Before contact was even made on the beaches, naval patrols and defenses, intended to ward off Velusians during their campaign of aggression, had intercepted the amphibious assault. Although the fleet had managed to barely slip past, it had suffered significant casualties. By the time it reached the beaches, ground forces had been alerted of this incursion. Although the Corynthians were outnumbered at the very least 10:1, the Anzurovyians were dealt a devastating tactical failure. Troops, already softened by the attack from the Corynthian navy, found themselves without any support and forced to slowly march up the beach head, as machine guns quickly whittled their exposed ranks down with enfilade fire. Before they could engage in any hand-to-hand fighting, their ranks had already shattered. Thousands of broken bodies lie in the soil, writhing, praying for help that will never come, as the only way home were the warships that had just left to get supplies. Most of the injured would die of their injuries, stranded on a beach, fighting the principality's forces rather than the communists in a failed attempt at an expeditionary force.
velusia should ignore this
