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Old 12-28-2014, 05:52 PM   #194
Abe Sargent
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
Turn 1 – I set up similarly to last time – Mad Cat to take the woods, with the Starslayer and Shadow Cat, up top since they both hop around real nice like. Our Kodiak and Kingfisher are beneath the woods and should be quick in to smash. We win init and they move to the top of the hills, I hop our two mediums to lines of attack with their long range weaponry, and then our Mad Cat takes the spot our Vulture was in before, and then we charge ahead, Kodiak leading with Magnus enjoying his time here. Four of our mechs (not the Mad Cat) can see their Man O War, and that’s good target.

We fire the Kodiak first on the 80 ton assault mech (with light weapons, by the way) and savage it with the Ultra ac20 shot hitting it twice, followed by some lasers.
Their Ryoken’s ER Large Laser lances the H of our Mad Cat, and goes internal – no crit though. Nasty. That could have been a lot worse!
Our Shadow Cat’s gauss opens another hole, and Starslayer’ large lasers do too, and then our Kingfisher’s accurate lasers and SR6 streak follow, and we hit its SRM ammo in the LT and it ignites. Boom!

They carve damage into our Kodiak . It took 60+ and Magnus is fine. Their Man o War hits the ground so hard and fast that it breaks the hip on its LL doing so.

Turn 2 – We lose init. We do similar to last time. Our hoppers leap over the river to the north, and with some cover. They try to stand with the Man o War, and after one failure, they do. But it’s a walking target at this point. Their Fenris runs around behind our Mad Cat’s position and the Black Hawk leaps next to it, and inside some light woods. We fire some mechs at the Man O War, but we concentrate fire on their Ryoken, except for the Mad Cat, who wants to punish their Black Hawk.

Our Shadow Cat’s gauss snaps into a Ryoken, and our Starslayer misses it.
Our Mad Cat mostly misses the Black hawk
Our Kodiak though just launches a bunch of missiles and lasers at the Man o War and destroys is RA, and hits the gyro once on it, and nails another foot actuator.
Their mechs mostly miss the Mad Cat.
And their Man o War hit the Kodiak, but not even a full 20 damage.

Their Man O War falls and destroys its injured right leg

No physical combat.

Turn 3 – We finally win init. They move off the Mad Cat, we leap to the center where some woods are, and push on the flank. They turn the Man o War and move the Gladiator into a nice firing lane with woods and partial cove protecting it. We focus on the Ryoken. Mostly.

Our Starslayer smashes the Man o war with lasers medium and long, and SRMS too. It takes out the gyro and engine once it and its down.
Their Gladiator’s gauss rifle hits the Kodiak, goes internal, and gets a limb blown off on its RL.
Our Kodiak, before it goes down, tears into the damaged Ryoken and devastates its RT and hits the large laser in the RA.
Then our Shadow Cat destroys the Ryoken’s LA.
Our Mad Cat and Kingfisher fires a lot of stuff at that Gladiator and we begin the process of denuding its armor off

Their Gladiator took 60+ and is standing, their Ryoken fell and hit two actuators in the LL, one of which is a hip on its RL. Our Kodiak obviously tumbles as well.

Turn 4 – We win init. We move the Mad Cat next to their downed Ryoken after it can’t rise. Their Fenris bases the rear of our Mad Cat. Their Black Hawk leaps out and away. Our Kingfisher moves in to flank the Gladiator from behind while our hoppy mechs leap on top of the hill. This should push them away from the downed Kodiak.

The Gladiator can’t hit the downed Kodiak from where it fled, so it targets the Starslayer and hits a bit. Nothing serious.
Their Fenris does little to the Mad Cat
The Mad Cat turns and hit the Fenris twice with its RA weapons while it smashes the Ryoken up into pieces after destroying its CT.
The Gladiator is damaged by the ongoing weapons – gauss slug, and the Kingfisher unloading on it, and it is internal in for places with the Starslayer hits its gauss rifle in the la, which explodes and destroys the arm. The mech took an SRM shot to the H as well.
Black Hawk ER Medium Lasers go internal on our Mad Cat and hit its LA shoulder and large laser.

Then the Gladiator falls, the pilot takes damage (that’s 4 now) and blacks out. No one else falls. They have two mechs standing – Fenris, and Black Hawk, and we have an almost defeated Kodiak. We offer them hegira, and they accept.
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