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Post by France on Oct 7, 2004 20:31:03 GMT -5
Supply dump outside Hanoi, Colonel Diderot was pissed as hell. 14 years of his life went to the military and while the army marches off to war he gets stuck with garrison duty. CRASH! Goddamnit, those damn slant eyed soldiers, no damn discipline. He could here laughing and comotion before burting out the door and yelling a stream of curses in French and Vietnamese at them. The men looked stunned as if they had seen a ghost, that was stange he had never scared them that bad then turning around he saw what had scared them, a mass of humanity was coming out of the jungle then a yell arose followed by a volley. His men started to return fire but in a very disorganized way. A stick of dynamite flying thru the air landed among a group of colonial troops tearing them apart then the ammo went up. The ground rumbled as thousands of pounds of munitions went off at once leaving a huge crater in the ground and throwing Colonel Diderot 30 feet knocking him out.
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Post by France on Oct 7, 2004 20:51:20 GMT -5
The massive amount of fire the Greeks were throwing at the fortifications didn't do much but waste their ammo, something that would play a key part in this campaign. The artillary was different but the 36 75's were assigned to counter battery fire to take out the Greek arty using their quick firing and number to take them out. Then the jungle started to crackle with fire. It wouldnt cause much physicle harm as they weren't close enough to it but the smoke would be a problem. The gas was gonna cause a problem though. The men quickly put on gas masks but still hundreds died. The colonial troops were close to breaking for a second from fear but the shortness of the bombardment held them. The big 10" guns opened up on the ships which were dumb enough to expose themselves like that. A surprise was coming up for the Greeks, one they would soon find out.
1,342 Regular and 2,342 Colonial casualties
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Post by Greece on Oct 7, 2004 20:55:11 GMT -5
The greeks arn't hit by much, their fortifications where holding.
The ships quickly moved back about 300 yards. One of the cruisers takes a hit on the retreat and catches on fire.
edit: Casualties 300 ships lost: 0 but, ones slightly on fire
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Post by France on Oct 7, 2004 20:57:58 GMT -5
OOC: I was firing at your artillary not your troops.
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Post by Greece on Oct 7, 2004 20:59:23 GMT -5
ohh just the ships? but my artillary is manned by people right? Are they self aiming, firing and loading? Dude i didn't know that existed
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Post by France on Oct 7, 2004 21:03:23 GMT -5
That wasn't case shot it was HE rounds so some arty pieces would be destryed and if those 300 men were actually the men serving the guns then thats fine with me cause then thats all of them, takes a lot less than 300 men for the amount of guns you got on the ground.
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Post by Greece on Oct 7, 2004 21:04:32 GMT -5
Well theirs 50 guns about of varies sizes. the ship casualties and the fact, artillary is inaccurate at this time.
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Post by Afghanistan on Oct 7, 2004 21:10:39 GMT -5
The ground shook violently, like the Earth itself was moving under the fighter’s feet. A mushroom cloud fills the sky, smoke creates a thick wall of solid black. Buildings crash to the ground. Rebel fighters stop, watching in horror, having never seen such a sight. The more experienced foreigners keep firing, making sure that nothing is left alive to shoot back. Then they slink off into the jungle, the realization of the hell that war truly is just starting to sink in. They thought they would be proud of their victory, but it only left a tight knot in the base of their stomachs. This is the true price of freedom.
Losses 52 rebel soldiers have been killed. Some had rushed up too far and were caught up in the explosion and some were killed when nearby buildings were damage, or the resulting fire.
“But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.” -Ernest Hemingway
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Post by France on Oct 7, 2004 21:19:46 GMT -5
OOC: Alrite thats cool then, your not gonna be able to fire most of those guns, well accuratly at least and with any speed as there expeirenced trained crews are dead.
IC:It was time to take advantage of the Greeks own moves. The smoke caused by the fires would be a perfect cover. A further 5,000 men had arrived from the south and they took their position in the trenches. Along witht hem came a further 60 guns. Under cover of the smoke the guns moved position and then opened up on the Greeks in the left fort and in the trenches in front of it. The left fort was the most damaged one and shot up one. While this was happening 20,000 troops mostly regulars snuck up to 1/2 a mile away using the noise of the bombardment and the smoke to do so secretly. The bombardment ended to make the Greeks think the attack was coming and in doing so they would get out of their dugout outs to repulse the "upcoming attack" and expose themselves. 5 short minutes later the arty opened up again for 45 minutes this time joined in by trench mortors. Using this the troops closed the gap to 1/4 a mile and then charged. The bombdment switched to a rolling bombardment to give them surport as they advanced on what they expected to be stunned and out of place Greeks. They attaclked at an angle on a small front for two reasons A)The ships wouldn't be able to provide effective surport as the fort was in the way and they wouldn't be able to see what they were shooting at and B)They would have the local advantage in numbers. While the men attacked the trenches in front of the fort using machine guns they had brought up with them to cover them the arty started firing gas shells into the fort and the space between this fort and the other one to catch any reinforcements in the open without gas masks and in a bad position to put one on.
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Post by Afghanistan on Oct 8, 2004 8:16:27 GMT -5
Not so long ago he was just a rice farmer working in the fields with his brother, now he wields a gun, and his brother is dead. For an hour now he has slogged through the swamp, up to the next village. The fine weapons have stopped coming, the stranger said something about a war between Russia and Japan. But Russia and Japan are so far away, what could they have to do with Vietnam? His feet are sore and he is tired of moving, but they if he stops the French will find them. So instead they keep moving through the villages, picking up more bright eyed recruits. How many will live to see Vietnam free? Is it worth it? He doesn’t know. What he does know is that this has grown bigger then any one man, and so he just slogs on.
