The Iron Wars

[ThrasherWolf]

As Alina's tank and her troops advanced into the city she noticed one Of the Rhamos tanks from the first wave exploded within the vicinity. She slammed her fist on the hatch with frustration and stopped her tank.


"Tanks! Anti tank crew get that sonovabetch!" Alina shouted to the troops as she got out her Panzershreck. She hopped out of her tank and led a small division of iron soldiers and anti tank crew behind a decimated building not far from the tank, and ordered her own Rhamos to perform suppressing artillery fire upon specific locations on the city to flush out the snipers. With the impromptu plan gone over with the other tank commanders and crew by radio, she and the party quietly jogged through the streets for any tanks or that particular one which destroyed the Rhamos. But that tank was so fast it zipped in and out of every street with ease.

"Now that's a problem...but it doesn't mean I'll give up just yet. In here!" Alina silently whispered and pointed to a much more stable building nearby. It was tiresome running with a Panzershcreck on her shoulders, but she bore the pain and grit her teeth and managed to scramble to the building. She and her crew climbed up the stairs and took aim from the windows, ready to strike at the tank.

[Lief]

"Roger that." Nick pushed the facemask down again, and started jogging towards a specific building. After the tank rounds hit, he adjusted his path and changed destinations, heading to a building that was right behind one that had just been taken down. He entered and went up the stairs, quickly getting to the second-to-top floor. He positioned himself in a small room that had two windows, one facing where the rest of the squad was, and the other facing directly towards the Rhamos tanks and all the infantry. He took a small radio out and turned it on, setting it on the windowsill next to him. After making some minor adjustments to his scope for the range, he rested his rifle on the window sill and looked through the scope, quickly finding targets. Just before he fired he noticed some smoke trails leading out of two buildings. Quickly adjusting his aim, he fired and took out one of them that was having loading issues. He cycled rounds and carefully waited for another good shot.

[y7h65]

Walter's POV
Walter was a few blocks and was silent as one of the MBT's went up smoke in front of him. "Well, we lost another MBT. Fire upon that building!" The Riptide shot a shell at the building and moved behind another building to have more cover.

[Prometheus]

Nerus
He left his spot once he was satisfied with the damage he'd done to the front lines. He needed to get out before the building came down around him anyways. He began running throught the streets, trying to find another suitable building. Finally finding a seemingly stable looking building, he made his way to a corner room on the third floor that provided an excellent view of the street, and started to shoot some of the frontline troops again. He decided to give them a break so they wouldn't find him, moving to the other window. He didn't see anything at first glance, but whe he looked again, he noticed something of another window acroos from his, "Wait a second is that... Oh [censored]!" he quickly ducked behind the window. There was a whole anti tank team in the window! (Alina and her team) He chanced another look out the window, and was relived to see they hadn't seen him. In fact, it seemed they hadn't even thought of the possibility of a sniper. "Heh, their probably looking for Walter. he said under his breath, taking aim at the head of a member of the team, one of the snipers. The shot echoed and he saw the soldier drop as he took aim again, shooting at another sniper, and ducking before he had time to see if the shot hit.
"Please let them not have seen me" he whispered, looking up to the ceiling and pleading with whatever gods he could think of.

[Nightfury]

Abbey ducked behind her cover as one of the Rhamos tank's artillery fire struck nearby. "Damn, damn, damn!" she cursed, hammering in the clip as she tried to find the location of the tank which almost finished her. She spied across the street, noticing Nerus taking shots from a nearby window, but unable to spot his target. The troops had already passed her location and she was simply getting peppered with artillery shells. Shouldering her rifle, she jumped from the destroyed second floor to the ground, immediately sprinting across the street, and as she turned the corner, she almost ran straight into a squad of soldiers working their way down an alley. "Sh-..." she muttered under her breath, scrambling into cover. Did he see me? I'm dead if he did, I should just... Looking around at her surroundings, Abbey spotted Nerus's target- an anti-tank team on the upper floors of a nearby building. She was in plain sight, and if she was noticed, it would be the end of her. "Well, i'm going to get noticed either way." She reconciled, pulling one of the grenades from her belt. She pressed it to her lips for a moment, saying a silent prayer, before ripping out the pin and flicking it into the alley behind her. The startled cries of the soldiers filled the air for a moment before, BAM! A wave of smoke and dust passed her as she spun around, sprinting through the into a building with a newly-demolished hole in the wall, diving into cover at the first chance and hoping that there weren't any other soldiers nearby. After a moment to catch her breath- and to make sure she wasn't about to be obliterated by nearby soldiers- she sprinted for the stairs, trying her best to remain unseen as she searched for a good vantage point in the twisting halls.

