Let's go meet him. While we're at it we should send Zolomon to find us a Z'Gock to pilot. If all goes well then our new guy and Zolomon can take the Dodais while we take the underwater route.

Time to go meet him then. Hopefully we get something NEW and EXCITING to go with him.

YAY, No Flanagan Boone.

That guy was douche, Getting him to join the team would be the worst punishment ever.

And Recon suit?

Gouf Flight Type?

>>7723163

new guy has a hy gogg no wai

You head to the Hangar.

Just to check: Ruubens and Jolyne are going salvaging right? (Ookawara is working on the Rhino.)

You reach to hangar and are introduced to Calvin Hobart. He is a youngish man, but unlike the LAST newbie on your team he appears to have earned his wings in combat. He introduces himself with a reasonably firm handshake. You talk with him on the way to the mobile suits.

"So, Calvine, whater were you doing before this?"

"Well, I came down a few months ago, where I did spotting for Artillery units in africa, but before that, I was doing combat intelligence support ops near the Luna 2 garrison area. It's an honour to be in the unit sir, I've heard nothing but good things."

"... good thing that barrage took out the long range comms..." You hear Zolomon mumble under his breath.

hay, sorry im late, running my 3.5 game. is there any chance of a lighting summery of tonights thread so far?

>>7723315
>Ruubens and Jolyne are going salvaging right?
yes please

>>7723163
Back from work.

I dont suppose anyone read my suggestions regarding the GAW and 2 man MS teams that I posted about 2 hours before Zeonquest normally starts?

>>7723335
Ookwara's a pilot and rebuilding the Hildolfr into the Rhinoceros
Visited Hovis in the hospital who regaled us with his tale of doctors and trannie operations
Currently about to go on patrol after meeting our new squadmate

>>7723315
Yes, Elaine and Jolyne will be on the scavenger hunt.

>>7723364
That should be PIRATE not Pilot

He looks awfully angry. Maybe Zolomon has found a protoge for the RIP AND TEAR style of combat.

>>7723335
WE'RE FINALLY GETTING A RHINO!!!

>>7723335
Hovis had flashback, Hjinx ensued, And the Hilda is getting upgraded to a Rhino, the other team members are out scavanging while we are meeting Shiros replacement.

>>7723315
"Err, Time for you to hear some bad things."

Then explain the fuck up we made, Better he hears it from us then from someone else, And warn him that plenty of people are kinda hostile against us because of it.(coughBOONEcough)

>Calvin Hobart
>Calvin & Hobbes

Is there by any chance a connection between these two things?

And if there isn't yet, we're going to make one.

>>7723315
"Good to have you here. As shown by the past few days, Nachtmaren Unit can definitely use a solid recon specialist."

>>7723363
Wasn't on then, so if you could repost I'd be grateful.

>>7723335

You've missed NOTHING.

NOTHING.

You are introduced to Calvins suit: A MS-06E Recon Zaku. It bristles with camera's, laser communication devices, rangefinders and other gear.

THE RECON ZAKU HAS AN EASIER TIME SPOTTING INCOMING ENEMIES, AND IS CAPABLE OF LINKING INTO LOCAL SENSOR NETWORKS AS WELL.
IT IS *NOT* HOWEVER AN ELECTRONIC WARFARE UNIT, NOR CAN IT BE USED FOR HACKING.
IT'S PRIMARY STRENGTH HOWEVER IS AS A SPOTTER FOR ARTILLERY UNITS.

So, pick your suits if you please.

>>7723423
>Zeonquest Emergency discussion thread 01/22/10(Fri)09:45

>Gentlemen, there is no better way to put it than this: we screwed up. We made a suggestion without any real understanding of Naval tactics. Our superior officer, believing that we had a better understanding of MS usage and strategy, ignored his own insticts and went with our plan. It didnt work out as we'd hoped. The onlything we can do about it now is take our battered and bloodied forces and WIN THIS BATTLE FOR ZEON!

>Since I wont be back from work until Zeonquest is probably over I've decided to leave some ideas here.

>We do have one piece of good news: With the destruction of the Fed Carrier we now have air superiority. If our local officer in charge of Intel could now do his job whuile his vehicle is in repair we can find out if there's any chance of other Carriers showing up. Until that happens we have a GAW armed with Mega Partile Beams that could seriously harm the Feddie surface fleet. Staying at an altitude of 8,000m or higher the GAW could make long range attack runs, breaking off once within 10-15 km from the fleet. Our air crews could then orbit out to range until they were set up for another run at the fleet and repeat as necessary.

I say we requisition a Zaku I.

Nothing can match the performance of a Zaku I.

>>7723396
This as well.

In fact, after we explain the fuckup to him, let's ask him to give us a crash course in how to minimize the chances of similar fuckups in the future.

Kind of like how we STILL need to talk to Hovis about what he knows about MS/MA movement protocols, capabilities and programming.

And how we need to talk to Jolyne, well, because we've barely talked to her at all.

On the Hovis front, perhaps we could see if we could use his injury to arrange some reconciliation between himself and his wife and daughter?

>>7723434

What do we have available?

Anyway, Zolomon gets his Gouf and C&B gets his Recon Zaku, Im kinda on the fence on what to use without the Dom.

>>7723396
I get the feeling it's just a few people. I mean, there's no way we could have known. Yes, we probably should have headed back sooner, but on the admittedly small bright side, with all those sensor buoys that we dropped no one will be able to sneak in from that angle.

