The Channel Pact - Germany&UK Coop AAR

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Special Air Service -> Super Awesome Soldiers

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Special_Air_Service_in_North_Africa_E_21337.jpg

SAS can't look anything other than badass on photos.

 

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Indeed. No one does it like the Brits.

 

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TRP said:

What do you guys think? - Vincent

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YES! By all means, yes! There is nothing more badass than british commandos! (Well SPECNAZ is... But they're basically robots that look like humans.)

And you should keep SAS. It sounds cool, it looks cool and it's a tradition.

So... will those guys replace MI6? Or will it be an older, rougher and more badass brother?

 

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Vesimir said:

YES! By all means, yes! There is nothing more badass than british commandos! (Well SPECNAZ is... But they're basically robots that look like humans.)

And you should keep SAS. It sounds cool, it looks cool and it's a tradition.

So... will those guys replace MI6? Or will it be an older, rougher and more badass brother?

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Well, as will be epxlained in the update I will post in an hour, in this timelines the SAS was formed in 1924 during the Colonial Wars (20 years earlier than in r/l) so by 1940 the British Army already possesses the world's first fully trained and capable commando unit. The Special Air Service does infiltration, commando missions and other things that are considered generally badass. In TCP, the SAS is divided into five 'brigades' which contain four squads of four men each (that makes around 60 top-notch commando's). these are.

- The SAS '1st Supermarines' Brigade
- The SAS '3rd Fighting Yeomen' Brigade
- The SAS '5th Indian Lions' Brigade , which, as you guessed, consists of indian forces

And, most importantly, the SAS '7th Ironsides' brigade. the Ironsides are the elite of the elite, and also used for political assasinations (alike the attempt on Churchill in the '30s). The ironsides are a form of elite Waffen-SS, and are directly under command of the British Prime Minister.

There are four Ironsides squads, but the one I introduced will be the only one playing a role in this story. The 3rd Fighting Yeomen and 1st Supermarines will be making an appearance aswell around 1946, I might also make a scene based on a mission of the Fighting Yeomen, not sure.

So, in this timeline, think of the SAS as a sort of pre-Splinter Cell NSA agency, although much less subtle and much much more hardcore

-Vincent

 

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TRP said:

So, in this timeline, think of the SAS as a sort of pre-Splinter Cell NSA agency, although much less subtle and much much more hardcore -Vincent

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Just like Sam in Conviction?

 

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CHAPTER VIII: The Great War (1914-1918)

The extended war became reality. The mobile first phase of the battle quickly grinded to a standstill as both sides dug themselves in, pounding eachother with artillery. The Great War was quickly nicknamed “The Trench war”, as the nations struggled to defeat eachother. In the four years of the Great War, civil unrest grew in all countries, as food supply and trade had virtually been eliminated, with large parts of the population of Europe facing severe malnutrition. Desertion was massive on both sides, and the warring nations were forced to take increasingly desparate measures to continue the fight.

While seemingly neutral in the war, in 1915 the Parliament secretly drafted the Channel Treaty, which allowed secret transits across the channel to fund the German war machine. Following up to the treaty, the German Empire also sold it’s Guinean possesions to the British for a royal sum, allowing it to invest more in military. Unfortunately, the war was a heavy burden on Germany: Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were quickly losing ground to Entente forces. They relied heavily on a crude and inefficient army, forcing Germany to send parts of it’s own army to support her allies, further deepening the crisis in Europe.

Hostilities reached a critical point with the Battle of Verdun on the 21st of February 1916, where the by now famous German Field Marshall Laurence Van Geyte fought the French commander Philippe Pétain. On that day alone, over 150.000 soldiers were killed, making the Battle of Verdun the bloodiest battle in human history. It was in this battle that Field Marshall Van Geyte was heavily wounded by shrapnel from french artillery. He refused to be treated until the end of the battle, rather opting for staying with his soldiers. While being near mortally wounded, the man fought on for at least four hours before collapsing due to blood loss, gaining him the prestigious nickname “The Immortal”, as well as making him the most famous general in the Kaiserwehr.

Over the course of the war, the German Empire became increasingly dependant on British trades, further taxing the economy of the already weakened United Kingdom. For the Centrals, the war as looking grim.

An important pivot point in the course of the Great War was the Battle of Lille, where the Allied forces first made full use of a devastating new armoured vehicle, called the “tank”.

A Great War tank. Although slow and vulnerable, they quickly changed the face of the war.​

Developed by a joint team of French and Japanese engineers, the Renault FV-12 quickly changed the pace of the war: Although slow and vulnerable, tanks were efficient at providing cover for inantry as they moved inbetween trenches. The entire Western French Army Group was quickly reinforced with these new vehicles, along with special Japanese brigades who supported the East Front.

