We're a few turns in after the set up. My brief is that the forces i have on the map are an advance scout platoon checking the way ahead for a larger force due to be transiting through the area. Depending on how successful first contact is, the large group will either be moving swiftly from west to east down the railway tracks and exiting the map, or they will be reinforcements helping out the recon group.
This is the map
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So, i have to occupy the Weather Station, the bridge and the loading area (where the large force will enter). I get bonus points for 'touching' the field edge, the woods and the animal farm - i have a sniper just for the job.
And this is the goal - to get everyone off the map out of this exit point whilst leaving Con and his Russian forces a smoking ruin
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The plan then is to have Recon Vehicle 4 head in this direction, unseen in the shot is a small ridge that hides me from Cons forces which i assume start life at the red village to the North. I may be wrong, if thats so im just showing my flank to a Russian force :-\. This vehicle will take care of the loading area and should get there below the ridge and hidden by the tree line around the field
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Recon vehicle 2 is heading straight to the cover provided by the raised railroad tracks, and then tracking that ridge into the trees to cover the railway bridge
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Recon 3 is heading to the tree line to disembark the sniper team and it will attempt to make its way across the railway and into the field edge
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and lastly Recon 1, heading for the Weather Station - an enemy you say? in the woods? youre right - and so surprised were the crew by its appearance that they bogged the vehicle in wet mud, we're not going forwards, we're not going backwards and we're right in the eye of the enemy. The squad inside is ordered to get the hell out and head for the trees, i give the Stryker small reverse and forward plots to see if we can roll out of the mud. Its the recon platoon inside that has spotted the enemy, not the Stryker team - i dont know if theyll catch on and open fire next turn
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Here he is, i dont know if thats a turret or a shield, can he see me? If theres no turret he has to back up in forest ground, it might give me enough time to bail out and free from the bog, if the the bog breaks the orders are to reverse behind the trees, on a similar path to the recon team
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"A smoking ruin. I like that part." -- Alejandro Murieta (paraphrased), The Mask of Zorro
Nice screens. Looks like you loaded up mods. Love the muddy textures. I have recently just loaded up kieme's (I assume you use them) textures myself.
i only downloaded the mods this morning - theyre vanilla shots
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 24, 2015, 04:16:20 AM
i only downloaded the mods this morning - theyre vanilla shots
Hmm ok.
At the start of the next turn the enemy recon vehicle hasnt moved at all - i dont think he can see me
After a painful pause of 5 seconds (that i ordered) the hatch finally drops and the unit disembarks and heads for the trees, as they pass the end of the tree line they can still see the vehicle and the AT guy has one rocket. Bad news, theres still two on the Stryker so if he misses he'll have to go back, possibly under fire and get them. Badderer news - the Stryker gives up the ghost and is officially immobilised in the middle of this field!
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They get to their cover safely, next turn im going to order them to slowly enter the forest back towards the end of the tree line and see if the AT guy can take a shot
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Out on the left, the HQ and sniper team's Stryker comes over the top of this rise and.............
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Con must have started much further forward than i thought. Anyway, this recon vehicle receives Stryker to the face, the first volley penetrated the vehicle and i wondered what the damage would be, but i see now an infantry icon so theyve obviously exited the vehicle in a panic or out of neccesity
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And on closer inspection heres one of the blighters
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Not concerned with which direction theyre heading anymore the immobile Stryker's gunner, in the final seconds of the turn, catches sight of the enemy recon in the woods
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...........and finally opens fire.
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Most of the first 2 volleys hit the trees, but enough get through, and with shots of 'we got him', from the gunner, im hoping its knocked out, i dont see anyone bail though, so it may have been empty of troops
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Over on the left the enemy recon vehicle takes a few more hits and bursts into flames, I reversed the Stryker back behind the tree line in case there was any follow up vehicles, and the gunner has clear sight to the unlucky crew and infantry - im beginning to think, like me Con may have a recon force and were both tasked with reconning the same targets - sneaky
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This guy needs to duck
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Boyz In the Wood - tired after their mad dash and then crawl through the forest only to be denied their target, the recon unit will go back to the Stryker to top up on ammo and AT rockets and then head towards the Weather station - i can only assume Con is already there - ill need to tread lightly
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The Ukraine is really lovely this time of year isn't it?
As long as there's seasonal flaming Russians I'm ok
Quote from: undercovergeek on March 25, 2015, 10:26:09 AM
As long as there's seasonal flaming Russians I'm ok
Quoting that on the other thread. >:D
It all goes quiet..............
On the right the recon team arrive at the bridge and occupy the zone. They dismount and the Stryker sits back in the trees to provide any needed covering fire
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I have an eerie feeling that Con is just on the horizon in that tree line
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Sniper team on the left side of the central wooded area, about 100m from the destroyed recon vehicle hit by the immobile Stryker, theyll edge round the forest keeping an eye on the railway line anyone supporting the weather station
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The LT, on his own at the back - his Stryker has been sent to fill the gap the immobile one cant - provide cover for the recon unit heading towards the weather station. Besides which, hes busy........
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.........calling in a drone to spy on the weather station - not sure how successful this will be - well see
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On the left, the team heading for the loading area. It occurs to me there is an unconfirmed squad of enemy who exited the burning recon vehicle, presumably with RPG support of some kind and now a set of undefended scout targets for Con to visit - this Stryker will drop off the team and head back to the corn field to check for bodies, or incoming rockets of doom
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Cue "Animal Farm" jokes...? :D
I just realized I should probably add here, since you aren't checking Con's thread where I said this already, but this duo-AAR is my favorite thing for the month of April already, and it isn't even already April. O0 O:-)
The sniper team makes its way past the destroyed recon vehicle, no bodies - crew and/or infantry out here somewhere - being vewwwwwy quiet
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I see red people - at the far end of the fields on the left hand side the recon team spot the enemy, so does their Stryker - whilst i want to slow down this advance, i dont want to open fire yet, lets see who else is coming
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In the opposite wood, the Strker slowly makes its way towards the weather station - if he doesnt go through the wood he shows his flank to a suspected enemy position, and I need him........
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.........to support these guys as they advance on the weather station - also quietly tip toeing throu the woods
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With a flourish of bugles, the cavalry arrives, 2 mortars, another sniper team and small stryker company
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So the plan..............
