Command & Conquer MCV Reporting for Duty. On Mars.

MCV Reporting for Duty. On Mars.
Replaying Red Alert for the first time in over 10 years has reunited me with an old nemesis
Some of the buildings in this mobile game look mighty familiar.
For EA's Consideration: C&C in VR.
A “realistic” Red Alert scenario?
What 80s song would you associate with C&C
Baby Yoda - Generals Main Theme
Oil in center money = powerplant
I didn’t even know Nod had a space force

MCV Reporting for Duty. On Mars.

Posted: 21 Dec 2019 07:00 AM PST

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Replaying Red Alert for the first time in over 10 years has reunited me with an old nemesis

Posted: 21 Dec 2019 07:29 AM PST

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Some of the buildings in this mobile game look mighty familiar.

Posted: 21 Dec 2019 07:11 AM PST

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For EA's Consideration: C&C in VR.

Posted: 21 Dec 2019 09:59 AM PST

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A “realistic” Red Alert scenario?

Posted: 20 Dec 2019 09:53 PM PST

Wow I did not realize how long this was.

Hi everyone, so I've been on a train for a while, so what better way to spend my time than thinking about how a "red alert" scenario could really happen in the 1940's, using technology that was available at the time? So aside from Einstein's time travel, no chronospheres, Tesla coils etc. Helicopters and jet aircraft would also be in their infancy.

So let's start with the Nazi party fizzing out in 1924 after Hitler is released from Landsberg prison and is never seen again. The Weimar government grows in legitimacy and it's golden era is a little more golden without fascist domestic opposition. Once the Great Depression hits, Germany's main domestic threat comes from the communist movement - financed by Moscow. The European allies soon come to the agreement that communist infiltration and aggression is a more immediate threat than a militaristic Germany, so Britain, France and Mussolini's Italy agree to support the Weimar government.

In 1933, a Weimar coalition holds in the German election. This election would give the communist party (KPD) the highest vote share in it's history, second only to the SPD. Stalin's plan to spread the revolution through Europe at the depth of the depression had failed.

While the European powers steadily press on to get through the depression, the USSR undergoes more rounds of purges of the communist party and the military. However, rapid industrialization continues as Stalin's five-year-plans are carried out. All countries experiment with mechanized forces in their armies and developing air forces.

In 1946, Stalin begins his invasion of Europe with an attack on Poland. Massive concentrated artillery bombardment and aerial bombing of fortifications and infrastructure goes on for hours before the infantry and T-34 tanks charge forward in a frontal assault across the entire border. Polish forces are forced to retreat. European allies send advisers, aid and token support forces, but do not declare war.

The main Soviet tactic revolves around masses frontal assaults with superior numbers and firepower. The firepower acts as a force multiplier for their superior numbers, allowing the Soviets to field far more artillery units, airplanes and tanks than any smaller nation, and a greater industrial capacity to produce such weapons. The embodiment of Lenin's saying "Quantity is a quality of its own." Churchill would describe the Soviet strategy as "Brutish, but effective." The polish army could not outmaneuver Soviet forced as they had in 1919-1920.

With Warsaw reduced to rubble and Polish forces left defending only a sliver of its territory and the Danzig corridor, Poland surrenders. Less than a month later, Stalin orders an attack on Germany. Submarines cut off East Prussia as the tanks drive towards Königsberg. In the West, the bulk of the Soviet army pushes forward using the same massed frontal assault and superior firepower tactics that crushed Poland. This time, however, Britain and France declared war on the USSR. The Second Great War has begun.

As it was in the first Great War, Supreme allied command was granted to the highest ranking officer of the country directly under attack - a veteran and a child of a Prussian military family Marshall Gunther Von Eschling.

