History of the Revolution

• 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 baptism of fire in the field, as they squared off with the oncoming Royal Army for the first time...