>Starting at 6:30
>I'm also going to have my dinner, give me 10-15 mins okay?

You couldn't of eaten an hour or 10-15 minutes ago?

No options for me today.

>>6400170

No, I had to go pick up my sister from work, which an hour long round trip. But enough about my life.

After meeting with General Merdez and being awarded your medals you are dismissed. You give your dress uniforms back to the Quartermaster and change back into your combats.
You return to the party and manage to snag some leftovers.

The Battalion will rest another hour and half in San Jose. Is there anything in particular you would like to do, or do you want to rest until we get moving again?

>>6400323
Unless there's anything special going on, let's just get some rest.

>>6400336

Not to your knowledge. In fact you should actually be able to get a decent sleep since your allies have confirmed that all federal forces in the area have retreated back to Panama.

You all find an unused quarters (which is somewhat difficult, a lot of people seem to have had the same idea) in the Prancer and get some shuteye.

Three hours later, you are woken up by your alarm. The sleep has left you feeling somewhat refreshed.
You can hear that the Prancer is once again on the move, after getting dressed you all head outside.
The corridors of the Cruiser are busy with engineers running about frantically. You don't want to disturb them, but something seems to be wrong.
It isn't an attack, an alarm would have been sounded...

It is currently 8:00 at night, if the rotation pattern held then you SHOULD be going out to patrol. You'll need to check the duty roster to see if we're still doing that since we don't expect and attack.

YOUR ORDERS?

>>6400487
Go to check the roster. On the way, ask the people running around what's going on.

>>6400323
Zaku Lovebump for your thread, sir.

>>6400487
What Mobile Suits do we have?

>>6400504
>Go to check the roster. On the way, ask the people running around what's going on.

On the way to the duty roster you manage to snag a passing Technician: Oliver somebody-or-other and ask him what's.

"Ah! It's the Loki on the prancer! It wont start up again!"
He then manages to shake you off and rush away.

That's not good.

The Loki gear was your primary Minovsky Particle emitter for this campaign, and although the Gallop class SHOULD be able to emit a small field itself, it's not going to be anywhere near the scale and precision of the Loki.

You rush to the duty roster. You find that third company has been disbanded and it's one remaining squad put into third to replace losses. The support band has been removed, now one Company is on a short range patrol, the other is on reserve.
None of the Dopp pilots are on active duty for the forseeable future, probably because without a wide minovsky field, the Dopps lose their tactical advantages.

You head to the hangar.

>>6400621
>You find that third company has been disbanded and it's one remaining squad put into second to replace losses.

Whoops. Fixed.

You reach the hangar, it's equally hectic here as well, the sparks from industrial welders illuminating the whole area.

You find your mobile suits easily, you see that Okawaara finished those modifications you asked for...

Strauss comments that he was never one for custom colours schemes, with his command antennae he figures he's enough of a target already.

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

Mind filling me in on what I've missed? A short summary so I don't have to dig through the other threads?

>>6400552

MOBILE SUITS CURRENTLY IN SQUAD
1 MS-06J ZAKU II (Ground Warfare Model) Armed with 1x 120mm Zaku Machine Gun (100 shell drum, 4 reloads carried on hips) 2x 3-Tube Missile Launchers, leg mounted. 1x Heat Hawk
1 MS-06F Zaku II armed with 240mm Bazooka (4 Shots + 2 Reloads) 2x Heat Hawks.
MS-06S Zaku II (Command Type) 120mm MG (2 Reloads) 2 Cracker Grenades, 1 Heat Hawk.

You exit the front of the Prancer and quickly disembark whilst it's moving. You nimbly dodge out of the way of "Zaku Tank" as you've decided to call it.
It's carrying what looks like more salvage and parts in it's arms, and with a grace that almost looks practiced it trundles in front of the loading ramp before casually reversing back into the Prancers MS bay.

Ready for whatever happens.

>>6400697
OKAY - for all newcomers.

You are Corporal DAVID LISTER a mobile suit pilot for the Principality of Zeon. You are attatched to MASTODON BATTALION who are a decoy force sent to Middle America to draw the attention of the Federation Military stationed at California and New York, along with our wingman ZOLOMON RINGO and your CO, Sgt WOLFGANG STRAUSS.
It is a little bit after 8:00 PM central american time on the 11th of March 0079.

Need anymore information?

>>6400754
holy fuck that's a stupid picture

>>6400849
Have we been in any combat yet?

>>6400864

Yeah, that's what box art for old Gundam models used to look like.

You are put onto a close distance patrol around the Prancer. The sun is beginning to set, but if General Merdez' was true to his word then you might get lucky and not be attacked at all tonight.
Hopefully you'll be able to get the Loki up and running by the time you reach Puerto Limon, you're not sure you like the idea of having to cross a big stretch of water without proper Minovsky coverage or air support.
With the reduced minovsky density, strong radio signals are able to get through, though the quality sucks.

Strauss takes advantage of the improved communications horn on his unit to talk to you whilst you patrol.

The journey to Limon should only take an hour.

