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11-09-2014, 03:14 PM
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New Material for the Jackson Republic
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The Jackson Republic UPDATE The final version can be found in this thread: http://forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=4742 Last edited by RandyT0001; 03-08-2015 at 12:59 PM. 
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#3
11-15-2014, 06:44 AM
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read through it
I downloaded and read through it, nice job. I really have give a bit of thought as to how much of todays' technology hardware would will still exist in 150 years from now. That said, how many of future generations will still be able to use the devices. Given that training manuals, courses, etc. are now digital, would not paper training materials be a better course? Just a thought.
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#4
11-17-2014, 12:57 PM
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I had to think about how I learned how to use technology over the years. Most of the devices I learned to use I learned by example from a more skilled user. Using an AM radio, dialing a rotary phone, using a wood lathe, running and maintaining a high-speed copier were all done by way of demonstration. Very few devices have I only had a manual to use to learn it. Most of the time, the manual was used to figure out how a function I knew how to perform on one device was implemented on a different one if I could not figure it out.
But to address your manual question directly, paper is better in this case. But what would most likely exist would be a paper manual to bootstrap you until you can access the online manual. That was the trend in electronic documentation in the 1990's and is still the norm today.
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#5
11-21-2014, 09:54 PM
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Additional Material for Jackson
Added some material.
Still a work in progress. Last edited by RandyT0001; 11-21-2014 at 10:15 PM.
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#6
11-22-2014, 06:00 PM
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Minor Spelling point...... Garand....... one R.
Enbloc clips.... Loaded as a unit. Eight rounds per Enbloc clip. I don't see an indication of what is the Soldiers basic ammunition load for their rifle. The Infantry basic load doesn't have a Rucksack or a duffle bag. Unless the web gear is like the WW2 or British style with a multitude of individual pouch and a shoulder bag. I would divide the basic load like a packing list. On the person, in the rucksack, and in the duffle bag on the truck or in camp. A Lewis gun is in .303 British.. The rimmed case of .303 is the reason for the distinctive round pan magazine. Grenades....Any handgrenades... I didn't notice an White Phosphorus or Hexachlorethane (HC) smoke grenades or colored smoke for signalling. The KFS is utilizing bullet trap style rifle grenades, assuming defectors from the corrupt KFS army would take what they have, I would think this Republic would be able to field the same, scaled up for 30.06. Smoke is vital to movement in combat, it screens your forces, and provides misdirection to the enemy. The Wall seems to be a variation on Hadrian's wall. The effectiveness of that had more to do with legionaries station in mile forts (literally a roman mile apart) than being a physical wall. Those guards were formed from the three Roman Legions assigned to guard it. Sounds like your centering the Republics military on the German Army's flexible defense. This typically means a small unit occupies a static fortress, redoubt, or trench work forward and in contact with an enemy force while the other two thirds of a unit can maneuver. It is a sound system; However, the KFS has several batteries of 105mm artillery. This can pin down forces in a static position, tear up a minefield, target cross roads, and make life miserable if you can't answer back with your own artillery or rockets. A General Purpose Machine Gun..... The KFS can (and doesn't for some reason) field a 7.62 NATO GPMG. The Republic could be fielding M1919A2/A3/A4 GPMGs at the Platoon Heavy weapons level and in static forts. Machineguns dominate open ground, making one three man gun team plus ammo bearers the equivalent of a platoon on their own. Paired with another gun team in another position with interlocking fire and no one is crossing that ground. Combat Engineers without a bangalore torpedoe? In offensive operations, the combat engineers open gaps in enemy minefields, and wire defenses using these explosives. Armor...... The KFS has it, and the Jacksons do not. The Jacksons "Relics" are not well defined. Armor is the battlefield bully that gets infantry onto the objective by destroying defenses, and killing other tanks. The Jackson's have AAA though this isn't defined either. The KFS has the P-47 Thunderbolt which is heavily armed, redundant controls and an armored cockpit. Damned hard to shoot down. The KFS does have total air dominance, can destroy any fixed forts, shut down river traffic, can sweep through Jackson's territory with V-300s, M2 Bradleys, and M1 Abrams. The Jackson's don't stand a chance and probably would have to do whatever the KFS wants.
