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Below is the Scottish Debrief for the Scotland Vs England "Auld Enemy Game". Thanks to all the organisers and the English team players who couldn't have been better sportsman. Here's to you lads!
England Vs Scotland
Initially the thought of a lonely Borders Bad Boy who contacted the ever cheery Matt Belgrove about the thought of a cup or shield up for grabs. The idea quickly took shape and the Auld Enemy Game was conceived.
The Scottish split themselves into 4 squads, 3 heavy strike squad and a QRF/Recon Squad who would run more low key objectives.
After a Friday night of intense preparation the Scottish prepared some more with another crate of beer. Once this was done the conversation quickly turned to who’s sister looked the best and who’d drive to McDonalds for breakfast. The battle plan was also drawn somewhere in amongst this festive cheer.
The Scottish teams decided on a two pronged assault down each side of the camp. The Recon team moved down the easy to defend side and the rest would head around the far side tasked with holding back the full onslaught of the English assault. The Recon team pushed on to help limit the movements of the English force without much success and the remaining fire teams managed an early snatch of the stinger missiles.
It was around this time that the communication began to falter on the Scottish side. Many began to tire and lost the will to keep pushing on, this caused us territory bodies and worst of all, points. The rest of the afternoon saw the treads of our battle plan unravel and things grew darker and darker for our few brave men and women left on the battlefield.
As darkness fell and a large portion of the Scottish players headed out of the game to rest or eat a determined few drew a line in the snow, literally, and said NO MORE. This is no the way we are going to end this, this is not the way we are going to loose! We had accepted that the lead gained by our hearty foes was great but we would not do ourselves the great dishonour of rolling over and giving up!
Our team commander had given up hope but our assault team captains had not. In a secret meeting the 6 captains met and devised that we would not be able to win it seemed but we could do a lot of damage and make it so difficult for the English side that they may think twice about pushing into our positions.
Slowly our momentum gained over the evening and around 8.30pm on Saturday evening we threw everything we had at the English defenses. Several well timed assaults utilising both vehicle and foot assaults combined with the awesome power of their LAW launcher bloodied the enemy but did not deter them from coming back.
The Scottish were spread out in a thin red line across the camp, there number a mere 25 but they knew that there was a evening objective that did not rely on great numbers. It was then they captured the two spidermen and gained valuable points. This coupled with in increase in the number of kills gave them hope that they would maybe turn this around.
There hopes could have been fulfilled if they had captured the mobile objectives by the end of the evening but the English side were too well organized and had then very well protected….. but not so protected when they slept….
The Scottish captains once again met at midnight, they knew that the chance of victory was all but gone but the cause still stood. The right to stand shoulder to shoulder and fight. The honour and desire to play on grew stronger, a new sense of purpose washed over the team as they decided that they needed every possible advantage they could muster and if it meant no breakfast and a early rise so be it!
At 6.30am, under the cover of darkness a band of 15 hardy troops set out. Quickly followed by other followers who had heard of this outlandish new plan the number grew to 30. When the English arrived to resecure their stingers they were dumbstruck, two long drag marks away from the stingers location were all that remained. Well not quite.
A Scottish contingent had stayed in the fuel bay near where the stingers had been as a decoy. The Scottish had hoped that the English would presume we’d been lazy and quickly snatched the stingers and taken them to the nearest secure location. The plan couldn’t have worked any better.
A firefight erupted the likes this captain had never seen before. Fast, well organised assault squads crashed into our defenses. Wave after wave hit the impenetrable walls and cracks began to appear. Just when things looked grim a Scottish task force arrived from behind the English lines and assisted us in wiping out the assault teams. We knew that it would be a short lived victory, we dispatched a large number away from the fuel bay while we could. There was no point in loosing good people and more importantly points. A handful of souls remained to guard the lost cause that was defending the fuel bay. The stingers were gone, but the determination of the English had not. A huge assault force attacked for every direction, our 50 cal unleashed hell across the enemy lines and slowly our defenders went down. The English had won the fuel bay but at a huge cost in points. The Scottish had won a little pride.
Our defense for the rest of the morning was a mere shadow of the epic battle in the Fuel Bay. Other objectives such as blowing up Tower Bridge after a small team ambushed the English squad kept up moral and the troops kept pushing on. Many players had only an hours rest the day before and a few hours sleep but still they pressed on, making every inch the English took from us cost them something.
Then it was over, we knew we had lost. But we also felt that those who had stood beside us on that morning, Scottish, Irish & English, and fought on and fought bravely had done ourselves and our respective countries proud. We couldn’t have asked for a more worthy opponent.
My thanks go out to all the players on both sides who played in the true spirit of the event. Special thanks to the event organizers and marshals who made it all possible and to those who will once again rise up and stand shoulder to shoulder.
Regards
Scott
QRF Team Captain
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Systema Advance Short Motor - High Speed Type
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Classic Army P90TR
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Classic Army P90 Red Dot
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VFC FN Mk 17 Scar Heavy - Dark Earth
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VFC FN Mk 17 Scar Heavy - Black
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M4 / M16 170 Round MAG Mid Cap
