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The First Winter (Early Weeks)

In the days following Pasty's flight into the deep reaches of the Barbudos Mountains in northern Austria, the rebel's first objective was to establish a central base, near to a constant water and food source. After almost a week of marching through torrential rains and winter snowstorms, they came across a small lake, thankfully unfrozen by the bitter American winter. They established a permanant base from which to coordinate attacks on soldiers in the area, named "Camp Libre'". It was in this period that the communists began to set up a network of peasant farmers and miners within the area. Winning over their favor with their promises if the revolution was indeed successful, the region's workers pledged their early support to the revolution, and pooled their stockpiles up to help feed the rebels through the winter.

All while this was happening, the regional military commander, General Taraup became aware of the rebel plot to overthrow the government and learned of Pasty's raid on the Castra Armory. He sent out an estimated 2,000 troops to search the area where they were last sighted and question the locals. It was at this time that the first airstrikes were ordered by Taraup to "wipe out the scum before they even got on their feet". In the assault that followed, 2 rebels were wounded when a bomb exploded after fallling through a peasant's roof, where they were staying. While the two farmers were killed, word of the event spread and many within the area turned to support Pasty and the rebels. And soon after, over a dozen new volunteers arrived at Camp Libre'. They were to be the first of many in the coming years...

The job of training the new recruits fell on the shoulders of Pasty's longtime friend, Daniel Ackersky. Ackersky was a well-known hunter in Castra, and being the only person with serious experience firing a weapon in the party, was ordered by Pasty to transform a bunch of peasants, intellectuals, and adventure-seekers into a formal army. With the ground assault by the Royal Army halted by the continuing winter, the rebels were given the time to undergo extensive weapons practice and physical conditioning. Daily hikes up the steep mountains hardened the rebels to the extreme conditions of the Barbudos, and they practiced shooting at birds flying in the sky and at wild deer which doubled as a meal for the hungry army.

The winter of 2047-48, however brutal it was, proved crucial in strengthing the revolutionaries, both in mental and physical resolve. And when the storms died and the snow melted in mid March, the blosoming rebel army was given it's first taste of combat in the field, as they squared off with the oncoming Royal Army for the first time...

Baptism of Fire

Only days after the last of the snow had melted away from the forested Barbudos Mountains, the rebels already found themselves faced with the formitable enemy in the form of the 2000 Austrian soldiers combing the area for them. Pasty and his closest advisors realised that sooner or later, they would have to meet them in combat. Together with scouts in the peasant network in the region, they gathered intellegence on the movements of the troops in the area.

On March 26th, 2048, Pasty's rebels received word that a small detachment of Royal soldiers were spotted 5km from Camp Libre'. It was comprised of 40 soldiers, and was commanded by a Colonel who would soon play a crucial role in the revolution, Whoopwhoopwhoop. Although being outnumbered 2-to-1, Pasty decided that it was now or never ands personally led his tiny army of 19 to a road on which the Royal Army will be passing through. They took ambush positions on either side, hidden behind the trees. At approximately 2:00pm, Whoop's detachment arrived just as predicted. To signal the start of the attack, Pasty was to fire the opening shot, and try and kill the commanding officer to panic the soldiers. Ducking out from behind a boulder, he aimed and pointed his PG-12 pistol at Whoop who was riding in a jeep near the front. He fired, and just missed his target. Alerted to the shot, the Austrians attempted to ready themselves, but soon came under fire from the guerrillas along the road. A fierce firefight insued, and the regiment soon fell, and the remaining men surrendered. After a 7 minute skirmish, 23 of the Austrians lay dead, another 5 were injured and taken prisoner, while Whoop and the other 12 were able to escape. The Guerrillas on the other hand suffered only one death, a young peasant boy who had joined the rebels only a week earlier. After burying their fallen comrade, the rebels and their 5 prisoners returned back to Camp Libre'. They had captured 13 weapons, grenades, and a RPG with two rounds, and a limited supply of ammunition...