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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 29, 2018, 07:59:53 PM »

Final Turns

: Damn it.

Bell aims at the Odjur's port engine block.

As Bell zeroes in on the escort cruiser, she sees in her mirrors the AFS Blixtkrig breaking in half as a series of secondaries rip through the fuselage. Likely a result of her shot from a few seconds ago.

Ellie takes a shot at another one of the Blixtkrig's PD emplacements.

LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 12 - success
You knock out one of the doomed airship's defensive guns.

“Copy Xiaomei, I’m with you!”
Jaakko aims and fires at the top deck emplacements on the Odslighet with his gun.

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 68
Roll: 73 - failure
Shots failed to connect.

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  12
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 82
Roll: 56 - success
: Gun down, breaking-
Plasma Railgun accuracy 100
Half Turn Evade provides penalty of  50
Test taken at 50
Roll: 3 - success
Xiaomei's Wyvern sharply pitches upwards and begins climbing to throw off the targeting solution, but not early enough. The gun Crash was attempting to destroy blasts the entire aft end of the Wyvern into molten slag, and what's left of the front half tumbles uncontrollably onto its back.
: Bai gaa fo.

As he passes the somersaulting wreck, Crash can see in his rear-views the orange flash of an ejection seat firing as the pilot escapes.

Walt evades the Odslighet's impending attack, but maintains course towards it. As he does, his eyes fix on the flagship and his mind settles on one singular, burning purpose. He grits his teeth, burying his grief and pain, letting it fuel his determination.

Xiaomei knocked out the gun targeting Walter before she went down, and there's no warning of another targeting fix.

Cannon rounds perforate the already stricken Tornado. Before Lorens could react, a shockwave slams him against his harness, thrashing his head and knocking the wind out of his lungs. He pries his eyes wide open to find stars whirling around him in the roosterpit.

"... This is Snowman... I'm punching out," Lorens calls out to no-one in particular, unaware his roosterpit has gone dark and that there was only static coming out of his headset. He sluggishly reaches for the canopy release and pulls the ejection handle.

Snowman begins his slow descent in his chute, realizing that if the rest of the unit doesn't complete the mission he'll probably be dead before he touches the ground.

Onyx knocks out the Evig Seger's port engine set, and a slew of JSMs and gunfire begin impacting against the Odslighet's hull.
Point Blank against the Odslighet and its escorts next turn.


The destruction of the Blixtkrig has bought precious seconds for the defense.
Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 3 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 29, 2018, 10:40:46 AM »

"On it," Walt replies to Virvel. He lines up a shot on the Vaktare and re-awakens his plasma cannon.

P4 accuracy 25
Experience provides bonus of  12
Aim provides bonus of  10
Colossal Target provides bonus of  20
Airship Target provides bonus of  20
Called Shot provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 67
Roll: 43 - success
Walter's plasma cannon strikes right down the top flight deck, setting off the munitions and fuel stored there and kicking off a chain reaction that nearly claims his own plane as he flies over its top.

Jaakko checks to see if his seekers will pick up the Obslighet's special weapons. Miraculously, the AAM seeker returns a lock.
"The Obslighet's weapon is running hot enough to pick up heatseekers! Ellie, help me out with this! Could you hit the guns on the lower deck?! Xiaomei, could you pick up the last gun on the top deck?!"
He fires his AAM and HSM at one of the lower deck guns.

LAMS S1 rolls to intercept missiles:
AAM 1: 1 - success
HSM 1: 41 - failure

LAMS P1 rolls to intercept missiles:
HSM 1: 12 - success
Both missiles are shot down.
: Copy, Crash.

LAMS S2 rolls d6 to intercept MMS:
Roll: 6 - success
Roll: 4 - success
: Minimal effect, I'm going to make sure it's down.

Lorens pitches down and ducks underneath the Blixtkrig before turning to fly span-wise across the underbelly of the carrier. He spots the port engine bank, pitches back up and fires at it with both guns.

AC5 accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  2
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 62
Roll: 31 - success
Two of the three thrust vanes are heavily damaged by this attack.
BAMS accuracy 80
Roll: 26
Roll: 42
The Blixtkrig's ventral wing-mounted PD shreds Snowman's plane.

