Battle of Baupame

The Front
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A battered moonscape of shell holes, mud and human corpses, this part of the Western Front has been devastated by incessant shellfire. Dusty in the dry and muddy in the wet, barren of almost all life bar rats and poppies pushing up from the earth tainted by explosives, the crater strewn landscape embodies the Western Front.
It is currently night time.
Sub-Rooms :
1. Front Line Trench
Contents
Morgenstern - 1. Front Line Trench
William - 1. Front Line Trench
Brissac - 1. Front Line Trench
Toure - 1. Front Line Trench
Death
East <E> North <N>
South <S>

Morgenstern can't help it; he's waiting. Waiting for the war to end soon. He knows that he's beating the odds now, that he shouldn't have lived this long. "Anyone got a smoke?" he asks randomly of the soldiers nearby, as usual without any of his own.

Brissac is nearby, smoking a bit. But unfortunately for the others, he is smoking his usual pipe, looking oddly contented, while still looking quite alert. "Unfortunately only this kind of smoke, Corporal," he offers.

Toure shakes his head at Morgenstern's request for a cigarette. He's not far from the corporal, his stance deceptively relaxed. His expression is stoic, fatalistic. Neither eager nor reluctant. He just waits quietly.
New trenches, very close to the enemy line. Its only a few yards to the Germans, and as this is supposed to be a surprise for them, its dead quiet in the Allied trench. A sergeant prowls about, reminding everybody in a whisper to shut it.

William is blocking out the outside at the moment, not smoking and not staring at anything but the ground, looking pretty much like he is waiting to die, the relaxed wait, not the nervous wait.

Morgenstern nods to both Brissac and Toure but says nothing now as the sergeant is moving about hushing people. He scratches idly at his stubbled cheek, staring up over the trench and seeing nothing else but sacks of sand.As if he's planning exactly how to get over the top.

Toure's gaze is angled upward, but he's watching the sky rather than the sandbags. A trace of wistfulness creeps into his stoic face.

Home, far away… but the war, no chance to live again.

Brissac continues his smoking a bit thoughtfully for a few moments, before he puts the pipe away, and starts checking the MG he's carrying, to make sure that the weapon is ready. Offering a half-smile in the quiet at the moment.

The sergeant eventually heads over to you lot, and speaks in hushed tones. "Alright lads. Their trenches are very near, so you should be over and into them almost immediately. Fritz won't know you're coming hopefully, and his front line is pretty thinly defended, we've had our snipers and raiders hard at work here to soften them up. A quick run and you'll be over there while they're still all eating their sausages!". It is dawn after all. They're all having breakfast right now. Right.

Morgenstern gives the sergeant a tight little grin and he simply nods in response, not talking unnecessarily now. He pulls out an old pocket watch to check the time, knowing it's nearing attack time now.

William unslings and grips his rifle tightly, not bothering to check if it is loaded at this point in time. He moves up to the trench wall, ready for the run.

Toure continues to watch the sky. Dawn. He listens little to the sergeant. What they have to do is clear. Up and over, to the jaws of Germans. He moves with William to the trench wall.

Ravaun Gently a cigarette, lighting it in a manner to shield it, sighing softly. 'All to hell we must sail …' He in a soft tone, then slams the bolt home on his rifle. He'd die a horrible death, they always do. He gave a smile towards Toure though.

For the curious, this is fairly near the location of the 1916 battle. The River Somme is a short distance to the east of here, the battleplan involves you lot eventually seizing a bridge (ho ho ho) and getting over it, and then taking Mont St Quentin on the far side.

Brissac takes a few deep breaths as he listens, preparing for what's coming.

The sergeant nods. "Easy enough, you know you're objectives, we need to tear a hole in Fritz's front and press on to the river.". He eyes his watch. "Sixty seconds.". Its eerily quiet, unlike the usual preparation before a push.

Ravaun Gently taps his cigarette's ash, and flicks it to the ground, exhaling slowly, gently wetting the sights of his rifle. Better to catch the light he was told.

Morgenstern tucks his own watch away, and holds his rifle in a tight grip, moving right up to the firestep and waiting for the sign. He glances at the others, looking relatively calm about the whole thing.

Toure tenses his body, like a great cat, poised to movement yet still as stone for the moment. He closes his eyes once, somber, as if summoning some image of his mind. When he opens them, there's a faint smile on his face. And a new sadness to his expression, which the smile only amplifies.

«Game» William changes his style to Sprint!

«Game» Morgenstern changes his style to Stealth!

«Game» Brissac changes his style to Stealth!

William takes a deep breath and grabs ahold of something to make it easier for him to swing up and over.

«Game» Ravaun changes his style to TakeCover!

The sergeant moves back a little way, and speaks in a slightly louder voice, so it carries to all the men in the trench. He doesn't have to speak very loudly, a pin could drop, as most here are looking… rather subdued, and mostly lost in their own thoughts. "15 seconds… 10… get on the ladders!"
5!
4!
3!
2!
Go!

«Ground Combat» William moves out of Front Line Trench.
«Ground Combat» Toure moves out of Front Line Trench.
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern moves out of Front Line Trench.
«Ground Combat» Ravaun moves out of Front Line Trench.
«Ground Combat» Brissac moves out of Front Line Trench.

William goes up and over, not trying to be a small target or anything, he just runs over towards the Germans as fast as he can.

The sergeant blows his whistle, and suddenly everybody scrambles out of the trench as fast as they can go! at the same time, timed to perfection, every Allied gun in range opens up on the foe.

Ravaun drags him self up, literally, using his fellow soldiers as bullet magnets so he can avoid being shot.

Brissac swings himself over the top of the trench, carrying his MG with him as he starts moving forward with the others.

Toure is up and over the top and moving east in long-legged strides. He makes no effort to skulk. Into the belly of the beast he goes.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Holtz fires his Kar98k at Brissac but misses!

«Ground Combat» William moves East <E>.

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern moves East <E>.

«Ground Combat» You notice Toure arrive at The Front.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at William but misses!

