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Thought i'd put in a little notice here to say i nominated this aar and author for writAAR of the week. ciao!
BritishImperial said:
I would second that nomination.
Also, having finished World War Z I can now say with utmost confidence that anyone who enjoys this AAR would love the book.
A book?
Damn, now I have to look for it!
BTW, the image of the ships over US are just... too much... I've run out of words...
Damn, now I have to look for it!
BTW, the image of the ships over US are just... too much... I've run out of words...
Gameplay wise, what about giving SU a huge off-map IC (and the required resources to run it) plus MP to build on, then changing their production preferences to be made solely of infantry - assuming that's the best way of representing them - or something else you find appropriate.
At least they should be made unable to produce air units, right?
Then you could start fighting back as US + the Mankind Alliance.
At least they should be made unable to produce air units, right?
Then you could start fighting back as US + the Mankind Alliance.
I've started a game using the Aliens invaders as Chimera -not quite original- and I agree with you on this solution, Kasakka. However...
That's what I think, too, but, however, you should be given the USSR/Chimera huge amounts of infantry to overcome Europe and to keep the balance not to make them unbeatable, as then the game would be quite, let's say, boring...
You are also going to need to give them heavy equipment to represent the Goliaths and the Stalkers. Perhaps some halftracks to do the same with the Burrowers. I must confess I'm not quite keen on this topic, I'm still learning about it.
It could be interesting to know you're going to be defeated.
That's what I think, too, but, however, you should be given the USSR/Chimera huge amounts of infantry to overcome Europe and to keep the balance not to make them unbeatable, as then the game would be quite, let's say, boring...
You are also going to need to give them heavy equipment to represent the Goliaths and the Stalkers. Perhaps some halftracks to do the same with the Burrowers. I must confess I'm not quite keen on this topic, I'm still learning about it.
It could be interesting to know you're going to be defeated.
Well, maybe the SU infantry should have veyr high organisation, high attack ad defense and no attrition nor supplies needed?
To beat them would be very hard...
To beat them would be very hard...
Enewald said:Is there a book?
I have to get it.
Not about the same thing that the AAR is about, but it is written very similarly. It's about a Zombie-infection/virus thing that sweeps across the globe...
Think I am Legend, except during the time that the population is being exterminated, not the timeline of the movie/book. The book is entitled World War Z.
they need to have very good strategic rockets or something to represent spires. plus it looks like in no2 they have aeroplanes or something similar.
Missoula, Montana
[Before the war, this city was home to the National Weather Agency, in charge of monitoring the conditions for the entire country. With the coming of the Chimera, and the global cooling that has followed, the United States military has converted this location into an Allied Installation, to document these changes and to determine whether they have anything to do with the Chimera. Nick Murdock, One of the Military Scientists attached to this facility, has just returned from his assignment in Alaska and agrees to an interview in his office]
Viruses mutate. They branch off through natural selection and evolve continuously. Microscopically, each new strand might look almost identical to the original, but the effects on the host can be radically different. Look at the Human Herpes Virus: HH1 is genital herpes, HH3 is chickenpox.
You probably learned this in your basic high school biology, but it already is a very popular theory among the scientific community, considering the variety of Chimera the army has come into contact with. Strain A for instance, turns a human into your average Chimera grunt, and Strain B would produce some ‘effed up quadruped. Each strain of virus produces a different type of Chimera. That was our theory, and even that hasn’t been fully proven yet, we are still waiting on the classified information the Brit’s have promised to share with us following the creation of the OSSI.
[He downs another cup of coffee]
Even if we do find out how the virus is spread, that is only the surface of the problem, the tip of the iceberg. Although there are many types of Chimera, how are they able to coordinate and communicate with each other? Talk to any military man and they can tell you what they faced: coordinated strikes and deep operational attacks into our territory by the Chimera without the use of modern communication tools like radios.
