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COMMAND: MODERN OPERATIONS · DB3000 v515
SUROVIKIN'S RETURN
THE FORTRESS BELT

Description
Surovikin's Return: The Fortress Belt
A campaign in four chapters for Command: Modern Operations (DB3000 v515). Play Ukraine or Russia. The AI plays the other side and makes its own decisions.

October 2026. Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi has broken the northern jaw of the Russian pincer on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Moscow recalls General Sergei Surovikin to command the Donbas front with one order: take the rest of Donetsk Oblast before winter. Between his armies and that goal stands the fortress belt: Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka. What happens next surprises everyone.

1. Winter: 21 October 2026, 6 hours
2. Saturation: 23 October 2026, 8 hours
3. Other Avenues: 25 October 2026, 8 hours
4. The Line: 27 October 2026, 6 hours

How it plays

• At each turning point the scenario asks you what to do. The clock stops while you decide.
  
  As Russia you order a saturation strike of jet drones, propeller drones, decoys and missiles timed back from H-hour.
  The drone war and electronic warfare are modelled on both sides.
  
  Gun and rocket batteries move after they fire and drive to the ammunition depots near the front to reload (Special Actions > ARTILLERY switches this off).
  
  Russian TOS-1A launchers support the assaults. Su-25s and Ka-52s fly loft runs, tossing their rockets from outside the defenders' short-range air defence.
  
  Each chapter passes its state to the next: who holds each town, how much of each army is left, the decisions taken and both scores.
  
  In campaign play your score reaches CMO's score window in the last minute of each chapter. Game > Special Actions > STATUS shows it as it goes.
  
  Every window carries a photograph.

The drone waves
CMO's database has no aircraft version of the Geran-2 or the Gerbera, so the scripted drone waves fly stand-ins. Geran-2 attack drones show as Shahed-121 UAVs and Gerbera decoys as Orlan-10 UAVs. A Geran-2 stand-in that reaches its target destroys one building or vehicle there by script, 7 times in 10 (fewer under GNSS jamming). A Gerbera stand-in carries nothing: it draws air defence fire. The stand-ins fly straight at their targets at the height and speed of the drone they stand for (a Geran-2 at 2,000 to 2,800 m, diving at the end) and each wave arrives together. Ukraine's Liutyi long-range drones fly as UJ-22 stand-ins and hit the same way. As Russia you see each wave's make-up on its map marker, for example wave W0: 12 Geran-2, 6 Gerbera. The four Orlan-10s of the Russian recon mission are real recon drones.

Installing
Download the Campaign: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AWOcMA ... sp=sharing

Or from Steam:
After you subscribe, Steam places the files in Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\1076160\(this item's ID)\Surovikins Return Fortress Belt. Copy that folder into Steam\steamapps\common\Command - Modern Operations\Campaigns, then start the campaign from the main menu: Campaigns. Each chapter can also be played on its own from that folder.

Fiction set a few weeks after the time of writing. Operation Vivaldi, the armies and the places are real; the events of the scenario and every unit name below army level are invented.



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