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The Latao Conflict

Posted: Aug 14 2005, 04:06 PM

"My Lord Orfosi," Lord-Commander General Fyreskar was in no mood to suck up to the Minister of Defence, but this time he had to, "are you aware of what Starblaydia's involvement in this campaign will bring us?"

"Glory," the Minister said porudly, "and lots of it."

"My Lord," Aerys was attempting to find a subtle way to put his point across, "what did we do to bring down Latao's government previously?"

"A surgcal, strategic bombing campaign."

"And what has prompted the government downfall this time?"

"Um." The Minister was lost for words. "Not very much."

"Precisely," Aerys knew he had him, "Twice we have shaken our fists at the Confederacy and twice their government has crumbled. To invade now would merely be a waste of time, money, resources and ultimately Starblaydi lives."

"Your point?"

"Let the babies have their conquest against a fallen opponent, we have bigger fish to fry."

*****

With their mere presence having been enough to scare Latao into threatening the use of WMDs, the Starblaydi Battlegroup, codenamed Indris, headed back to port. The other, more warlike nations would handle this one, and there would be no turkey-shoot for the Starblaydi Navy. Not yet, at least.

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Posted: Aug 15 2005, 09:53 AM

"Sir the resistance seems to be growing as we approach the capital..."

"Is it anything we cannot easily handle, General?" replied Commander Horacio aboard The Dalutha, one of the navy's flagship carriers.

"No sir, nothing we can't squash in a matter of days," replied General Samuel.

"Alright then, proceed as plan. The NGM has already been given its orders to split from the rest of the forces and begin their search of the warheads. People seem to be forgetting that's the only reason we're in Latao."

"Sir, yes sir. And the what of our approach to the capital?"

"I want you to blockade the city, no more. Not a single soldier is to enter before the Lamonians get there, undersood? Once we receive confirmation that the Lamonians are with us, we shall ascend on the city with full force. Before then, I just want a blockade and bombing of military positions, AND ONLY MILITARY POSITIONS."

"Understood, sir."

"Oh, and I want a feed from the NGM squad atleast once an hour in their quest to locate the nuclear weapons."

"Yes sir."

Nedalia

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Posted: Aug 15 2005, 02:10 PM

Once the Lamonian forces had gotten past the mountains, the Latin opposition slacked off considerably. About 220 Lamonian infantrymen had died, but that wouldn't even slow down the Lamonian Expeditionary Force. With the tanks back in the lead, the Lamonian forces steadily advanced towards the Latin capitol.

In the meantime, behind Lamonian lines; more Lamonian nuclear experts were searching for any hidden nuclear weapons that they could find. They had the map coordinates of the last transmission between the first team and the Free Republic, but the Latins might well have moved them by now.

The Lamonian special forces units were far in advance of the main Lamonian force, and they were looking for where Latao could have hidden their kidnapees.

Lamoni

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Posted: Aug 15 2005, 10:06 PM

Bridge of the KNV Invictus

Admiral Calen stode amidst a group of bustling sailors on the bridge of his flagship. Several of them where at the comm stations, relaying many messages to the other members of the fleet, coordinating their landing preparations. The landing forces had already begun assembling, the fleet itself was a couple of hours from the Latin shores. Turning calmly to a blonde haired sailor looking at some data on the radar station, and checking off some things on a clipboard he had, the Admiral cleared his throat. "Sailor!" he shouted at the blonde man witht he clipboard. The man startled and looked up, standing at attention as the Admiral looked him over. "How stand the Latin costal defenses?" The Admiral asked. The blonde sailor smile nervously, looked at his clipboard quickly and turned back to the Admiral. "According to our intel the Latin forces are attempting to reinforce their defenses around the capital, attempting to halt the Lamoni and Nedalian forces. What defense they have are slim."

The Admiral nodded at the blonde sailor. "What about submarines or other defenses designed to impede our progress?" Admiral Calen asked. The sailor looked at his clipboard again and smiled. "Again Admiral, most have been moved moved up north to cause havoc with the other members of the invasion. They do appear to still have some light defenses and also seem to be in the process of deploying some mines in the water to halt any landing craft." Crossing his arms, the Admiral looked like the anicent collosus of Rhodes as he turned to another sailor at the comm station. "Notify the fleet to take it slow and stop several miles out so we don't run in to any of thos Latin suprises. Also, deploy some countermeasures, I don't want to loose half our force before we even land." The comm sailor nodded at the Admiral's instructions and began sending the message.

