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“It’s about to get busier,” the voice you noted as being from the operations headquarters said, with no sympathy for the amount already on your plate, “Our allies are having some trouble securing our out, and there’s two aerial contacts headed your way, from the south. Autogyros, bigger than the normal ones.”
Autogyros weren’t that intimidating. They were light scout craft; with the heavy machine guns, you could drive them away, you thought. If short stuff’s tank was still around they wouldn’t have dared come close. Though given that when you were reported here, the enemy might not have been able to convey information about the thing they should fear…
“How much bigger,” you felt was pertinent to ask.
“Much. Huge,” a statement that was not reassuring, “I’ve never heard nor seen the like of them. They’re as big as…a two engine bomber, maybe. They’ve got two of the engines.”
“<span class="mu-i">Are</span> they bombers?”
“No, I don’t think so…didn’t see much in the way of weapons on them.”
“Hm,” you scratched your head. Not scouts, not bombers…transports? Sending normal paratroopers just for you wouldn’t have been particularly wise, but with an autogyro’s capabilities of short take off and landing… “How long do we have until they arrive?”
“Fifteen minutes, probably. Depends on if they land right on top of you or a bit away.”
You checked your watch. “Popular hour. Tell them I’ve already got a date at that time.”
“…”
“Yeah,” you said as a response to the silence given, “Thanks. I’ll handle everything.” With that, you got off the radio- and went back to sending around the troops. Even a transport that could land on the spot may as well be a glider, for all practical purposes- and only a fool would try and land a glider on top of an enemy…unless they planned on arriving shortly after the group already coming, and exploiting the distraction…
>Arrange your troops and assets. Remember that only the right side of the compound is under your control- moving to the left carries a risk of…encounters.
>Other?
