Resistance: Fall of Man - An Oral History

[Pzt_Dragoon47]

Just remember, every human killed equals a bunch of Chimera, or a couple huge ones. The spires are basically biological nuclear warheads used to infect every human in the area. The US is involved in a conspiracy if you look at the end lol, they find Nathan Hale after declaring him dead . The US also has a huge wall around it lol, how's that for isolationism. Tell the German troops to aim for their colling mechanisms if they want to have some fun losing their humanity.
P.S. Max Brooks is awesome, read the Zombie Survival Guide and got hooked.

 

[Ermac]

Mankind will live on. Well hide in the sewers and steal from the chimera and learn to use their own weapons against them. Also will build our own stalkers and ours will have 3 legs!!!

 

[stnylan]

Mankind will live on. Well hide in the sewers and steal from the chimera and learn to use their own weapons against them. Also will build our own stalkers and ours will have 3 legs!!!

Have you ever heard the artilleryman's song in Jeff Wayne's Musical version of War of the Worlds? 'Cause that is more or less his manifesto

 

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The Germans will stay alive ... and finally will controll the world ... as they become Chimera soldiers :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

well great story i really appreciated playing Resistance on my Playstation 3 and I can't wait for Resistance 2 ( Chimera appearently attack USA from san Francisco and Chicago) I enjoyed many hours with resistance.

Go on with your great story.

 

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The US is involved in a conspiracy if you look at the end lol, they find Nathan Hale after declaring him dead

is that right? i only actually finished that once, but i thought it was the cloven who captured him at the end

 

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I hate this AAR. My patience can't cope with waiting for the next update

 

[TreizeV]

The Battle of Germany - Part 3

Cayenne, French Guiana​

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[The last stop in my tour consisted of a visit to the barracks and to join Major Wolff on a review of the 45th corps. Despite the months of constant warfare and death, the men maintained an air of professional calm, completely opposite from what Wolff told me so far. The men greet me cordially enough, but instantly go back to work after Major Wolff introduced me to them. He shows me the relics of the base, worn down tanks, discarded uniforms and battle-torn equipment as he leads me to the exit.]

You probably got the wrong impression from me when I said we were attacking. Guderian never meant retaking lost ground like Danzig or Warsaw. As far as we were concerned, it was impossible. Even if all our losses were suddenly replaced, and our armies were at full strength, we did not have anywhere near the amount of fuel and supplies we needed to advance more than several dozen miles.

[Major Wolff gives me an amused look.]

You look surprised? I bet your American Generals, your Prima Donnas…. what’s his name? Patton. Talks all day about the glorious hundred mile advances of armored warfare? To tell you the truth, that is exactly the same type of warfare we had banked on to fight the Chimera. But there is a subtle difference.

One makes hundred mile advances with tanks only when you have sufficiently defeated the enemy, to entice him to retreat. This allows you to continually advance, to always beat him back before he can reorganize, so you can constantly advance. This is what you would call impetus, or momentum. When your enemy is running away in confusion, it gives you time to do your own tasks, such as drawing up plans to supply those tanks, as well as give your men breaks from the combat front. At the same time, you can augment the front line troops with fresh troops to increase the speed of your advance.

Against the Chimera, this rule never applied. Since they never fled from a battle, they never needed time to reorganize or regroup. They already knew where to attack and they would just do it, whether it was ten or ten thousand of them. We couldn’t maintain long advances against them because our supply would run out. You looked surprised before when I mentioned that we were running out of shells and ammunition for the Oder defense? That is because we were firing them constantly. Minute by minute, day by day. Even during the old battles of the Great War. Artillery had to take a pause between bombardments, not only to assess the damage but to maintain the guns. After several days of constant firing nonstop, we’ve had guns break down from overuse. And even the most heavily industrial nation couldn’t endlessly supply an army of over a million men. Supply is a finite resource, which must be husbanded and used accordingly.

I’ll give you an example. Say you have an enemy that you defeat decisively with your armor, and he retreats say ten miles. During those ten miles, your men will be advancing, fighting perhaps only a few rearguard actions with the enemy units, but the enemy is barely in a state to contest you for the ground, and so your tanks cruise through those ten miles without a major battle for your armor. There may be partisans, skirmishes or counter attacks, but nothing on the scale of the decisive battle that started the whole advance.

With the Chimera, we end up contesting every hill and town on the way. Not only do they not retreat, but they can also summon several other similar sized formations to attack us again and again. If we beat an army decisively, and in most cases that means killing them all, then we’ll encounter another similar sized army the next mile or two, and another major battle starts. If we manage to beat that, we encounter another after advancing another mile. All the while, our men will have had no breathing space to rest, our tanks wouldn’t have time to be repaired or maintained, and most importantly, we use up a lot more shells and bullets just to advance those few miles compared to a swifter advance across the country against a retreating enemy. Normally an enemy that doesn’t retreat would be ideal since we could encircle them, but not only does encirclement do nothing against the Chimera (They would always fight to the death, never surrendering), they had the ability to summon up limitless legions of troops to put a stall to any offensive.