Back in the early 1930's, German officers Oswald Lutz and Heinz Guderian had been experimenting with armored and mechanized formations to improve on the combined arms tactics of the end of the first Great War. They developed a strategy which emphasized the use of armored units and mechanized infantry supported by air power to open and exploit breakthroughs in enemy front lines, using surprise and speed to throw the enemy off balance and ultimately encircle their most powerful units on the front lines. As the German army has been in retreat, so far there has not been an opportunity to use such tactics. In this timeline Guderian never visited the USSR, and their tactics develop very differently. While the soviets have used their tanks effectively en masse, most of their infantry divisions were not mechanized, this limiting their tanks' mobility in a combined arms offensive.

While he has designs on all of Europe, Stalin's priority is driving west to the English Channel. Thus he has devoted nearly all of his armored divisions to the offensive across Northern Europe. Though slower than the invasion of Poland, the soviet army steadily advanced into Germany, capturing Berlin and pushed the allies towards the Rhine. But as the French and British armies reinforced the German defenses, the advance slowed, allowing the allies to to form a defensive perimeter around the Ruhr area and Bavaria.

Efforts behind the lines were also instrumental to showing the Soviet juggernaut. Coordinating with German partisans and the Polish underground army, allied agents like Tanya Adams were able to destroy infrastructure critical to soviet logistic operations such as munitions and fuel storage facilities. Vital supplies had to be shipped to the front lines directly from the USSR, which became more difficult when major bridges were destroyed. Allied agents even succeeded in destroying a facility dedicated to producing Sarin gas. The quantity produced and burned is still unknown.

With Brussels and Paris under threat, the United States reluctantly becomes involved, with some officials intrigued by German diplomatic cables mentioning an operation that could deal a crippling blow to the invaders.

Now the allies have the numbers to go on the offensive, but there is disagreement as to how to proceed. Guderian proposed a massive counterattack swinging north to encircle the main soviet armor groups, and to do it before Moscow can reinforce the front lines any further. British command was more cautious, preferring a sustained bombing campaign of soviet positions in Germany that would cripple their ability to advance any further - this option was far more feasible now than before the US joined the fight, as the allies could establish air superiority in Western Europe.

Von Eschling knew that such a protracted campaign would result in the total destruction of a large segment of his country, so he cautiously supported Guderian's proposal. Far more enthusiastic about it was US General George Patton.

At the beginning of the war, German heavy industry was shifted entirely to war production. However, as production capacity was limited and the risk of factories falling into enemy hands so great, several manufacturers licensed American auto manufacturers to produce their tanks in the United States - just like the French did in the last war. Now it was paying off. With the hundreds of thousands of US troops came thousands of American built Panther tanks and half tracks for their German crews.

At dawn, the allied counterattack began with bombing raids across all known soviet positions, with concentrated naval bombardment along the northern coast. This bombardment went on for hours to fool the Soviet high command into thinking an amphibious invasion had begun.

Instead, after hours of bombardment, German armored and mechanized divisions along with Patton's third army, punched holes through gaps in soviet formations east of the Rhine between Bonn and Frankfurt. At the same time, allied forces on the front lines begin attacking - but not advancing - across the entire front to keep up the pressure. As the day goes on the Soviets try to mobilize forces to blunt the eastward advance, but the allies swing north, with French infantry moving in afterward to secure the ground to secure the territory.

The counterattack is a complete success. Within two weeks, the allies reach Bremen, fully cutting off the bulk of the soviet armored divisions. For the Soviets, it is a total rout. The first major strategic victory for the allies.

But the war is far from over. Stalin has plenty of fight left, and he might look for victory elsewhere.

So what do you think? When I started thinking about this, I imagined what if Blitzkrieg was used introduced as a counteroffensive strategy, using the enemy's momentum against them.

So what would happen next? Would the allies have the stomach to push all the way to Moscow without the chronosphere? Can the Soviets make a comeback without Tesla tanks?

Anyway it's late.

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What 80s song would you associate with C&C

Posted: 21 Dec 2019 11:47 AM PST

For me it's Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears

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Baby Yoda - Generals Main Theme

Posted: 21 Dec 2019 01:31 AM PST