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Capital Offensive

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Capital Offensive	comment	When a war breaks out, the different factions will each have their objectives and goals. Since they are at war, these goals will often be different. But one thing they will all have is a desire to take each other's capital city, or if they can't actually capture it, then at least inflict enough damage on it to create shock. This is Truth in Television. For a soldier, bringing the war to somebody's home is already a powerful psychological attack. But the taking or bombing of an enemy capital is a sure way to let the enemy know that things are REALLY bad now. Seizing the capital especially, as it is often the battle that ends a war, particularly if the political leadership was captured or killed in the process. However, just as often, the fight will continue, although the losing side's military may have taken some serious damage. In these cases a Government in Exile will be formed. Capital cities that are unfortunate enough to be near the border are often the most vulnerable. However, on the flip side, the war may not end immediately in such cases since there will still be a lot of country left and likely a strong military force still very much in the game. Capitals that are further away are much more difficult to attack, but by the time you fight your way there, the enemy will likely be much more depleted. In either case, the retaking of the capital will now be the highest priority of the faction that lost it. This trope also applies to a Civil War as well, since the government will want to hold on to the seat of power to show they are still in charge, while taking it can help the rebels signal that the old regime is falling. This can be seen as a super-trope of Washington D.C. Invasion, which deals with similar scenarios in the United States capital. When the objective is taking out the enemy commander, you have Straight for the Commander. Expect there to be a lot of Monumental Damage as well, given how many nice, shiny landmarks are often sitting there waiting for a tank shell or a bomb to hit them. Urban Warfare is a given here, especially when fighting takes place in the capital itself.
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Capital Offensive / int_19350db9	comment	In Master of Orion 2: Battle for Antares, victory can unsurprisingly be achieved by conquering Antares, the homeworld of the Antarans who have begun attacking the galaxy after everyone thought they had gone extinct. In something of a subversion, Master of Orion 3 reveals that the conquered world wasn't actually their homeworld at all, but just a staging post for their raiding fleets, and far from knocking the fight out of them it just annoyed them enough to launch a full-scale invasion.
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Capital Offensive / int_1a1a594f	comment	The Battlefield series. Battlefield 1942 featured Berlin as a map. Although it happens off-screen, Washington, D.C. is under siege by the Middle Eastern Coalition in their invasion of the U.S. east coast. The backstory of one map states that the Americans are attempting to send reinforcements to break the siege. Battlefield 3 has a U.S. assault on Tehran during a fictional U.S.-Iran war.
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Capital Offensive / int_1de234dc	comment	In later Destroyermen novels, The Alliance forces manage successfully take the Celestial City, the current capital of the Grik Empire, located on Madagascar. The surviving Grik pull back their forces and set up shop in Sofesshk, the ancient Grik capital, located on the north bank of the Zambezi River in Africa. The Alliance continually sends bombers to assault the city to keep the Grik from becoming too complacent.
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Capital Offensive / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem games typically have a capital invasion of the enemy nation as a significant story development culminating in a Climax Boss battle, though it is often not the end of the story. Some notable examples: Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade: The Kingdom of Bern's war against the entire continent of Elibe finally stops when Roy leads a combined Lycian-Etrurian army to seize its unnamed capital city and slays King Zephiel in the royal palace. This is where the story ends... unless you had successfully obtained all the Divine Weapons from the optional side missions throughout the game (and haven't broken any of them), at which point the additional Secret Expanded Epilogue missions are unlocked and goes on to reveal who the true instigator of the war is. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones: Ephraim's story has the invasion of Grado Keep, the capital of the Grado Empire, and ends with Grado's Emperor Vigarde slain. However, this is only the halfway point of the story, as his son Prince Lyon continues to command the remainder of the imperial army across the continent. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: Early on, the Kingdom of Daein launches a full invasion right into Crimea's capital city Melior, quickly overwhelming the defenders and eliminating the ruling family with the exception of Princess Elincia. Later, under the authority of the Begnion Empire, Ike leads an army into Daein, eventually taking its capital, Nevassa. Fire Emblem: Awakening: This game pulls it four separate times. Ylisstol, capital of the Halidom of Ylisse, is invaded by assassins in one chapter and falls in a separate one, being recaptured after the end of chapter 11. The capital of Plegia (not named by the game) is used as a battlefield twice by the player's army, two years apart. The player's army also invades the capital of Valm and defeats Emperor Walhart between those two occasions. Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Three out of four routes involve an attack on Adrestia's capital city of Enbarr, with the Azure Moon route having this as its finale. The remaining route, Crimson Flower, has its final chapter end with the seizure of Faerghus's capital city, Fhirdiad. The third major power, the Leicester Alliance, also has its capital Derdriu invaded by Adrestia in both Azure Moon and Crimson Flower.
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Capital Offensive / int_23b84765	comment	By The Return of the King, Sauron's Orcish and Haradrim forces besiege Minas Tirith, the capital city of Gondor.
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Capital Offensive / int_247422c7	comment	In Honor Harrington, the two battles of Manticore happen because either the Havenites or the Solarian League decide to attack the Manticore binary system. Both attacks are a failure, although the first one results in the largest-scale battle in history. The latter is a Curb-Stomp Battle, as the Solarians learn the hard way that their "undefeatable" Space Navy is thoroughly outclassed. Then, in book 19, Honor takes the Grand Alliance fleet into the Sol System and browbeats the League into ending the war and rewriting the constitution to prevent bureaucrats from taking power again, while also blowing up most of the space-based industry in the system and scuttling hundreds of Solarian warships.
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Capital Offensive / int_2930d0c4	comment	Battlefield 3 has a U.S. assault on Tehran during a fictional U.S.-Iran war.
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Capital Offensive / int_2a139e05	comment	In season 2 of The Orville, the Kaylon attempt a sneak attack of Earth, which is the capital of the Planetary Union. Luckily, the Orville manages to warn the Union, and the Kaylon are met with a large force. They still attack and nearly win, especially when several of their ships break off from the battle and make a beeline for Earth. They are stopped when the Krill arrive in force to assist the Union. Subverted when the Union fleet arrives to the orbit of Krill in season 3, as they're not there to invade or destroy. They're there to rescue the diplomatic delegation that's being held for execution by the new Krill leader.
