Those who served:
Caverick
Christian
Ivan
Dan
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In the dim, early morning gloom our powerful insertion boat cut through the fog that lay thick on the water. Christian, Ivan, the AI and I climbed over the side at the north end of Pefkas Bay, in Altis' northeastern region (http://www.1er.rpima.free.fr/arma3_map.pdf), and made our way to the headland of Iraklia.
Our contact waited by a campfire. Christian took overwatch while I approached and talked with the man. He gave us three targets to the north (A Tigris AA tank, a house containing an officer with some intel, and an ammo cache), and provided us with a vehicle and an ammo crate.
While the others geared up I left them with the vehicle, took our AI comrades and jogged north to get eyes on. I spied the Tigris at the far end of a long beach, dotted by enemy patrols. One of them saw me and a fight ensued. I dropped two but was flanked and had to charge the position I had just taken out, enabling me to take refuge in a house as bullets shattered the glass.
Christian and Ivan had fared no better, encountering two Ifrits on the road. One of them disabled their car, and Christian was hit. We were divided, and vulnerable.
Suddenly the motorboat rounded the headland and began firing on the enemy. It was Dan!
Dan blanketed the enemy positions with explosives, and followed up with tracer for good measure.
Ivan, meanwhile, had healed Christian. SPLAT regrouped and Ivan was able to take out the Tigris with a missile shot. We moved toward the large house with the officer and Intel. I got a couple of Bori but when I moved in their machinegunner cut me down. I respawned back at the headland, jogged through the forest until I stumbled across a red car, drove it for a while until I hit a rock and busted the engine, then regrouped with the others.
The officer had been disposed of and the Intel was ours, so we moved for the ammo cache. We took it slow and lined up good positions, Christian and I finding an excellent snipers nest to the north and allocated targets. Once we opened fire, however, the whole place exploded! None of us had launched any ordinance, the enemy appeared to have FUBARd.
We moved in and secured the position (I had to door-kick a house to take out a straggler), then topped up our gear and continued on bikes. HQ radioed in to tell us that a high value target (HVT) had been spotted nearby.
Christian and I reconnoitered the target and found a large cluster of the enemy at a bulbous installation overlooking Sofia. We again found a great firing position, figuring we could fire three shots each and then withdraw safely down the hill to relocate.
Dan and Ivan arrived in a truck, chasing down enemy quad bike riders:
Dan, Christian and I then lined up the enemy and showed great fire discipline, firing our three shots and then pulling back so nobody was cut down. However luck was again with us- one of us had taken out the HVT!
We then moved away from the installation:
And headed for our contact in the town of Sofia.
When we reached the city, however, all hell broke loose. There was an army in there, and they came out of the woodwork like ants. Dan proceeded on foot while I raced to link up with Christian. Once our buddy team was established we were able to cover each other in a VERY tense scramble through the city. Quite a few times we'd round a corner and stumble on an enemy, and once we cowered in a building while an Ifrit prowled past firing its heavy MG.
By running through backyards we were able to get to a church and our contact. He gave us our evac point and a target of opportunity along the way, a power station.
Dan and Ivan had fallen battling the army in the city (Dan had to go). There was no chance for a rescue, so Christian and I attempted to pull out to the south. We encountered no resistance threading through the streets, but once we started crossing open fields bullets started coming our way.
We ran and ran as fast as we could, but Christian was winged and could only walk. A few seconds later they winged me as well. We staggered to a little tin hut where I was able to use my last medpacks, then we approached the last objective, the power station.
We took our time and scoped it out, then picked a target, counted down and dropped him. I was then hit by a patrol we hadn't spotted. Christian was able to revive me but was winged again, and I was out of medpacks. Neither of us had any accuracy to speak of- our weapons were shaking all over the place.
Our only chance was to use a little hill to get close enough to have a fighting chance. Realising that we faced almost certain death, we approached the hill. Edging around it, Christian came under fire. I shouted to him to get back, but he said his only option was to go down firing- and he took the guy out!
There was now one other soldier on our side of the installation (behind the hill). I was shaking too much to hit him and down to my last three bullets, so I did the only other thing I could think of: crawl to the man Christian had just hit, to get a medikit from him. I painstakingly bellied across the grass... and reached the body!
It had no medikits.
I turned around, went to thermal, and saw the last soldier through the grass. I managed to put a 7.62mm into him, but he still turned and gunned me down.
Christian was taken out soon after, and the three of us respawned at the headland. We tried finding other vehicles or repairing them, but this was fruitless and the objectives were far too far away to run. We vowed to settle the score next week.
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