I'd say that it's mostly Boone who's pissed at us, and my money's on him being a spy. Or just a jerk, which is almost as bad.

>>7723443
>That deals with the surface fleet, now for the subs. Taking out the Federation submarines will not be easy due to the sheer number of them in addition to the Marine Balls supporting them. One advantage we have is their proximity to the main fleet. With so many frieldly subs so close by the federation surface ships may be reluctant to deploy depthcharges. Our most effective tactics so far have revolved around stealth. Two man MS teams should be able to sneak up on the fleet and have enough firepower between them to rapidly dispath a single sub before retreating back to our lines. This would not be a single all-out attack but rather a series of hit and fades lasting continuously for the rest of the battle for Midway. A "Death by a thousand cuts" if you will, that will wear down their fleet and allow time for more of our Marine MS to be repaired and brought back into the fight.

>We have to regain the initiative, put the Federation on their heels and keep 'em there. We're the fucking Nightmare Unit, and it's time to show these Fed sonsabitches the Mobile Suit in Attack!

Yes I know, wall O'text.

>>7723434
see
>>7723446

>>7723443
...that's a damn good idea.

And even better, I think the Gaw might be considered ours, and therefore we don't have to clear this with the Commodore first. I mean, we will, but in the sense that we tell him that we're going to detail our Gaw to harass the enemy fleet remnants while we ourselves conduct the patrol.

>>7723446
I'm inclined to still go with our Zaku F2. It's El Gigante Muerte, only with head vulcans.

>>7723434
That suit looks pretty nice.

What we should do with it is look into feeding sensor data from our frontline suits through it and back to our long-range suits and MA. Also maybe have Ookawara look into getting some sort of wire-linked drones that can be run from the Recon Zaku to extend its spotting range and triangulation capabilities.

In fact, use our pager to mention our new suit and pilot to Ookawara now. That way he can factor it and its capabilities into the work he's doing on the Rhino, as well as the repairs to Jolyne's Zaku Cannon.

>>7723443
>>7723497

This. And it is ever so awesome an idea, especially considering we took out the enemy air cover.

>>7723553

On that Note, Whenever talking with Calvin we need to call him or his Recon Zaku "Hobbes" or "Tiger", Give his Zaku a Tiger Stripe paint job while we are at it too, It is a natural camoflague after all.

Hmm. Is there any chance of getting El Muerto Gigante upgraded from an F2 to an S-type in the near future?

>>7723580
second

>"Well, I came down a few months ago, where I did spotting for Artillery units in africa, but before that, I was doing combat intelligence support ops near the Luna 2 garrison area. It's an honour to be in the unit sir, I've heard nothing but good things."

We have a spotter

We are going to have a Hildoover and a Megaparticle GAW

We have a recon Zaku.

How about adding fun sniping tiem to our plan?

>>7723580
That goes without saying.

>>7723608
Sounds like a plan to me!

I just had an amazing idea.

If any of the beam-weapon carrying Marine MS were damaged beyond repair, but had salvageable beam weapons, and if there aren't any Marine MS that need their beam weapons replaced, can we see if Ookawara could put one of those onto El Muerto Gigante after he and his team finish working on the Rhino and Jolyne's Zaku Cannon?

>Yes, we probably should have headed back sooner, but on the admittedly small bright side, with all those sensor buoys that we dropped no one will be able to sneak in from that angle.

This. Like I've said, there's so MANY there now your sensor coverage is INSANE.

>>7723497

You forces don't have to much of an idea what's left of the enemy forces currently. So a force recon mission wouldn't go too far amiss.

You should probably at least MENTION that you won't be doing that patrol to Commodore Haylon though.

>>7723580
As Elaine's callsign is "Ruubens", Calvin's callsign is now "Hobbes".

So it has been spoken, and so it shall be.

>>7723720
It may be possible, but I don't think the reactor output on a Zaku can power beam weaponry.

>>7723739
No, no.

We're still doing the patrol. We're just sending the Gaw, and maybe any Dopps it has left in case.

The enemy has no carriers left, and therefore no air support. So they have no good way of dealing with the Gaw's beam weapons.

>>7723743
Well, only if it's possible.

But we should ask Ookawara if there might be some way of carrying capacitors around that we could charge and use to power the gun instead, rather than having to run it solely on our suit's powerplant.

Maybe even set up some way to recharge those capacitors from the powerplant after use, albeit at a slow enough rate that suit performance isn't degraded.

>If any of the beam-weapon carrying Marine MS were damaged beyond repair, but had salvageable beam weapons, and if there aren't any Marine MS that need their beam weapons replaced, can we see if Ookawara could put one of those onto El Muerto Gigante after he and his team finish working on the Rhino and Jolyne's Zaku Cannon?

No go I'm afraid. The MP cannons in the Zock and the Gogg are water cooled - as in they wont work outside of water. The Z'Gok only get's away with it because the entire suit is built around a gigantic pair of heatsink's in the torso.

So: Force recon mission on the enemy fleet?

>>7723763
Well they do have AA guns, but the GAW's beam weapons almost certainly out-range them. So yeah, a few strafing runs to pick off targets of opportunity and gain some info on how many ships they have left would probably be a good thing.

>>7723798
I think the idea is for us and Zol to go on partol like we were asked, and to suggest to the commander that the GAW make some attack runs and recon the enemy fleet.