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The s*** hits the fan for the recon boys out left -
they heard these vehicles coming all the way towards them but could not see them until the last minute - Con drove these guys hard assuming i wasnt there
a few yards to their left
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and a few yards to their right
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a few seconds before this shot the AT guy hit the vehicle to the left in the wheels and it ground to a halt - i dont think either can see my guys, the AT guy is reloading. However on the far side of the hit vehicle is their Stryker - he cant actually see the recon vehicle yet so has a hunt order to just nudge through the trees - i assume he cant see me either
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Back up is on its way with 2 more behind the camera
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Over on the right flank an arty drop is ordered on the tree line directly opposite, a lateral dispersal all across the front, i want to drop also on the forest line further in the distance to the left but cant see all of it for a good solution. The XO team is inbound to get a better view
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And heres the XO and other mortar vehicles arriving to also pound the forest
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In the middle the sniper team find the crew of the damaged recon vehicle and in the background the rear of the weather station
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On the other side of the same wood, the team from the broken Stryker heading to the front of the weather station hear footsteps and immediately halt and turn left
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Whilst their support vehicle breaches the wood and covers the front of the weather station
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Can't wait to see Con's side of that!
Though my mind is trying to boggle around the notion of a weather station buried in the woods... near open fields... :crazy2: ??? :2funny:
Funny you should mention that because i dont think it has LOS to anywhere either!
Team 'Crunch' - named almost at the start of the scenario when the stationary Sergeant asked for noise discipline and his squad came loudly crunching through the forest behind him - better known as the recon team out on the right. Impatient with the slow reloading of the AT asset, the LMG guy with underslung M320 simply rolls over and plants one in the side of the recon vehicle - no casualties spotted so its either empty or i didnt see them
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Im assuming anyone capable of taking out the other vehicle cant see it and the ones that can see it dont have AT equipment because we have eyes on but noones attacking - the hopefully confusing and random exploding of the first vehicle will hopefully cause all the squashy targets to exit
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Ill have the Stryker hunt towards it too but stay in the trees in case theres anymore vehicles coming down the field
I won't give the context, but...
Quote from: Cona move worthy of either utter madness or great genius or both
lol, im not sure what category it falls into, ask Team Crunch, oh wait............. :'(
Lesson learned - do not name squads, it hurts more when this happens
As i hoped, Con dismounts the men in the other vehicle right in front of team Crunch, except i forgot from the last turn that not all of them can see the vehicle, and this turn it looks like it was actually only one of them, because when he turns all contact is lost. A few snapshots are sent the enmies way first, at least to keep their heads down
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But then return fire starts to come in, the grenade launching hero goes down as does his colleague next to him. The stryker is ordered to move rather than hunt to this area to save the rest of the squad. I dont pull them back, it would break all contact and involves turning my back to the enemy - wish there was a 'reverse' option for troops
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and then we hear this behind the Stryker - yoinks
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Just right and just behind Team Crunch the first reinforcement Stryker pulls up on our side of the railway tracks - more by luck than design the gunner picks up these two in the distance and starts to aim
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Team Wascally Wabbit (i know, i know) still hunting near the Weather Station, i hear footsteps but thats all, the Stryker is still parked out front covering Team WW and the weather station front door
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The XO team arrive at the tracks to call in more arty on the left hand wood, still cant see the base properly and then the LT calls out from the Stryker - 'if you call in a drone above the woods, you can then call in arty on what they see', with a comedic slap to the forehead the XO dials up the drone
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More bugles and all kinds of s*** appears on the horizon, this is getting serious
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Despicable Russian foe - Team Crunch attempt to tend to their wounded and the evil Cossack presses the attack - he is quickly dispatched by the overwatching gunner
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The support Stryker starts taking small arms fire..............
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..........after a quick look around we find the protagonist - this might hurt if we dont bring guns to bear on him quicker than he can on us
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And the mystery vehicle in our rear. The Stryker here will race past him on our side of the tracks, at the X the squad will exit and enter the woods armed with AT4s and a Javelin, and the Stryker will then break out from the woods and see who we have - the big issue is this vehicle can see all the way down the rail track on his side preventing any crossing at any point
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The Stryker that saw the IFV in the woods in the distance opens fire - he doesnt fire directly at the vehicle, he launches Golden Rain (TM) across the valley - lots of hits but no smoking ruin yet
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Quote from: ConBlind crazy and drunk is not a good combo on the battlefield unless you are a Viking.
>:D
i hope he exploded somewhere unexpectedly! >:D
Good news, the RPG hits the trees and fails to impact. Bad news the recon vehicle with the massive cannon on top sees me first and blows the Stryker to bits
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Team Crunch spot the RPG team and finish them off - here, the one man army that is the gunner tosses a grenade in their general direction
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Revealing their position to save their Strker costs them dear, a barrage of indirect fire comes down on their position from the recon vehicle
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After a few seconds its all over, Team Crunch are destroyed
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Their parting gift a host of sound contacts coming through the woods - the enemy must be all over this area
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Out on the right an artillery round lands, im not sure whether its one of my off map spotting rounds or its my devious foes
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And a few seconds later my hopes are confirmed - it starts raining death on the front lines of the right hand forest
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Speaking of the right, the support Stryker for the first recon team to land here takes a rocket to the front - not a clue where it came from - its the only vehicle on the line so theres no need to panic
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The sniper team in the middle forest come across a recon vehicle - i thought they were woefully underquipped but realised a support man has an M320 - lets see what happens
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Everyone, this is Yuri, he thinks he can come over my side of the rails
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**** you Yuri, thats for Team Crunch
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And this, this is Leroy Jenkins, a one man killing machine. However, hes decided to run off into the cornfield for no reason whatsoever, we might see him again, who knows
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The battle of the embankment
The fight for the loading area begins in earnest.
Team China Shop (to be explained) head off into the woods to guard their patch of railway. Mid way tube guy spots an enemy recon vehicle on the other side
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He takes far too long to tee up the shot and pays the price
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A member of the team goes down, and a hail of enemy grenades comes out of the woods. The despicable foe has had the dishonour to come onto my side of the rail track - his treachery knows no bounds
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Another team member falls and an enemy grenade explodes behind the team - they run headlong into the as yet unseen enemy like a bull in a China Shop (TM)
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Finally taking cover and returning fire, we start our own volley of grenade throwing - this ones kills 2 members of an RPG team behind the hedge
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Whilst waiting for support from their Stryker theres a horrendous commotion behind the team, i wrongly assume disaster - turns out the Stryker has seen Tube Guy's vehicle and opened fire
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The scene from above, this is the left most section of the action
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and to the right - the yellow circle is an ordered arty strike, the red circle is an incoming Apache strike and the yellow line is a mortar strike right down the enemy side of the bank - my units here are taking a few steps back into the forest before it falls
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In the middle, the crack/elite highly trained sniper team fire 5 M320 shells at the recon vehicle - and miss with all of them, they look onwards helpless
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My far most right unit - the first unit to attempt to cross the bridge and get eyes on the final destination
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And the whole right hand section - the 'mortar park' - thats 3 mortar bearing Strykers on the left, an ammo resupply wagon, the HQ and the snipers HMMV from left to right - if there was a WW2 russian style infantry charge here we'd be in trouble - there is only the XO team, a spotter team and a small recon team
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And Leroy, still being at one in the cornfield, only he knows where hes going, only trouble is, hes got the radio
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The Stryker finishes off the RPG team that were shooting at Team China Shop
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And then starts taking incoming small arms fire from across the rails - he backs into the woods for safety
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Further down the line two recon vehicles face off, the Stryker spots an enemy on the other side but the Russian fires a devastating barrage of fire that destroys the Stryker first
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The sniper team on the right break for the bridge as the artillery barrage comes down on the woods
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Strike a pose gents
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Another recon vehicle bites the dust on the railway embankment, shortly after the crew get it too
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On the approach to the weather station this little bast**** pops up and kills one of Team Wascally Wabbit that had split into two elements in case this very thing happened
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Fortunately Lee Harvey is in the surrounding forest, and with a quiet 'pop' of silent justice kills him with one shot
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Heavy weapons arrive in the centre, they will turn left, and undercover of the forest cross the rail lines and get eyes on the woods from Cons side of things
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A short homage to Skip Muck and Alex Penkala - real people i know, but more famous having been in Band of Brothers in the forest at Foy
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except is was my arty :-[
Ouch! :(
Quote from: Con"Hesitation is fatal in modern warfare." "It's only a flesh wound!" "Bravely reversing towards danger."
