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[Tiglath]

Flight Deck Firefight Round 3

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Despite their casualties the Paras press on sensing a return from their relentless and ruthless pressure. Or maybe they press on because these are men who refuse to fail.

Kit having revived Able last round (an act of humanity undocumented by the incompetent scrivener! ) gets in the fight. He targets the remaining grenadier who returns the compliment. Kit's HEAP grenade strikes the Para in the lower torso and cuts him in half. Kit registers that the return grenade at least missed him. Then he comes to. He's leaning over the parapet propped on top of Able who is unconscious (again). Kit notes that there's something wrong with his left arm. He rationalizes that it won't work properly...

Frank raises his gauss rifle and targets the Para hosing Killer. He stitches gauss needles down the man's left side. The penetration through the target's lighter CES hits something vital and the Para pitches forwards off the Flight Deck and onto the elevator platform.

Klaus calmly changes mags and keeps layin' it on. This isn't his first rodeo - noting the lighter armour on the Para's legs he drops his aim as he checks that the fire selector is all the way forward. He scythes DS rounds into his target and watches pink mist erupt behind the Para's upper left thigh. The man drops poleaxed. Klaus feels something "wet" going on following that bang to his right leg - seems like nothing so bad at this stage. [OOC: Light Wound Right Leg -1 on Actions but still in the fight. 'Ooorah! ].

Prerna hefts her long rifle and boosting herself up onto the deck runs east through the Paras jinking left and right around them. It seems they don't notice her in the evening's light mist... [OOC: Which is... um... surprising... at least to any tactically minded observer...].

Jess sees one of the wounded VDV men rise and, drawing something from his webbing, calls what sounds like "Granate!" As he throws she aims low and gives him the good news. Her rounds impact before he completes the throw and his grenade skews wide of the elevator. All of her rounds strike his lightly armoured thighs and in a double fountain of arterial spray he likely bleeds out before his exsanguinated corpse hits the ground. She hears Mike cease fire to admiringly comment "Fekkin' outrageous!" He then adds a dutiful "Ma'am" before he returns to blatting away at a bloke soon to be immolated by Nuts.

Meanwhile Corporal Able groggily rallies his squad "Come on First Squ..." Ink puts another mag into the Para that took out Dog and finally takes him down. Route One swings his bat at the grenadier stood on the parapet and who is targeting Kit. The barbed wire coiled bat makes solid contact just as Kit's RAM grenade puts the encounter beyond debate. Route One will need the steam cleaner... Nuts targets another wounded Para who hoses rounds all about him to no avail. Nuts growls "My turn Canute!" and leaning into the recoil blasts another bolt of plasma that takes the veteran in mid thigh. The bolt removes the limb and sets the now falling corpse on fire.

The Paras doggedly attempt to press their attack. A grenade lofted by a wounded Para dropped by Jess goes wide. Klaus' opponent seems to score a hit on his leg in their ACR duel - just before winning second prize. Another Para blazes at Ink only for his rounds to skitter off her armour. She reciprocates with both automatic fire and some shockingly filthy language. The Para about to be dropped by Frank empties another mag into Killer who, seemingly riddled with DS rounds, finally drops.

Everyone stops shooting and on the most basic assessment the scores are in: an SEMC squad has stopped an elite Avastan VDV squad - dead.

Just the three more to go then...

(OOC:

Kit

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

Shooting underslung grenade at Skill 0 Roll 7 +1 Dex bonus = Hit
Location [1d8]=6 Guts
Effect HEAP grenade so instant fatality
Result KIA

Frank
[2d6+7]=3+7=10 Two Hits
Located [1d8]=8[1d8]=5 Left arm, Left Leg
Effect (penetration @ AV 10 Left Arm AV 6 Left Leg Pen 7 so net -4 then +1 on Legs) [2d6-3]=2-3=-1[2d6+1]=5+1=6 LW
Result LW [1d6]=1 KO

Klaus (LW R Leg)
[2d6+6]=7+6=13 [2d6]=11 Three hits (8+, 10+, 12+)
Located [1d8]=7 [1d8]=3 [1d8]=8 Right Leg, Chest, Left Leg
Effect (penetration @ AV 10 Pen 6 so net -4 but net 0 on Legs) [2d6]=6 LW [2d6-4]=4-4=0 No Effect [2d6]=11 SW
Result 6 = LW, 11 = SW

Prerna: Moving! Is Prerna the mythical Lt Spiers from Band of Brothers??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GGz6Q ... yj1Hypjux-

Jess
To Hit: [_2d6]=(6+4)=10, +2 skill, +1 Dex = 13 Three Hits
Location: [1d8]=7 [1d8]=8,[1d8]=8 All Legs!
Effect: [2d6]=10,[2d6]=11,[2d6]=10 THREE SW Greedy Medal awarded!
Rsult: Target FUBAR.