"Roger that, Crash."
Ellie fires her seekers at the Odslighet's lower deck gun.

Oddly enough, there's no PD preventing Ellie's attacks after Crash and Xiaomei made theirs. In fact, most of the defensive coverage seems to be firing towards the rear.

Bell tries dumping a KSM round into the flight deck of the Blixtkrig before breaking off for another run.

KSM accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 70
Roll: 14 - success
The Blixtkrig gets punched right down the middle. Bell sees a bright flash from within before breaking off, indicating she must have hit something important.

Ajka realizes she's out of radar-cm.
"Looks like this might be it. [Long live Zentragoth.]"
She fires her weapons at the starboard engine of the Odjur and evades the best she can afterwards.

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Structural Damage provides penalty of 10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 64 - success

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Structural Damage provides penalty of 10
Test taken at 78
Roll: 62 - success
All three guns make contact with the engine housing.
Nosferatu base EV 87
Experience provides bonus of  8
Structural Damage provides penalty of  10
SAM provides penalty of  40
Test taken at 45
Roll: 88 - failure
Supermaneuverable: 69 - failure
Ajka goes down to a SAM.

Switchblade base EV 89
Experience provides bonus of  10
SAM provides penalty of  40
Test taken at 59
Roll: 65 - failure
: Well, Ashes- guess I'm not gonna be able to catch up. Think I might've lost count anywa-

One of the Imperial planes, out of rounds and out of missiles, noses down and dives into the Blixtkrig.
: [Gutiskereik Vanseii!-]
: What the forget just hit us!?
: It doesn't matter, just keep us steady!

Now passing over the Vaktare and Blixtkrig. In gun range of the Odslighet, Odjur, and Evig Seger.


: On final approach. Bombardiers, stand by to drop on the Sky Marshal's command.

Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 3 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 28, 2018, 08:42:56 PM »

"Lining up a shot on the Odjur!"

Ajka aims for the roosterpit of the Odjur and fires her weapons at it.

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 56 - success

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 78
Roll: 45 - success
Good effect on target, roosterpit neutralized.

Walt winces a bit as he sees the Imp plane pulling what he almost did, with disastrous results. He fires on the Vaktare, then pops a string of chaff and evades again.

FLK accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  12
Test taken at 62
Roll: 47 - success

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  12
Test taken at 62
Roll: 20 - success

Skepna base EV 46
Experience provides bonus of  12
Chaff provides bonus of  40
SAM provides penalty of  40
Test taken at 58
Roll: 18 - success
Walter plugs the carrier twice with the flak and puts a couple hundred rounds through the roosterpit glass as he breaks away from the incoming missile.

Jaakko gets an idea, and slaves the AAM seeker to his helmet HUD to try to lock the Obslighet’s special weapons. He looks just in time to see a projectile speeding to meet him.
“forget!”
He yanks on the stick and evades as hard as he can.

Jaakko survives another turn. Two other Imps are not so lucky.

Bell deploys a chaff packet and attempts to shake the SAM on her tail.

Blackjack base EV 68
Experience provides bonus of  8
Chaff provides bonus of  40
SAM provides penalty of  40
Test taken at 76
Roll: 82 - failure
Supermaneuverable: 4 - success
Missile evaded.

Ellie fires two HSMs at each of the plasma cannons on the Odjur.

PD S1 rolls to intercept missiles:
HSM 1: 94 - failure
HSM 1: 16 - success

PD S2 rolls to intercept missiles:
HSM 2: 78 - failure
HSM 2: 54 - failure

PD P1 rolls to intercept missiles:
HSM 3: 88 - failure
HSM 3: 74 - failure

PD P2 rolls to intercept missiles:
HSM 3: 7 - success
Two missiles survive the wall of AA, and two guns are taken out of action.

Lorens recovers and aims his cannons at the Blixtkrig's right engines once again. He pulls the trigger and lays into the target with another volley.

AC5 accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  2
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 62
Roll: 8 - success
All shots connect with your target, and there you witness a small explosion within the intake. The pale blue glow reflecting off the ship's fuselage goes dim, and you're reasonably confident you had something to do with it.

