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Apr 6 - After seeing our heavy metal, and total evisceration of her units, the Countess decides to pack things up and move out. She can’t afford to be stable in one place anymore.
She has a few VTOLS and conventional fighters buzz to try and keep us from keeping her mechs from hitting the jungle. We can’t let that happen. So Catapult company, and its 12 aerospace fighters, takes off from Cimmeron, which is about 170 miles away. They’ll be here in less than 15 minutes.
Our goal is to use our fighters to break through any of these dopey local aerial threats, and then draw a line in the proverbial jungle, strafing and forcing them back from the jungle.
We are going to force them to fight right here.
Whoa! That was a huge fireball. They blew up one of our fighters, a Sparrowhawk. They are pushing the fighters hard- desperate. They knock another pair of fighters out of the fight, but were giving some good stuff back.
Andddddd…….
Now we have our fastest mechs between them and the jungle. We call off our fighters but another takes a lot of damage on the way out and slams into the ground. We lost two fighters, and the other two will need some repair time.
But I have to respect our foe’s determination, even misplaced
In front of us are the 23 mechs under Duchess Gustafson, and she is in a pretty looking mech (a Pillager, 100 ton assault mech with a pair of Gauss Rifles, and a lot of support for them)
She’s desperate.
She think she can break through our line of fast mechs and make the jungle. She has numbers. But a lot of our heavier mechs in this company are pretty fast, and we can support them very quickly. She orders her unit to charge and trample our three scout lances from the three battalions and then, get to the jungle.
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