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According to the R:FoM timeline, the USA had its own nuclear program ready by 19....
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According to the R:FoM timeline, the USA had its own nuclear program ready by 19....
TreizeV has the last word about it
That was exactly my thought too. The picture even looks like the spider (at least from the 2004 movie)..stnylan said:
Very creepy update, it was great. Poor 505th though, all those paratrooper dead.
When even the best of the US can't stand up against the Chimera, Europe is doomed. 
did he go into a house with a crazy bloke in the book? i dont remember that, but then i read it ages ago. actually the book is almost nothing like the film.
French HQ, Quebec City, The Dominion of Canada and Great Britain
[The newly re-located Allied French Government was granted the city of Quebec, by the graces of the British royal family. Intended to be a gathering point for the remnants of all the formations lost in Europe as Poles, Czechs, Spaniards, Italians and Finns are reassembled into their national regiments. All around me, I see propaganda posters on the streets, painting the Chimera as some sort of ridiculed worker ant. Other’s called them the
‘Kimmies’ as a joke. It is all part of a controller Government campaign to put the populace at more ease, but whatever the case, Sergeant Bruin of the French Condor Legion is not amused, the old soldier’s eyes barely even register any emotion as he conducted the interview.]
How do you, as a commander, convince citizen soldiers – many of them teenagers untried in war – that they should plunge blindly into a battle they have little or no hope of winning? How can you maintain confidence in their leaders, who seem to be constantly ordering them into no win situations?
Well, that in a nutshell describes my dilemma. In any war, this is problematic. The Chimera just exacerbated this problem tenfold.
You probably never had anyone describe to you what it’s like to go on the battlefield. It’s quite extreme, as you would think. Imagine the peaceful calm before a barrage, dug into your foxhole and peering over the countryside. In that last moment of sanity, you might even think it’s just like the one at your home, like your farm. You also notice thousands of guys, like yourself, next to you. Moving up for the attack, all of them young fit men in their twenties. Toughened by training, hardened to kill or be killed. Some of these may even resemble your friends at a high school track meet, or your co-workers at the local shop.
I’m exaggerating of course, most times, the soldiers are too terrified to think nostalgically of the green meadows at home. But I can sure as hell tell you one thing, they’ll always think: “God I wish I was back there.”
Or maybe they won’t think that at all, some may even be worrying about whether they can do the job and take that objective. If they can stand the barrage and not break down and fail their buddies. Some even pray, hoping they do the job or they will never be able to look themselves in the mirror again. Mind you, all this happens before the first bullet is even fired.
The second that starts, all shit break loose. You hear your own artillery shells shrieking overhead as you move forward. The guns offering a little bit of safety against the enemy, who you are hoping are keeping their heads down. As you run, snipers are shooting at you, shrapnel explodes, people get killed. No matter what your age or your training, once you’re hit, you become just another screaming body on the field.
[He sighs, his face revealing some exhaustion]
That was under normal wartime circumstances you understand? Back in the Great War. Now, on top of all that…add the fact that your enemy is merciless, unwilling to take prisoners and completely inhuman in every aspect; Sending these young men against the Chimera is something else. The fact that the boys even put up a fight at all makes me proud of them.
Did the government even brief you on how to deal with fighting the Chimera
At first, no. I learned now that the UED had instructed all the governments to keep the Public misinformed. To not provoke panic. It is understandable, what I didn’t get was why they didn’t tell us soldiers until AFTER we got to the front. You see, many of the men were expecting to face the Russians. You know? Dumb Ivan. What we got instead….
We were lucky though, we were the first reinforcements that were designated the rearguard, away from the Warsaw Line.
Our first posting was at Memel, with the German Panzers, to oversee the evacuation of refugees from the Baltic States, which all fell within 24 hours. The first thing I always remembered about that city were the piles of bodies lying in the snow, and our own tanks rolling through the streets towards the pillar of fire that was the city. Even before we fought they had already beaten us psychologically, their damned screeches and inhuman sounds. The Russians, we were told, were fighting using biological weapons, and we were already shown a dead leaper. One of those four legged spiders that were the size of an Alaskan King crab. What we didn’t know, was that there were other chimera, the ones that were the size of a human being.
