[Olefin]

We had started the day with 38 men, 8 PC’s and 30 NPC, and then freed two groups of POW’s, totaling ninety men. Of those eight were badly wounded and the rest were able to fight. We had then added B Troop and the Green Beret B Team, which told us their designation was Strike Force Zulu.

Since then we had lost a total of 18 guys in combat and had three of the badly wounded die on the truck they were in, of which three were from the Cav (giving them 70 men), eight were from our original group including the major and seven were from the POW’s we had freed.

We had a total of 97 men from the 5th, most of them from the 256th, 70 from the Cav and the 35 man strong B Team. From what we could gather from what transmissions we had picked up, we were probably the biggest unit of the 5th Division still free and together except for one or two companies we picked up that were still fighting to the south of Kalisz trying to break out.

As we switched our vehicles over and gassed them up (which considerably emptied one tanker truck) we were approached by members of the town looking for help in defending their homes from a marauder group that had gone into the woods to the east.

Piotr, our Polish PC, insisted we help so he, Narsimha (our Apache Green Beret) and twenty volunteers went to where the villagers said they were camped.

While they were gone I decided that we needed to hit the Poles at Szczercow to give anyone else still free from the 256th a shot to get out to the south and also to make sure we weren’t pursued. The townspeople told us that south of us there were marauders with a BMP-C they kept parked in the middle of the square.

We took three LAV-75’s and the two M1’s with us plus the two captured Hummers and the BMP-C the Russians had already switched to gas and went to hit the Poles. We also decided to give the villagers some ammo for what few guns they had and a bag of ten grenades and some tips on how to defend the town. In exchange they agreed to give us some food and helped bury our dead who we had brought with us.

We took a logging trail thru the woods that came out very near to Szczercow and then attacked directly into the town, firing as we went. The Poles tried to make a stand but they had no anti-tank weapons and it was over pretty quickly with a few Poles riding hard to the north. We saw a bunch of Soviet military police getting taken down by townspeople as well.

As the fighting ended we spotted a group of trucks in the distance coming towards town. We let them come all the way into town before we opened up. All it took was one volley from the LAV guns and it was over.

The trucks were full of unarmed Soviet wounded along with one tanker truck. We grabbed the tanker truck and headed out to the south. As we left we heard the townspeople, who had picked up the guns from the fallen Poles, shooting the Russian wounded in the trucks.

We went south and then east and drove right thru Radomsko and found the BMP-C right in the middle of the square. One round from my gun and that was the end of that. The marauders in town ran as we gunned them down, then we headed north back to Kamiensk.

(Per the GM notes I was sent recently he reduced the 400 troopers in the Polish 11th BG Brigade to 90 survivors and folded them into the Polish 6th that had lost 80 men when we hit their HQ. There were 400 Soviet wounded in the trucks and he reduced the size of the 21st Motorized accordingly. the 124th Motorized ws down to 3 tanks from 6 and reduced by 300 men as well from the initial attack and the attacks on the supply dumps. 20th Tank was down by 300 men as well from our attacks.

He also put in his notes that our actions, in his estimate, doubled the number of men that he thought would have broke out from the 5th, especially from the 256th. This led to changes in modules.

As he told me it was the tanks and Bradley we had (mine that I rolled as well as what he added after creating the breakout scenario) and joining up with the Cav that caused our attacks to be so effective - that and we fought mostly rear area troops with almost no anti-tank weapons)