Germany too had secretely commisioned British tanks, renamed the Mark I Panzer in Germany, but due to the deep economical crisis in England they were never able to set up an efficient flow of equipment to the country, leaving the Kaiserwehr with only a handfull of tanks.

By 1918, defeat seemed inevitable for the Central Powers: In the West, the German front crumbled, as French forces backed up with entire armoured divisions punched through German lines with ease. Four years of full-scale war had left it’s economy in shambles, and the German Empire was unable to supply all their troops. In the meanwhile, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire had all surrendered to the Allies...​

 

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France must be hell of a lot more powerful than it was in RL. Without the BEF the German offensive would've likely succeeded.

 

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CaptRobau said:

France must be hell of a lot more powerful than it was in RL. Without the BEF the German offensive would've likely succeeded.

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indeed, and also without american help in 1918 it would likely have collapsed.
but, as I said before: du-dun, super france, to the rescue!

 

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Wihtout the BEF (or BEEF ), the Marne would have been lost.

Anyway, nice told!

More!

 

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A super France indeed!
No nation can last the Sturz of the German Armies for more than 4 years without collapsing, unless you have tyrant ruling them that is willing to sacrifice anyone for his cause and the nation ought to be impossible to conquer and the weather hellish.

What is this France?
A republic?
A society more Spartan and Prussic than Germany?

 

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Let's not forget that Germany concentrated on the Eastern Front in this timeline, and that the Japanese were much more active as an ally than in the actual WW1 (hence Japan joining the allies in '41)

 

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So then it's a super Russia that withstands the brunt of the German Empire for four years?
And ofcourse the super JEF (Japanese Expedition Force).

There's no satisfying us

 

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willing suspension of disbelief, people

The story would hardly be grand if Germany had overrun France and Russia in 1914, then collapsed to infighting, and did it all over just as easy a few years later.

 

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And you seem to forget that in this TRP, USA and France are pure evil. (In the second TRP it's obviously Albania. Unless I missed some very important hidden message.)

 

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In RTCB, Albania is the only good country. The rest of the world is bad.

 

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Vesimir said:

And you seem to forget that in this TRP, USA and France are pure evil.

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France is always pure evil, don't fool yourself.

 

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Kurt_Steiner said:

France is always pure evil, don't fool yourself.

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With Cheese as chemical weapons and garlic cluster bombs... who wouldn't think it is? :rofl:

 

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But their pure evil was almost destroyed in the last centuries.

 

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In the end, a grand Russian offensive, later redubbed the Green Storm, proved fatal for the German Empire: The entire East front crumbled as most of the German Army, forced to live in the trenches for years on starvation rations, deserted the battle, and by July 1918 the Russian army had occupied half of Germany. The Kaiser, Wilhelm II, fled the country, leaving the army staff no choice but to sign an unconditional surrender. The Great War had ended.

The Entente had come out of the Great War victorious, but not without cost: The world economy was in shambles, a large part of the European industrial heartland had been destroyed and dissent grew among the population.

Russia, one of the oldest monarchies in Europe was the first country for which the civil unrest would grow fatal: Three months after the signing of the Armistice communist partisans, led by Vladimir Lenin took control of St.Petersburg and Moscow and unleashed a Communist revolution. Widespread poverty, social unequality and a massive famine proved fatal for the Tsar and his staff, as more and more of the population took up arms for the Red Army, leading to the Russian Civil War. After three years of war the Red Army emerged victorious and the USSR was proclaimed.

France had reasserted it's dominant position on the European continent after it's victory in the Great War, and eagerly turned back towards her old arch-nemesis, the British Empire.

After the war, French intelligence services found out about the secret British aid to the German Empire in the Great war, further deteriorating the relations between the countries. France immediately began funding separatist partisans within the British Empire. This, coupled with the global economic recession eventually led to the disbanding of the British Empire: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and South-Africa declared their independence, followed by the First Colonial War or the Independence Wars in 1923.

Irish partisans, supported by the French rise up against the United Kingdom during the Independence Wars​

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TRP said:

After the war, French intelligence services found out about the secret British aid to the German Empire in the Great war, further deteriorating the relations between the countries. France immediately began funding separatist partisans within the British Empire. This, coupled with the global economic recession eventually led to the disbanding of the British Empire: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and South-Africa declared their independence, followed by the First Colonial War or the Independence Wars in 1923.

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You see? Not only pure devil, but also revengeful beings without sense of humor. As they can't take a joke, they destroy the British army. Booh on them!