The Ambush, Take 2

Band of Brothers: Leaders Log

ENTRY 001: 
I've been advised that it is good leadership to keep a journal of my battles, and so I begin with this. Our House hasn't asked much of us, to date we have only been tasked with basic recon and patrol work. No one is really expecting the Band of Brothers (they laughingly call us the orphan brigade) to do anything important.

A few weeks ago, we were patrolling the Slag Pit and were ambushed by a Cawdor gang that call's themselves The Emperor's Heroes. Yea, real heroic, jumping out of nowhere, unprovoked, and attempting to slaughter us. They beat us down hard, and we pulled out as soon as we could.

Unfortunately, Bronze Zombie couldn't keep up, probably weighted down by the Plasma Gun, and ended up captured. Mighty Midget is all shell shocked and skittish now, and Shadow Sword got his hand mangled bad.


We attempted to rescue Bronze, but no luck. We snuck in and I thought things were going well, we managed to beat the mess out of their gang leader, the Magister Titus. Had him down good, and then things began to fall apart, and my boys just couldn't hold it together .. we bottled out.

Two, humiliating defeats, and I lost two good brothers. The boys wanted blood, and I was determined to help them find it.

ENTRY 002:
We found one of their territories, a Holestead! I had the boys scout the surrounding territory, and particularly the old ventilation systems. We observed the pious "heroes" going in and out of the holestead a few times. They seem pretty confident, and although they cover each other well, and move with solid cover, never out of range of each other, they don't appear to pay as much attention as they should. I mean, they haven't noticed us!

They have better guns, better gear, and more men then we do. But we have surprise on our side, and Magister Titus has convinced me that ambushing the unwary is the way to go. We will take them out tomorrow.

ENTRY 003:
We did it! We successfully ambushed the suckers! Although, it didn't quite turn out the way I expected. It turns out they were paying more attention than I thought they were. I'll need to learn to not under estimate this Titus. The sneaky "hero" had three of his men stealing up behind us to ambush the ambusher's. This guy is creepy good!

Fortunately, our recon of the ventilation shafts came in handy, and I was able to have two of the boys drop in on their counter-ambush team for a surprise party! When I gave the word, we unleashed all our pent up rage on them boys.

Bone Spider was epic with that Heavy Stubber, he wounded two juves (I think they call themselves adepts, all hoighty toighty religious like) in the first two seconds, taking them down.

Then Liquid Warrior pops a frag grenade on Brother Aurelius, I mean he couldn't have thrown that better, it landed right between the gangers feet! Not only did he wound Aurelius, but some dude named Typhus was running up to support Aurelius, and he ran smack into a brick truck when that frag grenade when off. Two more gangers down, thanks to Liquid Warrior!

Mighty Midget took a pot shot at Raucus, but Raucus just hit the dirt, he didn't seem harmed at all, so I stepped up and put a white hot star from my plasma pistol in his chest leaving him wounded and down for the count.


Black Troll got a bit crazy, stupid juve, and ran up on their leader, Magister Titus, and took a pot shot. That boy can't shoot for nothing, needs more time on the range. He missed, and just flat out aggravated their leader.

All in all, it was a perfect opening, we had five of their nine man team laying in the dirt and our surprise party dropped in on their counter ambush.

The Magister charged Black Troll and just knocked the mess out of him. I thought for certain he was dead, and if he don't learn not to poke monsters with pointy things, he probably will be next time.

Their counter team laid into our boys, and one of them wailed on Dead Phantom with a maul. Knocked him upside the head and captured him. I told him to be careful, but these dang juves ain't got no sense at all.

Shadow sword did a bit better, he was engaged by some psycho name Psycus and managed to hold his own for a while, despite that left hand of his. I'm gonna have to get that fixed for him. In the end tho, the Psyco beat Shadow down with his maul. He was looking pretty rough when we pulled him off the floor.

In his rage of charging Black Troll, the Magister left his back wide open for Liquid Warrior. I'm glad I bought him that Plasma Pistol he's been wanting, because he knocked the mess out their leader with it. I don't know if it wounded him too bad, but any shot square in the back from a Plasma Pistol has to knock the wind out of you.

As soon as the Magister went down, their whole gang bottled out. They just grabbed up Black Troll, their wounded, and disappeared while we were regrouping to try to handle the counter ambush team. I hate knowing Black Troll is held captive, and we will have to decide what to do about that. I'm fairly certain we killed one of their guys as well.

However, I'm fairly pleased with the result. The seven of us faced nine of them, we were out gunned and almost out-witted, they clearly have a lot more experience than we do. We put five of them in the dirt, and once again managed to beat on their leader a bit.

I'm going to do some more research, and see if I can find another opportunity to ambush them again, I've decided I really don't like them at all, and the boys are all in agreement.

GANGS INVOLVED:

• The Emperor's Heroes
• Band of Brothers