We were pulled out of Memel when Winter Storm got cancelled, fell flat on its ass thank god, and we had been fighting rearguard actions since then, Memel, Konigsberg, and Marienwieder, god damn Marienwieder. The men were scared, bitter and pissed off that they were sent to die here, and I understood that, and over the days I felt my authority slip as the men became more restless.
Thank god for Manstein, that’s all I’ll say. He took charge of the retreating UED forces when the Polish front commander was killed and pinned a defensive action at Danzig, the last swathe of German Territory in East Prussia that was left. By that time, Communication with Finland was lost, and everyone now heard Rumors of the bloody massacre of the Rumanians on the Danube, how Chimera forces had backed them up against the river and shot, clawed or ate them all. Poland was long gone, every unit that high command threw into the remnants of the Warsaw line never came back out.
In some respects, digging into Danzig was good, but we were wholly unprepared for the task.
Why is that? Didn’t the training cover defensive action?
Yes, but there is a vital difference. We were trained to fight on the battlefield.
The word, battlefield itself implies a rural setting, away from the claustrophobic buildings and streets of the city. Even in the great war, most of the battles took place in the open country, with trenches stretching miles wide.
I thought it was a mistake, that we should have posted a defense around the city instead of inside it, but now that I think back, I thank god for the wisdom of our commander. The field was exactly where the Chimera had launched their massive pincer attacks and encirclements, at least inside Danzig, we were closer to the port and the ships, we could escape, and we could also make good use of the buildings to plan a defense sector by sector, street by street to slow them down.
By that time, the men had a healthy fear for the Chimera. Their strength was insane. I’ve had a few of my friends try to knock a Chimera out with the butt of their guns, a lot of good that did. Only one of my friend’s got out of it alive, and he’s currently sucking his meals through a straw at New Haven.
Manstein recognized the strength of the Chimeran soldier, and had planned accordingly. We were to avoid all head on engagements with the Chimera while delaying them as much as possible. The Geneva convention was thrown out the window. We planted landmines, booby traps in the streets and buildings. We used live Chimera as bait, bayoneting them onto the ground with trip wires and explosives around them.
At this point, my squad’s role was manning a machine gun in a section of the streets, the civilians were clogging the harbor now, desperately trying to get on the ships and boats. I’ve seen many of them push their way through the bodies, even falling into the ocean and being swallowed by the waves. Our men did our best to ignore it, focusing on the enemy in front of us, with the knowledge that every minute we held out, at least a hundred more civilians could evacuate.
We had heard rumors of the Chimeran ‘Spires’. None of us had seen a spire attack. At least, no one who had been subject to one had ever lived to tell about it. For some mysterious reason they didn’t bombard Danzig with them, for we would surely have been done for. They either must have been saving them up for the larger cities or we were out of range. Whatever the case, they attacked in full force with their infantry and armor.
I use the term ‘infantry’ very loosely, because what we saw were more than just the standard Chimeran soldier. There were also the leapers, the spider-crab freaks that would claw a man’s face out, and the howlers, those damn giant dogs the size of a cow and with those damn howls we could hear miles away. Those were the tough bastards, their skins were so thick that we either had to get close for our bullets to go through or use our heavier weapons. Air reconnaissance had already warned us that there were swarms of these, at least hundreds of them heading into the city, along with tens of thousands more Chimera soldiers.
They announced their attack as always, with that damn ear splitting howl. That was when Manstein gave the order to fire. I think the entire city shook from all of our artillery and gunfire, not to mention the hundreds of key points along the outskirts that were detonated by mines. We had a very resourceful group of engineers explode a nearby gas depot, ringing the road into the city with a wall of flame. You know what the really unbelievable part was? The Chimera ran through and fought anyway! Flaming and all. I realized my previous error now, if we were out there in the field instead of inside the buildings of the city…..