Short hiatus - apologies
Shoot, dear God man shoot, shoooooooooooooooot, SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Arse
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Yes, YES TAC-AI thats what i FKNG ORDERED - REVERSE TOWARDS THE ENEMY WITH JUST YOUR ASS ON SHOW. I swear to god if Con puts a scratch on it im going to fly to Steve Grammonts house and punch him in the neck.
I learnt on the very first turn that for slightly odd maneouvres you need to give small waypoints, in the heat of the battle i forgot, ordered a reverse out onto the field ON THE OTHERSIDE of my woods and then race as fast as possible to help out the beleagured Team China Shop now without a Stryker.........
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....in fact this is all thats between my left flank and whatever Russian skullduggery is coming through the woods
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Except these...........
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and these..........
The first lot are heading as fast as possible to my far left flank, theyll disembark and then either advance right on my side of the woods, or ill maybe send a recon over the other side and advance right on Cons side of the woods
The second lot will hit the middle of the woods, just behind where my Javelin just got vapourised, i figure if Con is sending a vehicle over the tracks there must already be some troops in the trees, i hope to catch them unawares as i come in behind them
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Theres more Russians in the Weather Station than i thought - a lot of fire including RPGs hit the shed but my one recon guy holds out, the 2 sniper groups are working their way round the side to get eyes on the balcony and with covering fire should allow the rest of Team Wascally Wabbit to cross the open ground and then assault the tower
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Forces arrive on our far left and begin to disembark, they will get out, form up and cross the railway as one followed by the strykers - i will place them close enough together to provide mutual support having learnt the lessons with Team Crunch. Forgot to take a pic but further right Team China Shop are wiped out by a unit stood right next to them that they couldnt see - they took a few with them and then got wiped - the curse of the named team continues
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A short action sequence if i may, i love the game for little moments like this - it reminds me of running round my parents garden with friends with sticks for machine guns and throwing fake hand grenades - the game is awesome for vignettes like this
Squad B of Team Wascally Wabbit form up to storm the Weather Station satisfied the enemy is surpressed
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They assault the tower
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Dammit, i forgot about the Recon vehicle the sniper team missed with the grenade launcher. The team make it to the building - Con had given the vehicle area fire orders on the barn assuming i was inside, i left just in the nick of time
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The AT guy lines up the recon vehicle and takes him down - the explosion is glorious and noone gets out
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A second later small arms fire is heard in the tower and the team take a casualty
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I have no idea where the fire came from until i see this guy, he must have come running down the stairs like a madman, firing his weapon as i came running in, but the heroic Cossak is running straight towards the sniper team, seen in the trees
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and hes down - i claim the Weather Station in the name of Team Wascally Wabbit, but cant help feeling there is still one guy left up there
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A bloody and explosive turn for me :-[ :'(
1st Weapons Team crosses the railroad into the enemy treeline. Whats that, a Tunguska, oh crap, oh crap, oh crap RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN
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By the skin of their teeth, Team Jammy (TM) make it to the other side
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2nd Team make it also, possibly covered by the smoke of the first attack
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Come on the Stryker!!!!!!!!!!! Oh crap, thank god we got out and took the Javelins with us - nothing/noone/nobody gets out - its hard to describe the amount of fire that that thing delivers!!
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This was a drone sent to spy on the back line so that i could drop a s*** ton of arty on any reinforcements
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and this was a HE delivering bad ass mofo 'hiding' in the woods, never even saw the round - no idea where it came from
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Quote from: ConLots of good Hollywood style action. UCG is throwing the kitchen sink at me very early
I meanwhile wish to file a complaint about the railway engineer who left what looks like a thirty degree grade over a space of about ten yards on that track. :crazy2: :idiot2:
No doubt the giant crates of vodka left behind (with the occasional forklift still nearby) had something to do with that.
I will also observe that the weather station hidden in the forest (where it's hard to observe 'the weather') has an outhouse.
An. Outhouse.
A
one hole outhouse. Exactly one person can use that hole at a time.
lmao to all of that, i had to go back and check the track!!
and yes, one hole for a whole weather station - sounds like a country and western song
{twang}
Well, Mom got drunk
the day the train
took me to prison:
a weather station
that can't see rain
and has no souulll!
It jumped the tracks;
the guards came got me,
in their pick-up... truck...
and said,
"Our out-house,
got only
ONE DAMN HOOOOOOOLLLLEEE!!..."
Oh I'll hannng
around
as long as you will let me.
Or till soldiers
storm the station
in a gaammme!
You don't
have
to call me darlin',
{bang!}{the!}{mugs!}
darlin'!
You don't even have to call me
-- why don't you ever try to call me! --
why can't you even once just call me
by myyyy naaammmee!!
Thank you, thank you, don't bend over for the soap!
(All thanks to my brother for teaching me exactly one drinking song back in college. I have now improved the perfect country-western song.)
