"Seige of Vilyuy"

waffenbaum · 2005-06-23, 03:46

A little story i just did as the outline for a map/mission. Try reading it all and tell me what you think? Ideas are MOST welcome.

"Leonij sighed heavily and looked out the window of the Mi-17 transport chopper. Outside, the snowflakes had gathered in the window creek like a white half moon. He and his team had been flying for a good hour, into the icy heart of Russia. They were all specialists in their field. Leonij had been chosen as the interpreter, although he gathered that he wouldn't be translating as much as trying to stay alive. They had been thoroughly briefed, and it was pretty straightforward as far as most missions went. Four teams would be flown to the objective via helicopters, deployed from MEC mobile HQ disguised as a civilian oil tanker in the Arctic Ocean. Masked by the heavy snowfall, two recon teams would use APC's to follow below. Their objective was a nuclear generator in the depts of sibeiria, heavily guarded and protected. But once it was gone, half of russia would be without power long enough to deply several troop carriers, thereby carving a path to the oil that they so desperatly needed. "Vilyuy reservoir straight ahead boys! -15 and counting, get ready for deployment!" yelled the co-pilot. Leonij felt the sweat amassing on his forehead. Everything rested on him and his teams shoulders now. The russian troops would probably already have picked them up on the radar, and their defences would be fully manned and battle-ready. "Thank Allah they will not have air support" Said Akhmed with a smile. The others nodded in silent agreement. Any second now they would be landing near their designated drop zone, and from there make their way to the heavy russian generator installment. The wounded would have to be brought back to the DP zone for treatment, and there would almost certainly be casualties when considering the hidden mines and the extensive lenght of barbed wire that circled around the entire base. Yanov, the engineer would probably be the hardest pressed of all, since he would have to clear eventual mines and steel link fences for the armored APC's. He had a blank stare on his face, a stare like a man who has come to terms with his own existence, and the hastily approaching termination of same."

BrokenArrow · 2005-06-23, 03:51

damn dude you need to write novels, watch out tom clancy!

but... i dont think the MEC will be needing oil, considering where they themselves live, china, which is right up there with the US in importing oil would, i think, be more likely to pull something like an attack on siberia for oil, other than that i love the detail and stuff you put in there.

I will also humbly suggest you keep this kinda stuff in the thread me and terranova where discussing story lines in. feel free to copy paste this over there, im only saying this because it will be easier to keep it in one thread.

forgot to add in: i like the idea of having a more personal story with the troops, maybe there could be something like this for one troop or squad of troops from every country.

Wolfmaster · 2005-06-23, 08:58

well the middle east needs either oil or another place to live. oil makes up like 75% of the total export of those countries.

anyway, very nice story. i loved reading it. you really should make more of these. like a story for each of the forces giving their view on why and how the war started and how they feel about it.

Tom#13 · 2005-06-23, 17:28

thatz some nice writing, well done. i got an idea for jungle combat posted paps u could write something up for id like to read it, you should be a author.

Tom#13 · 2005-06-23, 17:29

thatz some nice writing, well done. i got an idea for jungle combat on the jungle warfare thread posted paps u could write something up for id like to read it, you should be a author.

waffenbaum · 2005-06-24, 07:32

Perhaps. Oh, and while I'm not a writer per se, I have written several storyboards for comics, along with a few cartoons (which has only been broadcasted here, shame)

Feel free to take a look at some of my online stuff. Although, my computer made pictures are VASTLY different from my pencil drawings, just so you know. ---> http://waffenbaum.deviantart.com/

BrokenArrow · 2005-06-27, 01:38

I was thinking about starting a new thread on this, but decided we should try to keep this stuff together. as wolfmaster and i said, it would be pretty cool to have a perspective of troops from all sides of the story about what they think of the war. so here it goes i will try to start one off for a US marine (keyword:try

)

