(IC)Black Market War(CLOSED)

[Free Tristania]

(OOC: Good-night)

The Major nodded: "Let's see what will happen with that policy. If the Conservatives take over it will probably happen."

[Globexanter]

"Indeed, let us just hope for the best in that matter. No soldier likes being unhappy and then forced to fight..."

[Free Tristania]

"That's why.. ironically. It would, in that case, be best for morale if the Conservatives lose the elections. Labour is having none of it."

[Globexanter]

"If a Civil War wasn't bad enough, now a war between two parties of the Govt?" said Ryan Andrews, chuckling.

[Free Tristania]

"That's the joke they seem to make on the radio too. What civil war ? We have been having a constant one for many years and it didn't make the country any worse..." The Major had a smirk on his face.

[Globexanter]

"Oh well, as long as we keep it out of this very house, I'm fine with it." he answered.

(OoC: Time jump to the early morning?)

[New Hayesalia]

OOC: I'm amazed you guys have kept this alive. Respect.

[Globexanter]

OOC: I'm amazed you guys have kept this alive. Respect.

(OoC: Thanks, I've just realized we've been doing this for a year . Wow.)

[Free Tristania]

"That shouldn't be a problem. Most of us don't bother voting anyways and take the fine that rests on it." The Major grins.

[Globexanter]

"Oh well, you never know what may happen in the mysterious and boring land of politics..."

[-St George]

OOC: I'm amazed you guys have kept this alive. Respect.

OOC: Yes, because we should encourage over 3,000 one liner posts.

[Free Tristania]

"As long as they keep it to themselves and don't bother us with it. Although.. strangely enough we are all a lot more concerned about local politics. My Captain walked into the local village house in Kleindorp the other day and attended the public bench and when it was his time to speak he did put quite some pressure on the council for not expanding the road leading up to Heuvel and the house here. He noted that it was of strategic importance to have a decent road here. That was before we came here but most of us know the area."

[Globexanter]

OOC: I'm amazed you guys have kept this alive. Respect.

OOC: Yes, because we should encourage over 3,000 one liner posts.

(OoC: Attempt to remember this is a character RP, and a quick glance at my or Free Tristanias past RP posts will reveal that we are not some "newbs" to this. Also take in note, when a post is short, it usually means the poster is either too tired or lacks enough information to provide a post filled to the brim in a Character RP where we are just having something called "fun".)

[Globexanter]

"As long as they keep it to themselves and don't bother us with it. Although.. strangely enough we are all a lot more concerned about local politics. My Captain walked into the local village house in Kleindorp the other day and attended the public bench and when it was his time to speak he did put quite some pressure on the council for not expanding the road leading up to Heuvel and the house here. He noted that it was of strategic importance to have a decent road here. That was before we came here but most of us know the area."

"Well, it does help to keep one major Government. But an entire population of a Nation isn't going to stick around the major towns, wherever they are located. Usually, the local politics are of a major importance to small villages up to medium sized towns. Villages like we are in right now also tend to be a backbone of a society of any Nation, providing most of the food produced without importations normally. It is a good idea to attempt to keep the entire lot stuck together, as a big family." he answered.

[Free Tristania]

"And that's also the reason why our system of government is relatively decentralised and will be even more decentralised in the future. A lot of men know about the problems between the good people here and the municipality in Kleindorp so they support the wishes of the population here to give up on remaining part of Kleindorp, whose municipal government are a bunch of lazy buggers, to put it mildly," The Major nodded "Frankly.. it would make our job a lot easier too. Have you seen that narrow road. It's lovely if you want to blow up something that is coming up the mountain but it doesn't really work for us if we've got to rush up the mountain to protect the house."

[Globexanter]

"Indeed, that is why we would need men up here ready to make sure nothing gets up it, waiting for the men at the village to be able to rush up and hit the unwanted people in the rear. At worse, is the road not between a ridge? A perfect spot to set up some small posts which could hit the enemy by the side, confusing them as they are already being attacked by the front and the rear."

[Free Tristania]

"The road has some strategic advantages that will be used. But the general idea is, and I send on some ideas to the Sappers is that they will build a road here that is two lane and that has traffic barrier to make sure that one can't drive into the ravine. There will be pillbox close to the ledge that will overlook a small rotunda that will be needed in the future as the region has decided that they will build a regional road across the ravine and leading past the village through a tunnel to the other villages and the national park and beyond. They too seem to be sick of the poor connections. The other arm of the rotunda would be used by us if you are going to take over the caves as one could designate it a Militêre Spergebied, a zone under exclusive army control and seal it off at the rotunda so your plan of taking those caves is actually very useful in the long run."

[Globexanter]

"All right, if we remain on the same encrypted radio frequency as before we shall not have any problems. Just don't attempt to relay important information when we are not yet set up, until we are completely sure the encryption may not be online. At worse you could always use stinger nets, just in case of them decides to make a run for it without passing through the checkpoint." he answered.

(OoC: Right, shall we time jump now?)

[Free Tristania]

(OoC: Good idea. You lead).

