Macro-Tactics, Monday

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"Good morning," Kerrigan began, shooting an irritated glance around the class. "Most of you were absent last week. I'm sure that as a mitigating factor, you'll suggest the invasion and the fact that all of you came out alive--" Try to sound even less impressed, Kerrigan. "--but the honest truth is that I don't care. You will be tested on last week's material."

She had a stack of tests lying next to her on the desk. "You have the full hour to answer all of these questions," she said. "Be as comprehensive as you can be. Use your own home situation as the basis of every case, unless you don't have a home, in which case I suggest you use the United States', seeing as how that's where we're based."

"Any questions?" She didn't wait for questions. "Good. Get writing."

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Re: Take the Final -- Q3

[glacial_queen]

There were a few answers to that, and Karla wasn't really fond of any of them. Her capital was in the lowlands, at the base of the mountains, surrounded by wheatfields and farmlands. So unless the defenders burned everything as they retreated, her enemies would eat well while the city starved.

Assuming the Winds hadn't been cut off--and Karla wasn't sure anyone could cut off the Winds--the best idea would be to evacuate the city and then do something else. A flood, like she'd thought of before. A bomb, if she had access to such things. Her other idea would be to put a shield up around the entire city itself. It wouldn't last for more than a few hours, not without something stronger than the Sapphire to draw on or people to bolster her, but if she could shield the city and then have her troops come down from the mountains and circle the besieging troops, they could trap them in between themselves and the shield. There wouldn't really be anywhere for them to go. Later, she could drop the shield and have the city's own defenders go out and fight as well, kind of like a pincer.