Collace Homecoming

[Tiglath]

Prerna

"Are we sure about popping up in the middle of this mess," Prerna asks over the command net. She looks for an alternate route by which to engage the troops on the flight deck.

From the rising elevator Prerna reckons she could traverse the lattice of girderwork supporting the Flight Deck and use that to access an orbital craft service point blistered below the deck and then emerge through that onto the flight apron. However, this would take some considerable time (measured in minutes) - especially if carrying a long barreled rifle. Meanwhile just over the rim of the elevator there is a definitively "clear and present danger" to First Squad whose arrival is measurable in seconds.

Uncle and Xray await orders from Prerna.

(OOC: Time put in "game" rather than "narrative" terms: you imminently have what must be one or two tactically critical combat rounds to keep SEMC in the fight).

[Tiglath]

Jess

[Tartar, wait for me, I’ll find yer some armour.

After talking to the Zhodani, Jess takes Tartar to the Armoury. She issues him a CES and puts on her own CA.

Back in the hangar Jess arrives fully armoured up with Tartar in tow in a borrowed CES and now toting a bag of grenades apparently as his preferred weapon.

The only remaining SEMC stewards are Charlie, King and Sugar all still out of armour but ably managing the now corralled serving folk.

[joertexas]

Prerna

"Are we sure about popping up in the middle of this mess," Prerna asks over the command net. She looks for an alternate route by which to engage the troops on the flight deck.

From the rising elevator Prerna reckons she could traverse the lattice of girderwork supporting the Flight Deck and use that to access an orbital craft service point blistered below the deck and then emerge through that onto the flight apron. However, this would take some considerable time (measured in minutes) - especially if carrying a long barreled rifle. Meanwhile just over the rim of the elevator there is a definitively "clear and present danger" to First Squad whose arrival is measurable in seconds.

Uncle and Xray await orders from Prerna.

(OOC: Time put in "game" rather than "narrative" terms: you imminently have what must be one or two tactically critical combat rounds to keep SEMC in the fight).

Prerna stays low and skitters over to pick up Whisky's SAW; she prepares to pop up and fire at her next opportunity.

[dongriffiths]

Having stashed his companion in the safest place he could find Klaus moved to get a view of the inbound attackers.

Cautiously he takes up a firing position on the troops streaming across the taxiways.

Bracing himself in a prone stance he flips the rifle to full auto and positions replacement magazines ready to hand.

[shaidar]

Frank assesses the situation and changes location to join first squad

He sends an priority message on the command channel:

"This is Cross. First squad is pinned down in the lift and taking critical fire. We need an assist ASAP."

He switches his rifle to grenade launcher, locates a target in the centre of the enemy unit and fires off a HE grenade.

[BackworldTraveller]

Voss - Gaugin's team in the Gatehouse...can a fire-team be detached from there to catch these attackers from that side?

And then she gets her team to get the drones to take a look in other directions...most of our guys are concentrating on the tactical disaster on the open flight deck. A second wave incoming now would find almost everywhere else (except the gate) uncovered.

[The Bindoner]

Jess

[Tartar, wait for me, I’ll find yer some armour.

After talking to the Zhodani, Jess takes Tartar to the Armoury. She issues him a CES and puts on her own CA.

Back in the hangar Jess arrives fully armoured up with Tartar in tow in a borrowed CES and now toting a bag of grenades apparently as his preferred weapon.

The only remaining SEMC stewards are Charlie, King and Sugar all still out of armour but ably managing the now corralled serving folk.

Right, find a secure room and lock those 'erberts in. Shug, guard 'em. Charlie-boy, Kingy, armour up and follow on.

He sends an priority message on the command channel:

"This is Cross. First squad is pinned down in the lift and taking critical fire. We need an assist ASAP."

Henker. On my way.

Jess contacts Freya:

I've got a rifle, and a guy with a bag of bombs. Put me where I can use 'em.

[The Bindoner]

Jess uses her unit comm channel: 'Arry, Mike, with me. Charlie, grab some anti-armour while you're at it, an' quick about it, the Boss an' First Squad are in trouble.

Jess takes the people she has on hand and makes best speed to join the fight.

Jess is relying on Freya to put her in a position to engage the rear or flank of the force engaging the rest of SEMC. Perhaps Charlie and Kingy can be directed to arrive from a different location, for more FUD?

[Tiglath]

Jess is relying on Freya to put her in a position to engage the rear or flank of the force engaging the rest of SEMC. Perhaps Charlie and Kingy can be directed to arrive from a different location, for more FUD?