William is keeping a steady pace, heading for the trench as fast as he can, which is just so-so fast.

«Ground Combat» William moves into Front Line Trench.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Holtz fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Toure but misses!

Morgenstern gets up and over the top quickly enough, in line with the others. He's hunched down as he moves across the short distance that there is between the allied and the enemy. He can already see the faces of the German soldiers, moving as fast as he can towards them while trying to stay out of sight.

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern moves into Front Line Trench.

Toure keeps on going and going, headed for the trench. He only pauses once. To get a grenade in hand.

«Game» Toure unwields his Berthier!

«Ground Combat» You notice Eisen arrive at The Front.

«Game» Morgenstern unwields his Berthier!

«Ground Combat» William moves to engage Eisen in close quarters combat, and succeeds!

«Game» Morgenstern wields his Mills Bomb!

«Ground Combat» You notice Brissac arrive at The Front.

«Game» Toure wields his Mills Bomb!

Holtz gets mobbed, and thats not a good thing.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Brissac but misses!

William runs right at the closest German he sees, which happens to be Eisen, bayonette ready.

«Ground Combat» You notice Ravaun arrive at The Front.

«Ground Combat» William attacks Eisen in melee combat with his Lee Enfield SMLE but misses!

Toure runs toward the German trench, grenade in hand, still silent as a stone.

«Game» Toure changes his style to Sprint!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Holtz fires his Kar98k at Brissac but misses!

Morgenstern gets into the trench rather quickly and readies a grenade, looking around where it's best to aim it for maximum effect.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Mills Bomb at Eisen but misses!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Mills Bomb at Holtz and hits!
Holtz suffers 2 wound damage to his right arm.
Holtz suffers 2 wound damage to his left arm.
Holtz suffers 6 wound damage to his head.
Holtz suffers 3 wound damage to his left chest.
Holtz suffers 7 wound damage to his left arm.
Holtz suffers 7 wound damage to his left arm.
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Eisen with your Mills Bomb! Your accuracy is 54 percent!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Holtz with your Mills Bomb! Your accuracy is 54 percent!
«Ground Combat» Holtz has been killed!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Konrad fires his MP18 at Brissac but misses!

«Ground Combat» Toure moves into Front Line Trench.

Brissac makes his way forward at a run, moving the weapon to get it in position to fire at the enemies.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Eisen fires his Kar98k at Brissac and hits!
Brissac suffers 2 wound damage to his left chest.

«Ground Combat» Eisen fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

Ravaun Comes slinking Forward, trench coat laid open, blending in with the mud. Let the others bloody them selves in the fighting. He would certainly not.

William tries to give Eisen a good dunk in the head with the butt of his rifle, but swings wide.

«Ground Combat» William attacks Eisen in melee combat with his Lee Enfield SMLE and hits! Eisen suffers 3 wound damage to his left arm.

«Game» Morgenstern wields his Mills Bomb!

Toure bails into the trench, raises his grenade, and pulls the pin. With all his might, he hurls the thing at Eisen.

William follows that up with a good old stab, catching a bit of the German's arm with it.

Eisen finds himself seriously outnumbered as the Allies pour in, and though he does shoot, and does clip someone, he finds himself in a deadly melee.

«Ground Combat» Brissac moves into Front Line Trench.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 1)!
«Ground Combat» Kleinmann fires his Kar98k at Brissac and hits!
Hits hard cover.

«Ground Combat» William attacks Eisen in melee combat with his Lee Enfield SMLE but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Mills Bomb at Eisen but misses!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Mills Bomb at Holtz but misses!

«Ground Combat» Ravaun moves into Front Line Trench.

«Ground Combat» Konrad reloads his MP18!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Eisen fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

Morgenstern points east and holds up 1 finger to point out that there's one over there.

«Game» Toure wields his Mills Bomb!

«Game» Konrad assists Schlosser!

Brissac gets hit by some of that fire, just as he dives down into the trench, dodging some more incoming fire.

«Ground Combat» William attacks Eisen in melee combat with his Lee Enfield SMLE but Eisen blocks it!

Ravaun slithers into the Trench, plopping down into the for now, contested region.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Mills Bomb at Eisen and hits!
Eisen suffers 7 wound damage to his right arm.
Eisen suffers 2 wound damage to his right chest.
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Mills Bomb at Holtz but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Eisen with your Mills Bomb! Your accuracy is 54 percent!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Holtz with your Mills Bomb! Your accuracy is 54 percent!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 1)!
«Ground Combat» Kleinmann fires his Kar98k at Brissac but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Ravaun but misses!

Toure doesn't bother to mourn when his grenade fails to do any damage. He gets another in hand, for another go.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Eisen but misses!

«Game» Morgenstern wields his Berthier!

«Game» Konrad assists Schlosser!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Eisen fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

This is where the fun is, William tries to dunk the German again, but gets blocked knight style.

«Ground Combat» William attacks Eisen in melee combat with his Lee Enfield SMLE but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Mills Bomb at Eisen and hits!
Eisen suffers 7 wound damage to his right leg.
Eisen suffers 6 wound damage to his head.
Eisen suffers 1 wound damage to his right leg.
Eisen suffers 5 wound damage to his head.
Eisen suffers 5 wound damage to his abdomen.
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Mills Bomb at Holtz but misses!
«Ground Combat» Eisen has been killed!

«Game» Konrad assists Schlosser!

Ravaun Fires his his Rifle in the general direction of a German, missing horribly, but his intention is to look like he's generally, in the spirit of things

Morgenstern holds up two fingers now and points east again, apparently having spotted one more german over there. Since machinegunfire is coming from that direction, it is a concern.

Toure simply gets his rifle back in hand after his grenade pulps Eisen. More work to do yet.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Schlosser but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Schlosser with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 17 percent!

William blinks a couple of times as the mills bomb shreds his opponent, he doesn't stand around for long, and instead he continues to push on. Orders are orders.

«Ground Combat» William moves East <E>.

