ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Qwepir]

"I'm starting to think I should have packed more rocket pods."

"At least you have them, and some missiles; unlike Oxide..." Bell gives an audible sigh at the end of her statement.

: She is correct. Oxide, recommend you drop those bombs in the water and resupply at the AWACS with something more suited for this scenario.

"We have two options, we can take out their anti-air emplacements and attack their anti-ship weapons later, or we can go for their anti-ship weapons first."
She flips the master-arms switch in her roosterpit.
"I would prefer that we go with the first, though."

: Whatever your flight chooses to go with, you won't last a minute with those destroyers sitting around. And it looks like they know we're coming. Misfits, we're going in! Snake Eyes, fire off some chaff and see if that'll spoof their tracking.
: On it, sir, deploying chaff.

With that, the Mercanan pilots begin diving towards one of the escort destroyers. It and the Octarius light up the sky with beams from their LAMS arrays. The chaff seems to have done the trick, and the pilots are able to make an attack run and emerge relatively unscathed. The destroyer they singled out is hammered by their planes' dual GAU-8s, and finished off with a pair of missiles that break the ship in half.

Both Mjolnir and the Octarius' situation remain unchanged.

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[Juncoph]

"To be frank, I was expecting something with less laser based point defense, but there's no masking the thermal readings from those things... I can lock it from here thanks to how hot they're running."

I drop my bombs into the watery depths and request that all five of my empty hardpoints get loaded with AGMs.


for those who didnt realize, my plane has 7 hardpoints but because points i didn't use the belly hardpoint
also seeing as how you can get AGM missiles mid-flight im assuming the software for locking is already in the aircraft, it just has nothing to fire if you didn't bring the right missiles

[Gojira]

"Roger."
I jettison the two bombs on my fuselage and head to Youkai to get some more air to ground missiles, requesting that any unfilled hardpoints are filled.

[Operator¹]

Bell sets the fuse on some of her rockets to prematurely detonate in airburst mode, as some sort of improvised chaff cover.

"AWACS, how many of the escorts are left?"

[Mr. Hurricane]

"Ya know, I asked if there would be any ASM ordnance, but they claimed to not have any."

I release all the bombs, they fall away into the sea.

"AWACS, requesting 6 AGM's.


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[Qwepir]

I drop my bombs into the watery depths and request that all five of my empty hardpoints get loaded with AGMs.

I jettison the two bombs on my fuselage and head to Youkai to get some more air to ground missiles, requesting that any unfilled hardpoints are filled.

"AWACS, requesting 6 AGM's.

: Understood Mjolnir, stand by.
You all get the COMRO treatment, and shortly after get to hear some gothic chatter the AWACS managed to pick up.

: [Sir, we just picked up a massive energy spike on long-range sensors. You should take a look at this.]
: [Hm, that pattern is consistent with our aerial resupply systems. The Kintharians must have lent one of their stealth support planes to this operation. Launch a mirror probe, see if it can uncover what else they may be hiding from us.]

A rocket launches from what was ostensibly a smokestack, and begins rapidly ascending.

Bell sets the fuse on some of her rockets to prematurely detonate in airburst mode, as some sort of improvised chaff cover.

"AWACS, how many of the escorts are left?"

: Looks like three more, but they're all focusing on the Mercanans now. You have an opening, but be warned that you should NOT approach the Octarius from port or starboard.


Loadouts have been updated.

also seeing as how you can get AGM missiles mid-flight im assuming the software for locking is already in the aircraft, it just has nothing to fire if you didn't bring the right missiles

that is correct

[Gojira]

"They've picked us up, looks to me like they're launching something. We'll figure out what it is soon enough. Oxide, I feel like we should saturate the defenses on the bow. Stern's got way too many SAMs. Either way, let's take out those air defenses."
I maneuver my plane to start an attack run on the Octarius.

[Operator¹]

Bell approaches towards the stern of the Octarius, firing two salvos of RL-20 rockets at the ship and a salvo of FEAR-12 rockets before pulling away from her attack run, she deploys chaff, just in case.

[Mr. Hurricane]

The COMRO finishes up and I violently maneuver to move up to Steele. He is starting hit run. I dump chaff just in case.

"On your mark Talisman,"

[Gojira]

"Ready... mark!"
I drop chaff and fire off all of my ordinance at various targets on the stern, hoping that an explosives-filled steel tube the size of a telephone pole doesn't come flying my way, and I turn away before I hit the dreadnought.

[ZombiLoin]

FAQ approaches the dreadnought head on, and targets 2 SAM sites and 2 Laser turrets with 4 AGMs, letting the quad of missiles loose in quick succession one after the other.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"Firing!"

I start rippling away AGM's. All six in one go.

"We pulling off or what?"

[Gojira]

i thought it was implied but ok

[Mr. Hurricane]

i thought it was implied but ok

you have jsm's so i didnt know ok

never mind ranges are never specified

[Qwepir]

Bell approaches towards the stern of the Octarius, firing two salvos of RL-20 rockets at the ship and a salvo of FEAR-12 rockets before pulling away from her attack run, she deploys chaff, just in case.

Though some are intercepted, the majority of your munitions hit home, lightly damaging the deck and somewhat seriously damaging a handful of LAMS emplacements.

"Ready... mark!"
I drop chaff and fire off all of my ordinance at the stern, hoping that an explosives-filled steel tube the size of a telephone pole doesn't come flying my way.

You fire all that you can on a single run without flying over the bridge and getting yourself killed.
Instead of a SAM, the rear 500mm turret raises one of its barrels and fires a beehive shell. It misses, but you feel it detonate behind you.

FAQ approaches the dreadnought head on, and targets 2 SAM sites and 2 Laser turrets with 4 AGMs, letting the quad of missiles loose in quick succession one after the other.

The LAMS clustered around the bridge shoot down almost all of your munitions. You do manage to knock out one of the emplacements, for what it's worth though, and one of the SAMs is pretty badly hurt.

In the time it has taken you to do this, the Mercanans have sunk one destroyer and crippled another.

: [Sir, we've found it! Feeding coordinates to bow shock cannon now.]
: [Excellent. Fire when ready.]

The forward energy turret aims straight up and fires a brilliant blue column of light skyward. Following its trajectory, you (one of you, anyway) are able to see it reflect off of what you can only assume was the probe they launched.

: What did they say? Who are they fir-
The shock cannon hits the AWACS head on, completely destroying it in a single shot.

: Dammit. Snake, they just took out our AWACS, I need you to break off and monitor the enemy communications.

: [Without their resupplies, these wasteful pilots have to retreat. All we have to do is weather the storm.]

I'm not counting this for your own good, and also because you didn't specify what you were shooting at.