You are a new Mobile Suit pilot in the Principality of Zeon. Your training was accelerated due to wartime measures, but you’re still confident you can show the feddies what for.
A lot of the news in the Mobile Training Batallion was censored, but you caught some pretty disturbing rumours.
Seems the first week of the war was open warfare, with indiscriminate use of nuclear and chemical weapons by both sides. The numbers are varying widely, and you’ve heard that almost half of the human race has killed.

You’re not sure if you believe that, but thankfully your only family is from Side 3 and the neutral Side 6.
The Antarctica Treaty was recently signed, prohibiting the use of weapons of mass destruction, and now all the new recruits are gearing up for a land war against the Federation.

It is the end of January 0079

>spacenoids
God damn it Ted, I said I wasn't sure about letting your little brother run the next game, and this is why.

On the first day of February you receive you orders formally transferring you from the Space Attack Force under Admiral Dozle to the Earth Attack Force under Garma Zabi.

You’re not entirely sure how you feel about Garma, and you can only imagine how some of the older veterans from The Battle of Loom and Operation British are going to feel about being commanded by someone barely a third their age, and with no combat or strategic experience to boot.
Hopefully he’ll have a good selection of advisors to actually run the show, or else the whole ground campaign could end up in the toilet, with you along with it.

You spend most the week training in the simulators, trying to get a feel for combat in gravity.

TIME TO CHOOSE YOUR MOBILE SUIT!
YOUR OPTIONS ARE: MS-06J Zaku II (Ground Combat type) or MS-06F Zaku II

>>6126547

Don't look at me, I'm just citing the original source here.

Anyway, for people who want more information on your choices:

MS-06J Zaku II Ground Combat Type

Model number: MS-06J
Code name: Zaku II Ground Combat Type
Unit type: mass production ground combat mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 976 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 45400 kg total
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.65 G; maximum ground running speed 85 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3600 meters
Armament: 2 x 3-tube missile pod, mounted on legs
120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum
OR
280mm Zaku bazooka, 4 round magazine
Heat Hawk

The J-type is built exclusively for ground combat, removing the vernier thrusters required on space-use F-type models. The J-type also carried a slightly more powerful powerplant. Despite these minor differences, the J-type Zaku is 99% visually identical to the standard F-type.

Quest Notes: The J Type refit is still untested in actual ground combat; some of its components may not work as well as the engineers believe they will. However, due to its improved powerplant, it has more torque to work with and can navigate terrain quicker and easier, giving it an overall ground speed superior to the F type.

>>6126585
MS-06F Zaku II
Model number: MS-06F
Code name: Zaku II
Unit type: mass production general purpose mobile suit
Manufacturer: Zeonic Company
Powerplant: Minovsky type ultracompact fusion reactor, output rated at 951 kW
Propulsion: rocket thrusters: 2 x 20500 kg, 2 x 1000 kg
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 0.59 G; 180-degree turn time 1.7 seconds; maximum ground running speed 88 km/h
Equipment and design features: sensors, range 3200 meters
Armament:
120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum
OR
280mm Zaku bazooka, 4 round magazine,
and Heat Hawk
2x MIP-B6 cracker grenades

Introduced as a replacement for the C-type Zaku II, the F-Type is currently the mainstay of the Zeon military. Although fully capable of operating on Earth, the F-type Zaku II was designed primarily for space combat.

Quest Notes: A design tried and tested in battle, the F Type is a reliable model that’s easy to repair and replace if needs be. However, it lacks ground speed and may have difficulty navigating hard terrain.

ms-06f Zaku II, for me.

>>6126585
>output rated at 976 kW
So about as much electricity as I pay $60 for.
Fuck, I think I could build this thing.

A Dopp isn't an option? Sadness!

In that case I'll take a J type please!

>>6126605

Joining the Air Force isn't an option... but they're may be a choice in the future to join the Marine Corps...

>>6126599

I'm not sure how properly translated that is then, since a Zaku is powered by a miniature Nuclear Fusion Reactor, I think.

>>6126599

Dem Japanese never knew their mathematics.

But we go with the flow because they're good at doing the rest of the fluffy aspects of a universe.

