Test Battle: China vs AEDP - The Battle Of London

((Not a problem, sir! When you are ready, you may roll the dice to initiate combat since you're the attacker.))

The Royal Arsenal was a historic monument to The British Armed Forces. It had been the site of a barracks and a myriad of production facilities that had created, stored and tested cannon and other important munitions work since 1671. Now, it had been sold for redevelopment to private businesses and was now in the hands of The AEDP. Due to the emergency of the imminent invasion of the capital by Chinese forces, it had been hastily converted into a command post for the Bodyguard Corps. It had been planned to use The Tower Of London, but objections by The British Government, Royal Family and Field Marshal Stanford had shelved the plan. Inside, a skeleton crew of staff officers and communications personnel awaited the flood of information from the ground forces that needed to be relayed to the commander, General Gary Kinnock.

"Sir!" A comm's officer called out from his desk. "Reports of a Chinese force approaching the suburbs of London!"

The British general, holding a mug of steaming hot tea, merely drained his mug of its contents in silence before replying.

"Let them make the first move. If they attack London... We'll give them a damn good thrashing."

((Wang Xi Jintao

Your options are limited, sir.

In regards to how this works, it will be what you send against the entire enemy force. As such, you COULD send a single division, but that would put you at an advantage in both casualty and attack.

For example, during a battle, each side has two rolls. The attacker first rolls a dice that represents the size of the force they are using to attack, which in the case of this scenario could be a 1d8 (eight sided dice) to represent the entire corps or 1d7 to represent the single division you've suggested.

The disadvantage to having a smaller attacking force is twofold. Firstly, your dice is lower in the top value it can provide, which tips the favour into the hands of the enemy, which outnumber you. The second is that you will not be able to inflict as many casualties that you can inflict upon yourself.

To demonstrate, in a battle that has a division fighting a division, both attacker and defender will roll a 1d7. Their casualty roll will be 1d100, which is the percentage of how many individuals died in the course of the battle.

As such, a force that outnumbers the other receives some insulation from the casualty roll by 30% per level to a maximum of 90%. As an example, if you were to use a division, you would roll a 1d7 and a 1d100 to find out your attack value and casualty rate. I will roll a 1d8, due to my force being a corps and the level above a division, and a 1d70 for casualties, due to outnumbering you.

I apologise for how barebones this system may be turning out for you, but it's one of the best things we have.

In the event that you win a roll as the attacker, you become the controlling force in the location being contested. Meaning, if you won against me here, you'll have seized London. However, that also means you become the defender and I become the attacker, since I may decide to counter-attack to take back the location I've lost. As such, I'll be the one to roll first, instead of yourself, and the cycle will continue until one of us has so many casualties that the force we have is rendered ineffective or one side retreats or surrenders.

As for doing the rolls themselves, The Warzone has a link at the top of the thread list called "Warzone Battle Dice Room". This will take you to the location that will allow you to make your rolls. As for how one uses it, you type /nick (name here without the brackets) to identify who has made the roll and then type /1d(highest value of dice without the brackets) to roll. The roll will then be generated for you. Once that's done, you link to the roll by left clicking on the brown button on the left of the "Name rolls dice used = value rolled" result generated and then linking the link generated under "Image URL".

Any questions, sir?))