Mission ThemeCrash fires an HSM at Rafale 8.
Rafale base EV 76
No piloting bonuses or penalties
HSM provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 91
Roll: 32 - success
Test passedUnlike most Deltan pilots encountered thus far, nearly all of the naval aviators seem aware that they possess countermeasures.
Bell targets Rafales 13, 14, and 15, firing the rest of the MML-7 salvo at the planes.
Rafale base EV 76
No piloting bonuses or penalties
MML provides penalty of 30
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 86
Roll: 87 - failure
Test failed
Rafale base EV 76
No piloting bonuses or penalties
MML provides penalty of 30
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 86
Roll: 55 - success
Test passed
Rafale base EV 76
No piloting bonuses or penalties
MML provides penalty of 30
Test taken at 46
Roll: 71 - failure
Test failedTwo of the Rafales take a hit and angle away from your group. Additionally, 14 is now out of flares.
Roger gains some more altitude and releases not one but TWO RGM's at Rafale-10
Up closer, the tracking capabilities of the missiles are somewhat reduced.
Rafale base EV 76
No piloting bonuses or penalties
RGM 1 provides penalty of 35
RGM 2 provides penalty of 35
Chaff provides bonus of 40
Test taken at 46
Roll: 92 - failure
Test failedYou pick off another Rafale.
Richard locks-up a Rafale high-off boresight and releases an AAM, then goes for the next bandit closest to his sights and puts a couple of laser beams on it.
Rafale base EV 76
No piloting bonuses or penalties
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 81
Roll: 19 - success
Test passedRafale-18 evades your missile, but 15 does not get away from the beams. Already weakened by Shortsword's missile, the lasers destroy it likely before the occupant knew what was happening.
The broken remnants of the Rafale flight return fire with a myriad of all-aspects. Two for one of Tlacelel's honor guard, two for Shortsword, and four for Crash.
Sabre base EV 73
Experience provides bonus of 8
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 43
Roll: 46 - failure
Test failedThe guardsman does not survive.
Though (most of) you cannot understand the words being said, it is clear that having almost a third of their force spent with only two casualties to show for it is not doing wonders for Navy morale.

: [We aren't even slowing them down! What are we
doing up here!?]

: [Of all the worthless- Get everything up there! I want these hangars
emptied!]

: [Looks like the human speedbumps couldn't even get
that right! Come on, let's show them how it's really done!]
The current enemy group will be in gun range at the end of the next turn, assuming any are left.
