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“We’ll be going once third platoon sends a few of their people to man our positions. I might be making Pfortner mad at me tonight, but it won’t be because I left a gap in our lines,” Vehrlors looked around at the officers and NCOs present, “Here’s the situation. Our objective is here,” he pointed to a rough map, “At the village of Alkenssand. We’re going to have to go through a good portion of enemy occupied territory to reach there, but the most difficult part will be the initial line, and the secondary reserve line. The less fighting we have to do on the way, the better, so I asked around the company for what they could see.”
Vehrlors pointed to several red wax pencil markings he had made. “The Netillians know they’re facing an armored formation. They’ll have gun positions set up, obstacles where they could get them, mines, so we’d be rolling the dice to head right into their face. That’s why we have to head here, near where the chocolate soldiers are,” He pointed to a place by what looked to be a stream, “A couple of recon parties have gone out here, and made a lot of headway before they ran into anybody. They’re thin here, and they haven’t dug in. This stream is shallow, and we can ford it with no problems, over to this path here,” he traced his finger down the way, “The Netillians seem to be fortifying this set of hills in front and using the stream as the limit to their defenses, so we’re going to try and break through around this ground instead, where they aren’t bothering to set up as firm a defense, and our patrols haven’t been letting them set up any nasty surprises. I’ll bet that they’d be anticipating that to be taken advantage of by an offensive, but not a small maneuver like ours. I don’t know if we can slip through undetected, but this will be our best bet at having to do as little fighting as possible. All that’s left is the time. The darker it is, the less likely we are to be reliably seen, but the worse off we might be in a fight. We’re in no position to be popping off flare pistols all over, especially if we don’t want Pfortner up our asses immediately.”
You and Vehrlors had already talked this over with the others before. You had decided on…
>Now, in the twilight. You’d have to wrap it up quickly since darkness would be on your heels, but it would be easier to withdraw or hold out under cover of the night to come.
>In the dark, from the start. Nobody would have good visibility- for better or worse. You were going behind enemy lines, you had to keep hidden whilst you were venturing that far beyond.
>Before dawn, next morning. The dim light of the morning would let you break in, but you’d need the daylight to fight effectively beyond.
>Other?
