As the man approaches Tran gives him a nod of acknowledgment, while picking up and stowing his own gear.
"Far as I know, probably staying. They had to cut short our ride to make the pick up and I doubt they have decided what if anything to do about us. Probably best to stick close til updates come through. If they do."

Looking around for a moment he shrugs.

"Looks like you had a little party here. Still expecting latecommers or party crashers?'"

Andrew took a knee as he surveyed the terrain further on from the edge of the trees. "Well it looks as if the artillery did it's job, the BTR, a few MANPADS and several of the enemy. Do you want to collect up an AK and some magazines, might sit better then the submachine gun ?"

As they searched Andrew had been looking for radio's, NVG's and any intel on the Poles. The radio frequencies would be good if they could procure them.

With that they headed back and removed the Heavy MG, its mount and the ammunition cans into the house.


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James looked around at the scene. "Who's in charge and whats going on? We fixing to stay here or we heading somewhere else?" he said, examining the area to see where he wanted to dig his foxhole and stash his gear.

"They got pasted pretty good by Uncle Arty but keep your eyes open. If somebody had smoked that many of my buddies I'd be in a big damn hurry to hit 'em back."

He knelt and pointed a knifehand at the house.

"We're holding this position until a larger friendly force arrives. So if Jan or Boris shows up to argue about it we'll have to argue back."


He added to Andrew and Patrick, ++"You ready for us to join you up there Raider 2?"++

While waiting for a response he pointed at Tran...

"Until you get new orders you're Raider 5..."

...and then at Wolfsbane.

"...and you're Raider 6."

I was "I was thinking the same thing, I'll grab the Dragonov as well.  Don't want anyone else picking it up.  We might becable to put the MG on the Rover when we get back." Pat shrugged "But who knows.  Oh see if you can grab some grenades, I got my demo kit with me so we might leave some booby traps behind."  as they searched for anything useful to add to their cache he responded to Keep.

++ Keep this is Gemstone, come on in we are clearing the area and setting up in the big building for some cover from the storm.

"You have a Rover? Nice. Give me a little time and the tools and I can put any kind of mount you want on it.  And yeah, no sense leaving anything sitting around if we have the time to shift it."
With a shrug, Tran gets to work searching and shifting anything found to the indicated house.

OOC: Note that we, Roger, Tran, and Wolfebane, are a considerable distance from Walsh and Johnson. We'll be meeting up with them at the house.


"Alright let's go."

Roger led off toward the house at a good moving pace for a man who had been recently shot.

"A rover, makes it a lot easier to hump around all my toys." James said, indicating his gear. "Got the keys?" has asked, not wanting to make 4 trips to the house from the LZ.
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As if on queue, the Navy motorman powered up the Zodiac and gave the Recondos a quick, "Craft six-four is r.t.b."

With he smoothly accelerated away riding out the growing swells in Pelicer Creek from the incoming typhoon. It would a tough day for the motorman, typhoon seas and small boats were a dangerous mix.

More helicopters could be heard but not see. The A-10s came back around, the lead plane nosed for another morning ripping gun run while his wingman held off level steady, firing a pair Rockeye air-to-ground missiles. There was an explosion, a secondary explosion, and then roar of another armored vehicle cooking off. Their best guess put the action within a mile of the combined team. Most likely on the access road running to the west.

Once the house was cleared Andrew took a look around the building and went up stairs, he was trying to work out why the Poles had not used it when they were based on the front lawn.

From the second story Andrew watched the A-10 come in for another sweep as soon as he heard and saw the secondary explosions on the access road he went down to the other members of the team. Having introduced himself to the new members when they arrived Andrew jumped right in "It looks as if the Poles are pushing along the access road, possibly with heavy armour, so we probably need to set up and greet them as we possibly won't have air cover for much longer. Thoughts, ideas ?"

