GM - Fusilier
Chapter 7 - Gdansk - Last Stand : August 4, 2000
Summary: The team repels the largest PACT attack so far. A bunch of people die, and a bunch of new faces join the team. The PACT forces pull out, and Gdansk is saved. The team then assaults a local salvage yard, and takes it over as their new base of operations.
Mad Dogs Unit Roster:
John Jameson McCarthy - player
Helmut Meyer - player
Kurt Weiss - NPC
Marc St. Gil - NPC
Varis Babicevs - player
Arthur Fox - NPC
Oskar Friedmann - player
Andrew Rooke - NPC
Jonathan Young - NPC
Francis "Frank" Benucci - player
Robert Mitchell - player
Mike Catchings - player
Anna - NPC
2nd Lt. Pearce - NPC on temporary assignment
Caleb Mulcahy - player
Jed Black - player
Andrzej - Briefly as a player - Obroncow Militia, Marian Enclave
PC Assets:
M2 Bradley
Humvee
UAZ
Motorcycle
- A major Soviet attack commences. Heavy and light artillery start pounding the positions of all friendly units. Then 2 platoons worth of infantry start assaulting, backed by a T80 (It's noted that this is perhaps the same T80 from chapter 5, and it had been repaired), a BMP, and 2 BTRs.
- The group starts putting up a dogged defense, killing 5 or 6 Soviets in the initial rush.
- Zajac takes a forearm hit.
- 2 Polish auxiliaries die from incoming fire from a BTR.
- Lukas takes an arm hit.
- 2nd Lt. Pearce gets shot in the neck and dies.
- The T80 fires a round at where the platoon had situated their headquarters, killing Marc St. Gil instantly. Anna also suffers a grievous internal wound, while JJM is concussed and buried in rubble.
- The BMP-1 is motive killed by an anti-tank mine strategically placed prior to the start of the assault.
- The Mad Dogs start pulling back through Objective C. Lukas Hoffman kills the BMP with a shot from a Carl Gustav.
- The Soviets are now moving into close assault range. Zajac gets bayoneted in the abdomen. Another Polish auxiliary dies. The platoon has been killing soviets left and right the whole time. Anna clears enough rubble to extract JJM and then collapses in shock. Fox returns and helps take Anna to the waiting Humvee. He also informs JJM that Kurt Weiss has died as well.
- Another Polish auxiliary dies. The whole team is pulling back at this point and are being pursued by Soviet forces. A zsu-23-4 joins the mix from the Soviet side of the battle, but stays strangely quiet. One of the BTRs is mission killed by the Mad Dogs.
- Caleb takes an arm wound. Volodya and some gang members fly into the firefight in an old taxi and under a lot of small arms fire, crash into one of the buildings.
- A player takes over the Polish Auxiliary named Andrzej.
- An MTLB with a dozer blade, a UAZ, and a Ural truck enter the enemy’s rear area with reinforcements. Frank takes another hit to his shoulder (bullet magnet, this guy).
- All players are now trying to do a fighting withdrawal to Bravo. A message comes in to exfil north to the river instead for an extraction by river barge. Varis gets lightly caressed by a grenade, the shrapnel hitting him in the heel.
- Soviet ambush hits the rearguard. Andrew Rooke is killed. Helmet Meyer takes a hit to his chest which breaks a rib. Ferro takes shrapnel from a grenade which puts shrapnel into her legs. Jed Black takes shrapnel from the same grenade. The group fights on, trying to break out of the ambush. Jed Black takes a bad hit to his back. Helmut Meyer takes a shot to the arm.
- There is a wild chase scene involving Oskar and friends careening around the battlefield in the Humvee in a clown car situation.
- The team continues retreating to the north to reach the barge exfil point. Jed Black gets cut down. Andrzej also gets killed at the same moment from Soviet machinegun fire while crossing a road. Volodya takes a shot to his wrist, breaking the bone. The team eventually makes it to the river barge and get aboard. Rather than have the Humvee captured and used by the Soviets, the bullet-ridden vehicle is pushed into the river. The team finally extracts downriver, and end up mooring at a secondary command post that has been created by the IB.
