CHERNARUSSIAN CRISIS: Episode 2

OPERATION RED THUNDER

by MoldyTowel

TIME: Saturday, October 24 2015, 2100UTC

SITUATION:

    In 2014, Russia made several incursions into Chernarussian territory. Starting with the 2014 Drimean crisis, Russian soldiers without insignias took control of strategic positions and infrastructure within the Chernarus territory of Drimea, which Russia then annexed after a disputed referendum. Subsequently, demonstrations by pro-Russian groups in the Donbast area of Chernarus escalated into an armed conflict between the Chernarussian government and separatist forces of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. In August, Russian military vehicles crossed the border in several locations of Donetsk Oblast. The incursion by the Russian military was seen as responsible for the defeat of Chernarussian forces in early September by separatist forces. In November 2014 the Chernarussian military reported intensive movement of troops and equipment from Russia into the separatist controlled parts of eastern Chernarus.

    OPERATION RED THUNDER is still under way. The men of Charlie Company, 1st Platoon, 2nd Parachute Airborne battalion dealt a crushing blow to the separatist front-line defenses and established a strong foot-hold at the vital city of Zelenogorsk last week. They met their commanders intent and opened up a pathway for the rest of the brigade to push forward and sink it's sharp teeth into enemy territory. 17th Armored Brigade has pushed a T-80U MBT from the southeastern front to our platoon in response to the significant armor threat encountered in the initial surge. In Episode II of Operation Red Thunder, the tasks of securing the heavily defended Balota Airfield and destroying a DPR weapons cache remains, but during the week of heavy clashes their have been reports of the Russian Federation bringing in MANPADS to counter our helicopter strikes and has effectively grounded all flights past the newly founded front-line..

MISSION NOTES:

Those interested in COing this should talk to us in IRC first before signing up.

The T-80U lottery will be sometimes Wednesday evening-ish. This weeks special is the mighty T-80U MBT. It has a very cool fire control system, but it is not one you can just pick up and learn on the fly. If you sign up for the gunner lottery, you must practice using it before Saturday. Instructions here, and there are plenty of video tutorials as well. No need to lottery the driver slot, though if no one has taken it by Saturday, we'll probably look to one of the gunner lottery entrants to fill that role.

ANNA will have a BTR-60 for transport and fire support as well, and ANNA section leader is responsible for the BTR in addition to the slightly smaller section. Note: the basic Rifleman slots in ANNA are traditional infantry, but they'll be the first slots tapped to crew the BTR as needed. It is possible, though unlikely, that these slots will spend more than half the mission in the vehicle.

It isn't a requirement, but we think it might be an interesting experiment to try using the same units for the duration of this campaign-ish-thing. If you think this sounds fun, please sign up for the same slot you had last week.

COMMAND

  Platoon Leader: Hoozin or Rage there can be only one...
    Platoon Sergeant: MoldyTowel

ANNA

  Anna Section Leader: supwer
    Rifleman: UnknownPredator
    Rifleman:
    Medic:
   1 Anna Team Leader: Fletcher
    Machinegunner: Sky
    Machinegunner Asst:
   2 Anna Team Leader: Garro
    Grenadier: FervidBinkie
    AT Grenadier: zomp
    Engineer: Cast

BORIS

  Boris Section Leader: dancin
    Medic:
   1 Boris Team Leader: Otter
    Machinegunner: MeNoLikez
    Machinegunner Asst:
    Rifleman(AT): nuShifty
   2 Boris Team Leader:
    Grenadier:
    AT Grenadier:
    Engineer:

VASILY

  Vasily Section Leader:
    Medic:
   1 Vasily Team Leader:
    Same as Anna/Boris. Opened when they're getting full-ish.
   2 Vasily Team Leader:
    Same as Anna/Boris. Opened when they're getting full-ish.

GORODOK (T-80U)

  Commander: Fadi
    Gunner: Myth
    Driver: Furious

Lottery (T-80U gunner)
  Myth
  dancin
  Zhandris
  Crucible of Justice

Reserves
  Loen
  Sayge
  Soyverde
  J23

Latrines
  Quex
  Butters
  dizturbed