«Ground Combat» You notice William arrive at Center Village.

«Game» Toure wields his Berthier!

«Ground Combat» You must wait another 38 ticks of the Armageddon Clock before you can shoot!
«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!

«Ground Combat» Konrad fires his MP18 at William and hits!
William suffers 5 wound damage to his head.
William suffers 1 wound damage to his left chest.

«Game» Morgenstern unwields his Berthier!
«Game» Morgenstern wields his Mills Bomb!

Konrad is waiting for the charge, and when William rounds the bend in the trench, he gets a full blast with the MP18.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Toure but misses!

"Just let me get the big gun ready to get those enemies out of the game," Brissac mutters as he readies the weapon again.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Konrad fires his MP18 at Morgenstern but misses!

Toure smiles that long smile at Brissac. <"That would be well,"> he says simply in French, raising his rifle east.

William gets a really good dose of lead to the head, he starts to stagger a bit but he's still heading for Konrad.

«Game» William unwields his Lee Enfield SMLE!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Konrad fires his MP18 at William and hits!
William suffers 6 wound damage to his left leg.

«Game» William wields his Mills Bomb!

«Ground Combat» Schlosser tries to fire his MG08/18 at Toure but his weapon is jammed!

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern moves East <E>.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Konrad fires his MP18 at Morgenstern and hits!
Morgenstern suffers 5 wound damage to his right leg.
Morgenstern suffers 4 wound damage to his left hand.

William pulls out a grenade, the process taking ages as blood keeps running down in his eyes, but he finally gets it out and ready.

Konrad empties the clip into the approaching soldiers, and then the MP18 clicks empty, so he grabs another one.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 1)!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Mills Bomb at Schlosser but misses!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Mills Bomb at Konrad but misses!

«Game» William wields his Mills Bomb!

«Game» Schlosser unjams his MG08/18!

Morgenstern moves east and is also sprayed, but he manages to stagger onwards on a wounded leg, a grenade in hand. "Come on boys, let's move onwards!"

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Mills Bomb at Schlosser but misses!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Mills Bomb at Konrad but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Schlosser with your Mills Bomb! Your accuracy is 29 percent!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Konrad with your Mills Bomb! Your accuracy is 39 percent!

«Game» Morgenstern wields his Berthier!

«Ground Combat» Konrad reloads his MP18!

Konrad slaps in the fresh clip. Oh yeah, its bitchin' time.

William tosses the grenade in the general direction of the enemy, it misses quite horribly though.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 1)!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Konrad fires his MP18 at William and hits!
William suffers 5 wound damage to his left arm.
William suffers 5 wound damage to his right arm.
William suffers 1 wound damage to his right leg.
William suffers 4 wound damage to his left chest.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Mills Bomb at Schlosser but misses!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Mills Bomb at Konrad but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Brissac but misses!

Morgenstern fares no better, his grenade messing up the trench but harming nobody as he presses onwards on a limping leg. Movement is rather reduced at the moment, but hell if he's going to give it up now.

Konrad turns William into a pencil, and unsurprisingly, that causes William to fumble his shot.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from The Front (1 2)!

«Ground Combat» Brissac fires his Hotchkiss at Konrad but misses!
«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Konrad and hits!
Konrad suffers 6 wound damage to his left chest.
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Konrad with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 23 percent!
«Ground Combat» Konrad has been killed!

«Ground Combat» You notice Ravaun arrive at Center Village.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Morgenstern but misses!

William gets sprayed again, and starts to look like the definition of near death, but he isn't noticing anything yet and tosses another grenade in front of him before pulling up his rifle again.

«Game» William wields his Lee Enfield SMLE!

«Game» Toure unwields his Berthier!
«Game» Toure wields his Mills Bomb!

Schlosser ohhhh shits a bit as the guy who had his back falls, a bullet in his breast. He works on spraying the MG at pointblank, not that its very effective, big and clumsy as it is.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Morgenstern but misses!

Morgenstern lets off one shot and hits Konrad right in the chest, killing him instantly. He's bleeding heavily from his left hand and actually blinks in surprise as the man goes down. He doesn't wait to reflect about shooting strangers, but moves on to the next one.

Toure readies another grenade. He seems to have good luck with those.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Schlosser and hits!
Schlosser suffers 6 wound damage to his right leg.

«Game» William changes his style to Banzai!

Ravaun Grunts a bit, and levels his Rifle, blasting it as his moves in, now he had blood roaring through his veins.

«Ground Combat»You move to engage Schlosser in close quarters combat.
Schlosser is aware of your presence.
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern moves to engage Schlosser in close quarters combat, and succeeds!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Schlosser fires his MG08/18 at Morgenstern but misses!

«Game» Ravaun changes his style to Banzai!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Mills Bomb at Schlosser but misses!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Mills Bomb at Konrad and hits!
Konrad suffers 5 wound damage to his left leg.

«Ground Combat» Konrad is already dead! Can't you let the dead rest in peace?

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Schlosser but misses!

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern attacks Schlosser in melee combat with his Berthier and hits! Schlosser suffers 5 wound damage to his head.
«Ground Combat» Schlosser has been killed!

William gives up on trying to move anywhere, he stands up as straight as he can and looks east, ignoring the machinegunner. With good reason.

Toure offs with the grenade. It misses the German grappling with Morgenstern, but it does some impressive damage to the dead Jerry's leg.

Ravaun quickly works the bolt on his firearm again, but the man he was sighting in, has been cut down quite well

«Game» Ravaun loots the body of Schlosser

«Game» Toure wields his Berthier!

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters Center Village ineffectually.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from The Front (1 2)!

From The Front, a male voice shouts, "Boche back her….AARGH!".

Morgenstern collapses down momentarily, grimacing from his wounds. But apparently he's nowhere near death. "Alright, Toure, look north. Brissac, look south. I can't see anyone east of here.

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through Center Village to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!

Toure stresses at the sound of artillery fire. And more machine gunfire. He nods to Morgenstern. North it is.

