you know re-reading this again I just realized all the characters who will survive North Carolina who survive DC and Egypt who will survive Croatia and Albania will probably die during Temple Prime when GDI ion cannons the place

Warrior Culture : The Brotherhood of Nod

A sudo-military, corporate, religion, that is loosely based on the three faiths of the Abrahamic Covenant. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It has used the discovery of an Alien substance know as Tiberium to fund its military-industrial complex throughout much of the third world. It is considered a Global military alliance, religious cult, and a transnational superpower by the year 2077.

The Brotherhood puts emphasis on the collective, rather than the individual, yet still praises the individual for high deeds, and honours the sacrifice of those who fall for the cause. “…in remembrance of the dead. These brave souls sacrificed their lives to strengthen The Brotherhood, so we might live on and carry their names proudly with us. We remember also our ancestors, who came before us and gave us life. Blessed be these names, for they are our kin, our blood. May they stand proudly forever, and in time become ancestral themselves. Remember your mourning moment of silence, for the lost but not forgotten.“

The Brotherhood’s military is centered around the concepts of stealth and speed, preferring outmanoeuvring their enemies, hit-and-run attacks, guerrilla tactics and subterfuge rather than head on toe to toe combat.

This is a great piece of military fiction! You've mentioned that you'd like to use the epic units, you've used some of the Wrath of Kane units, and you've hinted at eventually bringing in the Scrin. Is there any possibility that the Marked of Kane will show up at some point?

The poem is 'I have a rendevous with death' a WW1 poem by Alan Seeger.

you write very well!

*Looks up next chapter, and the chapter after that, and the chapter after that*
No lambasting of Decandidio? You LIAR!

Jokes aside, I am really impressed with this story. Didn't think it would be possible to portray CNC realistically, but you managed to pull it off somehow.

I agree that while walkers may look cool, they're just impractical as hell. Especially the ridiculous design for Avatar. I mean, it rips off chunks of Nod vehicles to upgrade itself? And those chunks can't be built separately because... It looks cool doing that? And to top it all off, the Intel Database actually confirms that the process KILLS whoever's inside the vehicle at the time. I just... WTF?! Instead of making separate upgradable components, you destroy entire tanks and kill the pilots, wasting valuable resources and manpower?! This is fucking insane even by Nod standard!

Oh, and colt finds 7.62/39 ammo at one point... Gdi's ammo set up is weird.

Also, not to nitpick, when two platoons leave to save a pilot by Langley, they are massacred by black hand assisted troops. Couldn't zone troopers have flown to their aid, and skooshed the black hand?

Hey, maybe a little problem, or maybe a misunderstanding. In the first chapter, a gdi guard shoots 6.5mm bullets out of a gd2. Later you say that gdi uses 7.62 by 51/.308 rounds. Also, how on earth did anyone make a 308 rifle that's usable in faster then semi auto mode? The m14 is fun to shoot in full auto or burst, but you couldn't hit a barn at 100 yards with it.

I think both this story and the game misrepresent the effects of railgun and laser tech mounted on tanks. Adding these would increase the range of armoured combat to the very edge of visual range, and maybe much further. This would lead to entirely different tactics across the board for ground troops.

what would be cool? if the Mammoths could ride onto objects and elevate their cannons to 45 degrees, for maximum range. Railguns would make awesome sniper artillery against vehicles. For w ith low air resistance comes great accuracy.
And with an angle 45 degrees, they can fire at Avatars *over* urban terrain (while remaining under cover themselves), so the Avatars would be DISadvantaged by being in cities or mountainous terrain

tungsten? I am not sure that such a superpeformance weapon as a zonetrooper's railgun would be charged by these, instead of DU based alloy; it shatters to give sharp edges (self-sharpening) and also burns and incinerates inside the target

Creden is British. is that acknowledgement of how Chobham armour is a British invention?

"one-inch long tungsten armor-piercing discarding sabot slugs"

what, just the one inch?
really?
weird

""
In her scope, now operating based almost entirely on laser rangefinding and visual scanning, Howell picked out the beam cannon, its weapon gleaming as it prepared to fire again.

"Nod cannon, three twenty, left four degrees," she declared.

"Target acquired."

"Blow it."
""

I can't believe Howell'd wait for the order, knowing all of their lives depend on it, and also knowing in advance what the order would be