Summoning the Greater Axis Pact
Axis 2 - Rowlia and Interlude
Kingdom of Rowlia, royal capital Jin Hark, Castle Hark
The 34th king of the Rowlian Kingdom, 34-year-old Hark Rowlia, shivered in bed.
In the Great Naval Battle of Rodenius some days ago, the emerging nation calling itself Japan joined the battle and decimated Rowlia's forces, completely annihilating 350 dragon riders and sinking 4,399 ships. Furthermore, there were no confirmed reports of Rowlia's own attacks causing any casualties or even battle damage whatsoever.
There were a lot of preposterous things in the report. Supposedly, there were "bolts of light" that would shred the wyverns and in many accounts exploded and said explosion would perish the wyverns. But the next were the 'Iron Wyverns', the legendary dragons of steel, roaring and flying in absurd and preposterous speed that outstrip those of Wyverns. The wyverns were mostly killed by them. They postulated that the former was some kind of new magic weapon and the next were products of another world. However, the report also said that when they got within 7 kilometers, they were shot down by "something" else. What the hell was that supposed to mean, "something" else?!
Furthermore, that sorcery to sink ships in one blast could be fired consecutively without any delay. He couldn't even imagine the amount of magic power needed to achieve that. Did they discover some kind of ancient magic from a mythical empire or something? He was unable to fathom what exactly was opposing his country.
Rowlia always had a large population, but the quality of its people was subpar. Over the last 6 years of preparation, they were able gloss over the poor quality with overwhelming numbers. But now, they discovered that their quality was still not enough. Aerial and naval battles depend on quality of ships and wyverns and equipment, but ground battles depend more on quantity. Perhaps the ground invasion could still work out…
The king passed a restless night without sleep.
Third Civilization, Papaldia Empire
In a dim room, a light spirit in a glass sphere glowed orange, casting shadows inside the room. There were two men discussing the country's future.
"…Germany? That's not a name familiar to us…"
"They're apparently a part of an Alliance, that just recently emerged."
"We have read the reports, we am aware, but were there always an Alliance there? What we mean to say is, they're supposedly a thousand kilometers away from Rodenius, but we cannot imagine that no one in our history has ever realized that an entire alliance was there left unnoticed by everyone."
"That part of the ocean has dangerous currents and erratic winds, so it's hard to navigate by ship. Without being able to investigate the area closely, isn't it possible that it was missed?"
"Perhaps, but these are uncivilized lands. While Rowlia has especially primitive naval warfare, for only eight enemy ships to be capable of sinking forty three hundred and ninety nine, isn't that just preposterous? Moreover, their cannons supposedly scored a hundred direct hits out of a hundred firings. Maybe the observer's long barbarian life has compromised his mental faculties. We should consider installing a new observer."
"Please consider, Your Excellency. Our 100-gun warship, the Fissennuss, could face that Rowlian fleet and emerge unscathed. It is capable of sinking Rowlia's ships from a distance of two kilometers with its main cannon without needing to pause, so those results aren't completely unbelievable. In any case, I don't know how many hundreds of ships that this Germany actually deployed, but we should at least take away from this that they are advanced enough to be building cannons."
"The savage barbarians are making cannons now… in light of the fact that they have yet to invade Rodenius, perhaps it is appropriate to consider that their technology has just become capable of producing cannons."
"By the way, Rowlia can't possibly fail, could they? If they do, that would hinder our national resource acquisition stratagem."
"Unlike naval warfare, ground warfare relies on numbers. If nothing else, Rowlia has a large population, so they won't lose against an enemy with primitive cannons."
"Indeed, this battle report was truly outlandish. For the next report, I will not bring it to Your Excellency until I have thoroughly vetted the information. Please entrust me with this task."
"Your foresight is exemplary."
Blitzkrieg Offensive
Terran Calendar 24th September 2000
The Argentinians had received Reinforcement as Victoria Rommel, a decorated female General, one of the first to ever be promoted to a General in the Wehrmacht arrived with her three Panzer Divisions and two Mechanized Divisions, Force Werner had been assigned to a Naval Invasion of Rowlia. With the help of the Argentinian Navy, they now had an Air Force of a hundred and sixty enabled aircrafts, from the two Light Carriers that the Argentinians had in store.
The Super Carrier, KMS Graf Richthofen was able to sortie out 90 aircrafts with the two Argentinian Carriers sortieing around thirty five each, that was counting the Helicopters each could carry.
Overall, the KMS Graf Richthofen had carried twenty Meermöwe, thirty two Horneisse, sixteen Stukas, 4 Fafnirs which were the Advanced Attack Helicopters the Germans had developed to replace the Kobra alongside eight Meer Engels. The Argentinians had bought some of the older aircrafts and were currently buying Horneisse to replace their fleet of Blohm & Voss Bv 255 Phantoms. They had also bought some Eastern American AV-4 Harriers for their CAS and Bombing missions.
"The Offensive shall start today. Gim had fallen, knights and people were slaughter and raped. This. Is an act of War, something we can never abide to." Victoria gritted her teeth, she was a young woman by the age of thirty, having blonde hair, tied into a bun, shunned away by her Field cap, her brown eyes, fair skin, she had an old ragged scarf from her late grandfather that was passed down as akin to a treasure, the uniform she wore was akin to the Wehrmacht's uniform in the French Offensive in the early 20th Century, she was going to change her uniform before the offensive of course.
"Who the hell they think they are?! The Soviets!?" Some of the people instead of laughing scoffed in disgust. "They're worse than the fucking Commies! This is why we can't have nice things in life!"
"That was unnecessary, Corporal." Victoria groaned.
"Just saying, ma'am, just saying."
"I want the offensive to be done, Werner had just done his preparations for the Naval Assault. We are ready for an Offensive to eradicate this plague and excuse of people!"
"FÜR DEN VOLKS! FÜR DEN REICH! FÜR DEN AXIS!"
"Dismissed! Three hours into our Offensive!"
"URA!"
Port Maihark
The civilians could see that there were more ships from Germany than they usually had sent.
After reports of heavy amounts of war laws being broken, Japan had contributed some of their Navy in the form of 20 Tatsumaki-Class Destroyers, 2 Battlecruisers, Kiryu and Karyu with four of the Suzuya Class Heavy Cruisers, Suzuya, Kumano, Ibuki and Azuma. The Germans had deployed the Wolf Pack First Order, a fleet of 20 Type L U-Boats, powered by a Phantom Nuclear Reactor, on first glance, it looked as if it would be louder, in practice, the Type L had a signature of 105 decibels.
In hopes to help, Italy had been keeping closer ties and had their own Submarine Fleet began their hunt, a flotilla made of twenty five submarines. They had successfully sunk some of the convoy ships before some of them encountered a Papaldian 100-gun ship. It was noted that it was similar to the British First Line ships. They were primitive, but very dangerous if left alone for a long time.
Good thing they were like the British, colonizers and slavers back in the old days, now they were puppets of the Greater Deutsche Reich and were contributing many things to the whole Alliance.
"Alright, we will depart in an hour! Come on, people!" The Marine Divisions of Meeradler, Meerfalke and Krokodil were beginning to leave the Port as they were expected to reach the Port of Dun-Haan. The Divisions were made of the Amphibious Converted MBT, the Schwimm Standardpanzer IX Meer Preußen Panther, the Amphibious Mechanized, the Sdkfz 294.
