OGRE Batrep #10: The Descartes Gambit

 OGRE Battle Report [BatRep #10]

+++This scenario is third-hand information stolen by the Belarussian SigInt battalion through satellite communications which were not encrypted.+++

The Descartes Gambit

Inside the hardened bowels of the Denver International Airports'  Deep Underground Military Base, server blades powered on and began wargaming a very specific scenario. One that was programmed 5 years earlier and contingent upon certain fail-safes. Fail-Safes put in place by the North American Combine AI network in tandem with a high level Federal Agency: The IRS.

This was the Descartes AI and it was programmed to become self-aware and operative only if certain conditions were met. 

The Descartes program ran through 3,577,289 scenarios in just under 3.73 seconds. It analyzed the results in another 27 seconds and some change and made its' decision. It reached out to an IRS agent program hibernating somewhere in the Black Sea and brought it to life. It issued orders and waited for a response.

The Eastern European Cooperative [An upstart coalition of Ukrainian, Latvian, a smattering of Romanians and a few Serbian territories] had borrowed a rather large sum of credits from the NA Combine with only the promise to pay back the Federal Taxes at interest over a 5 year period. A simple contract. One the EEC failed to complete.

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Somewhere at the bottom of the Black Sea a Mark V OGRE rumbled to life, sent an affirmation of orders to the Descartes AI and began making way for the Port of Odes[s]a in the Ukrainian Territories. It would rendezvous with a small escort battalion of heavy armor already being transported into the Area of Operations and move north into the province of Novo-Stara. The OGRE was designated [Bones] and was an agent of the NA Combines' IRS Federal Seizure assets.

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Having completed the routines as instructed, the Descartes program powered down: Bones and its' escorts were enroute to the objective area. The chances of success were estimated to be 88.76102 percent if the chosen configuration of forces was correct.

Scenario - Meeting Engagement

Forces involved: 300 Points of NA Combine vs. 300 points of Eastern European Cooperative Forces

Objective - No Objectives defined. Kill Points only.  Forces will deploy inside deployment zones.

The Strategic Map:

The Tactical Map:

+++These are unedited and unformatted pictures from stolen satellite data. Most information gathered can be assumed to be speculative at best.+++

This is the widest angle photo available among the drone and/or sat images captured from the NA Combine IRS uplinks.

The Mark V IRS Agent Bones arrives with Super-Heavy escorts

The 'asset seizure program' commences north of the port city of Odes[s]a, Ukraine Territories.

The IRS heavy escort for the OGRE MK V

This view from the north shows initial disposition of forces with the ECC units in the foreground and TF Eagle to the left top and the IRS units in the top right.

The Ground Effect Units met in the lake in the middle of the map before the armor could negotiate the crowded terrain.

The ECC GEV forces picket the TF Eagle GEVs out on the lake while their armor assets closed with the MK V.

In a close-up of the above photo, Intelligence shows the IRS assets in green supported by a Task Force of NA Combine regulars designated as TF Eagle. The blue, gold, and black assets are ECC forces from the Ukraine, Latvia, Romania and Serbia.

The two forces met in between Novo and Stara Territories north of Odes[s]a.

The blue and gold ECC forces take the fight to the NAC IRS OGRE and escorts just outside of the Novo territory, Ukraine.

Approximately 7km from the MK V, TF Eagle and what looked to have been a secondary detachment from the ECC met in the woods in around the town of Novo.

From initial intel, this battle appears to have been won by the ECC forces.

ECC forces disposition at the beginning phase of the battle of Novo:

ECC forces disposition at the end of the battle of Novo:

'Agent Bones' rolls up on the ECC remaining forces and lets loose with missiles, mains and secondary batteries scoring multiple X and XX hits on the ECC

After the MK V collected its' taxes in arrears the remaining ECC units capitulated to it:

Not much of the ECC force was left to seize. 

SigInt believes the remaining ECC forces were seized as partial payment due and picked up for transport with the remaining NAC forces minus the OGRE. The Mk V designated 'Bones' made it's way back to the Black Sea. 

FINAL SCORE:

IRS/TF Eagle NAC: 71point margin over the Eastern European Cooperative

CRUSHING IRS Victory!