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Capital Offensive / int_2af4f467	comment	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Cobra does this twice during the course of the series. The first occurred when they tricked the world into thinking that an Alien Invasion was coming, and that San Franscisco and Vladivostok were going to be attacked. This diversion caused both the United States and Russia to move the bulk of their militaries towards those locations. Cobra then launched two raids against the White House in Washington and the Kremlin in Moscow to seize the valuable military secrets of both nations. The Joes and the Russian Oktober Guard have to work together to stop them. The second was a full-scale invasion of Washington ordered by Serpentor at the end of his 5-part debut arc. However, the other Cobra characters point out to him that while he occupies Washington, the rest of America is still free and in the fight, and both the President and Vice President were away at the time of the attack. This realistically Lampshades how difficult attacking the U.S. mainland really is for conventional militaries. Serpentor should have listened to his subordinates as the Joes lead the retaking of the city in a Curb-Stomp Battle.
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Capital Offensive / int_2c2a56e3	comment	The Phantom Menace begins with the Trade Federation invading the planet Naboo. When the droid army arrives in the planet's capital of Theed and captures Queen Amidala, Viceroy Gunray declares "victory". However, the Queen escapes and later returns to lead La RÃ©sistance in a Capital Offensive of her own by storming the Royal Palace and capturing Gunray.
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Capital Offensive / int_2f3eb71f	comment	Command & Conquer: Generals: The very first mission of the Chinese campaign begins with the Global Liberation Army detonating a dirty bomb in the middle of downtown Beijing right in front of the Forbidden City. China later returns the favor at Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and the US heap on even more with Baghdad (Iraq) and Akmola (Kazakhstan).
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Capital Offensive / int_321ab7a7	comment	Turning Point: Fall of Liberty: Washington, D.C. is one of the first places to fall to the Germans during their invasion of the Unites States. Later, La RÃ©sistance attacks the White House in an effort to kill Stevenson, The Quisling President installed by the invaders.
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Capital Offensive / int_32c541e6	comment	The final arc of Fullmetal Alchemist takes place to the backdrop of a civil war in Central City, capital of Amestris, with rebel forces led by Colonel Mustang and Brigadier-General Armstrong fighting the army loyal to the Fuhrer for control of the seat of government.
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Capital Offensive / int_353b7af3	comment	This is retconned by Star Trek: Discovery, where Klingons are at the edge of the Solar System and preparing to deal a finishing blow to the Federation by attacking Earth. They're stopped by L'Rell threatening to blow up Qo'noS.
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Capital Offensive / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	The New Jedi Order has the Yuuzhan Vong capture Coruscant after a particularly gruesome battle in which they suffer massive casualties and the Republic defenses are unintentionally damaged by an inept, corrupt, and idiotic political leadership. The Republic Chief of State is killed and the government sets up a temporary capital on Mon Calamari, while the Yuuzhan Vong begin reckoning with Mook Depletion even as they transform the planet into their new homeworld. In the final novel of the series, the Galactic Alliance (the new name given to a re-organized Republic) and its allies (which now includes the Imperial Remnant) liberate Coruscant, and deliver such a massive blow that the Yuuzhan Vong surrender, ending the war.
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Capital Offensive / int_45854dfc	comment	Starship Troopers: The Federation shows what a bunch of geniuses they are by invading Arachnid territory and going straight for their homeworld Klendathu, the most heavily populated and fortified planet of the Arachnid's interstellar empire. The human assault force is routed within the hour and they are forced to retreat with embarassing casualties. The next Sky Marshal goes for the somewhat more sane strategy of attacking the outlying colonies first.
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Capital Offensive / int_479c8fff	comment	Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception has Mission 12 being a battle for your own capital, Griswall. There are three variants of the battle: the A & B variants are very similar, with the only real difference being whether the Meson Cannons in the city are at full power or not. The C variant is the canon, being the longest and most intense version. It's the only version where the civilian militia known as the Aurelian Liberation Corps is involved, having already started the battle for the city by attempting to retake control of the Meson Cannons, and Gryphus One must prevent Leasathian ground forces from entering the Atmos Ring and slaughtering the ALC. In addition, Leasath's elite Skylla Unit is also deployed with their experimental planes to harass you. The mission ends with Leasath deciding to bombard Griswall with medium-range cruise missiles and you having to shoot the missiles out of the air.
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Capital Offensive / int_49aa2aa4	comment	Ace Combat The penultimate mission of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies follows the capture of the Erusean capital Farbanti, which (almost) ends the Usean Continental War. Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception has Mission 12 being a battle for your own capital, Griswall. There are three variants of the battle: the A & B variants are very similar, with the only real difference being whether the Meson Cannons in the city are at full power or not. The C variant is the canon, being the longest and most intense version. It's the only version where the civilian militia known as the Aurelian Liberation Corps is involved, having already started the battle for the city by attempting to retake control of the Meson Cannons, and Gryphus One must prevent Leasathian ground forces from entering the Atmos Ring and slaughtering the ALC. In addition, Leasath's elite Skylla Unit is also deployed with their experimental planes to harass you. The mission ends with Leasath deciding to bombard Griswall with medium-range cruise missiles and you having to shoot the missiles out of the air. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation takes a cue from X, also having a battle for your own capital, Gracemeria, which you liberate from the enemy's occupation after having to abandon it early in the game. Ace Combat: Assault Horizon has two of them, both involves two real life capital cities. The first one is in Moscow where the combined NATO and Russian loyalists launches a decisive offensive against NRF forces who have occupied the Russian capital. While the last one happens in the final mission where the Big Bad leads a whole squadrons of rogue Russian fighters and bombers on a daring offensive against Washington DC to nuke the White House. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown once again returns to the Erusean capital Farbanti. Early in the game, a cutscene mentions Osea attempted an air raid on the city but was repelled and their Kestrel II aircraft carrier was sunk. Much later in the war, after Osea has gained control of over 60% of the Usean continent, a second offensive is mounted, this time consisting of a full-scale combined land, sea, and air assault from all directions. Like the previous time, Farbanti falls, but the war is far from over. Hilariously, Farbanti is captured on the exact same date as before, September 19th.
