Operation Start
"Right! Pip pip, everyone! Let's load in and move out.", The Sergeant called. Squads were shuffled in, the trucks loaded and hunkered down. The gear loaded into the trucks was neatly stacked in the back, and the interiors were more spacious than one would think. The vehicles themselves sputtered to life, and once the proper paperwork was finished and courtesies given, they were off.
The transports moved off quickly. The small little base became smaller and smaller, until it dipped below the horizon had swallowed it up...it would be a while before they met their destinations...
When the transport began to slow down, the sun was going down. Long shadows began to crawl along the ground, as a soft breeze blew down the side of the dunes. They had indeed hit a long ridgeline, and just beyond was where they would be attacking...
The transports stopped before they would be close enough to be heard, a ways before the top of the ridge itself. Squad Apples faced to the left - west - and Squad Baker to the right - East.
Squad Apples
"Oh, isn't the sunset pretty?", Asked Wellington. She was a bit more relaxed than she had been earlier. She had seemed deep in thought for some time during the trip, though never unaware or tired. She was a bundle of energy, after all. Beside her, Sergeant Lancaster was tracing a finger across a map, humming. "Alright then", She started. "I believe the Private's plan was to send a two-person team ahead, right? Once our point is ready for attack, we pounce on them. Simple and sweet!", She said. "I'd like to see the looks on their faces, anyways. Fortunately those outposts are smaller and easy to attack, it's just the sentry one needs to worry about, signaling back to base. Anyways, we'll have to disembark regardless, right?"
She looked at the rest of the squad. "Private El-Malik and a partner should go ahead, and the rest of us will move on foot to a position along the ridge to their side. There's some hills further west that we should be able to make it to and not be seen. We'll meet back up in the outpost, right?"
Squad Baker
Margot didn't like this...she didn't know what the Sergeant would say...
"Sergeant.", She piped up, "The ground ahead of our side of the ridge? Between the village and the ruins at our destination, the ground itself is rockier, and should have dips and hills which would give us cover if we moved on foot. Everything to the east of those ruins is more of less flat desert, and while there's a larger hill to the west of it, it can be seen from the village in the middle as well, and while they probably don't actively patrol or watch it, it's a bit riskier of a move."
She spoke with composure, though the slightest turn of her face would indicate that she was nervous. "I'd recommend moving through the ground before the enemy outpost, using the rocks and cover there to sneak up on them. It will leave us very close to the ruins. The hills would give us overwatch, but would be difficult to traverse, and hard to maintain our cover, and the open ground to the east would be suicide if they have field guns or vehicles of their own."
