XII. The rescues
We start with our dashing Special Force commander,
vazha, who immediately eliminates the Technical threat with an ATGM missile. Keep in mind, it will be important, that while in the late Kalerion's BTR-80 his team reloaded to the maximum - four missiles.
Once the thread is removed, it is time for all-out assault, under initially neglectable enemy fire :
Things change, though, when another Toyota with a machine-gun starts shooting at Vazha's Tiger Forces. They have no choice but to duck for cover :
What happens next ? You will see... later !
Moving to the main compound,
MoistCloister is assault the small houses next to it. You can watch below his squad jumping the small wall, then moving for the kill :
They are, of course, heavily supported from all sides :
The action below lasted around 2 seconds in total :
Daesh counter-attacks. Some of Moistcloister's men are wounded, but none are killed :
Moistcloister's men on the other hand, don't miss.
An Islamist is still inside the building, behind a wall. Moistcloister throws a grenade...
... and gets killstolen by
Endemic, who does an incredibly risky shot with his main gun, blowing up the aforementioned wall and Islamist
The first building is now cleared, there is an enemy on top of the second one, and still a lot of people in the compound.
A few more seconds later,
Sergiu64 removes the hostile on top of the second building, with his first confirmed kill with a sniper rifle !
Only the compound left !
Now moving to
Dayyālu's great turkey shoot - part II. Or is it going to be part II ?
Dayyalu moves slightly in order to be able to have a clear view on the technical and to be further away from the still occupied building :
[you can note an heavy shell falling between the two buildings, not sure if hostile or Sukhavati's]
This slight repositioning is immediately met with very intense RPG fire from the other building :
One hit out of three rockets, luckily without damage.
Dayyalu's revenge is immediate and kills at least one militant :
In addition, Dayyalu's support is on its way :
Dayyalu slowly pulls back
(according to Endemic, you cannot go backward fast on a T-62 anyway). At the same time, the technical starts to move toward the SAA forces for some reason :
Suddenly, DRAMA ! An hostile Gvozdika shells lands on Andnjord already diminutive squad !
Andnjord himself survived by miracle (he was ducking due to light fire from the closest building) and thanks to the smaller scale of the game. A 122mm HE shells THAT close is not going to leave you any chance in real life.
baud on the other hand manages to set up the machine gun, and immediately cleans up the closest building, while Dayyalu destroys the technical and Andnjord runs back to the trenches :
Dayyalu is at this point totally out of HE shells, so he decides to pull back from the scene for R&R, while Baud repositions his duchka.
Not far from those three teams, Ar Rouksor is sending mortar shells after shells after shells on a building known to harbor hostiles :
After patching up,
Egosphere is now on the move to clean-up whoever survived and occupy said building :
But this is going to take some time, so we can move back to the last compound assault. Here is the situation at this point :
darkpatriot's team is spread-out. Three soldiers of his team are in front of Catacombs's team, while darkpatriot and the soldier he trained to shelter from mortar shells earlier on are behind Catacombs). The front-runners have the RPO, and they ease-up the target by using all their rockets. The closest tower is gone already. The part closest to Moistcloister is next wit the two other rockets.
SmartCheetah also shoots at the target, effectively thanks to the brand new HE shells he received
Sukhavati also contributes :
Finally, while darkpatriot is out of RPO rockets, Catacombs still have those he got from Endemic's BMP-1, and it is time to use it :
By this point, there is no one left in the building, and it can be occupied by the assault force :
The area is clear !
Allah be praised !
Great job, team ! The National Defence Forces are en route to the airbase to reinforce the perimeter. And our goal now is to finish off the enemy forces. Capture and hold the sector's key points !
Wait !
???
Who are you ?
SAA Camera Division ! You are only allowed to go for the SOUTHERN key point at the moment ! Following you guys across 4 different battle areas, plus the stragglers, is just too time-consuming.
That's a stupid order ! We need to press on !
Do you want to be put in a medic IFV with an ATGM on the top of it and sent through the most dangerous roads in Deir ez-Zor to pick-up wounded soldiers ? No ? Then thank you for your cooperation !
Let's not forget
mondblut and
Azira . While everyone else is completing objectives and getting more or less into harm's way, they had been safe so far, but it would be great if they could bring some "spoils of war". Of course, capturing spoils of war from the enemy was risky, but this problem too had a solution :
What about capturing spoils of war from allies ?
You guys are not using that BMP ?
Well, the drivers are dead, and we don't know how to repair it. But if someone could repair it and drive it to the air base ?
Repair it ! Drive it to the airbase ! Sure ! Let's get to it folks !
This would take a lot of time, so it is time to check how Vazha's "elite special team" is doing.
Not great. Engaged by a new technical, Vazha's men hit the ground and prepare their ATGM. Except one man, the Sniper, who for some reason runs toward the technical ^^ :
It's a BINGO !
Nonetheless, the group impetus has been stopped, the three men are all wounded, and have difficulties getting rid of the few enemy fighters surrounding them :
The situation becomes critical when a THIRD Technical, this time with a recoiless rifle, engages the team :
At the exact same moment, Vazha, the dashing leader of the special force, is killed by bullets :
The ATGM soldier manages to shoot another missile at the new technical :
The missile goes awry in the second half of the trajectory due the soldier directing hit being totally suppressed, but by insane luck, the missile veers off left & right... into the target !
