Jay got back to his feet and shook the fog from his head. He scanned the area and located Jan, then quickly joined him. He approached the window cautiously, wary of any incoming fire. At the window he glanced out, looking for targets. If he spots any he will fire controlled bursts at them.

Mrityunjay Byanjankar
2 Section
With Jan, spotting targets and firing if targets located
AK74 + BG15 - 30/30 + 1xHE
Frag grenade x6, AT grenade x1
RPG-7D - empty/dropped
Kukri knife
Makarov 8/8
2x 40mmS HE

Jan was very pleased with the damage they had all just done to the M113.  That was certain to slow them down and hamstring what was hopefully the last heavy weapon that the Baron's forces had!  He just hoped that the tank was as ineffective as it seemed.

Jan quickly worked the action on his M203, replacing the spent HEDP round with a fresh HE one.  It was silent below and he was expecting Pawel to be firing by now.  Artur’s sharpshooting would probably be lost in the general sound of combat but Pawel’s RPD was noticeable by its absence!

"Jay, I need to check on the Poles on the floor below," he commented to the Gurkha.  Jan and Jay were on the third floor and Pawel and Artur were on second so they were still separated to some degree.  "Engage from here but once you start to draw fire relocate to the floor below and join up with us.  Also make sure you keep the RPG launcher.  We might get lucky and find another rocket for it!"  He flashed Jay a grin as he made the last comment, rather like he was starting to enjoy himself!

Jan then set off on another quick sprint, heading down a flight of stairs to his original position on the second floor.  "Pawel.  Why are you not firing!" he yelled in Polish as he ran.  "Put a couple of short bursts into that MTLB if you don't have any targets.  Keep them worried!"

Before he joined the Poles Jan paused at the doorway into the second floor flat they were set up in and called down to Konrad, updating him on the current situation.  "Capitaine, the M113 looks to be out of action but I am down to my last HEDP round.  We will start engaging any targets we see."

Jan then headed into the apartment to join Pawel and Artur.  Once he got them firing he found himself a window of his own and started looking for targets, firing a pair of single shots at anyone he saw.


Jan
Reloading his M203, issuing orders and then relocating to the 2nd floor to check on the Polish members of his squad to find out why they aren't firing!  If he is also able to engage he will fire a pair of single shots at any target he spots.
F88 Steyr AUG (30/30 rounds - 7 mags & some loose rounds in total) - held
 - Underslung M203 (1/1 HE - 6x HE, 1x HEDP & 1x ILLUM total)
Sig Sauer P226 (15/15 rounds - 4 mags total) - holster
Frag Grenade x4

Jeff stops midchorus and puts his plan into action. He works his way to one of the dead militia on the roof. Once there, making sure he's well out of sight, he jams the rebar under the chin of the militia. Using his new puppet, he pushes the militiamans head up and over the lip, slowly as he had been doing when shooting. He waits for the barons men to take the rest of the head off, and hopefully think he's dead.

After observing the hits on the armored column, Bayer shifts away from the window, ejecting the spend casing from his launcher. Hearing Jan, he shouts back, "Go high... so they can't elevate their guns on you." Bayer then inserts a regular HE round into the weapon and waits to see what will happen next.

"You okay?" he asks Griet. Then turning to Flemming who's safely positioned between him and Sawicki (in the stairwell), he asks, "Baron's channel... anything?"

Griet looked up at Bayer as she slotted another grenade into her launcher, "I'm fine. What next?"

Mariusz moved to the edge of the cover he'd sought and pointed his rifle toward the stairs, covering them in case anyone came down.

Danny skids to a halt at the building's northwest corner as more explosions rattle the area.  He peeks around to see an M113 enveloped in a cloud of smoke and dust, debris still pattering down.  "Go team!" he mutters exultantly, then catches sight of the T-72.  "Whoashittank!"  He yanks his head back and thinks for a second.  Armor's under fire and has shit for visibility but that won't last.  Gotta do this now.

He turns back to Rabbit, Scarface, and Sleepy.  "Same as before, run for door," he says, gesturing around the corner.  "Stay low, go fuck fast!"  He waits for affirmative nods, then keys his radio.  "Sunray, Sunray, Coyote is comin' in.  Check fire west."  Back to his team: "Go!"