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters The Front ineffectually.

Morgenstern then points frantically westwards, where they came from. "Support Brissac! Damn, I thought he was with us."

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through Center Village to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters The Front ineffectually.

Ravaun winces a bit, and gently kneels down a bit, close to whimpering, Shelling always got on his nerves
William wakes up from his daydreaming when the artillery starts raining in, then as he hears the shout he spins around and raises his rifle.

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters Center Village ineffectually.

«Ground Combat» Kleinmann attacks Brissac in melee combat with his Kar98k and hits! Brissac suffers 1 wound damage to his right hand.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!

«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Kleinmann but misses!
«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Kleinmann but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Kleinmann with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 6 percent!

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through The Front to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!
«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters Center Village ineffectually.

«Chemical Weapons» Morgenstern starts coughing and spluttering!
Morgenstern suffers 1 wound damage to his head.

«Chemical Weapons» The reek and the green tinge of chlorine is in the air!

«Chemical Weapons» Your eyes are tearing up and you can barely breathe!

«Chemical Weapons» William starts coughing and spluttering!
William suffers 1 wound damage to his right chest.

«Chemical Weapons» Schlosser starts coughing and spluttering!
Schlosser suffers 1 wound damage to his head.

«Chemical Weapons» Konrad starts coughing and spluttering!
Konrad suffers 1 wound damage to his left chest.

Morgenstern shouts, "GAS!".

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through The Front to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!

«Game» Ravaun tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters Center Village ineffectually.

«Game» William changes his style to GasDefence!

«Game» Morgenstern changes his style to GasDefence!

«Game» Toure changes his style to GasDefence!

«Ground Combat» Kleinmann attacks Brissac in melee combat with his Kar98k and hits! Brissac suffers 2 wound damage to his right chest.

«Game» Toure assists Ravaun!

«Ground Combat» Brissac attacks Kleinmann in melee combat with his Hotchkiss and hits! Kleinmann suffers 7 bruise damage to his right leg.

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters The Front ineffectually.

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through Center Village to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!

Kleinmann stabs at Brissac one more time, before pausing, and grabbing his gas mask, gas not caring about friend or foe after all.

«Game» Ravaun tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Chemical Weapons» Ravaun starts coughing and spluttering!
Ravaun suffers 1 wound damage to his left chest.

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his right chest.

«Chemical Weapons» Brissac starts coughing and spluttering!
Brissac suffers 1 wound damage to his right chest.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Kleinmann but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Kleinmann with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 3 percent!

William pulls on his gasmask as quickly as he can when the smell of chlorine drifts through the air, he moves over to Ravaun to try to help the man to get his mask on.

Toure has his eyes set peering north, but he barely has time to react to that and the gunfire going off in other directions when he smells the spluttering smell of gas. He scrambles to get his mask on.

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through The Front to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!

«Game» William assists Ravaun!

«Game» Toure assists Ravaun!

Brissac groans a bit at all the hits he's taken, and just attacks with the heavy weapon, before trying to get the gas mask on

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through Center Village to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!

«Game» Ravaun tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters The Front ineffectually.

«Ground Combat» You cannot move until the Armageddon Clock ticks another 160.5 times.
«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through Center Village to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!

«Game» Toure assists Ravaun!

«Chemical Weapons» Ravaun starts coughing and spluttering!
Ravaun suffers 1 wound damage to his head.

«Game» Ravaun tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

William waves his arms westwards to Ravaun, whatever he is shouting is drowned out by the artillery and the mask.

«Game» William assists Ravaun!

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters The Front ineffectually.
«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through Center Village to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!
«Artillery» Artillery barrage at Center Village has lifted!

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage batters The Front ineffectually.

«Artillery» Feuerwaltz! artillery barrage rips through The Front to deadly effect, filling the air with lethal shrapnel!
«Artillery» Artillery barrage at The Front has lifted!

Ravaun hacks and wheezes, only barely catching the motion of William to move Westward. Several snag ups with his gas mask later, and he looked slightly better off. But still unwilling to move forward, but orders were orders.

«Ground Combat» Brissac attacks Kleinmann in melee combat with his Hotchkiss but Kleinmann blocks it!

Morgenstern is beginning a crawl back towards the west, but gesturing for the others to remain where they are. "Shoot at the one trying to kill Brissac, I'm heading back to help him. Hold this place!"

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his left chest.

Toure takes another long peer to the north, when he has his mask safely on and the danger of artillery has passed. "I see nothing to the north, Corporal!" he calls back to Morgenstern.

Carpe diem! And so Brissac starts trying to beat up the German as said enemy isn't very able to defend himself.

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern moves West <W>.

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his left chest.

«Ground Combat» Brissac attacks Kleinmann in melee combat with his Hotchkiss but Kleinmann blocks it!

Kleinmann seems to be having a hard time with the gas… pretty much unable to do much but try and fend off Brissac while in a coughing fit.

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern tries to fire his Berthier at Kleinmann but his weapon is jammed!

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his left chest.

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Kleinmann but misses!

«Ground Combat» Brissac attacks Kleinmann in melee combat with his Hotchkiss but misses!

Morgenstern returns, limping onwards as he is. But he raises his rifle to shoot at Kleinmann to assist Brissac, but the weapon jams unfortunately. "Sheisse!" he curses instinctively in German.

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

Brissac tries attacking again, missing the Kleinmann again, frowning a little.

«Game» Morgenstern unjams his Berthier!

Kleinmann surrenders, rather pitifully, and fumbling with his mask, more a wreck lying on the floor than an active soldier now. He burbles unintelligibly, the froth on his lips not exactly helping his efforts to communicate.

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his head.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Kleinmann but misses!

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!
«Game» Kleinmann unwields his Kar98k!

«Ground Combat» You must wait another 8 ticks of the Armageddon Clock before you can shoot!
«Ground Combat» Brissac attacks Kleinmann in melee combat with his Hotchkiss but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from The Front (1 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Kleinmann but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Kleinmann with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 11 percent!

