Battle of Stronghold 16

The Battle of Stronghold 16 was a major battle and a great event in The Dark Future trilogy. The battle began when the Red Army of the American People's Republic launched a massive full frontal assault on Stronghold 16, destroying the facility and preventing the American Reich from taking it. The bloody conflict continued until the Reich withdrew and the facility fell under Communist control.
== Overview ==
Stronghold 16 was a fallout shelter before the Great War, used to protect the United States armed forces of the pre-war. Years after the war, for unknown reasons, soldiers and civilians died in the underground facility while experimenting in a research lab, and the remaining survivors escaped. Later, the building stood empty, containing a vast stockpile of everything from useful resources to high quality weapons made from pre-war technology that still functioned and could penetrate military armour and equipment. Seeing this as a great opportunity for the factions, the Reich sent troops into the facility with the aim of taking it over, but so did the Red Army. As soon as the Nazi Shocktroopers entered the facility, the Red Army attacked them from all 4 sides, flooded the facility and began to massacre the Nazis.
=== The Battle ===
The battle continued as Red Army soldiers stormed the Stronghold and began attacking from the north and south. The Nazi soldiers were unable to spread out in a wave after the wave of Communist soldiers attacked the facility, and began to push out the Nazis who had taken their territory to the north and the Communists to the south. The Shocktroopers deployed the heavy troopers equipped with machine guns and a heavily armoured hybrid M1117 armored security vehicle with a tank turret mounted on it.  Initially, the defensive offensive by the Nazi soldiers was successful, but the Red soldiers used grenade launchers to shoot out the armoured car, and eventually the Spetsnaz soldiers began to descend from above with ropes, providing covering fire for their advancing comrades, which they dubbed the "Battering Ram".
== Trivia ==
* Communist and Nazi soldiers have roughly the same morale, are generally committed to their leaders, disciplined and do not let their comrades down.
* In the case of the Battle of Stronghold 16, with the exception of the Spetsnaz, Red Army soldiers did not count their fallen comrades, but left them behind, unlike the Reich soldiers who took all the wounded they could with them when they retreated.
* According to some rumours, a small group of snipers from the American Empire known as the Confederacy took part in the battle, although it is not known who they fired at.
* The Stronghold 16 was a significant location in the trilogy, as a secret society developed a prototype of a virus called Biophatogane in the lab of this facility, which was then released, causing an outbreak in the three major factions.
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