>>6400876
Yeah. We kick all kinds of ass.

>>6400945
Sounds like trouble's on the way.

>>6400945
Crossing a large body of water with no Minovsky coverage and little remaining air support? Yeah, we're in for it now.

You reach the Port of Limon just as night is beginning to set in at 9.
What was once a thriving port town has been largely devestated the Colony Drop.
The force of it impacting as well as the shockwaves it left as it entered the earths atmosphere caused massive storms and tsunami across the entire planet.
Everywhere you see there are signs of devestation, collapsed houses, water damage, snapped trees, boats sticking out of second floors of houses.
Sometimes you can see people huddled around burning steel drums wrapped in grey blankets.
They barely bother to look at you as you stomp past in you 18 meter tall war machine.

After a sobering walk around the town outskirts you reach the shoreline and meet up with your Costa Rican Military contact.

...finally remembered to turn on my trip.

>>6401016
Any Dops left, and make sure one Zaku stays somewhat behind to cover you.

>>6401027
Keep an eye out for enemies hiding behind cover.

Is he on foot or what?

The plan is this. The Prancer is supposed to cross the body of water unassisted, which it should be able to do with it's hovercraft systems.

The Mobile Suits and Armour assets will be loaded onto a small flotilla of medium sized Cargo Carriers and will travel alongside.
The Zaku's will walk onto the ships and be transported kneeling, worse comes to worse, they will be able to fire on any incoming enemy that discovers us.
The entire operation is to be under strict radio silence, with Zero minovsky percentage for maximum stealth.

Unless we can get the Loki working, in which case the sole remaining Dopp wing will launch and 1st company will move ahead and secure the beach head.
If the Loki can't be restarted in time, then the entire Battalion will make the landing at the same time, hoping that they wont be spotted.

By taking the coastal route, it's hoped that we will circumvent the Federal Divisions in Santiago and Santa Fe, and land just west of Colon.

It should take about 2 hours.

>>6401130

Our character isn't quite so awesome that he could take down 17 Tanks, 15 Planes, 1 Big Tray battleship and an HLV door on foot.
He IS however a bad enough badass to take out a pair of motorcycle cops, steal back a Mobile Suit, hijack a plane and a helicopter and help create a military coup... in under an hour.

Since it doesn't look like the Loki is going to spring into life, the battalion begins to load up into the ships.
Whilst they look seaworthy, you can see even in the poor half-light that they have seen better days, dents and fairly recent looking patches cover all of them. Rust seems to be the primary material they're comprised of.
You begin to absently try to remember if you've had your Tetanus shot recently...

>>6401231

Remind me... How sea worthy are Zaku's?

After you load up onto the boats your merry band of buggered begin their naval adventure.

Covered in a tarp on a hot middle amereican night, the inside temperature of your cockpit starts to get uncomfortable. At some point perhaps you should get a fan or something fitted in here?

Around ten one of the ship crew tells you that you're about halfway and everything looks clear. You're beginning to think that you might just get away with this...

Forty minutes later however...

>>6401263

Uh. Well, they've never been comprehensively tested. They SHOULD be water-tight since that was how they test MS to see if their safe for space combat.

But the Thrusters are going to struggle to lift you due to all of the extra water weight, and there's probably a non to deep limit to how low you can go before water pressure pops the sealant.
On the plus side, AMBAC maneouvers should work as advertised, and the thruster will be able to work for longer due to being water cooled.

I still wouldn't advise it.

ANYWAY.

>>6401282
FFUUUUUUUU

LOCK AND LOAD BOYS, WE'ZE DA BIGGEST AND DA MEANEST AROUND

The crew approach you and tell you that there's a Federation Gunboat flotilla on it's way for an impromptu insepction.

Apparently they think that the Transport ships are carrying illeagal immigrants into Panama. Once they get close enough though they're going to notice their mistake.

The rest of the Battalion has been informed.

Your orders?

Get ready for your departure from the boat, be ready to fight as soon as you come out. You never know if there's going to be Feddy defenders all over your drop-point.

>>6401373
load and prep to fire.
Keep the mobile suits under tarps until the last possible moment.
Try to bluff the federation and say the suits under the tarps are GM's, and invite them to come take a look if they want. Placate them.
When they get close, point-blank their asses to davey jones

>>6401403
has GM even been invented yet?

>>6401419
shit, good point.

We can make up anything really, we just need something that will bring them close enough for our zakus to jump onto their ships and start the pillaging.

Hell, we can say they are captured Zaku's and we're operating in utter top secrecy which is why they wont have any orders or intel on our operation or whatever.

>>6401375

You check and doublecheck all of your weapons and your mobile suit status. Your passive sensors can pick up the Radar signals from the incoming federation ships.
So far you can detect about 4 signals, but with the radio silence still enforced you can't be sure what everyone else is seeing.

Five minutes later the darkness is punctuated by the early launching of flares. You look up to see it's a Luggun that has launched them, in almost immediate reply, one of the Gunboats fires a SAM at the EWAC plane.

