ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Gojira]

"...forget."
Markus brings the Fulcrum around to fire the cannon at Fishbed 8 before going evasive, praying for some modicum of luck.

[Ad Bot]

[Mr. Hurricane]

"Affirmative Snowman!"

Jaakko takes his Fulcrum to Snowman and begins the maneuver.

[Qwepir]

Ellie opens fire on Fishbed-7 and evades.

AC5 Accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 4
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 49
Roll: 18
Result: 2 hits to left wing
The cannon barrage disables the Fishbed's port aileron.

: Gaffe, Letterman, get in there and assist, start hitting those Fishbeds.

: Which ones, the ones coming after our guys or the fleet?

Ash sucks in air though his mouth as he closes in on Pansar. Wide-eyed and numbed in a fit of tachypsychia, he throws the power lever back down to idle and pounds the countermeasures release button. Ash focuses on the Fulcrum heading straight towards him and strangles the flight stick in his clutches, bracing himself for the merge.

Fulcrum base EV 75
Roll: 74 - success

Tigershark base EV 77
Experience provides bonus of 2
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 80
Test taken at 109
Roll: 78 - success
Pansar's Fulcrum thunders overhead with less than thirty meters to spare, dropping his own set of flares in your wake and disposing of the missile.

Further South, Lorens sees the Fishbed fall behind him. "Crash, Snowman, I'm engaged defensive! Can you thatch-weave?" He starts maneuvering to keep away from the bandit's sights.

"Affirmative Snowman!"

Jaakko takes his Fulcrum to Snowman and begins the maneuver.

The two of you perform a Thatch Weave and the Fishbed takes the bait. Jaakko now gets a free point-blank attack against it and a bonus to entering a pursuit should it survive.

"...forget."
Markus brings the Fulcrum around to fire the cannon at Fishbed 8 before going evasive, praying for some modicum of luck.

AC5 accuracy 50
Small target provides penalty of 5
Roll: 36 - success by 1 degree
Result: 1 hit to fuselage

Fulcrum base EV 75
HSM provides penalty of 25
Test taken at 50
Roll: 49 - success
Test passed
You land a hit on the enemy plane and dodge the incoming missile.

Coma pops a set of flares to avoid the incoming missiles.
Tigershark base EV 77
Experience provides bonus of 2
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 69
Roll: 50 - success

Fang aims at Fulcrum-2
Frisk aims at Fishbed-14
Fishbed-3 continues to pursue Snowman
Fishbed-6 regains its bearings and takes aim at Crash once again.
Fishbed-7 goes evasive in an attempt to not get destroyed by Skytracer.
Fishbed-8 fires on Snowman with guns and follows up with a missile.
Fulcrum-1 keeps the pressure on Scorch and fires an All-Aspect missile.
Fulcrum-2 tries to shoot Coma down with guns instead.
AC5 accuracy 50
Tiny target provides penalty of 10
Missile range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 20
Roll: 93 - failure
Result: Miss
Fishbed-13 launches two missiles at Frisk
Fishbed-14 launches one missile at Fang

[Operator¹]

: The ones going after our guys, cover Snowman and Crash.


Ellie takes aim on Fishbed-7 again and fires her cannon.

[NoZoner]

Ash looks out the canopy in time to see the missiles explode not a hundred meters away. "Ho-holy stuff! Pansar, you're a forgetin' lifesaver, man! Thanks a million! If we make it to the next bar, the drinks are on me!" He shoves the lever back to maximum dry power and continues speeding away from the fight.

The MAW tone signals to Lorens he's lost the heatseeker roulette. "Crash, kill him! I've got a heater inbound on me, I'm breaking hard left!" He pulls back the power lever, steeply banks the Tigershark, and pitches into a gut-busting downward spiral.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"I've got him!"

Jaakko aims and fires a burst into the Fishbed.

[Gojira]

Markus fires his cannon at the Fishbed again, prays that his luck continues to hold out until support can launch, and goes evasive again.