[Basitin warrior]

Ryan was now about 10 feet from the Rhamos tank on the left flank. He peered out of the ditch he was hiding in and saw that the crew was outside finishing setting up to fire almost like an artillery piece. He didn't hesitate though since he would never get a better chance. He rushed the closist man, using his hand to silence the man's screams, and then cut his throat to finish the job. There was another man behind the tank. The man looked up in horror at the sight of Ryan but before the man could regain his senses ryan drew his pistol and shot him in the head. Then he quickly scrambled to the top of the tank, and when he reached the open hatch a third soldier was climbing out. Ryan grabbed the guy and to the man's surprise lifted him out of the tank. Then he through him over the side and shoot him three times in the back. Lastly the tank commander came out holding a submachine gun. Ryan and the man looked at each other for a moment and both of them were waiting for the other to make a move. Then Ryan quickly made his move, aiming the gun and firing just a split second before the tank commander could wheel his gun enough to shoot. The shot hit the man in his forehead and blew his brains out which left his body leaning against the side of the hatch. Suddenly bullets started pinging off of the tank as the crew to his right became aware of his presence. Ryan lifted the dead body out of the hatch and jumped in. He sat in the commanders chair and thought, oh [censored] this was the stupidest idea I've ever had. He randomly started pressing buttons and the tank moved backwards. Just when he thought he was getting to hang of it, the tank speed foward, crashed into the next tank in line and crushed two enemies between the massive machines. The tank he hit fired just as he rammed it and the shell was sent wildly off course. Then Ryan grabbed a stick on the side of the control panel and the turrent started moving. Ryan aimed it past the tank he was now jammed with to the next rhamos tank and pulled the trigger on the stick. For a moment nothing happened but then with an incredible amount of force sent the artillery round directly into the side of tank. At that range and with that cannon the tank's armor didn't do anything and the whole tank was blown to pieces. Since Ryan had no clue how to reload the massive gun he figured it was time to leave. He quickly went out the hatch he had entered from but when he stood up he felt a pistol touch the back of his head. He raised his hands and slowly turned around to see the tank commander from the tank he had crashed into pointing at his head with a smirk on his face. Then a loud machinical noise came from down the line. Ryan already knew what was happening but the other man didn't so he turned to see 3 rhamos tanks aiming there guns at them. They wouldn't allow one of their precious tanks to be captured and especially wouldn't let it destroy them. The man was shocked that they didn't realize that he was about to end the problem with a single bullet and yelled out Noo!!! Stop!!!!. Ryan turned, jumped off the tank, landed with a roll, and sprinted for the ditch as fast as possible. However, the moment he did the man turned and started firing wildly. Just a few feet from the ditch a bullet struck Ryan in the left shoulder but before he could fall all three rhamos tanks fired at once and vaporized both tanks and the man. The giant blast sent Ryan flying into the ditch as pieces of burning metal rained down around him. Grabbing his shoulder in pain he shook his head to clear it and then started running back along the ditch to hopefully get away from the enemy so he could try and patch himself up.

[Twokindsofawsome]

Ellie hit the wall in frustration and swore to herself, "[censored]! I need backup!" The she realized what was on her belt. she was carrying 4 molotov cocktails. she grinned, almost evily and went for the bullet riddled door. she quickly crawled over to the ledge again and got out her lighter. She grasped a molotov and got it off her waist. then she flicked the lighter on and caught fire to the wick. She grinned and popped up momentarily and hurled the molotov at the rahmos tank battalion. " BURN! YOU DARN RAHMOS TANKS!" She ducked down and then prepared another. Once again she lit the wick and hurled it at the rahmos tanks. she was happy to see both had created some fires on the rahmos tanks and some panzer squads were running around as they burned. " perfect. now i need to escape this building. She ran for the door and quickly jogged down the stairs. She reached the ground floor and searched for her squad mates. " Hey guys, we need to lead a recon squad. Whoever wants to can come with me!"

(correct me if the tanks are too far away for a molotov strike.)

Hans and Max both looked at eachother when Ellie proposed a recon team. They both shrugged and sprinted towards Ellie. Hans said, " Young lady, count us in. What was your name, Ellie?" Ellie nodded and said, yes, who are you?" Hans nodded and said, " Im Hans, and this is my son Max." Max gave Ellie a wave and then said, "Now, lets get down to business. We need to put a stop to those rahmos tanks." Max looked around and then swore. "[censored], if only there was a panzershrek lying around. then our problems would be solved...."