As for our MS choice, take the J type. I don't know how you're planning to run it, but the thing really didn't have any major problems in-universe, so it's a waste to use the F type. We'd upgrade anyway a month or so in if we didn't at the start.

Hold out for the Gelgoog. Its specs end up being better than the Gundam. In the meantime, be an ace and take a High Maneuver Zaku.

>>6126666
>good at doing the rest of the fluffy aspects of a universe.
>spacenoids
No, people just lap shit up because it comes from GLORIOUS NIPPON ^_^
If this had comprehensible unit names and came from some dude in Utah you'd all be shitting on it.

J Type

We escape fighting in space, which means we won't get fragged instantly until we find the Gundam (which will hopefully be getting lost and looking for salt somewhere in North America, where we aren't)

>>6126666

On the seventh of February the earth attack is officially announced and you are finally assigned to your new Squad.

You are inducted into the 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Division, which is currently sequestered as part of Operation Elephant.
You’re not sure what ‘Operation Elephant’ is about, everything’s still on a ‘need to know’ basis at the moment.
At any rate, you are transferred from Grenada where you were training to the drop fleet at the North America Drop Point.

YOU HAVE JOINED The 3rd Battalion
YOU GAIN ONE MS-06J MOBILE SUIT.

>>6126699
>North America Drop Point.

Get to Hawaii as soon as possible.

We can chill there, no-one bothers about it.

>>6126699

At least we're not headed to Africa, I hate the sand!

Aboard the Jotunheim class Training Ship Heimdall you meet the other members of the squad in the mess hall.
Your new CO is Sergeant Wolfgang Straus, a veteran of Loum and the One Week War, his face has more deep set lines and wrinkles than his thirty years should.
Despite being smaller than you, the white haired man has a presence that seems to loom over you.
Greets you and shakes your hand with a firm grip.

WOLFGANG STRAUSS HAS JOINED THE SQUAD
YOU GAIN ONE MS-06S ZAKU II COMMANDER TYPE (currently piloted by WOLFGANG STRAUSS)

The Zaku IIS Commanders type has an identical weapons loadout to the F type, however it;s internal design is more related to the R Type High Mobility series, and is roughly 30% faster.

>>6126759
>30% faster

Ask him if he's ever considered painting it red.

Then meet the rest of the team (there is the rest of the team, right?)

Your wingman is Zolomon Ringo, a man with dark coloured skin and a somewhat bouffant explosion of frizzy black hair. It must make putting on a helmet highly awkward.
He is currently taking advantage of the artificial gravity by eating solid food, some kind of stew by all appearances.
He greets you with a simple wave, still eating.

ZOLOMON RINGO HAS JOINED THE SQUAD
YOU GAIN ONE MS-06F ZAKU II (currently piloted by ZOLOMON RINGO)

You are currently in the Mess Hall of the Training ship Heimdall.

What are your actions (keep the metagaming down please, the Feds haven’t even begun project V yet.)

>>6126777

Sargeant Strauss takes the question in good humour.
"Are you kidding? I don't want Char Azanable to get all of my kills attributed to him! [laughs] You ever hear about Johnny Ridden?"

(FYI The whole x3 faster thing was PROBABLY an epic mistranslation. Either that or Char's getting special treatment AGAIN.)

>>6126682

The Gundam isn't even created until July, and Amuro doesn't get into the RX-78-2 until much later.

We're safe, for now.

>>6126599
You use that much electricity over what, a month? Two months? This thing's putting out that much juice per second.
For reference, a Valmet Dr 16 diesel locomotive's output is 1677 kW. That's a heavy duty freight hauler. Can you build one of those?

>>6126820

Try and find out information about the mission. See if there's a terminal to use, if we get caught at worst they'll lock us up until we sortie.

See if the commander knows anything, too. We don't want to get involved in anything illegal or risky, otherwise when our career comes to its end BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.

>>6126820

His was 30% faster. They just associated red paint with it, and the numbers got caught up to become 3x. No relation to how Orkz actually get their bikes to go faster when painted red.

>>6126820
can I get in on this?

I'll ask the CO if we know where our first mission'll be.

>>6126861

You ask Sargeant Strauss if he knows what "Operation Elephant" Is about.

