ABS FIESTA REDUX

[ZombiLoin]

"Moving to assist." Walter passes by Gladiator and drops two flare packages.

"Affirmative, moving towards you."
Faw hovers closer to Walt's planes and pops an additional two flares, then goes evasive.

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[NoZoner]

Lorens switches to COMRO Four's TACAN channel, flips the Master Arm switch to the "off" position and turns off his radar. He threads the Raven into the space before the rearming pod and waits for the carrier to beam him a fresh set of missiles.

[Qwepir]

: Blackeye, Aero, hit those Scarabs with your radar missiles and prepare to cover Djuriskas.

Scarab base EV 45
Mothership Guidance provides bonus of 20
RGM 1 provides penalty of 45
RGM 2 provides penalty of 45
Test taken at -25
Roll: 83 - failure
Test failed

Scarab base EV 45
Mothership Guidance provides bonus of 20
RGM 1 provides penalty of 45
RGM 2 provides penalty of 45
Test taken at -25
Roll: 39 - failure
Test failed
Blackeye kills his target, and Aero launches a pair of missiles at his.

"Moving to assist." Walter passes by Gladiator and drops two flare packages.

"Affirmative, moving towards you."
Faw hovers closer to Walt's planes and pops an additional two flares, then goes evasive.

Sulla base EV 87
ODMS x24 provide penalty of 144
Flares provide bonus of 160
Test taken at 103
Roll: 98 - success
Test passed
Gladiator avoids dying for now.

"Firing on Umbral-2." Walter fires another pair of seekers

Umbral base EV 60
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Test taken at 30
Roll: 70 - failure
Test failed
The two missiles hit their mark, and the stealth drone is destroyed.

Markus fires an AAM and an HSM at each of the Scarabs.

Scarab base EV 45
Mothership Guidance provides bonus of 20
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
Test taken at 5
Roll: 14 - failure by one degree
Test failed
The AAM hits the drone, but the HSM goes wide.

LBX accuracy 50
Missile range provides penalty of 20
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 40
Roll: 15
Frisk finishes it off anyway with his scattergun.
: Yoink!

Lorens switches to COMRO Four's TACAN channel, flips the Master Arm switch to the "off" position and turns off his radar. He threads the Raven into the space before the rearming pod and waits for the carrier to beam him a fresh set of missiles.

You are now resupplied.

Nox attacking Walter:
Pulse Laser accuracy 55
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 35
Rolls: 46, 90, 69
Result: Miss

Umbrals attacking Walter:
Beam Laser accuracy 60
Test taken at 60
Rolls: 56, 90
Result: 1 hit to fuselage

Nox attacking Gladiator:
Pulse Laser accuracy 55
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 35
Rolls: 41, 27
Result: 1 hit to left wing

Umbral attacking Gladiator:
Beam Laser accuracy 60
Test taken at 60
Rolls: 29
Result: 1 hit to right wing

Nox attacking Scorch:
Pulse Laser accuracy 55
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 35
Rolls: 24, 34
Result: 3 hits to fuselage
The lasers fire again, delivering some serious damage to the allied pilots. Scorch picks up three Vortex Missiles.

Drones are now in missile range of Blackeye and Aero. 2 turns from gun range against the others.

[Badger]

Walter feels the Shiva lurch as the beam connects with his fuselage and damage indicators pop up

"I have to disengage, My airframe can't take much more especially with all these guns on the field."

He fires his remaining seeker at nox-12 then turns away to head towards the carrier

[ZombiLoin]

Faw's plane shakes as the beam cannon rips through his right wing. After wrestling with the controls he manages to stabilize himself.

He takes a look at the condition of the other pilots in Mjolnir. Walt and Scorch both have fuselages with the structural integrity of balsa wood, and his left wing was liable to disintegrate in a stiff breeze. He clicks on the radio.

"I, Walt, and Scorch are too battered to continue fighting like this. We're going to start egressing to the carrier soon. We're going to try and dump as much remaining ordinance as we can before falling back."

Faw pauses for a second. Explaining to the higher ups how Mjolnir lost a pilot and put nearly all of their planes on life support wasn't going to be easy.

"Blackeye, Aero, now that the Scarabs are out of commission I want you to shift your attention to the Umbrals, we don't need to get shot in the tail by LCB fire at long range. I want two missiles each on Umbrals 2 to 5. HSMs preferably, RGMs if that's all you have."

Faw fires a parting shot at Umbral-6 with all his guns before turning around and falling back.

[Operator¹]

: Blackeye, target the Vespids, Aero, close in with Djuriskas once your missiles hit.

[Tayasaurus]

Jaakko puts his helmet back on and gets on the radio.

"Hey Colonel, what's the possibility you could get the deck crew to put me in a Tukreb? I'm down here and I don't recognize anybody who'd be in charge,"

Tippy picks up your request on the channel and radios in

"Second that, Colonel. I need a craft and I don't wanna leave my squadron in this fight alone."