(after the recon team sets out i will have to do some panzer stealing! )

[ThrasherWolf]

Nerus
He left his spot once he was satisfied with the damage he'd done to the front lines. He needed to get out before the building came down around him anyways. He began running throught the streets, trying to find another suitable building. Finally finding a seemingly stable looking building, he made his way to a corner room on the third floor that provided an excellent view of the street, and started to shoot some of the frontline troops again. He decided to give them a break so they wouldn't find him, moving to the other window. He didn't see anything at first glance, but whe he looked again, he noticed something of another window acroos from his, "Wait a second is that... Oh [censored]!" he quickly ducked behind the window. There was a whole anti tank team in the window! (Alina and her team) He chanced another look out the window, and was relived to see they hadn't seen him. In fact, it seemed they hadn't even thought of the possibility of a sniper. "Heh, their probably looking for Walter. he said under his breath, taking aim at the head of a member of the team, one of the snipers. The shot echoed and he saw the soldier drop as he took aim again, shooting at another sniper, and ducking before he had time to see if the shot hit.
"Please let them not have seen me" he whispered, looking up to the ceiling and pleading with whatever gods he could think of.

Alina watched in shock as one of her members went down. Without hesitation, she grabbed a grenade from the back of one of the iron soldier's weapon belt and threw it across to other window where the other sniper sniped at. "GRENADE! TAKE COVER!" Alina exclaimed as she and the remaining crew fell to the floor, their arms covering their heads. The grenade exploded with a loud bang and Alina got off the floor and wiped the dust from her uniform. She turned to the smoke filled window and shouted "See you in Hell!" and immediately pried the sniper rifle from her sniper's dead hand.

"Apparently, team Rhamos isn't doing that great a job about those snipers. They're as fast as mice when it comes to hiding they're goddamn [censored] for a good vantage point. Well I guess I'll be flushing them out myself then! This is seriously the most unprofessional [censored] I've ever had! You! Take care of that cursed tank for me!" Alina said with an irritated huff as she passed her Panzerschreck to one Iron Soldier. She climbed the ladder to the rooftop.

She perched herself on the rooftop and aimed through the scope, scanning the rooftops for any snipers. She noticed a commotion between some soldiers in the ditch and about 2 to 3 Rhamos tanks. She frowned and shouted back to her team: "Get on the radio and tell Rhamos I want machine gun nests flanking both left and right. I also want two tanks to enter the city. Now!" Alina ordered and resumed being on the lookout for snipers.

Soon, Two Rhamos Tanks received her order and immediately took off the cable hooks and bricks beneath the treads. They lowered their turrets and began heading inside the city.

[the red soldier]

Cap

Things were going a lot better then first anticipated but still some of them didn't know what a distraction was supposed to be. Picking up a radio, Cap started yelling orders. "Do not engage the enemy directly! Hit and run tactics will keep you alive! Remember, they outnumber and outgun us so don't stay put and keep moving. If this turns into a battle of attrition, were screwed!" Cap then dropped to the ground as bullets wized pass his head. "Remember, chances of winning here is nigh impossible!" He screamed into the radio. "We just need to buy some time for the front line guys to build a defensive line!" Taking out his revolver, he began to shoot at a few conscripts but they had the advantage with there rifles.

It didn't take long though for the infantry divisions to make it into the battle, the wave of iron soldiers started swarming the streets, making it a lot more difficult to reach those Rhamos tanks on foot now. If this lasted any longer, they'd be swarmed in sheer number.

Baron Rip

Strategy... Rip hated thinking about it, even more so when he needed to make one. "We will go with your plan... I suppose. Remember though, we go in, grab the witch duchess and get out just as quickly. We have no time to be bogged down in a battle." With that, he was on his way out the door. "I will prepare my squad."

A couple of hours later, Baron Rip and his golden Cross was running into the streets of the city, he could see a few Rhamos tanks in the distance ramming each other. Baron didn't quite understand just what happened but it wasn't his job right now. "Karl, are you in position?" Rip said in a secured radio. "The museum is in sight... Lightly defended... it seems they didn't want to attract attention to it or my assessment was wrong. We will soon find out."

[Der Kojote]

Karl was in his armor, leading his squad he radioed over as well, "target in sight as well...odd...possible that security is inside...it's a museum of military greats...i wouldn't be surprised if some of the exhibits could be ambushes...just be careful. if it looks odd, knife it. Anyway operation is a go. for the glory of the sovereign!"

