Digging In
5th September 1898
Three more cylinders have since fallen, two in the Southern Uplands and one in Edinburgh. Captain Scott, now moving into position on the defense line, has had a lucky escape.
(The sappers lorry in the Lake District parked up by the Command Post, also nearby are a unit of Armoured Cars, ready for battle. The Grey circles mark where Artillery emplacements will be built.)
Our first sappers lorry arrived in the Lake District this morning and begun work on artillery emplacements and 'wire walls', these tall walls of wire serve as to both slow the Martians down, thus enabling us to pour more firepower on them and to warn us of the direction of their advance. However, it takes one day per section of wire wall to construct and four days per artillery piece.
Will we have enough ready by the time the Martians arrive?