Final turn! The big-boned diva warbles in precisely sixty seconds’ time. Can the peacekeepers’ rearguard – a rearguard without anti-tank munitions of any kind – survive another minute of MG abuse and high-velocity HE? Let’s find out. (Quitting Qatab is an open-to-all game of Combat Mission: Shock Force 2 in which NATO forces are orchestrated by commenters while Qatabi units are computer controlled. Each daily turn covers one minute of action. For a scenario outline and summaries of earlier turns, click here) Yuen and his mate are up and running the second the clock restarts. Miraculously they crest the ridge without drawing fire. As they do, they see Extricator shoving off from the beach below and for a horrible moment fear they’ve missed the boat. Then patient parked Swamp Thing hoves into view and the panic subsides. Maybe Wikipedia was right after all. Maybe LAWs and AT4s can’t stop a modern MBT. The T-72 that retreated after four close-range HEAT hits last turn, begins this one by re-entering the fray. Purposefully retracing its steps back to Road 73, it catches sight of our fleeting Javelineers but declines to engage them. It has bigger fish to fry. Mortensen’s men are in the process of exiting their pockmarked Warbnb billet, when they catch sight of the AFV they’d assumed was mortally wounded. Grinding its way over rubble strewn by the wayward Javelin, the scorched T-72 is menace incarnate intankate. Silent prayers mortar skyward, the majority aimed at a British attack helicopter rather than an omnipotent… [Read full story]
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