You're a poet - now do we need a black clad gravelly voiced lothario or a blonde buxom warbler with spangly thigh length boots
ok, bit of confusion in the middle and some birds eye strategy stuff
On my far left the Stryker crosses the tracks and stops on the forest line - somewhere out there is the Tunguska. I dont know if hes waiting for me to exit the trees or if hes just sat in the trees, ill give it a minute or two to see what happens
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and then this guy is unveiled almost right in the middle of the embankment zone, hes looking left - unaware of anything behind him
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These guys on the extreme right of the embankment zone spotted him but being heavy weapons theres not much they can do about it. A quick call to the LT and two AT teams are split off from the squads in the woods, they will see if they can get a shot on him
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Javelin Team 1 come out of the forest but not far enough, they need to run the gauntlet of the rail line to be able to get an angle on the vehicle
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These guys on Team 2 do come out far enough but pick up another vehicle just across the rails from them - good news: it either cant see them or it has a problem as it hasnt opened fire, bad news: its too close for a Javelin shot
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Then this guy reverses out of the forest in the mid section, between my Strykers facing left and the new platoon unloading behind them. He takes fire from both angles and is knocked out
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Plans then - on the left the 2 heavy weapons teams are stranded until i can get more units across the rails but with the enemy vehicle parked on the tracks i have to wait for his demise. The plan will be to cross and then wait in case Con is reinforcing this line and then roll right and see if we can clear him out of the embankment
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On the right, Con seems reluctant to cross, assuming theres someone there!! i need eyes on this area quick. The units hold whilst the AT units attempt to take out the enemy Recon vehicle in the middle. The Strykers retreat back into the woods and then turn left to protect the flank of this area. An XO team leaves its HUMMV to bring some much needed artillery call up ability to this line
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The middle - this newly arrived platoon have just dismounted, using the treeline the troops are going to work their way to the embankment whilst the Strykers will take up positions in the field to cover the trees for any enemy skirting the edge too close
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Near the weather station the snipers are going to head for the rails, track towards the enemy and then cross into the forest - these will be the eyes i need in the area hopefully
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Quote from: ConThis is the turn where I realize that UCG has not been reading the modern warfare manual. In a move of either brilliance or utter madness UCG has...
Well, I'm not going to say what exactly he's commenting on. ;D
Things quieten down for a turn or 2 whilst the two sides take stock
As its dead on the right hand side and the centre, ill concentrate on my left - the loading area and the embankment
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The 4 yellow circles and the lateral shape are where drones are looking for any sneaky Russian dogs coming across the fields, the red circle is an inbound Apache strike looking for the Tunguska and any other troops in this corner.
The blue box is an incoming heavy arty strike, about 2 minutes out to make sure my side is cleared of enemy troops, and then one will follow on the opposite side
Number 1:-
This guy was seen sneaking in and out of contact in the wooded area under the incoming arty strike, im assuming some of Cons forces came over the tracks and were going to attack my right when we landed on his left and he has now switched there focus to move to my left
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Number 2:-
The sniper team from the central woods has worked its way up to the rails and swung left to probe Cons far left, theres been a lot of screaming and exploding from this area so we'll just take a look and see whos there. Here they are intercepted by a RPG team who shoot first and miss, they are executed by the sniper
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Number 3:-
Javelin away! The AT team finally get an angle on the enemy recon vehicle
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Kablooey!!
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The team to their right pick off some stragglers in the forest line
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and also finish off the enemy recon vehicle that doesnt appear to have anyone in, or theyre all dead
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WTF is this?
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Still going
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Stilllllll going
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Oh shi............
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My one of only 3 anti tank equipped Strykers - goddammit!!!!!!!
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Quote from: ConI bet UCG let out a screech like a howler monkey when it brewed up.
>:D
Quote from: JasonPratt on April 18, 2015, 04:58:46 PM
Quote from: ConI bet UCG let out a screech like a howler monkey when it brewed up.
>:D
like 2, with their scrotums glued together
"Take a looooook up the railtrack from Kiev to whateverthatvillageattheotherendofthetrackiscalled" - the often overlooked Ukranian Proclaimers cover band Proklaimings
My extreme left, Cons extreme right - cheating Russian dogs are dropping arty on the tree line, i noticed the spotting rounds last turn and pulled back 2 half squads. Left in the trees are a Stryker and 2 MG teams.
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The MG team - a clear view to about 30 metres in front of them - i see noone but i get a sound contact out there every now and again
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and the Stryker, pushed as far forward as i dare with the Tunguska out there somewhere - he spots a crawling infantryman and blows him to bits, an emergency arty drop is ordered to cover this area in case the whole field is full of the sneaky basts
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The mid section, where i thought would be busiest but is either very stealthy or very empty. One of the mortar Strykers takes small arms fire and loses the commander, the other Strykers engage
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Thats right, you'd better run girlfriend!!! The East European bullet dodging champion heads further in to the woods - Boris the Bullet Dodger is christened
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And to my extreme right of the embankment, Cons extreme left and what i like to call 'Cons Graveyard'. Ive decided to send 2 Javelin teams up the strip of trees which seperates the embankment battleground from the rest of the map, hopefully theyll get eyes on some of Cons vehicles as they trundle past. Hilariously i could not give these 2 a quick command to cross the tracks so instead they opted for 'sunday afternoon stroll'. From somewhere some explosive rounds start working there way towards them - then they decide they can run, hoooweeee can they run with exploding Russian exploders going off behind them. Theyre safe in the trees - a half squad of 'sprinty' infantry will go see where the noise was coming from
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Hmmm, arty on the right too maybe, heading for the strip of trees mentioned above. That or diggers are coming in to build more graves for Con in this area >:D :2funny:
pffft, i made myself laugh there!!
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Sigh, Tunguska-ed, theres no other word for it - RATATATATATATATAATATATATATATAATATATATATATATATA BOOOOOOM - theyre so freaking scary
i mean, theres no hit decals on the Stryker, i can only assume that some of the sneaky Russian dogs hiding in the corn shouted RTATATAATATATATATAATATATATAATAT and the Stryker just exploded on the assumption that the tunguska was there. Chuck Norris should drive a Tunguska, i wish i had one
To counter this heinous foe 5 Apaches are sent to this sector, i hope they all come from different angles and not in a queue otherwise itll be a blood bath
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Similar to Christmas Eve during WW1 peace breaks out on the right near Cons graveyard. The troops are playing shadow shapes by the light of a burning Stryker
''Now do Startled Moose, bwahahahahahaha thats brilliant, oh youre surrendering, do you have a Tunguska?"
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Quote from: Con[Soviets] -- blew entire clip, hit nothing. US Snipers auditioning for their next job at Blackwater Agency.
Quote from: JasonPratt on April 19, 2015, 02:16:52 PM
Quote from: Con[Soviets] -- blew entire clip, hit nothing. US Snipers auditioning for their next job at Blackwater Agency.
>:D
So...............
