Which if it is provoked to run it can be eliminated by fighter craft. If it stays put we can nuke it. We'll probably want to find a way to keep it from teleporting, that's the only wild card.

Quite frankly, I'd believe it would be foolish of them not to set up a permanent base there including an airfield.

Either send them through in pieces, send smaller aircraft, or send fighters with foldable wings like America used on Aircraft Carriers during WW2.

Bert_the_Turtle wrote:There can't be too many innocent people there. We can evacuate them.

Where do we put them if we could evacuate them?

Bert_the_Turtle wrote:Which if it is provoked to run it can be eliminated by fighter craft. If it stays put we can nuke it. We'll probably want to find a way to keep it from teleporting, that's the only wild card.

Pinning demons down is difficult. You are exactly right. Maybe a giant anti-magic cloud or one of those disruption generators. Several things we are thinking about.

Russia is a big country, I'm sure you can find room somewhere.

Ron Caliburn wrote:Again, what are the Russians willing and able to send? Not like either of us know.

Everything would have to be sent in pieces unless we can get a bigger portal.

But before that we have to have some infrastructure and logistics in place to cope with that. Like Bert said, an airfield would be a great asset, but building it would take more time than we have. A small airfield, maybe.

We were able to get some fairly small helicopters through. But keeping them fueled and maintained was a bitch.

Fuel, electricity, plumbing, everything necessary for installing, building the aircraft, sustaining even a small permanent forward operating base is beyond the scope of this mission. It would be a huge under taking.

That is why we are just keeping a low profile. Much easier to maintain and much less of a target.

I feel we should at least establish a base for waterborne operations.

Boats simplify everything.

Yeah. Get some Boats and some more DUKWs and we'll be in business!

SCUBA Sergei has already begun the beach reconnaissance.

Who's he?

We got some frogmen reconnoitering the target island and gathering intel regarding composition, slope, and as many factors as we can to help us devise our attack routes and so forth.

"SCUBA Sergei" admittedly does not come off the tongue as well as "SCUBA Steve".

Heh. Just don't ask me to do any swimming.

We will see if a duck is viable locomation for you.

Well, I took a course in piloting the thing and it can withstand hurricanes. Soooo, probably.

What is its top speed in the water?

Road speed 50 mph, water 6 mph

Its main use is as an amphibious truck shuttling people and supplies between ships and from ship to shore in support of an invasion. So if we load one or more up with supplies when we assault the demon's stronghold our supplies will be able to keep pace with us.

Hm. Yea, we will see what we can go. Getting the big boats in will be pretty difficult, I think. Unless we can find an easy to build up natural harbour type of thing. Which so far we have not.

What if we bring in Engineers and construct a pontoon bridge?

Sounds like something you and Natasha can check into.

And welcome back. Glad you are still with us! Sounded like you got into some scarey stuff.

Well, if we bring in sufficient resources we could have a solid defensive base constructed post haste.