Home Brew was once a simple unicorn from Canterlot, studying magic and working in his family's brewery.

Now, as his former hometown lies in ruins after costly house-to-house combat suffered during the Griffon withdrawal, he arrives on the latest frontline against the Griffon Reich, fresh out of basic training and having never fired a gun against a living target.

He's assigned as a loader to the Party Machine, an M4A3E8 Sherman with a storied past and veteran crew who have fought their way halfway across the world and faced the toughest challenges the Griffons could throw at them.

With the snow beginning to fall, and the Griffons getting more and more desperate, can the five of them survive to see the end of this war?

Part of the World War: Equestria universe, reading the other stories not required.