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Iammelon wrote:

"If we knew exact numbers, you would already have them. We aren't hiding useful information just because we can, we simply don't have it. I have only predictions, and background information. This continent that's rebelling, Zanos, is the old administrative and population center that was used by the Zantine Empire when they ruled the planet. As such, it is perhaps the continent with the most in the way of modernization, merged with the naturalist ways of the Ialao. They will not be hippies or angry tree huggers, but trained and proud rebels. They will likely have some proper vehicles in there, however given that it is a forested area I doubt there is too much heavy armor. Likely mostly light tanks and armored cars at the most."

The Marlborough stood up and shook his head, "I don't mean that. My army and my men can take some armoured cars and some anti-tank rockets. What I'm worried about is the... the organic stuff. I know these Ialao are naturalists and environmentalists. I've dealt with natives before. The Némalese Uprising of 12 AS, I saw action against the Anktha. Earth mages who roam the irradiated deserts of Cabitville. The bastards used sand worms to evade our movements, and ambush us by feeling the vibrations. One thing I've learned from my time in academy were the six types of terrain. And that forest is entangling. Easily abandoned but hard to reoccupy." He sighed, looking back out the small viewport. "They gain an inch of ground from us, and we spend weeks trying to take it back. We're going to have logistical problems. Look at the trees, we'll have to cut roads, dig trenches, and set up temporary fortifications to keep this war going. Bless the moon we have room to maneuver."