ABS FIESTA REDUX

[CypherX]

Gus angles for Typhoon-3.

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[Tayasaurus]

"Whiskey, maintain proximity near me. We'll be heading into the eye of it."

Tippy sets course for Typhoon 4

[Lockebox]

"Got it. Matching speed with yours."

Roger maintains his formation with Tippy.

[Gojira]

"I wish we would have brought RGMs," he laments.

He thinks to himself that it is a critical oversight.

ahEM

[Badger]

Walt awaits closing missile range

"Something you'll have to check next time, we're able to resupply but we have to live with it for the time being."

[Qwepir]

: We're picking up enemy comm chatter. Sounds like they know you're coming.
: [Oracle, confirm sighting of three unidentified contacts in Segmentum 13-Quaestor-Delta-Zephyr]
: [Acknowledged. Contacting satellite network, stand by. ...Confirmed, you have inbound GTO planes. Be advised, your radar is being deceived. Visual scan counts eight total planes heading directly for you, and an additional nine waiting in the wings. Seventeen total.]
: [Any more information on enemy composition?]
: [Negative, just numerical strength. You are outnumbered more than two to one.]
: [Understood. Breiner, Leitzke, stay with the destroyers. Everyone else, with me.]

Some of the Imperials begin moving to intercept you, but do not fire any ordnance.

You are at 3 turns til missile range (or hybrid range, or something, because it's that extra distance at which you can fire both radar and infrared missiles with no penalty to the RGMs), the Imperials still have 4 to go.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"Lorens, stay with the strike group, no need to die today," Jaakko orders, "Also, consider not dying a standing order."

[Qwepir]

"Lorens, stay with the strike group, no need to die today," Jaakko orders, "Also, consider not dying a standing order."

was that issued at lorens or nozoner himself

[Operator¹]

"Major, what's the plan?"

[Mr. Hurricane]

"Let's try to separate them from their destroyers, I don't want to have to contend with the missile screen. We're going to try to draw them off a bit, out from under the protection of those destroyers,"

He slows and changes his bearing so as to not be on a beeline for the destroyers.

[NoZoner]

"Lorens, stay with the strike group, no need to die today," Jaakko orders, "Also, consider not dying a standing order."

"Uh, roger that, leaving formation." Lorens is left to wonder why he bothered to include the 'not dying' bits as the A-10 pulls away and falls in line behind the strike package. "Djuriskas flight, Snowman, forming up on you."

[Qwepir]

"Uh, roger that, leaving formation." Lorens is left to wonder why he bothered to include the 'not dying' bits as the A-10 pulls away and falls in line behind the strike package. "Djuriskas flight, Snowman, forming up on you."

: I figured you weren't really going to try to dogfight in that thing.

With Snowman falling back, Typhoon 4 changes target to Whiskey and opens fire with the rest of its unit.
2 turns til missile range

[ZombiLoin]

Faw targets Typhoon 4 with a RGM and a HSM, firing off both at once.
Faw targets Typhoon-4 and Typhoon-3 with a RGM each. He fires both simultaneously.

[Lockebox]

Roger drops chaff in an attempt to evade.

[Tayasaurus]

"Aw look Roger, they like you!"

Tippy switches her focus to Typhoon 3.