Whilst the revolutions lose traction due to counterinsurgency tactics and the disapproval of them by the people, who are so important for guerilla tactics to work (i can give a million citations for this just ask me and i will give you one) In addition, the encirclement does what an encirclement naturally does; shrinks. We begin a large offensive from Ladstia, since they had granted us military access to their territory early in the war, and never retracted it. This catches Aldrania off-guard. "God is the teacher, Aldrania is the student, and we are God's instrument. There is no Deity but God." -Unnamed Guerilla Fighter, 1926. also we do have anti-tank weapons, either laurentian-made, or captured off of the enemies; any weapon you have, we have, we just don't use tanks, because they don't perform well in guerilla warfare