Get a load of this guy!! This explains the 'grenade rain' from a few turns ago, mind you he couldnt hit a cow's arse with a banjo
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Some grenades ping off the armour - checking the damage, theres minor damage to all the fancy bits on the outside but we're still fighting fit. By luck or design, if it was design, bravo Con, the guy is stationed behind a wrecked recon vehicle - hes lobbing grenades over the top, whereas the Stryker is firing directly at him and hitting the wreck every time - we need to move
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The plan to deal with our wayward grenade popping comrade then (and some other right flank overview stuff). The half squad on Cons side will move left to see if we can engage him from behind (dont even think it), the Stryker will move into the tree line in an attempt to get a better view of the grenade launcher, the Stryker on my side will head closer in case the first Stryker doesnt make it. To the right thats 2 teams of snipers and 2 AT teams heading into 'the strip', theyll work their way up here looking for enemy vehicles to the left and Tunguskas in the small town to the right
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All hell breaks loose, the grenade team get hit (i think), the Stryker suddenly takes massive fire from the right, and the 'massive fire-er' takes similarly massive fire from my left
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Then i remember this guy - so the Stryker gets hit by a sneaky Russian dog in the woods and in turn gets hit from my Stryker heroes heading to the railway tracks. So an exchange of APCs and i still dont know if the grenade launcher is there
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Speaking of sneaky Russian dogs............ Boris the Bullet Dodger turns up on the left. In a scene reminiscent of Predator, the team leader starts dry shaving his face, pointing into the woods whispering 'I seeeeeeeeeee yoooooooooouuuuuuu'
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The arty barrage seems to have almost finished, i didnt take any damage, next turn its a full on WW1 over the top charge to the other side, the guys will sit on my side of the tree line waiting for Con to come sneaking through
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LOOK!!!!! Its an invisible Apache in the sky, firing its cannon of dooooooooom at the....... oh f***, thats coming towards me, STOOOOOOOOOOOOOP.
The MG team take a casualty from the Apache, the only justice done in this turn is the Apache is turned to confetti just after this
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Today's colorfully ambiguous quote:
Quote from: ConThis is an exciting plan that I am sure my tankers are going to be happy to be part of. (It might need a little more fleshing out)
Quote from: JasonPratt on April 20, 2015, 01:16:02 PM
Today's colorfully ambiguous quote:
Quote from: ConThis is an exciting plan that I am sure my tankers are going to be happy to be part of. (It might need a little more fleshing out)
TANKERS??? theres tanks?????
noone mentioned tanks!! :o
Keeping in mind, AFVers doesn't sound as macho. (It isn't necessarily tanks.)
Just read an AAR where the writer doesnt really convey the overall battlefield or the units he highlights position on that battlefield. As a reader i was very disconnected from the units and their stories because i didnt know what part they were playing or where they were in relation to the rest of the battle. So without further a do ill post an overview of the battlefield that will show on it where the following snapshots take place so the reader can relate to the battle more - hope that helps!!
So heres the battle for the embankment
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The snipers on the right spot an APC, they relay the position back to the AT guys catching up behind them, they will stop at the point and see if the can get an angle on the vehicle
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In the middle the MG team trying to find the grenade launchers on the other side start taking fire from within the woods, the team leader takes a shot to the chest and goes down
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The inactive right - the sniper team get intermittent glimpses of an APC on the treeline opposite, the Javelin armed HQ team head there to try and spot it. Behind them a HMMV is going to make a break across the bridge and see if anyone fires
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Quote from: ConI spot the commander standing naked atop his Tunguska shooting his Makarov pistol and cackling madly[,] showing the same fire discipline as a cocaine binged Tony Montana. [i.e.] like 16 year old Columbian pimps.
lmao - that sums up the last Apache run - lost 2 :-\
Theres an RPG team sneaking about on my side of the tracks near the Mortar Strykers - a few grenade shots cause him to curl up and disappear from LOS but i dont think hes dead
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Tee-Hee, this is a hellfire missile launched from a drone, yes that right, from the sky - I HAVE TANKS IN THE SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Moooooahhahahahahahahaha
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It lands here, hopefully on top of a Chuck-guska
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and another to the left of the first, this was close to a sound contact so im hoping theres 'Chunks of Chuck (TM)' everywhere
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....and one here, dont know what was there, Tunguska, RPG team, glory hole with Russian prostitute on other side of rickety wooden wall, who knows
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This however, is not of my making, this looks like the incoming barrage that all those spotter rounds were for, see the HQ team just behind it? Never even flinched - we're hard core
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The small personal battle between my MG team and the Russian trio ends with one guy left standing, he still has the MG so is still handy in a fight
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A Stryker traverses the rail banks on Cons side and has LOS practically all the way down it - see if we cant put some holes in the grenade launcher chaps
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Javelin team gets LOS on the APC but when they settle down to fire they lose LOS, i dont know if it moved or this is one of those 'Gusington Launcher' teams who cant see over the tall grass, DoD proposes a 4th member of the team to carry a little box to stand on
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After a shaky start where its ass was in the wind for about 10 seconds the HMMV makes it over the bridge, no incoming enemy fire was teased from the forest - this guy will head to the exit zone at the far right
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Left over view
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Right overview
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Quote10 prized Siberian Fighting cocks (heh heh heh he said cocks!) give their all for Mother Russia.....you shall be avenged! The remaining chickens sensing freedom start flapping madly and scattering around. Hopefully they will continue to draw US airpower after them. These things are better than flares or decoys.
ha, brilliant - it hit the chickens >:(
Well, no one can say that drone pilot wasn't chicken!
Well, its all gone quiet for a few turns - a mix of both forces standing off whilst arty strikes land and watching for the next enemy thrust
Speaking of arty strikes half of Russia falls down on the left flank just as i move back into the woods. We lose an MG team and 2 casualties to a half squad, the whole platoon move back across the rail track and wait for it to finish
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Using alternate hunt commands between mutually supporting Strykers and infantry we manage to mop up quite a few sneaky russian dogs in the woods. This was the grenade launcher causing mayhem a few turns ago
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This was a HQ guy sneaking around my side of the tracks
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And on the strip of woods going north towards Cons Tunguskas we find this guy, he looks like a crew member but i cant remember destroying anything above here for him to have abandoned, anyway - hes snipered
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Next update - a cunning plan, more cunning than Mr Fox who has just graduated from Cunning University
So, i have a cunning plan
Its taking an awful lot of work and time to get the snipers and the 2 Javelin teams up the spine of the map, and theres a distinct possibility of their destruction when they get there - so.......... lets send everyone up there!!
4th platoon, 4 strykers, the 2 ATG Strykers and the 2 HE Strykers are heading there now
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That.... is a plan. A plan I shall definitely not be hinting at to Con. (I haven't hinted any plans either way, just passed along colorful sayings with no plan details.)
I will be highly curious to see how this plays out. :coolsmiley:
3 seconds in the life of a Chuck-guska hunter, these things are brutal
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and that was that!!
