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Post by Austria-Hungary on Oct 12, 2004 21:15:18 GMT -5
With the Invasion of Neatherlands by Germany Austria feels they should not be a step behind from German. So there for Switzerland has officialy been annexed by Austria. Austria Relizes that the Swiss will not go down with out a fight so 300,000 Troops Have been sent to Switzerland. 150,000 move from italy in the south and 150,000 move from Austria in the east. They will meet in Bern to end the war. Planes take off from Italy to Bomb Geneva and Bern. 450 Handheld bombs have been droped on each city where they will hopefuly do the most damage. French 75s and Italian Artillery fire from the top of the Austrian controlled alps in italy. they fire 7,000 rounds at Swiss forces to try to pave a way for the Austrian Forces.  Red lines is planed rout to Bern |
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Post by Germany on Oct 12, 2004 21:34:58 GMT -5
The German Government highly advises the Austro-Hungarian emperor to pull his troops out of Switzerland, if he values his life, and the lives of his men.
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Post by Austria-Hungary on Oct 12, 2004 21:54:05 GMT -5
When Germany pulls out of the neatherlands then we will pull out of switzerland.
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Post by Germany on Oct 12, 2004 22:44:43 GMT -5
OOC: Posting as Switzerland
IC:
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Manifold urgent inteligence reports have been coming in from Bern. The Austrians were invading and heading straight for Zurich. They were ordered to immediately alarm the Zurich army and air base of the invasion. The Swiss were not expecting an invasion at all, so the first line of defense was in near Zurich, just a couple of miles away from it. It consisted of a long line of trenches, along with a series of pillboxes. Switzerland picked up the idea when in the Berlin Pact. A few infiltraters breached German lines secretly and studied the German designes. Of coarse it was very hard to replicate the German pillboxes exactly alike without aquiring the German blueprints, but it was good enough.
Unlike the German pillboxes, the Swiss pillboxes were purchased on a limited budget, meaning they're ment to look like they're up to it, but they really could not survive a large artillery bombardment. That didn't really matter too much, because the swiss knew that large artillery bombardments in the high mountains and hills of Switzerland was impossible to be carried out by towed artillery.
The first line of defense consisted of roughly 72,000 troops. Well equiped for the battle that lay ahead. Along with fortified artillery, the Swiss 105mm M1917's have a good chance of staying alive. Roughly 1,000 peices of artillery are set up, and are being manned.
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Swiss troops, being very skilled in mountainous combat is doing just that. The invading force coming from Austria is cutting through mountains, and forest. Switzerland has many sniper posts, and machine gun nests positioned in the mountains, covering the road below.
The bulk of the Austrian infantry is crossing a road that is between two mountains. On both sides of the road, there are some 20 machine guns on each side. Under the cover of concealment; Swiss machine guns open fire. As the machine guns cut down the troops, snipers hid in the trees also, some 10 snipers hidden in the trees begin to take their shots. They go for officers then work their way down. The Swiss lived up to their reputation, they were excellent marksmen.
OOC: I'll post something about the other invading force, they happen at the same time, I just dont want to make a very long post and end up having ran out of room or something like that. And I'm tired and will do it tommarow.
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Post by Austria-Hungary on Oct 12, 2004 22:56:30 GMT -5
As machine gun and sniper fire rained down on the Austrians they began their mountain tactics they had learned in training. with white coats they blended in perfectly into the snow. snipers took aim at the machine guns and made them and the snipers the only priorities. the rest of the troops began setting up machine guns and motors to fire at the swiss. 6,000 Motor shells into the swiss lines. 30 planes flew by dropping 90 bombs on the swiss.
Casulties from snipers-308
from machine guns-3,484
sorry for the bad post im tired and i wanna go to bed
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Persia
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Post by Persia on Oct 16, 2004 17:35:26 GMT -5
Persia is disgusted by the Austrian attack on a fundementally neutral nation. All trade ties shall be cut off with Austria-Hungry, and should Austria-Hungry persit, Persia shall aproach the other members of the META to take likewise action.
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Post by Greece on Oct 16, 2004 18:32:12 GMT -5
I too would like Austria to seize action in Switzerland.
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Post by Austria-Hungary on Oct 16, 2004 20:56:49 GMT -5
Very well all troops are being pulled out of switzerland for the time being. they will be recalled to vienna where they will be redeployed.
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Post by Germany on Oct 16, 2004 23:46:38 GMT -5
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
The Swiss troops firing at the Austrians in the vally below, took a brave stand. They were certainly out-numbered. But they knew they caught the Austrian invaders off guard and could have altered how the Austrian Government thought about Switzerland and their ability to resist.
The men on the hill tops faced some brutal retaliation from the Austrians. The machine gunners, even though camoflauged, recieved motar fire which was more of a nuisance at first and they wern't able to aim as profetionaly. But it then later turned into a serious situation as machine guns were taking hits. Mortar fire was almost completely random and barely hit their intended targets. Yet if a mortar round were to hit a machine gun, then that machine gun would be too damaged to continue firing. But if a sniper were to hit a machine gunner, that machine gun could be easily taken over. Swiss snipers were ordered to search for Austrian snipers out in the open.
The Swiss were certainly out-numbered. There were some 200 Swiss in the mountains firing on surprised Austrians. But after countless hours of fighting, the Swiss line was getting pulverized over time and was forced to retreat. Some 56 Swiss died in the battle, and 78 were reported wounded. Roughly 30 Swiss were missing in action, and were suspected either lost, or were taken prisoner by the Austrians. Only 36 Swiss came back healthy.
Even if the small battle was technically loss for the Swiss; they felt that it was more of a victory, because their goal was not to destroy the Austrians, but to take them off guard and set a whole new mind set of the war. The number of Austrians dead at the battle is unknown to the Swiss, but Swiss troops estimated it in the thousands. The Swiss were forced to retreat, and lost many men at that battle, but it did what they hoped would do; change the outlook on the whole war and inform the Austrian Government that invading Switzerland isn't going to just be a walk in a park.
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After the first, and small battle between the Swiss and Austrians, Bern was getting in the multiple reports of the Austrians pulling back into Austria-Hungary. The force coming from Italy had no resistance, but they did have a very stong line waiting for them on the Rhone river near Sierre. But the Austrians never reached them in time. The Swiss Government is surprised by the unexpected retreat of Austrian troops. The Swiss celebrate their victory, or was it? Were they just retreating to fight another day? These questions were greatly needed to be answered. But the Swiss government felt that it's better to be safe than sorry and following the retreat of the Austrian forces; the Swiss quickly began a whole new trench system on the border with Austria-Hungary.
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