1) How many Dutchmen does it take to trash a taxi? 2) When is a lifeless Infantry Fighting Vehicle not a lifeless Infantry Fighting Vehicle? 3) Is the gadget pictured here a) A telescope, b) A bowling machine, or c) An anti-tank weapon greater than able to destroying a careless Challenger 2 tank?
(Quitting Qatab is an open-to-all game of Combat Mission: Shock Force 2 through which NATO forces are orchestrated by commenters whereas Qatabi models are laptop managed. Each each day flip covers one minute of motion. For a situation define and summaries of earlier turns, click here)
The taxi ambush close to the lighthouse goes like clockwork. Clockwork that’s been hit a number of instances with a mallet then tossed right into a tar pit. By the time the helicopter crew emerge from hiding, the reversing cab has disappeared behind the constructing at redw29. Feeling silly, the Dutchmen stand round debating what to do subsequent. They’re deep in dialogue when, half a minute later, the cab reappears, heading west and going just like the clappers. Overdam’s swiftly hurled grenade one way or the other finally ends up on the windscreen, however a nonchalant flick of the wipers ensures it doesn’t stay there lengthy. When the flip ends the hapless ambushers are questioning whether or not to tackle the truck or have a shy at the technical parked on the beach at redL5.
Not wholly happy that the immobile/vacant BMP-2 is kaput, the Chally places two shells into it because it advances to V76. As the primary shot kindles vivid flames, the second feels a tad unneccessary, particularly as there’s a beachhouse in want of demolition 140 metres to the east.
By the time the British heavyweight lastly will get round to brickwork remodelling…
…the Landy Boys have crawled into cowl, and Willy, having trespassed northward, is busy inspecting South Beach.
Stone’s sniper workforce is the Comment Commanders’ most efficient unit throughout flip 8. While the American marksmen solely add yet another scalp to their tally throughout the sixty seconds of the motion section (one of many wounded passengers from the IFV is mercilessly eradicated whereas cowering within the market) their shift to the balconied third ground of the Hotel Lux reveals two enemy models which may have sprung nasty surprises had they remained hidden.
The T-62 is lurking by the bombed bridge. Anything tackling it from due south will most likely solely have a turret to purpose at.
And what’s this sitting within the kinked ditch at redv48? Why, it appears to be like remarkably like an AT-14 Spriggan ready to bushwhack unwary AFVs utilizing the highway all the way down to South Beach. ATGM techniques of this sort have liquidated Leopard 2s in Syria, Abrams M1s in Iraq, and Merkavas in Israel, so it’s most likely price treating this shrinking violet with respect.
Park Force ceased to exist throughout flip 8, and the AAVs and infantry chargeable for the mopping-up obtained the job achieved with out shedding a person. Sergeant Daly was the one peacekeeper to finish the flip bloodier that he began it. ‘A team’, the five-man rump of 2nd Squad, have been centered on the Ditch o’ Doom when an RPG slammed into the northern wall of their billet, calmly wounding Daly. The projectile appears to be like prefer it emanated from circa r44.
The state of affairs on the finish of Turn 8:
Ample Annie and Swamp Thing are loaded and able to roll. Empty InstiGator is squirming previous the carcass of Deathproof. The machinegunners of 4th Squad’s A Team and Daly’s social gathering, the one dismounts within the space, are hoping they received’t get left behind.
There are clots of LoS-ruining black smoke gusting throughout the V freeway close to the resort.
Having accomplished an uneventful push in the direction of the park, the Scimitar crew are scanning shrubberies for indicators of life and attempting to recollect what comes after “I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing…”
