Aug 19 – Butler Company lands right by Johnston Industries. They make a big show of being added to Johnston’s garrison. Meanwhile, Shadow and Aerospace disembark in a DropPort roughly 250 klicks away.
With the elementals and jump infantry, Shadow begins to explore the area. If there are Dracs on the planet looking to attack then this would be the area they should be. It’s hilly and easy to hide in. It does up into the mountains that are above the factory, but those are heavily patrolled. You could hide here in the foothills, and then move in to strike when you needed to later. The hills nearby that are used for wine are so far away from anything important, that it’s not nearly as heavily patrolled.
Aug 21 – We unpack all three Boomerangs and begin using them to spot from the sky. Meanwhile, our infantry tries to find our enemy. We leave behind the fighters and mechs for now. They are too big and noisy for this work.
Aug 25 – We found them. There is a group of 15 Combine mechs in the hills. They appear to be Combine based on the types of mechs, but they have been painted a neutral color and given FedCom symbols. That might fool a regular person, but when you see a Grand Dragon, a Jenner, a Raptor and a Mauler together, you know it’s the Dragon.
We order our fighters to assemble. They are about 20 klicks away. Butler Company has orders and is loading onto a DropShip right now. They will arrive in 45 minutes. Shadow Company is about 20 away. Our plan is to have our Jump Infantry and Elementals guard our back and the pass, while Arrow boxes them in and gives us time to move in and engage.
The plan works, and Shadow Company is about 15 minutes ahead of Butler, which was can use as reinforcements if the battle goes poorly.
The Dragon:
Raptor Prime
JR7-K Jenner
DRG-5K Grand Dragon
Mauler
PXH-3K Phoenix Hawk
GRF-3M Griffin
CGR-3K Charger
CHP-1N Champion
Venom
HBK-5N Hunchback
GHR-5J Grasshopper
MAD-1R Marauder
OSR-2D Ostroc
WTH-2 Whitworth
WSP-3M Wasp
All units have level 2 tech
4 lights, 2 assaults, 5 heavies and 4 mediums
Most are veterans, but the Mauler and Raptor are elite and the Griffin regular.
This is their Raptor, the first Inner Sphere OmniMech, a 25 ton baby and rolled off the assembly line a couple of years ago. The Prime has 2 medium lasers, 3 LRM5s, 2 small lasers, 2 machine guns, 7/11 movement, an XL engine, 10/20 heat and 3.5 tons of normal armor.
If we could capture it and give it to Kressly, along with a couple of clan omnis, I beat we could have them make an IS OmniMech.
Their BV is 23918. Without our Elementals, ours is 35132