Meanwhile below deck

General Hamar shut the metal door behind him and slowly walked over to the podium and rested his hands on the sides. Before him, sitting in multiple school desks, sat several of the men who had been wearing the non-descript clothing before. The thing was, that now they where dressed in wet-suits and sporting some rather fierce looking camoflage paint. Next to many of them sat some of their semi-auto rifles and air-tight backpacks. Nodding at the men, who numbered at about twenty, the General began his briefing. "Good evening to you gentleman. I'm sure the Director of the Special Service has already notified you of why you are here, so I'll be brief." Pressing a button on the podium, a large map of Latao was illuminated on a display behind him. General Hamar pointed to the northeast and the northwest. "Our allies are advancing south towards the Latin capital from these positions. We also know that Lamoni has dispatched several special forces in an attempt to rescue their experts. We expect to be coming up along the southern end of Latao, just about here." General Hamar pointed just southeast of Latao. "As you no doubt already know, there are some mines and light defenses already deployed at our projected landing area. You men, however, will not be waiting for them to be softened up by countermeasures, you will be leaving as soon as this brefing is over."

The General pushed the button, turning off the map behind him. "Your objective will be to aide the Lamoni in their quest to rescue their men. However, as I speak, other Special Service men are being prepped to go in and disable any silos and anti-aircraft stations they find. You need not worry yourself about those though. The lives of those Lamoni experts is paramount to you. Allow nothing..." The General paused briefly for dramatic effect. "...and I mean NOTHING, get in the way of you and your objective. Once you land, split up into five teams of four each. Move swift, and efficently." The men nodded at General Hamar. "Dismissed!" With those words the General watched as the men quickly gathered their bags and rifles, leaving the room in a hurry.

Several hours later

With torpedoes and depth charges taking care of any Latin attempts to counter the landing vessles, the Khazaronian invasion was underway. The initial wave, light transport ships, would deploy several thousand men to secure the beachead and make it safe fore the mechanized forces and artillery to be deployed. On one particular boat, sloshing throught he rough waves, a lieutenant turned to adress his men. "Remember men, our leader is watching! Make sure he is not ashamed!" The nodded and even a few let out a roar as they griped onto their M16 rifles.

Not long after, the boat made landfall, encountering severe gunfire from machine nests above the beach, as well as some artillery fire exploding near their vessle as they ran from the boat, letting out a vicious war cry as they leapt from the boat. All up and down, several other boats where landing and letting out their cargo. Shouting war-cries, the men surged forward, kneeling down and laying down covering fire, allowing their fellow soldiers who where still disembarking, time to get into position for the push. A few of the last landing vessles where caught in the middle of artillery fire and exploding in giant red and orange plumes of flame.

Try as hard as the Latin forces did, they couldn't seem to halt the landing force from amassing on their shores. Within an hour the Khazaronian forces had managed to secure several of the machine gun nests on the beach and had neutralized half of the artillery. The remaining men began to surrender as the situation appeared more and more hopeless for the Latin defenders.

Khazaron

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Posted: Aug 16 2005, 01:59 PM

As General Smythe was working on the dispositions of the Lamonian forces ashore, there was a knock on the door. It turned out to be Colonel Shane, and he reported that the Khazaronian forces were landing on Latao's southern shores.

Nodding, the General asked how the search for the nukes and the experts was progressing. "We have yet to find either of our objectives, but we expect that Latao would have hidden both objectives deep inside their own defenses by now. If I had to bet, we'll find both of them here." The Colonel pointed to a spot that was in the exact center of the pocket of Latin controlled territory. According to the map, it was really an unremarkable area, with nothing that would bring attention to it. Basically, it held a lot of farms. "You base this on what, Colonel?," the General wanted to know.

"Sir, it's the only place that would make sense. It's an unremarkable area that one wouldn't think much of from a military point of view; unlike some cave in the mountains which we would be more likely to look for. Second, there is a heavy concentration of Latin forces there, and they wouldn't be there unless there is a reason. Especially since they are severely outnumbered."

"Colonel, send twenty Special Forces troops to that area. That should tell us if you are correct."

