Guerrilla Warfare

[Edwin P.]

In another post it was mentioned that Amphibious warfare did not make the final cut.

To take its place I offer for consideration: Guerrilla Warfare.

Background: Some governments prepared to fight a guerilla war if they were conquered. This includes Switzerland, Post WWII Yugoslavia and Albania and the Chinese Communist Party.

Guerilla Warfare represents preparations for continuing the fight after the government surrenders.

Proposal: Each Tech Level in Guerrilla warfare increases the chance for post surrender partisans by 20% and activates post surrender partisans for that major power.

At tech level 5 (115% (5x20%) + 15% base chance) this would ensure that at least one partisan unit (100%) and possibly 2 (15%) appear each turn.

Tech Level 1 = 35% (15% base + 20%), 2 = 55%, 3 = 75%, 4 = 95%, 5 = 115% for a partisan unit to appear each turn during normal months. In Winter months the chance is 75%(base)+20%/tech level.

Adding this option allows a major power to make preparations to continue the fight after their nation has been conquered and forces the conquerer to devote more resources towards occupying that country.

No longer could Germany redelopy all of his forces west after defeating Russia. He would be forced to garrison each Russian city.

Of course, the Soviet Union would likely be the only country to invest in developing this capability.

PS: I would also consider having the chance for partisan units appearing increase by 25% for each partisan occupied city.

[ December 23, 2005, 09:35 AM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]

[Edwin P.]

UK Preparations for Guerilla War

"I have been following with much interest the growth and development of the new guerrilla formations. . .known as "Auxiliary Units". From what I hear these units are being organised with thoroughness and imagination and should, in the event of invasion, prove a useful addition to the regular forces."

Winston Churchill, to Anthony Eden, 25th September 1940.

.........From this force were selected men to become the Auxiliary Units and they were sworn to secrecy and equipped and trained separately. Each unit knew its local area intimately and was quite separate from its neighbours. SOE (Special Operations Executive, the sabotage organisation for overseas "guerilla" warfare.) had an important headquarters at Coleshill House in Wiltshire and here a training set up was created for the new Auxilliary Units. The new force was shown how to build hidden bunkers here. Many were constructed for them by regular troops, back in their home bases. These bunkers were located in remote often wooded areas and were designed for the unit to go to ground, at the approach of the invaders. The bunkers contained food an water reserves and were fitted with beds and toilet facilities. They had escape arrangements, often a concrete tube that exited some distance from the bunker. Heat and light by kerosene burners was catered for in some clever ventilation too. They would have used their local knowledge to begin a campaign of harassment and destruction once the enemy had taken over the area. One patrol member might have been out gathering information dueing the day, using his local job and knowledge as cover, and the rest would make use of this intelligence at night. The fact that a number of these bunkers still exist shows how well they were hidden. Sometimes their weapons caches come to light too. Some of these are illuminating. They were often buried in galvanised steel rubbish bins near the undergound bunkers and a few were in more inventive places. There was a Lewis gun found underneath the stage in a village hall a few years ago, for example. One story springs to mind about a quartermaster for one of these units, in Essex I think. He collected all the equipment from his unit at the disbandment of the unit. He then followed his last order and looked after it while waiting for the army to come and collect it. He waited a long time, taking care that the explosives were kept in suitable conditions and when his barn became unsafe, even moving the equipment into his own house. Eventually he decided that as an old man he could wait no longer and went to the police to request some advice in 1964. The police and bomb disposal team were amazed to find a house with a huge arms cache in it some twenty years after the war. He had hundreds of pounds of assorted explosives, fuses, detonating cord, detonators, booby trap switches, timers, delay fuses, grenades, mine casings, and so on. He also had assorted weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition, all beautifully looked after and in full working order.

Auxiliary Units were created in 1940, made up of men specially selected from retired soldiers, Radio Amateurs and the Home Guard they were sworn to secrecy and equipped and trained separately. Hidden bunkers were constructed across Britain. The bunkers were located in remote often wooded areas and were designed for the unit to go to ground, at the approach of the invaders. The bunkers were equipped with emergency food and water reserves, heated by kerosene lamps they were fitted with beds and toilet facilities, to be self suffcient. They had escape tunnels which exited some distance from the bunker.

The men of the Auxiliary Units would have used their local knowledge to begin a campaign of harassment and destruction once the enemy had taken over the area.

Auxilliary Unit Web Page by Former Member

Another article on the Auxiliary Units

Article by the BBC on the Auxiliary Units

In Guerrilla Warfare Tech terms the UK preparations highlighted above would be equal to Level 1 preparations.

The preparations of Switzerland, which built bunkers and forts in the alps and mined all the tunnels would be more like Level 3.

[ December 22, 2005, 03:42 PM: Message edited by: Edwin P. ]

[Qyusson]

you have the heart of a game designer edwin

personally i think this option is too much..this would complicate the game needlessly. im a bit reluctant towards the way on how to obtain guerilla, it could be something apart, but not related to techs