>>7723798
I was thinking more "we do the standard patrol, have the Gaw start torching Feddies while we do that, and if the Gaw ends up needing help then one of us (either Dave or Zol) breaks off to support the Gaw while the other two continue the patrol".

>>7723798
Dacid and Zol on patrol as promised, but have the ground crew start prepping the Gaw in case we find a target of opportunity for it.

>>7723807

The Particle Cannons have a very low downwards coverage, the Gaw would have to strage to use them. It would probably survive a quick attack raid to keep the feddies on their toes though if you want to go for it.

So yes?

>>7723863
As I recall, we know where the remnants of the enemy fleets we've been hitting for the last two days are. So we're sending the Gaw after that, while Dave, Zol and Calvin do the patrol the Commodore asked us to do. If the Gaw gets into trouble, Dave breaks off from the patrol to cover its retreat.

>>7723837
>>7723863
Calvine would be with us on patrol too, right?

>>7723837
This could work, but the last thing we want to do is singlehandedly provoke another assault on the island. If that happens, Hawaii is pretty much a lost cause.

>>7723883
Do it, but make sure to inform the commander first.

>>7723883
do it
make sure not to tell the commander about any of this

NACHTMAREN OPERATES OUTSIDE THE CHAIN OF COMMAND

>>7723901
If the Feddie forces the Gaw is going after were capable of attacking Hawaii again on their own, they'd already be doing so.

Tell the Gaw to target any surfaced Ball-Sacks (Feddie transport subs) as its highest priority. Any hull breach on one of those will mission-kill it at the very least.

>>7723936
We dont need to make more enemies. Chain of Command is there for a reason.

Another vote for telling the Commodore about our plan to have our unit's Gaw harass the Feddie remnants.

>>7723896
Yes. Calvin's on patrol with us.

It's just that he stays on patrol, no matter what happens. Either we or Zol would be the ones to head out to rescue the Gaw if things go pear-shaped. Probably us, unless Zol's closer.

>>7723952

True, However, After the whole "WE FORGOT TO TELL YOU THE CARRIER WAS A SUB LOL" I feel there is enough evidence to blabber about it, Tell the commander, But have him say that we are doing the patrol to everyone who asks, The fact that we are attacking stays with him. We should do this as secretly as possible.

We tell the Commondore, We also tell him to shut up about it.

>>7723952
We report directly to Garma. We're a bit out of the chain of command.

>>7724052

You ask the Commodore about having the Gaw perform a force recon mission on the enemy forces.
He gives the okay, but stipulates that they make it a quick one, as the enemy reinforcements are closing in. He also states that he'll put his patrols on high alert if the Feds "go off on one."

You suit up with the following line-up:
David: F2
Zolomon: Gouf
"Hobbes": Recon Zaku

All on Dodai's.

OK?

YES, THAT IS OK

MGs and bazookas or panzers.

>>7724105
Sounds good.

Loadout for killing Balls, ships are secondary. Unless they're Ball-Sacks.

>>7724105

Looks Swell.

>>7724105
Looks good.

A thought, We should try to ask Garma to make us a Assault team rather then a Defense team after this, Since this mission has showed us that we are far better at attacking then defending.

And the lack of flight capable MSes in OYW makes me sad, I mean there were those Goufs, But they were all failures and the last one exploded randomly.

>>7724133

You equip yourself with a 120mm and some Panzerfaust. Zolomon packs himself a Zook.
Whilst the E-Type doesn't come with weapons as standard, he packs a 90mm along with a Heat Hawk.

You take off at around 11pm, your Gaw takes off shortly afterwards. You tell Calvin to keep one camera on the Gaw as it makes it's progress.
It take about 20 minutes for the Gaw to reach it's destination, whereupon it gets bracketed by at least fifty different sources of flack.
Explosions and particle beam cannon fire are the Gaw's reply.

"Well, this give's us some good footage on their current arrangement. We'll know more when the Gaw get's back, but it looks like the Cruisers have gone. Probably no use for them after they used all of their missiles. The destroyers are operating in... I think it's standard ASW formation. Which is interesting, they must be running lower on submersible assets than we thought..."

Well, he seems to know what he's talking about if nothing else.

After second pass, the Gaw begins to make it's retreat. Some parts of it appear to be on fire, but it doesn't seem to be in any serious distress.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7724341
Running lower on submersible assets, hmm?

Get word of that back to base pronto. See if they feel up to a spoiling attack with a couple of our Marine MS, before the new Feddie fleet arrives and closes that hole in their defense coverage.

>>7724341
Begin our patrol.

>>7724288
>A thought, We should try to ask Garma to make us a Assault team rather then a Defense team after this, Since this mission has showed us that we are far better at attacking then defending.

You ARE an assault team. This whole two week period was supposed to be a busmans holiday where you learnt how to pilot Marine MS by day and had a Luau every night.

>And the lack of flight capable MSes in OYW makes me sad, I mean there were those Goufs, But they were all failures and the last one exploded randomly.

Wait until we get into space. I had a LOT of fun doing space combat in the Christmas Special.

>>7724408
Continue, rather.

>>7724341
;_; Significantly less effective than planned. Oh well.

Continue the patrol?

>>7724341
Did it score any kills?

>>7724341
Also, continue our patrol.

Maybe have Zol break off to do a quick hit-and-run against the fleet the Gaw was just attacking. Ball-Sacks priority one, destroyers second. That would also give us some idea of how much damage the Gaw actually did, while fucking with any repair efforts on ships the Gaw damaged but didn't sink.

