Their leader had come to them with the contract, escort a package from a warehouse down to the docks. No fuss, no hassle. To ensure that, the contract paid for two technicals with machine guns, both with driver, navigator, gunner and loader, plus four guards with the package in a pick up.
No sane group would interfere with such a well armed convoy for such a "low value" package, the precautions were just to expedite the delivery.
The collection went without any problems and the three vehicles had made good time. Maybe that should have been the first warning.
The plan was to swap the lead vehicle at Gustav Square, the largest open space on the route.
Just as the second technical entered the square, the first one was hit, throwing the gunner to the road.
The pick up with the package jumped as it was hit, the bonnet popping open. Simultaneously realising they were a sitting duck, all four of them had leapt from the load bed, trying to spot the firer.
The second technical lurched to a halt as one of the front tires burst, throwing the gunner forward.
Ng noticed the plume of dust from a distant building (he was sure it was a hotel of some kind) and shouted at his colleagues to fire at it. The machine gunner began spraying rounds toward the hotel.
They thought the threat was eliminated when there was an answering burst of smoke and flame on the rooftop.
Celebration was cut short when a smoke grenade burst in the load bed of the second technical. and they came under fire from the buildings behind them.
But they are nice figures if you want figures with Soviet era weapons, so this is what I am using them for.
