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Post by Empire of Rashad on Aug 23, 2021 7:10:34 GMT
The Person was soon revealed to be a Duom Asderaordian Officer bearing the personal banner of the new Queen Theodora. From his uniform he appeared to be a Brigadier of the Guard and considering the situation would probably be the highest ranking officer from the fortress. The Man planted the banner and walked forward requesting to speak with the captain personally.
The Man spoke quickly, reporting that the Queen wanted to know how many ships were anchored of the coast and how many people could they fit aboard as the queens guard was to be evacuated when the Goadfail Returned from Heel and use the battleship as a floating base to plan the reconquest but for now they needed to evacuate at least the royal herself as they Aztecs had retreated to an underground system of caves that eventually lead to under the fortress. The queen was requesting a place aboard the Halcyon until her battleship returned. She also requested the DOC ship to send a party to help escort them incase they got ambushed
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Post by Emperor Florin von Marcum on Aug 23, 2021 8:22:47 GMT
The Person was soon revealed to be a Duom Asderaordian Officer bearing the personal banner of the new Queen Theodora. From his uniform he appeared to be a Brigadier of the Guard and considering the situation would probably be the highest ranking officer from the fortress. The Man planted the banner and walked forward requesting to speak with the captain personally. The Man spoke quickly, reporting that the Queen wanted to know how many ships were anchored of the coast and how many people could they fit aboard as the queens guard was to be evacuated when the Goadfail Returned from Heel and use the battleship as a floating base to plan the reconquest but for now they needed to evacuate at least the royal herself as they Aztecs had retreated to an underground system of caves that eventually lead to under the fortress. The queen was requesting a place aboard the Halcyon until her battleship returned. She also requested the DOC ship to send a party to help escort them incase they got ambushed The Captain thought for a moment, his head swimming with the barrage of questions. So many topics at once were surely the expertise of one of those bookkeeper types. Still he continued on as best he could. “Her Majesty is, of course, welcome aboard the Halcyon. We serve at her disposal. The four cargo-passenger ships we have fit 60 each, comfortably. So 240 in total. More perhaps if they’re willing to squeeze in a bit. I’d suggest the more important members board the Halcyon. We may need her armor yet. The rest of the DOC fleet is out there” he gestured toward the ships visible in the distance. “It would only take a few minutes to convene with them. I would suggest we leave port a bit and allow them to accompany us back. Just to be sure we aren’t pinned to the shore line here. Prince Gabriel, of Divinium is aboard one of the merchant marine vessels accompanying them. Was a great pain to get him transferred in time.” He scratched the back of his neck, hoping he had remembered everything. “And I do suggest you hurry.” |
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Post by Empire of Rashad on Aug 23, 2021 14:05:42 GMT
The bow wake of the TS Stilkate was spraying glistening white water as it plowed through the waters towards the Southern islands of Duom Asderaordia with captain Uknudho at the helm hoping the engines would bring it to the site of combat before anything bad happened.
The Halcyon's captain stood on the deck looking out towards the island with the crew scurrying about beneath on the sand trying to prepare the ship.
Further out at sea Crewmen on the DOC fleet were scrubbing the decks in the sweltering tropical heat complaining that they were the ones out here while there fellows were below playing a game of cards.
Inside the fortress the Guards were running about as they prepared for the departure of the Queen to the waiting cruiser then onto her battleship to prepare for the recapture of the country.
Inside the keep the Queen was preparing for her departure gathering important papers containing maps and charts that would be vital for the war effort.
Suddenly A massive Explosion erupts beneath the fortress throwing stone and earth hundreds of meters into the air. While at sea the different crew of the nearby ships saw a massive cloud of smoke lift from the island, The Halcyon was pushed into the ocean by the shockwave as well as knocking over the crew standing on the beach. The sudden wave from the shockwave allowing flowing water into the hole in the bow of the halcyon ruining the temporary patch with the bow of the ship quickly flooding causing a rapid forward list.
In the distance the Stilkate's captain Uknudho saw a massive cloud emerge from the distant island followed a few seconds later by a massive boom shttering some of the glass windows.
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Post by Wilhelm Cransnikov on Aug 23, 2021 20:00:58 GMT
With matters in Saxony temporarily settled an expeditionary force of ten thousand Soldiers of the Northern army and twenty thousand Drakenber "Blackboot' soldiers specialized in suppression of hostile regions is sent to support Duom's liberation. The force shall be escorted by four armored cruisers the HMS Diligence, Charity, Patience, and Temperance.
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Post by The Realm of Moderal on Aug 23, 2021 23:36:35 GMT
The stilatke begins to speed up, moving from it's cruising speed going faster and faster. The captain orders the vaval group to see if there were any vessels leaving the island.