[insanely lucky - it must compensate that time in Wargame : Red Dragon when an enemy fighter crashed straight into my only HQ]
Sadly, there is no time to praise Allah, as the sniper of the team is killed by a Daesh sniper.
SmarthCheetah, who has no more job attacking the compound, arrives at this very moment, though his support is at this point inaccurate. The last survivor of Vazha's team has to get rid of the solider in front of him alone :
Winning the duel, the survivor now resumes his mission : save the prisoners !
Will he succeed ?
We will know later ! Because for now, we need to talk about Allah's favorite tanker : Strange Farouwk !
His movement toward Dayyalu went unopposed, until he passed close - too close - from the building behind the one Egosphere was targeting :
At this point, it won't surprise anyone if I say that the rocket missed. Imam Draco, perks of still having the commander on top of the cupola, started shooting immediately, while Strange Farouwk is still checking where it came from.
Sadly, Imam Draco does not have HE shells left, so his effort is pretty useless.
On the other hand, Strange Farouwk still has HE shells, and use them decisively :
But there is another militant, also with a RPG, on the roof :
Hit on the turret. It won't surprise anyone if I say that the rocket caused no damage.
The combat carries on. Strange Farouwk focuses on that building, while Imam Draco decides to use his machine-gun against the mortar team that does not have any cover. You can see Egosphere's team, or rather their icon, in the background
Both the RPG team and the mortar team are neutralized, but at this point Imam Draco is shooting AP shells at meat targets, so he is ordered to stop wasting this kind of ammo lest he does not have any left when they meet the T55A :
So, I was mentioning Egosphere. The time for mortering is over, now Egosphere is assaulting. But before that, the men crouch to prepare the assault with some RPG shoots
[aiming slightly up while crouching, not sure it is possible with a RPG-7 IRL]
That's two Islamists their families will have difficulties identifying.
There are a lot of bodies in, on and around the building now, under the effect of all those shells and RPG :
But another guy gets on the roof. This time, Egosphere misses. It was the last HE rocket !
As for Ar-Rouksor, he is totally out of ammo :
Who will kill the last enemy ?
Not far from there,
Sukhāvatī had one last HEAT shell (and not more HE shell ) :
Egosphere can now occupy the building :
Back to Mondblut - by the time he has finished his repairs Azira had arrived to his location, and spots again a few lightly armed militants by the time
Well, repair done !
Great, can you ... !
Sorry, can't hear you ! Next part of the mission is to go to the airbase
Yes, but with us !
SORRY ! Can't hear you ! Probably the jamming you mentioned earlier !
But we are just in front of each oth...
BYYYYEEEEE ! Good luck with your mission !
On the way out, Mondblut immediately tests the canon on the militants. It works perfectly !
Of course, there are more militants further away to engage.
So let's conclude with Vazha's survivor :
Darkpatriot's team is, from the compound, in a position to remove the sniper that had harassed Vazha's team :
Meanwhile, SmartCheetah huge his guns to remove another threat to Vazha's remains of a team :
This allows the last survivor of Vazha's team to get into the building. The prisoners use the opportunity to run away, though they are on the roof and the elite soldier barely passed the door of the building :
The elite soldier, mission accomplished, leaves the building. The prisoners are still on the second floor ^^
Looks like a guard is going to try to intercept the prisoners :
So the elite soldier gets back into the building, not sure what happens but the prisoners get out !
Hey, this guy does not look like a prisoner !
Well, I played dead !
Bring them all to the base, we will sort that out there !
So... this long long turn is finally over.
This is the situation at this point :
If you wonder about ammo, the situation is pretty clear :
- There is no more ammo in the supply trucks, at all
- Endemic still has a lot of ammo for his gun,
- Dayyalu could refuel a tiny bit, so he is at low-but-acceptable level,
- Strange Farouwk and SmartCheetah have very ammo left,
- Imam Draco has a few AP shells left and ammo for the Dushka, everything else is all out
- Sukhavati has maybe 4 rounds he could get from the supply truck,
- IF your squad has something rockety, then your squad does not have any more ammo for it,
- Vazha's last survivor has one missile left,
- There is no more raw ammunitium in Endemic's BMP-1, though Mondblut's "medical" BMP-1 is full of ammo, so if you want RPO refill, only Mondblut can provide...
... except that it is time for reinforcements :
I will bring two supply trucks (what's left in the pool) and 1-2 fuel trucks. We can bring BMP-1, all sorts of BTR, and the rest is infantry. Priority will go to the new / returning commanders, then to commanders who received heavy losses, then we will see what is left
.
We also have not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 new missions.
1. Bring back the prisoners to the spawn point. Easy.
2. We heard you like Escort Side Mission, so we upped the ante with an Escort MAIN Mission, and of course no preparation time => Escort the NDF convoy. For reference, here is the route it will take :
It is pretty strong as well so whatever reinforcement we bring
should be enough to escort it :
3. Wipe out Southern Daesh force :
4. Wipe out the North Western Daesh force - I don't want anyone to go for this objective at the moment so I don't have to spend litteraly 5 hours to do the next update like I did for this one ^^ [30 minutes playing, 2.5 hours taking & editing screenshoots, 2 hours writing this]
Once the escort is over, we won't be on a timer anymore so I will use the opportunity to refuel & refill everyone, except those engaged in mission #3.
