ABS FIESTA REDUX

[Qwepir]

"[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.

LCP accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  2
Aim provides bonus of  10
Missile Range provides penalty of  20
Test taken at 42
Roll: 85 - failure
You miss the target.
Berkut's base EV 85
Experience provides bonus of 10
Combat Drugs provide bonus of 10
Draugur's test taken at 105
Typhoon base EV 82
Experience provides bonus of 2
Scorch's test taken at 84
Draugur's roll: 55 - success by 6 degrees
Scorch's roll: 74 - success by 1 degree
Draugur-5 falls in on your tail.

Tippy tries to get on alpha 3's tail.

Berkut base EV 85
Experience provides bonus of 10
Tippy's test taken at 95
Flatline base EV 78
Experience provides bonus of 6
Alpha-3's test taken at 84
Tippy's roll: 29 - success by 7 degrees
Alpha 3's roll: 30 - success by 6 degrees
Alpha 3's reroll: 44 - success by 5 degrees
They put up a decent struggle, but at the end of the turn you're hot on their tail.

Walter drops two chaff packets and evades through the fight

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

Virvel follows close by, having taken very little chaff of her own.
Nosferatu base EV 87
Experience provides bonus of 4
HARM provides penalty of 100
Chaff provides bonus of 80
Test taken at 71
Roll: 78 - failure
Reroll: 15 - success

Switchblade base EV 89
Experience provides bonus of 10
HARM provides penalty of 100
Chaff provides bonus of 80
Test taken at 79
Roll: 22 - success
You both escape the heavy missiles.

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

Berkut base EV 85
Experience provides bonus of  6
Flares provides bonus of  40
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 61
Roll: 86 - failure
The Berkut is knocked out of the sky.
: Watch my back, I'm gonna go swat those coward little stuffs down.

"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.

Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of 8
HARM provides penalty of 100
Chaff provides bonus of 120
Test taken at 103
Roll: 43 - success
The missile is successfully evaded.
EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of 8
Point Blank provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 58
Roll: 74 - failure
The EML discharges its invisible payload and you see the Wyvern continue on its way as if nothing happened.
: Reinforcement squadron is thirty miles out, they'll be there in mere minutes.

"... 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.

Draugur-2 notices you trying to leave after blowing up its squadmate and sets its sights on you.
Berkut's base EV 85
Experience provides bonus of 10
Combat Drugs provide bonus of 10
Draugur's test taken at 105
Tukreb base EV 75
Blackeye's test taken at 75
Draugur's roll: 90 - success by 2 degrees
Blackeye's roll: 22 - success by 6 degrees
Draugur's reroll: 42 - success by 7 degrees
Blackeye's reroll: 75 - success by 1 degree
You see it appear in your rearviews, aimed right at you.
: I'm gonna forgetin' scalp your ass for that!

Somewhat fortunately for Ash, he sees a Sulla falling in behind the Berkut to deal with it.
: I got this one- just don't get hit!

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

Wyvern base EV 100
Experience provides bonus of 4
Ellie's test taken at 104
Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of 4
Gel-4 test taken at 79
Ellie's roll: 63 - success by 5 degrees
Gel-4's roll: 77 - success by 1 degree
Gel-4's reroll: 69 - success by 2 degrees
You barely even feel the Gs as the Wyvern effortlessly falls in behind the Tukreb.

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

: All good here, no physical damage.

Tempest ripple fires four more all-aspects and downs two of the jet trainers. One of them doesn't even wait for the missiles to impact, and ejects while the missile is still en route.

Echo squadron fires another volley of HARMs

[Ad Bot]

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko aims and fires on the Wyvern with the EML. He sees that Draugr-1 is back on radar.

"Nothing loving hit Draugr-1?!"

[Badger]

"That doesn't matter right now, Markus; tell those recruits to get their munitions out and leave, they aren't doing anything without their commander."

Walter evades and sets him self up in a better position to assist Virvel

[Gojira]

"That's what I'm trying to- [forget!]- do! Two incoming, evading! [Weizskhilde, fire what you have left and get out of here now!]" he shouts, voice full of urgency.
Markus drops his last string of flares and evades, retaliating on Draugr-5 and Ellie with two AAMs each of his own.

[Tayasaurus]

Tippy lines up a shot on Alpha 3 and sends a hot chunk of lead in his direction.

[NoZoner]

Lorens "stuff, man, you don't even sound fazed," Lorens can't help but point out, "Alright, I'm turning back in!" He comes back around and finds Gel-5. Bringing the seeker diamond over the Tukreb, Lorens fires his remaining three heatseekers and snap-fires his laser cannon.

Ash "Nagato, that you?," Ash looks at his mirrors in time to catch a glint flash behind the Berkut, "I'll do my best to defend!" A bad situation turns worse with the introduction of an inbound radar missile. "... That's another missile launch on me! Hoh forget!" Sparing no effort to evade, Ash mashes the countermeasures button and throws out three chaff clouds to deter the missile, all while swerving to keep away from the more immediate aggressor.

[Operator¹]

Ellie pivots her jet up and engages the turbocharger to get out to missile range. She dispenses two packets of flares as she starts evasive maneuvers at distance to lose the AAMs on her tail.

[Qwepir]

Jaakko aims and fires on the Wyvern with the EML. He sees that Draugr-1 is back on radar.

"Nothing loving hit Draugr-1?!"

EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  8
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of 10
Test taken at 68
Roll: 61 - success
Skytracer gets hit and loses control.

"That doesn't matter right now, Markus; tell those recruits to get their munitions out and leave, they aren't doing anything without their commander."

