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Russia - the Bear is Back

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So there is no Russian world campaign AAR that has "gone the distance"?

Well this one will.

My last attempt at starting Global Crisis as Russia was a disaster. There seemed to be something about its Sphere of Influence settings that makes everyone hate it. But this time I decided that I would do whatever needed to be done to see Russia thru to becoming Supreme Ruler. This includes cheating - 'nuff said.

I started the game with Ruges Mod v3.52 Global Crisis. I set the game settings in a manner that would minimize Russia's unpopularity:

Victory Condition:Capital
Scheduled Game End:None
Military and Economy:Medium.
Diplomacy:Very Easy
Resources:Medium
Critical U.N.
Hot Relations: LOW
Approval Effects: High
Nukes: Yes
Nuke Effects: Low
Debt: Yes

Hit Start - off we go...
Start Game with No Units: No
Capture Units:True
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Cool, what is your goal?
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Russia - the Bear is Back - January 1st, 2020

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The start of a SR game requires a LOT of housekeeping, even before you start the time clock. I won't bore you with micro-management details. If you want to learn how to configure your ministers see the SupermeWiki here:

http://www.supremewiki.com/index.php/SR ... nner_Guide

I start out with about $14 billion in treasury and about $2 trillion in bond debt. I have a huge army in reserve, plenty of natural resources and a sound economy. Russia is a democracy so productivity should not be a problem.

My game strategy is to give Russia a low-military profile, build the economy, pay off the debt and cultivate Allies where ever possible.

This "low profile" starts with closing military production facilities until I rate behind China and the U.S. This will hopefully lower my MilCap and lower the CB of other regions against me. I lock my Defense Minister out of Production and Garrison control. This prevents him from populating Russia with thousands of garrison troops and from building units that I do not need.

However missile production does not effect MilCap, so I hand-select important missile types and begin producing them on a small scale - 100 out of a possible 1500. I also start producing airborne infantry, Cossack transports, Mainstay patrol planes, troop ships and aircraft carriers.

I dismantle my far Eastern space-port but begin construction Communication and Recon satellites.

The key to my military strategy is China - if I can ally with China and stay allied, then my Eastern flank is covered and I will not have to conquor Southern Asia. China will eventually take over all of continential East Asia, leaving just the island regions to deal with.

My biggest military obstacle is NATO - especially the United States. It may be impossible to ally with Britain, France, Italy, Norway and especially Germany. We will soon find out -

I activate the time clock...
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Russia - the Bear is Back - January 2020

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I turn the FOW on and set my patrol aircraft on patrol routes along my more questionable borders.

I immediately begin a global diplomatic tour-de-force, attempting to obtain a Free Trade treaty with nearly every Region on the map. A few regions are not worth the trouble, since I know from experience that they will likely soon be conquered. I use the Scoreboard to select the most likely treaty partners or allies. By sorting by CB and Provocation I cultivate the the most friendly regions that lie at the bottom of the list. For several weeks my treasury keeps pace with my diplomatic largess as I bribe Regions into Trade treaties. My U.N. approval rating climbs accordingly.

NATO, as predicted, is unwilling to form any treaties.

February 2020

Most Russian neighbors are unfriendly and suspicious. Poland DOWed me. The immediate peace treaty cost $5.3 billion.

However Belarus is both Russian-friendly and militarially belligerent. Belarus almost immediately DOWs its neighboring regions.

March 2020

Early on China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia are also shaping up to become future Allies. With this clarification of my Eastern miliitary posture, I am finally able to begin the important task of closing un-needed military bases throughout Russia. In the Far East I deploy all units and divide them into Eastern and Western halves. The entire Eastern half is dispatched to move into Russian Mancheria, North of Valdivostok. The remaining Western half is moved far West to Volgograd, North of the Capsian Sea. This allows me to close many air-fields and barracks, except for those that service military fabs.

In the North-West I move land units and planes away from Finland and Norway, South below Moskva. This allows me to close a lot of air-bases. I move the Volga river fleet North to Archangel and then all of the Archangel ships further West out of the Bay of Finland to safe harbor in Western Norway. I move the entire Arctic Navy West to the Norway border.

