ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Badger]

Walter banks to the south of the tower while instructing his gunner to fire the rotary and two rockets at the damaged PPC

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[Qwepir]

Reflecting Array Attack

"Starviper-2, can you circle around with Scorch and attack the levitation array from the other side? I'll try to finish off the damaged one."

: That is not their directive.
: Let him go, I've got the last drone.

Ellie opens fire on the damaged plates with her LCB, two RGMs, and two ARMs.

LCB accuracy 55
Roll: 36 - success

LAMS 1 rolls to intercept missiles:
RGM 1: 90 - missile destroyed
RGM 2: 1 - missile destroyed

LAMS 2 rolls to intercept missiles:
ARM 1: 40 - missile destroyed
ARM 2: 39 - miss
The second plate is destroyed.

Sparks shower the canopy as the laser beam carves a molten gash down the length of the fuselage. Ash yelps, turns his fighter back around with all haste and maneuvers erratically to defend from further laser attacks.

"SWACS, Blackeye," Ash calls out over a secure comms channel, "I've turned back around and am now flying to you on vector 140, request rejoin for aerial rearmament," he finishes with a gulp and exhales.

: Blackeye, your flight pattern is too erratic to get a lock. Select a heading and level out.

LCB accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 20
Test taken at 70
Roll: 24 - success
Result: 1 hit to fuselage
Starviper-6 tries to clear Blackeye's tail.

The drone opens fire on Blackeye.
LCB accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Evasion provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 40
Roll: 47 - failure
It misses.


Palisade Phase 1

Jaakko snaps his aircraft around, but catches a glimpse of Palisade shifting and preparing to fire. He takes his aircraft on a path around Palisade, and firewalls the throttle, maximizing his angular velocity to the installation.

"Is that thing going to fire at us?!"

: I'm not about to stand around to find out. Djuriskas, break south now!

Oh boy, that can't be good, now I'm wondering if it's supposed to kill everything below or above it.

Bell fires two AAMs at Umbral-3 before breaking off to go evasive.

Umbral base EV 60
AAM 1 provides penalty of 35
AAM 2 provides penalty of 35
Test taken at -10
Roll: 78 - failure
Result: Test failed
No Vortex Missiles this turn.

"Scratch one drone launcher! Snowman, turning South! Defending!" Lorens throws out a chaff packet and jinks right to avoid the missile. He continues South and starts undulating his flight path to avoid a potential attack from the Palisade.

Shiva base EV 58
SAM provides penalty of 40
Chaff provides bonus of 40
Test taken at 58
Roll: 43 - success
Test passed
The SAM is trashed.

Walter banks to the south of the tower while instructing his gunner to fire the rotary and two rockets at the damaged PPC

RAC accuracy 50
Roll: 92 - failure
Rocket accuracy 40
Roll: 100 - critical failure!
: Uh- sir? We, uh- we may have an armed rocket stuck in the pipe.

Allied squadron changes heading south.

Nox-5 fires two heatseekers at Frisk while 6 sends a pair at Crash.

The remaining PPC fires on Walt again.
PPC accuracy 60
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 70
Roll: 85 - failure
The shot goes wide.
Reflecting Array Support Laser accuracy 55
Aim provides bonus of 20
Test taken at 75
Rolls: 56, 87, 49
Shortsword is hit in the wing and Kommandant in the fuselage when the reflecting platform fires again.

Finally, Palisade does indeed open fire on the approaching formation. A blinding beam of light shoots past dangerously close to Gladiator, but doesn't hit anything until the ground a few miles away. When the flash-blindness subsides, the tower has reverted to its original configuration with the beam emitter back behind the armor plates.

[Badger]

"Moving to knock out LAMS emplacements, get ready to use those JSMs on targets."

Walter aims on F and fires the heavy cannons

"Splash 8 rockets on the LAMS south of the palisade near the silo, I want those rockets used up and out if there's one live in there."

[Operator¹]

Ellie flies around to get a lock on one of the LAMS emplacements surrounding the northeastern levitation plate.

"Alright, I'll fire on the two LAMS turrets surrounding this plate, you two better open fire on it with everything you have left."

She fires on one of the LAMS turrets with two ARMs, quickly adjusting her heading to fire another two at the second turret.


Bell fires two seekers on Nox-6 and starts circling back to make a run on the SAM launcher and LAMS turret in the northeast quadrant.

: Gaffe, finish off that damaged PPC covering the northwest quadrant, then open fire on that damaged SAM launcher.

[NoZoner]

Reflecting Array Attack "Dammit," Ash mutters, "SWACS, copy, I am engaged defensive, will read back bearing and altitude once I confirm splash on the bandit!" The Corsair bobs and weaves in guns defense. Ash looks over his shoulder, but it's too difficult to make the drone out against the stratosphere.

Palisade, Phase 1 The Shiva returns to altitude and levels off. Lorens marks Silo H with a SPI and prepares to attack. "I'm going to plug that last silo. Snowman, in hot!" He pushes down on the stick and dives on his target. The massive dorsal airbrake extends to handicap the aircraft's descent. Lorens puts the pipper over the center of the silo door and squeezes the trigger.

