Operation Recompense (OOC)

[Emporer Pudu]

That's exactly it Nod.

[Emperor Pudu]

Map of the Kursarrum warzone.

[Emperor Pudu]

blank map of the area




map of whatever is going on

[Allanea]

I am entirely unsure what is happening, I thought we were fighting a giant war of attrition? I suppose I could plan and start an armored offensive.

[Emperor Pudu]

I kinda broke contact after you took Nunkid, your forces are just sitting up there on the city, I've pulled back around the capital. Eagleland has begun the mighty war of attrition to the west but army group north and whatnot remain unengaged as far as I know.

[Allanea]

Okay.

I thought you (the player) had some plot plan of having a change in your government somewhere after Nunkid was taken so I was sort of letting you RP it out.

Failing this I can just start shooting at the capital with my divisional cruise missile assets in preparation for an offensive?

[Emperor Pudu]

Feel free to begin bombarding the capital, it would be an excellent backdrop XD

I do have a couple changes in the works before the climax, which will be the assassination. I expect that to go down during a battle in and around the capital city itself, and afterwards will come my surrender and emancipation, etc.

[Emperor Pudu]

ORBAT for the combined forces in the Yourang Sea, plus one very large battleship with a torpedo scar

34 Vengeance-class super-carriers
6 Hektor D. Vinterov-class assault carriers
189 Shrike-class helicopter carriers
40 Emden-class assault carriers
42 Athios-class light carriers
311 carriers

38 Torrent-class arsenal ships
38 Helina-class battlecruisers
123 Portlandia-class guided missile cruisers
173 Carthage-class air defense cruisers
224 Triara-class light cruisers
596 cruisers

190 Atlantia-class air defense destroyers
196 Adari-class air defense destroyers
92 Swiftsure-class general purpose destroyers
220 Grevant-class guided missile destroyers
60 Fredora-class guided missile destroyers
446 Champlain-class general purpose frigates
174 Lionfish-class guided missile frigates
108 Royale-class large frigates
1,486 destroyers and frigates

84 Seminole-class missile corvettes
360 Retribution-class attack corvettes
444 corvettes

200 Haenulf-class SSKs
251 Forthar-class SSNs
30 Port-class SSGNs
10 Pechtas-class heavy SSGNs
10 Praetor-class SSN aircraft carriers
10 Centurion-class SSN transports
61 Matron-class SSN submarine tenders
572 submarines

316 Executor-class logistics ships
370 Blitz-class landing ships
260 Perrigon-class minesweepers
80 Yourang-class transports
1,026 auxiliary ships

[The Black Hand of Nod]

Present and accounted for

[Hurtful Thoughts]

We're talking this Nod invasion in Chitzeland right? I can get an ORBAT for the colonial fleet and garrison there, right now I'm assuming there'll be between 30 and 40 divisions of native Chitze infantry backed up by some Imperial Guard. If this gets really hot though, there are expeditionary assets in the area as well that could respond to a Chitze crisis. What I had in mind was a little preview of my civil war kicking things off in the good old Christian Democratic Republic of East Chitzeland: The Praetorian Prefect will soon uncover evidence of an illegal operation of the enigmatic foreign minister Mr. White; White is using state resources to build and maintain a slave-army. The Praetorian Prefect will see this as nothing other than treason, attempt an arrest, and eventually Praetorian assets will mobilize against White's personal janissary corps. A major janissary base is located outside the south-easterly coastal Chitze city (whose name I forget xD). The battle there will create exactly the distraction Nod observers and spies have been waiting for for years, and they will jump at the chance to exploit it.

Just butting in for a sec... but someone approached me witht he offer to re-start the GASN program.
And I did a search for a little 'ol conflict from "the elder times" and found this post.

So what's going on this time?

Last time something happened on the peninsula I had to go and stab an ally in the back and bring their president's head back on a pike.
-Oh plan Magenta, how nobody remember you...

BTW, the north-east naval base is Locke. IIRC, the southern one was Bearmish.

[The Black Hand of Nod]

Just butting in for a sec... but someone approached me witht he offer to re-start the GASN program.
And I did a search for a little 'ol conflict from "the elder times" and found this post.

So what's going on this time?

Last time something happened on the peninsula I had to go and stab an ally in the back and bring their president's head back on a pike.
-Oh plan Magenta, how nobody remember you...

