ABS FIESTA REDUX

[NoZoner]

Lorens Lorens sees the missiles detonate mid-flight. Thankful that Gus is spared for the moment, he switches gears and goes after another target. "I've got tally on another Nosferatu! I'm going after him!" Lorens latches onto Gel-3's super fighter and acquires a solid missile lock. He thumbs the button and sends four heatseekers.

Ash "Missed- forgeter! I'm extending to high!" Ash watches the Draugr warplane fly across his field of vision. Banking on the possibility the bandit will continue turning, Ash increases power and briefly dips the Tukreb before pulling back on the stick and taking the fighter out of the turning plane. Having traded speed for altitude, Ash makes use of a reduced turning radius and swings back around, hoping the maneuver will let him inside his target's turning circle.

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[Qwepir]

Walter fires his LCPs and Gauss cannons at the plane and then pulls off to evade past regardless of the target being destroyed to avoid an unwanted collision

LCP accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  4
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 74
Roll: 75 - failure

AKM accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  4
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 79
Roll: 23 - success
Bell is hit twice by the Gauss Rifle, the first shot blowing away the ablative plating and the second nearly cracking her plane in two.

Tippy keeps focus on Alpha 2 and fires another shot.

"This is going to get repetitive."

UAC accuracy 40
Aim provides bonus of  10
Experience provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 70
Roll: 60 - failure
Tippy hits the Su-57's pilot in the face with her cannon round. The plane fares just about as bad, and begins spiraling out of control trailing fire and smoke.

"Woo, another one down!"
Markus attempts to get on the tail of Draugr-5.

Typhoon base EV 82
Experience provides bonus of 2
Scorch's test taken at 84
Berkut's base EV 85
Experience provides bonus of 10
Combat Drugs provide bonus of 10
Draugur's test taken at 105
Scorch's roll: 77 - success by 1 degree
Draugur's roll: 92 - success by 2 degrees
The Berkut leaves you in the dust and sends two all-aspects your way.

Jaakko's MAWs alerts him to the missiles. He drops three strings of flares. He takes a snapshot at Bell with the EML in retaliation.

Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  4
Flares provides bonus of  120
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
HSM 3 provides penalty of  25
HSM 4 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 99
Roll: 90 - success
You evade the incoming missile
EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  4
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 54
Roll: 64 - failure
but whiff with the EML.

"Missed- forgeter! I'm extending to high!"

Ash watches the Draugr warplane fly across his field of vision. Banking on the possibility the bandit will continue turning, Ash increases power and briefly dips the Tukreb before pulling back on the stick and taking the fighter out of the turning plane. Having traded speed for altitude, Ash makes use of a reduced turning radius and swings back around, hoping the maneuver will let him inside his target's turning circle.

Tukreb base EV 75
Blackeye's test taken at 75
Berkut's base EV 85
Experience provides bonus of 10
Combat Drugs provide bonus of 10
Draugur's test taken at 105
Blackeye's roll: 8 - success by 7 degrees
Reroll: 16 - success by 6 degrees
Draugur's roll: 33 - success by 8 degrees
You catch a glimpse of the enemy plane and nearly wind up behind it, but you can tell it's starting to lose you again already.

: Warning! Four new enemy contacts, bearing three-six-zero!

Sure enough, four Foxbats are entering the combat area at radar range.

Bell takes aim and fires her PPC on Jaakko's Tukreb.

PPC accuracy 60
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 88
Roll: 100 - critical failure
Apparently damaged by the hit from the gauss rifle along with the rest of her plane, Bell's PPC backfires.

Ellie has her second Kaneda drone fire missiles on Markus while she attempts to set up a pursuit on Gel-2.

Gel-2 is currently distracted, engaging one of your allied planes.

Lorens sees the missiles detonate mid-flight. Thankful that Gus is spared for the moment, he switches gears and goes after another target.

"I've got tally on another Nosferatu! I'm going after him!" Lorens latches onto Gel-3's super fighter and acquires a solid missile lock. He thumbs the button and sends four heatseekers.

