Troy Marshall is a main character featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. He is a member of Frank Woods' Rogue Black Ops team. Marshall is a playable character in the High Rollers mission, and he is also a playable Operator of the Rogue Black Ops faction in Multiplayer and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0.
Background[]
Troy Marshall is an aspiring CIA operative who was taken in by Frank Woods as his protégé. Marshall lost his father at a young age, and has an extensive history of violence. During his military career, Marshall survived the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, which saw the loss of over 200 US military personnel. He left the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines afterwards and joined Force Recon, then eventually the CIA. Marshall is seen as a stubborn and reckless person, and also distrustful to a fault, all of which he has in common with Woods; but he is also a methodical leader with a strong moral compass.
Biography[]
Bishop Takes Rook[]
On January 23rd 1991, Troy Marshall, Jane Harrow, and William "Case" Calderon were sent to Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm to intercept a convoy for Iraq's Defense Minister Saeed Alawi, who defected to the west. After aerial bombardment disrupted the convoy, the CIA team intercepted the convoy where they fought off a dozen of surviving Iraqi Forces and managed to capture Alawi so they could learn Saddam Hussein's plans. However, Alawi warns them about the Pantheon, and promised to tell them more if they get him out alive.
On the way, Marshall and his team were ambushed by Pantheon soldiers, finding themselves in a heavy gunfight. While Harrow suggested to wait for backup, Marshall decides instead to push through and extract Alawi. Marshall attempted to call their driver, Faraj, but he doesn't respond. When Marshall's team gets to the exfil point, Russell Adler arrives and kills Alawi. Marshall and Harrow restrain Adler, whom he tells them the Pantheon would have captured Alawi, as he was an important man and had valuable intel for the organization. After Marshall's team destroyed a Pantheon helicopter who was pursuing them, Adler also informed them that the Pantheon infilitrated the CIA. Adler gives himself in, but before he was sent to custody, he requested Marshall to tell Frank Woods "Bishop takes Rook".
Days after the mission, Marshall, Harrow, and Woods were in a debriefing with CIA Deputy Director Daniel Livingstone to discuss over what happened. Livingstone suspends Marshall, Woods, and Case for not waiting for backup and leading Alawi to be killed. By the end of the debriefing, Harrow tells Marshall to meet her in her office in 5 minutes. At Harrow's office, Marshall admires a drawing he made of Jane in the past. Woods also enters the office, whom he reveals that "Bishop takes Rook" meant for a KGB safehouse codenamed "The Rook" in Bulgaria that he and Adler found in 1976. Marshall and Woods decides to go Rogue and investigate the Pantheon, while Harrow tries to cover for them.
The Rook[]
Marshall, Woods, and Case travel to Bulgaria and set up shop at The Rook safehouse and utilize it as their main base of operations so they can track down Adler and stop Pantheon while recruiting members for their team. While Case went to Avalon to recruit Sevati Dumas by helping her enact vengeance against The Guild, Marshall went to Germany and recruited Felix Neumann. Afterwards, Marshall learns from Felix that Adler is held in a black site underneath Capitol Station. But in order to get access, they need the retinal scan from Senator Jack McKenna, who has an association with the Pantheon.
Capitol Station Gala[]
At the Gala event, Marshall and Felix subdued two SWAT cops and took over the SWAT truck outside of Capitol Station, watching Case going into the event undercover as "Jess Burke" and gain access to Senator McKenna's retinal scan. A team of CIA agents led by Jackson Caine entered the event to locate and subdue Case, which prompted Marshall to warn him to stay out of their sight.
Regardless of the method, Case obtained McKenna's retinal scan needed for the Blacksite, and went to the rooftop towards the room adjacent to the elevator shaft to meet up with Marshall. After Sev subdued the cop, Marshall and Case went down to the elevator shaft and entered the Blacksite, only to find its under attack by Pantheon Soldiers. Depending on Case's method, Marshall either helped him go through the intel center through security cams, or backed him up if they were in a gunfight against Pantheon. Deeper into the site, Marshall alongside Case found Adler being interrogated by a Pantheon soldier. Case used an RC-XD and had it explode the junction box to open the room ahead and eliminate Pantheon Soldiers, allowing Marshall and his comrade rescue Adler.
While fighting their way out of the black site, Marshall, Case, Adler would face off a number of Elite Pantheon soldiers. They make it to the elevator, and attempted to leave via ascenders, but an explosion caused to fall down towards a railing. With their plan compromised, Marshall and his teammates fight through the scenic route and into the main floor, facing off many Pantheon soldiers and find a way to escape. However, the cops cordoned off the area, forcing Marshall and his team used the two bikes at the Auction Hall to escape Capitol Station.
During their great escape, the trio were pursued by Pantheon cars, forcing them to defend themselves. Eventually, Marshall and his teammates jump on the SWAT Truck and leave the area.
