Change of Orders

101-0163_IMG.JPG 639.41 KB The map, looking from the SW corner. ESU will come on at NW corner, OUDF from the SE. Green chits are wreckage of a downed recon sat that both sides are trying to recover.	101-0166_IMG.JPG 402.63 KB The OUDF mission briefing. Minis on the table are for the painting contest.	101-0167_IMG.JPG 501.26 KB The ESU team	101-0179_IMG.JPG 763.83 KB An ESU squad and platoon leader slink forward	101-0180_IMG.JPG 572.43 KB OUDF squads deploy
101-0184_IMG.JPG 682.79 KB ESU squads skulk behind cover	101-0185_IMG.JPG 571.37 KB Faceless ESU minions scurry towards their objectives	101-0186_IMG.JPG 523.88 KB This may be the ESU commander, who provided leadership from the rear	101-0193_IMG.JPG 738.08 KB ESU squads under fire. IIRC the fallen trooper was hit by an OUDF marksman ("why is that clump of grass on a base?"); however, that squad is about to discover KV in the brush along the stream.	101-0194_IMG.JPG 649.39 KB OUDF mortar rounds miss their intended target (the squad on the hill) but disrupt the squad cowering in the brush. The OUDF marksman is hidden behind the orange tree at far left. Just to the left of the stream, an OU squad plus platoon leader subdue a KraVak prisoner while taking ESU fire.
101-0195_IMG.JPG 791.39 KB After the Kra'Vak charge into melee	101-0196_IMG.JPG 576.45 KB Different angle for 0195, with OU squads in the background	101-0198_IMG.JPG 647.69 KB The ESU called down a couple of mortar rounds on the OU marksman, which accounts for the smoke on the far side of the stream. The marksman called for "napalm or something" to destroy the bodies of the KV, who had just been gunned down by the ESU troops to either side. What he got was an ortillery strike which cleaned up everything within 8" of that green chit. In the distance, the OU commander hauls away their KV prisoner, while to the left, a KV search-and-rescue craft arrives a little too late to pick up their crew.	101-0199_IMG.JPG 673.73 KB The OU Gurkhas arrive by VTOL	p1040004.jpg 443.57 KB the pre-game battlefield, a little out of order, seen from the OU entry point (SE corner)
p1040005.jpg 439.66 KB the pre-game battlefield, a little out of order, seen from the OU (SW corner)	p1040006.jpg 441.47 KB ESU squads creep up to the trees	p1040007.jpg 435.90 KB ESU forces come on table	p1040008.jpg 449.43 KB ESU soldiers look for somewhere to hide	p1040009.jpg 437.08 KB ESU troops take cover
p1040010.jpg 450.05 KB OU squad takes fire while investigating alien artifact. The figure next to the Veteran-1 counter is the marksman in ghillie.	p1040011.jpg 436.08 KB EUS squad stumbles upon an unknown predator in the bushes, with fatal results.	p1040012.jpg 438.43 KB The OU (mostly in cover behind the tree) capture a KV in melee while taking fire from ESU squad off camera to the right.	p1040013.jpg 442.97 KB Jerry's ESU squad, pre-mortar	p1040014.jpg 440.54 KB Jerry's squad, post-mortar
p1040015.jpg 454.36 KB central ESU squads, post-mortar, pre-KV	p1040016.jpg 454.15 KB central ESU squads, post-KV, pre-ortillery	p1040017.jpg 434.22 KB don't go hand-to-hand with Kra'Vak	p1040018.jpg 440.16 KB the ESU squads to either side frantically gun down the KV	p1040019.jpg 442.91 KB R.I.P.
p1040020.jpg 443.47 KB ineffectual mortar fire lands around the OU central squad, much to the annoyance of the marksman	p1040021.jpg 437.19 KB OU Gurkhas deploy from their VTOL	p1040022.jpg 432.71 KB I called for mortar fire and got ortillery fire.	p1040023.jpg 439.12 KB An ESU combat walker receives Gurkha IAVRs and goes down in a spray of burning hydraulic fluids	p1040024.jpg 434.10 KB KV rescue ship arrives a few minutes too late to pick up their downed crew, and unwisely stops at a point where ortillery just landed. The ESU commander calls: "you know where the OU just bombarded us? I need our own ortillery to hit the exact same spot..."
p1040025.jpg 436.33 KB butcher's bill.