Poking The Bear

SITREP: Eastern Ukraine SSR, 1982, CIA SAD (Special Activities Division) team Sabre covertly entered the USSR 6 days ago and has since moved north on foot through hostile territory. You have now established contact with your assigned handler, callsign Dagger. Your team has been assembled and deployed on short notice to help extract a disillusioned Soviet Major that the CIA believe is willing to defect to the United States. However, plans have had to be adjusted since you entered the USSR. The officer is under suspicion by the KGB and has been placed under detainment for questioning, the strike must happen tonight. The CIA has assembled an ad hoc extraction team of local Ukrainian nationalists, operating under the Callsign Broadsword. They will handle the extraction, instead, your new tasking is to create a distraction large enough to draw the Soviet's attention and forces away and cause confusion in order to delay a response.

BRIEFING: Your objective is to divert Soviet attention and materiel away from the city of Zelenogorsk and plant charges on a transformer station and detonate them at exactly midnight, the blackout will act as a trigger for your exfil. A large variety of targets (listed below) is marked on your map, these are free to strike at the commander's discretion, do note that the opportunity to attack them may slip away if you wait too long. You may also strike any targets of opportunity you come across. The more chaos you cause, the more the Soviets will escalate their response. If you do not remain mobile, you will find yourself quickly overrun. There are CIA SIGINT teams in the region which will distrupt enemy communications, slowing their response, and track comms traffic.

TARGETS:

• Destroy fuel trucks and parked aircraft in the nearby airbase. Heavy resistance and high escalation.
• Sabotage a tank repair depot.
• Retrieve a stash of AT mines and place them along routes for reinforcements.
• Eliminate the CO of the VDV unit in the region to limit their abilities to hunt you.
• Strike the VDV training camp.
• Locate and eliminate radio vehicles to interfere with communications.
• Once several radio vehicles are down, the enemy may resort to couriers and phone lines, which can be disrupted.

OPFOR forces:

• Local reservists.
• VDV. Avoid at all costs.
• Soviet Army. Will arrive later via MSRs, expect motorized and mechanized infantry supported by heavy armour and artillery.
• Support assets. Should the Soviets escalate far enough, you can expect rotary and fixed wing air support, along with artillery.

BLUFOR forces:

• Sabre Team, player team.
• Dagger, your CIA handler, will provide periodical updates form SIGINT teams.
• Broadsword, strike force of Ukrainian nationalists, avoid compromising their position at all costs.