War of the Ridges

the war of the ridges was a border conflict between the kingdom of erdmarg and the kingdom of rumburg fought along the mountainous ridge frontier that had divided the two nations since the treaty of alfretsrat in 1866 erdmarg initiated hostilities in late 1923 while rumburg was committed to the war of broken wills, exploiting the kingdom's overstretched position to challenge the transit and depot arrangements imposed by the earlier treaty erdmarg forces began with probing attacks against rumburgian depot garrisons stationed along the passes, testing the strength of undermanned positions across the ridge crest by early 1924, these escalated into a coordinated offensive aimed at seizing key transit corridors and driving rumburgian garrisons off the heights erdmarg's mountain infantry advanced through several passes, briefly occupied sections of the bonded transit route, and made headway toward zonster before rumburgian defenses stiffened nahrburk provided material support and supply detachments through grace coordination, helping sustain the overstretched garrison line while rumburg's main forces remained committed in agnolia as the line threatened to collapse, the 4th western army under lieutenant general florenhild wyrick was pulled and rushed to the ridge front, stabilizing positions and halting the erdmarg advance after the treaty of konstantium freed additional forces in april 1924, rumburgian counterattacks restored the pre war line neither side achieved a decisive breakthrough, and fighting continued as intermittent clashes through the late 1920s before arcasian mediation brokered a permanent ceasefire around 1932 the ceasefire held, though underlying tensions between the two kingdoms persist to this day