Our street deployed artillery, 88 mm and howitzers opened up now, and we saw huge chunks of the sidewalks and roads blasted into the air like nothing. The Chimera’s first wave was ripped to pieces, they all went to hell screaming.
By this time my machine gun crew opened up, and we heard all sorts of radio transmissions through the radio, coming from the snipers in the buildings. “3rd floor, send a fusillade of grenades to meet those bastards!” “Keep firing! Don’t let up!” “Don’t give those fucks the time to even raise their heads!” Morale was surging even as the battle was still unfolding. The Chimera were swarming the streets in their usual human wave attacks. We noticed though, that they adopted basic tactics the UED had applied in Poland, finding good cover and concealment, and working in squads. That didn’t bother us much then, but considering the inhuman nature of these things, they worked efficiently like a human regiment.
One trick our snipers learned at this point was to not shoot at the heads of the Chimera, because usually their skulls were thick enough to survive headshots from a distance, but to shoot the yellow tubes that came out of its back. I saw a Chimera hit there once, the tube bursting into a million pieces of glass, and the thing literally started shriveling up, smoking and eventually it died screaming in agony.
The first leapers and howlers made it past the line at this point, being unconventional targets, the leapers skipped through our artillery barrage because of their small size. At least several dozen of them had crawled up on the walls of buildings like a host of spiders, attacking soldiers inside or jumping at the ones on the street. I heard several “There’re all over me! HELP!” distress calls coming from the men. Riflemen at this point picked off as many of these as they could but nothing could stop them.
Our answer to them was the flamethrower. In time it became our best weapon against these small monsters. When a wave of them assaulted our position, we ceased fire and let those little bastards have it. The screams they made even as they died caused a few of my men to break down, and these ones I had to kick them back to the line, no one was getting out just yet.
By this time the regular foot soldiers had flowed into the city, and street to street, room to room fighting ensued. We thought we were prepared for the room to room, but the Chimera employed grenades that were perfect for clearing out buildings. These little spheres that would float for a second, then release sharp spikes in every possible direction. That was how we lost the residential district in only an hour, when we had a division of experienced infantry posted there.
The order to retreat was given soon, and we withdrew from the sector, just in time to see it blown to shreds as Manstein had his engineers blow up the pre-placed charges in the buildings. I don’t know how many Chimera died under the rubble, but they kept coming! Our tanks were in the streets as well, dueling with the Stalker tanks and holding their own since the Stalker’s mobility was confined within the streets.
“Sir! They’ve halted their advance!” One of the men shouted to our captain, who surveyed the whole situation. More men cheered, we realized that as long as we kept them away from the port, we’ve won, but the NCOs, like the officers, were uneasy. The battle lasted for two days now, a record time against the Chimera for any UED standards so far. But they clearly weren’t giving up, their damn screeches echoed in the night, calling for more reinforcements. Many of the men refused to even sleep, opting to clutch their weapons at night for some measure of security.
At this point, the first men started losing focus. How many could stay on the front lines constantly fighting for over twenty hours without rest? Even the brass realized this as the Chimera suddenly overwhelmed more and more of our machine guns and barricades at a faster rate. Who knows how many snipers or machine gunners simply collapsed from exhaustion, only to be picked off by a Chimera. We may have killed like five for every man from our traps and explosives but we were still being overwhelmed. Our last line of defense was being attacked, but it was a tough one. We had ringed every building around the port with sniper teams and rifle squads. All the windows were boarded up and every street and entrance way was booby trapped with mines and barricaded. One stalker, walking its way into the plaza was knocked out within seconds when a land mine blew off its leg. We were holding them, but now the civilians were starting to get caught in the cross fire.