First Squad Fire:

Cpl Able: 2LW that'll still be concussion being KOed again then!

Riflemen:
Dog Three LW + KO = SW

Ink (One LW)
[2d6+3]=10+3=13 Three Hits
Located [1d8]=6,[1d8]=2,[1d8]=2 All AV 10
Effect [2d6-4]=9-4=5,[2d6-4]=11-4=7,[2d6-4]=7-4=3 Two LW One No Effect
Result 2 LW [1d6]=3 Target (Four) KO

"Killer"
[2d6+4]=3+4=7 Miss
Effect None
Result Miss

Johnny
[2d6+4]=7+4=11 Two Hits
Located [1d8]=3,[1d8]=3 Chestx2
Effect [2d6-4]=4-4=0,[2d6-4]=4-4=0
Result No Effect - twice!

Route One
[2d6+1]=10+1=11 (minus 1 targetting legs)
Located Legs
Effect [2d6-2]=6-2=4 LW
Result One LW [1d6]=4 Not KO but KIA via Kit

Whiskey is KIA

Nuts on the squad PGMP 12.
[2d6+2]=8+2=10 One Hit
[1d8]=7 Right Leg Removed
Result One KIA

Enemy Return Fire:

One: 2LW KO Recovered then THREE SW from Jess KIA+
Grenade Throw [2d6-2]=9-2-7 Miss (due to LWs).

Two: 2 LW Klaus SW & LW Klaus = KIA
[2d6+3]=9+3=12 Two Hits
Effect [2d6-4]=9-4=5,[2d6-4]=6-4=2 One LW
Location [1d8]=7
Result LW to Klaus [1d6]=6 Not KO

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

Four: 3 LW = SW (Dog/Ink)
[2d6+4]=5+4=9 One Hit vs AV 10
Effect [2d6-4]=5-4=1 No Effect
Result Zip Nada Nothing

Five: SW (Ink)

Six: 4LW KO cumulative SW (Route One)

Seven: KIA Nuts
[2d6+3]=4+3=7 Miss

Eight: KO due to LW Frank
[2d6+5]=7+5=12 Three Hits
Location = All AV 10
Effect [2d6-4]=10-4=6 [2d6-4]=5-4=1 [2d6-4]=9-4=5
Result Two LW on Killer [1d6]=2 KO

Nine: KIA Kit
[2d6+2]=9+2=11 Hit with HE
Location [1d8]=5 Left Arm
Effect [2d6-1]=10-1=9 SW
Result SW to Kit

Ten: KIA Nuts

Morale tests:

SEMC 1st Squad Need not Apply

Visitors KIA

[joertexas]

Prerna goes for the lift controls and activates it so that the others can use it. Then, she turns around, selects a firing position, and begins scanning for customers.

[shaidar]

Frank scans the squad, doing a quick assessment of the wounded and who can continue on:

On the command channel:

"Cross here, enemy unit down. We need medics."

On speaker, "Those able to continue form up. Those more seriously wounded, we'll send you back down for treatment. Good work, it's time to hunt more rats."

[dongriffiths]

Klaus crawls back into better cover while spraying more fire low across the front.

Klaus hear, give me a route to join the main body and get properly kitted up

[BackworldTraveller]

Voss - Our Org Chart shows all our medic slots unfilled. We are going to need the Archology's Emergency Services.

Or maybe the Zhodani?

Colonel, Should we notify the Archology Management of our predicament? It directly affects their security.

[The Bindoner]

OOC: We have the ambulance crew - two medics.

