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September 20th, 2028

The US donates Light Infantry units to Mexico to aid it in ridding itself of its Guatemalian problem. It was not enough to get the job done.

The US also donates dozens of M60A3 Patton tanks and some other infantry units to South Africa. These units are still being repaired but should emerge from reserve before long.

Other cast-off units will be donated to these regions as US the newer armor units are deployed from the fabs.

The Supreme Ruler, after studying the new strategic picture on the Map has decided to move the main US force from China to Egypt. The taming of the Middle-East "stan" regions - them all becoming allies, leaves the Oman region as the nearest neutral US target. But these are small targets that can be taken with a several small airborne and naval forces dispatched there.

Oman and nearby Bahrain are located far out on the Arabian peninsula, which is a "dead-end". However they are both along the route to Israeli-held Egypt, which is the logical starting place for conquoring all of Africa.

So the main US land force will be re-stationed in Northern Egypt. Once they have gotten established there attack groups will be sent East to deal with Oman and Bahrain.

The huge US Navy fleets stationed around Korea will steam South-West to the tip of India at Sri Lanka, and from there will travel to the Arabian peninsula and some to the coast of Somalia.

Transport of the vast US force in China to Egypt will be preformed is stages, with road-worthy tanks, recons, infantry and supply trucks motoring over-land through Mongolia and India. Other slower units such as AA and artillery will be air-lifted or transported by naval transport ship.

September 25th

The first land units depart - all of the tanks and the mobile Engineers.

They are quickly followed by a large air-lift of Marines who land South of Cairo on the Nile River at the huge Hulwan air field.

A second airlift carries 99 M113A3 APCs to their new home in Southern Egypt along the Sudanese border.

October 10th

The tanks and Engineers have arrived safely in Northern Egypt. The Israelis stare in disbelief as 360 US tanks roll by. Damn, I forgot to the them that we were coming!

The units are parked West of Cairo in a cool spot along the Mediterranean.

The US fleets form up and steam South from Korea towards South-East Asia and Singapore.

October 20th

The US fleets have reached Sri Lanka where they re-fueled in allied waters. They now head for the mouth of the Red Sea and the coast of Somolia:



And in other news:

Oct 16 - Honduras DOWs Mexico
Oct 18 - Pakistan DOWs Germany

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

December 6th, 2028

US Units continue to arrive in Egypt from China. It is good that Israel is so obliging since the US still has no facilities of its own in the region. Here are US units preparing for an attack on Libya:



As you can see, Libya is already hard pressed by enemy Tunisia.

Most of the land units still in China are motorized artillery. All of the towed and wheeled units have been air-lifted out by now, as shown above.

Most of our 755 air units remain in China-Korea since there are few air fields in Egypt and none of them are ours. Of course this is not a problem for the helos and VTOLs.

The US fleets are at anchor in the Gulf of Aden and the vast carrier group if parked off the Eastern coast of Saudi Arabia in preperation for an attack on Oman:



The string of carriers along the far right side are converted carriers belonging to Pakistan.

The US Siberian and Alaskan oil fields are up, producing and doing very well:



Arms production has been increased to a level so that US MilCap is just below that of Israel. Naval production has been resumed on Iowa-class battleships, CVN-78 carriers and DDG-1000 destroyers at ten naval fabs.

Fresh water has doubled in cost on the WM, forcing the US to double the number of its production facilities. The cost of Consumer Goods has also risen, making domestic production cost-effective again.

46 of the remaining 48 neutral regions have 100% provocation against the US.

The US donates M118M3 laser APCs to Mexico and South Africa.

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

January 2nd, 2029

Sudan falls to the US.

Taking Sudan was simple. Its coastal Capital at Bur-Sudan was only defended by garrison units, three hand-held AT units, 8 AA units and one F-5E fighter plane.

On January 2nd US armor simply rolled in and took the place. But did we take Sudan? NO. Sudan went to Israel. The only US got the 14 hexes around the Capital. And it doesn't even have a barracks or a sea pier!

This is going to be a constant theme throughout the rest of the game - the US captures capitals and Israel gets big chunks of the region and its prime facilities.

At least the US now has some US-controlled territory on which to construct its own facilities, especially badly needed air fields. Bur Sudan did at least have an airfield. We move 15 B-2 Bomber units from their Israeli base to Bur Sudan.

