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Apr 10 – We get news that all of the locals have evacuated from multiple police, militia, and civic leaders. We inform them of our plan, and they agree.
Apr 11 – We put each of our battalions around the city and move in. They have taken the center of the city, erected a makeshift fort long ago, but recently built it up with mines, pickets, cordons, and more. It’s a death trap.
We hit a few annoying mines on the outskirts, and someone put some SMM infantry in a local house that hits us with inferno missiles. We destroy the building, and the infantry inside.
We have reached about a half mile from their defenses in each direction, leaving about twenty miles of light city (New Derry is not that big or heavily populated) in front.
We radio them and give them one more chance to either surrender, or relocate, in order to avoid destroying the infrastructure of a world that they are supposed to help.
They refuse.
So we order the orbital bombardment to begin.
We have a perfect target here, in the center of the city. We can bomb them without even coming close to our own mechs.
After 15 minutes of constant bombardment, and about 20% of the city being destroyed, we get a radio of surrender from the SMM.
You can’t turtle against a WarShip.
We let them leave, turning over all salvage to the locals.
Meanwhile we reconnect with the local population and begin to clear things out, and spend the rest of the month with our military regiment assisting them in removing salvage, pulling bombs away, taking out mines, and more. We won’t be ready until 1 May.
While that campaign was lucky to end easily, the other won’t be.
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