From Sydney with Love...

[Desertfox]

I don't see why the CSA should care if the target is civilian or military, after all, ALL the combatants have at one time or another targeted civilians, by both aerial and naval bombardments.

[Walter]

He's going to drop thousands of drawings of Walter's battleyacht on the unsuspecting populace.

Yes. That'll really freak them out. Thought perhaps not as much as the pink cruiser. ;D

And then he'll make Bambi eyes at us and ask "how come nobody likes the Swiss?"

My thoughts exactly. :)

Looking at the general's name, it sounds to me like he's going to parachute hundreds of serial killers into the DKB, who'll start murdering various prostitutes during the nights that follow the dropping. :D
Regarding the parachute, he'll just use the excuse of "But it is a Da Vinci invention and hundreds of years old."

ALL the combatants have at one time or another targeted civilians, by both aerial and naval bombardments.

Oh! You lie! Typical Swiss propaganda! There has never been a moment in this war when Japanese warriors targeted civilians!
*continues to shell various Swiss cities with battleship guns*
Never, I tell you!
:)

[Carthaginian]

I don't see why the CSA should care if the target is civilian or military, after all, ALL the combatants have at one time or another targeted civilians, by both aerial and naval bombardments.

Shelling a target with military value and accidentally causing civilian casualties is one thing.
This is generally how it happens with costal bombardment- you mean to hit the port and instead get the fish market.

Crashing an airship into a city or bombarding a hospital for the heck of it is deplorable, however, and should galvanize the world to action against someone.

[Ithekro]

That depends entirely on both the intended target and the actaul effectiveness of the attack now doesn't it?

[Walter]

That depends entirely on how the people look at it and how well your propaganda machine works now doesn't it? :)

[Tanthalas]

If its an airship crash id be more concernd with the fire afterwards lol.

[The Rock Doctor]

The Swiss don't have a good reputation to start with.  If they manage to wreck a DKB military installation, the DKB could probably convince a lot of people it was because the Swiss mistook it for an orphanage.

[Desertfox]

Strange because the only civilian targets I've hit so far are due to collateral damage from trying to hit military facilities in China by air.

[Tanthalas]

The Swiss don't have a good reputation to start with.  If they manage to wreck a DKB military installation, the DKB could probably convince a lot of people it was because the Swiss mistook it for an orphanage.

like i said above though the inital fire is what would concern me.  Just because you take out the Government in the initial attack, dosnt meen that the fire wont spread to civilian targets.

oh and DF just get the damn thing there already so we can see what is going to happen. =P

[maddox]

That is to be simmed.... 


To be continued.

[Desertfox]

War Room

"Mr. President, I have always said it is better to cut all funding to the SSS and give it to the Navy, the Navy delivers unlike these fools. Now the enemy is going to have a propaganda coup."

"Who the hell are you calling a fool? We at least pull of our mission in the last war, unlike somebody."

"Yeah and where did that get us?"

"Yeah! Well lookit..."

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."


***

LZ-11, Somewhere over Brandenburgia

"Test?"

"Negative Sir, we are no go on the wireless control equipment, sharpnel must have hit it."

"Contact LZ-9, we are aborting the mission."

"Abort sir?"

"Yes"


***

LZ-9, Somewhere over Brandenburgia


(gunfire outside)

"How bad did that shell hit 's?"

"Number 3 Engine's out, wireless is out, right foward fuel tank is leaking, and we cannot mantain altitude."

"Well, boys, I reckon this is it - we're going toe to toe with the Krauts, we got one engine out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the wireless is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them Krauts. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no starry sky! 

[Walter]

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

What? No fighting?! Heretics!! That's supposed to be primary function of the War Room!! ;D

[Carthaginian]

Strange because the only civilian targets I've hit so far are due to collateral damage from trying to hit military facilities in China by air.

Same-same all around.
Everybody does that- it's the cost of war.

There is a difference between
1.) intending to hit military targets and accidentally causing civilian deaths
2.) actually causing them intentionally by directly attacking population centers.

[Ithekro]

Hmmm, I just thought os something not entirely related.  Atlanta wasn't burned here.  Nor was there a march to the sea that destroyed everything in its path.

Perhaps this event still happened, but someplace else other than in the Confederate States of America.  (Makes one wonder if there is a significance in a Swiss class named "Atlanta"?)

[swamphen]

*raises eyebrow*

If the Swiss drop a chemical weapon on Brandenburgian soil, then that's all folks for the Swiss...

*turns keys*
8)


(Oh, and a decap strike would be...ineffectual...as the Kronprinz is in an Undisclosed Location.*  :D


* .... actually I Disclosed it in an earlier news post featuring Kronprinz E.F. )