The re-basing of the US main force from China-Korea to Egypt is now complete. Only fabs and air units remain behind. Here is what 1547 land units look like:



January 12th

The US DOWs Eritrea. DDG-1000 destroyers and BB-61 battleships are lined up along the Red Sea coast to support and air-borne assault of the nearby Capital of Asmera. Prior to starting the naval bombardment 15 Marine units are dropped on its vital sea pier at Massawa to protect it from damage.

AA and artillery in and around the Capital are reduced by naval gun-fire prior to the air-drop of another 15 Marines units into Asmera.

January 14th

Eritrea falls to the US. Unfortunitly the air field and barracks in the former Capital were both been badly damaged by the bombardment. These are scrapped and replaced with temp bases.

Ethiopia was awarded a lot of territory, but this time Israel got very little due to the wide distributed of US units.

The good news is that the US did take all of the region's assests and plenty of desert territory to build air fields on. The US quickly exploits this opportunity and constructs a string of 14 temp air fields along their new Southern border with Ethiopia.

January 16th -

Guatemala falls to Mexico while under attack by 10 M118A3 laser APCs donated by the US.
Production of LAV-MU APCs, M1080 tanks and M11 AT units is beginning to roll out of land fabs throughout Asia and are being driven to rally points in Northern Egypt. As new units arrive in Egypt old obsolete tanks and infantry will be donated to strategic allies.

And in other News:

Jan 11 - Namibia falls to Angola.

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

January 25th, 2029

Five LHAs arrive at the new US base in former Eritrea, carrying 172 attack and transport helicopters as cargo from China:



The capture of Oman is begun. US Marines are air-lifted to the neighboring UAE, Battleships and destroyers from the Gulf of Aden are stationed off the coast of Oman, replacing the line of US carriers there. The carriers are re-stationed along the Indian ocean coast of Somolia.

January 28th, 2029

The US DOWS Oman. The US ships will suppress Oman aircraft with AA, perform naval bombardment and generate a missile barrage. The goal is to neutralize excess artillery and to eliminate armor and AA within the Oman Capital at Masqat prior to the Marine air assault.

The Marines in the UAE are re-airlifted and dropped into Masqut where they quickly surpress all resistance.

January 31st, 2029

Oman falls to the US. The air field is rendered un-usable due to bombardment damage so the remaining Marine units must be transported via tanker to a nearby sea pier in the UAE where they re-board their C-5A transport planes.

February 4th

Honduras falls to Mexico - the result of an attack using the M118A3 laser APCs donated by the US. As a reward Mexico is given more of the units.

South Africa is given 14 M1A1 and A2 tanks as well as M118A3 laser APCs.

An unsucessful diplomatic negociation is attempted with Bahrain in order to attempt to avoid an ugly military confrontation.

February 9th

The operation to capture Bahrain is begun. This little island is packed with Rooikat-120 tanks, attack helos and artillery so naval units with long-range guns and anti-armor NTACMS missiles are again brought to soften up the target prior to a Marine air assault.

February 11th

The US DOWs Bahrain. Enemy resistance is surprisingly strong and vicious and the battle stretches on for several days.

February 15th

Bahrain falls to US. The air field at Al Manamah is destroyed in the attack so US Marine units, wounded or not are again evacuated via sea transport back to Oman where a repair barracks and air field are being repaired.

Five DDGs and one battleship are hospitalized due to damages sustained in capture of the two regions.

Also in the News:

feb 4 - Honduras falls to Mexico

Feb 25 - Belize falls to Mexico

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

March 20th, 2029

The US prepares for the invasion of Libya. We have 100% CB against the region - no problem there.

Naval units with long-range guns, submarines and supply ships are brought North through the Suez canal from Eritrea base for the invasion of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.

The Libyian Capital contains an air field filled with fighter aircraft, so the long-range AA capabilities of these ships will be invaluable in the coming assault on the region.

Battle-lines are drawn - tanks and M2A4 armored units form a wall of protection for the 90 155mm field guns about to shred the enemy.

M1126 infantry and M901 AT units stand in reserve.

Just as all is ready an enemy scout unit moves West into Israeli terrritory, ruining the entire US formation. 120 units must be reorganized.

March 26th

The US DOWS Libya:



FFG-7 frigates, DDG-1000 destroyers, and CG-52 cruisers begin firing missile salvos at Libyian units around the enemy Capital of Tarabulus.

Libyian APCs counter-attack and push back the Tunisian border, giving US units more hexes to settle into and supply.

