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Border War MilSim SpecOps: Operation Raven Wing

Gungho Cowboy

Whilst they own the distinction of organising the biggest airsoft event in the world, the Border War Crew of the Czech Republic didn't want to sit down on their laurels an just organise one big event per year. They decided to expand their airsoft events and just held a new one --- a Special Operations Series and called this even "Operation Raven Wing".

Held in the beginning of August 2013, Operation Raven Wing drew participants from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Russia, Italy and France who battled it out under 39 degrees of sweltering heat and mainly carried their whole geared during the operation, testing their mettle to meet mission objectives with stamina apart from their skills to operate under MilSim rules and conditions. Indeed it was a tough MilSim event with intensive CQB battles which surely have given them many adrenalin rush moments.

It's another successful event in the pocket of Mike and the rest of the Border War Crew as they prepare for "Border War 6: Sunseeker" for next year. But for now, we'll let Mike and his Crew report about the scenario and what really transpired during Operation Raven Wing:

Special agents of Concordian government conducted an investigative operation while being supported by Concordian Marine Commandos (CMC) against criminal gangs of cultists. CMC LRRP teams were inserted deep into the enemy territory and they had special missions of focusing on deep reconnaissance and enemy movement tracking during day and night, while Marine Commandos carried the heavy fighting. LRRP teams have managed to scout one of the Cultist groups in the deep forest and clashed with them in a pitch black darkness leaving 15 cultist down while losing only 2 members. Later on in the morning one of the SF teams met with a messenger and received a crucial message for the HQ that changed the plans for upcoming day.

Third Recon team made intensive recon on a burned down villa and during their night search, an old armored vehicle was found.

The Cultists found the vehicle during the night as well and started figuring out how to make the vehicle running. Marine Commandos, during Saturday morning managed to find an underground complex with hidden weapons probably belonging to the cultists. The found material was secured and transported back to safety and later on occasional heavy fighting between the recon teams continued in the burned Mayor's villa. The Occult leader managed to build several shrines and performed few rituals to boost the spirit of his troops. Body of wounded of PAZ commander, the so-called "Red Scorpion" was healed in one of this rituals as rumors say, bringing the Scorpion elite commander to service on the side of the criminals.

The Marines were able to repair the vehicle and based upon the high command's decision tried to evacuate it to safety for further repairs. Unfortunately gangsters set up an ambush killing all marines and taking over the vehicle. The vehicle later on disappeared in the forest ready for supporting further occult activities.

With the dawn CMC launched a counter attack against the cultist fortified defenses in the Oak Valley. Cultists managed to take out few marines but the overall result was the cultist themselves suffered heavy losses. The forward enemy post was located by CMC during Saturday night, leading to more sweeps in enemy territory by the CMC commandos.

During Sunday morning the battle still raged on and cultists ran their main mission of clashing with the marines in a fierce battle over the Angel Spring valley. The Cultist forces, after heavy fighting, were scattered in the woods or destroyed on the spot. IAC agents have found containers of unknown chemicals used by the cult - which needed to be further examined in the laboratories. At the moment occult activities in Concordia have been lowered to minimum due to this operation. Tranquility in Concordian forests has been restored for now...

Mike remarks (Border War Crew MILSIM series founder) on BW Spec Ops “Border War Special Operations was an event running on as I would specify the old school principles. We have developed it in order to bring back some old school gaming features which are in many cases not used anymore, or technically impossible to be used in large scale milsiming or battlesiming in airsoft games nowadays. From our point of view, the Special Operation game as a type of event, perfectly closed the gap between the massive and award-winning Border War MILSIM and the dark and gloomy Black Ops series organised by us.

I’m also very happy that we kind of resurrected the old school intensive and demanding type of game scenario which many years ago used to be as season highlight for our team.

I would like to also mention on important fact that we have organised this event in an honour to our Milsim Airsoft team Wolfpack (www.wolfpack.cz) on its 10 years anniversary. It is also as a tribute to all of our current and formal members and to celebrate a decade of friendship and adventures in the airsoft world we undertook and shared together. We are looking forward to the next season of Border Wars MILSIM Special Operations coming in 2014, also special thanks to all participants for excellent event. If you wish to learn more about our special events don’t hesitate to write us email on [email protected].”

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