AAV driver reporting in! Was indeed a fun mission, Delta provided transport and support for Bravo squad. We started as a full crew with socomseal as my gunner and prowler as AAV commander.
After we inserted Bravo near their first objective, we hung back and let bravo do their stuff, after they had cleared their objective we moved in to pick them up. We took up postion on of the sideroad next to the barn to provide security to bravos flank as they patched up some of their casualties.
The field next to the barn was sloped upward, and after a few minutes of standing there we received UAZ fire from that direction, we managed to take one out and then headed into the field to destroy the second, however during that time a blue on blue occured at the corner of the barn, somehow the infantry set of an explosions of sorts that resulted in several KIAs.
We retook our postion to provide overwatch as we waited for command to redirect the respawned players to our position.
Once bravo was reinforced, they mounted up and we set off towards the next objective.
After we dropped them off, we took up overwatch, but were forced to move back due to the threat of a BMP2. My gunner did to engage contact from that position, and we took out some light armor. During this we lost our commander Prowler (disconnect).
Things got a little heated for the infantry during the assualt, so we were directed to a new overwatch pos where we engaged multiple targets and provided mark19 support for Bravo.
Shortly after this my gunner also left the server and this left my in command of Delta. Me not realising this right away was asked to move to a pickup point for Bravo. After moving to that position there was some confusion going and bravo was no to be seen for pickup, i informed command of my predicament and was told to rtb for a replacement crew
As i was on my way to base pistolfied had already connected to the server as my gunner and was waiting at base for a pickup.
Delighted to have pistol as my gunner we set out to try to resupply the AAV, but no joy... Might have to look at that tralic.
We took the other AAV as it was full of ammo and set out to pick up Bravo squad, wich apperently was still at the previous objective. After picking them up, as we were rtb, we were hit by RPG fire out of nowhere, and we narrowly escaped with out lives as one exploded inches behind our AAV, luckily i was gunning it a top speed and we took no damage. Rather then take them on with Bravo low on supplies, we decided to run back to base lol
Once there, we organised ourself, and togheter with alpha squad took preparations to drive dow to chernagorsk in convoy with Delta as the second vehicle follow a mk19 equipped hummvee.
We reached our droppoff point with any resistance and proceded to roll alongside bravo at a snail pace providing security to their flank.
light armor was found to roam the streets and as bravo and alpha started engaging them we sped up to crossroad whiskey and helped engaging those targets.
During the sweeps out the outskirts of town we discovered one of the weapon cache objectives. During the innitial attack on the town, new JIPs, marine and somebody else (sry forgot your name!) took out or "old" AAV to provide additional security for the infantry. Unfortunatly we were unaware of this until there were already inroute, so we did not inform them of the low ammo supplies on that AAV.
Deltas second AAV marked the cache for destruction by infantry so we could conserve ammo on the AAVs.
It was then that more light armor was found in the fields directly out of town, after infantry took care of them, both AAVs took an overwatch position for so Bravo could regroup.
It was then that AAV one got startled as a loud explosion ripped through the air and a fireball was seen by the back of AAV2, AAV1 quickly performed evasive manuevres and tried to asses possible threats, we it was reveiled that this was yet another blue on blue incident leaving many injured or KIA! After that a general regroup was ordered at the towns church.
We set out to the last objective in the same convoy, AAV1 running second. At this point, former AAV commander had come back into the server, and had boarded our AAV.
As we approaced the droppoff point near a railroad, close to the enemy(maybe to close in hindsight
), lead humvee lost controll of the wheel and jump the somewhat elevated railroadtracks and was immediatly greeted with fire, the rest of the convoy stopped abruptly and fire was coming in fast and accurate.
I had manuevered AAV in a position so the infantry was protected from small arms fire, but the battle group was taking severe casualties and it became apperent that light armor had move in to assist the enemy. In an attempt to retake the initiative, i moved AAV to the right up a slope in order to engage the enemy from a somewhat flanking position, however the moment we were in position to engage we were hit by extremely accurate rocket/cannon fire wich manage to wipe out AAV with one shot.
As i was waiting to respawn, my computer shutdown, and after my second attempt to rejoin the server, as i spawned at base, the mission was won.
