European Dusk

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"And so, on this day, we announce the formal declaration of war by the European Union against the Union of Central Asia. This is not a course we would take lightly; it has been forced upon us by the actions of the armies of that nation in the annexation of the independent states of Belorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Estonia."

The rest of the speech was drowned out by the roars of the crowd. Berlin Square was a sea of humanity, turned out to listen to the war declaration given by the European Union's President. The man was charismatic, devoted to democracy and the ideal that humans should be as free a possible, recently elected as head of the Reform In Europe Party. All this made him the ideal candidate in the eyes of the European people to stand up to what people were calling the Second Soviet Union, the Union of Central Asia. All the old Soviet States were a part of it with the new, illegal, annexations.

Helmut Kuhn applauded fiercely along with the rest of the people in the square. The German State's capital had served as the capital of the European Union since it united into a single nation in 2015. Now, in 2019, Europe was again being threatened by fascism. He turned out of the square as some high dignitary started speaking again. His destination was one of the military recruiting stations that had been operating in Berlin since the crises began.
That that meant the European Government had never intended a peaceful solution never crossed his mind.

Nikolai Fyodorov marched into Belorussia with a smile on his face. His comrade, Boris Patrolov, was probably thinking along with him: the Party had been right. The Party had brought Russia out of the depression of 2008, and when the Premier's reign had ended, the Russian Congress, acting as Party members should, declared a Constitutional Amendment that allowed the Premiere to stand for election again, and again, and again...and the Party had reunited the old Soviet Union again, but without the flaw of Communism. There was only the Party left for Fyodorov these days. His family had died on the streets of Volgograd when the depression was bad. He himself had eaten dog, and cat and mouse and rat and other meat he didn't want to know about. That was over now...all he'd done was sell his soul to the Party.

Jorge Esteban stood somewhere on the border between Mexico and California. In barely 5 minutes, the Latin National Party would announce its declaration of war on the United States, catching them off guard. The formation of the United States of Latin America back in 2012 to get the independent nations out of the depression had been...strongly encouraged by its central state, Mexico. Then his thoughts were drowned out. The guns were firing now, making the clouds look like flame. Ten thousand muzzle flashes at once cast an eerie glow across the battlefield. Esteban stormed northwards with his comrades. When he came to the ruins of the first border patrol station, he cut down the survivors with a short burst from his rifle. A tank put a round into the building, and it collapsed completely, and started to burn. As America would soon burn. He heard gunfire off to the west. America, it seemed, had other plans.

That's all I can do tonight, I have to go to bed.
 
Cooool, MORE MORE!:goodjob:
 
What's happened to Britain, by the way? Still independant or an EU nation?
 
Ha! You thought I wouldn't be back, however, a combination of going to my grandma's house and a sweet sixteen party means that I've been kinda busy.
(Not my sweet sixteen.)

Britain is part of the EU.

Heheh...just wait till you see what I've done with the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia.

By the way, this story isn't really a mirror of any game of Civ I've ever played, it's really been inspired by numerous world map games, however.

Right now I have a buttload of homework, so I'll update tomorrow or the day after.

Thanks for positive comments. :goodjob:
 
Oddly enough, I posted an update last night. Or I thought I did, but it doesn't seem to have registered...I'll have to put it in but I don't have time right now.
 
General David Henderson rode a staff car bound for the city of Denver, from which he could command the defense of the Southwestern United States. Or rather, that small part of the Southwest which hadn't yet fallen into the hands of the United States of South America. Man for man, his soldiers were far better than those of the USCA. He had better planes, better tanks. Artillery and assault guns were an area in which the USA lagged behind, however...and, most importantly, in numbers and in mobility. Mexican troopers were products of a harsher land, and a more nomadic lifestyle. They were damn good out in the Rockies, and sheer numbers overwhelmed his men out in the Plains and in Texas.
The US Armed Forces were fighting in other theaters, around the world. They had been shipping to Israel since 2015, to aid that nation's people. US troops had begun combating the Arabian Union troops in Israel in 2019. That same year, they had been shipped to Europe, and to Japan, and Africa as well.

And now, the USCA advanced nearly uncontested against the USA.

