough food in them for several days. Water was another issue though, as they only had their individual canteens and 2 or 3 extra bottles in their packs. They would run out by the second night. There was also the problem of frostbite and hypothermia, and the gradually falling temperatures prevented anyone from removing any part of their full body suit for more than a minute.

They now marched through the deep forest. There was no light here other than the few crisscrossing beams and the grayness of the sun going through the canopy. The Soldiers traveled in a miles long backwards crescent formation, trying to channel away some of the more dangerous beasts of the "Shaarok", meaning devil forest in the now defunct native Kyan tongue.

The Lieutenant Drake Golubev, still bearing scars from the battle on the beach, walked at the edge on the right side of the Kyan lines. He walked into a space the side of a large room in which there were no trees. He gripped his weapon tighter as he heard faint popping noises.

"It's just the trees" said the Private Charlie Steensma.

"You can never be too sure" said the Lieutenant.

"Yeah well personally, I think this is a load of b-" said the Private before his words were cut off by the attack of a Malakian tiger. The giant cat, which thrives in northern locations like this, is much larger and stronger than the average man. It took down the private easily before digging its teeth into his throat, causing spurts of blood to emerge from his still open mouth. The private died with a look of astonishment on his face as the rest of his sqaud opened fire on the tiger, mortally wounding it.

The Lieutenant would have liked to give the Private a proper Kyan burial, but the circumstances didnt allow for it, so the squad just said a quick prayer in the native Kyan language before continuing on their way.

Total Casualties

39,826 KIA
63,113 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[Quite alright.]

New Hillingrad

As the storm ceased, an eerie peacefulness fell over New Hillingrad. The Kroandon, Logan and Kyan bodies had already been burned and given their dark rights of passage into the after life, the smoldering ruins of destroyed Kroandon and Kyan tanks had long since been hauled aboard various transport vessels were enroute back to Antarctika to be used as scrap metal. And the Logan and Kyan prisoners of war were enroute to a Junkers Korp. penal colony in Undermon, where they would mine stone till the end of the war.

New Hillingrad, surrounded and covered in craters and blackened holes, was a sickeniningly quiet place as the Kroandons enveloped the city. All roads traveling to and from the city had been cut off, with sizeable Kroandon Tank blockades monitering all possible entrances, with patrols in those areas tanks were not. The city was completely surrounded, cut off from all supplies and reinforcements. From the outside world completely. General Horn smiled as he looked down at the ThermaStat in his gloved hand, reporting that temperatures had dropped below fifteen degrees. The Kyans were in the city, he knew it, how well fortified he did not know. He also knew he hardly had the time for a time consuming starvation of the city, which could take months if the Kyans were properly prepared, as he assumed they were. As several transport barges arrived carrying ammunition, the order was given.

An indiscriminate bomardment of the city and it's Southern Suburbs. The city itself would take a massive pounding from over 6,000 heavy guns, VL-7s, C-24's and C-37s mainly, with support from another 1,000 155mm Towed Guns. The fleet also joined in with over 200 guns of extremely high calibre, capable of leveling city blocks with a single shell. They all let loose heavy explosive shells unto the city. They did not however simply blow their load in one massive volley... they fired a sustained attack upon reportedly fortified areas of the city for three days straight. Three days of shells raining down. Over 600,000 shells would be fired unto the city over the next 72 hours... a task that would, if nothing else, keep the Kyans awake, and extremely tired. Not to mention the damage 600,000 500lb High-Explosive Shells causes, even to men under 75ft of concrete. (Cave ins and whatnot)

Southern New Hillingrad Suburbs

Over 50 scouts dead or missing. Another 45 scouts reporting suspicious enemy activity. Guerilla activity seemed the only explanation, and the Kroandons were not quite ready to walk into a trap, especially when there were no civilians to worry about killing in an indiscriminant bombardment of the city. Some 2000 Kraken II's, 1000 155mm Towed Guns, and 2000 more 105mm Towed Guns sat in a thick line facing the Hillingrad Suburbs roughly 1 kilometer from the perimeter. Massive stockpiles of ammunition had been assembled around them all... and it began. The 5000 artillery-operating pieces let loose on the suburbs, firing not only at reported enemy locations, but at likely enemy locations, suspicious ambush cross sections, and in general, every single house in the suburbs. The guns simply pounded the enemy location, and would do so for three days time. Mean while Halcons dropped napalm laden bombs upon the suburbs, attempting to burn out the enemy.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x22,988 Legionnaires - Dead
-35,221 - Wounded
x686 Kraken II - Destroyed
x362 Kraken II's - Damaged
x522 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x503 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x551 Puma IFV - Destroyed

The soldiers in New Hilingrad sat under constant bombardment, trying to cover their ears with pieces of clothing and whatever other items they may have had. They hadnt had radio contact in hours, and the words of the General in his last transmission still stung in the minds of the soldiers on the front.

"Its simply not prudent. Sending reinforcements to New Hilingrad would just result in more losses. We have to fight the Kroandon's on our time." the general had said.

"Tell that to the thousands of men down here about to go to their deaths." the Colonel on the front had replied, before switching off the radio.

Now the Elite Legion soldiers sat in corners, cringing as every shell went off. Quite a few less than fortified buildings and one large bunker had already collapsed, but this did not concern the troops. They wondered what would happen next, when the shelling finally stopped. When the Kroandon's finally attacked the city, it could only result in bitter urban warfare. Essentially hell on earth.

The soldiers in the south were now also under constant shelling. While the Kroandon's may have been able to put a massive amount of fire on the area, it would be tough for them to target 120,000 soldiers spread over an area that normally housed much more than that number. Especially while firing essentially blind. 5,000 guns though... and the napalm... well it was doing its damage. The suburbs rocked with the sound of explosives, and clouds of smoke from the burning houses rolled across the landscape.

(i'll just put up casualties for the whole 3 days)

Total Casualties
57,215 KIA (14,000 in the suburbs, 4,000 in the city)
90,529 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

North of New Hillingrad

"Let it begin...", General Horn grinned as he fastened the grizzly scarred helmet of his battle suite into place, the icy white breath of his cold lungs pouring through the filtration system of the helmet. The Kraken II MBT he sat in quickly jerked into motion, rolling forward towards the city as white, black and often red snow kicked up into the air. Horn's Kraken was soon followed by over 1500 more, 1000 ID-57's, 1000 Puma IFV's, and 5000 Humvees, all of which began pouring into the northern end of the city. The bombs stopped falling. The fleet directed it's guns to the southern suburbs, and the army in the north fell down upon the city, with 125,000 men following the mechanized forces into New Hillingrad. The Kroandons rolled forward, well rested, well fed, and eager for combat. They could only wonder if their Kyan foes would be in the same condition.

Meanwhile the fleet was once again active, as more landing craft had been placed in the water, in what was to be called, 'The Second Landing'. The Kroandons had placed 1000 landing craft in the water, and unloaded 10000 Legionnaires upon the beaches... the beaches still covered in bleeding Kroandon corpses, in craters, in smoking tanks and blown up vehicles. The Kroandons first target was to take back the SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought... or what remained of it on the shore. As the landing craft hit the beaches, the men aboard the Dreadnought were thrown back in the transport vehicles and sent back to the fleet, however several hundred bitter Legionnaires refused, and joined the landing forces on the beach. Before long ID-57's and Kraken II's had joined the landing.