Virvel follows Walter on his evasive maneuver, firing her beam laser at the roosterpit and dumbfiring a trio of heatseekers at the hull.
LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  10
Called Shot provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 55
Roll: 36 - success
Banking right and pulling back on the stick, she traces a line across the roosterpit windows, following up Walter's hail of gunfire with a precise cutting beam. Between the two attacks, there is nobody actually flying the airship.
: Damn, missed it! Someone land a warhead on the flight deck, stuff!

Now at point blank range of enemy carriers, Gun range of the Odslighet and escort next turn.


Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 4 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 28, 2018, 02:19:18 PM »

"Hard mud spike! Snowman, defending SAM!" Finding himself close to the carriers, Lorens pitches down to maneuver inside the missile's turning radius and releases a single chaff packet.

Tornado base EV 68
Experience provides bonus of  2
Chaff provides bonus of  40
SAM 1 provides penalty of  40
Test taken at 70
Roll: 11 - success
Missile evaded.

Bell takes another half-aimed shot at the Blixtkrig's flight deck.

KSM accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 70
Roll: 85 - failure
Missed the target.

Ellie takes a shot at one of the PD emplacements on the Blixtkrig.

LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 18 - success
Ellie knocks out one of the CIWS turrets.

Jaakko stages the forward starboard side CIWS emplacement with his gun.

Walt fights the urge to keep laying into the carriers and evades.

Ajka evades the best she can, hoping that these few seconds aren't her last.

Plasma Railgun accuracy 100
Full Turn Evade provides penalty of  100
Test taken at 0
Roll: 43 - failure
The projectile passes harmlessly overhead.

One of the Imperial planes finishes its gun run before evading.
Plasma Railgun accuracy 100
Half Turn Evade provides penalty of  50
Test taken at 50
Roll: 85 - failure
It is instantly destroyed.

The Odslighet's escorts fire into the formation with their heavy plasma cannons.
Cruiser Heavy Plasma accuracy 25
Test taken at 25
Roll: 77 - failure
Roll: 94 - failure
Roll: 20 - success
Roll: 5 - success
Two Imperial planes go down, and Crash nearly gets cooked.

Another SAM is launched at Walt.
Point Blank against the carriers next turn.


Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 5 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 27, 2018, 07:16:23 PM »

"Targeting Vaktare." Walt aims, then fires everything but his plasma at his fresh target.

FLK accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  12
Colossal Target provides bonus of  20
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 62
Roll: 31 - success
Roll: 14 - success

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  12
Colossal Target provides bonus of  20
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 62
Roll: 99 - failure
Reroll: 45 - success
Roll: 23 - success
Walt lobs some long range fire down on the Vaktare and scores more than a few direct hits.

Bell takes a half-aimed potshot at the Blixtkrig.

KSM accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  10
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 50
Roll: 90 - failure
No contact.

Jaakko struggles to find a location on the carrier that his gun can damage. He remembers the carrier's refueling booms. Could his gun be enough to cause a fuel fire?
He aims for the Blixtkrig's forward starboard side LAMS emplacement.
"Imperial aircraft, the Aesthian carriers have refueling booms on their wingtips behind the CIWS emplacements, in the tail boom, and along the hull. Striking it may cause a fuel fire,"

: Understood, thanks for the heads up.

Ellie breathes a sigh of relief as she hits her target and sees the cruisers going down.
"Captain, should we head for the carriers?"

Ajka's muscles slightly loosen after watching the bomber begin it's doomed descent to the ground.
"Thanks for the assist. And yes, we should head for the carriers."
She vectors her crippled airframe towards the remaining airships and starts to cruise towards them.

This happens.

"Snowman, Winchester," Lorens exhales into his mask, "Approaching Blixtkrieg for a run."
Praying to the Ark mother his guns will do something, he places the CCIP over the Blixtkrieg's starboard intake and slowly pulls the trigger.
"Guns!"

AC5 accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  4
Aim provides bonus of  10
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 44
Roll: 82 - failure
Reroll: 6 - success
You land a few hits, but don't see any immediate effect.

