For Dag and Alex Dagenham and their ragtag group of partisans, militia volunteers and National Guardsman, the defeat of the Dominion forces invading their homeland was but a small victory compared to the crushing defeats suffered by the hopelessly outmatched Grand Duchy of Miraval. Nearly a third of their country has fallen to the military onslaught of the mighty Dominion, and the mountainous woodlands know as the Crest, the Dagenham brothers' home, is now cut off from the rest of Miraval. The Miravallian freedom fighters have no time to rest on the laurels of their victory. The Dominion military, incensed at even a single defeat at the hands of a group of peasants, hunters and farmers, knows that resistance in the Crest must be eliminated before they can advance their army further into Miraval. A massive column of Dommie infantry and tanks, supported by newly designed steel-hulled airships, is being sent into the Crest from Dominion-occupied Miraval to quash the insurrection once and for all. Trapped behind enemy lines and without the possibility of reinforcements arriving from the Miravallian military, the brothers Dagenham must scramble to prepare another defense of their home against a massive invading force that will not underestimate them again.