Sargeant Major Adrian Mills stared at the floor of the Super Stalion transport chopper and asked himself how hed gotten here, preparing for an assault of some place in china hed never heard nor cared about. thwo years ago hed been in afghanistan with his team of force recon marines, hoofing it in the hills when they werent lucky enough to catch a ride on a chopper for insertion. his unit had been recognized on several occasions for hunting the enemy with ruthless efficiency, capturing tons of enemy war materiel. this of course had come at a price, theyd lost twelve men to enemy action, moslty small arms fire but the occasional land mine had also taken its toll. still, Mills thought that he had been fighting for a just cause, his country had been attacked, and he had been called up in defense. this feeling changed when he was sent to iraq with his unit after things had started going badly there. a little while after 'victory' had been declared, his marines had been dropped into some hornets nest of insurgents in fallujah, they were lucky enough not to lose any men there, but hed seen things that he wouldnt care to see again. after fallujah, his unit was only used for percision strikes against targets such as safe houses for insurgents and little hideouts where the resistance was manufacturing improvised explosive devices that reakes havoc on other grunts as they made their patrols around iraq. Still, Mills didnt feel that he belonged there, fighting that war, but as a Marine thats where he was, and he would do his job no matter what. the flight engineer called to the troops that they had five minutes till they hit the ground, Mills looked up. around him he saw his men, some faces newer than others. even though he wasnt the CO of this unit, he felt like he could call them all his, even the CO himself. Mills, like many sargeants in militaries around the globe, was the backbone of his unit, and he carried the weight as best he could. his eyes noticed the sniper of the unit, who was gearing up for his insertion on a clff over looking the pass. the sniper looked down his scope out the open door, made a face, adjusted the scope, looked out the door again, and then rested the rifle on his lap. sniping was some sort of witchcraft to Mills, but he was glad to have a sniper, and a good one, on his side, the units sniper and spotter had saved the marines more than once, especially in afghanistan, where sniping was considered an art, and the militants theyd faced thought no differently, there was no lack of enemy snipers there. the chopper flared, the sniper and spotter got out and took up a position overlooking the center of the pass. Mills and the rest of the Marines would be dropped a little off center of the pass, behind enemy lines to attempt to break the stalemate that had ground to a halt the advance of the US forces operating out of an airbase at one end of the pass, the end objective was to capture or at least put out of business the chinese airbase at the other end of the pass who had been harrassing elements of the 3rd coalition forces as they moved around china. Again the chopper flared, this time down in the pass, from here the sniper/spotter team was invisible, even to mills trained eye, scary he thought, even though they were friendly. Suprisingly there was no small arms fire aimed at the chopper and it was able to land without incident. Mills men stood, some of them making the sign of the cross as they did so, and hoped out of the helicopter, fanning out to secure an LZ for the other choppers to land. as milss got out the flight engineer grabbed his shoulder and half-yelled to him: 'welcome to the FuShe Pass, good luck!'

forgive any mistakes, spelling grammer or otherwise, as waffenbaum said at the beginning of the thread ideas are most welcome and id just like to thank him for taking the initiative to start this thread cause i think that its a great idea and encourage others to write similar stories about a different nation, Great Britain anyone?, from a similar point of view.

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2005-06-23, 03:46	#1
waffenbaum Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 478 Location: Denmark	"Seige of Vilyuy" A little story i just did as the outline for a map/mission. Try reading it all and tell me what you think? Ideas are MOST welcome. "Leonij sighed heavily and looked out the window of the Mi-17 transport chopper. Outside, the snowflakes had gathered in the window creek like a white half moon. He and his team had been flying for a good hour, into the icy heart of Russia. They were all specialists in their field. Leonij had been chosen as the interpreter, although he gathered that he wouldn't be translating as much as trying to stay alive. They had been thoroughly briefed, and it was pretty straightforward as far as most missions went. Four teams would be flown to the objective via helicopters, deployed from MEC mobile HQ disguised as a civilian oil tanker in the Arctic Ocean. Masked by the heavy snowfall, two recon teams would use APC's to follow below. Their objective was a nuclear generator in the depts of sibeiria, heavily guarded and protected. But once it was gone, half of russia would be without power long enough to deply several troop carriers, thereby carving a path to the oil that they so desperatly needed. "Vilyuy reservoir straight ahead boys! -15 and counting, get ready for deployment!" yelled the co-pilot. Leonij felt the sweat amassing on his forehead. Everything rested on him and his teams shoulders now. The russian troops would probably already have picked them up on the radar, and their defences would be fully manned and battle-ready. "Thank Allah they will not have air support" Said Akhmed with a smile. The others nodded in silent agreement. Any second now they would be landing near their designated drop zone, and from there make their way to the heavy russian generator installment. The wounded would have to be brought back to the DP zone for treatment, and there would almost certainly be casualties when considering the hidden mines and the extensive lenght of barbed wire that circled around the entire base. Yanov, the engineer would probably be the hardest pressed of all, since he would have to clear eventual mines and steel link fences for the armored APC's. He had a blank stare on his face, a stare like a man who has come to terms with his own existence, and the hastily approaching termination of same."

2005-06-23, 03:51	#2
BrokenArrow Retired PR Developer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,071 Location: NH, US	damn dude you need to write novels, watch out tom clancy! but... i dont think the MEC will be needing oil, considering where they themselves live, china, which is right up there with the US in importing oil would, i think, be more likely to pull something like an attack on siberia for oil, other than that i love the detail and stuff you put in there. I will also humbly suggest you keep this kinda stuff in the thread me and terranova where discussing story lines in. feel free to copy paste this over there, im only saying this because it will be easier to keep it in one thread. forgot to add in: i like the idea of having a more personal story with the troops, maybe there could be something like this for one troop or squad of troops from every country.

