Remnant Chadian fleet

With almost every ship pounding the remains of the capital ships, the orders are given to abandon ship, and make way with survivors back to the coastline, After a long and hard battle, the Chadian fleet has been sent to a watery grave, fighting for her motherland...

Transmission to New Belkan forces

It would appear our naval forces have failed, we fight on to the last shell.

Chad - Capital

With thousands of troops continuing to land, they find themselfs enclosed in by most of the People's Army Of Chad, however, in turn, this means that most of the land is undefended up to the northern section and capital, the troops landing hit a small ammount of casulties, but manage to make their way into the capital, overwhelming most defenses and are enclosed inside the city from advancing Chadian troops from the Exterior.

-Vadimir Gorovich-

Admiral Bokney slumped in his command chair as the Chadian transmission came in. He had failed to protect his comrades in the Chadian navy, and now his own forces were taking a heavy beating.

The battlecruisers are ordered to come about and regroup with the battleships, all of them showing signs of heavy damage. As they turn, the air attack comes in. The battlecruisers AAA systems open up, and some bombers are brought down, but the air attack still delivers a heavy blow. Several ships take heavy damage from the torpedoes, and all are now showing a list.

During the maneuver, a Vrinskgrad class battlecruiser takes heavy damage from a missile strike. Her mast collapses as her superstructure burns, crashing down on the bridge. An auxiliary crew was on the bridge in case the captain in the conning tower was incapacitated are killed by the debris, and the smashed remnants of the bridge burn fiercely. Whilst undamaged, the conning tower begins to act like an oven, and some means of communication are damaged. With the conning tower becoming uninhabitable, the captain opts to transfer to the secondary conning tower aft. The command crew leaves, but cannot contact the aft command area to transfer control. With no communications, nobody is actually controlling the damaged warship, which has staggered out of formation.

The battleships, now closing in on the battlecruisers' position, begin to also shudder under more fire. As missiles impact, they take out secondary weapons and soft systems, with several ships burning. One of the Pobeda class battleships has small explosions going off on deck as a missile launcher burns, an occasional missile streaking off without guidance.

In the air, the New Belkan pilots fight valiantly, fighting an intense battle with the Mexican pilots. However, their fighters are not top of the line, and they have limited numbers. Their numbers begin to steadily drop, with a few managing to limp back to their battlecarriers, but most simply bailing out.

-New Belka-

Back in New Belka, old An-22 transport planes, bought used from the Soviet Union in the '80s, are loaded up with troops and tanks. While it would take a long time to get to Chad, they lift off and begin the long flight...

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​Landing Force

The fleet now inches closer to the mainland, thanks to the efforts of the capital ships and the escort ships, landing operations will begin shortly, the morale is high and the forces are eager to fight.

The damaged ships remain with the landing force, while those with minor or light damage approach the New Belkans at flank speed, their guns blazing frenetically.

Among the ships that stayed with the fleet; a Tenochtitlan Class battleship, 2 Cuauhtémoc Class heavy cruisers and most of the Polaris class destroyers remained with the fleet. They rearranged their formation, in order to maximize their defensive capabilities, with the Singaporean frigates alongside the troop and vehicle transports in the middle of the formation. The rest of the ships went forth, directly towards their enemies.

Air Battle

​​The confrontation rages on, Mexican and New Belkan casualties alike are beginning to be perceived, the swarm of aircraft now dwindling when compared to the start of the battle. However, Quetzal I's with a distinctive paint job begin to stand out amongst the iron-colored aircraft; the Mictlan Team. The pilots in that squadron are the elite fighter pilots of the Mexican Air Force, pulling off exceptional maeuvers in the skies; using the New Belkan pilots as their partners, they perform what can only be described as a mortal, and yet elegant waltz.

​New Belkan Engagement

​Chaos ensues in the Mexican vanguard, as one of the Quetzalcoatl class battleships falls out of line, its propulsion is damaged and fires begin to break out on deck, however she continues to shell the New Belkan adversaries with 46 cm gunfire.

The other two battleships of the vanguard have some secondary batteries and AA mounts damaged, one of them has its fire control systems malfunction and her accuracy diminishes, as gun crews begin to utilize their optics to lead their shots. They begin to show signs of damage, due to the increase of incoming enemy fire.

The 53 cm barrages carry on, their target being the blemished battlecruisers that overextended, hoping to finish them off before they fully regroup with the rest of the fleet. The Tajín trains her 38 cm guns on the New Belkans and adds an additional weight to their attack.

The heavy cruisers, engaged in their own fight begin to show some damage, but their vital systems are unscathed, and they continue to shell the enemy cruisers with their main armaments. 

The fleets were getting closer, and closer to one another; and soon, they will be in secondary battery range.

With the capital swarmed with enemy troops, the fleet destroyed, and the airforce in ruins, the official declaration to surrender is given out to the Chadian remnant forces, the army stands down and transmits the surrender signals to the Mexican and New Belkan fleets/forces.

The Singaporeans withdraw from the capital and the fleets make way for the home islands.

Admiral Bokney slumped dejectedly in a chair on the bridge of the Vladimir Gorovich. The People's Republic of Chad has fallen to imperialists and capitalists. He had failed his allies, and his fleet was in great peril. Multiple battlecruisers were reporting critical damage, and the Mexicans continued to pound them.

