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Event - Tobruk @ PBC

11.11.2006

In attendence by Section8 : (14) (L-R back) Josh, Sean, Ross, Robert, Kyle, Aerion, Chuck.
(front) William, Chappy, Steers, Justin, Jameel?, Thumper. Not picured: Brad.

Tobruk - Thursday before the storm

Hey guys - rumor up here is Roadkill, Section8 and Pain Cell are sided w/ the allies againt blackhearts, punishment, sewer rats.

Strategically, its shadow company and carolina riot that Im more concerned about. They all pack heavy, stick tight, and run missions.

Shadow Co is more standup and very very patient in holding an objective. They set up a defensive perimeter far better than team Ive seen. Lots of sleepers and interlocked fields of fire. If they are together w/ Riot and on the axis, we will have our hands more than full. If they are against us, bring lots and lots of heavy gunners on missions and pack heavy.

Most of Section8's vets will be packing heavy.

Im bringing 14 players (+/- 1). 10 solid, 4 seminovice. Most of the vets have been practicing weekly and are ready. 90% of these vets just played at Raiders and are coming back for more PBC action.

Sounds like Brecks on Friday night is a go. I imagine more than a few Section8 are planning on helping roadkill wear it out once again.

Ill be running roadkill comms and play commo liason to Section8 troops who are on FMS/GRMS.

See yall friday.

POST Game (By Thumper)

missions sat 12:00 Attack enemy base - failed - whole german army. tied down across the line.

12:00 hold fuel dump (behind castle)- steers lead. failed.

12:20 south of mounds. locate down pilot & RTB - thumper lead. complete.

12:40 Airfield. complete - (Steers lead on Helo?)

1:20 (enemy mission - denied them Ft. Marvel @ beachhead)

1:40 Distillery : complete. Steers lead.

2:00 Fig tree - blow up. complete.

2:20 Hold normandy beach head. (Ross? ) ?

3:00 Hold Tire Bunker (steers/robert) complete

3:20 Harrass Enemy Base for 15 minutes. Steers lead but robert had card at tire bunker. Thumper on point - the long way through the swamp. Mission Failed - no card.

3:20 : Hold Tire Bunker (Robert Lead) Failed.

4:00 : Fuel Dump. Failed. we sweapt wide flank via mounds w/ armor and got bogged down.

4:20 Helo recon woods behind normandy. Steers lead w/ a few Shadow co. complete.

5:00 non-mission Steers, Robert & Ruskin stuff a satchell charge in ruskins pants, bluf fthere way into castle w/ allied XO and blow up ruskin's pants - killing XO for bonus points.

5:40 hold mounds, village and castle : Thumper, Kyle and Sean sweep into the half track area and hold up, picking off all comers - and as the skies darken, Thumper sweeps into the mounds and picks off the defenders, scoring this part of the mission at dinner stand down. I hear later we scored all three objectives. completeX3

Feeling about our group sat at dinner stand down: poor commo, weak signal, bad massing - very good small team tatics once massed, excellent squad movement once massed. We ran & lead a large majority of the missions, scoring a smaller percentage than desired, but it felt like we saw very few enemy mission teams on the field other than team punishment. We had no interteam commo.

Sat supper score : Axis 2100, allied 1400

Sat PM - Steers and William play. Im nore sure about others.

Night Play by Steers

8:00
Mission was to take the mounds and zuitan each for 20 minutes. Spyderman took a small group to mounds (failed) and Steers ran to zuitan (complete)

8:30
Mission was at recon mission at the Fig Tree (20 minutes hold). Intel reported that the mission was an ambush in that it was a big point mission behind enemy lines and General's message was intercepted on the radio to team punishment. Steers ran with the Citadel's Paintball Team (which I must say played extremely well). On the way we uncovered 3 set ambushes as we followed the powerline roads (doing so without firing a shot). Mission complete

9:00
Hold WADAN (20 minutes). This was argued as a mission failure in that team punishment was just inside the perimeter as the final seconds of the mission were completed. Steers ran this mission with 5 younger kids. The final rulling was never announced.

9:30
Recon mission at the Fig Tree for 30 minutes. Steers went along the powerline roads alone. Mission complete.

10:00
Mission Failure -happened during hte 9:30 mission

10:30
Check all 4 bridges for props and hold each for 20 minutes. I ran with 'runs alot' -??? (the guy who won MVP or general's service?). We first checked bridge 1, found a map, and held for 20 minutes. mission completed. We then went on the powerline roads to Fig Tree (bridge 4). 'runs alot' got shot on the way. Steers made a mission complete at bridge 4 -just seconds after being captured by bryan and his minions.

I believe at night, I was the only section 8 playing. Omni force had 3-5, Citadel played two missions, and Pain-Cell participated in only one before retiring for the evening.

Game was called at 11:45 without calling hte last mission at 11:00

---START Sunday AM---
Shadow co flops over to allied and pain cell flops over to axis.
Sun AM score : Axis 4300, allied 3000

Sunday 9:00 game on
Sunday 9:00am mission : Secure and return w/ props the tire bunker, Fuel Dump and Fig Tree -- Section 8 forms up at tires, and secure props. Steers takes stragglers to Flue Dump. Thumper takes sneaky bastards and head for deep country mission to Fig Tree, sweeping out ridgeline and grassline on the way. Likely enemy mission at bach head defeated. mission at fig tree defeated as steers completed his. he brings armor and we converge at fig tree. All props return, and 3 part mission complete, at least 2 enemy missions defeated.

9:20 Chappy gets mission cards signed off on at normandy beach head.

9:40 Airfield and Fig Tree - Section8 brings armor up the road, and sweeps across the ridgeline through the mounds and normandy . We encounter enemy mission at the airfield and just ruin the stragglers. Thumper on point. two part mission complete. Sean brought up mission card via road.

10:00 Priority mission : assinate enemy general. time limit 20 minutes. Section8 sweeps right on tape w/ 20 allied. enemy is massed and strongly holds village and ridgeline across road. whole thing stalemates and mission is buster.

12:00 : Hold all mid field stuff including village, castle, half track and mounds field. Thumper & Steers Lead the left half of this action. Steers heads to mounds. Thumper, Robert and Ross hang closer to half track and the woods north of there. Its an hour long mission. Steers holds the ridgeline w/ Josh above the mound field, and thumper pushed up the treeline opposite Steers across the normany bean. Team Punishment and allied mass on the beach head. 30 strong. Then they start coming in waves. The steers bait and thumper cross fire confuses & frusterates the enemy for 30 minutes as the clock ticks down. Pain Cell rocks back and forth behind the action sweeping out bad guys. very effective.

In the end, I head we held the mounds but the half track was a neutral call.

Final Score 4550 Allies, 4800 Axis
German MVT : Section8
German MVP: Ross Morrison (Section8)

We had no interteam commo. I tried omniforce on 8.4 repeatedly, but apparently there was some odd reason I couldnt reach them.

more thoughts: I approached omiforce and shadow co about interteam commo. Neither effort worked out for differing reasons. This single aspect could have lead to a higher completion result.

Section8 completed at least 20 missions objectives. Participated in 7 failed missions. and denied the enemy 5 missions.

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