Jeff turns to the group "Before you go on your little trip to the village, one of you should come with me to see the communications officer.  That way we can get in contact with your allies to the south."

He answered Fleming's question, as this had already come up.

"I already talked to the 10th's Quartermaster. "They have batteries, but no way to charge them with no vehicles or generator. Once Vita rigs the alternator like she says, we can charge our batteries and their batteries, too. That reminds me, I should see how that's going."



"Please, let me see if Vita's getting on with the job of recharging the b batteries, then I'll help you with the radio."

Dawid went over to Vita and the truck. Apparently, all she wanted was some wire. "Here." he handed her some wire. "Please continue, I have to go check on the radio now."
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Once the ruckass had died down Craig made his way back to the room where the planning was being undertaken. He approached the supply officer and offered to help move the arms and ammunition with him and to have a look at the anti-tank grenades and launchers.

Jay laughed. "Namaste Mariusz-ji. I know many Sanjay, but I no think any of them work on train." He looked thoughtful for a moment. "Russians no recycle very good. Dirty people. Maybe look for bottle over by mess." He gestured towards the mess area that the 10th had used as a food prep and serving area. It was no Michelin star restaurant, but it was probably the best place to look for empties.

Jeff waits for Dawid, and then leads the man to the 10th's Communications officer.  He speaks to Dawid as they walk away

Mariusz smiled at Jay, "Great thinking, I'll have a look now, don't let them start the war without me."

He trotted off to the back of the mess to pick through the rubbish to find unbroken bottles. The whole process reminded him of when doing this was the only way to eat, even getting shot at was better than that.

Mariusz
Digging through rubbish
Looking for bottles

Throughout the day, preparations continue, ableit very slowly, to launch a reconaissance operation to pinpoint the Baron's nearest significant position/force and call down 120mm mortar fire on it, in advance of a general attack by the 250 or so remaining effectives of the turncoat 10th TD.

Dawid supplies Vita with the wires she needs to rig up a battery recharger using the old Ural's alternator. Her lips say "thank you" but her tone of voice and body language clearly translate as "fuck you". Regardless of her poor attitude, she succeeds in rigging up a functioning recharger. The process of recharging the party's radio and NVG batteries is a slow one- it takes rearly all day to take care of them all- and Warren's R-392 radio set's battery and Dawid's Pn-14K NVG batteries are completely ruined during the process. The batteries now contain more juice, but likely at the expense of their longevity.

OOC: Current battery charges/capacitues- link to a message in this game

In exchange for the weapons and ammo that you donated to the 10th, the unit's supply officer furnishes you with combat packs, assorted Soviet LBE items (including one jerry-rigged 'Afghan'-Style chest harness), 1 RPG-7D (collapsable) launcher and four RPG-7 HEAT rockets.

Warren tries to raise the Queen using Johnstone's fancy satellite radio. He has no luck, but the division's senior coms officer- he looks not a day over 20- manages to get through to the Queen.

It's now just an hour or so before dark.


Next Moves?
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Craig got up to leave with the supply officer. Then stops and turns, he pulls something out of his webbing and places it on the table.

”This is the rest of the ammunition we took from the cavalry unit. Its mostly Russian and some .45 auto*. Jan I think its nearly all 9x18mmB from the machine pistols. We should probably give any that is left to the 10th.”

45ACP – 14 rounds
9x18mmR - 72 rounds
7.62x25mmB - 16 rounds

Once the supply officer hands over the RPG-7 he gives one launcher and two of the anti-tank grenades to Jay. He also rummages in the large pouch on the back of his PLCE and hands him a RKG-3 AT Grenade.

”It was from a fellow British solider.”

Then with a serious look on his face Craig adds;

”If you are close enough to use it we will be right royalty fucked.”

He then walks back to the others and helps out with prep and planning wherever he can.

In reply to Craig Sutherland (msg #258):

Jay happily accepted the new kit he had been issued - the afghan-style harness, the AT grenade, the RPG launcher and 2 rockets. To make room, he stowed the Uzi in his rucksack, and rearranged the rest of his kit on his webbing so it was comfortable.

OOC - if anyone wants the Uzi I am happy to hand it over. Otherwise, I will keep it in my pack for now.
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In reply to Cap'n Rae (msg #257):


When she was done, Dawid inspected her work. Immune to her contempt, Dawid thanked Vita. "I am grateful for this, sister. It's badly needed. You have done well."

He was happy when the finally contacted the Queen. Depending on where they were, they might be of some use. Dawid addressed Konrad.

"Kapitan, three things: if the Queen can bring the D-30 and either the gas or fragmentation shells, and we can meet with her, then that will be a potent weapon. Second, we should send out patrols to determine if the Baron's troops are in the area. And third, regardless, we must move the camp to some other location as soon as possible."

"Hey Craig!  Can I get a couple of those loose forty-five rounds to top of my mag here?" Tucker calls over to Sutherland.

OOC: He only needs three [3] rounds.

"Sure everyone just take what they need. I'd take all the 45, it can't hurt to have some spare and I doubt the 10th has anything that takes it."

Once everyone was back at the group's billet, Bayer issues a warning order. "Alright. Attention here please."

"Warning Order."

"Situation Enemy - The Baron's forces have intensified their psyops efforts and are expected to be preparing for immediate offensive operations."

"Commander's Intent - The General intends on executing a deliberate frontal attack on the North of Warsaw."

