Oil and Blood: A Dynamic Player Driven Campaign
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August 2011. The Arab Spring is sweeping through the Middle East. As governments topple, the people take charge of their own destiny.
Two months ago the Oil Workers Union in the employ of the RusTak Oil Company went on strike to demand higher wages to compensate for the increase in the prices of day-to-day commodities. Those in the industrial sector of the country were finding it harder and harder to feed their families on the wages paid by RusTak.
Just as swiftly as the strike began, the CEO and founder of RusTak; Vasiliy “Tex” Abramovich, called in his personal army of mercenaries from Global Security Services to crush the strike. The Army of Takistan stood silent as Western Guns called in by the ethnic Russian-Jew born in North East Takistan rode roughshod over the strikers in Loy Manara and Nagara. Cheap labor from neighboring Ardistan was then brought in to work the oil fields.
Meanwhile in the agrarian areas of the country, rumblings of mullahs preaching tighter, more traditional Islamic laws over the country began to emerge. The agrarian areas around Zargabad and in the valleys of North East Takistan were not feeling the pinch of the commodities inflation, they were however disturbed by the reports that Western Mercenaries had been brought into the country and had committed acts of violence against Muslims while the Army did nothing to defend them. The fact that these mercenaries were brought in by a Jew only stirred the hornet’s nest more.
Takistan has been at peace since the Socialist Coup succeeded in 1992, but with the fall of its greatest benefactor; the Soviet Union, Takistan has moved further adrift from its socialist design. The country’s riches are under the control of one man who simultaneously owns his own army and for the time being, the actual army. The agrarian heart of the country is becoming more and more radicalized. The educated industrial workers are now without jobs and without government representation. The army is run by a power hungry madman who is rumored to indulge in unspeakable perversions.
The Socialists seek to return to the way things were in the previous decade. The Islamists see an opportunity to bring paradise to Takistan. The Oil Tycoon will do whatever is profitable and could be swayed if profits fall. The Army will support its General, and he is for sale to the highest bidder.
Map of the Green Sea Region
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The RusTak Oil Company was founded in 1985 by Takistan-born, ethnic Russian-Jew, Vasiliy Abramovich aka Tex . The company has weathered the fall of the Monarchy in 1992 and the subsequent Socialist takeover of the oil industry. RusTak was spared nationalization because no one else in the country had expertise in the energy field. However, RusTak had to make the concession to allow the oil workers to unionize. Through financial and managerial wizardry, the company has managed to dominate the Green Sea Region energy production market. They now control all oil and gas fields in Takistan along with the refining facilities, the export facility in the Capital-Port City of Takmyr and all of the pipelines. The gas pipeline that runs north from the county to Russia provides an economic tie to the powerful northern neighbor. RusTak recently signed an offshore oil development partnership with British Petroleum.
Global Security Services is a contracted company that has been providing security for RusTak for over 15 years. The firm was founded by Soviet Afghan War Veterans in 1994 and is now staffed by multiple nationalities. Many Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans have found high paying jobs protecting the oil fields of Takistan. They field the latest small arms and are rumored to have ties in the CIA. The extent of heavy weapons capability is unknown.
Tex Abramovich
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The Army of Takistan has grown softer over these 2 decades of peace. The Generals have been pushed out by the defacto head of the country; General Ahmed Ahmed Sakr. Rumors are that most of the Old Guard from the 1992 Coup have either been killed or bought off and shipped off. The army fields a mix of late 1980s military equipment. M113 APCs and Huey Helicopters will be seen beside T-55 MBTs and Hind Attack helicopters. General Sakr is said to favor artillery for conventional conflicts and employs his own Special Squads for smaller, more personal conflicts. Takistan sent a detachment of infantry to Afghanistan in 2007 to fight alongside the British and Dutch troops in Helmand Province. It is believed that the troops that were sent are now serving in this special unit. No official reports about these men have ever surfaced from Afghanistan, all that is know is that their deployment area was and still is very quiet.
General Sakr
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The Socialist Party of Takistan or Red Hats; derived from the Arabic acronym for the political party and their socialist ideals. Were the leading political party to come out of the 1992 Coup. Most everyone that joined the party was a fighter on the front line against the Monarchy. They settled down and went to work in the oil and gas fields and have remained content since the 1992 peace. When commodities exploded as a result of western inflationary policies, the workers demanded a higher wage. This demand was refused and the workers struck. The GSS intervened and broke the strike. At present many are conducting guerrilla operations in and around Nagara, Bastam and Zargabad. They are poorly equipped and barely organized, but they may be the last hope for Takistan to return to it's former peace and prosperity.
Former Head of the Socialist Party of Takistan: Hanni Al-Qawee (now in hiding)
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The Islamic Brotherhood of Takistan is not organized at present. They have support as a small political party in the agrarian communities south of Zargabad and in the rural valleys of the country. A handful of the hard line militants have spent stints in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they could hardly be categorized as a terrorist group or legitimate movement. However, support has been growing ever since Muslim blood was spilled by western mercenaries in Loy Manara and Nagara.