He shakes his head
"Not a clue, the higher ups are keeping this pretty tightly under wraps. After Operation British ended, we started bombarding key military bases in America and central Europe using the Lunar Mass drivers. That was Operation Casino, which ended when the Feds were able to send a couple of cruise missiles in on kinetic to take the sites out..."

He rubs his chin.

"Hmm, we appear to be missing a D titled operation..."

>>6126948
Do we know who else is assigned, or is it just our team?

For those of you interested Zeon Earth Attack Force Organization works like this.

Each mobile suit company is made up of three mobile suit teams.

Each mobile suit battalion is made up of three mobile suit companies.

Each terrestrial mobile division is made up of five battalions.

A Mobile Suit Squad consists of 3 Mobile suits. So you are currently in a full squad as part of the first company of the 3rd Battalion.

There are currently 3 Ground Attack Force Divisions, of which you are in the first.

All three are currently over the America Drop point, which falls under the support radius of the Luna 2 blockade forces.
So if the Feddies try to attack them from the ground, reinforcements are available.

>>6126984
>Do we know who else is assigned, or is it just our team?

The entire 3rd Battalion is part of Operation Elephant. You don't know if Air, Navy or conventional Ground Force detatchments will be taking part.

When you ask Strauss he says that he heard from a buddy in the Vehicle corps that an AA Company had been put aside for some secret operation. As had a Resource Mining Unit.
But there's no way of telling if those are the same secret operations as yours.

>>6127013

I guess I might as well check the suit, and make sure everything's in working condition.

>>6127052
>I guess I might as well check the suit, and make sure everything's in working condition.

After eating some solid food (for the first time in about 3 days) you take your leave and travel down to the hangar bay where your J-Type is currently undergoing last minute checks and refits.

The technicians take the oppourtunity to fit leg mounted rocket launchers (which it was previously lacking) onto your Mobile Suit.

Your are able to help them out with their last minute checks before your Mobile Suit is transferred to it's HLV for the operation.
All of the J-Types are being transferred first since they would be useless in a space fight. Then F and S types would follow.

YOU GAIN MINOR SKILL IN MOBILE SUIT MAITANENCE. (With proper tools you can rearm your mobile suit yourself)

>>6127136
Seems there's not a lot to do but wait for further orders.

Do we have a drop ETA yet?

>>6127231

Yo spend February getting to know your team better and taking group training exercises in the simulators.

The sim-pods are in high demand, there's not much else to do and as a result there isn't much sim time to go around.

The rest of time you eat, play cards and watch old videos from the Heimdalls modest hard-drive. (The minovsky particle percentages in this region make for terrible television reception.)

Turns out that Sargeant Strauss has a mean Poker Face.

On the 25th, the last of the Mobile Suits are loaded onto their HLV's. The next day, the rest of the 1st Division apart from 3rd Battalion are called into the meeting hall and given their orders.

Turns out that missing op was Operation Damocles. The entire 1st Terrestrial Division will be opening Zeon's ground war against the federation with multiple HLV assault drops into central europe.

Your battalion is replaced by forces that had been masquerading as the orbital zone garrison over Europe.
Your battalion is renamed "Mastadon Battalion", and is now formally locked in to Operation Elephant.

About a third of the HLV field has begun to transfer to Europe.

>>6127348

>pretty much solo drop into North America

IT'S TANK HUNTING TIME BITCHES.

>>6126534
> Old. I already read this on the far superior http://www.anertalk.com/ (aner = anon) last night.
I skipped breakfast today and I don't think this will be good for me... :)

rolled 33698 = 33698

>>6127402
now that greentext is just obnoxious.

On the 1st of March, the invasion of Earth begins.

Things are progressing quickly, Central Europe was chosen as the drop site due to it being the weak link in terms of military build up.
Also, the Mountainous terrain makes it difficult to transfer ground forces into the area.
As a result Zeonic Forces are quickly able to take the Baikonur spaceport as as large swathes of the surrounding area. Battalions from the 1st Division move into the Afghans, the Middles East and towards the Caspian Sea.

On day three, Zeon takes Odessa.

By day four, that Resource Unit Sargeant Strauss mentioned is deployed to Odessa.

On day 5... Mastadon Batallion is called to the Briefing Hall.

It looks like you're FINALLY getting into combat.

3RD BATTALION IS NOW MASTADON BATTALION.

