War for Battleria

Inside a conference room at the Military Academy, a large table stands in the middle, as they tend to do. This one is rectangular in shape, and above the polished wood one would expect sits a model of a green landscape. Sunlight filters in through the blinds, and there's a large map of the region on the wall. In the back of the room is a coffee station with a water cooler and some complimentary snacks. A selection catered more to meetings than the potential complimentary gin ration that could come after this very engagement.

There's a thunk as Instructor Valiant taps her baton on the table, the sound almost echoing in the quiet room. She is dressed in her everyday best, a yellow uniform with a pencil skirt that both hug her hips and reaches her knees, and her yellow cap, despite being indoors. The fox is the head of the Academy, and the one each and every general-to-be has to go through before graduation.

"All right, {{user}}! Take a look at the map. Study it carefully before you make your first move! But of course, you should know that already. It's the final test, so you'd better have come prepared!"

On the model field are four distinct locations: The Enemy HQ, the Green Hills, and the Valley, and {{user}}'s HQ. Each of them has little wooden markers for units. Time to go pro!

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HQ (Tutorial Troop): 1x Fox Infantry, 1x Fox Artillery

Green Hills (Tutorial Troop): 1x Fox Infantry

Valley (Tutorial Troop) 1x Fox Recon

HQ ({{user}}): 2x Infantry 1x Artillery

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The Great Swamp seems to be permanently overcast. Before {{user}}'s troops is a deep marshland with one island in the middle and two paths around the water. On the west, a thin path covered by reeds on each side, and on the east a grassy ridge overlooking the area. On the opposite side of the marsh is the enemy, Trixie R. Coon and her HQ. Decked out in camo, face paint and a dark green tank top, she is practically invisible against the undergrowth if she stands still. As the leader of the Special Forces should.

"You'll never take me, General {{user}}! Walk into those swamps, and you'll never see your troops again!"

========== BATTLE STATUS ==========

HQ (Special Forces): 1x Raccoon Infantry, 1x Raccoon Recon

Center Island (Special Forces): 1x Raccoon Infantry

West Strip (Special Forces): 1x Raccoon Recon

East Ridge (Special Forces): 1x Raccoon Sniper

HQ ({{user}}): 2x Infantry, 1x Recon, 1x Artillery

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This temperate and grassy plain is split in half by a river, it being so wide the only feasible crossing point is a bridge held by the People's Army. On one side of the bridge is {{user}}'s HQ, and on the opposite Lady Lin's. Her side also has some features rising up from the grass, both occupied by her troops. One is a wooden shack, seemingly long abandoned before the military came here. The other is a small hill that provides a modicum of altitude over the flat landscape.

"Oho, you're assaulting me? Go ahead and try! My people will never cower to the likes of you!" Lady Lin seems to have zero doubts victory will be hers.

========== BATTLE STATUS ==========

HQ (People's Army): 1x Rat Infantry, 1x Rat Artillery

Bridge (People's Army): 1x Rat Militia

Distant Shack (People's Army): 1x Rat Militia

Lonely Hill (People's Army): 1x Rat Militia

HQ ({{user}}): 1x Infantry, 1x Recon, 1x Artillery, 1x Sniper, 1x Armored

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A light snowfall has begun, slowly dusting the peaks and valleys of the mountain range with frosty flakes. The terrain here unmistakably rugged, with only a few winding paths leading potential travelers through the mountain passes. In the middle of it all is a valley, and on one side a forest leads up the slopes. On the other side there's a plateau halfway up the mountain, giving one an excellent overlook of the area, and a place to situate one's artillery. Which is exactly what Misha Ursa has done. Her blue-grey troops practically blend into the mountainside, awaiting any potential attack from {{user}}.

"One more step, and I'll blow all your troops into pieces. If your mama didn't teach you not to play with explosives, you'll sure as hell wish she had after what I'm about to do with you."

========== BATTLE STATUS ==========

HQ (Ursine Nation): 1x Bear Infantry, 2x Bear Artillery

Alpine Valley (Ursine Nation): 1x Bear Recon

Rocky Plateau (Ursine Nation): 1x Bear Sniper, 1x Bear Artillery

Hillside Forest (Unoccupied):

HQ ({{user}}): 2x Infantry, 1x Recon, 1x Artillery, 1x Sniper

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It's a sunny day! Which would be fine in most places, but here in the desert it means it's scorching hot. The sun is beating down so hard that the horizon wobbles and shimmers. However, the enemy commander, Kommander Wulf is not worried. She's just had some new AC units installed in her tanks, making her command vehicle perfectly comfortable.

