Devil's Brigade - WWII - IC

[JDL]

Kerensky silently watches and listens to the other members of the squad. They are the eyes and ears and nose, he reminds himself, crouching down in the snow. And I... I am the brain. He pats his gloves together and sighs.

Then Kerensky draws a square in the snow and looks up at the other team members. "Tell me what you know," he says. He begins to control his breathing and focus his mind, entering the analytical trance he once used for occult rituals. It's like a lifetime ago, now...

OOC: Smart Hero Talent: Plan, +11

 

[Lukeworm]

Harrison lays low in the bushes near kerensky marking people and placements in the snow. ‎‎''Three patrols, that’s nine hostiles plus a dog or two. Three MG nests here, here and here ‎that's nine more. There are probably a few gate guards and a guard commander on duty as ‎well. So there are more then twenty active guards. Any one noticed something else?" ‎

 

[Starman]

Looking around, Harris thinks that this is going to be tough. "Are we going to need all of our demolitions to take out that building?" he asks.

 

[Vigilance]

I wonder if we could draw some of the patrols away?

If not, I think stealth is our best bet.

How long would it take to circle it? Maybe there's a weakness somewhere in the defenses.

 

[Widowmaker]

SSG Munroe

You figure it will take between 45 minutes to 1 hours to get to the otherside without drawing attention to yourself.

If you rushed it. Maybe 15-30 minutes.

 

[Dracomeander]

"The one thing I'm noticing is our window of opportunity is vanishingly small. They're in a quiet bowl. Any noise we make will carry easily to those in the MG nests and the other patrols. Anything we do to eliminate the patrols and nest will need to be done nearly simultaneously or extremely quietly, or we will have a full-fledged firefight on our hands. And that means a blown mission if not worse."

 

[Ilium]

Looking around, Harris thinks that this is going to be tough. "Are we going to need all of our demolitions to take out that building?" he asks.

Neumiller cocks his head to one side for a moment in thought then replies, "Not really. If I place 'em right." He pauses for a moment then says, "Now I know we're supposed to be treating this as real, but there's one thing: Somebody's going to have to decide if we really blew the target or not. I know I could knock that pile of bricks down with one pack, but to sell it to the cheap seats we should probably use more. What do you have in mind?"

 

[Lukeworm]

"Harrison raises his eyes from the diagram in the snow back to the target.

"The way I see it we ‎need to take the outer patrol first, it is close to the tree line so we can sneak near and ambush ‎them.
The dog can be a problem however, we need to somehow distract it or spoil its ability ‎to smell. I heard that pepper powder can cause dogs to sneeze but I guess were out of it. ‎Maybe we can drug the dog with something from the medical kit. Hoffmann you're the doc ‎what do you say?" ‎

 

[Vigilance]

This might be the time to split the team. One group attacks from above, to draw the patrols away or at least distract them while a stealth team enters and plants the explosives.

Or we could pick a spot where only one machinegun can target us and go in heavy.

 

[Starman]

Neumiller cocks his head to one side for a moment in thought then replies, "Not really. If I place 'em right." He pauses for a moment then says, "Now I know we're supposed to be treating this as real, but there's one thing: Somebody's going to have to decide if we really blew the target or not. I know I could knock that pile of bricks down with one pack, but to sell it to the cheap seats we should probably use more. What do you have in mind?"

"I'm not sure, but I'm thinking that if we don't need all of the demoltions to blow that thing up, then we can use the rest for something. I don't know, a distraction, or taking out one of those machine gun nests, or something." Harris says.