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Leitz wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 9:00 pm

BackworldTraveller wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:32 pm Should we need to disengage (always good to have a way out) she will plan to disengage NORTH-WEST (with wiggles) to the boundary fence before circling around anti-clockwise back to behind the SEMC base line.

Freya and Jess; Wiggles and Jiggles...

And perhaps, with jokes like that, we should include Jacob's other half as Giggles

BackworldTraveller wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 9:10 pm

Leitz wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 9:00 pm

BackworldTraveller wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:32 pm Should we need to disengage (always good to have a way out) she will plan to disengage NORTH-WEST (with wiggles) to the boundary fence before circling around anti-clockwise back to behind the SEMC base line.

Freya and Jess; Wiggles and Jiggles...

And perhaps, with jokes like that, we should include Jacob's other half as Giggles

While he does his best, most of his jokes don't even warrant a smirk.

Kit

Kit marches down the probabilities, first to survive the enemy you have to shoot so Kit makes sure to rally the troops, "SEMC we must maintain fire to pull through this together. Do not let up." second big guns - kill and small guns - wound so take out the the big guns, but not seeing those in the report, third near by enemy kill you better, but die faster, "We need to focus on these losers" Kit says targeting Unit 3 and then will continue to direct the indirect fire at Unit 3 unless they are to close and then at the next best target.

Leadership -2, B INT [_2d6+3]=(5+5)=10+3=13
Forward Observer Skill [_2d6+4]=(3+5)=8+4=12

Avastan Downport: The API Counterattack or Hell's Coming to Breakfast

Jess Round 2

On board the QSM's IFV Sugar calls “Target. AT sled. Tracking right, right!” Dash turns the IFV's nose (and thicker armour) into the evading sled facilitating Sugar's target acquisition. She crows “On! Firing”. The plasma bolts streak across the top of the sled roasting the open mount weapon systems and immolating the crew. The last bolt in the burst penetrates what must have been the power plant and the grav sled loses all momentum and coasts to the ground as small fires (that may well have been the crew) burn within the scorched and melted devastation that was its open topped fighting compartment. Alas, it never comes to rest as it is immediately engaged by IFV “A” exiting the Deliverance berm. The SEMC IFV's plasma bolts scour the sled's fighting compartment again - this time touching off the on board autocannon ammo. The already sinking and burning grav sled becomes particulate shrapnel.

(OOC:
 2d6: (3 + 5) = 8 (+2 Size DM, +2 Rapid Pulse Weapon, +1 Sugar, – Speed DM) Hit
(Pen 44 vs AV 23 = Major Penetration)
1d6: 3 = 3 EPF3C Fire Control KO, Power Plant KO, Crew Dead. Mission Kill & K Kill

 2d6: (4 + 4) = 8 (+2 Size DM, +2 Rapid Pulse Weapon, +1 Gunner) Hit
(Pen 44 vs AV 23 = Major Penetration)
1d6: 4 = 4 EFA5C “If main weapon uses explosive Ammo becomes...” Catastrophic Explosion K Kill).

Avastan Downport: The API Counterattack or Hell's Coming to Breakfast

Gaughan Round 2

Leitz wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:52 pm "Gaughan, your call on whether you can support the melee and still hold your AO."

Leitz wrote: ↑Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:03 pm Gaughan has an AFV but Jakob isn't giving him an order. He is, of course, sending a polite invitation.

Gaughan replies to Jakob “Sure enough yer a lovely man, Captain Domici, but we're not coming back all that way just to see you – we're attacking! I'll send you our Carrier while we clear these fellas out of the admin building before they start getting any ideas about mounting a proper defence in there. While we have the Bean Sí (banshee) riding the winds with us I'll press our advantage”.

He then calls “HQ from Gaughan. Will you be sure to tell the shae that we're advancing from our position towards Starport Admin (Main)”.

Liv quickly handles it replying “Ranger command, have that. Updating now”.

(OOC: Standby. Jakob will shortly have a G Carrier plus two manned .50 cals at his disposal).