OOC: While there are possibilities to emerge from various places on the Flight Deck (see OOC for Prerna's options) the apparent need for immediate intervention up top limits the available options to available time.

Jess therefore has the following choices/routes:
1. Use the personnel lift which delivers passengers to the Flight Deck just a few meters west of the craft elevator. Those riding the lift platform up could go prone facing the known nearest threat (east) by way of generating themselves some cover (unless they can hotwire a lift like Kit).
2. Use the stairs (in combination with the co-located personnel lift) to emerge on the Flight Deck via a hatch adjacent to the personnel lift platform. This would allow one shooter to emerge in cover with the hatch effectively making a "Tobruk" defensive position with only head and shoulders exposed

NB Charlie and King are still unarmoured and therefore not (really) available for a firefight topside.

[BackworldTraveller]

Freya notes Charlie and King heading into the Armoury to "Gear Up".

Voss - Designate Charlie and King in the Armoury with Freddy and I. We can be the Colonel's Reserve - or the Armoury Guard as you see fit.

Jess - If you want to get topside quick, take the main vehicle lift...preferably in something armoured from the vehicles parked by the hanger entrance. Some extra firepower would help up there.

[gurusql]

Kit

Kit orders his unit to open up with maximum impact and keep that crouch down to maximize the cover (I was hoping for 75%)

Given the math (on the other list). Kit will fire a HEAP grenade trying to take out the other sides leader or biggest gun if I cannot tell whom the leader is.

Rifle Shot [_2d6+3]=(6+1)=7+3=10 (Rifle-2, A DEX)

[Tiglath]

Flight Deck Firefight Round 2

All
The hostile airborne forces close in and regardless of losses seek to use the sledgehammer aggression of overwhelming firepower to force the issue and win access to the hangar below.

Frank slips an HE grenade into his underslung launcher and fires it at the on coming pro infantry. Alas, the round misses not only the guy he aimed at but also the guy he could have hit! While the frag effect no doubt hits about half the fireteam the only noticeable effect is one attacker taking a "ding" to the head.

Klaus, knowing that nothing wins a firefight like sustained firepower, opens fire with his issue ACR selecting a mag of DS rounds and full auto. He hits an advancing Para with three bursts and sees rounds penetrate his CES armoured right leg and "wing" his left arm but the already wounded enemy comes on undaunted.

Prerna finds that the SAW is ready to rock n' roll. She selects an already wounded para slogging forward and starts the music. She's not sure whether she ever fully penetrates her target's armour but when the SAW's can runs dry she sees his armour running with blood as he pitches forward onto his knees and then his face and lies still.

Able stirs as First Squad return fire. He drags himself up to deck height blindly firing over the parapet urging "Go on First Squad! Fekkin' give 'em it!" Dog and Ink blaze away both getting hits. Ink cooly asks "You OK, hijo?" Dog returns "Leakin' - fek they're 'ard to stop". Ink slams in another mag and getting a lucky leg hit that drops her target declares "Stopped!" Killer and Johnny both put full mags on target but the Paras' armour is too good for their DS rounds. Route One peppers his target but the tough para keeps coming. Nuts recovers his aim at the para who launched a grenade at him "You fekkin' saucey canute - gertcha!" The PGMP's bolt of plasma hits the para centre mass - it doesn't stop.

The squad of Avastan(?) Paras continue to fire and maneuver throwing down a torrent of accurate automatic fire. The Para engaged by Klaus fires back but his aim is "off" and he only hits Klaus once. Credit for center mass but that's where the armour is - and it worked. In the Merc "firepit" that is the sunken lift Dog takes a hit and as he collapses mutters " 's awright Inky - the armour stopped it... fek..." Switching onto the Command channel Ink calls "DFSOS my pos - all you got". Another Para staggers forwards but due to his wounds he can't bring his AK to bear accurately. An unwounded Para crests the lift/firepit and hoses rounds into Killer who staggers backwards under the delivered kinetic energy but then bewilderedly turns in his pincushioned armour to Johnny to relate "Ruddy 'ell - I'm alive!" As he does so a RAM grenade passes through the space where his head would have been. Johnny can but comment "You fekkin' lucky barsteward!"