The Odslighet's escorts, as well as the carriers, open up with a defensive salvo of SAMs. The last plane in Rauths Maniple goes down to the Aesthian flagship's guns.
: All planes, listen up! We've completed brown townysis of the enemy craft. The Carrier Odslighet has three energy weapon emplacements on its exposed flight decks- two on the larger lower deck and one on the smaller one above. Spectral brown townysis indicates the weapons project a stream of ionized gas at over 3500 meters per second, like some kind of plasma-based railgun. The beam appears to dissipate three kilometers out from the point of origin, and should have no effect beyond five. We have observed that the weapon requires several seconds to charge before firing, and will be able to warn pilots in its predicted area of effect.
:Kobalt Three, Kobalt Six, evade!

Now entering Gun Range of the Blixtkrig and the Vaktare.


Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 6 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 27, 2018, 12:22:42 AM »

Walt fires, laying plasma into the Temnabog. He prays to the gods that it's enough to finish the thing off.

P4 accuracy 25
Experience provides bonus of  12
Aim provides bonus of  20
Colossal Target provides bonus of  20
Airship Target provides bonus of  20
Test taken at 97
Roll: 24 - success
Walt's plasma cannon finishes off the airship.

Bell finishes aiming and fires a KSM round towards the side of the Maskara's engine block.

KSM accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  20
Test taken at 80
Roll: 75 - success
Attack successful.

Jaakko turns his attention to the Masakra and fires an aimed burst at the starboard side CIWS with his gun.

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 68
Roll: 22 - success
PD turret destroyed.

Lorens fires his last two missiles at the Masakra, aiming for the starboard engine bank.

PD S3 rolls to intercept missile:
AGM 1: 84 - failure
AGM 1: 36 - failure
Both AGMs hit the starboard engine, and the thrusters go dark. The Masakra begins its final descent, pounded by Imperial missiles along the way.

Ajka reels back as the massive shot-blast shreds her left wing, turning it into a gnarled mess of metal ribbons and fragments, sending jagged shards of metal and polymer into the side of her roosterpit. She recovers herself as best she can and tries to account for the loss in lift and control.
"Airframe heavily damaged, at this point it's more air than metal..." she lets out over the comms.
She aims for the right-side engine of the Vaduren and fires all her weapons at it.

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Structural damage provides penalty of  10
Test taken at 63
Roll: 71 - failure

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Structural Damage provides penalty of  10
Test taken at 68
Roll: 1 - crit success
The particle cannons vaporize two neat holes in the engine's armor plating and breach a fuel line beneath. The highly reactive gas is ignited and begins to burn- and under very high pressure due to the particle cannon's breaches only being centimeters wide. In a matter of seconds, the engineering crew is incinerated, and from outside Ajka can see the engine housing begin to glow orange in spots before the entire section explodes.

"Alright, I'll try to cover you."
Ellie fires a half-aimed LCB shot towards the Vauden's remaining LBX cannon.

LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 51 - success
The topside turret is destroyed. The Vaduren will not be dragging Ajka down with it.


With the Temnabog, Masakra, and Vaduren all destroyed, you have bought yourself some breathing room. The nearest airships to their target are now the two foremost carriers. Additionally, both air wings have more or less regrouped in their attack on the heavy squadron.
Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 7 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 25, 2018, 05:33:54 PM »

Walt grips his flight stick tighter and sighs in annoyance. "I'll take the Temnabog myself." He begins lining up another shot of plasma on the bomber. "We don't all need to pile on this thing at once when it's nearly dead."

This happens.

"Roger that Walt, don't let that gun overheat."
Bell starts aiming for the nearest engine block on the Maskara.

This too.

Lorens follows Bell's Su-57. He cues the Masakra's engines through the TGP and keeps his thumb primed over the munitions release button, waiting for a saturation attack from the allied fighters to release his last missiles.

And this.

Jaakko brings about his Tukreb. He aims and fires his EML at the Temnabog’s last plasma gun to protect Walt’s attack.

EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 38
Roll: 35 - success
Attack successful.

A handful of Imperial planes lay into what's left of the Temnabog, and it begins to pitch downwards. This close to the target though, it cannot be assumed to be out of the picture yet. The Masakra also comes under attack, but the PD knocks out over half of the incoming munitions.

Ajka aims for the roosterpit of the Vaduren and fires all of her guns at it. "Guns on the Vaduren!“

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 84 - failure

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 78
Roll: 63 - success
The particle cannons impact against the roosterpit, vaporizing two neat holes in the roosterpit. Before the disappointment can set in from the (relatively speaking) minor damage, you spot the glow of rocket engines rising rapidly from below- a quartet of SAMs from one of the local air defense units. Three of them are shot down by the laser defense turrets, but one manages to reach its target, right below the roosterpit. The control center is destroyed, its contents spewed skywards in a plume of burning debris.

