Outnumbered, Outgunned But Not Outplayed

Regime of Fear 2009
Advanced Battlefield
Davilla, TX

The Gunny and I looked over the intel brief and started to come up with our plan of attack for the Tan team when Mike from Advanced Battlefield told me that we would be outnumbered. Gunny and I looked at each other and just nodded our heads knowing that our plan had just changed. We looked at our mission objectives and realized that if we were outnumbered we wouldn't have a good chance of achieving those goals without heavy attrition. But unfortunately the goals set for this op had a point value associated with them in order to clearly determine a winner.

Our unit wasn't large enough to achieve those goals by conducting conventional warfare so Gunny looked at the 3 squads under his command and asked if anyone there gave a damn about points. The answer was an emphatic "no". So, relying on 20 years of military experience, Gunny decided that instead of trying to make a typical run at achieving those objectives we would engage our enemy by conducting Guerrilla Warfare. We would harass. We would ambush. We would raid.

Our first objective was to occupy 3 positions. The Hooch, Deesh and Wadi. There were veterans on the field that gave us good intel of the lay of the land (also a crucial element of Guerrilla Warfare) so while the Green team was occupied with trying to take The Hooch, members of 1st squad did a land grab and secured the airstrip and by doing so, the first points of the day. Moments later we received confirmation that the Green team commander had been taken down by a rain of 6mm bb's and scoring additional points on the board and we weren't even trying.

The Gunny egressed the remaining warriors of 2nd squad from The Hooch and rallied with Blugin's 3rd squad at The Deesh. Two impromptu missions came up and, knowing we were outnumbered, we did what Guerrillas do. We harassed the enemy while they tried to complete them.

We were under the impression that when we saw a large orange pelican case being carted through the battlefield by a couple of troops in green that it was a bomb that they meant to bring to our doorstep. Because we knew that mounting a frontal assault against an enemy that was larger than we were would get us shot up and allow them to accomplish their mission, Gunny decided to call an air strike onto the Orange case and blow it in place.

Turns out that the orange case was a resupply that would have allowed the carrier to score more points but since we destroyed it we denied the Green team an opportunity to have those points. We lost that ability too but as I said, we didn't care about points.

We were told that journalists were coming to get embedded in our unit for 2.5 hours. If they were killed while in our custody the enemy would be awarded points so in true Guerrilla form, we promptly shot them on sight and never allowed the Green team those points either.

We did some raids on enemy front lines with great success and then we received word that we needed to secure The Deesh and occupy it for 20 minutes. So after The Gunny eliminated the only sentry that the Green team commander stationed there we set up a defense on The Deesh. The Gunny and I were comforted by the fact that there were several patches adorned with an M4 indicating that we had trained warriors among us so when the Gunny staged primary, supplementary and alternate defensive positions there was no explanation needed to establish our defense.

And defend it we did. Outnumbered and outgunned, Gunny's Guerrillas fought. Not one enemy troop set foot on that piece of real estate even after suffering several casualties. Intense doesn't come close to describing the fight but now there are several Raiders that know what a final protective fire is. When we received word that we had achieved success we vanished into the tree line and decided to move into enemy territory.

We met skirmishes along the way but they couldn't stop our advance. They attempted to flank us but a motivated Raider with the callsign Eagle1 did his job and maintained security on our six, denying our enemy the ability to approach. So forward we moved.

With several of their unit now moving on the empty location of The Deesh, it was a perfect time to strike The Mbasi. Shooting and looting the entire way we actually occupied their base, took down their commander and fought our way back into the trees before the brunt of their forces reorganized to reinforce their Head Quarters position. We didn't want to keep it. We just wanted to let them know that we could go anywhere unopposed.

The fighting continued but, as luck would have it, we received marching orders and unfortunately, The Gunny was forced to leave the field before the end of the day.

Gunny and I were so curious about how things ended up so first thing the next morning we called Mike to find out. The long and the short of it is the Green team outscored the Tan team but according to Mike, it was VERY close. Not bad considering we could care less about who had the most points.

I know I speak for The Gunny when I say that we were honored to take the field with those men.

We kicked ass and took initials because we didn't have time to take names.

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers.

FORCERON
Gunny's Guerrillas