Hi Jeds
Apart from the organisational cock-up of not getting back to you this morning I just wanted to check you all had a good experience this weekend.
Rest assured that Stu and I, after bugging out of the contact, laid up to try and link back up with you yesterday. We assumed you would continue along the fence line and we would be able to call you into our position. As soon as we laid up we put out the coded messages for you to continue on to the objective (the SAS camp on hill 486 that we outlined in the morning brief).
Once it was apparent that you weren't going to come past, and lacking any radio contact, we assumed you were captured andcontinued on to the SAS camp and finally got there at 7pm, avoiding three more German contacts in the process. We were completed shagged by that point. The bergen and radio has taken it's toll! We got some food down our necks and changed throughly wet socks!
Pete then contacted the German commanders on our organisers' radio and asked them to drop you along the northern road so that we could pick you up with patrols, but for one reason or another that didn't happen. We also had a couple of patrols out on missions who had further orders to make contact if they saw you. We tried to find out where you were from the Germans, but they didn't know either. (Mainly because you didn't give them any information!!! Brilliant!)
Stu and I then took part in an attempted vehicle ambush that didn't happen. We waited for ages and sent out recces and detonated pyro to draw the Germans in to the trap, but by that point they were rested up in their camp. At 10pm we made our way back to the SAS camp to erect our shelters.
We suspected you would have tracked back to the wild camping area, so we headed over to see you there and returned to camp at 12.30am.
This morning it took longer than we intended to strike camp and get over to you. We come over with the remaining SAS people because by the time we got away there were German patrols in the area. A quick ambush went in to a vehicle that was on the south road after which we were pursued by a squad of Germans. At 9.15am we finally arrived at your camp by which time you'd taken the initiative and headed off.
We set out to take the German camp from the north but when we reached the road we heard a large amount of explosions so started to move towards the German camp from the east. We were given the opportunity to hijack a vehicle (not really within the rules, but offered by another organiser to get us into the area and taken gladly) and storm the camp. One slightly ghey pile out of a vehicle in the middle of a hail of fire, during which 5 of our 6 members got hit, we sped out of the camp and ended up on the south road again.
We then tracked north, pursued by a group of 7-8 determined Germans and decided to try and take the Radio Direction Finder. We managed to get there at around 11.30am to find that it was already destroyed then made for the woods north of the German camp to hole up and keep eyes on the enemy until our 'exfiltration'.
I was very frustrated that we didn't manage to get back to you, and in hindsight, we perhaps should have taken a 'civvy' vehicle to get around to you in the morning.
I hope you all had a good time and that your bodies aren't aching too much. I'm pleasantly surprised that I feel reasonably good. No real aches and pains.
Let me know your thoughts, because all feedback is useful for the future.
Hi, well here's the honest truth: we didn't hear your call to regen on the smoke, and didn't see the smoke, so bearing that in mind, we felt a bit abandoned. Unfortunately, the Jerries flocked like wasps, and we were all eventually captured.
However, in the morning we all used our initiative and through sheer determination took their base. So, first day disappointing, second day great.
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i had a brilliant time but want to add this, when we were making our way to the SAS camp and got bumped the german initially fired at the first man, which was me. They missed so i shouted ambush, since we had a fence to our left and heavy woodland to our right i dont think i gave a direction presuming everyone would hear the shots and react to there right.
I then returned fire but by this time i was taking multiple fire from atleast 3 people.
I hit the deck and called for support...Head shot reacted with thompson bursts and i believe he managed to take out 2 of the germans. I hit the first guy that fired at me or so i thought but never heard any medic calls from the germans.
I then heard a medic call from our side and i think i heard Headshot call for flank right.
No one reacted at that point , obviously people were tired and could not see the ambush.
I had to hit the deck and crawl to a new location at which point Head shot popped smoke (2) and shouted re-org on the smoke.
I then popped a 3rd smoke and shouted on me....
Head shot was the only one that came and as far as i was aware at the time was the only one that reacted.
Bearing in mind that i heard atleast one casualty and we had an unkown enemy presence in the woods we decided to move on 100 metres along the fence line and lay up.
we sent atleast 2 emergency messages on the comms and got no reply ..well except guy singing down the f*****ng radio.
This led myself and steve to believe you were not coming and had been captured.
Given our physical state and low numbers we decided it was best to move on hoping that you would all come along the fence and meet up at SAS camp on the co-ords Head Shot had given.
Sorry if you felt abandoned guys , we did not abandon you.
Me and steph probably felt the same as there were 7 of you and only 2 of us.
Im glad though that you all made a game of it using initiative and hope that the capture was something new for everyone.
Just hope chommers didnt wave that wonky finger at you.
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We took the 3 Germans out not long after we saw the back Steve's head going into the bushes. It was the 2 5 man cut off teams which surround us. We got stretched out and picked off one by one, and I'm sorry to say the first two who did were Steiner and I, both carrying radios and unable to run. After hearing very crackly voices over the radio we heard Easy Zulu then nothing, then guy singing down the radio. Since we had 2 of the radios we were lead to believe the other radio had been captured (only radio we could contact at the time was the 3rd jed radio). So we made our way to the predesignated RV point, which was swarming with Germans!
