Talk:Delirium (Map Game)/@comment-6812733-20151127010007

Greater Karelia (Tell if OP)

As the victory against UNS spreads to St. Petersburg, the citizens rejoice that their city is secure as they leave their bomb shelters. This great moral boost invigorates the belief in rebel operations as the citizens see them as their liberators. Alex Ystrav sees this as a great opportunity to strengthen the Karelian supply lines and informs the civilians that it's safe to return to their jobs. Most people working in the service sector are asked to join and help out with creating weapons, scavenge any usable equipment and gathering food supplies. Many also decide to enlist with the rebels and their ranks rise up to 250 000 as the rebels need more manpower due to the plans of taking Tallinn and pushing onwards in old Finland. These troops are trained for three months very harshly and due to this harsh training, those who stayed in the army falls to 180 000 troops. Those who left the army during training get a secondary duty, along normal work, of protecting the city during attacks and digging trenches as a ragtag group of militia. During the three month training, alot of equipments are made but they can only be spared for around 100 000 rebels. Also Kirov Railway, connecting Murmansk and St. Petersburg, is opened again and false information is sent to Murmansk saying that the railway station is under UNS control. This way the rebels send 50 people to infiltrate the port city and establish a small but secure rebel presence.

In the south, the rebel force in old Estonia begins salvaging the remains of the UNS military equipments that were left by the center and front parts of the UNS army that left Tallinn six months ago in order to retake St. Petersburg. Several APC's and mobile artillery are secured and put into use as a small team heads back to St. Petersburg to inform of the loot left behind by UNS. On the way back to old Estonia, 65 000 troops march to take Tallinn. During this march the commander of Karelian Southern Armies, General Mikhail Fedorov, orders a force of 2 000 to go south and take the town of Gdov. The town is easily taken as the rebels outnumber the towns small garrison. The rebels set up an outpost in the military air base as they loot any valuables. They gain access to five F/A-55 Bolt's, multi-role combat jets first introduced in 2255 as the Earth variant of the jets used in Mars at the time. Word of this acquisition is sent back to the general who orders the planes to be transported to St. Petersburg. As the planes have been delivered, the attack against Tallinn is ordered on March 15th. The battle begins with major artillery barrage and a strike at the port by several gunships sent from St. Petersburg. The rebels move in from three sides and cause the UNS garrison to leave the port undefended. The gunship crews come back and land at the port, making quick sabotage runs around the vicinity of the port, which forces the enemy to send men to secure the port. Once the enemy arrives to secure the port itself, the gunships open fire on them and leave. A breach is made in the eastern side and the rebels pour in the city as the fighting moves to the streets. Some men are ordered to move to the port and from there attacking the western side. The enemy defences fall in the western flank as they are met with 23 000 men from outside the city and 7 000 men from within the city. A small gap is left for the enemy forces to retreat as the rebels from the western flank advance into the city, only for the gap to be a trap for the UNS forces. The small portion of the UNS forces that thought the gap was a way out, was shot down by snipers as they retreated. The town is captured and secured after two months of fighting and loss of over 18 000 men. The rebels set their outpost in Toompea Castle and start to transport supplies back and forth to St. Petersburg by opening their railway station. The rebel forces start to meet with the people of Tallinn, telling them that there's nothing to fear and that they're here to protect and help them, building of mutual trust begins.

In the north, on Karelian Isthmus, the troops in Viipuri, led by Commander Jouko Ilves, get their reinforcements from St. Petersburg, numbering around 40 000 men, making the Isthmus Army to be around 90 000 men strong (lower due to the deaths from the last years UNS attack). Thus army is given the order of securing all of the area to the lake Ladoga from Viipuri. 10 000 rebels head out to secure the Karelian Isthmus and after securing the area without major resistance, they set a small outpost in the town of Priozersk which they rename into Vuoksi, as the river which flows from lake Ladoga into lake Saimaa. The 80 000 troops in Viipuri are split into defensive group and offensive group. Defensive group consists of 15 000 troops, able to be reinforced up to 20 000 by the forces from St. Petersburg, are ordered to keep Viipuri safe and defend against any enemy attacks. This group begins building walls and put down granite stones around Viipuri to slow down enemy mobile forces. The remaining 65 000 troops are sent to take the towns of Imatra, Joutseno and the city of Lappeenranta to begin bringing supplies from Viipuri to Vuoksi through Bay of Vyborg into lake Saimaa into lake Ladoga. This also means the capture of a highway connecting the three targets which would aid in the future attacks in Finland and Karelia. The army splits into three groups in order to take the targets as fast as possible, 15 000 attacking Imatra, 5 000 attacking Joutseno and 44 000 attacking Lappeenranta. The remaining 1 000 troops go and secure the highway connecting the three towns and stop any UNS forces moving through the area by sneak attacks. After the few weeks of fighting against UNS garrisons, the rebels are able to secure their targets with the loss of 8 650 men. The rebels set up outposts to each town, the biggest one put in Lappeenranta's Old Fortress where the rebels take control of the South Karelian radio station. Alex Ystrav sees the city and the area as a vital importance for the rebellion and offers extra social benefits for the next 25 000 citizens to move to Lappeenranta, making the towns population to go well over 100 000, making it rival Viipuri with it's population. Through it the rebels send encrypted messages between their cities, and after for almost a year of being unable to communicate with other rebels, they send a brief and encrypted message to Riga and Stockholm saying "Comrades, we're with you".