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Post by Empire of Rashad on Aug 24, 2021 4:28:43 GMT
The marines of the halcyon were the first to arrive at the ruined fortress. the walls had been completely obliterated and much of the remanning buildings were on fire. The keep itself was mostly intact with the front completely collapsed and the back half somewhat standing but it wouldn't take much to cause it to collapse.
The Marines job was to find any survivors and the keep looked the most promising place to find the queen so that was were they started. The rubble was mostly massive stone blocks with small planks of wood poking out here and there.
After around 20 minuets of searching they saw a female figure against the back wall of the castle. The queen seemed to be unresponsive and had splinters of both wood and rock embedded in her body covered in blood. The Marines decided that they needed to get her out now and hurriedly carried the body back to their ship.
when they got back to the docks on of the hospital ships had already docked and they decided that was were they would take her onboard the surgeon set about the task of removing the splinters and hopefully save the queen. While the crew of the ships now docking set about moving as many survivors as they could from the rubble.
The Queen woke up 4 hours after surgery with many scrapes and cuts and in much pain but she was alive and the reclamation of her queendom would go ahead...
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Post by Fleischmann on Aug 26, 2021 0:44:34 GMT
The Hauhkunoleiks Hansasfleg had been at sea for two and a half weeks before they finally made sight of Duom. As they did so, they made their way to last pocket of Asderaordian resistance against the ascendant Ilhicaco Empire. Bringing the ships into a free port, they began off-loading relief supplies and coordinating with the local government and military to find out where all the port towns were located, how many rail lines were present, which of said lines were still believed to be operational, and what was known of the enemy troop and fleet movements currently. After five days of having refuelled and gotten as much information as possible, the Hansasfleg set off for their chosen target. A peninsula north of the main pocket and a fair ways behind the current front lines. It had been decided that rather than trying to fight out of the pocket, it would make more sense to open a second front far behind the lines. The location was chosen due to it being halfway between the front and the Ilhicaco border, as well as having a rather easy to secure connection to the main land and a port. Initial reports showed that the port was only lightly garrisoned. A few hundred marines had been put ashore via longboats and launches, along with some small field guns and mortars. From on top of nearby hill which they had entrenched on, a Biligrstafs prepared to start shelling what had been identified as the garrison at around midnight. Some plainclothes teams were also standing ready to cut the telegraph wires a few minutes before they started, so as to slow down the reaction time. Finally, a regular Stafs of marines had been making their way into the town over the course of the last two days. All of which disguised as local peasants looking for work. Once the shelling started, all chaos broke loose and demons came for the Aztecs in the night. From windows and storefronts, the marines shot at them and threw grenades at any groups trying to gather to respond. A few dozen were specifically tasked with keeping the main garrison pinned down, though they had to deal with the odd shell landing a bit wide and close to them. Other teams secured the piers and fortified the landing area, making sure to signal to the waiting ships that the area was under control every ten minutes. The Great Tit, as well as a small flotilla smaller transports came in and began disgorging their full contents. The smaller boats came first, bringing much needed reinforcements, machine guns, and field guns to the marines holding the harbour. Quickly, the defensive perimeter was expanded outwards and fortified, with teams being dispatched to connect up with the rest of the men in the town. Locals were herded back in doors or in the case of those near to the barracks, forced out of the area and out of the way. While this was going on, the naval escorts kept station nearby and waited patiently for the operation to finish. After six hours, the entirety of the Hansasfleg had been successfully landed and three hours after that, they were on the move to secure the entire peninsula. They were going to give themselves a nice and short front line to worry at first and then push further once the Divinians arrived. The Great Tit went back to the pocket to help with evacuations and the rest of the ships were sent to link up with the Sheenish navy. The port they had landed in had unfortunately burnt down for the most part, as the fighting lasted long enough for fires to spread, leaving much of the town destroyed, except for the harbour.   |
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Post by The Realm of Moderal on Aug 26, 2021 3:50:23 GMT
After the TS Stilatke and its naval group had left. Preperations had ramped up in intensity. All the factories were set to pumping out ammunition and weapons to fire them. 18,000 men were transported to a military base where the were loaded aboard the vessels that were to depart for Duom Aserdoria. Supplies were taken from the stockpiles for the voyage and the ships were fueled up. A few days after the Stilatke left port 5 naval groups departed along the same route. Ready to reclaim Duom Aserdoria for its rightful ruler, and support the intrests of Moderal in the proccess. A few days behind them were the two ships from Heel, who had abandoned the contest in favour of protecting their intrests in Duom Aserdoria.
After a relatively short voyage, the naval groups cautiously passed wide of the most northen islands, hoping to avoid any minefield that may be hidden between them, and began heading south for the last stronghold where the Stilatke and DOC fleet were holding out. After a few restless days and nights they managed to make it to the island unhindered. Their they weighed anchor and warned of the tactics the Ilhaco employed deployed more guards than ussual.
