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The Brigade spends the day consolidating their victory, fixing up salvage, repairing, and such.
We retreat under cover of night and fade into the countryside. We make a few changes with the tank battalion, we’re going to need their help after it looks.
October 27, 3066 – After they have finished doing repairs and refits and such, and head out, looking for our units, and trying to finish this now, while they have momentum. They use their mechs to scan ahead, looking for assistance.
They don’t have lighter scouting tanks like a Beagle or Savannah Master, and they don’t have fighters to scan the skies, so they are doing this the old fashioned way – with mechs, and a few Beagle Probes, such as a pair of Ravens they have.
They aren’t close to one, but they are getting close to another, Brawler Company, so we order our first surprise for them…
As they enter a copse of woods, a pair of Brutus Assault Tanks opens up on a scout mech from behind cover. And smashes it. It loses more than a ton of armor but the Dart keeps standing. It moves back and informs others and we splash up on their Friend or Foe assessment now.
The Brutus is a nasty tank made by Kressly, it’s battle-forged, and a good, strong close or long range unit. As their Dart flees, its partner, an Assassin, doesn’t take us seriously and is still hanging around. One round of fire later and the Assassin in the ground, missing a RL.
It’s pilot ejects and we move the Brutus to the Assassin’s downed body and prepare for our foes return. They do so in about ten minutes with a lance of medium and heavy mechs that are faster than our Brutus, to keep us from running away – Quickdraw, Phoenix Hawk, Shadow Hawk, and Nightsky.
Our Brutus and them open fire into each other, and one of our tanks is immobilized, while the other is untouched. Our weapons tear into them and a Nightsky is hit for 60+ damage and falls to the ground, hitting its hip in doing so. They take out the other Brutus, and it takes out the RA of their Nightsky.
The ambush of our duo of Brutus Assault Tanks forces them to pull back and spend some time consolidating their wounded, as well as making sure they aren’t opening themselves to attacks. They have to go slower.
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