[center][u][b]Age of Imperialism 2.0: TURN 4| January, 1920[/b] (Week 6)[/u] (Turn 4, Part 6 of 12)[/center]

[b]Friday, February 12th[/b]
The [b][color=purple]Kingdom of Soroya[/color][/b] had a long and tenured history of colonization. The first nation to establish a non-Centran colony in 1634, Soroyan ships and explorers paved the way for the Serranthian coastal missions and the first diplomats to Faresia. The [i]Halbert Expedition[/i] was the intended colonization of a North Faresian island, and it left on February 10th from Sikea and headed northeast toward the Faresian archipelago.

[b]Saturday, February 13th[/b]
Operation Silhouette continues in the [b]Ferro-Korenian War[/b]. The Ferrareians continue to push hard at the front and in the air. But as the barbaric offensive of men continued, they started to thin. The operational effectiveness wavered, and a bulge had formed in the line. A patrol of five Strzelec-1F's was grounded when three of the five planes were seen unfit for combat.  The Ferrareian general maintains that one more week would break the Korenians completely, or bleed the Ferrareians dry.

[b]Sunday, February 14th[/b]
A convoy of seventeen ships sets sail from Rabentrop harbor in the [b][color=gray]Republic of Kalpia[/color][/b]. The [b]Kalpian 2nd Fleet[/b] is comprised of three light cruisers and four destroyers escorting ten troops ships. They sail along the peninsula then head east toward Faresia.

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[i]Kalpian 2nd Fleet sets sail from Rabentrop. February, 1921[/i][/center]

[b]Monday, February 15th[/b]
Forty thousand men of the [b]Imperial Guard[/b] of the [b][color=orange]Chaegon Empire[/color][/b] reach the Izzi Line. They are well equipped, some of them with the new Chekov bolt-action. They dig in with much higher spirits than the days before where Pozzoulli artillery had them pinned to their foxholes. The sun is shining. Though cold, the snows have started to dissipate and both sides feel the inevitability of another offensive. Another push.

Strange as it may be, the aerial reconnaissance of the Chaegonians dissipated around this time. The casual drum of aircraft engines faded, and the Pozzoulli front line became worried.


[b]Tuesday, February 16th[/b]
The [b]Brown Offensive[/b] starts. This time by the [b][color=orange]Chaegon Empire[/color][/b]. With three times as many soldiers manning the line as the Pozzoullians, they have the reserves to maintain the defensive line as well as an offensive line. The attack begin in the East, centered around the town of Sarat. There the Rolling Stove tanks were gathered. They were some of the first over the trenches. One was lost in the initial move forward, as it's radiator--not used to the rocky ground and dusty conditions of Tarania--finally gave out. It was abandoned and it's two crewmen joined the offensive as infantrymen.

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[i]Chaegonian Imperial Guard beginning the Brown Offensive. February, 1921[/i][/center]

The Pozzoullians were well dug in with excellent equipment. They offered mortar fire and heavy machine guns, many of which were silenced by the 200 plus guns of the Chaegon Imperial Armada. During the initial three hours of the assault, two Pozzoullian infantrymen, hiding in their trench, threw an impromptu molotov cocktail on a Rolling Stove. The tank's crewmembers, trapped inside, burned to death within minutes.


[b]Wednesday, February 17th[/b]
The [b]Kalpians[/b] land three convoys in northeast Faresia. Their goal? A colonization mission on one of the many archipelago's in the land. They find the area moderately inhabited. Named the "[i]Oclardth Colony[/i]," it's obviously too early to see if the colony will survive, but within the first eight hours an infirmary, impromptu dock and an administration building is set up. Kalpian population is 436. Estimated native population in the tropical grave is unknown.

[b]Thursday, February 18th[/b]
A trio of Zellonian submarines leave port to conduct naval exercises off the coast.

[b]Po-Chaegonian War[/b]: The [b]Brown Offensive[/b], named so after the dusty and dirty conditions of Tarania's highlands, continues. General Corrado Gabrielle orders a general retreat, intending to shorten the front so that his soldiers can fight on parity with the Chaegonians. The Pozzoullians take hellish casualties, with the Chaegonians relentlessly pursuing them, breaking a trench line and repeating the process. The Rolling Stoves, though poorly coordinated, are nearly impervious to all firearms except a lucky artillery shell or a molotov cocktail. By February 18th, Gabrielle's [b]1st Pozzoullian Army[/b] had fallen back six miles in the East, while fighting to maintain the Izzi Line in the west.

[hr][b]WEEK'S LOSSES[/b]
-- [b][color=orange]Chaegon Empire[/color][/b]
* 6,991 Regulars
* 6,431 Rifle I ([i]BM-2[/i])
* 601 Rifle I ([i]Chekov Rifle[/i])
* 6,411 Equipment I

-- [color=brown][b]Duchy of Pozzoulli[/b][/color]
* 4,753 Regulars
* 4,911 Rifle I ([i]Gazzari-98[/i])
* 2,311 Equipment I
* 6 Artillery I ([i]Cannone-76[/i])