[Mir] Crow's Story

[Kastrenzo]

I'm gonna start this with a little meta commentary.. Because I've been basically absent from this community for almost 3 years now. I've been trapped in a never ending cycle of adulting, working, and sludging on computer games. I had to basically will myself to start making content again. Because I have about a 3 month window before I dissapear again.

I've been kind of cooking stuff in the background during my absense, but I really don't even know how this is going to turn out since Im still experimenting with ideas for posting. I thought about not posting this at all because IDK how reliable the forums are anymore.

The format of the pics changed partway through because I started experimenting with a more complicated "comic" format, but later decided to just return to the old way.

That being said. Here goes












Bullet "So you stood guard for tourists.. You didnt even fight on the front?!"

Crow "I was getting to that part!"

To be continued

[Kastrenzo]

Crow: "After about 6 months, they cycled us out, Off to the front.."


The longer the war had gone on, the more we started degrading into basic tactics, frontal assaults, waste of blood.. Both us, And them

Officer: "Soldier up boys and girls!"


Officer: "We're gonna bust out of the treeline.. charge that hill.. take the trench. and burn them out of their camp!"


An old Varangian tank rumbles up, Wood creaks as it bumps into trees and pushes some of them down. Some troops walk alongside it


Troops at the staging area, reload short range guided rocket launchers, and spotter drones start taking off


The drones aggressively buzz towards the enemy lines


Shortly therafter, The rockets fire. Streaking up into the air with a huge plume of smoke trails


The troops watch as the hills light up with small to moderately sized explosions, Random gunfire shoots out in their general direction as the Slavoniks in the trench panic

Officer: "Get ready! Wait for the Armor!"


The Tank violently jerks forward and knocks more foliage over. The troops behind it excitedly rush forward


The Tank fires it's gun towards the enemy defenses..


No sooner did it reveal itself and commit to the assault, a Vampire missile is launched at it


The tank is hit, the missile explodes, burning through the armor and in an instant, an internal explosion demolishes the tank, and the explosion kills everyone inside, and some of the troops around it are killed by shrapnel


"The assault was already a bloodbath as soon as it started, we'd taken casualties and the idiot commander's goal was to charge across an open field under fire"


Crow and the others rush from treeline to treeline as fast as they can, avoiding machinegun fire, One jackass in an unarmed truck sacrifices himself by using the vehicle as cover for the troops


"We reached the trenchline, with more casualties paid to get there..."

The truck drives up the hill and the enemy machinegun unloads into it, Mulching the guy inside, and other Varangian troops are dead on the hill.


Something explodes in the trench, It's unclear what it is, probably a grenade, but who knows who threw it, maybe they blew themselves up?


Varangian troops storm the trench

Varyag Trooper: " GO GO GO! KILL THAT B****"
Slavka Trooper "BLYAT , THEY'RE IN THE T..."


The Trench turns into a bloodbath, the Soldiers inside are cut down mercilessly


"We Caught a break, We took the trench and some of us were still alive..."


"But we couldn't rest on our laurels.. shit-eaters in the camp started shooting at us"


"I didn't think, I just reacted. I hid behind a tree, and fired back at the muzzle flashes"


In the gunfire exchange, the Slavonik soldiers are downed.


"That was the first time I had ever killed someone.. It wasn't even a soldier.. just some poor mobilized sod who barely looked a day into adulthood.."


The troops breach into the camp, it's a mess of supplies and poorly set up facilities, There's troops of both sides running around shooting at each other, running away, knocking objects over trying to take cover


A comrade gets shot right in front of Crow.


Crow sticks his rifle around the corner and blindly fires


After a burst of gunfire, Crow looks around the corner, there's a dead mobilized bastard on the ground, and a couple of medics appear to have surrendered, wanting nothing to do with the fighting

20240926_234620 by Kastrenzo, on Flickr
"PUT YOUR HANDS UP!"

Medic:"F*** you...."


They brazenly try to grab some nearby carbines.. Crow is forced to gun them down


"It wasn't like the early days, very few were willing to surrender, brainwashed shit-eaters. Anytime someone put their hands up, 50% chance he was going to attack you when you lowered your guard..."


"But not all were so suicidally stupid.. some of the other guys dragged the shit-eaters out of their holes without blowing holes in them..."


Slavonik Sergeant: "RETREAT. CLEAR THE F**K OUT!"


"The survivors started fleeing like cockroaches in the light..."


Varangian troops catch them and open fire from cover...


"It didn't matter if they were running away... If they didnt drop their guns and put their hands up, we blew them the f**k away..."


Reinforcements arrive right as the camp is getting wiped out, they panic, and decide to just keep driving, people are running everywhere


"The element of surprise had saved our skins. There was a bunch more troops and even light armor who had the drop on us.. But they must have throught we were a much bigger force.. and got scared from all the chaos.. they tried to leave as quickly as they arrived"


Firelance Gunner: "BMD! behind that truck!.. Im taking it!.."


The truck pulls away.. leaving the armored vehicle open to attack.


The small IFV trains its turret in the general direction of the camp, but they don't know who, or where to shoot. The crew hesitates..


The BMD gets splattered by the Firelance missile..
"One of the guys hit that thing with a firelance.. those missiles were meant for knocking out heavy armor, that little IFV was basically erased..."


The explosion causes a shockwave that sends bodies flying, and the truck loses control and flips on its side


Everyone inside the truck is dead.. Crushed by the debris


"Some of them ran like whipped dogs. Leaving their buddies behind


The survivors surrender en masse


"We took a lot of prisoners.. every one of them was using old equipment, some of it really old. Uniforms and helmets from forever ago.. and something else I noticed... a lot of them were foreigners.. Mercenaries.. Idiots convinced to sign with the army... But none of them were Kontraktniks... professionals like they show in their parades and propaganda.."


"Our fight that day was over.. they called it a success.. But all we accomplished was taking a couple of trenchlines.. a garbage dump of a camp.. and eliminated maybe a dozen shit-eaters... and maybe another dozen captured.. Effectively worthless for what we paid in our own blood..

That was just the first of many shit-shows I was witness, and party to."