The city's eastern border had also been cut off, as a flanking force of some 25,000 and 200 assorted tanks and vehicles slowly pushed into the city, backed by over 2000 artillery pieces, and a vanguard of 2,500 men. The city was completely surrounded, there would be no escape. Only death or surrender.

In the south the suburbs were not advanced upon, but they were fired upon. The entirety of the Southern Artillery Core was now focused on pounding the suburbs in a random boming campaign which slowly began to include more napalm and less explosive. The tanks, artillery, navy and air force did its best to remove the New Hillingrad Suburbs from the map, while the infantry simply sat, watching, 27,000 of their number having been moved to reinforce the Eastern portion of the city, and 2,000 to patrol the entire city, making sure non escaped.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x22,988 Legionnaires - Dead
-35,221 - Wounded
x686 Kraken II - Destroyed
x362 Kraken II's - Damaged
x522 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x503 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x551 Puma IFV - Destroyed

"Filthy cowards!" muttered an anonymous private as yet another napalm loaded shell tore through a Kyan filled home in the suburb, billows of smoke rising through the wreckage of the burning house.

They were in a bad situation here. If they stayed, they would be destroyed. If they retreated, they would lose any advantage they might have had in this battle. Finally a compromise was accepted. All troops would fall back to the edge of the city, except for a few. These few would remain in the basements and the few fallout shelters of the suburbs. Once the Kroandon's rolled through... boom! Ludicrous amounts of high explosives set under every major road would be detonated, which would have the dual effect of killing large numbers of Kroandon's and cutting off routes into the eastern part of the city.

Meanwhile, in the city, the troops finally emerged from the bunkers. Over 270,000 soldiers were still left in the city, and every one of them was ready to fight to the death. They quickly spilled out of their sub-terranean dwellings and climbed onto the higher floors, or the ruins of their respective buildings. Once they took up positions, which took mere moments, they opened fire. Over 30,000 SMAW carrying troops, over 40,000 M240 carrying troops, the rest with XM8's. All with grenades, and 250 Deadbolt snipers to top it off. Every Kroandon armoured column and/or infantry division was caught in a deadly crossfire from the thousands of Kyan troops. There was no mercy here, they unloaded without remorse. Some even charged out into the narrow streets of New Hilingrad, taking advantage of the tightly packed urban landscape.

One item of notice in the counter-attack was the SMAW's, which continued to use their thermobaric warheads. The weapons had a great effect on funneled in Kroandon soldiers. The Kyans could take careful aim, and in some cases could launch hundreds of rockets at one street full of Kroandon's. In situations like this the combined effect of the Thermobaric weapons sucked up all the oxygen in the air, leaving nothing but a blast of fire, high pressure, and a vaccuum. The effects of the weapon were similar to a small scale Nuclear blast without the radiation. Although occasionally the fuel would not ignite properly, leaving gases such as ethylene oxide which choked the Kroandon's and any Kyan's if they happened to drift through an open window.

Total Casualties
58,476 KIA
91,628 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

New Hillingrad

[I]"Down... down! Keep your heads down!", shouted Captain Murog as he fired off an EastCHN grenade from his K1 Assault rifle into a third story window of a building not two hundred meters before him. As he ran forward, he could feel the impact of a pair of 5.56mm rounds impact his chest... the burning sting of hot lead colliding with the ceramic plates that made up the bulwark of his armor. A grit of the teeth later and the Captain was covering the window in lead. "Bastards... Unit 73... AvK-2 on building number 0482155...", the officer called through his CommLink to the missile unit not 200 meters behind. In a moment an AvK-2 SteelFire Missile was flying down the road, and collided with the side of the building, creating a massive explosion. The explosion was followed by another, as the lead Kraken of the brigade, one with additional armor welded onto the sides and rear, leveled the building with a 130mm round to the base.

A moment later the tank was hit by a thermobaric explosive... and then another. The Legionnaires could tell the weapon by the gusts of wind it caused, a sucking wind which knocked many to their feet. The thermobaric explosive weapon however was only useful in suffocating men when they were in concealed, fortified positions, not in an open city. Though the air was sucked out of the immidiate area, it was easily replenished by the atmosphere as a whole. When the Americans designed the weapon, and used it to great effect, it was against terrorist insurgents hiding in tunnels. These tunnels were perfect for the weapon, sucking the air out of them, and then superheating them... effectively suffocating the targets. Though still an immensely powerful weapon, it was not necessarily useful when it came to suffocating the men on the ground.

The Kraken responded with a 130mm round to the building, but was soon hit by another, and another of the thermobaric explosives, and soon the Kraken ceased to move. The Kroandons on the ground continued forward under the cover of the armored advance. However in situations such as these, problems called for air strikes. Psssshhhhhttttt... "H12894, calling for aerial assistance in sector A2124-B2341..." And within a few minutes, Halcons dropped napalm laden explosives throughout the area. The use of these would be magnified by the danger of the thermobaric explosives, as one exploding would cause all to explode... and as such, the entire building would go.

"Forward! Forward!", Sergeant Murton called out to the soldiers behind him as a pair of Kyan rounds impacted his stomach, which he promptly replied to with his K1. Gritting his teeth, the bruises caused by the shot would soon be forgotten, as a SMAW blew the Puma IFV before him apart, throwing him into the side of a delapidated building, unconcious. Not long after the VL-7's would level the buildings around him in an attempt to knock out enemy resistance. The city was being heavily bombarded, with most heavy guns firing deeper into the city so as to avoid friendly fire on the advancing columns of Kroandons. This was urban warfare... this was hell.

Suburbs of New Hillingrad

Satellite imagery, along with the reports of forward scouts had the Kyans retreating into the city, and thus the fight in the south had come to an end. However the Kroandons were not simply about to stroll through this area which had previously been reported as 'heavily booby trapped', with Kroandon scouts being blown apart by land mines and other such devices. The Kroandons would clear a path. A 100 meter wide section of road, spanning from the Kroandon position to the edge of New Hillingrad would be pounded flat. VL-7 Demolishers blasted a road through the sub urbs to the city... they pounded it so thuroughly that any traps, subversions or explosives in the area would be prematurely detonated... and as the 100 meter wide path was cleared, the tanks began to roll...

[After 7 hours of fighting]
Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x25,218 Legionnaires - Dead
-38,312 - Wounded
x721 Kraken II - Destroyed
x56 Kraken II's - Damaged
x577 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x503 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x610 Puma IFV - Destroyed

ooc: A little over 2,000 killed in over 7 hours? I doubt that considering the amount of fire im putting on your troops. Oh and im talking like maybe 200 SMAW carriers on a major road. Also I expect that the sea off of New Hilingrad should be freezing over now.

IC:
Southern Suburbs
The Kyan soldiers grinned. The Kroandon's may have detonated the land mines and the more sensitive explosives set along the path, but there were a few things they forgot. Namely thousands of Kilograms of ANFO in pits dug into the ground and homes along all major roads, there were many locations. Each contained at least 500 kilograms of the explosive (FYI there is a youtube video showing that a mere 5 kg creates a 15 or so foot wide crater). Which was indeed somewhat excessive... but then again nothing was too excessive for these Kroandon bastards. ANFO is extremely insensitive to shock, making it ideal under the possibillity of bombardment. It does require some secondary explosive to detonate it properly, so a few sticks of dynamite were buried in each pile of the substance.