Libyian fighter planes circle their Capital threateningly, only to be hit by strong AA bursts for the 17 nearby US ships.

M777E1 artillery pieces slowly attrit the Eastern enemy armor and artillery protecting the Capital. US forces move slowly to surround the city, giving the Navy plenty of time to neutralize the heavy Libyian air-cover and to saturate the area with missiles. The Capital is slowly encircled by armor and artillery and then the "noose" is drawn tighter and tighter.

The process takes a full week but finally the enemy forces are neutralized to the point where US tanks and armor can rush the Capital.

April 2nd

Libya falls to the US. Its bases and facilities at Tarabulus have been shreaded, so new temp bases are build in an adjoining hex.

Again, we neglected to cover the outlying areas of the region with US units. In this case we neglected to take the desert supply depots to the South and so all of Southern Libya was ceeded to Algeria and Israel.

We also lost the rich oil deposits that now exist in Algerian to the South and to the South-West. However, the section of Libya that we did capture also has a less rich extensive oil field. The US can and will take Algeria later.

The invasion of Tunisia will be not nearly as challanging as the one for Libya. The entire region lacks air-cover. Tunisia is currently at war with every bordering region except for the US and Israel and has therefore expended most of its armor. That which remains is guarding its Capital at Tunis. These tanks and other armor units can be drawn off and destroyed piecemeal by US forces, leaving only soft units to garrison Tunis.

April 7th

The US DOWs Tunisia.

US armor and artillery move Westward along the coast, accompanied by the big US missile fleet. As predicted the remaining enemy armor begins challenging the US formation, several units at a time, only to be slaughtered by naval missile salvos and artillery fire.

The US is keen on capturing Tunisian military facilities intact and so limits the naval units to anti-armor missiles only.

The formation moves slowly taking pains to cut a wide swath of captured territory. The US is keenly aware that other regions will be ceeded Tunisia's inland supply depots and air bases if the US does not capture them first. Therefore recon units and reserve infantry fan out to occupy Tunisian air fields and villages that can also serve as sources of supply.

Tunisia is nearly exhausted, so these operations proceed smoothly. As the main attack force approaches Tunis the naval task force is held back for fear of damaging the prize military bases around the Capital.

Reserve infantry and a few recon units are sent West and South to capture the entire region - the outlying air fields and each town and village.

May 17th

Tunisia falls to the US:



This time the US did a through, excellent job of covering all of Tunisia before taking its Capital and ended up with the entire region, not just a piece.

All of the outlying air fields and sea piers are usable, except for those in Tunis and the nearby land fab.

Now in other News:

Mar 23 - Venezuela falls to Columbia

Apr 27 -
Zambia falls to South Africa
Zimbabwe falls to South Africa

Note:
SA used the M118M3 laser APCs tht were given them by the US to conquor these regions. This ends SA's conquests due a lack of enemies with shared borders.

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

May 20th, 2029

Algeria controls a huge region of Northern Africa, and Northern Africa is really big. Surprisingly, the Scoreboard says that as a whole, Algeria has LOST 80,000 sq. km. This must mean that it has lost some of its Southern holdings to Mali, Morroco and Niger.

All of the regions that surround Algeria are prime candidates to become the next US state, except for Western Sahara. This because they are all neutral and the US has 100% CB against them, except for WS.

But Algeria is mostly barren, open desert land that would ordinarially be without supply and nearly impossible to cross. Why bother to take empty territory? Because most the barren desert is littered with oil deposits, a richer oil field than that controled in Egypt by Israel:



And because once Algeria falls, US borders will be that much closer to the Capitals of the surrounding regions.

In the Ruges mod there are supplementry, compound supply depots located all over the map that amplify supply greatly almost everywhere. They are valuable prizes and will amplify the output of the oil reserves located there. If I capture all of the Algerian supply depots, I will have strong supply when I cross Algerian borders to invade the surrounding regions.

And my recon units can capture the entire region by simply rolling up to the distant border of the neutral regions that border Algeria, nearly unopposed.

There is a cluster of recon units waiting, parked just South of Banghazi back in Egypt. I will need them to scout this vast Algerian desert.

Most of the Supply Depots are lightly garrisoned, but aside from the Algerian Capital there are three "hard spots" - the air field/barracks complexes at Quargla and Tindouf and the Supply Depot at Adrar. I will need AA and armor to take those.

May 31st, 2029

US DOWs Algeria.

