When you said that I thought you were using artistic licence.
Nope, it does happen, it's ace.
More waffle…Had a quick bash with a change of plan, this time go to Arudy. Brief skirmish and I get a message to put up the Malden flag. I'm guessing this means I've now made my mark…but get killed as I head back to the lodge.
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Curses, didn't update my savegame, probably not a bad thing because before most of my team were taken out by the sneaky sods coming to the lodge, so I prepare for them this time. I take the opportunity to reorganise my squad, nice touch. I get it now.
I'm still miffed about my treatment at Larche so I stock up on mines and drive to EE32 and mine the road there. No idea if it'll work but it makes me feel better.
Get back to the lodge and have yet to have a visit, so I sit and wait for a minute. I wait and wait, nothing doing so I move onto take Arudy again.
This time is not quite so straightforward, mainly because I get too bold. I end up in the town before I see anyone and have to hide in a bush while they run around trying to find me. 3 mg jeeps turn up as well to see what's going on but because I'm in a reasonably good defensive position I take them out. At this point the guys I've left at the lodge report an Abrams.
Sighs. I get them to lie down and sneak off into some nearby bushes.
I get the message to put up the flag for Malden 3 times, not consecutively but 3 times all the same. Just as I do I hear a rumble in the distance. All of a sudden a whoosh of a tank shell flies over my head. Holy crap what is going on. The loon that's with me down in Arudy starts calling M1's and Vulcans. Gunfire is going off to the west of town. A tank explodes to the east of me and I hear more tank rounds firing off. I get near some rocks in the town and get a message I should be putting another flag up.
I seem to be in the middle of a warzone! A T72, M1 and Vulcan squad are engaging something somewhere, an MI17?, turns up and is attacked by the Vulcan. The Vulcan then gets a shell and blows to smithereens. I daren't show my face so I'm lying in a bush while all sorts of mayhem is going on 500 metres away to the east. I can hear a few grenades going off, a bit of small arms fire, then 7 reports another Abrams and a BMP somewhere. I see the BMP drive up to the outskirts of town,an Infantry squad get out and run down the hill to where all the noise was coming from. They then run back to the BMP and get in. Seems like an opportunity too good to miss. I wait for them to get in and launch an RPG at it.
As I run to the centre of town for some scavenging 7 reports another M1, jesus, how many are there! I keep an eye on him as he heads west up the hill just out of sight and notice something moving near where he was. HA, it's more red-flag dudes, I like these, they're pussies! I do a bit of close combat moving from house to house firing a few shots then moving to lure them into my killzone on the south side. The 5 of them are down but I've lost track of the M1 now. The things that encourage me are that he looks damaged and is another red-flag dude. I only have 3 RPG on me though so I'm not convinced I can do anything about it.
Lag is starting to get a bit more heavy, I'm now running around 10-14 fps.
As I get up and go to move into the town to see if I can see the Abrams, 7 reports it at 200 metres. Oh. I look in the direction and there it is bearing down on me, I pop off a couple of M16 rounds at it to make sure he gets the message and double back on myself to get at it from behind. I fire one rocket. Hide, reload. Double back again, distract him from another direction and come back round to launch another rocket up his backside. Once more and he's down. Yay!
Being as I've been told to get another flag up Dourdan seems a likely place. I get the message again and 7 runs to the flag pole in Arudy and changes it, must have missed that. Just as we do I spot some dudes to the north. Seems like 5/6 of them, uh oh, these aren't red flag dudes, that means trouble. We pull back nearer town and setup a defensive position, I start calling targets using the binoculars while 7 gets busy with an M60. As we're doing this a single red-flag mongrel sneaks up on us and takes us out from the west with a single grenade. Thank the flashpoint gods for savegames!
I reload and rather than stay in Arudy where I feel we've outstayed our welcome I pinch a MG Jeep and head off to Dourdan. The single dude that I left much earlier when I pinched the ammo truck is still running around. Probably wondering where all his mates went. 7 introduces him to some lead and Dourdan is clear. I guess that flag must be mine for the taking now but it's not changing. I update my savegame and retry while it's quiet.
I'm looking at the map wondering what to do next while the flies are buzzing around my previous rampage. La Trinite is having a certain draw for me, I was going to have a look earlier but got distracted. I remember someone saying that was where the convoys met so I'm guessing the ammo stashes there should be plentiful. I feel the need for a silenced weapon now. I'm guessing I'm going to have to be sneaky if I want to start heading north.
