Thought I'd throw this out again to see if I'll get any bites this time around.
1983, Germany
NATO carries out Exercise Able Archer. It was to simulate an escalating conflict with the Eastern Bloc, starting with a conventional conflict and culminating in a DEFCON 1 situation with the activation and firing of nuclear weapons. However, as misfortune would have it, on the day NATO started simulating preparations for a nuclear war, Soviet intelligence were attempting to detect the early signs of a nuclear attack. Soviet nukes and air units were thus placed on alert, but nothing was done yet.
After seven days of watching NATO shift their armies around the inter-German border, and with senior members of the Politburo and Soviet military utterly convinced that the exercise was a ruse to disguise actual preparations for an assault on East Germany, the Soviets began to build up their own forces along the border. Knowing full well of the M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine, the option of using nuclear weapons as a 'first strike' was still off the table.
On day nine, just a day before Able Archer was to end, a telegram received by the KGB from one of their agents incorrectly stated that NATO was indeed ready to begin an offensive within no less than a week. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and on the 11th of November, 1983, the Soviets carried out a massive offensive all along the inter-German border with distracting skirmishes along the German-Czechozlovak border.
The offensive managed to catch NATO by surprise. While they had been expecting a Soviet reaction, an offensive on a scale which rivaled Operation Bagration was not something they had seriously considered. Within a week, the Soviets had reached the Danish border and were dangerously close to reaching the Dutch and French borders. Reinforcements were still at least two days away, and that was two days which NATO did not have. Thus, it was decided that WMDs would be used. It started with small-scale chemical warfare targeted at the flanks of the Soviet armies. In return, the Soviets deployed their own gases and toxins.
Eventually, one side decided that enough was enough. Tactical nukes were unleashed on the battlefield, with each strike obliterating entire armies. Tactical nukes soon gave way to strategic strikes. Much of Germany, Austria and in fact the majority of central Europe was reduced to a mass of burning cities and unrecognizable wastelands within minutes. Cities further away, such as Paris, London, Moscow or Washington, D.C were only spared after cooler heads prevailed - Ten days too late.
The brief but devastating war ended half a day after the last nuke fell. Neither side wanted to concede defeat, but neither side had anything left to give. Almost all of NATO's European armies were destroyed, as were most of the Warsaw Pact's western army groups. Whatever survivors there were were now trapped in a desolate wasteland stretching from the German-French border all the way to Central Poland. Some units continued fighting, unaware that the war had ended. Others tried to restore order where they could, with each brigade, battalion, regiment or even company carving out territories of their own in the wasteland.
Most, however, simply wanted to survive in the new hostile world.
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So basically that's a background to this RP. It'll be largely open world, but from time to time I'll throw in a plot line or two to keep things interesting and eventually I will introduce the main plot (Probably going to involve a group of survivors trying to fight their way to civilization or something like that.)
1983, Germany
NATO carries out Exercise Able Archer. It was to simulate an escalating conflict with the Eastern Bloc, starting with a conventional conflict and culminating in a DEFCON 1 situation with the activation and firing of nuclear weapons. However, as misfortune would have it, on the day NATO started simulating preparations for a nuclear war, Soviet intelligence were attempting to detect the early signs of a nuclear attack. Soviet nukes and air units were thus placed on alert, but nothing was done yet.
After seven days of watching NATO shift their armies around the inter-German border, and with senior members of the Politburo and Soviet military utterly convinced that the exercise was a ruse to disguise actual preparations for an assault on East Germany, the Soviets began to build up their own forces along the border. Knowing full well of the M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine, the option of using nuclear weapons as a 'first strike' was still off the table.
On day nine, just a day before Able Archer was to end, a telegram received by the KGB from one of their agents incorrectly stated that NATO was indeed ready to begin an offensive within no less than a week. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and on the 11th of November, 1983, the Soviets carried out a massive offensive all along the inter-German border with distracting skirmishes along the German-Czechozlovak border.
The offensive managed to catch NATO by surprise. While they had been expecting a Soviet reaction, an offensive on a scale which rivaled Operation Bagration was not something they had seriously considered. Within a week, the Soviets had reached the Danish border and were dangerously close to reaching the Dutch and French borders. Reinforcements were still at least two days away, and that was two days which NATO did not have. Thus, it was decided that WMDs would be used. It started with small-scale chemical warfare targeted at the flanks of the Soviet armies. In return, the Soviets deployed their own gases and toxins.
Eventually, one side decided that enough was enough. Tactical nukes were unleashed on the battlefield, with each strike obliterating entire armies. Tactical nukes soon gave way to strategic strikes. Much of Germany, Austria and in fact the majority of central Europe was reduced to a mass of burning cities and unrecognizable wastelands within minutes. Cities further away, such as Paris, London, Moscow or Washington, D.C were only spared after cooler heads prevailed - Ten days too late.
The brief but devastating war ended half a day after the last nuke fell. Neither side wanted to concede defeat, but neither side had anything left to give. Almost all of NATO's European armies were destroyed, as were most of the Warsaw Pact's western army groups. Whatever survivors there were were now trapped in a desolate wasteland stretching from the German-French border all the way to Central Poland. Some units continued fighting, unaware that the war had ended. Others tried to restore order where they could, with each brigade, battalion, regiment or even company carving out territories of their own in the wasteland.
Most, however, simply wanted to survive in the new hostile world.
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So basically that's a background to this RP. It'll be largely open world, but from time to time I'll throw in a plot line or two to keep things interesting and eventually I will introduce the main plot (Probably going to involve a group of survivors trying to fight their way to civilization or something like that.)