CIF Offensive Campaign

*This article is about an in-universe event. For the in-game mission, see Open Season.*

## CIF Offensive Campaign

### Concurrent

Operation Guillotine
Operation Null Star
Operation Free Agent

## Details

### Outcomes

**CIF victory*** Cascadian countryside retaken
* Most geothermal and strategic strongholds recaptured

Combatants| Cascadian Independence Force |  Pacific Federation* Magadan

Strength| **Cascadian Independence Force*** Cascadian Army
	+ Wild Boar Regiment
* Cascadian Air Force
	+ 3x Sk.27
* Cascadian Coast Guard
	+ Cruiser
* Cascadian partisans

**Mercenaries*** Sicario
	+ Hitman Team
* 6x SV-37
* Other forces
* 8x P.28 †
* 10x F/C-15
* Federation Peacekeepers
	+ Crimson Team

 Federation Vertical Navy* *Littoria I*-class air battlecruiser †
* *Littoria II*-class air battlecruiser †

Federation Navy* 2x Cargo ship
* 6x Cruiser †

Federation Army* 12x Truck
* 20x Tank †
* 21x Artillery †
* 24x AA gun †
* 4x SAM †
* 1x ADVSAM
* 2x Advanced railgun †

*"What's our ROE for choppers that are clearly evacing material and manpower?"
"Open season."*
― Peter Kennedy and Dominic Zaitsev
The **CIF Offensive Campaign** was a major offensive pushing towards Presidia by retaking every key strategic point and the geothermal industry of Cascadia. **Phase 3** of the campaign was retaking Grimwood Forest, the last of the countryside.

## Prelude

With the destruction of the Solana Communications Array in Operation Blackout, the Independence Force was able to score its first conventional victories while also subjecting the Pacific Federation to its own EW interference. They also combined their frontlines and annihilated Federation air support with every major battle, even making sure to take out Task Force 1 in Operation Free Agent. Thanks to these successes, a countrywide blitzkrieg ensued, with the CIF relentlessly wiping out unprepared Federation units dealing with losses they had not dealt with in decades. They were unable to mount any effective counterattacks between Cascadian partisans' disruption and General Morgan Elizabeth's well-made frontlines.

Facing one defeat, defection, and troop loss either to prisoner execution or custody after another along with losses of frontlines and facilities, the Federation began taking bigger measures to prevent their push. They set fire to Grimwood Forest, a large forest that encompassed a large spot of countryside on Cascadia's Pacific Northwest which now served as one of the last remaining countryside regions they occupied, with large numbers of Federation manpower flowing through here either to Presidia or Prospero. In response, the Cascadian Firefighting Corps, reformed in the middle of the war, began doing water drops on the forest starting on May 23, AC 432, only to be disrupted by desperate retreating Federation forces attempting to shoot them down.

At one point between Operation Guillotine and May 7, the IF even attempted an invasion of Magadan. However, despite their efforts at holding territory there, they were pushed back sometime after Grimwood was retaken.

## Battle

*"Damn that Crown, he turned the war in their favor."
"Just one pilot? You're crazy!"
"He's always there when something happens, how else?!"*
― Federation troops on Monarch
Hitman Team and other aircraft were deployed to Grimwood Forest around 1600 hours on May 26 to support both the firefighting efforts and rebel advance; most other units were preoccupied with the main offensive. The rebels, in a bout of recklessness, decided to run towards the smog, water, and fire against advice by the firefighters. Despite hesitance by some Federation pilots, they were forced to comply to avoid defeat.

Evacuation transports were declared free engagement, leading to more Federation losses and some evacuation units deciding to flee without full capacity and ditch unnecessary cargo. Soon, the firefighters were saved, and the time was now to converge on retreating Federation forces. Despite some wounded soldiers' requests to be left behind, others were insistent on not doing so and getting as many people out. Soon, some Federation troops were suggesting surrender to their Commander, but were made to continue fighting until they were too weakened to keep going.

## Aftermath

*"Took them long enough."*
― Evelyn London
The Federation Commander in charge, with great reluctance, surrendered their arms and raised white flags and flares in surrender. Elizabeth then rallied prisoners and equipment; it was later learned that most of the Federation that was able to flee regrouped at Prospero, and in preparation, the Independence Force began to reorganize their units to liberate the trade city, their offensive having fulfilled its goals.

## References

1. ↑ Sector D2. (2020). *Project Wingman* [Video game]. San Francisco, CA: Humble Games. Mission 15: "Consequence of Power."
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sector D2 Limited. (2020). *Project Wingman* [Video game]. San Francisco, CA: Humble Games. Files Archive → World Entries: Final Independence Force Offensive
3. ↑ Sector D2. (2020). *Project Wingman* [Video game]. San Francisco, CA: Humble Games. Mission 11: "Cold War."
4. ↑ Sector D2. (2020). *Project Wingman* [Video game]. San Francisco, CA: Humble Games. Mission 12: "Midnight Light."
5. ↑ Sector D2. (2020). *Project Wingman* [Video game]. San Francisco, CA: Humble Games. Mission 15: "Consequence of Power."