In the strip of woods the sneaky plan bears fruit - i have eyes on a Tunguska in the farm, an APC in the forest opposite my recon forces and a Kornet team near the chicken sheds - all should come under Javelin or Sniper fire this turn
Argh! Cliffhanger coming up! -- Con will be going on a business trip for a week starting Monday.
thats ok, theres 2 more turns to write up!!
From disaster to some kind of recovery, it starts bad..............
Here the Javelin team can see the Kornet crew on the corner, and behind them an intermittent contact with a Chuckguska, i see it on the move but when i settle down to aim i lose it again
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And the Chuckguska sees us first - theres nothing scarier in game than seeing this barrage coming toward you
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Because of the angle, thats 2 members of a 3 man sniper team x 2 and one member of the Javelin team and yes OBVIOUSLY the guy with the Javelin gets shot!!
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Trees removed for clarity - this guy, the Strker gun platform gets a LOS to the Chuckguska right at the end of the turn. Its 45 minutes before Con sends the turn back, and all that time is spent looking at the map thinking 'will it hit, will it hit the trees, will it miss and the Chuckguska pop smoke, will it hit and do no damage?
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BOOOOOOOM, you M*****F*****!!!!!!! Victory dancing actually causes Undercoverjunior to shout down from her bed telling me to be quiet!! I hate those frikking things, 3 seconds later the crew bail
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Glass half full/half empty now - the lead Gun Platform also gets LOS to an enemy APC in the village and takes it out, made only possible by the wonky Tac AI pathfinding that takes the vehicle out of the perimeter of the woods and no doubt straight into LOS of the Chicken Shed Kornet. I shall call these Grammontisms, after 3 in a game i really will fly over there and slap his beard off
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Yup, the lead vehicle gets Grammonted as suspected, partly my fault because i knew he was there and should have done something about it - the Chuckguska killing Stryker has LOS to the Kornets shadow but not the platform itself - area fire from hell will rain down on him next turn
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Meanwhile at the top of the map just to the west of the foresty-spine i spy an APC. My Stryker on Cons side of the rail departs with the usual direct fire and sends a glorious volley of grenades into the sky
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The first volley hits and the second volley goes up as what seems to be a fully loaded APC starts abandoning ship. The grenade rain starts a-falling as the infantry and a HQ unit get out, theres not a lot left after the second volley, i think Tee Hee is the agreed response here
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So 3 enemy vehicles for one, but one of mine is much more valuable than the rabble i destroyed - 50/50 id say
Quote from: ConTunguskas are freakin AWESOME. In fact I will rename them Daleks because they are crap at going up stairs but will EXTERMINATE everything in their path.
Then he starts singing a song. About Tunguskas.
Incidentally, the one that bisected your team? -- the driver had promised to buy the gunner the best whores in Russia if he didn't need two shots.
Quote from: Con"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" {US infantry realizing their recruiter has fed them a line of bullshit}
Working their way up the spine, this comes into view
Please dont see me, please dont see me
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Then the HMG team and a Stryker with HE grenades opens up on it, believe me when i say i was sat in the dark saying out loud 'youre only going to make him mad', 'please dont turn, please dont turn'
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Then the Styker gun platform catches sight of him, and its all over
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To the right of the spine a javelin team spy an APC
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looking good
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KA-Booooooooooooooom, if the gods of war are smiling on me, it was full of sneaky Russian dogs
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Might as well get the victory flags out now, i spy two more and have LOS with javelins, tee-hee-he..............ooooo fk :o
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Tanks! Why does it always have to be tanks?!?
4 at least - time to summon the Apaches
Quote from: JasonPratt on April 20, 2015, 04:08:19 PM
Keeping in mind, AFVers doesn't sound as macho. (It isn't necessarily tanks.)
Or, it could be tanks.
Quote from: undercovergeek on May 04, 2015, 12:59:56 PM
4 at least - time to summon the Apaches Mechs
Fixed that for you. :)
Chaos reigns
Firstly the ATGM Stryker goes up in smoke, fortunately theres no extra guys on board just the poor crew
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Secondly, whilst all his friends around him hit the dirt this guy isnt having any of it - he launches a Javelin at the first tank on the left
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Then, a second Stryker explodes, this a standard variant empty of all but crew, in the background the enemy tank receives its Javelin with good grace
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Its a thing of beauty, first the detonation and then i think the ammo goes up
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Then the gun platform, who had just literally deleted a Kornet crew in the fields to my right, i mean shot him right in the face with the HE round, spots another tank and puts two rounds in it
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The clock ticks on and within seconds of the end of the turn the tank switches from active to dead and the crew bail
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Then the gun platform spots this guy right at the end, those cannisters in the air are the tank popping smoke, i know from another game Russian smoke takes a second or 2 to come down, im hoping theres enough time to kill it before this happens
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Quote from: ConI decide to try and think like UCG to see how he would now act faced with T90s... Still thinking like UCG I go and make myself a bacon sandwich....mmmm bacon. Then I wonder if insects sweat. Lastly I decide that I need to Google some midget porn. Realizing that thinking like UCG is only distracting me I decide to make my own plans and try to anticipate his tactics which are obviously inspired by trying to choose the most exciting action that can involve flames, alcohol, firearms and an alluring sheep in suspenders.
HAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, say again, i repeat, say again
..........static...............
3 more Russian armour assets inbound...............
*£"^$&$*"!
So, theres the first 4, now 3 more, and if i recognise that correctly thats the first 2 elements of an armour company which means theres another 3 or 4 due to arrive.
The CO checks his briefing notes again, 'recon loading zone, weather station and forest and escort A company out of area eastbound and exit via rail link to east. Hold the loading zone and railway bridge'
'The errrr, theres no armour for us? just making sure, because i errr, i think theres 10-12 T90s on the other side of this forest'
Theres nothing inbound - now at the start of the battle, 6 Apaches, 2 hellfire armed drones, 3 gun platforms and 3 ATGM Strykers probably sounded enough to take on 'some tanks'. But now i have 4 Apaches from that list everything else is burning in the forests, some due to my ineptitude and some due to Grammontisms.
