Talk:AFOH/@comment-5846899-20150822032249/@comment-14850713-20150913052547

OOC: Ok, a week should be enough waiting, so I'll try to tidy this up...

IC:

Southern Front:

The fighting rages back and forth with neither side giving any quarter, but AFOH forces start gaining the upper hand. The intensity of the fighting north of Kerema has soldiers calling this area "The Cauldron". Millennium troops, fighting fiercely, have initially prevented a full encirclement but are gradually pushed back across the Owen Stanley. But developments elsewhere hastens the retreat. As the heavy divisions make good their escape, some 30,000 troops, mostly elite naval infantry, are trapped in the Cauldron, hammered incessantly by air, land and sea.

In the Coral Sea, H Force units are unable to seal the Torres Strait, and the battered Millennium fleet gets away.

Northern Front:

The Millennium offensive across the Mambare had gotten off to a good start, with several bridgeheads established in the middle of the AFOH defenses. But to the surprise of the exhausted defenders, the enemy formations start to pull back. To the northwest, after being slowed-down by the Millennium artillery, the firepower of the JMAGTF begins to take effect. Confederate and DWG forces break-out of the Huon Peninsula, and threaten to cut-off the Millennium divisions fighting in central Papua. With armored Confederate spearheads in the outskirts of Madang, and the victorious Confederate fleet offshore providing air and naval support, the enemy forces have no choice but to retreat all the way to Wewak to prevent another catastrophe as what happened in the south.