MME Board Joint MekHQ Campaign - The Sanguine Samurai

I second what Maus said; you handled that battle really well.

Here's hoping Omega can continue to land good hits with improved gunnery now. Temping to save for even better gunnery, but I will do the sensible thing and go for piloting next.

I not convinced on the Treb. If the pilot was better maybe, but I feel like we can wait for something better to spend that money on.

BTW Igloo, what settings do you have to make your game board look so nice? In particular, the rounded shading on the edges of the hexes? Mine isometric view looks so harsh on the edges!

It's not what I would necessarily define as cool in terms of style, but for the 6K I like to remove the small lasers and replace with an extra heat sink.

Technically makes the mech cooler 😄

Means you can walk and fire both PPCs without building up that pesky 1 heat (or 2 if running) each round. Then, when something juicy gets close you don't need to agonise over whether to alpha because you're already sitting on 5+ heat.

No worries dude. This campaign has encouraged me to pick my AtB megamek campaign up again actually, so it's good to be enjoying megamek again this time in multiple ways!

Out of interest have you or anyone else got guidelines on how to scale the AtB settings so that contracts are more suitable to a growing unit size? I started at a company but I'm up to two and a half companies not so the basic company contracts are a bit limited in scope.

I've played with regiment+ sizes, and yes any units on the TO&E add to your company's total net worth. This is then used to calculate the payout of contracts.

We definitely all dead, LOL

The techs have the light damage from our last encounter repaired before evening chow. After a chat with the team, Igloo decides against recruiting the young mechwarrior with the shiny mech that came asking to join our team. We have better things to spend our C-bills on right now.


We finish scrapping the Maxim transport of armor, weapons, and ammo before selling it for some cash. Around 207,000 C-bills. We left some of the machine guns on it since we already have a few.



Special Mission: Star League Cache 1

While out on patrol at the beginning of the week, our favorite Rasalhague Mechwarrior finds a Star League era cache. With the Major’s permission, he brings a tech out with him to power up the mech and get it back to base. His presence in the area must have raised some eyebrows though as 3 light mechs make their way to intercept.



“Get that Awesome powered up! I’ve got 3 light mech signatures heading our way and that Tornado has picked the worst time to land. Hope you’re as good at piloting that thing as you are working on it.”

-Private Erik-Johan “High Tower” Dyczkowski, Sanguine Samurai, January 10, 3040, Shinonoi



Deployment

The Awesome deploys further back with High Tower in cover closer to the enemy mechs at the north end of the map





Round 1

High Tower stays still in the forest, hoping to get some shots off on the enemy light mechs as they approach.




All shots miss this round.



Round 2

Man, these movement penalties for the tornado are rough on the Panther. High Tower decides to stay still even as the Ostscout runs up right next to him.





The Ostscout misses two punches and High Tower misses a kick. The wind blows him over while he’s unbalanced landing heavily on his RL.



Round 3

High Tower tries to get up and falls again… The Ostscout circles him and the enemy panthers close in.


Everyone’s shots miss this round and the Ostscout misses a kick. But sadly, he does not fall himself.



Round 4

High Tower is finally able to get up just as the enemy Panther lands next to him. Here’s to hoping he doesn’t get put on his butt again this turn!





High Tower lands a shot on the farthest panther, removing all of the armor from its RT. It returns the gesture by hitting High Tower in his CT with a PPC as well.


The Ostscout somehow dodges out of the way 2 PPCs and then due to its narrow profile and a glancing blow roll from the Awesome receives 2 damage from a PPC hit…


The Ostscout punches High Tower’s LT for 2 damage and High Tower turns around and kicks most of the armor off of the Ostscout’s RL! The Ostscout stays standing.



Round 5

Seeing the Panther that hit him stay still and line up shots, High Tower decides to jump around and try to get to not get hit this round.





High Tower gets no shots, and one Panther lands a glancing blow on the Awesome’s RA.


The Ostscout kicks the Awesome, and the Awesome falls on his head… the pilot takes 2 damage from failing the roll to not take damage as well



Round 6

This battle is pissing me off haha. Tornado’s aren’t fun! The Tech proceeds to take two more damage from trying to get up and blacks out… Well at least he can’t hurt himself now…


High Tower rushes the better Panther pilot, hoping to kick it and knock it down.