I get in the jeep and order 7 in, while I'm waiting I have another look at the map. That's when I notice an icon where the jeep is. Huh? If I'm to presume something from this it's that my jeep needs repairing.
Move up N/E to have a peek into La Trinite, get out have a look at the map to mark where I've left the jeep and notice that the icon hasn't moved. Penny drops I think, I could have sworn there was a T80 carcass where that icon was. Have they fixed it? Bastards, it took me an age to take that damn thing out!
7 spots an enemy ural to the south of town. The place is looking pretty deserted though so I run down, sneak around and spot some ammo crates. Get the message about the AP/AV mines, look at the instructions in the radio and chuckle to myself. I'm DYING to find a good place for these. I then wonder if you've used them…
I take some more RPG's and sneak round the back of the truck, the engine is still running but all the passengers are blood-stained with their heads hanging down, damn shame. I take no risks and put a rocket up its tail pipe. I get some more rockets and load up the jeep. I then do something that I may regret later but I'll deal with it then. I mine the hell out of La Trinite, paying particular attention to the north side.
As I'm scratching my chin again looking at the map 7 reports a couple of tanks to the north of us. I now notice that the fog seems to drawing in again. Noooooooo. I get back into a bush and look out over the town, just as I do a T80 and M2 scream down to where the destroyed truck is. Grrr, guess where I didn't put any mines.
As I'm keeping tabs on the tanks which have headed off in the Dourdan area 7 reports some loons. There must be 7/8 of them heading from the north, as I cuss my luck I hear a mine go off to the far south. Heh, that must have been the T80 in Dourdan. That should provide a decent distraction, the M2 certainly seems to have got all interested. Just as I am getting a bit smug and thinking they'll all go off to investigate, the M2 heads straight towards me, gets about 200m away and drops a load of troops. Fab. The troops start heading straight towards me and then sweep away south, phew, the M2 follows shortly after, the turret then swings right in my direction and starts shooting at something. It turns out to be MY bloody jeep. Completely unprovoked attack, I damn them all to hell as my jeep and my rocket stash go up in flames. I'm aware that I'm swearing a lot and have to go back over this to edit a lot of it out…
My position has obviously been compromised now so I head around to the north to find some other cover, as I'm running I can hear the karump of rockets firing off into the distance and some small arms fire. Someone is keeping busy. I find some cover, let 7 catch up then carry on, just as get to a rise some AK fire heads straight towards me, I hit the deck quickly as I check my ammo, 2 clips, not good. There's about 6 guys running straight towards me, I shoot one just as he goes to lob a grenade at my position, I've been injured so my targeting is getting lapse, one after another they try to flank me and run at me while I mow them down constantly watching my ammo. After I got them all I had 14 rounds left, I stock up again and move on. I get to a hill that overlooks the road north of La Trinite and 7 reports some more armour. There's definitely some serious action going on here.
I sneak up to where the armour is and it looks like a convoy, BMP, Vulcan and 2 trucks stopped on the outside of town. I check my RPG ammo, 3 rounds, 4 targets, hmmmm. Lady luck favours the brave I guess, the Vulcan is the first to go down, reload, BMP goes down, 1 of the trucks blows up in sympathy and I pop the other truck. Yeah baby. I may be doing ok but I definitely am feeling out in the open so move off s/e to a big bunch of rocks to regroup with 7 and to save the game!
During this little adventure my FPS dropped to 6/7.
I head north east just to get away from that area, it's a little warm for my liking and stumble across the fence for the airport where Andropov is. Hmmmm, it's light, the visibility isn't too bad, I see a few dead bodies scattered around so I'm guessing the defences round here have been compromised. I see a lone MG'er on the entrance. I can also hear the crump of rocket fire going off into the distance so I take this opportunity to move in.
I tell 7 to target the MG as I move up, he does his job and it turns out the bodies I'd seen weren't bodies at all. I manage to get the dude lying by the house and move up to the entrance, I get the guy there and as soon as I do I get a sniper bullet clean in the forehead and drop to the deck like a sack of spuds. Damn, that changes things.
That's me about done for this round. I now need some PTSD counselling…
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