I'm running on probably more than the recommended dosage of flu medicine at the moment so I avoided command slots this mission, as it turns out being drugged up the eyeballs makes for excellent mortar placement
Arrival - Alpha Medic - Tryteyker ASL
Full of the medicine so I thought I'd share some around! I moved into the compound and grabbed some cover, A1 were on the east wall A2 an opening on the north wall and A3 manning the Mk19 / M240 SOV in the middle. With no casualties I set about spotting targets and passing them to Try, with at least a fireteam on the north hill 400m away he had A3 move in to engage with the Mk19, the rounds were 300m short and not going much further on target. With the EI now rather angry at grenades missing them they were buzzing around the hillside and firing down into the airfield. Seeing that the M240 wasn't facing the enemy I jumped in the SOV and turned it to face the enemy, before jumping on the gun. Try then corrected my fire and the contacts were down. It's always good to practice with different weapons so you know how they handle, the Mk19 being very fun when you get it on target. I jumped off the gun when A1 and A2 took some wounded. Gaius had died outright and after a few minutes we'd lost another man to enemy fire. I secured a M9 off one of the dead as I was getting rather low on ammo, and a leg breaking pistol is always a handy thing to have. With the fireteams keeping the enemy at bay I held back behind the compound walls but not in solid cover. I spotted an enemy fireteam blitzing in from the south west, I was the only one looking in that direction at the time and called it brought my rifle up. Suddenly remembering I was a) not in at all a good firing position b) the squad medic and c) rather low on ammo I scooted into cover as the squad brought fire down onto the flank. I healed up a few more people and went to check the C-130 for ammo only to find it locked. Once we moved out of the airfield compound I upgraded to a PKM I found on a dead enemy, MMG Dogface appeared to have some jealousy of my new firepower as he was only rocking a captured RPK, granted along with an RPG to compensate. Moving out from the compounds I cleared the buildings by the road as nobody in the squad had bothered up to that point, we wheeled north and advanced on the town. Bounding between cover I was hit from the south west, getting behind some very solid cover I patched myself up and the SOV took care of the lone gunman. It was around this point that CO Draith drove up to our position and was engaged by some of Alpha, I was busy engaging targets in the opposite direction and kept engaging whilst explaining where the confusion had arisen from and where the enemy contacts were. Last thing I did in the mission was jump in the back seat of the SOV and let A3 FTL alex know how to sort out his VON issues. The mission ended after that..
Compound It - Opfor Mortar Team Gunner - Ebass Tractor user and scoundrel
The plan was simple, set up the mortar tube inside a compound, make it look like something other than a mortar tube and then fire off rounds when called for by CO Carson. When the Bluefor heli haulted north of our position for a time I had Ebass keep an eye on the north hill, was looking south and spotted an enemy fireteam moving in. I called it, marked it and Carson blew his IED, from the dust produced it looked to be on target. I had my spotter take over looking south and moved down to the gun as I had my first two firemissions. They were close to the enemy but any missing with the first two was made up for with the next two. They landed on a nice cluster of enemy, my two spotters reported dead and wounded. Two more firemissions were called in and I dropped the rounds before retreating back indoors. Once rounds were complete I broke down the mortar and moved it inside as if nothing happened. Ebass had moved onto the north hill and was using his rangefinders to spot for friendly forces on our east side, with nothing much to do I went onto the balcony to see what I could see - with trees blocking my view I moved back inside just as stray rounds splattered around the building. Deciding to move up to Ebass I walked, despite the lure of agrarian transport up to him. I went prone nex to him and was promptly murdered by the Bluefor pilot.. All in 3 killed outright by the mortars and who knows how many more wounded. I just wish it had more than eight rounds
Expanded Mandate Alpha Bravo Super 3 AR - Mamuto FTL IceRaiser AAR Warner AT
I fear SuperU may have early onset dementia as he forgot what element he was leading quite a lot.. Perhaps it is time to place him in the party rest and retirement facility
Super 3 was the last in the order of movement when we were coming under fire we moved to the enemy defences and found Super 1 wasn't quite done clearing it out. I went down from eating some bullets but was back up after Ice gave me a belly rub. Once inside I did as I was told and fired everything, putting a great deal of suppressive fire out. When we moved out again we ended up moving past Super 2 who had slowed down on the advance onto the hill. Somehow I ended up being in the lead of the hill charge, I recall hearing the enemy helicopter and Ice saying "its just a hind". With about fifteen meters to go before I hit the hill and tree cover I kept on moving, pausing for a moment next to a tree. It was with horror I realised I'd been running towards a pillbox, firing wildly at it just to make sure the gunner was dead I moved around to check, and had a slightly obscured view of Alpha getting blown to bits. I jumped on the 240 inside the pill box and was aiming up to fire on the Hind as it made its pass, but I never got a round off as the tanks that were shwacking Alpha lit me up..
UNwelcome Guests - Bluefor Medic
Daf UN VIP 1 had a connection drop but we managed to advance on the LZ. The heli was under a bit of fire moments before it took off. Some in A2 were wounded outside the LZ compound and out of reach, enemy fire was coming in from the south. I was dragging back a wounded A3 AR from a wall gap when he got shot again, in the same moment CO Super was wounded then dead. But the Weapons Inspectors made it out to report in three weeks...
MP5 Afterparty - Opfor Alpha MP5r with Awaits Bodge and Red Sniper
Awaits split our forces Alpha attacking from the south Bravo from the north. Once we hit the town he split Alpha further, I joined him on the west side of the road. I was dashing to cover and planned to throw grenades into the compounds when I hit the wall but sadly I was shot six times by Indi before I made it
Right I'm off to consume my body weight in night nurse and see if I wake in the morning