The huge mass of bodies at the port, seeing the fighting grow closer and closer to them, panicked like never before. Even as we repositioned ourselves we heard gunshots within the crowd, desperate mothers, fathers, parents, trying to throw their children onto what looked like the last boat, while some psychopaths starting shooting people around them. Refugees were all over the place, choking the harbour with corpses or running into our lines of fire. Some even jumped into our trenches and foxholes, hoping to ride out the attack and not knowing they were obstructing the soldier’s line of retreat. Those idiots, did anyone even organize this evacuation? Where were the UED officials who promised everything was under control? Manstein promised to hold the city for them, but we realized that the civilian government didn’t even take the most rudimentary steps in evacuating the refugees. There were no lines, no lists, no food, no supplies, NOTHING!
At this point, the battle was lost. My new command post was a hotel overlooking the harbour from the west side. We already saw it, the black swarms slowly coming towards the water, where tens of thousands of cramped refugees either tried to jump in the ocean and swim for a boat or just ran about like herded animals.
I don’t know what went through the mind of the General Manstein, but the order to retreat was the hardest one I had to go through as a soldier. My father would always tell me that soldiers were those who fought for people who couldn’t defend themselves, and now we were deserting the very people we were supposed to protect. Militarily, with cold logic, it made sense. We had to rescue the soldiers, the units that would go on to protect other cities, and it was impossible to move half the population of Danzig out of the encirclement. But it just didn’t feel right.
After we received the order, we packed up our gear and headed for the panzer division’s headquarters for the armored thrust out of the city. None of the men turned back to look, even as the first Chimeran soldiers entered the port and cut through the swarm of refugees. Tell any soldier what he or she remembers about fighting the chimera, and the first thing they’ll tell you about…are the screams, both human and inhuman. That was what we had to listen to all night even as we fled miles away from the city.
I hope to god I never have to see that accursed city again.
Europe before the Chimeran invasion, 1949
Front lines after two weeks, the fall of Danzig
(Yes I realize there is some inconsistency with how Germany looks
think of it as a UED emergency to integrate Austria and Czech republic into German command )
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Two weeks and they're knoking on the gates of Berlin... Fast as I thought, faster than I expected.
It's odd the calm situation at the Middle East. The calm before the storm, methinks...
Well done. A masterfull update, TreizeV.
It's odd the calm situation at the Middle East. The calm before the storm, methinks...
Well done. A masterfull update, TreizeV.
veeery creepy as always
i am so glad i wasnt one of the poor bastards who had to fight there
i would save the last bullet or granade for myself
i am so glad i wasnt one of the poor bastards who had to fight there
i would save the last bullet or granade for myself
Zauberfloete Unfortunately in the game it seemed they didn't run fast enough The Oder would be a good position
SouthCarolinian This was always one of the ingame questions I kept asking myself we'll see i guess
Chicken haha yes, if they did touch the ground war of the worlds got nothing on the chimera
Survival stories are being planned Even if the game hasn't mentioned it outright, its pretty obvious the Chimera outnumber the humans I think the human swarm tactics are appropriate, given they are from Russia and all. I think the point I tried to make is, they can afford casualties, humans can't
Japan will be forthcoming and a geisha? lol maybe.... Logistics also coming, so much to write so little time
Thank you sir for the compliment, if only I could find a publisher hahaha
trekaddict I've heard much about the Draka but I never read them, will be sure to do it when i have time, even if it does 'suck'
Enewald Thanks, chair generals are the greatest aren't they
Kasakka I believe the Game timeline had the americans testing their first Nuke in 1944. I followed suit.
Kurt_Steiner The last word in this reality anyway the game pegs the nuke invention at 1944
rcduggan I'm sure a lot of Europeans would love to hear that one Thanks btw!
Adamc1776Verdun is certainly on the list of stops
stnylan If anything the game's carriers are inspired by WoW for sure :O still, very creepy when you see them collect the bodies.
BritishImperial I remember the movie when Tom Cruise and his daughter ducked into the basement with that crazy guy before they got caught by a strider.