The civilians could see the landing ships filled with men and vehicles, the Germans had sortied their 1st Fleet 'Das Pakt' once more with two Argentinian Light Carriers, four of their Light Cruisers, the Japanese two Battlecruisers, four Heavy Cruisers and 20 Destroyers. As an hour went by a whistle could be heard and the Landing Ships and their escorts began their movement.
Exact Moment as the Landing Force had began movement
Blitzkrieg Offensive
The Germans and Argentinians had already mobilized their troops and their vehicles, behind were the German Fafnirs, the Schwarz Engels and Argentinian Kobras. Victoria had her Standardpanzer X Schwarz Panther moving in the front of the Formation. Infantry were placed by the German Tanks and APCs. Moving at a steady speed of 40km/hour, the Panthers and their escorts began making their way to the town of Gim, despite the losses, they were going to avenge them, none the less.
The Helicopters soon moved further to scout the area. "This is Fafnir 1-1, elven refugee are coming, five kilometers."
"Elven refugees...this late?" Victoria hardened her gaze.
"They were most likely uninformed due to their reclusive nature, I bet the enemy is coming closer than expected."
"...All vehicles begin movement to sixty an hour." The vehicles soon sped up to sixty as the Argentinian Leopards were able to follow despite their age.
They need to make sure no one else dies in this conflict.
Anybody they can save.
Shall and will be saved.
"Hah… hah… hah…"
About 20 kilometers east of Gim, there was a small, nameless, reclusive elven village. Because they did not interact much with outsiders, news about the Gim massacre arrived there late. The villagers did evacuate, but there weren't any Qua Toine soldiers in the area, so it was a harrowing journey to escape from Rowlia's watch. Currently, they were about 10 kilometers east of the village.
Short, green grasslands unfolded before them, with birds singing and wild cows eating the delicious grass. It was a very peaceful scene. This area would be easy to traverse because it was flat and there were no obstacles, but it would also be easy to find and chase after them for the same reasons. To the 200 evacuees, they would be taking a huge risk to cross these grasslands.
A boy pulled on his sister's hand as they kept going east. The children's mother had died early of illness, and they were living with their father. However, because of the danger of a Rowlian invasion, their father, who was part of the first reserve forces, was called in to serve the army.
"Hey, Parun. You're the older brother, so take care of Asha, okay?"
The father smiled as he entrusted everything to his son and left their home.
The evacuees were not gaining any speed. The children were put in the back to keep watch; only 10 remained after the draft.
25 more kilometers to go. Only 25 kilometers until they reached the frontline Qua Toine military base…
Suddenly, there was a cry from the rear of the group.
"Rowlian horsemen!"
The boy looked back to see a hundred Rowlian cavalry about three kilometers behind them, quickly closing in on the group of escapees. Soldiers from the Kingdom of Rowlia, with orders to slaughter all demihumans, were coming for them. The villagers began to scream as they ran, but there was no way they could outrun horses, and the army slowly gained on them.
Red-Eyed Jove, captain of the Hawk Knight's 15th cavalry regiment, a Rowlian knight order, licked his lips at the prey in front of him.
"Well, look what we got here…!"
Around 200 women and children were making their way east through the grasslands. They were about 3 kilometers away, but the land was flat and wide with no obstructions, so they were in plain sight.
Gim was a really good time. He got to torture people and go wild, doing whatever he wanted with the blessings of his superiors. It was the best! He remembered the cat demi family in Gim.
The parents begged him desperately, "don't kill us!", so of course he killed them, then fucked their daughter in front of their corpses, though then he realized he didn't need to kill them first. The cat girl had screamed and cried endlessly; he had really gotten off on that. Red-Eyed Jove felt those dark, euphoric emotions rising within him again as he eyed his new prey.
The Hawk Knights were comprised of elites from the eastern Rowlian vassal states. They were revered as great warriors. Within their ranks, the 15th cavalry was said to be a collection of "undesirables." They were basically former bandits and pirates, from back when Rowlia was still conquering their smaller neighbors, who were bestowed peerage to become nobles. Their captain, Red-Eyed Jove, had a particularly cruel personality, known to kill any subordinates he didn't like and later reporting that they had died in the battlefield.
"All right then… time to hunt! Massacre those demis! CHARGE!"
"Hyahah~!"
The 15th cavalry yelled out a strange rallying cry, then galloped off in pursuit of the elves.
Parun clutched Asha's hand as they ran.
"It'll be fine, Big Brother will protect you! Don't worry!"
"Yeah…"
'Run, our lives are at stake. I'm scared! I'm terrified!'
His village was being pursued by a group of demons. Did they do something wrong? Was no god going to save them? There had to be something he could do! There had to be something…. At least, he had to protect Asha…
A memory rose unbidden into Parun's mind. While wrapped in Mom's warmth and love, she used to tell this story.
Long ago, when "countries" did not yet exist, in the age of elves warring with demons, the demons tried to destroy the Sacred Forest where the elves' god lived. Many elves were killed, and their warriors lost in battle. The God of Green, the elves' creator, prayed to the supreme God of the Sun.
In answer to the God of Green's prayers, the God of the Sun sent emissaries into the world. These emissaries, on divine flying ships and steel ground dragons, using sorcery that called down thunder and burned the land, incinerated the demons. With their main forces demolished, the demons withdrew from the Sacred Forest.
To repay them for driving back the demons, the elves offered the emissaries treasures of gold and silver. However, they simply boarded the divine ships and left without accepting them. The elves were saved, and they were able to live in peace in this world. Of the numerous flying ships, one of them broke down and was left behind. That ship was preserved with magic and stored in Qua Toine, in a sacred shrine on hallowed land within the Reen Noa Forest.
His mother had said that this story actually happened. So Parun prayed as he ran.
'God! Please, God! God of the Sun! If you're really there, please, help us! Even if you need my life to do it, please, save my sister!'
"God, please, protect us from the evil Rowlians, who want to kill us all!"
…but nothing happened.
Rowlia's soldiers closed in. He could now hear their voices. There was nowhere to hide in this field; they weren't going to make it. Now, they had to take a stand, or be slaughtered… but the only weapons they had were bows for hunting beasts and farming tools.
Some of the villagers fell to their knees in despair. They were only 500 meters away. Everyone had given up. Parun yelled to the heavens.
"Pleeeeeaaase! God! HEEEEELP UUUUUSSSSSS!"
And above the boy, a light soared past. And by the explosion that occurred, a new and neutral voice came along.
"Engaging enemy. Light em up, boys." And from afar, multiple flying ships, some were dragons with their eyes trained to the front, on their mouth were devices of unknown origin. They all blew light and death occurred.
The lowbreeds were not even 500 meters away. Their faces were stricken with fear as they desperately tried to escape. He unsheathed his sword in preparation for the slaughterfest. It was Gim all over again, with nice women mixed in with the crowd also running for their lives. As he imagined the tragedy that would soon occur, Jove's face had a disgusting, distorted grin plastered across it.
"GET 'EEEEM!"
"RAAAAAAH!"
The cavalry regiment yelled out an aggressive cheer as they urged their horses to chase after the elves, kicking up a huge amount of dust and dirt.
