The Less Interesting TimesWhat if Tomorrow Exists?

2013/10/23 The Legacy of Earth #053639 – Chronicle of the Third Engagement

I was called to participate again shortly after the previous engagement. This time, I was hired by the Saharan Republic. I jumped at the opportunity to work with those desert speeders. We started in Australia again while the Bears, commanded by the previous Mech commander, started in his favourite city in Africa again. The Imperialists started in north America, the Mechs in south America, in the city founded by their commander, and Khan deployed in Siberia, way too close for comfort. The Bears started with a major expansion, guarding the African-American link religiously. I employed the successful Australian/Southeast Asia grab tactic. The Imperialists floundered across north America and the Mechs took advantage of it and broke their defenses easily. Following a secretive meeting with a Khan diplomat, we concluded with a non-aggression pact that facilitated their northern expansion and our southern. They moved through the Kamchatkan peninsula and took over a significant section of northern America, narrowing Imperial control even further. The Bears, with ruthless efficiency, pushed through my forward lines and crushed a path through southeast Asia and too close to my HQ for comfort. But that left them open to Mechaniker attack and the Mechs flowed through northern Africa and decimated the Bear HQ forces. The Imperials tried to maintain control of their section of the continent but were brought to extinction by Mech and Khan forces. Bear forces diverted by trouble at home, trying to reconquer the dark continent, were still strong enough to hold down my Continue Reading →