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Capital Offensive / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth opens with the Forsaken losing the Undercity and control of Lordaeron while the Night Elves are driven out of Kalimdor when Teldrassil, the tree housing their capital, is burned.
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Capital Offensive / int_4c213722	comment	Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory: When North Korea launches an invasion of South Korea, it doesn't take long for them to send an attack force to Seoul. Truth in Television since Seoul is uncomfortably close to the border. The player, as Sam Fisher, has to navigate through the streets as a major battle between South Korean and North Korean forces rages.
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Capital Offensive / int_4cbbd83f	comment	Radio Tapok's song "Battle for Moscow" (covered by Sabaton in English as "Defence of Moscow" tells the story of the Soviet Union's all-out defense of Moscow against Operation Typhoon — the final German offensive to capture the Soviet capital city.
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Capital Offensive / int_5341628f	comment	Soviet Storm: World War II in the East has the Germans doing this to the Soviets during Operation Barbarossa, by taking Mink and Kiev, the capitals of Belarus and Ukraine. Later, the Soviets repay the favor by attacking Berlin.
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Capital Offensive / int_53a73ca0	comment	Played with in the Umbara arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Seizing the Umbaran capital is a priority for the Republic forces, but that isn't the main story of the arc. Instead, the show focuses on the 501st and their efforts to provide support for Obi-Wan's troops, who mostly seize the capital offscreen.
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Capital Offensive / int_56fa0ea4	comment	Civilization series: A very dangerous gambit to do but it is sometimes important to do as in some capitals there are either important wonders or are dangerous buildings like the Ironworks/Moai Statues which make the capitals the real producers of enemy units. In some versions, there's also a possibility that capturing the capital of a civilization will cause the entire civilization to split into two rival factions. In the Brave New World expansion of V, capturing all enemy (starting) capitals is the requirement to fulfill the Domination Victory condition (previously it was "be the last civilization in possession of your own starting capital", which made it possible to get a Domination Victory without even going to war by letting other civilizations capture each other's).
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Capital Offensive / int_59da62aa	comment	The nuclear war itself was a subversion. Because on one hand, D.C. was just one of many, many places to get nuked. But on the other hand, one can take a look at the D.C. ruins and see that it was hit especially hard. Indeed, one can look at the conditions in the Capital Wasteland and compare them to the Mojave Wasteland of Fallout: New Vegas and the Commonwealth (of Massachusetts) of Fallout 4. Las Vegas was spared much of the destruction as Mr. House's private defense systems stopped most of the missiles, and Boston only suffered a single hit from one high-yield nuke that missed hitting the city directly. But Washington, as the nation's capital, was hit multiple times, and sustained far more damage.
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Capital Offensive / int_5b2027bf	comment	World War II: The first episode, "The Polish German War" lays out the plans for the 1939 German invasion of Poland. The 14th Army under Wilhelm List is directed to capture Kracow, the Polish capital. In 1940, Paris is declared an open city that will not resist the invading Germans to spare it from destruction.
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Capital Offensive / int_5bd0554b	comment	In Warcraft II, The Horde attacks the capital of the Kingdom of Lordaeron (actually called Capital City), the largest member of The Alliance, hoping to break the Alliance into more manageable chunks. According to the canon, Gul'dan's betrayal and the approach of the Alliance army (plus Lord Greymane cutting off Horde reinforcements, moving through Alterac) forces Orgrim Doomhammer to pull out his forces, even as the walls of the city are about to fall. Also, during the First War, the capital city of the Kingdom of Stormwind is canonically sacked by the Horde (although not completely destroyed). It's rebuilt by World of Warcraft.
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Capital Offensive / int_5bf10855	comment	Battlefield 1942 featured Berlin as a map.
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Capital Offensive / int_5d1b7e1f	comment	Hearts of Iron III has a point system for various cities and provinces. If the enemy captures more points than morale, then the country surrenders. Obviously, capitals are worth a lot and often are a driving point to surrender.
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Capital Offensive / int_61c6b600	comment	The plot of Star Trek: First Contact is the Enterprise trying to stop a Borg attack against Earth — specifically, Past!Earth.
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Capital Offensive / int_625f8f3	comment	The Parsian capital of Ectabana is captured by the Lusitanians fairly early in The Heroic Legend of Arslan. The story focuses on the young Crown Prince, who needs to raise an army to liberate it and grow up into a leader capable of commanding said army.
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Capital Offensive / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, the final battle takes place in Denerim, the capital of Ferelden, which is in the process of being overrun by the Darkspawn.
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Capital Offensive / int_640d9be1	comment	Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade: The Kingdom of Bern's war against the entire continent of Elibe finally stops when Roy leads a combined Lycian-Etrurian army to seize its unnamed capital city and slays King Zephiel in the royal palace. This is where the story ends... unless you had successfully obtained all the Divine Weapons from the optional side missions throughout the game (and haven't broken any of them), at which point the additional Secret Expanded Epilogue missions are unlocked and goes on to reveal who the true instigator of the war is.
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Capital Offensive / int_64854b49	comment	StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm: Korhal is again invaded, this time by the Zerg, in Kerrigan's drive to defeat Mengsk once and for all.
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Capital Offensive / int_6b671725	comment	Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation takes a cue from X, also having a battle for your own capital, Gracemeria, which you liberate from the enemy's occupation after having to abandon it early in the game.
