Post by Piment on Jun 29, 2015 12:22:27 GMT -4
After the Battle of Yonkers
World War Z
The Battle of Yonkers was the United States Military's first large scale, official engagement of the Zombie War. It took place in Yonkers, New York, the largest city in Westchester County, (just north of the Bronx, NY). The battle was an absolute catastrophe: if any one event can be singled out as the point when zombies officially became the dominant species on the planet, it was Yonkers.
Several elements of the United States Armed Forces were deployed along the Saw Mill River Parkway in North Yonkers. While the parkway served as a natural choke point (the only intelligent tactic that military leadership employed, as described by a surviving veteran), it made no difference in the final result. Utilizing antiquated tactics dating back to the Cold War, positions were prepared in such ways as digging tank emplacements, building barriers out of sandbags, and in foxholes. The zombie hordes from the city were lured into the choke point by the handful of refugees still fleeing towards the army's position, and due to the chain swarm effect, gradually the entire New York City infestation, numbering in the millions, was headed towards Yonkers. When zombies first began to trickle down the freeway, the opening salvos were fired - two MLRS rocket barrages which destroyed a significant percentage of the first wave but ultimately made few kills zombies with limbs and torsos blown off could still advance so long as they had an intact brain and some means to drag themselves forward. As the undead became more tightly packed, the MLRS lost effectiveness, with the thick swarms of zombies reducing the possibility of a head wound significantly. The second barrage came from M109 Paladin artillery stationed on a hill to the rear of the infantry. They fired fragmentation shells which had even less of an effect than the MLRS barrages. The artillery strikes depended on the "balloon effect," which by proximity to an explosion would cause the liquid in the victim's body to burst. This did not occur, however, because of the zombie's coagulated blood. Therefore, SNT (Sudden Nerve Trauma), which "just shuts down vital organs like God flickin' a light switch," did not happen either.
After this, the infantry, armor and air support opened fire on the "river of undead humans". Firing on the zombies were the full military might of the United States Army: M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradleys, Humvees, mortars and several RAH-66 Comanche helicopters. All of these held sustained fire for a time in what was likened to "a meatgrinder, or a wood chipper..."[1] until the anti-personnel ammunition ran out. In fact, little of it had even been provided for the tanks. The armor and helicopters then switched over to Anti-Tank rounds like HEAT or Sabot shells which had little to no effect on the swelling tide of undead.
The infantry were left fighting the undead in close proximity, and there were even zombies locked in the houses behind the front line of infantry that had been freed by the explosions, ambushing and devouring unsuspecting troops. Other soldiers could see everything, through the weapon mounted cameras of the front-line soldiers (thanks to the Land Warrior system); the hordes closing in, their fellow soldiers falling and being eaten alive and even reports of zombies not dying when being shot in the head (this happened because the rounds grazed their heads, something panicking soldiers failed to notice). F-35 fighter jets launched AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, dropping hundreds of thousands of explosive devices.
The bombing run decimated the oncoming wave and resulted in a few moments of eerie silence as the dazed and confused soldiers recovered from the shock of the nearby explosions. However, even more zombies shuffled up the road to take their place. At that point the battle turned into utter chaos, as the soldiers on the ground saw an oncoming wave of millions more zombies emerging from the smoke clouds from the bombs that had taken out the first several thousand. Satellite images from the Land Warrior system still showed a horde of millions of zombies stretching back into Times Square on Manhattan island. In a notable act of desperation one helicopter gunship bravely tried to buy time for infantry on the ground to retreat by flying low towards the zombie horde with its rotary blades tipped forward; this sliced through many zombies and slowed their advance, but then one of the helicopter's blades hit a wrecked car, causing it to crash and explode.
News crews clambered over one another to get away from the coming onslaught and military personnel sought refuge anywhere they could from the zombies. There was crazy, random shooting from soldiers and armed newsmen in a blind panic. The Air Force dropped several thermobaric weapons on the zombies and their own troops hoping to neutralize the undead at Yonkers in one sweep (which had the gruesome side-effect of ripping lungs out of individuals not destroyed by the initial blast, leaving numerous ghouls wandering around with their lungs hanging out of their mouths). It accomplished its purpose of destroying the majority of zombies from that battle but many more still poured in from Manhattan, overpowering the American forces and proving, to devastating effect, and on national television no less, that the war with the undead could not be won with conventional tactics. Within 3 weeks after Yonkers, the eastern United States was abandoned by the United States military in a mass retreat to a new defensive line at the Rocky Mountains.
The soldiers were ordered to wear protective MOPP (MOPP Level 4) gear, (used in case of chemical or biological warfare) which greatly impairs one's ability to fight by restricting eyesight, range of motion and respiration. The MOPP4 gear was unnecessary and done as part of the gigantic propaganda tool that Yonkers was supposed to be; re-instilling morale and confidence in the government's control of the situation by showcasing all of the military's newest and most high-tech technologies (i.e. deploying several technological cutting-edge anti-vehicle tanks and weapons, even though these would be next to useless against zombies). Bulky MOPP4 gear made it incredibly difficult simply to reload infantry rifles, and ammunition was also in short supply as they had not accurately gauged how much shooting would be required (few of the standard infantry were expected to even actually shoot, just during mopping-up work after the artillery barrage finished off most of the zombies, but instead they all found themselves fighting for their lives).