Over the radio "ATTACK, ALL UNITS ATTACK!" as Captain Fontaine officially breaks radio silence. You sweep the tarp away and stand up on the boat.
There a currently 5 small frigates, looking a little worse for wear but still functional illuminated by the starburst flares.
They are some distance away, but not out of range of your weapons. You're leg missile are obscured by the sides of the boat, you may have to take a precarious position of some kind to launch them.

Your orders?

Fire your Machinegun at the closest Frigates command bridge.

Bump.

>>6401537

You take careful aim for a few seconds, trying to gauge distance and drop and then fire off a good burst from your MG.
Your shots go low and mostly miss. One 120mm shell manages to clip the target and you see fragments of twisted metal fly into the air.
The boat tilts with the recoil of your weapon and the crewmen run for cover as your spent shell casings fall onto the deck.

You notice the minovsky particle density begin to rise as the Prancer turns on it's meagre emitter. It isn't enough to properly stop radio signals, but radar should be retarded pretty badly.

The rest of the Battalion follows suit and starts firing at the ships. Which have now begun to fire back.

Orders?

Keep shooting, and adjust your aim to get a few more hits. And try not to get hit yourself.

6 30 huh i know where they are there enacting a lawsuit on the owners of the Mechwarrior to stop the game mechwarrior 5.

>>6401648
O.o dident you die?

You keep firing at the targets, and the close combined fire of nearly two full companies light up the night.

One Frigate takes pair of Bazooka hits to the command tower and begins to turn away still firing.
You see on of the transports take a direct hit and begin sinking. Like a phoenix the Zaku it was carrying leaps out towards the Prancer, it looks like for a second that it wont make it, and then it twists around and fires it's Magella Cannon in the opposite direction.
The recoil just manages to carry it on top of the Cruiser.

Another Frigate has burst into flames from multiple hits, you can see lifeboats scrambling from it.
You concentrate another burst of fire, managing to hit the turret on the front of another Frigate. It doesn't explode but it appears unusuable.

>>6401841

Suddenly, you hear over the radio Zolomon howl "Yahoo" as he leaps from his ship. Which you see he has somehow directed towards the Frigates.
His Zaku, still shrouded it it's tarp like a long black cloak, leaps upwards, a pair of Heat Hawks in each hand, glowing orange with heat.

In the middle of his jump, he hurls both the Hawks at the Frigate. Both fly in a curved arc, catching the command tower.
He lands on the fore of the ship shortly and retrieves them. A few more brutal slashes and the excessive heat and blunt force trauma causes the frigates ammunition to explode and it goes up in a giant flaming ball. From the blast, flies Zolomon, his cloak now on fire, he discards it mid-jump and lands heavily back on the transport.
It nearly capsizes, but somehow manages to stay afloat.

"Now how hard was that?" He asks, shortly before a low caliber shell pings off his right shoulder causing him to nearly stumble forward.

KILLS
ZOLOMON: 1 Frigate.

Pic possibly related?

are we in range to jump onto the enemy ships?
We need a way to draw fire away from our transports before we're sent to the bottom.

Also suggest having the bazookas aim at the waterline of the enemy ships to start them sinking. Hopefully the crew having to abandon ship will prevent them from returning fire.

Furthermore, concentrate fire as a squad. Get our whole squad firing at one ship until it's no longer fighting, then move on.

Three enemy vessels are out of the the fight, the other two are trying to move behind the burning ship in an attempt to use it as cover.

You begin to concentrate fire one one ship before it can reach cover, the others begin to follow suit. Bazooka rockets and 120mm shells slam into the rear of the vessel and it stops moving.
Shortly afterwards they start to launch white flares and wave white flags in surrender.

You look for the last Frigate but cant see it.

The question of the missing frigate is answered by your remaining Lugguns. It's in full retreat, and the transports would have to change course to intercept.

After clearing the decks and resecuring your Zaku, Captain Fontaine makes a boradcast to the Battalion.

" Good show there, we only lost two transports and a single Luggun. Now the bad news, first of all still no good news from the Loki. Secondly, CIC reports that those Frigates managed to squawk off to Federal HQ our location. So it's a fair bet that they're going to be heading towards the coast to intercept our landing point. We don't have the time to risk landing at Colon, we're going to HAVE to land early at Pelmas Bellas. Also, the Prancer can't keep itself afloat and carry an extra Zaku on it's roof. Load up gentlemen, this is the big one."

Your Orders?

flank speed for pelmas, re-load all spent magazines, see if we can gather our whole squad on one transport (I don't know how many MS's are on each transport.)

Also, sink the surrendered feddy ships. This is total war, any survivors we allow to live will just be thrown back at us eventually. I can't imagine why a nation that will drop a colony on civilians would have any problems sinking surrendered ships.

At 9:50 you make an amphibious landing. This is the most dangerous part of the operation, the Zaku's can simply jump out of their transports.
However, the Mechanized Infantry and AA Tanks will have to be loaded off, which will take roughly half and hour.
You have to protect the Transports for that distance of time to protect them.

