Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20151018170726/@comment-27015223-20151019093056

With the Reconaissance Squadron shaking itself out, Colonel Bennings orders extensive night recon of the enemy positions. Dismounted foot scouts recon the paths to the mountain peak strongholds, with 8 casualties to a Millineum ambush. Colonel Bennings orders the yet inexperienced Recon troopers to avoid being decisively engaged in response.

2nd and 3rd Battalion are engaged by a small battalion-sized probing attack by Millineum infantry. Colonel Bennnings, having encountered similar attacks by Millineum forces unfamiliar with the new MEB units in the Owen Stanley range, orders infantry weapons only to engage (including mortars and heavy machine guns) and all AFVS and artillery to hold fire in order to hide their capabilities. Air strikes from Diables and Griffons provide heavy firepower. Former South Korean pilots who had been stationed on the Defiant awaiting their aircraft are flying with them, and are intimately familiar with air strikes in mountainous terrain. 2 Diables are lost to enemy AA. 2nd and 3rd Battalions trade ground for time in a disciplined fighting retreat while the enemy battalion is lured into a "kill zone". The Millineum infantry battalion stubbornly presses the attack for a little while longer before falling back with heavy casualties, feeling that they have learned what they could, but are still concerned about the reported but as not yet encountered AFOH airborne AFVs.

-Transmission to High Command, from Blue Jay (Colonel Benning's callsign)

Requesting airdrop of Psychological Warfare assets: 40 Loudspeakers.

Requesting airdrop of 150mm Area Denial Artillery Munition (ADAM) howitzer-launched mines: 2,000 rounds.