The discovery of Dieselium in the late 1930’s, even with its’ toxic instability, has driven the development of engines capable of power to weight undreamt. Nowhere seen more striking than on the Battlefield of today, where Dieselium engines drive the metal frames surrounding armored soldiers faster and stronger than ever imagined. These Augmented Infantry...
There have always been disturbing tales of R’lyeh, what with one thing and another, and the war, they haven’t been investigated until now. I want you to take your men and find out what it’s all about. You and your soldiers of the Papuan Infantry Battalion land on the Island of R’lyeh off the New Guinea coast, little knowing what horrors and mind destroying...
Following the invasion at Normandy, the push into the French hinterland grew bloody and savage as the German forces dug into the obstructed bocage country, leaving the Allied progress stymied. Because of its strategic importance, the occupied city of Saint-Lô had been the target of repeated Allied bombing. The protracted resistance around the city was the...
Seize the bridges over the River Orne and Caen Canal at Bénouville and Ranville intact and hold them until relieved. - Order given to Major John Howard, D Company, Ox and Bucks for his D-Day mission, June 6th, 1944. At 0016 June 6th, 1944 the men of D Company, Ox and Bucks, landed in Horsa gliders within yards of two vital bridges spanning the River Orne...
April 1944 // Neutral Portuguese Cape Verde Islands "Urgent! Most Secret! To Reichsführer-SS Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - This is Agent Z, repeat Agent Z, I have the secret formulae, the Professor's notes provided the key, the Ultimate Weapon is here on this Cape Verde Island! They are closing in on me, send U-boat!" Warfighter: WWII Z Expansion #59 –...
The raid on the French Atlantic coastal town of Saint-Nazaire, Operation Chariot, is one of the most audacious operations in the history of warfare. The obsolete destroyer HMS Campbeltown was disguised to resemble a German vessel and rammed the Normandie dry dock gates, blowing it up and putting it out of service until after the war. At the same time, a...
Formed during the darkest years of the war, Soviet Penal Battalions were composed of disgraced soldiers and wanton criminals sent to the front to redeem themselves through combat. Thrown into some of the most dangerous sectors of the Eastern Front, they were often tasked with brutal assaults, hopeless missions, and near-suicidal operations where losses...
As the German occupation tightened its grip on the Soviet homeland, Soviet resistance fighters emerged from among soldiers cut off behind the lines, local communists, and defiant civilians determined to resist the invader. Amid harsh conditions and constant danger, Soviet partisan detachments waged a relentless campaign of raids, ambushes, and sabotage...
As the war on the Eastern Front deepened into a brutal struggle for survival, the Soviet winter descended with merciless force upon soldiers and hostiles alike. Snow-choked roads, frozen rivers, and blinding blizzards turned the battlefield into a hostile wilderness where endurance became as vital as firepower. In the midst of this unforgiving cold, armies...
In the frozen crucible of the Eastern Front, Soviet tanks and vehicles rumbled through frost-rimed forests, snow-choked roads, and smoked ruins under punishing steel-grey skies. From rugged T-34s and KV-1s to lend-lease Churchills and Emchas, these machines carried men and firepower across the icy front, battling German resistance, mechanical strain, and...
As WWII entered its most desperate and destructive phase, the remote shores of Peenemünde became the cradle of Germany’s secret weapons program. Shrouded in secrecy and menace, this sprawling research complex was home to the development of the experimental rockets and flying bombs intended to strike terror into enemy homelands. Amid test stands, launch...