You expect Federal air forces within 20 minutes, possibly earlier.

You reach the shoreline and leap out of your transport. Glad to be rid of such dangerous cargo the ship beats a hasty retreat back to Costa Rica.
You meet up with Strauss and Zolomon.

Your Orders?

advance inland far enough to be able to get an advanced warning off via radio at the first sign of enemy, and give our troops enough time to react.. Maintain radio silence otherwise. When we get into position, hide and be quiet and prepare to ambush ground units, or break radio silence if aircraft are incoming.

>>6402516
possible to has bigger map? I can't read anything on that.
I assume the circled part is where we landed? Or is it Palmas?

>>6402693
>Or is it Palmas?
I meant Colon, which upon a further look I found. So disregard, I suck cocks

>>6402631

The mobile suit forces link up into their squads, and these squads move in advanced scouting positions.

Finding an Ambush Spot isn't hard, the entire town has been devastated. Your thermal imaging picks up what looks like a small piece of fallen colony about two kilometers south of the town.

It's still cooling, months after it dropped.

From this distance, the kinetic force would have sufficent to create blastwave equal to that of a 14 kiloton nuclear device.
The buildings are nothing but shattered ruins, and the tidal forces have shredded the meagre dockland area.

This isn't a town, it's a graveyard.

Fifteen minutes after arriving in Pelmas Bellas, your shortrange radio picks up contacts coming your way. Three large aircraft with ten smaller craft as escorts.

>>6402724

You signal back to the Prancer that you've got incoming. Soon you're able to get a good look at them.
It appears to be ten of our old friends: the Fly Manta, escorting 3 Depp Rog Heavy Bombers.

Your Orders?

>>6402774

Call up zolomon and his Heat Hawk AA.

Prep MG and aim up.

Wait, do we have anyone back on side 3 waitin' for us?

Lister never really got a background here.

You open fire on the advancing aircraft.

Your shots streak the night sky and manage to catch a couple of Fly Manta's with your shots. The formation scatters in response.

You try to keep mobile as the Fighters start to drop low to get a better shot at you. You are currently outside the Prancers optimal Minovsky range, and the particle density is still quite low, you aren't sure if it will be enough to effect guided munitions...

The question is rendered moot when the Fly Manta's begin peppering the are with unguided rockets.
They're still not of a high enough yield to kill you in one hit... but a full salvo might.

Using the ruined buildings for cover the three of you keep a loose formation as you shoot back at the air forces. You can see streaks of gunfire from other squads as they too become engaged by enemy air forces.

KILLS: Strauss: 1 Plane. You: 1 Plane.

Do a visual scan, look for something to fire our leg rockets at.

>>6402875

There's not much to tell. You and your parents used to live on Side 6, and your parents supported the Anti-Federal, Pro-Self Governance revoulution that took place there in 0077.
Zeon threw in their support with the revoulutionaries, even going so far as to send Mobile Suit teams to help back them up.
In the ensueing coup, Side 6 became a neutral self controlled colony cluster, you family however lost their home in the fighting.

You emigrated to Side 3 and joined up with the military in June last year. Your training was somewhat accellerated due to wartime measures, and here we are.

Ten bucks we change the war.

Save Garma Zabi, make the feddies believe we're the real American Invasion, distract the Gundam, destroy a GM factory..

Something that makes Zeon win.

>>6403027

There are ways to do this. But you'd have to work for them. ZEONQUEST exists in a parrallel AU to Canon Gundam in that in this universe the Jormagund doesn't exist, which had a knock on effect in various different ways. Nothing too major though.

>>6402875

Got that little potato hydrofarm back on side 3...

concentrate fire on the heavy bombers, stay in the ruins for cover

>>6402960

ANYWAY.

Sporadic fire from your squad takes out another four fighter-bombers. At which point they retreat back towards their lines.
You spot the Depp Rogs lining up for a bombing run on the bay, and the three of you chase after them in an effort to get a shot in. You leapfrog over houses using your jets, firing in bursts at the Bombers, but due to your frantic action most of your shots go wide.

Strauss get's a lucky hit in and a Depp Rog begins to spout flames and what appears to be smoke (you can only see through your IR spectrum at the moment)
The Bomber turns and makes in the direction of the coast in an attempt to disengage from you.

You continue to fire at the two bombers.
One begins to drop it's bombs, but you able to find stable purchase on a two story building and get a good accurate burst at the other Depp Rogg.
Your shots ring true and the plane explodes in mid air somewhat spectacularly.
Suddenly in mid bombing run, the last Bomber explodes, your able to see a small fast moving object flew through the explosion miraculously unscathed.

A lone Dopp.

The Fly Manta's may be in full retreat, or they may be regouping for another attack.

KILLS:
You: 3 Fighters 1 Bomber.
Strauss: 1 Bomber.
Zolomon 1 Fighter.

Your Orders?

>>6403231

Protect the dopp, we'll need him for Recce.

>>6403231

Oh, and as the Dopp swoops overhead, you can swear for half a second you can see the following insignia on the side...

