It was an interesting night.
Fuel Charges
Got shot while trying to revive Zitron. AttackFor doesn't have the best approach I suppose, and our Fire Team got cut down by whoever was in those buildings. on the left of the road.
Armor Graveyard
Volunteered by the Party as Bravo 1 FTL, with Bodge, Arthur, Babu Baruti and Rurfan.
All was going well, we were positioned on a hill and engaging contacts across the valley while Alpha was down below. I ended up not hearing Ralian (BSL) properly, he had asked for the fire team to be split such that some people get left on the hill with him while some others go escort the tank crew to the their big metal gun. I was too distracted by enemy units and didn't register the "split up" part, so I just took everyone.
Anyway, after that court-martial-warranting moment, we continued along the road in front of the tank, till we reached a spot overlooking the CSAT FOB. We caught the attention of an armed Strider, and I ordered everyone to withdraw from the edge of the road...only to receive a .50 cal in the face, jump to limbo and found that only Bodge survived the encounter.
Hillside View
Bravo 1 FTL, with Bodge, Zitron, blip2, Tigershark and...and...I don't remember, another old-timer iirc. Soon joined by Eqbot.
As always, leading such an experienced Fire Team is difficult for me. I remain a tad disoriented at best, and the section of the map we were going through had little cover and lots of medium range and occasionally close contacts. And I mean, come on, it's Hillside View.
Red Team had a slight tendency to run of on its own and get carried away with engaging contacts, so at one point I had to be like "GET OFF THE RIDGE, PULL BACK DOWN THE VALLEY SOUTH EAST AND GET TO BSL". I wasn't really shouting though, don't worry.
All said and done I think we only lost Zitron and blip2, and Peasant (BSL now effectively CO) called for extract, so we survived. We didn't destroy any caches but I suppose we kept a few dozen people off of Alpha.
(I'm still confused about what happened to blip2 - I got a confirmation that he was KIA, how did we leave him behind? And how was he typing on global chat?)
Short Straw
Juliet Vehicle Driver
madrak_the_red wrote:Mabbot was JSL in short straw, and I believe the only casulties juliet suffered were my two vehicle crewmen (RIP)
I had even managed to bail out! But yeah, really would have loved to see the mission to the end, it's so relaxing driving (till you know, you're trying to dodge PCMLs).
Madrak's a really good vehicle commander too (unlike me - super disoriented), and Major Effort was enjoying cannon time.
