Everything Went Bad

FuzzyGeff and Marv's character, after escaping the Battle of Kalisz ended up near the town of Złoczew.

Realizing that their small still would take almost three weeks to brew up a tank-full of wood alcohol for their Humvee, they decided to scout the town.

It's being held by about 200 Soviet troops who are holding townsfolk hostage to make the farmers and workers comply.

One of those farmers contacted the player's characters and convinced them to help.

Their plan was to take the three NPC's attached to the party and an M240 and slaughter the filthy commies as they stood at attention for morning formation.

But they failed to account for the tenacity of the sentries placed to keep the locals in line.

Inattentive and armed with a spear, an AK-74 and just one magazine, they should have been easy to sneak up on.

FuzzyGeff's plan was to do so and slit some throats from behind.

This is when we found out that, despite, having a bayonet; Marv had not taken any skills to use it either as a knife OR a bayonet.

To make matters worse, he botched his stealth roll on approach and the guard with the spear who began screaming for help.

FuzzyGeff was able to dispatch his quarry with a slash to the throat and a stab to the vitals.

Marv was not so lucky.  The dice was agin' him. 

We ended with Marv unconscious, FuzzyGeff rallying the troops to do an ambush on the Russians as they pour out of the school they've commandeered as a barracks and the Soviet's getting ready to respond to the alarm raised by sentry number 2.

We sit here until, probably, next time Fuzzygeff can come down to visit.