>>6403305
MIGHTY MOUSE!?

NO WAI!!

Can we get a heading on the directions the feddy's retreated in? Suggest requesting permission to launch raiding sortie against whatever base they may be operating from, in order to shift the front away from our vulnerable landing operation.

Get zolomon behind some good cover and have him prep the Bazooka for AA work. Lister and STrauss flanking with MG covering fire and watch the Dopp's back.

KEEP FIRING

FIRE...

EVERYTHING!

>>6403324

Uh no.

The firing becomes sporadic and eventually fades away.
Captain Fontaines voice over the radio is terse, and filled with static from the Minovsky Particles gradually permeating the atmopshere.

"All units report losses and expenditures, then return to the landing zone for an in-situ briefing."

You stride through the burning remains of Pelmas Bellas.

>>6403440

You all return to the landing site. The Prancer is onshore as is most of the Mechanized Infantry and AA tanks. There a craters on the left bank, with the remains of what looks like a Samson and an APC, maybe a small jeep.

Of the returning Mobile Suits, most if not all seem to have returned.

"Gentlemen!" Comes the voice over the loudspeaker, since the Minovsky particle density here is high enough to make radio transmissions impossible.

"... first of all, we have only suffered minimal losses to enemy bombing, and all but one Mobile Suit survived, with no loss of life..."

You see a Zaku Tank supported by a couple of APC's and a Jeep head out along the road towards the town. Presumeably the salvage that lost Zaku.

"... first of all the bad news. By landing here, we have missed our drop point, and will be unable to reach Panama city as planned. We do not have the ability to cross the inland lakes that seperate us here. Also, we do not believe we can weather further attacks by enemy bombers sufficiently to reach Colon. We are also dangerously close to being reduced to half-strength..."

>>6403670
"Now the good news. The Loki device has been repaired to the point where it can be used to 80% efficiency for a short period of time, and then must be shut down. However, we will only be able to do this a limited number of times before it is permantly disabled, and we do not know how many times this will be. Also, the Orbital Assault by 2nd and 3rd Divisions will begin in less than 1 hour. We just have to survive until then... Unofrtunately, we expect enemy ground forces from the Federal Division at Santa Fe to reach us 45 minutes from now at most."

"The plan is this: We will make full speed to the town of Escobal, we know it is full of refugees and it's hoped that the Feds wont bomb it with us nearby. The downside to this plan, is that there's a chance that we might get caught before we reach it. In a worst case scenario, you are to scatter and regroup at Los Negros, and make your way back into america and try to rejoin the 2nd or 3rd divisions. Good Luck gentlemen. We'll need it."

You will of course take this oppourtunity to reload, but do you wish to change your weapons load-out? Keep in mind that dual wielding Machine Guns is hard work on your joints.

CO might be a feddy spy send to divert us from conquering Panama in Zeon's name.

I mean, the feddies have always known where we are, they knew of our spies and about the landing.

>>6403700
Can we have a list of our options?
I mean everything, guns, shields, grenades, etc.

>>6403700
Well we seem to be fairly proficient with the MG so I don't fancy trying to wield a Bazooka right before crunch time. leave Zolomon to take care of heavy weapons. Also I say we keep the Heat Hawk still, we did take down a land battleship with that thing.


Also how are we still a corporal with that kill count and the Zeonic Knights Cross? promotion soon I hope

>>6404048

We count as an ace.

SIEG ZEON

Sorry to leave you all in the lurch. But my computers processor (hopefully only my computer's processor) just up and died on me and I'm having to post from mother's computer in the upstairs study.

Basically this means no more pictures from me tonight, but I will continue to post.

Worse, I won't be able to give you any of the cool stuff like NEXT EPISODE screens or Achievements as all of my templates are on my hard drive, as is Photoshop.

I *knew* I should have backed up my Pictures folder onto the Portable Hard drive. Except that thing's brand new as well because it's predecessor died last month.
Along with 360
And a surge protector.

Jesus.

>CO might be a feddy spy send to divert us from conquering Panama in Zeon's name.

Have a look at a map of Panama. There's a great big lake that splits the country damn near in two. If we had landed on Colon we would have been on the right side of, and we probably would have been able to fortify ourselves if needs be.

>I mean, the feddies have always known where we are, they knew of our spies and about the landing.

The President of Costa Rica knew about the spies, and that was because they approached him. As for the landing, pretty much every town not devestated by the colony drop has got some flak or AA about.

>>6404084
Yet Doms, Goufs, Geloogs, and Acguys have all not been invented so your ace is still stuck in a Zaku II

>>6404157

If you're a britfag, a surge protector is a must.
I'm suprised the damn wall sockets don't have them built in with how often the voltage fucks up.

>>6404204
>Implying our Zaku-II isn't awesome

>>6404222
>Awesome
yes but not ADORABLE

I MEAN JESUS FUCK LOOK AT THIS THING

>>6404157

Couldn't we send a engineer team to jury rig our old HLV's as makeshift lake-crossers?

