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Standard Sudoku Rules apply to the final numerical layout.

Inspired by the true story of the 1914 Christmas Truce.

The Battlefield Basics: On this ancient battlefield, 36 armies fought: 9 from each horizontal direction, and 9 from each vertical direction. Each army advanced X cells, with X being the first number at their end of their row or column, and counting the first cell as part of their advance.

Where two opposing armies overlapped, there was a bloody battle and resulting casualties. Where two opposing armies ceased advancing and declared a truce before a battle could ensue, lives were thankfully spared.

The Numbers outside each row and column indicate the sum of either the casualties or the lives spared, but do not indicate whether it was a battle or a truce.

On the puzzle grid, Green Cells indicate all the fields where all four armies declared one day of truce; i.e., no army marched into any of those nine cells.

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Setter's Diary :: December 24, 2020 :: I suspect anyone who has experienced and enjoyed the Battlefield logic will find this one rather easy, two stars; newcomers may find it to be a little harder. But I wanted to see if it was possible to create and solve one where the entire central block was green from lack of army activity. And so I did, and it solves, and this will be my final "Happy Holidays" entry, so "Merry Christmas, and God bless us everyone!"