Whereever possible units are placed into reserve once they reach their final destination. This reduces the military financial burden on the treasury. Good tax, production and trade policies also allow the treasury to grow and I am gradually able to begin retiring $40 billion bonds, one by one.

My biggest diplomatic triumph is successfully making China an Ally on March 27th. When my diplomatic attentions turned to Asia, China was very receptive to all treaties offered it. I was quickly able to work up to negociating a Full Alliance treaty with them. This had the immediate effect of making the Russian Far East much more secure.

However on the same day Japan DOWs me in response to my new relationship with her enemy China. Japan shares a thin thread of a land route into Russian Sakhalin island from Hokkaido. Fortunitly early on I begin construction of additional roads, sea ports and air-fields necessary to defend against a possible Japanese military attack. Many naval units were moved safely away to harbor in China.

My attention was destracted to the Far East where I began thwarting Japanese efforts to invade Sakhalin island.

I had made a mistake early on - China and Japan went to war very quickly. I had constructed a road/bridge from Mancheria onto West-central Sakhalin island. This gave China a perfect route into Japan and they immediately began exploiting it with a column of land units. But before the first Chinese unit entered Hokkaido, I destroyed the bridge. I was more afraid of the Japanese taking the Russian Far East than I was eager for China to invade Japan.

I had several naval engagements with Japanese powerful Japanese destroyers around the Hokkaido strait. Now I was defending the strait with land units that kept getting hit with Japanese missiles. The ultimate solution to this was to just place my units in reserve where the Japanese could not see them or shoot at them. I had no plans to invade Japan at all - my Far East forces were too weak.

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Russia - the Bear is Back - April 2020

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As I observed earlier, Belarus has been a very bad boy. It has been DOWing its neighbors since the beginning of the campaign. It had taken Latvia and Lithuania. It was however friendly to Russia.

After a few months Belarus was making real head-way in territorial gains. Russia unexpectedly inherited a new region But it made the mistake of getting into war with Germany. But I made a mistake too - I was so impressed by Belarus' territorial gains that I allied with it. On April 4th this caused Germany to immediately DOWed me (Russia) as well.

I had mixed feelings about this - on one hand, I did not want to be in a costly war. But on the other hand, there seemed very little likelihood that Germany would ever be anything but a dangerous enemy. And they were still pretty far away. I tried a peace treaty, but that did not work. So I decided to just allow Belarus to damage Germany as much as possible, then if German units showed up on the Russian border, I could deal with them on my home turf, allowing to deal with a long supply line home and perhaps very little air support.

I could just not believe it - it was like WWII - the Axis powers were at war with Russia. All that was missing was Italy. When I returned my attention back to Belarus, the Germans were doing very well indeed. They seemed to have all of the transit treaties required to roll a blitz-krieg of tanks across Poland and directly attack Belarus at Minsk. Before long German units WERE on the Russian border and I had not even garrisoned the towns there.

But I had good reason to be casual - Russia had a LOT of tanks, infantry, artillery and AA that could easily mass and cover even this really long border on the Western front. And this is just what I did. I spent a week doing nothing but streaming land units up to the border from barracks full of reserved units. I also arranged air and land transit treaties with both Poland and Ukraine.

In a parallel effort I also organized my airborne units at an air-field near the Western front. The plan was of course to fly them to a staging area in Poland within striking distance of the German Capital at Berlin. Unfortunitly, war-game simulations repeatedly indicated that such an airborne attack on the heavily fortified Berlin would fail.

I did not consider defending Minsk. I may have been allied to Belarus, but I did not like them. I would rather take the former Belarus territory back from the Germans. And Belarus soon fell. Poland got scattered patches of it.

And then the Germans attacked East into Russia where they struck a solid wall of tanks and infantry 375 km. long. The Russian front was backed by artillery and serviced by close air support.

