Talk:P.A.N.Z.E.R./@comment-24142455-20161020014101/@comment-27404954-20161020030555

-- Polish Border --

As the two million Soviet troops and vehicles mass on the border, UAC orbital platforms slide slowly by above. The armies below, bereft of aerospace support or anti-orbit weaponry, are helpless to stop what was coming. In response to a silent order over encrypted networks, the orbital "defenses" activate and open fire with their heavy MACs.

The shells scream down through the atmosphere, and too late, the troops below notice.

The massive MAC rounds slam into the crowded staging points, obliterating tens of thousands of men and tanks in the space of seconds -- and still they continue to fire. UAC arsenal ships cruise by just below the orbital platforms inside the atmosphere, and SHIVA nuclear missiles launch from their silos to crash down among the few Soviet armies that weren't in the staging points.

A rolling series of nuclear fire obliterates the Soviets along the border, positioned exactly far enough away from the German defenders such that they weren't affected by anything except the flash -- but that the Soviets were still annihilated. And through the expanding fireballs, UAC ships of Vice-Admiral Merlin-Caelum drop down at supersonic speeds in a synchronized drive from orbit.

As the Soviet units try to scatter and run, Longswords are deployed as heavy ground-attack strafing units, while the ships' AA themselves and Rapiers are used to hunt down and annihilate any Soviet aircraft that were not destroyed by the plasma-trails of the orbital MAC rounds or the nuclear fireballs. As the airspace becomes clearer and clearer, Warhound attack helicopters are deployed to tear apart the remaining Soviet units as the Russians desperately tried to retreat away from the advancing front.