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Ted immediately grabs all six companies, and moves them out, over General Baden-Powell’s protestations. Intel has put the two Ghost regiments within a small area in the Hills of Abbadok. We are heading in there, loaded for bear. Ted shows the message to the General, along with Sandoval’s seal. After a quick consultation, the Genereal will be sending out fast conventional forces and conventional fighters to keep the area pinned, while we go in to win.
It’s just 5 mech companies and one vehicle one against two regiments of Ghosts, but it’s time to finish this. Something fishy is going on. They keep retreating and retreating.
Aug 24, 3039 - We take up our position, and the march begins. The Generals forces are doing a good job at keeping the area contained, and we head in, from several directions at once, searching for the Ghosts. Hex Company finds the first sing of Ghosts when it spies some scouts, who quickly scurry back. Phaeton Company is stopped by an entire company of mechs, but after seeing it, they too, retreat inward. This continues as more and more sightings are seen. Finally, we reach the are they are using as a camp, and finally, finally, the truth is revealed.
There are not two regiments of Ghosts on this world, just one. There are maybe 85 mechs in this camp. However, most of them are moving at us, and we don’t have 85 mechs, we have just 60 or so. They are not splitting their forces up and hitting each spar. Instead, they are moving at one area. Support is immediately called for as Phaeton and Cinq companies are approached by over 80 mechs. They quickly retreat under the threat of dying. We all try to catch up.
It’s the same maneuver we tried before, with their large forces trying to break out of a circle, only now the gig is up. Even if we let them go, the knowledge is out there. Baden-Powell now knows what he is dealing with. The Ghosts are bearing down on us just as the first fighters arrive. They begin to strafe areas in front of our companies, and the Ghosts have to slow down. Almost as one, they break to the left and run, while a few run and turn, laying down cover fire against the fighters. Within a few moments, the Kurita fighters arrive to support their position, and dogfights begin overhead. Meanwhile, the Ghosts are hitting a small wedge of conventional troops and we are unable to reach them, before they are too far away to catch up with.
It’s alright though. We won the war of information.
Aug 28, 3039 - Baden-Powell has kept us back as a reserve, and brought in all ten of his conventional regiments to crush the Ghosts once and for all. He has them isolated against the ocean, and surrounded by a seas of vehicles. We are there simply to make sure tht if any of their mechs break free, that we will get them. Nearby is a small sea port, that has several dropports. As the fighting begins, several DropShips lower from the sky. It took them four days to get here from their JumpShip. They land, and the Ghosts begin to load up. The conventional forces tear into them as their number becomes fewer and fewer as some load and others are destroyed. Within a few hours, they have loaded up, and the last of their fighters puts up a screen that enables them to get away.
That is the end of the Dragon on Breed.
End of War of 3039 Scenario 2: The Breed Campaign
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