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April 1, 2024
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Operation BISMARK.

Background information:
Combatants: Germany (player) vs. Namibia
Objectives: secure resources, namely, Uranium.

Historical Background: Namibia became a German colony under the leadership of Otto Von Bismark and was known as German South-West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika)– apart from Walvis Bay, which was under British control. From 1904 to 1907, the Herero and the Namaqua took up arms against the Germans and in the subsequent Herero and Namaqua genocide, 10,000 Nama (half the population) and 25,000 to 100,000 Herero (three quarters of the population) were killed. South Africa occupied the colony during World War I and administered it as a League of Nations mandate territory.
Following the League's supersession by the United Nations in 1946, South Africa refused to surrender its earlier mandate to be replaced by a United Nations Trusteeship agreement, requiring closer international monitoring of the territory's administration. Although the South African government wanted to incorporate 'South-West Africa' into its territory, it never officially did so, although it was administered as the de facto 'fifth province', with the white minority having representation in the whites-only Parliament of South Africa.
In 1966, the South-West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) military wing, People's Liberation Army of Namibia, a guerrilla group launched a war of independence, but it was not until 1988 that South Africa agreed to end its administration of Namibia, in accordance with a United Nations peace plan for the entire region. Transition for independence started in 1989 but it was only on 21 March 1990 in which the country officially claimed full independence. Walvis Bay was ceded to Namibia in 1994 upon the end of Apartheid in South Africa

But the independence of Namibia will soon come to an end. Heavily reliant on nuclear power to feed the world's fastest growing population and economy, our nation at the mercy of wildly fluctuating uranium costs and supply. With costs often exceeding $1000 dollars a kilogram, supply is often dried up temporarily. Shortages in supply often resort of lack of power for the nation. With all available fissile materials being spent on electrical production, no uranium remains to be used for production of naval vessels and missiles. With all local resources in homeland Germany and conquered nations Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Denmark fully exploited, The Fourth Reich has no recourse but to seize the needed assets by force. Our chosen target is Namibia. With significant uranium assets already being exploited and with large reserves unexploited, Germany will be able to control a large quantity of the market's available uranium, ensuring enough supply for our needs and providing export opportunity. No longer a member of the UN, their army battered by lengthy local wars, and bordering our ally South Africa, Namibia is considered by our analysts as an easy target. The operation remains Top Secret, known as Operation BISMARK. The starting date for the operation is as yet undecided. New attachments to this file will be added as developments continue.

Satellite Reconnaissance Photographs, Office of Signals Intelligence:
German military assets including Carrier Group Brehmenhaven and German Expeditionary Force in South African waters.


Primary objective: Namibian Uranium mines. German intelligence officers are in the area. Analysis shows significant untapped uranium reserves around the mines already built. The combined production of these mines exceeds 2 millions annual kilograms.


Secondary Objective: Windhoek, Namibian capital. Primary source of resistance. Estimate local enemy strength at roughly that of a light division, primarily support troops. Estimated brigade of infantry assets scattered throughout the country. Enemy strength appraised as manageable by GEF and 1st Airborne Brigade assets.


June, 2024.
Polling sources reveal the ruling conservative Grassroots Alliance enjoy 50% approval among voters, significantly higher than the 46% overall approval rating. With the election only months away, President Allen and Chancellor Diener have made the decision to postpone the invasion in light of the upcoming invasion, hoping to preserve the upcoming landslide victory. The invasion is expected to go forward the day after their reelection.

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The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

Ain't a little unfair going for Namibia. Just got their independence and then comes their former massa and steels them back

EDIT: BTW, screens? I would wan't to see em die

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Screens are coming, lol, once I figure out how to post them here. Little bit confused.

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The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

Save the pics to a known easy to get to location on your machine,click on the browse button at the bottom of a post,use that to navigate to the pic (one at a time),select the pic making it show in the filename box,click add file,wait for the pic to upload to the forum.

OR find a pic hosting site like photobucket,upload your pics from your machine to it,and then link to them in your post.

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This post approved by Tkobo:Official Rabble Rouser of the United Yahoos
Chuckle TM

okay.

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The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

Operational conclusion: (note: due to a bad week and absorption with the campaign itself, I have no new screenshots, but I can provide detailed battle information.

