New Government in Holland.

[Walter]

*kicks the Swiss out of his foxhole and into the killing fields*

[damocles]

The devil's necklace is a daisy chain float mine array. Four nations are known to use it.

How many can make it? Not specified.     

[Desertfox]

I didn't even know I had that sweet weapon. Nice!

[Walter]

So the Dutch know something about the Swiss that the Swiss didn't even know...
... Interesting. :)

[damocles]

Well...the NRDN is thorough, and you need to read the story line.

D.

I didn't even know I had that sweet weapon. Nice!

Look around NS and ask yourself this question, who is out to get you and why?

Since you also didn't think of this crack the whip mine concept and I did, you should ask yourself again where I got that from and why?

D.   ;D ;D ;D

[Desertfox]

Who is out to get you?

Everyone and their grandmothers

Why?

Cause the Swiss are so evil even the devil is afraid of them

[damocles]

Hmmmmm.

Who is afraid of the New Swiss? _[crickets]

And who wants to get them?  ^{[everybody because of this.]}

[damocles]

Coded message.

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[damocles]

BRNO proving ground, Namur.



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pom, pom, pom, pom.

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pom, pom, pom, pom.

One engineer: "It works!"
The other engineer: "So what? We can't aim it for struddel rolls."
The one engineer: "We solve that next."
The other engineer: "Well, you know what that will take. We might have the directors by 1928 if we are lucky. Until then we just have another fancy anti-zeppelin gun."

     

[damocles]

Konter Admiraal Schoepen counts the costs of Fleet Problem IV. A minesweeper gone, Some other incidental damage, most locally repairable. The Swiss fled long before he got here, exactly as he expected when he warned NvR that this was a useless operation that would just damage ships to no purpose.

Nevertheless, Sur Masirah is now in Dutch hands as is the entire island. His Marine commander brigadeer generaal Ditawah Ahmed's combat pioneers have their orders, and he has his.

The place, though it cost too much, is too valuable to allow a New Swiss pirate base to exist.

And he has work to do.
   
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NvR reads the reports from Masiirah. His face is grim.

The New Swiss escaped the Rift, !@#$%^&*()!  

"Anders!" he roars. "Get in here!"

Together, they craft a series of cables to handle this debacle.

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Brigadeer generall Ditawah Ahmed's combat pioneers do indeed have their orders. General Ahmed opens a tent flap and looks at their work.

The place has to be rebuilt. The New Swiss blew it all up. The NS garrison commander far exceeded his already criminal orders to destroy civilian infrastructure, as well as military facilities, and tried to render the island uninhabitable. Fortunately he was incompetent. Still this is a war crime to the Dutch military, as far as they are concerned.

Civilians, his troops find ,wandering the countryside who have no food, no shelter, or potable water. Poisoned wells, dynamited villages, houses razed, slaughtered live stock  and such are the reasons...

Ahmed's pioneers are ready for this. The Dutch military is very well prepared for major natural disasters in the NOI, and the same training and equipment they use there, work here. Odd that he, Generaal Ahmed, is more concerned with providing shelter and getting food and water for 12,000 civilian locals who have none, than with killing the devils who did this crime ten days ago.  Once the KM can safe the waters, the Masirans can be fed from their own fishing fleet. Of course that has to be rebuilt too. The criminal New Swiss burned the dhows.  The Dutch already have plans for this, well in hand. Oman is next door and they have boats, and they allowed this crime...      

Generaal Ahmed has the press reporter pool very busy doing interviews and taking pictures everywhere. Soon the world will know just what kind of gentle occupiers the New Swiss truly are...  

[damocles]

From MVB Agent 1126 Transcript obtained via Operation Amoeba

Hong Kong Naval Operations Base

"We have received reports and evidence of the great use of submarines in an offensive and defensive naval war."

