The melee was developing quickly, with hostiles stacking up on the west an friendlies pushing up the eastern road.
The Condor to the north fired at the jumping Valkyrie but missed with all shots as Bruun lifted off, flying over to land almost on top of the Hetzer. Firing his own weapons at the Condor, his medium laser missed, but the LRM swarm were almost entirely on target, peppering the hovercraft and shredding the air skirt to tatters, dropping it to the ground with a painful crunch. (Hit RR+LS, 5+3 damage, critical hit, vehicle immobile) The hetzer began spinning its tracks, but couldn't fire.
The Scorpion and Firestarter both targeted the Commando as Andrea got it back up, but mostly missed, only a single light red laser from the Firestarter connecting on the limber little mech, dealing a glancing blow (Hit CT, 1 damage) as gouts of flame shot out, igniting trees around the Commando and the Stinger, but failing to strike the mechs themselves. The Stinger attempted to strike the Firestarter, but both shots missed as the little arsonist wove between the trees. The Commando, on the other hand, opened fire with all it had into the Scorpion Light Tank. The laser carved into the side while 4 of the 10 missiles that leapt from the Commando's narrow form struck home. The small tank lost several tracks, and the crew were tossed about like dolls by the impacts. (Hit LS+FR+TU+FR+LS, 5+2+2+2+2 damage, critical hit moderate motive damage, Crew stunned)
The Pegasus, with a good angle, fired 18 more SRMs, slamming them into the Thorn's flank with 9 solid hits. (Hit CT+RT+RL+RA+LT+LA+LA+LL+LL, 2 damage each). The thorn, in turn, opened fire at the flanking Condor, missing with both lasers, but scoring a hit with all 5 missiles in a chain impact across the turret. (Hit TU, 5 damage) The hovercraft tried to target the Wyvern as it stood, but the gunner was rattled and missed his shots. In turn, the Wyvern opened up with almost its entire arsenal, though only the azure blue large laser carved into the thick turret armor, melting it away in globs. (hit TU, 8 damage)
Without relenting, the Cicada also swung around, firing all weapons at the flanking vehicle, smashing into side with the arcing power of the PPC. (Hit RS, 10 damage)
The Valkyrie, standing by the Hetzer, gave it a good kick, but didn't do much more than scrape off some armor plating (Hit FR, 6 damage), while the Commando, in a moment of focused anger, kicked the damaged side armor, crumpling the tank around it's foot like an empty can. (Hit LS, vehicle destroyed)
The enemy hovercraft attempted to move around and keep flanking, gunning their engines, but the drivers couldn't handle the speed and slipped, both of them crashing into trees and suffering damage, the first condor losing the air cushion and grinding down onto the turf, immobile. The Hetzer finished climbing the hill and then rumbled about, searching for a shot against the valkyrie.
The firestarter ignited jump jets, climbing the hill to join another reinforcement vehicle that just arrived, a Striker missile support truck.
Sensors detected three mech signatures closing in.
---- Situation ---- Allied victory if all units withdraw from northern map edge or all hostiles destroyed.Wyvern "Wurm" no damage -- 4 heat -- no damage this round
Commando "Sly Caliber" 1 CT -- 2 heat -- 1 damage this round
Cicada no damage -- 0 heat -- no damage this round
Valkyrie "Blondie" 7CT, 7 RT, 4 RL, 2 RA, 2 LT, 2 LA, 2 LL -- 1 heat -- 0 damage this round
Thorn 2 CT, 2 RT, 2 RL, 2RA, 2 LT, 4 LA, 4 LL -- 0 heat -- 18 damage this round
Stinger 5 LL, 5 LT -- 0 heat -- 5 damage this round
LumberJack "Bessie" no damage -- 0 heat -- no damage this round
Hostile Status ----Condor Heavy Hover tank ---- Immobile --- -4 bonus
Condor Heavy Hover Tank 2 ---- immobile --- -4 bonus
Pegasus Scout Hover Tank ---- moved 2 --- +0 penalty
Hetzer Assault Gun ---- moved 1 --- +0 penalty
Firestarter ---- moved 2 --- +0 penalty
Striker ---- moved 1 --- +0 penalty
Sat Nov 21, 2020 12:05 pm 
