Mission report:
A US Marine sniper recon
team had been positioned to carry out surveillance on a known Taliban
held village. The two man team was uncovered when a local shepherd led his
flocks through their hidden bivouac. The team quickly moved out as soon as they
were discovered but as luck would have it the nearby Taliban moved quickly and
cornered the two Marines in a 19th century British fortification. The recon
team were able to radio their last position and approximated troops strengths
and locations of the opposing forces before contact was lost. Response time for
the Black Hawk extraction flight was approximately 55 minutes. It transpired
that NATO HQ was able to confirm the presence of a nearby French Foreign Legion
patrol. The Legion responded that their ETA to the sniper team was less
than 30 minutes and quickly deployed for action.
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| The Table at turn 3: With the Taliban in various firing positions. In the immediate foreground the old fort where the sniper team were holed up. The first Legion patrol is visible at the far end of the table behind the ruined vehicle. The second patrol is to the far right corner moving along a stone wall. It was here that the patrol caught a Taliban cell in the open and wiped it out. |