[Prometheus]

Nerus' POV
"[censored]!" he dove from the room, just barely making it out at the grenade exploded. It was actually quite exhilarating, the first real danger he'd been in, and adrenaline rush unlike any he'd felt before. He heard the COs voice come over his radio, and decided to make his way back to the main group. The leader of the anti tank squad had seen him, and probably wasn't very happy. Then again, she probably thought he was dead. It was only by luck that he wasn't. "I should probably tell Riptide about them," He said to himself, pushing the talk button on his radio. "Hey, Riptide, you've got an anti tank team in the upper levels of the buildings looking for you, I got one, but they saw me and I had to run." He continued through the alleys till he made his way back to Cap and the others. "I think they're looking for the snipers now, sir." he said, and took a place on one of the barricades after reloading his rifle.

Victoria's POV
She heard the woman say something about a recon squad, and took a place next to her. "Im up for it, but it might be a bit late now. As the CO just said, were not here to really fight them. In fact, HQ probably planned this as a suicide mission. Thing is, that's what I'm good at." she laughed, and looked over the barricade with her Sten, taking note of where the closest soldiers were before the bullets started to whiz by her head. "We can still do some damage here, though." she said, and opened fire on the soldiers.

[y7h65]

Walter's POV
The Riptide's turret spun around and pointed towards the upper levels of the building Nerus had pointed out. "Canister round! Fire!" The cannon boomed once as the shot launched from the shell and began to spread, peppering the entire floor with 4cm wide steel balls, killing the Iron Soldier with the Panzerschreck and everyone in the room. "Round two! FIRE!" The cannon thundered once again, this time the shot was launched at the floor below. Windows broke as more lead balls broke through and killed anyone in the rooms.

(OOC: Don't care how thick the metal armor is. No metal armor built with WWII tech can possibly survive a bunch of 15MM wide lead balls being launched into it, let alone 40MM wide steel.)

[Basitin warrior]

Ryan had made his way along the ditch as far as he could and was now well within the city. He knew that even if he tried to hide here the iron soldiers would search every room just in case of any survivors so his only hope was to get behind the Greatholm's defense line before any sovereign soldiers got there. He slipped into a basement through a cellar door. His left arm hung limp and was totally usless and he was holding his puppy rifle as it was called. He smiled remembering when he first heard the name in boot camp and remember being told it was called that cause it sounds like dog whining when you first off a whole clip fast. He went up the stairs leading to the ground floor and opened the door but let out a gasp due to the pain in his shoulder. Then he looked down the hall and saw three iron conscripts just as they turned to see him. He lifted his puppy and just sprayed down the hall. The first two men went down but the third one dove behind the corner. He ran the other direction and fired off a few more rounds to keep the man behind his cover. He went out the open back door and sprinted down the alley as fast as he could manage. He was sprinting as fast as he could and tried to run across a street. However when he was almost across some iron conscripts started firing at him with a positioned automatic gun. Ryan dove behind some rubble and tried to lay as flat as possible. He set his gun down and reloaded it thinking to himself, [censored] Ryan you really have done it now unless I get some help fast that gun is going to chew through my cover and rip me to shreds.

[Kisuke]

Angela fired several bursts at the approaching soldiers, mowing down a few of them. Marcus managed to pick off a few as well, but kept missing since this was his first time handling a rifle like this. Occasionally the bolt would slip out of his hand as he fired, and he would swear under his breath, but he eventually got the hang of it. Angela looked over to him and smiled a sad smile. The kid was getting good, but she didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. On the one hand, he would be able to defend himself better and support the others, on the other hand he was still just a kid and to be killing men at such a young age seemed.. wrong.

[Ranalf]

Arno

As eveyone was in combat and bullets flying everywhere, Arno was in the same room as Ellie, Max, and Hans, drinking some alchohal. His rifle was to his right and he looked up at Ellie, Max, and Hans. "What? What are you people doing here? I thought the Greatholm troops escaped! Though...Then again, you could just be soldiers trying to grab some glory...but whatever...Don't care. You guys got any need for a engineer? I hope not. I'd rather not die tired." he said, boredly as he took another drink of the alchohal and then held his rifle in his right arm slumped down and pointed at the floor. She looked nice, but then again that could just be the alchohal taking hold. He also had a pack near him with his tools(Wrenches, Screwdrivers, Hammers, the usual).

((Ellie or Hans is welcome to take the drink and make it a Molotov or scold him for drinking in battle. ))