Death from Above

The PCs are asked by Captain Tarasovna, commander of the defenses of Jaromer, to act as spotters for an artillery strike on the Czech supply dump. She knows the Czechs must have such a dump, and there are several buildings within the Czech camp, but she doesn't know which is which and she only has three artillery shells. She needs somebody to locate the dump and call in a strike.

If the PCs accept the mission, they will be given a R-392A radio with a hand crank. they need to wait until night, and then complete the following steps:


 * 1) Make an opposed RECON roll against a Czech soldier to pass the outer perimeter. At night, the Czech soldier is at -2.
 * 2) Make a RECON check at -2 to locate the supply dump
 * 3) Call in a strike. The Soviet artillery sergeant has INT C and Heavy Weapons C, but rolls at -1 due to range and another -2 due to darkness. The gun fires every two turns. The gun will begin firing with smoke shells, and a PC can call in corrections by taking a slow action and making a RECON roll. For every round taken making corrections, the gunner rolls +1, to a maximum of +3. Once they land a hit they will start firing artillery shells. The first shell will blow open the roof of the supply depot and the second will destroy its contents, detonating the fuel and ammunition in a gigantic fireball. As the PCs are calling in the strike, the Czech forces will begin searching for the spotter, making RECON rolls against the PC's RECON rolls. Remember the Czechs are at -2 due to the darkness.
 * 4) The PCs then have to make it back to the fortress. This requires two RECON rolls. The first one is at no penalty for the Czechs as the burning fuel lights up the night.
 * 5) When the PCs get back to the fortress they will report to Captain Tarasovna. Two stretches later, the Czechs will mount a desperate attack on the fortress, reasoning that the artillery is out of ammunition and the lack of supplies means their best chance is now. The PCs will have to fight two squadrons of Czech soldiers, one in a BMP-1. Once the BMPs are destroyed the surviving Czechs will flee.

If the PCs are successful they will be given 1,000 shells of military supplies from the captured Czech stores.