The Oder would be a good position SouthCarolinian This was always one of the ingame questions I kept asking myself
we'll see i guess Chicken haha yes, if they did touch the ground
war of the worlds got nothing on the chimera KSim said:
Survival stories are being planned
Even if the game hasn't mentioned it outright, its pretty obvious the Chimera outnumber the humans I think the human swarm tactics are appropriate, given they are from Russia and all. I think the point I tried to make is, they can afford casualties, humans can'tJapan will be forthcoming
and a geisha? lol maybe.... Logistics also coming, so much to write so little time Thank you sir for the compliment, if only I could find a publisher hahaha
trekaddict I've heard much about the Draka but I never read them, will be sure to do it when i have time, even if it does 'suck'
Enewald Thanks, chair generals are the greatest aren't they
Kasakka I believe the Game timeline had the americans testing their first Nuke in 1944. I followed suit.
Kurt_Steiner The last word in this reality anyway
the game pegs the nuke invention at 1944rcduggan I'm sure a lot of Europeans would love to hear that one
Thanks btw!Adamc1776Verdun is certainly on the list of stops
stnylan If anything the game's carriers are inspired by WoW for sure :O still, very creepy when you see them collect the bodies.
BritishImperial I remember the movie when Tom Cruise and his daughter ducked into the basement with that crazy guy before they got caught by a strider.
Do the UED forces have access to the American nuclear weapons? Because if they did, I’d expect them to have been thrown around the front like so much candy by now in an attempt to stabilize the front or (at the very least) inflict as many Chimera casualties as possible.
very good update, exciting as always. nice to hear about heroic german efforts to save lives, makes a bit of a difference for that era
one thing i'd argue though: 5 or 10 dead chimera for every human? i know theres a hell of a lot of 'em, but i had always had the impression it was more like the other way round - the wholesale slaughter of people. i know this isnt based squarely on the game, but the basically all the humans except the player get wiped out in every level , going down in one shot, with few kills being made. i had always thought they were basically very hard to kill, and it was lucky if a squad managed to kill a couple of them. you may be right, however, this may be just something like seeing the film of a book and it looking different to how you'd imagined it. if that makes sense.
one thing i'd argue though: 5 or 10 dead chimera for every human? i know theres a hell of a lot of 'em, but i had always had the impression it was more like the other way round - the wholesale slaughter of people. i know this isnt based squarely on the game, but the basically all the humans except the player get wiped out in every level , going down in one shot, with few kills being made. i had always thought they were basically very hard to kill, and it was lucky if a squad managed to kill a couple of them. you may be right, however, this may be just something like seeing the film of a book and it looking different to how you'd imagined it. if that makes sense.
Kurt_Steiner Yes, the middle east will have its moment soon enough
Stefke True that i cannot imagine how horrifying it must be for the people who fought them in game.
Nope, back then America was isolationist, not fully cooperative with the UED. this was shown in the game history. Even memos to American soldiers you find in the game's intelligence reports instructs U.S troops to not say anything to their allies unless in the presence of US officers.
Thank you
As for the 5/10 Chimera per 1 human. Its just an exaggeration from the part of the soldier. I made it so that Manstein was practicing a war of attrition, avoiding frontal confrontation between soldirs and Chimera while rigging each section of the city to collapse as they abandoned it, but I also said the Chimera were clearing out the buildings very quickly hehe, and it was the traps and the mines that were killing most of them rather than actual combat. They would certainly kill more Chimera that way than if they fought them on the battlefield.
Stefke True that
i cannot imagine how horrifying it must be for the people who fought them in game.Fulcrumvale said:
Nope, back then America was isolationist, not fully cooperative with the UED. this was shown in the game history. Even memos to American soldiers you find in the game's intelligence reports instructs U.S troops to not say anything to their allies unless in the presence of US officers.
BritishImperial said:
Thank you
As for the 5/10 Chimera per 1 human. Its just an exaggeration from the part of the soldier. I made it so that Manstein was practicing a war of attrition, avoiding frontal confrontation between soldirs and Chimera while rigging each section of the city to collapse as they abandoned it, but I also said the Chimera were clearing out the buildings very quickly hehe, and it was the traps and the mines that were killing most of them rather than actual combat. They would certainly kill more Chimera that way than if they fought them on the battlefield.