If you think about the animal kingdom, and how known species can communicate over long distances, it does sound possible. Insects use odors and pheromones to communicate over long distances, and elephants use high pitch frequency, infrasound. But even then there is always a lag time between the transmission of the message and the receiving of it. In reality, the Chimera move too much in sync for them to be communicating just through frequencies or pheromones. It’s like they move together in the same time it takes for a message to move from your brain to your arm. They are that quick. It’s like they understand their goals unconsciously and act like a collective, a swarm of locusts.
The most frightening part however, isn’t just the virus itself, it’s how the Chimera have managed to evolve so rapidly.
Can you elaborate?
Compared to our planet, Human beings, Homo Sapiens, are a young species, the earliest known ‘modern’ fossils of a human puts us at about 200,000 years old. Between you and me that is a hell of a long time. And how long did it take for us to develop technology that allowed us to fly, to sail across the seas and to communicate between continents? Probably all within the last two hundred years, and that is stretching it. So it took humanity roughly 199,800 years to develop the technology, AFTER we evolved.
The Chimera flashed through these steps, both in terms of technology and evolution. They did adapt, they had mutation, they had natural selection, but all this within the course of a few decades! Not only that, but it seems like they have managed to somehow control their own evolution, to be able to dictate what Chimera forms can be evolved and what can be discarded. It’s almost like they are redesigning themselves in a sense, a sort of trial and error as you go, constantly improving on the design the more humans you infect into the system. Can you imagine that? Darwin would be turning over in his grave. It’s like the Chimera threw the whole evolutionary rule book out the window. People talk about intelligent design when it came to how we came to Earth, it certainly describes how the Chimera have evolved.
And then comes the technology. You can really understand how the whole Chimera problem is straining for most of the Allied scientific community. Granted, viruses can mutate and possibly even control their own evolution, but where did they get their technology? I’m not just talking about their ‘stalkers’, those mechanized monstrosities that make any tank crew brown their shorts, but also the standard infantry weapons. They are decades, perhaps even centuries more advanced than anything we have now.
So would you say our weapons are useless against them?
On the contrary, the weapons we have are deadly. I worked on the Luxembourg MDC (military defense commission), we developed the designs for the standard LAARK Rocket Launcher and the M5A2 Carbine. They are standard use among allied infantry today and not even a Chimeran skull can survive being blasted by any of these rounds. You’ve heard about the Rhineland campaign? With General Manstein's famous defense of Berlin or Rommel’s use of those 88 mm AA guns that tore legions of those Stalker units to shreds.
It’s not that our weapons are ineffective, but just how terrifyingly efficient the Chimera have developed theirs. Weapons research usually takes decades to do, with proper funding, several years. The weapons commission and the VTOL (vertical take off and landing aircraft) project took several years, with the resources of the United States and Europe. The Chimera took the wastelands of Russia, and their crude industry, and turned it into something unrecognizable. They actually surpassed us in technology and production. I guess the standard Chimeran worker doesn’t need to eat or sleep much, but aside from outproducing us, they also have remarkable weaponry.
The Standard Chimeran Assault Rifle - Codename : 'Bullseye'
Take the ‘bullseye’ for instance. The rounds it fires are almost incendiary, slower and less accurate than the M5, but it can also fire ‘tags’. Once you are tagged, any other round in the gun automatically veers towards the target, like a magnet. I’ve seen the photos, heard the reports of dead soldiers who had been torn to pieces by bullseye fire after being tagged. It isn’t pretty. This is just one example. They have weapons that defy the simplest laws of physics. There were Russian scientists that were lost to the Chimera, but I can’t fathom how even they could come up with these weapons, especially the one that allowed the Chimera to harness the weather.
The Chimera using weather as a weapon?
The brass will tell you otherwise, but if you think about it, it makes sense. The Chimera need the cold, and what better way to spread their sphere of influence than to spread the cold? It’s June and the weather information we’ve received from our Iceland base shows what’s left of London covered in two feet of snow.
