I'm writing a book write based on a world called Tiersa. In it, it has present day technology, with different guns, and slightly different technology. It's about 70-85% the same as Earth, except there's more global income equality and technology equality. There are two groups warring, one the United Alliance, a collection of different states banded together like the USSR, and the Stordan Confederacy, a similar grouping headed by the Stordans. The Stordans are genetically superior country, with high IQ(135) on average, and physically strong. It's a warring people, with Spartan behavior and pyscopathic attitudes. They have a large, well trained military. Kids start being trained for the military at 13 or 14 Earth years. They are super-masculine and violence obsessed people. They love seeeing and doing violence. They have a massively well-trained, Navy Seal level, special forces called Demaz, their motto, like the US army is "Pain is just weakness leaving the body". The United Confederacy is more of a hippy, peaceful people. Soft-core drugs are legalized, and the drinking age is 18. It's lead by the Brantish people. They are also genetically superior, with around a 135IQ, and are more of a loving people. The Brantish have a strong military but also a strong reliance on militias. My main charcter is an INTJ meyers-briggs type and intellegent. He runs a milita of about 10. Once the conflict starts, they deploy to the edge of the battle field, that way they can praticpate a bit safely. They gradually overun armories and police stations, and their numbers increase in size. It ends when their base gets assualted by Demaz special forces in helocopters and a ground assualt. Don't know if it'll be a series. There's a couple tactics I want to use, you can critque them. 1. Ambush _________Road_______(Side blocked by derbis)______________________ Veichle Veichle Veichle Hummer __________________________________________________________________ Land mines Concealed troops with RPGs 2. I will say this verbally. I have troops on the base of the hill in a half circle peremeter. There center is strongest. On Cue I have hummers fly down the hill and the men in the center scoot to the side. The men then follow them up the center, cutting the enemy force in half. The hummers, 2-3 in number, swing back around to the split in half forces opposite side, leaving both sides surronded like this X is enemy force, I is hummers, ) is troops IX) (XI Another tactic will be blocking an area to a choke point, and then planting mines and/or obstacles there, and have massive interlocking fire there. Another one I want to use is a pre-staged ambush. A field in which on ethier sides is forest. On both sides is my men. One row of anti-personell mines in the front of the field, in the back. Once they(enemy) turn to fire, men hidden rush firing into the field, getting them on their flank. So now men are firing from behind them and on their sides. The rear has mines, so when they realize they're screwed they run through the mines. Anymore tips, strategy wise or for the book. Comments?
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sure if your troops are 13-14 year olds as that would be your target audience I presume for your book.
In all honesty your broken English will hamper your chances of getting an audience. I'd suggest writing in your native tongue. The idea of a global war with two sides cut like that just isn't feasible. But the tactics aren't right. Armored vehicles, even tanks, aren't used like old age cavalry against any but the most backwards enemies. No mention of any artillery - and this is futuristic?
You are the one that said military training starts at 13-14 years old. That will be the target audience. adults tend not to get into novels with 13 year old villains and heroes so much. It is the reason I never saw the last 3 or 4 Harry Potter movies--totally outgrew that scene.
Divide and destroy isn't a bad strategy. However, if the one force is capable of destroying the other force all at once then there is no need to divide them. Once you have split the opposing force in half you need to decide which half you want to destroy and you need to have a way to keep the other half in check. Maybe your thrust shouldn't split the other force in half. Maybe the thrust should just cut off a smaller group. The large group could be held in check by constant pressure from your line while your attack force concentrates on destroying the group you cut off. If you're going for realism then I think one army would have to be superior to the other in order to pull off the maneuver you describe.
See, this isn't a book. This is a fourm. I had a lexile score in 7th grade of that of the average 12th grader, I can read and write well, but it doesen't matter here. "The idea of global war with two sides cut like that just isn't feasible." It's an alien planet, hence things would be quite different. Anyway, cold war era, split the world almost in half. NATO+Japan+Commonwealth States+American allies Vs USSR and communist allies. Most of the world, or at least half of the worlds population belonged to the two camps. You say what you say like I have no knowledge at all about the military. I assure you, I know far more than you. Hummers, or an alien version of it like a warthog in Halo, if I played with guns blazing into an enemy formation will cause damage. However, that plan is a little dumb, because charging up the middle afterwards will leave my men vunerable to much fire, especially if I have no cover, although I would with the hummer and the rest of the men. So I could encircle them. "Catpain Blackadder".... Pot calling the kettle black? "In it, it has present day technology". I say this in my post. Do you know how to read? Is English your native tounge? Apparently not, because you didn't comprehend it.
Read this: http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html I think it will give you some inspiration. It talks about things like division of forces and how to use them, noting that a flock of birds leaving a woodline means there is likely movement in there, allowing part of an enemy force to cross a bridge before striking them, etc. Modern warfare is nuts though. If two developed nations were to have it out the results would be either GPS and electronic equipment is knocked out / jammed immediately or massive casualties on both sides due to guided munitions. The battle to keep air craft and rockets out of the air will be intense and whichever side loses the air will almost certainly lose the ground too. Then again if ground forces are strong enough to deter air then it won't be such a factor. Who knows, lots of give and take all around with air, sea, and land. Anyway I highly recommend reading the Art of War.