The standard Chimeran soldier, taken from the last shot of a camera found at Frankfurt​

So as you can see, it was impossible for us to counterattack, at least, not without more preparations. The entire line was thrown together in less than a week! Considering how we did so far, we exceeded our own expectations. No, this attack was to retake the Oder line. Because no matter how many rules of war the Chimera can break, whether it’s regarding logistics, numbers or morale, they cannot break this basic rule. It is harder to attack over a river than over land. The Oder was our last natural defense before Berlin, and we were going to take it back!

As operations officer, I was assigned to review reports and issue orders from our general to the division before the attack. What I also managed to see, were the reports of the other UED forces. Apparently they were not doing as well as we were. With the fall of Romania, the Chimera spilled out in all directions like wildfire, unstoppable. They had already crossed the borders into Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Austria and the Czech republic, taking countless armies, towns and villages in their wake. It wouldn’t be long before they would appear on our Southern flank of the Oder, since the Czech forces were under heavy attack. It was an odd sensation, reading all these dispatches coming in from the rest of Europe, even amidst the shells and explosions of the fight in front of me. It was as though for one moment, the sounds of the shelling had stopped, and in the quiet tranquility of my mind everything was becoming crystal clear. In that one moment I could see everything that was happening across the continent, and everything that is going to happen, the mountains of dead bodies, the missing refugees, the senseless battles and those monsters consuming it all. It was like a perfect pattern, laid out in front of me. And I realised that not only was I playing a part of it, I was also trapped by it. Entranced by it……….

Oberst Von Wenck quickly snapped me out of my daydream. The first Panzers and aircraft had already launched the counterattack, blowing dozens of Stalkers to pieces. Our division was advancing, carving a path through the legions of Chimera that had crossed the river.

“Focus all fire on these coordinates!” I heard another general yell through the wireless with great anxiety and nervousness. “MEDIC!” Another voice screamed through the radio, along with the screams of half a dozen or more men.

Taking out my own binoculars I scoped the ground ahead of us. Through the dust and explosions, I saw it all. The dead Chimeran and German soldiers scattered through the field like a thick carpet. All of them victims of bombs, bullets, shells and mortars. Those Howlers, the giant cattle-sized attack dogs of the Chimera lay dead on the ground, their bloating carcasses laying on the field with their legs pointing upward. Another German soldier with a flamethrower torched a squad of Chimera that tried to rush him, their ear splitting screams lost in the explosions and shooting. Even from this distance, I could smell it, the smell of rotting flesh, of fuel and flames, burnt powder and smoke. The perfect hell.

Our heavy artillery fired now, focusing all our efforts on the Goliath in our sector. It was advancing rather slowly, but was like a slow unstoppable tide. I saw a Tiger crew attempt to shoot out its legs, only to become crushed under the massive foot of that mechanical monstrosity. Within seconds, a steel rain of heavy shells bombarded the creature from the heavens. With each blast the goliath seemed to cringe and studder its legs and body like it was being forced onto the ground. All the tigers and panthers in our vicinity took aim at the behemoth, letting loose dozens of armor piercing rounds into the creatures hide, until finally, with a large groan, the machine started giving way. Shells began hitting the joints of the walking tank, which artillery observers pinned as being the weak point of the monstrosity. Within a few more minutes of bombardment, the first of the Goliaths came crashing down onto the ground, while others simply exploded when our shells ignited their mortar payloads.

The men cheered at the sight, and morale picked up instantly. From our base, we advanced onto Frankfurt, observing that every town between Berlin and the Oder had been virtually destroyed. Burned-out tanks and stalkers littered the road, and each street exiting a town was clogged with abandoned vehicles and the bodies of unfortunate refugees. As predicted, our breakthrough was slow and sluggish, with the enemy contesting every inch of our advance. But we slowly made our way.

More fresh units were coming up from Berlin, and my battery was told to bivouack by a shelled out farmhouse and await further orders. While columns of Panzer and Motorized infantry made their way through the roads. It was the first break my men had since the battle started a week ago, and many of them collapsed right there. Many of them were just happy to be alive. In the first week of fighting, the German army had lost almost 40% of its effectives. We were down to perhaps seventy divisions holding the line, while the Chimera had numbers estimated at over two hundred spread across the entire western front. Those numbers alone were insane!