Re-formed US units from Tunis advance West along the Algerian coast taking garrisoned towns and villages until they reach the big Algerian research center at Tiziouzou. The center is taken but heavy artillery bombardment from the Capital begins to take its toll on the US attackers.

M777E1 artillery pieces are moved up on the East and South side of the Capital to provide counter-battery, but although US artillery reduces Al Jazair's defenses, all US artillery pieces are destroyed. US forces pull back out of artillery range and wait until ordered to take the city.

June 25th

Armor, MLRS artillery and 62 recon units have been moved into Algeria from Egypt.

146 reserve infantry units and 73 artillery units have been moved from Egypt and are standing by in Tarbulus.

July 20th

All combat air assets have been shuttled from China-Korea and re-stationed at the air fields prepared for them at the US Eritrea air fields. FB-22 fighter/bombers and B-2 bombers are stationed North of Algeria ready for close air-support sortes.

The main base in Egypt is getting farther and farther away all of the time as I advance further West. So the transit time of new units and flight times are taking longer and longer.

The US has partially surrounded the Algerian Capital and has liberated most of the oil-rich area of Southern Libya that was ceeded to Algeria when Libya fell.

The enemy fighter aircraft at Quargla air field have been neutralized and US armor is attacking the soft units still garrisoning the base.

Three supply depots have been captured. Two are being repaired by Airborne ECB Engineers and the heavily garrisoned third depot at Adrar has been taken by airborne Marine units.

Three supply depots and one air field remain to be captured prior to taking the Algerian Capital.

September 1st

My completion of the Algerian conquest is delayed due to my anal desire to capture each of the Algerian hexes and to deprive Israel of them.

September 20th

Capture of Southern and Western Algeria is nearly complete and the Capital at Al Jazair is surrounded.

Naval units are moved to the coast North of the city to provide shore bombardment and precision missile strikes on enemy artillery.

Al Jazair is protected by heavy long-range artillery and AA which make it dangerous to approach by land or air.

September 28th

Algerian artillery has been greatly attrited. A quick armor rush quickly neutralizes the remaining enemy artillery units.

Algeria falls to the US.

Also in the News:

Aug 17 - Bulgaria falls to Italy
Aug 28 - Suriname falls to Brazil
Aug 30 - Nicaragua falls to Mexico

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

A good way to check how borders have changed is to use the loyalty map filter. Since it never changes you can see the foot print of old nations.

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October 10th, 2029

In 2029 Somalia's coastal Capital of Muodisho is garrisoned by just one APC, one 100 mm AA gun and four artillery units. Its largest defensive asset is the land fab located just two hexes to the North. But this fab contains only soft units like artillery, radar units and towed ATs.

The region's armor seems to have been exhausted in battles defending the region from multiple enemies such as the powerful Ethiopia.

Twelve US warships are stationed off the Somalia's Indian Ocean coast. They appear to be an easy match for Somalia's meager defenses.

C-5A transports full of Marine airborne attack units are pre-positioned in Ethiopia.

October 15th

The US DOWs Somolia.

US naval units neutralize the defenses of the Somalian Capital.

The US stages an airborne assault and lands marine units in Muodisho.

October 28th

Somolia falls to the US.

Domestic Update:

The US now has $9 trillion in its treasury - a game high.

Our GDP/c is a very healthy $49,085 - the eighth highest in the world.

US DAR is now a healthy 44%.

Inflation is 2% and unemployment is 5.8%.

We are way behind in being self-sufficient in Fresh Water, but buying it on the WM costs the same as producing it domestically.

The US has completed the construction of supplementry nuclear electric power plants, but still lags behind in power production.

On the Scoreboard the US is number one in Total Score and fourth from the bottom in Poll Ranking.

In other News:

Oct 4 Hungary falls to Italy
Oct 26 Mauritania falls to Senegal

_________________
"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

November 4th, 2029

US land forces from Algeria prepare for an attack on Western Sahara. WS is totally undefended except for four un-deployed Garrison units.

The US enters Morocco and rondevous at a rally point South of the Moroccian Capital, 288 km North-East of the WS Capital at El Aaiun.

November 6th

US breaks relations with Western Sahara in order to provoke a DOW.

November 8th

The US stages three espionage missions on the WS Capital city in order to provoke WS into DOWing the US. All three Spies are immediately captured due to the lack of FoW, however there is no reaction from WS.

