User:SPARTAN 119/Payton Smith

Brigadier General Payton Smith is a somewhat eccentric UNSC Army General of the Human-Covenant War. Smith believes that he is the reincarnation of World War II general George S. Patton, and that he must live up to his "predecessor". He is best known for his 2552 victory at the battle of Fort Sill.

The Battle of Fort Sill
Prior to the The Second Battle of Earth, General Smith had been practically unknown. That was all about to change. In November 2552, the Covenant embarked on a campaign to split the entire North American continent in half by sending a large armored force through the Great Plains region, where they though they would encounter the least resistance. After a two major battles, the cities of San Antonio and Houston, Texas were devastated and their citizens massacred by the Covenant Loyalist forces under Brute Chieftain Tarkanus. The next thing in their way was Fort Sill in southwest Oklahoma. Fort Sill was the headquarters of UNSC Army artillery forces and a small but well equipped force of armor and infantry defending the base. In command of the base was Brigadier General Payton Smith. Facing Smith's men and the UNSC Air Force base at Altus, Oklahoma was a Covenant force of 4000 Wraiths and ten Scarabs. Smith had only 200 tanks, but he had several aces up his sleeve: he had a large amount of artillery, also, the Covenant has lowered the amount air cover around Chieftain Tarkanus' forces, as they did not know about Altus AFB and thought the UNSCAF had no prescence in the region. Finally, Smith has terrian on his side. While most of Oklahoma is flat, Fort Sill is located in a range of small granite mountains up to 2479 feet in elevation known as the Wichita Mountains. General Smith order his men to leave the main base of Fort Sill and set up a mobile base in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge to the north, now deserted to the threat of Covenant invasion. Smith set artillery pieces on top of the small mountains to give his men a height advantage.