"Thanks for the assistance."
Ellie fires four HSMs at Jester 1-2 and starts aiming.

Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  8
Flares provides bonus of  80
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
HSM 3 provides penalty of  25
HSM 4 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 63
Roll: 94 - failure
Supermaneuverable: 68 - failure
Target destroyed.

LBX accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 60
Roll: 57 - success
The Vaduren's LBX cannon seriously damages Ajka's left wing. The plane is still controllable, but she has to fight to keep it stable. Gun accuracy and evasion is reduced by 10.

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  6
Aim provides bonus of  20
Test taken at 86
Roll: 53 - success
Eremit shoots down the last fighter.

Imperial fighters are now swarming what's left of the Vaduren, hosing it down with 20mm cannonfire to minimal effect.

Onyx and Rauths destroy the AFS Grzmot, its meager defensive installations picked off by gunfire allowing a pair of missiles to impact inside the hangar deck and set off a catastrophic chain reaction. Two of the attacking planes are picked off by the Odslighet.
: [Drokk! Eberhardt here, just lost my wingman and the Helian.]
: [Press the attack, engage at point blank if you have to. No time to withdraw.]

Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 4 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 23, 2018, 08:28:34 AM »

“Grao, Gelorauth and Brunaz, shift your attack to the Maskara. Kobalt, finish the Temnabog. Rauths, Onxy, commence your attack on the Grzmot,”

: You would do well not to mistake respect for authority, Jaakko-boy. My men and I are not subordinate to you.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 22, 2018, 08:26:33 PM »

Walt focuses back on the main fight, giving an aimed shot at the Temnabong.

P4 accuracy 25
Experience provides bonus of  12
Aim provides bonus of  10
Colossal Target provides bonus of  20
Airship Target provides bonus of  20
Test taken at 87
Roll: 16 - success
Direct hit on the Temnabog. Starboard flak cannon destroyed.

Jaakko fires an aimed EML shot at the topside guns of the Temnabog.

EML accuracy 45
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 63
Roll: 91 - failure
No effect on target.

Bell winces as the flak hits the airframe.
"That smarts."
She fires off her KSM shot and looses two AGMs on the airship.

Lorens follows up Jaakko's and Bell's attack with a single AGM fired at the Temnabog's starboard engine bank, "Rifle!"

KSM accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  20
Test taken at 80
Roll: 76 - success
The engine is completely destroyed. However, the pilots are able to keep the cruiser stable.

Imperial planes lay into the Temnabog with another salvo of JSMs, but the airship continues to lumber forth.

Gerowitz launcher her last AAM at Jester 2-1 before forming up on Skytracer and poppping three flares, attempting to evade the trio of missiles heading at her.

Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  8
Flares provides bonus of  40
AAM provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 88
Roll: 92 - failure
The Flanker takes a hit.

Nosferatu base EV 87
Experience provides bonus of  8
Flares provides bonus of  160
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
AAM 3 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 150
Roll: 57 - success
Missile evaded.

Fulcrum base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
HSM provides penalty of  25
AAM provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 61
Roll: 94 - failure

Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  6
MMS x12 provides penalty of  60
Test taken at 21
Roll: 87 - failure
Supermaneuverable: 69 - failure
Jester 2-5 and Lancer 2-1 are shot down by Paladius and Yamashiro, respectively.



Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 5 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 21, 2018, 09:28:49 AM »

Bell aims at the nearest engine block belonging to the Temnabog.

This happens.

Walt lines up and fires a final parting shot on the Tyazhelamek, just to be safe.

The stricken airship is hit with no further change in course.

Lorens finds the Temnabog through the TGP display and cues its nearest engine bank with a SPI. He brings the rocket CCIP back out and puts the pipper over the target and fires the remainder of his rockets with another two AGMs in tow. "Rockets, rifle on the cruiser!"

