The Frankychan / Azan Situation

[Az]

Dark Tides

More annoying news from the front. It seems that the Hive has sunk it's filthy teeth in the miniature continent, and it means bussiness. Satellite imagery shows tens of Hive heavy armor divisions crawling on to the defensive positions of Free Azan, in the mountains of all places! It was obvious that, no matter what, just static defence won't do. It was time to counter-attack, no matter what.

Gen. Harazi looked on the map, and sighed. They were so badly outnumbered, it hurt just to look at those maps. Even with the allies present, It was possible to scrap as much as a 9 to 2 ratio, at best. Sure, Hive forces weren't the best around, but their soldiers knew how to fight pretty well.

Decisions, decisions. Just a week or so ago, the Azani 4th Army was formed. It was time to put the young formation to the test.

"They're in range, sir"- A young officer entered the room. "Very well. Commence fire, order the execution of Operation Snake-neck"

Tens of seconds later, an entire rocket artillery division opened fire across the line.



In a ten minutes more, 7th Armored, and 15 Mechanized have began moving on the western side of the Azan Valley, heading north, at full speed.

[joncha]

[ooc: before roleplaying out our resposes to the Hive, we should wait until Frankychan roleplays his moves

edit: what you have so far is fine, Azazel. Let's just hold off on actually roleplaying the counterattack for now.]

[Rasputin]

World News

Rumours of thousands of planes bombing tel azan and the harbour are unfounded....


All Enemy aircraft attacking the city have been destroyed and losses were light on the Audlonina side. Free Azani airforce handled most of the attack and the inexperienced Hive Pilots were no matchy for the highly trained Auldonina and Azan pilots.

Repeat General Hogan is safe and so are the entire crew ...

[joncha]

Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

[Rasputin]

The Auldonina Forces pulled to a halt and bunkered down preparing for the anticiapted coutner attack. Fortunatly the advance warning of the attack from the air recon boys would give the auldonians an advantage...

[joncha]

Jonchastan Broadcasting Cooperative

**breaking news**

The Central Committee of the National Congress of Neighbourhood and Workplace Councils has revealed that Jonchastan's contribution to the defence of the new Azani republic is now "as many as" 100,000 troops, and that the cruiser Port Chandler and "several" frigates have also left for the region.

The announcement was made at the same time as the National Congress narrowly passed a resolution calling for a "Just Peace" in the Azani conflict, on the basis of "no indemnities, no annexations, and the democratic right of peoples to self-determination."

Reports from Azan itself indicate that over a third of Azan territory, including the major cities of Tel Azan and Roshem, has been liberated amid heavy fighting.

[Rasputin]

"sir, the hive are rushing down the highway straight toward our positions."

"good , HQ have been informed of their positinos by Satellite and missiles have been targeted. Now they in the open and no longer hiding behind the locals we can once again start our aerial bombardment. We have given their positions to all the alliance and are hoping the Alliance will send their bombers. If this advance is stopped it will signal a major turning point in the war."

"Sir what about the Hive airforce."

"They are too busy attemtping to bomb tel Azan and the Harbour, they will have little left to stop the combined missions of the allies. we will have our defence of Tel Azan as our highest prioroty , but the allies airforce should be able t oget through and begin blasting the Hive armour as it drives along the road."

[Mr. President]

Netflash!

Karakas' Defense Department upgraded its alert condition to Orange and readied 75,000 troops for combat as the Labor Party blasted President Djordjevic for "dragging Karakas into an unnecessary, undeclared war".

Opposition Leader Sally Walker launched heavy criticism of the President at a news conference today, where she also showed pictures apparently depicting dead Karakans soldiers in Azan. The Defense Department denies that the photos are of Karakans.

Karakas currently has 2,000 infantry soldiers and about 500 commandos deployed in Azan.

[Rasputin]

auldonina are to make avaialble more landing craft and supporting air and naval power to any nation that supplies troops to join the effort to cut supply from the north into Azan....

[Az]

How many of the Hive's military are there on the Azan/FCL continent anyway?

