The Pangean Wars

... And Aliens who attack and reduce to rubble of the once great city of Washinton D.C!

A pretty nice, fast paced read. Napoleon comes to power . I read the first post but unfortunately I had to study for a test so I couldn't continue.

Sorry about your computer, I wish you could take screenshots. And by the way, are you playing a Civ4 game as you are writing?

I'm so terribly sorry for such a long delay. I had a severe cold, things heated up at work, and then another relative died just 5 days ago. Now that all is slowed and taken care of, and it is my Christman vacation, I shall now sit back and enjoy writing once more!

@ e350tb, sorry, friend, that I haven't been on in a while, but I'll continue to churn out chapters!

@ Draknith, Thank you! And I think you'll fing them rather exciting!

@ Charles Li, HaHa! I wish...

@ DMOC, Thankyou, and no. I actually finished the game a while ago, but I would not discourage talking strategy. It is always good to have ideas for one's mnext campaign!

Update soon in coming...

Chapter 55, Pass Rusher

The winter proceeded unabated until an early thaw in march provided Napoleon with an oppertunity. If he could move his troops out of the pass before it closed back up again, which it surly would, he could perhaps suprise the Americans before they were totally ready to face the French. Taking the bull by the horns, Napoleon began the mountain exodus on March 10, 1754. By the 13th, they were approaching the city of Pittsburgh with rapid marching of almost 40 miles a day.

Meanwhile, in Washington, Franklin was totally caught off gaurd by such a move. He had a mere 185,000 gaurding Pittsburgh against a healthy, motivated French 620,000. Immediatly, Franklin ordered that 350,000 reserves in San Antonio to march to Pittsburgh ASAP.

Back on the lines, Napoleon knew that reinforcements would arrive within days of his arrival at the gates of Pittsburgh. To combat this, he ordered that once the troops reach the city, to immediately assault it. On March 16, they did just that and byu the 17th, Pittsburgh was theirs. In the assault, there were 11,000 French casualties as to 48,000 American. The American commander wisely abandoned the city after losing so many men.

On March 19, Napoleon realized how close it had been when 350,000 Americans marched into view. They merged into The Pittsburgh garrison to make a grand total of 487,000 to Napoleon's 609,000. Although numbers favored the French King, time was on the American side. The commanding American, Gen. Scavader, was a veteran of the great battle of Wolfsboro. This next battle of Pittsburgh would be up in the ranks of Wolfsboro, he was sure of it.

Next update relatively soon...

yup! 10Char

This could be the decicive (sp?) battle!

Chapter 56, 1st Battle of Pittsburgh

Back in Paris, the warming effect of the children's rally had slowly built moentum and a full scale celebration was launched on March 15. Napoleon would have rejoyced at the news, but with over 500,000+ Americans giving him a most evil glare not 300 yds away from the walls, he could only sigh.

Daily bombardment of the city continued unabated for weeks on end until April 8, 1754. At dawn, an American trumpet blasted and the battle was on. The French waited, and waited, and waited, until at the last possible moment, Napoleon gave the order to fire. 27,000 Americans fell at the first volley alone. Even though numerically superior, the French had lower morale and were not fighting to defend their homeland.

The Americans rushed at the walls, screaming "Remember Wolfsboro!" and throwing grenades toward anything that moved on the high walls above. The French cooly defended the walls, and pushed back any of the American attempts to scale them. After an hour, luck favored the Americans and one of the walls broke, killed few but providing an unmissable opeertunity for Gen. Scavender.

Every American troop was rushed into the breach, a mere 2 meteres wide. The French started to panic, and Napoleon sensed this. He ordered the famous sword regiment in to defend the breach along side their more modern cousins. Screaming maniacally, the 1000 sword bearing menj rushed into the gap. The fighting was intense, many reduced to hand to hand combat.

However, the Americans had momentum and managed to push the French back in farther. Here, luck favored the French. Another section of wall collapsed and killed 30,000 French and Americans indiscriminatly. The Americans retreated 2 minutes later, their path forward blocked by 3' high of ruined rock, in a space not wide enough for a tank. The first battle of Pittsburgh lasted all of 3 hours, and ended in a draw. French Casualties: 138, 000 killed, 84,000 wounded. Total French: 222,000. American casualties: 167,000 dead, 79,000 wounded. Total American: 246,000. Totals overall: 305,000 dead, 163,000 wounded. In all, 468,000 casualties. A bloody day, in all. But what will 2nd Pittsburgh be like? One wonders...