This is not a freak occurrence, the freezing pattern began in the mid 40s, with the Winter in Finland that killed several hundred people and thousands more across Europe. Deer and other animals froze to death in the forests. The winters became so harsh that the ETO actually mobilized the army to help provide the people with the necessary materials to stay warm. Even coal and canned food was rationed.
It was that bad.
And you believe the Chimera were connected to it?
[he nods] All the weather reports and observations from that time will tell you that this cold front originated from Russia. Not only that, it also screwed up the climates in the rest of the world. The reports of mass migrations of fish into the North Atlantic, and the heavy rains and floods across the States in Seattle and Louisiana.
How they managed to do it, I don’t know, but we certainly know why they are doing it. Winter impedes our own armies and equipment, but not theirs. How many tank crews have we lost in Europe because their engines froze against a Stalker attack? It wasn’t until the Chimera breached the Warsaw line that the ETO tried to mass produce the new engines, by then it was too late.
We had consistently increased its defensive budget and R&D efforts through the interwar years, because we truly believed the next war would be with Russia. Ironically, we were both right and wrong, in that regard.
Did the Russians ever attempt to contact you?
Not since they expelled all foreign diplomats from their capital. For years we've been trying to get agents into Russia, but it was extremely difficult considering anyone foreign was automatically branded and executed as a spy. A sort of pre-emptive counter spying, that completely reflects the paranoid nature of the Russian government.
We tried other techniques, such as aerial surveillance, which revealed to us the empty towns and villages across the border. That was where all the rumors of Russian biological weapons began actually. How wrong we were eh?
Another technique we tried was intercepting radio broadcasts across Russia. It was a huge country right? So we figured useful information would be transferred.
What did you manage to find?
A looped message, repeated over and over again, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. The Europeans found the same thing, we had no clue what to make from it.
"Brotherhood, Strength, and Fortitude...in the face of the angry night."
Ultimately, the signal died after being looped for two weeks. We guessed that the Chimera must have broken into the stations by that time.
How about the Royal Government?
We did not ever get in touch with Russian officials after the whole incident with 'the Runner'. God knows what happened to the Tsar and his family or his government for that matter. Personally, I don't care. We've got bigger problems to worry about now. Still I can't get over that fact.
We had so much time to prepare, so much we could have done. The rabid animal attacks in Asia, the cold front, the complete communications blackout with Russia should have warned us about something, but we were too caught up in our own isolationism to worry about it. We never imagined that we would be paying the price.
He points a map on the wall
December 5th, 1949. That was the day when they broke through the Russian Wall. When this whole nightmare started.
It begins
END OF CHAPTER 1 - STAY TUNED FOR CHAPTER TWO: INVASION
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I wonder if we learn the (canonical) reason for the Chimera’s rapid biological and technological development in the next game… I must say, those developers did an excellent job with coming up with a really creepy back-story.
Brilliant! Absolutely mind-bogglingly amazingly fantastic! Just thinking about it gives you the creeps!
BTW, looking forward to hear more about Rommel's exploits
BTW, looking forward to hear more about Rommel's exploits
Enewald No one knows how the Tsar died whether he committed suicide or was assimilated into the Chimera..is up for speculation
Stnylan considering what has happened so far, the two Russian's information would have been outdated. Besides, they kept themselves low profile too long to make a difference.
Kurt_Steiner The Japanese at that point, were too concerned with China to worry about Russia. Your quote however, does have a lot of truth in it
Rcduggan I considered using Riben, but that's simply japanese in chinese..i guess I was too dead set on finding some slang Thanks btw!
Shonison No kidding eh? The scary part is, I'm pretty sure there would be people like that in this world. not willing to let go of old hatreds in the face of a greater threat.
Chicken Its a magnificent book thanks btw!
Konig15 Yes, America has atomic bombs, and as for Africa, I'll be sure to cover that later
Ksim3000 The 'third' race will be mentioned as will some other things involving Japan that was not even covered by the game.
Ermac they are unearthly indeed
BritishImperial Actually it did well, atm it remains an empty place in the game timeline if I recall correctly.
