21st Century Warfare (21CW) is a free online tournament currently for the game Battlefield 2. 21CW is different from other online tournaments in that instead of clans battling against one another the battles take place between divisions. The divisions consist of players who are randomly assigned when they sign up (or transfer themselves). History
21CW was first conceived back in March 2003 and began initial sign ups in April 2003. The tournament was created by and was administered by a single Tournament Admin back then, Sedric. The original player base for 21CW came from , a Battlefield 1942 tournament run in a similar style.
When 21CW first started up, it began with one division per side, 1CD and O2. As time passed, by the second week of sign ups, two more divisions were opened for both the Coalition and Opposition, 3UK and O4. The campaign began in May 2003 with official battles, but not before the battles remembered by many players as the Bocage and Tobruk Scrims.
A few weeks into the campaign, two more divisions were opened, C5 and O6, with a total player base of more than a thousand players.
The first campaign was completely run on vanilla Desert Combat, the following campaigns included modified balanced maps, until the 21CW Mini-mod was created, which gradually introduced more new content.
Since 21CW opened in April 2003, the tournament has gone through ten campaigns of Desert Combat starting at version 0.25 and ending at version 0.7, and is now in its second "official" (after the beta campaign, which tested new ideas with Battlefield 2 adapted to the tournament) campaign of Battlefield 2 - of many more to come.
21CW is now owned and operated by as well as all other Tournaments Structure
At the highest level the tournament consists of two sides, Coalition and Opposition. In the Desert Combat days, the Coalition took the Coalition side in the game while the Opposition took the Iraqi side. Currently in the BF2 tournament the Coalition plays as the USMC while the Opposition plays as the Chinese People's Army and the Middle East Coalition. Varying with the number of players per campaign there are typically two or three divisions per side. Division
Each division is composed of three or four line companies, a special forces unit and an air force. The high command consists of several divisional officers (e.g. General, Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, SMA) who are responsible for developing strategies, running divisional practices and of course commanding the division during the battle. Line Company
Each company is run by a Captain who has several men below him in a hierarchy. He runs the company, organizing practices and training and maintains the roster of players. The role of the line company is to man the provided armor and to either attack a flag in order to capture it or to defend an already captured flag. The backbone and blue collar workhorses of the division. Special Forces
The Special Forces Company is usually composed of 21CW veterans who have proven themselves in previous campaigns and their skills show. They are typically used for difficult missions such as taking flags deep in enemy territory, stealing equipment or holding a front line flag. In Battlefield 2, they can also be assigned to destroy the commander assets (radar, UAV trailer and artillery). Air Force
The air forces of the divisions have the responsibility to fly the air assets provided on the map. They are the only players who are allowed to fly the aircraft and must be proficient at one or all kinds of aircraft (i.e. fighter planes, bombers and helicopters). In order to join the air force, a player usually has to pass a certification test. Divisions
The history of divisions and their respective Generals through all campaigns is listed below. Also listed is the respective Commander-in-Chief (CinC) of the force for each campaign.
| Campaign |
Coalition |
Opposition |
Campaign |
Coalition |
Opposition |
| Campaign 1
|
- CinC Lou
- 1st Cavalry Division (1CD) - Hanz
- 3rd United Kingdom Division (3UK) - Tank Johann
- Coalition 5 (C5) - Raptor
|
- CinC ---
- Opposition 2 (O2)
- Opposition 4 (O4)
- Opposition 6 (O6)
| Campaign 2
|
- CinC Hanz
- 7th Infantry Division (7ID)- Falcon6646
- 9th Australian Division (9AU)- Haiku
|
- CinC ---
- 8th Mechanized Division (8MD) - Shox
- 10th Armored Division (10AD) - Airborne
|
| Campaign 3
|
- CinC Haiku
- 11th Marine Corps (11MC) - Lawdog
- 12th Airborne Division (12AB) - FC000
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