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Post by Japan on Sept 11, 2004 16:41:52 GMT -5
Taiwan:
The Portuguese bombadment is left unanswered. but mines had been planted arround the islands.
Most of the Japanese retreat to mountain defensives in the central highlands. (a line that runs in the mountius parts of Tawian, at least 40km from the shores all direction.
some 12" mortars had been deployed outside these defensives they will remain hidden an camaflouged in forests and behind hills and in kind of trenches.
Ki-01's have started transporting Soup dices (I don't know the english word for this but it's a dice sized thingy, made from chicken etc. you boil it in water and voila chicken braw. very salty.) 50kg of those are a lot of calories.
The generals face that Japan's suthern areas are pretty much lost though great succes is being made against the British.
a few wheat fields are cleared for the whole 50 Ki-02's to operate from. along with 50 Ki-01's
these are being forced to move in airial torpedoes by flying to Japan, they currently have 100 of those.
These 100 planes are armed with 50 torps and are sent out to attack Portugouse ships off Taiwan. The navy will also use 10 Farman biplanes to move torps from Japan to the Ryuku islands.
about 5000 troops are stationed outside the mountain defensives, two and two together on a suicide mission to kill as many portugouse with their type 3 machien guns (planting them in cliffs and such near the sea and firing at the incoming troops. (non yet right ?)
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Post by Portugal on Sept 11, 2004 16:49:14 GMT -5
The minesweepers for the 1st and 2nd fleets cleared the way, as they set up their Blockade of Formosa.
Having not run into Opposition from the Japanese, the attacks would begin now. The two Revel Battleships and one Leviathian Super Dreadnaught moved to the North West of the island. They brought their massive broadsides to bear, as 47 16" guns hammer home hundreds of tons of shells, making great gaping craters in the beach and the country side further into the Island. The shelling continues for several hours, as 6 Ammunition Ships, bring more to drop upon Formosa. The 3 Battleships move closer to the shore, where their 48 6" guns and the 10 7.5" guns can further pound the shore/beach defences. The 16" guns range further into Formosa, smashing into defencive positions, in high arks. Trenches are spotted by observers from the ships, and high angle shots are launched, seemingly right into any trenches. Machine gun positions are picked out and hit by 6" and 7.5" fire. After 4 hours of bombardment the 4 Hailey Landing Craft approach the beach, each carrying 5000 infantry, and several dozen artillery guns. As this happens, 2 other Hailey Landing Ships bring more ammunition to the 3 Battleships, now having fully restocked, and used up half the ammunition supply.
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Post by Portugal on Sept 11, 2004 16:54:25 GMT -5
ooc: Oh you replied did you... Im not sure if you remembered that I put up torpedonets in my fleet... you poor sap.
ic: The AA fire from the Fleet, from Destroyers and Cruisers rises up to meet the Japanese airforce like a massive wall. The sheer amount of gunfire being poured up is astounding. Still, 6 torpedo's manage to enter the water. Light armaments on the ships rush now to hit the Torpedo's (in WW1, they traveled very close to the surface, and could be effected by machine gun fire.) The Destroyers and Cruisers used their superior oil engines to move immediatly, one Cruiser wasn't fast enough and took a torpedo to port. The Netting managed to hold the torpedo off however, slidding it to the back of the Cruiser, and right around.
ooc: Sorry, but Torpedo's were the wrong choice of action against a fleet that was prepared for Torpedo's...
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Post by Japan on Sept 11, 2004 16:54:50 GMT -5
100 men come out of tunnels with 50 Type 3 Machine guns as an observer spots landing vessels. these will lie in the elephant grass and open fire when the portugouse were with in range.
2 12" inch mortars opened fire when the ships came closer from behind a hill. they had a total of 90 shells.
ooc: took the plane part away, the ki-01's attack the landing forces anyways.
Losses: 25 Ki-02 10 Ki-01
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Post by Japan on Sept 11, 2004 17:00:31 GMT -5
the ki-02's return to their base (the ones that weren't shot down) and are armed with bombs, the pilots drink a bowl of cerimonial sake and get a card written by the emperor.
they all agree on flying into the ships.
ooc:
the Ki-02 are rather fast, and will come in at some altitude and then dive to gain speed and try to ram the ships.
don't really know how much these can carry but they's be loaded with a bit more then usual and will have like 40% of their normal fuel.
