Battle of Vegas

I was there at the battle of Vegas. Biggest damn defeat we ever handed the shrimps.

Due to its isolated location and environmental control it was a great haven from the infected cites where the alien weapons were creating well - zombies. The aliens though they could cut everyone off in the middle of a desert and eliminate millions of humans in one fell swoop. For all their advanced plasma cannons, power-armors, even the fact that they traveled faster than light to get here, they were missing the knowledge of a 3000 year old Chinese man - and that’s what made all the difference.

It was something right out of Sun Tzu. They attempted to cut us off in open terrain - something you just can’t do. They attempted to lay siege, and pressed a desperate enemy - two more broken rules of war. Due to atmospheric attenuation, their directed energy weapons have a shorter range than our gauss weaponry, yet they still chose to advance - a lack of knowledge of ones enemy - the ultimate sin according to the art of war.

And there was one more factor that came to play in that open desert waste. Something no Chinese general could have dreamed of in the days of Confucius.

You see, about a century ago the land just north of Vegas was used for atmospheric testing of atom bombs. So, we had no compunctions about deploying a pair of megaton warheads on what was already an ordinance testing range.

The battle lasted about 375 microseconds if I recall the numbers correctly.