Its time to actually follow my orders and get A company out of here. I will discuss at the end of the scenario my confusion about the briefing but for now, lets get these people to safety and live to fight another day
The spine of doom. From the bottom - there are 2 operational HE Strykers, these are reversing back through the woods in good order, short of 1 Grammontism where one came out of the spine ass first they should make it. Then they will head west to support the boys in the woods. Above them, battered, shocked and shredded the remains of 4th platoon, reduced to scraps after 3 or 4 turns of incoming HE fire and arty from the Russian dog Con. Theyre heading North, firstly to escape the arty fire and secondly because there are still Javelin troops here that can take out some Russian tanks and maybe infiltrate the village. Above them 2 Javelin teams, 1 with eyes on a tank as the turn finished, and then the snipers, hunting forwards getting firing solutions on the armour line
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To the south and west of the spine near the loading area, the mortar Strykers pack up and start heading east to the exit area, i believe Con is woefully short of infantry and the mortars effectiveness will be minimal, even so, there is enough HQ left behind to order an attack from them as they wait in the exit area if needs be. Above them a small group of men had been hunting west clearing the forests, they were covered by a Stryker that due to a Grammontism just exploded, with tiny hunt waypoints forward he decided to turn 90 degrees with his ass to the suspected enemy area and promptly exploded, i make that 3 actual vehicle losses to not been able to traverse forested areas properly (not a complaint, just a grumble)
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The middle, Team Wascally Wabbit still guard the weather station, everyone else is heading to the HMMVs and leaving east
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The bridge - more mortar Strykers here start to pack up, the Stinger teams in their HMMVs also, i will leave the recon team from the start, their HQ armed with a javelin and the ammo truck. There are 2 serviceable MG mounted Strykers, these will head west to support the guys on the flank
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And lastly, the left flank, waiting patiently, theres enemy to the front maybe 30 - 40 ft maybe 400 - 500 yards but i know theyre there - i may be wrong but i think Con fears what might be here and theyll stay til the end, guarding the loading zone and will hold on as long as possible
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Quote from: undercovergeek on May 06, 2015, 06:02:01 PM
HAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA, say again, i repeat, say again
..........static...............
3 more Russian armour assets inbound...............
*£"^$&$*"!
Quote from: ConI can only imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth UCG must be having. He probably sounds like a cat trying to take a crap through a sewn shut anus.
Ok, roughly 10 turns of pain and tears have passed - believe me when i say it mostly involved exploding men and Strykers
The spine with trees on - thats all thats left of 4th platoon, shattered by an endless assault of arty and tank HE fire, the survivors are slowly making their way to the top to try and recon the back lines for my apaches and remaining arty strikes. There are plenty of AT4s among them, but lots of empty Javelin launchers............
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Trees off, The Corner of Doom, the survivors pick over the dead bodies of fallen comrades looking for Javelin missiles to finish off the armoured onslaught
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Looking west from the root of the spine back to my left flank. Mortar Strykers on the left are engaging a Kornet team harrassing the evac attempt over the bridge to the right flank. In the middle ground are 4 Strykers and a rag tag bunch of men clearing the forest and listening for any tanks that may have simply driven around 4th platoon on the left flank and headed for the embankment
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The men of 4th platoon, tasked with holding back the tanks with whatever means at their disposal (sticks and stones), they wait, sporadic sound contacts did show 2 tanks driving straight into this section but they were never seen again, one massive HE explosion that obliterated a half squad was all that was heard next - theyre either in there and now stationary or have backed out again. In the background a suicidal Stryker fires HE grenades at a T90, smoke has been launched and hes retreated into the woods, hopefully the targetting systems down or the guns damaged, i dont think the tank saw the Stryker
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The left flank, about 5 HUMMVs have made it over the bridge and out of the area, they were various HQs for sections im not using so no great loss. One Stryker was caught crossing the bridge by the Kornet team that is now receiving the aforementioned Mortar barrage, all that will remain here is the recon element, sniper and the HQ and the spotter
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The bridge, the Stryker and a recently destroyed HMMV burn here, i dont think they actually block the exit to the bridge. An issue now is small arms fire from the forest opposite, enough to slow down and deter Strykers so the mortars surpressing the Kornet team will switch fire here
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I would be proud of this if i didnt know there were another 5 or 6 out there!
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Three set off, one came out alive - 3 mortar strykers set off on convoy, apparently the grass embankment higher than they are isnt enough to shield them from a Kornet team on the other side of the field, puzzled by the LOS but not a problem, we all get lucky breaks. The biggest problem this poses is it leaves me with 3 mortars and these were all en route to the bridge to lay down as much smoke as possible to cover the evac over the bridge. Im 33% less smoke now, well see how it goes, AFAIK 2 kornet teams and a tank cover the bridge so it needs to be quite smokey round there
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The surviving mortar approaches the one already in situ to wait for the 5th which is now detouring round the back of the forest COMPLETELY OUT OF LOS MR GRAMMONT!!!! in case any more 14 ft high Kornet teams are about
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The far left flank, the team here have now crossed back over to my side of the rails, i have a sneaky feeling theres no more infantry here, and the tanks have definitely withdrawn, the only option is to stay in the woods and get mortared trying to get a possible LOS to a tank, or pull back, strengthen around the actual target area, the loading zone, and wait. The smoke is from an Apache strike, a lot of missiles and shells were expended but i dont know if anyone is there anymore, im also unsure if the helicopters hold their fire if the target area is empty - if they dont, theres either an unlucky tank in there or a lot of ammo got wasted on corn. Another chopper is lost to Tunguska fire too
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In the spine up the middle, my desperate band of wartorn heroes cross from left to right looking for targets for the arty spotters to rain down on - the vllages seems empty from here, i know its not, but i cant see anything. on the left is a Kornet team that has been running away from my small arms fire now for 5 minutes theyre either broken or liking playing chicken against the snipers
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Quote from: Con, embracing the horror, decides to go full Dark LordEven in Death they continue to serve me well.
A full scale retreat is underway - the last dozen or so turns have gone by with me simply getting pummelled by more arty and more tanks - the watchers in the woods final act before they exploded was to confirm the arrival of another platoon of T90s/T72s - im out of combat effective Javelin launchers, the casualties have been that extensive that i have squads with launchers and no missiles, squads with missiles and no launchers, and no matter how much i loot the dead i cant pick up whats required.
I have barely any control of the men, my global morale is so low im surprised the AI hasnt initiated my surrender - i can give orders but the slightest mouse fart from the other side of the woods puts them in the dirt for the rest of the turn
These are the stragglers on my far left, just over the rise a T90 appeared, destroyed a half squad with AT4s that i thought were hiding well but the tank came into contact pointing right at them so they cant have been too concealed, the last squad and the last Stryker are trying to meet so the squad can get on board but falling arty and the presence of the tank causes either or both to stop carrying out orders, i fear the tank will simply come over the rise and destroy them before they can escape
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This is the taxi service to get the hell out of here - these Strykers have a slightly higher morale and will carry out most of their orders, the men in the background have not, the strykers have just been ordered to reverse up to the men instead of the men coming to them - it will be faster and hopefully less sporadic
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One time of Javelineers remain intact, with launcher AND missiles, there is an occassional confirmed sighting of a few vehicles in the village, they wait here in the tree line to see if any can be tagged - there here til the Stryker taxi service comes past, then theyll leave like the rest
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......and the biggest problem, the bridge, covered by at least one tank and a kornet launcher - the remaining mortar vehicles cant lay down enough smoke for me to blanket the area and make good a sneaky escape. The massive 155mm off map arty has been ordered to drop smoke at the entrance and exit to the bridge, thats on its way in 5 mins, which is when i hope the strykers with the shattered men should arrive - and all that relies heavily on the hope that the bridge entrance and exit isnt physically blocked with burning wrecks - if i cant cross the bridge then its game over and ill get the white flags out
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Nice irony there at the end.
