Vietminh (Blue Alert)

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

*Here, the sacred Mekong, here, glorious Truong Son Mountains:*

*Are urging us to advance to kill the enemy,*

*Shoulder to shoulder, under a common flag.*

*Arise! Ye brave people of the South!*

- "Giải phóng miền Nam", A popular song in the Vietminh
The **Vietminh** is...

## Background

### Who the hell is Mike?

From the moment that the Communist International determined that there would be no reconciliation or peaceful coexistence with the Ultimatist Alliance of Free States, they supported revolutionary movements in the colonies of their enemies. Few places saw this revolutionary sentiment burn quite as hot as Indochina; which languished under French oppression that only tightened with Marcel Bucard's ascension to power and his brutal programs of forced industrialization and purges in France's colonies that saw the deaths of many millions. Throughout the thirties and forties, secret shipments of weapons, money, armor, clothes, medicine, food, vehicles, munitions, and other supplies were continually sent to Indochina via submarine.

Thousands of tons of goods arrived to aid the Vietnamese revolutionary movement, with the Trotskyists, Anarchists, and DeLeonists in particular being favoured. Building up their forces and training in secret, the Vietminh lurked in the shadows for years; waging low level conflict against the French and against the puppet Empire Bucard had acting as his "legitimate" authority of Indochina; as well as against the Laotian and Cambodian Kings who served as both vassals of the Emperor and puppets of Bucard. However, it was difficult to get a good opportunity to rise en masse while France was undistracted. Luckily, they would get the chance when the second world war began with Fuller announcing his invasions across most of the planet. Now it was the time for the world to learn the name of "Mike".

As fighting raged across the world, the Vietminh and their companion revolutionary movements in Cambodia and Laos rose up against their French occupiers and the puppet regime. All at once, the occupying forces found that there was seemingly no escape from constant attack as the Vietminh and the foreign advisors and special forces coming to aid them made life a hell for them. While the Alliance was on the attack in most theaters, in Indochina there was no questioning that "The Communist forces have the initiative in every meaningful sense of the word. We huddle in fear in our bases while they wander through they countryside at will and preach their gospel of anarchism and godlessness to the people" as UAC Commander Davy Rossignol reported to Roman by cable to Britain. Fresh reinforcements would be sent to try and contain the situation in Indochina but things were rapidly starting to spiral out of the control of the Alliance in the region. Every time they thought they put down a Vietminh cell; it would turn out that it simply went underground and popped up elsewhere. Every harsh and heavy reprisal only resulted in having to deal with even more Guerilla fighters as more signed up with the Vietminh; and thanks to cleverly hidden SPAM factories, the Vietminh never seemed to run out of supplies or ammo, and so were able to indefinitely harass their occupiers.

For years the Vietminh fought against the Alliance and their cronies in Indochina and for years the Indochinese sector would gain a reputation of being one of the least desired posts for any Alliance soldier or commander. A place where there was seemingly no meaningful victory to be found and where ones nerves would be constantly frayed by a seemingly endless ocean of guerillas. Even sending tanks and planes into the jungles of Indochina didn't seem to help; and all too often they would find their way into the hands of Vietminh forces all too soon; with many being studied and even starting to be produced by the Vietminh to add to the woes and misery of the Alliance soldiers who fought there.

Finally, at the battle of the Red River Delta late in the war, the Vietminh cornered a large portion of the Alliance forces in Indochina and put them to siege, making sure to cut off their escape by land; while navies of the Empire, Soviets, Red Chinese, and the Americans made sure that the forces there would not be finding escape by sea. The result was a humiliating defeat for Alliance arms and the loss of much of Indochina to Communist forces. However; Siam, fearful that if all of Indochina fell then the Communist international would soon use it as a base to push through Southeast Asia and take both itself and Blue China out of the war; quickly redeployed troops from the Chinese theater to fight against the Vietminh as they were starting to overrun southern Vietnam and had already overrun Cambodia.

The Siamese intervention managed to drive the Indochinese out of Cambodia and stabilized the situation in South Vietnam for the Emperor to maintain his control in the southern half of the colony while the remnants of the Alliance forces quickly resettled in South Vietnam to hold out against further Vietminh attacks. For a year, there was a stalemate at the border as the Vietminh stopped the Siamese army and the regrouped Alliance from pushing back into Northern Indochina until word came that an armistice had been signed and the war was over.

