Battle of Atorva

The Battle of Atorva was a major raid on the surface of LV-325 Atorva, on the 10th of October 2194. The battle was notable, as it was the first major engagement on Atorva, and for the high number of marines deployed, with the group's attendance record being only 2 marines away from being broken. 
==Background==
USCM first became aware of the 'Blood Angels' following their assault on Nantucket against the Gregpire, an HFC affiliated group. The Primarch of the Blood Angels, former marine BossOfArma3 soon made clear his intent to launch a raid on Baja, and the USCM soon became aware of Astarte scouting operations on both Baja and Atorva, however the location was changed to Atorva. A squad of retired marines, included Veterans, Fox6095, NovaCypher, AlbertBlackwell and Rexguardian was also present, with all briefly coming out of retirement to attend the defense. While a maximum of 100 hostiles was expected, only around 77 showed up.
==History==
"Battalion level operations (:screamingtennisballvector)"
-Colonel WolfhoundWarmaster after seeing how many marines pulled up to the defense.
On the date of the raid marine forces quickly rallied up on Atorva, amassing a battalion sized force of ~46 marines to hold back the tide of hostiles. With the simple plan to hold the defender side of the river and the associated points, marine forces hoped to utilize delaying actions to get into position and hunker down, while the Blood Angels hoped to brute force each individual point one at a time. Both sides plans, however, would soon be derailed by the immense lag that affected the server as soon as the raid start command was run. While intense lag had been expected, the opposing force of Astarte's had apparently not been fully aware of how bad the server could chug with over 100 players in it at once, leading to degraded morale. Marine forces soon managed to capture every point but BH. Marine air support was hampered by the poor visibility conditions that changes to the maps lighting had brought, leading to little CAS throughout the raid. Much of the fighting throughout the raid was concentrated at the BH point after it was first captured by the raiders, with most other marine held positions only receiving a trickle of hostiles. After a tough fight, the raid ended with a score of 100/23 to USCM.
==Media==
USCMC vs Blοod Angеls [ATORVA LP Point Perspective) (youtube.com)
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