Dark Crusade

A Dark Crusade is the infernal counterpart to an Adept Crusade. Minions of the Darkness gather together to participate in an organized war operation against a set of targets identified as loyal to the Light. Just like with the Adepts, a war council is convened and leaders chose, although where Adepts use elections, agents of the Darkness use far more draconian means to decide their leaders.
A Dark Crusade is a serious matter even for powerful Adepts. Standard procedure is for agents of disruption and chaos to be sent in ahead of time, to cause protests and riots or natural disasters. This creates a scenario of havoc and mayhem, perfect cover for a Dark Crusade to commence.
When the forces of a Dark Crusade move in, they send in waves of low-level foot soldiers to trigger any traps and discover areas of strong opposition first. Because the Darkness has far more followers than does the Light, this is often quite easy for them to do.
The method of a Dark Crusade is two-fold, to cause chaos and bury enemies under weight of numbers. Once the holdouts of Adepts and other enemies are discerned, the Dark Crusade will move to surround and smother them.
The best time to stop a Dark Crusade is before it ever gets off the ground. The followers of the Darkness are many, but they lack the unity of the followers of the Light. In order for a Dark Crusade to be called, a powerful and recognized champion of the Darkness must call for one, using his own charisma to send out the message across the many fractured groups. If that call can be countered by a rival, confusion will ensue and the Dark Crusade will never come to pass.
== Order of Assassins & Unseen: ==
The Adepts of the Order of Assassins & Unseen really come to their strengths in the time of a Dark Crusade. Their ability to slip behind enemy lines and assassinate key leaders plays to their own strengths, and the general weakness of the forces of the Darkness. The agents of the Dark lack purpose and unity beyond the immediate, because of this it doesn't take much to turn them against each other. 
The Assassins move in, kill favored leaders, and blame the deaths on rival groups within the Crusade. More than one Dark Crusade has been transformed into a bubbling cauldron of fratricide thanks to the a few well-placed blade strokes on the part of an Assassin team with cover provided for them by Unseen.
Category:Infernal