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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2082592" data-attributes="member: 26473">Marcel’s grenade also falls short of the ALN squad bearing down on the legionnaires, but together the high-explosive blasts and the withering crossfire from the paras in the gully and in the rocks to the south take a toll.Timekeeping: start 10th roundAs Duval’s and Lavareaux’s submachine guns roar, the advancing fellaghas waver, then turn and retreat in full flight toward the oued. One of the insurgents lies writhing on the ground where a .32 round from Neumann’s Mauser punched him in the lower abdomen – four others do not move at all, joining nearly a dozen of their comrades scattered across the sand and among the shrubs in the gully. A couple of desultory rifle shots from the fells nearest the oued pass harmlessly over the legionnaires’ heads as they struggle toward the assembly area, the rocky outcrop that seems so far away.As the firing dies away the drone of the Piper observation plane can be heard overhead as the pilot orbits the oued like a vulture studying a dying goat. As Vidal gathers himself to follow sergent Duval from his position among the rocks, the handset carried on his shoulder speaks. “Hourglass, this is Juliet 4, do you copy?”Pyotr’s actons come before the fells retreat, so the range is still 170’ if he takes a shot this round.</blockquote>