Operation Reset - Part 6

Krakow July 20th 2000

Undecided about which direction in which to head the troopers decide they need to secure some fuel no matter which way they go. They make their way back to the centre of Krakow and to the market square. They seek out the British soldiers munitions stall and ask him where they can get access to fuel in sufficient quantities to make a long journey. He doesnt have any himself, but if they go to the Na Zdrowie, a bar on the other side of the market square they should be able to find a man called Koko. Koko is the right hand man of a powerful merchant who controls the majority of the fuel trade in Krakow.

At the Na Zdrowie the troopers make contact with Koko, as they are short of items to trade he says he will see his boss and get back to them. After a short wait in the bar Koko returns to them with an offer. Seeing as they are obviously new in town and obviously know how to handle themselves, he will give them all the fuel they need in exchange for sorting out some trouble hes been having. The boss would like them to travel to the village of Gdow, the last known location of a group of marauders he suspects of ambushing his convoys.

It took the rest of the day to walk out to Gdow, as night fell the troopers infiltrated the woods on the hill over looking the village. They spent all night and all of the next day observing the marauders as they went about their business. They made note of how many were in their group, any patterns to their movements, were they sleapt, what they ate. They all so noted that whenever they left the small circle of buildings that they occupied they would dress in heavy hooded rubber clothing. On further inspection of the area they discovered the area had been hit by a missile attack carrying chemical weapons.

In the early hours of the next morning the troopers moved in to position, and launched their attack. The attack opened with a salvo of 40mm grenades landing on and among the occupied housing. The troopers then moved in and took the village house by house. There was little to no resistance from the marauders, injured and shaken from the initial bombardment they were in no condition to mount a defence. the few women and children present were allowed to free down the nearby river to safety.

The attack over, the troopers secure the village and begin to gather anything they can trade, weapons, equipment, foodstuffs, loading it all into a pair of capturead UAZ trucks. While loading their spoils on to the trucks they discover a hatch beneath some battered straw matting. The hatch looks battered as though someone has tried to batter, shoot, cut, burn their way in.

to be continued....