Maitea wrote:Because of the consant air raids, foreign invasions, and minimal support, generals agree that there's no other time than now, as if they take too long, they'll be too weakened to fight by the time they have an unbeatable strategy. They've come up with a quickly designed plan titled "Not silent but deadly", which goes as follows.
1. With as much support as possible, spray toxic gases over Cedorian defenses while keeping the planes that spray heavily protected in the process.
2. While the defenses are busy supplying themselves with the equipment to fight off the gas, send in as much as possible from each direction, leaving at the least one side loosely defended.
3. Fool the support by sending a lot of planes in the east and west sides of the country, making them think we're doing a split-up attack, and while they use everything they have on these two sides, we charge in from north or south, depending on which one is the least defended.
4. By the time the enemy has gotten used to the gas and are pretty much immune, we've already made a foothold.
5. Send extra troops to the foothold areas, and once everything's done, abandon east and west and begin the northern/and or southern charges.
This plan is started immediately and troops are on their way, for this is Maitea's last resort.
We either gain the upper hand in this battle, or lay in ash.
Skies over Maitea"Comrade Leader, there are a group of unidentified Maitean planes currently vectoring towards our PRA comrades positions along the border, escorted by fighter jets, vector to intercept and shoot down as many as you can"
"Roger Tower, but wouldn't it be better to continue escorting the bombers of the second wave?"
"This take precedence Comrade, we don't know what's in those plans, but it certainly can't be good."
"Fair enough, on intercept course now"
The PAFC fighter squadrons caught up with the Maitean 'gas planes' and their escorts before they reached the border. Although the gas planes are escorted, the PAFC's superior combat experience proves to be more than enough to deal with their escort fighters, either by destroying them or keeping them engaged so that other comrades can slip through. Most of the gas planes appear to have been destroyed, however, a few have made it through to the border, and the PAFC took some fighter losses in the engagement.
Casualties:
PAFC: 9 fighter planes
Cedorian-Maitean BorderTemporary confusion, and then brief panic reigned over the Cedorian line as the gas was deployed. However, quickly, the officers realised what was occurring. Shouting to their soldiers to equip their gas masks (like most modern armies, a standard issue gas mask was given to all infantry in the PRA) they themselves also equipped theirs. In all, the gas attack is largely ineffective. The artillery guns are too far away to be affected by the gas, and continue pounding the Maitean positions, and the armoured tank formations are still in reserve, waiting to make an armoured counterattack if necessary. Although the gas masks themselves are uncomfortable, and some soldiers did not put them on in time, the PRA lines hold. More significantly, PRA Commanders also realise that their enemy has made a tactical mistake. They were expecting their own soldiers to charge through the gas cloud to get to the Cedorians!
Unbelievably, the Maiteans had shot themselves in the foot, figuratively speaking, as most of their soldiers would probably be unwilling to charge into the gas cloud to engage the PRA. Even so, officers are preparing their comrade soldiers just in case they are needed to fend off a final attack.
Casualties:
PRA: 1800 killed, approx
Skies Over MaiteaBurst of flame erupts on the ground of the cities and towns below as thousands of bombs being dropped on Maitean population centres creates an ironically beautiful flash to light up the night sky. The second wave of PAFC bombers is even more devastating than the first, targets given priority were arms factories, AA Guns, bridges and several key railroads leading out of the cities. Although the AA guns do again take out some bombers, the PAFC bombing campaign seems to have inflicted heavy damage to infrastructure in Maitea's population centres, particularly the capital, which has been extensively bombed by both waves. As the second wave of bombers begins their RTB processes, leaving a burning trail of flame, smoke and destruction behind them, the third and final wave begins it's ascent towards Maitea.
With the Maiteans needing to charge a gas cloud, and their cities being bombed to rubble from the air, things do look bleak for the Imperialists. Maybe next time they will learn not to mess with the People's Republic of Cedoria.
Casualties:
PAFC: 18 strike bombers
Maiteans: Unknown, presumably very heavy, confirmation needed.
(OOC: Seriously, why do you think most gas attacks in WWI failed miserably? You are expecting your soldiers to charge straight into a gas cloud that they have created. I've no problem with you having this in the story mind you, just so long as you can think of a creative way to motivate your soldiers to try and charge into a cloud of poison gas against determined enemy positions, your morale is pretty low anyway.
Good job on the narrative and story-writing though, that goes for everybody,
I like it, I like it a lot, keep em coming'