Spiritual Leader of the Islamic Brotherhood: Sheikh Khaled Qareem Khan (center bottom)
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Spoiler Alert, click show to read:Overview:
The boundaries will be pre-defined as a zone of operations. Within this zone the players will have several objectives to choose from. Objectives in themselves do not have as much weight on the campaign as how the operations are carried out and how the outside world views the result.
Do not expect to be set up in an attack/defend tug-of-war type campaign. You could be fighting in Bastam one game and then in Loy Manara or Zargabad the next. This isn't about territory, although there most certainly will be instances where holding a town or assaulting a town will be imperative.
Expect to work as small teams or even individuals spread around the map.
The commander of OPFOR (ME) is invincible but will be on the field and will be commanding troops. If you see my character, don't bother shooting at me, nothing will happen apart from you giving up your position to OPFOR AI. This does not mean my bodyguards cannot be killed.
Players primary goal is to succeed in the objective. Secondary goal is survival.
Speed is paramount. Getting bogged down in engagements could cost the players more than they know. Always think about the hit-and-run.
OPFOR commander will not be able to cheat his way to victory. I will have multiple assets at my disposal including UAV and high command module so I can actually command units. In order to make this fair, I will not make moves with troops until standard radio checks.
Radio checks will go every 20 mins from game start. So if we start at 4 am in game, then first radio check will go at 4:20 am, so on and so on. This means that if you get into a heavy engagement that you have to finish within 20 minutes or the whole world could fall on you if you don't retreat in time.
However, no one is saying that you can't move to a different objective. For example you may kill a pair of guards in a town. They can't be reached via radio check at the prescribed time so I will investigate. By the time my investigators get there, you should be long gone and onto another objective.
There are no revives or respawns.
Resources:
There is no gold or money or anything like that. The player commander will be expected to submit to me in writing what the status is on arms and equipment at the end of each mission. Just a general round about is fine, I don't need to know precise mag counts. But I can keep a running count of vehicles and arms by knowing what you start with (from previous scenario) and knowing what you end with. Example: you start the mission with 4 technicals, 2 get blown up but you found two motorcylces. You now have 2 technicals and 2 motorcycles. There will be a lot of "finding". The infrastructure in Takistan doesn't allow for quick supply of fancy arms and equipment.
Building fortifications and weapons will cost man hours. You may blow up a ZU truck but the gun can be repaired, so take it with you (pretend), it just has to be repaired. Fortifications will be built by sympathizers, as will the carrying out of repairs.
The players are fighters, you have to protect your supply lines and your supporting cast. The fighters in Syria or US Marines in Afghanistan do not do everything alone. We simulate this by weighing how well the players fight. How well they protect civilians. How well they keep their own weapons and equipment in tact. This is meant to discourage rampaging with a vehicle, you may need it more than you think at the time.
Man hours cannot simply be earned by showing up, actions will merit more or less support.
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Available Manpower:
15 Hours
Available Equipment/Weapons:
3 x SPG9 Technical
1 x .50 cal Technical
1 x ZU23 truck
4 x Open Top Trucks
2 x Small Car Bomb
1 x Large Car Bomb
6 x Moped
1 x PMC MiniGun SUV
1 x Skoda Van
1 x BMP-2
3 x BTR-40
2 x UAZ .50 cal
3 x 82mm Podnos Mortar
1 x TKA Weapons Crate
1 x TKA Launcher Crate
1 x TKA Special Weapons Crate
Specialists in Support of Faction:
Machinist
Bomb Maker
**Extremist
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The following require a machining specialist
3 hours: Repair partially damaged vehicle
1 hour: Remove damaged weapon from destroyed vehicle (ZSU, SPG, etc)
3 hours: Repair damaged weapon
2 hours: attach weapon to vehicle
6 hours: build SPG-9 (simulates improvised rocket launcher)
8 hours: build 82 mm mortar
The following require a bomb maker
1 hours: build AT mine
2 hours: build small IED
3 hours: build medium IED
***REQUIRE MACHINIST AND BOMB MAKER AND APPROPRIATE VEHICLE***
3 hours + passenger car: build small car bomb
4 hours + van or pickup: build medium car bomb
6 hours + large truck: build large car bomb
Fortifications
4 hours: basic barricade
6 hours: major barricade
10 hours: mine field of 20 mines (50m x 50m)
Special Units
Suicide Bomber: Requires Extremism, Bomb Maker and Machinist (for vehicle-borne).
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**Special Target: Gains were made by Socialist and Islamist forces this week. Islamists were able to capture the garrison at Jilavur and reinforce Sakhe as well as pushing out the lines to Sagram and through Timurkulay down to Loy Manara. TKA forces mutinied in Chadarakht and Chak Chak. The Chak Chak mutiny was destroyed by the Socialists but Chadarakht, Loy Manara, Hazar Bar and Jaza have fallen to our new brothers. The helicopters in Loy Manara ferried troops and supplies day and night into the air base before the helicopters left permanently for Zargabad. The base is prepared for a long siege but no longer has organic air support. We have the opportunity to drive the TKA out of Loy Manara and then use the weapons and equipment there against the Socialists. This will give us control of the south if we are successful.
