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Message:: [QUOTE="AshesOfEden, post: 1836, member: 1253308829"]——————————————————— Tarik was dreaming by the roadside woods when the rumble of the UN convoy woke him up. An inquisitive boy of 12, left behind in town because he was too young to fight in the war that was raging in the countryside, had been trapping rabbits in the woods to help the townfolk and his family. “Corned Beef!” He mouth started watering as he thought of the food and supplies that the UN soldiers would be bringing. He thought of running after the convoy with reckless glee but his war weary cautions took hold of him and he glanced up at the sky. He saw no planes but he crouched and walked slowly back towards the town on the edge of the woods along the road. He wasn’t far along when he felt a presence in the woods. A slow and almost silent rumbling of a behemoth in the edge of the forest. And then Tarik saw the beast lumbering into position. A hulking tank with a massive gun barrel, all painted in the green and black forest camouflage, was blending perfectly into the fall foliage. Tarik did not know the armour tactics of the Main Battle Tanks but he knew a predator lying in ambush when he saw the  Steel Titan now resting menacingly among the trees... and that the people under the white and blue flag that are now unloading his favourite corned beef cans in town were in imminent danger. He scurried back as fast as he could while staying out of sight of the titan in the woods, and as he entered the village, he saw the vibrant streaks of the 100mm tracer rounds followed by the violent shrieks of the high velocity shells driving into one of the armoured cars and blowing it to pieces. Tarik ran with all his might towards the Tanks of white and blue.. to warn them of the Titan in the woods. ——————————————————— Mikkel was finishing with the unloading of the supplies when the autumn air around them was streaked with the tracer rounds of the T-55’s approaching from the south east. In one violent flash later, he felt the concussed air of Vilmar’s parked APC, taking a direct hit and blowing up in a ball of fire, and knocked him down off his feet. The convoy was not parked closed to each other to damage each vehicle and sheer terror and adrenaline brought Mikkel and his crew back to their knees. The gunner of his APC, knowing that they were being fired upon by large caliber shells, most possibly of hostile Tanks, and that his 20mm cannon would do no damage, was loading and firing smoke canisters to cover their position. The town folk had fled into their basements in terror. The driver jumped back into the APC and fired it up as they had done in many drills and waited for Mikkel to jump back in. The lead Leopard of Asger boomed a shot off its main gun in the south east direction as his voice crackled over to Mikkel and the Leopard 2 behind him. “Hostile T-55’s.. Azimuth 110 and 115.. range 1000 meters and closing.. Lima 2, cover fire. Engage” Almost simultaneously, Mikkel and the German mine Engineer, a battle veteran who was scanning the surroundings with his binoculars, spotted additional movement on the south edge of town. Mikkel radioed in.. “2 more hostiles.. T-55’s.. Azimuth 180, range 1800 meters.. and closing” A shell shrieked by them and struck through the house behind them. Mikkel deduced that they were armour piercing as opposed to high explosives due to the lack of heavy explosion on contact. “AP! AP! They are hunting for us!” He gripped his radio.. “Check the road in.. If clear, back out! Back out! Face your front to the hostiles” Asger gave orders to his convoy under siege. Jorgen and his crew scanned the road in and seeing no activity, started backing out of town. Mikkel and Asger followed and just as they cleared on the edge of the village, Mikkel spotted a young boy running towards them with arms waving and pointing up the road. “Tenk! Tenk!” The boy screamed in Bosnian.. Mikkel understood immediately and screamed into his radio. “Lima 2, Turn! Turn! It’s an ambush!” Jorgen closed his hatch and the Leopard turned to face the road they came through in.. The Titan in the woods unleashed its fury and the 125mm HEAT round came crashing into Jorgen’s Leopard in the middle of its turn.. The explosive force blew the entire turret off the Leopard as Mikkel stared in shock. The boy nimbly climbed onto the APC and tugged Mikkel and pointed at a direction west.. “Mochmaga! Moch!” Instincts took over on Mikkel and primarily driven by the fact that they were being hit from 3 directions, decided to follow the boy’s pointing down a laneway between the barns.. Onto the edge of the swamp.. Asger followed him, with covering fire being discharged from his main gun periodically. The boy pointed to a faint path in the swamp and Mikkel pointed to the APC they were in and the Tank that was following them and pointed the path to the boy.. “I hope it can take the weight of our vehicles”.. Mikkel prayed.. The boy seemed to understood the gestures, nodded and repeated “Mochmaga!” The APC drove with speed on the path into the swamp and Asger backed in his Leopard behind them. “I need to buy some time for us” Asger thought and he spotted an over zealous T-55 barrelling onto the path from the town.. “Fire!” Asger ordered to his gunner and the superior turning of the turret on the Leopard bore down its main gun on the T-55 at close range.. and fired. The T-55 stopped in its track as the Leopard’s AP round tore through its front armour. The Leopard and the APC retreated into the swamp as the 4 remaining Titans crept up to the edge.[/QUOTE]