Continue patrolling. Radio back to base and inform them of the Gaw's return and Calvin's estimates of the fleet. Hopefully the Commodore can make use of this intel.

>>7724400

You report your initial findings back to base.

"Let's wait until the Gaw returns with it's slightly better sensor data shall we Lieutenant?"

Well, whatever, the Gaw will be back before your Patrol finishes anyway, so hopefully you can get in on whatever's being planned.

You continue your patrol for the next couple of hours. You observe another Fat Uncle transport land at the base whilst you are on patrol.

You reach the two hour mark, with no signs of a counterattack from the feds.

DO YOU STILL WANT TO PATROL FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR RETURN TO BASE?

>>7724526
OH GOD, THE LAST TIME WE PATROLLED FOR TOO LONG THEY LAUNCHED AN ATTACK. I CAN'T DECIDE.

Eh, stay on patrol. Laser comm is back up, so if there's an attack they can call us.

>>7724288
Well, I think this mission didn't so much show that we're better on offense than defense as it showed that we're better on active defense than passive defense.

Instead of waiting for missiles to hit us in the future, we go out and hit the launching platforms instead. I mean, our defense plan was actually working pretty well at the beginning; it didn't really start to degrade until the sheer number of missiles coming in swamped the ability of our defenders to deal with them. Once the first suit or two got hit, the number of missiles getting through and the damage they caused were inevitably going to snowball.

So if we'd gone out there and hit even a few of the cruisers before they finished unloading their entire missile supply, the number of incoming missiles would have been reduced to where our defensive plan could deal with them.

PATROL! We have to redeem ourselves in the eyes of the CO

>>7724472

The Zol plan is far to risky for my taste, After that attack they will be on alert, and as good as Zol is he will still be outnumbered by atleast 30+ against 1, It´s pretty much suicide, Instead, Just ask Hobbes if he saw how many kills the Gaw scored.

Let's lasercomm a status update then patrol for another hour if nothing's up.

>>7724526
Radio in, see if they have someone waiting to relieve us first. If not, keep patrolling.

>>7724526
RTB. We only asked to extend the patrol from two hours to three to give us enough time to mount an attack against the Feddies if the chance presented itself.

Well, the chance is now presenting itself. We'd better be in a position to take advantage of it.

>>7724558

But the CO said to make it quick, We might as well go back, After all, The low amount of Submergables might mean that they have sent some for a sneak attack themselves.

To catch a thief and all that after all.

>>7724582
No, I'm pretty sure we did it so that we would have more time on patrol. So that if they tried to sneak in we could catch them. We're not going to go out and attack without at the least informing them. That's how we go from being honored knight-aces to loose cannons.

>>7724565

You don't anything on the standard laser channels. Just generic "situation normal" reports.

A message from Ookawara, sent from a jury rigged laser commcaster however is slightly more illuminating.
" Just so you know, the Gaw data came back in. The Commodore's got a lot of his forces coming in for a high strength raid. I think the Fed's took heavier losses in Subs than we thought. If you want in. I'd land."

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7724414
Here's to hoping that the reason we head into space isn't the same as why the action shifted back there in the original timeline.

Let's land; I don't think we should be taking chances right now

>>7724640

Might as well listen to the man, Fucking up right now is not really a option, So better safe then sorry.

land and get our revenge upon feddy forces for our humiliation

>>7724640
Let's get back to base then. I want in on this. though I fear that by sending in most of our forces we leave ourselves open to a sneak attack...

Ask him how the scavenger hunt is going.

>>7724667
This. Our presence in engagements like this tend to be rather deciding factors.

>>7724640

Let's get ready to kill us some feddies!

>>7724640
Come back in, and get in on the raid.

We and Zol are definite aces, and would therefore be able to seriously increase the chances of the raid force making it out without severe casualties.

Have Calvin maintain position so as to warn us if the Feddies are trying to hit our base at the same time we're hitting their fleet. His suit isn't meant for direct combat, and our artillery is still being repaired.

If we can rig up a sniper rifle for him, though, then maybe he can join us.

>>7724681
And when we ask about the scavenger hunt, ask him if his Rhino plans would be altered by the fact that we now have a Recon Type Zaku attached to the squad.

>>7724640
See
>>7723485

Awesome, made it in time (I hope),

>>7724698

Seconding Sniper rifle plan for the Tiger and Hobbes. He might be a good spotter, But being able to hold his own in a sniper fight would be a great addition. Amd those sensors are there for a reason.

>>7724674
>>7724652

You finish your patrol and land. You arrive just in time to make it for a briefing.
You meet up with Jolyne before you do.
"Where's Ruubens?"

"Still on Ookawara's scavenger hunt, at the rate we were going, we should have his shopping list done in a couple of hours."

The lights dim and a the Gaw's surveillance photo's appear.

"Gentlemen, during it's force recon two hours ago, the Gaw dropped a spread of sonar buoys and got some fairly accurate data of the enemy composition. Gentlemen, the aftermath of their battle this eveneing has left their submersible assets badly depleted, forcing them to undertake ASW missions with their Destroyers."

A map of the island plus your forces appear.

