Bicentenary of the German Communist Republic

[sgrig]

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To: OKW, Berlin
From: General Richtoffen, Army Group West HQ

Operations update

We were misled by Russian disinformation. It turned out that Rostov was very weakly defended. Without any casualties on our side a Russian Infantry division was destroyed. Then my men were shocked to see that the Russians armed thousands of boys with pointed sticks and let them defend the city! I decided not to waste shells on them and thus sent a cavalry division, hoping that these kids might surrender at the sight of our fully armed cavalry. But to my great horror, the cavalry division soon retreated after losing thousands of men.

So then I sent in a panzer division which quickly dispersed the 'spearmen'. Overall very few forces were used up in the attack on Rostov, so I sent my panzers to the east, razing Kiev and thus cutting off Russia from their only supply of horses.

In the battle for Kiev I lost one panzer division.

The situation around Denver is still complicated. The city is now fully blocked from land by our forces, and I hope will surrender soon.

I am very dissatisfied with Kriegmarine operations around Denver. Although we can that some ships are bombarding the city, but it does not seem that it affects the city defenders in any way.

My forces are now within striking distance of Vladivostok which contains Russia's only source of iron and one of their sources of rubber. I ask permission to continue the advance on Vladivostok.

Richtoffen

[sgrig]

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To: OKW, Berlin
From: Fieldmarshal Hengest, Army Group East HQ

Operations update

Mission accomplished. Minsk secured by 124th Armoured Infantry. Uralsk blocked by my Panzer divisions and the 1st Cavalry Army.

Hengest

[sgrig]

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To: Fieldmarshal Hengest, Army Group East HQ
Cc: General Richtoffen, Army Group West HQ
From: OKW, Berlin

Secret directive No. 412
Code name: Operation Northern Typhoon

Read this directive carefully.

According to our strategists, Russia is now on its knees. No better time to finish them off.

Fieldmarshal Hengest is ordered to complete conquest of Eastern Russia, while General Richtoffen is ordered to complete the conquest of Western Russia.

We realise that it is very difficult to keep captured cities from revolting, so we order you to raze most of the cities, keeping only those which are of special industrial, cultural, scientific or strategic value. Special volunteer units are being trained in Germany to build up new cities with a loyal population on the sites of the old Russian ones. This is a measure to keep down foreign criticisms.

Chairman Mark Bis wishes you luck Comrades!

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0300 Berlin Time, 12th June 1684, Berlin, Germany

Four million inhabitants of Berlin were mostly asleep by now, tired after celebrating victory in the Russian war. Flags, banners, demonstrations, music,speeches, columns of victorious troops returning home, followed by columns of Russian POWs all blended into one dream-like experience for most of Berlin's population.

Three of the few people not be asleep that night were officers at a radar site outside Berlin. They've never seen any foreign aircraft being tracked by their radars, so this night especially, they were very relaxed, playing poker and discussing recent football results.

Klaus briefly glanced at the radar display when he put out his cigarette by pressing it against the screen.

"Scheisse! What the hell is that!" he yelled pointing at an object on the radar screen, which was nearing rapidly.

Just as he finished his phrase, a brilliant flash of light blinded the three men, followed shortly by a deafening roar...

A huge fireball expanded over Berlin, producing a massive blast wave which leveled skyscrapers, houses, factories, bridges within seconds. A huge mushroom cloud formed over Berlin, or rather what was left of it...

0420 Berlin Time, 12th June 1684, GCP hunting village, 1500km north of Berlin

"Comrade, wake up, wake up! Urgent news!" - shouted an attendant, while trying to wake up Peter Bis, the current GCP Chairman.

"What is it? It must be still very late! Wait until the morning!" - mumbled Peter thorugh sleep.

"Horrible news... Berlin struck by a nuclear ICBM." - quitely said the attendant.

"You must be joking! This is not a very funny joke, by the way." - angrily replied Peter.

"I am afraid comrade, this is the truth" - sadly said the attendant.

0450 Berlin time, 12th June 1684

Peter Bis was now fully dressed in his uniform and was walking up and down the room past a row of his advisors.

"Foreign Minister,Comrade Frank Heine, situation report." - he quickly shouted.

"I was telling you comrade, that five days ago Persia declared war on us, and together with it the whole of the Southern Alliance. You refused to believe me. " Frank said quitely.

"This is not the time to say 'I was right and you were wrong". I meant do we have any allies left?"

"China and Japan came to our aid and declared war on Persia yesterday. I think that was the reason behind the treachorous nuclear strike by Persia."

"Ok, enough said, now Comrade Heike Schiller, Domestic Affairs Advisor, what is the situation in Berlin?"

"Very bad. By an optimistic count at least two million people have perished, hundreds of thousands more badly injured. Aid cannot get into the city because all transport links have been cut around Berlin. Our aid workers are short of anti-radiation suits and are afraid to go into Ground Zero without protection against the radiation. Survivors of the blast who are streaming out of Berlin are telling horrific stories what is going on there right now. Many people are using the chaos as a means to to everything which they would never had done before - lootings, murders, rapes are happening around the parts of the city which have not been levelled by the explosion. These people know that they are going to die anyway so they reckon they haven't got anything to lose..." At this point, Heike almost broke down in tears, but controlled herself and stopped.

"I understand. Defense Minister,Comrade Kurt Bock, your report now."

"We were hit by Persia's new secret weapon - the IM-2 "Wrath of Gods" intercontinental ballistic missile, armed with a single 20 megaton warhead. Our intelligence services reckon that the Persians have at least 2 more such weapons, plus a number of limited range tactical missiles... I fear there is more to come." The defense minister shivered as he spoke this.

"I wish to know how we can retaliate at this moment, Comrade!" Angrily exclaimed Peter.

"I am sorry, Comrade Bis, there is no way in which we can currently strike at Persia. We have a very small fleet and even that would take ages to reach Persia on the other side of the globe. Our ground troops are still positioned in Russia and getting into Persia would require our troops to move through Aztec territories, Northern Greece, somehow cross the Greek channel, then move through the whole of Greece, which will probably ally itself with Persia, and only then we would be able to attack Persia. There is no way in which this could be done...."

"Professor Godel, what are your estimates of when we will be able to build ICBMs?" asked Bis, interrupting the defense minister.

"Umm, well, at current rates of funding, we will have ICBMs in roughly 20 years' time..." muttered the Science Advisor.

"Comrade Godel, you know perfectly well that 100% of budget is devoted to science!" cried out Heike.

"Comrade Heine, is there any way do you think we could persuade President Alexander of Greece to declared war on Persia?" asked Bis.

"Well, Comrade Bis, we tried, but President Alexander is demanding 10 billion DM, plus transfer of semiconductor technology, spaceflight technology and wine deliveries for the next 100 years! Our diplomats flatly refused such extortionist demands!"

"Ok, looks like he is no friend o.." started Bis, but suddenly the door flew open and a secretary ran into the room, holding a piece of paper.

"Comrade, Comrade! Hamburg hit, Persian marines disembarking outside Heidelburg, Munchen bombarded by Persian battleships... Greece declares war on us... Our battleship KMS Bismarck sunk outside the port of Heidelburg... Persian tanks land outside El-Ashmunein... Krasnoyarsk bombarded by a Persian Armada, with a heavy loss of life..." The secretary almost fainted after spurting out all of this.

"What do you mean Hamburg hit??" Shouted Bis

"A Nuclear strike. SUbmarine-launched nuclear missile."

"COmrade Heine. Order you diplomats to contact President Xerxes and beg for peace. We surrender unconditionally." Just as he said that, Bis took out his gun, pressed it against the side of his head and pulled the trigger...

[Captain]

wow. that was really unexpected. did the game end there? or is there a successor?

[sgrig]

The real ending of the game was that I accidentally saved over the game file and somehow the autosaves also disappeared ! So I had to make up an ending, which does seem realistic to me. The Persians have recently gone quite far in the tech race, so they would have ICBM's soon. They had an extremely efficient and productive empire - imagine they only had 40 cities, I had 130, but their army was about same size as mine, their fleet about 20 times bigger and their air force about 10 times larger!!

They also hated me, although we were still allies against Russia at the time I lost the game file. In that game allies always turned against me when the war was over so I thought that this time it wouldn't be any different!

I really would've loved the play the game futher, but alas!

Actually the reason I lost the file was because I was testing the possibility of a bomber with an ICBM flag on a tiny map test game, and at point I saved over my German game! So now I only had a savefile of the game from 900 BC! Very annoying! And expecially that ICBM flagged bomber didn't work!!

[Coinich]

Regardless of the save game situation, your storywriting is fabulous. I was enthralled and can't wait for another story (during a different game I would presume). Keep up the great storytelling!

[sgrig]

Thanks, Coinich! I currently started a new Russian game on Monarch , so if that turns out to be interesting I'll certainly post another story!

Hopeful this current game will be a bit longer than my first game on Monarch! I got slaughtered by 400 BC!

[Dom Pedro II]

Wow, I really liked that story. I actually thought that last situation had really happened. I was about to give the AI a lot more credit for planning out such a complex attack... oh well. I hope to read your next story soon.

[Sovy Kurosei]

Nice story... My games usually don't end up with that though. Usually, I take as much land as I can, and then some even more, and wipe everybody off my continent.

I backstab alot, as you can see

[steelehc]

This is exellent. Keep writing, you have a talent for it.

Steele

PS:Our words are backed with Nuclear Weapons

[pikesfan]

I like the story because it doesn't end with "how I conquered the world". A downbeat story is nice for a change, in a gloomy sort of way.

[Sovy Kurosei]

I dunno, you can easily change that by just making a story on how your conquered foes submitted to you... But that could be a bit interesting since you usually don't know all their turns til the last 5 or so until the enemy empire is crushed.

[sgrig]

Thanks for the comments everyone!!

As soon as there will be some interesting moments in my new game, I'll post a new story!

[Sovy Kurosei]

LOL, one of my interesting moments was when I conquered the Chinese Capital with my only Warrior Unit