No one’s shots hit. High Tower kicks the other Panther in the CT, but it manages to stay upright.



Round 7

High Tower jumps into some forest trying to stay mobile.


The Panther #2 scores a PPC hit on High Tower’s LA removing the armor.


High Tower Kicks the Ostscout that had rushed him, and knocks the mech over.


The one Panther tried pushing High Tower, which I haven’t seen the AI do before. Probably because of the tornado and how hard piloting is right now.



Round 8

The Ostscout falls twice trying to get up before he succeeds in standing. High Tower stays still and lines up a shot on the further enemy panther.





High Tower removes the enemy Panther’s armor on its LT. The enemy returns the favor by destroying the armor on High Tower’s RA. (our only weapon capable of firing in this wind. Yikes)


High Tower then turns to the Ostscout again and kicks the right leg off of the Ostscout who then tumbles to the ground and blacks out.



Round 9

The enemy panther jumps closer to High Tower so he decides to stay still. Both miss their PPC shots at each other.





High Tower then proceeds to miss a kick that needed a 4… He falls, taking damage to his RT. The enemy panther also misses their kick though, it falls on his LA, but also takes a point of pilot damage.



Round 10

Both the Ostscout & the Awesome pilots wake up at the end of last round. Great, they’re gonna kill themselves now… Ostscout kills himself, Awesome knocks himself out again.


The enemy panther couldn’t get up, High Tower manages to stand.





Everyone misses the PPC shots that happen. High Tower lands a kick to the downed Panther’s RT. Almost removing it. The Panther behind him lands a kick on his RL causing High Tower to fall on his own RT and take a point of pilot damage.



Round 11

High Tower manages to fall down again while trying to get up.

The Pilot of the second Panther blacks out while trying to stand up.



High Tower blows the RT off of the Blacked out Panther, removing his PPC as well. But then his RA gets blown off by the other Panther.


That Panther then kicks High Tower’s RT destroying it leaving 3 Armor on his CT.



Round 12

High Tower falls on his back the first time he tries to get up, somehow getting safely past a critical roll that happened. He succeeds on his second attempt.


The standing panther kicks his RL, but High Tower stays standing.



Round 13

The second panther pilot ejects.


I realize I am no longer allowed to do physical attacks with High Tower, which I assume is from him being crippled with no weapon, so I think I have to call this before he gets killed. We admit defeat.




Aftermath

Well, we got nothing from wrecking our Panther besides getting High Tower two effective kills.


I have decided I hate Tornados. That might have been the silliest game of Battletech I’ve ever played haha. Almost all the damage came from falling and melee haha


We have to order several parts to replace on the Panther, RT, RA, replacing lot of heat sinks. Phew, Honestly, High Tower is lucky his SRM ammo didn’t go up in flames at any point during this…


While repairing and waiting for new parts for the Panther to come in we get the notification of a Hold the Line battle coming up for our main lance. We’ll deal with that next time



High Tower ended that battle with 20 exp. With him already being a 4/4 pilot, I figure some better gunnery would be nice for him. He also gets the Hopping Jack special ability which means he only gets a +2 to hit instead of a +3 to hit when jumping. Let me know though, I can roll that back to upgrading Piloting instead 



Edit: I just realized that made High Tower our first Veteran pilot... What the heck, he's getting paid more than us now xD

I definitely think he's earned a spot as the secondary lance leader unless one of you all want it haha. Panthers and planetary effects that lower your MP do not get along by the way haha. I am sad we missed out on the Awesome-8Q


Edit: Oh! Hey! High Tower could teach a training cadre now!

“It was just sitting in the corner of the base like a red-headed step-child. It was almost like they wanted someone to steal it!”

- Sergei Darwiski at gunpoint from his BJ-1 cockpit upon approaching Sanguine Sarmurai FOB – January 12, 3040 – Shinonoi



A mere 4 days after High Tower’s heroic return back to base with a very beat up Panther, Command Lance is forced to Hold the Line against an onslaught of DC power. Luckily, we got a little backup in the form of Sergei “Slack-Jaw” Darwiski. A colonist from one system over in the Yance I (Agador) system, he grew tired of the Draconis exploitation of his people and left to become a mercenary. He heard we were on Shinonoi completing a contract, stole a Blackjack BJ-1 from a poorly manned second-line Draconis Military base nearby and ran to join us. He is deploying alongside Command Lance to help provide a bit more firepower. We’ll need it!



