User blog comment:USS Enterprise CVN-65/The New (And Improved) Official Roleplay Room/@comment-24142455-20150615003218/@comment-14850713-20150615154555

OOC: This can be seen and observed by aerial and space sensors.

IC:

Outside the town of Epernay on south bank of the Marne River, 130 km northeast of Paris, 2 heavily-muffled SBD Dauntless painted in gray land on an airstrip in the middle of lush vineyards. Onboard each is a team of 6 commandos. After covering their aircraft with camouflage netting, they board several waiting vehicles with fake French gendarmerie markings. The teams part in the main highway, each going in opposite directions. On pre-planned waypoints, they tap grid coordinates of the north bank into their mobile communicators, and start deploying warp beacons.

Without any coordination with the French forces, with whom they don't have any formal alliance, the AFOH High Command has decided that the Marne is the best forward defense line east of Paris. The warp beacons will guide in Pascal-class aerospace transports, which will deploy combat-loaded (as tried out in the invasion of Tanzania). The grid coordinates, on the other hand, will be programmed into air and sea-launched systems (aircraft, bombs, missiles, artillery, railguns) which will be used to destroy or retard the enemy advance.

The Marne Line will be held by the Rapid Reaction Corps with 2 mechanized and 3 light infantry divisions (150,000 troops, 1,100 tanks, 2,800 IFV, 200 mobile and 300 towed artillery, covered by Tiger Eye mobile air-defense systems) and will be supported by the 1st Air Fleet. But everything now depends on the speed of the enemy advance, and where and how the French forces fight. As the day nears its end, the teams return to Epernay and hunker down for the night.