November 10th

The US stages an incursion on WS territory in order to initiate a war. A DOW occures, but UN penelties are just as severe as if the US had declared a conventional DOW.

US forces forces attack WS, spear-headed by 16 tanks.

Nov 12th

Its Capital at El Alliun is captured and Western Sahara falls to the US.

November 23rd

The US moves all units from Morocco in preperation for a DOW on that same region.

NOTE: If Region A DOWs Region B while Region A's units are still located in Region B, then Region A's units inside of Region B will be drained of their fuel and ammunition and rendered helpless.

The Morocco region seems to have exhausted all of its armored units. Its only substantial defense seems to be its 8 figher plane units located at its air field at Marrakesh.

Moroccos's Capital of Rabat is poorly protected with only soft artillery units.

All roads leading to Morocco have large groups of US units from the US Algerian expedition ready and waiting to invade Morocco.

US Naval units steam from the Meditarranian, through the Straight of Gibraltar, to cover the Western coast of Morocco's Capital.

November 29th

The US DOWs Morocco.

US armored units escort MIM-210 and M270A1 units from El Aaiun as they motor North along the Atantic coast. At Marrakesh they attack the Moroccian air field and its resident fighter air units.

Other US forces also proceed from the South and East towards Mococco's Capital.

December 13rd

Morocco falls to the US.

In other News:

Dec 4 - Greece falls to Italy.

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

January 1st, 2030

The US now has two seperate attack groups in Africa - one to the West and another in the East. Both are working Southward to meet up with ally South Africa.

When the Eastern group takes its Southern-most target of Malawi, it will turn West through Angola to unite with the Western group.

Following the conquest of Africa the newest units will be transported to South America to clean up Uruguay and Chile and finally El Salvador to win the game.

Diplomatic efforts will continue to try to ally with the remaining neutral regions, but most currently seem stubborn and unmovable in their diplomatic "Outrage" at the US.

The 1530 units still parked in Egypt will either need to be mobilized or go to waste.

January 10th

US DOWs Ethiopia.

US units split up to attack the Southern Ethiopian Capital at Addis Abba from two directions.

A mixed attack group of infantry, tanks, ATs, Recons, artillery and strong AA take the Western road and attack the enemy air field at Conder, just North of Lake Tana.

A second Eastern attack group consisting of several dozen M11FIV APCs and Recons escort five S-300 AA units Southward to attack the Supply Depot at Atmat'a.

The AAs will then be used to suppress enemy air cover from the air field at Addis Abba.

Both groups take their initial objectives and neutralize counter-attacking enemy armor send North from the Capital.

Both groups then take station North-West and North-East of Addis Abba where the 8 long-range S-300 AA units gradually destroy the aircraft hovering around the Capital.

Once artillery neutralizes the few Ethiopean AA units guarding the Capital conditions look ripe for an air assault.

The US takes advantage of the airborne attributes of the M1118 AT unit and para-drops a large stack of them into Addis Abba. This turns out to be a major miscalculation - the M1118 AT unit, although it is TL 118 is simply a HMMWV with an AT missile launcher mounted on it. Since it has no machine gun, its soft target attack value is a meer 4, making it nearly totally ineffeective against soft targets like garrison units.

The M1118s make no headway towards taking the city, so M11FIV units are called in to rescue them and take the enemy Capital.

February 4th

Ethiopia falls to US.

When Ethiopia falls, Israel once again takes a large chunk of the territory, extending their region farther South to Uganda. The US will now attempt to build a Southern "bulwark" along Israeli territory to prohibit it further Southward expansion. This will require the US to aquire all of Northern Uganda and Northern Central Africa along the new Israeli border.

February 12th

The US DOWs Uganda.

The US defeats counter-attacking Ugandan armor and takes North-West Uganda and the chain of enemy air fields at Juba, Arua, Gulu, Soroti and Kitale.

March 6th

The Ugandan Capital on the Northern shore of Lake Victoria is now only lightly defended and could easily be taken. However US forces instead continue driving West to cut off Isreal's Southward expansion. Eastern Uganda will almost certainly be ceeded to the US once its Capital at Kampala is taken.



March 25th

Uganda falls to the US, but we ruin the air field there in the process. The little parts of Uganda that were ceeded to Central Africa and Kenya will be recovered when the US takes those regions.

The capture of the Northern Ugandan air field at Juba was effective in cutting off any further Southern Israeli expansion there. In order to complete the job the US will need to take the entire Northern border region of Central Africa.