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Capital Offensive / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3: The game's main storyline involves a battle for control of the ruins of Washington, D.C. in a post-nuclear war America. The Enclave especially has an interest in securing the Capital Wasteland due to their (rather dubious) claim to be the legitimate heirs to the government of the U.S. (they are actually descended from a group of conspirators that operated inside the government behind the scenes). The nuclear war itself was a subversion. Because on one hand, D.C. was just one of many, many places to get nuked. But on the other hand, one can take a look at the D.C. ruins and see that it was hit especially hard. Indeed, one can look at the conditions in the Capital Wasteland and compare them to the Mojave Wasteland of Fallout: New Vegas and the Commonwealth (of Massachusetts) of Fallout 4. Las Vegas was spared much of the destruction as Mr. House's private defense systems stopped most of the missiles, and Boston only suffered a single hit from one high-yield nuke that missed hitting the city directly. But Washington, as the nation's capital, was hit multiple times, and sustained far more damage. Traveling around the D.C. area also reveals that China had a large-scale espionage/infiltration operation going on. The player can even find that some of them are still alive, having been turned into long-living ghouls by the radiation. Normally this would not count, except that the Chinese had a number of elite commandos among their operatives in addition to spies, showing that they may have been planning some kind of commando or terrorist attack on the city. There is even a Chinese command truck that can be found at some point that further gives credence to this. In the Back Story of the series, it hints that before the nuclear war the U.S., having kicked the Chinese out of Alaska, were invading China itself and closing in on Beijing. This would offer some hints that the Chinese regime may have triggered the nuclear exchange as a Taking You with Me towards the rest of the world.
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Capital Offensive / int_6c47db4e	comment	Dynasty Warriors 4: The final battle of each of the Three Kingdoms' campaigns has the player's forces invading Xu Chang, Jian Ye or Cheng Du, the capital of Wei, Wu or Shu respectively, depending on the kingdom you face in the final chapter.
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Capital Offensive / int_6e0e351	comment	This happened accidentally in the backstory of Escape Velocity Override. When the Voinians invaded human space and found their invasion slowing down in the face of increasing human unity, defiance and technology, they decided to throw all available forces against a single system on the frontlines, in the hopes of breaking through the United Earth lines. By chance, that single system was Sol. Notably, while the UE won the Battle of Sol in a resounding triumph (over a third of the Voinian fleet was destroyed in a series of defeats in detail, and the UE was able to take advantage to push the frontier back to where they are when the game begins), it's also made clear that losing would not have been the end of the war as a fall-back capital two jumps away from Sol was already being prepared before the Voinian attack on Sol.
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Capital Offensive / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: Early on, the Kingdom of Daein launches a full invasion right into Crimea's capital city Melior, quickly overwhelming the defenders and eliminating the ruling family with the exception of Princess Elincia. Later, under the authority of the Begnion Empire, Ike leads an army into Daein, eventually taking its capital, Nevassa.
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Capital Offensive / int_73d7930f	comment	During the Dominion War, Starfleet is concerned about redeploying their forces as it may allow the Dominion to launch an offensive against Earth. The Breen do just this near the end of the war. Martok is impressed by their audacity, even the Klingons never tried that. This is retconned by Star Trek: Discovery, where Klingons are at the edge of the Solar System and preparing to deal a finishing blow to the Federation by attacking Earth. They're stopped by L'Rell threatening to blow up Qo'noS.
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Capital Offensive / int_75149ccd	comment	The Rebels, now having already declared themselves the New Republic, take Coruscant in the X-Wing Series. They then find the Imperials have left them some nasty parting gifts....
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Capital Offensive / int_77677ed1	comment	While it's entirely possible to take an enemy capital planet in Sword of the Stars, it doesn't provide any additional benefit to taking a very nice planet (only original capital planets can be class 10 with a highest potential population) and robbing the enemy of one. In this case, another enemy planet is simply designated as capital. With the Zuul, the capital is actually likely to be useless, as the Zuul are permanently in overharvest mode, so they drain their colonies' resources. The capital, being the first world they possess, is likely to be entirely drained of resources by the time you take it. This can be remedied by asteroid mining other systems and delivering resources there, but it might not be worth it.
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Capital Offensive / int_78cbedd9	comment	Downfall (2004) is set mostly during the Battle of Berlin, just as the Soviets are finishing off the last German resistance in the city.
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Capital Offensive / int_7c537173	comment	Destiny 2: Season of the Chosen was set in motion by the Hive launching a surprise attack on the Cabal capital planet, Torobatl, and completely rolling it up. From that point forward, the entire interstellar Cabal empire is considered a loss, with Empress Caiatl and her fleet of remnants and refugees treated as all that remains of it.
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Capital Offensive / int_7d8c61a2	comment	In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Sith call for a diplomatic sit-down to discuss a ceasefire with the Republic. However, this is just a distraction. During the talks, a massive Sith fleet attacks the Republic capital world of Coruscant. The Jedi Temple is destroyed, killing many Masters and Knights. The City Planet is sacked. However, the Sith are perfectly aware that they cannot hope to hold Coruscant, once the Republic fleet comes back. Instead, the goal is to do as much damage as possible to cripple the Republic. Then The Emperor suddenly decides to turn fake talks into real ones, offering to leave Coruscant without dealing it any further damage in exchange for a few far less important worlds and a ceasefire. The Republic officials agree, while all other Sith Lords are left scratching their heads in confusion.
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Capital Offensive / int_7f9dbbd0	comment	Far Cry 6: The final mission has Libertad lay siege to Yara's capital, Esperanza.
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Capital Offensive / int_81692f99	comment	In Star Trek, Earth is the capital of the United Federation of Planets and headquarters of Starfleet. As such, when an enemy power attacks the Federation, they usually try to mount an assault on Earth. The "Best of Both Worlds" two-parter features the first Borg invasion, which consists of a beeline to Earth in order to assimilate humanity. During the Dominion War, Starfleet is concerned about redeploying their forces as it may allow the Dominion to launch an offensive against Earth. The Breen do just this near the end of the war. Martok is impressed by their audacity, even the Klingons never tried that. This is retconned by Star Trek: Discovery, where Klingons are at the edge of the Solar System and preparing to deal a finishing blow to the Federation by attacking Earth. They're stopped by L'Rell threatening to blow up Qo'noS. The finale of DS9 features the Federation Alliance's march on Cardassia Prime. During the Grand Finale of Star Trek: Picard, the Borg manage, thanks to sabotage from the renegade Changelings allied with them, to mass assimilate the majority of Starfleet after the fleet is gathered on Earth for Frontier Day, turning the ships on Earth's defenses to finally take the planet. This attack very nearly manages to succeed before the reunited Enterprise crew manage to destroy the Borg Queen and liberate the assimilated.
