EVENT: Simulation Day: Alpha Team (Day T-1, Afternoon, Sims)

[Dorgan Bruun]

Bruun's curses fly as all his shots are wasted.

Comms on, "Copy, Eklund, watch that beast. Hit that left leg again if you can. Chow, I'm gonna light that Shadow Hawk up." Comms off, he lets lose another string of curses as he coaxes the Valkyrie simulation where he thinks he wants to be.

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OOC:
Face 1407, back to 1409, back to 1410, face 1310
Fire everything at Shadow Hawk.

[Gillian Chow]

"Alright Bruun, I'm targeting the Shadow Hawk too!" she called into the comms.

Goosing the controls to back her mech up to give her better cover from the Dragon, Gillian turned her particle cannon on the Shadow Hawk that had crested the hill.

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Movement: starting in hex 1406 facing southwest. Back (light woods). Back. End in hex 1605 facing southwest.
Attack: fire particle cannon at SHD in hex 1005 (range 6 = short range, running penalty).

[Comstar]

The charging Dragon thundered down the highway, but the Hussar slipped past it in a sudden rush of motion, the small mech lunging past at an incredible pace. The Dragon tracked shots onto the Valkyrie and Wyvern, but the volley all went wide as the Dragon volleyed 2 green beams into the hillside, a PPC shot into the road, and a final beam backward that shot over the squat form of the Hussar. The Shadow Hawk, splitting fire between the Valkyrie and the Cicada, sent 5 long range missiles over Bruun's head, 3 of them clipping the arm of the Valkyrie (hit LA+LA+LA, 3 damage), but the remaining weapons all unloaded at the Cicada. Surprisingly, they all missed, save a single autocannon shell which smashed into the Left gun stabilizer. (LA hit, 5 damage).

The Valkyrie, backing up and lining up it's own shots, was rattled by the volley, which pulled it's own counter attacks off target. The Hussar, having slipped around the back of the hill, lined up a clean shot, but the fast-moving Shadow Hawk slipped the target lock, the Azure beam sliding past harmlessly. The Cicada also took another shot, but again, it the ShadowHawk slipped away somehow. The Wyvern jumped across the crest of the hill, firing most of it's weapons, but the theme of the day held true, and they missed their target, redecorating the highway instead.

The Shadow Hawk wheeled, trying to catch the speeding Hussar, while the Grand Dragon staggered down the road, the myomer muscles groaning as they hissed and popped under the strain of the heat.

Status:
Wyvern - 11 excess heat -- no damage this turn
Valkryie - Lost 3 LA armor - 0 excess heat -- 3 damage this turn
Cicada - 0 excess heat -- no damage this turn
Hussar - 5 damage - 9 excess heat -- no damage this turn -- Engine critical(increased heat gains)

Hostile Status:
Shadow Hawk -- Moved 1 hexes -- +0 to hit
Grand Dragon -- Moved 1 hexes -- +0 to hit

[Maja Eklund]

Maja mumbles something that sounds a lot like ‘ För fan i helvete!’ over the comms
“The Dragon lives another day.”
She goes to continue her fire on the grand dragon before noticing The Shadow Hawk across the way is baring its rear armour at her.

“Ah, nicely done Snorri!”

The wyvern raises its large laser and sights on the shadow hawk’s back.

((Remaining stationary and just firing a shot at the shadow hawk with large laser.))

[Dorgan Bruun]

"Alright, Dragon, let's dance..."

Bruun carefully maneuvers the Valk, still looking for the targeting solution he's been expecting throughout the simulation.

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Walking: Face SW, face S, 1 forward, face SW, face NW
All weapons fire Dragon

[Gillian Chow]

The Cicada turned and advanced against the Shadow Hawk, laying down fire as it closed range.

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Movement: starting in hex 1605 facing southwest. Right, forward, forward, forward, forward (climb a level), left (7 movement points = walk). End in hex 1203 facing southwest.
Attack: fire particle cannon at SHD (range 3 = inside min range, walk penalty). fire 2x machine guns at SHD (range 3 = long range, walk penalty).

[Comstar]

(Ghosted Snorri to dodge out of danger and dump heat -- hit and run.)

The action ebbed and flowed with the second match, mechs seeming to dart in and out of combat... or perhaps that was just the nimble hussar.

