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The rest (houses, crops, food stocks and any objects made of iron) was to be burned to deprive the Royalists of resources. The strict scorched-earth policy made him ask on 29 July 1812 the people of Jujuy to "show their heroism" and to join the march of the army under his command "if, as you assure, you want to be free". The punishment for ...
Scorched Earth is a shareware artillery video game. It was released for MS-DOS in 1991, originally written by Wendell Hicken using Borland C++ and Turbo Assembler . [ 2 ] Players control tanks to do turn-based battle in two-dimensional terrain, adjusting the angle and power of each tank turret before each shot.
The invasion was further complicated by the scorched earth strategy formulated by Peter and his generals. The Russian armies retreated continuously, dispersing the cattle and hiding the grain in the peasant towns they passed, burning unharvested crops, and leaving no resources for the Swedish army to stave off the Russian winter.
Operation Scorched Earth, a Saudi military operation in the north of Yemen; Scorched Earth, a board wargame in the Europa series by Game Designers' Workshop; Scorched-earth defense, a form of risk arbitrage and anti-takeover strategy; Scorched-Earth Policy, an American heavy metal band; Scorching the Earth, a tactic in British Parliamentary ...
The people flee Earth and settle on Mars but have constant conflicts with the native Martians. Several of these stories have been adapted to other media. Andre Norton's Star Man's Son (1952, also known as Daybreak 2250), is an early post-nuclear-war novel that follows a young man, Fors, in search of lost knowledge. Fors begins his Arthurian ...
Sudden Strike: Resource War (2004) (stand-alone expansion) Hidden Stroke 2: APRM (2005) (stand-alone expansion) Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory (2007) Sudden Strike: The Last Stand (2010) (stand-alone expansion) Sudden Strike 4 (2017)
Desert of Desolation includes a 128-page adventure booklet, a sixteen-page maps booklet, and a large A1 size sheet containing maps and player handouts. [3] The compilation module contains new maps, including an isometric map depicting the tomb of Amun-Re. [ 13 ] The revision also introduces ancient inscriptions that the players can decipher.
During the remainder of the war, Cossack units were dismounted to fight in trenches, held in reserve to exploit a rare breakthrough, or assigned various duties in the rear. Those duties included rounding up deserters, providing escorts to war prisoners, and razing villages and farms in accordance with Russia's scorched earth policy. [95]