Germany also struck the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Being detached from the main body of Russia, I nearly forgot about it. I destroyed the arms fabs there and attempted to evacuate all units East back into Russia. But they did not all make it.

Despite my initial decision to hold fast to a neat, secure in-place battle-line, I could not resist the urge to leap into a melee with the Germans. I began driving them back, surrounding them and their newly-aquired towns, cutting them off and destroying them.

I also drove a huge column of tanks and infantry through Ukraine to the Polish capital at Warzawa, effectively cutting off their re-enforcements and their line of retreat.

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And then on April 23rd Germany requested a peace treaty.

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Russia - the Bear is Back - May 2020

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So ended the war with Germany. I would have loved to place my DEFCON back to 2, but I was still at war with Japan and Japan was not interested in peace.

Belarus was a mess - German-controlled with ugly patches of Poland scattered about. The organizer in me longed to reform it into a long, smooth, un-broken Russian countryside. But my chance would come.

By May 26th I had placed the bulk of my Western front army back into reserve. Even the huge group that had been sent to guard the Polish capital was moth-balled. Only the artillery remained in Poland.

The German war had highlighted my short supply of missiles. I dislike having to micro-manage missile production so now I allowed my Defense Minister to take charge of producing the variants that I wanted. It is a shame that the DM will not use your marked Favorite/Exclude preferences when fabbing missiles and units. The next time that I looked he was making at least 1000 missiles out of a possible 1500. It is hard to read the numbers - the display was intended for a max of 999.

Making a peace treaty helped my diplomatic rating so I continued my diplomatic efforts around the world. By now I had a Free Trade treaty with just about everybody that was likely to accept one without a billion-dollar bribe.

In May I made my second Ally - Vietnam.

I attempt to negociate a diplomatic deals by paying a reasonable bribe and always in cash. Occasionally I get a treaty for free. If the original proposal shows "red" on the acceptance bar, I offer a rediculously high cash amount, just to see if there is a possibility of getting a "green" acceptance bar. Then if it will turn green, I delete the huge amount and start stepping up an offer, staring from a reasonable amount.

But if the "mark" refuses then I may offer them "the package" just to soften them up. This package consists of a mixed bag of cash, food, water, petrol and consumer goods. I give the package for free and then start the time clock. Then I watch the region's rating bars for a change in length or color when the offer is finally accepted. If the gift "package" makes an impact I may then re-try the negociation, give another package or quit. I can be quite persistant.

June 2020

By this time the U.N. loves me - I have a great, big green diplo rating. Allies are starting to fall into place: Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Iran.

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NATO remains hostile. So does Australia. Japan still will not talk.

Diplomacy continues for quite some time. By now I have been involved in two wars but have never DOWed anyone or taken any territory. Then on June 26th, Germany DOWs me - again!

Opportunity knocks...
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Top Secret -- External Affairs Special Action Team -- Top Se

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June 2020

Speaking: Minister of External Affairs

Due the the changing security situation brought about by the recent German attack on the Rodina-mat (Homeland), the Prime Minister has asked us to organize an extrordinary task-force to supplement our future defence efforts undertaken on foreign soil.

Current defense policies have been deemed insufficient when faced with the important challenges that may be faced following the Russian occupation of a foreign country. Current policies are in place to provide for policing and anti-terrorism efforts in conqered regions. However, there exist no reliable planning for fully exploiting the technological resource of regions as they are brought under Russian control. Often defense designs, scientific, civil and medical technologies are lost due to sabotage, concealment or by smuggling them out of the country.

The current leadership forsees an extended period of foreign military exploits for the nation and so has ordered this new initiative to form covert, special intelligence and action teams for the express purpose of securing and siezing the technological assets of newly conqered regions. These under-cover actions will be performed by pre-placed teams of operatives disguised as commercial enterprise workers and administrators. With the support of covert cybertechs inside Russia, these teams will penetrate pre-identified industrial and military intelligence targets and expedite their speedy transfer to Russian authorities during or immediately following military successful Russian engagements.

