[Adm.Lee]

Not much fighting today, more sneaking and scouting.

In a fast-forward interlude from the end of the last game, I had the group drive their truck SSW, to get nearer to the Vistula (but still not there), and then set up camp in an abandoned village. I figured they found a garage behind an apartment building or hotel that still had roofs, and moved in. Within a block of them, I introduced a new PC and 2 NPCs, fellow Marines/sailors that had escaped captivity by the Soviets, and wound up in the same ghost town. The player that rolled his new PC made him a Navy doctor, so now someone can treat wounds!

--- Which gave me license to "resurrect" the PC that was killed in last week's fight. "Oh, he's only mostly dead."

Around their new base, they set up their many captured machineguns and sent out hunting parties/patrols, as they were nearly out of food.

Two guys (not the sniper team, we all noted) were able to surprise some bunnies and kill two before a pack of dogs treed them. From the top of the tree, they dropped a grenade, which must have bounced up at them again-- both were wounded, one enough to be seriously wounded in the face. At least it killed all the dogs! Once they'd dragged the many bodies back to the camp, the had meat and the new doctor had more business.

Next day, a 4-person patrol found a trio of stripped trucks... and drag marks towards a nearby gas station. That turned up a cache of track-links, unfortunately booby-trapped with a Soviet Claymore. Again, more business for the doctor.

Day after that, the 2-man hunting party bumped into a smugglers' camp. Some gunpoint negotiations set up a meet for the next day, to swap a PK and belts for more food. That's where we suspended the game for this week. The party is considering double-crossing the smugglers, or at least short-circuiting the inevitable double-cross by the smugglers. (To be honest, I was planning on the smugglers playing it straight. They just weren't please with the PCs introducing themselves as Germans, so the prices went way up!)

I think I have 3 Fridays left until school starts for some, so I'd better get them moving on their way across the Vistula to NATO lines, huh? Perhaps the smugglers offer to introduce them to someone with a boat?