As Rabbit and Scarface sprint toward the presumable safety of the main body's position, Danny swings out from the corner and hunkers down behind a rubble pile.  He passes Winona's sights across the third tracked vehicle, but it appears to have halted or stalled out and the gun atop it looks somewhat mangled.  Panning left, he can see a large cargo truck crawling into view, probably full of infantry coming to reinforce the granary.  Okay, that's about to be a problem...

Danny
Winona [30/30] + 6 magazines - ready
CZ 75 [15/15] + 2 magazines - holstered
AN-M8 (HC smoke) x2 - stowed
AN-M18 (red smoke) x1 - stowed
Moving around the northwest corner of Warren's building and hooking east toward HQ/2/3, focused on convoy as primary threat axis
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Before reloading his grenade launcher, Tucker begins to engage targets of opportunity with three-round bursts.  He intends to fire his magazine until empty, displace, reload, and then re-engage as practical as he had mentioned to the others before they fired on the M113 APC.

TUCKER
M-16A2 [31/30] / M-203 [EMPTY] - {READY WEAPON} Safety 'OFF-BURST'
Browning HP-35 [13/13] SAFETY 'ON' Cocked & locked
H&K SOCOM (Suppressed/.45 acp) [12/12] SAFETY 'ON'
Kevlar Vest/Helmet

Firing as much of the magazine out as he can unless return fire becomes too bad where he cannot.
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HQ, Sections 2 & 3

Tucker, Jan and the others pelt the disabled M113 with rifle fire. The top hatches are open but the mangled turret blocks most of their rounds. A few sneak into the passenger compartment. The back ramp lowers but the hull shields those dismounting from most of the incoming fire. Those that exit keep low and skirt around to the leeward side of the APC, using it as cover. As long as they are under fire, they are effectivly pinned there. (Tucker -balance of mag)

The MTLB spins around on its tracks, tearing up the poorly maintained asphalt as it comes about. As soon as its nose is pointing north, it accelerates away from the kill zone (it's still under 100m away from the building at this point).

Jan hurdles steps two at a time as he rushes to rejoin the Poles. When he reaches them, he encourages them to fire, and they join in on the fray. Jan just catches the tail end of the dismounting enemy, firing two shots at them as they slither into cover behind the M113. (Jan -2 rounds)

The T-72 continues to just sit there doing nothing.

Sniper

Warren wrestles with the militia corpse as he attempts to create a meat puppet (10 points for me for making a tangential Nirvana reference!). It's much harder in practice than it is theory. The limp, dead weight is difficult to manouver, especially since Warren is attempting to support most of that weight using only the corpse's head. The rebar starts tearing up through the bottom of the stiff's jaw and Warren needs almost every ounce of his upper body strength to lift his meat puppet above the bullet-scarred parapet. As soon as the head appears, the enemy on the granary roof open fire. Two seconds after he presses it into view, Warren is showered with gore. He also takes a bullet fragment in the heel of his right hand. It stings and starts to bleed (although it's hard to tell just who all the blood actually belongs to) and Warren promptly drops the prop. The now headless corpse collapses on top of him, shielding him from the bits of masonry that are still raining down.

Section 1

Covered by Mariusz, Dawid heads back up the first flight of steps. As before, a grenade drops down from above. Dawid overruns it and dives through the doorway to the second floor. Seeing the grenade bouncing down the steps towards the foyer, Mariusz ducks behind the doorjamb. Neither man is wounded when the grenade explodes. The stairwell is hazy with bitter smoke and clearly well defended. Dawid is now by himself on the second floor. Fortunately for him, it appears that he does not share the floor with any other tenants.

LaRue & Crew

...watch the MTLB begin to make its escape. They have several options right now. They could engage the MTLB with their LAW or they could join any of the friendly teams now occupying (or sharing) any of the three buildings in the complex.

Updated tac-map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms...0&mid=1328746123

Next Moves?
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Heeding Jan's earlier instructional, Jay hurried back into the other room to look for the RPG launcher. He conducted a quick search, kicking rubble out of the way. Hopefully he will find it quickly, but if not he will have to abandon it for now.

After the brief search, successful or otherwise, he returned to the window and scanned for targets. If he spots movement he will fire suppressive short bursts.

Jan continued watching the rear of the M113, looking for any targets to fire a double tap at and trying to work out whether he could angle a 40mm grenade so that it would land behind the M113 where the Baron's troops were hiding.