Funding and authority for these efforts are un-documented but are assured to be suffieient for each successful operation. Recruitment and deployment will begin immediately.

End of Briefing
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Good read. Any chance of dates/timeline?
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Top Secret -- Project Lyagushka -- Top Secret

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June 2020

Speaking: Operational Director of the SVR

Today we want to update the progress to date of our year-long effort by Russian operatives to infiltrate the defense forces of France. With the help of former socialist friends of the Soviet Union in France, this effort has advanced significantly to the point of becoming an operational unit to be placed under the control of the Ministry of Defense.

The Army is currently engaged in war-gaming an attack on NATO and covert control of France could be the key to its success. Although France is not a military partner of NATO, the loss of French military assets would be a major blow to NATO, especially in light of the current military campaign against Germany.

The goal of this operation is the confusion and disorganization of the French military chain-of-command through mis-information, cyber-infiltration and sabotage of critical Command and Control during the critical hours of and attack by Russian forces. By the distribution of false orders and rules-of-engagement, the plan hopes to paralyze the French military forces long enough to accomplish the capture of Paris by Russian forces.

Last week a small-scale test was performed of an auxillary French army communications facility near Paris. The results were impressive - routine orders were issued and accepted by a French Army unit assigned to protect the Ministry of Defense in Paris. We now have growing confidence that Operation Lyagushka can succeed in its mission during the up-coming Russian attack on France.

End of Briefing
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Russia - the Bear is Back - July 2020

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I have been waiting for this opportunity - the former Belarus consisted of a mish-mash of Polish and German islands. Most of the German land units have returned, damaged to their Vaderland. My huge Western front army remains but in reserve. All of my transit treaties are arranged with Poland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic.

So when Germany DOWed me again on June 29th, I redeployed my hundreds of tanks and infantry and launched a grand assault West. I ordered my units to surround and crush German-controlled towns and small remaining groups of German units. There were really not that many German units left in the Belarus area, but the Germans had gained control of a very large region, leaving garrisons in each of their towns.

I had left my artillery group to guard Warszawa, the Polish capital. Now new enemy units moved East from Germany, attacked and destroyed them. These and a few other German units moved West through Poland to defend their new Belarussian territories, but they were quickly defeated.

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July 2020

German control of the former Belarussian region is broken.

I dispatched a special Northern group to take back Kaliningrad. This group was later reenforced with more units to liberate Riga and other Northern towns.

Another Southern group was sent through Northern Ukraine towards Poland.

Now that German forces had been weakened, I reviewed the case for an airborne assault on Berlin. The problem was not air-dropping into Berlin. Simulations had proved that I could do that easily. There were two other problems 1) sustained damage to supply aircraft from German interceptors and 2) attrition of Russian airborne units once within Berlin. Berlin is surrounded nearly on every side by heavily garrisoned cities. Add this to the garrison already inside the city, German air-strikes and new German units that were bound to move in, and it would be very slow and difficult for the Russian offensive force to make head-way against the armor and garrison troops inside the city. Even when replacing destroyed units on a regular basis, the simulation had shown the entire relief force being slowly destoryed.

I ordered some of my transport aircraft to fly Elite Forces, M113A3 APCs and other airborne units into an air-field in North-Western Poland, within easy striking and re-supply distance of Berlin. It is also North of the main east/west road so that German land units were unlikely to discover them. I would wait until later to try to determine the remaining enemy strength around Berlin.

I moved my main group West through central Poland towards Germany. This totaled over 300 land units of various types.

As I went farther West I worried more about German air assaults. Previously I had only incorporated light AA into my Western army, but now I started to dig down into inventory to find the big, powerful, long range AA units like Grumble. Some I had air-lifted from the East. Other ones motored in from Moskva.

On July 17th 372 Russian units stood at Germany's Eastern border.

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On July 26th Germany fell to Russia.

The airborne assault plan was never executed.
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Russia - the Bear is Back - August 2020

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Confidential Diplomatic Briefing - Ministry of External Afffairs
Speaking: United Nations Ambassador

I am happy to report that due to a new cooperative initiative between the two ministries, Defense and External Affairs were able to salvage nearly all of Germany's military designs and technologies. With this new capability, which is partially covert, we hope to aquire the defense technologies of all of the European NATO regions that we aquire.