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Excellent update once again my good man! I really did enjoy this chapter. I felt almost like I was there in that damned city. It certainly is a place I'd respect any soldier for fighting in....
How many civillians do you reckon were evacuated from the city? I take it civillian liners were also involved? Or did any UED naval forces place any role in the evacuation? (In story terms of course )
Did the majority of the combat units retreat with few casualties or were the units badly mauled afterwards?
Still, hopefully atleast a few of the refugees managed to escape via land also.
Anyway, most excellent that you'll be posting something on Japan shortly! Hopefully the Land of the Rising Sun had better luck in fighting the Chimeran horde.....
What intrigues me also is I wonder how the Chimeran soldier operates? I mean I wonder if orders are given via a hive mind complex or if individual thought is capable? Interesting though the Chimerans were able to adopt UED combat tactics.
And one last question. I noticed you put "he or she" which would imply male or female soldiers. Considering this is 1949, would you mean by female non-combatants such as lorry drivers or nurses? I am sure that even in this timeline, Conservative values would remain staunch and female soldiers would be a no-no (unless as Militia). This isn't a nitpick or anything, just wondering.
I'd like to also thankyou for taking the time to read and answer my comments. I know I do write alot and please forgive me but I always have questions to ask. It's such a well detailed and written AAR, new questions always arise and abound.
Anyway, till next time!
How many civillians do you reckon were evacuated from the city? I take it civillian liners were also involved? Or did any UED naval forces place any role in the evacuation? (In story terms of course
)Did the majority of the combat units retreat with few casualties or were the units badly mauled afterwards?
Still, hopefully atleast a few of the refugees managed to escape via land also.
Anyway, most excellent that you'll be posting something on Japan shortly! Hopefully the Land of the Rising Sun had better luck in fighting the Chimeran horde.....
What intrigues me also is I wonder how the Chimeran soldier operates? I mean I wonder if orders are given via a hive mind complex or if individual thought is capable? Interesting though the Chimerans were able to adopt UED combat tactics.
And one last question. I noticed you put "he or she" which would imply male or female soldiers. Considering this is 1949, would you mean by female non-combatants such as lorry drivers or nurses? I am sure that even in this timeline, Conservative values would remain staunch and female soldiers would be a no-no (unless as Militia). This isn't a nitpick or anything, just wondering.
I'd like to also thankyou for taking the time to read and answer my comments. I know I do write alot and please forgive me but I always have questions to ask. It's such a well detailed and written AAR, new questions always arise and abound.
Anyway, till next time!
Well since the Chimera are black in your maps instead of USSR red, I see you must have developed some modding skills Another excellent update.
Another excellent update.
From prippets to Berlin in two weeks?
Not even possible....
Room to room fighting didn't work... and if Danzig was a long battle, I wonder how long Berlin will last...
Not even possible....
Room to room fighting didn't work... and if Danzig was a long battle, I wonder how long Berlin will last...
yeh thats a point, did you change all your units' max speed somehow to 80 or something?
And only becouse Jäger Sunninkainen was sleeping in the watchtower!
I must tell you, you have quite the imagination, no thanks to World War Z with was a fantastic Scifi Book. I must gongratulate you for making me interested and a dedicated reader, without using mind control abilities.
I must tell you, you have quite the imagination, no thanks to World War Z with was a fantastic Scifi Book. I must gongratulate you for making me interested and a dedicated reader, without using mind control abilities.
That is really strange. Even in the original video, where you see how Europe blackens, when the Crimera invade, it seems they just go over Europe, and leave the middle east and turkey untouched.Adamc1776 said:
Delex said:
It is reasonable to think that their avoidance of the middle east and southern areas in general could spawn from the mere fact that they have a prefered climate: Cold. Just saying... Plausible, no?
Oh, BTW, TreizeV, consider me subscrided... Great stuff here. I have definitely enjoyed the tale that you have crafted to this point. Can't wait for the next installment.