Re: C7 : (3rd Platoon)
'Masque spends a few moments thinking this one through rather than simply speaking out, but when he does it's simple enough and to the point, straight from the mind of someone with more actual 'being shot at for money' time than most...
"Is pretty clear if Coalition is getting line of sight with big guns on town, town is being flat. Could be worse if they are having few big missiles." he begins, setting out the most obvious problem before indicating the settlement, "Even church and few other buildings make better targets than bunkers, unless we are having good magic tricks, youbet."
He lets that sink in for a moment, then half-turns to jerk an upper-right claw-tipped thumb at the land sloping away from the town, "I am thinking we would do better to disperse fire, dig and flash-vitrify trenches for mobility under fire, use revetments and abatis, mines and post-holes to slow down skullheads for us to shoot up, best as we can."
"I can handle plotting bases of fire, traplines, all the rest, and if we can get Firefly squad we can make things plenty hot for unwelcome visitor, but I am knowing less than bupkuss about what magic-boys can do to help us along..."