Invasion America

Invasion America is a 1998 American animated science fiction miniseries that aired in the prime time lineup on The WB and later as a part of the Kids' WB programming block. Produced by DreamWorks Animation (then part of DreamWorks proper, now its own company), the series was created by Steven Spielberg and Harve Bennett, who also served as executive producers.

Plot

The story of Invasion America begins in the early 1980s, when humanoid aliens from the planet Tyrus begin to initiate their plans for making contact with Earth. Cale-Oosha, the ruler of Tyrus, looks into his uncle's project with Earth. However, his uncle, The Dragit, claims that their dying planet ought to invade Earth and take hold of its resources. Cale refuses, and a civil war breaks out.

Cale and Rafe, his bodyguard, trainer, and trusted friend, escape to Earth, disguising themselves as humans. Cale meets Rita Carter, a human woman; he falls in love with her, and they marry. After a long time of running from the Dragit's forces on Earth, Cale returns to Tyrus to help strengthen his loyalist forces, the Ooshati, leaving Rita and their young son, David, under Rafe's protection.

Invasion America (board wargame)

Invasion: America is a wargame designed by Jim Dunnigan and published by SPI in 1976. It depicts a hypothetical invasion of North America by a coalition of three invaders. The game is played on a 35 by 42 inches (89 by 107 cm) map, with 400 cardboard pieces representing the armed forces in the war. As is typical of wargames of this genre, each piece has numerical combat and movement ratings printed on it. The board is divided up into small hexagons (each of which represents approximately 50,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi)). On each turn a player can move all of his pieces through a number of hexagon spaces equal to its movement rating. Then pieces in adjacent spaces will engage in combat by comparing their combat ratings and rolling dice. The combat ratings and the dice roll are cross-referenced to determine the outcome of the combat. Many spaces on the map also have distinctive terrain features, like forests or mountains, which affects the ratings of units in those spaces.