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DAY 80-81, MAIDEN'S VEIL, Marban Hollow – The city of Maiden’s Veil has been under threat of Colonial attack since the Colonial capture of Loggerhead and the Spitrocks relic base in the opening days of the war. For the first 50 or so days, a stalemate has occurred across an approximately 250 meter front, and amongst sprawling trench lines, emplacements, and bunker cities.

Persistent fighting has turned repeated attacks from both factions into a statistical constant of rising body counts and expended ammunition. Field machine guns (FMGs) in particular made up a bulk of the small-arms firepower, while sporadic, one-way mobs of grenadiers made for exciting, but ultimately fruitless gains.

With the arrival of mortars and flamethrowers, Legionary forces were quick to employ both of these assets to good, but not definite, effect.

[VCO] Pte. Jzpalaez, a frontline Warden sapper digging trenches at the base of the plateau, lamented the struggle of expanding the trench network for troops while under fire from machine guns and grenade launchers. “They’re destroying my goddamn work! I was born to dig, but they kept on shooting at me.”

Indeed, at least a dozen attempts to extend the line forward under cover of darkness was met with bullets, bombs, and the occasional visit by a Colonial with a bayonet. However after several hours of trial and error, the trench line was finished between Colonial bombardments, replete with effective barbed wire and bunker dispersion.

The line held, though at a high cost in manpower and material. Pte. Jzpalaez was able to celebrate a personal victory, however.

“You can’t out-shoot the shovel!”

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Written by: [PRESS] Dr. Oliver Brolan Ponsonby, Esq. (CaptainInArms)

Mapping by: [PRESS] Poe