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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2296606" data-attributes="member: 26473">The thundering jets fade as the two planes climb and bank. As the dust clears three fellaghas can be seen moving among the torn bodies of their fellow insurgents – one rises and races down the gully for the oued as the others seek cover.Pyotr studies the distant fellaghas lying among the rocks that only a minute ago had been his own refuge and carefully draws a bead on one of the fells firing at the legionnaires. Marcel and Normand each fire at the same section, bullets passing high over the prone insurgents.Lavareaux meanwhile fires at the fellaghas in the gully below – one of the Arabs stops moving as the 9mm rounds enter his body. The caporal-chef sets down the MAT-49. “I’m out,” he says simply as he draws his pistol from his holster and wracks the slide. “Follow me!”Two of the three fellaghas surrounding Sgt. Duval drop their rifles and attempt to grab the prone legionnaire while their companion with the knife recovers his feet. Even prone Duval is a tough opponent – he manages to evade the grasp of one of the fells as he draws his own knife – the second insurgent manages to grab the jumpmaster awkwardly, and Duval whips the knife at him, slashing him lightly across the arm and shoulder. The third fellagha thrusts his own knife at the entangled legionnaire, and it disappears into the folds of Duval’s jump smock.Vidal scrambles to his feet as the fourth fellagha swings the rifle at him again, the butt passing inches from his head. As the radioman steps back to draw his pistol, the fell raises his rifle and fires at Vidal. The blast is deafening from little more than a meter away but the hasty shot goes wide. The fellagha frantically works the bolt to chamber his next round.Two of the fells in the gully charge forward as there comrades fire at the legionnaires on the hill. A bullet cracks loudly as it passes by Normand lying beside a limestone knob at the top of the hill. One of the two fells drops into some rocks near the bottom of the hill and raises his rifle – the other continues to race toward the base of the hill itself.Out of the swirling red cloud of smoke created by Duval’s second smoke canister come three more fellaghas, charging toward the rear of the hill. End of round 35.There are eleven fellaghas in E7 – two in the gully, two charging toward the legionnaires, three charging for the back of the hill, and four engaging Duval and Vidal. If you decide to attack in round 36, just tell me who you’re firing at and make an attack roll – I’ll calculate ranges for you.</blockquote>

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