"Captain, there's some kind of light in the sky coming at us!" the regiment's lookout abruptly shouted as he pointed into the air.
Jove looked up. "Wh… at… the hell is that?!"
A spear of light was flying right at them. He instinctively felt danger as soon as he laid eyes on it. It was coming fast!
"DODGE, HURRY!"
The entire 15th cavalry moved to the side.
Parun thought he was dreaming.
He had prayed to the god and, above him in the sky, a spear of light came flying down.
The light burst.
!?
Immediately, a thunderous roar assaulted his ears. Numerous of them.
!
Smoke billowed out as though erupting from the earth itself, quickly engulfing the Rowlian soldiers. Then, more spears of light came down without fail and without delay.
Lights flared, and more thunder boomed. Light rained continuously on the ground, setting the ground on fire.
"Ro… Rowlian forces have been reduced by a half!" someone yelled as they all watched in disbelief.
The horrified Rowlian soldiers began to retreat, but the rain of light chased after them. When the lights hit a soldier, they were blown into pieces along with their horse. All of the soldiers chasing the elves had been eliminated.
Then, from the skies to the east, numerous flying ships came into view. They made a sound like hundreds of people chopping wood at the same time.
They flew over the villagers' heads, the ships making that terrible noise and capable of setting the land on fire with their sorcery.
Parun looked up at them. He couldn't take his eyes off the peculiar symbol on the flying ships. A black cross with white borders except on the top, left, right and bottom.
Many were left shocked as they had never heard of such symbol, but those flying ships were something related to those of the Sun's Emissaries.
Eventually, a large number of flying ships landed in front of the villagers. From inside of them, strange people wearing green clothing came out.
"Is anyone injured?"
A leader-like individual put a round box to his face and asked in a loud, inhuman voice.
The villagers, scared out of their wits, were unable to reply. These were people who had the power to completely wipe out the Rowlian cavalry in the blink of an eye. Perhaps injured people could not be used for labor and would instead be sacrificed in order to cast that destructive magic?
Parun stepped forward.
"Thank you for saving us. Who are you people?"
"We? We're the Großer Deutsche Reich's Airborner troops. For now, please stay calm." As they said that, roars and growls could be heard as Iron Dragons of sorts came rushing by.
They passed the villagers who had been even more spooked as a people came out of their heads.
"Ah great, you spooked them." A soldier spoke with obvious annoyance in his voice.
"Shut it. Have an evac come and get them to safety. We're going to keep our offensive." A woman spoke out before disappearing back into the beast's head.
The beasts soon began movement as soldiers sat by their back, holding strange staves like those who rescued them.
Who were they?
Were they possibly linked to the Sun's Emissaries?
Großer Deutsche Reich
War Plan Room
"Give me specifics. I need something to get my hands on to comprehend the situation." Adler spoke as officers walked through the room.
"Sir, this is the current situation we are in." An officer came by and turned on the table's projection function. The table soon revealed the map of Rowlia with tags of Group Rommel, Lopez and Werner.
"Finally. Fucking hell."
"Rommel and Lopez had begun movement. Two Panzer Divisions are spearheading, a Schwarz Adler had been deployed, enemy forces, reported to be a cavalry regiment of around a hundred had been destroyed."
"A hundred?"
"Yessir. Around possibly a hundred."
"...Damn, they lost many of their own men in one small encounter huh?"
"Herr Adler, I've got a few messages from the Schwarz Adler. Displaying them on the Projection Table." A new officer quickly opened the message reader function.
"Let us see." Adler spoke seriously. The Table had shown them that the Rowlians were engaged in a mere curbstomp against the Germans and Argentinians. "...Interesting. Truly, they are only primitives and no-brainers at that." The shot taken was obviously from above, the town had been set ablaze with no signs of the same to the grasslands where the attackers were.
Blitzkrieg Offensive
Battle for Gim
The Battle started as Germans and Argentinians had quickly gained Air Superiority as Escort Fighters, which were Me155G Post War Era Aircrafts for High Altitudes were quickly reactivated with the lack of an Airfield to field Jet Fighters.
The fields that were makeshift however were able to field Argentinian Me155Gs, a fortunate thing with all the Fighters being Jets and in need of proper runways.
A Program named the Emergency Reactivation Program had spread across the Alliance. Every seaworthy ship and every planes, propeller, jet or rocket were to be reactivated for service.
Including Bismarck, Tirpitz, Gneisnau, Aviation Battlecruiser Scharnhorst, Admiral Hipper, Admiral Scheer, the Yamato, the Nagato. Any seaworthies were quickly reactivated as Yamato and Musashi were both already setting sail, activation of propeller fighters were kickstarted to produce more of them, with the fact that most dragons were only able to reach a speed of mostly 230km/hour.
The BV155B had a speed of 420 till 690km/hour. One of the oldest World War Two fighter, the Bf109 had a speed of 520 till 616km/hour.
That was how far superior the Alliance was. Even with old technology, they still had the advantage.
The Battle for Gim was a rather one-sider one. With the sudden offensive of unknown men and unknown beasts. Each forces had five thousand men each, but one is getting their ass handed.
The Germans and Argentinians had quickly began their firebombing on Gim. The town had been set aflames, mortars fired incendiary with towed artillery firing off their high explosive shells. Their range was far more superior than the Rowlians', the Me155Gs quickly diced the Rowlian Dragon Knights, MG151s spat their 20mm rounds and cut through the dragon hide like knife through butter.
Let's scratch that. It was more of a flaming knife slicing the butter with so much ease that the plate also got sliced. Or a battle axe through butter. You get the point.
The rounds overpenetrate when they came into contact. The dragons fell upon the rounds' impact. The garrison of Gim began to falter as the Germans and Argentinians fired gas rounds and set up gas masks if the enemy had wind wizards that can blow the gas over to them.
But either way, the wing of once seventy five dragons were demolished by AA fire and aircrafts. The tanks soon rolled to town to find dead soldiers, faces filled with chemical burns as the remaining survivors were choking to death.
"Execute them on spot. We don't need war criminals." The crimes were obviously indicated by the raped victims who had their bodies severely messed up. "Bury the dead. Bless their grave. We're going to move up. And do burn the corpses of these filth." Victoria had been no more than less merciful, unlike her grandfather.
Many of the soldiers who lived were taken to a spot, the General, Adem was quickly brought as he was soon matched up with the General who was reported to be the perpetrator. With camera recordings from the German Panzers, the recording of the Germans cutting the scums' limbs loose, slow bleedings and basically torturing continued as they soon perished in a few hours.
Adem had been violated in any human rights possible, having his fingers and toes cut off one by one with glass nonetheless, then his fingerless hands, toeless feet, he was soon skinned from the limbs. His unskinned limbs were soon cut off as stumps before the soldiers burnt those stumps to stop the bleeding, inflicting burns on the man 'accidentally' on his face, his cheeks, his masculinity, some of the soldiers cringed, while the torturers didn't even stop.