R20 accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  2
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 22
Roll: 6 - success
LAMS S1 rolls to intercept rockets
Roll: 1
LAMS S2 rolls to intercept rockets
Roll: 3
LAMS S3 rolls to intercept rockets
Roll: 1
Some of the rockets break through the wall of PD fire, albeit with minimal effect on the hull. The real damage comes from the two missiles that follow.

Jaakko fires his last JSMs at the Temnabog’s roosterpit.

The airships may be armored to withstand a few direct hits, but the JSMs still rough it up pretty badly.

“Grao, Brunaz, shift your attack to the Temnabog! Gelorauth, fire when ready!”

: Das ik soll, Kobalt.

Another wave of Joint-Strikes fly overhead, striking several weapon and defensive emplacements. The engine block is hit as well, and the cruiser begins listing.

Temnabog fires on Shortsword with its remaining Flak gun.
FLK accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of  20
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 50
Roll: 53 - failure
Minor damage incurred.

"Alright, let's finish off this fighter escort."
Ellie fires two HSMs for each fighter remaining in Lancer squadron.

Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 71
Roll: 7 - success
Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  8
Flares provides bonus of  40
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 73
Roll: 99 - failure
Supermaneuverable: 96 - failure
One of the Flankers is destroyed, the other just annoyed.

Ajka aims for the roosterpit of the Masakra and fires her guns at it.

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 66 - success

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 76
Roll: 64 - success
Ajka pummels the airship's roosterpit with three direct hits. With the entire bridge crew getting sucked out the exit hole from the roosterpit, there's nobody left to correct the moderate listing, and the Temnabog enters a dive.

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 78
Roll: 45 - success
Roll: 41
: Alright, that's it! Knock those two backstabbers out of the sky so we can focus on- SHEEAGH!
: You missed one.

Skytracer's (as well as Kobalt's as a whole) performance has drawn the ire of the remaining Aesthian planes, and they start engaging. A pair of missiles for Ellie, three for Ajka, and some for one of the Kintharians.

Now entering gun range against Aesthian airplanes.

The retreating MiG is destroyed in one shot by a beam of brilliant green.
: [Nice kill on the MiG, another one of Kobalt's?]
: [That shot came from the Odslighet! That thing's got teeth!]
: Attention all fighters, be advised that the enemy flagship is in possession of a powerful directed-energy weapon. Attempting to assess its capabilities now.

Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 6 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 18, 2018, 08:09:04 PM »

Walt fires plasma at the Tyazhelamek, then keeps his guns aimed at it to line up another shot.

P4 accuracy 25
Experience provides bonus of  12
Aim provides bonus of  20
Colossal Target provides bonus of  20
Airship Target provides bonus of  20
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 77
Roll: 60 - success
Walt goes for the throat, vaporizing the cruiser's roosterpit.

"Grao, Brunaz, put some fire on Tyazhelamek!"

Jaakko aims and fires his EML at the defensive emplacements in an attempt to put them offline.

: Copy, Kobalt Leader.

EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 38
Roll: 26 - success
Crash temporarily knocks out the Tyazhelamek's starboard missile port. No interceptor missiles will be launched from it for three turns.

"stuff! Snowman, attacking again!"

Lorens mashes the OSB for the R-20 pods and puts the reticle over the Tyazhelamek's starboard engine banks. He thumbs the munitions release button and fires rockets from two of the pods and immediately follows up with two AGMs. "Weapons out!"

R20 accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  2
Aim provides bonus of  10
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 32
Roll: 50 - failure
The rockets fail to impact the airship, but they do eat up the point defense fire, allowing your real damage dealers through. Two gaping holes are blasted in the engine's center mass, and the thrust nozzles begin to flicker.

Bell fires her aimed KSM round towards the Tyazhelamek's starboard engine block and breaks off to evade.

A plume of white flame erupts from the point of entry as the thrusters go dark.

The Tyazhelamek begins banking and pitching down with nobody at the helm to correct for the loss of power. The dozen missile impacts that follow from the Imperial squadrons don't improve its situation at all, and it can be said with full confidence that the airship won't be reaching its target.

Ajka gently pulls back on the stick and orients herself towards Nectar-3, firing her guns after she lines up a solution on the MiG.

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 73
Roll: 40 - success
The MiG's pilot is blasted into a million bloody charred gobbets as the hypersonic slug penetrates the enemy plane from canopy to tail.

