[PU-NE] Caribbean Counterattack

Instructions

Make no mistake, the Dominion was very successful in its advances; they captured several of the Caribbean’s largest cities and industrial centres. If one looks only at the map, they’d by this point assume the war was lost for the Caribbean. However, the Dominion has made one fatal mistake: they have not factored in attrition. It is true that the Caribbean has no land force to guard its territories; but the Dominion forgot that the Caribbean army is not composed exclusively of drones. Along with a generous handful of the remaining drones, we also have laser satellites high above, and a decently large navy, both of which they forgot to dispose of. They took an extensive trek through vast tracts of land, bundled with jungle and stifled with tropic air; and all along the way, they would struggle to navigate and keep up the pace properly. One by one, Dominlings would drop dead, either through laser fire above or coastal bombardment. This, combined with the enormous space they are spread out over, would serve to severely overstretch the Dominion’s forces, so that their captured land is almost just an illusion on the map. The supply lines would suffer and foraging would leave them at the mercy of militant guerilla groups. Many of the tripods would too be decimated. During our forays in Dominion space, we captured several Dominling spaceships, which we de-engineered to figure out how everything works. This gave us a keen familiarity with the workings of Dominling shields, which form the primary advantage of their tripods. Not enough to implement such technology in our own devices, but enough to penetrate theirs. They assumed that, with their plasma shields, the drones could do nothing against them. However, now that we know how their shields work, the drones can be adapted. Dominion plasma shields work by trapping ionised gases in a magnetic field. So, a new class of Caribbean drones was manufactured, where each drone would host its own magnetic field so as to draw the ionised gases away from the tripods and leave them open for fire. This was tested, and worked effectively; several tripods were caught unaware, their shields were disabled, and a clutch of drones did the honours and shot them down relentlessly. Tripods form the bulwark of the Dominion’s army, and we would give no hesitation to destroy as many of them while we still can. Key Dominion-occupied cities, such as Mexico City and Bogotà, would be the first to be recaptured; the tripods there would fall, and as air superiority is reclaimed the Dominling troops would flee or drop like flies at a renewed bout of drone fire. We do not need land personnel to occupy cities; all you need is a force that can police its streets, and the drones can do that well. This attack would then be heavily pressed, so as to do as much damage to their forces as possible within a short span of time. Detached Dominling patrols surveying the countryside would be picked off, and more concentrated units would be the object of more severe target. Occupied islands like Jamaica and Puerto Rico would be recaptured with ease, as the Dominling troops would be trapped from both air and sea with diminishing supply, leaving them vulnerable for the taking. In addition, a large proportion of the Caribbean fleet would sail to Panama and begin a constant bombardment of Dominion positions there in an attempt to recapture it and re-establish naval superiority. They would be supported by the drones and satellites from the air, repeating the aforementioned tactics. Also, it is true that our satellites give away their position when they fire their laser; however, security has been given for this. Along with their reflective camouflage (which I have explained in other projects) they were made to constantly alternate their position in the sky, so the laser footprint couldn’t be of any use to the enemy in discerning their locations.