by Sgt SirTwan. Mission date Friday 11th April 2025, 19:00 GMT
SITREP
Our AO is an island nation by the name of Ardistan which, while it has close economic relations (mostly due to their decent size oil industry) to the west, it has never actually managed to get itself a position in a western military pact like NATO or other affiliations. Thus it has been dependent on whatever they can get their hands on for defence – which, due to what the ‘less-legal’ markets have to offer, has predominantly become Russian style equipment.
Lately the Russian government has been trying to gain a good relationship with this nation, and they have recently granted a few helicopters of various types and ages. This, sadly for them, did not work as they hoped.
Recently a new player (military origination) appeared on the field – no known affiliations, but their stocks of modern Russian equipment and the fact that they have been heard speaking Russian does give a good indication, and also that their first move since being formed is that they invaded Ardistan. Of course, Russia denies having any responsibility.
The Ardistan army is trying its best, and with the homeground advantage they have been standing their ground against forces which not only outnumber them, but also seem to have everything to take take advantage of our local’s weaknesses (decent air capability, but no armour) while bringing everything our guys can’t do anything about (we still have good air defence, but with the airforce being grounded, our anti-armor is crippled). Still, with a lot of digging in they are now in a stale-mate, the only problem being that both sides are still losing manpower and supplies to the fighting, and our allies are projected to run out first.
This is why a local NATO force is being redirected to assist, and TFA is being deployed to assist in ground operations while the rest of the force is setting up a supply line to keep both TFA and our allies fighting.
Topography: hilly and sometimes urban.
ORDERS
You have done well breaking the enemy in the northwest. The leadership did get away. But we tracked them, and they didnt get very far. They are in the last enemy occupied area: the northeast of the island.
Your mission will be to lead the assault into their final stronghold. While you are there, we would like to start getting our airforce back in the air – so if you see any AA, destroy it.
Additionally it will be a clear and search for the leadership – remember that we still want these guys ALIVE, so don’t shoot them under any circumstance. We are assaulting their final stronghold. Expect them to send all they have left to try and cover their own escape.
ORDERS IN SHORT
Clear designated areas
Capture enemy leadership (still in suits)
DO NOT SHOOT the leadership
Bonus for destroying all AA
MAPS
OpFor
The enemy has access to a LOT of armour and not just the old crap, they have been seen moving around T-90s – although they seem to be on reserves should anything go wrong. They also have IFV’s ranging up to BMP-3s and APC’s up to BTR-80as (for all the above expect: the higher the number the lower the quantity).
Infantry is as per usual, russian stuff
Air: none
Intel Recon Photos of OpFor:
Friendly Forces
We are stepping of from inside friendly defences, so we will be passing friendlies, also there is the friendly forces to assault the city you need to pass to get to search area.
Our allies are using whatever they could get their hands on, this has turned out to be almost exclusively Russian. They do not posses any heavy armor’ and their airforce’ while decently formidable compared to the rest of their forces, has been grounded due to overwhelming amounts of AA in the region. However, we might be getting some armoured support to assist with the large amounts of enemy armour.
Friendly Forces PID photos:
TFA Equipment
TFA is the west bringing in a small amount of forces. We have been given Strykers with mine ploughs for clearing minefields and m1220 MRAP with no weapons for further transport. We also have two humvees and an LAV-C2 as command vics and spartan vic (the two humvees are also the respawn vehicles).
We have 6.8mm rifles and 7.62 for MG and DMR.
We have the usual spread of AT – although someone misplaced the HAT crate and we are now missing our usual HAT weapons. Luckily our friends could spare us some of theirs, so we now have METIS launchers for HAT.
CAS: unavailable
Radio: SOP as usual
Ammo: pointy sticks
Mine threat: has been used in the past. Be careful.
Rations: still misplaced, so whatever our friends can spare
Mission failure: failure to clear designated areas (to an accaptable degree) or death/escape of enemy leadership.