The Liberator's War

Light Ape Kingdom forces assaulting the defenses of the well-known howler monke capital, Pobta City

### Place

Light Ape Isle, Howler Redwoods, Chaos Lands

### Outcome

Light Ape Kingdom, Macaque Empire and Tetra Kingdom Victory

### Battles

#### Surprise Attack on the Light Ape Kingdom

The war started when Levi hosted a military parade consisting of all trk forces, Macaques, and howlers who was trk at the time, and LAK. The war officially started when the howlers launched a surprise attack on the lak capital catching everyone off guard. The attack rampaged through the city but was soon brought to a grinding halt when the LAK cav arrived and soon followed by the foot soldiers who eventually pushed the howlers further and further back till they were at their ships. The attack lasted for 4 hours destroying 5% of the LAK capital and killing 15,000 civilians. Levi fought the howlers along side his troops pushing the howlers back, later that night after the attack Levi made an official declaration of war and called in all his allies to fight the war now in front of them.

#### First Battle of Loweridge

The Battle of Loweridge begun on a clear day of with the Light Ape Kingdom (LAK for short) besieging the city till the advance is ready. The advance on the city was a field day for the howler archers but the LAK shield walls soon formed and the advance to the city was easy. Upon arriving at the city gates the LAK army engaged in brutal urban combat taking hits from everywhere but advanced further cutting down as many howlers as they could get to. As the battle raged in the city outside in the tree line where the LAK reserves and artillery sat waiting for order from Levi, before the force outside could react a howler force which has flanked around began engaging with the outside force. As the situation grew more grave of a massive loss of his army Levi called a retreat signed by a loud playing of the trumpet, all forced began a tactical retreat back to their camp eight miles away from the city. Forces from inside the city retreated with haste taking losses from howler archers on the wall as they retreated but soon caught up with the main force to execute their tactical retreat. The Howler commander Colonel Malyce joined his flanking forces but was soon seen as a mistake as he was chased by Levi where in an attack by Levi he lost his arm but was able to escape. The LAK forces took the first loss of the war on the howler home front.

#### The Second Battle of Loweridge

On a colder rainy day about two weeks after the first battle of Loweridge LAK forces marched on the city once more after leading a campaign on surrounding villages to take a more tactical advantage over the city. The battle began as the first one started with an unrelenting artillery attack on the city hitting strategic buildings and the gates of the city which have been filled with carts and what ever they can scavenge. The howlers weren’t ready for the attack to come this soon but they readied themselves quickly waiting for the advance of LAK troops and the advance came. The LAK troops advanced on the city but this time with the cover of arrow and artillery fire trying to keep the howlers at bay so the advancing troops would have an easier time approaching. The howlers sent a flanking force yet again but this time was met by a defending force waiting for them which was sent ahead as a way to keep the flanking force away from the battle. Back on to the city, LAK forces entered the city and began the urban fight again this time seizing the advantage of the arrow and artillery fire to begin pushing the howlers out of the city towards the river behind the city. The flanking howler force is defeated and they retreat with their main force back towards the river expecting an LAK push to finish them off but it didn’t come, instead over the hill an LAK cavalry charge topped the hill and caught the retreating howlers off guard costing many lives practically eliminating the howler force. The LAK army inside the city as the sun begins to drop kills of remaining resistance raising the LAK flag over the city later that day.