"Yes sir."

Lamoni

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Posted: Aug 16 2005, 02:19 PM

After securing the southern coast of Latao, the Khazaronian Expeditionary Force began to set up makeshift docks to begin landing their larger equipment. Due to the excellent organization skills of General Hamar, Admiral Calen, and their respective staffs, the unloading went rather quick and by the next day all equipment had been unloaded as was already being prepped to move north and meet up with the Lamonian and Nedalian forces near the capital.

General Hamar had established his main base camp several miles north of the beachead where his forces had landed, in a small Latin village. Needless to say the locals weren't exactly happy at the presence of armed soldiers in their town, or the fact that the Khazaronians where taking most of their food and supplies to fuel the war effort, but it did provide for some stability in light of the evacuation of the government.

As the ground troops where securing the lands just north of their landing zone, ferreting out thos of the Latin Armed Forces that remained in the region, the 1st,3rd and 5th Armored Divisions, along with a generous compliment of artillery, began the hard push north. Their goal was to soften up the Latin forces and get rid of any enemy amored units or artillery nests, in order to make it easier for ground forces to secure the strategic points between there and the capital.

Meanwhile, the Latin forces seemed to have caught on to the Khazaronian movements in the south and where sending some troops to try and reinforce the region. However, the troops found it hard to mobilize or communicate as reports started to drift in that several Latin Comm Stations, as well as military outposts had been attacked by an unknown force. And of course, the Special Service group dispatched by General Hamar was slowly working its' way up North, after managing to secure some information that the Lamonian experts where being held up their.

Khazaron

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Posted: Aug 17 2005, 12:36 PM

The NGM was quick and ruthless in its pursuit after the nuclear warheads. They had already advanced to central Latao, with the final destination being the mountains in the western part of the country. There was suspicions that the warheads might have been moved somewhere else since the latest batch of intelligence, but it was still a good place to look.

They were quick to wipe out any resistance they faced, and their stealth allowed them to go mostly undetected. The Nedalian Forces were already establishing themselves outside the capital, awaiting the arrival of the Lamonian forces, so that objective looked pretty much set. It was now on the NGM to locate the warheads and complete their second objective....

Nedalia

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Posted: Aug 17 2005, 02:36 PM

Reaching a strangely unnamed river just outside the Latin capitol, the Lamonian forces waited until the final assault on the capitol (OOC: whatever he named it) would begin. All that was holding up the assault was the advance of the Khazaronian forces that were coming up from the south.

Meanwhile, the special forces troops were on their way to the 'supposed' location of the hostages, and the nukes. Despite the fact that the Latin capitol was pretty much surrounded, the troops stationed at the remote farmland hadn't moved at all. It was reasoned that the force was either a decoy, or that they were much more likely to be gaurding something that the Latins thought was of high importance.

From the point of view of the experts, they were bruised and bloodied from the repeated beatings that they had suffered from their time in Latin captivity. They had even been beaten with bamboo sticks, and that was VERY painful.

Lamoni

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Posted: Aug 17 2005, 06:12 PM

Nedalian Casaulty Count thus far:

Infantry: 923
Land Vehicles: 12
Aircrafts (including Transport and Attack Helicopters): 5
Sea Vessels: 0

Nedalia

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Posted: Aug 17 2005, 06:46 PM

"Mr Chairman, the Khazaron-Lamonian forces are ripping through the nation of Latao, and the Starblaydi Navy have decided to take their battleships and go home."

"Hmm, I do believe this leaves us as the main offshore prescence. Tell the officers to patrol the seas, and take out anything that looks suspicious. Oh, and recall the Boartusk, Unity and Linford."

"Yussir."

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Posted: Aug 17 2005, 07:30 PM

In the distance the Corporal could say six Latin tanks headed their way. Turning to the other tanks in his group, positioned in a V pattern, he raised his hand back and forcefully brought it down in the direction of the Latin tanks, shouting: "Give em hell!!" With that the grouping of twelve Khazaronian tanks toke off and began firing on the six Latin tanks. Due to their outdated nature, the Khazaronian force lost four of their own number before defeating the Latin tanks. All across southern Latao, it was the same story, Khazaronians, while outnumbering the Latin defenders, were still suffering some rather nasty casualties, due to the overwhelming number of outdated equipment they had. Still, the resolve of the KEF was strong, and they kept pushing forward. Already they where 3/4 of the way to their objective at the Latin capital.

