“Welcome ladies and gentleman to Channel Fourteen, it is the fourteenth of August and you all know what that means! Yes indeed it is the beginning of the War Games Tournament 903! Once again thirty-two regiments will battle it out in the arenas to earn the accolade of War Game Champions! For those new to us I should explain how the tournament works. At each stage, and there are five stages in all, each regiment is paired off with another regiment and are placed within one of eight arenas where the two regiments battle it out until one regiment claims victory. The losing regiment drops out of the tournament. That’s right people! Each regiment has only one chance to advance to the next stage! By the end of the tournament thirty of the regiments will have been defeated, leaving the two finalists to duke it out for the title. I now hand you over to Mike, who’ll give you a run down of the regiments in this years tournament.”

“Thank you Dave. This year is going to prove interesting one as we see two airborne regiments entering this year. The SLA First Airborne and Twelfth Air Recon use a mix of airborne vehicles to rapidly take locations and strike deep into the heart of the enemy. They are also the smallest of regiments entering. I must remind you that each regiment is limited to equipment being worth no more than fifteen million credits in total; this is to provide a means of balancing forces. This year sees fewer mechanised infantry regiments than we have since the tournaments began, with just four mechanised infantry regiments entering, the Mechanised Fourth, Eighteenth, Forty-Third and the Sixth Mobile Infantry. To balance out this reduction the heavy infantry category sees even more regiments, eighteen this year, made up of the Twelfth, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Ninth and Thirty-Sixth Nitro, First, Second and Third Heavy Dragoons, Fourth, Ninth, Tenth and Thirteenth Heavy Foot and also the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Seventeenth, Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Heavy Infantry. The last eight regiments are light infantry, who make up the largest forces on a one-to-one basis with seven thousand men. This year’s light infantry are made up of the First and Second Recon, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Light Foot and the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Light Infantry. Dave?”

“Cheers Mike. Now in each match there are three ways of victory, the surest method is the capturing of the opposing force’s command centre, this will more than likely be the method employed by the two airborne regiments. Another method, and amongst the most difficult to enforce, is neutralising the opposing force, this requires that a situation is created where one force can make any move they wish whilst the other can do nothing but react, and in reacting weaken their defences. A minimum time of two hours needs to be met for this victory condition to be declared. The third, and most brutal, method of victory is the complete annihilation of the opposing force."

NOTE: This is a work in Progress.