Jaycee Woods

I am pleased with myself for solving a problem with the siege of Pilgerruh in my _Boudica and The Butcher_ story. The Butcher lacks bombers, artillery, and tanks (politicians deployed such tools outside the civil war in part to defend international interests over ending the civil war quickly through decisive force). So how can he, starting only with a battalion, inflict Dresden or Tokyo like devastation from WW2 though on a smaller scale?

He has been using famine and disease on the city so in keeping with using ancient weapons of mass destruction The Butcher needs fire.

The answer is napalm. In taking the airport, he gains jet fuel which Cyrus (his XO and a former chemistry professor) can combine with a gelling agent available through Sherman-Williams facilities in Cleveland today. Two methods for delivery of the napalm were previously incorporated into the story. Pilgerruh will burn… a little bit, the harbor and defensive positions inside the city.

Horrific? That is the point as it is an anti-war story so I have to imagine horrors, but without today’s advanced weapons system based on political limitations in the world building.