2005-06-23, 08:58	#3
Wolfmaster Retired PR Developer Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 4,927 Netherlands Location: Groningen	well the middle east needs either oil or another place to live. oil makes up like 75% of the total export of those countries. anyway, very nice story. i loved reading it. you really should make more of these. like a story for each of the forces giving their view on why and how the war started and how they feel about it.

2005-06-23, 17:28	#4
Tom#13 Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 477 Location: brighton, uk	thatz some nice writing, well done. i got an idea for jungle combat posted paps u could write something up for id like to read it, you should be a author.

2005-06-23, 17:29	#5
Tom#13 Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 477 Location: brighton, uk	thatz some nice writing, well done. i got an idea for jungle combat on the jungle warfare thread posted paps u could write something up for id like to read it, you should be a author.

2005-06-24, 07:32	#6
waffenbaum Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 478 Location: Denmark	Perhaps. Oh, and while I'm not a writer per se, I have written several storyboards for comics, along with a few cartoons (which has only been broadcasted here, shame) Feel free to take a look at some of my online stuff. Although, my computer made pictures are VASTLY different from my pencil drawings, just so you know. ---> http://waffenbaum.deviantart.com/

2005-06-27, 01:38	#7
BrokenArrow Retired PR Developer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,071 Location: NH, US	I was thinking about starting a new thread on this, but decided we should try to keep this stuff together. as wolfmaster and i said, it would be pretty cool to have a perspective of troops from all sides of the story about what they think of the war. so here it goes i will try to start one off for a US marine (keyword:try ) Sargeant Major Adrian Mills stared at the floor of the Super Stalion transport chopper and asked himself how hed gotten here, preparing for an assault of some place in china hed never heard nor cared about. thwo years ago hed been in afghanistan with his team of force recon marines, hoofing it in the hills when they werent lucky enough to catch a ride on a chopper for insertion. his unit had been recognized on several occasions for hunting the enemy with ruthless efficiency, capturing tons of enemy war materiel. this of course had come at a price, theyd lost twelve men to enemy action, moslty small arms fire but the occasional land mine had also taken its toll. still, Mills thought that he had been fighting for a just cause, his country had been attacked, and he had been called up in defense. this feeling changed when he was sent to iraq with his unit after things had started going badly there. a little while after 'victory' had been declared, his marines had been dropped into some hornets nest of insurgents in fallujah, they were lucky enough not to lose any men there, but hed seen things that he wouldnt care to see again. after fallujah, his unit was only used for percision strikes against targets such as safe houses for insurgents and little hideouts where the resistance was manufacturing improvised explosive devices that reakes havoc on other grunts as they made their patrols around iraq. Still, Mills didnt feel that he belonged there, fighting that war, but as a Marine thats where he was, and he would do his job no matter what. the flight engineer called to the troops that they had five minutes till they hit the ground, Mills looked up. around him he saw his men, some faces newer than others. even though he wasnt the CO of this unit, he felt like he could call them all his, even the CO himself. Mills, like many sargeants in militaries around the globe, was the backbone of his unit, and he carried the weight as best he could. his eyes noticed the sniper of the unit, who was gearing up for his insertion on a clff over looking the pass. the sniper looked down his scope out the open door, made a face, adjusted the scope, looked out the door again, and then rested the rifle on his lap. sniping was some sort of witchcraft to Mills, but he was glad to have a sniper, and a good one, on his side, the units sniper and spotter had saved the marines more than once, especially in afghanistan, where sniping was considered an art, and the militants theyd faced thought no differently, there was no lack of enemy snipers there. the chopper flared, the sniper and spotter got out and took up a position overlooking the center of the pass. Mills and the rest of the Marines would be dropped a little off center of the pass, behind enemy lines to attempt to break the stalemate that had ground to a halt the advance of the US forces operating out of an airbase at one end of the pass, the end objective was to capture or at least put out of business the chinese airbase at the other end of the pass who had been harrassing elements of the 3rd coalition forces as they moved around china. Again the chopper flared, this time down in the pass, from here the sniper/spotter team was invisible, even to mills trained eye, scary he thought, even though they were friendly. Suprisingly there was no small arms fire aimed at the chopper and it was able to land without incident. Mills men stood, some of them making the sign of the cross as they did so, and hoped out of the helicopter, fanning out to secure an LZ for the other choppers to land. as milss got out the flight engineer grabbed his shoulder and half-yelled to him: 'welcome to the FuShe Pass, good luck!' forgive any mistakes, spelling grammer or otherwise, as waffenbaum said at the beginning of the thread ideas are most welcome and id just like to thank him for taking the initiative to start this thread cause i think that its a great idea and encourage others to write similar stories about a different nation, Great Britain anyone?, from a similar point of view.