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#7
11-22-2014, 06:27 PM
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For this defensive doctrine to work it need integrated Anti Armor, Anti Air, Artillery, with heavy defensive works covered by machine guns, behind a belt of mines.
Defense to be effective has to be layered with row upon row of defenses..... Breach one and start getting hit by the next one behind it, while being flanked from left and right. Heavy weapons needs a 80/81/82mm mortar to effectively engage enemy forces using a wall, trenches, or a hill top for cover. Probably larger 120mm mortars in the Regimental heavy weapons section, along with larger possibly towed AT guns (Soviets field a 125mm AT gun currently) so there is enough punch to stop a M1 tank. AAA pedestal mounted 12.5mm (.50) M2HBs in a single mount, quad fifties are good at the company level, something larger like the 40mm Bofors, and the 90mm AAA artillery are necessary to protect larger formations or fixed assets like rail yards, bridges, cross road, ammo dumps, factories, water dams, etc.
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11-22-2014, 08:16 PM
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"The US Navy and Marine Corps followed in early 1917, adopting the M1917 Lewis gun (produced by the Savage Arms Co.), in .30-06 caliber. The US Army never officially adopted the weapon for infantry use[13] and even went so far as to take Lewis guns away from US Marines arriving in France and replace them with the cheap, shoddy, and extremely unsatisfactory Chauchat LMG[20]—a practice believed to be related to General Crozier's dislike of Lewis and his gun.[21] The US Army eventually adopted the Browning Automatic Rifle in 1917 (although it was September 1918 before any of the new guns reached the front).[22] The US Navy and Marine Corps continued to use the .30-06 caliber Lewis until the early part of World War II.[23]" Quote:
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But what if? What if Jackson defeats the armor column attacking, destroying a couple of planes, a few tanks, several Bradleys, and several V-300's and survives, defiant? How will the freemen and slaves in the KFS react to the news? (And the news would get around.) What about those other small communities around the KFS, would they be embolden to stand up to attacks and raids by the KFS, possibly causing more loses? A direct assault would be risky. It would be better to isolate the Republic from resources and when triumphant forces from attacks in North Carolina and Ohio return, then attack from three sides, north, south and east, to crush the Jackson Republic.
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#9
12-21-2014, 12:14 AM
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KFS Raids into the Confederation of Counties Before the formation of the Jackson Republic In the year 2062 (2034 for the 3rd edition of Morrow Project), The Kentucky Free State sent the Fifth Regiment across the Tennessee River. Eleven years earlier the army of the Rich Five had begun its expansion into Middle Tennessee for the purpose of expanding the labor force to serve the needs of the Rich Five. This invasion prompted the evacuation of Tennessee’s MP M&CA Combined Team into West Tennessee the following year. Two years after the M&CA relocation, several counties in West Tennessee formed a confederation for trade and mutual protection, the Confederation of Counties. Consolidation of power in Kentucky was completed and the Kentucky Free State was proclaimed in 2057 (2029 for the 3rd edition of Morrow Project). However, the subjection of Middle Tennessee was not completed for another three years. The commander of the Fifth Regiment had not told the Five Families of the difficulties in conquering Middle Tennessee nor of the formation of the Confederation. He was replaced, arrested, tried and executed within two days. The Rich Five reorganized the military leadership into a patronage system to ensure control and communication. The Inspector General Office of the Army was eliminated as the Secret Police was given policing authority over the Army. The new commander, Gerald Carswell, of the Fifth Regiment was ordered to attack the Confederation immediately. His letter of refusal was accompanied by a report from the Captain of the Secret Police assigned to the Fifth Regiment listing the shortages of material, abundance of poorly trained troops, and absent morale as detriments to the task ordered. The Five gave him a year to turn the Regiment into an effective force. After nine months delay, the material and ammunition finally arrived. The commander trained his regiment for two months. The following month he sent recon patrols into Confederation territory while the Secret Police sent a few abduction teams to capture and return with some near border community leaders. Units not assigned to patrol duty built flat bottom johnboats for the infantry and pontoon boats for a wood pontoon bridge the artillery could use to cross. After reviewing the intelligence reports from the recon patrols and summations of the interrogations by the Secret