DavidK Well, not so much isolationist but anti-immigration/refugee. It's also possible that not everyone is as informed as the brass or the higher ups about the true extent of the Chimera threat. Governments do like to exclude information from the public to avoid panics.
And a great analysis of America's options, Ive thought the same thing mostly, but not so in depth it iwll be useful later!
Admiral Fyyar I know! I must have that game
Pinkspider Yes I am playing SU, at the moment I'm trying to make it so I can switch to America after conquering Eurasia.
Sir Humphrey Thank you sir
Fulcrumvale glad to have you aboard!
Kasakka I'm also thinking of giving the SU all provs int he world as cores, so they won't release any puppet states if i switch to US. Would you know how to do that?
Hyme Welcome aboard!
BTW, does anyone know how to give the SU all the provinces in the world as cores? this will help in speeding up the conquest as well as allowing me to play as US without the SU releasing puppet states hopefully
whether he committed suicide or was assimilated into the Chimera..is up for speculationStnylan considering what has happened so far, the two Russian's information would have been outdated.
Besides, they kept themselves low profile too long to make a difference.Kurt_Steiner The Japanese at that point, were too concerned with China to worry about Russia. Your quote however, does have a lot of truth in it
Rcduggan I considered using Riben, but that's simply japanese in chinese..i guess I was too dead set on finding some slang
Thanks btw!Shonison No kidding eh? The scary part is, I'm pretty sure there would be people like that in this world. not willing to let go of old hatreds in the face of a greater threat.
Chicken Its a magnificent book
thanks btw!Konig15 Yes, America has atomic bombs, and as for Africa, I'll be sure to cover that later
Ksim3000 The 'third' race will be mentioned
as will some other things involving Japan that was not even covered by the game. Ermac they are unearthly indeed
BritishImperial Actually it did
well, atm it remains an empty place in the game timeline if I recall correctly.DavidK Well, not so much isolationist but anti-immigration/refugee. It's also possible that not everyone is as informed as the brass or the higher ups about the true extent of the Chimera threat. Governments do like to exclude information from the public to avoid panics.
And a great analysis of America's options, Ive thought the same thing mostly, but not so in depth
it iwll be useful later!Admiral Fyyar I know! I must have that game
Pinkspider Yes I am playing SU, at the moment I'm trying to make it so I can switch to America after conquering Eurasia.
Sir Humphrey Thank you sir
Fulcrumvale glad to have you aboard!
Kasakka I'm also thinking of giving the SU all provs int he world as cores, so they won't release any puppet states if i switch to US. Would you know how to do that?
Hyme Welcome aboard!
BTW, does anyone know how to give the SU all the provinces in the world as cores? this will help in speeding up the conquest as well as allowing me to play as US without the SU releasing puppet states hopefully
I must confess, the idea of Rommell leading a brilliant if desperate defence is somewhat novel. I would have cast Manstein in that role...
So the weather.. If the Chimera are freezing the planet how long before the ice sheets start to march?
So the weather.. If the Chimera are freezing the planet how long before the ice sheets start to march?
stnylan To be honest actually, I had a very tough debate between using manstein or rommel for berlin because I want to get some armored warfare going on.
I so wanted to write an entry with Rommel that I wrote his name first, but you are correct, manstein is more appropriate, and so I have placed it in XD besides, who says i can't write both?
I so wanted to write an entry with Rommel that I wrote his name first, but you are correct, manstein is more appropriate, and so I have placed it in XD besides, who says i can't write both?
i really wanna read more about rommel etcs exploits in germany. maybe a twisted version of Downfall?
Simply superb....
Now it's when the action starts in earnest.
PD: About the cores... I guess I saw something in the forum, let's take a look.
PD2: Advice: reread the chapter bit by bit, at night, in darkness.
Now it's when the action starts in earnest.
PD: About the cores... I guess I saw something in the forum, let's take a look.
PD2: Advice: reread the chapter bit by bit, at night, in darkness.