The Battle of Yonkers was an unmitigated disaster for the military. Public confidence in them and the United States Government was shattered, and this contributed heavily to the Great Panic and claimed the lives of many more Americans.
Now:
It has been over six months since the Battle of Yonkers occurred. Most US military forces are retreating to the west. The DeStRes,
Department of Strategic Resources has cancelled all supply paradrops on the east coast, leaving most survivors and
declaring that the entire east is considered a red zone. In the WWZ, the US government has planned a whole tactical
operation to set up safezones. There are three types of SZs, the blue zones, which are civilian-set safezones lead by
special forces instructors, the yellow zones, which are factories guarded and kept online by the US military in order
to produce goods and equipment for the blue zones and US military personnel and the grey zones. The grey zones are
unstable areas taken over by hostile civilians and the undead.
You are a survivor on the east coast. Most likely near where the battle happened. There are no blue or yellow zones nearby
since most are set on the west coast and on the great plains. You must fight the undead and humans in order to survive
until the US military set rescue points for those who were left behind.
(Look for a map of Yonkers' area on google if this one isn't helping.)
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Rules:
1-The Ori>Me>Admins>You
2-Because this is going to be carried out as a multiplayer, single thread, ISRP, you cannot decide your own actions' outcomes, nor can you decide the fate of your enemies, and you cannot make game-changing assumptions about setting, loot, and, of course, yourself.
3-Do not make vague, quick posts. If you are shooting, state a specific amount of rounds, describe how long your bursts are, even describe a mistake you've made. If you choose not to do so, I’ll have to leave it to dicerolls, and then you will most likely waste a ton of ammunition, time, and I’ll be the one thinking of the mistake.
3-Use a bit of common sense, if you kill an unarmed man you will face trauma, same with an armed man, and sometimes even a zombie. There is such a thing as guilt, even in a war-torn, miserable world such as this one.
4-Try not to be the tallest person in the roleplay, and also, try not to be any younger than 18. I don’t want 7 foot tall teenage renegades running around, hipfiring heavy machine guns.
5-Yes, you can have a MOPP4 gear. Just specify how you got it. If you were on the US military, there's no need
to explain.
CS:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Former Occupation:
Inventory(Backpack, ammo, supplies, etc.):
Weapons:
Biography:
World War Z
The Battle of Yonkers was the United States Military's first large scale, official engagement of the Zombie War. It took place in Yonkers, New York, the largest city in Westchester County, (just north of the Bronx, NY). The battle was an absolute catastrophe: if any one event can be singled out as the point when zombies officially became the dominant species on the planet, it was Yonkers.
Several elements of the United States Armed Forces were deployed along the Saw Mill River Parkway in North Yonkers. While the parkway served as a natural choke point (the only intelligent tactic that military leadership employed, as described by a surviving veteran), it made no difference in the final result. Utilizing antiquated tactics dating back to the Cold War, positions were prepared in such ways as digging tank emplacements, building barriers out of sandbags, and in foxholes. The zombie hordes from the city were lured into the choke point by the handful of refugees still fleeing towards the army's position, and due to the chain swarm effect, gradually the entire New York City infestation, numbering in the millions, was headed towards Yonkers. When zombies first began to trickle down the freeway, the opening salvos were fired - two MLRS rocket barrages which destroyed a significant percentage of the first wave but ultimately made few kills zombies with limbs and torsos blown off could still advance so long as they had an intact brain and some means to drag themselves forward. As the undead became more tightly packed, the MLRS lost effectiveness, with the thick swarms of zombies reducing the possibility of a head wound significantly. The second barrage came from M109 Paladin artillery stationed on a hill to the rear of the infantry. They fired fragmentation shells which had even less of an effect than the MLRS barrages. The artillery strikes depended on the "balloon effect," which by proximity to an explosion would cause the liquid in the victim's body to burst. This did not occur, however, because of the zombie's coagulated blood. Therefore, SNT (Sudden Nerve Trauma), which "just shuts down vital organs like God flickin' a light switch," did not happen either.
After this, the infantry, armor and air support opened fire on the "river of undead humans". Firing on the zombies were the full military might of the United States Army: M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradleys, Humvees, mortars and several RAH-66 Comanche helicopters. All of these held sustained fire for a time in what was likened to "a meatgrinder, or a wood chipper..."[1] until the anti-personnel ammunition ran out. In fact, little of it had even been provided for the tanks. The armor and helicopters then switched over to Anti-Tank rounds like HEAT or Sabot shells which had little to no effect on the swelling tide of undead.