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his right chest.
«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

"Drop your weapon and surrender!" Morgenstern calls to Kleinmann in German, realizing that that man is in a bad shape from the gas.

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!
«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his right chest.

«Equipment» Kleinmann has dropped Kar98k.

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his right chest.

«Game» Morgenstern assists Kleinmann!

Kleinmann drops the gun readily enough, and thrashes around on the muddy floor, face purpling, and coughing so hard whenever he puts the mask on he spasms and the seal breaks.

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

Morgenstern can't stand watching it. Seeing that Kleinmann drops his rifle, he rushes towards him and begins to help him getting it on. "Calm down!" he tries, knowing that it's going to be a miracle if this one survives.

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his right chest.

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Game» Morgenstern assists Kleinmann!

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!
«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his right chest.

Brissac leans back towards the trench wall, with a bit of a grimace as he watches that slowly dying Kleinmann. He makes his way over to help the man at the same time as he sees Morgenstern doing it, ignoring his own wounds, for now.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!

From Center Village, a male voice shouts, "Here they come!".

Morgenstern hears rifle fire and looks up. "We have to leave him and move onwards," he tells Brissac. ANd without another word, he leaves the dying german and moves east again.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!

«Game» Kleinmann tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Chemical Weapons» Kleinmann starts coughing and spluttering!
Kleinmann suffers 1 wound damage to his left chest.
«Ground Combat» Kleinmann has been killed!

Kleinmann finally stops moving, and with a gurgle, twitches one last time, the mask still half off his face.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern moves East <E>.

«Ground Combat» Adler moves into Slit Trench.

«Ground Combat» You notice Brissac arrive at Center Village.

«Chemical Weapons» Adler starts coughing and spluttering!
Adler suffers 1 wound damage to his left chest.

Ravaun swears loudly as he misses, cursing the gas mask quietly.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Erhard but misses!

Toure is in ragged shape, untouched by bullets, but he took a snoot-full of gas when he took his mask off. With a wheeze he raises his rifle.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Erhard but misses!

«Game» Adler tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Game» Erhard tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

«Chemical Weapons» Adler starts coughing and spluttering!
Adler suffers 1 wound damage to his head.

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern reloads his Berthier!

William can't really move anywhere, he's leaning against the trench wall shooting from the hip at the SODs, a quiet prayer of thanks as they seem to have stormed their own gas cloud.

Morgenstern returns back, limping heavily still but pressing onwards. He sees Adler and focuses on him, but has to reload his rifle first.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

Toure moves back and waits for the Germans to come, his chest still huffing.

«Chemical Weapons» Adler starts coughing and spluttering!
Adler suffers 1 wound damage to his head.

«Game» Adler changes his style to GasDefence!

«Game» Erhard tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Loerzer but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Adler with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 11 percent!

Adler is in action! so at least one SOD will get to kick ass and take names.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!

Ravaun Jerks his rifle to the north, trying to yell out to others, to alert them.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Morgenstern but misses!

«Game» Ravaun unwields his Lee Enfield SMLE!

Toure takes a shot at Adler, missing, but Ravaun's warning concerns him. "How many?" he gasps at the Canadian.

«Game» Ravaun wields his Mills Bomb!

«Game» Erhard tries to put on his gas mask but is too busy coughing and tearing up and can't get it on!

«Ground Combat» Adler tries to fire his MP18 at Morgenstern but his weapon is jammed!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Erhard but misses!

Ravaun Holds up his fingers for one, at least, what he could see through the mask covering his face
Toure nods to Ravaun. He'll take the northern one. He's out of precious grenades.

Adler swears bitterly, these new fangled weapons aren't the most reliable, specially after they've been well immersed in the blood 'n mud of the trenches.

«Ground Combat» Brissac deploys his Hotchkiss!

«Game» Erhard changes his style to GasDefence!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Mills Bomb at Loerzer but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his MP18 at Brissac but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Erhard but misses!

«Game» Ravaun wields his Mills Bomb!

Brissac gets the Hotchkiss ready to fire again now, looking over at the newly arrived Germans. Prepare to eat lead.

«Game» Adler unjams his MP18!

«Ground Combat»You move to engage Adler in close quarters combat.
Adler is aware of your presence.
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern moves to engage Adler in close quarters combat, but fails.

Ravaun starts to swear profusely at his inability to lob grenades to hit the man to the north.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Machine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Brissac fires his Hotchkiss at Adler but misses!

Erhard begins working with Adler at doing what SODs do - clearing trenches at pointblank.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Loerzer and hits!
Loerzer suffers 8 wound damage to his left leg.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his MP18 at Brissac and hits!
Brissac suffers 1 wound damage to his right hand.
Brissac suffers 6 wound damage to his right chest.
Brissac suffers 2 wound damage to his right arm.
«Ground Combat» Brissac has been killed!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Morgenstern but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Mills Bomb at Erhard but misses!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Mills Bomb at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Erhard but misses!

Toure starts firing at the German to the north, managing to blow off a good chunk of his leg with the first shot. He doesn't notice the machine gun fire around him. Or at least, doesn't understand the import of it right away.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at William but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Adler and hits!
Adler suffers 7 wound damage to his right arm.
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Adler with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 10 percent!

«Game» Ravaun wields his Lee Enfield SMLE!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his MP18 at Ravaun and hits!
Ravaun suffers 5 wound damage to his right chest.
«Ground Combat» Ravaun has been killed!

Brissac turns to fire at one of the Germans, just as another of them shoots him, and sends him off to wherever he'll be going to after he died.

Erhard is clearly on a role here as the submachinegun cuts a swathe of death through the Allied soldiers who /think/ they've captured a trench.

«Ground Combat» Toure reloads his Berthier!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Brissac but misses!

Morgenstern curses as he sees men go down around him, getting a hit in on Adler at least. He then turns to shoot at Erhard, finally seeing the german.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Morgenstern but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his MP18 at Morgenstern and hits!

