Invasion of Iyartae

As the soldiers of the Northern Iyartaean airfield begins their daily routine, soldiers on the other side of the border, is about to change their lives forever. All across the border,  Aquitian artilery kerbs uncover their camoflauged artilery guns. A radio message is sent throughout Aquitian chain of command.

"All units commence firing!"

The early morning silence was suddenly broken by the erruption of 25 artilery guns commencing fire along the border. The small border guard garrison of about 6 000 kerbs are taken by complete suprise and are effectivly wiped out, either by surrendering or being killed. The northern Iyartean air strip quickly falls under the control of Aquitian armoured forces and the pilots are captured, and their aircraft grounded. To this point Iyartea are taken by suprise, however the sirens of the southern airfield scream for the pilots to scramble to their bombers.

Under heavy fighter escort three bomber squadrons starts a scorched earth policy by bombing vital supply routes and road networks. While it didn't necessarily halt the advance of the forces itself except for a few reserve units tagging along in the rear, the supply lines are really being disrupted with cratered roads, destroyed railways and total air superiority. What Aquitia had failed to realise was that during a blitzkrieg assault, not only tanks are needed for its success. Total air domination and artilery domination is also needed, something that the Aquitian forces really lacked.

Smaller units of Iyartean artilery observers had managed to spot advancing forces for the Iyartean airforce, artilery and navy to bomb. However, the Aqutian forces didn't necessarily fail. They have secured very much ground in the assault with the western flank being the most successful.


The Aqutian troops made their way across the border with 25 tanks and 20 000 infantry, facing a garrison of 14 000 kerbs and the large Iyartaen People's Navy. As the invasion force made its way through the hills of the eastern countryside, they finally met real conventional resistance.

Some desperate attempts of setting up defences had been made, and you could see an occasional Czech hedgehog in the streets and a demolition team setting up explosives in the occasional building. Propaganda speakers urged the citizens to take up whatever arms necessary to defend the motherland from the Aqutian defenders. While not many people had the nerves to do that, some went ahead and followed the orders, with civilians arming themselves with bricks and stones and the occasional firearm to shoot at the Aqutian forces. 8 000 kerbs were holding the first line of defence which were the industrial district, here the defences were rather limited in terms of prepared defences. Buildings were garrisoned and some furniture had been moved out to the streets to act as sandbags, with some occasional Czech hedgehogs blocking the road.

The assault began with Aquitian artilery pounding the city's defenses with firemissions relayed from Aquitian forward observers. While it succeeded in destroying some defences, the radionet was essentially a mess. Units from the entire invasion force were yelling at the artilery battalion to fire on their targets. In other words, Aquitian fire support was not nearly enough to support an advancing invasion force with several tens of thousands of kerbs simultaniously calling for artilery fire.

However the navy was very effective in providing supportive fire for the defenders, and as the Aqutian conhorts conducted their main assault on the capital they were greeted by a storm of artilery fire raining down on them. They compensated doing the assault swift, gaining as much ground as possible in a short ammount of time to get close enough to the Iyartean troops for the ships to stop fire. This succeeded to some extent and the attack could carry on. Heavy fighting ensured in defensive line 1. However the defenders had to eventually evacuate to defensive line two in the city, which was downtown. On their way they detonated buildings that some Aquitian troops was inside after have placed explosives in advance. While this succeeded in killing some soldiers, it was not nearly enough, however it created a terrorising effect on the Aquitian troops who now was affraid of entering buildings due to the fact they could collapse.

The Defensive line 2 was in a much better place to defend the city. The narrow strip of land made it so the Aquitian troops was fumelled into a small strip of land, giving the advantage to the defenders. At this point the offensive inside the city was effectivly grounded into a dead halt.

During the artilery barrage earlier, the Iyartean government was on its way to evacuate south however four government officials were killed by a stray artilery round striking their positions just as they were evacuating.


The western flank secured much of its objective in a quick assault over the flat hills. However forward air controlers of the Iyartean special forces managed to get into positon to call in air support on the advancing units. Tweny Four bombers soared over the skies with no threat from the enemy due to its lack of AA and the Aquitian airforces order to not start bombardment untill the enemy airforce was dealt with. The bombers on collums of trucks containing infantry along the western front, destroying or otherwise rendering the convoys into a complete halt. As tanks got in range of Iyartean armoured batallions, the Iyarteans used the high ground and effectivly wiped out the the armoured spearhead and infantry tailing behind. However the armoured spearhead also fired back wiping out twenty five Iyartean tanks. The commander of the western fron realised that they had traveled into a killzone, and ordered his troops to halt and dig in to avoid being picked off by the bombers. Many of his kerbs demoralised as the Iyartean airforce flew sorties to bomb the troops.


Sgt. Telgraf, a engineer inspect his troops in the subway.

"Are the explosives fixed private?"

The private does his salute and answers.

"Yes comrade Sgt. Telgraf, the Aquitians will have no idea what hit them."
"Good, report in with able company, I want information of their location."
"Will do comrade Sgt. Telgraf."

The plan was simple yet briliant. There was a subway running through the city and would work great for a unconventional defence. Some of the head entrances would be defended and rigged with explosives, then have the soldiers retreat into the subway to aid a unit in need in some other entrence across the city. As the enemy troops would enter the subway entrence the explosives would detonate, effectivly blocking the entire entrence and cutting off the only means of escape for the poor Aquitian troops trying to enter, there they would be greeted with machineguns aimed at the entrence which would make the seen resemble nothing but a pure execution.

Just like the attack on the capital, this attack begun with a limited artilery barrage on the city, followed by an all out assault countered by artilery fire and airforce bombers on the defending side, and machinegun fire plowing the fields. While the Aquitians sustained casualties on the assault, more than they actually planned for, they still made it through into the city, and even here encountering the rigged buildings strategy. The heaviest fighting ensured in and around the subways which were a vital part of the Iyatean defence strategy. Even here the fighting was brought down to a stand still with both sides licking their wounds after the heavy fighting that had engulfed the city.

Both sides knew, that this war would be a costly war. With the Aquitians not having the firepower needed to conduct their blitzkrieg effectivly and no air defence resulting in the mass air strikes against their advancing forces. And the Iyatean forces hell bent on destroying vital supplies and roads for the enemy. After the war, this nation would need to rebuild.

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This is unacceptable! We shall fight for Iyartae!

As per charter, DEPS will intervene.

We see nothing but large power blocs seeking to expand their interests across more of the world.

Defending our allies are our duties as a civilized nation. They came to us to join this powerblock, not the other way around.

We are referring to you "protecting Aquita from rebels".

We are not protecting Aquitia from rebels? We are invading Aquitia for the imperialistic actions against our allies.

We are referring to your puppeting of Terripania. A good virtue is to not take everything literally.

We never puppeted Terripana, they are our friends but not puppets.

And our mothers gave light to us yesterday.

Ask them yourself if you want to know if they are independent.

And as good puppets they will say yes. Not everything people say is true.

Segerline will not let us intervene on Iyartae's behalf, they threaten us with the destruction of our fleet, so we will not attack Aquita.

The DEPS is largely able by itself to give protection to its allies. The unjustified intervention of third parties is unnecessary, and is to be avoided in light of the claims they might advance for their intervention.
Whatever ingerence in the matter by uninvited third parties will be seen as an act of war and countered accordingly.

As a part of DEPS we will honour the alliance and join the war against Aquitae.