Send over Zaku teams for beachheads then float the snail over, and then make a pontoon for tanks.

Hang on, wrong trip possibly...

It is still me, just not on the same computer.

>Can we have a list of our options?

You are piloting an MS-06J Zaku.
1x Heavy hardpoint on the back, which can store pretty much any hand held weapon, usually either a 120mm MG or a Heat Hawk
2x Light Hardpoints on either hip, the hold either ammo or cracker grenades. Zolomon had is converted to hold Heat Hawks whilst you were having your's resprayed into >>640067.

Weapon Options
120mm Zaku Machine gun (1 Ammo drum holds 100 shells)
240mm Bazooka (4 Rockets)
Magella Top Cannon (5 Shells)
Heat Hawk
Cracker Grenades

You are automatically fitted with a pair of tree-tube missile launchers in the legs.

...damn H key keeps ignoring me when I push it...

>>6404240
fuck yeah acguy!

120mm Zaku Machine gun
2 Cracker Grenadde(They have been porven to be almost useless to us, but just in case)
Then fill us up with extra ammunition

>>6404245

>Couldn't we send a engineer team to jury rig our old HLV's as makeshift lake-crossers?

What, all the way back to Mexico?

>>6404208

We DO, that was where the problem came in. My surge protector went off, which sent the surge protector sockets down in the garage berzerk.

>>6404311

All agreed with this loadout?

>>6404317
aye aye cap'n

>>6404317

Need a heat hawk here

>>6404363
heat hawk can go on hardpoint on the back
MG in hand
'nades on right hip
ammo on left hip

>>6404312

>All the way back to mexico

Worth it for our converted HLV floating fort.

Put some magella cannons, armour plating and Zakus firing out of the hatches, and a huge Zeon Symbol...with a skull in it or something.

Shit will be so cash.

>>6404317

Agreed; With a HH on the back weapon slot.

>>6404347

With your loadout set, all troops will move south along the road through the mountain passes to Escobal. Both Companies are put on a short patrol band and a support band.

As you walk out to the town you see a couple of Zaku Tanks clearing a path for the Battalion through the burning houses by either tearing them down, or smothering them giant gouts of dirt and sand.

You begin the last march of Operation Elephant, but hopefull not the last march of Mastodon Battalion...

I'm going to call it a day here. I can't do much of anything without my computers hard drive, I honestly don't know if I'll be able to just bring it into a computer shop tommorow tell him what needs replacing and what parts are still good and he can do it in a day (I doubt it.) So don't expect a new thread tommorow.

I'm really dissapointed, I was somewhat hoping I'd be able to actually finish the first major story arc this weekend.

If anything changes, I'll probably start a thread with the times and dates.

In the meantime, you can all ask me a question about the campaign, and I'll answer it if I can.

>>6404399

And can't be done in the 45 minutes we have left before the Feddie army tries to steamroll us with a pair of tank battalions.

And a shitton of Friendly MS forces are making a combat drop in an hour. We won't /need/ our floating-barge shennanigans by that point.

>>6404456

No probs. Shit happens, we understand.


SEIG ZEON!

>>6404480

>Feddy tanks
>Steamrolling glorious Zeon

Also, OP, think we'll see Garma? He is meant to be in America if I recall correctly.

>>6404538

>Garma

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

VICTORY IS THE GREATEST TRIBUTE WE CAN PAY TO THOSE WHO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR US!

RISE! RISE! TAKE YOUR SORROW AND TURN IT INTO ANGER!

ZEON THIRSTS FOR THE STRENGTH OF ITS PEOPLE!

SIEG ZEON! SIEG ZEON! SIEG ZEON! SIEG ZEON!

>>6404480
>And can't be done in the 45 minutes we have left before the Feddie army tries to steamroll us with a pair of tank battalions.

Battalions? Son, if it were only that many then it wouldn't be problem.
I mean fuck, the three of you have taken out a pair of Tank Companies all by yourselves not too long ago, a tank battalion is just one more company of that.

No. Were talking about A pair of Federation Army DIVISIONS.
The last division we came to grips with had 2 Big Tray Battleships, somewhere in the region of 6 Tank battalions and an metric goddamn shitton of fighters (mostly fly mantas, a couple of Sabre Fish).

TWO DIVISIONS.

>And a shitton of Friendly MS forces are making a combat drop in an hour. We won't /need/ our floating-barge shennanigans by that point.

EXACTLY. Everyone is sort of hoping that the divisions will get a phone call, realise they've been duped and high tail it out of here.

>>6404562
. . .

Is there a gundam RPG?

I want to roll a Zeon campaign.

Also, minis?

>>6404538
>>Feddy tanks
>Steamrolling glorious Zeon

It's totally possible if they have 10 to 1 odds, and if you get sideswiped by a complete Division? That's 270 tanks.
You have 18 Mobile suits.

>Also, OP, think we'll see Garma? He is meant to be in America if I recall correctly.

Yes. Absolutely, he features in pretty much all of the next few storylines. (Depending on your choices that is.)