Now ladies and gentlemen I would like to call you attention to the screen:

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Shown here are three diplomatic statistical charts that have been prepared my my staff . The first one shows the top regions who are then most likely to attack Russia. It wll surprise no one that the United States leads this list.

The second chart shows the regions with the most casus belli - the most reason to be hostile to our region. The contrast between the two chart is striking - chart 1 indicates that the regions with the most provocation for war the Western NATO regions, while chart 2 indicates that most of the CB against our nation comes from the third world regions.

Again, the intrancient stance of the U.S. represents out biggest diplomatic challance, which may continue for some time. However we hope that when other members of NATO have been brought closer into the Russian sphere of infludence that this situation will change.

Chart 3 on the bottom illustrates the success of our diplomatic tour-de-force this year - our diplomatic reputation and standing in the U.N. and World Market are excellent. This reputaion has been cutivated by the intense diplomatic trade negociations that have taken place since January, and made possible by the billions of dollars paid to these forign regions. In addition the diplomatic staff has negociated four peace treaties and six or more Full Alliance treaties.

The fall of Germany (the aggressor) seems to have had no repercussions and may even have generated some sympathy for Russia at the time of each German attack.

The current regretable war with Japan represents the only blemish on an otherwise admirable diplomatic preformance. On behalf of the President, the Ministers and myself I wish to congratulate you all on a job well done.

I know that you are all very busy preparing the upcoming French initiative, so I will keep you no longer.

Dismissed.

End of Briefing
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Russia - the Bear is Back - September 2020

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It is imperative that Russia bring the NATO regions into the Russian sphere of influence. Germaany proved how hard negociations could be. We now target France who the Ministrie of DExternal Affairs reports is on the brink of a DOW. This view is echoed by the Ministry of Defense who reports that France has DOWed Russia in several war simulations.

France has resisted all diplomatic ovatures beyond the initial acceptance of our embassy in Paris. Therefore we have decided to moblize in anticipation of the inevitable attack. Covert plans have been in the works for quite some time and these are being set into motion.

On the diplomatic front, the Ministry has worked long hours to obtain the necessary transit treaties from Belgium and Luxembourg.

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Russian troops are now 176 km East of Paris. But there is one problem - France will not declare war.
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Spetember 20th, 2020

Moskva, Russia:

After waiting for months for France to DOW us, Russia has decided to go to war anyway - "by other means". Aftr the successful covert effort to salvage German military technology following the fall of that region, the President has ordered the black-ops Project Lyagushka to deploy.

Operation Lyagushka is designed with three objectives:

1. Trigger a false Declaration of War from France against Russia.
2. Perform a grand cyber-theft of all French military technology during the confusion at the out-break of hostilities.
3. Subvert the French military chain of command by distributing a false set of Rules-of-Engagement based upon a bogus terrorist threat-level.
4. Steal French friend-of-foe codes to allow Russian units to invade France unchallanged.
5. Intercept and modify French field reports from the front to prevent air and other support from being dispatched to the front.

Lyagushka's first ojective is successful - a disgruntled French diplomat at the United Nations broadcasts an "official" French Forign Ministry announcment of a declaration of war against Russia.

Objective number two is a total failure - Project agents had stolen copies of French military technical data and has placed copies of it into the French diplomatic communications traffic to be transmitted to Russia. But a sharp-eyed French communications tech caught the un-authorized message traffic and halted its transmission. But Russian has other ways of obtaining such data after a war has concluded.

Objective number three is also a major success, as shown by the following satellite video shot:

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The French-Russian war has been in progress for nearly 24 hours and no French units have moved towards the border. This despite a heavy Russian missile-bombardment of French garrisions and units along the border.

