I'd say my favorite moment was Friday afternoon/evening just before the rain started pouring down.
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Our "rogue" group had decided to venture into the town since we had reports about NAF-forces being in the town/general area.
We came in from the west/northwest and almost immediately encountered a small group of NAF soldiers who were gunned down, since they didn't see us coming.
Being the good guy that i am and they had a long walk back to their respawn i decided to knife-kill them all and send them on their way.
We continued moving towards the town from the west/northwest and when we hear several LMG's combined with cars driving on the road and we decided to hold back a bit and evaluate the situation.
After splitting up into smaller groups we advance upon the vehicles, one sniper took out the gunner in one of the cars which had been abandoned.
At this point we also took sporadic fire from the red container roof at the "parking area" north of town.
Two NAF soldiers were shot by our snipers and a call went out on the radio that the roof was clear, so we advanced.
A bad move it would appear. since mere moments afterwards we took fire yet again from the roof. A third NAF down and one of ours. Medics arrived and dragged our wounded so they could be properly taken care of.
BAM, medic down. More people on the roof. How many can there actually be up there? i thought to myself, and us being in a very bad spot from a defensive perspective since we had reports from our rear LMG squad that NAF soldiers were moving on our location.
At this point i took it upon myself to rush the container roof to check the situation and see exactly how many people were up there. I had gotten sick of the "roof is clear" calls on the radio.
So i dropp my rifle and pull up my trusted sidearm and run into the container. And just before i take the final step upon the roof i whisper into the radio to my squad mates to hold their fire on the roof.
Up i go, and on the roof is not one, not two, not three. but SIX people, including one medic. I shoot the ones that are still alive from the angle i had, and then stepped up and knife'd the wounded so that the roof would actually be cleared.
Adrenaline rushing through my body after that 'operator as --- SPAM !!! ---' moment, we continued into the town from the northeast. Suddenly we take fire from one of the bars(the one with the open upper floor). We get information that it was NAF shooting at us, So the rear LMG squad get into position to pin them down while we start clearing the buildings around us.
First building empty, so we continue towards the bar from where we had taken fire. A standoff occur, we are unsure on how many people are actually inside, if they are NAF or civilian. We decide to play it safe and shoot at everything.
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Grenades were tossed into the building to no avail. Since we didn't have enough people at that specific moment and all the other squads were spread out across the town doing other things(like putting the police chief and his deputies in jail so we could clear out WTF was actually going on in the town, taking the police's bribe-money and drugs and other stuff)
Eventually we reach critical mass for a proper clearing of the bar, so we stack up and rush the bar. Killing all the people inside(woops). I get wounded and required a medic, so i get patched up and then move myself to the hospital for a quick heal(we had enough cash to cover the entire UPIR base at that point).
Just as i exit the hospital after my 10min break and some friendly talks with the civilians in there about events happening last year in the same bar, a higher up LARP individual comes up to us asking where our leader is.
The platoon leader steps up and apparently the guy had been robbed in the biker bar while trying to spread some goodwill towards the inhabitants of tamm valley due to previous UPIR infantry shenanigans, and he wanted his money back.
After recalling everyone from their defensive positions we laid out plans in the middle of the town.
We ordered the LMG squad to take defensive position on the bar roof for a good field of fire.
While we were getting organised the bikers noticed that something was going on and started arming themselfs.
We marched up to the bar under the guise of "just wanting to talk and getting the money back".
Our plutoon commander goes into the bar alone and shouting and shooting occurs, we force and disarm every single biker. It turned out it was a single NAF soldier coming in from the east and decided to take a shot at one of our guys thinking he was alone. Sadly for the NAF soldier he got sprayed by four LMG's so he was subsequently out of the picture.
After that little snafu everyone was a little on edge and since the bikers refused to leave the bar we ordered the LMG's to open fire into the bar(They should have listened). after about a minute of fire everyone inside is hit and we go in and take back what is ours.
All while this is happening a second mission comes our way, this time in the form of a NAF soldier "being sick of not being trusted by her own command and that she had been sold out by some of the bikers and are looking for spike but needs help finding him" in return for us helping her, she promised to give us alot of intel on the NAF forces.
So suddenly we need the help of the bikers and civilians that we mere moments earlier were shooting at(ain't war complicated?)
There was a lot of tension, but all the civilians took it in good spirit, (they shot first after all!
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Unfortunately we didn't find spike, but we found some other bikers that she was looking for that also had sold her out.
She opted not to execute them but told us to do what we wished with them. And since we can't have people we can't trust running around. We opted for execution. (We were kind enough to not shoot directly at them since that would just be rude)
Eventually we extract from the village and return home to base with all the money, drugs and other things we confiscated.
All in all, This years berget was way more fun than last years. The teams was more even, more fights and more things happening in general. Although NAF should probably learn that minefields usually starts at the sign of the minefield and not "two meters in"
My thanks goes out to the Civilians and the lone NAF soldier brave enough to take his shot and everyone involved in making this years Berget!