Carnage City: A World at War Novel (World at War Online Book 6) by Mitchell T. Jacobs Read Free Book Online

every single defender fighting tooth and nail to make the besiegers pay.
    “OK, so we have to storm the building by going up the stairwells, unless we can find some other way up,” Gavin said. “Which I’d suggest we consider, at least.”
    “Could we land teams on the roof by helicopter?” Javy asked.
    Miko shook her head. “No. Ragnarok is one step ahead of us. Scouts have seen them moving AA gun parts into the building, which probably means they have at least one of them on the roof.”
    “So that’s out,” Xavier said. “What about going up the sides?”
    “What, you mean rappelling?” Ryan asked. “That sounds like suicide.”
    “If we can’t do it on the exterior, could we do it in the elevator shafts?”
    “That still leaves us pretty exposed as we’re climbing,” Ryan argued. “We might be better off trying to get the actual elevators working.”
    “Which would require combat engineers,” Danny said. “Hephaestus might be able to provide them for us, but I don’t think we’d actually have time to use them. We have to take the structure before reinforcements arrive.”
    “So we’re just going to have to storm ahead into withering enemy fire, because we have no choice,” Gavin summarized. “Like I said before, we should have the entire company with us. We might run out of troops otherwise.”
    Danny nodded. “OK, I’ll get in contact with Zach and Nora and tell them that. Let’s try making plans assuming that we have an entire company to work with, along with fire support.”
    “We’ll have to rely on speed and aggressiveness,” Javy said. “Carbines, submachine guns, grenades and the like. Machine guns might not be all that useful at short range. We might want to equip the heavies with flamethrowers or carbines with drum magazines. Or maybe something else, if the rest of you can think of anything.”
    “Flamethrowers are probably our best bet, though they’ve go their own problems we need to be aware of,” Xavier pointed out. “They’ll temporarily block our advance, and if we’re not careful when we’re fighting vertically we’ll drop flaming fuel on our own heads.”
    “Maybe we should have more people bring along shotguns?” Ryan suggested.
    “We have some of the underslung variants in the armory, but a lot of the troops don’t like to carry them. They throw off their balance too much,” Danny said. “Might not be too much of a stretch for heavies, though, since we’re used to lugging bigger weapons around.”
    Even though the class system had been eliminated since the update, players still defaulted to the roles they took before the changes. Some had branched out a little, but most stayed with what they were familiar with. Danny had experimented a bit himself, but ultimately went back to being a machine gunner.
    “OK then,” Danny continued, “we have a lot to work out. Let’s get it done so I have something concrete to give to our esteemed leaders.”
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    H e met with the rest of the Black Wolf officers later that day.
    “Mm,” Nora said as she looked over his notes. “Taking Alpha Wolf out of the tunnels is going to delay other possible routes of attack, maybe significantly.”
    Danny nodded. “I know. But Gavin doesn’t think we can do it without the full company, and I’m inclined to agree with him.”
    “I’ll trust his opinion on that,” Selene said.
    Zach looked over the report one more time. “Are we estimating that there’s at least two stairwells inside the building? Because if there’s only one we can only send so many troops up at the same time.”
    “Yeah, judging from the size of the building there has to be more than one. Of course, we have no way of knowing that for sure until we actually get inside, but to me that’s a pretty safe bet.”
    Zach nodded, then looked at the others. “So, what’s our plan of attack going to be? Alpha Wolf takes one stairwell and Bravo Wolf takes the other?”
    “Seems like our best bet,” Nora