[Qwepir]

: The ones going after our guys, cover Snowman and Crash.

: Got it, engaging.

Ellie takes aim on Fishbed-7 again and fires her cannon.

AC5 accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 4
Aim provides bonus of 10
Small target provides penalty of 5
Evasion provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 39
Roll: 7 - success by 4 degrees
Result: 2 hits to fuselage
The Fishbed takes another pounding and begins maneuvering to disengage.

The MAW tone signals to Lorens he's lost the heatseeker roulette. "Crash, kill him! I've got a heater inbound on me, I'm breaking hard left!" He pulls back the power lever, steeply banks the Tigershark, and pitches into a gut-busting downward spiral.

Tigershark base EV 77
Experience provides bonus of 2
HSM provides penalty of 25
Test taken at 54
Roll: 35 - success
Test passed
Lorens successfully breaks the IR lock.

"I've got him!"

Jaakko aims and fires a burst into the Fishbed.

AC5 accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 2
Aim provides bonus of 10
Point Blank provides bonus of 20
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 77
Roll: 68 - success by 1 degree
Result: 1 hit to right wing
You shred the already damaged right wing and send the Fishbed into a death spiral.

Markus fires his cannon at the Fishbed again, prays that his luck continues to hold out until support can launch, and goes evasive again.

AC5 accuracy 50
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 45
Roll: 95 - failure
Result: miss

Fulcrum base EV 77
AAM provides penalty of 35
Test taken at 42
Roll: 7 - success
You don't land a hit, but you do evade the missile (which some would say is more important).

AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 20
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 65
Roll: 26 - success by 4 degrees
Result: 4 hits to fuselage
Tippy fries a fish (Fishbed 8).
: We've lost another! What the hell is going on here?
: What's going on is that you are disgracing your nation with this poor showing!

AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 55
Roll: 65, 100 - failure, critical failure!
Result: Miss
Gaffe misses Fishbed-6, and Letterman's gun suffers a jam.
Pansar lines up and fires on Fishbed-6.
AC5 Accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 4
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 49
Roll: 84
Result: Miss
He fails.

Frisk stops aiming and goes to evade the two heatseekers.
Fulcrum base EV 77
Experience provides bonus of 4
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 71
Roll: 12 - success
Test passed

Coma keeps attempting to evade the gunfire from Fulcrum-2, while Fang pops a flare to trash the one missile headed for him.
Fulcrum base EV 77
HSM provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 92
Roll: 31 - success
Test passed
AC5 Accuracy 50
Test taken at 50
Roll: 26 - success by 3 degrees
Result: 2 hits to fuselage
Fishbed-6 lays into Crash with its gun and fires two more heatseekers.

AC5 Accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 50
Roll: 7 - success by 3 degrees
Result: 2 hits to fuselage
Fulcrum-1 riddles Scorch's fuselage full of holes, and he is notified of a loss of oil pressure.

Fulcrum-2 launches two All-Aspects at Coma
Fishbeds 13 and 14 attack Frisk and Fang with guns again.
AC5 Accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 50
Rolls: 33, 87 - success success by 2 degrees, failure
Result: 2 hits to Frisk's fuselage

Lastly, the second group has entered missile range and opens fire on the fleet.

Fishbeds 6 and 8 will all be at point blank next turn.
Fulcrums 1 and 2, and Fishbeds 13 and 14 will be at point blank in two turns.

[Gojira]

"GAH, stuff! Losing oil pressure, I need to disengage!"
Markus proceeds to make himself a more difficult target to hit, while simultaneously trying to get away.

[Operator¹]

: Scorch, Blackeye, head back towards Walt. Rocket, Gladiator, provide cover for Djuriskas.


"Got it Scorch, moving to cover you guys now."

Ellie breaks off from Fishbed-7 and re-aims on Fulcrum-1, letting loose a burst of cannon fire on the plane.

[NoZoner]

"Command, this is Blackeye, I cannot complete that order. My fighter is hit. I'm egressing North to intercept the ferry course as briefed," Ash responds.