In other News:

Jan 16 - Guyana falls to Brazil

Jan 5 - Pakistan DOWs Kuwait

Feb 27 -
Italy DOWs Israel
Ukraine DOWs Israel
Qatar DOWs Israel

Mar 2 - Azerbaijan DOWs Israel
Mar 9 - Turkmanistan DOWs Israel

_________________
"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

April 10th, 2030

XAVs, M118A3 laser APCs and M1080 tanks continue to flow in from fabs in Asia and pile up in Egypt. There are now 1370 units parked in Egypt awaiting deployment.

Enough M1080 tanks have been fabricated at this point that the US could easily scrap its older M1 units. It is too bad that there is no longer anyone to donate them to.

Luckily the US has 100% CB against most of the remaining neutral regions in Eastern Africa, except for Burundi against which it has just 80% CB.

100 tanks are deployed from their parking lot in Egypt - 50 are sent to Western Africa and another 50 South to Kenya.

F-16C and F-22D fighter planes are flown South from the Eritrea base to Ugandan air fields.

Lake Victoria is becoming the new ad hoc operating base for the US East Africa assault force.


April 12th

The US DOWS Kenya. M11 infantry and WS-2 MLRS artillery move East from Entebbe.

The US conducts missile attacks from fighter planes at Kisumu and Laikipia air fields, neutralizing the main artillery protecting the Kenyan Capital at Nairobi.

M109A6 artillery is moved to within range of the Capital as well. Once its defenses are compromised US M1080 FCS tanks attack Nairobi.

April 17th

Kenya falls to the US.

April 19th

The US DOWs Senegal.

Airborne XAV units are flown in from Egypt aboard Boeing 747-400ER transport planes.

DDG-1000 destroyers and CG-52 missile cruisers move in on the Dakar peninsula and open fire on the soft units guarding the Capital city, as well as nearby enemy Hawk AA units.

May 21st

XAVs air-drop on Dakar and Senegal falls to the US.

And in other News:

May 29 - Uzbekistan falls to Pakistan

June 1 - Slovinia falls to Italy
June 10 - Israel DOWs Pakistan

_________________
"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

July 1st, 2030

The US finally begins to deploy its huge stockpile of units from Egypt. All unit types are equally divided, one 1/2 sent to the Western battle group and the other to the Eastern group.

The US Navy is also moved out of its Eritrea port to the East Africa coast between Muodisho and Mombasa. Once the port of Dar Es Salaam is taken in Tanzania, these fleets will steam South to Cape Town, South Africa and then join the other US ships on the African West coast.

July 21th

In order to complete its control of the former Uganda region, the US must take the dozens of hexes controlled by the Congo Democratic Republic (CDR):



It is decided to first cut off Israel by taking all of Central Africa. Then Rwanda, CDR and tiny Burundi.

The CDR Capital at Kinshasa is 1,424 km from the nearest US unit. And to get there the US will need to cross Angola, with which it has NO transit treaties with. So the US will be at war with two, maybe three regions at the same time. But that is OK, the Eastern battle group now has plenty of units to work with.

The Huge Congo River fragments the entire 1400 km region with its difficult-to-cross tributaries.



The US DOWs the CDR and takes their portion of Uganda.

July 31st

The US DOWS Rwanda

August 9th

Rwanda falls to the US

The US then begins to invade the CDR using its Northern road.

The enemy territory must be scouted and claimed by far-traveling recon units. The ones that are amphibious are the most useful, otherwise we us V-44 VTOL aircraft to carry them across rivers.

An initial scouting party of 11 recs are sent West on the Northern road. Another thirty will join later.

The occsional piece of threatening enemy armor is quickly destroyed with B-2 air strikes.

September 5th

The Southern road in blocked by the CDR air field at Kisangani. Theere the CDR has MIG fighers, MI-2 Hoplite attack helos and a lot of 155 mm artillery that makes attacking across the two river bridges very dangerous.

The first US attack is beaten back, but the US returns with air strikes, tanks and bridging engineers.

September 15th

The US WOIs Angola.

One US recon unit, escorted by AT and artillery units attempt to attack an Angloan air field located on the road to the CDR Capital, causing a WOI with Angola.

September 21st

The important Western supply depot CDR at Mbandaks has been taken as has 90% of the region. But the distant CDR Capital is yet to be taken.

US armor, tanks and bridging engineers are sent South the Central Africa Capital to Libenge to ford the river there and stand by to take Bangui.