BTW, the north-east naval base is Locke. IIRC, the southern one was Bearmish.

Oh pretty simple, Pudu and I never had an official peace since I'm not a national government and we never had much diplomatic relations, back the last times things heated up Pudu originally had a plan of allying with Parthia to take the western half back.

That Plot died but the point remains that the Nod still has assets in southern Chitzeland(Such as the nearly uninhabitable Shetterdan ruins) that constantly have the looming specter of East Chitzeland looming overhead.

Basically the plan is to wait for some chaos to kick off to either push the border back enough to grant some breathing space, take a city back or to remove any potential for Pudu from attempting an attack again by forcing a treaty through force while the Pudite homeland is too busy fighting off the alliance to fully deploy against the Black Hand.

And yes I heard someone else was planning on carrying out their own plan as well.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

And yes I heard someone else was planning on carrying out their own plan as well.

That was Dephire's "Briskan empire"...

He is... out of the way...

[The Black Hand of Nod]

And yes I heard someone else was planning on carrying out their own plan as well.

That was Dephire's "Briskan empire"...

He is... out of the way...

Can I have his stuff?


And it wasn't just that "New Chitzeland" returned last summer with an idea to take back the central part of the country also. That didn't get far since much of their information was out of date.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

That was Dephire's "Briskan empire"...

He is... out of the way...

Can I have his stuff?


And it wasn't just that "New Chitzeland" returned last summer with an idea to take back the central part of the country also. That didn't get far since much of their information was out of date.

Oh, nice.
+He still owes 1 million years in back-rent.

I don't save countries cheaply. Not for a lump of dead sod that sparked three thermonuclear wars.

right now I think the northern swamps have been turned into a new Demilitarized-Zone with marine-raiders in mobile combat-frames.
-That, and a metric crud-ton of Hatarian refugees I thought would make a nice meatshield.

Speaking of outdated militaries... a large chunk of my non-indiginous stuff was crafted by players that ceased to exist... I remember getting a destroyer-escort, and expanding it into DDH, DDL, and DDG lines (helicopter, shore-bombardment, and stategic-missileer) of near-cruiser capability.

Meanwhile my Aux. Cruisers from Leafanistan have largely been turned into LHD-grade, and my three medium CVs have been augmented by going INS-Vikramaditya on my old cruisers. My massive submarine-force has largely been Foxtrot-GUPPYied and even Golf'd a few old ones into SSBs and SSGs (three and twelve munitions, respectively).
-I still generally avoid VLS, though.

My air-force probably changed the most. (Chitzeland was the last place to phase-out my [5] F-4 Phantom IIs, largely because those things frightened the Pudites, and I wanted to have something that stood a snowball's chance of penning their air-defenses the B-58 hustler-way)

My country is still pretty seriously bamboo-tech-Fu.

[Emperor Pudu]

Terrible Great! to see you HT. I wonder if Nod will come back anytime soon? I have some maps of Chitzeland from back in the day and I'd love to get something going down there. After this war at least I'll be fighting there as part of a little civil war between different factions of my government who may or may not appreciate the peace I make with the invaders. You and Nod are invited to that unless you can cook something else up first.

As for the war in Kursarrum, I've got five IC weeks of back-posts to work on, the first week is almost done and it will be the most extensive. After that I'm hoping to pump out one IC-week of posts every RL week. Once I catch up to the assassination we're in the endgame. I know New Gothland wants to post once or twice more, and Allanea, if you've got anything up your sleeve feel free to roll it out. Otherwise, I'm going to try and move myself forward as regularly as possible. Stand by for disappointment/actual posting/unknown third eventuality. Let's go!

[Hurtful Thoughts]

Terrible Great! to see you HT. I wonder if Nod will come back anytime soon? I have some maps of Chitzeland from back in the day and I'd love to get something going down there. After this war at least I'll be fighting there as part of a little civil war between different factions of my government who may or may not appreciate the peace I make with the invaders. You and Nod are invited to that unless you can cook something else up first.

As for the war in Kursarrum, I've got five IC weeks of back-posts to work on, the first week is almost done and it will be the most extensive. After that I'm hoping to pump out one IC-week of posts every RL week. Once I catch up to the assassination we're in the endgame. I know New Gothland wants to post once or twice more, and Allanea, if you've got anything up your sleeve feel free to roll it out. Otherwise, I'm going to try and move myself forward as regularly as possible. Stand by for disappointment/actual posting/unknown third eventuality. Let's go!

