Part 12

It appears half the screen shots didn't take, but you didn't miss out on anything much.

Here's what I deployed with. Just 4 Stuarts and an apache - I should have just abandoned the territory, since it would have only net me 15k or so dollars and any loss on my part would be at least in the 50k-75k range. It was OUR Dakota territory, however, and I wasn't about to concede again for the sake of convenience.



On the first turn, the enemy hit our apache with a chap and then went after our airbase with an airstrike. Which was stupid.





And then moved a few Abrams up to deal with the Stuart.



Unfortunately, that's where the screen shots end.

But to describe what happened, I slipped two Stuarts over to Minneapolis and they both got trounced by airstrikes, though they survived and held the city. The Apache I ran away with into safety, given how expensive those things are, while the other two Stuarts stayed behind to guard the airbase.

The Texans sacrificed one of their Warthogs to do a suicide run on one of the base defense Stuarts, killing it, but buying me time to take out their chaparral with the secondary one and allowing me to airstrike right back with impunity as well.

This did not work out so well as, by the time that battle was over, I had to redeploy one of the Minneapolis Stuarts to the base to defend the remaining Stuart there who got reamed by the tanks. The other one in Minneapolis had to go retake one of the cities by Fargo from an enemy partisan.

I caught a second partisan out in the open with my B2, but it was being watched over by a chaparral and I nearly lost the thing in the process. The reamed tank went out to deal with both the chaparral and the partisan, but ended up dying to an airstrike as I only had one CAP and it was out defending the fellows down in Fargo.

The second surviving Stuart eventually got to the chaparral and killed it, as well as the partisan the next turn, and survived an airstrike in the process (their A10s flew right into the CAP that I redeployed and took heavy damage but did not go down).

Texas then ran away.



At the start of my overall next turn on the strategy map, I did absolutely nothing but buy replacements to make up for what I had lost. I then waited and nobody attacked me so we had some respite, and with the money at the start of the following turn I invested in some more Stuarts. We're not exactly doing well, but we're not hurting either.

Here's the state of the world:



The Confederacy is an absolute juggernaut, its unit strength bar is completely full and it shows no sign of stopping its inevitable poaching. The EU, despite all of its wars with New England, now has the second most powerful army in North America, then New England itself, then us, with the severely weakened Great Plains Federation and Texan Republic rounding out the "absolutely worthless" slot.