>>6127510
Keep yer head down and follow orders.

Don't bother with the cracker grenades, they're mostly useless.

See if you can swap the shield to the left side rather than the right.

>>6127636
>don't bother with grenades

IGNORE THIS MAN, they're useful.

The Briefing hall is part of the Cargo bay of the Heimdall that's been converted into a something that reminds you of the large lecture halls of the Mobile Suit Training Battalion back on Side 3.

Once everyone is inside, the lights are dimmed and Operation Elephant is finally revealed.

General Anderson, one of Garma Zabi's circle of military advisors takes the briefing.

"Operation Elephant is part of the 2nd and 3rd divisions assault on the American Federal bases in New York and California. The purpose of the operation is to act as a decoy assault, intended to draw air and ground forces away from these bases."

He presses a button and this map appears.

"Mastadon Battalion constists of three Mobile Suit Companies, 2 Air Squadrons of Dopp Fighters and 1 Anti-Air Company of converted Magella Tanks. The Battalion will be dropped in the town of Salina Cruz, and you will push forward into Panama, using the route you see here."

"You are NOT expected to hold this territory, your job is to make it look like a second invasion is taking place in mexico, possibly with the intent of attacking Federal HQ in Jaburo. This is why you will be travelling through the Captial cities of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicuragua and Costa Rica before taking Panama. Try to stir up as much trouble as possible."

"When you get to Panama it is VITAL that you do not cross the Panaman border into Columbia. If you do, you will enter Jaburo's spehere of military operations and the American Forces will begin to retreat if not engaged. We do not currently have the logistical infrastructure for an attack on Jaburo. Only when the North American Territories are ours can we consider such an operation."

"The mission is scheduled to begin on the 8th of March, three days from now."

"Any questions?"

>>6127636
>Don't bother with the cracker grenades, they're mostly useless.

Your Zaku isn't currently fitted with Crackers, you get LEG MOUNTED RAWKET LAWNCHAIRS FUCK YEAH *ahem* instead.
Though you COULD get Crackers if you needed them.
Besides, Crackers are good for urban combat or disabling bunched up groups of enemy tanks.

>See if you can swap the shield to the left side rather than the right.

You'd probably have to redesign large amounts of the Mobile Suit for that, it's sort of built into the design you know?
At any rate, your Mobile Suit is already loaded onto the HLV, and those don't really have much space for engineering projects.

A smattering of minor technical questions follow, afterwhich General Anderson dismisses you.

Over the next three days, the HLV's are fueled and you are all transferred into your Mobile Suits.

On the 8th of March, Universal Century 0079 your war begins.

You're sitting inside your Mobile Suit, which is activated and running at 100%.
There's a sense of thrust from above you, momentarily giving the sensation that you're upside-down as the topside thrusters push the HLV containing your Squad towards the earth.
There's no going back now.

After 10 minutes, the HLV begins to shake as it enters through the atmosphere, this is the part where you discover if the heat shielding is up to snuff.
Thankfully, you manage to avoid a firery doom and the ride smooths out after five minutes or so.
A quarter of an hour later however, your cockpit begins to shake again, two minutes later the HLV pilots contact you over the intercom.

"AA Fire over the drop zone is heavier than we thought, we're going to pop the bay doors and you'll have to make a free-fall landing from 1200 meters, use your thrusters to slow your descent and keep yourself a moving target. Try to take out their AA assets with Bazooka's beofre you land!"

You are currently armed with a 120mm machine gun.
Do you wish to excahnge this for a 280mm Bazooka?

YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS.

>>6127918

Do we work on hard limits or open limits on what we can do in combat?

Grenades can be tossed in many ways by comparison to vidya games, so they become immensely more useful.

And really the shield is just an attachment like the spike shoulder. The MS is symmetrical. Alternatively we could be a left handed pilot.

>>6128158
>Do we work on hard limits or open limits on what we can do in combat?

By which you mean...?

>Grenades can be tossed in many ways by comparison to vidya games, so they become immensely more useful.

Yeah, but you've got to remember that you've got to first program your giant robot to do that action. Or try to do it manually, which is COMPLICATED. The Zaku comes with a basic set of pre-programmed movements that it uses to kick Feddie ass around the world, adding customized movement routines would be a task for technicians or programmers.