Morgenstern suffers 1 wound damage to his left hand.
Morgenstern suffers 5 wound damage to his left leg.
Morgenstern suffers 4 wound damage to his head.

Ravaun Sprawls backwards, a darkness starting to swim in his vision. Funny, he couldn't breathe properly.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Erhard but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Erhard with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 4 percent!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Erhard but misses!

Erhard really is on a role, as Morgenstern gets well hosed down as well with little (?) bullets. But little bullets still hurt.

Toure is surrounded by a shower of blood and breaking bodies. He gives off shooting at the northern rifleman, making a desperate dive for the Jerries in his trench. He's still wheezing painfully from the gas in his lungs and throat.
«Game» Morgenstern loots the body of Brissac

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Erhard but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Erhard with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 4 percent!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

William is happily in bliss as he's not noticing how they are becoming more and more alone in here, well, if you don't count the Germans that he is still pulling off rounds at, it doesn't even look like he's trying to hit them, the rifle just swinging wildly back and forth.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Erhard but misses!

«Ground Combat» Adler reloads his MP18!

«Ground Combat» Toure moves to engage Adler in close quarters combat, but fails.

Adler grabs a second clip when the first one clicks empty, but not bad, one clip for 2. And he's well equipped.

William is at least calm as a he can be as he waits for the stromtroopers to cut him down.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Erhard but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Erhard with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 4 percent!

Toure makes a swipe at Adler as the German reloads his gun, but his misses. With a grunt, he raises his rifle for another shot.

Erhard on the other hand is not well equipped. He reaches for a grenade.

«Game» Erhard unwields his MP18!
«Game» Erhard wields his Stielhandgranate!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from South Village (2 1)!
«Ground Combat» Leon fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Erhard but misses!

William gets a click, watching the oh so beautiful grenade being raised, sort of transfixed by it as he reloads his rifle.

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern reloads his Berthier!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his Stielhandgranate at Brissac but misses!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his Stielhandgranate at Ravaun but misses!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his Stielhandgranate at William but misses!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his Stielhandgranate at Toure but misses!
«Ground Combat» Erhard fires his Stielhandgranate at Morgenstern but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Erhard but misses!

Erhard throws like a girl, and coughing due to the gas doesn't help either. The stick grenade sails slowly through the air, out of the trench entirely, to explode harmlessly in the muddy field.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Morgenstern but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Erhard but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Erhard with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 4 percent!

Erhard is outta here, boo-yah! He forgot to pack spare clips.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from South Village (2 1)!
«Ground Combat» Leon fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

William looks down at himself to see how much damage the grenade did to him, but he can't tell anymore if there is any new wounds, and he pulls the trigger again. While still looking at his feet.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Morgenstern and hits!
Morgenstern suffers 5 wound damage to his right chest.
Morgenstern suffers 4 wound damage to his right arm.
Morgenstern suffers 5 wound damage to his left chest.
Morgenstern suffers 2 wound damage to his right leg.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

Morgenstern points north and south… and is then riddled with bullets so badly he staggers back. Miraculously, somehow, he's still alive. But barely so.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Toure but misses!

Toure can't stop and celebrate when the grenade fails to damage him. He's still gassed and surrounded by Germans. He launches himself at Adler again, letting out a growl at Morgenstern is bloodied oh so much.

Adler keeps on firing, those MP18s really can cause pain n death. Imagine WW2 with a PPSh-41…

William turns his rifle towards Adler instead since he seems set on kicking some ass in here.

«Ground Combat» Erhard moves out of Slit Trench.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from South Village (2 1)!
«Ground Combat» Leon fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Adler with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 1 percent!

«Ground Combat» You must wait another 4 ticks of the Armageddon Clock before you can shoot!
«Ground Combat» Toure moves to engage Adler in close quarters combat, but fails.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Adler with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 1 percent!

Toure makes another lunge at Adler but, again, the German eludes him. More rifle-work, then.

William is slowly becoming aware that something is happening behind him, and he starts to turn around to look what is happening south of him.

«Ground Combat» Adler reloads his MP18!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Leon but misses!

Morgenstern can't hit the broadside of a barn right now. He's bleeding all over and it might just be willpower that keeps him doing anything except whimpering on the ground.

Adler is rapidly being swarmed. But, by heavily wounded soldiers who are on the floor twitching feebly, or men with bayonets. He is pretty confident, given, like Mr McLanes nemesis, he has a machinegun, ho ho ho.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from South Village (2 1)!
«Ground Combat» Leon fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Adler with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 1 percent!

«Ground Combat» Erhard moves East <E>.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Morgenstern but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Morgenstern but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from South Village (2 1)!
«Ground Combat» Leon fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

«Game» Ravaun wields his Lee Enfield SMLE!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Morgenstern fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!
«Ground Combat» You shoot at Adler with your Berthier! Your accuracy is 1 percent!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

Toure keeps on wheezing and shooting, wheezing and shooting. "Not yet!" he yells to the heavens.

Adler is the cold hand of Death, and he has Toure's number.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at William but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!

Adler spreads the love fairly though.

«Game» Ravaun unwields his Lee Enfield SMLE!

«Game» Ravaun wields his Mills Bomb!

Toure fires the last bullet in his Berthier at Adler. He has to pause briefly in this desperate struggle to reload.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» Morgenstern reloads his Berthier!

«Game» Morgenstern assists Ravaun!

Adler has but one clip left. He reaches for it.

William notes the German to the south heading out, and he turns around again to shoot in the general direction of Adler again.

«Ground Combat» Toure reloads his Berthier!

«Ground Combat» Adler reloads his MP18!

Morgenstern sees that Ravaun is moving again and since he can't hit anything, he's moving to assist Ravaun to get up to do some good around here. Like hopefully, killing Adler brutally.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at William but misses!
«Game» Morgenstern assists Ravaun!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Grenades from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Mills Bomb at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Ravaun but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Adler but misses!

