John will hold fire until targets can be identified....




John
holding position
G3 (74 rounds)

Konrad confirmed that everyone was inside the building, there were no friendlies outside.

Seeing the head and shoulders peeking around the building, Dawid shifted fire and gave the man a couple of bursts. Green tracers lanced out, empty shells jingled into the canvas brass-catcher attached to the side of the receiver.

He said, "Check your fire! Friendly coming out of the church! Adam! See what that guy wants!"


Dawid Piotrowski
PKM GPMG (50/100), Stechkin (21/20)
Firing 2 5-rd. bursts at Marauder by church
At base of fire position to South
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Tucker acknowledges Maddock with a 'thumbs up' and falls back into the entry team's line in front of Konrad.  He watches as Snowy struggles with the door using his haologen tool and stops himself from laughing as fire comes through the door as he falls off and away from the front of it.

As they all enter behind Maddock and his silenced Sterling SMG, Tucker covers his corners as he enters and waits for the all clear to come as they sweep.  He nods to Bayer as he indicates to Tuck that they were going upstairs first.  Rifle up in front of him, Tucker begins up carefully going heel to toe on the steps and being deliberate in his footing.

Signalling a stop, Tucker indicates to Bayer that he's got one down on the top landing of the stairs.  He continues on once he knows that Bayer sees him and continues to move throughout the top level, clearing it.

As it is determined that the building is clear, Tucker moves over to where Maddock is indicating that he has two targets across the way.  He moves up to the edge/ledge to where he can take aim at one of Russians as he notices Maddock going for his IW rifle too.

Tucker
M-16A2 [30]/M-203 [HE]
Finding a point to take aim on a Russian Marauder and fire [1] three-round burst at him

Max watchs the others signals and take up defensive positions looking out at further targets.

Max will take up a position at a doorway, providing close cover to the team.  He will do so in a kneeling position.


max
Ak-74 (30) BG-15 (1HE)
Kneeling position at a door way, close support

Snowy has picked himself off the ground and followed the assault in, moving along the wall with his weapon out and the big halligan tool held clumsily in his left hand that holds the foregrip. He calls 'clear' when he has no targets, and then following on. After the building is cleared, he turns to Konrad and hands him the halligan bar.
"Could you put this back in my carry harness mate? I can hardly reach it from here."
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Swearing as the straps tangle, Maddock goes red in the neck. "Sod it, Mr Tucker, My White, fire on that lot in the opposite building, quick as you like. Hauptman Bayer, sir, please hold on to Mr White's tool; we might need it again yet."

Temporarily giving-up on freeing his L86, he retains the shorter-ranged Sterling. "Mr Foster, watch the front door, if you please; targets of opportunity. I'll keep the back door under eye. Did you have a next move in mind, Hauptman?"

He scoops up the fallen Russian's frag and drops it in a commodious pocket on his way to a vantage point on the back door.


Watching the Back Door
Silenced Sterling [29rnds] + 2 clips

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Konrad takes the Halligan tool from Snowy but holds onto it at Maddock's recommendation. He nods in agreement to Maddock's fire order to Tucker and White, "Ja, shoot tham."



"I think we need establish contact with the people in the Church immediately." He looks at Marcin and then continues, "I'm going to send Marcin over first to inform them of what is happening, and hopefully come right back here... does anyone here speak Polish?"

OOC - He won't send Marcin unless the two Russian's across the street are eliminated by Tucker and White.

"Now! Go!" the heavily accented Pole tells her as he swings open the large bullet ridden church doors. The breeze of fresh air hits her as Minh Quyen races around the corner of the village's bastion. Running over the collapsed picket fence that surrounded the graveyard she bolts past headstones, some overturned with age and neglect.

"Janusz! Marcin! Where the hell are you?" she calls out as she nears where she caught sight of the relief's??? support base during the fight. How they... Marcin and Janusz found help she had no idea, but wondered what they wanted in exchange for their help. "Janusz! Marcin!"

Catching sight of a group laying low, she nears them, slower, and more cautious now. "Hello?" she asks... one hand holding the AK-74 pointed straight up into the air while the other hand stretches out into the darkness.

Damn... I don't know any of these people...
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Adam calls out from behind the imagined safety of a tree trunk,

"Marcin is in the building to the east. We are friends come to help; you may approach."

Blue [NPCed], ever wary of strangers bearing arms, keeps the woman in the sights of his Steyr AUG as she draws nearer to the ring of trees.

Dawid, meanwhile opens up on the human shape peeking around the corner of the building his teammates had just taken. The tracers miss wide, ricochetting off the wall of a neighboring building. The second burst is more accurate, tearing a chunk out of the nearer building's southeast corner. But between bursts, the interloper had safely withdrawn into the wide alley separating the buildings.

[Private to A. 'Mad' John Maddock: I had Mad fire a five round burst into the marauder on the ground floor, so his ready ammo count should be 25/30. With 9mm in a smoky room, quantity is almost as important factor as quality.]
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Max doesnt take his eyes from the doorway, and what lays beyond.  Responding to Maddocks direction, Max takes a kneeling position at the front door, AK-74 at the low ready position.

Max
Ak-74
Kneeling at front door, close protection

Snowy kneels and turns off his laser spot. Bringing the M4 to his shoulder he checks his target and the downrange, then starts making aimed shots at centre of mass. He keeps shooting until the target falls or disappears from view. As the carbine kicks he gives an unconscious grunt with every shot. If the target falls or is obscured, he immediately calls "moving!" and shifts to a new position.

The marauder in the doorway opposite the now secured bakery jitterbugs grotesquely as five high velocity rounds tumble in quick succession through his flesh. He collapses in an heap in the threshold, jerking spasmodically for a few seconds before laying still. The figure in the second story window, above the doorway, ducks out of sight at the sound of unexpectedly close gunfire. Someone nearby- it's hard to tell if it's coming from across the street or not- shouts something in Russian but you can't make out its meaning.

Max, angled to look eastward down the far side of the street catches a glimpse of movement off to his right on the nearside of the street. He sees a Russian-uniformed figure emerge from a gap between buildings, turn east, and move quickly away from the sound of the fighting.

[Private to Max Fosters: Max can step out of the doorway to take a shot at the fleeing bandit but he'd be temporarily exposed to the possibility of counter fire from down the street.]

Maddock, standing guard the back door, sees nothing of note; neither does Yazzie, keeping watch on the team's left flank (to the west).

At the ORV, the stranger is welcomed into the perimeter. Noting the woman's thickly accented Polish, American uniform, and distinctly Asian features, Adam addresses the newcomer in English,

"Marcin brought us to help. He is over there," Adam says, pointing to the bakery to the east, "I visited here a few months ago but I don't think we've met. You are?"

Blue [NPCed] pipes in from behind the Plamya, set up a few meters away, "Brilliant! Another bloody Yank..."

For the first time since the relief party left the Krolowa, the sound of gunfire ceases. Men can be heard shouting in Russian from further down the street to the east, the sounds of their voices receding steadily.

Actions?

Tucker and Snow both fired at the same target, hitting him with all 5 shots, collectively. Tucker -3 rounds; Snow -2 rounds.
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Max see's a single soldier fleetingly.

Movement!  Russian on the run.

I cant get a shot.


Max
Kneeling at front door
AK-74 at the low ready

Tucker begins to exhale as he squeezes the trigger on his M-16A2 and it recoils from the three-round burst andhe watches the Russian fall under his rounds and rounds from someone else, more than likely Snowy.  As he takes in that the one on the second floor moves away from view, he changes his grip so his hand finds the trigger on his M-203 launcher and calls out, "ROUND OUT!"  Tucker fires a HE round at the window where the Russian just ducked back into.

Tucker
M-16A2 [27/30]/M-203 [HE]
Firing HE round at 2nd story window where Russian Marauder just back into and away from

Quyen, relieved, moves in next to Adam and kneels next to his tree stump. "No, you must've come through right before I arrived. I'm Minh Quyen. We're holding out in the church... some others might be hiding elsewhere, but I don't know. There are not many of us left who can fight, or have ammunition. We've many wounded included civilians."

She shakes her head... "They are savage. We've been trying to send out runners for help. There was another guy too, Janusz, any sign of him?"



Quyen looks over into the darkness... "I'm no Yank." she says without emotion.
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Bayer doesn't wait to find out if anyone speaks Polish. With one Russian down, and the other suppressed, he decides to send out Marcin before more marauders arrive.

