[PBEM News] Infamous Days - Interactive Alternate History

From: rmackenzie@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (galen107)

Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:05:05 +0000

Infamous Days is an Alternate History Play by E-mail Endeavour.
Beginning shortly after a devastating Attack and Invasion of Pearl
Harbor. This game chronicles the lives and adventure of American
Service men and women through the course of an alternate version of
the Second World War. In this timeline America is not only fighting
for Europe's Freedom, but it's very own survival. The Allies are in
shambles, Russia's is on the verge of surrender under pressure of a
Joint Japanese / German Offensive, Britain is facing the threat
invasion from Italy and German. The United States is the only Major
untouched power in the Allied Nations that can help to slowly turn
the tides of war if it can survive the disadvantages it has suffered
at the outbreak of the war.

December 7th 1941, it was a date that would forever be etched into not
only the generation of Americans alive in 1941, but for all the
countless generations that would follow it.  It was the day that
America came abruptly and brutally to the realization that it could
no longer stand by and watch Europe and the rest of the world become
enflamed in conflict. It was the day that America was forced to enter
the greatest war history had ever known at that time for the survival
of Europe, America was forced to fight for its survival.

At the time no one realized what the cost of victory over the Axis
powers would be, no one realized what the cost in American lives
would be to reclaim Oahu or the Pacific, or free Britain and the rest
of Western Europe from the tyranny of the Nazis, or even the cost of
American lives for freeing Russia from Axis occupation. On that hazy
Sunday so many years ago, America and her citizens were living in a
time of innocence, that innocence was shattered with Japanese
Aircraft destroying the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor.  The
Battleships were but the first victims of the Pacific War, the
Enterprise, the Saratoga quickly joined the American list of losses.
The losses of the Enterprise and Saratoga meant that Lexington was the
last remaining carrier in the Pacific as the Yorktown had been sent to
the Atlantic fleet to assist in the Royal Navy in combat operations
against the Kriegsmarine.

The Jacksonville, the Washington, the Iowa, the Lexington and many
more ships like them were to become endeared to history, fighting
against all odds to secure victory against the Axis Alliance.
American Sailors and Marines would fight against tremendous odds and
eventually take back Japanese Fortification on Oahu, Midway, Wake,
and a thousand other islands.  The world has never seen valor like
was displayed in those years. We are getting a head of ourselves here
discussing the ending of war, to fully understand the conflict that
was the Second World War we should go back to it's darkest days, Mid
December, 1941, when the Pacific Fleet was scrambling to rebuild
itself, and Soldiers, Marines and Resistance fighters were fighting
the Japanese Invasion of Oahu.

In those days, the American 1st Fleet had been wiped out by the
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor. The American 2nd Fleet had been
reorganized in San Diego, and the USS Jacksonville, being on of the
only ships to survive the destruction of the 6th Fleet was made
Flagship of US 2nd Fleet.  Several Battleships were being rushed out
of the dockyards, the Iowa Class Battleships were due in 12-20 months
to be on the front line, with the Iowa and Missouri going to the
Pacific and New Jersey and Wisconsin heading to the Atlantic. There
were even rumors of a new super battleship, Kentucky Class that was
being planned to avenge Oahu.  For the navy officers in the Pacific
it was what they had secretly hoped for, a Big God Damned Navy War.
           -- Monologue of unknown historian

No extensive knowledge of World War 2 is required for the Infamous
Days Simulation, all you need to play is a drive for creative
writing, and we will take care of the rest.

Travel to http://infamousdays.atspace.com for more information on
joining
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