Week 33/4 - Op Bernard & Op Tannnberg
Week 33/4 - Op Bernard & Op Tannnberg
So our first two-op day in quite a while, only possible because of Scythe given Khepri is still not cleared back for combat. Turns out House Liao had a couple of contracts going begging that attracted by attention. One was for a big job - going to hunt down a local government lance and potentially take out any reinforcements. The second was smaller - free a House Liao agent that had been picked up by the locals, light opposition expected.
The smaller job happened first - Scythe took out Kestrel for her first deployment, with Courser in Iron Jay, Cruise in Lady V, and Rifle leading the charge in Sunrise. The OpFor was a light lance, and truth be told didn't cause them much in the way of trouble. Sunrise took a few internals from a Jenner, but there was no real danger by all accounts. A good first outing for the newbie, who handled himself pretty well as these things go.
That was Operation Bernard. Operation Tannenberg was a wee bit more interesting.
Of course, the intel provided told us to expect reinforcements, and that we might be facing heavy opposition, so we took an appropriate lance. I went out in Spots, Frost in Slaserstarter, and then I asked Graceland to go out in our Gnat with Warlord helming Gwennie. You might call it the missile lance (well, except for Slaserstarter of course).
The initial opposition was a trio: a Commando -1B, a Blackjack -1, and a Grasshopper -5H. We took out the Commando afore it even got a shot off, and the Blackjack didn't last much longer - but then the locals dropped another three mech lance in a Spider, a Blackjack -1DB, and a Quickdraw -5A. The Spider we wasted, and we dismantled the Blackjack - and then a third three mech lance dropped with a Locust, a Trebuchet, and another Quickdraw.
By this time we had taken quite a few hits ourselves - but only a handful of internals on the Gnat's empty arm. Spots was running very hot and I had gotten myself in a flanking position - I had let a folley right up the backside of the first Quickdraw. Of course, flanking can also mean isolated. Darius by this time was freaking out - saying we ought to cut and run. I told Sumire to cut his comms. Frost was, well, frosty, and showed it be waltzing right up to that Grasshopper and start to tear one side open. Warlord and Graceland ... well there were a mite more human and nervous, but focused. We blew off one side of the Grasshopper, which then nearly punched its way through Slaserstarter front to back.
Frost's response to this was to opine how her mech's heat problems was going to resolve itself soon on account of the great big bloody massive hole in its centre torso. Graceland, further back, thought she could see daylight out the other side. Frost was all for playing the odds, but I ordered her to jump out. She did - and only harrassed a little with her medium laser after that. The three of us managed to finish wrecking the Grasshopper though and then took down the first Quickdraw.
That third lance ... the third lance had its problems. Well, for one they did diddly-squat. Just walked around the place. We later learned they were somehow remote-controlled, only whatever foolish system they had it place stopped being able to target anything. This we had these three mechs lumbering around just waiting to be shot. Which we did, and took home a hefty bonus for doing so, but it weren't as much fun. When that third lance dropped I was actually a little concerned, but the end of it I was irked.
I prioritised what was left of the Grasshopper and the two Quickdraws. Not enough for Yang to reconstruct of course, but he reckons he's close with the Quickdraw. But I think we'll be moving on from here. Not sure where to as yet. There's a potential job in Liu's Revenge, but we'll see. Oh, and Yang is bringing the Refit Harness equipment in the Mechbay back online. Figure that would be handy.
So our first two-op day in quite a while, only possible because of Scythe given Khepri is still not cleared back for combat. Turns out House Liao had a couple of contracts going begging that attracted by attention. One was for a big job - going to hunt down a local government lance and potentially take out any reinforcements. The second was smaller - free a House Liao agent that had been picked up by the locals, light opposition expected.
The smaller job happened first - Scythe took out Kestrel for her first deployment, with Courser in Iron Jay, Cruise in Lady V, and Rifle leading the charge in Sunrise. The OpFor was a light lance, and truth be told didn't cause them much in the way of trouble. Sunrise took a few internals from a Jenner, but there was no real danger by all accounts. A good first outing for the newbie, who handled himself pretty well as these things go.
That was Operation Bernard. Operation Tannenberg was a wee bit more interesting.
Of course, the intel provided told us to expect reinforcements, and that we might be facing heavy opposition, so we took an appropriate lance. I went out in Spots, Frost in Slaserstarter, and then I asked Graceland to go out in our Gnat with Warlord helming Gwennie. You might call it the missile lance (well, except for Slaserstarter of course).
The initial opposition was a trio: a Commando -1B, a Blackjack -1, and a Grasshopper -5H. We took out the Commando afore it even got a shot off, and the Blackjack didn't last much longer - but then the locals dropped another three mech lance in a Spider, a Blackjack -1DB, and a Quickdraw -5A. The Spider we wasted, and we dismantled the Blackjack - and then a third three mech lance dropped with a Locust, a Trebuchet, and another Quickdraw.
By this time we had taken quite a few hits ourselves - but only a handful of internals on the Gnat's empty arm. Spots was running very hot and I had gotten myself in a flanking position - I had let a folley right up the backside of the first Quickdraw. Of course, flanking can also mean isolated. Darius by this time was freaking out - saying we ought to cut and run. I told Sumire to cut his comms. Frost was, well, frosty, and showed it be waltzing right up to that Grasshopper and start to tear one side open. Warlord and Graceland ... well there were a mite more human and nervous, but focused. We blew off one side of the Grasshopper, which then nearly punched its way through Slaserstarter front to back.
Frost's response to this was to opine how her mech's heat problems was going to resolve itself soon on account of the great big bloody massive hole in its centre torso. Graceland, further back, thought she could see daylight out the other side. Frost was all for playing the odds, but I ordered her to jump out. She did - and only harrassed a little with her medium laser after that. The three of us managed to finish wrecking the Grasshopper though and then took down the first Quickdraw.
That third lance ... the third lance had its problems. Well, for one they did diddly-squat. Just walked around the place. We later learned they were somehow remote-controlled, only whatever foolish system they had it place stopped being able to target anything. This we had these three mechs lumbering around just waiting to be shot. Which we did, and took home a hefty bonus for doing so, but it weren't as much fun. When that third lance dropped I was actually a little concerned, but the end of it I was irked.
I prioritised what was left of the Grasshopper and the two Quickdraws. Not enough for Yang to reconstruct of course, but he reckons he's close with the Quickdraw. But I think we'll be moving on from here. Not sure where to as yet. There's a potential job in Liu's Revenge, but we'll see. Oh, and Yang is bringing the Refit Harness equipment in the Mechbay back online. Figure that would be handy.