"If we could find some locals as well I think their knowledge would be invaluable."
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Joining Andrew at a second story window, Tran pulled out his binoculars scanning the area visible, making mental notes of the layout. Then he focused his attention on the area the A-10s had worked over hoping that he could get a good look despite the smoke.

"You gent's seem to know this area better than I do, it is obvious James and I arent going to be setting those boobie traps and mines on that intersection we were heading to. Heck, I'm not even sure what party favors he unloaded before the slick took off. So what is the job here? Other than stop the bad guys and try not to get shot or captured?"

All the time he is talking he continues to scan looking for movement or signs of activity where the armored vehicles where shot up.

In reply to Mark Tran (msg # 137):

"We were tasked with clearing a hole for the landing forces egress in land. We were told there was a squad of Poles with some MANPADS and the needed to be cleared out, with a little help we achieved that."

"So now it's a matter of holding here until some tells us something different and for some reason the Poles don't seem to be finished with us. From the sounds of it they still have a MBT and a couple of APC's that seem to be trying to come down the road." Andrew waves a hand at the only access to the land they now occupied.

"I think we need to confirm what the A-10s hit and if there are any more of them. So another sweep is probably in order. What do you guys have in the way of anti-tank toys ?"


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A bevy of machine guns open up in the distance. The calibers are obvious by their muzzle boom and the crack created by their bullets' hyper-sonic passage; 7.62 x 54mmR Soviet general purpose machine guns and 12.7 x 99mm Soviet heavy machine guns.

By the sound of it, easily a dozen PK series general purpose machine guns and at four heavier DShK or Kord heavy machine guns. That most likely meant well armed infantry fighting vehicles, and quite possibly tanks. The arcing sprays of tracers chased harmlessly after the fleeing A10s.

Pat had grabbed an AK and some magazines from the collection he began doing a quick survey of the area around the house looking for ways to defend it and any potential blind spots.  He stopped when the two newcomers and Keep arrived to greet them.  Then he laid eyes on the stuff they were hauling and his eyes lit up.

"Leftenant Walsh, but out here I'm Gemstone on the radio or Raiders if you want the official title.  Are you guys engineers, because that haul of explosives, well wow we are gonna have our own little fourth of July party he speaks with a cultured English accent despite wearing US equipment.

After the introductions are done he will grab Wolfebane and head back outside and start placing a few surprises for anyone who is likely to attack.

OOC:  At this stage probably just the claymores unless he can find a good spot for some more inventive Booms he will also look at siting the DsHK as well.

Roger would take the time to thoroughly scavenge the dead enemy troops and inventory the gear and weapons that could be acquired that way.

It appeared that the Poles had stalled on them main road. A burning T62M, two burning BRDMs, and several burning trucks blocked the road at both ends of the column of troops. Men hustled to gear equipment and vehicles clear of the burning hulks. But, the bulk of the column was trapped on the narrow road by the marshy terrain that would be worse to try to drive in than to wait.

Weapons, binoculars, and eyes all scanned the skies for the A10s. Men filtered out along the sides of the road to hide in the nearby marsh. It would be some time before the fires died down enough to use the other T62M to push the burnt up vehicles out of the road.

It was clear to the team that the terrain favored infantry combat, but a tank was a tank. It was also obvious that the opportunity for time-on-target barrage on the trapped Polish convoy was at hand.

"Pleased to meet you LT.". James said. "yep, an Engineer. Build 'em and wreck 'em."

James looked the collection of explosives, starting with the M66's and thought up a plan for putting the demolitions to their full use. " These are a real pain to set up and I can always use them to blow a hole in a bunker or such for an emergency, going to save these." he said, as he looked over the other items.

"I am not sure if they will be traveling during the night but we have enough to put a real dent into their forces. We could set up an ambush using the road before us as a choke point, just like the A-10 did. Marsh on the sides of the road will channel them into the direction we want. The wheeled APC's might get stuck if they go offroading and we can finish them off from a distance. Hum, we should layer the mines to have the ground pounders get caught by them when the AT mines get the vehicles." he said as he pulled out a brown manual from his pocket.

