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2010 Mexico vs 1956 USA and Canada

Foie Gras

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USA and Canada from July 6th 1956 are transported to July 6th 2010 and Mexico declares war to them a few months later, the rest of the world remains neutral and neither sides uses nuclear weapons until a year after the start of the conflict.

Both sides are as determined to fight as the Soviet-Union and the 3rd Reich in WW2.
 
You're aware that only one side have nuclear weapons, right ? so the US-Canada side win in the end.
Ah, by the way Mexico have exactly TWO fighters, and those are F-5E
 
USA and Canada from July 6th 1956 are transported to July 6th 2010 and Mexico declares war to them a few months later, the rest of the world remains neutral and neither sides uses nuclear weapons until a year after the start of the conflict.

Both sides are as determined to fight as the Soviet-Union and the 3rd Reich in WW2.

USA drops the bombs and wins.
By the mid 50s USA had already thousands of nukes.

And of those a good chunk are thermonuclear ones, better than the WW2 duo.

Tech matters little against the power of the Atom. You just need to send another wave in case they are intercepted.
 
Why would they bother having an air force? When your neighbour is the fucking US and you have no foreign policy or military alliances of any kind, there's no use whatsoever for fighter jets.
Because life of not GTA V or SovietWombles random ARMA bullshittery and fighter jets are things you might not randomly see the cartels hustling out in the dead of night? :p

Light fighters are also quite multirole and faster to arrive than smaller coin craft.
 
Mexico's neighboors are either incredibly small and weak countries or the guys that can crush multiple countries at a time across the globe, holding the distinction of having the 1st, 2nd and 3rd largest airforces in the world.

I guess you gotta give them props for knowing when to not bother with things they will not be able to effectively use.
 
Given the equipement the Mexicans have and edge in technology (especially sensors (IR, NVD) and communications) it is possible to actually conduct a mobile defense, even quite effective. That would need skilled use of SOF and company/batallion/regiment sized combined arms groups to wear logistics train anc C2 elements of the US troops. Mexico is large, enemy will be spread in that scenario. Also there is an Mexican adge in persistent air reconaissance in form of UAVs.
Also it is trivially easy to make homemade loitering attack munitions or primitive bombig drones (like ISIS for example), even en masse, which, coupled with use of SOFs and even frontline by our company sized task forces , will make possible for effective harrasing and destruction of command and supply elements (given the said drones are carrying an equvialent to the mortar bomb, and with awarness and sensor capacity of the downtimers, effects will be disatrous for the morale and effectiveness of attacekd units)
Problem is the US supremacy in the air, but here on the Mexican behalf speaks tyrrany of distance and sheer size of the combat thathre.

Without WMDs quick victory is impossible. Mexico is large, populous, hostile nation. Due to the technological diptoportion, every kinetic combat between downtimers and Mexicans will end with loopsized losses on the downtimers side, plus use of tac air assets will be difficult due to the Mexican edge in sensors and telecomunications, making mobile, coordinated defense viable and downtimers lacking in sensor and analytic capacity. Also of note, no one in the 50s can crack security protocols for the uptime communications equipement.

Losses from possible strategic bombing can and will be mitigated by the decentralisation of production and masking.

In the end the Coalition (US+Canada) can win this war, but it will be constly on the attackers, provided the defenders will skillfully use their assets and capabilities together with tyranny of space.
Also war can and will be internationalised by Mexico. Turning it into the Anglo-saxon genocidal campaing of conquest of Latin America is trivially easy.
Given the OP set conditions, Mexico is genocided after 1 year of kicking US and Canadian asses, after which US proceeds to nuke Mexicans.

Rufus was right - scenario is a low effort trolling due to the forced neutralisation of the rest of the world.
 
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