More Foulups for Missions

Good List Geoffrey! I think I can pick out most of them (This would
actually be interesting - to list the events and their historical
sources as some are no doubt known to all and others much less so).

Here's another few:

1) Enemy is advancing from the East, cutting your army to bits. Your RQ has a
whole pile of brand new fancy assault weapons in stores, but won't sign them
out to replace your bolt action rifles or complete lack of
weapons (some of you are just-recruited walking wounded with no gear).
(End historical result: RQ "convinced" to cease obstruction with the aide of
sidearm)

2) You are security for an expensive EW vehicle. You are setup in the woods.
You awaken to the sounds of diesel tracklayer enemy IFVs driving through your
position. You don't have anything that will stop them reliably (1 portable
MAW), and they don't know you are there. You probably want to keep it that
way.

3) You have been ordered to get from A to B (you are an armoured unit). You
reach a roadblock half way along comprised of friendly troops. If you don't
get to B quickly, some other unit gets obliterated. The roadblock looks like a
squad of gropos without any AT assets but they are challenging you, and no one
told you about this roadblock or the
passwords/challenges. What do you do? (Historical result: Vehicles force
roadblock, discover the rest of the infantry platoon and the missing AT
assets in a classic blue-on-blue)

4) You don't really have any idea who is attacking you. You were about to get
briefed when a suicide bomber ran into the B'n CP and blew up the B'n XO as he
was about to clue you in as to what was going on. You don't know if you are
supposed to hold, flee, etc and you aren't sure what the other portions of the
B'n are doing or whate your allied assets are up to (including air or
artillery). What do you do?

5) You are in a safe zone. No enemy about. Then where is that artillery
raining down from? And where are the piles of opfor boyos with buckets of hand
grenades coming from in waves? Aren't you glad that the LT you cussed out
earlier made you dig foxholes even in the safe zone?

6) You have to lay some comms cable to establish a key link between your units
and higher HQ (or establish a LoS link or whatever is SF appropriate).
Unfortunately, the enemy has decided to pass through the area you are
conducting this construction in. Try hard to not get killed and to get the
link up fast enough or the whole B'n is screwed.

7) Your spec forces team has planned an extraction point in a clearing after
capturing an enemy key figure. An unrelated (and unaware) but sizeable enemy
force has moved in and encamped on your clearing. If you don't get extracted
now, your backup plan is very dodgy. But in order to get extracted by primary
means, you must drive the enemy off your LZ. Now isn't this why you are the
best of the best?

8) You are worried about an enemy force occupying a glacier. You send troops
to check it out. Bad conditions cause their transport to crash. You send more
transports. Repeate repeatedly. No enemy troops are ever seen, the only battle
is with nature.

9) Your unit is engaged in trench warfare, and your patrol gets cutoff. You
have wounded. Moving will probably kill some of them. Not moving may kill all
of you. Enemy patrols are out. No one has good night vision,
weather is bad, and smoke/mist/drizzle don't help. Get home and try to
save your wounded. (WW1, somewhere in NoMan's land with the 16th HLI)

10) You are operating on an airless moon. You discover there are pockets of
quicksand that you weren't briefed on. Every time a man advances, he might
disappear? How do you handle it? <Nods to laserlight for a brilliant and
inspired solution>

11) During key naval landing, commander sequesters himself aboard antique
vessel with very limited communications facilities. Enemy has anticipated
landing and is waiting in heavy force on heights. Survive so that you don't
end up in the song. (Tragic historical result was a sound drubbbing for
invader)

12) Try to conduct war after shooting majority of seasoned officers of rank
Captain to Colonel.

13) Your force of militia is sweeping terrorist insurgents from inside a wood.
Enemy force turns out to be spec ops. Militia force has two components that
aren't well coordinated. One force is heavy weapons blocking force (the anvil)
other side is infantry force (the hammer). When the target slips out from
between, but IFF is shaky, what do you think happens? (Hint: Infantry
commander gets machinegunned)

14) Enemy finds impassable pass not so impassable. Large enemy armour and
infantry formations located now behind fixed defenses. Try to extricate
friendly forces without compromising defence entirely.

15) Your attack is proceeding nicely. You are heavily engaged, but have a
significant reserve. Then another axis of the front heats up and your reserves
are called away. All of a sudden, things look different...

16) You need artillery. Your radio is shot out. You think you might be able to
use landlines if only you can capture of of the small buildings that is
peripheral to the battlefield. But that means revealing your interest in it.
Can you distract the enemy enough to allow some of your men to capture this
objective and make the call for artillery?

Alan said:
> You get a nuclear STRIKEWARN meant for your sister

Worse yet, you don't get a nuclear STRIKEWARN, just the strike. At which
point, meant for you or your sister battalion isn't really an important
question.

Tony C said:
> My conclusion was that it was not for the faint of heart...

Yes, I agree. OS X certainly is not for the faint of heart. <ducks, runs for
cover in the M$ bunker>

KHR's bit about crossing the ice: I immediately thought of part of the Chosin
campaign where this kind of thing happened also. It wasn't till someone talked
about smashing the

> 10) You are operating on an airless moon. You discover there are