Week 1
World War 3 began as the tensions rose thanks to espionage work from Russia, causing Europe and America to blame one another for a series of terrorist attacks and ultimately declaring war on one another. Russia capitalised on this and also launched into the fray. They played their hand. They had started World War 3, now they had to finish it.
So it was, that the Spetznaz Guard Battalion selected Commander Fox to lead his company, the 39th Tactical, to engage the enemies of Russia across the globe in their power struggle for world domination. The first thing that Commander Fox ordered prior to engaging any foe, was to upgrade the units in his company to make them more combat effective. He equipped his riflemen with fractured camo, new technology which allowed units to become practically invisible to enemy units without detection systems. He also gave his riflemen special forces training to make them more combat effective, as well as some basic field training to his engineers to help them survive on the battlefield. He upgraded his gunships with new power units to increase their speed and armoured cabins to protect the pilots. His tanks were upgraded to fire 'Bunker Buster' shells and the combat transports were given new power units to increase their speed, much like the gunships, and extra armour plating to defend the drivers and the infantry they may be seated inside. Once all the upgrades were fitted and the training completed, Fox had his company relocate to a mobile sea base in the Atlantic Ocean. From there, they planned and launched an assault on Grissom Air Base in America. They flew in on choppers and an infantry unit code named Death's Head and a gunship squadron named Snow Owl were the first to deploy onto the battlefield. Intel told them that the enemy commander was Mike Kim of the 3rd Tactical Battalion and that nearby military bases granted the Americans with air cover and regular army forces to reinforce key positions, whereas Commander Fox would have to make do without either.
Snow Owl gunships flew around the air base, finding and eliminating enemy regular troops, but unfortunately, they couldn't locate any of the 3rd Tactical's units, until they chanced upon enemy combat transports. Anti-air fire filled the area around the gunships and they were forced to pull back, losing a gunship in the process. Meanwhile, Death's Head had been pushing up the middle of the battle, stealthily taking uplink sites before the America's could secure them. Another rifleman unit code named Red Fang had also deployed and used combat transports named Steel Cage to roamed the left flank, aiming to secure the uplinks there and encountering fierce resistance while a tank squadron named Griffon deployed and drove full speed toward the enemy combat transports that were hounding the Snow Owl squadron. When the tanks arrived and beat the transports into the ground, Snow Owl was down to only 2 gunships. Heavily diminished numbers meant that they would be unlikely to see any more action in this battle, but Commander Fox still used them to scout out uplinks before infantry teams could arrive. A newly deployed riflemen unit named Ironclaw pushed up the right flank, engaging enemy regulars and securing uplink sites. An engineer unit named Bloodhound had also deployed and was moving out to defend uplink sites from a potential American counter-attack. Elsewhere, Death's Head had pushed up the centre, almost to the enemy's deployment zone, and they took cover in a large tower overlooking the last uplink between them and the American deployment zone. Commander Fox committed another gunship squadron to the battle known as Dragonfly as the Americans declared DEFCON 1 and crashed a central uplink with a computer virus. The way was finally clear for Steel Cage to push on the left flank and transport Red Fang to an uplink when the Americans launched a kinetic strike from their military space station and the blast took down Steel Cage and Red Fang who were seated inside, as well as Snow Owl. Fortunately, all 3 units did have survivors from the blast and were safely extracted from the battlefield. Death's Head pushed forwards from the building they were previously taking cover in and attacked the Americans' final uplink. The successfully took the site, but the Americans were deploying in large numbers nearby and attacking them immediately with heavy amounts of firepower. Commander Fox ordered everyone to move all-out towards Death's Head, hoping to save them before they succumbed to the Americans' counter-attack, but they were all still far away. With no hope, no reinforcements and the uplink's defences crumbling around them. Death's Head fought on, willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the Motherland. And so their bravery was rewarded when Commander Fox authorised the use of a Thermal Nuclear Warhead to launch towards the enemy deployment zone. Death's Head took cover behind what was left of the uplink as the warhead collided with the ground and detonated. All of the American forces in the area were killed in the blast, with not a single man from Death's Head dying from the nuclear blast. Death's Head had performed valiantly, taking uplinks and even when surrounded they fought until support could arrive. In the end, the support wasn't needed. Death's Head were a celebrated squad that night as Russian forces moved in to act as a garrison for Grissom Air Base, now belonging to the Russians thank to the valour of Death's Head and the skill of Commander Fox.
In celebration, Death's Head were promoted to the rank of Regulars alongside Ironclaw, Snow Owl, Bloodhound, Steel Cage and Griffon. The gunship unit Dragonfly was promoted to rank 3, hardened warriors in the face of battle. The riflemen unit RedFang, which had been inside Steel Cage when the kinetic strike hit was not promoted, as it was felt as though they 'made no contribution to the battle as a whole.' So RedFang remained shamed recruits.
Commander Fox sat in the control tower of Grissom Air Base, where Death's Head had held position for some time in the battle, sipping coffee and reading over the reports coming in from command back in the Motherland. It seemed America was struggling with this war as they had lost Grissom to them as well as territory in the south. Europe was pushed out hard and strong, defending Arrabida from an American invasion force and driving them back to America, taking Okefenokee on the process. Unfortunately, reports showed that Russian had lost ground to the Europeans also, conceding Istra to them. So in conclusion, it would seem that American was losing ground rapidly in this war and Europe was fighting fiercely against all opponents.
Author's Note: Hey guys, so this story is just gonna be me making notes of my current play-through of Tom Clancy's Endwar and then converting that to a story, so don't expect super long chapters. Anyway, enjoy!