"MOVE IT! Were dead either way, move between shells or they will just overrun whats left of us when they finish shelling."
Guido moves between shells from cover to cover and attempts to drag any equipment to the vehicle
"Gallin get that bloody thing running and drop the tray were getting out of here."
What cover is there nearby (trees or even some large hills).
Dumb question, who can drive? (wheeled vehicle 1)

Gallin will start the machinery going and begin to drop the hatch.

OOC, I got wheeled vehicle 3

NPC'd
Winters hugs the ground and kisses his arse goodbye as the mortar shells whistle down.

Dimitar has full cover. Everyone else has managed to find partial cover.
Three high explosive rounds hit the ground and detonate with resounding booms. The closest is 30 metres away to the left, the next closest is 50m long, and the last 90m long right (and no threat to anyone).
Shrapnel flies and spangs off vehicles, cuts through vegetation and attempts to mutilate flesh.
Dimitar: no damage
Guido: Head 1, chest 1. hit by one fragment R arm 6
Smythe: Head 1, L leg 1, no fragments
Mills: Head 1, L Arm 1, 1 fragment, L Arm 2
Gallin: Head 1, R Arm 1, no fragments
Kett: Head 1, L Arm 1, no fragments
Winters: Head 1, R Leg 1, no fragments
... and consider yourselves extremely lucky!

What do you do?

Skuttling under the wreck that had been their cover Aaron began to scan the area looking for the source of the motar fire.

Mills joins Aaron in looking for either the mortar's position or the spotter who is directing them.  He stays ready, though, to hit the deck if he hears them firing again...

Once the noise of the three mortar explosions dies down, the surrounding countryside seems relatively quiet. A few seconds extends to a minute with no more mortar fire. The birds begin chirping again and life seems to return to normal.
Inside the M2, Dimitar struggles to remove the body he scrambled upon when he hears the radio burst to life. Unfortunately ha can't understand the language.

"Alright, Everybody Up. Move it and grab everything you can lay your hands on. We're Outa Here ASAP!!!"

Mills cautiously approaches the group of vehicle wranglers, keeping his eyes mostly on whichever direction he thinks the mortars came from.  He quickly addresses the Major, who seems to be the one most in charge "Mind if Winters here and I hitch a ride to ... wherever it is you're going?  Let's hope that isn't the two 122's we saw in Lask on the radio there.  We'd probably be in range of those guns."

Crawling from beneath the husk they had used for cover Aaron let the M249 hang around his shoulders as he lifted his overly filled and overly heavy gear bag. Ok so he may not need all the hardware he brought, but damned if he was going to find a reason to have it and then not have it. Walking over he nodded to the wranglers.

A quick glance around the area reveals a treasure trove of equipment. Included are (and this is only the obvious stuff):
1x Medium Still, 1x 5 kilowatt generator, Basic Tool Kits, Power hand tools, Wheeled Vehicle Tools, Tracked vehicle tools, Small Arms Tools, Heavy Ordnance Tools, Electrical Repair Tools, Electronic Repair Tools, Arc Welder, White Light Spotlights (on stands), 20 litre jerrycans, Rope, Air Compressor, 10 Man Tent, AKR's, M231's, M2 Bradley IFV, BTR-80 APC, BRDM-2 armoured scout vehicle and a GAZ-63 2 1/2 tonne truck (up on blocks though)

A search of the vehciles, tent and casualties is sure to yield yet more....

As you dust yourselves off you hear the sound of small arms fire from the same direction and possibly at the same place the mortars fired from (possibly near or at camp).

Dropping his bag to the ground Aaron turned quickly and brought the M249 to his shoulder. "OK this, I am getting tired of.

OOC: Camp is about 3 or 4 kilometres away.

<striding into the center>

OK folks, find out what works and what doesn't. Pack up everything, I doubt we'll get a chance to come back later.

Who can drive what? Any mechanics apart from myself? How long to get it moving?

Mills, Winters, to me! Sitrep, who are you, why are you here and what do you know of our imediate suroundings?
When you say 122's do you mean SAU-122's or towed arty?

...and would somebody clear my damned gun, where's an armourer when you need one...

"Cheif Petty Officer Aaron Winters, United States Navy SEALs, Team 2." They may seem like the good guys but untill Aaron was sure he was not saying what their mission was.

"Load up all that you can, we don't have much time, they are probably asking for our surrender." as an after thought "They must be recuiting yanks, they are bombing there own allies."
You can't win either way, they shoot us if we are NATO and they bomb us if we are solvo block, its no wonder they started nuking everything. Kill everyone and you won't have to worry about feeding the masses afterwards.

