Stolen Property

Stolen Property is one of the routes for the fourth mission in the GDI campaign of.

Background
With Sheppard away at the United Nations, M.O. Morelli gave a recon report to James Solomon who had been left in charge. Within the Belarus border, a convoy carrying a supply of activated pellet rods stolen from Germany had been spotted by GDI forces. At the same time another convoy was about to set out from Gdansk Poland.

These rods are part of the necessary materials to build a nuclear device, so to prevent Nod from obtaining one of these devices, the GDI had to get the rods back. Two small GDI forces set out to steal the rods from the Nod bases at Gdansk and Bobyrusk.

Events
The forces available to the commanders in these mission were limited. As a result they would have to have resorted to speed and stealth rather than all all-out assault in order to regain the rods.

GDI forces successfully entered the Nod bases and stole back both groups of pellet rods.

Aftermath
While the rods were being regained GDI forces advanced into Belarus and Poland. Their loss set back Nod plans to assemble a nuclear weapon. Unfortunately, that does not mean that Nod halted production of Nuclear Weapons, as they would later on encounter them in Sarajevo.

Belarus Path
James Solomon's forces overran Belarus while their commander was leading the mission to regain the rods. With the help of GDI air power from Estonia under M.O. Morelli, Nod forces were swiftly driven out of Belarus much as they had already been driven out of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

Nod forces continued to advance into Germany, while Bulgaria and Romania fell completely into Nod hands. Ukraine's defenders however held out desperately for the coming GDI reinforcements....

Poland Path
With the majority of the Polish Nod forces invading Germany, James Solomon's forces swiftly overran Poland, while their commander was engaged in leading the mission to retrieve the rods from the base in Gdansk.

Some of these forces however were accused rightly or otherwise of the Bialystok massacre.

Nod forces however did not find the fall of Poland quite as devastating as James Solomon had imagined. The sudden defection of neutral Austria to the Nod cause led to German GDI forces once again being outmaneuvered. Advancing from Austria, Denmark and occupied Germany at the same time Nod successfully established control over all of Germany.

It was now up to James Solomon to liberate them from Nod rule.....