War for Costa Bravo
In June of 2006, the Bordura conflict rose anew, in the form of the recently-dubbed War for Costa Bravo. According to a speech Regent Rudabaugh delivered, this was the war in which "all the horrors, all the righteous battles and liberations we have perpetrated in the last half-century, have now come back to bite us in the ass". The Taschist Axis, an alliance of dictatorial and opressive regimes previously engaged in wars precipitated by Costa Bravo, invaded the Isla de Muerte on June 6, 2006. The Axis, consisting of Bordura, Syldavo, Khamed, Dakkland and Sondonesia, sought to conquer Costa Bravo, and demolish the government in favor of their own. As a result of the new threat, an alliance between benevolent, Taschist-opposed nations was formed. This alliance, called simply the Alliance, consisted of Costa Bravo, Bothnia, and Puerta Rica.
After three unsuccessful attempts by the Alliance to retrieve control over the Isla de Muerte, the Taschist Axis broke through the defense line and into the Costa Bravan mainland, seizing Mourmelon, St. Denis, and Cavignac outright. Khamed and Sondonesian forces, meanwhile, made landfall on the northern coast, failing in all battles but one: Chauvigny, which was heavily shelled, causing Costa Bravan troops to be forced to withdraw. Several air campaigns against Khamed and Sondonesian fleets in the Mediterranean resulted in the loss of almost 100,000 Taschist troops. Both Sondonesia and Khamed retreated from the Mediterranean.
Southwards, however, Bordura, Syldavo, and Dakkland (with Sondonesian and Khamed liasions) continued to make headway on their advance. The front lines moved to Carentan and Bourgaines, with considerable action in towns and cities along the Janeiro Canal. A successfull counterattack by General Gavin G. Farlain's forces established a salient into the Taschist line, cutting off supplies and resulting in the success of the battles at Carentan and Bourgaines. In order to recuperate from the loss, General Tzug Szplatz pulled back all battalions past an established point. Costa Bravo harrassed these battalions as they retreated, inflicting heavy losses. At once such engagement, in Bagnoles, Costa Bravo cut off some 500,000 men from retreating. Bagnoles, at the edge of the Janeiro Canal, was a source of considerable nuclear power for Costa Bravo. As such, it had a handful of nuclear powerplants intersparsed through the city. Somehow, as the battle raged through the city streets, the easternmost of the powerplants was compromised, and breached, resulting in a chain reaction that breached all four other powerplants. They exploded shortly therafter, simultaneously, completely leveling the city and killing almost 1,000,000 people, civilians and soldiers alike.
The explosion at Bagnoles crippled both sides of the war; the entirety of one of Costa Bravo's airborne divisions was destroyed, along with various other regiments, the 500,000 retreating Bordurans were almost all killed (some soldiers were stationed directly outside the city; about 1000), and the provinces Armagnac, Chambourd, and Rhemois lost power for ten days. As of November, Syldavo, Sondonesia, and Khamed had withdrawn from the conflict, leaving Bordura and Dakkland to fend for themselves. Dakkland's precarious economic situation precipitated the undersupplication of their forces, which led to a series of harsh defeats in Nivergny. They withdrew in January of 2007. Bordura was last to surrender. After having been pushed back to Isla de Muerte, their forces were drawn thin and few in number. Subsequent to mass unsanctioned surrenders by devastated regiments, Bordura withdrew from the country altogether to nurse their own wounds. As of March 1, 2007, the War for Costa Bravo was ended. Some 2,900,000 civilians and soldiers alike were killed.
