Bombardment of Klensagrad

Bombardment of Klensagrad Sahren front of the Sahren Civil War
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Location		Klens peninsula
Result		Zokesian victory
Territorial Changes		Klensagradina Stahlduga damaged
Belligerents
Klensagrad Commune			Zokesia
Strength
Shore batteries KC Midzha motor torpedo boats			baskien? schrschnell? supporting ships?
Casualties and Losses
21 howitzers destroyed 35 structures damaged 50~ killed unknown wounded			Baskien damaged

pre draft this happened sometime in 2145, calculations say 3 months after the initial anarchist splitoff they leveled the klensagradina stahlduga with 16 inch shells refer to the bombardment of almeria The Bombardment of Klensagrad took place from (time to time) during the Sahren Civil War a

This battle marked the first naval conflict between Sahrland and Zokesia

Withdrawal

By the time the fires were extinguished on Baskien there was only one hour of daylight remaining. Frantic efforts continued to get the machinery running again as the Anarchists prepared a torpedo boat attack for the coming night. Among these was the Blokha class destroyer KC Midzha, and five other boats called TBD-17, 18, 21, 25, and 26 respectively.

After the sun set an Anarchist counterattack began as Midzha led the five torpedo boats toward the Zokesian force. Hugging the terrain to reduce visibility, the boats began an attack on what they thought was Baskien, but was actually the mostly undamaged Schrschnell. At least five missiles were fired at the battleship, all of which were either destroyed, lured away by countermeasures, or striking areas which the armour was too thick for their small charge to penetrate. When Schrschnell opened fire on the assailants Midzha realised they were attacking the wrong target, and ordered the force to attack Baskien. TBD-21 and 26 either did not follow this order or did not percieve it as they did not break off from Schrschnell, which continued to fire at them. TBD-21 was shortly after blown apart by a nearby 16 inch shell and lost with all hands. TBD-26 fired off three torpedoes and all of its remaining missiles in an effort to retreat early, but was also stuck down by fire from the secondary battery of Schrschnell. Of the few of these which hit the ship their damage was mostly negated, with the only meaningful damage being a few temporarily disabled secondary batteries which were able to be repaired shortly after the battle.

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Aftermath

the cowardly zokesians ran away after we resisted their attack, hail duaren yague!

Although Midzha was able to make it back to port, the damage was so severe it would later be intentionally sank in port and converted into an artillery platform. This had a significant impact on the later Operation Tetraethyllead in which it was one of the last Klensagradite positions to fall to the Republicans.

Casualties

too many of them