After everything had been set up on the Stilatke ready for organising a war effort, the commanders for the fleet made their way over to where the queen lay resting, offering to move her to the command ship where the directions of the militaries would be taking place.
After the arrival of Sadalen and their military might. Key information was relayed and a plan layed out, They would take the ports and major cities pushing into the mainland with their more numerous force. The fewer in number Moderelian force would quickly capture the islands off the coast and hold them securing the flank.
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Post by The Realm of Moderal on Aug 26, 2021 11:25:44 GMT
After a few hours of travel the battlecruiser came to a stop a few nauticle miles from it's target. Upon seeing the city it turned around and headed back to the island, ready to defend.
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Post by xander10 on Aug 26, 2021 12:59:33 GMT
After 20 days at sea, the Sheenish naval excursion arrived, and prepared to set up it's seige of the central island of the Aderaordian lands, to assist the coming Dunwiki invasion of the same island to liberate it from Aztec control.
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Post by xander10 on Aug 26, 2021 18:26:19 GMT
Having combined the Excursion force with the ships supplied by Sadalen, Admiral Marshall set up his forces so that the Supplied Armoured cruiser and most of his Protected cruisers would be besieging and bombarding the capital from a long range, in what labelled "Blockade Zone Burgundy", while the rest of the Light cruisers and destroyers would be patrolling outside smaller ports and travelling around the coast in "Blockade Zone Black" Trade ships would be searched to make sure that no enemy troops were coming inside them, but due to the Sheenish respect of traders, no trade ships would be seized, just reinforcements for the rebels.  |
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Post by tomor on Aug 28, 2021 6:44:57 GMT
Heel Troops and ships arrive in the mainland pocket to support it and begin construction of solid concrete defences in important positions. The new MGs are proving useful at repelling the enemy wave attacks. Quickly making the enemy loose Ground under artillery barges from both the field and the fleet. The solideres began digging trenches after an sufficient amount of land was taken back. (Current Heel troops in the pocket 27k (1k losses during the initial assault and defence) and 2 battleships)
While the main force assist the pocket and restarts the front the rest of the forces answer an call for assistance of Moderal who began his invasion of the main island.
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Post by Emperor Florin von Marcum on Aug 28, 2021 6:54:48 GMT
From the DOC Front:
Island secured of insurgents. DOC forces will retain position on South-Western Island until called on. Fleet maintaining presence offshore under command of Prince Gabriel.
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Post by Fleischmann on Aug 28, 2021 8:25:11 GMT
First Battle of PredorviaLocation: So Isarharbist, off the coast of PredorviaTime: Quarter to MidnightThe squadron from the Raikh had been on edge since arriving in these foreign waters. They were far from home, had very little intelligence, and had yet to encounter the enemy fleet. The last week had done wonders to help them relax, as they had successfully pulled off a naval invasion and had imposed a thus far massively successful blockade of an enemy island. Conservative estimates put their interception rate at 96%. A regular signal was seen from one of the Sheenish ships, indicating that nothing new had happened and a reply was sent back. Taking a sip of some nicely warm malted milk, the Fluttkatilfads wrapped himself in his coat and settled into his chair, ready to enjoy some well earned relaxation and be rocked to sleep by the wave action. Working with the Sheenish had taken a good amount of his worries off his shoulders. A couple of seconds later, a lookout was shouting about flashes of light and a few seconds after that his ears popped as a huge explosion- Make that multiple huge explosions, rocked his ship. They were under attack. Stumbling up off the ground, Fluttkatilfads Hendersen was in a slight state of shock. A few of his officers appeared to be dead or grievously wounded, as one of the shells had sent shrapnel into the bridge. He could not hear anything, but he belted out orders all the same. 'Segðu Sheensku stöðu okkar og einhver fær þennan mann héðan!' 'Tell the Sheenish our status and remove that man.' Despite the fact that he was getting flashes of white in his vision and could now only barely hear anything, it appeared his words were clear enough as someone got to both tasks right away. They spent next twenty minutes getting reports from the various parts of the ship, before they then came under yet another attack. The gunners were having trouble determining range due to the darkness and weather, but they got a rough idea after the second round of shells hit the ship. An hour into the battle and they finally returned fire. All the guns, even the smallest ones, were shot back in defiance. The shots were fired in a staggered manner, so as to allow the rangefinders to determine how many actually hit their mark. The number of flashes off in the distance seemed to show over half of them had hit. The Sheenish ships seemed to follow suit as well. Even so, so Isarharbist was in bad shape. A couple of hits below the waterline had led to mild flooding, but the fires were the issue. The number of shots coming in and hitting them were too many, it was only a matter of time before the ship's fires got out of control or something detonated where it really ought not to. Weighing up the options, he signalled to his counterpart in the Sheenish fleet and informed him that they would be withdrawing. Receiving an affirmative response in return, the ships made a sharp turn and started going due west. As they did this, one of the Sheenish ships was rocked by an explosion from within the water, a torpedo. As the majority of the fleet moved to disengage and sped up, the destroyers did not. They charged in towards the enemy and let off their full load of torpedoes on the lead enemy ship. Hopefully one of them hit, for a few moments after they had started to turn to retreat as well, the destroyers were engulfed in massive explosions and disappeared beneath the waves shortly thereafter. Two hours since the start of combat and it was clear that this was a defeat. They had no choice, they had to make for friendly forces and as such the course was set for the pocket they had just landed troops in. Hopefully, they would be met by the D.O.C. fleet.  
