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Location Unknown: June 10th

Shadow was agin looking out his window. He was pleased with the way things were going. His compound guards had actually repelled an attack by over zealous rebels. They had been slaughtered of course, but it was an encouraging sign.

There were riots in Moscow, New York, and Tokyo. Whole Russian divisions had actually defected. Fighting was erupting in Belgium Congo and boarder disputs around Siam with the British and Chinese threatened to erupt into war. More Americans and Philipinos were dieing every day in Manila.

Yes, things were going very well indeed
 
July 8th

The world leaders were getting greatly concerened. World tensions were reaching the boiling point. Open war was already raging in China. Japan was making threatening moves, moving more forces into the area and were preparing to 'restore peace in the area'.

Meanwhile the US was basically in an undeclared war with the Philipines as the fighting only got worse. Several US naval battlegroups had been dispatched to the area.

Everywhere talks were taking place about reducing tensions. But they were only talks.

*******

Amsterdamn:

A bomb went off in the downtown area today, killing the French and British Ambassadors. Both countries blame the Neatherlands for not providing enough security for the area where talks were being held. They point to signs that the Neatherlands knew the attack was planned, but had done nothing to prevent it.

The Neatherlands blamed a radical archanist group based in Luxembourg for the attacks. The Dutch demand that Luxembourg hunt down the group in question.

The Luxembourgian army may not be up to the task, numbering only 1,000 men. The Dutch say that if Luxembourg cannot police its own country, they may be forced to.

Luxembourg has begun mobilization of additional forces.....

*******

Swedish-Norwegian border

A lone Swede led a group of three men in black through the woods and into Norway. The Swede army officer had been easy to bride and it wasn't as though the men in black were short on funds.

They reached the Norwegian border post. The Swede sat back while the men in black went to work. They quietly snuck up on the post and quickly killed all five men there. The gunfire echoed through the countryside.

The Swede wondered why they used such lound means as there was a base within three minutes of the post. But he did not worry too much. He was too far away to be caught and he was being paid well.

As the men in black returned, the Swede thought of all the nice things he could now buy for himself and his wife. A new house for sure. Maybe two. And a car....a nice one.

The leader walked up to him. "It is done." he said.

The Swede got up to led them back the way they had come. He noticed a Norwegian rifle in the eladers hand. "Souvenier?"

"Something like that." The leader raised the rifle and shot the Swede, who never reasized what was happening. They left the body there and the leader returned the rifle to the hands of one of the guards.

They were long gone before the Norwegians arrived.

*******

World News Reports: July 9th

Another border incidnet shocked the world as reports of a Swedish incursion into Norway reached the press.

Apparently a group of five Swedish military men entered and attacked the border post. The element of suprise was lost and a vicious firefight erupted that left all the border troops dead and one of the insurgents dead. The attack was so badly disrupted that the insurgents did not have time to recover their dead member

The Norwegian private, whose name has not been released, who shot one of the intruders has been nominated for a medal for bravery.

Norway issued a stern warning to Sweden that this incident will not be tolerated and demanded compensation

Sweden refused to accept responsibility for the attack and that while it was 'deplorable and regrettable' they would not take kindly to such ultimatiums.

Both sides have begun partial mobilization of army forces and have broken off talks......

*******
 
November 1st

Shadow stood at his window looking out again. There was an acrid smell in the air and it was raining again.

The past months had seen the fulfillment of his plans. The US and the Philippines were in open war as were the Swedes and Norway. Peru attacked Bolivia when their ambassador was shot by a Bolivian officer. Russia was at war with Mongolia and France has seen enough German military build up and was trying to invade. Siam, seeing their opportunity to get their land back, attacked French Indochina. The British, seeing possible threats to their possessions in the area, presented a declaration of war to their Siamese ambassador a day later.

The spiraling affect of these starter wars were continuing to build. More and more countries were seeing opportunities to exact revenge for past wrongs, made up or legitimate it didn’t matter, and they invaded their neighbors.

Everything was in place. Shadow had the resources, the money and the power to mold new alliances in the world, to affect the course of this new war. With a simple order, he could cripple a nations ability to produce arms and they would fall. He had spies and saboteurs everywhere and his personal army could make surgical strikes at will.

He heard the sound of a door closing as six of him men in black left the room. He turned and looked at the table where he and his conspirators had sat. All six of them lay on the floor, dead.

They had lost their focus. Together they controlled over ninety percent of the world’s arms manufacturers. They had had more money together than most countries. They could control the future and mold the countries they would live in. This war would make them more powerful that ANY country! And they chose to spend their time with petty squabbles!

One wanted money from Asia because there weren’t enough wars in South America to fill his coffers. So he wanted Asia to give up some of his! North America was unhappy because the war in the Philippines was going so badly for the US. On and on they bickered. This wasn’t why the Council was formed. This wasn’t why they had spent centuries placing their people, gathering their resources.