Ravaun Looks down, a bloody swathe of damage on his body, and grabs Morgenston's arm, dragging him self up. 'Tonight you Sleep In Hell!' He Shouted, grabbing an Extra grenade from his mud and blood stained trench

«Game» Ravaun wields his Lee Enfield SMLE!

Adler is not slaughtering the effete imperialists as effectively as he might be, encumbered as he is by his heavy primitive mask. And so Ravaun is not turned into a pulp of bloody meat. Yet.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Ravaun fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Toure but misses!

Toure misses yet again. He still maintains his head, but he's growing more and more desperate. He can feel the end approaching, as men, comrades and enemies, explode around him. He raises his rifle again, using all his skill as a marksman to fix a shot on the machinegunner.

Ravaun Moves to one side, the 9mm Rounds chattering away near his feet, His Rifle is held at an odd angle, squeezing the trigger, letting it kick against his side with a grunt.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Ravaun but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Submachine Guns from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Adler fires his MP18 at Ravaun and hits!
Ravaun suffers 5 wound damage to his head.
«Ground Combat» Ravaun has been killed!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Adler but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village!
«Ground Combat» Toure snipes Adler with his Berthier but misses!

Toure misses yet again! His skills as a marksman failed him.

Adler is outta ammo, oh, the irony, the last few bullets slammed into Ravaun's face. He begins to climb out of the trench. Looks like this one really is captured. For now.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

Ravaun Grunts, and slams back down into the earth. This is truly funny, his eyes seemed unusually dried out. Perhaps it would explain alot of things if he could connect the Muzzle Flash into his face, with that sensation.

William tries to charge Adler, but his leg gives out on him and he ends up in a kneeling firing position, raising his rifle again.

Toure hangs his head as Ravaun goes down, wheezing out ragged breaths. He doesn't try to stop Adler as he climbs from the trench. He does keep a firm grip on his rifle. Almost as if he's waiting.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» Adler moves out of Slit Trench.

Toure pays Loezer and his love for the African nations little mind. He trains his rifle on fleeing Adler.

Morgenstern is heading after Adler with bayonet first, but can barely move. So, looks like Adler will get the hell away - and it's not like Morgenstern is going to chase after a fleeing enemy. "Toure, what… what's the situation?" he asks, rather dizzy and confused, trying to make sense of what's going on.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Loerzer but misses!

«Artillery» 17pdr Field Howitzer artillery barrage batters South Village ineffectually.
«Artillery» Artillery barrage at South Village has lifted!

Adler flees!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village!
«Ground Combat» Toure snipes Adler and hits!
Adler suffers 6 wound damage to his head.
«Ground Combat» Adler has been killed!

…and falls.

William spots the German in the north, having lost interest in Adler as soon as he left the trench, and starts firing at him instead.

«Ground Combat» Loerzer reloads his Kar98k!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Loerzer but misses!

Toure blows Adler's retreating head off. He watches the German fall. Looks at him for a long time. It's only then he answers Morgenstern. "There is a man still to the north, Corporal," he says. "He shall not live long."

Morgenstern truly couldn't hit something one meter away from him, so he's not even trying. He's crawling in the trench, taking a look around to try to get his bearings and where the germans are. "One south, one north," he rasps. "I see nobody east."

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Loerzer but misses!

William takes his eyes off the German up north to reload his rifle, "Nobody south" he comments as loudly as he can to Morgenstern, which isn't very loud, "He ran away"

«Ground Combat» William reloads his Lee Enfield SMLE!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at William but misses!

Morgenstern is thankful for the small things right now. "Thank god," he says and lets out a sigh, which causes him to wine. He makes a sad attempt to stop some bloodflow, slapping a bandage right over his chest area. "I'm sorry, fellas. I'm not of much help right now."

Toure gets his rifle all beaded on Loerzer. He's gonna mess him up, yo.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Loerzer but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

Toure has to duck Loerzer's shot, so he loses his precious angle. Not that that deters him from trying again.

William isn't really doing much good either, but he still fires away, sooner or later he should hit something out of luck at least.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Loerzer but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure and hits!
Toure suffers 3 wound damage to his left hand.

Toure lets out a scream as his hand is torn into. But he can still pull the trigger.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Loerzer but misses!

Ravaun has arrived.

«Ground Combat» You must wait another 62 ticks of the Armageddon Clock before you can shoot!

Toure is out of ammunition. He blinks at his trust rifle and mutters something in some primal African tongue. No dout profanity.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

«Ground Combat» Toure reloads his Berthier!

Loerzer is not, and fires another round off, unfortunately Toure ducks at that moment to fumbled with bullets. Lucky him.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Loerzer but misses!

Ravaun has a penchant for surviving, despite a bullet hole on the side of his skull, no doubt turned by the shattered glass lense of his Gas Mask, he's sitting up, starting to drag him self back, time to find one of those fancy german toys.

«Ground Combat» Ravaun moves West <W>.

Toure gets his gun reloaded, at least, that bullet whizzing safely over his head. He lets out a relieved, wheezy breath. Then gets back to shooting.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Loerzer but misses!

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from North Village (2 3)!
«Ground Combat» Loerzer fires his Kar98k at Toure but misses!

Loerzer is himself out of ammo now - and begins moving east, back to friendly lines.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» William fires his Lee Enfield SMLE at Loerzer but misses!

Toure shoots at Loerzer some more as he retreats.

«Ground Combat» You hear the sound of Rifles from Center Village (2 2)!
«Ground Combat» Toure fires his Berthier at Loerzer and hits!
Loerzer suffers 7 wound damage to his right arm.

Toure blows off his retreating arm. He shoots some more.

Loerzer promptly gets shot in the arm when he leaves his little hide, and arterial blood sprays wildly around. He shouts out, clutches at his arm tightly, and runs!

William looks down at his rifle and tries to reload it while climbing to his feet, "The German to the north is moving out" he mutters, mostly to himself.

«Ground Combat» William reloads his Lee Enfield SMLE!

Toure just keeps on peppering escaping Loerzer, though he does it none too quickly. Blood is flowing freely from his hand.

