Raven Creek Liberation - March 17th, 1999

Mission Briefing

Calamari

Good morning Survivors

We’ve continued to harass the northern tunnel and keep their attention here, and the military base is still our cleanest entry point.

Our objective today is to breach and enter, and begin clearing from there. Our route will be through the woods, we don’t want to be spotted and we want to hit hard before they can respond.

Since our scouting team was spotted scouting, ЯTR have posted lookouts on the watch towers along the fences. As you sneak through the woods, if you are spotted they will send a pack of zeds at you and alert others to movement.

Once you reach the military base, we will use explosive charges to breach the doors, and clear the area. 

While you are working on this, KSSA agents will begin clearing the northern tunnel route in a 1-2 punch to the ЯTR’s grim grip on this city.

Today we liberate Raven Creek. Good hunting, Survivors.

After Action Report

Calamari

The majority of survivors were able to sneak past the guard towers as we approached the military camp. A few were spotted though, and some general alarms were sounded as various Survivors were spotted. 

We breached the southern military base and, while there are certainly zeds there, it was much lighter than the Northern blockade. Reports were that these zeds felt stronger, and indeed it took multiple blows that would commonly prove fatal to bring them down. At this point the KSSA triggered our first designation of a black zone.

We believe that survivors being spotted triggered the RTR to mobilize zeds from the northern blockade and attempt to lock the survivors in, creating a hammer and anvil situation in the camp. This nearly worked, but quick thinking on Spitfires part kept the survivors moving north, through the city, and away from the trap.

KSSA was able to push up to and breach the Northern blockade, but resistance was too heavy for us to attempt to clear a path towards survivors. We made the decision to prepare for an airstrike if needed and radioed St. Memphis with the request.

Survivors fought street to street, clearing zeds as they made their way north. Resistance within the city was quite heavy, and RTR presence was still felt. As survivors approached the previous concentration of zeds in the north and started sustaining casualties, we made the decision to execute the airstrike and also begin pushing through the tunnel from the East to meet up with the survivors as quickly as we could.

The mission was an overall success, we were able to break both blockades of Raven Creek, and remove the RTR's grip on the city. This new set of zeds they're deploying concerns us, but research is ongoing with the date recovered from Lake Cumberland. I have a feeling this is the beginning of a new threat escalation of the Knox virus.