[Some looked surprised, the submarine had been neglected mostly by the Republic beyond a few large and somewhat experimental vessels. It had faovred the use of torpedo boats and MTB over the submarine. Admiral Chan Chak's aid who followed closely behind him dropped a package of files onto a desk next to him. The admiral tipped his hat before leaving, there were fleet exercises to conduct and cadets to train after all. The head of the Operations Base picked up the package and readied a meeting to discuss its contents...]

The package also contained informed that aircraft had sunk a few vessels at sea as well during the New Coalition (New Zion, New Swiss) - Allied (Italy, DKB) War. This was interesting to say the least and favorable for the Republic for it had constructed quite a few Torpedo Bombers (though relatively ineffective) as an experiment and to keep the aircraft factories in good shape.

Air power was most certainly becoming more important. Having air superiority, it was concluded, would allow the sighting , strafing, and bombing of enemy forces whilst keeping the rear movements of the Republican forces hidden.

Bombing at-level was not as effective as the use of torpedo bombers against enemy ships, though the art of torpedo bombing remained relatively imperfect. The Air force had already experimented with the possibility of Dive Bombing, but it was determined that until stronger materials for plane construction were available, the mission was to risky to risk losing a valuable pilot. The problem of the plane coming close to disintegrating during the dive was yet to be solved though the main problem, the rapid acceleration of the plane and the heavy stress onto the plane pulling out of a dive, had been identified.

Information indicated the main deterrent to torpedo bombing naval ships other than the high dud rates was the heavy antiaircraft weapons encountered on naval ships (it was as though the the navies of the world expected an aerial torpedo attack on their ships). The comfort was knowing that Imperialist ships lacked such devices and the relative inaccuracy of said weapons.

Still the navy put on express the need for a heavy fire low caliber airplane shredder weapon for use on naval ships. It was strange that a nation well versed in such aerial weapons would neglect to safeguard against them as well.

The Swarm doctrine was also proven, though heavy losses only confirmed the theory against swarm doctrines. The existence of destroyer and torpedo boat killers like the Yu-class were the confirmation of the theory. Fortunately the imperialist side lacked such weapons.

Much of the package contained with regards to aerial bombings and swarm assaults were predicted by the navy, but evidence was always welcome in convincing the more conservative elements within the navy.

Of course the ability to drop such weapons as the torpedo and carpet bomb naval forces as well as the effective use of mines as a deterrent force (although expensive and unfavorable to political favor) led to the question to the idea by the more liberal minds in the Air Force (which accounted most of the Airforce being that the Airforce itself was relatively new and not entrenched in doctrine) thought of aerial dropped mines. Such a weapon would eliminate the need for minelayers, an item that the Republic was not as plentiful in.

The package was good information, and Agent 057 had properly done his job.

The MVB analyst noted hos own observations about this intelligence. His notes were as usual encrypted:

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"Courier! Forward this to the NRDN." He sealed it in a burn trap bag and addressed it.
The courier asked, "Why the NRDN?"
Analyst, "They will make sure the right persons get that."
The analyst then added another  name to the enemy agent "disappear list".

   

 

[Desertfox]

Wow! Yet another setup... The Dutch must be truly evil to bring such suffering to the population just to blame the Swiss.

[damocles]

Wow! Yet another setup... The Dutch must be truly evil to bring such suffering to the population just to blame the Swiss.

First photos...

[Logi]

Again, did you properly gain the information through espionage as per Mods dictate? Unless that was done, I will properly ignore your post.

That's really turning SIC information to IC information with no basis and unfounded, Damocles.

What transcript? There was no transcript. And I seriously doubt the ability of your "agents" to report when practically under Marital Law, not to mention a widespread secret police against such spying.

[Guinness]

The Mods have not noted attrocities to have taken place on Masirah, but on the same token we have not acknowledged that they did not take place either.

As such this is purely a role-playing opportunity. Those in many nations will likely take note of the cynical track record of the Dutch and ignore these claims. Others may choose to attempt to independently confirm them. If that happens, the Mods will deal with that question appropriately. Still others may choose to accept the claims at face value. All these choices are up to individual players.