Man. /tg/ is slow on sunday's...

Did I pick a bad time of day to do this?

>>6128117

Take the Machine gun and throw the bazooka out on parachute for later retrieval.

If not, the bazooka for hitting those AA positions on descent.

>>6128117
No, we don't need the bazooka.

To our knowledge the EF don't have any mobile suits against which the improved firepower of the bazooka would be useful, and the machine gun will have larger ammunition reserves, and the projectile speed to reliably take down Fly Manta and Tin Cod fighters as well as the Type-61 tank.

If we have the rocket pods, we still have some heavy firepower if it's needed. The grenades may be useful against anti-MS infantry teams.

>>6128822

The HLV will still be coming down largely intact with all of your spare gear and ammo aboard(hopefully) failing that you can scrounge a spare Bazook later.

You keep the Machine Gun, and the front of the HLV's access bays are popped open, the change in air pressure forcing you and the rest of the Squad outside.

You are greeted to the sight of Salina Cruz from the air. You are currently 1000 meters above the ground and falling rapidly.

Above you the HLV activates its landing boosters.

You can see that most of the other HLV's have also ejected their cargo. From the looks of it, no HLV has gone up yet, but who can tell if that's going to keep.

ZOLOMON RINGO IS NOW ARMED WITH A 240mm Bazooka

"Don't bother aiming! Just try lay down some suppressive fire on where the Ack Ack fire is coming from!" are Sergeant Strauss's orders.

YOUR ACTIONS?

>>6128992
Locate enemy AA positions

Drop grenades and rockets on them,

At this range, the machine gun won't be effective, wait until we're nearer the ground.

Explosives don't worry about accuracy.

>>6128992

Scream "SIEG ZEON!", proceed to drop rocket and grennades on the Ack Ack, but try to leave some in case we need them later.

>>6129023

You take aim at the closest anti-aircraft fire you can see and fire a couple of leg rockets at the target, Zolomon does the same.

The smoke makes it hard to follow the missiles progress, but you're able to make out the blossom of explosions.
After which, the AA fire from that location abruptly stops.

Zolomon's F type and Sargeant Strausses S type have an easier time maneouvering in free-fall due to their Space type verniers.

Sargeant Strauss opens fire on another AA Emplacement with his 120mm Machine Gun.

"Use your Machine Gun! What are the bullets going to do? Slow down on the way down?"

His fire does seem to have lessened the AA fire from that location, however it now seems to be concentrated on you.

Actions?

>>6129133
What are the odds of evading the majority of the fire? Can we use smoke grenades/something to lessen our visibility?

>>6129133
How much ammunition do we have? I'd recommend blazing away, but we don't want to be reloading immediately after landing in case some faggot tank puts a cap in our ass and we can't do anything about it.

Fire in controlled bursts, if Strauss gives us shit it would be easy to "accidentally miss" if he needs covering fire later.

>>6129133

>Slow down on the way down?

Actually, well, if the terminal velocity straight down is less than the velocity coming out...

>>6129170

I like how you think.

How much ammunition do we have?

CURRENT AMMUNITION
120mm Rifle: 100 round (Fully Loaded)
4 Spare Drums on hips. 100 rounds each

2x 3 Tube Missile Pods (4 Missiles remaining)

ZOLOMON

240mm Bazooka (3 Rounds Remaining)
2 120mm Rifle Drum Magazines (100 rounds in each) On left hip
2 Cracker Grenades, on right hip

Sergeant Strauss
120mm Rifle: 82 rounds
2 Spare Drum Magazines (100 rounds in each) On left hip
2 Cracker Grenades, on right hip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZtlFXgkvKw

This thread needs some SIEG ZEON

>>6129243

Rifle? Aren't they Zaku II MGs?

There are separate Rifles with larger rounds in the 0079 Zeon armory. I think we should keep them distinct.

In any case, fire on what's firing on you. I think that's the most logical thing to do.

>>6129165
>What are the odds of evading the majority of the fire? Can we use smoke grenades/something to lessen our visibility?

