Hmmm... When you talked about the sides it gave me an idea...
OK, every1, especially guys who have been hanging around for a while knows that the russians are evil in OFP. Really evil. They are really, really, really, nasty bastards. OK. Now, we don't want to change it enterly, so you make the westies the bad guys. Why not show us the horrors of war the REAL way? Every side in a war is nasty in its own way. You could begin as you told but then the resi guys don't want to cooperate with the westies (who requier something, say, their island as a military outpost when the war is over) and the westies gets angry and massacare the whole resi team you just rescued. The player gets upset, and threaten the commanding officer of the westies to death and gets shot. This could be end of mission 1 so we make a campaign. Start of mission 2 you wake up, wounded and you are carried into a russian field hospital, you heal and swore to revenge on the westies with the help of the russians. But the russians betray you, etc. See my point? Everyone is worse than the other, no side is RIGHT, that is where I want to get. It would be a really nice story and even if the mission(s) would suck I would keep going cause I wanted to see what happend next.
:beat: *Gets Shot* :beat: