Army of the Southern Cross

[Sherwood]

Current Order:
22 - Eric
18 - Heinrich
16 - Moira
15 - MPA 1-3
14 - Adrian
12 - MPA 4-6
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [3]

 

[Sherwood]

Just waiting on Silanon for his roll.

 

[Sherwood]

Eric is quiet as the eight suits of powered armor fly in closer. Finally, they pass the invisible line that he was using to target the enemy, and his 105mm cannon roars out with a APFSDS round aimed at MPA 1. His shell slams into the enemy unit, causing heavy damage.

Orikanyo is up

Current Order:
22 - Eric [1]
18 - Heinrich <====
16 - Moira
15 - MPA 1 badly damaged
15 - MPA 2-3
14 - Fia
14 - Adrian
12 - MPA 4-6
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [3]

 

[Orikanyo]

"Fire! Destroy them quickly!"

Heinrich ordered once again, as if the squad needed encouragement. Following his own advice he rose his cannon and fired upon MPA 1 to make certain it was dead.

 

[Sherwood]

The first Male Powered Armor wobbles a bit after getting hit, then it falls from the sky with its pilot dead.

Psychie is up

Current Order:
22 - Eric [1]
18 - Heinrich [1]
16 - Moira <====
15 - MPA 2-3
14 - Fia
14 - Adrian
12 - MPA 4-6
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [3]

 

[Psychie]

"Good shooting! One down, seven to go!" With that, Moira fires off her main gun with the sabot round at MPA 2.

Spoiler: Ammo Loadout

14 Sabot
10 Plasma
10 MPAT
5 HEAT
5 Canister
3 Smoke

 

[Sherwood]

Critical Strike! You must have hit the armor in a weak spot, because the armor piercing shell manages to one-hit-kill the pilot.

MPA 3 hits his thrusters to try and close in to be able to fire back.

AldarisLordOfLight and Silanon are now up

Current Order:
22 - Eric [1]
18 - Heinrich [1]
16 - Moira [1]
15 - MPA 3 [1]
14 - Fia <====
14 - Adrian <====
12 - MPA 4-6
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [3]

 

[AldarisLordOfLight]

"Nice shooting Moira! Firing sabot round." Adrian aimed the 105mm cannon at the approaching MPA-3.

 

[Sherwood]

Another Critical Strike! Between Adrian and Moira, the Zentraedi don't stand a chance!

Silanon is up with Fia

Current Order:
22 - Eric [1]
18 - Heinrich [1]
16 - Moira [1]
14 - Fia <====
14 - Adrian [1]
12 - MPA 4-6
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [3]

 

[Silanon]

"Holy shit, great shot - good thing you finally got a decent cannon. Opening fire right now - armor-piercing round's on the way." With that, Fia aims at MPA 4, doing her best to blast it out of the sky.

 

[Silanon]

Didn't take the roll...

 

[Sherwood]

Fia sends her sabot round down range, but the powered armor manages to evade the shot.

The five remaining suits of powered armor hit their jets to accelerate forward towards your position.

Eric calls out, "Loading MPAT! Sending it on the way." The airburst shell explodes, catching MPAs 4-6 in its blast. All three are badly shredded, but are just barely still functional.

Orikanyo is up

Current Order:
22 - Eric [2]
18 - Heinrich [1] <====
16 - Moira [1]
14 - Fia [1]
14 - Adrian [1]
12 - MPA 4-6 [1] critically damaged
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [4]

 

[Orikanyo]

"Copy that Eric, following suit." heinrich copied the action of his squadmate before launching a MPAT of his own upon the incoming group.

 

[Sherwood]

Heinrich's MPAT shell finishes off the three MPA suits that Eric damaged with his own attack. All that's left are the two suits of armor that got hit by Adrian and Moira's jamming effects of their EW Pods.

Psychie is up next

Current Order:
22 - Eric [2]
18 - Heinrich [2]
16 - Moira [1] <====
14 - Fia [1]
14 - Adrian [1]
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [4]

 

[Psychie]

"Holy crap. You guys are sweeping those males out of the sky! I got to keep up the trend!" She loads an MPAT of her own to try and hit both of the remaining enemy at once.

Spoiler: Ammo

14 Sabot
10 Plasma
9 MPAT
5 HEAT
5 Canister
3 Smoke

 

[Sherwood]

Moira's shell explodes between the two Zentraedi units, but the airburst round is not quite enough to finish them off with one hit like your comrades.

Silanon is up

Current Order:
22 - Eric [2]
18 - Heinrich [2]
16 - Moira [2]
14 - Fia [1] <====
14 - Adrian [1]
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [4] damaged

 

[Silanon]

"Well, hardly anything left to shoot at - trying to sweep up the remains." The main gun turns towards the Zentraedi, following up Moira's shell with another MPAT.

 

[Sherwood]

The two MPA suits are nearly in weapon range of their own guns as Fia's MPAT shell explodes in their midst. Their armor is still holding, even after the two attacks against them, but it is getting really thin in places.

AldarisLordOfLight is up, and you have one shot before the Zentraedi are in range to fire back.

Current Order:
22 - Eric [2]
18 - Heinrich [2]
16 - Moira [2]
14 - Fia [2]
14 - Adrian [1] <====
8 - MPA 7-8 jammed [4] badly damaged

 

[AldarisLordOfLight]

"Since you're all shooting MPATs like there's no tomorrow, I'll do just that. Don't want to be left out now..." Adrian trailed off as he cycled through his tank's ammunition. He aimed in between the last two remaining MPAs and fired. "Let's see if sniper training was worth it."

 

[Sherwood]

While it is not another Critical, the damage done is enough to bring the two fliers down for the count.

Moving out of combat time.

At the moment, the sky is clear of targets over you, leaving you free to move forward once more after the downed air crew of the Tiger Eye. The first group of signals are just over a mile from your current position.

 

[Orikanyo]

"Good work, i dare say we should be careful, or we might set the bar to high." the doctor chuckled, before moving forwards again. "Alright, lets see to it these people get their rescue, come on!"

 

[AldarisLordOfLight]

"Right, hostiles are down and out. I'll keep an eye on the scanners just in case they're not alone, Sarge. Let's get our fly boys and girls to safety." Adrian then sighed with relief, seeing that the enemy were taken down fairly quickly. He even noted the acceptable performance of the Chimera so far. "Aye, aye, Sarge!"

 

[Psychie]

"Got it, Sergeant! Lets go get these guys." Moira transforms her tank into Transport mode and moves out.

 

[Silanon]

"Certainly good footage, sarge - not that it matters right now, of course. Think we better hurry to find our comrades, this whole plan seems too coordinated to only rely on one MPA-team to get the work done. Pretty sure there are more of them out there - I'll bring up the rear, let's get moving." Switching into transport mode herself, Fia will wait for the others to move first, making sure that there will be no surprises catching them from behind.

 

[Sherwood]

In short order, your squad is pulling up in the trees where you are getting the emergency transponder signals from five of the downed aircrew. You find the crew huddled together under a huge tree, nursing the bumps and scratches that they got when they ejected from the Tiger Eye aircraft. As you approach, they wave you down and you can see the relief in their faces to see friendly mecha instead of enemy units.

A slim woman wearing lightweight MDC armor with captain's bars on her collar steps forward. "Good to see you, Winged Hussars! I'm Captain Eva Walker, and I'm one of the voices you hear on the radio when you call in. I wish we were meeting under better circumstances. There are five of us here, and we're lucky enough to not have any serious injuries from our rough landing. Do you have any word on the rest of the crew that came down with us?"