- Castell
- Self Service
- Black Island
- 3-10 to Kavala
- Racethunder XL (comrade Head wins)
- Racethunder XL (comrade Head wins ... again)
- Racethunder XL (comrade Draakon wins. At night.)
- Infection (comrade Zitron last survivor)
Brigade peaked at 35 comrades, including some friendly guests from the 1Tac community (whose scientists are part of the F3 programme). All of the missions in the main part of the session used F3 v3-1-0 RC3, so thank you to everyone who came along tonight - not only for attending the session, but for helping us test the latest release candidate for F3. Session-sized tests are invaluable, so you have the gratitude of the F3 team as well as the Politburo.
The session began with new mission Castell, in which a CSAT mechanised column - under comrade CO Carson - with support from a tank (and later rotary-wing CAS), launched a devastating assault on the hilltop village of Oerokastro in North-West Altis. It was quite the meat-grinder: the shock-troops of Bravo encountering solid resistance despite an awesome display of shock-and-awe from the Bronegruppa. Alpha squad's teleport recon took - and lost - a castle, and one of Charlie's IFVs exploded on a mine (killing half of the reinforcements in one terrible moment); but eventually our tank was prowling the village streets whilst comrade Tigershark's Kajman orbited above.
Next up, adversarial mission and old favourite Self Service was slotted almost evenly, with CSAT (attacking) having only a minor advantage. The Party placed its faith in the superior competency of CSAT and was rewarded when the attacking force won. Afterwards, we played a brand new mission from comrade Zitron: Black Island. This co-operative mission saw our CSAT mechanised platoon sweep along a little peninsular to capture a heavily fortified NATO compound, before piling into a rag-tag collection of boats for a journey to the island of Makrynisi - to liberate comrade Aziz. Many questions required answers: where had comrade Aziz been all these years? Didn't he die in Takistan 30 years ago? Why was he being held by NATO? Unfortunately, comrade Aziz didn't have time to answer them - bleeding out in the arms of comrade Head after a botched rescue.
Finally, we returned for a second bite at comrade Wolfenswan's 3-10 to Kavala, a very interesting two-part mission that sees our rebel platoon launch an attack on a supply route and then - 7 hours later - ambush an enemy convoy. The initial clearing action was tough work, but a methodical sweep through the AO ensured we were able to set up for the ambush, hiding from the attack helicopters that over-fly the convoy route. Sadly, something went wrong with the convoy itself, so we had to call the mission there - but I'm sure we'll be detonating satchel charges under it someday soon.
As for the after-party ... it was the debut of comrade Head's Racethunder XL, in which many brave comrades were subjected to a sadistic course, Nitro-boosts of dubious utility, and the sheer barbarism of the race-track. Comrade Head kept winning, of course, until we made the race happen at night, and a brave Party official pushed him off the track.
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