And the bad guys (we still don't know who they are, right?) are coming from the SE? That would be bottom, right in the image?

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The newest map isn't orientated north, so the bottom is actually southwest... but the bottom is the direction the enemy are coming from. Sorry about the confusion, but using a top to bottom shoreline made drawing it a lot easier than everything rotated 45 degrees.



Using this map below, which is properly oriented north, I've shown the enemy advance with a red arrow.

The ongoing gunfire with Monolith's "missing" squad is occurring somewhere on the extreme right hand side of the map, marked by the ???.

I've also given approximate locations of the 3 Mad Dogs and 3 Monolith squads.

Hope that helps clear things up.

Thanks, Fuse. That helps a lot.

@All: Should someone or two man the bunker Varis cleared earlier at the southwest corner of the shanty. We don't want them to flank us and move through the shanty towards the beach like we did to the pirates. I'm thinking that, if there's going to be a fight (and it looks increasingly likely that there is) that we should pull Per and Janacek from watching the smoking, drifting trawler and have them man the line facing the approach of the [known] large land force.

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Thats not a bad idea, I could man that bunker.

Rae, I've suggested a perch for Per and Lines but feel free to go where you think best. It seemed like a good location to cover the retreat from the southern bunker and still give you some height and cover.

Sorry, meant to cover this in the IC post but forgot - Walsh now has a radio and I'm 99% sure Price does as well.

I think it can be a good spot if the thing still has some hatches he can prop up for partial cover.

Fuse?

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Yes it still has hatches.

How many firing ports are there to the front of the bunker we're in? Can all of us fire without impeding each other?

Only two facing the fields, each one capable of being used by one shooter.

Another one facing each 90 degree flank, also for one person only.

Also, like I mentioned in the turn, they are lacking a lot of improvements you'd see with professionally made bunkers, like grenade sumps, chicken wire covering the ports, etc... and they'd be better sited to give mutual support. Think of these as better than nothing quality.

Hey all,

I'm going to be out of town starting in about an hour for a week or so. I'll still have internet, but my posting will be reduced, so this turn will be delayed. I'm hoping to get it up tomorrow, but not sure how it'll be.

In reply to Fusilier (msg # 18):

This feels like the sort of cliffhanger you get at the end of a season of a TV show...!

Did anyone take the claymore from Frank?

I had a thought about mines myself.

If someone is taking Frank's Claymore i need to know asap. Whoever is setting it up needs at least a 0 in Combat Engineer.

In reply to Fusilier (msg # 22):

I didn’t have Walsh take it because I thought it was in his rucksack and it was confirmed we weren’t bringing rucksacks ashore

I cleared that up with Fuse in a PM.  It's available...

Turn is up.

The Marians were with our mortar team if I remember correctly? Is this still the case?

In reply to John Jameson McCarthy (msg # 26):

I believe that would be correct to the best of anyone at the shanty's IC knowledge.

I think Andropov would have gleaned enough from the various radio transmissions to know that they were in trouble.

A bit busy today will post this turn tonight.

Can I just check if O'Brien and Lines are in the same bunker as Andropov and Stark?

No, separate bunkers.

Tosh and O'Brien are in the northern bunker, north of the rock/logs and the only Mad Dogs watching the northern treeline.

Andropov and Stark are in the bunker close to the M113 ambulance, the one that Varis took out with a grenade early on during the assault.

In reply to Fusilier (msg # 30):

Thanks. I've edited my radio traffic accordingly.

I'm still out of town if anyone is wondering about the downtime. Will be so until Sunday.