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 Đa Minh Germain S/Lt. Légion étrangère Seeing the last naval officer and his group on the deck, crawling for safety, and taking in the rest of the scene, it appears the rebels have maybe achieved all they would today. Better alive and ready to fight another day. Con Qua shouts to his group to throw smoke and retreat back to the extract point. But while the rebel fighters may have outstayed their welcome, Con Qua could still see a Guillotine goal as of yet unachieved. He shoulders up the final rocket launcher and takes a long aim down the sights through the smoke, centering the crawling naval officer. The tunnel vision closes down around him, he exhales and triggers the launch switch on the crossbow, the PHWOM of the launcher enveloping him...
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17 March, 2010 Shift 2l Con Qua taps the soldier with the Crossbow on the shoulder and takes it, telling the fighter to scramble back west. He thinks back hard to the one time he saw a guy fire a launcher in training, aims, and fires. In a truly vulgar display of power the rocket spears the crawling naval officer and blows the entire quad of dead officers across the steps and facade of the building. You were at a net -2, which dropped your 1d10 to a 1d6, giving you a 1 in 6 chance to connect, but connect it did. Enemy Turn Soldiers inside the main building rush to get the machine gun nests working again, but Aguja is ready for one of them. The moment he sees movement he cuts loose with a burst, stitching the soldier across his midsection, killing them. On the south corner, the enemy soldier gets the gun back up and cranks it around to face the window with the smoke trail. Twenty rounds blast the window around Con Qua, who ducks but does not get suppressed, his morale bolstered by how the fight is going so far. A series of sharp pops crack through the air as Al Toque, La Gaviota, and the remaining machine gunner in his squad cut down the soldiers trying to advance west across the plaza. Soldiers pour out of the barracks on the east end of the site, just under a dozen, and they rush forward into covered positions to try and get an idea of what is going on. The northern group of solders continues their advance on Aguja’s building, one of them hurling a grenade through one of the windows. It explodes in the room, but not before one of the resistance fighters hurls himself on it, killing himself but saving his fireteam. Two fighters from Con Qua’s position are killed by fire from the two bodyguards who bound through the smoke and take careful aim. On the southern road, a large tracked tank rolls into view, swiveling it’s turret right as the commander rakes Martinez’ building with a pintle-mounted heavy machine gun. Several rebels from the squad are cut down. Martinez doesn't have time to take stock before the whole room explodes in fire as a high explosive shell impacts the first floor and blasts through the ceiling. Martinez has barely time to register an entire fireteam falling through the floor as he and a scant few rebels tumble and scramble west out of the remains of the building. It’s kind of funny the things that stick out in one's mind under stress. The whole thing happened in just a few seconds, but Martinez can vividly recall the little PLA flag, tied to the tanks aerial antenna, whipping crisply in the breeze. Escape, Evasion Looking up and down the street, the team can see that most of the fighters all had the same idea, scooting out onto the road and booking it west into the next set of alleys and buildings. As the team members try to keep their squads in cohesion they each have to evade, escape, and regroup in their own ways. For each Guillotine Team member, tell me how you are leading what is left of your squad out of the immediate area. Feel free to creatively (within reason) use the skills and specialities you’re good at. Mechanically you'll be making an opposed roll with the enemies chasing after you to get away clean. Statlines Character | Hit Capacity | Stress Capacity | Ammunition: Current Mag/Capacity (Full Mags Left) | Notes Con Qua | 5/5 | 6/6 | 15/30 (9) | Plus 12 fighters Al Toque | 5/5 | 5/5 | 27/50 (3) | Plus La Gaviota and 14 fighters and 1 machine gunner Aguja | 3/4 | 6/6 | 15/30 (4) | Plus 10 fighters and 1 machine gunner Martinez | 4/6 | 3/4 | 16/30 (3) | Plus 4 fighters Rebels killed or missing in action: 14 Remaining Armbrust launchers: 0
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 Sargento Segundo Jorge Briceño Dirección de Inteligencia del Ejército Correr! Correr! Aguja shouts to his squad, indicating that if anyone has smoke grenades, now would be the time to get it ready. The troops that stayed with me will bound past the ones that pulled back last turn, and then we will disperse into groups of 2-3 and split up as we scatter. Strict comms discipline will be required for the next while, until the PLA threat level dies down a bit. 