How many men bagged north of Santa Fe? How many bagged against the Rio Grande when the USCA troops had wheeled around? Too many? Henderson hoped like hell it wasn't.

His staff car passed bombed out buildings and took detours around cratered roads. Denver had been under air attack since the beginning of the invasion, back in June. Now it was September. His staff car arrived at the building which served as a facade for the Army Headquarters in Denver.

Henderson took an elevator nearly a kilometer straight down, to the real operations bunker--a maze of ops rooms, barracks, living quarters, all a kilometer under the Rockie Mountains.

As he arrived in his office, his adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel George Bauer, saluted as he walked through the door. He glanced at a map, and said one word.
". .. .. .. .."
"Yes, sir, it's pretty bad," replied Bauer. He was understating the situation rather a lot. The red pins that marked USCA forces had penetrated little farther north into California. They didn't seem to want to attack Los Angeles. They seemed to be scared of urban warfare. That was ironic to Henderson, who knew damn well that they could take the city if they tried. He thought about it again. It wouldn't be cheap if they did try.
Elsewhere, USCA forces had penetrated deeper into Texas, all the way to the Rio Brazos. They were driving on Lubbock from east and south, however. They were already north of Lubbock, which was the most alarming thing Henderson had seen.
New Mexico was theirs, along with bits of Southwestern Colorado. Half of Nevada and all of Arizona was theirs. But Henderson eyes kept coming back to Colorado. The USCA was moving north in the eastern part of the state. They'd reached the Arkansas River. In the mountains it had already started snowing, though, which meant that they were stalled there for a few months.
They seemed to be pouring everything they could into the drive on...wherever they were driving for. Henderson's eyes were now drawn to Denver. with winter coming on, and US reinforcements coming into the fight, he had to hope Denver could hold. If it didn't, then there wasn't a lot to stop the USCA this side of Chicago. He nodded and began drafting orders. Denver would have to hold.

* * *

Denver had to fall. That was what the Leader of el partido nacional latino, Enrique Rodriguez, knew. He had come to power into Mexico by keeping his promises, mainly to the poor. The Depression that had begun in 2008 had ended with many nations rising into fascism. Many nations, too, had become industrial powers. The United States of Central America was one such nation. Some of the other Latin American countries had wanted to join with Mexico. He'd solved those problems, and now he was solving the problem of the gringos up in the USA. They'd taken Mexican land long, long ago. He was doing something about it. His armies were making a mad dash to Denver. They'd take it, then turn on the rest of the States that had been Mexico nearly two centuries before. he nodded to himself. After that was finished, he could rip the rest of the heart from the United States, then the USCA would become the power of North America. The United States wouldn't exist.
First, he'd take Denver. Then, he'd finish the USA off. Denver...
 
Guys, if no one even replies, then what's the point?
 
I have the same problem, just beleive that someone out there is reading lol
 
yeah, keep writing... this is starting really nicely.
 
Thanks! :blush: Now I feel all stupid...

Anyways, I'll keep this up, but I can't say with any degree of certainty when I can update. I have rather a lot on my plate at the moment. There's a four-day weekend coming up for my school, though, so I should add a bit then...or rather more than a bit. ;)
 
*sighs.* I'm wrong. Again. I've been really, really busy. I've had time to post around here, but not time to write anything serious into the story. :(

I'll update sometime this week.
 