This peace would not last for very long however, as both sides were determined to reunite the now divided Indochinese region for their side. Diem falsifying the elections of 1956 to delcare his own government in the south and ignoring the referendum for unification would be the last straw. Within a year, skirmishing began on the border and soon Communist cells in South Vietnam and Cambodia would begin to rise once more as they sought the end of foreign occupation of their homeland and the unification of the peoples of Indochina into a single federal and democratic republic that would proudly enter the Communist International as one and be a signal for a general revolution across Southeast Asia in tandem with the Bayanihan in the Phillipines, Freedom Fighters in Myanmar, and the Industrialists in Malaysia and Indonesia.

When it became clear that Thornley would be just as intractably opposed to the Comintern as Fuller was and when it seemed war with the Alliance again was inevitable, the Comintern once again began to pour in aid as the new republic of Indochina was built up and developed into a more modern nation. Anti-Southern propaganda was distributed across South Vietnam, people were converted to the Vietminh cause, supply dumps, bases, and more were built in secret as the Vietminh began to built up strength. The Revolutionary Vanguard would filter into the country, helping the Vietminh to train and conducting their own operations in cooperation with the Vietminh, and soon the country was a hotbed of revolutionary activity as the two forces spread Communism and radical democracy throughout the country like a virtual plague.

Low level conflict soon began throughout the country as tensions with the Alliance mounted. With Siamese forces once again mostly focused on China, the VIetminh prepared to move ahead and beget a communist unification at long last. With tunnel networks crisscrossing the entirety of South Vietnam and Cambodia, the Vietminh attacks were constant and relentless and soon another hot spot in the Cold War erupted. For years, the Vietminh and the ARVN would play games of cat and mouse; trading the positions of hunters and hunted often as their fortunes ebbed and flowed. This time, the ARVN had become a much more competent force, but this time the Vietminh were even more well supplied.

### Red and Black all over

The third world war's declaration's main effect in Indochina was the commencement of state actor hostilities as the People's republic of Indochina mobilized fully to meet the ARVN and the Alliance once again poked into the hornet's nest of the Indochinese conflict. Comintern troops would also arrive in Indochina with the expectation of providing assistance and not only keeping the Indochinese in the fight but also hopefully opening a massive front in Southeast Asia by collapsing Alliance resistance there and thus putting themselves in a position to cut Blue China down once and for all and invade India.

All seemed to be going quite well, but the war would soon take a turn no one truly expected and foresaw as the Axis powers revealed themselves to the world and attacked both the Alliance and the Comintern without mercy or warning, and as if to make matters worse Epsilon revealed its betrayal of the Alliance in style and launched massive attacks around the world with the support of the WLA, Totania, and more importantly for the Vietnamese, a bizarre cult who called themselves the Circle of Lightning gathered in a "Co-Prosperity Sphere". The once simple Communist against Capitalist conflict now became a heavily confused four way brawl as the Epsilon Bloc and the Axis both poured into the area and with any truces between the various sides being only temporary at best, the entire region exploded into a cataclysmic outpouring of war.

Frontlines became less of a reality and more of a suggestion as the four factions warring over Indochina seemingly appeared and disappeared at will, with combatants drifting into one another and engaging in battles as all the fighters involved tried to restore a sense of normalcy. Deciding that the Axis and the cronies of Geoffrey were both also enemies of the people, the Vietminh fought against them with no less strength and fury. And with dogged persistence that would earn them admiration from the likes of Gluckel Horowitz and Shiro Kamina; they managed to liberate all of northern Indochina from foreign aggressors by the war's end, leaving only the Monarchists and the Cultists remaining in Vietnam.

But such was not won without sacrifices as they had to adapt and adjust to the tactics and methods of many new armies going through the region just as they had to adjust to the new tactics brought to the table by the Union of Anti-Communists and the Confederacy of Nationalists when the Alliance committed these task forces to Indochina; as well as the Peacemaker divisions that the Alliance also began to send. In this fighting, they learned how to oppose psychic technology and weapons, how to deal with Mecha and other walkers, how to bog down transformation capable machines, how to deal with enemies who loved to fight in close quarters, and how to remain steadfast in the face of obscene and unearthly horrors and work closely with their allies in the Vanguard, the International Military, the Volunteers and more.

