USAF Crusades

Raid victory during a UWF-USCM joint attack.
== Background ==
Initiated as a series of probing attacks by Colonel WolfhoundWarmaster against the Great Wall of Dell, the USAF Crusades began as an experiment to see if USCM could catch the attention of USAF by racking up enough victories. Gathering over ten victories in the span of a month, some of which were brutal beatdowns with the help of the UWF and IoM, USAF eventually had to deploy more elite troops and retaliated with offensive raids.
USAF was primarily comprised of unintelligent, untrained and undisciplined conscripts who were enticed into joining by a number of low-effort free model games used as recruiting bait. As a result, they fielded a massive army but didn't pose any sort of tangible threat towards an organized raiding team. Their more elite units consisted of SOCOM and the Military Police, who were held to higher recruiting and training standards. They also benefitted from overpowered equipment and armor. 
== Location & Battles ==
The Great Wall of Dell was a map with a massive, well-defended wall with numerous bunkers and watch towers built into it. The wall towered over a small town and forest, with hostiles having to cross over two bridges with minimal cover, causing them to also serve as natural chokepoints. These bridges ran across a river lined with landmines, barbed wire and tank traps, making it nearly impossible to cross unharmed.
During the initial scouting raids, Marines would probe the USAF defenses and come up with plans to get through the wall. The wall required at least 4-5 men to stack over and open the gate. As a result, very methodical pushes needed to be made in order to bound enough men across to open the gate. 
Inside the wall was a small town with a capture point. A sophisticated defense plan was conjured by COL WolfhoundWarmaster in which Marines would take up intersecting fields of fire in two highrise buildings near their spawn and proceed to spawntrap USAF forces. An additional layer of defense was made around the point, with three teams watching each of the main streets leading to the point. 
Due to this strategy and the support from the UWF and Imperium of Man, the Marines often made quick work of the USAF defenders and butchered them with ease, racking up over ten wins in under a month. The most notable win was during Operation Rice Farmer, in which a small team of 6 Marines managed to claim victory against over 22 USAF. This represented how most of their force was worthless in a stand-up fight.
Following several embarrassing losses and multiple deep-cover sabotage missions by UWF alts inside USAF stealing battle plans and leaking hidden armor & weapon locations, USAF decided to counterattack IoM at their base on the jungle world of Catachan.
The resulting battle was an overwhelming defeat for USAF and they were punished mercilessly by the IoM and USCM defenders. Reeling, USAF declared that they would no longer raid and demanded that USCM/IoM/UWF raid the wall of dell only. 
Considering this an act of surrender, USCM would sever contact with USAF for several months until they reached out to the UWF to raid Haven in 2018. USAF was swiftly destroyed once again and the operation was considered over. 
Category:Crusades