Great War III

The Belligerents in the Third Great War established one of the largest death matches in world history.

Belligerents
194,933,961 VS 204,696,470

Pre-War
coming soon.

Battle of the Great Wall (First)


The war begin on November 8th, 2082, when a join force of Fire Nation, Shadow Dominion, and Mystic Realm troops, totaling in a three million, attacked the Earth Kingdom's Great Wall. The Great Wall protected the Kingdom from attack since it was created after the first Great War. The Wall stands eighty five feet high, is ninety feet thick, is made of solid golden rock, is Armour plated, has ballistics towers, and can house millions of Earth Kingdom Troops at any time. During peace times, the wall normally houses only about 15,000 troops, but during this moment, the wall was home to over seven hundred thousand.

Three million troops marched on the wall over a forty mile span of it's one hundred and fifteen mile length. The Wall's Commander at the time, Elemental Brigadier General Luke Rogers, immediately awakened his seven hundred thousand soldier force when scouts caught the Mystic troops moving in on them. With the Mystic troops losing the element of surprise, having been hoping to conceal themselves in the massive forests before the walls open stretch of land which leads up to its base, the Earth Kingdom and Allied forces that were stationed on the wall were prepared and had already called for reinforcements upon arrival of the Mystic force several hours later.

General Rogers spent the three hours not only preparing explosives, archers, weapons and his benders, but also ensured that his troops where well feed, motivated and ready. This is often considered a contributing factor to the allied victory in this first battle.

Troops on the wall began responding to Mystic forces as soon as they appeared through the forestry about half a mile from the wall. Archers fired flaming arrows into a laid field of explosives that were hooked to trees and the ground, instantly penetrating Mystic's front lines. Immediately after, Mystic forces charged and the all out firefight began. Benders began firing large chunks of rock, arrows, and other items from the wall and the wall's water and elemental benders were stationed on top, shooting long range magical blasts of water, fire, and whatever else the elementals where able to get their hands on.

From the ground, General Ottonugh, leader of the force and a Major General of the Fire Nation, focused on attempting to penetrate the first two feet thick layer of the wall. Should they have penetrated that section (which is five feet thick at the bottom of the wall, two feet elsewhere), they could've entered the inside of the wall and attacked troops harbored in its many compartments (which had openings for attacking and closing capabilities for defense). General Rogers was well aware this would be attempted and placed his best close range fighters on the bottom of the wall, where they shot constant lines of fire into anyone who attempted to advance.

After two hours of attempting to penetrate the wall, and few loses on Allied side, General Ottonugh had realized he was losing far too much of his force on that goal. Instead, he focused on inflicting large amounts of damage into the wall. Immediately, his troops began to fire large blasts of explosives, fire, and catapulted rocks into the wall, which started to arouse chaos from inside allied chambers. Should Ottonugh have begun with this technique, it's likely he would've been able to separate enough of the allied force from each other to win the battle. However, General Rogers's advantage in time, protection, and preparation, as well as his moral (after Mystic troops had walked over three hundred miles), he lead the allied troops to the first war victory. News of the victory spread quickly and suddenly, the war was on.

Total losses for the allied forces were 182,157 and total loses for the Mystic Forces were 1,265,189 before their retreat.

Capture of Lochlake


Following the Allied Victory at the Great Wall, Earth Major General Arnold Phillips convinced the Leader of the Allied Forces to provide him with fourteen thousand troops to capture the first land of the war. General Phillips organized a massive press propaganda run in which they would capture LochLake, a Fire Nation town that was far into unclaimed land between the Great Wall and the Fire Nation. Phillips believed the town, which had a population of less than nine thousand and provided no real strategic benefit to the Allied Forces, would be great for newspaper headers and propaganda, inciting higher moral and higher recruitment rates. The media followed in suit and wrote stories about the "heroic" capture of LochLake for almost four weeks. During that time, the Earth Kingdom recruited eight hundred thousands new recruits, a record for one month.

LochLake was taken on November 14th, 2082 by six thousand Earth Kingdom soldiers and two thousand Water Tribe Soldiers. They took casualties of only 15, while 23 Fire Nation guards died. LockLake was never considered somewhere important to hold, so one month after taking it, Phillips released LochLake back to the Fire Nation in exchange for 11 prisoners of war from previous battles.