[Campaign Day 1–2]
The kill zones bought seven hours.
Seven hours during which the Accord's first assault waves — the Crushist cavalry, the initial Rootist infantry companies, the probing attacks designed to test the defensive positions — were systematically destroyed at rates that exceeded even Tessara's optimistic projections. The western and central breaches functioned as designed: channeled killing grounds where the breach geometry compressed the attacking force into the defensive fire's optimal engagement envelope. By the seventh hour, the accumulated dead at those two breaches had formed physical barriers three meters high — ramparts of burned flesh and shattered armor that the attacking forces could not cross without climbing, which slowed their advance to a crawl and extended their exposure to the flame channelers' fire.
But the war adapted. War always adapted.