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Capital Offensive / int_84dfb5d5	comment	In Galactic Civilizations taking the capital planet is a viable strategy for ending a war quickly. The wide empty spaces and unrestricted travel make it difficult to intercept a fleet with good life support and drives before it makes a beeline for the homeworld, and usually the homeworld is the most developed and highly populated planet so its loss tends to encourage the rest of the Empire to surrender shortly after as their economy tanks and their sphere of influence implodes. It's particularly effective with minor races as they don't colonize and only rarely conquer other planets. On the other hand, they usually have a sizable fleet in orbit and the high population makes them difficult to conquer without resorting to Orbital Bombardment. The reliability of this strategy depends heavily on circumstances, however. On larger maps, where specialising planets is a viable strategy, races with low-quality homeworlds may well have their economic, research and industry powerhouses on planets they located during the expansion phase, meaning that while losing the homeworld is a pain, it's not going to be a deathblow unless everything else has already gone to hell; the "capital" will simply be reassigned to another planet.
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Capital Offensive / int_8a344f1	comment	Sniper Elite and its reboot Sniper Elite V2 take place during the Battle of Berlin, just as the Soviets are already in the process of entering and taking the city from the remaining German forces. Unlike most other examples, the Soviets are depicted here are Dirty Communists, and are also enemies to be killed.
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Capital Offensive / int_8d87f92f	comment	In the original film, the Soviets destroy Washington off-screen with a tactical nuclear weapon. They also hit two other cities that were "key points of communication". However, they are trying to take the U.S. intact so these (and some directed at nuke silos in the Dakotas) are the only ones used. And despite severe damage to their capital, the United States is very much still organized and holding off the Soviets after the initial attack. Eventually repelling the invasion.
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Capital Offensive / int_8d884aea	comment	The 2012 remake subverts this. Washington is never mentioned, and since the story takes place in Washington State we don't get much info. However, since it is stated later by the Marines that the Russians occupy the whole Eastern Seaboard, it can be assumed Washington is part of it.
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Capital Offensive / int_909dcc6b	comment	Zig-zagged in Disciples II. The capital is the most heavily-protected city on the map. It's incredibly difficult to kill the capital's guardian, often requiring multiple armies. And usually mission objectives don't require it anyway. It does, however, prevent the enemy from being able to branch out troops.
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Capital Offensive / int_90e2f673	comment	This has happened many times in BattleTech. Capital worlds are usually the most well-defended planets there are, but they're not invulnerable: During the Clan Invasion, Clans Smoke Jaguar and Nova Cat attempted to capture the capital of the Draconis Combine, Luthien, but were repulsed in part because Hanse Davion sent the mercenary forces Wolf's Dragoons and the Kell Hounds to bolster its defenses. Task Force Serpent was a massive coalition force made up of troops from all of the Successor States that traveled to the Clan Smoke Jaguar capital world of Huntress as a sneak attack while other forces engaged the Clan in its occupation zone in the Inner Sphere. Although Task Force Seerpent suffered catatrophic losses, they permanently crippled the Jaguars' military capability and the Clan was destroyed shortly thereafter. In the Dark Age, the Draconis Combine successfully captured the Federated Suns' capital of New Avalon for the first time in the two sides' five hundred years of conflict. The planet was occupied for five years before a task force was assembled to take it back.
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Capital Offensive / int_92dd35df	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Both campaigns end with an assault against a capital — the Soviets make an amphibious landing in England and move at London (the main headquarters of the Allied Forces and capital of the sole unconquered Allied nation at that point in the campaign) while the Allies push to Moscow in a bid to remove Stalin from power one way or the other.
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Capital Offensive / int_999855bb	comment	The Dungeon Overlords in the third Heroes of Might and Magic game throw most of their resources into launching one of these against Steadwick, the capital of Erathia. A Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs when they find that capturing a single important city isn't the same thing as taking over an entire nation, and they quickly find themselves surrounded and overrun (it's implied they had planned on establishing a greater hold on Erathia first, but panicked when they realized Catherine Ironfist, Queen of Enroth and daughter of Erathia's last king, was marching on Steadwick with a reinforcing army of Enrothians and rallied Erathians and rushed to capture the city ahead of her arrival).
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Capital Offensive / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	In The History of the Galaxy, the First Galactic War finally ends when the Free Colonies launch a desperate all-or-nothing attack on Earth, managing to punch through the so-called Hammer Line (the star systems within a single jump of Earth, all heavily-fortified). The assault is successful, and the Terran Alliance surrenders. Subverted in that the assault would have been a resounding failure that would have left the colonies defenseless, had the admiral in charge of the defense not disabled 90% of the automated defenses just before the battle. His reasoning was that there was less than a billion people left on Earth after the 30-year conflict. Had the colonists lost the battle, the AI-controlled fleets of the Alliance would've swept through the Free Colonies unopposed, laying waste to what now constituted the majority of humanity.
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Capital Offensive / int_9a8bf274	comment	The Command & Conquer series: Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Both campaigns end with an assault against a capital — the Soviets make an amphibious landing in England and move at London (the main headquarters of the Allied Forces and capital of the sole unconquered Allied nation at that point in the campaign) while the Allies push to Moscow in a bid to remove Stalin from power one way or the other. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: In the Soviet campaign, the Reds hit Washington, DC first to destroy the Pentagon in a Decapitation Strike. Later in the same campaign, the Soviets attack their own capital to remove a traitor from power. It's used in an especially interesting fashion in the Allied campaign, where they use the Chronosphere to teleport a strike force straight into Moscow to take the Kremlin and avoid a scorched earth campaign by the retreating Soviets. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Happens in the Allied mission "Forever Sets the Sun", where Allied forces attack Tokyo and destroy the Imperial military, killing or capturing most of their leadership, and in The Moon Shall Never Have Them where you need to prevent the Premier from escaping to orbit. Also in the Imperial mission "Crumble Kremlin Crumble" which is the Empire of the Rising Sun's invasion of Moscow. Command & Conquer: Generals: The very first mission of the Chinese campaign begins with the Global Liberation Army detonating a dirty bomb in the middle of downtown Beijing right in front of the Forbidden City. China later returns the favor at Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and the US heap on even more with Baghdad (Iraq) and Akmola (Kazakhstan).