November. It was cold. Freezing, in fact. So Jorge Esteban thought. He thought, in fact, that the cold was going to kill him. No one in Mexico had thought that the winter would be a factor in the war. Jorge rolled his eyes. Generals weren't so smart as they thought.
The Americans were also better at fighting in the cold than the troops out of the USCA were. Their tanks worked better, too. Snow had started falling in Colorado a few days before. Now it covered most of the landscape, and soldiers and tanks had a hard time moving.
In spite of all this, the USCA was still moving forward. Its soldiers outnumbered those of the USA by five or six to one. There, at least, the generals had got it right. The US had most of its army bogged down in the other theaters of the war: Europe, Israel, the Pacific, Japan. The US was largely using national guard troops to hold the line here in Colorado. To the west, the largely foot soldier-oriented advances made in the mountains had been largely halted by the cold, and, though the generals wouldn't admit it, stiffening US resistance. Rumors spread like fire through the enlisted ranks. Jorge didn't believe most of them, but where there was smoke, there'd be fire, right? In Texas, the attacks had stalled, as well. Jorge had heard that the town of Houston was under siege, supposedly surrounded and about to fall. He had his doubts after everything he'd seen. He'd been part of the army that had defeated Mexico's neighbors in Central America. Honduras had allied with them, but all the others had piled up against Mexico. She'd beaten them all anyway. That had been easy. This fight...The US troops refused to admit they were beaten. Jorge operated under the philosophy that if you thought you were winning, you were halfway to winning. If the US refused to admit it was losing, didn't that go halfway towards making them right? Jorge didn't want to think about it. And the other thing was the size of the country itself.
Jorge had known all along that the US outsized Mexico by 3 or 4 times. He hadn't known it in his belly, though. He'd walked every inch of ground from the border to Colorado, so now he did. The Rocky Mountains formed the western horizon, and low, rolling plains the eastern. The generals had got another thing right: The Mexican offensive was smashing its way through the US positions on the plains just east of the mountains. They'd get into Denver from the east, then the US would have to give up. Wouldn't they?

John Haskins strode down the streets of his hometown, Brimson, Minnesota. It was damn cold. John had on a lot of layers. He was heading for the small town's police station. He crossed the street, on which there was next to no traffic, and then found himself looking at two men in dark blue.
"Come with us." That wasn't a request. John could tell as much.
The other one said, "yeah--or you'll be sorry."
"W--what have I done?" asked John. He'd never seen these two police officers before, so it must have been big. He wracked his brains. What had he done?
"You haven't done anything. But you're coming with us anyway."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. Or we'll shoot you and dump your body in Lake Superior."
"I guess there's no choice, then?"
"There's a choice. Of sorts."
"Can I ask what this is about?" John was really puzzled now. Puzzled, but also afraid.
"We need soldiers to be in the army. To fight the . .. .. .. .ing spics. Now, are you going to come, or not?"
John started laughing. He couldn't help it. "If you hadn't shown up, I would've volunteered." They grinned, which he hadn't thought was possible. But one motioned to him. Smiling still, he followed them.

Helmut cursed as his clip ran out of bullets. He moved back behind the piece of wall, still miraculously left standing in Munich. The Soviet Army had pushed pretty damn far, smashing aside the EU's formations with simple weight of numbers. US troops were fighting in France right now; they hadn't seen fit to commit them into nearly-surrounded Munich. Soviet troops had complete control of Poland, and nearly all of Germany. The front was in France, because the Netherlands had already given up. Helmut didn't blame them--he'd heard on the radio that Amsterdam had gone up in radioactive fire. Soviet troops, too, in Italy, to the south. That meant that Munich was a massive crimp in the Soviet advance. It made sense to surround it, but the Soviets hadn't. What there was left to supply the city was a single road, the entire length of which was in range of Soviet artillery. The Soviets had an iron ring around the rest of the city, and were slowly battering their way inwards. Helmut had no idea how long he and his countrymen could hold. He knew he had to try, or else try to surrender. He couldn't quite bring himself to surrender. That left only one option.

Lieutenant Michael Carson stood up in the cupola of his "Patriot" tank. He looked south, across I-70. The Mexicans had made it into Limon. That wasn't good. It meant that if they could turn northwest, they could use I-70 to go straight towards Denver. Michael remembered getting out of Colorado Springs after his tank had been shot out from underneath him. That hadn't been fun. He didn't want to repeat the experience. If he held the USCA out of Denver, he probably wouldn't have to get out of another burning, battered, nearly-surrounded city. That was, to him, stronger motivation than the greater glory of the USA.
 
Amazing writing. This is incredible!
 
Hey, thanks! The positive comments are really the motivation I use to keep writing (besides the obvious of wanting to tell this story I thought up, largely inspired by all the Civ games I've played), so it really does mean a lot to me.
 
keep writin'... wanna see how General Winter is helpin' Old Glory.
 
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