12-07-2017, 03:23 PM
Beyond Hope
First mission.
I moved north from the camp site looking for the lost squad. The area was well patrolled. I was headed for a hilltop which I would hopefully get a good view of the area; it turned out it was a strong point. I wanted to pull back but was already discovered, so we fought our way up the hill and occupied the point. I used the static machine gun to scan the area, when one of my guys reported an APC. I found an RPG-7 among the dead guys. At this point I was assuming that the attack would start when I order in the artillery strike. As it turned out, blowing up one of the APC's was enough. It was a beautiful 600 meter shot on a driving APC, and I actually hit and destroyed it. My guys thought this was the signal and attacked the town.
I got orders to take out a mortar position a bit further north, so I left one guy in the machine gun to mop up stragglers in the town and moved the rest north. The mortar crew detected us, and dropped an effing mortar shell on us. After re-loading^H^H^Hreincarnation, we managed to shoot the mortar gunners and clear the site, subsequently using the mortar to shell the northern part of the town that the enemy troops had fortified in. After a short struggle, the battle was won.
We never found the lost squad.
Second Mission.
(Mechanized Infantry)
Capturing the strongpoint wasn't really very difficult, the APC's and infantry made short work of it. A few stragglers had hidden in the buildings, but after about ten minutes, the point was ours. My CO ordered me to take command of the APC to hold back the counterattack that was expected to come from the east. I placed my APC behind some HESCO barriers and awaited the attack.
And boy, what a mess. We had three Gorgons against one Kuma MBT, two enemy Gorgons, two Moras, and a load of infantry mounted on trucks and armed Striders. My gunner was an idiot, so I took over the gun and managed to take out the Kuma and one Mora with the Titan missiles. One of the allied Gorgons took out the second Mora, but in the end I was alone against two more Gorgons and infantry. At one point I went for re-arm, but was immobilized and had to use the rest of my machine gun ammo and 30 mil to fend off the rest. With a smoking Gorgon, we finally managed to fend off the counter attack.
Stepping Stones
First mission (Spec Ops)
The spec ops team was to find and eliminate a mortar position that was harassing friendly troops. Apparently the mortars were highly mobile and therefore could not be adequately traced. While I was observing the area, I heard the tumb of a mortar and saw the muzzle flash, but there was only a truck there. But on the cargo of the truck I spotted the mortar which was firing from the bed of the truck. I got closer, which wasn't easy since the truck was moving, and finally managed to shoot the gunner. Opening up on the driver, we managed to make him crash the truck into a tree, placed a C4 on it, and blew it up. Mission accomplished, head for extraction.
Or not.
HQ asked if we could identify enemy armour at a point more or less opposite of were we where. You don't say no to HQ, so we moved into a high position on the slope of the hill to observe, and the armour turned out to be scrap metal BMP-2's from the Cold War on Malden (te-he). Right as we were heading for exfil (again), we got a message from HQ (again) asking us to take out another mortar position that, according to locals, was located on the southern part of our AO.
So we set out again, and ran into a CSAT patrol that immediately murdered my squad, leaving me alone to deal with the mortar. I reached the point and killed the occupying force (four soliders and a mortar gunner), then grabbed the pickup and drove (finally) to exfil.
Second Mission (Mechanised Infantry)
Pretty straightforward mission, we had to clear Houdan, then proceed to an ammo dump on the beach and clear that one, and finally help with the assault on Dourdan. On the way to the beach we were ambushed from a two-story house that we had to clear in order for a safe approach. The ammo dump was well defended, but we made it nonetheless. At this time, I had lost three guys.
We were recalled to a rally point to meet up with the Namer APC and proceeded to assault Dourdan. The APC ran out of ammo, so it all came down to my squad. An armoured counter attack decimated my team to two guys (myself and one other). I had run out of medical supplies, so I left my guy in cover (he was injured and was limping) and went out to search for AT assets. I found a Titan which I used to kill one T-100 and a Marid. There was a second T-100 and a BTR-K in the town. I remembered there had been an enemy AT emplacement a bit further south, so I went there and found an RPG-32 with two rockets. With one I took out the BTR-K in town (nice 300 meter shot). The second one, I was looking for the remaining T-100. Sadly, it spotted me first. It was parked behind a couple of bushes. I managed to dodge into cover, and used the slope of the hillside I was on to relocate. I could still not spot the tank itself, but figured that it was right behind the bushes. I fired my RPG-32 through the bush, and was rewarded with a satisfying explosion. Mission accomplished.
