The Lord protects.
War finally broke out on the Eastern front. The entire Eastern Front was converted from the Believing cause to the communist cause in a heartbeat as I had let down my guard for a single year to try out democracy for a change. It was a resounding mistake. The Spartans attacked whilst the veteran regiments moved North to fight the Drones. The amount of bloodshed was monumental for all the matches I've played, over the course of a single attack at most you could expect seven regiments to die, I saw over 60 die in a single assault. This was the cost of the Drone's human wave, as impact rifles fired upon impact rifles. There was an odd thing about the weapons stage here in that every single faction had failed to develop weapons more advanced than impact rifles, yet defensive technologies had surpassed them, in a sense. All good garrisons and shock troopers wore plasma steel armour, soldiers armed with impact rifles could take on any unit wearing plasma steel so long as they were out in the open.
When they were in mountainous bunkers and surrounded by perimeter defences with sensor towers to watch every move, no longer is it possible. To make matters worse, the Drones had the secret project that gave them indestructible perimeter defences at every base. One of the worst assaults saw over 21 Impact regiments wiped out in a single fruitless attack against one Drone base that didn't even make any ground. Hundreds of thousands of Believers starved to death as Free Drone soldiers descended upon our lands and destroyed our farms and forests like an insatiable horde of locusts. One could see how it all resembled WWI after both sides started bringing out self-propelled artillery to wreak havoc with the densely clustered soldiers, funneled into a narrow impasse by a great mountain range that separated the fertile and industrious mountainside the Drones resided on from the food-scarce Believing outposts on the arid steppes. The war went on for so long that weapon technology had begun to spread from the south into our conflict; the first prototype gatling lasers had begun rolling onto both Believing and Drone production lines. The Believing mountain outposts had become veritable mountain fortresses and the assault on the Eastern front had shown some progress, whereas all assaults on the northern roads had resulted in 100% casualties and the death of almost all veteran regiments not sent back to fight the Spartans. The turning point came when two things happened: The southwestern mountain pass was won by the Believers at great cost, and the Believers successfully took over a minor Drone base in a Hannibal moment as they crossed the mountain and fired their gatling lasers, paying dearly for this tiny base. From there it was a matter of forcing huge volumes of soldiers past hostile Drone bases, losing hideous volumes of soldiers to the counter attacks whilst marching towards the Drone HQ and Whipsaw Base to take away their unbreakable perimeter defences. Along the way the Believers unintentionally returned the favour to the Drones, captured bases were inevitably reduced from proud city centres to starved ruins as the workers rioted and refused to till the farms and work the factories against their own people. In the south the Spartans had nearly overrun my own perimeters, I had run out of reserves there and was beginning to relocate troops from the Peninsula front further south just to cope with the casualties. Fortune struck and the Hive betrayed the Spartans, allowing me to seize one last Spartan base and get them to surrender.
Now I had every Believing base sending gatling regiments to the frontlines against the Drones, missionary after missionary entering Drone bases to destroy their perimeter defences from within. When resistance grew too large, artillery destroyed their strength from the high ground whilst the believers starved them from the lands outside. With University and Spartan auxiliaries keeping the Hive occupied, the Drone backbone was broken. After over 60 years of constant war, it is almost certain that the Believers will win.
And only 3/5ths of the entirety of humanity was wiped out.
Now all I have to do is figure out how to kill the other three factions, one of which is:
- Technologically superior.
- Outnumbers me.
- Has units designed to kill me.
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