"Staff Sergeant John Mills, Ranger, with the 5th Infantry," barked Mills, picking up on Winter's lead of omitting some of the requested info.  "It's safe to assume you are not Polish regulars..." he added.  "And the guns were towed, set up in Lask," he hoped this answer would satisfy the man's curiosity for the immediate time being.

"Staff Sgt Guido, Danish special forces, nice to meet you but I think there are more pressing matters so MOVE IT!", Guido attempts to lug as much equipment to one of the operational vehicles.

Gallin does a quick check of the four vehicles.
The M2 Bradley (besides needing a hose out) has damage to it's Range Finder, TOW launcher, loader, and minor damage to the suspension (moves at half speed till repaired).
It has 28 rounds of 25mm HE and 14 rounds of 25mm API left. There are 4 M231’s with a total of 12 empty 30 round magazines. The fuel tank has 11 litres of Ethanol in it (not much more than fumes).

The BRDM-2 has suffered damage to it’s Night Vision equipment, PK machinegun, and suspension (also moves half speed). In addition, the fuel tank (empty) has been perforated by 25mm cannon fire and only has a capacity of 40 litres until repairs have been made.
The vehicle had suffered suspension damage, which has since been repaired by the Soviet mechanics in the repair yard.

The BTR-80 has suffered damage to it’s Radio, Engine (again half speed) and Traverse. It is no longer capable of swimming due to numerous holes in the armour. It has a dry fuel tank.

The truck has major suspension damage (immobile) and was raked by machinegun fire. As it was in use as a troop carrier at the time, many passenger casualties resulted. It's fuel tank is also dry.

The good news is that there are parts available to repair all damage to all four vehicles. What isn't necessarily there is the time to do so.

A total of 100 litres of ethanol (in addition to the 11 litres in the M2) can be scrounged out of the still, 10 jerrycans and the fuel tanks of the air compressor, arc welder and generator. Unfortunately, the BTR-80 and truck have both been converted to run on diesel while the BRDM-2 and M2 Bradley are set up for alcohol. The Bradley's engine access panel has been removed and it appears that the initial stages of convertion to diesel has commenced.

These guys were converting TO Diesel? Jesus wept. Those Soviets in Lask have a lake of Diesel at their disposal.

OK, Maximum effort into the truck suspension, even if we don't have the fuel I want to be able to move it, towed if we must, same goes for the BTR-80.

Fuel up the Bradley with half the available fuel, even if we run out of time I want to keep at least that vehicle.

Can we Jerry-rig a flexible fuel line inside the BRDM to supply fuel until we can fix the tank?

I assume that the Soviets will send scouts to find out what happened here, how long before we can expect them if they come all the way from Lask? Assume they have diesel fueled vehicles. I want to be mobile at least ten minutes before that. Even if we win a firefight the 122 arty will arrive immediately afterward.

Mills, Winters, any other Mechanised Soviets between here and Lask?

Why bother? It still holds 40litres as is and you only have a few 20 litre jerrycans.

It's less than 10kms away so........
[Private to Aaron Winters; John Mills:

Major Richard Smythe:

Mills, Winters, any other Mechanised Soviets between here and Lask?

Not that you know of although there does seem to be fairly regular heavily armed supply convoys alone the east-west road a little to the north. Also, it's only horse mobile cavalry located in Lask. They don't have any vehicles at all.]

As Gallin is checking out the vehicles, he keeps an ear open to the radio and translates from Russian as he goes.
1st Voice: Alpha zero to Alpha four. Request sitrep over........ There is a pause for a few seconds while they wait for an answer then, What was that firing, over.
2nd Voice: Almost half a minute later... Alpha four. The shooting was the guard killing off a couple of rabbits. Position secure.
1st Voice: The reply comes back almost immediately. Acknowledged. Continuing to revendous. Alpha zero out.

Gallin frowns. "That much shooting over rabbits? Coded talk maybe? "I'm not sure but we need to get the hell out of dodge. I hope it wasn't someone that found out our little refugee camp."

OOC Sorry for the long absense was gone for surgery, just got out of hospital. doing okay, still a bit sore and stiff.

Kett finally takes care of the last of the Russian and assesses the "goodies" he has gathered from them.
5.45mmB 30rd mags (full)x30
5.56mmN 30rd mags (full)x6
5.56mmN 30rd mags (empty)x12
Fragmentation x20
Binoculars x2
Chemical Sniffer x1
Geiger Counter x1
Gas mask x10
Chemical defence suit x8
Steel helmet x10
AKR x10
M231 x2 (in addtion to the four in the M2)
Fatigues x10
Pack x10
Flashlight x2
Combat webbing x10
Sleeping bag x10
1 litre canteen x20
5 litre reserve canteen x10