FGM #2 - New Dawn New Day v1.0

[PoorOldSpike]

New Dawn New Day v 1.0

Victory at about the 5th attempt..
This time after defeating the infantry group at the right 'X', I doubled back up the mountain then hooked left to approach the ville from the north and hopefully ambush the two armed jeeps that were patrolling the road. It went like a dream, we riddled the vehicles at the left 'X', and as they were still in working order, we piled aboard and drove into the ville blasting anything that moved until the 'Task complete, return to base' message came up..

We spring the ambush at the left 'X'! The MG-veh (nearest) and SPG-veh (further back) are riddled as they come driving gung-ho up the road.

With his gunner lying dead in the road along with another enemy man, the MG-veh driver veers desperately off-road to escape our fire but is shot dead..

Spoils of war, we capture the SPG-veh (below) and the MG-veh..

We drive into the heart of the village, note the two dead enemy and the MG chattering away, and the smoke from an SPG round I just fired..

 

[PoorOldSpike]

We continue south through the ville and halt so I can begin systematically demolishing buildings with the SPG, hoping to kill any lurking enemies.
Note the SPG backblast and the rocket flying towards the crosshairs..

Demolishing buildings on top of enemy troops is a standard CM tactic of mine and it works in AA too, as any enemy inside will pose no threat if they're mush.
In years to come, dazed survivors will tell their grandchildren horror stories of 'the day the fire came by"..

Still we haven't triggered the 'Task Complete' message, so we drive around, glancing at the map until this enemy icon appears..

The man is not visible back in the ville..

So I fire a couple of SPG rounds at houses near his last known position..

And bingo! the blast must have got him and triggers the endgame message.
We never lost a man, wowee..
PS- It wasn't til halfway through the game that I accidentally realised we didn't need night goggles any more because the sun had come up, ha ha..

 

[Bootie]

Excellent good job... work has begun on the third one.

Good tactic to circle round and ambush the vehicles.

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Excellent good job... work has begun on the third one.
Good tactic to circle round and ambush the vehicles.

They're the real 'teeth' of the enemy defence and without them he's got no real bite..
They're only softskins with very exposed gunners and won't last long against a hail of small arms fire.
I was lucky that they were still working after being shot up, allowing us to use them ourselves, ha ha!

 

[Wigam]

Woke up after a sleep and went back in and finished it.

I found a wee surprise when I went for a drive

End Screen

 

[Bootie]

Let me get thsi right... were you driving round looking for the last bad guy and he was propped behind you manning the gun... LOL

 

[Wigam]

lol, no, he was dead in the drivers seat when I was driving round looking for the last bad dude, when my guys hoped in he fell out dead. that funny.

 

[Bootie]

Im working on mission 3. Lt Hastings convoy got hit with an IED and they had to leave an ammo truck behind... you need to go and destroy it before the Taliban get their grubby little hands on its cargo.

 

[Wigam]

You had me at "Im' working on mission 3..."

Awesome news boss, looking forward to it. I have another couple of days off before I start night shift again on Thursday. 3rd night shift in 8 weeks, geez. Normally its 1 every 5 weeks.