Nosferatu base EV 87
Experience provides bonus of  8
Flares provides bonus of  80
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
HSM 3 provides penalty of  25
HSM 4 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 75
Roll: 77 - failure
Gel-2 eats three missiles and begins trying to disengage.

An allied interceptor squadron enters the area from the same direction you did.
: Heads up, we're gonna start laying down some long range fire. Don't get nailed by one of our missiles.

Yamashiro situates herself behind Draugur-2, the only member of her squad to make any progress towards engaging the Draugur planes.
Blows are traded between both air wings as the two formations dissolve into a large furball.
Everyone is currently in the same furball (point blank), except for Weizhskilde and Echo squadron.

[Gojira]

"Doesn't seem like things are going my way!"
Markus fires two AAMs at Draugr-5 before dropping four strings of flares and evading.

[Operator¹]

Bell starts trying to untangle herself from the furball, heading in the direction of the interceptors. She also waits for her comms to come back online from the PPC backfiring.


Ellie is about to pull the trigger when the missiles strike the Nosferatu ahead of her. Once the plane starts to disengage, she peels off the tail of the jet and fires a snapshot at Rauths-1.

"Good hit on that plane, Snowman, let's start working on these Tukrebs."

[Badger]

Walter lurches forward and begins to pull up and around, in the meanwhile he spots the odd plane out that's falling out of the fight (draugr-1) and launches two AAMs after it

"Probably interceptors with HARMs, try to make use of each others countermeasures if you can, we can't do much about them right now."

[NoZoner]

Lorens "... Alright. Skytracer, I'm with you. We're cleaning up those Tukrebs," Lorens declares resolutely, his voice tinted with exhaustion. Sweat trickles down his forehead and wells at his furrowed brow. "Echo flight, this is Mjolnir-3, glad to have you with us- stuff! Echo flight, requesting saturation attack on the nearest Nosferatu! The one that just fired those missiles!" Acting out on his own, Lorens pushes forward on the lever and lunges after the falling Berkut. A lump forms in his throat. He throws out two strings of flares to throw off the all-aspect missiles.

Ash The MAW tone goes off once again, with no hard spike from the warning receiver. Dammit! This needs to end now! With the high yo-yo complete, Ash finds himself deep inside the circle, but too slow to keep up with the Berkut in the turn. Instead of trying to close in, Ash decides to gamble once more. He keeps his gun cross out ahead in the bandit's flight path and takes a snap shot on the passing Berkut before throwing out another two flare packets and jinking hard to evade.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko fires at Kaneda-1, with an EML shot and RAC fire.

[Tayasaurus]

"One at a time. Stay focused." Tippy mutters to herself.

Tippy guns for alpha 3 firing her UAC.

[Qwepir]

"Doesn't seem like things are going my way!"
Markus fires two AAMs at Draugr-5 before dropping four strings of flares and evading.

Berkut base EV 85
Experience provides bonus of  10
Combat Drugs provides bonus of  10
Flares provides bonus of  40
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 75
Roll: 19 - success

Typhoon base EV 82
Experience provides bonus of  2
Flares provides bonus of  160
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
AAM 3 provides penalty of  35
AAM 4 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 104
Roll: 97 - success
Neither you nor your opponent get hit.

Walter lurches forward and begins to pull up and around, in the meanwhile he spots the odd plane out that's falling out of the fight (draugr-1) and launches two AAMs after it

"Probably interceptors with HARMs, try to make use of each others countermeasures if you can, we can't do much about them right now."

The Berkut's disabled engines make a difficult target for the All-Aspects.

The MAW tone goes off once again, with no hard spike from the warning receiver. Dammit! This needs to end now! With the high yo-yo complete, Ash finds himself deep inside the circle, but too slow to keep up with the Berkut in the turn. Instead of trying to close in, Ash decides to gamble once more. He keeps his gun cross out ahead in the bandit's flight path and takes a snap shot on the passing Berkut before throwing out another two flare packets and jinking hard to evade.

