<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=156288.msg7212246#msg7212246">Quote from: Crash on 12-11-2012, 08:28:41</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Thanks Vel, that helps a lot!<br/><br/>Wreck's first post is up in LA.  I hope everyone likes it.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Agreed. I'm an insatiable fan of military history and war movies and the like, so I was planning on my Abigail Brand posts in Cairo having a heavy pseudo-military POV. Far too often, conventional military/law enforcement is conveniently swept under the rug as background casualties. I'm hoping my first posts can continue that time honored tradition... but expand on it considerably. :p<br/><br/>Been delving a lot into the traditional invasion routes used by foreign forces when they invaded Egypt. I'm assuming Apocalypse is operating in reverse. Thanks to his technology and the widespread nature of the attacks, I'm assuming his forces kinda appeared in Cairo and billowed outward in decisive fashion. Reading the other excellent posts in the Cairo thread, he was incredibly efficient in rounding up large numbers of civilians which leads me to wonder if the forces were solely superhuman based or if he used some manner of automated or drone/robot based forces or their biological equivalents. (though that might be too 'grunt-ish') I'm going to PM Vel for more details because I don't want to be too presumptuous.<br/><br/>With that said, studying some Egyptian military history, it seems reasonable that any conventional resistance would be using natural defensive barriers likethe vast marshes/wetlands between Port Said and Damietta (Yes I'm geeking out right now) which is the mouth of the Nile River. Traditional invaders of Egypt like Britain/France/Israel in the 19th and 20th century and the Crusaders in the 12th and 13th Century used the same route to head into Cairo and it was fraught with difficulty in advancing downward, but inversely, it also helped block counteroffensives as well heading northward. My post will probably be focusing on conventional skirmishes and battles there between Apocalypse's (likely advantageous) forces and whatever conventional resistance that is mustered by the collapsed Egyptian government (which still has a massive military) and other allied interests. The only reason I'm babbling about it now is because I just want to know if I'll be stepping on anyones toes when I write up my post or if anyone wants to PM suggestions or advice or the like, or warn me off from being too much of a milgeek.<br/><br/>Cheers!