"Pawel, keep putting the occasional short burst into the area around the M113," he ordered the RPD machine-gunner.  "We need to keep them pinned down.  Artur, keep scanning around for any other troops or enemy positions."


Jan
Watching for a target at the rear of the M113 - if he spots one he will fire a pair of single shots at them.
F88 Steyr AUG (28/30 rounds - 7 mags & some loose rounds in total) - held
 - Underslung M203 (1/1 HE - 6x HE, 1x HEDP & 1x ILLUM total)
Sig Sauer P226 (15/15 rounds - 4 mags total) - holster
Frag Grenade x4

In reply to Cap'n Rae (msg #290):

It seems his suspicion was correct, a single man could make it up the stairs just barely where a group would get caught out. The downside being, of course, he was only one man.

Leaning over, he caught Mariusz's eye. Dawid was glad Mariusz seemed all right, and even more (selfishly) glad he made it to the first (2nd) floor alive! Now that he was here he decided to give those sons-o'-bitchesw a taste of their own medicine.

He gave Mariusz a "wait there" gesture he made sure the rifle was loaded and safety off. Then tapped the grenade launcher mounted on Craig's borrowed AK, and then pointed up.

When Mariusz had pulled back, he then aimed upwards and fired a 40mm HE round up the stairwell where it would explode to shower debris and fragments down on their heads. Maybe the unexpected detonation would be enough to get them to pull back.

In the end, such harassment would not get them up the stairwell, it would always be like forcing their way through a funnel. If the way was blocked, then he'd have to find another way.

Dawid suspected, however, that alternatives might be available. After firing the grenade, he pulled back into the deserted floor and reloaded the grenade launcher. Then, he checked the elevator shaft (using a flashlight) to see if it could be climbed at least to the other floor and finally the other stairwell, hoping that although it was blocked on the ground floor it would be open on the second floor.


Dawid Piotrowski
AK-74/BG-15 (45/45) + 4x30 (1/2 HE)
1 Floor up
Firing HE up stairwell
Checking elevator shaft, other stairwell

OOC:



You mean, fortunately for them! Could I please have a little better idea of the stairwell layout? I assume if the defenders are easily dropping grenades down an entire floor (or two?) it's pretty open? Also, what shape are the other NPCs in? Euzebeusz, Tim and Eva?
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Mariusz ducked into cover hoping that the 40mm grenade didn't blow him up.

Griet readied her rifle and waited to see if any targets presented themselves.

Bayer does nothing for a moment, only observing as his men continued to pelt the stalled column with harassing fire. He then lowers himself away from the window slowly as to not give away his position, and calls over his shoulder, "Fleming? You need to keep talking to me. Is that bastard realized he is finished yet?"

While he waited for a reply from the American or the next move from his enemy, Bayer glances at Griet and says, "What do you think?"

As harassing fire continues to rattle off the M113's hull, Danny gathers up "his" team and sprints for the building that the command group occupies.  Once again, he's in the lead, longer legs and superior cardio putting him in front of the G-K militiamen.  "Comin' up!  Check fire!" he calls out as he enters the foyer and heads for the stairwell.  Behind him, he hears the call echoed in breathless Polish.

Slipping past a haggard-looking Sawicki and her hastily-averted subgun, Danny enters the command group's room.  He nods to Griet, noting the dust and blood spatters - I hope none of it's hers - then waits for Bayer to acknowledge him.

"Howdy, Captain," he says.  "Tech Sergeant Larue, U.S. Air Force, reporting with three stretcher Poles and" - he takes the LAW tube from a gasping Rabbit as the Pole staggers up the stairs - "gifts from Major Soleblume."  He angles the tube in Bayer's direction with a quizzical lift of an eyebrow.

(Danny, for those just meeting him, is a lean 1.8 meters tall.  Brown hair, blue eyes, late thirties, outdoorsman's complexion, five o'clock shadow.  At the moment, he's wearing mixed Warsaw Pact winter fatigues - albeit with a subdued-color American flag sewn onto the right shoulder - under a heavily-customized soft armor carrier.  He's carrying some form of M16-family carbine.  A large green aid bag is slung cross-body off his left hip.  What looks, at first glance, like a Starbucks logo patch is velcroed to the armor:)


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Flemming yells back, "Their net is crazy. Lot's of yelling back and forth. They've lost all radio discipline. It sounds like the Baron's ordering his tracks to fall back and the disabled tracks are screaming for help. And then there's the granary guys. They're losing it too. It's royally FUBAR, sir."