(OOC:

Frank
[2d6+2]=3+2=5
Re-Roll [2d6]=4 What did you do in your previous life!!!
Scatter & Frag: [2d6]=11 Locn [1d8]=1 Dang headshot when you needed legs! So Result = No Effect

Klaus
[2d6+6]=7+6=13 Three hits (8+, 10+, 12+)
Located [1d8]=4[1d8]=6[1d8]=8 Chest, Lower Torso, Legs
Effect (penetration @ AV 10 Pen 6 so net -4 but net 0 on Legs) [2d6-4]=9-4=5 [2d6-4]=5-4=1 [2d6]=7
Result 5 = LW, 7 = LW KO test 2 in 6 [1d6]=6 Not KO!

Prerna
[2d6+9]=9+9=18 Just the SIX hits then...
Located [1d8]=1[1d8]=5[1d8]=1[1d8]=2[1d8]=6[1d8]=5 Everything above the waistline!
Effect (penetration @ AV 10 Pen 6 so net -4) [2d6-4]=8-4=4[2d6-4]=8-4=4[2d6-4]=4-4=0[2d6-4]=10-4=6[2d6-4]=7-4=3[2d6-4]=8-4=4
Result 4 LW and the Sam Peckinpah award for most gratuitous death of a thousand cuts thus far!

First Squad Fire:

Cpl Able: that'll be concussion then!

Riflemen:
Dog Two LW
[2d6+4]=10+4=14-2 = 12 Three Hits
Located[1d8]=4 [1d8]=6 [1d8]=2
Effect [2d6-4]=10-4=6,[2d6-4]=4-4=0 [2d6-4]=6-4=2
Result 1 LW same target [1d6]=6 not KO

Ink One LW
[2d6+4]=9+4=13-1 = 12 Three Hits [2d6]=5, Three Hits
Located [1d8]=3,[1d8]=6,[1d8]=7 One Legs Hit AV 6
Effect [2d6-4]=6-4=2 [2d6-4]=11-4=7 Cloth CES (legs) [2d6]=9 SW
Result LW SW (cumulative KIA)

"Killer"
[2d6+4]=6+4=10 Two Hits
Located [1d8]=3,[1d8]=1 AV 10 Pen 6 = -4
Effect [2d6]=7 7-4=3
Result No Effect

Johnny
[2d6+4]=3+4=7 Miss

Route One
[2d6+4]=7+4=11 Two Hits,[2d6]=3
Located [1d8]=2,[1d8]=5 All AV 10
Effect [2d6-4]=5-4=1,[2d6-4]=11-4=7
Result One LW [1d6]=4 Not KO

Whiskey is KIA

Nuts on the squad PGMP 12.
[2d6+2]=8+2=10 One Hit
[1d8]=3 Centre Mass
Result One KIA

Enemy Return Fire:

One: 2LW KO

Two: 2 LW Klaus [2d6+3]=6+3=9 One Hit
Effect [1d8]=6 [2d6]=6 No Effect vs AV 10
Result No Effect

Three: SW (Prerna) [+ prev LW = KIA]

Four: LW (Dog) [2d6+4]=9+4=13 Three Hits vs AV 10
Effect [1d2]=1[1d2]=2[1d2]=1 One Hit [2d6-4]=9-4=5 LW
Location [1d8]=3 Chest
Result [1d6]=2 KO Three LW on Dog (KO/SW)

Five: SW (Ink)

Six: 4LW KO cumulative SW (Route One)

Seven: 2 LW [2d6+3]=4+3=7
Effect Miss
Result No Effect

Eight: [2d6+5]=9+5=14 Four Hits
Effect [2d6-4]=6-4=2 [2d6-4]=6-4=2 [2d6-4]=5-4=1 [2d6-4]=6-4=2
Result No Effect on Killer

Nine: [2d6+3]=4+3=7 Miss
HEAP No Frag – no additional hits
Effect -
Result Miss

Ten: KIA Nuts

Morale tests:

SEMC 1st Squad [2d6]=3 First Squad bottle in!
Boosted by +3 for Cover, +3 for Col Cross' personal presence, +2 Officer within 100m (Prerna/Kit), +1 for (concussed) NCO present, -2 for Casualties taken (1KIA, 1KO net result as Able recovered!) Result: Pass.
Visitors [2d6]=8 Casualties (5). Result: Pass.
50% Casualties and they're laughin' = Nails.

[The Bindoner]

Jess sprints to the personnel lift, leading Harry and Mike.

We’re poppin’ up in the middle’v a firefight, so keep down.

On the HQ channel: Henker, with two, personnel lift, rising. Orient me.

