Shattered World : A Worse World War

Shattered World - Segment 55.1.1(revised) October 6th 1949 to October 13th 1949 October 6th 1949 British and American heavy bombers operating from the Canaries and the middle east hammer Tunis and Tripoli in large conventional strikes that significantly set back Axis repair efforts on the critical strategic harbors there. Alliance bomber losses are heavy in the unescorted raids. At the same time that the large conventional raids are hitting Tunis and Tripoli, another smaller raid approaches the Tunisian port city of Bizerte which has become an important port and naval base for the Axis after the atomic attacks on Tunis and Tripoli. This smaller raid, approaching from out of the Sahara, consists of a dozen B-31 bombers and their long ranged fighter escorts operating from British-held Libya. One of the B-31's carries a 24 kiloton British atomic bomb. However, the Germans have been watching and waiting for just such a small, escorted, heavy bomber raid and a swarm of Axis intercept...

Shattered World - Segment 54.4 September 16th 1949 to October 5th 1949 September 16th 1949 The German position in the Atlantic continues to deteriorate as the USN and the Royal Navy conduct a campaign of aggressive joint submarine sweeps across the Atlantic shipping lanes. Now utilizing helicopters, first generation sonabouys , and the latest sonar and radar technologies, the Alliance ASW efforts have resulted in German submarine losses spiking to unsustainable levels. Not yet willing to concede the shipping lanes, the Germans continue to turn out their latest designs from yards in northern Germany at record pace. However, work on entirely newer models is so far relegated to a few half-completed prototypes. In the cold waters of the far north, however, the situation remains more even. Over the past week, two huge Alliance convoys have been attacked and suffered severe losses in merchant shipping to German su...

Shattered World - Segment 54.3 September 8th 1949 to September 15th 1949 The airstrip on southeastern Kyushu hummed with activity, the heavy continuous drone of numerous massive propeller engines combining into a single terrific roar. Flight crews scurried about the air strip, or crawled lovingly over great lumbering bombers. These aircraft were the pride of the Japanese Air forces, and represented one the few remaining strategic offensive assets that the Japanese Empire possessed. Committing the majority of the precious heavy bombers in such a large operation was a huge gamble. Yet, Japan had to show the world that it remained in the Global War. To that end, in service of Japanese honor, the last fully operational squadron of Fukoku heavy bombers had been tasked with destroying a large new airfield on Okinawa, an airfield that Japanese intelligence believes th...

Shattered World - Segment 54.2 September 2nd 1949 to September 7th 1949 September 2nd 1949 Germany scales up mass production of its latest road and rail mobile ballistic missile system, the A-4f. This weapon is accurate to within half a kilometer out to 500 kilometers and to within a kilometer at 1200 kilometer range. This model is to replace earlier iterations of the A-4 as it is cheaper to build and easier to operate. It may be configured with a conventional 2000 pound warhead or a chemical/biological warhead. Another project, labelled as the A-6 , is a specialized variant of the multi-staged A-5(itself still in development) intended to place a small satellite into orbit. This missile is to be tested sometime in 1950. By comparison, the best British and American ballistic missiles have ranges out to 800 kilometers and accuracies to within 2 or 3 ki...

I've added segments 53.3 and 54.1 to the 'Second World War' time line page. Also, regarding Segment 54.2, my goal is to have it ready before the end of April.

Shattered World - Segment 54.1 August 16th 1949 to September 30th 1949 The massive bunker complex in the mountains west of Kofu, Japan, was a marvel of human engineering. Built underneath a mountain and sitting on giant shock absorbers, the facility was designed to withstand a direct atomic strike. Impressive as it was, the grandiosity of the buried Japanese High Command Headquarters was a sign of desperation rather than one of strength. The Japanese Empire was on its last legs, no one in the ornate conference room at the facility's heart could deny that. The mood in the room was as sombre as it had been since the facility became operational two months before. The leaders of the Japanese Military elite sat arrayed around a large map table in the middle of of the room, many glared at each other, blaming one another for the disastrous series of misfor...

...and now with its own domain. There may still be a few bugs to shake out, but its pretty much ready. http://www.shatteredboard.net/forum/

I'm dropping the 'fundable' idea as clearly the idea was rejected. I'm just going to continue on with doing this as a hobby as previously. But the pace will probably remain pretty slow.

Hi all, First of all, the new board will be back up once my brother can get it running on the new hosted service. All of the discussions and whatnot are saved to backup so we're ok there. Until then we'll use the old board. Now, about my other hobby. If anyone is into gaming or just interested in seeing me write in a drastically different setting, check out my new gaming/fiction blog, NOT IRL Its short for "Not In Real Life", it'll be my thoughts about the future of gaming, virtual worlds, etc, as well as a place to host my bits of fiction set in gaming/virtual world environments

Hi all, I've changed the discussion board link to point to the old discussion board at http://com5.runboard.com/bshatteredworld This is just a temporary measure until my brother gets the real discussion board running on the host he purchased. My brother has all the database files for the board, he just needs to get it integrated and up and running on the host he purchase

Hi all, I'll be gone for the next week on vacation. My brother is close to getting the board running again, this time on a hosted site so we avoid these down times in the future. I would expect the board to be back up by next weekend. Bobby

I've finally started a project I've been thinking about doing for years, which is to go back and clean up all the old parts. If you re-read part 1 you should find that the formatting has been updated to match the formatting I've used for more recent parts. But more importantly the writing is generally better now IMHO. I'm just a better writer now than I was 10 years ago when I started this thing. I've also tried to clarify points that may have been ambiguous previously. I'll be very interested to here people's thoughts. (you may have to refresh the Eurasian War timeline page to see the new link for part 1, it is a google hosted document just like the most recent parts) Lastly, I'll try to see if I can make some progress to getting the board back up.