The Kroandon's now rolled over their 100 meter wide path. Unfortunately for them, there was something in the way. In the ruined basement of a house next to the road there sat 750 Kg of ANFO. It was not directly in the Kroandon's path, but 750 kilograms of this stuff... the Kroandon's would likely mistake it for a low yield nuclear weapon. Scattered in it were several sticks of dynamite which would detonate the explosive. This house hadnt been hit by the Kroandon tanks, and while it had taken an indirect shell hit the Dynamite had not been detonated thanks to the cushioning of the ANFO. The order was transmitted in code... the soldier nearby pressed the button. The Kroandon's would be able to see this explosion from sea. The other soldiers scattered around the area also detonated their piles of ANFO, hoping to effectively block all routes into the city.

New Hilingrad
The soldiers were having a field day, chucking grenades at approaching masses of Kroandon's, firing the guns wildly at the panicking bastards. While all this was happening, the 250 Deadbolt snipers had now taken positions. They took a bead on a Kroandon helmet, fired, and repeated the process. The snipers were cutting down any Kroandon trooper that had the gall to cross their line of fire, although they were especially targeting the officers.

There was one disaster though. As the Corporal Henry Johnson was reloading his SMAW, a Halcon flew overhead. He heard the sound of a falling bomb, and quickly took cover. It was in vain though, the bomb was filled with Napalm. The explosive set the building alight... as well as the huge stockpiles of Thermobaric rockets inside. The whole block lit up as the Thermobaric rockets ignited... but that wasnt all. An adjacent building was being used to house large quantities of Comp B. Needless to say, very few Kyan's or Kroandon's that were on the street below would make it out of this explosion. After this disaster most SMAW carriers switched over to High explosives, keeping their thermobaric rockets safely packed up.

Meanwhile the remaining M1131 Fire support vehicles emerged from their underground parking structures near the edge of the city. These were the remaining vehicles from the attack on the Kroandon troops to the north. 490 in all, they scattered and then flew down New Hilingrads streets, launching hellfire missiles and firing grenade launchers at the Kroandon troops, before driving back down an unnoccupied street to reload and gather their senses, then once again attacking the advancing Kroandon's.

Alpine City
The troops had arrived. On the second day there was a water shortage, but that was remedied by the many crystal clear springs and small streams which were abundant in the Kyan forest. They rarely froze, and if they did it was only a thin sheet of ice, easily broken through with the butt of a rifle. The troops arrived hungry, tired, and cold. The problem now was living space. There were still thousands of civilians in Alpine city. Many of them had to be kicked out of their homes, or had to accomadate dozens of Kyan soldiers. Most hotel lobbys and gyms were now also filled up with Kyan soldiers, the actual rooms being saved for officers. The Colonel took the city hall as his center of command, the mayors room as his office. This was mainly due to its central location, its fortified walls, and its bunker. Most buildings in this city were extravagant, glass and wood ordeals. They wouldnt withstand one hit from a Kroandon shell.

These 100,000 ragged troops were soon reinforced by large number of Apache Helicopters, which would reak havoc on any Kroandon forces if they attempted to enter the city.

Total Casualties
59,741 KIA
92,903 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1010 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[Sorry for my absence. Anyways - as to casualties, I think for 7 hours 2,000 dead and 3,000 wounded would be rather realistic for the amount of armor my men wear. A 5.56mm gun, like the XM8 would not be able to penetrate the armor unless hit in a very weak area. And while there are weak areas, it would likely take your men a long time to find them. You shoot one of my men in the chest, he is bruised. Even grenades would rarely cause fatalities. It is based off of real life Dragonskin - which yields the same results. My men are slow, but they can take hits... anyways, I'll add a bit to the death count next time. As to you somehow keeping 750kilos of high explosive intact while I fired 406mm rounds at it, pretty much immpossible, but I'll let it go.]

New Hillingrad

"I'm taking heavy fire!", shouted Sergeant Algorin as he kicked in the door of a nearby apartment building, 5.56mm rounds thudding into his back armor. Psshhhhtttt... Units 7, 9, 13, 21, 25, 33 and 36 are now offline. Orders stand. Advance... psssshhhhtttt... His CommLink crackled into action, informing the Sergeant that over half his unit was dead or dying - the only action which could justify the HIA to go offline. A pair of Legionnaires followed him in, both groaning as their thick carapace armor absorbed several rounds from the Kyan guns. "Return fire!", shouted Algorin as he directed his K1 Assault rifle at a fortified Kyan position, firing the infamous AP-25 Explosive round into the brick wall, followed by a frag grenade. "Take that you Kyken bastards!"

Moments later a grenade flew through the window, and before anyone could yell 'grenade', it blew, sending shrapenal and metal beads into the back sides of the men, the vast majority of which thudded into the thick ceramic armor... however due to the vast number of projectiles, many men caught metal bits in their asses, backs of their knees, and other such joints. "Cock suckin bastards...", Algorin stood, firing into the building... and moments later, the building exploded into a pile of rubble, as the 406mm gun of a VL-7 Demolisher blew it to bits. Pssshhhhttt... All forward units, fall back to predetermined positions. Psssshhhhtttt... Moments later, Algorin and his men were destroyed by a similar round, from a C-24 Big Gun.

Kroandon forces across the city began falling back en masse. Not out of the city, but back, several hundred meters from the positions they had established. And now the VL-7's (1,400), the C-24's (3,400), the C-37's (3,500), the 155mm Towed guns (1,600) and the 105mm Towed Guns (1,500) opened up. Over 11,000 Guns, with several hundred more from the fleet, opened up, firing a massive volley - in conjunction with the G-24 Stikers which fired over 4,000 AvK-2 Steelfire Missiles - into the heavily secured Kyan positions. The Kyans had weathered artillery barrages before, but then they had been deep underground, under thousands of tons of concrete and asphault. Now they were inside fragile buildings... and had little time to attempt to flee back to their underground bunkers. Which even if they did, they risked being blocked in by falling structures.

The Legionnaires dragged their dead and wounded comrades back, the tanks rolled in reverse, still firing at Kyan positions, ID-57's and APC's fired their CIWS guns, knocking out anti-tank missiles... and the rain came. Hundreds of Kroandons were caught in the barrage as the main force fell back, but the vast majority escaped before a wave of over 200 Halcons dropped napalm laden bombs on the city.

Southern Suburbs

750 kilograms of high explosive was not quite enough to fool the Kroandons into thinking a nuclear weapon was in use, but it was more than enough to blow a hole in the convoy. In a single blast, over twenty five Krakens, ten Puma IFV's, ten humvees, ten ID-57's and no less than fifty men were either killed, destroyed or maimed. The Kroandons could only wonder what the Kyans were going through, as every single shell fired by the Kroandons was around 250kgs of similar material... and there were 11,000 of those falling every minute. The Kroandons called another artillery strike on the road, and the sides of the road... pounding them fifty feet deep, making sure that no IEDs, explosives or subterranean comp B placements would survive. The convoy, once reorganizing and repositioning, would again began rumbling forward.