He had been placed as head of the council for one reason and one reason only. He wouldn’t let anything, even the Council, get in the way of his mission.

He turned back towards the window and took a deep breath. His heart was racing. He noticed he was getting out of breath. He placed a hand over his heart. It was beating…..hard.

Shadow was having problems breathing. A sudden sharp pain arched up his side. He gasped and reached out to put his hand on the desk.

In the pain, he reached out, but only caught the side of the desk. His hand slipped off and Shadow fell down, cracking his head on the corner of the desk…………..
 
Most interesting! I´m definitively following this one!
And my congratulations to you for your great writing style! It´s clean, but well descritive, and smooth to read. And the mistery parts were masterfully used.

Keep it on, and don´t leave us in the dark like that!

Nuclear Winter

PS:. On a second thought, yes, keep us in the dark like that, it makes for a more interesting reading ;)
 
Yeah, they are a little overboard but whatever. And why not liberate Croatia as Serb-dominated Yugoslavia and start another was there?
 
Excellent, now with the conspirators dead no body is guiding the wars...
As posted before... its time for TOTAL WAR BABY :D
 
I'm jumping on board! How about some renewed tensions between Hungary and her neighbors? Oh how about Turkey trying to recall some old Ottoman territories, or even against the USSR? never know what those terrorists are capable of....
 
November 20th: Hungary

The president stood in his office with his hands in his head. He didn’t know what to do. He had gotten his country into a mess and he didn’t know how to get them out.

Nearly seven years ago a man in a sharp black suit had come to his office. Over the next year he came to know this man well, and fear him. The Hungarian military intelligence had been able to find no information on this man, yet he knew all about the President and his country.

At first he had tried to bribe the president with outrageous sums of money or power. When that failed he threatened Hungary as a nation. He had had several buildings bombed, towns attacked. He even had several major industries call corporation wide strikes.

With his country’s economy in danger and civil unrest spreading the president had had no choice. He strained relations with surrounding countries, blaming them for the bombings. He had been told that other countries were being manipulated the same way, that this would be a controlled war. It would only last a year or two. If Hungary didn’t co-operate, then Hungary would cease to exist.

Now? The President laughed. Now, there was no one guiding this horrid war machine. Sure, they tried to hide it, but the organization was different. It wasn’t consistent, the messages contradicted themselves. Sometimes they don’t come at all.

He had led his countrymen into a situation where there was no way out. He was wrought with self pity.

His pistol lay in front of him on the desk…….





While the Hungarian president had been the only actually country leader who had been bought, every single country had high placed advisors, generals and political and economic leaders working for the Council. Some took money, others took promises of power or ideological fulfillment while others had to be more… creatively motivated.

With no one orchestrating this carefully molded plan, its fell to pieces. People scrambled to cover their backsides or sought to seek advantage of the situation. Various Council Lieutenants, tried to carve out individual areas of power while disrupting others. Hitler, Stalin and other leaders found little reason to shy from open warfare on their own.

As the countries vied for power and more and more council members tried to take over control, the world tumbled into war. Old alliances had already been broken, but the new ones had yet to be formed. The world quickly became a struggle of every country for itself. The world erupted in the flame of war.
 
This AAR was part introduction to a series (hopefully) of small AARs I plan to do and part an introduction to the Total War scenario I created. I didn’t change any folder options so it should be playable with the new CORE version. Some events were already triggered to prevent some events from happening. Most will still occur though. I didn’t dig through all game files to make sure that all remaining events make sense with the scenario (I’m just too lazy) but figured if anyone was interested I would make it available. If you want me to email it to you, PM me with your email. Its about 1.18MB, but i will try to find other compression software to make it smaller (my winzip isn't working right)

Some things I’ve noticed:
France seems to be the most challenging Major, although the UK comes in second.
Be prepared to face hordes of Militia
The new movement rates of 1.06 makes invading and conducting wars in Africa, South America and Asia easier
The new supplies rule makes invasion harder and harder as the game goes on because countries get bigger and bigger

(And I'd give some screenies, but its now Jan 1st 1936)
 
good luck.
So, which country are you going to play?
 
elbasto said:
good luck.
So, which country are you going to play?
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I'd be willing to take votes/recommendations

I was thinking USSR/France/UK
 
Exterous, how did you create a total war scenario? I made a total war save game and using winrar, I got it really small 300kb I recall. Too bad my isp was bieng a bitch and I couldn't send it out. I'm waiting for road to war website to get back up so I can upload it unless you wanna do it.


Stay away from minors, I would pick Turkey, very fun game, your techs will be soo much higher. Majors like France its soo easy.
 
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