It was no exagerration to say that the fighting had turned much of the Vietminh into some of the most hardened fighters on the planet. Many of the veterans had been fighting for decades at this point, and most of those who weren't raw recruits had seen more combat than many soldiers ever get to see in their entire lives. It was this hardened core of soldiers who would see the Axis and Epsilon humbled just as the Alliance was many times before them. Geoffrey learned to not be so dismissive of "simple guerillas", when Vietminh forces assaulted the Psychic Dominator he had set up near the border with Laos. Infiltrating past heavy epsilon defenses, the Vietminh were well aware of what the device would do if allowed to charge up to a full powered mind control blast, and destroyed it without hesitation; wiping out the Epsilon base; overwhelming the advanced and esoteric war machine of the base with skill and precision and exfiltrating before other Epsilon forces could retaliate.

The Empire found its own humbling when the Vietminh lead the Imperial fifty third mecha division into the Jungles of Vietnam and never let them come back out; cutting down the Empire's warriors where they stood; even taking out the Sentai command mecha leading the division by detonating a hundred tons of explosives beneath it with an enormous mine that destroyed the mecha and buried the rest beneath the Earth. At the same time the massive Monarchist flying fortress "*Saviour*" that sought to impose the authority of its imperial allies over the people of Vietnam was forced to flee for repairs after walking into a massive anti-air trap, lured by seemingly easy targets to a ferocious attack on the seemingly invicible flying fortress.

All of this meant that when the war finally ended and most of the invaders left Vietnam, the Vietminh could turn back to their task of reunifying Indochina, though it seemed that the cultists of the Circle of Lightning and the dogged Monarchists, would not be going anywhere. With the Indochina war heating up once again, the war has entered a seasaw stage as the Communist forces, the Alliance Forces, the Monarchists, and the Circle of Lightning entered their uneasy stalemate.

## Units & Buildings

### Units

#### Economic Units

 File:IconVCGuerrilla.png | Guerrilla | These specialised soldiers have been planting mines and digging punji stick traps everywhere, and it's impossible to move safely through the jungle as a result, and they are also able to build the Vietminh's structures.

#### Aircraft

 File:IconVCVictorCharlie.png | Surprise Bomber | At first seeming to just be an allaince heavy lift helicopter, the surprise bomber actually is well...a bomber carrying a rather impressive load of rockets that can smash open a base and scatter the enemy as it passes over before disappearing again, using machine guns to protect itself if attacked. The Surprise Bomber can also spread massive quantities of smoke to disorient the enemy.

#### Naval Craft

 File:IconVC.png | Rocket Fans | Fast moving bombardment boats fitted with MRLS systems, Rocket fans fire special thermobaric rounds that gut enemies in cover or concealment, ensuring those who try to turn the Vietminh's tactics against them won't live to regret trying to out-stealth the masters, and are able to bring up camouflage that greatly reduces the visibility of the unit.

### Structures

 File:IconVC.png | Naval Alcove | Disguised as a simple fishing village protected from the elements by a cave, Naval alcoves gather and prepare the Vietminh fleet for action, protecting them from attack if discovered with multi-purpose missile launchers and depth charge casters.

#### Defenses

 File:IconVCGun.png | SAM site | WW2 era SAM sites which can retreat deep underground in nearly indestructible bunkers, SAM sites can attack aircraft from a great distance and deal devastating damage, though they need some time to lock on and their range greatly exceeds their line of sight; requiring spotters.

### International Volunteer Army Reinforcements

These forces can be called upon during Minor Faction Deathmatch. The International Volunteer Army come in a hard hitting wave of men and vehicles from a force of highly enthusiastic volunteers who are the first forces in in any PRIA assault who seek to liberate their southern neighbors from oppression, cracking enemy defenses wide open.

## Deathmatch Protocols

After securing positions on the field, the Vietminh find it safer to execute some of these operations.

 File:ProtocolVCSaturationFire.png | Saturation Fire | Heavy PRIA field guns over the DMZ fire a sustained barrage in the general vicinity of the target area, destroying everything in the area and leaving it a cratered ruin. Recharges every 3 minutes.