You don't have smoke grenades currently. But it's not just you three in the air at the moment, it's pretty much the ENTIRE Mobile Suit Battalion, which is 27 angry mobile suits all firing on various AA sites.
Between that and the HLV's big bright retro-rockets going off, there's plenty of visual clutter in place.
As for dodging, It's not impossible for you, but the space type MS have an easier time of it due to having more thrusters in the right place.

All of the MS are going to have to go 'upright' and hit their thrusters full burn at roughly 2-100 meters above ground, so the AA must be either taken out or heavily supressed by then.

>>6129274
>Rifle? Aren't they Zaku II MGs?

Look you are using the standard ZMP-50D/120mm machine gun, drum-fed, 100 rounds per drum, that all early Zaku's are using.

The earliest new rifle design will be the one the F2 get's and that thing is barely a twinkle in Delaz's chromed dome currently.

>In any case, fire on what's firing on you. I think that's the most logical thing to do.
>Fire in controlled bursts

You begin firing on the nearest ground target with your Rifle, along with the rest of your squad.
Zolomon is taking his time to carefully aim since he's only got three more shots with his Bazooka.

After about 20 or so rounds the second AA site falls silent.
Roughly 80% of the AA has now been supressed.
You are currently 400m in the air.

Actions?

>>6129301
Does our Zaku have the anti-infantry shrapnel grenades that some variants of the J-type had? A good plan would be to wait until we hit our retros then we'll have a better view of the situation and can unleash the fucking fury on anything in the LZ with our remaining missiles, grenades and anti-infantry pods.

In the mean time, return fire on the AA but leave at least half a magazine for when we land in case they counterattack.

Mean while on the ground
"Holy shit its raining zaku's! All hands to battlestations! Fire those damn zeeks from the sky!"
A SAM sight aims for the player's Zaku.


(Are there minoski particles in the area yet? If not, Those poor parachuting zaku's are going to be sitting duck for guided missiles )

>>6129378

I do not suppose there is a AA shredded Zaku near us we can use as dynamic armor against fire? Hell, we could something heavy to drop it on the AA gun.

>>6129396
>Does our Zaku have the anti-infantry shrapnel grenades that some variants of the J-type had?

Yes it does. Again though, you DON'T currently have grenades.

You see a couple of streaks from what are either Missiles or Bazooka rounds hit the ground, silencing the remaining AA batteries.

You arrive at 200 meters when Strauss gives the order to right and prepare to fire thrusters.

Just as your righting yourself, your entire cockpit jerks suddenly and you are flung spinning out of unit cohesion.

Alarms on your suit go off. You've been hit!

The computer tells you that you've lost your side shoulder shield. You were lucky, anywhere else and you might have taken heavy damage.

That hit must have come from an AA Missile, surely a lucky hit right?

YOU ARE CURRENTLY IN AN UNCONTROLLED FALL AT 150m. WHAT DO YOU DO?

>>6129502

If there's shredded Zaku nearby, you've lost part of your company.

Blind fire at anything firing in the distance to keep their heads down and focus on taking return fire with the shield arm.

>>6129562

Talk amongst yourselves.

I'll be back in half an hour after my dinner.

>>6129562

Sieg Zeon, burn all thrusters to slow descent and look for some sort of emergency parachute.

>>6129562

AMBAC

FUCK THE ENGINEERS BETTER HAVE REMEMBERED TO KEEP AMBAC

THRUSTERS FIRE FUCK FIRE FIRE FIRE

>>6129562
Try and right the suit, land either on our feet or back.

Landing on our front probably wouldn't do us much good.

rolled 11 = 11

I roll to not die horribly.

Break open a can of Zeon Beer and hope for the best.

Shit yeah, battle suits.

That is all.

"Nice! we hit one! Prepare to finish that damn zeek off once it hits the ground!"
3 T-61 tanks are now heading toward you.

>>6129957
Man, remember when that looked really good compared to others?

>>6129627
>FUCK THE ENGINEERS BETTER HAVE REMEMBERED TO KEEP AMBAC

>Landing on our front probably wouldn't do us much good.

Technically you've been falling since 1000m, and have long since reached terminal velocity. With the amount of mass you're packing, is going to be pretty fucking terminal.

In a panic you attempt to halt your spin and right youself. Luckily, since the J is a rairly uncomplicated refit of the F type, it's kept all of the old AMBAC routines (presumeably just in case the MS finds itself underwater.) And you're able to halt your spin.
You swiftly level yourself off and hit the boosters at 80 meters above the ground.

