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[Helgoland]

Try building in such a way that the humans themselves won't be able to fight properly - low ceilings, no lights, the works. Any dwarven fighters should be easy to turn around, gobbos should be no problem. Then, start raiding - for food, supplies, specialists etc. Put a bounty on any non-cooperating dwarven mettalurgist, start sabotaging. Then, find some allies within his empire - become a disease of the heart instead of a disease of the skin.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Damn I'd have liked to get a piece of  the action... they didn't allow it. Physically unfit, they said. Instead I spent the war at a tiny desk in a tiny office in a tiny town, working for a tiny part of Toady's R&D department.

You remember the optimised RC drones that were introduced some two years into the war, probably saving the butts of anyone who served with you multiple times?
Yeah, that was me.

Oh ya, those things.
Drones physically can't commit war crimes. Traumatized soldiers don't have that limitation. Nuff said.

[NullForceOmega]

I know the feeling, after they brought the servers down I was ordered directly to bombard the farm, I knew we still had people inside.  four hours of demanding clarification later, one of the ranking Admirals informed me that failure to obliterate Origin would be grounds for courts martial, and likely summary execution for treason.  Two discharges later Origin was gone, and we needed new Admiralty at the front. (Damned EA infiltrators and turncoats, amazing we ever made it through the first few battles, let alone actually won the war.)

As for the human warlord, do you have magma? Yes? Then freaking flood the area outside the walls, above and below grounds, then obsidian cast everything for ten miles in every direction, should resolve the issue permanently.

[Draco18s]

I love you guys.  Being able to play off each other's riffs and producing a relatively coherent timeline of fictitious events. XD
EA Wars.  Hehe.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Don't you dare mock the memories of those who gave everything so you might play free of DRM and tacked on DLC!

[Thank you. It's nice to get compliments for something you dreamt up in the middle of Calculus.]

Also, I'm not sure that the war is quite over. I've heard some buzz from my friends still in service. Sounds like some excuituves that jumped ship before hostilities broke are making waves in Quantum Valley. Sounds like they're raising capital for an assault on the mobile platforms. If they succeed, I doubt we can ever remove them. I think I'll re-enlist for this one. Hoping for a promotion to officer. Maybe I can help change something for the better.

[NullForceOmega]

Hell, resistance command never let me retire, a few pre-emptive strikes might be in order.  Everyone we have who fights for freedom is an asset, ever served aboard a Cacame class battleship?  I could use a few hands to round out the crew, and Hellstar is the best post in the whole damn movement.

Also, my champion ripped the opposing armies to pieces, I knew setting up that alliance with the elves would pay off.  Ever since the rampaging armies razed Woodsongs my forces have been imbued with the forces of nature and wrath, say what you will about the hippies, the forces they revere are simply bad-ass.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I'd like too, but I'm an ex-army Sargent, washed up with PTSD that I barely get benefits for. I'd love to serve aboard your ship, but I'd be little help. I'll stay on the home front, where I can go see a shrink after work. I'm enlisting tommorrow, with preference for LogComm, or Logistical Command for you draft dodgers.

[hops]

I can totally see the future as an utopia-like world where life is so easy that people go to war for the most trite of problems like EA.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I personally find it a minor bit saddening that there is no thread about what had happened today in the first year of the war.  Have we forgotten the attacks of the early days in the war by EA that utterly destroyed the two greatest threats to it of the time, Steam and Kickstarter?  That day was when the morale dropped so low, that we nearly lost the war before it truly began, and yet, there is no mention.  Are we beginning to forget what we had lost in the early days?