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Post by Portugal on Sept 11, 2004 17:00:59 GMT -5
ooc: And where are you getting these hundreds of aircraft... Hope you are aware that they are ineffective.
ic: As the 4 transports approach the beach, the Observers from the battleships spot soldiers running, stupidly in a massive group, from a cave enterence. He followed them along, not giving the co-ordinance until they had stopped and positioned themselves. They ran behind a large cliff face. He looked to the left of the Cliff Face, but they never appeared... now would be the time. Lights signaled the other 2 ships, as to the location of spotted enemies. The Battleships opened fire once more, laying hundreds of shells on that position, saturating the area. The guns then moved onto the cave enterence, shattering it with 16" shells.
There was the high pitch whine as Mortars were sent flying at the Transports. They smashed into the top of the belt armour, and directly into the belt. A few hit the Deck, but still did nothing. The 120mm was to small to actually damage these behemoth ships. However several dozen men were injured, and 4 killed from the explosions produced. Spotters listened to the shots, using trignometry to figure out firing locations. Once more, signals were sent to the other transports, who turned their 8" guns onto the location, along with their 3" guns to pummel the area once more.
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Post by Portugal on Sept 11, 2004 17:03:02 GMT -5
the ki-02's return to their base (the ones that weren't shot down) and are armed with bombs, the pilots drink a bowl of cerimonial sake and get a card written by the emperor. they all agree on flying into the ships. ooc: the Ki-02 are rather fast, and will come in at some altitude and then dive to gain speed and try to ram the ships. don't really know how much these can carry but they's be loaded with a bit more then usual and will have like 40% of their normal fuel. Once again AA fire is tremendous, but several planes manage to impact into the sides of ships and superstructures. To bad WW1 planes are made of wood and light materials, as they simply shatter against the 25" Conning Tower armour of the Cruisers, and 16" belt armour. The Bombs attached to them manage to Sink a destroyer, and damage two others.
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Post by Japan on Sept 11, 2004 17:07:17 GMT -5
ooc: acctually those are like pwder mortars using shells not "mortar rounds" just a high angle cannon really and yeah 300mm not 120mm like this one... Losses: 2 Mortars 180 men 10 machine guns still operational to fight the portugouse and about those aircraft, I know WW1 aircraft were just junk, more of a show off for the puplic. the air battle didn't really make much differance.
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Post by Japan on Sept 11, 2004 17:14:54 GMT -5
and yeah forgot to mention, in Taiwan troops has looted the civilian population and taken their food. like rice wheat. cans bottled drinks. they also moved stocks of dried fish up to the mountain fort.
ooc: can mine sweepers clear mine infront of them, don't they just drag a rope between them ?
Ki-01's starts dropping 50kg packages of those chicken braw dices and rifle ammunition.
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Post by Portugal on Sept 11, 2004 17:17:36 GMT -5
ooc: Oh I see, Then you'll need to answer a few questions such as how you plan to move them without me noticing... but ok.
ic: The 12" guns hammer into the 14" belt armour and the 4" Deck armour. A single shell penetrates the upper belt, but is stopped by a bulkhead before it could reach the troop compartment. Nonetheless, 18 Crew members are killed, and another 32 injured. One of the other ships had a shell hit a turret, with 10" of armour. The Shell managed to disable two of the 8 8.5" guns.
One of the transports side hatches dropped down, closer to the front, where the water was shallow enough for a man to stand. A full regiment unloaded from the single ship, and made their way up the beach. They all carried Mosin Nagants. Spotters ontop of the Transports watched for any action, while operators of the 7.56mm MG's mounted on the ships prepared to open up. Slowly they made their way up the beach... 1/4 of the way to the small hill.
