{"id":2602,"date":"2020-09-30T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2020-09-29T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T19:05:18","slug":"the-attack-drone-at-zamatkya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2020\/09\/30\/the-attack-drone-at-zamatkya\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attack Drone at Zamatkya"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Lambert enters the Forbidden zone in this solo Zona Alfa battle report<\/em><\/p>\n

It was getting tough in Sector 27. The Federation had replaced unreliable Mercenary patrol Vigilantes with mechanised robots who didn\u2019t need paying and in a sinister development areas of the zone were now patrolled by Kamov attack drones \u2013 pickings were slim, it kept Big Ilya awake at night. Rumours spread through his base that one of the drones had crash landed close to Zamatkya village. Ilya called up Cziscova \u2018Czisco\u2019. She had worked on development at Kamov and He thought if He could get hold of the flight control software, the drones could be jammed. Maybe the happy times would return.<\/p>\n

Kovacs sat in the bar opposite Big Ilya and \u2018Czisco\u2019, He\u2019d been bought a shot of Bison Grass vodka, things looked bad. <\/p>\n

\u2018I need you to get a Software copy\u2019 whispered Big Ilya, take \u2018Czisco\u2019. Nobody had said \u2018No\u2019 to an ex Cage Fighter.<\/p>\n

Kovacs was a seasoned Zone veteran \u2013 act first, question later. His tactics were simple, eliminate the hostiles first, then scavenge and he had an ace scavenger, Ali \u2013 the thief of Baghdad. Little more than a kid, He\u2019d survived by scavenging through the rubble before the shutters came down for good. Then there was Anasova \u2018ice Queen\u2019 the silent one, a deadly sniper from Riga, ever reliable. At the bar, He\u2019d been taken by Czisco\u2019s long legs and spray on denim but she never stopped prattling on, it was like a never ending hangover from cheap vodka.<\/p>\n

They had arrived at the village in good time 35 minutes to act before a patrol drone returned, a weak sun failed to penetrate the greyness. Quickly, they identified their objective – the damaged drone in the centre but what was this? Howling mutant hounds from Hell with their sadistic Hound master Pavlov could be heard coming from a building to the west of the drone. They were guarding a hotspot. The crew would have to creep around an intervening hotspot to eliminate them. \u2018Damn\u2019 muttered Kovacs \u2018This will slow us down\u2019<\/p>\n

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Zamatkya village, with attack drone in centre and zone hostile hounds to the west<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ali moved into position and eliminated two hounds in good time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then disaster! Both Czisco\u2019s and Ice Queens guns jammed. There was only one thing for it. Kovacs lobbed a smoke grenade at hounds. He just didn\u2019t want one of the crew mauled so early into the mission. He checked his watch 5 minutes gone, things weren\u2019t going to plan and would get worse <\/p>\n

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That should stop an attack but attempts to destroy the remaining hounds were ineffective so the crew got into position for the smoke to clear. Ten minutes gone. As the smoke cleared Kovacs killed one hound before his gun jammed. Ice Queen\u2019s gun jammed for a second time before Czisco despatched the other dogs \u2013 perhaps He\u2019d been wrong about her all along mused Kovacs. This allowed Ali to search the building \u2013 1250 salvage value and two red dot sights.<\/p>\n

Fifteen minutes gone, time to head for the objective Ali tosses a bolt revealing two dangerous luminous venomous insect swarms.<\/p>\n

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Again Ice Queen\u2019s gun jams. Ali destroys one of the swarms and then his gun jams also!<\/p>\n

\u2018What the \u2026\u2019 snarled Kovacs, this was more than coincidence, running across open ground he blasted the remaining swarm as He and Czisco made it to the drone.<\/p>\n

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Twenty minutes gone, it was cutting it fine as it would take more than five minutes to remove the access panel, download the software then replace the panel. As the panel is removed, Kovacs orders Ali and Ice Queen to search the closest hotspot. Not ideal as Czisco\u2019s Laptop crashes and they\u2019ll have to spend longer at the drone!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Ali throws a bolt at the hotspot which reveals a mutant \u2013 looks like He\u2019d taken a heavy dose of radiation when searching an anomaly.<\/p>\n

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Ice Queen took aim and this time the mutant was despatched instantly \u2013 phew! Ali searched the area diligently but only came away with 350 worth of salvage.<\/p>\n

With thirty minutes approaching there was no time to search any other hotspots and it was time to get out before the patrol drone turned up. Whilst the objective had been achieved, Kovacs was no nearer to retiring to that Black Sea Dacha. He thought the ammo He\u2019d recently bought had caused the jams. Time to visit the Dealer and ask Him if He feels lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Lambert enters the Forbidden zone in this solo Zona Alfa battle report It was getting tough in Sector 27. The Federation had replaced unreliable Mercenary patrol Vigilantes with mechanised robots who didn\u2019t need paying and in a sinister development areas of the zone were now patrolled by Kamov attack drones \u2013 pickings were slim, … Continue reading “The Attack Drone at Zamatkya”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,50,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reports","category-post-apocalyptic","category-zona-alfa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/image001-2.jpg?fit=800%2C355&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-FY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}