General Adem, one of the cruelest men alive in this world had been upped by the torturers of Punisher Squad of the German Divisions, they were not normally used, they consisted of basically former criminals who were reformed in the military, armed with nothing, but knives and often guarded to not cause mayhem in the frontlines. Back on track, the General had been mutilated, but very much alive as he was brought in, bleeding, eyes being burnt from cigarettes, his body a pincushion, limbs being used to feed vultures and his hair burnt directly from the scalp with a torch lighter used to bond plates of steel together. He was dehumanized and he was being tortured to the most suffering extent.
He was not killed.
That would be just too merciful for even this scum.
Furthermore, the Battle of Gim was no less a five thousand to a void ratio. It was still a 5000+ : 1 casualty. No one had died on the German and Argentinian side.
The slaughter had been recorded as Qua-Toine troops had been ordered by the Axis to garrison Gim.
News had spread like wildfire.
Slaughter of Gim
Axis' Slaughter against Rowlian Troops
News Headlines had made it through as around five thousand Rowlians had been utterly decimated by the Axis Forces with no casualty on their side.
"Unbelievable." Was the common expression in responding to the news. There were not many survivors with only one or two being taken prisoner after their innocence had been proven.
The prisoners had been taken into a POW camp by the Axis' Base. Purposes said that they were being interrogated for information.
But many were unsure of it.
How did they not lose a soldier against that many troops?
Excerpt from Interrogation on a Rowlian Soldier
"I knew that the fact that I was being led by General Adem would mean that we would see the most horrifying of all things when we finished the battle. But...I did not expect that they would just let a madman rape, loot and do things like this."
"Continue please."
"R-Right. What am I supposed to talk about again? I apologize…"
"That's alright. The Battle of Gim from your perspective, I wish to know what your opinion is."
"The Battle of Gim...Yes yes, oh God, that horrific slaughter…" The Rowlian soldier began to have his head to hurt. A pause came in as the soldier soon spoke. "I apologize. It's just so...traumatizing."
"That's alright. Continue on."
"...Right, the Battle of Gim was no more than a slaughter for us. A counteract for our horrific acts. A power to balance what we have done."
"Interesting. Continue please."
"It was nothing short of explosions, fire and oh God, that smog. That thick green smog that killed all of my comrades." He was indicating the poison gas used to kill the soldiers of Rowlia in the Battle.
"...What is your opinion about the Axis Volunteer Force?"
"The Axis...I thought they bluffed about having many nations in their alliance and were weak compared to us. But...I never knew they possess something...this horrifying. But...they treated me and my colleague as guests, while we get glares and threats, the treatment was...unexpected. Is this how every military is in the Alliance?"
"I won't say all, but I can say most."
"So today we've taken back Gim from the Rowlians, our forces are reorganizing for another Offensive." Field Marshal von Richtenstoß had spoken to the Axis' Head of Security who was placed in command to oversee the Offensive.
"If intelligence is correct. The Rowlians had focused exactly four hundred thousand troops on our front. But with us, they have began to falter and sent some more of their garrison troops to the Qua-Toine Front." General Seydlitz von Böhmen quickly spoke up.
"How is the Naval Invasion?"
"The Naval Invasion…"
"Well…"
"...They got bored after the invasion with not much communications going after the storm and satellite problens and quickly took over some of the major ports nearby." Seydlitz answered.
"...Did they?"
"Ja, I think they just updated it." The man soon zoomed into the port, the three port cities had been colored in German Black.
"...Scheiße."
"Werner's the new Ghost Division Leader it seems."
German Naval Invasion of Dun-Haan
The Rowlian Port of Dun-Haan had been miserable as their navy had been decimated by the new emerging alliance's country, Germany as the Argentinians called them. The battle against 49 ships as they reported ended with 4,399 ships sunk and 350 wyverns slaughtered.
That was when a whistle came through to the Port as they soon saw small figures as they soon became larger and larger overtime.
That was when they saw Wyverns of Iron, firing arrows of light as they soon flew towards the Port before taking interest on the military installations on the Port.
They exploded.
In just a few minutes.
Without warning beforehand.
The Port was under attack.
Islands came into view as they soon blew smoke.
An explosion?
Explosions happened on those island.
And they soon happened by the city as the great buildings of Rowlia were instantly demolished out of existence.
The attack had been so sudden.
No one had been willing to attack at daytime.
Who would?
That would throw away their cover.
Apparently they were wrong, they were not expecting an attack and was expecting a night assault. Thus.
All soldiers weren't prepared.
Ships began to close in, colored in grey. Made of steel. They stopped by the waters, the front opened as if it was a gate.
And steel beasts came out.
They went into the water.
And floated.
They didn't sink by their weight. They kept afloat before they landed on the beach. A similar gate opened and men poured out. The soldiers quickly began to swarm the beaches, the citizens were quickly panicked and began to flee.
The soldiers began their attack as the Rowlian soldiers were quickly killed by bolts of light. None stood a chance.
They all fell dead.
Soldiers quickly took the fortifications with little to no resistance.
Men were killed in attempts to push the invaders away.
They weren't enough.
Or there wasn't a chance even with numbers.
The takeover of Dun-Haan was quick and effective. Citizens were given choices.
Fight back and be detained or killed.
Or they willingly move to the civilian zone and as non-combatants be willing to cooperate.
They chose the latter.
They were citizens, proud of their country, but they know what happens when they fight back. Werner quickly established the zone by eight blocks, including having a POW camp outside the zone. Fences were placed to keep the people in and everything else out.
He had the most trusted staff to run the block, running resources of basically raw ingredients and some cooked to the zone for food.
The most innocent of soldiers to guard and the most violent as the supervisor. The thing is that the Wehrmacht was not filled with rapists, but rather rational headed men.
Some were extremely violent in terms of combat, thus that caused many to earn the term 'Blood Hounds', a term for blood thirsty soldiers who upheld order.
The term for innocent soldiers were mostly 'Hirten', as in German Shepherds who round the sheep by only barking and not much by biting.
Expeditionary Force Werner or EFW for short had quickly reorganized themselves before they began to capture the Port Cities of See-Laun and Aut-Mii, weird names, but none expected less.
New world. New names. Strange shit.
No wonder.
The Germans' Meer Preußen Panthers and the Sdkfz 294s began their movement with Meer Engels and Fafnirs backing them up, they had no communications, but they had the manpower to take the other two Port Cities without much effort. Soldiers of the Rowlian Army were jokes as they were cut down by constant gunfire of 5.56mm and 7.92mm.
The takeover lasted for five hours, they had easily taken over three Port Cities with not much resistance.
…
"First of all, that was fast. I was not expecting that." Adler commented with amusement. "Do we have other news?"
"Argentina has sent five Divisions to aid them. Three as Garrisons and two for Reinforcements." Richtenstoß added as he pointed at five Argentinian divisions out at sea.
"Estimated arrival at four hours. The Capital of Jin-Haag is within our reach. We can order the Carrier Group to send Aircrafts and bomb their Capital."
"Bombing their Capital, a sound plan, General Seydlitz. Contact them at once." The War Plan members soon got busy as the Carriers were soon beginning to prepare.
"Sir, we have received orders."
"Read them."
"New sortie missiob. Bombing the Capital of Rowlia, giving direct support to Ground Forces if needed. Have the Hindenburg fire off its missiles as a beginning assault."
"...Sortie the 2nd Strike Wing and 5th Strike Wing." The Carrier Group soon began to sortie their Horneisse and their Meermöwe aircrafts, the Super Missile Dreadnought had quickly began to prepare their barrage of Strike Missiles.