"We currently have 3 companies of Marine Mobile Suits at our disposal. If we expend 2 of those in this assault we believe that we can completely defeat this fleet BEFORE they can be reinforced by the enemy reinforcements due at 5 tommorow morning." One company will be kept on patrol around the islands. The remains of our Dodai riders will do likewise.
The time margin is very low for this operation - current reports from the wolfpacks shadowing the enemy reinforcements indicate that they will be inside the theoretical support evelope for any enemy fighter planes in two hours time. The battle MUST be over by then."

ANY QUESTIONS?

>>7724826
What are ASW mission?

Other than that, let's get to it.

>>7724826
How many Balls do we estimate they have left, and does anyone have any particularly effective tactics/weapons to use on them?

And if the answer to the second half of that is that Dave does, then he speaks up first on that front.

>>7724826

"What does ASW mean?" and "Can we get a copy of that map?"

>>7724852
Anti Submarine Warfare

>>7724852
>>7724856
ASW is the acronym for Anti-Submarine Warfare.

Our character probably knows that much already.

>>7724852
>What are ASW mission?

Anti-Submarine-Warfare missions.

If you have no questions, time for your MS and loadouts. If you want to nab a Marine MS, now is the time. Though it will be a lottery as to what you can nab.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7724698
>>7724768
There was a sniper variant of the old Zaku I, which even managed to mount a massive enough generator to power a beam sniper rifle. Once this whole mess is over, we could try and requisition one for Calvin, or see if Okawara can kitbash the Recon Zaku into some approximation.

>>7724826
Does Intel have any info on the composition of the other Federal fleets still incoming? Like say SUBMERSIBLE CARRIERS!?!

>>7724826
grab some Z'goks and reclaim our honour.

>>7724900
Anyway, gun for any leftover amphibious MSs for us and our team. With any luck we can pull rank and snag our old MSM-07S and a spare Z'Gok for Zol.

>>7724826
If it's just two hours, I think we should commit all three Marine MS companies. More suits means we get this done faster, and the speed at which the Marine Suits can move underwater means that we can get them back to the base fairly quickly.

Also, we still have Hobbes out there to give us raid warning.

>>7724900
Let's try for a couple of Z'goks if we can get them. If not, then same as our patrol earlier, just with Zol in his Gouf.

Jolyne should try for the Zook if she can get it.

>>7724900

I say we go on Dodais and leave the MMS to the base staff, after all we shouldn´t be needed underwater this time.

>>7724913
THIS, I don´t wanna get trollface´d by the feddies again due bad intel.

>>7724900
Yes, we're going to want a Marine MS.

And I emphatically suggest that all three Marine MS companies be committed to this attack. We need to maximize the amount of damage we can do in a limited time window.

>How many Balls do we estimate they have left, and does anyone have any particularly effective tactics/weapons to use on them?

According to your sonar data, they have about 3 subs left, the same as you, and you only see about 5 or 6 Fisheyes.

>There was a sniper variant of the old Zaku I, which even managed to mount a massive enough generator to power a beam sniper rifle. Once this whole mess is over, we could try and requisition one for Calvin, or see if Okawara can kitbash the Recon Zaku into some approximation.

That was a refit from 0081 and was used by the Zeonic Remnant. Beam rifle technology won't be viable until the Gelgoog, really.

>>7724900
The aqua zaku.

or wait no no the ZOGOK

>>7724920
This. MSM-07S or an Acguy. We're badass enough to make either work.

>>7724982
We should have a custom Acguy with a skull on it.

The skull must have an adorable :3 face because it's still an Acguy.

>>7724974
Beam sniper rifle is impossible, sure. But what prevents us from having a kinetic slug sniper rifle for the Recon Zaku?

Whatever we can get. We need to bring the hammer down.

I think we should do Zaku and Gouf on Dodais.

We don't need to be underwater.

If we add in the Gaw, we might be able to do a air attack, let the the base personnel take the amphibs.

Wait. The commodore mentioned a Hygogg.

Does that mean we have one? If so, we should take that over the Z'Gok.

rolled 1, 6, 3, 4, 11 = 25

>>7724973

You ask the Commodore why not use the last Marine Company.

"Because the last company are the bodge jobs and walking wounded. Besides, your paranoia is rubbing off on me, I still don't trust the feddies to be as out of Subs as they're making out, I'm keeping a company in reserve, with a bit of luck that Sonar field you set up today might save our bacon in the end after all!"

>>7724978
>>7724982
>>7724973

You go looking to find some Marine Mobile Suits on the beach.

Here's what you find: ROLLAN!

>>7725031
Time constraints. IIRC the Marine Suits are faster than Dodais, at least when the former are in LD mode. And the Gaw is having the damage from its last attack repaired right now.

>>7724974

I just figured a normal hardshell(Not beam) sniper rifle actually, just slightly smaller then a cannon, Essentially a long range cannon the focuses on range and aiming rather then on destructive force, Something that you can use to assist form afar.

Like taking out Cameras and cockpits from a range rather then blow up the entire suit like the artillery units does., After all that would mean more spare parts for us to capture and research.

rolled 8, 9, 3, 2, 10 = 32

>>7725052

You manage to scounge/beg/borrow/steal the following:

Z'Gok S (Commander Type)
Z'Gok
2x Gogg
Zock

WHO GET'S WHAT?

>>7725095
David in the commander as usual.

>>7725117
Entirely likely

>>7725095
Z'GOK COMMANDER TYPE ALRIGHT

We take the Z'Gok S, Zol takes the Z'Gok, Jolyne takes the Zock.

