ABS FIESTA REDUX

[ZombiLoin]

Faw flips on the radio.

"Blackeye, if you have the chance, dump your last remaining RGMs at Umbral-7. If anybody could take the Umbral-3 out of action that would be appreciated."

Faw turns his plane around and decides to hover around missile range from the drones. He enters evasive maneuvers so that he doesn't get snap shotted by LCP fire.

"I'll hover around missile range, you guys continue on to the carrier."

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[Tayasaurus]

Tippy thumps Jaakko in the back of the head

"I'm right here numbnutz"

[Badger]

Walter turns around

"Attempting to tag Nox-2 and Nox-3"

As pronounced he launches two of the small beacons

[NoZoner]

Though dumbstruck by seeing Umbral 2 explode with no input, Lorens thinks fast and quickly acquires Umbral 3 off-boresight, ripple-firing two all-aspects to devastating effect. To keep the ball rolling, he cues Nox 4 off-boresight and launches another pair of all-aspect heatseekers at the drone.

[Qwepir]

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

Bell's Fellowship 39
Simple orders provide bonus of 20
Command test taken at 59
Roll: 72 - failure
Test failed


Blackeye and Aero don't understand the command and attempt to evade individually.

MiG-29 base EV 75
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 60
Roll: 36 - success
Test passed

MiG-29 base EV 75
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
Flares provide bonus of 80
Test taken at 70
Roll: 35 - success
Test passed
They dispose of the missiles and start flying back to the carrier.

Walter turns around
"Attempting to tag Nox-2 and Nox-3"
As pronounced he launches two of the small beacons

Nox base EV 55
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
TAG provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 55
Roll: 66 - failure

Nox base EV 55
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
TAG provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 55
Roll: 60 - failure
Both targets are tagged.

Though dumbstruck by seeing Umbral 2 explode with no input, Lorens thinks fast and quickly acquires Umbral 3 off-boresight, ripple-firing two all-aspects to devastating effect. To keep the ball rolling, he cues Nox 4 off-boresight and launches another pair of all-aspect heatseekers at the drone.

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: 65 - failure
Test failed
Umbral-3 is taken down.

The cruisers and other allied planes blow several more drones out of the sky. The remaining drones fire what they have left as they enter gun range of the cruisers and their escort.
Snowman - 2 HSM
Walter - 2 AAM, 1 HSM

[Badger]

Walter Drops the remainder of his Flares, passing by Snowman as Walter evades if he wishes to take advantage of it

"Attempting to tag Umbral-7"

He fires his remaining beacon

[Gojira]

"Lead, requesting permission to disengage. I've taken heavy damage and am out of flares."

[ZombiLoin]

"Lead, requesting permission to disengage. I've taken heavy damage and am out of flares."

"Permission given."
Faw wonders how Crash is going to handle this disaster of a mission.

Faw snap fires all his guns at Umbral-7. After firing his weapons he flies erratically to avoid getting sniped.

[Gojira]

Markus prepares for landing on the Tordenskjold.

[Qwepir]

Walter Drops the remainder of his Flares, passing by Snowman as Walter evades if he wishes to take advantage of it

"Attempting to tag Umbral-7"

He fires his remaining beacon

Shiva base EV 58
Experience provides bonus of 6
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 160
Test taken at 129
Roll: 23 - success
Test passed

Umbral base EV 60
Mothership guidance provides bonus of 20
TAG provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 60
Roll: 4 - success
Test passed
You miss.

"Permission given."
Faw wonders how Crash is going to handle this disaster of a mission.

Faw snap fires all his guns at Umbral-7. After firing his weapons he flies erratically to avoid getting sniped.

LCP accuracy 50
Test taken at 50
Roll: 58 - failure
Reroll granted by duplicate weapon: 81 - failure
Result: miss

LCB accuracy 55
Test taken at 55
Roll: 37 - success
Result: hit

PPC accuracy 60
Test taken at 60
Roll: 80 - failure
Result: miss
Faw carves into the Umbral with the beam laser, but doesn't score the kill.

PD S1 rolls to intercept drones
Culex-3: 81 - failure
Culex-3: 15 - success

PD S2 rolls to intercept drones
Culex-19: 27 - success

PD S3 rolls to intercept drones
Umbral-7: 15 - success


PD S1 rolls to intercept drones
Vespid-16: 64 - success

PD S2 rolls to intercept drones
Vespid-18: 50 - success


PD S1 rolls to intercept drones
Nox-9: 89 - failure
Nox-9: 63 - failure

PD S2 rolls to intercept drones
Nox-12: 5 - success

PD S3 rolls to intercept missiles
Culex-30: 95 - failure
Culex-30: 18 - success
The cruisers start spitting lead at any drones they can fire on without danger of hitting allied planes. Between the defensive gunfire and the outgoing SAMs, very few drones remain in the area.

[Operator¹]

: The rest of the allied forces should be able to mop up these drones, what a shame, I guess the Izzy didn't want to deploy any flesh and blood pilots.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Tippy thumps Jaakko in the back of the head

"I'm right here numbnutz"

Jaakko isn't in the mood for games. He turns and takes his helmet off, looking irritated.

"Gods damnit," he says angrily.

[NoZoner]

"Gah, stuff! This is gonna be close!"

Lorens drops the power, turns the Raven to face the missiles and uses his remaining speed to pull into a defensive loop. He expends his last flare packet, hoping it's enough to trash the missiles.

[ZombiLoin]

Faw turns around and starts to head back, buzzing by Lorens and dropping another packet of flares to help him out.

[Qwepir]

"Gah, stuff! This is gonna be close!"

Lorens drops the power, turns the Raven to face the missiles and uses his remaining speed to pull into a defensive loop. He expends his last flare packet, hoping it's enough to trash the missiles.

Faw turns around and starts to head back, buzzing by Lorens and dropping another packet of flares to help him out.

Raven base EV 77
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 80
Test taken at 107
Roll: 35 - success
Test passed
The last two missiles are sorted out.

PD S1 rolls to intercept drones
Culex-32: 49 - success

PD S2 rolls to intercept drones
Musca-14: 72 - success

PD S3 rolls to intercept drones
Musca-17: 34 - success


PD S1 rolls to intercept drones
Musca-26: 10 - success

PD S2 rolls to intercept drones
Musca-28: 77 - failure
Musca-28: 73 - failure

PD S3 rolls to intercept drones
Musca-30: 36 - success


PD S1 rolls to intercept drones
Musca-36: 88 - failure
Musca-36: 76 - failure

PD S2 rolls to intercept drones
Musca-42: 6 - success

PD S3 rolls to intercept missiles
Musca-36: 60 - success
Culex-30: 18 - success
The cruisers shred the remaining drones to pieces with defensive cannonfire.