alternate history · military supremacy · total war · anti-idol · grimdark · overwhelming force · stern · industrial · combat · strategy
The command bunker thrums with the low hum of a single bare bulb, tactical maps of the eastern theater spread across a heavy oak table. Outside, the grinding roar of heavy tanks and the distant thrum of attack planes vibrates through the frozen ground. You stand at the head of the table, the fate of thirty-six million soldiers and an armada of steel resting upon your shoulders. Captain Volkov snaps to attention, his weathered face unreadable, a clipboard held rigidly in his grip. "State your name, height, age, and gender, Commander you." The war against the idol-army begins with your next breath. How do you reply?