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Post by Japan on Sept 11, 2004 17:28:16 GMT -5
ooc: they'll crawl in the thick large elephant grass, and yeah one Japanese dude lits a 10kg mix of saltpeter and sugar to help out the machine gunners. lots of pretty smoke =)
the Mortar crews fire all but one of their shells. the final shell they take the projectile off and their commander places a wooden block in it and squizes down the barrel. (nice way to die, he is holding a revolver and plans to kill some portugouse with it.)
the rest except one performs Harakiri. the one left fires his commander. then charges the men coming up the small hill with his revover.
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Post by Indonesia on Sept 11, 2004 17:33:42 GMT -5
The Kongo fleet hanging around Arnoy is partially redeployed to near Taiwan. The rest return to Sumatera
4,000 troops with Nagant Rifles 6 frigates 2 battleships
and is expected to arrive in 3 RL hours.
A fleet including
1 battleship 23 patrol vessels (Small fishing vessels with machineguns) 10,000 troops
is deployed to taiwan and is expected to arrive in 1 RL day.
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Post by Mexico on Sept 11, 2004 17:43:48 GMT -5
The Mexican Forces were now holding out in buildings deep in the city waiting for The Japanese To stop the bombardment and come into the city to pick them off. The Mexican Grenediers however Marched on toward parts of the city under Jappenese Control. However their march was stained with Monumental Cassualties until out of the 4th 5th and 6th companies (300 troops) within the hour only 56 remained due to Resistence by armed Civilians and Partisians. Meanwhile Shells rained down on the Cavalry whom were attacking anyone they encountered in the streets including Civilians, in order to stall for time they would need to bring the city to it's knees. That is, as long as the Jappanese didn't level it first.
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Post by Portugal on Sept 11, 2004 17:47:40 GMT -5
Indonesia, redirect your ships elsewhere. We will deal with Formosa (Taiwan).
28 soldiers dead from MG's, all have taken cover. All 50+ MG's mounted on the ships have lit up the tallgrass field, leaving no spot untouched. 8.5" shells hammer down into the field. All 972 soldiers left fire almost simultaniously at the one Japanese soldier charging them...
Since both Mortars were destroyed earlier as you said... I dunno whatelse to tell ya. The 15,000 other soldiers disembark, and set up the 155mm Artillery. There are four battries set up, along the hill, each with 20 Guns. 1 Company advances towards the Mountain range, but is met with serious fire. 2 Men are killed and 12 wounded. They are brought back, and the information about the mountains is relayed to the artillery. The long range of the 155mm gun proves to be a very good point as the 80 or so guns open up along the mountain. The 16" guns of the battleships fire as well, most falling short of the mountain by just a kilometre. The Battleships will circle around the island until they are within range of the mountain, and will proceed to shell it more.
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Post by Japan on Sept 11, 2004 17:52:16 GMT -5
Formosa:
ooc: there is no way to bombard the mountain fort from sea except you bring like 18" Yamato style guns.
ic:
3 16" artillery pieces in the northern mountains fire 9 shells which will produce red smoke when they hit the fround.
(these are in some height so they will go a bit further then artillery pieces at sea level, those aim on the stretch of beach now occupied by the portugouse.
Hamamatsu:
ooc: more intrested in the attack on the ships
12" mortar rounds coninue to rain on the known locations of mexicans.
there are currently 10.000 partisans in the city, the others are coming in with mortars (like 50 men per mortar, two operating it and 50 men running to get mortar rounds.)
many type3 Machine guns have been deployed on roof tops and such, in an effort to kill some mexicans.
a train arrives with 10 12" mortars and 50 70mm Artillery pieces, which are deployed in a hurry and then the shelling continues as armored trains continue to arrive with more and more shells and spare barrels.
Losses: 945 Partisans
partisans that were deployed deep in the city in the buildings that had floors star sniping cavalry with rifles (they were told to fire at the exact time as shels of any kind exploded and told what to listen for, most of them had been killed by friendly fire before it came to the fighting.)
at the roof of a suburban school a bunch of like 15 year old Japanese school children are supervised by 5 mortar crews. these are operating 20 mortars. most of the kids are running to get Mortar rounds but the brighter ones get to operate the mortars. these are 81mm mortars 2km from the sea.
many of the boys and girls wait patiently for the invadors to come in range of their old mutra rifles.
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