Ulysses:
"Right so the assault team is currently just a merger of teams Echo and Foxtrot, with Wilhelm if he wishes to join us. The assault team is now team Echo, though the designation Foxtrot is reserved for assault team use, in case the two teams need to separate out again.
Echo team will operate with
two fire teams, designated
Charlie fireteam and
Delta. These are standard designations you should all be familiar with. The fireteams will be pretty much Echo and Foxtrot as they are now. However, Youriy and Yuri will switch around to try and balance up medium and short range firepower between the teams. The fireteams will be this then:
Charlie fireteam
Ulysses
Yuri
Gull
The Bear
Delta fireteam
Youriy
The Grin
Ilya
Rex
These fireteams will operate semi-independently in combat, particularly in the assault, under standard section battle attack principles of fire and manoeuvre (Dreadnought if you need more clarification on this just say). This is the end of information for those partaking in the assault at this time, apart from to say that Delta fireteam will be allowed to choose its own leader who will be the 2IC of Echo team. The remaining information is for those partaking in the recon mission to scout the ground and put an end to our rampant speculation, hopefully. The Delta fireteam leader will have overall command of the assault team while I am on this mission and will be responsible for bailing us out if we get in too much trouble.
The recon team, Team Golf, currently consists of
"THE BEAR" INDRIMINGO,
ILYA KOPRONKO,
WILHIEM/BILL and myself. Speak now or forever hold your peace if you either wish to join or leave. The recon team, has the following objectives:
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TO NOT GET CAUGHT
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To assess the enemy's strength, morale, equipment, concentration, patterns to any patrols etc.
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To map out decks three and two for future reference.
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To locate, if possible, where the hostages are being held, their status, how they are guarded etc.
The recon team will have to
move with the utmost care and attention to detail to ensure accurate intelligence and to ensure we are not discovered. This is not a time to get
cocky or impatient. It will take at least three hours, probably more, for the recon team to properly scout the lower decks without being discovered. The use of an unsuppressed weapon is
strictly forbidden. Even ruby-tackling an assailant to the ground is preferable to using an unsuppressed weapon. Verbal communication is to be kept to the
minimum necessary to facilitate accurate communication, if it has to be used at all. The patrol will mostly be led by hand-signs, which I will go over at the end of this brief to ensure we using hand-signals we are comfortable with. All discoveries will be radioed in when it is possible to do so. We will
first have to move through
decks 3 and 2, as I have no detailed plans for these decks, I cannot specify an exact path to take. We will
scout both these levels carefully to see if the enemy has occupied them and, if so, to what extent. It is
vital to accurately assess the enemy's strength, concentrations, patrol patterns and timings, morale, equipment and a dozen other things that you have all be carefully trained to assess. When I say vital, I mean it in the literal sense, we could kill ourselves or our team members with a single mistaken piece of intelligence. Do not mess up. Do not drop your guard for a second.
Once decks three and two have been scouted, deck one, Engineering, will have to be scouted as well.
We know, almost for certain, the enemy will have a presence here, probably a strong one, with possible hostages. If you thought scouting decks three and two sounded tough, deck one will be tougher. I believe we must pass the control room, in order to view the main floor of Engineering. None of us have remote cameras so we will have to
carefully peep into the control room ourselves through the door or windows. If the control room is
alertly and strongly guarded, we will
withdraw, in case the walkways are the same. However, if the control room only has a
weak presence or sloppy guards, we will advance to the walkways. We will remain on the first walkway and, if it
appears safe, will take an
overview of each turbine hall from the first walkway. Depending on the conditions down there, the
upper walkway may be explored. However, that course of action would be
dangerous, as we have no means of assessing the upper walkways, without exposing ourselves to them. Thus I would recommend we plan to
stay out of view of the upper walkways.
No grenades will be used,
except smoke grenades to cover a retreat under heavy fire, and
no lights will be turned on or off. Areas of darkness will be explored using night-vision goggles. The Bear will have to borrow a pair off someone in Echo team.
Are there any questions or suggestions from anyone before we conclude the briefing?"
OOC: One can assume that all of this was said over the radio so comments from everyone are welcome. I hope I wasn't too over the top with the highlighting. It can be toned down or removed in the future if you want. Also my second weapon should be the compact PP229 not the AI Magnum sniper rifle, though, if that now only takes up one inventory slot, I might bring it along.
