American Campaign

The **American Campaign** is one of the 2 main campaigns in the game. It consists of 15 missions + 4 alliance missions. The player takes the role of the soldier John Macmillan. It is advised to start with American campaign as it's considered a natural introduction to Original War, and the Russian Campaign can be seen as its continuation. The player primarily controls American forces during the campaign.

## Story

The story revolves around an extraterrestrial mineral, Siberite, that can catalyze cold fusion and serve as fuel for an alien artifact. The artifact – named EON – was discovered by an American expedition to Russia during World War I. EON is revealed to be a time machine capable of sending objects into the past, but by the time of the discovery, Siberite stocks are exhausted and research stops. Then in the new millennium vast deposits of the mineral are found in Siberia, and Americans are able to extract enough of it for small-scale time-travel.

The U.S. comes up with a plan to send a small force two million years back in time. There it will mine the Siberite and transport it over the Bering Land Bridge to Alaska, into what will one day be in American hands. The best troops are selected, briefed, and told that it is a one-way trip back through time. Because it is one-way trip only people with no relatives are chosen to participate. One of them is soldier John Macmillan.

Unfortunately, Macmillan meets Joan Fergusson during preparation for the mission and falls in love with her. Despite this he agrees to participate in the mission.

After he arrives he finds out that Russians also have EON and sent units to the past to defend Siberite resources for Russia. Americans thus must face unexpected enemy who has the upper hand over them. Macmillan is contacted through radio by Arthur Powell when he arrives. Powell gives him commands but they soon start to dislike each other. Macmillan meets other soldiers and eventually manages to get in touch with rest of American troops tht are led by General Ron Harrison who gives Macmillan comman over Gamma base. Macmillan defends Gamma from Russian troops and completes various missions successfully. During this time new enemy arrives - Arabs who want to destroy Siberite. Harrison eventually dies during Russian attack and is replaced by Powell. Powell still dislikes Macmillan which makes their cooperation problematic. This changes when Powell tries to form alliance with Arabs despite Macmillan's complains. Arabs betray Americans and try to steal their research of Siberite. After this Powell admits his mistake and sincerely apologizes to Macmillan and discusses next mission with him as he received message from some Arabian mercenaries who want to dessert from Arabs. Macmillan goes on the mission and successfully destroys large 3 Arabian bases. This causes Arabs large losses making them seemingly irrelevant force in the conflict. Macmillan is promoted to the rank of Colonel becoming Powell's second in command.

Winter starts soon afterwards which causes sides of the conflict to cease all military activities. Macmillan start to focus on science during the time. He meets Peter Roth who wants to study Siberite and mysteroious Artifacts. Macmillan finds out that Powell largely started to focus on construction of Siberite bomb. Roth tells MacMillan that he contacted some russian scientists who have the same thinking and plant to form Alliance together which would break from Americans and Russians to focus on research and to ensure that Siberite would belong to all humanity. Roth suggests MacMillan to join the alliance which MacMillan is unsure.

Macmillan stays loyal and Roth flees with some scientists stealing results of Siberite bomb research when the winter starts. Macmillan then leads attack on Russian base where Russian research of Siberite bomb happens. After MacMillan destroys Russian research facility his soldiers find some notes about Siberite Motherlode. MacMillan is then tasked with leading research of Siberite bomb while Powell leads units that search for Siberite Motherlode. MacMillan successfully researches Siberite bomb while the final battle for Siberite Motherlode ensues. MacMillan is tasked to hurry to Siberite Motherlode. There he helps defending American positions from Russians who seized Siberite Motherlode. Americans also have to face Legion which researches its own Siberite Motherlode. When Powell dies destroying Legion Factory for Siberite bomb in the process MacMillan takes command. He leads American forces during final battle and eventually defeats Legion, Alliance and defeats Siberite Motherlode from Russians who surrender to him. After Russian surrender, Arabs attack Siberite Motherlode trying to destroy it but are killed in the process.