Recon units begin crossing the Northern CDR border into Central Africa to begin claiming that region and its important border with Israel.

Other amphib units cross the river South of the Central Africa Capital and begin claiming the Southern portion of the region.

Central Africa has a lot of armor at its capital at Bangui and it sends many of them out to challange the US invaders. These are quickly destroyed with B-2 bomber strikes from Juba air field.

US armor is sent to take the empty North-Eastern enemy air field at Waw.

Little Burundi has suddenly gotten a lot bigger by retaking much of the Southern CDR previously occupied by their enemy Angola.

October 23rd

Central Africa falls to the US.

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

October, 2030

The US has started to fabricate SLAV4 infantry and M12 tanks.

The US is already at war with Liberia - don't ask me how. I don't know. Nor do I know how 15 of my LAV-MUs got stuck on the Liberian coast 1000 km South of the US main assault force. But we will need to pull those guys out of there.

There are now nine Capitals left along the West African coast for the US to capture:



At some point the Eastern US attack force will cross West across the continent and start working the West coast from South to North.

Meanwhile the Western assault group will work from North to South, first taking Serria Leone and Liberia.

The next Region to the South is actually Guinea-Bissau, which we only have 50% CB on. So the US will skip GB in hopes of negociating an alliance with it and go to the next Region - Sierra Leone.

SL is on its last legs anyway, having been nearly driven into the Atlantic ocean by it enemy Liberia, is exists only as a thin strip of hexes maybe 300 km long. Its isolated Capital at Freetown is garrisoned by one fighter plane, three quad AA guns, an old towed AT and two field guns.

October 29th

The US DOWS Sierra Leone. XAVs are air-dropped in.

October 31st

Sierra Leone falls to the US.

Liberia's Capital at Monrovia is a little better defended than Freetown was since it has three surrounding hexes full of artillery, one of which is a land fab.

November 11th

The US DOWS Liberia.

This time, presented with mainly soft units defending Monrovia, the US rolls land units into Liberia to take its Capital. The air-dropable XAVs motor in this time instead of drip in, escorted by LAV-MUs, tanks and M1126 Stryker ICVs.

November 18th

Liberia falls to the US.

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

December 2nd, 2030

The last major neutral region in East Africa is Tanzania. Its Capital is Dar Es Salaam (bottom):



You can see in the sat-photo above part of the US land invasion force and the naval bombardment units (top) prepared to take Tanzania's Capital.

A second US invasion force is located West of the coast and is advancing on the enemy air field at Moshi.

US close air support is waiting at the coastal air field South of Nairobi.

December 12th

The US naval units move South along the coast to cover an airborne assault on the Southern enemy island air field at Zanzibar

XAV and M1118 AT units are air transported from the air field at Mombase and are dropped onto the island air field.

The air-drop takes the enemy airfield, but leaves the soft US M1118 AT units inside the field of fire of the Tanzanian artillery around the Capital.

US land units advance South along the coast and take the coastal town of Tanga. Farther inland US M11 Infantry and M-11 AT units advance South and capture the enemy air field at Moshi.

Enemy armor from all over Tanzania advance on Moshi to contest the US agression, but are quickly destroyed by the powerful land units and by FB-22 air strikes.

US artillery from Mombasa is moved South to cover the advance of US armor from Moshi air field and new armor is summoned from the US Lake Victoria base.

US warships move South to cover the airborne force on Zanzibar island and to shell the defenses around Dar Es Salaam.

December 19th

Tanzania falls to the US.

Malawi was just a shell of its former self after having been nearly completely adsorbed by Tanzania. Its capital city was guarded by just a few field pieces - a "slam-dunk".

December 25th

Malawi falls to the US.

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012

January 1st, 2031

11th-hour negociations are begun with Equatorial Guinea and Ghana look promising. Other neutral nations remain diplomatically, stubbornly "Outraged".

The US Western battle group now consists of 1275 units:





January 27th

Tiny Burundi falls to the US. This completes the US conquest of Eastern Africa. The 1200 units of the US Eastern Battle group will now move to the West coast of Africa and join up with the Western group.

The main US fleets reach Cape Town, South Africa and Steam North to join the fight for the West African coast.

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"War is merely the continuation of politics [diplomacy] by other means"
General Carl von Clausewitz - 1832

"Defense: De ting dat keeps de cows off de road."
Catatonic - 2012