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by Unaco » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:36 pm
UNnecessary Violence.
Gong 2 Driver (under Kefirz. Later attached to B1, under Tigershark. Also, attached to Strang's wife... but the less he knows...)
We started with a picturesque nightmare drive through the (entirely too) verdant outskirts of Zargabad, in support of Bravo squad. I had some Canned Heat playing too loud (to drown out the screams of any compatriots unlucky enough to end up under our tracks) and Ghandi's VON wasn't working. From the first contact it didn't look good for us, with HMG fire coming from bushes and trees all around us, several Radar contacts we couldn't get solid visuals on, and the constant fear that I'd crush an unsuspecting UN Soldier while trying to push slowly up through the shrubbery. The BMPs need a horn.
Eventually, at the first compound Bravo (1) were to attack, we rolled up in support... and got knocked out by ZU fire, or a rocket... or both. From somewhere. Tracks gone, and turret unable to traverse on the Y axis. We bailed, and joined up with Tiger's Bravo 1 squad for the duration of the mission.
Bravo were an intimate bunch, all in all... With B1 regularly moving up to a position, and then B2 and B3 following shortly behind to cluster up around us. Good job one of those SPG or GL technicals didn't open up on us. Or a Tank. Or anyone wielding more than a pistol. Me and Strang were also quite intimate, on account of the mutual acquaintance that was his wife. We bravely fought our way to the Southern edge of the airfield, and cleared out the sandbags and emplacements around there. While attacking a small bunker, just to the East, surrounded by a BMP graveyard, Tiger went down just ahead of us, likely to fire from the road just 25 meters down the slope. We threw some frag nades, but couldn't be sure if the threat was dealt with, or what the threat was indeed. I stepped up as the courageous soul, to run across the road to get into cover level with the threat. I made it across OK, despite those sonic cracks flying overhead, and got into some cover while still under fire. I had caught 1 enemy in my peripheral vision while running, so crawled to another piece of cover, and popped out to take him down with my trusty FAL. Unfortunately there were actually 4 of them, looking straight at me, about 40 meters out. I think I got 2 before they opened up and that was it for me. I died with Strang's wife's name on my lips. And a hand in my pocket.
Cratesistance.
Independent, Alpha MG (under Tink(?), I think)
Alpha were to watch the Alpha cache, to the North, while Bravo and Charlie and the CO were to... do whatever it was they were doing. Playing Canasta and jumping at Ghosts I think. I volunteered for Scout duty, to the farm complex North by North East of the Alpha cache, were I could get eyes West, North and East, in case BluFor came from any of those directions. Unfortunately, I couldn't watch all 3 directions from the same spot, and keep hidden/covered... so I was running up and down the barn every 30 seconds to get eyes on the other direction.
Not that we expected them to the North... Bravo squad got eyes on the enemy South of the B cache, moving through cover. They started to move round, to try and come in behind them, or in their Eastern flank, and moved all the way to Pavlovo... but didn't find anything in the end. They fell back to the B cache, and we all went back to frantically scouting every direction... knowing they must have been close, and ready to move in.
Eventually Alpha squad got contacts to our West, moving in on the cache through the trees... this was South West of me, and my brilliant scouting/overwatch location was rendered ineffective. RedSniper was out alone to West, managed to get some shots off before he went down. Tigershark started moving out that way, trying to get round the enemy to the North, while I also moved in to try and get eyes into the forest, and find a decent bit of ground to rest the MG on. Alas, they seemed to have overwhelming force (3 Fireteams compared to our 1), even with Bravo moving in from the South. Tiger went down, and I got 1 confirmed kill and 1 unconfirmed (he was only wounded in the end), before I had to start running for my life away from GL and small arms fire. I tried to push back into the forest, but as soon as I made the tree line I was opened up on and went down.
Westside.
Bravo Squad Leader (answerable only to God himself! And perhaps the Independent Police Complaints Commission!)
They say that war is 9 parts waiting, to 1 part arse opening terror... Sitting and waiting in the Bravo Police Station, on the ground floor, in the dark, with all of those doors all around us, and few eyes on the approaches was pretty tense on its own. The arse opening moment came while halfway up the tower, coming under fire, dropping to the ground then discovering it was too dark to find the stairs back down, bullets pinging off the walls and windows around me. Also sitting in a corner with just me and Immy up, surrounded by unfriendly voices, too many doors to cover and the realisation the enemy didn't have nice, stand out white helmets to see them by.
I was BSL, tasked with defending the Southern Police Station (a converted Fire Station). I had 1 member of B1 across the road, to watch the main entrance, and 1 member from each of B1 and B2 out to the East to provide eyes to the East and South, with the rest of us holed up in the Station, Tink up the tower and the rest of us in the main garage. In hindsight, the 2 on Overwatch (Macaco and Mojadishu) were perhaps too effective (they both had M16s). I expected them to get eyes while BluFor were still a fair distance away, maybe plink a few shots, shut off and cover a couple roads, force their heads down, fire and move and generally be a nuisance. As it turned out, BluFor decamped from their vehicles ~100 meters from 1, and were pretty open up to being shot while preparing to hit the Alpha Station. I think they killed about 8 of you between them.
I eventually told them to fall back, and regroup with the rest of us at the Station, after BluFor got their positions and started putting fire on them... Unfortunately, I don't think they made it. But by that time Blufor had got our positions as well, and I was opening my bowels while trying to crawl down a steep set of stairs in the tower. We ended up with only 4 still alive and in the main garage... me and Immy crammed into a little cubby room watching the 3 main double doors, Skabooga and (I forget who) watching the other smaller entrances. The only visual on the enemy I got was when Daf pushed in and Skabooga and (?) went down... I managed to get a shot on Daf over a crate, and round the side of the UAZ and another crate. We (me and Immy) then sat in fear waiting for the inevitable to come, doors being opened randomly, smoke blowing in from outside, footsteps, voices and the moans of the wounded. Eventually Immy shimmied out a little and caught another BluFor sneaking in. The mission ended shortly after, and I was still alive. I submitted my resignation the next morning, and went to visit Daf's wife.
Again, apologies to BluFor if you were mercilessly gunned down early on in Westside. And apologies for also losing Gong2 pretty early in UNViolence... but it was easy to do on that terrain. Good session.
At least I was able to watch some incredible barn fighting from the party-approved afterlife. 
