Attacking the Road to the Airport

[Hard Sarge]

I already know that there is a good size Enemy unit here defending, and the battle is going to start out at close range, and I want to get my 2nd Squad some action, they are pretty poor, but don't think they can handle it by themselfs, and do not want to get my 1st Squard into a major fight, as they are a little banged up

so I get both squads together and load up on ammo and do some healing during the night, at dawn, both move out

[Hard Sarge]

opening round, I take some damage, but dish back more, 1st Squad has the firepower and exp

1st is on the left while 2nd is on the right, with Fisher coming up the middle in the road, wanted him to have a open line of fire for his 40mm's

Morah rushes forward to get some cover from the large rock, hoping the troops to that side run to the shooting and not around my flank !

[Hard Sarge]

Fisher dropped a 40mm that hit the sandbags, hitting the guy behind the bags pretty good, but he still shows he is Healthy, but he got knocked on his butt by the blast

[Hard Sarge]

turn two, the enemy is rushing forward and bunching up, Fisher gets off a decent shot and drops 2 troopers

[Hard Sarge]

not too trilled with turns 2 and 3, too many trees for Squad one and Squad two can't hit the side of the barn, my blooper is the only thing keeping the enemy honest and the terrain

[Hard Sarge]

Morah is going to be in trouble

she has a Uzi that she loves to play with, don't get in front of her, as this guy found out, but she is still in trouble, Lin is moving to support her flank

overall, 2nd Squad looks to be in trouble

[Hard Sarge]

finally, got a good kill zone starting to set up, got a decent cross fire, and my bursts, the ones that miss got a chance to hit somebody behind, and the high power rounds got a chance to hit more then one guy as they speed off into the distance

[Hard Sarge]

Left Flank is doing great, the right is doing poor, most of the damage on that side is from cross fire from 1st squad, but they are holding

[Hard Sarge]

end of turn 4 and things are looking much better, some of the enemy flankers are not showing up, but they have taken a beating so far

as I said before, Dagger and HS (me) are controlling the road and the edge of the woodline, while Gunner fires across there front to keep them covered

[Hard Sarge]

don't know what they had, but sure am glad that Bolder was in the way, as is, hurt Morah and knocked her off of her feet (knees ?)

not sure about Lin, but she wasn't the same after that blast, poor AP and couldn't see any of the targets see should of been able to see (shock ?)

[Hard Sarge]

starting to get the firepower edge and can start to move, rushing Pitbull across behind the lines to get to my wounded troops (of course Dagger and Caster are not too happy with this shift, think Pitt lost kind of heavy in the last card game the other night)

Dragon has good skills and a good close range weapon, so he is good at doing short rushes and not getting surprised

[Hard Sarge]

out of order, this should of been the last one, this is what was going on before Dragon and Pitt started moving around

[Hard Sarge]

Caster and Dragon are on the move, Fisher has replaced his Boomer with a rifle and is not advancing, Jabby and Lin are also, but they are very slow, Pitt is about to cross the road and Morah should be ready to pull back for some healing

[Hard Sarge]

basicly it is the mop up phase of the attack, move forward, and kill the one left behind (making sure the imbedded newman don't see what is going on, wouldn't want the folks back home to know what really goes on when you are trying to stay alive and do your job)

plus taking your time, as there are still other troops out there who may not of gotten the word that it is time to bug out

[Hard Sarge]

Dragon runs into a live one, and healthy at that too !

fires off 3 blind rounds and lands all 3, even better the 2 to the chest do good damage, the bad guy picked the wrong spot to try and ambush my guys

[Hard Sarge]

of course, mopping up is dangerous, I take a hit from someone nobody had seen

but he goes down fast afterward, a few more hold outs, and then Bizon (lol, thought that was how his name was spelt) takes a hit he should of (missed a pointblank shotgun blast)

and the it is clean up and gather the goodies

took some damage, but hurt them much worse and got another sector, the bad part is I thought this was the Airport and not the road leading to the airport

take some time to heal up, pick up new goodies from the store and see what needs to be done tomorrow

[Terl]

Thanks Sarge. I always love the time you put into threads like these. Only thing is I am at work and it makes me want to leave and go play [:D]

[Hard Sarge]

Thank you Sir

we been short of some screen shots of the game in action, so wanted to get some up, for the gang still on the fence

of course, since I was trying to show what was going on, over all, I didn't get many good close up shots of anything and missed most of the nice blasts and bursts going off !

[moose1999]

Great report - I'm close to buying this game, now.
One question, Sarge - is it possible to turn off the labels?
They're not exactly discrete and the screen looks a bit cluttered at times with them on...

[Erik Rutins]

Yes, they're off by default.