Those who served:
Plancake
Caverick
Malchrntyne
Smoke
Ivan
LIBERATION
Liberation looked like it was over before it began, when the chopper refused to listen to us and take off. I'd heard about rivalry between the forces before, but here it was in all its ugliness.
I was all for a restart, but Plancake spurred us on to never say die and leg it. We humped our gear the 2km to the city, RVed at the MRAPs, and the guys drove and grenaded a path while I followed on foot and got shot a lot.
We stuck together and stuck to the plan. Once at the soccer field we hit the beach- literally, in Ivan's case. He sped his MRAP into the water, and that was the moment when those Duke boys knew they was in a heap 'o trouble.
Fortunately we had a .50 cal pickup close to hand, and pressed the attack on the castle. Rich took his MRAP right up the steps, into the castle and Christian peppered insurgents with grenades until he ran dry. We cleared the castle, blew up the bomb crate, then realised that two "possible bomb location"s didn't mean two possible locations of a bomb, it meant two locations of TWO bombs, and we had to get back to the soccer field as the enemy forces started to swarm and converge on the castle!
Malchrntyne and I headed to the front gate and did sniper/spotter. Which ended up being sniper/medic- I'd stay out of sight and drag him to safety when they found the range. Aaron was everywhere at once reviving, and when it was clear enough Rich, Ivan and I made a run for it back to the soccer field in the MRAP.
We were pinned down and things looked quite nasty at one point before Ivan hit the crate with a rocket and we ran for it again. Christian and I cleared the evac, and as fast movers barrel-rolled triumphantly over the city, our chopper swept in to extract us.
And didn't land. Screw those guys.
DON'T LET THE BUG OUT.
We tried the plan, but it failed. SPLAT covered the tower while I tried to creep down and hit the pilot, but the sandbagged wall protected him. I moved to get around the wall, the tower saw me and I was cut down (and avenged moments later).
We switched tack. I hit the guys guarding the truck, Ivan blew up the three armoured cars patrolling the installation, then we piled into the truck and I floored it. Smashing through the gates at the dock, we followed Rich's plan and swung wide to approach from the north. I flattened a few bushes, swung our war wagon onto another road and sped south toward the installation. A large warehouse provided the opportunity to approach from cover, and SPLAT reached it unseen. We took up positions and began hitting the installation's guard towers.
At last it was quiet. Too quiet. I suggested we send one buddy team to sound it out, and volunteered with Plancake. After crossing a dry creek bed we fell into their little trap, led by a large patrol to the west. I hit the dirt and fired through the grass at anything that gave off heat. The last guy and I stared each other down firing, and I was relieved when he fell.
I ran for the wall, too confident, and fell into their overlapping arcs. A hostile in the northeastern emplacement hit my exposed flank and dropped me, almost taking out Plancake too as they shot at each other. Plancake won, and Ivan brought me around.
SPLAT pressed the assault. Malcrntyne and Smoke took the north entrance and the rest of us the northeastern. We fought our way to a large building. I doorkicked and came under an intense spray of fire that made me stumble back out the door. Plancake came in hammering with the SAW, and we cleared the room.
By this time the others had cleared the northwestern side of the installation, and we all converged on the dome that held the bioweapon. A couple of sneaky hostiles gave us some trouble, but we cleared it out and Plancake sent a rocket into the germ crate.
The others had rescued the weapons designer, and with some clumsy maneuvering and repelling a last-send counterattack, we reached the extraction point and lifted off, mission won!
