An understandable, but horrible mistake on the Kremlin's part has thrown Europe into war. During the night, all frontline units mobilised and went to their objectives. The Warsaw Pact ran into fierce resistance from British and German border guards and reconnaissance units, severely delaying the assault. The recces held until first light, when they retreated to the known GDPs of the NATO units in the area and linked up with them. NATO responsed with massive airstrikes throughout Europe. Every plane that was ready for combat had been scrambled and assaulted troop movements in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Thrace, Epirus, and Eastern Turkey. While this happened, European NATO countries enacted complete mobilisation and impressive numbers of troops were mobilised. French units poured into Germany to stop the Warsaw Pact assault, and the Iberian armies were mobilising to do the same. German and Dutch units were bolstered by the British Army's units stationed in Britain itself and moved to Northern Germany with the Danish army, while in the far north the Norwegian army battled the Red army in the bitter cold of Finnmark. Austria, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden, too, called up all able-bodied men whilst making clear they remain neutral. But the Western European efforts seemingly paled compared to what happened across the atlantic and to the east, where the American and Russian giants were arising and threw their full brunt against eachother in a direct confrontation. On the 8th of November, after a number of skirmishes that inflicted very minor casualties, the Warsaw Pact had built up enough forces to assault NATO units in Northern Germany, and the order to do so was given just before first light, as NATO units were preparing to abandon Lübeck in favour of Hamburg and the Kiel Canal.