[Lazerus]

ooc: Quite abit, though definately not above 30-35% of my forces, i've had a shipping connection over that short channel to my homeland for along time now.

[ceroomaster]

CBC New Report
"Live from the Guardinian coast, we bring you exclusive pictures of The Emerald Guard and Cerooan heavy armour rolling into the port facility and onto the waiting Guardinian transport vessels- ready, we believe to back up ADU forces in the south of Azan. Rumours are being traded that Cerooan troops have landed in west Frankychanland and have begun attacking supply convoys heading south to the FCL troops, although nobody has been able to confirm this. There are also reports that the Auldoninnan fleet was caught in port at Tel Azan and suffered major losses, as did the Hive air force who wasted many aircraft in the attack. I will be travelling to Roshem shortly [ooc: bloody stupid journos- anything for ratings] with a GNN news crew and will be able to provide reports closer to the front, and we may be seeing these tanks again when we get there, as it seems like a likely destination for them. Marcia Hughes, CBC News, on the Guardinian coast"

INS Blue Star, Somewhere South of Hive Occupied Territory
Silently, the submarine approached a potential target. Three vessels had appeared on radar, a tempting target for the submarine, yet to see any action.
"Hive transport, sir- a big one"
"Any escorts?"
"Two ships, equivalent to our Frigates, sir"
"Any sign we've been spotted?"
"Not yet"
"Every time we try and get close to these transports the escorts start dropping charges, this is the closest we've been able to get, we can't get much closer or they may be able to identify this vessel as Cerooan. We have to act now".
"Orders, sir?"
"Torpedoes"
"Sir?!".
"We can't sit back and watch these people threaten to destroy our great Republic! Now's the time to start taking chances".
"But our orders, sir- we're not to engage the enemy unless they engage us!"
"They have- every depth charge dropped is an attack on this vessel, on this crew and on our nation- now we start sinking transports and cutting off the supply to Azan- help our forces there- if they've made it..."
"Yes, sir".
The lieutenant sent down the order to load torpedoes, and across the sub, the ancient Cerooan navy war song rang out:

"Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year;
To honour we call you, not press you like slaves,
For who are as free as the sons of the waves?

Hearts of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men,
we always are ready; Steady, boys, steady!
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.

We ne'er see our foes but we wish them to stay,
They never see us but they wish us away;
If they run, why we follow, and run them ashore,
And if they won't fight us, we cannot do more.

Hearts of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men,
we always are ready; Steady, boys, steady!
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.

Still Ceroo shall triumph, her ships plough the sea,
Her standard be justice, her watchword "Be free,"
Then cheer up, lads, with our hearts let's sing more,
Our soldiers, our sailors, our statesmen, and Emporer.

Hearts of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men,
we always are ready; Steady, boys, steady!
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again. "

The bridge crew watched as the blips showing the torpedoes closed on the transport and hit. They cheered their success, then frantically went on with their duties, as the submarine turned and sped away to avoid detection.

[ooc: no new developments on the west until Franky posts, thought I'd have a little pop at the Hive in the meantime though ]

edit: forgot to close tags

[Rasputin]

ABC - 75 Minutes

This is John Hammil , on 75 minutes tonight we investigate the latest daipers for yuor children, with promises that they will stay on, and you child wil lremain dry. In other storys we have the High Priest of Auldonina giving his first ever press release, and finally we go to Azan and we mourn with the nation the loss of thousands of lives and the sinking of the flagship. We investigate the coverup and why it hapened at all.

[Guardian]

Guardinian 1st Armor Divisional HQ, currently in Roshem

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have new orders! We are to quit sitting around looking funny and start supporting friendly forces as needed.

We also have new rules of engagement. It seems we are free to engage hostiles even if they do not engage us first."


[OOC: I'll post more tomorrow. No "serious" action taken yet, but the Guardinian forces in Roshem are getting ready to roll...]

[Rasputin]

Auldonina again welcome the latest developments.

1, Jonchastans agreemnt to cover our merchant ships supplying Azan.

2. Guardinas joining the coalition.

3. Ceroo landing in North West to cut supply.

4. Azan forces approacnging Conscript.