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Capital Offensive / int_a3402a3	comment	In Total Annihilation, the final series of missions for either campaign is an invasion of the opposing side's home planet: the Arm campaign culminates in the invasion of the all-metal planet Core Prime, while the Core campaign does the same for the planet of Empyrrean.
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Capital Offensive / int_a40b1126	comment	In the opening move of Independence Day, the aliens destroy Washington DC and several other national capitals, including London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Tehran, Beijing, and Tokyo.
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Capital Offensive / int_a5d35fda	comment	Averted for Edoras in The Two Towers. King ThÃ©oden doesn't bother trying to fortify it (since it has wooden walls) and evacuates it, ordering the Rohan's population and army to entrench themselves in the stone fortress of Helm's Deep, which is then besieged by the entirety of Saruman's Uruk-hai forces.
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Capital Offensive / int_a6b64d3a	comment	Masters of the Air: "Part 7" features the 100th Bomb Group bombing industrial targets with the German capital of Berlin. While their first raid over Berlin results in the loss of half of their bombers, their second raid has them successfully bomb their targets. It helps that by this point, the 100th and the other bomber groups are now accompanied by P-51 Mustang fighters capable of accompanying them all the way into Germany and back.
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Capital Offensive / int_a9570fac	comment	Military thriller Victoria sees this happen multiple times in the Second Civil War it chronicles. After full-scale battle is joined, the corrupt US Government tries to advance on Augusta, Maine, where the main rebel faction has proclaimed its capital, but their forces end up bogged down in upstate New York and the offensive fails. Then, the rebels (aided by breakaway states forming a New Confederacy in the Deep South) begin to move on Washington.
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Capital Offensive / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft: StarCraft: Late in the Terran campaign, Mengsk leads the Sons of Korhal in an offensive against the Confederate capital world of Tarsonis, which he defeats by using Psi Emitters to draw the Zerg there to overwhelm the military and populace. After the Zerg manage to locate the Protoss homeworld of Aiur, the Overmind declares that it is where he will be made manifest and sends the Swarm to secure it. In Brood War, the UED comes to Korhal, where now Emperor Mengsk has established his seat of power in an effort to capture him. Mengsk escapes thanks to intervention by Jim Raynor and the Protoss, but the UED still takes control of Korhal. Mengsk moves to retake Korhal with Sarah Kerrigan's help in the Zerg campaign. StarCraft II: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm: Korhal is again invaded, this time by the Zerg, in Kerrigan's drive to defeat Mengsk once and for all. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void: The Protoss campaign begins with them attempting to retake Aiur, but they are derailed as Amon corrupts the Khala, taking control of many Protoss through it. Shortly afterward, Amon's Zerg mount an invasion of the Dark Templar homeworld of Shakuras which is thwarted when Artanis and Vorazun decide to lure as many Zerg there as possible before initiating an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
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Capital Offensive / int_afeeacf6	comment	The Force Awakens. In the Back Story the New Republic take Coruscant but they set up rotating capitals by election afterwards. The current one is Hosnian Prime when the movie starts. Unfortunately, the First Order doesn't plan on capturing it. They DESTROY it along with the other planets in the Hosnian system with their new Starkiller Base weapon, along with the Senate.
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Capital Offensive / int_b30ae4db	comment	Many battles of Game of Thrones are centered on either King's Landing, the capital of Westeros, or the seats of the individual kingdoms, particularly Winterfell. "Blackwater" features Stannis Baratheon's spectacular attempt to seize King's Landing. In Season 3, Robb Stark plans to regain the initiative by marching on Casterly Rock, the home of House Lannister. He's betrayed at the Red Wedding before he can do so. In Season 5, Stannis and his newly reinvigorated army march on Winterfell to liberate it from the Boltons and rally the North behind him. It ends in a failure. "Battle of the Bastards" is centered on Jon and Sansa leading their loyalist forces to reclaim Winterfell from Ramsay Bolton. They succeed. In Season 7, Tyrion plans an offensive against Casterly Rock, to help deprive Cersei of her wealth and power along with inflicting a blow to Lannister morale. Unfortunately, heâ€™s working from out-of-date information, as the Rockâ€™s gold mines have long been dry and the Lannisters have only left a small garrison to defend it. The Unsullied take the Rock, but itâ€™s a Pyrrhic victory. The penultimate episode of the series, "The Bells", features Daenerys' forces assaulting King's Landing to finally end Cersei's regime. It ends with Dany's Sanity Slippage hitting a breaking point, resulting in her burning the city to the ground.
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Capital Offensive / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In Warhammer 40,000, the Horus Heresy culminates in Horus's rebellion laying siege to Terra, also known as Earth, which is the homeworld of mankind and the capital of the Imperium of Man.
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Capital Offensive / int_bd41836e	comment	StarCraft: Late in the Terran campaign, Mengsk leads the Sons of Korhal in an offensive against the Confederate capital world of Tarsonis, which he defeats by using Psi Emitters to draw the Zerg there to overwhelm the military and populace. After the Zerg manage to locate the Protoss homeworld of Aiur, the Overmind declares that it is where he will be made manifest and sends the Swarm to secure it. In Brood War, the UED comes to Korhal, where now Emperor Mengsk has established his seat of power in an effort to capture him. Mengsk escapes thanks to intervention by Jim Raynor and the Protoss, but the UED still takes control of Korhal. Mengsk moves to retake Korhal with Sarah Kerrigan's help in the Zerg campaign.
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Capital Offensive / int_c007e9c8	comment	Later episodes of Space: Above and Beyond sometimes reference Operation Round Hammer, the United Nations' offensive against what they believe is the Chig homeworld. It is first delayed by the appearance of a Chig Ace Pilot nicknamed Chiggy von Richthofen, then gets bogged down.
