An in depth encounter with a Javelin missile hasn’t dulled the aggro urge for food of {the marketplace} T-62. At the beginning of Turn #2 the Soviet bruiser weapons its 580hp diesel engine and units off, like a bat out of Heliopolis, within the path of Camp Geiger. The highway its chosen will take it proper previous a home occupied by 1st Squad – 13 Marines led by Sergeant Iverson. Fireworks and flesh wounds appear inevitable.
(Quitting Qatab is an open-to-all game of Combat Mission: Shock Force 2 wherein NATO forces are orchestrated by commenters whereas Qatabi models are pc managed. Each each day flip covers one minute of motion. For a state of affairs define and summaries of earlier turns, click here)
Iverson’s squad and its wheels, Bayou Belle, aren’t going wherever this flip. Several Comment Commanders steered strikes yesterday however as no-one explicitly issued an order, the 2 models resolve to sit down tight behind a curtain of popped smoke designed to display screen them from flank assaults. That curtain remains to be forming when an enemy automobile seems on Bayou Belle’s 1 o’clock.
Fortunately, its not the beforehand glimpsed IFV however a 21st Century portee. BB reacts shortly, plastering the stunned technical with 40mm grenades. One enemy gunner topples from his perch earlier than billowing smoke breaks LoS.
The motoring T-64 is about 70 metres from 1st Squad’s crowded billet when it collides with the primary of three flawlessly delivered 66mm unguided anti-tank rockets.
The assault is so shortly executed, and the ensuing mud and smoke clouds so soupy, it’s unimaginable to inform whether or not the enormous has been saved by its mosaic of reactive armour. It doesn’t return hearth or transfer in the course of the the rest of the flip which is encouraging.
While the T-64 may be too shocked or grievously wounded to retaliate, the LAW assault doesn’t go unanswered. Moments after the ambush has been sprung, the ambushers discover themselves underneath withering close-range hearth from the second storey of the mosque. Despite immediate suppressive hearth from the MG and Javelin groups at Camp Geiger, and Ample Annie at o53 (She’s simply dropped-off Daly’s squad) Iverson’s males are quickly pinned. One incoming spherical finds flesh unprotected by physique armour. The peacekeepers have sustained their first casualty.
Other Turn #2 headlines:
On their method to the lighthouse the Dutch aviators discover a inexperienced MBT tucked behind an abode on the north aspect of the river.
Deathproof’s frantic fidgeting lastly pays off. She extricates herself from the ditch, arriving at her vacation spot close to the racecourse home in time to disembark Metzger’s AT outfit.
Willy Wiesel survives his recon ramble. On the best way to D74 the dinky German AFV noticed a number of Qatabi infantry models shifting north-westward within the space of the park.
A truck is glimpsed close to to the Last Known Addresses of the technical and the IFV.
At the flip’s finish, the one unembarked models in Camp Geiger are Yuen’s Javelin staff and one half of Eaton’s MG squad. Swamp Thing idles near Yuen with Sigler, the platoon HQ, aboard. Waiting to depart in InstiGator are the opposite half of Eaton’s MG squad plus Macmurray and Judge.
