Clockwork Goblin (Firm) - Konflikt 47: resurgence

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This supplement adds some more information regarding the history and backstory of the Konflikt 47 universe. Chronologically, the northern flank is introduced, depicting the fate of Finland as it is caught between the German and Russian juggernauts. Across the world, an additional three months of history is added, bringing the timeline from March 1947 to the beginning of June 1947.

WESTERN EUROPE

NOVEMBER 1946FEBRUARY 1947

With the Western European theatre gripped in the most severe winter in living memory, the first months of the new year are a period of re-armament and re-organisation for both sides. Germany, with renewed morale after the victories of 1946, uses the time to refit its tired and battered units with the latest vehicles and equipment. Ammunition and a new synthetic fuel arrive at frontline units in unprecedented quantities, and German commanders take the chance to train and drill their newest recruits and conscripts. Likewise, the Allies move vast mountains of resources across from the Normandy beachheads and the heavy ports in Antwerp and Amsterdam. The industrial might of the US is going to be a decisive factor in the fighting to come.

Part of this industry is focussed on the re-armament of the French Army. General de Gaulles triumphant return to Paris in November 1944 was followed with a rapid call to arms and the French population responded. Although eager to exact their revenge on their former occupiers, the French Army is prepared carefully through 1946, with a focus on training and quality over quantity. Equipped along US lines, the French Army is poised to field four corps of heavily equipped and highly trained forces at the start of 1947. Larger infantry formations provide rear area security across France. The US, having already equipped the First French Army, begins adding Heavy Armoured Infantry and M8 Grizzly walkers to the French order of battle. A similar story is unfolding in Italy, where the Royalist Italian Forces of southern Italy are keen to prove their value to the Allied cause and are equipped from the industrial stockpiles of the US. The Allies remain cautious of the Italians will to fight their fellow countrymen, and although well equipped with conventional vehicles and weapons, Italian access to Rift-tech weaponry is limited.

Despite this impressive display of industrial muscle, at night, German Rift-tech monstrosities continue to raid Allied lines, ensuring units never truly get a chance to fully relax on the front lines. To counter this, the enhanced soldiers of the US Paragon Programme often set traps for the Shreckwulfen and Nachtjger, and achieve a high success rate, but the Paragons cant be everywhere and the average Allied soldier spends the night watchful and fearful.

Although the weather prevents the easy movement of forces, the US pushes its new Rift-tech formations to forward staging posts in anticipation of a spring offensive. Brigade formations of Heavy Armoured Infantry, supported by Pershing and Tesla-armed tanks, prepare to throw the Germans back across the Rhine. However, their preparations are matched by Germany; Shock Brigades of fanatical SS troops are being made ready to storm out of the beachheads to try and repeat the blitzkrieg tactics of seven years earlier.