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Capital Offensive / int_c00c0023	comment	Empire Earth: The German campaign has a level in which the player (working for an unspecified Chancellor whose political affiliation is not mentioned in 1939) takes out the capitals of Poland, Norway and France. The final level is an Alternate History where Operation Sea Lion happened and succeeded: destroying Buckingham Palace causes the British royal family to flee to Canada. The second level of the Russia campaign has you take out the capitals of Ukraine, Sweden or Norway.
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Capital Offensive / int_c095f21d	comment	Episode 22 of Simoun features the desperate battle for the capital of Simulacrum, which ends the war. Since the main characters are all Simulacran pilot-priestesses, they actually lose the war and this is essentially their last combat sortie.
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Capital Offensive / int_c0a760c6	comment	In the Dark Empire comic series, the Imperials, led by a mysterious Dark Side figure who turns out to be Palpatine Back from the Dead recapture Coruscant and force the New Republic to set up a Government in Exile.
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Capital Offensive / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty: [The first game and Call of Duty: World at War featured the Soviet assault on Berlin, Germany during the closing days of the European Theatre of World War II. Call of Duty 2's opening level is set during the Battle of Moscow in December 1941, with German forces launching an attack on the Soviet capital just as the player is adjusting to how rifles, pistols, and grenades work. Modern Warfare 2 had the Russians launch an invasion of the United States on the Eastern Seaboard. Washington, D.C. is one of their first targets. Several levels take place in D.C. wrapping up with the retaking of The White House. The last D.C. level actually ends with Corporal Dunn stating that he can't wait to go to Moscow and "burn it down". Sadly, however, the third game never gave us a level in Moscow. Never trust a Sequel Hook folks. Fortunately though, the third game did take us to some other important capitals. Namely London, Paris, Prague, and Berlin. the latter three are being invaded by Russia. The former is the victim of a major terrorist attack. Terrorist attacks were also used in some of the other capitals too to weaken the defenses before the invasion began.
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Capital Offensive / int_c686bb8	comment	Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones: Ephraim's story has the invasion of Grado Keep, the capital of the Grado Empire, and ends with Grado's Emperor Vigarde slain. However, this is only the halfway point of the story, as his son Prince Lyon continues to command the remainder of the imperial army across the continent.
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Capital Offensive / int_c8c98633	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: In the Soviet campaign, the Reds hit Washington, DC first to destroy the Pentagon in a Decapitation Strike. Later in the same campaign, the Soviets attack their own capital to remove a traitor from power. It's used in an especially interesting fashion in the Allied campaign, where they use the Chronosphere to teleport a strike force straight into Moscow to take the Kremlin and avoid a scorched earth campaign by the retreating Soviets.
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Capital Offensive / int_c8c98634	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Happens in the Allied mission "Forever Sets the Sun", where Allied forces attack Tokyo and destroy the Imperial military, killing or capturing most of their leadership, and in The Moon Shall Never Have Them where you need to prevent the Premier from escaping to orbit. Also in the Imperial mission "Crumble Kremlin Crumble" which is the Empire of the Rising Sun's invasion of Moscow.
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Capital Offensive / int_c94bade0	comment	In EndWar, one possible win condition in the campaign is controlling all three superpowers' capitals, each of which require three back-to-back battles. These capitals are Washington, DC for the United States, Paris for the European Federation, and Moscow for Russia.
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Capital Offensive / int_cd899ed6	comment	During the Grand Finale of Star Trek: Picard, the Borg manage, thanks to sabotage from the renegade Changelings allied with them, to mass assimilate the majority of Starfleet after the fleet is gathered on Earth for Frontier Day, turning the ships on Earth's defenses to finally take the planet. This attack very nearly manages to succeed before the reunited Enterprise crew manage to destroy the Borg Queen and liberate the assimilated.
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Capital Offensive / int_cf0603d0	comment	Out of the 9 different mission maps in Heavy Weapon, the final one before the plot twist takes place in the enemy's capital city.
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Capital Offensive / int_d109f322	comment	In Andromeda, the ship accidentally travels back in time to just one year after she ends up being trapped at the event horizon of a black hole. They encounter a High Guard ship, whose captain explains that what's left of the fleet (about a hundred ships out of thousands) is gathering for an assault at Fountainhead, the historical homeworld of the Nietzscheans, hoping that such a blow will disorganize the enemy. However, the crew already knows from historical records that the assault will never happen, as the Nietzscheans learn of it and stage an ambush at Witchhead Nebula (which results in a Pyrrhic Victory for them).
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Capital Offensive / int_d31cdea	comment	The second half of Mockingjay, the third novel of The Hunger Games, is centered around the rebels' offensive against the now-isolated Capitol.
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Capital Offensive / int_d51eae87	comment	In Axis & Allies a country whose capital has been captured can't produce new units, though the player can use their remaining units to try and retake it. One of the victory conditions for each side is to capture two enemy capitals.
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Capital Offensive / int_d5bd2a20	comment	The Book of Mormon notes that the Lamanites took the Nephites by surprise with an offensive that skipped the border cities and took the under-defended capital. However, this is then subverted when the result is that the Lamanite army is surrounded by the cities that actually had decent armies stationed in them, leaving no way to retreat.
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Capital Offensive / int_d72b0239	comment	Rise of Nations: Taking an enemy's capital by force activates a countdown that will end in an instant victory unless retaken in time by enemy forces. If the capital is the last unoccupied city, then the game instantly ends. The Persians are unique in that they are given two capitals, both of which need to be occupied to defeat them. In the Alexander campaign, the player is required to capture Persepolis and then Bactria (modern Afghanistan) to topple the Achaemenids.
