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=== Geography === | === Geography === | ||
[[File:Geography Flyhook.png|thumb|Geography of the Songun Area of Operations (SAO) during the Second Great War. ]] | [[File:Geography Flyhook.png|thumb|Geography of the Songun Area of Operations (SAO) during the Second Great War. ]] | ||
The Songun Straits are separated into two major waterways, the Eastern and Western, respectively. Between them and West of [[Cape Town]] is the Lower Songun Basin, which would see some of the most fiery convoy attacks and submarine actions during the Second Great War. North of this is the disputed Songun Sea. The Cape's islands in the Songun afforded it the geographical advantage in the Southeastern portions as it was able to more effectively conduct maritime patrols and anti-submarine patrols from airfields. However the geography and seafloor terrain of the Songun naturally pushed the Arcer submarines to the Western Songun, which was deeper and had more favorable currents and thermal layers. | The Songun Straits are separated into two major waterways, the Eastern and Western, respectively. Between them and West of [[Cape Town]] is the Lower Songun Basin, which would see some of the most fiery convoy attacks and submarine actions during the Second Great War. North of this is the disputed Songun Sea. The Cape's islands in the Songun afforded it the geographical advantage in the Southeastern portions as it was able to more effectively conduct maritime patrols and anti-submarine patrols from airfields. However the geography and seafloor terrain of the Songun naturally pushed the Arcer submarines to the Western Songun, which was deeper and had more favorable currents and thermal layers. | ||
[[File:Warrington Strait Shipping Volume.png|thumb|Shipping volume by raw tonnage through the Warrington Strait into the Malentine Sea between 1900-1934. ]] | [[File:Warrington Strait Shipping Volume.png|thumb|Shipping volume by raw tonnage through the Warrington Strait into the Malentine Sea between 1900-1934. ]] | ||
The Warrington Strait was a secondary shipping lane although itself was the true key to central and Southern Crona, as it opened up into the Malentine Sea, a shallower and warmer body of water that six different sovereign nations (Arcerion, [[Telokona]], [[Malentina]], [[Kelekona]], [[Porlos]], and [[Istrenya]]) had maritime borders and extensive shipping and ports on. Due to this, Arcerion would fiercely defend the Warring Straits throughout the duration of the war, including the wo surface actions that took place under Operation Forefront. | The Warrington Strait was a secondary shipping lane although itself was the true key to central and Southern Crona, as it opened up into the Malentine Sea, a shallower and warmer body of water that six different sovereign nations (Arcerion, [[Telokona]], [[Malentina]], [[Kelekona]], [[Porlos]], and [[Istrenya]]) had maritime borders and extensive shipping and ports on. Due to this, Arcerion would fiercely defend the Warring Straits throughout the duration of the war, including the wo surface actions that took place under Operation Forefront. | ||
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The Arcer submarine service consisted of twenty-seven submarines, several submarine tenders and support vessels such as rearmament and refueling ships. Arcerion Naval HQ placed a high emphasis on the ability to rearm, refuel and repair submarines underway at sea away from a safe port-of-call, as the littoral nature of the Malentine and Songun Seas meant that maritime patrol aircraft and sabotage on port facilities could prevent the effective deployment of submarines during wartime. Research and development prior to the war had resulted in newer mine technologies, prototype snorkels, and improved rangefinding and electronic surveillance equipment allowing the service to be modern and ready for the conflict. | The Arcer submarine service consisted of twenty-seven submarines, several submarine tenders and support vessels such as rearmament and refueling ships. Arcerion Naval HQ placed a high emphasis on the ability to rearm, refuel and repair submarines underway at sea away from a safe port-of-call, as the littoral nature of the Malentine and Songun Seas meant that maritime patrol aircraft and sabotage on port facilities could prevent the effective deployment of submarines during wartime. Research and development prior to the war had resulted in newer mine technologies, prototype snorkels, and improved rangefinding and electronic surveillance equipment allowing the service to be modern and ready for the conflict. | ||
The drawbacks the service faced however, was an utter lack of real-world operational experience, owing to the dual nature of the service's relatively new nature (having only been in existence for 17 years) and the lack of an Arcer conventional conflict on the sea that would have allowed the service to effectively trial and test its doctrine, methods, and sailors. | The drawbacks the service faced however, was an utter lack of real-world operational experience, owing to the dual nature of the service's relatively new nature (having only been in existence for 17 years) and the lack of an Arcer conventional conflict on the sea that would have allowed the service to effectively trial and test its doctrine, methods, and sailors. The service's rigorous standards of preparation and training however had created a culture of raiding and long-endurance patrolling that would benefit the disparate fleet. Arcerion had identified the difficulties of getting submarines into the Lower Songun Basin, and as such had provisioned plans to work with the [[Burgoignesc Security Forces|Navy of Burrgundie]] to conduct at-sea underway replenishment of its submarines, giving them the ability to operate beyond the Songun and away from the most Southern Arcer naval facilities at Chester-on-Moore. | ||
The Submarine Service was also complemented during ''Flyhook'' by a number of smaller minelayers, torpedo boats, and surface raiding vessels designed for the asymmetric nature of commerce raiding. Although doctrinally it was not a codified part of Arcer naval heritage or practice, the fleet would grow to accomodate this with the adoption of a class of light cruisers late-war that would participate to support the submarine force. | |||
The leadership of Rear Admiral Lawrence Arthur Coxley, who was acting as Commander, Submarine Force, at the outbreak of the war would also prove pivotal as the emphasis on submerged operations (as most submarines of the period sailed on the surface) as well as the principles of mission command and reduced reliance on regular High-Frequency (HF) communications ensured that the Arcer submarine forces could remain at sea longer and patrol greater distances regardless of the logistical strain it was incurring at home. | |||
=== Capetian Naval Forces === | |||
-TBD- | |||
-Not great though- | |||
== Campaign == | == Campaign == | ||
early war arco supremacy | early war arco supremacy | ||