[After 10 hours of fighting]
Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x29,622 Legionnaires - Dead
-44,511 - Wounded
x788 Kraken II - Destroyed
--97 - Damaged
x610 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x522 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x45 Humvees - Destroyed
--57 - Damaged
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x641 Puma IFV - Destroyed

ooc: Alright, I suppose youre right about the casualties. On the matter of the explosives... well I find it quite feasible for it to have survived your shelling. ANFO is a tertiary explosive, it wont detonate from any sort of shock, it needs some sort of explosive booster. Sitting in the basement of a house, it probably wouldnt take a direct hit from any falling shell. Maybe the house would collapse on it, but that still wouldnt cause it to detonate.

IC:
New Hilingrad
The troops at the front saw a familiar sight... Kroandon's falling back. This usually meant only one thing, bombardent. Thousands took whatever cover they could as Halcon's flew overhead, dropping tons of Napalm on their positions. The north of New Hilingrad was burning... they would see the smoke from this fire in Tyrin's. The soldiers that survived the attack wished they hadnt, as most suffered from gruesome burns and lungs filled with acrid smoke. They could only watch as their fellow soldiers screamed and burned, with many rolling on the ground in a desperate attempt to put out the flames which consumed their body.

Every soldier left from the attack now donned a gas mask. The burning buildings and Napalm would continue to fill the air with smoke for hours. Over 50,000 walked through the horror into what would amount to a surprise attack. The Kroandon's would not see this one coming, for even though it was dawn the cloud of smoke from the burning city would not allow for any visuals on the soldiers, and the napalm would cover their heat signatures. The remaining M1131's also rolled through the smoke. They wouldnt allow the Kroandon's any time to catch their breath. The M1131's unleashed a barrage of hellfire missiles, and the soldiers on the ground rushed up to the front, taking advantage of the now poor visibility and the slow moving Kroandon soldiers.

They unleashed all they had on the slowly backwards moving troop formations. Interestingly, several thousand of the soldiers had stolen K1 assault rifles off of dead Kroandon's, and now emptied a full clip out on whatever targets they had, before switching back to their normal assault rifles which were strapped to their backs. Many carried M240's, which would serve to more effectively pierce the Kroandon dragonskin armour, and as always there were a number of SMAW carrying troops. 5,000 participating in this attack. Another factor to consider was the troops Desert Eagles, which they often pulled out when at close range. The battle would now grow very intense, as they were fighting at street level with the Kroandon's. The troops tried not to let the ID-57's get a bead on them, which was easier than normal considering the smoke, the still dim light, and the general chaos of the attack.

Total Casualties
71,317 KIA
121,731 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1153 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

New Hillingrad

"Mother of God...", Colonel Horitz mumbled to himself as a massive wall of fire consumed his former battle position, along with much of the city. Pilums of flame stretched high into the air, covering literally kilometers of the city. The dark smoke was seen from the fleet, which was now miles away due to the freezing of the sea - which nevertheless continued to bombard the city with it's massive guns. The Kroandons ducked back, cowering behind the slowly withdrawing Krakens and other armored vehicles, attempting to shield themselves from the immense heat of the concentrated napalm attack. Even behind their layers of Kroandon Carapace [dragonskin], thermal body suites and thick ceramic plates they could feel the burn of the napalm.

The screams of the burning Kyans filled the air, giving General Horn a sick sense of gratification as he saw a pair of Logan's finest rolling on the ground, attempting to put out the flames which consumed their bodies. The Kroandons were given the order not to shoot burning Kyans... 'Much better to watch them burn', said Horn as he was utterly captivated by the site. For what seemed like an eternity, the Kroandons stared at the flames, and then the thick black stinking smoke as the flames, though never subsiding, were covered by the black air.

And then something happened that none expected. From the darkness came a hail of bullets and scores of missiles, which collided with the stationary Kroandons with force. Legionnaires fell to the ground as the K1's 7.82mm Rounds toar through the Kroandon Carapace, only if the bullets hit the central ceramic plates could the Honvorg Infantry Apparati absorb the shot - and even then, the plate was heavily damaged, and the Legionnaire scarred with a massive bruise. The bastard Kyans had picked up the K1's of fallen Kroandons - or at least some had. The missiles flew in from the M1131's, catching Kraken's offguard as they only occassionally knocked out the incoming missiles with thier CIWS Guns, many Krakens being disabled in the barrage. The ferocity with which the Kyans attacked was terribly unexpected, and much ground was lost as the Kroandons pulled back quickly, not stopping until they had reached their 'fortified line' inside the city - a line which equated to thousands of reinforcements.

The Kyans had hit hard, with much aggression and sucess. The element of surprise had cost thousands of Kroandons their lives... however now it was wearing off. Within twenty five minutes, the Kroandons had gained their feet - the sense of awe inspired by men rushing out of the wall of fire had evaporated. The K1's the Kyans had picked up had run out of ammunition, and the Kroandon Optical Lenses of their HIA's had adjusted to their surroundings, allowing them to see through the smoke to some extent. The Kyans would also have to beging feeling the effects of going without sleep for the last three days, and the massive amount of adrenaline would have to be wearing off now, after over twenty hours of constant warfare, even the Kroandons were tiring, and they were taking enegry supplments regularly.

Additionally the Kroandons knew one thing. The Kyans, in their charge, had to have left much of their supply base behind. Meaning that they would not have ample stores of ammunition with which to continue the fight as the battle continued - or water - or food, should the fight continue for another day or so. The Kroandons suffered in the attack, but the counter attack would more than make up for the ground lost, as the Krakens, ID-57's and humvees pushed back into the city, using their heavier weaponry to literally blow the opposition out of the way when needed.

Meanwhile, in the southern portion of the city, the Legionnaires, tanks and armored vehicles poured in en masse - pushing north towards the main Kyan forces... when the southern force lost their direction, all they needed do was look for the smoke, and they quickly found it again. 100,000 more men - fresh men - were about to join the fight.

[After 5 hours of fighting]
Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x32,811 Legionnaires - Dead
-47,109 - Wounded
x801 Kraken II - Destroyed
--117 - Damaged
x621 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x522 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x75 Humvees - Destroyed
--69 - Damaged
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x668 Puma IFV - Destroyed

New Hilingrad
The battle had taken a depressing turn. The surprise attack worked, but it was soon overtaken by a resurgence of Kroandon troops. New Hilingrad was burning... the General wondered what it might look like to the Kroandon's. He supposed they looked at it like a lifeline, a heap of resources. To the Kyan's it meant the destruction of years of progress. Millions of people lived here. What would they think when, if, they returned home? This city had survived 2,000 years. Here was where the race of Logan made their last stand before being wiped out forever by foreign invaders, over 1,000 years ago. Now only their Kyan allies remained, keeping the Logan name out of respect. None of that mattered now though, the whole place was going up in smoke.

The troops would need sleep... and soon the 150,000 or so which had been inactive after the Napalm strike emerged once more. They had gotten 5 hours... plus some caffeine pills when they got up. The remaining troops from the surprise attack now withdrew, it was their turn to get some much needed sleep. On their retreat back they gathered up some Kroandon guns... over 5,000 in all, as well as grabbing as much ammunition as they could. Their XM8's werent doing shit, they basically had to pull off either a head or a joint shot, which often took a whole clip. The guns were distributed to the troops on their way out to fight. The battle was now taking a different turn, things were happening much more fast. The Kroandon guns helped to amp up the number of kill shots, and for the most part the battle was taking place on street level. Although there were still a decent amount of only partly ruined buildings left, and the Kyan's on the ground used whatever cover they could.

The general then called in what wasnt so much a direct order but just a general strategy. New Hilingrad is crisscrossed with many, many side streets, and these could be used to Kyan advantage. Infantry units poured down these streets in massive numbers, heavily armoured machine gunners (carrying M240's) up front, mowing down enemy opposition. These side streets were extremely useful because they were too narrow for tanks like the Kraken's or ID-57's to maneuver properly, or at all. They allowed Kyan infantry units to pop up onto major streets at random and fire SMAW's at the Kroandon tank treads, or to quickly plant some explosvies. The Kroandon's did not have the same advantage purely because the Kyan infantry operated in much larger numbers, allowing quick swarms of narrow paths like these streets, and because the forces in New Hilingrad are now nearly purely infantry, so a Kroandon flanking maneuver wouldnt have much effect on the adaptable infantry.

There was one thing to worry about though, the Kroandon's coming in from the south. The General wondered if they'd forgotten about the troops that retreated from the suburbs though? 126,000 soldiers immediately poured out of the depths of New Hilingrad, attacking the Kroandon's in nearly the same way the soldiers to the north had attacked them a day earlier. This was a different section of the city, and the buildings here still stood for the most part. There were now two battles happening in New Hilingrad, one in the north and one in the south.

The M1131's were also still active, rushing around the battlefield, tearing through the Kroandon's with their grenade launchers and targeting the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles with their Hellfire missiles.

Total Casualties

73,631 KIA
125,294 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1198 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

New Hillingrad

It did not take long for the Kroandons to notice a new apperance of... energy and motivation amongst the Kyan soldiers, leading commanders to believe that these were fresh troops... or as fresh as could be mustered. This meant that they were switching troops in and out, giving those they had previously been fighting, time to rest. The Kroandons had no intention of allowing the Kyans to rest, and simply directed the VL-7's and C-24's to the deeper Kyan positions, where they must have been resting. When positions of enemy troops were unsure, satellite imagery always provided semi-accurate coordinates. As the heavy 240 and 406mm guns pounded the center, the C-37's and 155mm Towed guns continued to fire on the newer Kyan forces, with Halcons providing close in air support with Air-to-Surface Missiles and their 20mm Guns. There were, at any one time, thirty five Halcons flying over the city, wreaking havoc.

The Kyans were seeming to take a preference to packing themselves into side streets, a tactic which though effective in scoring a few initial ambush kills, largely failed once the Kroandons took the time to hurl an EastCHN Napalm Grenade into the alley way, filling it with burning fuel. The Kroandons continued to take heavy casualties, over 2,000 an hour, most of which however came as wounded losses, for the HIA's rarely allowed killing shots to be scored by anything less than a machine gun or SMAW. The tanks were largely in the same position, as SMAW scored hits usually did little more than damage the Kraken Armor, even when fired at the treads of the tanks [which were covered in armored side skirts]. Humvees were being used to effectively move fresh troops up to the front, and withdraw the wounded and tired. While the Kyans had managed only a single switch of troops, once in five hours, the Kroandons rarely kept a Legionnaire in combat for any more than two hours.

G-24 Strikers were now becoming more prominent in their ground support role, as they were always meant to be. With over 2,500 on the ground, they sat at the edge of the city, and simply bombarded enemy fortifications with AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles on a constant basis, making it difficult for the enemy to actually hold a single position for much time. Another interesting tactic used was that of using 105mm Guns in direct fire roles. The 1,000 105mm Guns had been brought into the city, and were now being pushed about, used to knock out Kyan Machine gun nests, heavily fortified buildings and ambush filled side streets.

Southern Portion of the City

The Kyans had 26,000 men on the Kroandons here - however the Kroandons had over 7000 vehicles - and 7000 heavy artillery supporting their advance. The fighting here was much like it had been in the north during the begining of the battle, bitter and constant. Gun fights were non-stop, ambushes and artillery barrages were whole scale. 88mm Mortars were deployed, in large numbers, to provide more accurate, close range artillery support, with over 2,000 of these employed as the southern force pushed into the city.

Meanwhile, on the shore...

The forces which had landed on the shore line, roughly 35,000 in all, with another 1,000 armored vehicles, including 500 ID-57's, 200 Krakens and 300 Humvees, pushed into the city, effectively surrounding the Kyans inside. As they took advantage of the momentum gained by the Northern Counter Attack, massive numbers of troops were put in the water, prepared for landings - another 30,000 to land over the next hour.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x34,005 Legionnaires - Dead
-49,709 - Wounded
x822 Kraken II - Destroyed
--162 - Damaged
x640 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x522 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x88 Humvees - Destroyed
--91 - Damaged
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x668 Puma IFV - Destroyed

New Hilingrad
The Kroandon's were starting to gain momentum, the new surge of troops from the beach was aiding there cause immensely. Unfortunately for them, there was one last trick up the Kyan's sleeve. In the weeks leading up to this battle, preparations were made. Path's from the cities subterrean bunkers leading to the Sewers and Storm drains were constructed. These, of course, were under almost every major street in the city. The General had wondered, what if you fill these up with High explosives? Well he was about to find out. In the last few days various workers and soldiers had been laying comp b, TNT, ANFO, anything they had available in the sewers and storm drains. They were set at strategic locations along all major roads in the city. Once a few buttons were pressed, the whole thing would go off.

Literally hundreds of tons of Explosives were placed all around the area. If nothing else they would at least cause the roads to collapse, killing whatever Kroandon's were on the street and disabling the vehicles. This attack showed, if nothing else, how desperate the Kyan's were. The general himself couldnt believe that they were essentially about to blow up their own city, but he supposed it was better than seeing it in Kroandon hands.

In the minutes leading up to the strike, the Kroandon's might have noticed one thing, the severe reduction of forces. The explosives would probably cause not only the major roads, but also the surrounding houses to collapse as a result. Only a few brave souls remained in the buildings, trading fire with the Kroandon soldiers below. Even if the Kroandon's noticed the thousands rushing into the bunkers, which would take less than a few minutes, they wouldnt have enough time to properly react. Several minutes after the initial order was given, the explosives were detonated, whether some Kyan's hadnt made it to the bunkers yet or not.

All major streets in the southern and western portions of the city were taken out. This attack was launched for one purpose, to cause major Kroandon casualties with minimal Kyan losses. After all, the main goal in this war was to kill as many Kroandon's as possible so that A. They would lose the will to fight or B. They would be unable to fight.

Total Casualties
75,346 KIA
128,803 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1239 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

New Hilingrad

The Kroandon advance was paused temporarily by the Kyan demolition, which had somehow survived endless bombardment by the Kroandon heavy guns and aerial bombardments. Several hundred men were killed in the blast, hundreds more wounded in the chain of explosions which rocked the front line of advancing Legionnaires and armored vehicles. Well over fifty Krakens simply fell into the pits, heavily damaging them, destroying them in other circumstances altogether. The explosions caused damage, death, and chaos for some time - but alas, order was soon regained. The Kroandons had been firing tens of thousands of shells on the city every minute, the amount of ordance that had previously been under the Kroandons, was a mere pitance in comparison to the amount of explosive being dumped on the Kyans.

The separation caused by the Kyans meant one thing... another heavily concentrated napalm bombardment on the Kyan positions, allowing the Kroandons time to create new roads by knocking over buildings and bulldozing rubble into the ruined streets. The immense flames would at the least cover the Kroandons reformation as new forces were brought up, and the old pulled back. Of course this all occured as the artillery barrage intensified and the G-24's unleashed yet another unimaginable wave of AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles - some 6,000 in all.

As the flames dulled, the Kyans would face a massive advance by Kroandon infantry. Knowing that the Kyans were either in deeply fortified positions, or burning, they expected little initial resistance as they closed in on the enemy positions, covering whatever Kyan was visible in fire from their K1's.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x35,211 Legionnaires - Dead
-52,102 - Wounded
x873 Kraken II - Destroyed
--208 - Damaged
x653 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x522 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x121 Humvees - Destroyed
--117 - Damaged
x15 105mm Guns - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x668 Puma IFV - Destroyed

ooc: "somehow survived"? The explosives were moved directly from my bunkers into the sewers, but whatever. Oh and uh btw I have about 335,000 soldiers in the city still alive, but significantly less than that still able to fight.

IC:
New Hilingrad
The city burned intensely under the recent Kroandon Napalm strike. Scattered across the rubble were those who had been left behind, most were dead, but a few clinged to life while huddling amidst burning buildings. The battle was lost... there was only one hope now, and that was to breakthrough the Eastern line of Kroandon's. If the troops made it outside the city, they would be met by Kyan reinforcements which were en route. Thousands of humvees and hundreds of Behemoth's and Strykers, plus a number of UH-60 blackhawks escorted by F-22's were on their way. Their mission was clear, to make sure the troops got away safely.

Every soldier that could walk now emerged from wherever he was hiding. Around 250,000 soldiers, some with various bullet and/or shrapnel wounds now dashed east, shooting at whatever Kroandon's they saw. Over 80,000 soldiers were unable to walk, and most were being left behind to their fate. Most would die without proper medical care, and thousands took their own life.

The troops were starting to encounter the Kroandon force of 25,000 men and 200 tanks/vehicles. The M1131's helped out here, with the remaining 260 or so firing Hellfire missiles like mad at the 200 Kroandon vehicles. The infantry were not expected to be that much of a problem, namely because the Kyan's outnumbered them 10 to 1. This was a frantic fight, as the Kyan's didnt have time to stop and focus on the Kroandon forces. They just had to break through. The M240's were a help here, as around 30,000 Kyan troops out of the 250,000 carried one, and they were obviously much more effective than the XM8's. There were also the SMAW carriers and those troops that had picked up K1's, which amounted to about 25,000 with the SMAW's and around 10,000 with the K1's.

Meanwhile the huge force of vehicles were on their way, ready to escort the retreating Kyan troops to fallback positions.

Total Casualties
77,208 KIA
131,926 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1281 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[Well a 406mm Shell would make a crater twenty meters deep - two shells in one spot would do fourty meters, and most sewers are less than 20 meters under... but anyways.]

New Hilingrad

The Kyans were attempting to escape, this was painfully obvious by the site of tens of thousands of infantry taking to the streets, and moving, en masse, to the east. Satellite imagery was filled with the site of these sleep deprived, battle weary soldiers using their last ounces of strength attempting to traverse miles upon miles of city - which they would have to do if they were to escape New Hilingrad. And as they ran through these miles, they would not do so safely, as they had in their training programs. Even if they had adopted the most violent of live fire training excersizes as the Kroandons had, in which they were shot at as they ran about, they would not be prepared for the bombardment that came.

The massive Kroandon artillery batteries turned their smoking guns, the cranking of mechanical parts, the pumping of hydraulics, these sounds filled the air and would soon not be heard again. Over 11,000 guns opened up upon the fleeing Kyans, firing with satellite guided precision upon the enemy filled roads. 406mm, 240mm, 155mm guns all opened up, firing napalm laden and fragmentation rounds as fast as they could, dumping over 45,000 shells on the city per minute - a simply massive number - challenging the Kroandon logistical crews to unload more and more. This bombardment would however, be different than those previous. The first bombardment, the heaviest of all, was fired at the Kyans while they were deep underground, hidden in subsurface bunkers. The subsequent bombardments were still only fired while the enemy was in heavy cover, deep inside fortified structures. But now... now the Kyans were running out in the open. In the streets, where there was no cover. Casualties for the fleeing enemy would be horrendous.

Meanwhile, those forces which were now fleeing, had previously been holding the Northern and Southern Kroandon Armies in place - now that they ran, the Kroandons were free to overwhelm the city, chasing down the fleeing Kyans. As they ran, they were pursued not only by the 200,000 Kroandons firing K1's and the thousands of humvees with their fifty cal's, but over 3500 assorted tanks, Kraken II's and ID-57's which fired with no hold on their aggression as they flew down the roads, blasting away at the enemy without mercy. However their anger could was only dwarfed by that of the Halcons, which continued to fire napalm laden munitions at the packs of soldiers, making sure to fire at the front of the Kyan withdraw, so as not to hit the Legionnaires that pursued them.

Eastern New Hilingrad

"Shit... men, here they come... get ready...", shouted Captain Balgurd as he peered down the road at the massive horde of charging Kyans, gripping his K1 in earnest. He turned back to look at the Legionnaires behind them, as they quickly loaded EastCHN Grenades into their rifles, and simply shoved others into their pockets. Kroandon Snipers took up positions on high points, ready to repay the Kyans for the pain their Deadbolts had caused. Over 200 Snipers sat high in blown out windows of buildings, overlooking the roads - roads which were filled with targets. As the first came within site, at over a kilometer away... bang - click... bang - click... bang - click. The sound of the rifle firing, and the cartridge being changed...

"Now...", whispered Balgurd through his CommLink as he hurled an EastCHN unto the street below, which was packed with Kyan infantry. Before the grenade even hit the ground, it was spinning, spewing flaming napalm onto those around it. Before it ever began to spin, the twenty men with him on the street were firing their K1's down at the fleeing Kyans, whom saught to escape New Hilingrad. Grenades flew, rifles belted out, and machine guns rattled. The Kyans attempted to rush through... and by god... doing so would result in casualties unlike any seen before. It was true, the Kyans held over 10 men for every 1 the Kroandons had in the East, but to suggest the casualties would not be simply immense, charging into machine guns as artillery rained down upon them, and napalm filled the air... madness.

East of New Hilingrad

Satellite Imagery had shown massive enemy armored movements hours before, and in those hours, preparations had been made. Enemy Behemoths had been spotted long ago, with their complements of Stryker IFV's and other such advancements. It was not known whether they came to prolong the fight, or to rescue the Kyans now frantically rushing to the East. Regardless, the Kroandons had had hours to prepare, and in those hours some 5000 X2 Spider Mines (http://z14.invisionfree.com/Kroando_Tech_Inc/index.php?showtopic=19) had been dug into the ground infront of the Behemoth advance - as had thousands of other anti-tank mines and IED's.

The G-24's and VL-7 Demolishers had also repositioned, not moving to block the coming enemy advance, but simply directing their weaponry at them. As the enemy Behemoths and APC's came within 60 miles of the city, they would be pounded by five hundred 406mm Guns - as well as over 500 AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles. It was not a one shot deal either, over 1000 406mm Shells and 1000 AvK-2's would land upon the enemy armor every minute - and as the enemy was over an hour away... it was going to be hell. The enemy Blackhawks would not be free of fire either, as every minute over 25 SDCI's were unleashed, homing in on the transport choppers.

