In a static battle, both sides suffer heavy casualties and battlefronts move so slowly that the result is "static" (a lack of change). Movement is limited by the number of casualties.

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Examples from history include:

• the Battle of Moyry Pass (Nine Years' War)
• the Battle of the Somme (World War I)
• the Battle of Ypres (World War I)
• the Battle of Stalingrad (World War II)

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