Placing full confidence in their original plan, most of Germany's troops were placed in the right wing of the front dedicated to the Schlieffen Plan, an all-out attack meant to decapitate the French state by capturing Paris and its industrial zones. With enormous losses and great speed, German troops charged through northern France, never allowing their battered army to recover. It was only until they met the river Seine in the winter, when the Second Siege of Paris began, that the Deutsches Heer could not continue offensive operations of such momentum. The French, reinforced by British troops, and now guaranteed to receive American support, were confident in an eventual hard-earned victory through attrition. But the failures of the Russian Army and the British Navy would deprive them of this luxury.

By the time the Schlieffen Plan came to a halt, the western front had evolved into a new, gruesome kind of war, what is now known as trench warfare. A stalemate followed, in which neither Franco-British nor German troops could push the other side.

World War I - The War in the Trenches

The T-62 is a Soviet main battle tank intended as armoured support for the Red Army's motor rifle divisions. When it was introduced, it was the first production tank to have a smoothbore gun, which could fire armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds at higher velocities than rifled guns. In all other aspects it is essentially an uparmoured, upengined and more compact development of the venerable T-55. The loader's hatch has mounts for an anti-aircraft DShK Machinegun, though T-62s built from 1971 and onwards include them from the factory floor. Thanks to Soviet military aid, the Oceanykan People's Army is receiving large amounts of T-62s to replace older and less capable designs such as the FV301 Vickers Medium Cruiser Mk. I. Some of these tanks mysteriously went missing and later appeared in the hands of pro-Soviet and pro-government groups.

The Federal Enforcement Division is a special operations unit under command of the Federal Intelligence Agency that deals with high priority targets and delicate operations. Highly trained and experienced in matters of intelligence, regional politics, asymmetrical warfare, sabotage, reconnaissance and fieldcraft.

"HERE COME THE FEDS!"

"Ah, the feds? No biggie, mate."

"No, the FEDs!"

"We're fucked aren't we..."

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War is an armed conflict between The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (an independent communist state allied with The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and The People's Republic of China) and The Imperial Domain of Indochina (a colonial government controlled by The German Empire and supported by The United States of America). It has become synonymous with the Cold War as a proxy conflict between East and West for the fate of Southeast Asia.

Its predecessor, the First Indochina War, began in 1946 when Allied troops landed and wrested control of the region. Indochina was restored to its pre-war borders and status as a German colonial domain, though it would face resistance in the form of the Soviet and Chinese supported Viet Minh, a communist insurgency. In 1954 the Germans were dealt an unprecedented defeat in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, in which an elite division-sized force of 15,000 men (mostly veterans from World War II) was annihilated by a numerically superior Vietnamese irregular army. North Vietnam's independence was secured during the 1954 Geneva Conference, which sought to foster permanent peace in Southeast Asia.

From 1955 to 1964 the conflict was marked by a widespread insurgency in the south, the German invasion of Cambodia and the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos. Cutting-edge asymmetric tactics and strategy were employed by North Vietnam to execute the most successful irregular war in history, aided by Soviet and Chinese military aid, particularly modern weapons systems and field advisors. Their primary tool for this type of war is the Viet Cong (VC), a Northern-led guerilla force operating in the South.

In late July, 1964, light shore bombardment was orchestrated by the American covert operations group MACV-SOG, which North Vietnamese leadership believed was an escalation for further military operations. A few days later on August 2nd, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurred, during which a US Navy ship was attacked. Yet another incident supposedly occurred on August 4th, though conspiracy theorists say that this "second attack" was in fact staged by the US military. Regardless, beginning in late 1964 the United States began deploying massive amounts of troops to South Vietnam in coordination with the German Empire and local forces. 

The American ground war on Vietnam is characterised by grim images such as napalm carpet bombings, the ever-present threat of VC ambushes, innovations in airmobile cavalry, a bloody aerial campaign where cutting-edge American airframes face off against similarly advanced Soviet anti-air networks, covert operations teams from both sides engaging in asymmetrical warfare, and above all, the seemingly endless green hell of Vietnam's jungles.

The Obooliyk is the most well-known species of Oceanykan jellyfish. It has a diameter of 4m and an average tentacle length of 62m. Its poison is a strong paralysing agent, but will not prove particularly deadly to a swimmer with access to the fairly common antidote. Obooliyk live in small groups in the continental shelf's waters, but may rise to shallower depths in hordes of hundreds, sometimes becoming stranded on Oceanyka's beaches.