After American victory Russians are disarmed while Americans start to move Siberite to Alaska. Story ends with John noting in his diary that it will take many years to move all Siberite but notes that they have millions of years.

### Alliance missions

Macmillan decides and join Alliance he convinces some other soldiers to join it too. Their plan is interrupted by Powell who finds out about their betrayal. Macmillan and Roth still manage to escape wth others and go far to the east where they start building a new base called Freedom. They meet with Russian scientists and MacMillan meets Yuri Ivanovich Gorky (Burlak). Burlak informs him of nearby Arabian base called New Kaaba which posseses an Artifact. Alliance then attacks the base and seizes the Artifact. Aterwards Burlak and Macmillan decide to return for an Artifact that Burlak took from Russians had to hide it on the way. During this they come across American test of Siberite bomb and decide to attack Americans to prevent them from having the Siberite bomb. Burlak and Macmillan then lead alliance during final battle and defeat Americans, Russians and Arabs. The game ends with Macmillans diary.

## Major characters

### American

* John Macmillan - Protagonist and soldier of American army who is chosen to become part of Missiom Globemine.
* Arthur Powell - High ranking American officer and eventually main commander of American forces.
* Joan Fergusson - American scientist and Macmillan's love interest.
* Ron Harrison - Main commander of American forces.
* Peter Roth - Scientist who flees Americans to form Alliance.
* Frank Forsyth - American Soldier who is known to be one of best American spies.
* Lisa Lawson - Soldier who serves under Macmillan.
* Andy Cornell - American soldier and Macmillan's friend.
* Lucy Donaldson - Soldier who serves under Macmillan.
* Jeff Brown - Commander of Gamma base.
* Tim Gladstone - American scientist who is the first known American to arrive in past.
* Denis Peterson - American scientist who invents Radar.
* Jeremy Sikorski - Brave commander who helps Macmillan defending Gamma.
* Gary Grant - Soldier who leads American troops in V. A. Ovsyenko
* Bobby Brandon - Mechanic and the first character whom John Macmillan meets after arriving to the past.
* Cyrus Parker - Soldier and the second character whom John Macmillan meets after arriving to the past.
* Paul Khattam - American Scientist of Arabian descent.
* Hugh Stevens - Scientist who invents Siberite rocket.

### Russian

* David Nikitovich Platonov - Main commander of Russian forces.
* Mikhail Alekseyevich Berezov - Russian mechanic who is captured by Macmillan's people.
* Yuri Ivanovich Gorky - Dreaded Russian commander who joins Alliance.

### Arabian

* Kurt Schmidt - Commander of Legion who can become Macmillan's ally.
* Omar Ali - Arabian Sheikh who leads Arabs during final attack.
* Heike Steyer - Mercenary who works for Omar.

## Bases in the campaign

### American

* Alpha
* Gamma
* Delta
* Terminal
* Epsilon
* Kappa

### Russian

* M. N. Tukhachevsky
* V. A. Ovsyenko

## List of missions

1. Surprise Party
2. Stealing the Steel
3. Breaking Through
4. Baptism by Fire
5. Soul of the Apeman
6. From the Future with Love
7. Payback Time
8. Natural Born Heroes
9. Siberite!
10. Genie in a Bottle
11. Arabian Question
12. Fox Hunting
13. Original Cold War
14. One on One
15. Final Countdown

### Alliance Missions

1. Long Way Out
2. Peace on Earth
3. Think Tank
4. War is Peace

## Maps

Mission 1 introMission 1Mission 2Mission 3Mission 4Mission 5Mission 6Mission 7Mission 8Mission 9Mission 10Mission 11 introMission 11Mission 12Mission 13Mission 14Mission 15Alliance Mission 1Alliance Mission 2Alliance Mission 3Alliance Mission 4
## Trivia

* The Campaign draws inspiration from The Last Day of Creation.
* Early missions of American Campaign serve more as a Tutorial for the game.

Missions in Original War