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Capital Offensive / int_dcb78c8c	comment	Resistance: In the alternate 1950s where an alien race attacked Earth instead of the Axis Powers, the aliens sweep through Europe with stunning quickness after having already overrun Russia (where they first arrived in the Tunguska Event of 1906). The first game sees the joint U.S. and British forces trying to retake London, which had been abandoned by the Brits months earlier, and destroy the massive tower. Which proves to be a Instant-Win Condition against the aliens on British soil. In the Back Story, one of the things that proved just how frightening the aliens are, is the fall of the Polish capital Warsaw. Out of a city of 2 million people, only 1,000 survived. This is because The Virus is used on any humans that aren't killed to prepare them for transformation into more of the creatures. Prior to Resistance 2, before they launched their main attack on America, Washington had been assaulted by the aliens during a Presidential speech. This forces the U.S. to move the government to Denver, which is inside the massive Liberty Defense Perimeter. Sadly, it falls too, along with the rest of America, with the Perimeter being obliterated. So much of the government is killed, that the military has to directly take charge of what's left. Resistance 3 has an opening cutscene which recaps the story, and includes alien foot soldiers marching in front of the Eiffel Tower. And the game finally gives us a true Happy Ending by letting humanity win. Humans begin retaking the world, which includes a mention by an Irish fighter that they have retaken and secured safe passage to Dublin, the capital of Ireland.
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Capital Offensive / int_e04f934e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Three out of four routes involve an attack on Adrestia's capital city of Enbarr, with the Azure Moon route having this as its finale. The remaining route, Crimson Flower, has its final chapter end with the seizure of Faerghus's capital city, Fhirdiad. The third major power, the Leicester Alliance, also has its capital Derdriu invaded by Adrestia in both Azure Moon and Crimson Flower.
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Capital Offensive / int_e0f1b3dc	comment	Age of Empires series: While the AI tends to use The All-Seeing A.I. it is the reason on why assaulting the capitals a very important matter, mostly because most farms AND the market are there. If the player cripples an opponent or gets crippled it is a possible lost game unless it is a Crazy-Prepared scenario.
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Capital Offensive / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening: This game pulls it four separate times. Ylisstol, capital of the Halidom of Ylisse, is invaded by assassins in one chapter and falls in a separate one, being recaptured after the end of chapter 11. The capital of Plegia (not named by the game) is used as a battlefield twice by the player's army, two years apart. The player's army also invades the capital of Valm and defeats Emperor Walhart between those two occasions.
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Capital Offensive / int_ea11b11e	comment	Ghost Recon had three of these. First, at the end of the first act of the story, Russian forces capture Tblisi, capital city of Georgia. Later in the second act, the Ghosts, assist NATO in liberating the Lithuanian capital Vilnius from Russian occupation, complete with securing the (heavily damaged) presidential palace. Then, in the final mission, NATO and rebel Russian forces assault Moscow, with the Ghosts, being tasked to slip through the city and secure the area near the Kremlin.
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Capital Offensive / int_eaeeea9b	comment	StarCraft II: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm: Korhal is again invaded, this time by the Zerg, in Kerrigan's drive to defeat Mengsk once and for all. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void: The Protoss campaign begins with them attempting to retake Aiur, but they are derailed as Amon corrupts the Khala, taking control of many Protoss through it. Shortly afterward, Amon's Zerg mount an invasion of the Dark Templar homeworld of Shakuras which is thwarted when Artanis and Vorazun decide to lure as many Zerg there as possible before initiating an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
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Capital Offensive / int_eee45be2	comment	Ace Combat: Assault Horizon has two of them, both involves two real life capital cities. The first one is in Moscow where the combined NATO and Russian loyalists launches a decisive offensive against NRF forces who have occupied the Russian capital. While the last one happens in the final mission where the Big Bad leads a whole squadrons of rogue Russian fighters and bombers on a daring offensive against Washington DC to nuke the White House.
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Capital Offensive / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	In the run up to Revenge of the Sith, the Separatists launch a surprise attack on Coruscant. The main attack is a diversion, while General Grievous sneaks in and captures Chancellor Palpatine.
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Capital Offensive / int_f0d5c1ea	comment	StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void: The Protoss campaign begins with them attempting to retake Aiur, but they are derailed as Amon corrupts the Khala, taking control of many Protoss through it. Shortly afterward, Amon's Zerg mount an invasion of the Dark Templar homeworld of Shakuras which is thwarted when Artanis and Vorazun decide to lure as many Zerg there as possible before initiating an Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
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Capital Offensive / int_f1da64b5	comment	The Lord of the Rings: Averted for Edoras in The Two Towers. King ThÃ©oden doesn't bother trying to fortify it (since it has wooden walls) and evacuates it, ordering the Rohan's population and army to entrench themselves in the stone fortress of Helm's Deep, which is then besieged by the entirety of Saruman's Uruk-hai forces. By The Return of the King, Sauron's Orcish and Haradrim forces besiege Minas Tirith, the capital city of Gondor.
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Capital Offensive / int_f26c58d6	comment	Mostly subverted in World in Conflict. None of the major capitals on either side are shown to be attacked on the ground (although Bonn, West Germany might be in trouble). Paris is experiencing some Soviet air raids (which would certainly count), but that's about it. West Berlin might technically count as the West German government in Real Life considered it their de jure capital and the city of Bonn as just a temporary one. However, since it is completely surrounded by East Germany, it was not an option, and the Soviets make it their first target when they attack. One of the trailers for the game seemed to show Washington, D.C. getting attacked, and possibly nuked. But one should Never Trust a Trailer because this never happens in the game.
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Capital Offensive / int_f599977e	comment	Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown once again returns to the Erusean capital Farbanti. Early in the game, a cutscene mentions Osea attempted an air raid on the city but was repelled and their Kestrel II aircraft carrier was sunk. Much later in the war, after Osea has gained control of over 60% of the Usean continent, a second offensive is mounted, this time consisting of a full-scale combined land, sea, and air assault from all directions. Like the previous time, Farbanti falls, but the war is far from over. Hilariously, Farbanti is captured on the exact same date as before, September 19th.
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Capital Offensive / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: During the Earth-Minbari War, the Minbari bypassed several Earth colony worlds and attacked Earth directly, resulting in the Battle of the Line. The Centauri do something similar during The Narn-Centauri War, withdrawing from several active combat zones when they find out the Narn homeworld will be vulnerable and bombarding it with mass drivers from orbit until the Narns surrender.
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Soviet Storm: World War II in the East / int_489ce93a	type	Capital Offensive
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