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 SM Luis Marcelo Martinez Amphibious Commandos Group - IMARA The sudden attack from the unseen tank has decisively changed the dynamic of the battle. The building that Mike Squad was sheltering in erupts into a hail of broken glass as heavy machine gun fire rips apart the windows and several resistance members, and then the building rocks as a tank round blows apart the entire second story. The squad drops through the floor and many who survive the initial explosion are subsequently killed in the fall or buried in rubble. Thankfully Martinez’s experience as a Paratrooper serves him well in this moment, for he was taught to bend his knees and roll in order to reduce falling damage. The building has become nothing more than a cloud of plaster dust and shattered masonry, and all Martinez is left with is his Ranger training: Seek cover, break contact, move past a terrain feature, avoid linear danger areas, and keep traveling towards the rally point. SERE School emphasized the same principles - as well as the brutal consequences of failing to escape and falling into the hands of the enemy. Martinez quickly examines the remains of his squad, hoping to perform some combat first aid with his Personal Medkit, though most of the fighters are critically injured or dead. He’s no medic, but hopefully he can help one of them get back on their feet despite the risk of moving while critically wounded. He does what he can, and then it’s time to go.  With the street beginning to fill with colored marker smoke from the grenades, Mike Squad is afforded a bit of concealment from the tank to the south. Martinez orders the fireteam of survivors to follow as he exfiltrates west, bounding from cover to cover and relying on their camouflaged uniforms and his skills in Recon (Infiltration) to evade detection. He can hear friendly suppressive fire rattling away, but the wounded remains of Mike Squad focus on putting some distance between themselves and the enemy. Martinez’s perspective narrows to only scanning for the next immediate threat or opportunity: A parked car, a crowded alley, a fire hydrant, an open street, a convenience store, some decorative bushes, an overturned cart… They’re headed for the western rally point where the mortar section and the vehicles should be waiting for them - unless they’ve been attacked as well. Enemy helos are circling in the distance, and Punta Arenas seems to be erupting into a hive of PLA activity. If necessary, Martinez will have to lead his team all the way into the Magellan National Reserve on foot. Hopefully the results of this mission will be worth the price being paid for it. ”Stirps Virilis” 
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 SG2 Dante "Al Toque" Laguna Ejército del Perú Exfil is the name of the game, and an opposed exfil is always more stressful than an unalerted infil. Al Toque calls out to commence the evacuation for his second group of soldiers, now that his first group has taken their place to cover. Once they get far enough, he calls the covering group to begin evac as well, and every few feet a few soldiers at the front turn and cover until the rest of the group passes them. That tank was a problem, but luckily it would take precious moments for it to get out and around the building to be able to fire at them again, precious moments he and his men could get safely out of sight. Driving trucks and Navigating through the mountains and making way to evac aren't very similar, but they're not so unrelated as you might think, especially when what you're evac'ing from has to drive to you, and Al Toque makes sure to point out the best path he can to keep as much as possible between his route and the corner he expects the tank to round the corner from.  A la patria vivir consagrado y por ella luchar a morir.
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17 March, 2010 Shift 3 Con Qua In the scramble out of the building, Con Qua and his squad end up furthest south. They loosely bound across the road, but truthfully it’s more of a low run by everyone rather than a textbook bound from cover to cover. The rumbling of the tank grows into a roar as it speeds around the corner and slams to a halt, nearly burying it’s turret in a parked car. As the turret traverses, Con Qua firmly believes he’s about to watch a canister shot obliterate the majority of his squad. With a rapid series of dull thunks, white smoke envelops the tank, the resistance mortars dropping the smoke rounds almost directly on the tank. Using this confusion to their advantage, Con Qua and his squad finish getting into the next set of buildings, through some alleys, and safely disperse. Al Toque Sometimes the clarity of nearly being blown to pieces, getting shot and dying brings things into focus at the strangest times. As Al Toque rushes his squad across the street and into the next block he reflects on his tours with the Peruvian Army. He ticks off the list of things he has put in the near 10,000 hours to become an expert in...tech work...check, physical fitness...check, squad leadership...definitely no check there. Luckily for Al Toque, for all the time he hasn’t spent leading troops, La Gaviota has. While this particular sortie was definitely a test, she’s not going to let Al Toque’s hesitations on exfiltration get any more of her men and women killed. She makes a few choice suggestions, and together they get the squad off the “x”. Aguja Aguja, being the most northern squad, ends up shifting more north than west due to the terrain, road, and building features they lead their squad past. After a few blocks they enter a lighter commercial district, but as they move, so do the Chinese reinforcements. A few close calls later and Aguja makes the call, using their Infiltration skills to break quickly into what looks like a welding shop. He slides the roll-up door open a few feet and his squad dashes in. He slides the door down just before a two-vehicle patrol rolls past. His machine gunner looks for a window but Aguja waves them back. The patrols intensify briefly, but it’s a large search area, and after a few tense hours the streets clear and Aguja is able to slip their squad back out and towards the base. Martinez The silver lining, if getting two-thirds of your squad blown out from under them can have a silver lining, is that Martinez can move very quickly with his remaining four soldiers. They rapidly outpace the patrols chasing them and melt into the outskirts of the city with ease. What is left of the squads reconvenes at the resistance base, and while the losses were heavy, there are already intelligence reports of mass-panic in the PLA leadership. Over the next few days the Guillotine team has little downtime, assisting with intercepting communications, collating intelligence reports, training the resistance fighters in their newly acquired shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, etc. With such a large, public hit, the team will need to lay low for a time. They help bolster the resistance in any number of ways, check in with headquarters, and wait for the next installment of this anthology game. All players gain 6xp for their escapades. Thank you to all my players, I will cross-post an intel report to the main thread, and if tasking comes of it, we will pick back up at that time with a second chapter. Please feel free to post some slice of life stuff for your character in the meantime!
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