The beleaguered battlecruisers however had already come about, and were running towards the battleships, and soon would be within their protective cover. The cruisers are ordered to break off their attack, and they lay smoke in an effort to disrupt the Mexican's aim.

The battle is still going poorly for the battlecruisers however. The crippled Vrinskgrad class Alexi Vasily continued to take fire as she staggers out of line. Her captain finally reaching the aft command post to find his ship crippled, burning, and developing a severe list. As he takes in the carnage done to his once proud warship, more reports reach him. Only one engine remained operational, another main gun has jammed, and a 130mm turret has exploded with high casualties. He gives the order to abandon ship as a 356mm turret suffers a detonation.

A hole is torn in the crippled warship's side, and it begins a slow roll as water gushes in. Her crew begins to scramble for life rafts as the main batteries fire one last defiant salvo. A few boats are launched, while men in rafts begin to paddle away as the ship settles lower and lower in the water. As her list increases dramatically, the crew still on board rush desperately to the higher up side of the ship. She goes past 50° and her roll quickens. A deafening clattering noise is heard as loose gear crashes around inside, followed by heavy machinery breaking loose and tumbling around inside. A main battery magazine detonates as she goes turtle, splitting off the bow and knocking the men clinging to her upturned bottom off their feet. The rest of the hull slips beneath the waves, her one working propellor still turning slowly. All that remains of the Alexi Vasily is floating debris, several hundred men in rafts or in the water, and a burning oil slick.

The other battlecruisers continue to run back to the battleships, all showing signs of heavy damage. The collapsed mast of the Ivan Borodin drags in the water, all of the ships have fires on deck, and some even have ammunition for the lighter weapons cooking off. The battered vessels limp in to a dense patch of smoke, obscuring them from view, but still visible to Mexican fire control radars. They are almost to the safety of their comrades in the battleships.

While most of the battleships continue forward, the pair of Admiral Bokney class aviation battleships turn away. Their flight decks already show some battle damage, and damaged fighters are making landing attempts. Fires break out on both due to crashes, but repair crews work to quickly clear the decks for more landing planes.

The rest of the battleships press onward, rushing to help the battlecruisers in a scene that seems to repeat the previous reckless battlecruiser charge. The 46cm guns of the armored leviathans pound away at their Mexican counterparts, and their 356mm secondaries wait ready for a possible short range brawl.

In the air, the edge is clearly held by the Mexican aircraft. Differing from a numerical disadvantage, and older fighter designs, the New Belkans were losing even before Chad surrendered. Now, the resulting blow to morale, coupled with the losses piling up to elite fighter units, sees the New Belkans crumbling. Fighters make more moves to try and disengage, and some flat out run in full afterburner, the pilots having panicked. Burning wreckage plummets to the sea, and quite a few parachutes are seen drifting down to the surface...

With the Chadian surrender, the troop transports deploy their landing boats and the landing ships run themselves aground to disembark armored vehicles and Legionario I's, quickly going inland towards the capital.

The air battle is on the Mexican's favor, with their elite fighter pilots in the aerial turmoil. Several casualties are sustained, but the enemy took the brunt of the numerical losses. Noticing the New Belkan confusion, the Mexican fighters are ordered to disengage and those that have not sustained significant damage return to their respective aircraft carriers. The most damaged aircraft are temporarily reasigned to the nearest carriers of the landing force, in order to conduct field repairs and haul them back to Mexico. However, the Mexican hangars are slightly weakend by the casualties of the engagement.

The combined efforts of the Mexican fleet are directed towards the fleeing New Belkan battlecruisers in hopes of damaging them even further or sinking them outright. The Mexican Vanguard is damaged even further, and the fleet slows down its speed. Chad has been taken, and they need only to hold the Chadian waters in their possession, until the terms of surrender have been signed and recognized by the international community.

The heavy cruisers also disengage from their New Belkan counterparts and regroup with the fleet, some secondary batteries and AA mounts have been knocked out, but no fatal damages or large casualties have been reported.

With the battle's tide now in the Mexicans' favor, it is only a matter of time until the fate of the People's Republic of Chad is sealed, and the country comes under Mexican rule and law, with a new flag flying below the original Chadian flag. 

The beginning of a Mexican Commonwealth is nigh.

OOC: Sorry for the late response, hoping this wraps things up soon.

The battlecruisers continue to take damage, with the ones previously showing less damage compared to their companions now also showing severe damage. Another Vrinskgrad loses its mast, this time with it topping aft into the forward funnel. Debris tumbles in, and boilers are damaged by falling metal. Several small steam explosions occur, disabling most of the forward boiler room and slowing the damaged vessel's speed. A cloud of steam and smoke billows out of the damaged funnel as the ship limps onward.

The battleships now swing around, launching chaff and emitting smoke as they interposed themselves between the Mexicans and their lightly armored consorts. Their guns are swung around to the opposite beam, their fire interrupted as they traverse. As they resume firing, a mixture of armor piercing is fired in the estimated locations of engines, and high explosive targeted at radar and fire control systems on the Mexican warships in an effort to reduce the effectiveness of their fire. The entire New Belkan force is now in retreat.

Late response? took me a month to respond to this once!