[Operator¹]

Bell heads to a station where they presumably handle incoming and outgoing craft.

: Two of my pilots want to go back out in one of the Tukrebs and the Berkut, any chance of getting those launched before this battle is over?

[NoZoner]

Lorens checks the weapon stores management page and confirms the missiles are on their pylons.

"Carrier, Snowman, rearm confirmed, weapons are good! Much obliged. I'll put these to good use."

Lorens tips his wings in salute before rolling inverted and dropping away to face the drone swarm. He flips the Master Arm switch. The growl tone winds up as the all-aspect seekers take a bath in liquid nitrogen.

Umbral no. 2 is the first drone to cross Lorens' sights--he decides it will be the lucky recipient of two brand new state-of-the-art missiles, hot off the replication pod. The seeker diamond is put on target, and the roosterpit's growl gives way to the high pitched launch authorized squeal. Lorens presses the button and sends the package.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"Tippy, get over here and figure out what you want to drive," Jaakko says curtly.

[Gojira]

"...forget! Scorch defending three incoming!"
Markus drops the rest of his flares and evades, retaliating against Umbral 5 with an AAM and a heatseeker.

[Qwepir]

Walter feels the Shiva lurch as the beam connects with his fuselage and damage indicators pop up

"I have to disengage, My airframe can't take much more especially with all these guns on the field."

He fires his remaining seeker at nox-12 then turns away to head towards the carrier

Nox Base EV 55
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
HSM provides penalty of 25
Test taken at 50
Roll: 68 - failure

AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Missile range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 40
Roll: 20 - success by 2 degrees
You damage the drone enough for a nearby MiG to finish it off with its gun.

"Blackeye, Aero, now that the Scarabs are out of commission I want you to shift your attention to the Umbrals, we don't need to get shot in the tail by LCB fire at long range. I want two missiles each on Umbrals 2 to 5. HSMs preferably, RGMs if that's all you have."

Umbral base EV 60
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
RGM 1 provides penalty of 30
RGM 2 provides penalty of 30
Test taken at 20
Roll: 74 - failure
Test failed

Umbral base EV 60
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Test taken at 30
Roll: 42 - failure
Test failed

Umbral base EV 60
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Test taken at 30
Roll: 36 - failure by 1 degree
Test failed
Two Umbrals are taken out, and one left badly damaged.

Faw fires a parting shot at Umbral-6 with all his guns before turning around and falling back.

LCB base accuracy 55
Test taken at 55
Roll: 29 - success
Result: Hit

PPC base accuracy 60
Test taken at 60
Roll: 36 - success
Result: Hit
Faw sends another crashing down as he makes his retreat.

Umbral no. 2 is the first drone to cross Lorens' sights--he decides it will be the lucky recipient of two brand new state-of-the-art missiles, hot off the replication pod. The seeker diamond is put on target, and the roosterpit's growl gives way to the high pitched launch authorized squeal. Lorens presses the button and sends the package.

Umbral-2 is destroyed before Lorens can get it into his sights, so he swaps over to number three.
Umbral base EV 60
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
Test taken at -10
Roll: 15 - failure
Test failed
It is knocked out.

"...forget! Scorch defending three incoming!"
Markus drops the rest of his flares and evades, retaliating against Umbral 5 with an AAM and a heatseeker.

Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of 2
VTM 1 provides penalty of 20
VTM 2 provides penalty of 20
VTM 3 provides penalty of 20
Flares provide bonus of 80
Test taken at 97
Roll: 96
You narrowly avoid the three missiles. Umbral-5 is already destroyed, so you end up with number six in your sights instead.
Umbral base EV 60
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
Test taken at 20
Roll: 88 - failure
Test failed
It too is destroyed.

Between the cruisers' SAMs and the other fighters in the area, the number of incoming drones drops drastically. Still, some survive to get some shots off against some of Mjolnir's pilots.

Nox attacking Blackeye:
Pulse Laser accuracy 55
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 35
Roll: 45
Result: Miss

Vespid attacking Blackeye:
Pulse Laser accuracy 55
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 35
Roll: 99
Result: miss

Nox attacking Aero:
Pulse Laser accuracy 55
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 35
Rolls: 51, 16
Result: 2 hits to fuselage

Umbral attacking Aero:
Beam Laser accuracy 60
Test taken at 60
Rolls: 15 - success
Result: 1 hit to fuselage

Blackeye - 2 HSM
Aero - 2 HSM, 1 AAM

[Tayasaurus]

"Tippy, get over here and figure out what you want to drive," Jaakko says curtly.

By now, Tippy has already found you and is standing right behind you.

"Affirmative"

[Operator¹]

: Blackeye, Aero, deploy all of your flares together and evade, disengage from the battle and return to the carrier.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko is oblivious to Tippy's presence. He observes the hanger, watching the MiG descend from the ceiling.