Chapter 57, Daniel Ryan

Taking a diverge from the ground war for a moment, I would like to focus on the three all to often neglected aspects of this war. Air, Sea, and Nuclear.

The air wars were going well enough, until the Airforce lost a few of its best fighters, and then the Americans launcheed a massive bombing campaign on London. They were beaten back, but not after devastating the city. As of 1754, The airwars have cooled off for the most part, but Napoleon's Airmarshall Juissie was planning a daring bombing raid on Washington.

At sea, the powerful French navy beat back attack after attack of American ships. Largly successful, the Navalmarshall Talebeleneux has managed to stop all American invasion attempts. Unfortunately, in late 1753, the Navy failed in its protection of Les Tourte and lost it to America, but after heavy bombardment, the Americans left, and the French moved back in to pick up the pieces. When the clean-up crews arrived on the island, they were shocked to find a new structure built. The Americans had built a mosque and placed DAniel Ryan inside it. As you may recall, Daniel Ryan died as a exile on Les Tourte in 1714. The placard above his sarcophagus read:
Daniel Ryan
1677-1714
May Allah bless him and keep him in janna! This great model for Americans!

The crew reported this to the Naval command, who in turn wired it to Napoleon. He chuckled of how he rembered Ryan singing like a canary about troop garrisons more than 40 years ago. "What a role model..." though Napleon.

The Nuclear scene is much more stabilized. America does not have the resources o produce nukes, and is down to 2 in their capital city. Napoleon has about 50, but is keeping them in storage, and never intends to use them.

Next update coming eventually/soon-

Chapter 58, 2nd Pittsburgh

Back in Pittsburgh, the French had repaired the walls to a certain degree before the bombarding continued. Eventually, on April 11, 1754, Napoleon made a bold move. Rather than get smashed to pieces and then attacked by Americans, he made a pre-emptive strike. He blitzed the artillery with his armors, so that onlt 2 or 3 were left functioning. This left the Americans a huge disadvantage, because over 60% of the walls were remaining. Gen. Scavcander realized that the artillery he had was simply not enough to reduce the walls to rubble.

Rather than wait for re-enforcements, Gen. Scvander attacked on Friday, April 13, 1754. Not he best day to attack... The Americans rushed towards the walls at dawn, and the process was repeated as from 5 days before. The French held their fire until the Amricans were extremely close, and blew them to bits when they got to within 50 yards of the walls. This time, however, no wall fell down. The Americans started setting up thousands of Siege ladders across three fronts. The French were kept busy pushing off Americans for a while.

On the South side of the city, however, the Americans were gaining the upper hand. Napoleon saw this and sent his sword unit there to push them back. The sworders screamed and ran headlong into the Americans, many of whom tumbled off of the walls and into more Americans below.

Part of the Great wall finally collapsed, but it was to the American's dismay. It fell outwardds, killing 35,000 densly packed Americans as it went. Even though this breach was large enough for tanks, the Americans were just too worn out and depleated by the fighting earlier in the day. By now it was noon, and the sun was rising to a hot tempature, for April. Gen. Scavender woke up to common sense and retreated at 3p.m. that day.

French casualties: 49,000. American casualties: 179,000 Total casualties: 228,000. Not as bloody as 1st Pittsburgh, but still bloody none the less. With that, France had about 335,000 troops still intact after those battles, while Scavender had a mere 76,000 left, mostly tanks. The Americans cities had produced many troops, but with the loss of the aluminum around Pittsburgh, their machiene was severly weakened.

Chapter 59, The Rabbi Football Leauge and Advance to Minneapolis

With the defeat of Gen. Scavender, Napoleon was able to focus more fully on domestic issues. Workers had built a railroad the Ascotia pass, and were now busy working on improving the cities that were formerly American. Back home, Paris was celebrating its most recent victory.

Because of lack of metals due to the war effort, most French were limited in thier fovrite past time, horseshoes. The FHL (French Horseshoe Leauge) had dwindled and matches were becoming less common. To substitue for this, Rabbi Jean-Paul Nouissmonte invented a game he called 'football' which was the same as the game is today. Except there was a much larger net, and therefore 2 keepers neccessary, so there was 12 men on teams. The RFL (Rabbi Football Leauge) became very popular. The International Metrodome in Paris held matches every sunday. Napoleon often found this to be an amusing, but a great sport if it kept up morale back home.