Kroandon Fleet

The Marinok was not about to allow General Horn all of the glory, and it fired a sum of 25 Tomahawks every minute on the approaching enemy armored divsions - 1500 over the period of the hour it would take the enemy to reach New Hilingrad. And let it not be forgotten, when the enemy tanks came within 5 miles of the city - they would run into a X2 spider mine field. The fleet's guns fell silent, but it's aircraft did not - over 300 Halcon Stealth Fighters were put up over the city - not to attack the approaching armor immidiately, but to defend against the aircraft escorting the armor approaching.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x37,002 Legionnaires - Dead
-53,302 - Wounded
x888 Kraken II - Destroyed
--248 - Damaged
x661 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x522 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x142 Humvees - Destroyed
--133 - Damaged
x15 105mm Guns - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x674 Puma IFV - Destroyed

New Hilingrad
The soldiers had recieved huge casualties on the dash east, which would have been larger had the Kroandon soldiers not been incapable of actually running (52 pound suits... the most they could achieve would be a short-lived jog), and now they were encountering the last Kroandon's before escape was achieved. The 25,000 soldiers stood in their way... firing wildly into the crowd of Kyan's trying to rush through. This was not left unaswered. Every Kyan soldier unleashed whatever he had upon the Kroandon troops. Every XM8, every SMAW, and every M240 was unloaded as they rushed forwards. Every soldier grabbed his grenades and through them into the Kroandon lines. They had to get out of here, and fast. As the soldiers started pouring in and around the Kroandon's, they also pulled out their Desert Eagles for some good old fashioned close range combat.

East of New Hilingrad
Before the Kroandon's would have a chance to fire their artillery and launch their Steelfire missiles, they would have to contend with 400 F-16's... each launching 8 AGM-88E HARM's at the Kroandon G-24's. 3200 missiles were launched at a range of 80 miles. These would lock on to the Electronic transmissions of the enemy's LADAR. Even if the LADAR was shut off, the AGM-88E's were designed to counter this, and would utilize passive radar homing and other systems to take out the G-24's. After the missiles were launched, the F-16's turned around and headed back, leaving only the F-22's, which would engage any Halcon's that tried to interrupt the escape. (I'll rp your artillery/steelfire missile strike after you take this into account).

Total Casualties
89,922 KIA
145,371 Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
400 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
532 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
1341 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

Eastern New Hilingrad

"Full auto.", Balgurd ordered as he switched the setting of his K1, promptly spinning from behind the pillar he was hiding, and firing his assault rifle, in fully automatic mode, unto the horde of Kyans below. The majority of the Kroandons were not simply standing in the streets, they were on roof tops, inside buildings - or in the case of the snipers, in bell towers. They were not trying to stop the Kyans, they were trying to kill or wound as many as possible. The Kroandon Legionnaires in pursuit in the center of the city could not keep up with the fleeing enemy, but they could keep up with a man whom had a bullet in his leg. The artillery barrage intensified as more and more Kyans exited the eastern portion of the city, the Legionnaires in the area pouring everything they had into the retreating enemy.

The Kyans charged a line of ID-57's, most of which remained operational, even after the Hellfire strikes. Infantry - running towards 30mm Gatling Guns. What was the only outcome? A bloodbath.

Additionally, although the Legionnaires themselves could not keep up the pursuit, the Krakens, ID-57's and Humvees could. Moving at over 35mph, they easily kept with the fleeing enemy, spraying them with .50 cal machine guns, 30mm Gatling Guns and Automatic Grenade Launchers at a constant pace. They also carried Legionnaires atop of them, on each Kraken it could be assumed there were four Legionnaires, firing wildly at the fleeing enemy. Escape would not be simple from New Hilingrad, especially for the massive number of Kyan wounded in the city.

East of New Hilingrad

The moment the 400 Kyan F-16's fired their payload of AGM-88E HARM's, the roughly 800 Kroandon SDCI Systems also opened up, positioned alongside the artillery and G-24's. 3200 missiles flew into towards the Kroandons positions, and they were promptly responded to with 6400 SDCI's - knocking out the enemy missile strike, leaving only a scattered few missiles to be knocked down by CIWS Guns closer to the artillery and G-24's. [I know I did not mention moving 800 SDCI Units, but you never mentioned anything about 400 F-16's either, so it works out]

The Kroandon G-24's and VL-7's would promptly open up on the approaching armored force.

Total Casualties
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x37,932 Legionnaires - Dead
-54,882 - Wounded
x895 Kraken II - Destroyed
--272 - Damaged
x688 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x522 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x181 Humvees - Destroyed
--203 - Damaged
x15 105mm Guns - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x674 Puma IFV - Destroyed

ooc: I didnt find it necessary to mention, as they wouldnt get within range of any of your defensive systems... while on the other hand I could easily launch an attack against your SDCI units on the ground. So no it doesnt work out, but im in no mood to argue.

IC:
New Hilingrad
Most of the soldiers had no exited the city, but they were still being pursued by clearly insane Kroandon soldiers. They just didnt seem to know when to take a victory and leave it at that. As such the remaining M1131's, of which there were around 160, quickly spun around to face the pursuing Kroandon vehicles which were causing so much grief. Instantly a full barrage of Hellfire missiles was launched, followed by the unleashing of their Mk 19 full automatic grenade launchers.

Meanwhile, in the city, thousands of stranded or wounded soldiers were still left. They, for the most part, holed themselves up in buildings and fired wildly at the now preoccupied Kroandon troops.

There also was another, greater threat. 150 Deadbolt snipers had remained inside the city. Scattered all around a city that normally holds over 10 million people and with insulating full body suits, they would be extremely difficult for the Kroandon's to find. Their mission was clear, and that was to assasinate any major Kroandon officer, to launch an insurgency against the Kroandon filth, and to generally cause destruction and disorder. These, however, were no normal insurgents. Deadbolts were the best of the best of the best. Each individual soldier was an army in himself, a person capable of causing destruction on a scale that most other soldiers only dreamed of. They had been trained since day 1. This was their element, and no amount of Kroandon interference would change that.

East of New Hilingrad
The nature of the force heading to New Hilingrad had to be changed. The F-16 attack had failed, meaning that the Blackhawks would be entirely unprotected. As such all the Uh-60 Blackhawks had to turn around and head back. The F-22's and some A-10's which were flying up from Tyrin's, however, were kept just out of range of the Kroandon's G-24's and SDCI pods. This meant, however, that they were still close enough to provide air support to the fleeing troops on a moments notice. In fact if the Kroandon forces pursuing the fleeing Kyan's removed themselves more than 7 miles from the city, they would be within range of the A-10's AGM missiles, while the A-10's would be quite safe from SDCI's.

Meanwhile only the thousands and thousands of transport vehicles/infantry fighting vehicles now remained. They rushed forwards at over 60 miles an hour, taking light casualties from the Kroandon artillery. Even their Demolishers couldnt hit swiftly moving vehicles at a range of dozens of miles. Although the casualties increased once the steelfire missiles came into play at 26 miles outside the city. The humvees and infantry fighting vehicles kept a constant spray of machine gun fire going, frantically trying to shoot down the incoming missiles. The drivers of the vehicles also swerved around randomly, often dodging the missiles at the last second.

