Orden Campaign l Timeline

The Orden Campaign is a long-term series of missions and storylines, following different groups, armies, platoons in different nations across the world, starting in the late Cold War, the Orden storyline begins. The storyline is not historical, it is alternate history from the 1st of January 1980, the players impact the campaign through their acts in-game and in different missions. Below you will find a timeline of the Orden Campaign, and can catch up to anything you might've missed.



1980
- 4th of January - 06:38 in the morning, the GSG 9 of the Bundesgrenzschutz, carried out an operation on domestic soil near the town of Kulmbach, Bavaria. This operation codenamed "Operation Sturmrot" resulted in 29 members of the Red Army Faction dead, and two captured. Three GSG 9 members died in progress, and a few were wounded, all but one due to an incident with a grenade.

- 28th of January - The Soviet Leadership has decided for limited interventionism in Afghanistan, the Soviet military will assist the newly founded "People's Army of Afghanistan" in controlling their territories. This was an unexpected decision by the Brezhnev government.

- 2nd of February - Schweinfurt Siege - At around 16:30, several trucks pulled near the northern suburb of the town of Schweinfurt in Northern Bavaria. These trucks were carrying ~40 members of the Red Army Faction, which occupied the Federal Police Station and parts of the suburb, the ensuing firefight with Federal Police and the GSG 9 lead to many of the RAF members dead, as well as several Federal Police officers and GSG 9 members, as well as the chaotic burning of three buildings in the suburb, leading to the death of nearly 20 people, a few of them innocent civilians.

- 8th of February - "Operation König Runter" - During the early afternoon hours of the 8th of February 1980 the Bundesgrenzschutz conducted an operation on domestic soil resulting in a pyhirric victory for the Federal Government, many members of the Federal Troops have died and 17 members of the RAF have been killed, alongside an additional five more captured. The Federal Government opted for a harsh response resulting in a clean-up operation resulting in 18 more captured, as well as seizing many weapons from the movement.