It's a Long Way to Paris: National France in 21st Century

@ Kaiser Mobius: Great comparison with WW1 about the fights in East Africa!

Thanks for comments, everyone, few surprises ahead.


War of the Titans - 5


Investigation, performed by the help of physical, satellite and electronic espionage, revealed that Island isn't so neutral as it should be. Germans and their allies were using ports and airports at island to perform their air and naval operations. English wing that is attacking Canadian troops at Greenland is stationed there, while there is also a high chance that German bombers that are performing devastating bombardment of US and Confederate East Coast are stationed there also. UNA decides there is enough evidence for operation against Iceland.



Canadian corps performed naval invasion of Iceland. Germans and English evacuated their naval and air forces as quick as they detected massive UNA fleet near Iceland. Only few German military advisors were left and they defended the island together with small Icelander force.



Meanwhile, the first UNA nation surrendered to Mitteleuropa. Afghanistan was conquered by imperial Chinese troops.



Iceland was soon occupied by Canadians. Some Icelander defenders, together with German advisors, organised armed resistance against Canadian occupation.



Italians defeated Phoenician garrison in Southern Cyprus and landed in island.



Mitteleuropean forces above Greece are still active, altough the signs of their exhaustion started to show.



Crete is carefully observed by UNA as the island became the centre of Mitteleuropean activity in Mediterranean. Heavy military presence is detected. Island is well guarded by ground troops, some of them probably being ready for operations is neighbourhood. Ports of Crete were full of Mitteleuropean vessels and airports were hosting many enemy planes.



More optimism finally arrived from Russian front. Russians started massive offensive against advancing Mitteleuropean troops, pushing back the enemy and liberating Moscow.



Bad news are cominh from East African theatre of war. Capable German commanders managed to delay French advance long enough to bring reinforcements to East Africa. French were surprised when their Leclerc tanks encountered brand new Leopard 4 tanks. Inferior to their German counterparts, Leclercs suffered high casulties. One brigade of Leopard 4 tanks easily defeated two brigades of French tanks. French were calling for reinforcements in panic, and French supreme command decided to send some reinforcements from Algeria.



Several divisions of Leopard 2A4 tanks also arrived to East Africa. Roles were switched and hunters now became the prey.



Canadians immediately started to use Iceland as their base of operations. Ambitious plans were made: German allies in British islands were chosed to be neutralized. Canadians striked fast to surprise the enemies and two Canadian armies landed in Scotland. They immediately faced the furious resistance of Scottish defenders, but it looked like that Canadian superiority will win the day.



Meanwhile, the battle of two ladies was taking place is Anatolia. Egyptian commander Amides was challenged by German female general. Bitter tank battle was fought, and advanced Leopard 3 tanks were overran by mass of Egyptian less modern and even outdated mix of Russian-Canadian-German-French armor.



Egyptian tank. Egypt was possessing large collection of all types of armor of diffrent origin.



Unfortunately, Canadian landing in Scotland turned out into complete failure. Scottish nationalists, enraged by the attempt of British-Canadian royalists that desired to restore the United Kingdom again, lead a brave and successful defense, and Canadians were thrown back into the sea.



Old Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa was surrounded by French and Egyptian troops.



Canadians didn't lost their hope to successfully land in British isles. Another UNA fleet brought six divisions of Confederate mechanized infantry. Both UNA fleets joined and 150.000 Canadian and Confederate soldiers assaulted the shores near Blackpool, facing the resistance of 25.000 English soldiers.



Unfortunately, armored reinforcements quickly came to help the defenders and invasion ended tragically for UNA forces.



French reinforcements arrived to East Africa. French hoped and prayed that superiority in numbers will be enough to root out German resistance, lead by well-equiped and battle-hardened German troops, commanded by cunning officers.



Results of failed invasion of British isles were horrible. Confederates had more than 30.000 dead, wounded, captured and missed in action, while Canadian loses were even more horrific. Of 5th Canadian Corps, only one brigade with 30% of its manpower left and one division with 10% of active personel left were still standing. Every one of four surviving divisions of 25th Canadian Corps had less than 10% of active personel still able to fight.

@ Kaiser Mobius: Indeed, tragedy in Britain is not to be repeated. I was thinking that Canadian and Confederate armies will manage to land in Britain, so I would later launch both Overlord and Dragoon at the same time. But landing in Britain became the operation Jubilee, so it didn't have any good results, if we exclude fact that strength of English and Scottish defenses was discovered.

@ starchristian: Just wait for incoming updates...

@ Razgriz 2K9: True, there are many other fronts that I should close first.

@ SovietAmerika: Ostafrika is going down, but Turkey can still surprise us.

@ Hochseeflotte: Qing is mainly the objective of Japan, altough I'm afraid that Russians will concentrate too much on Qing and forget about Europe...

@ atty: Thank you for your kind words and suggestions.

@ Zhuge Liang: You're right, I just hope that Russians will manage to keep Mitteleuropa pushing back, so I can link with them via Anatolia.

@ Sir Kenny: Not very well planned operation, bad fortune of attackers, good luck of defenders, advantages of defending home terrain...there are many factors.

@ Zeldar155: Well, that's true, altough I really don't want to use my allies as meatshields.

@ Karaiskandar: Hope that Russians will stay in good shape!


War of the Titans - 6


Egyptian troops, commanded by Field Marshal Tantawi, attack the city of Corum where Turkish capital was transfered after fall of Ankara. The city is famous due to heavy presence of Hittite archeological sites.



Russians capture Minsk and Tbilisi. United Commonwealth and Don-Kuban Union are in panic.



In South America, Brazilians and La Plata prove to be quite equal belligerents. Power of Brazil lays in numbers, while power of La Plata is centered in advanced German weaponry. Gran Colombia is facing occasional Syndicalist revolts.



Japanese retake Formosa and invade mainland China again. Philippine and Indonesian forces land in Southern coastal cities of Qing Empire. Russian and Mongolian forces advance into Inner Mongolia. India is barely holding against Qing and Princenly forces, while Siam is struggling with AlgOstAsien corporation.



US troops have landed in Nicobar Islands, liberating Indian territory from Princenly occupation.



Soon, US forces advance towards Andaman Island, liberating them too.



Saudi forces invade Ostafrican territory of Socotra.



Situation in technical research of French republic:



Germans in West Africa still don't give French any time to take their breath.



Exhausted Canadian troops that took part in fights in Britain are brought to Casablanca, where they are stationed to recover under the warm Moroccan sun, enjoying in German-built tourist capacities.



French armies in West Africa started to fall apart. More reinforcements are sent to region by French supreme command.



French troops, sent from Algeria to aid their comrades in West Africa, capture Gran Canaria on their way.



Hainan changed it's occupiers again. Qing forces liberated the island from Thai troops, now it is taken by Philippine forces. AlgOstAsien is dangerously expanding.



Ataman Kokoity and other leaders flee Don-Kuban Union. Georgian general Gogava is put in charge to evacuate remaining cossack forces.



French Air Force manages to pull wing of strike fighters from Middle East. German forces in West Africa are now under heavy bombardment from French planes.



However, German grip in West Africa is still strong. French are suffering high casulties.



Germans even start to attack French garissons in Nigeria.



Canadian troops in Iceland are attacked by mercenary air general Granger, suffering heavy damage in personel and material.

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