[Globexanter]

As the darkness still reigned upon the land, there was however more than plenty of movement within the area of the house itself. The Groupe 66 men, having borrowed some Bushmasters using Governmental money provided before the mission to supply fuel for these, were already talking amongst themselves. The twenty men which were to remain at the location of the house or very near it had been chosen, the eighty others were to storm the designated cave when the sun was at a perfect angle.

They also knew that the Grenadiers were waiting to leave, probably also waiting for the sun to rise in their backs to aid themselves in their own aims of moving a proportion of their men.

[Free Tristania]

Also the Grenadiers were talking amongst themselves. The Major had taken a chocolate bar from his ration as he couldn't find his ruler and used it to point at the map while they and the officers were speaking about the tactics. "I know that you're the kind of men to lead your lads in a bayonet charge, van Zyl, but let's not do it." He joked with the sergeant. "So your mission is clear here ?" "Yes, sir !"the response came. 30 Grenadiers were to accompany the Globexians to the cave and provide cover.. taking the two Javelin's with them."

He then turned at the Captain. "If we put up that roadblock here at the T-junction allowing traffic to flow freely, after being checked, into Kleindorp but stopping everything that moves when it tried to get up the road here.. then it shouldn't be a problem. Are there any back-roads or pathways leading into the mountains that should be monitored ?"

"One, sir, it's the old church path at Kleindorp. I can dispatch five men to block it off. I'll led them dug a machine gun nest there and block off the path at it's narrowest place with barbed wire. We can use five men to man that machine gun nest up the ledge here.." He pointed at the ledge beside the road to Heuvel.

"Very well."The Major said. "Corporal.. care to shine your light here for a moment ?" The Corporal pointed his flashlight at the map while the Captain marked the places that should be guarded.

The Major then pointed at the house. "The Globexians will be covering the grounds here.. but we are going to put up 5 men at the gate. Forget about the ceremonies. Leave them here with some sandbags and barbed wire and block off the path and settle them to be settle themselves behind the sandbags. Two men for each blocking point and the other 10 will be covering the grounds with metal detectors and resting. Changing the guards will be at 9'o clock tonight. Verwey ?" You take over the command here. " He pointed at a sergeant. "This is the kind of job you were made for you so you have to do it." The Major had a small grin on his face. "Right.. that would conclude it all. Apart from the village which is guarded by the Globexians.

I'm leaving Verwey's team with a Bushmaster here. And when it comes to you rabble..."He pointed at van Zyl. "Use the church path to go home. The password to be used when approaching the barrier is Waatlemoenkonfytkompetisie , Southerners can't pronounce it and no one else can remember it. It's a good shibboleth. "

[Globexanter]

(OoC: I'm going to claim one of the G.N.F. ships in the location dropped five Globexian Bushmasters via Chinooks, if you don't mind. That would leave enough Humvees and the APC to transport all the men.)

The Groupe 66 troops were also assembled around their newly dropped Bushmasters, which were dropped at around 12:00 P.M. at night. They had been informed that 30 Grenadiers were to help them, some of the Officers had problems about this.
Ryan walked to the massed men, talking of the Grenadiers which were going to aid them.

"What's the problem?" he asked.
"Well Sir, it is very kind of them lot to send ups backup, but it may create a problem..." said a Captain.
"How so? They are well trained." continued Ryan.
"The problem is they don't speak Globexian, and we don't speak their language. So we would be relying on broken and minimal English apart from a few Officers... That would be a worst case scenario if there are people in this cave." answered the Officer.

Andrews just nodded, understanding the thoughts of the Officer. He didn't want to have to fill out any letter of apology to families explaining the death of their loved one, and Groupe 66 men weren't cheap to train.
The Globexian plan was first to attempt to spot anyone in the cave with advanced scouts using binoculars. If they failed to see anything, when the main bulk of soldiers were on site, a flare would be shot into the cave, allowing more than enough time to spot anyone in it. Then, the snipers and the machine gunners would attempt to take out anyone in sight, as the men on ground would attempt to pick off separated targets or/and people attempting to flank the attacking troops or attempting to run away.

[Free Tristania]

One of the Grenadiers checked his mate that was standing next to him "You speak some of that language don't you ? I can't understand a word they're saying." His mate nodded "Well.. apparently they are afraid that two groups going in there that speak different languages could lead to all sorts of miscommunication. They however seem to forget that most people here speak at least some English. Not just the officers."

The other Grenadier nodded. "Let's get the Major. Let's see what he has to say.." The Grenadier walked up to the table and saluted "Sir... the Globexians. Some of their men seem to be worried that their could be some problems with communicating when we enter the cave. It's the language you see, we don't speak theirs and they don't speak ours."

The Major put down the chocolate bar that he had used as a ruler and stepped up to the Globexians. "I was informed that there were some concerns about the language of communication ?"

[Globexanter]

"There indeed is, only myself and around four of my Officers speak English fluently. Around two can get themselves understood, but very badly. Apart from that, only one or two of the troops themselves know how to talk the 'Die Voklstalk' (I think it is spelled like that, yes?). They don't fancy getting the communications mixed up, if there are Rocket troopers in the cave and the message is not understood, the effects could be lethal on both sides." answered Ryan.

[Free Tristania]

"Do you men possess some Javelin's of their own ? The last thing that we would want is a massacre because an order is misunderstood because someone does not under Globexian, English or Die Volkstaal."