After the ordeal, Marshall called Jane Harrow, telling her about Pantheon and their attack on the CIA black site, remarking that the organization couldn't know of the site unless someone high up in CIA feeds them intel. Harrow tries to help him, but Marshall told her it's for the best to keep digging into Pantheon and Livingstone, and warned her to not trust anyone.
Marshall and Adler[]
Returning to the Rook, Marshall expressed his mistrust towards Adler, remarking him about his notorious reputation. Adler, on the other hand, told Marshall it might best to establish trust for the sake of the team. Later on, Adler informed the team about a potential location of The Cradle in one of Hussein's places. But it wouldn't be easy given the ongoing Gulf War, thus Adler is making arrangments with his old acquaintance, MI6 Agent Helen Park to get there.
At one point, Marshall noticed Woods accidently breaking a TV, prompting him to help, though it turned into a conversation about trust and Woods feeling useless being in a wheelchair. Woods argued over his leap of faith with Adler and him feeling powerless without being in the field. Marshall tried to encourage him by likening him to Professor X in his current state, which Woods dismissed off.
In any case, Marshall alongside Case, and Adler goes to Iraq to help the SAS in hunting Iraq's Scud missiles in exchange for access to Hussein's palace.
Iraq[]
At February 5th, Marshall, Adler, and Case assisted Helen Park and an SAS unit led by Captain Gladney in destroying a Scud missile launcher in the Anbar Province. Afterwards, an FOB called The Layup was set-up, with Gladney requesting Marshall and his team (working as Delta Force undercover) to assist them with other problems like enemy camps, supply drops, and SAM sites.
Marshall's team got to work their way against Iraqi soldiers in the region, including camps that had Pantheon soldiers assisting them. In those camps, they find audio logs of a scientist logging his experiment on two brothers, presumably the Cradle, and the results that came out of it. Nevertheless, the Scud launchers were down, giving the greenlight for SAS to assault Saddam's palace.
Marshall and his team with the assistance of SAS fought their way through the palace, facine off more of Pantheon's operatives. Marshall, Adler, and Case goes to an underground bunker where they manage to find a crate that holds a sample of The Cradle, a bioweapon, in addition to intel about Matvey Gusev, a former biopreparat scientist and an encrypted disk.
More of Pantheon soldiers assaulted the Palace in an effort to prevent Marshall and his team from leaving. Despite the intense gunfight, Marshall's team exfil out of there, allowing the rest of SAS to destroy the Palace.
USATA Kentucky Facility[]
Returning back to the Rook, the Rogue Black Ops team learn through the intel gathered from Iraq about the Cradle used to be developed in a facility at Kentucky that was used by Advanced Technologies and Applications. To learn more, Marshall, Case, and Sev went there and investigated, using gas masks to protect themselves. However, Case fell into an elevator shaft and his gas mask broke, rendering it unusable.
While Marshall and Sev tried to find their way down, Case suffered the halluciongenic effects from the Cradle, making him hallucinate fighting Zombies. Under the effects of the Cradle, Case retrieved and inserted four key-cards to re-open the biotechnology department, allowing entry for Marshall and Sev. When Case arrived at biotechnology, however, he attacked both of them while he was fighting off the Executive Director as he was still under the Cradle's effects. Marshall/Sev managed to restrain Case long enough for the effects to wear off.
They note that a batch of the Cradle was taken out of the facility in the summer from the past year and left the building without further incident.
Shocking Revelation/Grief[]
After Marshall and Sev returned to the Rook from their ordeal, they see the footage that Felix managed to decrypt at the ops room. The footage showed a man and a woman going under the effects of the Cradle and tearing each other apart with Matvey Gusev sharing the progress. What shocked Marshall however is the reality that Jane Harrow is part of the Pantheon and is involved in the program. In rage, he threw the projector and left the ops room.
Few days after, rain came down and spilled over on the Rook, prompting Marshall and Case to fix and clean any area of the safehouse that got leaked from the rainwater. Sev, on the other hand, sees that Marshall is having a rough time over Harrow and tried to talk with him. During their conversation, she forced him to understand that he's not the only one who suffered betrayal and he needs to get himself in order to move forward. If asked by Case, Woods reassures him that Marshall would get over it eventually.
Felix analyzed the end of the footage the crew saw earlier, where Gusev mentions Fucina, which is the codename used by the Luttazzi crime family for their Casino in Avalon. Eager to find what Pantheon is hiding in the Casino, the crew would set up their "heist".
The Luttazzi Heist[]
As part of their plan, Marshall entered a poker game against Badeaux in order to win and gain access to the High Roller lounge. Meanwhile, Case goes through the canals, giving Woods access to the Casino's security cameras and gave himself in to security guards so he could be positioned close to the archive room. During the game, a waitress (aka Sev in her disguise) spilled a drink on Badeaux, allowing Marshall to switch to a cheating card she gave him earlier and win the game. With access to the High Roller lounge, Marshall moved to use a device to one of the slot machines, distracting the lounge boss long enough for Marshall to give his card for the security room so Felix can copy and allow the card access to the Vault floor.