Euzebiusz ducks behind the concrete pillar as the second grenade explodes. It adds to the ringing in his ears or the bells of the Archikatedra św Jana thundering away.

He again moves out to make a run up the stairs when he see the other Pole aiming a grenade launcher. He retreats back behind the pillar ready to make another run after the grenade explodes.

As he steps back his foot brushes against something. He looks down and sees the pistol the English NCO was carrying, he quickly picks it up.

Assault Group
Moving up stair well at speed

RPK-47 (40/40)+ 4x40
Browning HP (18/20)w/ silencer
F1 FRAG Grenade x1
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Tucker ducks back behind cover and moves to another firing point as he drops the empty mag out of his weapon and inot one of his BDU cargo pockets and then replenishing the M-16 with a fresh 30-round magazine from his vest.  Once seated and charged, he then reloads the M-203 launcher with another HE round from his grenadier vest.  Once he has that all taken care of, he will look for targets that are threatening theimmediate area or are using any kind of grenade launchers or machine-guns on their position.

TUCKER
M-16A2 [30/30] / M-203 [HE] - {READY WEAPON} Safety 'OFF-BURST'
Browning HP-35 [13/13] SAFETY 'ON' Cocked & locked
H&K SOCOM (Suppressed/.45 acp) [12/12] SAFETY 'ON'
Kevlar Vest/Helmet

Reloading the M-16A2 and then trying to find his next targets to engage

"His men are ready to crack," Griet said, "we should look to make the most of that. Tell the troops in the granary that we'll accept their surrender if they give it now. Offer to have them taken out of here on the Queen so they can avoid local reprisals. Tell any that refuse that if we don't kill them they'll be turned over to survivors of their boss' tyranny. If any refuse we need to concentrate on them and massacre them to encourage the others."

She looked over at LaRue and said, "Good to see you. We have injured in the granary."

Bayer flashes Flemming a thumbs up and says, "Keep it monitored. Pass on everything... even if it doesn't sound important. I want to know what is happening on the other side including any indecisiveness or confusion."


Bayer nods in agreement but doesn't say anything, his attention being drawn to the stairwell out in the hallway now, where their reinforcements could be heard coming up.


Squatting low with his back against the wall, Bayer nods and replies, "Hello... Hauptmann Bayer." He then motions with an outstretched hand to the M72 being carried, and invites the American and his men into the room with a warning, "Mind the windows." As they enter, he takes possession of the rocket and he says, "Thank you... we appreciate your help."

Bayer then calls over to the hallway where Sawicki and Flemming are safely positioned, "Pass it on... section commanders on me... everyone else hold." Granted, he could carry on a discussion over the radio with the two NCOs, but didn't want to tie up the net with too much chatter.
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Covered in gore, Jeff is pleased they took the bait. Ignoring his scratch for now, he crawls out of sight back to the stairwell. Carefully working his way down, he pauses a moment to use a canteen to thoroughly rinse as much blood as he can off of him. Jeff is very thorough in cleaning the scratch. The last thing he needs is some dead Polish bastard giving him some disease by blood contact.

Clean enough, he works slowly towards a window, rifle up. He wants to take a shot on anyone he can see while remaining in the shadows.

Once he received the order to join Konrad, Jan left Pawel and Artur engaging the enemy, with an instruction to relocate if they came under fire, and headed downstairs to join his CO, noticing that several others, at least one of which he didn't recognise, had arrived.

"Oui, mon Capitaine," he said as he nodded in greeting to the others.
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Danny glances at the windows' sight lines and backs into a corner where he'll be out of the way.  "Yeah, I heard the call," he replies to Griet, "but it sounded like I needed to get this up here first."  He grimaces, obviously not happy with the choice.  As he relinquishes the LAW to Bayer, his tension level noticeably drops.

"Just another day at the office, sir," he responds to Bayer.  "You want me to hang here or help out at the granary?"  He flicks a hand toward the hall to indicate Scarface, Rabbit, and Sleepy, all of whom are now present and exchanging wary glances with Sawicki.  "The major sent the reserves in with me but I'm having some language troubles," he admits.
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