**Special Target: So far the north of the area has been spared the brunt of the fighting. The TKA have dug in with FOBs and supporting artillery in the center and Rasman. So the Feruz Abad area and the Rasman area are the troop concentrations. We have the opportunity to strike between the two concentrations and drive RusTak to the negotiating table or out of the country. We can gain access to the Teleport and coordinate with sympathizers now that we have a number of TKA communications officers that defected this week. This would be a long but swift raid against lighter targets but we would be far from our lines of support. This would be a bold move but could cripple the TKA into 3 separate pockets of resistance. The less supported they feel, the more eager they seem to join a rebel side. The main goal would be to destroy all enemy forces in Bastam, Gospandi and Lalezar while seizing the Teleport and the Par-E-Siah Oilfield.
**Special Target from Salim: Hello friends. The Socialists still have the pipeline and have now seized the Nagara 1 Oilfield. This puts them perilously close to the Lalezar HQ. There is little we can ask you to do against the northern Socialists but with pressure mounting on the southern Socialists we must stress you take control of the pipeline.
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Spoiler Alert, click show to read:Sultan Mahmud Mosque. This is the largest Mosque in the area and is the religious heart of Northeast Takistan. Controlling the message here could mean life or death for your cause.
Takistan Teleport: This is the facility that provides public communications access to Northeast Takistan. The site is a number of satellite dishes passing bandwidth to a microwave tower that allows for mobile phone and DSL access.
Player Roster
Campaign Designer: Pugs
Journalist: Aanker [BLUFOR]
Cell A:
Katsumoto*
Skitz
Lewis
Danny
Nyxos
Cell B:
Napo*
Nerevarine
Testudo
Wolfbane
Menelik_I
Cell C:
Poach*
s.rwitt
Falcon
Motiv-8
Cell D:
Mitch*
Azoth
Numenor
Trance
Jezza
Alternates:
Beck
Achilles
Remlap
Omar
Acousticx
* Denotes Cell Commander
Cells need a minimum of 4 players to be operational.
Cells will have their own equipment and can function independently, and perhaps even in competition.
If one cell needs equipment that another cell has, the cell commanders have to come to an agreement and then inform me as to what gear is going with which cell.
Letters from Salim:
August 26th, 2011
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Friends,
Congratulations on your success today. Our Shadow is pleased with your results and would like you to know that your losses today will be recouped. As you read this; a shipment of arms similar to those used by your enemies is en route to you along with several dozen fighters from all over the Sunni World. These men and the weapons they bring will enable you to fight the important fights while they nurture the populace and hold lines against the infidel.
We are concerned with the aggressiveness of the godless Socialists and would like you to focus your energies against one of their strongholds in the area as soon as possible. There are rumors coming to me from within the Army that they would not serve under socialists again and that the time is ripe for a Takistan under the guiding hand of Islam.
We would also like you to take care and avoid fighting the GSS or damaging any RusTak installations. We have sources working on locating Mr. Abramovich and you may be called upon to remove him but for now I stress that you must keep these installations intact for the good of Takistan and the Sunni World.
We believe we can exert enough pressure on the Americans to convince GSS to stand aside while things settle around them, but the oil fields must be left alone. If anything now, the GSS do not see the TKA as an ally but rather a burden.
My friends, we have signed no contracts, we have no bonds but those bound to us by GOD, you do not have to abide our requests, but I assure you that you will find the road much harder to follow if you make an enemy of me.
Your friend,
Salim
PS. You may be wondering about the SCUDs and I assure you that the Americans take no offense to our little ruse. Two of the rockets fell upon the infidel Khazakhanis and the third; well I alerted a friend in the American government to the launch. We do not need a full blown war with the Russians, at least not now.
August 28th, 2011
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Friends,
Your benefactor thought that these photographs would help your planning for your future operations. Do take care to note all positions and vehicles.
We believe that the Loy Manara Airbase has a substantial QRF that will respond to any event threatening the base with a full lock down. We have observed Socialist attacks on the base and it seems that armor and helicopters will deploy rapidly to cover vulnerable points in the defense and patrol the outlying areas. The Socialists have backed off from launching RPG attacks and now prefer to lob a mortar or two. This photograph is only an hour old.
The small FOB in Timurkalay appears to have several armored vehicles and a well prepared garrison. They are completely cut off as you can see on the new intelligence map we have helped to build for you. Our volunteers have taken up the blocking positions to protect the Garmsar valley from any incursions. They have also flanked around to the west of this FOB and control the roads leading into town.
Good Luck,
Salim
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Re: Oil and Blood: A Dynamic Player Driven Campaign
Originally Posted by I WUB PUGS
was RusTak formed in 1985? Free enterprise was banned in the USSR back then.
and tbh lets not use the ACE medic system, I think lewis can agree it's a 