Avastan Downport: The API Counterattack or Hell's Coming to Breakfast

Kit Round 2

Although he has no LOS to Unit 3 Kit masterfully calls in “Danger Close” defensive mortar fire directly in front of Beau's position to both check any fire or further forward movement by Unit 2 which greatly facilitates George's extraction of both the wounded.

His squad's steady fire, ably supported by that of Prerna's sharpshooters, suppresses and disrupts any attempts by the API troops to either rally or organise any further offence towards the Deliverance berm. In fact, his unit completes the destruction of Unit 1 and also pours fire into the routers from Unit 2 who are seeking cover in the scrub from Jakob's grenades. Following the cessation of any resistance from that area his troops are then free to lend supporting fire to Gaughan's manoeuvre into the distant Admin block.

Kit also has a front row seat for the follow up strike of the 4DC “Gunsleds”. One crosses from the west to again fire into the position occupied by the enemy artillery while the other pair streak low over the runway behind the Starport Admin block to strafe the reserve armour of the Regimental HQ (Unit C). Although he can't see the strike he can hear the detonations and sees additional pillars of black smoke boiling up in the Gunsleds' wake.

Taking in the bigger picture Kit sees that not only has the local API attack been crushed but, even though the Vargr seem to still be chaotically firing away to the east, all effective military activity by the enemy appears to have ceased between SEMC positions and the Starport Admin block (location of Unit “HQ”).

(OOC: Ref Map: https://www.unseenservant.us/forum/view ... 47#p612047 ).

Avastan Downport: The API Counterattack or Hell's Coming to Breakfast

Frank & Freya Round 2

On Approach

On board the SEMC gunship Frank hears Liv coordinating Gaughan's advance with the CAS. The Gunsleds reply “One more pass and then the battlespace is all yours. We'll remain on call”.

Frank gets another call via Dubs on the trader relayed from close orbit “Karaya Eins, Karaya Eins to Colonel of Stoßtruppen Cross. Your airspace is now secured to orbit by the Freiwilliger Jagdgeschwader of the Condor Legion. Happy hunting, Colonel. Karaya Eins, Ende”.

Liv indicates and tags two new contacts at high altitude “They're pinging as friendly. Flight profile as CAP. My best guess from their sensor return - a pair of Swordy Angbar class multi role fighters”.

On Arrival

Ably piloted by Freya (and with an exit route scouted by her drone) the gunship skips into the berm and then decelerates to perform a slow speed pop up adjacent to the berm's eastern wall. To the north Frank can see George and the casualties from Beau's squad being dragged from the stairs and aboard the mortar technical which is now acting as a field ambulance. Both Beau and Love are unconscious casualties and are badly shot up.

As the gunship rises Frank sees Harry and Mike prone with the SAW on the berm summit to the southeast. Directly east Charlie and Trooper King wait ready to face off against whatever the enemy are sending upslope. Upon sighting the gunship their relief is evident in their body language even in for men encased in armour. Both then lob grenades over onto the berm's outer slope.

As the launch rises Frank first sees the melee opposite him on the Drachenfels berm's western slope and then the twenty plus API infantry swarming up the Viper's Nest berm's eastern slope. “Urrah!” they cheer as they reach the lip of the berm about to gain the summit. Mike opens up with enfilading autofire from the South but that can't account for the two hyper velocity penetrations that drop the two enemy closest to Charlie and King's foxholes.

From the Dranchenfels berm's summit Frank sees two pairs of combat armoured 4DC troopers using their laser rifles to pick off the assaulting enemy to both west and east. Behind them stand two figures in battledress. Frank immediately recognises the helmetless Colonel Skeet toting a massively oversized rifle and wearing comms/HUD rig that facilitates his smoking a cigar. The other armoured figure encouraging and directing the 4DC trooper's fire (but yet carefully letting them fight their own fight) is surely Skip Dallas. Both are most assuredly “tactically aware” but seem set on taking acceptable (or quite possibly competitive) risks in a leadership role. At the rear of the API assault group the less agile or motivated are ruthlessly cut down by the laser fire of the two 4DC mercs.

