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Author Topic: ABS FIESTA REDUX  (Read 1535238 times)

"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.
: All the better for us!

"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.
: Finally! I can't wait to get out of this pod and start busting heads!

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

Faw fires his JSM at the AA emplacement by O.
The AA emplacement is destroyed.

Ash looks over his shoulder as his flight begins its descent. He hopes that Letterman's death was painless.
The most that can be said is that it was quick.

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.
"Gaffe, hit that drone launcher on building N."
Snowman and Gaffe ensure that no further drones (Hyperion notwithstanding) will trouble you this sortie.

Now passing overhead the facility (not that there's anything left to attack)
Missile range in 1 turn.

"Dropping you off now, I advise to watch out for falling debris from the reflecting array."

Walter deploys the drop pods in front of the building and continues on to face the incoming fighters.

Faw activates his cloak and starts to line up a shot on the Sol.

Jaakko keeps his speed up and begins skirting around the installation on his way to intercept the attacking fighters.

Palisade Phase 1

"Dropping you off now, I advise to watch out for falling debris from the reflecting array."

Walter deploys the drop pods in front of the building and continues on to face the incoming fighters.
The pods crash in front of the building, kicking up a good deal of smoke as they do. Almost immediately they radio for fire support.
: stuff! stuff! MG fire! Motorpool, 100 meters west!
: There's another one over there, 200 meters north!

Faw activates his cloak and starts to line up a shot on the Sol.
Jaakko keeps his speed up and begins skirting around the installation on his way to intercept the attacking fighters.
This happens.

Now in missile range.
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Walter begins turning the Shikra around to attack the threats

"Co-Pilot, Lace M up with some rotary fire to suppress them, Once we're around we can flatten the building. Someone else think they could bust open that other building in the meanwhile?"
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Jaakko aims and fires on the Sol.

Lorens watches Walter's Shikra turn around to support the ground troops. He feels inclined to do the same, but the threat of two super fighters carrying deflagration weapons is immediately more concerning. Lorens brings the gun funnel onto his HUD and takes aim at the Hyperion. Though the target designator arc has yet to meet the in-range cue, he pulls the trigger and fires both Gauss cannons. The extreme recoil takes a few dozen knots off his airspeed.

Bell finishes aiming from the last turn and opens fire on the Hyperion with her LCB.

Walter begins turning the Shikra around to attack the threats

"Co-Pilot, Lace M up with some rotary fire to suppress them, Once we're around we can flatten the building. Someone else think they could bust open that other building in the meanwhile?"
RAC accuracy 50
Roll: 94 - failure
Result: Miss

: No effect on target.

Someone else think they could bust open that other building in the meanwhile?"
: Coming around now.

Jaakko aims and fires on the Sol.
RAC accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Experience provides bonus of 4
Evasion provides penalty of 20
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 24
Roll: 60 - failure
Reroll: 30 - failure

Shot goes wide.

Lorens watches Walter's Shikra turn around to support the ground troops. He feels inclined to do the same, but the threat of two super fighters carrying deflagration weapons is immediately more concerning. Lorens brings the gun funnel onto his HUD and takes aim at the Hyperion. Though the target designator arc has yet to meet the in-range cue, he pulls the trigger and fires both Gauss cannons. The extreme recoil takes a few dozen knots off his airspeed.
RAC accuracy 50
Aim provides bonus of 10
Evasion provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 40
Roll: 42 - failure
Reroll: 98 - failure

The first slug comes frustratingly close to connecting, and the second is way off.

Bell finishes aiming from the last turn and opens fire on the Hyperion with her LCB.
LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of 7
Aim provides bonus of 20
Evasion provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 62
Roll: 47 - success
Result: 1 hit to left wing

You clip it in the wing.

Virvel and Kommandant engage two of the Typhoons.

A VTOL takes off from inside the facility, and several helicopters to the south are detected at missile range, heading for the facility at very low altitudes. The Hyperion fires an XAAM on Snowman, the Sol snap-fires its HDR at Shortsword, and the Typhoons engage other targets.
HDR accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of 8
Missile Range provides penalty of 20
Test taken at 48
Roll: 64 - failure

The beam passes harmlessly overhead.

Though nobody's looking at it, everybody is able to hear the deafening shriek of Palisade discharging its weapon upwards. A second, distant explosion follows as the reflecting platform is apparently hit by the beam. Nobody in Mjolnir saw the impact directly, but Frisk did and is now making sure people know it.
: Holy stuff! They just blew that thing to smithereens! There isn't an identifiable piece left!


"New target, Aim the rotary on that VTOL and shoot it down. I'll handle the building."

Walter begins to slow down his approach while he aims and fires his available weapons. Walter mentally takes note of the Helicopters coming into range, planning to deal with them next.

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Bell aims at the Hyperion while activating the g-scram.

Jaakko drops a string of flares just to be safe, and fires on Typhoon 8 again.

"Ah, stuff."

Faw switches his aim to Typhoon-9 and fires his LCB at it.

A line of flares drops from the Shiva. Lorens takes aim at the Hyperion once more and fires both coilguns.