ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Qwepir]

Reflecting Mirror Attack

"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."

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!"

LAMS rolls to destroy missiles:
ARM 1: 100 - failure
ARM 1: 87 - failure
The missiles destroy the AMS turret.

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!"

With the relevant LAMS arrays out of the picture, nothing stands in the way of your RGMs as they crash into the target. With nothing left to keep it afloat, the mirror platform begins plummeting downward towards the tower below.

: Excellent work! The mirror platform has been neutralized!
: Woo-hoo! There it goes!


Palisade Phase 1

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."

Nox base EV 55
JSM 1 provides penalty of 20
JSM 2 provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 15
Roll: 69 - failure
Gaffe takes it out.

Walter fires his remaining AGM at the southeast PPC turret

The AGM smacks into the side of the tower with no effect.

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

Rocket accuracy 40
Test taken at 40
Rolls: 2, 66 - success by 4 degrees, failure
The flak emplacement is destroyed.

Jaakko drops a string of chaff and evades.

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

Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of 4
SAM provides penalty of 40
Chaff provides bonus of 40
Test taken at 79
Roll: 16 - success

Fenrir base EV 91
SAM provides penalty of 40
Chaff provides bonus of 40
Test taken at 91
Roll: 2 - success
You live.

"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!"

The silo door takes two direct hits and explodes open. You see a flash from within.

Djuriskas destroys a handful of other ground targets.

AC5 accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 20
Missile range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 50
Roll: 20 - success
Result: 2 hits to roosterpit
Faw gets hit in the roosterpit by an AA gun and.

Now in gun range of facility.

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[Gojira]

Markus watches the array begin its descent to the ground.

[NoZoner]

Reflecting Array Attack The HUD's impact timer flashes zero, its final decrement met with a distant flash. In an instant, the sinking reflector array accelerates to a meteoric plummet. "Splash! Look at that thing go!" Ash turns to get a better view, drinking in the sight until it falls below the lip of the canopy. "Alright, I'm getting the forget out'a dodge. Watchtower, Blackeye, requesting vector to homeplate."

Palisade, Phase 1 "[The forget?]," Lorens blurts in confusion, "The blast actually tore the damn thing open. I'm sending another missile," he wastes no time loosing another Joint-Strike Missile. "Rifle!"

[Badger]

Walter drops a chaff packet and then fires both the heavy cannons on I

"Engaging Emplacement south of tower, If someone is able to neutralize the Particle cannon to the southeast it'd make my job of dropping these guys off a whole lot easier."

[Operator¹]

Ellie watches the array plummet. "Ground team, watch out for the reflecting array, it should be coming down towards you guys any second now."


Bell starts lining up an attack run on the PPC emplacement facing southeast.

: Alright Walt, I'm on it. Gaffe, see what you can do about the other one.

[Qwepir]

The HUD's impact timer flashes zero, its final decrement met with a distant flash. In an instant, the sinking reflector array accelerates to a meteoric plummet.

"Splash! Look at that thing go!" Ash turns to get a better view, drinking in the sight until it falls below the lip of the canopy. "Alright, I'm getting the forget out'a dodge. Watchtower, Blackeye, requesting vector to homeplate."

: Affirmative, adjust heading northwest bearing 310 and you will return to your carrier group.

Palisade Phase 1

"[The forget?]," Lorens blurts in confusion, "The blast actually tore the damn thing open. I'm sending another missile," he wastes no time loosing another Joint-Strike Missile. "Rifle!"

The missile goes towards the now-opened hatch and strikes the outgoing rocket as it emerges, destroying it.

Walter drops a chaff packet and then fires both the heavy cannons on I

U10 accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of 5
G-model provides bonus of 10
Aim provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 65
Roll: 15 - success by >2 degrees
The entire building is brought down.

"Engaging Emplacement south of tower, If someone is able to neutralize the Particle cannon to the southeast it'd make my job of dropping these guys off a whole lot easier."

Bell starts lining up an attack run on the PPC emplacement facing southeast. "Alright Walt, I'm on it. Gaffe, see what you can do about the other one."

: Fang, Coma, go around the tower and hit the northeast cannon so Walt and Tippy can land their troops.

The last SAM gets blown up by Tippy.

AC5 accuracy 50
Test taken at 50
Rolls: 79, 100
Result: failures across the board
The sky is lit up with ineffective tracerfire from the remaining 2 AA guns.

An enemy force has entered radar range.
Walter and Tippy will reach the drop point in 2 turns.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko briefly looks up into the sky, and wonders how his squadron is doing. He brings the aircraft into a steep climb and brings his radar to illuminate the sky overhead to see if he can spot the reflector.

[Gojira]

"Copy. SWACS, can you direct a message to our forces attacking the base that they've got a relay coming down on them?"

[Operator¹]

Ellie changes course to exit the mission area.


Bell opens fire on the PPC with rockets and the LCB, breaking off to engage the incoming fighter squadron.

: Jaakko, stop slacking off, we've got incoming fighters.

[Qwepir]

Palisade Phase 1

Jaakko briefly looks up into the sky, and wonders how his squadron is doing. He brings the aircraft into a steep climb and brings his radar to illuminate the sky overhead to see if he can spot the reflector.

Though still a couple dozen kilometers overhead, you see it. It appears to be on fire, and if your radar is to be believed, is falling fast.

"Copy. SWACS, can you direct a message to our forces attacking the base that they've got a relay coming down on them?"

: We can try, but our comm suite isn't designed for this long distance.

30 kilometers below, the Aesthian force at the base of the tower receives a barely decipherable message.
: M... this- ...-tower. Reflecting- ...... -on your- .... speed! I say aga-... platform...

Bell opens fire on the PPC with rockets and the LCB, breaking off to engage the incoming fighter squadron.
"Jaakko, stop slacking off, we've got incoming fighters."

LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of 7
Aim provides bonus of 20
Cover provides penalty of 30
Test taken at 52
Roll: 37 - success

Rocket accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of 7
Aim provides bonus of 20
Cover provides penalty of 30
Test taken at 37
Roll: 4 - success
The PPC is destroyed.

Enemy formation draws nearer and will enter missile range in 2 turns.
Shikras will reach the building in 1 turn.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"The reflector array is falling! I think it's going to hit the installation!"

Jaakko turns and burns away from Palisade, weary of being around when hundreds of tons of metal crash into the earth from the edge of space.

[Badger]

"Commando teams get ready to deploy, We're approaching the drop zone."

Walter looks up and too his side at the looming blob falling towards the earth, a slight pang of fear strikes Walter momentarily as if it was some large bird of prey coming down to snatch him. He shakes it off figuring he will clear its trajectory by continuing straight to the drop zone.

[ZombiLoin]

"Enemy aircraft incoming. 4 Typhoons and 2 advanced fighters."

Faw fires his JSM at the AA emplacement by O.

[NoZoner]

Ash looks over his shoulder as his flight begins its descent. He hopes that Letterman's death was painless.

Further below, the Shiva shreds through the lowest folds of the troposphere on its way to the drop point. Lorens instinctively looks for the falling reflector array, but the rain clouds overhead occlude his view.

"I'm taking out that last drone launcher, using JSM." The targeting pod camera gyrates to cue the launcher. Lorens thumbs the button and releases another two missiles, which veer left and steeply ascend before arcing back down on the target.

[Operator¹]

: Gaffe, hit that drone launcher on building N.

Bell changes her heading to prepare for her engagement with the incoming squadron.