Sneak Attack (mission)

Sneak attack was the GLA operation to attack the American Central Command HQ in Europe. Using captured Chinese weaponry and later American technology the GLA decisively defeated the US forces in Stuttgart that led to the latter's eventual withdrawal from Europe.

Background
Having scuttled the US Mediterranean Fleet in Crete as part of Operation: On The Waterfront and stolen toxin weaponry from the US mainland itself, the GLA had substantially weakened American power in Europe. As US forces started to increase their homeland security by withdrawing their forces worldwide, the GLA chose the time to attack the European Central Command in Stuttgart outright.

Phase 1: Tank fight and capturing the Chinese base
Capturing the Chinese base would increase the firepower GLA would have in assaulting the US HQ. As the Scorpion tank battalion made its way, the klaxon sounded and the small Chinese tank force met the Scorpions outside the base perimeter. The Scorpions overwhelmed the tank force with only one Scorpion lost and successfully captured the Chinese base. The GLA commander then took command and started to build up their own base to mix the Chinese arsenal with the GLA weaponry.

Phase 2: Prisoner rescue
While the GLA continued to build up its army and constructed both the Scud Storm and Nuclear Missile, they received intel from the local GLA cell that the Americans held three of their rebels captive in an American outpost just east of the GLA base and were due to be transported out of Stuttgart for interrogation soon. Not wanting the infidels to transport theri colleagues away from the battle, the GLA commander sent a mixed task force of Chinese and GLA tanks to liberate the prisoners. After a heavy fight between the task force and the outpost defenders, the GLA successfully liberated the prisoners and escorted them back to the local GLA cell. Pleased that their comrades were rescued, the local GLA commander gave his superior commander more resources and funds and will assist him in the attack of Central Command HQ. In the meantime, the GLA captured the American outpost that was still standing. Now having captured American technology in their arsenal, including the supply drop zones, US aircraft and the Particle Uplink Cannon, the GLA was ever more powerful enough to engage the Americans in open combat.

Phase 3: Assaulting Central Command HQ
With the added firepower and technology in their arsenal, the GLA wreaked havoc on the US forces all over Stuttgart with help of the local GLA cell. Massive tank fights had occurred all on open spaces and in the city itself, while GLA-controlled aircraft took part in a massive dogfight with the American pilots over Stuttgart. The GLA's overwhelming firepower and control of the three superweapons to counter the two American Particle Cannons was too much for the US army so it retreated back to the perimeter of the Central Command HQ, leaving Stuttgart and the surrounding areas to the hands of the GLA. With nowhere to go and all entrances and exits in and out of the base cut off by the GLA, the Americans still put up a gallant defense while the top American personel were evacuated from the base. However the tactics and superior firepower of the GLA-controlled army overwhelmed the defenders and systematically destroyed everything in the base. With the fall of the American Command Center, the few remaining US survivors surrendered to the GLA.

Aftermath
The fall of the US Central Command in Europe was a decisive GLA victory. While Washington and Beijing argued over the GLA control of Chinese arsenal in the base's destruction, the GLA had invaded Europe and assualted the other US bases on the continent. The GLA victory and influence in Europe had demoralised the Americans and the world and it seemed that the GLA can overcome a superpower to achieve its goals.

Meanwhile China prepares for a counterattack in revenge for the GLA capturing Chinese resources and cause great embarassment to China.