#### Battle of Pobta City

This Battle was fought primarily by Howler Rebels. After the Macaque fleet took the Pobtan Bay, many Howler Rebels managed to sneak into the city, led by the former King Gendir. Several explosions went off around the city, causing immediate chaos for the Liberator soldiers. Many rebels would emerge from the sewers, led by Grundy of the Gigantopithecuses, while many others attacked from their various disguises as civilians, led by Lonar, a criminal kingpin-turned-revolutionary. Gendir would lead a primary assault from the harbor, where he led his own band of rebels alongside many macaques, as they marched directly on towards the castle. While the battle raged in the city, a group of lumberjacks from Redwood Industries led by Mortiz Moneige attempted to hold the road from Fort Trowes to Pobta City to prevent reinforcements from arriving. Upon arriving to the castle, the revolutionaries found that Nikoris and most of his associates had escaped the city amidst the chaos of the battle. Despite taking the castle, the surprise of the attack had passed and the defending Liberator Soldiers were beginning to gain a handle on the situation, that was until the rebels received reinforcements of their own. During the battle, the lumberjacks defending the roads received aid from a battalion of TRK soldiers who crossed one of the lower parts of the Pobtan Mountain Range. After defeating the forces of Fort Trowes, the combined force of the Redwood Industries and Tetra Kingdom marched on Pobta City. Now finding themselves surrounded, the Liberators gave up their arms, and after a speech from Gendir, many decided to pick them up again in order to help their true king and begin the howler path to redemption.

#### Battle of Mount Pobta

The battle of Mount Pobta began on a cloudy day several weeks after the fall of Pobta city. The remaining of the Liberator's forces sat on top of the mountain entrenched and ready for any attack that came their way but the one disadvantage was their moral that had dropped low since the fall of Pobta City. The day of the attack began with a Light ape push up the side of the mountain not wasting any time. While the light apes pushed up the mountain Simion and his forces sat at the bottom of the mountain waiting to begin his advance up the mountain to join up with the LAK. As the light apes pushed up the mountains and drew closer to the howler lines the howlers launched a series of smaller attacks to keep the light ape forces at bay but every attack failed and the howlers charged the light ape lines as vicious hand to hand combat broke out. As the battle broke out on top of the mountain simion and his forces made their way up eventually making it to an already staggered Howler line with the light ape forces pushing slowly through. While the battle raged Levi began fighting with a Wyvern and in a moment of inconsistency the Wyvern was ready to hit Levi with a fire ball but in a stroke of luck the rebels leader Gendir arrived with his force of rebels and brought down the Wyvern allowing for a third force to clash into the already breaking howler lines. Levi and Gendir fought through the lines with Levi pushing all the way through to the Liberator's leader, Nikoris. No later then when Levi reached Nikoris the Macaque army charged up the back side of the mountain clashing with the retreating Liberator forces with Fatty reaching Levi to join him in the fight against Nikoris. As Levi and Fatty began fighting with Nikoris, Fatty's age and illness began to show, with Fatty taking a hit for Levi which ended up killing the Macaque emperor, sending Levi into a rage where he killed Nikoris by beheading him, signaling the end of the war and the fall of the Liberator contolled Howler Kingdom.

#### Battle for New Waltonne

The Battle for New Waltonne was one of the bloodiest battles of the Liberator's War, for both military personnel and for civilian casualties. Also known as the Wailing of Waltonne, this battle saw a large scale LAK assault on the sprawling urban center of New Waltonne. The breaching of the initial wall occurred rather quickly, with Light Ape rams breaking down the gates, allowing the invading soldiers to file in to the city. However, breaching the walls would turn out to be one of the biggest mistakes the Light Apes could make. After breaching the first set of walls, the Light Apes saw that the interior of the city itself was divided by hundreds of walls. Though the howlers were by far outnumbered, they managed to get the LAK soldiers stuck in the maze-like streets of the city, made even more hectic by the thousands of howler civilians who did not evacuate. Howler soldiers would disguise themselves as citizens and try to assassinate enemy officers, which eventually resulted in the Light Apes massacring several thousand inhabitants of the city. Flaming arrows from both sides would end up setting many homes ablaze, and their residents would be trapped from escaping due to defending blockades of city streets and out of fear of the Light Apes. Once they realized their cause was lost, many Howler soldiers would hide among the civilians in an effort to be spared, but the brutality of this battle did not show mercy to any man, woman, or child who had the misfortune of being in this city. Though the Light Ape won the battle, many of the officers were reprimanded for their high civilian casualties.