'Scum!' Pilgrim smiled as the assembled pilots and gunners leapt to attention, arms braced and chests out.

Seems that Schwarz's example has done its job, he thought, Even if it did earn me a few downvotes.

walking to the front of the briefing room he keyed commands into the holoproj, bringing up a detailed map of Winchester.

Zooming in to Hill 400, he marked targets to the north of it, labelling each one.

'Be seated. Command has given us a new mission, Area Denial. We are to attack the highlighted targets in any order that we want. However, the first three are the priorities.'

Kingsley stepped up and used his swagger stick to point at target 1, 'Drone images show that the enemy is taking all of their damaged vehicles to this point for repair and reallocation. Battlefield parameters mean that they aren't allowed to deploy new vehicles until they have accrued more than 1000 Reinforcement Points.'

He paused as Fitzsquire raised a hand, 'What's stopping them from accruing a thousand points? They should be able to do it easily.'

'Indeed. However, Hill 400 has a number of missions assigned to it. The defenders are currently carrying out King of the Hill, War of Atrritition, Delaying Action and Rearguard missions. The enemy are also having to accomplish the King of the Hill mission, as well as Sweep and Destroy, Seize the Objective and Push On. They haven't been able to succeed in any due to the defenders. As such, they're racking up a huge number of casualties which is having a knock-on effect. They can reinforce with as many troops as they can get to the area, but vehicles have been deemed to be in short supply due to the battle being fought in Winchester.'

Pilgrim interrupted, 'Believe it or not, Hill 400 is a sideshow, the actual main battle is supposed to be Winchester. Because of the actions of the 6th and 66th regiments however, the enemy is being stymied. If this keeps up much longer, we might actually have a chance to push them out of Winchester.'

An excited murmur arose at that news. Any victory would be more than welcome at this point.

'The other main targets are; this train station they're using using it to ferry troops in, this mech park, same as the vehicles. All of the other sub-missions are similar. Whilst the rest of the regiment is going for those targets, we've been assigned the vehicle park. Air defences are light, as they've been forced to deploy their mobile AA to Hill 400 to protect their infantry against our bombing attacks. As it is, we'll be facing Piranha turrets. You have 15 minutes to examine the maps before it's chocks away.' Having brought the briefing to an end, Pilgrim and Kingsley left the briefing room.