A few days of hard fighting finally saw us at the Oder again, where we saw all the shelled-out bunkers and destroyed tanks. What really chilled us however, were the lack of bodies. At least half a million Germans fell on these shores, more so following the Spire attack, and now after an absence of only a few days, they were almost all gone! The men immediately took out their frustrations on the dead Chimera, or any still living within our sector. General Guderian had called a halt to the advance and ordered us to set up defensive positions yet again. But even he saw that the end of our endurance was near.

The next day brought new enemy attacks. The Chimera threw more and more of their units into the fray, including Goliaths and Stalkers. The 185th Parachute division on our left flank destroyed more than forty Stalkers in battle, and still they kept coming, constantly making deeper incursions in our front. A battle of attrition was starting and we were destined to lose. Already the line was starting to thin as we began to lose contact with our neighboring divisions; only through the greatest of difficulties did we maintain the front. One set of hills dominated our position by the river, and we saw much fighting in that area. The area changed hands several times, especially at a little unnamed village along the river. A few stalkers broke through the line first, followed by several waves of Chimera infantry. The German commander than threw his reserves into the village, driving the Chimera out. But the Chimera reinforcements came and retook the village again. This seesawing back and forth continued for some time, and with each time, German and Chimera soldiers were dying in agony. This was the situation all throughout the front.

Our defense persisted, even as we started getting outnumbered in some areas more than five to one. And our divisions were getting decimated. Every day we suffered more and more losses – losses we couldn’t replace as fast as the Chimera – until finally the Chimera broke through. We were still holding the center, but the Chimera were streaming through on both our flanks. They could have surrounded us, but for some reason we don’t know why, they did not. They were going straight for the prize, sensing perhaps, the millions of civilians still trapped behind our lines, in Berlin itself.

By this time our counterattack, the whole battle at Oder was over. Over the course of just a few weeks, we managed to stem the Chimeran advance, long enough to see most of our million man army destroyed. Now it was no longer a matter of preserving the army, we had to retreat and save as many of the civilians as we could. And that meant turning the city of Berlin itself into an urban killing ground.

Before we left, Oberst Von Wenck gave me a shocking piece of news.

The German government was preparing to flee to Luxembourg to organize the evacuation, all of Parliament’s political parties, but they were all in custody now, under the name of one party.

We didn’t know how long they were planning their coup, but it was obvious that they had been waiting for some crisis to act. Filling the army and government with their informants and cronies, The Chimeran invasion was the perfect pretext for them, who claimed the weak willed Weimars didn’t have the stuff to protect the fatherland. Already there was a coup within the military, with units declaring themselves for or against the new government. To me, this was most astonishing of all. To choose this time, when men, women, and children were dying in droves, to seize power in the name of their leader.

I will forever curse that man and his cronies. Those damned Nazis. I will never forgive them for what they did after that.

[Major Wolff takes out a cigarette, lights it, and proceeds to show me the door. Before I could even utter a single word of thanks or a question. The old soldier turned around and was already marching back into the darkness of his base. Casualty estimates in one of the bloodiest battles of the Chimeran invasion remain unclear. Even today, The Oder action is considered one of the best performances done by Allied forces against the Chimera, and is studied by generals from all branches of the allied forces.]

 

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Those f***kface Nazis!!!!! They'll ruin everything!

 

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Those damned Nazis...............


I wonder what they did.




Any Asian Front updates coming?

 

[Edzako]

Only after Battle of Berlin, must be one bloody encounter.

 

[Admiral Fyyar]

Fabulous reading! My god, your talent is immense!

 

[ColossusCrusher]

Ouch.
Trust the Nazis to worry about power when the Chimera are coming.
Is that unnamed village SeaLöwe Heights?
Or however it's spelled, I forget.

 

[Chicken]

Leave it to Greed to ruin perfect harmony...

 

[Kurt_Steiner]

At least the Nazis will be cheap food for the Chimeran Howlers... Those people... never learnt...

 

[stnylan]

A real stab in the back. I find that ironic.

 

[Herbert West]

Could you give us a map of that advance? I have trouble with someone advancing into Frankfrut, yet Berlin not having yet fallen. How do the strategical manouvers of the German Army look like?

Apart from that, splendid update, as usual

 

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Could you give us a map of that advance? I have trouble with someone advancing into Frankfrut, yet Berlin not having yet fallen. How do the strategical manouvers of the German Army look like?

It could work if the advance was something like this, possibly?

Not sure, mind, just knocked that up pretty quickly.

 

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Maybe he was talking about Frankfurt/Oder. It's a city on the Oder river, right on the border of poland, and south east of Berlin.

 

[Admiral Fyyar]

Yes, there is both Frankfurt am Main in the west and Frankfurt an der Oder in the East. He must be talking about the one at the Oder.

 

[Herbert West]

Ah, yes.

I have been living in the Main variation for some time, must be that why I instantly thought abaout F.a.M.