While the gunship jinks momentarily and Liv gasps the immediately steadied fire platform unleashes its “broadside”. Frank drops a RAM grenade amongst a knot of API troopers scrambling to the top of the berm. One is killed instantly and two more drop within the grenade's blast. Warned by Garrison “Son, that's a five hundred pounder an' we're way too low!” Freddie comes to a conclusion regarding the barrel bombs and, shouldering his ACR, pours a burst into the closing API infantry dropping two. Voss finds having one arm no obstacle to operating the door gun and as the rotary barrels blur into action he walks a torrent of fire among the advancing infantry toppling them forwards onto the slope just as grenades hurled by Charlie's team burst among them. Then Garrison intones “Fox four. Guns, guns, guns” as he opens up with the gunship's auto cannon. The explosive impact of the rounds carves a furrow across the berm's slope and immediately throws up a pink touched miasma of dust, blood and powdered snow. Even before advanced optics can penetrate or decipher what lies within the cloud the sudden and absolute silence tells the tale.

(OOC: Frank n' Freya - shades of Rocky Horror??? )

(OOC:
Edited highlights/notes:
Frank
2d6: (2 + 6) = 8 Home and dry! Instakill.
Plus two with frag
Freddie
2d6 + 4: (3 + 3) + 4 = 10
2d6: (1 + 5) = 6 LW (good enough vs. conscripts)
2d6: (5 + 3) = 8 SW

Prerna & Erica
Two hits. Thanks for playing. Two KIA.

4DC
 2d6 + 4: (4 + 6) + 4 = 14 Ruddy hell!
Four hits all Pen 20 vs AV 6
Four KIA.
 2d6 + 4: (5 + 6) + 4 = 15 Ridiculous!
Four hits all Pen 20 vs AV 6
Four KIA.

Gunship/Garrison:
2d6 + 5: (3 + 6) + 5 = 14
Four hits all Pen 10 vs AV 6
Hamburger Hill).

Frank takes in the silence for a second, the turns to the others

"Let's get a drone over their HQ, see what's left of their command structure. I need injury reports from each unit. Get the casualties to treatment, re-organise our remaining troops to secure our positions."

shaidar wrote: ↑Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:59 pm Frank takes in the silence for a second, the turns to the others

"Let's get a drone over their HQ, see what's left of their command structure. I need injury reports from each unit. Get the casualties to treatment, re-organise our remaining troops to secure our positions."

Dhougal: Bring your drone (#2) over their HQ and park it - then get drone #4 over the north runway
FOD (a.k.a Florence): Put your drone (#3) over the startown...lets see what's down there - see if anyone wants to play ball.
Dylan: Can you start repairing Drone #1 after Florence's crashing it?

Did we ever find those howitzers?

Freya takes the gunboat on a quick flight north to the north runway, west beyond the boundary and then south before returning to the area of our ship...Eyes peeled...and if anyone shoots, shoot back!

The lines taken aren't straight as I don't think we have killed everything with guns.

Avastan Downport: The API Counterattack or Hell's Coming to Breakfast

Prerna Round 2

Prerna ensures her team continue to harrass any surviving remnants of the API assault.

She sights her weapon to the east and, firing with Erica, drops the first pair of API troopers to get near the beleaguered Charlie. However, Charlie and the cavalry troop are almost immediately reinforced by the arrival of Col. Cross and the “Gunship”.

She shares the same tactical appraisal as Kit: API are soundly beaten in the west of the Starport.

Kit

On the command channel, "Colonel, the enemy directly in front of us has lost the will to fight. Looking for our next order, with could be press the advantage, take prisoners or move us to a new position. Requesting medical evac for Whiskey, rest of the unit ready to go."

