[b][center]MID SUMMER UPDATE[/center][/b]

[b]Sanguine War of Aggression[/b] ([i]1836-Ongoing[/i])
1. [b]Battle of Lujdic[/b] ([i]Ongoing[/i])

Impoverished and alienated from the western Great Powers by virtue of distance and culture, the Kingdom of Kapitas existed solely on the basis of it's strong defensive terrain and the fact that simply no one else deemed the land important enough to capture. The Sanguine Empire, a lumbering regional power to the east however, set its sights on the decadent kingdom in the summer of 1836.

Mobilizing an army of nearly 200,000, the Sanguine sent their declaration on July 9th, and by July 15th had crossed the Kapitan border and were headed toward a definitive throw down with the Kapitan Army, itself still attempting to mobilize itself to confront the sudden invasion by its eastern neighbors.

Under the young and ambitious General Varmuth, the Sanguine 3rd Army, numbering only 25,000 regulars with a heavy supply detachment, entered Kapitas through the Karas Forest region. His goal was to capture the northern region, where Sanguine spies had indicated was free of Kapitan military presence. Within two weeks Varmuth forces had captured the provincial capital of Lujdic, while the Sanguine Army elsewhere performed a wild pincer mover to encircle the entire country. It was Sanguine intelligence however, that proved to be wrong. Scouts that discovered an encroaching Kapitan Army alerted Varmuth immediately, and he immediately moved to mobilize his army and meet them in battle. Because his subordinates had earlier requested detachments to help govern the Provisional Government of Kapitan Sanguine, his army was 7,000 men lighter. Regardless, the men were ordered into marching formation and ordered north along the road out of Lujdic.


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[i]Battle of Lujdic, 1836[/i][/center]

Outside of Lujdic, Varmuth ordered his regulars into a line against the incoming Kapitans. Two hours later, just before noon, riders approached and learned that Kapitans were marching south along the road from the Kapitan Pass in northwest Kapitas and closing on the Third Army fast. Outnumbered and without cannon, General Varmuth's options were limited. Varmuth, if nothing else, knew that his army had been a tertiary force, and even its destruction and his death would not mean much in the grand scheme of the war.