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Ok, so I've decided to dive into the SB forums. The premise here is more for inane giggles and whatnot, but I actually intend to learn a bit about what bits in what configuration work, etc. Probably going to start with Osa++

History
The Greater East African Union was born of a peaceful merger of Kenya and Tanzania in 1969. This was done after a multitude of destabilizations in the area, after repeated FRELIMO incursions into Tanzania, growing Kenyan fears of a rising militant Somalia wishing to claim the NFD, and issues that affected them both, such as an ostensibly independent and neutral (records revealed in 1994 show large amounts of American, Belgian, and Dutch money being funneled to the Mobutu regime) Congolese Republic's conquest of Uganda. A power-sharing agreement was signed at the time of the union, with Julius Nyere and Jomo Kenyatta exchanging the presidency and prime ministership annually until the first elections were held in December 1975 for the new state.

It was during the second Nyere transitional administration that the Union navy was utilized for the first time, in a bloodless annexation of then-British Zanzibar. A task force of three Osa class vessels, with an old Liberty Ship containing elements of the 2nd Marine Infantry Battalion approached Zanzibar on the morning (4:50 AM local time) of June 14th, 1971. Forty-five minutes later, an agreement was reached wherein the East African Union literally bought Tanzania, acre-for-acre, from British hands for approximately five billion dollars(the final installments were paid in 2000 after Nigerian royalty emigrated to the Union), in exchange for British advice and aid in both civil, where British advisors helped Tanzania become the world leader in groundnut production, and military affairs.

This aid was fist used to plan the 1973 Goa Expedition, where it defeated the invading Portugese Armada in the middle of monsoon season, where the Indian Army repulsed what Portugese Marines were left ashore at the point of an L1A1's bayonet.

The Anglo-African cooperation was cemented in 1982, it assisted the Royal Navy in the Falklands Punitive Expedition, wherein it claimed several Argentine frigates, the ARA 52 de Mayo and Private Onargleb most notably among them, assisted by the Huxbury Gentlemen's Yachting Association, led by the reanimated bodies of Winston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli. It also participated in the Shelling of Buenos Aires, which featured the HMS Hood raised from the seas and commanded by an all-East African and all-homosexual crew.

By the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Union was one of the most successful of the post-colonial African states, and played a key role in stabilization of the collapsing Somali government and the establishment of the Somaliland Stateless Area, as well as anti-piracy operations in the eastern Indian Ocean. It is an economic leader in the region, playing a key role in the Zambian, Ugandan, Congolese, Sudanese, Ethiopian, Madgascari, and Bhutanese economies, exporting vital goods such as dirt, 419 scams, peanuts, and cotton in return for starving emigrants and rusty Kalashnikovs.

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Can you give me an idea of the position of the Greater East African Union on the map please!

THE HMS Hood ?

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

I don't think the GEAU will fit on the map quite well. A lot of the events in its history actually involve subverting RL events (Falklands War -> Falklands Punitive Expedition, the "success" of the Tanzania Groundnut Scheme), or decolonization-era Africa.

e: As for the Hood, it is the Hood, except with an extra sheet of paper over the deck, doubling its protection against plunging fire.

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If you're going to play the Hood card, why not go down a far more reasonable route and say that it had a sister that survived the war?
How it survived up until the seventies is for you to decide, but even taking into account the obsolete equipment it would be carrying, it would still be in a better condition than hood herself after 30+ years on the bottom of the sea.

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

"The Anglo-African cooperation was cemented in 1982, it assisted the Royal Navy in the Falklands Punitive Expedition, wherein it claimed several Argentine frigates, the ARA 52 de Mayo and Private Onargleb most notably among them, assisted by the Huxbury Gentlemen's Yachting Association. It also participated in the Shelling of Buenos Aires, which featured the HMS Hood raised from the seas and commanded by an all-East African crew."

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Considering what's left of Hood on the bottom, might as well build a new ship.

-Matt

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So? All the money in the world wouldn't be enough to restore Hood to a combat capable unit.

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That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

What's left of it at least. She broke in two and 70 years of sea water inside her can't of helped much either. Oh and she's a wargrave too.

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One more thing though, are there really 52 days in May (ARA 52 de Mayo)??? You may mean 25 de Mayo, right?!? (Veinte y Cinco de Mayo or modern spelling: Veinticinco de Mayo)

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