Avastan Downport: The API Counterattack or Hell's Coming to Breakfast

Jakob Round 2

From his fighting position on the Deliverance berm Jakob sees that Kit and Prerna more than have the measure of the few remaining API fugitives.

The G Carrier with the Collace ID Plate UR FKD drops onto the berm rim to load up. He notes that the Carrier has one more HMG than issue and both are manned by a pair of cheerful rangers one of whom has a bloody field dressing tied about his right thigh. From the highly artistic pic of one of the twins taped to the dashboard he's still not quite sure of the Carrier's name [It's actually Styx]. Fortunately they are functionally as identical as their namesakes are in appearance (in this case bar the “bonus” HMG).

As Jakob and his reinforcements arrive in the vicinity of the Viper's Nest berm he receives a person to person tight beam comm from Skip Dallas “You seein' this Brother? She's either brave or plum crazy but some of this is remindin' me a lot of Lanth!”

As Jakob's carrier manoeuvres to assault the rear of the melee halfway up the Drachenfels berm he is able to observe the combat. The 4DC warrior should be easily overmatched but she seems to hold her own if not have the advantage. The API infantry are sluggish and slow by comparison. They can barely bring their rifles to bear and indeed their RPG man discharges his weapon into his comrades while another tears at his webbing, frantically trying to ditch his gear before apparently being struck by a launched(?) grenade. The warrior charges among them screaming curses in Sagamaal. Her axe savages an arm, then its spike impales a torso while a ferocious back handed slash leaves an API trooper coughing blood through his respirator.

Two API infantry attempt to break from the warrior's keening onslaught but are pursued by the Vargr grav platform. Those dangling beneath it recklessly fire their looted AKs one handed while (hopefully the gunner??) leans dangerously over the careering craft's side to fire a recoilless rifle at the fleeing enemy.

A single shot from Colonel Skeet's heavy rifle drops an API soldier on the periphery of the melee and, seeing Jakob's arrival at the Drachenfels berm, he sends “Careful, Captain - I'd let that play out”.

As his G Carrier closes in Jakob can see that the Gunship and supporting fire from 4DC has accounted for all those attacking the Viper's Nest berm. He also notes that to the immediate south the SEMC armour has dealt with the threat of the API grav sleds (Unit D). Looking to the east he recognises the 4DC Merc Tourmaline as the solo combatant – now with but three opponents remaining. She pulls her axe free of a ruined body and screams her rage at the two API infantry closing in on her with their bayonets. Meanwhile behind her a third seems to have finally cleared the stoppage on his troublesome AK and re-cocks the weapon.

Jakob does his best to take in the entire situation as they close, gauging the team he has, the enemy he can be aware of, and the time allowed.

Tactics-2, Int-C [_2d6+4]=(3+4)=7+4=11

I'm not too sure who all is here, is Caxton and crew?

He glanced at the senior team member and said "Welcome the Rangers, give command an update. We are going into melee."

He grimaced when Skip comm'd, but it wasn't about talking to a friend. "Agreed, and I met a guy from Lanth earlier. You seen him? They were having a local party."

A "brother from Lanth" would be another Marine who was dialed into to the Psi threat. A "guy from Lanth" would be someone on the other side; Jakob is reporting the Zho contact and asking if Skip's team is aware that they are in the Area of Operations (AO)

He's not going to countermand the 4DC CO, but won't just walk away. He replied to Col Skeet "Aye, sir, we'll set up and hold."

Out loud, on his voice amplifier, he calmly called out, "Drop off and set up a defensive position. If I join the fight then follow me in, otherwise establish position and take the terrain."

As soon he hit the ground Jakob took a kneeling firing position and targeted the API guy clearing his weapon. If the API turned to fire Jakob would drop him.

Prerna directs her team to engage leaders and heavy weapons as they see them.

Avastan: Aftermath(?)

Frank

Frank senses that in a strategic sense the battle may have reached another pause between pulses of action. As the Gunship spots no new enemy forces and collects no AA fire on its orbit of the Starport it may be that this phase is indeed is played out.

