Red Alert's third Battlesim yesterday, with the story continuing from the previous two.
This time the ETF forces from the previous years have been routed, with a small hold-out squad roaming the battlefield causing chaos, as the Vukodlak war machine rolled into Calladia.
A great day was had. Blazing sunshine, which wasn't so great for me for the majority of the day, in full ghillie.
But damn my home made ghillie set up WORKS!
One of the regulars, Duncan, has a collection of military vehicles, including a weasel, an open topped tracked atv.
In the morning, while
@Smiling-Dutchman and
@Honey badgerwere on guard in the fort I was on overwatch outside in the undergrowth. Duncan nearly ran me over. I had to scramble out of the way waving my hand to show him I was there.
In the afternoon the ghillie got another test:
At last years event one of the staff, Rozy, was an npc and had been wandering the site all day with a fishing rod, asking for fish. So this year I packed a tin of anchovies in my loadout, just in case.
Vukodlak forces set up their F.O.B in the morning, and our C.O. tells me that I will score victory points if I can deliver the anchovies to Rozy.
Who is sat in the pick up truck inside the Calladian F.O.B. The enemy spawn.
Arse. Oh well, forget that idea...
After Charlie Squad (our squad) were instrumental in delivering supplies to the refugee camp, I decided to push out solo and go Calladian hunting. I informed my squad over comms, and struck out into the undergrowth.
After a few minutes out occurred to me that if I kept pushing up that hill ahead of me I would be getting close to the Calladian HQ.
Sod it, I'm going to try.
I went into full stealth mode, watching every step, looking out for twigs and branches, trying to be as quiet as possible.
Voices? Ahead of me...
A Calladian squad coming down the hill, through the woods from their spawn. I quickly turned, vaulted over a fallen tree by some bushes and rolled under, my rifle under me cloak wrapped around, MK23 clutched in my sweaty mitt.
I saw them stop and start whispering. They'd seen movement. I waited. They moved forwards. I could see them clearly. Definitely Calladian, at least 4 of them. I had an easy shot on one but that would lead to me getting hit and blowing the mission.
My close encounter with the weasel (ooer) had convinced me my cloak works, so trust it!
I just lay still, and after a couple of minutes of no further movement the Calladians decided that there was nobody there and continued forward... all of them passing right by me! One of them I could have reached out and touched. Daaaaamn!
I waited as I heard them trudge off down the hill, then when I was sure they were gone I continued towards their base, moving even more carefully now, crawling through the undergrowth, and like the idiot I am not noticing the patch of nettles until I was crawling through it.
I managed to sneak right up to the Calladian HQ without being spotted.
Unfortunately there were quite a few troops their prepping to respawn.
So I stood up and strolled into their base, enjoying the confusion on their faces as I held my gun aloft and shouted repeatedly "Nobody's shot me yet, nobody's shot me yet"
I stopped short and tossed the tin of anchovies at their feet, causing them all to scatter as if it were a grenade ?
The Calladian CO picked the tin up and handed it to Rozy.
Mission complete!
At that point a kid leveled his pistol at me and shot me in the chest as I stood there grinning my head off.
We all had a good laugh about it then I went off on the trek back to base, reporting my success over comms to my squad leader.
When I got back to HQ I was met by a round of applause from all the Vukodlak soldiers present.
Slow, tiring and painful but omg that was worth it!
And the day ended in the third win in a row for Vukodlak!
Hats off to all of Charlie Squad, which was all Outcast members and
@Smiling-Dutchman who made a great addition to our yearly squad.
Red Alert Battlesims are always awesome. This one I will take away some great memories.
The next battlesim will be next year, the next battlesim lite is July 23rd, with no kit restrictions or camo requirements.
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). After that we switched ends and 3 o'clock syndrome started to kick in. I hit a guy square in the face since he was lying under a bush, watched him recoil from the hit and then come out with his rifle raised after his friend shot me. Then as the game was ending I had someone full-auto me in the face from about 5m away, so that was nice too. Decided to call it there since I needed to get the m700 set back for 1.1J for next week's Nam game, as Eversley Alpha has a ban on DMR and sniper power at this time of year since the ferns are pretty out of control.
