All,
It's 1530 on 18 April 1990, and Team 6-3 is on patrol, seeking out the enemy. And not just any enemy, their new nemesis: Demjanovic's Tigers, the Serbian 4th Special Forces Battalion. Serbia is very much interested in holding together the splintering Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). It had been content with backing, to a certain extent, the Cronistrian Communist Party, as well as keeping several FRY Army units active in Cronistria via pre-existing garrisons/barracks. But word soon reached Serbian military HQ that a Western nation had dispatched commandos to Cronistria to back the Cronistrian Democrats; President Milosevic ordered the deployment of Major Demjanovic's 4th Special Forces Battalion to hunt them down.
Earlier in the day the Operations NCO approached Lt "Mikey" Trojas, the commander of the CLEF detachment in Cronistria, Task Force Trojas. "Sir, 626-Forward (a CLEF element across the border in Italy, with a Radio Reconnaissance Team attached) reports new callsigns and locations up on the enemy (radio) net. This has to be Demjanovic's Tigers. Most of the callsigns are co-located with FRY garrisons, but we've identified a few located in rural areas. There's one not two hours' march from here." "Roger, get me 6-3's leader, Turk."
Turk reported to Mikey, who quickly briefed him in on the situation. "I want your team to scout out the location ID'ed by 626-Forward, and if you can whack'em, then I damn well want you to whack'em, savvy?" "Roger, Boss."
Turk assembled his team, briefed and prepped them, and off they went. By 1330 the four-man patrol was nearing the geocoords provided by 626-Forward. Unbeknownst to the team, Demjanovic's Tigers had set a trap: they set up several ambush sites in rural areas centered on fake radio transmissions, which they figured might lure the Western commandos to battle. The only good news for Turk and Team 6-3 was that the enemy had oriented their ambush to the south and west, while Turk had had his men circle around from the north.
The team arrives at the bridge and begins crossing the linear danger area. The point man crosses, then, the team leader, and the designated marksman had just begun crossing (the SAW gunner is still on the north side of the bridge) when all hell broke loose. To see how the fight went, please check the blog at:
linkI've already played the next two fights and need to get them written up for you guys. They're on the way, so stay tuned.
V/R,
Jack
is after something that has presence, that actually looks like a small stand of tropical bushes, and is cheap, tough and portable.