The next target for Napoelon's armies would naturally be Minneapolis, but he had to wait for re-enforcements. On April 27, 75,000 men arrived. 50,000 were garrisoned, and 25,000 joined the main column which now swelled to 360,000 men. On May 1, they started the march towards Minneapolis. They arrived and set up siege on May 17, 1754.

Napoleon was informed the same day that 235,000 men under Crown Prince Jean-Paul had arrived in Pittsburgh. He sent the message back that Jean-Paul was to advance and take Houston, but if Pittsburgh were to be threatened, do not hesitate to return. Immediatly, Jean-Paul set off and set up a siege in Houston on May 30, 1754.

On June 1, 1754, the men reflected on the fact that it had been two years since the war started. Bagpipes were played as a testament ot those who had sacraficed their lives for a better France in this war, and all wars previous. This one had by far been the bloodiest war ever. Back in 1334-1375, the 40 years war caused the deaths of 602,000 troops. In this war, the 2 battles at Pittsburgh alone are more than that!

It is on this sad note that I pause this chapter, to let it sink in...

Chapter 60, Battle and Fall of Minneapolis

The sieges were going well up into the 15th, when two American armies simultaineously appeared. Gen. Scavender was attacking Jean-Paul and a new General, one Gen. Ryan, was attacking Napoleon.

The Americans hit Napoleon hard in his right flank, but some luckily placed armors pushed them back. The artillery stopped bombing the city and unleashed its power upon the attackers. fifteen minutes later, 25,000 men came from the city and hit Napoleon in his rear. Napoleon had been expecting that, and immediatly unleashed his reserve of armorsa onto them. They were beaten back to the city quite quickly. Gen. Ryan was holding on quite well, but decided wisely to pull out before his casualty rate became too high.

French casualties: 19,000. American casualties: garrison: 12,000, Gen. Ryan: 23,000. Total casualties: 54,000. Not exactly a bloodless day, but smaller than either 1st or 2nd Pittsburgh. Jean-Paul had deafeted Gen. Scavander, and actually took him prisoner. He would be sent to Napoleon within a few days. "What?" thought Napoleon. "Why to me?" No matter, for he would realize the importence soon enough.

The sieges continued uneventfully until Minneapolis surrendered peacefully on July 4, 1754. Houston fell on July 20 after a breif battle. It was looking like the begining of the end for the American cause...

Chapter 61, Gen. Jacques Ryan

Napoleon had been wondering if the General he had faced was related to Daniel Ryan. He checked with spies and colleauges aand discovered somethinbg interesting he did not know. Daniel Ryan married a French woman in Les Tourte by the name of Constance Ponthaeu in 1712, and had a son by her in 1713. His sons name was Jacques Ryan. He enlisted in the French army in 1732 and rose up to the rank of Lieutenant by 1745. With the Aztec war, he had distinguished himself during the siege of Teotihuacan in 1745, and was promoted to Major by 1750. He had never forgiven Napoleon for killing his father, and when war broke out he sided with the Americans, and went to Washington. He quickly moved up the ranks, earning his own army in early 1753, and supreme command of all American armies in 1754.

Napoleon searched his mind deeply and rememberd vaugely giving a medal to a young officer at that siege who gave him a look of contempt when their eyes met. " It is truly funny that the son of an exile should wind up meeting the man who exiled his father on the same battlefield as Generals of equal rank," thought Napoleon, "I guess he'll just be another of the people I must try and convict in this affair when it is all over...

A very good read.

Why thank you!

Will be posting here soon...

Chapter 62, Battle of Shiloh

The French economy was sagging. It was still working, but massive strikes were characteristic of these days, which slowed troop and tank production tremendously. Napoleon knew that he must rap up this war within the next year to save France's economy. With that knowledge, he greeted 67,000 troops sent to garrison Minneapolis. The last of the reinforcements for a long while.

The next obvious target for Napoleon's army was Boston. It housed the greatist gallery of artwork in the entire world, and the American Royal Cemetary, where Kings of America have been buried since 1376 B.C., going all the way back to Henry I 'The Great'. These were the two locations Napoleon sought to protect. The Americans would never forgive the destruction of the cemetary, and no one would forgive the museum.