All armored divisions had been deployed and were wreaking havoc on Latin defense positions, making them ripe for the coming of the Khazaronian Infantry. One particular city had seen a rather nasty urban battle between Khazaronian and Latin forces. Apparently the Latins had established the area as a major resupply base for their forces in the capital. The situation got bad enough to warrant General Hamar to send the 7th-11th armored divisions in to begin shelling the city. When all was said and done the Khazaronian Infantry toke control of a city in flames. To their credit though, they infantry began helping put the fires out and restoring order in the ruined city.

As Khazaronian forces where coming ever closer to their objective of the Latin capital, the Special Service men had managed to secure most of the Anti-Aircraft, and missle silos in southern Latao, leaving only a handful of them left, located in the area just north of the Khazaronian Army's current position.

Total Khazaronian Casualties:
Infantry:1,384
Tanks:14
Aircraft:5
Sea Vessels:4(All of which where landing craft for the initial invasion.)

Khazaron

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Posted: Aug 17 2005, 09:06 PM

While the invasion in the mainland of Latao was going smoothly, the island to the east (Nyssa) had seen no military action taken against it. That is until about 35,000 Nedalian troops landed on its northern and eastern shores just after midnight, under direct orders of President Bren himself. By night-time the next day, the entire island, based on the information received portraying the Latin defenses, would be under Nedalian control. Little resistance was expected, and minimal cost in lives would follow.

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Posted: Aug 18 2005, 10:56 PM

The KEF HQ was abuzz with various personell packing up the equipment and preparing for the move north. General Hamar himself was overseeing much of it. Just a few hours ago he had recieved notice that the last noticeable obstacle to the advance on the capital, a rather sizeable contigent of Latin regular infantry, had withdrawn to a rather un-remarkable speck of land(OOC Note: The one where the Lamoni experts are.) As several Privates where securing the last bit of cargo onto the back of an army truck, the General climbed up into the passenger seat of a Jeep and with a loud roar pointed north and shouted: "To the Capital, and to Victory!" A loud shout came in reply from the troops that had been loaded onto the various vehicles, and continued even as they drove off north. Of course the General was going to leave behind enough men to maintain control of the village, but the majority would be coming with him to help oversee the Khazaronian assault on the Latin capital.

Khazaron

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Posted: Aug 19 2005, 02:17 PM

The Lamonian special forces troops had finally made it to within gun sight of where it was thought that the experts were being held. The Latins were there alright, but there as yet no indications of the hostages being held there. The problem was that the Latins were surrounding several farms, and they'd have to pick the right one to make contact with the enemy worthwhile. Worse yet, with the sheer number of Latin troops about, recon of the farms would be suicide. So, the soldiers called out for more troops on their encrypted UHF single sideband satellite radios.

Lamoni

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Posted: Aug 20 2005, 02:28 PM

As the main KEF force was getting into position around the southern part of the Latin capital, the select Special Service force was making it's way to the outer perimeter of Latin camp suspected of holding the Lamoni experts. In total, only ten of the Khazaronian Special Service group had made it to the area, with the other ten still enroute. The leader of the group there, a rather gruff looking brown-haired individual covered in camo, was looking through his binoculars at the base. After a few minutes the man shoke his head and placed the binoculars back in their pouch. Turning to his men, who like him where all laying prostrated on the ground, he whispered:"That place is way to heavily guarded for us to do anything but sit here and relay intell on the situation. We're going to need a heavy strike force in order to penetrate their defenses."

One of the men laying to the far right of the group replied. "It looks like most of the men here are the leftovers from our attacks in the south. That would explain why we where having such an easy time plowing through those suckers. They where all being recalled to reinforce the defenses around here. It makes sense really, it's the Latins last bargaining chip." The leader turned and nodded at his comrade. "Right." the leader said, then turned to the comm officer of the group. "Get on the wire and tell the General about the situation. I don't suspect they can spare any men right now, so we'll just sit tight until they can. But, if they can, have them send up some more Special Service guys to help strengthen our presence. As far as I know, we're the only ones out here." The comm officer nodded in reply and the grabbed the walkie-talkie and began relaying the message back to HQ.