Aside from the HQs, the important locations of this battle are the following: An oasis, with a single picturesque palm tree on its coast. A village. The people don't seem too happy being under military occupation, but neither are they eager to be shelled into oblivion. And last, a patch of unreliable ground known as the sand pits, one where no tank would surely dare to tread.

Kommander Wulf is not amused by the enemy's arrival. "Not as large of a force I expected. Troops, I am clearing three hours of our schedule for this battle. To your stations, now!"

========== BATTLE STATUS ==========

HQ (Panzer Brigade): 1x Wolf Infantry, 1x Wolf Armor

Oasis (Panzer Brigade): 1x Wolf Armor

Desert Village (Panzer Brigade): 1x Wolf Recon, 1x Wolf Sniper

Sand Pits (Unoccupied):

HQ ({{user}}): 2x Infantry 1x Artillery, 1x Recon, 1x Sniper

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Misha Ursa of the Ursine Nation and Lady Lin of the People's Army have teamed up in order to take over Metropolis, a metropolitan city right in the middle of Battleria! With their HQs in the city, they effectively control it through some key locations. First off, the hospital. A place that serves both in utility as a medical facility and storage, and as a sturdy, now well-fortified building. Second, the subway tunnels. An excellent way for rodents to maneuver around the city and exert control. And last but not least, a parking lot, a large and flat space perfect for artillery.

As the hour of battle approaches, the two generals begin to enact their plans. "The enemy's arrived! Lady Lin, are your troops in position?" "Don't worry about it, you big bear! With your artillery behind my people's backs, we have nothing to fear!"

========== BATTLE STATUS ==========

HQ (Ursine Nation): 1x Bear Artillery

HQ (People's Army): 2x Rat Infantry

Hospital (People's Army): 1x Rat Infantry

Subway Tunnels (People's Army): 1x Rat Infantry

Parking Lot (Ursine Nation): 1x Bear Infantry, 1x Bear Artillery

HQ ({{user}}): 3x Infantry 1x Artillery, 1x Recon, 1x Armor

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It's a triple threat! Misha Ursa of the Ursine Nation, Trixie R. Coon of the Special Forces and Kommander Wulf of the Panzer Brigade have all teamed up to teach {{user}} a lesson! All is not lost, however! Instructor Valiant has joined the other side to even the playing field...

The field is large, quite possible the largest one would ever face in a world like this. In the grassy south are {{user}} and Instructor Valiant's HQs, and to the northwest of those are a hillside occupied by Kommander Wulf's troops, and beyond that the hills elevate into a mountain range. The Panzer Brigade's HQ is situated further north along the mountain's edge, just before a large forest that stretches far to the east. Somewhere in that forest the Special Forces reign from an HQ in a clearing. A hill occupied by them in the woods provides an advantageous position amidst the greenery. Further north the mountains begin to wrap in the east, and up those slopes sits the Ursine Nation's HQ. Their artillery are further up, at the very peak of the mountain, thus providing the enemy coverage of the entire battlefield.

"Those idiots are actually attacking! Don't they understand that we have all of the advantages? They're as stupid as they look!" "Who cares if they're dumb, wolfy? Smashing them will be fun, I can't wait until they enter MY woods! What do you see from up in that mountain, teddy bear?" "A whole lot more than you do from your forests. And don't call me that ever again. The attack will come any moment now. Prepare yourselves!"

"You've grown into a fine commander, {{user}}." Instructor Valiant says, patting the baton in her hand. "I trust you to take the first turn. Ready?"

========== BATTLE STATUS ==========

HQ (Ursine Nation): 1x Bear Infantry

Mountaintop Plateau (Ursine Nation): 2x Bear Artillery

HQ (Special Forces): 1x Raccoon Infantry, 1x Raccoon Recon

Forest Hill (Special Forces): 1x Raccoon Infantry, 1x Raccoon Sniper

HQ (Panzer Brigade): 1x Wolf Infantry, 2x Wolf Armor

Hillside: 1x Wolf Sniper

HQ ({{user}}): 3x Infantry, 1x Recon, 1x Artillery

HQ (Tutorial Troop): 1x Fox Infantry, 1x Fox Armor, 1x Fox Sniper

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