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Two battalions sent by two different governments stormed into the GeoFront. Although each of them had sufficient numbers to crush the defending security forces all by themselves in a standard engagement, several factors conspired against them.

The first factor was that it was impossible to fight a standard engagement in the corridors of Central Dogma. The sheer amount of area that needed to be covered changed the force from two battalions to forty platoons at best, and in practice something closer to two hundred squads. And a general rule of thumb in battles was that fighting small groups consecutively is considerably easier than fighting one group that was the size of all the small groups combined.

The second factor also came from the size of Central Dogma. There were literally miles of corridors in the base, and Misato wasn't the only person who had managed to get lost in those hallways. From the perspective of someone unfamiliar with the layout, the place was a maze. Section 2 knew the terrain, the invaders did not. As such, rather than attempt to defend every corridor, they defended choke points, and maneuvered around in the side corridors to cut off and ambush any unit they could pick off.

The third factor for each invading battalion was the presence of the other battalion. Neither of them expected a second army to be invading at the same time they were, and as a result of this, they ended up shooting at each other as well as Section 2.

Because of these factors, the battle for NERV degenerated into a chaotic three-way stalemate when reinforcements for the besieged defenders arrive – all three of them.

The Black Hands of NERV, Chapter 28