After that was done, Sev took initiative, unlocking the elevator for Marshall and Felix and arming themselves from weapons in the armory to initiate the heist. While they were distracting the guards, Case broke off his bonds and moved to the Archive Room to get the dossier that Pantheon left there.
Marshall and the rest of the team faced resistance from Casino security and Pantheon their way to extraction, but managed to escape with a boat they commandeered in the canals.
Capture of Matvey Gusev[]
With their "heist" successful, the Rogue Black Ops crew were contacted by Adler, informing them that Matvey Gusev is on Kuwait and Pantheon is helping him escape. Adler would call up Lawrence Sims, who left the CIA due to their questionable methods and now a part of CENTCOM, to get him and Case into Kuwait. Marshall stayed on Eagle-2 helicopter to provide overwatch for Adler, Sims, and Case. Despite several setbacks, the team managed to capture Gusev and interrogated him for information about the Cradle, where they learn the Pantheon has the Cradle
Vorkuta assault[]
With no time to waste, Rogue Black Ops team (aside from Woods) went to Vorkuta with Sev infilitrating the facility and sabotaging the defenses. However, during the infiltration, they learn that the Cradle is not in Vorkuta. Marshall/Adler/Felix/Case assaulted the facility to locate and capture Harrow. While fighting underground, Harrow contacts Marshall, demanding him to stand down and walk away. Undettered, they fight their way through. Marshall/Sev/Case to get the upper hand on Harrow, which proved true when she was distracted interrogating Case with her two Pantheon operatives.
With Harrow captured, they head back to the Rook to interrogate her in order to know where Pantheon put the Cradle bomb.
Siege against The Rook[]
Unfortunately for the team, Harrow had a tracking chip in her arm, which would allow Pantheon to locate her and rescue. In a desperate race against time, Adler injected Harrow with MKULTRA to force her to talk. Marshall stepped in, trying to encourage Harrow to talk and spill out. However, the interrogation was cut short when Pantheon made their way to the Rook's perimeters, forcing Woods to take Marshall's place in the interrogation
Marshall and his team made a desperate attempt to stall Pantheon, but suffered a major setback with Felix suffering wounds when he rigged C4s to destroy the bridge in addition to being informed by Woods that the Cradle is being held at Capitol Station and Pantheon would detonate it, killing thousands of people, once Harrow gives the order. Going back to the Safehouse, Marshall, Adler, and Case see Woods wounded and telling them that Pantheon rescued her and she's escaping via a helicopter. Marshall wounded Harrow in the shoulder, but an RPG knocked him out, forcing Case to give chase towards the helicopter and stopping Harrow.
Marshall called up Case to inform him that Livingstone got the warning and he sent CIA to dispose of the Cradle and eliminate any Pantheon operatives at Capitol Station. However, Marshall was unaware that Harrow's helicopter crashed and was sinking in the water, and that Case broke a Cradle sample against Harrow, infecting both him and the Pantheon commander, making Case go psychotic and strangle Harrow, and her desperately pleading him for mercy, leaving the ultimate fate for the two of them unknown.
Aftermath[]
Two weeks after the siege, Marshall and the team meet up with Director Daniel Livingstone in an incoscpicous to discuss things. Sev acted as sniper and was ready to shoot Livingstone if he wouldn't cooperate. Proving their fears wrong, Livingstone apologizes for his mistreatment and thanks them for preventing Harrow and the Pantheon for unleashing a devastating attack.
Livingstone informs the team that they need to return to Avalon and continue their fight in the shadows against Pantheon, promising them whatever assets they need (weapons, gear, operatives, etc..) off the books. Marshall believed that Pantheon was gone, but Livingstone correctly informs him that they're still at large and are still within CIA.
Alliance with the French Syndicate[]
In December 1991, Sev meets up with Marshall and some members of Rogue Black Ops to discuss about Pantheon's agents infiltrating the Luttazzi crime family in Avalon. Sev came up with a plan by allying with the French Syndicate to assault key locations that the Luttazzi crime family holds to root out Pantheon agents. Marshall asked Sev if the plan doesn't go smoothly, she replies with him by improvising.
Marshall agrees with the plan and works with Sev and Rogue Black Ops in their mission against Pantheon.
Personalization[]
Skins[]
| Name | Rarity | Image | How to obtain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attrition | Legendary | 
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Tracer Pack: Cascade Failure Reactive Bundle |
| Heist | Base | 
|
Complete the High Rollers Campaign Mission. |
| Sandman | Base | 
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Unlocked at Level 34 |
| Sitting Bull Reborn | Base | 
|
Reach Prestige Master |
Gallery[]
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6[]
Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile[]
Trivia[]
- Marshall is featured on the cover art of Black Ops 6. His "Sitting Bull Reborn" skin is based on the same outfit he wears on the cover art.
- In the Black Ops 6 Reveal Trailer, Marshall said the line "I figured if I stuck around Hell long enough I'd see the Devil". This line was actually said by Lawrence Sims in the final game.
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