"Sir?"
"Yes?"
"German Command has requested that we send Strategic Bombers to bomb Rowlia's Capital. They wish for 12 Bombers to participate."
"...Send them."
"Right away sir."
Axis Capital Air Strike Force:
20 Me368 Horneisse
16 Ta495T Meermöwe
12 Argentinian He515 Brynhildr
Kingdom of Rowlia, royal capital Jin Haag, Castle Hark
He had spent over 6 years building up support and accepting humiliating demands in order to feign obedience, but he was finally able to assemble and train a polished, unyielding army capable of uniting the entire continent of Rodenius. He invested nearly all of Rowlia's possessions and national power, putting his country in debt for decades, to create this legion. To deal with any possible outliers, he raised the power of his military to unthinkable heights; it was like crossing a stone bridge then destroying it, the level of their military strength was supposed to be insurmountable. They should have trampled over everything.
But then, these 'Argentina' and 'Germany' countries with their nonsensical combat power joined the war and came out nearly untouched. At first, they had sent messengers, offering to make diplomatic ties. He should have treated them more politely and researched their countries more. "They were some barbarian countries because they didn't have wyverns?" Rubbish. They were a country that didn't need wyverns because they were so advanced.
He had lost most of his army. His naval fleet too when they left to attack the Qua-Toine fleet, destroyed into ashes by the German Fleet, his Ports taken by force. His country suffered catastrophic losses, but he couldn't even confirm a single death on the Axis side. What a staggering kill/death ratio; if he had fought with one of the major civilizations' superpowers, it wouldn't have turned out this lopsided.
He should have been more careful from the start. But, regardless of how devastated he felt, he had no time for regrets. The enemy had already come here. They were in the skies of the capital, their iron wyverns screeched as glass shattered upon their wake. His wyverns were already all dead. There was nothing else he could do…
And death came for the city.
The Iron Wyverns sent objects of iron that exploded upon contact. Arrows of light laid waste to the city of Jin-Haag.
'Stop it.'
Screams of his people began.
'No, stop it. Please. You came for me! ME! Stop it! STOP IT!' The city was soon turned to a wasteland as the King fell to the ground. Powerless.
Absolutely powerless to stop the calamity.
This was what his ambitions had become.
This was what his greed brought him.
This was the result of his campaign.
Nothing. But death of his own people.
'What have I done?'
Afterwards, Rowlia had declared Total Capitulation.
After only a few weeks or less, Rowlia had been brought down.
Interlude
As soon as The Kingdom of Rowlia declared their capitulation after the Bombing of Jin-Haag, the Germans had sent their envoys via the KMS Prinz Eugen Panzerschiffe and the KMS Munich Light Cruiser. The Treaty of Jin-Haag was soon signed by the King of Rowlia, Hark Rowlia the 34th, Rowlia will be placed under the rule of German General, Victoria Rommel, Rowlia be turned into a Reichskommissariat of Germany.
Nobles were stripped off their titles. Their wealth given to Victoria who quickly began a campaign to reconstruct Rowlia, the capital of Jin-Haag was renamed to Neue Berlin. The whole country was renamed Reichskommissariat Neue Deutschland.
Military traditions were quickly replaced by Prussian traditions, the Germans had quickly integrated interwar guns such as the MG34, Karabiner 98 Kurz, MP40 and the Luger P08 they had in stock.
The Rowlians were soon renamed to Germanics, not as Germans, but Germanics.
This world might be ripe for the taking, but they shall act as protectors rather than conquerors.
Japan had begun their own campaign in the East, favoring some smaller nations with herbs in exchange for others.
Italy had been eager to reestablish the New Italian Empire with some degree of colonization outside of Europe, Africa and Central America.
Other countries like Spain, Siam, Argentina, Venezuela, New Ottoman Empire, Free India and others had similar thoughts. But not as ambitious as the three majors.
Free India had reclaimed itself as the Republic of Aryavarta. Their military had grown a bit and was petitioned as one of the Secondaries.
The Secondaries included Argentina, Venezuela and the New Ottoman Empire, who had been really idle in many things.
But their military had been progressing for a while which was a good thing for them. They had tanks that were on par with the early Standard Panzer VI, the Neuer Panther.
Qua-Toine had decided to also give some control to the Germans which enabled them to integrate more products while no one will be recruited for the German Wehrmacht, but for the RSS.
The Quirans had also opted to join by being a Satellite meaning they would be looked over by the Germans.
Gra Valkas Empire/The Eight Empire Information Bureau
The row of electronic receivers beeped relentlessly. One could easily mistake them for emitting Morse code, but the pattern was actually different.
"Your Excellency, we have just received an update from a local informant to append to our information on Rodenius," reported a man in a sharp, glittering black suit.
"In brief?"
"Yes sir! Due to the intervention of Germany and Argentina from the Alliance of the Greater Axis, Rowlia's invasion of Qua-Toine and Quira failed. The Rowlian royal family was deposed off and the country has apparently shifted to a form of an integrated puppet."
"What?!"
The man being addressed as "Your Excellency" raised his eyebrows. He had always been satisfied with the report summaries, so he left all the work to his retainers and simply took responsibility himself if anything went wrong.
"Based on our predictions, the Kingdom of Rowlia should have overwhelmed and gained control over the entire continent of Rodenius, but… I've never heard of this 'Germany' or this 'Argentina' country… what do we know about them?"
"After Germany joined in, the state of war changed completely. Rowlia's grand fleet of forty-four hundred ships was unilaterally defeated by Germany's escort fleet. On the ground, Rowlia's forces were routed without even scratching Germany's.
"Furthermore, after analyzing eyewitness reports from Rowlia's capital Jin-Haag, Japan's military includes an estimated 20,000-ton heavy cruiser and a 9,000-ton light cruiser. There were also reports of an aircraft carrier. The heavy cruiser was seen equipped with a 203 millimeter cannon, eight could be confirmed on the ship with the light cruiser carrying eight 150 millimeter cannons. The carrier was transporting rotary-wing aircraft."
"Were any fixed-wing aircraft spotted?"
"There were no reports of any fixed-wing aircraft, sir."
"203 millimeters, huh? Their naval technology seems to have developed somewhat strangely. I guess it's been sufficient for the enemies they've faced so far. We ourselves are still developing rotary-wing aircraft, so they've got us beat in that corner. But, based on their ships' armaments, and considering the way their military operates, it seems like they came from a rather peaceful world.
"Compared to the technology in this world, they appear to have developed in isolation. Rather than that, I'm guessing they were also sent to this world, like we were… However, with only 203mm and 150mm cannoned warships, and using eight at that, we need not fear them. They might get in our way a bit, but they won't be much of a hindrance to our larger goals."
The man lost interest in the topic.
"That reminds me, what's going on with the Leifor fleet?"
"The national oversight army has already finished resupplying. They should be fit for combat soon, but the admiral is being whimsical and doesn't want to use an aircraft carrier against barbarians, so he's only sending a single dreadnought."
"In this world, one dreadnought is enough to become a legend."
Mu continent, western sea
Second Civilization superpower, Leifor
The 43 ships in the Leiforian fleet sailed west. The Eighth Empire, an emerging country that appeared out of nowhere, conquered and assimilated the surrounding primitive countries, then declared war on the entire Second Civilization. They were written off as just some country of barbarians, but they then invaded the Kingdom of Paganda, a small island country under Leifor's protection, which provoked the ire of the Leiforian emperor.
The emperor deployed a fleet including a dragon carrier and a 100-gun ship-of-the-line and ordered them to destroy the enemy fleet docked in Paganda. The Leiforian fleet raised their sails and used the magic tool Tears of the Wind God to accelerate to an unbelievable speed of 12 knots ("unbelievable" in this world) towards the south.
"General! Our dragon rider scouts report that they have spotted the enemy fleet!"
The wyvern lords, sent from the dragon carrier to scout, used magic to report back.
"There's only one enemy ship, but… it's over three hundred meters long, and it's fitted with gigantic cannons!"
General Bal wrinkled his brow. "Leave three escorts with us; send the rest of the dragon riders to attack! All ships, set course for the enemy ship!"
"Yes sir!"
Pushing aside the waves, the fleet changed course for the enemy's ship. The fleet's movements were very coordinated, a testament to its discipline. Wyvern lords were launched from the dragon carrier into the blue sky. They flew beautifully, in formation, heading west.
The Gra Valkas national oversight army's super-dreadnought, the Grade Atlastar, was slowly moving east. Its enormous body carved through the water, nearly splitting the ocean, as it trudged along. 46cm cannons were installed coaxially in three places, and the 9 guns shined proudly, as if aiming at the horizon. It was a solemn ship, with the bridge rising like a castle from the center of the ship. There were 3 high-angle guns pointed at the sky like hedgehog spines. They fired shells with proximity fuzes, recently developed by Gra Valkas. These shells emitted radar waves and would explode automatically when anything reflected those waves back, dealing damage with shrapnel.
Until a few years ago, the empire also used timed fuzes, but, with the introduction of the proximity fuze, the accuracy of their shells jumped up by a factor of 20. The 46cm main guns also began using targeting radars, which further improved their accuracy on top of their world-class firepower.
The Grade Atlastar's captain, Rockstar, gazed out at the sea.
"Captain, we've detected something on radar. There are numerous flying objects approaching, from the Leiforian fleet."
The report came from one of the radio operators: they were a type of dragon known as "wyverns." When they had destroyed the royal guard's dragon rider squadron, it was their first time fighting against wyverns, but their own fighter squadron suffered no losses and shot down every enemy. The wyverns couldn't even scratch the empire's Antares fighters.
The Antares-type fighter plane had adopted an advanced low wing from the biplane and used a reliable 1,000 horsepower engine. Like sharpening a sword, they obsessively iterated on a lightweight design and, as a result, created an aircraft that could achieve speeds of 550 km/h while boasting the best maneuvering capabilities in the world (at least, in their previous world). Equipped with a high-power 20mm machine gun in addition to a reliable 7.7mm machine gun, its offensive capabilities were nearly perfect.
In comparison, Paganda's wyverns could only fly at about 230 km/h. They could shoot fireballs from their mouths, but only one at a time. It was such a slow attack that could be avoided by simply changing directions a bit. To the highly-refined empire, the fireballs felt like they were barely moving. In conclusion, there was no way a wyvern could ever defeat an imperial fighter plane.
"Their current speed is three hundred and fifty kilometers per hour."
The radio operator reported in again. Compared to Paganda's wyverns, these were much faster. Well, in this world of barbarians and their so-called "superpower" countries, the only way to improve was to breed a better species.
"They'll be visible in about eight minutes."
The enemy's ships weren't shooting or bombing them at all. But they also didn't have any air support, either. They had anti-aircraft guns and proximity fuze weapons, but they still felt somewhat worried.
"We'll be able to see them soon."
From the sky to the east, they saw numerous black dots. Because they were too slow, they didn't really get much bigger over time.
"Prepare for anti-air combat!"
The dreadnought's operations shifted into full battle mode.
"Captain, should we use the standard anti-aircraft shells first?"
The standard anti-aircraft shells had timed fuzes and were fired from the 46cm gun, but they now also had new proximity fuze shells that were distributed for testing purposes. These shells couldn't be used in short-range combat, so they had to be used at the start of combat, when their targets were still at long range. The enemies were about 30 km away, and, considering their relative speed, they would want to use them soon if at all.
"All right then… prepare to fire main guns. Number one and two guns, load standard anti-air shells, coordinated fire. Evacuate all crew currently above deck."
After the crew evacuated, the main guns began to move. The front 2 guns (of 6 total) slowly angled upwards, to point into the sky. The process felt very solemn…
"Firing preparations are complete."
The target's relative distance was roughly calculated using laser sights.
"Fire!"
All six guns fired at the same time.
BOOM—-
The air shook.
Leifor army, dragon carrier, mobile troops, attack squadron, size: 40
They were heading to attack the enemy's giant ship. They flew in a tight formation minimizing dead space in order to mitigate potential enemy attacks. There were two groups of twenty; one group flew at standard altitude, the other group flew above the rear of the first group.
"…?!"
Someone noticed something strange. There were a bunch of black dots in the sky.
(What are those?)
An explosion, a loud noise—
In a flash, twenty densely-packed riders received direct hits from the six fuze shells shot by the 46cm guns. Unbelievably large flowers of fire blossomed in the air. The forward squadron had just been instantly annihilated. The rear squadron milled about in confusion.
"EVERYONE, SPREAD OUT!"
Against an opponent capable of explosion magic of this potency, it was suicidal to remain grouped up. Before them, the giant ship was now in visible range. It was gigantic! And it had no sails!
"CHAAAAAAAAAARGE!"
True to their reputation as elites of the powerful Leifor army, the wyvern lord squadron quickly shook off their fear and dove right at the Grade Atlastar.
"There's… too much!"
It was like rain; a rain of light. Within the rain of light, they tried to keep pushing forward towards the enemy ship. One rider was shot down, then another. Whoever the rain of light hit died, but apparently even if they just got too close, they would also be killed… These conditions were way too harsh!
10 minutes later, there was no longer anything flying in the sky.
"Co… communications have been interrupted. The dragon rider squadron… has been wiped out."
"Whaaaaaaaat?!" bellowed General Bal at the operator's words. "To those damn uncivilized barbarians…? They brazenly brought only a single ship to face the illustrious Leiforian fleet, yet our riders were defeated?! This cannot stand! Our ship-of-the-line will eat them alive!"
"The entire Leiforian fleet will soon be within firing range," reported the radio operator.
"Hmm… they may be within acceptable firing range, but our accuracy will still be quite poor… The range for shelling was… about two kilometers for non-flying targets according to the documentation, I believe. Does that sound right?"
"Yes, that's right. However, while the shells are indeed powerful, they must properly explode to reach the ideal power level. Also, they aren't like cannonballs, I guess they explode differently from gunpowder, but I'm not really clear how it works. The explosions are on par with black gunpowder, though."
"…They're all a hundred years behind our civilization, yet they're the ones calling us 'barbarians' instead… What pathetic leadership. When they're almost within firing range, say about five kilometers away, show them our broadside. Command will coordinate targeting to avoid overlapping. Main and secondary guns, use radar targeting."