[Tiglath]

Frank

Frank scans the squad, doing a quick assessment of the wounded and who can continue on:

On the command channel:

"Cross here, enemy unit down. We need medics."

On speaker, "Those able to continue form up. Those more seriously wounded, we'll send you back down for treatment. Good work, it's time to hunt more rats."

A groan and two quick shots indicate that one of the Paras was briefly not as dead as he could have been but the Troopers of First Squad aren't feeling merciful. Route One and Nuts stack a couple Para bodies on the "hostile" west side of the elevator pad to make a parapet. Silenced AKs and spare mags are piled up

Frank performs a quick triage assessment.

Casualties:
Whiskey is KIA (but could be stashed in a Low Berth - because "dead" really isn't...)
Dog has cumulative injuries (3LW) equating to a Serious Wound and is unconscious
Able is unconscious again and with two light wounds likely needs a full medical assessment before returning to combat
Kit has a Serious Blast Wound to his left arm but is semi conscious

Walking Wounded/Still in the Fight:
Klaus has a Light Wound to his right leg
Ink has a Light Wound

Killer, Johnny, Route One and Nuts are fit to fight as are the QSM's two riflemen (Mike and 'Arry).

Capt Domici and Lt Ellis state they will escort the stretcher bearers (your ambulance crew medics) and render immediate aid to casualties.

OOC: We have the ambulance crew - two medics.

Yes and see above - Jakob is Medic 1. The ambulance Emer Low Berths will "freeze" anyone that they can't stabilise.

[Tiglath]

Klaus

Klaus hear, give me a route to join the main body and get properly kitted up

OOC: There was sufficient hiatus for folk who wanted to kit up to do so. Therefore please assume Klaus is in his combat armour with a full battle load of ammo / grenades.

[Tiglath]

Kit

Kit is still a bit fuzzy as he realises that Lt Ellis has a lovely smile and a wonderful bedside manner while her better half seems to be an effective medic (well he is another ex Marine!)

He gets the feeling back in his arm and basic if reduced functionality and is informed he's now "walking wounded".

(OOC: Medic Roll [2d6+2]=8+2=10 Degree of success removes the penalising effect but not the damage of Kit's wound.

He'll now count as 2LW and take a DM of -2 on all actions.

NB If he's wounded again the good work of the temporary fix is undone so he'll be on a SW plus whatever new injury afflicts him. Fair to say this wouldn't be ideal... ).

[dongriffiths]

Klaus checks his leg to confirm it was only a scratch as he takes cover and gives himself a chance to assess the field and relative positions of friend and foe.

Keeping low he checks his grenades are set with short (3 second) fuses and gets ready for the next wave.

[BackworldTraveller]

Freya arrives in the hanger with her group

Here she rounds up the ambulance crew and gets them to the small-craft lift.

We have the ambulance by the small-craft lift...If you lower it we can deal with the casualties there.

[shaidar]

Frank

"Let's get the wounded seen to and Whiskey on ice, then we can regroup and take out the rest. Dubs, see if you can jam their comms while causing minimal disruption to ATC. Let's keep an eye on the suspect ship with passive and standard navigation scanners, nothing to alert them, but be ready to switch to the missile defence system if they give us cause. Voss, let the local PD know we have some unwelcome visitors, but for their own safety ask them to stay away until it's dealt with. "

[joertexas]

Seeing that their enemies are vanquished for the moment, Prerna stands up and keys her team channel. "Recon Team. Report."

[Tiglath]

Flight Deck Firefight

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Seeing that their enemies are vanquished for the moment, Prerna stands up and keys her team channel. "Recon Team. Report."

Baker's comm keys in after the sound dampening comms tech deals with an explosion "+++ell, 's not progress, Ma'am but more of a "no score draw". We're trying to pin 'em - but they're 'aving none of it and they've cottoned on we can't really 'urt 'em. That an' they're chucking RPGs back!" The sound is damped again "+++on a ruddy bicycle!!! Maybe you could 'ave a word wiv Beau - 'e's very motivational like an' Easy says 'e's nice to look at an' all but 'is sword doesn't really mesh wiv the sniper role... an' 'im wavin' it at 'em off the roof draws fire like +++ek... like nobody's ruddy business! He was doin' alright wiv the twin HMG mount but they put an RPG straight into that - it's Friar Tucked, Ma'am. The Rangers 'ave stopped one squad of 'em - but they've just lost a vehicle an' Caxton said he's 'ad casualti+++ +++Rats' cocks - that woz close! Stand by, movin' ".

