All,
It is 0130 local time on 7 August 1990, and a team of Free Cuban commandos is on the move, conducting a clandestine snatch and grab in Lithuania.
As breakup the breakup of the Soviet Union grows nearer, its decay has weakened the government's control over its vast territory, particularly in the various republics, where an inability of the government to care for its people has begun to collapse the various societies, which inevitably leads to nefarious means of making money. In this case, organized crime has been quick to step in, beginning with black market goods and services, which quickly progressed to gambling, drugs, prostitution, and has now graduated to facilitating transnational terrorism.
Several weeks ago Cuban intelligence became aware of a plot to strike a Cuban embassy in Europe. Very quickly evidence mounted of the movement of personnel, money, and materials through Europe via Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) networks, but then it went dark. Then gold was struck: three days ago the United Kingdom's intelligence service shared information regarding an IRGC courier tied to the plot surfacing in a rural area outside Taurege, Lithuania. Section 20 immediately went to work and got a confirmed location.
Section 20 mounted out and went to work, establishing a base of operations at sea, then set about inserting the Direct Action Team, which HALO'ed into the location.
Overview, north is up. There is a fordable river running north-south on the left side of the board, while the main road runs east west, before branching north-south at far right, where there is small farming compound consisting of three buildings. Other than that there are a couple rocky outcroppings just west of the farming compound, a small stock pond north of the farming compound, some trees, hedges, and a ton of cultivated fields. The mobsters are quite… influential in the area, and so have established two checkpoints on the road; one is just west of the bridge (bottom left), the other is just west of the crossroads (far right).
The farming compound, with the Courier sleeping in the Objective Building (far right), guarded by one mobster, and The Godfather sleeping in the building at left). The other house (top center) had its owners evicted and is now being used as a warehouse for the mobsters' illicit paraphernalia.
The commandos push across the river (center left, far left, bottom left), wary of enemy sentries (top right and top center).
An enemy sentry (right) stumbles right into the commandos, forcing them to open fire with unsuppressed weapons!
Which wakes the enemy commander up, who comes outside to see what's going on!
The commandos work around the back side (center bottom and far right) to get to the objective building (far left, with enemy commander at left).
The alarm is raised and a ferocious firefight breaks out in the objective area.
The Security Element (bottom left) lays down fire to keep enemy reinforcements in the west at bay.
Meanwhile, back at the Objective Building, Bravo 08 pulls out a flashbang and tosses it inside (blue bead)…
But the sentry kicks it over, into the corner, where it detonates harmlessly!
Then comes running out, into close combat with a very surprised Bravo 08!
To see how the fight turned out, please check the blog at:
link
So, a tremendous amount of fun again, I hope you enjoyed it.
V/R,
Jack
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