Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20150707170107/@comment-14850713-20150711180328

IC:

-Secure transmission from AFOH High Command to SOUTHCOM-

"Admiral Ej, you are to launch Operation Mantis with the objective of capturing the Solomon Islands, New Britain and the whole of New Guinea. For this operation, you will employ the newly-arrived 1st Marine Division and the Rapid Reaction Corps (OOC: the 2 light infantry divisions still in Australia together with the one you employed in New Caledonia). A marine amphibious force and a heavy aerospace transport squadron will be assigned to you in addition to the forces already at your disposal (OOC: Force E, 9AF minus 10SG and 7FG, and 4ASF)".

"You are to employ the 1st Marines in an island-hopping advance through the Solomons, Bougainville and then to New Britain. 53rd Light Inf Div will make air and amphibious landings on Lae and Madang on the northeast coast of New Guinea, and 1 brigade is to set out immediately west for Jayapura, the capital of Indonesian New Guinea. The 52nd Inf Div will simultaneously air land on Waren in the northwest, and 1 brigade is to be dispatched eastward to Jayapura, which will be captured by the 2 converging brigades. 52LID will then proceed to secure the whole of the Vogelkop Peninsula up to Sorong. Also at the same time, 51st Light Inf Div will air land on the Papuan capital of Port Moresby and a Marine brigade will leapfrog to Milne Bay, thus securing the southern coast."

"You are to develop airfields in Jayapura, Lae and Port Moresby (New Guinea), in Rabaul (island of New Britain) in Arawa (Bougainville) and in Honiara (Solomons). You are also to develop bases for FAST attack craft and submarines. In order not to bring about a general engagement with PANZER, no major naval units shall venture into the Coral Sea. Good luck Admiral."

Shortly after the transmission is decoded in SOUTHCOM forward headquarters in Port Vila, Vanuatu, an amphibious force of 12 Vulcain LPD and 24 Belfort fast transports, escorted by 12 Cassard aviation cruisers (with 600 F4-U Corsair fighters for close air support), 12 heavy cruisers, 24 destroyers and 48 fast attack craft appear in the horizon. Then 12 huge Pascal aerospace transports warp over the beach. With 25,000 marines 90,000 light infantry, 700 tanks, 1,400 wheeled IFV and 400 towed artillery, Operation Mantis is about to begin.

OOC: Ej, I think you should post ypur operation in Derp's Australia page. Cheers!