ABS FIESTA REDUX

[NoZoner]

Lorens eventually registers Bell's suggestion as the blood rushes back to his head. He looks at Culex-8, cues the drone with his HMD and fires a single all-aspect missile.

"... Fox-2 short, drone eight," Lorens heaves out in between grunts.

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[Qwepir]

"Snowman, defending inbound fox-2!"
Lorens drops two flare packets and jinks hard to evade.

Shiva base EV 58
Experience provides bonus of  2
Flares provides bonus of  80
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 70
Roll: 98 - failure
The missiles aren't fooled, and both connect. Fortunately, the Shiva weathers the hit better than most other planes would.

Bell fires a seeker each at Culex-1 and Culex-6, while Ellie fires JSMs at Culex-2 and Culex-5.

: Snowman, I'm not going to tell you how to use your ordinance, but you know you could use those all-aspects.

Culex base EV 60
Manual guidance provides bonus of  20
HSM provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 55
Rolls: 99, 77 - failure, failure

Culex base EV 60
Manual guidance provides bonus of  20
JSM 1 provides penalty of  20
JSM 2 provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 60
Rolls: 55, 1 - success, success
Bell knocks out two culexes, Ellie has no effect.

Lorens eventually registers Bell's suggestion as the blood rushes back to his head. He looks at Culex-8, cues the drone with his HMD and fires a single all-aspect missile.

"... Fox-2 short, drone eight," Lorens heaves out in between grunts.

Culex base EV 60
Manual Guidance provides bonus of  20
AAM provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 45
Roll: 96 - failure
The drone is destroyed.

Skytracer picks up two All-Aspects from a surviving drone, and Shortsword gets a SAM.


The Auxiliary squadron arrives to assist Gulth and finds them outnumbered and tied up by the Aesthian escort planes. They are already missing three members.

Currently at Radar range.

[Badger]

: I can handle those bombers, I'll move around the side and hit them once I'm close enough for an accurate shot.

[Gojira]

"Copy that, I'll open fire on the fighters."
Markus fires on the lead Flanker with his remaining HARM along with two RGMs.

[Operator¹]

Bell deploys a packet of chaff and takes evasive action, while Ellie deploys two salvos of flares and attempts to evade the all-aspects on her tail.

[NoZoner]

Ash Ash slaves his BVR scanner to the second Fulcrum, wary of the fact that he only has two heatseekers left for use.

Lorens Lorens instinctively ducks as the heatseekers explode just above the fuselage and engine nacelle. His heart sinks as he feels the reduction in engine power and quickly looks over the gauges to see if the aircraft has sprung any leaks. "forget, I'm hit! I can't fight much longer, but I'll try to take those last two turrets out." The Shiva makes a lumbering turn towards the central emplacement. Lorens puts the CCIP pipper on the target and pulls the trigger for both coilguns.

[Qwepir]

Bell deploys a packet of chaff and takes evasive action, while Ellie deploys two salvos of flares and attempts to evade the all-aspects on her tail.

Flatline base EV 78
Experience provides bonus of  5
Chaff provides bonus of  40
ISAM provides penalty of  40
Test taken at 83
Roll: 44 - success

Flanker base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  5
Flares provides bonus of  80
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 90
Roll: 82 - success
Bell and Ellie evade the incoming missiles.

Lorens instinctively ducks as the heatseekers explode just above the fuselage and engine nacelle. His heart sinks as he feels the reduction in engine power and quickly looks over the gauges to see if the aircraft has sprung any leaks.

"forget, I'm hit! I can't fight much longer, but I'll try to take those last two turrets out." The Shiva makes a lumbering turn towards the central emplacement. Lorens puts the CCIP pipper on the target and pulls the trigger for both coilguns.

KSM accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 2
Gargantuan target provides bonus of 20
Aim provides bonus of 20
Test taken at 92
Roll: 77 - success
The second gun is destroyed, and the platform replies with another SAM.

: I can handle those bombers, I'll move around the side and hit them once I'm close enough for an accurate shot.

: Try not to get too excited and blow yourself up again.

"Copy that, I'll open fire on the fighters."
Markus fires on the lead Flanker with his remaining HARM along with two RGMs.

: What the forget-

The Flanker begins attempting to evade and opens itself up to a gun attack from one of the Tukrebs.

[Operator¹]

Ellie opens fire on Culex-5 while Bell tries shaking the missile with a single packet of flares.

[Badger]

: I'll try, No promises though with my luck.

Walter continues to close range on the bombers

[Gojira]

Markus keeps the Flanker in his radar circle.

[NoZoner]

Ash The infrared seeker latches onto the heat signature of the second Fulcrum. The feedback tone buzzes in Ash's ear. "I've got tone on the third guy, I'm taking the shot!" Ash thumbs the button and sends his last two heaters to Fulcrum-2, "Fox-2 ripple!"

Lorens "Oh, forget! That's another SAM launch on me!" Lorens puts the missiles on his starboard wing and throws out his last two chaff packets before entering a defensive loop.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko heads for the escorts, increasing his speed to lower the closing time.

[Tayasaurus]

Tippy follows Jaakkos course to assist

[Qwepir]

Ellie opens fire on Culex-5 while Bell tries shaking the missile with a single packet of flares.

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  5
Aim provides bonus of  10
Tiny Target provides penalty of  10
Test taken at 55
Roll: 6 - success
The Culex goes down.

Flatline base EV 78
Experience provides bonus of  5
Flares provides bonus of  40
AAM provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 88
Roll: 64 - success
And Shortsword ditches the missile.

"Oh, forget! That's another SAM launch on me!" Lorens puts the missiles on his starboard wing and throws out his last two chaff packets before entering a defensive loop.

Shiva base EV 58
Experience provides bonus of  2
Chaff provides bonus of  80
ISAM provides penalty of  40
Test taken at 100
Roll: 99 - success
You just barely evade the SAM.

Drones are now at point-blank.

Markus keeps the Flanker in his radar circle.

Caught between the RGMs from the front and the Tukreb on its tail, the Flanker is destroyed.
: [Thank you, auxiliary.]

Ash The infrared seeker latches onto the heat signature of the second Fulcrum. The feedback tone buzzes in Ash's ear. "I've got tone on the third guy, I'm taking the shot!" Ash thumbs the button and sends his last two heaters to Fulcrum-2, "Fox-2 ripple!"

Fulcrum base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  4
Flares provides bonus of  40
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 69
Roll: 84 - failure
The Fulcrum is hit with both missiles and explodes.
: Four is down! Where the hell did that come from!?
: I see 'em, turncoats coming from the southeast!

2 turns until gun range.

[Gojira]

"[No problem.]"
Markus begins lining up a shot on Fulcrum-1.