Morgenstern just lies in the trench, semi-unconscious, keeping awake only out of sheer stubborness. "I…I don't think I can move onwards," he tells anyone listening. "Anyone got a fag?"

Toure lowers his rifle with a grunt. Loerzer fled him. He watches him go, and only then goes to see to Morgenstern. The man's shredded state leaves even him gaping.
Ravaun Gently touches the blood on his skull and looks down at his chest. Christ he looked bad. 'I think I need to visit a Doctor..' He commented Dryly..

Aubrey has arrived.

«Game» Aubrey moves into Slit Trench.

Sidney rushes up with a trickle of reinforcements, his rifle readied and his sapper pack on his back. The young blond Aussie looks around quickly to the men in his platoon. "Which of you men need taken out by stretcher? Corpsmen coming."

William puts his hand in one of his pockets, but all he comes out with is some tobacco mixed with blood. "Sorry corpral, looks like they got that too." After taking all that time to stand up he promptly sits back down again. "Done for the day yet?"

«Game» Aubrey wields his Lee Enfield SMLE!
«Game» Sidney moves into Slit Trench.

"Toure… There you are," Morgenstern says, rather out of it. He has problems focusing, blood in his face. He gives William a sad look when there's no cigarette to be had from that direction. "I'm not feeling top shape right now," he tells Sidney next, voice raspy and strained.

Aubrey comes in with the reinforcements, whistling a little to himself as he looks around. "Looks like you had a party here…" He remarks as he glances between the people already present, offering a quick nod to them.

Toure is breathing in ragged wheezes from the gas and his left hand is covered in blood. Both congealed and freshly seeping wet. But he's not anywhere near as bad off as some.

«Announcement from Death!»
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.

Sidney looks around again. "Look dodgers, the Captain asked me to seperate out the men too wounded to fight, for the stretchers to take back. I know Fritz has made life ragged as a mangey dingo with the runs, but…" He stops talking as he spots Toure, and rushes over to him. "Gas? Gas hit mate?" and squats down. "Are you still able to fight?" There's a glance to Morgenstern. "You need out too, Corporal?"

Morgenstern is shot twice in the chest, once in the head, he's shot in one arm and in both legs. "Yes."
Oh, and in one hand too.

William climbs up, supporting himself on the trench wall. he's not quite as badly shot up as Morgenstern, but still bleeding quite decently. "Which way is home? I'm not running anymore for a while."

Sidney nods back in response to the corporal, and begins making his way over to him in the slit trench. "You do look worse off, Corper." and nods again. "Here we go. I'm not a medic, brother, but I'll help move you over to the men being evacuated." He kneels, studying Morgenstern's body for the best way to move him.

L'Eglise de Saint Boniface
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[The Grid]-----> > > > > THE LOST GENERATION < < <


Even in a place like this the war has left its marks, the once great windows of the church depicting the lord saviour have been blown to pieces. Some of the rafters from the roof are broken, and here and there holes from shells and rounds score the walls of the church. Where there once were benches for people to sit during sermons are now temporary tables upon where wounded soldiers and civilians can be seen. The moans and cries of the wounded never cease to stop, as they just keep coming in with every day that passes, a numberless throng. Nuns from the local abbey along with nurses runs along with blood stained rags trying their best to aid the doctors and field medics that works in here.
At first glance it might be hard to think that faith in god can still linger in a place so torn apart by the war as this, but the sheer compassion by those who work here makes up for the tarnished facade of the church.
It is currently night time.

The church is in a state of tightly controlled mayhem, as it always is after a big offensive. The carnage here isn't so much better than that on the field. Christiane is in triage with some of the other medics and nurses and surgeons, scrambling to deal with the incoming tide of wounded.

Morgenstern is brought in with some hurry, closer to death than life. He's clinging on to life though, breathing raspily and heavily. He looks calm enough though, having been given morphine already from the stretcher bearers, so the pain is bearable.

Toure rolls on in on a stretcher. Somebody's take his mask off so he can be better seen to. His breathing is ragged and he's bleeding from his hand, but he could certainly be worse.

William had to give up and swallow his pride, getting carried into the church and he looks like he is quite happy that is the case.

Christiane springs into action when the corporal's broken, bloody near-corpse of a body is brought in. She's half-done with dressing his wounds before she even recognizes him. Her gray eyes widen. But she holds back a gasp. She can't afford to show too much shock.

Laurent sighs a little as he sees the wounded being brought in again, and moves over to one of the wounded, namely Toure. Examining the man for a few moments, he starts working the medicine part. <"Easy soldier. You will get through this alive."> It's said in French, and rather quetly, as he examines the soldier again.

Josephine gets to work on William as soon as he's brought in, speaking comfortingly to him in her broken English. "Don't worry, I will take care of you. You'll survive," she tells him, bandaging his worst wounds efficiently and stopping blood flow.

Morgenstern lies still and quiet as Christiane is treating his wounds. He hasn't realized it's her yet, either. Not until she's more or less done and hears her gasp does he focus dizzy eyes on her. "Hello there," he rasps at her, managing a weak smile.

"'Allo, Markus…" Christiane murmurs in soft reply to Morgenstern, ordering some medics in clipped French to get him into a bed. She's done what she can. A doctor will have to see to the rest.

Toure seems to understand the French better than the English that's being spoken by some of the doctors and nurses. He focuses on Laurent, nodding a little. <"Not yet…"> he mutters to himself in French. <"Not yet…">

Laurent looks around to one of the nurses. "Give him something for the pain and prepare him for surgery," he offers, expression grim for a few moments as he looks from the nurse to Toure.

Christiane goes to administer some morphine to Toure, going through the motions of doping him up with ease. It's only after she's slid in the needle in that she starts at his black skin. Again, she's too professional to react with much more than a widening of her eyes. But they do widen. She gets him dealt with quickly and moves on. She has other patients to see to.

Toure drifts off on a cloud of morphine-induced bliss.

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