Walter evades and sets him self up in a better position to assist Virvel

Alpha-6 gives chase, and a burst of cannonfire goes over your head.

"That's what I'm trying to- [forget!]- do! Two incoming, evading! [Weizskhilde, fire what you have left and get out of here now!]" he shouts, voice full of urgency.
Markus drops his last string of flares and evades, retaliating on Draugr-5 and Ellie with two AAMs each of his own.

Berkut base EV 85
Combat Drugs provides bonus of  10
Experience provides bonus of  10
AAM 1 provides penalty of  35
AAM 2 provides penalty of  35
Test taken at 35
Roll: 9 - success
Draugur-5 evades the missile, and Ellie's ablative plating allows her to survive the two All-Aspects with hull integrity to spare. The incoming HARM wipes away your ablative armor in a blast that definitely should have killed you.

Tippy lines up a shot on Alpha 3 and sends a hot chunk of lead in his direction.

UAC accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  10
Aim provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Tail Chase provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 80
Roll: 20 - success
You skewer the plane all the way through.

"Nagato, that you?," Ash looks at his mirrors in time to catch a glint flash behind the Berkut, "I'll do my best to defend!"

A bad situation turns worse with the introduction of an inbound radar missile. "... That's another missile launch on me! Hoh forget!" Sparing no effort to evade, Ash mashes the countermeasures button and throws out three chaff clouds to deter the missile, all while swerving to keep away from the more immediate aggressor.

Tukreb base EV 75
Chaff provides bonus of  120
HARM provides penalty of  100
Test taken at 95
Roll: 19 - success
You shake the HARM, but the enemy plane keeps up the pursuit.
: Steady...

EML accuracy 40
Experience provides bonus of  6
Aim provides bonus of  20
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 76
Roll: 39 - success
Nagato breathes a sigh of relief as her EMP gun hits Draugur-2 instead of you.
: Target disabled, going in for the kill.

Ellie pivots her jet up and engages the turbocharger to get out to missile range. She dispenses two packets of flares as she starts evasive maneuvers at distance to lose the AAMs on her tail.

You manage to get the turbocharger out before the EML knocks out all systems, leaving you in darkness. Two more missile impacts follow as a grainy image is restored to your helmet cameras. A message box pops up in the middle of your field of view as the lights on your control panel begin flickering back on.

[SYSTEMS RESTORING: 20%... 40%...]

The Kaneda, aware of the danger its' operator is in, returns fire on the offending plane (in this case, Crash).
LCP accuracy 50
Aim  provides bonus of  10
Point Blank provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 70
Roll: 91 - failure
It lights up the area around him with the pulse laser and fires its last two All-Aspects.

"stuff, man, you don't even sound fazed," Lorens can't help but point out, "Alright, I'm turning back in!" He comes back around and finds Gel-5. Bringing the seeker diamond over the Tukreb, Lorens fires his remaining three heatseekers and snap-fires his laser cannon.

LCB accuracy 55
Test taken at 55
Roll: 68 - failure

Tukreb base EV 75
Experience provides bonus of  8
Flares provides bonus of  40
HSM 1 provides penalty of  25
HSM 2 provides penalty of  25
HSM 3 provides penalty of  25
Test taken at 48
Roll: 2 - success
Gel-5 displays a surprising level of self-preservation, evading both the laser and the missiles.

RAC accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  10
Combat Drugs provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 70
Roll: 8 - success

FLK accuracy 50
Experience provides bonus of  10
Combat Drugs provides bonus of  10
Test taken at 70
Roll: 24 - success
You leave the drug-addled pilot whose injector just sustained an electrical overload to deal with the inexperienced trainee pilots, and he immediately gets to work discharging his last two missiles at one target while shredding another with his guns. The remaining three planes scatter in different directions- one heading southeast, back to Imperial lines; one directly east, taking an indirect route home; and one gets confused and runs northwest towards the furball and Aesthian fleet.

The loss of three more Imperial planes prompts the attendant AWACS to scrub the mission.
: Attention! Imperial and Auxiliary forces, withdraw immediately! Cruiser Aesthia Inferior is standing by to cover your retreat with a missile barrage upon confirmation.

[Mr. Hurricane]

Jaakko fires on the Wyvern with his RAC and drops two strings of flares to counter the missiles.

"The Wyvern is EM Lanced'! Tippy or Walt, put some fire in to it and let's get free of the furball! I don't want to see it again!

[Operator¹]

There's not really anything for Ellie to do but to wait for the systems to come back online (or eject, but it's kind of hard to react to supersonic projectiles.)

[Gojira]

Markus attempts to chase Tempest back towards friendly forces, taking aim and firing his LCP.

[FelipeO_O_]

hi

can i join? 

[Badger]

Walter evades again this time dropping three chaff packets, not taking chances. After finishing his evasion he attempts to turn and place himself on alpha-6's tail

"Dropping countermeasures, I'll grab this guy while you get those foxbats and we can high-tail it out of here."

[NoZoner]

Lorens "Skytracer!" Seeing his last teammate gravely endangered, Lorens immediately drops his pursuit of Gel-3, turns around and identifies the Tukreb firing on Ellie's Wyvern. In a fit of rage and desperation, Lorens puts the bandit in his gun cross and squeezes the trigger.

Ash "Wait! Nagato, don't take the shot!," Ash shouts urgently, "Those Berkuts are rigged to explode on destruction! If you have to kill, get some distance!" "Blackeye, egressing South!" The Tukreb continues speeding away from the furball.

[Tayasaurus]

Tippy keeps the Imperial AWACS announcement in mind and decides its time to forget off out of the fight ball. She sets course to leave.