A split second later, he makes his decision. He rapidly locks on to Musket 2-2 and Nectar-3 before firing two AAMs at each.
"It was a pleasure, folks. See you on the other side."

Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 71
Roll: 67 - failure

Foxbat base EV 60
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  80
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 76
Roll: 89 - failure
Scorch doesn't live to see it, but his last missiles destroy both Musket 2-2 and Nectar-4.

Ellie sees a missile go for Scorch's Typhoon. After seeing him fire off missiles instead of bailing out, she mutters a curse to herself before bringing her focus back onto the fight.
"..Roger that, Scorch."
She gets a lock on the remaining Flanker from Musket and fires off three HSMs while sending off another towards one of the Foxbats.

Ellie watches Scorch's plane as it is reduced to a shotgun blast of burning debris, and when she looks back ahead the Flanker is burning to the ground. The MiGs will do.

Foxbat base EV 60
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 56
Roll: 85 - failure
Roll: 79 - failure
Two more interceptors are heading for the ground.

The Kintharians launch a pair of AAMs each at the last two MiGs.
Foxbat base EV 60
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  80
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 76
Roll: 87 - failure
Roll: 11 - success
: Oh gods, they're all dead!

Nectar 8 is leaving the battlefield.

Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 7 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 17, 2018, 09:16:42 PM »

Lorens blinks as his eyes readjust to the night sky from the fusion explosion.

"... Attacking next target," The targeting pod latches onto the Tyazhelamek's starboard engine, and Lorens releases another two air-to-ground missiles. "Rifle ripple on the cruiser!"

LAMS S1 rolls to intercept missiles:
AGM 1: 50 - success
AGM 2: 1 - success
Both missiles are shot down.

Jaakko fires another four JSMs onto Loren’s target.

LAMS S2 rolls to intercept missiles:
JSM 1: 98 - failure
AGM 1: 42 - failure

LAMS S3 rolls to intercept missiles
JSM 1: 13 - success
JSM 2: 79 - failure
The missiles strike against the engine's armor, but you don't get a repeat of your last result.

Walt watches his former target go down as its wing comes off. "Alright then; lining up on the Tyazhelamek." He aims his guns in its direction.

"This is Kobalt flight, we'll take the Tyazhelamek."
Bell starts lining up a shot on the starboard engine block.

Several missiles fly overhead as the Imperial planes make their attack against the airship, most being shot down by the airship's defenses.

LBX accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of  20
Missile range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 50
Roll: 49 - success
Crash is grazed by the LBX.

FLK accuracy 50
Missile range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 30
Roll: 99 - failure
69
Walt's plane is buffeted by flak, but unharmed.

Ajka fires her guns at Nectar-2 before popping 2 flares and jinking away.

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  20
Test taken at 83
Roll: 16 - success

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  20
Test taken at 88
Roll: 66 - success
Interceptor destroyed.

Nosferatu base EV 87
Experience provides bonus of  8
Flares provides bonus of  80
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 105
Roll: 76 - success
Missiles evaded.

Scorch does the same as Ajka, firing the EML then LCP at Nectar-3 and dropping two strings of flares before evading.

EML accuracy 40
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 20
Roll: 6 - success

LCP accuracy 50
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 30
Roll: 58 - failure
The LCP misses entirely, and the EML does nothing but grab the enemy's attention.

Typhoon base EV 82
Flares provides bonus of  80
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 92
Roll: 59 - success
Scorch evades the missiles.

"stuff, I'll stall them."
Ellie drops back and dumps two HSMs each on Musket 2-1 and 2-2.

Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 71
Roll: 83 - failure
Reroll: 99 - failure

Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 71
Roll: 6 - success
Musket 2-1 is destroyed, and 2-2 fires before successfully evading.

AC5 accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  6
Aim provides bonus of  20
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 56
Roll: 36 - success
Ajka takes a few nasty hits, and her instruments begin beeping angrily at her.

Yamashiro and Xiaomei finish off Musket-1, and Nectar-3 fires a HARM at Scorch.


Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 8 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 16, 2018, 08:02:35 PM »

Walt sets his sights on one of the Aesthian bombers ahead. "Taking aim on the Forintelse."

This happens.

