"The Olympians call me a madman for leveling their cities. What part of 'What comes around, goes around,' do they not understand? I watch them kill my family. My mother. My father. My sisters. And my defenseless baby brother. If they think they can get any pity from me, they are wrong."

Sex: Male
Age: 61
Relations: Fiona Victor (wife, nee McGee)
Rank: General of the Air Force
Allegiance: Pilotmario Republic
Accomplishments: creator of the Combined Air Offensive strategy, ending the "Missile Scrounge"

Armstrong Victor was born in 109 in Olympia to a gypsy family of six somewhere near Alexandria. Gypsies were often targets of periodic mob violence as well as "land cleansing" operations by the Olympian Gendarme, resulting in extensive property damage and loss of life. When he was ten, his brother emigrated to the Pilotmario Republic in order to help set up the rest of the family when they move. However, when he was twelve, a violent mob descended upon the village, killing virtually everyone. He only survived because he was attempting to find a stray goat, and was far away from the event.

However, when he returned, he found the charred remains of his village and family. He lived in the shed for a couple of days before his brother arrived. This event would be a motivating factor in his life and the source of his hatred towards the Olympians.

His brother has been far more successful in the Pilotmario Republic; he was married to a Pilotmarian woman and were expecting a child. In addition, he had a job as a mechanic, and was planning to use his income to support the much larger family.

Victor by all accounts did well in school, and was a popular womanizer. However, he was rather indecisive at this point, and decided to join the Pilotmario Air Force Officer School. This would be the beginning of his military career.

In 131, he officially joined the officer corps. As a young lieutenant, he worked as a member of the General Staff, where he became a student of the Strategic Air Power (SAP) school of thought. Compared with the Tactical Intervention (TI) school of thought, SAP focused on destroying strategic assets with high-altitude precision strikes with long-range bombers, seeing attack aircraft as largely useless. However, TI focused on supporting the ground forces with attack aircraft, seeing heavy bombers as useless. Because this was a cheaper to implement and suitable for low-level conflicts, was the strategy used by planners.

During the period before the First War, he rose to the rank of General, and proposed the idea of using heavy bombers as a strategic deterrent. He believed battleships were well-armed, well-armored coffins for its crew, and in the light of the vulnerability of battleships to concentrated air attack, he argued that heavy bombers had a harder punch when used en masse and had a much larger effective range. However, the Air Force was unenthusiastic, believing that heavy bombers were unnecessary.

In the initial stages of the First War, the Pilotmario military found itself gravely unprepared for the conflict. Ground attack aircraft were sent on long-range raids, where they suffered heavy casualties at the hands of the Olympian Air Force. Given the heavy coastal defenses, it proved difficult for the Pilotmario Navy to close in and use their heavy guns to bombard the cities.

Desperate, they decided to try Armstrong Victor's proposal, and equipped some Provider cargo aircraft with bomb racks. He decided to employ carpet bombing due to the inaccuracy of using converted cargo aircraft. The first raids were unsuccessful due to the general inexperience of the air force in such operations. Operations were halted, and an unofficial ceasefire settled for a few months.

General Victor used this time to refine formation flying and the Pummeler fighter in order to serve as an escort for the bombers. With experience refined to an acceptable level, they resumed air operations, engaging the Olympian Air Force in daylight raids. The results were immediate; the Olympian air defenses focused on low-level strike, and had few high-altitude defense. While the Athena fighter was perfect for this, they found it difficult to engage the escorted bombers.

The Olympian cities were at the mercy of the Pilotmario Air Force. There were no air raid drills, and alarms tended to generate panic, although this lessened over time. Daily raids against the cities reduced them to rubble, and the rest turned to ash when napalm was added to the mix. Civil defenses were overwhelmed, and generated a humanitarian disaster on epic proportions.

As Olympian industry was centered in a few cities, their industrial output dropped significantly, and quickly found themselves short on everything. Under such dire circumstances and the threat of Pilotmario invasion, they surrendered. He was hailed a hero in Pilotmario, and was promoted to General of the Air Force. The terms imposed on the part of the State of Sanctum set the stage for the second war.

During the First Interwar period, General Armstrong was a proponent of jet aircraft, and due to his popularity and influence, was quickly worked upon, creating the Hawk Jet and the Dominator Heavy Bomber. His tactics went to work again, decimating the Olympians once more with superior weaponry in the air and the ground when they attempted to invade Sanctum once more.

However, his popularity waned as Pilotmario Congress decided to enact a Reconstruction program in order to prevent a similar war from happening again. While the program was successful, the Third War began anyways due to rising nationalism.

This time, the Olympians brought far more advanced weaponry to the table, with their Hermes jets outclassing the Hawk considerably. For the first time, the Pilotmario Army was threatened by air attack. Furthermore, the Hades Missile proved lethal to Pilotmarian cities, as their low cost and mass deployment overwhelmed Pilotmario air defenses. While the situation was soon brought to manageable levels, High Command wanted to end the threat instead of manage it.

It soon became General Armstrong Victor's responsibility to neutralize the threat, and he used much of the same tactics he used in the previous wars, striking production facilities and launch sites with attack aircraft and heavy bombers, neutralizing the threat to the point where their effect was negligible. For this, he was once hailed as a hero. At the end of the Third War, he decided to retire.

His view of the Olympians softened by now, but feels that his strategic bomber campaigns which killed up to five million civilians over the three wars was warranted as revenge for the centuries of oppression they inflicted upon gypsies, and the untold numbers they killed.

Between the First and Second War, he would marry Fiona McGee, a civilian engineer from Leon. Both shared many of the same experiences, and bonded well. They had three children; Louis, Betty, and Randall.