Hard core Mil-Sim event

A four-man special ops team is inserted into the AO via helicopter. Two other teams are inserted nearby with other objectives. They can be called on in case of emergency (respawns). The primary team is tasked with gathering intel and finding and destroying an OpFor supply depot. If possible, command would like to know what the OpFor is stockpiling to get an idea what their plans are. Opposition is expected to be limited, though there is a minor OpFor camp a few kilcks away that could send reenforcements. SigInt has cracked the OpFor encryption, so the spec ops team can listen into their frequencies. The team itself is under initial radio silence, lest they draw premature attention to themselves.

The team inserts at 1200 and immediately leaves the LZ. They then wait an hour to see if the helicopter attracted any attention. They use this time to examine their maps and plan a course of action (with proper pre-game planning and communication, this could be done beforehand). It seems no one noticed the chopper, so the team continues. They spend the next hour moving cautiously though the thick areas of the field to an observation point. Here they spend the next two hours observing the OpFor’s patrol and guard rotation patterns and checking out the terrain first-hand, but are unable to figure out the location of the cached supplies. They decide to snatch one of the guard for information. Leaving the sniper in an observation position, the rest of the team spends another hour getting to an appropriate position along a well-used trail and sets up an ambush. The first OpFor that passes them is a guard coming to relieve the one on duty, so they let him pass. While they could have snatched that guy, they want the guard rotation to be undisturbed for as long as possible, and catching the guy coming off duty will take longer to raise suspicion. Their patience is rewarded as the previous, now tired and unwary guard comes back down the same trail and is taken and disarmed at knife-point. The team gags their captive and takes him somewhere more secure for interrogation. Eventually he proves cooperative and gives up the cache location. The spec ops team must now decide what to do with him. They do not have the manpower to guard a prisoner behind enemy lines, and their presence has not yet been compromised.

Meanwhile, the team has caught a break. The sniper has observed several OpFor carrying crates to create a second supply cache and observed where they were placed. Of course now they have two locations to hit. The team reunites and decides to attack the easier target now, before suspicion over the missing guard grows. They take an hour to get two-man teams in flanking positions unseen by the guards. At the pre-arranged time, they open fire, eliminating the two guards with single shots before they can react. Three members provide overwatch while the fourth runs in to plan an exploding charge that destroys the cache (one of my Thunder B grenades). Before he does, he pries open the crates to peek at their contents. Mostly ammunition, a few grenades, rations. Standard supplies. The guards are searched, but have no useful intel. The cache is blown, and the team moves rapidly elsewhere. The response is swift, with a small patrol coming to investigate the explosion. The team observes them, but falls back when they start to sweep the area. The team finds deep place to hide and settles down to wait out the initial heat. They eat a meal and plan out how to hit the second cache after dark. As dusk falls, a guard rotation is established and members take turns getting some sleep.

At 0200, the team wakes, and moves out. They spend an hour or two creeping into position near the second cache. The guards are neutralized after a brief firefight. Reenforcements can be heard in the distance, but the team feels they have enough time to investigate the crates before they are blown. The OpFor have an awful lot of mortar round stockpiled here, almost like they are planning to bombard something before an attack. Additionally one of the dead guards has a note that an officer will be visiting the local post tomorrow (now today) for an inspection. From their briefing, the team knows that this officer is wanted for war crimes against the local population. OpFor reenforcements are closer than expected, and the security element is forced to fire on them to slow them down. There are too many to fight, so the cache is blown and the team attempts to break contact. Using the cover of darkness, they managed to do so, but get separated in the process. Fortunately their plan had established a rally point and over the course of the next hour they all make it there. They decide to break radio silence and request permission to eliminate the visiting officer. Permission is granted. The team quickly leaves in case their transmissions where triangulated. Once again they hole up in a corner of the field for rest and recovery.

Around dawn, the man on watch spots an approaching OpFor search party. He wakes the rest of the team and they scramble to break camp and evade. They are almost successful but get spotted by an alert OpFor. A running firefight develops as the team tries again to break contact. They inflict heavy casualties on their pursuers, but take two of their own. One is merely a flesh wound that prevents the man from using his arm, but the other guy is critical. He needs to be CASEVACed as soon as possible. Fortunately there is a nearby clearing large enough to accommodate a chopper. The team moves there and radios for a CASEVAC. After twenty minutes the chopper arrives and picks up the wounded men. Two replacements are brought to replace them (respawns). Unfortunately the helicopter has attracted OpFor attention, and a large patrol closes on the LZ. The team attempts to escape and evade, but get involved in another running firefight. One man is wounded and goes down. When another tries to go to his aid, he is killed outright. The remaining members have no choice but to leave them. They managed to break contact.

Having again sustained heavy casualties, the OpFor takes the wounded spec ops man prisoner and declares victory for now. They drag him back to an outpost for aggressive interrogation. He does not produce any useful information, so the OpFor radio for transport to send him somewhere more secure. The spec ops team intercepts this traffic and decides to attempt a rescue. They radio for support from one of the other spec ops teams, again changing position as soon as they are done transmitting. The dead player acts as a member of the “responding” team and waits at a rendezvous location on the field. The team moves out to that location to make contact. They move quickly because their time is limited, fortunately they do not run into any patrols. Getting back into position, they devise a hasty distraction. One member makes a bunch of noise and tries to simulate a gunfight to draw off some of the guards. When this works, the other two attack and manage to neutralize enough OpFor make off with their captured man. The team reforms at another rally point and decides to continue with the officer elimination objective. They set up a snipe, but the man never shows. Clearly he heard about all the commotion in the area and changed his plans. The team radios for extraction and makes their way stealthily to the extraction point, which is fortunately empty. They wait for the bird to show up and fly away home.