She fiddles with the controls, trying to work out the emergency stop function before it’s too late: Either of you know how to stop this thing?




[_2d6]=(1+4)=5 +1 Int = 6 Looks like "go prone" then.

Looking ahead (with better luck on the roller):

To Hit: [_2d6]=(6+4)=10, +2 skill, +1 Dex = 13

Location: [1d8]=7

[shaidar]

Frank gives up on grenades and switches to his gauss rifle and fires off fully auto at an appropriate target (the one shooting at Killer?)

[Tiglath]

Jess

On the HQ channel: Henker, with two, personnel lift, rising. Orient me.

Voss' clipped tones compliment an update to Jess' comm showing the current tactical dispositions in real time. "Threat east - enemy infantry squad. Be advised threat rear from dispersed marksmen on the taxiway".

She fiddles with the controls, trying to work out the emergency stop function before it’s too late: Either of you know how to stop this thing?

Going prone 'Arry artlessly replies " 'S awright Ma'am - it stops on its own when it gets to the top".

Jess is formulating a truly blistering reply when the deck plates above her retract and the crack of ricochets and the odd tearing sound of rounds in flight focusses her mind on the immediacy of the firefight.

It doesn't really help that Sugar now chooses this particular moment to inform her in nervous sotto voce "Ma'am - the Zhodani. They've got... robots".

However, the nagging doubt caused by her squad continually informing her of the bleedin' obvious has to be put aside in favour of matters of musketry.

(OOC: Rolls duly noted - might get another round in tonight! ).

[Tiglath]

Frank gives up on grenades and switches to his gauss rifle and fires off fully auto at an appropriate target (the one shooting at Killer?)

OOC: If you've checked the rolls luck was hardly on your side - in fact it was AWOL!

Frank can now see the appeal of the Automatic Grenade Launcher. Clues are in the name but autofire bonus and grenades! However, the ammo weighs a lot and, after blatting it all off in one spectacular "moment", there's little to do except embarrassed thumb twiddling...

Horses, courses, swings, roundabouts!

Target preference noted - Frank may yet wreak his revenge tonight!

[Tiglath]

Freya notes Charlie and King heading into the Armoury to "Gear Up".

Voss - Designate Charlie and King in the Armoury with Freddy and I. We can be the Colonel's Reserve - or the Armoury Guard as you see fit.

Voss replies "Have that. Designating you Colonel's reserve and updating battle computer. Move to readiness in the hangar. Captain Domici and Lt Ellis have the security role apparently she's convinced she'll find any trespassers".

[BackworldTraveller]

Freya notes Charlie and King heading into the Armoury to "Gear Up".

Voss - Designate Charlie and King in the Armoury with Freddy and I. We can be the Colonel's Reserve - or the Armoury Guard as you see fit.

Voss replies "Have that. Designating you Colonel's reserve and updating battle computer. Move to readiness in the hangar. Captain Domici and Lt Ellis have the security role apparently she's convinced she'll find any trespassers".

Acknowledged.
She looks at the newly clad soldiers
Grab some spare med-packs - Sounds like we will need them
And with that, she gathers up the three troopers and heads for the stairs to the hanger deck.

[joertexas]

Prerna drops the SAW and unlimbers her heavy gauss rifle. "Cover me, I'm going to open the east hatch for some reinforcements." With that, she leaps up onto the deck and dashes off to the east, toward the parked vehicles, running as fast as she can.

[The Bindoner]

Jess

Voss' clipped tones compliment an update to Jess' comm showing the current tactical dispositions in real time. "Threat east - enemy infantry squad. Be advised threat rear from dispersed marksmen on the taxiway".

Noted, thanks.

Going prone 'Arry artlessly replies " 'S awright Ma'am - it stops on its own when it gets to the top".

Jess is formulating a truly blistering reply when the deck plates above her retract and the crack of ricochets and the odd tearing sound of rounds in flight focusses her mind on the immediacy of the firefight.

‘Arry, watch our back, there’s snipers on the deck. Mike, targets ahead. Hard shells, aim low.

It doesn't really help that Sugar now chooses this particular moment to inform her in nervous sotto voce "Ma'am - the Zhodani. They've got... robots".

‘s OK Shug, I think they’re here to help. * thinking to herself: I bloody well hope they are, or we’re frellin’ frelled. * Still, tell HQ and keep an eye on 'em. We don't want anyone shootin' at 'em if they suddenly appear up 'ere.