"FUCK!" Tucker screams out as his shots from the 40mm miss it's target and watches as the boat goes nby without a mark on it other than water spray (if any at all).  As long as he can get the GL to bear down for more shots at the boat (or any of the others), Robert will try to lead one of the oncoming boats into the sights of his shots.

If Tucker can communicate with his milita person, he will try to tell him that they're going to be boarded.  If that's not an option, Robert will try the radio to tell everyone on the ship, "PREPARE TO REPEL BOARDERS!  I SAY AGAIN, PREPARE TO REPEL BOARDERS!  FIX BAYONETS!"

Tucker
MK-19
Trying to lead a boat into his sights

Tom Looks at David and Talks.

"Request permission go go aft and kill Pirates? No targets to the front and They will soon be on us."


If tom is oked to move, he will move to a position were he can engage the rear boats with 3 round burts from cover. When The boats come within 50m He will fire 15 round bursts. When They are within boarding distance 5 meters he will throw hand grenades into the packed boats.


Tom
Reppleing boarders
Rpk-74

Bayer speaks into the radio, "Queen, King. Support established by the rail bridge. Get to our position and we can assist. Out."

In reply to Tom Jones (msg #206):

He shook his head in amazement.

"Ha! After all that, no firing the main weapon."

He handed the other man his 2 spare ammo cans and slung the third, then called the bridge on the intercom. "Permission to relocate to the stern?"

"Tom, get ready to move, and please carry my spare ammunition. We will wait for permission to leave our post." He checked his helmet and vest to make sure they were secure.

Waiting for an answer, he spoke to the ORMO, "hold this position here. Whichever of you has more experience, take this rifle and use it only if they come to the front. It's on safe." He pulled off the Lifchiki with 6 magazines and set it down by his Tantal/BG-15, picking up his PKM and pulling the sling over his head.

"Roger that, King, we're coming." Griet replied to Bayer's message, she looked over at Adam, "Keep us heading for the rail bridge and get closer to the G-K side bank, we have an ambush there."

She called to Dawid, "Get your people aft and prepare for the boarders."

She looked at the Starboard Dushka gunner and said, "Help get the grenade launcher aft."

"Anneka, Jason, a militiaman will help you get the Palmya aft, use it if you have time, if not, engage with small arms."

She looked over at the fire on the chart table and frowned, if she went to deal with that now she might lose the chance to deploy their ace in the hole. She looked at the motorboats aft and waited.
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Quyen rushes back to the ZU truck. She's swift, but ensures her movements are concealed. "Wicks, radio." he says quickly upon arriving. "Pass on to the Hauptmann... she the explains what she'd seen by the bridge.

"Understood!"

He turned to Tom and the other men.

"We're going aft. Everyone, follow me. You ORMO, take my rifle and the magazines for it, but don't fire it unless ordered."

Getting a grip on the PKM, he led the men aft, keeping low to get into position facing rear at the fantail. He yelled to whoever might be covering the rear, "we're coming aft, cover us!"

When that was accomplished, he set the PKM on its bipod and commenced firing.


Dawid Piotrowski
PKM (100/100, 3 spare belts)
Moving to fantail
Firing 3x5 round bursts per turn at the closest target.
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Jumping down from the ZU as Quyen approaches at a run.

“Sorry Quyen no radio we are on our own down here. The Captain gave me instructions to make my own calls, so we will engage they may have heavy weapons. I’ll take three of the reserve guys with me if you want to stay and man the ZU, if you want to come I’ll leave two of them up here.”

Wicks
M14K/HK-69 (20/20, 1 HE)
Engaging pirate observation boat

Close to the shore where he can see the river while under cover Jan waits with his portion of the militia. Scanning the scene with his binoculars he tries to get a good grasp of what has happened so far.

"Wicks, the boats, they have moved past the Queen. Minimal damage if any. The MG's adn grenades have failed to have any great effect!. The Queen is moving this way."

"We shouldn't move without letting command know. Send one of the militia as a runner, then go. I'll man the ZU... I think."

Wicks points at the youngest militia member

“Run to the German Captain and tell him Lt Wicks is engageing a pirate vessel hidden under the pylon of the rail bridge, and be very quick about it.”

He turns to Quyen “I'll try to return if I have time otherwise engage any pirate boats or this one if it moves and you have a shot.”

As they move Wicks gives the two Reserve Militia very brief instructions.

“When we arrive near the edge of the river we will engage a boat under the rail bridge, aimed shots. I will fire a 40mm HE grenade this will be your signal to open fire. You take any targets on the left, you any on the right.”

Wicks will lead the small fire team in a single file low trot forward to the point he can see the boat. When they are in position he will aim and fire his HK-69 at the occupants of the boat. Once the grenade is on its way he will pick up his M14K and fire two rounds at each target still present in the boat or in the water.

If at any point during the deployment phase the occupants of the boat react to the team he will fire the grenade and engage with his rifle.


Wicks
M14K/HK-69 (20/20, 1 HE)
Engaging pirate observation boat
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Mariusz watched the drama on the river unfold. He grimaced as the massed automatic firepower failed to make a major dent in the boarding parties. The small craft had weathered the hail of fire well and were now jockeying for position as they tried to board. Only the MK-19 was in a position to return fire and Mariusz hoped that the more predictable course that the small craft would have to take to board the ship would make them slightly easier targets.

Only time would tell.

Tom will assist in the carrying of MG ammunition and then open fire on the pirates with his RPK.
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"There's no way to reach the shore party!" she yelled across to Griet.
"We're on our own. We should act like it!"
Banking on rescue by fire from the shore was a fools choice. Better they take advantage of their manouverability and all round firepower and hope that Konrad could redeploy his force to a closer, much more useful location.

"Adam, think you can spin around like a top? Stop them getting a hold?"

Once they started to board, it'd be next to impossible to resist them. Even the Homar Pec, or whatever the steam defence system was called, could only delay the inevitable, all the while reducing their speed and making the pirates ability to board all the easier.

The seed of an idea planted, Anneka returned her attention to the pirates, lining up for a short burst at a troop carrying boat the moment it came into close range.

Anneka
RPK-74 40/40
+6, 30rd mags and a bad attitude
Bursts to limit of recoil (aka 1 per turn) at short range using port bridge windows and rear bridge doorway for cover as required.

Griet spoke calmly to Adam, "On my mark, go hard about in the direction I call. My second mark will bring us back on line."

Adam is all business. His reply is clear and concise.

"Yes."



"Ready Chief. You'd better hold on to something."

Walter, meanwhile, grabs a fire extinguisher and dowses the small blaze on the chart table.
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On the River

As the pirates close in on the stern of the Queen, the lead boats swing out a little wider and continue to pour fire at the tug, focussing their attention on the AGL position atop the raised quarterdeck. Tucker picks out the boarder boat on the starboard side (his left, looking aft) and looses a second five-round burst. The grenades explode close aboard but fail to do much more than drench the boat's occupants. As Tucker bravely lines up for another go at the pirates, a bullet slams into his upper right arm, knocking him backwards to the deck. His militia assistant falls beside him with a serious bullet wound to the upper left arm.

The Mk-19 has been unmanned.

As Tucker and his shadow fall wounded, Tom, Dawid, and their two milita loaders arrive at the aft railing. Bullets whiz, ping, and snap all around them. The pirate boarder's boats are now no more than 50m from the tug's stern and still closing. The two fire support boats are even with their brethren, but dispaced slightly wider, and still spraying the Queen's stern with suppressive fire.

OOC: Anneka, Dawid, Tom, and the militiamen will all be able to fire at the boarders in the next round, if they wish to do so. It may be safer for Anneka to fire on the support boat on her side of the tug, though, instead of directly over the heads of her comrades at the taffrail.

Ashore

Wicks and his squad creep closer to the shore, undetected. He halts his squad in the sparse concealment along the riverside and slides south just enough to bring the loitering pirate boat into the sights of his HK-69 grenade launcher. Steadying himself, he calmly pulls the trigger and watches as the 40mm grenade sails 200m or so and lands smack dab in the middle of the boat, where it explodes in a flash and puff of white smoke. All three occupants are slammed against the sides of the boat, either dead or badly wounded. The boat begins to float away, drifting downriver with the current and slowly settling lower in the water.

Next Moves?
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Steadying her breathing, Anneka let off short controlled bursts at targets of opportunity, her preference being for the boarding party.
It was difficult on the moving boat, a task made doubly hard by the need to avoid hitting her own people.

Anneka
RPK-74 40/40
+6, 30rd mags and a bad attitude
Bursts to limit of recoil
Primary target troop carrying boat, secondary target FS boat

Tom with the 45-round mag in his weapon will fire three 15-round burts at the closest boarding boat. He will aim at the front of the boat so his beaten zone and the rise of the muzzle due to recoil will cover the boat with his fire, ensuring that all 15 rounds will hit each time. He will fire from a supported and covered position.

Tom
Shooting
RPK-74
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Dawid returned fire as well at whichever "Boarder" boat Tom's not shooting at.

"Use the rifle! Now! Shoot!" he ordered the accompanying ORMO.

Dawid Piotrowski
PKM (100/100, 3 spare belts)
Moving to fantail
Firing 3x5 round bursts per turn at the closest target.

Griet frowned as she saw Tucker and his loader go down in a hail of fire. She held her ground and waited, if they had any chance of survival this needed to be timed correctly. She grimaced, even then she estimated their chances as pretty hopeless now.

She listened to Adam's terse assessment of the tug's manouverability, and started to think on it's possibilities.

Wicks raises his rifle to cover the boat scanning for any targets. He quickly utters

“Cease fire. Identify your targets.”

Hoping to catch the militia men before they open fire. He glances along the opposite bank looking for movement.

It is then that he hears the muffled explosions and yells drifting up river on the breeze from the ongoing battle, it didn’t look good.

“Get down, you cover the boat and you the opposite bank.”

Dropping into the grass he quickly orientates his rifle towards the battle. It was a very long shot but things looked as if they where going from bad to worse. At the very least it maybe distracting for the pirates.

He lines up a machine gunner on one of the pirate craft through his sights. Wicks assumes a ridged prone position, controlling his breathing he fires and follows with a second shot. He then fires two additional shots at the pilot of the boat.

Getting a better sense of the teams surroundings and how exposed they are Wicks orders his small team back to the gun truck at a sprint.


Wicks
M14K/HK-69 (20/20, 0 HE)
Engaging pirate gun boat
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Listening to the firing coming from the Queen and watching through his binoculars Jan is torn between maintaining position and rushing to help. Wicks and his crew seem to have the lone lurkning boat well in hand and sitting here serves no purpose, but rushing blindly down the shore is pointless as well. Finally he chooses to maintain, 1000m is just to far to cover quickly on foot.
"Keep watch and hold position! We will get our chance soon."

As always trusting ones companions and accepting that you can't be everywhere at once is the toughest part of combat.

Before Tucker can yell out and curse again as he misses with yet another string of shots from the MK-19, he feels the burning in his upper right arm as he drops to the deck.  He looks over and sees the militia man fall to the deck to with an injury to his arm as well.  He reaches tries to assess how bad the bleeding is on himself and apply a dressing if he can before he checks on his 'partner'.  While down, he grabs for his radio and transmits, "This  <winces> is Knife.  My post is down!  Not sure if <sigh> we're going to be any help.  See you on the other  side.  Knife out!"

Depending on how much time is available, Tucker will try to fix himself up first and try to tend to the wounded militia man that is wounded near him.  He will make sure his Browning HP is cocked & locked with the safety on.

Tucker
Unarmed
Tending to himself and wounded man next to him

Without any help to move the Plamya, Jason abandons the AGS-17 and limps down the portside with the F88 and his pouch of additional grenades.  Stopping abeam of the stack, he sets down the pouch behind the sandbagged railing and aims the M-203 at the boat full of boarders on this side, ready to let fly with a 40mm HE round.