As a result of this battle, the Western Colonial Fleet (03-BKnS, 03-KSnS, 0↋-KSlS, 10-KSlS, 01-KStS, 02-KStS, 03-KStS) will be transfering to the south to protect the colonies there, while the Trade Seas Fleet (04-BKnS, 05-BKnS, 04-KSnS, 05-KSnS, 01-KSlS, 06-KSlS, 07-KSlS, 06-KStS, 07-KStS, 08-KStS, 09-KKtS, 0↊-KKtS, 10-KKtS, 11-KKtS) in its entirety will be transferred to reinforce the existing squadron. This will bring my total naval forces to the following: Battleships: So Andanding Fero (04-BKnS), So Frasakanths Sunus (05-BKnS)Armoured Cruisers: So Isarharbist (01-KSnS), So Wovthal (04-KSnS), So Haarshlaugs (05-KSnS)Light Cruisers: So Silan Wahtwa (01-KSlS), So Bausugvol Qin (03-KSlS), So Frundsban (04-KSlS), So Fondrugkan Ukhs (05-KSlS), So Urak (06-KSlS), So Smalhaarigman (07-KSlS), So Lausvris (0↋-KSlS), So Faihzman (06-KStS), So Diupith af Gedweola (07-KStS), So Frundsberg (08-KStS)Destroyers: So Ansteigsgawrit (09-KKtS), So Folaiths (0↊-KKtS), So Andiggs Gedweola (10-KKtS), So Leitilsflauhaz (11-KKtS) |
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Post by Emperor Florin von Marcum on Aug 28, 2021 14:37:24 GMT
Praefectus Corvinus, acting commander of the DOC Fleet received word of the attack on the blockade far too late to intervene in the conflict. He bristled at the thought of having to explain to the Councilor that the coalition had set up their blockade without proper battleship support. Nonetheless, he ordered the fleet out to meet the damaged vessels before they were brought under. Time was of the essence.
Upon nearing the vessels, he was shook by the damage. Lines were brought out help the ships along, so they would not need to travel under their own power. Emergency crews rushed aboard, fixing emergency pumps to the ships, who groaned under the strain of the excess water rushing into their interiors. At the very least, they had hopefully bloodied the enemy to pay so dearly.
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Post by Vixy/Rodina on Aug 28, 2021 22:41:17 GMT
The two Rodinan ships was still far from conflict and far from harm as they at a slow and steady phase was reaching the rendezvous point for the D.O.C fleet. The captain stood below deck next to his telegraph officer and dictated a message for the Imperium Divinium flagship.
"On behalf of the Red Fleet and the Revolutionary state of the People's Republic of Rodina do we stand ready to aid the froces of the D.O.C in its worthy cause and protect the victims of this terrible war!"
The Telegraph officer quickly got onto sending it to the D.O.C fleet.
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Post by xander10 on Aug 29, 2021 22:10:04 GMT
Sheen is sending a further 6 Bentalls and 3 Canopus class battleships, and 8 Pancakes, arriving in 22 days from the day we recieved news of our lost destroyers.
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Post by tomor on Aug 30, 2021 12:15:56 GMT
The Heel Fleet reforms and sets out to locate and destroy the black Fleet. Help from the other nations is welcome.
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Post by Fleischmann on Aug 30, 2021 22:35:17 GMT
Due to the rising tensions in the Ringsea Region and the conclusion of hostilities at sea with the rebel forces, the Trade Seas Fleet is now being withdrawn back to the colonies.
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Post by Wilhelm Cransnikov on Aug 30, 2021 22:51:42 GMT
The Tholish force Ætheling Hengist in tow arrive at the capital of Duom soon after the rebel surrender. Hopes of glory were crushed when the news of the surrender spread across the ranks, however, talk of an expedition against the Aztecs has caused morale to rebound with everyone hoping to come home with medals and stories of the great jungle war. As the officers set about whipping the force into shape Ætheling Hengist and two senior Ealdormen have set out in an attempt to salvage the late arrival by acquiring trade deals with the restored government.
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