I've been working on a mission just like this for the past six months or so and I'm nearly finished !
The mission uses time dilation so that each day will pass in about 12 game minutes. You start at night in St Pierre on Everon. The bad guys start by plastering the joint with cruise missiles and naval gunfire, then show up in overwhelming force and literally take over the entire island - 8 mechanised infantry groups, two armoured groups, an elite parachute group, a helicopter squadron and two support companies (fuel, ammo, etc).
At the start you have to simply run, run, run ! You start with absolutely no weapons so this is all you can do. The good news is that every building that you pass may or may not contain useful items. And I mean EVERY building - I just finished a script that will allow you to loot buildings for any specified item that you specify and it even keeps track of which one's you've searched so that you can't loot the same place twice !
Unfortunately, the best you will get from most buildings is simply food, water and maybe the occasional grenade (pool chlorine and brake fluid - natch !). Every once in a while you will find a pipe bomb (more explosives) and sometimes even a shotgun or a pistol.
Best of all, you may sometimes find new recruits (additional group members). With respawn to group it is essential that you keep the recruits flowing - once you're alone the next death will be your last ! So long as at least one patriot draws breath the resistance can continue !
For their part, the Russians all have a group restocking script (ie - add back lost units every two minutes) and a very complex tracking script. Every day they will decide to either move to a base and rest or try to track you down. The more that they know about your position the better they are at tracking you and they WILL call in their friends !
If a Russian group take enough casualties then it will run away from you. This is both very good (they stop attacking you) but also very bad (they will start to replenish their losses and come hunting for you again !).
So what you have to do is this - run for the hills and try to lose the pursuing baddies. Get some recruits and a couple of shotguns or grenades to arm them with. Hide one or two of your recruits in some woods and tell them to stay put - just in case your band is ambushed and your team is wiped out.
Keep ambushing the Russian patrols and looting their bodies until you're armed well enough to start raiding their bases - once you kill the last man in the group their group's respawn script will stop working. ;D
But every day that passes more and more of the Russians will decide to hunt you rather than stay in their base. The mission will be a race between you getting your group built up and armed and the Russians getting their teams mobilised to crush the resistance.
I have finished just about all of the necessary scripts, I am currently testing them out in another mission. If they work then it will be a simple matter of transfering them across. Best of all, I don't have to do much mission setting up - once the bad guys are ashore then their actions are all pretty much script driven !
I am probably about two weeks away from finishing this. Watch the boards !
Roni