First mission.
I moved north from the camp site looking for the lost squad. The area was well patrolled. I was headed for a hilltop which I would hopefully get a good view of the area; it turned out it was a strong point. I wanted to pull back but was already discovered, so we fought our way up the hill and occupied the point. I used the static machine gun to scan the area, when one of my guys reported an APC. I found an RPG-7 among the dead guys. At this point I was assuming that the attack would start when I order in the artillery strike. As it turned out, blowing up one of the APC's was enough. It was a beautiful 600 meter shot on a driving APC, and I actually hit and destroyed it. My guys thought this was the signal and attacked the town.
I got orders to take out a mortar position a bit further north, so I left one guy in the machine gun to mop up stragglers in the town and moved the rest north. The mortar crew detected us, and dropped an effing mortar shell on us. After re-loading^H^H^Hreincarnation, we managed to shoot the mortar gunners and clear the site, subsequently using the mortar to shell the northern part of the town that the enemy troops had fortified in. After a short struggle, the battle was won.
We never found the lost squad.
Second Mission.
(Mechanized Infantry)
Capturing the strongpoint wasn't really very difficult, the APC's and infantry made short work of it. A few stragglers had hidden in the buildings, but after about ten minutes, the point was ours. My CO ordered me to take command of the APC to hold back the counterattack that was expected to come from the east. I placed my APC behind some HESCO barriers and awaited the attack.
And boy, what a mess. We had three Gorgons against one Kuma MBT, two enemy Gorgons, two Moras, and a load of infantry mounted on trucks and armed Striders. My gunner was an idiot, so I took over the gun and managed to take out the Kuma and one Mora with the Titan missiles. One of the allied Gorgons took out the second Mora, but in the end I was alone against two more Gorgons and infantry. At one point I went for re-arm, but was immobilized and had to use the rest of my machine gun ammo and 30 mil to fend off the rest. With a smoking Gorgon, we finally managed to fend off the counter attack.
Stepping Stones
First mission (Spec Ops)
The spec ops team was to find and eliminate a mortar position that was harassing friendly troops. Apparently the mortars were highly mobile and therefore could not be adequately traced. While I was observing the area, I heard the tumb of a mortar and saw the muzzle flash, but there was only a truck there. But on the cargo of the truck I spotted the mortar which was firing from the bed of the truck. I got closer, which wasn't easy since the truck was moving, and finally managed to shoot the gunner. Opening up on the driver, we managed to make him crash the truck into a tree, placed a C4 on it, and blew it up. Mission accomplished, head for extraction.
Or not.
HQ asked if we could identify enemy armour at a point more or less opposite of were we where. You don't say no to HQ, so we moved into a high position on the slope of the hill to observe, and the armour turned out to be scrap metal BMP-2's from the Cold War on Malden (te-he). Right as we were heading for exfil (again), we got a message from HQ (again) asking us to take out another mortar position that, according to locals, was located on the southern part of our AO.
So we set out again, and ran into a CSAT patrol that immediately murdered my squad, leaving me alone to deal with the mortar. I reached the point and killed the occupying force (four soliders and a mortar gunner), then grabbed the pickup and drove (finally) to exfil.
Second Mission (Mechanised Infantry)
Pretty straightforward mission, we had to clear Houdan, then proceed to an ammo dump on the beach and clear that one, and finally help with the assault on Dourdan. On the way to the beach we were ambushed from a two-story house that we had to clear in order for a safe approach. The ammo dump was well defended, but we made it nonetheless. At this time, I had lost three guys.
We were recalled to a rally point to meet up with the Namer APC and proceeded to assault Dourdan. The APC ran out of ammo, so it all came down to my squad. An armoured counter attack decimated my team to two guys (myself and one other). I had run out of medical supplies, so I left my guy in cover (he was injured and was limping) and went out to search for AT assets. I found a Titan which I used to kill one T-100 and a Marid. There was a second T-100 and a BTR-K in the town. I remembered there had been an enemy AT emplacement a bit further south, so I went there and found an RPG-32 with two rockets. With one I took out the BTR-K in town (nice 300 meter shot). The second one, I was looking for the remaining T-100. Sadly, it spotted me first. It was parked behind a couple of bushes. I managed to dodge into cover, and used the slope of the hillside I was on to relocate. I could still not spot the tank itself, but figured that it was right behind the bushes. I fired my RPG-32 through the bush, and was rewarded with a satisfying explosion. Mission accomplished.
I don't need luck, I have ammo.