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Atop the armory, you squatted down and peered over the short wall that formed the perimeter of Site 12- keeping an eye out for mysterious interlopers and Netillians alike. A small hope was that the strangers, with their evasive disposition, had taken what they wanted and fled, for better or worse. A more realistic hope was that they were merely finished with that particular part of the base.
It still bothered you. They couldn’t have come to this place merely seeking <span class="mu-i">weapons</span>. This deep in Netillian territory? In such a facility as this? If anything, they’d have realized the import of this as a research location…right? Maybe a nasty surprise would have been in store for you if you had decided to go and capture the rest of the base instead of letting them have it…
Sounds. Here they came. From the north…the woods, the road. Your hunch had been right. They’d come the quickest way, and disperse for an actual entry assault. A light platoon and tankettes probably wouldn’t have the materiel to break down the walls like you had, after all, especially not one geared for reactions against raiders and insurgents.
You watched them come out, keeping low, before you would leave your vantage point, certain of their approach ahead of time. One tankette, two…three trucks, probably each carrying a squad. Where were the other two tankettes? Wherever they were, they weren’t in this group. The tankettes were dispersing; they probably expected a fight soon. Perhaps for the gate. After all, with no response from friendlies on the radio and the base quiet as it was, what was there to assume but that you held the ground?
There was no sign of aircraft. No propellors in the distance, no silhouettes in the sky bearing down. A little luck, that.
Good enough for now. You clambered down, back to your tank. You had one radio set with the northern infantry contingent, heavily armed with equipment from the yards you’d captured- nobody else had that luxury save for the tanks, but they were not as isolated, or as vital, as the teams covering the north.
The men at the gates might be in trouble, though, if there was armored support bringing up the southern front. Maybe you ought to move…or perhaps, have <span class="mu-i">them</span> move?
>Keep things as they are. After an initiating fusillade, the men could retreat inside the compound as planned. Best not to show your hand with the tanks too early.
>Move out to support them. You could deal with two tankettes yourself, probably, and the men had a good entrenched position there that you’d rather keep as long as possible.
>Have the south squad retreat back inside the base. No point in exposing themselves to armor.
>Other?