"Let's get some missiles down on the Forintelse's starboard engine block."
Bell fires two AGMs on the airship.

Ballistic AMS rolls to destroy AGM 1: 63 - success
Interceptor missile destroys AGM 2
The sole remaining point-defense gun shoots down one of your heavy missiles, and an interceptor missile from the Tyazhelamek takes down the second.

“Firing,”

Jaakko looses four JSMs on Bell’s target.

All at once, the missiles strike along the engine block, blasting through the weakened armor and damaging the vulnerable internals within. The relatively low yield of the JSMs compared to the AGMs proves to be a significant boon rather than a downside- rather than simply destroying a huge portion of the engine within, vital areas are pierced by shrapnel. One such area is one of the vacuum-sealed plasma containment chambers. As what happened with Snowman's Raven, air is sucked into the breach and ignites in a brilliant explosion that severs the wing entirely.

Lorens slaves the TGP to the Forintelse's starboard engine.

"Snowman, attacking target," Lorens ripple-fires two AGMs in concert with Bell's and Jaakko's volley.

Lorens' missiles are engulfed in the explosion.

: [...We'll get the other one then.]
: Damn it! Swap all missile ports to defensive configurations! We can't shoot them all down but we can last long enough to reach our objective!

No SAMs are received from the Tyazhelamek.
Now entering Missile Range of the AFS Temnabog; and the Grzmot, Blixtkrig, and Vaktare will be in Missile Range next turn.

Scorch gulps, given the condition of his aircraft.
"Engaging Musket."
He fires two AAMs each at Musket-3 and Musket-4.

Fulcrum base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 51
Roll: 72 - failure

Fulcrum base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 51
Roll: 70 - failure
Scorch bags two Fulcrums.

"Our defensive situation is... lacking, to say the least. Let's try to take out Nectar squadron to avoid a repeat of the last engagement."

Ajka launches 4 of her AAMs at Nectar-1 and starts to line up a shot on Nectar-2.

Foxbat base EV 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Flares provides bonus of  80
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
AAM 3 provides penalty of  35
AAM 4 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 8
Roll: 22 - failure
The first interceptor is destroyed, and Foxbat 2 begins running for cover under the airships.
: Oh stuff, they're pissed.
: Nectar, Musket. We got you covered.

Scorch and Gerowitz both pick up a pair of IR missiles.

A transmission comes through from the battlegroup, barely intelligible to those who even speak the language over the background noise of the ship's alarm and what sounds like either wind or fire whipping past the transmitter.
: [All aircraft, this is the Indomitus. Half of our weapons are offline, we have fires on multiple decks, and the rest of the battlegroup is in even worse shape. It's all up to-]

The message ends prematurely.
Aesthian Airships will reach their target in 9 turns.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 15, 2018, 06:24:57 PM »

Shortsword's team reestablishes contact with the bomber formation.

: Here they come again! All defensive guns, traverse right and prepare for incoming fighters!


Skytracer's team follows the allied fighters into the formation and finds them getting picked off by the Aesthians, who have regrouped at their cruiser formation and are staying within their defensive radius. The Imperials are keeping them occupied, allowing Skytracer and company to close to missile range unopposed.

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Forum Games / Re: ABS FIESTA REDUX

« on: October 09, 2018, 07:56:41 PM »

"There's five of them, waiting at the end of the street on the right-hand corner. At least three, maybe all of them are armed with automatic rifles, and all of them have plate carriers. They're survivors from a heavy bomber that was shot down, I think I heard the escape pod crash land somewhere in this area."

: Ah, I see.

The old man starts talking through his headset.
: [Joachim, keep your head down. Ozzy's going to take care of the Aesthians, then come pick you up.]

He slaps the side of the AAA vehicle.
: [Driver, advance 100 meters. Gunner, traverse right 110 degrees, down 75 and prepare to engage enemy infantry.]

The diesel engine next to you clanks into gear and roars to life as the tracked vehicle begins pulling away. A ball-shaped turret on top whirrs quietly as it tracks past you, a yellow-green shimmer betraying the existence of a large focusing chamber. Once the AAA reaches the end of the street you hear shouting in Aesthian and the report of automatic rifles, answered by a ten-second burst of pulsed laser fire. Then, silence.
: So. Can you tell us anything useful about those heavy bombers?