"Probable Mission - Our platoon has been tasked as forward recce to provide early warning and locate and identify enemy targets for the division's mortar assets to eliminate. We will organize and conduct two independent patrols to achieve this aim. Objective areas to be issued after being verified with Headquarters."

"Groupings"

"Patrol One... Myself (I/C), Sergeant Tucker (2i/C), Warren, Quyen, Jay, Sawiki, Teo, and Mariusz."

"Patrol Two... Dawid (I/C), Jan (2i/C), Sutherland, Piotr, Fleming, Matias, Lech, and Janis."

"Timings - No more before... ahh thirty minutes time from now. That's all you have to make final preps, eat and drink something hot and get comms checks. Orders confirmation in ten minutes."
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Robert takes the [14] rounds of .45ACP from Craig and tops off the magazine in the H&K, replacing the magazine in the weapon and then puts the loos rounds in his right cargo pocket.  Tucker will also reload his empty & partially used mags he has on him before he gets up to wander around and just look around the camp.
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     Monika spent the a part of the down time cleaning her SMG and her two pistols.  She also found a quiet, but protected spot to take a bit of a nap.  All this front line combat stuff was physically tasking.

     As a guest of the Baron, she didn't get much of a chance to get out for exercise.  She had worked out as best she could, though, to be ready for when her chance to escape would appear.  That chance did arrive and Monika had taken a hold of it with both hands.  Now, it looked as if she would get a chance to pay the Baron back for all of his hospitality.

Jay quickly acquainted himself with the other members of the unit who he hadn't met properly yet, especially those in his new patrol group. Once this was done he made sure all of his kit was sorted and that all weapons were in good working order. After that he went to the latrine area to pay a final visit before they set off.

Once all was done he spent the final minutes in peaceful solitude, meditating and offering prayers for his family and new friends.

"This is Starlight. Send Sitrep. Over."
Major Soleblume's voice contained an equal part of relief and anger, clearly detectable over the radio. For over a week nothing had been heard and the entire recon group had been written off as lost. What was worse was the possibility they'd been captured and everything they knew about the Gora Kalwaria defences revealed under interrogation to the Baron. The continuing survival of the town had looked extremely grim.

"Defensive preparation continued my location. Supplies unchanged. Numbers unchanged. Combat ability unchanged."

Tucker takes his sweet time walking around and trying to get some rest and just take it easy before the big recon/assault forthcoming.  He sees the woman Monika sitting by herself cleaning her weapons.  He walks up to her, exhaling another draw from his cigar and asks her, "You good cleaning those things ma'am?"

After finishing with the small propaganda-leaflet Rob joined the briefing. He listened to the fine and clear military-style briefing.
He rose his had when he heard his name. Group 2. He looked to all of it's members to become familiar with them.

When the breifing was over he went directly to Capt. Bayer. "Sir, I made a small information poster for our comrades from the 10th. I'm happy that I found an old typewriter."
Rob presented a sheet of paper in letter-format. On the upper half was a picture of killed soldiers in a mass-grave. The text under the pictures says

"34 soldiers killed and tortured by the Baron after the rose the white flag and requested for peace."

    Monika looked up from cleaning her SMG.  She gave the one known as Tucker a strange look as she tried to puzzle out what he was saying and formulate a response in English.  She pointed to herself. "Monika, good medic."  She pointed to her partly disassembled SMG.  "Need, not good."
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After his presentation at the village square, Piotr had returned to his friends. Pleased Vita had decided to work on the batteries he had taken the time to take care of his kit. Cleaning his gun and mending the few cracks or weak spots in his webbing.

 When Bayer called out the make up of both patrols he looked around taking a mental note of all the members of his patrol. After that he moved towards Matias. He hadn't been able to really talk to the boy after Janek was killed.  “Are you all ready to go on patrol?”

Quyen welcomes the new soldier and introduces herself, keeping things brief, but polite. She then goes about a quick cleaning on her weapons, removing buildup of gunk and scraping off the rust. And then once that priority was done, she aired out her feet, sitting back with her boots and socks off.

"Weapons done. Feet done. I'm ready." she says lightly.

Tucker moves up to where she has her weapons layed out and rests his rifle down so he can get comfortable and tells her, "I help.".  He looks at the pieces and and begins to clean them up and put them back together.  Robert goes slow and tries to use small sentences so she can keep up and understands what he trying to tell/teach her.  "Don't worry.  You do medic thing.  We help you if needed with guns, OK?"

Dawid nodded to the comms officer and said in Russian, "well done, that is a fine job."

He authenticated his transmission with Major Soleblum, then continued with the SITREP. He seemed very pleased to talk to her, finally.

"Major, it is wonderful to hear you! Please accept my apologies for the delay, we've have an interesting couple of days. We have relatively good news. Our patrol is so far successful. We have inflicted many losses on the Baron's forces, including several APCs. We have also rendez-voused with a large unit of friendlies to the north of the city. The Baron is apparently moving north to deal with us, not south. We have taken a few regretful losses but remain a "

"Now the SITREP is complete, I need to talk to Old Adam to arrange for transport of certain items. Please put him on, thank you!"
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    Fire flashes in Monika's eyes as she grabs the parts of Polish SMG, taking them away from Tucker.  "NO TAKE!  MINE!"  She deftly reassembles her pistol sized SMG, slaps a fifteen round magazine into it, and holsters it.  Somewhat calmer with her weapon ready, Monika continues.  "Fix good.  Not want need."