(A Zock lying around to be taken at this point in the war? I thought they didn't even really exist at this point.)

>>7725095
That's no ZOGOK, those are just Z'goks ;__;

>>7725095
Zock for Jolyne, Commander Z'Gok for us, regular Z'Gok for Zol. Calvin stays in his Recon Zaku and supports the MS the commodore is keeping on patrol.

>>7725095
Nice. We take Command Z'gok, Zol in the regular Z'gok and Jolyne has the Zock. Elaine is still gathering stuff and I guess Calvin should stick with recon, maybe helping wiht patrols around base while we're gone.

>>7725095

Z'Gok S (Commander Type): Guess Who
Z'Gok: Zolomon
Zock: Jolyne, She seemd to handle it fine a few missions ago.

Hobbes uses the Tiger and provides intel from afar.

>>7725095
David-Z'Gok S
Zol-Z'Gok
Jolyne-Zock. She was amazing in it last time.

Ruubens is still salvaging and Calvin is still on patrol, right?

>>7725083
I second this.

rolled 5, 10, 4, 11, 12 = 42

Whoops. Didn't mean to use the dice roller there...

>>7725130

>(A Zock lying around to be taken at this point in the war? I thought they didn't even really exist at this point.)

Presumably, it's the same one she used last night. Jolyne must have "accidentially" locked it to her private key-code or something.

Okay so:
David: Z'Gok S
Zolomon: Z'Gok
Jolyne: Zock
Ruubens: Gogg
Calvin: Gogg

>>7725156
>>7725154
>>7725153
>>7725150
>>7725130

The decision is made.

Radio Elaine and tell her to return to base.

There is no way a member of our team is going to be out on a beach in a flatbed truck while a major offensive is taking place. She needs to suit up in case the base gets attacked.

>>7725182
Lets get some payback for Hovis's leg, shall we?

>>7725156

Ruubens is, yes, thanks for reminding me. Calvin landed with you.

Uh, will Ruubens be joining you on this mission?

>>7725182
>rolled 5, 10, 4, 11, 12 = 42
>Whoops. Didn't mean to use the dice roller there...

Irony!

>>7725182
Um, no. Ruubens is still out collecting stuff and Calvin will keep his recon type to help patrol the base with the thrid marine squad.

>>7725203

And everyone else, too!

>>7725198
Only do this if it's not going to slow down the construction of the Rhino.

We've got a fresh Feddie fleet coming in tomorrow morning. Having the Rhino ready to blast it to pieces is more important than having just one more suit available right now.

>>7725198

She is in the Zaku Tank, She´ll be fine, No need to delay the gathereing, We will need those parts for when the feddies get the reinforcements.

>>7725207
No. She's already in a Zaku Tank, she should be fine if anything happens, and we need those parts.

>>7725207
For a mission of this importance we can call Ruubens back and put off the scavenging for a small bit.

Shame there're no Acguys going though.

>>7725207
See >>7725228.

>>7725203
Yeah, we need scrap metal to build his prosthetic. Preferably taken from the Federation's shattered Balls.

>>7725228
Still, the Rhino isn't gonna be any good to us if we don't have a pilot for it by then. It's unlikely Hovis will be up and ready to pilot again by then, assuming we can get him a prosthetic of good enough quality.

>>7725198

... and there's my answer. Gotta love synchonisity.

As soon as you mount up, all MSM's which are part of the attack meet up at the sub-line. (what's left of it anyway.)
It takes about 10 minutes after you arrive for the rest of the forces to amass (No Grablo tonight, it's still being repaired.) before you all switch over to LD mode and mount a frontal assault on the enemy forces.

The plan is quick and dirty, first company will directly assault the enemy ASW destroyers, clearing a path for the rest, after a breach has been made it will support Second Company - which will finish off any submersible assets in the area and then in turn support 3rd company, who'se job it is to attack any remaining cruisers, frigates or any other target's of opportunity.

First Company will go in first, followed by second, then third.

WHICH COMPANY DO YOU WANT TO BE IN?

>>7725203
I just had an idea for a crazy zeon prototype weapon called the 'Leg of Zeon.'

>>7725296
Then we'll do the only thing we can do, and pilot it in his place. It will be a heavy burden, assuaged only by knowing that we are piloting perhaps the most awesome mobile suit ever.

>>7725296
We could always have Elaine do it.

She is a generalist, and the Rhino is vaguely based off of the Zaku Tank.

>>7725306
FIRST. Lets lead the charge, redeem our honor, and rip off the Federation's bloody balls. FOR HOVIS!

>>7725306
First Company. Is it too late to get Ruubens back into the Zaku Tank and looking for parts as said in these posts?

>>7725230
>>7725229
>>7725228
>>7725212

>>7725306

No Grablo? That means no assho- I mean Boone, I think we should tell Ookawara to keep a eye on that dude, That guy is not exactly the most trustworthy dude, and him not being in the company is bad new if he is a spy.

And i think we should be in the first wave.

>>7725306
Wait, I thought the 3rd company was staying behind to protect the base? I'm not protesting, just suprised is all.

>>7725306
Zol goes into First Company.

Jolyne into Third; her heavier guns are better equipped to deal with the bigger ships.

Dave into Second.

>>7725310
I thought you liked the Xamel.

>>7725355
I do. But I love the Rhino.

>>7725348
This seems suitable. Zol's blitz maneuvers will work well with the element of surprise First Company will have, and like he says, the Zock is built for anti-ship.