>>6404562

Ah. The Sieg Zeon! Speech, probably the most famous speech in Gundam. But not I feel, superior or more important to the history of the war than Revil's "Zeon is Exhausted" speech (Look it up on Wikiquote, shit is awesome.)

Oh also, there are ways to prevent that speech.

>>6404562

Alright, new plan.

Call space fleet.

Order an orbital strike on the incoming divisions.

>>6404625

With the shit we've pulled, I won't be suprised if the Feddies don't surrender immediately to the real invasion force.

We've pretty much bent the Feddies over the table so far.

Just as long as 08th MS team doesn't come up with their huge plot armour, or we'll need SOMEONE WHO CAN REALLY PILOT A MOBILE SUIT

>>6404635

That would be a breach of the Antarctica treaty. It's a bit early to be bilking it on purpose just yet.

>>6404582

Then it seems that we're going to need to turn whatever shithole little town we hide in into fucking Stalingrad. With Zakus.

We'll need a mathfag to calclate the optimum usage of the Loki based on what we have left; i/e firing it up in pulses and letting residual particles handle things. Assume worst case that we have to hold out for over half an hour, or more, in the event that the Drop operation is delayed.

Now, Assuming we make it to Escobal with a few minutes to spare, we should use all available Zakus to set up weapon caches at several points in the town - If every MS is running back to the Prancer to resupply, they'll be easy targets. Ammo Drums, Spare Bazookas, Magella cannons, greandes, Heat Hawks, anything that can be handled by the Zaku's hands.

Hell, if we're pushing the time limit, we can probably even ask that Zaku Tank to make resupply runs with pallets of ammo drums/rockets/grenades/whatever.

Two Divsions is a lot of tanks. We're going to need combat resupplying at some point, and if we've sorted out the logistics beforehand, it stops being such a nightmare.

i say we lie in wait for the division to get close then charge the fuckers axes drawn... if were in there lines some will die by friendly fire... theres my idea

>>6404707
we do that
>>6404706
then this

>>6404665

This is actually pretty close to how most of Zeon felt about the war at this time.

>Just as long as 08th MS team doesn't come up with their huge plot armour, or we'll need SOMEONE WHO CAN REALLY PILOT A MOBILE SUIT

Uh, you DO realise that at some point you may end up against THE Gundam, right?
And this isn't so much of an AU that some realtive unknown can appear out of nowhere and kill Amuro 'White Devil' Ray you know.

>>6404668

Ffffffffuuuuu-

So we have no arty? Recce? Engineers?

Can't we dig in so far we'll make the Iron Warriors look like sand castle builders?

Mine fields, barbed wire, tank traps, trenches, Zaku fox holes, hull-down tanks, pillboxes, hidden AT positions...? All around the Snail HQ.

>>6404623

d20 Mecha rules?

Use 1/100 Bandai Gundam model kits. High Grade. Shit is cash.

>>6404720

No, but you can wear down his plot armour enough that he quits being a pilot until Bright slaps him again. I consider that a win for Zeon.

If not, the Red comet's in our Combat Area soon enough.

>>6404722

Probably not enough time. Overturning blasted tanks during lulls in the combat will make for decent barricades, though, and we can probably kick out some buildings to make improptu foxholes.

If we need AA support, we could probably rig up the Zaku tank with a pair of Magella cannons and recoil braces, but that is a bit of a slapdash option.

We should probably recommend that Zolomon grabs a Magella cannon instead of the Bazooka - it carries more ammo and is essentailly just as good vs. Tanks, aircraft, and anything, really.

>>6404726
Links to where can I read about this/purchase please?

If Garma doesn't die, the Zabis might not become so maddeningly fixated on White base, and the feddies won't be able to distract Zeon while they build their GM zerg rush up.

We could technically change the course of the whole war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmRT6MwJfJ8

SIEG ZEON

>>6404722

Uh, the reason were making double speed to a habitated town is so that the Divisions Air forces don't bomb us out of existence.
I mean, it if we don't keep on the move their BOMBS WILL BLOT OUT THE SUN.

>>6404726

Meh, I'm more of a 1/144 man, 1/100's are cool and all, but they look too big on my furniture. That and some of them (IE: The Zeta Plus) are way to complicated for their own good.

>If not, the Red comet's in our Combat Area soon enough.

Yeah, that's going to interesting when it comes around...

Found a gundam collection that it's dirty cheap, and are roughly the size of a warhammer mini.


CAMPAIGN HERE I GO

If you can find any decently tall buildings still standing one thing you can try is rigging the bottom floor on 1 side with spare explosives. Dropping it on enemy units as they pass or using it to seperate pockets of tanks from each other could cause some serious chaos.

>>6404808
>If Garma doesn't die, the Zabis might not become so maddeningly fixated on White base, and the feddies won't be able to distract Zeon while they build their GM zerg rush up.