Baker drops back in with "The Colonel's still on the lift wiv Mister Ghosal's squad - nice work makin' a sangar aht of it. Looks like they're policin' up an' good to go. Got you to the east on me scope, Ma'am. Lift hatch is open. Mind, you shouldn't stand up like tha... Ohhh, fek my old boots... Ruddy 'ell, Ma'am - be'ind you!!!"

As Prerna stands sixteen forms rise with her from within the lift shaft and flank her in tactical formation.

They look like this:

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[gurusql]

Kit

Before leaving Kit will reset the lift to work as normal.

Electronics Skill [_2d6+1]=(6+5)=11+1=12

[Tiglath]

Flight Deck Firefight

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Updated Tac Map

North is top of page.

Prerna is the green dot (near eastern elavator) numbered purple dots are each groups of four robots.

Ignore any apparent reshuffling of any parked craft - stuff was simply moved for clarity.

As per my last Baker and Beau are atop the green tower (Bartizan Spire) while Gaughan and Caxton are in the ground floor (Bartizan Gatehouse).

Enemy Movement

The group of VDV next to the PCs has been eliminated.

The "splattered" group has been pinned and has casualties.

The two other groups have moved (and the dispersed one has now converged).

Tac Map:

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[BackworldTraveller]

Freya is with Freddy, the ambulance below the central lift. Jakob and Liv are taking over the rescue efforts there, but before they do so, she'll get the ambulance to lift her and Freddy to lift level and allow her/freddy to slide into the gap.

Freddy, keep your head down and help slide the injured through the gap to Capt Domici and the ambulance crew

A quick check over the parapet sees the troops out on the open flight deck with no cover. She connects her gauss rifle by fibre and uses its sights to aim at the head of someone who looks like they may be an officer or NCO.

Colonel, can Sgt Gaugin catch that crowd in the open from behind? And can we get any of those APC's manned and firing?

[The Bindoner]

Jess takes 'Arry and Mike to join the rest of the SEMC.

Mike, grab that SAW, it's yer assigned weapon anyway.

To Frank, cheerfully: Alright, Boss? Shall we go an' surprise those cheeky buggers, take 'em from behind? Before they get the better of our lot in the gatehouse. Hate to think what'll 'appen if they unzip us there.

[shaidar]

Frank

Freya is with Freddy, the ambulance below the central lift. Jakob and Liv are taking over the rescue efforts there, but before they do so, she'll get the ambulance to lift her and Freddy to lift level and allow her/freddy to slide into the gap.

Freddy, keep your head down and help slide the injured through the gap to Capt Domici and the ambulance crew

A quick check over the parapet sees the troops out on the open flight deck with no cover. She connects her gauss rifle by fibre and uses its sights to aim at the head of someone who looks like they may be an officer or NCO.

Colonel, can Sgt Gaugin catch that crowd in the open from behind? And can we get any of those APC's manned and firing?

Jess takes 'Arry and Mike to join the rest of the SEMC.

Mike, grab that SAW, it's yer assigned weapon anyway.

To Frank, cheerfully: Alright, Boss? Shall we go an' surprise those cheeky buggers, take 'em from behind? Before they get the better of our lot in the gatehouse. Hate to think what'll 'appen if they unzip us there.

My (possibly incorrect) understanding was that Gaughan was in the gatehouse already having a go at the enemy.

"Agreed, lets use the Bartizan to our advantage, and and pop-up on the flight-desk where we need to be to clear them out before they reach the gatehouse. As Freya points out, we spent the money on those APV let's get them up and running, they should even the odds. Voss, if we bring the APV online then keep an eye on our airborne friend, we don't want any interference from them."

I've posted a bunch of questions about the best approach over the in the planning thread rather than clutter this thread up

[BackworldTraveller]

Freya takes her aimed shot at the leader-looking guy in the northern group...

Gauss Rifle, Single Shot, Aimed, 150m, Sighted: [2d6+7]=11+7=18

...and then ducks her rifle away before someone picks it for a target.