The Sanguine Samurai and their Allied Griffin deploy in the center of the map amongst some city buildings. Scout reports say there’s a lot of vehicles backed by 2 medium mechs heading our way from the north.


Most of the enemy force deploys in the North East Corner.


Nomad, Slack-Jaw, & Omega deploy on the west side of the city, hoping to keep as much distance as possible.


Igloo & Snake Eyes deploy on the west side hopping to split the enemy force some.






Slack-Jaw attempts to keep his distance and starts peppering one of the LRM carriers


Igloo advances and tries to get into a patch of wood cover in front of him, letting loose two PPC shots at an advancing Vedette


Snake Eyes kicks his jump jets on and follows Igloo, trying to cover him from a pair of Vedettes that rush Igloo, shooting at the one closest to him.


Nomad moves north into a clump of forest, hoping to get some LRMs onto the LRM carriers while moving fast before they deal too much damage.


Omega pushes past the corner of the buildings he was behind to deal some damage to an approaching Manticore.





Slack-Jaw scores a glancing blow with one of his AC/2s on an LRM Carrier’s Front plate


Nomad is the focus of a lot of fire this round. He dodges one LRM Carrier’s missiles before landing 21 of of the 30 missiles that hit on it’s front armor blowing it to kingdom come. Nomad takes several missile hits from a Drillson nearby which makes him turn, right into a full barrage from the other LRM Carrier. 21 missiles hit, luckily more spread out, although his RA armor is pretty low already. I’ll have to double check, but that might be not only our quickest kill, but definitely Nomad’s first one round kill.


Igloo lands one PPC on his target and gets his searchlight blown off his RT in response by the Vedette’s AC/5.


Snake Eyes misses his shots


Omega lands a PPC blow on the LS of the Manticore. Narrowly missing its motor system.


Our friendly Griffon melts most of the armor off the enemy Clint’s RA with a PPC blast.


Nomad takes a tumble, missing his PSR by 1, luckily, no pilot damage and he falls on a section that still had plenty of armor. He took a glancing blow to his CT from a medium laser on the way down as well.



Slack-Jaw pushes forward to support the prone Nomad, firing his AC/2s and two Medium lasers at the Manticore.


Igloo steps into the forest, cutting off a Vedette and firing his short range weaponry at it. But he can’t help himself but shoot a single PPC at a good side shot the Manticore presented him.


Nomad stands and backs up into a heavy forest next to him, he locks onto the other LRM carrier and lets both flights of LRM20s fly.


Snake Eyes moves to get back shots on the enemy Griffon who pushed super close to the back of Igloo for some reason. (silly AI)


Omega runs forward, hoping to give a better target than Nomad, trying to share his armor and deal some damage to the Manticore.





The Drillson lands a large laser and few LRMs on Igloo.


The LRM Carrier lands 32 missiles on Nomad. The damage gets rather spread, but his RA armor is gone.


Slack-Jaw scores two AC/2 hits on the RS of the Manticore, dealing moderate damage to its motor system.


Snake Eyes takes a glancing blow from a Vedettes AC/5


Nomad only lands 12 missiles in return on the LRM Carrier, stripping its Front armor down to 2 points, and dealing minor motor damage.


Omega finishes what Slack-Jaw started, landing two PPC hits on the RS of the Manticore, stripping most of the armor there and immobilizing the tank.


Snake Eyes lands a Large laser and two medium laser hits on the Griffin, but nothing major.


Nomad takes more damage from the clint, removing the rest of his LA armor and taking another glancing blow to his RA. Nomad stays standing this round however. Might be time to pull him back some.


Igloo kicks the RS of a vedette, dealing 14 damage, yay!


The enemy Griffin misses his kick on Igloo, and our Griffin kicks the Manticore


We’ve almost already destroyed 33% of the enemy force which is our goal for this battle. We’re at 77.28% remaining on their side while we’ve only taken 5%. Any damage we deal this round should put us over. So we can safely deal more damage and leave with some hopefully good salvage before their reinforcements even arrive.


Snake Eyes jumps back some to try to cover Igloo from any flanking vedettes, firing at the Griffin as he lands.


The enemy Manticore is abandoned. (which means Victory, we can call this at any time now)


Nomad moves towards a forest by Omega, twisting to fire off one more LRM20 flight at the LRM Carrier.


Slack-Jaw moves up next to Nomad to give another target, adding his fire to the LRM Carrier.


Omega pushes forward hoping to draw some fire, firing a PPC and SRM6 at a Drillson speeding by.


Igloo turns around and backs further into the forest, letting loose two PPCs at the enemy Griffin.





Snake Eyes lands a Large laser and a glancing Medium laser hit on the Griffin.


Nomad takes a glancing Large laser hit from the Drillson, causing him to miss his LRM shot. He then takes another 22 missiles from the LRM carrier. The damage is spread, but his RT is low on armor and it destroyed the hand on his LA. He stays standing! What a trooper!


The Enemy griffin lands a glancing PPC blow to Igloo’s LL.


Slack-Jaw scores two AC/2 hits to the front of the LRM carrier, hitting its sensors.


Nomad takes an AC/5 round to the back, hitting his rear CT.


Igloo scores a glancing blow with one PPC on the Griffin’s LA, leaving it at 1 armor


Omega takes a glancing AC/5 blow before scoring a PPC hit on the LS of the drillson, dealing minor damage to its motive system.


The LRM carrier is retreating!


Nomad runs towards the city, hoping to break line of sight. He puts some woods between him and the Drillson & Clint.


Slack-Jaw jumps behind the Drillson, aiming his Medium lasers at it.


Igloo backs up to put a forest between him and the enemy Griffin, while denying the Vedette below his feet a shot at his rear. He thumbs his PPC triggers once his reticle settles on the enemy Griffin.


Snake Eyes moves up to protect Igloo from the Vedettes, letting loose all his lasers at the one below Igloo’s feet.


Omega turns around to support Slack-Jaw, firing two PPCs and an SRM6 at the Clint.




The Drillson fires at Omega, hitting his CT with a large laser, an SRM finds his head. Pain rips through Omega as shatter glass cuts him, he stays conscious and barely notices a few more LRMs hitting his mech.


Slack-Jaw’s jump causes the enemy Clint to only barely land a glancing Medium laser blow to his RA.


Snake Eyes melts all of the armor off the enemy Vedettes LS and immobilizes it. Effective Kill for him (we learned our lesson about kicking things when our mechs are on top of them, we’ll let them bail out next round)


Slack-Jaw misses all of his medium lasers, he tries to kick the Drillson out of anger, but misses as well. He stays standing.


One of Omegas PPC shots find the AC/5 ammo in the Clint’s RT, blowing the mech sky high. (he hit the other one too, but the mech was dead already 😊 )


Both of Igloo’s PPC shots hit the Griffin. The first blowing off the Griffin’s LA, the second melting most of the Griffin’s CT armor away.


This round is started off by Nomad running through the city, but slipping and falling headfirst into a basement of one of the buildings. Ripping his RA off of his mech, almost critting his CT and Leg, before the building collapses on him “destroying” him for this battle. I have a feeling the crew won’t let Nomad live that one down for awhile. No notification that he died, I’m just happy he’s alive.


Slack-Jaw jumps to where the Clint pilot ejected, hoping to capture him.


Snake Eyes moves into some heavy forest north of him aiming at the retreating Griffin, but decides he doesn’t have a good shot and instead twists and shoots the Vedette behind him with a medium laser.


Omega turns around, keeping the Drillson in his sights.


Igloo steps forward to also give the Griffin a parting gift.





No one hits this round except for a Large laser almost removing the rest of Omega’s LT armor.


With this the Sanguine Samurai allow the enemy Opfor to retreat and go to dig Nomad out of his basement.


A note on this. The After Action report actually classified Nomad as KIA and the Archer as a total loss. That’s BULL. The Archer’s internals were hardly even hurt, with a bit of work I.E. 3 other heavy mechs. It would be a cinch to get him out of there. So, I unchecked total loss, left the damage on the Archer as is, and dropped Nomad down to 3 hits, it does make sense that he took more damage from the collapsing building. Let me know if you all think that is fair. Nomad ended up with a broken rib and a bruise on his left arm.





We left the salvage for our employer as it was just 3 crippled tanks and we had been a bit over on our salvage allowance already.








The fact we have everything but a lower arm actuator back on the Archer by the next day confirms to me that it was definitely not a total loss. We’re still waiting on a RT for High Tower’s Panther, but other than that our mechs are in fighting shape again. I opt to not totally reload the AC/2 ammo on the Blackjack and the SRM6 ammo on Omega’s Warhammer to help mitigate the risk of a total loss of the mech from an ammo explosion, they both still have plenty of shots left in their bins.


We ransom off 3 of our healed prisoners that didn’t want to defect for 32,500 Cbills.


The next day, January 16, that RT arrives and we start putting it on. It takes the techs two days to put it on. While the regular techs replace armor and heatsinks in the Torso, the veterans takes a few more days to carefully put the RA back on, then by January 23. All of our Mechs are ready to rock and roll!


Two more soldier prisoners are healed and ransomed for 10,000 Cbills.


We have two that would defect. An elite soldier and a green vehicle driver. I might just ransom them, what do you all think? Unless someone wants a vehicle commander character. We can make this prisoner the driver. I forgot that we also hired some soldiers for RP reasons before as well, so I guess we can just recruit the elite soldier as well. Thoughts?




February

February 1 rolls around with no other action. Enemy morale is low. Our special event this month is rolled and we get a dependent. A 27 Male from Shinonoi who seems to have some astech training. Dominic Murtada. There’s rules for training dependents, I’ll have to look them up.


Also with February comes a cool ~3 million c-bills payment and salaries for everyone. I’m going to call it here now.



Here’s some player combat stats for everyone. Omega barely kept his Kill lead this Match



Igloo – 4/4 – 11xp

5 Missions



Kills - 1 Mech, 2 Tanks



Nomad – 4/5 – 16xp

5 Missions



Kills - 2 Mechs, 1 Tank




Snake Eyes – 4/4 – 21xp

5 Missions



Kills - 2 Mechs, 6 Tanks




Omega – 3/5 – 10xp

5 Missions



Kills – 2 Mechs, 7 Tanks




Slack-Jaw – 4/5 – 4xp

1 Mission

Kills -

That was a fun battle! You played it well too.

I agree with the Nomad decision. Sounds like there was some silly background code that resulted in KIA for no obvious reason.

It can be handy to keep a few vehicle crew around, in case you salvage something useful at some point. The soldier, not so much...unless we are planning to put together some infantry squads?

Some house keeping to start with Sorry for the delay in postings!


Stryker has joined us with his Character Boomer from the Fed Suns Outback and his tank crew in his Devastator Heavy Tank. A beefy assault boi with two ac/20s, 3 small lasers, a srm6, and a flamer!


Snake Eyes has upgraded his gunnery, he is now 3/4, our first founder level up veteran! He got the Blind Fighter SPA automatically assigned, let me know if there’s a different SPA you’d like me to pick or if you’d like me to reroll that. It’s funny that it fits his name though…


Nomad’s broken rib heals up on February 3, luckily in time for our next mission on February 5. A Stand Up (Defender) mission that is coincidently rolled with a moonless night modifier… Thanks Shoeless haha


With this being a defense mission for the command lance, I think it’s fine to add in Boomer and his tank crew to help defend the town we’re in against the onslaught of the Draconis Combine!


I’m testing out exporting the whole board with units as a .png instead of stitching together the pictures like I have been, hopefully they’re large enough still.



Stand Up (Defender) – February 5, 3040

Most of the Command lance deploys a little north of the middle of their deployment zone. Igloo decides to deploy far north in hopes of getting some early shots with the clear line of sight north of the town. Our friendly dervish deploys on the main road leading through the town.


Enemies deployed rather spread out, but with some fast vehicles towards the north eyeing up Igloo.




The vehicles up north do start heading towards Igloo, so the lance moves to cover him. Igloo is able to run past some woods and get a bit of cover.




No one has any good reads on targets yet this round, even Snake Eyes with his propensity for the dark.



Round 2

The harassers & saladins turn towards the rest of the lance instead of heading towards Igloo. The lance moves to put themselves in good shooting range while stay just outside of effective range of the harassers SRMS.


It’s at this point that I remember why I try to reroll moonless nights lol


Most of our shots are 11 or 12, so I shoot as much laser weapons from Snake Eyes as I can, both PPCs from Omega and only one LRM20 from Nomad.





Snake Eyes scores one medium laser hit on the Harasser, melting all of the armor off the FR of it. Omega scores a glancing hit with one PPC, blowing off the armor on the LS of the Harasser and dealing heavy motive damage, halving its MP.


Enemy fire all misses



Round 3

Omega backs up a bit expecting the hover vehicles to zoom by him and try to get in his rear, but to his admonishment, the one harasser drives in a circle and ends up back where it was and the saladins move into the town.

Snake Eyes takes the opportunity to grab some cover in the heavy woods next to him.

Nomad stays still and lines up a shot on either the VTOL or second harasser that’s driving in circles. Igloo moves forward to secure the kill on the retreating harasser.




Omega switches to focus on the scout tank flying up on him with his lasers and SRM6


Snake Eyes takes some shots at the Saladin that looks like it’s being piloted a bit better.


Nomad switches to the scout tank as well with his medium lasers


Igloo fires at the fleeing harasser.


Nomad scores one medium laser hit on the scout tank. Nomad takes a few SRM rounds from the scout tank in return. Our friendly Dervish scores a single srm round on the skulker tank


This is going to take forever haha



Round 4

Both of the Saladins go speeding towards Snake Eyes, and then do a 180 pointing at Igloo, with their AC/20s at medium range. I’m not sure what they were thinking.


Igloo stays still, hoping to get good shots something moving fast near him, not too worried about the Saladins, even the better pilot would need an 11 to hit him from here.


Nomad stays still hoping to get a good shot with his LRMs at the Scout tank as it drives away. Omega steps past the Saladin’s field of fire to deal with either the Stinger or Scout tank





As the AC/20 round goes whizzing by Igloo and ricocheting off the hill behind him, he lines up two PPC shots, one glances off the Front armor of the saladin destroying the stabilizer in the gun, the second slams directly into the lower front armor, stripping most of the rest of the armor there and immobilizing the tank. Kill to Igloo


Snake Eyes fires into the rear of the same Saladin, scoring two medium laser hits removing most of the rear armor and almost killing the tank instead.


Omega fires his medium lasers and SRM6 at the stinger, scoring two srm hits to the RT of the Stinger and a medium laser to the CT. Both remove most of the armor in those locations.


Nomad misses with his LRMs


Our dervish hits the Wasp with 3 missiles


Nothing hits us this round.


Snake Eyes kicks the other Saladin in front of him destroying the tank outright. I probably should have worried about an ammo explosion now that I think about it… Oh well, he’s fine.



Round 5

Nomad and Omega head towards the town road to deal with the vehicles that have gone inside the town.


Snake Eyes kicks his jumpjets on and follows the stinger behind the buildings it jumped behind.


Igloo moves on top of the Pegasus scout tank to deny it from shooting him and to tank a shot at the VTOL that flew near him.





The galleon tank presents a nicer sight picture to Snake Eyes so he changes targets. He scores one medium laser into the RR of the vehicle, melting half the armor there and dealing heavy motive damage, halving the MP


The peregrine VTOL is moving too fast for Igloo so he swings his PPCs back at the Saracen that is firing LRMs at him, the fire from both parties lands short.


Our friendly dervish and the wasp trade medium laser hits


Snake Eyes scores a glancing kick the Galleon in the turret. Igloo also scores a glancing kick to the turret of the Pegasus. Our friendly dervish kicks the Skulker in the LS, taking off most of the armor there.



Round 6

It’s at this point I realized I forgot to change Boomer’s deploy round… He’ll be here in round 9


Igloo stays still as the Pegasus drives away, lining up a PPC shot on it.


Omega parks himself on the main road. Nomad slowly makes his way up to the road, noticing the stinger land on a building next to Omega.


Snake Eyes steps into the same hex as the galleon that didn’t move





Igloo is rewarding with a nice shot on the Pegasus. Hitting one PPC on its LS.


Nothing shows itself to Omega as he waits patiently on the road.


The stinger moves too quickly for Nomad to track this round.


Snake Eyes fires at the Vedette in front of him. He scores a large laser hit, dealing some minor motive damage and a glancing medium laser hit. Removing half the armor from the FR.


Our friendly dervish breaks through the armor on the wasp, almost blowing off the wasp’s RT. The wasp shoots him back in his own RT as punishment, but the dervish’s armor holds.


Snake Eyes lifts a foot up and puts it right through the turret of the galleon, destroying the tank.


The wasp kicks our friendly dervish in the leg for good measure. You tell ‘em wasp.


End of round report tells me we’ve blown through 40% of the enemy’s initial force, Boomer might not make the party, he most have gotten lost in a different town.


I don’t know about you all, but this honestly makes me rethink any vehicle purchases for MME… Obviously the night doesn’t help princess at all and it’s princess and they’re lighter tanks. But man, heavy mechs just stomp right through them.



Round 7

Nomad moves down the road, hoping for something to poke it’s head out.


Igloo backs up some, being pressured by 3 vehicles now.


Snake Eyes looks up and tracks the stinger as it jumps above him.


Omega moves down the road putting the AC/2 vedette in his sights, firing both of his PPCs when his locks go gold.





Nothing gives Nomad a chance to shoot at it again this round.


Igloo and the Saracen trade pot shots at each other. Both miss each other.


Snake Eyes looks from the Stinger to the tall building the stinger is landing at and shoots everything he has at the building. He damages it enough that the building collapses under the Stinger, the stinger falls 3 levels, takes 1 damage from falling debris, then hits the ground and almost destroying his armor and opening his CT


Omega scores a PPC hit on the AC/2 vedette’s TU, dealing a critical hit but nothing important was damaged.


Snake Eyes was too busy laughing to land a good kick to the stinger, his kick glances off the RL of the stinger, barely leaving the thing hanging on.

Round 8

Igloo walks forward a bit, feeling the heat slow his mech a bit.


Snake Eyes watches as the stinger tries to get up and then falls again, so he moves forward and then circles back to deal with the stinger to throw off anyone trying to shoot at him.


Omega Backs up into the forest near him to get some cover from the tanks across the river from him.


Nomad turns around to deal with the skulker





Snake Eyes fires his lasers into the downed Stinger. Destroying the CT with his second medium laser hit, annoyingly, it cooks off the 200 rounds of machine gun ammo in the mech and he takes 20 damage from the ammo explosions going off everywhere. Stupid machine gun ammo damage values. He stays standing though, the damage is pretty spread as well.


Igloo fires his medium lasers at the Saracen trying to flank him, missing as the vehicle flies by.


Omega fires both PPCs and his SRM6 at the Vedette shooting at him. He lands a glancing blow with one PPC and 4 of his SRMs hit the tank as well


Nomad misses a kick on the Skulker but keeps his balance.



Round 9

Boomer comes rolling up on the southern road!


We’ve won at this point, but I want to try to get some more exp for everyone since our armor is doing fine at the moment.


Nomad continues pursuing the skulker


Snake Eyes jumps into the main road to get a line on the Mini-Peggy harasser.


Omega stays still aiming at the vedette again.


Igloo steps forward putting the Saracen in short range for his PPCs


Boomer moves full steam ahead to help our friendly dervish with his wasp problem.





The skulker lands a lucky glancing blow head hit on Nomad.


Igloo takes one SRM missile to the RL


Snake Eyes rolls snake eyes and whiffs all his shots, most of them were high though because he jumped


Omega takes a glancing PPC blow from the Panther that showed up


Igloo lands one glancing blow to the Saracen’s FR


Omega misses two 6s on the vedette with his PPCs…


Our friendly dervish scores another glancing blow on the wasp


Nomad lands a solid kick on the RS of the skulker, leaving only 4 armor left in that location.



Round 10

Igloo stays still, hoping to hit something moving fast


Omega also stays bunkered down, keeping out of line of sight of the panther that jumped by him.


Snake Eyes rushes the Panther, getting inside it’s effective PPC range


Boomer moves his tank closer to the wasp but at a slower pace to give his gunners a chance


Nomad moves back towards the town to support Snake Eyes and Omega




Igloo fires at the Pegasus scout tank who didn’t move too much this round


Boomer’s turret tracks the wasp as he runs by him, firing his small lasers and both AC/20s. A Small laser scores a hit on the Wasp’s head that makes the wasp slow for a second before an AC/20 round hits the Wasps RT, blowing the arm off before coring the mech, Boomer’s first round of shooting and first kill! The wasp managed to hit the turret with one medium laser before getting blown to bits


Omega continues to fire at the AC/2 Vedette, he scores a PPC hit on the RS, dealing moderate motive damage. -1 MP


Snake Eyes dodges a lot of fire this round! Because of all that dip and diving he only lands a glancing large laser blow and one medium laser on the panther.

Nomad fired a long shot LRM20 shot at the Pegasus but it missed.


With this round, we have destroyed 50% of the starting forces, securing the win



Round 11

Boomer follows the Dervish into the town


Igloo charges forward, trying to get away from the vehicles around him, putting his sights on a harasser that didn’t move much this round.


The Panther doesn’t move at all, so Snake Eyes jumps behind him


Omega takes a turn to cool down with no enemies hassling him yet and Nomad lines up on the Harasser that Igloo has his eyes on





The only thing that hits this round is Snake Eyes lands a medium laser on the LL of the panther and then kicks it for good measure, leaving 1 structure left on the LL



Round 12

Omega stays still, waiting to see where the Panther goes


Snake eyes moves to punish the locust that moved slowly to get in Omegas back


Boomer is able to get in short range of a vedette that moved slowly to attack our friendly dervish.


Igloo moves on top of the harasser and lines up shots at the Pegasus


Nomad moves to reunite with his friend the skulker





Nomad actually gets better shots at a vedette that’s shooting at him with his LRMs so he fires those off. 12 of his missles hit the vedette


Boomer hits with 4 SRMs, dealing some moderate motive damage.


Snake Eyes hits the locust with a glancing large laser blow, one glancing medium laser, and two solid medium laser hits, the Locust has no more CT armor.

Nomad takes a medium laser hit and misses his.


Omega takes a few machine gun rounds to the back and misses his snapshot ppc hit.


Igloo misses his shots as well


Snake Eyes must really love kicking little things, he takes the Locust’s leg clean up with a kick, the locust falls and almost cores himself taking a crit to his gyro and engine. That’s probably an effective kill for Snake Eyes


Igloo & nomad miss their kicks but stay standing



Round 13

Locust pilot ejects, effective kill for Snake Eyes
We’ll make this the final round


Omega moves out onto the street again. Hoping to coax one of the vedettes into line of sight.


Snake Eyes follows the panther who jumped after Igloo


Boomer moves up a bit hoping to cover any avenues of retreat the Vedette might take


Nomad backs up into the forest Omega was.


Igloo moves after the vedettes on the left flank





Omega still doesn’t have vision on the vedettes, so he shoots the building next to him, leveling it.


Snake Eyes blows the RA off of the Panther, effectively neutering it.


Boomer obliterates the front armor of the Vedette with an AC/20 leaving 1 structure left that gets finished off by a small laser! 2 kills in first outing, go Boomer! Really living up to the name haha


He does take some motive damage in return from the Vedette though. Luckily it looks like the rest of the enemy force is retreating


Snake Eyes dodges a kick from the panther before almost taking the RL off of the panther with his own kick.



Aftermath

We leave all the salvage, mostly just vehicles and we need a bit of wiggle room if anything good comes up.


We send 3 healed up prisoners home for 25,000 C-bills.


Mechs are all patched up by the end of the day with just some minor armor damage and ammo bins being refilled. Devastator’s motive damage wasn’t too bad and the mechs got that fixed as well.


We order 10 tons of Ac/20 ammo to keep for refilling the Devastator’s guns


The quality of our repairs on our mechs are going down some, looks like the techs don’t have everything they need in the field workshops, we’ll have to probably spend some down time on maintenance after this contract and get those back in tip top shape


We go through most of February without any noise from the opfor, but on the last week of February we get news that we’ll have a mission on February 29, we’ll keep that for next time





Here’s some player combat stats for everyone. Snake Eyes shot the top of the killboard with 4 kills this battle, 2 mechs and 2 tanks!


Igloo – 4/4 – 15xp

6 Missions



Kills - 1 Mech, 3 Tanks




Nomad – 4/5 – 18xp

6 Missions



Kills - 2 Mechs, 1 Tank




Snake Eyes – 3/4 – 11xp

6 Missions



Kills - 4 Mechs, 8 Tanks




Omega – 3/5 – 12xp

6 Missions



Kills – 2 Mechs, 7 Tanks




Slack-Jaw – 4/5 – 4xp

1 Mission

Kills -




Boomer – 4/5 – 9xp

1 Mission

Kills – 1 Mech, 1 Tank