The orders went out.
The 43 ships in the Leiforian fleet under General Bal's command had their sails filled with wind generated by Tears of the Wind God. They were quickly closing in on Gra Valkas's dreadnought, the Grade Atlastar. Based on the wyvern lord squadron's last-known position, they were able to infer the location of the ship and headed in that direction.
"We should be able to see the enemy ship soon."
Bal opened his eyes wide and scoured the horizon.
"! I see it!"
?! It was much closer than they had calculated based on the location information they had. The ship was also so big that his sense of perspective began warping. However, the Leiforian fleet had been undefeated for over 300 years, with a 100-gun ship-of-the-line in command of 43 other ships; no matter how big the enemy's ship was, they were helpless with only one ship.
The entire fleet continued forward, side by side, forming a line as they charged the giant ship.
"What hit our elite riders were probably cannon shells enchanted with explosive magic. Let's get a taste of that for ourselves!"
The fleet, sails billowing, surged forward. They were about six kilometers from the Grade Atlastar. The enemy ship began to turn, showing its belly to the fleet, as it were. They could see three giant turrets on the ship; the aft and midship ones both turned to point at the fleet.
"It… it can't be… Are we in range all the way out here?"
Smoke began to rise from the enemy ship.
"Enemy fire!"
"We're too far away, it's a trick!"
Five giant, ridiculously tall columns of water sprouted in front of and behind the Leiforian fleet.
"W-What power… They're so accurate at this distance!"
Again, they saw smoke rise, this time from the secondary cannons. They loaded so quickly! Another two pillars of water jumped up right next to the ship-of-the-line.
"! Ship-of-the-line Gaofors was hit!"
The 80-gun ship-of-the-line Gaofors was hit by one of the three secondary cannon shots. The 15cm shell easily pierced the Gaofors's antimagic steel plating and, unluckily, burst within the ship's magazine.
BOOOOOOM.
The remains of the ship sent up trails of black smoke.
"The Gaofors has been sunk!"
"What?! …Those bastards! All ships, continue forward!"
Yet again, the enemy's main cannons fired. This time, three ships were hit. After the pillars of water had fallen back into the sea, two of the ships were simply gone.
"Ship-of-the-line Toronto has been sunk! …Sh-ship-of-the-line Leifor has also been sunk…"
!
Everyone was stunned. The ship-of-the-line Leifor, which inherited the name of the country, was the symbol of Leifor's invincibility. It was a 100-gun ship-of-the-line, it had the latest antimagic steel plating, and, at least within the country, it was boasted as the world's most powerful ship… And that ship easily sank to a single volley from the giant cannon on the barbarians' giant ship, when they weren't even within firing distance.
Sadly, reality did not allow them any time to despair. The cannons kept on firing. Stalwart sailors, strong ships with strong crews, without letting off even a single shot, were one-sidedly destroyed by the bombardment. Even though the Leiforian fleet used Tears of the Wind God, the enemy's giant ship was still much faster. It kept itself outside of their firing range! And ship by ship, the fleet was sinking beneath the waves.
"Dammit! Dammit all!"
Aboard the 100-gun ship-of-the-line flagship Holly, General Bal shook with fear. All other ships in the fleet had now been sunk. The enemy ship slowly turned in the water, and all its cannons spun around to aim at the Holly.
"…Raise the flag of surrender," he ordered.
They raised that flag on the Holly's mast, which symbolized the declaration to surrender in this world.
"Enemy ship approaching."
"Those bastards… Those bastards! When those barbarians get close enough, all cannons fire, sink that monstrosity to the bottom of the ocean!"
"B-But, to attack after declaring surrender… that would stain the honor of Leifor!" one of the ship's officers objected.
BANG—
"He was lost to the enemy's cannon fire… You understand, don't you?" asked General Bal as he approached the ship's captain. He had just shot the officer to death.
"What's wrong? There isn't a ship in the world that could withstand a full barrage from our cannons and remain afloat… And there's only one enemy ship. If no one rats, no one will know what we've done."
Bal looked at the approaching ship.
"Ready the cannons."
The idiots kept on coming closer. They stopped about 300 meters away. There was basically no way they could miss now.
"Fools… The price for destroying my fleet is high! FIIIIIRRRRRRE!"
From one side of the ship, 50 cannons fired at the same time. A navy's weapons were its men, and their methods of attack in this world were usually ballistae to draw enemies closer, fire arrows, and directly invading enemy ships. However, the prosperous superpower Leifor secretly built ships equipped to wholly destroy enemy ships. They would now use their hidden power on this monstrous enemy.
The giant ship took the cannonballs directly, and there was a huge explosion. With smoke pouring out of the cannons and plumes of smoke coming from the enemy ship where the cannonballs hit, all anyone could see was smoke.
"All cannons scored direct hits!"
"GAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! Take that, you bastards! That will teach you barbarians to mess with Leifor, hahahaha… hah?"
The smoke cleared up.
The enemy's… rotating turrets… leisurely… turned… and took aim at the Holly…
"Enemy ship is still active!" The radio operator screamed as everyone left began to panic.
"There was… absolutely… no effect? …Cursed monstrosity…"
The Grade Atlastar fired all nine of its 46cm guns simultaneously at close range, and the Leiforian fleet's last ship-of-the-line, the Holly, was erased from existence.
"…They fired at us after surrendering… So this is all a 'superpower' amounts to… I think a little punishment is in order. What is our remaining ammunition?"
"Each gun has about seventy shots, sir."
"I see… the enemy's capital sits on the ocean, doesn't it?"
"Yes, it should be about three hundred and fifty kilometers straight ahead…"
"They shall be punished by bombardment, then."
"Understood, sir."
The next evening, the capital of Leifor, Leiforia, was burned to ash after being bombarded by the dreadnought Grade Atlastar. The emperor perished, the remaining armies surrendered, and the Gra Valkas Empire annexed Leifor and began settling in their land. The Grade Atlastar, which sank the entire Leiforian fleet by itself and then burned the Leiforian capital to the ground, driving the entire country to capitulate, became feared as the world's largest, strongest ship, and turned into a legend.
It was an event that shook the world, but the Axis had an idea of who they were facing against.
"...Yuuto-san, this ship…" Emperor Mirai had been leisurely reading the common newspaper from around the world, having some information written by Outworlders were no strange thing.
"Ah, the Gra Valkas Empire. I might say they are truly similar to us in terms of technology in the war."
"Hnnn, that ship…"
!
"That...certainly looks like our Yamato!"
"...Then we have nothing to worry about." If there was something that the Axis knew.
It was the weakness of their own weapons.
Yamato might have been a massive step for Battleships.
But she was going obsolete with the manufacture of Missiles and Heavy Ordnance Bombs.
She herself with Musashi had been decommissioned when they were deemed too expensive to use in the olden days, now when they were reactivated. They also had went to a quick upgrading phase.
The engine was to be exchanged for a German 'Torque' Nuclear Engine. Making the ship far more lighter with more armor to be placed around it.
The carriers had been an expensive ship to be produced with wooden tops light carriers being reactivated. They can sortie their older variations of carrier fighters.
"Truly...this is something we need to oversee." Yuuto nodded at his Emperor.
