Operation Mangol Wurzel

Broadly speaking the Operation consists of the following:

• Blitzkreig Over Bristol: A series of co-ordinated dawn attacks are to be made in and around Bristol with the aim of securing the approaches to the Avon and the Avonmouth Docks, as well as to sever road and rail links with Bath and beyond. These attacks comprise air assaults on strategic locations combined with seaborne landings, coupled with assaults to secure bridges over the Avon so that forces can push on South into Somerset and onto the Bristol Channel.
• Wake Up Watchet!: Suprise seaborne landings are to be made in and around Watchet Harbour in an effort to gain control of the Bristol Channel as well as to cut off one of the main supply routes to the Loyal Army of the South.
• Emergency on Exmoor: The Worlds first large scale airborne landings are to take place on Exmoor with the aim of threatening Minehead and Dunster from the rear and with linking up with the landings at Watchet Harbour.

The build up of the Army of the Severn Valley has not gone un-noticed by the Loyal Army of the South. Local intelligence sources have given indications that a large scale attack is imminent, but unfortunately cannot pinpoint when and where. Plans for Operation Cromwell have been put in place, a plan that calls for local counter-attacks to be made at important strategic locations once the main attacks are underway. In the meantime, reconnaissance-in-force has been made by LAotS forces with the aim of disrupting the build up to the anticipated offensive.

However, the supplies of men and materiel are constantly being disrupted on their route through the Bristol Channel and the Severn Estuary by forces of the Loyal Army of the South based in and around the West Country. The AotSV needs to gain control of the Bristol Channel and the Welsh ports, the Avonmouth docks and the Severn Estuary so as to ensure its lines of supply and communication.

The Army of the Severn Valley is now sufficiently strong and confident in its marshal prowess to contest control of the Bristol Channel. To this end, the King has given approval for Operation Mangol Wurzel, as series of co-ordinated suprise attacks from Bath in the East down to Minehead in the West.