Two days after the regional elections in which President Allen won a landslide victory with 55% of the vote, German naval assets sprang into action. The first shots of the war were fired by naval air and destroyer assets as they massacred enemy aircraft on the ground near Walvis Bay. Two F35s were shot down and a Zumwalt-class destroyer suffered minor damage from a counter attack by F5s out of Walvis Bay. Two squadrons each of light transport aircraft and helicopter gunships were destroyed on the ground by cruise missiles. It is believed three F5s were also destroyed before taking off. The airfield suffered significant damage, but the surviving F5s launched to counterattack. Two squadrons of F35s met them in the air and between them they neutralized the enemy fighters.
A squadron of Mig-23s approached from the south and were met by a third squadron of F35s. They suffered heavy losses with no F35 casualties. The squadron then disappeared and is believed to have been destroyed in later cruise missiles attacks on its base in Luderitz by B1 bombers equipped with Taurus cruise missiles.
Simultanesouly, two cruisers engaged and sank two enemy patrol craft in the south. Missiles neutralized this vessels and the warships escaped without damage. A third patrol craft was sunk by anti-ship missiles fired from ASW helicopters.
As the 18,000 men, fully equipped with the most advanced German weaponry (GMT Storm Hunters, Pzh 2005s, standard M2 Pumas, and various support troops) of the German Expeditionary Force made landfall between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, the 3rd Airborne Brigade, numbering 5,000 with a mix of Green Beret and Airborne Elite forces, landed among the enemy uranium mines. Supported by fighters and PAH-4 gunships, they routed the garrisons of the mines and took control. Taurus cruise missiles launched by Zumwalt destroyers and B1 bombers based in South Africa pounded Namibian forces around the enemy capital, causing serious damage to periphery forces. One battalion of Pzh2005s took heavy damage as they were ambushed by enemy garrison forces as they were separated from conventional forces.
Meanwhile, a regiment of infantry, seperate from the GEF and flagged as local forces for post-war occupation of the region, captured Swakopmund as the GEF promptly overran Walvis Bay with minimal casualties. Rendezvousing with the 3rd Airborne, GEF forces paused for five days to resupply and prepared to move out. Afterward, they began advancing on the capital of Windhoek. Continuous air raids began shortly thereafter, and several fighters were lost. The 3rd Airborne occupied itself securing each uranium deposit in the area, including those not yet tapped.
The GEF advanced on Windhoek from the north. Inflicting heavy casualties on forces that launched a counter-attack, GMTs led the charge into the suburbs of the city. Fighting bogged down and nearly a thousand German soldiers were killed, while intelligence reports provided evidence that more than 10,000 Namibians fell. Tens of thousands of Namibian civilians were killed, but nothing could slow down German armor as it broke through into the capital itself. Several thousand enemy soldiers were killed south of the capital as the tried to escape. Artillery and air attacks caused untold casualties. GEF forces entrenched around the city and hoped for capitulation. Two days later, no such offer appeared. AWACS reconnaissance discovered large concentrations of enemy units in the north deployed against Angolan forces. This held out against the inevitable collapse of their nation.
A regiment of enemy tanks appeared in the north as the 3rd Airborne jumped on Otjiwarondo. Engaged with enemy anti-tank and garrison forces, they were unable to prevent the enemy tank regiment from flanking them. Naval air forces, gunships and fighters, descended on them and wreaked a fearful slaughter. A single battalion, with less than a dozen tanks intact, fell back towards their base, which had already been taken they were destroyed, and again German forces paused, hoping for a surrender, which did not come.
Two units of Green Berets, carried by navy helicopters, began taking surviving cities in the north. Only one city offered resistance as a unit of partisans fought to keep German liberation troops out. Meanwhile, bombers, now based out of Walvis Bay and carrier-based fighters massacred enemy troops near the Angolan border. Only one city remained uncaptured: Luderitz. For the third time, the 3rd Airborne jumped as a unit, landing 34 kilometers from the city. Air strikes neutralized a squadron of RF-5s that launched to attack the advancing infantry. Bomber and naval missile strikes pounded the cities one garrison and the 3rd Airborne seized control of the city. At the end of the next day, Namibian forces threw down their arms and surrendered.
Casualties:
German:
1157 killed or wounded
5 F35 fighters shot down
1 Zumwalt destroyer damaged.

Namibian:
25,000+ killed or wounded
200,000+ civilians killed or wounded
Air forces completely destroyed.
Three patrol boats neutralized.

Germany has returned to Namibia and will remain. Two days after the final conquest of the rebellious German colony, German engineers began building dozens of uranium mines in the Namibian hills.

Objective complete. [Close file.] File declassified September 20, 2024.

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The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

Good work,
Looks like you quickly reacted to enemy threats, got their air force early, dealt with things in a reasonably orderly yet extremly fast manner and took very little casualties, a texbook assault from start to finish.

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NEVER go to Canberra.

Thanks.

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The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

After reading this, I did a similar German invasion just to the north, and occupied Angola. It was similarly easy, and I had similar casualties except that I did not actually use an airforce. The year being what it is (2020), my carriers simply haven't been built yet.

I think I just had about 40 units in the entire expeditionary corps, that's including transports, and I didn't bring any AA. So I was a little shocked by seeing Angolan Su-27s in the sky and could do nothing to stop their transport aircraft dropping supplies to encircled Angolan Armed Forces units. And I just checked the Angolan Armed Forces on Wikipedia... well done Battlegoat, you seem to have researched them very thoroughly!

I tried something similar as well, didn't work, since it was South Africa instead.

Strange, what went wrong? Not enough units? I just invaded the USA (as my fourth country) with a handful of units, and the invasion is progressing quite satisfactorily...