Fleets Moves Towards French Indochina

[Afghanistan]

The room grew quiet, and the mercenary suddenly became aware of the stifling heat. A single bead of sweat rolls down his face. He can feel every eye on him, the stares tangible pens and needles in his flesh. The next few seconds are the most crucial.

He pinches the grip of his .45 and slides it out from its holster. It feels heavy and real, hanging from his hand, dangling pointed at the ground. With a thud he drops it against the dirt floor, and sends it spiraling with a kick to the feet of the old man.

"It's alright, pick it up."

The old man looks skepetical, picks the revolver off the ground, his hand shaking with age and a slight terror born of confusion.

"It's loaded, go ahead and check if you'ld like it." The old man with some small effort, opens it up and checks, six bullets inside of it. He looks up at this foreigner and points the gun at him, sure there is a trick.

"Now the power is yours, and yours alone. And that is why you do not have to fear foreign devils. You are in charge. Not me. Not some slick talking government official. Not a general who wears medals like a peacock wears his feathers. You are in control. My life is in your hands. Your country is in your hands. What is your choice?"

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"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig."
- Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[Greece]

The Remaining destroyers sit off the coast at 400 yards. They watch the French defenders and even stick messages in bottles and throw them in to the water.

They simply read "Do you wish to surrender?"

[France]

The old man held the gun in his hands and then looked up at the foriegner.Maybe, just maybe this was a new kindof of foriegn devil, a good kind or semi good at least. Then he looked back down at the gun, the only way people could get something of that quality was if you killed a French soldier which wasn't an easy task.

"When I was a child things were simple, we lived in peace our only worry was if it rained or not. Then the white people came with their big promises and big guns. I will surport your rebellion on one condition, that you supply us with weapons like this so we can fight them on equel terms."

Saying that he tossed back the pistol and awaited his reply.

[France]

Greece said:

The Remaining destroyers sit off the coast at 400 yards. They watch the French defenders and even stick messages in bottles and throw them in to the water.

They simply read "Do you wish to surrender?"

After reading the messaes a response was quickly made. The third best shot in the fort took a scoped lebel and hid in a crater on the beach as he placed the crosshairs square on a Greek sailor 400 yds away on a destroyer. He fied and then snuck back up to the fort as some of his comrades calmy mooned and flashed the Greeks beofre diving into cover.

[Afghanistan]

The Spaniard smiled, to hide the sudden relief lifted off of his shoulders. His bid had been a desperate one, but in the end it was successful. “We have more just like that at the river bank. We will have even more soon, now that we have sturdy men and brave hearts to back them with.”

“And remember, this is not my revolution, this is your revolution.”

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“Alea iacta est.” (Roman saying: The die is cast)

[Greece]

The Greek Admiral decided to make this a show. The destroyers start to fire scattershot in to the forts. The destroyers are setting machinegun fire low on the beach. The cruisers in the rear start fitring mustardgas and scattershot again. 60,000 troops in transportships wait right outside of range. The Destroyers pull back 600 yards and keep up a constant barrage.

[Greece]

The transport ships sart coming in, picking the area to the beech heads. When they get at 200 yards. They stop and the riflemen fire a full clip. Then the transportships move to 100 stop and the next side fires a clip. This happens again at 50 yards and then 25 yards except the machineguns join in. Then when they hit, the machineguns open up for 30 seconds. The Greeks then attack the forts.

Edit: Don't forget the 12 fiats who at 100 yards begain to open up from their transportships.

[France]

Finally the Greeks were coming in for some land combat. The renewed fire didn't do much as they were already in hiding but still more deaths were caused. When the transports came in(OOC: No way you could land all 60,000 at once and youll have to use smaller boats to et from transports to land.) and their boatloads of men et off the men in the forts prepared to come out. As soon as the boats hit the beaches the men in the forts opened up with their rifles and machine guns pouring fire into the beaches. (Theres 346 French regulars and 673 colonial troops in those two forts taht can still fight.) The men had never sen something like this with the Greeks charging up the beaches. The casualties started rolling in though with men reeling back from the fortifications as they were hit by Greek counter fire. A column of reinforcements from Hanoi was coming in and was expected in 5 hours. It was a total of 16,000 Regulars and 17,000 colonial troops but the forts wouldn't last till then most likely.


The man walked forward and extended his hand like he saw the Frenchmen do when they reached an agreement. After shaking the mans hand he turned around and feling ten years younger told the people
"Finally our freedom is at hand, with gods good grace we will be free!"
A cheer arose and the men gathered themselves to go with the foriegner to collect weapons and to inform nearb villages of the news.

[Afghanistan]

The smuggler, mercenarie and now revelutionary shakes the elder's hand to seal the deal. It is now the time to organize troops and arm them.

OOC: Fast forward a week, as to be in sync with the current invasion by the Greeks.

[Greece]

Can't unload 60,000 men in a one mile stretch. Yes i am using smaller transport boats. The greeks keep up the hard fire on the forts from the sea. The first of the boatloads. The first colum is anchoring the assualt with a fiat at the helm. The rifle fire bounces off of it. By the way, these men are crack troops and have seen four nice sized wars. The fiats machineguns blaze away at the forts. The men find cover in the craters made by the naval shells.

The second colum comes up to their left. Again a fiat has taken the front and is pushing towards the fort. Trench morters start to give fire on the forts.

The third colum moves up, this is headed by 2 fiats and are moving foward really hard and fast. These men are made up of some of the best greek troops. With in a matter minutes they reach the walls of the fort and start the attack. Driving the fiats straight in to the french lines.

Casualties: 500

[France]

OOC: Afghan-NP what do you have in mind?
Greece-Which column are atacking which fort, remember theres two.

[Greece]

Third attacking second. Other two attacking first. There is a fourth colum moving foward.

[Afghanistan]

OOC: Still thinking about it, but given how much back and forth is neccessary to resolve a skirimish I have a bit to think about it.

[France]

The men in the forts had had enough, they had suffered shelling, gassing and practical siege and now they watched as there bullets bounced of harmlessly the Greek vehicles. The Fiats were stoppaed at the walls but the Greek soldiers were able to climb over. While the Greeks were climbing the french fired into them and threw grenades in a last dich effort to hold them off but then it became hand to hand combat. It was all over in 40 minutes the remianing soldiers had surrendered and the forts were in ruins.

132 Regulars and 375 Colonial troops captured rest dead. Many prisoners wounded.

[Afghanistan]

OOC: About how big would the total garrison in Hanoi be?