[Gojira]

Markus opens fire with two ARMs on the array that Skytracer designated with her own missiles.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakk comes about, aims and fires on Nox-6.

[ZombiLoin]

Faw fires his coaxials at the LAMS by building G.

[Qwepir]

Reflecting Array Attack

Ellie flies around to get a lock on one of the LAMS emplacements surrounding the northeastern levitation plate.
"Alright, I'll fire on the two LAMS turrets surrounding this plate, you two better open fire on it with everything you have left."
She fires on one of the LAMS turrets with two ARMs, quickly adjusting her heading to fire another two at the second turret.

LAMS 1 rolls to destroy missiles:
ARM 1: 59 - success
ARM 2: 87 - failure

LAMS 2 rolls to destroy missiles:
ARM 2: 95 - failure
ARM 3: 74 - failure

"Dammit," Ash mutters, "SWACS, copy, I am engaged defensive, will read back bearing and altitude once I confirm splash on the bandit!"
The Corsair bobs and weaves in guns defense. Ash looks over his shoulder, but it's too difficult to make the drone out against the stratosphere.

LCB accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 20
Test taken at 70
Roll: 66 - success
Result: 1 hit to fuselage
Starviper-6 clears your tail.

Markus opens fire with two ARMs on the array that Skytracer designated with her own missiles.

The levitation plate is destroyed, and the array slowly begins losing altitude. Though listing heavily, it appears to be in control of the descent.

"Moving to knock out LAMS emplacements, get ready to use those JSMs on targets."
Walter aims on F and fires the heavy cannons
"Splash 8 rockets on the LAMS south of the palisade near the silo, I want those rockets used up and out if there's one live in there."

U10 accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of 5
G-model provides bonus of 10
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 65
Roll: 64 - success

Rocket accuracy 40
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 50
Roll: 11 - success by 4 degrees
Result: 4 hits
LAMS rolls 1d6 to destroy rockets
Roll: 5
The first LAMS is destroyed, but the rockets are shot down by the second.

"Gaffe, finish off that damaged PPC covering the northwest quadrant, then open fire on that damaged SAM launcher."

Gaffe attempts to do what he's told.
LAMS rolls to destroy missiles:
JSM 1: 5 - success
JSM 2: 74 - failure

AC5 accuracy 50
Roll: 76 - failure
He destroys the PPC, but doesn't scratch the SAM.

The Shiva returns to altitude and levels off. Lorens marks Silo H with a SPI and prepares to attack.
"I'm going to plug that last silo. Snowman, in hot!" He pushes down on the stick and dives on his target. The massive dorsal airbrake extends to handicap the aircraft's descent. Lorens puts the pipper over the center of the silo door and squeezes the trigger.

KSM accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 60
Roll: 80 - failure
Reroll: 28 - success
One of your gauss slugs strikes the silo door in the hinge. The true extent of the damage is uncertain from where you are.

Jaakk comes about, aims and fires on Nox-6.

RAC accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 60
Roll: 10 - success by 6 degrees
The drone is destroyed.

Faw fires his coaxials at the LAMS by building G.

LCB accuracy 55
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 65
Roll: 86 - failure
EML accuracy 45
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 55
Roll: 2 - success

Nox-5 fires on Frisk, and several SAMs are launched, but the lasers above have finally stopped.

Nox-5 now at point blank.

[Operator¹]

"I'm out of munitions, but I figure that last plate can be destroyed if you guys fire everything we've got left at it."

Ellie keeps her distance from the array.

"Alright.. Scorch can fire at that defending LAMS, while the Starvipers and Blackeye release their missiles on that last levitation array, then we can all hightail it out of here."


Bell takes a second to aim and fires on the damaged SAM launcher with rockets.

: Gaffe, see if you can't get that drone off of Frisk.

[Badger]

Walter fires his remaining AGM at the southeast PPC turret

"Fire the rest of those rockets at the emplacements near M and then jettison that launcher."

[Gojira]

Markus fires both of his remaining ARMs at the LAMs that Skytracer marked, then breaks off of the plate.
"That's it, I'm out of munitions, breaking off!"

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko drops a string of chaff and evades.

[ZombiLoin]

Faw pops a canister of chaff and jinks hard to left.

[NoZoner]

Reflecting Array Attack Ash catches sight of the drone getting blown to bits. Hearing Markus' callout, he decides to hold off on rearming and instead turns back around to bolster the saturation attack. "Watchtower, Blackeye, cancel rejoin, I'm turning back around to attack!" Ash trains the Corsair's scanner to the reflector's remaining levitation plate and fires his last two RGMs. "Fox one!"

Palisade, Phase 1 "Looks like one of the rounds hit, no visible effect on target," Lorens notes, "Using JSM." With the SPI already set in the Shiva's targeting pod, it's a simple matter to arm the strike missiles and train the electro-optical seeker to its target. Lorens thumbs the munitions release button and sends two JSMs to finish off Silo H. "Rifle ripple!"