Police, Colonel Carswell formulated a plan of attack. Colonel Carswell was not impressed by Confederation. He concluded that a coordinated attack would cause the Confederation to collapse. He divided his regiment into four columns to attack across four points on the Tennessee River. Each column consisted of a platoon of cavalry, a company of foot infantry and a battery of artillery for support. The plan was that the V-300s of the cavalry would establish a beachhead across the river and protect the infantry as it crossed on johnboats and built the pontoon bridges. Once the artillery crossed the river, an infantry platoon would be left to guard the bridge while the remaining forces would advance to their target. Column A would attack Benton, column B would attack Murray, column C would attack Camden and column D would attack Parson. Once column A and column B had destroyed their initial target cities, they would converge on Mayton and destroy it. Column C would advance to Huntington after razing Camden and column D would advance to Lexton. The assaults would continue through Martin, Trenton and finally to Dyersburg to split the Confederation. The often-quoted paraphrase of Moltke the Elder, “No strategic plan survives contact with the enemy” would end up as “No strategic plan survives a river crossing” for Colonel Carswell. At each river crossing, the cavalry platoon had established an effective defense of the beachhead and the initial supporting platoon had arrived. After a dry summer season, the river was low and the weather was clear with a full moon. The four-hour operation of building the pontoon bridges began. About an hour after the building began the weather turned starting at Benton. Clouds rolled in from the northwest with a drastic increase in southwesterly surface winds. Though slowed the bridge building continued. When the winds and clouds made it to the Parson crossing Benton was in the middle of a hailstorm driven by gale force winds. The advancing line of thunderstorms destroyed the bridges within three hours of the start of construction of each bridge. The Camden bridge site was struck by a F1 tornado. Carswell ordered those forces already across the river to attack their initial targets and destroy them, then return. Because column C had lost nearly all of its johnboats, it was ordered to rendezvous with column D in Parsons after mission completion and return using those boats. For Colonel Carswell four small victories can elevate one to hero status within the family. Each town was set afire and suffered severe damage. For the attacking forces, the damage was light. One V-300 had a central wheel blown off with an improvised land mine and another had its anti-air machine gun destroyed. Of the infantry, two soldiers were seriously wounded and eight were lightly wounded. There were no combat deaths but the storm had killed seventeen soldiers building the Camden crossing bridge. After the withdrawal was completed, Carswell set up patrols and defensive positions to repel any counter attack. None was forthcoming. Lauded as a hero by the family, Gerald returned to Danville and was soon replaced as the commander of the Fifth Regiment. The new commander moved the regiment farther into the interior of the KFS to suppress a slave rebellion. The lack of any military action by the Confederation convinced the Council of Five that no credible threat outside of the Free State existed. For the next twenty years, the Army of the KFS was too busy suppressing a succession of slave revolts to venture across the Tennessee River. When they did, the response was very different, shocking and troubling. In Newtonian physics, for every action there is an opposite reaction. If the KFS raids were the action, the reaction was the creation of the Jackson Republic, virtually opposed to the KFS in every way: anti-slave versus slave, democracy versus oligarchy, character versus class, communism versus capitalism, freedom versus servitude, motivation versus stagnation. More than one hundred years would pass before the Army of the KFS would again advance beyond its borders.
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#10
12-28-2014, 04:18 PM
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The beginning of a new module I have been working on.
Comments, suggestions? Last edited by RandyT0001; 12-28-2014 at 07:28 PM.
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#12
01-13-2015, 08:01 PM
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Carryall Truck, 4x4 3/4ton (4th Edition)
Crew: 2 +7 passengers Length: 4.7m Width: 2.0m Height: 2.06m Max. Road Speed: 87kph Fording Depth: 0.86m Gradient: 55% Vertical Obstacle: ? Trench: ? Ground Clearance: 0.26m Turning Radius: 7.47m Armor Value: 4(B), 9(NB), 128(EX) Payload: 818kg Mass: 34 (2,613.6kg) including fuel (113.5 liters) Stats: SP: 1,156 STR: 103 (56.7kw powerplant) DEX: 13 PACE: 15 INT: 18 Public officials in the Jackson Republic that require a four-wheel drive vehicle use the carryall truck. The rear seats can be folded forward for additional cargo space or removed for maximum capacity.
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