Defense: STRIKE

War began at 3:30 a.m. Invading Gutasun troops hauled themselves by rope across the river separating them from democratic Renloa, a U.S. ally. At dawn, a Gutasun fighter plane knocked out the defenses of a nearby airfield with a tactical nuclear bomb, and 1,200 Gutasun paratroopers drifted out of the sky to capture the runways. Within hours of the Gutasun invasion, U.S. aircraft, paratroopers and G.I.s were speeding to Renloa's aid.

The Renloan war was of course a show. It was enacted in a swampy, gnat-infested, 3½-million acre slice of North and South...

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