Grabbing Marcin by the arm he rushes him downstairs to the front door, next to Fosters. Pointing at the church he says in his best Polish with mimed hand gestures "Go. Go. Come back."

Bayer figures common sense will prevail. Marcin will go to the church and let them know whats happening... whether he returns or not isn't critically important. As the Pole moves off into the fire lit night he looks to Fosters, "Think we'll be out of here before dawn?" he asks almost jokingly.

John searchs for targets on the west side of the camp..anyone unlucky enough to pop a head out will be killed....



John
searching for targets
G3 (74 rounds)
coving west flank

Without turning from his watch of the door, Maddock calls deeper into the interior. "Hauptman Bayer! A runner went from the church to the support echelon. Might be we should raise them on the walkie, sir?"

The ugly metal of the Sterling has warmed in his broad hands, as he crouches in the shadowed interior of the building.

Max covers the runner, keeping an eye out for where the Russian dissappeared but he was not able to get a shot off on.

"we better be outta here by morning.  We loose our cover and NVG advantage when the suns up.

That, and i got another appointment in the morning".


Max cracks a smile at his final comment, he's just deadpanning a former busy pre-T2K life.


Max
AK-74, covering Marcin
Kneeling, low ready position

"Ok got it!" he calls back. Bayer double checks the radio's frequency and calls up support, "Support, this is Sunray. Objective secure, attempting contact with church now. All ok. Whats you SITREP over?"

As he waits for both a response and Marcin's possible return he moves further back into the shadows. Max was right, their success thus far has been due to surprise and a technological advantage. By dawn they'd be without both and outnumbered. Whispering back to Fosters he continues, "Ja. You're correkt. If Marcin doesn't return in a couple of minutes we need to get moving. Either form a solid defense if they have the strength left or keep up the momentum of our attack as it is... which is what I am more inclined on. But we need to find out the town's status."
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What?  I thought this was going to be a quick in and out mission.  We were dropping guns and ammo off only?

Now we are talking of staying, and maybe attacking?

What does the Captain say?  It feels like our reason for coming down river has changed.

Tuck fires his M203 and watches the metallic orb, glinting momentarily in the firelight from down the street, sail through the second floor window opposite. It detonates with a flash and smoke vents out into the night air as small bits of debris rain down onto the street. If there was still someone in that room when the grenade exploded, they’re undoubtedly in bad shape now.

Marcin nods at Konrad's instructions and pantomimes something that looks like shooting in return. He then moves off to collect the AKM rifles and ammunition from the two dead Russians in the bakery before departing out of the back door instead of the front. He cuts to the west and runs for the church as quickly as he can carrying four rifles. He makes the church doors without taking any direct fire and disappears within. In fact, no more gunfire can be heard at all. The Russian shouting you'd heard earlier has also faded to nothing. The only sound other than your heart beating is the crackling of flames as fire consumes several buildings on the eastern side of town.

After several minutes, Marcin exits the church but instead of returning to the bakery, he heads for the ROV. When he arrives, he quickly briefs Adam before the pair shuffle over to Minh's position. Marcin quickly embraces her, a look of immense relief on his tired face. Adam addresses Minh in English,

"Marcin says the lookout in the church tower reports that the bandits seem to be leaving the village, heading east along the road. He's counted about a dozen of them. Please go tell the officer in the bakery. His name is Konrad- a German fellow. Nice bloke. The back way is safer. Marcin will go with you*- they're expecting him. We shall cover you both, as they say."

Actions?

* Editted, as Jinny pointed out an obvious flaw in the previous plan.
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Waiting for targets.....





John
waiting for targets
G3
protecting west flank

Bayer is quick to answer waving his hand, "No, sorry I didn't mean that exactly. It is a quick ahh operation. Not staying. I just meant once we committed ourselves to battle, it isn't always easy to just walk away from it."

"Ok... lets go." she says quietly to Marcin. Quyen leads the pair towards the bakery but as they get closer to the rear entrance, she allows Marcin to approach first. Lacking night vision she can only assume she is being watched. Waving one hand in a silent 'hello' she holds her rifle in a non-offensive manner with her other.

Sure enough, someone is guarding the darkened doorway. After being let in she and Marcin find the German officer. "Hello. Adam sent me. I'm from the church. We've got a lot of wounded there and we're down to the last few rounds of ammunition... and thanks by the way."

She looks at him for some sort of direction.
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