"If needed, we can have Davie Crockett here punch holes if they try to force their MBT past the ditch since they will be a sitting duck for a few seconds when they try to get out of it."

"Hum, a couple of questions. From what you have seen, do they use the APC's as battle taxis and dismount or do they have the grunts up front and use them as mobile pillboxes? What is a good range for your toys? Do we have an artillery simulator by any chance?" James asked the group as he started drawing a rough plan in the dirt.

OOC:Trip flares to the sides in case they try to flank. Claymores in front of the defensive positions. Save the cratering for the last minute to make it look like artillery.


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X-X-X Cratering/Demo charges.

"Hopefully it won't come to that we still have artillery support and it looks as if now is the time to use it."
Andrew handed over the radio to whoever wanted to call in the naval support again as he removed the Charlie G from its hard case and grabbed two of the ammunition carriers. Turning he adds "I am probably going to need a hand with loading this thing, any volunteers ?"


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Roger took the radio.

"If no one else is trained on them I can help with the Goose as soon as I'm done phoning Uncle Arty. Assuming we still need it."

Castle checked his headset and headed out into the night to show the local Poles how much he appreciated being shot for the he-couldn't-really-remember'th time.

"Right sounds like Wolf and I get working on the demolitions, Tran you good to back up Johnson?  Castle you go ahead and radio in, you can read Polish right?" Pat waited for any objections before heading off to get prepare their position.

"Yeah, I have used one of those a couple of times. I can load for you and watch your back while you shoot. I know enough to know where not to stand when you shoot."
Mark flashes a quick smile at that.

"What I wouldn't give for good mortar team of M43s and detailed range info right about now. But it's like my grandfather always said, "if you don't have anything to complain about, you aren't looking hard enough'"

The wind blows with growing fury as the Typhoon crashed ashore a half mile away. The trees bend under the twenty-five plus mile per hour winds. A subtle, almost mystical sound can he heard as if the universe agreed with Tran's grandfather on the winds saying, "Amen, brother."

OCC: Roger will need to make an FO roll, Andrew and Tran should make recon rolls for scouting the area ahead. Wolfebane and Patric need to make recon and combat engineering rolls to spot good places to set up their ordnance and camouflage it well out of sight. You estimate at least thirty minutes bofore you expect enemy contact; ten minutes to take care of the fires and clear the road, another ten minutes to get remounted and reorganized to move out, and another ten minutes to creep close enough to actually make contact with the team.

18:21, Today: Roger A Castle rolled 54 using 1d100.  FOB. Success!

He studied the target site through Torg's night scope before calling in the fire mission.

Pat headed out into the ambush zone, maybe it was the incoming typhoon, maybe it was the ringing in his head, maybe the bandage covering his ear but something felt off.  With a shrug he pushed onward but a nagging doubt sat at the back of his head.

"Wolfesbane, I'm thinking we may need to put the DShk into action so might be an idea to man that after we are done, I'd kill for sandbags right now." Pat added.



Dice Rolls
10:46, Today: Patrick Walsh rolled 8 using 1d100.  Recon roll. Success
10:46, Today: Patrick Walsh rolled 95 using 1d100.  Combat Engineer. Success unless 95 and above is always a fail.

Andrew took it as slow as he could while leading their team forward looking for signs of the enemy and hopefully going undetected as they moved into position.

Andrew Johnson rolled 11 using 1d100.  RECON.

Setting up Andrew would try to find a position that gave him good coverage of the kill zone they were forming and some cover. He looked for a fallen log or rocks, even a large tree still standing if he has to and there are no other options.

Once in place he uses the sight on the Carl Gustav to get some distances in their newly formed ambush and then he waits.

In cover, prone waiting
Sergeant Johnson
M-3 Carl Gustav [1/1 FFV551 84mm HEAT]
Holding fire while looking for a target.

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