Once they got close to the city, they encountered two things. First, the anti-tank mines. These only killed a few vehicles before they realized why they were exploding spontaneously. The force then stopped for a brief moment, before turning around. Keeping still at this particular time meant death by artillery, they had to keep moving. They now rolled around the area outside of the mine field, while still taking casualties from the artillery and Steelfire missiles. Then they spotted something... hundreds of thousands of Kyan soldiers, running towards them while under heavy fire. The soldiers were now rushing over the mine field. This meant one thing for them... the Kroandon's could no longer keep up a pursuit.

Thousands of soldiers now loaded into transport vehicles... although it would take a minute or so before everyone could be loaded up. This was the most crucial moment, as the Kroandon artillery was now causing heavy casualties on the infantry and the transport vehicles, while the Kroandon tanks still fired at the troops running across the mine field.

The transport vehicles now began leaving in droves, as the last of the Kyan soldiers jumped on. The battle of New Hilingrad was over. Logan and Ky had lost... badly. They had gained valuable experience though... the generals could now effectively fight back against the Kroandon menace.

Total Casualties (for both the naval and land battles)
The Entire Kyan Navy
58,723 Personell KIA
2,347 Personell MIA (stranded or AWOL)
96,371 Elite Legion Soldiers KIA
152,843 Elite Legion Soldiers Wounded
450 SHBT-2 Behemoth's DESTROYED
200 T-90 Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
200 M-43 Diablo Main Battle Tanks DESTROYED
500 B-52 Stratofortess bombers DESTROYED
1263 F-16 Fighting Falcon's DESTROYED
606 A-10 Thunderbolts DESTROYED
521 Transport Vehicles/Humvees DESTROYED
1341 M1131 Fire Support Vehicles DESTROYED
1,750 M198 Howitzer's DESTROYED
500 Cavalier Coastal Defence railguns DESTROYED
200 Sentinel SAM launchers DESTROYED

[Rules of RP'ing - you can't just say units pop up without RPing it. I'm not being a dick here, its how it works. Clearly it was relevant to the RP, because if I had seen your F-16's on RADAR, I would have moved by SDCI Batteries - so yes, it does work out.

As to your claim that because vehicles move fast, they cannot be hit by artillery, it is incorrect. My artillery are not aiming at units, they are aiming at areas. If an area is filled with explosions, things in that area are going to... well... explode.]

East of New Hilingrad

As the Kroando tanks slowed to a halt at the edge of the city, right before the mine field, they would still not stop, the Krakens firing their 130mm ETC Cannons into the distance at the humvees as they attempted to load up a force numbering in the hundreds of thousands. [You're loading up how many men? 300,000? That would take at least 30,000 humvees/trucks.] The Krakens - over 2000 in all, fired constantly at the vast number of humvees in the distance, the sheer number ensuring casualties. The Krakens were not alone, the ID-57's 30mm Gatling Guns also had a range of over 2KM's, which aloud them to simply mow down the fleeing Kyans. The Legionnaires rushed across the mine field - though they woar heavy armor, they were not sleep deprived and wounded like those they ran after.

If the Kyans thought they were safe once they had left the city, they were dead wrong. 11,000 guns now fired at them, and would continue to fire at them for over an hour. There were tens of thousands of Kyan vehicles fleeing here - and over 10,000 guns firing at them. No, it was not possible to track and shoot each one in individually, but that wasn't the idea. They were simply dropping 60,000 shells a minute on an area filled with 30,000 vehicles. To think that none would hit was insane. The G-24's meanwhile were firing roughly 1000 AvK-2 SteelFire Missiles a minute for over twenty four miles - 24,000 missiles at the fleeing vehicles. And then came the Tomahawks - the fleet unleashing 7000 more at the enemy vehicles as they fled en masse.

The Halcons, roughly 70 in all, now targeting the F-22's, which were well within 50 miles of the city, and thus the range of the Flyswatter Missiles. Four missiles were fired at each and every enemy F-22. The Halcons would then fire roughly 300 Air-to-Surface Missiles at ground targets, and then straff them with their 20mm Gatling Guns.

Total Casualties
x258 Halcon Stealth Fighters - Destroyed
x1 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Sunk
x3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers - Sunk
x50 Visari Class Destroyers - Sunk
x16 Negotiator Class Cruisers - Sunk
x12 Support Vessels - Sunk
x5 Tenerif SSH's - Sunk
x3 Cadiz SSBN's - Sunk
x6 Iowa Class Battleships - Sunk
39,653 Sailors Killed In Action
20,761 Sailors Wounded
x1 SDC-4 Overlord SuperDreadnought - Basically a large metal structure that still provides cover and a good defensive position
-3,700 Sailors - Dead
--5,483 - Wounded
x37,932 Legionnaires - Dead
-55,533 - Wounded
x895 Kraken II - Destroyed
--272 - Damaged
x688 ID-57 Decimators - Destroyed
x522 G-24 Strikers - Destroyed
x190 Humvees - Destroyed
--221 - Damaged
x15 105mm Guns - Destroyed
x55 Halcon Stealth Fighters
x53 C-24 Big Guns - Destroyed
x67 C-37 Mountain Breakers - Destroyed
x91 155mm Guns - Destroyed
x37 VL-7 Demolishers - Destroyed
x674 Puma IFV - Destroyed

[I am currently moving and won't be able to post for a few days.]

The F-22's were flying in formation at a distance of 25-30 miles from the city. When the Halcons launched their flyswatter missiles, the F-22's quickly accelerated to over mach 2 and attempted to get out of range. This was mostly succesful because the Kroandon missiles had a speed of mach 4 and a range of only 50 miles. The few missiles that didnt fail due to the distance were taken out by chaff and flares.

The tens of thousands of Kyan vehicles on the ground now rushed to the southeast... these soldiers would be taken to Lennonton. The Kroandon artillery and missiles raining all around them was taking its effect though... many vehicles were destroyed, only increasing the already heavy casualties for this battle.

The F-22's now flew overhead of the fleeing troops. Each launched 2 AIM-120D AMRAAM missiles. These had a range of 112 miles... and they were launched at a range of 55 miles. 600 AMRAAM missiles were now targeting the enemy halcons. These were launched in groups of 300, 15 seconds after each other. The A-10's were already on their way to Lennonton.

Now that the battle of New Hilingrad was coming to a close, the generals began preparing for the battles that would follow. Two defensive lines were now in place. One stretched out from Lennonton, containing around 1.5 million regular soldiers, as well as 5 million conscripted and reserve troops. The majority of the Kyan artillery and a very large number of Tanks were here as well. The other defensive line surrounded the Kyan capital city of Tyrin's. This comprised of 2.5 million regular soldiers and 5 million reserve troops, as well as most of the Kyan heavy equipment. 2 million regular soldiers, 6 million reserve troops, and 500,000 elite's were also now moving across the Kyan forest and superhighways, preparing for any Kroandon advance. The insulating suit was now standard for a little over half of the soldiers in the country, so in bad weather and in the forest the Kroandon's would believe any particular infantry force to be much smaller than it actually was.

If the Kroandon's got too far down the superhighways, they would be thoroughly destroyed, cutting off the road to Tyrin's at least temporarily. Only infantry could move through the forest... and the Kyan's on the ground werent intent of letting that happen.

ooc: alright, thats it. Its been a full month since you last posted. Im officially declaring that you have withdrawn.