The rebel army is on the move, and trying to recruit from the villages. Due to the current Japanese conflict the flow of weapons has been cut off, and most of the new recruits are armed with a crude hand to hand weapon and a grenade if they’re lucky. Some of the more eager recruits are instead being sent to Hanoi, to spread rumors and propaganda to try to keep the embers of dissent started with the destruction of the supply dump burning.
“Some folks inherit star spangled eyes, Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord, And when you ask them, "How much should we give?" Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh, It ain't me, it ain't me” - “Fortunate One”, Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Post by Greece on Oct 8, 2004 15:22:01 GMT -5
France, you posted the middle of your post that the greeks moved out of the trenchs and fortifications. As the person running the greek army, that is my call not yours.
You also posted that we would get out of our dugouts to repulse the attacks. Why would we get out of our fortifications that we dug for protection? They greeks would not be out of place for this reason. They are in place now.
Your colonial troops where panicky because of your own post in response to my gas attacks too. Your moving your troops through a half mile stretch that is being hit by everything i have and not taking losses.
I also posted that the left fort, was where the fiats where too. I would easily out gun you there. The right fort has more machineguns and your charging the forts. We are both firing through about a mile of jungle too. We are both hitting jack and shit.
The post is total godmodded. As for the inplaced artillary. Hell my men are crack troops seeing 4 wars already. We hust brought up a lot of our own stufff.
Everything before that was pretty good thou.
OCC: the french can't win a war. Inless americans do all the fighting
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Post by Afghanistan on Oct 8, 2004 15:50:54 GMT -5
OOC: Yah, but at least the French can spell.
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Post by Great Britain on Oct 9, 2004 0:34:57 GMT -5
Ooc: Actually I have to diagree. He should you should have gotten out of the trench to repluse the attack. That is because that is after an artillery barrage it was expected for an attack to soon follow. They can shoot them crouched in the trench and would be overrun so they would pop out to fire upon them. Next the men moving half a mile would do that because if they're so afraid from a Chemical Weapons that I thought Greece never had, because it keep thems away from the Chemicals. Next the Fiats wasn't declared a failure. So you may outgun them but probably the Fiats would break down or something. Sure your mean I hardened SOBs but doens't mean they're gods of war now.
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Post by Greece on Oct 9, 2004 7:33:26 GMT -5
Ooc: Actually I have to diagree. He should you should have gotten out of the trench to repluse the attack. That is because that is after an artillery barrage it was expected for an attack to soon follow. They can shoot them crouched in the trench and would be overrun so they would pop out to fire upon them. Next the men moving half a mile would do that because if they're so afraid from a Chemical Weapons that I thought Greece never had, because it keep thems away from the Chemicals. Next the Fiats wasn't declared a failure. So you may outgun them but probably the Fiats would break down or something. Sure your mean I hardened SOBs but doens't mean they're gods of war now. Yup, I got the chemical weopens. I got them from austria Hungry And Britian, I'm seiging a one mile area right. I'm popping everything I have blind. Most of it is falling short same as his. It's a full mile of nothing but jungle. we are knocking trees in to splinters and gassing the whole place and bearly hitting each other. I'm not talking about the trenchs but, whould we leave our forts that where made to fight in. The point was that the movement of the greeks is my call not yours, not his. The other point was that he is moving through the artillary fire. Where all te shells are landing aka no man's land. Peices of trees are falling all around him. Tree's are splintering and throwing wood splinters in to the air. Gas is all over the place (dangeriously lo now). Plus the damn thing is on fire, he's lose men if he marched in to it. Rember I've fired for about a week and the trees have been burning for sometime. OCC: Remember I posted that we stuck punji sticks and barbwire on the forts. Also rember that their is a crapload of artillary in the two forts now. Your stuff and mine. The fiats and the fort give me a superior advantage. edit: I decided that i will RP this anyway. The Crack Greek Soldiers see and hear the french coming at them. The artillary cannons reaim their guns and fill them with scattershot before shooting them straight in to the french lines and keep firing scattershot and gas. The greek rifleman laydown as much fire on the damn french soldiers. The fiats move from around the fort and give hell fire on to the french troops. 5,000 men are moving up the lines from other positions. The ships start to move around so that they can get a better angle except for the Alexandria wich stays put. The Greeks in the fort start throwing bottles of Kerosine in to the woods and then the archers with fire arrows start shooting at the area to catch the woods on fire so the french can't get through. The trench morters open up and start giving massive fire on the french. To them this would be a typical battle that they have seen so many diffrent times in Korea, Greece, Italy and Eithopia. The French are easily out matched in this fight. The colonial troops probly don't have much fight left in them. By the way the 5,000 troops where recalled and are landing on the beach during the battle and immeditly move to fight. At this time it is becoming High tide so that the ships can move in a little closer so they can get a better shot. The Alexandria will keep firing where it has been firing changing from gas, scatter and regular shells. The ships near japan are being recalled to this area as well. The Destroyers will move out three miles and start firing on the Beach head. Meanwhile: Out near the islands the cargoships that have empty holds are moving back to Greece to resupply. Before they do this the Greeks load up all the unused lumber from the islands to sell to lumber companies and as firewood. The government is going to pocket all the money except for one percent wich is going for a reconstruction fund. One of the ships is given modern agracultural equpment to send to Veitnam. The ywill go to greece and return in 6 RL days. The planes start boming runs on inplaced artillary, fortifications and supply dumps. They also drop pamplets about liberation of the Cabodian people if they would join the Indochinese army headed by the Greeks. The submarine coming from Greece is givin the task of scouting coastal targets. The unnamed islands are almost totaly deforested and have inplaced greek troops on them.
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Post by Japan on Oct 9, 2004 14:31:11 GMT -5
The Japanese fleet along with transport carry'ing 1.000.000 troops and artillery. head towards Hanoi.
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