- JJM gets called into a meeting with Col. Hawthorne (commander of allied forces) in the HQ command tent. Hawthorne gives JJM a job well done and stands the unit down. Enter in Vincent Wright (dressed as a priest this time), who introduces JJM to 6 men who will help reinforce the wounded Mad Dogs. Luis Ortega, Steve (Will) Williamson, Billy “Crack” O’Brien, Alex Michaels and Cpl. Joe Morgan from the rangers (who happen to know Frank) and Eikki Termonen, a Finnish sniper. The new Americans were a part of 8th ID who Wright recruited. It's also mentioned here that Wright has a new mission for the unit at some point. Finally, the unit sees another group of 6 heavily armed, mysterious looking men. They're dressed as civilians, but heavily outfitted. Some type of special operations team perhaps?
- JJM welcomes now PFC Varis into the American army and grants him American citizenship. The team gets word that the attack on Gdansk is winding down, with some pact forces returning to their starting lines, and others pulling out entirely. The remaining local militia decide to leave back to their homes with the exception of Aleksandar, Janusz, and Ferro. The still living members of gang Anjo also return to their home turf, with Anjo himself asking the Major to come see him later on.
- Ferro is now player controlled.
- The city is safe, for now.
The PACT Siege of Gdansk officially ends
Much later that day:
- Sgt. Jonathan Young reports trouble at the Bradley, and JJM goes back into the HQ tent, to confer with a Capt. Beale. Others in the unit steal a Russian ZIL-131 truck from local militia and truck it down to the Bradley at the billet. It turns out that the IB is requisitioning the Bradley, and Beale orders JJM to stay put, essentially keeping him under armed guard at the CP. Beale also shares that Captain Webb is now dead, and that Col Hawthorne was critically wounded by sniper fire earlier that night. Maj. Lewisis now overseeing the IB. Is this a coup? A tense stand-off forms at the Bradley between IB forces and the Mad Dogs. JJM eventually relents and lets go of the worn and broken Bradley to the IB, but the Mad Dogs pull all their supplies out of the Bradley first, in a compromise. The unit then heads back to the the CP area to break JJM out, assuming he might need it. Using diplomacy, JJM convinces Cpt. Beale that they’re working on the same side, and secures his and his teams release back to independent operations.
- The Mad Dogs reconvene again at the alternate CP (the rest of the unit returning from the old billet) and heads to meet with Gang Anjo at their gang's house. The unit is in possession of only three vehicles now - a UAZ, the motorcycle, and the stolen zil-131.
- While there, they decide that they need to find a better location in the city to rest/heal, and send out multiple scouting parties. They also decide that it’s time to take down (arrest) Lada, and after securing permission from the IB, start making a plan for the attack.
- The team gets into position and assaults Ladas compound. As they begin infiltrating, they find 4 bodies - it seems someone else is hitting Lada's salvage yard tonight. Janusz takes some bad hits while entering a building.
- A hostage situation with one shooter holding a civilian woman takes place, and the shooter throws a grenade which injures Caleb and critically wounds Janusz.
- Elsewhere in the compound, rifle rounds impact some metal tanks which hold a gas of some kind. Ferro struggles to breathe and a few of the opfor succumb to the gas.
- The group attempts to save Janusz and Ferro. Others find Lada and some of his men recently killed. Lada was bound and tortured, and ultimately a wire was used to garrote him.
- Meanwhile the rest of team pursued the rest of the escaping, unexpected opfor. JJM calls IB HQ to request a mortar fire mission and a blocking unit for the escaping, unknown enemy force. During the chase, Mitchell takes a bullet to the arm, as he and Frank are pinned by a three way crossfire. The following turn Mitchell takes an additional two hits - another wound to his arm and one to his abdomen.
- Eikki and Michaels take a prisoner, who claims to be an MU fighter.
- The battle finally winds down, with all hostiles cleared or escaped via boat. The opfor boat is briefly engaged by a gunboat sent from IB HQ.
- Upon inspection, it appears as though the opfor was attempting to take possession of some dangerous chemical weapon tanks that Lada had been secretly hoarding.
1st Engagement at Lada's Compound
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