Well, I'm currently in the middle of overhauling my entire armored-force technology.

And since I exported that stuff liberally, I had to inform Nod of the recent changes.

Yeah, I'm replacing my ubiquious mobile armored boxes with something people may recognize a bit more easily.

[The Black Hand of Nod]

Well here finally.

Can I have his stuff?


And it wasn't just that "New Chitzeland" returned last summer with an idea to take back the central part of the country also. That didn't get far since much of their information was out of date.

Oh, nice.
+He still owes 1 million years in back-rent.

I don't save countries cheaply. Not for a lump of dead sod that sparked three thermonuclear wars.

And I don't work for free either, as the last war I was in proved when I stole everything that wasn't tied down and then stole the ties.

right now I think the northern swamps have been turned into a new Demilitarized-Zone with marine-raiders in mobile combat-frames.
-That, and a metric crud-ton of Hatarian refugees I thought would make a nice meatshield.

About all Hatarians are good for anyway.

Speaking of outdated militaries... a large chunk of my non-indiginous stuff was crafted by players that ceased to exist... I remember getting a destroyer-escort, and expanding it into DDH, DDL, and DDG lines (helicopter, shore-bombardment, and stategic-missileer) of near-cruiser capability.

I had to rethink a lot of things in my own military along with remaking the entire system on how my nation is even designed. Most of the old allied nations where my group would hide out in have in ceased to exist.

Basically I divided parts of my nation up into being a mix of pirates and sea gypsies while the rest have settled in all those wastelands of long forgotten nations, that's the reason Chitzeland is so important to Nod.
Chitzeland is the largest piece of dry land that they have influence that isn't a complete wasteland.

Meanwhile my Aux. Cruisers from Leafanistan have largely been turned into LHD-grade, and my three medium CVs have been augmented by going INS-Vikramaditya on my old cruisers. My massive submarine-force has largely been Foxtrot-GUPPYied and even Golf'd a few old ones into SSBs and SSGs (three and twelve munitions, respectively).
-I still generally avoid VLS, though.

I miss Leafanistan, I remember being a favored customer of his Mafia store back in the Jolt Days.

I think I took a few of the tankers I bought off of him and upgraded them as well. I took the Q-ship ideas I had used during the Chitze war and simply went with setting up arsenal tankers. Then I decided that since I already was on a roll here I just started making a whole line of disguised cargoships that can serve as everything from Amphibious ships to something along the lines of a Light Carrier.

I round it up by claiming I have ships that scrappers sold me which gives me a decent fleet of 30+ year old ships that can be used simply as reserves or transports.

My air-force probably changed the most. (Chitzeland was the last place to phase-out my [5] F-4 Phantom IIs, largely because those things frightened the Pudites, and I wanted to have something that stood a snowball's chance of penning their air-defenses the B-58 hustler-way)

I still need to work on my airforce, still use a Mixture of East and West, never enough bombers and EW craft though.

Naval Aviation though is a major mixed bag, the groups that contain the old fossils and the ones recovered from scrappers uses planes like the Skyhawk variants for simplicity or because the carriers are too dated to fit anything newer. My upper group uses MiG-29Ks along with some jumpjets and a handful of other planes.

My country is still pretty seriously bamboo-tech-Fu.

And I stick with Schizo Tech when it works, the only downside is the high turnover rate of logistics workers who work themselves to death trying to keep track of who gets what.

[Emperor Pudu]

Hey Nod and HT, (this is the thread that never dies! muahahaha!) when I wrap up operation recompense I was going to start a new thread for the unrest in chitzeland. This will be post-invasion, during the reign of the first post-war emperor. There will be some civil conflict as we abolish slavery and police former slave-trading institutions and some other problems stemming from a few other opposing factions that will be active in the colony. At that time I invite anyone with a history on the chitze peninsula to do whatever it is you wanted to do. I might even try and rouse parthian interest in this matter again. Because, as you know, this operation recompense thread has been alive forever and a day, don't place any large bets on my moving on anytime real soon but when I do (and I've been posting in the last few days! I swear I need only like 4-5 more posts to wrap up all my storylines in the thing and move on!) I plan to kick off something in chitzeland. If you don't notice this post by then I'll send you a TG or something because I don't want anyone to miss out on the fun.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