>First Company. Is it too late to get Ruubens back into the Zaku Tank and looking for parts as said in these posts?

Nactmaren Unit hooks up with first company and helps lead the charge. As your target get's closer, your sonar picks up several targets, enemy subs and Fisheye's trying to target you. A couple of torpedoes are fired, but with no casualties. An Acguy loses an arm as has to fall back, but that's about it.

You reach Destroyers whislt close to the surface, below you you pick up the second force directly assault the enemy subs. But now your firing your torpedoes and beams into a destroyer, and the rest of your squad do the same. The ship crumples under the combined fire and explodes. You and Jolyne jink left, the rest of the squad jink right.
Jolyne uses her Megaparticle cannons to strafe the destroyers with her rapid firing Cannons.
Most of the time you only need to apply the Coup De Grace to them
You meet back up with your squad in about three minutes, having completed a circuit about the outer destroyer pickets.
None have survived.

KILLS:
David: 3 Destroyers
Jolyne: 5 Destroyer
Zolomon: 4 Destroyers
Ruubens: 3 Destroyers
Calvin: 1 Destroyer (He's still getting used to Marine MS and beam weapons.)

>>7725347

Sorry, my bad. 2 companies - split into 3 groups.

Retreat to the subline, but keep ready in case the reaming attacks need reinforcements. We'll cover the return to base.

>>7725425
Press onward. If there are submersible assets left, assist Group Two; if not, assist Group Three.

>>7725425
An excellent first run. Now lets circle back and continue our revenge if possible.

It looks like the rest of 1st company have finished off the destroyers, and are helping out 2n'd company which are still in fierce combat with the Fisheye's. 3rd company is causing some havoc against the enemy cruisers.

The Fed's look as if they're trying to retreat.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>7725460
Flank the cowards. Let none survive.

>>7725466

So aid 3rd Company?

>>7725460
Circle around the back at top speed to cut off their retreat.

Do not let any Feddie ships escape.

If they try to surrender, let them, and take the captured ships back to Pearl Harbor.

Flank the Fed ships. Don't give them a route to escape by.

>>7725460
Split up. Send Jolyne, Ruubens and Calvin to go attack the cruisers, while us and Zolomon finish off the SeaBalls.

>>7725425

Wow, That was a fast victory... Inb4 Boone insults us and spoils the mood for winning.

Anyway, here is a better picture of the Tiger(AKA Recon Zaku)

>>7725460
Signal the Feddie fleet and ask for their surrender. They can either surrender or die.

TAKE AT LEAST ONE OF THE SHIPS PRISONER

We want prisoners and intel that they can provide.

>>7725476
If that will allow us to mop the Federation up, then lets get on it.

>>7725476
Have the rest of Nachtmaren flank.

Dave heads in to help 2nd Company finish off the Balls.

>>7725504
The ships we might want would be one of the Ball-carrying submarines, and one of the Balls.

Otherwise, only take their surrender if they offer first.

>>7725476

There is no retreat. Destroy anything that keeps attacking, target the retreating ships engines/motors/propellers.

Maybe bringing back a couple of cruisers and battleships will take some of the pain away of losing Commodore Timon. . . Almost losing the Battle of Midway.

>>7725500

Agreeing with this, If we have the surviors as hostages/Prisoners the reinforcents will be hesitant to attack us so soon after arriving, And we can get some intel.

>>7725460
Continue with the plan. We still have over an hour and a half before we need to worry about enemy reinforcements, we can afford to continue with the plan and let them try to run. Aid second company.

Their choices are surrender and get turned over to Zeonic Intelligence, where I hope Incognito kneecaps every one of the motherfuckers who were in charge of the macross missile massacre last night, or they can put up a fight, and MOST of them will die, and we will CERTAINLY still capture some of them, leaving some very unfortunate ensigns getting all of Incognito's marital issues smashed into their joints.

Broadcast something to that affect. Tow them back to base. Shoot down anything that tries to reinforce them.

If we get some Federation prisoners, we need to leave a recorded message on a floating beacon with a radio signal out at sea for the incoming feds to find. Telling them that we have Federation prisoners and we will be open to negotiations (lie).

>>7725569
>>7725541
>>7725534
>>7725525
>>7725504
>>7725500
>>7725493
>>7725491

Surrendermind.

>>7725569
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacrossMissileMassacre
FFFFFFFFFUCK YOU!
I had things to do tonight!

>>7725569
I like this plan.

>>7725592
NOT ANY MORE YOU DON'T! NOW THERE IS ONLY TV TROPES!

>>7725593

Why thank you.

>>7725590
And then apologised forgot to refresh the page before writing the next part

Trollface.jpg

>>7725491
>>7725495

You have Jolyne, Ruubens and Calvin flank the retreating surface fleet, preventing their escape, whilst you order Zolomon to follow you as you dive to aid the 2nd detatchment.

It's a chaotic scene. One of the enemy subs is down already, and Fisheye's are attempting to mob the enemy forces, but they don't have the numbers, and it's degenerating into a close range brawl. You make use of your beams to take out four more balls apiece, and then attack an enemy sub as it attempts to retreat.
Zolomon narrowly manages to dodge a torpedo aimed at his face, before eventually closing to claw distance. He hulls the vessel from fore to stern whilst you cover him with your beam guns, and the submarine pops like a baloon.