[Helgoland]

I barely made it out of Steam territory when the attacks began. I looked up at the sky, seeing a million little fires... but they were rockets, not stars. The images haunt me to this day - blood and guts everywhere, people screaming, being crushed by the mass panic that broke out. Me and a few associates hijacked a small helicopter; not something I'm proud of, but I'd rather keep fighting than die honourably. We had almost gotten out of range when we were hit by a stray Seeker rocket. It's a miracle I didn't lose my leg, but it got me stuck with this nasty limp - well, they put me to good use behind the front.
How hard is it to get into LogComm? That's the kind of stuff that's always appealed to me - war is an economic matter, after all. I'd be very grateful if you could give me some leads, set me up with some contacts... And the ICC would finally get off my back.

[Baffler]

Oh man, I was part of the sweep for survivors after the attack on Kickstarter (I was a medic in the war.) They had a tougher time of it there than Steam, I hear, but I wouldn't have wanted to be there when it happened. Not many survived to make it into our care. I'll never forget one man, the only soldier I saw there. He got out of it easy, hardly even wounded, but he would stare right through you, like you weren't even there. Barely spoke a word, but we patched him up as best we could. He walked off after that, I still don't know what happened to him.

I know a guy in LogComm, he's a communications tech. They put you through some decently rigorous technical training, but once you're through it's a nice job. Gets him a pretty high security clearance too, though he isn't allowed to tell me just how high.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I narrowly avoided the first attacks. I had unplugged that day (Yes, I know, I'm very strange.) and was out in the hills (Yes, I know, I'm very strange.), so I didn't get the news until hours after the attack. I did wonder about the bombers overhead, but I promised myself I would not plug back in. Wouldn't have done me any good. My family was all plugged in, and the servers hosting them were destroyed, along with the backup servers. I swore to avenge them, and I did, many times over. A little dramatic, but I needed it psychologically.

How hard is it to get into LogComm? That's the kind of stuff that's always appealed to me - war is an economic matter, after all. I'd be very grateful if you could give me some leads, set me up with some contacts... And the ICC would finally get off my back.

As an ex-RnD, I'm very surprised that you aren't jumping for a part of the circus budget. I hear its been doubled recently.

[Mel_Vixen]

I personally find it a minor bit saddening that there is no thread about what had happened today in the first year of the war.  Have we forgotten the attacks of the early days in the war by EA that utterly destroyed the two greatest threats to it of the time, Steam and Kickstarter?  That day was when the morale dropped so low, that we nearly lost the war before it truly began, and yet, there is no mention.  Are we beginning to forget what we had lost in the early days?

Hey in two days the collapse of the western world happened 37 years ago. That is important too.

The USA bankruptcy led to the Collapse of all mayor western economies which in turn evened the way of Coorporationism in the US. The buyout of Redwood shore by EA and the subsequent buys ins into key markets. made it under new US laws possible to etablish EAs own Autonome zone. Heck they bought parts of raython.  2022 They got so far to declare themself a US "State" and were later among the first ones to secede from the Union.

Much like "Siemens" and the Rheinmetall-gau in Germany and the Catholic church over half of Itally and south Europe mind you. The Kickstarter union (including Petridish and other founder companies) stood with the old etablishment churning out Open and affordable Hightech. (Remember the 6axis combined 3D printer Lasercutter&Mill from 2017?) and that "threatened" EAs prognosed Military export worldwide especialy since the Kickstarter stuff stabilized many regions.

Theres more to the story but hell i cant get it done alone ... too much hurt and bad memories. 

[NullForceOmega]

Unfortunately, almost all documentation from the first year is simply gone, my fault, I failed in my duty to guard against internal threats.  By the time we knew that space station DeathGate had been overrun everyone onboard was dead or a damn traitor.  I followed denial protocol.  The whole of Pallas is an irradiated debris field, we will never regain what was lost, one-hundred seventy-three thousand loyalists, thirty-four thousand traitors, and five thousand EA special forces, that was the total death count.  Darkest day in the damn war, cost us a lot of good people, and the entirety of the Library of Congress.  Our own records were in there, noone believed such a deep-strike op was possible, we still don't know how they made it out to the asteroid belt.

[Mel_Vixen]

Wasnt that the time we lost contact to the Microsoft Colony on Io as well?