Revolutionary Exportation Force of the Comintern

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

The **Revolutionary Exportation Force of the Comintern** is an Extremis faction loosely based on the Defender League fan-faction. The paramilitary arm of the communist international and in many ways the mirror of R.U.N. and the Unionists, the REFC makes use of an eclectic arsenal that can go from bleeding edge to almost shockingly simple. Especially active in Africa and Southern Asia but also have some presence in more important Allied territory such as Iberia, West Germany, Italy, Greece, and even as far away as Canada among the Quebecois and First Nations or Japan amidst the Rose Society that had been aided by the GRU for a revolution in preparation for the planned but never launched due to Cherdenko's peace deal joint Soviet-APPC invasion of the Home Islands, an action which still angers the REFC today. Sometimes even receiving equipment from sources not even the Soviets can identify.

Using the tactics similar to the Allies SAS and Green Berets. The REFC act as force multipliers who are tasked with recruiting and training communist sympathizers into a revolutionary army. They make no real apologies for the fact that they don't really care for "Liberal sensibilities" and wear the badge of "rabblerousers" with pride. Often to the point of ironically adopting the title of "terrorist" as a label of honour to show that they have no fear regarding their portrayal in the news as they regard "impartiality in the press" as fundamentally impossible and instead focus on pushing their own narrative through their own aligned news agencies and leaflet distribution. The REFC is something of a bogeyman, where people accuse it of being behind every movement to the left of whatever they consider acceptable when in reality they work as a relatively small force and tend to not stick around once their job of helping to train, organise, and arm a rebellion is done.

Furthermore, you can't astroturf a mass movement whatever conspiracy theorists like to say and to say that all leftist movements are controlled directly from Moscow is both a misunderstanding of socialism in general and also vastly overstating how centralised the Comintern is. And it is worth noting that the Bolsheviks are simply a member party in the Comintern, and as per the Comintern's charter; the Soviet Communist party is subordinate to the Comintern, not the other way around. They only operate where there is potential for a rebellion, where people are finding life under capital to be intolerable but need weapons and organisation to actually rise up and rebel. If people are generally fine with their lives, they're not going to risk everything on a revolution, and as such they largely do not operate in parts of the world where things are mostly fine. They work extensively with revolutionary minor factions such as the MIR, the Bayanihan, and the Vietcong and sometimes offer their support to those willing to build ties or at least get help from the Comintern such as the Industrial Guild.

The REFC's main forces consist of the elites of the Soviet airforce, consisting of fast jets and hard hitting gunships, and a fleet of ekranoplans forming an amphibious vehicle/naval force capable of handling anything but their small numbers, high price, slow production, and universal fragility will see themselves at a disadvantage as the enemy unlocks their heavier units. Whereas the Militia are a barely trained force of land-based infantry, amphibious cavalry, and sea-bound navy who are too weak to fight but too expensive to field in a horde (initially) but have access to a slew of upgrades that enhance them and remove their weaknesses, eventually turning them into a powerful but cheap, quick to build, and deadly horde of guerilla fighters that will be the main army when the battle near its end while the REFC shifts to provide fire support and eliminate key targets.

## Background

### Build Mechanic

The REFC, similar to the Talon and some others, produces all of their REFC ekranoplan and aircraft through one building, their Command Outpost (their construction yard equivalent), which, barring the Tachanka, rather than train their units instead sends them down via drop pod that can be dropped anywhere on the map in "charges", one per unit. The units are expensive and can't be called down units without a charge, with a significant cooldown for each charge. For this reason, the cost of REFC units is deducted as one lump sum, rather than drained over time and restricts their main forces. Each Command Outpost will increase the amount of charges by one. To compensate their other structures can be quickly built or transform any empty neutral garrisons into production structures for their militia units, but these buildings are extremely frail when built. Their Militia units are built the normal way.

### Experience

While REFC units gain veterancy and heroic upgrades the normal way. The Militia, like the Protectorate and Kingdom units, are incapable of gain experience and upgrades, instead 100% of XP goes to nearby REFC units while 50% are given to all REFC units. This, however, is compensated by the Militia’s large amounts of upgrades.

## Units & Buildings

### Commandos, Aces, and Epics

Like the rest of the REFC units. The commandoes and epic are split between the Militia and the REFC. (yes, this mean they have two epics)