KILLS:
David: 4 Balls
Zolomon: 4 Balls, 1 Submarine

Seeing that the situation is now well in hand you surface to see how the sitation is going. You see the wrecks of three cruisers, and about 5 of them sporting white flags. You meet up with Jolyne.

"When they realised they couldn't escape, they surrendered. I think were pretty much done here sir. Shall we get back?"

You return to base to discover the Sub line deserted. You eventually find a lone squad of damaged Acguy's on patrol.

"What happened?" You ask when you get close.

"The enemy subs tried to flank us with a rear attack, luckily thanks to our sonar net being so good round the back, we saw them coming a mile off! It was little dodgy for a minute or two, but then the new Hygoggs that came in a few hours ago waded in... and those things are INSANE."

He notices what you are towing behind you.

"Oh NICE!"

You return to Hawaii, for a second time today, but this time you return as heroes.

TO BE CONTINUED.

>>7725662
>Next Episode: Aegis

I wonder who the 603rd is sentencing to death this time?

>Hygogg

FUCKING WANT

>>7725686
Amen to that, brother.

Good game everyone. It's 2am over here and I'm going to bed.
Thanks for letting me try out a different tack in the first thread, it didn't go off all that well unfortunately, but at least now I know not to try that again.

>>7725662

>>You return to Hawaii, for a second time today, but this time you return as heroes.

SQUAD MORALE RESTORED.

We need to paint something onto our guys in honor of Commodore Timon.

Also, did we catch any important officers, documents, or materials we can use, Apologised?

>>7725662
Looks like our huge screw up wasn't so bad after all. Of course, it won't replace Hovis' leg. ;_;

>>7725662
Well that went about as well as can be expected. Excellent job. Now what is a Hygogg?

>>7725676
Who're that 603rd and why are they known for this kind of thing?

Another great thread Apologized, see you tomorrow.

About time we started to redeem ourselves.

So is the battle of Midway about done? Still some reinforcements to deal with? Get out GAW to lay some more sonar all around this bitch.

>>7725704
Anything for the campaign.

And screw the Hygoggs, give me a Z'Gok-E. Those things are vicious.

>>7725706
How about when the Rhino is complete, we name it the Timon. Or The Timon Rhino. Or Timon's Rhino.

>but this time you return as heroes.

Inb4 Boone goes all "THIS WAS ALL YOUR FAULT TO BEGIN WITH, YOU REDEEMED NOTHING, IF YOU GUYS WERN`T HERE WE WOULD ALREADY HAVE WON."

>>7725706
Agreed, But we should ask Flanagan to arrange it, It seems he was kinda tight with Timon, and that is why he hates us so much.

>>7725733
Or just Puumba. Or MR. PIG.

>>7725706
>SQUAD MORALE RESTORED

FUCK YES!

>>7725704
I dunno, looking back it seems like the whole side quest was interesing enough. It was probably just because it turned out not to involve feddie spies or anything that people didnt care for the ending as much. Was a good try though.

>>7725704
Actually, the main problem with what you tried in the first thread is that it ended up having nothing at all to do with the war, and didn't really set up future developments.

The actual execution of it was a nice change of pace from the usual session.

>>7725745
>>7725750
Wait, what are you guys talking about? What did Apologized do in the first thread?

>>7725784
The one with Hovis and his MISTERY, Sam.

>>7725733
The mass-produced version gets named the Warthog.

And given that they were considering mass-producing the Hildolfr, we might as well have Ookawara pass schematics for its evolved form on to the factories.

I second naming the Rhino in memory of Commodore Timon. When we fire all the weapons on that thing at a single target, we should call it:

Timon's Revenge.
That or Timon Missile Massacre. Nah, the first one is better.

Also, Apologised? -I- liked the little thing we did with Hovis. I'm glad he got to take down a criminal. Also, us doing semi-spy work is cool. I always love when Incognito is around and his shenanigans abound. Thanks for another good game, mate.

>>7725718
The 603rd Technical Evaluation Unit, from IGLOO.

The two things they're known for are their testing of highly experimental weapons and the deaths of every single test pilot for those weapons.

>>7725796
Oh, I thought you were talking about the scavenger hunt side quest. Which would probably been an interesting thing to do as well, but when the commander asks to see you, you go. So we had to leave it to the others.

>>7725718
Footage of the Hy-Gogg and Z'Gok-E. Hy-Goggs are the ones with the single-shot rocket canisters attached to the hands.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZULhqmhv3o

I sure hope we give the recon Zaku a tiger paint job and a Sniper Rifle soon in the future.

>>7726253
Not bad looking suits there.

If we get to do that mission instead, though, we'll damn well capture the Alex for our own use.

>>7726451

If we manage to get it.... FUCK YES SUPRISE ARM GATTLINGS AND CHOBHAM ARMOR!

Alex was rape, Still, Unless we manage to get it during that mission it is pretty much moot, Seeing how it was delayed enough for it to never enter the war at all. And getting it would mean saving Bernie, Who was pretty much a Ace in making.

I mean what was it 3 or 4 deployments total and he goes toe to toe with a Gundam... IN A ZAKU!

We should recruit him into our team if we are given the chance.

>>7726551
Well, we just have to try and go after it earlier.

With any luck, Zeon will find out about it more quickly and therefore be able to capture the parts before they get shipped off of Earth; with Ookawara on our side, I have no doubt that we could get it assembled shortly after "acquiring" it for our own use.