M A N D A T O R Y I N T R O D U C T O R Y
The screenshot blog lives again and so does Kane! After a break I had resumed my work on the blog. This time I tried to focus more on the RTS games especially from the C&C series and to put a little more emphasis on mods that are on the ModDB and are quite popular in here. Which is what I kind of should have done in the beginning... anyways, on with the blog.
They come in the night...
MISSION ORDERS PRINT, CABAL RELEASE #8813 SELECTED AO TOWN, SELECTED FORCE
STANDBY...
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Enemy Forces
Expected are a bunch of rag-tag insurgents inside the town and on the outside of it. CABAL's satellites had not detected any worrying enemy signals so the overall enemy presence is expected to be at a foot infantry platoon strength at the most. Our military intelligence branch had not fully confirmed the presence of an so called "GloboTech" global corporation forces in the area of opeartions. We do not fully understand why they are here, what are they trying to accomplish or what is ther reason interrupting our operations. Currently the priority for them has been raised to level 1 and our field ops agents from the Red Snakes regiment are already on the path to find out that informations.
Friendly Forces
The Brotherhood has created a battlegroup specially just for this operation and it will be under your command. The entire operation will be split into two battlegroups, your's codename is "Vulcan", the second battlegroup will arrive shortly as reinforcements. Your battlegroup composition is as follows:
1x Recon Buggy half-team callsign "Speeder" 1 & 2 respectedly
1x M2 Bradley IFV (refitted in light tank role) half-platoon callsign "Black Knight" 1 & 2 respectedly
1x Pyradon Flame Tank unit callsign "Fiery Angel"
Assorted militants and half-professional tank hunter infantrymen organized into a motorised raiding squad callsign "Party"
Second battlegroup callsign "Grinder" is expected to arrive within five to twenty minutes after the start of the operation. Radio silence in imposed upon them to faciliate easy entry thus no radio contact is possible. Support from this battlegroup is expected to used in initial assault attempts through the main gates of the town.
Terrain and Weather
The night is calm, the ground is firm. Wind blows are at minimal and the ground temperature is expected to be oscillating between -20 to -12 degrees Celsius. Terrain is typical for these parts. Further analysis is impossible due to the lack of proper meteorological equipment assigned for this mission.
Mission
Destroy the city/town, every and all enemy militia units whenever they might be hiding. Permitted are offensive operations against civilian and unarmed personnel, leave nothing standing. Area of operations is expected to deserted of living beings and human influence by the next day. There must not be any witnesses.
Commander's Intent
Intent is to minimalise casualties and material losses while maximising the enemy losses. Advance slowly and carefully, remember to destroy the targets. Link up with the second battlegroup and maintain a spread distance between the units during urban combat. Pyradons are expected to be in working state after the mission. The mission will not be aborted in the case of heavily losses.
Basic Plan
Vulcan arrives on the Eastern part of the AO and after initial recon of the area and then proceeds West towards the main road into the city ignoring the bridge in the entry point as sufficient combat engineer support needed to repair it will not be provided. Together with the Grinder the both battlegroups are expected to storm the gate, spread out inside the city and purify it. Once the city has been cleaned the CO is expected to report in and then the TECHINT teams will check the remains while the battlegroups will be relieved.
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Into the chilly night they go, the Brotherhood symbols and its minions roar through this land. The desolated land they all paid soo dearly to create. After the return of the Prophet Kane the Brotherhood of Nod expanded greatly through all over the Earth. The new secret wonder weapon of the Nod had destroyed the remains of their only natural enemy, the Global Defense Initiative. Land, property and government takeovers all over the world had stamped in the control of the Nod. Largely unorganised, panicked and ill-equipped remains of the GDI and various other anti-Nod groups had not make any noticeable advances in this new vision of the world. All of the remaining Ancien Régime had been either brutally incorporated into the Nod or eliminated. Forced "collectivization" of the corporations and the governments had created a single unitary state of the Earth with Kane and his religion as the permanent leader. Entire cities were changed, the architecture, the standard of living. Two year conscription was introduced and a system of "Military Regions" was implemented all over the world to maintain the military grip of the Brotherhood of Nod. Taken reserves of the GDI were used to fund it and a new branch of the Nod was created. The Black Hand had created a top secret subunit responsible for high level military and counterintelligence duties in regard to tracking down elements from the former GDI. Many things had changed and huge changes are yet to occur. The Nod had recently started the construction of a new scientific complex somewhere in the vast lands that were once the property of the People's Republic of China. Opposition must be crushed.
"This is Speeder One! We have made contact with the enemy" The troops rush forward securing the outskirts while the Pyradons perform a weapons check on the civilians structures. At least that what it is called in the Brotherhood's military jargon. Anyone who rushed out was gunned down, anyone who stayed inside was burned down along with the house. The horrible sounds had drawn-out a GloboTech Peacekeeper sentry who met his bloody demise after barely scratching one of the militants with his outdated M16 assault rifle fire. Their commander, a veteran who fought alongside the Brotherhood in Africa during the early months of its revealed existance popped out from the Pyradon's emergency transport compartment and shouted to the soldiers:
Now the fight is on, dogs! You have all seen on your own eyes the enemy we face today. He is a withered old man like this one here you see here amongst the flames, an sad error of our reality. What the Brotherhood had always fought against is this! The reactionary backwardness of the GDI and their infinite failure to see the gloriness of the Prophet and the light that the Brotherhood brings amongst the shadows..."
He then spitted on the burned ground, putted back on his helmet and the bulky radio equipment the officers were all forced to wear in order to maintain steady contact with the CABAL and walked with an uneven pace back to the Pyradon. Deep down the commander knew he was not that much of a skilled propagandist as his troops were to believe in.
"This is Speeder Two here, enemy structure spotted of unkown purpose, looks like a defensive turret but the CABAL databases have zero info on target. Also, enemy infantry fireteam spotted in the main entry gate guarding an armed HMMWV with fifty caliber main gun. How should we proceed?"
There was only one choice is this situation and that was to storm the entry point with overwhelming numbers and firepower, blasting over the unknown turret. Hope the Grinder battlegroup will arrive on time. The burning forests and the smell of burned humans surely must have reached the defensive lines of the GloboTech defenders.
With the GloboTech frontline breached there is little that stands in the way of the battlegroups Grinder & Vulcan in completing their given objectives. Heavily armed enemy soldiers wearing a some sort of exosuit armour melt away in the flames of the Pyradon. Their heavy metal armour which was supposed to protect them from the dangers of warfare now burns into their skin. GloboTech presence in the city crumbles alongside the city's inhabitants. Militants fire wildly into the buildings shattering the windows while the tank hunters unload special HE warheads into the insides. Flames lick the city off the maps while dreaded Black Knights stay on the watch for any serious oncoming threats that still may arrive from the city's interior. The commander, who stayed inside one of the Pyradons watches the horrific scenes via his camera uplink inside the helmet, noting the numbers on his service tablet. It can't be helped to think those who did not woke up suffered the least of all. A death of becoming torn apart in sleep by HE rockets surely is better than the death of being burnt alive in an exosuit as it was with the defender of the unnamed ex-city.
Man, TI:PB4 missions are really black.
Mission Accomplished!
CONTENT USED:
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, to be precise the Twisted Insurrection: Public Beta 4 standalone release since TS is Freeware stuff long time ago and nowadays mods for it come along with the game.
SOME WORDS:
This time I wanted to go for a realistic depiction of a battle in terms of military information accuracy while keeping it in theme of Twisted Inssurection but still adding a little... fandom you could say into the game. I hope I did it well and did not strayed too much into the fanfiction genre.