The infantry were left fighting the undead in close proximity, and there were even zombies locked in the houses behind the front line of infantry that had been freed by the explosions, ambushing and devouring unsuspecting troops. Other soldiers could see everything, through the weapon mounted cameras of the front-line soldiers (thanks to the Land Warrior system); the hordes closing in, their fellow soldiers falling and being eaten alive and even reports of zombies not dying when being shot in the head (this happened because the rounds grazed their heads, something panicking soldiers failed to notice). F-35 fighter jets launched AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, dropping hundreds of thousands of explosive devices.
The bombing run decimated the oncoming wave and resulted in a few moments of eerie silence as the dazed and confused soldiers recovered from the shock of the nearby explosions. However, even more zombies shuffled up the road to take their place. At that point the battle turned into utter chaos, as the soldiers on the ground saw an oncoming wave of millions more zombies emerging from the smoke clouds from the bombs that had taken out the first several thousand. Satellite images from the Land Warrior system still showed a horde of millions of zombies stretching back into Times Square on Manhattan island. In a notable act of desperation one helicopter gunship bravely tried to buy time for infantry on the ground to retreat by flying low towards the zombie horde with its rotary blades tipped forward; this sliced through many zombies and slowed their advance, but then one of the helicopter's blades hit a wrecked car, causing it to crash and explode.
News crews clambered over one another to get away from the coming onslaught and military personnel sought refuge anywhere they could from the zombies. There was crazy, random shooting from soldiers and armed newsmen in a blind panic. The Air Force dropped several thermobaric weapons on the zombies and their own troops hoping to neutralize the undead at Yonkers in one sweep (which had the gruesome side-effect of ripping lungs out of individuals not destroyed by the initial blast, leaving numerous ghouls wandering around with their lungs hanging out of their mouths). It accomplished its purpose of destroying the majority of zombies from that battle but many more still poured in from Manhattan, overpowering the American forces and proving, to devastating effect, and on national television no less, that the war with the undead could not be won with conventional tactics. Within 3 weeks after Yonkers, the eastern United States was abandoned by the United States military in a mass retreat to a new defensive line at the Rocky Mountains.
The soldiers were ordered to wear protective MOPP (MOPP Level 4) gear, (used in case of chemical or biological warfare) which greatly impairs one's ability to fight by restricting eyesight, range of motion and respiration. The MOPP4 gear was unnecessary and done as part of the gigantic propaganda tool that Yonkers was supposed to be; re-instilling morale and confidence in the government's control of the situation by showcasing all of the military's newest and most high-tech technologies (i.e. deploying several technological cutting-edge anti-vehicle tanks and weapons, even though these would be next to useless against zombies). Bulky MOPP4 gear made it incredibly difficult simply to reload infantry rifles, and ammunition was also in short supply as they had not accurately gauged how much shooting would be required (few of the standard infantry were expected to even actually shoot, just during mopping-up work after the artillery barrage finished off most of the zombies, but instead they all found themselves fighting for their lives).
The Battle of Yonkers was an unmitigated disaster for the military. Public confidence in them and the United States Government was shattered, and this contributed heavily to the Great Panic and claimed the lives of many more Americans.
Now:
It has been over six months since the Battle of Yonkers occurred. Most US military forces are retreating to the west. The DeStRes,
Department of Strategic Resources has cancelled all supply paradrops on the east coast, leaving most survivors and
declaring that the entire east is considered a red zone. In the WWZ, the US government has planned a whole tactical
operation to set up safezones. There are three types of SZs, the blue zones, which are civilian-set safezones lead by
special forces instructors, the yellow zones, which are factories guarded and kept online by the US military in order
to produce goods and equipment for the blue zones and US military personnel and the grey zones. The grey zones are
unstable areas taken over by hostile civilians and the undead.
You are a survivor on the east coast. Most likely near where the battle happened. There are no blue or yellow zones nearby
since most are set on the west coast and on the great plains. You must fight the undead and humans in order to survive
until the US military set rescue points for those who were left behind.
(Look for a map of Yonkers' area on google if this one isn't helping.)
Rules:
1-The Ori>Me>Admins>You
2-Because this is going to be carried out as a multiplayer, single thread, ISRP, you cannot decide your own actions' outcomes, nor can you decide the fate of your enemies, and you cannot make game-changing assumptions about setting, loot, and, of course, yourself.
3-Do not make vague, quick posts. If you are shooting, state a specific amount of rounds, describe how long your bursts are, even describe a mistake you've made. If you choose not to do so, I’ll have to leave it to dicerolls, and then you will most likely waste a ton of ammunition, time, and I’ll be the one thinking of the mistake.
3-Use a bit of common sense, if you kill an unarmed man you will face trauma, same with an armed man, and sometimes even a zombie. There is such a thing as guilt, even in a war-torn, miserable world such as this one.
4-Try not to be the tallest person in the roleplay, and also, try not to be any younger than 18. I don’t want 7 foot tall teenage renegades running around, hipfiring heavy machine guns.
5-Yes, you can have a MOPP4 gear. Just specify how you got it. If you were on the US military, there's no need
to explain.
CS:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Former Occupation:
Inventory(Backpack, ammo, supplies, etc.):
Weapons:
Biography:
