(Alternate Version of "Prelude.")
Greetings, my brothers and sisters. As you may know, in a month and a half, the Great Campaign of 2012-13 will begin.
In preparation of the invasion, I'm collectivising all my experiences, logic and intuition into a master plan, a doctrine that should serve me and my troops well for the impending campaign and for the rest of my years as a commander.
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Last year's campaign was, in many regards, a failure. My troops were ill-equipped and undisciplined. They knew nothing of the Enemy and of the battles ahead of them. They were doomed from the start.
Many believed the campaign was of 2011-12 would be short and easy march through academic waters. Not so. Our soldiers were promised warm blankets and soup and a passive enemy; they were shocked when they realized that the enemy was capable of fighting back, and with force. Never had an enemy been so resilient. Many casualties may have been avoided had the general calculated properly beforehand.
Morale during the campaign's inception was at an all time high. Never before had things looked so bright. But very soon our troops were deeply entrenched into Enemy territory, blind and disarrayed. Within the opening weeks of combat, contact from our main combat sectors had been severed. Our early opportunities missed, and all efforts for advancement, stifled. Thousands of small-arms squads were isolated and without contact. Only a handful were able to rendezvous successfully and dissolve into other divisions.
We managed to pull through, with our main combat units still intact, only because a few of our primary air divisions were able to contact HQ and battalions below. Their extra-temporal view and range allowed the successful relaying of information between combat units. This wasn't enough to prevent heavy casualties but a makeshift system of communication and Intel ensured that our units held up fairly well. It was all we could ask for at this stage of the war.
Although I, and many of my subordinates blundered during key battles, we did learn how to function more cohesively.
Even as troops were dying on the field, more knowledge of the Enemy was being brought in to our command centers. A bit midway from the campaign's start, more rigorous discipline was enforced. During the final months, a surge of fresh reinforcements was a welcome sight to tired, battle-scarred eyes. Casualties were minimized to almost zero and the Enemies disguises, gambits, guerilla tactics, and espionage were nullified. The Enemies' greatest advantage: secrecy: was effectively destroyed. The war was won with high spirits, but not without a price.
Over a third of our army's initial strength was wiped out. All dead, missing or enslaved by the Enemy. Our forces were replenished throughout the war, but the costs were high; the dead will never come back. This left a permanent mark on the friend's and families of the fallen soldier. They may have been able to pull through and be joyous once more, but death left it's mark on everyone, even those who are fortunate to still have their lives.
Let this year be a brighter success in some way rather than a blind wandering through a tumultuous storm.
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The following is a private meeting held between Woota, Leader of The Woota Poopas, and his top staff members. He is speaking to his fellow elite, they are the administrators who carry out Our Great Leader's orders. Here, I've managed to acquire the transcript of the Woota's opening words. View at your own risk.
Private Woota Conclave - "My Little Dogma"
1:47 PM - 1:54 PM
"To my chief officers, I am instating a new mindset, a new political dogma that I want you to feed to the press, to the masses, and to all of your subordinates!
My brothers and sisters... We have lost many good men in wars past... I wish, that. We could somehow avoid this conflict and all others entirely. But alas, we have no choice but to drive our forces forth to greet the enemy. On August 17, 2012, we will, for the Tenth year, invade Normandy. On the 7th, all troops and officers of status 14 or 15 are required to rally and Midwest Post to receive Intel on officers, doctrines, times, and battles and battlefields. The post will open at 8 AM. Soldiers will only have 3 hours to collect their registry's before the post will shutdown to allow other units to allocate themselves.
Our time is very limited we must make the most of our precious few hours to devise the best stratagems and tactics. I will not allow failure or any tomfoolery. Our Great Nation is in a crisis state. We no longer have the resources or the populace on our side. We need to show our people that we can indeed push through Normandy and beyond with minimal casualties. Any ideas?"
This was the only disclosed portion of the meeting. The results of the meeting was the latest doctrine from Our Great Leader, the Woota Doctrine, a Doctrine for life and all times.
The doctrine he released was intended to be modular and incomplete. His objective was to provide a concrete, yet generalized methodology that all commanders would be required to follow.
Here is the Woota Doctrine...
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Work in Progress: This is just the scaffolding...
The Woota Doctrine
Catagorization
I. Successive Division of Enemy Combat Units
1. The riff raff, the main combat fleet, ignored, avoided
2. Potential Collaborators, bribed units, double agents
3. rejoining/reforming with old combat units
II. Extra-Combat Emplacements
1. Consider and attack potential bonus objectives
2. Risks must be highly calculated and if plausable, taken. We're taking the fight to them, and we need to be as aggressive as possible, but that doesn't mean we can get careless.
III. Training/Equipment
1. New Combat gear for all field soldiers
a. Portable rations/MREs and water stocks for daily combat
b. Combat supplies, such as munitions, weapons, food, shall be kept in a continuously renewing pool
3. Positive Inductment Serum Injections
4. "Common Sense" Enemy Confrontations
A. Courteous Treatment and Troop Dispositions
a. Application of Geneva Conventions
b. Proper, but not excessive regard to all beings
c. Smile and Run Tactics
d. Mild comingling may occur with bribed POWs
B. Artificial Selection
a. Only the most ideal, malleable POWs shall be brought close to our inner sanctums
b. Mild alliances will be formed with semi-ideal subjects
C. State of Emergency Responses
a. Highly Fortified positions are only to be confronted with allies
b. Individuals suspected of volitile, sacriligous, unethical behaviors are to be avoided, ideally
c. In inescapable situations, bravely confront the beligerents and prepare for potential evac