As the Shadowhawk came about, attempting to get a lock, the Hussar darted away, racing down the hill and ducking into cover behind the elevated office building across the street, heat bleeding away as it ran, letting the artificial fibers loosen up, and the stride lengthen.

Robbed of it's target, the ShadowHawk turned toward the Cicada which rushed uphill toward it, firing every weapon it had. Twin beams of emerald light speared into the Cicada (Hit CT+LT, 5 damage each), followed by a string of autocannon shells which ate large chunks out of the sod on the ground behind it, and then a blossoming swarm of missiles, 5 LRM and 4 SRM, which peppered the gangly mech as it approached. (Hit CT, 3 damage, Hit RL+RA, 2 damage each) In response, the Cicada spat a bolt of energy that earthed itself in the ground by the ShadowHawk's feet, and blazed away with the twin machine guns mounted under the cockpit. The steady rumble of high-caliber brass traced across the Shadow-hawk, chipping away armor. (Hit RL, 2 damage)

As the ShadowHawk turned away, presenting a tempting target, the Wyvern came to a stop, calmly lining up a shot and speared it in the chest with an azure beam of light, bubbling away armor into a fine mist. (Hit CT, 8 damage)

During all this, the Dragon held it's fire, calmly letting the heat sinks vent away the heat that was causing the sensors to lag and stutter. While it did, however, Bruun finally got his shot lined up, an emerald beam slicing out from his Medium laser to flash a line of armor away (Hit CT, 5 damage), followed by a hail of missiles which detonated across the Grand Dragon's canopy, sending splinters of white-hot spalding into the cockpit and shaking the mechwarrior within. (Hit Head, 3 damage, Mechwarrior Injury, Piloting roll to remain Conscious successful)

Turning again, the ShadowHawk stomped downhill, trying to get a bead on the cocky Wyvern that had shot it from behind. The Dragon, for it's part, simply continued down the road and pivoted, getting a wide view of the battlefield now that it had cooled down.


Status:
Wyvern - 7 excess heat -- no damage this turn
Valkyrie - Lost 3 LA armor - 0 excess heat -- 3 damage this turn
Cicada - Lost 8 CT armor, 2 RL armor, 2 RA armor, 5 LT armor - 0 excess heat -- 19 damage this turn
Hussar - 5 damage - 6 excess heat -- no damage this turn -- Engine critical (increased heat gains)

Hostile Status:
Shadow Hawk -- Moved 2 hexes -- +0 to hit
Grand Dragon -- Moved 3 hexes -- +1 to hit

[Gillian Chow]

Gillian’s mouth tightened as her mech started taking simulated damage. Taking cover in a stand of trees near the top of the hill, she turned to fire another pulse from her particle cannon at the enemy Shadow Hawk.

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Movement: starting in hex 1203 facing southwest. Forward, right, forward (climb a level and enter light woods), left, left (7 movement points = walk). End in hex 1003 facing south.
Attack: fire particle cannon at SHD (range 4 = short range, walk penalty).

[Dorgan Bruun]

"Yes, yes..." Bruun tracks the read out on damage to the Dragon, especially proud to have hit center Mass with the laser, knowing the missile shot was partially luck -- the kind of luck that comes from experience, maybe. "Not my first rodeo... Oh, oh Blondie, yes!”

Comms on again: "Y'all, I'm going for that damaged leg on the Dragon and I've got another salvo for that cocky Hawk. Magic time in this dance," he says, the event mechs having lined up just where he wants to see them. The comms line flips off again in the middle of what sounds like a "heehee," but surely isn't from such a grizzled MechWarrior.

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Hold position
Multi-Tasker tech to use ML at range 3 on Dragon, LRM at range 7 on Shadow Hawk.

[Maja Eklund]

Maja fist pumps as she shoots the opposing mech in the back.... before she sees both the opposing mechs turns to face her.

“No no no no. This will not be happening.”

She Jams her hand down on the jump jet control and the wyvern lurches into air and over the hill, hiding it at least from the dragon.

“How’s everyone looking out in the there? Here Bruun is saying very strange things, is he injured?”
As the wyvern lands she fires off a single long range missile at the ShadowHawk to keep it honest.

((Jump jet to 0611 and then LRM at the shadow hawk to keep venting heat.))