Voss calls in sitreps from the SEMC units and reports a "Butcher's Bill" to Frank that seems astonishingly light:
from Kit's command Whiskey has a (hopefully) mild concussion
Gaughan reports two lightly wounded Rangers
Recon reports no casualties
Mortar section reports no casualties but non availability due to casevac (see below)
However, according to the traumatised triage expertise available from Private George Beau is "hurt really bad" while Love is "shot up good"
IFV "B" reports it is withdrawing with armament destroyed and wounded crew aboard
The Aslan do not respond but according to observation from local SEMC units the Aslan have one KIA, two seriously wounded (including their female/medic) - and two still in melee.

Frank receives another call relayed from Dubs in the trader “Via radio on our channel, sir". He patches it through and Frank hears a distinctive Sword World accent “Allo SEMC Kommand. This is Major Lars Wagner. Message for Colonel Cross. Expect friendly grav units approaching your position from the mountains to your north. Two Schützenpanzerwagen, one Sturmgeschütz. My compliments to Oberst East. Password is “Demarcation”.* Codeword is “Edelweiss”. Ende”.

(OOC: * And another nod to Mr Peckinpah via Cross of Iron ).

Avastan: Aftermath(?)

Freya

Freya completes her orbit of the Starport without attracting any fire or seeing any new enemy on the ground.

Freya gets Dhoughal's drone feed almost immediately. She can see four Avastan troops KIA on the rooftop and an amount of military green comms gear with them and two types of missile launcher (shoulder fired and a tripod mount).

Florence replies “I'm on it, boss”.

Dylan reports “It's like wrecked and it'll need a whole lot of work but I can't touch it until... ah... there are organics... pieces of... Oh, it's all really quite triggering...”

The API artillery/howitzers appeared to be a battery of three self propelled 120mm mortars on grav sleds. This battery including its ammo and replenishment and support vehicles are currently burning away under plumes of black smoke and dangerously large "secondaries". (OOC: Location marked on map as “Artillery Unit”).

Avastan: Aftermath(?)

Prerna

Prerna sees her sector is quiet. She notes that Erica's 'bot hovers “hull down” behind the berm to the rear of their foxhole with only various “periscopes” and antennae exposed. Erica speaks on her comm and monitors the command channel. She asks "Should I go and help the wounded?"

Tiglath wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 1:33 am Avastan: Aftermath(?)

Prerna

Prerna sees her sector is quiet. She notes that Erica's 'bot hovers “hull down” behind the berm to the rear of their foxhole with only various “periscopes” and antennae exposed. Erica speaks on her comm and monitors the command channel. She asks "Should I go and help the wounded?"

"Yes, but make sure we're in position to provide overwatch."

Tiglath wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:39 am Avastan: Aftermath(?)

Freya

Freya completes her orbit of the Starport without attracting any fire or seeing any new enemy on the ground.

Freya gets Dhoughal's drone feed almost immediately. She can see four Avastan troops KIA on the rooftop and an amount of military green comms gear with them and two types of missile launcher (shoulder fired and a tripod mount).

Florence replies “I'm on it, boss”.

Dylan reports “It's like wrecked and it'll need a whole lot of work but I can't touch it until... ah... there are organics... pieces of... Oh, it's all really quite triggering...”

The API artillery/howitzers appeared to be a battery of three self propelled 120mm mortars on grav sleds. This battery including its ammo and replenishment and support vehicles are currently burning away under plumes of black smoke and dangerously large "secondaries". (OOC: Location marked on map as “Artillery Unit”).

In the absence of front-line duties, I guess we get to play ambulance. Lets see if those Aslan need a ride.

Frank

On the command channel:

"All, we have friendly grav vehicle approaching from the north. Major, Colonel East, I would appreciate if one of you might help with casualties, we have two seriously injured."

He turns to Freya, "Can we shift the drone slightly north, I'd like to see what's left of the command vehicles to the north of the HQ building. We ought to try and find someone to officially surrender."