On July 30, 1754, the French Army numbering some 335,000 troops were about to leave when a messanger rushed into Napoelon's tent. "What is it?" asked Napoleon. "Bad news, Sire. The Americans took down our cell towers so you wouldn't know of the developments. An army numbering some 630,000 Americans under Gen. Ryan have attacked Crown Prince Jean-Paul! He can only hold out for another three hours before total annihilation."

Napoleon lept outside and screamed at the top of his lungs, every one to Houston, now! Triple time! The slower infantry and marines were seperated from the faster armours and tanks, who whizzed across the grassland toward Houston. The message was recieved at 10 A.M., and the armours got to Houston at noon. A feat never again equalled.

The French on the other side of the line cheered at the presence of their comrades. Napoleon slammed into Gen. Ryan's rear with extreme vigor. He was fighting to kill a trator, protect his kingdom, and protect his son. Napoleon was so empassioned, he ordered his own unit into action, beign part of the second charge.

Napoleon potioned his armor and when the signal was given flew off into the breech. He killed several lesser units before retreating to repair what he thought was a few bullet holes in his frame. When he got out behind the lines to look, there wherer over 400 bullet holes and 2 missle holes in his armor. All had not hit either him or vital equipment. When those aroung saw their commander getting out of such a battered armor, they cried and praised God.

The rear-slamming halted the American advance and turned the fight into more of a stalemate. Eventually, the Marines and infantry arrived and pushed the Americans into retreat. Since the battle was outside of the city, it was called the Battle of Shiloh, named for the little Jewish missionary school in the valley below. It had been out of use since 1749, but it was still serving as a headquarters for French troops in the area.

French casualties: Napoleon's army: 88,000 Jean-Paul's army: 135,000. American Casualties: 210,000. Total casualties: 443,000 troops. A figure superceeded only by 1st Battle of Pittsburgh.

Chapter 63, Gen. Scavender, I presume?

Needless to say, the victory at Shiloh was extremely costly. Jean-Paul's army was in little better shape with 92,000 men than to do more than simply garrison Houston and provide Napolen's army with 22,000 re-enforcements. However, two good things came of this battle.The first, Gen. Scavender was finally transferred to Napoleon's head quarters. Second, the Americans had lost what might have been the last major battle.

First things first. Gen. Scavender was taken to Napoleon's tent by two aides. When they set the chained soul down, Napoleon looked up from casualty reports to see a sight he had not been expecting. Gen. Scavender was a woman. Napoleon in his mind had always piuctured Scavender as a man, and no reports had said otherwise. He had always referred to Scavender as a man, why had no one known?

Napoleon started the talk, "And you are Gen. Scavender?" "Gen. Anna-May Scavender, I prefer." Replied Gen. Scavender. "Mmmhmmm... I see you have been causing trouble for me even now as you are in chains." mumbled Napoleon who was reaching for a large law book on his desk."Exactly. I knew the French legal system did not allow for the, 'Killing of Female Prisoners of War' as stated in Article V, Paragraph 3, line 2 of the Army reform bill No. 14, Passed by French Parliament October 10, 1748."

Napoleon slowly put the book back down. "Your knowledge of French Bueracracy is astounding." said Napoleon with a ascerbic twist. He picked up the law book and flipped to a page quickly, then began reading:"Whilst during capture, If a member of a Military ever exhibits suspicious behavior, it falls on the part of a General of the Army to decide their fate. They can and will be shot by a firing squad." He put the book down, and continued: "This Law is not discriminatory toward any gender, as stated in Artice XIV, Paragraph 7, Line 5&6 of the Army reform bill No. 16, passed by French Parliament on November 3, 1748. Perhaps, Anna-May, you should realise that I am a General, and you are quite suspicious. You will be killed by a firing squad at dawn tomorrow. Dismissed."

With that, the aides came back in and escorted Gen. Scavender out. On the second issue, the might of America had totally collapsed. Almost no troops were being prepared to kill, and cities were ripe with revolution. This was the time to strike, and Napoleon knew it. And strike he will.

*Gets a snadwich board.*

The end is nigh!

Demokratickid, when is the next post??, i cant wait!!

I hope you used at laest one nuke!! I like nukes

DemokraticKid!
dont hold out on me!