Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the Resistance game series, these rights belong to Insomniac Games and Sony Computer entertainment, please support the official release. Ya Chimeran *************. The concept for operation "Winter Storm" comes completely from DeathScytheVII.

Authors note: Please keep in mind that you should except an update about once every three to four days. This particular update is because i was bored and had the time. Please note that my aim is to be the first Resistance story with over 100k words.

Mandea City, Republic of Mandea

As i sit in the office of the reclamation department of Mandea City, I can't help but think about how well the reclamation of the place going. Amongst Other things the city has a working tramway now. One of the first in reclaimed Europe. Then the secretary call my name and i sit down in front of the man who is Responsible for the whole concept of reclaiming Europe, Koenraad von Danzig.

(Me) Greetings Mr Von Danzig, I was wondering if you could answer a inform our readers about the UED operation known as "Winter Storm"?

(VD) Sighs. Operation Winter Storm was a Brilliant idea, the original concept was based around the assumption of a Russian attack on Poland and Romania, the idea was of a extraordinarily strong series of static defences built along the whole of the border. And I am not talking about just machine gun posts and some barbed wire here. I mean a five layer deep series of trenches, rail guns and a few old Naval Batteries alongside complex concrete bunker formations and artillery positions from the third line back. The idea was that once the initial Russian wave had been dispersed, A large force of well co-ordinated tanks and infantry supported by aircraft and moderate mobile artillery. The basic idea was proposed by Field Marshal Rommel, but it was helped by European Defence Commander Mannerheim and General Patton of your American army. I heard some officers calling it "The Blitzkrieg".

(Me) So why didn't it work?

(VD) Well for a start it was assuming the enemy was Human, something the Chimera were most decidedly not. It also assumed that the enemy would be using the traditional time honoured Russian tactic of "Throw more men at it" and that the enemy could in fact be demoralised. That was a big part of the plan you see. If we could pierce the lines and get to St Petersburg by the end of the week, maybe old Ivan would give up? The way Manstein described it would be "shock warfare" (Grumbles in a pissed off fashion. ) It didn't go to plan. When the first shells landed in Grodno, we thought, "here we go gents, a nice field of Russian soon to be dead men coming up". We also of course prepared for the inevitable flood of refugees. Our spies in the cities were just waiting to infiltrate the Russian lines, and we had enough munitions to last for three weeks of semi-constant attack. Then of course our spies didn't make any reports. There were no civilians to escort to safety. And most disturbingly, there was no attack. This was only on the first day of course so we didn't think to much of it. Then the attack started, and we wished for that silence back.

(Me) What was the initial attack like?

(VD) It was a nightmare. The infantry , those ones we now call the hybrids, just charged over open ground towards us. Which if they had been human might have been a sure failure. Of course they weren't human though. They just overran the first line in less than a hour of fighting. At this point calls for air support started. And they came in quickly. The first strafes were glorious. Thousands of the bastards were just blown to pieces and filled with holes. Then there was a second strafe and thousands more of the blighters were killed as no less than forty planes flew overhead… Then we waited for a third strafe. And sure enough it came. And within twelve seconds we saw dozens of rockets fly in the projected flightpaths of the aircraft. I don't think more than three planes got away from that. This was when the stalkers showed up. About two hundred of them just ran up with the never ending infantry wave and started obliterating the second line. It was chaos. The bloody things could position their guns to fire directly into the trenches and bunkers. The rockets were easily capable of piercing anything up to a Panther and often could do some serious damage to the Tiger II's that we fielded. The only thing we had in the 3rd line that was remotely capable of standing up to the things were those old Churchill tanks. And even then, It was looking bad pretty quickly.

(Me) So your equipment was inadequate?

(VD) No, no no. Its just that we had the wrong equipment. Everyone was expecting a war you see. But with the Russians? Everyone thought the Americans or the Japanese or the goddamn Saudi's were a bigger threat than the Russians. Most of our defence that had Quality were pulled off to guard those fronts. There was a reason that we only had Churchill's and Panther's that day. sighs.

Not that it did us much good. In less than a day the entirety of our position had been overrun. We probably could have held longer, maybe saved more men if we had just held our ground but at the time we were focused on retreating to the strong points. Problem is that the Chimera knew that. I remember that at one point a large railway gun was the centre of some resistance. It was firing shell after shell into the horde of hybrids charging at our lines. Then and I remember this clearly, A single shell landed in the area around the gun. And it just fell silent. At first we were thinking "Gas" or that it may have gotten a lucky strike. Of course we now know that it was a spire. Anytime we set up a strong fortified position, a single oversized rocket would fall into the area, and it would go silent. My artillery piece had been obliterated during the first hour of battle so i was riding on a retreating tiger II. I think the flashes of gunfire stopped before we got more than 2km away from the final line.

(Me) so was this the point you joined up with taskforce winter storm?

(VD) Yes, me and that arsehole tanker Wittman,I believe his name was. He and his crew were the only tank to get out of that battle alive. We travelled to the Warsaw defensive line. To meet up with the counterattacking winter storm force. If i knew then what i know now i don't think I would have joined with the army, I would have kept running all the way to the atlantic.

The Head of the Reclamation Project looks nostalgic as he remembers the days from before the war. before he states to me, "thats enough for today. Come back tomorrow and we will talk some more. As I leave the office and walk onto the streets of New Mandea, I cannot help but imagine how it used to look before it was attacked by the Chimera. How must it have looked back then? Most certainly it did not look like a fusion of Oriental and European architecture. It must have been an amazing city when it had another name and more than 20,000 people. I believe the locals called it Berlin…