Sdkfz 294 = Assault Amphibious Vehicle or the LVTP-7 of the US Army, or at least equivalent of it with a 25mm Main gun
Schwimm Standardpanzer IX Meer Preußen Panther = Amphibious Leopard 2A3 in essence
He515 Brynhildr = XB-70 Valkyrie
New Puppets:
Germany;
Reichskommissariat Neue Deutschland
Reichsherrschaft Qua-Toine
Reichsherrschaft Quira
Emergency Reactivation Program:
Germany:
Ground Forces: All Standard Panzers reactivated, Half-Tracks reactivated, World War Two era guns(for newly puppeted outer-Terran territoty)
Air Force: Fw190, Ta152, Bv155, Me155, Ju87, Ju187, Hs129
Navy:
Battleships:
Bismarck(1958 retrofit, 380mm into 406mm)
Tirpitz(similar to Bismarck)
Karl de Groß(H-42 with 48cm cannons)
Großer Kürfurst(H-42 with 48cm cannons)
Weissenburg(H-42 with 48cm cannons)
Preußen(H-42 with 48cm cannons)
Carriers:
Graf Zeppelin
Graf Messerschmitt
Graf Strasser
Graf Focke
Graf Horten
Graf Heinkel
Battlecruisers:
Scharnhorst(Aviation Battlecruiser)
Gneisenau
Von der Tann(O-Class)
Derfflinger
Yorck
Friedrich
Heavy/Panzer Cruiser:
(Prinz Eugen scrapped to be made into KMS Prinz Eugen(1989)
Deutschland(Deutschland Class)
Admiral Graf Spee
Admiral Scheer
Admiral Hipper(Admiral Hipper Class Panzerschiffe)
Blücher
Seydlitz
Lützow
Roon(P-Class Cruiser)
Irene
Prinzess Wilhelm
Augusta
Victoria Louise
Light Cruisers:
45 Light Cruisers
Japan:
Ground Forces:
Type 58 MBT, Type 70 and Type 85 tanks
Air Force:
A8M Rifuku
A9M Seiryuu
J6K Sinpu
N1K-J Shinden
Navy:
Battleships:
Nagato
Mutsu
Ise
Fusou
Yamashirou
Yamato
Musashi
Tajima(Kickstarted upgrade Tosa-class Battleship, 5 turrets turned to 3, each turret housed 3 cannons, 41cm turned into 356mm)
Tosa
Dewa
Iwashiro
Izumo(Kickstarted upgraded Kii-Class Battleship, 5 turrets into 3, housing 3 cannons, retaining the 41cm caliber)
Kii
Owari
Hitachi
Carriers:
Unryuu
Jūnyo
Hiryū
Soryū
Ryūjo
Zuihou
Shouhou
Battlecruisers:
Kongou
Hiei
Kirishima
Haruna
Amagi(Continued Amagi Class)
Tsurugi
Choukai
Hiuchi
Zāo(B-65 Battlecruiser)
Warusawa
Aino
Ontake
Heavy Cruisers:
Tone(Tone-Class Heavy Cruisers)
Chikuma
Ibuki(Ibuki-Class Heavy Cruisers)
Nantai
Utsugi
Asahi
Light Cruisers:
20 Light Cruisers reactivated
Italy:
Ground Force:
P42 Panthera(Italian take on the Panzer VI Panther, modernized and refurnished)
Progetto P50(Italian MBT replacing the P42 Panthera)
Progetto P78(Italian Leopard 1)
Air Force:
Caproni Vizzola F6
G.55 Centauro
Macchi C.205 Veltro
Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario
Navy:
Battleships:
Littorio
Vittorio Veneto
Roma
Impero(New Impero-Class Battleship, Impero scrapped to build the newer Improved Impero Class)
Caesar
Nero
Romulus
Caligula
Carriers:
Aquila
Sparviero
Falco
Albanelle
Rondine
Albatro
Battlecruisers:
Principe Amedeo
Palestro
Caio Duilio
Enrico Dandolo
Italia
Lepanto
Heavy Cruisers:
Zara
Fiume
Pola
Gorizia
Bolzano
Garibaldi
Cadorna
Diaz
Light Cruisers:
20 Light Cruisers reactivated
Well, half the length from before. But with only basically curbstomps of the Military and stuff...
I expected nothing more, I still added the Gra Valkas Empire sequence since...
Might as well pat that word per chapter-JK. I just didn't want to make a separate Interlude of basically around 5k words. This was quick, since Germany would just curbstomp the shit out of the Rowlians.
What did you expect? Also Naming Conventions for the Axis Ships. Currently restricted to Germany, Japan and Italy.
Germany:
DD(Destroyers): Z(Number)[Traditional], AZ{Alfa Zerstörer}(Number)[After DD with Zs reached approximately 500 and began scrapping for newer models]
CL(Light Cruisers): Cities of the German Empire
CA(Heavy/Panzer Cruisers): Famous political figures, Navy Commanders
BC(Battlecruisers): Late 19th and Early 20th Century General and Marshal, now also including Mid-war 20th Century Generals and Marshals
BB(Battleships, Dreadnoughts, Super-Dreadnoughts): Famous and Important German Political Figures and Generals
CV(Aircraft Carriers): Late Zeppelin Commanders, Ace Pilots and Aviation Pioneers
SS(Submarines): NU(Neue-U-Boots)-[Numbers]
Japan:
DD(Destroyers): Rain, Tide, Wind, Moon, Season, Plants, Clouds
CL(Light Cruisers): Rivers
CA(Heavy Cruisers): Mountains
BC(Battlecruisers): Mountains
BB(Battleships, Dreadnoughts, Super-Dreadnoughts): Japanese Prefectures, Japanese Provinces, Alternate Names
CV(Aircraft Carriers, Converted): Mountains, Provinces(Exclusive to Converted BBs or CAs), Legendary Creatures and Famous People
SS(Submarines): I-[Numbers]
Italy:
DD(Destroyers): Wind, Season, Moon, Rain, Tide
CL(Light Cruisers): Historical Figures
CA(Heavy Cruisers): Port Cities
BC(Battlecruisers): Late Generals, other names of Italy
BB(Battleships, Dreadnoughts, Super-Dreadnoughts): Famous Historical, Political and Military Figures
CV(Aircraft Carriers): Birds
SS(Submarines): Greek Symbols, Fictional and Mythical Figures and Admirals
Presumably I'll follow it up with probably Argentinian and probably Indian ships. We haven't covered that part yet. But in the near future, Italy and Japan are getting like similar disclosure to the Argentinians and play minor roles, I'm trying to integrate an Italian Campaign, but with Germany set as the Main Nation, it would seem that Italy would need to hitch a ride and basically commit some troops to minor offensives.
And anyways, this was pretty much a very quick update, with 10k words nonetheless, I myself am surprised. Nevertheless to the reviews!
Guest: Ah, yes, Blitzkrieg...guess kingdoms will die.
Guest(2): )._.) I mean...what do you expect with those terms?
yoshikaandlucy99999998: Now. Is the update...
UN Peacekeeper: Aye, thanks, mate. Here ye go for the update and please update Fields of Halkeginia ASAP, I was enjoying that fic till you suddenly went on a break from it. D: Well, anyways, good luck on your AOT fic.