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hired the Slammers, with a number of cheap regiments to fill the gaps on both sides. The sand-swept
deserts ofSulewesi were the perfect theatre forarmoured warfare and the Slammers andBrasiliansduelled
, slashing the lesser regiments to shreds.

Kobold

Kobold was a joint colony of FrancophoneAurore and Flemish Friesland. The French dominated the
colony, oppressing the Flemish settlers and inciting a rebellion. The settlers hired the Slammers and the
French hired three well equipped Francophone regiments, theAlaudae , thePhenixMoirots and the
Compagnie deBarthe .Aurore andFriesland came to a compromise and rehired the four regiments to
keep order. Unfortunately, ColBarthe and theAurore Government planned a double cross, smuggling
powerguns to the French settlers. Eventually,Barthe pushed his luck and the Slammers pounced.
Powerguns flamed the Kobold forests until theCompagnie deBarthe was crushed.

Prosperity

Prosperity Conservatives, equipped and operating fromTerran Enclaves based around twostarports in
the north of the continent, ran a successful insurgency against the corrupt Nationalist Government who
theoretically controlled the rest of the continent. The government hired the Slammers to break the
rebellion.

The Slammersrapidly ascertained that Conservative operations depended on a constant supply of
reinforcements and weapons down from theTerran Enclaves. The regiment interdicted the neutral zone,
The Strip, shutting off the arterial supply to the insurgents in the south. Nationalist forces, beefed up by
security detachments of Major Steuben's White Mice, began to get on top of the Conservative Action
Movement (CAM) so the Conservatives gambled all on a single push, the Autumn Offensive.

Nationalist defectors slaughtered their officers and loyalist colleagues, and seized barracks with their
all-importantarmouries . Thousands of weapons and ammunition were passed out to Conservative
sympathisers . In some cases where even their officer corps had been subverted, entire battalions went
over to the Conservative side. Large, well-armed formations of Conservative Regulars burst out of the
Terran Enclaves and attacked the Nationalist units lining The Strip.

On The Strip, Slammer artillery hogs obliterated concentrated Nationalist formations and the survivors
were mopped up by Slammermechanisedarmoured detachments. In the south, the Conservatives
achieved considerable success. All over the nationalist cities, military formations disintegrated without a
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fight, were overrun, or sat tight in fortified positions and screamed for someone else to come and rescue
them.CAM units threatened to capture the provincial capital ofKohang on the southern coast
precipitating the collapse of the Nationalist Government.

Twenty-seven Conservative units of company or battalion strength besieged the Government Compound
inKohang . On paper, the Provincial Governor had at his disposal 3,000 armed police and 6,000 soldiers
organised into ten battalions of light infantry, although many had deserted or were ignoring orders. The
12th and 23rd Infantry Divisions under General Halas from Camp Fortune nearKohang were ordered to
break the siege but seemed unable toorganise themselves to advance. The 4thArmoured Brigade, based