Hey Nod and HT, (this is the thread that never dies! muahahaha!) when I wrap up operation recompense I was going to start a new thread for the unrest in chitzeland. This will be post-invasion, during the reign of the first post-war emperor. There will be some civil conflict as we abolish slavery and police former slave-trading institutions and some other problems stemming from a few other opposing factions that will be active in the colony. At that time I invite anyone with a history on the chitze peninsula to do whatever it is you wanted to do. I might even try and rouse parthian interest in this matter again. Because, as you know, this operation recompense thread has been alive forever and a day, don't place any large bets on my moving on anytime real soon but when I do (and I've been posting in the last few days! I swear I need only like 4-5 more posts to wrap up all my storylines in the thing and move on!) I plan to kick off something in chitzeland. If you don't notice this post by then I'll send you a TG or something because I don't want anyone to miss out on the fun.

At the immediate postwar, most of my efforts were in rebuilding, re-arming, making the military deterent look more imposing than it actually was by sending my last five infamous F-4 Phantom IIs to the Chitzi coastline (I spell the diminutive form of Chitzeland with a second I, always will), and developing a force of commandoes.

One aspiring pupil, of course, was a young girl by the name of Alexandria Sheppard, later to take the alias "Montoya".
-The things we did to that poor girl...

[Emperor Pudu]

http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1230/477731


Look what I've found.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1230/477731


Look what I've found.

*immediately clicks to end*

Holy shitfuck, it's the real-deal!

Time to get back at doing a proper body-count.

Before I forget, the march on Pelsgord was originally intended as a follow-up assault to relieve the shock-forces attacking Ort. Recon planes spotted an overwhelmingly-large column of Parthian tanks and mechanized infantry and began to entrench themselves in and around Pelsgord to block the Parthian counter-advance as long-range artillery tried to slow them down.

The battle itself was entirely un-planned. And the stakes were pretty much on-par with Prokhorovka.
Those who survived on the Chitzi/Hurti side were very, very few.

[The Black Hand of Nod]

http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1230/477731


Look what I've found.

*immediately clicks to end*

Holy shitfuck, it's the real-deal!

Time to get back at doing a proper body-count.

Before I forget, the march on Pelsgord was originally intended as a follow-up assault to relieve the shock-forces attacking Ort. Recon planes spotted an overwhelmingly-large column of Parthian tanks and mechanized infantry and began to entrench themselves in and around Pelsgord to block the Parthian counter-advance as long-range artillery tried to slow them down.

The battle itself was entirely un-planned. And the stakes were pretty much on-par with Prokhorovka.
Those who survived on the Chitzi/Hurti side were very, very few.

I found that last month also, damn that went on for way too long, I was pretty damn cranky by the end of it.

Automati was only meant to be another delaying action in order to take out another layer of Parthia's armor, I had expected him to waste time trying to clear the mostly abandoned and booby trapped city before going out the other end, of course he had wised up to that and went around the city instead.

So I brought in things to pin down his armor and out flank him instead, still the only reason why Ustia and I won was mostly because Parthia had stopped posting by then and didn't put up a defending post.

And I decided to go for broke with kinetic bombardment.

Because Parthia was pretty much AFK by thenI basically gave him the best terms of leaving as compromise.

Still wiping out the entire Immortals Division along with most of Shetterdan was one for the history books, even though it led to depopulation and genocide of most of Southwest Chitzeland.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

Edit: Remind new Chitzeland that I supplied his military heavily with stuff, and will likely upgrade a lot of it at cost.

Still wiping out the entire Immortals Division along with most of Shetterdan was one for the history books, even though it led to depopulation and genocide of most of Southwest Chitzeland.

Killing several pudites with 'exotic' propaganda papers was somewhat more hilarious, though.

Also, I finally noticed why I tend to blow the chitzi conflict out of proportion.

1. It was my first successful RP against other nations.
2. I was a first year nation, up against Pudu and Parthians, both were second year nations, each with literally four times the resources and a reputation of conquest.
-Somehow, myself and a few other first-year nations (Wanderjar, BHON, Leafanistan) managed to hold their own.

I can see how a newer player would look and say: Oh, it's four '05-'06 nations up against two '04s, obv the numbers will prevail...
-But the RP was set back in '06. Any nation '04 and older was pretty darn close to being a regional superpower. Nowadays that sense of such huge predatory nations lurking the forums is gone. But the threat likely still exists.