Russian units, now confident of victory move West towards Paris. The only resistance is from garrisons. They carefully avoid fortified areas of enemy units who's strict-but-false ROE's instruct them to only fire if fired upon. French units are parked and grounded under heavy guard from a non-existant terrorist-threat. Passing Russian units are mistaken for friendlies due their friendly IFF codes:

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October 2020

A Russian airborne assault lands M113A3 armored units into Paris where they meet minimal resistance from garrisons with no armored back-up. Paris and France soon falls.

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Russia takes France nearly intact and obtains all of France's military technology thanks to its new special tech salvage team. Diplomatic repercussions are minimal.
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Russia - the Bear is Back - October 2020

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Press Release:

Ministry of External Affairs

Today Russsia is proud to welcome the newest member to its community of nations - the Former French Republic.

The Ministry would also like to showcase the growing community of Allies that have joined hands in prosperity with the Russian Republic:

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Not shown: Nicaragua, Venezuela and Argentina

We offer our warmest welcome to the region of Serbia, who has voluntarially become our first European Ally.

End of Briefing
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Russia - the Bear is Back - October 2020

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The 2nd Battle of Britain

The next NATO member to be dealt with was Great Britain. Once again the region would not negociate diplomatically so the only solution was a military one. But this time Russia would have to start the war - British Provocation predictions were low for a possible British attack.

Clearly Britain is a militarily strong region - a sea power, air power and land infantry power all rolled up into one. Her defenses would need to be peeled off, layer by layer, beginning with the Britich control of the English Channel.

My strategy was as follows:

1. Fortify the French North cost with anti-aircraft and radar stations.
2. Free the English Channel of British naval control using sub-packs.
3. Set up an aircaft-trap around Jersey island to badly damage the RAF.
4. Blockade the Chunnel with fortifications at Calais and cause mass damages to British land units on the international bridge.
5. Stage a diversion amphibious invasion at Plymouth, using DDGs for air cover.
6. Once the British defeenses are weakened, capture London with an airborne assault.

In order to clear the Channel of British warships I deployed a large portion of my submarine fleet ported at Bremerhaven, Germany. 20 of my best SSNs were placed into battle-groups and deployed to patrol the length of the Channel. Several of the stronger ones were just parked near English sea-ports.

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I began the war by DOWing Britain on October 25th. The diplomatic penalties were minimal. The sub-packs did their job brilliantly and the British quickly lost naval supremacy in the Channel. I hated to damage their carriers though - I really want them.

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November 2020

On November 7th I had constructed an aircraft-trap consisting of heavy, long-range AA around the bay surrounding the lonesome British island of Jersey. 43 Gurmble, SA-20/S-400, Gadfly, Gauntlet, Tungusk and other AA awited for the RAF to oppose the Russian invasion of Jersey. All that was required to spring the trap was to helo one Marine onto the island. The plan worked perfectly and repeatedly:

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On November 8th the British had waited long enough and launched their invasion of France via the Chunnel. My bridge-trap was there, waiting for them. In Calais I had constructed a military Fortress and a fortification. There lay entrenched seven of my strongest tanks. All other surrounding hexes for miles around were packed with backup tanks, infantry, AA and misile artillery. The idea was to stack up Britich units on the internatioaal bridge where they could not be supplied and there butcher them. This also worked brilliantly. I took some casualties from British missile-fire, but after several days all of the scores of British units retreated, wounded into repair barracks.

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My next plan to weaken the British army was to divert its land units to defend against an amphibious landing in South-Western England at Plymouth sea-pier. This assault began on November 12th and was also very successful. Air-cover was provided by tweny of my best DDGs while amphib infantry units landed from French transport ships.

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This set the stage on November 15th for the main event - the airborne assault on the British capital at London. As I had hoped, the RAF had been weakened enough so that my transport aircraft were able to air-drop our best units into London, and then continue re-supplying them from France. Much Infantry and armor inside London had been drawn off by the feigning attacks to the East and West and there was very little surrounding AA. The air-drop went flawleely and the ample pool of Russian transport planes and replacement airborne units maintained the strike-team inside the city until it fell on November 21st:

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