Republic of Folk

A big thanks to all the awesome people that came today.

Missions played:

• Guardians I
• Dusters
• Pridorozhnyy I
• The Gopniks
• Exposed

Afterparty:

• Old Blood

Dusters
I really love the simplicity of this mission, because despite always being a murderous frontal assault across open terrain and then uphill into a town, it is also always really fun. Because I had arrived late, I was a spare rifleman; which is totally okay for a modest, humble person such as myself (I am also handsome). Naturally, I was only too pleased to play a tiny role in liberating the town. I bravely shot an unarmed man who was sporting questionably bright white clothes (I'm sure western propagandists will claim he was a doctor or a scientist). Then Kefirz called in a lot of mortar support, which levelled the last few buildings. But that's okay: with your tax roubles, we can rebuild them. But it'll cost ya.

Pridorozhnyy I
It's worth pointing out that this has only ever been completed once. And we didn't get close to repeating that. Washington picked one of the three classic attack vectors: use the riverbed to get to the western edge of the map, then creep up along the road to hit the enemy in the rear. Except that because the enemy is halted and dismounted, it doesn't really have a rear. And we didn't do the creeping part well enough. So soon we were involved in a firefight up and down the road. I was with A2, which was pushing slowly through the stunted treeline on the left-hand side of the road itself. Not only was fire coming at us from up ahead, but soon we felt fires were being directed to us from our right flank (up the slope). I never saw the troops that killed us, but Palm did get a shot of my body after the enemy grenade threw it, lifeless, onto a fallen tree:


The Gopniks
I have no words, other than to say that the opening of this mission needs to be made into a 5-second video and posted to YouTube. Oh yes, and just FYI, I was totally wearing my black Adidas tracksuit whilst playing this. Keep it cheeki-breeki forever, Wash.



Exposed
Riding in littlebirds will never get old, and when you don't have to play on it for every mission in a session, it's possible to feel a lot more warmly about Altis. But fuck reflex optics in the eye. We landed beyond the convoy and almost as soon as we'd taken cover behind the nearest rock wall, our LB exploded (killing the pilot). After that, I was snapping off shots against enemies coming in from three directions, though in reality it was the AH overhead that appeared to be doing much of the killing. Finally, we regrouped at the convoy and shortly after Boberro called an extract under fire. It was dramatic, but possibly not quite successful as QRFs go!

Old Blood
You bastards remixed my mission! But I like your version even more. Those black outfits are really slimming, which is a welcome addition for Tigershark. I'm just going to leave this here:

I turned up a little early to this session, and did a bit of mission testing with Kefirz. I ended up having to immediately bail to fix a problem (how did it even happen) with the mission we tested.

Soon enough I was back in, last to slot as the session started with a quick round of Guardians I.
This mission provided evidence (and war cries) that Murshun Cig addiction kills. By lag. Lots of lag.



After we were done chain-smoking (and wearing weirdly modern uniforms), we moved on to mission two: Dusters. I'd actually recorded this one, which is good since the background gunfire and explosions are better as an experience rather than a retelling and it's otherwise a fairly simple mission.
Here it is (27m): https://youtu.be/tx3s3V6oMic.

This one was notable for the return of El Staberinde (Fer) after his month (or so) of absence.

Third on the list was a run of the almost never-beaten mission, Pridorozhnyy I. I was A1 FTL, Wash was the SL.
I'd actually AFKed through the planning (twice), we started the mission with a long south-western run, A1 was ordered to continue south on a hill-climb before reorienting east, and then we tried an attack from two sides. Sounds semi-reasonable?

Pridorozhnyy is an old mission that has only ever been beaten once, and this wasn't that time.

Next up was another round of Gopniks. I got to drive again when nobody else took the seat (I've never not driven in Gopniks so far) and we went on and attacked a dockyard (after being informed the Police Station was FakeNews.)

We actually won this one clearly and legitimately with no unfortunate accidents, for once. 9mm Pistol Victory Fire!

The last/second to last Mission this session was a new Washington-branded one, Exposed.

This mission saw us (as 2035 NATO) facing off against the FIA, who had attacked an AAF/IDAP convoy. We started off-site, and were forced to rush our Littlebirds - one for Transport, and another for Attack - over to the ambush site.

I can't actually say much about how this mission went, because my role in it as the pilot of AH1 was exclusively aiming and firing twin miniguns, and variable-type rocket pods. The two things I can say about that except for Dakka, is that someone had drawn a not-even-remotely accurate aimpoint on my windshield in permanent marker and that the miniguns had been equipped with silencers for every barrel.

The three things I can say for the mission are that TH1 crashed early and had to respawn as TH2 (without a Radio), that the infantry managed to find and evacuate the VIP (I think), and that Boberro fell out of TH2 and I shot his corpse for a bit on impact as Victory Fire.

Mission note: AH1 had next to no communication with the ground force because there wasn't much of a reason for communication. The FIA OPFOR were exclusively infantry who just swarmed toward the ambush site with no real means of fighting back against helicopters.

The afterparty, Old Blood, is Old Men with MP5s. We all died, refer to previous AARs for the variety of methods (but mostly by BRDM-mounted PKMs).

AAR to follow