STATE ZERO | Wolves of Atlano

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Walking around the gymnasium with the rest of your group, you find that all the doors are locked either by a chain on the internal side or from their locks on the hinges. You also determine that any of the windows into the gymnasium are far too high to reach. Unluckily enough, there are pieces of dark paper or woods that board up the windows on the doors, preventing you from peering inside.

 

[Heyitsjiwon]

Lothar thought of potential solutions to this issue. If the group had any explosives, then maybe they could blow up the door or an alternative entry into the building. However, they didn't bring C4 with them. So, they would have to rely on whatever grenades that were left and that was... precious. Thus, they would first try to find a working vehicle and see if they can attach the car to the door and just pull the doors off the hinges. Then throw in another concussion grenade and then move in.

 

[cl0ud]

There's plenty of cars that litter the streets outside, but there's no guarantee that they're still working, as well as if they have gas in them. The three guards at the front of the school go and check the vehicles, but report they didn't find any functional cars.

 

[Heyitsjiwon]

With the current situation, Lothar decided that sending men back to the outpost and returning with the humvee and back up was the best idea. Thus, the 3 guards were to now head back to the outpost and get the humvee, a tool box, and a sledge hammer. The rest of the 5 men (including Lothar) would hold up positions on the roof and watch the gym and the front of the school until the humvee returned.

 

[cl0ud]

Nothing happens in between the time it takes your three men to get back with the equipment and the humvee.

 

[Heyitsjiwon]

With a vehicle, Lothar orders the men to use the torque of the humvee's engine to try and pull the doors out. The men would stay a bit away from the doors towards the sides to not get hit by a trap if there is one. Once the door is opened, then they are to move up, chuck in a concussion grenade, and move in to clear the area.

 

[cl0ud]

You don't have anything to attach to the doors.

 

[Heyitsjiwon]

(Oh man, I was thinking that rope would be something that they would have in their normal supplies)

Without any rope to try to pull the doors to the gymnasium out, it looked like they would have to resort either to explosives or tools. Thus, Lothar made the decision to just use 2 of the precious grenades since he wasn't willing to put his men's lives at more risk than needed. Thus, he ordered the men to split into groups. 2 would use the humvee as cover and they would be about 30 meters away from the door so that they would be out of the blast zone. However, whenever the door exploded, they would have a direct line of sight into the gym and engage any potential threats. Everyone else, including him, would stack around the two corners of the gym and hide behind the corner. Using string, they would pull the pins at the same time and then push in with a concussion grenade.

 

[cl0ud]

(Any rope they do use would be too thin. The fibers would tear apart trying to rip the doors from its hinges. The best thing to use would've been a chain.)

Your militiamen pull the pins on the grenades, setting them at the base of the door and then run away. When the doors explode, a volley of bullets rain down on your two militiamen behind your humvee, as well as the humvee itself being littered with bullets. When you toss in the concussion grenade, you can hear gulps of surprise but the volley of gunfire continues to rain down on your operators behind the humvee.

 

[Heyitsjiwon]

With the enemy's fire drawn to the humvee, Lothar orders for another concussion grenade and a fragmentation grenade. Once they pop, the two point men are to use the wall for cover and lean over towards the now open entrance while crouched to gain line of sight and engage. The 2nd men in the two stacks are to lean over while standing so that they can engage while shooting over the pointmen. Thus, up to 6 guns will be available to fire into the gym. As 4 men will use the wall as cover and shoot over and under to take some pressure off the two at the humvee so that they can start firing as well.

Example at 1:45 of the over and under tactic:

 

[cl0ud]

You toss in a fragmentation grenade, which is replied with a grunt and screaming, but only of one person. Your concussion grenade doesn't interrupt the continuous, uninterrupted stream of bullets comes pouring out of the gym doors, though. As your troops move into position, two of them are shredded by the bullets. The two at the humvee are still being suppressed by the gunfire inside of the gym.

† ♂ Morris McKenney | Militia
† ♀ Heidi Wakefield | Recruit