Christmas Carnage (All Previous Episodes)

Good afternoon, Beasts of War / OTT:

One more time … In preparation for Christmas, we’re re-rolling out all the old “Christmas Carnage” battles, traditionally run every holiday season since 2014. In these battles, a nefarious, wicked, or simply “naughty” force raises a powerful army and mounts an assault on that most sacred of December objectives, Santa’s village and workshop at the North Pole.

These were originally presented in the forums of the old BoW 1.0 site, and when BoW 2.0 rolled out, these were lost to the mists of the 1.0 archives.

No longer!

So once again, Santa’s elite NPDF (North Pole Defense Force) must stand fast against dastardly villains who would ruin Christmas for everyone!   In 2014, the Soviets made a try at it with a force of 1939 armor.  Having failed, they came back for a modern “Team Yankee” try in 2015.  In 2016, the North Pole came under an even more deadly threat … BattleTech mechs of Clan Ghost Bear!

Having stood tall against all these villains, Santa and the NPDF faced assault yet again in 2017.  This time the threat was on a whole different level, not militaristic high-tech … but “the ancients spirits of evil” – led by none other than Mumm-ra, the Ever-Living, undead antagonist of Thundercats infamy!

Leaving behind his cadre of bumbling, incompetent fools on “Third Earth,” for this assault Mumm-ra decided to use his incredible powers of dark magic to raise a legion of Christmas toys.  Simple toy dinosaurs and dragons, innocent plastic playthings meant only to be treasured by happy, curious, imaginative children, were now imbued with “life,” at least enough to march forth and obey the sinister will of Mumm-Ra.

Would Santa and his North Pole Defense Force be able to withstand invasion by this hideous new threat?  Or would dark magic and malignant supernatural craft succeed where military technology had so often failed?