LCB accuracy 50
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 60
Roll: 30 - success
Your beam laser drags across the Berkut's roosterpit, instantly killing the pilot and causing your plane to be caught in the resulting detonation.
Tukreb base EV 75
Flares provides bonus of  80
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 85
Roll: 18 - success
You emerge from the debris cloud battered and smoldering a bit, but with no missiles on your tail.

Jaakko fires at Kaneda-1, with an EML shot and RAC fire.

EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  8
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 58
Roll: 50 - success
The drone is nailed by the EML and begins spiraling out of control. With critical control systems lacking the level of EMP-hardening most modern planes do, the drone is effectively destroyed.

"One at a time. Stay focused." Tippy mutters to herself.
Tippy guns for alpha 3 firing her UAC.

UAC accuracy 40
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Experience provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 60
Roll: 69 - failure
Shot failed to connect.

Acting out on his own, Lorens pushes forward on the lever and lunges after the falling Berkut. A lump forms in his throat. He throws out two strings of flares to throw off the all-aspect missiles.

The all-aspects go for the flares, and you see them explode in your rear-views. Turning your eyes forward, you witness the Berkut's engines tentatively flare back to life and Tempest pull out of his spiral, letting loose two missiles.
: [What? That Berkut just- Drokk!-]
: [The Commandant's been hit! What do we do!?]
: [Battlefield conditions are becoming increasingly unfavorable. Recommend withdrawal to secure airspace.]

Bell starts trying to untangle herself from the furball, heading in the direction of the interceptors. She also waits for her comms to come back online from the PPC backfiring.

Nobody fires on you, and it looks like you'll be able to disengage cleanly.

Ellie is about to pull the trigger when the missiles strike the Nosferatu ahead of her. Once the plane starts to disengage, she peels off the tail of the jet and fires a snapshot at Rauths-1.

LCB accuracy 55
Experience provides bonus of  8
Test taken at 63
Roll: 35 - success
You bring your plane around just enough to fire briefly on the Tukreb and end up dragging it straight across its underside, gutting it like a very combustible fish.

The Imperial AWACS repeats the notion expressed by the Hyperion to the Auxiliary squadron.
: Current casualty rates are unsustainable! Fall back and regroup with the reinforcement squadron!
: Bad idea. The moment we turn our backs they're going to roll over us.

Draugur-1 is at missile range from the Auxiliary squadron, at Point Blank to Weizhskilde.
Echo is still at radar range.

[Gojira]

"[Weizhskilde, suggest you withdraw immediately, I'll cover you!]"
Markus brings his aircraft around, lines up the pipper on Draugr-1, and fires his LCP.

[Tayasaurus]

Tippy tries to get on alpha 3's tail.

[Badger]

Walter drops two chaff packets and evades through the fight

"dropping countermeasures, take advantage of them if you can."

He exits the maneuver to drop his remaining pair of AAMs on Bravo-6

[Operator¹]

Ellie fires two AAMs on Markus and starts pursuing Gel-4.

[Mr. Hurricane]

"AWACS, how long until reinforcements come to us? We're committed-"

Jaakko's sentence is interrupted by RWR blaring about a missile lock. He evades, using Walt's chaff, and dropping a string of his own. He then fires on the Wyvern with the EML.

[NoZoner]

Lorens "Tempest!," Lorens exclaims, surprised and elated to see the Berkut right itself and engage, "I understand you were hit? What's your status?"

Ash Ash crosses his arms in a guard as the Berkut's secondary detonation slams his own Tukreb. The thump of the shock wave knocks the air out of his lungs and causes his ears to ring. Some seconds later, the return of his senses is met with the chanting of Bitchin' Betty and an annunciator panel lit up like a Broadway marquee. "... Ark! forget!," Ash frantically scans his roosterpit, trying to regain his bearings and make sense of what happened, "I'm hit! I'm extending back out to range!" The Tukreb makes a slow turn back away from the furball. Ash realizes his starboard aileron is almost completely immobile.