There's also a good chance that the siblings could instead distract themselves with political squabbling. Worst case scenario, we end up with multiple Zeonic Factions led by Gihren, Kycillia and Garma + Dozle, with a united Federation.
SERIOUSLY Worst Case: Char get's board of using fake names and swings in with his own vision of Zeon, Kycillia loses the entire newtype corps, and Char makes a deal with the feds.

But that's so unlikely I hadn't even planned for it to happen.

then we shall fight in the shade...

>>6404794

>d20 Mecha
>>>/rs/d20+Mecha

Mecha Crusade rules. Basically lolGundam with a different name.

>Gundam 1/100 HG Kits

Available from any model/hobby store that sells plastic kits. Some super-weeaboo anime shops also have a large stock. Go for the 1/144 scale High-grade kits.

Amazon doesn't have many, but there's a stack all over ebay.

>>6404873

Garma seemed to be the lynchpin of the family keeping them from working against eachother, so it could go the complete opposite direction. And there's still Degwin Zabi to keep them in line.

Also, can't we call space fleet and ask for reinforcements? An ETA on the real invasion?

A converted HLV fort?

>>6404873
i say we turn into the fuckin vc...this city has subways rite?... if so we will wait for the main force to enter the city popping up randomly in small teams of 2 to harass and confuse them,,, also the 4 groups of 2 will make them think that there is more of us then there actually is

>>6404915
>Garma seemed to be the lynchpin of the family keeping them from working against eachother, so it could go the complete opposite direction. And there's still Degwin Zabi to keep them in line.

True enough, but there's still a good chance that the siblings may then start to disagree with some of Gihren's more hardline policies which may eventually bring things to a head when the Colony Laser is used.

If the other sibling are still around, that might result in a second Zeonic faction as well. Ultimately, I'm just going to play it by ear.

>Also, can't we call space fleet and ask for reinforcements? An ETA on the real invasion?

What reinforcements? YOU'RE IT. Everything is either dropping about an hour (no signs of delays thus far) has ALREADY dropped, or is busy blockading Luna II.

>A converted HLV fort?

You do realise that those things are mostly highly explosive rocket fuel right?

>>6404957
i vote for this

>>6404978

Splitting Ghiren off into a rogue faction of his own might be a good thing - politically, at least. Zeon can just shove all the blame for the atrocity-level stuff off onto him.

As for our immediate situation, i'll advocate again the Stalingrad route. Guerilla stuff won't work, as we have The Prancer to worry about. We need to dig in in cover, have good supply lines, and make the Feddies suffer twenty losses for each one of us they bring down.

Or, at the very least, stall them without dying until the Drop Operation hits the fan.

>>6404978

>>6405029
couldnt we hide the big fucker in the city somewhere... stalingrad was a nightmare for the DEFENDERS because just like now... they are throwing a shit tone of ppl at us... again i advocate the VC strategy

>>6404978

We don't have reserves?

>mostly highly explosive rocket fuel

Remote piloted Suicide ships. Imagine what one'd do in the middle of a tank battalion.

>>6405085

They're also sitting hundreds of miles away back in Mexico. We couldn't get there and abck with them in time.

Get to the settlement.

Mine every approach, sandbag AT positions, hull down our tanks, put artillery around the snail in reinforced positions, tank traps on the main roads, clear buildings quick to make kill zones and get anti-tank teams with clear firing lanes. Get the refugees in basements and underground if you can, good stable areas. We don't want any war crimes on our hands we can't blame Gihren for.

Zakus should hide out under tarps, in trees, behind hills, wherever in the outskirts and do skirmish and ambush attacks on their picket and lead units.

>>6405084

Escobal isn't a city. It's a town. It's current population is 1,995, and then there's the inevitable loss of life from the Colony Drop. The Prancer is going to be bigger than basically all of the buildings there.

Hell, even the Zakus are gong to be hard-pressed to find decent cover.

>>6405131

Forgot to add. Use the Zakus and whatever airborne units we have left to delay the Feddies as long as possible while we turn the settlement into a defensive nightmare.

>Splitting Ghiren off into a rogue faction of his own might be a good thing - politically, at least. Zeon can just shove all the blame for the atrocity-level stuff off onto him.

It also gives me a good excuse to mass produce both the Gelgoog AND Gyan series.

Well, I'm off to bed, I've archived this thread up at sup/tg/ and thanks for everyones involvement.

>>6405131

Assuming we have the time. According to OP, we have barely 45 minutes or less to get there and set up before the Feddies hit us.

>>6404978

Garma's death is what sent Degwin into depression and a backseat, letting Gihren take control. If Gihren doesn't get this oppurtunity, Degwin keeps a firm hand on Zeon's reins and might be able to correct the course of the war.

>>6405153

So, it'll turn into a giant three way between Zeon Loyalists, Ghiren's rogue faction, and the Federation?

>>6405192

So, Priorities: #1: Survive the clusterfuck we're in right now.

#2: Protect Garma, even if that involves taking on Char.

#3: Kick The Federation's ass, and then string up Ghiren.

>>6405270

...are you suggesting we take on the goddamn red comet and start a civil war?

This is the best AU ever.