A comment I wrote on Con's thread before the hiatus of his business trip seems appropriate here (I had meant to post it in this thread earlier but forgot):
QuoteNot to give any spoilers from reading his side, but I honestly could not even begin to guess who will come out ahead in the end here; not from this point, yet.
I roughly figure there's a less than 50% chance that both sides will continue eating each other until the fighting sporadically dies in the latter third of the game, at which point each side will go back to maneuvering for victory points -- with what result I have no idea, although there could be patches of small, bitter duels over them until the end of the game. Possibly resulting in option 2 at last, in a more limited fashion.
I figure there's a better than 50% chance that one or the other side will suddenly develop a breakout lead in force, either from a late reinforcement being far more effective on the reduced field than it otherwise would have been, or from one or two types of unit on a particular side just managing to survive long enough to be far more effective on the depleted field than otherwise. The other side simply won't have enough troops with ammo / will to fight against this newly developed force advantage, and the collapse will happen quickly with a surrender to follow.
I'm very curious to see which way it will go. And I certainly don't want to speculate further on how it might go, since that might give either of you ideas. O:-)
It hadn't occurred to me to factor in the blocked bridge. :-[
rereading the briefing i shouldnt really be trying to or have tried to engage Con - the initial recon teams were to hold the loading bay, the weather station and the railway bridge whilst the rest of the reinforcements could help in this, the job was just to get them off the map and over the bridge ASAP
I get the impression from Cons current advance, hes no idea hes supposed to be stopping me crossing the bridge and theres an off map exit for me the other side of it
I got lots of tank killing toys without realising they were for killing tanks!! the arrival of this many tanks has come as such a shock particularly as id used the toys on everything else
in hindsight i should have stayed on my side of the embankment and waited for the tanks but then again the briefing is to get the hell off the map - so why is it 2 and a half hours long???
we'll never know!
Maybe the designer realized that despite the briefing the US player tended to try to furball it, so gave them enough time to try?
I don't know what you're going to do about those two (still?) burning vehicles blocking the bridge. Can they be pushed out of the way?
If it helps any, "off-map intelligence" suggests from "partially decoding intercepted radio chatter" that the enemy tanks have been smacked hard. :)
My withdrawal from my left flank is a teeth grinding comedy of hilarious errors - i waited too long for the straggling, morale shattered troops to come to the Strykers before taking the Strykers to them - in doing so the slow, unstoppable realisation that a T90 was about to break out of the forest behind them led to spontaneous applause from me to Con - there was nothing to be done but watch the survivors go up in smoke, both shots were through and throughs the shells going through the back doors of the Strykers and coming out of the cabin impacting in the woods beyond, all crew and recently mounted survivors killed. Two Strykers escaped, one full of stragglers, one empty
And so to the bridge - eventually the 155mm smoke began to land, obscurring the bridge long enough to try and get the mortar strykers over and the 2 rescuers from the flank. More hilarity ensues, a smoke shell lands close enough to a mortar stryker making its way over the bridge that it gets spooked and reverses back over the bridge, far enough through the smoke to get shot in the ass by Con, the mortar Stryker behind that one sneaks past, now confident with the smoke cover provided by arty and the newly smoking Stryker - 'wow, that looks nasty' say the crew as they all lean out to inspect their recently deceased brothers, just as the mortar storage in the first Stryker explodes killing everyone on board the passing Stryker and taking out the vehicle too - sigh
The two flank escapees do make it over however, ironically covered now by masses of black smoke from burning Strykers.
The west of the bridge, nearest to Con
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the east, nearest my exit goal
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One good thing comes from all this calamity, brimming with over confidence and no doubt sure that resistance in the forest is over Con drives a T90 to the edge of the trees to park on top of the hill with such chest beating 'this is my forest now' arrogance that i can only snigger as, for once, a plan comes to fruition -
The trailing Javelin team take him out for his show of over confidence
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The Javelin team now guard the exit from the woods to the bridge, if memory serves there are 2 or 3 more tanks between here and the recently departed wooded area
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This is a wide shot of all my units left on map - to the left, Team Wascally Wabbit atop the weather station, to their right the Javelin team, to their right the Apache assault spotter jogging towards the bridge, then the recon team in the background and the last Stryker with a HQ, a sniper team and a random crew from one of the many deceased Strykers - the Stryker heads for the exit next turn leaving the recon teams to guard the 2 objectives and a Javelin team with 2 missiles to ward off 4 tanks
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Ouch -- losing one piece by the detonation of another of your pieces as you go driving past it... :-[
Ok, been on the fence about this for a couple of days now
Ive handed my formal surrender in and processed the turn, it seems terribly gamey to hang about hoping i can get 2 Javelin attacks on Cons tanks before getting shot in the face and losing anyway
i have been brushed from the field and have been beaten
My only concern is that now the fun bit begins for Con, he gets to roll his tanks over me, to take the VPs - have i cut him off at his moment of glory and spoilt the end game for him
I have kept the turns if he doesnt want to accept it - well see what happens
It was a good fought battle very tense there in the middle where I thought you were going to push me off the embankment and then pick my tanks off when they arrived.
I agree with the game score a tactical victory is about right I control the battlefield but for all intents and purposes am combat ineffective.
Its terrifying being on the receiving end of those Javelins. Now to read what you were thinking on your AAR. What do the watchers think of this battle?
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I haven't thought of a tactical post-mortem yet, but my prior prediction turned out correct (granted it was a broad prediction): more likely than not someone was going to end up with enough of something surviving soon to be disproportionately effective on the battlefield, and after that the other guy's collapse would happen quickly. Wasn't sure it was going to be the T90s -- UGeek was doing a bang-up job removing them quickly (at the time) -- but that would have been my tentative guess.
Con, Geek never had any tanks coming so far as I can see. In fact I'll be very curious what your own after-action comments are. I think the game would have been a lot closer in points, had he not lost so many expensive choppers for practically nothing.
On the other hand, even if you had lost all your tanks, you might have had enough of a manpower advantage to beat him at my other prediction: that the final third or quarter of the game would end as small but bitter skirmishes over the victory points. Looking at the numbers, you had significantly more men remaining unhurt than I was expecting.
I went back and looked at my game where I played the US and lost a lot of airpower including an insanely expensive F15. I didnt see that I took a hit in points for losing aircraft. I think the cost part is to try and balance out QBs etc. At least for the one battle I did previously there was no repercussions from losing aircraft.
Con