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It was me that was hit, I had no targets but knew where to look so swept around with lardy, we cleared them out and I was killed, so the lads pressed on and I waited to regent, lost all sight of you two during the ambush.
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"Will you stop talking about the war!!"
"What, you started it!"
"We did NOT start it!"
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland..."
From my point of view the ambush went like this;
As soon as Stu called out ambush I dived for cover behind the nearest tree. Unfortunately I smashed my knee into a tree root (full weight + pack when diving = ouch) and then got cramp in my other leg as I reacted to the first pain. I had sit gritting my teeth for a good 30s-minute before I could move. Steve was them calling for us to put down fire but non of us could see anything so when he called for us to flank I moved in with Paul until he got hit. I pulled back to medic him as the others were still further back and then moved right, spotting Sandy and shooting him in the back. I saw Steve's smoke go in but didn't hear his calls to pull out so carried on pushing up. I narrowly avoided the grenade that killed Paul when it landed about 2m in front of me. Luckily I was amongst some fallen trees and dived into a hollow behind one of them. By that time Andy, Martin & other Steve had moved up and we took out the remaining 2 - myself shooting Jimbo in the arse. 
The other then had a quick conflab whilst I reloaded & checked the Germans for intel (non) and it was decided we would head for the RV. I was all for following Stu & Steve but stuck with the rest. We hadn't gone far when I spotted a German mober across the road ahead and more movement was seen to out right in the gulley. I then saw a group move to our left around behind us, which Andy fired upon, but it turned out to be the dead Germns heading to camp and only served to draw the rest towards us. At this point I just said I'm heading that way (after Steve & Stu) full pelt before we get surrounded and the rest can come if they want. I moved about 50m up the fenceline and paused before carrying on another 50 after spotting more Germans. I dropped my pack and returned to the sound of firing and met Martin, Steve 2 & Ed coming the other way who informed Andy, Matt & the radios were gone. So we found a spot to hole up until the Germans had cleared off before moving off to find the SAS camp- and meeting our doom....
The other then had a quick conflab whilst I reloaded & checked the Germans for intel (non) and it was decided we would head for the RV.
Yes, I think this is where I should have reiterated a few more times that we were to RV on the SAS camp as it seemed to cause some confusion.
Point Y was the RV for the first exercise, then I mentioned before we set off for the SAS camp that if we get bumped we're to fight through and push on to the SAS camp and continue forward.
Ah, that would be where we went wrong then.
The RV from the 1st exercise was back the way we came, and like I said in the main post, you announcing on the radio that you were compromised, and then Guy coming over the radio a few minutes later lead us to believe you'd been captured. So we thought we had no alternative to turn back. Which is where we ran into the cut-off patrol.
My message on the radio was:
"Easy 7 to all easy. Zulu. Bronze to easy 3."
Meaning: Compromised, return to SAS base.
Yes, we heard that load and clear. 
Mmmm, but you didn't have the codes...
Wait a minute! How come you heard it from halfway across the site, but my comrades 200m away didn't!
I suspect some sort of espionage with the radios here.
Yes, heard clearly. We knew your easy codes but didn't have a clue on Zulu Bronze (didn't realise it was two words, though it was an RV). Guy broadcast some abuse and Webby replied briefly in kind.
Abuse?! He sang "99 Red Balloons" down the fecking line.
Hehe, abusive then - proves comms were working!
I'd say in retrospect that very brief transmissions were unnecessary. Your codes were cryptic enough for us not to have a clue what was going on and where - but if we missed a bit of a message then your troops did too. Perhaps repeated calls out until a received came back might have been better - it really is incredibly difficult to catch a burst transmission and we were just sitting listening, lord knows what its like when on the move!
I put the call out every few minutes for about thirty minutes. It was eventually picked up by Pete as we moved towards his radio.
I'd say in retrospect that very brief transmissions were unnecessary
We were concerned about the direction-finding recievers that we were told you had. The shorter our transmissions, the less time Jerry had to triangulate. It was all moot, cos after 20 minutes listening to Guy blocking the channel and revealing our positions with his bad singing, we switched our sets off.
...after 20 minutes listening to Guy blocking the channel and revealing our positions with his bad singing, we switched our sets off.
We were concerned about the direction-finding recievers that we were told you had. The shorter our transmissions, the less time Jerry had to triangulate.
Heh, that would have been an amazing bit of prop building, sadly beyond the capabilities of even CiA. 
Well, sort of. The HQ radio picked Headshot up well and the DF picked up Pete better so I'd say that placed HS south and Pete north - hey that's direction finding. Brilliant, we did do it!
It was all moot, cos after 20 minutes listening to Guy blocking the channel and revealing our positions with his bad singing, we switched our sets off.
we werent there after 10 mins, and we'd turned our radio off as Guy's singing was attracting unwanted attention... could say he gave our position away, but then again, the shooting and pyro may have done also.
How did you know it was me telling Guy to get bent Chomley? hehe
Heh, that would have been an amazing bit of prop building, sadly beyond the capabilities of even CiA.
Have you not heard of Amateur Radio Direction Finding?
[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_Radio_Direction_Finding[/link]
Well neither had I until about 2 days before the event.