Just to remind you, the Zaku IIJ is 17.5 meters.

YOU HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT GO GO GO GO!

Burn out the fucking engine if we have to, being weighed down by gravity won't suck half as hard as being a fine paste on the inside of what's left of the cockpit.

Any sign of the fucker that shot us? If so, kill his ass, otherwise engage targets of opportunity.

>>6129974
I prefer not to judge graphics by whatever the latest games are doing (lol Red Faction 3 is so much more blue; TN sucks now). Aesthetically, it looks good, and the vistas are pretty amazing. The weather effects are nice as well, especially the nighttime rainstorms.

>>6130031
>Burn out the fucking engine if we have to, being weighed down by gravity won't suck half as hard as being a fine paste on the inside of what's left of the cockpit.

You hit the thrusters so hard you're mashed into your pilot seat. Your speed of descent rapidly drops; the temperature of your thrusters however sharply rises.
The heat/power cabling along your suit attempt to route heat away from the thrusters as fast as possible, cycling it into the reactor for extra energy.
Even so, you can feel the sharp increase in heat within the cockpit; you can even feel it through your combat suit.

Warning signals start flashing as the thruster nozzles begin to reach terminal temperature and melt.

Then you hit the ground. You land on a roadway surrounded by small housing. The force of the impact roughly jolts you and you nearly throw up at the rough treatment your body is being given.

Your Mobile Suits legs strain with the heavy landing, but luckily your J type, with its extra engine torque was designed for rough use such as this.

The force of your landing is sufficient to cause most of the nearby windows to shatter outwards.

Regardless, you have successfully landed.

>>6130202
Leave suit and get laid.

>>6130202

Sieg Zeon in triumph and do a quick surrounding scan for enemies. Prep MG.

>>6130245

Sieg Zeon, then leave suit and get laid.

>>6130247
>Sieg Zeon in triumph and do a quick surrounding scan for enemies. Prep MG.

Your Zaku rises up like Arnie from the terminator. Your mono-eye flits about as you conduct a quick scan of the area.

Being hit by the Missile knocked you off your designated dropzone, but you don't appear to have drifted too far.
Sergeant's Strauss's voice comes over the radio loud and clear.

"You okay? Looks like somebody forgot to mention that this was a zero minovsky particle drop... Guess they were banking on the element of suprise and that a podunk town like this would have jack in the way of guided weapons."

A quick check of your in built sensors reveals the Minovsky percentage level at 0%.

"Looks like you got unlucky and caught an man-portable AA missile Corporal..."

WHAT IS YOUR NAME?

>>6130344
Dave. Dave Lister.

And thus, 3 T-61 tanks open fire on you.
Now what?

>>6130359

Why, why did my DOOM SENSES just go off?

>>6130344

Daniel Daniovsky.

>>6130344

Ron Twits.

Reverse the polarity! You ALWAYS gotta reverse the polarity!

OH SHIT, IT'S THE WHITE ONE!

Fuck it.

You are Corporal David Lister, part of the 1st Company of Mastodon Battalion.
You are currently Piloting a MS-06J ZAKU II J
ARMAMENTS
120mm Zaku MG (58 rounds remaining)
4 Spare MG Drums (100 rounds each)
2x 3-Tube Leg Missile Launchers (4 Missiles Remaining)
Heat Hawk

Do you think this is a good place to stop for tonight?

>>6130202
>that picture

10/10

>>6130564

Yeah. I'm going to hand those out for important milestones in the quest, as well as highly impressive achievements.

Like ALTERING THE TIMELINE IN AN AWESOME FASHION.

Also, if you HAD picked the F-Type and started to drop grenades, I was half tempted to have winds blow them off course and have them hit a church or hospital.

WAR CRIME TALLY: +1

Though to be fair, you're unlikely ever to even rival most of the higher ups in the Zeon Military on that account no matter WHAT you do.

Still, not being a dick will have it's benefits as well.

Zeon Quest seems pretty awesome from what I've seen thus far.

... Really should finish the UC stuff, it's generally good. Haven't been watching enough stuff lately anyhow. Time to watch 0079 I guess.

