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Old 09-24-2009, 12:45 PM   #28
Abe Sargent
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
We keep making small insect bites. A captured medium scout mech here, a couple of tanks there. But it was a good day for us.

Note that, because we are behind a blockade, we cannot get any items to repair our mechs unless they are in our supply, the Defenders supply, or on planet. Since the Andurien Defenders have been at war for 8 years now, their supplies are running a bit thin. If a mech loses an arm, leg, or whatnot, unless we have it in store, it will be gone until we can salvage a new one.


July 5, 3039 - We are asked back t o action in a probing scout mission along the Andurien line.

We find nothing.


July 7, 3039 - We are back in the rotation again. This time we find something.

We run into an entire mech company. Of the elite First Fusiliers of Oriente. This may be nasty.

Their company:

BattleMaster
Shadow Hawk
Hermes
Stalker
Stinger
Atlas
Locust - 1M
Locust
Javelin
Griffin
UrbanMech
Archer

This is a very mixed company. There are a lot of great heavy metal mechs there - Atlas, Archer, BattleMaster, Stalker. Then we have a ton of light dinky mechhs - two Locusts, Hermes, Stinger, Urbie, Javelin. Then we have two heavier mediums in Shadow Hawk and Griffin, but the S Hawk blows.

Because they are elite, we have a problem. They are actually a higher battle value than us, meaning the odds favor them. Like previous encounters, this one will be played to the first mech or two destroyed, and then the loser will flee.

Here is Kennedy Martin‘s Hunchback, a 50 ton medium mech built around the most devastating weapon in the age, the AutoCannon 20 (AC20), a close range weapon that sloughs off more than a ton of armor from the location it hits. It is very heavy, and the mech is built around it.

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