Lorens levels out his plane and finds that the missile went wide. "Fox defeated! Crash, I see the guy after you, I'm going vertical to try to lose the guy behind me!" Making use of his thrust-to-weight advantage over the MiG, Lorens pulls back on the stick and ignites the burners to enter a vertical climb. He hopes the Fishbed on his tail will either give up the chase or stall trying.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko is alerted to the missiles and drops his last countermeasures, spending his turn defending against the missile and throwing off the guns of the MiG.

[Qwepir]

"GAH, stuff! Losing oil pressure, I need to disengage!"
Markus proceeds to make himself a more difficult target to hit, while simultaneously trying to get away.

The Fulcrum skips trying to draw a bead on you and just fires another All-Aspect.

: Scorch, Blackeye, head back towards Walt. Rocket, Gladiator, provide cover for Djuriskas.

: Yes ma'am.

"Got it Scorch, moving to cover you guys now."
Ellie breaks off from Fishbed-7 and re-aims on Fulcrum-1, letting loose a burst of cannon fire on the plane.

AC5 accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 4
Aim provides bonus of 10
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 59
Roll: 41 - success by 2 degrees
Result: 2 hits to left rear quarter
The Fulcrum's port elevator and engine get peppered with cannonfire, suffering some substantial damage.

Lorens levels out his plane and finds that the missile went wide. "Fox defeated! Crash, I see the guy after you, I'm going vertical to try to lose the guy behind me!" Making use of his thrust-to-weight advantage over the MiG, Lorens pulls back on the stick and ignites the burners to enter a vertical climb. He hopes the Fishbed on his tail will either give up the chase or stall trying.

The Fishbed keeps speeding towards you and starts climbing to follow.

Jaakko is alerted to the missiles and drops his last countermeasures, spending his turn defending against the missile and throwing off the guns of the MiG.

Fulcrum base EV 77
HSM 1 provides penalty of 25
HSM 2 provides penalty of 25
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 67
Roll: 14 - success
Test passed
The heatseekers take the bait.
Pansar keeps firing on Fishbed-6.
AC5 Accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 4
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 49
Roll: 26
Result: 2 hits to fuselage
He lands a few hits on the plane pursuing Crash.

Frisk returns fire on Fishbed-13
AC5 Accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of 4
Small target provides penalty of 5
Test taken at 49
Roll: 84
Result: miss
Not that it does anything.

Tigershark base EV 77
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
Flares provide bonus of 40
Test taken at 47
Roll: 18 - success
Test passed
: This guy really won't leave me alone. Can anyone give me a hand?
: I see 'im! Just don't die for a few more seconds!

Fishbed-6 is forced to abandon its shot on Crash due to Pansar's intervention.
Fishbed-8 takes aim at Snowman.
Fulcrum-1 changes its focus towards Skytracer and begins drawing a bead on her.
Fulcrum-2 attacks Coma with guns again.
AC5 Accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Tiny target provides penalty of 10
Test taken at 50
Roll: 67
Result: miss
It misses.
Fishbed-13 launches another two heatseekers at Frisk
Fishbed-14 fires a pair at Fang

Over half of the AGMs from the attackers are shot down by the cruisers' defensive screen. The ones that get through don't hit the Tordenskjold in anywhere vital. SAMs from the aerial fleet streak out towards the offending planes.

Enemy AWACS and Starling-1 have drifted into Missile range a few thousand meters above the furball but are maintaining their distance.

[Operator¹]

"Scorch, he launched a missile at you!"
Ellie aims and fires again on Fulcrum-1.


: Gaffe and Letterman, support Gladiator and Rocket in covering Djuriskas, then move on to taking out those Fishbeds escorting the attackers.

[Gojira]

"stuff, thanks for the heads up!"
Markus steels his nerves before dropping his second and last string of flares and going evasive, in order to ensure that he can escape. He makes a note to personally thank the Marshal for not allowing them to bring munitions, if either of them survive.