Chapter 1

The remaining Russians had fled. Fled in a mad panic, aboard any ship, helicopter or plane they could find. Once they had been a mighty force: crushing all opposition they encountered over 5 continents. But now, after the unexpected death of their beloved Premier, the Russian Generals had no strong central leadership to govern them, and soon all of their plans fell apart. Sensing that if they didn't act soon, the Allies, (who had already taken back much of what they had lost during the conflict), would soon expel them from the US, the Russian Commanders decided to launch a huge offensive against all known Allied US strongholds. Over half of the entire 3rd Russian Army was destroyed in the first 3 weeks alone, while trying to take back now well-defended US capitol.

Soon afterwards, the Allies, lead by the brilliant General T.Cromwell, staged a massive counter attack, smashing the Soviet's US command centre, prompting the Soviet High Command to issue the withdrawal of all occupying troops in the US to return home to fend off a well-timed offensive by a Multi-National European Attack Force. This force was marching with speed and ferocity towards the nerve center of Soviet World Command - Moscow.

Two weeks later, all Soviet troops from around the world had been called back to help in the defense of their homeland, by which time, the US has gathered up their forces in Alaska with H-14 hovercraft transports ferrying troops and vehicles across the freezing Bearing-Straight. 

When all was in readiness, the US's newly formed "Liberation Force" moved with virtually no resistance through the Russian countryside, due to the fact that 90% of Russian military forces were on the Smolensk and Bryansk border, holding the line against the European's pressure.

It wasn't for another 5 days, when the US force was as Izhevsk, that the Russians realised that they had been caught in a pincer movement - thousands of miles across. With the prospect of defeat drawing closer with each stretch of land taken by the Allies, and believing their own propaganda, the Soviet Commanders made their decision: defend the Kremlin to the last man.

With great speed, both civilian and military forces began readily preparing the defenses of their beloved capitol. The Motto: "A sniper at every window, a mine on every street" filled numerous posters, Television broadcasts and minds of every man, woman and child living under the shadow of destruction.

Within a week, there was not an inch of Moscow that wasn't covered by snipers (a newly formed detachment using a scope-modified one shot AK-47 had been created), tanks, mines or flak. Even though the city had been turned into a fortress, to the untrained eye, nothing was amiss; even the hefty T-67 Apocalypse tanks had been painted, modified and hidden to hide their positions. Now, with the remaining Soviet might concentrated into one city, and the Allies closing in from the East and West, The Battle Of Moscow was about to commence.

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