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Twilight 2000 - The Modern Dark Ages : The Abridged Version Chapters 6
GM - Fusilier
Chapter 6 - Gdansk - Open Revolt : August 4, 2000
Summary: The team captures the defecting militia leaders. Some members then go on a recruiting spree, while others go on a hunt for intelligence in PACT territory. Then the team together go on a mission to save some munitions factories from PACT forces.

Mad Dogs Unit Roster:
John Jameson McCarthy - player
Helmut Meyer - player
Kurt Weiss - player
Marc St. Gil - Now an NPC
Ben Jagelis - player
Henry Jordan - NPC
Varis Babicevs - player
Arthur Fox - NPC
Oskar Friedmann - player
Andrew Rooke - NPC
George Rawlinson - NPC
Jonathan Young - NPC
Francis "Frank" Benucci - player
Robert Mitchell - player
Mike Catchings - player
Anna - NPC
Methuselah A. Q. K. Agahu - player
2nd Lt. Pearce - NPC on temporary assignment
Istvan Medgyessy - Briefly as a player, but recurring NPC from Gang Anjo

PC Assets:
M2 Bradley
BMP
Humvee
UAZ
Motorcycle

• As Friedmann's team captures the MU leaders, a huge attack by the Polish Troops against the MU ensues. Another member of Gang Anjo dies.
  
• The Hind from the other night returns, flying along the river. It destroys the BMP and Ben Jagelis with it. It’s cannon during the pass also kills Agahu. One of the PCs firing at it scores a solid hit and the Mi-24 goes down further off in the city.
  
• Istvan Medgyessy temporarily joins the group (a player briefly takes over one of the Anjo gang members) The rest of the PCs end up escaping the Polish battalion's onslaught, with the 4 remaining heads of the MU in tow (2 had been shot), and everyone regroups back near the billet.
  
• Kurt Weiss and Marc St Gil head to the church ferrying casualties, and find Fox, who is ready to rejoin the unit. While at St. Mary's, the unit finds out an update on Stone. It turns out that Stone won’t ever walk normally again, was now living nearby with a nurse, and won’t be returning to the unit. Henry Jordan has died. George Rawlinson the chaplain has returned to working with the IB.
  
• JJM goes to visit the IB command post and soon returns. Volodnya goes back to Anjo territory to speak with his boss.
  
• The Mad Dogs then stand down, and try to figure out their next mission. Lt. Pearce reports that command had picked up 2 Americans from the 8th, stragglers reporting in. JJM has them sent over. Caleb Mulcahy and Jed Black join the PCs.
  
• The team then splits into two groups.

Group 1:

• JJM takes Group 1 (JJM, Pearce, Mitchell, Weiss, Black) to the church to see about recruiting some additional bodies to their unit. While at the church, they learn that Matt Doyle has been released from jail. Felix Steinhoff (NPC) joins the party, along with  about 10 npc fighters includingJanusz, Ferro, Zajac Narutowicz (dual pistol wielding Chelm man from Chapter 3), Low Blow (from Kaminski's Hotel Europa crew who had been met but never named until now) and Aleksandar (the firefighter from Nowe Ogrody).
  
• Group 1 then meets a man who offers to sell them more weapons, and follow him to the docks where they buy some vintage automatic weapons and bolt action rifles. They then get word that the Russian attack has started again, and are given orders to head to the church and to rally their men for a mission to provide flank security for a counterattacking force of IB men.

Group 2:

• Meanwhile Group 2 (Friedmann, Mulcahy, Benucci, Babicevs, and Meyer), lead by Oskar, heads south to check out the defensive lines and also look for Hauptmann Schweppenburg (to kill).
  1st Engagement South of the Golden Gate
  
• While heading south, Group 2 encounters some Polish militia defending the southern approach from an OP (Augustyn and Jaroslaw). Jaroslaw then leads Group 2 into the sewer tunnels, hoping to get some intel on the Russians. While in the maze-like sewers, they ambush 6 soviets and capture one, killing the rest. The Soviets appeared to be in the sewers tracing a path through them with rope. Group 2 then takes their prize prisoner and head back. As they’re returning, the Russians have started their attack again near the Golden Gate. The group has to plow through the Russians (killing five) before being able to make it back to the rally with JJM’s team. Oskar manages to snap up a crate of explosives during the firefight.

(Continued)

• Now regrouped, the Mad Dogs learn more about their new mission - to protect light munitions factories north of the thieves market. The Mad Dogs will be supporting the attacks's right flank, along with 2 platoons of IB and 2 platoons of militia. The mission from a strategic perspective is to counter-attack against the Pact forces just north of the old city - capture the buildings just north of the Solidarity Market, and then hold them against the Russians. This will ensure that the light munitions factories can continue putting out ammunition for the local forces. The mission will be broken into three phases, with objectives A, B, and C along the line of advance.
  1st Engagement at the Gdansk Munitions Factories
  
• In attacking target A (4 buildings), one of the new recruits dies. The IB sends a 5 man squad of auxiliaries (total of auxiliaries and new recruits together now around 15). Frank Benucci takes a shoulder hit and the bullet lodges. JJM takes a bullet through the forearm, and the Bradley takes an rpg hit which kills the engine. Another auxiliary dies.
  
• The squads then hit Bravo. Oskar takes a devastating leg hit, arm hit, and abdomen hit. One bullet lodged in his hip. Frank and Zajac are the first to move up to Charlie, and stumble across a group of civvies and wounded militia, all unarmed and hiding in a basement. They work to quickly extract the civilians and wounded.
  
• The rest of the unit regroups at objective Charlie, and dig in to repel the looming Pact counterattack.
  
• Lukas Hoffman(German NPC antiarmor leader) temporarily joins the team in preparation to repel the counterattack.

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