| Winter
Water War 2001 (WWI)
It was a Wednesday
in mid December,
the 19th I think. Yet, this was not your standard cool late
autum/early
winter day in Clayton North Carolina. It was the day o the final
waterwar of the year. Six Red Scorpion members came, well seven
but
Tiger offered to take the pictures (thats how we got the charge picture
because he was nutral or else they'd have shot him). Other then
that
various other people (which you'll see in the pictures) came and formed
their own Vermin Team.
At 16:00 we engaged in
the
initial plan. Seperating into two groups of 3 we headed down two
paths that parallelled eachother with a good space of about 300 meters
in between through the woods. The enemy was dug in on the
opposite
side of the creek and were not moving. Now, the creek is only
about
two meters wide and one deep, but the banks are very steep, and there
is
much foliage on each side. Yet, it being December there was alot
less areas to hide.
Squad A under me went
down
the left flank on the main path to the creek, while Squad B under
Hellbringer took a side path down a hill from Fort Salamandastron along
the right flank. Patriot had not brung his CPS 2500, so aquired
Buccaneer
(who wasn't here)'s CPS 1000 for the events (if you look close enough
it
still has the black duct tape from Dominator War 2). My squad
crossed
an ungaurded ford along the creek before the enemy could react and
overpowered
one gaurd stationed nearby.
While that was
happening Squad
B rushed down the path with warcries and started a waterfight across
each
side of the creek. Squad B was holding the enemy in position
while
we plowed down their flanks taking out two enemy units. Yet, we
met
a stubborn resistance when we encountered a natural makeshift bunker
which
contained an artilleryman baraging us with CPS fire. We were
forced
into hiding because we couldnt knock out the bunker. Big Mike got
shot by the guy and had to sit out and watch. This left us with a
man less, but still with the same number as the enemy. Pinned
down
in the drab grey/brown brush of winter we struggled to fire back
against
the enemy's constant shots.
Patriot took off,
leaving Hellbringer
and Black Hawk in a fight to the death with the enemy across the
creek.
Coming across the ford to meet us Patriot dropped down into the brush
avoiding
a shot from a CPS 1200. Now we made a plan, we would jump up and
fire covering Patriot while he ran to the bunker and knocked it out
with
his CPS 1000. On the count of three signalling, 1, 2, 3!
Psycho
and I popped up giving a good fuesalaide from our assault rifles into
the
bunker. Just at that time Patriot took off to the left behind the
enemy, rolling over behind a log he crawled towards the back end of
their
base. At the given signal Psycho and I charged forward without
any
waterballoons to hit the enemy from long range, but we fired towards
them.
Before reaching the next set of cover Psycho was gunned down by the guy
with the 1200. At that very moment Patriot was lining up the
sites
on Buccaneer's modded CPS 1000 for sniping he picked out the guy in the
bunker, it wasn't really artillery, but a modded CPS 1200 that was
raining
death on our squad. Taking careful aim down the handel he pulled
the trigger, whoosh splat! That was it, he was out. Without
further ado we charged over the bunker (see picture"attacking through
the
woods". It was easy knocking out the two guys left in the fight
against
Squad B as they didnt know we had come from behind.
With that settled one
guy was
left in a trench with his XP 270. He dropped his gun and cried
out
that he wasn't playing anymore raising his hands. Now, one thing
in the code of honor (modded from the original GNG version) states
deserters
will be treated the same as traitors, and we respect one who fights
against
the odds rather then quits. So with that we took his XP
270,
but pushed him back into the ditch (see picture "executing
Vermin").
The picture explains the rest...
The war was fun, it was
also
the only war I used Kryptonite in; now that I have the pictures scanned
I can upload this war story.
Pictures courtesy of
Tiger who
played camera man
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| Big Mike |
Patriot |
Marauder |
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| Squad A of
Red Scorpion |
Squad B of
Red Scorpion |
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Red
Scorpion Assault Cluster
1 On the Offencive
RS Assault
Cluster 1 (squad)
Charging through the brush. |
Attacking
through the Woods
Wow, I got some
air... |
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Stand off
Marauder and an
enemy fighting |
Charge!
The Final assault
(my hat is
off) |
Executing
Vermin
Poor kid.. |
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