But the communications are down. There is no one to surrender, and no one to tell the soldiers to surrender either. So a meaningless battle ensues.
Out pour some tanks and mechs that can make it. In the first 15 minutes, it seems around 12 mechs and 20 tanks are out. The mechs are forcing open doors and looking around while infantry try to fix doors, and the tanks have moved into a defensive position. They aren’t thinking. They are running on automatic.
And they are about to get slaughtered if they don’t knock it off.
The first Battalion to arrive on the scene is Water Battalion from Epsilon regiment. They peel off Oasis Company to head in and scout around.
Some gun emplacements almost destroy their Whitworth, so it heads back. If this gauntlet had been better guarded with tanks, infantry, the turrets fully working (some don’t have power), but instead it’s really about hitting mines to take them out and blowing up the defenses. River and Lake Companies move in and Oasis pulls back after cleaning out the local defenses.
River and Lake move in and their tanks are in a defensive position. River Company moves in front to assault the tanks solo, leaving Lake as a reserve, or a company to come in after the tank battle.
River Company:
BLR-3M BattleMaster
ANV-3M Anvil
HNB-4G Hunchback
THR-1L Thunder
AWS-9Q Awesome
Mad Cat D
RFL-5M Rifleman
BMB-12D Bombardier
GRY-1 Greyhound
Clint Iic
ZPH-1A Tarantula
SDR-5V Spider
We have two clan mechs – Mad Cat and Clint IIc
We are facing 21 tanks
This is our Clint IIc, a clan variant of the Clint, more of a refit actually.
They have multiples of the local tanks made here (Partisans and Ontos). Let’s get this party started!
They have a pair of the Rommel Tank variant with a Gauss Rifle. They have a lot of heavier units, and then a lance of four light, hover, J Edgars to help flank, scout, and such.