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A Daring Rescue

June 2018·p. 127

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A company follows its enemy to camp to free a captured leader. The prisoner begins bound and unarmed, so the attackers must reach and release their ally while managing the surrounding fight, turning a campaign setback into a focused narrative rescue mission.

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