TAKE THAT DEATH GOD DOWN!

In anycase, when shall we have part two?

I noticed that things picked up around 5 in the afternoon, (I'm on UK time here) So maybe tommorow at 6:30?

That gives me time to get home from work and have dinner.

Okay?

>>6131503

Oh just you wait my friend. I have every intention of including stuff from IGLOO in this.

>>6131749
>including stuff from IGLOO in this.

When do we get a transforming tank then? Fuck the Guntank, this is a fucking TURBO CHARGED ARTILLERY PIECE THAT CAN PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE.

>>6131978

>this is a fucking TURBO CHARGED ARTILLERY PIECE THAT CAN PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE WITH A GIANT JCB SHOVEL.

Fixed.

There is INDEED a route where you can pick up a Hildolfr. But if you take a different route then you may end up with something else.

It's not just the Hildolfr, I might also include things like the Balor UAV (if I can find more information about it) amd the Aegis system.

Don't expect to see the Zudah anytime soon though. You've got MONTHS before you get into space yet.

>>6132074
I don't want a Zudah, those things are deathtraps.

>>6132142
>I don't want a Zudah, those things are deathtraps.

Uh. I'll check, but pretty much EVERY prototype in IGLOO ends up destroyed with it's pilot killed in the process.

In fact if it wasn't for plot armour, the main character would have bought it during A Boa Qu.

For a moment, I blinked, double checked to see if I was on /m/ and then realized I was on /tg/. Whoa. Bizzaro world...

>>6126550

You know, I just had a crazy idea. it would be awesome to run this with a bunch of plastic models - you know, set up the scene with models during combat, take a picture, and so forth.

Of coarse, nobody here probably has that amount of different Gundam mecha kits.

>>6132499
Some people on /m/ would.

I have some, but they're not close to hand, and there aren't enough.

Plus we don't have a Dom yet.

>>6132499
Oh god, think of the number of Zaku and tank/plane models that would be needed...

>>6132529
>>6132544
It is fun to dream my friends, it is fun to dream. Alternatively, aren't there programs that have 3d models of gundams and shit?

>>6132499

Use ripped SRW sprites placed on a drawn-up grid.

>>6132544
http://hlj.com/product/BAN932972

>>6132579
That's an excellent idea. I hope you're taking notes OP.

rolled 10, 10, 2, 4, 10 = 36

>>6132619
>>6132579
>>6132499

I'd like to do that, but I wouldn't know where to get the sprites from.

Also, for our purposes, an SRW sprite rip would be less useful than you would think.

Now, a complete sprite dump from SD Gundam G Generation Spirits on the other hand...

Even then though, It's going to be missing stuff, like the Prototype Gouf or Gouf Early Type.
Heck, the only Video Games I've ever seen those in are Gihren's Greed...

OH GODS. If I could find a Gihren's Greed sprite rip set that would be perfect.

>>6132682

After a close inspection of the internet with Mr Google, I have discerned that there are NO pre-existing sprite rips for SD G Gen or Gihren's Greed.

Aside from one rip of Devil Gundam.

And in order to get rips from the PS2, I would actually have to learn a programming language.

If anyone else can help, that would be great. But in the meantime expect lots of pictures of various places in central america interpsersed with pictures of tanks and giant robots.

>>6132895
How about we actually make a game from this? We can use mekton or something and play on irc/maptool whatever. It requires some effort but could be interesting.

>>6132966

It might work pretty good with vassal, that thing they use to play 40k with. I know back in the day I made up a wargame that I played with my younger cousins and their gundam action figures.

>>6132895
My results are pretty much the same. You might try asking /m/. Their love of Gundam is only matched by their love of mecha in general.
>>6132966
I believe there are a few variant rules for mecha themed stuff. Silicone God had an interested ruleset thought up if you can find his blog around here. Although, I wouldn't mind just seeing this in quest format.

>>6133074
Yeah. Quest format is ok but if we put some work into it it could turn into a cool campaign. Who would be willing to go with it?

>>6132966
>>6133045

Personally I'd prefer to keep this as a quest thread. But there's nothing stopping you from doing so.
In fact I would encourage it.
Personally, I've always thought the Epic Armageddon rules would work brilliantly with Gundam.