Parabellum

The "Parabellum" Campaign was a collection of missions, commenced on April 30th 2022 and completed on October 1st 2022, focusing on the capture and defense of Regions. 

Operations tend to occur on a weekly basis, and consist of fighting for control of Regions, with the ultimate goal of taking over the Combine's HQ. There are 4 maps in which this campaign takes place (Stalker, City-13, Mainstreet and Pripyat) and 2 types of Regions:

• Attrition Regions: Attrition Regions are, as the name implies, areas where each side engages in attrition warfare in order to attempt control of said Region.

• HQ Regions: HQ Regions are meant to be the final holdout point of a faction, with an advantage being given to the losing side in the form of defenses. It can only be attacked when one faction holds both Attrition Regions.

The official rules pertaining to the Campaign can be found here and on the Resistance Discord's Event Announcement channel.

• Report Log: Given that Rebels possessed the auxiliary generator (which provided immunity to base generators), the start of the event was mainly focused on defending said generator, which was positioned in Point H. Combine sent most of their units to attack the auxiliary generator, with few people being sent to base directly throughout the entire event. We start start sending some more people into Combine base to try and find out where they are keeping their generator, locating one of them in the Training Room, but it's heavily protected by several Combine and an OSS. Eventually they take out the auxiliary generator but aren't able to push into Rebel base as we set up a teleporter inside one of the apartments and are constantly attackign them. The biggest issue they provided in terms of our base were the headcrab canisters, which had a big range and also dropped off fast headcrabs that mainly affected our ability to use the teleporter, though it wasn't in any significant way. We had a struggle pushing past the Combine defenses through OVA KILO bay, but we managed to get in long enough to take out one of the generators. While we failed to destroy the second Combine generator, the event was won once the time ran out, as they had not been able to take out any of our generators.

• Report Log: Rebels started off the event by having Engineers build defenses on the base generators while a group of RUs protected the Auxiliary Generator in Point K. The rest of the Rebels attacked Combine base, taking around 10 minutes to discover the Combine Generator locations: PC Office and Weapons Locker room. The Auxiliary Generator didn't get attacked often, with only the occasional SWORD or UNION popping by and being quickly taken care of. Rebels focus on the generator in PC Office, leading to Combine get distracted away from the one in their Debrief; eventually it becomes undefended and is destroyed. The rest of the event played out around the attack of PC Office, which we weren't able to destroy before the timer ran out, but still leading to a Rebel victory.

• Report Log: Rebels did not have an advantage on this operation, given the amount of objectives that needed to be completed and them being outnumbered by Combine. As for the first objective, the Dark Energy Generator, Combine had 2 Striders constantly deployed in their defense, while their ground units were divided on both Substations. Took approximately 10 minutes to overload each of the Substations, the first one being the one on Point C and the second one on Point B, this one taking a while longer due to the more concentrated Combine presence and constant headcrab artillery barrages. Following the destruction of the generator, Rebels targetted the Dark Matter Suppression Device, which allowed for highly devastating and incredibly precise strikes. In the end, due to Combine numbers, Rebels were unable to secure a victory in time, but the destroyed Dark Energy Generator will not be a concern the next time Pripyat is assaulted.

• Report Log: The devastating defeat of City-13's defense mostly came down to the Combine's numerical advantage, as they had double the amount of Rebels. This, combined with the burden of splitting defenses along 3 points (2 HQ generators + Auxiliary), as well as our base not being ideal for a defense, meant they were quickly able to get a massive amount of units into the main DB area (once the auxiliary generator had been destroyed in the first 5 minutes) through the use of constant APC deployments, where they were able to cut off Rebel access to both generators and destroy them.

• Report Log: Due to the failings in protecting City-13 from the Combine on June 4th, the Resistance were forced to deal with Combine artillery and the map's main bonus: the Auxiliary Generator. A change in strategy was made regarding our 2 generators; while in previous operations we tended to divide our defenses among both generators, this time Rebels focused their defenses on a single generator, positioned in the Leadership office and highly defended by fortifications and both hardpoints, while the second generator was placed on a hidden rooftop location with a single RU guard, acting more as a ninja generator. Though it ended up being destroyed, the main generator was kept safe by the efforts of the defensive team, which primarily consisted of Engineers. The Recruitment Center was placed in C, and was not destroyed as the Combine focused on either defending their own generators or attacking ours. When the attack started, the main Rebel force swept through Points B and A, which held the Relay Station (Artillery) and the Auxiliary Generator respectively; this was done fairly quickly as the Combine didn't put dedicated defenses on these places, and an SU was able to call out such positions before the combat started. The attack of the Combine generators was more difficult, as Combine defenses were focused on a chokepoint which served as the only point of entry for the attack team; and both generators were located inside the training center. This defense fell however when an additional entry point into said training center was added through a teleporter, which allowed for the chokepoint to be overtaken and the generators to be quickly defeated.

• Report Log: After a long hiatus we once again returned to try and take the Combine's HQ Region. This time the 2 exterior Dark Energy Generators were no longer a problem, and we only had to deal with the DMSD (located in Point C's sewers) and the 3 generators in base. Unfortunately, we were unable to secure a win due to being outnumbered and outgunned, as Combine had twice the number of people we had and were able to use an OSS and buffed up EOWs in a tight-spaced defensive environment. Fortunately, we were able to come in clutch and disable the DMSD during overtime, ensuring that next time we're in Pripyat we can go straight after the main generators.

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