The continuation of Part 1 which of course I forgot to call part 1, this is now part 2 of what will be a 3 part tale.
Wenkes team spread out, searching the crates on the right of the road and also the first house on the left, but they don’t find anything. They have made rather a lot of noise which might not have been so wise.
Looking like a lost sheep, Torsten searches the cart but discovers nothing there either.
Searching the pig pen the underling finds an enraged dog, or maybe the enraged dog finds the underling because without any other warning it attacks him, the pigs remain neutral perhaps expecting supper to be provided by one or other of the protagonists.
Rachael ignores her underling’s plight as Dietmar finds an Arms Cache in the truck across the road. Whilst this is indicative of a Resistance Cell in the area it’s not really what they are looking for and so they continue towards the centre of the small hamlet.
The underling’s sense of self preservation is strong or maybe he’s just well trained because with a quick burst from his smg he lays low the enraged dog – Boo Hiss.
It looks like the pigs are going to have a smaller and less tender supper than they would have wished for, but
"supper is supper". That’s an old piggy proverb that you might not have heard before.
Rachael moves towards the corner of the field and fails to see a small cache of papers hidden in the wall. If she had looked more carefully she would have found the Radio Operators Code Book, it would have been a bit of an Enigma to her.
Another of her underlings moves warily to a brown truck and looking carefully under the cover he sees a Radio. He climbs into the back of the truck and reaches out for the Radio thinking that he might get promoted for this.
Unfortunately he didn’t look closely enough and failed to see that the radio was booby trapped. There’s a loud explosion and he doesn’t worry about promotion anymore.
Weinhard’s men are moving into the heart of the hamlet, if 4 houses and a pigpen can have a heart.
One of them goes into the area behind the houses but does a poor job of searching it before re-joining his comrades in the main road.
He catches up with the rest of the team just as they enter the remaining two houses. After a thorough search the right hand house reveals nothing but on the left hand side things are more exciting…. come on … wake up in the back.
Badeker kicks in the door of the large house on the left and is just in time to see and hear movement.
It’s the Radio Operator and she legs it out of the back door, she had been watching the German team move through the Hamlet and was well aware they were coming, they should have been quieter. She was lucky in that the dope that searched the area behind the houses had only done a perfunctory job of it before leaving and she had a clear escape path.
Chasing after her, Oswald the Afrika Korps soldier was just too off balance to fire and she was running like a gazelle for the fence and freedom, anyway he might have one more opportunity to open fire.
….. but vaulting the fence like an Olympian she escaped, leaving him to report failure to Wenke of the Gestapo.
That's not a conversation he's going to enjoy.
Meanwhile Rachael Weiss having learned a very valuable lesson decides not to climb into the back of this truck but instead stands back a little and gets another of her expendable underlings to examine it first. After duly rolling a few dice George Douglas decides that while Home Defence is a worthy cause, so is staying alive and he climbs out of the truck but plays dumb and doesn’t disclose any information about the Radio and its Operator.
Of course he may well be aware that both have been discovered and he’d rather not be implicated in any reprisals that might be forthcoming.
A wise man our George Douglas.
OK that's part 2 complete, there was something really important about the game I wanted to impart but unfortunately I've forgotten what it was, maybe in the next and final instalment.
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